 Well, good morning. Welcome to the prayer room this morning, Monday morning, first day of Passion Week, Holy Week. So if you're here in the room, I want to invite you to stand to your feet in the presence of the Lord with me. Those of you who are online, we want to invite you today also to bring your heart before the Lord. Bringing our heart before the Lord is more important than the geographical location where we stand. So we're here gathered. There's power in the corporate prayer room. It's an altar that we built, but we can build an altar at home. So if you're at home, this is your altar before the Lord. Psalm 50 describes to us that God is the mighty one, that God who is our Lord. And he speaks and he summons the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting out of Zion, the perfection of beauty. God shines forth. So today, a heart needs to be reminded that God is the mighty God. He is the mighty one, the strong one, the one who when he speaks, the nations tremble when he speaks. He calls forth everything into being. He's not just the God who loves and draws near to us with compassion and mercy, but he is the almighty Creator. He is the judge of all the earth. He is righteous. He is holy, and nothing is too difficult for him. And for us to get this vantage point that we're coming before a God who's powerful, that he's almighty, he's beyond time. There is no limitation in him. He's bigger than the universe can contain, but yet he has set his sights on the place where his name is spoken. He's set his sights on the place where his people, that he's redeemed by his own name, gather together and exalt him and pray and praise him. And so as we do that this morning, as we lift up our songs of worship today from wherever we're at, it's good for our hearts to be reminded of who it is that we're worshiping. It's not an idea. It's not a force. This is the Creator God, almighty, strong one in that out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God's power in his presence shines forth. And so today we're making an altar before our God as we approach this week. In just a few days, we're going to be following in the footsteps of Jesus, the Son of God, that went all the way to the cross. He went all the way through betrayal, all the way through the suffering, being the spotless, perfect lamb, the servant, the servant Messiah, the one who Isaiah speaks of. He was like a lamb who went to the slaughter without uttering a word. He did that on our behalf. While the world saw that as weakness, we now realize that that is great strength, that he suffered for us, died, was buried, and yet victoriously rose again. This is the God that shines forth. This is the God that draws near. This is the God who is mighty to save. This is the God whose wisdom overthrew the powers and the authorities and the spiritual hosts of wickedness in this age that thought they had killed him, but yet he restored life through him. So let our hearts today be filled with gratitude and thanksgiving. In fact, all over this room wherever you're at, let's just lift up holy hands before this great God, the mighty one, the God of Israel. Lord, we come before you with hands lifted high, insulting your name. Lord, you are God and we are not. You are strong when we are not. Let the wisdom of man be viewed as foolishness before you, for you are magnificent and wise and powerful in all of your ways. Strong and mighty one of Israel, the Lord God Almighty, the beautiful one, the radiant one, the glorious one, the one who comes with thunder, the one who comes with lightning, the one that the heavens roll up like a scroll at your presence, the one who speaks in the ocean separated from the mountains and the streams hide in the depths, the one when you speak, stars rotate into place beyond our comprehension or our ability to even measure. It's just a breath of yours. Oh God, who is like the Lord? Who is like you in strength? Who is like you in power? And Lord, who is like you in mercy and compassion? No one is like you, God. Who is like you? We only see through as a glass dimly, but Lord, you are splendid, beautiful, majestic. Who draws near to the downtrod and the fatherless and the widow? Who draws near to the one left on the margins that feels overlooked and unseeing? It's you, oh God. You see, you are El Rahe, the God who sees. You are the one who draws near. You are the one who comes to save. You are the one who delivers. You are the one who breaks the fetters and the chains. You are the one who offers hope. And Lord, today we feather ourselves. We thinker ourselves to you. God of mercy, the God of grace, the God of compassion. Come, come to us and receive glory out of Zion. Praise awaits for you in Zion today. Praise awaits for you. Lord, come and receive the glory that's due to your name. Come and receive the glory that casts their crowds. Lord, we lay those things that we look to as an authority, as a source, and we throw them down at your feet because there's no source, there's no power, there's no rival, there's no contest. Lamb of God, our victories. John chapter one, it says John the Baptist looked up and he saw Jesus and he said, behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. Lord, today at the beginning of this holy week, we look at you no longer in the flesh, but now resurrected and exalted. We no longer look at you as one going to the cross, but we look at one who has overcome the cross. We look at one who is now enthroned high above at all. Spotless Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world. We're praying today that this week would be a revelation in our hearts, Lord, that we would see what John saw, that we would, like John the Baptist, be able to see, have eyes opened up to see. This is who you are, the one that the Spirit of God descends upon, the anointed one, the Messiah, the Lamb of God, who is worthy. Jesus, you are worthy. Lord, that our eyes would be open to see what John the Revelator saw, the enthroned one, the exalted one, the spotless Lamb of God who is still worthy to receive glory and honor, power and blessing. Jesus, this is who you are forever and ever and exalted. Lord, that those who are lost and far from you, Lord, that their eyes would be open this week through the working of your Holy Spirit as Jesus, the righteous Lamb of God is exalted and lifted up, that eyes would be open, that words would be spoken that said worthy are you, Jesus. You really are worthy. You really are glorious. You really are resurrected. You really are the one who was slain for my sins, spotless Lamb of God and that, Lord, this week, crowns would be thrown before your feet. As we lay aside every other authority, every other power, every other thing that we look to as a source of salvation, God, we throw our crowns, we bow down, we lay our crowns at the feet of Jesus, the greatness of your mercy and love at the feet of Jesus and we cry, Holy, Holy, you know the tribe of Judah, roar from Zion, a deliverer will come out of Zion. Jesus, the root of David, the Lamb of God has overcome. Lord, today we weep no more because victory is yours because Jesus, you have prevailed. You have been found worthy to break the seals. Lord, today we look to you, our victorious conquering Lamb. You came in like a Lamb, but you went out like a lion. You came in meek and mild, but you're coming back strong and wild. You're coming back to rule and to reign Jesus. The root of David do have prevailed. Lord, I'm praying for a revelation of the victory of Jesus, that it's not just the tears that lead up to the cross, but it's the war that comes out of the tomb on Easter, on Resurrection Sunday that has prevailed. Lord, break open the seals of salvation. Release the seals of revelation in this hour that we might see you high and lifted up in this hour. One who came, the one who's coming again. Jesus, Lamb of God, Lion of David, Lion of Judah, come. The one who has conquered, come. Open the seals and open our eyes. It's an apostolic prayer for the church, for us. And it's still breathing. Chapter one, verse 17, his prayer was that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him, having the eyes of your hearts enlightened, that you may know what is the hope to which he's called you and what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints and what is the immeasurable greatness of his power towards us who believe according to the working of his great mind. Lord, today we stand in your presence with your word in our mouth and in our heart. Breathing again back to you the prayer that Paul prayed, that we're still praying to this day and that we still need to see fulfilled in our lifetime and in our hour and personally in each and every one of us. Lord, we're saying to you, the Lord of glory, Jesus, the Lamb of God, Lord, the Father of glory that you today would release to us spirit, wisdom and of revelation and the knowledge of Jesus. Lord, this is what we need more than anything else that as we live in a world that's under the dominion of a spirit of error, a spirit of deception and delusion that shapes and forms the heart and the paradigms and the mindsets that Father we as your people would come under the greater influence of the spirit of truth, that we would come under by submission to your Holy Spirit and that you would open the eyes of our heart by giving us a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus. We need to know you, Jesus, but we can only know you by revelation. We know you by revelation. We want to know you, Jesus, but it requires a greater wisdom. Lord, open our eyes, give us the capacity to see and understand. Lord, would you slam the door to deception and delusion and error. Today, Lord, we hear your voice, Jesus, our great shepherd and we will refuse the voice of the thief, the one who comes to steal, to kill and to destroy from us. We refuse the philosophies of men and those things that are wrongly called wisdom, we reject them in the name of Jesus and we come under the leadership of the Holy Spirit that lives within us, the greater glory of God. And we say, Holy Spirit, open our eyes, open our eyes in a greater measure today. And Lord, today, even as we're making this our prayer, there's so many worthless things demanding our focus, so many temporal and even demonic things that are demanding our focus. But today we say all eyes on Jesus, all eyes on truths and give our attention, our focus, to no worthless idols, no worthless things. Lord, those things that corrupt us from the inside out, those things that we behold that shape us. And just like righteous Lot it says that his righteous soul was vexed by the things he saw day by day. Lord, would you give us courage and fortitude to deny those things that corrupt our hearts and to flood our eyes with those things that shape and conform us to the image of Christ? Your word is truth, though, God. Lord, it's like light that floods our soul. Your word says in Psalm 119 that it is good, it is perfect even to the converting of the soul. Revive us again by your word. Revive us again by your word that our eye would be focused on you, that just as John beheld your glory, we would behold your glory, that just as our hearts have been formed to meditate, Lord, we would meditate on your word and that our hearts would become enlightened so that our knowledge would grow. Lord, that our understanding of hope would expand no longer hopeless, no longer in this world without God and without hope. But Lord, we would see that our heart would come to life with a revelation that we are the sons and the daughters of the living God because of what if Jesus has done, flood us with light today, my friend. Boreous inheritance in the saints, says Lord, you have so much more for us. So much more for us today. God, open our hearts, stir up hunger to pursue you. Stir up a hunger to know you. But we're not just going to know you because it's available. We're going to know you when we seek you. You said, if we seek you with all of our hearts, we will find you and we're praying Holy Spirit by the immeasurable greatness of your power. Lord, would you stir in us hunger for Jesus? Would you stir in us a desire to seek out our inheritance? Jesus said no man has anything unless it has been granted to him by heaven. Lord, we want to know what's been granted to us. We want to know our inheritance. Holy Spirit, you alone can lead your greatness and your power. It's not by might. It's not by power, but it's by my spirit, says the Lord. So Holy Spirit, we submit to your Lordship this morning. Glorify Jesus to us. Glorify Jesus and open up the heart of every man and woman, especially as we draw near. Do you give us revelation? Let us see the beauty of every facet, every aspect of what Jesus did for us on the cross. Lord, I'm praying that we would see something brand new this year, that we would see the beauty, the wonder, the sacrifice of the cross and that Lord, the power of your resurrection will come alive in us even as we know you in the fellowship of suffering. I pray for those, even as we close today, those who this week is painful that they're suffering today. I'm praying Jesus, you would walk along this just like you walked along those two disciples on the road to a mass and that you would walk with us, comfort us and let our heart burn within us because we've been with you, great God of comfort and revelation. We pray this today in Jesus' name. Joining us online, thank you so much for joining us. Invite you to come all this week, morning, noon and night, be a part of this as we approach Good Friday. We're going to be shifting into a devotional set here and so as we do that we're just going to ask that you quietly leave unless you would like to stay. You're welcome to stay. Otherwise, have a great afternoon.