 Good morning. Good morning. Welcome to morning prayer. I'm so excited to Start off this brand-new week just seeking the Lord together Welcome to those of you with us online as well We're gonna be opening up today with Psalm 27 starting in verse 4 One thing I have desired of the Lord That will I seek That I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life To behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple, but this is our one thing But this is how we start our day This is how we start our week But our one desire is you But that we would be ones who do well in the house of the Lord To behold your beauty, but we don't desire anything else Jesus, it's simply you It's always been you Nothing else is gonna satisfy Nothing else is gonna do But our hearts come alive when we behold you when we behold your beauty are beautiful you are gracious you are kind You are holy You are worthy of praise honor and power We don't get tired Lord But here again just asking for your presence That our hearts would be graced with the presence of The true King Jesus Christ Lord that you would hear our hearts cry from heaven And that it would draw you near But as we draw near to you this morning Lord that you would draw near to us An imperfect broken people But one's hungry Hungry for our Lord and Savior Hungry for our beloved Desiring you and you alone God Nothing else Would you hear from the heaven Lord and would you draw near? Hear our praise Lord would it be pleasing to you? There's it's not about us twisting your arm. It's about us just simply asking simply desiring Simply drawing near So this morning Lord we draw near We draw near with faith That you'll draw near back Or so as our hearts cry out to you Lord Would your presence just dwell here today? He knew that you want from me. Is it an offering of thanksgiving for something we haven't given thanks before? Is it a clap? Is it a song? Is it a dance? Musicians? Is it a melody? I want us to go before the Lord and to actually ask him God What's something new that I can bring you today? Well, what's the the new bread that I can bring you today? So Lord we just invite you into our hearts But if there's areas we've been holding back Something new that you want from us God would you just highlight it bring it forward? But we want to worship you in spirit and truth So Holy Spirit come illuminate our hearts today. There's the greatest commandment in the law Jesus said to him You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart with all your soul Or do we not be one to forget? the greatest commandment Or that the greatest thing we can do for you is to love you To love you with every part of our being With our heart soul mind Better we acknowledge that We need to love you better we need to love you better So God would we be a people to remember? To love you first God that it's not about Religion it's it's it's not about other things. It's about loving you. That's all you want That's what you want from us first Lord is to love you Or so where we've been focused on other things Where our eyes have turned from loving you and where that's gone to the back burner When it's been about routine or obligation Lord would it be about love again Would it be about loving you? authentically Lord with our heart soul mind and strength With every part of our being God when we love you in a deeper way Would there be fresh revelation that causes us to just overflow with love for you? God with the with the path of expressing love to you Acts and words of love would it be well worn in our hearts well worn in our minds Or that it wouldn't feel strange. They would feel like second nature to love you But what you want from us first is love God and we can think that we're good at it. We can think that we we know everything about how to love you Look out. There's always more to give There's always more words to describe you. There's always more Acts of love Ways that we can express it God. So would you lead us and would you guide us with all of our heart soul mind and strength It's the greatest commitment It's the most important thing that we could do for where we've made loving you a means to an end We've made loving you a way to self promotion A way to somehow earn more love from you as we love you more you somehow Unlock more love for us. God. That's not it's not how it works As we love you we somehow gain position in your eyes No, there's there's no way that your love for us could increase anymore We can't earn any more of it. We certainly Don't deserve it Lord where where our hearts have become like Martha worried about doing things for you worried about gaining position in your eyes somehow there's a ladder to climb to get to the top of the love of God Or we just repent we come to you and we let you see those sick areas of our heart and we ask for you Jesus great healer To touch our hearts To give his hearts like Mary Who didn't seek to gain anything from loving you but sought to to give it all? Just cuz you're worth it. Just cuz you're beautiful Just because you first loved us But how sick we would be if it weren't for the cross How different our lives would be if it weren't for the cross Lord in your in your kindness you came down and you changed everything Before we ever did anything for you before Any of us were ever even Before we were born before we were formed you took a cross for us So that we could love you and Lord we're so sorry for taking that for granted. We're so sorry Where we've believed the enemy's lies that it's loving you is to gain something. No, it's not how love works We love you simply because You're beautiful and you're holy and you loved us first It's what our heart was created to do was to love you and to be loved by you But in where we've let other things slip in where we've made it about something else Something self-centered we just repent And we ask you Jesus that you would bring us back and your kindness Touch our hearts Rewire them to love you without seeking to gain truly just Give our love freely Not expecting anything in return because you've already given all are we just asked for you to examine us today? We give you full access Lead us in your kindness Lord be gentle with us Notice and lead us the way everlasting Take a moment and allow the Lord to to appear Deep into the depths of our hearts To uncover motives Just speak to them and touch our hearts to love you more today Let's continue to prophesy as they do just let your heart align with what's being played To ascribe glory and praise to love him Some emotions are just too deep for words So as they're playing Even though there won't be a chorus just let your heart express those emotions to the Lord that are just too deep for words The greatest act of love the world's ever known The greatest it will ever know you're so beautiful Jesus So wonderful But it's hard for us to comprehend It's impossible for us to comprehend all of your love But somehow you give it freely and we don't forget that today We ascribe to you this morning glory. It's all yours Our lives yours Our devotion yours Because you're deserving of it and we just We just close this morning asking that you would increase That we would decrease increase in our hearts Would a love for you in our hearts our soul our mind our strength or would it increase Would we be people who love you more today than we did yesterday Who see you rightly More clearly today than we did yesterday And we love that we get to continue to love you in new ways for the rest of our lives It's not something that becomes routine or stagnant I want to bring you something new every day So Lord help us and lead us Would you be glorified through our lives? Jesus name amen Thank you everyone for joining us for morning prayer today. We'll be back here at noon in 6 30 this evening God bless you guys