 It's good to see you all here. It's good to have you all joining us on the live stream for worship and prayer in the heart of Kalamazoo. I'm just going to open this morning from Psalm 89 as we just posture our hearts to enter into His gates with thanksgiving and with praise. If you have your Bibles, you're welcome to turn there Psalm 89. Or if you just want to close your eyes and just listen as we declare who God is and what He loves to do, Psalm 89 verse 11. The heavens are yours and the earth also is yours. The world and all it contains, you have founded them. The north and the south, you have created them. Tabor and Herman shout for joy at your name. You have a strong arm and your hand is mighty and your right hand is exalted. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne. Loving kindness and truth go before you. How blessed are the people who know the joyful sound. O Lord, they walk in the light of your countenance and in your name they rejoice all the day. And by your righteousness they are exalted. For you are the glory of their strength and by your favor our horn is exalted. For our shield belongs to the Lord and our King to the Holy One of Israel. Lord, we just come into your presence and we just say we love you, Jesus. We love who you are. We love that at the origin of all things is you. The sustaining of all things, it's you, Jesus. The finale of all things, it's you, Jesus. We love, Abba, that your throne is founded on righteousness and truth and justice. That you're the God who makes wrong things right. That when your gavel falls, when your words are decreed, God, you make wrong things right. We love who you are and we love what you do. And we enter into your courts this morning, God, with grateful hearts, with singing lips, singing lips, Lord, proclaiming before heaven and earth, this is our God. Truth and loving kindness go before you. Mercy and kindness tackle us down in our lives. You're fair, you're just, you're true, you're righteous. You're the God of many deliverances. Lord, you bear your right arm and your enemies tremble. Oh, we enter in and we give glory to you this morning, Jesus, in your name. Just lift our voices to the Lord. Jesus, we love you. We love your beautiful name. We love who you are. We're going to go into our first prayer cycle now. We're going to be praying from Acts chapter 16. If you have your Bibles, you can join us. And this is the part where we don't disengage or sit back as spectators, but we're going to lean in in the power of agreement with one another, with those joining us on the live stream and with the Holy Spirit. It's like a full court press in basketball where we're staying in and when the singers sing a chorus, we're going to jump on that chorus because that is our agreed prayer and our agreed prophetic decree. So we want to jump on that and sing it with everything that we've got in the power of agreement. As I'm praying, we're just going to go yes and amen as we agree with the word of God, who he is and what he says he will do. Amen. Everybody with me this morning? Are we awake? Okay. We're going to take this first prayer cycle and we are going to pray for the release of captives in this city and in the cities represented and across America. How many of you have heard of the movie, The Sound of Freedom? Yeah, it's a difficult one. And yet the Lord releases those things prophetically to set his watchman on the wall, to agree with his heart as the God of many deliverances. And so we're going to do that. We're going to pray for the release of prisoners and captives, not only of those in the sex trafficking rings, but those addicted to things that are held in bondage to addictions, that are held in bondage to fear and panic attacks and anxiety attacks. So if you will just, let's just stand up again and just if we have our Bibles, we're just going to agree together now. I'm going to read Acts chapter 16. This is when Paul and Silas are in prison. Verse 25, But about midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns of praise to God. And the prisoners were listening to them. And suddenly there came a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison house were shaken. And immediately all the doors were opened and everyone's chains were unfastened. And the prison guard just to finish the story was going to kill himself and despair. Paul says, no, don't do it. We're all there. And he comes out and says, what must I do to be saved? And so Lord, we just thank you that your ways are not our ways. Your ways are higher. Your ways are other than that. That you invite the likes of us, God, even us, to partner with you as the God of deliverance and the God of salvation. Lord, that as we make much of you this morning, as we declare your name over our hearts, over our homes, over our cities, God, you move in power. You move in deliverance. You move in healing. It's your way and you remain the same yesterday, today and forever. And so Lord, as we make much of you, as we lift high and exalt your name, I'm asking God that all throughout the city of Kalamazoo and all throughout the cities represented on the live streaming in this room, God in a cross America, that as we worship a remnant hidden in Kalamazoo, Michigan, God, you would shape the foundation of prison cells. God, that you would bring exposure to the sex trafficking rings all throughout this city, those places of darkness, God, as we declare the name of Jesus. Lord, would you deploy angels even now to shake the foundations of darkness and wickedness, shake the foundations of these rings, God, and release the prisoners in Jesus' name. Looking for justice, that the sex trafficking rings, God, that they would be made right even today. God, I'm asking that you would bear hard as the God of justice, as the deliverer, Lord, as the savior. Lord, this is who you are, this is what you love to do and you invite us in, God, to the fellowship of your suffering concerning injustice. So we stand in the gap this morning, God, be slurred on behalf of those bound, Lord, shackled in the sex trafficking rings, Lord, bound and anxiety. Lord, we ask you to bear with swing-wide the prison doors even now, Lord, release the captives, grant deliverance. God, we're asking that the newspapers would even testify, Lord, of the bearing it would expose the sex trafficking ring. The participants, Lord, that you would, Jesus, and bring freedom to the captives in your name. Be taken from the mighty man or the captives of a tyrant be rescued. Surely, thus says the Lord, even the captives of the mighty man will be taken away and the prey of the tyrant will be rescued. For I will contend with the one who contends with you and I will save your sons. Father, we love you. We thank you for these promises. We thank you that your right hand extended, God, is unstoppable. We thank you that you are the God who rescues the prey from the tyrant. Close, God, even now, please, a prophetic declaration. Surely, forces of darkness that never ends, that goes on and on through the ages of eternity. Love joining our voices with the voices of the heavenly making much of your Son, Father. A second prayer cycle, maintaining that posture of worship before the Lord. And we're going to pray from Psalm 27. Natasha sort of sang a little bit of it. And we're going to ask the Lord to raise up a David generation. The fact that y'all are here for presence camp desiring to be those who make Jesus' presence a priority. We want to ask the Lord to multiply that many times over across this land that he would bring forth a priesthood set apart who esteem his presence above all else. Psalm 27, verse 4. One thing I have asked from the Lord and that I shall seek that I may dwell in the house of the Lord, that's the house of prayer all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. And so Lord, I thank you that this is the desire of your heart that from before time began you ordained God that your kingdom would operate in intimate partnership with weak and broken human beings. And so here we are, Abba. I thank you for the stirring of hearts, Lord, that even even these students got a presence camp these 40-some young people, Lord, that have said yes to the stirring of Holy Spirit to prioritize your presence in their life like David all the days of my life. God, I pray that you would raise up a generation, Lord, who would say, I want the presence of Jesus all the days of my life in every season of my soul, in every chapter of my story, in every mile of the journey. I prioritize the presence of the Lord. God, raise up those who will run to you when they're victorious and who will run to you when they've failed. Lord, those that desire your presence above the fanfare of men that desire your presence above the counterfeit gold of this fallen world. We pray Holy Spirit begin to stir young hearts even now bring forth a generation of one thing in your name we pray prophesy that's after one your seal upon their hearts that's after one a generation of days for this initiative of Holy Spirit that even now, God, you are capturing the gaze of young ones even the ones in diapers, God, the preschoolers the junior high, the high schools, the young adults, God, you are capturing a generation and setting their gaze on the beauty of the Lord and we agree with you, Holy Spirit we just say would you ruin a generation for any lesser loves? Would you blind their eyes, God, to the fool's gold of this fallen world? Would you set their gaze like the eyes of the dove fixed loyally on the beauty of the Lord? Sons and daughters you are made for this realm of beauty you are made for this man whose eyes are a flame of fire Lord, I pray that you would capture the gaze of a generation that they wouldn't care about the fame and the applause and the money and the promotions but Lord, they would care about the the gaze of the man with fire in his eyes that you would set their hearts, God, now the trajectory of their life that it would be for your house of prayer that they would long for your courts all the days of their life in every season of the soul there would be a cry for your presence, Lord there would be a cry for the chambers of the King Lord, raise up a generation after your heart raise up a generation who know what it is to be at the feet of Jesus oh Lord, mark a generation set them apart even now in your name yes, Lord it's our confession today, Lord that all of our desires are found in you alone you are our portion all of our fountains are found in you and we love you so much Father, thank you for your love thank you for your son Jesus, thank you for your love for your nearness, for your friendship Holy Spirit, thank you for your help in your ministry for helping us love Jesus rightly for opening the eyes of our heart again and again to His beauty and worth for teaching us how to partner with you, Lord in the release of your kingdom and your government in the earth we love you, Lord we thank you for this sacred hour Lord, all that is transpired I ask that you would seal up and that you would multiply many times over God in this place and in the cities represented God, that there would be prayer fires burning in the incense of worship ascending before you on earth as it is in heaven by which you are glorified and pleased and Lord, we bless you we thank you in Jesus' name, amen and amen well thank you for joining us this morning for worship and prayer we are back here at noon and again at 6 30 tonight God bless you