 Hey welcome to morning prayer at the Radiant City Center at 8 a.m. and 23 seconds we're glad to be joining a lot of our staff is over in our Richland campus we have our kids camp today and so we get the amazing opportunity to be downtown and to pray here and watch our prayers change things over there like Mike Bickle calls it the prayer cannon you point the prayer cannon toward a location and then God changes things and you know for those in the room even those online you know if you know our Richland campus even help picture that sanctuary picture our kids that are there picture them encountering the Lord picture them hearing God's voice hearing picture them getting saved picture them getting baptized in the Holy Spirit and so we get to practice the spirit of Elijah this morning to pray for the hearts of the fathers to be turned to the children and the children to the fathers that's exactly what we're doing through our prayers and our intercession so as we go before the Lord and worship and praise and proclamation I want to read from Psalm 91 says it is good to give thanks to the Lord and sing praises to your name almost high to declare your loving kindness in the morning and your faithfulness every night on an instrument of ten strings and on the loop and on the harp with harmonious sounds for you oh Lord have made me glad through your works and I will triumph in the works of your hands I'm just I'm just on the simplicity of the praise it is good to give thanks to the Lord I think there's giving in our hearts and that's exactly what we're going to do this morning I just want to lead us in this moment and just remind us that we are not initiating here on earth the scripture says to pray on earth as it is in heaven heaven is not joining with us but we are joining with heaven heaven is already praying and interceding heaven is worshiping and praising there's a song that's being sung even there's a song being sung over Kalamazoo in heaven we're not trying to initiate here on earth but we are literally joining in the heavenly song and so let's go this before this morning go before the Lord and I want us to practice that let's picture the throne room this morning we know Revelation 4 there's elders four living creatures 24 elders there's a sea of glass there's seraphim there's cherubim there's thunderings and lightnings let's go before that throne of grace this morning and join in that heavenly song let's begin lifting up our voices let's begin offering our praise before the throne room where we join in with the heavenly song we join in with the thanksgiving and the praise that's happening before your throne this morning power doesn't come so ascending before the throne of grace our weak little words and our songs rise collide with the will of god in heaven and there's an explosion of power and transformation change that happens from weak prayers and weak melodies ascending and colliding with the will of god in heaven like a nuclear reaction but we're joining with your hearts we're joining with your plan for the earth Lord we say not our will not our plans not the way that we want things not our dreams and desires the Lord we join in with the kingdom of heaven and Lord it's our prayer and desire to join down here on earth what's already happening in heaven Jesus you have already asked of the Father for the nations as your inheritance Lord we join in that prayer I want to turn our attention to intercession and encourage us to stay engaged as we pray for our kids that are about to head into worship this morning to receive the word of God praying out of Ephesians 1 17 through 19 asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the father of glory may give the spirit of wisdom and revelation of the knowledge of him the eyes of your understanding would be enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance and the saints and the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe according to the working of his mighty power the Lord we come before your throne of grace and we lift up our our kids to you knowing that they're not actually our kids first but they first our sons and daughters of the most high God the Lord this week at camp Lord as many are coming for fun to have a good time to connect to play games Lord I ask that you would ambush them with your love and your grace Father I ask for the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus God I ask that Jesus would go from being a person in a story two thousand years ago he would go from being words on a page that you would go from being a person that their parents pray to to their personal savior to their personal Lord to the one that they have heard speak to them Jesus I ask that you would call them by name Lord in revelation it says to the one who conquers that you give a white stone with a name on it that only you and them know you are the giver and the speaker and definer of names and Lord we just ask that you would speak identity and their names and their purpose Lord in a generation and an hour where there is an agenda Lord to to tear down their identity to say they are not who God created them to be they are something else and they need to find and discover their own identity oh God I ask today that you would have mercy on our kids and that you would call them by name Jesus that you would appear to them and speak to them Lord that they would hear your voice they would feel your presence Lord even in worship Lord before the word is spoken Lord in worship we ask they would feel your presence they would feel the love of God Lord like John Wesley used to say Lord that their hearts would be strangely warmed Lord that their hearts would feel an experience a love that is beyond a love that they've experienced in this world God as the gospel is preached Lord as the pastors preach the gospel and preach the word to these kids Lord that it would pierce their hearts Lord that you would make yourself known and manifest to them God we even ask for baptism to the Holy Spirit introductions to the third person of the Trinity Lord that they would be baptized in the living flame of love Lord be asked the eyes of their understanding would be enlightened God that you would open up their eyes to the real meaning and purpose of life Lord that they would make it in a moment that you would show them oh I was created to worship oh I was created to bring you glory and honor and life even in their their little minds would make sense life only makes sense in your presence and Lord we just ask you would make sense of everything even even though they are young and developing in their understanding Lord that they would be strong in spirit Lord and that they would be strong in in love for you Lord they would be strong in their identity and their purpose so God we lift up our kids before we ask for the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Jesus Christ draw them into your love you know what is the hope of your calling God I ask Lord for calling to be written on their hearts Lord the world is recruiting them to have a calling for what they call justice the world is recruiting them to have a cause that lines up more with the spirit of the age than with the kingdom of God telling them to lay down their lives to fly the flag to give themselves to a false justice but God I ask that you would reveal the hope of your calling Lord I think as Samuel he didn't even know who was speaking to him he heard a voice and he didn't even know it was you that's how young he was and yet you said I want to speak to him and reach him because I want to give him the hope of a calling that he is to be a prophet of God and so Lord I ask that you would speak calling Lord even if they don't even recognize your voice yet Lord that you would call worship leaders and singers Lord call missionaries Lord preachers and pastors teachers and evangelists Lord that you would call mothers and fathers that you would call preachers of the gospel Lord you would call artists and artisans to beautify the gospel with their gifts and their talents Lord that you would reveal the hope and joy of a calling following Jesus there is no joy there is no thrill like a spirit led life that follows you to the ends of the earth and so God we just ask that you would reveal the hope of your calling Lord I ask that you would even give them pictures of 10 years down the road 20 years down the road Lord you would whisper the name of cities and nations God you would call forth musical gifts and singing abilities and songwriting and poetry and all the all the pieces of the calling Lord that that the world is trying to recruit them into the army for the spirit of the age but Lord that you would draw them out and reveal the hope of your calling Lord speak calling speak destiny Lord speak life over their future Lord where they have had death prophesied over them where they have heard nothing but death for Jen Alpha and Jen Z where they see where this nation is going Lord and they've had a doom and gloom prophecy spoken over them Lord I ask that you would reveal the hope of their calling or that you would even speak about future revival of the coming glory of the hope of Jesus putting his two feet back on the earth and ruling and reigning Lord that they would receive not a false hope but a hope of your calling so God I ask that you would reveal the hope of your calling and lift up our voices if you have your prayer language just pray in the spirit sing in the spirit if you don't just pray and sing in your understanding let's just invite the Holy Spirit oh Lord pour your spirit out in fresh oil fresh oil things over this next generation Lord I declare Lord same anointing as Elisha Lord this generation this Elijah generation Lord we may have called down fire from heaven Lord but when Jezebel came and prophesied we were afraid and we ran and hid and Lord our generation tolerated the woman Jezebel and now our kids are paying the price where Jezebel is making eunuchs of her servants where she is emasculating a generation but Lord we pray for the zeal of Elisha Lord the zeal of Jehu Lord for this Gen Alpha and Gen Z generation oh Lord when the spirit of Jezebel yells out is it peace Jehu oh Lord that the spirit of God would fall upon this generation and would not stop and that they would call down for the eunuchs the very ones that Jezebel emasculated that they would be the ones that throw her down that cast her to the ground the very ones Lord who have been prayed upon who have been fed this lie of sexual revolution that is really a prison Lord that that that eliminates what you created as man and woman Lord and I ask Lord for the zeal of God to rise up in this generation Lord for sexual purity in the name of Jesus that would not bow their knee to the LGBTQ agenda that would not bow their knee to the pressure Lord when the when the liar and the flute and the heart play the sound and demand that they bow down to this image Lord that they would stand firm Lord and that you would be with them in the furnace Lord we just ask just for a purity and a zeal for holiness Lord that would not bow their knee to the spirit of Jezebel in this generation Lord and that you would even use them Lord that we would see a great revival Lord the same kids who are taking puberty blockers right now who are thinking that if they change their their so-called gender then they'll find happiness God I ask that it's the giant alpha and Gen Z generation that would say this is not who you are this is who God created you to be and there would be power and fire on their words and there would be deliverance and healing Lord I ask that you would even do miracles of those who have mutilated their bodies Lord and that you would actually restore the original body that they have created Lord what a creative miracle Lord to redeem and restore those who thought they lost their womanhood for their masculinity to see it restored but God I ask for a spirit of Elisha on this generation Lord to anoint the Jehu's to anoint the leaders who would execute with zeal against the kingdom of darkness Lord that we would see Lord this the spirit of the age attached to this agenda broken in one generation in the name of Jesus greater words in your return hey go faster go further than our generation ever went I'm pleased but we couldn't seal up these prayers Lord I ask that you would give us that spirit of Elijah Lord that we would not make everything about ourselves in our generation but Lord that our hearts would be turned to the next generation Lord that we wouldn't look at them as those who are going to replace us so we have to hold on to our positions and titles Lord but we would look at them and say we want you to go further than we ever went we want you to be equipped with the things we didn't have and we want you to accomplish even the things that our generation failed and that they would just hear a generation say we want you to step into all that you are so Lord give us that heart even for the older generations Lord help us turn our hearts toward the children and then and then minister to them as their hearts turn as their hearts turn toward us in Jesus name amen amen thank you for interceding and praying probably know the drill but we're back here at noon and 6 30 p.m. have a great day