 Welcome to the prayer room. Those of you who are joining us online, welcome to morning prayer. For those of you who may not know, especially those of you who are at home, we are in a very special season here at Radiant. We're in the middle of an ongoing prayer burn. And so that that means that we've been going around the clock here in the prayer room 24-7 for the last several days. So we're so glad you're joining in with us. And we want to encourage you, even though you may not have been in the prayer room or a part of multiple prayer sets, but you can jump right into the fire. You can jump right into the stream this morning of prayer and intercession. There's a sweet, sweet presence of the Lord that is meeting us in this place. A strong visitation of the Lord among His people. So this morning, I want to just highlight Psalm chapter nine, which is David's early response to the nearness and the goodness of the Lord. It says in Psalm nine, said, I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart. I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exalted you and I will sing praise to your name almost high. He goes on and he says, in verse number seven, he says, but the Lord sits in throne forever. He is established, is thrown for justice, and he judges the world with righteousness. He judges the people with uprightness. The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in the times of trouble. And those who know your name, put their trust in you. Psalm nine, like many of the early Psalms of David just reflect this deep intimacy and this wholehearted pursuit that David had for the Lord. Long before he ever had a throne, he was consumed with the throne of the Lord being established in the people of God. And his whole heart's posture and attitude was to go wholeheartedly after God, to have an undivided heart. That really is the key to living a lifestyle, not just an event of prayer and pursuit, but a lifestyle pursuit is to have our whole heart, our affections, our mind, our time, our energy, greatness of God almost high. The one who is our stronghold, the one who is our refuge that we run to, the one who's enthroned high above all the other thrones of men, and to remind our hearts over and over again about the goodness of God and to exalt him. This is how we bring our whole heart into alignment. We remember his wonderful deeds, then gladness and exalting him. So this is what worship does. This is what praise does, exaltation and adoration. It brings our whole heart into alignment. This morning that's what we want. We want our whole heart. We want to worship the Lord with our whole heart. We want to respond to Deuteronomy 6, invitation to Shema that says, Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind. There's times when little fragments of our heart get peeled off by fear, by distraction, by busyness, by self-absorption, even our emotional places. But the key to that is to bring it all back into alignment around him. This is very simple. It's Lord, I want to see you high and lifted up. I want to see you enthroned on the praises of Zion. Lord, in today we set our gaze, we fix our eyes upon you, and we remind our hearts of all of your wonderful deeds, of your great deliverance. We remind our heart of the cross where you paid the price for our salvation. We remind our hearts that you've risen from the dead and that you are no longer in the tomb, that you are now high and lifted up and thrown at the center of the universe. Jesus, we remind our hearts on a personal level of the times that you've made away whether it wasn't a way, your miracle working power, your faithfulness, your goodness in us and in others around us. And our response to you is thank you. We bless your name. We thank you in God today. By the power of the Holy Spirit would you come and would you align our hearts? Would you bring our whole heart into this moment to worship you with it? And to make our request known unto you and to come boldly before your throne of grace today, wherever we're at, whatever we're feeling and whatever we're facing, we've set our fix, our gaze fixed upon you this morning. We say, Lord, with our whole hearts we will worship you. So let's do that just that. Let's just begin this morning with worship. Some musicians lead us. Let's just join right in with the symphony of praise. I urge you right now with your own vote, the choir of uncountable angels and saints before the throne to just tell them how worthy he is. Worthy. Are you Jesus? Worthy are you the Lamb of God that was slain before the foundations of the world? Worthy are you? There's no one that stands beside you. No one that can be compared to you. You have no rivals. You have no equals. Jesus, you alone are worthy. Isn't he worthy? Worthy, worthy, worthy. Dear Jesus. Well, let's sing that again. Isn't he worthy? They are over the city. North, the South, the East, and the West. There was none found worthy to break the seals on the scroll until you of the tribe of Judah has prevailed. Just thinking of a little child who sees something for the very first time and just keeps saying, isn't it huge? Look at that. Isn't it, isn't it so big? And he just can't get his eyes off of it. And every time we sing that chorus, isn't he worthy? It's like our hearts getting captivated again by the beauty and the power and the majesty of Jesus. And we just can't help but say to those around us, and even to ourselves, isn't he worthy? Isn't he worthy? He's even more worthy than I thought he was. He's even more glorious than I thought he was. He's even better than I thought he was. He's stronger. He's wiser. Worship at all of their breath. It would still not be enough to match your work when we set our eyes on you. Just like David said in Psalm 27, just one glimpse of you turns our heart to say, this is the one thing that I desire above all other things that I might dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life. I would give my whole life. I would give everything else that I could sit my eyes on and exchange it for this one thing that I could stay here and just behold you and just gaze upon you to be transfixed by you, Jesus. God, would you flood over our hearts and give us just a glimpse a little bit more than we have today of the beauty, the splendor, and the wonder of who you are? Flood the eyes of our heart with the light of revelation of the worth of Jesus today. Eyes in a generation filled with darkness, flood our hearts with revelation truth, revelation knowledge of the worth of Jesus that captures us, that draws us in to be wholehearted lovers of God. Undivided heart, just like a flashlight being brought into just this very focused beam, Lord, to bring our hearts into alignment. So many things competing for our attention and our we get just a glimpse of your strength and your wisdom, your nearness to us. Lord, when we look into your eyes, we see love burning there. We see wholehearted commitment on your part to us when you said that you will never leave us and you will never forsake us. That Jesus, you're more than just the Savior from the outside, you're the Savior from the inside. You're the redeemer of our lives, but you're the healer of our hearts. You're the restorer of the broken places in us. You are peace in the midst of the storm. You're the leader and the guide of our lives who orders every one of our steps. You're the defender of our soul. You're a hedge of fire around our lives and around the purposes that you have for us. And Lord, you proved it by paying for all of that with your own blood. Jesus, when we look at you on the cross, when we see your blood stained hands and when we see the blood dripping down your face in a moment when you could have called countless angels to come and deliver you, but you looked out over the earth and you looked out over the expanse of time and generations and you saw each of us and it was love for us that kept you there on the cross. It was radical obedience to the Father that kept you there on the cross. Even in the face of mocking demons and the legions of hell and the weakness of the flesh, you suffered and you died for us. What else demands our attention? What else? What else is worthy for us to pull our gaze off of you and to put it on something else even for a second? Jesus, if you're that committed to us, now could we ever doubt you? Could we ever give our hearts to anything else? This morning we thank you for the cross. Thank you for the cross. The cross that's foolishness to a world. It's foolishness to the wisdom of man. It's foolishness to the philosophies of this culture and society, but we look at the cross and we don't see death and defeat. We see victory in life. Thank you for the cross. Wherever you're at right now, I want you to just take a moment while the musicians play, prophesy, and I want you to have a moment with Jesus, the resurrected Jesus. I want you to remember the cross. Just personally, just take a moment and meditate on the cross and the price that was paid, Jesus. I want you to thank Jesus for letting soak in what it has done for you and what it has done to you. Conclusion of that, but we're continuing 24-7 here and so we want to encourage you that if you want to come and be a part of it, just around the clock, come down, join us and those of you who are in the room, we're just going to continue on into this prayer set. Welcome to stay if you'd like, but let's just continue to just stay in an attitude of prayer, praise, and worship as we continue to seek God.