 All right, good morning everybody. Welcome to 8 a.m. prayer. If you could stand up with me if you're in the room as we prepare our hearts to enter into the Lord's presence today for everyone joining online, welcome as we enter in this morning. I just wanted to take a minute to position our hearts rightly as we behold the Lord this morning that we would approach him in the fear of the Lord. In the fear of the Lord, it doesn't have to be sad. It doesn't have to be like, I'm the worst, but the fear of the Lord is recognizing God rightly and it's recognizing yourself rightly. It's coming with the right posture. So I just want to just take a minute to receive. I'm gonna read from Psalm 33 as we enter in. It says, but look, the Lord keeps his eye on those who fear him, those who depend on his faithful love to rescue them from death and to keep them alive and famine says, we wait for the Lord. For he is our help and our shield and our hearts rejoice in him because we trust in his holy name. May your faithful love rest on us, oh Lord, for we put our hope in you. So right now, Holy Spirit, this is a spiritual family, God, we position our hearts rightly before you. And we say, God, would you teach us the fear of the Lord as we enter in this morning, God, would you line us up rightly to heaven? You say that your eyes are on those who fear you. And Father, this morning we want to be in your gaze. God, as you search to and fro across the earth this morning, to and fro across this city, Lord, as your eyes have searched and you have found your people waking up early, spending time with you, got in their homes, the prayers of the saints that have come up before you even today, Lord, I ask that your eyes would find us in this room, looking back at you. As your eyes, search God, you'd find a room full of 100 people with their eyes turned straight to you, positioned rightly this morning. The open hands, open hearts, God, not bringing our religion, not bringing our striving, but coming to a Father who sees us, who knows us, who loves us. Just right now, if you can just put your hand over your heart and just say, God, teach me the fear of the Lord. Teach me the fear of the Lord. God, I ask that you would root us and ground us in revelation of who you are. As we behold you today, Lord, that you would position us rightly. Father, we love you. We love you, we enter in. God, with our eyes set on you, would you meet us today in Jesus' name. Come up. As you turn your heart, turn your eyes to Him, just begin to sing spiritual songs to the Lord. I would say, good morning, Holy Spirit. Good morning, Holy Spirit. We love you. Set our eyes on you, God. Artness would be displaced, God, distraction, confusion, idolatry would be displaced. Holy Spirit, we say we love you. So we worship you alone. We're gonna jump into one of our intercession cycles. I wanna pray for Romans chapter 15. Romans chapter 15, and I wanna pray for a breakthrough of hope and faith in the people of God and the city. I wanna pray against discouragement and distraction in the process and that God would release a revelation, a revelation of hope and an impartation of hope into the people of God. So Romans chapter 15, verse 13, it says, and now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you believe, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. So Lord, today we lift up your church in this city, God. We lift up the different churches, Father, that you have brought together to be your body in Kalamazoo. When we ask Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit today, would you release joy and peace in their hearts that there would be a fresh revelation of hope? God, we stand in the gap as intercessors this morning and we rebuke a spirit of discouragement. God, even in our own hearts, even in your own heart right now, if you've been agreeing with discouragement, agreeing with the gap, can we just even rebuke discouragement for ourselves this morning? God, thank you that we are a people of hope. Thank you that we're a people of hope. We're a people of faith, Lord, that we have confidence in the name of the Lord and today, God, as we stand in the gap as your sons and daughters, Father, we rebuke an assignment of discouragement over your people in this city and we ask, we ask for hope and faith to rise up on the inside. God, hope in faith, hope in a God who is the finisher of our faith. Jesus, you're the author and you're the finisher of our faith, Lord, and you are faithful to finish what you started. So, God, today we ask, God, for hope for the hopeless. God, hope for the hopeless. Faith, God, for the discourage. Those that are beat down, Lord, that have had worst case scenarios. God, worst case scenario of playing in their heart in their mind. Lord, as they imagine a future without you, a future without you, you coming alongside them. God, I ask today that there would be a download of hope and faith from heaven that would displace discouragement. Holy Spirit, would you do it in our hearts and do it in the city today? In Jesus' name, would you do it today? So, enjoy. Specifically, pray against. God, assignments of discouragement and depression. Pray against assignments of discouragement and depression. Lord, as the enemy and the accuser of the brethren. So many, so many believers, Lord, in cycles of discouragement. I ask today, God, for breakthrough, breakthrough over cycles of discouragement and depression in hearts and minds. God, those in the city, Lord, that have felt stuck in their faith that there's just been a heavy cloud, a heavy presence over their hearts. God, I ask this morning that something would shift. This morning that something would change, Lord, as they're at home with their kids and there's just been a heavy presence over their house, I ask in the name of Jesus that light would shine, that light would break through. Lord, for the man at work, God, who just felt numb on the inside. Holy Spirit, wake him up right now to your presence that there would be a touch from heaven on his heart that he would know that you're with him, that he'd know that you're for him. So Father, today we rebuke discouragement and depression. We rebuke assignments, God, of the enemy that would bring heaviness and distraction. And Father, let your light shine in the darkness. God, let joy displace a spirit of heaviness today in Jesus' name. God, let your light shine. I need some break through to our city, to families in our city. I wanna have a moment. Just a minister in the room. I just sensed the Lord is just doing this, even in hearts in the room right now as well. And so right now we're a family as radiant staff. If you're joining the prayer meeting, we're a spiritual family. We're so glad you're here today. And I just wanna have a moment. Just a minister, hope, joy and peace to each other. Hope, joy and peace. So if you felt like you've been in a season of discouragement, you've been in a season of discouragement where there's even things in your heart, things and promises in your heart where you just sense like gap, a disconnect between your present situation and the future and you've just felt stuck. I just sensed that, the discouragement of feeling stuck. The discouragement of feeling like, how am I gonna get from point A to point B? I just sensed the Lord just wants to, again, impart joy and peace and hope again today. So if that's you, would you just raise your hand to surround the room? Just raise your hand. And what I wanna do is we're just gonna lay hands on these guys and we're literally just gonna pray hope, joy and peace. It doesn't have to be this crazy prayer. You don't have to say a bunch of things. But we're just asking for an impartation of hope, joy and peace. That the God who started the work in you would bring it to completion. Even for some of you watching over the livestream today, I just believe that God is gonna meet you in your home. He's gonna meet you. The mom that's watching in your living room with your kids, the Holy Spirit's gonna meet you in your living room right now with just a download of hope, joy and peace. So Holy Spirit, we ask right now in the name of Jesus, that the substance, the substance of hope, the substance of joy, the substance of peace, more than an emotion, Lord, but an overflow from the heart of God would well up on the inside, would well up on the inside. In Holy Spirit, we rebuke. God, we rebuke the accuser and we rebuke an assignment of discouragement. Lord, an assignment of discouragement to keep your people stuck. Lord, and thank you. Thank you then in the gap. Thank you then in the disconnect. You're still working. You're still working. So we're gonna continue just to pray for these guys just for a minute. The prophetic spirit, the narrative of heaven. Because your will is a good father you'd love to, to break in with hope. Father, I ask for an increase of the prophetic spirit, an increase of the prophetic spirit to displace, to displace narratives of fear, narratives of abandonment. Lord, that your spirit would be stirred up on the inside to speak, to speak a better word, to release. Release what you're doing. So Father, in our midst, in our community, we ask just for an increase. Let's sing this out together. We're gonna shift back into intercessions. We're praying for ourselves, but also for the city. I want this to be an intercessory cry of God. Break in. Let's sing this out with one voice in unity. Asking God to do what he's already said he wanted to do. To reach for this. God, we agree with you. We agree with your word. And we keep knocking. We keep asking Lord, do it. God, in this room, but in the city. We ask for joy that would abide. Joy that would abide. Not joy that comes in a moment, but joy that would remain, that would last. Holy spirit. Let hope, joy, and peace come. Mark our hearts. Mark our hearts that would abide on the inside. Lord, we love you and thank you. In Jesus' name. And then we're gonna go back in our worship. Turn our eyes vertical for a few minutes and continue. One voice. As you receive your glory. Lord, the sound you long to hear. The sound you long to hear from Kalamazoo. Holy spirit. Would you stir up a people, redeem a people under yourself that would sing songs to the Lamb. Sing songs to the Lamb from our city. Or from the North, the South, the East, the West. That there would be a song. A song, a new sound from Kalamazoo. The people of God singing the songs to the Lamb. Holy spirit in our hearts today. In our hearts today, we give you all we are. I want to spend us a few minutes we have remaining. I just sense there's just a deep work the Lord is doing in many of us. And what I'm sensing is that there's areas that you thought you trusted the Lord. That many of us thought we trusted the Lord. That he's exposing you really didn't. But there's areas that have been hidden that have been held back. That to be wholly devoted, wholly given the glory he's looking for is actually in some of those places that he's exposing. That is God is shaking. God is shaking hearts and exposing areas of new trust and new worship. I just want to receive that just for a minute. The Holy Spirit is just speaking to you. I just encourage you just to receive. Even if you're watching on the live stream, I just encourage you just to get your journal out. And just write down what the Lord is calling you to do today. Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, we invite you to test us. Lord, to shake us. King Jesus, we want you to receive the glory. Receive the glory from our lives. Lord, receive the glory from our marriages, from our kids. God, from our relationships, from our future. God, would you receive the glory? God, even from the gap, the places where we, where there's a disconnect, there's disappointment. Whole soul, our whole mind, all praise of just our words, not just the fruit of our lips, God, but our heart fully given. Fully laid down, Lord, we ask that you would be lifted up. God crowned from the center of our city this morning that we would continue to make a throne for you from this place. Holy Spirit, we ask again, God, just for hope, joy, and peace in every heart, in this God, every heart. Lord, that even now, God, hope, joy, and peace would spring up on the inside. Holy Spirit, you would carry the substance of the kingdom. Lord, to those around the city, Lord, we love you. We thank you. God, we honor you today. Jesus' name, Amen. Thanks for joining us, everybody online, five times.