 Good morning and welcome to morning prayer from Radiant City Center. We're going to be praying for teens and Gen Z and Gen Alpha this morning. Just even here at Radiant we have our teens are at a bold conference in Kansas City and we're going to just be praying for the Lord to encounter the next generation throughout this morning. As we enter into worship I just want to read Psalm 92 verse 1 it says it is good to give thanks to the Lord and to 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 on the lute and on the harp with harmonious sound for you Lord have made me glad through your work and I will triumph in the works of your hands. I love this to declare your loving kindness in the morning. This scripture is talking about the Tabernacle of David the scripture is talking about literally what we are doing where we are entering into his presence together and declaring his loving kindness in the morning singing praises to him and just this declaration for you Lord have made me glad through your work. Let's just begin this morning by walking through the gate of thankfulness just declaring that he has made us glad that gladness is it is not like it's not just speaking of just kind of a general feeling of happiness it's the removal of offense it's the removal of hurt it's the removal of these things that weigh us down when Jesus was anointed with the oil of gladness more than his companions it means he was the most alive person who ever lived because the weight of sin and death he didn't experience those wages of sin because he was sinless and the Lord saying you've made he's made us glad and so we just entered this morning with we don't have to begin in a place of heaviness or sorrow or sadness but there's just a he's freed our debt he's paid our debt he's freed us from sickness and a death he's delivered us he's drawn us to his side and so let's just approach him right now with thanksgiving just offering up our gratitude and thanks to him this morning Lord you're so good we're so thankful Lord we lift up our voice to you this morning we lift our song of gratitude to you this morning thank you for your goodness thank you for your kindness thank you for your mercies that are new thank you for your loving kindnesses to you personally for what you've done for us Lord we want to say thank you for what you're doing in the next generation right now Lord I just thank you for this outpouring that that happened over this winter Lord starting in asbury and spreading here and so many other places Lord just to watch so many in Gen Z and even Gen Alpha be set on fire for you and in your presence Lord thank you that you are pouring out the spirit of Elijah the hearts of the fathers are being turned to the children and the children to the fathers as the world is operating in the spirit of Jezebel where the hearts of the fathers are turning against the children and leaving them exposed Lord you are pouring out the spirit of Elijah where the hearts of the fathers are turned toward the children and in turn the children are turned toward the heavenly Father first and then turn to the older generation Lord we thank you that we get to live in this generation Lord thank you for even at radiant how you are moving it's so powerfully Lord we just bless the work of student leadership happening on Monday nights Lord the Wednesday night services junior high Sunday morning Lord all the the children services over the weekend God we just thank you for the salvations you've been pouring out Lord the visitations the visions the the signs and wonders the dreams the miracles that have been happening Lord we're right now we we we turn our attention and pray for our young people that are at bold we're out of Ephesians 3 16 through 19 that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might through his spirit in a man that Christ would dwell in your hearts through faith that you being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width length and depth and height to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God Lord I thank you for our young ones who are at both conference right now and Lord I ask according to the riches of your glory that you would strengthen them with might by your spirit in the inner man Lord this next generation is in need of strength just to stand Lord the rising tide of immorality has caused many knees to buckle Lord it is not an easy hour to stand firm in the love of God with confidence but we pray for our our young people at bold Lord that they would be strengthened with might by your spirit in the inner man or that Christ would dwell richly in their heart and Lord we ask that this week you would root them and ground them in the love of God Lord I just asked for encounters Lord as they worship Lord as the word is taught as ministry time happens Lord Lord as they meet in small groups God just for life changing encounters Lord moments in your presence where you call their name and they're never the same again Lord moments where you deliver them and set them free of addictions Lord moments where you call them sons and call them daughters Lord where insecurity is healed in a moment Lord the love of God permeates and just brings wholeness and healing on the inside God just asks for moments in worship where you unveil yourself Lord where you bring healing Lord where there's hurt and pain and separation Lord one moment in your presence can change everything or one moment in experiencing and encountering you can shift eternity so Lord we ask for our young people strengthen them with might through your spirit the inner man Lord Jesus we come before you in the spirit of thankfulness for the things that are to come not for what we understand but with our hearts unified and our hope in you we thank you for the coming revival and with every spirit every stronghold and every principality in the city listening to me our prophets are that Jesus is raising up a lovesick generation like John the Baptist obsessed with the coming of the king obsessed with preparing a way for the return of Jesus Christ obsessed with making you know this will be a generation undignified with the hearts implanted at the altar disciplined and entrusted with truth ready to lay down their lives for the sake of the gospel an outpouring of the Holy Spirit is coming to this generation that will leave the forces of hell in shambles and we will not stop until every knee and every tongue confesses or every knee bows and every tongue confesses that Jesus Christ is Lord I thank you Lord God that right now even at old conference we're using our leaders to to speak life into this next generation that she was releasing carins upon this next generation to lay down their lives for you Lord God that this generation will become saints like the original apostles like Paul that will be willing to sacrifice everything to make you know Lord God all across the world in Israel and in every corner of the earth Lord God we thank you for this and we shall see it come to pass in Jesus name shepherds rooted in your word I invite you to stand we're going to go back into worship and then we're going to end in a time of prayer and I just want to encourage us in this time of worship what I like to call intercessory worship which is as I'm worshiping and as I'm singing I'm actually picturing who we're praying for the next generation and I'm singing these truths and I'm prophesying even as I'm worshiping I'm not just necessarily just thinking of myself to God but I'm just prophetically declaring over the next generation so I want to invite you to stand back up as we go back into worship and let's contend this last 30 minutes you've ordained praise even on the lips of the littlest ones your heart is moved when the next generation God proclaims your worth so we just continue to press into your heart Lord your seal and your jealous love for our sons and daughters and our grandchildren God in this hour for this next generation in this summer months we're going to go into our next prayer cycle if you have your bibles you can turn to Luke chapter 24 this is the story at the end of the chapter where Jesus encounters the disciples on the road to Emmaus he begins to walk with them and talk with them open their hearts again and leaves them with burning hearts and we just want to stand in the gap now just press in for that kind of encounter with our children in our youth this summer across the city across radiant all the camps all the vacation Bible schools picking up in verse 27 this is Jesus and then beginning with Moses and with all the prophets he explained to them the things concerning himself in all the scriptures they approached the village where they were going and he acted as though he were going further but they urged him saying stay with us it's getting towards evening and the day is now nearly over so he went in to stay with them and when he had reclined at the table he took the bread and blessed it and breaking it he began giving it to them and then their eyes were opened and they recognized him and he vanished from their sight and they said to one another were not our hearts burning within us while he was speaking to us on the road while he was explaining the scriptures to us and so Lord we thank you this morning that your name is Emmanuel God with us and I thank you that you delight in drawing near to hearts and revealing yourself and so we lift before you Jesus our sons and our daughters our little ones in our youth all across this city God all across radiant church everywhere this summer where there is gatherings Lord to encounter you we're praying for this road to Emmaus experience God for young hearts from the littlest ones God through our teenagers and our college interns we're asking Jesus that you as Emmanuel would draw near to them that you would abide with them Lord in all the activities in the worship and in the messages and the storytelling in the songs that are sung in the crafts that are made God we're asking that you would break in with your tangible and manifest presence that you would talk to them in the language of their hearts that you would open their ears to hear your still small whispers your laughter God your nudging we're asking that you would open eyes to behold your beauty to see you Lord to feel you God to hear you and we're asking for hearts that are forever changed eternal trajectories that are forever changed God this summer marked and sealed with the very fire of your love Lord we're asking would you draw near to our children and our youth this summer manifest your presence an intimate encounter in Jesus name God to our students at bold to our children attending camp this summer God across this city in the vacation Bible schools God the summer internships we're asking more than in the same way that you just surprised those disciples on the road that you would suddenly walk with them talk with them encounter them Jesus move upon their hearts as only you can we're asking for a summer of encounter a summer of setting apart and marking of this next generation a summer where the fire of your love seals young hearts God forever in your your love as yours Jesus would you open up the heavens over Kalamazoo Michigan everywhere the young ones are gathering Jesus we're asking for the fire of your love the nearness of your presence the encounter with you Holy Spirit to be tangible and manifest in Jesus name in with your presence knowledge of Jesus hear you Holy Spirit and upon the teenagers this summer God a spirit of revelation in the knowledge of Jesus we're asking that you would walk with them on that same road that road of encounter that road of communion that road of suddenly seeing suddenly being marked forever and left with a burning heart we're asking that this would be a milestone summer Lord in the lives of our children and grandchildren that they would look back and say summer 2023 we're not our hearts burning as he spoke to us we're not our hearts burning as we encountered so we're asking and we're seeking and knocking for a summer of encounter in Jesus name begin with your fire Lord seal their hearts business as usual cause a generation to this city the church all across the city's represented on the live stream for the youth your presence changes everything all that you would give the children and the youth of this city that testimony we're not our hearts burning as we encounter Jesus we ask you for that testimony on behalf of our children and the youth in our city God and beyond every city represented on this live stream and we thank you Lord that you are Emmanuel God with us that you delight in drawing near you delight in revealing truth to young hearts you delight in encountering us with your beauty and marking us and sealing us with your flame of love I thank you that this is who you are and we entrust our children to you with glad hearts this morning in Jesus name well thank you for joining us for morning prayer we are back here at noon in the prayer room praying specifically for the nations and the unreached people groups in the earth and again tonight at 630 God bless you