 Okay, we're gonna go ahead and get started. Welcome, everybody. Welcome to those on the live stream. We're so glad to have you worship and pray with us this morning at the Radiant City Center in Kalamazoo, Michigan. I just invite everybody to just go ahead and stand as we posture our hearts in worship. And as we do so, I'm just gonna read a few scriptures from Revelation chapter one. We're gonna be praying in a little bit about just seeing Jesus. The revelation of the man Christ Jesus. And so as we enter into worship, we just wanna turn our gaze into another realm, into that beauty realm. In Revelation chapter one, verse 10, John the apostle, the context here, he's on the island of Patmos in exile. And he says, I was in the spirit on the Lord's day and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet saying, write in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches, verse 12. And then I looked to see the voice that was speaking with me and having turned, I saw seven golden lampstands. And in the middle of the lampstands, I saw one like a son of man, clothed in a robe, reaching to the feet, girded across his chest with a golden sash. His head and his hair were white, like white wool, like snow. And his eyes were like a flame of fire. His feet were like burnished bronze when it has been made to glow in a furnace. And his voice was like the sound of many waters. And in his right hand, he held seven stars and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword. And his face was like the sun shining in its strength. And when I saw him, I fell at his feet like a dead man. And he placed his right hand on me saying, do not be afraid, I am the first and the last, the living one and was dead. And behold, I am a lie forevermore. And I have the keys of death and of Hades. Therefore write the things which you have seen and the things which are and the things which will take place after these things. And as I ponder those things that we just read, there's just such an emphasis on seeing, beholding, looking, I turned and I saw. And the response was that he fell at his feet as a dead man. And so Lord, I thank you. I thank you, that you are the one who opens our eyes to this realm of beauty and glory. And we just invite you now, Holy Spirit, to come and do what you love to do. I pray that you would pour out grace this morning as we worship, as we enter in by faith before that throne, as we stand by faith on that sea of glass like crystal mingled with fire, as we turn from the cares of this world, as we turn, God, I pray that you would open our eyes this morning to behold the beauty of Jesus. As we sing, as we declare, Lord, would you expand our capacity, our ability to look, to see, to perceive and to respond rightly with a state of awe, wonder. Arrest our hearts this morning with glory and beauty, we pray in Jesus' name, amen. Outside your presence, peace and sing, you're free. That posture of just gazing just a little bit longer to gaze upon his beauty. One thing I desire, said David, and that will I seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord, to inquire in his temple. This is our cry this morning, Lord. We're gonna shift now, keeping our hearts postured right there. We're gonna shift into a time of intercession and we're just gonna continue that cry for more of the Lord, for a spirit of revelation. And I just wanna encourage us, there is a time to grab our journals and to reflect and there's a time to stand and lean in to the heart of God in the place of prayer. And that's what this morning is, this time of intercession where we release our unique sound. God gave you a unique sound that only you can make and we get to bring that now as an offering to him and to agree with his heart. And so I just wanna encourage us, don't sit back, but lean in and let our vocal cords vibrate as we release our unique sound, our yes, Lord, our do-it, Lord, our amen, Lord, as we join the choruses that the worship leaders release. It is that one voice and with that one voice, there is power in our agreement with the heart of God. Ephesians chapter one, praying, we're just gonna stay right there praying for the revelation of this beautiful man with eyes like a flame of fire. Ephesians one, verse 17, I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of him. I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened so that you will know what is the hope of his calling, what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints and what is the surpassing greatness of his power towards us who believe. So Father, we thank you. We thank you that it is the desire of your eternal heart to open the eyes of our heart in the fullness of our humanity to behold the fullness of the glory Jesus possesses. I thank you, Lord, that this is already the longing of your heart. So this morning, we just stand in agreement with you. We stand in agreement with your ministry, Holy Spirit, and we just say, would you do what you love to do all across this room? Lord, all across the live stream, all across the city of Kalamazoo and the city's representative, Lord, we're crying out that you would open the eyes of hearts this morning, that there would be an increasing of our capacity to receive more of the beauty, more of the glory of Jesus that transforms our varied life and our countenance. We say Holy Spirit, come, come and reveal Jesus Christ to his people in your name. It's our cry. Spirit, we need you. We need you to want Jesus. We need you to long for the second person of the Trinity. We just say, Lord, don't leave us here. Leave us here in dimness. Leave us who smolder to Holy Spirit to do what you love to do, to bring us as dead men and dead women before the beauty of the Lord to arrest us. So mightily, God, that we are desking what you break in, God, with that shocking un-possesses of the beauty tenets, of the beauty of his heart, his attributes, Lord, we're asking for a tsunami of revelation that captures our hearts, that marks our hearts, that ruins us, God, leaves us as illiterate love for every fool. We just say, Lord, would you take us up even as you took John up in a realm of revelation, in a realm of glory? Would you do that? Across this city, all across the generations, God, all across the congregations, the little ones, Lord, the old ones, God, everything in between, would you invade our dream of Jesus? Would you give us visions in the day, God, on the beauty of the Lord? We're asking in Jesus' name that those who look the shiny things of this earth, the pressures of life as we live in the transaction of glory, that you impart to us the zest that we radiate your glory in the earth. We cite this morning, in our own hearts, in our own homes, in our own congregations, across our cities represented in this prayer meeting, to see rightly, to behold, as you said, knock and keep on knocking, we're asking, we're seeking, God, do not leave us here. Do not leave us here, Holy Spirit. Open up the eyes of our hearts. Take us up in the spirit. Ruin us with beauty and glory. To see you, Lord, is to love you. To see you, God, is to have our appetite for more. Awakened, showcase Jesus. Feature Jesus in the eyes of our heart. Stun us with a fresh revelation of this beautiful man. We're crying out, blow in this place, God, and release a spirit of revelation across Kalamazoo, Michigan. And every city represented on this live stream begin to rain down the knowledge and the understanding of Jesus Christ, we pray in your name. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God. So we just ask, Holy Spirit, that you would remove every obstacle to our gazing upon the beauty of the Lord. We invite you to come and do the deep work and do the cleansing work and do the realigning work of our hearts. Wherever there are obstacles and barricades to our vision, to just a clear line to Jesus, we just say, Holy Spirit, come right now. Come and deal with us, come and remove the barriers. Come and remove, God, those things that are hindering our beholding the Lord rightly. You said, blessed are the pure in heart, because we see Jesus. So purify us, Lord, purify our hearts that our gaze would be clear, that we would behold Him rightly, fully, the lens clean, clear, dialed in, capturing everything. We love you, Holy Spirit, we love your ministry. So say it. I know that your eyes are like flames of Jesus, your beauty. I know that your eyes are like flames of fire. I know that your head is white as wool. I know that your voice sounds like water. Jesus, your beauty. Thank you for a spirit of revelation that unlocks our heart, that enlarges our heart to receive more. It's good to know that that anthem is outside of time, and as we pause to go our ways, that that song is continuing in that realm of beauty and glory, never stopping, never ceasing. So thank you for joining us for worship and prayer this morning, morning, noon, and night here at Radiant City Center. We'll be back here at noon today, 6.30 tonight. God bless you.