 Good morning. Thank you for joining us for morning prayer. Okay. I know we love each other. So we're going to turn our gaze vertical now. Just begin to minister to the Lord's heart this morning. Father, we thank you for this privileged and sacred hour before you. We don't take it lightly, Lord. We come with joy in our hearts entering into your presence. That changes everything. And Lord, as we lift our corporate gaze to you and as we sing love songs to you and praises to you, as we agree with your heart as the great intercessor, Lord, I'm asking that you would release your Holy Spirit in a spirit of revelation, in the knowledge of Jesus, in the spirit of renewal, reviving and refreshing our mortal bodies, our emotions, our minds, our spirit man. We look to you, Jesus, we gaze upon your beauty and we enter into your courts with overflowing thanksgiving and gratitude for who you are and what you are doing and will do. Jesus, we love you. I ask you now just release Holy Spirit in our midst. Let's just, let's just lift our voices upward now. Vertically, let's just lift our gaze by faith upward. Holy Spirit, just come. Just come and lead the prayer meeting. Holy Spirit, just release that precious anointing as your priests gather at the altar. Just let the oil flow. I pray for fingers, God, that will prophesy on instruments this morning, on strings and percussions, we ask Holy Spirit, release that prophetic anointing. Let the instruments declare your worth. Let the instruments pray your prayers. Holy Spirit, I pray for an anointing on vocal cords, even now. Lord, that as they vibrate in song and thanksgiving and prayers and declarations, I pray your anointing upon it, Lord, that we would be in perfect sync with the throne room. Jesus, we want to pray your prayers today. We want to sing what the angels are singing. So Holy Spirit, just come and move. We invite you. We welcome you. We welcome you, Jesus, with expectation and with joy, with anticipation. You are desired in this place and we just say, find your pleasure here, Jesus. Let your smile break out over this place, Lord, as we gather our hearts with yours this morning. Jesus name. Okay, we're going to shift now into a time of intercession. This is our last staff meeting, prayer meeting together before our Arise Shine conference next Monday and Tuesday. And as Christa said, that's our Super Bowl. And it's more than just an event because of the apostolic grace on this house because of the forerunner calling, if you will, on this house, there's a responsibility that we have collectively to press into prayer on behalf of all of those who are coming because it's more than just us. It's more than just an event. It's what the Lord wants to do in this hour across our land as he sends people here, it's for encounter, unto his kingdom purposes in America. And so in a little bit, we're going to go into a time of rapid fire and I'm just going to invite you to come and we're just going to buck shot, if you will prayer, burst on behalf of the conference, anything, anything. So just have that in your heart. I'm going to open us by just lifting up the shepherds, the men and the women who are coming that God is sending across the land for this conference. I'm going to open in Jeremiah, chapter three, verse 15. This is an end time context, but the Lord makes a promise and he says, then I will give you shepherds after my own heart who will feed you on knowledge and understanding. And that phrase after my own heart, it was used another time to a young shepherd boy named David. He said, this is a man after my own heart and that was the man that God chose out of all the men and women in the earth, despite his rather blighted resume to raise up day and night, worship and prayer in the earth, unceasingly on earth as it is in heaven. It was the man, the shepherd that God chose to build his house of prayer in that hour. And so we're just going to press in and we're going to pray for the men and women coming to this conference, which happens to be a building praying churches unto revival, building his house of prayer. And so Lord, we thank you for what you are doing in this earth. We thank you God that even now you are raising up your house of prayer for all nations across the cultures with many expressions, God in languages. I thank you that in this hour, Lord, even as it says in Isaiah, you are appointing the watchmen on the wall. You are setting them on the cities of Jerusalem and the cities of the earth. And God, I lift up before you now the shepherds whose hearts are after you who are wanting to do what you're doing in this hour who are saying yes to you, God. Those that you are sending Lord to a praying church conference, we lift them before you and we just say, Abba, would you break in and would you apprehend their hearts? Thank you for the good work that you have already begun sending them, Lord, that there's a desire to even be a praying church in this hour. We thank you for the work already done and we just say, Lord, would you see it through in your faithfulness? We ask you to encounter the hearts of these men and women as they gather, Lord. We ask you to revive them and refresh them and renew them. We pray, Holy Spirit, for just the spirit of revelation and the knowledge of your will to be granted to each one concerning their unique context. We pray for those blueprint napkins, if you will, God, to be given to them for their churches and for their cities, God. We ask you for these divine appointments when suddenly the blueprints of heaven, God, are given for this church and that church and this leader, God, and this city. Lord, we just say, do it again as you gather these precious ones. We just say, Lord, release the blueprints of heaven to build your praying churches in this hour in Jesus' name, that there's a hunger, God, to align with what you're doing in the earth in this hour. I thank you, God. I ask that you embrace their hearts with humility to shift where there needs to be shifts. I ask you, God, to grace their hearts with courage where there needs to be courage, God, to let you flip over tables, Lord, of old context. I pray, Holy Spirit, for revelation. I pray for wisdom. I pray for realignment, Lord, into that prophetic current, God, with what you're doing in the earth. I pray for refreshing, Lord, in your presence, renewing in your presence, healing in your presence, strengthening in your presence. God, I'm asking for marching orders from heaven to these ones as they gather, Lord, in obedience, as they are drawn by your cords of loving kindness. I pray for the marching orders of heaven, the blueprints of heaven, the, yes, I'm with you, build from heaven, God, that we so desperately need for houses built. Buy it. You are pleased and glorified. And you said your house is a house of prayer. So I pray for the apprehending, the marking, God, the setting apart of these shepherds and these leaders, Lord, that you are sending for such a time as this. God, that their whole trajectories would even shift in this hour, God, and that there would be an aggressive pursuing of your house of prayer for all nations in their contexts and in their cities. We pray for grace upon grace upon grace, Lord, for the hearts of leaders to be marked, for the watchmen to be set on the wall, for the blueprints of heaven to be downloaded. We just say grace, grace, grace to the shepherds in Jesus' name. Grace. The Rise Shine Conference is coming week. Before we keep diving into scripture and praying, I just want to share just a couple numbers just to get the gravity of what we're praying for. You know, over these next two days, next Monday and Tuesday, we're going to have 131 ministries represented across 186 different cities across 31 different states and seven different countries. I mean, this is not, this is, this is a big thing in the eyes of the Lord, where he's seeing people rise up, not just from within Michigan, not even just the Midwest, but all over the nation and across different countries and ministries and denominations and coming together. And I wanted to, as we're with those numbers in mind, I wanted us to continue pray. We're going to pray through Isaiah 60 and 2 Thessalonians 3 where Isaiah 60 says, O rise and shine for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. For behold, darkness shall cover the earth and thick darkness the peoples, but the Lord will arise upon you and his glory will be seen upon you and nations will come to your light in the kings to the brightness of your rising. Obviously, this context is, is the promise to Israel through Abraham, but we can take these, this, this truth about who the Lord is and what he says over his people and we can apply from that context, we can apply this to today. And so God, we right now, we pray for these, these ministries, these 131 ministries, these leaders, these pastors, these, these staff members, these people represented across churches and ministries, all the different cities and states and countries who have all gathered together, not just for a cool event, not just for a break. It's probably going to be pretty terrible weather, but it just for them to come together and say, we want more. We want to plan a flag. We want to see Jesus because he is worthy, high and lifted up in our city, in our state, in our country, in our church. We are coming to get a marking moment from the Lord. We are coming for a flag to be planted in our hearts that we can take almost like a, like a rally race, like a baton that is being handed to us from heaven and coming to our city and our state and our country and planting it in the ground. And where it says darkness is covering in the earth and darkness around the people. When darkness is surrounding them, culture is trying to cancel them. When culture is trying to pressure them, even persecuting them, trying to get them to shut up, to sit down. These leaders would take that baton from heaven and come to their church and plant that in the ground and say, we are a house of the Lord. Seal for his house has consumed us. And we want to see as in 2 Thessalonians 3, the word of the Lord runs swiftly through our streets, through the streets of our city, through every home, through every door frame. We want to see the word of the Lord run swiftly and the Lord will be faithful to surround us, to lift us up as a city set upon the hill, as light to the nations, as light to the city, as salt to the people. So God, we ask for encounters right now. As these men and women come in boldness to stand before you, we ask for marking moments. We ask for a sword double-edged your word to pierce their hearts, that they would hear the voice of the Lord call them by name. They would hear the voice of the Lord call them forth, that they would have strength and grace in their inner man, that they would learn that they could be rooted and grounded in the truths that you are calling them in, that they would have confidence and boldness to return and to preach and to teach and to call and to disciple others into what the Lord is doing in this nation. In a time, in an area where darkness and culture is trying to have the upper hand, you would raise up leaders that would be image bears, that would be standard bears, that would be lights, lanterns, that have light and truth to guide people to the house of the Lord because Jesus is worthy. Not because our church is great, not because this event is great or not because we have great ideas, but this is all unto the worthiness of Jesus, that there would be houses around the world in our cities and nations in the globe that would lift the name of Jesus higher, lift the name of Jesus higher, that incense would arise above the earth and into the throne of heaven with praise on our lips saying, Jesus, you are worthy. So we ask right now, in the name of Jesus, would you begin to call forth those leaders to your name, Jesus' name, this place, would you rise on those leaders our hearts with your truth and presence rest upon this place. Those leaders sit in this place, let our praise arise, just stepping into this room. We go into our rapid fire prayer time, I just want to continue this to pray for just even the practical things. As we're praying for an encounter from the Lord, we're praying for glory to fall and for dreams and visions. We also want to pray for, we want to appeal to our Lord, the protector and provider, the shield around us for safe travels. The enemy has an agenda to stop these people from coming, to try to distract them or to create fear, to create opportunities for changing minds. And we pray for protection over their travels, physical protection that you would surround them as they are flying, as they are driving, God through inclement weather or for whatever it may be that you would protect them, angels would surround them and deliver them. We pray for their families as some of these leaders may be traveling without families. We pray for angels to surround their home, to invade their home and to be a shield against the fiery darts of the enemy. We pray against sickness, we pray against confusion, we pray against maybe mental cloud of feeling, even just like a funk or a depression as they're coming in that would try to cloud their understanding. We pray for open hearts, open minds, clarity right now. God, we even ask for even some of those pastors or leaders or ministries that have scraped by every penny they have to try to make this happen because they know the Lord is calling him to. We ask for checks in the mail. We ask for a divine provision that would bless them and be a stamp of approval that they are obedient to what the Lord is asking them to do. So God, we ask for even in our house, we ask for divine protection and open doors and blessing over our infrastructure, our people, the everything that we are doing to steward what the Lord wants to do which you have a spirit of unity, a spirit of peace and a spirit of favor in the name of Jesus. Go into a time of rapid fire now. This is again those 10, 15 second prayers, those prayer bursts and we just want to cover everything. Pastor Sean prayed for the travel, we prayed for the shepherds. Pray what God has put on your heart, whether it's administration, whether it's hospitality, whether it's security, facilities, we just want to cover it all. In the year that King Uzziah died, I saw the Lord high and lifted up, seated on a throne and the train of his robe filled the temple. Lord, we pray for pastors who are in the midst of conflict and confusion, even disappointment. In the year that King Uzziah died for them, Lord, I pray that it wouldn't be a time of despair, that you would birth rather a great revelation, that they would see you seated on a throne and that they would see you over their ministries. Lord, break through with great revelation, even in the midst of disappointment and conflict in Jesus' name. To rise shine, I was one of those pastors who had traveled from another state to attend the conference and one who was in a hard place and the Holy Spirit just met me in the power of his presence and so I'm here as a testimony of even what we've been praying for. It's in that moment God brought healing and trajectory for another season. And so God, I pray for those pastors that are coming and everything that's assaulting their soul and trying to keep them from moments of encounter. We take authority over in the name of Jesus and we declare that everyone who sets foot on our property and enters into our auditorium and into the space that you have prepared for them that they're going to encounter you, the living God in new and powerful ways and anything that's trying to assault their soul. We just speak life in the name of Jesus. We speak life and renewal and refreshing and healing in the presence of the Almighty God in Jesus' name. Dreams and visions in the night even in a few nights before him would pray for a spirit of hunger, spirit of revelation, desperation God and a spirit of humility in Jesus' name. This is a known statistic that 70% of pastors and leaders are caught up in pornography. Lord, I just pray that they would not just be coming for an education to receive from you but God that your fire would fall during this time. I think your fire would fall and burn out all the impurities, the power of pornography and all the idolatry in their lives, everything that holds them in bondage. We broke it in Jesus' name. Thank you Father for the opportunity to host this conference God. Thank you that you have called us and equipped us for this and I pray that you would help us to serve and have humble hearts as we serve God, that you would every pastor, every church member that you are calling here for this conference, that they would be able to receive what you want to give them not because of anything we do but because of who you are God in your goodness. We just bless you and honor you at this time. Corporate deliverance from our religious spirit God. I ask right now just for the churches that are gathered Lord that you would deliver us from a form of godliness, God that denies its power, God old models, God pastors that are coming, God just doing the things they've always done Lord that have been disconnected from the word of the Lord. God I ask that you would give fresh vision and a fresh word from heaven, God that would shake off man's ideas. God I ask for a deliverance from man's strategy and man's ideas and we would receive a strategy from heaven so Holy Spirit release deliverance and freedom God from our religious spirit and Jesus name. I just pray for a restoration of family's Lord that as pastors and leaders come when they go back home you would just restore relationships with their spouses, you'd restore relationships with their sons and daughters Lord that you would just build them up to be stronger fathers, stronger mothers Lord in the faith they would raise their children up to be as strong men and women of the Lord. God I ask for good soil in the hearts of every pastor and leader coming to this conference that you would deposit a word that goes deep and that changes their life and that you would protect them from the enemy who seeks to snatch the word that is planted in the school Jesus name. I ask for even radiant staff God that's going to be helping run the conference Jesus I just pray that you would refresh him and renew them God would you strengthen them where they feel weak God I just ask even for timely words God that we would have open ears and open hearts God just speak into these pastors that we get the privilege of serving Lord I just pray for clarity like Greta was singing Lord that we would have clarity to see your people well and we would have clarity to see your people well to see needs God and to see connections of how we can meet those needs Lord I thank you for these pastors coming and I thank you for radiant staff God just pouring out their heart to love on your people and Jesus name I just thank you right now that even as you brought Aaron and her to support Moses in times of weakness God I pray that all the leaders that are coming to this conference would leave feeling supported and encouraged Father I pray that their fellow leaders and pastors that they meet and make connections with God would they just feel supported and with the spirit of weariness and heaviness just be gone in the name of Jesus would would you give every Moses and Aaron and a her over this conference in Jesus name Jesus I just pray that you would ignite a fire in the hearts of pastors and leaders coming forth for prayer and to to build up altars of worship across the United States in Jesus name I just pray for any leaders that might be struggling with doubt or might be deconstructing coming into her eyes shine and I pray that you would overwhelm them with your presence and give them such a tangible experience that they would be involved with faith Lord I just lift up all the people who have been working behind the seams to put this conference on God and I just pray specifically for the production team Lord I just honor their investment in their hard work and creating environments for people to encounter your presence until this week God as they prepare I asked that you would just give them vision and wisdom and clarity and any technical issues that may arise Lord I just asked that you would give them a solutions and that you would just bless them and honor their time and investment in Jesus name I just pray for the prodigal sons and daughters Jesus just make a way for them to come and just see you in a fresh way Jesus I just pray against self-hatred I pray against false humility Jesus and I just pray that they can come and realize there's a loving father Jesus and your name Lord I just pray for a fresh revelation of Isaiah 56 7 Lord that your house is a house of prayer would you give these shepherds these pastors refreshment Lord but also give them vision vision to build a praying house and Lord in that house you say that they're that you will make them joyful so give them joyful as they build your house of prayer Father we thank you for this time and God I pray against the spirit of competition God I pray that we'll set our eyes and our gaze upon you and that we wouldn't judge ourselves by ourselves God this is a conference unto you I pray for a powerful time that this would not be a christian prom but we judge ourselves by ourselves how we look how we dress how we talk but God that we may love you and love one another and that by your love and by your spirit things will happen that we can only blame you for to you be the glory in Jesus name voices this last minute for all that's in your heart to do concerning this conference we thank you Lord that you will be shooting out fiery arrows into the nations to raise up your house of prayer for all nations we believe you Lord and we lean into your heart with expectation Father I pray grace grace grace to the hands that will carry this every expression of it God behind the scenes and up front grace grace grace can we just lift our voices just shout that grace grace grace grace grace grace we thank you Lord thank you for joining us for morning prayer we're back again at noon praying for the nations and tonight at 6 30 God bless you all