 Good morning. Welcome to our Monday morning prayer meeting here at the Radiant City Center. Thank you for those who are joining us in the room here in downtown Kalamazoo and for those who are joining us online. We welcome you as we gather together as one church, one body, in unity with the Lord's heart, worshiping, declaring who God is and then interceding and partnering with what's on God's heart and what he declared that he wanted to do. We're going to be worshiping together, singing songs, we're going to be praying together. And as we pray and as we sing, I encourage you to take phrases that we are saying or singing and to repeat them and to sing them and pray them together. This is not a time to just see and observe but to corporately engage in and participate in. And we do that by lifting our voice and we do that by singing and praying and agreeing with those simple phrases. So this week we are continuing, we're in our final stretch of praying for Israel over the last 21 days in partnership with the Isaiah 62 fast that's happening where millions and millions of people are praying for Israel. We'll be praying for the salvation of Israel that they would turn and know Jesus as their Messiah, as their Savior. So typically we start off with worship but we're actually going to start with intercession for these first about about five to ten minutes. We're going to be praying for Israel to be saved. So I wanted to just go ahead and if you open your Bibles to Romans 10, we're going to engage together for these next few moments before we go into our first worship song. Romans 10 verse 1 says, Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God but not according to knowledge. They don't know God. For being ignorant of the righteousness of God and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to God's righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. So Father, right now we partner with your heart, the God of Israel, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the God who is the Lord and Savior of our hearts, who came and died on a cross for Jew and Gentile to be saved, to be grafted into one family. We pray for our brothers and sisters. This is not in us versus them. This is not a new church, old church, but this is our brother and our sister on that same side of the line with us where the devil just as much as the devil accuses us to try to tell us that we are not worthy, that we're too broken, that we're too sinful, that God doesn't really want us or need us. The devil accuses the Jewish brother, the Jewish people by saying that they don't need God, that they're right, they don't need Jesus, that their righteousness is based on their bloodline alone and that they try to blind them and confuse them on the man and deity, the divine nature of who Jesus was, that he was the Messiah, that the law and the prophets proclaimed and that he came and made a way and showed them a better way to the kingdom of God and the kingdom of righteousness. So God we ask right now for scales to be lifted off of their eyes, right now we ask for hearts to be softened and open, right now we ask for ears to be opened and that they can hear your word, that through that opening of their mind and their heart and their soul that they be able to abide and receive your word, that they do not know, they do not have that salvation because they do not know you. So let them know you right now God, let them encounter you right now. God we ask for what is on your heart, what you sent your son to die for was for the hearts of the Jewish people, your people that you called from the very beginning to be your children set apart, we ask for salvation in the hearts of the hearts of every Jewish person in Jesus name. Let them know and see the one true God, salvation, hearts turned back to you, not their own righteousness, but the righteousness of God through his son Jesus, salvation, you are the one, the one true God, every heart, you're calling them by name, you're calling them to you, let this be on their tongue, every tongue declare, declare the name of Jesus, every knee bow, every tongue confess, Jesus, but he is the end of the law, righteousness to all who believe, let this be on their tongue, we declare this over them, let that truth be on the tongue of every Jewish brother and sister, that Jesus is the one, Jesus is the answer, not their own fulfillment of the law, not their own earning, not their bloodline, not their power, their own strength, not their standing, not their intelligence, not their own righteousness, but Jesus is the fulfillment Jesus was the sacrifice, Jesus is the way, the truth in the life, we ask for salvation right now in the name of Jesus, as we continue on our worship, let this be the starting, the launching and the starting place for us as we sing our praises and declare the truth of who God is, let us declare that over the people of Israel that they would encounter him just as we have encountered him, as we have encountered Jesus as our as our Lord and Savior, we ask for that same encounter for them in Jesus' name, the righteous one, worry to the worthy is the lamb who is slain, we start with our hearts in that posture, worthy is the lamb, seated on a throne, high and lifted up, crowned with many crowns, gain victorious and glory and blessing and power is yours, you are the Lord, you are the Savior, you are the King, is there anyone else worthy? Not like you, Ephesians 2, before we pray I want to just read this little bit of verses, Ephesians 2, verse 17, it says, And he came and preached peace to those who were far off and peace to those who were near, he's talking about the unity of Jew and Gentile, just for through him, through Jesus, we both have access in one spirit to the Father, through Jesus, we both have access through the Holy Spirit to the Father, so then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God built on the foundation of those Jewish apostles and prophets, Christ himself being the cornerstone and whom the whole structure being joined together grows into a holy temple in the Lord, in him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit, this is his plan, Jew and Gentile, it is not new church, old church, you have not forgotten the Jewish people, you have not forgotten your covenant with Israel, that they are a part of this family, they are a part, they have an integral part of the foundation and structure through the apostles and the prophets, the foundation of our church that you have a plan to unite the people of Israel and all the other nations together as one family through the Son that has access to the Father by the power of the Holy Spirit and that we being built together in unity can grow into a family, into a dwelling place for God, so then in Ephesians 3 this will be praying out of for the rest of our time, Ephesians 3 starting in verse 14 says, for this reason I bow my knees before the Father from whom every family, the father over every Jewish person and every Gentile person, every family in heaven and on earth is named that according to the riches of his glory, he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith that you being rooted and crowned in love may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breath and length and height and depth and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of God we cry out right now to our Father in heaven, the same Father who is the Father over all of Israel, the Father over his people that he has called out to be a chosen remnant a chosen people set apart we ask we stand in the gap and we partner with what's in your heart that you according to the riches of your glory would strengthen them with power that as they encounter persecution a world that has bent on hatred towards the Jewish people a world that has tried many times to exterminate the Jewish people a culture that is ripe with anti-Semitism that it's hidden but accepted we pray for their hearts and their minds and their bodies to be strengthened with power deep in their hearts that they would not be lost or forgotten they would not be orphaned or rejected that they would feel that that same God that same Father that delivered them over and over again from Egypt from Babylon that when you led them through the wilderness when you brought them salvation in multiple ways through power and glory that you are here right now with them and that you have salvation and strength and deliverance so God will you ask right now in the name of Jesus would you strengthen them with power through your spirit in the inner man let them not give up let them fix their eyes on you give them strength hope continue to to strengthen them through their inner man when we pray that as this happens we pray Ephesians 317 that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith Lord that you would dwell in their hearts through faith they it wouldn't take until the day of your second coming for them to see and believe God but Hebrews 11 Hebrews 11 1 says that now faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen God would you give them faith in their hearts Lord that it wouldn't take until the day with the sky splits and you return for them to believe in Jesus would you give them a spirit of revelation to see Jesus to see the work of the cross or they're no longer bound by the law but that Jesus came to fulfill the law and to be the sacrificial lamb that took the weight of their sin and shame upon his shoulders would you give them a spirit of wisdom and revelation and Lord would Christ dwell in their hearts through faith Jesus would you dwell in their hearts I pray that you you give them faith and courage and boldness to believe in the cross to believe in the resurrection that as it is revealed by the spirit and that they are strengthened in their inner man that they would be able to have faith in Jesus faith in the second coming not faith based on their circumstances but faith based on their eternity that is written that they are your chosen beloved that you're coming back for them that your heart still burns for them as it did in the beginning God that they are your chosen people your beloved the apple of your eye God would you reveal to them Jesus would Christ dwell in their hearts through faith in Jesus name would Christ dwell in their hearts through faith get on the cross would they see it just with their eyes Lord would they see it with their hearts through faith we see would you be glorified God let them see you let them see the work of the resurrection let them see the power the might and the worthiness of Jesus yes God would the work of the cross be before their eyes would they see it with their hearts God would it be a revelation by the spirit to them the work of the cross the love displayed upon the cross through the death and resurrection of Jesus where they see it God and Lord we just pray that as Christ dwells in their hearts Lord that they would be rooted and grounded in love but they would not be rooted and grounded in self-righteousness not be rooted and grounded in uh in anything Lord but in you God we pray John 15 that they would abide in the vine in the vine of Jesus that they wouldn't abide in any other vine they wouldn't abide in the vine of trying to fulfill the law themselves they wouldn't try and abide in the vine of what the world says or how the world wants them to be but God would they be rooted and grounded in the love of Jesus Lord would they abide in your vine to produce good fruit or not fruit of this world not not fruit that would produce unrighteousness or not fruit that would grieve your spirit but would they dwell in you and allow you to to prune them God and that with every cut that you make more fruit for your kingdom would be would would be produced God would they abide in the true vine of Jesus not in any other vine God and I just pray that they would be purified through this that you would be so tender just to come in and lovingly prune God Lord we just pray that that Israel would abide in the vine of Jesus that they wouldn't abide in any other vine God but that they would abide in the vine of Jesus worthy of us abiding in it you are the only one Jesus only one worthy of our devotion only one worthy of our lives you are the true God would would Israel abide in your vine you are the true but you bring them in Lord you are the true but they find safety and nourishment and comfort in Jesus as they abide in the vine they would find rest as Ephesians 3 continues I love that we've been praying about this to know to you and look upon the cross and to abide in the vine we pray that Christ would dwell in their hearts through faith that they'd be rooted and grounded in love that they would abide in the vine that they would look upon the one who was pierced they would look upon Christ and that he would dwell in their hearts through faith not by works and they would be rooted and grounded in love abiding in the vine that they would comprehend and understand with the family of God what is the full dimension of the love of Christ his height length with depth and that they would know that they would experience not just know it in their head but experience the love of God that surpasses all knowledge and they'd be filled with all the fullness of God so in the name of Jesus let Christ dwell in their hearts and be rooted and grounded in love let them abide in the vine let them look to the cross look to Christ rooted and grounded let them know you love Christ let it dwell in their hearts that they may be filled with the fullness of God to abide strength to rest let them trust you let them rest in you in the righteousness of God abiding in you so we'll end with this verse now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all we ask or think according to the power at work within us to him be the glory in the church and in Christ throughout all generations forever and ever amen forever and ever amen you alone you alone can bring salvation to Israel a nation that has been persecuted and forgotten and cast aside you alone can do far more abundantly than all we ask or think so we partner with you for the rest of this week we partner with you and we pray with you Jesus come and have your inheritance your name we pray amen amen thank you for joining us like i said we're going to be continuing this week monday through friday morning new tonight contending and interceding on the behalf of israel praying for the salvation of israel you can find out more about isaias 62 online on our website please continue to join us and pray with us good bye have a good day