 Well good morning. Good morning. Welcome to Aetian prayer for those in the room. Hopefully you're ready. Thank you for joining us online as well. Just really feel like we should start in Psalm 103 so you have your Bibles go ahead and open up in Psalm 103. And as Pastor Kayla preached on Sunday when we say things like praise the Lord, you know, we don't want that to be a tagline. We actually want to follow the command of God and actually bless him and praise him. And so my prayer is as I read Psalm 103, the first 13 verses that we would truly command our souls to just bless him as we remember and we reflect and we think about who he is, how good he's been and what he's done in our life. And so Psalm 103 beginning verse one says, bless the Lord, oh my soul and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul and forget not all his benefits, who forgives all your iniquity, who heals all your diseases, who redeems your life from the pit, who crowds you with steadfast love and mercy, who satisfies you with good so that your youth is renewed like the eagles. The Lord works righteousness and justice for all who are oppressed. He may know his ways to Moses, his acts to the people of Israel. The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding instead fast love. He would not always try, nor will he keep his anger forever. He does not deal with us according to our sins. Let me say that again, some of you, this is your freedom. He does not deal with us according to our sins, nor pay us according to our iniquities for as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is his steadfast love towards those who fear him. As far as the east is from the west, so far does he remove our transgressions from us. Verse 13, as a father shows compassion to his children, so the Lord shows compassion to those who fear him. Right now I just want you to think about the goodness of our father, his love, his patience, how merciful he is, and as he, he doesn't deal with us according to our sins. I want you to think about that. I want you to meditate on the goodness of God, the character of God, the faithfulness of God, and I want you to begin right now to open up your mouth and bless the Lord. Just right now, open up your mouth, bless the Lord, praise him, sing to him, say thank you to him. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me. We bless you. We bless your holy name, your matchless name, your wonderful name, your beautiful name. We bless the Lord. Come on, stir yourself up this morning. He's worthy. Stir yourself up this morning. Join this course. That's the take place. There's a remembering of your testimonies, the things that the Lord does. They don't have to be that huge, but they have to be real. Just hold them in your heart. Just remind your soul of who the Lord is. There's like a grace that he wants to remind us of who he's been for us. So I'm going to have Sarah just keep singing this a little bit. I just want us to do that all across this room and just lift up your hands, lift up your voice, turn it into his song. This is an active thing that we're doing. Praise is active. It demands response. The goodness of God just demands it. So Jesus, we love you. We thank you. This is a gift, but you got to put it on. But you got to put it. Things that distract us, oh God, the things that discourage us, we ask you that your smile would be our strength for God. Well, when it comes out of us, it's a greater hallelujah. God, a highest praise, a highest praise. I know at times when it comes to intercession, it's easy for us to think like, well, intercession, it must look a certain way, right? Like when we intercede and we do rapid fire, it's like it's war and it's like all these other things. That's true. What's also true, we can have joy and intercession. Amen. So we're going to have like the most joyful rapid fire intercession we've ever had. So right now, I want you to line up, but I want you to testify and praise and contend for the joy of the Lord that will be our strength, that God will actually pour out his spirit on the church, and we're contending and we're interceding for a joy. We're contending and interceding that the bride of Christ, that God will find praise, that he would see the beauty of what he's done in our lives expressed in worship, expressed in our lives. And so we have a couple of people who are going to come up, 10, 15 seconds, just rapid fire contending for God to pour out his spirit on the church. Yes, Father, we just receive your joy and we reciprocate the joy from the inside out. God, I pray for a Holy Spirit revelation that praise cannot be delegated, but it can only be one within. So Lord, I pray pour out your joy in the name of Jesus. Amen. Yes, Lord, I just thank you that your joy is not based on our circumstances, but that we have access to your joy at all times, Lord. So we just ask for more, we ask for more of your presence, more of your joy, Lord. Yes, I second that, that our joy is not based on emotions or circumstances, but it is based on the Holy Spirit inside of us, living and active, that we have full access to. So we ask that you would come, Holy Spirit, in the midst of our circumstances, our fear, our anxiety, any shame, any condemnation or accusation, that you would be the joy and the light and the life of our life in Jesus' name. Yeah, Lord, I just ask for joy to be released in your church, God, that your joy would be our strength, or as we go through the dark nights, that you would release joy, God. Lord, as pain creeps in, Lord, as darkness creeps in in this church, Lord, we ask for release of joy, God, release of song, release of laughter, release of dancing in your church right now in the name of Jesus. Yeah, I just want to testify. Last night I was at a worship night, and beforehand I grabbed two of my friends and I said, hey, I have three cousins who are in high school who are coming to this worship night. Can we pray that they would be transformed by the love of Jesus? And one of them rededicated her life to Jesus. The other one said that he wanted to commit to spending time in the Word in prayer and worship each day. My God answers prayer to be transformed of Jesus. And so I declare that the joy of salvation will cover the city, that the joy of salvation will cover this city. You fill us with your peace. So I just pray that, God, I pray an outpouring of the delight of the Father. God, I pray that you would lift pressure to give people freedom to praise you. God, I pray for an outpouring of your joy, and I pray that we will live just from a place of the smile of heaven in Jesus' name. Yes, God, I pray for a joyful holiness to come and invade your church, God. That the Christ, when the saints of the church, Lord would be so holy and so set apart in joyful holiness, that our salvation, that is found in you, that our testimony, that is found in you, would actually look set apart in the world. In Jesus' name, amen. Lord Jesus, you said it is your will that we do all things in thanksgiving, so we just make that complete to you today, Lord Jesus. And I thank you for that cloud on the horizon, Lord Jesus. I thank you that you're going to pour out your spirit this year, that you're going to bring the multitudes to you, Lord Jesus. I thank you that you're going to release signs, wonders, miracles, and the graces for healing, Lord, and that that testimony will bring your people to you. I'll leave you in the back. Give me this image right now that the joy is like a pool that we kind of walk up to and it's like we have to make that choice whether or not we want to get wet. And I feel like a lot of us right now don't want to get wet and are afraid of even just like the pride and just how we're going to look in front of other people. So I just pray that the fear of man would be broken off today, Jesus, that people would actually get to experience the love and joy that you predestined for us to enjoy. So Father, I pray that you would break that up in Jesus' name. In the midst of pain that you just lift heads, God to see you rightly. And from a revelation of Jesus, you would just give joy in Jesus' name. Thank you, Lord, for the grace thus far to give. Lord, I can see it now. Just the fruit of this room just piling up. It's beginning to pile up to the ceiling. Your kingdom has been advancing. It is not in retreat. We just say, Lord, as a promise, only bold prayers from this point on. Only bold prayers, Lord. We're ready to see them fulfilled. We're ready to see more fruit. Thank you, Lord. Lord, we thank you for our minds and the gifts that they are. But Lord, we ask that they would not hold us back from all that you have. So Father, right now by the grace of God, I ask for a fresh baptism of the Holy Spirit over our staff, over our church and over the city. Lord, we say, come Holy Spirit, do what you want to do. I pray that you would set us apart at the light of the hilltism of the Holy Spirit in Jesus' name. Thank you that you are raising up joy ambassadors that are going to go to the most hopeless situations, that are going to go to the darkest situations and are going to restore light in Jesus' name as you restore joy in your people. Yes, Lord. Thank you for sharing heaven with us. Thank you, Lord. Thank you that we can just know you and feel you and just let's know you the same way, Lord, that we don't have to wait until we die, that we're already alive in you, Lord. Thank you, Lord Jesus' name. God, would you just realign our gaze in this place, Lord? Would you realign the gaze of your church, God, and give us faith for what you can do, God? We receive your joy and we receive the grace that you've given us today to step into the fullness of what you have for us. I pray that we would just receive your love, your patience, your peace, your kindness, your joy, all of it, God. And I just want to pray this thing that we don't need a beggar's mentality. I pray that you would meet us even in the workplace and everyday life, that you would put smiles on our faces that don't make sense, that not even us in our selfishness can wipe off of our face and people would come to us and they would ask us, why are you smiling? You must have had a good day, but we say, no, my day sucked, honestly, but God was good. God was good. Would you remind us, God, that you're good, and we will count it all joy, Jesus, that you are good above all. Jesus, I declare that we are a people that don't look to circumstances. And as we look to you, Jesus, of Jesus, to get saved in mental hospitals, that Gen Z will get saved from depression, from anxiety. Thank you for who you are, that our joy comes from looking at you, that our joy comes from looking at your character, that we don't have to trust in circumstances. We don't have to trust in the chariots and the horsemen that they talked about in Joshua, but we can trust in you and your character, that you are our God, that you are our father, that you are our provider, you are our protector, that we can take joy in that in spite of circumstances. Father, I even say to myself, I trust in you. I don't trust in anything else, I don't trust in bank accounts. Father, I trust in you for your provision over my life, for all of our provision over all of our lives. God, I'm trusting you and your character because you are trustworthy. I was in the back and I'm like, God, I just want what they have in the front. And I just felt this invitation for all of us. Like there are some of us who, I'm going to say this phrase, geriatric in the faith, that's pretty intense, but I feel like a lot of us are like, well, that's for them. They're young, they're fresh, they're Gen Z. Oh, they got it. But can I just say, like I took a step of faith and I was like, I hate, I suck at dancing and I look stupid, but I just felt like the Lord met me in a significant way. And I just feel like this is an invitation and a challenge for all of us. Do not stay still. Do not stay in the back. Do not stay in your seat. Come forward. It can, maybe it looks foolish. Like what does it matter? It's just a front. It's a step of faith. Like what would happen if you said, God, I feel a little silly. Thank you, Jesus. We thank you because your presence was here this morning. Or we got to start our day worshiping and being in the house of our God. Thank you. Thank you, Lord, for a fresh deposit of your joy. What a gift. We thank you for the garment of praise, the garment of praise, Lord, that we get to put on, that you freely extend to us. We give you thanks this morning, Lord, for everything that you've done and all that you'll continue to do. And we just end, we just end this morning in a posture of thanksgiving and praise to you. You are beautiful and wonderful. Well, and we are so grateful to get to be your children and get to dwell in your house. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. Amen. Thank you, everyone, for worshiping and praising the Lord this morning and for being with us. We'll be back here at noon and 6.30 this evening. Thank you.