 Good morning, welcome to morning prayer from the heart of Kalamazoo. We are crying out to the heart of God for him to move, for him to continue to do this incredible outpouring that he has been pouring out on us for the last couple of weeks here at Radiant Church and in Kalamazoo and across the nation. We're believing that there's more to come and there's more clouds on the way and more showers and more rainfall that is gonna be falling upon us. And as we continue to believe for that and as we continue to seek the Lord for more of him pouring himself out and more of his glory to rain down on us, I was just overwhelmed with the reality of restoration this morning as I was preparing, as I was spending time alone in my office at home with the Lord as I was just spending time with the Father. This theme of restoration was resonating within me, the call to restoration that God wants to restore his people, that God has restoration for our lives. And so I want to, I really want us to pray and seek the Lord for restoration in very tangible ways this morning. The first way that I feel led that we're supposed to do this is for restoration of joy. I feel like we need a restoration of joy in our lives, not just a restoration of emotional excitement, not just a moment of, I'm happy, but actually a restoration of joy, a restoration of joy. Happiness is the byproduct of circumstance. So when my circumstance is good, I'm happy. Joy is a byproduct of perspective. And when my perspective is set on Jesus and what Jesus has done and who Jesus is, despite what I'm going through and despite what my circumstances are, and despite the circumstances that will be, I am able to have joy. I am able to truly have joy within my heart and within my soul, resonating and echoing within my life. So in Isaiah chapter 52, starting verse eight, the prophet says, the voice of your watchman, they lift up their voice. Together they sing for joy, for eye to eye they see the return of the Lord to Zion. Break forth together into singing, you waste places of Jerusalem, for the Lord has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem. The Lord has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God. Right now I want us to just begin to submit things to God that we are going through and ask God to restore joy to us in the midst of these trials, in the midst of these issues, in the midst of these circumstances. Ask God, begin to lift up your voice. Don't do it quietly in your head, whether you're in this room right now or you're online, you're in your car or you're in your office or you're at home. Begin to vocalize out loud where you need joy and how you need joy. Begin to lift up your voice for joy. Begin to name places. This is not a moment to be silent and wait for us to lead us. This is a moment for us to cry out to God, for us to, to plead to him, for joy to fill our houses, for joy to fill our homes, for joy to fill our minds, for joy to fill our places of work, for joy to fill our marriages, for joy to fill the streets of Kalamazoo, for joy, begin to cry out, begin to ask for joy. You give us joy from gazing upon you to break forth in the streets, God. Lord, I pray for joy. Make a joyful note. Break forth into joyous song and sing praises. Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of melody, with trumpets and with the sound of the horn. Make a joyful noise before the king, the Lord. Jesus, we have come today. We are awake at this hour. We have gathered together in various forms to make not just a noise, but a joyful noise. Not just to sing a song, but a joyful song. So right now, Lord, we command our souls to make a joyful noise, to break forth into a joyful song, into joyful praise. We come to you this morning. Lord, you are our king, and it is with joy that we sing and that we make noise this morning. Jesus name. He's in, Lord, still, blessed be the name. I feel like we need to be very practical right now. I feel like we need to be very practical. And we need to speak the words, yes and amen. As we actually trade in specifically, I just keep hearing this word. It's a word we use a lot today, trauma. I feel like the house of the Lord is open for us to exchange our trauma in for today. For us to exchange our trauma, the trauma that we've been going through, the trauma that we've been dealt to trade it in for joy this morning. So as we begin to go into this again, practically name those things of pain. This is a trauma of hurt, of let down, of frustration. Begin to trade in your sorrow this morning. Jesus, we come to you with expectation, God, this morning, God. And we say, yes, we hand you our circumstances. We are our trauma, God. And we ask you for joy. Restore joy to us, Lord. Restore joy, Lord. We say, yes, Lord, yes, Lord. Have this vision of us knocking on the door of heaven and saying this, we're just hitting the door. Into some more intercession. Really look at that banner that Natasha just sang about being over us, a banner of joy with the direction of restoration of joy in Jeremiah chapter 30, starting verse 16. It says, therefore all who devour you shall be devoured and all your foes, every one of them shall go into captivity. Those who plunder you shall be plundered and all who pray on you, I will make pray. And then here's the key for I will restore health to you. In your wounds, I will heal. I want us to pray. I want us to really intercede for us to stand on the wall with intentionality over the next few moments and pray for a restoration of health. And I want us to start personally. So if you are sick, if you are going through something, if you have pain, if you have an ailment, I want you to, with your words out loud, not quietly in your head, but out loud with your words, speak it to the Lord. Begin to ask the Lord for the restoration of your health. For some reason right now, I'm just getting digestive issues put into my heart. That some of us have been going through digestive issues and we've kind of put it off to the side going, this is just gonna be my lot in life. This is just gonna be my diagnosis for the rest of your life. But I believe the Lord is saying to you, I am going to restore your health to you. I will heal you. I will restore you. I will heal you. This is not the lot that I have for you, says the Lord. So begin to speak it to him. Begin to pray for healing in your body. Lord, would you heal our bodies? Lord, whatever ailment is being spoken right now, Lord, I pray for healing, complete healing, Lord, that every cell would be made right into its right shape, into its right size, into its right structure, God. Lord, I pray that from the chemical makeup of every person right now, whether in this room or on the live stream, God, that whatever ailment is being brought to you, Lord, that you would heal it, that you would restore our health, Lord. Restore our health, God. We come to you, the great physician. We've been given a diagnosis. We've been handed pain. We've taken medicine, God, and we're grateful for medicine. We're grateful, Lord. We know that medicine and miracles are not rivals, God. We know that you use medicine, but Lord, right now I pray for a supernatural healing. I pray that you would reach down from the balcony of heaven as the great physician, and that you would breathe your life over us, Lord, God, and any ailment that comes into contact with your breath would be banished from our bodies, Lord. Give us health, God. Restore us, Lord. We abolish cancer. We evict you, dry up and die. Be plundered by God. Digestive issues, be plundered by God. Headaches, migraines, be plundered by God. Arthritis, pain in our joints and in our ligaments, be plundered by God. COVID, be plundered by God. Even the fear of COVID, be plundered by God. Jesus, restore our health. Heal us, God. You are our healer. I pray that a testimony of your healing power would come out from us, Lord. That we would tell our kids of your healing power, of your healing love, of your healing grace, that we would tell our friends and our family members, God, I pray that a testimony would arise from radiant church of healing, supernatural healing and restoration, God. There's someone in your family who is sick, someone in your family who's had surgery, someone in your family who has been given a diagnosis, begin to pray healing over them, restoration of health over them, to the mom who's been given bad news about the baby and the womb, begin to speak life over that child, begin to speak life into that womb. I know the diagnosis, but we're asking God for his opinion. We're asking God for his word. So, Lord, would you speak into that womb right now? I don't know who that is. Lord, would you speak into that womb and would you breathe life into the lungs of that baby, that they would live and have a testimony for their generation, that they were given a diagnosis of death in the womb, but you gave them life in the womb. Form them, God, in a mental illness, mental sickness, God, emotional sickness, God. Lord, I pray for healing of the mind. Lord, would you heal our minds? Would you heal our minds, Lord? Would you rewrite the neurological pathways that have been seared with pain and trauma, with let down and disappointment, with frustration and uncertainty, with disappointment, with loss and tragedy? God, I pray that you would heal our minds. Would you restore our minds, Lord? Heal us, God. You are the great physician. You are the great physician. Would you heal us, God? Would you mend bones? Would you lengthen limbs? Would you return sight to the blind? Hearing to the deaf? Lord, would you heal, Lord? We ask you for healing. We believe you for healing now, God. Restore our health. Love to restore. You love to restore. You love to restore. You love to restore. Love to restore. You love to restore. There's no ailment too big, no sickness too small that God cannot heal. We cannot limit the power of God. Continuing in the same vein of restoration, in Jeremiah 30, verse 18, it says, Thus says the Lord, Behold, I will restore the fortunes of the tents of Jacob and have compassion on his dwellings. The city shall be rebuilt on its mound and the palace shall stand where it used to be. Out of them shall come songs of thanksgiving and the voices of those who celebrate. I will multiply them and they shall not be few. I will make them honored and they shall not be small. This verse, verse 18 is talking about the tents of Jacob and his dwellings. He's promising the restoration of families, the restoration of broken homes, homes that have fallen away. And I just feel like in this day, there is so much brokenness in our homes. There's so much brokenness in our families and God wants to move. He wants to restore. He wants to heal what has been broken. Numbers 2319 says that God is not a man that he should lie or a son of man that he should change his mind. Has he said and will he not do it? Or has he spoken and will he not fulfill it? This is a promise that he will restore families. What the enemy has separated with lies, what the enemy has sown in dissension among our families, gone in the name of Jesus, restored in the name of Jesus. So in Jesus' name, we plead that restoration of these homes. I pray for divine encounters of men and women who have abandoned their families in pursuit of the lies of this world and of the enemy. Lord, open their eyes to see the truth of your love and of your word. Lord, let the children of this brokenness lean in on you for comfort and solace. Let them run to their heavenly Father who will never leave or abandon them. In Jesus' name, restore what evil meant to destroy. There is no heart too far, there is no brokenness too deep that you cannot restore, that you cannot mend. So Lord, we're praying that you come in power, come in love, restore these families, restore these homes, these single parent homes, restore these homes without a spiritual leader. Lord, come into their hearts, soften the hearts of the hardened. Lord, we've seen you do it before. We've seen hundreds and hundreds of people lay their burdens at the altar over the past couple of weekends saying, Lord, I know that I'm broken. I know that there's more that you have in store for me. Lord, I want to unite my family. I want to lay aside the hurt of my past. I want to lay aside the issues that have plagued me for so long. God, we've seen freedom in an instant. We've seen restoration so powerfully over these last few weeks, but Lord, we're saying don't stop now. We're saying we want this to continue for generations. We want the lost to come home. We want the Father to look from a distance and see his Son coming home and say there's a place here for you. So God, in Jesus' name, restore what the enemy meant to destroy. There's nothing you can't do. There is no family you can't reunite. There is no prodigal that you can't send home. And so Lord, we're saying in Jesus' mighty name, do it again. Because that is who you are. Good is not just what you do, Lord. Good is who you are. And so Lord, I pray that out of marriages that have just become stale and stagnant. Lord, God, that out of them will come songs of thanksgiving and voices of celebration for you've restored them, God. Lord, I pray for a restoration of that excitement to return to marriages within our marriages, God. Would there be an excitement for one another? Lord, I pray that the heart of the groom would return back to the heart of the bride. That husband and wife would no longer just be mere roommates who go on vacations. But Lord, God, I pray that you would fill their homes. Fill all of our homes, Lord, God, with restoration. Restoration, God. Restoration towards one another. Lord, I pray for restoration from father to son, son to father. Lord, I pray for restoration from mother to daughter, daughter to mother. Lord, I pray for generational restoration, Lord God, that out of the home would come songs of thanksgiving and voices that celebrate your goodness, God. Fill our homes, Lord, with thanksgiving and celebration. I'm a restoration, God, bringing restoration to our nation and our city. I want to close this hour of prayer by just flipping over to the next chapter, Jeremiah 31, starting verse 10. Says, hear the word of the Lord, O nations in the coast lands far away. Say, he who scattered Israel will gather him and will keep him as a shepherd keeps his flock. For the Lord has ransomed Jacob and has redeemed him from the hands that are too strong for him. They shall come and sing aloud on the heights of Zion and they shall be radiant over the goodness of the Lord, over the grain, the wine, and over the young of the flock and the herd. Their life shall be like a watered garden and they shall languish no more. They shall, then shall the young women rejoice in the dance and the young men and the old shall be married. And then God says, I will turn their mourning into joy. I will comfort them and give them gladness for sorrow. Lord, I pray that we would be radiant, that we would sing songs aloud everywhere we go and that we would shine as radiant children of yours because of your goodness over us, because we are staring into your eyes, because we are gazing upon your beauty, God. We are so overwhelmed with your goodness that despite the things that happen to us and despite the things that we go through, we are still radiant, we are still glowing not because of circumstances but because of you. Lord, I pray today that we would continue to hand you our mourning and hand you our sorrow and that you would, Lord, restore to us joy and that you would restore to us gladness, Lord. Lord, as we go into this world that you so loved that you came, that you died and you rose again for it but you're also coming back for it, Lord. I pray that we would go into it with joy and with gladness. I pray that we would be carriers of joy and gladness, not happiness, gladness, not happiness but joy, Lord. Lord, we love you, restore us to the joy of your salvation. We pray in Jesus' name. Boining us this morning for prayer. Right now we're gonna transition to a devotional set. So if you wanna stay in the room, we would love for you to stay and continue to seek the Lord in here. If you wanna have conversation, we would love for you to have those conversations down in a lobby or go into a match, head, sit down, have a nice cup of coffee but right now we're gonna transition to that devotional time. Have a blessed day, go forth, enjoy.