 All right, good morning, radiant church. We're excited to go into God's presence with you this morning in prayer. If you will, just wherever you're at, just stand with us. We're gonna be worshiping the Lord together and seeking after His face. I wanna read at a Psalm 27 as we open. It says, One thing I have asked from the Lord that I shall seek that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to meditate in His temple. For in the day of trouble, He will conceal me in His tabernacle. In the secret place of His tent, He will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock and now my head will be lifted above my enemies around me and I will offer in His tent sacrifices with shouts of joy. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord. Lord, we are here for you today. We are here because we desire to be near to the Lord. Your word says that it is good to be near to the presence of God. And so we eagerly enter in. We make our way into the throne room of grace. We come boldly because of your son Jesus. We come to give you worship, to give you praise. We lift up our heads. We look to you. We see that you are majestic. You are holy. You are glorious. We lift up our song. We lift up our praises. Even though our enemies may surround us, even though the circumstances in our lives may not dictate us feeling like we should worship. We will turn our hearts to the Lord even now and lift up a song of praise. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord. Can you even just begin with your own voice, your own words, your own song? Lift up praises. Lift up a song of praise to the Lord. Isn't he worthy? Isn't he holy? Wonderful. Sing praises to the Lord. You've said to us, seek your face, but we have been distracted. We have been fed off of the food of this world. But we know that it will never satisfy. Only your presence, only your goodness, only the Lord will satisfy us. David says, hear, oh Lord, when I cry with my voice and be gracious to me and answer me, when you said, seek my face, my heart said to you, your face, oh Lord, I shall seek. God, we ask for a cry of a generation, a cry of our own hearts that says, your face, oh Lord, I will seek. Your face, oh God, I will come running after. Lord, I ask that there would even be the blinders to our eyes, to the things around us and to the world, and that we would be solely focused and solely pursuing after your face. We have tasted and seen that the Lord is good. We have tasted and seen that in your presence of God is fullness of joy and your right hand are pleasures forever more. So let the distractions fall away and with our one focus, our one obsession, be seeking after the face of the Lord. We ask for increased hunger, increased desire. Even begin to pray that over your own heart, God, increase hunger, God, increase my desire. I want more of you, even if you don't feel it. Your feelings are fickle, your heart is desperately wicked, but say within yourself, oh God, I will seek after you. I will be hungry, I will thirst for the Lord. Even when I don't have desire after the face of the Lord, take after your presence, increase hunger within us, Lord. In anger, I feel the Lord even highlighting for some of us that you felt maybe that distance from the Lord. You maybe felt that he's turned his face from you, but the Lord is saying, I desire that you would pursue after me, even when you don't see it, even when you don't feel it. So even right now, I encourage you to press in, past your feelings, past feeling rejected, past feeling like, where is the Lord? Even David would cry out sometimes saying, where are you, oh Lord, moments of desperation. When we seek after the knowledge of God, surpasses our physical, surpasses the knowledge and goes deep within our spirit, and we receive greater revelation of who he is. So even now, face, oh God, we ask for greater revelation of who you are. We wanna know enough about you, God. We have not seen enough of you. We have not experienced and gained enough of you. So we want more, to within us, oh God, give us greater revelation of who you are. This needs to be a cry of your heart even now. We even begin to stir it up. Maybe you even wanna begin to pray and sing in the spirit. Stirring up your spirit to even pursue the Lord right now. God, we need more of who you are. We need more of your spirit. We are hungry and desperate for more of your presence. So pour it out in the heavens and pour it out of who you are. Pour out revelation. But in the spiritual, in our spirit, we know that the presence of God is near. We seek after you now. Find a hungry people in the church that is saying, come. Find a church that is saying, more. Find a church that is saying, draw near. We desire more of you. Lord, we ask that you would increase that hunger and desire in your church. That you would increase that hunger and pursuit. That we would not relent. That we would not give up. Even when it gets difficult. When it gets hard. When we are tired. When we have pursued you for years, for decades. We will not grow weary. But we will seek you all the more. We pursue you with reckless abandon to give in praise. It is good to give in worship. Can you even now as we're asking for more of him, can we even begin to just worship him? Just begin to praise him again. Just acknowledge who he is. He is releasing greater revelation of who he is. Now it is our right response to worship him. It is our right response to give in praise. Every other high place be made low before the Lord. Can we even begin to lift up the city of Kalamazoo in the surrounding region? And begin to pray and ask for the revelation of the one true holy God to go out into this land. We have people that have built up places of worship and idolatry to false gods. They have been seeking after, they've been trying to find but they've put their hope in falsehood. And so even now we pray in Ephesians 117, wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of God to go forward into Kalamazoo. May the holiness of God be revealed. Lord, we are praying right now into this city. Lord, for those people that are far from you, they have lifted up idols to worship, made in their own image, made in their own likeness. By God, you will not stand idly by. You are here to proclaim who you are to a lost and broken generation. So we say, Lord, release revelation even now. Release revelation of the holiness of God. With Kalamazoo, with Portage, with Richland, with this region, look and see the one true God. With the first Jesus, for a release of the revelation of the holy God into Kalamazoo, it was with the magnified and glorified in the city. Lord, where there have been high places and altars built up to fame and success, to money and to greatness. Lord, even the idols built up to least false gods and religions in this city. We ask that every high place would be made low. Every God that has been built up against you would be shown to be an idol who has eyes but does not see, ears but does not hear. Lord, we're asking for the turning of hearts in this city, even those in their pursuit of you. Lord, they have found falsehood. We pray that the truth of God would set them free. We pray that the truth and the revelation of who you are would release them from that bondage. We even speak to the religious spirit over this city that has made eyes that are hofty and prideful in the sight of the Lord. Would that religious spirit be broken down right now? And would greater revelation of the goodness, the holiness, the greatness of God be released? Lord, we even speak to those high places of witchcraft and spirituality in this city. We ask that they would be brought low and broken in the greatness of who you are. We ask even then the love of God, the revelation of the love of God would be released. And that that revelation would break the back of witchcraft, would break the back of this spirituality over this city. And that the goodness and the greatness of the Lord would be seen again. We pray right now for greater revelation of Jesus in this city. In the name of Jesus, release revelation. Hands to the city, at home, wherever you're at, and just begin to ask the Lord to release a revelation of the holiness of God in our city. I'm reminded in times of revival when the presence of God would show up and people would be stopped in their tracks because they are realizing and receiving revelation of the holiness of God. Release it even now, Lord. Release revelation of your holiness, your goodness. Come on for 30 more seconds. Pray out over this city, over your neighborhoods. We lift up our city to you and we say the revelation of God to be released. And Lord, we pray that even today there are people that are gonna be stopped in their tracks because they are receiving a revelation that is outside of themselves. It comes from the Holy Spirit that reveals the goodness of God, the holiness of God. And it drives them to repentance and belief in the gospel. We ask for a release of revelation that drives people to repentance and turning to the gospel today. We know you love this city, God. We know that you love these people and we know that you desire them to be close to you. So we partner with you today. We partner with your word. We partner with that revelation. We ask that even as we go out today into our school, into our city, into our workplace that we would be carriers of this. We may encounter people today and when we have all boldness to share the gospel, to share the good news for those that have received this revelation to be turned toward Jesus today. We love you, King Jesus. And we pray all of these things in your mighty name. And everyone said amen, amen. Well, thank you all for pressing in today. I wanna encourage you. We're gonna be back here today at noon at the Radiant City Center for Noon Prayer. Tonight at 6.30. Otherwise, we'll see you tomorrow morning at 8 a.m. Have a great rest of your day.