 Good morning everyone. Welcome to the National Day of Prayer. We're glad for those of you who are joining us here in this prayer room, but even more so, those who have taken the time, when you could be focused on a lot of other things to even tune in from home, it's important that no matter whether we're in person or that we're at home, that today is a day that we consciously consecrate our hearts to pray for this nation. This is serious and it's sobering because we're living at an inflection point in this nation. And if we've ever needed prayer and a move of God in this nation, it's today. It's the day in which we live in. Psalm 33 verse 12 is a scripture that oftentimes we come back to on days like this where it says, blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage. There's a promise in the Psalms that for a nation that has a collective awareness of our need of the Lord, our need of not just a belief in a sovereign or a divine being, but the Lord, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, the one who has made us and the one who has blessed us and the only one who can restore us. This morning I woke up and I was reminded of a song. Probably it was in the early 90s that came out and it's a unique worship song because it's what is called a identifying song of repentance, much like you read about in the Psalms and they're very rare songs. It's written by a man named Kevin Prosh. It's called Save Us O God, but it says, we confess the sins of our nation and Lord we have been guilty of a prayerless life. We've turned away our hearts from your laws and have taken for granted your unchanging grace. Turn away this curse from our country. We say that we've robbed you and our storehouses are bare. Open wide the floodgates of heaven. Repeat the devout word or so we may not be destroyed. You said that if we'd humble ourselves and begin to pray, you would heal our barren land and cleanse us with rain. Don't pass us by. Let this be the generation, Lord, that lifts up your name to all the world. Save us, O God. Save the people for yourself, O Lord. Let the fear of the Lord be their standard. Save us, O God. Cleanse us from our unfaithfulness. Let the place where we live be called a house of prayer. I think this song sums up exactly the posture we want to take on this National Day of Prayer to just simply say, save us, O God. So wherever you're at with you today, with you in humility and in intercession, would you join us this morning as we go before the Lord with our hands extended towards him? We say, save us, O God. Lord, we today call out to you with humble hearts and with prayer coming out of our lives and we recognize that you are Lord. And we draw near to you as your people, intercessors on the wall today in the place where we live as a house of prayer and we cry out to you, O God, save us. But you are merciful. Lord, in your judgments, remember mercy and restore us. Redeem us. Move in this land today. We pray in Jesus' name. I know what sin is torn. Also know this mercy in your heart. Remember mercy, remember mercy, remember mercy, God. We're exiles on this earth but we stand as watchmen on the wall today. We stand as intercessors in the gap today and we say, Lord, save us. Save us, O God. Save this nation. Save this generation. Know the right hand from their left. Send your glory, God. Send your Holy Spirit that you said would convict the world of sin, righteousness and judgment. God, we need conviction. We're asking you, don't lift your hand. Don't lift your hand of blessing. Don't lift your sovereign hand that is orchestrated. This nation from beginning until now. Can a nation be saved in a day? Can a nation be saved in a day? Can a nation encounter the glory of God in a day? We say yes, Lord. We know. But if you can reach Nine of us, you can reach America. Is anything too difficult for our God? Nothing is too difficult for you, God. If you can send a prophet to Assyria, you can send a prophetic generation to America. Revive the foundations, O God. Tide the foundations of those who came and established a covenant on the Mayflower before they got off of the boat and dedicated this experiment to the glory of God. Lord, revive the foundations of even our founding fathers who recognize the sovereign providential hand of our God upon what they were doing. Lord, revive the foundations of the first great awakening in America where even in their sin they turned towards you. Blow upon the embers of the second great awakening where you moved throughout the colonies of this great nation and the revival fires were ignited. Lord, revive us again. Save us, O God, from ourselves. Do not lift your hand of mercy off of this land. Do not turn your face away from us, God. We, your people, who are exiles in this nation, we cry out to you. Save us, O God. Save us, O God, Lord, on this National Day of Prayer. We don't want to just say nice little prayers, God. Sprinkle a little blessing in our already fine and prosperous American culture. We say, God, we are full of sin and unrighteousness. We have allowed a demonic spirit of insanity to take over this nation and our collective consciousness. We've shaken our fist in your face and saying, we don't need you anymore. We have suppressed the truth and we have refused to honor and acknowledge you as God and we say, forgive us, O God. Save us. Save a people for yourselves out of the midst of this nation. Let conviction move and flow in this nation once again, God. And in your church, judgments begin in the house of the Lord and your church has become Laodicean. We say we're rich. We say we're prosperous. We say we need nothing and we say we are poor, impitiable and blind. And we have need to buy from you gold refined in the fire and sapphire. 714, you said, if my people who are called by my name humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and I will forgive their sins and heal their land. Hear us, O God, from heaven today. Hear the cry of your people all over this nation with our faces turned towards you and our hearts rent with sackcloth and ashes and repentance. We say, God, hear us from heaven. Do not turn your ear away from us and revive the foundations. Lord, I'm asking today for Yale and Harvard and Princeton, the epitome of intellectualism and academia that is shaping the political and even the legal systems of America that have been infected with humanism. An ideology that does not recognize you, but yet more, we are reminded those nation, those colleges in this nation were established to train ministers and missionaries to boldly proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ. That was their purpose and the enemy has turned them into concentration camps that holds a generation of influence and authority captive to the demonic lies and deceptions of humanism, secularism. We're asking you today to restore and renew the foundations, specifically in Ivy League universities, Brown, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, these schools whose foundations were in the beginning to train ministers and we're saying, God, revive, revive the ancient stones and the ancient prayers and the ancient intentions of why these schools were founded and God were asking for you to move on these campuses. God, we're asking for revival for moves of God to break out in dorm rooms for professors to stand up in front of their classes having encountered the Holy Spirit, praying for conviction to move throughout the halls and the courtyards and the chapels of these institutions that the wisdom of man would be brought low and the foolishness of the cross would be proclaimed. Lord, do assign in a wonder, do assign in a wonder to this generation and start in the very fortresses of higher education and revive the ancient foundations. Remember the prayers that were prayed by Jonathan Edwards. Remember the prayers that were prayed by Dwight Johnson. Remember the prayers that were prayed by Charles Finney. Remember the prayers that were prayed by George Whitfield as he walked on these hallowed grounds. Those prayers echo in eternity today and we join our prayers some 250 years later. But prayers know no time and space and we say, God, remember those prayers. Remember those tears. Remember those fires of revival. Ignite them again in our day we pray in Jesus name on college campuses across America. How to go on to the mission fields of the earth in this hour that we begin to see the sprinkling of the rains of revival. The Lord, you would not pass us by, God, that you would not pass us by. But Lord, that you would stir again, Pax, the 65 million millennials and the 72 million Gen Z in this nation and breathe upon their lives and their purposes with deep radical obedience and conviction who leapt out their lives even unto death who say, where is the hardest place on the face of the earth? Where is it that no one wants to go? Where is it where the blood of the martyrs has not been spilled? Lord, it raised up an army of radical lovesick Jesus following missionaries that are birthed out of the most difficult and the most forgotten generations in American history. God, revive the foundations of the student movement again. College campuses across America. Lord, be a father to the fatherless generation. Let their cry be the cry of the Moravians that says wherever the Lamb goes, we will follow. God, breathe upon the student movement once again. Put your glory on a generation. Do not pass us by, O God. Revive us again. Revive us, O God. Forgive us. Forgive us for not stewarding what you've given to us, Lord. You said to whom much is given, much will be required. And Lord, here in America we've seen so many moves of God. Not one, not two, but tens of moves of awakenings of revivals. Lord, we have more Bibles and more resources, more churches on every corner, more deeper history. But yet in spite of all that, just like the children of Israel, we've constantly turned to idols. We've constantly allowed our hearts to become distracted and captivated. And we've thought we can do it on our own. Forgive us, O God. Do not pass us by. Do not cause us to miss the day of our visitation, Lord. Come and visit America one more time, God. One more time. Intercessions and thanksgiving be made for all people. Burn high positions that we may lead a peaceful, quiet, godly, dignified life in every way. This is pleasing in the sight of God who desires all people to be saved. God, today we lift up our government, state and local governments, our federal government. We lift up our president. We lift up the vice president. We lift up senators and House of Representatives, justices on the Supreme Court. We lift up the governor of Michigan, the mayor of this city, and all those who are in positions of authority. And we say, God, give us godly government. Give us godly government. And we pray, Lord, that those who make decisions and policy would come under the influence of your spirit and not the spirit of this age. We pray that every voice of deception and demonic influence would be silenced. And we pray that righteous government would reign and rule, giving your church a window of opportunity. To preach and proclaim the gospel one more time in this nation. Because you desire, Lord, all men to be saved. You desire all America to be saved. All of Michigan to be saved. All of Kalamazoo to be saved. And we say yes and amen to it. But God, we pray right now and we say, Lord, give those who are in authority. Surround them with wise counsel. And Lord, we're asking you, would you move and would you draw near and bring conviction and reveal yourself to those who rule our land, not just in some religious recognition of a higher power. But Lord, we're praying in the Oval Office that the Holy Spirit of God would show up and speak to our president. Lord, we're praying that in the governor's office of the state of Michigan, you would break through every wall. You'd break through every principality and power and you would be on full display that your power would be released. Raise up profits. Raise up profits in this hour, as in the days of old who went and confronted and spoke wisdom to those in authority. Lord, raise up profits in Washington, DC. Raise up profits in Lansing, Michigan. Raise up profits in Kalamazoo, Michigan that speak to power with righteousness and conviction. Save us, O God. This is such a critical hour, Lord, and we need you. We stand between the porch and the altar. We're asking you, move in this nation on this national day of prayer, God. We finished this morning with the words that Jesus taught us to pray when he said, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Those of you who are joining us at home, I want to encourage you to take today and pray for our nation. Pray for this generation and let's continue to cry out to God to save us, O God. God bless you. Have a great national day of prayer.