 Well good morning everyone if you're here in the prayer room. Let's stand to our feet and For those of you who are joining us from home. Good morning. We're so glad you're joining us for morning prayer today We're just praying that not only would God mercies meet you the Bible says that they are new every single morning But that the joy of our salvation would be awakened in our hearts. I love what David writes in the Psalms When he says that I will awaken the dawn with my praise And I will awaken my glory What does it mean to awaken our glory? Glory is that part of us the deepest place of us that has a Eternal perspective. It's where we commune with God David understood that that in spite of all of the circumstances of being chased of living in caves of being lied about misunderstood Fighting giants taking over territories recovering from his failures. He understood that God was the rock And his refuge that he could continually run back to and there were times where he had to just speak to himself and say I'm gonna awaken my glory this morning. I want to encourage you. Let's awaken. Let's awaken our hearts Let's awaken our soul to the goodness and the reality of God's presence Meeting us this morning You know Jesus said in Matthew chapter 6 that when you pray go into the secret place your prayer closet Where your father is and when he sees you pray in secret, he will reward you in public But it's interesting that God is in the secret place before you arrive says where the father is He's there. It's his secret place. So this space and this time and this morning when we choose and prioritize to awaken our hearts and to pursue the Lord That's actually us stepping into an environment that he's already prepared for us Not us trying to prepare an environment that will somehow Invite him or incite him to come to us. He's waiting for us and he's good. He's your father He loves you. He went to the extreme lengths of giving his own son to redeem you And if he gave his son will he not freely give you all things to richly enjoy and invite you into his presence So this morning you can put a smile on your face Today let your heart be filled with joy to know that you are loved That your father sees you that he loves you that he knows you and he desires to be with you So today let's just take a deep breath And say like david said said when he said Bless the Lord. Oh my soul and all that is within me Bless his holy name today Lord. We choose to bless you today. We choose to remind our hearts Of your goodness Lord today. We say we're gonna awaken the dawn with our praise Awaken the dawn as we start this new day. We're entering not just into your presence But we're entering into this day with thanksgiving And into your courts with praise This is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it Lord meet us. We pray in jesus name Righteousness of god righteousness of god Righteousness of god, it's this romans Chapter eight verse one reality. This is that there is no law of the spirit of life in christ jesus has set us free Enemies tactics one of the greatest strategies in your life is that of shame accusation and The burden that we tries to define us in our present and limit us in our future And because of the blood of jesus that was shed The powerful blood of jesus You and i have been set free From all of that condemnation and it's the spirit of god that actually Convinces us of that So today i want us to just linger here for a moment as we go back into that chorus Condemnation that we're set free from that that the blood of jesus Not only redeems us wants, but it redeems us forever The blood of jesus is not a marker or eraser that just kind of erases everything we did in our past and god says now do better It literally transforms us and changes us and removes Us out of the position where we can be condemned and ever will be condemned Roman's a goes on to say that there is nothing that can separate us from the love of christ Nothing now nothing in the future There's nothing on earth. There's nothing in the spiritual realm that can condemn us Because of the love of christ that expressed through the blood of christ. It speaks of better things So instead of hearing that voice any longer In a back of your mind that is reminding you of all the reasons why you're unworthy today We listen to what the blood says and the blood says that we've been set free From the law of sin and death and we are alive in christ So let's just linger there for a moment and let Let that reality let that revelation wash over us as we sing that No longer to be entangled or by the yoke of slavery Jesus today We stand before you not in our own righteousness, but in the righteousness that your blood purchased for us If any man being christy is a new creation old things have passed away and behold all things have become new Lord today, we are new in you We have a new heart. We have a new nature today We don't stand dressed in the garb of our shame and guilt or our past today We stand in robes of righteousness before the throne of god and all things have been made new today And those things those residues from our past. They no longer are stains They no longer are yokes draped around our necks weighing us down The burden is easy and your yoke is light and today we take up your burden We take up your yoke and it's easy and it's light and it's clean and it's righteous and spotless We're no longer who we used to be all things have been made new. This is all from you all things made new new creation New creation we speak that over every life today that in christ jesus. We are new creations Brand new made in the form and in the likeness of our savior and our father Lord help us to walk in the revelation Help us to walk in the reality of that newness the holiness Refine us and make us even more like jesus Your blood is transforming In your blood in your death we find our life We find our identity in you To those that are perishing the message of the cross is foolishness But to those of us who are being saved it is the power of god under salvation And we thank you for the cross today We thank you for the transforming reality for all eternity Of what you did on the cross You have finished all of your works and you have sat down at the right hand of god and we Agree with you when you said it is finished Lord, we believe that everything That needed to be done to reconcile us to the father. It is done. It is finished. It is not of our works We're not striving. We're not trying to hold on to it. It is finished. It is done And right now lord, we pray against every enemy every lie Every half truth that would come to try and steal our inheritance and our identity and christ away from us Every voice of this age that is attacking the identity of your children We cast every vain imagination Every stronghold that would dare exalt itself against the knowledge of christ and we say The identities of the children of god are not shaped by their sin They're not shaped by their passions They're not shaped by the voices of this age that scream like silence from the pits of hell We say the only one who has the right to define who we are and call us righteous or unrighteous is our father And he said it is done So we speak freedom. We speak joy We speak the spirit of adoption and identity over the people of god. You are love You are accepted. You've been adopted. You are lavished. You are secure in the father In christ jesus it is finished The old is passed away And the new has come So right now wherever you're at As we're praying i want you to just receive from the father the same voice That jesus in the waters of baptism received when he heard the father say This is my son in whom i am well pleased I want you to right now in the presence Of the father, you know the holy spirit It says in roman's eight that one of his office assignments is to teach our hearts how to say Abba father And so right now the same holy spirit who's in you who is there present on jesus in the waters of baptism right now I want you to just receive The impartation and the revelation Of the pleasure of the father and the acceptance of the father over you Hear him say you are my child You are my son. You are my daughter and i am well pleased in you Let's just take a moment let the musicians play and then the singers sing into that reality So that it can wash through us today and wash away all of the lies And deposit the eternal truth of our identity does blessed be the god and father of our lord jesus christ Who has blessed us in christ With every spiritual blessing in him In the heavenly places even as he chose us in him Before the foundations of the world that we should be holy And blameless before him in love This is who we are Lord today we agree with your word That in christ and because of what he's done we are holy and blameless That we are accepted in the beloved and we are blessed With christ with every spiritual blessing in heavenly places Lord, this is who we are holy And blameless blameless in your sight Let that wash over us today That our identity Who we are now and for all eternity It's not shaped by the temporal things and decisions that we've made here It's all been made new in christ and now we stand before you holy and blameless To the person who's carrying the weight of their past sins or decisions that they've made today Jesus says let my blood cleanse you and become holy and blameless To the person who believed that their sexual orientation is their identity We say in christ you are a new creation all things have been Passed away and behold all things have become new To the person who's trained to find where they belong and fit because they've been an orphan all their life We hear the father say come to the table you belong to me for now and for always holy and blameless chosen and blessed and loved by your father Of our day that you are loved the height the depth the width and the breadth our prayer is that you would have a revelation today Of the love of god that surpasses your knowledge It's way beyond what you could ever comprehend, but you can go into your day facing whatever You're gonna face today and you can know that you are loved by god We're so glad that you joined us today We invite you to come back today at noon tonight at 6 30 p.m As we pray morning noon and night here from the center of our city in the prayer room at the radius of the center Come and join us. Have a blessed day