 Hey good morning welcome to our set here at the Radiant City Center excited for our prayer set. If you're in the room let's stand together even if you're at home just standing up in your living room and we're just going to go before the Lord in Psalm 16 as we open up the scriptures spending time looking at the Lord and in verse 8 I have set the Lord always before me because He is at my right hand and I shall not be shaken therefore my heart is glad and my whole being rejoices my flesh also dwells secure. In verse 11 you make known to me the path of life in your presence there is fullness of joy at your right hand our pleasures forevermore. Father we thank you you are our chosen portion in my cup and you hold my lot we thank you today God that you strengthen us and you fill us and you become joy overflowing and we're not praying today for happiness we're not praying Lord that we would be okay with life God we say that because of who you are my cup overflows you're my chosen portion and I pray Lord that we would runneth over we will be filled up today that we are not shaken my heart is glad and my whole being rejoices and we are secure in you we dwell with you we thank you God for your kindness towards us we thank you for your goodness towards us we thank you for your long suffering with us that you have not forsaken us that you hold us secure you hold us close and today we rejoice we rejoice even if our emotions are sorrowful we say we rejoice in the Lord even if we have some anxieties today we put those on your shoulders today and we rest secure in the strength of our Lord mighty and holy and perfect and we rejoice in you today thank you blessing to clap thank you G reconciled us back to yourself without your blood we would be lost but you have come and you have found us you have saw after us we were once that lost sheep the one that had left the 99 and you came after us you have redeemed us that there would be praise and exaltation thanksgiving that flows from our hearts and out of our mouths and so we say today we remember we recall our once days where we were far from you and now we are in your fold and we call you the good shepherd we say that we are in the vine and we thank you as branches that you have called us into life and you're the bread of life and we come today and we say we don't want to eat from anything else but from the word of God you breathe fresh life into us you pour your fresh water into us those that are thirsty those that are hungry we come to you today those that have a thirsting for righteousness those that have a hunger for your presence we say today strengthen us and fill us it's the chosen portion we could choose from many other things but we come to you we come to you today God we say fill us up and strengthen us in your presence once again we find hope we find strength we find life in you we rejoice in you today we just want to invite you to rejoice thank him rejoicing him out of your own words out of your own vocal cords we say we rejoicing the goodness of our God and I ask Lord that we would see today that there's an abundance the abundance of resources in heaven that you want to impart to your people I just sense from the Lord whatever poverty spirit whatever spirit that says you can only have a drop he says you can have the fullness of the riches of heaven poured out on you that when you seek after him he doesn't give you a drop or a little bit he says you have the fullness of everything that I have what's in the father's house is imparted to my sons and my daughters to children and we say as your children God release release the resources of heaven upon your people and upon your church that we would not have an impoverished mentality that we don't have to approach a king who withholds but you pour out in abundance and in fullness and in strength and in power and in victory and we approach you we approach you knowing that we will receive grace and mercy that we will not be rejected in your throne room when we come you say have it all to my sons and to my daughters have it all have the abundance of heaven imparted unto you so Father I pray right now that if we have a mindset if we have a perspective of you would you shift those things in our minds and in our hearts that we can approach you and receive fullness break off a poverty mentality break off an impoverished spirit we are your sons and we are your daughters and where your airs and you say have it all have it all and we say God we need it all in this day we need all that you have we want the fullness of your spirit we want the fullness of your presence we are in great need and we come to you because you're the one that has it all you hold it in your hand and you're releasing resources into your church and into your body so we say God pour it out pour out all that you have pour out your presence on us pour out your spirit fill us up once again strengthen us in these days if you're broken heavy-hearted we say God we don't choose those things we choose the greater things we choose all that's in heaven we choose all that's in you Jesus pour it out in this day and pour it out now we pray in Jesus name you thank you for your spirit towards us we're gonna open up in numbers 14 and spend some time in intercession I believe that this is in the Lord's heart today to contend and in faith even up to the church and for the church the story in numbers 13 and 14 is a story where the Lord has said to go and possess the land the land flowing with milk and honey they send spies and the spies come and report that there are great giants in the land but there's two men that say we can possess the land Caleb and Joshua and I believe today that's a representation of the church that we can have all that's in God's heart for this day for this hour and for the church but there are many giants there are things that are coming against and pushing against the church their demonic agendas and giants in the land but would we today in intercession in this place raise up a holy war cry and say unto the Lord we will be those that do not reject the Lord and do not fear men that today that we would cry out and say father help us through your son Jesus and through the abiding spirit of God living on the inside of us that we would not live in fear of men men's agendas called the narrative that's being spoken that's being spoken about the church and about followers of Jesus that we are not built we are not built on what men say about us but the truth of who God says about your sons and your daughters and about the church and I pray that we would live into the reality and live into the prophetic knowledge of who you have called the church to be your bride and you've called us to possess the land so we asked her that you would slay the giants in the land you would come against the political agendas the narratives that have said it's not Jesus and he's not the answer but we know we can go and possess and dwell with you so today we know there's an abundance in Jesus there was an abundance in Canaan there was an abundance that you said go and find the land flowing with milk and honey and we know that the answer is Jesus so we in our day we say would you reveal Jesus and would Jesus be revealed in us and I pray that we would not live in a fear of man but there will be a delighting in the fear of the Lord in this day God would you strengthen your church to fear you would there be a delighting in our day and in the church to fear God over man God would you slay the giants would you go ahead of us but would there be an obedience in our hearts to say we will go God would you raise up Caleb's and Joshua in this day to say we will go we will not fear men we only fear God would there be a boldness and acts for boldness in the heart of your church today strengthen your church to build up your church today we pray we intercede God build up and strengthen the church in Jesus name in your church strengthen your pride in your church strengthen your strength in your church strengthen your pride strengthen your church strengthen your prayer we pray for a spirit of boldness and we pray for courage we thank you for the story of Caleb and Joshua that we can see what has gone before us but we pray God do it now that there would not be a fear of man but a fear of the Lord and Isaiah 11 that there would be a delight and the spirit of the fear of the Lord that we would abide in the fear of the Lord that we choose you over the naysayers that we would choose you over the narratives that we would choose you to not be a silence church but to be a bold church God we choose to be obedient we choose to go forth we choose to go and possess the land we say God do it now do it on our day that the spirit of the fear of the Lord would reside in your church and on your people that we would not resist you that we would not choose the fear of man God would you strip us of that fear God that we would not abide in that reality but abide in the reality of the fear of God help us God to delight in you to delight in the fear of the Lord in the name of Jesus he said so they called them in verse 18 and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus but Peter and John answer them whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God you must not you must judge for we cannot speak of what we have seen and heard it goes on to say that the believers begin to pray for boldness and this is what they pray in verse 21 9 and now Lord look upon their threats and grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness while you stretch out your hands to heal and signs and wonders are performed through the name of your holy servant Jesus and when they had prayed the place in which they were gathered together was shaken and they were all filled with the holy spirit and continue to speak the word of God with boldness so we say today we look upon the threats we look upon the threats and we say in the midst of that grant to your servants to continue to speak your word with all boldness not half boldness or a low measure of boldness but the fullness of boldness and that there would be a stretching out of your hand to heal signs wonders God I ask Lord that in churches God that you would invite them into the fear of the Lord and into boldness to strengthen them and impartation of the fear of the Lord and of boldness God which you imparted into senior leaders worship pastors to the church of Kalamazoo and whatever city you're a part of we cry out and we say on the churches and on senior pastors God that there will be an impartation of the boldness and of the fear of the Lord we look upon the threats and we say in spite of that we will abide in boldness and we will abide in the fear of the Lord God we pray strengthen up your churches strengthen up the church of the city God bring unity and say we will not abide in the threats we will not be silenced we will not be pushed down we abide in Jesus because all of heaven's resources are imparted to us as children and as your church so we say God impart boldness we continue even right now we say impart boldness right now will you just agree with me God impart boldness into your children impart boldness into your church impart boldness into senior leaders and into worship pastors we will not back down because God is victor you're the victory you hold it all the government is on your shoulders and we abide in Jesus and we say because you have victory we have victory and we will be bold in this day we will speak about Jesus with boldness in this day lost protocols far from you the addicted the widow the orphan god boldness upon the lips of your church in Jesus day and we just agree with that prayer i want to shift to a time where we're gonna i'm gonna invite you to come and pray up here because this is an environment to train you up to build you up and it says that we fight not with the natural reality but with the sort of the spirit and so when we pray God moves on our behalf and i want to impart boldness into you and so maybe you've never prayed before on this microphone it's not scary because we're praying the word of God we don't have to be insecure that we don't have the right words because it's God's word that we're praying and so i want to invite you up here and we're going to contend in prayer for the church and we're going to contend for our cities if God's put something in your heart if you want to pray for the church senior pastors worship leaders for the city for the believers in our city we're going to pray and believe and agree with God that he is in this day though there are giants we don't deny that there's giants but because there's giants we need the word of God to strengthen us the sword of the spirit the shield of faith and so i'm going to invite you even to come up here we're going to read a scripture just pray a quick prayer these are 10 to 15 second prayers and we're contending in faith for boldness to be imparted lord i just pray right now that uh that you would impart to us the the fear of the lord lord the the fear lord is the beginning of wisdom lord would you impart to us the gift of the fear of the lord so we can understand your ways we would understand that the wisdom from heaven god i pray this in jesus name father we thank you that you give so generously to us the spirit of power and boldness and i just lift god the leaders across this city to you lord the senior pastors senior worship leaders lord i'm asking for a spirit of boldness to rest upon them god that you would impart to them grace upon grace to deliver the full counsel of god from the pulpits lord that they would not recoil back lord because of the giants and the accusations of the enemy but lord i'm asking for a spirit of boldness to rest upon your leaders in kalamazoo in jesus name yes lord we just pray for a joshua caliph spirit over the church of kalamazoo county god i pray for heavenly vision lord i pray that we would uh forsake the natural vision of uh the statistics or what we see but lord we would see spiritually what you see jesus i pray for your eyes that we would see the gold hidden in the dirt of people's lives and we would call it forward god i pray every principality would bow to your name every wickedness darkness witchcraft agenda would bow to the name of jesus and would you use your saints as partners and coheirs with you to bring about your purposes on the earth in jesus name god you said that um you haven't given us a spirit of fear but of power love and a sound mind and we just declare your your boldness as your people of god as we are your hands and feet and you said that you that we would do greater works because you've gone to the father you said and see infusions five that finally um brother be strong in the lord and the power of this might and we can put on the whole armor of god and and be who you called us to be and stand up and take our rightful place so i declare boldness over your people over over your disciples as we make disciples the great commission called us to make disciples and we walk in that boldness knowing that you are with us you're greater are you that's in us than he that's in the world jesus name father god i just pray for radiant church um for boldness over radiant church um for all they do to bring the word to us to help us better understand the word and to open our hearts to receive the holy spirit and ask for the holy spirit's help every day and to apply the word to our lives amen yeah father i just pray for boldness within our families that mothers and fathers will be filled with the spirit of boldness to disciple their children as you have called them to be discipled not discipled by the world but discipled by jesus so lord just let us cast off the narrative that the world says is how we should be discipling our children but let us focus on the true word of god that we can disciple our children when we go home in a way that is fitting of your glory in jesus name i just hear this affirmation from the lord and i wanted to just share it um i know we all know second chronicles seven what that says if my people are called by my name who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray seek my face and turn from their wicked ways i will hear from heaven forgive their sins and restore their land but the next verse just speaks so much more it says my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to every prayer made in this place for i have chosen this temple and set it apart to be holy a place where my name will be honored forever i will always watch over it for it is dear to my heart and i just feel the father looking in this room and saying your prayers are heard his ears are attentive the words that you're speaking the words that you're praying the honor in your heart that you're giving to him he receives that and he's so proud and he's in this place so father thank you for anointing this room thank you for anointing our church and our leadership thank you for leading and breathing into us here god we are just so honored to be a part of what you're doing i just thank you that you are attentive to us and that you hear the cries of our heart so lord in response we just honor you and we worship you we love you lord we praise your name and i just want to affirm what megan was just reading lord led me to ezekiel 34 while we were talking and um uh you say behold i myself will search for my sheep and we'll seek them out as the shepherd seeks out his flock when he is among his sheep that have been scattered so i'll seek out my sheep and i'll rescue them from all the places that they've been scattered and they have clouds and thick darkness or you go on to promise how you'll lead us to to rich pastures on the mountaintops of israel just returning of of your sheep to your pastures and and to your to your rich soil and to the into the beautiful blessings and food and abundance of your word you're returning your people to your pastures but you oh lord our god merciful and gracious so to anger and abounding and steadfast love and faithfulness so jesus we just thank you that you're a god full of mercy um of grace god of forgiveness abounding your steadfast love so right now god we just lift up the church to you right now we lift up our leadership um just leading leading the flocks right now lord i just pray that you would instill a steadfast love that pursues you first god and that as we're pursuers of you lord that the love and the grace that comes from you god that it would just be lavished upon our flocks god as we're leading and lord we just ask for more of that right now that we just press into your mercy and your grace and your name beautiful as we spend these last few minutes let's stand together and worship when we started we said that the lord is my chosen worship my cup you hold my love and there's a rejoicing my flesh also dwells secure in you in your presence there's fullness of joy god we say we thank you that you impart boldness into your people and god we choose you today we choose the fullness today and we choose to rejoice in you right now god we say that you would move fill your people right now even as we worship you nothing else can take help us not just in this hour but we say throughout the day that you would call us to remember pause and say god that you're near help us today to draw close to you i'm so thankful you draw close to me pray that i would respond and sensing and knowing your presence today haven't checked a box by going to a prayer meeting but i'm continually constantly engaging you holy spirit thank you for your nearness towards us we thank you for this time to pray boldness into your people and into the church god we thank you for these precious minutes gathering together to pray and to worship god would you hear us from heaven record the prayers amen amen thank you for joining worshiping praying bless you as you go have a great day