 good morning and welcome to morning prayer. For those of you that don't know, my name is Adam. I'm our morning Levite here at the Radiant City Center prayer room. Our lovely and incredible pastor Sean will be leading us into a time of intercession, but I'm going to open us up in Psalm 84. How lovely is your tabernacle, O Lord of Hosts. My soul longs just even faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the sparrow is found a home in the swallow and nest for herself where she may lay her young. Even your altars, O Lord of Hosts, my King and my God, blessed are those who dwell in your house. They will still be praising you. Jumping down to verse 10, for a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the Lord God is a son and a shield. The Lord will give grace and glory. No good thing will he withhold from those who walk up rightly. O Lord of Hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you. God, we just come before you today with the heart cry of how lovely is your tabernacle. Lord, our soul longs it faints for the courts of the Lord. And Lord, we consider it a high honor to get to start off our day gathering together for a time of worship and prayer, for a time of ministering to your heart. Lord, we don't come to get something. We don't come with ourselves on our minds, Lord, but we come to bring an offering. We come to bring something that costs us. We come to bless your heart. We don't come to receive. We come to give. So God, we just ask that you would dwell here. Would the hunger of our hearts be pleasing to you? Would the cry of better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere? Lord, would that be pleasing to your ears? God, so would you just come? Would you rest? Would you rest here? Would you dwell here? Ride in on our praises, God, and rest. Dwell here, Lord. Just be the lift your voice to the Lord right now. Prayer language, if you have it, and if you don't, just sing praises to the Lord. Jesus, I love you. You're worthy of our love, worthy of our worship. My attention begins to sing to him. Even if you don't think you're a singer, lift your voice. Offer up a song of thanksgiving and praise and love to him right now. This is a pleasing fragrance. A beautiful offering. He hears your voice in the midst of all the noise in this world. He hears your voice right now, loved in his eyes. Your voice moves his heart. Even going to transition, we're going to keep in this same flow, the same mindset as we are worshiping and declaring the truth of who God is that he is worthy. He is worthy of our love. He's worthy of our worship. He's worthy of our attention, of our resources, of our time. He's worthy of every song we sing, every phrase we say, every thought that we think, he is worthy of it. Not one moment is wasted. And so as we declare that, we're going to pray into that right now. We're going to pray for strength and grace to be rooted in this love, to be rooted in the knowledge of God, so that we can understand the fullness of who he is, understand the riches of he is, and I encourage you, if you're here joining us in this prayer time, that this is not just an observation room, but this is a corporate gathering. We are here together with one voice to the church crying out for a move of God in our midst. So as I pray, repeat phrases that I pray, as the singers sing, repeat phrases that they sing, as we join together in one voice. So if you have your bibles open up to Ephesians 3, we're going to pray through this passage together, this prayer from Paul. Starting in verse 14, Ephesians 3, it says, For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named. And according to the riches of his glory, he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his spirit, in your inner being or in your inner man, in the innermost parts of who you are, so that Christ may dwell, make his home in your hearts, through faith, like a tree planted deep in his love, that you may have strength to comprehend, to understand with all of his saints, with the church, what is the full dimension, the full capacity, what is the breath, the length, the height, the depth of his love, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. So Father, we come before you as your children, and we pray for the church in this city, we are in that church, but not just us, but for the church in this city, all throughout the greater Kalamazoo area, we pray, strengthen us in a time of testing, in a time of cultural testing that's trying to defy for our attention, in a society that is constantly roaring to get our eyes, to get our hearts, to get our attention, to get our focus, we pray that you would come and strengthen us to lay down those things that hinder love, to strengthen us, to say yes to the things that deepen our relationship with you, that we would see ourselves as not as orphans, but that we are children, but we are not children trying to gain the attention of a father, but we are children sitting before the eyes of a loving and accepting Father, who sees us, who knows us, who wants us, and who is making us to draw closer to him, and that we are his children. So would you come right now in the name of Jesus, and would you strengthen us with your glory in our inner man? Continuing verse 17, it says, So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that we be rooted and grounded in love, that this strengthening is not just to make us better or cooler, but this strengthening is so that we can open up our heart, that we can have the grace and the strength to say no to things that hinder love, and to say yes to things that deepen our relationship, so that Christ may dwell in our hearts, so that we can be rooted and grounded in love, that we would not have a shallow root system that's easily tossed and turned by waves, or blown away by the wind, but it is rooted deep, and when deep roots are planted, fruit can flourish, branches and leaves can flourish, so we ask that Christ would be able to make his hold in our hearts, that he cannot dwell in the midst of sin and darkness, and through his grace, and through his strength, we can say no to those things that easily bind us, and make room, break those chains, and make room for him to come and dwell within us. We ask for a purification in the church, we ask for a revival in the church, we ask for eyes to be open, for hearts to be softened, for spirits to be sensitized right now, to where the church and the world can look eerily similar, we ask for the church to be revived, to be refined, to be strengthened, to be made clean and new, so that it could be set apart as a city on a hill, as a beacon of hope and light for those who are bound in darkness, that they can come into the heart of the church and be set free. So we ask that through your grace, through your strength and kindness, that you begin to reveal things in our heart that are hindering, reveal things that we as the church are still clinging on to, whether it be sin, whether it be fear, whether it be our own dreams and desires, our love of money and self, our love of adoration, our attention, our fame, that you would come right now and in your kindness begin to reveal those things, so that in the name of Jesus, you can come and make your home in us and root us and ground us in your love. May Christ be rooted deep in my streams of living water to say yes and hit their love, those walls that be placed giving us grace to say yes to you. I have more for you. Church arise, strengthen, be set apart, rise church, take your place, my children will say for not orphans, but in permeate, but in anchor, and through that strengthening, through that rooting and grounding, we would have the strength to comprehend as the whole church what is every capacity, the multifaceted beauty of the love of Christ, what's the length, the height, the depth, the width, not just one aspect, but all aspects to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge that we can't even fully comprehend it right now, but as we continue to let go of things that hinder love and say yes to things that deep in relationship, we can fully experience what you have freely provided for us on the cross. We want to fully experience what has already been given to us, what has already been provided for us through the cross, through the love of Christ, that you are offering it to us as a gift in saying will you say yes to this, will you receive, will you fully receive what I have provided for you. We want to know the freedom, the salvation, the kindness, the faithfulness, the grace of God. We want to see Jesus as a perfect leader. We want to see Jesus as that perfect shepherd. We want to see Jesus as that perfect king. We want to see God as our one true God, as the perfect father. We want to see the Holy Spirit as that perfect counselor and helper. We want to fully experience what you have freely provided for us. So through your strengthening, through that rooting, we ask in the name of Jesus that you would help us know the love that surpasses knowledge. How high is your love for me? It knows no end. Your grace abounds. Four more is the love you have for me. So we say yes. It's not run dry. Turn to a father who does not dismiss. We turn to who is always leading and guiding us to go deeper. Strengthen your church, church, in Portage, in Richland, Otsego, Comstock, Schoolcraft, Madowan, Kapa, strengthen your church in this region. Let us have a revelation of your love. As we continue on with our worship, I encourage you that don't just let this be a time of just listening, but to sing the words as truth. Declare the words as truth. As we continue to agree with who God is and let us stir our faith to ask Him to do what He promised to do. Worthy. Holy, holy, are you. Worthy, are you. We declare in the midst of the chaos, in the midst of culture, in the midst of what the world is trying to shout. We say Jesus, you are worthy. And we declare and we say this in Jesus' mighty name. Amen and amen. Thank you for joining us for Monday Morning Prayer here at the Radiant City Center. For those who are here in person online, we're continuing to pray through the day, morning, noon and night, Monday through Friday, and online during our 8 a.m. times. I just pray that this hour does not just pass by and nothing changes, but let this be a seed in our hearts that changes the way that we worship, changes the way that we read Scripture and that we commune and pray to the Lord. So God, we ask for this to be a seed planted deep and it would root and ground us in your love. In Jesus' mighty name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you for joining us.