 Psalm 24 is what I woke up with this morning. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof and the world and those who dwell therein for he has founded it upon the seas and established it upon the rivers. Who shall ascend the hill of the Lord and who shall stand in his holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart who does not lift up his soul toward his faults and does not swear deceitfully. He will receive blessing from the Lord in righteousness from the God of his salvation such as the generation of those who seek him or seek the face of the God of Jacob. Lift up your head O gates and be lifted up O ancient doors that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty. The Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads O gates and lift them up O ancient doors that the King of glory may come in. Who is this King of glory? The Lord of host. He is the King of glory. So this morning even as we ascend the hill of prayer the hill of the Lord to come into his presence with clean hands and pure hearts we're believing that as we do the doors the gates that separate us from him the gates that have long kept him and his promises from becoming realities in our lives and our families and in our cities that those doors are going to swing wide open today so that the King of glory the one who fights our battles for us the King of glory the one who is strong and mighty the King of glory may come in. So today let's just let's allow our praise to be the hinge that causes those doors to swing wide so that as we sing the gates open up and we have access he has access to us and to our hearts so wherever you're at this morning let's just right now lift up our hands even if it's just you and an audience of him and let's let praise be on our lips this morning just a melody even if it's just to thank you well welcome King of glory come into my life come into this moment let thankfulness rise on our hearts thankfulness opens up the doors we say thank you Jesus thank you father for your nearness for your goodness thank you God thank you God that you're the God who sees you're the God who moves on our behalf you fight our battles you win the day you draw near to us thank you for your mercies Jesus we just say thank you that you've done in who you are says in your word Lord that you're enthroned upon the praises of your people Lord we enthroned you this morning the song of our hearts words of truth we're singing and declaring what would you be enthroned this praise from your people this morning just sing that over yourself your heart this morning swing wide sing it over our families now swing wide swing wide family today swing wide swing wide oh swing wide get over children this morning swing swing today on this Monday we sing swing wide all the doors let the king of ancient gates into your swing so lift up your he's the king let's just say that together today he's the king you're the king you're the king this is my day you're viz learn of israel in the wilderness every single day wake up to your presence the nourishes our soul feeds us and causes us to just like the high priest would place the 12 loaves of bread on the table of showbread and the tabernacle every day it's a reminder that everything that we need is found without you truly our lost but in we are citizens of the city citizens and Lord we're desperate for you to draw near we're desperate for your presence we don't want to be like Adam when you came into the garden he hid behind trees try to cover himself with big leaves because of fear or we don't want to be repelled by your presence today we stand by the blood of Jesus that washes us clean from all unrighteousness that washes us clean from a guilty conscience we stand before you with clean hands of pure hearts those that have ascended the hill of the Lord with holy hands lifted up Lord we don't hide we don't cover ourselves up and try to atone for ourselves with the things that we make with our own hands Lord we come boldly before the throne not of judgment but of grace and mercy and Lord we're running to you because we're desperate for you like children we're desperate for you our Father we need you we need your presence we need the breath of life that you breathe into our spirit into our soul that causes us to come to life the blood of Jesus we plead it over ourselves we plead it over our families we plead it over our homes and it's by the blood of the land that we come today righteous holy accepted in the beloved washed clean alive forevermore in you this is your everything that we need everything that we need is found in you Jesus we focus on this idea of God keeping our hearts soft for God to tenderize us says keep yourself in our responsibility to have hearts that are soft towards him Isaiah chapter 10 he says it's our responsibility to break up the fallow ground the fallow heart and ground of our heart because it's time to seek the Lord Hebrews chapter 3 says today if you hear his voice do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion on the day of testing in the wilderness when your fathers put me to the test and saw my works for 40 years therefore i was provoked with that generation and i said they always go astray in their heart they have not known my ways as i swore on my wrath they shall not enter my rest verse 12 says take care brothers lest there be in any of you an evil unbelieving heart leading you to fall away from the living God verse 15 again says today if you hear his voice do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion so father today we come before you we say we want to hear your voice and we want to be people with soft pliable hearts gone soft like clay in the potter's hands Lord we know that in this world and in ourselves our tendency is to become hardened towards you callous towards you because your ways are not our ways God Lord when we are confronted with the difference between us and you in your word and our thoughts our heart wants to rebel against you our heart wants to resist you and it wants to become hardened but today Lord we're asking that the Holy Spirit would apply the oil to our hearts and keep our hearts soft that we might hear your voice or today we need to hear your voice today is the day that we do not harden our hearts but we say yes and amen to you your ways are higher than ours your ways are righteous God you are the all-wise God you are the merciful the good the faithful God and we say yes to you and no to our own lying and deceiving hearts your words says in Jeremiah that the heart is utterly deceitful so Lord we're not going to trust our hearts today we say we trust you we say we trust you help us to trust you more and help keep our hearts soft and pliable in a world that wants to harden freeze us out from the living God Jesus we say yes to your ways to the side of the Lord you will lift us up but you resist the proud and Lord today we lay aside our pride we lay aside our flesh that wants to rise up and accuse you we don't want you to resist us but we humble ourselves pull ourselves before you we say Lord here's our heart you already know our every thought you already know our every intention we say Lord in the areas of our life where it's become stony ground where it's become thorny soil with the cares of this world and the deceitfulness of riches that would harden us to your kingdom harden us to your presence Lord in the places where our own thoughts and our own offenses and our own desires would become rocky stony soil Lord would you and your mercy come today plow up the soil of our heart it's time to seek the Lord your word says in Hosea that we've plowed iniquity that we've reaped injustice we've eaten the fruit of lies because we've trusted in our own ways and Lord today we say we reject our own ways Lord we say we reject those things that have brought about lies of deception in our life where we believe the lies of the enemy we believe the lies of this world we pursued all the wrong things thinking those things would satisfy us and we say Lord we're desperate for you so here's our heart we give you our hearts break up the fellow ground let's sing that again this morning that same chorus Lord break up the fellow ground in us as we humble ourselves before you I want everyone even at home I want you to sing this chorus and as we sing it the Holy Spirit's going to put the steel blade of the plow in our hearts and begin to soften it up again by the power of his spirit in his presence Lord today we need the daily breath your word Jeremiah said is like a hammer that breaks into pieces the rock Lord today as we seek you today as we read your word today as we pray Lord let your voice come in like a hammer that breaks up the rocky places that breaks up the stone foundations of the strongholds the enemy has built into our paradigms and our thinking God break it up break it up and remove it so that the soil can receive the word the seed of the living God Lord we need your voice more than anything Lord today we want to hear your voice Holy Spirit we want to hear your voice and not the spirit of the age we want to hear the voice of our God not the idols of this culture we want to hear your voice not even our own flesh that rises up and wants to accuse us and wants to accuse you oh God Lord we will not submit to our flesh we will not submit to the winds of passion and zeal and desires we're not going to listen to the voice of the wisdom of this age but Holy Spirit we need you we need you to speak to us through your word we need you to speak to us through that still small voice of our conscience and we don't want layers of callousness layers of hardness to grow up over our hearts to where we can't hear you anymore Lord we repent and we ask you come break it up break up that fellow ground in us remove the hardness from us give us hearts of flesh instead of hearts of stone give us hearts that are soft instead of hearts that are hard we choose not to rebel but to submit to you God we trust you help us to hear your voice you said if he who has ears to hear what the spirit is saying Lord we want to hear you give us ears ready to hear and to listen and to obey you God instead of we love you we'll obey your commandments Lord give us hearts ready to obey not out of just religious observation the Lord hearts that really believe you God hearts that want to please you hearts that are in tune with you soften us forgive us renew a right spirit within us we pray today in Jesus name you said in the last days many people would have their love grow cold because of the things that they see and the offenses of this age or today we put our eyes on you we put our heart on the wheel and we say we surrender to the potter's hands give us new hearts supernaturally keep our heart soft as we surrender to you Jesus name we're praying that today God will give you a soft heart all of us Lord keep us in your way give us ears to hear your spirit to draw near to him to be a people of prayer we thank you for joining us come if you're joining us online come today at noon be a part of that tonight at 6 30 p.m. be praying that we'll see you again tomorrow morning God bless you