 Good morning everyone welcome to Prayer Wednesday morning in the middle of holy week And those of you who are here with us in the room So glad you're joining us fight fighting through the lightning and the thunderstorms to get here this morning And for those of you who are at home joining us online. We're praying that this week is a special set apart Sanctified time for us to really bring in to focus our hearts upon the cross and the resurrection This week in the ministry of Jesus and in the life and the development of the disciples Was a pivotal week Really transformed how they saw Not only who Jesus was but their role and they're calling in their ministry My prayers that's true for all of us as followers of Jesus that More than just his teaching and more than just the miracles and his immaculate Conception and all the things that surrounded his earthly ministry this holy week Really was a revelation more than almost anything else About the heart of Jesus the heart of God towards us as we begin to see him set his face like flint To the cross as the perfect spotless lamb of God And so with that prayer Moments like this whether we're in the prayer room or just setting time aside To get along with the Lord and have our Bibles open and to listen to what the Holy Spirit is calling to remembrance It's silencing all the other voices really helps us to honor This moment in this week. That's why we refer to it as holy week. It's holy means to be set apart So we're called to be holy people that are set apart for God's purposes, but This week is set apart so that we never approach the cross And on the other side of it celebrate the resurrection out of familiarity or flippancy or lightness That we're more dominated by gratitude and thanksgiving and really humility Then we are just sucked into the spirit of this age wrapped up in jelly beans and Easter bunnies not even secondary like their primary is that we just behold him We behold the heavens declare the glory of God The sky above proclaims his handiwork Day by day pours out speech and night tonight reveals knowledge There is no speech nor are there words His voice is not heard Their voice goes out throughout all the earth and the words to the ends of the world in them He has set a tent for the Sun which comes out like a bridegroom leaving his chamber And like a strong man runs its course with joy It's rising from the ends of the heavens and its circuits to the ends of them And there is nothing hidden from their heat the law of the Lord is perfect Reviving the soul and the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple And the precepts of the Lord are right rejoicing the heart This morning there's evidence all around us if we'll pay attention to it Whether it's stepping outside this morning and seeing the skies Whether it's just the fact that we wake up and there's breath in our lungs We see the clouds in the sky even the lightning that has filled the Michigan skies this morning all of that declares The beauty the wisdom and the majesty of God Something as physical as the skies in the morning testify that we have a great and a wise God a powerful God And if he's able to do that He's able to raise Jesus from the dead He's able to work in our lives and it should cause our hearts to be revived Gratitude and worship for who he is So this morning as we approach his throne of grace With faith in our hearts Let's also approach Confidence God is good that he's wise And he's thrown open the door said if you'll praise me Thanksgiving is the key that opens the door gratitude gives us access to his throne room We're gonna worship the Lord and we're gonna pray and I want to invite you wherever you're at Let's engage with the Lord Shut off all the other voices. Let's give God our full attention Let's give him our whole hearts Father we love you today and we're here to behold you Jesus Spotless the Baptist said behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world Today we behold you Jesus today. We worship you father We say throw open the doors of revelation Throw open the doors of An encounter for our heart to be moved by yours and yours to be moved by our praise and our intercession Holy Spirit come Come like a bright Groom out of his chamber As is in the morning and meets us and shines upon us Comes after us and pursues us with furious love And let our heart the deep places of who we are cry out to you Opportunity to betray the result of Judas only remember the first betrayer are not seduced By the spirit of this age so this morning is part of that we're gonna be praying out of Ephesians chapter 3 Apostolic prayer of Paul for the church and asking God to Strengthen our inner man in Ephesians 3 Paul writes in verse 14 for this reason I bowed my knees before the father From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named according to the riches of his glory He may grant to you to be strengthened with power through his spirit in your inner being So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith and that you being rooted and grounded in love may have Strength to comprehend with all the saints. What is the breath the length the height and the depth and to know the love of Christ? Which surpasses knowledge that you might be filled with all the fullness of God? So this is a prayer. We're gonna be leaning into may have never connected it with the betrayal that happened in Judas the fulfillment of prophecy, but The destruction the prediction of one of Jesus's disciples Remind us all that Jesus warned us that at the end of the age When the world and the signs and the spirit of wickedness Begins to increase in the world and in the culture around us Jesus warns. He says that many Will have their love grow cold This holy week we can look at Judas and say wow, I can't believe he betrayed Jesus But yet it could happen to any human heart to be lied to to become offended to Trigger the snare of That offense and allow our heart to grow cold and harden towards the Lord and find ourselves In a very difficult position Jesus said he who endures to the end shall be saved So this prayer is Transformative it's a prayer that we should pray over our lives over the church Over and over and over again. We need to be strengthened in our inner man by the Holy Spirit So let's bring this before the Lord. Let's let's ask the Holy Spirit as we pray and as we sing this To even greater in a greater measure transform us Lord today we bow our knee before you our father the one in whom every family in heaven Angels and the saints and on the earth your church is named Lord we remember that we belong to you. It's your trustworthy That you're wise you're powerful Lord that you're at work in us But you don't just sit in the heavens, but you're Engaged and involved in what is happening in the earth and in our lives and that just as a father you care take over us And so Lord we call upon you today and we ask that today According to the riches of your glory today The riches that Paul describes in Romans 11 are unfathomable depths of the riches of God Lord that today The unfathomable riches of the grace of the father Would meet us today Father we need your grace We need a grace to pray we need a grace to stand We need a grace to receive revelation from you and we're asking that Lord that that grace would be released in us By the strength and the power that comes by your Holy Spirit in us So today we submit to your leadership Holy Spirit And we confess father as your children that we are weak in our flesh. We are weak Lord, we don't want to be self-deceived into thinking that oh we could never be deceived We could never become offended. We could never walk away. We could never You know we could never be defeated by the things that are going on around us Lord in our flesh even Jesus said Flesh is weak, but the Spirit is willing confess the weakness of our flesh the weakness of our thoughts and Our dependency upon you our father to fill us By your grace to release the glory in us By your Holy Spirit to strengthen our inner person the inner man the inner woman of each of us That is strengthened by your presence in our lives Lord today. Would you feel back the veneer of Our self-deception and reveal to us our dependency and our need Strength that only comes from you today Lord. We thank you for the presence your presence Living in us strengthens us and we're praying that by faith today Our hearts would become more deeply rooted in you Your word says that we would be grounded and rooted in the Father as you release a Greater revelation of Jesus the anointed one within us Lord help it root imaginations Into the into your presence within us Lord You don't dwell in a holy of Holies anymore. You dwell in the holy of Holies of the heart of your children Our heart is your home And we want every part of us our thoughts our Imaginations our emotions our decisions to be rooted in the love that you have for us Jesus So that faith might rise up in us Lord that faith and trust in you will grow inside of us Lord. This is where our strength comes from This is where our faith comes from you in us in a revelation of your love for us Go on today. Would you awaken our hearts to love? awaken our hearts to you and your heart and your Affections towards us today that cause us to go deeper into who you are and less and less Anchored and tethered to the things of this world that are conditional and even sensual and demonic Lord We want your wisdom your love your truth to be the foundations of our life today Jesus name we don't want to be deceived in this Out of this age understanding of God only you can give us the strength of Revelation only you can strengthen our own encounter So that we as all right all rights would be able to comprehend with all the saints What is the bread and the lane and the height and the depth To know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge Lord we believe there is a knowledge beyond our intellect That expands and enlarges our heart and our capacity to love you There is a knowledge of the holy that moves beyond our five senses that convinces us and Strengthens us to walk by the power of the Holy Spirit We're asking today for a knowledge of the holy today Knowledge of your holiness God A knowledge that surpasses all understanding that surpasses our intellect our Experience what others have told us through second hand about you Lord that we we want to know you by this We want to know you by this spirit Bring that across your church And in this room and in radiant church and in our city in our generation There would be an outpouring of the knowledge of the holy a Knowledge of who you are with all the saints That a holy spirit supernatural Comprehension would be released that we're not strong enough in our own flesh to have But by your holy spirit because we ask for it you give it to us God a Knowledge of your holiness knowledge of your beauty fills our life today Release that in Jesus name Judas Was betray it was your betrayer Lord because his heart did not see you rightly He was deceived he was deluded and the enemy filled his heart But Lord today we don't want to be deceived we want to be strengthened we want to see you rightly We want our heart to respond and relate to you rightly God We want to know you in truth Not deceived by what we think you should do or what we think you should be Lord in the place of mystery. We don't want to become offended at you and your purposes and your judgments We say you are good and you do good. You are all wise Lord, you are sovereign over our lives You are just But we don't want to be offended We don't want to be offended by what we see We want our hearts to be right before you we want them to be anchored in your love and know that you're not just Loving sometimes, but everything that you do is rooted out of who you are And we want our hearts to rightly relate to you pliable soft moldable and shaped by truth and by your Holy Spirit So that we see the true dimensions of who you are Jesus the height the depth the width and the breadth of your love towards Asghar Holy Spirit Guard our hearts today Protect us Fill us reveal Jesus to us rightly Lord. So I pray today that we would be fully filled Not just with a morsel of who you are Not with just information of who you are but a revelation of your love God a revelation of your grace a Revelation of how awesome and holy you are God. We don't want a morsel God We want a massive feeling so Lord I pray today that you would fully fill us that we would be full 20 says Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations forever and ever Lord, I thank you that you are not a bare minimum God. You are a far more abundantly God You are not a bare minimum God. You are far more abundantly God. There's Lord God We ask for an outpouring on this day that is marked with your betrayal We ask for an outpouring of love upon those Lord God who are far from you Who are distant God who had turned their backs on you God who have betrayed you who have wandered off who have sold Lord God their inheritance Lord and now our depression and loss and grief According to who we are we pray according to who you are Lord Outstretched arm of salvation to reach down on this day and to save those who are far from you to save the law God To return those who have wandered astray Lord. We come to you Lord may your out here May your incredible love be poured out upon this land in Jesus name as we celebrate What you have done for us as we remember the cross as we celebrate the resurrection as We anticipate your return Lord do a mighty work Do a mighty work Lord Lord, I pray Lord that Right after this right after Judas sought out an opportunity to betray you You invited him to the table still Lord and After the table you took three of your closest into the garden Lord Lord. I pray that we would be those Who go from the table to the garden from the garden to the table from the table to the garden from the garden to the table? Lord that that would be the life that would be How we stay in sync with you God that we move back and forth between the table Communing with you and the garden praying with you that we would not be those who turn our backs on you God But that we would eat and dine with you and we would toil with you that we would eat We would dine with you and we would toil with you God Lord may this week Not just be a normal Easter week as we call it in America, but may this be a week of revelation that leads us to be those Who go from table to garden garden to table Lord take us there Lord? Wake us up to that Lord that we be awoken in the middle of the night to go to the garden hours of our day at the table Lord Dining and feasting with you Lord celebrating your life celebrating Your broken body Celebrating your spilled blood that we may be sons and daughters of the father Lord we thank you for this day that you have made We choose to rejoice and be glad in it Lord, I pray that even outside as a mighty storm goes across this area that you would keep us safe Lord, I pray that you protect Everyone every home every life Every person without a home Lord God I pray that you would give them shelter even now Lord Would you surround them Lord? I pray that this storm would just go around us that it would just go around Lord God Lord you are the God Who causes the seas to foam? The thunder to crack the lightning to strike So Lord we ask according to that power that you would keep family safe They would keep homes safe In Jesus name We all say as we continue to pursue the Lord during this awesome and powerful holy week We will be back in the prayer room at 12 and at 6 30 Otherwise, we'll see you on the live stream tomorrow morning. Have a blessed day. We serve a far more abundantly