 Good morning. Welcome to Morning Prayer, Tuesday mornings. We've been focusing in and praying for revival. Today we're really sensing, just focusing on prodigals. Coming home and Miss Tammy was reminding us just this morning, Banting Leapshire gave us a word probably four or five years ago, where he just saw a season where prodigals were coming home and sets to a degree that would actually spark faith even throughout the nation because of God's faithfulness of bringing prodigals home in this house. And so I think it's just helpful for us to remember too, like obviously this is on God's heart. He is focused on seeking and saving the lost. He is thinking about the one sheep that has wandered away. But it's something else to have a prophetic promise to really pray into and believe for. And so even those over the stream, maybe a radiant isn't your house. There still is something about us joining together in prayer and asking in faith to believe for what God said he would do with prodigals. I want to begin as we prepare our hearts to pray and intercede. And we always prepare our hearts by ministering to the Lord, by offering our thanksgiving and our praise to Him. I just want to read Psalm 126, one of the songs of Ascent. Verse one says, When the Lord brought back the captivity of Zion, we were like those who dream that our mouths were filled with laughter and our tongue with singing. And they said among the nations, the Lord has done great things for them. The Lord has done great things for us and we are glad. I love this scripture and this Psalm when we're praying for prodigals because it's prophesying of the gladness and the heart at the coming home party. It's visualizing when the Lord brought back Israel from being captives and brought them back into the land. There was laughter and joy. The Father's house was overflowing with love. And I know like when we're praying for prodigals too, like it's so easy to get discouraged when you look at the current circumstance of a son or a daughter, a brother or sister that doesn't love Jesus. And for me, I mean in testimonies of prodigals that I've seen come home, it's actually been visualizing the Lord encountering them that has brought hope to me. Like I love picturing lost family members like in the prayer meeting with me, worshiping up front or crying tears at the altar or praising God with all of their might. And there's something about Lord when you bring them back from captivity, Lord there will be a joy and a laughter. And we pray and we intercede from that place of faith to visualize the party, to visualize the celebration when they say yes to the Lord. So let's go before the Lord and just begin to minister to His heart. Father, I just ask for faith and hope to rise in this house, Lord, in this room, Lord, over the stream, Lord, in our hearts, Lord. Where doubt has crept in, where hopelessness has crept in, Lord. We just ask for faith to rise, Lord. We walk through the door of thanksgiving, Lord. We remember everything you've done. We remember what you've done. We say, if you did it once, you can do it again. And so, Lord, we offer ourselves and our thanksgiving and our praise to you this morning. Jesus, I've been suffering those that we've been praying for, that have been far from the Lord, covered in shame and guilt and condemnation, lost in sin. I see them running with intensity to the foot of the cross. And almost like throwing themselves at the foot of the cross. It just seemed complete desperation, where everything else has fallen short. Everything else has left them dry and confused. And kind of how Pastor Caleb said, imagining those prodigals, you know, at the front, weeping at the altar, worshipping, like, imagine those prodigals throwing themselves at the foot of the cross in desperation and where sin and condemnation and shame is chasing after them. They throw themselves at the foot of the cross and are immediately covered in the blood of Jesus. And they're hidden in the blood and sin and shame are looking for them to try to pull them back, but can't find them. Because they're in a pile at the foot of the cross covered in the blood. We plead your blood. Jesus, we plead your blood for every lost heart, every prodigal son, every prodigal daughter. Lord, we plead your blood. We say, with faith and hope, they will come home. They will come back to the foot of the cross. And Lord, they will be covered by your blood and sin and death and shame will not be able to find them, will not be able to locate them because they will be hidden under the blood of Jesus. Lord, we plead your blood. Can we even sing that, the oh precious again? And just as we sing this, as we remind our hearts of the blood of Jesus, just keep that picture in your mind. Nothing but your blood can save. Nothing but your blood can save. Washes us white as snow and those far from the Lord made the righteousness of God by the blood of Jesus. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Nothing but the blood of Jesus. Washes us clean. Thank you for the blood of Jesus. Mind ourselves of the power of the blood of Jesus. Thank you for the blood of Jesus. It's precious and powerful. Jesus washes us clean for by your stripes we are healed. God of those Lord, we plead the blood of conversations, not our best eloquence, Lord. We plead the blood of Jesus alone. The blood is enough, Lord. The blood is enough. Endless in its mercy, Refuge in your wounds, Refuge in the cross, Precious Lamb. Lord just seems to be highlighting prophetic pictures this morning, just in regards to prodigals. Just a really provoking, powerful picture that Devon was sharing just about seeing them at the foot of the cross. It's that picture of surrendering to Jesus but covered in his blood, covered in the blood of the Lamb. That's where all of our confidence and our hope lies. Lord just, I believe is just wanting to just release prophetic imagination to us. Just what could it look like? What would it look like? What will it look like when they say yes to Jesus? God, what could you do in their life, Lord? What could you release through them, Lord? Who will they become, Lord? Ten years from now, if they say yes in the grace of God, Lord, what would they look like? We're gonna go into intercession in Ephesians 1.17. Just encourage you to lean in and join with me and just let that prophetic imagination run wild. The Lord is just releasing hope and faith through just that picture of just prophetically seeing who they will be ten years from now when they say yes to Jesus. What it looks like for them to be covered in the blood of Jesus? What it looks like for them to worship, unhindered? What it looks like for them to lead other people to Jesus after they've said yes? Pray out of Ephesians 1.17-19. Asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of him that the eyes of your understanding would be enlightened that you may know what is the hope of this calling. The riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints and the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe according to the working of his mighty power. So Lord, we put those prodigals before us. We name them Lord. We put them before you this morning and we ask the God of glory would give them the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Jesus. Oh God, would you unveil their eyes? Lord, would you show the beauty and splendor and majesty of Jesus? Lord, that you would reveal that every other fountain runs dry. Lord, that living for themselves is a fountain that runs dry. Lord, living for pleasure is a fountain that runs dry. Lord, where there is pain, Lord, where there is hurt, Lord, where maybe there's even a hurt from church history and they've been hurt by people in the church and the church and there's wounds, Lord, that have caused them just to reject Jesus altogether. Oh, great physician Jesus, would you come and bring healing into the heart in the name of Jesus? God, I ask, Lord, that there would be healing for the brokenhearted. Lord, for the one that doesn't even want to step into church that's just over, they get triggered whenever they see anything Christian. Lord, there just has been such a rejection. Lord, I just ask that you would break those walls down and that you would tenderize their heart in the name of Jesus. Lord, that they would be sensitive to hear your voice. Lord, that your words would ring in their ears. God, you can just come in a moment and speak one phrase. One phrase can cut through a thousand lies, Lord. One phrase can break through the darkness and change everything in a moment. God, I just ask for the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Jesus. Would exalt itself above Jesus Raise them, let them come home the sound of your voice build them by name up their hearts salvation we're returning a rekindling invitation from the Lord right now for those of us in this room and those who are joining us wherever you are there's an invitation from the Lord to feel what he feels over that prodigal an invitation right now that he's inviting you into you feel how my heart breaks will you see the way I see them that his heart yearns his heart breaks he cries for them he longs for them he's inviting them and he's asking if he's inviting you will you share in that with me will you let it stir your faith will you let it stir your prayers will you let it take over your time to pray and intercede will you let your faith arise that no heart is too hard no heart is too lost that he is calling them forth by name and so he's inviting you right now will you also call them forth by name so as we gather here we begin to speak the name of that prodigal that brother that sister that mother that father begin to speak their name out loud right now say their name and say come home say their name for it's heart burn inside of you let tears flow don't hold them back come to the surface as you engage and embrace the Lord's heart for his children in Ephesians 3 the father in whom every family in heaven on earth is named that we want to know his love every facet that he has for that person so right now begin to say their name and call them home don't let this moment pass by this is a holy invitation from the Lord we lift up our brothers our sisters our fathers and our mothers we say come home come home do not let the hurt from your earthly father hinder you from your relationship with your heavenly father there is healing right now there is breakthrough right now we ask for encounters we ask for words in the day we ask for dreams in the night for vision of who they are their identity that they are not too broken they are not too lost they are not forgotten that their sin does not determine their whole identity that their past relationships do not determine their relationship with you begin to continue continue to say their name right now there is an invitation from the Lord to stir up faith an invitation from the Lord to stir up faith right now in Jesus name we ask to call them forth fences are down and when their natural mind is at rest and even when the spirits that are blinding them might not be speaking to them so I pray father for dreams to be given to the wayward soul Lord in the night as pastor Shawn just prayed that there would be dreams showing them the father's love dreams showing them the father's heart dreams of what it could be to return to their heavenly father so Lord we pray that we pray that you would release dreams to those who are prodigals Lord where the enemy has lied to them about your father heart I pray that you would show them the truth Lord your word says it is your kindness it is your goodness that leads us to repentance so I don't understand that but I pray that you would show them just how good and that they would have that awakening that the prodigal son had and that parable that even the servants had it better than this will arise and return to my father so Lord we just pray that your spirit would release those dreams those dreams in the night and the servants of God would hear them talk about those dreams and that they would not only internalize and have those dreams but they would speak to people about this impacting dream and that we would open the father's heart and we would confirm it we would affirm it we would speak the word over them to return to the father's house Jesus name prophetic pictures we've had more people than the Lord just given a picture for everyone that we probably ever had it's really cool so we're going to do a different kind of rapid fire we have three or four people that just have been given prophetic pictures that are going to share for a couple minutes of peace I just want to encourage you to in the room just stand to your feet we have six, seven minutes left let's just kind of keep that posture of receiving God is releasing these powerful pictures that we want to receive so Pastor Mike I want to invite you to join with me by even closing your eyes and picturing this with me this is the picture the Lord gave me as I've been praying for a few friends that have walked away from the Lord and it's out of John chapter 1 verse 29 verse 29 says the next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and I just pictured Jesus he's walking toward my prodigal friends and he's walking toward them and there's proximity and there's a nearness and John he says this behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and I just like see myself yelling that and preaching that to them like look behold look at Jesus it's the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world and so Jesus we pray for the prodigals that they would see you that they would behold you that you would come near to them and that they could just see you as the Lamb of God who takes away their sin and we pray that you would do this Lord that you would draw near and that the response would be to behold you as the Lamb slain for their sin Jesus name Ephesians 2 1-6 it says and you were dead in your trespasses and sins in which you formerly walked according to the course of this world according to the prince of the power of the air of the spirit that is now working the sons of disobedience and it goes on to talk about how we've been raised up with Christ seated in heavenly places and I want to pray over the intercessors in the room who've been praying for prodigals my cousin walked away from the Lord three years ago and I had this prophetic dream of our family at Christmas the gathering that she hasn't been at for three years and our family gathered together and we started praying in the spirit and praying over her soul and you could feel the prince of the power of the air the demonic presence that's attached to her and I woke up and my heart was racing like 160 beats per minute and I could feel the demonic assignment and so I just want to pray hope and courage over the intercessors and also that we would have a heavenly strategy and not a flesh and blood strategy so Holy Spirit I pray right now would you reveal Lord the the principalities that have attached to the prodigal sons and daughters and Lord as intercessors may we have precision and accuracy in this spirit to pull off demonic strongholds Lord we even pray for my cousin we pray for those people we say give us accuracy give us precision and every spirit must bow to the Holy Spirit right now we pray open heaven Prince of the power of the air be silenced in Lord we pray sobriety over your children may they have open heaven visitations and Lord strengthen the intercessors strengthen the moms strengthen the dads strengthen the grandparents God to pray again to hope again for the prayers of the saints of veil much in Jesus name amen picture that I believe is from the Lord and it was of this prayer room and it was in the middle of an intercession set and every person on stage every worship leader and chorus leader musician even the prayer leader and prophetic dancers they were prodigals that had come home to the Lord and we're now leading in their house and there were prodigals that were coming in the room with the attitude of nobody understands me they don't know what I'm going through these Christians talk about Jesus' love they don't get it but everybody on the stage had been through the same journey and they had specific language and understanding that then led prodigals in the room to the Lord because they got it and they had gone through the same journey so Jesus I thank you for this picture and I just ask right now that yes you would bring the prodigals home but that you would take it a step further than that and that you would anoint them to be worship leaders and musicians and prayer leaders and prophetic intercessors and dancers in your house that they would be a beacon and a light on a hill that would draw other prodigals back to you in Jesus' name. One last thing is we close and I'm not going to lie to you it's going to feel more uncomfortable on the live stream than it is going to be in the room but final picture I saw was that of the Jericho shout of victory that didn't happen after the walls fell down but actually was the thing that initiated and I just I felt the need for just the shout of victory to be the exclamation point there's something about in our faith what we're contending and pleading but then there's something about the declaration of faith and the shout comes from a deeper place than just our intellect and our words it's coming from our spirit that flows out so I'm going to count to three and we're just going to release a shout of praise and I'm going to encourage you in your car at home some of you are watching on YouTube after this set I know it's going to be uncomfortable by yourself but just release a shout of praise and victory for the Lord bringing back prodigals so here we go three two one shall rejoice and blossom as a rose amen wow God can do a lot in an hour can release a lot of pictures and let's hold on to these I know that probably six seven people shared but I think many of you actually got a prophetic picture man I encourage you write it down memorize it in those moments where you're just so shaken and so tired go back to that picture it'll strengthen your heart amen thanks for joining us for prayer we'll be back in person at noon and back tonight at six thirty