 Good morning. Welcome to Monday morning prayer here at the Radiant City Center. Thank you for those who are braving the freezing rain outside and made it. I'm looking at you right now. You made it. And those who are joining us online, wherever you are out in your homes or in your way to work or with family or by yourself, we welcome you here in this place that even though we might be separated geographically, we are in one voice and one accord. In the house of the Lord together, giving this next hour in prayer to the Lord. If you're joining us for the first time, Radiant Church is in the middle of a so unique outpouring of the Holy Spirit. And our prayer room has been going way more than it normally does. We normally do three prayer meetings a day, about an hour long. And we've been going almost 24 seven for the last couple of weeks. And and this week going from eight a.m. to midnight. And there's been a stirring of miracles, signs and wonders, healings, deliverance, testimonies of His goodness. And and we're only going to be together online for an hour, but the prayer was going to keep going. And so I encourage you that if you are able to make it to to come at any any time of the day and to join in with what the Lord is doing. What I wanted to encourage us in right now before we worship and sing together is it's easy to a couple of weeks into this this outpouring of the Holy Spirit to kind of let the newness and the novelty kind of wear off and and it almost feels like, you know, it's sad to say, but kind of same old, same old. But I want to encourage us right now as a church to begin to let thankfulness arise, let thankfulness arise in our hearts with the Lord is doing the Holy Spirit sees us. He knows us. He's spending time with us. And I want us to take a moment as, you know, before we even sing our first song as the worship teams playing that we would just remember and say, thank you, that we would say, thank you, Holy Spirit, for resting on us. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for speaking to us. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for the testimonies I heard yesterday, for my friend who is healed, to my family member who was saved, to my own heart that was delivered from fear of man or from bondage. Thank you. We remember and we say, thank you. So we're going to we're going to sing songs together. We're going to declare the goodness and the truth of who God is. And we're going to lean in and we're going to engage and we're going to pray together and we're going to believe in what God says he wants to do. But let's take this moment together and let's begin to just in your own words. And as the worship team is playing and singing that we would say, thank you. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you for these last couple of weeks. Thank you for these miracles. Thank you for this outpouring. Thank you for letting my heart burn again, letting my heart feel again. Thank you for those small words that were whispered to me. Thank you for the excitement and the seal that is burning in your house, for unity, for joy, for the peace of the Lord, healing and breakthrough. Beginning your own words right now to say thank you. And right now to just remember those moments you had, the small phrases you felt while you were in the place of prayer, in the place of worship, made there in a service or a prayer meeting or at home in your own quiet time. Begin to recall and steward those small phrases from the Holy Spirit. Maybe it was a phrase of affirmation, declaration saying, this is who you are. You are my child. You are the joy of my heart. I feel like some of you have even heard the phrase, you're doing a good job. And that meant the world to you to hear. And we've let days go by and we've let that word wash away. But to bring that word back in that the Lord said to you, you're doing a good job. Say thank you. Thank you, Holy Spirit, that you are speaking. We remember and we say thank you. What you're doing? Psalm nine says, I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart. I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exult in you. I will sing praise to your name. Almost with our whole heart. We hold nothing back right now. And we simply give thanks to you for this moment. We recount all of your deeds. We will not let the enemy try to squelch, try to snuff out everything the Lord is doing in our hearts. The enemy wants to say that it's not real. That your sin is is worse than that small act that it overshadows it. That wasn't the Lord's voice, that it's not good enough for you. And we rebuke the accuser. We rebuke the enemy. And we give praise and exultation to our father in heaven. Who has poured out his spirit upon us. Who has poured out his holy spirit upon us. Who has walked into the room and made himself manifest. Their healings, signs and wonders, deliverance and breakthrough through joy and peace. So we give thanks with our whole hearts in the name of Jesus, with our whole hearts. We say thank you. Who is like our God, your kindness. It has no end. You every morning, its height is in the heavens. Who is like our God, our soul. Worthy of our praise, worthy of our song. Long be an overflow of thanksgiving, of thankfulness. It's a simple song. But it's true worship. Remember your faithfulness, your goodness. We set our eyes on you, our eyes from our circumstances. We don't look at our accuser. We look to our Savior, fix our eyes on you, your goodness, your faithfulness. Who is God but the Lord? Who is a rock except our God, our fortress and our deliverer, our shield, the horn of our salvation. You hear our voice and hear our cry. Look down from your holy habitation with kindness in your eyes, grace in your mouth. You move in the midst of your people. You dwell in the hearts of your church. You're moving among us. We say thank you, a song of thankfulness. Let it bubble up. Release it right now. Thankfulness be released. On the heels of thankfulness comes breakthrough. On the heels of thankfulness comes joy. On the heels of thankfulness comes peace. Let your hearts be unlocked. And the chains of the accuser not hold you anymore. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Jesus, the Holy Spirit. Thanks to the Father who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in life. He has delivered us from the dominion of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of his beloved son, his son in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. His son, Jesus, who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation, for by him all things were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible. Whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities, all things were created through him and for him, this son, this man, Jesus, he is before all things and in him all things hold together. He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, but in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross. And in thankfulness, we remember that we who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, Jesus has now reconciled in his body of flesh by his death. In order to present us holy and blameless and above reproach before him. So we say thank you, thank you to the Father who sent his son Jesus to shed his innocent blood in order that we might be saved, to deliver us from bondage, to deliver us from deception, to deliver us from death in order that we may live with him. So we remember the beauty of your cross, we remember the joy of our salvation, the joy that was in his eyes. We do not let that moment pass by, we do not let that moment fade away in light of circumstances, in light of busyness, in light of deception, in light of culture, in light of our own agenda or desires. We remember the joy and the power of our salvation and we say thank you Jesus for leaving your throne in heaven to be made flesh in order that you may be risen again exalted above all dominion. Worthy are you lamb, worthy are you king, worthy are you Jesus for the joy of our salvation. Remember what he did for us, he's together up with him. Yes we have been saved, we're exceded by man, unlike our God. We're going to be moving into a time of corporate worship together. Let this song of thankfulness be the foundation of our praise. Let the joy of our salvation be the foundation of our song of worship and praise to God. As we sing of the worthiness of Jesus, proclaim the goodness of who he is. When that thankfulness arise, it's the bridge to proclaiming that goodness all around us. But the outpouring of the spirit is not just meant to pour into ourselves and stay there. When water's poured into a vessel and doesn't go anywhere it gets stagnant. But that water is meant to spill out the overflow. Anytime in the Bible when the spirit of God was poured out it led to a evangelism and preaching of the gospel and the winning of souls and the boldness to declare the worthiness of the King Jesus. I want to pray that just for a few moments together. Second Thessalonians 3 says pray for us that the word of the Lord may run swiftly or may speed ahead and be honored and glorified as happened among you. And we pray for the word of the Lord, the truth, the glory, the worthiness of Jesus would run swiftly and be honored and glorified through the streets of our city, through the streets of Kalamazoo, every little turn, every home, every school, every business, that the word of the Lord, the truth of who God is, his goodness, his kindness, his power, his grace, his mercy, that it would enter every home with power and authority. As we remember and sing and recount all of the wonderful deeds of our Lord and Savior, let it bubble up and let it stir up and let it overflow to everybody that's around us. So God we pray for wide open doors. We pray for open doors of encounter to speak the gospel, the good news of who Jesus is, whether it be in our workplaces with our boss or our co-workers or customers and clients we work with. We ask for open doors that seem like a crazy coincidence. Maybe someone is opening up about an issue or pain or even curiosity and the Holy Spirit is going to say to you right now, this is that moment, be bold, speak, open your mouth, let me fill it, let me speak through you, let signs and wonders, boldness to preach come out of you right now, that the Lord is going to give us open doors, coincidences and encounters. I pray for fathers in their homes right now to be able to speak with boldness, but with love and truth, the goodness of the Father in heaven, to be able to speak the authority of the Word of God in their homes, for mothers to be able to teach love and compassion, to show what it means to love one another, for children to be able to show what the Lord is doing to their to their brothers and sisters, to their moms and dads. We pray for protocols, for encounters, for moments where it seems like you've been praying and praying for years and then a phone call happens and they say something's happening, I need to talk to you about something or I'm confused or I need help and that's when the Holy Spirit's going to say now is the time, now is the moment, now I'm going to give you boldness, open your mouth, let me fill it. We pray for every home, we pray for schools, we pray for cities, we pray for businesses, for streets, we pray even for the people who have no homes, the homeless that are on our streets right now, who are hungry and broken and in pain and need a Savior and we ask that as we pass by them every day and we seemingly just turn away, the Lord's going to say now, now's the time, open your mouth, let me fill it with boldness and speak and watch broken hearts be made new, watch chains be broken, watch healings happen, signs and wonders, deliverance into the gospel and into the kingdom of our Lord and Savior. So in the name of Jesus, we pray right now that the word of the Lord who runs swiftly through the streets of our city is in authority, Savior, us in the wanting, to the hungry and the thirsty, an insight, you know their name, you've been calling them, drawing them, eating something, a moment and you're saying now is the time, speak my name, speak my name, thankfulness, the joy of your salvation, particles come home, come home, broken hearted to heal. We're not done praying for this but we are done with our broadcast and if you're hungry and you're thirsty, come down to the Radiant City Center, we're going to be here until midnight tonight and hear 8 a.m. to midnight every day this week so I encourage you to come and join us but we're not done in the room, we're going to continue to pray and contend for the lost, for the broken heart and for the prodigal so please come and join us, God bless.