 All right. All right. Good morning. Welcome to Thursday prayer. We're so glad for everyone in the room who's joining us this morning for everyone online. Welcome as we minister to the Lord today. If you want to open your Bibles to Luke chapter 2, I want to open just by turning our hearts to the Lord even as we reflect on the incarnation this Christmas season. I've been reading through the Nativity account and it's been really impacted by this passage. I don't read it. Luke chapter 2 verse 9. It says, Then the angel of the Lord stood before them and the glory of the Lord shown around them and they were terrified. But the angel said, Don't be afraid for look, I proclaim to you good news of great joy. They'll be for all people today in the city of David, a savior is born who is the Messiah of the Lord. And this will be the sign for you. You'll find a baby wrapped tightly in cloth lying in a manger. And verse 13 is that suddenly there was a multitude of heavenly host with the angel praising God and saying, Glory to God in the highest heaven in peace on earth to people he favors. So Father, today as we come into your presence, Lord, as we minister to you, God, as we start our day in your house, we say it's good to be in your house, Lord. And I ask, Holy Spirit, as you fill this place, as you rest on your temple, your people today, Lord, we want to echo back, echo back to you, Lord, the praise of heaven, the declaration of heaven over your birth where Jesus says you took on flesh and you stepped down. Heaven couldn't hold it back. Heaven couldn't hold it back. But the declaration of heaven was released. Glory to God, glory to God in the highest and peace on earth, Lord. Today we ask in this room in this city, God, in our families, in our homes, God, in every home watching that the glory of God would rest on us, Lord, that it would be on earth as it is in heaven as your glory, as your glory is released. And Father, today we receive the peace of God, the shalom of God, the shalom of God. As you say, peace on earth, peace on earth, Lord, we ask, God, that this Christmas season, Lord, that this month, the name of Jesus is declared, that there would be a peace from the kingdom of God that would rest on every heart. So right now, let's just turn our hearts, turn our eyes to him, God, we give you the glory, Lord, as heaven is singing right now in this moment. Father, we echo, we echo the praise in heaven and we say back a glory to God in the highest. Glory to God in the highest, Lord, from our hearts, from our lives today, from this room, Lord, we ask that you receive all the glory, all the praise, Lord, and that you would find, find a people, find a people ready to receive you. We love you. We thank you in Jesus' name, amen. God in this room, in every, in every home, Lord, that the rule and reign of God, the kingdom of God, the kingdom of God would rest on our hearts. And Isaiah nine says for a child will be born for us. His son will be given and the government will be on his shoulders and he'll be named wonderful counselor, mighty God, everlasting father in the prince of peace. He says, his dominion will be vast and the prosperity will never end and he will reign on the throne of David over his kingdom and establish it and sustain it with justice and righteousness from now on and forever. What I want to do is we've been experiencing the kingdom of God. I want to pray for the kingdom of God to forcefully advance in this city, in this region and really specifically, I just sense that the Lord is releasing peace this morning. Peace this morning. It says in Isaiah nine, it prophesies that he'll be called the prince of peace, the prince of peace. And even you see in Luke two where the angels declare peace on earth, peace on earth, goodwill towards men. So we're going to pray for peace of God to go forth this morning in the hearts and lives of our friends, our families in this city. So whatever you need to do to engage in intercessionist encourage you if you're at homes, just begin to pray for people you know in this time. But Lord, right now we turn our hearts to you, king of kings, king of glory. Let me thank you, Lord, that you have established, established your reign in our hearts, Father. It's good to be in your kingdom. It's good to be in your kingdom. And today, Lord, we turn our hearts, turn our eyes outward, Father, to this city, God, to the lost and the broken and the hurting. And we ask, Prince of peace, would your peace forcefully advance in this city, God? Forcefully advance. God, not with the plan of men, not with the agenda of man, Lord, but with the love and the mercy and the grace of the kingdom of God would peace advance. So just right now I just want, want all of us just begin to picture your neighborhood, picture homes, picture your co-workers and just begin to pray for peace over their hearts. Father, we pray for peace over their hearts today. Peace over their hearts like a wave that every anxious thought, God, every, every competing narrative of the world, Lord, would be, would be subject to the rule and reign of the Prince of peace. The rule and reign of the Prince of peace, Father, we ask that this Christmas season, Lord, this month, Lord, that your peace would be released from your church. Your peace would be released from your, from your people. Just right now, I just want to, I just feel like the Lord is going to begin to give some of us specific people. Just begin to pray for peace, even for individuals. Could be a family member, a co-worker. Could be yourself. Some of you might need to pray for yourself in this moment. Lord, we ask for peace, the peace of God, the shalom of God, to rush out like a river. Romans 14 says the kingdom of God is in a matter of eating or drinking, but it's righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Father, let your peace, let your peace flow, flow out from heaven, flow out from this room and just begin to wash, wash hearts, displace darkness, displace anxiety, displace fear. Father, right now, we rebuke a spirit of fear. We rebuke a spirit of fear, worst case scenarios, the prophetic agenda of hell, to paint a picture of the future without you in it. And we ask for peace. We ask for peace to wash hearts. I just sense even the Lord's doing something unique in this moment. I'd love for the, the musicians are just going to play and prophesy and I just want us to lean in even individually. I feel like the Lord is just putting unique people on hearts, but we're going to, we're going to lean in even instrumentally in this for a few minutes and we're going to prophesy peace with the music. And this might be new for some of us, but I just encourage you don't talk, don't check out, don't lean out. But as the musicians play and prophesy, I want us to partner our faith individually to pray for peace. So we're going to lean in on this in a few minutes and just see where it goes. Every anxious thought, God, every accusation, be displaced, displaced by the peace of God. Every anxious thought, displaced by the peace of God, the shalom of God, where the angels declared it, they prophesied it over your birth, peace on earth, peace on earth, goodwill toward men. Anxiety over every accusation right now. Every insecurity bow. Deliver us, Lord. You're busy and anxious with many things, only one thing. Father, I ask for unity and the one thing, the Prince of Peace, the Prince of Peace, the Prince of Peace. This is a little different. I just sense the Lord is even ministering to some individuals uniquely in the room. If you've been dealing with anxiety, I feel like even uniquely just this past month, it's just been heavy on you. You feel like your brain is a pinball and it's just been bouncing around, thought to thought to thought to thought to thought to thought. I just sense the Lord is just wanting to minister to some of us in the room. If that's you and you, the Lord's been ministering to you uniquely this morning. We just raise your hand. We're just going to minister to each other for a few minutes today. And so just raise your hand and we're just going to go around some of these ones. We're just going to lay our hands on them. We're going to pray for them. We're going to declare the peace of God. If you're online right now and you've been experiencing anxiety this month that there's been, I just feel like even waves of accusation of self-accusation, just the thoughts of you're not enough. You're a mess. You don't have it together. You aren't good enough. I just sense the Lord is even going to minister to some of you in your kitchens and your living rooms right now as you just even get on your knees and kneel down before the Lord. I just feel like the Holy Spirit is going to begin to wash minds in homes, in living rooms. So Holy Spirit, right now we declare your word and we plead your blood. We declare your word and we plead your blood over every thought. Every thought. God, we take it captive. We take it captive, Lord, and we surrender it. God, to the supremacy of Christ, the goodness of God. And Father, today we ask that the peace of God which surpasses all understanding, surpasses all understanding with God, our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. The peace of God which surpasses all understanding. It's beyond our ability to comprehend. It's beyond man's wisdom, beyond our intellectual ability to engage with. The peace of God that surpasses all understanding with God, our hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Lord, right now let your word, God, like a waterfall. Let's be in a wash hearts, wash minds in this city that your people, your people will be ruled with perfect peace, will be guarded with perfect peace. Lord, and right now we rebuke the accuser, the accuser of the brethren. The accuser of the brethren, Lord, and we speak peace. We speak peace. We speak peace, God, to every heart, God, every individual in their living room right now. Let peace crash in. Let your presence crash in. God, would you silence every accusing thought and replace it with the declaration of the word of God. This is my son. This is my daughter whom I love and whom I'm well pleased. God, let the declaration of the Father rule in rain over anxiety right now. Rule in rain. I just feel like even lies of that God is disappointed that you're not good enough. Holy spirit, displace it. Displace it according to your word right now. It's important in our cup. Surely we have a beautiful inheritance. God, thank you for our inheritance of peace. Lord, even as we receive for ourselves today, Lord, we ask for overflow in our lives right now. It's for overflow in this city, God. Father, for the young people, God, who are crippled, spirit of fear, Lord, we ask for your peace to wash their hearts. People who have been caught up, God, in the narrative help over their life, Lord, we ask for it. We love you. We thank you. Father, we thank you for your goodness, your nearness. Jesus' name. We're gonna go back into another worship song. Turn our hearts again. We've gone vertical. We've prayed. We've received and we're gonna go vertical again. So let's engage in that. Harder to recognize the person I was in Christ. I don't walk like I used to. I don't talk like I used to. Washed from the, I've been washed from the inside. I used to. I don't talk like I used to. I've been washed. Never been about before. We're striving for the curse. Shame. We curse a spirit of shame with the blood of Jesus. That the accusation of hell would fall to the ground with the blood of Jesus. Father, it's your blood. The kingdom of God purchased for us by the blood of the spotless land to Holy Spirit right now. When we partner with your word and we curse a spirit of shame on our hearts. A spirit of shame. Let it fall to the ground right now and prophesy, Lord. We've been accepted in the beloved. Accepted in the beloved that therefore there is no longer any condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. Thank you for the blood. Thank you for the kingdom of God. You say what kind of love is this that you've lavished on us that we will be called sons of God? So Father, we thank you. We love you. What we're going to do, we have around 10 minutes, we're going to pray and intercede from our place in position as sons and daughters of God for the peace of God, the acceptance in Christ that we've been experiencing this hour. We're going to pray and prophesy for revelation of God's peace to wash and crash over this county that the peace of God would rule and reign in Kalamazoo. And one thing I love about God's peace is as we pray for it, it's not, we receive peace peacefully, but when God's peace goes forth, it's not peaceful. When God's peace goes forth, it's not peaceful. It displaces darkness and there's an aggressive peace that knocks out the enemy. So we're going to be praying for peace. I just want to encourage us. We don't have to pray for peace peacefully. We can pray for peace with faith and confidence that it's displacing spiritual forces of darkness. So right now as we pray, I just want us to picture just the city, your neighborhood, wherever you're at, we're going to pray for the peace of God to displace darkness in these next minutes. So Father, today we thank you for the blood. We thank you for your kingdom. We thank you for your power and your glory God. And we thank you for the position we have, the confidence we have as sons and daughters, but we're to approach the throne of grace, the throne of grace knowing you hear us and you love us. And today, Father, we lift up, we lift up our city. God, we lift up Kalamazoo and we ask in Jesus' name that your peace, your peace would crash into this city, Father. Right now we lift up young people at Western Michigan University, God, that are in chains, God of anxiety, insecurity, mental health, God, mental illness, illness, God. And we ask in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, let your peace crash over hearts and minds today, for those that are oppressed, those that are in bondage in their minds, God, we ask for freedom in peace, in Jesus' name, that the light of your face, the light of your face would radiate peace and glory over the darkest place. So Father, today, God, let your peace advance in this city, in the name of Jesus. Sing this out, rush out. We ask in faith. We're asking in faith. Let's sing this out every voice. Picture your neighborhood, picture your drive in your mind as you pray in faith. It's like a river, Lord. What are you doing? Your people. You are able. You are able, Lord. You have all power and authority. You have all power and authority. So we ask, God, in your power, in your mind, that your kingdom would advance in peace in this city. Father, we lift up those that are living in difficult situations, in Kalamazoo, God, in poverty, in abusive homes. We ask right now, in the name of Jesus, for mercy, grace and peace to encounter them. Mercy, grace and peace in the love of God. Father, we're standing in the gap this morning. We're standing in the gap this morning and we say, we need, we need a wave of peace over the city. We need what the angels were prophesying 2,000 years ago when they said, peace on earth, Lord. We want, God, we need a down payment of that in this city today. So Father, in the north side, in Edison, Lord, and in every corner of this city, Lord, let your light of peace shine and radiate in the darkness. God, I asked that you would anoint, anoint your sons and daughters to be peacemakers. You say, blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. We ask right now that you would anoint peacemakers to go into the darkest and the hardest places of our city. God filled with the Spirit, God carrying peace, not, not just solving problems, Lord, but carrying the peace of the kingdom of God into every home. Holy Spirit, I ask that you would anoint your, your church to be peacemakers in this city. God, that there would be an army, an army of peacemakers, God going into every home, every corner, God, every neighborhood of this city, Lord, that there would be a wave of light and peace that would deep roam darkness. Father, anoint the peacemakers and send us out today in Jesus' name. I just want to start, just allow the Lord, just to bring one person to mind who just needs a touch from God's peace today. I know we only have a few minutes, but stay leaned in this for another minute. There's somebody in your life that needs an encounter with a peace of God, an encounter with a peace of God. A neighbor could be a family member, could be a friend. Can we just pray for them? It's for 30 seconds. Today, Father, we ask for peace, peace, peace over hearts and minds, God, peace over insecurity, peace over anxiety, God, those, those that are mentally unwell, Lord, we ask for your perfect peace. God, wherever they're at right now, we just ask that they would sense a nearness, a nearness from your presence, a nearness from your spirit. Lord, you speak peace and peace happens through peace to the storm when it stops. The Holy Spirit, the kingdom of God in peace with manifest in their hearts right now. The peace of, the peace of God, the kingdom of God were manifest in their hearts right now in Jesus' name. Just want to challenge us and actually do one more thing. Take your phone out. Take your phone out. If it's appropriate, just text them, that person you're praying for, and just say, Hey, I was praying for you today. This is that God would encounter you with their peace. You can do what you need to do. Say, Hey, I was thinking of you. Hope you have a peaceful day, whatever, whatever that looks like, but let's just minister to, to those people we were just praying for. Father, we just love you, God. We thank you for your kingdom and thank you for your peace, the inheritance of peace that you give us, Lord. You lead us by still waters, green pastures, Lord. Father, I ask that you would guard our hearts and minds today. God, help us. God, help us walk as peacemakers. Help us walk as peacemakers, carrying, carrying the kingdom of God in peace on the inside. And Father, I ask that you would deploy the peacemakers in this city, deploy the peacemakers in this city to every neighborhood, every home. Father, that your sons and daughters carrying peace, sons and daughters carrying peace with displace every lie. The love, the kingdom of God would advance. Father, we love you. We thank you. God is such a privilege to be your sons, your daughters. We love you. We love you. In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen. For everybody watching online, thanks for jumping in today. We'll be back here at noon for every in the room. Fun times.