 From the Radiant City Center, we are Living Stones gathered on the corporate altar this morning here to offer our spiritual sacrifices to the Lord. We're going to be praying and interceding this morning, really feeling stirred to pray just for this region, Southwest Michigan, to be a worshiping and a praying people. This would be something that you don't just do. And he doesn't just do in our church but actually in the region. Even coming off the heels of the sins and everything that kind of brought to the region. I want to begin, though, just a personal prayer out of Psalm 40, verse 1, I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined and heard me. He also brought me up out of the horrible pit, out of the Myrie clay, and he set my feet on the rock. And he established my steps. He put a new song in my mouth, praise to our God. Many will see it in fear and will trust in the Lord. Before we make our petitions known to the Father, we always begin in a posture of thanksgiving and worship. Because we come with a humility that we do not know how to pray as we ought. Like Paul said in Romans 8, Jesus instructed the disciples when they came with the right question of how should we pray. There should be an idea that we don't show up in a prayer meeting knowing exactly what we're supposed to pray. We don't know what we should pray. Me as the prayer leader, I don't know what I should pray as I ought, but the Spirit is the one who makes intercession through us. And so instead of beginning in the place of petition, we are actually entering His gates and beholding His glory, seeing who He is, celebrating who He is. And from that place, we lean into His hearts and begin to intercede and cry out. And so let's put that new song in our mouth. Let's put that song of thanksgiving and gratitude, what He has done for us, the new song. Let's just begin to put that in our mouth, to sing it back to Him, to behold Him, to minister to Him, to bless Him, to pour out our love and our affections on Him. Put that song in your mouth. Let's just continue to declare Jesus, you reign over principalities and powers. Lord, you reign over this present age of this age. Jesus, you reign over death, disarmed it. Jesus, you reign over sickness, you are healed. Jesus, you reign over this current, over this president's political climate that has ever existed. Lord, you reign over the spirit of this age and the darkness of this present age. You reign over depression. You anxiety and fear. Lord, you and disarmed the spirit of this age and principalities and powers of darkness. And so we choose to look to the one whose train of His robe fills the temple where His glory and His might that He has been bestowed because He has been glorified at the right hand of the Father because He turns the heart of the King like water in His hand because He is the anxious of days because the times are in His hand because He knows the seasons and He upholds all things by the word of His power. Jesus, you reign with Michigan, you reign in Kalamazoo to a donkey or an elephant but to the lamb. But we just, we just sung. There's no fear when Jesus reigns Out of Acts 4, 27, for truly your holy servant Jesus whom you've anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate with the Gentiles and the people of Israel were gathered to do whatever your hand and your purpose determined to be done. Now therefore look on their threats and grant to your servants that with all boldness they may speak your word by stretching out your hand to heal and signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus. And when they have prayed the place where they were assembled together was shaken they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they spoke the word of God with boldness. Our Lord even as we've declared your Lordship, your reign and declared that there is no fear when you reign, when you take the throne the fear is dethroned and disarmed. And so Lord we lift up the church in Southwest Michigan. I ask that you would look on the threats of the enemy. God you would see what is happening. Lord you would look upon the threats of the spirit of the age. Lord of division in the church. A rampant sexual immorality. Lord you would look upon the threats of a divided regent Lord. You would look upon the threats where the enemy is seeking to kill and destroy especially the younger generation. And Lord we ask that you would grant your servants the church boldness in this hour. God I ask that the church in Southwest Michigan would not shrink back. Lord would not cower in fear, would not run in high. But like Gideon you would call us from the wine press. Lord you would call us from the lowest place and that you would call courage and identity into your church and into your bride. And Lord that you would do it by putting a supernatural boldness upon your church. Lord that signs and wonders may be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus. Oh God we are in an hour where we need the God who answers by fire. Lord we need, we need more than our own good ideas. Lord we cannot win cultural wars. Lord we cannot overcome with good political arguments. Lord activism is not going to shift the spiritual climate in this region. So we live in a day like Elijah. Lord where the altars to Baal and Asherah have been built. But those gods, the spear, the aids cannot see and cannot hear, they cannot answer. You are the only God who answers by fire. And so we tear down the altars of the Baals and the Asherahs. And we build up with living stones on the corporate altar and we say God would you send your fire. The whole region is watching and gathering to see which God will answer by fire. And so Lord we ask that you would answer by fire. Lord like an axe too. When the church gathered in the upper room and flaming tongues of fire rested upon the church and upon your people. Lord and you commissioned them and you filled them with your holy spirit and you gave them boldness Lord to preach the gospel. And then signs and wonders followed the ones who preach the word. God we ask for strength in this hour for your church. Lord we ask for boldness in this hour. We ask for a fresh baptism of fire and of the holy spirit in the name of Jesus. So Lord we ask that you would stretch out your hand that signs and wonders would be done through your church. On the same altar stones be used to build and restore the altar of the Lord before you set the fire from heaven. So God we ask that you would dismantle every other idol. God I ask in your church that you would dismantle every other idol Lord that we have used living stones to build up. But God I ask Lord that you would tear down every altar of self-sufficiency. Oh God that we would restore your altar. Lord we would rebuild the altar of worship and prayer. God the living stones on the altar just like in Acts 2 when they gathered together and you came and answered by fire just like Joel 2 when you said gather my people into the house to cry out at the priest who minister before the Lord wheat between porch and altar. And then in Acts in Joel 3 the promise that you would pour out your spirit like in 2 Chronicles 20 Lord when Jehoshaphat gathered the people to the altar and said oh God we don't know what to do but our eyes are on you and you answered by fire. You are the God who answers by fire and so Lord we ask that you would build up and restore the ruins of the altar of worship and prayer in your church in this region. Lord you promised in Acts in Amos 9, 11 you reminded us in Acts 15 that in the last days you will rebuild the tabernacle of David and you will restore the ruins. And so God we ask that you would tear down every altar to every other idol. Lord that I even ask among the worship community Lord where we have built altars to our own success to money to seek to use fame and platform off of worship Lord we repent and we bow low and we say we tear down the altars of influence or we tear down the altars of the influence of money and every other area Lord that pulls on our hearts or tear down the altar of self-sufficiency thinking we can do this in our own strength. Lord and we ask that you would build up your altar Lord take the living stones of your church in this region and restore and rebuild the altar of worship and prayer. Reverence for your presence. The ruins of the time. Lord every other OG is an idol. Restoring awe and wonder and reverence for your name. Lord thank you that you are. Delivering us from our distraction and our boredom and we're just starting to see you in your goodness and your glory. Lord thank you even just for this. Thank you for this prophetic song that just led us in. That you will stand above every other God Lord. We repent for all the areas of fear of where we've become fearful of the spirit of the age Lord we're afraid Lord we're afraid that we are going to just see darkness cover the earth and there will be no light that shines and that despair and heaviness that comes with that Lord. We just shake that off. We say you stand above them all Lord. You stand you are still on your throne. You are ruling and reigning and the hearts of kings are like water in your hand and you turn it whichever way you desire. Thank you for restoring that reverence or thank you for leading your church back to be what you defined it as as a house of prayer. Lord that what you named it as this shall be called named a house of prayer. Thank you that you were restoring that in your church in Jesus name and thanks for praying and interceding with us. I just love and aren't you grateful for prophetic singers in the house singing the word of the Lord. Come on. Yeah. You can show some appreciation. So appreciate you guys ministering before the Lord and offering up your songs powerful songs. Awesome. We're gonna be back here at noon. Praying for the nations and then at 6 30 p.m. tonight and then back on broadcast tomorrow at 8 a.m. Have a great day.