 All right. Good morning. Welcome to 8 a.m. Prayer for everyone in the room. Thank you for being here for everyone joining online Just grateful that we can open up today waiting in the Lord ministering to him how I want to open this morning I've uh Just been really struck with some of the messages that we shared at arise shine Pastor Michael Miller from upper rooms talking about the centrality of ministering to the Lord of ministering to his heart first of Coming and engaging with With the emotions of God the desires of God and recognizing that that our job and even in this place of prayer Our role is to come and and engage with with his emotions with his personality and seek to bless him First so what I want to do is I just want to open Just with a few minutes of just centering our hearts back on on that reality of ministering to him And I want to do that with Thanksgiving this morning. So right now can we just we're gonna soft or start soft start slow But I just believe God's gonna open a door from our praise this morning. Let me just open our hands wherever you're at And and even can you just begin to thank God? Thank God for Maybe you had a great Memorial Day great community I'm gonna thank God for you for the friendships. He's giving you the families. He's giving you Maybe you're you're in a hard season. Thank him that you're here this morning Right our Thanksgiving. It's not predicated on our circumstances. So it's a heart posture Thank God. Thank you that you're with me and just keep going again. We hit though It's like the quick Thanksgiving and then you hit the wall typically of if it's frustration if Things in your heart. It's for me. He's are getting exposed, but let's just keep going God, thank you. Thank you for your presence. Thank you for your faithfulness God, thank you for for your Your long suffering God Your long suffering that God even even in the process or you're still with us And out loud just keep leaning into this God. We thank you Lord. We make this place We make this room we make our homes an altar of praise and Thanksgiving this morning Lord and we realign our hearts We realign our hearts to the truth to the reality that we serve a God who loves us We serve a living God who who God you have thoughts you have emotions You have movements in your heart Lord and we line our hearts we line our lives back up to that today and Lord We say we want to minister to you We want to minister to you this morning, so Holy Spirit make us sensitive Lord make us sensitive to your presence to your word this morning God I just want to wait for him for a few minutes. This is let's just have this posture of waiting Continue to thank him. I just sense there's an invitation to to engage with his heart today Let's just let's rest here for a minute continue to thank him So we enter into prayer this morning Yeah, keep leaning in gonna pray softly just in the spirit. Just as we stir ourselves up Whispers in your heart go through the motions this morning line our hearts up Let's just begin to pray in the spirit out of sense. There's a there's a piece of God Resting in the room as he's relining our hearts. Let's just minister to him in this moment Since there's a divine realigning Back to one thing And out loud with your voice just to stir up your spirit You stir up our hearts and our most holy faith Father I ask Lord even in this room that there would be a divine realignment of our hearts God in the midst of the busyness God in the midst of busy schedules the real demands of life low we put you first We're just gonna continue to stir ourselves up the worship team is gonna prophesy I just feel like there's there's a real lining a divine realigning that's taking place in our hearts this morning Let's receive this just for the next few minutes. The the musicians are gonna prophesy the singers are gonna sing Over us just continue to pray in the spirit I just sense the Lord is doing a work even inwardly in us in these next few minutes shoot my TV This past week where it wasn't playing playing an app where it kept pulling it up pulling it up And it would just load but then it wouldn't play and I was like trying everything else uninstalling it Reinstalling it wasn't shifting and what it took is it took a reset of the system to figure out like hey We have to hold the power button down. It's gonna reset the whole thing and I just feel like the Lord is doing a reset of some of our hearts right now We're you know, it's like you are doing five different things Praying believing God for multiple different things and sometimes if you're anything like me my my mind and my spirit Can just get so overwhelmed with everything that's going on that I'm doing it But it's like things aren't clicking even even my heart There's a disconnect between my spirit what I'm doing and I just sense that the Lord is doing a reset Right now as we rest in his presence that it's like he doesn't matter how much how many more times you push God let's do this. Let's do this. Let's do this, but it's that reset of God. Bring me back to that first place We're bringing back to that first thing Let's just receive that if that's if that's you this morning Can you just put your hand over your heart if you just feel like you need a reset from the Lord? I just want to invite him just to reset us today, Holy Spirit Holy Spirit, we welcome you this morning and we ask We ask God bring us back to the first place. I ask for a clarity and a rest Thank you, Lord. You say in Hebrews chapter 4 that there remains a Rest for God's people and we strive to enter into it. So God bring us back Bring us back to that rest right now and father father. I asked for a supernatural reset of hearts supernatural reset of hearts Father that you would come and do a work on the inside that only you can do And in the busyness and the way to ministry Lord, you're so faithful To our hearts God and Holy Spirit eyes for clarity Lord give us a clarity today God in a world of Urgent and important God bring us bring us Kingdom clarity Jesus and in the same way you saw what the father was doing Lord as you look through you look through your day look through your life You saw the things that were truly important I asked for a supernatural clarity in our hearts today as you reset our hearts as you reset our minds Father bring us back Bring us back to that supernatural clarity to see what you're doing to do what you're doing I just feel even even right now in the room Just even as it comes to mental mental health and different things I just sense that some of us that your thoughts have been really cluttered Just even these past couple weeks where even maybe like some OCD type symptoms Where it's just you can't get your brain to turn off and it's almost compulsively. I got to do this I got to do this. I got to do this. I got to do this And you just felt a real weight and a real assignment of hell even against your thoughts These past weeks and then I just feel like the Lord specifically specifically wants to release a breakthrough to some of our minds and Today I just want to have a minute just to lean in on this if you would say that in these past couple weeks You sense the real attack against your mind and again just compulsive thoughts you get stuck on a route You can't get out. It's like you're in a ditch. You can't control your emotions, but your mind is just busy Your mind is just busy. I feel like the Lord today Wants to wants to release a peace over your mind And I'm and I just want to have a minute just to open up even some ministry in the room If that's you if you'd say hey, I have some I've some I've been in that spot with my mind been stuck I've been busy felt overwhelmed. You just raised your hand today. We're just gonna pray for each other and Again in this we're family. There's a number of us with our hands raised through the room What I just want to do is we're just gonna lay hands We're gonna pray for the next few minutes and again if you look like prayer for this You'd like prayer for this just raise your hand Again, this is just saying you felt a attack on your mind. You feel like there's just a lot of thoughts going on I just believe God wants to release peace So just if you're if you didn't raise your hand find somebody with their hand raised lays lay hands and we're just gonna pray For the peace of God to wash their minds Lord right now That's for a washing to take place in our thoughts a Washing to take place in our thoughts that you would wash us with the water of your word Like you promised in Ephesians chapter 5 that your words would wash Your words would wash every thought Every every even thought pattern that's not for me that we can get stuck in father I asked for a renewal of our minds today in Christ Jesus, so we would be transformed Transformed according to your word Yeah, just pray out. Just pray out in confidence over them release the peace of God over them We're gonna just minister to each other for a few minutes Every thought that exalts itself above your word take a captive According to the authority we have in Christ Lord and we ask We ask today Lord we pray Colossians 3 15 Lord let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts Father we we come in today let the peace of God rule in our hearts Let the peace of God rule in our hearts today we ask in Jesus name awesome guys we are gonna do kind of a Sharp pivot as we finish our time in prayer today I love how the Lord is even ministering to us specifically and uniquely in this time But what we're gonna do is we are gonna Receive God's goodness receive God's peace and then we're gonna go and approach with frontal grace and confidence and intercede for unity in our city So I'd ask if we're able to stand stand up We are gonna shift into intercession and we're gonna be praying for unity in our city That's an exciting time in Kalamazoo Many of you were at church this weekend where you heard that we are partnering with with another pastor in our city pastor Jeff Port from Center Point Church who's calling the city to pray for unity pray for unity and we're gonna be praying in Unity with other churches, but also praying in unity with Jesus as Jesus prayed for unity in his church in John chapter 17 So we're gonna pray Just for that and I just encourage us. Let's let's receive God's peace Let's receive God's ministry and then as he ministers to us Let's approach with frontal grace and confidence and intercede for others today. So Lord today We come before your throne of grace father and we lift up the church of Kalamazoo We lift up the church of Kalamazoo and God we pray the same words you prayed in John 17 Where you asked and you asked the father before you went to the cross you lifted up the church And you said father make them one like we are one Make them one like we are one and I ask God today that your glory Would rest on the church in Kalamazoo as you make us one father that the church in Kalamazoo would be United around the gospel united God around the the presence and the power of God in the word of Truth proclaimed God so right now we lift up different churches and even think of churches that you drive by on your way On your way to work on your way to church God We lift up the church in Kalamazoo and we ask for a supernatural unity and power to rest on us today in Jesus name Let's take authority to clear this today Doing a second is we're gonna go into a time of rapid fire prayer where we're gonna be praying blessing over different churches in in our city and region The the devil has a strategy where he forced he traps the church to compete against each other and we forget that it's his church Right we serve as undershippers to the great shepherd and it's his church in this city And I think the best way to review because spirit of competition is certainly some blessing So what we're gonna do in a few seconds that we're just gonna align right over here And we're gonna pray blessing over different churches in Kalamazoo that are preaching the gospel Releasing life releasing blessing asking God to increase his presence and their services Asking God to release the resources of heaven to accomplish the unique Assignment and calling that he's given them in the city and I encourage us like this feels this might feel small But but we're releasing heaven's blessing and we're also doing something in our hearts, right? We're rebuking a spirit of competition a spirit of Division and we're releasing heaven's resources in these the next minutes So we're gonna do that 15 20 second prayers and let's go Holy Spirit we ask for a spirit of unity to rest on the churches in Kalamazoo We ask that they would see themselves as one church one body with Jesus Christ as the head Would unity peace and power dwell in their midst in their people in Jesus name Raise up laborers for your church Lord that where churches in Kalamazoo or short staff or to short on volunteers Would you bring labor? Would you bring people to strengthen them in Jesus name? Father Lord, I pray for just the heart of the church is here in Kalamazoo Lord that there's just a continued understanding That there's one goal here that we're all we're all chasing after the same thing Lord It's you and your heart. It's Jesus. It's the truth Lord I pray that culture stays out the lies of culture states out of the church Lord I pray that there's strength in our leaders Lord and just an understanding in our The fellow churches that we are here for you. That's our one and only God Father, we pray for mom Zion Baptist Church Pray for dr. Addison Lord on the north side of Kalamazoo father We pray for increase of vision Creativity innovation and favor to impact the north side and all of Kalamazoo in Jesus name father, I just keep picturing like a vertebrae and one little vertebrae out of alignment messes up the whole system and so Lord we just thank you father for For each member of the body father We thank you for the pastors and the staff and the volunteers, but even those who are just walking in Lord We need them to align and find their place in in you and so Lord we just thank you for all the pastors all the leaders All those in authority Lord that you'd help their staff to be in alignment that there's not a link out of place And they're just all aligned and united in one accord unity in one accord So we pray for your blessing of unity in one accord in each of the pastors and each of the staff in the city In Jesus name Lord we speak blessing over every pastor and their family We speak blessing over their time in your word We pray that that there would be such a new level of awe over who you are that it brings them to Just a place of humility, but like the most beautiful humility because you're so good and you're so big and Everybody's like in awe of the same God and what he's doing in their home lives and their husband's lives in their Children's lives in their very the very structure of their homes. I also pray Lord for the Catholic Church They are preaching the gospel there. So Holy Spirit would you would you come as as priests are preparing? Messages as they're as they're doing what they do Lord, would you come as self Jesus unity among all churches? Who preach the gospel the leaders of this city the pastors of the churches that they would walk in a manner worthy of the calling in which They have been called with all humility and gentleness with patience Bearing with one another in love eager to maintain the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace and Lord I just ask specifically Lord for the pastors and leaders of the church's this city where there has been Unforgiveness between them where there's been broken relationship where there's been a fence Lord That you would begin to move supernaturally and react miraculously even this month Lord where they're beginning to be healing of relationships There'd be forgiveness between brothers and sisters and there would be restoration Lord of the unity you have for this church Lord, I thank you for Center Point Church and Valley family Lord I ask in the name of Jesus that you pour out your spirit on them that you would just bring so much to life and Encouragement to them and Lord. I also pray for the inner city churches I pray Jehovah Jireh you are provide everything that they need to minister to the most vulnerable people Lord We love you Jesus move in our churches as you said I am in them and you are in me They they experience such perfect unity that the world will know that you sent me and then you love them as you love Me Lord, I pray that the churches in Kalamazoo would experience such perfect unity that our city would know that you are Lord So Jesus even right now over specifically portage God We pray for the unity of the portage churches even the bridge right now Just feeling an impression Lord to just Holy Spirit move in and just pray for wisdom and revelation over the senior pastor and the youth Ministry and kids ministry at the bridge in Kalamazoo in Jesus name God I pray for a new life church that their name would be exactly what you called them to that They would be a place where a new life is birthed that they would be a place where eyes are turned back to the father And I pray for the leaders that they would that you would give in them new life And so that the things that they speak and the words they say and the things they do would pour out new life and God for The church of Kalamazoo would you just give us the eyes of Jesus for each other God with the church of Kalamazoo have Your eyes for the church in Jesus name what we pray for churches like Kalamazoo Christian Church God We pray for the river we pray for vertical life churches even churches right downtown Denominational churches not denominational churches. We pray that we would lay our plans and our agendas at your feet And we'd be able to hear what you're saying God and see what you're seeing to be able to bring your kingdom God We pray in unity let your kingdom come let your will be done in Kalamazoo as it is in heaven in Jesus name Jesus I just pray a blessing over North pines church. I thank you father for their strong emphasis on ministering to college students And I pray that they that ministry can continue They can continue to be a strong presence on Western's campus on K colleges campus and that College students people who just need you so badly that they can be a light to that they could preach the gospel to Jesus I just bless their pastors Nick Seamus all their leaders And I just pray Lord for a continual blessing over their ministry Father God, I just pray for Unity and our churches for the sake of our children. We can show them by example That we are unified and they will Teach that or talk about that till their friends at school That we can just have peace and unity for their sake John 4 23 but the hour is coming and is now here when the true worshipers will worship the father in spirit and truth Holy spirit right now. We just ask for a realignment in the churches of Kalamazoo with your spirit and truth We thank you Lord that in the book of John is said the hour is coming And I believe the hour is here Lord where we will see your spirit do a new thing And so holy spirit I ask right now that you would breathe in your church of Kalamazoo That you would pour out your spirit and worship I asked for anointing on the worship pastors and leaders right now that there would be a new song released Into Kalamazoo and Lord right now. I lift up great spring church I ask God that you would break down any Structures of religion and that you would pour out your spirit in a new way that they would see a move of your spirit Lord, so holy spirit. We asked now the hour is here. Would you pour out your spirit and spirit and truth in Jesus name? Our church is Lord. You're self-known. Make yourself known God. Kalamazoo imported. God in this city. As we prayed in John 17 This high priestly prayer we prayed to the father says I do not ask for these only but also those who will believe through their work That they may be one Just as you father are in me and I in you That they also may be in us that the world may believe That you have sent me the glory that you have given me I have given to them that they may be one even as we are one So Lord as you Pray to the father for unity in your church Jesus, and you even connected you connected the idea of a united church to your glory dwelling In your church Father as we prayed for unity we pray for your glory to dwell in the church of Kalamazoo Holy spirit right now I ask that as you unite your church Jesus let your glory dwell in The church of Kalamazoo the glory of God the presence and the power and the majesty of God Let it dwell in our land let it dwell in our city in our homes and in our churches today Father we lift up just even lift your hands Let's just stretch our hands if you're in the room just even picture churches as to the all around there I'm God we lift up your church today And we ask father in the name of Jesus let your glory dwell Let your glory dwell God in grace bring Let your glory dwell God in New Day Church God in Kalamazoo first assembly The valley family God at center point the bridge the river Trenches church God we ask we ask Lord let your glory dwell in our land Father do not let do not let The people in Kalamazoo not have a witness to the glory of God But father today is the church as the church Lord we ask and we commit to Supernatural unity that the world would have a witness to the glory and the power of your name and your gospel in our day In our city father and we pray we pray God with the psalmist prayed in Psalm 85 Lord that your glory would dwell that your glory would dwell in our land Father we need a touch from heaven we need to move from heaven Lord we rebuke a spirit a spirit of competition God a spirit of gossip of Disunity right now Lord we even repent God I repent For moments God where I've spoken negatively Spoken negatively of brothers and sisters in this city Father we repent for moments that we've spoken negatively God and we go we we say God clean our lips Clean our lips God I ask for for radiant church for this house that we would be a people with clean lips That we would speak blessing and not cursing God if we curse our brothers and sisters How can we speak life to the world that doesn't know you father? Give us clean lips and the clean heart Lord to speak blessing to your church today Father I ask God even in these next next days and weeks as we pray for your your church in the city Lord I ask for that you do it work in our heart a Work in our heart for unity and blessing and what we're gonna do as we finish this time is We're gonna be praying this in our prayer meetings. This is a prayer that the pastor Jeff Port Put together for for the church in Kalamazoo in this time We're so grateful for his leadership as one of the praying churches in Kalamazoo We're gonna pray this out together today. I think we might have it on the screen Do we have it on the screen? If not, I'm just gonna pray it negative goes right there We're just I'm just gonna pray it and you pray along and we'll keep going so King Jesus awaken the sleeping giant of your church in our city as we pray and Collaborate to seek the common good for our region Open our eyes and hands to the marginalized in our voices for the voiceless We endeavor to live such counter cultural lives that our places of work in neighborhoods will experience The beauty and the power of the gospel give us such an unquenchable passion for you in your words That we can't help but tell others about Jesus and his unstoppable Kingdom for the glory of Jesus in the advancement of his kingdom. Amen God let it be so in Kalamazoo. We bless you today, Lord And we ask do a work in our city in Jesus name. Amen. Amen Everybody thank you for interceding with us today everyone online. We'll be back here at noon. Thanks so much