 Good morning and welcome to morning prayer. I want to welcome those of you online as well as in the room What a great day it is to be in the house of the Lord We're gonna open up today Reading from Psalm 13 and verse starting in verse 5 But I have trusted in your mercy My heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I Will sing to the Lord because he has dealt bountifully with me. Let's just enter in through prayer But we just come before you And we thank you that you're merciful That our heart can trust you That we can trust your character What our heart rejoices in your salvation your rejoice in relationship with you we rejoice And what you've done for us and God we just remind our souls today to sing Because you have dealt bountifully with us not once Have you let us down? Not once have you steered us wrong? The only truth God is that you have dealt bountifully with us You have loved us well. You have cared for us well and Lord it's it's our hearts desire to just continue to see How much you love us all the days of our lives? But this morning Lord we bring you a song We sing to you Lord because you're worthy of it. So I just invite you now Stir yourself up start to offer the Lord your own voice He doesn't want to just hear mine or the worship teams, but he wants to hear yours Sing to the Lord because he has dealt bountifully with with you. This is a command from the scriptures Let's just offer up our own song to the Lord Reminding your soul the Lord has dealt bountifully Never be able to know the full measure We'll never know how much it costs when we look at you when we look at the cross we're at a loss for words at the beauty of Jesus Such an act of love Such humility who was God who is God come down to choose a human body To come and take our place who are we that we're worthy of that kind of love you took our stripes for us You took our beatings for us you paid our very debts And we don't forget that this morning We don't forget that we remember we remember Calvary Bros the blood that was shed on our behalf Lord we remember we won't talk about the cross if it's just some passive thing But we'll look at and we'll remember the act of love That you you did for us Love was full on display that day As you humbly chose to carry your cross up that hill for us you hung there suffering For us so that we could be with you So that we could commune with you there was a barrier between us got separated Our own sins separated us from you And you came down and you took our place to tear that veil And we don't forget that this morning We don't talk about it like it's something we've heard before talk about it like it's something we've heard before I just want to keep keep singing the song keep keep telling Jesus who he is or today we choose Not to talk about the cross as if it's something we've heard before Let's just go back into that song and keep singing Jesus this morning We respond in love To your sacrifice on you this morning as we remember the sacrifice that you gave the sacrifice of God that can never be overstated worthiness of God that can never be overstated We respond with our love this morning Thank you, Jesus praise we could ever give and then some really of all of our worship all of our devotion It's because you're beautiful Jesus Because of your love for us, and we just thank you Lord that we get to worship you We get to praise you we get to show you love by pouring out our praise before just want to pray from this reality shifting into To intercession praying for unity in the church in Kalamazoo out of Romans 15 starting in verse 5 Now may the God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded toward one another according to Christ Jesus You may with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ Therefore receive one another just as Christ also received us to the glory of God Jesus we just come before you and again. We say that you're worthy. We say that you're holy And God your your church is divided. It's divided. It's it's sick with pride. It's It's sick Lord, so we just come before you and we ask God that you would unify your church That we would be like-minded toward one another Like-minded to glorify the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ But would you unify us around the beauty of Jesus? Unify us Lord around the worthiness of Jesus that he is to be worshiped that he is to be praised Go but all of our other agendas fall flat would we put them aside and would we unify as one body and one church one bride Worshiping Jesus giving him the praise that he's do pouring our love on him Would your church not forget the cross? Would you unify us around this reality God that Jesus is worthy to be praised Lord in Jesus name unify your church What church agendas fall? And Jesus be lifted up of your blood God by the power of your Holy Spirit Moving the minds and hearts of church leaders Make us compassionate towards one another But only Jesus be lifted up Bring us back to a place of worship Lord bring us back to a place of prayer Bring us back to a place of adoration to see Jesus rightly To see the beauty of the Sun To remember the cross revelation of the cross Revelation of the love that Jesus the Jesus has for us only thing that matters Be lifted up Would you be lifted up from a unified voice of your bride the church Lord? Would you make us Compassionate towards one another and we would receive One another just as Christ also received us But I just pray for for church leaders everywhere God pastors elders Lord would you just would you just give them a fresh humility or to look past denominational differences But with the unifier on this one thing the one thing of worshiping Jesus The one thing of worship and prayer God, would you unify your church around worship and prayer? Jesus if you're not exalted nothing else matters If you are being worshiped nothing else matters all of our programs they fall away Every other work is done in vain Also, I asked them in the hearts of leaders that you would you would soften them over there may be Years of hurt from different denominations different relationships got specifically here in Kalamazoo I pray for just a unifying of church leaders God that the heads of the church would unify They would lay down their their differences or that There would be forgiveness and compassion in the hearts of the church leaders of Kalamazoo and God that with one voice All the churches in Kalamazoo would worship Jesus that they would worship the man Jesus Because regardless of how we feel towards one another Lord, you are worthy to be praised That is something we can always unify around So God in Jesus name unify the church leaders in Kalamazoo Unify us God, unify us to worship, unify us and you The one thing of worshiping Jesus Think of desiring to see you the one thing of desiring to know you The one thing of seeing others come to know you Counter the presence of God and be praised from every altar here in Kalamazoo The altar from every church Would you be praised be exalted Kalamazoo would sing with one voice In our hearts one another think of worshiping Jesus God I just asked that you would humble us that you would humble the church of Kalamazoo God where there's there's hurt where there's division where there's pride But you humble us Would you humble us God your word says that you give grace to the humble that you oppose the proud Would you not would you not oppose us Lord we as a church big-sea church come before you humbly Worshiping you Denominational difference is falling God I'm asking for Catholics to to lock arms with Lutherans and Methodists to lock arms with Baptists And for the non-denominally non-denominals the non-denominally that word church to Lock arms to Lord Would you just would you bring us together what our differences be overlooked for God and would we unify? Unify Lord around worshiping Jesus a Humility Lord would the Would pride be gone would pride and hurt be gone Insecurity be gone in the church of Kalamazoo, but Lord would we worship you humbly humbly God Just because you're worthy so God I pray in Jesus name that you would humble us To worship you the grace to be humbled where our flesh would get in the way Would you humble us? Unify your church We need you to humble us To look past each other's differences and to unify Around worship around prayer Around the things that matter The closed-handed issues Unify us God another Link arms and worship Receive one another well Just as Christ has received us would we love our neighbor or Just as Christ has loved us Would we love our church neighbor just as Christ has loved us Pour out your grace Or out your grace to do it Lord Would you grace wash over our hearts today? Removing all bitterness all hurt all insecurity Pour out your grace Draw near to us Lord. Yes, God. We take these last few minutes And Lord we we pray that you would unify us around your word That no other doctrine would be preached But the word of God Lord unify us around the Bible Unify us around your scripture that it will be taught Taught on Sunday mornings not our own agendas our own agendas Lord Not our personal preferences When we humbly come and unify around the word of God around the scriptures Around the lessons that you taught through your word that you're still teaching today God would know other doctrine be taught except the word of God Except the truth of your word God where we've got it wrong where we've let Our own agendas come into the church Where we've let hurt and bitterness into our hearts But I just asked that you would Humble us and bring us back to a love for your word And Lord that as the word is preached as it's unified that the sword of the spirit It's just the word of God that it would go and then it would cut Then it would set people free is your your word is preached to God That there would be testimonies rising up from messages When your Holy Spirit encounters people and they're set free set free from addictions Unify us together around your word Why don't you say there's a blessing when brothers dwell together in unity? It's got to unify us around your word and pour out your blessing in Jesus name nothing else Just your word our agendas fall our preferences fall. We don't want to build in vain Jesus you are the word and you are the cornerstone Would the church be built on the cornerstone of Jesus would we build upon the cornerstone of Jesus a firm foundation? Not a doctrine that is sinking sin But we not build in vain God. We build on the cornerstone Put your house Build your house on the foundation of your word But unless you build the house we build in vain, but so we just ask you this morning That your church would be unified And built on the cornerstone of Jesus on the cornerstone of the word of God We thank you that this is on your heart It's been on your heart for Kalamazoo Well, we just close in a posture of thanks We'll pray all these things in your almighty and holy name. Amen. Amen. Thank you so much for joining us here for morning prayer I want to invite you back. We're back here at noon and 6 30 tonight. We hope to see you one of our weekend services Thank you