 Good morning. Welcome to morning prayer where we are contending morning, noon and night. We are a house that contends in intercession and prayer. And that's just an important distinction too, that we aren't just a house that worships and prays in a devotional sense, but that we as the people of God intercede and always think of the picture of the high priest on the day of atonement sprinkling the blood of the atonement lamb upon the altar of incense and the picture of the blood of Jesus cleansing the New Testament believers so that the prayers and the worship that arise from our heart carry the fragrance of Jesus straight to the throne room and we are changing history in the place of prayers. I was just reading recently the Reese Howells intercessor stories of in World War II how they would pray specific targeted prayers and watch how God would interrupt and confuse the plans of the enemy and they actually would watch very specific targeted prayers come to them. People don't even know that a big part of the World War II story was these intercessors that were contending in prayer and changing history although nobody knew their names. The history books use other names and other people to tell the story of history. But as I believe Lou Engel said, maybe someone before him, history belongs to the intercessor. I'm just stirred with that reality this morning. And today we're going to be standing in the gap for the next generation for Gen Z. We have our junior high camp we're going to be praying for. But beyond that too we are praying and standing in the gap for a generation. The enemy is so desperately trying to destroy and bring hopelessness and a spirit of death. And we really can change history. We really can see God save a generation in prayer rooms and prayer closets all over the nation. So let's go before the Lord. I want to read out of Psalm 73, starting in verse 23. Nevertheless, I am continually with you. You hold me by my right hand. You will guide me with your counsel and afterward receive me to glory. Whom have I in heaven but you and there's none on the earth that I desire beside you. My flesh and my heart fail but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. For indeed those who are far away shall perish. You have destroyed all those who desert you for heart of the tree. But it is good for me to draw near to God. I have put my trust in the Lord God that I may declare all of your works. Let's go before the Lord and worship and prayer. I just want to declare that over us. It is good for me to draw near to God. It is good for us to draw near to you. The lines have fallen in pleasant places. Lord, we are grateful that we get to go before you in thanksgiving and prayer and in worship. Lord, we offer ourselves up a holy priesthood, a royal priesthood and a holy nation before you. Lord, we offer up psalms and hymns and spiritual songs to move your heart and to bless your heart and to pray in faith the things that you want to see happen on the earth. So Lord, we approach you. It is good for us to seek the Lord. Thank you that I get to be in your house. Lord, thank you for this prayer room, Lord. Thank you for this church, Lord. Thank you for these believers that I get to gather with to lift high the name of Jesus. Let's just begin in just thanksgiving and gratitude to the Lord. Let's respond and bless him. Let's lift up our voice. If you have your prayer language, just sing in tongues. If not singing your understanding, but let's bless and minister to the heart of God as a response. Like David, if we are down spirit, soul and body, you will all bless the Lord from the core. One generation to another will end the works of God. That's what we do right now. We raise up the banner of love that is over us in this generation, Lord. And we say, Lord, let the banner over the next generation be love. One generation, our generation commending to another, the works and the greatness and the glory of God. And so right now we stand in the gap and we lift up the next generation, Lord. I ask specifically for Gen Z and Gen Alpha to rise up and to take their place. I want to pray out of the Malachi 4-6. The hearts of the fathers would turn to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers, lest I come and strike the earth with a curse. Lord, we are praying, Lord, in this nation, Lord, for a spirit of Elijah to come. Lord, we need reconciliation between generations. Lord, we are seeing a divide across so many ideologies and one is the old versus the young, the young versus the old. And God, we just ask that you would send the spirit of Elijah, Lord, that would reconcile generations. Lord, the spirit of Elijah that will deal with the Baals and the Asherahs and the Jezebels. Lord, the spirit of Elijah, Lord, that will call down fire from heaven to consume the sacrifice and have no mercy on the prophets of Baal and Asherah. Lord, we lift up the next generation, Lord. Just seeing even the statistics of depression, anxiety and suicide that is spiking, Lord. We stand in the gap on behalf of Gen Z and Gen Alpha and say this far and no more spirit of death. Lord, we ask for the fullness of the down payment of what you started even earlier in this year. God, starting at Asbury when Gen Z was lit on fire for your presence and your holiness and the power of God. And we saw that fire spread to Kalamazoo and so many other cities. Lord, where you are doing a deep work and commissioning and ascending of Gen Z. And God, we ask, Lord, that you would finish what you have started. Lord, you said in the last days you would pour out your spirit on all flesh. And you spoke about the sons and you spoke about the daughters that would see visions and dream dreams. And that you would pour out your spirit on the main servants, Lord. The young people, there would be an outpouring of your presence and your spirit. So Lord, we stand as intercessors. We stand in the gap, Lord. And we ask for you to send revival to Gen Z and Gen Alpha. Lord, we ask that you would send a spirit of Elijah, Lord. We turn our hearts toward them, but we initiate the process. The fathers and mothers turning toward them and say, you will live and not die. We don't hate you. We're not disappointed in you. But we, as the next generation, we look and we say, we want you to go further. We want you to run harder. We want you to go deeper into the heart and the presence of God than we ever did. We want to see you walk in greater purity than we ever walked in. So Lord, we ask, Lord, in this generation, would you send the spirit of Elijah in the name of Jesus? What you start is God of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Father of glory may give the spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of him. If the eyes of your understanding would be in the light of his calling and the riches of the glory of his inheritance and the saints. And what is the exceeding brightness of his power toward us who believe according to the working of his mighty power? God, I specifically isolate that phrase, the hope of his calling. God, I ask, Lord, that you would reveal the hope of your calling for each and every student at junior high camp right now. I think of what it says in Acts that David accomplished all the purposes of God in his generation. Lord, he fulfilled the hope of his calling. Lord, I ask for testimonies for each one of these junior hires that they fulfilled all that God had for them in their generation. God, I ask that you would just remove the cloud of hopelessness, remove the cloud of doom and gloom. Lord, that you would remove that spirit of death that is telling them that their life is only going to get worse and harder. They're not going to be able to overcome and they don't have any, they should just give up and their faith will be so difficult that it won't even be worth it. Lord, that constant barrage of hopelessness, Lord, that you would break in and reveal the hope of your calling. Lord, even at a junior high camp, Lord, that you would call worship leaders. Lord, you would call pastors, you would call missionaries, you would call preachers of the gospel, you would call evangelists. Lord, you would call teachers of the word. Lord, we ask for the fivefold ministry. Lord, the calling of God to be revealed. Lord, I ask that you would reveal the glory of being a worshiper and the glory of being an intercessor. Lord, we know that being a worshiper and intercession isn't a calling, Lord, it's an identity. And so, Lord, we ask that you would raise them up, secure in the identity of Christ. Lord, that you would tear down every false thought that exalts itself above the knowledge of God. Lord, I ask for every lie of gender ideology, Lord, every lie of sexuality outside of the written word of God. Every word curse spoken over students, Lord, who are now struggling with those thoughts. Lord, we ask that you would remove them, Lord, and that you would instill identity as sons and daughters. God, I ask that you would reveal the hope of your calling in the name of Jesus. Sure, these students and sing this chorus to worship and just go back into intercession for the next generation. I want to encourage you, I call it intercessory worship, but I love as we're singing worship songs to actually continue to picture the next generation and even prophesying worship over them, prophesying these phrases. I want to invite you to stand in the room as we join in together and worship. So every dream you are worthy of a generation you are worthy. Thank you for the cross, Lord. We thank you for your grace that empowers us to love you and to worship you even this moment. Thank you, Holy. We're just going to turn now and go back into a time of intercession and we're going to press into the heart of God for this next generation. Praying from Exodus chapter 33. Beginning in verse 10, it says, When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance of the tent, that's the presence of God, the glory of God. All the people would arise and worship each at the entrance of his tent. And thus the Lord used to speak to Moses face to face just as a man speaks to his friend. And when Moses returned to the camp, his servant Joshua, the son of Nun, a young man, would not depart from the tent. And so, Lord, we are leaning into your heart for a generation God who, like young Joshua, would be marked by your presence, would stay and linger and esteem that place of encounter with you above all else. God, we're asking that you would open up the heavens, that you would pour out grace upon our sons and our daughters, upon our grandchildren God and those yet to be born in this generation. I'm asking Father that they would be graced, even as Joshua was graced, to abide, to stay, to linger in your presence, to esteem it more than any other. Counterfeit love, Lord, that this world has to offer. Like David, God, they would say all the days of my life I desire to be in your house, to be in that place where you encounter us face to face as a friend. God, would you raise up a generation like John the Baptist, who are friends of the bridegroom, who speak to you in that place of intimacy friend to friend. Oh Lord, we're asking, open up the heavens, pour out grace upon a generation to tarry with you, to abide with you in Jesus' name. Let's lift our voice. This is our cry, sons and daughters, baby's gone, presence, intimacy with you, and diapers gone, the junior hires got it in their generation, so as watchmen on the list seek you above. This come before you as the older generation. And we ask your forgiveness, God, for not esteeming those altars, those places of encounter before our children. Lord, forgive the barren altars in our homes, and forgive the prayerlessness in our cities. God, I'm asking that you would recapture the hearts of the older generation. God, that you would re-institute that priestly ministry in us, the moms and dads and grandmas and grandpas, spiritual moms and dads. Lord, we've taught them to preach and we've taught them to evangelize and we've taught them about missions and those Bible stories, but Lord, forgive us for not teaching them to love your presence, to minister to you, God, as Samuels and Joshua's and David's. Lord, I'm asking that you would pour out your spirit on the older generation now. God, that we would take the hands of those coming behind us and lead them to the altars of worship and prayer, that we would set the example with our own lives, God, and that we would raise up those altars in our families and extended families, God. Give grace as seek and send is on the horizon, Lord. I'm asking, would you begin to pour out grace even now to raise up those home altars and this altar, God, that you would move upon your people, God, the moms and dads and grandmas and grandpas that we would say it's good to go to the house of the Lord. It's good to minister in worship and prayer, that we would lead them as Moses led Joshua into the tent of meeting, to encounter your presence, Lord, to disciple in worship and prayer, to raise up little priests like Hannah made a little robe for Samuel, that priestly robe, God, I'm asking, give grace to the older generation to pave the way to the altars again. We ask in Jesus' name, generation by generation, capture our hearts, families ministering to your hearts in our cities as an older generation to lead those behind us like Moses, thus grace. Thank you, Lord, that the zeal for your house consumes you, but you will help us in our weakness. You will pour out grace, God, to raise the altars in our home and in our individual hearts and in our city. You will pour out grace upon this next generation to run further than we have run, to abide with you and stay with you and minister to your heart to be that prophetic generation of acts too. I thank you, Lord, that you are faithful to your word. And we thank you for this hour and this privilege to minister to your heart, to agree with you in the place of prayer. All that is transpired, I ask that you would multiply it, God, many times over in this very place across our city, in our homes, in the cities represented on the live stream, God, we thank you that you are raising up your people, God, to tarry in your presence and to build your house of prayer in this hour. And we bless you and we count you worthy of it all in Jesus' name. Thank you for praying with us this morning. We're back here at noon and 6.30 tonight. We would love to worship and pray with you right here. God bless you all.