 Good to be with you this morning. Thank you for being in the Ridean City Center prayer room for those watching online. Welcome, we're gonna open in Psalm 105 this morning. As we love the scripture and love reading, singing and praying the scriptures. This morning it says, Oh, give thanks to the Lord. Call upon his name. Make known his deeds among the peoples. Sing to him, sing praises to him. Tell of all his wondrous works. Glory in his holy name. Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. Seek the Lord in his strength. Seek his presence continually. Remember the wondrous works that he has done, his miracles and the judgments he uttered. Father, we thank you today. We thank you. Oh, that we would give thanks to you and we call upon your name. We just take a moment to attune ourselves to the Lord, to connect with you, to look upon you, to lift our gaze to you and to even sing to you this morning. God would not just be worship music in the background, but would it be an offering? Would it be incense lifted up before you today? That we would glory in your name. Let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice. We rejoice in you today. And we seek you, Lord, your strength and your presence continually. God, we thank you that your word is true today. It's truth that wells up on the inside of us. It bubbles up on the inside of us. And God, would it give breath and inhaling in and exhaling out in song and praise and exaltation to you, we bless you. Your wondrous works, your miracles, your judgments, your perfect in all your ways. We glory in the name of Jesus this morning. We bless you above all others. The distractions, circumstances, situations, God, would they evaporate before you in the presence of you, a holy God. Perfect with those things, God. Fall away so that our gaze can be securely in you this morning, God. We love you and we bless you when we lift up your holy name. Place could be anywhere else. Focus could be anywhere else, but it's a race to seek you. We thank you for your love that wells up and swells within us so that we might respond in love towards you. Thank you for your love. Thank you for your grace. Our only ability to seek you is because you have first sought us out. Today, we say that you're worth seeking. You're worth pursuing. You're what we need. You're our portion. You are the bread of life and we come to you and we come towards you today. In Hebrews 10, it says in verse 23, let us hold fast the confession of our hope without waiver for he who promised is faithful. God, we say today that we would have strength to hold fast, to not release, to not let it be open-handed. But God, we hold fast to the confession of our hope. You are our hope and without waiver. And you are the promised one and you are faithful. Even when we are faithless, you remain faithful to us. And I ask Lord today, as we enter into a time of prayer and of intercession that today we're holding fast to you, holding fast and not wavering our confession of hope. I wanna pray this morning for truth. There is an all out assault on truth. There's deceitful spirits, doctrines of demons and there is a war against truth. So I wanna open up in Ephesians 4 this morning that without wavering that we would hold fast true the truth of Jesus. Ephesians 4, 17. We're gonna read a couple of scriptures and just begin an intercession believing God to be in our midst and to answer these prayers. With much going on in our nation and around the globe we need truth in our midst. Ephesians 4, 17. Now this I say and testify in the Lord that you must no longer walk as Gentiles do in the futility of their minds. They are darkened in their understanding alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to their hardness of heart. Right now we pray for those believers that are existing in a hardness of heart. They're alienated, they're darkened in their understanding and God we pray those that are operating in ignorance those that are drifting in their understanding those that have had their hearts hardened those that have become calloused. God we're asking that you would break in and that the truth of Jesus would wash over them like water that cleanses, that brings refreshing times of refreshing in the midst of a callous season a hardness season would we break up our own fallow ground before you Lord and that the water of the Lord would come and soften the soil of our hearts. Let us not be hardened in our hearts any longer I ask Lord for the softening, the tenderizing Jesus we ask Lord that you are a God that tenderizes the heart and we pray that we would have humble hearts humble hearts that we would choose to clothe ourselves with humility and not harden our hearts. That when we hear the voice of the Lord that we would respond to you that we would not harden our hearts towards you God I'm asking break in tenderize let the water of heaven come let the ladder rain come Jesus we ask Lord for times of refreshing God in there's an offense there's an offense coming there's an offense happening towards those that are not abiding in truth and we ask Lord that truth would come in power truth will come in love truth will come in grace and we ask God come Lord Jesus come Lord Jesus tenderize our hearts before you we wanna hold fast to the truth hold fast to our confession of hope help us to see you, help us to know you and that we would not be dark in our understanding God open up our eyes to see open up our ears to hear the truth of Jesus will we not resist it but receive it in the name of Jesus we pray that in the light as Paul prayed in Ephesians 5 that they would walk as children of light taking no part of the unfulfilled works of darkness instead expose them God we ask Lord that the light of Jesus would bring to and bear light and it would bring exposure that truth would come into dark things that the darkness would be exposed with the light of Jesus and we pray that those things existing in the darkness will be brought to light we ask Lord that there will be fruit of the light we ask Lord that where there are things hidden unseen where there is a sensuality and there's greed and there's immorality God we ask Lord that things would come to the light be bored to the light and we ask Lord that nothing would be hidden even in our own lives let light shine in our hearts let light enter in into our souls God that we would not abide in any darkness but light would shine in dark places we need the truth of Jesus we need the truth of the light of Jesus in our midst and in our day God I contend for the light to be shown in dark places God God would you expose the enemy would you expose powers and principalities and would the truth overcome darkness in the name of Jesus bring light let the light of Jesus shine in the name of Jesus it's power there is power so let the light of Jesus come let the light shine come Lord Jesus verse 21 it says assuming that you have not you have heard about him and were taught in him as the truth is in Jesus the truth is Jesus and he does not share it with another we ask Lord that the things that try and exalt themselves above the name of Jesus above the truth of Jesus would be brought low in the name of Jesus that everything every tongue and tribe every power and principality every deceitful spirit every doctrine of a demon everything would be brought under the authority of Jesus Christ because it says that he holds all authority he is the truth and he holds it in his hands and the earth is his footstool and you are above it all and we say you sit on a real throne and you execute real truth and real justice and real mercy you're the only one that bears truth and you hold truth in you and we say that the truth is Jesus the truth is Jesus we proclaim it in power Holy spirit I pray that there will be a proclamation of the truth that is Jesus those that have had their eyes blinded from the truth let the blinders and the veil be taken off of their eyes those that have had ears that cannot hear where their death in their spirit I ask Lord that truth would pierce into their ears and that we suddenly awaken to the truth of Jesus let no longer them be asleep and in a slumber God wake them up to the truth of Jesus in this moment, in this day and in this hour there's an urgency of truth God there is an urgency of truth we need your truth and Jesus to be revealed be availed no longer with Jesus not be seen longer where there is been an attempt demonic attempt to shield people from knowing the truth God I pray that those things will be lifted off immorality that there will be a longing for confession a longing for confession to be set free pierce the heart open up the eyes and open up the ears and let truth in the name of Jesus truth let one name remain and it's Jesus alone the truth is in Jesus we pray visible for anything that becomes visible is light therefore it says awake oh sleeper and arise from the dead and Christ will shine on you God we pray right now for every person that has any darkness in them that it would come to bear and come to light and we say that there's a waking up of the sleeper those that have been allowed to sleep by darkness where darkness has come and put them to sleep spiritually we say this prophetically awake oh sleeper and arise from the dead and Christ will shine on you though you may be asleep we say awake wake up in the name of Jesus I want you right now if there's somebody in mind that you know that is asleep and slumbered to the truth and the reality of Jesus let's have that person in mind and we're gonna say it to them awake oh sleeper those that have fallen asleep to the truth those that have been lulled to sleep by darkness those that have found themselves in deceit God we say wake up the alarm clock hear it and wake up Dunung is now the time is here and we say wake up understand that there stands with clarity the times that we live in and wake up we say with a prophetic clarion call we say wake up those that are sleep Jesus wake them up by your places and wake them up no longer abide in darkness but in the light that they will walk in the light as children of the light we say and we proclaim in Jesus name over every person that you have in mind corporately we say wake up wake up God we wake up those that are slumbering and those that are have fallen asleep God you're waking them up by your spirit in the name of Jesus we're gonna move into Ephesians six verse 13 therefore take up the whole armor of God that you may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand firm verse 14 stand therefore and this is the first one having fastened on the belt of truth God we say today that each one of us today fastened on the belt of truth and even in an older generation where they would fasten and put a large bell across their entire belly God we ask Lord that you have girded us up in this time strengthening and standing firm in this time and we ask Lord that we would be belted in our inner being with the truth of Jesus that it holds us God it is what secures us it's the first thing that we put on it's truth that we would be clothed in truth in this hour and that we would not depart from truth so God around our innermost belly around our soul God we say that it's truth that we abided and it's truth that protects us and we ask Lord that right now you would help each one of us to fasten truth and that we would not abide in any other to see any other spirit but only in the spirit of truth God so we fasten on the belt of truth we fasten on the truth of Jesus and God where it has been maybe put off God that we would put on the belt today even I just want to each one of us to visually see we're putting on a belt of truth and we're going to be girded up right now in this hour against these times and in these times to have a belt of truth fastened to us help us help the believers in our city help the believers in America to hold fast to the belt of truth God we ask Lord for the truth of Jesus to rule and to reign in this time we pray and we ask for truth the power of the belt and fastened to us in the season and in this dark hour and in the midst of it we pray that truth would rule and reign we're going to spend time here returning to a place of worship and lifting up our voices to the Lord and bless him with our soul and bless him with our song and with our singing one day it's a blessed assurance it's the hope to which we cling we thank you for your kindness and your grace towards us God would we be reminded in heart and in mind Psalm 86 as we close in verse 11 it says teach me your way oh Lord that I may walk in your truth unite my heart to fear your name I give thanks to you oh Lord my God with my whole heart and I will glorify your name forever for great is your steadfast love toward me and you have delivered my soul from the depths of shield God teach us and unite us that we may walk in truth unite our hearts to fear your name and with our whole heart we say thank you just thanking the Lord as we close thank him for who he is thank you that he came as the Savior thank you that he is the truth and he is the word of the Lord in this hour we thank you that you come as light we thank you that you have woken us up from our sleep and that we are secure in Jesus that we would be united in heart to you and that we would take it as our great privilege to glorify your name great are you Jesus great is your steadfast love towards us and we bless you we just say that together we bless the Lord bless the Lord oh my soul we love you we bless you Jesus we honor you above all else we honor you bless you thank you for coming thank you for interceding for truth in this hour bless you that are watching online