 This morning, I want to begin by reading out of Psalm 107 and I'm gonna read actually nine verses Starting verse one the psalmist says oh give thanks to the Lord for he is good For his steadfast love endures forever Let the redeemed of the Lord say so whom he has redeemed from trouble and Gathered in from the lands from the east and from the west from the north and from the south Some watched in desert waste finding no way to a city to dwell in hungry and thirsty their soul fainted within them Then they cried to the Lord in their trouble and he delivered them from their distress He led them by a straight way till they reached a city to dwell in Let them let them thank the Lord for his steadfast love for his wondrous works to the children of man For he satisfied he satisfies the longing soul and the hungry soul he fills with good things Jesus we thank you that Throughout history Regardless of where we've been and what we've been through this is all of our testimony We have cried out to you and you have delivered us from our distress Lord at some point all of us weren't in trouble We found ourselves in our own desert waste We found ourselves dry and dehydrated we found ourselves Fractured and broken we found ourselves wasting from within and Lord at some point we cried out to you and Lord you responded to us We didn't deserve a response We didn't even deserve your ear, but Lord you heard us and you responded to us Lord you redeemed us you saved us And so Lord right here right now we reflect back on that time and we say Lord Thank you for your steadfast love Thank you for your steadfast love We didn't earn it. We didn't do a dang thing to deserve it Lord We didn't do anything we couldn't have but Lord you showed up you entered it you entered into That place and you saved us you snatched us out So Lord we thank you Lord the redeemed right now we say so we say that your steadfast love endures forever We say that you are good Even in the midst of trouble even in the midst of desert wastelands even in the midst of pain and problems Even in the midst of war We say you remain good You remain good Right now. I just want you whether you're in this room or you're online Maybe you're at home or you're in your car at work just with your voice as The redeemed Say so say he is good Lift up your voice Like let the oxygen that has filled your lungs cause the vocal cords that God has given you to make sound Let that air Cause those vocal cords to vibrate and create sound and just begin to lavish the lower Thanksgiving Just begin to thank him Rehear go go back over your past and remember the desert wasteland that he pulled you out of the desert waste that he saved you from And just begin to thank him Thank him We thank you Jesus We thank you Lord your presence with Thanksgiving right now We thank you Jesus in directions to East the West the North and the South We're gathered here to testify of your goodness. We're gathered To praise you for you are good you Jesus Saved us from our trouble. We thank you Lord everyone else abandoned us You showed up to us Back to us you ran to us with sinners you came and you died for us. We thank you Jesus We thank you in our feet to march on the cadence of Thanksgiving Not distress not trouble not discouragement not depression not anxiety not worry not fear we command our feet To march at the cadence of Thanksgiving Saints join together attitude Thank you Jesus To a locked up part. It's the trumpet sound to the highest wall is the key to a locked up part It's the trumpet sound to the highest wall It's the trumpet sound five says Lord You're gracious and merciful You are slow to anger a bounding and set fast love You are good to all and your mercy is over all that you have made Lord we thank you for your mercy. We thank you for your goodness. We thank you For your a bounding steadfast love That never ceases that never slows down that never stops that never takes a vacation But never takes a nap Lord we thank you for your steadfast love Lord with the reality of your steadfast love Change us change the way we think change the way we see Change the way we act change the way we talk would it change everything about us Would it not just be something that we read would it not be just something that we say but Lord like a hammer Nail into a board Lord would would with your steadfast love penetrate us Lord to God and shake us Lord God would you strike us with your steadfast love today? With your abounding mercy Shock us this morning Lord. We invite you to shock us We ask you to shock us you are gracious and you are so merciful And Lord we confess that we are so often forgetful About gracious and merciful you are you are good You are so good And we thank you for your goodness But it doesn't depend on it who we are or how we act your goodness is Because you are good You are truly holy completely entirely good You are good. I want to Shift our focus right now and be very intentional with our time And as we've been doing as a church and especially in the prayer room we've been We've been interceding. We've been praying for Israel I want us to continue to do that this morning in Psalm 144 the Psalmist says Val your heavens oh Lord and come down touch the mountains so that they smoke Flash forth the lightning and scatter them Send out your arrows and route them Stretch out your hand from on high rescue me and deliver me from the many waters from the hand of foreigners Whose mouths speak lies and whose right hand is a right hand of falsehood Jesus right now we We intercede for Israel what I pray that right now you would rend open the heavens and you would descend upon that land Lord would you touch the very ground and make it shake make it quake make it smoke as King David wrote in the song Lord would you flash forth with bursts of lightning would you would you scatter? The enemies of your chosen people would you send forth arrows from heavens from the heavens Lord and Route the enemy that is before them that is conspiring and assembling together To inflict pain and devastation Whose literal mantra Lord is to wipe out your people from the face of the earth would you stretch out your hand from on high Lord Would you rescue them would you deliver them from the waters Lord that are cascading down upon them to drown them? To ruin them Lord out of their mouths they speak lies Just like King David said whose their right hand Lord is full is full of falsehood Lord would you stop them would you get in their way? Lord would you route them the same way that you continued over and over again to route the Philistines and the Midianites and the Amalekites? Lord would you get in their way? Would you cause confusion among their ranks Lord would you protect your people you would protect them that you would save them That you would rescue them Jesus Your chosen people and Lord through this moments of trouble through this moment of despair would you reveal your son to them? Would you soften their hearts? Would you become a hardened with unbelief Lord? Through you rescuing them Through you saving them through you routing the enemy before them Lord would you soften their hearts Lord would you use? This moment to soften the hearts of the Jewish people Lord to see your son See your son Lord in and to soften their hearts in such a way where their unbelief Becomes shattered and they see your son Jesus for who he is their Messiah the Savior of the world Who entered into their time to save them? Israel's hearts to be turned Soften them Lord open up their minds To see you at work this very day Jesus name been to that chorus that Olivia just saying first part is fairly easy for many of us the second part is Oftenly difficult Lord you taught us in Matthew 5 verse 43 you said you've heard it Said you shall love your neighbor and hate your enemies, but I tell you to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you So that you may be sons of your father who is in heaven For he makes his son rise on the evil and the good and sends rain on the just and the unjust Lord we We pray for Israel, but Lord we also pray for those who are persecuting and attacking Israel right now Lord I've seen videos and testimonies of you getting in the way of attackers and I've seen Testimonies of men who were ready To be martyrs for the devil and you stepped in and they saw you They saw a picture of you Just like you did with would you do it with Hamas would you do with Hezbollah would you do it with this? Islamic Jihad Lord God would you Lord God reveal yourself to the enemies who are attacking your people Would you show up Lord God and get in their way? Would you be a bright light that blinds them a? beautiful bright light that blinds them it causes them to stop From the evil that they are bent on committee Lord would you would you save them would you reveal your heart to them Lord would you reveal your son to them Lord? Right now we rebuke the devil who has blinded them We rebuke the anti-Semitic spirit that they are being driven by the ancient hatred of Hamid perpetual Hatred of Philistia Lord we rebuke that spirit from Kalamazoo, Michigan right now. We rebuke the spirits Over those group you cue Get your hands off of those people in the name of Jesus and Lord I pray that you would step in right now whether they're in a room or they're sleeping Lord Would you give them dreams and visions would you reveal yourself to them when they turn their lives to you Lord? Reveal yourself to your people reveal yourself to your enemies in Jesus name reveal yourself To your better Jesus Lord your word says that It's your desire that not one should perish but all should have everlasting life Your word also tells us that you take no pleasure in the death of the wicked over again says This line then They would know that you are Lord Lord our prayer for our enemies right now is that they would know you as Lord Then they would not only denounce Nounce them, but Lord that they would surrender their lives to Jesus Jesus that you would reveal yourself to them Your unending perfect Love for them your steadfast love God Lord would you reveal your heart to them? Would you reveal your son to our enemies Lord God the enemies that are in camp around Jerusalem? Would you reveal yourself to them Lord? Would you reveal yourself to them Holy Spirit? Would you break in to their plans? To their war rooms and would you reveal Jesus to them Lord? We pray for our enemies Lord. We hand you our anger. We hand you our frustration We hand you even the wrath that some of us have been filled with in This time and we say Lord give us a heart from give us your heart This says you don't want any to perish, but you know life give us that It's your heart for our enemies Lord. Give us your heart our enemies Lord break us shatter shake us Give us your heart Soften our hearts Lord God Inventation for all of us just to ask the Lord to say Lord Soften my heart for my enemies Give me a heart for those. I don't understand. Give me a burden for those who are bent on Destruction and death Give me to pray for my enemies Not hate my enemies, but pray for my enemies That they may come to know you Soften our hearts Lord Soften our hearts even here at home Lord Toward those we don't understand or those we don't agree with Those who even persecute us flicked us Contrum tales about us Or attack us or accost us or mock us We don't vote like us See things like us agree with us Lord, give us a heart for people that people may come to know you You wouldn't say they're enemies of ours Give us a heart for them To cry out for them to pray for them to truly be watchmen on the wall to stand in the gap On behalf of them and you are almighty, holy, completely awesome, awesome, awesome God Give us a heart Lord May the reality of your awesomeness and your holiness change our perspective Change our way of thinking Awesomeness in your holiness Ruin us the way that it did Isaiah There's moment when he saw you with the throne Isaiah saw and encountered in your throne room At the same effect on us May it cause us to say wall to me Is our God And oh our God Oh sing with me Is our God Is our God Oh, you're the We just thank you God for being so good For being so great Isaiah 62 verse 6 says on your walls. Oh Jerusalem. I have set watchmen All the day and all the night they shall never be silent you who put the Lord in Remembrance take no rest and give him no rest until he establishes Jerusalem and makes it a praise in the earth Going to the end there in verse 11 It says the behold the Lord has proclaimed to the end of the earth say to the daughter of Zion Behold your salvation comes Behold his reward is with him and his recompense before him and they shall be called the holy people The redeemed of the Lord and you shall be called sought out a City not forsaken so Lord. We just praise you in this moment We praise you that you have not forgotten your people We praise you that you are a God who keeps his promises that you were a God who keeps his covenantal Bond with the people of Israel and so Lord we intercede for the people of Jerusalem We intercede for the people of Israel that they are your holy people that they will come to a realization Of your son Jesus Christ that through him they will receive their full inheritance with you Father we pray against the schemes of the enemy the lies of the enemy that say Hamas or the Islamic jihad are stronger because we know that you are stronger We know that when you are with your people there is no one that can stand against you And so Lord as watch them on the wall in this moment We say the Lord have your way Lord step in and have the victory that only you can have Lord we say that Jesus name will be made known through the Middle East We say that Jesus's name will be the only name proclaimed in that region because you will have your way Lord one day every knee will bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord of the glory of God the father And so we proclaim that right now in Jesus name your will be done your power move forth Your victory be seen in Israel your victory be seen cascaded across borders cascaded across countries Where you will be made famous and that you will be proclaimed Lord of all the earth in Jesus name Jesus No man can show show yourself strong on there be half Jesus Show yourself strong on there be half Jesus Have your way can show show yourself strong on there be half Jesus sure no man can shut show yourself strong on there yourself strong on there we have Jesus first one for Zion's sake will not keep silent for Jerusalem's sake I will not be quiet until her righteousness goes forth as brightness and her salvation as a burning torch the nations shall see your righteousness and all the kings are glory and you shall be called a new name that the mouth of the Lord will give Lord for Zion's sake we will not keep silent for Jerusalem's sake we will not be quiet Lord we stand in the gap on behalf of this land on behalf of these people on behalf of this territory Lord and Lord we lift up to you their burden their pleas their needs their what they're going through their pain their problems we lift you them up to you Lord God we will keep praying and we will keep prophesying for Israel we will keep lifting up their name to you Lord God standing in the gap on their behalf Lord we lift them up to you Lord we say we love them we say we love them when we bless them Lord your word promises us Lord that those who bless Israel you will bless we bless them Lord we bless them because you love them we bless them because you've chosen them so we bless them Lord we bless them Lord would you break through Lord would you shine through in this dark moment would you do something that only you can do would you shut the mouth of the lion would you step on the head of the serpent right now that is it that is attacking them and trying to poison them and stop them Lord God and cause them to cease from existing Lord God Lord God we pray for Zion's sake we pray for Jerusalem's sake in Jesus mighty name that all the world would see from the balcony of heaven no one praying no one standing in the gap no one interceding no one doing what they have been called to do Lord I pray that you would look down upon us and you would find us in the very exact opposite place that you would find us on the wall that you would find us standing in the gap that you would find us interceding day and nights on the walls Lord that you would hear from us that you would hear us Lord God regularly crying out for Zion crying out for Jerusalem crying out for their salvation crying out for their hearts to be softened crying out for belief Moses and see their Messiah let them turn for Moses and see their Messiah Lord open their eyes to their Messiah open their eyes Lord Lord we ask you for Paul's desire for his people who in Romans 10 said my heart's desire and prayer to God for them being Israel is that they may be saved Lord would you give us that same heart that same desire Lord that we would desire for all of Israel to be saved that we would desire that we would burn for them to be saved that we would truly our hearts would ache for Israel that our hearts would ache for the Jewish people to see salvation to come and to know their Savior Jesus Christ give us a heart give us a burden for them Lord give us your heart for them that we would be able to say our desire just like Paul said and our prayer for them is that they would be saved Lord we know that right now you are at work all over Israel Tel Aviv Jerusalem on the west bank in Gaza you're at work all over that area right now we may not see it we may not understand it but i know we will someday Lord we know that you're at work because you never take a day off you never take a second off you are always at work among your people and for your people it's the Lord I pray that right now even though we may not see it the way we want to see it Lord I pray that you would open up our eyes and open up our hearts that you would reveal it to us that we would begin to see your mighty outstretched arm of salvation upon your people and upon that land that we would see you at work Lord reveal it to us open up our eyes to it Lord open our hearts to it read this as a close over Israel but over us over Kalamazoo confess with your mouth this Romans 10 verse 9 you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believing your heart that God raised him from the dead you will be saved for with the heart one believes and is justified and with the mouth one confesses and is saved for as scripture says everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame for there is no distinction between Jew and Greek for the same Lord is Lord of all bestowing his riches on all who call on him for everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved Lord we call upon your name and we pray that Israel would call upon your name in Jesus name thank you for joining us this morning whether you're in this room and we travail together or you're online maybe you're at home or in your office from the car we thank you for joining us we'll be back in the prayer room today at noon and at 6 30 tomorrow morning i'm a live stream i want to encourage you to come down and join us if you're able in the prayer room to gather together to call out to God together from the heart of our city together be blessed