 Michigan where prayer worship enters this morning as we're honing it on the presence of the Lord today. I want to remind us of Deuteronomy chapter 6. This is the ancient command that God gave to his people called the Shema and in verse 4 he says, hero Israel the Lord your God the Lord is one and you shall love the Lord your God. This is the greatest commandment later on when Jesus was asked what the greatest commandment is. This is what he quotes that you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart all your soul all your strength and with your mind as well. Why is this the greatest command? Because what God is really after is he's after every part of us. He doesn't want us to love him in a compartmentalized way with just one part of our life or one period of our life. He wants all of us and when we stop this morning and we think about the way that God has loved us. John writes in 1st John, it's not that we loved him but that he loved us first. Well how did God love us first? He didn't love us with just part of who he was. He gave all that's demonstrated through Jesus, the suffering servant, Son of God, fully God, fully man stretched out on the cross beams of the cross. If you've ever wondered what total love and total forgiveness and holistic love looks like, it looks like the cross. It looks like nothing withheld, nothing hindering every part of us. And so today as we approach God, we're not giving him something that is extraordinarily over and above what we could ever ask or think in our own selves. Think to ourselves, wow, that's a lot to ask. No, we're actually giving back to God in response to what he's given to us. He desires us that we would love him with our heart, our soul, our strength, every part of us today. And the only way that we're able to love God is because he empowers us with his love. And so today you don't have to muster it. Today you don't have to try and conjure this love up. God says, I want you to love me like this. And then when we say God, I don't even know how to love you like that. God says, let me love you and give you the strength and the grace that you need to love me the way I want to be loved. All I'm looking for is your yes. And so today we're going to just give God our yes. We're saying, Father, today here we are. And you are one. You are total. You are. There's nothing separated. There's nothing divided in who you are. Your affections for us are not divided. You're not 70% convinced that you love us. You love us the same way that you love Jesus. You love us with everything that you are. And today, Lord, we're asking you, would you meet us in this place of prayer with the grace and the strength and the power of your love that enables us to love you that way, with all of our heart, with all of our soul, with all of our strength. That's how we want to love you. God. And we confess that we're so easily distracted and words like love fall easily from our lips. But Lord, if you would empower us, we want to give our praise, our love and our adoration back to you. We want to give you everything that blesses and touches your heart. We want undivided hearts, affection and love towards you. So come and receive the incense and offering of our worship this morning in Jesus' name. Back his name and releasing the power of his name. There's power in the name of Jesus. At his name, demons flee. At his name, dead things live. At his name, diseases heal. At his name, dead things come back to life. To scratch the surface of knowing the strength of his name. David sings this song in Second Samuel chapter 22 where he says, for who is God except the Lord and who is a rock except our God. God is my strength and power and he makes my way perfect. He makes my feet like the feet of the deer and he sets me on high places and he teaches my hands to make war so that my arms can bend a bowl of bronze. His name in your mouth, his name in your song releases strength and it's how we make war. When the enemy wants you to put other names in your mouth, cancer, situations that seem insurmountable, doubt, discouragement and fear, the names of a person, the name of a loss, then he gets the victory. But when you as a child of God put the name of the Lord who is a strong tower in your mouth that begins to wage war against the enemy and it releases life into your soul. I want us to sing. We're going to continue along this vein. There's no other name than the name of Jesus. Come on, let's sing that. Let's declare that. Name of Jesus over our children. The name of Jesus over marriages. The name of Jesus over jobs, careers, health, finances. Lord, it's your name. It's your name that shakes the very gates of hell. It's your name that dispels sickness and disease, depression and anxiety and darkness and heaviness. And right now in the name of Jesus, Lord, would you write your name over the doorposts of our house and over our families and over our homes today, Lord. We prayed over our spouses for those of us who are married, those of us who are single. Lord, you said that you, you move in and you fill the gap. You're the, you're the caretaker to the widow. You're the father to the fatherless. You're the husband to the widow. You're everything that we need. Your name is salvation. We pray over prodigals this morning. Lord, release salvation in the lives of prodigals right now in the name of Jesus to the captives. Lord, your name is freedom and we pray freedom that the prison doors of deception and lies and manipulation and false religions and idolatry and sin that so easily besets us right now. We declare prison doors open in the name of Jesus. We pray for vision to be restored. Lord, we pray for those who've lost help, for those who've seen a way out, for those who don't believe that tomorrow can be better. We pray, Lord, you said that you came to give sight to the blind. We pray in the name of Jesus right now, eyes would be opened. Hope would be restored. Truth like light would fill the pupils of the souls of people who've been spiritually blinded by the god of this age right now. And we say in the name of Jesus, we plead the name of Jesus over prodigals and over captives. And Lord, we pray right now for those who are sick and infirm. If you're in the room or if you're at home right now and there's a sickness, a disease, there's something that has been afflicting you physically right now. I want you to just put your hand on that part of your body or put your hand on your forehead. And if it's somebody in your family, you just stand in proxy for them right now in the name of Jesus, the name of the resurrected savior, healer. We pray healing in the name of Jesus, not in our name, but in Jesus' name, the Son of the Living God, Jehovah Rafa, by his stripes. Pray that right now, that Lord, wherever we're at that you would release a healing virtue and anointing that breaks every yoke, every infirmity. Lord, that it would break every sickness and disease. Let your kingdom come. Let healing come. There's no other name. Name is powerful. Come on, wherever you're at, I want you to just lift up your hands and lift up your own voices and just begin to praise him and put his name on your lips this morning. I think God is wanting to break some things. Matthew chapter nine starting verse thirty-five. It says in Jesus went through all the cities and villages teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom and healing every disease and every affliction. When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them because they were harassed and helpless. Jesus, right now, I lift up to you all the people in this room, all the people online in their cars, in their offices at home who are being harassed and or who are helpless right now. We lift them up to you Lord God and we ask for the kingdom to invade that space and to heal disease, to heal sickness Lord God whether it be what we call a common cold or whether what we call cancer, we command whatever the sickness, whatever the illness is that is harassing them to bow at the name of Jesus. You are to dry up. You are to be burned out. You are to flee at the name of Jesus Lord. I pray that the kingdom that your kingdom space that it would invade their bloodstreams, that it would invade their cells Lord God, that it would invade every area of the body Lord right now and that healing would happen. You were not just once Jehovah Rafa. You are Jehovah Rafa. You are the God who heals. So Jehovah Rafa we call upon your name. Jesus would you heal? Would you heal Lord? Pressure? Would you heal anxiety Lord God? We ask you to heal. Would you have compassion on us this morning? You have to bow. Disease. You have to flee. Cast yourself off into the abyss for our degrees. The chest tisement of our peace was put upon you and by your stripes. No one stands even close to you. Beaks of better things than the blood of bulls and goats. Your sacrifice once and for all has given us right standing before the Father. It's washed away our sins. It's cleansed our wounds. It's given us eternal life full of blood that gives us strength from day to day. It will never lose its power. Thank you for the blood that you shed Jesus. Thank you for the spotless Lamb of God. The blood over our city. Blood over southwest Michigan. Lord right now in the name of Jesus we pray that the blood that you shed Jesus would speak of salvation over our city. Stronger than sin. Stronger than every demonic force. Stronger than every demon in hell. Stronger than the wisdom of man. Stronger than the strategies of Satan. The blood, the blood, the blood. It speaks of better things. It says life. It says salvation. It says healing. It says reconciliation. Restoration. And we plead the blood right now. Plead the blood over every elementary school. We plead the blood over every middle and high school. We plead the blood over western Michigan University. Over K College. Over Kelamazoo Valley Community College. Over Kellogg. We plead the blood in the name of Jesus. Over every church that bears the name of Jesus. We say Lord you are worthy to receive the rewards of your suffering Jesus. And Father we pray that as we remind you of the blood and as the blood speaks you will release revival, passion, conviction, angelic ministry that begins to dispel the darkness over this city and release the kingdom of God. The blood, the blood, the blood of Jesus. Oh the blood of Jesus. Precious, beautiful, powerful. Jesus it's your blood. We're also praying that over our city and over this generation that their home 119 says beginning in verse number 105. Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path. I have sworn and confirmed that I will keep your righteous judgments. I am afflicted very much. Revive me oh Lord according to your word. Accept I pray the free will offering of my mouth. Oh Lord we're praying today that you would revive us. Revive your church. Revive your people back to a love for you and a hunger for your word. God your word is the only lamp that guides our decisions and every step of our life. And Lord there is a desperate need in this hour for a revival of the Bible. A revival of your word. And it begins with a hunger and a thirst in the hearts of your people. Lord we've become fat and filled with all kinds of other things. With every other voice we become seduced by the idols of our culture and the voices that they speak with the prophets and the priests of the spirit of this age. Their words mean more to us than your words and Lord we repent today. On behalf of your church and we say Lord restore back to us. A reverence and a hunger for your word in this hour. We want to be like David who said Lord your word is perfect even unto the converting of our souls. We believe that Lord that your statutes are beautiful. That forever Lord your word is settled in heaven. Lord you're not changing it and you're not shifting it but your word is faithful throughout all generations to guide our steps to instruct us to keep us in the way to keep a young man from sitting against you. Lord it's the answer for every generation and Lord we desperately need that our hearts to be stirred to move away from the cotton candy and the junk food of this culture that makes us sick and infirm and to return back to the meat of your word and to the living bread our daily bread of your word. Lord revive us again according to your word revive us again i'm praying that people would be stirred in their homes in their beds at night for it with a hunger saying i've got to get into the word i've got to grow i need more i need answers i want to know what god says about this i want to please him i want to bless him and i need to know what's on his heart i want to know who he is i want to know what's important to him so father restore it in your church in this hour anorexia where we would not feeding on your word but you said it man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god and lord we have deep need of your word because that's where revelation of who you are and what pleases you because david writes this song 119 verse 113 i hate the double-minded but i love your law you are my hiding place in my shield and i hope in your word lord today we don't want to be double-minded they're tossed to and fro unstable in all of our ways we don't want to be divided in the way that we think we need revelation from your word james one you said let us receive with meat is the implanted word of god which is able to save our souls god we want our mind our will and our emotions submitted to the lordship of jesus we don't want to be double-minded where we love you with our heart but our mind and our decision-making and our wills have been shaped by this world and by the devil and by corruption lord we want our hearts to be converted and renewed we hate the double-minded we confess our double-mindedness and lord our hope is in you today you alone are hiding place in our shield and we hope in your word your word is life your word is true your word is spirit it's sharper than any two-ingit sword separating soul from spirit and flesh from bone and lord come let your word have its way in us planet deeply in us we hope in your word today not just information but we're praying for the spirit of a revelation lord would you write your word on the tablets of our roots down deep that our eyes would be turned towards your word like in the middle of the night we'd say i need his word throughout all the day it's like there's a hunger to go back to it stir and restore that hunger for your word and the hearts of your people today thing invites you today and noon tonight at 6 30 p.m as we continue to pray morning noon and night here from the heart of our city those of you who are here in the room today with us we're about to head into a divo session a devotional session and you're welcome to stay if you're if you're not staying we're going to ask that all talking and that conversations go out in the lobby but we're grateful that you are here today thank you so much