 Let's go ahead and stand. Good morning everybody. Welcome to morning prayer. We're so glad you're joining us. As we just enter into the presence of the Lord, I just want to exhort us very briefly with just a few verses from a Psalm of David. In Psalm 57, the context here is a lot of external pressure for David. Saul is after him. He's hiding in the caves and I just want us to look at the posture of David's heart and just sort of grab onto that this morning, no matter what context we're facing in our own individual lives. And in verse seven, David says, my heart is steadfast, oh God. My heart is steadfast. And I will sing. Yes, I will sing praises. Awake, my glory. Awake, harp and lyre. I will awaken the dawn. And I will give thanks to you, O Lord, among the peoples. I will sing praises to you among the nations. For your loving kindness is great to the heavens and your truth to the clouds. Be exalted above the heavens, O God, and let your glory be above all the earth. And so Lord Jesus, we just thank you for this privileged hour to stand and to minister to your heart, to agree with you in your prayers as the great intercessor. And Lord, we just posture our hearts like David. We just say, Lord, we are steadfast, regardless of the context in our individual lives, the external and the internal pressures, regardless God of the challenges of culture and all that we're facing in our nation right now. Lord, we just make a declaration this morning at the altar that our hearts are steadfast as loyal lovers of Jesus and loyal worshipers of the living God. Lord, this morning we awaken the day to the sound of singing. We herald your praises in song and with our instruments this morning. Lord, we just choose, we make a choice to exalt you above all the external and internal pressures of life and culture. Over every circumstance and situation in our life, we just say, Lord, your loving kindness is great. Your truth and your faithfulness, it's unending. And we will exalt you this morning with one voice and one heart that is resolutely immovable in devotion to you and reverence to you in Jesus' name, amen. Hearts are resolute. Our hearts are steadfast this morning to make much of you, Jesus. In every season of the soul, in every context of our pilgrimage, Lord, our hearts are steadfast to make much of you, to exalt you over and above everything. Come what may, Jesus be exalted. Jesus be rightly adored, rightly worshiped. Your name, the highest name, your word, the final word and declaration. Love you, Lord. Love you, Jesus. Jesus. We're going to stay in that posture of worship and reverence and we're going to turn now just a little bit and we're going to go into a first prayer cycle where we're agreeing with this beautiful man and his heart for our city and his people in our city and those cities represented on the livestream this morning. We're going to ask the Lord for a revelation in the knowledge of himself, the knowledge of his beauty and worth to be imparted to us, his people in Kalamazoo and if you have your prayer manuals this morning, you can turn to Revelation chapter one. Revelation chapter one is when John, the apostle John is on the island of Patmos in exile and the Lord breaks in and he gives him a powerful revelation beginning in verse 10. I was in the spirit on the Lord's day and I heard behind me a loud voice like the sound of a trumpet saying right in a book what you see and send it to the seven churches verse 12. Then I turned to see the voice that was speaking with me and having turned I saw seven golden lamb stands and in the middle I saw one like a son of man clothed in a robe reaching to the feet girded across his chest with a golden sash. His head and his hair were white like white wool like snow and his eyes were like a flame of fire and his feet like burnished bronze that had been made to glow in a furnace. His voice was like the sound of many waters and in his right hand he held seven stars and out of his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining in its strength and when I saw him I fell at his feet like a dead man and he placed his hand on me saying do not be afraid I am the first and the last the living one I was dead and behold I am alive forevermore and I have the keys of death and of Hades and so Lord we thank you for this beautiful revelation of who you are we thank you for your transcendent beauty and holiness conveyed in the written word we thank you Holy Spirit that it is your joy to unveil this beautiful man to the bride of Christ and so we stand in agreement with the longing of your heart God that we would be a people who see and who hear and who respond rightly to the beauty and the worth that you possess so Abba here we are we're knocking and we're seeking and we're asking this morning for the outpouring of a spirit of revelation on your church in Kalamazoo, Michigan every representation God of your beautiful bride in this city and in the cities represented I'm asking Holy Spirit would you open spiritual ears to hear the voice of Jesus that voice like many waters that voice of Holy Spirit like a still small whisper God we're crying out open ears all across the city voice calling us today is the day of salvation to hear the voice comforting us to hear the voice singing over us and quieting us in love to hear the voice of eternal counsel and wisdom Holy Spirit open ears and let us hear the voice of this one we love in Jesus name ears to hear Lord give us ears of leaders and littles alike just everything Lord your voice breaks in and sets the trajectory of a prophetic generation your voice breaks in and turns souls into paws your voice quiets in love your voice shakes and splits the cedars so we're crying out God break in and open ears to hear the voice of Jesus the voice of Holy Spirit today in this chorus transcendent there is none you can compare to you in worth and beauty we love joining the heavenly sanctuary declaring your worth declaring your beauty oh you stand alone you stand alone beloved Abba your son is beautiful we love entering into this realm of beauty glory our voice is a sin you receive it as a precious offering last little bit of time of this privileged hour go back into a time of intercession pastor Garrett shared on Sunday from John chapter nine where Jesus healed the man who was born blind by spitting and putting mud on his eye creating quite the controversy with the religious leaders and one of the ways that Jesus is glorified and made much of in our cities and in our homes is through the outpouring of his power unto healing and so we just want to stand in the gap this morning and just cry out for the release of his healing power in his church in Kalamazoo healing for physical bodies healing for minds healings for broken hearts we're just gonna lean in now because it is his heart and by healing God is glorified he is seen and he is made much of John chapter nine the disciples asked Jesus if it was because of the man's sin or his parents sin that he was born blind and Jesus answers them in verse three it was neither that this man sinned nor his parents but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him and so Lord we just stand this morning in that with your heart that your way in the city of Kalamazoo in our homes our families our hearts our bodies our minds God we're asking that you would do what you love to do that you would be who you are the God who heals in this hour in this city in our very midst God we're asking that you would tear open the heavens that you would show yourself strong again through the release of healing power as you heal the sick as you heal the brokenhearted as you heal God those with mental handicaps and disabilities God we're asking break in and release a healing all throughout your people in Jesus name your church in Kalamazoo that you would fan your heart for healing that we would not give way to fear and doubt the Holy Spirit once again that we would move in healing power again that we would believe this city God surprise us would you just break out we're two or more church services that they would just become places of healing we would be amiss if we didn't ask if there's anyone gathered at the altar this morning who is in need of healing in your body is there anyone at all in the room we want to pray for you we don't want you to come to the house of prayer and then leave without receiving prayer anyone with sickness or any condition just raise your hand okay pastor Sunny okay can we just gather around those who have their hands raised and you guys can just begin to pray for them as I close out Lord we love you and we thank you for this hour we thank you for the privilege to sing your praises to declare with the hosts of heaven your worth and to agree with your heart is the great intercessor and Lord we ask that all that is transpired that it would be multiplied many times over in this place in our city in the cities joining us God via the livestream this morning that you would find a praying church God in the earth on earth as it is in heaven we love you Lord and we bless you in Jesus name amen thanks so much for joining us for morning prayer we're going to be back here at noon praying for the nations and then again tonight at 6 30 God bless you