 All right, good morning, Radiant Church. Welcome. Whether you're here in the room with us or at home, so glad that you just are up with us to seek the Lord together and to pray and worship as one church. Today, we're gonna be starting out of Psalm 121. So if you have your Bible as you can even be open to that. It says in Psalm 121, I will lift up my eyes to the mountains. From where shall my help come from? My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to slip. He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. And I just see here a picture of, even if you think of being able to look up to the hills, being able to look up means that you're not looking to the left or the right. You're not looking behind you, but you're looking up and there's even a journey that happens as you're going up the mountain. And in our pursuit of the Lord, we have to fix our eyes towards the hills. We have to fix our eyes towards him and not let our gaze wander to the left or to the right. And so this morning, I don't know where each of you are at, but can we fix our eyes upon the Lord? It may seem hard, it may seem difficult. You may be distracted by so many different things, but can we just focus our eyes, focus our heart, focus our attention, our affection on the Lord today? King Jesus, we look to you. We look to you, we set our eyes to the hills. We set our eyes upon Jesus. We don't want to be distracted. We don't want to be entertained. We don't want to be, lose our focus. We want to be fully focused upon you, Jesus. So capture our eyes this morning. Capture our hearts, capture our attention. Lord, I even pray where many of us may be experiencing hardship. Maybe there's anxiety, maybe there's confusion, maybe there's exhaustion, but Lord, we fix our eyes. Lord, we fix our eyes on Jesus. We know where our help come from. We know where we are sustained. We know where we are fulfilled. We fix our eyes. We fix our eyes on Jesus this morning. Praise and thanksgiving. Let our hearts meditate on the thanksgiving we have, the gratefulness we have. For while we were yet sinners, Christ died for the ungodly. Lord, we thank you that you spilt your blood for us. We thank you, Lord, that you have redeemed us. You have pulled us out of the myery clay. You brought us out of the pit of destruction. And not only that, you set our feet upon a rock. You have established us. How can we help but give you praise? How can we help but give you thanks? Brought us up, Lord. You have lifted us up. So we give you thanks. We give you adoration. We give you praise. Can you even just stir up within yourself the praise, the adoration, recognizing where he has brought you up from, recognizing who you are today. In Christ Jesus, you are a new creation. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. I'm not the same since I found Jesus. I'm not the same since he redeemed me. I am not the same. And so now I will act like a new creation. I will use my mouth for new purposes to bring the praise to your name, Lord. So we lift up our praise. We lift up a new song to the Lord. You've changed our whole outlook. You've changed our whole direction. We are now set on a path with the plans and purpose and the will of God leading and guiding us. Lord, I even love that this weekend, Pastor Lee just even directing us towards our purpose to be obedient to the Lord, to seek your path first, to seek after the Lord and his purpose for our life. God, we give you thanks that you've changed our outlook. You've set us on a path to be able to accomplish the purposes of God for our generation. So Lord, we set our eyes towards you, towards your purpose, towards your will. God, we ask that you would receive glory and honor in our obedience towards you. God, would you receive honor and glory in our lives? We ask that our lives would bring you praise. Lord, we ask for the alignment of our will and purposes with yours. Lord, we thank you that we were once blind. We were once deaf. We were once leading our own way. But now you have set us up on a rock. You have opened our eyes. You have opened our ears so that we can walk the purposes of God, the plans of God. So we set our heart towards the purposes of God right now that Jesus might receive glory in our homes, in our neighborhoods, in our workplace. King Jesus, receive the glory. Jesus, would you receive the glory in our workplace right now? Right now in our schools, would you receive the glory when our plans and purposes realigned with you, Jesus? We want everything in our lives to bring you glory. Can you even with your own words? King Jesus, use me for your glory. King Jesus, use me for your glory in my home. Use me for your glory in my workplace. We declare over the city of Kalamazoo, there is a people of God that are bringing God glory because we are aligned with your purposes. Lift this up in unity. Have your glory. Lift the name of Jesus high. Be seen, let him be known. In this vein, but even just turning this into a moment of intercession, of us praying over the city of Kalamazoo, that Jesus would be made famous across this city. And I just felt specifically that we were supposed to gather and pray together right now that the purposes of God would be accomplished in our city, that we would pray for God's will and divine purpose to come about in our city. It says in Matthew 18 verse 19, again I say to you that if two of you agree on earth about anything that they may ask, it shall be done for them by my Father who is in heaven. And in other places, if we would ask according to His will, can we pray and ask right now for the plans and the purposes and the will of God to be accomplished in the city of Kalamazoo. And the way I wanna do this is I wanna open up the mic actually, because I want to invite you to come up and boldly agree together in the prayers over our city, that God's purposes, God's plan to magnify His son would be accomplished. So I'm gonna open that up. If a few you'd like to come up and pray, I'll open us in prayer. Father, thank you so much that we get to partner with you in your plans and your purposes. God, we pray over the city of Kalamazoo. God, what's your plan? The plan of God be accomplished. God, what's your will? The will of God be accomplished. We wanna be a church that's in alignment with the purposes of God. We have our own plans. We have our own ideas. But we need the ideas of God. We need the plans of God. So in Jesus's name, I pray for the plans and purposes of God to be accomplished. But I just pray the prayer that you gave us, Lord, that your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. God, would you give us a humble spirit to submit to your will, not to carry our own agendas. But God, would you give us a spirit of humility as we pursue your kingdom? Yes, Lord, we long to see you magnified and lifted high in the city of Kalamazoo. Father, I just lift specifically those in the marketplace before you. And I ask Jesus that you would be magnified through the businesses, God, the corporate expressions, the private expressions, that Jesus, your kingdom principles, that your heart, that your glory would come to bear in and through these men and women in the marketplace. The kingdom funds would be generated, God, for your purposes and your will in this city that would glorify the name of your son in Jesus' name. Lord Jesus, we come and we link arms with your spirit today, Jesus, and the plans and the purposes that you have for Kalamazoo, Jesus. I just pray for pockets of communities that have already come together, God, that there would just be an even more internal linking of coming together and serving your kingdom, Jesus, where you're not quite known yet, but Lord, that you would just come to the surface, Jesus. We ask for community to be centered around you, Lord, and continuing to move through small businesses, God's and entrepreneurship, Jesus, that you would just be glorified in everything that's happening in the city, Lord, in your name. Kingdom of Kalamazoo will be done in the children, Father, in the schools, Lord, God, in the home schools, in the school buildings, Father, God, where your presence is, Father. We're covering over the kids, God, from the five and six-year-olds all the way up to the teenagers, Father, God, we just ask that you would awaken them, Father, God, to your hunger for you, God, that their minds would wander the things of truth, God, the things of life, God, and not to the things that are smashing them in the face, God, but they would see you in the midst of your glory and your beauty, God, and the love that you have for them. I just pray out of Jeremiah 33 that, God, you will cleanse Kalamazoo from all of the guilt of their sin against you and you will forgive all of the guilt of their sin and rebellion. And this city, Kalamazoo, shall be to you a name of joy, of praise, and of glory before all nations of the earth, who shall hear of all the good that I do for them, and they shall fear and tremble because of all of the good and prosperity that I have provided, for the voice of the bridegroom will be heard again in Kalamazoo, in Jesus' name. We just say that, Jesus, the voice of the bridegroom will be heard again in Kalamazoo. Would your voice break through? Would you break through the chaos in the clutter? Would the peace of your voice silence the chaos of Kalamazoo in Jesus' name when the voice of the bridegroom be heard again? My Father, as we are now starting Pride Month, I just pray for those that have ears to hear in our city, that we all need to lay down our identities, we all need to lay down our pride. Lord, you died for us, you gave everything, and we have to give everything. So I ask, there's anyone out there to hear, that if they need to hear Beckett Cook's testimony, that his videos would be pop up in the YouTubes and that they would come. They'd just say, I just have to come. Lord, draw them onto you. And I pray for your ministers in the streets to be available to those that need to hear your word, to go forth and minister to those in Jesus' name. We bless them, we bless them. Know that they are loved, they are deeply loved. We are all deeply loved, and we all need Jesus. And Lord, I pray for courage and faith to arise where obeying your will is costing a price. Yeah, I just pray grace for the church in Kalamazoo, God, where just obeying you is causing discord in families, in friendships, Lord, where there's mocking and persecution is arising. God, I just pray boldness. Father, that better is one day in your court than a thousand elsewhere, that we would deeply care about being in one accord with you, Jesus, and that all else would fall away in Jesus' name. My father, I thank you for every man, woman and child that you have called to this city, Lord Jesus, for such a time as this, God. I thank you that you're rising up a remnant, God. I thank you, God, for the fire that you're stirring inside of hearts, God, the fresh fire, Lord. Lord, I just pray that you would just continue, Lord, God, to help us empty ourselves of us, God, to be filled with the fullness of who you are, God, that as we go out, God, out of the corporate gathering, God, that our individual walks, God, would be light unto this world, Lord, God, unto this city, God, that we will be reminded, God, of that spirit that you put in us, the same spirit that rose Christ from the grave, that greater is you that is in us than he who was in this world, God, continue to give us a heart to strive for unity in the spirit, God, that you will be free to move among us, in us and through us, God, that we would set our own motives aside, God, and press into what you have for us, Lord. Open our eyes and our ears, God, help us to see where you're calling us to what you're wanting us to do, God, and give us the boldness and the faith, God, to walk in it unashamedly and unafraid, God, because you've already overcome. Help us to enforce the victory that you've already won in Jesus' name. Father, I just thank you in Habakkuk 2. You said, write the vision, make it plain, so those who read it can run with it. And so, Lord, we just thank you for the leaders of this city. Father, first, that they would be translated from darkness to light, and that they would hear your voice and be appointed in this city to do your will, to carry out your will and your purpose and your vision. So, Father, we just pray that you would write the vision on their heart and that they would realign the city's vision to fulfill your plans and purposes on the earth. So, we thank you in Jesus' name. God, we just thank you that you are pouring out your spirit upon our flesh. And, Lord, we just, I just have a special prayer for the prodigals, that they will come home, Father God, and that you would, as we leave out of our homes and when we're in the stores and wherever we go, Lord, let us just have a heart and just a sensitivity to your Holy Spirit so that we know who you are directing us to speak to, so that we can spread your word of God. We are your hands and your feet. And, Lord, give us every opportunity to share the gospel of Jesus Christ so that all can be saved. But we just declare your prodigals are coming home in Jesus' name. Let's sing this together. Chapter 17, we read one of the purposes of God. Jesus' praise in verse 22, the glory which you have given me, I have given to them, that they may be one just as we are one. I am them and you and me, that they may be perfected in unity so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them, even as you have loved me. One of the last pieces we wanna pray for, the purpose of God in Kalamazoo is for the unity of the body of Christ. So, Father, we lift up your church, we lift up your people. We ask that the purpose of God for the unity of the church would come to pass. Lord, we pray that all division, all striving, everything that has built itself up towards unity. Lord, that those who would be torn down so that your church may be one just as you and the Father are one. Jesus, you prayed this. You asked this. This was one of your desires that your people would be one. So we don't wanna get in the way. We wanna be in alignment with the purpose of God, the will of Jesus for the church. We ask, Lord Jesus, come and unify your church. Come and unify your people here in Kalamazoo. Lord, I pray where there has been disunity, there has been pride. Lord, would there be humility that comes? Humility in our leadership, humility towards one another. I pray that the purpose of God for the gospel to go forward in Kalamazoo, for Jesus to receive glory would be the preeminent desire of every church in this city. We ask in Jesus' mighty name, unify your church. And part of this prayer just even over the next 30 days, we're going to be praying this prayer together as a church of Kalamazoo. We might have it up on the screen, but I'm gonna read it for us together. But this is a call to the churches throughout this city to pray together. So each day as we gather, we're gonna pray this. So let's read this together. King Jesus, awaken the sleeping giant of your church in our city as we pray and collaborate to seek the common good of our region. Open our eyes and hands to the marginalized and our voices for the voiceless. The endeavor to live, we endeavor to live such counter cultural lives that our places of work and neighborhoods will experience the beauty and power of the gospel. Give us such unquenchable passion for you and your word that we can't help but tell others about Jesus and his unstoppable kingdom. For the glory of Jesus and the advancement of his kingdom. Amen. God, we ask you to do it. Unify your church. Unify your body. That we may be one in your purpose, one in your will. Come and do it, Jesus. Come and do it, spirit of the living God. Right here, right now. And it's in Jesus. This is the name that we sing. People said, amen. Well, thank you guys for joining us this morning. I want to encourage you to join us today at noon or 6.30 this evening. Be partnering with us and you can even get this prayer and whether you're praying with us or on your own, just continue to pray for the unity of the church and for the purpose of God to be accomplished. We'll see you again here soon. Have a good rest of your day.