 Hey, good morning. Welcome to our prayer time together downtown Kalamazoo. If you're in the room, let's stand together. If you're watching, welcome. Excited for this morning, excited to come into the house of the Lord to worship. With other fellow brothers and sisters in Christ to adore Jesus together, to worship, honor, glorify him today. Psalm 106, it says, Oh, give thanks to the Lord for he is good. His steadfast love endures forever. Coming out of Easter, good Friday, looking at the cross, remembering the resurrection, his spirit that resides in us. And we say to the Lord, praise the Lord. Give thanks to the Lord for he is good, his steadfast love. Right now, we just adore you, Jesus. We thank you for your kindness. We thank you for how great and kind and merciful you are towards us. And our heart response today is worship and adoration. God, we pray right now that you would be high and lifted up, exalted. We enthrone you on our praises. Oh, praise the Lord. God, I've asked Lord that a song would even come out of our hearts, not led necessarily by lyrics, but because of a response of who you are that we would see you rightly for who you truly are. We pray for the revelation of Jesus, the cross and the resurrection. God continue to call us to remembrance of the goodness and the majesty of the worthy Lamb of God that we would behold you. And we say that you are the steadfast one. You are the one that loves us within unending, perfect, masterful, faithful love. And we bless you and we honor you and we praise you. Let's take some time right now just to stir up our faith, stir up our remembrance, stir up praise and adoration in our minds and our hearts towards the Lord that we gaze, look, praise and adore him together. He who shouts to the righteous one, the earth will sing to Jesus Christ, the risen King, creation of eternity. God, we have a bun. Colossians one nine through two says this and Colossians one nine. We do not cease to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will and all wisdom and spiritual understanding that you may have a walk worthy of the Lord fully pleasing him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God, strengthened with all might according to his glorious power for all patience and long suffering with joy, giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light. I want to take time today to pray that we will be strengthened in the Lord, that we are partakers and the inheritance of the saints being built up and rooted in him later on in Colossians two. You have received Christ, so walk in him, rooted, built up in him, established in the faith just as you were taught a bounding in Thanksgiving. So we're gonna focus on this passage in Colossians one. We're gonna pray through it. We're gonna sing it. We wanna say it with our mouths and believe it. We wanna sing it in response to let it permeate and get on the inside of us. And so this is gonna be reading, praying. And so I encourage you to lean in and make these prayers your prayers to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will. Let's pray right now asking that we would be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding. We pray, Holy Spirit, that you would impart yourself the knowledge of your will. God, that you would fill us with wisdom, spiritual understanding. We ask, Lord, for the impartation and the supernatural filling of the Lord. God, we pray, not our will be done, but your will be done, not our ways, your ways. Your ways are higher, stronger, more fruitful, powerful. And we ask, Lord, that this would be a season of the will of the Lord imparted into your saints, partakers. God, we ask, Lord, that we would see what you see, hear what you hear, that we would be burdened with what's in your heart. God, we ask, Lord, for the impartation of the will and the knowledge of you, God, reveal yourself. Even as John received the revelation of what you were doing, God, we ask, Lord, for that degree of revelation and understanding of the will of God in our midst in the name of Jesus, for wisdom and spiritual understanding. I'm asking that the spiritual gift of the distinguishing in spirits would be active in our midst, in our church gatherings, in our fellowship in homes. God, we ask, Lord, that there would be wisdom, understanding, and discernment of the spirits. God, we ask, Lord, where there is an onslaught of foolishness, would you raise up a standard of wisdom in this time, especially in young people? To not be caught up in the tsunami of the age. God, we ask, Lord, that we would push back darkness with light, that light would break in with wisdom, power, and understanding by your will, by your might, by your spirit, says the Lord. We need wisdom. We need spiritual understanding, God. We need it in these times, in these days. There's an urgency, an urgency of your will, wisdom, and understanding, God, do it now. God, even in my own mind, let's just place our hands on our minds and just say, God, my mind being filled with the power of Jesus. God, that you would wash over me with the word of your spirit. God, we pray for our minds. God, to be cleansed. God, not to be discipled by the age, but by your word, and by your voice, and by your spirit. God, give us a sound mind. Give us wisdom for the hour we pray in the name of Jesus, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of the soul, that we would receive the implanted word of God, today, afresh, living and active. God, sharper than a two-edged sword. God, we honor the living, active word of God. We bless your word. We bless your word, God, that came to us through Jesus, the incarnation and the active word of God. We don't say that this is a historical book. We say it's an active, living book, and that there will be high honor in our hearts towards you, Jesus, and towards your words. So we say today, honor and blessed is the word of God. And God, would it find rich soil in my heart to the seed of the word planted in rich soil today, God? We say that there will be honor. There will be a magnification of the word of God in this season, in my life, in the church, in this historical moment, God, we say that your word would break in. God, where there's a hardness of heart, we ask for that it would permeate. We ask for that the word of God would go far. It would reach many. It would pierce hearts, souls and minds in the name of Jesus. Let the word of God break in, like light in darkness in the name of Jesus. We pray that the gospel, the word of God, would be strengthened in power right now by your spirit in the name of Jesus. If I could, I wanna share even where this permitting's birth's from. I think often we can have a intensity of wanting to have the supernatural in our midst, but not have a high honor for the word of God. And in our context, we honor the word of God and the spirit of God, his voice. And so when the two are active and present, we see the supernatural in our midst and that there would be obedience to the word of God and obedience to his voice. The fear of God in me today is that we would not have a famine of the word of God because we have not honored his word being obedient to his word. So we want a high response, high obedience to his word, high obedience to his voice. And so we're saying, God, you are active now. Your word is active, your voice is active, and there will be obedience in our hearts. Cut our hearts that my heart would respond in obedience. Jesus, you said that you became obedient. You humbled yourself, God, that there would be a humility in us through obedience. God, we ask for that your word would reign, govern, lead us, God. We pray for our minds and our hearts that we would follow your voice and your word in the name of Jesus. God, pierce my heart with the word of God. Today, active word of God, sword of the spirit. We ask Lord, right now, pierce our hearts and that there would be obedience would be our response to your leadership in the name of Jesus. And I pray that you would cultivate obedience in us. Hearts and minds to you today. Once again, in the name of Jesus. We only got through really one verse of Colossians one, so you can continue to pray, meditate, and work through this passage in the name of Jesus. Bless you as you go today.