 Good morning. Welcome to morning prayer this morning. I'm so glad you're joining us. What an awesome day it is to draw near to the Lord, draw near to His presence, worship Him. Just remind us that the Bible talks about from the rising of the sun to the setting of the same, the name of the Lord is to be praised. The highest calling that all of us have is to minister to the Lord and the minister with the Lord. So worship is our ministry to the Lord. Intercession is our ministry with the Lord. It's where we join with heaven as those who stand on the earth in intercession. But we're going to begin most of our prayer times by going directly in the ministry of worship and praise. But over the next couple of weeks from May 7th to May 28th, we've been taking the very first part of our prayer meetings and joining with millions of intercessors around the globe and praying for and interceding on behalf of the nation of Israel. So this is called the Isaiah 62 fast. For those of you who maybe are new to this initiative, you can look it up. It's online. Isaiah62fast.com where there's lots of resources where literally there's millions of people on every continent, nation of the earth that is interceding all at once for three weeks for the people of Israel, for the Jewish people, the nation of Israel. So we're going to continue that today this morning. And then we're going to go into a time of worship and then prayer as well. We're so glad you're joining us this morning. But let's turn our attention to Psalm 122. David writes this. He said, I was glad when they said to me, let us go to the house of the Lord. Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem. Jerusalem built as a city that is bound firmly together to which the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord as he decreed for Israel to give thanks to the name of the Lord. Their thrones for judgment were set, the thrones of the house of David. And then verse six says, pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May they be secure who love you. Peace be within your walls and security within your towers. So this morning we're going to join in and we're going to pray over the city of Jerusalem, this ancient thousands and thousands of years old, but a city that the Lord loves. So would you join me this morning? Just pull your Bible, your journal, your coffee and give your full attention for the next several moments. And I just want to encourage you that as we pray for this, you might feel like, I'm not an intercessor, but yes, you are. So you standing on the earth with God's Word in your mind and in your hands declaring it in agreement. It's not just you praying, your voice is joining in with a symphony of thousands and millions of others going up before the Lord this morning on this behalf and God responds to that. So Father, today we come before you. And as we always do, Lord, we don't come in our own strength or own qualifications. The Lord, we come because we are those who've been qualified by the blood of Jesus. We come with our conscience and our mind and our soul sprinkled with the blood of Jesus, our Passover lamb that speaks of better things, the blood that declares us righteous, the blood that has made a new and living way, the blood that was sprinkled on the altar by our great intercessor, Jesus, Yeshua, the Messiah. We stand on earth agreeing with heaven today over the city of Jerusalem, the city out of all the cities on the face of the earth. You declared this city is the city I will rule and reign over all the universe from. This is the city I will establish my throne upon. This is the city that I will put my son, God in the flesh, on a throne of David in which he will rule and reign over all the nations of the earth. It's the city of Jerusalem that your son redeemed us back to yourself. It's the city of Jerusalem that Abraham willingly put his son, Isaac, on the altar. It's the city of Jerusalem that David won. It's the city of Jerusalem that he said, I will give no rest in my eyes and I will not crawl into my bed until I have established a resting place for the Lord in this city on Mount Zion. And so Lord, today we turn our hearts and we turn our eyes to the city of Jerusalem, the most contested city on the face of the earth and the history of the world. And it's a city that you are not done with. It's a city that Jesus, when you return, that is the city you're returning to. Your feet are going to step onto Mount of Olives and it's going to split into and all of your enemies are going to be defeated. You've marked it out and said, this is the city of the great king. So Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who persecuted the prophets? Jerusalem, who even at times missed the day of your visitation. Jesus wept over you. Today our heart weeps over you. We join in and we say, Lord, surround Jerusalem. Find it up with your presence that every promise that you have made around the city of Jerusalem would come to pass. Lord, that your presence would be poured out on the city of Jerusalem just as it was in Acts chapter two. You said that there's coming a day when there's going to be a Joel chapter two outpouring of the Holy Spirit as Zechariah 12 pouring out of the spirit of grace and supplication of all your people in the city of Jerusalem. So today we join our hearts with the heart of the one who sits on the throne. The blood of the lamb was poured out on the rocks of the city of Jerusalem and forever and ever and ever that city is going to resonate with redemption, with covenant, with promises, with expectation, with prayer. We cry out for the city of Jerusalem today. The city surrounded by walls, a city at times surrounded by nations, the desire of nations. All of your enemies look at this city and say, we can destroy the purposes of God by destroying this city. But we say, Lord, it's the city of the great king. We pray for peace over the city of Jerusalem today. Peace be within your walls. Peace be upon your people. Peace be upon the city of Jerusalem today. In Jesus' day, the city of Jerusalem, extermination and eradication of them off the face of the earth and Israel as a nation. Lord, today we pray and we ask, hold back the tidal wave of terrorism, threats of the surrounding nations and their evil regimes, Lord, and that you would hold back the hand of the enemy in every plot and every strategy that he has. We're trying to raise up a bit of terrorism to terrorize the people, to get their eyes off of who you are. And God, we're praying right now that in the nation of Israel, we believe and we know, Lord, that your hand is staying every attack of the enemy against them until your purposes are established in the earth and in Jerusalem. Lord, we're not content to say, oh, Lord, just protect Jerusalem the way that it is. But we're praying today that your purposes that you have over that great city would be fulfilled. Even as we approach the return of our Lord, God, we know that difficult times are coming to that city. Your word says all nations are going to gather and surround that city, but not until your purposes have been fulfilled and only until Jesus, you return and every eye looks up and those who have pierced you and those who feel cornered look up and acknowledge and see you that you are the Messiah, the King. So we just declare prophetic promises over this city, Jerusalem, the city of the great King, the throne of God, the presence of God, will be firmly established within your city limits. And that until then, every strategy and every tactic to attack and to destroy the Jewish people, the spirit of Haman, would have no effect. It would be canceled. Lord, we pray for you to set angelic watchmen, Michael, and angelic legions around Jerusalem and around Israel to defend and to defeat every satanic strategy against your people so that the gospel may flourish in the nation of Israel once again. Establish the walls both in the spirit and in the natural to defend the city of Jerusalem today and in the city limits of Jerusalem and Israel in the surrounding area. We pray even in this hour prayer would not just be raised up for Jerusalem, but from within Jerusalem. We pray, Lord, that worship and adoration and intercession would ascend out of the holy city before you day and night, God, that it would be a first fruits of what is coming, that the same spirit that was poured out on 120 in an upper room in Jerusalem would once again be poured out upon those whose hearts have been turned towards you. Lord, we pray today from within the city of Jerusalem, even the Palestinian believers would pray for Israel and those messianic believers would worship you in the spirit of truth and holiness and that, Lord, you are worthy to receive praise from within the city that you've marked out and said, this is my city. You've not given up on it. It's still your footstool. And so, Lord, let incense arise. Let incense arise. Lord, let praise, let intercession literally raise up prophets and prophetic intercessors to this day in the spirit of Simeon and Anna, who know how to pray, seeing and interpreting the times and the epochs in which they find themselves in. Lord, that there would be thousands that are praying together and by themselves for the purposes of God to be established over this most loved and most desired city. Let Zion be a praise. Let it be true when it says praise is waiting for you in Zion. So, we're praying for that, Lord, that it would not be a dry city, a city that just is a relic of a time when God moved there, but you'd begin to pour out the rains of refreshing, the rains of refreshing of your presence there, just as you are in other places on the face of the earth today, that your agenda and your purposes would be fulfilled. Again, Lord, we join our hearts and we say, fill the bowls of heaven over your purposes for the Jewish people. May they cry out to their Messiah in this season and see and recognize Jesus as Messiah and to these things this morning. We join our hearts and we say, amen. We say, amen. Wherever you're at, I want to encourage you. Let's just minister to the heart of the Lord. We're going to go into a time of worship and I want us to engage our hearts and I want us to lift up and adore the name of the Lord Jesus. Psalm 102-12, you, O Lord, are enthroned forever. You're remembered throughout all generations. We enthrone you with our praise that you will be lifted high. You're above all. God, we thank you that you're authority. We thank you that it rests on your shoulders. God, we ask right now that there will be an enthroning of Jesus, a magnification of Jesus, a glorification of Jesus, all worth, all power, all glory, unto the Lamb, who is slain for the redemption of all. God, we ask, Lord, right now that there will be an enthroning of Jesus, specifically over the nation of Israel. God, we ask, Lord, enthroning of Jesus, a glorification of Jesus, a magnification of Jesus that you will be enthroned by your people. We ask, Lord, in this day and in this hour that there will be an activation and opening of eyes and ears unto Jesus, that there would be the revealing of the Lamb of God. Just as John the Baptist pointed out, behold the Lamb of God, that there will be the revealing because of the glory of Jesus being revealed. We ask right now that there's an enthroning of your saints, that there will be a revealing of Jesus in the name of Jesus. We ask and we pray, magnify, or said mercy on Zion. It is time to favor her. The appointed time has come. God, we believe that the hour is now. There's an urgency in this hour and an appointed time. There's a gathering across the globe and a raising up of a call to Zion, that the mercy and the favor of the Lord, that your eye is on your city of Jerusalem and on your people. And we ask, Lord, that the time is now. And we pray, Lord, that you would hear and have pity, yet have mercy, God. We ask, Lord, and we plead for mercy on the people of Israel. We ask, Lord, that judgment and mercy would come to your people. It is the time of favor upon Zion. So we ask right now that mercy would be released. We ask, Lord, that favor would be released and that this is your appointed time and hour. We pray, Lord, release mercy. We ask, Lord, that you would release your pity. And we release God, judgment. And we ask, Lord, come and move through the prayers of your saints across the globe. This is the time. This is the hour. This is the appointed time. God, come, favor of God, mercy of God in the name of Jesus. And favor. We ask, Lord, that surrounding the nations will that encircle Israel, that in verse 15, nations will fear the name of the Lord. And all the kings of the earth will fear your glory for the Lord. Build up Zion. He appears in glory. God, we ask, Lord, that your glory would be revealed. And we ask, Lord, that the kings, those that have raised up against an army against Israel, God, that you would defend and build up Jerusalem, build up Israel in this hour, the appointed time to strengthen your people. God, surround. God, encircle and strengthen and build up Zion. Build up Israel. We pray that the glory of the Lord would be revealed in this hour and in this day, God. Reveal yourself to the kings that have tried to oppose you, oppose your land and oppose your people. God, reveal yourself. The glory of the Lord be revealed in the name of Jesus. Verse 17, if you have your Bible, I'd love for you to read this passage with me in Psalm 102 and 17, this chunk right here. It says, he regards the prayer of the destitute and does not despise their prayer. Let this be recorded for a generation to come so that a people yet to be created may praise the Lord. That he looked down from his holy height from heaven, the Lord looked at the earth to hear the groans of the prisoners to set free. Those were doomed to die that they may declare in Zion the name of the Lord and Jerusalem his praise when people's gathered together and kingdoms to worship the Lord. There was a prophetic word spoken here at radiant within Kalamazoo that when there is prayer in his house that there would be praise in the streets and you see this reality taking place. When there is prayers heard from the holy height of heaven, God looks down, hears the groans of the people and releases praise in Jerusalem. So we pray that this reality would be prophetic over Jerusalem. We ask, Lord, that you would raise up the messianic believers that there would be prayer in Zion, prayer in Jerusalem and it would shift the reality that what's happening on the streets of Jerusalem would shift to praise. God, we ask, Lord, raise up a holy people that would consecrate themselves unto prayer in this hour, this appointed time and God that there would be a shift towards praise. God, we ask, Lord, that prayer be in the house of Israel and in Zion and there would be a releasing of praise in the streets of Jerusalem. God, we ask for this. We ask for this prophetic promise in the people and in the streets. God, do it in the name of Jesus, we pray. It would be that there would be a declaration in Zion, the name of the Lord and in Jerusalem his praise and we thank you for the promise that you record every prayer. God, that you record it and you lock it and God, you seal it. So today we ask, Lord, that these prayers, the prophetic promises, pray, God, that they would be not just spoken in fall, but they're recorded in heaven and God, that you would release it in the name of Jesus. God, we thank you for these promises and we thank you that you remember Zion and that your name will be declared and it will be the name of victory and it will be released over your people in the name of Jesus. We pray, God, we thank you and we bless, we bless Zion and we bless the holy name of our Lord in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you for partnering in this hour long prayer meeting. We've joined in a 21 day of prayer and fasting for the nation of Israel. So let's continue to pray today at noon at 6.30 as we continue on. Bless you as you go today.