 Good morning. Welcome to morning prayer radiant city center. We're gonna be praying for the church this morning I've Ephesians 3 but before we enter into intercession We're gonna begin by blessing the heart of God and worship and I want to begin by praying Psalm 84 one of the Psalms of the sons of Korah and the first few of your Few verses that just help posture our hearts as we approach the Lord says how lovely is your tabernacle a Lord of hosts My soul longs. Yes, even faints for the courts of the Lord my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God Even the sparrow has found a home and the swallow a nest for herself where she may lay her young Even your altars. Oh Lord of hosts my God my king blessed are those who dwell in your house They will still be praising you Blessed is the man whose strength is in you whose heart is set on a pilgrimage as they pass through the valley of Bacchus They make it a spring the rain also covers it with pools. They go from strength to strength Each one appears before God in Zion. I love this Just the beginning of the heart posture of the declaration of how lovely is your tabernacle Oh Lord of hosts. I just want to begin with that posture Sometimes we can approach his presence in his tabernacle like we're doing him a favor by showing up and and Worshiping and praying but the sons of Korah these ones who were devoted to worshiping day and night in the tabernacle They kept a posture of this is this is lovely. This is beautiful. What a gift that I can come here What a gift that I can spend an hour in your presence. What a gift to have this house in this prayer room What a gift to have a worship team what a gift to have people next to me in the room singing or the live stream to be able To pray and experience the presence of God together So let's just approach him this morning with just that humility and that honor in our hearts Lord, we just say your tabernacle is lovely Lord, I love your habitation in the place your glory dwells Lord my feet hate the assembly of the wicked But I love the courts of the living God Better is one day in your courts than thousands elsewhere. I'd rather be a doorkeeper in this house Than to prosper in the tents and the houses of the wicked but I'm grateful to be a Son this morning to be covered in the blood of Jesus to be wearing the robes of his righteousness That I can boldly approach your throne of grace knowing I can find mercy in a time of trouble That I can run into you. You are your name is a tower. It's a strong tower and I run into it And I'm saved Lord Just thank you for the gift of your presence the gift of the cross Lord that made a way for us to enter in Or the gift of the church and a place and a people Lord for your glory to rest and dwell Lord, how lovely is your house this morning? Let's just begin just declaring that with our own words and with our song It's welcoming in his presence this morning I love your presence Jesus. I love the place. You choose to put your love the place you choose to put your name I love your glory. You chose to put your Because better is one thousand elsewhere thousands elsewhere Or is this working to your spirit? But it leads you to a place that humility and surrender Into this for a few minutes as we're singing around this this chorus and this theme of what the sons of Korra brought in Psalm 84 is just it's just as a death blow to entitlements It's the death blow to the the spirit of Korra that spirit that Korra who was set apart to be a priest a minister before the Lord despised the presence and the glory of God instead he yearned for the influence of Leadership he yearned for the platform he yearned for the benefits that he got for serving you rather than a heart of humility And the earth swallowed him up as he rebelled against God's Choice and call for his life Lord, we just reject that spirit of Korra The spirit that says why why don't I have my fields and my vineyards? instead of Lord, I'm grateful to be a doorkeeper in your house I'd rather just serve and minister in the place your glory dwells than to feel entitled to Salary to feel entitled to being seen for my gifting to feel entitled to the church serving all of my needs to be entitled to What I feel like I deserve Lord, let the spirit of the sons of Korra Lord be our portion not Korra We reject the spirit of Korra and we embrace The spirit of the sons of Korra that say it's better to be a doorkeeper in your house How lovely is your tabernacle? One day with you is better than a thousand elsewhere. And so Lord we just ask Lord would you tear down our little entitlements? But all the things that we're offended at you about because we haven't gotten what we wanted Lord, we wanted a crossless path And because there's a cross and death to our self or angry and we're entitled that we Like a saph and psalm 73 we envy the wicked We envy their portion Lord, we just say it is good for me to seek the Lord whom have I in heaven But you and there's none on the earth that I desire except you Our heart and our flesh might fail, but you are the strength portion of our life forever Let's just take a moment The Holy Spirit's bringing any entitlements to our heart Just surrender them at the foot of the cross Let's look at The way that Jesus Did not embrace entitlement. He did not consider equality with God as something to be clutched on to But he laid down his life in humility put on flesh and bone He crawled upon the cross of Calvary and chose suffering and pain Instead of what he felt like he might have deserved We go the way of the cross we go the way of the sons of Korah Lord. We just repent for our entitlement We repent of our offense We repent of those little areas that we feel like we are owed something by you Or when we say just to be a doorkeeper in your house Just a tug on the hem of your robe Lord just to be near you and with you Or you're not part of the dream you are the dream or you aren't part of the benefits you are the benefits Just this past week in our richland student service. We were in worship and It just never really ended Just adoration and love songs to the Lord and this generation For the last 45 minutes of our service We went 30 minutes over and they were singing songs that they didn't grow up with they were singing holy and anointed one They were singing. I love you Lord. I exalt thee and just sense that the Lord doesn't want to move on from adoration This morning and I just felt him speak to me this morning if you're not content in adoration You'll never be content and so I just sense we can just keep lifting up love songs But I just want to pray over our hearts. So if we could put our hand on our heart this morning Lord, we just want to be satisfied in your presence Lord, we found our satisfaction other places Lord. I pray that you would satisfy the deep longings of our heart God, would you take us back to first love and would you? Would you reveal yourself again to the depths of how much you loved us first? And Lord we want to be satisfied in your presence We want you to be the one thing we desire Lord how lovely are your dwelling places Lord I pray that psalm of David would erupt in your church again one thing I've asked of the Lord that I shall seek that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life So Holy Spirit would you reveal the Son of man the Son of God like never before in Jesus name Crash over us with another wave of your glory show us Jesus high and lifted up show us Jesus upon Calvary Show us the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ Lord as we adore him Reveal a new facet that we've never seen before Rotate the prism and other angles so we see elements of your glory and wonder Show us something about the humility of Jesus that we've never seen Show us something about the meekness of Jesus that causes our hearts to explode in wonder joy and adoration Send another wave of your glory Send another wave The revelation of your emotions in your heart show us your glory sing this together Just lift your hands and declare this this is our prayer together as your church Show us the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ Show us your humility and meekness Show us your majesty and might head toward close Verse 20 and 21 now to him who was able to exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us To him be the glory and the church by Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever I'm just challenged by we pray the scripture personally all the time Lord You're able to do exceedingly abundantly all that we ask or think and We apply it to our own entitlements or finances or jobs or opportunities or our personal lives, but It's unto To him be the glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever This is what he is able to do abundantly all that we all that we ask or think we ask and think so many things But he's wanting To work according to the power to the glory in the church to all generations forever and ever and so Let's just end with this this cry I want to just sing that we'll give you all the glory course again one more time just to clear it with everything And let's all just stand to our feet and to clear this together Even just intercessory over the church in this hour. We know we're being purified To prepare us for glory. We know we're being cleansed to be prepared for glory the Lord is touching our hip and causing us to limp as a church so that His power can be made perfect in us. So let's just declare this with everything. We give you all the glory To you be the glory in the church Forever and ever and ever and ever and ever Lord reveal the beauty of Jesus Lord even in this Advent season reveal the humility and the meekness of Jesus Reveal the slain and risen land we surrender our lives at the foot of the cross and we say You can put us anywhere. Just put your glory in us We'll serve anywhere Lord. We just want to see your beauty and who you are Jesus name sometimes good prayer meanings means talking less and Adoring more so thanks for joining with us beautiful time in the in the presence of God have an amazing day We'll be back here at noon in 6 30