 Good morning and welcome to morning prayer. I want to welcome those of you online as well as in the room and invite you to stand wherever you're at to enter into a time of prayer and worship. We're going to start this morning praying out of Psalm 27 starting in verse four. One thing I have desired of the Lord that I will seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in His temple. Let's pray this together. Lord, we come before You this morning and just proclaim that You are our one thing, that on this Friday morning we don't desire to be anywhere else. Lord, we choose to start our day with worshiping and crying out to a good God, a worthy God, a loving God. Lord, this one thing we desire to dwell in your house to worship you all the days of our lives and on and to eternity. Lord, I just pray that this desire would even increase. Lord, that You would make us people who burn for the presence of God, who burn to worship the worthy Son. So let me just come before You this morning and we say that You are our one thing. It's time to come. Sacrifice of praise this morning. We don't bring You what costs us nothing. Our worship to You, our praise to You is not emotion-based. It's not feeling-based. It's not circumstance-based. Lord, it's based off of Your worthiness and You are worthy. You are worthy. And God, we just thank You that we have the opportunity even to gather together this morning and bring You that sacrifice of praise. Thank You, God. Thank You, Lord. Enter into our first cycle, first prayer cycle this morning, praying for the schools and students here in Kalamazoo out of 2 Thessalonians 3, verse 1. It says, Finally, brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified just as it is with You. So Lord, we just come before You this morning and we lift up the elementary schools, the middle schools, and the high schools all over Southwest Michigan, all over Kalamazoo. And we pray, God, that Your word would run swiftly and be glorified. Lord, that there would be a stirring in hearts of the young people to hunger for Your Word, to thirst for Your Word. Lord, that the things that formerly satisfied them would no longer satisfy. Lord, that instead of being consumed with things like sports and extracurriculars, which are good things, Lord, but would they be consumed with Your Word and Your presence? Would they hunger and thirst after the presence of God? And would it not be an emotion-based pursuit, but would it be one that is truly captivated in the heart? God, would it come from a place of purity and true love for the man Jesus? God, I ask that Your word would run swiftly and be glorified in Jesus' name. From a place of first love, one that comes from a place of abiding, cry out for Jesus, cry out for the Holy Spirit, find their students locked in their rooms praying, reading Your worsting after God, thirsting after Your will, Lord. Pray that the word would come alive to them, that the Bible wouldn't be something that they read on Sundays with their parents in church, but that it would be something where they find friendship with the man Jesus, that they would find identity through their father's eyes in Your Word, and it wouldn't come from materialistic worldly things, but that it would come from what Your Word says, Lord. Who would come alive, Lord? Holy Spirit, would you speak through the Word of God to these young people, to the high school students, Lord, to the middle school students, even to the elementary students, Lord? Would Your Word come alive even as their parents may be reading them the Bible, as they may hear in church, Lord? Would Your Word come alive if they seek and thirst for more of Your Word? Captivate their hearts, Lord, at a young age when this world is trying to captivate their gays and steer them to a way that leads to death. Would Your Word captivate their gays, captivate their hearts, steal their gays, Lord? Let their eyes be fixed on You from such a young age, God. Be like they're reading about their friend, like they're reading about their Savior, not a man Jesus, but their God Jesus. It would be a one in their hearts, but it would be a need to get in the Word of God. Oh, thirst for You. God and I pray that that hunger and thirst would would lead them to even start prayer meetings, Lord, student-led prayer meetings, where young people would gather together and pray for their school, but they would pray for those lost souls in their school, for those lost teachers and students and faculty. God, that Your Word would be prayed in the schools through student-led prayer meetings. That Your Word would be glorified, Lord. Would they gather together, Lord? I just ask for student-led prayer meetings to start up where You are worshiped and Your Word is read and prayed aloud together, God. Lord, I ask it for in Portage Central, in Portage Northern, Florida, in Paw Paw, in Galesburg, in Gull Lake, in Augusta, God in the schools around this area would there be an uprising of student-led prayer meetings, God, where they would gather together to read Your Word, to pray Your Word over their schools, over their fellow students, over their teachers, Lord, that they would cry out for salvation or cry out for Your Spirit to fall, for a spirit of wisdom and revelation. Look, that they would be crying out for the love of God to captivate their fellow students. God, that Your Word would run swiftly and be glorified, not just in their own hearts, but as they gather together. So, Lord, in Jesus' name, we just pray that there would be a hunger to gather together and to pray in worship. Release the spirit of intercession. Instead of standing idly by watching their friends who are souls going to hell, that they would pick up the sword that is the Word of God and that they would fight, if they would fight on behalf of their friends, they would fight on the behalf of their fellow students, they would fight on the behalf of their teachers, God, with Your Word, not by their own might, not by strength, God, but by Your Spirit using the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God. Lead them to fight, God. Would they be sick as they walk to the halls knowing that souls are going to hell all around them? We, God, would have moved them to fight, to fight, Lord. Move them to pray, God. My true hunger to see Your Spirit pour it out over their school, over their campus. A holy drive to pray. Would it come from You, Lord? Would it not come from their own strength, their own might, but would it come through, through Your Spirit? A drive to pray, God. That You would open their eyes to see how lost and how hurt and how sick those are around them. Through their heart, through their spirit, a cry would come to their hearts of my fellow students, my teachers, they need to know the man Jesus. They need the Holy Spirit. It's God, a spirit of intercession. It's God, release a holy drive to pray. And God, we ask even now that as they gather together and as they pray, I even know of some thinking of what I know is Landon McDaniel, who started a prayer meeting the last couple years of Port of Central. God, I just pray that as these prayer meetings start, that demonic agendas would be shaken. God, just because they're young doesn't mean that their prayers matter less. It doesn't mean that their prayers are less powerful. Lord, so as they gather together, when schools start to see a decline in depression, a decline in anxiety, a decline in suicidal thoughts and in drug use, and in alcoholism, and in lust and addictions, God, as they pray, when demonic agendas be shaken, as the light of Jesus is ushered in through these prayer meetings, ushered in through these students worship. God, when they start to see their friends coming to know you, when they start to see their friends who have felt trapped in depression and anxiety, for the first time, maybe feeling true joy, joy that comes from you, God, of freedom and alightness, Lord, that comes from an encounter with Jesus. God, that as they pray that they would hear testimonies of students encountering Jesus and souls being saved. God, their prayers don't matter any less, and it's on your heart, Lord. It's on your heart for your children to be set free. So, God, I ask that as they gather and pray, in Jesus' name, Lord, in Jesus' name, would you break bondage, Lord, would you set people free? Break the chains that have held your children. Break the chains, Lord. Release salvation, God, and break the chains of depression. Break the chains of anxiety. Break the chains of suicide. So, these innocent children, let your Holy Spirit sweep through, let it ride in on the prayers of these young people who are hungry for you, hungry to see a move of God. Be ushered in and set your children free, God. These innocent souls, let your power be seen, God. I pray for healing to be testified of. For deliverance, God. With the demonic agendas and the demonic spirit shake at the prayers of these young people, Lord. Lord, release your power, release your freedom. Yes, Lord, we just ask that your word would run swiftly and be glorified in these schools. We're going to enter back into a time of worship trust. I just invite you to stand as we, as we continue on with worship, especially in our houses and living rooms, are supposed to dance as we invite the Holy Spirit to come. Our space is inviting you to dance as we sing this next song. There's something that so I just want to invite you if you're at home or even in this room right now, let's then come and feel as we're going to, we're going to go back into the song and we're just going to do a little intercess reworship. I want us to picture as we're singing this, singing on behalf of the schools in this area, of the students who are far from the Lord, who need to be awakened from their sleep, and just cry out for the Holy Spirit in their place to come fall afresh for a spirit of wisdom and revelation to be poured out. Just for the last couple minutes here, we're going to go back into the song and I just encourage you as you sing this, singing as the intercession that the Lord would pour out his spirit, that the Holy Spirit would fall afresh on the elementary middle schools and high schools. The souls of these young ones, God, fall afresh, pouring them to overflow, Lord. The time is now, the time is now, Lord. Fall afresh on these campuses, pour out your spirit, wake these students from their sleep, let them see their Father, let them see their Savior, let them see your, you as leader, God, put them up from their sleep, God, put them up, God, let them see your face, let them see the love that you have for them, God. Yes, Lord, Holy Spirit, would you fall afresh on these schools, on these young ones, Lord, who need to know you, who need to see their Father's eyes, who need to see a Savior that died for them on a cross, who need to see a Holy Spirit who's always with them. We just come before you and we ask, pour out your spirit, it's on your heart, Lord, pour it out. We just thank you, Lord, for this time we've had to gather together to, to lift up students all around Kalamazoo and in Southwest Michigan. And we just, we just leave expectant and excited, Lord, to see what your Holy Spirit does, believing in faith, Lord, that you heard us and that you're going to move, that you're going to move, that students are going to know Jesus. Yes, God, so we just thank you, we, we pray all these things in your Holy Name. Amen. Thank you for joining us this morning. We'll be back here at, at noon today, 6.30 in the night. We'd love to see you one of our weekend services on Sunday. Thanks. Have a good day.