 We've been praying the last couple of months on Tuesday mornings, just contending for revival and an outpouring of the Holy Spirit. Deeply encouraged by what I'm seeing out of Asbury Theological Seminary. About a week of just meetings, of just repentance and worship and God's stirring. I think they're up to like three chapel buildings on campus that are all filled with people that have been gathering from all over the U.S. now at this point and worshiping and praying as the old revival saying goes, having their hearts strangely warmed by the presence and the power of God. And so I want today to give thanks to the Lord for what he's doing and throw gasoline on the fire to continue to contend for outpouring the Holy Spirit. And I want to just encourage you, even as we start, I'm really encouraged by the hunger I'm seeing across the nation. I'm also relatively disturbed by the indifference and the cynicism I'm seeing at the same time. I've never seen more if this is a real revival then and then people listing their own agendas or the, who cares? Like, you know, whatever, maybe it's just a good prayer meeting, no big deal. Both of those responses and I just encourage you if the first response of your heart is indifference or cynicism, then you need to go before the Lord get your heart softened and get it right because God opposes the proud and gives grace to the humble. And man, he loves to skirt around those with great opinions and theological frameworks that belittle what God does. He loves to just go around those people and go right to the hungry. The broken, those who don't have it all together, they don't know everything. They got sinned and they're messed up in their life but they're hungry. Normal people who are hungry. Just want to start by asking, are you hungry? Are you hungry for his presence? Are you hungry to see a move? When you see reports of revival being poured out, what's the response that comes out of your heart? Are you indifferent? Do you not care? Are you cynical and want to belittle or is your heart hungry saying thank you, Lord? And I want to see you do that here. I want to see it happen in my heart. So let's go before the Lord this morning. Lord, we just ask that you would stir the stagnant waters of our souls, Lord. We bring before you even our indifference. We bring our complacency, our pride, Lord. Everything that would resist you in your move, Lord. And we just lay it at your feet. We bow low this morning. We get out of the way, Lord. We want to go low so you can be exalted and lifted high. And so we just welcome your presence in this place. Let's just begin together, online and in the room. Let's lift up our voices. We can sing in our understanding or sing in the spirit if you have your prayer language. We're just gonna invite him to come and we're gonna build him a throne for him to come and rest on. Lord, be magnified, be glorified in our midst. We build you a throne for your praise. Let's just sing this to the Lord. I will bring a hungry and a humble heart just make that vow to the Lord this morning. This will be my response. Lord, let's open up the windows of heaven. Forever it started with him, it's in him. Cost arrived and they were all in one place. Suddenly came from heaven the sound of a mighty rushing wind. And it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues of fire appeared on them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave utterance. Lord, I wanna just begin by thanking you for just what I'm seeing in the beginning of 2023. Lord, I thank you for reports from worship leaders all over our network saying they've just noticed the water level going up in the services that your presence and the people's response. There's something stirring, Lord. We thank you for what you did here during Seek, Lord, where we saw our rooms overflowing because people were hungry for the presence and power of God. Lord, I thank you for the reports of what we're seeing out of Asbury Theological Seminary, Lord, where three rooms are overflowing with thousands of people gathering from all over the US and we're seeing repentance. Lord, we're seeing hunger for God restored. We're seeing addictions broken. We're seeing just hours of people caught up in the glory of God, Lord. No hype, no personalities, no flesh glorying in your presence. Just you receiving all the glory, all the honor and all the praise. Lord, this song that we just sung, this is our heart. Revival's not about us and us getting what we want about all the glory and the honor and the blessing going to you. So we just begin, Lord, by just saying thank you. Lord, we know we've been asking, we've been knocking, we've been seeking. Lord, we thank you for the beginnings of stirrings of the outpouring of your Holy Spirit. Lord, I thank you for even the reports this week. We've had several amazing testimonies of salvation and people coming back to the Lord, prodigal's coming home. There's a stirring that's happening. And Lord, we just say thank you. We will not be like the nine lepers who got one touch and left and never returned, but we will be the one who consistently comes back and says thank you. And so we come before you, Lord, with thanksgiving and honor for what you're doing, Lord. Thank you for this beginnings of revival that you're pouring out at Asbury, Lord. Thank you for what you're doing amongst us at the Radiant. Lord, thank you that we're getting reports of the increase of the presence and power of God at churches all over the U.S. And Lord, we look and we say thank you. Thank you. Thank you for pouring out your spirit, white cynicism and indifference with just the simple words, thank you. Thank you. Isaiah 10, 12, so for yourself righteousness and weep steadfast, Lord. Break up your fellow ground for it's time to seek the Lord that he may come and reign righteousness upon you. Lord, I just asked that you would help us break up our fellow ground. Lord, we confess our own cynicism, Lord. We confess our own indifference. We confess, Lord, even weariness and tiredness as we've contended for a move of your spirit and for revival, Lord, that there's also tears of pride that have come up in our hearts. And so, Lord, we just humble ourselves before you. Lord, we just wanna see you move. We just even confess, Lord, that just like what we were singing in this song, Lord, the glory of your name, it matters more than our name, it matters more than the name of Radiance, Lord. It matters more than our personal ministry and what we give our hands to. We're grateful for that, but Lord, we just wanna be in the room when you move. Lord, and just give us grace to break up our own fellow ground. Lord, the hardness of our heart and the cynicism, the coldness, the indifference. Lord, when you move, we wanna be tender. We wanna be like people in Nazareth and the surrounding regions when they heard Jesus was in town. They dropped everything and they flocked and followed him like multitudes. Lord, and we don't wanna be like the ones who criticize Jesus and criticize the disciples and said, this can't be Messiah because ABC and D or I'm too busy or I have too much going on to even go and check it out. But Lord, we just asked that we would break up our fellow ground, that we would hunger and thirst for you. Not to see our dreams come true, but to see you come and visit this generation. Lord, it's time to seek the Lord that you may come and reign righteousness. Apana, Lord, we just asked that you would keep sounding the trumpet blast. Lord, I thank you for what you've even been doing here in Kalamazoo. Lord, where there's just been an increase of gathering of prayer and worship. Where there's been a hunger and a curiosity for your presence and for your spirit to come and move. Lord, we ask that you would come reign righteousness upon us. Lord, we see what you're doing. We can hear the sound of revival. And Lord, we just asked that you would reign your righteousness down upon us. Lord, we say pour out your spirit. Lord, pour out your spirit on the church of Kalamazoo. Oh God, we're hungry to see our neighbors say, Lord, we're hungry to see worship and prayer in the streets. Lord, we're hungry to see the spiritual atmosphere changed in this city. Lord, we're hungry to see the prodigals come home. Lord, we're hungry for a fresh move of your presence, power and glory. So Lord, we're asking for the church, Lord, would you pour out your spirit? Lord, we ask for a greater measure of your outpouring. You said in the season of rain, the spring rain asks for the latter rain. We thank you for the spring rains that we're seeing before our eyes. We ask for the latter rains. Lord, would you pour out your spirit in the name of Jesus? Bring us into alignment with you. Look at the fallow ground. Unbelievable. Synicism. Skepticism. Errigance. Holy spirit. There are hearts before you. Soften us into meekness. We are so grateful for the things you are stirring in this land, in the hearts of your people right now. Lord, we enter in with sobriety. We enter in with humility. We just lay down, God, all of our frames, all of our checklist, all of our agendas, all of our protocols, all of our mindsets concerning your moves in our land. And we just come into agreement with you now, Jesus. We come in with faith. We come in with hope. We come in bowing low before you. I say of 43, verse 19, says, behold, I will do something new. Now it will spring forth. Will you not be aware of it? I will even make a roadway in the wilderness, rivers in the desert. The beasts of the field will glorify me, the jackals and the ostriches, because I have given water in the wilderness and rivers in the desert to give drink to my chosen people. The people whom I formed for myself, they will declare my praise. And so Lord, we just come right now into agreement. We say yes and amen to the nowness of this moment, Lord. We say yes and amen to the turning of the chapter, God, in this hour of redemptive history, that you are doing what you said you would do, that you are pouring out your spirit now on sons and daughters, that it's beginning. And Lord, we thank you for it. We offer our gratitude for it. And we just say, Abba, tear open the heavens and do it. Multiply it, Lord, across the campuses and the universities of America. God, multiply it across this generation and the congregations, God, across the cities, Lord, in the townships and the villages. We just say, Lord, now you are doing a new thing and it's not presumption, it's faith and it's hope. And we come into agreement, Jesus. And we just say, oh, Lord, grace us with awareness, with that active awareness, that active partnership, Lord, where we step into the gap and we agree with what you are doing, Holy Spirit. And we do not box you in, but we just say, Lord, just come. Just come, Holy Spirit, just come and do the new thing that you're doing. Release those rivers of your Holy Spirit across the campuses of America. Release the rivers, God of your spirit through the wilderness of your church and this next generation. We just say, come, Holy Spirit, can we just lift our voices? Let's just, it's a simple cry. It's a simple agreement. Come, Holy Spirit. Lord, we surrender to you as we close. I just want to share last night in the evening prayer meeting, Pastor Spencer and Pastor Preston just gave an exhortation for those in the room to just raise the sails of our heart in faith and in hope. Concerning all that we've been praying about this morning, about the Lord moving in this hour and outpouring, just raise the sail of your heart. I looked around the room and there's a large demographic of young people and just imagining those white, crisp sails of faith and hope arising in young hearts as God was marking them. I felt like the Lord was just also talking to my generation, the older ones, the moms, the dads, like, raise your sail, raise your sail. Yeah, it's a little threadbare and not as crisp and white and there's tatters and tears through the storms that we've gone through and the rowing and the rowing and the rowing, but God is calling us across the generations to raise the sails of our heart right now. Some are crisp and white, full of hope and faith and some are a little tentative. Like, I've been here before, raise the sails, even the tatters, even the storm, you know, the storms have made them threadbare, raise them and believe because now I'm doing a new thing since the Lord will you not be aware and we could substitute that word aware for partnership. Will you not partner with me? Will you not be with me to behold my glory in this hour? And so, Lord, as we close, we just say yes and amen. We raise the sails of our heart called faith. We raise the sails of our heart again called hope and we just say, wind of God, blow. Blow through these sails, we wanna be where you are, beholding your beauty and your glory in this hour. We love you, Jesus, and we thank you. We thank you for what you're doing. We thank you for the stirring. We thank you for the tenderizing. We thank you for the grace to be hungry, to feel the hunger pains in this hour. We thank you for grace to pray and to partner with you. And Lord, all that has transpired this hour, I ask you, buy your grace to multiply it many times over at this altar, across this city and across this land, that there would be perpetual prayer fires of agreement burning with you, with your heart, as you move in America and in this next generation. We love you, Lord, and we bless your name. In Jesus' name be men. Well, thank you for joining us this morning. We're back here at noon, praying for the nations at 1 p.m. in a beautiful devotional worship set. And again tonight at 6.30, come on down. God bless you.