 Good morning, everyone. Thank you for joining us for morning prayer in the heart of Kalamazoo, Michigan. It's good to praise the Lord. We're just going to open this morning in Psalm 96, verse 7. It says, Ascribe to the Lord, O families of the peoples. Ascribe to the Lord glory and strength. Ascribe to the Lord the glory of His name and bring an offering and come into His courts. Worship the Lord in holy attire. Trimble before Him all the earth. Say among the nations, the Lord reigns. Indeed, the world is firmly established and it will not be moved, and He will judge the peoples with righteousness. Lord, we love you, and we do just enter into your courts this morning with an offering of praise, with an offering of proclamation in agreement with the hosts of heaven this morning, ascribing glory to you, Jesus, the only one found worthy. Lord, we enter in with thanksgiving that the earth is immovable because you hold it by the power of your word. We come in rejoicing in your goodness, in your faithfulness, in your power and holiness and glory. We give you the honor that you were due this morning, Lord. We mix our voices with the voices of angels proclaiming your worth before heaven and the earth alike. We thank you, Jesus. We thank you for who you are. And we just enter in with a prophetic proclamation over the nations because your word says do it. And we declare the Lord reigns over the seven continents of the earth. The Lord reigns over the United States of America. The Lord reigns over this state and over the city of Kalamazoo. The Lord reigns. You can just begin declaring that with me. The Lord reigns over our families, our children, our grandchildren. The Lord reigns over the unique circumstances and contexts and mysteries of our life. Over the pressures, the Lord reigns this morning. And we ascribe all glory and all honor to you, Jesus. In your name we pray and give thanks. Language, go ahead and just pray and sing in the spirit or sing in your understanding or release the glory. This is our offering with a mile of our pilgrimage. In every season of our soul, God, this is the pledge of our heart to ascribe glory. Do your name. From the mountaintops, from the places of victory, we give you glory, God. From the shadow miles and the valleys, God of failure, we give you glory. Sometimes with a shout of strength and sometimes with a whisper of weakness. But Lord, we lean in, we behold your beauty. And we ascribe the glory that your worth demands. We love you, Jesus. And thank you for this privilege to worship you, to partner with you in the place of prayer. We're going to stay in that posture of worship, but we're going to shift a little bit now into the place of intercession. And as we do, I just want to remind us just of a couple statements that Andy Bird made this past weekend. And one of them was that God is not done with America. Just like Pastor Josh's song, one more time, he's not done. And therefore he wants to move and we get to partner with him in the place of prayer. And the second thing he said was that there is a reawakening for the centrality of the Great Commission. And there's an implication with that statement that there's a reawakening now to the place of prayer because prayer and missions goes hand in glove. And so I just want to lean into that in agreement with God in the place of prayer today, that he would stir up a praying church unto the filling of his spirit with boldness that the Great Commission would go for. If you have your Bibles, let's go ahead and turn to Acts chapter four. We're going to pray the scriptures this morning. Acts chapter four, verse 29. And now Lord take note of their threats and grant that your bond servants may speak your word with all confidence while you extend your hand to heal and signs and wonders take place through the name of your holy servant Jesus. And when they had prayed, the place where they had gathered together was shaken and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and they began to speak the word of God with boldness. So Lord, we just stand in the gap in agreement with your heart as the Great Intercessor for our nation, for this region, for our city. And God, I thank you that you are not done with America. I thank you that even now you are leaning in as the Great Intercessor and you are declaring the prophetic destiny over our nation and over Kalamazoo God. And so we agree with you Lord Jesus, we say take note of the threats Lord. Take note of the threats of your enemy. Take note of the threats of this culture God, the sway of this world, set against families and Gen Z. Take note God of the threats against marriage. Take note of the threats against our economy. Take note of the threats in politics God and in the sciences Lord, we lift these before you and we say Father would you answer back with grace for prayer. Would you take note Lord and would you open up the heavens and would you raise up men and women, youth and children God who run to the altars of your presence and who agree with you Lord for the outpouring of your Holy Spirit that changes everything. Lord we just say prayer is the answer God because you ordained your kingdom this way. So we stand in agreement we say Abba we need you for everything. We need you to love you. We need you to want you. We need you God to pray and agree with you in this hour. So Lord we're asking would you open up the heavens, would you take note that the fields are ripe once again God. The fields are ripe for the harvest Lord of souls in this city and in this nation and in this next generation. So God we're asking would you rain down grace for your people to awaken to the place of prayer in Jesus name. Father that heal hearts, heal this land God when your people humble ourselves, turn from our wicked ways and pray. So God we're asking for this acts for reality that the gathering of your people God would be around the place of prayer that you would hear and answer with the outpouring of your Holy Spirit. A spirit of boldness and confidence for leaders to proclaim from pulpits the full counsel of the word of God. The spirit of boldness Lord upon young people to take their campuses for the gospel of Jesus Christ for missionaries God to be sent forth to the hardest and darkest places of the earth. God we're asking would you raise up your priesthood in this hour all across the cities of America all across the rural towns Lord. We pray would you awaken your watchman to the place of prayer God that you would hear and do what you love to do and answer with the outpouring of your spirit unto the great commission unto God people being saved and cities being impacted. We're asking Lord we need a prayer movement we need the resurgence God of a praying people alters God in homes and alters in churches alters on campuses God where prayer fires burn perpetually oh Lord raise up your watchman in this hour in Jesus name nations generations of your people God of this people this city this nation the cities represented on the live stream God we're asking raise them up those who take no rest who give you no rest who remind you of your prophetic promises because they're yes and amen who go again and again and with us Jesus begin with us Jesus weakest yes God let your eyes fall upon that heart and strengthen with might for the sake of prayer awaken your watchman build your house of prayer let's just join this chorus the personal prayer for our city it's a prayer for our nation on Jesus and awaken the watchman to join you to agree with you sign the checks of your prophetic promises in this hour God of your people God because you're never silent for barbecues who gather God to seek your face to tug on the hand of heaven for the release of your power and your spirit in this hour not just to walk the house shall be called the house of prayer says the Lord my we will pray this is a prophetic declaration the nations of the earth his inheritance prophesied earth will be singing says the Lord just where this is going this is our labor there will come of me says the Lord but this reality a priest took up mysteriously so you thank you for fighting for us thank you for wanting us thank you for bringing us into this privileged place as sons and daughters your bride and intimate partners lord in prayer thank you for putting worship and praise on our lips we don't take it for granted Jesus thank you thank you for this sacred hour thank you for your presence that it's all about you and your presence we love you lord all that has transpired this beautiful hour God we asked that you would seal up and that you would multiply it many times over in our own hearts in large our capacities for more and more of this joining you in the place of prayer joining heaven in the place of worship and praise we ask for more more in this place more in this city more across this nation and the nations of the earth God raise up the altars where your presence is esteemed we love you Jesus we trust you Jesus we give you our hearts our homes and all that is precious to us in Jesus name amen and amen well thank you for coming and staying in and pressing into the place of prayer thanks so much for joining us this morning we are back here at noon today praying for the nations we invite you to come on down and we're back here tonight 6 30 p.m. God bless you