 Good morning. Welcome to morning prayer from the heart of our city in Kalamazoo where we are crying out to the heart of God Asking him seeking him to move on our behalf for him to heal for him to restore for him to do that Which only he can do This morning as I was preparing my heart. I was reminded of what the psalmist said in Psalm 122 when he said I Was glad when they said to me let us go back Let us return. Let us go to the house Let us go into the house of our Lord and as I began to reflect upon that I was my heart immediately just Turned the pages if you will just a few chapters back to Psalm 100 When Psalm 100 the psalmist says make a joyful noise to the Lord all the earth Serve the Lord with gladness come into his presence with singing Know that the Lord he is God. It is he who made us and we are his We are his people the sheep of his pasture Enter his gates with thanksgiving in his courts with praise give thanks to him bless his name For he the Lord is good his steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all Generations I want us this morning with the posture of Psalm 122 of us picturing ourselves and putting ourselves into the very presence of God seeing ourselves being glad to enter into his presence I want us to Picture ourselves doing that to see ourselves doing that actually to put some 100 with that perspective I want us to put some 100 into practice. I want us to make a joyful noise and from the joyful noise See to service unto our God for he is good. He is so Incredibly good. And so the way that we do this is is is verse four. We enter in with thanksgiving We enter into his into his gates with thanksgiving in his courts with praise and so right now I just want us to with our voices With gladness reflect with the with the reflection of gladness on our hearts Just begin to thank him for his goodness Begin to with your voice Thank him for his goodness. Thank for how good he has been Jesus we thank you You are so good. We bless you lord ball's incredibly short about good. You truly are lord, but We lavish you with thanksgiving Thank you for the breath in our lungs for the roof over our head That transcends everything that I have a tendency to mess up. Thank you for your mercy Thank you for your goodness All of our attention every single ounce of our affection Jesus you are worthy So lord right now we lay aside the distractions We lay aside the schedule that we have to go into today the meetings The work we say Jesus you are worthy worthy lord of every thought Of every desire lord, you are worthy Of all of our attention all of our affection Jesus you are worthy I have this picture as we're singing of his feet and then the reality hit me of Often we desire The hands of Jesus, but we despise the feet of Jesus Meaning we want him to bless us and hand us the things that we want and need but We actually have become despised the feet meaning just sitting at his feet and worshiping him Jesus we repent Of desiring your hands with despising your feet So we posture ourselves right now and we say Jesus you are worthy And here we are With all of our attention with all of our affection With all of our plans with all of our agendas with all of our desires here We are and we are just here to worship you lord Because you are worthy of it all At your feet this morning regardless of where you find yourself right now I just want to ask the team just to Minister to the lord with their instruments And as they are doing so I I just feel led by the lord for each of us With our vocabulary Hey lord here. I am here. I am I just want to be with you just confess that Just say that to the lord Just want to minister into his heart right now Hearing his children cry out Ministers to his heart We just want to be with you or we just want to be with you worthy lord Just as it is in heaven and we say you are holy We say you are worthy. We love you lord Just with his name sweetness of his name the goodness of his name The holiness of his name the mornings I had An agenda that I wanted to pray through and that I felt led to pray through and right now I'm just overwhelmed with the name of Jesus and that that agenda Was thrown to the side And I'm reminded of the apostle paul's words in polypians 2 When he said complete my joy By being of the same mind having the same love Being in full accord and of one mind I say I'm reminded of that because lavishing Jesus with our love and our attention and all of our affection It fulfills What the apostle paul was kidding at So jesus right now we just say we love you Then enough Lord would you not just shake us with the reality of how good you are but when you shatter us With the reality of how good you are When we say the name of jesus that we truly shake We would not read isaias 6 and marvel at a moment That took place with isaias and not realize that you want it with us That you want us to say woe to me i am ruined anxious to say say here i am or we even say send me to the next moment or the next thing or the next trip or the next Spiritual high play ourselves say you're being jesus and say here we are jesus and marvel at the beauty of pians 2 verse 9 Says therefore God has highly exalted him being jesus and bestowed on him the name That is that is that is Above every name so that at the name of jesus every knee should bow In heaven and under earth And every tongue confess That jesus christ is lord to the glory Of god the father jesus from the heart of our city We speak your name And we say we love you jesus and we pray that the sound that is reverberating off of our vocal cords and Coming from our mouths and from our lips lord god would be a sweet sound to your ear and lord right now We just pray for our city lord. We want our city to know you We want kalamazoo to know you we want portage to know you We want plain well out seago richland Augusta galesburg battle creek three rivers vicksburg to know you lord In this hour of confusion lord Would you shine a bright light from the balcony of heaven would you shine down upon us lord? Would you open up the eyes of the blind? in our city That many would come and confess that you are lord That many would join this song Saying oh, I love you lord That many would lift up their voice And that many Would join together as a choir here on earth as it is in heaven I love you lord singing holy holy Singing worthy and we do not say that or sing this out of vain repetition, but lord we pour out our hearts Our love for you just like the woman Who lavished you and the disciples didn't understand it lord god We lavish you with our praise and our adoration and our exaltation You are worthy lord and we love you to want to leave your feet Your feet and we want to stay here and we want others to join us at your feet So lord, I pray that on this day the prodigals return home The sick are healed that the broken are repaired We want many to know We want many to confess Your name the name that is above all names And we love you. Jesus. I pray today that you would put people in front of us That are far from you and that lord you would use us to lead them to you Lord, I pray that we would not be cowards But that we would be bold messengers Bold lovers of you And that we would speak your name and share your love To this world that you so loved that you came that you gave your life for Lord, I pray today that someone would lay hands on someone who is sick and that they would be made well Pray today that a bad diagnosis would be turned into a good report And someone's family today Lord at your name Every other name bows So cancer you have to bow Death you have to bow Sickness you have to bow Disease you have to bow You have to bow lord. We love you. We thank you for this day that you have made We go into the rest of it Choosing to rejoice and choosing to be glad in it Jesus name. Amen. Thank you for joining us this morning. I want to encourage us to continue to sit at his feet and not Just blow past this onto the next thing and onto the next agenda We'll be back here in the prayer room at 12 and at 6 30 tonight We'll be back in the live stream tomorrow morning. We will see you then have a blessed day