 Good morning. Welcome to the prayer room in downtown Kalamazoo. We have our Bibles open. Those that are joining in the room to Psalm 89. Wherever you're at, we're going to open up the Word of God. We're going to read the Word. We're going to meditate on the Word. We're going to sing. We're going to pray together. This is a wonderful moment to start our morning together in Psalm 89. Verse one, I will sing of the steadfast love of the Lord forever. With my mouth I will make known your faithfulness to all generations. For I said steadfast love will be built up forever in the heavens you will establish your faithfulness. Today Lord, we thank you. We thank you for your steadfast love towards us. God, you have been consistent and faithful to the very end. And God, we want to sing today and proclaim and even remind ourselves of the steadfast, faithful love of God that you're slow to anger. You're abounding in love. And we want to be rooted and grounded in the love of God today. Would you reveal to us today the length, the width, the depth of the love of God that we would sit under, bask in God and remember the goodness of our God this morning. Whatever trouble, whatever circumstance, whatever situation, we turn away and we turn our attention from those things and we lift up our eyes to the steadfast love of our God. You are faithful. You are kind. You are so worthy to be praised. We say thank you for your love. And it says here in Psalm 89, with my mouth. Can we right now, we just glorify Jesus. You are steadfast in your love, your kindness towards us. That we would lift up a voice of thankfulness to you, Jesus. We make known the faithfulness of your love and we want to be built up in our love in you today. We bless you, we honor you and we thank you for your love, God. It never happened, it never happened. You're the best, the best thing it ever had. It hasn't felt like, it hasn't felt like this. And sometimes, I've let the devil creep in. Sometimes, it hasn't felt like this. Sometimes, it hasn't felt like this. The sons of Korah said in Psalm 84, even a sparrow, they start off with how lovely is your courts, oh God. That cry, I feel like 90, that's probably the definition, 30% of our warfare, it might be too low. It is the enemy trying to get us to feel and believe that his courts aren't lovely. And the way he does that is through shame, condemnation and fear. His presence should be the happiest place. Like someone when it says, blessed is the man who walks in the counsel of the Lord. That word literally just means happy. It's not a super spiritual word. It just means happy is the person whose feet walk into the house of God and they experience the smile of God and the presence of God. And so I just want to, I want to pray and those here in the room and even those at home, struggling, you felt like, man, the prayer room or the place of worship or even my secret place has been heavy and hard. And I feel condemned and even this chorus, like some of you were even offended to sing it. You're like, I don't even want to sing it because I just like, I don't even know if I really believe it to be true, just this language of the heart saying you're the best thing. And so if that's you just in vulnerability, if you feel that condemnation or heaviness and there isn't joy in the house of God, you're not experiencing his presence. You don't feel free in his house. I just want to invite you to lift your hand and we're just going to minister over the saints right now. And anybody you see with their hand raised right now, we're just going to be the body and just lay hands and pray. There's absolutely no shame in this. Absolutely no shame. Yeah, let's surround those. I just declare the delight of the Father over each and every person. I just, I declare the blessing, the priestly blessing, the Aaronic blessing. I say over you, the Lord bless you. May the Lord keep watch over you. May the Lord lift the light of his countenance towards you. May the Lord be gracious to you. May the Lord lift up the smile of his face towards you and may he give you peace. And Lord, we rebuke the plan, the purpose of the enemy to steal and kill and destroy the place that is supposed to be filled with the most joy. It should be the happiest place in the world in your presence. And Lord, so we come against the enemy that has brought heaviness. And right now we just take off the garments of heaviness and we cast them at your feet and say, would you clothe us with the garments of praise? Lord, that we would really feel like your house is the best place to be, that your presence is the best place to be, that your voice is the best voice to hear, that your word is the best word to hear. Lord, I just even ask for a fence to go in the name of Jesus. Lord, a fence toward one another. Lord, a fence toward peers. A fence toward family. A fence toward leaders. Or where a fence has... Or I just declare joy. Or just like Martin Smith just flew that joy flag over us on that Sunday night. Lord, I ask that you would just fly your flag of joy and lightness and delight. Yeah, just keep praying over those. His thoughts toward you, my child. How much more? We thank you that you take off the heaviest garments of praise. As we've been worshiping, I felt the Lord remind me of the Luke 5 story where Jesus shows up and says, put out into the deep and let down your nets for a care. And the response from them is, master, we toiled all night and took nothing. But at your word, I will let down the nets. And I believe that's a word for us in this season that there has been a toiling. There has been circumstantial pain. And the Lord shows up and yet again says, put down your nets into the deep water. It reminds me of a passage in Isaiah 12 where it says, with joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. And you will say in that day, give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people's proclaim that his name is exalted. Sing praises to the Lord for he has done gloriously. Let this be made known in all the earth. Shout and sing for joy. So as we've been praying and interceding, and you have been maybe in a season of toil, the invitation of the Lord to put down your nets into the waters of joy. And in remembrance, the wells of salvation. And so we today sing praise and we proclaim the goodness of our God. There's been a chorus at radiant that prays breaks a heavy yoke. And so we're reminded today, not in our flesh, but in the wells of salvation that we have joy in the Lord. And that we will follow the voice of the Lord to put down our nets into the waters and into the wells of joy yet again. Though we may water, there is joy in salvation and we proclaim yet again the goodness of our God. What's to do? I feel like we want to dance and shout in our own victory and freedom. And I just feel the Father's heart saying, you've shouted for your own freedom. You shout for the one who doesn't have their voice. You shout for the one who isn't free. And so right now I'm going to pray the Holy, we're going to wait 10 seconds and the Holy Spirit is going to put one person in your heart who's locked up in bondage. I don't mean like in this room. I mean like somebody who doesn't know Jesus, who's far from him. And we're going to do an intercessory act. This is intercession. We might not be praying from a mic, but we're going to shout and we're going to see the chains on their life as Jericho's walls. And remember we're not shouting for victory, we're shouting from victory. We have the victory because the blood of Jesus who was victorious on Calvary courses through our veins. And so we're going to wait 10 seconds. We're going to put that person in the mind. I want every single person in this room to shout if you're a parent, pick that child. We're going to count down and we're going to shout not just our own victory over ourselves, but over those who are far from the Father. So we're going to wait 10 seconds and then we're going to shout.