 Good morning. Welcome to morning prayer, 8am set here at the prayer room in the Radiance City Center. So glad you're joining us. Those of you who are here with us in person, praise the Lord and those of you who are joining us from home, we welcome you. This morning, let's just begin by centering our hearts around the one that we're here to give our full attention and affections to and that's the one who is seated on the throne. That's Jesus. That's our glorious, resurrected Savior who's also the light of our life, the strength, the source of everything that is good in us. He's the Father of lights. James says from whom there is no variation or shadow of change. And so let me begin this morning just as a way to help bring our focus in and remind us of David's words in Psalm 27. He begins by saying the Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life. Whom shall I be afraid? When evil doers assail me to eat up my flesh, my adversaries and foes, it is they who stumble and fall. And though an army in camp against me, my heart shall not fear. The war rise against me, yet I will be confident. Today, we can find our confidence and our strength no matter what we're facing, no matter what we're feeling today in this confession. This is David. And if anybody understood what it was like to be pursued, chased, public enemy number one, somebody who could wake up every single day and to be stricken by anxiety and fear, it was David. But David's morning profession was this. The Lord is my light. The Lord is my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life. Whom shall I be afraid? And I will be confident. And so this morning, we're confident. We find our confidence, our strength, our source in the light of our life. So let's just go before him and let's take a moment, even as the musicians begin to play over us. And let's just bring our hearts into focus. We're not thinking about anything else. We're not negotiating fear and anxiety over confidence today. We're just simply putting our gaze on you, Jesus, from this moment because we know in this moment you draw near to us. This is our confidence that we belong to you. This is our bedrock that no matter what is happening in this shaking world, Father, you are unshaken. We actually save salvation. Every opportunity to feel something, to think something. I put my confidence in you. You are for me. You are good. You have good things prepared for me. And as I draw near to you today, Lord, I know that your eyes and your heart and your presence draws near to me. Great confidence. Father, hear us as we worship and as we pray from your word back to you today in Jesus' name. We love you because you first loved us. And ask, take us into the place that you've prepared for us. And it's because you willingly laid down your life for us. No greater love is any man than this that he lays down his life for his friends. And today you call us friends, willingly laid your life down, suffered on the cross, and your blood speaks of better things. Your blood says you are accepted. Your blood says though your sins be a scarlet, they are now white as snow. Your blood says though you used to be a stranger, now you're a friend. Lord, we hear your blood today say forgiven, free. We hear your blood say welcomed, beloved. We hear your blood speak of grace and mercy over our lives. Moses came with the law, but Jesus, you came with truth and grace. We hear the blood that you shed speaking life over us today. And our response is thank you. Our response is gratitude. Lord, we want our hearts to erupt with worship at what you're doing in us. You're making all things new in us. All things passed away, everything brand new. All of this is from you, Lord. So we just say thank you. Wherever you're at, let's just lift up our own thank you to him. Thanksgiving is the key that throws open the doors to greater access to his presence. The Lord, we approach you as sanctified, set apart by the precious blood of the Lamb. Jesus, the worthy one. We call him storms. We come in the name of the one who makes dead things live again. Lift up our praise and we lift up our songs. We lift up our countenance to you. Where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. Jesus, we come in your name as friends of the bridegroom. We come in the name of the one who's the soon incoming King. And Lord, as we approach you and we come into your presence through the new and living way that your blood is made, we're praying back to you. Give to us that we're asking you to do transformative work in our arts and in our lives, day by day renewing us. Bible's I want to invite you to open to Colossians chapter one. We're going to take a few minutes and we're going to pray out of this apostolic prayer. Colossians one beginning of verse number nine. All right. And so from the day we heard, we've not ceased to pray for you asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will and all spiritual wisdom and understanding so as to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him and bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God, being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might for all endurance and patience with joy. Words of this prayer and we're going to sing prophetically these words and we're singing them and we're praying them asking the Lord to do this. As we're yielding to the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit's beginning to destruct, deconstruct and construct his purposes and his will in our lives. So Lord today we do come before you and we present to you the very words that you wrote as a prayer that we should pray every single day without ceasing over our lives. We're asking you today the very thing that Paul asked 2000 years ago that you would fill every single one of us with the knowledge of your will and with spiritual understanding and wisdom. Lord this is a day when we need more than just the knowledge and the wisdom that's available to us in this world. We want spiritual wisdom and revelation that unlocks your purposes and your will in our life. Lord there's a desire in your heart to reveal your heart to us and what you're doing in our lives to us. You don't want us to just slam the door and say God I'm going to do it my way I'm going to do it the world's way. Lord you're a God who reveals yourself and so we're asking you today pour out a spirit in Isaiah chapter 11 anointing of wisdom and knowledge and counsel. Spirit of wisdom and understanding and revelation so that we might know your will God this is what we want more than anything else. We want to know your will we want to know what you're doing in the earth today and we're reminded of the effect that Jesus you said to the disciples in John 15 I no longer call you servants but I call you friends because a servant doesn't know what his master's doing or why he's doing it but a friend does and so we come to you reminding you that you have called us your friends and Father you are the one who releases wisdom revelation and understanding so that we might know your will so pour it out on us today Jesus name the mask of God who gives liberally asking today we don't want to walk blindly specifically for those in that are joining us and also in every one of us the places where we're struggling to know your will where we're trying to figure out what you're doing in our lives God you didn't just say I'm going to leave you blind you said if you'll ask I'll give it to you and I'll pour it out liberally so here we are asking fill us with that or we don't want to see you from the angle of our flesh or just our experience or our knowledge God we need Holy Spirit to reveal Jesus and your will to us in a greater dimension that we might walk as strong sons and daughters of God in the midst of darkness not blinded by the delusions of this age or even deceived by our own flesh or our own carnal imagination today we take authority over every vain imagination and Holy Spirit dismantle every stronghold that the enemy has built up over years with the building materials of lies and offense strongholds in our way of thinking that have limited our ability to partner and trust you so just like Paul prayed in 2 Corinthians chapter 10 we take authority over every vain imagination and every philosophy of men that opposes you and stands in opposition to you and we submit today and as we submit ourselves God fill us with an overflow a liberality of wisdom that comes from your spirit let's just ask the Lord again to fill us God verse 10 who said so that we might walk in a manner worthy of the Lord fully pleasing him so Lord today that's the desire of our heart that we would walk worthy of you and of the calling of God upon our lives Jesus you paid the full price for us and our redemption you made a way for us to be fully free and so Lord in response we want to be fully pleasing to you not partially pleasing that just a little bit but fully pleasing to you in light of your great mercy in light of your great love for us and calling that you've given to us we want to walk in a manner worthy of you and what you pay for us fully pleasing to you bearing fruit in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God Lord this is the desire for our hearts and our lives Lord we don't want to walk in a way that's like thank you for saving us and now we're going to do what we want Lord you said that if you love me you'll keep my commandments we want to be fully pleasing to you we want to be so plugged into you the vine that your life flows in us and that there's a desire that Philippians to you that you work in us both to will and to do your good will your good pleasure so Lord today would you work in each of us today not only the desire but the ability to fully please you today to fully please you and everything that we do everything that we put our hands to you every conversation every step that we take let it be pleasing to you in accordance with your will this last part of this verse 10 becomes a reality in us that we're all increasing in the knowledge of you today increasing in the knowledge of God what you've called us to walk by faith and not by sight that there's a holy spirit spirit of the living God that you placed in us to reveal yourself to us God we're not satisfied with where we're at we want to increase and grow in our knowledge of you Lord we want to grow in our knowledge of you we want to increase we want there to be maturity that takes place in us because our relationship with you is not stuck at a static point but Lord there's so many more facets of your heart there's so many more angles of your beauty there's so much more it's a vast ocean and Lord we're not content to stand and to just observe you from afar we want to draw nearer and know more about you Lord we want to increase not just in our intellectual knowledge but Lord in the revelation of your heart God would you give us the desire of our heart just hear you saying if you want it come and get it if you want more of me pursue me seek me with all of your heart and you will find me if you want it come and get it if you have zeal for it pursue it and I will release greater knowledge of my heart and my ways in your life 27 Lord hear you saying seek my face and my heart says your face oh Lord will I seek Lord I pray that that desire respond to the invitation harder after you would resonate in every one of our hearts and that by the power of your Holy Spirit working gloriously in us Lord we will grow in our understanding and knowledge of you Lord that's our prayer that we join in with your prayer and we say amen to it in Jesus name we're so glad that you joined us this morning just pray that all throughout your day today you just respond to that invitation to grow and to increase in your knowledge of God welcome you today at noon to 96 30 p.m. God bless