 Okay, let's go ahead and get started. Good morning, everybody. For those of you joining us on the live stream, good morning, we're so glad you're here this morning to make much of Jesus with us in worship and to agree with his heart in the place of prayer. I'm gonna say a very mom thing. So glad you all are here safe and sound on this winter commute. The first of many, I'm sure. So as we just enter into worship, I wanna remind our hearts this morning, my own first and foremost, I feel like sometimes we just grow so familiar with this hour at the corporate altar. Just as someone who's been in the prayer movement for almost two decades, I grow familiar with the operations of corporate prayer. We know how it's going to look and we're familiar with how it's gonna sound and the songs we're gonna sing and the prayers we're gonna pray, the apostolic prayers and it's so easy to just sort of downshift into familiarity and I wanna encourage us this morning to remember who it is that we're inviting a someone, a beautiful someone into this place to host his heart first and foremost to enjoy his company and to minister to him. If you have your Bibles, go ahead and open to Luke chapter seven and I just wanna set this picture before us as we enter into worship. It's the story of the woman with the alabaster vial of perfume that she lavishes extravagantly upon Jesus as worship. We'll pick up in verse 36. Now one of the Pharisees was requesting Jesus to dine with him and Jesus entered the Pharisees house and reclined at the table and there was a woman in the city who was a sinner and when she learned that Jesus was reclining at the table in the Pharisees house she brought an alabaster vial of perfume and standing behind him at his feet weeping she began to wet his feet with her tears and she kept wiping them with the hair of her head kissing his feet and anointing them with the perfume. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this he said to himself, if this man were a prophet he would know who and what sort of person this woman was touching him that she is a sinner. Just jumped down to verse 44 and turning towards the woman Jesus said to Simon, do you see this woman? I entered your house and you gave me no water for my feet but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair. You gave me no kiss but she since the time I came in has not ceased to kiss my feet. You did not anoint my head with oil but she anointed my feet with perfume and for this reason I say to you her sins which are many have been forgiven for she loved much but he who is forgiven little loves little. And so Lord we just take this beautiful picture that you saw fit to record God for our instruction and our example of how you long to be hosted, how you long to enter in and be made much of. We receive it God in our hearts this morning and we ask you for grace God to prioritize your presence rightly this morning. God I pray that you would stir our hearts in your kindness beyond the familiarity of even worship and praise and intercession. The formats and the model and the methodology Lord of corporate gatherings. Lord I pray that you would just grab our hearts this morning like you grabbed the heart of this woman and you compelled her Lord to break all the social protocols all the business as usual protocols of hosting gathering Holy spirit we welcome you in this place. Jesus we long for relational encounter with you this morning. So we set our eyes on you God and we bring our much love to you this morning. We wanna love much this morning Jesus holding nothing back like this woman held nothing back. She brought you her pain she brought you her brokenness she brought you her repentance she brought you God her affection and adoration and longing to be received Lord here we are for some this morning God we do we bring you pain and tears as our offering. We bring you grief and sorrow we bring you failure as our offering. For others Lord we bring you victory and celebration and joy. Lord we just lay it all at your feet all of it Lord holding nothing back this morning and we ask that you would just come in come in Lord we wanna share your company this morning walk into cars and office cubicles and living rooms and kitchen Scott wherever the live stream is streaming right now we invite your beautiful presence we love you Jesus we love being with you in your name we pray free tear every shout every soul in every season of the soul we when we do it right and when we do it wrong we love you Jesus in grief we love you Jesus in abundance we love you Jesus this is the posture of our heart God for the rest of our lives we will walk as lovers of God friends of God we love you Jesus in presence above all find your pleasure in this place God a place where you long to be where you take delight in abiding we make space for you beloved we bring our hearts as the offering our gifts all the multifaceted expressions of our all that we would love you much Jesus as you desire you would find Lord in this hidden place those who love much because we've been forgiven much those who delight in your mercy and your company those who draw near confident in your affection in the fullness of our human package we drink in your presence this morning Lord with grateful hearts knowing that you receive these offerings God you receive the tears you receive Lord the oil every expression we linger with you because it's about you beholding you because you're beautiful you're worthy of our gaze this moment eyes of faith you Jesus this beautiful man who desires our company you come in wanting us and Lord we want you right back I just wanna be with you this morning Lord I just wanna take a deep breath in your presence loving and being loved adoring as we are adored our guest of honor gate of our soul the window of our soul when you are worthy of our gaze beautiful light of the world flood us with your beauty just gonna linger a little longer just stare say Tammy what am I staring at close your natural eyes open the eyes of your spirit man by faith that beautiful imagination that was so active in childhood he gave us as a gift not to leave behind in childhood but to engage with him all the days of our life this beautiful man we set our eyes of faith on you now Jesus our guest of honor we linger we're listening we're gazing like Mary at your feet we've got nowhere to go you are the agenda I just wanna draw near for that embrace this morning we're coming in a morning of coming in to just be to be drawn near to in us Lord you will fight your desire for us Lord we're desiring right back we've gotta have more of you we've gotta be with you it's your presence Lord that we are aching after just to be with you Lord it's enough pleasure in this place Jesus who love you bring to you Jesus we really love you Jesus said in John 17 verse 24 he's talking to Abba Father revealing the desire of his heart and he said Father I desire I yearn that they also whom you have given me be with me where I am so that they may behold my glory which you have given me for you loved me before the foundation of the world so Lord we just echo this cry of your very own heart to Abba you said to him you desired us you wanted us and you wanted us to see and behold you rightly it's the cry of your heart so Lord in your presence now we stand and we just say Jesus it's the cry of our heart the very cry that you gave to Abba in the garden that we would be a people a bride who desire you and want you above all else who would see rightly the beauty and the worth that you possess now we stand Lord in your presence and we echo your very cry Father we desire your son Father we desire Jesus this one you have given us we say Father we desire him and we long for more of him we long for increased capacity to love him back rightly with the love he loves us Father we long to see him and behold him rightly not through the frame and the lens of religion but through the lens of beauty that we would be undone by the revelation of the beauty of your son so Father I pray the very prayer that Jesus prayed concerning us I pray for us that you would answer the cry of his heart in your church in us that you would increase the desire for Jesus in the heart of your church begin right here with us Lord in large our capacity we could truly cry this prayer we desire Jesus above all else we want Jesus above all else your presence Lord we ask this Father in his beautiful name before it's just a cry for reality this realm of beauty and glory and majesty real than what our natural eyes and our natural ears encounter we long for you Jesus I pray Jesus that we would behold him Jesus rightly love your son Father we desire your son Abba we long to see him rightly beholding his glory the very cry of his heart that we would be those who love much because you've forgiven us so much we love you Jesus thank you for your love thank you for coming thank you for your presence thank you for being with us this morning for drawing a smear we don't take it it's hard to stop I know this morning was a little bit different I homeschooled our children for 18 years and every once in a while we would just call for a huggy break they'd all just be working so hard and anybody at any time could call a huggy break and it just meant you stop the productivity you stop the business as usual and you just embrace you just hug and you just take that we're in this together and this morning felt like that like it was just a the Lord just calling a huggy break like I love what you're doing I love that you've partnered so faithfully with me in intercession but this morning we're just gonna hug you break and we're just gonna draw near and we're just gonna say you know what we're in this together in Jesus you're beautiful amen well God bless you all thanks for coming out on this snowy morning thank you for joining us on the live stream we're back here at noon this afternoon praying for the nations and then again tonight at 6 30 God bless you