 Good morning, Radiant Church. Wanna welcome you to our 8 a.m. prayer. I wanna invite you wherever you're at to just stand with us as we head into a time of worship together. And this morning, even just feeling it across just people that I'm interacting with, like just even, I think just tiredness and maybe even like sickness is coming to your family. I know my family's experiencing that, but I just wanna encourage you to continue to press in. And this is a time for us to take the focus off of ourself and begin to focus in on and look at Jesus together. And I want us to open right now out of Isaiah chapter 11. It says this about Jesus. Then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse. A branch from his roots will bear fruit. The spirit of the Lord will rest on him. The spirit of wisdom and understanding. The spirit of counsel and strength. The spirit of knowledge and the fear of the Lord. And he will delight in the fear of the Lord. And he will not judge by what he sees nor make a decision by what he hears. But with righteousness, he will judge the poor and decide with fairness for the afflicted of the earth. And he will strike the earth with the rod of his mouth. And with the breath of his lips, he will slay the wicked. Also, righteousness will be the belt of his loins and faithfulness, the belt about his waist. Today, we're gonna be coming in and focusing on this King Jesus, focusing on this branch of David. And so even with me, with your eyes lifted to heaven, just us, even just focusing on King Jesus, we're gonna be looking to him. He is the King of our hearts. He is the King of our lives. And we're gonna be focusing, looking up to him. We can trust him. We can trust his leadership. He judges fairly. He leads us in righteousness. And so we look to you, King Jesus, and we trust you this morning. We also look to you and we say that there's no one else found worthy to lead us. You, King Jesus, you lead our hearts so well. You, King Jesus, are worthy of our praise. You, King Jesus, are so kind and gentle in your leadership over us. Can you just with your own mouth, just even confess to King Jesus just how he is leading you right now? How he is guiding you? You are good, King Jesus. You're a good leader. We love you, King Jesus. We lift our heads to look to you, Lord. Despite the pain, despite the circumstances that might be around you, despite what might even be going on in our physical bodies, this morning, we look to you. Lift our heads to the heavens. Let us look, let us gaze upon King Jesus. Jesus, eyes to the heavens. I feel the Lord just speaking to us out of Psalm 24. It's this vision of the King of glory entering in and it says in verse seven, lift up your heads, O gates, and be lifted up, O ancient doors. And every time I've read this, I've been imagining and thinking of the city of Israel, like, let the King of glory come in, let him come on in, like, why are you trying to stop him, or make way, the King of glory is coming in. And I just felt the Lord saying that our hearts right now are in a similar position. There's some rusty old gates that have been closed. And maybe over the past few weeks, the Lord has been throwing up those doors and you've been letting him in, but I felt the King of glory saying, will you lift up your gates? Will you lift up your heads? And will you let me in? And I felt the Lord just saying, the heart, the heart right now has a gate that we will let that in. And even as we've been seeing, isn't he worthy? The way that King Jesus enters in to Jerusalem when we see him, the triumphal entry of Jesus, it was praise and Hosanna. And I don't know, but I don't always see King Jesus entering my heart and thinking praise. I often think, oh, don't look at all the grossness that's going on in there. But I just felt the Lord saying, will you open up your heart right now? Would the gates fly up? Would you open up the doors and let the King of glory enter in? And as we've been singing, isn't he worthy? That him entering in right now is praise worthy. It's praise worthy. We should be lifting up a song of praise as King Jesus enters in. So even as we press back into this moment, I wanna invite you to even in your own hearts, reflect and praise King Jesus as he enters in. And I wanna speak to those that maybe there has been some doors, some gates that have been locked to King Jesus. He is saying to you right now, let me in, let me in. I'm gonna read it one more time. Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O gates. Lift them up, O ancient doors and let the King of glory come in. Let's sing this again. Let the King of glory enter in worthy as he. Even begin to lift up with your own voice worthy. Praises to Jesus. Lift up your voices. We're welcoming in King Jesus. Hades, Lord. Lord, would there be no pit in place or would there be no closed place to you, Lord? Lord, we open up our whole hearts to you. We say enter in King of glory. This Hosanna being lifted up, this praise being lifted up. Worthy, worthy is the King of glory to receive honor and praise and glory from my heart, from my voice, from my spirit. Lord, would you find worship on the earth? Would it be found in me? Would it be found in us? That the King of glory would be praised in his entry. Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord. Hosanna, get to King Jesus. We lift up our voice of praise to you, Jesus. Move your hearts. And Lord, even our simple praise before you delights your heart, Lord. I felt the Lord saying that even in your weakness, even in the weak song that we sing, that it moves his heart when we bring praise and adoration. I felt the Lord saying that there's even some young believers that are singing right now. Maybe for the first time or the first time in a long time when the Lord is saying your worship is beautiful and to not withhold, but to bring your song of adoration, to bring your song of praise. Isn't he lovely? Yes, he is. Yes, he is. Isn't he worthy? Yes, he is. And we don't do this by ourselves, but we do this as one congregation, as one people, as one body. King Jesus, would you find a body that is lifting up praise and worship, weak though we may be? Would you have your heart moved by the praises of your saints? King Jesus, we don't wanna look to the left or the right and be distracted by the things around us. We want our hearts focused. We want our hearts enthralled by King Jesus. We want our hearts gripped and hooked onto by King Jesus. So we say, enter in, oh King of glory. We lift up the gates of our hearts. I even felt the Lord saying that for some of us, there are some gates that have been left closed and unopened to the Lord. Maybe you've been following him for decades, but he's saying, will you lift up those gates that I may enter in? Lord, we pray that you would have full access, full access to our hearts, full access to our lives. We have full surrender of our hearts and our lives to you, King Jesus. Can you even pray that with your own voice? If you're willing, King Jesus, you have full access. I open up every gate. I open up every door. Come and have your way. If you're not aware, there is a gathering of the Gen Z, our portage campus for a night of worship and prayer. And at that night, there were 80 students that gave their lives to the Lord. Yes, we need to rejoice in that. 80 students who gave their lives to Jesus, who took on this Psalm 24, the King of glory knocked at their hearts and they opened the door. The King of glory came to their ancient gates and they opened up the way. Yeah, give him praise. Thank you, Jesus. And where it started, for each person, I'm sure Jesus has been on a journey with them knocking on their hearts for years, I'm sure. And this moment of them deciding to follow Jesus is beautiful, but it began with a generation that said, I've had enough. And literally for the last week or so, just these high schoolers, these college students, these junior hires going into their schools and being on mission, literally hearing about people who are going out and handing out hundreds of invite cards and having hundreds of conversations and praying with people and pleading with people. Come, come and let the King of glory enter in. And it's what Jesus talked about in Matthew chapter nine, verse 36. He said, seeing the people, he felt compassion for them because they were distressed, dispirited, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, the harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Therefore beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into the harvest. These students took on Jesus' call and said, if the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few, Lord Jesus, send me into my school, send me to the lost, send me to the broken. I will go, I will proclaim King Jesus. I will go and be a representative because when Jesus comes into our hearts, he is the King, his kingdom comes and we become ambassadors, ambassadors for Christ. And I just felt the Lord saying, have I knocked on your door? Have the gates been opened? Has King Jesus entered in? Then go and be an ambassador. And I felt the challenge of the Lord say, we can pray for workers to go into the harvest, but I feel right now, everyone under the sound of my voice is a worker being sent into the harvest. We each have a place of influence. We each have a place, our neighborhoods, our work, our families, our schools, every one of us is called somewhere. And I felt the Lord saying, will you go? You be like these students. You don't need a big rally. You don't need some big event. You have King Jesus to proclaim. Will you go and proclaim King Jesus to your workplace? Will you go and proclaim him to your neighborhoods, to your schools, to your families? Just even now begin to respond. If you have that yes to the Lord, say send me, I'll go. Send us, Jesus. Equip us. Give us your words to even be in our mouths. The Lord says that I will not send you weak and broken. I will send you strong and encouraged and strengthened by my Holy Spirit. Lord, right now would you strengthen us to be bold proclaimers of the gospel of Jesus? God, would you right now strengthen us and send us to proclaim Jesus to the lost and the broken? Lord, show us the darkest parts. Lord, show us the furthest people with your own voice. Ask the Lord, would you show me? Would you send me? Would you equip me? Even begin to intercede for your workplace right now. Begin to pray for your coworkers. Pray for your family. King Jesus, knock on their hearts. King Jesus, knock on those ancient gates. King Jesus, send me, I'll go. If I can share a word, if I can participate in what you're doing, send me, I'll go. Put your word in my heart that when we encounter these people, the word of God just flows out of us. Jesus said that I have come to proclaim a favorable year of the Lord. That those who are in darkness, those who are in prison chains may be set free. So Lord Jesus, send me with your word. Send me with your spirit. Send me, I'll go. Yes to the call. And if you've said yes to that call even now, I wanna challenge you with this story. Last night, one of the students shared that there was some girls that he had invited from his school and one of the girls was that came, he had written on a prayer wall that he's been praying for her for a long time. And last night, that young lady came to the service and gave her life to Jesus, okay? He's gonna get to go now and mark that name off the wall and say, King Jesus, you knocked and the door was answered. But it began in the place of intercession. It began in the place of prayer, naming the names before King Jesus, lifting up prayers to the Lord. And so I just felt the Lord say, are you writing names on the wall? Are you praying for her? Are you interceding? Because yes, we go, we tell, we share, but it starts in the place of prayer. It starts with, hey, King Jesus, I need to talk to you about somebody. I need to talk to you about my dad. I need to talk to you about my brother and my sister. I need to talk to you about my neighbor. Would you send me and would you liberate their hearts? And I wanna invite us into that moment now. I'm gonna open up the mic and in boldness, I want you to come up and if there's someone you would like to pray for and pray for God to reveal, for Jesus to be revealed to their hearts, to come up and intercede for them. This is what it's gonna look like. Name them by name and pray, King Jesus, reveal yourself. Holy spirit, reveal Jesus to their hearts. So I wanna open that up right now. The line's gonna be open. Short prayers, name their names, write their name on the wall of intercession. Let's see them come to the Lord. I'm gonna open us up and then if you'd like to come up and pray, that line is open. King Jesus, I open up the doors and I say, King Jesus, would you enter into my dad's life? John Thornton, Lord into my sister's life, Cheyenne, into my brother's life, Joey. Lord, I pray that they would have a revelation of Jesus. King Jesus, knock on their hearts. I just pray for my cousins, Liam, A-Life, Lucy and my aunt and uncle, Uncle Tony and Aunt Martha. Lord, I just ask that you would come into their home with just a heavy presence of your Holy Spirit and would you transform their hearts to the point that Lakeview High School would have a revival because of these people who are in it, in Jesus' name. Father, I just write my uncle Lee's name on the wall one more time. Lord, I just continue to call this name in the courts of heaven. I appeal to you, God, for a spirit of revelation to break through and to break in God, the resistance, the arrogance, the prideful intellect, God, the spirit of deception. I just say, Lord, get him. Get him, Lord. We don't wanna leave this earth without uncle Lee in Jesus' name. Dear God, I just lift up my family to you and sound Korea, Lord. Their names, I am writing them on your wall, Lord. Their names are Park Jong-seok, Park, Park Min-jung, Park Jong-jong, Yang Yang-nim, Park Na-sim, Jeon Chang-hee, Lord. God, I lift them all up to you, Lord. I pray that you reveal yourself in them, Lord. And, God, I lift up my coworkers at Buffalo Wild Wings, Lord. God, would you show them a way out of their addiction? Would you show them a way out of this broken world, Lord? God, and I just pray for your encounter with them with your love, God. And, God, I pray that you will reveal yourself to my family and to my coworkers. Jesus, I'm writing Ken's name, my husband Ken's name on the wall again and again. I know, Lord, I know you are speaking to him. Lord, would you, would you just break through, break through all the excuses, all the misunderstandings, all the lies, break through. Thank you for pursuing him. Thank you, Lord. Thank you that he will claim you as Lord one day and Bonnie's name, my sister Bonnie, of putting her name on the wall again. Will you draw her back to you? Remind her of the goodness of the Lord. Show her that everything else that has been working up to this point hasn't been working. Show her, Lord, how good it is to be back at your table. Thank you, Jesus. Yeah, Jesus, I just bring my coworker, Aaron Gunn's name before you, Lord, right now, right on your wall. God, I ask that you encounter him with your love, Holy Spirit. God, that you would unveil his eyes to you, God. That even things that maybe in his childhood happened like abuse or whatever it is. God, I ask God that you begin to soften his heart, God, and that the words that I speak to him, God would cut to his spirit, Lord, and that you would encounter him in Jesus' name. My coworkers too, I lift up Colton and Grayson and Kenzie and Rosie and Taylor, God. And I just pray that you would just give them a revelation of your love, Jesus, that you would break down all walls of what they think religion is, what they think the church is, what they think God is, and who they think you are. I pray that you would break down their false views of you and that you would reveal yourself to them as a loving father in Jesus' name. I just pray for all of my mom's side of the family who don't know you and are searching in all the wrong places to find satisfaction and to find rest and to find peace that can only be found in you. And so I pray right now, Holy Spirit, would you just break in? Jesus, would you just step into the midst of their situation? Would you just bring freedom? And would you bring healing? And I pray for my co-worker, Jen. Oh my God, today is her birthday and I just pray that on her birthday that Jesus, that you would just step in, that you would just captivate her heart right now, Jesus, that you would just walk into the midst of her brokenness and to the midst of her and her confusion and that Jesus, that you would just break through in her life today. Lord, I just pray for our neighbors, the written family, God. They've experienced so much brokenness and hurt in their lives, God. And they're desperately searching for your love, Lord. God, would you show them your love, Lord? Would you show them that they can have true joy and not be sad, Jesus? Would you break in today with your love, Lord? Keep shutting you down when I know she wants you and I know you're not gonna get it. So please just open it and have her just encounter you so that she truly knows who you are. All right, Father, I just lift up. My sister and my mom to you. And you know them, Lord. You know them in their innermost place they're being. And you also know why they hold back. And so, Father, whatever it is, I just pray that you break through every stronghold, every lie, every perversion, everything the enemy has done to bind them. I just pray, Father, that they would be loosed from his hold and that you would free them once and for all and that they could truly say, you, the sun sets free, is free indeed, Lord. I ask you to do it today. I thank you for it, Lord, in Jesus' name, amen. And, Father, I pray for my brother's curtain, praying in time and time. Even, Father, I just pray that you just loose them with the revealed truth, Father God. They would step into their relationship with you, Father, and for my 96-year-old father-in-law. It's not too late, Father God. I just pray that you would just open his eyes today, God, maybe he would step in relationship with you. I just pray for my brother, Sam, God, that he would have a fresh view of you and that he's becoming a father, that he would download that on his son's heart and on his next baby's heart and, God, that you would just make them a family who loves you and is chasing after you all the days of their life and that addiction would have no stronghold on that and, God, that you would just download something fresh and something new and reveal yourself in that way. And, God, I also just pray for my coworker, Haley, God, that you would show her that you are not this religious God. You're not this person that has all these rules that are scary, but just someone who wants to love her. And so, God, I just pray that you would open her eyes to that. And my friend, yes, me and God, that anything new age would be broken off right now in Jesus' name and that my truth would be gone and that it would be your truth and your truth only and that any abuse that she's been in through her whole life, God, you would show her that you are a different type of father. You are nothing like the father she's ever known. You are something who loves her with everything in you no matter what she does. And, Father, I just pray for a fresh revelation over this room that we would not settle for it is what it is because that's not how it is. You have, you give us hope and there's always a chance for that person. There's always a chance for the people that we can, we see the darkest, we see the lost. All we see is the brokenness, but God, but you say, go to them, I see them, I want their soul, I want that so bad. So God, use us and let us see it, the fresh vision for harvest amongst those people. We love you, Father, amen. Let's just stand right now as we close. We're gonna sing this out, but I heard the word break through throughout those prayers. We wanna pray that the God of the breakthrough would break in to their hearts, break into their lives, break into their normal seat. Let's pray, let's worship that the God of the breakthrough would come in. Jesus, bring salvation to our homes, to our neighborhood, to our city. And God, would you equip us to be your ambassadors that go out from here. I just even invite you to just place your hand on your heart right now and I wanna pray a blessing over us. Lord King Jesus, we've allowed you to enter in. We have been in your courts and now send us out as ambassadors to a dark and broken land. God, we pray that we would be intercessors, those that stand before the King and petition for you to knock on the hearts of our family, our friends, our coworkers. Send us out in all boldness, empowered and strengthened by the Holy Spirit. And it's in Jesus' mighty name, we pray today. And everyone said, amen, amen. Well, thank you for pressing in. I wanna encourage you to take that imagery and make it literal. Wear some walls or maybe some notebooks. Start with some notebooks. We're writing down those names and get ready because I don't feel like those names are gonna be on their long. Get ready to mark them out as you begin to pray for them, as you begin to be bold witnesses. The Lord is scattering seed across the land. He is scattering out and He is sending you out to be a participant in what He is doing. So go in all boldness. We'll see you again at noon at 8.30. Have a great rest of your day.