 Well, good morning and welcome to 8 a.m. Prayer here the Radiant City Center Thank you all for joining us online and for you who are in the room kind of like the post Easter kind of feel But just thinking about this weekend and all they got accomplished I mean even just here and I just said Radiant Church But also all the churches who proclaim Christ's Lord was pretty powerful as I've talked to my friends here and talked to my Friends around the nation and a few missionaries around the world. We know that God moved But I just want to start off just with high praise. I know sometimes we can Kind of go off to like a slow start a little bit Or maybe even in and like shouts of victory But I thought it would be a great way for us to start that way this morning Just here radiant 180 people profess Christ for the first time come on. Can we praise God for that? Can we praise God for that? 180 Salvation that Jesus came to seek and to save that was lost and he found his sons He found his daughters. So we we want to thank God for that So if you have your Bibles, so hope that you do open them up to song song 113 We're just gonna read the first three verses song 113 Verses one through three This is guys where it says praise the Lord everyone say that one two three praise the Lord Let's do it again cuz y'all still not awake one two three praise the Lord. Yes, praise the Lord Praise oh servants of the Lord praise the name of the Lord verse two Blessed be the name of the Lord From this time forth and forever more from the rising of the Sun to a setting the name of the Lord is to Be praised alright, so we're gonna start just literally lifted our voices with a shout of victory I know we usually do until it's the middle of the end But we're gonna start that way so in the count of three I just want you to think about who God is what he's done Even what he's been doing in the lives of those around us And I just want you to lift up a holy shout lift up holy hands, and then we're gonna go for it ready One two three come on lift your hands lift up a shout Come on y'all shout some victory shout some praise We love you Jesus. Hallelujah Let's it be the name of the Lord Yes, God let's it be your name. Got your worthy of ceaseless praise Got your worthy of ceaseless praise from the rising of the Sun To the setting of the same let's it be the name of the Lord. We praise you we worship you We honor you Jesus. You're alive God. You are alive. You're seated at the right hand of God You're interceding as we pray we love you this morning Let's it be the name of the Lord just for 30 seconds or so longer Let's just continue to lift our voice this morning any reasons why we worship and sing open up to Philippians chapter 2 This has been a chapter that's been high recently in our prayer sets And I want to stay there Philippians chapter 2 beginning Verse one just gonna read a couple of verses and really pray into these So if there is any encouragement in Christ Any comfort from love any participation in the spirit any affection any sympathy Complete my joy by being of the same mind having the same love being in full accord And of one pray into that as we think about who God is father son spirit and how they're one and as we even Rejoiced earlier the people coming to the Lord knowing that even heaven rejoices if one if one center turns How much more did God receive the joy this weekend But we want to pray into just this unity that we would actually feel that together one thing that marks a community is Celebration and tradition and so for us just reminding ourselves of who God is what he's done what he's won So let's pray into that right now Jesus we love you. We thank you that and you we do find our comfort Lord Jesus and you we do find love God and you our deepest needs are met We find acceptance and you Jesus we find our purpose Jesus and you we find our identity Jesus and you we find our security and we say thank you We just say thank you Jesus. Thank you for being who you are Thank you for being so faithful so trustworthy And God we ask that you will help us be one as you and a father are one God that we will actually dwell in unity Lord that we would have the same mind the same love Jesus we say that and you we are united That you've broken down the laws of division that'll keep us from you and from one another and God We thank you for our church We thank you for our spiritual family our brothers and sisters and God We celebrate our new brothers and our new sisters that you sought out that you saved that you found And God we pray that you would give us hearts to welcome them God that they would feel loved that they'll feel seen God that they'll feel appreciated God that they'll feel celebrated So God give us that mind God give us that love Jesus you are our unity God and you things that may come between us God we just lay those aside got our preferences our rights Got our ways of doing things or God we just say we want to fight for the love and the unity God that we may have joy. I know Paul said may his joy be complete But God we live for your as you see your sons and daughters dwelling in unity for we are one Pray that we will see ourselves as family not as enemies God give us your eyes to look at our brothers and sisters the way you do God for we're not competing against one another We're not competing against one another God I pray that we would strive together That we won't fight Against one another, but we'll fight for each other. That's you're so humble. You're the humble king I pray that your humility will shape us and inform us God would it wash us of being so consumed with ourselves Yes, Jesus we confess that we make it about us God. I confess that I make it about me more often than not But we also confess that you are faithful and just to forgive us and to wash us as we confess to you So Jesus we thank you for sending the example of how to live of how to be towards others Now you didn't come to be served, but you came to serve and to give your life In Jesus we ask that your life Jesus we ask that your spirit holy spirit that you would empower us To live with you and for you and not to just look at ourselves But to look to you and to look to other people God may we serve one another God may we actually watch wash feet God, but we actually consider others more significant than ourselves Would you help us put our eyes towards you? May we see you rightly may we behold your beauty and may it lead us to love and to serve and to speak well of Our brothers and sisters got to speak well of our neighbors God not just what comes out of our mouths But may the imagination and the motivation of our inner life be pure God What we think about people we're not around may be adifying to them and may be glorifying to you So Jesus we look to you our humble King who came and who love life So we willing God first John 3 says hereby we perceive the love of God by this We know God that he laid down his life for us and we ought to lay down our lives For the brethren so God we do that we say that we sign up to lay down our lives And to serve each other the way you serve us Jesus you said by this woman know that you are my disciples the love that you have for one another So God would your love for us sustain our relationships God would your love for us Empower us to be quick to forgive God i pray for that that we may be quick to forgive God i pray that we wouldn't hold on to offense As we see you Jesus you took the shame you took the blame you took on our sin So empower us to look to you and to look to others and to love people the way you do In Jesus name Yourselves which is yours and Christ Jesus Although he was in the form of God did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped But made himself nothing Taking the form of a servant being born in the likeness of men And being found in human form He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death even death on a cross Verse nine therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed upon him the name that is above every name So at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth and under the earth and every tongue confess That jesus christ is lord to the glory of god the father Jesus we thank you that you became like us So that you could save us So that we could see What the love of the father looks like Jesus. Thank you For perfectly demonstrating Who the father is Who the father is and what he wants and what he desires So jesus we thank you for humbling yourself For taking on that form of a servant god We are beneficiaries of you serving the world and for that we say thank you God our hearts are encouraged for if you serve us We lack nothing for if you are serving us We have everything we need for life and for godliness god if you are still choosing to serve us and to love us All worry all fear all doubt must Must move god it must flee as we think about what you're doing So jesus thank you for your humility. Thank you for your grace Thank you for becoming man in order that we may see you and know you and be known Jesus we thank you for the cross. Would you tell them that just say thank you for the cross? Thank you jesus for the cross. Thank you for loving body god. We thank you for your cross God you came and you served You're so humble god. You're so kind god. You're slow to anger You were bound in steadfast love and we see that in your life We see that in your death But oh god, we praise you because it was your execution that led to your exaltation Jesus we do celebrate the resurrection again. We do celebrate that you got up We do celebrate that your tomb is empty and that you are alive That god our hope is secured god because of you being who you are Because you are seated at the right hand of god. You are lord. You are savior god. You are our salvation God you are a strength today Jesus you are our song today. Would you help us? Would you help us walk in this power walk in this grace walk in this humility hold yourself You chose to do it. And so would you empower us holy spirit to choose to live the way? Jesus what god to lead has amazes us It amazes us today. You say jesus you're getting ready to Launch out to the northeast or they're gonna be ministering for the next two and a half weeks And churches and all over the place and I just had acts 13 in my heart In the church of anioc it says this While they were worshiping the lord and fasting The holy spirit said Set apart for me barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them Then after fasting and praying they laid their hands on them and sent them off And we have the opportunity this morning to set apart these young people for the work to which god has called them And so I actually want to invite this team of rsw students to come up to the the front here and just kind of line up across the front And as they come up to the front just like we see in this scripture I actually want to invite us to pray over them and even lay hands on them So if you're a pastor here, I want to invite you to come lay hands But if you're even if you're anybody else in the room and you'd like to lay hands on them I want to just invite you to come up to the front and surround them The scriptures we see this act of sending not just as something that happens from the leaders But the holy spirit himself Sends them as the people of god lay hands on them So i'm gonna pray and then we're just gonna release us to pray online all across this room as these ones go out So lord, we just lay our hands on these precious ones right now We lay our hands on our best lord and we send them out to the work to which you have called them The work that they have been set apart for and lord as they go We asked that you would go before them lord and you would prepare the hearts of people and lord We asked that behind them would be a wake of freedom and salvation Everywhere they go every church they touch every youth group they step on into every conversation with a person They have lord there will be a week awake of the freedom of christ and salvation that follows them everywhere they go Let's just continue to pray over these as the musicians play in the singer sing Ask that you would put your words in their mouth step into church's lord They would release something that is not just there during the moment They're there But it's something that would lay your lord there would be a sense of your presence a sense of fresh joy A fresh a sense of fresh passion for you lord that would be released everywhere they go every church They step into lord every pastor they have a conversation with there would be a deposit left there Lord we ask your protection to be around them your favor to be upon them Your anointing to go with them and everything that they step into lord as your sons and daughters and all the authority that gives us lord We send them out right now into the purposes that you prepared for them And she's this name we pray he's once finished praying and finding their seeds Let's worship for these last few minutes together this morning. I think that we should just in how we started We got a little sleepy in the middle there. I think we can all admit that Um, so I think let's just do what we did last week. Let's go just drums Praise and we thank you as we even see as you sent Jesus We had the privilege this morning to send out your sons And your daughters and we do ask again that you will bless them That you'll go before them and may the truth of the gospel set people free Set people free in jesus name and everyone said Amen. Amen. Thank you so much for joining us. This morning. We'll be back here at noon. We'll hope to see you then Love you guys