 Good morning. Welcome to morning prayer. If you were in the room, would you stand with me? Wherever you are, whether you're in your car or you're at home, maybe you're at work and you're tuning in, we have the special privilege of spending this hour together spread across different places, different regions, coming to the Lord and all of his splendor and all of his majesty to worship him to adore him to exalt him and to cry out to him. I know that the Lord has something special for us today, but what I want us to do is bring something special to the Lord. When Psalm 134 the psalmist says, come, bless the Lord, all you servants of the Lord who stand by night in the house of the Lord, lift up your hands to the holy place and bless the Lord. May the Lord bless you from Zion, he who made heaven and earth. You know, a lot of times it's really easy for us just to want that last part. May the Lord bless us and yes, that's good. It's good. I mean in America we have a very popular saying, God bless America. Yes, we need God to bless America, but church and family, people of God, I believe that we need to bless God. We need to bless God. I think that we've gotten our priorities wrong and we've gotten things out of order. The psalmist here first blesses the Lord. So what I want to do right now is, is I want us to put Psalm 134 into physical action and for us to, whether it's lifting our hands up high or just extending our hands out low, whatever the posture is that you feel like you need to present yourself to the Lord with. I want us to extend our hands to the Lord in the place where we are at and just bless him. Just bless him. Bless him. Lord, we bless you this morning. We bless you. We bless you, Lord. We shower you with blessing, Lord. We lift up your name, the name that is above all names and we bless you. We bless you, Lord. We bless you. It's you, God. We extend our hands to you this morning and we say you are good and we say you are great and we say you are magnificent and we say you are awesome and we say you are holy and we say you are beautiful and we say you are true and we say you are righteous. Lord, we bless you. We bless you. Just begin to bless him by calling out his qualities. We're not here for goosebumps. We're not here to fulfill a religious duty. We are here because you are worthy and you are holy and we have come to bless your name. So we bless you, Lord. We bless you, Lord. We bless you. Then our song, this is our cry. This is our cry out to you, Lord. We want to burn for you, not just with a little spark or a little flame here and there from event to event, but every single day, every single hour we want to burn for you, Lord. So right now, Lord, just like you told the priests to do in Leviticus 6, to remove the ashes from yesterday from the altar, Lord, we remove the ashes from yesterday. What happened yesterday, what we experienced yesterday, the conversations we had yesterday, what we learned yesterday, Lord, and we just take it off the altar. We say, Lord, fresh fire fall on us. I just had this picture come to my mind of a neurosurgeon coming in, burning into our neurological pathways, new ways of thinking, thinking about him, thinking about ourselves, thinking about the world. So, Lord, right now I pray that you would burn into our brains, into our minds, into those neurological pathways that for many of us the enemy has stolen and robbed and ripped away from us, and he's burnt into them. Wrong thinking of you and wrong thinking of ourselves and wrong thinking of the world. Lord, I pray that today that you would be the great physician, that you would be the great surgeon, and that, Lord, with the burning cool from your altar, God, that you would take it and that you would touch our neurological pathways, God, and you would give us a new way of thinking, a new way of seeing the altar, Lord, we invite you, we ask you to take coal from the altar, just like you touched Isaiah's mouth, God, would you touch our neurological pathways this morning, and would you rewire our brains, would you fix our way of thinking that has been a cycle of intercession, if you will, in Ephesians chapter 5, verse 14, Apostle Paul is teaching the church how to walk in love, and he's instructing us how to walk in love. In verse 14 he says, for anything that becomes visible is light. Therefore, it says that he begins to quote part of Isaiah 51. He says, Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine upon you. Jesus, right now we pray that you would fall afresh on your church, and that you would wake up your church. Lord, I pray for a fresh outpouring, for a fresh awakening on your church, Lord God, just like what Dr. Michael Brown taught this past weekend at Church, Lord God, about the awakenings and the revival, and just being around him, and hearing his excitement for revival today, and the vibrancy, Lord God, that burns within the core of his being, Lord God, I pray, Lord God, that you would awaken your church with that type of expectation, and that type of anticipation, God, Lord, would you fall afresh on us, and wake up your church to crave after you, to desire you, to want you, to wholly and fully pursue after you, God. Lord, would you fall afresh on us, Lord? We ask for you to fall on your church, Lord God, but Lord, we ask for you to fall on our city as well, Lord. Would you fall afresh and wake up this city, God? Right now I want us, whether you're online or in this room, to ask for God to fall afresh and to wake up your city, so God, we ask you to fall afresh and wake up Kalamazoo. Fall afresh and wake up Richland. Jesus, fall afresh and wake up our city, Lord, on us, Lord. So in the form of discouragement, of frustration, of disappointment, ask for you to fall afresh and wake us up, Lord. May our faces shine from being in your presence, not just on Sundays, but all throughout life. Moses, his face shine, Lord God, because we've spent time in your presence, because we've sought after you, Lord God, may we be those who is sin come to you. And just like David, lay our request before you and then wait expectantly on us, Lord God. Fall afresh on us, Lord. Wake us up. Wake us up, Lord. Wake us up, God. Wake us up. Fall afresh on us, Lord. Christ will shine upon every season of my life. Introduce me to the God with me forever and every shaking or storm. This is where I call my home, where foundations have stood the test of time. Well, take me back. I see, I see you. This is home where you say, lay down and cry your head. This is solid. This is where I'm found. Just looking at the, this is home. This is solid every time. This is where I'm looking at. This is holy ground where you say, lay down every crown. This is solid. This is where I'm. This is holy where you say to, oh cry your every tear. This is solid ground. Every time I'm lost. This is where I'm found. Looking at the cross. This is home. I see your face. This is such a sacred moment. Easy for us to get wayward without even knowing. You've pressed Lord to wander even when we don't even realize that we've wandered. Take us back to that place. Back to that place. Overwhelm us with the cross. Overwhelm us Lord with your nail scarred hands. May they not be religious relics or token statements to us any longer. Early overwhelm us to the point that we tremble. Hands overwhelm us to the point where we gasp. Just a story. That's just a story. Father has given to us that we should be called children of God. Jesus help us to see the depths and the scale of the love of the Father through the cross, through your hands, God. May we truly see it. Give us eyes to see how much you love us. That would not just be a token statement put on t-shirts. It's something that we write on as status, but really it means nothing to us if we don't get enough likes on it. Lord, may we truly see the kind of love the Father has given us because we look to and we look at the cross and we look to and we see your hands. Open up our eyes Lord. Open up the eyes of your church Lord to see. To see. Truly see. To truly know that we are the beloved. But Lord would you teach us how to be loved by you. Teach us to be loved by you Lord. Not to perform. Overwhelm us Lord. Rattle us and shake us at our core with the cross. Lord we are anxious and we are excited and we are desperate to be sent. Just like Isaiah said Lord here I am send me. Lord we we want to be sent into this world that you so love that you came and that you died for. But Lord would you overwhelm us first before he said here I am Lord. He said woe to me. Lord would you give us a woe to me right now. Would you follow us and overwhelm us to the point. Woe to me I am ruined for I am a man of unclean lips and I live among the people of unclean lips and my eyes have seen the Lord Almighty Lord would you overwhelm us like you overwhelmed Isaiah. Would you fall afresh on us. Would you wake us up. Would you fall afresh on your church. Would you wake her up. Would you fall afresh. Would you wake up our city. To the cross. To your nail scarred hands. Wake us up Lord. Wake us up that we would see what kind of love the Father has given us. That we should be called children of God and so we are. Lord may we walk forth in this day in that identity knowing that so we are. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Because we have you we have life. Because of you we are. Lord we love you. We thank you for this day that you have made. We choose to rejoice and be glad in it. Lord I pray that you would set before us divine conversations opportune moments to reach those who are far from you. To love those who just need to be loved and they're broken and downcast and forgotten and neglected. Lord would you give us opportune moments and we may we not just pass by them but may we see them the way you see them. So I pray for prophetic vision today as we go about our day. Lord we love you. We bless you and thank you for joining us online today. We'll be back in the morning otherwise you can join us in the prayer room at noon and at 6 30. Have a blessed day. Go and be who you are in the Lord.