 Well, good morning, everyone. Welcome to morning prayer. We're so glad you have joined us this morning. Like all Monday mornings, we need to just call our soul to attention like David did in Psalm 103 and Psalm 105. Bless the Lord, oh my soul and all that is within me. Bless his holy name. So David spoke to himself and this morning, maybe you need to speak to yourself. I know I did this morning. Let's just stand to attention wherever we're at here in the prayer room. Even at home in your living room, we'll get off the couch or the chair. Just by standing up, we're honoring the presence of the Lord. We're calling our physical temple to attention and to give our focus to the one who deserves it. And we say to ourselves, we're here to bless the Lord. It's our number one call and the priority of our of our whole life. Our heart is to be a blessing and to minister to the heart of the Lord. This was David's heart. And David in Psalm 132, he said this, remember, oh Lord, in David's favor, all the hardships he has endured and how he swore to the Lord and he made a vow to the mighty one of Israel. I will not enter my house or get into my bed and I will not give sleep to my eyes or slumber to my eyelids until I find a place for the Lord, a dwelling place for the mighty one of Jacob. Behold, we have heard of it in Ephrathah. We found it in the fields of Jaar. Let us go to his dwelling place and let us worship at his footstool. Arise, oh Lord, and go to your place of resting. You and the Ark of your might let the priests be clothed with righteousness and let your saints shout for joy for the sake of your servant David. David's heart, which I absolutely love, was when he came into power ultimately. He said, I'm making a vow before you, God. We're not going to leave the Ark which represents the presence of God. We're not going to leave that in the land of the Philistines. We're not going to leave it exposed in the fields where it was dumped. We're not even going to leave it in the caretaking of Obed Edom in his house. David said, I'm not going to stop this language of I'm not going to give up sleep to my eyes. I'm not going to crawl into my bed is his way of saying I'm not going to make anything else a priority with my time until I have created a place that God likes for him to come and to find a resting place where he can be worshiped. And so David built a tabernacle, a tent next to his home where he hired 4,000 Levites to minister before the Lord. And he would go in there and sing Psalms and 24 hours, seven days a week for 33 years in Israel. The Lord was ministered to in a prayer room and in a place where the priests gave their full attention to him. This morning you are the resting place for the presence of Lord. The Holy Spirit dwells on the inside of you. You are the Holy of Holies. And then when we come together, whether by broadcast or in person, we are creating a resting place for the Lord. He's looking for a people whose heart is devoted to that kind of a vow. So here we are Lord that we say with David we will give our eyes no rest. We will not crawl into our bed. We will not give sleep to our eyes until we with our heart, with our words, with our intercession, with our songs and with our prayers have created an atmosphere an environment that you can come and rest, settle upon. Lord we want you to come and rest. Arise O God of Jacob. Arise Holy One of Israel. Arise in strength. Arise in power. We don't want you to come and then go. We want you to come and bring the full weight of your rested presence, your settledness here in this moment and in this house. That's what this very room here in the heart of Kalamazoo's city center is all about. It's to build a resting place, a throne for the presence of God. So arise to your rest and be blessed today by our praise and let your glory fill this place. Let your glory fill this moment. Let it meet us, strengthen us, erase all of the hardships that have come before this moment and give us a heart devoted to ministering to you our Father as kings and priests before you. But wherever you're at just lift up your hands, close your eyes and I want you to make this solemn prayer before the Lord. Arise O Lord to your resting place. Spirit of the living God come now and rest upon me. Hear my thoughts, hear my prayers as I give my whole heart to you this morning. Use a mechanism and a worse word, literally to take a moment and just marinate in the revelation and truth that you've just sung or been instructed by all the violin and the keys and the musicians to just play in this Salem moment and let's meditate on what it means for him to have the preeminent first place in every area of our heart. Bless the Lord. Jesus be the center, very principality and power, every authority. Just feel like we need to take a moment, just even remind our hearts but prophetically declare it over the atmosphere of our city, who this God is that we're serving. Who this God is that has defeated death, hell and the grave. Ephesians one says according to the working of his great power, verse number 20 that he worked in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at the right hand in the heavenly places far above all rule and authority and power and dominion and above every name that is named in this age and also in the one to come. He put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head of all things to the church, which is his body, the fullness of him who fills all and all in an era and in a time right now where there are names that are exalting themselves and there are the shifting of thrones and the battle for borders right now. We stand as the church, as the fullness of him who fills all and all and we take our rightful place of intercession in the heavenlies. We take our rightful place in the heavenly seated at the right hand of God, the Father seated at the right hand of our Lord Jesus and we say Jesus you are the rightful king. He did death, hell and the grave. You are the one who sent the Holy Spirit into your church and you've been raised from the dead. You are seated in heavenly places and you are far above all rule, all other rule, far above all other authority, other names that can be named in this age and in the age to come. And we speak over the heavenlies of this city and we say Jesus is Lord. Jesus Christ the resurrected Son of the living God is Lord over Kalamazoo because you are Lord over this city over this region. You are Lord over this nation and we declare it to those other powers and those other authorities that would try to usurp your name and we say bow the knee to the name of Jesus. Bow the knee to the name of Jesus. Mute your tongue unless the name that you utter is the name of Jesus but we say right now no other name but the name of Jesus. No other king but the name of Jesus but the power of Jesus. In the heavenly places the kingdom of God is here. Jesus the king is here in splendor and in glory, wisdom and in dominion and the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church that bears his name. Every knee bows, every tongue confesses Jesus. You're not only my king but you are the king. You are the rightful king to the throne of David. You are the rightful king in this age and in the age to come and we declare it into the atmosphere of the city that you called us. We declare it into the atmosphere of this generation even over the nations of the earth. Let your kingdom come Lord Jesus and let your will be done. Let your church be established. Let the gospel the good news go forward unhindered in this day. Silence the spirits that reign over regions that are trying to stop and hinder your church and try to silence the gospel and pervert the gospel and cause your people to become distracted and distorted by fear. We speak right now all power, all authority, all boldness, all courage, all unity right now in the name of Jesus over your church which is the fullness of the one who fills everything with his glory. Release your authority God. Release your power, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions were created through him as we hold together and he is the head of the body of the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead that in him everything he might have preeminence. Lord all things were made by ultimately for delegated authority finds its authority in you Jesus. We stand as your body. We say Lord in every sphere in the heavens and in the earth in human government and in the church in the family and education in every sphere of society let you you Jesus have the preeminent place have your way it was created by you and for you endow us as the church with power from on high rooted in unity together in the place of prayer and intercession as our feet are standing on the earth let our hearts and our faith be seated in heavenly places and declare with all authority the principalities and to the powers and to the rulers the lord rebuke you free authority that does not submit to the kingdom of god and the preeminence of christ right now we say the lord rebuke you we say right now the kingdom of god is coming open up you gates over these cities and let the king of glory come in open up you ancient gates around calamazoo michigan where education has been a gate that's been locked where the arts has been a gate that's been locked where intellectualism has been a gate that's been locked where spirituality has been hijacked and locked and held at bay by the spirit of jezebel and witchcraft we right now we speak to the gates and we say open up you ancient gates open up you ancient gates and let the king of glory come on in who is this king of glory the lord strong in battle the lord jesus christ the resurrected glorified son of the living god these gates were not made for men to walk through these gates were made for entry points for the kingdom of god we say open up you gates of wealth open up you gates of arts open up you gates of business and commerce open up you gates and let the king come in michigan university be thrown open in our day we declare wmu will no longer be a concentration camp of demonic humanism and intellectualism creating priests and prophets of an antichrist spirit but we declare western michigan university has open gates from the north the south the east and the west and a mighty wind of god a move of god is about to blow across the campus a move of god the wind of god that blows out the debris and blows in a fresh new day it's no longer going to hold in hostages but it's now going to release pioneers it's no longer going to hold in the bitter waters but it's actually going to be a source from which fresh waters flow lord by the dozens and by the hundreds let students begin to encounter the living god lord we're praying for dreams and visions we're praying for spiritual encounters we're praying for a whole breed of evangelists bold courageous unashamed evangelists on the campus that preach in the courtyards that witness in the dorms that pass out tracks that lead worship and invite people in and lord all across the campus you bring confusion into the rinks of the enemy as the kingdom of god comes lord bring a move of god to wmu to kelemizu college lord just by their proximity i pray that there's a spillover of what you do in wmu into kelemizu college wash away the witchcraft wash away the political correctness that has dominated the hour and let light shine where darkness is dwell we pray lord that you would remember the prayers prayed by baptist pioneers over kelemizu college that it would propagate the gospel of jesus lord blow upon the embers of those prayers once again and let freedom ring let the gospel come like waters like floods in this valley that wash away the filth and release times of refreshing from the presence of the lord we pray over the gates of education for the presence of god for the whole world to see make it a tabernacle of david for the whole world to come and to see and as they look at the city instead of seeing the promise of a free education let the kelemizu promise be much more than even that made the kelemizu promise be that any city that will seek the lord will become a resting place for his presence we pray that over this city we pray that lord you would find a resting place here and we give you the glory and the honor the preeminent place jesus your name we pray thank you for joining us those of you who are let's continue to pray for the presence of the lord over our city we want you to come and be a part of the gideon's army the 300 people that would just make a commitment to the lord that i'm going to give my eyes no rest and i'm going to commit my life to being in the prayer room believe that my prayers in the prayer room combined with others is making a difference we're looking for 300 people who will just make that commitment i'll be part of gideon's army a prayer army to be in the prayer room to be in that place and to seek the lord morning noon and night so come and join us at noon and 6 30 p.m. tonight and all week long monday through friday in jesus name amen god bless you