 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to morning prayer, the Radiant City Center. We've got a Monday morning faithful with us today here in the room. Love seeing everyone and you as well online. Welcome, welcome. This morning we're gonna start out our week just meditating on the Lord, gazing upon him, bringing him worship and praise and adoration, all things that he's due. We're gonna just open up in Psalm 84. Phil, turn there with me. Psalm 84, verse one. How lovely is your tabernacle, O Lord of hosts. My soul longs, yet it even faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and my flesh cry out for the living God. Even the sparrow has found a home and the swallow, a nest for herself, where she may lay her young. Even your altars, O Lord of hosts, my King and my God. Blessed are those who dwell in your house. They will still be praising you. Blessed is the man whose strength is in you, whose heart is set on pilgrimage. As they pass through the valley of Baca, they make it a spring. The rain also covers it with pools. They go from strength to strength. Each one appears before God in Zion. Lord, God of hosts, hear my prayer. Give ear, O God of Jacob. O God, behold our shield and look upon the face of your anointed. For a day in your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of wickedness. Lord, God is a Son and shield. The Lord will give grace and glory. No good thing will keep us whole as we walk uprightly. Lord of hosts, blessed is the man who trusts in you. Blessed is the man who trusts in you. Morning, God, we look to you. Choose to turn away from the noise of this life, the busyness, the chaos, the stress. Whatever it is, we turn away from it. And we just look at you. It's that simple. This Monday morning, we choose to pause and to connect with our Father in heaven, to spend time with you, to be close to you, have proximity with you, letting you love on us as we do our best to love on you. Lord, we could be anywhere, but a day in your courts, a day in the prayer room, with you, with your presence, it's better than a thousand. A day walking with you, gazing upon you, being with you. It's better. It's better than anything that this world could offer. And it's here, Lord, in your presence and the closeness with you that we find at home, where we feel welcome, where we feel loved, where striving ceases, where it's just Father and Son or Father and Daughter. No effort, no works, just communion. So, Lord, we choose this morning just to pause everything that's going on and just be with you. Lord, would you draw close this morning? Draw close to your children. It's our desire to worship you. It's our desire to praise you. Lord, would you come close? God, would you come so close? We're growing strength without inviting you in because it's comfortable in what's in systems and programs is the way to get things done. Instead of being Holy Spirit-led and making the presence of God the center of everything that we do. In our daily lives, in the life of the church, whatever it is, we take a moment this morning just like the 120 did in Acts 2. We just wait on you, acknowledging not only our need, but our desire, our want for you. Holy Spirit, you're not a medicine that we're forced to take when we need it. We need you every day. We want you. Holy Spirit, living a life led by you is not a have to to get to. Come this morning, Lord. We just ask for you to draw near to fill us up again where we're weak, we're broken. Holy Spirit, come and fill the gaps. Come and be our leader. Come and be our helper. Holy Spirit, we need you and we want you. Come and dwell in this place. Come dwell in us. You are invited, you are welcome. You are wanted. So we just say this morning, come Holy Spirit. Let us in guide us to your presence. At it all figured out. Or we just to ask for your presence, for the blessing of God, the blessing of God to be on your church, on us, Lord. As one body unified together. Or do we be people who seek you? Seek you first before anything else. Or do we be people who hunger and thirst for you, who desire friendship and communion with the Holy Spirit, who desire your leadership, who desire to live our lives under the comfort and care of the Holy Spirit. Not the comfort and care of this world, under yours, Holy Spirit. Would we be people who value and treasure your presence and your leadership, your guidance in the moments where we're feeling great? Would we give you praise? And in the moments where we're feeling low, would we give you praise? Drawing close to you, allowing you to draw close to us. So we just ask for you to come and move in our hearts. Where we've put things before you. Where we've put things over you. Holy Spirit, we open ourselves up to you today and ask, come and refine us. Come and bring us back to you. You're a faithful God. You're faithful to us when we are not faithful to you. And Lord, we asked this morning, just where we've been unfaithful, would you bring us back to you? The littlest thing to the biggest thing. Would you bring us back? Draw our hearts closer to yours. We let you in, Lord. We invite you in. Come and have your way in us, refine us, God. Trusting that you're faithful. Trusting that you're faithful to us. It's not by our might and our strength that we somehow earn you. We could never. Open us by faith, by our invitation and ask that we receive you this morning. As a gift from the Father. Holy Spirit, we can't do this life without you. We can't do this life without you and still love God in the midst of it. The evil of this world that's too strong for us to hold fast to your word just on our own. Holy Spirit, we need you. You're the only one that we want leading us. You're the only one that we want guiding us. In the day to day and over the course of 50 years, every step, every step that we take would it be one that's led by you, guided by you. And would we be ones who trust you even when it doesn't make sense? When we think you're gonna tell us to turn right and you tell us to turn left, would we trust you? Following your leadership, not our own understanding. We don't wanna play God. We don't wanna be leader, you are Lord. Or where there's fear, where there's pride. Whatever else in our hearts that would keep us from trusting you. Or we think that we know best that you just refined it this morning. Purify us to be ones who trust you, who lean on you from the littlest things to the biggest things. We wanna be a people that are close to you as close as we can get. Being led by you in every possible way. Trusting you with everything. This Holy Spirit trusting you with everything. We've been scared to hand things over to you. We just ask that you would reveal it to us. That things have gotten in the way of you leading us. Holy Spirit, reveal it. Over the next couple minutes, just as the team continues to play, just open up your heart and ask with your own words just for the Holy Spirit to illuminate your heart. And anything that we've been holding too tightly to or been scared to take a hold of any way that he may be leading you that you've been afraid or worried. Just ask him to reveal it. Simply hand it over to him. Tell him with your own words that you trust him. So we're just gonna take the next few minutes and just listen to the Holy Spirit. Mind our hearts that you're good. That you're for us. These things that we've held on to, these things that we haven't trusted you with that we've been afraid of. Whatever you've asked of us, you're good. You have our best in mind. You see more than we do. You know us better than we know ourselves. And we trust you. We trust you. We trust you. You are good. You are good. We're gonna close these last couple minutes just by worshiping together. So I just invite you to stand and just engage in this time of worship with the Lord. So grateful for you God. So grateful. Thank you for this time that we get to gather and worship together. We don't take that for granted. Morning with us today. We'll be back here at noon at 6.30 in the prayer room and back on the live stream at Monday or Tuesday morning at 8 a.m. tomorrow. Love you guys. Have a good day.