 morning good morning radiant family would you stand with us those of you who are in the room those joining online we're gonna be reading out of Psalm 96 as we start this morning the first six verses oh sing to the Lord a new song sing to the Lord all the earth sing to the Lord and bless his name tell of his salvation from day to day declare his glory among the nations his marvelous works among all the peoples for great is the Lord and greatly to be praised he is to be feared above all gods for all the gods of the peoples are worthless idols but the Lord God made the heavens splendor and majesty are before him strength and beauty are in his sanctuary there's several commands there in those first six verses to declare to speak out to call forth the amazing goodness of God and to declare to those around us and to peoples all over the world the amazing God that we serve his glory and his power no no end so God we come this morning even as the psalmist directs us and we say you are worthy God you are the glorious one God all other idols have no place even to be compared to you God you are the incomparable God you are the uncreated God you have always existed in God what what challenges our mind yet is so amazing about you is that you're completely holy and set apart so Lord this morning in our heart we say thank you and we worship you we say God you're worthy you're holy you're completely other than oh you're good through and through God you're good you are love you are love God your grace and your mercy endure for a thousand generations to the righteous and we say thank you Lord you are ever present help in the time of trouble and we say thank you God your word your name is power and your name is a refuge and the righteous run into you this morning and we say thank you you're worthy God you're worthy Lord we remember this morning that all the heavenly hosts have their eyes fixed on you and they cry holy holy holy is the one who was and is and it is to come we remember God this morning that your eyes are like flames of fire we remember the God that we worship today we say you're worthy oh you're so worthy Jesus you're worthy of a song from our heart God you're worthy of our lips declaring to you a fresh and a new this morning your goodness and your kindness and your faithfulness even as your mercies are new to us today God let our song be new to you we're so grateful to be in the house of God to be able to worship you Lord at freedom to be able to declare your name God in the streets in our neighborhoods God and we say thank you Lord we worship you God forever when we see you the light of your revelation shines in our hearts we turn our eyes on you God the light that is in your face reminds us of our home with you and our destiny in you it causes the things on this earth to grow even strangely dim so we look at you right now even Lord we ask that you would enlighten the eyes of our heart that we can see you more fully that we could know you more fully gaze on your beauty we see your glory we glimpse it even now did even now and we say God like the sun shining in full strength God Jesus your face is like the sun shining in full strength this that we can behold our capacity to know our capacity to see you today God strengthen us right now that we could look upon you or we don't hide our gaze from you you don't let the busyness and the struggles of this life capture our gaze away from you but Lord we fix our eyes on Jesus the author and the perfecter of our faith we fix our eyes on you Jesus and we see the one the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end we see the one who always was and is and is to come we see the champion we see the victor we know that our victory isn't you this morning God three isn't you Jesus the tenderness and the jealousy for your chosen ones because you're worthy playing this right now but i want to pray chapter three as we fix our gaze on him this morning Ephesians chapter three where paul is praying for spiritual strength verse 14 he says for this reason i bow my knees before the father from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named in verse 16 that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with inner being so that christ may dwell in your hearts through faith that you being rooted and grounded in love may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breath and the length and the height and the depth and to know the love of christ that surpasses knowledge that you may be filled with all the fullness of god so friends for a few moments we're just going to pray into this this apostolic prayer not only for spiritual strength but for completion that together with all of the saints there's a beauty in the unity of the revelation that jesus didn't give the fullness of his resurrection to just one but to the mini to his church and that as we come together we can explore how high and how long so god we ask you even as paul pray lord individual believers even lord that you would strengthen them on the inside lord and we pray right now just for the release of depression and oppression in the name of jesus if you're experiencing just depression or or a lowness of any kind i just want to invite you this morning fix your gaze on him fix your gaze on him reach out to him the light of his face will lift the darkness that tries to surround you right now the light of the face of jesus will lift the darkness that's trying to overcome you right now lord we pray for spiritual strength on the inside but we thank you for breaking through every oppression and every depression right now in the name of jesus but we thank you for everyone that feels isolated or alone god that you have set the lonely in a family in the house of god lord we thank you that depression is breaking off right now of your children we thank you that chains of oppression are breaking off right now in the name of jesus your face your lifting clouds of darkness and your piercing your light is piercing every darkness right now in every home and in every marriage and in every family your light is piercing darkness fix our gaze on you and your face is shining like the sun in full strength that god we're asking you to shine into the home of every place you cross kalamazoo those who are watching online shine into their home into their family into their workplace into their dorm room cannot exist where lightness comes in lord bring your light in and dispel the darkness right now in jesus's name let's invite him in right now come lord come into my home come into my marriage come into my family come into my workplace come into my school come into my name or a blessing of righteousness to a thousand generations for those who fear you those in our family that maybe have walked out of the light and have let darkness come into their world lord you see them and you know them by name i want to encourage you in this next part is worth praying to just lift up names of those in your family or extended family we're just going to pray that god would bring the light of heaven to their home will the world persuade our young ones away from you but now is a time we're all across the nation you're shaking a generation you're shaking a generation lord you're pouring out your spirit a new way on a generation and so lord we pray for the prodigals right now we pray for those who have known life but have agreed with darkness that turned from you god we're asking for the light of your face to shine into the heart of our prodigals young and old even as your your face shines like the sun and full strength lord in the clouds of their depression and the darkness lord would you just dissipate every cloud in pierce hearts with the light of your face right now strength over every strong hold of this earth it's hearts right now but we're not just asking for one or two here and there asking you for the mass of prodigals to come home a generation of prodigals to come home lord we're asking you for every prodigal to come home revelation that changes destinies new for revelation that unlocks the future new for for light that changes the story that darkness has been trying to write for decades the light of heaven come and reach prodigals wherever they're at right now after worshiping the idols of this age lord would you break apart the idolatry right now would you infiltrate the worship to the idols of this age and lord will you come and show your glory and your power right now are raising their children in the faith those who are living in in community with other believers whether they're raising kids or not there's encouragement from paul that we would know the love of christ that surpasses knowledge that we would be filled with all the fullness of god that we would be rooted and grounded in love that we would have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth and sometimes i think our young ones are lulled away by the world because they haven't had a fullness of god they've tasted a little but they haven't seen him in the way that that could really impact and change their life so i just want to pray blessing on those who are living in godly and accountable community even from this prayer raising themselves up in the faith raising up their next generation the faith that there would be strength to comprehend god we're asking for strength to comprehend lord we're asking for this next generation that they would not be content but lord we're asking for strength on the inside and a hunger to comprehend together with all of the saints god we have not found the depth of your love yet but lord i'm asking for a holy hunger to pursue you god for an inner strength to be able to comprehend lord the world has nothing to offer for those who are who are having revelation of heaven since more of your power mercy more of your faithfulness towards them more of the vision for what their life of this generation a dream for more of you god for more of you jesus and give them strength to comprehend it because they're fixed on you and the cares of this world are strangely dim and they just see you jesus and they say all for the glory of revelation that's ever increasing of who you are lord this is our cry we don't just ask to get through this small god we're asking big prayer are unsearchable your love is unsearchable oh how deep and wide and high is this love of christ we do not know but lord i'm asking for a holy curiosity for a generation to search it out in ways that it's never been searched out before i'm asking for holy zeal to come over a generation where they pursue you with every living breath an agitation that can't be separated presence god but you're raising up a generation up a generation that the devil can't touch because they're fixed on you jesus those who are fixed with their eyes resolute on you jesus lord we commit them to you right now we ask you to move and to breathe lord we ask you to captivate their hearts jesus name and all god's people said amen and amen guys god's doing something amazing in this generation he's just doing something amazing right now even across our land it's time to pray big prayers to a big god who's capable of things that we haven't even seen yet leave you with that hope and that inspiration we'll be back here at noon and again this evening at 6 30 we'll see you at one of our locations this weekend god bless you guys we love you