 Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Monday morning prayer here in the Radiant City Center. Welcome to those who are walking in now and joining us here in downtown Kalamazoo. And welcome to those who are joining us online. We love having you here together, corporately engaging in the Lord in prayer and worship, agreeing with who God is and what God said that He wants to do all throughout His scriptures. We are going to be, for the next hour, singing songs. So I encourage you to engage with the worship, sing the choruses. And when the singers sing phrases to repeat those phrases, don't just passively watch, but to actively engage. And then we're gonna take some time, we're gonna pray through scripture. We're going to take prayers in the Bible, we're gonna pray them and singers are gonna sing them and we encourage you as well to join us together and to pray and sing these promises in the Bible as we stand in the gap and say yes to what the Lord has said He wants to do and what's on the Lord's heart. That's how we partner and engage in unity with the Lord. But before we get started, I just wanna read a little out of Psalm 84 here is to kind of engage our hearts in this moment. We are gathered in the house of the Lord. We are gathered in His presence, in His dwelling place. And we've come in this morning with thoughts, distractions, questions, even fears or confusions. And we want to leave all of that behind whether you physically have walked in this door or whether, you know, maybe not physically you're watching online, but wherever you're at you have to consciously decide to, I'm gonna leave this baggage, this distraction, these thoughts, these fears. I'm gonna leave them at the door of the house of God and I'm gonna walk in and I am gonna give my offering before Him. I'm gonna give my song and my praise, my thanksgiving and I'm gonna sit at the feet of the King. So Psalm 84 says, how lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts. My soul longs and faints for the courts of the Lord. My heart and flesh, they sing for joy to the living God. Even a sparrow will find a home or a swallow or a nest for herself where she may lay her young at your altars, O Lord, my King and my God. So blessed are those who dwell in your house ever singing your praise. I wanna skip down to verse 10. It says, for a day in your courts is better than a thousand elsewhere. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than to dwell in the tents of wickedness. For the Lord God is a son, a shield. He bestows favor and honor and no good thing does He withhold from those who walk up brightly. So blessed is the one who trusts in you. So Lord, we agree with this passage. We agree with the truth in the scripture this morning. We say this is the word of the Lord. Blessed are those who dwell in your house. How lovely is your house, the place that you dwell. When we look through scriptures and we see what does your house look like, it's surrounded by praise and prayer. It's surrounded by worship and intercession. You designed with no blueprint to work from, no status quo to work from, you designed your house to be a house of prayer and a house of worship. So we come into your house, not with our own agenda, not with our own thoughts of how it should be, but we come into your place. And we say, we are joining in with the songs of the angels, the songs of the saints, the prayers of the saints. And we are engaging with you, the King of kings and Lord of lords. So we say, let your kingdom come and your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Jesus name. Jesus laser focused in the spirit. Jesus laid in the spirit. Jesus laser focused in the spirit. We fix our eyes on you, do that everything else fades away. So beautiful Lord. You are holy and you are mind worthy. You are sovereign. You are just. And we thank you that we can call you those things that that is the very nature of who you are. You are good. We thank you. Right now I just want to take a minute and if you're here in the room, if you're watching online, just begin to tell the Lord who he is, describe him. Worship is simply agreeing with who God says he is and repeating it back to him. Use your own voice to just tell the Lord who he is, who he's been to you. Remember your history with God. Lord, you are a good father. Lord, you are kind. You are true. You are righteous. You are just. Just begin to lift up your own voice and describe who the Lord has been to you. Repeat it back to him. Stir up your spirit. Remember, many times in scripture, we're called to remember. Remember your history with the Lord. Almighty God, free other God, our holy, all-powerful. Revelation four, we see a picture of the throne room of heaven and we see the things that God keeps closest to himself. The four living creatures, each having six wings were full of eyes, full of eyes to constantly take in the Lord, to take in his beauty, to see who he is. For eternity, they were full of eyes around him within, they did not rest day or night, saying, holy, holy, holy, Lord was and is and is to come. And down in verse 10, the 24 elders fall down before him who sits on the throne and worship him. And worship him who lives forever and ever and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, you are worthy, O Lord, to receive glory, honor, and power for you created all things. And by your will, they exist and were created. And if the very thing that you want in your throne room is to be told that you are holy and that you are worthy for us to repeat back to you who you are, God, then who are we not to give that to you? Or to, we take time on this Monday morning to come before you and just to acknowledge your holiness, to acknowledge your worthiness, Lord, to acknowledge that you are worthy of us taking off our crowns, taking off our glory, taking off whatever we have and laying at your feet, purposefully lowering ourselves to worship you. The worthy King Jesus, the only one who is worthy, only one who is worthy of all power, all might and all dominion is you, Jesus. For worship worthy of our sacrifice, worthy of our praise, worthy of our devotion. God, and I pray that you would let us take in your holiness, just like those four living creatures, God. They have eyes around and within to gaze upon you, Lord, would you help us to see you? Or do we get just a glimpse of your holiness? Just a glimpse of who you are, a crater measure of who you are. Help us to see you, God, but as we worship you, help us to see you, the spirit of revelation. But as much as we may know you, we need to know you more and that can only come through a spirit of wisdom and revelation. God, so we acknowledge our weakness and we ask that you would help us to see you. Help us to see you rightly. Help us to see you as holy and as worthy. I'm gonna pivot this prayer to intercession for the lost, to intercession for prodigals, that they would receive a spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of him and the knowledge of Jesus. So I just invite you to stand as we go into a time of intercession. King Jesus, we come before you, we come before you and we lift up the prodigals to you, Lord, those that are far from you, those that don't see you rightly, they don't see you as holy, they don't see you as worthy. And we ask, Lord, that by your spirit, according to your heart for them, that you would give them a spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Jesus. God, would you encounter them by your spirit? Would you grip their hearts? Would they see you as a loving, tender hearted, but mighty and powerful God? But even those who aren't just wandering but that are actively against you, Lord, would you encounter them? Come to them in the night in dreams and in visions. Lord, send people to share the gospel with them and would it hit differently? Would it strike their hearts? Holy Spirit, by whatever means necessary, would you captivate hearts with a spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Jesus? It's only by your spirit, Lord, our labors are labors in vain without you. We need your help, God. It's your will we're partnering with. You aren't partnering with our will. God, it's on your heart to save your children. It's on your heart to have prodigal's return, Lord. So we just come before you and in Jesus' name, we ask that you would give a spirit of wisdom and revelation and the knowledge of Jesus to those that are lost today. Reminded of the parable of the lost son, parable of the prodigal son in Luke 15. When his son had gone and wasted his inheritance and had left his father's house, found himself sleeping with pigs, he returned thinking maybe he could just be a servant at his father's house. He expects anger, he expects rejection from his father, but we see in the parable a loving father who is excited to have his son home that doesn't wait for him to get there, but that runs and meets him and puts his best robe on him and calls a celebration. And we also see the heart of the older brother, the one who was still in his father's house that as the father receives back his lost son, the older brother is bitter. And I just feel led to pray for us as the church that as the Lord pours out his spirit as he brings prodigal's home that we would not, that we would not be the older brother, but that we would join the father in receiving them home and in celebrating them returning. And so God, I pray for myself, I pray for us as the church, Lord, that we would not have the same pride as the older brother. Lord, would you humble us to partner with your heart and to receive these prodigals home? Lord, would you prepare us for the great returning of prodigals that is coming when you pour out your spirit? God, would you prepare our hearts to celebrate and to love to disciple those that you call back to you? Or would our own insecurities and our own pride not get in the way of the amazing work that you were doing by bringing them home? God, would we join you than you put in your robe on them? Will we join you in celebrating them? But because you will bring them home, God. You will pour out your spirit. And God, I just pray that you would prepare our hearts to receive them back to you, that we would not be judgmental of where they have been. Lord, that we would not judge their sin and forget ours. That we would not judge their sin, judge where they have been and forget where you have brought us from, Lord. But every one of us has a story of how you stepped in and saved us and changed our lives and we not forget that as prodigals start returning home. Would you prepare our hearts, God? Tilt up the soil in our hearts that may be hardened against them. Soften them, Lord. To receive home our brothers and sisters in Christ, would we celebrate them? Would we celebrate them as they come home, God? In Jesus' name, God, soften our hearts towards prodigals, prepare us, Lord. Prepare us for their return. Sing this out. Good are coming home. Call them by name. Prop aside. Your children are coming home. I'm gonna continue in this vein, praying for prodigals. We're gonna switch over to 2nd Thessalonians, chapter 3. And as we pray this short little prayer, I want you to picture that prodigal, that mother, that father, brother, sister, whoever that family member or might be a friend, a dear friend, whoever that person might be. I want you to picture them in their home, whatever city they're in, whether it's down the road, whether it's in your own home, or whether it's in another state or country. Picture that family member in their home this morning. Maybe they've already gotten ready for work or whatever it may be. But we're gonna pray 2nd Thessalonians 3. Just pray for us that the word of the Lord, they speed ahead or would let it run swiftly and be honored, let it be glorified as happened among you, that we be delivered from evil. As we pray this, as we think of how the Lord has encountered our hearts, how the Lord, his word has run in swiftly, how it has pierced our hearts with truth as it was honored and glorified among us. We pray for that encounter right now for those prodigals, for our mothers and fathers, our brothers and sisters. We, I ask that you, your word, oh Lord, would run swiftly into their city, into their front door. Would you kick down their door? Would you burst in? And would you encounter them right now? We ask for dreams, visions, words. We ask for wisdom, revelation. We ask for deception to be broken down. We ask for fear to be dismantled. And we ask for the word, the truth, the life of God to take place and build an altar into their home. God, we ask that you would call them forth by name, that you would remind them of the history that you've had with them, that you would encounter their hearts. So we ask right now, in the name of Jesus, would you call them home? Would you call them home? Would you call them by name and let your word run swiftly in Jesus' name? And right now, say their name out loud. Pray for them. Let it go forth in their heart, idols in the home. And we say, yes, this is what you want to do. Your heart is for the lost. Your heart is for the prodigals. You are not a God of comfort, a God of apathy, but you are reaching, you are working, you are breaking down walls, and you are leading your lost into your family. You are embracing the messiness. You are embracing the heart to win their hearts over to you. So we stand in the gap and we pray for them by name, in your powerful and wonderful name, Jesus. Amen, and amen. Thank you for joining us this morning here, the Radiant City Center and online. We're gonna continue to be praying on this whole week. Warning new tonight, lifting up the song of the Lord and agreeing with what's on his heart. So continue to join us, 8 a.m. online or here in person downtown Kalamazoo. Thank you, God bless.