 Hey, good morning. Welcome to Morning Prayer where we are prepared and ready to start on time from the Radiant City Center. I want to invite you to stand to your feet if you're in the room. Grab your Bibles, journals. I want to start reading Isaiah 56 verse 7. It's a passage, Pastor Lee led this weekend and I just want to declare this. We're going to be praying just for the church, just to grow and worship and prayer, being a praying and worshiping church. Isaiah 56 verse 7 says, Even them I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar. For my house shall be called the house of prayer for all nations. The Lord God who gathers the outcasts of Israel says, Yet I will gather to him others beside those who are gathered to him. Let's go before the Lord. Lord, we love this promise. Even the sons of the foreigner, as it says the verse before, that's us, the Gentiles who've been grafted in. Lord, we have been brought into your house of prayer. And we have joy and gladness to serve in your house this morning. Jesus, we just approach you this morning with gratitude, enjoying our hearts to be in your house. Lord, we want to bless your name, bless you in this house and in this sanctuary. Let's just begin to bless his name, begin to bless the sanctuary. Gathered here to declare together there is no one like you. No other name we would rather gather around. There's no other tower that we're going to run into. There's no one else who gave their body and blood for us that has healed us, redeemed us and restored us. Jesus, who is like you? Who is like the Lord? Moving to time of intercession. I want to keep praying Isaiah 56, 6-8. This passage we read this weekend. Just praying for the church just in western Michigan. Asking that the Lord would raise up his house of prayer. Just even thinking of the sin that came and invested in us a month ago. And just called us to be people of prayer, to be people who live on mission. Isaiah 56, 6-8 says, Also the sons of the foreigner who join themselves to the Lord to serve him. And to love the name of the Lord, to be his servants. Everyone who keeps from defiling the Sabbath and holds fast to my covenant. Even them I will bring to my holy mountain. I'll make them joyful in my house of prayer. The burnt offerings and their sacrifices will be accepted on my altar. From my house shall we call the house of prayer for all nations. Oh Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel. Says I will gather to him others beside those who are gathered to him. Bring forth this promise. This glorious promise Lord where you even thought of us, the Gentiles. Those in Kalamazoo, Michigan even in this land of Israel thousands of years ago Lord. You had us in mind in this promise Lord. You were picturing this prayer room Lord. You were picturing prayer rooms all over the US and all over the earth. You made this promise of making us joyful in your house of prayer. So Lord we bring this holy scripture Jesus that you yourself when you stepped into your father's house. You reordered what was happening and brought the definition that my house shall be called a house of prayer. So Lord we lift up the church in this nation God. In this hour that we live in, it's much tension and pressure. Lord where there's threats of the spear of the age, prayerlessness in your church. God we just ask that you would make your house the house of prayer. That people of intimacy with you and people of intercession Lord would be the defining characteristic of your church. Lord we would not be known for our political affiliations Lord. That we would not be primarily known for the things that we are against Lord. But what we would be known for is a people of deep love for Jesus and of prayer. People who are deeply committed to relationship with Jesus and prayer. God we ask for the rebuilding of the corporate altars of prayer. Lord I think of the great awakenings. Lord I think of the great noon prayer revival that happened at the great awakening Lord. All over cities where churches of different denominations Lord. In Kalamazoo all five of the denominations that were downtown came together and began praying. We saw God's power and presence break out and hundreds were saved in that revival. God you did it in the great awakenings Lord. You've done it in remnants throughout history. Lord with the Moravian Lord and the Welsh Revival Lord. Prayer mountain with young Echo Lord. In all of these instances where you gathered your church together to pray and intercede. Lord we ask that you would rebuild the fallen ruins. Lord that you would re-gather the living stones of God upon the corporate altar. Lord that you would gather people to fast and to pray and to cry out and to contend. Lord we ask that you would raise up a praying people among this church Lord. Start with us here at radiant. Start with us with the church in Kalamazoo. Start with us with the church in western Michigan Lord. We ask that you would raise up your house of prayer. Lord we ask for joy in your house. Lord we are in need of the joy of the Lord that is our very strength. Lord we look around in a world that is heavy, that is angry, that is dark, that is fearful and confused. Lord we need a holy church. A church that is other than and separate to the world. Lord in what is other than more in this hour than being filled with the joy of the Lord. Lord you said you would make us joyful in your house and that the joy of the Lord would be our strength. So Lord we just ask Lord in this prayer room. Lord in the prayer rooms all over western Michigan Lord in the prayer meetings and services. Lord that you would release joy. Lord the not temporal happiness that comes from circumstances. But the joy of knowing you. The joy of loving you. The joy of being in relationship with you. Lord the joy of encounter. Of feeling your presence. Of being able to say I love you. And to hear you say I love you back. To be filled with love in our hearts Lord. This is the joy we're longing to be marked with Lord. Lord that they would know that we are Christians by our love. That we would stand out because of our joy. That even when we're shaken in personal circumstances of difficulty. Lord that there would be joy that overflows out of us. Because it doesn't come from this world and it doesn't come from circumstance. It doesn't come from money. It doesn't come from fame. But it comes from your presence at your right hand oh God. A pleasure is forever more. And your presence is fullness of joy. Lord we believe this promise from Psalm 16. Lord we ask that your house is Lord. Your church. In this region Lord would be known for the joy of the Lord. Lord make us joyful in your house. A sing for joy is asked for an exchange. Our robes Lord. Our best efforts. Our strength. Our sorrow Lord. Our sinfulness. When we bring it we lay it at your feet. We ask that you would clothe us in white. We ask that you would clothe us. Rob us in the righteousness of Christ. Or we long to wear the robes that Jesus wears. Or the robes of the high priest. Or the kingly in the priestly ministry. Or the robes of righteousness. Or let your church in your righteousness in this hour. Or we ask that you would stir up intercessors Lord. Watchmen on the wall who will pray and contend and intercede in this hour. We would raise up those who would not rest. Or we ask that you would raise up night and day. Morning, noon and night prayer and intercession in this region. Or we thank you for how you're releasing that of different churches even in our city Lord. I thank you for what you're doing at center point and how they're stepping out in faith and walking in new prayer meetings and expressions Lord. I thank you for what you're doing at stones Lord and these nights of worship and encounter and prayer Lord. We thank you for the embers in this city of prayer that are burning bright Lord. We ask that you would breathe on those embers. Or we remind you of what happened in this city Lord in the great awakening. Unity among the church. Because there is prayer in the hearts of your people. When we know prayer is able to break down walls of division Lord. When we pray together there is a unity with one mind and one mouth. And so Lord we ask for a radical unity in this city Lord. In this region of western Michigan. Lord where the church would come together. Lord that the Joel 2 solemn assembly the gathering of your people Lord that it would not be a specific church or congregation but it would be the church of Kalamazoo. It would be the church of western Michigan. So Lord we just ask that you would release unity and prayer in this city in the name of Jesus. That you would do it again. God we ask for divisions to come down Lord. Lord where there has been racial division. Lord we ask that you would bring healing and restoration in the name of Jesus. Lord that there would be unity. Lord where there has been division over ideology Lord. There has just been division and territorial disputes Lord. We just ask that your blood would come and cover your church and your bride. But we thank you just for some of the expressions of unity that have been happening Lord. We just ask Lord just greater levels of unity and healing and wholeness for your church in Kalamazoo. Lord that as this world gets more segregated Lord where we are separating due to ideologies and political parties Lord and races. Lord we ask that you would break down those walls. Break down those walls of division in your church. Lord we ask for a unified multi-ethnic Lord. Multicultural Lord. Even just the different gifts and the body and the way that the different churches are meant to operate in the city Lord. That you would raise up a unified church. Lord redig those walls Lord. That we would pray together. That we would love each other. Or that we would not have a competitive spirit toward one another. But we would cheer one another on Lord. We would celebrate the grace of God in this world church while recognizing what you're doing in the broader body. Lord we ask redig those walls of unity and prayer and revival that once we're dug in this city Lord we know that they're dormant but they're lying under the surface and we're just asking that you would redig those walls Lord of revival and unity and prayer in the name of Jesus. But we receive that prophetic song out of the mouth of the prophetic singers Lord that there is a wellspring coming us just even as we leave this place of prayer Lord just for faith and hope and joy in our hearts. That you are on the move that you are not absent that there is a wellspring of life coming to this city that we're going to see. There's the fruit and result of our prayers we love you and we bless your name from this house in Jesus' name. Joining with us as we pray and intercede and worship and bless the Father we're going to be back here at noon today at 6.30 for prayer and we'll be back tomorrow morning with a broadcast as well. Have a great day.