Good morning, everybody. We can see you're jumping online now we can see in the mighty name of Jesus. Thank you to everybody join us online for coffee and prayer this morning. I can just see everybody hopping online. Thank you so much for joining us. Wherever you are across the globe this morning. May God bless you and strengthen you in the mighty name of Jesus. It is Wednesday morning. It's coffee and prayer. The sun is out and it is shining through the window. We Thanks be to God for the beautiful weather. The sun is on its way in more ways than one. The son is certainly on his way. Hope you're well. Thank you for joining us to everybody that joins us online. Thank you. Good morning. Good morning as you join us for coffee and prayer. And also as this podcast goes out a week later. Good morning just waiting for a few moments. Thank you to everybody that joins us on Apple Music. I Heart Radio, Alexa, Amazon Music, Spotify and Buzzsprout for those that listen to the podcast or week later that come out on a Tuesday. Thank you to everybody that's joining us now as we just rest and be still. May God bless you. We're going to turn to Psalm 55. Psalm 55. As we press in this morning, listen to my prayer. Oh god. The cry my heart this morning. That's my prayer this morning. Please God Psalm 55. We got Donnie with us we got Andy with us. And we got Glenn with us. And we got the deity the Father, Son, the Holy Spirit wherever you are today. Welcome to Coffee and prayer Psalm 55. As we start this 45 minute service off this podcast as we record as we are live to the world at this moment. Yeah. Good morning. We see everybody hopping online. Thank you for joining us this morning. Psalm 55 listened to my prayer Oh God, do not ignore my plea. Hear me and answer me. For my travels from four thoughts trouble me and I am disjointed my one says, because of what my enemies are saying, because of the threats of the wicked. For they bring down suffering on me and insult me with that anger. Father, in the name of Jesus we pray, Lord, our hearts cry this morning is listened to my prayer. Oh God, whatever your prayer is this morning, whatever your heart's cries this morning, whatever. And however you feel this morning, God is listening. You are not an orphan. God loves you. You are blessed and highly favored. You are fearfully and wonderfully made. And no one can snatch you out of their palm out of the hand of God. Maybe that you don't come to church, maybe you're maybe you think that you're I would say this expression in and out of faith, but you're not really in and out of faith, you are saved. Because nothing can separate you from the love of God. And you are a child of the living God. So wherever you are this morning, whether you're on the world of the podcasting platforms, or whether you're streaming reverse this morning across the globe, may God bless you and strengthen you But Psalm 55 listened to my prayer. Oh God, do not ignore my play. Hear me and answer me. Does it feel Quiet, quiet when you're praying? Does it feel like you haven't heard from the heavens above? Keep holding on never give up in prayer. Prayer is powerful. Prayer is life changing. Prayer opens up prayer moves, prayer moves things. And I'm not pressing this, like a Pentecostal preacher or teacher whatever label you stamp on us today. We are just saying what the scripture says You have not because you ask not. Prayer is really powerful prayer transforms me it doesn't change the situation. It changes me God does not remove the situation three times. I pleaded with the Lord to remove this from me. But he said My grace is sufficient for you so he will strengthen you in your Valley. He will strengthen you in your problem. He will strengthen you in your anxiety. He will strengthen you in your sickness, your your weariness, yes, I know God does miracles. Yes, he does heal people a cancer. Yes, he does kill heart disease. Yes, he does do powerful things. But the majority of the time God strengthens you in your Valley. And he is not deaf. He hears you. He is with you. He is strengthening you listen to my prayer. The Psalmist is very bold the psalmist is expressing his heart The psalmist is expressing himself. The Psalmist isn't file frightened off saying listen to my prayer. Oh God. You know sometimes church and religion teaches us that we got to be quite gentle. But but you know, sometimes you just have to say, God help me. The cry of your heart what is the cry of your heart today? What is the cry of your innermost being? What what are you longing for what is and when I say once I'm not return referring to materialism not referring to what the world is trying to offer us, I'm referring to what your life you're you're being you're Are you hungry for God? Are you really, really thirsty? He says, Come to me, all of you that are heavy laden and weary and I will give you rest come to me, he will not reject us He will not leave us as orphans. And as someone who has just said on on the timeline there helped me god yeah, I stand with you that this morning as well help me God. Because there are things in my head. There are things in my life, there are things within me and around me that I need God's strength, I need his hand. I need his word. I need him to guide me because I cannot go by the way the flesh are gonna go by the power of the Holy Spirit. And Lord, we cry out to the Lord. And we use the word corporate, we use the word body, we use the word church so far that we cry out to you, Lord, and our hearts cry this morning, Lord is changed me. I want to be changed. Lord, I want to be less selfish. Lord, I want to be less arrogant. I want to be less frustrated. I want to be less of me. I want to be less of me and I want to be more of Him. Lord, I want to be stripped back. You must have heard this 1000 times I keep saying Lord stripped me back because I'm scared of me. Have you ever been scared to yourself? Have you ever been scared of the actions or thoughts that you might have your have been scary itself? I am. I'm scared of myself sometimes. scary actually. Yeah, that's very true. Thank God, the demons run. The date the mirrors away. Listen to my prayer. Oh God, the Psalmist is getting right down to the root. He says Do not ignore my play. He's using a very powerful word play. I'm pleading I'm calling I'm crying. I'm stretching. I'm just God help me. This is such a personal prayer to Him. He said listen to my prayer. Oh God, do not ignore my plea. Hear me and answer me my thoughts. This dabs my rocker in this does my head in my thoughts trouble me my thoughts troubled me. Are you troubled by your thoughts today? Are you troubled by your anxious ways? Are you troubled by what your mind is trying to tell you? Are you troubled by what's happening around you? Your thoughts are very very powerful. God I asked you this morning that you're helping my thoughts father, I Help You I asked you that you helped me with my thinking my articulating my philosophy my all areas of life because we all philosophy and one way we all anticipate we all roadmap our lives we all try and work things out with the mind the concept of the mind and we all try to and make that that pathway nice and smooth but Christ has something for us that is far greater than we can imagine or anticipate or try and the great thing because trying to think our way through trying to dream our way through you know but my thoughts Lord my thoughts trouble me. He says my thoughts trouble me. Helped me God is crying out is crying out listen to my prayer. Oh god do not ignore my please hear me and answer me. He's not thinking about anybody else. Because he's in a situation. Maybe I'm in a situation yes I am. Maybe you are in a situation. Yes, you are. Maybe we are in situations where this is not a selfish prayer. But this is a prayer. Almost the last stop the last moment God help me. God helped me it's okay to cry out. It's okay to say God help me my thoughts trouble me. My weariness troubles me. My flesh worries me my, my hunger Lord worries me that that's the situation at work at home. In business in life. Everything is troubling me. It's okay to recognize the trouble. But what I cannot do is let the trouble grab hold of me. Because we're on a walk through or We're on a journey. We're in Psalm 23. Even our walk through the valley of the shadow of death. I will fear no evil for you are with me, your rod and your staff. They comfort me. They comfort me God, I pray that God will comfort you. I pray that God will guide you. I pray that God will help you in your troubles. I am not frightened of telling you now my thought can be dangerous. I'm not frightened of telling everybody now, my fault could be a little bit wobbly. My thinking is not right. My understanding cannot be right sometimes, but that is just me. And I am a human being but by the power of the Holy Spirit and by His grace and by His mercy. God will not leave us as orphans he will come he will keep us on the potter's will Lord keep me on the potter's will shape me and mold me. Strength for me gun strength for me Be bold this morning and I'm speaking to myself I'm looking in the mirror speaking to myself saying Ben Be bold. Just Just be very vocal don't hold anything back because that's what the enemy wants the enemy wants me to hold all this stuff in an isolate me like an internal lockdown a spiritual lockdown the enemy wants us to be in a spiritual lockdown when we look at ourselves and say, if my friends around the podcast in Table knew that I had them thought they'd walk and leave me. If my friends at college at work wherever they knew that I was thinking that they would leave me they wouldn't even walk with me when it's not actually true. The mind is a very powerful thing and the mind is a very dangerous place. The Scripture says, have your mind renewed, renew your mind, get the mind of Christ, do not conform to the pattern of this world but have do not conform. We are we are in a society we are in a world where conforming must happen. The government's want us to conform. Isn't it interesting. They've done a little U turn. Isn't that interesting? How they change their mind? You got to hold in the Word of God. You got to hold on to the Word of God. Brothers and sisters. This is my prayer this morning. Psalm 55. Listen to my prayer. Oh God, do not ignore my play. Hear me and answer me. I can hear the loudness. I can hear almost the frustration in the Samish Clark cry employee, my thoughts travel me my thoughts trouble me. And they distort me. They're distorted and they trouble me Father, as we hand over Lord to the real holy ones this morning, Donnie and Glen, and then the Lord, I pray that you will help me Lord, sometimes Lord, I feel a little bit like a loose cannon. A little bit wobbly. Lord, I feel a little bit strange, Lord, and my thoughts trouble me. And I'm not frightened to tell the world Lord, I'm trouble with my thoughts. I'm troubled with my thinking. But Lord, thanks be to God. I'm not having a breakdown, I'm having a spiritual strip for I'm not having a breakdown. I'm just having a spiritual stretching. I feel very healthy, I feel very well I feel very blessed. But the battlefield of the mind the battlefield of the thinking, the thinking it's like, it's like that that enemy that that's that may in the thinking me is like an athlete that is so strong and so powerful. It's like I'm wrestling with an athlete of myself, on the enemy with my thoughts, my thinking, my understanding, my roadmapping of life, but Christ says Come to me, all of you that are weary and heavy laden, I will give you rest. Sisters and brothers, it's okay. You are a child of the living God, you are saved. Nothing can snatch you out the hand. God bless you, we got all the bells and the whistles of the builders outside, they will be gone very, very soon in the next few weeks, it will come down. And I hand over to my good friends and I love them. And I respect them deeply. And I love everybody on line and I respect everybody on the line. And may God bless you today in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen.
Donny Stockburn:Amen. Can I just say, Ben, and you must be really well written in the way this is a witness to our elders is top of my page, you've got prayer. And the verse God guide me is 31 Thessalonians five, verse 1617, and 18 really, it says Rejoice always pray without ceasing. For what a word Lord can't do everything. Give thanks to God. Yes. What would we do without prayer as Christians? I don't know what we would do help with. And then such prayer changes us. Prayer makes us more like Jesus. Amen. It brings Heaven to Earth. It brings repentance. It brings restoration. It brings salvation. The prayer room is the battle that we know about battling in prayer. And so many things have come through prayer. He has an all the great names for all through the Bible will great prayer warriors. David was one of the greatest and Lord which is thankfully history of prayer and and the evidence, Lord, that seals in that great Oldham, preacher and healing minister in this nation. Probably ever come out of this nation, Smith Wigglesworth. He said this. I don't often pray more than half an hour. But I never go more than half an hour without praying. Wow, just about sums it up. And, Lord, we just thank you for the prayer and, Lord. As we get on it, Lord, we see that prayer has no boundaries. You know, there's nowhere that we can't reach in prayer. We could go in prayer to the bedside of someone 1000 miles away. We could go in prayer, we could pray for astronauts in space. Prayer has got no boundaries. And Father God reaches the kids. It is so wonderful father God. So which is lean forward? Now, I know, Lord, I sat in that field the other day, and I asked you what to pray about. And you said, Pray for my church. Pray for my beautiful bride away for my precious pearls. Father, Father God, we pray in Jesus line, that your church will be seen standing in these days, Father God, amen. You're standing stand in church, you're beautiful Paul, shine in fire to God, and brilliant in this world, getting darker and darker Lord, we pray that the more darker it gets the boy it will shine. Thank you. We pray, Father God, for all those missions, Lord, that they will stand for fast as well Lord, those men in those little rooms in a miracle saw in food, a little scriptures to go out in the streets with Father God, and those down those little streets where poor mission is living amongst sickness and illness, Father God, all those all those in the mountains, Lord, in the valleys, in the hilltops, in cities, everywhere, your people or your precious people, your beautiful boy, Father God, we pray, that they will be seen standing, and Lord and the world will see and God is real. And Godly fear will come upon this world, Father God, and especially I pray for all those Christians, Lord, who work in in places like hospitals, and schools, Lord, when I continually in battle against the darkness, Father God, we pray for them. We pray that Your Holy Spirit will come now upon them, Father God, we pray for those who are struggling Lord, who can hardly even mumble a prayer. We pray for them, Lord, that your Holy Spirit will touch them, Lord, He will put a shield between them and all those lies that the enemy is pouring out on them right now. Protect them, Lord, with the power of your name. Thank you, Lord, we can intercede into any life, anywhere. There is no boundaries to power prayer, Father, God. And Lord, we just ask to release this power into the streets. We're going into day Father God, that will have good encounters. A lot of pray for every Christian upon His earth. Now, Lord, a new day will dawn in their lives. Not that the Holy Spirit will be more real than he's ever been before. A Lord arches prior analysis, in Jesus name, amen. Amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you, God, thank You, Holy Spirit.
Glenn Walsh:I was thinking that the Bible says God says it My ways are not your ways. And my thoughts are not your thoughts higher than the heavens are from the earth or my thoughts from your thoughts? That's a huge distance. No, thank you. And well, Ben was talking in this morning I was late. I actually woke up with this one, just thinking of habit Cook's prayer. And then Robin was talking, I thought of isayas prayer in Isaiah 64. So habit, and they both start the same way.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Praise God.
Glenn Walsh:oh, they both start like that habit. Cook in Habakkuk. Three, at verse two says, oh, Lord, oh, Lord, and depends what translation you read him. But I think the old NIV said, Oh, Lord, I've heard of your fine. I stand in all of your deeds, I fear in the midst of the years or in our day, and our time, make them none. Actually the ESV and I'm sure that King James would say, revive your work. In our day, and in our time might have known Yes, when we come to the end of ourselves. When we look at ourselves, we realize how powerless we are. When we look to the church to be the answer, and we realize our power that she is, yes, Father, we look at God and say, oh, Lord, oh god, oh, Lord. Oh, God, we've heard of your phone. Yes, we've heard of it. We've heard the stories. We We know your history. We stand in awe of your deeds and we don't fear Amen. But Lord's in our day, in an in air time. Make them known. We void your work. And then Isaiah says something very similar in Isaiah 60 400 Are you that you would range the heavens and come down? Yes, the mountains would quake in your presence. And it goes on to say that the the water would boil when they'd be flames, that the presence of the Lord thank you do and then he says and when you did awesome things that we did not look for. Gosh, wow, you came down. Your presence was made none. Yes, father. Then he says no, I have seen any gods be signed you who acts on behalf of those who wait for him. Our hope is in God. Our trust is in God's not in our own strength, not in our own enjoyment. Not that we're making it to the end, but in a God of breakthrough. Yes, both of them pray the same thing and I'm going to pray it. Come on, lords, we've heard of your phone. Yes, we know that you're the one who raises the date. glory. Jesus, we know you're the one who walked out of the tomb. We know you're the one who spoke crashing into being the one who parted the Red Sea, the one who settled your people in the Promised Land. The one who is Yes, amen, alpha, and Amiga. You're the one who opens the eyes of the blind and opens the ears of the death, who causes the line to leap like dia, You're the God of bright throne. We've heard of your phone. We stand in all of our dates. And our prayer is Lord, in our day, and in our time, in our locations, in our churches, in our households in our lives. Break through bring revival, revive your people and revive your church. Lord, we will settle for a Christianity that reflects your words. As it is in your word. Is it is in the book of Acts. That's normal Christianity. That's normal church life. That's what we want lot. We've heard of your fame. We stand in all of your dates. We don't make them known today. Hello, make them known today. Would you rent the heavens when the Lord because you told us to pray Jesus you told us to pray like this. Our Father in heaven hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come not something we just look at in geyser and dream about your kingdom come your will be done on earth. Yes, father in our locations, just like it is in heaven. Oh man, you told us to pray that Lord. So we pray Holy Spirit come Yes. revive your church. Make us alive in you, Carmen during healing Lord, those who are sick today, we pray that you would heal them. Yes. For you said you revealed yourself as the God that heals. The one that opens the mind the eyes of the blind. So we pray Lord, anyone with our problems today? Yes, father TimesTen. Heal them in the name of Jesus. Let blind OSB open. Let deaf ears open now in Jesus name Jesus. Let the curriculums those who are crippled those with a firmer T's V healed in Jesus name because your word says it. And that's what we've settled for Lord, we're not going to settle on the wrong side of the Jordan. We want to enter the promise. And it showed in your words. We need you Lord, oh, Lord. Oh, that you would rend the heavens. And we that you would that you would that you would just like Isaiah and Habakkuk fight. Come Lord Jesus breakthrough that your kingdom come. Let Your kingdom come. Come kingdom of God. Amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Thank you, father. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you.
Andy Hammond:Just been looking through Matthew here this morning. And Glenn spoke about the miracles really of Jesus and miracles of healing. And here they are right at the beginning of the mass here. And what what touched me was that fate of the century and in Matthew eight. And he, he said to Jesus, to say the word. You don't need to come, you don't need to come to my house. But for my servant, you just say the word because you are God. And it will happen. And so occurs to me that Jesus gave that authority to us. That authority to us and I'm right on the opposite side of the page in my Bible is a heading Do not worry. Thank you, Lord, and we gotta take the worry away. Therefore I tell you in verse 25 of chapter six, I tell you do not worry about your life, or you will eat or drink or about your body. What you will wear Is not life more important than food and the body more important and clothes. So to all those folks out there who are worrying today just take a moment Just take a moment to sit and listen. Turn your eyes to Jesus. Amen. Yes, turn your eyes Jesus and his first chorus says, Look fall in his wonderful face. And the themes of earth will grow strangely, Tim, in the light of His glory, and grace. As a chorus, it's stuck with me for 50 odd years. And it's one that I always hold on to, that we can sit and be in His presence. That might sound very strange and old if, if you don't know Jesus. But if that is you listening, perhaps now is the time. Now is the day of your salvation. Yes. So you can sit and just ask Jesus to come into your life, to take over your life. And you can say that short prayer to Him, come into my life, Lord Jesus, I give it all to you. I want to follow you, follow You wherever You take me, and allows you Holy Spirit to come into my life. Give me that strength and that power that is promised. And that's a prayer that you can say, hold on to it. Yes, follow God. And Jesus will never let you down. You might have trials and tribulations, but he's always with you, is always taking you by the hand. He's always there to pick up pieces for you think you've dropped, that you thrown in anger, he will come and be with you. There's lots of miracles in those early chapters of Matthew. And were invited, aren't we to go out and be the workers in the vineyard. And towards the end of chapter nine of Matthew. Jesus went through all the towns and villages teaching in their synagogues or their churches preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and sickness, wonderful God, when he saw the crowds, he had compassion on them. And the Greek for that word is that he was gutted. He was absolutely gutted. And, or his heart broke. That's how Jesus felt. And because they were like, sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, The harvest is plentiful. But the workers off here, father asked the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into the harvest field. And that's for us. We got to be sent out.
Donny Stockburn:Yes, Father, Amen.
Andy Hammond:And that can be many different things for different people. It might be speaking to your next door neighbor, it's being sent out. It's not all of us are sent out to be pastors like Ben, or Glenn. But we can be communicators of what Jesus has done in your life. And we pray that this morning, Father, we can take up the mantle again, if we've dropped it in this last couple of years, we just withdrawn help us to be outward facing to see what you would have us do for you. We are your disciples. And, you know, a disciple means to be a learner, and we're constantly learning, yes, learning by our mistakes, how marvelous it is that you'll actually forgive us when we let you down. But that means that we have to come to you and ask for your forgiveness. So we do that this morning. And four of us around this table we say Father, we were sorry for not having done what we should have done. Yes, father. Yes. Not having had those conversations that we should have had. Or Father we just Thank you that you can come with your grace amongst us that undeserved favor that you give each one of us. How marvelous is marvelous that we can have this awesome relationship. Thank you, okay creator of the West God, what a marvelous says. And Father, we just need to tell the good news. The good news that what you've done. And Father, we can give our own testimonies. No one can deny what you've done for each one of us. Yeah, no one can deny that we can hold on to that.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you, Jesus. Thank you.
Andy Hammond:So Lord, help us to have that same compassion that you had. When we meet people, when we talk to our neighbors, or parents, the outside the school game, or the bus stop.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Alicia.
Andy Hammond:In the shops that we go into, help us to be loving in our approach, oh, man, that a show love. Because your life was full of your life on us. Constantly showed love and compassion. Help us to be like you. Although we find him so difficult. Father, God gives us that strength. And, Father, we just pray for all those people who need a healing touch this morning. Yes. We request this morning from faith that both boys of COVID Father God, we pray now that you will bring your healing power to burnout, we we declare a healing for them. Thank you, Jason, may they have such a speedy recovery Father God, that the tests that they will take, they will be negative. We claim it for them in the powerful name of Jesus and father also for the art that is about to happen for a husband. Yes. We want this to happen soon. Father, we want this to be carefully planned. Father, whatever this is for we pray that to your hands will be the surgeon's hands. Yeah, you will be there. And that there will be a miraculous speedy recovery. In the powerful name of Jesus we pray. Amen. Amen.
Donny Stockburn:Amen. Yeah, who just just preaching about prayer now. And I remember once, when I was going around a big old cathedral massive cathedral, spent a lot of the time of the day in there, looking at vaulted ceilings and lovely woodwork and ordered memories and audience to the place. And after a long time, looking around, I've got to this tiny little place in a corner. And there was a window looking over a patch of grass. And there was a one single lexan looking out of this window and applies for someone to nail on it. And goodness knows how many men of God has no on that pad there. And it was a little notice on it. And it must have been in lieu of some soldier or other because it said Oh, we'd rather have one man praying for me than 10,000 troops on the battlefield. And that's our prayer. So let's just take that down now to pray for one another Lord, you You called us to prayer. It made us prayer warriors, Father God to intercede in people's lives as and it's just been doing as we've all been doing. Glenn and myself and, and Ben Lord, intercede in people's lives from this little movie and Swanley. Father God has no limits to what prayer can do. We just thank for that Lord, Jesus name, amen. Amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yeah. So true. Prayer is so powerful. Prayer is that communicator from us to him, you know, and he's, he's with us. And he before we even asked before we even called he knows the cry of our hearts. So that psalm that was in the smallest, you know, what is your play? What is your cry, as Andy has said, as Glen has said, and Donnie has said in in around about the zactly same press this morning, just pray just just pray. Just you know, it's not about go Going into the church is about while you're driving while you're walking, while you're doing whatever you're doing just in that position of saying father helped me today. Lord, I just pray that your strength for me today, there's nothing wrong with that. Because when when we come to Him and we say, Lord, as the psalmist says, my cry, Lord, help me, help me. You know, when God moves, God moves, you know, he has already moved, and he will continue to move. So wherever you are today, never, never give up, never give up, you are saved, you are a child of the living God, you are redeemed, you are justified by the blood of the land. And we're about to come to Communion. We're about to break bread together, we're about to take the bread, we're about to take this cup and what it symbolizes, we rest in His presence. God is with you. God is with you. And may God strengthen you and bless you and guide you. You know, don't wait to get into church before you fall on your knees. Wherever you are. Do it right now. Maybe you can't and you don't have the opportunity. Maybe you're driving around the M 25. And you're listening to this in your van or your car just just as you're driving to sit in traffic, walk in whatever you're doing. Just say, Father, my heart's cry at this moment. Help me there's nothing wrong with say, Lord, help me. You know, are you worried I am anxious, or you're doubtful is life so strong, you feel that you're buckled, you almost feel that you're, you're that little embryo, you're going back to that fetal position where you just want to curl up and you want to curl up and be protected. Forgive the builders above us in the name of Jesus, it rattling around on the roof out there, maybe you feel that you just need to literally just wrap up in that doorway, because life is so powerful. But the scripture says do not conform, do not conform to the pattern. So Lord, I ask you that, Lord, I will not conform to the pattern of this world. Lord, let me let my mind be transformed order. Thank you for Romans eight, verse one. There is now no condemnation for those that are in Christ Jesus, For what the law was power less to do. The blood of Jesus, you are a child of the living God, whatever way we look at ourselves, however much we battle with the mind and the concept of living, you cannot take away from yourself, I cannot take away from me is that we have been bought with a price we are redeemed. We are the children of the living God, He loves you. No matter how we feel about ourselves and look at ourselves, you are healed, you are blessed. You are blessed and highly favored wonderfully and fearfully made. God is with you. God is with you. Because he says I will not leave you as orphans. And now we're coming around the table. Now brothers are going to take us a little bit further, as we just read them we'd be still, you know, remembering when Christ done this, in that that place when he told the the to to get the room ready, go and get preparation done for the Passover as we break bread as we have that meal together as we sit as we be still. And what a powerful time that was for them. Imagine who was sitting around that table. Every one of them was not worthy. But every one of them was cold. Every one of them was chosen. Everyone had a certain part to play in the body of Christ. There was no holy Joe sitting around that table with Christ. There was no religious one sitting around there. But what was around there, Judas Iscariot, John, James. Peter, I would die for your Lord. As soon as they took the cart as soon as the bread was broken soon as they went off their characters really Shawn and God did not deny them. They scarpered. They liked it. They cut Marcus's air off. They was up to all sorts of things. But all of them characters study who was around the communion table. None of them was perfect. None of them was worthy. One leaned into Jesus, his brother. The other one had 30 pieces of silver in his pocket that already sold him down the down the Swanee you know, Christ was already sold, but he still sat around the table and then Lucifer was sitting in the wings, the Scripture says, and Lucifer entered into the body of Judas Iscariot, right at the point of communion. Imagine if we could be taken back and just watching from the sideline of all those characters around that communion table. But Jesus chose him and he chose me and he chose you and we're going to break bread together we will we will never be ready to break this and to take this if I think that I need to get myself right. I'll be dead 1000 years or more for eternity before because I can't get myself right at the very beginning of this this service. The Battle of the mind In the Battle of the mind, we'll hand it over to our brothers as they break bread and they take the top and they lead us. You know, God bless every one of you this morning.
Andy Hammond:Thank you. Ben mentioned, verse one from Chapter Eight of Romans. And I just want to go to the end of that chapter. As someone once said that if Romans is the Himalayas in chapter eight is the Everest the peak command. I think I once counted the number of times that the Holy Spirit was mentioned. In chapter eight, I think I've got over 20 times Wow. Holy Spirit is mentioned in just that chapter. But towards the end these words, Who shall separate us from the love of Christ shall have trouble or hardship, or persecution or famine, or nakedness or danger or sword? As it is written for your sake, we face death all day long. We are considered a sheep to be slaughtered. No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who left us crying, convinced that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor demons, neither the present or future, nor any powers, neither height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God, that is in Christ, Jesus, our Lord. So Father, we just thank you for those words of Scripture, which says, All really, we can't express it in any better ways that you love us, and we can't be separated from. So we take the spread in remembrance of what you've done for us. Jesus going to the cross, but you didn't leave it there. You wrote again, so that we could have life. Thank you. Amen. Amen.
Donny Stockburn:God's plan was to get his children back. Jesus didn't die to get us probation. For our fences, He came to serve their sentence. We thank you for that, Lord. God's plan is perfect. Nothing can be added to it. Nothing taken away. It's perfect because his blood is perfect. And he sacrifices perfect. And that has made us perfect to perfect in his sight. And we thank you for the Lord. For what you've done for us, Lord, we which is sitting in all of it now, and gathered around your table. Remember these words that Jesus said, It is with a fervent desire? I've desired to eat this Passover with you? He is amongst us now. And we just thank you for your presence here, Lord in Jesus name.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you, Jesus. Brothers and sisters. There is hope. humanity that is on the other side of this mic to us. Men, women, young, old wherever you're from, there's hope. There's hope, because he is the God of hope. Yes. There's life because he is life. The best is before us. The world is going to tell us to go and live the dream. You're living your best life now. Makes me wonder how I'm living my best life now. God help me. Psalm 55. Psalm 55. Help me Lord. Help me lord. My heart's cry, the Psalmist that wrote that. He was cold, chosen. great poet, great writer. But he had many character defects. But God still created the character. Could we say that we create the character? I don't think we can. God created everything. He knows everything. There is nothing outside of creation that has been created without him before because he is everything. So if he was to analyze the human being if he was to look and study the concept of humanity, He created me. So did he just stop by creating the flesh me? Or did he create all of me? Did he? Did he just create my bone structure? Did He create my DNA? Did He create my thinking? Did He create my mind my concept. If the scripture says like, it says that God created, let's make man in our image, if he created, everything has to be created by Him and for Him. So when you look at the character, or the spirit, or the soul of someone, he still created Lucifer, knowing that Lucifer Woods want to be what he wanted to be. Because God is the God of all. So your character, or my character, God knows that before he even came into being. So there is a battle and the biggest battle is not with Lucifer, because the battle has won. The biggest battle is sometimes coming to terms with who we are. But God still chose us. God loves you, God loves me. So sometimes we try to hide our character, we hide our thinking, we hide ourselves, because we're frightened of what the world may think. But God already knew, before we already became. So whoever you are, wherever you are, God knows every detail of you and me. He formed us. He formed us. So there is a formation for the scripture of the physical. And there is a formation of us in the spiritual. Because before the physical came into being, in the Good Book, the existence of nothing was in existence. What I'm trying to trying to get to this morning is that do not worry about your character, your defects, your, your flaws, because I have more than anybody, trust me. But what I'm saying is, it says I knew you and created you before the foundation of the world. So knowing and creating are two different things. I know what you would be like then, but I still decided to choose to create you. I know that you will be a little bit wobbly some days, but I still decided to choose you. I know that you would do daft things and say stupid things. And be a little bit of an idiot some days. I'm just trying to keep it real. Because the church religion makes it so hard. And there are many people that have been bruised on walked away. Because they don't feel good enough. No one will never feel good enough. But before the very beginning and the concept of time. He was you was everything about you was and he loves us. So take a moment out of your busy life. Take a moment out of the schedules and everything that's going on. I'm not going to beat myself up anymore over me because he loves me. We're coming to a close look about five minutes. Guys, five guys, you're the burger joint.
Glenn Walsh:You've just been quiet in some 139 Yeah, yep. Yep. Which is Oh, Lord, you have searched me and know me. You know, when I sit down when I'd rise up, come on, You discern my thoughts from afar. So I'm got my glasses today I'm struggling to rate you searched my path and my lying down. And they were acquainted with all my ways, even before word is on my tongue. You know it fully. Oh, Lord, yes, love you hit me in behind them before and go and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me. It is so high. I cannot understand him. Whoa, where can I flee from your spirit? Or where can I hide from your presence? If I send to the heavens, you're there. If I make my bed in the darkness, or the depths, you are there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there, your hand will lead me and your right hand shall hold me If I say surely, the darkness shall cover me, and the light about me for a night. Even the darkness is not dark to you, Lord. The night is as bright as day. And darkness is light to for you formed my inward paths, you knitted me together in my mother's one, I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made wonderfully your works, my soul knows it very well. My friend was not hidden in you when I was made in the secret, intricate woven depths of the earth, your eyes saw my unformed substance, in your book, or written every one of them, actually, all the days or deigned for me were written in your book before one of them came to be some translation site. And then the end of it is King David Wright in this, Search me, O God, and know my heart. try me and know my thoughts, and see if there's any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way of everlasting. Remember, we've all sinned, and fall short of all lonely of God. We're noble ruins. We've not only seen by what we do, we sinned by what we don't do. And I characters are fallen, flawed. But he Jesus took our characters, scenes, past, present and future, put them to the death once and for all, on the cross, and we say through the blood in the blood alone. And then nothing can snatch us from what a secure place we live, what a guy chosen in him, before the creation of the world, to be holy and blameless in his sight. That's Ephesians. One humbly, is not about performance. It's about grace, mercy and anointing. Don't forget that. He who calls equips. That's going on. Do you got something?
Andy Hammond:No, I'll just, I'll just say, looking back over Psalm 55, that Ben started with, and it's some David here is being attacked on all sides. And he says that all he wanted to do was to go in a quiet room. And, you know, pull the shutters down. And so that's nice and tall. But God is with him. Yeah. Because I mean, the Psalm is, is quite good. It says, I caught a God and the Lord saves me This is verse 60. evening, morning and noon, I cry out into stress, and here's my voice. He ransoms me unharmed from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me. I mean, this is the king lighting. This is David, this is the king. This is he seems to see enemies on all sides. And sometimes that is our position, isn't it? Yeah. And but towards the end of the psalm in verse 22, it says, And this is to us, because the Bible speaks to us today, Cast your cares on the Lord, and He will sustain you, He will never let the righteous fall. But you Oh, God will bring down the wicked into the pit of corruption, bloodthirsty and deceitful men will not live out half of their days. So, Father, we just, we just thank You that we can turn to Scripture so often. I've just seen something new in this song today. And I've probably read that dozens of times, but something new leaps out of the packages at us. And that's how you speak to us. So we thank you that we can rely on you. And even though men try to pull us down, but we have you. You are our rock. So we stand by you. And we have no fear. Because you are with us. Oh, man. Yeah,
Reverend Ben Cooper:there we go. Gorgeous. So yeah, Donnie, Donnie is gonna take us out this morning.
Donny Stockburn:We have about the chosen, chosen, chosen, chosen, we say, who are the chosen? It's got it down here like right in the last verse of our last chapter of Bible revelations 22 And verse 17, who are the chosen? The chosen are whosoever will come. Let them come and drink the water life. That's who the chosen who soever would come. I are chosen. Yes, father, chosen for eternal life and pretest creation in the kingdom of God, Lord, we thank you for that word, whosoever would come and God so loved the world, the world. That's everyone in it. Thank you, Father for for those beautiful words to everyone. Everyone, Lord gets the opportunity in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.
Andy Hammond:Yeah. That's great. Tony, I just want to offer you again this morning if you need a copy of God's word. I've got a New Testament Psalms and Proverbs here that you can have just communicate with us and we are get a copy to obviously we need to know where you are so that we can send it out to what you'll find. Also, there's some real key verses here, right at the back of the book, we've listed them. And I just read one, two. John one verse 12. Yet to all who did receive in to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God. So continue. Great.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Oh, man, there we are. Thank you for joining us today, wherever you are today. That's really, really hit me hard today. That's really hit me hard. But it's good. Like God bless you and strengthen you wherever you are across the world. We thank you to our lovely brother Glenn and Donnie and Andy. And the crazy Reverend Benjamin Lenoard Cooper. That's got serious issues. But God is stripping him back. May God bless you. Pray for us all. Have a wonderful day. In Jesus name Amen.