Good morning to everybody. God bless you wherever you are across the world today. May the hand of God be upon you. We thank you so much for joining us wherever you are across the earth this morning. May God strengthen you and bless you as you join us for coffee and prayer. Welcome to Elim church Swanley, you're joining myself. Reverend Ben Cooper we got Glenn next to me Pastor Glenn next to me on my left and we've got Andy over there. Mr. Hammond over there the holiest person in Kent. We got a lovely brother Donny in front of me. Good morning, guys. Good morning, everybody online. Thank you for joining us wherever you are. Across the world. Today you're joining us for coffee and prayer Wednesday morning. I feel like I've been beaten with a rod. Does anybody feel tired this morning. Hand of God is with you. God is with you. You can find us on Apple Music, Amazon music I Heart Radio, sprout Spotify and multiple other podcasting platforms and everybody that's joining us live this morning across the world which is waiting a few moments before we start our first scripture reading as we go in. May God bless you. The hand of the Lord is upon you. Isaiah, chapter 40, verse 31, such a beautiful text to start the morning off. And it simply says But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not be faint. Wherever you are. God is strengthening you this morning. The Lord is your hope. The Lord is your strength. The Lord is your God. I mean a hand oh god just strengthen you. Wherever you may be out walking, taking the children to school, after the school run on your way to work, commuting. Whatever the day brings, I just pray that the Holy Spirit will bring peace. The Holy Spirit is our advocate. He is our comforter. He is our God, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. We got to keep hoping there is no other way we just keep hoping and we keep pressing. And we keep walking forward for God this morning. We never give up there is always hope. Because God is hope whatever your circumstances are this morning, all is well because he is in charge of your life. He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Verse 31, of Isaiah chapter 40. But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength they will soar on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary they will walk and not be faint. Oh my god, thank you this morning, Lord, Father in the name of Jesus. We thank you that Your Word is true. We thank you that Your word cannot return void. So this morning Lord, Father we speak your word into and over our lives into our workspace, our families, our lives every situation. Lord, we thank You that Your word is sharper than a double edged sword. But this morning Lord, Father we come before You. And Lord we pray that the power of the Holy Spirit will move this morning, Lord that you will move upon us today Father, we thank you for the Godhead. We thank you for the deity. But Lord, we pray that we will hear and Lord and we will know that sound doctrine is coming across this nation Lord, the doctrines of grace Father, we need Lord, to hold on to the Word of God because we have nothing else. So this morning, I pray for everyone in the Lord's house with me today. Lord, I pray for everyone around this this church today, Lord that no one else can see Lord, but we know their inability. And we pray Lord, for everyone online today, wherever they are across the world and everybody that joins us on this podcasting platform that you will strengthen them and bless them that they will feel a presence of the Holy Spirit. They will know that their Redeemer lives we pray for those that don't feel very well this morning. We pray for healing we pray for those Father God that are not well Lord that you will strengthen them that the fire of God will descend and rest upon them Father, I thank you for the power of repentance and Lord, whatever is on me around me Lord, whatever is trying to take me farther I just ask you, Lord, that you will strip me back. In the name of Jesus deal with my thoughts deal with any arrogance deal with dear God anything That's on me Lord. That is not a view father stripped me back right now because you are the vinedresser you are the gardener. And this morning Lord, we pray that you dear God will keep us also on the potter's will, Lord as you spin that will Lord as the master, as we are clay. In the Masters hands We thank you follow that there is power in the name of Jesus and we believe in miracles. And this morning, Lord, wherever people are, law, whatever timeframe it is, in their world, across this world today, Lord, we thank you that you are in their workspace, you're in their lives, you're in their homes, you're in their marriages, law, whether they're single, you're you're upon them and within within them Norden, whoever, and whoever is catching this live stream service. We pray, Lord, for fresh anointing, to fall on those that feel weary and tired. But Lord, we thank you for Isaiah chapter 40, verse 31, but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength, we thank you that our strength is being renewed. We thank You, Lord, that when we are tired and weary father, you lift that you carry us. And this morning, Lord, at this hour, wherever people are across this globe, we thank you that you are lifting them you are carrying them, Lord, that fresh anointing is falling that your word is sharper than a double edged sword. And this our Lord, wherever people are today, in work, out of work at home, walk in, whatever the situation is just capturing this father, on the live stream platforms that we're on Father, let the Holy Ghost Thank You, Lord, the Holy Ghost is resting on them and within them. And right now Lord, Father, we pray for peace that will descend. Peace, Lord, just like a Christ. When you stepped into that room back for Thomas. We thank You, Lord. As you said to Thomas, you say to us today, Peace be with you. All those that are crying out for peace this morning. We thank you that they have peace, all those that are crying out Lord for hope. They have hope. All those that are crying out for a miracle and have a miracle. We pray for mental health issues this morning. Anyone that is depressed, anyone that is anxious, anyone that is having suicidal thoughts, anyone that is really lonely, anyone that is being stretched within their mind and their cognitive processing father, their philosophy, their thinking, their understanding, Father, we thank you that we have the mind of Christ, we thank You, Lord, that we will not conform to the pattern of this world, but by the transforming and the renewing of our mind. In the mighty name of Jesus, we thank you that there is power in the name of Jesus. And this morning, Lord, sweet for each and every one of us, lift us and carry us Lord. But as Isaiah says in the good old Testament, it says in Isaiah 40, verse 31, but those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength, they will soar on wings like eagles they will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not be faint Father, we are not faintness morning, Lord, we are not weary this morning, Lord, Father, we are not downtrodden. We are blessed and highly favored. Lord, we are your children. We are your sons and daughters. We belong to the living God, the God of Israel. So this morning, Lord for all those that feel weary We thank You, Lord, that the weariness has gone in the name of Jesus. All those that feel a bit faint Lord, the brain fog we pray that brain fog will go today. In the name of Jesus, you are worthy of all praise. But Lord, wherever our Lord humanity is today, let peace descend, Lord, wherever people are in our workspace, let the joy of the Lord rest upon them. In the name of Jesus, you are a good, good father and we come to you Lord and Father, we just lay everything out across the table, and we say Lord strippers back Lord of me, hey, Les, Lord, let there be healing. Let there be miracles. Let the fire of God descend upon each and every one of you on us today as well, Lord, You are worthy this morning, Lord, and we come to you Lord, all those that are got broken hearts, we thank You that hearts have been healed. All those that feel weary in their bodies. Lord, we thank You that healing is upon them in the name of Jesus, all those that just feel exhausted. We thank You, Lord, that You are their God given them strength today, Lord, there is always hope. Sisters and Brothers wherever you are. If you're just dipping your toe into this live stream service, there is always hope. There's always hope because our God is hope. He is the great I Am He is worthy of all praise and he is with you. In your living room. He is with you while you're driving your vehicle he is with you. On the school run he is with you. Whether you're single, whether you're married, whether your there is separation going on whatever your relationship situation is, God is with you. If you are at work this morning of feeling exhausted, God is with you. God is carrying you God has a plan for you. Jeremiah 29, verse 11, For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you a hope and a future but continue to read on. I will say this morning if you follow me if you call Now, your heart, it's the heart condition. So this morning, Lord, we thank you for our heart condition because we have a heart after God. And Lord, we thank you that everything is possible. For the one who believes Mark chapter nine, verse 23, Jesus said, everything is possible for the one who believes. We are believing for miracles, Father, we need miracles. You are a miracle working God and each and every one of us. We need the miracle. Philippians chapter one, verse six says, Being confident of this, He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of the Lord Jesus Christ, He who began he began that work in you, He created you, He loves you unconditionally. He's with you, no matter what every given situation is, there is always hope. There is always hope. Psalm, chapter nine, verse 18. But God will never forget the needy. The hope of the afflicted will never perish. There's always hope. There's always hope. Never give up. Never give up. Never give up Psalm 33, verse 18, but the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him on those whose hope is in his unfailing love. Father, we trust you. We love you, we worship you, we praise You. And in the stillness of this recording in the stillness of life, Father, we, we lay everything out, Lord, before you, Lord, across Lord across our lives, every area of our lives. Lord, take every situation or father, we hand it back to you. Like the loaves and the fish, Father, we feel that we don't have enough in our lives to get through. So Lord, we present everything to you. And we thank You, Lord, that, that you are a good and a powerful God and you see, Lord, what is happening to us. You see, Lord, the areas of our lives where we're lacking, so low, where we lack we thank you that you are building up, Lord, if there's any arrogance within me today, stripped me back, Lord, if I'm prideful, strip it back, lords. If I'm not the character, Lord, that you are, if I'm fighting you, Lord, I just pray Dear God, the Lord, I'm frightened, pray that one. Lord stripped me back, Jesus stripped me back of the flesh, strip me back and myself, stripped me back of everything, Lord, that, that this flesh is itching for Come, Holy Spirit, Lord, just descend on each and every one of us today, we believe in miracles. Do you believe in miracles? Do you believe in the word of God? Because God is calling you to great things God is calling you. God is calling you this morning. And he is saying very, a very simple word from his word. Come to me, all of you that are weary, heavily laden, and I will give you rest man, come to Jesus this morning. This is the moment this is the moment as we are just in this stillness through this podcast or this live stream service. Come to me, he says the good books has come to me, all of you that are weary, heavily laden, and I will give you rest he will give you rest this morning. He will give you rest from your thinking he will give you rest from your, from your tiredness, tiredness, for just being tired, exhausted, through thinking, exhausted, trying to work things out. Exhausted, God will give you a rest. God is with you. Wherever you are today, the power of the Holy Spirit is upon you. You are a son, and you are a daughter of the living goddess. And God loves you unconditionally. He loves your character. He loves who you are. He sent His Son to bar upon the cross for each and every one of us it is by grace, we have been saved, so that no one can boast. It's not by works. It's not by deeds. It's not by financial positioning. It's not by the respectability, Lord of human beings. It's not by the positioning of the church. It is not by notoriety, it is not by academics. It is not by who we are, it is by who he is. It is by grace you have been saved, so that no one can boast. Thank you, Jesus. We are saved because of his unfailing love his unfailing grace, His mercy, His Godhead. He is sovereign, He is king he is the Lord of lords Father, we pray that the church across this nation will preach and teach the doctrines of grace. We thank You, Lord, that grace abounds. We thank You, Lord, that your sovereignty Lord runs over. We thank you that the power of the Holy Spirit we thank you for justification. We thank you for sanctification. We thank you for redemption. We thank you for adoption. Lord, you have adopted a huge graph Let us in we belong. Our sisters and brothers, whoever you are today you belong to the kingdom of God, you are a son, you are a daughter. And as the scripture that I started off in this morning, there's always hope. There is always hope, Isaiah 40, verse 31, as I hand over to my brothers this morning, as they will lead us in communion, continue through with this service. May God bless you across the earth today, in the greatest name in heaven, earth, and at the name of Jesus. Every knee shall bow. In Jesus name, amen. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Yeah, do
Glenn Walsh:believe God is talking about restoration today, restoration, and even King David. Now he's a man that we all admire, the mighty man of God. And yet in Psalm 60, here's a Psalm of David. You have rejected us, oh, God, and burst forth upon us. You've been angry, now restores. Do you feel that God has rejected you? He says, Even though a mother may reject a child, I will never reject you, says the Lord. So that Psalm 60 It begins in Psalm 61. David starts, here my cry, Oh God, listen to my prayer. From the ends of the earth I call to you. I call as my heart grows faint or feel like that. Then he says, lead me to the rock that is higher than I, yes, first we have our strength comes from then in some 62 My soul finds rest in God alone. My salvation comes from him. He alone is my rock, and my salvation you are he is my fortress, I shall never be shaken. And how Psalm 62 ends, David says, one thing God has spoken to things I have heard, that you Oh, God are strong. And you own Lord are loving. Thank you. Nice good to know. We, we all like sheep have gone astray. We all wobble, we all cringe, but it's not about our strength. It's about his. And he is loving. One thing I know, you are strong, two things that you are loving. We come to a loving, merciful, gracious Father, who loves us. Yes. So Father, we pray that whatever we start with today, whatever mindset we're in, wherever we sit in whatever we're going through, thank you, Lord, as we've already heard, a confidence is not in ourselves. It's not in our ability to endure. It's not on whether we can stand in the earthquake. It's about your mighty hand around us. For there's no God, but you who does things on behalf of those who wait for him a man, you're the go to break through. You're the one who makes ways where there are no ways. You're the one that when we come to ourselves, and we see the enemy coming close, and we can, in a sense of smell with the lion's breath. It's so close. God you part of the Red Sea? Yes, Father, you just breathe, you blow the wind comes and the sea passed apart. We thank You, Lord, that confidence is in you, not in us. And we pray for a move of your spirit. Come home for all that we face. Because you are God's. You're our God, You are God. And our faith and trust is in you and you alone. You are that walk, you are that fortress, you are our salvation or man. So just as David prayed, lead us to one that is greater than the rock that is higher than I am. Yes, Father, for Lord, our trust is in your strength. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. We can do all things through Christ who strengthens us. Yes, we can do all things through the strength of Christ. Yes, father, not in our vulnerability. Lord, we're dependent on you. I thank You, Lord, that you've bought the church to the end of our self, what a mess. What a mess. She is. No longer can she go on in our own strength in our own mind, in our own manipulations in our own fleshly kingdom. But we dependent on another Pentecost. YFC Come Holy Spirit be vivus. We pray from the ends of the earth we cry together. Tom Lord Jesus, and feel your people restore us, Lord. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Dr.
Donny Stockburn:Benson, a word earlier about we've been called to greatness arches want to show you a little bit of that greatness in this? If you can get your Bibles and go to Exodus 32. And now I'm starting at chapter 10 Verse 10, gone to verse 14 Quite already. Bye Lovely one. It's a time when Moses has gone up the mountain to get the commandments. And a while is up there, the people have gone crazy. They started worshipping Gods gone back to the old ways. And Gods just about fed up with it as a short way to stand it. And I'm going to read it says, God says, Now therefore, let me alone is speaking to Moses. Let me alone that my wrath, wrath, my burn hot against sin, now I may consume them, and I will make of you, Moses, a great nation. Then Moses pleaded with the Lord is God. And he said, Lord, why does your wrath burn hot against your people whom you are born out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty end? Why should the Egyptian speak and say, he bought them out of out to harm them, or to kill them in the mountains, and concern them from the face of the earth? Turn your face fierce wrath. And we lent from this harm to your people. Remember, I, Abraham, Isaac and Israel, your servants to whom you swore you're your own self and said to them, I will multiply your descendants as the stars of the heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of, to give to your descendants, and they shall inherit it forever. So the Lord relented, from his harm which he said he would do her mouth, God place Moses, in the place of intercession, whether we knew it or not. This is what God's plan was that he bought Moses to a place of intercession. And brothers and sisters. That's the glorious price that God's pulled us to. He pulled us to a place of intercession where we can pray like Moses, and it says Moses, prayed as if heaven and earth and salvation and destruction depended upon his prayer. Wow. Lord, that takes my breath away. That we can pray the same as he did as Moses did. A Christ preached it from the cross, when He asked God to forgive those who killed him, murdered him. And this is the message that we can push toward that we can cry. Pride is the word that intercession prayer that brings others into the kingdom of God, Lord, it can stash them out of the hell itself, a Father God, we just pray now in Jesus name, that your church who will live in church will intercede as Moses did, as powerful as he did, can change, change things Father God, in this walk and start powers in I places, Father God, you have anointed us. You've been known to God bless the church, with that sort of power Lord, Father God in which is pride that your church would be in a vast cities in those great cathedrals and places like that. Or dinos, little back alleys, those timeouts with Jesus written over the top, Father God that all your whole church over the face of this earth. Father, God will pray those prayers of intercession into people's lives following God, there will be a great salvation, Lord, just impressive on everyone. Listening now, Lord, this is the greatness you've called us to that we are the ones who intercede into this things. You've called us to do it as you called Moses, Lord, we are called to do it. So we pray, Father, God, that we will acknowledge your call, and with joy and amazement, Lord, that what you've anointed us to do file to go we will do it. And pray, Lord, there'll be a great salvation in this world or in Jesus name. Apply this, amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Father, we just resting you this morning, Lord, we just rest in your presence. We give you praise Father, for what you're doing for what you have done for what you're going to do. But this morning, Lord, Father, we thank you that we are redeemed, that we are washed in the blood of Jesus. The men are what our outside circumstances are doesn't matter how heavy the presses Lord on the outside, you love us unconditionally, that our name is stamped in the Lamb's book of life and nothing can can snatch us out or away from the love of God. Nothing can take us away, Lord, because you saved us you set us free. And Father, we thank You that Your word Father, Your Word has come to this one, because of the blood of the Lamb. Lord, we are redeemed your word the scriptures have been fulfilled. We thank you that the Word of God is sharper than a double edged sword. And this morning, Lord, we thank you that that word is cutting through that your word Father God is powerful. Your Word is hope. Your Word is life there is hope in the Word of God. There is future in you, Lord, there is redemption. There is salvation. There is grace. There is anointing there is freedom in Christ. For Father, we ask You for all those this morning Lord that just fill in their lives that Lord that the snare has been laid out but Lord, they are free because the sunsets free is free indeed there is freedom this morning in Christ. Wherever you are today who the sunsets free is free indeed you are afraid this morning. You are blessed this morning. You are a son or daughter of the living God you are redeemed this morning you are saved. Even though the outside environment is tiring, exhausting, is weary. Things are breaking out all day long. You can't seem to put it get it right. Thanks be to God that it is he is in full charge of our lives. And wherever you are today to us, let God let God just move stop resisting stop trying to fight stop trying to plan stop trying to do our way. Stop doing it the Frank Sinatra way. We are so great at doing it our way I did it my way. But Lord, I want to do it your way. I want to do it the way he Lord that you're calling me to Lord, I want to live how you're calling me to live. I want to walk that path that you're calling me to walk, Lord, even I'll 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 I thank you for comfort this morning, Lord, I thank you for peace this morning, Lord, I thank you for the joy of the Lord is our strength. And all those that don't feel very joyful this morning that just feel rundown within their bodies. Lord, let them soar on wings. As of eagles today, Lord, let there be a moment in their heart now where they feel that just the presence and the peace and the glory and the love of Christ Jesus. Lord, I thank you again and again, Lord, that when I'm weary when I'm tired, then you are strong word, Lord. As that great writer wrote, Three times I pleaded with the Lord, that You would take it from me. But what did God say back to him? My grace is sufficient for you. So whatever given situation it is, if it feels very repetitive, if life just seems looking and feeling the same. God is saying My grace is sufficient for you. His grace is beyond human understanding. His grace is freedom. His grace is all we need. His grace is the key. Or God, we thank you for grace this morning. We thank you that we are saved by grace. Yes. Not by works, so that none of us can boast. Thank you, Lord, that no one can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. Yeah, refreshes this morning, Lord. Amen.
Glenn Walsh:Grace can actually bring about morning and tears as well. Yes, yeah. Looking at Zachariah, and in Zechariah 10. There's promises of restoration. Yes, I've always store them. Because I have compassion on them. That's what God restores us for His grace and mercy. Thank you, Father, they will be as though they were never rejected, for I am the Lord, that children will see it and be joyful. Their hearts will rejoice in the Lord. I will signal for them and gather them the men, surely I will redeem them, and they will be as numerous as before they were scattered. I will bring them back and their children will survive and they will return. And then later on in Zechariah 12, verse 10. And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, a spirit of grace and supplication, have you Lord, they will look on me. The one they have pierced, while what a prophetic prayer and they will mourn for him. as one mourns an only child and will grieve bitterly. Sometimes that is all part of our healing. That is often part of our restoration, that we realize what an offence we have lived before God and we're broken. There's nothing wrong with that. Then we restored in Him, His grace is sufficient for us. Again, two things I have heard that the Lord is strong and the Lord is loving. We all like sheep have gone astray even a good deeds are like filthy rags. And when we come before Him, we have nothing to offer. Apart from a broken lives. He says there is an offering I cannot turn away. And he redeems us and is paid for us. And he loves us. Though there may be times of mourning and tears paints are a part of the restoration. Yes, Lord. So Father, thank You that You don't deal with us like robots, that we come to you broken, tearful and you say don't do that. You actually say I'll meet you there. I'll meet you there. My grace is Sophie For You, Lord, I want to thank You that You know us better than what we know ourselves. You formed us in our mother's womb, all the days or dangerous are written in your book, before one of them came to be before the word is from my mouth, you know it completely. Yes, fine, nothing is hidden from you. Even the darkness is of light to and you say to us, I love you. I accept you. And I will restore you. Yeah, but you meet us where we are. Yes. And you rebuild us on yours. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lord, that You are salvation that you are Avaloq that you are the immovable one you cannot be shaken. And yet you move to bless us. Thank you, Lord, that You who began this good work, yes, the body brings it to completion. Yeah, faith is in you. Miss Jesus as Savior. Thank you, Lord, for saving us and loving us. And nothing can snatch us for your mighty hat. Amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you for grace, thank you for growing. Thank you for Frodo
Andy Hammond:just reminded of the verses in Ephesians. It is by grace you have been saved, amen. And yet God raised us up with Christ, and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages, he might show the incomparable riches of His grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. And it goes on for it is by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not from yourselves, it's a gift of God. And, Father, I just pray this morning that all those who are troubled. I just pray that they now come before you. Amen. Because it is your gift. And don't we all like receiving gifts? Very cool. We all like receive to receive a gift, or surprise gift. But this is not a surprise gift. It was planned in history. It was planned by God, that Christ Jesus would go to the cross, so that you could be in relationship with him. And you may be troubled at the moment you may have real issues in your life. You don't know where the next meal is coming from. Or your children or are giving you angst at the moment. Just come before God and ask Him to come and be with you. Bring that peace, bring that be peace. And I was looking at the Psalms earlier. Psalm 16 says, keep me safe. Oh God, for in You I take refuge. And there's that open invitation. Yes, Father, to come and take refuge in Jesus. Amen. Come and take refuge. Because there's no other way. There's no other God. There is no other God. He is all powerful. He is our Creator. He has a plan for your life. Scripture says I know the plans, I have plans for you to prosper. Just think on those things. get deeper into God's word. You need to get deeper in God's word because God speaks to you. When you read His word, it's all powerful. Man, it's alive. And I'll give an invitation at the end of our meeting here this morning. For a copy of God's word. If you haven't gotten one, if you haven't got a copy, or you can't find the one that you knew was in the house. Just let us know. And we'll get your one. But God's word is all powerful. And, as I say quite often is it's dangerous for you to get into God's word because it can change your life. Thank you, father, but we want our lives changed for the better. We would all say that. Yes, we need our lives changing. So Father, and all of us sitting around this table need our lives changing. We You need to come closer to God. We need to be a blessing to others. How often have you heard someone say to you, you've been a blessing to me today. We need to be a blessing to other people. We need to show God's love. So Father God, we asked you to give us that help that we all need to let the light of Jesus shine out from us. Thank you, Holy Spirit, to shine out from us so that we are a blessing to others. Let us show love. Let us put away our critical thoughts that we have when we meet people. Help us to show the love Jesus. Yeah, we know it's hard and we can't do it without you. So come now we ask the Holy Spirit to come and fill us afresh with your power. With that love of Jesus. With that compassion. Let us show compassion to all those we meet today. Let us show love to all those we meet today. Yes, though, we know it's gonna be difficult. Because we know people, some people irritate us. Some people just wind us up. But let us surprise them today. Let us surprise them by just showing the love of Jesus. Thank you Holy Spirit, giving that helping hand when it's least expected. So we thank You, Father, come, we pray, build us up. When we're feeling down, just lift us. Just lift us a little so that we know that you're there. And that we can rely on you. That you are our strength. We can build our lives upon you. So powerful is your word. And we've been quoting it all this morning. Your Word? And that's why we do it because you listen to our cry. And some Sep 17 says here, oh Lord, My righteous plea. Listen to my cry. Give here to my prayer. Give ear to my prayer. So God listens. Not sure how he does it to all those 1000s of millions of prayers around the world. But he's God. He is God. Yeah, so we thanking we thank you. You are the creator. You made the whole of creation, the universe.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Unconditional Love. Yeah.
Andy Hammond:Thank you, Father God.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank You, Jesus. Thank you. Amen. Which is rest in you this morning, Lord. Father, we just bless you, Lord, Holy Spirit, we come to the table. We're coming to the table. Zandi has led us to that place as we just rest and whatever baggage you are carrying crises it Christ sees my baggage, he sees my worries and my fears. He sees all the failings He sees everything around me within me and he is part of me. He is me. He created me. He knows everything about us. His love is unconditional. So whatever you got this morning, that is weighing you down. Imagine yourself just picking it up and carrying it and put it in the foot of the cross this morning. Leave it at the cross of Calvary. Leave it in the hands of Christ, leave it just just sit and be still take a few moments out of the busyness of the schedules of life. Just just take a moment just to get your mind in that to that position and just say Lord, I hand it to you today. I had my worries I have my fears. I handed my doubt over on how handing everything over to you this morning on hand in my family, my friends, my life, my workspace the financial worry, Lord, I'm handing the issue of debt over I'm handing the issue lot of pride the arrogance, Lord, that the the Lord if I'm unforgiving Lord, I hand everything over to you this morning, Lord, Holy Spirit, Lord, teach us and show us how to hand things over. I do believe as Joshua was crossing over those crossing over the Jordan River as they was crossing over. I do believe God is expecting us to cross over and hand him everything as Joshua physically crossed over. And I do believe there needs to be a hand in over Yes, he knows everything. Yes, he is everything. Yes, He created everything. But I have a responsibility in this morning, Lord, everything in my heart, everything in my hands, everything around me. I hand it over to you. I present it and I leave it at your foot. stole Lord, I leave it at the foot of across this morning. And I thank you, Jesus, Lord, keep everything from me. That is not godly. But father, I just pray that you will just wash us all in the blood as we come to the table as Donnie and Andy will take us to that place of communion this morning breaking bread. But Lord, as we get ready to cross over this morning, Lord, thank you, Jesus for the journey of life, the circle of life, we thank you that we are walking tall, we are walking strong not because of our physical capabilities, but because of the power of the Holy Spirit. Because of the word has set us free, who the sun sets free, is free. Indeed, we are free this morning. We're free forevermore. Lord, we thank you for freedom. Bless my, my church family, bless my family, bless my work colleagues, bless my friends around me today. bless, bless everybody in the circle of my life, let the Holy Ghost bring peace to their lives today. Let the love of God refresh every one Lord, that my eyes come in contact with today, that my voice Father God, my voice for wherever my voice lands today, Lord, let the love of the Father and the Holy Spirit. Touch them human beings that are in my life, Lord, let the fire of God just burn for our innermost being. Let the love of Christ be wrapping around everyone today, Lord. Thank You, Jesus, for Your love is unconditional. In the wonderful name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost,
Glenn Walsh:amen. To communion, there's a hanging over that he was talking about. And he was talking about gifts. And as we come to communion, I want us to see ourselves as gifts. Amen. Because Jesus said, No one can go to the Father except through me. And Paul says in Ephesians, We were chosen in him before the creation of the world. Yes, before time began to be holy and blameless, any site that's only dealt with it? Yes, Lord, so we cannot go to the Father except through Jesus. But Jesus said, No one comes to him unless the Father draws him. Thank you for the drawing. So we were handed by the Father to the Son, for the Son to give us to the Father, our men, would they give each other bad gifts? No. We have a love gift from the Father to the Son. We have a love gift for the son to the Father. Yes, we're there we go. To those who believe we've been given the right to be called the children of God for that is who we are. We've been adopted. Yeah, where he's where he's brothers, and we are the children of God. Lord, I want to thank you. I want to thank you that this was your idea. The odds although we saw ourselves and we were rightly CSOs is unclean, on worthy we are, and yet in you, blessing to those who sins and transgressions will never stand against them. That we were chosen in your value for you by your foreknowledge to be holy and blameless in your sight. And you've paid for it by the cross.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you for the cross a Calvary, thank
Glenn Walsh:you, Lord Jesus for all that you've done. You've carried our infirmities you took upon yourself, sin, you were broken for us, and by your wounds, we are healed, and so forth your Spirit, Lord, that we wouldn't just know these things that we believe them. Walk in, they live in them. Thank you, Lord, for thinking of us. Thank you, Lord, for acting, for us and for saving us. Amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Thank you.
Donny Stockburn:I can't just say aware of remind you again of what a privilege it is in prayer. A What a privilege we got. We can we can actually look into history of people's lives. Like I was loader, so he laid his pride me into the kingdom of God. And one vicar I remember before he was a vicar he was a sailor, and used to go around his girlfriend's house, and his mum at the girlfriend's mum prayed for him for eight years. Wow. For this young, crazy Seiler, he became a clergyman, a man filled with God's Spirit, and John Newton. He's been faithful who's seven years old. And he wasn't saved until he was 20 years old. It has amazing guys, man, you know, who are privileged is in prayer, what prayer can do in our lives? If you got a prayer time in your life? If you haven't got one, get one and get down there. And pray for all those people you know, who need saving, not saving, and follow that you've charged us with this you commanded us to do it you you got Moses in a place where we interceded into godly affairs, and that's the charging on our lives. Father God, we just pray that you will increase our prayer life, Lord and intercede in people's lives and bring them to you Lord, because God so loved the world. God so loved the world. Father God sent His only Son, son in law, which is pray, get us in that promo. In Jesus name, amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Lord, for coming to the table, wherever you are across the earth today. Please join us as we just break bread. As we take this cup as we just just bring everything to the Father this morning hand everything over to the Father, there is nothing too big. There is nothing to why there is nothing that God cannot do. He's already done it. But he is looking at you and me this morning. And he's calling us. He's saying Come to me, all of you that are weary, heavily laden, and I will give you rest. He will give you rest. You're looking for rest this morning. You're tired of life, you're tired and weary. And God is calling you to walk to the cross, walk to the cross a Calvary, and everything over at the cross a Calvary. You are saved, you are loved. Yeah, thank you, Jesus.
Andy Hammond:So Father, we just come now into Your presence, knowing that you went to the cross for each one of us. That by your death, on the cross, by your resurrection, from the dead, you have given us life. You give us hope. Thank you, Father God. And those words from one Corinthians 11. The Lord Jesus on the night he was betrayed took bread and when He had given thanks, He broke it and said, This is My body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me. In the same way after suffer he took the cup saying This cup is the new covenant in my blood do this. Whenever you drink it in remembrance of me. For whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes. Amen. So Father, we just take the spread now. And remember your broken body for us on that
Reverend Ben Cooper:comment. Thank you Father redeemed Romans chapter eight, verses 29 to 30. Before Donnie leads us to the cup. For those whom he for know for new sorry, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. And those whom He predestined, he also called and those he called he also justified and those whom He justified, he, he has justified us he has healed us. He has saved us. He has redeemed us He has called us he has also glorified thank you Jesus. Thank you Holy Spirit
Donny Stockburn:so we take this cup but symbolic Jesus blood and aka remember sign before as a Christian just before God was drawing me into the kingdom. What my with my record, you must be joking. accurate advice cinza be forgiven? And how could I ever become different from what I am now? And this is the blood that changed it all. This is a blob that got rid of all my sins. All our sins. Yes. Not my performance. Not while good deeds are good thoughts. Just this blood of Jesus. That cross of Easter Who could imagine Easter without a cross? And what a deal we got? We got all his holiness, and he got all our sins. This is a blood that cleanses us. This is a blood that keeps us Yes. thank you in Jesus name, Lord, for what you did for us that day. On Jesus name, amen. Amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Thank you though. Thank you Holy Spirit washed in the blood cleansed, set free this morning. Children of the living God, sons and daughters of the Most High redeemed the penalty the price has been paid. Freedom is on you this morning, who the sunsets free, yes is free indeed. What a text, who the sunsets free, is free indeed, you will know the truth. And the truth will set you free. The thief comes to steal, kill, and destroy, but I have come that you'd have life and have life in abundance. Abundance doesn't mean big house, big car. Fat wallet. Abundance means freedom in Christ called salvation in freedom. If we keep looking at materialism, we are trapped. If we rely on governments, we are in a snare, but who the sunsets free, is free indeed. We are free because of the sun. We are free because of the blood of the Lamb. We are free because of his unfailing grace. We are free because of redemption, you are free because of justification, you are blessed. Because of his unconditional love. We're coming to the close of this service. And he is going to just add sight to this as we just come to the final prayer. And we rushed in the presence will ask Glenn, if you're closing prayer this morning after Andy has something he wants to share with us. God bless Andy.
Andy Hammond:Yeah, thank you. Well, I've already mentioned God's word, and I have a copy in my hand at the moment. If you would like a copy of this. Just get in touch, and we'll get one to you. And it's it won't cost you anything. We believe that God's word should go out to everyone who needs it. All the avenues of life Oh, you need a copy of God's word. And one, John 513 says, So I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. Isn't that a comforting word? You may know that you have eternal life. You may ask well, what's eternal life? It's well, there's one thing certain in this life, isn't it? Is that we're all going to die. Oh, and that is for sure. We all know that. At some stage, we're gonna die. But what happens in? Well, God's God's Word says, If we believe in Him, if we accept Him, and follow Him as our Savior, then we know the place where we go. He promises that we're going to be with him. And we're going to have eternal life.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you, Jesus.
Andy Hammond:That's fantastic news.
Reverend Ben Cooper:fantastic news.
Andy Hammond:That's why it's good news. That's why gradients now call themselves good news for everyone. It is, isn't it? It's good news
Reverend Ben Cooper:is it's good news. It's good news.
Donny Stockburn:Jesus did it all.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Glen. I mean,
Glenn Walsh:yeah, I'll close with one of isayas prayers and Isaiah 64 verse four. Since ancient times, no one has heard. no ear has perceived. No eye has seen any gods beside you, who acts on behalf of those who wait for him. Lord, we thank you that that is who you are. You are the God of deliverance. You are the gods who acts on behalf of those who wait for him. So Lord, I pray that for all of us here this morning, those who tune in later will know that you are for us, amen. And that we will see you act on our behalf. That you will say Yes, amen. That we will see healings, that we will see the waters path that we will see them of course, for you are the God who leads with the miraculous. So bless us. Let your eyes be upon us. Lord, we pray that you will cause your light to shine upon us and give us that Shalom peace.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. There we go. We made it thank you brothers. Thank you brothers for joining me around the table today for coffee and prayer and the sisters and the brothers on line this morning all those that are just dipping their toe in May the hand of God be always upon you. Mais light shine within you. Your word is a lamp unto my feet a light for my path he is The King of Kings he is your God. You've been listening to myself Reverend Ben Cooper for coffee and prayer. Andy And Donny and Glen this morning you can find us in many many areas you can catch us on Apple Music, Amazon music, I Heart Radio, Buzzsprout, Spotify, and other podcasting platforms are on the usual social network in that we are on. Have a wonderful day. Remember you are redeemed in Jesus name, Amen.