Reverend Ben Cooper: 0:13

Good evening and welcome. Thank you so much for joining us here at Elim church. You're joining myself, Reverend Ben Cooper. As we record this podcast, you can find us on Apple Music you can find us on Amazon music, I Heart Radio, Spotify, Buzzsprout, and the live socials that are on this evening, as we gather around the mics, and as we break bread together, and as we just see what God has through His Word, and we welcome you, wherever you are, whether you're joining us through the world of podcasting, whether you're with us this evening, through live streaming, wherever it may be, make God's strength in you tonight, we are living in very powerful times. We are living in times that are stretching us. But all things are possible to those who believe and I thank God for the online church and has stayed with us for two and a half, three years, whatever it may be. Now, as we've been online, as we're streaming, you can see that we're migrating around the building, we finally reached our final destination. You can see the backdrops are going up and the walls are going up. So things are happening. And I pray that the sound quality is clear. Because that's what's really important is the quality of the sound that we can gather. So if lockdowns was to happen, not saying they might, but maybe they possibly will happen again, that we continue to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ, without any issue where we connect with our brothers and sisters around the world. And obviously, the church here when it comes to the church here in SWAMI, and we're seeing that that growing over and over and over again, so we thank God for your life. Thank God for He won't listen to us on the world of podcasting. And you can find this just by simply typing in Reverend Ben Cooper podcast and that will come up and you can find us on multiple platforms. They save a Spotify or Amazon music, they're quite easy to navigate. And you can find your way around and very interesting. Plenty of stuff that's out there. So let's get straight into the Scripture. We're going to be turning to Psalm 56. Psalm 56. Obviously, there's a lot of prayer needs that are on the list tonight. You know, there's a lot of things happening around the prayer WhatsApp groups and different things that are going on that I'm catching and seeing. And we pray that whoever you are, wherever you are, that you will find rest and peace for your innermost being. You know, I got two words two simple words and I but these words are life changing words, and they've just opened up my heart so much. The first word is love. And the second word is hope. And amongst that I must let you know amongst that is the word trust amongst that is the word Trust. I'm going to put these these good old glasses on so please don't worry, there's no wrong way they just glasses and might look like I might be going scuba diving, but I'm not. I'm reading the Word of God. Psalm 56. We're in Psalm 56. And we're going to take it first from firstly, sorry, from verse three. So in Psalm chapter 56, the great Psalm, you know, Psalms of David. And this is about being afraid and this is about trust. So there is trust, there is hope. And amongst that, above, everything that is is arching over that is covering all of that is love, the power of love. Love is life changing as we know, that encompasses everything, it reaches boundaries, it stretches in, it moves, it changes lives, it changes characters, it is a healing process. Love is so powerful. The love of God is beyond human understanding the love and the power of the Holy Spirit. So, in verse three, this is about fear first, and then what comes from this is about trust. So wherever you are tonight, I just want to encourage you to trust whatever's going on in your life. You just must trust be be be trustful tonight of God's word, trust God, because it might look worrying. It might look bleak, it might look stressful, it might look awkward, it might look very uncertain. The footsteps that you're taking at this moment in time might feel very delicate. You might feel very fragile at the moment, you might see uncertain days ahead of you. But don't worry about what you see in your perception. Don't worry what you see in your vision, don't see what you don't worry about what you see naturally. Just trust. Firstly, I trust when I trust and then there is another trigger from the word trust as I trust, hope abounds and then as hope, elongates as hope grows, as hope starts to move forward, what happens after that very simply, so we have trust, we have hope and then after that, we find that amongst all that and the very at the starting blocks, there is love but first it can be very difficult to find them to see that love. So firstly, we have trust so I trust God. I listened to his work God loves me, I love God and it is his circle of stuff going on. So I just want to encourage you tonight, whatever your circumstances is, whatever you are going through, trust God, trust them because all things are possible. To those who believe your belief system is so strong, it is unbreakable. It is unshakeable. Now we may say to ourselves, well, actually, I have days of fear. I have days of doubting. I have days where I can't seem to get it together. But let me tell you this trust is very powerful. Trust is needed. First. I trust what I trust God's word, because in God's word, Trust is everything. Now let me read this scripture when I am afraid in Psalm 56 verse three, when I'm afraid I put my trust in you so important. When I'm afraid doubt you might be afraid you might be worried you might be fearful, you might be doubtful, you might be really stressed out, you might be troubled from hearing some news today, you might be troubled because workplace issues, you may be in a marriage or a relationship or a home life or some area of relational ship issue that is very fragile at the moment, please just trust God, trust God, he will make a way where there is no way. So let's read this together. Psalm 56, verse three, when I'm afraid I put my trust in you, verse four, in God, whom, whose word I praise in God I trust. And and I am not afraid what can mean more to mortals do to me. So there's two verses there. We're coming to Communion tonight. And I try not to push too hard and too much into the Word of God, I try to lean into what God has to say to each and every one of us. And I really, really, I really believe God is speaking to me tonight. To trust him more, to trust him more to lean into him more, then we look in the New Testament talk about Lean In, it's very interesting. To lean into, to lean into someone to lean into is a very powerful thing to do. Because as you lean in, you let go of oneself, you let go of your own way you let go of your own circumstances and you are leaning in to that you are leaning into trust and as you lean in, and the arms of the Father always wide open. So as you lean in, as you trust the Father as you rest in His presence, you find that hope abounds in trust. And the two words are separate. Obviously, the words don't, don't go together. But what happens is, is that the process they go together, so you got hope. You got trust, and also you've got love. So there are three words but then also we can bring into that another word we can bring the word faith in. But But faith comes in that and faith is upon that. So the first word that we look at at this moment is do not let fear so there so this is this is starting to grow. This is starting to to expand this is starting to move in in different directions tonight. It says when I am afraid I put my trust in you if you are fearful tonight, if you feel that you are afraid of life circumstances or lifestyle choices that you have made, if you are finding that you are worried and you are fearful about things that are going on in your life, if you feel quite down if you feel quite pressed as the scripture says I feel pressed on every side do not allow the fear the anxiety, the worry the doubt to over flood you and to almost drown you do not allow that fear to drown you but you might be saying it's alright for you saying that Rev. It might be so right for you saying that Pastor Ben, but the issue is you don't know my problems. This is quite clear, I have gone through serious serious, serious issues and I still go through serious issues in my life. So I am joint review. I am walking with you. I am not removed from general life situations I am not removed because I wear a collar because I do what I do. I am not removed from that. If anything. I live that harder and faster than I've ever lived before. You know, it is really important to understand for me as a believer, I'm speaking to me. I'm not directly in that at you to not don't sound condescending in any way, shape or form. But I am speaking to me everything that I talk about everything that I sermonize around everything that we look at through the word of God, we we open up God's word, everything that we preach everything that we podcast about every issue that I speak about, I've made reference to trust me, I am either going through that, or I have gone through that or I'm experiencing that or I have experienced that. So um I am not removed, I am not removed from any of the lifestyle choices I am not removed from any of the issues on the fears and the worries of the world. So it comes to me as much as it comes to you. It walks with me as much as it walks with you, you know all this stuff, everything in this big bag of life, everything in this big bag of life that we are all living in this, this big area of life, we all live this together, we all experience it together. We all have feelings we all experience, doubt we all experience love, we all experience worry, we all experience all these feelings in one way or another we all journey. And just because you might look at me and think that I am where I am. Nothing, nothing that I speak about, talk about preach about seminars around, nothing that I speak about, I haven't experienced trust me. So I understand what this psalmist is writing is when I am afraid, I put my trust in you when I am afraid. When situations happen when when I get scared when a situation arises when something happens, I have to and I try to get myself into that posture as being a believer as a son of the living God and say, Lord, I trust you in this situation. I trust you in my circumstance, I trust you Lord, because everything around me almost feels out of control in the physical in the temporal in the moment in, in the tangible in the in the present, it feels out of control. But Lord, I lift my eyes to the so let's have a look at this scripture again together, keeping it very simple, because this is where we are. This is so so real. I will work with you. You will with me. I do not walk at a higher level. I do not walk at any other level. I walk on the terra firma that we all walk together, we walk together. So whatever you've experienced, I've experienced whatever you go through, I've been through one another. I'm very open. And I'm very honest about my life now about my past where I've come from every area of my life. You can ask me questions, you can email me privately, you can text me and I will tell you, but let me tell you this. I have fears. I have worries. I have doubts. I have faith I have love. I had moments of just just like every one of us. But this lockdown has done something very powerful to religion in the church. It has closed the doors to the lies that is closed the doors to the to all the the cups of tea and roses and all the pink and fluffy stuff. And it's made everything very real. So now is a time for all of us to trust God I really believe tonight is a very important time in your life. Whatever has happened to you today. Trust God, whatever is going on in your home tonight. Trust God, whatever is happening with your feelings in your innermost being your your processing of your mind, whatever is going on, on you and in you and around you trust God, God will make her way where there is no way. Now I want to also mention very quickly before we just slip in to the next part of this moment that we're together, his life doesn't look how we would expect it to look. Life looks very different to many of us. And me included life. You may have had things planned, you may have things rotated, you may have things marked by the month by the calendar by the day. But let me tell you this, the more I study the Old Testament, the more I look at the Old Testament, the more I look at the characters more that I look at the character within Genesis to Revelation, I find something very profound and something that I known and I've seen before, but I've not taken a reference to what to like I'm taking a reference now, over the last few months. The characters are not the characters that you would find in the religious order of today or what we should say within the church today. God uses unusual people in unusual times in unusual situations. They do not follow the pattern of religion, religion and church could almost say they are loose cannons, but they're not we are not. I am not a loose cannon. God knows my character. God knows me. God loves me. So we have an issue at the moment with lifestyle choices. We have an issue with what is happening we have issues in our lives. Characters you are your character is fine. You are perfect as you are. The reason I say that is because God created you. If God created you if God created me, he created my flesh, my blood, my marrow, my being he created me, he created the muscles, the fibers, he created my character. God knows everything. And I want to encourage you tonight, never give up hope. If people are trying to shape you mold you into a different person, shake the mold off. Now I can easily and I will reference soul and David and the fight for glass territory, soul and David had a conversation. So try to dressed dress or a young David in souls armory. And David was bold enough to say to him basically saw what was fitting for you, what fitted you and what you was able to go into battle with, doesn't fit me. So don't try and mold me with your style of clothing, with your style of weaponry. Don't try and close me and characterize me into your armor. I am an individual, I will go in what I will go in. And let me encourage you tonight go in what you are in at this moment in time. The church, we can look at the church and see the church is trying to dress people in a different clothing. In some different style. The church is trying to dress people in the same old skin and that skin is the skin of soul. Souls armor did not fit young David and Saul wanted David to go into battle in what soul fought was best. Let me tell you this now, what the church religion thinks is best for you reject it in the name of Jesus, you cannot go into battle with someone else's armor. You cannot go into battle with old armory. It is damaged it is for them. It was for the past, what they fought the battles in them days was good enough for that. But today's battle your battle is very different to souls and everyone else's battle. So what do I go in? I go dressed in the armor of God. You find that in the book of Ephesians. So we bring ourselves back to this text when I'm afraid. I put my trust in you this earth suit this being this very presence of may trust in the everlasting arms of the Father. He is your Redeemer. He is your God. He is your King. He is the bright morning star He is the King of Kings he is El Shaddai he is Jehovah Jireh Jehovah shalom, Jehovah Nissi he is my healer. He is my piece and he is my provider. My God shall provide, he will dress you He will equip you. He has anointed you. He has called you into areas where angels fear to tread so don't go in a character that is not you. Soul was very clear of what he wanted of David he wanted David to go into the battlefield to really to fight souls battle with souls armory soul was too nervous and too fearful soul kept on the sidelines so kept out the bank. And so it was an onlooker see there are many onlookers in your life and the onlookers are trying to anticipate where Goliath is gonna fro and he's gonna try and fight you. The enemy is very clever. The enemy is very strategic. The enemy is very large, the enemy is very forward focused. The enemy is very powerful. And I have said the enemy is very powerful because we reference and we know that because of what the scripture says. And it's very clear if you go to Chronicles and you look very clearly in the Old Testament, you find and study about the Kings, King Josephat, he was given a message and King Josephat was was very vocal, very clear. He said, the enemy that comes against me, we do not have the strength. There's nothing wrong with recognizing that the enemy is strong, but the battle belongs to the Lord. There is such a difference. I cannot find every battle before me. I cannot find my way out to the battleground some days. But if God is for me who can be against me the battle the Bible says sorry, the battle belongs to the Lord. But King Josephat was very vocal to the audience that was before him. And he said the enemy the three enemies that are coming over that hill, are vast and large. It pushed him what to it pushed him to fast and to pray. It pushed him to what to seek the very voice of God. See when the battle is big, the battle cannot be one with the physical Ben with the physical you. The battle cannot be one with the very presence of ourselves. But the battle has already been won and is being completed in Christ Jesus because the text says, He who began a good working you will bring this to completion to the day of the Lord Jesus Christ. A bit of paraphrasing, bit of paraphrasing, so check the text for yourself, He who began a good work in you will finish this work He who began Christ Jesus. Let's look again, at Psalm 56, verse three, when I am afraid I put my trust in you. Very simple, and very powerful. It isn't difficult. It doesn't take a theologian. It doesn't take an educator, it doesn't take of anyone of any skill set doesn't take. It doesn't take. This is not complicated. The Bible is very simple, but religion and structure and all that has made it complicated to a degree when Jesus just said to the disciples, just believe, let me emphasize that to you tonight. Just believe because there is power in believing. Let's read this again. Psalm 56, verse three, when I am afraid, I put my trust in you trust God, in every area of your life, trust Him. So very clearly, faith, fear, trust, and love, go together. Sometimes it can be difficult to almost park them in a roundabout way, but they go together. So the psalmist is emphasizing. I am fearful, I am afraid. So when you look at this writer, the writer of this psalm, we take David the psalmist David is very open about expressing his feelings, expressing his life experiences, expressing his wrongs, expressing his rights, expressing his love for the world. Love for the audience before him, the fear before him the love of his family, the frustration with his family. You know it David was a leader. He was a king, he was a shepherd boy, he was a son. He was chosen he was anointed. So there is a lot to get from from from young David King David, Shepherd, boy, David, whatever way you want to look at that tonight. So just keeping it very real and keeping it very authentic and keeping it on a very simple part tonight. If you are afraid, read this psalm. If you are afraid, trust God. If you are afraid to simply say, Father, I trust you because this fear is ruling me at this moment. And Lord, I do not want fear to rule me. Father, what I want is my faith to rise. I do not want to come under fear and I do not want to come under pressure of an outside environment. What I want God is for you, Lord, to encourage for me through Your Word. We're coming to the table in just a few moments and it's a it's a beautiful time to spend together just upon the fruit just to relax our way through just a walk through just a journey through one or two scriptures. Now I want to take us to the New Testament if if you could just just hold it with me for a few moments. I just want to come out to one Corinthians because this this is really pressing me tonight. Pressing on my heart Love Love is powerful. Love is changing circumstances love is dealing with circumstances. Love is opening doors love is moving forward love. Love is wrapped around you at the moment love is very powerful love crosses cultures love crosses boundaries, where man cannot go love opens doors love closes doors love. Love is the bridge across the murky River. Love will get you from A to B love will get you through the River Jordan, love will get you over to the Promised Land love will get you into to the pasture into the position that you never thought possible. Love will never fail you. Let me read from one Corinthians chapter 13 verses four, just down to Verse A and then we're going to come to the table tonight. God is with you. So let me just backtrack before I read this before we come to the table very simply, when I am afraid I trust in God. That is that simple. I don't need to go to Theological College. I don't need to bring the pastor. I don't need to bring the prayer team. I don't need to ask the bishop. I don't need to talk to anybody else when I am afraid I put my trust in God. When I put my trust in God, hope comes through trust when hope comes and trust abounds. Suddenly my faith rises. As faith rises, hope gets stronger. Trust gets deeper. So the three go together. So when fear looks like this big monster, this big animal before me this big building this big territory that I can't touch when this fear is standing before me in the shape of Goliath when, when fear is before me in the in the shape of, of issues when fear is before me like the walls of Jericho, when when I look at this big problem, it makes me it can and it will, when it possibly could make us afraid. But there's nothing to be worried about. Because what happens is being afraid, actually what the enemy what the world might try and think that he's doing when it makes us afraid, what what really should happen, it should do as the scripture says, being fearful and afraid it will take us to one place. And it takes us a while to actually realize in the skin that I'm living in what it actually does. fear and worry, is really a driver, to drive us to Christ, to drive us to the Living Word to drive us to that place of asking, and I've seen it, I've heard it, I've experienced it. God, if you are there, the the atheists, the agnostics, those that are sitting on the fence on religion, God if you're there, because fear is driving, and sometimes people use fear. Fear is used to try and characterize as trying to box us, but actually what fear does, unbeknown it to itself, and to the to the product of fear, and to the pressure of fear, and what fear does, it actually makes a way in the wilderness and it opens the door to Christ. It's not because Christ doesn't come to us. But what happens is fear drives us. And it's sometimes it takes years and or sometimes it might just take moments. What it does, it drives us to Jesus. And I'm not even referring to if you are a believer, or you're a non believer, I'm just talking about as a human being, fear drives. But what happens, it drives us and it can drive us for many years, or many weeks or many hours, you will find that at the end of the driving of the fear, it will take you to a place and it will take you to Jesus. And that place in Jesus may be a person that is a believer representing Christ, it might be your friend that suddenly you didn't realize that they are a Christian or there is a circumstance or a person at work. See when fear drives someone, it will always drive you to a position and it will drive you to a destination where Christ is whether that is church, whether that is a person, whether that may be a situation, it will take you to Jesus, what the sort of Scripture puts it like this, what the enemy meant for harm, God will turn for good, what the enemy meant to try to crush you. It will be your building block what the enemy tried to derail you, it will be your strength, what the enemy tried to rip out of you, God will feel you. So what the enemy is trying to do, what the world may be trying to do, what culture society may be trying to do all that sort of staff, what the enemy meant for harm, God will turn for good. So whatever dark is come in, it will turn into Light, whatever fear is and there and is coming, it will turn to joy or whatever strain stress worry will turn to insurance, insurance turns to perseverance, perseverance, turns to character character turns to Christ. So what fear does add a little laugh and a little snigger to myself, because suddenly you have moments in your life where you think Hang on a moment, what the enemy meant for harm, what the world was trying to do, will actually drive me to the Bible, drive me to the presence drive me to my king, drive me to my God, it drives me but the driver of fear doesn't realize where he is driving it to what he realizes and what they try to do is just make you fearful because all they know is fear the enemy's agents work in fear. They don't understand love, they don't understand joy because they are agents of demonic forces. So without going into the spiritual, the deep, you know that the hours and the weeks and the moments we will see we will look we will study on the darker side of that. So we understand fear is just this. When I say just fear, so the driving of fear will drive you to Jesus. One way or one way or another it will get you to that place. But God already before you now I'm going to read this now and then we're going to come to the table fare will drive you to love. One Corinthians let's put these glasses on so we can see what's going on. So it says in one Corinthians chapter 13, verse four, love is patient love is kind it does not envy it is not boastful. It is not proud, it does not dishonor others it is not self seeking. It is not easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs, it does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth. Come on, Jesus, always trusts always hopes, always perseveres, always perseveres, love never fails, there we go. Love never fails. fear, doubt, anxious moments of life, trepidation, valleys of bleakness, all that will drive drive you to freedom. Fear tries to box and hold people in, and it can for years, and it can for moments it can for hours, however long and whatever that may be like, but what happens is, it opens a way where there is no way. Now we say, now God, why do you allow this? What is all this about? The big question, why? No one can answer the question why? But what we can do is ransack open up the Word of God and say, God, what is the purpose, but the Bible says, wait and tear grow together? There is a reason why fear is here. There is a reason why power on the anointing is here. It is scripture, it is needed. That if the disciples experience fear, why shouldn't I experience fear? If the disciples experience discouragement? Why shouldn't I experienced discouragement, the greatest writers of the Word of God, experience fear, doubts, all that sort of stuff. But what we find is that their faith and they're there trust and they're hoping God out Wade, or the fear for moments. So as we come to the table tonight, I asked you that wherever you are, is just a really trust the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. So trust is really, really important. You know, do not allow fear to grab hold of you do not allow fear, to control you do not allow the situation that you are in just to take you out, because all things are possible to those who believe. So let's pray. Let's come before the Lord at the table tonight. Let's gather our thoughts. Let's gather our mind, let's gather everything around us and within us, and let's just present it to the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. I believe in miracles, I believe in Genesis through to Revelation, I believe in the foundational points of Christianity. I believe in the word of God, I believe what whatever the Bible says, I believe it. That's important for you to know, do I quite grasp it? No. Because God will reveal that. So I'm understanding that God reveals God opens up God leads us into so wherever you are, at this moment, let's just be gathered. Let's just take this bread. Let's just take a moment out of life. And let's just come around the table together as children, the living God, and just say this simple prayer. Father, today has been a day of doubt. Today has been a day of fear today. Today has been a day of uncertainty. Today has been a day of have I've been unsteady on my feet today, Lord, today has been a day, Lord, where I've been a bit frustrated today. Today, Lord today today, Lord, you know, we can keep going on today. Today, today, today. Today may have been a joyous day for you today may have been an absolute beautiful day with the King of kings and the Lord of lords. And that is perfect, and that is just and that is glorious. So whatever your days, and your day has been, let's bring it to God. And let's just say, Lord, tonight, I believe that this bread symbolizes the body of Christ. But tonight, Lord, I want to grow in my walk with You. Lord, I want to experience Lord I want to see your word more in my life. Lord, I want you to shape me. I want you to change me. I want you dare God to maybe remove the pride remove the fear remove the doubt, remove arrogance Lord may be pleased love remove within me unforgiveness. Lord, remove Lord, a judgmental heart Lord, remove the area of holding back and looking back at the past ask, Lord, I ask you tonight, Lord, that You will just fix me. There's nothing wrong in being completely open and being honest, because God sees directly in. So there's no need for me to try and mask anything over trying to hide anything. Trying to put anything under the table around the corner, say don't see it. He sees everything. But he created you, before you even came into existence. So why would I hide things from him? Why would I? Why would I be frightened to speak to my Father in heaven? Why? Why should I You shouldn't I shouldn't I can't be you won't be. Just completely be open and honest. So let's take this bread now. And simply say, Father, I believe in your word. I believe Genesis all the way through 66 Books 1000s of years of writings, history, love, poetry, love story, fighting wars, rumors of wars, famines, Kings history, Israel, Father, the Jews, the Gentiles, Lord, creation, eschatology, the birth of the Messiah, the history, Lord, I see the overarching, Father I know and I see the and I hear the word but Lord, I want to know the word more. I want to go deeper into a walk with you. I want to experience this word on a level that I never thought possible. But tonight, Lord, forgive me of my sins, wash me in the blood of the Lamb. In Jesus name. Father, I recognize this is bread in itself. But as I break this bread tonight, Lord, I thank you that your body was broken. In Jesus name, amen. Such a simple process, we just broke the bread. We just take this bread together, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, amen. Take on Heavenly Father, I thank you for every area of my past, because law of my past was already seen before I lived it. And even though you see it, before I even lived it, before I experienced that, you still set me free from it. Lord that is so powerful. So Lord, as my character walked it, as my flesh lived it, indulged in it. While I was a sinner, God demonstrated His love for me, by sending His Son Jesus Christ, to die upon the cross for me. So that my sense, my iniquities, my failings, my fit, everything will be now to the cross a Calvary. So tonight, Lord, I recognize Father, this is great juice. And as I take this Lord, I thank you that I'm washed in the blood of Jesus in Jesus name, amen. There is power. There is power in the name of Jesus. So let's backtrack just a couple of moments. Let's let's ask God that he would take us not back in time. But he would open our hearts to this this richness this, this depth of his word, let's ask God that he would expose and we will explore God's Word in a way that we've never gone into that before. So Lord tonight, I thank you for Psalm 56. I thank You, Lord, for very simple text in that Lord, that clearly tells me when I am afraid, I put my trust in God. So Lord, I thank you that, that, that being afraid doesn't affect my salvation. being worried doesn't affect my salvation, because my salvation can never be swiped from me, my salvation can never be taken from me salvation, can I can never lose my salvation. And I thank you for the gift. So even though I am a born again, believer in Christ Jesus, believing in the gifts of the Spirit, believing in the richness of God's word, believing that God's word is without error, and God's word is yes and that Amen. And we are anointed and you are carrying the presence of the Holy Spirit. You are a son of the living God. You are a daughter of the living God. You are a child of the King. You are blessed and highly favored. You are loved unconditionally, you was created you was formed in your mother's womb. Before the foundation of the world, because Christ and God and the Holy Spirit, in all the fullness of creation, see all that? And what's happening? All we see now is our bodies in the physical world are lining up with what the spiritual world has already said, into this world in which we live and we understand there's a dimension to Christ that we have never seen. And God will reveal that to us that what is behind the natural eye or what is beyond that when natural eye can see. So, you are loved, you are blessed, you are anointed, you are called you are chosen, you are justified, you are sanctified, you are saved, you have and you are experience in salvation, you are washed in the blood of Jesus, you are a child of the living God, you are a son, you are a daughter. But there are moments in life. There are moments in life where fear, worry, stress, anxiety, doubt, trepidation, just grab us. And they just grab us, grab us grab us. It may have grabbed you for a long time. Ask God to take the shackles, it may grab you for a moment, you may have experienced the power of the Holy Spirit. And you may realize that when you feel that grabbing moment of life, you know how to get straight into the scripture. But if you haven't experienced that, I'd simply say to myself, because I'm always speaking to myself, I'm always talking to myself. What I need to do is when there moments arise, I just need to say Father when it arises, and when it comes. And when it comes in like a flood, Lord automatically take me to the safe space. Because so often fear takes us to a ref, a restless place. So Lord, I pray tonight that whenever there moments of life, wherever and however it may capture me, Lord, when it comes in, I asked you Father, that you will awaken my spirit, awaken my heart, and you will take me into that safe arena with you. We've made it we've hit the clock, we are done. We are dusted 42 minutes, as we say, goodbye, may God bless you and strengthen you. So let's just just quickly mention this. Psalm 56, very interesting, very powerful Psalm. Talking about being afraid, torn about trust. We went to one Corinthians very clearly went to one Corinthians, chapter 13, verses for around about to Verse eight, about love. So very simply, when fear and being afraid, comes in first. It is a trigger point. It is a moment where we actually go into Christ into the power of the Holy Spirit, believe it, believe it or not. And I will tell you this simply because what the Scripture says, is when I am weary, and when I am tired, when I have no words, the Holy Spirit intercedes and speaks in a heavenly language that I do not know. Now, we must spend time on that, but we can't do that tonight. So when I'm weak, when I'm tired, when I'm fearful when I'm down, when I'm doubtful, when I'm broken and busted, as a believer in Christ Jesus, the Holy Spirit intercedes, the Holy Spirit speaks in utterances that are not of this natural world. See, when I am weak, then I am strong, Greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world. So I might be waking my physical and I can't find the energy to pray, I can't find the energy to get close. I can't find the energy to open up God's work. God has already made way God has already made an access. There is an access to the Father, even when you're tired and exhausted. Even when your mind and your lips are saying, God, I'm not sure today, there is access, there is open access to the Father's arms. The Father's arms are always open, we're going to pray. We're going to finish. You are safe in Christ, you are in Christ, Christ is in you. God is with you. And just rest in His presence. And as we say, as the psalmist says, Be still and know that I'm God. Father, I thank you that there is power in the name of Jesus. I pray tonight for everybody through the world of podcasting through the world of online church tonight. We thank You Father for the online church. We thank you for the technology that we can get out. But Lord, we thank You that we want Lord the gathering together the saints Below I pray for the online church and I father you strengthen them and you will be with them. And God is with you. God is with you. You cannot run from God. God, there is so much to grass I need to finish. I got to put a pause in this will capture this again. God will bring us back to this again. It's not over. It's not finished. God is always refreshing, always renewing. His word is the same yesterday, today and forevermore. So just remember that simple that that word of fear. Fear has no place in your life. Fear will drive you to trust God and when you trust God, hope abounds hope opens up and as hope opens up. Faith comes in faith is like the mix that stirs it says all of a sudden we have trust. We have hope. We have faith and amongst that are wrapping itself all around. That is the love of God, the love of the Father. So you are chosen. You are blessed. You are a son, you are a daughter. That is it. I'm pressing the buttons. Good night, enjoy a cup of tea. Enjoy your whole licks. I'm a vicar get me out of here. We will catch you soon. Thank you so much for joining us tonight. Wherever you are across the world. On the online church. You have just been listening to me Reverend Ben Cooper here in this simple little studio. You can catch us on Apple Music you can catch us on Amazon music, I Heart Radio Buzzsprout Spotify, just put into the old Google machine. Such an simple thing Reverend Ben Cooper is podcast and it will take you directly to the podcast what we've done through Steve through Simon for Sondra, through layer through Chris Mellon for myself and Brian Greenaway and others where we've just been completely open and authentic and just poured everything out. And you can capture all that sort of stuff on in the world of podcasting that is saying you can listen to just sleep as you just do your chores, do your life whatever it may be going on. But thank you so much. We will see you very very soon. The next time I will see you is not is that bad grammar. I will see you on Wednesday. One we'll see you on Wednesday evening at 730. We might be on a pulpit or we may be right back here. Wherever we are. See you Wednesday evening at 730 Have a great rest of the night. God bless. Stay safe. Never give up. God is with you. God bless