Reverend Ben Cooper:

Good evening, God bless you. Good evening, wherever you are this evening, thank you so much for joining us. It is 733 here in the UK wherever you are across the earth tonight make God bless you and strength for you. We thank you so much for joining us, you can find us on iHeartRadio you can find us on Buzzsprout you can find us on Spotify, Apple play, and you can find us on Amazon music you can find us on many, multiple platforms and wherever you are tonight whatever your timezone is across the world, we just gather in the Word of God and just rest in His presence as we'd be still. And we know that he's got God, he's with you. God is for you. And he is not against you. We're going to dive straight into Psalm 23. I really feel a lead in in the Scripture tonight we're gonna go into Psalm 23. So I pray that wherever you are tonight you will understand. And I will understand that the Lord is our shepherd that we are not in one. And wherever you are, just grab yourself some wine and some communion. And as we just gather around the word of God, as we rest in His presence, I believe God is drawing you into new beginnings, there is new pastures, there are new beginnings ahead of you. And I just asked God tonight there he will allow you allow you to see a little bit further than you see at this moment. Because there are many people just looking at their surroundings and looking at their lives and looking at what they're procure stretch and thinking, Well, if this is it, there's got to be more to this life. And I I pray that wherever you are, that you will realize that there is so much more to this life that God has to offer you. So wherever you are, if you're recovering, if you're just resting, if God is with you, tonight, and you're home, and you really feel his presence, or you're just in hospital tonight or in a hospice, you're at work, wherever you are this hour at this moment in time, whatever your timezone is across the world, just take these 30 minutes or so our hour long we are across the mics from one another and just just rest them be still, you know, it's so difficult to rest. You know, everyone's lives are really busy. But sometimes there comes almost a false rest, there comes a point where you can't do anything else but rest and many people might be at work joining us. Many people may be across the other side of the globe tonight, just join us but the Lord is our shepherd, you lacked nothing. Now let's see what the psalmist writes in Psalm 23. And I pray that the power of the Holy Spirit will be your comforter tonight, that you will find refuge you will find strength. And God will just guide you in your life and whatever your life looks like at this moment. You know, there are greater things ahead, you might be very content with your life, you might feel that there is favor for living your life at this very moment in time. You might feel agitated about your life at this moment, you might feel that there is a lot of spiritual tension, a lot of spiritual warfare going on. You might feel that you're very uncomfortable in the home that you're living in the workplace in, in the relationship that you're in, you might just feel very uncomfortable in the society and the culture and whatever you've come from, and wherever you are tonight, but I just want to just remind you that the Lord is your shepherd, the God of Israel, the King of kings and the Lord of lords who sent Christ is one of the only Son He is your guide. He is your strength. He is your rock. He is your yes he is your Amen. Jehovah Jireh Jehovah Nessie Jehovah, shalom, he is your everything. And I pray tonight, that wherever you are, whatever your situation is, that we all realize that the Lord is our shepherd. And as we look at this psalm, Psalm 23, very simple stretch tonight, Psalm 23. Such a easy read. We are all so familiar with this read that we have in front of us and my Bible is all crumpled up and I've got bits and pieces missing it. I've even almost got verse six, completely torn out of the page. You know, this is how much this Bible is literally worn torn. You know, it is it's been through two wars with me and I've got bits and pieces missing. And as I sit here right now with you, I'm thinking, Oh my Lord, I'm going to read out Psalm 23. But I haven't got verse six, because the pages are torn, and I've got to hold it together with my finger. This is how raw this sort of stuff is, you know, Psalm 23 Verse one through two, six, and my verse six is a little bit wonky donkey. So let's just let's just, let's just get straight into this wherever you are tonight. Thank you so much for joining us. There is power in the Word of God. Verse one of Psalm 23. Wherever you are, I I pray that you'll just sit back you'll close your eyes. You'll just be still and know that he's God as the psalmist writes, that you will just rest in His presence and know that your Redeemer lives and because your Redeemer lives, you can face tomorrow so whatever you face in your life, maybe you're going through agitation spiritual agitation, maybe you feel just agitated in your life. Maybe you just feel that this thing's not quite right in in so cause that you're walking in and and just the culture that you're with at this moment in time maybe you're just really busy. Or maybe you've been really busy you've been forced to arrest and something's happening in your family saying something at workplace maybe you're still at work or you're walking at this moment in time you're capturing this through the socials and we would urge you to share this all through your social networks. And let's let's get straight in because time Yes, I did say wonky donkey. Don't worry about that. Let's get straight in. Let's get straight into this where you got our community got your community and got your bread. Got your wine you know this is just real live stream this is just no this is not edited in any way shape or form. This is straight out of the barrel of truth we are just here and whatever I say just go straight out across the mic straight across the airways. So it is what it is and that's it that's what makes it so real. So authentic. You know that and that's what is so powerful about we need to be real there is no script in there is no editing there is no airbrushing there is no shaping there is no molding there is no perfecting this is just it as we are here as we sit as I drink the coffee as I as I'm looking online as I see this see that this is just real life raw stuff. So that but that's what Christianity is all about. It's not a performance. It's not staged, it's not rehearsed. You know, we don't get a dress rehearsal in this life. We get one one crack we get one crack of the whip we get one walkthrough we get one one push through we get one drive thru we get we get one it's just one you know, so we get it you know, but church religion likes to dress it up is very threatened that to call we've seen over the years that church is very, almost scripted to a degree you know, the worship band the practice and night after night after night after night after night. The preachers are practicing everything is scripted. And we've got to be very careful in the what in the world a church gotta be very careful that if I script it's not coming out of revelation or knowledge because it's out of performing rather than hearing and letting God reveal through the instrument that I am that you are because all of us are instruments for the for the Word of God our lives. You know, the biggest testimony, the biggest verse, the Bible verse anyone will ever read is your life for my life. And our situations. That is the biggest Bible that Bible anyone will literally read from each and every one of us. So we're in Psalm 23, verse one through to six. The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside quiet waters, He restores my soul. He guides me along paths of righteousness for his namesake. Even though I walk through the valley, I will fear no evil for you are with me, you're running a staff, they comfort me, You prepare a table, you're sorry, You anoint my head with all my cup over flow. Surely goodness, and love will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever. You know, and as the psalm just finishes up there, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever, forever, I will dwell, I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever for eternity. When you think of the enormity, and you think at the power, and you think of the greatness of that word, eternity, you know, it's Hona t we are here on this earth for threescore years and 10, round about, you know, that sort of year edge that we live on this earth for now, our stretch and our life expectancy. And what's really, I think is very profound is that the scriptures that we've been over in the last few weeks about Moses, that we understand that Moses were taken out and taken off of this earth by God, and God buried him and there was a grave to mark where Moses was buried not by human eyes, but by God. The scripture actually tells us that no one knows where Moses is buried. And the reason I'm saying that is that Moses was very well, and Moses was very fit his eyes, and his vision was good. So what I'm referring to is that life expectancy, he's always dependent on God. You know, God gives life God takes life. He's a giver of life, and he's a taker of life. He creates life and he takes life. And God is the yes and amen. of every situation. And God is with you, wherever you are tonight. But as you look in verse one, as we just gather around the table, maybe you got a cup of coffee or a tea, and you're just sitting at your desk, you're sitting at home, you're sitting in your study, you're sitting on the sofa, you got your PJs on, you got your onesie on, you know, you got to do a frown over you're at this moment, wherever you are, you're studying in your bedroom, you're learning you're you're walking, you're whatever you are doing, you know God is with you, God is with you. Maybe you just stretch then you just almost stumbled onto this live stream. So isn't thinking what is that Reverend going on about that pastor? You know, God has guided you. God is strengthening God is calling you. You know, every one of us experiences in our time when we was alienated from God though the Scripture talks about alienated and the quickest way to depict and define that sort of word is to say basically, we was we was anti God, we was never forgot the square She's very, very clear that every one of us has to be called every one of us has to be chosen, every one of us is anointed, every one of us is called into salvation. We do not choose him, but he chooses us. And once he has chosen us and once we realize that he has chosen us not because of the altar call not because of the preacher and the teacher, but purely because of his holiness and His greatness. You know, when he saved us in our sin He saved us in in my wretchedness he saved me when life was completely wrong. And I mentioned this a lot lately, because I do have to emphasize that there is no strength within yourself or your physical capabilities within your skill set within your learning within your academical stretch of life within your thinking and computing with the understanding, that you have any power or I have any power to refuse, salvation, salvation is given the gift is given the gift of salvation cannot be returned, it cannot be given back you cannot lose your salvation. There are cultures there are teachings, there are certain areas of we will call it Christianity, where that they teach about there is you can't lose your salvation you are saved, once saved, always saved. Yesterday, the Scripture makes it very clear that one sacrifice once and for all. And once we realize that, and something the scows of the blindness to this eternal God come off of us. And suddenly we will see we see this power, this glory, this anointing this this beautiful God that is before us. And not in a way in the physical being but in His very presence in God and God is with you. So what I'm trying to do is just trying to encourage you that wherever you are, you're walking in the park, you might be driving, you might be capturing this on Spotify, you might be listening to this recording back later tonight you might be having some food of your family you might be just indoors on your own, you might be just flicking through the social networks, God is with you. So predestination is a very powerful word and, and there are many Bible teachers. There are many churches, many denominations, many believers that don't like to use that terminology because when you talk about predestined, it was already ordained, it was already given. And there is no power within your physical and my physical being to reject this eternal God. It was predestined, salvation was predestined. He was always going to get salvation, he was always going to be saved, he was never going to be able to reject Him. And no matter how much we kept, how much we threw our toys out the pram, no matter how many times we said, I am going to church, I'm not doing it. When God calls God cause God calls when God calls, he calls and no man has the strength of the physical being. And the physical capabilities are rejecting this eternal God. There is no one on this earth that has the power and the authority and can resist holiness. You know, Psalm 23. This has been on my heart this has been on my mind has been in my spirit for a long, long time. It's just been sitting amongst my my innermost being. And I've come to the realization that God saves. God restores God heals. Yes, we know he heals. Yes, we know. Yes, we get that because the church talks a lot about healing. And then the church mentions that so much. But above that there is the doctrines of grace there is the power of His anointing and his holiness. And you are carrying destiny you are carrying hope, because he is the God of hope. You are carrying love because he is the God of love. He is the word so you are carrying the word you are, you are his instrument here on this earth. So Psalm 23, I just want to remind you that the Lord is your shepherd, you are actually lacking nothing in your life if we feel that we are lacking, it is because our naturalize our fleshly eyes are looking to what the world is offering, and what the world is offering and what the fret flesh is craving, it can never be satisfied because the flesh can never be satisfied. The flesh is always craving for the next material gift, the next material issue the the increase in in wages, the next job, the next car, the new TV, the bigger house, this that the abs in the season, that these are the world. So if we are feeling that we are in want and we are not feeling content, maybe my eyes are not fixed on Christ. Because when I realized who my Redeemer is, My God shall supply all my needs according to His riches and glory. So he always supply as the scripture says, He will not let the righteous be righteous be beggars are bred. So we will go without nothing, because he shall supply all my needs according to His riches in glory. And it always drives us and it always walks us and it always takes us and it always draws us into the garden of Gethsemane. I think the greatest place the learning place, the learning curve, the place of, of maturity is in the Garden of Gethsemane when when we have a garden of Gethsemane experience, when we understand that my will cannot supersede the Holy Will of the Father because my will is of the will of the flesh, my will is of my eyes desire, my will is of the fleshly cravings, but the will of the Father is a spiritual will. So the flesh doesn't have a spiritual will. The flesh has an earth A free will that is very materialistic that is very social. That is only what my eyes can see ahead of me and, and through media very interesting how media is attractive and how media has used to draw people in the latest adverts the latest social network in the latest trends, the latest hashtag, you know, our eyes are attracted to what the world has to offer. So there is always a battle within there is no no need to worry about Lucifer anymore. Leviathan there is no need to worry about Satan's agents because you are blessed and highly favored. You are saved, once saved, always saved. And the scripture that was in yesterday very clearly tells us that Christ disarmed He disarmed the authorities that the principalities in heavenly realms by making a spectacle through the cross of Calvary, and the scriptures were fulfilled. So you Are you a believer, you are a son and you are a daughter of the living God, and God is with you. So the Lord is your shepherd. So when we look in Psalm 23, The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. If there is lack it is not because God hasn't provided is because my earthly eyes are on earthly treasures. Do not stir up for yourself treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where vermin come in and take away. But the Bible says Keep your eyes keep your eyes Hebrews chapter 12 Verse two, please someone put that up on the socials. If is if there is anybody there, and the 50 P meter hasn't run out yet. But you know, go to Hebrews chapter 12, verse two, and it clearly says, Please, I should never leave scripture to memory. That's really really a ghastly thing to do. I should never leave scripture to memory. I should always have the Scripture before me. But Hebrews chapter 12, verse two says, Keep your eyes on Jesus, the author and the perfecter of your faith, keep my eyes on Jesus. If I'm finding that I am in Lac, and I am in want, am I in want? Or am I in need, there is such a difference between a want and a need. Where are we? Are we in want? Or are we in need? We are are we in the supply? Or are we in the flow of what God has for us. So the Lord is my shepherd, it says I lacked nothing. I lacked nothing in spiritual realms, I will always be lacking. If I keep my eyes on what the world is offering if I keep my eyes on number 10 Downing Street, if I keep my eyes on the petrol pump, when I say the petrol pump, because the petrol pump is very significant to every one of us that has a vehicle because every one of us that has to put fuel in the car, our eyes are on the petrol pump, and our eyes are clocking the financial issue of running the vehicle. We are seeing the increase you know, we are in fuel fuel poverty. And this isn't just a thing that's happened the last few months, there has been fuel poverty for many years. It has just been at just different layers. And we understand the different layers but now we are hearing it across every layer in every atmosphere of life. So when I look at the petrol pump, I'm looking at facts and figures I'm looking at statistics I'm looking at measures we are everything we do in our life has a measure has a data measure. Well thanks be to God that the kingdom of God cannot be measured by science, it cannot be it cannot come into the bracket of quantum physic physics, it cannot be quantified it it cannot be, psychologically process worked out through the human mind and the greatness of the thinker. See, we think we analyze we anticipate we are living in a world of anticipation we are always anticipating, of what is going to happen our lives when what we think and what we anticipate may not be the will. So the anticipation can lead us to lack not because of God hasn't supplied it is because I'm looking at my anticipation. And my anticipation feeds my flesh rather than rather than not coming under the will of the Father. see Christ come under the will of the Father in the Garden of Gethsemane. So as we come to the table tonight, am I in Lac Am I in want if I'm if I'm lacking if I'm in want, and I am wanting is that because my naturalize The Bible says we don't live by sight but we live by faith. So I could, I could put myself in a in a in a two plus two body position here. I've got the spiritual me and I've got the earthly me and the fleshly me, the spiritual me with will live will live for eternity, for sure. In glory with Christ, because we are born again filled with the Spirit. So this earthly me is just in this this this continuous state of this dimension of what this world offers we are we are in a dimension or when there is a die of free dimension or place that we cannot see. That is beyond beyond and beyond, beyond and above and beyond sorry, the human eyes what the eye can see, the eye can only see what is offered in the world, the human eye cannot see into the spiritual world. See, that's why the Bible says the just shall live by faith because when I close my eyes, I cannot see anything before me. So to live by faith is almost to close your eyes and to trust God, for everything that he shall supply. Now, there are many of us, caught in the circle of life, that are finding that we are in want that we are in lack, that we are in stress that we are in need, and that we are almost in desperation, not because we are lacking faith, not because we find that God hasn't supplied, possibly it could be me, keeping my vision, my natural vision and allowing my life to be led by Natural Vision, rather than allowing the Word of God to guide me because the scripture comes straight out straight out of Psalm 23. Verse one, it says, The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing, I lack nothing, I like nothing. If I am lacking, it can only be because I want more. In this natural world, when this natural world will we burn up and consumed by the fire of what are the rough and the power of God, what is coming, so everything that we have around us will burn up on will and will just disintegrate into the ashes of the earth. So everything that we accumulate through wealth through our work life, or our work life ethics, through maybe inheritance, everything that we have that is visible, that is touchable, and is tangible of this world, everything I'm afraid to say everything that we have, and we own the bricks and mortar, and whatever we own, and whatever we put next to our name, or whatever we have at this moment, one thing is for sure, across this earth, when God takes me home, and my the day my funeral comes, there's only me that is going to be able to squeezed in the casket, I'm not going to be able to take the house, I'm not gonna be able to take family, I'm not gonna be able to take finance, not that I got any of that anyway, I'm not gonna be able to take it in this podcast and equipment, I'm not going to be able to take any any anything of this natural world. Isn't it interesting that that I'm going to say not not all but but there is a mass percentage, still in, in in the stretch in the vocabulary world of the church, that is putting more weight in materialism, rather than put it into the spiritual world of Christ. But the scripture says, I will lack nothing. The Lord is my shepherd, I lacked nothing. I lacked nothing. But there are many feeling that there is a lack. It is because my eyes are more focused and fixated on what the world is offering cause social connections, climbing the ladder of success, you know, climbing the ivory towers, there are many Christians in ivory towers that have built themselves, businesses that have built themselves ministries that have built themselves churches, built themselves idols and suddenly get to the top of that tower. And realize that that and that's how it's a very empty there, that that that ivory tower is a very lonely and a very cold place. But there is something very different that we cannot see that each and every one of us are very familiar with. And I don't know how familiar you are with that, because I don't really know you, who's on the other side of the lens tonight, but there is there is a kingdom, the king's domain, and in the king's domain, there is no lack whatsoever. The scripture says Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness, and everything else shall be added unto thee. Now this is very, I need to make this very clear. I am not against having a comfortable home. Having a comfortable lifestyle. I'm not against that whatsoever. I like clothes. I like nice shoes. I like gadgets. I like being comfortable with the surroundings around me. The people that know me, like will understand that I like that I like things, because that's just me and that's in my makeup. That's in my character. I like to be comfortable, but I'm not referring to money. I just like comfort. I like nice clothes. And that can be a temptation. I like nice things that can be a temptation. I like that I and I'm not frightened of a mitten. Now I'm not worried about omitting that and if if that is wrong, God God deal with me in that situation. But what I do not do is put that above my god I do not put these earthly treasures above. Yes, it's nice to have a nice home. It's nice to drive a comfortable car. It's nice to have comfortable clothes. It's nice to be comfortable. But am I comfortable for the for the sake of a worldly draw my comfortable because it is meaningless. Everything that I have in my life is absolutely meaningless. And I'm referring to the material stuff around me. It will crash it will burn you can burn it, you can lose it. But what I can't, what I can't be taken from what cannot be lost is my salvation. So I've got to make sure that my salvation, my salvation, my salvation, is up above material things. Materialism, I'm not interested in materialism, I just like to be calm, I like to be calm, I'm not talking about I'm just talking about the where I work what I do, I like to be part of like to have the comfort in what what I'm doing. But I do not allow that to take over my colon, and my focus on God. Because everything has to be Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness and everything else shall be added on to the I seek, and I find I speak and it comes in now we've got to be very careful when we talk about I speak and it comes in. The only way that I speak and it comes in is if if I know what the will of the Father is for my life, because the scripture says you ask You have not because you ask not the prosperity preachers can manipulate that scripture and they can use that for for the gain of wealth, not for anyone under them, but for them for themselves, because they will make up a motivational preach or a seminar or a lecture or they will make up a sermon through motivational speech. And it will get your adrenaline it will get your adrenaline but God is not in the business of giving anyone a mansion or 1000 quid he's not in the in the business of suddenly sending an angel and popping a 50 pound note for your letterbox or increasing your bank account. That is not scripture and anywhere. But what God is doing and what God does. God delivers peace. God gives hope God gives future God gives comfort. God gives wisdom. God gives Godly counsel. So when I when I bring all this stuff together, I am more rich than the richest person on the earth. We do not need finances to be rich. The measure that the world measures a human being is by what postcode I live in, what job I have, what cars are on the drive, what gadgets are in the house, how big to houses, how many holidays I have? Do I work in the city? What job do I do? The world measures everything by worldly value. But the scripture says do not starve yourself treasures on earth, where moth and rust come in. So what what is really important is that I store up for myself treasures in heaven, treasures in heaven. So financially and through the power of liquidity, and through through funds. And through finances, we may not have one pound in our pocket, but we will be richer than the richest person on the earth that has more money than we could ever count purely because purely because money cannot buy salvation. And if you are saved, you are the richest person on the earth. It's not God does not measure our lives by what we have, through our material possessions off this earth. Because every one of us owns something, even if we only own a pair of trainers, we own something we have maybe just the clothes on our back. But what I've got to make sure is that if I'm in lack, now lack this lack, I do not lack nothing, you know, we will always be in lack if I can put it like this. My body will always be wanting what the world is offering. I will always be wanting more because you cannot satisfy the cravings because the craving, a craving of the flesh and the craving of what the world you know the desires of the world. The Bible says each man, each person is drawn away by his own last now straightaway to need. You mentioned word love. Everybody talks about sex. Everyone thinks about fit. It's got nothing to do. Everybody has as a craving within themselves that that is drawn away like like almost a year that I love that. Everybody has something that can be drawn away and not drawn away from God. But just taking your eyes off a moment. You know, it might be materialism, it might be shopping, it might whatever it might be something and then there'd be Christians out there tonight saying well, I'm not drawn away by anything. I am absolutely pure. You know, I'm absolutely wonderful. Well Praise God. You keep floating on your holy segue in the name of Jesus because I tell you this, the Bible makes it very clear. Each man is drawn away by his own lust. Paul writes very powerfully, a wretched man of my why do I do the things I hate? And why can't I do the things that I should do the godly things? Very, very, very, very clear. Very clear. So there is a battle so if I'm in want is not in spiritual one. It's in want of what the world. Now this is really, really important for me is that seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and everything else shall be added unto thee. We're coming to the table, verse one of Psalm 23, you are not in lack, you can never be in lack in the kingdom of God, if there is any, is there any trace of the word lack in our thinking our lives, that is because our body is always craving, what the world world may be looking at, and to keep your eyes on Jesus, because I got to keep my eyes on Jesus. If I take my eyes off Christ, I see the storms of life, I see the kerfuffles of life, I see the stresses of life. And I get engaged in what the world may be doing and all that worldly sort of stuff. The Bible is really, really clear. Each man is drawn away by his own lusts. You know, that is really important. And it is not always talking about that that word you're all thinking about. It is just by what the world by what the world is drawing away from, from, you know, it's like the protocol, son. Every one of us needs to be focused on God, because every one of us has a tendency, every one of us does, has a tendency, I'm afraid to say, to take our eyes off of Jesus, to take our eyes off of Jesus, when you're at work, if you're working, if you're retired, whatever your life is, there comes a point in your daily walk or my daily walk, where suddenly we find ourselves in a situation, a work issue or a family issue, an issue where I might have got angry and forgiving, or saying as I'm from the past, this has happened that has happened, you know, we're frustrated. So that there is simply by taking our eyes off. So Lord, bring my eyes back. Lord, I got angry at that moment will bring me back to this position. Lord, I need to refocus, I need to recalibrate, I need to, I need to keep my eyes on Jesus. The Bible says Keep your eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of your faith. There is a battle there is a battle and it is an earthly battle, but it you can call it the spiritual battle of principalities and the warfare that goes on. Keep your eyes on Jesus. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and everything else shall be added unto thee. Let's come to the table, whatever your day is, whatever your situation is, I pray, I pray, I pray that if you feel that you are in in wants in any way, just say, Lord, take these once away, Lord, Lord, I'm hungry for you. I want more of the God of Israel. I want more of this holy God, I Lord, I want clean hands and a pure heart. As the writer writes, Laura, I want Laura one more holiness, Lord, I desire I'm hungry for more living water, I want you Jesus. And the more we press and the more we vocal more we speak about Christ. The more we talk about him, the more we ask him in, the more we just speak and speak and speak, the more we find ourselves, the tendencies of the world will will just melt away the world will just melt away in our lives. But let's just come to the table right now. Let's just break bread wherever you are, across the earth tonight, I invite you to join me as we break bread together in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, I take this bread right now. And I thank you that there is power, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. But as we break bread, we understand that this is your body that was broken for each and every one of us. And as we take this bread Lord, I thank you for salvation. I thank you saved a wretch like me. I thank you that you saved the sinner like me, I thank you that Your love is unconditional. And as we come around the table tonight as we stand as we be still, we're if we're sitting on the edge of our sofa if we're sitting at the desk if we're Lord, wherever we are, at this moment, walking, talking with our families, cooking Lord driving home from work to sit in indoors, just wondering what the quantum physics life has to offer me in the tiny ness of this existence of His Father, I thank you that you have called us into eternity. God is with you tonight. Wherever you are across this earth, the god of eternity is calling you to have a greater walk with Him. Bless this bread I recognize this bread is a symbolic gesture of the Body of Christ in Jesus name, amen. God is with you. Just take a moment to pause. Just take a moment to pause in your life and whatever's going on in your home and in your family and maybe there are skirmishes, maybe you're ducking and dive in the bullets of life. Maybe you're maybe you're you feel that you're skating very thin. On Ice at this moment. Maybe you feel that it's just this grind this daily grind is just heavy. Maybe you're just feeling this monotony of life. Let's take our eyes off of the world and put our eyes on Jesus wherever you are at your desk at home. Walk in just being still at home driving listening to this through the power of podcast. You know maybe you're live streaming with us tonight. Maybe your capture this tonight. Whatever you are doing, just say thank you God that your body was broken for me the son, the son of the of the god of eternity. Jesus Christ set me free. So as we gather around the table to take communion I pray that wherever you are at this hour, there is power in the blood, Power in the blood, Power in the blood of the lamps of Father in the name of Jesus, we rest we be still. And Lord, we are sure that the scripture will come alive in our spirit tonight and a mighty name of Jesus, that your word will be revealed to each and every one of us. Wash us and cleanse us. from all sin. Thank you Lord, the iniquity, transgressions, fear and doubt, Lord, and the hustle and bustle of life was now to the cross of Calvary. We are saved, washes, we pray, in Jesus name. Amen. There we go, we landed we made it we got there. We have made it wherever you are tonight. I pray that you will look at Psalm 23 that you will take Psalm 23, just from verse one. And have a look at that scripture tonight. And just allow the Holy Spirit to teach you to guide you to maybe walk you through that scripture. So Psalm 23, verse one, The Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing, you lack nothing. You lack nothing in the kingdom of God because you have everything. You are rich in Christ, you are rich and God, you are rich because of the fire of God is with you. You are and when we talk about the richness, the richness of the riches of God, we are not talking about the pound sign we are talking about the eternity. The gift of eternity is priceless. I know what you're thinking. Yes, it is priceless. Regarding finances. Yes, we understand that Scripture said it was 30 pieces of silver. The price has been paid. And that was Christ. Price let's because you can't put a price on Christ. It's interesting, isn't it? That finances was given for him. But finances was given back. So there was no financial value on his life because you can't financially value the God of eternity. You can't. That's why 30 pieces of silver will give him back to the religious order. And we know the rest is history, we're adding to that 30 pieces of silver. May God bless you wherever you are, and whatever your stretches on this life. And whatever your footprint is, whatever your footprint is on this world, I pray that you will be the instrument that God has called you to be and you will just rest in His presence and as I say, Good night tonight, May God strengthen you and guide you and whatever your timezone is. The time here in the UK is 2011 811 minutes past eight tonight on this Monday evening. We will see you again on Wednesday evening for bible study at 730. Around about to hop our state. It's been great to have you with us this evening. And I pray that God will strengthen you. My name is Reverend Ben Cooper, and you can find all these live stream services on a limb. Church, you know on the Facebook page and the social networks. On Instagram, you can find all this sort of stuff that we've been recording on the podcast platforms, you go to Spotify, you could go to Amazon music, you can go to I Heart Radio, excuse me. You can go to Buzzsprout just type in the search engine. Reverend Ben Cooper, podcasts and they will come up and you can have a backness and you can capture everything on YouTube and on one place in another. But wherever you are this evening, I pray that Psalm 23 will just sit in your innermost being. You are not in lack because the shepherd is sustaining you. He is guiding you. He is blessing you. He is healing you. He is with you. God bless goodbye. See you Wednesday. Thank you