Reverend Ben Cooper: 0:05

All good. Thank you so much wherever you are across this earth at this hour, we have sound, we have sound, the good old Internet does mess around sometimes, but it's so good to have you with us wherever you are across the earth. It is about 740 This evening here within the UK. And as I said a moment ago, I am so blessed to journey with so many people in my life, you know, and from different cultures, different lives, different lifestyle settings, you know, it's so good to be able to work so closely with so many of you and I'm so blessed is such a privilege, calling and may God bless you and strength for you, wherever you are at this moment. And I thank you for all the years and all the times that I've been able to pray and to, to walk with you and to share certain really deep stuff that God is doing in your life. And I feel so blessed tonight when I sit back and just reflect and just see what what God has been doing in your lives. And I thank God for your lives. And wherever you are tonight. I pray that God will strip for you. God will just lead you into new beginnings, new pastures, and they will just just, you'll just find you'll just find that the presence of the Holy Spirit all things that you do, come on, let's get we're gonna get straight to Psalm, Psalm 91, Psalm 91, wherever you are across this earth, we thank you so much for joining us, you can find us on past sprout, Spotify, I Heart Radio, you can find us on Amazon music, and so many other social platforms may God bless you and strength for you. And for everybody that has downloaded all these 1000s of podcasts. We are so blessed to know that there are people listening people watching people joining in with us as we journey with you to again, I just want to say thank you so much so I can pray with you. I can work with you. I can talk with you, you can share stuff and and then God God is moving in your lives and for those that are walked with, and so many so many people that I have the privilege of walking with. It is a real privilege to be able to pray with you and to see God working in your life and never give up. So let's turn to Psalm 91. Let's go straight to Psalm 91. And what a beautiful psalm this is for a Monday evening, you know, you may have had a heavy day things may be going on in your lives, things may be happening around you, you know certain things and issues at work at home life, relationships, certain cultural things at this moment in time. Different things may be happening in your life, but God is with you. God is with you. And I pray wherever you are at this moment, you will feel the love of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Psalm 91 verse one, and let's just see how far we go. I will read it in its full entirety. And we will break bread together and we will take a cut together. And we will just be still and know that He is God I pray for your lives that you will have healing. I pray that whatever culture you're in, God will just continue to guide you. I pray for whatever your life looks like at this moment in time, you will not look at your surroundings, but you will just trust God in all things. I pray that you will feel the power of the Holy Spirit and your innermost being like never before I pray that you will find God like you've never seen him before. I pray that the scriptures will come alive in your heart like never before I pray that you will receive the miracle that you you will see the blessing that you will see the answer to prayer. And the thing is never give up in prayer. You know, when when we journey with people we journey with people for so long, for so long. And sometimes we are we are looking for that instant fix Lord, where are you? Where are you? I need that miracle right now. But God is drawing us through what we call endurance. God is joining us for endurance. And the longer we walk together. The longer we talk together, the longer we pray together, the longer we will encourage one another and that's what the body of Christ needs. It needs encouraging at this moment, you know the religion is dead religion is gone. But I just want to encourage you tonight that you are blessed and highly favored. You are a child of the living God and God is with you whether you're my Christian brother or you're my Christian sister, whether I walk with my brother or walk my sister, you know, we all walk together. We are all on a journey, a journey of faith. We're on a journey of learning. We're on a journey of life. We're just journeying together, and I pray. I pray for every one of you, that God will continue just to lead you in paths of righteousness. God will draw you into great things and we are seeing a quickening in the Word of God. We are seeing a quickening in the Scripture. We are seeing a quickening in the last days. You know we understand in the last days there'll be wars, rumors of wars, famines, desolation, you know, children rise in against parents, cultural clashes, we see the things that are happening around the world we see for the money markets and political agendas, but I just want to read this Psalm out, because I believe this is for every one of you tonight, I believe God is speaking to every one of you. Whether you're a believer or a non believer whether you just dropped onto this live stream, by complete chance, well, complete chance never happens, because there is a reason why you've dropped onto this last live stream. And that's not because you just want to see what this crazy vicar is doing. It is because God has led you to this Scripture. God is leading you to Psalm 91. God is calling you whether you're in faith out of faith, whether you've been a church for many years, whether whatever your context, whatever your setting of your life is, this psalm is for you tonight. Psalm 91. Whoever dwells in the melt in the shelter, sorry, of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust. Surely he will save you from the Fowler's snare from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his feathers and under his wings you will find refuge he is your faithfulness and your shield and your rampart, you will not fear the terror of night now the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks nor the pestilence, that stalks very clearly in the darkness nor the plague that destroys at midday. 1000 may fall at your side 10,000 at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you say the Lord is my refuge and make him your most high dwelling, no harm will overtake you know disaster will come near your tent For he will command his angels concerning you, to guide you in all your ways. They will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against the stone. You will tread upon the lion and the Cobra you will trample the great lion and the serpent because he loves me says the Lord, I will rescue him I will protect him. For he acknowledges my name he will call upon me and I will answer him I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him with long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation. Your God, the God of Israel is with you tonight. Whether you're in faith out of faith, whether your church, unchurched, I really believe in predestination, I really believe in salvation before the human body even comes into the concept and into the understanding of what salvation is God is calling you, and God is and drawing you and God loves you beyond your human understanding. You may you may or may have never been looking for for Christ before. You may just have dropped on this live stream service. You may have been in church for many years, you may have been caught up in religion, but we are living in very powerful times. And what we are finding culturally what we're finding in the westernized world and certain cultures we work in, and that we walk in we are seeing God is drawing people from every layer of life from every color of life from every background of life, from every footprint of life, God is calling His children, whether you're a son or a daughter, and this psalm is for you tonight, Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most Hi, I would put it like this. You've been dwelling in a shelter and not realizing you've been dwelling in a shelter. You've been dwelling in the presence of the living God and not realizing that he has been protecting you and he has been guiding you through your life. As I said earlier, I walk with many people. I work with many cultures and I have a privilege of of journeying with people, whether it's through their marriage process through whether it's through the coming of children into the world or it may be salvation, it may be questions about faith, it may be palliative care, the end of life. I am so blessed to walk and to talk and to pray, and to journey with so many people in this life. And I pray right now with all of my heart that you will just take hold of this psalm, and you will realize that this psalm is for you tonight, wherever you are, across the world, Psalm 91. Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge, my fortress, my God in whom I trust, you're walking with God. There are many people walking with God and do not realize how close they are walking with God. They are walking with him because God has already called so when God calls, he's already close. When God's close. He is extremely close you. God is with you. When God calls and God draws you are close to God, and God is with you. God will never leave you nor forsake you. He is with you to the very end of this age. He says I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge, my fortress, my God in whom I trust three major points in the Scripture the psalmist writes, he says He is my refuge he is my fortress, and He is my God and in that God the God of Israel, I will trust them. It with everything. circumstance with every issue of life, whoever you are, whatever your press on this earth is, God is calling you. And I, I just want to make this really clear tonight, it doesn't matter how much money or how less we have, it doesn't matter how educated we are, or how less educated we are, it doesn't matter where we come from, or what we think that we have, God is calling you. And God is is moving, and I feel God is moving very quickly. And I feel that there is an advancement like we've never seen before. There is a quick and enough time there's a an acceleration of time, things are happening. Now verse three, verse three, the very critical part of the text is there, surely he will save you from the fall of snare from the deadly pestilence. There are many people that have been saved. Now I'm not talking about salvation. There are many people that have been protected through their lives in their lives at this moment, and don't even realize that they're the enemy. People culture, life, certain areas and certain elements and certain people have been putting snares out for you, trying to entrap you, but God has set you free, and God has saved you and God has protected you from what the world may want from what may be. Cultural presses are around you from circumstances, from bullying from certain areas of life. People trying to get you to tear you down, God has protected you, even when you didn't realize that you need to protect him. Even when you thought everything was okay even when we thought everything was fine. God is protecting us. God has covered us in them in the blood of Christ. You are a child of living God, you are saved, you are blessed. You belong to Christ, you are a child of the living God. And I pray tonight that you will really really really I take this. When I say really, really I mean really, really you and me we take this on board for Psalm 91. I pray that this will sit in your spirit. This will sit in your heart this will sit in your innermost being. God is healing you. God is restoring you. God is leading you. God is guiding you. God is calling we are living in very powerful times things are happening around the globe. Things are happening on doorsteps tonight things are happening in our culture. God is God he's moving very very clearly. But I wonder if we really realize that we have been protected more than we ever could imagine in our lives that God is protecting you got it is removing people from your life. God is stripping you back on many things. There is an advancement i would say i very careful our word this because of timing. There is an advancement of the scripture on our lives. God is quickening God there is unlike I don't even like use the word acceleration. There is a move that we've never seen or felt before there is a colon there is a drawing. And as I said, many people are taught within a day many people are walk with and journey with. There is something strange, there is something different. And many people are going through real hard, joyous times at this moment. And God is for you. God is for you. He is not against you. God is calling you. We look out across the platform of our lives. And we say so often. God what is going on but God is protecting God is stopping the arrows of darkness. God is stopping the troubles and the situations coming to your door. And God is blessing you. Now he says he will save you from the phallus now, I'm from the deadly pestilence. I know it's been labeled up as COVID-19. I know that he's been labeled up with so many things. But you've only got to look around the certain areas of the world and we are seeing that we got pestilence, we got plagues, we got famines, we got desolation, we got wars, rumors of wars, we got cultures rising against cultures, we got families rising against families we got Western rising against West you know we got nations rising against nations we've got almost religion rising against religion, churches were rising against churches, you know, there's so much there's such a battle going on cultures coming against cultures, neighbors in that there is so much going on. And we are living in very turbulent times and I pray tonight, that God will give you peace around your house. God will give you peace through your family God will give you peace in your culture in your neighborhood in your home life in your family and your relationships. God will give you peace. Got to read on now verse five this this is a really strong part of the text for many. You will not fear the terror of night. Many people struggle not to sleep at night. Many people out there sleep pattern disturb many people struggle to get a good night's sleep or a full stretch for the night a full night's sleep it says you will not fit the terror of night now the arrow that flies by day we is talking about daylight and it is talking about darkness daylight and darkness. So from from 12 hours to 12 hours we got daylight we got darkness which creates the fall 24 hours we know we got night we got day we got night we got day. So there are certain things happen in spiritual layers of life. Certain things that happened in spiritual areas of time, you know, for the for the nighttime nighttime disturbances, you know, the Bible makes it very clear to be a watchman taught to watch and pray to be still you know, to be a watchman is a very interesting thing. Very interesting study if you want to know what a watchman is have a study through the New Testament he says you will not fear Psalm 91 Verse five, I'm sorry that I'm speaking quick. But time is time is my enemies. Verse five of Psalm 91, you will not fear the terror of nightmare, the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, know the plague that destroys at midday, very interested in the biblical plagues very interested in what the Scripture says about end times very interested in what the Scripture says about end time. Harvest what the Bible says about End Time Trial but trouble what the Bible says about endtime presses about false revivals, false prophets false and also we are seeing a lot of propaganda in the news, we are seeing a lot of news that is made up and then it's fabricated, fabricated to fit the scenario, that they want the scenario to affect us so that we live will live by fear. And we live by what the news channels are doing rather than living by faith. But we got to live up above the propaganda we got to live up above the layers of life we've got to live up and above the fear level. Are you in fear tonight? I pray that God will deliver you from your fear. Do you feel that you feel Do you feel sorry, crushed under the weight of life? I pray that God will lift you out of the crushing of the sense of life? Are you worried about night tremors? Are you worried about nighttime and I pray that God as the psalmist says, Your sleep will be sweet. I pray that the Holy Spirit will be that comforter, as he says that he is very clearly that the Holy Spirit is your advocate, the Holy Spirit is your guide. The Holy Spirit is is your yes and amen. The Holy Spirit will lead you into biblical truth that the Holy Spirit will teach you the Spirit teaches you and I thank God it is not through the academic stretch that we have. It is not through the look of life that we have. It is not through our cultural teachings. It is not through the Western eyes, understanding the West is trying to political, political leaders within the West are really trying to drive a certain drive on our lives at this moment. But we as believers have to rise up in faith. How do I strengthen myself, the Bible says that David come to an issue in his life, David come off the battlefield, David come back to his home camp. And he see that the enemy had stripped everything back. And there was nothing for him to see everything was taken from him, there is a conversation there is a dialogue between him and her. And the ones that he went to war with. They was getting angry and frustrated with him. Now just because you have been in the battles, and you have been working very closely with people doesn't mean to say that they're not going to walk and they're not always going to be for you. This is really important to all of us, as human beings as believers, we got to make sure that the people in the culture of our lives in our surroundings, our forests, and when when the tide turns, we got to make sure that we know who our God is, you know, the tide is turning in many people's lives. You see there is a tide turning in your life. And the people that you thought that you could rely on suddenly the ones that as in the scripture says almost wanting to stone you and suddenly come in against you there is so much in that text of young David when he was in the battlefield and he came back and everything was taken. But the stretch I want to get to is that David come to an understanding his life that suddenly the ones that he was in battle with were not for him any more, that they suddenly became very angry and frustrated with him and they wanted to tear him down. Be careful of people in our lives that we might work with for quite a while we might journey with for quite a while. But there's so much I can't go down this road. But well, I'm going to pause that for a moment load. Hold that thought for a moment. But what I want to get to is the text where it says in the text very clearly, that David strengthened himself in the Lord, there comes a point when you're journeying with people, and that journey has to end. And then suddenly you go on further and it is a lonely walk sometimes, and you have to strengthen yourself in the Lord than if we were so quick in ourselves and to go into the New Testament. How do I strengthen myself in the Lord Book of Romans chapter eight says faith comes by hearing, hearing the message or through the word of God. Faith comes through hearing the Word of God, I gotta get in the Word, whether you're our sister or brother, just because you've had people around you for most of your life, doesn't mean to say that they're going to finish the journey off with you. Just because you might have had this certain press of these people around you. We've got to be really careful. It's really important to have people at work people in your life. You know, I'm getting quite close to the button the day respond, you know, we got to be very careful. But you got to make sure that the circle that you walk with the ones that you journey with that they are for you and not against you. Look at Seoul look how Seoul turn suddenly turned on young David when David started to see his anointing starting to grow and, and what and this is really important. What you can't stop is God's anointing you but what you're going to make sure is you've got to be very aware of people in your culture, your life, your press of life, who you've had a walk with. Now, Soul brought David up in his own in his own household and saw what had a son Jonathan and Jonathan and David were really close friends. They had a great friendship. They had each other's back. Now Jonathan always had David's back. He was always looking out for him. And Jonathan said, You got to watch my dad. My dad is getting jealous of you because you are having good success. When people in your life see that you have good success. They try to turn it on you. And any of you we've heard of that phrase. Watch out for the backstabbers. Well, that's come from the Old Testament has come from Saul, when it says so at a javelin in his hand, and he wanted to pierce David in the back and pin him against the wall. A finger was about three times that David was very aware that that King Saul was after him purely because David was grown in his anointing, David was grown in his colon. Be careful when you start to grow in your faith, because the ones that you walk for. And your walk with doesn't mean to say that you're going to end the journey, which is very, very important in your life. Make sure that the people around you are for you. You know and ask God Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord, am I going to finish the journey of life with these people around me, Lord, the Scripture is very clear that we are living in end times and what we are finding in end times and what the scripture talks about jealousy, frustration. Be very careful of jealous people. Be very careful of people that may be laying out a snare for you a trap for you in your life, that I don't want to come off point so much. Now the Bible was just mentioned the very interesting point here. It is spoken about plagues, plagues that destroy at midday. 1000 may fall at your side 10,000 at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you say the Lord is my refuge, and make the Most High your dwelling. No harm will overtake you. No harm. No, no, no enemy can overtake you. But this is a time for every one of us as believers not about churchgoers as believers. The Bible talks about us as believers, not churchgoers because church goers has an entire different label. Yes, we might be church goers. But above the church goers and above you might be an encourager. You might be a Barnabas you might be walking with people very close. You might be an evangelist, you might be a preacher or teacher. Or you might just be someone that you just holding on to God's word, a believer because at the end of the day, we are all believers and some have callings. Some have certain criterias they gotta fulfill for the Word of God certain callings that they will call, every one of us is different. God is calling us very differently. But he is the same God yesterday, today and forever more. So what I'm trying to say is watch out for the people around you. Watch out for the circumstances of life. Look and be very careful on the news channels with the propaganda we are living in in times the atmosphere is very heavy. Watch out for the snare layers. But what is really important with this, it will not overtake you. That's what's important to me tonight and to you tonight. It will not over take you it will not overtake you. It will fall to your left it will fall to your right as the scripture says but it it it won't it won't be able to attach itself to you. If you say the Lord is my refuge and make him the most delight Hi, your dwelling no harm will overtake you. No disaster will come near your tent for he will come on his angels concerning you. Maybe it'd be good if we do a long stretch and a long study podcast in an unfree Bible study and of what this means in verse 11 of Psalm 91 For he will command his angels concerning you to guide you in all your ways. I don't know if we really understand that and forgive me if I if I'm if I'm behind what you are thinking or what you already know that that that God God releases God releases angelic activity. God releases angels and he commands angels concerning you, concerning you on the other side of the lens concerning your life, concerning the issues of your life. It says to God you very interesting it says verse in verse 11 are Psalm 91 For he will command his angels concerning you. Each and every one of us there are angels can CERN in you that I've been assigned to you, to what for what is the purpose of these angelic beings? Let's, let's have a quick look, verse 11, of Psalm 91, For he will command his angels concerning you, to guide you in all your ways, not in just one way, not in two ways, or free ways, or four or five or 10 ways, but in all your ways, every breath of your life, every stretch of your footprint on this earth, we're hearing a lot about the value of life. At the moment, we're hearing a lot about wellbeing, we're hearing a lot about our footprint, our, our, our press on this world? Well, I would like to tell you, it's very loud and very clear tonight. God is protecting you. And not only is God protecting you, there are angels assigned to your life. And I'm not talking about worshipping angels. I'm not talking about lifting angels. I'm not talking about that religion, and that that face stretch that is out there talking about speaking to your angels, I'm not referring to that. Because we should never lift up angels, we should never look to angels on worship angels. But there are a lot within the understanding in the bracket of church and religion, that look to that and lift up angels rather than lifting up the God that created the angels. The angels are there to for your concern, and to carry you that they will lift you up so that you will not strike your foot. How do you know that because the psalmist says that really loud and clear. Verse 11, and verse 12. Now this is not for me to worship angels, this is not for me to lift up the the angels of the God of Israel. This is for me to understand that angels have been assigned to your life, to take care of you, to carry you so that you will not strike your foot against the stone, a stone of life. For he who is the he, the God of Israel has an army of angels, concerning you that will carry you and look after you. Have you ever been in circumstances and situations and thought to yourself, how have I ever come through this scenario of life? How did I ever get through this with no scars with no issues with no backlash? Were no whiplash? How did I get through this? Because there are angels that are been put into flight because of God's command. God looks at your life. God sees your life. God ordained your life. God knows your character, God knows your your your every stretch, got an I'm referring to myself in this as well. For he will command his angels so his angels do not belong to me. His angels belong to Him who is this? This is the God of Israel. This is the God of Isaac, Jacob and Abraham, there is a religion out there that worships angels. Now there are two types of angels. There are the angels of God, or there there there are the fallen angels that fell with an was chucked out of heaven with Lucifer, Christ said, I see Satan fall light lightning, from heaven to earth. And when Lucifer came to this earth, there was a train of fallen angels that came with him. Now, these angels belong to God, these angels are his, these angels are not for us to worship. These are not for us to lift up and to exalt. But these angels are put into flight because of your life, your situations, every area where there may be trouble, without any shadow of a doubt, there are angels assigned to your life, not for me to worship and to lift up, but they are set a flight they are pressed out into the spiritual layers of the heavens that we cannot see in that the third dimension is that the human eye cannot see what the air cannot hear what the eye cannot see. There is spiritual forces at work that are trying to tear anyone down that he's a believer in Christ Jesus. There is battles going on in the heavenly realms. But let's remind ourselves what the New Testament says. Christ this armed the powers and the authorities, they have no power, but they are trying to force themselves and trying to steer their ways upon believers. But there is there is an army of angels and countable angels, concerning believers, excuse me, my voice is quite weak. I've been speaking most of the day to day, Psalm 91, verse 11, if we don't get anything else tonight, let's just make sure that God keeps this in our spirit For he will command his angels. They don't belong to me. They they are, they are not part of me, but they are here for me, they are here for you. They are his, the Scripture makes this very clear. For he, the God of Israel will come on his angels, concerning you, to guard you, in all your ways. Now, that is a critical text. For many believers tonight. When you look at your life, when you look at certain areas, you can almost see the enemy coming right up almost right to your face. But there has been a protection. And there is another word called endurance, where God takes us right to the place of no return. And that is what the book of Joshua speaks about. God said, Go and stand on the brink of the Jordan. Go and stand in that trouble. And Watch Me Move the trouble watch me park the waters of the river Jordan, watch me, watch me move. So God expects us. Faith and actions as a New Testament says faith and actions go together. So my faith comes from the word of God. My faith is in the God of Israel. My faith is in what I cannot see. You know, Faith comes by hearing the message and the message is heard through the word of God. Faith comes Now Hebrews chapter 11, verse one. Now faith is now the Scripture says, Now faith is faith is faith is the evidence of things, saying, Now faith is the evidence of things. Faith. Faith is the evidence. Hebrews chapter 11, verse one, I actually am asking you to go to that scripture and read that, because faith is the evidence of the things not seen. Oh, Lord, faith is the evidence of the things that are not seen. I believe God is protecting me. I can't see what he's protecting me from. But I believe in Psalm 91, verse 11, and 12, that as I walk this life, as spiritual activity heightens against me, as troubled tries to come to my door, God has put angels to fly it concerning me to protect me and to guard you in all your ways to guides you in all your ways. They will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against the stone. You will tread upon the lion and the cobra, you will trample against that line and that serpent, Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him. There are many people right now being rescued, rescued and rescued by God. God will rescue, God is rescuing. God will continue to rescue. God will pull you from the car crash of life. And you will almost have the when I say car crash, I'm not talking about a physical crash in your car. I'm referring to the just life itself. Sometimes our lives look like a major collision. And we can often say to ourselves, how am I going to get out of this situation? The reason you get out we get out these situations is because God puts angels to fly it. God is a rescuer. God holds the arrows back of trouble. God stops the tongues of the enemy rising up, My God shall supply all my needs according to His riches in glory. My God supplies my god hills, the battle belongs to the Lord. So there are battles being one that had been won before they've even been fought purely because of the blood of Jesus. So the battle the battle was finished and one at the cross of Calvary, before even life came into existence. You know, God has only got a brief God has only got to move and Lucifer has to bow every knee shall bow on the earth and the earth through the Earth, every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord you know, Lucifer has no power over you. His angelic activity does not have any forbearance in your life, because Christ this arm, the power of the spiritual principalities, and the authorities through the shed plus blood and through the shedding of the blood of the Lamb. I don't have time I haven't even scratched the surface and the time has just escalated and just for run they the time has just gone Because he loves me says the Lord, I will rescue him, I will protect him. Now you are being protected when you don't even realize you're being protected. Even when you think the lion even when you think you're in the lions den, and the lion is about to close on your life, when you think the lion is about to grab you, God has sent an angel to shut the mouth of the lion in the lion's den, God is protecting you in every area of your life. You know, you've only got to see what the Scripture says about protection, about trust about faith. God is for you and not against you. And his word is yes, and amen. And his word cannot return void. So wherever you are tonight, I pray that you will stand and hold into Psalm 91. And you will realize how powerful that psalm is, there is angels put to fly concerning your life. And God is rescuing because he loves you. God will give you long life and it says And will he will show you a long life and he will satisfy you with His salvation. You are saved, you are protected. You are loved, you are chosen, and you belong to Jesus. You don't belong to Boris, you don't belong to your family. You don't belong to your culture. Whatever culture you've been birthed into your culture doesn't own you. The West doesn't own own you. Your National Insurance number is not the final stamp on your life. You know what you have over you, you have got something greater than your tax code, something greater than your NHS number. And you know what it is, it is the sill of the blood of Jesus, you belong to Christ, you are a child of the living God. And God has put a flier angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways, they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot. Keep living. Keep walking for Jesus, we're coming to the table. And God is for you, and not against you. And he says to the Israelites, Moses and Aaron, he says over Joshua's life he he said to those in the Old Testament, He said something very clear in in the Old Testament, he said I will be an enemy to your enemies. So those that come against you, God will protect you and guard you. Have you ever looked at life. I haven't analyzed life and thought, you know, sometimes, decisions in life and certain things just look like a mess, car crash or just an absolute apocalyptic disaster in your life. And things have been so strong and so powerful. You wonder why you have not been wiped out. That is because it's not your time. It's not your time to leave this earth. It's not our time to leave this earth. Because God has you and he has your life. You are protected. It doesn't matter what comes our way. You have a fiery hedge around you. And I pray tonight that the word of God will sit in your spirit, and you will rest let's break bread together. Come on, we've gone 38 minutes and 15 seconds into this. We got to break bread Father, in the name of Jesus, we break bread together tonight, Lord, and I thank you for the power of protection. But right now Lord, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, we thank you that as we break bread together, Lord, we come and we stand in the presence of Almighty God. And Lord, I thank you that this bread symbolizes the body of Christ. This bread symbolizes the body of Christ and we break this together in Jesus name. Bless us we pray, in Jesus name, amen. God is for you. I gotta keep mentioning that there are angels put to flight concerning your life. There are angels put to flight concerning you. Concerning your walk, God is rescuing. God is healing. God is guiding. God is a miracle working God, and everything will work out fine. Because God is for you. God is with you. In every area of life. Let's just Let's just take a moment. Let's take this cup together. Father in the name of Jesus. We recognize that this cup symbolizes the blood of the Lamb. And tonight I pray for everybody that I know everybody that I don't know. I pray for all the believers I know all the non believers I know I pray for everyone in different cultures in different life treads. Lord, I pray for all ages. The Lord I pray for everyone tonight, Lord, and I pray that you will protect them and you will guard them and you will carry them. And Lord I thank You Lord for Psalm 91 over their lives. And tonight Lord, I pray that as they rest there Head, Lord and as as they go to sleep, Lord, they will be held in their sleep, that they will find rest in their sleep, that they will find peace in their sleep, that there will be healing as they sleep, that there will be joy Lord, when they wake up, they will know that their Redeemer lives and because he lives, Lord, I thank you that they can face tomorrow. Bless them, I pray in the mighty name of Jesus. But right now Lord, Father, I bring my life to You. And Lord, where I found you where I've made mistakes, Lord, what I set out of line where I've acted where I've done wrong, Lord, I come before you, Lord, as a son of the living God of the God of Israel, and I say, Father, wash me and cleanse me in the blood of Jesus. And Lord, I thank You that I am forgiven, because life was given. The Savior's life was given the for a renegade like me, and older protocols that are happy to put their hand up and say, Amen, Jesus, I was lost. But now, I'm found God bless you all, in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. The Scripture says, in the same way, after supper, he took the cup. And he said, this covenant, isn't it this this cup of the new covenant in my blood, do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me. For whenever you eat this bread and drink of this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until He comes, then the scripture says so then. So then. So then, it's really important, I understand that the so then we are that the so then, Lord, whoever I'm the whosoever, Whosoever shall believe in me, we are the so then and we are who so ever, you know, you are a sun and you are a daughter of the living God. And I pray tonight that you will find rest, and you will find peace. And you will just take a moment out of your life. And just close your eyes and just say thank you, Jesus. Lord, I thank you that this earth suit is coming to a realization and a rationale and a clear reality check that the God of Israel has saved me. I cannot save myself. But I have been saved through grace, by divine intervention, before time came into existence, before time was even recognized as time as we recognize time, in this world to which we live. Before the very beginning of this world, you was already on God's heart. And I pray that God will just draw you in and in and in into the Father's heart, under the shadow of his wings in his presence, your children, your wife, your husband, your friend, maybe you're experiencing some stress at this moment. Pray put put if you are recognized, and if we are recognizing that we have enemies in our lives or their situations that are rising around us. Just pray for a blessing over those that are trying to come against you pray for those even even if there's people in our lives that were struggling to forgive from certain situations through fabrication, Frou Frou manipulate manipulation, through bullying, through whatever it may be, through situations that have happened. Pray for those that are coming against you. Lord, we pray, let's pray together. Lord, we pray for everyone in our lives that are trying to manipulate us that are trying to bring us into force. accusation. Lord, we pray for the bullies in our lives we pray for for the soldiers in our lives that are trying to backstab us. We pray for those that are that are trying to lead us into wrong ways. We pray for those Lord that are trying to attach themselves to ask them to not write for us. We pray Lord, for for all those that are going through relationships, strains, and through areas Lord of trouble that Lord, we ask that you will bless our enemy and you will remove the enemy in the name of Jesus. We thank you that you are a winemaker. And Lord surround us with godly men and women that will carry us in our time of need that will pray for us. They will put their arm around us and journey with us. Blessings upon your life in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. We will see you soon. Take care. Wherever you are tonight across the earth. We thank you so much for journeying with us and and wherever and whoever, whatever culture you're from, whatever your background might be, God is with you. Let's just remind ourselves. It's not about the amount of time of coming to church, but it's about the one that created church saved me before church, even come into physical existence. You're saved. You're blessed, you're loved. You're cherished, you are chosen. And God is put in angels to Fly concerning you. They are lifting you up right now, even when you don't realize that you are spiritually being carried when you are tired and exhausted. You've been here with us joining us for this live stream service night, wherever you are across the world, whether you're a podcast or listen to all these podcasts, and I thank you so much for the 1000s of downloads. We thank you so much everybody right across the other side of the world, that family that join us in New Zealand time and time again. God bless you the furthest place across the world. May God bless you wherever you are local, in the house, out the house, wherever you are. Thank you so much. 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