Good evening. God bless you wherever you are. God bless you we're in. We are in people on joining us, wherever you are this evening, God bless you and good evening. Schumer, Pell rev, wherever you are tonight, in Europe, in this nation, wherever you are this evening, may God bless you, and strengthen you in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, God is with every one of you. God bless you, wherever you are, at this moment in time. Thank you so much for joining us, whatever your evening is looking like wherever you are on holiday, at home, at your desk, driving a van in traffic, at the sink, running on a treadmill, whatever you are doing this evening, in the bath, even wherever you are this evening, have a wonderful evening. But be careful if in the bath because the communion bread will get a little bit soggy. So wherever you are this evening, God is with you. I just want to let you know tonight that God is real God is so real. And I just want to let you know, turn that down. Just get into this. God is real. The reason I say that it's just coming from experience I had this afternoon, just maybe possibly dropping back into a bit of my old ways, which is a very dangerous way to be. There is always someone trying to steal your inner peace, there is always someone trying to get you to rise up in some way, shape and form. The reason that peace is on the screen this evening is because I needed this more than ever in my life for such a long time today. It was very real. And I just needed the peace of God. We are human beings, we react to things, our bodies, react, our minds react, our head reacts, you know. So I just want to let you know that wherever you are this moment in time, and thank you to all those that join us across the world for these broadcasts absolutely beyond human understanding to me, especially obviously me and for what we push out here from the studio. And for everyone that captures this via the podcast in many, many different platforms that we push these podcasts out. And as we started at the very very beginning of lockdown thank you so much for all those on bass, Brout, Spotify, I Heart Radio, Amazon music, you know, and Alexa and all them other platforms that we're using, and these, the social networks that we have. But I just want to let you know that God is real. God is with you. Wherever you are at this moment in time God is with you in every situation. But you will find there will be situations in our lives. There will be people within our lives. There'll be areas of our lives that will try to rob that inner peace. And I needed peace this afternoon I had an incident that was breaking out and I almost reacted back back how I used to react. But I didn't. But I could have quite easily. And I just want to let you know tonight that I found it very difficult coming into this studio. Clicking in the buttons, getting stuff ready for where we are at this moment in time. But the scripture that I was taken to is do not let your hearts be troubled. If you are troubled tonight with any incident, any areas of your life sorry, if you are troubled with maybe people and surroundings around you. If you are troubled with anything in your life never never allow that trouble to try to rub your piece to rob the blessing of what God has for you. I hope you can hear me okay, on the socials internet might be playing up a bit but those that will capture this for the podcast that the sound is okay. So I apologize if there's a bit of a delay in the sound this evening but we're going to break bread together in a short while. We're going to take a cut and we're gonna break the bread and and you know what, what I love about Christ, what I love about God what I love about the power, the Holy Spirit and His word. It is very real. It is very powerful. It changes us but sometimes the Old Testament meek and rise up the Old Testament mikan can rise up sometimes and I've got to be very very careful that the old me doesn't rise up I have to be very very careful. I don't know about you guys, wherever you are. You know we are living in very, very deep cycle times at the moment humanity is stretched, relationships are stretched home life is stretched the children's education when they're stretched in that area of life, you know, what places they're stretched, you know, just families are stretched, culture is stretched. Everything is almost at a point where you feel there can be an elastic band, and it feels it's going to snap in any moment. I just want to let you know that God is with you, whether you're in church, our church, whether you think that you've just dropped onto this live string, just by pure coincidence, coincidence doesn't and is not a real word that does not exist. It is known as predestination God is with you. And I just want to encourage you tonight, if your heart is troubled, if you just will allow me just to take you through the Scriptures, because the world tried to snatch my peace this afternoon in the world almost got me rising up to how I used to be. And I thank God that the situation didn't break out as it would as I wanted it to break out, but God protected move to certain things and areas of life. And the world and the situations were trying to snatch that inner peace from me. And it did from moment, but then I just said, God, I need you to help me. Peace, peace be with you, we're going to go to a very powerful, a very beautiful text. And this is for you. And this is for me tonight. Because you might feel like you're on an elastic band, and you are so stretched, any moment is going to snap will God will make away where there is no way. Just hold that position. concentrate, focus on God, the screen says there behind me, Peace be with you. And this is coming from the Word of God without any further rambling from me. Let's just get straight to the Scripture. And let me just read these places. We're coming from the Gospel of John John chapter 14, First John, chapter 14, and we're coming from verse one. So I'm going to take this really steady tonight. I'm not going to go far enough like like I do. I'm going to try and take my time So Father, give me give me let me help me to help me Lord to take my time this evening. Don't let me just ramble on like a Dukes I am. I do love to ramble, right John, chapter 14, verse one, it says, Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God. But believe also in me believe in God, believe in the Holy Spirit, and believe in Christ, because Christ is real. And let me just tell you this again, God will lift up a standard where the enemy is trying to put arrows in your back, and where situations are arising from the world and trying to get you to react in the Old Testament, you are me. You know, I understand what Scripture says very clearly the oldest gun the newest come with bone again, we've washed in the blood of Jesus. But we cannot get away we cannot run from the fact that every one of us are human beings. We are children of the living God. We are blessed and highly favored. We are blood washed, our name is written in the Lamb's book of life. And wherever you are, this evening, the God of Israel, the father of Isaac, Jacob, and Abraham, the King above all kings, Jehovah Jireh, Jehovah Nissi, Jehovah shalom, he is your God, and He is protecting you, Psalm 91. We've had this quite a bit recently. But I feel that I've got to mention this again tonight. turn to Psalm 91. And have a look around about verse 11, and 12. And it said, For he will command his angels concerning you, to lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against the stone. God is concerned about you. If you feel broken, if you feel lust tonight, if you're coming out of a relationship, if you're coming out of a job, if you're worried about people in your life, if you're looking at your life, and you're thinking this isn't right, and there are areas of your life, or and I'm referring to me as well, because we're all walking together, we are all human beings, but we are all sinners saved by grace, we are all children of the living God. We are either this or that we are ever sons of the living God or daughters of the living God, and God is with you. And do not and try not allow the world to rub your peace, whether that's your workplace, whether that's home life, whether that's business, whether that's just trouble, whether that's a person, or people or family, or culture, or just the system of life. And I'll mention it again that you feel that you're like a an elastic band, you're stretched to the point, you're stretched on every area of your life. Every place that you look around at the moment. You feel that there's stuff coming at you you feel you've got the weight of the world on your shoulders, but let me read this verse again because cry Is wants to help and to guide and he is helping and guiding. And there is a way forward and he will come on and He has commanded heavenly activity, angels concern in your life, to lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against the stone. But this is really important because I've learned a lesson this afternoon, do not let the world try to rob your piece, do not react in the Old Testament, then react in the new creation do not react in your old ways that was buried. And as he always does, the old always tries to rise up and tries to put a situation right when what I should have said today, and it came out right, because the situation didn't have happen, how I wanted the situation to happen, which isn't very good. And I'm ashamed to say that, but God moved in front of me, God, Israel, and he is with you, in your life, and your family. Wherever you are at this moment in time God is protecting you. God has a way forward for you. There is a way and his name is Jesus. If you are troubled tonight, if you are weighed down, but you are frightened of allowing the children, your husband, your wife, your friends, your work colleagues, people around you, if you are worried, and you are carrying something on your own, upon your own shoulders, and you are forecasting something to happen, give it to Jesus tonight use this 30 minutes that we've got to hand everything over to Jesus, because I'm going to say it again. I've seen it more times and I can actually count when I say God is real. When I when I say that I'm not speaking like, like a pastor or someone would in the clergy. Or when when God has said this to me today, God, Goddess, I'm on. I'm on the phone all day long. And I'm sitting in the front room and I'm chatting and God has given me this. It's through life experiences. Through just living and living as a human being but a believer in Christ, you suddenly start to see how God protects you, and how God provides for you, and how God makes a way for you. Even when you are almost going against what God has for you. God's word cannot return void. He has to fulfill his promises. According to you. God's promises will come. I believe we are living in a time on when we have to be patient. My I have no patience. I am probably the worst one for patients. I find it very difficult to wait upon the Lord, I find it very difficult. Is it as if I'm saying come on God, where are you what you're doing, Lord, do this, do that, do this. Do not let your hearts be troubled. If you are trouble tonight, no matter how small, how big. However, you see what whatever you bracket, whatever you put in that box of trouble. Wherever you are tonight, hand it over to Christ, hand everything over to Jesus. Because there are many people there are many situations, the system life general, in the arena when we jump into the arena when we jump into that boxing ring of living, of just trying to get from A to B from morning to afternoon from afternoon to evening. Do you ever feel like you're in a constant fight all day long? Do you ever feel that the there are certain areas of life that is just trying to snatch the peace out of you trying to just take that inner peace? Well, well do not let your hearts be troubled. I'm going to hold it there. Now let's cross over, staying in the same chapter. John chapter 14, verse 27. Peace I leave you my peace I give you I do not give us a world gifts. Do not let your hearts be troubled. And do not be afraid if your heart is troubled today. I pray with every fiber of my being that you just hand it over to Jesus. Isn't that easy for a pastor or leader or someone in the church to say just give it to Jesus? Well, hang on a minute, son, tell me how to do it. How do we do this? How do we hand this over? What? Because I physically can see trouble. I physically am around the trouble. But how do I hand it over? The way that is handed over is by verbal communication. Now we might in the Bible presents that as prayer. How do I do that? I just communicate with the Father, the Son the Holy Spirit. It's very simple. It's like this Lord, I pray, Lord for the situation that is around me. Lord, can you help me? Can you make a way Eight. But then we go extending the New Testament and the scripture says Three times I pleaded with the Lord, will you take this from me? And what came back from the father from the father of grace from the Word of God was is that My grace is sufficient for you. His grace, His favor His mercy, His plan, his goodness, justification, salvation, but Lord, I want you to extract extract sorry, the situation, Lord, I want you to extract the phone. Do you know what I think sometimes the phone can be pressed, be pressed, not by Lucifer, but by by someone else. My grace, the hand of God is on you. The hand of God is on you. He didn't take the throne. He gave more grace. I pray that God will give you more peace, more grace, more understanding, more wisdom, more strength. I pray that God will give you more revelational knowledge. So the Bible tells us very clearly do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in, you believe in God, and also believe in me. Also, the Scripture that we've read out tonight, then it says Peace. Now this is Christ. Christ is delivering this to me. And to you tonight, wherever you may be, you might be on holiday. You might be as I said, in the van you might be just with the children you might be even in the bath. It doesn't matter where you are. It doesn't matter what you are doing at this moment in time. God speaks through every situation. God will use situations God is God and he will get this message to you wherever you are, at this moment in time and this is for you. And this is for me. If you are alive and if you are breathing. If you are breathing at this moment in time and you are a believer, I believe that this scripture is for you. John 14, verse 27, Peace I leave you my peace I give you I do not give as the world gives. The Bible says do not conform to the pattern of the world. When I look at the pattern of the world and what that I cannot conform to that. I've got a trust in God. But isn't it difficult if we are honest with ourselves? We've got the the religious order out there we got that, that we've called that. That Pentecostal movement out there. The naming and claiming Hallelujah, Jesus wonderful. We got the revival flags waving in the air. We got all that we got all the white teeth coming from the pulpits, we got all the all the sound wonderful sounding words, we've got all the lovely songs that gets into a position. But let's be really honest, let's be really truthful. God, I'm frustrated. Lord, I need a miracle. God, where are you? If Why am But Lord, please, God, help me guide me, strength for me. Why, Lord? Lord, I've been pleading Three times I pleaded with the Lord. Three times I pleaded with the Lord. But he said, My grace is sufficient for you. Now let's just cross over the texts. Now let's let's sign in the Gospel of John. Now some of you may have gathered where we're going to go to a place to a very easy read in text John chapter 20. John chapter 20, from verse 19. And it's about when Christ appears to his disciples. We are seen very quick, in a quick concession, we have seen a lot of events within the UK and across the world unfolding fast we're here and some heavy stuff coming out of a certain nations, you know, the fight in me is going on. And the world is trying to take us by fear. There are certain leaders that are trying to manipulate and trying to control maybe you're in a work context, maybe you're in an educational area of life, maybe you're, maybe you're in a relationship, maybe there's things happening in your family around you, that they're you're capturing stuff on the news, you're capturing stuff in your workspace, you're capturing a bid from a small amount of stuff from everywhere, and suddenly it becomes overwhelming, that you feel overwhelmed tonight that you feel that almost your faith is almost dropped out of your boats. Do you ever get to that position? When you say God, where are you? Is this real? Is this God? Are you real? Why is this happening again? My grace is sufficient for you. God is real. God is with you. Wherever you are. There is power in the name of Jesus. There is power in the name of Jesus, and His word cannot return void, and he will lead you Psalm 23. He will lead you He will guide you in paths of righteousness for his namesake. Even though I go Are the darkest traumas, the darkest valleys, the stretches that are beyond human endurance, the Bible talks about enduring, we can only endure because of the power of God is with you and the power of God is with me. So wherever you are, we're 20 minutes in at this moment, we're going to break bread soon. But I just want to read this. So we're in John chapter 20, verse 19, it's about the disciples and it's about Thomas, and it's about peace. It's about peace. Are you troubled tonight? I was troubled, but I've got rest for my soul. are you fearful? Do you want that fear to go? The Bible says perfect love drives out. All fear, perfect love, the love of God, the love of Christ, the love of the Holy Spirit, that Agha pay love, that that love that is beyond the world's love, that love that is beyond how you feel for someone in your life that love it that is beyond that love that is from heaven, because God loves you. God loves you, and he is providing and he will make a way where there seems to be no way when you're looking around the walls of Jericho. And you're looking at just the vastness and the enormity of life and you're looking at an everything as we look and as we gaze out to that wall of Jericho, that wall will come down that wall will fall in the name of Jesus, that wall will drop off in the name of Jesus, because God is with you and His promises. Yes and Amen. He will guide you, He will lead you, he will, he will steer you, He will protect you, he will remove certain areas that are in your life, certain things around me, I knew that we will not put ourselves in a certain position because God always makes an escape route. Have you ever been in a situation? Have you ever found yourself caught in something? And you thought How did I get in this and then suddenly, God opens the door? In the in in some way shape and form when you thought How did I get through that? That is because God will rescue God is a rescuer. Psalm 91. Go back to Psalm 91. And read where it says Psalm 91, verses 11 through 12. For God will command his angels concerning you so that they will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a stone. Do you ever feel like you're dragging your feet? Do you ever feel like a lot of I've reached Lord, I'm elastic band today. I'm going to break. You cannot break with Jesus. We go we go to the edge. We go to the brink we go to the Jordan. We go to the Jordan River. And God told Joshua to come on the Levitical priesthood. Go and stand in your trouble. If you really want to see me move in your life go and stand in your trouble. Go and face your Goliath go and walk around your Jericho I'm the God created the heavens and the earth. I'm your Jehovah Jireh I'm your Jehovah Shalom, I'm your Jehovah Nyssa I am your provider. I will make a way in the walls of Jericho. I will stretch out through this and get you to where I want to get you to you look at the Jordan. But I will get you to the Promised Land. You're looking at the vastness that you need the miracle in your life. But I will get you to where I gotta get you. If you would just turn to John chapter 20 Verse 19, it says on the evening of the first day of the week, when the disciples were together, when the doors were locked for fear of the Jewish leaders, Jesus came and stood among them and said, Peace be with you. After he said this, he showed them his hands and his side and his disciples were overjoyed when they saw it was the Lord. Again Jesus said, Peace be with you. Jesus, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, the King above all kings Colossians says, He is the image of the invisible God. The God that created heavens and earth knows that we have fearful moments. If if we didn't experience the fear, we will never experience the peace if we was like how, some of the the churchianity stuff that is out there, the all the fluffiness and the clouds and the and that and all this and that the bouncing around you know everything's great, everything's wonderful. Yes, I'm blessed and highly favored all Hallelujah Jesus in it great and wonderful. That that is not real Christianity. Christianity is going through endurance. Christianity, Christ in me is going to the wire on certain things of life. Christianity is going and standing and facing your enemy Christianity. is trusting in God. When it looks bleak, and it looks dark and it looks impossible. The flag wavers only come out for two hours on a Sunday. Follow them for the rest of the week, you'll soon find out where they stand in Christianity, a real believer will say, I am going to get to Jesus, no matter what the cost. If I have to run and throw myself on the floor and touch the hem of His garment, I have got to get to Jesus because I need a miracle. If I can hold, if I can touch the hem, you know this. The ones that get through are the ones that fro themselves to the hem of the garment and say, If I can just touch the hem, I need a miracle father. Let's go a little bit further. So very quickly, Jesus says, Peace be with you. Why would Jesus say peace be with you? To his disciples, they were called, they are blessed. They have been called by the living Christ, they have seen the Messiah. So wouldn't you think that they will be singing and shouting kumbaya all day long, sitting around the campfire with their guitars out praising Jesus all day? No, they went through fear. They went through worry, they went through doubt they were scared, they was worried. They even said, I'm going back fishing because I cannot cope with what I've just seen. So I'm going to go back to what I used to do. Because what I used to do is where I should be, but where I should be is not where I want to be because I want to be completely in faith but my faith has gone because all of a sudden I've seen the Messiah on the cross of Calvary Dyer say it is finished. But I didn't understand what that meant. When he said it is finished. I just thought that he was giving up the ghost giving up because I see Christ die. But it's okay for us because we have the full scriptures. The scriptures was being written as they were speaking and as they was living. So when they see Jesus died on the cross of Calvary, and when he was in the tomb for three days, they knew that it was over according to the Jewish way of life and the way everything lived after three days it was game over. It was gone. It was Kearns Good night is that is it, that's gone. But on the third day, the stone was rolled away. So you can understand these human beings that were filled with the power of God, and experience the living Christ in front of them still reacted in their humanity still reacted in their emotions and their fears and their way and their understanding of being a human being. Being a believer will be the biggest challenge anyone can ever face. It talks about enduring, it talks about persevering. It talks about the just shall live by faith. I'm living in a nation that is so ungodly, and I've got to be godly. We're living in a world that is ramping up for the One World Government the One World Order, the cashless society, this that is everything. The scripture says we're seeing wars, rumors of wars. I'm living in a world where there's a crazy leader talking about pressing buttons and destruction around the world. And I've got to live by faith. God help me. Help me God. So this is why Jesus says this. And he makes it very clear. Peace be with you. He says I've overcome the world. The world is only doing what the scripture says it will do. There is nothing on this earth around this globe. There is no leader doing something that the Christ isn't aware of. There is no one more powerful than Jesus Christ. There is no situation breaking out in our lives, in global economics, in the crisis around the world and wars, rumors of wars, there is nothing breaking out that Jesus Christ that the God of Israel does not know about. Everything has been written. Everything has been spoken about. So everything we hear through the media is already been written about everything that we see has already been written about everything that we see that the skies and the elements and nature is doing. At the end times. Have you noticed how many people were putting up on the socials, the way that the sun was setting and then the way that the sky was moving and different areas of things that are happening Nothing, nothing across this earth within this earth around itself has taken or will take Christ by surprise. So this is very important for those that realize that I am a believer, but I am a human. And I do react, I do get fearful, I do worry. I do react in my body, I do react by my flesh, I do do what a human being does do. The scripture says all have sinned and fallen short of His glory. But even when it says on the evening of the first day of the week, when the disciples were together, when the believers, the believers that was called by the god, above all gods by the king, above all kings, by the great I Am it says they was in lockdown. Why was they locked down because of fear? This gives me comfort to read about disciples that were called by Jesus, that they was reacting in fear. And Christ came back and address what he didn't address the holiness. It didn't address their CV. He didn't address how many times they've been praising, they wasn't praising. They was locking down because they was in fear. They was in a fearful position. They was worried about what is going to happen next. What did Jesus do? Did he come back and call a premier and then he come back and sell him bottles of anointed oil? Did he send them a prayer cloth did he he didn't give them none of that junk that was happening around in certain areas of church and ministry, he came back and he addressed what needed to be addressed within their hearts, their minds, their bodies and their souls. He said, Peace be with you. Because Jesus knew that his disciples, his sons, his daughters, were worried about the environment that they was in. Jesus knows that I am worrying about the environment that I'm in, Jesus knows that you are worrying about your environment that you're in. And he is speaking through the Scripture tonight. And he is saying peace be with you. I love this text. And then we get good old Thomas Bowles into the arena. starts being all I had you what you're saying, Don't talk to me about Jesus. It's alright for you lot. You've had your miracle. You've seen him. But for me, I've had enough. You know what, um, for me toys out the pram. I'm offski. Good night, I'm going. I've had enough. Don't talk to me any more about this Jesus. Because unless I see him, I will not believe he's speaking honestly. He's speaking openly. He's speaking powerfully. And he's speaking from his human being side. But he was called. He was in Christ's plan. You are in his plan? You are I'm in his plan. Isn't that good to read, that the disciples were in lockdown, because of the fear of the Jewish environment, because of the leaders because of the the what was happening to them at that point, because their lives were in danger. Now, Thomas, it says, hang on, let's go back to verse 21, verse 21, we're coming to the table in just a few moments. And it says, Jesus said to them, Peace be with you, as the Father has sent me, I am sending you. And he breathed on them and said, received the Holy Spirit. Isn't that good to know? That even if I am in fear, even if I'm in a lockdown posture, I am really worried about certain situations. And I am as it says in the scripture in John chapter 20. Jesus comes back and he deals with the fear in his children's life in his sons and his daughter's life. God knows Christ knows the Holy Spirit knows that we live in this heartless time. God knows that we act in fear, God knows that we react in fear. So don't allow those do gooders, those righteous ones, to try and dictate to how you react. You be you. You trust God, you live in the word and you react, how you want to react because God knows how you're going to react. But do not allow the manipulators do not allow those that are opinionated around you. Whether that's culturally, whether that's workplace, whether that's home, wherever that is, you live, as God has called you to live for him. Trust Him, but as you trust them that you live in the environment that we're in, we will most certainly have moments of fear and worry. Because we are human being Since we are the characters that we are, there are issues around us that could drive us to a place. God helped me tonight. So Jesus addresses twice, to the disciples. And then do you know what else he does? It is obvious to me and it is obvious to you. He breathes on them and they received the Holy Spirit. So they've gone from fear, from lockdown, to anointing. They've gone from a lockdown, fearful position, what is going on? We have locked ourselves in. Jesus comes in, and he breathes on them, and he amaze and he says, receive the Holy Spirit. Then Thomas jumps into the arena, Now Thomas, one of the 12, one of the 12. Now Thomas, one of the 12, it says, was not with the disciples, and Jesus came in. So the disciples told him we have seen the Lord. But he said to them, Unless I see the now marks in his hands, and put my finger whereas now as well and put my hand on his side, I will not believe give me some Thomas's every day of the week. Take away load all the religious buckets out there, all that all that jargon. Lord, I want the Thomases that will go. Do you know what, Vanna we need Jesus today, don't we, if Jesus don't show up, I'm in serious trouble. I've got I've got I've got to have a real encounter with the Messiah. I have actually got to see I've got to have an encounter with Jesus. Boldness A week later, And the disciples were together again in their house again, and Thomas was with them. The doors were locked, Jesus came and stood. Now the doors were locked again. Why was the now I find this really, really comforting to know that Jesus addresses their fear. And he says, twice Peace be with you, peace be with you. Then he breathes on them, and they receive the Holy Spirit. So they have the comforter, they have the anointing, they have the fire of the Holy Ghost, they had the comforter, they had the Holy Spirit. He says st very clearly. And he breathed on them. And he says receive. So there was a receiving of the Holy Spirit. There was a given. So they was given they received the Holy Spirit. But wouldn't you make it? Wouldn't you think rather, that you would think from that point onwards that you would feel so bold as brass that you could do absolutely anything? Well, it says A week later, there was in lockdown again. So you can be anointed, you can be cold, you can be chosen, and still operate in a very human way. But Christ doesn't reject us. Because through the Bible, he addresses fear. He addresses doubts. He addresses troubles and tribulations. And he says, Peace be with you. So wherever you are tonight, as we come to the table, Peace be with you. And it says a week later they were together again, and Thomas was with them. Though the doors were locked, Jesus came and stood among them. And he said peace be with you. And then he said to Thomas, Put your hand put your finger here. And then Thomas says, My Lord my God. We're at a table. We're at that time. You know, let's call it let's wrap this up. Let's just come to a pose. You know, wherever you are tonight, let's just break bread. I thank God that Jesus addresses the fear. Religion can't address the fear. Religion will tell you you shouldn't be fearful. Religion will try and make you feel bad about talking about fear. But Jesus comes into your life and he says Peace be with you. So Christ is telling me and telling you telling you and telling me Peace be with you this evening. So wherever you are tonight, I pray that you will find actually, let me say like this piece will come to you. So as we gather around the table, Father, I asked you tonight for all those who have got troubled hearts, troubled hearts. Father, give them peace. All those that are absolutely distraught, that just feel broken and torn. Those that feel like an elastic band stretch beyond human measure. Father, I thank you for healing. So as we break this bread tonight, Lord, I thank you for their power in the name of Jesus. So, Lord, as we take this cup as we break this now, I thank you, Jesus that your body was broken. Blood was shed at across a Calvary. Lord if there is anyone on the other side of that lens tonight Lord, let your fire and your glory and your peace Lord, just rain tonight, Lord, just rain, your love on them. I've got to be very careful how I present things because I don't want to come across any more as a shower in jumping up and down Pentecostal preacher. I just want to let you know that Jesus loves you. Christ is for you. And He knows your fears. He knows your anxious thoughts. He knows your doubts. Yes, I have doubts. Jesus addresses the doubts. Jesus addresses the fears. So Father, I thank you for this spread that symbolizes the body of Christ. And I thank you Jesus, in your wonderful name, Amen. The Bible says that Jesus said, After supper, he took the cup and he gave thanks. And he said, this is this cup is a new covenant. This cup is a new covenant. And whenever you gather together, Do this in remembrance of me. So Lord, we are gathering together, Lord, whether we're in a house, whether we're gallery family, whether we're at work, whether we're on our own, whether we're in the trench of life, whether we're Lord got our backs against the wall, whether we're stressed worried, Lord, we're doing this, because we understand what it means. So no, we don't need to jump into a confession box. We don't need to state church to tell us what to do and how to do it. Lord, we're not waiting Lord, for the church to say stand on one leg and do this law. We're doing it because the scripture says it. So tonight, Lord, we break bread because the Bible tells us tonight, Lord, we take a cut because the Bible tells us so we come Lord, and we humble ourselves. And we lay ourselves at your footstool tonight. And we say, Lord, let peace abound in our hearts. Let the joy of the Lord be our strength tonight, Father, thank You that there is power in your name. Cleanse me and wash me in the blood of Christ. In Jesus name. Amen. We are not breaking bread and take another cup. Because of the Pentecostal movement that tells us we're not doing it because Catholicism, we're not doing it because of the Church of England to do because of religion. We're not doing it because of any church movement. We are doing it because of the Bible tells us to. And Jesus is the high priest. Jesus is the head of the church. He is your provider, he is your God, He is your King, he is your deliverer. And He is the great I AM. And the Bible says and Jesus said to His disciples, as often as you gather, Do this in remembrance of me. We're not doing it in remembrance of church of religion. We break bread, because Christ tells us to do so. And he gives us clear instruction, how to do so. So wherever you are across this afternoon, I pray, as the Scripture has said, very, very clearly. Peace be with you. Peace be with you this evening. The God above all gods, the king, above all kings. May the Holy Spirit, give you so much comfort tonight. You find so much peace and rest in Jesus. I pray that you will find that eternal rest for your innermost being. Jesus says, In the Gospel of John as we read, do not let your hearts be troubled. If there is trouble tonight, in your innermost being, just speak to him. Just speak to him. He hears your hearts cry. He sees your thinking. He knows who you are, because He created you. And he loves you. God bless. And we'll see you again. We'll see you Wednesday evening as we gather around the word for Bible study. At 730 May God bless you and God strengthen you and God guide you. And I thank God for your lives even though I don't know who you are. But I believe I believe that God is leading you. We pray for all those that need healing. We pray for those that need freedom. You know, pray for one another. lift one another up in prayer. We are living in very precarious times. But God is with you. God bless. We'll see you soon. Take care. Thank you so much for joining us. In Jesus name. Amen.
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