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Speaker 1Wherever you are , though , this is our five minute time of prayer and renewal to supercharge us up with the Holy Spirit . I pray for you , you pray for me . We stand together wherever you are , even though you can't see me , even though I can't see you . We pray together because we belong to the kingdom of God , and the fire of God is over you . Today we are in the book of Ecclesiastes , chapter chapter 4 , verses 9 through to 10 . And this is what it reads Two are better than one Because they have a good return for their labor . If any of them fall down , one will help the other up , but pity anyone who falls and has no one to help them up . Father , I thank you that we got people to help us up . I thank you , lord , that we are surrounded . Lord , I thank you , lord , we are surrounded with people that will pick us up , and I pick anyone up today in prayer and I pick them up in the name of Jesus and I pick them up in the arms that I have here and I , literally , lord , as I sit and pray this through , I pick anybody up today in prayer and I pray for the sister or the brother that feels that they've slipped . They've slidden on the ice of life and they stumbled , lord , I pray , lord , for godly friendship today . I pray , dear God , for unity in relationships . Lord , I pray , lord , for strength in the Christian community . Lord , that when we fall over , when we stumble , when I sin , lord , when I make a mistake , someone will be there to pick me up through prayer that will lift me up , put their arm around my shoulder , walk with me . When I make silly mistakes , when I do things I shouldn't do , when I act in a way I shouldn't act , lord , put people around us that will help us . In the name of Jesus . Lord , will you help those that are going through broken relationships ? Will you help and encourage those that feel loneliness at the moment in time ? Lord , will you put love into family life , forgiveness and reconciliation ? In the name of Jesus .
Speaker 1But , lord , we pray that we will have a support around us , that people , lord , lord , that there'll be people around us that will support us when we're worried and we're tired and we fall over . Lord , when , when our toil is overtaking us , when we are exhausted . Lord , can you put people around us , lord , not plastic people , not artificial . Remove the plastic people out of our lives , lord . Remove those people , lord , that are not bothered if we fall . Remove the people that seem to push us down even further . Remove the people , lord , when we're under under fire , that just seems to love us , coming into trouble situations .
Speaker 1Lord , we need people around us that will carry us and pray for us and walk with us . Lord , put godly men and women . Lord , to the left , to the right of us , to the front and the back . Lord , put , put a godly team around us that will help us when we're crying and we're tired and we're exhausted . Lord , you tell us it's better to walk as two than one . But , lord , we're trying to find that one , that two , that three , those people to walk with because , lord , we feel like we've been let down by people in our lives . Lord , we feel , like Lord , that we've partnered with the wrong people . It feels like , lord , we've got into the wrong team . It feels like , lord , we got into the wrong workplace and all I've got is trouble all around me .
Speaker 1Spirit of the living God , I feel like I'm flat on the floor today and I need the Holy Spirit . Lord , I feel like I've got so much weight on my shoulders . I need support in trials . Lord , help me to be wise in the friends that we choose . Help us to be wise in the friends that we choose to walk through this life . Help us , lord , and help us and keep us wise in church . Lord , help us to be wise in church areas , in religion and groups and the click-click that's in the church .
Speaker 1Spirit of the living God , I don't want to belong to the click-click Lord . I don't want to belong to the plastic brigade , lord , I want to belong to brothers and sisters and the kingdom that has my back when I fall , when I make a mistake , when I sin , lord , when I say something , when I do something , lord , I don't want anyone around me that puts the boot on me . I want someone around me that will wrap me up in their love and carry me when I fall . Lord , give us people in our lives that will help us . In the mighty name of Jesus . Lord , we need you , lord , for relationships , for friendships , for marriages . Lord , as we stretch out into the word of God .
Speaker 1Father , help us through this daily Christian devotional prayer time . Lord , as we record this . Lord , as we press out , as we stretch out across the world . Lord , spirit of the living God , we need you in our lives . We need you in our lives .
Speaker 1God , holy Spirit , please come to us today .
Speaker 1We need you , lord , because I don't feel like Lord ? Do we feel like that ? There is someone in our lives that we can rely on ? It says two are better than one because they have a good return for their labor . If either or one of them falls down , they can help the other one up . Please , lord , help us to have people around us that will help me when I fall , when I slumber , when I sleep , when I make a mistake . Father , bless my brothers and sisters on the other side of my voice . Lord . Give them people in their lives . Put people in their lives that will carry them . Thank you for joining me today . You know this has been a difficult prayer time because it makes us analyze our lives and think who is for us , who is around us when we're in trouble ? God is with you . God is with me . May the Spirit of the Lord lead you today . Thank you for joining me today . My name is Reverend Ben Cooper . As we pray through this quick-fired five minutes of prayer , the Spirit of the Lord is over you Until tomorrow .