Introduction and Ministry Support

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Thank you for joining us today on our Daily Christian Prayer Podcast. Wherever you are across the world, my name's Reverend Ben Cooper. Do you join us here live in the studio? Here live in London, England. If you can support this ministry, please can you click the hyperlink on buy me a coffee? You know that is a tremendous help to this ministry because this ministry is a listener-supported ministry, and we can't do this without your help. We thank you for your prayers. Please, sister and brother, wherever you are across the world, keep praying, keep praying, and we will pray for you. We'll lock shields together, we'll walk together. You pray for us, we pray for you, and the Spirit of God is over you tonight. Wherever you are, whatever your time zone is, wherever your name is, God is with you. Come on, we're in Psalm 121, verses 5 through to 6. We're doing this quick-fired mini-series. Thank you for joining us as we gather around the word of God. And the scripture says, The Lord watches over you. The Lord is your shade and your right hand. The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. Father, we thank you, Lord, for the prayers of David. And Lord, we thank you that the Lord watches over us tonight. The Lord is the shade, Lord. You are our shade under the hot sun, Lord. We get under the the feathers, we get under the presence. We get in the glory of our God. And Lord, I thank you that there is rest in your shadow, in your shelter, within your shade, Lord. Father, you keep, Lord, the intensity of the sun from us. The sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night. Father, we thank you for the psalmist. We thank you for the power of psalms. We thank you for the word of God. And right now, wherever we are across the world, we thank you that day or night we are protected in the name of Jesus Christ. There is peace over our lives, there is rest in our heart. Lord, as we gather across the world, I pray, Lord, for the brothers and sisters that they will fill the fire and the power and the anointing of the living God, that they will know that they serve the God of Israel, the father of Isaac, Jacob, and Abraham. And Lord, every area of their life, we thank you, Lord, that you are protecting them, whether it's nighttime or daytime, whatever hour, whatever moment, whatever second says, whatever the clock says, the Spirit of the Living God is protecting you, sister. The Spirit of the Living God is protecting you, brother. And as we dive straight into the Word of God, the Lord watches over you. The glory is over you, anointing is over you, power is over you. The Lord is your shade at his right hand. There is power under the shade of God. If you are getting scorched, if you are dried out, if you are washed out, I want to encourage you right now to get in the presence of the Psalm. I want you to get in the Word of God. Open up the book of Psalms, read Psalm 121. Get your spirit, get your mind, get your body into the Psalms. And wherever you are tonight, the Spirit of the Living God is with you. As you sleep and you rest, God has to protect you. There is peace in your life. You know, wherever you are, we pray that there will be a covering of the blood of Jesus, the promises of protection every hour, every second, every moment, when under the hand of God all things are possible to those who believe. Whether under the sun's heat or the fear of night, you will not be pushed asunder. Because the glory of God is over you. And right now we need a restful sleep tonight, Lord. We need peace in our lives. And the prayer, Lord, is coming from our heart. We need rest and we need to feel safe in your presence. Lord, we need, Lord God, to ditch the skin in which we walk in. And Lord, we got to walk in the power of the Holy Spirit. So Lord, through this prayer time, we ask you, Father, that God's covering during the day, God's covering during the night, the protection from the night arrows that fly, dear God. Father, we pray right now for the anxious thoughts that we have at night when we can't sleep and we wake up with the night sweats and we're tired and we're exhausted. Lord, we thank you for Psalm 121. We thank you that this psalm is safe. It protects us, it carries us. And Lord, we pray today for God's presence in our rest. We ask you for protection in stresses of the day. We pray that our mind and our spirit, Lord, will be calm right now. And our daily bread, Lord, we need our daily bread. You are the way, you are the truth, you are the life. And no one comes to the Father except through Jesus Christ. So wherever we are across the world, I thank you that we got access through Jesus Christ. But right now, Lord, I pray that we will seek the heartbeat of God, that we will look for the thunder of heaven, and we will hear, Lord, a whisper from the Almighty. So right now, Lord, we declare across the world that the Lord is our shade by day and he covers me at night. Lord, your protection is over us, your cover is over us. Lord, there is shade around us. Lord, you're protecting us from the intensity of the sun. You're protecting us, Lord God, from the elements of the weather. Lord, we are safe in the Father's arms. So wherever we are, let the Spirit of God lead you today. Let the joy of the Lord be your strength today. I pray that you will feel his love, his mercy, his goodness, and remind yourself never give up. There is always a way forward. Thank you for joining us today as we've locked shields of faith, as we pray together, stood together. The word of God is in your mind, your heart, your body, your soul. May the Lord bless you and keep you until tomorrow.