Welcome to Daily Prayer with Myself Reverend Ben Cooper, recorded live here in London, England, where faith meets the world in daily devotion and global hope. This is your five-minute commuter prayer, quick fired moments of faith to carry us through the rest of the day. If these prayers are blessing you, please tap the following button on Apple, Spotify, Buzzsprout, and leave us just a quick short review. You can also support this listener-funded ministry very simply at £3 a month at BarMia Coffee. Hit the link in those show notes below. Also, if you need your prayers prayed for, please send them in very simply to info at dailyprayer.uk. We will pray for whatever nation you need to pray for. We will pray for you in the private space in this prayer room and uh wherever you are. We want to tell you that Jesus Christ loves
you. Are you feeling family tension at this moment in time? Do you need healing from family tension, relationship, strain from the household atmosphere? Father, in the name of Jesus, this season can be hard, Lord. Lord, this Christmas time, Lord, can be such a fight, a spiritual fight, Lord, and a fight from within. Lord, not because we're horrible, not because we're nasty, not because, dear God, we're arrogant, but because of the historical events that have brought us to this position in our emotions. So today, Lord, we are praying for family tension to go. Lord, I pray for every heart, every mind, every body, every soul right now that is under my voice, for the family tension over this season to go now. And Lord, we're praying for relational ship strains, whether that's parents, husbands, wives, brothers and sisters and children and friends and whoever, Lord, we pray, dear God, for these relational ship strains and the household atmosphere, Lord, to be calm and peaceful. Lord, we need your help today. Lord, our hearts,
Lord, are worried. And Lord, as we dive into the book of Colossians 3, verse 15, we believe, as the Bible says, let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. Lord, at this season, Lord, at this season here in the UK and around the rest of the world, we need peace. Lord, we need the peace of Christ to rule in our hearts and our minds and our bodies and our souls. Lord, we need clear vision. But right now, Lord, Father, this morning, as we kick the duvet off, as we pull the duvet back over our head and we don't want to face the day or the season, Lord, we come to you, Father, as the sun rises, as the sun sets, we need the spirit of the living God. Thank God it's not church that we need, because that can't help us. Thank God it's not religion because that can't help us. Lord, it is Jesus. We need peace that only comes from the Father's heart through Christ, through the power of the Holy Spirit. So, Lord, we need our God, we need our King, and we need the comfort of the Holy Spirit in our lives. And wherever we are gathering under the sound of my voice, from London to Vancouver, from Vancouver to Asia, from Asia to China to Russia to America, across the world. Father, wherever we are gathering,
dear God, in the boardroom, on the battlefield, on the school run, on the food run, Father, whatever we are doing on the treadmill of life, Lord, we need Jesus. There is nothing else in this world that is going to get us through this season, through this dark valley of the shadow of death, is the presence of the Holy Spirit. And I pray that the comforter will come right now. I pray at the early door of the day. I pray at the late day of the day. I pray in the middle of the hour right now. I pray that the love of the Holy Spirit will carry us all the way through, that the love of God will strengthen us and carry us at this hour. We're praying for healing for families. We're praying for relationships. We're praying for communication. Lord, there are people that we are frightened of bumping into through this season. And Lord, the atmospheres, Lord, the atmosphere in house, in home. Lord, as the tension starts to rise at this season, Father, every pressure rising during this critical time through December, Lord, I pray that the joy of the Lord will be our strength and we will feel your love. So wherever we are gathering, we believe that the word of God is over our lives.
Lord, we jump straight in to 3 John chapter 1, verse 2. I pray that you may enjoy good health and all may be well with you. Sister and brother, wherever you are at this Christmas time, whatever the season is, I pray for peace. I pray for tension to go. I pray that communication will be okay with your family, your loved ones. And as tension rises through this unusual month of December, and remembering this is probably the toughest December we've ever had in our lives for certain reasons as human beings, but also we are waiting for the second coming of Jesus Christ. There is tension around the world, the atmosphere is heavy. So I pray that all will be well with you. Stay blessed in the name of Jesus Christ. We will see you tomorrow. Never give up, please, sister and brother, never give up. God is with you. God bless.