Welcome to Daily Prayer with myself Reverend Ben Cooper, recorded live here in London, England, where the world gathers for five minutes of faith, hope, love, and strength. If you've got a prayer request, you can email us at info at dailyprayer.uk. I will repeat that info at dailyprayer.uk.
Thank you to everybody that is staying with us right away from the period of lockdown when we first started the podcast, the church services, the back library of everything, and right up now to these number of months where we've built over 1,200 prayers, where we pray together, we've locked shields together, you know, these quick fired five minutes of times together. For me, this is critical for me. I've got to be honest with you. I love this time where I'm able to pray with you, to stand with you, and for you to pray with me. I need this in my life. I need this prayer time. Trust me, brother and sister. This is not ministry, this is a personal time where I can pray with the globe, where I can pray with you wherever you are. I love this. This is strengthening me, this is changing my life, and I I can see the effect of prayer, brother and sister. Yes, I've been brought up in prayer. I know what prayer is like, but something is happening to me, and it is beautiful. There is a change in my innermost being, and it is the power of prayer. Don't ever give up. God is with you, the Holy Spirit is over your life.
But we're gonna pray from John 17, round about verse 15, and we're gonna pray this. Jesus, protect me from fears I cannot name. Father, I pray for the fears that we cannot name, the night fears, the spiritual fears, the areas, dear God, of life that we're frightened of speaking about, the fear of yesterday bringing back up, the fear of six months ago coming back up, the fear of a year, the fear of five years, the fear of ten years, the fear of history reviving itself, spirit of the living God. We don't want to live in the fears of what people may say. Lord, I pray right now, Lord, that we will leave everything at the cross. And Lord, at this hour, from London to New York, Johannesburg, Berlin, Singapore, and Auckland, wherever we are around the world, I pray, Jesus, protect us from these inner fears that I actually cannot name. Lord, sometimes, Father, we're scared and I don't know why I'm scared. Sometimes I have a panic attack and I don't know why I'm panicking. Sometimes, Lord, I feel like running and I don't know why I want to run. Sometimes I can't settle and I don't know why I can't settle. Sometimes I can't sleep and I don't know why I can't sleep. Lord, all these labels, Lord, all these ritualistic ways of living by the world, Father, Holy Spirit, will you lead us to the cross that is higher than I? Spirit of the living God, wherever the listeners are at this hour, from the battlefields that we've
had today to the exhaustions of life. Lord, I thank you that we are breaking out of the box, dear God, of monotony. Lord, we're gonna rise on wings as of eagles. Lord, I thank you that all things are possible to those who believe. And Lord, at this hour, Lord, we want to dwell in the shelter of the Most High. And Father, I thank you for the power of prayer. I thank you that prayer is changing our lives. I thank you that prayer is changing me. I thank you that prayer, dear God, is bringing a newness to the walk of my life. I thank you, Jesus, that there is the joy, there is anointing, there is power in the word. And Lord, I pray that we will be brothers and sisters of the word, that we will pray, Lord, as we go through the darkest, the biggest battles of our lives, I pray that we won't get fixated on the war zone of life. But Lord, that we will look up to Jesus. We will lift our hands and say the battle belongs to the Lord. I'm free from history, I'm free from the present, I'm free from the future, my sins, my sickness,
my disease, everything was nailed at the cross of Calvary. I am born again, spirit-filled, blessed and highly favored. Lord, I thank you that I'm not even gonna name and try to name the fears that I cannot name. Lord, I'm not worried about that. Lord, I'm not gonna let it affect me anymore. Lord, wherever we are, from the battlefields to the skirmishes, just to the rhythm of life, Father, I thank you that we realize who we are in Christ Jesus. And we are born again, brothers and sisters in Christ Jesus, and all things are possible to those who believe. Never ever give up. There is a way forward, and his name is Jesus. I will catch you very soon. Don't go too far. See you at the next prayer.