Welcome, only thanks for joining us here in Elim church are joining myself, Reverend Ben Cooper and our lovely brother, Andy this morning and a lovely brother Don. Good morning, gentlemen. Good morning, as we are live on social media, we're on YouTube as well. So if you want to follow us on YouTube, Facebook, we just want to welcome you this morning to coffee and prayer and to the world of podcasting. As we podcast this morning, as we record this, that goes out a week later on Spotify. And as it goes out on everywhere else, buzzsprout and all the other platforms and all the other podcasting platforms that we are on, we just want to say thank you so much for joining us. We hope you had a great Christmas, you're having a good New Year, you know, come on, you know, we got to pray for peace. I really believed this morning. You know, with the announcements A day or two ago, whenever it was, you know, we're a little bit of a smile on our face, because we thinking, Oh Lord, we're in a peace, this world needs peace. We need peace and about you guys out there watching and listening. But for myself personally, this morning, I need more peace, I need more peace, I need more joy, the Lord made more God made. Moreover, the power of the Holy Spirit. Need more of him, you know, we just need more of him, we need more of him this morning. And we just got to be focused, we just got to be focused and just trust them and, and completely just surrender everything over to him and, and just give him all the glory and all the praise. You know, he's Worthy of all praise. You know. It's just good to be in the house of the Lord as we just rest and we be still. And as we just focus and unrest with him and just trust him. Or a good God we serve you know, it's so difficult sometimes in it. It's so so so difficult sometimes to, to focus and to to get everything right in our lives. But we're going to cry. We're just going to rest in his presence, and which is welcome, everybody that's come on this morning. And how you feeling done this morning?
Donny Stockburn:Good. Good. I was just smiling at this. Have you talking about smiling? I said earlier, my dress is not in this planet any longer. Since I've got saved. It's done stop burn in Christ. King died on heaven. That's my interest. And that's all your choices at all. Now,
Reverend Ben Cooper:praise God.
Donny Stockburn:We've already passed into that life is already done it. So that brings you peace.
Reverend Ben Cooper:It does bring you peace. It don't bring you peace. And are you feeling or further away from this and do as things with you?
Andy Hammond:Yeah, I'm it's, it's getting a bit tiresome now,
Reverend Ben Cooper:isn't it very tired.
Andy Hammond:Do you think that I think lots of people are now really fed up with what's happening. Some are not too pleased the way things are being governed. You know, all the direction being given by government. And then a day or so later. Things are different. Very changed. And you wonder what really is going on? But how real hope is in God. Yeah.
Reverend Ben Cooper:But yeah, that's where the talk was. Boy, it's got to be we got to be where it is. And
Andy Hammond:it's only through Jesus that we get peace. Yeah,
Reverend Ben Cooper:exactly.
Donny Stockburn:Yeah. The world. Your eyes on Jesus.
Andy Hammond:There are a lot of people who are afraid. Yeah. scared to go out.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yes.
Andy Hammond:Even, you know, scared to go to the shops now as to what? What's going to happen? Yeah, we're now told that we can't go out unless we got something particular and special to do like shopping or childcare or things like that. And but I think we have to pray for our government to give the most definitely so that they have wisdom in how they government approach got what I was pleased to hear from, you know, sir Keir Starmer, who was in agreement with what was happening, make sure change, which hasn't happened for a long, long time. So that's good. There's a bit of unity coming on the power of agreement. So yeah, that is good. But I think what it boils down to is that we've got to trust God in all this Most definitely. Yeah. And I think what we can say today is that our only hope is in Jesus.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Hope is in Christ. You know that song. My hope, you know, is this, but we're resting in Jesus. So we just want to thank everybody for watching and listening this morning. As we dive into coffee and prayer this morning, wherever you are around the world. We want to thank you so much for joining us here in Elan church, as we are podcasting this morning. We're recording it for the world of Spotify, and all the other platforms that we are on. And as I said earlier, we found the life for Don and Andy this morning, everybody watching, thank you so much for watching this morning, everybody on social media for YouTube and Facebook and other platforms that we are using. But we're here just to rest and to be still to trust them. This is the
Donny Stockburn:Asti announced and then this is the place to change.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Let's pray together this morning. I don't know, as I said earlier than about you guys out there. But I really believe this is a time when God is stripping us back. You know, we're hearing the word what the world has given us is conflict to what God's word is saying. And we got to be like, you I don't like to use the word Doubting Thomas. But Thomas of damasceno, Todd Thomas said, Don't tell me any more about Christ, I want to see him. And I really believe that we need to seek for peace. We need peace. Don't wait. I don't know about everyone watching out there. And we just pray for peace this morning. So let's get in. Let's get into prayer this morning. And let's just rest in our garden, our king and just trust him never give up what I say to everybody out there this morning. Never give up. My first scripture I've got this morning is Philippians chapter four Philippians chapter four, verse four. It says rejoice in the Lord always. I will say again rejoice. Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near the Lord is there. Do not be anxious about anything but in every situation by prayer and petition or supplication, depending on what we're reading from, give thanks and present your request to God and the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts, hearts and minds in Christ Jesus, Father, we come before you this morning, Lord, and we thank you for the Word of God. Your word is life. Lord, Your word is like honey on our lips. And this morning, Lord, we're praying for everybody listening. We pray for everybody watching at this moment. We're praying for us three this morning, Lord, that there will be peace. In this nation. Father, we ask that you will touch the lives of the government, the politicians, Lord in number 10, your move through Westminster, that you will give them paste that you'll give them a Godly wisdom that the hand of the Lord will be on this government that you will move very powerfully. And it's clearly father we just pray Father for Boris Johnson this morning. We pray for everybody in that leadership. Father, we pray that you will strengthen them and guide them. Lord, we pray that the hand of the Lord will be on this government in this nation. Father, we think of the healthcare sector law we think of the NHS, the private care. We pray for the hospitals that are at stretching point at this moment. Father, we blind for the doctors, the nurses, the cleaners, the cooks, the chef's everybody involved, the front liners law, everyone we pray, Father, for those that are keeping us in a safe, we thank you for their lives. We thank You, Father for what you're doing through the power father of medicine. But right now Lord, Father, we pray, we need the king. We need the God of Israel to move in this notion. We need our file that we need our God we need the power of God to move in this nation. And Lord, we pray for all those Lord that may be seeking Jesus Lord that may be sitting on the fringe of Christianity, that maybe I've never walked into a church before but just feel fearful about what's happening. We pray that you will touch their lives you will touch their hearts we pray Lord for families today that are worried about jobs money, we pray for those that are petrified literally shaking and worrying about their mortgage payments worried about their social housing rent, worried about their private rent, worried about their lives worried about their jobs, worried about the children worried about putting food on the table, Father, we need practical oil, follow the church to make God seems to be pretty good in praying spirits for spiritual answers below. Come on Jesus we need we need our gone we need our God to provide we need to be we need provision. We need provision law in this nation we need to be provided for Lord, we pray right now for supernatural intervention from our God, the God of Israel that we serve Father, we want pieces inside of this earth suit that we live in. We want peace in this body of ours. We want peace in our head and our heart and our minds. And we also think about mental health issues at this moment. But Lord, we need practical help now on this earth. Lord, we need the Savior. We need our God we need our King blow you need to show up God. No Lord that you're always with us and you never leave us nor forsake us, as the Good Book says But father right now we need the power of the Holy Spirit. So we need to comfort as Jesus left the earth and he said, I will not leave you as often. I will send the karmic atonement. So Lord, I thank you that each one of us has the Holy Spirit. But right now, Lord, Father, we need we need just guidance in our lives. We need practical help. We think of parents are worried about the education of their children. We pray for parents that are worried about their jobs. We pray for parents that are locked down that may have cabin fever. We pray for anyone that just filled the lockdown the word lockdown that word is getting too heavy. And Father, we pray that they will find peace in lockdown. I pray, Father, that we will find peace in lockdown that we will not allow the worry and the fear Lord of the word lockdown and the Bible father and all these other words, Father, that government are using to to affect our mental health, our understanding, our Lord, we are praying for peace as Thomas stood in that room with his friends and his church buddies in the Gospel of john. And he said unless I see, I will not believe Yeah, Lord, we need we need our living Christ. We need the Messiah. Yeah, just just a prompt just a bit more. We need just reassurance. We pray for all the believers. We pray for those seekers. We pray for all those Lord, we pray for the atheists this morning. We pray for the agnostics this morning we prayed for the world. We just want peace. We want peace. In the presence of a storm. We want guidance in trouble. And Lord, we thank you that your word is a lamp unto our feet, a light for our path. And this morning, Lord, as we pray for government as we pray for schools, we pray for parents and grandparents we pray for marriages. We pray for those that are single we pray for those who are looking to get married Lord in a matter push it back because of the pandemic and the plague that is their Father, we pray for all those that are going through divorce or those that are going through separation. We pray for all those that are struggling with just general livers. Lord, we need guidance Lord humanity Jesus needs Jesus says done he said we need Jesus. But as the scripture says, I pray that we keep our eyes so we keep our eyes on the author and the perfecter of our faith. As Hebrews 12 says, we keep our eyes on Jesus. We keep our eyes on Jesus. I pray for everyone watching and listening for the world of social media for the world of podcasting, Lord fruit for our hearing for our eyesight that will keep our ears and our eyes on Christ. That father you have never left us nor forsaken us. We will not be anxious for anything as Philippians four says, Father, we rejoice in the Lord always Philippians law four says we rejoice always in the Lord. I will say it again rejoice. Let your gentleness be evident to all. Father our gentleness needs to be evident to all I pray for any of us that feel angry with the current situation. I pray for any of us that feel bitter or worried father any of us that are struggling with unforgiveness towards family, friends, situations that are arising and all decrease the anger father that arises from trouble and fear we come against that word fear this morning. And we pray against that word fear we will not allow fear to attach itself to us we we think of mental health at this moment all those that are struggling with their thoughts, their cognitive processing, psychological thoughts we pray for those Lord that are that are thinking Lord, logically, Lord, those that are getting themselves in a in a tangle with get themselves tied down because of their thinking logically. We pray Father that we will not think Lord that we will follow, Lord that we will not be thinkers of trying to think our way through a plague but Lord, that we will be praying our way through and we will rest in the arms of Jesus that we will rest in the arms of the Messiah that we will rest in the God of Israel that we will rest that we will rejoice, Lord, we just rejoice father Philippians four, chapter four verses four rejoice in the Lord always. Father, everyone is still in the water podcast and we rejoice. Everyone watching on social media we rejoice everyone listening around the world. Father, we rejoice this morning. Philippians four is a very, very important text this morning. I repeat myself and I will not apologize. Philippians four. It says in verse four rejoice in the Lord always may say it again. Rejoice. Verse five, let your gentleness be evident or the Lord is nasty, but everyone this morning that is worrying that they feel that God Ababa has left us or he has not left us The Lord is near. Yeah. How do I get close to my god I call on the name of Jesus. I call on Jesus Father. Father, we keep in Philippians For this morning, and Lord through prayer for supplications we do not be anxious we will not we cannot be anxious about anything. The Scripture says in Philippians four, chapter four verse six, do not be anxious about anything but in every situation by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, present your requests to God, and the peace of God, verse seven of Philippians chapter four, and the peace of God which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your mind in Christ Jesus, Lord, I praying for peace. I am praying for joy. I am praying for the power of the Holy Spirit. I'm praying for peace, Lord, as the scripture says, Be anxious for nothing. We will not allow anxiety to grandma's father for the coffee and prayer for this communion together with the world this morning. We will not be anxious for anything but in everything we give rejoices. Lord Ray rejoice, who we shall rejoice is this morning, we praise the greatest name in heaven on earth. And at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow father will come before thee. We pray again and again for this nation, Father, we are pressing into you this morning, we are leaning in as the disciple did around that table fall around the Passover table. Lord, I pray that this nation will lean into Jesus that we we lean into Christ we rest in the arms of Jesus, we rest in the in the everlasting arms of the Father. Lord, you tell us that our God is a righteous Yes. However, you are a strong tower, you are the tower, you are our refugee. Strength and we come Lord, the righteous run in to that we run in the Lord is a strong tower and the righteous run in today this morning, Lord and I pray, Lord, for all those that are worrying that anxiousness, Lord will not open a gateway to fear that anxiousness will not lead to more mental health issues, but Lord liquid judiciousness will go at the name of Jesus, fear will disappear, that worry will go down, we'll go down the Spirit of the Living God we pray, Lord, for the hand of the Lord on us in this podcasting room this morning, we pray for everyone listening and watching for the world of media. And Lord, we thank you that you are a good guy, and we will not we will not be beaten, we will not be pressed, we will not be pushed back low but we rise this morning. And the hand of the Lord is honest. Our father is with us. The Word of God is with us. The Spirit of the Lord is with us as a Father, we thank you that the three the Godhead is with us, that we are not left as often as this morning, but our God is with us the Heavenly Father, we bless you and we praise you. And we lift up the greatest name in heaven on earth, but law this nation needs our king. This nation father needs a savior this nation needs his spiritual guidance this nation needs a government that will lead by the God of Israel. We need this nation to be saved, sanctified, coming under repentance, turning away from our wicked ways. I pray that we will not partner with any nations or any areas of the world that are ungodly. Lord, we pray that you will remove any satanic in rose. And this morning the hand of the Lord is over us Lord And Father, we pray for the borders of the UK that you will put fire around the borders. We pray for every area of this nation. We pray for every hospital. We pray for the prisons this morning. We pray Father for the hospices, we pray for that nursing home that areas of life where people are being cared for, in homes, Lord, in hospitals, wherever that may be, Father, we pray that we will hear the voice the Lion of Judah grieving over this nation. Breathe God breathed on us this morning breath of God, Lord, let the wind of heaven blow down the corridors of the UK. Lord, let there be Lord revival fires Lord, let there be fires springing up, Lord, let there be fires springing up this morning. Let the anointed Oh God be upon us this morning. Let grace descend. By the way, thank you that in a famine period, there is a favor. Even though Lord there may be a famine in this nation, a spiritual family, Lord, there is favor on the children of the living God and Lord, that is anyone that says I believe in the God of his wrath. I repent of my ways, blood was sanctified. We pray for all those that want to come to church, but can't Get to church. We pray for those churchgoers father that feel that they've lost their way. That church is not the answer. The structure is not the answer. But the head of the church that is not the Pope. That is not the bishop. That is not anyone that is not the queen of this nation. It is not no government official, it is no politician. There is only one head of the root church. Yes, Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, the King of kings, he is the head of the church, the body of Christ, and let's serve our Lord and our Savior. Come Holy Spirit. Refresh us today, Lord, You are a good and a powerful guy. We do not serve man. We do not serve the system, but we serve the Everlasting Father. And Lord, I pray this morning for all those that fill father less this morning. Father, they will realize that their Heavenly Father is raining down on them and let the glory rest on them today. In Jesus name, amen. Amen. Amen. Lord, thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Father, we bless you, Lord, we pray for all those Lord that are in abusive relationships this morning, we pray, Father, for all those Lord that feel worried with their partners with their husbands or their wives with their families in the house. Lord, this lockdown is bringing so much more pressure to families to relationships, the strain on marriage, the strain with children and parents. The strain as a single parent, maybe a grandparent, whoever they are looking after children. Father, we pray for those that are looking after the vulnerable as well. We pray for the vulnerable Lord, we pray for the elderly Lord, we are in a crisis in this world in this nation. And we need a practical God to reveal Himself to us we pray for those that are end of life at home. We pray for those father with disabilities. We pray for those with life limiting illnesses. We pray for those that have mental health issues that are locked down in doors, we pray for those that are fearful of opening their front door. We pray that you will draw our hearts closer to the Father, we need to come closer to the Father. And this morning, Lord, we pray that you will make our way where there seems to be no way. But you are the way the truth of life. But Lord, we pray for all those that are in abusive relationships this morning. Father, we pray for those that are in abusive relationships, that you will keep the mouth of the abuser closed, that you will tie the hands of the abuser right now. And Lord that you will protect the vulnerable children that are in dangerous and awful predicaments this morning that are in lockdown with people that are violent with people that are dangerous that people Father God are taking out their aggression on their husbands or their wives, their brothers or sisters or their children. We come against anger this morning. We come against anger and built up anger this morning that Father no man, no one will take anger out on any other human being. But this morning, there will be peace in every house. Every home. every person's heart this morning. Father we pray that you will give rest for people today, the Lord, we asked you that you will tie the hands of every abuser, that you will keep the mouth closed. Those Lord that come against us with words, Father that piss our head, our heart. Father, we pray that you will close out is to stop Father God that he's really penetrating our very being. that this will be the day where freedom abounds in homes, that freedom will break out. Come Holy Spirit, we need peace. The same prayer for me this morning Lord peace,
Donny Stockburn:peace law, for come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy of fine grace lll in this time of need, Yes, Lord, this is this is a Hebrews 416 and it's an invite to come. Not just come to God but to come up to the throne of grace. Thank you. Jesus is a very personal invite to all those who are Christians or those who are blood washed, to come boldly, boldly, boldly means widely to God but it's with confidence. come to you will find mercy and grace to help you says the Lord in the time of need. These are the days of need we know Lord, we just we just come to you now we come to that final class we come in with all the troubles all the burdens, Father God, all the wires all the fear Lord, we cast out fear we bring out drag it out Lord. Those are money changes in your temple Father God, Mike Yeah, Lord Dr. Fear out Father God hallelujah. That was in your companion. He was very comfortable there until you walked in, cast him out or cast. We pray, cast fear. Jesus, thank you, Lord, we pray that you will bring your peace in. We asked for peace but when we ask for peace is not the world's peace. We pray for Jesus peace. Jesus said, I give you my peace, hallelujah. His peace is not like the world's peace is not a deal. And that what is different about the peace of Christ? I asked that one night when I was praying in the other room there. And I, as I said, if I spell these words, this is because you tell me all my tomatoes, you don't guess you tell me that I'm yours. You gave me the history of my life in advance. What is pizza in it? Can you tell me, I'll be in heaven forever. You tell me you will keep me safe forever and ever and by family. No one that you can tell me my future. No one but Jesus can tell you, your future except Jesus. He's got it all. That that gives me peace inside. That gives me a peace, the economic experience when all those things are in place. When I know that Christ is in charge of my life, when I know that no violence is in charge of my life, when I know no Prime Minister.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you.
Donny Stockburn:No, rich man. No, no one is in charge my life except Christ. Christ, nothing comes to me. Except through him. Hallelujah. Thank you. Please come, come right up to my phone. Yes. So out to my throne God, holy of holy place where we invite. We can go in there, because we are righteous now. And we are hungry. Now. How did we do it? How do we get it? The blood of Jesus did it. And he can do it to anyone. If you got no peace at the moment. You might have a deal gun with a world you might just shove your fears in the background, but there's still not peace, thank you. It might get peace. If you do this. If you have that. You will have peace. You try. And you haven't got it, you still find peace anyway. Hallelujah. Last is our peace. He said, I give you my peace. You can't calm down. You can't be a good boy for 10 weeks. Come on all the tricks.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yes, Lord.
Donny Stockburn:He gives it to you. Come on fall. Therefore, come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and grace. For we do not have a high priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses. He knows our flesh. He knows us inside out. He knows that he knows how many times my eyes are gonna blink. He knows my future. He knows. He's like, Jesus, He gives us a perfect guess. It's the future. It's history in advance. Gonna be with him in heaven. That's my future. Thank you, Jason. I will walk that path of righteousness. Psalm 23 tells me my journey. Clearly there have been troubled times and laying down their big dangers, because it's when made the great shepherd. That gives me peace. Thank you. He's the only one who can give us that peace for Jesus Holy thank you for it far to go which is pride out there that peace will go out. Go out from you go out from your phone when everyone abroad right now is in prayer Columbian that FOMO asking you, you want wisdom. Ask him. You want peace? Ask him. You want joy. Ask him. Invite. Come and come and ask. This is the asking place this is this is the place that changed the world. This is the place that wins battles and wars. win souls Father God, we worship prayer, the prayer room Lord, the asking price that's your invite. And sitting there where we come is a high priests who knows our lives inside? What please come on board. Before we get there, you know the words we're going to speak strengthened. Thank you. We praise your worship. She nailed it. That piece will go out Yes, fall out fall. Don't go out from that throne. and bless the lives of all those who are locked in fears and traveled. Father God we we asked your Holy Spirit, the power of the Holy Spirit to come on everyone find God
Reverend Ben Cooper:small.
Donny Stockburn:Any addictions, we can carve them out now in the name of God. fill them with the Holy Spirit. Fill him with a True Father God fill him with a piece of Jesus word. We are seeking
Reverend Ben Cooper:yourself in touch. Father to strengthen us today to strengthen us today. Come on.
Andy Hammond:Thank you, Father. Thank you. Your Spirit is all powerful. Hallelujah.
Donny Stockburn:Yes, Lord.
Andy Hammond:Thank You that You promised that you would send your comforter. Yeah,
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yes, Lord.
Andy Hammond:When you went to the cross you, you were explaining to your disciples that they had to wait. They had to wait for the comforter. Yeah, and this was predicted in, in the old part of the Bible, the Old Testament. And it says in john chapter to be not afraid. Be glad and rejoice. Surely the Lord has done great things. Be not afraid, and be glad and rejoice in the Lord, for his given you. The autumn rain, in righteousness. abundant showers, abundance, Lord, thank you. And it goes on to say, and afterwards I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will profit size for your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my spirit in those days, Jesus, and everyone who calls on the name of the Lord, come on and be saved. Yeah. And of course, Peter in Acts to us to that quote from the Old Testament about the spirit, so far, that we we thank you that we can't do anything without the power that can give your Holy Spirit. We ask you now to come again. Come Holy Spirit. Yes, be with each one of us here this morning, as we sit around this table. But more than that, we ask that you will pour out your Spirit on all those who are listening. You're refreshing again to Jesus, thank you. We want more of your spirit. We want to be fulfilling that prophecy from john, that we will have those streams Yes. We will be able to get words from you that we will prophesied in your name. So we thank You, Father, we thank You, God. We just come before you humbly we come before you in, in fear. We've mentioned father that there are many now who are fearful because of this virus. Father, we just make a stand against it. That we asked you to push it back. That brushing you will come be with each one of us. And may father men, women and children who have come before you now we'll turn to you and that they can ask you asked you to come and be with them. Being with them, as a friend, be with them as a comforter as we prayed this morning that you bring your comfort in times of trial and stress. So we want your peace. Yeah, I meant that we want to hope come up here. Just father we want to hope that you have the hope that only you can give. We will more
Donny Stockburn:of yours. Only Jesus. Thank
Reverend Ben Cooper:you. Yeah. There's a beautiful reading in Psalm 55. Psalm 55, verse four, verse four, Psalm 55. It says, My heart is in anguish within me. The terrors of death have fallen upon me. fear and trembling have beset me, horror is over, whelmed me. I said oh, that I would fly off on the wings of a dove I would fly and be at rest. I would fly and far away from it. And stay in the deserts. I would hurry to my place of shelter. Far from the tempest and the storm father you are that place of shelter. There may be many across this nation this morning, watching and listening that their heart is in anger. squish with inside of them and Father, we pray that you will remove all anguish, or fear or doubt all worried Father, we pray for those that are worried about their Universal Credit payment. We pray for those that are in anguish over mortgage payments, or those that are in anguish over putting food on the table. We pray for all those that are in anguish this morning just in fear and doubt and uncertainty coming from number 10 Downing Street, we pray for those that feel anguish is just a part of their life that Father we break every road that the enemy tries to press upon us. We use in the word anguish, fear, doubt, lockdown, worried father, the social bubble word, Father God that the people are frightened father to step out of front doors, but father, who the sun sets free is free indeed, Father, we pray, Father that we will listen very clearly to what the system is saying. But Father, we pray that we will be very wise spiritually, Father, Lord, that we will not allow Father God, anything to compromise our faith. So this morning, Lord, Father, whatever we may be hearing across social media, whatever we may be hearing from government departments, law, that the fear and anguish will not rest on us, Lord, we come against the word lockdown, Father, that word lockdown father, the spiritual implications that that word has. We are not in spiritual lockdown. We are free within ourselves learn. We may be restricted by where we can travel, and who we can see, but Lord, we can pray anywhere, we can commune with you anywhere. We don't need to be in a fine, beautiful church. We don't need to be in any particular era area, wherever we are. God is with us. Father, we pray this morning, and we thank you that we do not need to be in a church. Lord, we started to realize that the the building known as church cannot save us. But the King of glory that is the head of the church can set us free from any plague, any trouble, any doubt, any fears. And Lord, we come right now and stand before our God and we lift and we present our requests and our understanding to the Everlasting Father, and learn we bridge the gap for those that can't pray this morning, we bridge the gap for those that are still under the doovy of fear, we bridge the gap for those who are frightened to open curtains. This is one of those who bridge the gap for those that are frightened to open their front door this morning, we bridge the gap for those that are in fear that their business is going we bridge the gap for those that are worried about their marriage, we bridge the gap for the worry of parents over children's grandparents Father, we bridge the gap this morning. I Lord, we thank You Father, that you are the God that created the heavens and the earth and by the power of the Word of God. All things are possible to those who believe. And Lord, I thank you that I don't need to go into church to find my God. I thank you that I don't need to go to any pastor or leader to find my God. I thank you that I don't need to gather in a group to find my God. Where the Lord is there is Liberty Where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. And Lord each one of us this morning is blood wash, sanctify free Lord from religion, you're free from fare free from worry free from doubt. But one thing's for sure we know that our names are stamped in the Lamb's book of life. And the hand of the Lord is on us today. And who the sun sets free is free. Indeed, Father, we remove every word father that the enemy is trying to hold us down with. Lord, we are not bound by satanic chains of words. We will not allow the words of the world to hold us down. Father the scripture has set us free this morning. The one that wrote Lord the scripture has set us free this morning. The Word became flesh and has set us free this morning. Lord You are the way the truth and the life and Father we will not allow one down to lock us down secretly, Lord, we may be restricted to our homes and to a certain distance of travel. But we are not restricted in the spirit realm. We are not restricted with our conversation to God. We are not restricted to what and how we can study the Word of God we are not restricted in the power of the Holy Spirit Father, we pray that fire from heaven will fall on this nation we recorded now that well was unbelievable water will spring out of this earth. The spiritual wells will come up here in homes this morning, Lord that there will be life flowing in every home this morning. We pray for joy Lord will run fear out of the door at the name of Jesus. We pray that the hand of God will drive out any doubt in the name of Jesus and Father we pray that the blood the blood of Christ will be over every houses Lord, as it was, as it was conveyed, as it was given in the book of Exodus. Father, Lord, we thank you that the Lamb has been slain. We thank you that the lamb the Lamb of God, when right now Lord, Father, Lord, we do what you told them to do. So the angel of death passed over when the angel of death will see the sign and Lord, what was the sign? The sign was the blood of Jesus. And Lord, I thank you for the believers, our blood was sanctified. Lord, I thank you that I don't need to step into a church to have the blood of Christ I thank you, Lord, I haven't got to be in a religious group to get the blood of Jesus. Thank you, Lord, I haven't got to be under a denomination as long as I'm under Jesus. I am under Jesus, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, the great I am the God of Israel, the Lion of Judah, Jehovah gyra, Jehovah nasty, Jehovah Shalom, come on God, your provider, your Spirit of the Living God move in this nation, we declare, Lord that the heavens above are moving. We thank you, the angels have been assigned because of the children of the living God speak the living word. And when we speak the word we thank you that heavenly activity right now Lord, prison doors are opening within ourselves. Fear has been released and as gone at the name of Jesus, we are not bound in our home. We are not bound in one room. We are free in the name of Jesus, the Spirit of the Lord is honest today there is fresh anointing on the children of God, there is fresh anointing on the believers this morning, we are believing we serve a God doesn't cause the things that are not as though they were Lord. We are calling the things that are not as though they are in our lives, Lord, and we are not talking about the prosperity gospel. We're not talking about the name it and claim it. We are just reminding the devil this morning that we are children of the living guy and the real churches woke up this morning, the body of Christ has woke up this morning. And we realized that we are redeemed blood was sanctified in the name of Jesus and no weapon formed against us shall prosper. And we stand on the real word of God. We don't need church. We don't need the establishment to get us into heaven, because the blood of the Messiah has been shed a calories cross. And when he said it is finished, oh, Hallelujah, what a great word. What a great word from God and our king. We thank you that Jesus said it is vinesh, the soldier that pierced his side, it was not him that took the life of Christ. It was not the soldiers that put the mouse in his wrists. And in his free it was not them. It was Jesus. He said when he was ready, he gave up his spirit when it was all said, A scriptures was fulfilled, he said, It is finished. Lord, we thank you for the finished work of Calvary. On the third day, that Jesus Christ of Nazareth, got up, wrapped up the grave clothes, walked out and left an empty tomb. We thank you that we have not got no grave marker to where our goddess because our God is not dead. Out. Jesus is not dead, he's alive forevermore. I am the Great I Am. He said Moses said, whom are going to say, has sent us the I Am. So Lord, we tell the virus. We tell worry and fear the aim is with us. We will not be shaken. We will not allow fear to run us under the Do they have fear we will not allow Jesus to hold us as shackles are gone. We are in the name of Jesus. We are children of the living God. We do not belong to a worldly business church. We belong to the God of Israel. We belong to the kingdom of God. We are children of the living God, and everyone watching and listening through social media, through the world of podcasts through buzzsprout, Spotify for older platforms that we use. The Spirit of the Lord is moving through the airwaves, the spirit of the law and oxygen that we breathe. The Spirit of the Lord is in the fabric of everything. He said, I have loosened for the I Am. Oh guy Oh, yeah. Oh, Jesus. So we got to remind ourselves church. We've got to remind ourselves who we are in Jesus. We got to remind ourselves that the God that we serve is for us. And if the God that we serve is for us, who can be against us, every devil in hell is going to be released upon us but when you're moving sanctified, standing on the Word of God, it doesn't matter what happens. It doesn't matter what the world wants to do. You gotta trust Jesus. He is the way the truth and the life. Hebrews 12, read about verse two. It says, keep your eyes on Jesus is the author and the pain factor. Faith, Thank You, Lord this morning, I remind myself that I am a son of the living goddess. This morning, Lord, we remind ourselves, we are sons and daughters of the living God. We don't need education, we don't need money. We don't need a great bank account. We don't need a fine house. We don't need that desirable postcode that the world tells us that we need. All we need is our name stamped in the land book of life. We seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His righteousness and everything else shall be added unto thee. This morning, we break free of any fear this morning law. Oh God, the
Donny Stockburn:son in law,
Reverend Ben Cooper:we realized Exodus 12 we realized that the blood the blood of the Lamb, Lord, we thank you that the engine of death has passed over our house because we are blood wash sanctified, standing on the Word of God. We are not building on sand. We are building on the rock we are building on the word we are building on our Christ, the cornerstone, the great I am o Jehovah gyra, Jehovah nissi, Jehovah Shalom, our God, our healer, our provider, the great I am is with us is upon us and is within us. Fear has no place in my life. Doubt has no place in my mind. Or God in the name of Jesus anxiousness. We repeat the name of Jesus all hallelujah. The devil is a liar. You got to remind yourself the devil is a liar. Give him no foothold whatsoever. Come on Jesus. Pour your spirit this morning.
Donny Stockburn:Yeah, I mean, I love this a few nights ago. And it lines up bins is a witness of what Ben's just said, over there. After a day of fearful acronyms in my life, I said suddenly and said, Lord, I'm never alone. Now, whenever I know that, I'm not afraid anymore. Come on. Now I know that I'm not alone. Alone. Again, we're not alone a history of free all. Everything all time. Thank
Reverend Ben Cooper:you, Joe. We'll never
Donny Stockburn:be alone again. Now that I know that. I'm not afraid anymore. And then he said, the blood is not on the doorpost anymore. The plan is on, you know, yeah. That's guarantees out sounds nice on us. Because the blood is on us now. Of course, hallelujah. And then that's what Ben would come on Lord speaking about. And this is how God is saying that today, you're worthy Lord and the Bloods on you have to fear anymore, man, because he's with us forever, ever and ever and ever. With no gaps. In the night when you're flying. When you're shaking. When when troubles a mountain, you're not on your own. But when we are on the streets, and so a little bit fearful
Reverend Ben Cooper:or afraid or
Donny Stockburn:who you've got a spirit of God with us all the time. That's his promise. That's the promise to all you who are blind wash that you will never, ever be on your own. To say what I say. I'm not afraid anymore. Hallelujah. I'm just not afraid anymore. It seems as though fear cannot penetrate. We break it on my own anymore. Lord, it supplies you for that, Lord.
Andy Hammond:Oh, yeah.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Come on. Come on the world. Let's pray.
Andy Hammond:I think the thought has been coming to me this morning is the Psalms are such a good place to go. When. When you're downhearted when you're afraid. Yeah. When you're not sure where the next meal is coming from Psalm. David wrote a good deal here, King David. And we all know about King David who he was isn't is a character. He fell short so many times. Yeah. And God loved him God's stuff. And he's the same same with us. And I just got this verse from Psalm 34, which is verse 18, the Lord is close to the brokenhearted. Oh, yeah.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you, Jesus and save
Andy Hammond:souls who are crushed in spirit. Yeah, come on. And I that does speak so loudly to me this morning that he is close to you. Yeah. God is close to you. And you may be crushed in spirit. You may be down, pour your spoon, you may not want to get out of bed this morning. Yeah, you want to just stay there under the competence, but he is close to you. And, and he will want to interact with you praise God. All you need to do is ask him, ask him to come, yeah. And the Holy Spirit will come and come alongside you and be with you. That's my experience. The Holy Spirit never lets you down.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you.
Andy Hammond:He's always thank you for so we just pray, Father God as we come to this time, of communion together, that you will display who you are,
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank You, Jesus,
Andy Hammond:through this bread and wine this morning, that you will show us who you are, that we can come to you. Because you are our Savior. You love each one of us. And we know now that you're calling people to yourself, you are calling people to yourself. You're calling people back to yourself, those who know you. But you're calling us back, just like the father, waiting for his son who's gone and left. So everything. He's waiting for you to return a layer and he will run towards you to meet you to express his love. Come on. So we just thank you, Jesus. Yes, thank you, father. We thank you Holy Spirit for what you're doing.
Donny Stockburn:Yeah, thank you, Lord more
Andy Hammond:we pray more we pray, be with all those who are afraid this morning. For those who need help, or those who need peace, and all those who need a healing touch from you to more we pray. Amen. Amen. We're coming.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yeah, yeah, Don, hang on, Don, before we go any further, we just want to get anyone ready that wants to get some communion together. So an economist Don's got a reading for you.
Donny Stockburn:That was not amazing. This word, my friend. Let's have it. I've got the other night as some. He just just stay in prayer over this, as I've read it. And let this thinking about his power. The bloody cheese. Yeah. Okay. Now how about the power of forgiveness in a person's life goes into the foundations. When you know you're forgiven? Yeah, when you know it's irreversible. When God can not only give it but keep it, then you'll feel safe, then you'll start to blossom. Yeah, then you know, your wallet tie, then you know, you're in the arc. And the inside the outside is watertight, the world can't get in. So just stay in a way of prayer. Because this is the blood that cleanses us from all sin, which is a sickness. This is the blood that keeps us there is nothing else in all creation that can do what this blood can do. what God has done, no medication, no vaccinations, no plan of man, no memory, no good deeds Mountain High, though they may be for all mankind. We all have sinned, and fallen short of God. Oh, yes. Fall in nature. We have a fallen nature. Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse. Only the blood of Jesus can take away our sins. That's why it's called our Savior, the Savior of the world. That's why he broke into the history of this world. As well, he broke into the history of our lives, only the blood of Jesus. Is it possible to get farther which is quite give you thanks for the power that blood laws law require everyone listening? Everyone tried right now. will now the power that blood road will now that watts release them into eternal life with God is the blood of Jesus. Nothing else could do it which is Thank You, Lord. We'll keep that in mind as we come to the community. Thank you.
Reverend Ben Cooper:We got to write in this morning for one Corinthians chapter 11 verse 23. I'll write this and then Andy will pray for the emblems this morning. As we just take communion, remember and we can be wherever we want to be to do this. We can be at work, we can be at home. We can be in a field, you can be in a van. You can Be anywhere and take a bread and a cup. One Corinthians chapter 11, verse 23, for I've received from the Lord, when I also pass on to you, the Lord Jesus on the night he was betrayed took bread. And when he had given thanks, he broke it and said, This is my buddy, which is for you Do this in remembrance of me. In the same way after supper, he took the cup, saying, This cup is a new covenant in my blood, do this whenever you drink it in remembrance of me. For whenever you eat this bread and drink of this cup, you proclaim the Lord's death and it comes. So then whoever eats the bread and drinks of the cup of the Lord, in an unworthy manner will be guilty of sinning against the body and the blood of the Lord. Everyone ought to examine themselves before they eat of this bread, and drink of this cup.
Donny Stockburn:Thank you.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you.
Donny Stockburn:Yes.
Andy Hammond:So Father, we just thank you for this bread and wine. that symbolizes your body and blood, your body that was broken, and your blood that was shared. And just reading from one of the Gospels here, with a loud cry, Jesus breathed, his loss occurred from the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. And when the centurion who stood there in front of Jesus heard his cry and saw how he died, he said, Surely this man was the son of God. Yeah. So we thank you that without temple curtain being torn that we can all go into that throne room. We can all enter in not just once a year as the high priest used to do it, but we can go in at any time. So we thank you for that as we now take the bread. Yeah. And we this has that symbol. Thank you.
Donny Stockburn:Thank you.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you follow
Andy Hammond:me take a cup.
Donny Stockburn:This is a pledge of blood of Jesus. Heavy soldiers, trembling hands, every broken gleaming arm, to the trembling lips of the sick people that drank this precious blood come to comfort. You saw them all father, come on. He saw them all that night. holily he saw them all will be doing this load, visits a blood that made it all possible. It is a blood shed for us Father, for the remission of our sins, which is Thank You, Lord, Lord, that you saw that travels in advance. And you dealt with him there. He prayed for us that night, Lord, Amen. He pray that we would see your glory. He prayed that we would be where you were, Lord, and we know that because of this blood. This precious, plus his blood, Lord, we will be there. And we just give you thanks now in Jesus name. Amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Amen. Amen. Father, we thank you for the blood. The blood of the Lord Jesus Christ that was shed at Calvary cross. And Lord, we just pray for all those listening and watching now, and later on down the timeline of technology. We thank you for the Word of God, how powerful the Word of God, we pray for every sister and every brother on the opposite side of this lens to us. That may be listening to this podcast weeks and hours a year down the line from now, driving community wherever they are. We pray that the power of the Holy Spirit will touch their hearts. We then lose at the hand of the Lord is always upon us. That you never leave us nor forsake us. Yes, you're with us to the very end of time. And as Isaiah said that our God knows the end from the beginning, the beginning from the
Donny Stockburn:US good, Lord.
Reverend Ben Cooper:So Lord, I pray as we start out this morning, as we prayed at the very beginning of this this morning, we pray again for peace, for anguish to go to failure to go at the name of Jesus. And I'd like to read as we come to a close and we'll ask Andy to close After this reading that I have for us, and we pray that God will be with every one of you. And we will be encouragers of the faith. Psalm 91, from verse one through to 16. And then our brother Andy will close. in prayer this morning. Whoever dwells in the shelter of the most highest will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress, my God in whom I trust. Surely he will save you from the phallus Nam and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his feathers. under his wings, you will find refuge. His faithfulness will be your children, your rampart, you will not fear the terror of night, not the arrow that flies by day, not the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague, oh, hallelujah. No, the plague that destroys 1000 businesses may fall at your site 10,000 at your right hand, but it will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If you say, The Lord is my refuge, and you make him your most highly of your dwelling, no harm will overtake you. No disaster will come near your tent, for he will command his angels concerning you, to guard you in all your way.
Donny Stockburn:And he does,
Reverend Ben Cooper:they will let us up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against the stump. You will trample on the line and a cobra you will try to hold the great lion and that serpent because he loves me. He says the Lord, I will rescue him, I will protect him. For he acknowledges my name. He will call on me and I will answer him, I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him with long life while I satisfy him and show him my salvation.
Andy Hammond:Thank you for Thank you, Father, that's another song that we just love. And it's been particularly poignant in these times of this virus. And so we thank you that we can rely upon your word. And just say this as a final blessing this word from Deuteronomy. Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified. For the Lord your God goes with you. Amen. He will never leave you, nor forsake Cancun or that's
Donny Stockburn:the word
Andy Hammond:so far that that is a word from scripture that is relevant to us today. And just before Ben started, that, reading from the Psalm, I just saw, in my mind a picture of a broken heart. It was a heart shape, but it is fractured. So I just pray Father, that whoever that is, yesterday will come and meet with them now. That you will bring restoration that you will bring healing for them, and restore that heart, father. Bring your healing to that heart. And whatever it may be, whether it's a loss, whether it's a bereavement, whether it's a broken relationship, that you will come and be with them. And we are set in your powerful name. Amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. And Amen. We just want to say thank you this morning for everybody that's listen through YouTube through social media. Live this morning here in Elim church, you've been listening to myself, Reverend Benjamin Leonard Cooper and our lovely brother Andy, and our lovely brother, Don, we gather every Wednesday morning we have done for so long. Maybe you're watching through the world of social media, maybe you're listening through the world of podcasting through Spotify through buzzsprout for the different platforms that we go and we reach from So may God bless you and strengthen you wherever you are in the world. And we've got to remind us, and we got to remind each one we got to remind us and ourselves, that if God is for us, can be against us. Have a great day. Stay safe, but more than anything else, stay in the Word of God. Stay under the blood of Jesus. God bless everyone.
Donny Stockburn:Amen. Amen. Amen.