Good morning and welcome. Thanks for joining us here in Elim church you're joining us as we are recording this podcast this morning as we are just with our good friends this morning good friends, you know good friends this morning. Good to see you, Andy. Good to see you. Dawn this morning. You've been good to see my friends, you know coffee and prayer. We're recording this this morning. We have internet problems. So we are recording it and we will push it out. later on. Obviously, we are recording our podcast as well coffee and prayer. And we just want to say please like and share everything you see on social media that is going on at the moment for elim church. But we thank God for Don. And we thank God for Andy this morning. As we just gather around the scriptures, we have an hour of prayer. So we're going to get into that. And Andy mentioned a really important word earlier. And the word is hope. Hope is everything. What a powerful word that is hope, you know. So we're gonna dive straight into prayer, we got communion, we're gonna take communion together this morning. But let's just rest in his presence as we just gather around the Scripture and we dive straight into prayer this morning and ask God that it will lead us and guide us and strengthen us as we as we just rest in the arms of Christ. Come on, let's pray. And it's good to see it good to see it done. And thank God that we're able to gather together in these these hot days you know, as we just rest in his presence, let's just pray. Father, father's we come together this morning, you are a good and a powerful guy, and a lot this morning. And he has dropped a word in our hearts and our mind and our spirit, the word hope and Father we thank you that there is power, in hope. And this morning, Lord, Father, we press and we ask you, Lord, that You will guide us and strengthen us and be with us and lift us up but love we think of that word hope. We thank you how powerful hope is the word hope is so strong and so powerful. Lord, as we are recording this podcast as we are just sitting here. Speaking to the world of social media Father, we pray that hope will abound in lives today, that hope will come strong that Father that this will be the day that the Lord has made we shall rejoice and be glad and father where we're looking to you today. for guidance in our lives, we're looking for guidance. We're looking for the hand of the Lord, we're looking for the power of God. We're looking for the miracle to drop and descend upon each and every one of us, that you will fill us with your love and your goodness, your kindness. Lord, you strengthen us and you'll give us mercy and grace will abound. And Father, as we just gathered this morning, we thank you that there is power, in the mighty name of Jesus the Lord as we just rest with you, Lord, let the glory of the Lord just descend on us today. Let the glory just be on us today. Let the power of the Holy Spirit just be on us today. Being on us today on following for all those that are watching later that Lord that you bless them, that you will touch their hearts and their minds, Lord, that You father will just bless them abundantly, that the fire of God will be over them and the glory will be with them. Lord strengthened us today. Wherever we are in the world, whatever is going on. We pray that hope the Lord will abound, the goodness of God will be strong upon us that I hope will be so strong father today that will rest in the arms of Christ and Christ will be just breathing upon us today that we will know that our Lord is with us. And if God is for us, who who can be against us and Father, we just rest in this room. We just rest in this place today. And Father we ask you that you will draw us and draw us and draw us closer to you that you will touch hearts touch lives, Lord that you will give that you will anoint us a fresh today that the love of God will be over us Spirit of the Living God we just pray for a great awakening. Lord, we just pray for a great awakening today, Lord, Father that you will lift us up, that the glory of the Lord will be so strong upon us. Come Lord, refresh us today. Lord, let the power Lord just abound in our spirit. Empower Lord of God just rest on us today. Lord, You are a good God and we need to God we need your Holy Spirit. We need your father we need the power of our God. We need grace and mercy. We need the arms of Christ and Father we pray that you will put the arms of Christ around each and every one of us Lord that you will lift us and carry us. Let mercy abound on us today. Lord, let mercy abandon us today, Lord, let the Fire Guard just descend on us today but Lord, we thank you that were able to, to press into you this morning and Father give us strength, that the love of God just be upon us today. Come Holy Spirit. Move in your greatness this morning. Wherever people are today, Lord around the globe we pray for peace. We pray for joy we pray for understand and we pray for help. We pray for the practical help law today will be the day Lord that this will be the day that the Lord has made we shall rejoice and be glad strengthen us Lord, in the mighty name of the Father, the Son the Holy Spirit. Let your grace abound on this lawn in Jesus name. Amen.
Donny Stockburn:It follows us in assured that you will never stop loving us your children. God is faithful. The whole Bible is about your love for us. This whole Bible start finished is about your love for us. And that story though. There's nothing else in it but you're loving us Lord. And I just written down here something that comes to me in the way is it is great preachers, a man of God has spent many years on the mission field to the dangers and everything. And he said this, I've given God countless reasons why not to love me. None of them have changed his mind. Well, what a word that is, Lord, come on apply to all our lives, Father, but the presence of the guy is love. That's where we are now in the presence of the greatest love, amen. We could ever be in there is no greater love if you if you searched everywhere. You would never find a greater love to be in the presence of God's love is the greatest love of witches. Thank you, Lord, that we're in it now. We're coming right into it. Ron, we're coming right up to the Thank you for coming right into you. Now, Lord, not we're not blind. We're desperate little bit desperate for your touch on our lives. fairly good. Chester's David was when he he went into that, I ran up to the Lord and he took in his desperate road, he took it alone and we come in, we come up to your phone now, because we're hungry and desperate for this. And we thank you that no matter where we are in this world, we are if we are in place, we are in flight right now we assemble together, everyone will assemble this one. And we were asking you for touch on the life of each one of us, as you did that night in calpurnia. Peters mother in law's house, when it says the whole city queued up at your door, and you will know more and in the night, by the morning it was worn out and you went out to play fill out the good Lord. No, we bring fears we've been troubled hearts we've been minds and souls and spirit. Yes. Sometimes we don't even strengthen us. The words in each one of us is tears and fears of not just Atlantis word filers, who are many people failed and living under condemnation. Law. We asked you to deal with that today. whoever they are, wherever they deal with that lie. That condemnation. Lord says you failed and alone and discourages us from moving on. Law. We've just asked you to take that one away. Lord, Lord, you told us to bring them all to you with Matthew 28. Some are broken, some are wounded, some are weeping. Some are lonely, some just hanging in there. pastors, doctors and nurses are breaking down Father God, they're not the answer to this common law, or you are alone. Only Jesus or Jesus can save us. is the Savior for everyone. Yes or No, we can't imagine now you do some things written down here. So turn to joy. We made strong authors dawn and Ben which the other night about to the storm. And in that storm, you were strengthening your your disciples that night, in fact, flood and so you use stones for that, Lord, what was meant to harm us, you turn into blessings. No one can do what you do, Lord you and a love of ourselves. I wanted to write this down because it was so important for us. On our beaches. Thank you, Lord, which is, as you said, that picture come in my mind about when you fed the 5000 on that mount inside their Lord. And if you could close in on there and listen, you will see shouts of joy as Jesus moved through the clouds there. He could hear, I can see I can see or I can walk or my baby has been the Lord Lord, the miracles. Yes, right, left and center because the presence of Christ was there. Lord, your miracle to your child, your utility and possible, Lord, and that's what we asked for sometimes loving. Witches cannot imagine you're going to do X. But you are going to the impossible glory. So we know that when we come to you, Lord, we can ask for anything. Come to me is all these burdens. Jesus said, bring them to me. bring them to me, Lord, and we putting them to you fairly good God also perfecter of our Lord, you're the reason we're sitting here now, Lord, I could have been dead 1000 times before this date. You bought me through it all, Lord. And when I look back, I'll just say thank you. You've been in my life all along long before I was even saved. Far too good. You wasn't working. And such as your lab such as the Fire Lab. There is no love, like your love for the gun with all these issues and all these fears. You've been fearful, locked down and losing sleep and sleepless nights fire garden tears and worries and fears. Thank you. Talk to anyone about Come on. Come on Jesus, Jesus. Come and tell me about Thank you. Talk to me. I'm the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. You can share with me everything. Not As you know in us thank you to even before we was born Father, we thank you for the things we thank you for all these trips Valley God, before we you break into our lives Lord, and deal with all these things. And Lord, especially on that one failures, I know people think you'd have failed to be a father. Well to be a dad, to be a son, fell to be a pastor failed to be a doctor found. All these things article which is pushed them towards Jesus we say, Lord, do something to us. Do something like an exchange, Lord, make an exchange make us whole, make us whole michaelides fix back on you again, Lord. tide of love wash I've as far gone. Yes. This morning, Lord, that we are not done, done. We hope to have witches thank you for that sure, is not 100 sure, and certain hope that we will not be taken away from you, Lord, that we are locked into you. Your Word says that your Word says that nothing can steal us out of your hand. Lovely, less, far less than it in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Oh,
Andy Hammond:yeah. Last scripture. Don you quoted is from Hebrews 619. We have this hope as an anchor for the soul. In hand secure Oh Lord, thank
Donny Stockburn:you and the Lord thank Lord
Andy Hammond:the King James Version says sure and steadfast spirit so we thank You, Father God, that yes, we can always rely upon you. Yes, you are always there. Yes for us, even though sometimes in our own desperation. We think you've gone but you are there. So we always have this hope. Yes, fire is in you. And I just like this Psalm. Psalm 43 verse five says, Why am I soul Are you downcast? Why so disturbed within me Put your hope in God? Are we trusting that I will yet praise it and we try Savior? So Father, we just lift to all those folk who are downcast Yeah, Yes, Lord lift the spirits are faded outside. power loss, power failure, desperate. Yes. Filled locked in as we've all been locked in. Father, we ask you now to bring your release. Yes. Or at least for our our souls, a release for our thoughts. We ask you to bring bringing joy, bring in love. And that will bring in hope. Hope for the future. Hope for our relationships, hope for our relationship with you, Father, God. Amen. We just want to praise you this morning. I want to give you a prize. We want to praise you this morning in what appears to be a desperate world.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Come on, Father, come on.
Andy Hammond:Father, again, we make a stand against this virus. We want your spirit. Ask your Spirit to come. We ask for healing father go slow, and we lift to you now. A national health service. so desperate father on all of us yesterday, how our doctors and our nurses, our support workers. It's almost a year now for them. They've been going up for tilt for a year. Yes. Oh, God. They are so tired. We asked you follow a breeze. Bring your peace. Bring your restoration.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you.
Andy Hammond:So many doctors and nurses are falling by the wayside. They have to take time out. They have to take time off sick. We asked you to bring your healing to them. Yes,
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yes, Lord. Yeah.
Andy Hammond:We want more of you, father. Holy Spirit pour out your spirit upon this nation of ours.
Donny Stockburn:Yeah. Yeah.
Andy Hammond:Pour out your spirit for our, for our government, for our Prime Minister, as they still battle against this virus. Yes. Bring bring In your wisdom, so that right decisions are made, and at the right time as well. Let let there be no catch up. Let them be on the ball. Yeah. So we want them to have Godly wisdom and all this lather. Come on.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Please, God,
Andy Hammond:thank you. So we asked you to pour out your spirit. Bring out bring your healing to your people here and found out we also pray for the last.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yes, for
Andy Hammond:those who don't know you come on those who are desperate. Let them know father. You love Lord, you love them taste you love, that you sent your son for them, that your son died in our place. And that's not the end of it. You said you spent st your Holy Spirit to bring peace to us to bring love to bring help to bring wisdom. Yeah. Because you are the counselor, Holy Spirit.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yeah.
Andy Hammond:Thank you. Thank you. Thanks. So we want all of you to come and
Reverend Ben Cooper:do it. Now. We need your father. Come father, spirit.
Donny Stockburn:Moon in Isaiah. I was just praying about the armor of God. That was the end of the prayer. And as I bent down to pick up my stuff, suddenly this word came into my mind the shield of faith. And Lord I'm sure that serve for so many people. All the accusations have been getting lately accusing self sometimes Yeah. And a lawyer would come against devil's work for him Father God who kills ourselves, we, we think always short, short. But they're all lies. And follow God which is you give us that shield of faith, Father God, that more issued Lord to go into battle when we just hold it up now in Jesus name, that every lie, every lie every accusation that we every suggestion of failure Father God, you will catch in that shield of faith Father God and none of it will get through to your people thought of God that you will protect us with that we build our fight phonic, oh, my god you can get everyone below. Faith in these days. We hold it up now in Jesus name, Father God, shoot a five year
Reverend Ben Cooper:old father that have faith arise this morning. Lord we pray Father for everyone on the globe. Lord, we pray for believers those that are seeking Lord that our faith will rise. We pray for believers today Lord that oh really struggling with life we pray for those that are just on the edge of Christianity that Lord you'll strengthen them following our faith will rise. We pray Dear God, as as Donnie said, our faith will rise and as Andy said, Our hope will rise, Lord That we will rise Lord in you father, you just pour the Spirit upon us and Father we find that peace as our faith arises this morning we will feel the presence of God as our hope rises this morning Lord, Father guiding in anticipation that our God is is moving that today is going to be a good day. Today is a glorious strong Today is a new day today Lord is a great day in the kingdom of God and Lord we praying for fresh outpouring Lord the father women feel hopeful. In a hug bless society, Lord, that we will feel the grace of God Lord in a graceless society that Father will fill faith from our God Lord in a faithless society and Lord that the power of God will move on to families today. We pray for key workers we pray that hope will arise the faith will arise and strength. As Johnny said, strength will arise. God which is asked, we will also move upon or the government that you will be upon this government that you will bless this government Lord that you'll strengthen them attach them, Lord, that you will just move through that the wills of Parliament, Lord that you will make a way that there seems to be no way Lord that you will remove all the hindrances load all the issues we profile the for all those that are struggling with mental health issues at this moment we pray Father for those that are struggling with debt, worried about mortgages worrying about life law we need hope to arise today. We need hope to abound today we need hope to come right now. I'm just arrest upon our shoulders we need to fire a God just to be slow we need to fire in our belly the fire of hope launch or rise again. Lord we need as as as we are just sitting as we are being still whether we're behind the desk, whether we're driving into work, whether we're with the children's home schooling today, whether we're trying to work from home today, Father, winning hoped we're bound. We need power to a bound today we need the glory of the Lord, bound today. Father, we need acceleration in the kingdom of God. Father, we ask you that you will accelerate us in hope that you will accelerate us in faith today that we will feel the power of the Holy Spirit. And Lord, we asked you for all those that just feel very fearful and doubtful, and very unsure on their feet today that just feel unsteady, loaded about themselves, love that you will just remove all that. And the joy of the Lord will be their strength, the joy of the Lord will be their strength, that grace will abound upon each and every one Father. We pray, though that you will give us revelation or knowledge that we will know our Redeemer Lord, and because our Redeemer lives we can face tomorrow, because the King of glory is a rising, moving Father, we pray for the church today that the church the body of Christ, Lord, our eyes will be open. Lord, if there are scowls on our eyes, Father, drop the scows. Lord, let us see again, let the church say again, let the church father, bound Lord, Father, we pray that you will just continually, Lord remove everything that is religious, that you will continually move everything that is a barrier, and Lord, that the body of Christ will flow in the Spirit of God, that the anointing will be on the church father, there'll be an anointing on believers, there will be anointing on the system law that you will use the church Father God, the ecclesia, that you will move, that the power of God will rest afresh, but Lord, we call on our God, God, we cannot get there through cognitive processing, we cannot get there, through psychological process, and we cannot get there through natural thinking. We cannot get there through our logic. We've got to get there through our faith and Lord right now, Father, God, nothing can help us but the power of God, nothing can free us but the blood of Jesus, nothing can save us but the Word of God, Father, we need the Savior, Lord, this this nation, Lord is crying out for the king. This nation is crying out for a savior. Come, Lord. And as Danny mentioned about faith, let our faith arise. And as Andy mentioned, let our hope arise, and let the glory of the Lord just rest on us today. Father, we pray that you will move and Lord as we come to the table this morning, as we take the bread and the wine as we just rest, as brothers and sisters and whoever's watching, Lord for the greatness of technology, whoever is listening through the power of podcasts through audible. Father, we just ask you now that you will just come and rest on on the ears, and the eyes, those that are looking in, and those that are listening at this moment, Father, that you will just give grace to us that grace will abound. And Father, we thank you that we have been saved and washed in the blood of Jesus father, let your hand be on us today. Lord, let the fire of God be around us and less power and anointing be refreshing our bones today. Lord breathed on us. We need a savior. your patience, we need to say
Andy Hammond:eight and nine says four it is by grace you have been saved hallelujah through faith. And this not from yourselves. It is the gift of God. Yes, Yes, Lord, not by works. So that no one can boast. For we are God's workmanship created in Christ Jesus to do the man work. Yeah, we prepared in advance for us to do hallelujah. Come on. Oh, Father, we just pray that scripture.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yeah. Come on.
Andy Hammond:Jesus is nothing to obtain salvation. you've provided it for us. Yes, Lord, we can't work our way into the kingdom. We just have to make that decision to follow you. And Father, I just pray for anyone who's watching this morning. Who is thinking? Well, I'm a good guy. But that's not the point. Jesus wants you to follow him. He's paid the price. Yes. Yes. And there's this Scripture says, it is by grace you have been saved through faith, Grace, Grace, that undeserved favor. Yes, law, undeserved favor.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Father, we need that.
Andy Hammond:So we we just thank you, Father, that you made that provision through your Son so that we can come and come to you come to you outcome. Yes. So we ask you Holy Spirit to flood this place with your power, your spirit, flood our communities, wherever we may be watching from now. That you will flood our communities, with your love with your power. And, as we've said already with the hope, the hope that lies in your son Jesus.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Thank you.
Donny Stockburn:But you turn the Scripture, sir, if you want to Isaiah 54. Yeah, I've given it in the week I forgot all about I just noticed.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Come on,
Donny Stockburn:it's going, it's taken us back to where we started, that divine love of God, which is comparable to any other love, that that's what secures us. That's what gives us five. That's what gives us hope, that God loves us. And here is it says, this was given me a week ago, almost. And it says, For the mountains shall depart, and he'll be removed, but my kindness Come on loss shall not depart from you know, show my covenant of Peace be removed, says the Lord, who has mercy on you, oh, Lord, what what security here is Lord, You have all those hundreds of 1000 years ago, Lord, to give us to this day, loads of security again with outcomes and trouble comes from, like the anchor that we keep talking about this non anchor of how coming and before was even born and which is which is built on that the Lord and I've got it written down as for me, then all the confusion of fear which way to suffer sometimes. What shall I do, Lord, I asked this morning, which way should I go?
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yeah,
Donny Stockburn:I'm gonna do what Jesus said. In these days, I'm going to watch I'm going to play and we're gonna hold fast to his word, and leave the mess to God. That's what how is how fast means to miss work. That's, that's my life. First, his word. When you're drowning, you only need a savior, when the waters begin to come out of your eyes. You know, as a notice time, you only needed to be in the ark. Yeah. Hence the sign today when troubles rise when when things get overcome, even the NHS is breaking up. some wonderful lord bless them, but they're not. They're not the answer, Lord, You are the answer. All the time. to them and to us, God has made it. So every moment I'm going to play. This is what I'm going to do personally. Every moment. I get a chance. I'm going to pray for people for myself, my friends, and your your favor, and your love and you will be pulled out and but just as much as that they will recognize your handle, they will recognize it Father God, and that will bring that hope. And that will bring on fight Father God, which we need for these days we live in now. Thank you, for your giving us this morning. Thank you, Lord.
Andy Hammond:Thank you for looking at that verse from my side. It also says, nor my covenant, covenant of Peace be removed, Who says? Yes, he does. And of course it goes on with chapter 55. Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the water. And you who have no money come by and eat come buy wine and milk without money and without. Thank you. Thank you. The same chapter also says it verse six, seek the Lord while he may be found, there's a window on him while he is now. I just say to you this morning that Father God is near and all you do need to do is call upon him. Just call upon him. Thank you for Thank you. Father, we
Reverend Ben Cooper:just call on you this morning. We just call on you. We just call on you as the psalmist says you are a shepherd and we like nothing. Lord, you make us live down in green pastures you lead us to the side quiet waters here. Fresh is my soul Lord, you refreshed us beside quiet and waters and Father we pray as we come to Communion this morning, we gather around the table to break bread to take the cut fathers we gather Lord, we must clearly understand, Lord, that You are the good shepherd. You're in charge. Lord, you're in charge. You're looking over us at this moment, that we are not alone, Father, that you have not left us as orphans that we have the comforter. And right now we thank you that Lord that you are pouring out your love upon us. We pray for the lone Lake Lord as we come to the table. We pray for those that just feel vulnerable this morning. As we come to the table. We pray for those that are in a large family to just feel lost and feel very agitated and very upset with just the general run of life. At this moment, we pray for parents, lone parents that are working at home that are trying to look after the children and work Father, we pray Father, for for single parent families, Lord that are trying to find a way forward for the plague that we're experiencing at the moment we pray for, for those that are retired and that just feel really vulnerable. And we pray for those Lord that are worried about their workplace and waiting to go back those that are furloughed at this moment those that are just unsure about the future of what lies ahead, I pray that we would just call on the name of Jesus. Lord, he tell us that whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved. And Lord, we come to you this morning, as the scripture says, We come first day, and we come in need we come in one, we come in pain, we come angry, we come frustrated. We come in last week we come with, with being empty when we're not being sure of ourselves, we we come to the Lord with every emotion under the sun. But Lord, you just keep your own arms open. We can even feel in very unholy unworthy we come to the table, Lord, feeling within ourselves that we're not worthy of you. But Lord, we thank you that we did not choose you, but you chose us, you chose us. You decided to call you decided to choose us before the very beginning of time, you know how our emotions will be you know how life would play out, you know, every sin you know, you know everything that was secret to everyone else, father in our lives, but Lord, you see everything in our head, our heart, our mind, you know everything about us, and there is nothing hidden from you and you still chose, you still chose to send you still chose to send your one and only Son, Jesus Christ to die upon a cross at Calvary with john three, six, over 2300 years ago, you chose to die upon a cross for us, for humanity. And you called us Father, we pray for all those that are on the edge of faith. We pray for all those that have run from faith. We pray for all those that are seeking faith. We pray for all those that think that they've got it all together in faith we pray, Lord, that you will just move on us, but draw us draw us into you. Because Lord, the flesh father gum is weak. Yeah, the flesh is weak and the spirit is willing. But Lord, the battle that we are carrying the battle that we face, the enemy from within ourselves, Lord, we ask you, Lord, that we will just pick up our cross daily, that we will come to you that we will die to self die to the fleshly desires of this earth. And Lord that we will look to the Heavenly Father because we keep our eyes on the author, the perfecter of our faith. Because the Lord is my shepherd, I lack nothing. He makes me lie down in green pastures He restores my soul beside quiet waters. He brings me to father as our brothers leaders in communion this morning. I pray, Lord, as we gather wherever we are to take bread to take this cup, that the power of God will descend upon us. In Jesus name. Amen.
Andy Hammond:Amen. Thank you.
Reverend Ben Cooper:I'm gonna read from one Corinthians just before we pray over these emblems this morning, these symbols of bread and the wine. So we have one Corinthians, chapter 11, verse 23, four I've received from the Lord, what 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 body, 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 until he comes. So then whoever eats this bread, or drinks of the cup of the Lord and 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.
Andy Hammond:Man. So finally, we just give you thanks for what you've done for each one of us. Amen. And hallelujah. We thank you for what you've done. In the past yesterday. Yes, Lord, we thank you that you're with us now. Yes, ma'am. We thank you for what you're going to do.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yeah, glory.
Andy Hammond:So more of you we pray. So we take this spread now in remembrance, amen.
Donny Stockburn:Amen. Amen. Yeah Father God still in that, in that salon we're right up to you, Lord, we gathered before you to now made made holy made righteous Lord, not by works, not by what we do not work or what we say that that's a religion Lord.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yeah,
Donny Stockburn:we come by the blood of Jesus. It was his sacrifice. Thank you, Lord, it's blood. It was his life. He actually thought to go we we cannot find it in ourselves through the words, to express, Lord, what we've experienced in our lives, your love, your love, your deep, deep, unbelievable, lovely, Father God that you provided an ark for us in these troubled times. Yes, you provided the ark for Noah, who provided the ark for us now is known as Jesus.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Hallelujah name
Donny Stockburn:is Jesus. Yeah,
Reverend Ben Cooper:the King of glory
Donny Stockburn:is the Ark is his blood, the poor us eternal life, which is remember you now, Lord, with gratefulness and thankfulness. Lord rested your words. And we thank you in Jesus name. Amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Amen. Well, thank you. Yeah, thank you for the floor.
Andy Hammond:Can I just give you a few more thoughts? I read this first yesterday, which is quite surprising for us from Matthew 11, verse 12, it says, from the days of john, john the baptist until now, the Kingdom of Heaven has been forcefully advancing and forceful men lay hold of it. I thought, that's an interesting verse. That's an interest, you know, and I thought, yeah, Is that me? Am I taking the kingdom by force by stone? And I think what God is doing at the moment is accelerating. Yeah, you are the kingdom of God. And Jesus says it will need forceful people. I thought, what does that mean? Am I forceful? I'm not. I'm not forceful. Maybe I am sometimes but I think also, it also means those who will not be put off by opposition, those who will not be put off by opposition, or the need sometimes for sacrifice, in fact, forceful people enjoy the challenge. So I just put it out there at the moment, if you want to challenge get in the kingdom of God. Yeah. If you want to challenge and you will never look back. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Father. Yeah, Father I
Reverend Ben Cooper:true that is the Father we will lift up the sword of the Spirit. Father, we lift up the sword of the Spirit today, Lord And Father we which is the word of God, we come to you, Lord, in the power and in the glory and in the presence of the Holy Spirit. Lord, we are nothing of ourselves but with you, Lord, we are all things because Lord, I thank you that I can do all things through Christ that gives me strength. And this morning, Lord, Father, we just pray. We just pray for those that feel weak within themselves. That they will rise, Lord in faith that they will rise in hope today. Lord, as we said, we pick up the sword of the Spirit, the helmet of salvation, the breastplate of righteousness. Lord, we thank you for the belt of truth. Lord, our feet are fitted with the gospel of peace. And we stand Lord behind the face shield today, we stand behind the shield of faith Lord, we lift up that shield of faith today Lord And Father we press in. We advanced today, Lord, Father, we advance into the areas that angels fear to tread. And this morning we thank you for healing is upon our bodies. Our mental capacity, Lord is changing, Lord, that You are given us Lord a good things to think about Lord You are dropping great things in our mind. We pray, Lord, for our psychological Lord, we pray, Father, that we will not go by our natural perception and our understanding we will not go in, in our natural ability but Lord, that we will go Lord, in the power of the glory of the Lord, that we will go in faith that we will not go in logic, we will not go in our natural ability in faith, we won't go Lord in our understanding our cognitive processing of life, Lord, that we will not go by our sight our natural sight, but we will go The just shall live by faith. So this morning law we use We are starting to learn to live by faith. Lord, if we are on that journey living by faith, we praise God. Lord, if we're thinking about learning to live by faith, we praise God. Lord, if we are abounding in that we praise God's Lord, we pray now, every one of us, listening to the podcast, Lord, watching through the world of social media, Lord, whoever, wherever we are, we pray that the just shall live by faith. God, you tell us, Lord, that we are your battleaxe, Lord that you use us or God law we asked you father that the battle belongs to the Lord. And Lord, we thank you for this time of prayer together this morning. And we ask you father, that you will strengthen all those that are listening and watching that they will feel the hand of the Lord upon them fresh anointing, law to cover us in the blood of Jesus. Let the word abound in our spirit. We pray for those that are hungry for Jesus, Lord, that You will feed them spiritual. Man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. So Lord, we need food from heaven. We need Manor, Lord, let it rain today, Lord, spiritual food, strengthen us we pray, come Holy Spirit, Lord, let your word abound upon each one of us THAT THEY BLESS Donnie, bless Mandy today, Lord, bless their families, bless their ministries, bless their lives, bless all those that are watching the single parent families. Those are retired those father that are just starting work, we pray for the youth and the children, we pray for those that are watching father, maybe in their lunch break or catching glimmers of this throughout the day, Father, we pray for those that are listening, Lord, all those listeners that are listening to us today, Lord, that your hand will be over them that you will strengthen them. Thank you for all things. And Lord, you have not left us. But we may have wondered from you. And for those that are still wondering, we thank You, Lord, that the father's arms are open. Yeah. So we pray for the protocols this morning, as the protocols realize that they have left the Father's house. But as the Father looks out to the protocols, we thank you that there is an about you. There is a return to Jesus, there is a return to the father's arms. There is a return to the God Almighty. So Lord, as you tenderly draw people, Lord, as you tenderly bring people back to the Lord, we thank you for the power of freewill. The Lord It was not our freewill that chose you. It was three nouns that put our Christ on the cross. But it was not the power of the nouns. It was not the Roman soldiers. It was not the strength, florid of them iron nows. It was the power of unconditional love. As I say, Lord, you could remove the nows. And Christ would still be on the cross. Because the now's of love, kept him to say it is finished. And with that, he gave up his spirit. And now we are on the right side of the cross, because of one sacrifice once and for all. And his name is Jesus.
Donny Stockburn:Yeah, that's the word.
Reverend Ben Cooper:His name is Jesus. And all those Lord that fill and are picking up in their being that there seems to be no hope. Draw them to the cross of Calvary, where they will find the living Christ. Father, we thank you for this morning. And, Lord, as we continue the rest of our day. strengthen us we pray. In Jesus name. Amen. Brothers. Have you got a word? Are we there today?
Donny Stockburn:We've got one here. Just one. I just want to say as Andy was playing earlier, that word, Gideon came to my mind. And Gideon didn't rise itself up. He said, I'm the least on the very least, and strength in all his ability flowed from God into him. Lord, that's what we're looking for. All your strength and all your Spirit God flowing into his father to rescue us. Just got down in keep my lamp filled with all Oh, yeah, that's good and kill, keep my lamp as we watch and wait for our savior, Jesus to come, Lord. Just want to remind you, I want to remind you this word that was given this morning. Lord is so true, all you are full of fears and doubts and confusion. It's so easy to that tide rises on you suddenly. And it comes out of nowhere, Lord, which is which you can apply. We can use the word of God to push that back to where it came from. And God says this to us in these days, for the mountains shall depart and the hills will be removed but My kindness, my kindness will not depart from you. Nor shall my covenant of Peace be removed since the Lord has mercy on you or you are hiding under the blankets on one of them. Yes, Lord looking for to God has urged you cry is answered, which is Thank You, Lord.
Andy Hammond:Yeah, if you mentioned Gideon, donate and just for those who are listening, if you want to read the story of Gideon, look, look at judges six and seven. And you will see how God intervened in such an amazing way. And battles were won against overwhelming odds. And it's because Gideon was able to trust in God. And that's, I think, a word this morning that Yeah, we just need to put our trust in God. And he will see us through. Thank you, Lord. Thank you.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, everybody for listening this morning. Sorry. This is a recorded message that's gone out on social media later on this morning. We have had the good old internet trouble but all those listeners listening through the world of podcast, we just want to say thank you this morning for sharing and everything that we do here for the world of social media. You've been listening to Andy and Donnie and myself and Benjamin, Lana Cooper, we say goodbye this morning. And thank you for sharing everything. May God bless you today. Have a great day. Stay safe. Stay under the blood of Jesus and keep close to the Word of God. Amen.