Hello and welcome to Ealing church one day you're doing it myself, Reverend Ben Cooper for today's podcast. Yeah, good morning. Thank you for joining us all those online that are coming online this morning on social media as we see there. As we're gathering for coffee and prayer. Thank you so much for joining us for church this morning, this one hour where we will gather and we will just pray and we will be still and we will seek the favour of the Lord as we're in his presence. And wherever you may be today, I just pray that God will be with you. And we thank you so much for joining us today as you join us here in Ealing church, we've got Glenn with us today, we've got our brother, Donnie, and we've got our brother Andy. And obviously me here as well this morning, don't feel that I'm, I am here, you know, and we thank you for everyone listening to this podcast all around the world as we're gathering for coffee and prayer. As we press and I do feel that there needs to be a push. I don't know about you guys, but I feel almost exhausted with everything that's going on with decisions that are being made. And this is hat week, you're free, almost possibly, maybe you can ditch the mask. But now you got to wear it, possibly maybe we are living in time where the decisions that are coming out from certain establishments are being challenged within themselves. And I do believe this is where the church is sitting as well. There is a side at the very small side of the church that is pushing for Jesus Christ. And there's another side that is just not forming to what the Word says the opposite to what the Scriptures do not conform to the pattern of the world. And there is a big element of religion that is really revealing itself. And I don't know about you brothers and sisters that are listening and my brothers around the table today that it feels almost draining in some points of life where where all this information is coming out and you think, okay, we might have a bit of a way forward here. And maybe it's a time where we got to go by completely by faith, The just shall live by faith, maybe we are being challenged by God, maybe God is moving so powerfully that it is bringing confusion to us. And this is so foreign to us. Because religion in the church before locked down has been so so so loud, with activities so loud with an act, an activity and something going on every day. was God really driving that? Was it just the flesh driving it with just the business model, maybe now where we are just not that God has left us at all, but maybe we are seeing a time when we really have to seek Him, we have to really almost fly lay flat out on the floor, literally crying and saying God help me. Because this world it my natural feeling. And my natural body is absolutely exhausted, completely tired. You know, just just almost run down, run out, the batteries have run out of run out of natural energy. And Lord, I can't think straight My head is like a washing machine I'm getting through my left ear, I'm getting one information. And for the right here, I'm getting another lot of information from the same department. And it's in conflict. And I think we may be in a position of where we're in the wilderness just like when Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh Let my people go. And Come on, we want to go and have a festival. And we're at the 5050 stage where we're almost breaking free or almost free into the promised land where we're almost over that that position. But there's a mass amount of church goers and activity that's going on, we want to go back to what it was. We want to go back to what it was well, I can't go back to what it I can't. I can't go back to what it was because I was I was just dying in this world that just was just seemed barmy. To me. It was just a religious business activity or an organisation even some areas I might say some parts of it was very occultic. And very strange. But I do believe that God is shaking this nation I do believe there is a there is a storm as God brought to Jonah's life. Have we run that so far away from God over the years that God has breathed in so heavily on us that it's, it's very foreign to us this spiritual feeling where we at where we have reached I'm just going to read Psalm 991. And I just pray for anyone out there this morning that feels absolutely exhausted, absolutely exhausted in themselves. You're waking up, more tired than you when when you went to bed and when you're waking up, you're dreading what the day is gonna bring. And it's not RDMA full of gloom this morning. I think it's reality of where we are sitting, that I thank God that Lord Let this be an awakening. Let this be a move. Let this be a powerful breath from the that is shakiness. The boat of the UK is rocking. The boat of the UK is rockin and, Lord I'm going to jump over bold for me over Follow me over boat Lord, you need to you need to catch me because Lord this vessel that I'm sailing in the UK Lord, I feel like it's gonna it's gonna go under I feel like it's the Titanic I feel it's gonna drop. Are you waking up? Those that listen to this podcast? Or you're waking up tired? Are you still waking up exhausted? Are you at work tired? Are you at a bit of a break been on holiday and still tired? Have you been at work all day and you can't function and your mind is just like this place of this, this area where I can't concentrate? I can't get on my worker. I've got almost an attitude. I don't like to say but I can't be bothered. Lord, you got to do something. What is it, Laura? My Morgan from that moment? You know what, where do where do we sit? I'm getting a few people nodding at me. Yeah, yeah. Maybe Yeah, maybe it's all me. Yeah. I'm going to read Psalm 91. I just want to I'm trying to encourage us or trying to encourage us brothers.
Donny Stockburn:Can I just say something? I'm looking down here in two Corinthians one, verse eight. And I keep looking. I've been looking at it all week and not taking it in. You're speaking there. And it says we don't want you to be uninformed of others. This is Paul speaking to a church about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We might be going through them right now. Yeah, we were under great pressure far beyond our ability to endure so that we despaired even of life the lava severe indeed in our hearts we felt the sentence of death or felt that as well. Yeah, but this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God now personally Yeah, the only time I get any peace is when our side of addict Lord, Roger, now it's over to you. And that's exactly what you said to me. Come to me and as we prayed with all efforts morning, we was going through all the issues all the things we couldn't do all the things we couldn't face. And then I thought I'm going to go to God and I felt peace come over my ghosts beautiful. Hold on to that but we live in a world don't so God strengthen us. Same time.
Glenn Walsh:I imagined going on I meant to that. Don't god yeah, let's just hand everything over. You know, maybe we hand things over just with our lips, but we don't hand it over our heart maybe it's just lip service. Maybe we just speak it I've got to say because again, here we go. We all started with nothing. So we've been just saying maybe it's just lip service to humans that I'm literally looking at Proverbs 16 to humans belong the plains of the heart but from the Lord comes the proper answer Amen. When a person's way superior to him but motifs away are weighed by the Lord commit to the Lord's whatever you do, and he will establish Oh yeah, come on. We often don't know what we're doing and you know our ways may seem right to us but our hearts all over the place committed to god yeah, that's you know your will be done Oh Lord because curses the magic trust in His own flesh. Not a lot of trust information. This was done for us as well. Yeah, so burps eight team says Pride goes before destruction. Yeah. haughty spirit before full. You know, pride. God opposes the proud. Yeah. Thank you, Jesus. Nice to the humble. Yeah, let's try Let's pray. Father, we we thank you Father for the online church this morning. We thank you for the sisters and brothers that have clicked into this this live stream on different social media platforms and Father we thank you for those that are listening through podcast as well. Father, we thank you for us in the house and Lord as we come before you right now Lord, we just we just pray into our lives. We pray over ourselves, Lord, not in a in a way father of the name it and claim it but Lord, we just say Lord, strengthen us will always say come Holy Spirit, refresh all of us that may be tired, exhausted of life that maybe feel that we're just on this will this cycle is going round and round around and Lord, I ask you, Lord, that You will breathe harder over this nation Father I pray, Lord, that you will just stretch us Lord some more. Father, Lord, just be be the be the hands, Lord, be the hands on our lives law because law we are clay and unmod. But Lord, in the Masters hands, Father, I thank you that you shape us a lot. I pray that you will shape this nation. I pray, Lord, that You will shape this nation Lord, where we hear in from ivory towers, decisions are made on one side of the table and then reversed at the other end of the table. And Lord, I pray for all those that feel confused and don't know how on what way is the correct way to go forward and they they feel their god that they are very alone. And Lord, I pray Lord for the body of Christ, the house of the Lord. I pray for religion. And all leaders today, Lord that you will fall Just strengthen the body of Christ strengthen the church that you will move really powerfully and clearly that Lord we will know that our Redeemer lives and because he lives we can face tomorrow. But Lord, we thank you that we are not relying on our feelings and our attitude. We are not relying on our self. Below we are relying on Christ Jesus as Don said, and law we will not go in pride, we will not go in arrogance, we will not go in fear. We will not go with a religious suit, we will go in faith and this morning, Lord, our faith rises this morning because we're in the house with brothers and sisters on line for the water podcast, we're praying, we're talking, we've been authentic, we are being real, or we're just laying everything out on the table and saying, Come, Holy Spirit, we need our Saviour, we need our God. And Lord, we thank you for Psalm 91. Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High 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 just them two simple verses from Psalm 91. Glenn has read out, Donnie has read out from the Word of God. And he's gonna lead us on a little bit further on the journey of prayer as we gather around but I just pray for every brother and sister, that is under the sound of our voice today that the handle the Lord will guide you through these very unusual times. And we're in a maze. We're in a maze of life and, and and we need God to get us out of this maze. And God will get us through God will guide us and I pray for anyone that is living in a house where suicide is is there that fear is there worries there that that the children are so a loose end they they don't know who they are, they've lost understanding of, of where they've come from, what their future is what they're about losing identity of themselves. I pray, Lord, that You will strengthen homes today, I pray that you will strengthen the educational department today. And Lord God bless our government fathers save our government. Wash them in the crimson tide of the blood of Jesus. move through the establishment move from me Lord, I need you to sweep me for I need Lord Dear God to be swept out Lord, I need father to be emptied of pride, arrogance, fear, doubt, worry, things in my head things in my heart that are not godly that are not right. crazy thoughts. Lord, I need a sweep for Lord, can you get a holy broom and just clear my heart through today clear my thinking through clear my vision through sweep through my life, Lord, sweep me around. Lord, just wash me in the blood of Jesus. Lord, give me a focus. Lord, that might be a strange thing for people to say give me a focus. Lord, I know you're my focus. But you know what I mean fire because Lord, my eyes are everywhere, trying to capture what the world is saying. And Lord is the spin. Lord, I need you to hold this. This will of life still a moment, Lord to gather breath. So I can just focus for one second, but Lord, I keep my eyes on the author, the perfecter of our faith, Christ Jesus, but Lord, we're on a merry go round. And it's difficult to focus it's difficult to to catch sight and Dear God, it is difficult Lord, this Marigot is so fast. Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit. Father It's different to the potter's wheel. The potter's wheel spins fast because the potter is in charge and he is shaping. But Lucifer uses a merry go round. He uses circus tricks, and it's confusing. And it's frying us in a spin. Come Holy Spirit. Lord, I pray that you will give us the ability. Your word stabilises us your word helps us to focus. So, Lord, keep us in the Word of God. Keep us in the Word. Keep us in you. Bless us, I pray in the Glorious Name of Jesus and a my friend.
Andy Hammond:Yeah, thank you, father. Just thank you for the privilege of being able to meet together. Every Wednesday morning, we come and meet together just to pray and express what God is putting on our hearts. So we thank you that we can come in this place. And Father we ask for wisdom. Wisdom in Yeah, we express our feelings this morning. May be directly from you. And while Ben was speaking, I was looking at one Corinthians two from verse six. My Bible is heading wisdom from the Spirit. And it says we do however speak a message of wisdom among the mature but not the wisdom of this age, or the rulers of this age. Thank you for coming to nothing. No, we speak of God's secret wisdom. Have you been hidden and that God just destined for her glory before time began? None of the rulers of this age understood it. For if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory. However, as it is written, no, I see, no I ear has heard my mind has conceived what God has prepared, hallelujah those who love Him, Thank You, Jesus. And for those who love Him, I have written underneath that, for those who wait for him. Oh, we wait. So we wait for you, Father God. And I know that that was written by Paul referring back to the crucifixion of Christ. And I also had Colossians three open and, and how we we've been talking about love this morning, how we put on love. And yet we are God's chosen people. And it says it from verse 12. Therefore, as God's chosen people, holy and dearly loved, close yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. Thank you, Lord, bear with each other, and forgiven, forgive what whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together, in perfect unity. Thank you, Jesus, thank you, Holy Spirit and goes on. Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts. And Father, we ask that you come by your spirit. For Let's eat a fresh this morning. Yes, we will be able to put on love, the love. such deep love that you shattered each one of us, thank you for Thank you follow how difficult it is sometimes to forgive. And we know we know we all have issues and how difficult it is to forgive. But I just think of the words that you've said on the cross. Forgive them. Father for they Thank you, Jason. Thank you, Lord. And Father, we just ask you to come and bring your peace. Bring your love, bring your forgiveness. Bring your gentleness, bring your patience, your kindness. Yes, Lord, your love. Help us to put that on this morning. And all those who are watching. To put on that love,
Donny Stockburn:yes for
Andy Hammond:the deep love. Shown each one of us. And we thank you that we can be in relationship with you. How wonderful that is that we can be in relationship with the creator of the Thank You, Jesus, that you created each one of us that you knew each one of us before
Glenn Walsh:Washington, even born. Yeah, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you for we're just resting your Lord, You
Andy Hammond:are so Sir, I'm watching now that they can come and sit quietly, peacefully. And all the stresses and anxieties. Hammer said right, I just turn on the news and all different issues are coming out now. Shall we wear a mask or not a mask? Yeah, where do we go? If we get on a bus now. But Father, we ask for your peace in all this. May we have a confidence not in ourselves, but our confidence is in you. Thank you God. Thank you.
Glenn Walsh:I think Andy hit the nail on the head earlier there is this is a time to be led by the Spirit here as again proverbs 1625 says, there is a way that appears to be right. Come on, but in the end it leads to death. So it appears to be by and when Andy read from two Corinthians. So he one Corinthians. Now I have seen no we have heard that now. Mind is conceived yeah hearts has prepared for those who love Him in verse 10, it says, These are the things God has revealed to us, by His Spirit.
Donny Stockburn:Thank you.
Glenn Walsh:Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. And later on in verse 14, it says the person without the spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God. But consider them foolishness, and cannot understand them, because they are discerned only through the Spirit. Thank you, Lord, the person with the spirit makes judgments about all things. But such a person is not subject to merely human judgement. For who has known the mind that the Lord has to instruct him. But we have the mind of Christ, thank you for the Holy Spirit. So Lord, your early church was led by the Holy Spirit. They always waited for your instructions through the Holy Spirit. Lords were not not supposed to be subject to human wisdom to things that seem right. They appear right, and in themselves have a form of righteousness, but it's not from you. Yes, Father, lords, we want to be again in the garden saying your will be done and staying there, focusing but also listening to your Holy Spirit who always leads us in truth, who will not go beyond what is written, who inspired those scriptures and take us deeper? We need you, Lord, we need to keep in step with your spirit. Pour out your spirit. No words we do believe in the Trinity Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Amen. You are one God, three persons, co equal co eternal. So Holy Spirit, we ask you forgive the church that three of you aside, Yes, Father, and we say Come in. Come in Lord, to come in as well. When our hearts and our minds and show us Jesus, Jesus. You said, when the Holy Spirit comes, he'll remind us of everything you said, he brings you. He, he searches the deep things of God as we just read, and he knows our spirit completely communicates to us searches and you reveal yourself to us through your Holy Spirit. Yes, via the ham, Holy Spirit. Coming to every troubled mind this morning. Yes, on that pace. Jesus, you said, my peace I give you. I do not give as the world gifts, and you gave your Holy Spirit. You're very own spirit living in us. Oh, workplace workplace. Yes, fine. You're the one who stood alone against the world. You had absolute place? Yeah. You're the one who threw the storm. just walked on the water, called Peter to walk to you. Jesus, who are you? Come, Holy Spirit. Reveal Holy Spirit to us, our Lord and our Saviour, our friend, through you through the Holy Spirit. We called the children of God. Thank you, Father, thank you, thank you, Lord, and it's through the Holy Spirit that we cry, Abba. Father, is always way dependent on you know, ourselves, we don't want flesh. We don't want Well, good wisdom. But we do want to be led by the Holy Spirit.
Donny Stockburn:Witness today, I've got two scriptures that God gave me in the week, I'm gonna read them to you in a minute. You might be gone through stuff, some of his gifts in the world and others, it seems that what frightens me most of all is when it tests my faith. And you may be going through things you may even start to doubt your faith. Sometimes we say Oh, wonderful, I'm really, really saved. Or we're going to put that one to the sold. If you're born again. There is no doubt about it. And I'm going to show you just two scriptures to confirm it. Okay, once in two Corinthians one. Verse 21, or 22. This is Paul, again, speaking to the Corinthian church, establishing who he is in Christ. He said this, I love this word. says now is God who makes us and you stand firm in Christ. Well, we like that here. Thank you know, my god. Mike's a strong capers fan. He anoints us, he sets his seal of ownership on keepers and he puts his spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteed. guarantee in our salvation line. It will be tested, it will be tried, but it's not our strength is going to get us through. It's God's strength. As the word that he says is put this is anointed us. He says seal of ownership on us. He's put His Spirit in us like deposit guarantee in our salvation. Okay, let's let's put it to the soul properly. Come up and this is john 10 verse 25 world 26 rarely start there and out of out. This is a Jesus speaking to the Pharisees and the scribes. He said, I did tell you, but you did not believe the miracles are doing my father's name speak for me, but you do not believe because you're not my sheep. My sheep listen to me. I know them. They follow me. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish. No one can snatch them out of my hand. Amen. My father, who has given them to me, is greater than all. No one can snatch them out of my father's hand. I am the father of one, what confirmation what security? How much more do we know God has spoken that word. When his spirit is in us when he when we are born again. Right? It's God's word. He started it and he will finish it. It's strength, the whole journey. Moses said to God, if you ain't coming, I ain't got it. And we say the same road. If you ain't coming, we're at God, but we know you are. Because this word confirms it. This word takes strength doesn't take our strength. It's God's strength. God's strength as the Oh even strengthens our faith. Lord, Ark llama bed, confident in that word, Lord that you spoke there. It said again in Ephesians. Two same thing to confirm it if you want to read that seasons. One of the thing is, and but this word is confirmation that it's not our work. It's God's work. He's the one who makes the strong is the one who revives us it's his spirit. I'll read it again. And just this word here Where is it? Yeah. No one can snatch them out of my hand. My father has given them to me is greater than all right. He's martyrs the shepherd mill shape he's put his spirits in his Lord and deposited is your son's blood sealed it says you have sealed us with sealed in which can't be got to load arches love the security. You want us to know what so far to go to all those are pry who begin to lock a bit and even doubt their fight? Yes, this is a word of God. This is the sword. Okay, that says if you're born again, you're saved. Nothing. capsule really nothing can take you away from God. You're sealed in wizard sounds blood. I meant to say thank you Jesus life. Amen.
Glenn Walsh:Yeah. And nothing can separate us. Just remember that. Nothing can separate us from the love the greatest love. on this earth. Nothing can separate us from the love of God, the love of Christ Jesus. Nothing can separate us. hardship, famine, nakedness, peril also, nothing can separate us from the love from the love of the Father from the love of the power of Christ from from our laws, precious love that he displayed at the cross of Calvary. We are children of the living God, we are belonging to the God of Israel, and we rest this morning I pray that we will find rest for our hearts. And maybe we're seeking we're seeking for fulfilment in what the world is offering. And when we're 5050 where we're trying we're saying, Lord, I believe I believe and our flesh is craving or desires or what the world is offering and we've just slipped and we've fallen and we've just slid to the left and the right and it's feels very chaotic indoors and very chaotic in our heads very chaotic at work and life seems that one thing after another be still know that I'm God. So this morning Lord, we ask you that your searches, searches right through sweet through. We sit and we be still we rest in the Word of God. Lord, we're learning to lean to lean into Jesus to lean into Jesus as a disciple dead round around the remembrance table round the Passover table Lord as as we just lean into they we lean into Jesus Father, we lean away from the world. Lord we've been swaying left and right Lord we've been moving to the left and to the right Lord, may be a bit unsteady and our walk Lord a very unsteady in our journey and Lord today we just, we lean in Lord, give us the faith to to let all of our weight all of our life just lean into Christ as we simply put our weight, our complete body weight, everything that we've got completely into your arms as we lean in as a disciple inclined into Jesus's Buddha bosom around the Passover table. Father, I pray that I will learn to lean in Lodi, we'll learn to lean in and not lay back into the arms of the world but Lord, I will lean into Jesus Father, I pray Yes. As we're hearing the scriptures as we're moving in the power of God. Because God is with us and nothing can separate from the love of God, that is in Christ Jesus, nothing can separate from the love of Christ that is, in our Lord and Heavenly Father, nothing can separate from the love of the Holy Spirit. Nothing can separate us from the power of our God and our case. The Lord, I pray for holiness. Thank you, Lord, I pray for sound doctrine. Lord, I pray, Father that we will be in sound doctrine, Father, we won't get swept away what by denominational confusion by denominational unsteadiness, but Lord that we did God will be leaning into Jesus will lean into the word, Father, we won't sweida God with what the weather system of the world and religion is doing, Lord, it's blown here there and everywhere but Lord, we will lean into Jesus Lord, as the storm is rising, we lean in to your refuge or our shelter, we lean into Jesus Lord, as the denominations are being washed away by unbiblical. Teach in law, by their own understanding, or by their own ways by by their own interpretation, Father, God of all, the fundamental points father of Christianity, Father, we lean in, we lean in law, we lean into the world, we lean into Jesus, we lean in and say, Father, help me Lord, Lord, it feels lonely leaning into Jesus, Lord, I feel like there's no one else leaning in. Lord, I've got to lean into your word and it's going to going against the grain of life. And it's going the opposite way to Lord I feel Lord, like that fish father that swimming upstream that is fine to get back to. I'm swimming against the tide. This tide is washing me. This tide of life is exhausting me, Lord. I feel Lord like that salmon that's trying to get back up, Lord, and I'm just swimming against the tide of life. But Lord, I, I'm pressing into Jesus.
Donny Stockburn:Yeah, I'm
Glenn Walsh:pushing in. I'm pushing in farther. I'm leaning in. But Father, I also thank you that you draw me in. You draw us in lawn, you draw us closer, you draw us closer to the Lord. This is not lip service. This is from our hearts, Lord, where we're hungry for Jesus. Search me, oh Lord, and try me stretch me Lord and shape me. Lord, I pray that I will seek holiness. That word seems such a foreign word, the English language Lord holiness, holy, holy is the Lord. Yes, not Worthy of all praise, Lord. I want to be there. Lord, I want to be in that position. Father, I want to be in that position where I feel Lord, Your Holy glory. Lord, I feel so far from holiness. I feel so far from that place. Lord, I feel so far, Lord, with the pressures of life with the weight of the world. I feel so far from the this morning law we feel so far from you because we've been caught in the hamster wheel of religion and church law we feel so far away. I pray for those that feel so far away in, in the pigpen in the inner world, a protocol son was father but today, today's a good day. Because Lord, I repent, Lord of all my wicked ways, I repent, Lord of my lifestyle. I repent, Lord of my thoughts, I repent, Lord of every area of my mind. And I say, Lord, come, come, Holy Spirit, Lord, that the wave of the holy glorious God that I serve, sweet for me sweet for my brothers and my sisters here around us today, Lord, sweep through us, Lord and this nation. Holy, Holy is the Lord, most Worthy of all praise. Holy, Holy is the Lord. Most Worthy of all praise holiness, the holy because I am holy. Lord, we're seeking we're searching. Father, we come to you law with our filthy rags. And we lay everything on the table. The filthy rags of my mind the filthy rags of my understanding the filthy rag of life the the just the thought pattern the understand in the filthy rag of anger the filthy rag of bitterness, the filthy rag of unforgiveness, the filthy rag of the fleshly desires that the filthy rag of the pride of life the filthy rags, Lord, Lord, I pray, Lord, that you will put them put them father, put them right out. Lord, I thank you that the mind of God, the mind of God is so powerful that erases our sin, one price once and for all. Lord, you're so holy, you're so glorious, Lord, that our sin Lord are like filthy rags before you but the blood the blood Lord, the blood, the blood of Jesus Christ as washed us so Lord, I pray for myself and anyone Lord that fills that um, that we are dressed in filthy rags, Lord, that our robes Lord are not smelling good today. Our life is not looking well today that our decisions that we've made are not not good decisions. Now, our lifestyle is not a holy lifestyle. Start with mate, Lord. Start with me Lord. Strip me back, Lord rebuild me. Strip me back. Lord, strip me back. Strip me back. Lord, please. Holy, Holy is the Lord. Most Worthy of all praise. Be holy. Because I am holy Lord, you tell us to be holy in all of our conduct. Lord, help me. Help me today. Lord, help us the day. This nation Lord, Father, drawer drawer us today today but Lord, we thank you that there is there is a turnaround law there is a move there there is a there is a new beginning there is a new beginning Lord And Father we step Lord into your word and we rest in the arms of Jesus and Lord, as we gather around this table as we lean in to the communion table. Lord, I pray for myself, my brothers or my sisters and brothers online, the podcast as I pray, Lord, that we will lean into Jesus as we take the table. We take this cup as our brothers will lead us and as we just read full in prayer today, Lord, I thank you for the blood. I thank you for the bread. Lena slaw, draw us, Lord. Lord, help us to lean in. Maybe Dear God, we're still fighting Lord that lane. Maybe Lord, we're leaning back too much. We're resistant, we're resistant. We're resisting your Lord. Father, I asked you that you will stretch out your hands, take out of her hands and draw us so that we will lean into you. I want to become unsteady on my feet. And where I'm completely reliant on Christ. Well, I've lent completely and I've surrendered everything. Lord, that word is frightening. Surrender. surrender everything. Give me everything you've got. Yeah, give me everything. Every inch every millimetre of your heart. Give me that vessel.
Donny Stockburn:cooties. Yeah. God has invested power in us in His church, and I just want to read you this. A really famous preacher. I'm not going to name him. Man love God all the days of his life. From a young youngster. He said this about prayer. He said the man that changed the world. He knew at a price. That's Jesus. The greatest missionaries in this world. were men a prayer. The greatest preachers in this world were men of prayer. He says this know above all things. How to pray. love to know how to pray. He says how should we pray? sight? Simply. Amen. Sight from your heart. And absolute honesty with God? Yes. So we prior Gods invested power into his church. Yes, Father, power to change things. Prayer changes things. And we can change things God has commanded us to intercede into people's lives into other lives, far away. People that we may never see. We can change their lives with prayer, as the power of God as the power that God invested in us. And Lord, which is thank you for that. Lord, just awaken your church to it. Yeah, come on and awaken us, Lord, form up, those prayers feel solid, and my arm is far too good. The one thing Satan would love to get rid of? Is the prayers. The Warriors Lord who don't give in the ones who who persist and don't give up for God they don't give ground. And that's how you clearly outlawed sad clean Yeah, wait for three people. Right? So Father God, yes, sweep it right. So, Lord, we just pray now, Lord, you will stand up in your church. Those prayer warriors, Father God, they will be seen and thought of God and a form of mighty army, Lord to transform this nation. Come on, guys. It's done it before Father God, men a poor result of prayer. I was far away. So you lovely ladies, plug me into the kingdom of hell. So I wouldn't be here. And never will my family. So power prayer. earned. Don't get disheartened. If things don't happen. They will happen and it can't fail. But you've been persistent. You keep going. Don't Don't give up. That's the commander of God of Jesus. So he taught us to cry with persistence. Yeah, come on fall ago. We just lifted up to you, Lord, they're out there. across the world, Lord, your prayer warriors will manifest onto the streets, the highways and byways and In the prayer rooms, Lord, it'll be a great quiet, go out to our God. Father, as Moses quiet outlaws, so will we will we just pray that in Jesus name Lord, Amen.
Glenn Walsh:Amen. Thank you, Jesus. A few things going on this morning and I'm looking at environments I think that seems to be covering them all. Every week we get romans eight, but it's, there's, it's there. I'll start with verse 12. Stay inspired, stay in the word stay in. Therefore brothers and sisters, we have an obligation. But it's not to the flesh to hold into it. You have three of you live according to the flesh, you will die. Oh, but by the Spirit you put to death, the misdeeds of the body, you will live. For those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God to be led by the Spirit of God. That's what we need to do. Right back to the beginning. Those who are led by the Spirit of God are the children of God, I know the spirit you received does not make you slaves. So you live in fear again, rather the spirit you received for about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, Abba fire by the Spirit Himself testifies with our spirits, that we are God's children. Now if we are children, then we are heirs heirs of God and colours with Christ, if indeed we share any suffering, in order that we may also share with his glory, then down to verse six and prayer. In the same way, the Spirit helps us in a weakness, we do not, we do not know what we ought to pray for. But the Spirit Himself intercedes for us through wordless groans. And he searches our hearts. So he and he who searches our hearts, knows the mind of the Spirit. Because the Spirit intercedes for God's searcher in accordance with the will of God. He knows this to pray with the will of God. And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, may be called according to His purpose. For those who God for know, he for numerous, he knows everything about us. He knows this yesterday, today and tomorrow. And that means he knows all things. He's not surprised by you, or disappointed by you, thank God for no he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son, what a destiny we've got. We're going to be conformed to be exactly like Jesus is that he might be the firstborn amongst many brothers and sisters predestined. And those he predestined, he also called and those he called he also justified and knows he justified he also glorified the down to 37. No, we know these things we are more than conquerors, him and loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life neither angels nor demons, neither the president, nor the future, nor any powers, neither height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the Lord Jesus, I speak the truth in Christ. I am not lying. My conscience confirms it. Keeping the word Thank You, Lord, thank you for your word. So even when we pray, through the Holy Spirit, Holy Spirit, you are our strength to keep us in Lord, I can commit to pray from three o'clock to six o'clock every moment in my flesh would let me down. If I try and do it in my own strength, I'm only going to find my own expectations, let alone yours. But when you work in us, yes. When you stoke the fire, the power when you intercede and speak to our spirit, and show us the will of our Father in heaven. We walk in your power here, Thank You, Jesus, Lord, not by might not by power, but by my Spirit says the Holy Spirit. You're the one who calls Jesus to be manifest on the earth. Yeah, the Holy Spirit overpowers Mary and she conceived with child, the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. Thank you for the dwelling. Our Lord, I want to thank you for salvation is your idea. Yeah, he will. fenosa he caught you, Justin.
Donny Stockburn:Thank you. Thank
Glenn Walsh:you, Lord, for your grace upon our lives. I was dead in my transgressions and sin date. And a dead man can do nothing but you grieved life. Yeah. You grant it as it says in Acts even the Gentiles repentance unto life. Thank you, Lord, for the gift of repentance, the gift of conviction of sin, the gift of the favour of the Lord. Yes, Lord without any of that. He is dead today is what I was the day I was born. Holy Lord God Grace has given Life. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you Holy Spirit. Thank you, Father. Yes, Lord, we are Your children. Yes. Glory to God. Thank you. Thank you. Amen. Yeah, to the table, come to the table bread and why.
Andy Hammond:Still a prayer request here from Francis, her daughter, Georgina, has a court hearing today. And she wants a good outcome to them. Thank you. Miracle today we pray for her. I just got this verse for her in Deuteronomy. Courtney's say, Deuteronomy one, verse 29. And I've said to you, do not be terrified. Do not be afraid of them. The LORD your God is going before you and will fight and kill. Yeah, thank you. So we just pray that scripture this morning for Georgina. Yeah, give her peace. Give her calm. If she has to speak, Father, let them be your words of wisdom. Yes, Father she gives today. Glory, we pray the Holy Spirit. Be with her now. In Jesus name. Yes, Lord, and follow us we come before you as we break bread and drink wine together. Just some verses from Isaiah chapter six. Is commission Holy, holy. We've said this before. already this morning, holy, holy, holy is the Lord Almighty. The whole earth is full of his glory. Yes. The carrot goes on to say Woe to me, I cried. I'm ruined from a man of unclean lips. And I live among the people that unclean. My eyes have seen the king and the Lord Almighty. There one of the syrups flew to me with a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with tongs from the altar with it, who touched my mouth and said, See, this has touched your lips, your guilt is taken away. And you're seeing a turnkey. Thank you, Father. But this is something that we can all consider this morning. Because when we come into relationship with Jesus, it doesn't finish there. That's just the beginning. Because this verse says, Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, Whom shall I send? Oh, who will go for us? And I said, Here am I sent me here I am. He said, Go and tell the people. Thank you so far that we thank you that you commission each one of us when we come into relationship with you. But you paid the price for our sin. And we just thank you can't say that enough. And we remember that as we take the spread this morning, that your body broken for each one of us. Hang on that tree suffering and die in our place. Thank you, Father. 30. Thank you. So we take this break now. Yes, loved.
Donny Stockburn:God has said, My strength. My Spirit is God who makes us strong. He anointed us. He says seal of ownership on us. He put his Spirit in us and a deposit that guarantees our salvation. What have we done so far? Which is said Yes, Lord. Lord, we thank you that everything else comes from you. This is the blood. His life is in the blood is holy. We do great thanks, Lord. Come on. It's his blood that fulfils God's holy law and makes us holy to this is a blood. Christ is in Christ as in you now. Sing as one Colossians verse 27. The fulfilment of God's plan is simple. And Paul announced it. It's Christ in you, the fulfilment Lord. To think that your son is living. This is the blood that made it all possible law which is give you thanks now in Jesus name. Amen.
Glenn Walsh:Amen. Yeah, that's power in the blood. Thank you for the bloodshed of the lamb, the Lamb that was slain. Holy, Holy is the Lord. Most Worthy of all praise.
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Glenn Walsh:What a place to be in your holiness. What a place to be Lord in the arms of the Father. What a place Lord, what a place of stillness. When the carnage of life is just on the outside and we're wrapped in the arms of the Father. The protocol, I'm running back to Jesus, I can't live in the sky anymore. I can't live in the stench of life. Lord, come, lift us today, lone rappers in the arms, the everlasting arms, Holy is the Lord. Most Worthy of all praise. Lord,
Donny Stockburn:thank you, Lord.
Glenn Walsh:I don't want to be any more Lord in the circus of the church. Lord, I don't wanna be any more Lord, in the business model the church, I don't want to be any more quote in religion. I want to be in the house of the Lord, is why you're here. The atmosphere, prays in his name. You hear the air, shouting out holy, holy is the Lord is such a strong presence. Lord, your private presence, Lord just grabs us. Your presence, Your Holiness just secures us Your Holiness. Your Holiness, holy, holy is the Lord, most Worthy of all praise. Lord, I want to reach that place. I want to reach a place Lord God, where the flesh is completely surrendered over to the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. I want to reach a place Lord, where there's peace for my mind, I want to reach a place Lord. I want to reach that place the other last in arms, what a what a fantastic traditional him that is. Lean In, lean in any everlasting arms, lean in lean in in the everlasting arms in the arms of Jesus in the arms of the Father. That's where I want to be found that I want to be found in the pastor's office that they want to be found in another religious service. Don't be found in a conference or don't want to go to another conference. Or don't go to another themed motion of what the church is putting together I want to be found in his cult surprise. I want to be found where the angels are singing the holy, holy is the most Worthy of all praise. I want to be found in the Holy of how I want to be found in the holiest place rather than in another evangelists. I don't need never preacher I don't need Dear God, another. A wise man telling me I need the word. I need the word Lord. I don't need another conference. So don't need another 101 ways to do it to get to be there. Lord, I don't need another name it and claim it. Why Lord, I just want holiness, seeking holiness, seeking holiness in the skipper, the UK. I seek you Father. Lord, I don't want more of the church or what the church is offering. They want more happy clappy come they go day Lord. I want holiness. I want these rags. rags to be as wise now I want low my thoughts my mind to be cleansed out. I want my attitude Lord, to be right with Christ. I want my thoughts to line up Lord with the word I want my my complete being to be found in the arms of the Father. We've got about six, five minutes left for this online service today and my heart's desire is holiness. My heart's desire I'm hungry for for him I'm reaching a stage of almost confusion. Because the world The world is is just calling itself and we got to walk. We've got to live we've got to bring families up we got to get into the the workspace we got to do what we got to do and it just feels very gritty, very grimy, very mucky. On the hour sigh holy, holy is the Lord most worthy of all pray bring me to the place of complete surrender. Bring me to the place Lord where I'm not following the latest church band, the worldly Christian band not following the name it and claim it preaches I'm not I'm not following the mega church. I'm not following the the world class speakers and preachers and I've got to be found in the holy place. I've got to be found in the arms of the Father, in the everlasting arms, in the cradle of peace, in the presence of holiness, in the presence of purity, in the presence of the glory, holy, holy is the Lord. As Andy read out, Lord, we're in a nation that is unclean. And we were looking for Holy, holy, holy is the Lord. unclean lips unclean thoughts, unclean attitude unclean temperaments unclean ways of living unclean. Lord, I want to be clean now wanna I'm washed in the blood, we can all jump up and down and say we washed in the blood. But I want to live in holiness.
Donny Stockburn:Yeah,
Glenn Walsh:yeah. So just three minutes, brothers and sisters.
Donny Stockburn:Yeah, it was good to begin all this work. And we could ask that question of ourselves where we are whatever's going on whatever we're facing, right now. This morning, about two hours ago, it seemed result facing the impossible. God's made it possible and all these things that God will complete what he's begun, he will complete that's his plan is not going to be anyone fall off the boat, so to speak. So that's the one good, lighter mile. So two got to the point where their faces rocking. And they're starting to wonder if they're saved or not. Listen, God has begun this work. He didn't begin it yourself. He will finish what he's begun. And that's the word of God. That's the promise of God. He doesn't make promises. He doesn't keep so far to God. Again, I just pray Lord, a lay out your you know who they are, Lord, you know, those who are struggling right now, Lord, who can't see the next hour, the next day, being any good to them, Lord, are these just one humongous great battle? For God, I pray that you will counsel him to lay it down. And know that it is your strength is your anointing that will get us there Lord, and Father God and just relax in your arms has been supplied today. It seems an impossible thing to do. But just do it. Just do it. Just give it to God. And just trust him, that he will finish it. He will fish he is promised he will solo which is stand on your policies. We stand on the Word of God today, that you will fulfil everything, Father God, and bless those people right now. Those who are struggling Lord, and and really, really pushed to the limit, Father God that we heard at the start about your servants being pushed to the limit. And now how it was in their favour, that God did it. So they wouldn't depend on themselves anymore. But they would depend totally on him. And I say our prayer Lord, although strugglers will not depend on their strength, but they will depend completely upon your strength for God, because you promised you would be there. And Lord, that you don't make promises lightly. And we believe in Father God, we just pray that prayer out over nations now in Jesus name. They will give it to the Father. No, they will give it upload to you and fight with your strength. In Jesus name I pray, amen. Amen. No man.
Andy Hammond:And thank you, Father, for being with us. This morning. Thank you for all that you've given us through your word, and through our speaking with you. And Father, we ask that you go with us this morning and with all those who are listening that by your Holy Spirit that you will make us strong for the week ahead. Yeah. Amen. And to Timothy chapter one, verse seven says, For God did not give us a spirit of timidity. But a spirit of power of louder of self discipline. So Father, we just close with that, that you give us a spirit of power, not timidity, but of strength and self discipline. Amen.
Glenn Walsh:Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you,
Andy Hammond:oh Bibles, yeah. If you need a Bible, if you need a Bible, I have a stock of them in my garage. And you can have one free of charge message. And they'll be there.
Glenn Walsh:Amen. And if you get an email that says it's from me, Glen Bosch, online church, it's not me. It's someone trying to scam money out of you. Some people already got the email and I am not sending them. So don't give him money, whoever they are. Thank you so much for joining us today. May God bless you wherever you are across the globe. Thank you to Glenn and Andy into Donnie and to everyone. We've caught all your online prayer requests. We thank God for the online church and we pray that results will come through right. Children will be healed. Salvation will fall across this nation. We will catch you soon. Thank you to those that are listening to this A week later down the timeline of the podcasting platform that we're using. May God bless you wherever you are, stay tight. Stay close. in Christ Jesus, never give up Have a great day. In Jesus precious name. Amen.
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