Good morning. Good morning wherever you are today we just want to welcome you into the Lord's house as we gather around the word. We've got our lovely brother Donnie with us this morning. We've got a lovely brother, Andy Hammond that is with us this morning. And we are missing. We are missing a Mr. Glen Mosh is somewhere in Scotland, hiking up a mountain in a kill in a kill all my load. Lord, he certainly needs prayer today. But we welcome everybody wherever you are today. May God bless you and strengthen you. Thank you for joining us for coffee and bread. In the mighty name of Jesus. We are about 17 minutes late. We apologize to everybody that's come online for the lateness this morning simply because it is absolutely organized chaos here. With all the builders and everything that's going on it is really busy. It is very loud. So wherever you are listening to this, if you hear any unusual noises is the builders that sign and we say good morning to the builders, the Brooklands, the carpenters, the scaffolders and the roofers, just for everybody's understanding, you might hear some noise. But this is the very presence of being roll live streaming. And people walking by the door. As the ceilings are coming down in the church today. We've got a major project on the run at the moment, but my God bless you, wherever you are today, we just pray that you will be still and know that he's got I've got a scripture. And it is Psalms 46, verse 10, Psalms 46, verse 10. Really, really important in times that we are living, because there's a lot of scaremongering going out, there's a lot of fear, trying to be driven from certain areas of life. And I just want to encourage you this morning, with my two brothers, to be strong in God, to be strong in the word to trust Him, and to not lean on your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledge him. So we're going to go to Psalm 46, verse 10, as we read, as we come through, and we will just look, brother is just grabbing a pen there. And we are, we're willing, we are willing, wherever you are, come on, we just want to say good morning to you this morning. And we want to thank you to literally 1000s 1000s of people across the globe that are downloading these podcasts, literally 1000s, whoever you are, wherever you are across the earth, we just want to say thank you so much for downloading for listening for staying with us through the lockdown. And obviously through everything that's going on, we will continue our biggest press is going to be online services, it will be always every service, I should say will be the hybrid service, it will be live streamed, and it will be in person as well, as long as we can gather in the Lord's house. But that is the way that we are going forward here in EDM church. So we can capture people in the Lord's house. And we can capture those that need to be at home or at work wherever it may be. And everybody across the world that joins into the services that we do again and again and again. And I will keep saying it. Thank you so much to everybody online this morning. Everybody online, so too many names to to mention, and we just thank you may God bless you and strengthen you. But we're in. And as I said, we've got Psalms 46 Verse 10, I do believe this is a time for being still for finding a place to rest. There's a lot of issues happening within the framework of the UK. And within the context of church or in the context of religion. We're seeing denomination slide, we're seeing all sorts of things happening. And this is really critical for us as believers that we hold into God's Word, we don't let it go. We keep focused, you know, and always pick up that scripture. Hebrews chapter 12, verse two, keep your eyes on Jesus. Keep your eyes on Jesus, keep your eyes on Jesus don't look outside the framework of that and that can be very difficult and I clearly understand what it's like to be stressed to be pressured with work with many things happening in life situations breaking out. There seems to be a move at the moment of of major issues breaking out in many families. There seems to be just a move of this just hard press stuff going on. But wherever you are Psalms 46 Verse 10 This morning, and it says he says Be still and know that I'm God. We got to be still. The Scripture also says, Do not lean on your own understanding. But in all your ways acknowledge Him, wherever you are at work, walk in, at your desk, retail, whatever, so many reference points to your workspace. And I just pray that wherever you are today, just just just be still, just be still. You know, you might have a lot of worries, you might have a lot of fears, but just concentrate, just concentrate on the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit, just lift him up, just lift your hands up, and just praise him and just say thank you, God, that you are in full control. I thank You, Lord, for this government. But Lord, I'm, I am governed by you, I belong to you. I was bought with a price. I'm a child in the living God. I thank You, Father, that your hand is on this nation. I thank You, Lord. So this morning, Lord, I believe there is stillness. And in the stillness, there is power. You know, you can be really busy in your life, you can be really busy with schedules with work with everything. And you can still be spiritually still you can have the busiest life you can have the busiest schedule on planet Earth, but when you know what, and how it is important to be still in God to be still in him. Now, the simple way to express this is just just believe. First, I just believe, and as we enter into some time of prayer, and as we take communion together as we gather around this table, just believe, just believe, thank you for keeping God's word. Just believe wherever you are, at this moment, Psalms 46 Verse 10. Be still and know that um, God, whatever is going on in your life, may God bless you and God strengthen you, and may the hand of God just be upon you this morning. And may God give you revelation or knowledge, may God just reveal May God just continue to guide you in your life because he is with you. He is with you. No matter how you feel about yourself, no matter how awkward it may be, no matter how gritty life is, no matter how up and down like a roller coaster, maybe your life reflects a roller coaster at the moment. It peaks, and it drops, it peaks and it drops, it's up and it's down. It's like flying around a fast colony you feel completely strapped in to the UK that is almost out of control. But the UK isn't out of control, because God is in control. God is in full control. And it might seem that life is spinning out of control. But it is only spinning to the pace of the prophecies and the word of God that has been given. So everything that is happening within the UK has been foretold spoken about, written about in the book of life in the Word of God. So everything is in control of him governments, businesses, finance markets, areas of of that, you know, they are out of control within themselves, but God is in control of the out of control situations. Because it is scripture, we are living in powerful times. And the Good Book is perfect. So the world is only doing what the scripture as prophesied, the world is only doing what we should expect it to do. It's been spoken into being we are in we are in very powerful. We are in very turbulent, we are in very calm, it peaks derive a moment where you might find a bit of peace just for one one second. And then suddenly, the peace drops. And then fear comes in and and you grab a bit of a smile from your innermost being and in your peak in your trough and your rise. Because of the spiritual atmosphere on the outside. But God is with every one of you God is with every one of you. Unless enter into a time of prayer. Father, in the name of Jesus, we come before you, you are our God and you are our King and Father we just say good morning to everybody online this morning. We say good morning to you on on podcast world. We just say thank you Father that were able to, to press this out for the power of technology. We thank You, Lord, that this will increase Lord across the globe. law but right now we pray for our brothers and sisters. On the other side of these mics We pray Father for their lives, we pray for children. We pray for those that need peace. We pray for those that need healing we pray that they will be still be still and know that you are God. Father, we are learning not to lean on our own understanding but in all our ways we acknowledge the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. In all our ways. Lord, Father, we lean into Jesus this morning, father, yes, we put every area of our life into you. Yes father, we are leaning into the word father. As we lean into Jesus. We are leaning into the Word as we lean into the Word. We are leaning into God. When we lean into God, we are leaning into the father of all when we lean into the Father, we are home. So Lord, I pray that all of us online in the house today, the builders, the scaffolders, everybody in the area of of this place today, your house, all of us online, all of us in this room as three, Lord that we will learn to lean into Jesus, Father, we thank you that you are carrying our burdens. We thank You, Lord, that you're carrying our pain. You're carrying everything you went to the cross and Father, we thank you that we have freedom in the name of Jesus. And this morning, we thank You that backs are being healed. We thank You that minds are being healed. We pray Lord for suicidal folk thoughts that they will go at the name of Jesus. We pray that fear will go at the name of Jesus, we pray that back pain will go at the name of Jesus, we pray that arthritis will go at the name of Jesus we pray, Lord, for all the sicknesses or the diseases, Father, Lord, that there is healing Father, we believe in healing. We believe in the power of your word we believe, Lord, we believe and Lord I pray that we will continue just to walk in that we believe we believe Lord, we are believing Lord's Father, I pray, Lord, that our faith will rise up today. Nor that we will lean into Jesus this will be the day that we recognize that this is the day that the Lord has made we shall rejoice and be glad. And Father, we thank you that there is an acceleration in our lives, into the Father's arms, Lord into the Father's arms, we thank you for all the protocols, all the protocols, Father, the Father's arms are open to all those that are turning back. But Lord, it wasn't my decision to turn back it was your word that drew me back. Lord, my my lips have just said what what was ordained for my life. I'm coming back to Jesus and Lord, you already pulled us back. We didn't actually leave the father's house. We didn't leave the Father's arms. Because Lord when we're in, we're in. It's just our physical decides to go on a ramble to go on a walk. But Lord we're in because nothing can separate us. Nothing Romans. Nothing can separate us. From the love of God that is in Christ Jesus, nothing can separate us from the love of Christ. Nothing can separate from the power of the Holy Spirit. Nothing can separate us. From the Word of God, Father, we are grafted in Spirit of the Living God, we pray, Lord, that the Comforter, the Comforter will come and give comfort to all those that need comfort today, we pray, Lord, that the word of God will just father open up the envelope of people's heart today, and Lord, let the word pour your word in Lord, pour your word. And before I've even prayed these prayers, before I've even spoken, before my lips have moved, God is already doing. God is already moving in your heart, God is already moving in your life. It isn't the prayer that makes it happen before that prayer is actually spoken God has already put into being. So what do I do in my prayer life? I got to make sure that I'm praying the will of the Father. Lord, what is your will for me today? Lord, what is your purpose? Lord, show me where I should be. What should I be doing? How should I speak today? How should I be today? Father, I thank you that there is power in the name of Jesus. And this morning, Lord, as we gather around these mics, because we rest in the arms as we rest in the Father's arms. were resting in the arms of the Father, Come Holy Spirit. Have your way with us today, Lord, Lord, moved by your glory move, moved by a power move in the power of the Word of God. Father, I thank you that Your word is released into government. I thank you that Your word is down the corridor of number 10 Downing Street, I thank You, Lord, that your peace and your presence and your will and your perfect is over and your governance is over parliament. Lord, you are in full charge You are the King of glory. There is nothing outside father of the Word of God. There is nothing that has caught you by surprise. There is nothing outside of your vision, your spoken word, you are in charge of everything. Everything so far, that everything is in control. Because everything belongs to you. So Lord, we pray for this government we pray, Lord God, that for the leaders of the churches, we pray, Father, that the you just reveal yourself down the corridors of life that you will breathe into the lungs of the UK, the Living Word into every home, every business, every school, every college, every university, every kindergarten, every house, every home, every car, every area of life, Father breathed down the lungs of this nation, Father breathe into us again, breathe into the healthcare sector. To breathe in to education breathe in life hospices brief speak over this nation Lord, we need the Lion of Judah. Father we need the lion we need to hear the roar we need the King of kings and the Lord of lords Father, we are expecting we are expecting father, break for we are expecting Lord, to be reshaped. We are expecting law to go from faith to faith, we are expecting your word. Father, we are in that position of believing you tell us just believe. And we are just believing. So this morning, bless my two brothers before me. Bless my brothers and sisters online this morning. Bless the online church. Lord, I pray that and I thank you that you have taken care of their needs. In Jesus precious name. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Thank You, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Lord, wonderful God.
Donny Stockburn:He was laying in bed the other day and thinking about all the battles that were around me, and I'll just wrote this little word down, going through the wilderness and, Lord, when our strength is gone, what happens when we are not alive? What happens when we're not bold enough? What happens when all our courage is failed? And what happens when we haven't got enough faith to even be obedient? All this time, Lord, are just like they're wandering, and will you abandon us? We get to the point where you abandon us. For God's answered that question for us. I found it in Jeremiah, you'll notice a verse straight away 29 Chapter 29, verse 11, to 14, just give you a minute to get there. This is it speaking to a people who have gone so far away from God, that they've been sent into exile. They've just given up God altogether. And this word you would have thought would have been telling them him off about it, Lord, but I just just want you to read this with me, God. And it says, In that time, God sent a message to the people in exile. And this was the message. I will visit you and perform my good work towards you, and called you to return to this place for our noun thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace are not available, to give you a future, to give you a hope, then you will call upon me, and go and pray to Me. And I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me. When you search for Me with all your heart and a man of a debt said, when you cry to Me with all your heart, and Lord, all this, these plans? Yes, you're planning for peace, and for prosperity in our lives. You planned all this, before they even went into exile. How Lord, that is that shows me that this love of yours will not abandon us. This love of yours is a perfect love. And it says that's somewhere in one John. And I think being a perfect love of God. God's love is perfect. Yeah, yeah. And Lord, which is lean on that now, which is based on his true follow God, that even though we like our strive, we may get weak and traveled. You'll never abandon us. His word says so that even before they went into exile, God was planning prosperity for him, and to lift them up, and to bless him. Amen. Oh, what a go What? What save your father God we have in you. And Gloria just love that word. Yes, father, when you cry to me, when you cry to Me with all your heart less a different puel together. When we cry to you with all our heart, Lord, are to remember my, my sister, I went to see when I was a young Krishna went to see the vicar about some big problem. And he was a man filled with God's Spirit. And she said to me, call your boy I've gone to see him. I said, I'm not five. I'm desperate. When we're desperate, we play a different prayer. Yes, Lord. Lord, when we're desperate, we sing a different song Lord, that's when we really seek you in with all our heart and, and that's what you was waiting for. That's what you was planning for. When they returned to you and sought you with all their heart or their heart follow God and Lord in Zach, not the way of this nation right now. He all these things are going on right now in this in this nation. Once of Christian Lord complete The Lord, you're waiting. You're waiting for us to seek you with all our heart, all these troubles and issues that are going on now, Lord, you've already planned that Jesus is going to save us. That's already your plan, Lord. But Lord, we just asked, you know, Jesus name, Father, God, this nation, this nation will rise up and put down the politics and all those things initiative, and quiet to you. It was a desperate art like these people did while it was in exile. They cried out to you with a desperate art. It was a different prayer to ever, ever tried before. And Father, we pray that this nation, this nation, Lord, will provide you with that desperate cry, Lord. Lord, He knows hospitals, widows, nurses and doctors are worn out. And a sit down and with their heads between the knees, Lord and quiet to you, for strength, Lord as a different prayer, we know that sound price with mother was sick a will, as a different player. A Lord when we are broken have fallen apart when we think we've got it all wrong. And when we we can't make it when we wonder even about our salvation, Lord, we pray a different way. And that's the prayer he was waiting for Israel and Judah to pray to You, Lord. So Father, we pray, I pray right now, that all your church will pray this prayer of desperation, Lord, yes, these are desperate times, Lord, that we will cry out to you with all of our heart, everything inside of us, Lord, and pray for each other. And pray for this nation. Lord, if we will return to you. returned to you, Lord, Amen. So you will pull out this amazing love on us this perfect love for God again, and fulfill all these promises he made in his in his these few verses, Lord, yes for peace, prosperity, all the goodness of God poured out on us, Lord, we pray a desperate prayer today. Come and save us, Lord and, and help us out of the situations. Lord, we pride is desperate prayer. In Jesus name, amen. Amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you, Jesus. Thank You, Holy Spirit. Thank you, Lord. Before Randy mentions another word. I just got to go to one John chapter four, verse 18, that Donnie referenced, and there is no fear in love, but perfect love drives out. Fear. Amen. Yes, fear. Fear is driven out by the power of the love of God. So wherever you are today, you know, just remember you are loved, you are loved beyond, beyond that human understand that you are loved. You are wrapped up in the love of God. And the God bless sorry about that.
Andy Hammond:A few thoughts that come into my mind is unity amongst believers. Yes. Yes. As we approach this, Christmas. I know lots of churches, plans are still undecided because of this viruses raising up again. And but beyond all that, yeah, yeah. We've got to be able to work together as as believers. And that's my prayer. This morning is that and this will be this will be a powerful witness. Amen. To those who don't believe. And obviously we have to work together in all this. I have called to mind Psalm 133, which is how good and pleasant it is been God's people live together in unity. Thank you, Jamie. She's like pressure to all piled on the head running down on the beard running down on air and spirit down off his road. It is as if the two of Herman was falling on Mount time for their Lord bestows His blessing, even life ever more. So when we work together in unity when we are in agreement, there is a real blessing that comes out of that. And this Christmas time, if any time of the year. We need to be in agreement. Yes file and look forward to the Savior who was born and I always find that Gospel reading in in Luke two about the birth of Jesus is, is quite powerful. And I encourage you to read chapter two of Luke, the birth of Jesus. And I always find it interesting that thank you for the lowest of the loud. Shepherds. Yes. We're the first to hear about this birth. That's right. The angels appeared before them. And they must have been terrified. Yeah, on the hillside is this great light appeared. Thank you, Jesus. They rushed to meet the Savior and mentor. What I pray this morning is that those who don't know, Jesus, I encourage you to rush to meet the Savior. This morning, my man rush to meet the Savior, because he's calling Thank you might feel that you're not good enough. And Jesus dealt with that when He walked this earth. When he called his first disciples, they were fishermen. And they probably felt they weren't good enough. And when Jesus said, Come follow me. He was talking as the rabbi. Come follow me, you are full enough to for me. Amen. You are good enough. And that's a message out there today. That if you don't know him, come follow him. Because he's paid the price for you. He went to cross the, you
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen, yeah.
Andy Hammond:And I just pray, Father God, now that your spirit will flow out from this place. Thank you, Jesus. Come, Holy Spirit. We pray, Come, Holy Spirit. Fell each one of us this morning, with your power with your resurrection power. Yes, Father, you brought life Lord, when there was death. You bring healing, as we've prayed this morning, that your healing power will meet the needs of all those who cry out to you this morning. Thank you, for those sitting in their homes. Unable to get out. Those who are too scared to go out with this virus again. Father, we ask that you come and bring your blessing. Bring your power. Amen. Bring your comfort. And Father, for those who are grieving at the moment, who have lost loved ones that you will come alongside and you will put your arms around them to bring comfort. Thank you holster. News. I'm Father we perfect. We remember that we celebrate this time. Yeah. We got self the Savior, the Savior of the world. Thank you, Jesus, we know that there is no one. There is no one who can do the works of Jesus in the way that you did. But you have given us all authority as well to how powerful that is. And we pray these prayers with your authority this morning. And we know that you paid the price. No one else can pay that price. So we thank you that we can be with you. That we you call us your friends, man. Amazing. You call us your friends. It just reminded me of that song What a friend we have a Jesus all our sins and grieves to me. What a privilege to carry everything to God in prayer. So we come to you this morning, father through your Son Jesus, and in the power of the Holy Spirit. And Father of those who are not good enough. who feel they're not good enough. You you've made them good enough. Yeah, you've done that or saying that you say Come follow me. Thank you for and all those who are teetering on the edge of my Making a decision for you. I say to you this morning, now is the day of salvation. Today, now is the time to say, Lord, yeah, make that decision now to follow Jesus. Because once you've done that, the promises that He will never leave you, He will never forsake you. He will always be there for you as the king, thank you, Father God. What a privilege to be a member of his royal household. The key, we are members of the royal household. Yeah. And so Father, we ask that this message will be sent abroad today. And then across the airwaves, into homes, into communities, into our churches, that you are king than that we follow you. And follow that help us to be a obedient to that call, bring discipline into our lives, when we can follow you. And we know farther that we can always come to you. When we make mistakes. Yes, when we are in error, when we follow our own path, not yours. And we need to come to you this morning, we ask You to forgive us, for all the things that we do wrong. We ask you to wash us clean this morning. And we know that we can do this at any time we can come to you. We can come to you. And you forgive us. And we have a new start. And we can be fresh and renewed. And we can grow. Help us to grow in our faith this morning.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yes, please. Thank you, Jesus. Thank
Andy Hammond:You, Lord, we know that we have the freedom to worship. We have this freedom. And we need to hang on to that.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you, Jesus. Thank You, Holy Spirit you, father.
Andy Hammond:Thank you. So if you're not good enough, please, this tells you this morning. Of course, you're good enough. You're my son. You're my daughter. And I love you. And I died for you. So that you could have life. Life in all its fullness. So we thank you Jesus this morning, so that we can be in relationship with you. And there's your word says you are the Way, the Truth and the Life. No one comes to the Father. Thank you that you've made away that highway of righteousness. We can walk Father, help us to be strong. Help us to persevere.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Oh, man. Oh man. Yeah, just rest in Jesus. Just rest in His presence. He's, he's with you. He loves you unconditionally. And when I say you, I'm referring to me and us. Us three here He loves us unconditionally. Now it's time just to lean in. Just let your body just recognize that the God of Israel is real. He's already saved us. He's given us the gift of salvation. We are saved not by our by our own strength, not by our own skills, not by our own measures. We are saved because the God that said Let there be light decided to put redemption plan in place. Even before the phone in the Garden of Eden. Yes, there was a plan. There was a plan. Oh, yes, redemption. Redemption. We are redeemed I'm redeemed. We bought. We bought we bought with a price we understand the price of the blood, the blood of Christ, the blood of the Lamb. You know this Christmas time is time to is just to reflect. Yes, we thank you for the Savior's birth. We thank you that he was sent he was sent to die. And when we say die, he was sent to give his life as a ransom So at the birth of Christ, What a life What a powerful life, Christ lift. He was given, so that we would live, he was given, so that we would walk in eternity he was given. So that we will be redemption be redeemed, sorry, by the power of redemption he was given. So that we would have peace he was given that we would have life, he was given. And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, we have seen his glory redemption plan, before the first tree was ever springing out of the Garden of Eden before God said, Let there be light, there was a plan. There was a plan. And how we unpack that and how we unfold that and how we analyze and how we look at that, and how we explore that. There has to be, there was a plan. Yes, before, before, God said, Let there be light. Because light is the first glimmer of creation. And the scripture says, before the world was formed, I knew you. I knew you before, before the garden before let there be light. Before creation, the glory and the power was ever spoken before atoms suddenly began before the atmosphere was ever put into being before the stars were put placed into the sky, in a perfect position by the voice and the hand of God. I knew you before the very beginning, before the foundations of the world I knew you before the beginning. You've always been in existence. You've always been on the Father's heart. Some things are too much to grasp. And I pray that God will just continue to reveal His love and His Word and His presence to you. It wasn't your lips that decided to follow Jesus. It was the God of heaven and earth. The God of Israel. The God above all things. The God that created every free angel in that spirit world that we can't say yeah. before the world was formed, I knew you I knitted you together in your mother's womb. And I, I brought you in. I wonder when that point was when we was in. But when you look at the expanse of time, when you look at the vastness of eternity before the beginning of the foundations of the world, I chose you. Yeah. Wow, God, wow, wow. Wow. Father, we love you. Because it's not my lips. It's not my physical being that decided to follow Jesus. He decided to choose you. He decided to put redemption in place. God loves us, no matter how we feel about ourselves. No matter how we look at ourselves. We cannot escape the fact that the scripture says before the world came into being. I know you were coming to the table in just a few moments. I
Donny Stockburn:just cannot just go over what you said Ben is done. God's really making a point here. Now. He pre planned. All these goodness, all our salvation, eternal life, everything he pre planned it. Well, before we were sinning, he pre planned Jeremiah shows us that again. Even before Israel went into exile, for this sinful life, he'd already laid the plan out. There is going to save him getting back again. He's just waiting for that desperate cry. And again, Ben's Benjamin, Viet, that that is pre plan. God has sorted it out in advance, knowing that we will be sinful knowing that way we'd be far away from him. Knowing that we would often fail often struggle, and we will be weak at times. Even even in faith, Lord, we can struggle like that. But Lord, you've already pre planned our salvation you've already had Jesus waiting in the wings force, word of redemption, Lord, our salvation is not probation is salvation. Jesus came to save, not to put us on probation Siaka when he came to of save us a little bit is when all of it, Lord, that you pre planned all these things. And when doubt comes into our lives about salvation Lord, and our performance and all those sorts of things in these testing times, Lord, Lord, just take us back to this word that you already saw it all. And you looked at us all, and you said, we were worth it. And you went to the cross, and cleared all our sin away file to God, which is thank you for that. Now, Lord, we just pray that take us into that desperate prayer life, Lord, where we see that a lot is you are nothing because that's the truth. That's how it really is. It's You are nothing lord. Because you'd who do all these things, it's you who pulls all all our laws to light Lord, it's you who takes away our sins. The Lord use your word says what do you have? I didn't give you can't think of anything Lord Mostyn Lord and you bless us, Lord, and your whole plan is salvation. Your whole plan is to make us God's children's and he spoke. Lord, we just sit here in all of it, Lord, that were part of that plan. And we thank you Lord, but Lord bar pray that you will lead us to that place where we cry out to you with all our heart, as did Israel, Lord, you said when you cry, when you come to me when you seek me with all your heart, lead, Oh, bless you, then oh, pour out. Also a pray that we will come in to you, Lord, desolate prayer, desperate prayer for one another is and is to again, love one another. Your your command is this polishing room. And now that you are my disciples, thank you, not by your hat, not by account or, or are big your cost is under your arm or whatever it is good, but that you have a love for one another, as a hallmark of God, that we love one another, and help one another and pray desperately for each other Lord, help each other in times of trouble. As your plan is Well, Lord, we just thank you for it in Jesus name, amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Amen. I just got one scripture, I just want to refer to Isaiah 4424. Coming from what Donnie has said, and what Andy and the way these prayers and what what we're being pressed through. If you look at Isaiah 44, verse 24, Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, who formed you from the womb, He is our Redeemer, He formed us, oh man, he's the king of kings and the Lord of lords. Oh, he created us before the very beginning of the world. He has put everything into existence. He has set us apart before the very beginning of time. He is your God, He is your King. He is the Lord of lords. You know, and you just got to rest in Him. We're coming to the table, he created you. He set you aside, he, he brought you into being he he put you into existence, he is your God. He is the King of kings. Yes. There are so many references that we can go to. It is just so much even Jeremiah chapter one, verse five, before I formed you, before I formed you in the womb, I knew you. Before you know this, this is just this is just enormous. For the believer to know that you were saved before you ever became he was already in existence in his heart, before the physical even, you know, threescore years and 10, the Bible says that we live for, and we've heard so many times from religious connotations, and from that, that, that you've got to decide to follow Jesus. No, he, he saved you. He sent me free the redemption plan. We're coming to the table. And wherever you are across the globe today, come and take communion with us. We invite you in. No one's worthy. No one is worthy, but we are worthy because of the blood. So wherever you are now, there is no one in the physical that is worthy of doing this within our own strength. We need this opportunity. We need these moments where we come to Him and we present ourselves to Him. This is also mind blowing as well. That we were saved. And we was cleansed in the blood before we even took our first communion because when you Bring all the scriptures together, what we are doing now this has no forbearance on am I going to get to heaven or not? Because you is already in the book of life before you ever became in into being. So what this is doing this, this is just bringing the physical in line with the spiritual. This is just bringing the physical part of this world. And we are just acknowledging, yes, this is very powerful for us. This is a very, very important time in our lives that we recognize. But before we recognized we was already saved, it was not your lips that decided at that Evangelical revival meeting that you decided to follow him. It was before Genesis was even written. This is, God's word is so big, oh man, but he's always revealing. Thank you, Lord. So you are saved. And it's not you that decides to save you and decides to follow him. You're already in, you're already in. And there's many fighting that in resisting him, pushing him away. But there will come a time when the physical will make the spiritual. When the physical lines up with the Holy God, and you cannot resist him. You will run out of energy, you will run out of strength, you will run out of words. It doesn't matter what you fire up and what you say and how you live. Because the Scripture says, God displayed or God demonstrated His own love for us while we were still sinning. Father, thank You for Your Word. Andy And Donnie are going to lead us into communion.
Andy Hammond:Father, we just thank you for that supreme sacrifice, that you went to the cross and no matter how we were in our own life, how we had let you down. You were there because you paid the complete sacrifice so that we could come back to you. And I've got Psalm 51 Open in my Bible, and Psalm a David, when the prophet Nathan came to him after he had committed adultery with Bathsheba and he came before God and wrote this song. Have mercy on me, oh God, according to your unfailing love. According to your great compassion, blot out my transgressions. Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin. For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me against you. You only have I sent and done what is evil in your sight. They are right in your verdict and justified when you judge, Surely our sinful at birth and sinful from the time my mother conceived me. Yet you desired faithfulness, even in the womb, you told me wisdom in that secret place. Yeah, cleanse me with his set, and I shall be quick. Wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. Me here joy and gladness, let the bone chew or crush, rejoice, hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquity, creating me a pure heart. Oh, God, I mean, you are steadfast spirit within me. Amen. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Thank you, restore me the joy of your salvation, and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me, then I will I will teach transgressions to your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you. Thank you. Yes. It's because of your forgiveness that we come back to you. That's where you want to tell other people about the joy of being in relationship with you, man. And so Father, we just thank you for that supreme sacrifice. And we take this Yes, father right this morning. And those of you that have joined with us as we take the bread, knowing that this is a symbol of Christ's body that was broken for us for each one of us. Amen.
Donny Stockburn:You don't judge self as you just try and remember that never judge yourself. Because it's finished. Class finished it. Who is no judgment now? We've already passed into life because of this blood. It took away all my sins, because of this blood that justified me and you before the living God this is a blood of bull as a new life. Amen? Is it the blood that takes us into eternal life? And Lord, which is thank you for it, Lord, remember, the cost, the price, the preciousness, the love for us, you have, that you would do this Lord, Amen. For us.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you, God, thank
Donny Stockburn:you, in Jesus name, amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Cleansed in the blood. Let's just take a moment. Just take a moment. You are forgiven, I am forgiven. We was forgiven before our lips moved. Because when you look at the greatness of the scripture, and you look at the power of the Scripture, what we are really doing is that we are just as the physical us is just realizing that we are already forgiven. When Christ was on the cross a Calvary, when he was looking at the soldiers of the priest, his mom, his family, disciples, when he looked across the audience that was before him. And he looked directly into their eyes. He said, Father forgive them, for they know what they do. Father forgive them, for they know what they do. Sometimes in our lives, we have moments of complete failure, where we completely slide and, and drop to a very deep place. But when we draw to that deep place, there is a pair of hands. Yes, this cushion the fall in a deep place. God is already in the deep place is in the miry. Pit, the slimy pin. He catches us. He's with us. He knows every weakness that I have. And the weaknesses that I don't even realize I have at this moment. He has already now done weaknesses to the cross before I even get any weaker. It was finished at the cross the Calvary Yes. When we refer to the cross the Calvary that was what we call humanity seeing the Messiah on the cross. We it is we're recognizing for visual Frou Frou what we see on what we have for the scripture. But the Redemption plan was already done. It's already it's already been done. Thank you, Lord. We there is so many places we can turn to in the Word of God that will tell us so clearly. So clearly. And he's gonna we're gonna we got about seven minutes. We've got about seven minutes and I can see people hopping online and we just want to say thank you so much. Thank you so much to everybody that's been hopping online. We're praying for you and whatever it may be God, God's strength for you and bless you and heal you and everything that goes along God, God is with you. God is with you. Your life is in His hands. And Andy is going to share a message that he always shared. So Andy, there we go.
Andy Hammond:Yeah. Before I do that, I just say I sort of had a picture whilst Ben was speaking there, or someone at home. I think it was a lady who has problems with a neck. It's some it's been going on for a little while now. Whether it's the stiffness or whatever it is, it needs to be healed. And there could be other people with these kind of issues. And I just want to pray for this person and for anyone else who can say the Amen, yeah. Follow, just pray that this neck now the movement will be restored to any came between the vertebrae that you will restore this, that you're bringing your complete healing. And we declare now neck be healed in the personal name of Jesus amen. Amen. Thank
Donny Stockburn:you, Lord.
Andy Hammond:And if you say the Amen as well, amen, Lord, Amen. Thank you so be, yeah, thank you. I'm just gonna offer this the most popular book in the world to who wants it? Oh, yes, and it's completely free. So if you want one, just get in touch and we're getting a copy out to you. And what I do like about the New Testament, here, we put some very key verses at the back of the book, about salvation about God to remedy and how you can respond. And this, God's promises. And this is the promise from God. For each one of us, if you declare with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. And that's Romans 10, verse nine. If you declare with your mouth, Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. And that verse is key to our salvation. And it is a verse that when that certain sector knocks on your door, you can quote, Romans 10 verse nine. Because that will confound them.
Reverend Ben Cooper:That will throw them off their rocker, you know, the word of God is power. Thank you, Andy, the word of God is sharper than a double edged sword. We thank you for this morning. We may God bless you, and guide you and strengthen you. I'm just going to ask Dawn because I can see you've got scripture I haven't, you
Donny Stockburn:know, I was gonna write it down. It says here. It says in Hebrews 10, verse 19. And it goes on a little bit longer than that. It says, Therefore, brethren, having boldness to enter the holiest place by the blood of Jesus. Lord archers had that picture of in those days gone by and he loves this one, when only the high priests to that year could go in to the presence of God with a rope around his waist in case he was killed in their Lord, but now, but now, we can go in there now we can go right in there boldly. Not because of our good performance or, or anything of that, because of the blood of Jesus. We can come in to the presence of God right into the holiest place, right under his face, Lord, under the face of God, with a desperate prayer for someone or something, Lord, it will be dealt with, but living God by the power, and the authority of the name of Jesus, these things must be changed must go, Lord and reaches thank you for this privilege, Lord, that we have in our hands, Lord, because of the blood of Jesus, not because of our performance of anything of that, but because of the goodness of God because of the blood of Jesus. Yeah, Lord, we are set free from sin. We are set free from all the issues of it, Lord, all the baggage of it, Lord, there is no it's not in existence. Well, holy, we are righteous, and we can come right into the presence of God. What an incredible thing God has done in our lives, Lord, Lord, I just pray. Lord, we sang a song the other day about Lord, I'm desperate for you know, and I pray that we will all be desperate for you. Wherever that takes, Lord, that we will all pray desperate prayers for each other, for this nation, for this whole world, Lord. Lord, we pray and all in Jesus name, amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, wherever you are today. Thank you so much. May God bless you and strengthen you. You've been listening to Donnie stop burn Andy Hammond myself, Reverend Ben Cooper. We just pray. Yeah, Benjamin Leonard. Wow. We thank you so much to the podcasters that are listening to this. Wherever you are on Buzzsprout, Spotify, I Heart Radio, Alexa all the different places Amazon Music Now we're on Amazon music. So, God is God's word is stretching out so we thank you so much. Have a wonderful day. Remember you are blessed. You are a child of the living God. In Jesus name. Amen.