And we are in. We are in now. I'm going to read from this, this text this morning. And it's from Jeremiah. Jeremiah, chapter 18, verse one. This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord. Go down to the potter's house. And there I will give you a message. So I went down to the potter's house, and I saw him working at the will. But the pot that he was shaping from the clay was marred in his hands. So the potter formed into a different shape of a pot shaping it that seemed best to him. Then the word of the Lord came to me he said, Can I not do with you? Israel, as the potter does, declares the Lord, like clay in the hand of the potter. So are you in my hands Israel. Good morning. Well, you're in the hands of God. You're in the hands of the king of kings. Welcome. Thank you for dropping, dropping, dropping. Let me get my words clean and clear this morning. Thank you for dropping online this morning. Thank you for listening to us. As I said earlier, and everyone's online now we can see you thank you so much. Thank you so much. You can catch us in many places via these podcasts. Many places Buzzsprout I Heart Radio, Amazon Apple Music, which is getting ready. But there's the Scripture today there's the kickoff point today. You are in the hands of the Father, you are in the hands of the Father, the master has you. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you that there is power in your name. And this morning, Lord, Father, we are in your hands, we are in your hands and Lord, we need you like never before. God we need you. Lord, we pray, Lord, that you will continue to shape us, to melt us to mold us, Lord, to bring us to that place, Lord. There are many that are fearful, that are in church and those that are fearful out of church, there are many worried in church and out of church, there are many Lord leading services that are worried, Lord, there are many Father God that are looking at this world that need Father God changing their lives. But Lord, it feels as if there are things happening in our lives that are very strange. But Lord, there is a window of opportunity. And Father, you have given us a window. And right now Lord, Father, whoever is listening via the power of podcasting, whoever's listening on this online streaming service, whoever is joining us at this moment, we thank You, Lord, that the power of the Holy Spirit is moving across lives today, because it is the Holy Ghost that enables us. It is the power of God that strengthens us. And wherever you are today. God loves you unconditionally. God loves you, whatever you're going through at this moment, don't worry, because God is with you. Whatever situation you face, as a human being, God is already before you. He's gone to the north, the east, the South, the West, God is with you, you are blessed and highly favored. You are a child on the living God, He loves you unconditionally. But as we look at that text that we are in this morning, Jeremiah chapter 18, we will see very clearly that the clay was marred. I'm still marred, even though I'm in the Masters hands, because there are a lot of imperfections within me, around me, upon me that need working on and I cannot work on myself. It is only Christ. It is only the power of the Holy Spirit, the Comforter, it is only my God and my king that can shape me into the vessel that I need to be. So God is working on you. Religion cannot work on you. Church, as we know it cannot work on your church is fading away. And when I use that word church, I'm referring to religion, religion has been manipulated by government. Government are shaping the church how they want it to be very clearly. And it is in the hands, it is in the hands. Religion is in the hands of government, but the kingdom of God, the kingdom of God is is within you belong to the kingdom of God. If you are a child of the living God, if you know that your Redeemer lives, if you are, if you are just standing on God's word and saying Lord this morning my life looks a bit of a mess. But Lord, I believe I believe in the Scripture, I believe in the word I trust you Father, You are the King of glory. See, religion is and has collapsed we can see that collapse through what decisions it is making and put in and be impressed on. See what the government want religion will perform to me because they are it's a puppet. And there's strings attached. But in the kingdom of God, there is freedom. Oh man, who the sunsets free is free indeed. Who the sunsets free who is the son? His name is Jesus and Jesus has saved you. Christ went to the cross for you. You may be wrestling with faith, you may be wrestling with church you may be wrestling with the years that religion has bruised you and not helped you and not God guided you. But I just want to let you know that small We want to encourage you this morning you are on a potter's wheel. You are in the Masters hands. God is shaping you. I love the power of predestination. I love that salvation comes to us. It is a gift you are saved because the gift giver has given you the gift of salvation. Your life is in his hands. He loves you unconditionally. Never give up. We want to encourage you this morning to keep pushing to keep pressing, made a hand of the Lord just be upon you. And that scripture this morning, he said the Prophet, go down to the potter's house. Go down to the Masters hands. Watch how the master works. See the master shapes, the master hills, the master prepares the master deals with the imperfections. The Holy Spirit deals with the imperfections can't deal with me. Religion can't get me where I've got to be the only one. The King of kings and the Lord of lords. Yes, he is. He's shaping me today. He is stretching me today. He is the gardener. He is the vine dresser. He is the King of glory. He is the great I Am and he is with you, wherever you are today. Don't worry about church. Yes, I understand. And I know there are people out there that are really schooled in theological depths. And they watch this and they comment on this. And when I say don't worry about church, don't worry about going to church. You know what I'm saying? Go to a church that is preaching the Gospel of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, that he's talking about the blood of Jesus that telling telling us that if I don't, if I don't look at my life and say, God, I need You more and more if I don't repent. Repentance is powerful. Repentance is such a glorious word, go to a church where they're talking about redemption. Let's look at that word, a minute Holy Spirit, I asked you that you will open that word in our hearts today. Redemption, you are redeemed, I am redeemed we have been bought with a price. We do not belong to ourselves. We do not belong to our family cork, and either I can feel the feathers and the rattles of all sorts of things going on. I do not belong to my family. My family don't I mean, I have been bought. And the price was the blood, the blood of the lamb you are washed in the blood. Your name is in the Lamb's book of life. Do I think that I'm capable of saving myself and putting myself and stamp in my name in the Lamb's book of life? No. He is the shepherd. And he is looking after the sheep. He is looking after his sons and his daughters and he is with you. And I'm sorry if I sound a bit disrespectful to religion and church. I'm sorry if that has cut right through this morning. But church ain't going to help you. That's for sure. Certain pastors and leaders will lead you to that simple place the gates of hell. But Christ will take you take you take you from the rubbish of life, the problems religion will take you to one place, religion will cause issues religion won't set us free. Because there are too many, too many strings attached in religion. There are too many criterias that we got to fit, we've got to tick boxes, we got to do this. We've got to do that. What does Christ say? Just believe. Just believe what am i Believing in and believing in the Word of God. But I struggle farther to to understand it. That's okay. Because I'm not meant to understand it completely. Because if I understood it from Genesis to Revelation, he won't be God, because He reveals His word to me into you. He loves you. He loves you. He went to the cross, Christ went to the cross for you. And as we look at that text this morning, I pray that God will reveal His message to you, his plan for you through the Holy Word of God and God will strengthen you. Because you are in the Masters hands you don't belong. I know we got a national insurance number. I know we got tax codes and all that we don't belong to this government. We belong to the King of Glory, amen. You are stamped, you are stamped and you are Washington, we almost been branded, we've been presented with Jesus Christ as as put that upon us. You know, God, God loves you. And I cannot I cannot emphasize that enough this morning. Whatever work you're in now, whether you're listening to this and watching this live or whether you're at home, or whether you you back, listen to this today, tonight, wherever that may be, wherever you are, whether you're going to listen to this through a podcast, on Amazon music, whether you're on Buzzsprout, whatever platform you listen to this to, I pray that God will reveal His word to you, and God will strengthen you. God is with you. God is with you. God loves you. You're in the Masters hands,
Glenn Walsh:the word you've said a few times, Ben, the word and we've been saying that looking at Romans 10 starting at verse eight, that says the word is near you. I mean, the word is near you. Remember the words became flesh and dwelt among us, Jesus? Yes, he's near you. And it goes on to say the word is near you in your mouth and in your heart. That is the word of faith that we proclaim. Yes. Because you're They said about salvation. Religion cannot save you, not even the religion of Christianity. Amen. Your relationship with Jesus. Thank You, Jesus. And it goes on to say because if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. Amen. Simple enough. It's very easy faith in Jesus, Jesus, not in your ability. Now I believe there's someone listening today who you walked with the Lord you felt God had a calling on your life and everything. When belly up everything when long for you, you don't know where you are, you don't know what you're doing. You've stopped living for God's you're in a wilderness and you just think, is there any way back? Yes, there is clearly. Again in Romans 1113. The reason why you're, you're wondering what to do. So Romans 1129. For the gifts and calling of God, ever vocable or beyond repentance depends on translation you've got the gifts and coding of gods are a revocable God has put a coating on your life. It can't run. You can't run. There's nowhere to hide.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you, Jesus.
Glenn Walsh:But when you align yourself again, Scott and behold, he stands at the door, knock the show open that door, he will come in and feast with you. It's not when you reach a place of it's not about getting things right. It's about walking with Him in surrender and submission. This is not a walker penitence either. Don't think when you've shown God that you're savvy enough, then you can work with, you know, as we've heard today, the potter in the cloud. Yeah, he's working on you now. And he's calling you back. And the doors are open white, just like the prodigal son the father ran off to greet him when he was a long way off. Yeah, not when he'd worked out and got back, the father runs out to greet you. And I'm going to read again from Romans 1133, are we the depths of the riches and wisdom of the knowledge of God's heart? How unsearchable are His judgments, and how inscrutable He's wise, for who was not in the mind of the Lord, or who has been his counselor? Or who was given a gift to him that he might be repaid. For from him and through him, and to Him and all things. Amen. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen. Thank you. Thank you for the privilege of a life spent walking when serving yo, yes. And I pray for our brother, Lord who's lost his way us listening. He's thinking, life just seems so confusing and assister as well. Life is so confusing. And it since you took your eye off the ball, Jesus is calling you to work with him again to be young. He will carry you He will open the right doors and he will close the doors that Amen. So Lord, we pray that your kingdom will come and that your will will be done. Yeah, run through our lives. And what a privilege especially in these days and times where the world is in such confusion. People don't know they right they don't know they left. Many don't even know their gender. But Lord with you, there are absolutes come up with you. There is truth, the Lord, order Lords drink place that comes through you. An identity is found in him that we were created by Him. And for him, yes, law to have relationship with him and outside of that is a mess. For you're not doing what you were created to do. You're not being who you were made to be. Let's walk with Him afresh that doors open wide. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. And another thing Jesus said to Paul, when grace is sufficient for you, Grace is not an abstract thing. Grace is not a weird thing that's out there. Grace is intertwined with the manifest presence of Jesus. He dwells with us when he says I am with you. Always. Yes, Lord, His grace is with him in him through him. Yes. So when he says My grace is sufficient, he says, I will abide with you. My arms will always be around you. Yes, it is. He is mercy. He doesn't just have mercy. He is mercy. He is love. He doesn't just hate, love, have love. He used love, His grace, His mercy, and His grace and mercy over us is immeasurable. There were no defining limits at all. Thank you, Jesus for who you
Reverend Ben Cooper:are, man. Thank you. God bless you.
Donny Stockburn:This is ministry time. Are you worn out? Yeah. Are you worn out? Doctors hired teachers, dads, mums, whoever, maybe your marriage even or you're worn out do you feel like you're burnt out? And I'll certainly feel like that sometimes. And do you ever think you're feeling like you're running on empty and just fumes. Or the other night I was laying in bed I did really odd to him. And I was in my car. And I was in a place I didn't recognize at all. And I've run out of petrol of remember looking at the dashboard and seeing the needle down on empty and I thought, Oh, I've got nothing. I don't know what to do. I don't know where any carriages are. I don't know which way to turn. Well, we can be like, spiritually, not physically worn out, but spiritually worn out, has massive effect on our faith and life. But Jesus taught us how to avoid this beautiful little thing. It's in Luke 10, verse 38, to 42. I'm going to read it to you says Now it happened. As I went, that he entered a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha welcomed him into her house. And she had a sister called Mary, who also set at Jesus feet, and heard his word. But Martha was distracted with Matt serving. And she approached him and said, Lord, do not care that my sister has left me to serve alone. Therefore, tell her to help me. Jesus answered and said this to her, Martha, Martha, you're worried and troubled about many things, but one thing is needed. And Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her. Mary had chosen to put all things aside and sit at the feet of Jesus, amen. Just to sit there just to listen, just to soak up a savior, his word, running through our veins, these times are essential to a Christians life. They're not like an add on. Or if you get a few minutes, they're essential to our life. That's why Jesus left this in the Bible for us to know. It's essential for Christian to go and just sit and listen to Jesus just sit at his feet. He was forced to spend time in his presence, get back to reality with Christ, and keep the world out. And that's this is the way we get revival. This is the way we get refueled. And there's a beautiful prayer, that great old preacher called the People's preacher, spurn Spurgeon, and it says, he's preached the out of the pulpit says, Brothers and sisters, I pray that during this year, you may live near to Christ than you have ever done before. Amen. Amen to that. You may live nearer to Christ, than you've ever done before in all your life. But all aside, but all aside, jobs will get done. But you need that time but Christ, thank you, he will run our experience, you will run out in your tire, and spiritually, you won't be able to make it. So Lord, we just thank you for that word. And, Lord, I just want to pray now, for those things that we need Lord, so much faith, Lord, you said five is a gift, a prize at whatever five we are flawed, however small, if it's smaller than muscle, see, whatever it is, you will do with it. What you did to that little boys Loaves and Fishes, Father God, that you will multiply you will make it great, Lord, so we have a great faith in you a deep faith in You, Lord, that we will hear your words, and do it Lord, and Father God, that faithful linkers See you in a way we've never known before. And we will ever counsel what we view we've ever known before. Lord, you said love is the greatest thing. We can't do anything without love. We can't minister. We can't go anywhere or do anything. Father God, we need love. So this morning, I'm praying Father God, for faith and love to come in a vast, greater measure than we've ever known in our lives before Father God, that we will sit at the feet of Jesus, that we will spend time with you. That fight will time Father God, bring us back to Kingdom thinking and kingdom wise Father God, where you are first in our life and not somewhere down the list, Lord, and we run out of fuel and wonder why who we just sit spiritually dead. Father God, we just ask you now in Jesus name. Come Phyllis up, Lord, come a furnace out with your spirit. Come and fill us out with Divine Love, Lord, fill our hearts right up. Press it down. Pour some more in Lord. So there's an overflow. When we go out of here, Lord, there'll be an overflow of divine love coming out of our hearts, and our spirits fall to God. And I ask this in Jesus name, amen.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Amen. Do you feel weary this morning? I just want to point us to a scripture in the Gospel of John Chapter Four. And it's about Christ when He was on I'm on a journey and he was going to a well, and he reaches a well and a scripture says that he got to Jacob's well. And it says Jesus was tired from the journey, and he sat down at the wall. You know, if Christ can get tired from the physical journey, the King of kings and the Lord of lords, he sat at the well. He sat Jacob's well. And there was a lady, a woman that came up to him. And she was trying to draw water from Jacobs. Well, religion is trying to draw water from Jacobs well, and it is very deep religion is very deep, and it's very bleak. And it's very dark, and there's no living water coming from Jacobs well, but Christ sat at that well, and he said to her, I can give you a living water, I can give you life. But what is interesting is that we are weary Are you weary and tired this morning, is life just seemed to be really like a torrent like a tsunami, you just feel like you've been swept away from the chaos of government, the chaos of business, the chaos of Universal Credit, can't get through struggling on the phone to get to the energy companies trying to sort the energy costs out fuels rising, everything stress is higher than it's ever been before, weary and tired will. Or Jesus was walking a very physical journey as a spiritual journey to obviously and and that's what we do, we walk spiritually, and we walk physically. It's okay to get tired. It's okay to get weary. But there comes a point when we've got to stop. So where do I sit? Where do I take that place of rest? I sit with Christ. Well, how do I find Christ? Where do I find Christ in a world that is so Lord Christ, God is in full charge of everything that is going on, there is nothing in this world, nothing in our makeup within our DNA within the atoms of the air, the oxygen, the whole makeup of creation, everything is in the father's hands. Now that can be so big and so enormous trying to understand. But when I look at this text, it says Jesus was tired on his journey. We're at a place where humanity is worn. Humanity is absolutely worn down. But you will find many preachers and many teachers, many in the context of church and religion, are telling you you'll never be sick, you'll never be tired, you'll never be this, you'll never be that what the scripture tells me that Jesus was tired. Jesus was tired, and he took rest. And he, he sat, he sat at this place. I just want to try and encourage you, wherever you are, just just try and sit and be still. You might say, Well, I'm sitting on the sofa, now I'm sitting and being still well, I'm referring to spiritually. And the scripture says, Be still and know that I'm God. See, we can have busy lives, we can be very busy, busy with activities as parents as individuals as, as mums, dads, friends, brothers, sisters, uncles, whoever you are, whatever your whatever is the label that you're in at this moment. Just sit, just sit and be still and just just say, Father, I don't go to church. I've never been interested in church. And I would say, Thank you, God, there are people out there that are saying that, because church in a roundabout way can damage because it depends what church there are many labels out there that have got church above the door, but is it the Church of Jesus Christ? Or is it the church of man? Is it the church of government? Is it the church of Lucifer at what church is it? Who is the denomination? What does it not denomination believing? What other denominations preaching? What are the pastors preaching? What are the leaders talking about? Are they talking about themselves? Me, myself and I, it's always got to be Jesus. But you might be tired, or you might be tired of the journey of life. Take a seat. Take a seat. Jesus speaks about Jacob's well. And he speaks about, I can give you a living water. I can give you living water. He said I can. I can give you rest. I can give you peace. I can give you energy for your journey. Even when you look at in the Old Testament of that great prophet that ran underneath the broom tree that sat down underneath the juniper tree and he and he prayed a prayer after being at Mount Carmel seeing all this amazing activity, this spiritual activity where God used him very powerfully in the in, I call it he prayed a suicide prayer. And he said, This is enough for me now, God, I've had enough of everything that's going on, take my life. But God didn't take his life. What did he do? He sent an angel to minister to him that fed him and equipped him and allowed him to sleep. Let me put it like this. There are angels assigned to your life. You only have to go to let's go to Psalm 91. For he will command his angels concerning you, to lift you up in wash their hands. The spiritual activity that we cannot see, is so powerful. So God has assigned angels to care for you. An angel came down and strengthened and ministered and gave food and a small piece of bread and, and a small jar of water. But that prophet was strengthened for 40 days. To go in that strength, he kept going, and he kept going. And he kept going, what I'm what I'm trying to get to this morning, God will strengthen you, the Holy Spirit will strengthen you. But there comes a point in our lives where we have to realize that yes, I am tired, and it's okay to be tired. But the world and the motivational preachers and the teachers will tell you, you're living your best life now. Well, actually, no, I am actually, because it's quite rough in certain areas of life. So if you think that this is my best life on this earth, this is trashy. If you think that I'm living the dream, this is this is not good. This is not good. But God will God will give you dreams and visions, what does the Scripture say in the book of Acts and the book of Job, in the last days, I will pour out my spirit. You will dream dreams, young young men or men, old women, young men, or whatever it may be without getting the reference to the text and paraphrasing you will have visions and dreams. But in the last days, I will pour out my spirit. And we are living in a time where God is pouring out His Spirit. The God that we serve is doing unusual things in unusual times. With unusual people that church religion rejects. And God there is a window of opportunity. And he's calling you this morning. He's calling you to rest to trust him to walk by faith, you're on the pot as well. You might even be the inner garden of gift seminary. But what's come through the scriptures and and he's gonna take us a little bit further in a moment. And as he's laughing and sniggering this guy, and I ain't got a clue where we're going to do next. But God will give him revelation or knowledge. And God is giving you knowledge. Just trust Jesus. It's that simple. Who is Jesus? Do some study on Christ. Look, just go on the internet. Who is this Jesus, they're talking about? Who is this Jesus. And he's not the one that plays football. He's not the one that is up to no good in certain areas. He is the King of kings and the Lord of Lords. He is Jesus Christ of Nazareth. He Glenn mentioned the Scripture in the Gospel of John, chapter one. He is He is the living word. And he is with you. He loves you. And I pray that wherever you are today, God will just lift you and carry you and strengthen you. And I pray that God will just give you rest, He will give you rest. And they
Glenn Walsh:cannot just go in there. When you said, this is as good as it gets. And so on. Of course, this is as good as it gets. Yeah, outside of Jesus, this is as good as it gets out of the whole of eternity. There's only worse to come. Yeah, but in Christ, the best. This is as worse as it gets, you know, our furniture in him. Whatever you thinking, however you are whatever you're coming from Ephesians two says, and we were all like this, we were dead in our trespasses and sins. We all followed the course of this world. The world is so opposed to God, following Satan, the prince of the parent of the year, we've all did, we all did it. The spirit is now working in sons of disobedience, among whom we all once lived in the possession of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body. And the mind. We were by nature, children of rough just like everybody else. But I love this bit. But God, but God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses made us alive together with Christ, by grace, you've been saved and raised up with Him and seated with Him in heavenly places. That's where we are now in Christ Jesus. And this is our future, your way to Christ. Here comes your future. So that in the coming ages, he might show the immeasurable which is of grace, in kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. That's inheritance.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you, Jesus in the coming ages.
Glenn Walsh:We we've got his grace with us now. We lifted up with Him in heavenly places now. through this life with us always, but in eternity, the coming ages, he might show that there's more to come in measurable, which is of grace, for its buying grace, you've been saved through faith, and even this isn't of your own. It's the gift of God. Not a result of works, not religion, not doing this and doing that, so that no one might boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus. And here it is, again, for good works, which God prepared for hand that we should walk in him again, he's called in a gift in his ear without trouble. Yeah, if we walk in there, through the doors, he calls us to walk in there's life and life of buses. Yeah. Yeah, you're being called you're being called. Nice. grace is sufficient. is for you, not against you. Oh, come on over to Andy.
Andy Hammond:I think it's old man who had dreams.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Oh, yeah. Cool. So it is sitting in front of
Andy Hammond:me. It's young men who have two visions.
Glenn Walsh:Come on.
Andy Hammond:I just want you to pray that Holy Spirit will come and visit each one of us and empower us really, because we can't do anything without, we need to experiment. We can when we get into a relationship with a father, through Jesus, the promise is the Holy Spirit will come. Yeah. And we have to keep on asking for the Holy Spirit to come and fill us up. I was told when I was a young Christian that we like a watering can with a hole in it. And the water leaks out and it needs filling. Yeah, frequently, so that we can be refreshed, that we can be empowered to do what God wants us to do. And I know it's it's not all about church. It's in fact, about our lives. What we do with our lives and how we actually communicate with people around us when we have the love of Jesus. Yes. And I've got this book from of James open in front of me, and James was probably the brother of Jesus. And it says, right at chapter one, Consider it pure joy and my brother's whenever you face trials of many kinds. Thank you Holy Spirit, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Come on, perseverance must finish its work. So that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything, man. So if any of you lacks wisdom, ask for it. You should ask God who gives generously. But when he asked, he must not tell. Moving down the page to verse 12. blesses is a man who perseveres under trial. And this really ties in with what Glenn was saying, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life. Okay, go in and Durance that God has promised to those who loved him. When God when tempted, no one should say God is tempting, tempting me, for God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone but each one is tempted when by his own evil desire, his dragged away and entice. So we just need to get closer to God. So Father, God, I just pray that we become closer to you, that our walk with you.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yes, Lord
Andy Hammond:needs to be drawn upon your love. We need to recognize every single day we walk with you and that you are with us that you never leave us. I just pray that all those who are under pressure at the moment. And as James said, you know, it's difficult when you're under pressure to consider pure joy. Father, we just pray now that you will bring your comfort and your peace and your love to each one of us. And right at the beginning of today's session, I thought of Daniel and I've got Daniel three open, when he along with his colleagues were Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. were thrown into the fiery furnace. And, you know, there's a pre shadow of Jesus in the furnace at the time. But I always think it amazing what faith Daniel had in God. And he says, First Sunday, if we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it. Thank you, Jesus, and He will rescue us from your handout king. But even if he does not, we want you to know, King that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of God of gold, you have set up. There's quite a few images of gold around us today in our work. Yeah, right. And we know that people serve those images rather than God. Yes. But there's Daniel. Or he was ordered by the king to bow down to this image. And all the people had to bounce. But Daniel, and his colleagues said, No, we're not going to do that. We know that God can save us. And that's the message today, that God made a plan for your life, that through Jesus, he can save you. Thank you, father. He has a plan for your life. And then there's Jeremiah 29 says, I know the plans I have for you. Plans for you to prosper. Yeah, he knows. He knows you intimately. This morning, he knows all the stresses and trials and the thoughts that keep feeding into your mind. Look, have peace, yes, lot. Calm and have peace with Jesus. Sit down with him, this, talk to him. Be at peace with him. Because he's got a plan for your life. plan for your life. Amen. And he has that plan of salvation. So if you don't know him, we've said this again this morning. If you don't know Jesus, then now's the time. Now is the day of salvation for you. Come into relationship with Him, sit down with him, and ask him to be with you now. To ask Him into your life. That he will be king, he will be king of your life, he would be in charge. And he this is the amazing thing that about Jesus who is king, king of all. He's royalty. He was born of the royal life. But when you think of royalty today now comparison, no comparison to the king of the world. King of the universe. We can be in relationship with Him, we can talk to him, we can come alongside and have that track. Can't do that with royalty. That we know. But he is special. Father, we just want to be with you. And we want to be empowered by that. So we can't do without them. We want to be empowered with by you by your Holy Spirit. That's what it says in Acts. The disciples were told to wait for the Spirit to come. And well what an amazing occurrence. That was when the Spirit came and Peter spoke to the crowd and all those people are saved. That's an illustration of what we as church should be doing at the moment. We should be out there. It's not all that takes place in the building is what takes place outside in the community reaching out as you know that At church without walls, yeah, we, we need to be a church without walls that people can come at freely. We don't mind if people come in who don't know. It's not an exclusive club. It's for our communities, we want to reach out so far to God. We want to you to change us today. Change us who are sitting here, around this table, change us so that we can hear you better that we can we know, when you're speaking to us. And we know what plans you want us to be involved in, help us. That's our plea and prayer this morning. Just come and help us by your Spirit, so that we can take your gospel that that grace, that undeserved favor that Glenn spoke about, again, patients 289 was net that is that grace that we are saved. Some amazing that we have the undeserved favor. Thank you for that Jesus shows us. And he calls each one of us to come and sit with him. So Father, God, we left to you, or that we've said this morning to you now, we ask you to filter this. So that filter this now so that anything that's not obvious, yes, law will be filtered out. And everything that is encouraging, is up building that will make those who are listening stronger in their faith, he so royal will be sad, and those who don't know you, or come in line with you, and ask Jesus into their lives this morning. We pray that in Jesus name,
Reverend Ben Cooper:amen. Thank you, Andy. Andy. So Right. And Andy has bought us to a place of where we're going to break bread together. We're just gathering you know, and just gathering our thoughts and just coming before our Lord and our God and Donnie is going to break bread and lead us in, in prayer. And Andy will take the cup in a few moments. But as Andy has been speaking and dawn this morning, and Glen as we've been looking at the scriptures, you know, Christ is with you. And let's just break bread together as time is ramping and, and pressing on very, very quickly. So let's just if you're going to join us, please grab yourself some juice of some form and a small bit of bread. Remember, this is just a symbol. And it can be anything in purely just just symbolizes in the blood of Christ, and the body of Christ as the bread, the wafer, the cracker, whatever that may be, whatever you have around you, but this is coming from our hearts 1000 times and more goodness knows how many times we've taken this. So I've taken it through religious windows or have I actually taken it from my heart. So this morning, we just say, Father, as we come before you this morning, Lord, we want to take it because our heart is hungry. And we want more of you. Jesus says Donnie leads us into the breaking of bread. overtake us, Lord, and wrap us up in your your word wrap us in Your word in Jesus name, amen.
Donny Stockburn:Yet Jesus said, Mary has chosen right. You guys going to be Martha still or you're going to be Mary. Thank you, Lord. Follow our prayer is to die, Lord, that personal presence of Christ at personal touch from him, Lord, word, Lord, we we will have that Lord, that will revive our hearts that will bring strength back to us, Lord, as far far to go, we must be in your presence. We must spend time with you, Father God, we must put things down and come to you, Lord. It's essential into Christians life, Father God. So we draw right near to you now, Lord, in his most personal time, yes. Everyone could come right into the presence of Christ as we break his body and remember how we got saved and how it all happened for us or not just want to read this little bit. It's Jesus's This is what Jesus says about this moment. It says, it is with fervent desire, that I decided to eat this bread with you and drink the cup with you. It was in Jesus heart that he fervently desired to be with us. With us, He wants us to sit his feet and listen and soak up His very presence. It's not all words, is his presence in our life. It's his, his Spirit in us. Lord, we just thank you for now we just thank You, Lord, as we drawn here, and we just borrowed bread Lord, we remember how it was we got saved. It took your body that God provided to do away with our sins, Father God. We just thank you in Jesus name for his Lord. Amen. Amen.
Andy Hammond:Father, we just take this cup now. And the wine or juice that you may have home now, in remembrance of that supreme sacrifice that you made. On the cross.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Yes, father, Yes, Lord,
Andy Hammond:we remember that. That we can come to you constantly, frequently. Yeah. So that you can wash us clean, so that we can be whiter than snow. Thank you for that. So we take this drink now. Just a word, I think there could be someone listening today who feels they're not worthy. And they're not good enough. I just opened scripture. So Luke, chapter five, when the calling of Levi or Matthew? Yep. And I just thought Matthew was a tax collector. In fact, he was in Jewish society, he was the lowest of the low because he was working for the enemy. And but Jesus, caught in probably a great surprise to the other disciples. And Jesus went to a great banquet that leave I caught together. And all these other tax collectors were there. And the Pharisees, the teachers of the law, the religious people, said, Why do you eat with tax collectors and sinners? All in the same verse, they thought, but Jesus answered, it's not the healthy and it's a doctor, but the sick. I've not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Thank you. Thank you Jesus.
Andy Hammond:he calls you and me. And you may think that you're not good enough. But you're good enough for Jesus. And just remember that you can come to him. And just as that Old Testament scripture says that he washes you clean, white as snow when he forgives. But the principle here is that you got Alaska, you've got to come to Him, and say, you've got to be honest with him. Be honest, and say, I've done this, or I can't do this. Help me. And once you make that commitment to follow him, promises that he never leaves. So we thank you for that. You've never left me. Yeah, I've always been there for me, in all the trials and tribulations that I can recall, which we won't go into. Wood so we thank You, Father, God, that we can trust you that you are the one true God. And as we've said before, no one comes to the Father except through Yeah.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Amen. Thank you. Thank you, brothers and sisters, we've reached the bell. We've reached that point. And I'm just going to read out a quick notice we have a alpha coach starting on Wednesday the 26th of January at 730 at Christ Church in Swanee with our brother Andy, if you are interested in on that, please go online, have a search through and you will find that very, very clearly. And he also has a Bible, you know, wow, a Bible
Andy Hammond:New Testament, Psalms and Proverbs. The most dangerous book in the world, I say to people when they receive a copy of this, but if you want a copy, and you want your life changed, get online and ask for.
Reverend Ben Cooper:Amen. Amen. There we are. We've made it wherever you are today God loves you. We've had it all the bells and the whistles now whatever you are doing across the world, may God bless you and continue to strengthen you. And we thank you so much for your life. Thank you to everybody online this morning. We are finished. We are done. And we are out of here. Get me out of here. I'm a vicar let's roll. Wherever you may be across the world. We thank you so much for joining us for coffee and prayer. As we said, you can capture this back for the different socials that we are on. It's always out there. Please go on to Amazon music you will find very clearly 244 podcasts we've done out there. You can download them you can have a listen and to everybody in that world and podcast and we thank you for the downloads. Really, really blessed to see what is going on across the world. I God bless you and strengthen you. Thank you so much. Catch you very very soon. Bye bye