Reverend Ben Cooper's Podcast
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Finding Peace and Revival in Faith: A Spiritual Journey Through 'Coffee and Prayer' (#703 - Elim) CP
What if you could let go of all your anxieties and embrace a profound sense of peace and joy? Join us as we discover the spiritual journey of "Coffee and Prayer," where we invite you to experience the transformative power of a deeper relationship with Christ. Through heartfelt prayers and reflections, we'll explore themes of healing, unity, and the strength found in being part of God's family, urging you to trust in His plan amidst life's uncertainties.
This episode is all about connecting and uplifting each other in faith as we call upon the Holy Spirit to bring healing and peace into our lives. Reflecting on the story of Thomas, we tackle the challenges of fear and doubt, encouraging you to ignite the fire of God's love within. Through moving testimonies, particularly those of former Muslims who have encountered Jesus in transformative ways, we witness the power of love and spiritual awakening that transcends traditional church walls.
With Advent approaching, we're embracing the call for revival and the hope found in Christianity. Delve into the teachings of John 15 as we discuss the importance of bearing lasting fruit and maintaining doctrinal purity. As we share stories of faith transformation and celebrate the unity found in Jesus Christ, we invite you to join us in a collective prayer for spiritual renewal and strength in our communities. Let’s come together, beyond denominational differences, and experience the freedom from sin through Jesus Christ, as we reflect on the significance of communion and the perfect love of God.
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Speaker 2:Good morning, good morning wherever you are across the world. May god bless you in the mighty name of jesus christ. Welcome to coffee and prayer. As we just gather and as we sit, as we be still, as we open up the word of god and as we just see what the lord has for us, and wherever you are, we want to say thank you so much for sharing, for sharing all these podcasts out and and everything that goes on on with everything that we here. I'm getting a bit tongue-tied there. You know we've been busy this morning with our internet trouble. Other things have been happening. Oh, my lordy-dordy, jesus, give us strength, in the name of Jesus, as we come around the world. We've got Glenn, we've got Andy with us this morning. We've got people jumping online. Wherever you are, donnie's not with us this morning. We continue our prayers for him and Margaret, as Margaret's on the road to recovery.
Speaker 2:But we just pray that, wherever you are this morning, wherever you join us for this podcast, this is straight out of the barrel of truth. It is straight out of what we believe God is leading us to and what we are sharing from our hearts. This is not edited in any way, shape or form. This is just straight out as it comes and uh, I like that. I find that really really good that we are just, uh, straight out of what we're, what we're saying here. But wherever you are, we thank god for your lives. May god bless you and strengthen you. May the hand of god always be over you and you never give up. You never give in. But have you woken up? This morning maybe you're. You're. It's a different time zone wherever you are around the world. But welcome to Coffee and Prayer. As we just read the Word and as we pray and as we just feel, as the Lord leads us in His studio this morning, just as we gather our thoughts and our minds and as we believe that the Lord is with you. You know the Bible is very clear that we must be born again. That is critical. When you look at the state of the church, the political angles of life, the temperature, the heat, the political angles of life, the temperature of the heat, of the atmosphere that is around us, everything that is going on, you know we are living in really, really powerful, very, very strong scripture days. You know it feels really like we're on the edge of something really big waiting for the Lord to unveil, to roll out something you know. I really believe God is moving by spirit. I believe the churches are being shaken. I believe god is calling individuals. I believe god is really calling the individual to walk and uh to, to get into a greater and a deeper relationship through the living word of god. So, wherever you are, we thank you for joining us today and it's really important that we become and we understand who we are in christ Jesus, that we rest in Jesus, because he is the way and the truth and the life.
Speaker 2:Have you woken up this morning in fear? Are you at work or are you at home in fear? This morning, do you feel lonely, do you feel scared? Do you feel worried about the future? Do you feel uncertain about what is happening around the corner of life? When you look at the news and you study things and you hear things, and when you look at even at the church and you think the church is so far disconnected from the reality of really what is going on, do you feel the temperature and the environment of everything just shaking at this moment? Do you feel unstable? Do you feel a bit lost? You know the holy spirit is with you. You are grafted in. All of us are grafted in, we are. We are not orphans, we are. We have adopted and this takes me to this scripture this morning, philippians, we're going to the book of Philippians, chapter four, verse six Do not be anxious about anything.
Speaker 2:Wherever you are this morning, if you're a minister, if you're a leader in the congregations, if you're just scrolling on the social networks, wherever you are, whatever your life is reflecting whoever you are, you know we all get anxious, we all get fearful. We can wake up fearful, we can wake up scared. You know you can have a panic attack in your life. Anything can happen at any particular point. You've only got to look at that great, that beautiful story when Christ was walking on the lake and that great disciple said Lord, if it's you, call me and I will come to you. You know God expects us to walk in the storms. He expects us to jump out of the boat of safety, to leave that safety vessel of life and walk to Jesus. So, wherever you are, you know, keep your eyes on Jesus as you walk on the water. Don't look to the left and the right. Be focused on Jesusesus christ. Lift him up, worship him this morning.
Speaker 2:But the bible is telling me right now, in verse 6 of philippians, chapter 4 do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, every action, every deed, every thought, every area of speech, every area of life. But in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God. Everything. Just bring it to God. This morning, bring it to the cross of Calvary.
Speaker 2:The Bible says do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, in every situation. Are you anxious this morning? Are you fearful this morning? Are you doubtful this morning? Are you scared? How did you wake up this morning? Did you fearful this morning? Are you doubtful this morning? Are you scared? How did you wake up this morning? Did you wake up bright, as a button, or did you wake up thinking I can't face the day? How did you wake up? Was it a stressful start to the day? Wherever your time zone is, whenever you capture this podcast, this live stream, you know the Lord is with you. The Lord is with you, but don't ever give up.
Speaker 2:You know if you are anxious, you know so many of us get anxious, worries and fears and doubts about the past, about the present, about the future financial. You know we're entering into that silly season known as Christmas, pagan Christmas. The church will do a great job at worshipping pagan gods over the next few weeks, because that's what it seems to do best sometimes. And we got've got to get back to the scripture. Come on church. We've got to get back to sound doctrine. We've got to get in the word. We are living in very powerful days, so no wonder there's anxiety.
Speaker 2:When you look at number 10 Downing Street and you feel the political temperature around the world and you see what's happening in Israel and you hear what's happening through Russia and through the Middle East and all the stuff that's going on, and hearing that the buttons might be pressed to cut the electric to the UK and the gas, and cyber attacks on the internet and things like that. What's going on over the last week or so, with the UK with its big label on the side of them, rockets that were fired out. You know the repercussions. Don't worry about repercussions. You know the Bible says there'll be wars, rumors of wars, there'll be this, there'll be that. You know. Don't give up. Don't ever give up. We've got to stand on the word of God. We've got to stand on the scripture. We've got to hold on to Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:It is time for every one of us to get ourselves in the fabric of the text and get right into the word of God and feel the presence of the word. You know we are not alone. We are grafted in. The Bible is clear in Philippians, chapter four, verse six do not be anxious. Do not be anxious about your health. Do not be anxious about finances. Do not be anxious about life itself. Do not be anxious about people around you. What the future holds, you know. Find out who you are in God.
Speaker 2:This morning, let's pray this morning. Father, we come to you. Everybody on the online church, everybody, father, god, that's with us. Lord in the Lord's house, father, us gathered around the table. Father, through the studio, everybody in the world of podcasts, tens of thousands that download this stuff.
Speaker 2:Father, we pray that you will move by your spirit, in the name of Jesus, that this will be the day that the Lord has made. We shall rejoice and be glad that the fire of God will descend on us, that the power of the Holy Spirit will sweep through us, that your love and your mercy and your goodness will enrich our lives, that we will feel the goodness of God. That we will feel the goodness of God, the presence of God, the love of God, the power of the Holy Spirit, that this will be the day, lord, that the fire of God descends on us as individuals, that we will feel that burn inside our spirit today, lord, that that fire will burn out, fear that that fire will burn out, doubt that that fire will take all the worries of life away. Lord, father, as we just worry about the season that is before us, as we worry about life itself that is wrapped around us, father, we pray, father, that you will just stretch out your hand today, lord, and you will carry us, lord, in paths of righteousness and we will feel your love and your mercy and your goodness, and we will see the goodness of God. And as we come before you today, lord, we lift up in the name of Jesus and we say thank you that we are healed. Thank you, lord, that we're healed, lord, from from trauma. Thank you, Lord, that we're healed from past. Thank you, lord, that we're healed from present. Thank you, lord, that cancer is going, that fear is going. Lord, that just being scared, the word scared, lord. Remove the word scared. Lord, remove the word scared. Fear, doubt, anxieties. Remove the mental health issues. Remove all the labels.
Speaker 2:Father, we pray for those dear God that are just feeling really weary and tired today, that the love of God will be so strong over their lives that they will feel the presence of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit. But, lord, you're telling us through Philippians dear God 4, verse 6, do not be anxious about anything, but through everything, jesus, we come to you. We pray for those who are at work, those who are at home, those dear God that are making their way to university, to schools, that are on school runs, those dear God that are just sitting indoors, those dear God that are not sure of what they're going to do today, those that feel very chaotic in their mind, those dear God that can't find the calmness, those that feel very anxious, those that feel very doubtful, those, dear God, that are holding on to life itself. Stir us today, god. Stir us today, god. Just stir our hearts, lord, bring peace. We thank you, father.
Speaker 2:Just as Thomas was in that place of lockdown, as Thomas was in lockdown because of the fear of the outside environment, as Thomas was in lockdown, father, I pray for every one of us that have locked ourselves in, every one of us that has locked ourselves inwardly, that we have locked ourselves down, lord, that we are locked in because of the fear of the outside environment, the outside atmosphere, for those that have locked ourselves down. Lord, that we are locked in because of the fear of the outside environment, the outside atmosphere, for those that have locked ourselves in. Father, we pray that the love of God and the power of the Holy Spirit will open that door. And, lord, god, as Jesus Christ stepped through the wall, as Jesus stepped through the wall, as Christ stepped straight through the wall when he spoke to Thomas, peace be with you, father. We pray that peace will be with us today. We pray that peace will abound, that the love of God will be on our hearts today, lord, that we will feel the goodness and the fire and the love and the gentleness of the Holy Spirit. We welcome the Holy Spirit in. We know the Holy Spirit is with us. We know the Holy Spirit is moving us. We know the Spirit is with us. We know the Holy Spirit is moving us. We know the Spirit is enabling us. We thank you for the word of God, but, lord, for those we believe, and we know that we are born again, that we are born again.
Speaker 2:And this morning, lord, as we just stretch out our hearts, come, lord, send your glory to this nation, move over the UK, move over this nation. Lord, father, pour father, pour out your love. Lord, do not pass us by. But all those, father, that are anxious, you tell us in verse 6 of philippians, chapter 4 do not be anxious about anything. Holy spirit, please lift the thoughts, lift the worries, lift the doubts, lift the scared feeling. Lift everything off our shoulders today. Please, god, send the fire, send the latter day rain. Please, god, for those that are anxious, that are sitting around home, those are at work that are fearful of work, those are scared of ministry, those that are just frightened of life itself. Come, holy Spirit, redeem us, cleanse us by the blood of Jesus. But peace.
Speaker 2:We pray for peace today across the world. We pray for Putin. We pray for the leader in Russia. We pray, dear God, for Putin, lord, that you will give him peace. We pray for the leader of Ukraine, that you will give him peace. We pray, lord, for these leaders, lord, that are frantic, that are leading Father, god, with wrong measures. We pray for the UK leader, keir Starmer. We pray, lord, that you will give him peace. But, lord, we pray, father, that you will move on all these world leaders and father, we will know that our redeemer lives and because he lives, we can face tomorrow.
Speaker 3:Come holy spirit, we need peace today in jesus name, amen hallelujah good morning brothers yeah, again, I'm so glad we're always prepared to come here. I have to to say that, because we don't. And yet the theme always springs up. You know, afterwards we often chat and say where did that come from? And already, while Ben was praying, there were words that I picked up there, that I already felt led to and was underlining things in my Bible. He said about being anxious, feet slipping, holding on, remembering who we are, and Psalm 73, a p of Asaph. I'll read a bit from 1 to 5 and then I'll jump over to 21.
Speaker 3:Truly, god is good to Israel, to those whose hearts are pure or seeking after him. That translates as but as for me, I almost lost my footing. My feet were slipping and I was almost gone. Is that how you feel? You know, as for me, my feet are all over the place. Why?
Speaker 3:It says in verse three for I envied the proud when I saw them prosper despite their wickedness. Another translation says I saw the prosperity of the wickedness and I stumbled. Or the wicked, sorry, not wickedness. They seem to live such painless lives. Their bodies are so healthy and strong. They don't have troubles like other people. They're not plagued with problems like everybody else Ever done that. You know why do we go through all this? But look at them. You know they're not living for God and it all works out for them. You ever done that, if you have welcome to humanity?
Speaker 3:But then, in verse 21, asaph wakes up. Then I realised that my heart was bitter and I was all torn up inside. I was so foolish and ignorant. I must have seemed like a senseless animal to you, yet I still belong to you. Who are we? God's love to us is unchanging. Who are we? God's love to us is unchanging. Your guide to Sorry, yet I still belong to you. You hold my right hand. You guide me with your counsel, leading me to a glorious destiny. We're just passing through this world.
Speaker 1:We're going to be like him and we're going to be with him.
Speaker 3:Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth. My health may fail and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart. He is mine forever. We need to wake up, you know. Actually it goes on to say the destiny of the wicked. It's not good. It's not good. They spring up, they're just like fleeting morning dew. It's not a good destiny for them. Now I wrote in my Bible as well, just before Ben was praying, as well, just before um ben was praying. We don't know what the?
Speaker 3:future holds, but we do know who holds the future. Isn't that good to know? Our future is in him. Thank you, jesus. And he's the one who holds us together, and this is how much he knows us. Jeremiah 1, verse 5 I knew you before I formed you in your mother's womb. Before you were, I set you apart and appointed you as a prophet or voice to the nations. Come on, we've got to speak up, people of God, we've got to speak out against wickedness, this nation. There's another wicked bill that they're trying to put through. They open the door to wickedness and say, oh, we put boundaries around it. Thank you, jesus, there's no boundaries on wickedness. And say, oh, we put boundaries around it thank you.
Speaker 1:There's no boundaries on wickedness.
Speaker 3:You let you let a wolf into a sheep pen. It will promise you everything. And then you wake up in the morning and your sheep are torn to bits. That's evil. We'll promise you whatever to get in the door, but he knows you, he knows us, he knows us, he's for us, he's not against us and he knows us completely Before I formed you in your mother's womb.
Speaker 3:I knew you Before the creation of the world. He set us apart. He chose us to be holy and blameless in his sight. Now we know who holds the future. His name is Jesus. We know the end. It's a good ending. I tell you, make sure you're on his side. Yeah, come on.
Speaker 3:God spoke to Habakkuk. Thank you, jesus, in verse 5 as well. Come on, god spoke to Habakkuk. Thank you, jesus, in verse 5 as well. This is how God answers Habakkuk, actually. I'll read from verse 2. How long, o Lord, must I call for help, but you do not listen, seems like that sometimes. Remember God's timing is not our timing. Thank you for your timing God is not slow in keeping his promises.
Speaker 3:as we perceive slowness, amen. In other words, in our perception, in our view, it can seem like God is slow, but his timing's not our timing. His timing's perfect. Ours isn't. How long, o Lord, must I call for help? But you do not listen. Violence is everywhere. Does that sound familiar? Actually, I heard something going on outside my house this morning. I thought what's that? So I looked out and on my drive were two families arguing with each other. I thought why are you standing on my drive? I wanted to go away and say could you go out the road and do that? But no, I listened in instead. It's quite exciting.
Speaker 3:Violence is everywhere. I cry, but you do not come to save. Must I forever see these evil deeds? Why must I watch all this misery? Wherever I look, I see destruction and violence. I'm surrounded by people who love to argue and fight. You know, do you live down the road Habakkuk? The law has become paralysed. It has. It's ridiculous. There's even a law that governs your thoughts. You cannot go outside of there and pray silently. You will be arrested, and there is no justice in the courts. The wicked far outnumber the righteous, so that justice has become perverted Again.
Speaker 3:We heard in Psalm 73, I looked at the prosperity of the wicked. That means one their own wealth, but the other one, how wicked, prospers, and it prospers in our nation and throughout the world. And we can look at that and say, well, where's God? Here's the Lord's reply verse 5. Look at the nations, look and be amazed, for I'm going to do something in your own day. Thank you, jesus, something that you wouldn't believe, even if someone told you about it. Show us, lord. I believe God is about a great work. Yes, lord, he's doing something in our day, hallelujah.
Speaker 3:And even though he tells us, we find it hard to believe Come on Jesus, Because our focus is on the prosperity of the wicked rather than the promises of God.
Speaker 3:Please God. Someone the other day was talking about what's going on in the church at the moment in the West, only in the West, the church of Christ is growing. There are more Muslims coming to Christ who have come to Christ in the last 10 years than what has been known throughout Christian history. God is at work mightily In Iran. In Iran, fastest growing church in the world.
Speaker 2:The fastest growing church in the world is in.
Speaker 3:Iran, where it's illegal to be a Christian. God cannot be stopped, but we focus. Thank you, jesus. Now, he said, my friend, what's going on in the West? Is the grape falling away? Yes, I went. No, not at all. What's going on? It's what John the Baptist said of Jesus His winnowing fork is in his hand and he will separate the wheat from the chaff Separation. What's going on is Jesus is building his church. Thank you Jesus. The church of man, the church of, we think, we feel, rather than it is written, that's the church of jesus. It is written, not is it written, it is written.
Speaker 3:It's built on that foundation of christ thank you which is built through the holy spirit, and it's the holy spirit who inspired the word of god and will always lead you in truth. Jesus is giving the church a bash, and the wind of his Holy Spirit will blow away the chaff. The stuff that's not of him is going. Praise God, because he is building his church, a church that is full of people who've been born again, who knows what it is to have conscience cleansed, sins forgiven, and a saviour in heaven who died for them. His name is Jesus. That's the church of Jesus, not the church of I tell God what to do. He's not your butler, jesus is not our butler. He's our Lord, he's our King, he's our master, he's our owner and he's our friend His way, hallelujah.
Speaker 2:Jesus' way.
Speaker 3:His way.
Speaker 2:Not our way.
Speaker 3:Thank you, Jesus. So my prayer is the same as Habakkuk in chapter three At verse two. You've only got to read this book called the Bible to see the character and nature of God and see what he's done throughout history. Also, do a historical study on revivals in the church of God, Father pour out your spirit. It will blow your mind Thank you, jesus, when.
Speaker 3:Jesus said greater things you will do. You'll see. Greater things people have done than Jesus through the anointing of his Holy Spirit. Greater things people have done than Jesus through the anointing of his Holy Spirit. Amy Temple McPherson, when she took a meeting for 20 miles around, people fell on their faces in their homes, at schools, in factories, under the presence of God, and gave their lives to Christ, without even hearing the message. The king of kings. The buildings that she spoke in shook. The police outside trying to manage the crowds went grey as though they were going to die. God broke out. Bring your presence. God Habakkuk says and look at the Welsh revival, evan Roberts, look at Duncan Campbell, the Hebridean revival and the Scottish revival, many, many revivals. Read about the Jeffreys brothers, read about Smith Wigglesworth, catherine Cormann. The list is so big. Thank you, jesus. A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigoyanoth, habakkuk 3, verse 2. I, o Lord, I have heard of your fame or I have heard the report of you.
Speaker 3:I have heard what you have done and your work, I stand in awe of your deeds. Yes, Lord and Lord, do I fear? Come on Jesus. But he said the fear of the Lord is coming back to his church. The fear of the Lord. This is the fear of the Lord. He is the same yesterday, today and forever. The God of the Old Testament. His name is Jesus.
Speaker 3:Who led the people out of Egypt, jesus did? You don't believe me? Read Jude. This same Jesus who led the people of God out of Egypt and then destroyed later those who did not believe. That same Jesus, his Holy Spirit. When Uzzah tried to steady the ark as it was returning to Israel, he put his hand on it. That was forbidden and he dropped dead. He put his hand on it. That was forbidden and he dropped dead. In Acts you'll read about Ananias and Sapphira who thought, because God is full of grace, it was okay to lie to the Holy Spirit. Guess what?
Speaker 2:They were carried out dead.
Speaker 3:Dead Come Jesus, o Lord I have heard the report of you and your work, lord. I stand in awe of your deeds. Lord, do I fear, in the midst of the years, revive it. Or other translations say in our day and in our time, build your church, make them known, heal us. We've Build your church. Make them known, heal us. We've heard of your deeds. We stand in awe of you and we fear.
Speaker 3:Yes, but, lord, I want to thank you that history is history and we don't just have history lessons, but your word is living, it's active and it divides even bone and sinew. Revive your work in our day, make them known. Let there be healing. Restore to your church. Thank you, father, gifts of the Holy Spirit. Restore to your church, lord, amen how it should be. To your church, lord, amen how it should be. The great commission, the great commands that you gave your people that stand today, make disciples of all nations. Preach the gospel of repentance to all nations. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons. Lord, restore to your church the weapons of this warfare. Lord, give us a hunger and desire for the gifts of your spirit.
Speaker 2:Revive us, God.
Speaker 3:You say in the book of Corinthians Lord eagerly desire spiritual gifts, especially the gift of prophecy. Let there be healing. Well, lord, your word says look around at the nations, look and be amazed, for I'm doing something in your day and your time that you wouldn't even believe, even if someone told you. You're telling us, lord, revive your church. Yes, father.
Speaker 1:Revive us, Lord. Thankive your church. Revive us, Lord. Revive us.
Speaker 3:We want Lord, as it is in your word, we settle for that. Lord, we'll settle for every single promise and prophecy in here and, as Ben's already prayed that, we believe we will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. It's not just about when we see you face to face, for you are with us always until we see you face to face. Thank you, father. Yes, father, pour out your Holy Spirit, revive your church. Let it rain, blow away the chaff.
Speaker 2:Thank, you, Jesus.
Speaker 3:If it's not of you, send it back. Return to sender those satanic doctrines that are trying to come in return to sender. Thank you, Jesus. Blow it all away, Lord. Let the enemy turn on himself. Amen, and let your church prosper through your Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2:Hallelujah Amen. Thank you, jesus, thank you Father.
Speaker 4:Thank you Jesus. Thank you Father. Thank you Father. Yeah, just changing direction a little bit. But I was in John 15, the vine and the branches, and verse 14 says you are my friends if you do what I command. I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends. Oh, glory. For everything that I learned from my father I have made known to you.
Speaker 2:Yes, Lord.
Speaker 4:And I've got this verse underlined. You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you. Yes, Father To go and bear fruit, fruit that will last. Then the Father will give whatever you ask in my name.
Speaker 2:Thank, you, Jesus.
Speaker 4:This is my command love one another. And I always find bearing fruit is quite difficult, isn't it really?
Speaker 3:Very.
Speaker 2:If you plant a tree… Let Jesus do it.
Speaker 4:If you plant a tree and you water it, sometimes it might bear fruit, but it's who you plant it in, really, and what is the earth that you put it in what ground, what ground and where you put it. You can't put it on a mountainside which is full of rock, but if you plant it in good earth, and good soil and you water it. Amen. I suppose the analogy is that watering is that whenever we come to Jesus and have time with him and he comes and speaks to us and we have this two-way conversation.
Speaker 4:When you pray, there is this two-way conversation going on because when I speak to him, jesus, you quite often hear the responses back, don't you? Do you hear? Well, I certainly do, and this is. You know, you did not choose me, but I chose you. Thank you, jesus, and appointed you to bear fruit. Yes, lord, and if you're not bearing fruit, you're not really planted in the right place. Help me, you need the gardener to come, and if you're not bearing fruit, you're not really planted in the right place.
Speaker 4:Help me. You need the gardener to come.
Speaker 3:And who's the gardener?
Speaker 4:Jesus is the gardener. Thank you, jesus, but there is that also. We need to get on with each other.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 4:Lord, we need to get on with each other and do things together. This is my command Love each other. And I just think that when we work together, isn't it amazing when people get together and you've got something that you really want to push through and like this revival we've been talking about, when people get together and pray how amazing that is? Because Father God hears. Father God hears, come on Jesus. And we had spoken about the Holy Spirit. The work of the Holy Spirit again is in John, chapter 16. But I believe that certainly, when you come to Christ, when you accept Jesus into your life, the Holy Spirit comes and is with you.
Speaker 4:And you can't say Jesus is Lord without the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2:Without it being revealed.
Speaker 4:But we can go deeper with the Holy Spirit. That's my experience. That's my experience that Holy Spirit puts things in your mind.
Speaker 2:I think it's important, andy. I think that's important, andy. What you're saying is so, so true that we ask the Holy Spirit to take us deeper.
Speaker 4:Because he enables us, doesn't he? Yeah, absolutely, and we got also in the lessons in the New Testament about gifts of the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, the gifts come on how we exercise those. Come on Jesus.
Speaker 4:You know, every born-again Christian has got at least one gift.
Speaker 2:Yes, correct, and.
Speaker 4:I like to have more than one and we all pray for more than one. We all to have more than one and we all pray for more than one. We all pray for more than one. And I just thank God that God has trusted me with those gifts. And we need to go deeper. And that's our walk with Jesus. And when we meet him, when we meet him, at that time he's going to say well done, good and faithful servant.
Speaker 2:That's what we want to hear. That's what we want to hear. That's what we want to hear, not the other line.
Speaker 4:And we need to be confident, don't we?
Speaker 2:Yes Lord. Thank you, Jesus. We need to be confident.
Speaker 4:So, father, I just thank you that we can be in relationship with you. Amen, you are the creator, god. I'm just preparing for a talk on Sunday and we're talking about well, it's Advent, isn't it on Sunday, and it's the week when we look about hope. Our hope is built on nothing less than Jesus Christ and his faithfulness. Jesus Christ, that's what we build our lives on. That's what it is to be christians, to accept jesus uh into your lives and build your lives upon him. Yes, lord, because he is the supreme example of how we build our lives on on him.
Speaker 4:So I just thank you, father god, that we can come to you, that we can yes, jesus hand things over to you, all those things that really sort of weigh us down and, uh, we think to ourselves in in a human way how do I deal with this? How can I cope with this? But when we talk to Jesus, he is supreme and he can lift our burdens. Yes, lift them, he can actually lift them off. And there is that release that we have with Jesus and Glenn was talking about all those Muslims coming to faith.
Speaker 2:Amazing.
Speaker 4:That is so amazing. It is amazing because we're released from the demonic, and that is the true situation and, father, I just pray for our nation because we seem to be moving away from the one true faith and I pray, father God, that there will be such an outpouring of your spirit and we've spoken about revival and that's something that is really really deep and close to my heart that we pray for revival.
Speaker 2:Revive us.
Speaker 4:God and we need revival in our land. We need revival in our parliament, we need revival for our MPs. We pray. Father God for those MPs who are Christians.
Speaker 2:Revive us God.
Speaker 4:We pray protection for them against the enemy. We pray, Father God, for the wind of change to blow through the. Houses of Parliament to blow through the House of Lords, that there will be such an outpouring of your Spirit that it will be astonishing. Thank you, jesus. And we will see the change we will hear when MPs speak. We pray for our local MP.
Speaker 2:Amen.
Speaker 4:That she will come. If she doesn't already, she will come to know you, that she will have such an experience with you that there will be a complete change and walk in her life. Amen amen.
Speaker 2:Brothers and sisters, it's really important that we've mentioned it a few times here. We've mentioned it this morning. Wherever you are across the world, you know, when you look at social media and you see other world religions looking like they are taking over. It's not true. It's not true. It's really not true, please. In Iran, the mosques and all them areas are being emptied from Islam and they are being filled with Christians because the Iranian government flattened all the churches, which is amazing when you think about it. They flattened all the Christian churches and then suddenly, god has a different plan for Iran and because there are no churches, because of what the government has done in Iran, what is happening? God is pouring out his spirit in the last days. What is happening? God is pouring out his spirit in the last days and people are being converted overnight, in the day, in their car, in their van, on the streets, coming to Jesus Christ without a preacher, without a teacher, without a Western church, without a TikTok account, without anything. The Iranians are coming to Jesus in the droves. They are filling certain areas of mosques, in certain places and worshipping the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
Speaker 2:Christianity as the Bible as we understand it about being born again. The kingdom of God is rising. Don't look at the news and social media and think that it's on a back foot. It is moving powerfully and this information is easily found on open doors. Going to open doors, go to release international, go to barnabas aid, go to all these missions that are on the front line. Brother and sister, the kingdom of God is moving so fast. The UK church is snoring. It is so far behind what God is doing. People are being saved, whether they're atheists, serving Buddha, serving Allah and God, the God of Israel through Jesus Christ. They're having dreams of Jesus going to bed. As a Muslim. We're talking about whole houses, streets and families waking up in the next morning fearful of saying to their family I know Jesus. And then the other one goes you ain't going to believe it, I know Jesus. Without a church, god is moving.
Speaker 2:This is fact, this is fact, this is fact. We have everything in front of our eyes. Go to Open Doors, go to Release International, go and look at the World Watch list and you will find God is moving outside of the building.
Speaker 3:I recently went to Albania.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:Now Albania. If you go on the statistics, it will say it's 70 muslim. There's a mosque in every town. Do you know why turkey has built mosques?
Speaker 3:in every town yes, they're empty nobody goes to them, they're just there but I met three pastors in the cities that it's more active. I met three different pastors. Now this is just three stories. All three of them used to be Muslims. They're now leading Christian churches. One of them I had a bit more time with to hear more of his story. He was sent by the mosque to the church to bring disruption. Go and disrupt the church, go and bring confusion. They gave him some what they believe the Bible said. It was totally wrong anyway. So he went with yeah, fake news about Christ. He goes in and the church says no, the Bible doesn't actually say that. But he said, even though he was trying to disrupt the services, even though he was trying to bring arguments and confusion.
Speaker 1:He said he was met with love every time.
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:And when the people were worshipping Jesus, there was a spiritual reality there that he'd never experienced, changed his life. They worship a God that doesn't exist. Hannah is not the same God as the Christian God, Yahweh Jehovah, it's a different God.
Speaker 2:He's not real Glenn. I thought there was every way to God.
Speaker 3:That's what Hindus believe.
Speaker 2:That's what the world tells me, but Jesus says I am the way, the truth and the life.
Speaker 3:Amen Outside of him is non-truth, that's a liar Outside of Jesus. So this fellow who was sent for, paid by the mosque, to go into the church and disrupt and disrupt it, is now leading the church.
Speaker 4:There you go, brothers and sisters he met with.
Speaker 3:Jesus, he was saved, he was born again.
Speaker 2:There you go.
Speaker 3:Now. Jesus said this is why we need the Holy Spirit. I don't care what people say, I really don't. I don't care what people say, I really don't. When people say I love God but don't do what he says, jesus is alive. Jesus said you'll know, if you love me, you'll obey my commands. Yes, lord, they can say we love God, but if they don't obey his commands, they don't love him. They're lying to you. Jesus said this is in Matthew 16, verse 15, go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the whole of creation. Thank you, jesus. Andrew, are you already there?
Speaker 4:No, no, no, I'm on something you just said.
Speaker 3:Whoever, believes and is baptised will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned, and these signs will accompany all those who believe. Amen.
Speaker 4:It says I've just got one, uh john open and uh. Verse six says if we claim to have fellowship with him, yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live by the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is the, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his son, purifies us from all sin, amen.
Speaker 2:Thank you, jesus, yeah.
Speaker 3:See what unites us. See, andy goes to a different church than me. So does Ben. There's three churches represented here. We have a common unity.
Speaker 1:Thank you, Jesus. That is, we love Jesus.
Speaker 3:Yes, and sound doctrine, sound doctrine, doctrine. That's what unites us. Do not be unequally yoked. You know, someone was saying oh, you know, the only thing that separates us is doctrine. Yeah, that separates us. That's why I will not um go to a multi-faith meeting very important.
Speaker 2:That is glenn, yeah keep away from multi-faith meeting. Very important, that is, glenn, keep away from multi-faith, especially in the workplace. If you're a chaplain out there, you will be told by HR that you have got to go in and we've got to make this organisation a multi-faith.
Speaker 3:Actually, no, what has God and demons got in common? We've got to be separated.
Speaker 2:We've got to stand out, let your light shine, do not be unequally yoked.
Speaker 3:Why do I not let Muslims preach in my church? Why do I not let Mormons preach in my church? They say they're Christians but they're not Completely different gospel. Why don't I let Jehovah's Witnesses preach in my church, or Taysians as I call them? They believe in Charles Taze Russell and his weird prophecies. Because it's doctrinal, it's wrong yeah yeah, yeah. Jesus always answered Satan, the Pharisees, those who would contend with him. He said it is written Amen. He came to fulfil the scriptures. Yes, Lord, Don't do away with them.
Speaker 2:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker 3:So if anyone says well, you know, I think I feel what, are they superior to Jesus? No, these signs will accompany. This is what Jesus said. These signs will accompany those who believe. He never said, just the apostles. I don't know where that teaching came from. Actually, even on Pentecost, I've seen pictures of the 12 being filled with flames. Yeah, it's not what the Bible says. Oh, there was over 120 gathered there and everyone, all of them, were filled with the Holy Spirit, all of them. Yeah, when they were in Cornelius' house, the Gentile Centurion, as Peter was speaking, every single person there was filled with the Holy Spirit. And then they started talking in tongues and prophesying.
Speaker 2:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker 3:Not just the twelve the gifts of the Spirit. Whoever believes in his baptiser will be saved, and these signs will accompany those who believe.
Speaker 2:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker 3:In my name. They will cast out demons, they will speak in new tongues, they will pick up serpents with their hands, they will drink deadly poison and it will not hurt them. They will land, lay their hands on the sick and they will recover. But until when, in the last days, the holy spirit will be poured out on all flesh? I think we're still in the last days. In 1 corinthians 13 it tells us when these things stop, telios, that's the word telios. It's in 1 Corinthians 13, 10. But when the time of perfection comes, telios, completion, perfection. When completion comes, these partial things will become useless. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, thought and reasoned like a child, but when I grew up I put away childish things.
Speaker 3:Now we see imperfectly yes lauren, like puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then tell us we will see everything with perfect clarity. Amen, now I know. What I know is partial, incomplete. Then we will know completely. Now I've heard a very odd translation of this, where they change teleos to biblio. This is not talking about the completion of the word. It's crazy. It's teleos, the completion of all things. Yes, then we will know completely and perfectly. Now, these three things faith, hope and love are what we should search after, but the greatest of these is love. Why? Because when teleos comes, we will need faith. We will not need hope, for who hopes for what they already have? We're hoping for the return of Jesus. That's teleos. Come on, jesus. When that comes, who's going to hope All things?
Speaker 4:are complete.
Speaker 3:You won't need it. What about faith? When you're standing in heaven, you won't need faith. Come on Jesus. Faith. When you're standing in heaven, you won't need faith. Come on, Jesus Because you're there, but the greatest of these is love. Yes, Lord. Because it says in chapter 14, let love be your highest goal, but eagerly desire spiritual gifts. Why isn't the church seeing spiritual gifts? Because we're not seeking after them? No, that's right, we're not asking for them, we're not fasting for. Because we're not seeking after them?
Speaker 3:No, that's right, we're not asking for them, we're not fasting for them, we're not praying for them, far away from the scripture Jesus said if you who are evil know how to give good gifts, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask? But I had the Holy Spirit and I believed I got everything. Then that's not biblical. Ask but I had the Holy Spirit and I believed I got everything. Then that's not biblical. Read the book of Acts. Peter, when he heard there were believers in Samaria, went to them and said did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed? There was already some believers there and they said no. He prayed for them and they were filled with the Holy Spirit. The believers were gathered together. This is Pentecost. Who was gathered together. The believers.
Speaker 4:What happened to them.
Speaker 3:They were filled with the Holy Spirit. Come on, there's more. There's more. It's through the Holy Spirit we're saved. It's through the Holy Spirit our eyes are open. We can't go to Jesus unless the Father draws us. Jesus said that Fact. We can't go to Jesus unless the Father draws us. Jesus said that Fact. We can only go to the Father through Jesus. It's the Holy Spirit at work in us, but also because it's a relationship based I don't want to say religion we have relationship with God. Relationship is always two ways Giving and receiving he wants us to seek him for more.
Speaker 3:That's biblical Ask and you will be given Amen. Not just sit there passively and you get everything. Ask and you will be given Knock and the door will be opened. Be radical, seek and you will find he's talking to believers.
Speaker 2:So Lord.
Speaker 3:I pray that we will seek, that we will desire, that we will not settle for westernised Christianity that is not based on your word, no, lord. Instead, we will dig deep in your word. Yes, father, we will seek you, we will ask, and I want to thank you, jesus. You cannot lie, and you said, but to all who ask, to all who ask, they will be given, and to all who seek, they will find. Yes, lord, and to everyone who knocks, the door will be open. Amen, send your Holy Spirit, lord. Yes, lord, give us gifts of the Holy Spirit and I'm asking that you'll start with me. Don't pass Holy Spirit, lord. Yes, lord, give us gifts of the Holy Spirit and I'm asking that you'll start with me. Don't pass me by, lord. I'm going to be like blind Bartimaeus. I'm not going to let you pass unless you bless me, and I pray that for each of us here and everyone listening, that we will have a visitation from you.
Speaker 3:For we know, lord, even after Pentecost, the disciples again were gathered together and they prayed. Why do the nations gather together in vain against the Lord and his anointed? Thank you, jesus. And then you moved. They were filled again with your Holy Spirit. It wasn't a one-off, and even the room they were in was shaken. Thank you, jesus. Send your Holy Spirit on your church. Lord, revive us for your glory.
Speaker 2:Amen, amen. Father, brothers and sisters, we're coming to the table. The time is accelerating so fast and we're coming to the table Wherever you are across the world. We thank God for your lives. The Scriptures are coming out. The Holy Spirit is the table. Wherever you are across the world, we thank god for your lives. The scriptures are coming out. The holy spirit is moving across the world. Great things are happening wherever you are, in your workspace, your life, everything. There's been so many scriptures coming out. But as we come to the table now, as we break bread, gather your thoughts, gather your mind. Whatever you may be doing, you know we're going to break bread and take it a cup.
Speaker 2:As the time is ticking, I just want to mention one scripture before we go any further. We are in 2 corinthians, chapter 8, and it says now, brothers, we do not want you to know, we want you to know about the grace of god that has been given to me and us in the macedonian church. He says out of the most severe trials, out of the most severe trials with overflowing joy and extreme poverty, out of trials, out of fear, out of strain, god gives his grace. And we started off earlier on. You know, god's grace is sufficient, out of severe trials, out of trouble.
Speaker 2:And Paul also writes, and just in the back end of chapter 7, verse 5, we came into Macedonia. Our bodies of ours had no rest. We were harassed at every turn. Conflict on the outside, fears within. Bring everything you got to the cross of Calvary. Will you come to the table with us this morning, wherever you are, let's just rest in Christ. Let's just rest in the word. We're going to break bread, we're going to take it a cut right now, in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. He's the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Come to the table with us. Thank you, father. Our brothers are going to pray and we just rest and we be still for these moments.
Speaker 3:As we remember, as we take the bread, we remember that Jesus died to pay for our sin and also break its hold over us. He's paid everything, as it says in Isaiah 53, he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities. The punishment that brought us peace was laid upon him. He's paid it in full. Shall we therefore continue to sin so that grace may abound? Remember this it's by grace we're safe. Through him, he's paid the punishment. Shall we therefore continue to sin so that grace may abound? Paul says what a ghastly thought. By all means no. As it says in Romans 6, sin's power has been broken out off of us. Now we're free. Do not let it be your master.
Speaker 3:So, Jesus, I want to thank you for paying for us. I want to thank you that we've been born again and I want to thank you that sin is no longer our master, but when we do sin through our stupidity, if we confess our sin, you are faithful and just to forgive us our sin and purify us from all unrighteousness. Thank you for your redemptive, restorative work that always brings reconciliation to you.
Speaker 2:Through Jesus.
Speaker 3:Christ, our Lord.
Speaker 2:Amen. Thank you for the bread, thank you for the body of Christ. Thank you, jesus.
Speaker 4:Amen. Thank you Jesus. Yes, father, as we take the cup and we remember the blood shed by your son, jesus, gone through that agony of the cross, he did it for each one of us, so we thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you, Jesus.
Speaker 4:In Jesus' name, amen. Amen.
Speaker 2:The blood of Jesus Cleansed, washed, redeemed, set free. The word of God is over you. The word of God is over you. The word of God is within you. You know fears. You know the Bible says perfect love drives out all fear. Perfect love, father. We pray in the close of this service that that love, that unconditional love, that agape love, the glorious love, the love of Jesus Christ, through our, our god for our redeemer, through the power of the holy spirit, through the living word, that we will feel that love today, god, and we will know that our redeemer lives. And because he lives, we can face tomorrow. Brothers and sisters, I'm afraid to say we're punching the hour and we're out of here. God bless you. We'll catch you this evening and he has something he's going to share, as he always does, in just a few moments.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's the word of God. We've been sharing the word of God with you all morning, but you can have a copy of a New Testament Psalms and Proverbs, and I'm quite happy to get you one. If you haven't got one at the moment and you need one here, it is Just get in touch.
Speaker 2:Thank you, andy. God bless you wherever you are. In the mighty name of Jesus Christ. We thank you for joining us this morning For everybody across the world. We thank you for all the cities, all the towns, all those places where you're at work, wherever you're walking, whether you're in the gym listening to this stuff back, whether you're at work, whether you're walking, whether you're in the gym listening to this stuff back, whether you're just sitting at home at the sofa, wherever you are, may the hand of God and it is always over you, may the power of the Holy Spirit lead you today. May the love of God just refresh you today and, as we started out in the scriptures, remind yourself be anxious for nothing, and may God carry you forevermore. We'll see you this evening evening, wherever you are. We're at UK time at 8 o'clock as we jump online and in person for Bible study this evening. We will see you tonight. Thank you for wherever you are. May God strengthen you in Jesus' name, amen.
