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Finding Solace in Faith: Embracing Divine Protection and Purpose (#807 - Elim)
What if you could find solace and strength in the midst of fear and loneliness? In this episode, we unpack the comforting words of Psalm 91, exploring how faith in Jesus Christ offers profound spiritual rescue and protection. Despite facing a 90-day broadcasting ban on certain platforms, our ministry remains resolute and committed to spreading the gospel through accessible channels like Spotify and Amazon Music. We appreciate your global support and invite you to continue engaging with our content as we navigate these challenges together, standing firm in our beliefs and finding strength through faith.
Listeners will encounter a powerful conversation on divine protection and spiritual warfare, as we highlight the unwavering love and safety that God provides amidst societal adversities. We tackle the modern pressures of loneliness and exhaustion, reminding everyone that acknowledgment of Jesus' name brings divine intervention. Our discussion also addresses the difficulties of preaching religious truths in hostile environments, reinforcing our commitment to share the message of Jesus' love for everyone, regardless of background or past. This episode is a call to hold steadfast to faith and embrace the promise of divine rescue.
We also challenge prevailing societal norms and labels, encouraging believers to root their identity in Christ rather than worldly definitions. By recognizing the transformative power of faith and being unapologetic in proclaiming one's beliefs, listeners are urged to be courageous and steadfast. We touch on contentious issues, including criticisms faced when advocating for biblical perspectives, while emphasizing the importance of standing firm in truth. Through prayer and the promise of divine protection, we seek to empower our audience to rise above adversities and embrace their divine purpose with confidence and resilience.
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Speaker 2:God bless you wherever you are, good evening and welcome. You know, as we gather around the Word of God wherever you are joining this live stream service and to everybody in the world of podcast, we're going to jump straight into Psalm 91. We're going to jump straight into Psalm 91 about fear and loneliness and, however you feel, you know God is with each and every one of you and we are living in really, really powerful times. You know, we've got to hold on to the word of God and we can see many people are jumping onto Facebook this evening. Obviously, we can only stream to Facebook because I'm still well. We've just started our 90-day ban.
Speaker 2:So apparently I've been branded as a hate preacher to the gays. I'm not allowed to say gay. So I've been branded as a hate preacher to the gays. I'm not allowed to say gay. So I've got to find some other words, but I might use the gay terrorist. You know what it's like. So, seriously, we're on a 90-day ban. We've just had some stuff come through. Alex has just shown me some stuff. We're on a 90-day ban because I'm talking about the gays, talking about the terrorists, talking about Islam, so I might just wrap it all together. You know, can you be a gay terrorist in Islam? Yes, you can, wherever you are across the world, do not give up. God will make a way. But please, brothers and sisters, seriously, we are on a 90-day ban. We have to just stream to this. I've got to be very, very careful of what I do say. But, brothers and sisters, we want to say thank you for your support. What's really, really important as well is that all these services if the camera drops off as well because we've had that from Russia and we've had that from Egypt and we've had that from a few places we get knocked off the grid. Please remember that you can get all this through audible. So when you just go onto Spotify, you go onto Amazon music, you go onto Apple music, you go onto all the music. You go on to all the platforms. You can get everything that we do, everything from the studio and everything from the main church itself. It is recorded, it is audible, so you can listen to everything back. So we know, visual sometimes is great that you feel connected, but if anything ever happened and we couldn't stream to to facebook, we will get back onto X, you know, onto what we know, twitter and all that old razzmatazz, but we'll find places. So, please, we're not going to worry about it, but at the moment we're just going to stay on Facebook. That's all we can do at this moment in time because of that label that I've got over me at the minute. But it'll come good, it'll come good, god. That label that I've got over me at the minute, but it'll come good, it'll come good. God is with us, don't worry. You know we're still here, we're not going anywhere, we're going to up it and we're going to push in, and so that's the reason. So people have been asking why we're not on YouTube, simply because what I say about the gays, the terrorists and Islam especially so I've been branded a hate preacher. Well, that's another certificate I can put on the wall. I'm really pleased about that one.
Speaker 2:Brothers and sisters, psalm 91.
Speaker 2:Psalm 91. Come on, brothers and sisters. We've got to stand up for Jesus. We cannot allow all this stuff in this world. You know, you can see how interesting it is to be alive at this moment. God is with every one of us, wherever we are in this world, and thank you so much to everybody in the world of podcast. You know it is increasing across the world and everybody that stayed with us in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. But do you know what I love it? I love the challenges that are out there because you know it is telling us to be strong.
Speaker 2:And if you have a Bible with us tonight, you know we are turning to the book of Psalm 91, and we're going to get straight into the scriptures. We're going to break bread together, we're going to gather around the table, we're going to trust in the word of God, and God is moving powerfully. We are living in the return of Christ. Christ is coming back. Jesus is coming back. That's why we've got all this trouble and this drama about being a Bible-believing believer. I love it.
Speaker 2:I love it that the enemy knows that we are alive. The enemy knows that you are alive and he's worried because his days are numbered and we've got to keep lifting up the name of Jesus. We're in your workspace, at home, in life, in ministry, whatever you do at the school gates in university. Never be afraid to speak the truth, because you will know the truth and the truth will set you free. But Psalm 91, he who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty, brothers and sisters, psalm 91 is the one to hold on to. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty, I will say of the Lord. He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.
Speaker 2:Verse 3 of Psalm 91 Surely he will save you from the foulest snare, from the deadly pestilence, that he will cover you with His feathers, and under His wings you will find refuge. His faithfulness will be your shield and your rampart. You will not fear the terror that flies by night, nor the arrow that flies by day, nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday. A thousand listen to this, a thousand may fall at your side, 10,000 at your right hand, but they will not come near you. You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked. If come on, lord, this is what we got to do If you make the most high your dwelling, even the Lord, who is our refuge, then no harm will befall you, no disaster will come near your tent, for he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. They will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against a rock. You will trample on the lion and the great cobra and you will trample on that great lion and that serpent because he loves me Verse 14,.
Speaker 2:Let's hang around in verse 14, 15 and 16. This is you. This is really reflecting to you tonight. This is coming to you, this is for you tonight. You know, you might have just dropped on the social networks. You might be at home, uh, sitting on the sofa just wondering what to do, just glued to the social network. You come and you, you find us online.
Speaker 2:Because he loves me, says the lord, I will rescue him. Do you need rescuing tonight? God is rescuing you. Are you lost in your life? Do you feel lonely? Do you feel weary? Do you feel tired? Do you feel exhausted? It Do you feel weary? Do you feel tired? Do you feel exhausted? It says there because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him, I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. This is so important when we acknowledge the name of Jesus Christ. His name is higher than any other name. His name is greater than any other name. He is the name above all names. He is the King of kings and the Lord of lords. Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him. There's nothing for us to worry about. God is rescuing you from mental health, from worries, from relationships, from fears, from financial strain, from pain, from worry, from doubt. God is rescuing you and he has a plan for your life.
Speaker 2:Maybe you've never been to church, maybe you've never thought about Jesus, maybe you're in a situation and your life feels very empty, very lost. Maybe you are in a relationship, maybe you have a large family, maybe the season is making you feel very strange, maybe you're just feeling very odd. The temperature of the spiritual atmosphere that is out there at this moment in time is very warm. It's getting warmer, and I'm not referring to the atmosphere of the season, because we know it's getting colder, but what I'm referring to is the temperature of the spiritual warfare that's out there. You know we preach the truth here. This is why we are on this ban on YouTube.
Speaker 2:They've labeled me, you know, as a hate preacher. When you preach the truth, when you preach the truth, you will be labeled by the enemy. The enemy will try to shut you down at work, university. You know you've got to be careful when you're at work, the HR office. You know it can be like the lion's den. You've got to be careful of the atheist line manager. You've got to be careful of the agnostics. You've got to be careful of so much when you're at work and in them areas. You know, but you know you lift up the name of Jesus.
Speaker 2:I will continue to talk about gays. I will continue to talk very clearly about the truth. I will literally continue to talk about Islam, the atheists, the humanists, everything. I am not going to stop speaking about it. We will find a way of getting the truth over in the name of Jesus. Just because they banned me or banned the stuff that we do on YouTube doesn't mean to say the gospel won't get out. Brothers and sisters, god will make a way. Where there is no way, you know the enemy will always label us, so that we've got that carrying over our back.
Speaker 2:Now you know he's a hate preacher. He hates gays, he hates Islam, he hates this, he hates that. No, I don't. I hate sin. We're all sinners saved by grace. But this is what the Bible says. So all you gay activists out there, all you people, all you terrorists around the world, whoever you are, let me tell you Jesus Christ loves you, and my mouth will never be closed.
Speaker 2:In the name of Jesus, I will continue to preach the truth, right from the back, right off. I will not stop because God has given me a mantle, god has given me a mandate, and it is to speak the truth. You know, we are all sinners. We all have areas in our lives that are really dangerous and areas of sin that are really dangerous and areas of sin. Every one of us are sinners, saved by grace, and I will continue this, actually encouraging me to press harder into what I say and what I preach, because it just makes me realize that God has a plan and the enemy wants to stop the truth. He wants the wokeness, he wants the weakness, he wants everything. You know the enemy wants to shut the truth. He wants the wokeness, he wants the weakness, he wants everything. You know. The enemy wants to shut the truth down. The enemy wants to shut the preachers down that speak the truth, and if they've labeled me that as a hate preacher on YouTube, I feel quite good about that because it makes me feel like we're getting something right for once.
Speaker 2:If the world is against you, you know, brothers and sisters, come on, look at what this scripture says, verse 14,. Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him. God will rescue me. If they come at me, if they do whatever they do to me, god will rescue me. God will rescue you. God will set you free. We have a hope, we have a future. God is moving extremely powerful in your life. You never give up. Don't worry about what the enemy is trying to do.
Speaker 2:Hold on to the word of God. He says in verse 14,. I love this scripture. I love Psalm 91. Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him. I will protect him. For he acknowledges my name when you acknowledge the name of Jesus Christ, when you acknowledge the name of Jesus Christ, when you acknowledge the name of Jesus Christ, what does God have to do? He says I've got to protect you, I've got to rescue you.
Speaker 2:See, when we preach and when we talk the truth, god has to get us out of the trouble. Look what he says in the same Psalm, in verse. Where are we? Verse 11, verse 11,. For he will command his angels, concerning you, to guard you in all your ways. You know, don't stop speaking the truth. Tell the world about Jesus Christ. Tell the world, tell the world about the living word. We are living in very powerful days.
Speaker 2:The King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. When you look at these scriptures because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him. I'm going to rescue, ben, I'm going to rescue whoever, whatever your name is. God is rescuing you, but don't hide under the rocks of life. Be bold. Be bold and stand up for Jesus Christ. Tell the world, tell the world about the love of God. Tell the world about the cross of Calvary. Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him. I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call upon me and I will answer him. This is God's promise to you. This is God's promise. When does this promise actually get executed, ben? When does this promise actually come to fulfillment? When does it actually work?
Speaker 2:It only works when you mention the name of Jesus. That's why we have church and religion, not seeing the power of the Holy Spirit and not seeing the glory of God. When you mention the name of Jesus, trouble starts to arise on the outside. When you start to mention the truth, when you give Bibles out, when you give the truth out, when you give tracts out, when you give the word of God out, when you pray for people at work, when you start to stand up for Jesus Christ, the angels get put to flight. Do you know? The angels are redundant in many churches. Do you realize that the angels are redundant in many churches? Because God can only move when he says this. When you say the name of the Lord, when you mention the name of the Lord, angels are put to flight at no other time, not at worship, not at prayer, only when you mention the name of Jesus. Yes, you might have Jesus in worship, you might have Jesus in prayer, but you've only got to mention the name when you look very, very clearly at verse 14, look at verse 14, look at verse 14,.
Speaker 2:Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him, god will rescue me, even though we are on this ban, even though we've just seen all this stuff come through and what we're being told at this moment, just because I'm banned off banned, sorry, been removed off of YouTube. You know that what we're saying? They've called me a hate preacher because I talk about gays, because I tell the truth, because of Islam, because of what I say about terrorism. They've labeled me as a hate preacher, but God has to rescue me. We are on a 90-day ban. Why am I on a 90-day ban? Simply because I'm talking about Jesus and bringing the truth. You find the wokeness.
Speaker 2:So, brothers and sisters, I need to tell you tonight God will rescue you. This is critical, these scriptures, when you look very clearly verse 11, verse 11,. For he will command his angels, concerning you, to guard you in all their ways. They will lift you up in their hands so that you will not strike your foot against the stone. When is he going to do this? When is he going to do this? Because he loves me, says the Lord. I will rescue him. God's got to protect me. God's got to deal with everything that's going on on the outside and what comes to the front door of the church. God has to protect me because I am speaking about the name of Jesus. You are blessed and highly favoured, wonderfully and fearfully made. You know, when you talk about Jesus Christ, when you talk about Jesus, when you tell him, when you tell the world that you love him, when you tell your family, the culture that you're in, the space that you move in, when you tell Jesus because he loves me, verse 14.
Speaker 2:Let's unravel this a moment. Let's just unpack this a moment. Wherever you are across the world, look at Psalm 91, verse 14, because he loves me. This is the area, this is the criteria, this is the format, this is the way that we have to go. Because he loves me, jesus, I love you, holy Spirit, I love you, father, I love you, lord. I thank you that you show me unconditional love.
Speaker 2:God says because Ben, because whoever loves me, I've got to do something in their life. What does it say? Because he loves me, says the Lord. God is saying because Ben loves me, I've got to protect him from what is going on. If they come to the front door and rattle the church cage, I've got to protect Ben. If they come to the front door threatening, if they come online and they're bullying, I've got to protect Ben. When he's out doing whatever he's doing during the course of the day, I've got to protect him because he loves me and because he acknowledges my name. So it doesn't matter what happens on the social networks. It doesn't matter if YouTube. I probably gather that YouTube is owned by a load of gays or terrorists or whatever. They just don't like the truth. If they want to label me as a hate preacher, I love that. I've got another certificate to put on the wall. Print it through, send it through and I'll put it in. Put it up on the wall and I'll have another one to go with all the others. You can label me what you like. Youtube, you can stop me streaming, but let me tell you this Jesus will protect me, jesus will protect you because he loves me, says the Lord. This is critical for everyone online tonight. Everybody.
Speaker 2:You know, I believe, as the stats came out yesterday, as we read out a few days ago, we're in 90 nations around the world, 90 countries around the world, 90 countries from here, pound stretch of land in Swanley. How can this ever be? How can this be? This studio in a backdrop of an unusual situation, in an unusual timing? We're not on the main roads, we're right out on the inner estates, we're tucked away. Hardly anybody knows, but we're in 90 countries around the world. We ain't got five pound in our pocket, but God is doing amazing things around the world. We ain't got five pound in our pocket, but God is doing amazing things. And also the cities. We're in 960 or 970 cities around the world, god will get the gospel out. So don't you ever give up. But this is critical Wherever you are in your life, god will protect you.
Speaker 2:God will protect you when we acknowledge the greatest name in heaven and earth. When you acknowledge the name of Jesus, when you say I know Jesus Christ as my Lord and my saviour. Jesus Christ saved my life. I am sealed with the Holy Spirit. I am blessed and highly favoured. I am fearfully and wonderfully made. God has called you. Wherever you are across the world now, wherever you are listening to these broadcasts, whatever you are doing, whatever your time zone is, whatever your life looks like, let me tell you, brother and sister, god loves you and because God loves you and because you love God, he has got to fulfill his word. The Bible says God's word cannot return void. What do you mean? It cannot return empty. Whatever God has said. God has to deliver. When you speak in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, now I love it, because he takes out church, he takes out of religion, he takes out of ministry, he takes everything out to do with what we see secular christianity around the world.
Speaker 2:We are living in a nation that is so weak and so gay and so so pushed against the back fence. We have a government that don't know who they are. We have education just completely all over the place. We got've got witches and warlocks. We've got devils everywhere. Number 10, downing Street, good evening, and we've got everything breaking out under the sun. And where is the church in the UK? It's pulling the Christmas tree out. It's getting baby Jesus ready. Oh goodness gracious, we're going to have a great carol service. We're going to have a great this. We're going to do this and we are under the biggest spiritual warfare as a nation we've ever seen in our lives and I pray that, wherever you are at this moment in time, that the power of the Holy Spirit will draw you so close to the cross of Calvary.
Speaker 2:Don't you ever give up. This is really important. These scriptures tonight Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him. God is rescuing you from school, from work, from life, from abusive situations, from the beaters in your life, from the accusers in your life, from history in your life. God is rescuing you and there is a new beginning for your life. There is a plan over your life.
Speaker 2:Don't settle for what the world calls you. Don't settle for what has happened in the past. Don't settle for what you are looking back on. Don't look at the back history of life and allow history to define you. Find out who you are in Christ, find out that God loves you and the love of God is over you. The power of the Holy Spirit has set you free. You are a born again, spirit filled, blessed and highly favoured Christian. You are a Bible believing believer because he loves me. Love is critical. Love is critical.
Speaker 2:See, there's many people out there that just do lip service. They crash away. They make all the noise under the sun and actually the noise that they make you can see that they're not really born again. They're not really born again. They're putting all this stuff out there, they're making themselves larger than life across the social networks, but they don't know Jesus. Because if you don't know Jesus, if you don't know Jesus as your Lord and your Savior, god is very clear in what he says that when someone recognizes my name, when someone recognizes that I am king and I am Lord over your life, see, when surrender comes in the arena, when surrender is bubbling on the forefront of your life, when God is put first over everything, the Bible says seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and everything else shall be added. See, that's what we got to do. We got to surrender to Jesus. Have we surrendered everything to the king? Have we given everything to the king of kings and the Lord of lords? Have we handed everything over to the great I am? The Psalmist writes about the love of God Because he loves me, says the Lord of Lords, have we handed everything over to the great I am? The psalmist writes about the love of God Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him. God is rescuing you. God will rescue me, I will protect him. God will rescue you, he will protect you. God will rescue me and God will protect me.
Speaker 2:Look at what these scriptures say about us as Bible-believing believers. Not as churchgoers, but as born-again, spirit-filled, blessed and highly favoured. God is raising a remnant. God is raising a remnant. God is raising an army, and it's not an army of worship, it's not an army of evangelistic crusades, it's not an army of church. It's an army of Bible-believing believers. It is an army of born-again spirit-filled Christians. It is an army waiting just to come out of the ashes of life.
Speaker 2:The Bible is clear of what will happen at the last days Wars, rumors of wars. Look what's happening. Look at the famine. Look at the food situation. Look at the tectonic plates that are moving under the earth at this moment in time, the shifting way the earth is moving. Look at the way the sun is different. Look at the way the moon is reacting. Look at the stars. Look at everything that's happening in them, heavenly realms. Why is all this happening? Look. Look the way nature is moving. Look at the tsunamis that are happening in unusual parts of the world. Look at the weather system. The weather system is groaning. The weather system, the earth, is in birth pains.
Speaker 2:According to the word, the earth is about to do something we've never seen before. I believe the earth is going to shake. Why is it going to shake? It's going to shake because the scriptures are loud and clear in the last days, when God pours out his spirit. We are seeing God's spirit being poured out over this nation, over this world. We might have a nation that is awash with religious activity. We might have a government that is full of all the antichrist, you know. We might have schools filled up with all that rubbish and stuff that's going on.
Speaker 2:But, brother and sister, remind yourself who you are. God is rescuing you. It says, because he will call upon me, I will answer him. God will only answer when we call on the name of Jesus. I can go to church and I know what this is like and you know what this is like. You can go to a church service and you can almost not hear the word God, holy Spirit, jesus cross, the blood. They'll drop it in in a little tiny place. But what we want is God, will you raise up preachers? Will you raise up preachers, lord, that will press the word out, lord that will tell us, that will preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, what we need, god. Raise up preachers in the name of Jesus. God, raise up, lord, brothers and sisters that will shout in the name of Jesus, that are not frightened to go down the enemy's territory, that are not frightened to go into the enemy's camp. You know we want to be like.
Speaker 2:You know Jonathan and his armor bearer. I mentioned this. You know I mentioned this a lot lately. You know Jonathan and his armor bearer. Such an interesting text that is in the Old Testament when Jonathan went come on, we're going to take back what the devil has stolen. We're going to take back what the enemy has taken. We're going to take back our half acre, because that is what that text is about. And the servant and the one, his armor bearer, went Jonathan, let me tell you something, son. Have you seen the size of the enemy? They're wild dogs, jonathan, it's just me and you, son, and Jonathan went let's have it for God.
Speaker 2:When you decide to say let's have it for God, let's have it. Let's give it large. Come on, let's talk in real speech. Let's have it for Jesus today. Let's get into the enemy's territory. Let's stand up and be bold. Let's shout in the name of Jesus Christ. Let's call on the greatest name in heaven and earth. Let's give it large for Jesus at school. Let's give it for large in the workplace. Let's tell the culture around me I'm not going to be consumed by this consumerism. I'm not going to be consumed by this woke, this gayness. I'm not going to be consumed by this terrorism. I'm not going to be consumed by what the world is throwing at me. I'm going to stand up for Jesus Christ and my God has got to rescue me, because this is what my Jesus says about you. This is what my Jesus says about us. This is what God says about us.
Speaker 2:When you speak the truth, god has to put angels to flight. See, when the church and when people don't speak the truth, the angels are furloughed. They're sitting upstairs plucking their wings, cleaning their boots. You know, just looking their wings, cleaning their boots, just looking, thinking what's going on? The church has gone gay, the church has gone wobbly. What's going on with the church? Come on, when you speak the word, why does God have to put angels to flight when you speak the truth? Because when you speak the truth, all hell breaks loose. When you speak, wokeness, pinkness, fluffiness, when you fluff it all up, that's what the devil wants. The devil don't want you to recognize the name of Jesus. People in your family, people in your workspace, people in your culture, people in your life, people in church don't want you to recognize the name of Jesus. Because when you recognize the name of Jesus, you're branded, you've got that mark on you, you've been sealed with the Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2:When you talk about Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, when you tell the world around you that Jesus Christ changed my life, when you tell the world around you I'm a braggadocious, I'm a radical Bible-believing believer. I believe in creation. When you tell the people at school, when you tell your teachers, when you tell the world around you, when you tell the educators at school, I believe that God created the heavens and the earth. Imagine the eruptions in school. You believe in Jesus Christ. I believe that God created the heavens and the earth. I believe in a six-day creation. I believe that we have and the earth. I believe in a six-day creation. I believe that we have a young earth. I believe this earth is around about 6,000 years old. That's all. That's what my belief is, because that's what my Bible tells me.
Speaker 2:The Bible doesn't mention billions of years. That is theory from crazy little bald-head men. That is crazy language from theories. That is theory from crazy little bald-head men. That is crazy language from theories. That is crazy language. This earth is a young earth. This earth, if you add it up chronologically, if you read the scriptures and you do everything and you do due diligence on creation, you will find this earth is no more than 6,000 years old.
Speaker 2:Go into school tomorrow, go into education tomorrow. Go into education tomorrow, go into the workplace and get. Go guess what. This earth is only around about 6 000 years old eruptions will kick up. You'll have the atheist throwing chairs at you, the the lecturers go crazy. But this world is 15 billion years old. Well, tell me where your reference is.
Speaker 2:And also, brothers and sisters, if we've come from apes, why are there still apes? If we've come from monkeys, we're the lucky ones. If we've come from evolution, that makes my head scratch. Okay, we've evolved. We've evolved from apes and monkeys, so why are there still apes and monkeys? No one can answer that. Because we haven't come from apes and monkeys. You've come from the word of god, and the bible says you were known before the foundation of the world.
Speaker 2:Go Go into school, university tomorrow, stand up the front and say I want to tell you about Jesus. Go into your workspace, go into your life and say I want to tell you that Jesus Christ set me free from this world. I want to tell you about the love of God, because this scripture applies to what I'm saying. Because he loves me, says the Lord, I will rescue him, I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. He will call upon me and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him with long life no one's going to take my life out. I'm not going to get a stab in the back. I'm not going to get a bullet in my back because God has a plan for my life. So it doesn't matter what I get branded on the social, it doesn't matter if the jihadis put what they do up about me, it doesn't matter what the atheists say about me, it doesn't matter how they threaten me, it doesn't matter because God has a plan for my life and God is going to keep me on this earth until his work is done and I actually believe his work. There's so much to be done. And it says I will deliver him. I will deliver him and honor him with long life. Tell yourself We've got three minutes 24 seconds before we come to the table. Before we come to the table, three minutes and 18 seconds now God is moving.
Speaker 2:Brothers and sisters, wherever you are across the world, get Psalm 91. You put it on your fridge, you put it on your phone. You speak that word over your life, because when the enemy comes in like a flood, god lifts up the standard Only when you mention the name of Jesus, if you are radical enough another word I get in trouble for If you are braggadocious enough, for If you are steadfast enough in the word of God, and it has nothing to do with educational stretch. I am not an academic by any long shot. I can just about. I can't even spell my name, benjamin, properly. I can't even spell my own name properly. I can spell Ben, because it's only got three letters in it. I can do that, but I actually can't spell Benjamin. It doesn't matter. I'm dyslexic, I've got more. I'm wired, my brain's wired, odd. I ain't worried because God has a plan.
Speaker 2:So don't let education and another thing don't let money stop you. Don't let the world around you stop you. Don't let people stop you, don't let situations stop you. You go for God and you lift up the greatest name in heaven and earth God loves you. We've got two minutes and five seconds before we come to the table. Grab yourself some bread, grab yourself some grape juice. You know we're going to praise God tonight. We're going to worship the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. God loves you.
Speaker 2:John 3, 16,. For God so loved the world, for God so loved the world, that whosoever that is you, that is me, whosoever we are, the whosoever shall believe in him, shall not perish but have everlasting life. See, salvation has come in. Salvation has opened your heart up. God has drawn you. God has saved you through his son, jesus Christ. God has drawn you. God has saved you through his son, jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:Take Psalm 91, please, wherever you are, I really ask you tonight to get Psalm 91 open now and just read from verse 11, for he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. They will lift you up in their hands. That you will not strike your foot against the stone. You will trample. You will tread upon the lion and the cobra. You will trample that great lion and that serpent because he loves me. Come on church, come on, let's rise up in the name of Jesus.
Speaker 2:The Bible says we shall soar on wings as of eagles. We shall run and not get faint. You know, the Bible tells us when God parts the waters, we will go through. When the rivers seem deep, we will not drown. When the fire seems so hot, we will not get burnt. You know, look at Shamrach, meshach and Abednego. We've got 38 seconds and we are coming to the table.
Speaker 2:Meshach, shamrach and Abednego they was thrown into the fire, but Jesus was with them. Let me tell you this Jesus is with them. Let me tell you this Jesus is with you. Jesus is with you in the fire of life. Jesus is with you in the furnace of trouble. He's in charge of the flames. 16 seconds and we're at the table. Meshach, shamrach and Abednego. The fire did not take them out, the fire did not destroy them, the fire could not consume them. We're at the table, father. We come to you right now, father, as we gather around the table for these four minutes. Spirit of the living god. I thank you for the shamraks, the mishaks and the bendy goes online tonight. I thank you for the warriors of christ online tonight. I thank you for them.
Speaker 2:Bible believing, braggadocious, born again, spirit filled believers that the fire will not consume you. Meshach, shamrach and Abednego did not, did not die in the fire. You will not die in the fire of life. You are going to grow in the flames of adversity. You are going to grow in the flames of trouble. When the enemy said, turn that up seven times the soldiers that took Meshach Shamrach and Abednego down to the furnace, they died. Let me tell you this there are people in your life that think that they are throwing you in the furnace and they are gloating over you. They are trying to get you in trouble. They're trying to bring everything up. They're trying to tell the world look at him, look at them, look how bad. They're trying to throw me and you in the fire. But what happened to those men that took them to the fire? They were consumed.
Speaker 2:The Bible says touch not nine anointed, touch not my born again, spirit filled believers. Oh God, in the name of Jesus, father, we thank you for this bread that symbolizes the body of Christ. Father, as we gather around the word of God, as we gather around the table, father, as we stand up for Jesus Christ, as we lift up the greatest name in heaven and earth, as we lift up the greatest name in heaven and earth, spirit of the Living God, we come to you tonight, lord, as Christians, as Bible-believing believers, not as churchgoers, but as shamrraks, meshacks and the bendigo. I thank god for that fire because jesus was in the fire. Jesus wasn't with the ones that took them to the fire.
Speaker 2:That's really important for us to grasp the ones that are taking you to the fire. God is not with them. Taking you to the fire, god is not with them. The ones that are trying to get you to fall and slip, do not have Jesus. The ones in your culture, your life, your home, your university, your schooling, your life, those that are trying to get you in trouble, don't have Jesus. The fire is going to consume them. The fire represents the trouble. Jesus only walked with the ones in the fire. The fire took the enemy out.
Speaker 2:Father, I thank you that the fire is taking the enemy out. Come, holy Spirit. Bless this bread as we take this now, because we recognize this as the body of Christ. I thank you that all sin has been washed away at the cross of Calvary. I thank you that Jesus is alive and we are Bible-believing, born-again, spirit-filled believers in Christ. God bless you.
Speaker 2:In name Amen, spirit of the living God, I thank you For adversity. I thank you for struggles. I thank you for adversity. I thank you for struggles. I thank you for persecution Because in the fire, our God is with us. I thank you for the flames of life because our God is in the flames of life. Do not hang around with people that are trying to take you to certain situations. Keep in the fire Very important. Keep in the fire. Those that are trying to take you to the fire are going to get burned. Those that are trying to take you into trouble are going to die and not know Jesus Christ. Those that are taking you to the fire of life. Hell is waiting for them. Spirit of the living God, I thank you for this cup that represents the blood of Jesus. Cleanse us in Jesus' name. Amen. God is real. The power of the Holy Spirit is moving. Don't let the flame of life take you out. Don't let the flame of adversity get to you. Let's just pray. We've just got a few minutes. We've got 4 minutes and 54 seconds.
Speaker 2:Spirit of the Living god, we pray, lord, for every one of us across the world. Lord, I even pray, lord for those lord that have banned us on youtube, that have labeled us or labeled me rather as a hate preacher against the gays, the weak, the woke and all that rubbish. I pray, lord, for the gays, that the weak, the woke and all that rubbish. I pray, Lord, for the gays that may be pressing the button on YouTube. Save them, let them know that Jesus Christ is real. I pray for the terrorists. I pray to God for every terrorist across the world. Lord, I ask you that you will remove the terrorists, the jihads, off the earth. In the name of Jesus, I pray to God that you will remove the weak, woke pink church out of the UK. I pray, dear God, that you will remove the weak, woke pink church out of the UK. I pray, dear God, that you will remove, lord, the rainbow flag in the name of Jesus and the flag of Israel will be lifted up. Let's lift up the flag of Israel, god, I'm going to get banned in a minute off Facebook. You know when you talk like this.
Speaker 2:Lord, I thank you for Israel. I thank you, father. Lord, I stand with Israel tonight. I stand with Israel. I thank you that there is power in the name of Jesus, and I stand with Israel right now, lord, me as an individual.
Speaker 2:I stand with Israel tonight, lord, and I pray, lord, that you will remove every terrorist, everyone that has done harm, in the name of Jesus. So, lord, I thank you for the power, I thank you for the Holy Spirit and, lord, in these closing moments, we thank you that cancer has gone tonight. We thank you that mental health has gone tonight, adhd has gone tonight, fear has gone tonight. Lord, I thank you that the lack of has gone tonight. I thank you, that abundance is over every one of us tonight, that the fire of God is over us. Lord, I pray for everyone that takes us to the fire, just like Meshach, shamrach and Abednego.
Speaker 2:There are people in your life that are taking you to the fire and are going directly to hell because they want to harm you, they want to cause trouble in your life, and those are the enemy. Those are the ones that are dressed, those are the wolves dressed in sheep's clothing. Those are the ones that ain't gonna make it, but you're gonna make it the hotter. It is going to make it. The hotter it is. The more trouble it is, the more scary it seems, the more adversity kicks up in life. God is moving, god. I thank you for the flames of adversity. I thank you, lord, that my head sometimes spins. I thank you, lord, that I cry out to you. God, where are you? I thank you, lord, for the furnace. I thank you for, lord, that I cry out to you. God, where are you? I thank you, lord, for the furnace. I thank you for the struggles. I thank you for the lack of money. I thank you for the lack, dear God, of faith. Some days I'm not afraid to say it Some days I lack faith, but I still believe it's the spirit of the living God, wherever everybody is tonight across the world, as we stream right across the world, whatever their time zones are, we pray, dear God. We pray for social network tonight, that Jesus Christ, the truth, will get across the social networks, that Jesus Christ is alive and you are a born again believer.
Speaker 2:Brothers and sisters, tonight we've got one minute and 25 seconds left of this service and we're out of here. We are out of here. We're going to see a man about a dog. Brothers and sisters, it's really critical that you get Psalm 91. Psalm 91. Psalm 91 is the way. Psalm 91 is the way. Psalm 91 is the way. Wherever you are, it's Psalm 91 that will give you freedom. It's Psalm 91 that will give you hope.
Speaker 2:I pray and I believe that cancer bows to the name of Jesus. I believe that mental health disappears. It melts like wax. Whatever you are facing in your life, whatever you are looking at in your life, put Psalm 91 over it. God will protect you. We're out of here. We've got 45 seconds. The electric's going to run out. They're going to cut us off. We're gone. We're going to disappear in a puff of smoke. I pray that you will see the love of God like never before in your life. And, brothers and sisters, now we're out of here. That is it. I am gone. I am less than 25 seconds and the buttons will stop. Find us on Spotify, find us on all that sort of stuff and just back, listen to everything. May God bless you and strengthen you. Never give up. Jesus Christ loves you. God bless, we'll see you soon. Take care, have a great day. Have a great evening.
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