Reverend Ben Cooper's Podcast
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Reverend Ben Cooper's Podcast
Finding Freedom in a World of Fear (#1070 - Elim)
From Fear to Freedom — Rediscovering Your True Identity in Christ
Fear and anxiety grip millions of believers today—but what if the real problem isn’t our circumstances, but a lost sense of identity? In this soul-stirring message, Pastor Ben Cooper exposes how modern Christianity has conformed more to culture than to Christ, and how that compromise has led to fear, anxiety, and spiritual stagnation.
Drawing from Philippians 4:4–7, Pastor Ben reminds us that Scripture provides a clear path out of fear: Rejoice, be gentle, pray, and guard your heart with peace that surpasses understanding. Yet many of us remain locked in fear because we've forgotten who we are. We’ve accepted the lie that we must fit into this world’s system, when in reality, we were made to stand out.
Instead of being hand-crafted on the Potter’s wheel, many Christians today have become spiritual clones—shaped by social media, workplace pressure, religious traditions, and family expectations. The result? A generation of believers plagued by anxiety, insecurity, and self-doubt.
This message cuts through the noise with truth: God didn’t mass-produce you. He shaped you uniquely with intention. Pastor Ben challenges listeners to throw off the world’s mold and embrace the identity God has already written into their hearts. With vivid illustrations and powerful biblical parallels—like Jonah running from his call—he reveals how God often meets us in the dark to restore our purpose.
We also examine Jesus, the King who had no palace, yet carried peace and authority wherever He went. His gentleness was not weakness; it was strength submitted to God. In the same way, we’re invited to exchange our anxiety for authentic peace—not the shallow kind offered by culture, but the supernatural peace that can only be found when we remember who we are in Him.
🎧 Listen now to break free from the patterns of fear and discover your true kingdom identity. You were not made to blend in—you were made to carry God’s presence boldly, fearlessly, and uniquely.
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Speaker 2:Brothers and sisters, let's look up, let's get straight in the word of God. Right now, we're going to go straight to the good old New Testament. We're going to go to the book of Philippians, philippians. The reason we're going to Philippians is because I feel God has put this charge on my heart around about four o'clock this morning. I've had a restless night, you know, I feel God has dropped this in my spirit.
Speaker 2:We are living in a time when fear is so real. Fear and anxiety, doubt, uncertainty, second guessing. Who am I? Where did I come from? What's my name? Who am I?
Speaker 2:We are living in a world because the reason we are like this is because man and when I mean man, I'm talking about society and culture and education, and number 10, downing Street they want you to walk a certain way. They want you to walk a certain way, every whatever and however you and whatever your work life. If you're, if you're self-employed, you're working. However, you want to work. If you're self-employed, you're working, however, you want to work. But if you work for an organization, if you work for an organization, you're going to work and you're going to act and you're going to wear the lanyard and you're going to walk this way and you're going to do this way and you're going to be here at this time. Yes, I understand work, I get it. I understand we have to work.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying not to work, but what I'm saying is the Bible says do not conform to the pattern of the world. We've got to be like that salmon that I mentioned so many times. We've got to be like that salmon that has got to swim upstream. But to swim upstream you can't stop a fool to stop wagging your tail, your fin. You've got to keep that fin. You've got to keep wagging that because if you stop you're going to get taken right back because the torrent.
Speaker 2:And that's culture, that's life, that's school. The schools want to clone our children. They want to tell our children that a boy can be a girl and a girl can be. You can switch and you can do what you like. The education wants to clone work, wants to clone business, wants to clone shops. Where we shop, the car we drive, the postcode, the way we dress, your culture.
Speaker 2:Every one of us has been birthed into a culture, a color or a culture, whatever, however you look at it, that is trying to shape you. When you look at certain religious areas. When you look at certain movements, that religious setting wants to shape you into the culture of, let's say, the evangelical movement, let's say the Church of England, let's say, catholicism, shaped and almost brainwashed. We've got to be careful that we're not brainwashed and almost brainwashed. We've got to be careful that we're not brainwashed. We're not brainwashed. We've got to be careful of religion. Religion is a fine line from what we see in church. I've got to know, and you've got to know, that you are an individual. You are an individual. So what brings fear? Fear comes along by a certain demographic of people around us, by the way they want us to act, by the way they want us to act, by the way they want us to live, the way we work, the way we walk, the way we dress, the way we talk, you know, and when we can't comply because you wasn't brought in to comply. So that's what the scripture says.
Speaker 2:Let's pick this up. We're in Philippians, chapter four, verse four. I'll read to where I feel the Holy Spirit stops us reading. So In Philippians, chapter 4, verse 4, I'll read to where I feel the Holy Spirit stops us reading. So let's just read. We're in Philippians, chapter 4, verse 4.
Speaker 2:Grab yourself a church Bible. Please remember what I always say Take a Bible with you, take some tracts with you, distribute them across the town and across the world. So we're in verse 4. Rejoice in the Lord always. Hang on, jesus. I'm having a bad day. Lord, you're telling me to rejoice every day. Let's read it again Rejoice in the Lord always. I say again rejoice Now.
Speaker 2:Verse five this is a beautiful text. Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Now. Verse six do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your request to God, and the peace of God that transcends all understanding will guard your heart and your minds in Christ Jesus. Now that's packed out. Then few verses are literally packed out. He says straight away. The writer writes.
Speaker 2:The writer of Philippians writes rejoice in the Lord always when I'm up the mountain, when I'm midway on the mountain, when I'm at the base of the mountain. But it's difficult to rejoice, isn't it, when we watch social media, when we watch certain things on TV, when we're at work and when we're in certain areas of life. It's difficult to rejoice when we feel uncomfortable. Do people make you feel comfortable or uncomfortable? Is your life, making you feel comfortable? The people around you do they welcome you in? Do the people make you feel that you are safe with them? Your workplace, the church where you go? Pastors do I make you feel safe and comfortable If I don't, please leave the church, go and find someone that will look after you properly? That's important. It really is important. It's really important. Does work make you feel comfortable?
Speaker 2:The reason I'm talking about feeling comfortable and comfort has another word peace. Are you peaceful in the church that you're in? Are you getting everything you need from the church that you're in? Are you feeling and are you getting spiritually fulfilled? It's not about the church activities, it's irrelevant. Are you getting the word of God in your life across the world, wherever you are, do you feel the word of God is coming across the pulpits? We are not meant and we are not built to feel comfortable with woke preachers. Lord, I ask you, remove the woke preachers from the nation.
Speaker 2:I want to hear the fire of God. I don't want to hear another motivational, woke, weak, pink message. I want to hear a message that is dripping in the blood of Jesus, that is telling me come on, come on, ben. All things are possible to those who believe. I want to hear the word of God.
Speaker 2:I haven't got time to be messed about anymore. I haven't got time to be jumping over the church, skipping rope with churches together. We're all skipping the same. It doesn't work. It doesn't work. It's like oil and water. It doesn't mix Religion and the word doesn't mix. It looks like Christianity religion, but it's not Religion, isn't Christianity. It's a religious, stagnant, demonic force. Because they took Jesus to the cross, religion took him to the cross. I want to be known, I want to be recognized as a disciple. I want to be remembered when I leave this earth as a Bible-believing believer, because that's all that matters. Titles, whatever is stamped over my forehead, it's irrelevant to salvation.
Speaker 2:So we're living in a culture and a society where we got to perform. You got to perform to your family. You got to perform to your friends. You got to jump through hoops at work. You've got to do this, you got to do that. Culture expects you. Color expects you to live a certain way. Color will get everything you to do. It will make you arrogant. If we comply to the world, we'll become arrogant, selfish, disillusioned, fearful, doubtful.
Speaker 2:The Bible says do not conform to the pattern of the world. Let's just let's just analyze that a moment. Do not conform to the pattern of number 10 downing street. What does it want from you? What does what does the leaders? What do they want? What do they want from you? Do not conform to the pattern of religion, do not conform to the pattern of culture, do not conform to the pattern of materialism.
Speaker 2:When I conform to the pattern, when the word says do not conform to the pattern of the world, it's got a basket full of everything, but we got to find out what's in the basket. What do you mean? Don't conform to work, and you know what I mean by that. I know we got to go to work. I'm not saying go to work and throw your desk upside down and put your head through the monitor. What I'm saying by that is know who you are in the devil's territory, know who you are in the ivory towers, know who you are when you work in any NHS, and they don't love Jesus. When you go to work, know who you are, but church doesn't know who we are really. We are being told that we we are, we are extremely like the world, but we're not like the world. We're completely different to the world. So we have more Christians living in anxiety than ever before. We have more people living in fear and worry and doubt than ever before because we have lost our identity. See, this is why it's so important to to study the text, where it says that that great prophet I went down to the potter's house and he had a million pots he was shaping.
Speaker 2:No, he didn't. He had one earthen vessel. And when you study pottery, when you look at that, see, when you know who you are, that there's no one shaped like that vessel. He took the clay, he gave it a bit of a whack with his hands. He squeezed all the imperfections out, all the bubbles, all this, all that. He squeezed everything out of it, gave it a bit of an iron, probably, drops it on the floor, kicks it with his foot. He shapes the clay into a pot.
Speaker 2:See, when you look at manufacturing, at this moment in time, if you want a wardrobe, if you want a cupboard, if you want a kitchen, if you want cars, everything is manufactured out of machines. Right, there wasn't a machine at the potter's house, there was the master. So every vessel we shaped, the lines were different, the shape was different, the style was different. It looked different. If you was different, the style was different. It looked different. If you study them earthen vessels at a distance, it looked the same in height, but as you got closer there was a difference in it. It had different lines in it. The clay was a little bit more marred. This happened. That happened Every vessel that that potter made looked like to a degree, but the actual way that it was shaped was shaped almost the same, but when it came out and it was done, it was different.
Speaker 2:See, you are an individual. You look at the cars and the vehicles we drive, the manufacturing. If you want to buy something online, you know trainers, belts, shirts, the manufacturing industry. It's a slave trade. We're walking around wearing these designer stuff and we won't go there. But we know what's happening on the other side of certain areas of life, getting whipped and cracked, just so I can wear a decent pair of trainers. Or look at the ones that have been held over the coals over the last number of years. When you trace it back the retail industry, the car manufacturing, the battery manufacturing, everything when you go to the root.
Speaker 2:So when you look at manufacturing, that's what the bible is saying do not conform to the pattern of the world, and that means in every area, the place you was birthed. Don't allow your family to shape you. It is instrumental in your life as we are children, but when we become an adult, then suddenly you can't be shaped by your husband, your wife, your brother, your sister, your mom, your dad. Then it goes on, goes into religion, it goes into church. Pastors cannot. Do not allow pastors to shape you. Do not allow ministries to shape you. Do not allow church, do not allow ministries to shape you. Do not allow church, do not allow elim to shape you.
Speaker 2:This is why we got so much fear, because we have lost our identity. I feel like a clay pot, but maybe I'm a. I'm a teapot, maybe I'm not sure I might be a fruit bowl. Today, I actually don't know what I am. Actually I might be a teacup, i'm'm not quite sure. I look in the mirror and actually now I look like a little vase. Today, sorry, we've lost our identity. And when we lose our identity, fear comes in, because this is what Satan wants.
Speaker 2:When you go to Genesis, the one that dropped the message, did God really say are you sure? Are you sure that's what culture says? That's what church says, that's what religion says. That's what number 10 says. Look how they use politics. They tell us they're going to deliver this. They get in. They've forgotten what they said, but it doesn't affect us anyway. It doesn't matter who gets in. Number 10 downing street. It's never going to change. It's never going gonna change because it's written in the book. It's written in the book. We know what's gonna happen. We know God is putting these leaders in place for the, for the final rapture, for everything. This earth is gonna burn up.
Speaker 2:So if you take net zero, all right, you know what? If you really want to have a good laugh, just read about net zero. You want to have a good? You really want to? Oh good lord. Oh, my sides are split. I love it. So every house is going to be insulated, every car is going to be electric. We're all going to be on holy electric segways floating through the streets.
Speaker 2:When you look at net zero, it is impossible to deliver. When you look at the ozone layer, we've got more people wanting to go and plant and hug trees than we've ever had in our life. It's crazy. Yes, I've got to be respectful to the environment, but because of all this stuff going on.
Speaker 2:We've lost our identity and the governments and the world are also now. Firstly, we lose our identity in the skin that we walk in. But now you have society saying you can change the skin that you walk in, you can add add-ons, you can have bits taken away, you can have whatever you want, and we know what we're talking about, so they're allowing. So changing your identity and not knowing your identity is dangerous. Who am I? So the question is who does the church tell me I am? The church should be saying you're born again. You're born again. You're born again. You're a disciple, you're a son and you're a daughter. God loves you. That's it. But we're making preachers and teachers and apostolic ministries and this and that, and we're doing it. People are in leadership that should not be in leadership. Preachers are preaching that don't know one end of the Bible from the other. They are educators delivering.
Speaker 2:What we need are men and women that know their calling and are running from it. When you run from your calling, that's the true servant. When you don't want to do it and you're not, I ain't doing it. Jesus, I ain't going to have it. I'm off. See you later. I'm doing a Jonah, I'm going on holiday, I've got myself a boat and God shows up on the side. You throw yourself over, god catches you. God gets you in three days in darkness. And what do you do? Watch Netflix. You start praying like never before. See God. Sometimes we take ourselves to dark places because we're on the run and God captures us in the dark. He threw himself over the edge. I've had enough, I'm out, I'm gone. I'm gone, gulped up by a large fish the fish.
Speaker 2:When you read that story, atheists will call me a nutcase. They will go. You are off your rocker, son. So you believe that this man was in the belly of a fish and this fish just happened to come on the shore, opened his mouth and he walked out. Yeah, I do. Hallelujah, Jesus. I believe it Every second, every moment, every heartbeat of that biblical fact, because it's not a story, because it's a fact. It's a biblical fact.
Speaker 2:So when Jonah was, why was he running? Because he was fearful of delivering. He was fearful of delivering. He was fearful of delivering. So you might be called to ministry, and I pray, if you're called to ministry, you've got the fear of God in you and you don't want to do it and you can't see a way of doing it. If you see a way of doing it, it's you. If you are called to something and it's impossible that's a smiling place and that's the same with life.
Speaker 2:So when we look at fear Jonah, the disciple that jumped out over the edge of the boat fear shapes us and we don't actually realize. We're fearful of what someone is going to say about us. We're fearful of what someone is going to do to us. We're fearful of how our pastor is going to react if I tell him. We're fearful of going into church. We're fearful of going to work tomorrow. I'm fearful of meeting the family. I'm fearful of my family. We live more of our lives in fear than we do in faith. The just shall live by faith. The Bible says perfect love drives out all fear. Where do I find this perfect love? I won't find it in in church. I won't find in religion. I'll find it in the word of god.
Speaker 2:The uk is at a very unusual place at the moment. Spiritually. We've been there for quite a while. We're biblically illiterate more than we've ever been in our life, like never before. And I'm not talking about the ones that are listening, I'm just. I'm putting the brushstroke over the whole thing.
Speaker 2:Because when people say to us, oh yeah, ben goes to church for the outsiders, they see us going to all the churches. We're captured under the brushstroke of church. So they might think, oh, I'm a Catholic, I'm this, I'm that, I'm everything. So when you look at everything that goes on, yeah, they go to church. So it's a mixed bag, it ain't. I'm a born-again spirit-filled believer. You know, I thank God for the church, but I actually don't belong to the physical church, I belong to the kingdom. I'm grafted in, you're grafted in. Nothing can separate you from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus. So what we have in church, you know, I've never experienced so much fear as I have in the last few years, just with certain things going on. But I've got to address certain things and deal with them because you just have to. You just have to confront certain things in life.
Speaker 2:But we've lost our identity of who we actually are because we're not having the potter's wheel experience, because the church should be the potter's wheel. But the church is mass production, it's, and that takes it to theatrical, that takes it to stage, that takes it to. You know, the majority of churches, it's rehearsed, it's practiced, it's got a script, it follows this, it follows that and it will stay in it. It won't move from it. It won't come out from it. The Bible says the just shall live by faith and I understand what structure says according to the word. Structure in the scripture is different to structure in religion and in the church it's completely different, completely different. So we have lost our identity. The UK has lost its identity. The UK doesn't know who it is Generally. The UK doesn't know who it is Generally. The church doesn't know who it is.
Speaker 2:Business, life, every area of life. We are struggling to find who we are and there are many people at a church, in church, in this, in that, wherever, and we're living by fear because we're fearful of what they're going to say about me. We're fearful of what they might pull out the cupboard. We're fearful of bill paying. We're fearful of this. We're fearful of what they're going to say about me. We're fearful of what they might pull out the cupboard. We're fearful of bill paying. We're fearful of this. We're fearful of that.
Speaker 2:We've lost that rhythm of who we are and we've got to get back to the fundamental truth is that I'm born again. I've been created by God. He brought me in. He will take me out. I've got to live by faith. I've got to trust him. I've got to submerse myself in this scripture. Nothing else matters. Seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and everything else shall be added unto thee. It is the kingdom, it is God. God is calling you, god is calling you. We lived, you lived.
Speaker 2:Whoever we are, how many hours do we live in fear and we get into this position of not realizing that we are in fear because we've made it our normal and our body has adjusted itself to the way that we live, through anxiety, through fear, through the 50-50. Is that right? Yes, no, yes, no, yes, no, yes, yes, yes, I'm not sure. We make a decision. Then we go back on the decision because I'm not sure now, because of see, this is what Satan does in the garden. The first human beings to stretch their legs on earth. He's there at the one already. He's there.
Speaker 2:Are you sure God said? Are you sure God said, Are you sure God said you're going to be healed? Are you sure God said that you're born again? Are you sure he exists? What are you going to church for? Are you sure he's called you, you he called you. Are you sure? Don't you remember what you've done? Do you remember? Don't you remember? Are you sure? Are you sure you're born again, ben?
Speaker 2:Actually, satan, you're a scumbag. Get under my feet in the name of Jesus. You're under my feet according to the word. You have no power over me. The only way I've allowed that is through my weak thinking. You haven't got my heart. You haven't got my salvation, you haven't got my life because you're under my feet. You're a liar, satan. You are a liar. I am born again. I will get through because I know the plans he has.
Speaker 2:See, when you know who you are, when you go to the depths and the garden of Gethsemane, you say Jesus, I've got to re-find myself. Now I've got to be careful how I use that terminology. What I mean by re-finding is like, lord, so many people have put jackets on me, so many people have put like an onion. You know we've been built up, built up, built up, built up, and we've lost it. Lord, will you take a layer off every day, strip me back to the bone so, lord, I can smile again, I can walk again.
Speaker 2:I'm not worried about what they're saying down the road. I'm not worried about going to work. You know, sunday afternoon I'll be approaching Work's coming. Tomorrow morning People will be stressing out oh no, oh no, I've got to go in. I've got that donut of a line manager, I've got to go under. I've got that idiot of a person I've got to. You know, I've got socks hold on them and they're telling me what to do. All that sort of stuff. Oh no, I've got to go to school tomorrow. I'm dreading it. Oh no, I've got to go to college. Oh no, oh no, oh no. How many oh no's go up on a Sunday afternoon right across the nation?
Speaker 2:It's because we have lost our identity. But when we go into the enemy's territory, we're going in intimidated. We are feeling that we're overpowered by the Goliaths of life. We, we are feeling that we're overpowered by the Goliaths of life. We're going in like Saul. Oh, my goodness, have you seen the size of that, saul? And they all ran back.
Speaker 2:So this scripture that we're in do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by presenting your request to God through prayer and petition. Speaking Lord, I thank you. Strip a layer off today in the name of Jesus. But what's really really important in this text also. It talks about gentleness. Lord, will you make me gentle, will you humble me, will you keep me calm? Lord, I need peace in my life. I need peace in my heart Because when we got peace and when we're at that place of rest, you know what Goliath disappears. Goliath disappears, all those faults, they disappear when you got peace. And it's the hardest run you'll ever have in your life is to chase peace, because the world is angry. The world is angry, religion is angry, education is angry. It's angry and it's tearing. Look at the road rage. Look at the stuff that's going on. Look at everything. Society is angry. It's angry. It thinks it's got to fight its way through everything, smash the life out of everything to get a result.
Speaker 2:Where did Jesus actually draw a punch on any human being? Where yeah, I know you might wrestle with this one. He flicked the tables over, he made a whip. Yeah, we get all that, but you've got to be careful how you understand what that means. He did not swear, he did not growl at anybody. He did not headbutt anybody. He didn't punch anybody. He didn't wrestle anybody to the ground. He didn't respect. He did not disrespect sorry his mum, the women in his life.
Speaker 2:When you look at the way Jesus looked after every human being in his life, he's the greatest man that ever walked this earth. He was the humblest man, he was the gentlest man. He didn't kick, he didn't fuss, he didn't get angry. When he was in the face of Pilate and Herod, he just said, yeah, whatever. At any given time, he could have destroyed every human being on earth. He went through the valley of the shadow of death. He stood everything. He stood up to the authoritarians. He didn't send them an email or a text, he didn't put something on their social network, he didn't give them their P45. He just lived. He's the strongest man this world has ever seen.
Speaker 2:If you want to be a great man and a great woman, follow jesus. Follow jesus, you will be a, you will be a force to be reckoned with you, and I I say that in the terminology because you will be. You know you'll be so peaceful, you'll be so calm, you'll be so loving. When I say you will be, when I mean that you will be, because he has enabled you to be. So then suddenly, fear goes, doubt goes, but it's a journey. So maybe, as we come to the table very, very soon.
Speaker 2:Maybe the prayer, the prayer for me is this scripture that we're in. My prayer is Lord, don't let me be anxious about anything, lord, but through everything, through prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, lord, I want to present everything I've got in my heart to you, lord, because when you look at that, it's which transcends understanding and he says will guard your heart and your mind. See, he will guard your heart and your mind. See, he will guard your heart and your mind, lord. I want to be a kind person, I want to be someone that deals with everything in love, that I don't draw from the wrong place, I don't react in anger, I be like Jesus. What a challenge that is, ben, to be more like Jesus, to be more like him. The more I say it, the more I realize I've gone further than Jonah could ever go Running, running, running, running, running.
Speaker 2:But Jesus says don't conform, ben, don't conform. Brother and sister, don't conform, ben, don't conform. Brother and sister, don't conform, don't let them shape you, because you will lose your identity, you will lose everything. So we have to come to the cross and we have to say Lord, I thank you for the tests, the environments I've been in, but, lord, I need to stand out now. I need to stand out. I need to be like that piece of clay that was on the potter's wheel. I need you to shape me, to mold me and to take me through the process so that I am very different. Remove arrogance, remove bitterness, remove anger, remove fear, jealousy the word, that word, jealous. You know all that stuff that goes along. Lord, remove it. He does that on the potter's wheel. He does that. He's done it at the cross.
Speaker 2:We're coming to the table. We've literally got about 13 minutes of this service and what I mean by on on radio and online, we'll be instilling a house, so let's just break bread together. In the name of jesus father, I come to the cross today, just me and everyone else. On radio and online, we stand together, no one in front, no one behind, but just one long line together, just human beings, men and women, boys and girls, equal, because no one is greater than anybody else. We come as brothers and sisters and we come to the cross today, lord and Lord, I just want to say and if anyone else wants to say this with me and say it from your heart Lord, I want to live in freedom.
Speaker 2:I want to live outside of the bubble of the crackpots that are trying to shape me. I want to live outside of this criteria that makes me a slave to so many people. I want to live outside. I want the world to say, yeah, he's different, he's odd, he's weird, he's strange, he's not right. I want them to say that about me because when Jesus looks at me and looks at you, he says that's my son and my daughter. They're not meant to conform, they're meant to stand out.
Speaker 2:Because, do you realize, when you conform, you're in a crowd. That's the issue we have with large church we get lost in the crowd. Have with large church we get lost in the crowd. You're just a gift aid number. You're just a gift aid number, you're just another envelope on the seat. You know you're best to find a little church with two or three people, where you know each other, where it's real, where it's real, it's raw, it's real, it's real life action. It's like everything's happening under the sun, but it's real. So, lord, I want to live in freedom. I want to live authentic. I want to live in peace and calm and kindness. I want to live as Jesus lived. I want to stand out. I want people to go.
Speaker 2:Here's that loony over there, that loony tune of a Jesus follower, hallelujah. Because when I conform and I'm in the crowd, no one can see you because you're just a number. You're just a number, you're just a statistic. You're just a statistic. But do you know? There's no statistics in heaven. He says I know you by name and I know the hairs on your head. There's no one like you. You belong to Jesus. Don't conform.
Speaker 2:Ask God to break you out of the pattern of conformity, because that will destroy you, that will make you fearful and scared of life. Because when we live by faith, we're living a life that is not normal. You're living a life that is kingdom. You're trusting God for your money. You're trusting God for your life. You're trusting God for every area of you. You're trusting a life that is kingdom. You're trusting God for your money. You're trusting God for your life. You're trusting God for every area. You're trusting God in everything. So you will stand out. You will be different, you will look different, you will walk different, you will act different, you will speak different. But the world will go here. He is here he is. Look, he's lost it. Lock him up, throw away the key.
Speaker 2:Jesus, I want the world to say he's different, he's different, she's different, we're different. So, lord, as we come to the table, wherever we are across the world, I want everyone in my life to say, yeah, he's different. Wherever we are across the world, I want everyone in my life to say yeah, he's different. And that's not making ourselves angry with society and that because we've got to go to work, we've got to go to school. But when I go to school and when I go to work, I'm going in the kingdom suit, I'm going in the armor. I'm going different. I'm walking different. I'm walking different, I'm moving different.
Speaker 2:Dear God and Heavenly Fathers, we come now to the table. I want the world to see me different. I want so much peace, lord, afloat, lord, I want so much rest. It's crazy. I want my mind, lord, not to be like a load of spanners rattling away all day long. Lord, I want my mind to be calm, to be thoughtful. Lord, I want my body, lord, just to calm down. Help us to stop living at 100 mile an hour, going from one thing to another thing and not completing the one thing that we started. Help us, lord, to be good stewards of time. Help us, father, to be sensitive. Help us, lord, to just to forgive and to lay down. Lay down and leave everything at the cross.
Speaker 2:So, as I come to the cross, thank you, father, for this bread that symbolizes the body of Christ, this cup that symbolizes the blood of Jesus. So, lord, as I break bread together now, I break it because I believe this is a symbol of the body of Christ and, Lord, as I break it, I just dip it in the cup because that's what the Bible says. It became sock and he handed it over to Judas, iscariot. And Lord, as we take this bread right now, we thank you, lord, that this bread symbolizes the body of Christ. Amen, lord, I thank you for the cross. I thank you, lord, that the cross is empty. I thank you, lord, that the cross is empty.
Speaker 2:I said before there's four destinational points that Christ had to get to, and they're obviously obvious. The first one was the crib, the second one was the cross, the third was the grave and the fourth was the cross. The third was the grave and the fourth is the throne. Now there's a fifth one that we don't really talk about. So, when you look, the four have been completed. We're just waiting for the return. We're waiting for the return of Jesus. Five key areas, four that we might be very familiar with, and we seem to forget that he's coming back. So, lord, I understand you're coming back. The crib is gone, the cross is done and finished, the grave is empty At this moment.
Speaker 2:He's seated at the right hand of the Father, interceding for all the saints, and he's not talking about them, ones in stained glass windows in the churches that have been made up. He's talking about the Bible-believing, spirit-filled, odd ones that the world says born-again Christians is coming back for you. He's praying for all the saints, the martyrs, the ones that were skinned alive, the ones that were decapitated, the ones that were shot for Jesus, the ones that are persecuted, the ones that are in church now, the ones that are persecuted, the ones that are in church now, the ones that are across the world. He's seated at the right hand of the Father, interceding for you. I say this respectfully. The prayer team is critical in your life, but there is something greater than the prayer team on earth, and that's the king, seated at the right hand of the Father. The King. Think about that as we take this cup. The King is interceding for you, father. I thank you that Jesus is seated right now at the right hand of the Father and as I take this cup, and as some have gone ahead and might be behind, it doesn't matter where we are in this process, because it's not about religion, it's about freedom. So cleanse me from the crown of my head to the sole of my feet In Jesus' name. Amen.
Speaker 2:See, there's a king that loves you. There is a king that went to the cross for you. There is a king coming back for you. There is a king that loves you. There is a king that created you. There is a king that would do anything for you. There is a king that has done everything for you. There is a king that has done everything for you.
Speaker 2:There is a king that the world kings don't like. They called him healer and he never gave anybody a pharmaceutical. They called him Lord, they called him master, they called him preacher, they called him king, and he didn't own an earthly throne. He's the only king that walked this earth, that never had a palace and people feeding him grapes. He's the only king that didn't have two corgis. He's the only king that didn't have just a few acres, because this king owns the world. He's the only king that was crowned that made him bleed. He's the only king that wore the greatest robe the world has ever had. He's the only king that is coming back for you. He's the only king that was on the island of Patmos and when John turned around and he fell as if he was dead.
Speaker 2:That's your king. He's the king that will destroy governments. He's the king that authorities are scared of. He's the king that atheists hate. He's the king that is the head of the church. He is the king that is the great I am. He is the king that was dead. Now I am alive.
Speaker 2:He is the king of the kingdom. He is the king that is in charge of Satan. He is the king that has no earthly palace but owns everything. He is the only king that has no jewelry. He doesn't even own a crown that is of gold. He had a crown that was of thorns.
Speaker 2:He's a king that never had a signet ring. He's a king that was never carted around in a beautiful limousine. He's the only king that came in on a donkey. He had no chauffeurs. He had no servants as we understand servants. He's the only king that bled for anyone.
Speaker 2:He's the only king that said Father, forgive them, for they know. Know what they do. He's the only king that is the king above all kings. He is the only king that was crowned king of the Jews. He's the only king that went let there be light because Christ was at creation. He's the only king that owns all the oil. It isn't the Arabs, it isn't the Arabs, it isn't no one. They think they own it, but they're just renting it off Jesus. They think they own the land.
Speaker 2:The king of this nation thinks he owns everything under his foot, but he doesn't own anything, because when he's gone and dead, where is it? See the king that I serve, the king that you know owns a cattle on a thousand hills. He's the king that put the seed in the ground that created every tree on this earth. He is the king that put every substance into existence. He is the king that went to the cross. We're out of here, we're on our way and the king walks with you. The king, the only king that was brought back to life, the only king that owns everything. The oil is his, the electric is his, the gas is his. Sorry Russia, sorry Qatar, sorry governments. You don't own anything because it belongs to God.
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