When the streets roar with flags, lift the Cross and watch the giants fall (1121) Elim

One Story That Resets Courage: David, Goliath, and the Church Today

Sometimes all it takes is a single story to reset our courage. When we open 1 Samuel 17, the account of David and Goliath is more than children’s church material—it is a prophetic mirror for our moment. It asks us a harder, unavoidable question: What giants are we trying to defeat, and what weapons are we really holding in our hands?

In today’s world, we are quick to fight with optics, slogans, and noise. We wave flags, argue online, and measure strength by platforms, likes, and headlines. But Scripture reminds us that the battle is not won by appearances. The only weapon that truly brings victory is the weapon David carried—faith expressed through prayer, trust, and the living Word of God.

When the Church Chooses Convenience Over Conviction

This passage forces us to look honestly at ourselves, not just the culture. The deeper crisis is not only government pressure or cultural hostility, but a church often tempted to trade conviction for convenience. Identity in Christ gets swapped for identity in political parties, movements, or labels. And when the valley comes calling, those labels cannot save us.

Saul vs. David: Leadership That Looks Strong vs. Leadership That Is Anointed

The contrast between Saul and David cuts to the heart of leadership today. Saul looked impressive, but lacked anointing. He had the title, the position, and the outward strength. David, on the other hand, came from the fields, scarred from quiet, unseen battles with lions and bears. That difference matters when giants rise.

• Saul trusted in armour; David trusted in God.
• Saul’s leadership was built on appearance; David’s was built on anointing.
• Saul shrank back; David ran forward.

For anyone who has ever felt overlooked, rejected, or underestimated, this message is especially for you. God often forms His boldest warriors in hidden fields, not in conference halls. The world may not recognise you, but Heaven does.

How Faith Still Slays Giants Today

This conversation presses into practical truth:

• Why anointing outruns a CV or résumé every time
• How prayer steadies the soul when the streets are loud
• What it looks like to run toward problems, not away, armed with Scripture and the name of the Lord
• Why courage grows in private devotion before it shows up in public battle

Chapters

• 0:00 Welcome & Call to Prayer
• 0:48 David and Goliath Framed for Today
• 2:07 Naming Modern Goliaths: Government & Culture
• 4:20 Stand in Scripture, Not in Flags
• 8:42 Identity Crisis in the UK Church
• 13:03 Prayer Over Protest: Spiritual Warfare
• 16:58 From Saul-Led Pulpits to Davidic Leadership
• 21:20 Anointing Over Education and CVs
• 27:10 Running to the Valley: Faith That Acts
• 31:24 Denominations, Division, and Lost Identity
• 36:00 God Uses the Overlooked and Unqualified
• 41:05 Hunger for God vs. Church Machinery
• 45:06 Calling, Cost, and Courage Under Fire
• 49:55 Hope, Heaven, and Eternal Perspective
• 55:00 Communion: Bread, Cup, and Consecration
• 1:04:20 Final Prayer, Blessing, and Support Links

Transcript

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Welcome to Reverend Ben Cooper's Podcast, your source for faith and inspiration on RB Christian Radio. Love what you hear. Support us by buying us a coffee and help keep this ministry thriving. Don't forget to subscribe and find us online at rbchristian radio.net. Stay encouraged, stay faithful, and know this you are not alone.

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Good evening, good evening, good bless you. God bless you wherever you are this evening. May the Spirit of the Lord be over you wherever you are tonight. Thank you for joining us in the house. Thank you for joining us online on RB Christian Radio. Thank you to everybody on the social networks, wherever you are. May the Spirit of God be over you in the name of Jesus Christ. We're going to get straight into the word of God. We're going to turn to the beautiful book. We're going to turn to the beautiful book of 1 Samuel. 1 Samuel, where are we? Where are we? 1 Samuel chapter 17, verse 32. We're going to read verse 32. And then we're going to pick it up in about verse 41. You know, it's it's about David and Goliath. And uh, if there's ever a time that you and I have ever faced a Goliath in our life, is right now. And who is the Goliath? The Goliath is the government. You know, we got a Goliath in front of us that is ugly. We got a government in front of us that is just evil. We got a government in front of us that that is that has no interest, you know, in peace. This government is is is brewing for war. This government doesn't want to feed our children. This government is just completely pressing and going all for Palestine. This government is is literally for Palestine. It is against Israel. It has no agenda, it has nothing on the table for Christianity. So wherever you are right now, in the name of Jesus Christ, I urge you, I urge you, you know, to pray against this government, to pray that God will remove this government, that God will defrone, to take down this government because we cannot live another hour with what is going on. Yes, we are not kin to them, yes, we are not detached to them, but we need the power of God in our lives like never before. And we have a government that is like a Goliath that was bred and ready for war. This government is only focused on finances. Well, not only is it focused on finances, it's focused literally on war. You know, it's more interested in selling armory to Ukraine and looking after Ukraine and all that sort of stuff. It's more interested in partnering and lifting the flag of Palestine. It isn't interested in the Union flag jack flag, the the manager of number 10 Downing Street, because that's what he is. He's a manager. He's more interested in managing other parts of the world rather than feeding your children. So who are you gonna stand with? You're gonna stand with God or you're gonna stand with number 10 Downing Street, and then then there's another Goliath. We find ourselves we've got another Goliath, we've got another Goliath in Sadiq Khan, in the mayor of London. You know, they're both they are both pressing and serving foreign gods, and we cannot mess around the can anymore. We have got to get back to prayer, we've got to get into prayer. You know, this is why there is so much spiritual warfare in the heavenly realms, especially within the UK, because we have a mayor and we have a leader of the UK that is completely for Palestine, completely for Palestine, and not for the UK in any way, which shape, and form, and not for Israel in any way. We are clear, we are watching the clear markers in the sand. We have a clear government that is completely anti-Christ, that is not for God. So when we look at these scriptures, there is only one way, you know, only one way, the church. The church is finished in the UK, religion is finished, and all that sort of stuff. But the kingdom of God, you know, I keep emphasizing this, I keep talking about this, I keep mentioning this. It is absolutely critical that as Bible-believing believers, we get in the word of God, because the only way that we will see victory in this nation, the only way we will see victory in our lives is when we face the Goliath and we trust God, and God is gonna do mighty, mighty things, but we cannot run back up the tracks anymore. That you might be looking at a different type of gliath in your life. Your Goliath might be your husband or your wife, your brother or your sister, your minister, your church, your gliath might be finances, your gliath might be sickness and disease. You know, but as as where I sit and as I stand, the Goliath that is in front of me, it is the government, it is the government, it is religion, and that's what I face as a Bible-believing believer, as I live in a land that is not not anymore for the for the white man. Yeah, he said it, not for the white man, not for the white woman, it is for every other color under the sun. And we got to understand that we gotta stand on the word of God. There is something so powerful, there is something so powerful. Come on, we gotta get in the word of God, we've got to push the word of God because this government is literally completely 100% for foreign gods, and we have to stand on the word of God. We have to stand on the word of God. We have everything breaking out everywhere. We need the power of God, and we need God to move really, really powerfully in our lives. There is power in the name of Jesus Christ, and I pray for each and every one of us that as we press into the word of God, we press into the word of God. You know, we got everything happening at the moment, we've got everything, you know, got every religion being lifted up, you've got every um faith being lifted up, you've got every color being lifted up. But if you're like me, if you look like me and you walk like me, you've got no hope in this nation because I don't walk a certain way, I don't speak a certain way, and I am uh an original artifact from this nation. If you are like me, you know, this nation is not for anyone like me anymore. It is for everything else, and we got a nation that is being driven so much, and we got to stand on the gospel of hope. So tonight, tonight, if there's ever a night, if there's ever a night that we come to across the Calvary and we face the Goliaths, whatever Goliath you have in your life, whatever Jericho you have in your life, you know, let me tell you, Goliaths will fall. This government will fall. Trust me in what I say, this government will fall. Because when you look at the book of Daniel, when you look at the prophecies, I actually believe that we are uh we are in the Old Testament, this nation is in the Old Testament, and I believe God is using the government of this nation for for not for godly things. That's what I believe is actually happening. I believe God is using this government for outside of the kingdom stuff. So we live, if you live here in the UK, you you will understand that we we may and you have to look at everything, you have to look at everything that is on the table. You have to look at absolutely everything. We've got a month for this, we've got a month for that. I think what I might start up is a month for a white heterosexual man. And I wonder where that would get us in the name of Jesus Christ. That would get some views on social media, wouldn't it? That would really get something, you know, if we said that, you know, oh dear me, Pastor Burley's the heterosexual, he's a white male, what's he gonna do? I might even get a t-shirt printed that across me a thing and preach from it, you know. But we can't say that anymore. We're not allowed to say that sort of stuff. We can't engage in all that sort of stuff. It's crazy. You can't talk about Jesus, but brother and sister, we have to come to the reality of what? We have to come to the reality that we are in a spiritual crisis and the Goliath is out. Goliath is out. The government is the biggest Goliath we've ever faced in this nation. The government is taking us to foreign gods, and now is a night for you and your family and whoever you are to get right into the word of God. Get right into the word, get right into the scripture because today we have to be extremely careful. We have to be extremely careful what we say, how we say it, you know, because uh everything is out against us, everything is out against us. We've got to be standing on the word of God, we gotta press into the scripture, you know. The Christian, the Bible-believing believer, has so much against them in this nation. If you uh being a churchgoer and just going to church and just blending into the crowd, it doesn't matter. But if you are, if you are hungry for God, if you are hungry for God, you're gonna face trials. If you're hungry for God, you're gonna face situations. If you're gonna face uh trials in your life as a believer, they're only gonna happen is because you're hungry for God. But if you're just uh if you're just going to church and you're just living that it is you're just gonna get absorbed by everything that's going on. Without further ado, let's get in the word of God. We've got to be passionate about our Jesus. And it says in verse 32, verse 32 of Samuel, 1 Samuel chapter 17, 1 Samuel chapter 17, verse 32, and it says there, David said to Saul, let no one lose heart on the account of the Philistine. Your servant will go and fight him. And then it says, Saul replied, You are not able to go against the Philistine and fight him. You are a boy, and he is a fighting man from youth. So when you look at these scriptures here, the Goliath, the Goliath that we face, we cannot fight this through. Sorry, my voice I've been speaking all day. The Goliath that we face, the political Goliath, we cannot fight this with flags and marches. How do we combat an enemy that is so fierce and been bred for the last days? Because that's what we got. We got a government that has been bred and is equipped and ready, ready to push Christianity right out of every area of life. What do we do? We have to get in the word of God, and we have to make sure that we are we're in the scripture. We have to make sure that we press the word of God, and what we have to realize is that we cannot fight this. We cannot fight it with gloves, we cannot fight it with flags, you know, because the more we march on the street, the more that we do, it's exactly what they want. They want us to march, they want us to raise this, but what they what they don't want is for the Bible-believing believer to start marching for Jesus Christ. Because when you start marching for Jesus Christ, you're talking about something different. You march with a flag and it hasn't got really no power because that's what the government wants. The government want the streets flooded with what's happening. But what they cannot cope with, what no satanic government can cope with, they cannot cope with an army for Jesus Christ. They can cope with an army of Union Jack flags, this flag, that flag, you know, this colour, that colour. They'll cope with that because that's what they want. That is the political drive that they're pushing for. That's what they want. They want civil unrest on the streets through all the flags. That's what they're driving at. But what they cannot cope with is someone that is a radical, Bible-believing believer that believes in the gospel and doesn't lift the flag but lifts the cross and lifts the king of kings and the lord of lords. Just like David, when you look at David, David was so clear, he said, David said to Saul, let no one lose heart on account of the Philistine. And I want to tell you today, whatever Goliath you're facing in your life, whether you're in the house, whether you're online, wherever you are, listening to this podcast, whatever your life looks like, whatever the Goliath that you have, do not lose heart. Now, as you look at this nation, especially the UK at this moment in time, we are really in the thick of Daniel, the Old Testament. We are watching this nation being used for very strong satanic activity. We are watching for a lot of activity on the streets. The Bible says about the locusts are out, and that's what we got, the locusts are out. You know, and what we need to do, we need to combat. We won't combat uh Philistines, we won't combat Goliath with a flag and a political agenda and go into this. What we got to do is we got to get in prayer. When you get in prayer, when when you get in prayer, when you realize the power of prayer, when you get in prayer and you get right into it, when you get right into the prayer and you get into the word of God, just take it for one moment. You look at Daniel, you look at Meshach, Shamrach, and Abendigo, they did not waver from their belief. They did not waver. The UK has wavered from the gospel of Christ so many years ago. It has come away from the Ten Commandments, and we probably don't even know what the Ten Commandments are, you know, let alone in church, and then whatever happens outside, it'll be it'll be weak and woke, and it'll be all types of old crazy stuff. We've probably lost the full fundamental understanding of what actually the Ten Commandments are. And if you ask the children, they probably think it's a football team or something like that. They won't realize that it's the command, it's the way to live your life by the power of God. You know, just back in the old testament, back in the old testament, them Ten Commandments are alive and well. And if I can live by them Ten Commandments, if I can live by that, we talk about values and we talk about morals and we talk about this. There's no such thing as morals, there's no such thing as values because everyone gauges them different to how they're living. That's what the Bible actually says. But what we have, there is a compass that we should follow, and it is the word of God. It is the word of God. Really, really important that if we stand on the word of God, we've got to stand on the word of God. It is the word of God, it isn't a flag, it isn't a petition, it isn't boycotting this and boycotting that. What it is, it needs the leaders of the church within the UK to lift up the cross of Calvary, to come together, to get down and to start praying like we've never prayed before. We've got so much stuff within the world of church, it's on a watch with so much. So we are just like Saul, and what we need is a David. What we are requiring is a David. There's many souls, there's so many souls in leadership at this moment in time, so many souls not fit for purpose. What do you mean? Saul was not fit to be king for Israel, but he was chosen by the people. So what we have very, very clearly in the majority of church across the nation, in the many denominations, what we have, we have leaders that have been chosen by their mum, their dad, their brother, their sister, their friend, their boyfriend, their girlfriend, this, that. We have leaders in pulpits that can't lead. We have leaders in pulpits that might have a bit of a business acumen, but they cannot lead. We have so many churches that are dysfunctional because the leaders don't know the word of God. I'm not, I'm I'm not putting myself on any platform whatsoever. I'm the least of everybody, trust me. If I'm the last one to get into heaven, that that is good enough for me. I'm certainly not a preacher, a teacher, and all that Razmatazz. I just I'm a caretaker just getting us by in the name of Jesus. But let me tell you this: it's very clear to see that we are lacking biblical teachers across this nation. Now, you don't need to be a preacher and an evangelist to work this stuff out. We are lacking biblical teachers in the UK. So what we have is something very, very clear. What we have, you know, you can put all the names up on the on the uh online, but we need to see them in the forefront across the nation. We need to see the power of God like never before. You know, when you start talking about leaders, leaders that are radically out there, leaders that are radically out there preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, challenging the government, standing up, really preaching the word of God. We have lost the preachers. So when you look across the nation, you might be out of count, just counts, just a handful. And if you can get to a handful, that will be actually amazing. So what we have, we have Saul in pulpits. We have Sauls in pulpits because they've been chosen by their C V. They've been chosen because they semi-retired and they'll be able to lead the church, alright? They'll be chosen by their business acumen, they'll be they'll be chosen by what their CV says. So we're choosing pastors and leaders and preachers that have a CV, and we are not choosing anyone, and we're not looking at anyone that has been anointed. So when you look at this great text that we're in at this moment in time, when we look at this text, David is able to do what he's about to do for one reason and one reason only, because he was anointed back in the chapter before. See, David was anointed for this. We don't have many anointed preachers in pulpits. What we have, as I told you right at the very beginning, and I'm going to tell you again, we have people that are calling them pastors, leaders, preachers. Uh we got all the cultural stuff going on. We've never had such a divide within the colour church. All colours, all shapes, all sizes. This church, that church, this post-code church, that post-code church, that color church, that's a tribal church, this is that church, we're an elim church, you're a so-and-so church. We're all that we have division. We have division. We don't need the devil because we've divided ourselves through denominations, and we have divided ourselves even greater because the church council have chosen the wrong people to be in the pulpit. So this is why we have so much trouble. This is why Saul could not face the Philistine. Saul could not face the Philistine because he was not anointed for such a time as that. He was not capable. Saul was riddled with fear. Saul ran back up with the armies of Israel. They hid themselves when they see the government come out. Now, what we have, many leaders run for the hills when the government comes out. What we need are preachers, preachers of the word. We need preachers that will preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. And I'm not talking about the social media preachers. We got more keyboard warriors than we've ever seen in our lives. What we need are preachers that will stand up and preach the gospel of Christ and just literally be moved by the Holy Spirit. We need leaders that will be led by the Spirit of God, anointed by the power of God, called by God, but again, I'm gonna reiterate we got souls in pulpits that have anointed themselves with chip oil, appointed themselves because of their parents. They've um, you know what, I've got to be honest with you. Some days I don't want this. Most days I don't want this. Most days I don't want it. And I'm I'm telling you that now. It's not an easy, it's the hardest road I've ever been in this church for I don't know how many years. It is the hardest road, but there are comes a time when you don't have a choice. You just don't have a choice. When you've got a calling on your life, you've got to do what you gotta do. But what we are finding, we are not having uh ministers that are actually called. They are in their position because of their CV, they're in their position because of the school they went to, they're in their position because they speak well, they're in their position because they might have been a bank manager or there was a manager of this, and they they run this corporation and they're they're good fundraisers. We need more fundraisers in church. Come on, we gotta uh raise the funds. What we need, we need preachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ, and we got souls in church council. Uh we've got areas of of uh I've got to be extremely careful. I can't I can't use that word, I'll have to find another way around Jesus. I can't use that. So what we have, we have an area of cultural stuff, we have an area of cultural stuff where certain demographic, certain colours can't deal with something because if I say that, I'm gonna be called that, and I can't use that because suddenly it's gonna go, oh, here we go. So we're we're trapped, but we're not actually trapped. We're not actually trapped because the Bible doesn't depict colour, race. What the Bible talks about Jew, Gentile, slave, or free. It talks about tribes, it talks about different tongues. The Bible doesn't worry about politics and it doesn't take any notice of colour. So what we've got ourselves in, we've got ourselves into a right pickle sandwich where we can't talk about colour, we can't talk about race, we can't talk about this, we can't talk about that, and then from the pulpit, we are literally chained down. So what we find that we have ourselves is we have pulpits full up with GDPR, safeguarding policies. You can't breathe, you can't say hello, don't shake your hand with that person because oh dear me, don't say hello, don't look at them, whatever you do. We're living in a world where where you can't do anything, the devil is trapping and and and trying to get you trapped. We have souls in leadership, certainly in uh in the area of politics, because when you look at that area, but what we are dealing with tonight is we're talking about souls that are in pulpits, you know, and when you look at certain churches, it's very, very interesting that the social church is growing. The churches that are growing are doing social justice and they're doing activities just like what the world is expecting. But if you get a Bible, a Bible preaching, uh you find the church will start to run out, it will start, it will only hold a certain amount of core people because when you preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, it's offensive. When you preach the gospel, it it makes you edgy. When you preach the gospel, you don't know what's gonna come next. But when you're when you're running a church with with uh with um social justice and uh and we gotta do this and we gotta do that, and A, B, C, and D, you'll find that the church will grow because you can you you can do anything, you know what I mean? And you're social justice and all that Razamatazz, but preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and you will start to find out where people actually sit. That's the thing, that's what's really, really important. So, what we got, we got souls. We've got to be very careful, we've got to be very careful right now. We're living in very, very powerful days, we're living at the end days, we're living at the end times. You know, when you look at certain areas of speech, we can't say things, we can't mention things, we can't talk about this, we can't talk about that. That's offensive, don't say that, or whatever you do, boy. Dear me, be careful, watch your tongue. Because we have what has happened, we have allowed, we have allowed ourselves to get downtrodden. We've got no freedom of speech. If you're like me, if you walk like me, if you look like me, if you've got the same suntan as me, you'll be in trouble in the nation. But if you're of a different whatever you want to call it, you know what I'm saying. If you serve another God, if you do this, if you do that, you'll be fine. You'll be fine, you'll be fine, you'll be okay, you'll get your you get all your benefits, you get everything you want. But if you're like me, you you know, you'll be kicked out on the sidelines. That's the fact of the matter. But then if you put a Christian on top of me, so if you take me as as just a you know, a box person that I am, you know, with a nice suntan I got and all that, all that, the colour I've got, and all the way I dress and the way I look, the way I speak, and the way I present myself, but then if you put Jesus Christ into the skin that I walk in, that even causes more trouble to the government. It causes more trouble because what what they don't want is they don't want they don't want Christians. This government don't want Christians. What they want is is people of of wokeness, of people that are weak. They don't want Christians that are gonna rise and take hold of the world. They want they want people that will just draw from Jacob's well, that will just stay at Jacob's well. But if you if you tell the world that you are a Jesus follower, if you be like David, what we need, we need David's in pulpits, we need Davids on the streets that will literally say it is it is. Do not worry about that Philistine, do not worry about that government, do not worry what is happening over there, because let me tell you this they're gonna come at everything they got, they're gonna bring it to me, and what I'm gonna bring to them is the word of God, because nothing can stand against the word of God, and this is why we have so much trouble within the area of religion and in the area of church, because the gospel of Jesus Christ, I'll use the word being watered down, you know we can't water it down, but you know what I mean. It's it's been taken out of text, it's been taken out of context, and it is literally not the gospel of Jesus Christ. If the church leaders would preach the gospel, if the different denominations would press the gospel of Jesus Christ, if they would get hold of the word of God and tell the world about redemption, about um uh the satanic activity, we are living in days right now where the spiritual tension is so strong, depression is so high, the suicide rate is so high, the anxieties are so high, the fears are so high. Why is it like this? It is like this because the church is lacking people to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, and what we have, we have so many Christians that have lost our identity, we don't know who we are anymore. We have lost ourselves in denomination, we've lost ourselves in ministry, we've lost ourselves in the busyness of life, the cogs of church, we've lost ourselves in the mechanism of church, and we've lost who we are, and who are we? That is the question I ask everyone tonight. The rhetorical question: who are you? Who are you? Are you a David or are you a Saul? Ben, are you a David or are you a Saul? Where do you sit? Where are you? Who are you? That is the question. We we don't know who we are, we've lost our identity. The only way that we find our identity now in church is by whatever denomination we go to. Yeah, I'm a I'm an elim, yeah, I'm Ealin. Oh yeah, okay, yeah, we know who you are. You're brandy with that. Yeah, but I'm an AOG person, oh yeah, I'm a uh seven-day adventist, or we pray for you, brother, in the name of Jesus. Yeah, I'm a Jehovah Witness. Oh, right, okay, we know who you are, blah, blah, blah. All that sort of stuff. I go to this church, I go to that church. I go to that one, I do this one, I do that. So we are identified by where we go. We are identified by what church we sit in. We are identified, and it is the most dangerous thing to be identified by a denomination because you won't find denomination identity within the scripture. What you find now is who you are in the skin that you walk in, and what we got, we got leaders, myself, congregations, people in churches. We have lost ourselves and we don't know who we are. And there's a scatterbrain thing going on. We can't keep our minds. Who am I? What church am I going today? Where am I? Who's preaching here? I'm gonna go over there. They got someone coming from that land, they got someone coming from Canada, I'll go to this church, I'll go to that church. They're believing in something different, that church, or that church over there. But don't worry, this Sunday I'll get a bit of this, I'll get a bit of that. Next week I'll go over that church, I'll go to a cultural church over there. I'll give me whole tithe to the to the to the daddy of the church, and don't worry, he's driving a murky's all right in the name of Jesus. I'll go to the apostolic church down on the corner, I'll go to the prophecy church over there. So we have lost our identity. We are trying to identify ourselves to a congregation. The larger the congregation, the better the church is. Oh Lord help us. You know, the bigger the name over the door, the the greater Jesus is working in that place. There is none of that within the scripture. We have lost our identity, we have lost our self-worth, we don't know who we are. We have so much mental health issues, we are lost in society, we are lost in culture. So, what we are saying is we're just like Saul. Many areas of life, we are like Saul because we are running away from the Goliath, and we need David, we need that that character rising, like David. We gotta study David and look at David and and and don't copy certain things of David, whatever you do. Uh, don't say Pastor Ben said he he said copy that because you don't want to be careful of that one. But you understand in the battlefield of life, in the battlefield of life, David is a great character to watch. Joshua and Caleb are great characters to watch. You know, Esther, we're a great character to watch. Moses in certain areas of his life is a great character to watch. You watch them, you know, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, you got Paul. You could look at them when they're faced with adversity. When they're faced with adversity, that's what we got to come to grips with because when adversity comes, when Goliath comes out, we don't know how and we don't know what to do next. So what we do is we react like like King Saul, we run for the hills, and that's what the church is doing at the moment. The church is going, there's revival, there's revival, we're revival, and we lock the doors and we stay in the four walls. Hallelujah, Jesus, hallelujah, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Yeah, the Lord is good. I had a great week in the name of Jesus. We haven't, we're lying, we're lying to ourselves, and we're saying everything's all right, everything's fine, that's okay. Give us another cappuccino, brother. Actually, I'll have a croissant. Yeah, in the name of Jesus. We're actually in a spiritual crisis like we've never been before, and the majority of leaders are running away from Goliath. We've got too many souls in pulpits, and we've got too many leaders that are leading with business acumen, with skill set, with knowledge. The Bible says knowledge puffs up, it is useless in the pulpit. It is useless. Thank God I don't go on my knowledge, we get absolutely nowhere. You know, knowledge and education is not a requirement for a preacher. A preacher of the gospel of Jesus Christ doesn't need an education, doesn't need a pound, doesn't need a doctorate, doesn't need a theological degree, doesn't need anything what the theological colleges are offering. What we want are leaders. To come with no qualifications, but they are qualified in the eyes of God, and God has anointed the David, and when David gets into the pulpit, suddenly demons start to shake. When David gets in the pulpit, suddenly Goliath starts to get a little bit trappy. But what Goliath and the demons don't know is that God is with that young shepherd boy that had no education, that had no money, that was pushed out by his family, that was discarded by King Saul. No one wanted him around. They pushed him into the hills to look after sheep. But what they didn't know is the ones that have been pushed out are the ones that God is drawing at the end days. God isn't needing, God isn't looking for someone with an education and a CV as long as you're armed. God isn't worried about how great their business and how they run their bank and how they run this company and that company. God doesn't need a business manager. What he wants is someone that is willing to fight the bear and lion, willing to take anything on, willing to run down the valley of adversity, willing to face the Goliath. Because when you face the Goliath, David said something so powerful. He said something that was so good, so rich. He said, You come against me with spear, javelin, sword, you come against me with everything. But I come in the name of the Lord. See what we got? We got preachers that don't know the name of the Lord. They haven't got a clue who Jesus is. We got church leaders and pastors and deacons and elders that couldn't preach a message in a spiritual crisis. Put them in a room with an educated book, they'd be fine. But when it comes to the rubber or it hitting the fan, when it actually comes to it, where are the preachers that are anointed in the field of life? Because David was anointed and his father and that, he went back to the field. He didn't go to the throne, he didn't go and get his doctorate, he didn't wear a little hat and a shawl and get himself all prepped up amongst all that lot. He didn't get a theological certificate, he didn't do an alpha course, he didn't do a why Jesus, he didn't do anything. He was in the field and he was living his life on his own, in the back end of beyond. He was looking after sheep and he gave his life for sheep. There's another area we ain't got time and touch. A pastor would give his life for his sheep, you know, as Jesus said, so so clear. You know, it's really important to understand. Uh in the in this nation, in this nation, we are literally awashed with educated people standing in pulpits. People delivering an educated message. I've got to have a doctorate. If I haven't got a doctorate, I'm not called of God. If I don't get a BA, I'm not called of God. If I don't go to theological college, I'm not fulfilling my calling. Someone tell me, please, someone tell me where David went to theological college. Someone tell me where Moses went and got himself a BA, a Bachelor of Arts. Someone tell me where Joshua and Caleb went and done an alpha course. And on the 12th week, they were filled with the Holy Spirit. Bang! We're gonna do the we're gonna do the wild thing now in the name of Jesus. No, they didn't. No one went to college. No one went to church, no one got baptized, no one was spoken and prayed to and prayed over by a pastor. No one had a TikTok account, no one had a mobile phone, no one had a studio, no one had a church. They was in the field of life, and God called them. Moses. Moses was a murderer, and he he had a speech impediment. He couldn't speak properly. That's why his brother was with him when he had to go to Pharaoh because he couldn't speak. God used Moses. David was everything under the sun, and he lost it so many times, but God used him. Joshua and Caleb experienced things in their lives, but God used them. Jacob, wow, what a man. If you look at Jacob, Jacob was a wheeler and a dealer. He he was everything going on. He would sell your mum down the road, he would, Jacob would. But when it came down to it, he went right over there. He went right over there. He pushed everything out. And suddenly, suddenly, when you push everything out, when you push everything out, suddenly we find, suddenly we find the power of God. It's critical. It's critical right now. You don't need a Bible college. You don't need to go and get a loan off the government. You don't need to go and get a loan off your mum and dad. If you are called, you don't need money to fulfill your calling. You don't need to go to college, and I'm probably gonna get in a lot of trouble. You don't need to go and do a why Jesus. You don't need to go and do a six or an eight-week alpha course, you don't need all that stuff. What you need is to seek out who you are and remind yourself that God is the one that anoints. It is not man. Just because you went to college doesn't mean anything. Just because you've got a doctorate doesn't mean anything. Actually, knowledge is a restrictor. Let me tell you that now. Knowledge causes trouble. The more certificates we got on our pastor's wall, the more we blow smoke up our chimney. Look at me. I'm the fourth one in the Godhead. God could do nothing in Swanley if it wasn't for me going to college. God can do nothing if it wasn't for me studying for 10 days, 10 hours, 10 years. Let me tell you this. God is looking for someone that is hungry for prayer. God is looking for someone that is hungry for the word of God. God is looking for someone that goes, yes, God, that's me. I ain't got a pound in my pocket. I haven't got a GCSE. Everyone hates me. Nobody's interested in me, but God, I'm ready. He goes, That's the one. See, when when David's brothers walked in the tent, they had everything whistling. They had everything going on. And God went, get them out. No, no, no. Saul went, no. Samuel, sorry, went, no, no, no, no, no. And then suddenly they were sitting down having a cup of coffee together. And he went, Surely, you got some chocolate biscuits. Yeah, right. He went and got some chocolate biscuits. Jess is sitting there. Turned the telly off. Football had finished on a Saturday afternoon. Jess is sitting there in the tent. Samuel's sitting there shaking his head, going, Corey, you got any custard creams? These digesters are giving me a bit of indigestion here. Anyway, let's get back to what we should be doing. I've come here and I'm supposed to be anointing one of your sons, and Jess is going, I don't know. Uh hang on a minute. I've got that little Jack Russell out in the field. I've got, yeah, I forgot about him. I forgot, yeah. Who are you talking about? I've got another son. Goes and gets him. Comes back. Comes back. Smelling of everything under the sun. Hair not washed. No pedicure done like most of the preachers in pulpits. No fancy clothes on him. Wanders into the tent, smelling lot of lynx, of sheep, stuff. Walked in there, fingers dirty, rotten. Let me tell you this. God brings kings out of a mess. God brings kings out of the battlefields of life. It'd been fighting a bear and a lion in the middle of the darkness when there was no lights, when there was no one. Let me tell you this: there are many of you that have fought a bear and a lion, and I'm not literally talking about a bear and a lion, but you know what I'm saying. You fought battles in your life that your family don't give a monkeys about, that pastors don't give a rat about, that anyone don't give a monkey. You've fought battles in your life that no one knows, but God is preparing you to anoint you. See, we have to fight the battles before the anointing comes. David was anointed after he fought and he went through the valley of the shadow of death. See, it's very interesting how God shapes, how God moves, how God prepares. But the church, the church goes to Eton, it pulls out a great sounding person. Oh yeah, he's alright. He's got to be okay, he's of good stock. He can speak Greek, Hebrew, yeah, he's he's really fluent. Yeah, he's a great accountant, that one. Do you know what? He'd be great. He's a great accountant, that one. Yeah, and actually, he's got good business skills, you know. He ran a casino. That he'd be great at that. He'd be able to pull the one-armed bandits and get some money in. And actually, do you know what? Yeah, it'd be great. It'd be great. He knows how to pull a few quid in. Let's look at his CV. Yeah, your CV's great, absolutely perfect. You're fit for this church. You're fit for nothing. Because the greatest preachers, the greatest warriors for God have nothing. They get in the battle of life in the blackness of the valley of the shadow of death, and they're fighting more bears and lions than more pastors will ever see in their lives. We got more pastors in pulpits and leaders trying to lead a church in a spiritual crisis, trying to use their business acumen and their skill set and their looks and the way they speak and their CV, trying to get the church to find a place to settle. The church won't settle because something it is so serious that is happening. We're in the biggest battle that we've ever seen. So, what we don't want is we don't want the social media preachers, we don't want the fine-sounding preachers, we want someone that has just fought a bear and lion and just gonna come and tell us that my God will make a way where there is no way. My God will make a way because let me tell you this. Last night I was in the field of life, my family pushed me out, my brothers didn't care, no one fed me when I was hungry, I was destitute, I was lost, but they didn't want to know me. They didn't want, brother and sister, be careful who's in the circle of your life. Because let me tell you this: God sharpens the person that he's gonna use in the most loneliest and coldest and darkest place. He doesn't chisel you at theological college, you're not even challenged at theological college because theological college is to do with theology, and a lot of it is to do with the study, the study and the study of. And what it don't teach you is how to fight the spiritual battles. It doesn't teach you how to fight, and actually, we don't need to fight. So, what are you talking about? The battle belongs to the Lord. All we gotta do is what? Show up. All you've got to do is show up. All you've got to do is put your hand in the brook, get a stone ready, get yourself ready, get dressed and get ready. But what we got, we got preachers and teachers that have great skill sets, that are really educated, that massive CVs done this, they've done that, they've done this corporation, they've been a CEO, they've been this, they've been that, they've done everything, but they don't know the gospel of Jesus Christ. What we need are preachers that are in the field and they're working all day, all night, and then suddenly they climb into the pulpit, exhausted and weary, and they got to deliver a message that is Holy Spirit-filled, power on the glory of God. But we got men and we got women delivering messages that they're biblically illiterate. They've never had a spiritual fight in their life. They're as much use as a chocolate teapot on a hot sunny day. What we need, we need men and women that will lift up the word of God, that will get into the field and fight the bear and lion and is willing to go down to the valley and not just walk down to Goliath, but run to the presence of adversity and face the Goliath and say, you bring what you're gonna bring, but you don't know who my God is. You tell me what you want to tell me. I've got no weaponry, I've got no bullets, I've got nothing, but I carry something that you ain't got. Let me tell you what I carry. First, I got Father, Son, Holy Spirit. Second, I was anointed just a few hours ago. So you're in trouble, son. And let me tell you something else. I carry a name that is greater than any other name. And at the name of Jesus, see, we got leaders that don't know the name of Jesus. We got denominations that are denying the name of Jesus. We got men and women setting up ministries that don't know Jesus as their Lord and Savior. They're coming to the end of their ministry and they're exhausted and they're weary and they're tired and nothing's growing and nothing's happening, and they're doing everything to keep the ministry going because the ministry's not anointed. The ministry is not anointed, the man or the woman is not anointed, and it is crushing, and it is crashing, and it is burning. Because what we need, we need the fire and the power of the Holy Spirit. We need the glory of God, we need messages that are gonna shake the house of the Lord. We need men and women that will stand up for Jesus Christ. Let me tell you this again. If you are educated, I don't think you'll be called. Oh, God is in trouble. If you have got no education, if you didn't do too well in life, let me tell you this. There's a calling for you. Because God isn't interested in the man or the woman that has got a CV as high as the ceiling. God is looking for someone that's got a heart that is hungry. God isn't worried about what education you got. He's not worried about what little nest egg you got stacked up. He doesn't care about your pension fund. He doesn't care that you got 10 houses. He ain't bothered about none of that. What he wants is someone that is radical and crazy enough to tell the world that I'm a Jesus follower. I've got no money, I've got no weaponry, but what I've got, I've got something that will flatten every glaf, and it is the word of God. And this book is the greatest book the world has ever seen. My God is the God above all gods. My God anointed me in the field the other night when I was fighting the bear and lion, and most pastors were sat indoors with their friends, drinking a little bit, having a little pizza, watching Saturday night telly and doing absolutely nothing, going on a sabbatical for three months, doing this and doing that, and they are not actually called. That's the problem we got. What we want is power and glory. We don't want all that Razamatazz. I'm bored, I'm fed up. I want to see the power and the glory of God. What we need is David's, but we're too frightened to talk about it. We're too frightened to speak that we need David's. We need Joshua's, we need Caleb's, we need Paul's to stand up for the gospel of Jesus Christ. We need Shamrach, Meshach, and the Bendigo that will tell the king, I don't care what you say about me. I ain't bothered what you want to talk about me. I don't care who you tell about me history. I don't care what you're gonna do to me because my God is able. And I can't remember when I heard a message last when someone tell told me that my God is able, my God is able, my God is able, my God put the stars in the heaven, my God sent his son to the cross of Calvary when actually through the book of Colossians, chapter 1, 15 and 20, it is Christ is the image of the invisible God. So God came down the staircase, put himself on the cross in the image of his son, and he gave his life. The Bible says that Jesus carries the greatest name, and his name is Emmanuel, God with us. We have many denominations, and we got devils in leadership positions, we got souls leading churches that are not anointed. We've got weak, woke preachers that are too scared to talk about color politics. We got preachers that just wanna just want to preach a soft little gay message. And what we want, we want power, we want authority, we want the word of God, we want the power of the Holy Spirit, we want David's to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ. Come on, church, we're gonna we're gonna come to the table. I gotta give it, gotta give this to God because we're living in crisis now. We are in such a crisis in the nation. We're not looking for a political leader. We are looking, we are looking for someone to rise with the cross. You can lift, you can march, you can say what you like, but nothing is gonna change until the cross of Calvary is lifted up in Parliament. Nothing's gonna change until the church, all the denominations deny themselves and pick up the cross. Nothing's gonna change until God anoints the leaders. Nothing is gonna change in politics unless the church prays. Where are the leaders? I guess what I'm gonna say. I've got to be careful how I word this one. I know plenty of souls in pulpits. I know more souls, I know more narcissistic preachers and pastors. I know leaders that shouldn't be even in leadership positions. And listen, listen, make this clear. I'm gonna make this clear. I'm the least of the least, trust me. Trust me, I am the least of the least. I am not qualified, but I I I if if there could be anyone, let me say this. If there could be anyone on earth that will be the last human being in heaven, that would be me. I'd rather be the last one in than the first one to miss. Oh my god. Do we actually realize that this is gonna happen? That someone, someone is gonna be the last human being to get in the glory, and someone is gonna be the first one at Armageddon. I wanna be. I would love to be a bit further up the food chain, but there's no way of that one. If I can get into heaven as the last human being on earth, I've got the best life ever. If I'm the last one in, thank you, Jesus. The whole world deserves to go before me. But if God will give me the grace just to be the last one in the door, that's all I need. I just gotta know that I'm in. And if I'm the last one, and I feel I feel the flames of hell on my back, and I've got in by the literal skin of my teeth, as the scripture says, because that's not scripture, skin of your teeth. What it actually is scripture is with flames under the soles of your feet. If I get to heaven with flames under the soles of my feet, and I look at me night trainers and I go, Whoo, that just burnt the rubber off. My socks have got a little bit warm on that one, God, but I'm in the door. If I can be that last one, if I can be the last one, come on. That would be a great, the most greatest achievement ever in my life, to be the last one God into glory. And I look back, oh don't look back. Imagine what it's gonna be like, sisters and brothers. We're coming to the table, sisters and brothers, we're coming to the table. You know, I would encourage you right now to get yourself a Bible, get yourself a word of God, and work out your salvation with fear and trembling. There was many great messages preached, but I believe that one of the greatest messages that I've ever heard was by Jonathan Edwards. Sinners in the hands of an angry god. That message, that message. Oh my goodness gracious mate. I haven't heard a message for the majority of my walk with Christ. Five minutes in, I'm checking my phone. Is this it? Is this it, Lord? Is this it, Jesus? Tapping me foot. Yeah, okay. Okie dokie. I've been to more seminars where I've literally been bored crazy. I've listened to preachers, all they've preached about is their books, all they've spoken about is what they're doing across the world and left Jesus out. I just want to hear someone tell me about the love of God, the power of Jesus Christ, that Jesus come for the sinners, and he saved a wretch like me. He saved a wretch like me. Do you know what? I love the thought that I could be the last one in heaven. What what do you know what? Imagine that will be like. Everyone's gone before. You're watching people disappearing up, and you're starting to jump up. Come on, God, is it me? Is it Lord? Is it me? And suddenly at the last second, I'm the last one in across all humanity. I would love that. To be the last one in the glory. But then after me, there's a first one. Silence in the house. Silence across the world. Someone is gonna be the last one in. And it's I I I picture it like this. I can speak like this because we've got no children in tonight, so I can be a little bit more. I picture it like this. Imagine what it was like when you were watching, well, not us, because we're not a thousand years old. Well, I might be, I'm not sure yet. Imagine what it was like when Noah was given the instruction to build the ark. He just cracked on with it. He got the calling years and years and years before he cut the first tree. I won't go into all that, but what I'm saying, you will get your calling years and years and years and years before you cut your first tree. Okay, I'll hold that there. Right. So Noah had to build an ark, but it was scorching hot, there was no rain, it was completely crazy and wild. But he got on and done what he done. But then all of a sudden, it says that from the ground, the water's punched up. That must have been one of the most frightening things to see, is to suddenly hear the ground shaking and suddenly see not a trickle, but such a false punch right up to the heavens, everywhere, water coming from within. Then, not only that, you've got the heavens absolutely like stair rods, and then all of a sudden, right, this is how I picture people wanting to get into heaven. The arc door shuts, and then suddenly you realize what that bloke has been preaching about is fact. I'm up to me feet, I'm up to me ankles, I'm up to me waist. We know the rest of the story. So imagine this, use this as an analogy. There were people hanging on to the ark with their fingernails and they didn't get in. It was in touching distance and they didn't get in. There are gonna be people that ain't gonna get in to heaven. It was in touching distance to the last person in, there's gonna be people trying to grab hold to get in. Oh my god, in the name of Jesus. Lord, I ask you this tonight. I'm not worthy of your glory. We're coming to the table, by the way. Grab yourself some wine, grab yourself uh a bit of um the pastor said, get yourself some wine, get off your trolley. No, I didn't actually say that. I I'll retract that. I'm sorry. Grab yourself some wine, a little bit of grape juice. We're gonna break bread together, we're gonna take the cup. Right. Now, I'm gonna pray this. Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you that everyone before me is worthy of heaven more than I am. So, Lord, what we pray tonight is, Lord, that we will all work out our salvation with fear and trembling. And Lord, I mean this, Jesus, with all my heart. If you're gonna get me in, I'd rather be the last one in the door than not get in at all. So, Lord, I thank you, and I recognize I'm a sinner saved by grace. I'm uneducated, I'm not worthy. The lower, the lower, the lower, the low. I'm not worthy, God. I have nothing to give you in finances, I have nothing to give you, Lord, of wealth, of materialism. I've got no GCSEs. Hallelujah. I didn't make school. Thank you, Jesus. I've got nothing, but actually, God, I've got everything. Because I've got the gospel, and this book is the greatest book. I don't need a G C S E, I don't need an O level, I don't need anything of the world. Because God says this you only need the Holy Spirit to teach you. It is God that teaches you, God that will give you wisdom, God that will give you strength, God that will give you anointing, God that will give you salvation, God that will give you a calling. Education is worthless, it is worthless in the kingdom of God. In the world, you need it. In the kingdom of God, you don't need education. In the world, you need money. In the kingdom of God, you don't need money, come empty-handed. In the world, you've got to look a certain way, you've got to dress a certain way, you've got to walk a certain way, your figure has got to be so on point if you don't have this and have that. But in the kingdom of God, God just says, come as you are. In the world, you've got to have a car that has got to have a certain badge on it. In the kingdom of God, he says, just turn up on your skateboard. In the world, you've got to live in a certain postcode, you've got to have a certain job, you've got to have a certain criteria about your life. You have got to the postcode is everything. I've got to have a W1 postcode. The center of Mayfair, right in the heart of London. In the kingdom of God, you just need the blood of Jesus. Because the blood of Jesus is greater than any postcode, greater than any mansion. But in the world, the bigger the house, the greater I am. What did Jesus say? I'm going to prepare a place for you. In my father's house, there's a place. See, whatever the world is offering you, don't have it. Whatever the world is telling you to go for, don't go for it. But whatever Jesus is telling you to do, drop your nets, come and follow me. God, I got no money. That's all right, Ben. God, I got no GCSCs, no O levels. I literally scraped through by the skin of my teeth through theological college. I don't know how in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth I got what I got. I don't know how I got what I got through chaplaincy. I don't know how I don't know. My life doesn't fit on paper. If my life, if I was to put my life and give you a CV for a pastor's job, they'd go, hang on a minute, sun, gun, clean the car park. It don't fit. I don't fit. My life doesn't fit the calling. Thank God. Sisters and brothers, I've run right over on time. Holy Spirit, we come to you tonight, right now. And I thank you, Lord, that we don't need an education in the kingdom of God. We don't need money. Lord, we don't need anything in the kingdom. All you require is for us to be hungry. Come to me, all of you that are weary in heaven, I will give you rest. Are you hungry for God tonight? Are you hungry for God? Do you want to see radical change? Do you want to see such a power of God in your life? God isn't worried about your education, I'm sorry to say. God isn't worried about how many bedrooms you've got in your house. He doesn't care what car you drive. He's not interested in your business. He doesn't care how many ICEs you've got stacked up. He hasn't bothered how many pension plans you've got stacked away. What he wants is someone that has nothing but has a heart for the heartbeat of God. That's what we need in pulpits. Someone that's got nothing, but their heart is hungry, and they're not going to let God go. Father, tonight, as we come to the table, I better be quick because the electric board is going to kick us out in a minute. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for this bread that symbolizes the body of Christ. Lord, I got nothing. I have nothing, God. But I've got everything because I've got Father, Son, Holy Spirit. I've got the greatest pension plan the world can't even offer me what I've got. I've got the greatest house that I'm going to live in that the world can ever give me. I don't need medicine where I'm going. I'm going to be as fit as a butcher's dog upstairs. Because when you get the glory, you'll be living in a place. You'll be walking streets. You'll be seeing, as that great writer said, I was called up on the Lord's day. I can't tell you how what I've seen. I'm not allowed, and I can't tell you what it looks like. Holy Spirit, I can't wait to die. God, I can't wait to get home. But Lord, all the time I've got to live this rat race of a life. I ask you, God, that you'll keep us strong in the word of God. I ask you, God, that you'll keep us strong in your mercy and your favor. I pray, Lord, that you will raise up generals for pulpits. I ask you, Lord, that you will remove the educated preachers and teachers. And Lord, give us Davids that are hungry for the Word of God. Because, Lord, as you said to Nicodemus, you are Israel's teacher, and it's meaningless. You gotta be born again, son. Lord, bless this bread right now. As we're at the table, as I've gone right over time, Alex is pulling his hair out. He's literally having a baby, he's gone white, is absolutely going crazy. I've gone 22 minutes over, and let me tell you, he's not in the building. Jesus, we come to you right now in all seriousness, Lord. And I thank you for this bread that symbolizes the body of Christ. And I ask you, God, for all of us tonight, that we will rise on wings like eagles. And Father, Lord, that whatever storm comes our way, the battlefield is the Lord's. Thank you for this bread that symbolizes your body tonight, Lord. In the wonderful name of Jesus. Amen. You know, breaking a bread and taking a cup is the most powerful thing you'll ever do on the earth. So, Father, I thank you that I'm able to break bread with the sisters and brothers around the world and in the house with me. So, Lord, we ask you right now that you will cover us in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. Lord, if I can be that last human being in heaven, I'll be the richest man in heaven if you know what I mean. If I can just, Lord, get in by the skin of my teeth with flames under my feet, the last one in. If I can be the last one in, I've got it. It's everything, Jesus. Come, Holy Spirit. We thank you for this cup that symbolizes the blood of Jesus. Come, Lord. Cleanse us from the crown of our head to the sole of our feet. Oh, God, in the name of Jesus. If I'm the last one in and I turn round, I think I might see the Pope. Oh, he didn't say that, did he? I might see the oh Lord, who am I gonna watch? The last one in. Please, God, let me get in. And if it means the last one in, that's good enough for me, Jesus. I'm in the door. Let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus. We come to you tonight, Lord, at 24 minutes past nine, as Alex is giving birth, stressed out, because I've gone 24 minutes over. Father, we thank you that there is power in the name of Jesus. Holy Spirit, we pray, Lord. I thank you for everybody watching, everybody listening, wherever they are across the world. I thank you, Father, that you call the lowly. I thank you, Father, that you call the ones that the world despises. I thank you, Lord. I'm in that capture and bracket. I'm in the despised. I'm in the lonely. He ain't worth nothing. She ain't worth nothing. Who do they think they are? Well, I'm born again. Blessed and highly favored, wonderfully and fearfully made. My God is with me. The king is calling me to glory. But Holy Spirit, I ask you that you'll bless everybody from the crown of their head to the sole of their feet. That they will feel your love and your mercy and your favor, your grace tonight. Lord, your grace, Lord. We need to feel your grace tonight, Lord. Father, the air feels tangible tonight. It feels tangible, God, with your presence, with your love, your mercy. Lord, it feels tangible tonight, Lord, God. Father, you are doing a new thing. Lord, there are there is something happening across this world tonight, God. And I pray for all the prayer warriors. I pray for all the prayer warriors. I thank you for the prayers. I thank you for those that have prayed for me over the years. I thank you, Lord, that I had a mom. I had a mom that prayed for me. She prayed and she prayed and she prayed and she prayed. Even when I was wayward, even when things were completely away from Jesus, she prayed and she prayed and she prayed and she prayed and she prayed. Let me tell you this. There's nothing more powerful than someone praying for you. There's nothing more powerful than your mom or your dad praying for you, or your friend praying for you, or your brother, or your sister, or your friend. There's nothing more powerful than someone praying for you. Let me tell you this: there's people praying for you tonight. And I want to tell you this in closing. God is calling now. We're at the last days. God is calling you. God is stirring you. God is leading you. And God is requiring you to stand on the gospel of hope. He's calling you right now, wherever you are across the world. May the glory and the power be with you in Jesus' name. Amen. We're out of here. God bless you.

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