Come Forward: Receive Prayer, Joy, and Hope

There's pressures of fear, pressures of anxiety, pressures of weariness. But today, you don't have to carry your burdens alone. You're with me, church? You do not have to carry your burdens alone. We've just sung of the wonder of God and his goodness. I am healed. I am whole. Amen? So as Christians, hear this. A Christian carries something different. A Christian carries the joy of the Lord. Amen? And the spirit of God is upon us. [00:29:52] (45 seconds)  #NotAloneInChrist

We know a new hope. Amen. We know a new hope. A sure and certain hope that is found in Jesus. And let me just give to you Romans, 15. That you may know God, the God of hope, and he fills you with joy and peace in believing that you may abound in hope in the power of the holy spirit. But I'll return to the little opening phrases that I said this morning is that perhaps perhaps you're just here and observing today. [00:30:37] (40 seconds)  #HopeInJesus

you know, sometimes we come and the pressures of the world are a little bit blurring out the reality of the salvation that we have in Jesus. And we just need a little bit of prayer, a little bit of loving on from our fellow brothers and sisters. And let's do that. Hey? Let's do that together. If you're here today and you decide, you know what? For someone to pray for me would be just like exactly what I need. I'll just just come. Come and fill this place here, and we're gonna we're gonna pray for you. So it's it's called an it's a it's a what we call a no questions asked prayer. [00:31:46] (37 seconds)  #NoQuestionsPrayer

But in reality, you know, this should be this should be a house of joy. Amen? This should be a house that wants to full fully express the love and adoration that one has for the Lord Jesus Christ, for the hope that are found in knowing Jesus. Amen? Come on. Come on. So in a world that around us that is filled with with uncertainty, where fear and anxiety prevails in many places, where the level of need just within our own community, even within our homes, where the level of need is rising. There are indeed, I acknowledge, many pressures. There are many pressures. [00:29:05] (47 seconds)  #HouseOfJoy

We're just gonna come and people are gonna surround you, and we're just gonna clothe you in prayer that you are in your spirit, you would just have a fresh awakening, a fresh encounter even with the love and the reality and the goodness of Jesus. Amen? Come on. I know there's gonna people that need some prayer. Come on. Come on. Daz is coming all the way from the back row. Jade stepping forward from the front row. What about all of you in the middle? Come on. Come on. Come on, church. Let's just, be humble and say, I would love some prayer. [00:32:23] (31 seconds)  #SurroundedByPrayer

And I I wanna have this open up a time for just, for the body to minister to the body that we might pray one for another because I know that I've turned up sometimes just because I have to turn up. So I'm not sure the state that you perhaps are in today, but why you're here. Hey. I wanna praise God that you're here. So just give everyone a hand right now. Hey. That you made it. That you're here. Well done. You're here. But, you know, sometimes we come and the pressures of the world are a little bit [00:31:17] (34 seconds)  #GratefulYouShowedUp

``There's pressures of fear, pressures of anxiety, pressures of weariness. But today, you don't have to carry your burdens alone. You're with me, church? You do not have to carry your burdens alone. We've just sung of the wonder of God and his goodness. I am healed. I am whole. Amen? So as Christians, hear this. A Christian carries something different. A Christian carries the joy of the Lord. Amen? And the spirit of God is upon us. We know a new hope. Amen. We know a new hope. A sure and certain hope that is found in Jesus. [00:29:52] (55 seconds)  #HealedAndHopeful

But in reality, you know, this should be this should be a house of joy. Amen? This should be a house that wants to full fully express the love and adoration that one has for the Lord Jesus Christ, for the hope that are found in knowing Jesus. Amen? Come on. Come on. So in a world that around us that is filled with with uncertainty, where fear and anxiety prevails in many places, where the level of need just within our own community, even within our homes, where the level of need is rising. There are indeed, I acknowledge, many pressures. There are many pressures. [00:29:05] (47 seconds)