Building Church for Community (Building Community)

A man, you know where God is, there is no room for sickness, there is no room for pain. So we're going to believe. if you have an expectant heart, Come with expectation. That God's going to touch some very specific areas. Today, you might go back. You might, you most definitely can go back with a healing. That could be physical. It could be emotional. It could even be spiritual. If someone's. Experienced pain, even spiritually, I believe there is healing today. So Come drink, come drink of this living water. So, going to pray for a moment and Get ready. Charge. Get ready for the word. Get ready to hear the voice of God. A man. Yeah, that's free. Heavenly Father, we thank you for this time where you have us in your presence. We are ready? And we are open to your workload. We worship you. We thank you for. The ability Lord to come here today. As we sang their faithful that I gather on the ground today on this Sunday they're faithful Believers gathered underground but we are here. And we can boldly and openly and freely worship you. So we thank you, Lord. Holy Spirit, Come. and, And speak to us, and touch us and heal us and do as you will. We pray for the word and we pray that Lord Jesus. You are blessed and anointed that as it reaches out.

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Morning everybody.

Go to ready? Give me some visual lights but my 7 this morning cuz they building on the front of building on the front. And you think I might not have planned it out. Already bought a box of Lego and I'll sum of all children to make something for me and Lego cuz we're talking about building today. I got asked to that by bringing children to the front so fantastic, fantastic stuff.

I'm talking this morning about building church building Community. My name is slave, and I'm going to kind of lead us through a short sermon today. This is the one Sunday in the month. When the truth is. I know we have some fun together, interesting Lee enough. Let me just mention, this is nice to buy Sunday school, but it's online Sunday school still going on as well. What the hell? so, we talked about building church building Community Building Together who likes building

I just had a week's holiday. I'll be down and call moved as a sandy beach in load. It's just sand sand sand and sometimes I am known known amongst my family and some of our friends as well as the sand castle Builder. When do I get to the beach? I get the spider and I got a big spider in a little plastic, I mean a proper spite cuz I'm not just building a little sign car, so I'm building a big sign Castle. I want to see a big sign, so I mean, this high My objective is to build a pile of signs. So when the tide comes in the children who were with me, notice the children were with me. It's not just for me the children who are with me stand on the sand castle and they can see the sea come in and he can come in at can slowly washed the palace, on the way until I get to that moment when the adults have to help them. Because you sound so deep around, once the San Carlos Apaches, they're going to get wet. I think, I'm mommy, daddy. Uncle Daddy. Please help. I love Peaches. I love you too. And I hope you love Fielding too because you know what we are building. Gordy's Beauty. In our midst, are our faces in the room that I don't recognize. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Recognize you as soon as new people joining us online, I can see people joining us today from Turkey from Italy. I'm from Sweden with some countries that I know these this morning. So I just Amaze what God is doing in our midst, As We Gather I'm Debbie very rightly coming to DIY. I don't know what to call it. Old Nation Nation, where multinational, what is not business? But we are multi-national I'm saying to somebody the other day. I said, you know what? I think we probably about 20 to 23 different nationalities. If you aren't a whole lot of different groups and he said, well, how big yet notify say, yes. I'm so, let me judge me into building community in building Church, in Acts 2:38 and 36 of them repentance. And let everyone of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the holy spirit for the promise, is to you and to your children. And to all those are far off as many as our Lord. God will hold you know, when we get our eyes off stuff on on God, and his son, Jesus spective changes

You know, the spective Austin changes if if if I'm if I post something if I hold my hand up in front of my back I have to move back so that I get a different perspective, I travelled into London and number of years ago, now I'm sitting in Waterloo Station was a gentleman who had a piece of cardboard in front of me. So please give I need food. You know what, I thought I could have put some money in his pull, but the first thing I had time, I had a nice pair of trousers on the night shift, like I have to die, but I had time, I got you. Think my knife is nothing? I said today.

But I decided to stop and I decided to stop and sit down next to him. I sent down next to him on the bridge near Waterloo Station. I sat down next to him so I join you for a few minutes if that's okay.

He said people don't like knowledge is, I don't look at you, they just walked past him.

Is that people post on the preacher? People didn't even when I looked up people didn't look at me. And why is he sitting on the floor? Why is he asking for money? Do you know what everybody just walked past? Just didn't even acknowledge, and I saw how challenging is that, how challenging is that every person walking past, just ignore in, in, in the heart on the guitar bag that you had there even though you put money and didn't look at him? I struggle here.

Jesus loves all of us.

Not just those, who would coach? Cuz we all get things wrong. I'm going to put my hand out and say, I got things wrong from time to time. Do you get things wrong from time to time? Do things, so good. But there are certain things I probably done in the last month, I would not want on the screen in front of you right now. Maybe if somebody, maybe I got crossed, maybe I said something. But you know, we all do things wrong. I want me to sings wrong. It gets in the way and all relationships. Just think about if you said something to somebody and it didn't quite come out. I mean saying it you think you kind of want to put the Woods back in again you know those bubbles in in comics. Yeah, you almost want to take the Bible and squeeze it back in again.

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That's right, but right, we're not perfect. And that's none of us. None of us are perfect. That's why we need God's help. We need to go tell when we get it wrong to say I'm sorry and he made a way for all wrongdoing, his son Jesus. We just celebrated Easter his son, Jesus went to the cross and die to pay the price for you and me. So that for the wrong doing the we have that is a solution. It's not about me being good. Are you being good? It's about Christ God's son being good.

And we raise here and ask for the promises for you and your children, your having Christian parents doesn't make you a Christian Job. Everybody needs to come to a Full Stop in the Christian absolutely, but we need to get to a place where we choose for ourselves Jesus as Savior, but there is a promise, is a promise. On in Acts chapter 21, verse 41 and 42. Then those who'd gladly received his word were baptized and that day that we're about three thousand Souls added to the church and they continued and steadfast in the apostles Doctrine and fellowship in the breaking of bread and the Press. Enterprise matter. I think prayer is something we should look at you that I thought maybe we get a PhD or now you level up in prayer, we just ready to run. It was great to see the children start service off. I will willing to make a few mistakes swollen joints like my humor especially in the world of online now because he's recorded forever. We had some, we had some technical challenges this morning. I think you still got some technical challenges.

But I want to show that we real. I want to show that we're not perfect. We don't get it quite right because for me as soon as we mobile Perfection, then we start to do things like people said, well I come through that I called you about that. Well, And we continue and steadfast prayer in the breaking of bread. Communion is important part of journeying together building together. That's why we take communion on the regular prices.

Reading further on in Acts chapter 2, and then fear Came Upon every So Many Wonders and signs with them through the apostles. Something going on there. 3,000, 3,000 people. We have to take the speakers that we got in the fine. We have to go out to the car park. Charging for it now. So

lots of spice, baby. baby got back to the car park, so that we can We need to listen to this building on Ball and Motors every Sunday. No. And we have elastic rules because we do this online so we are not limited by the number of chairs in the room. I'd just like you to imagine if we said actually you can only come to church once a month now and has the ticket for you to come to otherwise join us online. Just imagine not just imagine that because you know, if you go to something you really want to go to you, booked weeks or months ahead to think of a concert. You'd love to go to think of a constant, you to love to go to think of the ticket. Years ahead. If you have to cuz you really want to go, I sense that God is moving in our midst. He's going to, I'm surprised going to move by his holy spirit. That will be here. So somebody's sick today, we're going to give some spice for praying for those people who say we got to do something amazing. Incredible. Scripture says God is able to do an immeasurably more than we ask or imagine. How big is your imagination? Is it as big as it looks big? Is it is big. Immeasurably more. That means more than we can measure. Now, I'm pretty good at measuring in feet and inches school, but me, just with you as well. And I saw you, I could measure Remix by 5 basis. Reasonably accurately. Adult says he's able to do a measurably more than we ask or imagine.

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So what should we do as rebuilding community in one pizza to buy 17, it says his treat. Everyone you meet with dignity love in your spiritual family Review, called and respects the government. The worlds in 2024 will go through in the election over, half the world's population will see a new or maybe a repeat of a mini. A lot of people concerned about the government

And I think so many people had, I'm not the government. I'm not talking about politics and I'm just talking about, we don't like what we currently are. So we want a change and I'm not trying to get politically, I'm just saying actually, scripture says, respect those who govern you, some of the rules the rules, but that's all opportunities that I study with, and tool and is being around election time. Often said, okay, are you voting They said to me. Oh no. I don't see the point in fighting. I said it's the one thing you do have that gives you the power to make a difference. And I said to be honest, if you're not willing to vote, then I'm not willing to listen to your political opinion cuz it's the one thing that you got. You can do something with we might feel powerless with might be in the majority, I don't know, those kind of things, but the one thing I could do, And you know what? When we don't do, the one thing that we can do that, we become the same powers.

Prayer. Every one of us can try. We don't need a PhD in praying. We can just pray God help me

Didn't take a lot of thinking about wasn't difficult, wasn't challenging. Don't come cuz he's hired a man or woman of Faith by God do something. So why I encourage you, why you for our government, pray for the governments around the world, they will change. Treat everyone. You meet with dignity. I was in the shop earlier on this week, busy place down in Como, I held it in the door to the shop cuz there was a few people behind me. The first person who didn't even look at me next bus, I think, is about four or five maybe six people to walk through. No one even acknowledge me, know it's at. Thank you for holding the door open. So as I walk through the door,

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yeah, I know all the time we ignore one another with basically saying you don't matter You know, we live in the world. Now we're looking people in the face is becoming more and more rare.

Gen Z and I'm not picking on genzee, but as an example of seems to some statistics, like I don't want to pick up the time.

I want to pick up the phone to send you a text message or SnapChat or Instagram.

I stood talking face-to-face. I saw this in the restaurant, the other about 3 weeks ago, a group of young people, young adults sitting around the table. They were having a meal together and they were on that and then they roared with laughter. And I heard them talking and then I said, oh yeah and I just shared something amongst them, people around the table. You could talk. I know it sounds revolutionary but you could choke. Love your spiritual family. This is church. This is just one of us could meet. I'm having coffee and I know there's something. I tried to have a copy with four weeks and we have managed to do it yet, but it will happen. It will happen. Treat everyone with the lunch, the Second Sunday of the month. We have a lunch account. Tell me what's going to be said cuz I don't know. It's just surprise. You might be chilly.

With cheesecake.

I just love diversity the gathers around the mail when we celebrate together. So, when we get together, the first people to eat, will be the cast.

to be honest, in my family, when I was younger, we had a principal with fhb, Anybody know what? F h, b stands for

Family, hope fight often you have more people around the table than you cook full. Family. Health Spot, gas first. And some of, you know, I used to teach your Papa New Guinea and because I was the only white man in some of the villages, I have to walk into a whole group of people that were supposed to story now. I hope it won't spoil your lunch, so I used to travel on medical trips when we go somewhere with the boat with line within walking line with the village with gather for the evening. And then the next morning, there will be a medical clinic. My job is to white babies. I have white thousands of babies in my life when two particular years. But anyway, in this particular Village, they built a dam up in the mountains and I put a pipe in from the dam to the Centre of the village of the top, in the middle of the street to the Village. I had fresh water whenever they needed. No matter what you think about, but buckets, I was reminding, anybody's ever had a bucket. I did not realize.

But in this particular no place to hang a bucket and I had the top on the shower head over the top, and I had to buy a new cutting that went around the top. So anybody who wants to stand in the middle of the village. Pull the bamboo cutting around them, half a shower and then go away. Now, there I was in the middle of a ditch with a cut and run having a shower.

I know, I wasn't sure what was going on, that miserable, because I've never seen a white man before I want you to know. Where do you go white all over?

Treat everyone with respect to treat everybody. In bum Festival in chapter 4 accessories, and indeed, you do so towards the Brethren who are in Macedonia, but we are cheap that you increase more and more encouragement. Increase our capacity to share with one another increasing our flexibility to be responsive.

We live in a world where our lives are run by Doris. We can often find imagination.

What's the first thing you do? You get your phone or your thyroid out and you go that's fine today. When we couldn't make it two or three of you, okay, three weeks time. Okay.

What about now? How about a copy? Now, it might not be for a long. Of time. We can do 20 minutes now. I think this is just a great opportunity to be spontaneous and grab the little moments that you have. I need to play with someone, I'm outside. Okay, let's make an appointment, or I could say next Friday. Now, about 2 minutes. Now, I can pray for 2 minutes. Doesn't need a 30 minute prior to minute try and pull goes on in his letter to the Ephesians to say this. Now, therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizen with the Saints and members of the household of God, having being built on the foundation of the Apostles and the prophet. Jesus Christ himself being the Cornerstone.

I think it's probably a couple of decades ago and I saw it shows you when that was still at 8, to try to bring time into flats and houses. Now, what are the students who joined us? That was from gum? Anytime. And he spent a year with us while she was studying and when we came to the end of this year here in egham, We had a summer barbecue, not just for him, but we had a summer barbecue. And we were saying, farewell, I need quotes, scripture. He said I felt like a foreigner on a stranger. You made me. Welcome you. Welcome me in. I'm at Hope Church that you feel. Welcome to type this thing online. Even if you had technical problems with sound, you are able to feel welcome today because we are members of the household of God knows members of the household of God to reach out to someone to do something on the British now with permission. So time to someone, you don't know, me, you just say, is it okay, if I touch you, I'm not going to ask you to touch me inappropriately but please, maybe you want to put your hand on the shoulder. Maybe you want to shake hands? Just tell someone right now. Those aren't home. Just say hello or safe Racing 2.

Okay, now my experiments my experiment so it's a lot of touching that's going on. I believe I paid for mobiles because it move it. You still see people wearing most, you still see people having using sanitizer. But you know what, that's what you need to do. That went to a church during Kobe's not this church by 10. I was greeted with. What kind of bugs would you like, sir, I said, do I need to worry about? You said yes you can hug or no, I don't want hugging or please ask those with the three batches. They were three different colors. Would, you know, what, why do I need a badge to say whether I want to hug one, look at you and say, would you like a hug? What would you like to say? *

I asked the Hulk and Joe to take some of the Lego that I bought to check. Legos are great, example of building something. These are the two things they built me.

Heart built me this now you might think it's just a little sour, but she said she said, Jesus turned water into wine. So she said, I made this little Tower as a memorial to, Jesus turns water into wine.

Mentos built me and I do isn't my first response was a seat for Jesus biblical. The Bible says as we worship we build a throne on a little child in our mix Bill to throw things that we bring as an offering I want. Bright is too much though. But he said

this is a And then when this goes this artist and the song for The Stand and then Jesus needs any help. This comes a man is Jesus. Thank you, though.

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So I thought you just got home. Those twisting lights, are those in the room? Like us to close our eyes. I don't want to make this really, really, really personal. First thing I want to do is this first thing I want to do is this I want to see if you have a need right now. I'm not talking about you like a a new suit or God knows all needs from from my walls. Maybe there's some bits of you that's not working, quite right? And you need a heating touch. Maybe there's a situation where things are got stuck and blocked. Something needs to get envelopes. Maybe you need a breakthrough in a certain area that they said, it seems to be a mountain or a wall in front of you.

I'm not going to ask you anything about any license, cuz God knows your situation, but I'm going to ask you to take a step of faith. I'm not stepping fights will be this. Simple, if you haven't need the specific for you, right now, what you just stand where you are. Tony said he's able to do multinational, God is able to multi, people able to do multi healing but he's able to do multi miracles. Just cuz you've got a different situation to somebody else in a different role. Still able to deal with this stuff. So if there's something that you'll bring you before. If we had an Oldsmobile to the frontier and he said I'm coming with a scratch on coming with this request.

Then I'm going to ask you this time where you are looking to ask you anything about Steve knows about that stuff. We're going to pry quite a few people standing there waiting for those as well. Well those who were watching online if you need no one else is going to see you. But don't see that you met Lord help me. You're reaching out in this moment so I can God help me. You know, I just sense the presence of God right now. Even if I'm talking, even as I'm asking even as I'm declaring God, he's that close. He's not close. Some people, you just need to come to gently. Nobody else needs to even notice, but you hand out a sense, the father's time since the father's since Christ's grip of your hand. As the song says, put your hand in the hand of the man who stilled the waters. Is a miracle working God. We're going to pray right now. It's okay. If we come before you as your people, in this place, your church in this moment and we're asking for now, we are asking for healing. Lord, God father, would you bring the Liberty to the joints of the stock Lord? Would you bring a cleansing to deliver the not working? Father would you adjust the Hopi? No. Would you bring balance? And Rhythm and synchronicity so the heart logo. That is not bitching. Quite right father. I pray for strength and muscle in both joints of the stalking to me. Father, I pray for increase heart muscle increased capability. Phone number to pray for a Readjustment and a realignment of mines. Father, would you release? Blockages in the mines, wrong mindset slow Godfather. Would you let? Would you release fresh thinking? So those mines that need a fresh touch? Scripture says by the renewing of our minds. Be transformed. I'm praying for transformation to dial God.

Animal surprise north of pipe would I see one or two bits of paper that I sat on a Dusty desk weeks, maybe even months. Play some things got stuck in the process and I just sent the father.

Brings a notch. Piper's get resulted in Sudley, the paper. That was in the bottom that hasn't been seen for weeks and months is now on top ready to be processed and released to die in Jesus time. Nobody asked me Prineville. I'm trying to gather with the church know. We coming to you with all needs and we're asking you to do, miraculous things that you confirm it, you release it. As we worship with you, I'm going to ask you to sit down again. Now, for one more thing, I'll be selfish if we're not in a good place, then we struggle to be in a good place to share with others. If our minds and our heads are full of struggle, and how can we share off? So I'm going to move our Focus now off us on to somebody else. Some of us to go up there friend Somerset, family members who need a breakthrough right now. Right there. If you're standing in the Gap was someone else would you stand again? Yes, I am. But I'm asking you to do it and fight. So Stan again if you need if you want to stand for someone you know who it is. Now Susie is only going to pray for a breakthrough. In those situations we got to pray for healing in those situations and again respond and Bill leave for completed. What we stand to believe for health and wholeness will be standing believe for things. I did not work but now what you got some things that I've got stop. The doctors were talking about bringing medicine and jump starting something but father. Kill the snake jump. Stopped, some biological processes in beings and bodies that we standing for today. Father, I pray for the new job. Someone's just apply for I pray for that provision, I pray that that would bring the funds that past is looking for. You looked at your empty past week after week for a few months now and this is your friend, not you, you look to that empty Playbook to the empty purse. I'm a reply to that and they believing in God I pride and what you like to do, you do interviews and that be a finally. I pray for those who are far from God, those the Weeping crying out to weeping crying out to

I've been crying out for the lady would come to know the Jesus that we not father. I pray that you would whisper in that. Are you give us an opportunity by Lorde post into 10? From the novel, I'm walking. You why? Following Jesus.

Play. Father, we bring all these price to you and me slide. Let your kingdom come. Not your will be done on Earth as it is in heaven. Hey, boss. Today, I'll tidy Pratt. Forgive us, our sins as we forgive those who sinned against us lead us not into temptation but Deliver Us from Evil. For thine is the kingdom, the power and the glory forever and ever. Almond. Please do take your seats. We're going to come back to a time of Welsh. It

overwhelmed by the presence of God during this time of prayer.

I believe that we're going to hear things that are changed. We're going to see. We're going to hear testimonies in the following days, we maybe go to something that we've prayed for