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  1. We Are One church. We love God love.

  2. People love his mission and love his church.

  3. Welcome to the one Church podcast.

  4. Hello and welcome to the one Church podcast.

  5. My name is Chris and wherever you're joining us from today.

  6. You are very welcome. In Philippians 1 verse 6, we

    Philippians 1:6

  7. read this that he who began a good work in, you will carry it

  8. on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

  9. Let me encourage you today that this is true for you as an

  10. individual is true for us as a church.

  11. That whatever God has started in us, he will bring to completion.

  12. He will finish what he has started.

  13. So for, maybe there are some areas of your life where you've

  14. seen the beginning of something, hold on to the promise, that

  15. whatever he has started. He will always finish.

  16. Today's, message comes from Pastor David recorded yesterday,

  17. Sunday, the second of April, at our city site, enjoy on

  18. Thursday, I flew back from a conference in Europe and two

  19. things happened on the plane. The firstly, I listen to and

  20. enjoyed last week's. One Church podcast in which

  21. Philippa from the OB site Spokane, in the beginning of a

  22. message. She Talked about the Tooth

  23. Fairy, it's the level of the ode be site and she talked about the

  24. fact that the burst or Tooth Fairy.

  25. We're me Miranda. That's me and Susan, live pays

  26. more for any child's tooth that's removed than anywhere

  27. else. And I wanted to just say, for

  28. any of you heard that in our defense, No One Believes In the

  29. Tooth Fairy just want to make that clear.

  30. But have you seen how amazing our granddaughters are?

  31. How can we not give at least two pounds?

  32. Pounds per tooth. In fact, in fact, it can have up

  33. to half my kingdom but don't tell them, but you would not

  34. believe how many teeth fall out on a Monday.

  35. I think some of them are held in and brought out on a Monday.

  36. So that two pounds appears, the second thing was meeting a

  37. prophetess on the plane and this is a lady I've heard of for

  38. many, many years, who carries a worldwide prophetic Ministry and

  39. she wandered down the front of the plane and she appeared at my

  40. shoulders. She said there's a seat next to

  41. me. Would you like to come and sit

  42. down next to me, and I'll give you a word from God.

  43. That's cool. So here, what we wondered down

  44. and I got my plate and that we were circling, he's throwing

  45. about to land and we landed as she was giving this world.

  46. It was very, very quite dramatic for me but I recorded it on my

  47. phone and I wanted to just read you a few of the Things She Said

  48. and some of it was private but I want to read you some of what

  49. she said to me. I want you says, you.

  50. She means me and she means our house.

  51. I created you for the missions impetus I have made you to be

  52. one that raises those and sends those to the nation's.

  53. And the Lord says that at the end of the day, the Declaration

  54. will be that this house will be known for its sending anointing

  55. and Nations being impacted and changed because of that which

  56. was sent to them. And so the spirit of God says I

  57. will provide great man power and great financial power for that

  58. which has the ability to be given away to the many.

  59. This is already a house of Salvation and a house of growth.

  60. But the Lord says you haven't seen anything yet in the area of

  61. it being a house of healing and a House of Miracles.

  62. And the Lord says, I am bringing that I want to build a Goshen an

  63. area where the light shines when it doesn't shine in Egypt, one

  64. of the definitions of Goshen is that his is a place that is

  65. near. And it felt like the spirit of

  66. God says my promises that this is a place of nearness to me

  67. closeness intimacy and this is the foundation of everything you

  68. do. And I will honor that I now

  69. summon courage. She talked about some other

  70. things that you couldn't possibly have known.

  71. And I was encouraged. We mustn't despise the power of

  72. Prophecy. We love the Bible, we love

  73. encouragement. We love prophetic words today.

  74. In the Bible calendar is Palm Sunday and Jesus is about to

  75. enter the city and the anticipation is dramatic.

  76. Something is about to happen. He saw Jesus passing by.

  77. We I read this morning in John's gospel and it's like this Jesus

  78. is passing by and a moment in history is about to happen a

  79. little later. I'm going to draw some things

  80. out of this passage for our lives specifically but I want to

  81. look at the context and go through the text with you and

  82. we're going to do that piece by piece as they approached

  83. Jerusalem. The disciples in this Whirlwind

  84. of Miracles and walking with Jesus and encountering, God,

  85. doing incredible things. They approached Jerusalem and

  86. the sense of history and prophecy in this moment

  87. colliding is overwhelming everything in Jesus life has

  88. been leading up to this moment. He came for what was about to

  89. happen in Jerusalem. Jerusalem was Jesus, Destiny.

  90. He was always going to end up there at the end of his life.

  91. And at this period, it's completely crowded with

  92. pilgrims. It's surging with people keyed

  93. up with religious expectation. He could not have chosen a more

  94. dramatic time than this, and it could have sneaked into the city

  95. at night, but he enters at the height of activity, because

  96. Jerusalem was his Destiny in that moment and he came to

  97. bethphage on On the Mount of Olives.

  98. Few years ago I stood on the Mount of Olives and tried to

  99. imagine all that happened there. I know some of you have been in

  100. the significance of the Mount of Olives.

  101. What a place did Jesus realize when he walked in but just a few

  102. days later, he would be knelt there just before he was

  103. arrested. Potentially a moment of not

  104. doubt, but vulnerability with the father, where he said, if

  105. it's possible. Can this cup be taken from?

  106. Me but not as I will. But as you will, you know, God

  107. doesn't mind vulnerability in our lives and moments when we

  108. go. I don't know if I can do it but

  109. he wants us to get to the next place but says, I'm going to

  110. trust you whatever. I feel the Mount of Olives will

  111. be the place I believe where Jesus will return.

  112. When he ascended at the book of Acts, the beginning says he will

  113. return the same way you've seen. They were on the Mount of

  114. Olives. I think personally, he'll

  115. literally stand on the Mount of Olives when he returns.

  116. Jesus sent two disciples is so often sent people together, the

  117. two of The Twelve, the 72, the disciples would have walked with

  118. Jesus on their own, but there was also this Paul about being

  119. and doing it together, a continual powerful picture in

  120. the Bible. I'll family and relationship and

  121. Community together. That is what the church should

  122. be, and it's so true for us. He sent the two disciples saying

  123. to Go to the Village ahead of you.

  124. And at once, you will find a donkey tied there with her cult

  125. by her. I love the reality that Jesus in

  126. his devotions in his walk with the father had heard the father

  127. say, by the way, there's going to be a donkey in that place and

  128. these moments happen. So often pictures words of

  129. knowledge impact, it became the norm in my devotions.

  130. This morning Nathaniel, I saw you whilst you are under a tree

  131. and here's the word of the Lord. Add go into the City and at the

  132. time and A man carrying a jar of water will meet you.

  133. Follow him Zacchaeus come down, I know your name come down and

  134. coming to your house. For tea is so powerful.

  135. He can speak to us in the same way in the same way the other

  136. day. This is kind of a miracle.

  137. I'm waiting to see if it truly happens.

  138. But my sister said to me, she lives in Germany with her

  139. husband and they love Jesus. And they walk with Jesus down,

  140. she was in the UK and she said, we've got a bit of Investment

  141. and we'd like to put it into a property in the UK, but we're

  142. not sure how to do it. What do you think I should do?

  143. I know nothing about property. Nothing about Investments and

  144. think I'm a safe Pair of Hands, but I don't know anything.

  145. And so I said to her, well, you know what about the place that

  146. helped us sell mom's house in the village where you lived as a

  147. kid and she was going to go and stay there.

  148. I said, why don't you go in there?

  149. And perhaps is you just say I'm interested in the lady who owns

  150. it will come up to you and say oh, I've just been from a place

  151. where there's a little flat up for sale.

  152. Would you like to look at it? I left it at that the next day

  153. she went into that place. She walked in and said I'm

  154. interested in at that point the owner walked into the business

  155. and said to her o a property I've just come from a flat

  156. that's available. Would you like to come and see

  157. it? She went to see it, put an offer

  158. that offers been accepted and it's going through now.

  159. I'm waiting till it goes through but you see God can speak

  160. through eyes. It was a throwaway comments that

  161. powerful for her untie them. Mm, and bring them to me the

  162. donkeys. And if anyone says anything to

  163. you say to them that the Lord needs them?

  164. Hmm. And he will send them right

  165. away. Now I want to encourage you to

  166. try this with caution as unless the Lord speaks you.

  167. You're going to get arrested. The Lord says, I need that bike.

  168. I'm now stealing from you I've been in Tesco's a couple of

  169. times and you all know the Tesco clubcard gets you money off and

  170. it's on a big set of keys. I've gotten sometimes, I just

  171. take the single car key and I go in there and you got three or

  172. four things and you want to buy them and they've all got money

  173. off and you haven't got your Tesco card.

  174. Has anyone ever done this? Excuse me, you don't know me.

  175. I don't know. You can.

  176. I borrow your Tesco clubcard so that I can get this money off

  177. and you'll get the points. What do you think about that?

  178. Thank you so much and then you take it clink.

  179. Thank you, Sam. Um, anyone done that, give me a

  180. wave. Anyone disgusted, that I've done

  181. it on four or five occasions, I'm really sorry about that.

  182. Like if you need me to kneel down, you're gonna need God to

  183. speak, to you, to say, the Lord needs them, but they went, and

  184. they said, the Lord needs them on the donkey's, came with and

  185. this took place to fulfill. As we go on, in the passage,

  186. what was spoken through, the prophet?

  187. Say to daughter Zion. See, your king comes to you,

  188. Gentle and riding on a donkey. And on a Colt, the foal of a

  189. donkey Jesus was not about to ride into the city on this

  190. momentous. Prophetic moment in pump as an

  191. Earthly Warrior mounted on a horse with a chariot.

  192. He was going to enter in humility on a donkey.

  193. And why was the donkey so important?

  194. Well, first it fulfilled prophecy that have been

  195. prophesied years before in Zechariah that the king would

  196. come in riding, on a donkey. But, secondly, the donkey

  197. symbolizes, peace, and Jesus here at the Prince of Peace.

  198. Coming into this situation that would change our lives and give

  199. us the opportunity of salvation, but he's also showing the people

  200. that he is not the political Messiah, they're expecting it.

  201. Not come to kick the Romans out, he'd come to give his life to

  202. reach people and something different.

  203. And the disciples went and did, as Jesus had instructed them,

  204. such a powerful statement. The disciples went and did as

  205. Jesus instructed them. Honestly, if we all live like

  206. that, life would be more simple. Jesus says I will do.

  207. I've done it would be so much easier.

  208. I know there's a few challenges in the middle of that but it's

  209. such a powerful statement. They played their part and did

  210. what he asked he commanded and they outworked and I think the

  211. disciples began to realize that when they did what Jesus said,

  212. they saw Miracles and breakthroughs and

  213. demonstrations. You know, the masses were Said

  214. go and feed them. The people were healed.

  215. People found faith and so much more simply by doing what he

  216. instructed. Them they brought the donkey and

  217. the colt and placed their cloaks on them.

  218. For Jesus to sit on a very large crowd spread their cloaks on the

  219. road while others cut branches from the trees and spread them

  220. on the road to spread garments in this way on the road, for

  221. them to be trodden on. And then picked up was a royal

  222. honor in the book of 2 Kings. You'll read about Jay, You who

  223. was anointed king and the people took off their garments place

  224. them on the floor so that he could go over them and walk

  225. them. And if they did they declared

  226. Jay, who is King. It was a sign, the king is

  227. coming into the city. People also cut palm branches

  228. and wave them in the air and the palm branch represented

  229. something of goodness and victory.

  230. And was a symbolic of the final Victory.

  231. Jesus was about to win over sin and over death.

  232. With, and that's what was happening.

  233. The crowds? That went ahead of him and those

  234. that followed shouted Hosanna to the son of David blessed.

  235. Is he who comes in the name of the Lord hosanna in the highest

  236. heaven. When the people shouted Hosanna,

  237. they were declaring two things. They were declaring.

  238. Here is the king. And they were saying save now,

  239. which is what Hosanna means. And though, in their own minds,

  240. they were waiting for this Earthly King, they were

  241. declaring Something without them, realizing of God's answer,

  242. you know? Save.

  243. Now blessed is the one who will save.

  244. Now, who comes in the name of the Lord.

  245. And as they shouted Hosanna, they will welcoming the kingdom

  246. of God. When Jesus entered Jerusalem,

  247. the whole city was stirred, love it.

  248. And asked who is this when they were stirred?

  249. They asked, who is this? And the crowds answered.

  250. This is Jesus, the prophet from Nazareth in Galilee.

  251. Wow, the the city, the whole city was stirred and people

  252. asked him receive the answer. This is Jesus.

  253. What happened here in this account that we just looked at

  254. here? That's in all four gospels is so

  255. powerful. The It e is in anticipation of

  256. something happening. Jesus humbly rides in on a

  257. donkey, The Cry of the people. Save now Hosanna the image of

  258. God's answer for the world. And if you read on the anger of

  259. the religious spirit, that wanted to silence the people,

  260. the king of the universe arriving at his place of

  261. Destiny. So powerful, I'm just before I

  262. just draw out some thoughts for us.

  263. Why don't we just try something? Because when you say hosanna you

  264. saying save now so let's just try say hosanna.

  265. Now we're going to set a little bit louder in a minute we're

  266. going to do it over four areas. I'd like you to think about

  267. everyone. You know, that doesn't know

  268. Jesus. When you say hosanna you are

  269. almost prophesying over them save now and you declaring

  270. something. Are you ready?

  271. Just get there. Get there pictures in your mind

  272. right now. Just get them in your thoughts.

  273. Are you ready? 3 2, 1 Hosanna.

  274. I think of your neighbors that live down the street where you

  275. live. Think about people that you

  276. know, don't know, Jesus 3, 2, 1 Hosanna now think about everyone

  277. in leicestershire. That doesn't know Jesus.

  278. That's coming going through Ramadan at the time.

  279. It's perhaps in another religious Festival.

  280. That's perhaps, I have no faith at all gone.

  281. Are you ready? 3, 2, 1 Hosanna.

  282. And what about our country? What about our country and all

  283. the millions of people that live without Jesus.

  284. Three, two, one, Hosanna and what about the world all across

  285. the world? Are you able to prophesy into

  286. all different places around the world?

  287. Maybe seven billion, people of which 45 billion don't know.

  288. Jesus, three, two, one Hosanna, something happened in that

  289. moment Hosanna. It was a declaration of what was

  290. about to happen, but I love this passage because when I read it,

  291. so many things just come out and just speak to me, let me dry.

  292. You statements from this passage as they approached Jerusalem.

  293. Keep walking in the plan that God has for you.

  294. The greatest thing you can ever do with your life is to walk in

  295. his will to set your sights on keeping Jesus at the center of

  296. everything and simply listening to his voice as he directs you,

  297. firstly Through the Bible and then through other believers

  298. around you and then through prophecy and through the body of

  299. Christ to trust him with everything Jerusalem.

  300. Is the Father's plan for Jesus, you know, keep in his plan for

  301. your life and if you've drifted if you've you know this morning

  302. if you drift a little the great thing about Jesus is the grace

  303. that comes with faith in him, make some adjustments and come

  304. back. If you just drifted into some

  305. things which you know we're not helpful if even last night there

  306. was some areas that weren't helpful.

  307. Make some decisions right now. Reset Your spiritual navigation

  308. and come home. Keep walking in the plan of God

  309. for you. But then this phrase go to the

  310. Village ahead of you. Go to your village ahead of you.

  311. You have influence in the village ahead of you.

  312. Your family and neighbors, where you live your workplace?

  313. Yes, he may lead you somewhere else.

  314. But before you go somewhere else, make sure you are focused

  315. on the village ahead of you, where you can make a difference

  316. by how we live our lives, by how we speak to others and how we

  317. speak about others by our Liability a timekeeping

  318. faithfulness, kindness stopping for the one.

  319. These things are so important, he said go to the Village ahead

  320. of you. Well, what about go to the

  321. Village? Ahead of you, where you should

  322. be, what's your village? That means this Easter invite

  323. somebody here. Next week to be in the house to

  324. hear the gospel, send a message of Hope to somebody this week

  325. that Jesus is Alive and you're praying for them bake, a cake

  326. for somebody and get it--and in your village of influence as

  327. somebody. How can I pray for you?

  328. It's what there's always an interesting response in people's

  329. lives, but very rarely will, people say I don't want you to

  330. pray for me. Thirdly, just the phrase, the

  331. Lord needs, then of the donkey's.

  332. Well remember the Lord needs you?

  333. I love this scripture from Chronicles, where is prophesied.

  334. He said the eyes of the Lord range throughout the Earth to

  335. strengthen. Those whose hearts are fully

  336. committed to him. God's eyes scanning the world.

  337. Sees, everybody whose hearts are committed to strengthen them in

  338. that moment. I think you can use that verse

  339. to say strengthen me now, Lord, but remember the Lord needs you.

  340. Be a fully devoted, passionate follower of, Jesus love him with

  341. all your heart, serving with everything you have love the

  342. Bible. Pray for others.

  343. Give of your resources to God through one church, and to the

  344. poor, play an active part in this site here, serving making a

  345. difference being on time. Being an example of the heart of

  346. what we are, make your life available for the king to use.

  347. I believe we're approaching a season as a church that's going

  348. to require all of us. The phrase that's been alive and

  349. then I'll share something at the beginning of June to the whole

  350. church for months until the Harvest for months in the next

  351. 16 plus weeks to get ready for what God wants to do in

  352. September. As we open our new site,

  353. renovated in the center of Leicester.

  354. As we Press On Again, in all our other sites here at the Music

  355. Cafe in bronston in, At Beaumont Lee's in OB.

  356. Pressing out believing God to see a harvest.

  357. We need to get ready. The Lord needs you?

  358. There's a requirement of you and a call from God for you to play

  359. your part in the Harvest when it was Harvest Time.

  360. Everybody got involved. Everybody did their part.

  361. We're going to need mums and dads that are ready to nurture

  362. new Christians. We're going to need more people

  363. to open small groups in their homes to provide community.

  364. And care and love inspiration and Outreach in a home, we're

  365. going to need more people to step up and say I'm available

  366. with my life. It's so important when I was

  367. looking at this passage. I came to this phrase.

  368. See your king comes to you. The king is returning.

  369. I've heard more talk recently about the return of Jesus than

  370. I've ever known. I believe Jesus is coming again,

  371. and if you've not understood that he will return and however,

  372. it happens every eye on the planet will see him at that

  373. moment. And up to the moment, just

  374. before he returns people. Being married babies are being

  375. born, life will be continuing as normal.

  376. It'll just be carrying on and then Jesus will return.

  377. And in the middle of dramatic happenings in our world, he's

  378. going to return and everything that you've built in.

  379. A material sense or be left behind, and just, this is why we

  380. shouldn't cling to it too much. I I'll, I love it.

  381. I love my my home and I love where we live, but honestly, I'm

  382. not taking it with me. Friend us.

  383. We came from dust. We return.

  384. Honestly, if you won't take anything with you all that you

  385. have in this world, nothing wrong with an investment and the

  386. pension. And for summer, if you only

  387. younger is nothing wrong in preparing for your future,

  388. that's good. But honestly, it's not the

  389. greatest driver of Our Lives. We're living in the last days

  390. and Jesus is going to come and take us home.

  391. So don't be trapped by the temporary.

  392. Don't spend too much time, building.

  393. What will never remain. Keep your gaze up.

  394. I love it. Listen, the king is returning.

  395. See, your king comes to you. Keep your gaze up live for

  396. others, tell as many people as you can.

  397. The message of Grace and Truth in Jesus.

  398. As I read it, I came to this phrase that says the disciples

  399. went and did as Jesus had instructed them.

  400. Do what he's told you to do. I love the Mary's Words which

  401. was so powerful around our vision offering and what, a

  402. dramatic miraculous time that was in our house.

  403. We must not forget that last year, we lived in a number of

  404. truly miraculous steps as a house.

  405. And all we said to people do these words have married, The

  406. Wedding, Banquet, do, whatever, Jesus tells you.

  407. I love that when it comes to giving do whatever he tells.

  408. You just listen to him and do what he tells you.

  409. And telling the story to say, So many of what God did with us

  410. during that period of time was truly amazing.

  411. You know, my heart being moved by the different things that

  412. happened. I want to tell you, listen, we

  413. needed to see a miraculous offering in a time of great

  414. challenge with people, with Rising electric prices and gas

  415. prices, and a cost-of-living restriction in uncertainty,

  416. still after the pandemic, how on Earth, how on Earth could we ask

  417. the people at that time? One of our trustees wrote down

  418. on a piece of paper. He said, I believe we should

  419. believe for 25,000 pounds as a gift sovereignly, given to us

  420. from outside this house. And there we were.

  421. The end of October last year with that beautiful, couple from

  422. Singapore, telling them a story. And I now he because he told me

  423. the story he went, I said, I must go went to the bathroom,

  424. got on his phone, phoned, his mission style director in

  425. Singapore and says I feel I'm talking to this couple, I don't

  426. know, and I feel the holy spirit in pressing on me that we we

  427. should give them 25,000 pounds as a gift towards their building

  428. to encourage their faith. And he came back and he told me

  429. and I tell you that my are so excited.

  430. I got up in this lovely hotel and danced in the room.

  431. And he said to me afterwards, he said I wondered what on Earth

  432. was happening in this moment. I was so moved and coming back

  433. and a release of faith and seeing an offering six times

  434. bigger than we've ever seen in the history of our church.

  435. You know honestly it was a it was a miracle to do.

  436. Whatever he tells you sometimes we've got Claire.

  437. T in life and we know changes to make that he spoke to us about

  438. stop talking about it and do it. Do what he's told you people to

  439. be reconciled with, do it? I felt the Lord speak to me.

  440. Somebody died in the city, and a friend of theirs, who fell out

  441. with me and disappeared, not seen them for nearly three years

  442. and I felt the Lord speak to me that I should be reconciled.

  443. So I cut they're going to a different church.

  444. I contacted their Minister. I said, would you How would you

  445. negotiate and meeting with myself and this person so we can

  446. sit down and just put things right?

  447. And just about 34 weeks ago, I walked down to this other Church

  448. led by a leader. I love and respect and we sat

  449. together and the person was a little bit awkward.

  450. And eventually we said, well what shall we do?

  451. And I said to him well for anyway, I got it wrong with you,

  452. forgive me, and he said, well for anyway, I got it wrong with

  453. you, forgive me. And we stood up in this in this

  454. church and we embraced for a long time, kingdom of God comes

  455. and and then I come back home. Because the Lord spoke people

  456. you need to be reconciled with challenges to embrace.

  457. Do it people to tell about Jesus get on with it?

  458. What to do with your resources, sort it out.

  459. I sat in a missions offering just three weeks ago.

  460. I've never seen anything like it.

  461. These quiet, quiet Asian people. Thousands of them sat in a room

  462. quietly, giving 8 million pounds for Mission, and it was almost

  463. silence in the hall and me on the front row.

  464. And I'm, I'm noisy with my hands raised shouting in this meeting

  465. because I've never seen anything like it, moved by the generosity

  466. of to give away. Do what he's told you sometimes

  467. we're not sure. We'll ask for help but it's time

  468. to Simply do what? He's told, you let your Hosanna

  469. sound. Those that followed shouted,

  470. Hosanna to the son of David. Just a few weeks ago, I listened

  471. to a maandag, humid Mills, and evangelist from Ghana who

  472. travels, throughout Africa, through their campaigns and

  473. don't get trapped by the Numbers.

  474. They've seen. Just under 1 million people come

  475. to Christ and his vision that he shared with us to reach 100

  476. million. Walls across Africa, through the

  477. power of the gospel and such a humble man in that moment.

  478. And so powerfully story and just last week, sitting with leaders

  479. from 30 different European countries, God's doing

  480. incredible, things across Europe and their Vision to see 100

  481. million people in Europe saved over this these next few years.

  482. And also me carrying my conviction that we're about to

  483. come to a harvest time. And I believe As a church become

  484. thousands of people, you know, and the sensor, well, I want to

  485. raise my Hosanna to say save. Now, I want to lift my voice and

  486. say God here in Europe, across Africa, around the world save

  487. now. And the last thought I was

  488. thinking, was this? It says, when Jesus entered

  489. Jerusalem, the whole city was Stir.

  490. Let's pray that our city is stirred. you know, here people

  491. ask the question, they received an answer Why shouldn't we

  492. believe here in our house and across other churches, that love

  493. Jesus and Love The Gospel, that there shouldn't be a hundred

  494. thousand souls in this next season across are sitting, you

  495. know, on this Easter will be a bit quieter because of basically

  496. things in the city haven't been got together and we don't have a

  497. large venue to gather in. But in a year's time, let's

  498. expect Easter to be a raw in our city next year.

  499. What happened in this account was so powerful.

  500. Listen, The city was in anticipation Jesus humbly, rides

  501. in on Palm Sunday, knowing the cross was before him in on a

  502. donkey, as the prince of peace and the Cry of the people

  503. Hosanna and the image of God's answer for the world, the anger

  504. of the religious spirit, because the king of the universe had

  505. arrived at his place of Destiny and for us just out this same

  506. passage. Let's keep walking in the plan

  507. of God. For our lives.

  508. Stop looking at what he's not saying and remind yourself of

  509. what he's already said. Live in that, go to the Village

  510. ahead of you. It's what he has two disciples

  511. to do. He asks you to do, you have

  512. influenced the squeak probably with dozens and dozens of people

  513. don't forget. It make the most of it, the Lord

  514. needs you just like he needed the Donkey.

  515. The king is returning. Do what he's told you to do.

  516. Let your Hosanna shall. And let's pray.

  517. That the city has stood. Let's Stand Together, shall we?

  518. The most momentous time in the history of humanity?

  519. This was the beginning of it. The next few days the next few

  520. days, as Jesus prepared to go to the cross.

  521. So powerful, you know how dirty this week if you can we're going

  522. to be praying and fasting on Wednesday.

  523. Thursday. Friday will send us Zoom link

  524. out for you to join us at 7:00 in the morning, Wednesday,

  525. Thursday, Friday, if you can. But Wednesday, Thursday, Friday

  526. evening at 7:30, we're going to gather frog Island and pray.

  527. Honestly, if you can come and join us, come and join us.

  528. I want to see, will do you good to miss a meal or to come and

  529. pray? But Lord, we thank you today for

  530. the power of this picture that we've looked at thank you for

  531. the joy of what happened on Palm Sunday.

  532. Look, we're so grateful Jesus that you came in, we so grateful

  533. for the example of humility. We're so thankful that you

  534. fulfilled, the father's plan so that we can be here.

  535. This morning saved by grace and all.

  536. We pray in the same way that Jerusalem was stirred.

  537. All those pilgrims there, all those individuals, how many of

  538. them found you? You that will hear of one day.

  539. But father, we pray that in our city you might come and stir.

  540. We prophesy Hosanna into every part of leicestershire.

  541. In the name of Jesus, let there be a move of the spirit and we

  542. love you and we trust you and we all need Thank you, Pastor,

  543. David for that great message. Let me encourage you to think

  544. about those words this week in the build-up to Easter, or if

  545. you're listening to this later date, let those words continue

  546. to speak to you in the coming days.

  547. As always, if you'd like some prayer or support regarding what

  548. was said, or anything else in your life.

  549. We're always here for you, you can get in touch with us and

  550. details can be found on our website.

  551. Now, it's time to hear a little bit about what is coming up in

  552. church life. This is your family news for

  553. you. Firstly, our next newcomers is

  554. on Thursday, the 27th of April at 7 p.m. at 12 frog Island.

  555. So if you're new to one church or thinking about making one

  556. Church your home but this date in your diary and also send us

  557. an email to let us know that you're going to come, these are

  558. great times to meet the leaders here, some of the vision of the

  559. church and to find out how you can play your part and find your

  560. place here at one Church. Secondly, this week, we have

  561. three days of prayer and fasting from Wednesday.

  562. The 5th to Friday. The 7th of April, will be

  563. meeting in the morning at 7 a.m. on zoom.

  564. And in the evenings at 7:30 at 12 frog Island for times of

  565. worship and prayer together, do join us where you can as we call

  566. on God together, Thirdly on Friday at 6 p.m. we have a good

  567. Friday family. Communion this will be a 1 hour

  568. service so come along as we look to the cross and remember.

  569. Jesus. Incredible sacrifice.

  570. And finally this Sunday is Easter Sunday, so come and join

  571. us as we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus.

  572. And the fact that he is alive, and why not bring someone with

  573. you. We have Gatherings at our

  574. Central sides at 9:30. And 11:30, our city site at a 11

  575. are Bronson sites at 11 and are owed besides at 10:30 and

  576. details of the locations can be found on our website.

  577. We'd love to welcome you and your guests to any of these

  578. times. And that is your family News 4.

  579. The Lord bless you and keep you the Lord.

  580. Make his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.

  581. The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.

  582. The Lord bless you and keep you the Lord.

  583. Make his face shine upon you, and be gracious to you.

  584. The Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.