All Nations Church Bedford

Richard Eaton shares from 1 Thessalonians 5:16-24.

Today we give thanks for the birth of Jesus, Emmanual, the real reason for Christmas   ***FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE*** https://www.allnationsbedford.org/ https://live.allnationsbedford.org/   ***GET IN TOUCH*** https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

Matt Dent continues our look through the book of Exodus, this week highlighting the Ten Commandments. PRAYER REQUESTS If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ https://live.allnationsbedford.org/ GET IN TOUCH https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

This week Richard Eaton takes us through the wilderness again as we continue to explore Exodus 16. ***PRAYER REQUESTS*** If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 ***FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE*** http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ https://live.allnationsbedford.org/ ***GET IN TOUCH*** https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

This Sunday Richard Green is sharing from Exodus 16. PRAYER REQUESTS If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ https://live.allnationsbedford.org/ GET IN TOUCH https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

This Sunday we have Ginny Green sharing from Exodus 15, the song Moses sang after being saved from the Egyptians and making their way through the Red Sea. PRAYER REQUESTS If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ https://live.allnationsbedford.org/ GET IN TOUCH https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

Dan Cuzon continues our series going through the book of Exodus looking at Exodus 14: 21-31. PRAYER REQUESTS If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ https://live.allnationsbedford.org/ GET IN TOUCH https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

This week we have Ian Riches continuing our series through Exodus looking at Exodus 14 and the need to stand firm on the promises of God; especially when all around seems to falling down or closing in. ***PRAYER REQUESTS*** If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 ***FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE*** http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ ***GET IN TOUCH*** https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

This week we have Josh Rattu continuing our series through Exodus looking at Exodus 12 and the preparation of the Passover. ***PRAYER REQUESTS*** If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 ***FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE*** http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ ***GET IN TOUCH*** https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

We continue our journey through Exodus, the story of God rescuing His people from slavery and oppression, delivering them into His glorious freedom. Not just to be free, but freed for purpose as His treasured sons and daughters through whom He will bring salvation and deliverance to all nations. And we are caught up in that story. This message focuses on the end of the plagues and particularly the plague on the firstborn. But what is the purpose of these plagues? (Exodus 7 - 12) The Nile turned into blood; frogs, gnats and flies; plagues on livestock, boils on bodies, hail that kills cattle and destroys buildings; locusts that decimate the harvest; darkness so thick you can feel it; death so widespread that every household knows that the angel of death has passed over. What’s going on? ***PRAYER REQUESTS*** If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 ***FIND OUT MORE ABOU

Richard Eaton takes us through Exodus 7 as the first of ten plagues are sent upon Egypt and God turns the River Nile in a river of blood. ***PRAYER REQUESTS*** If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 ***FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE*** http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ ***GET IN TOUCH*** https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

We pick up the story this week in Chapter 5 of Exodus as an 80-year-old Moses is tending to his sheep when the Lord appears to him and calls him to return to Egypt to lead his people out of slavery. Moses takes some convincing but does agree, and with his brother, Aaron takes on the task of freeing the Israelites. ***PRAYER REQUESTS*** If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 ***FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE*** http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ ***GET IN TOUCH*** https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

We continue our series this week journeying through the book of Exodus where we see God freeing His people from slavery and oppression and calling them and shaping them to be His lights to whole world. This talk we are focusing on Moses, perhaps the greatest leader found in the Old Testament. ***PRAYER REQUESTS*** If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 ***FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE*** http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ ***GET IN TOUCH*** https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

What better way to stand against the threat of Covid than to be reminded through scripture of a God who never flinches or changes His mind. And we’re going to do exactly that for the next few weeks by diving head first into the book of Exodus. Our new series is unashamedly called ‘Let My People Go’ and this week Richard Eaton has the privilege of kicking things off for us. ***PRAYER REQUESTS*** If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 ***FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE*** http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ ***GET IN TOUCH*** https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

Today we get the privilege of sharing with you a little of what we feel the Lord is saying to us as we look ahead. This would normally be part of our yearly Vision Sunday, but we felt it was more appropriate to bring a sense of some next steps we feel the Holy Spirit is prompting us to take as we begin the term ahead. ***PRAYER REQUESTS*** If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 ***FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE*** http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ ***GET IN TOUCH*** https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

In this talk we set our focus on giving thanks to God. We get to see how over the last few months God has enabled us to do some amazing things, and perhaps, more than ever, we need to do this as we walk through this disorientating and in many ways disruptive days. Giving thanks to God is an invitation for us to come back Him and to centre our life once more on His goodness and mercy. It's not just thanking Him for the stuff we get; it's celebrating who He is and honouring Him as the Creator and Lord of all things. As is says in Psalm 100: 4-5, "Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name. For the Lord is good and His love endures forever; His faithfulness continues through all generations." ***PRAYER REQUESTS*** If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 ***FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE*** http://www.allnationsbedfor

The times and seasons are in God’s hands, the skies and waters obey Him; we do not look at the mess that the world is in as those with no hope or those with no faith; our faith is in an all-knowing, all-wise God and we are called to rise up. John Ortberg says ‘ when human beings shrink God they pray without faith, worship without awe, serve without joy, suffer without hope and the result is a very bad life of stagnation and fear. Different people will identify with different characters in the story of David and Goliath, like the brother Eliab who puts David down to make himself feel better, Goliath who intimidates and hurts, like the fearful Israelites in lockdown but maybe who we should identify with most are the Army who recognise their desperate need of a saviour, a champion to save the day. We are not called to defeat death, overcome our fears, fix our sin we can’t no matter how hard we try but Jesus did and because of this we can rise up for the glory of God and play our part in what He has called us to.

This passage we're looking at this week was written by Peter, the same Peter who in His fear denied Jesus 3 times. At that time he had become a broken man, having lost faith in himself and in Jesus and yet when he wrote this he was a man transformed, living on the margins of society, facing the possibility of persecution, and even eventually he would be crucified upside down. So what transformed Peter? What helped him to triumph in the fire? The resurrection of Jesus – this is where his hope came from, this is what allowed Him to triumph in the fire. ***PRAYER REQUESTS*** If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 ***FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE*** http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ ***GET IN TOUCH*** https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.instagram.com/allnationsbedford/ https://twitter.com/allnationsbeds

Prayer should be a massive part of how we react when we are fearful, even Jesus made time alone with His Father in prayer a priority in His life. He knew that when you are completely alone with God you can speak to Him honestly and from the depths of your heart. In these verses of Matthew 14:22-32, it is His closeness to God that allows Him to walk on water and encourage Peter to do the same, but Peter allows His fear to take over and things start to go wrong, he panics, but even in this place as he cries out ‘Lord save me’ Jesus reaches out His hand to him. No matter how we feel, no matter what state we have got ourselves into, even in our fear, doubt and mess as we reach out in prayer, Jesus hears the cries of our heart and responds. ***PRAYER REQUESTS*** If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 ***CHAPTERS*** 00:22 Welcome 01:14 Worship 104:23 Welcome & Notices

People who know their God are a people of love, they resist evil, they stand firm and remain courageously loyal to God. God has made promises over His church, our church family and individuals. We are living in testing times, financial instability, fear of sickness, fear of division and fear of an uncertain and unknown future. Times like this refine us, they help to cleanse those who stand firm and true to His purposes. Our desire as a church is to stand firm in Him, we have heard in previous weeks that we need to be real, have a thankful heart, understand His love for us when we position ourselves in this way we are helped to stand firm in the storms. ***PRAYER REQUESTS*** If you have a prayer request please fill out this form and we'll do our best to get back to you. Alternatively, email us 3c@allnationsbedford.org https://forms.gle/FVJCkKz6rQv5RXKg9 ***FIND OUT MORE ABOUT US HERE*** http://www.allnationsbedford.org/ ***GET IN TOUCH*** https://www.facebook.com/allnationsbedford/ https://www.youtube.com/a