Category Archives: Faith

Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever…

1 Chronicles 16:34  (NIV)  34 Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;  his love endures forever.

Hello to  my my WIFI Subscribers, family and friend’s all over the world….   Truly it is a blessing a privilege to be able to rise one more day and write and be able to share the goodness of Jesus with you all.     When I think of the goodness of Jesus and all that he has done for me, my soul cries out hallelujah,
thank God for saving me….

The Sinner’s Prayer -“Heavenly Father, have mercy on me, a sinner. I believe in you and that your word is true. I believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God and that he died on the cross so that I may now have forgiveness for my sins and eternal life. I know that without you in my heart my life is meaningless.

I believe in my heart that you, Lord God, raised Him from the dead. Please Jesus forgive me, for every sin I have ever committed or done in my heart, please Lord Jesus forgive me and come into my heart as my personal Lord and Savior today. I need you to be my Father and my friend.

I give you my life and ask you to take full control from this moment on; I pray this in the name of Jesus Christ.”

Amen.

The Mighty Clouds of Joy,”Sing And Shout”

I believe that Jesus died for us on Calvary, and he paid the ultimate price that I might have life…
He rose with power and victory that we might have life to the tree of life…

 

Oh Give Thanks unto the Lord for he is good – Judith McAllister


Teach me oh Lord….


Psalm 86:11 says: “Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.”.

Sometimes in life as humans, we don’t like to be told what to do or how to do something……  I know as a child growing up, some of things my mother taught me still stand strong in my life today….   I believe when we began to look at teaching at home from  Mom and Dad being your first educators to equip you for the real world called life…..    It’s when we as people stop teaching what Momma, Daddy, Grandma and Grandpa taught us…   I say if it was good enough for them, then it’s good enough for  me….

My Mom has always been a firm believer in Jesus Christ….   I was born into this wonderful name of Jesus and I thank her…   I was born into education, as I was the baby girl and watched my oldest sister which is 11-years-older than I go off to UCLA… The bar was set high in my family, and I’m grateful for such a foundation to know that I can be educated and still lovc Jesus and do it his way… It can be done, and is what I choose to do all the days of my life…

I’m the first to tell anyone that I’m not perfect, but the Jesus in me lets me know that If I do things his way, I can be as close to perfect as it gets in life….    I love the above scripture and it speaks directly to my heart….. It says: Teach me your way, O LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name…  God, today… I’m willing to learn how to listen more, how to love more, how to  have more patience, how to share more in whatever area I can help another person in….     Oh God… Teach me, and know that you have my undivided heart… I give you my whole heart, my whole mind and my soul which my spirit is now like you spirit, and now my ways are like your ways…. In Isaiah 55:8-0 it says : “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. – As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. – “Lord,  as long as my thoughts are like your thoughts, I can see no way that I could go wrong”   Your love is sufficient for me, and I’m so glad that I made it, and I’m thankful for my testimony…..  It may not be like yours, but know that God has been good to me and he continues to see me through….

 Posted by:
Min Evelyn
 Inspired today by: Pastor Marvin Sapp’s motivational moment… He is such a blessing to the body of Christ…

“A Time for Everything – There is a time..


In Ecclesiastes 3 NIV – It say that is A Time for Everything – There is a time..”   Well today, it’s time to spring forward and take back what the devil stole from me…..   I give him no credit, but I do reasuure you that if God allowed it, he can replace whatever it is you lost with something better….  

Some of us, it’s  time for a spiritual renewal, and some of us it’s just time to surrender to God….. I say today, as long as you still have breath left in your body, you still have chance…. Giving your life over to God is not hard, it’s just a matter of opening up your heart and mind and letting him to be your love and Lord of your Life…  Just accept him as your personal savior….  It’s simple and we will talk further on the Roman road later on….

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 “2 a time to be born and a time to diea time to plant  12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13  That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. .|

Ecclesiastes 3 New International Version (NIV)

Ecclesiastes 3  “A Time for Everything”

1 There is a time for everything,
and a season for every activity under the heavens: 2 a time to be born and a time to die,
a time to plant and a time to uproot,
3 a time to kill and a time to heal,
a time to tear down and a time to build,
4 a time to weep and a time to laugh,
a time to mourn and a time to dance,
5 a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,
6 a time to search and a time to give up,
a time to keep and a time to throw away,
7 a time to tear and a time to mend,
a time to be silent and a time to speak,
8 a time to love and a time to hate,
a time for war and a time for peace.

9 What do workers gain from their toil? 10 I have seen the burden God has laid on the human race. 11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet[a] no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end. 12 I know that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to do good while they live. 13 That each of them may eat and drink, and find satisfaction in all their toil—this is the gift of God. 14 I know that everything God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it and nothing taken from it. God does it so that people will fear him.

15 Whatever is has already been,
and what will be has been before;
and God will call the past to account.[b]

16 And I saw something else under the sun:

In the place of judgment—wickedness was there,
in the place of justice—wickedness was there.

17 I said to myself,

“God will bring into judgment
both the righteous and the wicked,
for there will be a time for every activity ,a time to judge every deed.”

18 I also said to myself, “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. 19 Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath[c]; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless. 20 All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return. 21 Who knows if the human spirit rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down into the earth?”

22 So I saw that there is nothing better for a person than to enjoy their work, because that is their lot. For who can bring them to see what will happen after them?
 

Posted by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas  – April 16, 2012

Sermon Entitled: You haven’t gone far enough….

Sunday April 15, 2012 – Empowerment Temple Church  – Dr. Jamal H. Bryant, Pastor

I pray, what God has to say will be expressly what you need him to say.. .I pray it will Speak to your storm, and speak to your struggle…LikeUs
God Is going to put you on fire….     Watch them burn until they catch on fire themselves…. The fire that God put in his belly today, I pray that it transfer….

Scripture Reading: Exodus 14:14-15 New International Version (NIV):14 The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.” 15 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Why are you crying out to me? Tell the Israelites to move on.

Sermon Title:  You haven’t gone far enough….

 

I will insert the video sermon this week….

Notes:

Then Very End of Pastor Jamal’s sermon….
Where did you get satisfied? Where did you stop? Where did you get to the point to say I have more than enough?

Your season for being still is over… we got work to do and loads to lifts… Be strong…. You’ve got stuff you have to accomplish… If the enemy was going to get you, he would have gotten you on yesterday… Aint no stopping me now… I have to move on it today!!! I want to pray that you don’t get stuck or satisfied…

I don’t want you to let people convince you that you have enough stuff… I want you to get to the point where you don’t need the praise of other people…

Some of us are greedy and thankful know that there is more for me to aspire and achieve…

God I pray you block everything that have been chasing you… I pray that you know that complacency is not in their DNA…. I pray you wake up with your ideal heavy in your heart… Every time they lift up their hands, remove obstacle… God when you open up this next door, let their whole family become elevated……

I believe by faith that my entire family will be blessed and will walk in his anointing… If your faith is connected to my faith… Drive the devil crazy and give God some Glory…. Lift up your voice…. You are are going to disturb and nerve somebody and say ‘You have not gone far enough…”

I’m afraid we have not gone far enough to get more people saved…. .We have not gone far enough to get some atheist saved…..

You need to get saved…. If you want to go further than you ever thought possible.. I need you to join the church and get right with God…. If you don’t you will never get the full vision that God has for your… If you turn yourself in, God will give you that push to get you to that place…..Come on and meet me at this alter…

I need you to come right where you are….

Notes from one of the viewers Suzlynn Bruton : 

I will insert the video later this week….

I pray each of you have a blessed day… I’m on the move today…….   “I love Empowerment Temple, Baltimore Maryland…”

 

A joyful heart is good medicine, But a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 17:22  A joyful heart is good medicine,
But a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Happy Saturday to each of my WIFI subscribers, family and friends…..Bringing you greetings all the way from Irvine, California….    Today as I awake with a grateful heart, I realized that “A joyful heart is good medicince, But a broken spirit dries up the bones….  Let go, learn to forgive
and let God have his way in your life…. 

Psalm 37:25
I have been young and now I am old, Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken Or his descendants begging bread.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken,
nor his seed begging bread.

Joel 3:10 (NIV) Let the weak say, “I am strong.”  

Proverbs 17:22  A merry heart doeth good like a med icine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

 

Proverbs 4:22 (ESV) 22 For they are  life to those who find them,  and healing to all their flesh.

Exodus 16:23 – And he said unto them, This is that which the LORD hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the LORD: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

Ephesians 4:32 – And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.

Luke 7:47 – Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

Genesis 33:4

“But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept” (Gen 33:4)

Jacob is fervently praying. “Deliver me, I pray, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau; for I fear him, lest he come and attack me and the mother with the children”(Gen 32:11). He dreads the next day when he will see his brother for the first time in twenty years. Like all brothers, Jacob and Esau had quite a history, but theirs included Jacob twice scheming to defraud his brother. Jacob’s fear is not unfounded. His brother had said, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob”(Gen 27:41). Hearing that, Jacob had run for his life, and had prospered in a foreign land. Now he is returning, at the head of a huge caravan, with his four wives and many children. Word comes that Esau is coming to meet him with four hundred men! Jacob thinks quickly and divides the group into two companies in case of an attack. In a final desperate act to assuage his brother’s anger, he “bowed himself to the ground seven times, until he came near to his brother”(Gen 33:3). The moment is tense; what will Esau do? “But Esau ran to meet him, and embraced him, and fell on his neck and kissed him, and they wept”(Gen 33:4).
Finally, gloriously, the grudge was ended!

 

Posted by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas / April 14, 2012

Live in me Jesus…..

Romans 12:5  – So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.

1Corinthians 1:30 –  But of  him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

2Corinthians  5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Good morning to all of my subscribers, family and friends all around the world…   This has been a beautiful birthday week for me….  I’m just thankful that God shines his light on me and gave me the strength to do everything I had a great desire to do…  I feel like I  have accomplished more  items in my life… I use to call it a bucket list, but I since realize that  fulfilling what it is I have great desires to do be fulfilled in my life…  So I’ve renamed the term “Desires”  I love how Nike’s slogan say  “Just do it!”   Whatever it is your heart desires, just do it!!!!

I’m overjoyed and thankful for my wonderful family…. My 9-year-old (Justin)  took me out of  the State of California for my birthday and really  showed me a great time…(still celebrating)…   Also, I am blessed to have gotten the chance to spend some time with my cousin and his family who played for the Chicago Bears not long ago in the 90’s.. He is still a young man, and has such a beautiful family…  I love all my family and I’m thankful that God allowed us to spend time together…  I got another wish that my cousin help come true, and that was to go to Applebees Restaurant which I’ve only seen on T.V. in Southern California…. My wonderful cousin James Dig and his Family showed me a wonderful time on my birthday and some as I write this morning from their beautiful home in Las Vegas They are far and between where I live….  Nevertheless they are all over Vegas and down the 15 freeway.. I do know I will be making some pit stops on the way home today…..

My prayer is that we continue to allow Jesus to live in us that he may get all the glory and honor…. I don’t care where you go, you will always find someone that loves the lord just like you…..   As I said, this has been a beautiful journey that I’ve been on this week and thank God for my son Justin, which really planned a wonderful week unto his glory…

Listen up to the song God gave me this morning….  “Live in me Jesus…  Have your way in me”

Live in me Jesus, have Your way in me ,
for I may be the only Jesus this generation will ever see;
so live in me Jesus and have Your way in me.

Live in me Jesus, have Your way in me (2x).
I’ll be flesh for You Jesus, if You?ll be spirit for me;
so please live in me Jesus and have Your way in me.

I’ll be Your legs to walk,
I’ll be Your mouth to talk,
tell the world through me Lord,
show the world that You love.

“Live in me Jesus, have Your way in me.”

Posted by :  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas – April 13, 2012

 

Lord, help me to hold out……

Proverbs 14:1 The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.
New International Version (NIV)

Good morning to my WIFI Ministries Family and Friends all around the world… Truly I am happy on today… Just thanking God that I can feel his presence no matter where I am…    I just pray right now in the name of Jesus, that he help us to hold out and help us defeat the things in our lives that distracts us from feeling close to God…  I pray right now that every hindrance be used to strengthen and make us better as we rise above every obstacle and circumstance that may be placed in our way…    God,  just help us to hold out, because truly we know that our living is not in vain, and with your help and  your help alone if we ask,  you will help us in whatever area it is that we struggle…  I claim it done right now!!!

I pray that each of you have a blessed day as I am as I celebrate all week long my life and beautiful birthday on tomorrow, April 11, 2012!!!!   Praise him, and yes God is so good!!! I don’t have everything that I want, but I thank God for giving me everything that I need!!!!

– Keep fighting and just hold on!!!

“It aint over until God says it’s over!”    

hold out – a. To have and keep in one’s grasp: held the reins tightly. b. To aim or direct; point: held a hose on the fire. c. To keep from falling or moving; support: a nail too …” Just hold on!!!” 

Posted by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas  April 10, 2012

Holiness



1 Peter 1:13-16
  “Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be ye sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.  As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lust in your ignorance: But be ye holy in all manner of conversation; Because it is written, Be ye Holy; for I am holy.”

2 Peter 1:3-9: “His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness.” (2 Peter 1:3).

 

As I awake on today, I can hear the late Isaiah Bishop’s voice so clearly as he taught so profoundly over the years on “Holiness…”  I will be celebrating my 46th birthday on this year, and I met him when I was 7-years-old, and he was preaching Holiness or hell way back then, and as I became an adult and began to walk on my own two feet, I understand more now that I’ve become a mature adult in Christ…  I did not say perfect, and I make no excuses for random things I might say or do…  Nevertheless, through Holiness, God is working on me and changing my life everyday so that I can become so close to God that I know  he is more than just a friend, he is my Father…..

I know it seems rare that anyone tackles this subject anymore… However, there is a need for this subject to be preached to dyeing world and a new generation that really don’t know that heaven and hell are both real.    I say that hoping that someone would take heed to know that we only get one life to live, and living it in holiness is the only way I know that fulfills every void….

What is holiness?   I”m glad you asked…

Ho·li·ness

The quality or state of  being holy;  sanctity.

holiness

The quality or state of being holy;  sanctity.

Holiness definition:  In the highest sense belongs to God (Isa. 6:3;Rev. 15:4), and to Christians as consecrated to God’s service, and in so far as they are conformed in all things to the will of God (Rom.6:19, 22; Eph. 1:4; Titus 1:8; 1 Pet. 1:15). Personal holiness is a work of gradualdevelopment. It is carried on under manyhindrances, hence the frequent admonitions to watchfulness, prayer, and perseverance (1 Cor.1:30; 2 Cor. 7:1; Eph. 4:23, 24). (SeeSANCTIFICATION.)

When we are born again by the Holy Spirit He, the Holy Spirit, begins to work in us the character of God. No, more than that! He plants in our spirits ‘the divine nature’ of God. We share in His divine nature. (2 Peter 1:3-4).

What is God’s nature? It is His righteousness, His holiness, His patience and comfort and strength. His nature is glorious and believers reflect it in the way they live (2 Cor 3:17-18).

How do we participate in these many aspects of God’s nature. Our fallen nature is exchanged for His nature. Under the Spirit’s direction and control, our fallen nature is reconstituted. Our nature takes on again the originalimage of God which was muddied and spoiled by sin. So Paul could say to the believers at Corinth, “you are new creations in Christ” (2 Cor 5:17).

Our journey through life gives God time and space to remake us “in His perfect image.”

David said, “He makes me lie down in green pastures, He leads me beside quiet waters,” (Psalm 23:2-3). We feast on Him; we drink deeply of His divine nature and we take on the characteristics of our Father in heaven.

Those who drink alcoholic beverages take on the nature of the beverages they drink. Those who drink of the Spirit, take on the nature or fruit of the Holy Spirit “love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self control.” (Gal 5:22-23).

Because our nature is changed to be like God’s nature, Jesus is not ashamed to call us brothers, saying, “Here am I, and the children God has given Me.” (Heb 2:11-13). The writer also said, “Both the One who makes men holy and those who are made holy are of the same family” God’s family. Holiness is the hallmark of God’s family.

The Holy Spirit by His very presence and nature works holiness of life in the believer. If a man or woman does not have the Spirit, he or she is not a Christian (Rom 8:9). By the power of the indwelling Spirit, believers can live holy lives, according to the Scriptures.

From the beginning, God demanded holiness. Holiness equals righteousness. God said men of faith were righteous (Gen 15:6). They lived holy lives and they “walked with God.” (Gen 6:9). He demanded holiness in the days of Moses (Ex 19:6). And He demands holiness of life for all who would enter His Kingdom.

When God created Adam and Eve in His image and likeness, I believe He clothed them with His glory and holiness (Eph 4:24). When they rebelled and broke God’s command, that glory fell away and they saw themselves naked, and they were ashamed (Gen 3:7).

God cannot walk and talk with sinners, so He put Adam and Eve out of the garden. Only in Christ can we gain the holiness we lost and have God’s likeness fully restored in our lives.

The Risen Christ told the apostle John, “Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life, and may go through the gates into the (Holy) city. Outside are those who practice magic arts, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.” (Rev 22:15; 21:8). Because nothing impure will ever enter it (heaven), nor will anyone who is shameful or deceitful. (Rev 21:27).

 

sanctification / sanc·ti·fy

1. to make holy; set apart as sacred;consecrate.
2. to purify or free from sin: Sanctify your hearts.
3. to impart religious sanction to; render legitimate or binding: to sanctify a vow.
4. to entitle to reverence or respect.
5.to make productive of or conducive to spiritual blessing.

Posted by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas

April 9, 2012 05:55 a.m.

 

Sermon Title: “A wireless connection”

Sunday, April 8, 2012 –

Resurrection Easter Sunday 11:30 a.m. 

Sunday Worship Services

Sermon Scripture: Luke 23:46 (NIV) –46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.

Sermon Title:  “A wireless connection”

“I’m connected!!!”

Opening Prayer:

Song Selection:  The Holy Ghost keeps on moving down in my soul!

Song Selection:   “How great is our God!”

 

I will insert the I tunes Video sermon….  ” A WIRELESS CONNECTION” …. No sermon notes..,.
Have to get out and go to church today!!!     I Love me some Empowerment Temple Church!!!

Sermon Scripture: Luke 23:46 (NIV) –46 Jesus called out with a loud voice, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit.” When he had said this, he breathed his last.

 

 

“What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? – Mark 8:36”




  1. Matthew 16:26 What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole   What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

    bible.cc/matthew/16-26.htm

    And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul “For what does a person benefit if he gains the whole world and lacks his soul To gain the whole world means to possess it as our own – all its riches, its honors, 

  2. Mark 8:36 What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet 

    bible.cc/mark/8-36.htm

    And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul For what does it profit a man to gain the whole world and forfeit his soul cause of Christ will appear as glorious, as some now think it mean and contemptible.

  3. What does it profit you if you gain the whole world but lose your soul?

    www.craftdesigns4you.com/soul.htm

    But what if your soul DOES live on forever after your death – either in heaven  You need to repent of your sinfulness – this means that you agree with God  For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

    Luke 9:25  What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, and yet lose or forfeit his very self?

    Matthew 16:26 What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?


    Hebrews 10:34 You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, because you knew that you yourselves had better and lasting possessions.