Find out how you fit into the American norm…From sea to shining sea, Americans are remarkably alike, incredibly different, and just plain strange. In this clever, fun and fascinating peek into the private lives of real Americans, columnist Bernice Kanner shares a delicious slice of American pie with humorous facts like:-Of the half of us who have pets at home, 45.5% allow them in the room during sex.
-One out of every four ice cream orders is vanilla; only one in nine is for chocolate
-Four out of ten of us admit we’ve been so mad we’ve hurled footwear at another person
-60% of men spit in public
-One in ten people say they have seen a ghost
-Almost one quarter of us regularly check ourselves out in store windows and mirrors
-7 out of 100 Americans have flossed their teeth with their hair
-Over 27% of people skip ahead to find out what will happen in a book before they finish it
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Bernice Kanner is a columnist for Bloomberg Business News for radio, TV, and print. For thirteen years, she wrote the “On Madison Avenue” column for New York magazine. Her articles have appeared widely in The New York Times, Parade, Ladies’ Home Journal and Glamour, among other publications. Are You Normal? grew out of an article for New York magazine and was reprinted by Reader’s Digest. Kanner and Are You Normal? have been featured on Oprah. She lives with her family in New York City.
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James 1:2-4ESV Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
What were some of your challenges these past 28 days on this Lenten Season Journey.. Leave me a comment and let’s start a discussion right here on this post, and share some of your challenges as we walk into greatness on April 8, 2012 Resurrection Sunday…
Today as enter into day 28 of the Lenten season and say that I no longer can say that I am challenged by the telephone… I’ve given it up minus one call to check on a friend that’s been ill, and I felt compelled to do so deeming the call necessary… Otherwise, I have not entertained by telephone in the past 27 days, which would have been a challenge without some help from the master..
Today we will articulate on ‘Challenges” – Yes, we are faced with all types of challenges.. My challenge may not be your challenge, and your challenge may not be my challenge…
In the world we live in, you will find all different walks of life, people that are all different in nationality, mindset, physical appearances, ideals so on and so on… What I like is God made us all different, yet unique with the least of his servants having something to give back regardless of their challenges they face…
I personally have many challenges in life… I could go on and on about my challenges, but my challenges that I am aware of, I’ve taken them to God and he has dealt with them one by one… As the days go by and become older, I tend to become more-less challenged than I was when I was younger….. It’s something about age that naturally alters some challenges we face in our lives… Ok, that’s enough about me, because I realized one major challenge I faced and that was “It really is not all about me” but it’s about God and all of us as a people trying to strive to be better as we face these challenges of the world… As I said, your challenge may not be my challenge, but yet and still we are challenged and it’s up to you how you deal with your challenges…
I’ve noticed that some of us tend to take the long way around, such as my son Justin that has Autism Spectrum, which means he possess a delay that don’t correspond with his age nor his weight or his height…. People tend to expect a whole lot from him because of his stature… Well, I’ve learned that dealing with a child with a disability, you just have to be patient in knowing that they will get there and learn the same things their peers know but possibly just at a later date… Although, they have their own area of expertise that we may not have… My son is capable of manipulating any electronic device you give him, but he is yet to learn to tie his shoe… What are you saying? He is superb in one area, but challenged in the area of self help… We will get there, and the other kids at school will have to keep tying his shoe until the light comes on in his head and he is no longer challenged with a particular modality.
Let’s see what the good old dictionary say about Challenges…. It has a lot to say on today enclosed below and information cited and provided by: www.dictionary.com
1. A call or summons to engage in any contest,as of skill, strength, etc.
2. Something that by its nature or character serves as a call to battle, contest, specialeffort, etc.:
Space exploration offers a challengeto humankind.
3. A call to fight, as a battle, a duel, etc.
4. A demand to explain, justify, etc.: a challenge to the treasurer to itemize expenditures.
5. Difficulty in a job or undertaking that is stimulating to one engaged in it.
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
No temptation has overtaken you that is not common to man. God is faithful, and he will not let you be tempted beyond your ability, but with the temptation he will also provide the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.
Sell your possessions, and give to the needy. Provide yourselves with moneybags that do not grow old, with a treasure in the heavens that does not fail, where no thief approaches and no moth destroys.
Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins. A voice cries: “In the wilderness prepare the way of the Lord; make straight in the desert a highway for our God. Every valley shall be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low; the uneven ground shall become level, and the rough places a plain. And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.” …
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth, for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.
Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. …
And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “You may surely eat of every tree of the garden, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.”
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. And God saw that the light was good. And God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And there was evening and there was morning, the first day. …
Lent is a special sacred season of separation/consecration between Ash Wednesday
and Easter Sunday (this year Feb 22 – April 8). The 40 days of Lent are symbolic and
strategically significant in the Bible. The number 40 is used by God to represent a period
of testing, trial, probation, or judgment and ends with a period of restoration, revival
or renewal. The rain in Noah’s day fell for 40 days and 40 nights, Moses was on the
mountain 40 days and 40 nights, the spies searched Canaan for 40 days, the Israelites
wandered 40 years, Elijah ate one meal for 40 days, Jesus fasted in the wilderness for 40
days and was seen on the earth for 40 days after His crucifixion.
By observing Lent, we follow Jesus into the wilderness, resist temptation, pray,
and proceed to Jerusalem and the cross on Good Friday which then culminates in
resurrection on Easter Sunday. This most sacred season on the Church calendar is marked
by repentance, intercession, service, giving and self denial. For so many, Lent is a
moment to give up things we cherish in exchange for prayer, fasting, acts of mercy, and
meditation on the Word of God.
Power of Prayer:
When nations needed healing they prayed. When families needed reconciliation they
prayed. When churches needed revival they prayed. Everything we do as individuals,
church, or nation should be birthed in prayer. Jesus the Son of God was devoted to prayer
and He put priority to prayer than anything else. “One of those days Jesus went out to
a mountainside to pray, and spent the night praying to God.” Luke 6:12. He frequently
withdrew to the wilderness and mountain sides to pray. Prayer was not just Jesus’ habit
but in times of emergency, He resorted to prayer. When tempted, he prayed. When lied
upon, He prayed. During his most trying hour when he was about to be crucified, He
found time to pray. Before He gave up the ghost, He prayed. Today, He seats at the
right hand of God the Father still praying for you. His prayer life was so powerful and
impactful that the disciples said, “Teach us how to pray.” Nations need our prayers,
Individuals need our prayers, families need our prayers, the sick need our prayers,
governments needs our prayers, the lost need our prayers and the needy need our prayers.
Practical Ways to Help:
• Choose to fast from a particular pleasure: Food or TV or Social Media or Internet
or People.
• Join our daily Church-wide Online Blogs expounding on Prayer Items at
www.empowermenttemple.org
• Corporate Prayer every Sunday Morning from 7:00am – 7:30am.
• Attend Intercessors 1 hour of Power / Prayer Clinic every Saturday from 10am –
11am at the Family Life Center (1505 Eutaw Pl, Baltimore MD)
• Read through the Gospels between now and Easter.
• If you don’t already journal, begin now. Reflect on your readings, prayers and
questions.
• Make a list of people with whom you need to be reconciled. Pray for them and let
Jesus guide you in your thinking and feeling toward them.
40 Days of Lent Intercessory Prayer Guide (Empowerment Temple) DATE: PRAYER ITEM:
February 22, 2012 Sacrifice
February 23, 2012 Sanctification
February 24, 2012 Success
February 25, 2012 Strength
February 26, 2012 Society
February 27, 2012 Economy
February 28, 2012 Environment/ Ecology
February 29, 2012 Evangelism
March 1, 2012 Enlightenment
March 2, 2012 Entertainment Industry (Movies, TV)
March 3, 2012 Integrity
March 4, 2012 Ideas
March 5, 2012 Anointing
March 6, 2012 Opportunity
March 7, 2012 Election
March 8, 2012 HIV/AIDS
March 9, 2012 Entrepreneurship
March 10, 2012 Home ownership (Mortgages)
March 11, 2012 Marriages
March 12, 2012 Ministry (Find your ministry)
March 13, 2012 Medical Issues
March 14, 2012 Mental Health
March 15, 2012 Armed Services (Active & Reserve)
March 16, 2012 Mentorship (God send someone to mentor you vice versa)
March 17, 2012 Middle East (Israel, Syria, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Yemen)
March 18, 2012 Motivation
March 19, 2012 Miracles
March 20, 2012 Children
March 21, 2012 Challenges
March 22, 2012 Churches (All houses of Worship that lift up Name of God)
March 23, 2012 Pastors (Leaders in Ministry)
March 24, 2012 Charities (Red Cross, World Vision, UNICEF, Cancer Society etc)
March 25, 2012 Influence
March 26, 2012 Individuals (Pray specifically for 3 people outside of yourself)
March 27, 2012 Encouragement (Pray against spirit of discouragement, depression, stress)
March 28, 2012 Order (No Confusion, Chaos
March 29, 2012 Incarcerated
March 30, 2012 Pray against Injustice
March 31, 2012 Employment (Find Jobs)
April 1, 2012 Forgiveness (Forgive others and God will forgive you)
April 2, 2012 Education (Teachers, Students, Charter Schools, HBCUs)
April 3, 2012 Intervention (Resolve family, financial, and personal issues)
April 4, 2012 Salvation (People to get saved)
April 5, 2012 Discipline
April 6, 2012 Maturity
April 7, 2012 Closure
April 8, 2012 New BeginningsPrinciple of Lent:
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In honor of our Children on today, I want to share Lil. Wayne Chaney, Jr. of Long Beach, which is my home town where I was born and raised. He recite the 23rd psalms with clarity riding in his car seat …
This is what I call training up a child in the way they should go..
I know, because I am the mother of childhood preacher that preached the word of God fluently at 9-years-old, and this is exactly how he started around age 5, with the same exact scripture Lil Rev. Dr. Wayne is sharing here on today…Thank you Jesus!!!
– Myesha Chaney & Pastor Wayne A. Chaney Jr… #awesome job! –
God, I pray you continue to bless this child with more knowledge of your Holy Word…
God, when I see children so innocent expound upon your word that makes me feel so good on the inside to know that Jesus will live on in another generation… We have to teach our children, and I find it necessary and vital because if we do not instill good values in them, this world we live in will corrupt and fill them with their ideals of what they call the good life..
I don’t know of a better life than in Jesus worshipping him in spirit and in truth.. I pray this video inspire some parents to take extra interest in your child and begin to speak the words of the Lord in the atmosphere… I promise you that God’s word will never return void…
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas, World In Focus International Ministries (WIFI)
I wanted to share this website so you can become interactive with your children – I do not own any rights to the website no other than Wanting someone’s child to see the goodness of Jesus…
Cited that video of Lil Wayne Chaney Jr. Belongs to his mom:
Myesha Chaney and I own no right to it, only want to
inspire and promote the goodness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as we celebrate 40 Days of Lenten Season and today happen to be the day we discuss “Children”
Proverbs 22:6 : Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Today as we take this journey one step further on this Lenten Season, today and everyday we are pleading the blood of Jesus over our CHILDREN! Yes, today’s topic of prayer and discussion are “CHILDREN”
As most of my family and friend’s know that God blessed me with three beautiful children of my own, ages 28 1/2years old, 24 1/2 years old, and my youngest will be 9-years-old on this Friday… I’ve always believed that God used my envelope to bring these wonderful and precious souls to the world… I love them lots, but I have enough sense to know that God loves them more.. I tell every parent to please give you child or children back to God.. Christening them when they are young, and then whey they are older, teach them about the goodness of the Lord, allowing them to be compelled to make Jesus their choice by confessing with their mouth that Jesus is the Lord of their lives and they are now ready to be baptized… Jesus has commanded us in several scriptures that I share in this piece of Jesus instructing us with our children…
Jesus said: Luke 18:16 “But Jesus called them unto him, saying, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for to such belongeth the kingdom of God.”
Matthew 19:14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, tocome unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Mark 10:13-15 KJV –14But when Jesus saw it, he was much displeased, and said unto them, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom …
The bible clearly states and gives us as parents instructions on how to handle our children, and it gives the child instructions on how to honor their parent… In the following passages of scripture I will post next, read up and read carefully….
Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger by the way you treat them. Rather, bring them up with the discipline and instruction that comes from the Lord.
Fathers, do not exasperate your children, so that they will not lose heart. King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.) Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they will become discouraged…
May the hand of God protect me, the way of God lie before me, the shield of God … pray that through Your intercession of St. Nicholas You will protect our children. … darts of the enemy, And the sword of the Spirit, which is Your Word, O Lord. God bless the family of Travon Martin, whom the world is in an uproar about on today… Lord Please do not allow our innocent children to be killed, battered or bruised mentally or physically by the hands of the enemy.. We rebuke the devour right now in Jesus Name! Amen…
Why have children of one’s own when one could adopt?
Now, it may be reasonable to assume that one will have children, but, I ask, why should one have children of one’s own considering that one could adopt a child?
The question I’ll address is this: Are there any non-selfish reasons to have children of one’s own rather than adopt?
“Of course, Black Socrates,” you may be tempted to say. “Raising kids requires a lot from any individual. Raising a kid means sacrifice, stress and total devotion to another. How can that be selfish?”
But, remember, the question is not whether one can both be selfish and successfully raise a child. The question is whether there are any non-selfish reasons to have a child in the first place given that one could adopt a child.
Now image person with great genes. We’ll name this person Adrian. Adrian is hella smart, hella good-looking and a kind person. It seems that Adrian has a non-selfish reason to have children. Adrian can make the world better by passing on those great Adrian genes and raising a smart, kind, good-looking child. Adrian may wish to have a child for selfish reasons as well ( say Adrian just wants someone to love), but Adrian could act on the non-selfish reason of making the world better through raising children who possess Adrian genes.
Now, are there any non-selfish reasons to have children of one’s own other than this one?
Would it be wrong to have children of one’s own for merely selfish reasons?
Out of all the miracles that Jesus performed, Luke 8:43-48 ESV is my favorite miracle because the woman in this miracle, it reminds me a lot of myself living in today’s world, still believing that what was good for this woman will still work for me today… It is so…
“And there was a woman who had had a discharge of blood for twelve years, and though she had spent all her living on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone. She came up behind him and touched the fringe of his garment, and immediately her discharge of blood ceased. And Jesus said, “Who was it that touched me?” When all denied it, Peter said, “Master, the crowds surround you and are pressing in on you!” But Jesus said, “Someone touched me, for I perceive that power has gone out from me.” And when the woman saw that she was not hidden, she came trembling, and falling down before him declared in the presence of all the people why she had touched him, and how she had been immediately healed. …”
Miracles
Today as we continue on our 40 days of prayer and honor the resurrection of our Lord and savior Jesus Christ, we honor him always and especially during these 40 days of Lenten season as well. I’ve personally been enlightened on this journey for the past 27 days.. Can somebody say “Miracles”… Today’s prayer and topic of discussion is miracles! In my heart, if you interviewed half of the Christian population and some and asked a question to the effect of what is the greatest miracle you have ever witnessed? I’m sure the answer would revolve around themselves, or a close family member that relied on their faith in God and believed that the almighty God is a miracle worker in their lives… Well that is my story too…. I’m so glad that God saw fit to let a little old average girl like myself live. I realize from birth what makes me a miracle… First of all, I was never suppose to be conceived or born… Then, I had some medical issues when I was born, that I do believe spilled over into my teen years, and now adult life… Nevertheless, God just keeps right on showing me his grace and mercy and performing miraculous miracles in my life.. .Yes, in my life, right here in Irvine, California… I’ve seen many of miracles in my prior 45 years of living with my own eyes on various family members and close friends…. Asl I read my bible daily and study God’s word, he performed miracles throughout the entire bible, making a die hard believer out of me.. He is yet and still performing the same mighty acts on today… I’m reninded off the top of my head of the many heroic storyies of Jesus miracles her performed in the 33 years he walked on this earth… Just the mere fact that he hung, bleed and died for our sins is the bottom line miracle I love the most and the reason why I can still write on today about his goodness… Not only did they beat him up a hill in Golgotha, and pierced him in the side, and nailed him to that old rugged cross, between two theives from the sixth to the ninth hour, but that aint how the story ends.. See what man did know was the God that we serve, had all power in his hands… He said “Father Forgive Them, for they know not what they do”… Awe, help me Holy Ghost… See, I’ll say it again, that’ not how this miracle story ends… See, these folks that crucified Jesus, then proceeded to put him in a borrowed tomb, not knowing that he did not need a tomb at all… He said Can’t no power on earth keep me down, I rise, and he did on that third day of the atonement with all power in his hands.. That’s a mircle story of a lifetime that keeps me rising everyday… To know that I serve a miraculous God that heal the sick and raise the dead…. I think I better stop because I have not shared the many other miracles that came before this great Passion of Christ…
Miracle stories in the Bible: These are only the miracle stories of the New Testament that I share, and the can be separated into several different categories, each of which is significantly different from the others. Within each category, however, most of the stories have certain formal similarities:
Periscope
Mark
Matthew
Luke
John
Healing Simon Peter’s Mother-in-law
1:29-31
8:14-15
4:38-39
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Cleansing a Leper
1:40-45
8:1-4
5:12-16
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Healing a Centurion’s Servant
—
8:5-13
7:1-10
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Healing a Paralytic
2:1-12
9:1-8
5:17-26
[cf. 5:1-18]
Restoring a Man’s Withered Hand
3:1-6
12:9-14
6:6-11
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Healing a Woman’s Hemorrhage
5:25-34
9:19-22
8:43-48
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Restoring Sight to Two Blind Men
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9:27-31
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—
Healing a Syro-Phoenician Girl
7:24-30
15:21-28
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—
Healing a Deaf Mute
7:31-37
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—
—
Giving Sight to a Blind Man at Bethsaida
8:22-26
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—
—
Restoring a Woman Crippled for Eighteen Years
—
—
13:10-17
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Healing a Man with Dropsy
—
—
14:1-6
—
Cleansing Ten Men of Leprosy
—
—
17:11-19
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Giving Sight to a Blind Man (or 2 Men) at Jericho
10:46-52
20:29-34
18:35-43
[cf. 9:1-41]
Healing a Royal Official’s Son at Cana
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—
—
4:46-54
Healing a Man at the Pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem
—
—
—
5:2-47
Giving Sight to a Man Blind since Birth
—
—
—
9:1-41
Healing a Slave’s Severed Ear
[14:47]
[26:51-54]
22:49-51
[18:10]
Restoration Miracles:
Pericope
Mark
Matthew
Luke
John
Raising from the Dead a Widow’s Son at Nain
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—
7:11-17
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Raising from the Dead the Daughter of Jairus
5:21-24,35-43
9:18-19,23-26
8:40-42,49-56
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Raising Lazarus of Bethany from the Dead
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—
—
11:1-44Nature Miracles:
Pericope
Mark
Matthew
Luke
John
Catching Unusually Many Fish in the Sea of Galilee
—
—
5:1-11
[cf. 21:1]
Stilling a Storm on the Sea of Galilee
4:35-41
8:23-27
8:22-25
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Feeding Five Thousand People
6:32-44
14:13-21
9:10b-17
6:1-15
Walking on the Water
6:45-52
14:22-33
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6:16-21
Feeding Four Thousand People
8:1-10
15:32-39
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—
Finding a Coin in the Mouth of a Fish
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17:24-27
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Cursing a Fig Tree near Bethany
11:12-14
21:18-19
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—
Turning Water into Wine at a Wedding in Cana
—
—
—
2:1-11
Catching Numerous Fish at the Sea of Tiberias
—
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[cf. 5:1]
21:1-14
Evangelists’ Summaries of Jesus Ministry:
Pericope
Mark
Matthew
Luke
John
Jesus Proclaims a “Jubilee Year” (cf. Isa 61:1-2)
—
—
4:16-21
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“Physician, Heal Yourself” Proverb
—
—
4:23
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Many Healed/Exorcized One Evening
1:32-34
8:16-17
4:40-41
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Brief Summary
1:39
4:23
[cf. 5:15]
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Jesus Heals Many by the Sea of Galilee
3:10-12
4:24-25 [cf. 12:15-16]
6:17-19
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Response to the Baptist’s Question
—
11:2-6
7:18-23
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The Beelzebul Controversy
3:22-30
12:24-29 [cf. 9:32-34]
11:15-22
[cf. 8:37-59]
Jesus Preaches and Heals
[cf. 6:6]
9:35
[cf. 8:1]
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Healings at Gennesaret
6:53-56
14:34-36
—
[cf. 6:22-25]
Jesus Heals Many People
[cf. 7:31-37]
15:29-31
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Jesus Heals the Blind and Lame in the Temple
—
21:14
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Evangelists’ Summaries of the Ministry of Jesus’ Disciples and Others:
Pericope
Mark
Matthew
Luke
John
Jesus Chooses 12 Apostles to Preach and Heal
3:15
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—
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Jesus Sends the Twelve Out on Mission
6:7, 13
10:1, 8
9:1-2, 6
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Why the Disciples Could Not Heal/Exorcize
9:18, 28
17:16, 19
9:40
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Another Exorcist, not Jesus’ Disciple
9:38-41
10:42
9:49-50
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Jesus Sends 70 (or 72) More Disciples out on Mission
Cited and reference material on miracle scriptures: Miracle Stories in the New Testament by Felix Just, S.J., Ph.D. – http://catholic-resources.org/Bible/Miracles.htmAs I began my research on what other thought about Miracles, and I ran across the wonderful website called Skeptic’s Dictionary – http://www.skepdic.com/miracles.html – which is very knowledable in many areas. Let’s see what he says about miracle… You already know what I think about miracles from my perspective… “A miracle is “a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the Deity, or by the interposition of some invisible agent” (Hume, 123n). However, these days people use the term much more loosely to mean something like “against all odds.” The rest of this article is not about people who call themselves or their experiences miracles because the odds seemed stacked against them. Here we will discuss miracle in the theological sense.Theologians of the Abrahamic religions consider only a god-willed contravention of the laws of nature to be true miracles. However, they admit others can do and have done things which contravene the laws of nature; such acts are attributed to diabolical powers and are called “false miracles.” Many outside of the Bible-based religions believe in the ability to transgress laws of nature through acts of will in consort with paranormal or occult powers. They generally refer to these transgressions not as miracles, but as magick.All religions report numerous and equally credible miracles. Hume compares deciding among religions on the basis of their miracles to the task of a judge who must evaluate contradictory, but equally reliable, testimonies. Each religion establishes itself as solidly as the next, thereby overthrowing and destroying its rivals. Furthermore, the more ancient and barbarous a people is, the greater the tendency for miracles and prodigies of all kinds to flourish.
…it forms a strong presumption against all supernatural and miraculous relations that they are observed chiefly to abound among ignorant and barbarous nations; or if a civilized people has ever given admission to any of them, that people will be found to have received them from ignorant and barbarous ancestors, who transmitted them with that inviolable sanction and authority which always attend received opinions (Hume, 126).
While there are still many people today who believe in miracles, no modern historian fills his or her books with accounts of miraculous events. It is improbable that the report of even a single miracle would find its way into such texts today. Indeed, only those who cater to the superstitious and credulous, such as theWeekly World News and a good portion of the rest of the mass media, would even think of reporting an alleged miracle without taking a very skeptical attitude toward it. No scholarly journal today would consider an author rational if he or she were to sprinkle reports of miracles throughout a treatise. The modern scholar dismisses all such reports as eitherconfabulations, delusions, lies or cases of collective hallucination.Hume was aware that no matter how scientific or rational a civilization became, belief in miracles would never be eradicated. Human nature is such that we love the marvelous and the wondrous. Human nature is also such that we love even more to be the bearer of a story of the marvelous and the wondrous. The more wondrous our story, the more merit both we and it attain. Vanity, delusion and zealotry have led to more than one pious fraud supporting a holy and meritorious cause with gross embellishments and outright lies about witnessing miraculous events (Hume, 136). Hume’s prediction is borne out every time there is a natural disaster that kills thousands and renders hundreds of thousands homeless. There is always some survivor who calls his survival a miracle, while ignoring the fate of the thousands of equally worthy fellows buried in the rubble all around him. The media, perhaps trying to find a small ray of hope amidst the despair of massive earthquakes or floods, love to print such ‘miracle stories.’Hume’s greatest argument against belief in miracles, however, was modeled after an argument made by John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury. Tillotson and others, such as William Chillingworth before him and his contemporary Bishop Edward Stillingfleet, had argued for what they called a “commonsense” defense of Christianity, i.e., Anglicanism. Tillotson’s argument against the Catholic doctrine oftransubstantiation or “the real presence” was simple and direct. The idea contradicts common sense, he said. The doctrine claims that the bread and wine used in the communion ceremony is changed in substance so that what is bread and wine to all the senses is in fact the body and blood of Jesus. If it looks like bread, smells like bread, tastes like bread, then it is bread. To believe otherwise is to give up the basis for all knowledge based on sense experience. Anything could be other than it appears to the senses. This argument has nothing to do with the skeptical argument about the uncertainty of sense knowledge. This is an argument not about certainty but about reasonable belief. If the Catholics are right about transubstantiation, then a book might really be a bishop, for example, or a pear might actually be Westminster Cathedral. The accidents (i.e., properties or attributes) of a thing would be no clue as to its substance. Everything we perceive could be completely unrelated to what it appears to be. Such a world would be unreasonable and unworthy of a god. If the senses can’t be trusted in this one case, they can’t be trusted in any. To believe in transubstantiation is to abandon the basis of all knowledge: sense experience.Hume begins his essay on miracles by praising Tillotson’s argument as being “as concise and elegant and strong as any argument can possibly be supposed against a doctrine so little worthy of a serious refutation.” He then goes on to say that he fancies that he has (118)
discovered an argument of a like nature which, if just, will, with the wise and learned, be an everlasting check to all kinds of superstitious delusion, and consequently will be useful as long as the world endures; for so long, I presume, will the accounts of miracles and prodigies be found in all history, sacred and profane.
His argument is a paradigm of simplicity and elegance (122):
A miracle is a violation of the laws of nature; and as a firm and unalterable experience has established these laws, the proof against a miracle, from the very nature of the fact, is as entire as any argument from experience can possibly be imagined.
Or put even more succinctly (122):
There must…be a uniform experience against every miraculous event, otherwise the event would not merit that appellation.
The logical implication of this argument is that (123)
no testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle unless the testimony be of such a kind that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
What Hume has done is to take the commonsense Anglican argument against the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation and applied it to miracles, the basis of all religious sects. The laws of nature have not been established by occasional or frequent experiences of a similar kind, but of uniformexperience. It is “more than probable,” says Hume, that all men must die, that lead can’t remain suspended in air by itself and that fire consumes wood and is extinguished by water. If someone were to report to Hume that a man could suspend lead in the air by an act of will, Hume would ask himself if “the falsehood of his testimony would be more miraculous than the event which he relates.” If so, then he would believe the testimony. However, he does not believe there ever was a miraculous event established “on so full an evidence.”Consider the fact that the uniformity of experience of people around the world has been that once a human limb has been amputated, it does not grow back.1What would you think if a friend of yours, a scientist of the highest integrity with a Ph.D. in physics from Harvard, were to tell you that she was off in Spain last summer and met a man who used to have no legs but now walks on two fine, healthy limbs. She tells you that a holy man rubbed oil on his stumps and his legs grew back. He lives in a small village and all the villagers attest to this “miracle.” Your friend is convinced a miracle occurred. What would you believe? To believe in this miracle would be to reject the principle of the uniformity of experience, upon which laws of nature are based. It would be to reject a fundamental assumption of all science, that the laws of nature are inviolate. The miracle cannot be believed without abandoning a basic principle of empirical knowledge: that like things under like circumstances produce like results.Of course there is another constant, another product of uniform experience which should not be forgotten: the tendency of people at all times in all ages to desire wondrous events, to be deluded about them, to fabricate them, embellish them, and come to believe in the absolute truth of the creations of their own passions and heated imaginations. Does this mean that miracles cannot occur? Of course not. It means, however, that when a miracle is reported the probability will always be greater that the person doing the reporting is mistaken, deluded, or a fraud than that the miracle really occurred. To believe in a miracle, as Hume said, is not an act of reason but offaith.It is interesting to note that when the Roman Catholic Church collects data on potential saints, whose canonization requires proof of three miracles, the authorities ignore negative evidence. Millions may pray to a potential saint and all but one seems not to have had his wish granted. The Church counts the one who seems to have had her wish granted and ignores the millions who came up empty and died without intercession. Likewise, when the media report on natural disasters, they are fond of the story of the survivor who thanks some god and basks in the glory of the miracle that saved him, but they never print a story blaming a god for the thousands or hundreds of thousands who were killed in the earthquake or the tsunami. It doesn’t occur to the survivor or the media that if it was just circumstance that led to the deaths of thousands, it was also merely circumstance that led to anyone surviving.1. I see myself as the biggest miracle to ever live because of my life story and all of trials and struggles of life that I have overcome… Yes me, Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas, born 4/11/Books and articlesThe Holy Bible is filled with the greatest miracles of all times and still today miracles are being performed as we speak by our soveirn and most mericful Holy Father, Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ!!! I also want to recommend these two books as a must read.. This author and retired college professor got me going really good, as I did research on the various miracles… I’ve always though that critical thinking is a must to make it out alive in this world we live in….
Uncut / Unedited Sermon Notes from Dr. Jamal Bryant
Disclaimer – These are my very own notes that I took during Dr. Jamal Bryant’s sermon – they are verbatim, unedited and uncut –
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
Sermon Title: “It’s a crying shame…”
Psalm 83 16-17 – Psalm 83:16 (KJV) 16Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD. 17Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish: Dr. Jamal H. Bryant, Empowerment Temple Church
Sunday March 18, 2012 – 11:30 a.m. service
Song Selection: I’m glad that he gave me, One more day!
Litany (Verbatim): – Leader – I am a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have Holy Ghost power. The dye has been cast. II have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciples of Jesus Christ.. I wont’ look back.. let down or be still..
My past is redeemed. My present makes sense.
My future is secure…. I no longer need preeminence, prosperity, position , promotions, plaudits and popularity! I don have to be right, first…
My face is set.. My goal is heaven. My road is narrow. My way is rough..
I Will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the ……
I wont’ give shut up let up .. until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up , paid up worked up for the cause of Christ….
When Jesus comes, He will have no problems recognizing me because he’ll remember that I was the one he gave power…
Prayer: Motivate us dear Jesus!!
Song Selection: “Lift him up!”
Announcements: We are half way through our Lenten season – Day 26 and we are focusing on “Motivation” on today!
Seven Last words – On good Friday, words network live taping…
Song Selection: “I am grateful for things that he has done”
Dr. Jamal says: Grace and Favor is a great thing…
Support Jermaine from American idol who had his business exposed to over 11 million people.. Humiliation… Let’s support him and he will be at Empowerment’s Temple Bible Study on this Wednesday..
We will be honoring his Father on tonight at Bethel AME – for 50 years of service..
Will be in North Carolina to meet with Mr. Graham for questioning the faith of our President… Professor’s from Duke is going with him to educate him… He gave an apology but it was as sincere has Rush Limbaugh (lol)
Dr. Jamal will be with the Treyvon Martin’s family to help get the man arrested who killed him in cold blood..
Get the message “I am a suspect” especially if you have a young son..
He is not calling an alter call during this service, but the alter is open for the whole service… Today is
Psalm 83 16-17 – Psalm 83:16 (KJV) 16Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD. 17Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:
Sermon Title: It’s a crying shame…
I read a book called heaven has blue carpet, reading it on the plane and it tells a compelling story of a family of 6 that was going to give up urban living to go and live on a farm.. The felt that God was calling them to live in the rural…
They went to a dilapidated house, but they felt like this was their calling… Sheep are equip to give birth for 2 sheep.. If she has 3, she can only feel 2 and one will get rejected..
Often the bummer sheep dies of a broken heart because they don’t’ know like many of you have no ideal … Some of you have no ideal how it feels to be rejected by your own mother… All you want is what they are suppose to do… Just be a mother… Don’t want her to loose a limb or give her life… Just be a mother..
They brought the extra sheep in the house that was rejected by it’s mother, they taught him how to walk… The amazing sheep name Burt learned how to walk on blue carpet.. Burt became healthier than all the other sheep.. He was stronger, and his teeth was stronger because after he was rejected and ignored he was forced to live with the shepherd.. It made them the prime candidate to live with him… The Lord says: The Lord is my Shepherd.. He becomes the shepherd of those that have been rejected…
I’m here to preach to a small… Although your family has stained you, friend’s and lover have walked away.. .Don’t feel shame.. Don’t feel shame about who you are…
If you have done wrong, then you can work off your guilt.. If you feel like you have not done nothing wrong… You will be amazed how many people buy clothes, shoes and binge eating because they are shame because of something they are not…
psalms 25:2 says don’t let me put to shame… What God has called and assigned you to do.. He is not going to let you live your life in shame.. There is a different kind of call he has for your life… .Do not let the enemy let you live a life of derogation…
You are not your mistake.. People who try to line you up to your mistakes try to humble you.. They are trying to embarrass you… I’m sure none of you have been embarrassed… Today you are outliving your shame…
Psalms 31 says let the wicked be put to shame… What God is working through, God is working on a plan to the people that has tried to strip you… When they see how good you turned out, they will feel embarrassed and ashamed that they tried to stop you..
You don’t look like what you been too because God will never let you be put to shame..
Those that trust in God with all your heart is going to be shame proof.. You have live through your most painful season and darkest night.. you have already cried your last tear.. The enemy should have got you before you starting loving yourself… I lived through so much shame, until now I am proud of what I am..
I am not arrogant, I’m just proud of what I am and not what I use to be.. .I refused to be ashamed of who I AM..
When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit.. If you do not fulfill your God given assignment, you will not feel fulfilled… God wants you to fill your assignment… At end I want you to look the the devil in your face, and tell them that you survived… Some testimonies are not for public consumption.. I’m not bitter or mad with anyone because what they meant for bad, God meant for good.. Have you ever been through
83:16 – He covered their face in shame so that they make seek you… Sometimes God will make you go through something shameful to develop your prayer life… It’s not until you have gone through your most embarrassing moment until you realize it;s just you and God.. You ask God to cover your face in shame..
He spit in the dirt and placed it on the man’s eyes and said walk through town until you get to the place… Wash it off when you get to the place… Whenever you have an assignment, God will let you walk around with mud on your face… Yeah I made some dumb decisions and bad choices… This is your last season with mud on your face.. You are not going to walk around with humiliation and embarrassment..
Shame is like Cholesterol… A steroid used to manufacturer vitamin D… Vital to produce cell membranes… You cannot live without it, because we have good and bad cholesterol.. Bad cholesterol will cause you to have heart attacks… There are good shames and bad shames… I needed a little bit of shame to make me believe that it’s not about me…
I have enough shame until I know God should have killed me last week, but if it had not been for the Lord that was on my side, my shame would have killed me..
Sometimes, shame can be good for you.. David said I was glad that I was afflicted..
I wish God could put me on blast privately… When you sinned when you sinned with somebody.. You are my test tube baby… Sometimes if I provoke you in public, I will praise you in public… Some people say embarrass them., because people don’t think they have changed… but if they see…
With bad shame it effects your heart… You feel like you are not good enough… With bad shame you always think you will be at the bottom of the barrel…
With bad shame you start to have low self esteem…You just go along to get alone and live with the present state of depression… With bad shame you will do absolutely nothing and sit in the house.. .You will not really prayer, because you believe that your prayer will not get answered anyways…
When you carry that much shame when you are anointed you take the risk of having an heart attack… If you believe in God, believe also in me….
If you are crying about you are a shame, you have the right to cry about what you did, but you do not have to cry about who you are… Don’t compare yourself to other people… You are beautiful just the way that you are…
I want to live a life with no shame but I just don’t know how to do it… If you want to live a life without out shame, come to the reality that talking to yourself is alright as long as your are saying the right things..
David is talking to his spirit.. put your hope in God.. If we put our hope in God, you can come out of this.. Tell yourself that we have been down long enough.. .To our own self be true… Tell my heart that we are not gong to be sad… We are not gong to keep on crying ab out spilled milk and who left us…
If my heart was going to break, it would have broke a long time ago…
The worst is behind me and the best is yet to come..
You can talk to yourself as long as you are saying the right thing.
Talk to him about the stuff you don’t other folks to talk about… Tell God about the stuff you don’t want to get out…
Don’t give the enemy any ammunition to put i over my head.. I’m praying to God that you don’t let it get out.. Whatever my area of shame lord, I need you to cover me..
Michael Angelo had an area of perspective… Our Lord and savior and conquering King was crucified naked before his mother and Mary Magdalene…
It was the intention of the Romans to make him feel shame.. They did not know that they were making him come full circle.. In the Garden of Eve, they knew when they ate the forbidden fruit they wee naked…
Everything they tried to strip you of. you still walked out with your dignity….
Many of you have come through a season where you lost so much but you still have your self esteem and dignity.. Somehow through the hand of God, you still have your pride..
It’s getting out, but don’t let me cry in front of them.. .God, I[m not gone beg them for nothing.. God please keep my pride in tact..
He is getting ready to cry…. The enemies are getting ready to cry… Your mean spirited family members are getting ready to cry because they are getting ready to see that they could not break you.. They don’t know what they did helped me… If it had not been, I would not be where I am today..
You should be able to say shamelessness that you are not ashamed of the Gospel.. I know some of us are ashamed of some of the people we have been with, but never be ashamed of the Lord and savior Jesus Christ..
God told me that we are getting ready to set people free… The bonds and ties are getting ready to come off… Those that are glad you came through it with your identity in tact, I’m getting ready to deliver you from your shame.. There are a lot of people who have confused guilt and shame..
Guilt is what you suppose to have once you get saved… Shame is not what you suppose to have once you get saved… Only for what you have done..
The enemy has held a gun to your head, but I want to let you know that the ransom has been paid…. Jesus paid it…. Those that don’t like who you, and cannot face yourself in the mirror… You think you are always suppose to be scratching and not surviving, I need to get the shame off of your.. A lot of us look like we are happy… A lot of people believe what you have has completed you… At the end of the day, you are not happy with yourself… Today, God is getting ready to take the shame off..
You are going to live past the shame.. You are greater than the divorce, the molestation, the abortion, etc… Because whom the son set free is free in deed… Stop acting like you are the rear view mirror when you are the front glass… Come unto me that all ye labor, and I will give you rest…
You make decisions that reflect that you do not care for your life… God has to send you friend’s that would have to act like they are your family… I’m talking to those that have been struggling all the way back to childhood struggles… There are some that realize that you don’t like yourself the way you are… Marvin Gay says it makes you want to holler and throw up your hands.
Lift up your hands right where you are… The person that hurt you for real, I don’t know what I would do, or be the bigger person this time… It’s infuriating, when a person do something to you… and you think because you said sorry it was alright… You have to get to the place that you h ave to be happy with yourself… You don’t need no one to validate you because you know who you are…
Those that have been under attack that did nothing to no one… You could have been at the top of your class…. Can you imagine what you could have done if your parents believed in you or believed in college…. There is something different about your life… I am not going to pray over you today, but I just need you to get that shame and embarrassment off your chest… Today you are gong to make the devil cry.. You are going to scream one time… This is the yell for the person that hurt you… Lift up your voice like the shame is being lifted….. Your healing is here!
I speak over your life today that you are going to live a life with no regrets!!!!
I pray you will not live another day in shame… You will never be ashamed of what you look like or where you come from… Because before the foundations of the earth he already knew where you were going to mess up…. But God has your shame covered…
Your joy is here!!! Everybody embrace three people and say: You are better than your mistakes!!!
Put enough shame on my face until I seek your face…
Homework assignment.. Pray with intentionality over the things your are ashamed of in your life… When someone brings out the dark parts in your life, it will no longer phase you the same because you have gotten passed your dark spots…
People can not make you shame., only if you let them.. DO NOT GIVE PEOPLE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE YOU FEEL SHAME!
Give your life to God so you can live a life without shame…
There is no shame in getting it right with God…
How many of us are glad God rescued you from where you were at.. God looked beyond your faults and recognized your needs! Highlights of this sermon: Dr. Jamal H. Bryant:
“PEOPLE CANNOT MAKE YOU ASHAMED, YOU HAVE TO LET THEM. DON’T GIVE PEOPLE PERMISSION TO HUMILIATE YOU!!!” ~JHB
“PSALM 83 IS THE ONLY PSALM THAT DOES NOT END IN RELIEF. LORD PUT ENOUGH SHAME ON MY FACE UNTIL I SEEK YOUR FACE.” ~JHB
“I WILL OUT LIVE MY MISTAKES!!!”
“YOU WILL NOT LIVE ANOTHER DAY IN SHAME!! YOU WILL NEVER BE ASHAMED OF WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE,WHO YOU ARE OR WHERE U CAME FROM.” ~JHB
“LIFT UP YOUR VOICE AND LET THE SHAME COME OFF!!” ~JHB
“IF GOD DIDN’T HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU, YOU WOULD HAVE DIED WITH THE REST OF YOUR FRIENDS!!” ~JHB
“YOU DON’T HAVE TO TELL ME, I ALREADY KNOW WHO I AM…” ~JHB
“EVEN THOUGH U SAY SORRY, I STILL HAVE A HEALING PROCESS TO GO THROUGH” JHB
“YOU WILL LIVE PASS THE SHAME” ~JHB
“GOD IS TAKING THE SHAME OFF” ~JHB
“THERE ARE ALOT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE CONFUSED GUILT WITH SHAME” ~JHB
“THEY COULDN’T BREAK YOU.. IF I HAD NOT GONE THROUGH WHAT I DID, I WOULDN’T BE WHERE I AM..THANK YOU JESUS!!” ~JHB
“I AM NOT GOING TO BEG NOBODY FOR NOTHING. GOD KEEP MY PRIDE INTACT!! ~JHB
“I STILL HAVE MY DIGNITY!! EVEN THOUGH I DONT HAVE ANYTHING” – ~JHB
“YOU HAVE TO BEGIN IN YOUR PRAYER LIFE TO SAY DON’T LET THIS GET OUT! I CANT HANDLE NO MORE EMBARRASSMENT.” ~JHB
“I AM TALKING TO MY HEART. WE ARE NOT GOING TO BE SAD, ANGRY OR CRY ANYMORE OR BE BROKEN AGAIN!!” ~JHB
“IF WE PUT OUR HOPE IN GOD, YO U WILL COME OUT OF IT!! YOU HAVE TO TELL YOURSELF WE HAVE BEEN DOWN LONG ENOUGH..” ~JHB
“I WANT TO LIVE A LIFE ABSENT OF SHAME.” ~JHB
“IF YOU ARE CRYING ABOUT WHO YOU ARE, THAT IS A SHAME.. YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO CRY ABOUT WHERE YOU ARE, BUT NOT WHO U ARE” ~JHB
“BAD SHAME YOU SIT IN THE HOUSE AND DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.” ~JHB
“WHEN YOU SIN, YOU SINNED WITH SOMEBODY! I NEED THEM TO KNOW YOU ARE MY TEST TUBE BABY”~ JHB
“THERE IS GOOD SHAME AND BAD SHAME.. GOOD SHAME GROWS YOU CLOSER TO GOD. BAD SHAME, YO U ALLOW THE ENEMY TO CAUSE YOU NOT TO FUNCTION OR OPERATE EFFECTIVELY.” ~JHB
“EVERY NOW AND THEN, GOD WILL MAKE YOU WALK WITH MUD ALL OVER YOUR FACE. IT’S NOT ABOUT YOU” ~JHB
“SOMETIMES GOD WILL MAKE YOU GO THROUGH SOMETHING SHAMEFUL , JUST TO DEVELOP YOUR PRAYER LIFE!!” ~JHB
“SOME TESTIMONIES ARE NOT FOR PUBLIC CONSUMPTION!! IT’S FOR YOUR OWN SHOUT!!” ~JHB
“I LOVE ME, AND I REFUSE TO BE ASHAMED OF WHO I AM~” ~JHB
“THE ENEMY SHOULD HAVE GOT YOU BEFORE YOU STARTED LOVING YOURSELF.. IT DOES NOT MATTER WHO DOESN’T LOVE ME, I AM PROUD OF MYSELF!!!” ~JHB
“FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE, YOU ARE GOING TO BE SHAME PROOF~” ~JHB
“GOD IS WORKING ON A PLAN TO BRING SHAME TO THE PEOPLE WHO TRIED TO STRIP YOU!” ~JHB
“GOD SAID, YOU ARE GOING TO OUTLIVE YOUR SHAME!” ~JHB
“YOU ARE NOT YOUR MISTAKES!!” ~JHB
“PEOPLE OVERCOMPENSATE WHEN THEY WALK IN SHAME… SOME ARE ASHAMED OF WHO THEY ARE UNDERNEATH THEIR CLOTHES..” ~JHB
“MOST SHEEP ARE ABLE TO HANDLE THE BIRTH OF TWO SHEEP AT A TIME” ~ JHB
“FOR MANY OF YOU IN THIS PLACE THAT YOU ARE AT RIGHT NOW IN YOUR LIFE, IT IS GOING TO BE LIKE OPEN HEART SURGERY” ~JHB
WE BLESS GOD FOR THOSE WHO ACCEPT CHRIST THROUGH THE CYBER MINISTRY OF:EMPOWERMENT TEMPLE:WE BLESS GOD FOR ALL OF YOU:THIS IS THE DAYT HAT THE LORD HAS MADE:AND YOUR LFIE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME~HUGS AND A SMILE IS COMING YOUR WAY~GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU!!!!
The Devil gettin ready to CRY & Your Haters & your Mean Spirit Family Members Because they will see they didn’t had the POWERr to Break You. Yes Lord! God Bless The Man of God Dr.Jamal Bryant.
PASTOR:MANY PEOPLE:HAVE A MIS-CONCEIVE NOTION:THAT WHAT U HAVE HAS COMPLETED YOU:BUT:YOU ARENT HAPPY WITH WHO U ARE!!!!THIS IS FOR THE 1130AM SERVICE
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Sunday March 18, 2012 – 11:30 Sermon Notes
Uncut / Unedited Sermon Notes from Dr. Jamal Bryant
Disclaimer – There are my very own notes that I am sharing with you – they are verbatim, unedited and uncut –
Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
Sermon Title:
Sunday March 18, 2012 – 11:30 a.m. service
Song Selection: I’m glad that he gave me, One more day!
Litany (Verbatim): – Leader – I am a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have Holy Ghost power. The dye has been cast. II have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciples of Jesus Christ.. I wont’ look back.. let down or be still..
My past is redeemed. My present makes sense.
My future is secure…. I no longer need preeminence, prosperity, position , promotions, plaudits and popularity! I don have to be right, first…
My face is set.. My goal is heaven. My road is narrow. My way is rough..
I Will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in the ……
I wont’ give shut up let up .. until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up , paid up worked up for the cause of Christ….
When Jesus comes, He will have no problems recognizing me because he’ll remember that I was the one he gave power…
Prayer: Motivate us dear Jesus!!
Song Selection: “Lift him up!”
Announcements: We are half way through our Lenten season – Day 26 and we are focusing on “Motivation” on today!
Seven Last words – On good Friday, words network live taping…
Song Selection: “I am grateful for things that he has done”
Dr. Jamal says: Grace and Favor is a great thing…
Support Jermaine from American idol who had his business exposed to over 11 million people.. Humiliation… Let’s support him and he will be at Empowerment’s Temple Bible Study on this Wednesday..
We will be honoring his Father on tonight at Bethel AME – for 50 years of service..
Will be in North Carolina to meet with Mr. Graham for questioning the faith of our President… Professor’s from Duke is going with him to educate him… He gave an apology but it was as sincere has Rush Limbaugh (lol)
Dr. Jamal will be with the Treyvon Martin’s family to help get the man arrested who killed him in cold blood..
Get the message “I am a suspect” especially if you have a young son..
He is not calling an alter call during this service, but the alter is open for the whole service… Today is
Psalm 83 16-17 – Psalm 83:16 (KJV) 16Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O LORD.
Sermon Title: It’s a crying shame…
I read a book called heaven has blue carpet, reading it on the plane and it tells a compelling story of a family of 6 that was going to give up urban living to go and live on a farm.. The felt that God was calling them to live in the rural…
They went to a dilapidated house, but they felt like this was their calling… Sheep are equip to give birth for 2 sheep.. If she has 3, she can only feel 2 and one will get rejected..
Often the bummer sheep dies of a broken heart because they don’t’ know like many of you have no ideal … Some of you have no ideal how it feels to be rejected by your own mother… All you want is what they are suppose to do… Just be a mother… Don’t want her to loose a limb or give her life… Just be a mother..
They brought the extra sheep in the house that was rejected by it’s mother, they taught him how to walk… The amazing sheep name Burt learned how to walk on blue carpet.. Burt became healthier than all the other sheep.. He was stronger, and his teeth was stronger because after he was rejected and ignored he was forced to live with the shepherd.. It made them the prime candidate to live with him… The Lord says: The Lord is my Shepherd.. He becomes the shepherd of those that have been rejected…
I’m here to preach to a small… Although your family has stained you, friend’s and lover have walked away.. .Don’t feel shame.. Don’t feel shame about who you are…
If you have done wrong, then you can work off your guilt.. If you feel like you have not done nothing wrong… You will be amazed how many people buy clothes, shoes and binge eating because they are shame because of something they are not…
psalms 25:2 says don’t let me put to shame… What God has called and assigned you to do.. He is not going to let you live your life in shame.. There is a different kind of call he has for your life… .Do not let the enemy let you live a life of derogation…
You are not your mistake.. People who try to line you up to your mistakes try to humble you.. They are trying to embarrass you… I’m sure none of you have been embarrassed… Today you are outliving your shame…
Psalms 31 says let the wicked be put to shame… What God is working through, God is working on a plan to the people that has tried to strip you… When they see how good you turned out, they will feel embarrassed and ashamed that they tried to stop you..
You don’t look like what you been too because God will never let you be put to shame..
Those that trust in God with all your heart is going to be shame proof.. You have live through your most painful season and darkest night.. you have already cried your last tear.. The enemy should have got you before you starting loving yourself… I lived through so much shame, until now I am proud of what I am..
I am not arrogant, I’m just proud of what I am and not what I use to be.. .I refused to be ashamed of who I AM..
When Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit.. If you do not fulfill your God given assignment, you will not feel fulfilled… God wants you to fill your assignment… At end I want you to look the the devil in your face, and tell them that you survived… Some testimonies are not for public consumption.. I’m not bitter or mad with anyone because what they meant for bad, God meant for good.. Have you ever been through
83:16 – He covered their face in shame so that they make seek you… Sometimes God will make you go through something shameful to develop your prayer life… It’s not until you have gone through your most embarrassing moment until you realize it;s just you and God.. You ask God to cover your face in shame..
He spit in the dirt and placed it on the man’s eyes and said walk through town until you get to the place… Wash it off when you get to the place… Whenever you have an assignment, God will let you walk around with mud on your face… Yeah I made some dumb decisions and bad choices… This is your last season with mud on your face.. You are not going to walk around with humiliation and embarrassment..
Shame is like Cholesterol… A steroid used to manufacturer vitamin D… Vital to produce cell membranes… You cannot live without it, because we have good and bad cholesterol.. Bad cholesterol will cause you to have heart attacks… There are good shames and bad shames… I needed a little bit of shame to make me believe that it’s not about me…
I have enough shame until I know God should have killed me last week, but if it had not been for the Lord that was on my side, my shame would have killed me..
Sometimes, shame can be good for you.. David said I was glad that I was afflicted..
I wish God could put me on blast privately… When you sinned when you sinned with somebody.. You are my test tube baby… Sometimes if I provoke you in public, I will praise you in public… Some people say embarrass them., because people don’t think they have changed… but if they see…
With bad shame it effects your heart… You feel like you are not good enough… With bad shame you always think you will be at the bottom of the barrel…
With bad shame you start to have low self esteem…You just go along to get alone and live with the present state of depression… With bad shame you will do absolutely nothing and sit in the house.. .You will not really prayer, because you believe that your prayer will not get answered anyways…
When you carry that much shame when you are anointed you take the risk of having an heart attack… If you believe in God, believe also in me….
If you are crying about you are a shame, you have the right to cry about what you did, but you do not have to cry about who you are… Don’t compare yourself to other people… You are beautiful just the way that you are…
I want to live a life with no shame but I just don’t know how to do it… If you want to live a life without out shame, come to the reality that talking to yourself is alright as long as your are saying the right things..
David is talking to his spirit.. put your hope in God.. If we put our hope in God, you can come out of this.. Tell yourself that we have been down long enough.. .To our own self be true… Tell my heart that we are not gong to be sad… We are not gong to keep on crying ab out spilled milk and who left us…
If my heart was going to break, it would have broke a long time ago…
The worst is behind me and the best is yet to come..
You can talk to yourself as long as you are saying the right thing.
Talk to him about the stuff you don’t other folks to talk about… Tell God about the stuff you don’t want to get out…
Don’t give the enemy any ammunition to put i over my head.. I’m praying to God that you don’t let it get out.. Whatever my area of shame lord, I need you to cover me..
Michael Angelo had an area of perspective… Our Lord and savior and conquering King was crucified naked before his mother and Mary Magdalene…
It was the intention of the Romans to make him feel shame.. They did not know that they were making him come full circle.. In the Garden of Eve, they knew when they ate the forbidden fruit they wee naked…
Everything they tried to strip you of. you still walked out with your dignity….
Many of you have come through a season where you lost so much but you still have your self esteem and dignity.. Somehow through the hand of God, you still have your pride..
It’s getting out, but don’t let me cry in front of them.. .God, I[m not gone beg them for nothing.. God please keep my pride in tact..
He is getting ready to cry…. The enemies are getting ready to cry… Your mean spirited family members are getting ready to cry because they are getting ready to see that they could not break you.. They don’t know what they did helped me… If it had not been, I would not be where I am today..
You should be able to say shamelessness that you are not ashamed of the Gospel.. I know some of us are ashamed of some of the people we have been with, but never be ashamed of the Lord and savior Jesus Christ..
God told me that we are getting ready to set people free… The bonds and ties are getting ready to come off… Those that are glad you came through it with your identity in tact, I’m getting ready to deliver you from your shame.. There are a lot of people who have confused guilt and shame..
Guilt is what you suppose to have once you get saved… Shame is not what you suppose to have once you get saved… Only for what you have done..
The enemy has held a gun to your head, but I want to let you know that the ransom has been paid…. Jesus paid it…. Those that don’t like who you, and cannot face yourself in the mirror… You think you are always suppose to be scratching and not surviving, I need to get the shame off of your.. A lot of us look like we are happy… A lot of people believe what you have has completed you… At the end of the day, you are not happy with yourself… Today, God is getting ready to take the shame off..
You are going to live past the shame.. You are greater than the divorce, the molestation, the abortion, etc… Because whom the son set free is free in deed… Stop acting like you are the rear view mirror when you are the front glass… Come unto me that all ye labor, and I will give you rest…
You make decisions that reflect that you do not care for your life… God has to send you friend’s that would have to act like they are your family… I’m talking to those that have been struggling all the way back to childhood struggles… There are some that realize that you don’t like yourself the way you are… Marvin Gay says it makes you want to holler and throw up your hands.
Lift up your hands right where you are… The person that hurt you for real, I don’t know what I would do, or be the bigger person this time… It’s infuriating, when a person do something to you… and you think because you said sorry it was alright… You have to get to the place that you h ave to be happy with yourself… You don’t need no one to validate you because you know who you are…
Those that have been under attack that did nothing to no one… You could have been at the top of your class…. Can you imagine what you could have done if your parents believed in you or believed in college…. There is something different about your life… I am not going to pray over you today, but I just need you to get that shame and embarrassment off your chest… Today you are gong to make the devil cry.. You are going to scream one time… This is the yell for the person that hurt you… Lift up your voice like the shame is being lifted….. Your healing is here!
I speak over your life today that you are going to live a life with no regrets!!!!
I pray you will not live another day in shame… You will never be ashamed of what you look like or where you come from… Because before the foundations of the earth he already knew where you were going to mess up…. But God has your shame covered…
Your joy is here!!! Everybody embrace three people and say: You are better than your mistakes!!!
Put enough shame on my face until I seek your face…
Homework assignment.. Pray with intentionality over the things your are ashamed of in your life… When someone brings out the dark parts in your life, it will no longer phase you the same because you have gotten passed your dark spots…
People can not make you shame., only if you let them.. DO NOT GIVE PEOPLE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE YOU FEEL SHAME!
Give your life to God so you can live a life without shame…
There is no shame in getting it right with God…
How many of us are glad God rescued you from where you were at.. God looked beyond your faults and recognized your needs!
WE BLESS GOD FOR THOSE WHO ACCEPT CHRIST THROUGH THE CYBER MINISTRY OF:EMPOWERMENT TEMPLE:WE BLESS GOD FOR ALL OF YOU:THIS IS THE DAYT HAT THE LORD HAS MADE:AND YOUR LFIE WILL NEVER BE THE SAME~HUGS AND A SMILE IS COMING YOUR WAY~GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU!!!!
The Devil gettin ready to CRY & Your Haters & your Mean Spirit Family Members Because they will see they didn’t had the POWERr to Break You. Yes Lord! God Bless The Man of God Dr.Jamal Bryant.
PASTOR:MANY PEOPLE:HAVE A MIS-CONCEIVE NOTION:THAT WHAT U HAVE HAS COMPLETED YOU:BUT:YOU ARENT HAPPY WITH WHO U ARE!!!!THIS IS FOR THE 1130AM SERVICE
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Notes taken by: Minister Evelyn Thomas…
Sunday March 18, 2012 – 11:30 Sermon Notes
Uncut / Unedited Sermon Notes from Dr. Jamal Bryant
Disclaimer – There are my very own notes from Dr. Bryant’s sermon, that I am sharing with you – they are verbatim, unedited and uncut – Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
Disclaimer : Very Bad Streaming live Connection on today… I will post this DVD in it’s entirety when it is released.. These are all the notes I have for now due to technical difficulties via internet… (Sorry – Minister Thomas)
Uncut / Unedited Sermon Notes from Dr. Jamal Bryant
Disclaimer – These are my personal sermon notes from Dr. Jamal Bryant’s sermon “I’m suspicious” – they are verbatim, unedited and uncut – Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
Sermon Title “I’m Suspicious” – Subtitle: “He’s talking about me..”
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Empowerment Temple Church / Dr. Jamal H. Bryant
Praise him!!! – Praise team and Choir / Getting our praise on!!!
Leader – I am a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have Holy Ghost power. The dye has been cast. II have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciples of Jesus Christ.. I wont’ look back.. let down or be still..
My past is redeemed. My present makes sense.
My future is secure…. I no longer need preeminence, prosperity, position , promotions, plaudits and popularity! I don have to be right, first…
My face is set.. My goal is heaven. My road is narrow. My way is rough.. Will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in……
I wont’ give shut up let up .. until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up , paid up worked up for the cause of Christ….
Announcements; ” We are on day 26 of our Lenten Season – Today we are focusing on “Motivation!”
Skit and Praise Dance; “Hello Fear”- (Kirk Franklin)
The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear!!!
Song Selection: He is worthy to be praised!
Dr. Jamal Bryant – Give God Some praise!!! Lift him up!!!
If it had not been for the Lord on my side, where would I be.. Anybody glad to be in the house of the Lord… Share with your neighbor one great thing that God has done for you lately.. If what he did was just alright, you don’t have to do nothing.. But if he as done something wonderful… Give God a wonderful Praise!!!
Welcome us that are worshiping on line! (Thank you Pastor! – Love you too!!!)
We believe at our church that you cannot be saved and stuck- up (lol)
Dr. Ceceilia Williams Bryant is in the house.. Let’s give God some praise for her this morning.. She is with her Grand babies…
I’m my mother’s son… My Dad is preaching at Bethel, and my mom snook out to be with me…
Kingdom Business / Announcment- Celebrating his father for being in ministry for 50 years at Bethel AME Church… , but his membership is at Empowerment Temple.. Please make sure you join them this evening at 6:00 p.m. – Look at the person beside you and say, you are not that busy…
Want to register every member of our church Family… Next week, early voting is in place… Baltimore has the only elected black senator…
He is encouraging everyone to go out and vote…
He will be in D.C. in revival this week… Join him at 2490 Alabama Ave,. South East. D.C>
Business Meeting: Will be dealing with the finances of our ministry…Etc.
You can download the prayer focus schedule – our prayer focus is on Motivation!
Song selection: I was created to worship and Give you Praise!
Played the tape recording of Trayvon Martin
Dr. Bryant – All heads are bowed and eyes are closed…. Stretch your hand towards whatever child is near you.. Pray that God cover the children that no hurt, harm or danger will come to them.. That angels will encamp all around them… I pray they will no lay in the cemetery before the fulfill their God given assignment.
Genesis 4:10 – Genesis 4:10 (NIV)
10 The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.
Luke 10:30-33 (NIV)
30 In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
Sermon Title “I’m Suspicious” – Subtitle: “He’s talking about me..”
Brother”s and sisters , every parents of a sun kissed child panics when they listens to the recording of Treyvon Martin.. Armed with nothing but an ice tea and skittles.
Mr. Zimmerman who failed out of the police academy, assaulted a police.. He had is record expunged… He could not qualify to be a police officer so he resorted to be over the neighborhood watch..
When they see a black man walking upright, he looks suspicious…
In Arkansas do great… They got suspicious..
When they saw Martin Luther King Walk across the Edmond’s bridge to get voters signed up, they got suspicious…
Pray like you mean it.. Pray like no weapon formed against you shall not prosper..
Every mother lay hands on your chest and say: “Not my son!”
A long way from Sand ford Florida, there were a man walking from Jerusalem to Jericho, and they followed him and conspired that they were going to jump him… Our society have been robbing our boys, stripping them making them believe that they can only be rappers, etc… What they did not know is they left him half dead…
I come to serve you notice that your child’s assignment for death has been cancelled..
They knew that his son was dead and in the morgue… They showed him a picture of him and there was blood coming out of his mouth… The mother diluted herself that she did not believe that was not her child… Even when they tried to show you picture of your child, you still say that is not my child… Greater is he that is in me, than he that is in the word..
They could not arrest Mr. Zimmerman, because there were no probable cause… While Treyvon in six feet under, Mr. Zimmerman is in his house watching TV, and still walking around free, and there is no outcry of injustice… Every preacher should be preaching about the injustice in this county…
Injustice anywhere is injustice every where.. A month later, they still have not arrested him.. Not only did they past him by, but the priest passes him by… He crosses the street because he did not want to mess up his clothes…
Being a saint of Jesus Christ, it sometimes require you to get dirty…. The Pastor in Orlando asked him what is he doing there. He said if you all had been doing your job concerning Treyvon, I would not have to show up…. Instead doing everything on Sunday morning, start caring about what’s going on in the world..
It’s a dangerous job to be a black man to walking doing something…. When Martin Luther King was killed because he was walking with janitor workers…
Over 2,000 years ago, there was man killed and they walked until they got to Golgotha… He got up again… The real message to the black.. Though they slay you, I will still trust you… A message to the black man… There is a message is you find something to walk for…
Tony Brown, every Sunday night he would say “I’m suspicious” If it walks like a duck and walk like a duck it is a duck…
For every person that says something about me, I’m walking with my hoodie on to let you know that no weapon formed against me shall prosper.. I’m still standing..Everything that glitters isn’t always gold sometimes it just “‘aluminum foil”!!
This man that had been robbed and stripped.. To be black in America, you have to be suspicious…. Keep living… All the glitters is not gold..
God is going to start putting you back together again…
When I give God this next sound of glory, I’m not doing it for myself…. Some of you guys cannot shout because you have never been robbed of anything… If you ever been robbed of your peace….
Every piece of mail is getting ready to be paid… Trust me.. When the praises go up the blessings go down… If you believe God, the equity is getting ready to get restored in your house… Don’t wait until the battle is over, shout right now!!
I have one more suspicion… It aint going to take a long time to get your strength and peace back… By this time Friday, everything the devil stole is getting ready to be restored..
This is the most stress I’m ever going to be … In the next couple of days, he sis getting ready to give me the desires of my heart…He is getting ready to make my dreams come true..
19 of you, look at your neighbor.. The reason why the devil is after me.. I am a suspect.. I praise him when it don’t’ look good… I praise him when my back is against the wall…
Shout, like !!! God is working it out.. He’s working it out!!!!
Look at your neighbor and say: You look suspicious.. What do you mean? You are getting ready to walk out of your dark season.. Press down shaking together and running over…
Don’t even look at them because they can’t take you because I am the usual suspect… When praises go up, blessings come down..
If you are going to get something in the next couple of days, live!!!!!
In the next couple of days “LIVE”
My time has elapsed, I want to be true to the assignment God has given me..
Every single mother that is raising a son… Bring him to the alter…
Hallelujah!!! Every single mother that is raising a son… Come on, “|I can’t hear nobody” Mother lay hands on your son.. Chest, head or back.. Every mother that your son is not here, lift your hands, and I pray that God finds your son and bring them back..
God is restoring your son… God is restoring that son…. Everything that has made that son angry and distant… Evert hing that has tried to break yours on spirit.. God is breaking that curse… The enemy has been trying to track your son down for the past two years, but he is getting ready to be restored back to the Father’s house so he will be restored back into ministry….
I pray that your son he be surrounded by the right people… .I pray your son will be able to operetta in discipline.. I pray your son will be greater than his father’s weakness. I pray that your son rewrite your family history.. I pray you will never have to visit your son in jail… I pray your son be built that he will be able to take care of you….
Give God glory and lift up your voice for your son’s !!!
Comments From the streaming Live thread / uncut
Pam Bernard
THANKS FOR GIVING @ WORLDWIDE CYBER MINISTRY~
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Yvette Gaither
Please review annoucements on the screen
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Yvette Gaither
Singing: How great is our God
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Chelle Knowinggodplanforme Daniel
Travon Martin was killed walking to his father’s house….understand that your life is on the line because your walk to your Father’s house is dangerous…The devil is after you and everything your trying to accomplish embrace your sons today the devil is trying to rob them
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Pam Bernard
THANKS FOR YOUR GIVING @ WORLD WIDE CYBER MINSITRY…..BLESS YOU~
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Misty Sanders
My Son Is In Gods HANDS….HE CANT BE ANYTHING BUT ALRIGHT!!
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Gourmetsip Go
God Continue to Cover My Son Micah
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Pam Bernard
WE ARE STILL LIVE @ 930AM SERVICE~
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Shantee Gettes
@chelle..i picked this name up in my spirit..is he lightskined??
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Suzlynn Bruton
trust GOD with your money!! you keep failing the money test!! GOD wants to take u to the next level but u keep failing the tithing test.~TITHE 10%~
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Toni Sellers
goodmorning saints:))))
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Pam Bernard
ITS OFFERING TIME:PLEASE REFER TO THE GIVING TAB ON UR SCREEN:TO GIVE ELECTRONICALLY:TITHES/OFFERINGS/SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS~DR BRYANT & ET:THANKS U FOR UR GIVING~
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Yvette Davis
Travon Martin was killed walking to his father’s house….understand that your life is on the line because your walk to your Father’s house is dangerous…The devil is after you and everything your trying to accomplish
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Pam Bernard
PASTOR:ARE U EXCITED ABT THE FUTURE OF OUR YOUNG MEN?
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Pam Bernard
THE DOORS OF THE CHURCH ARE NOW OPEN;WE OFFER CHRIST TO YOU MY BROTHER AND SISTER~AMEN
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Vickey Durham
COLINCIA
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Shantee Gettes
anybody have a son named laequan???
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Michelle McNeill- Puryear
Thanking u God for covering my son Joshua and daughter Naomi….
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Natasha Lyons
Yes Camille the devil is a liar!
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Lashawnda Pinkney
mowsrh5j
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Quashauna Sawyer
god i pray for joey darrien jacob troy devin nicklos and evey \youth men in world
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Natasha Lyons
Praying that our sons pick the best friends, stay focused, & know they have our supportt!!!
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Camille Jamerson
In agreement with you natasha!!
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Camille Jamerson
the enemy wants us distracted..the system is down-but prayers can still get thru-continue to pray for sons IJN
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Pam Bernard
SYSTEM HAS CRASHED…..
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Aquarian Sunflower
Lord Bless my son and I..Jesus name I Pray!!!!
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Natasha Lyons
Oh God I pray that you protect our boys when we arent able too, keep them covered God! I pray thatcthey walk into their destiny and live a full prosperous life! The enemy is after our young men…our children…stay prayed up!!
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Pam Bernard
THE NEXT LIVE SERVICE IS AT:1130AM(EST)~
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Aquarian Sunflower
Will there be a way to see this sermon later online?
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Gwendolyn Blackshear
Pastor is praying that every son is stronger than his father’s greatest weaknes….
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Lorna Daly
Touch our youth this morning Lord! Thank you!
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Brazzie Sherry
Every1 lay hands on ur sons if he is not present lay hands on ur heart. Praying ur son will be restored.
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Pam Bernard
PASTOR:SOMEBODY LIFT UR VOICE IN A PRAISE~
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Ann Bell
With hands lifted: God is restoring my sons…Halleujah Jesus!
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Mo Rocs
I PRAY FOR ALL THE MEN IN MY FAMILY!!! GLORRRRYYYYYY!
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Natasha Lyons
Move and surround my nephews and friends sons and my cousins sons with you angels God!
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Yvette Gaither
great expectations! Thank you Jesus!
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Natasha Lyons
Tears tears laying hands on your own son ir sons…if your son is nit in yoyrvoresence lay hands on your heart!!God is covering him and restoring him!!!
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Mo Rocs
PRAYING FOR AND WITH NANCY!!!
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Nancy Bray
i have him since his mother died
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Shantee Firstlady Gettes
Everything that glitters isn’t always gold sometimes it just “‘aluminum foil”!!!
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Pam Bernard
PASTOR:GOD RIGHT NOW IS:RESTORING YOUR SONS @ CHATROOM/CYBER MINSITRY~
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Lorna Daly
Restore our sons father!
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Yvette Gaither
Restore our sons Lord Jesus
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Camille Jamerson
Mothers: hands up…if you are raising a son! God is restoring your son!
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Pam Bernard
PASTOR:EVERY SINGLE MOTHER THATS RAISING A SON:COME OT THE ALTAR W/UR SON
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Quashauna Sawyer
yes pastor i am here with jacob
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Latonya IsThankful
#pray for Trayvon’s Martin Family
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Rose Lawrence
I’M A SUSPECT!!! Preach Pastor Bryant
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Pam Bernard
PASTOR:I WILL BE TRUE TO THE ASSIGNMENT GOD HAS GIVEN ME….BRING UR SONS TO THE ALTAR:PRAYER TIME
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Shardelsmi Favored
Amen…………….Yes Lord!!!!
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Erica MsCharlie Hunter
Everything that glitters isn’t always gold sometimes it just “‘aluminum foil”!!!
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Minister Tony Adams
Wow! I’m a suspect! The devil is always chasing after me….He has an APB out for my life……But Jesus…..
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Esther DeLoach
Give me 72hrs to make my dream come to pass.
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Ethell K. Wilson-Diallo
I have refreshed several times still keep getting the invite for resurrection service no live stream 🙁
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Latonya IsThankful
Amen! I am suspect! I look blessed!
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Brazzie Sherry
I’m a suspect! Praises go up & Blessings come down. Amen
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Nancy Bray
i received another court order for not complying with court order,about my grandson
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Pam Bernard
PASTOR:IF UR GONNA GET SOMETHING IN THE NXT COUPLE OF DAYS:GIVE GOD THE PRAISE
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Monnie’n Jayden White
March 26- sweatshirt, skittles, ice tea
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Pam Bernard
PLEAE REFREAIN FROM LENGTHY COMMENST OVER 3 LINES THANKS EVERYONE~
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Suzlynn Bruton
YOU LOOK LIKE YOU ARE WALKING OUT OF YOUR DARK SEASON!!
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Yvette Gaither
Ya’ll look suspicious! You look like you about to get the best blessing!
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Lorna Daly
I receive!
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Janet Peoples
YesSir, PRAISE GOD when it doesn’t look good; but HE is working it OUT!!!
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Nancy Bray
i am buying me a hoodie
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Natasha Lyons
PreachBlack man! in 72 hours God is gonna restore what the Devil took from you. I praise him when my back is up against the wall! The devil SUSPECTS that I am going to praise God through the storm!!!
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Suzlynn Bruton
I AM A SUSPECT~RESTORE~REPLENISH~REBUILD~
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Minister John B. Wilkins
I’m a suspect!!!!!!
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Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
Preach Black Man!!! Glory!!!
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Mika St Fleur
God is working!!!!!!!!
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Jamila Hargrove
BUT GOD IS WORKING IT OUT
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Nancy Bray
SCRIPTURE:GENESIS 4:10 AND LUKE 10:30-33 thanks@ Yvette Gaither
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Pam Bernard
PASTOR:LOOK @ UR NEIGHBOR:THE REASON WHY THE DEVIL IS AFTA ME:BCUZ I AM A SUSPECT:I PRASIE HIM ETC….
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Suzlynn Bruton
it is not going to take a long time to get your peace,finances,strength back everything that the enemy took is getting ready to be restored!!!
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La-Tee Tate
I have been robbed of everything, but God is about to restore all
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Nichelle Gilbert
Everything that glitters isn’t always gold sometimes it just “‘aluminum foil”!!!
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Kelly White Prioleau
When the praises go up, the blessings will come down…thank you Jesus!!
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Minister John B. Wilkins
Amen Pastor Bryant
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Suzlynn Bruton
Everything that glitters isn’t always gold sometimes it just “‘aluminum foil”!!
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Suzlynn Bruton
everything the enemy took from you is getting ready to be restored back to you..
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Brazzie Sherry
SERMON TOPIC: I’m suspicious (regarding Trayvon Martin
32 minutes ago
Regina Jeannie Wilson
Everything that glitters isn’t always gold sometimes it just “‘aluminum foil”!!! (PJB)
33 minutes ago
Monnie’n Jayden White
Connection lost 🙁
33 minutes ago
Aquarian Sunflower
Lord O Lord…Help my me and son Jesus!!!
41 minutes ago
Jerome Fisher
Preach Black Man
41 minutes ago
Sharon Parker
My God…u better preach Pastor
41 minutes ago
Natasha Lyons
Tavon’s father had to ID his son on a polaroid….helps up God!!
41 minutes ago
Camille Jamerson
that is NOT my child….IJN
41 minutes ago
Pam Bernard
JESUS~
41 minutes ago
Camille Jamerson
JESUS…preach Pastor!!
42 minutes ago
Pierre Marshall
*tears*
42 minutes ago
Kelly White Prioleau
If you’re half dead that means you’re half alive….you can make a comeback!!
42 minutes ago
Pam Bernard
PASTOR:REFERS 2 TREYVON’S FATHER CALLIN SAYIN HIS SON WAS MISSING ETC…
42 minutes ago
Jamila Hargrove
American system has been stalking our sons, Stripping our sons making them feel unsuccessful
43 minutes ago
Lorna Daly
Close out everything and restart!
43 minutes ago
Sharon Parker
Thank you Jesus for saving the children!!
43 minutes ago
Suzlynn Bruton
No weapon formed against our children will prosper!!
43 minutes ago
Pam Bernard
PASTOR:IF UR HALF DEAD THAT MEANS UR HALF ALIVE:U CAN MAKE A COMEBACK!!!!
43 minutes ago
Yvette Gaither
If they left him half dead, means they are half alive
43 minutes ago
Trenita Hymes
that’s right!!!!
43 minutes ago
Yvette Gaither
Stripping our sons making them feel unsuccessful
44 minutes ago
Kelly White Prioleau
No weapon formed against our children will prosper!!
44 minutes ago
Pam Bernard
LOVE U SIS GAITHER :INTERNATIONAL:NIGERIA, AFRICA….
44 minutes ago
Yvette Gaither
American system has been stalking our sons
44 minutes ago
Yvette Gaither
No weapon formed against our children will prosper
45 minutes ago
Dorothea Jackson
Log off completely wait and log back on to hear the Pastor when it freezes
45 minutes ago
Jonique Vann
my screen is still black after refreshing several times.
45 minutes ago
Pam Bernard
LET US REMAIN IN FELLOWSHIP W/JESUS CHRIST….AMEN~
47 minutes ago
Jamila Hargrove
YESSSS!! HALLELUJAH
47 minutes ago
Kim Hardy
click refresh!!
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Pam Bernard
SYSTEM BACK UP…..AMEN
48 minutes ago
Suzlynn Bruton
kaleb and helen people post for others who may not have a connection or cannot hear the sermon plz be mindful of others 🙂
50 minutes ago
Shantee Gettes
HE NEEDS TO PAY FOR BETTER TECHNOLOGY THATS ALL!!!!! AINT NOBODY GOTTA BE REBUKED AN ALL THAT!!!!!..THIS AINT THE DEVIL TALKING EITHER!!!..HE NEEDS TO BUY BETTER TECHNOLOGY!!!
50 minutes ago
Pam Bernard
PATIENCE IS APPRECIATED AND VALUED EVERYONE:SMILE~
51 minutes ago
Lashawnda Pinkney
whether or not ur posting u still cannot even here what does that have to do with the connection
51 minutes ago
Yvette Davis
I love my Pastor; however, he has taught me how to encourage myself when I need to…so today I put that to practice.
52 minutes ago
Pam Bernard
MEDIA MINISTRY IS WORKING ON A RESOLUTION TO THE CONNECTION ISSUES:THANKS EVERYONE:NEXT LIVE SERVICE IS @ 1130AM(EST)…
52 minutes ago
Sonya Kilgore
I am getting a message saying this event has ended.
52 minutes ago
Kelly White Prioleau
@ Yvette…amen sista!!
52 minutes ago
Helen Flowers
dont post just watch please
53 minutes ago
Tanika Satchell
there is a connection problem
53 minutes ago
Yvette Davis
Even though the connection is down….my connection with the Father is forever firm
53 minutes ago
Braque Talley
is there a connection problem or is it just my computer?
54 minutes ago
Nykidra Robinson
Good Morning! There’s too much activity in the chat room, causing the site to continuously crash. If we can all stop typing, I think it’ll help. #God Bless
54 minutes ago
Julia Haggar
Jesus Jesus Jesus
55 minutes ago
Ba-Hesya Rasool
still not connected
55 minutes ago
Tara Bradley
Mine is down too!!!!
55 minutes ago
Bishop Terrance E. Rogers
nope from chicago
55 minutes ago
Tanika Satchell
nope
55 minutes ago
Helen Flowers
lets just dont write
55 minutes ago
Pam Bernard
MEDIA CHALLENGES THIS MORNING ARE PREVENTING THE LIVE SERVICE TO BE VIEWED W/O INTERRUPTION:WE ASK YOUR PATIENCE AS PROBLEMS ARE BEING RESOLVED:THANKS EVERYONE~
55 minutes ago
Alicia Welch
not me
55 minutes ago
Thomas Moon Jackson
god message was good
55 minutes ago
Tron Skeet
maybe they will replay it?
55 minutes ago
Mahogany Kay Bennett
I am not
55 minutes ago
Alicia Welch
why it keep going out
55 minutes ago
Praise him!!! – Praise team and Choir / Getting our praise on!!!
Leader – I am a part of the fellowship of the unashamed. I have Holy Ghost power. The dye has been cast. II have stepped over the line. The decision has been made. I am a disciples of Jesus Christ.. I wont’ look back.. let down or be still..
My past is redeemed. My present makes sense.
My future is secure…. I no longer need preeminence, prosperity, position , promotions, plaudits and popularity! I don have to be right, first…
My face is set.. My goal is heaven. My road is narrow. My way is rough.. Will not flinch in the face of sacrifice, hesitate in……
I wont’ give shut up let up .. until I have stayed up, stored up, prayed up , paid up worked up for the cause of Christ….
Announcements; ” We are on day 26 of our Lenten Season – Today we are focusing on “Motivation!”
Skit and Praise Dance; “Hello Fear”- (Kirk Franklin)
The Lord is my light and my salvation, whom shall I fear!!!
Song Selection: He is worthy to be praised!
Dr. Jamal Bryant – Give God Some praise!!! Lift him up!!!
If it had not been for the Lord on my side, where would I be.. Anybody glad to be in the house of the Lord… Share with your neighbor one great thing that God has done for you lately.. If what he did was just alright, you don’t have to do nothing.. But if he as done something wonderful… Give God a wonderful Praise!!!
Welcome us that are worshiping on line! (Thank you Pastor! – Love you too!!!)
We believe at our church that you cannot be saved and stuck- up (lol)
Dr. Ceceilia Williams Bryant is in the house.. Let’s give God some praise for her this morning.. She is with her Grand babies…
I’m my mother’s son… My Dad is preaching at Bethel, and my mom snook out to be with me…
Kingdom Business / Announcment- Celebrating his father for being in ministry for 50 years at Bethel AME Church… , but his membership is at Empowerment Temple.. Please make sure you join them this evening at 6:00 p.m. – Look at the person beside you and say, you are not that busy…
Want to register every member of our church Family… Next week, early voting is in place… Baltimore has the only elected black senator…
He is encouraging everyone to go out and vote…
He will be in D.C. in revival this week… Join him at 2490 Alabama Ave,. South East. D.C>
Business Meeting: Will be dealing with the finances of our ministry…Etc.
You can download the prayer focus schedule – our prayer focus is on Motivation!
Song selection: I was created to worship and Give you Praise!
Played the tape recording of Trayvon Martin
Dr. Bryant – All heads are bowed and eyes are closed…. Stretch your hand towards whatever child is near you.. Pray that God cover the children that no hurt, harm or danger will come to them.. That angels will encamp all around them… I pray they will no lay in the cemetery before the fulfill their God given assignment.
Genesis 4:10 – Genesis 4:10 (NIV)
10 The LORD said, “What have you done? Listen! Your brother’s blood cries out to me from the ground.
Luke 10:30-33 (NIV)
30 In reply Jesus said: “A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, when he was attacked by robbers. They stripped him of his clothes, beat him and went away, leaving him half dead. 31 A priest happened to be going down the same road, and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side. 32 So too, a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
Sermon Title “I’m Suspicious” – Subtitle: “He’s talking about me..”
Brother”s and sisters , every parents of a sun kissed child panics when they listens to the recording of Treyvon Martin.. Armed with nothing but an ice tea and skittles.
Mr. Zimmerman who failed out of the police academy, assaulted a police.. He had is record expunged… He could not qualify to be a police officer so he resorted to be over the neighborhood watch..
When they see a black man walking upright, he looks suspicious…
In Arkansas do great… They got suspicious..
When they saw Martin Luther King Walk across the Edmond’s bridge to get voters signed up, they got suspicious…
Pray like you mean it.. Pray like no weapon formed against you shall not prosper..
Every mother lay hands on your chest and say: “Not my son!”
A long way from Sand ford Florida, there were a man walking from Jerusalem to Jericho, and they followed him and conspired that they were going to jump him… Our society have been robbing our boys, stripping them making them believe that they can only be rappers, etc… What they did not know is they left him half dead…
I come to serve you notice that your child’s assignment for death has been cancelled..
They knew that his son was dead and in the morgue… They showed him a picture of him and there was blood coming out of his mouth… The mother diluted herself that she did not believe that was not her child… Even when they tried to show you picture of your child, you still say that is not my child… Greater is he that is in me, than he that is in the word..
They could not arrest Mr. Zimmerman, because there were no probable cause… While Treyvon in six feet under, Mr. Zimmerman is in his house watching TV, and still walking around free, and there is no outcry of injustice… Every preacher should be preaching about the injustice in this county…
Injustice anywhere is injustice every where.. A month later, they still have not arrested him.. Not only did they past him by, but the priest passes him by… He crosses the street because he did not want to mess up his clothes…
Being a saint of Jesus Christ, it sometimes require you to get dirty…. The Pastor in Orlando asked him what is he doing there. He said if you all had been doing your job concerning Treyvon, I would not have to show up…. Instead doing everything on Sunday morning, start caring about what’s going on in the world..
It’s a dangerous job to be a black man to walking doing something…. When Martin Luther King was killed because he was walking with janitor workers…
Over 2,000 years ago, there was man killed and they walked until they got to Golgotha… He got up again… The real message to the black.. Though they slay you, I will still trust you… A message to the black man… There is a message is you find something to walk for…
Tony Brown, every Sunday night he would say “I’m suspicious” If it walks like a duck and walk like a duck it is a duck…
For every person that says something about me, I’m walking with my hoodie on to let you know that no weapon formed against me shall prosper.. I’m still standing..Everything that glitters isn’t always gold sometimes it just “‘aluminum foil”!!
This man that had been robbed and stripped.. To be black in America, you have to be suspicious…. Keep living… All the glitters is not gold..
God is going to start putting you back together again…
When I give God this next sound of glory, I’m not doing it for myself…. Some of you guys cannot shout because you have never been robbed of anything… If you ever been robbed of your peace….
Every piece of mail is getting ready to be paid… Trust me.. When the praises go up the blessings go down… If you believe God, the equity is getting ready to get restored in your house… Don’t wait until the battle is over, shout right now!!
I have one more suspicion… It aint going to take a long time to get your strength and peace back… By this time Friday, everything the devil stole is getting ready to be restored..
This is the most stress I’m ever going to be … In the next couple of days, he sis getting ready to give me the desires of my heart…He is getting ready to make my dreams come true..
19 of you, look at your neighbor.. The reason why the devil is after me.. I am a suspect.. I praise him when it don’t’ look good… I praise him when my back is against the wall…
Shout, like !!! God is working it out.. He’s working it out!!!!
Look at your neighbor and say: You look suspicious.. What do you mean? You are getting ready to walk out of your dark season.. Press down shaking together and running over…
Don’t even look at them because they can’t take you because I am the usual suspect… When praises go up, blessings come down..
If you are going to get something in the next couple of days, live!!!!!
In the next couple of days “LIVE”
My time has elapsed, I want to be true to the assignment God has given me..
Every single mother that is raising a son… Bring him to the alter…
Hallelujah!!! Every single mother that is raising a son… Come on, “|I can’t hear nobody” Mother lay hands on your son.. Chest, head or back.. Every mother that your son is not here, lift your hands, and I pray that God finds your son and bring them back..
God is restoring your son… God is restoring that son…. Everything that has made that son angry and distant… Evert hing that has tried to break yours on spirit.. God is breaking that curse… The enemy has been trying to track your son down for the past two years, but he is getting ready to be restored back to the Father’s house so he will be restored back into ministry….
I pray that your son he be surrounded by the right people… .I pray your son will be able to operetta in discipline.. I pray your son will be greater than his father’s weakness. I pray that your son rewrite your family history.. I pray you will never have to visit your son in jail… I pray your son be built that he will be able to take care of you….
Give God glory and lift up your voice for your son’s !!!
Notes taken by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
(Disclaimer: Streaming faith was cutting in and out, could not get a good connection, but I’m giving you what I have – Still powerful !!! ) Thank you Jesus!!!
Travon Martin was killed walking to his father’s house….understand that your life is on the line because your walk to your Father’s house is dangerous…The devil is after you and everything your trying to accomplish embrace your sons today the devil is trying to rob them
ITS OFFERING TIME:PLEASE REFER TO THE GIVING TAB ON UR SCREEN:TO GIVE ELECTRONICALLY:TITHES/OFFERINGS/SACRIFICIAL OFFERINGS~DR BRYANT & ET:THANKS U FOR UR GIVING~
Travon Martin was killed walking to his father’s house….understand that your life is on the line because your walk to your Father’s house is dangerous…The devil is after you and everything your trying to accomplish
Oh God I pray that you protect our boys when we arent able too, keep them covered God! I pray thatcthey walk into their destiny and live a full prosperous life! The enemy is after our young men…our children…stay prayed up!!
PreachBlack man! in 72 hours God is gonna restore what the Devil took from you. I praise him when my back is up against the wall! The devil SUSPECTS that I am going to praise God through the storm!!!
HE NEEDS TO PAY FOR BETTER TECHNOLOGY THATS ALL!!!!! AINT NOBODY GOTTA BE REBUKED AN ALL THAT!!!!!..THIS AINT THE DEVIL TALKING EITHER!!!..HE NEEDS TO BUY BETTER TECHNOLOGY!!!
Good Morning! There’s too much activity in the chat room, causing the site to continuously crash. If we can all stop typing, I think it’ll help. #God Bless
MEDIA CHALLENGES THIS MORNING ARE PREVENTING THE LIVE SERVICE TO BE VIEWED W/O INTERRUPTION:WE ASK YOUR PATIENCE AS PROBLEMS ARE BEING RESOLVED:THANKS EVERYONE~
Uncut / Unedited Sermon Notes from Dr. Jamal Bryant
Disclaimer – These are my very own notes that I am sharing with you – they are verbatim, unedited and uncut – minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
Sunday, March 18, 2012 – 07:30 a.m.
OF note: * Notes are pieced together due to bad streaming live connection – Nevertheless, we were not defeated in Jesus Name! (Minister Evelyn) – Will update notes as soon as the DVD is released.
Selection: We have come with victory filled with love.. .Hallelujah!
Dr. Jamal H. Bryant, Sr. Pastor, Empowerment Temple Church, Baltimore, Maryland
Dr. Jamal H. Bryant – Sermon Entitled: “Stopping Voter Fraud”
Scripture reading: John 14:13-14- (NIV)
13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14 You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it.
Sermon Title: Stopping Voter Fraud
Ladies and gentle in the attempt of the next election… Nine states have already enforced stronger laws, drivers license.. etc..
To restrict, the poor, the young etc , they have figured out a way to discourage poor people not to vote..
William Obrien speaks at a tea party rally and says that “Students are too stupid to know who to vote for…” They vote out of passion and they lack – to know who to really vote for…
Voter fraud – only when the republicans stole the election…
In the state of Alabama there have only been 10 incidents of voter fraud.
Kansas, 2 – in Maryland – none – Michigan there have been 5 incident…
If you use my name because I am you mediator… I sit on the right hand of the Father.. You are limited and only so much you can do… You better use Jesus Name..
Even when people scandalize your name… I’m trying to warn them demons and haters
Have you ever heard anything good about your children it makes you feel good…
When you speak of Jesus it makes him feel good… Jesus loves me and there is nothing you can do about it!!!
Your name is so important… It’s not how we name kids today.. Today we name them on how they sound.. In biblical times you had a named based off your destiny.. .It was prophesy – When God name you it never based off the present, it is named off of your prophetic..
When demons and haters name you, they will name you off your past.. But Jesus will change your name..
He changed Abraham names. And told him that he will produce nations… As many starts in the key and sand on the ground…
Adam what a trickster – and his name were changed to Israel… Who you are is not what people call you… What you are going to call. me… You are the head and not the tail… You are a chosen generation…
Name the creeping things, name the flying things… He’s given us the authority to name conditions.. You have the power to name whether your problem is going to be temporary.. It’s based off of what you say….
Even people scandalize our Name We Got another Name. Amen Thank You Jesus John14:13
What you name, you have authority over it.. Next time you feel sick and feel pain in your body… Name your infirmity…
You have the power to name whether something is temporary or permanent in your life.
An angel tells Joseph that you are getting ready to have a child and his name will be named Jesus…
When he turned 13, Mary and Joseph was looking for Jesus…
Whatever you pray in Jesus name, you pray because you have no control..
To pray in Jesus Name is to suggest you have no control over the situation.. You use the name of Jesus for stuff that is beyond your grasp..
Some of us are going through some stuff that needs to have the password.. “Jesus”
I love to speak his name.. It’s the sweetest name I know.. Oh how I love Jesus!!!!
Hallelujah!!!
When you are praying, do not pray his name if you can handle it.. Use his name if it’s too much for you to deal with… If it’s overbearing, and you are equip- When I use your name,
When they saw the Queen. Someone ran up to her and hug them.. When you are in the presence of royalty, you bow down..
Some of us are trying to run up and hug God, but you got to realize that you and God are not on the same level… You have to humble yourself, and understand that you are in the presence of greatness… It should be something that stirs in your spirit…
Even while I’m sinning, I pray and I bow my head because I cannot even look into his eyes… I’m not even worthy of his presence… I bow my head because I am in the presence of royalty… .I bow my head to reflect to say I know who he is..
Anything is not like God, needs to do more than bow their head… Every knee shall bow.. AWHEN you pray in Jesus name, Cancer will have to bow… Loans will have to bow..
If you believe he’s able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all you can ask… Call his name..
It’s early and I need to call his name… Don’t sit to close because I’m getting ready to call his name…
The blessing is getting ready to overflow to you because I’m getting ready to call on his name..
Bodies are about to be healed, the anointing is getting ready to be released. Repossessions, and surgeries are going to be canceled when you call his name… When you call his name souls are going to be save… God is going to be glorified when you call his name…
You better be careful when you call his name… Everything is going to have to back up…
It’s been a long night for me… I’m going to have to call his … I’ve climbed the mountain, I’ve fought the battle.. I have to call his name…
When I count the three : call his name “Jesus!” “I can’t hear nobody!!!” You should lift him up like you know his name!!
I need you to lift you hand right where you are:” “speak the name Jesus!”
I said I was not going to tell nobody, but I just could not keep it to my self..
Everything that is out of order in your life… Speak his name… If you want to get it done, do not close a prayer without closing it in Jesus Name!
Close that prayer in Jesus Name and give him glory!!!
All heads are bowed.. Lord in the name of Jesus, I pray over every person that is not saved and unchurched and have not professed you as Lord… I pray you will escort them to this alter, and help them to start their lives all over..
It in the precious redeeming blood of Jesus Christ…. You stand on it!!!
Right where you are standing by faith.. You cannot get saved by the name of your church.. You cannot get saved under your grandma or pastor, but have to get saved under Jesus name…
If you confess your sins, he is faithful and Just to forgive you… You know in using it you will not be committing fraud…
Somebody needs to get saved because the need the Lord to be the Lord and Love of their life..
Are you in a church home that preach Jesus, are you saved.. Do not let this moment pass you by..
If you are saved you should not have a problem speaking his names..
There is nobody like our savior…
If you know that you are saved give glory to God right now..
How many of you all just Love the Name of Jesus..
Offering time in the house of the Lord…
Get your best gift in your possession… If everybody will tithes, it will meet the budget…
In Malachi 3 – is the only time God tested – God tests – the devil temps to see what he cant take from you… A lot of us have not been able to go to the next level, because you keep failing the money test… Do not play God cheap… There was a widow woman that gave from her heart… She did not give from what she had, but she gave from her heart.. Look at you envelope and say to yourself: Am I robbing God.. .Am I appreciative to what God has done in my life… Give unto him…
God let this week be the week we past the test… We want to show you that we trust you, and it is so in Jesus Name!
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When you call His Name Jesus everything has to bow i.e cancer; depression; problem etc. When everything in life is out of order Speak the name JESUS! JESUS! JESUS
Good morning my family, friends and world viewers. I bring you greeting from the World In Focus International Ministries…
As we embark upon this 26th day of Lenten Season, I am highly motivated on today. I thank the Lord on today for these past 26 days which have been bitter and sweet, but nevertheless, that’s the average person’s story… My story is greater than that because I serve a big God that is doing miraculous things in my life personally and for the people all around the world, and that alone brings out the real drive and motivation in me.
When I read and study the word of the Lord, and the scripture that motivates the most is the book of I Corinthians 15: 58, and it reads:
“Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that in the Lord your labor is not in vain.”
Let’s stop right here and look at what the word motivation means in the dictionary or the real world:
mo·ti·va·tion
1. The act or an instance of motivating, or providing with a reason to act in a certainway: I don’t understand what her motivation
wasfor quitting her job. Synonyms: motive,inspiration, inducement, cause, impetus.
2. The state or condition of being motivated: We know that these students have strong motivationto learn.
3. Something that motivates; inducement;incentive: Clearly, the company’s long-term motivation is profit.
When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers them out of all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all. He keeps all his bones; not one of them is broken.
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from God? You are not your own, for you were bought with a price. So glorify God in your body.
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.
For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor uncircumcision counts for anything, but only faith working through love. You were running well. Who hindered you from obeying the truth? This persuasion is not from him who calls you. A little leaven leavens the whole lump. …
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery. Look: I, Paul, say to you that if you accept circumcision, Christ will be of no advantage to you. I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law. You are severed from Christ, you who would be justified by the law; you have fallen away from grace. For through the Spirit, by faith, we ourselves eagerly wait for the hope of righteousness. …
Now therefore, if you will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession among all peoples, for all the earth is mine;
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.
Bring the full tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need.
Of David, when he changed his behavior before Abimelech, so that he drove him out, and he went away. I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble hear and be glad. Oh, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together! I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. Those who look to him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed. …
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