Sermon Selection – Worthy is the Lamb

Scripture: Exodus 16:15-16 & 31  14 When the dew was gone, thin flakes like frost on the ground appeared on the desert floor. 15 When the Israelites saw it, they said to each other, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was.  31 The people of Israel called the bread manna. It was white like coriander seed and tasted like wafers made with honey. 32 Moses said, “This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Take an omer of manna and keep it for the generations to come, so they can see the bread I gave you to eat in the wilderness when I brought you out of Egypt.’”

Richard Famine was awarded a noble prize in physics… He declared that he can live with doubt, but he is OK with living with not knowing…

In polar opposite, I do no share until I know… Xenophobia is the fear of knowledge…   Ignorance is bliss… Rather dealing with their own ideal… He could not say all the Republican party was racist… To protest and say our president is a welfare present… They will not support after school programs, and they will support for babies to get here but will not help to take care of them…

The reason why the Gospel is being preached is not being preached with Power.. .If all of our preachers are glad to get…

The Gospel should be preached and not to be played with…  When you are not preaching about liberation, and to  those that are oppressed…

Oh ye generation of vipers.. How long will you be with me and not believe…

We have to call this county for accountability when George Zimmerman have not been arrested…  Joel Olsteen, John Hagee, and Rod Parsley where is your voice… We cannot just come together to sing Kum bay ya, my Lord, ….  The white church needs to stand with the black church as long as their is injustice…. We need to stand together..

Xenophobia is the fear of something you don’t know….  I want to know why they are using jail as the new plantation to use our men?

The day we released the tape of George Zimmerman with in injuries…  I want to know why they did not test George Zimmerman for drugs and alcohol…

I wonder, as you wonder… There should be something on my mind.. .Have you ever had a place in your life, why you have to be nice to people.?  Why you have to say I’m sorry to people that will not say they are they sorry?   Why am at this place where the devil is always picking on me…  Why am I at the place in 2012 that I’m was at 20 years ago?

Why you still praise him?  Because I still praise him because I have joy after all I have to go through…

You are not the first generation to go through the dessert and deep red sea…  They are between slavery and destiny but they have to go through the desert… I think that when God brings me out of slavery I would go to my destiny… If he takes me from desert to destiny I would not…  God wants to see how we will keep our  resilience…

I know that it’s been hard during your desert season… I am in a desert place, and still bless you when things are not growing.. .I can make a way for you even when things do not look like they are in your favor..

In the desert he gives them a limited menu that comes from a rock.. A rock is dead and water is living… When the water came out of the rock it was a resurrection of life… Don’t give up on it, something is getting ready to come out of it….

Whatever you need, Moses opened up his mouth… The more you open up your mouth, the more you will get past your situation.. God will bring something to life out of dead situation… I am bringing you water in a dead situation… I’m thankful for the water, but I need more than that…

I know you have been living in a drought, and it’s been tight and it’s been hard… .By tomorrow morning, I’m getting ready to provide you with what you need… Whatever you are in need of, I’m getting ready to send a blessing in your desert place…

God is getting ready to send something twice a day for your family.. You are going to be blessed twice a day…   You just missed it… You are going to get blessed when you wake up in the morning and when you go to sleep at night…

You are getting ready to get blessed twice, because you have been struggling too long…  Two on Monday, Two on Tuesday, two blessing on Wednesday, and two on Thursday and two blessings, one in the  morning and one at night …  Count your blessings and name them one by one… God is getting ready to bless my twice a day..

They awake and saw something on the ground… They said “What is this”  They called is manna – it’s translate to mean what is it… They began to grind it until it turned in to oatmeal and the begin eating, but trusting God…   There are so people who been trying to figure out how you been making ends meet with no support and no backup.. How are able to smile when you know the people on your job don’t like.. What is it that stops you from slipping into anxiety and depression… Some of your are launching your own investigation to know how you get out of the bed everyday…  People are amazed how you are able to juggle the foolishness and still maintain… God whatever it, keep sending.. .You don’t know why you are not bitter after all you have to go through.. You don’t even know how you are able to keep your peace… “I don’t know what it is”  After the kind of  life I had, I should be on Motrin, Tylenol, Prozac, Xanax etc… but by the Grace of God, I’m not on none of that because of the Grace of God!

I don’t know what it is… I don’t bother nobody, but every-time I have to explain to some trifling insecure folks what I really meant… I don’t know what it is…

This is manna… When God sends you something and you don’t know how to describe… Eyes have not seen and ears have not heard… I don’t’ how I am still keeping a roof over my head, and keeping this car, and know my job is on the edge… I don’t know what it is that helps me to keep all of this.. But God “Keep sending it”

They ate the manna for 2 years straight… Everyday for breakfast and Dinner… I don’t want you guys to start judging the children of Israel… God foreal… Eating the same thing for 2 years… It was nothing about the taste because the bible said it taste like honey…

God I’m tired of tasting the same thing for this season… I’m understand if you wanted me broke, not in a relationship for a season… I understand I’ve been dealing with this for two years.. How much longer do I have to struggle and you don’t want me to say nothing.. How long you want me to be quite and be the bigger person, ,when I know people have been trying to set me up.. I’m tired of the monotony… .It was good in the beginning, and now I’ve hit a brick wall..   I’ve been in this rut for a minute now and I really need some things to change.?  How long do I have to eat manna and don’t know what it is… Moses, might it have been better if you kept us in  Egypt.. At least we had Tilapia, and Halibut etc.. They began to reminisce about what they use to have… We use to live better when we were in bondage… When I was in the streets, I can get the rent paid and get the money.. Now that I’m walking with God I have less..  God says in this season I had to show you that I could live better with less..

Some of us had to downsize… I rather have less than to have to live in sin… I rather have less.. It aint flowing like it use to flow… .But I’ve never seen the righteousness forsaken or seed begging bread…. I’m living with less but I got more joy and peace in my heart…

Ladies and gentleman there are only one thing that grows in a desert is a desire to know.. Sometimes,  God dries some things up so you can get a thirst to know more about him… When things start to go bad you start to seek him out and want to know more about him…

Everyday, they began to eat manna, tired of it but they ate it…  After two years of being with it, they never gave it a name… I don’t know how you are with somebody for 2 years and you don’t know them.. If you been saying you don’t know what this is, you better stop eating it…  I’m out of time….

As we go into the new testament.. Whenever he healed some one.. He gave them this instruction… Please don’t tell nobody… .because he did not want no one to know that he was there…

Of note, there were no one that announced  that he was coming during Palm Sunday… But as soon as Holy week  came they began to be present… . They began to say to shout and they began crying Hosanna because they know who he is…

On this Sunday, I don’t’ have the energy or choral to make you you shout… But when I think of the goodness of Jesus, my soul cry out hallelujah , thank God for saving me…  I’m singing real.. Jesus is real to me…

Grab you neighbor and say God is real to me and he is worthy to be praised.. If he has done anything for for you, you should give God some praise… If it had not been for the Lord on my side.. I have to shout.. .If Hosanna has been a wheel in the middle of a wheel… You have to shout..

Say neighbor, I did not know some people motives and intentions, but when it comes to Jesus, I know what he is all about…   The old folks use to say What do you know about Jesus… He’s alright…  I tried him and I found out that he’s alright…

I should have been dead, I should have lost my mind…  He’s alright… Neighbor, I’m trying not to shout, but I know him….  But he’s been better to me than I’ve been to myself…

Won’t he do it… Is he alright… Shout Yes… Yes.. He’s alright… Glory…

If you don’t know him, don’t shout with me.. You know one day when I was lost…. He Died….

The devil thought he had me, but I got away …. I have to praise him!

He was God to my mother and my Grandmother.. I have to give him praise… I need you to pull on your neighbor and say…. I know him…. I remember when he saved me… I know him!!!

Have you tried Jesus he’s alright… .Jeremiah said, I was

not going to tell nobody but I just can’t keep it to myself…. If you know him, you should shout for joy!!!

Between now 9:02 – you are getting ready to make a shift from manna to I don’t what it is.. .To Manifest… Like you know what it is…

I can’t hear nobody.. Lift up your voice like you know what you are getting ready to get… You are getting ready to go from manna… to Manifest….

You are getting ready to manifest everything that God promised me in my desert place… I need three people that believe that this is my season…

Complaints is praise to the devil… But praise is saints unto God… I know you have been eating the same thing for two years but you know sometimes, less can mean more…

Bless us Lord in this season that we cannot explain.. .Help us manifest and get us out of this desert place and bring their entire household with them….   I give God all the glory and the praise… Clap your hands like the devil is between your hands…

How many of you had to figure out what God was sending you… How many of you are amazed of you own survival and what makes you so strong…

They marveled at Sampson’s strength.. He did not look like he was as strong as he was… So many people know your business and wonder why you have not slipped back into your old life styles.. Because God keeps giving me strength, everyday and every night and keeps on giving me strength..

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When Jesus walked into the city of Jerusalem… The whole city caught on fire.. Everything that is broken in our city is getting ready to be healed and set free.. The begin to give praise for what God is about to do…

Keep your palm as a visible provider.. It is in remembrance of what you are about to receive… Wave your palm and say:  Hosanna forever…

May God rest , rule and abide with you forever… Hug three people and say you are getting ready to manifest , and have a great day in the Lord!!!

Dr. Jamal H. Bryant:  “Open up your mouth and lift up your hands and give him glory…”

Verbatim Uncut Sermon Notes Taken: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas…