**Worship and Sermon notes taken by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas /
Notes are verbatim, unedited and uncut…
Opening prayer: Dr. Jamal Bryant – “There is no sorrow that heaven cannot heal…. No matter what the enemy tries to put into your mind… Today is going to be a day of Peace… Speak your mother’s name out loud ________… Then say “Lord, I thank God for her” – I pray that God give you a peace that passes all understanding.. I pray you are flooded with good memories… Thank you for the time that we had, and we do not take it for granted.. Praying for those that have a dysfunctional relationship with their mother’s…. We are stronger than you could ever imagine… Today we woke up with a sigh of relief knowing that you are still on the throne and you are in charge… In Jesus Name we pray… You are going to make it through the day… ” Pastor Jamal Bryant
Scripture Reading: Isaiah 49:14-1515 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! 16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
Sermon Notes: I know what that feels like…. In a rare moment of transparency my own Pastor Frank Reid III is not preaching in his pulpit right now because the doctors have called him home to St. Lois to let him know that his mother is in the last stages of Alzheimer’s… I’m praying for him…. The person that’s been a care giver for you, you now have to be a caregiver for them.. His mother is getting weaker, but my love for her is getting stronger.
Dr. Jamal tells a story about a boy and Uncle Charles the farmer. The new family moved in next door, and they had a little boy… The man was battling with Alzheimer’s…. The farmer asked the boy: What was the name of the flower that had a long stem , thorns and a red thing on the end… The boy told him it was a rose, and the man then started to call out “Rose” which was his wife’s name…
The woman in the bible that committed adultery, she will never forget the condition she was in… She had 5 husbands and the one that she was with is not hers…So she had 6 husbands… God said…”you thirst”, but Jesus said you will never thirst again”…. She will never forget the bad unhealthy, disconnected relationship God rescued her from…
In Mark Chapter 5, there was a man that would never forget….This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones. When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. He shouted at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God’s name don’t torture me!” For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of this man, you impure spirit!” He was practicing self sabotage… .The text said every night he was crying…. This demoniac man was calling out because nobody could restrain him… Then the Lord speaks peace into his life… As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to go with him. Jesus did not let him, but said, “Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.
I know you are puffed up on today and got on your game face… You will never forget the night that you were loosing your mind… The night you were feeling unglued… It was not necessarily what others did to you… You felt like you were sleeping in a cemetery… You knew if you stayed in that path you were headed in the wrong direction… God broke into your dark face…. Let this mind be in you… There was one particular day that you did not know whether you will live to see day break …. God said, you shall live and not die…. You wake up early because you knew how dark the night use to be…
The woman will never forget the condition she was in … She was caught in adultry… She was attacked for her moral failure… The church brings the woman to trial God brings us from shame to sanctified… You cannot afford to be aroggant in worship, because you know where you came from… Some of us should be careful when we talk about other people… I have not always been where I am… If you knew who I was running with…. When nothing else could help, Love lifted me..
I want you to remember the time that brought you the greatest level of embaracemetn…. I want you to be reminded about the people that persucuted you the most… Lord thank you for saving me…
The man in Luke chpater 23 will never forget the mess he was in…. He was a thief, he was caught and gone through due process… He was convicted and found in crucifiction…. Peoopel think because you were being crucifed because of your past… God said today you will live in paradise… Some of us are able to slip through because they don’t know whether you did it or not… But some of can say we did it….. But Father thank you for forgiving me…
It was not the day we got the car or graduated, but it was the day we got saved… SOme of us just need to thank God the day we got saved… Somebody needs to remember the day they were crying at the alter, and somebody was rubbing you on the back…
Isaih, is called the Shakespear of scipture… Can the mother forget the child that was at her breast? How can a mother forget her own child? The Lord arrested me in my spiritual arrogance… Have you forgot that church is always in the feminine tense?… Ask the church… Have we forgotten our children, while I am yet preaching to you mother’s?… There are 95% of our children incarcarated and we don’t have prison ministries…. We have girls having babies at a high rate… Have we forgot to teach abstinence… Have we forgot the times when we had to sit down, and get out the choir when got preganant out of wed lock in church?..
Have we forgotten about the childrenc that have special needs & ADD, and have to take meds, etc…. I’m glad you are listening… Have we forgotten our children that are gay? We keep sweeping it under the rug and act like it don’t exisist… As if it’s not in pews, and in many of our pulpits…. Have we forgotten that these are our children… Then he asked the question: Where is your compassion? My compassion is not condoning… My repsonspibility is to love them… My responsibility is to turn them around… It’s not the parents responsibilty to the be the friend to their child…. What happens when we don’t have a memory? What happens when we act like it dont’ exist… The black church has had a tubu in church like we are not getting none… In the church, we don’t address insest, date rape, etc… It seems as though the church has forgotten..
From outside appearance, maybe the black church is in the last stages of alzhemiers… Maybe our mental capacities have desenegrated…. Maybe we have been shouting and turning to our neighbor to much… We need to hold a standard where we know what spiritual authority is… Maybe President Obabma had gotten a memory loss… Maybe he will realize that he needs the black church…. Don’t take the black church for granted….. Come November 6… The homosexual are only 3.5 and and the black church is 7—%…. There is a memory loss… You have no ideal how sleepless I’ve been this week… I was the only black preacher to stand on the front line and stand for what is right… It don’t make me a gay basher, but it makes me a Jesus freak… There should be a standard, and I’m tired of the black church compromising… We should be preaching to please our God.. .If the church fail to address issues then we are just a social club… .If you agree with everything I say… The God in me should ruffle your feathers… The God in me should speak power..
Some of the elected officicals have forgot… They forgot they put their hands on the bible… Pastor Bryant, you are not suppope to speak your opinion…. But we are suppose to stand on the princiapals… It’s not just Christians that beleive in Man and WOman are suppose to married… Muselims, Jews dont’ beleive in same sex marriage… If we are approving same sex marriage then should we approve paligomy?
I am unphased by lobbyist, and people coming to protest… For me Homosexuality is Sin!!!… So is adultery, and so is fornication…. Homosexuality is Sin… Sin is sin and we must all repent…. How can you forget the one that was at your breast? Even if your mother forgets, or your mother forget her responsibility to you, it’s the responsibility of the church..
Whenever I look at your name, your name is already written in his hands… When Thomas streteched out his hands, he saw his hands was already piereced…. When you stretch out your hands you shuld be reminded about the sin you should have died in…
Your name is etched in my hands.. Everything that is connected to me is In God’s hands… You should thank God that everythign the enemy meant for evil, God is working it out for my good….. Maybe somebody have lost their way with their children or can’t pay your bills… Just know that it’s all in his hands… Maybe you have a medical condition is stopping you from breathing right… Please know that it’s in God’s hand…
When God get around the walls, things are gettting ready to come down…. When they marched around Jericho 7 times, the walls began to come down…. When he called on God, and said God do you remember when I was faithful… I came to tell ever woman that has been faithful… Those that are called by my name would humble themeselves and turn from your wicked ways…. Turn to your neighbor and say the walls are coming down…..
Some of yawl are gettting ready to hit a wall…. If Ihave some bonafied praiser… For God I live, and for God I die…. His praise shall forever be in my mouth… The road has been rough and the going has been tough…. I started out a long time ago, and I’ve deciced to follow Jesus a long time ago….. I told that wall, you don’t klnow who you are messing with because the gates of hell shall not prevail against me…. No weapon formed against me shall prosper…
Every wall is coming down and be shattered when I give God praise…. Let the redeem of the Lord Praise him… When you shout and give him glory, walls are coming down….
I can’t hear nobody…. Walls are coming down…
Right where you are… Face your walls… Walls are getting ready to crumble and collapse… Whatever has been a strong tower or strong hold is getting ready to fall… I need you to put in your mind, what is your greatest obstacle or greatest level of pain… That wall is getting ready to fall…. I don’t know who these impostors are but I need my church to show up… Every wall is getting ready to come down…
He asked a critical question: How can you forget that you have fed off of…. I can’t insist on what you should shout about, but I want you to give God glory for you most outstanding season or episode you will never forget and God has brought you out of…. You will never forget!!!!
Stand to your feet… There are some people who are going to get their memory back… Not by might or by my power, but by his spirit… Somebody prayed for you… Can you remember one significant thing God has done for you…..
If you can’t forget what he has done for you, how can you forget? I cannot forget what God has done…. Today I want to get saved, and remember what God has done…
Can you remember how bad you needed him? Do you remember how significant the church was in your life? Ask someone are they saved and have a church home? If they don’t remember their Pastor’s name where they go to church, they need a church home…. Don’t let this moment pass you by…. This is your moment and your season… Even at the risk of getting on somebody’s nerve… Ask them when is the last time you experienced God on this level…
You are in the right place, at the right time, serving the right God…
Some of us rembmer right until it’s time to give… Then we don’t remember nobody in the room – Pastor Jamal Bryant”
Give a seed today for $49.00 – God is getting ready to restore your memory…. God is going to help you remember!!!
Psalm 37:25 (American Standard Version) 25 I have been young, and now am old; Yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his seed begging bread.
Blessing to each of you all around the world… This is Mother’s day weekend her in the USA… We salute each mother and pray blessings over each of your lives… As the scripture states above that “I have been young, and now I am old, but I yet have seen the righteous forsaken.. Nor his seed begging bread… With that said, continue to trust in God with all your heart and never lean to your own understanding because above every name, the name of Jesus has all power to turn any situation around…
For those that are in perfect peace, I pray you take the time to pray for someone who is in need spiritually, physically, mentally or financial…. Or just some mother of father out there doing their job to the best of their ability but still can’t seem to get things to add up in there life… I intercede on that family’s behalf and pray change takes place and God’s glory rain on their lives and lives of every family they have….
I do understand in the economy we live in, and most of us have so many desires outside of everyday living… I have a desire to travel the world and preach the Good News of Jesus Christ…… I pray that my desires come to past and God make room for my gifts and doors be open in the mighty name of Jesus….
If I could be of encourage to just one person on today, I dare you to began to talk to God about all of your circumstances with all sincerity knowing that he can and will turn things around in your life that are not like God…
Knowing your O.G. source = Only God can do the impossible and turn stones into bread, take 2 fish and 5 loaves of barely bread and feed over 5,000 men women and children and then there was left overs…. That’s the kind of God we serve… I dare you to just jump on board and begin right where you are… God is a loving and a forgiving God and has no respect of person… He just ask that you acknowledge him and let him into your heart.. Just believe in him, and receive him confessing his death, burial and Resurrection… It’s not as hard as man makes it out to be… ” Just open up your heart and love on him… His love is reciprocal, and you will feel his presence and he will love on you back… Trust me, I’m a living witness…
You all be blessed, and remember to be a blessing to someone else…
“Here is A tribute to all the mother’s that are still here and the on’e that have passed away… This song really blessed my heart and there is a message for all of us enclosed… Just listen to Mr. PreZ Blackmon II break it down and minister to our soul….
HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY 2012! The SONG! Tribute to MOMS that have passed away! PreZ Blackmon II
Bishop G. E. Patterson – At The Name Jesus
Donald Lawrence & Tri-City Singers – Never Seen The Righteous Forsaken
1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (ESV) Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Happy Friday to each of you… Today I’ve come to the conclusion that when everything else in life has failed, “LOVE” is all we have left to keep us alive… It took me a long time to understand the term “LOVE HURTS”…. Sometimes, “LOVE is not getting what you want but is sometimes getting what you need.
“If you LOVE me, you will do what I want… No, If you love me, we will do what’s right!!!!
I’m learning that “LOVE” comes in all forms….
Fred Hammond – No Greater Love~!
~”LOVE”~
“There is only one happiness in life. to LOVE and be LOVED” – George Sand
“LOVE” comes in all forms – “God is Love”
Greek words for love: affection, friendship, eros, and charity
The Four Loves
1)Storge – affection
2)Philia – friendship
3)Eros – romance
4) Agape – unconditional love
In a classic book titled Colors of Love (1973), J. A. Lee defined six varieties of relationship that might be labeled love.
What six different types of love did J. A. Lee define?
Eros is romantic, passionate, love—what Tennov labeled limerence. In this type of relationship, love is life’s most important thing. Lee said a search for physical beauty or an ideal type also typifies this type of love.
Ludus is a game-playing or uncommitted love. Lying is part of the game. A person who pursues ludic love may have many conquests but remains uncommitted.
Storge (STORE-gay) is a slow developing, friendship-based loved. People with this type of relationship like to participate in activities together. Often storge results in a long-term relationship in which sex might not be very intense or passionate.
Pragma is a pragmatic, practical, mutually beneficial relationship. It may be somewhat unromantic. A person who leans toward this type of relationship may look for a partner at work or where the person is spending time. Sex is likely to be seen as a technical matter needed for producing children, if they are desired.
Mania is an obsessive or possessive love, jealous and extreme. A person in love this way is likely to do something crazy or silly, such as stalking. The movie Fatal Attraction was about this type.
Agape (a-GOP-aye) is a gentle, caring, giving type of love, brotherly love, not concerned with the self. It is relatively rare. Mother Theresa showed this kind of love for impoverished people.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth. Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; …
“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, so that you may be sons of your Father who is in heaven. For he makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust. For if you love those who love you, what reward do you have? Do not even the tax collectors do the same? And if you greet only your brothers, what more are you doing than others? Do not even the Gentiles do the same? …
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful;
Owe no one anything, except to love each other, for the one who loves another has fulfilled the law. For the commandments, “You shall not commit adultery, You shall not murder, You shall not steal, You shall not covet,” and any other commandment, are summed up in this word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.” Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you. I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. …
In this the love of God was made manifest among us, that God sent his only Son into the world, so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world’s goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God’s love abide in him? Little children, let us not love in word or talk but in deed and in truth.
If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.
Whoever has my commandments and keeps them, he it is who loves me. And he who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and manifest myself to him.”
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet, “Behold, I send my messenger before your face, who will prepare your way, the voice of one crying in the wilderness: ‘Prepare the way of the Lord, make his paths straight,’” John appeared, baptizing in the wilderness and proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. And all the country of Judea and all Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins. …
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm, for love is strong as death, jealousy is fierce as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, the very flame of the Lord. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man offered for love all the wealth of his house, he would be utterly despised.
Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations,
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …
“Stay dressed for action and keep your lamps burning, and be like men who are waiting for their master to come home from the wedding feast, so that they may open the door to him at once when he comes and knocks. Blessed are those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. Truly, I say to you, he will dress himself for service and have them recline at table, and he will come and serve them. If he comes in the second watch, or in the third, and finds them awake, blessed are those servants! But know this, that if the master of the house had known at what hour the thief was coming, he would not have left his house to be broken into. …
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
When they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, “Simon, son of John, do you love me more than these?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Feed my lambs.” He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.
The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah. Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: “Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me. The ox knows its owner, and the donkey its master’s crib, but Israel does not know, my people do not understand.” Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged. Why will you still be struck down? Why will you continue to rebel? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint. …
But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? …
And he said, “There was a man who had two sons. And the younger of them said to his father, ‘Father, give me the share of property that is coming to me.’ And he divided his property between them. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all he had and took a journey into a far country, and there he squandered his property in reckless living. And when he had spent everything, a severe famine arose in that country, and he began to be in need. So he went and hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, who sent him into his fields to feed pigs. …
Genesis 1:26 (ESV) Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
Greetings to my World In Focus International Subscribers, Family and friends all over the world ( WIFI Ministries) would like to take the time to let you know that ~I’m a conquer, I’m victorious, I won’t be stopped because I’m a believer, I’m an achiever, and I won’t blocked , And you know why!
God made me who I am!
On today, I want you to be just who God made you to be….. When God created you, he made no mistakes about it no matter what people thinks… I was awaken at 1:30 a.m. pst. singing “God Made me… He made me who I am” and I’m satisfied with that answer… So you ask yourself, does God really care for me? He does, so there’s no need to be ashamed of who you are. You can stand and declare to the world, God Made Me Who I Am!
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let US make man in OUR image, according to Our likeness”
Through everyday trials of life. The enemy will have you question your very existence, so I call to tell you the believer… that God…
God Made me. He made me who I am.
Come on and say it with me. God made me
Put a smile on your face, and say God made me.
You may be feeling down, but pick yourself up
God made me. God made me who I am.
So repeat these words after me and say:
~I’m a conquer, I’m victorious, I won’t be stopped, I won’t be stopped, I’m a believer, I’m an achiever, I won’t blocked, I won’t be blocked.
And you know why!
Now if you believe it, stand up and lift your hands and say….
My Soul says… Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. My Soul says… Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah. My Soul says… Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah.
God made me, God gave me, God raised me, God saved me
God made me. He made me who I am.
God made me who I am
So you ask yourself, does God really care for me? He does, so there’s no need to be ashamed of who you are. You can stand and declare to the world, God Made Me Who I Am!
Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
And to bring to light for everyone what is the plan of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things, so that through the church the manifold wisdom of God might now be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly places.
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Song of Songs, which is Solomon’s. Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth! For your love is better than wine; your anointing oils are fragrant; your name is oil poured out; therefore virgins love you. Draw me after you; let us run. The king has brought me into his chambers. We will exult and rejoice in you; we will extol your love more than wine; rightly do they love you. I am very dark, but lovely, O daughters of Jerusalem, like the tents of Kedar, like the curtains of Solomon. …
And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”
And God spoke all these words, saying, “I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery. “You shall have no other gods before me. “You shall not make for yourself a carved image, or any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. You shall not bow down to them or serve them, for I the Lord your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and the fourth generation of those who hate me, …
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in the body, whether good or evil.
But he was wounded for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his stripes we are healed.
More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.
For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,
One who heard us was a woman named Lydia, from the city of Thyatira, a seller of purple goods, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was said by Paul.
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. It was Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. So the sisters sent to him, saying, “Lord, he whom you love is ill.” But when Jesus heard it he said, “This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. …
So it will be at the close of the age. The angels will come out and separate the evil from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
For a fire is kindled by my anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol, devours the earth and its increase, and sets on fire the foundations of the mountains. “‘And I will heap disasters upon them; I will spend my arrows on them; they shall be wasted with hunger, and devoured by plague and poisonous pestilence; I will send the teeth of beasts against them, with the venom of things that crawl in the dust.
Then I saw an angel coming down from heaven, holding in his hand the key to the bottomless pit and a great chain. And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years, and threw him into the pit, and shut it and sealed it over him, so that he might not deceive the nations any longer, until the thousand years were ended. After that he must be released for a little while. Then I saw thrones, and seated on them were those to whom the authority to judge was committed. Also I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not worshiped the beast or its image and had not received its mark on their foreheads or their hands. They came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. The rest of the dead did not come to life until the thousand years were ended. This is the first resurrection. …
After this I looked, and behold, a great multitude that no one could number, from every nation, from all tribes and peoples and languages, standing before the throne and before the Lamb, clothed in white robes, with palm branches in their hands,
For it is time for judgment to begin at the household of God; and if it begins with us, what will be the outcome for those who do not obey the gospel of God?
And to grant relief to you who are afflicted as well as to us, when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus. They will suffer the punishment of eternal destruction, away from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.
Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God. …
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
Hello World in Focus International (WIFI subscribers), family and friends… I rejoice in the Lord on today just knowing how good God is and knowing deep in my heart that God don’t make mistakes like man.
In reality, death is hard to accept, but through Jesus Christ and leaning on him we can see the beauty of it all…. I do realize on today
that we are just pilgrims and strangers passing through this very land… This is a great place here on earth that God created it to work out our soul salvation, but he told us in his word in the book of John 14:1-4 – 1 “Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in Goda; trust
also in me. 2In my Father’s house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you.
3And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4You know the way to the place where I am going.”
In Genesis 23, we see Abraham mourns for Sarah. Jacob, in a sense, erroneously mourns on account of the death of his son Joseph—he is not dead, but he rightly mourns at least his loss. The Egyptians mourned for Jacob at the time of his death, and David in 2 Samuel 1 mourned greatly over the death of Saul and his beloved friend, Saul’s son, Jonathan. We see mourning throughout the Bible on the occasion of death, but not only death. For example, when Absalom is responsible for murder and flees from Israel to escape any possible consequences, David mourns his absence.
In Numbers 14:39, when the Israelites come to Kadesh-Barnea and fail to go in and possess the land, they are told that that generation will die and will not enter into the land, and the people mourned; they mourned the loss of the benefits of the blessings that were literally within their grasp and were lost. They mourned deeply. You remember the outcome of that mourning was not good because they then tried to go into the land and were defeated.
In Psalm 119:136, you find the psalmist mourning over the sins of God’s people. He says, “Tears stream down from my eyes, because they do not keep Your law.” Hosea 4:3 tells us that the land mourns because of Israel’s sin and because of the consequences that have come upon the land as a result of that. There are countless examples, and there is a transition in the Scriptures from the beginning in Genesis, where the mourning is focused on the loss of one who is loved (mourning that comes as a result of death), to mourning that has a more direct relationship to sin and its consequences. Let’s make an effort to come to some kind of definition by looking at some of the essential elements of mourning.
I realize on yesterday that “Mourning” is an normal emotional response.
Through it all, I still smile because
God is the head of my life….
“RESOLUTION ONE: I WILL LIVE FOR GOD. RESOLUTION TWO: IF NO ONE ELSE DOES, I STILL WILL.” ~JONATHAN EDWARDS
“If everybody would do one thing everyday for somebody else… Step-by-step, the world we share together would turn in to a much better and peaceful place…” (Status Update – By Corinne Van de Broeck) –
“We Give” – ~Dan Stevers ~
Hello To my World in Focus International Ministry (WIFI) Subscribers, family, guests and friends… I was touched by the above quote, because this is what God spoke to me on yesterday… I thank God for all my friends on Facebook, Twitter, Etc… Thanks for sharing all your wonderful inspirations …
God loves a cheerful giver…. He loves when we can be a blessing one to another… Sometimes I ask the Lord to bless me so I can be a blessing to someone else… Sometimes, it seems as though the rich just keep right on getting richer, and for the most part it is so because they strive for that purpose and that purpose alone… I pray the day that when God blesses us, we learn how to be a blessing to someone else. I’m often puzzled to the fact that I’ve never really had a lot personally, but I’m awesomely blessed with my own recognizes.. Nevertheless, I often dream about what life would be like with more than enough… I’m directly connected to people who have more than enough, but I don’t make it my business to reap their benefits because I don’t feel as though anyone owes me anything.
I’m often mistaken being that I’m the mother of a prevalent person that I gave birth too… I serve notice, that I’m just that same young girl that you all knew from the hood in Long Beach that loved the Lord and has always helped wherever it was needed. I feel in this life that you have to become approachable… I said “approachable” not easy… There is a difference, and I do believe this… Sometimes when we are put in the position to ask others for help, we often feel indebted to that person and that should not be so being that Jesus paid it all and he said in his word that; ““If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin. You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’ Let learn how to be a blessing and lend a hand one to another if we can….
In the book of Acts 20:35 – I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
In all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
“If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin. You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lord your God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake. For there will never cease to be poor in the land. Therefore I command you, ‘You shall open wide your hand to your brother, to the needy and to the poor, in your land.’
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.
When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them; I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
And all who dwell on earth will worship it, everyone whose name has not been written before the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who was slain.
And the great dragon was thrown down, that ancient serpent, who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world—he was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.
The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.
When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place. And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like a mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where they were sitting. And divided tongues as of fire appeared to them and rested on each one of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit gave them utterance. Now there were dwelling in Jerusalem Jews, devout men from every nation under heaven. …
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. For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him,
Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone’s name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
The beast that you saw was, and is not, and is about to rise from the bottomless pit and go to destruction. And the dwellers on earth whose names have not been written in the book of life from the foundation of the world will marvel to see the beast, because it was and is not and is to come.
And the angels who did not stay within their own position of authority, but left their proper dwelling, he has kept in eternal chains under gloomy darkness until the judgment of the great day—
Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride in possessions—is not from the Father but is from the world. And the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.
Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.
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.
Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with anyone in need.
Now the full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, but they had everything in common. And with great power the apostles were giving their testimony to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great grace was upon them all. There was not a needy person among them, for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold and laid it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to each as any had need.
And Peter said to them, “Repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins, and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Jesus looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the offering box, and he saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. And he said, “Truly, I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them. For they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all she had to live on.”
“There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table. Moreover, even the dogs came and licked his sores. The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, and in Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and saw Abraham far off and Lazarus at his side. …
He said also to the man who had invited him, “When you give a dinner or a banquet, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, lest they also invite you in return and you be repaid. But when you give a feast, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind, and you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you. For you will be repaid at the resurrection of the just.”
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.
“When you reap the harvest of your land, you shall not reap your field right up to its edge, neither shall you gather the gleanings after your harvest. And you shall not strip your vineyard bare, neither shall you gather the fallen grapes of your vineyard. You shall leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am the Lord your God.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return, and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, for he is kind to the ungrateful and the evil.
“If your brother becomes poor and cannot maintain himself with you, you shall support him as though he were a stranger and a sojourner, and he shall live with you. Take no interest from him or profit, but fear your God, that your brother may live beside you. You shall not lend him your money at interest, nor give him your food for profit.
“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be like a moneylender to him, and you shall not exact interest from him. If ever you take your neighbor’s cloak in pledge, you shall return it to him before the sun goes down, for that is his only covering, and it is his cloak for his body; in what else shall he sleep? And if he cries to me, I will hear, for I am compassionate.
Lends at interest, and takes profit; shall he then live? He shall not live. He has done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon himself.
And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the slave, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the creditor, so with the debtor.
But you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be. Take care lest there be an unworthy thought in your heart and you say, ‘The seventh year, the year of release is near,’ and your eye look grudgingly on your poor brother, and you give him nothing, and he cry to the Lord against you, and you be guilty of sin. You shall give to him freely, and your heart shall not be grudging when you give to him, because for this the Lordyour God will bless you in all your work and in all that you undertake.
Of David. Fret not yourself because of evildoers; be not envious of wrongdoers! For they will soon fade like the grass and wither like the green herb. Trust in the Lord, and do good; dwell in the land and befriend faithfulness. Delight yourself in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. …
Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine.” And there were those who said, “We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards. Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters have already been enslaved, but it is not in our power to help it, for other men have our fields and our vineyards.” …
“You shall not charge interest on loans to your brother, interest on money, interest on food, interest on anything that is lent for interest. You may charge a foreigner interest, but you may not charge your brother interest, that the Lordyour God may bless you in all that you undertake in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.
“You are in my thoughts on this morning” – Sis. Sharon, you wrote the vision, and you made it plain to me what it is that God put on your heart to do in ministry.. . May you forever R.I. P.
Jeremiah 29:11 (ESV) For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Greetings to all my WIFI ministry subscribers, family and friends… I’m so thankful that the Lord has brought us together one more time, and for that I’m truly grateful…. When I stop and look back over my life and think about all the good days, the bad days, the ups and the downs and I still can’t complain because on this journey called life we are expected to encounter what we consider good days and there are times when things fall completely out of our control, and we tend to label those as are bad day or not so good of times.. Nevertheless, I do believe that God knows that plans that he has for each of our lives … I’m just thankful on today that through it all, God still gave us another chance on this Christian journey and for that I just want to encourage someone on today and let you know that Jesus Love you and don’t give up and don’t give in … Just stop right wherever you are and say Thank you Lord!!! Thank you Lord for the good, the bad days, knowing that as long as we have breath in our body , we still have a chance to get it right with the Lord….
For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.
“Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon him while he is near; let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. “For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, …
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.
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it.
And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, I am the Lord your God. You shall not do as they do in the land of Egypt, where you lived, and you shall not do as they do in the land of Canaan, to which I am bringing you. You shall not walk in their statutes. You shall follow my rules and keep my statutes and walk in them. I am the Lord your God. You shall therefore keep my statutes and my rules; if a person does them, he shall live by them: I am the Lord. …
And when he had seized him, he put him in prison, delivering him over to four squads of soldiers to guard him, intending after the Passover to bring him out to the people.
When Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, he saddled his donkey and went off home to his own city. He set his house in order and hanged himself, and he died and was buried in the tomb of his father.
Then Saul said to his armor-bearer, “Draw your sword, and thrust me through with it, lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and mistreat me.” But his armor-bearer would not, for he feared greatly. Therefore Saul took his own sword and fell upon it. And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he also fell upon his sword and died with him. Thus Saul died, and his three sons, and his armor-bearer, and all his men, on the same day together.
And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.” Now the house was full of men and women. All the lords of the Philistines were there, and on the roof there were about 3,000 men and women, who looked on while Samson entertained. Then Samson called to the Lord and said, “O Lord God, please remember me and please strengthen me only this once, O God, that I may be avenged on the Philistines for my two eyes.” And Samson grasped the two middle pillars on which the house rested, and he leaned his weight against them, his right hand on the one and his left hand on the other. And Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he bowed with all his strength, and the house fell upon the lords and upon all the people who were in it. So the dead whom he killed at his death were more than those whom he had killed during his life. …
Then he called quickly to the young man his armor-bearer and said to him, “Draw your sword and kill me, lest they say of me, ‘A woman killed him.’” And his young man thrust him through, and he died.
The two angels came to Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gate of Sodom. When Lot saw them, he rose to meet them and bowed himself with his face to the earth and said, “My lords, please turn aside to your servant’s house and spend the night and wash your feet. Then you may rise up early and go on your way.” They said, “No; we will spend the night in the town square.” But he pressed them strongly; so they turned aside to him and entered his house. And he made them a feast and baked unleavened bread, and they ate. But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people to the last man, surrounded the house. And they called to Lot, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, that we may know them.” …
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
In those days, when there was no king in Israel, a certain Levite was sojourning in the remote parts of the hill country of Ephraim, who took to himself a concubine from Bethlehem in Judah. And his concubine was unfaithful to him, and she went away from him to her father’s house at Bethlehem in Judah, and was there some four months. Then her husband arose and went after her, to speak kindly to her and bring her back. He had with him his servant and a couple of donkeys. And she brought him into her father’s house. And when the girl’s father saw him, he came with joy to meet him. And his father-in-law, the girl’s father, made him stay, and he remained with him three days. So they ate and drank and spent the night there. And on the fourth day they arose early in the morning, and he prepared to go, but the girl’s father said to his son-in-law, “Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and after that you may go.” …
Song Selection: “I don’t know what you come do….” “He has done great things, bless his Holy Name!”
Scripture Reading: Matthew 14:15-20
15 As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.”
16 Jesus replied, “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.”
17 “We have here only five loaves(O) of bread and two fish,” they answered.
18 “Bring them here to me,” he said. 19 And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke the loaves.(P)Then he gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the people. 20 They all ate and were satisfied, and the disciples picked up twelve basketfuls of broken pieces that were left over.
Sermon Notes
It’s amazing in the hour we currently reside.. Computers have become our personal companions.. People look at their phone 135 times a day.. .Do you know what it would be like if we looked at our mates 135 times a day… Do you know what it would do for our children if we looked into their eyes 135 times a day… Life test or halt test, which is a stress testing process in engineering used to measure the level of stress.. It’s used to test stress and failures… It finds it’s limits and it’s used to find it’s balance.. It’s pushed to the limit to only find that it’s limited..If God is taking you through something more than regular people have to go through just so you can find your balance…Halt – stop before we react so we can connect..Halt stands for – Hunger – If you did not eat it will effect your equal liberty… The “H” in halt will effect your decision… When were the last time your made good decision… Maybe it’s because you are not in a place where you are being spiritually fed.. Halt stands for: H- hungry A = Anger – L- lonely – T- Tired…
Am I hungry?
Am I angry?
Am I lonely?
Am I tired?
L- Lonely – Have you cut from your conscious, your crowd.. Sometimes your results and actions are doing what you do because you are lonely.. Are you lonely because you don’t like your own company.. .Being around people does not neccistate companionship.. Being alone will make you slip into depression….After you access, Am I hungry, and I anger.. .Many of us don’t understand that if we don’t slow down…What happens when your gift has no anointing?The reality is that many of us are juggling bowling balls.. Walking around wounded trying to act balanced…This is my thesis statement… Church is not for you to have balance.. The intention of Christ was for you to never have balance… You are suppose to have… Did I hear you clearly that God’s intention was never for you to have balance… Even God’s aim when he died on the cross what to give you life, and give you life more abundantly..You have hit a brick wall, and you realize that you have nothing left… I’m trying to throw out some life line balance…Evening has now come.. He has not practiced time management.. How long have you been teaching because my mind has a short attentions span.. God will keep talking to us even when he knows I have other stuff to do… He’s been talking so much that the sun has now elapsed… Somebody has got to remind them that we have been here all day and nobody has not eaten.. He gave me the word but I’m now hungry… How can I function on the word, and I’m now hungry.. Because I have not eaten and I work for God, it has given me a chemical imbalance on how I function…You have to be careful who you operate under ministry.. How do you sit under God and tell them to send people away.. Next time you confront a negative spirit in church.. You don’t need to pray for them or pull out no oil.. Ask them if they have eaten today? Maybe they are doing to much… It’s effecting his equal liberty… He now says: “You feed them” Sometimes, I have to walk you through…Sometimes so many people in church becomes selfish about the person that is pouring into them…It is illuminating to the theory at hand… Master, this is what we got… 2 fish and 5 loads of bread… I know we don’t eat like this no more.. Aluminium foil and a brown paper bag ..You can put one fish into 2 slices of bread, but I still have an imbalance because I don’t have as much fish as I have bread. The dilema that is brought to Jesuys…
What do I do about imbalance..? I don’t have as much fish as I have bread…. This is where Jesus blows my mind… If God would have wanted me to have balance in my life, he would have broke up the fish… Why is God breaking up the bread… I’m anointing them to multitask.. I have to put more on them… You are ordained to do more with less…You are ordained to do more with less… The reason why people can’t understand why you are able to maintain with your little bit is because you have an anointing on your life…The reason why God keeps adding more to your plate is because he knows you can handle it… He knows that I really don’t want it… When he breaks the bread, he don’t even look at me… When more stuff is added to my plate, I won’t look to people. because I will look to the hills which cometh my help, because all of my help comes from the Lord…More is getting ready to be put on your plate… What I’m getting ready to put you in place for, don’t worry about not having enough time to do it, but you have enough God to do it, and I can make it happen for you…Do you understand what God is getting ready to add to your life.. More blessings, more checks. I’m getting ready to add more responsibilities… . To whom much is given, much is required…We have a problem.. Two fish and five loads of bread.. If it’s God’s intention to give us balance…. There should be an even number of fish and bread…. At the end of the day there are 12 baskets of bread left and no sign of fish.. What just happened is the real miracle because I don’t have enough… The miracle is there is an imbalance because there is too much… .I have to give stuff away for what’s God got for me…This is not going to be a life where there is not going to be pain.. This is not going to be a season where there won’t be disappointments… I’ve had some good days, and I’ve had some bad days, but when I look back over my life… All of my good days out way my bad days, I won’t complain… .God gave you the test to see if you would go to church even when you did not have balance in your life… I may not have balance but I h ave joy.. This joy that I have, the world did not give it and the world cannot take it away…All things work together for the good that Loves the Lord and is called according to his purpose… You can’t do it all, but God is able… God is able to do exceeding, abundantly above all that you ask to keep you from falling…I’m getting ready to pray that the Lord add more to your plate… I pray God will be able to trust you with more responsibility… I pray that God shift you into a dimension that you did not even know existed…As you lift your hands up to God he is breaking up bread because there is some stuff you have to hand out…. The question that has never been asked in text… Where did they get those baskets? God is getting ready to provide a receptacle to put all of your gifts in… I have to elevate you into another assignment… I have to give you a bigger office, etc. to work in..Confuse the enemy and give them peace in the face of Chaos… Lord I thank you on this week that your are going to give us the opportunity to share our gift with someone else… Thank you Lord that this is our graduation day… WE are going to be able to give over to God our imbalanced life…You have a lot you are trying to figure out, but God is going to put more on your plate…How many of you right now are dealing with more than you thought you could handle? How many of us can say I am amazed that I’m doing it all?Have you ever thought how overwhelmed you are that you are keeping things together at the same time.. Keeping the lights on.. I’m getting ready to add even more to your plate.. I just needed to know if you could pass the stress test…If you know this word was just for you…. Give God some praise…Give yourself the halt test..Am I eating right?
Am I hungry?
Am I angry?
Am I lonely?
Am I tired?
am I too tired for what it is I’m trying to accomplish..
Halt means to STOP – Stop right where you are…
It’s not God’s intentions for you to thrive, but for you to strive.. Go eat and feed yourself.. Are you working this hard to prove something to somebody? Are you over compensating that you don’t want to be like your mother?
Anger comes out sometimes in disappointment…
Are you tired of arguing? Are you tired of trying to figure out how you are going to pay these bills? Tired of always having to keep my mouth shut? Tired of always have to walk away? He will keep you in perfect peace if you keep your mind stayed on him…
Stop everything you are doing in the flesh that you are not prepared for in the spirit.. I pray God makes your heart strong enough to handle your mind, and your mind strong enough to handle your assignment….
I pray that God stop letting your family use you as an emergency exit..
God never calls people that are not busy… God called the disciples that were already busy and he added more to them…
Matthew 24:36 (New Living Translation)”However, no one knows the day or hour when these things will happen, not even the angels in heaven or the Son himself. Only the Father knows.”
Hello to my WIFI Ministry Subscribers, family and friends… I write on today with a heavy heart, but nevertheless, I feel the the rain… I can’t explain it to anyone, but if you ever felt God’s rain in your life you can identify with what I’m trying to convey…. I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that it’s raining in my heart and God has opened the flood gates of heaven on me, and it really raining in my world…
‘Open The Floodgates of Heaven’- Bishop Paul Morton @ GE Patterson Church
I learn on today that I lost a long time friend that recently shared her vision with me, and God had so many wonderful gifts and ideals inside of her…. I’m thankful that God allowed her on last week to share her vision with me… As we came to the conclusion that saints of God need to realize that there is plenty of work in the vineyard to be done… I totally agree….
She will be truly missed.. It’s amazing that her vision was in alignment with the vision God has given to me many of years ago… There is a book that has been pressing heavily that I’ve been wanting to share with the world for over 28 years named “Let my Baby Live”…. I recently realized that I was that baby that needed to live and not die… I know this story I’m holding will bless some young woman’s life and possibly save some little lives that probably would not make it to the world without some guidance from God… I’m compelled to hurry up and release this book because NO man knows the day or the hour that our will be cut short… However, I’m certain that if we write the vision and make it plain, it shall live on forever….
God has given me a vision and he has instructed me to teach and preach his Gospel to a dyeing world… I’ve been commissioned by God to do his wonderful work…. I don’t a want a choice, and I’m certain that this is my only choice I have left in life and that is to fufilll my God given purpose that I was put here on earth to fulfill…
I’m just thankful on today that God has opened up the flood gates of heaven to me, and it’s raining… I feel the rain… It’s all good, and it’s all God!!!!
Habakkuk 2 New King James Version (NKJV)
2 I will stand my watch
And set myself on the rampart,
And watch to see what He will say to me,
And what I will answer when I am corrected.
The Just Live by Faith
2 Then the Lord answered me and said:
“Write the visionAnd make it plain on tablets,That he may run who reads it. 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time;But at the end it will speak, and it will not lie.Though it tarries, wait for it;Because it will surely come, It will not tarry.
4 “Behold the proud, His soul is not upright in him; But the just shall live by his faith.
Woe to the Wicked
5 “Indeed, because he transgresses by wine, He is a proud man, And he does not stay at home. Because he enlarges his desire as hell, And he is like death, and cannot be satisfied, He gathers to himself all nations And heaps up for himself all peoples.
6 “Will not all these take up a proverb against him, And a taunting riddle against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases What is not his—how long? And to him who loads himself with many pledges’? 7 Will not your creditors[c] rise up suddenly? Will they not awaken who oppress you? And you will become their booty. 8 Because you have plundered many nations, All the remnant of the people shall plunder you, Because of men’s blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it.
9 “Woe to him who covets evil gain for his house, That he may set his nest on high, That he may be delivered from the power of disaster! 10 You give shameful counsel to your house, Cutting off many peoples, And sin against your soul. 11 For the stone will cry out from the wall, And the beam from the timbers will answer it.
12 “Woe to him who builds a town with bloodshed, Who establishes a city by iniquity! 13 Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts That the peoples labor to feed the fire, And nations weary themselves in vain? 14 For the earth will be filled With the knowledge of the glory of the Lord, As the waters cover the sea.
15 “Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbor, Pressing him to your bottle, Even to make him drunk, That you may look on his nakedness! 16 You are filled with shame instead of glory. You also—drink! And be exposed as uncircumcised! The cup of the Lord’s right hand will be turned against you, And utter shame will be on your glory. 17 For the violence done to Lebanon will cover you, And the plunder of beasts which made them afraid, Because of men’s blood And the violence of the land and the city, And of all who dwell in it.
18 “What profit is the image, that its maker should carve it, The molded image, a teacher of lies, That the maker of its mold should trust in it, To make mute idols? 19 Woe to him who says to wood, ‘Awake!’ To silent stone, ‘Arise! It shall teach!’ Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, Yet in it there is no breath at all.
20 “But the Lord is in His holy temple. Let all the earth keep silence before Him.”
He said to them, “Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there,’ and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you.”
And he said to them, “Truly, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see the kingdom of God after it has come with power.” And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, andled them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his clothes became radiant, intensely white, as no one on earth could bleach them. And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus. And Peter said to Jesus, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here. Let us make three tents, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” …
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
So that by two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled for refuge might have strong encouragement to hold fast to the hope set before us.
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating. Everyone to whom much was given, of him much will be required, and from him to whom they entrusted much, they will demand the more.
For if we go on sinning deliberately after receiving the knowledge of the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins, but a fearful expectation of judgment, and a fury of fire that will consume the adversaries. Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has spurned the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace? For we know him who said, “Vengeance is mine; I will repay.” And again, “The Lord will judge his people.” …
Now when they drew near to Jerusalem, to Bethphage and Bethany, at the Mount of Olives, Jesus sent two of his disciples and said to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately as you enter it you will find a colt tied, on which no one has ever sat. Untie it and bring it. If anyone says to you, ‘Why are you doing this?’ say, ‘The Lord has need of it and will send it back here immediately.’” And they went away and found a colt tied at a door outside in the street, and they untied it. And some of those standing there said to them, “What are you doing, untying the colt?” …
And he left there and went to the region of Judea and beyond the Jordan, and crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them. And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. …
Now when they drew near to Jerusalem and came to Bethphage, to the Mount of Olives, then Jesus sent two disciples, saying to them, “Go into the village in front of you, and immediately you will find a donkey tied, and a colt with her. Untie them and bring them to me. If anyone says anything to you, you shall say, ‘The Lord needs them,’ and he will send them at once.” This took place to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet, saying, “Say to the daughter of Zion, ‘Behold, your king is coming to you, humble, and mounted on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a beast of burden.’” …
And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James, and John his brother, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. And Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.” He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.” …
Declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times things not yet done, saying, ‘My counsel shall stand, and I will accomplish all my purpose,’
And the Lord said, “Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
“Enter by the narrow gate. For the gate is wide and the way is easy that leads to destruction, and those who enter by it are many. For the gate is narrow and the way is hard that leads to life, and those who find it are few.
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