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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.

Greetings to my wonderful WIFI ministry subscribers, family and friends all around the world….  I awake

today with “LOVE” on my mind… When I think about how Jesus gave his only begotten son that we may have

life…. That’s enough right there to let me know that Jesus loves me, oh yes he does…

Well, I’ve come to the conclusion that “I’m in Love with Jesus and he’s  in Love with  me….”  This is the only long term relationship

I’ve  ever kept in these  46 years outside of my family… I’m so happy to report that there has never been a

break up between us, and our love just keeps on getting  stronger and stronger..  Even the times when I did

not do right, he just kept right on being God throwing his loving arms around me, and for that I say “Thank

you”   When we come to realization and realize that ‘Love” is really all we need… Everything else falls in

place… I love some of the finest of things, but I’m convinced that only what you do for Christ will last…

2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)  17Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed

away; behold, all things are become new.

 

Everyday as I  walk around I see all of his great creations and how he made everything so beautiful and so

unique…  I amazed everyday that the sun comes up, when the stars and  moon comes out at night…  I’m

amazed with  man in general how we are all different, but yet all the same…  Our animals are some unique

and beautiful creations also..   I’m fascinated with all the beautiful flowers, plants and trees… When I look all

around I see nothing but Love letting me know that there is a God that sits high and looks low.   Everyday, I

take the time out to just say Thank You Lord for showing me what Love really is…

New Direction– I’m in Love with Jesus

Bible Verses about “Love Is….”

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 ESV / 345 helpful votesLove 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.

1 Corinthians 13:13 ESV / 157 helpful votes

So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

John 13:34 ESV / 110 helpful votes

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.

1 John 4:7 ESV / 80 helpful votes

Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God.

1 Corinthians 13:1-13 ESV / 79 helpful votes

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; …

Matthew 5:43-48 ESV / 58 helpful votes

“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? …

John 3:16 ESV / 57 helpful votes

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

1 John 4:19 ESV / 54 helpful votes

We love because he first loved us.

Hebrews 13:1 ESV / 50 helpful votes

Let brotherly love continue.

Romans 13:10 ESV / 46 helpful votes

Love does no wrong to a neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.

Galatians 5:22-23 ESV / 42 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Romans 13:8-10 ESV / 39 helpful votes

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.

1 Corinthians 13:4-5 ESV / 37 helpful votes

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;

John 15:13 ESV / 36 helpful votes

Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.

Romans 8:35-39 ESV / 33 helpful votes

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.

John 14:15 ESV / 33 helpful votes

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

1 Corinthians 13:4 ESV / 31 helpful votes

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

Song of Solomon 1:1-17 ESV / 29 helpful votes

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. …

Leviticus 19:18 ESV / 28 helpful votes

You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against the sons of your own people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

 

1 John 4:9-10 ESV / 27 helpful votes

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.

1 John 4:11 ESV / 25 helpful votes

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

1 John 3:16-18 ESV / 24 helpful votes

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.

1 Peter 4:8 ESV / 24 helpful votes

Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins.

Galatians 5:22 ESV / 24 helpful votes

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Mark 12:30 ESV / 24 helpful votes

And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’

Mark 12:31 ESV / 23 helpful votes

The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”

1 John 4:20 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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.

John 13:34-35 ESV / 22 helpful votes

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.”

John 14:23 ESV / 21 helpful votes

Jesus answered him, “If anyone loves me, he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him and make our home with him.

1 Corinthians 13:1 ESV / 20 helpful votes

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal.

John 14:21 ESV / 20 helpful votes

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.”

John 13:35 ESV / 19 helpful votes

By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”

Mark 1:1-45 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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. …

Matthew 19:19 ESV / 18 helpful votes

Honor your father and mother, and, You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

Matthew 6:24 ESV / 18 helpful votes

“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.

Song of Solomon 8:6-7 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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.

Deuteronomy 7:9 ESV / 18 helpful votes

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,

Luke 12:35-40 ESV / 17 helpful votes

“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. …

Ephesians 4:1-3 ESV / 16 helpful votes

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.

1 John 5:3 ESV / 15 helpful votes

For this is the love of God, that we keep his commandments. And his commandments are not burdensome.

John 15:10 ESV / 15 helpful votes

If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 15 helpful votes

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. …

John 21:15-17 ESV / 13 helpful votes

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.

Matthew 7:7 ESV / 13 helpful votes

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

1 John 4:18 ESV / 11 helpful votes

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 11 helpful votes

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.

Isaiah 1:1-31 ESV / 11 helpful votes

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. …

Matthew 23:8 ESV / 9 helpful votes

But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.

Luke 5:6 ESV / 5 helpful votesAnd when they had done this, they enclosed a large number of fish, and their nets were breaking.

 

 

Posted by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas, April 30, 2012

Cited:  Scriptures are from Open Bible – http://www.openbible.info/topics/love_is

Encouragement

Sermon Title: “Act like a Lady and Think like a man” Dr. Jamal Bryant..

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Sunday, April 29, 2012 – 9:30 a.m. Service
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Empowerment Temple Church, Baltimore, Maryland ~ Dr. Jamal H. Bryant

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Scripture reading:  Matthew 17:20 (NIV)  20 He replied, “Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

Sermon Title:  “Act like a Lady and Think like a man”  Dr. Jamal Bryant..

Verbatim Notes:  It’s being taken very serious and taken serious by the Hollywood industry… Steve Harvey  just released a movie ‘Think like a man”  Sister are to operate in integrity and not operate in desperation… You will not be able to go to far without a discussion of your long term and short term goals..

There are some questions asked:  Are the standards too high, or is compromise too low?  The Law of gravity is a paralleled truth….  If you throw and object in the air it will hit the ground…

If this book is a truth, it should not be regulated to just a woman.. .The same things should be transferrable on how I relate to God… When God deals with us, he is asking us, what are short term goals.. Your praise should be a praise of expectation.. It should not be a dance of how you feel about him in public, but how you feel about him in general..

A lot of us have a casual relationship with God and he will hear from us when we are in a crisis.  The question has  been raised… How much do you compromise… How much do you give up on a one night stand…  Why is your standard not high?  Your expectation should be of such… if you step to me you better bring your best game… When you step to me, you better have your game together..

The book was so succesful and unremarkable and was not expected to be a movie

Matthew 17:20 – It you have the faith the size of a mustard seed, you can tell the mountains to get out of your way..

Mark  11:22 – Have faith in god..

I pray that your faith don’t fail because the devil desire to sift you as wheat…

Now he needed a book about to see if the concept work… I’m here to tell you that you can be a demonstration… In the next 30 days, you are gettting ready to be a star in your own movie… Everything that happened up until this moment was just a speak preview….  After today, it’s gone be a full lenghth movie…  People that did stuff to you don’t even know that they are going to be a part of script on the floor…. You have gone through enough heart breaks… Next time, they are going down and you are going up…

You don’t have to have my same influence but you do have to love God like I love God.. .If you have an attitude because I’m lifitng up the name of Jesus… If you have a problem with that, you better go some where else with that…

God is getting ready to show you a demonstration… When you are desperate for God, you will never be desperate to have a man or woman in your life….  The most desperate women are church women…  You are giving a bad name to the Kingdom…  You can try that with them other chicken heads…..  You aint blowing no man phones up or checking no man’s phone… If God has him on my call, you know he is on your agenda..

When a Christian woman knows her value, and know that she is fearfully and wonderfully made… A Christian woman should have value for herself..

On problem I have with the book is the amiguity of a WOman… He is not clear on what man I ought to think like.. When I read to the book do you want me to think like a man that thinks like a momma’s boy, or a man who’s healing from a divorce..   What is the kind of man that a lady is suppose to think like.?  I found him Matthew Chapter 8…. If you gone act like a lady, this is the man you should be thinking about..

In Matthew Chapetr 8:23 – Jesus is on the boat and a strorm breaks out…. Lord do you care if we perish?  If you are in a storm, is the test is if you are in a relationship you are comfortable with sharing with you your problems…

When the storm looks like it was taking them down, they cried out Lord Save me!!  Look at you neighbor and say:  That’s my booo (JESUS)…. When I get in his presence I have to lift up my voice because he means that much to me… Jesus is on the boat with him… He aint in heaven in this story….    I’m shouting because I need him to know that this is an emergency…. I’m boogie all week long, but when I get in my Daddy’s house…. .This is the day that the Lord has made, I shall rejoice and be glad in it…

As soon as they stood up he said “God save them”   “Peace be still”  When he said Peace be still he was not talking to the people… He was talking to the wind… When you have a real man in your life, he is not worried about the issues you went through… When you have a man that say I take with all your hang up’s, dieseases, etc….   Whatever you went through in your past is OK, but I speak peace in 2012~~~

I’m coming around the mountain… Be seated where you are… Today two things are getting ready to be healed.. The cause of your storm and the effect of your storm… I just heard my grandmother say;  ‘The storm is passing over”   Tell somebody that the storm is passing over… Don’t wait until the battle is over, shout right now!!!

Tap two people and say ‘It’s almost over’  I don’t care how hard it’s been, and how trying it’s been.. Tell two people you got here because it’s almost over!!!!

I’m hearing that ringing in my spirit… Help me preach it… “IT’S ALMOST OVER!!!!”

This has been an hell of a year for you , but please know that it’s almost over…

A mistake the enemy made is before the enemy sent the storm he should have found out who my man was first…

If I had some push over chump, he should have sent a bigger storm, because my man I serve can handle the storm….

I have to tell you something……   Please be seated…   “In the next verse he releases something in the 21 century church have taken for granted… In the middle of the storm, I was not just talking, but I was talking directly to you…

If you want to act like a lady… Sit your fast behind down and act like you have some dignity….  Be still…. I’m gone give you a season that God is going to send you a man… Just BE STILL!!!

Every person in this room, every 18 persons came through a bad relationship that knocked the wind out of you… Wave your hands… that’s the waves… After the relationship there were nights you could not sleep… There were days you did not eat or you over ate… There were nights you had to talk yourself through…   I’m releasing a spirit of peace because the joy of the Lord is your strength…

The last verse of this text is the verse Steve should have started the book with:   The wind and the waves stopped and everybody on the boat asked the question… ‘What matter of man is this that the wind and waves obey his will?”  When you lift up your voice, everything around you has got’s to obey your will and your way..

If I’m gone think like a man, you gone have to know what type of man I think like.. It’s not arrogance, but it’s confidence.. Let me tell you about my man;  Speak those things as though they were…

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

.. I am the head and not the tail… . I am above and not beneath.. He may not come when you want him to come, but he is an on time God… Neighbor, you don’t know what I’ve been through… I’ve had some people to break my heart and take me for granted… I know a man that will pick you up and turn you around and place my feet on higher ground…  I’ve been preaching for 28 minutes and I need to tell you my man name.. His name is Jesus… Every knee shall bow and every tongue must confess…. If I call his name, demons will tremble… If I call his name my savings is coming back.. If I call his name I will be married by next year… If I call his name haters will move out of my way… If I call his name doors will open… Jesus… He is my will in the middle of a will… .He is a friend that has never let me down… When I call his name, heaven is about to open up…. When I scream his name things are going to happen… Let the redeem of the Lord say so…’JESUS”‘ Jesus… in the morning… Jesus in the midnight hour….

Shout;  “I love him” “I love him”

If you don’t love him, don’t say nothing… . “I said I was not going to tell nobody but I just can’t keep it to myself!!!!!”

I want to pray for your heart… Let this mind be in you which is also in Christ Jesus…. You are transformed ladies and gentleman… I pray right now that God will guide you in all wisdom…. My second fallacy… Not only should I think like a man, I should act like a lady… A real lady is not acting… Not act like a Christian, be a Christian… He is calling us to become…. No where in scripture does God tells us about acting….

Give us a dismemberment that God will give us someone that has integrity and is pure and only want to see you happy….  I’m praying that God send someone in your life that your pleasure is your benefit…. I pray that God heals you from your past 3 relationships… Theses relationships have been the winds that have caused your waves..

I pray that God starts the movie on tomorrow and start showing you off on tomorrow and let people know that your faith has set you free… Your next relationship is gone work out!!!!     I speak it over your life and it is so!!!

In one minute people are getting ready to come to this alter and accept God as their personal savior… Church is a place where you can change your thinking and change your behaviour..  .You have to live through some stuff before you alter something in your mate… When you were coming up you needed a man that had a fancy car…. You just want a man that can drive….

You want a  mate that critically think and move forward…  Jesus wants to be your man…Jesus wants to be your highest priority!!!

If  he can change the way you act…..   You keep picking and choosing the wrong mate… But when you choose Jesus… Middle Eastern proverb: – Human thinking….         Let this mind be in you…

Some of you guys are saved and stuck up…  Just because someone is nice to you in church does not mean they want you… .I’m just being nice to you , I don’t want your number, I just want to make sure you know Jesus!!!  (Jamal Bryant)   Wow!!!

In the month of May, God is going to do something strange and something odd…  You are going to get stuff you never prayed for.. God is going to drop an opportunity that you did not even see coming….   I need every person to do something,… IF you were going to give $50.00 dollars, give $53.00 – If you are watching on line give $53.00 – $73.00 – $93.00 – Give some young person $3.00 to give… The spirit of rebellion will be broken off of them….  If you don’t have an offering, look at you neighbor and say”Can you give me some money   please”   Notice:  I did not say borrow… I said give!!!!

Lord, in the next 31 days… Do the unexpected in Jesus Name!!!!

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Encouragement, Faith, Holy Living, Revelations

Sermon Title: It’s not too late…. It’s not too late for you….

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Sunday, April 29, 2012 7:30 a.m. Worship
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“Every year in America… 16,000 people commit suicide relative to their finances… You gone live!!!… He will supply all of our needs according to our riches in glory by Christ Jesus..”

God is able!

Song selections: Pass me not oh gentle savior, I’ve been running for Jesus a long time, and I’m not tired yet… He’s able!!

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Scripture reading:  Genesis 18:10-12 –

10 Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you about this time next year, and Sarah your wife will have a son.”

Now Sarah was listening at the entrance to the tent, which was behind him. 11 Abraham and Sarah were already old and well advanced in years, and Sarah was past the age of childbearing. 12 So Sarah laughed to herself as she thought, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”

 

Sermon selection:  “Worthy is the Lamb”


Sermon Title:  “It’s not too late…. It’s not too late for you….”

 

Verbatim Notes:

Susanne Boyle felt the lime light in 2009 on Britain’s Got Talent…. She had an acute disability… She was teased at school… At age 12 she joined the church choir and began singing and doing karaoke performances at pubs in and around her village… She cashed in her savings and made a demo tape and sent it in to several people which told her that she was not photogenic or marketable…   Her mother kept encouraging her…  She always lived at home beause of her disability….   Her father then died 19 months later..

She ran into an old friend that asked her is she still singing?  She sang a song called “I Dreamed a Dream” from Les Misérables..  She is the oldest person to debue an album at 48.. She was viewed as the most influential person in 2012…    She ranked 2nd highest to the beattles… She discovered her talents after she was discovered..

Your are on a different time schedule….  I’ve been usheered in the spirit realm to tell you that “It’s not too late!”  God is going to make sure you do it!

Declare:  ‘It’s not too late”   There was a delay getting off the ground because there was low visability….  The pilot made an announement that the people who are on the ground are worried about something that I’m not worried about.. We will make up for lost time in the air… You are going to get there on time….   The things that have been slowing you down are the people with pre-occupation have been slowing you down… The enemy knows if I ever take off , you are going to make up for lost times…  Whatever you thought you were going to achieve these past 3 months are going to come to pass… Your storms are going to help you go pass people that’s been trying to hold you…. God recorded before the foundation of the world that you are going to get it yours..

J.K. Rowland’s did not find her sucess until she was 64-years-old … Mozart had his worked publised at 46-years-old..    God is getting us ready to receive success….  I’m now delivered from other people experiences… I know exactly what I want for my life….

Genesis, chapter 18 – He is sitting at the door of a tent…. He wanted us to be aware of where he was sitting…. They wanted us to be aware that he was at the edge… The door of the tent… Everything you have been through in 2012, God is gettting you ready… It’s when you don’t even realize where you at is when God steps in and starts to prophesy…  I will return in a year and you and your wife will have a child… Sarah is 89 and Abram is 99…. She asked the question… Can I still have pleasure?   Can I enjoy myself in this season in my life?     I know some of you are praying for money, etc…  But I’m gone let you sit back and enjoy your life in this season… I’m giving you permission to be pleasurable in your own self…..

Here is the question most of us are to proud to ask…  Will you give me my years back where I can be happy….

This is going to be a season to enjoy yourself again….   Sarah is not worried about how it’s gone come out of her… She is worried about how it’s gone get to her…  There is no anesthesia for her to take… She is not thinkng about the pain of the process… She is thinking about the pleasurable experience….  If I’m gone go through pain, don’t let me go through for nothing….    The enemy meant it for bad, but God meant it for good… It takes a lot to make me cry….  I just want to know can I be happy again and can I smile again…

She is past her child bearing age… She is on a different time and a different schedule…   She is a late bloomer..   Her probability to produce is not based off of what other people think… When I get ready, nobody will be able to stop me…  It’s almost time…  I know it looks off but I’m going back to school… I know you guys looking at me strange but my book will be published…

What I want  does not line up with the time table but I do believe that it’s my time…  You have been seeing doors open for other people.. You have been faithful over a few things but God is getting ready to give you much….

You don’t even understand….  Weeds are frustrated flowers…  Austrailian flowers… I’m pulling weeds out of your garden… I’m getting ready to move People that have been trying your cut off your dreams… They have been jelous because they cannot duplicate your anointing…

Sarah laughed… This is not a laugh aimed at the enemy… .It’s not a laugh directed toward haters… What God is going to do or me by now and memorial day… He is getting ready to give me the last laugh… How could I doubt my God?   Is there anything to hard for my God?    I”m getting ready to laugh between now and May 31… I under esimated my ability mixed with God’s Prophesy.

If God ever promised my anything I know that I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me… Everything God told me in my dreams is gettign ready to c ome to pass… God never spoke to Sarah… He spoke to somebody that was seated next to her… He told him to tell her that everyting that is in side of you is getting ready to come to past… You have one year for you gifts to take off and your imagination to take off… He had me sitting next to you to tell you that the race is not giving to the swift or the strong but unto those that endure to the end… You can laugh if you want but I’m about to be debt free… Every place that my feet shall tread shall be blessed…  As many sands that is on the sea shore, you name shall be great!  You shall be above and not beneath…

When the doctor gives you bad news Laugh… When the bill collector give you bad news  laugh… When the teacher gives you bad news about your child  laugh because the world did not give me this joy and the world cannot take it away..

Six months ago, I had to cry my self to sleep… But when I rose this morning, I had not doubt…..   Your next blessing is going to make you laugh…  When you go to the ATM and see more money… You bettter sing… I sing because I’m happy and his eye is on the sparrow and I know he watches over me!!

Hallelujah!!!   Be seated sir, mam… Verse number 14 in Genesis 18  asks a critical question…. Is there anything too hard for my God?   I believe I’ll say that again:  “Is there anything too hard for my God?”   Clause B says:  There is a  set appointment, and specific time that God has written down when your blessing is getting ready to come…  He said to Sarah, not only are you going to give birth, but you are going to see that boy grow… I want you be be strong enough to see him get married, graduate… I’m adding strength to your life..

This is for about 9 of you….   God has entrusted me to tell you that he is not going to let the liberation’s of your child kill you… You went through to much just to let them see you go crazy…I’m going to give you health so you can see them turn their lives around.. I’m going to let you live long enough… There is an appointed place… I’m getting ready to bless  you even when the person with don’t believe it!    I’m getting ready to bless you Abram because you have the faith… but Sarah is a doubter… but I’m not gone let her lack of faith stop you from getting your blessing….  Because of your faith…. I”m not going to allow you to miss another miracle because of a miserable mate… Just because they are unhappy, I”m not going to let you be unhappy… I”m getting ready to bless you because I saw you when you were in your agony… Even when you are with the person that don’t believe with you what you are trusting God for… I’m still gone bless you… It’s not too late…  Don’t look at your biological clock…. It’s not too late…   I know you are gauging where you are off of other people’s success… I’m here to tell you that it’s not too late…

Jesus shows up, and he is met by Mary and Martha… Had you been here the one you love would not have died… It’s too late, by now his body stinketh… Jesus said show me where you laid him?  It may be too late for you, but when I call your name, you are getting ready to go forth… Even when your own family give up on you… .You better not let Jesus show up… All he has to do is call your name… He said “Lazereht come forth”   When he calls me, I have to move to a new place…..   The bible says when they called his name somebody had to move the stone for Lazereth to come forth… He came out jumping even  though his body was wrapped in death clothes.. I have death on me, but God has me covered… In the time of trouble, he shall hide me… I know I don’t look my best, and I’ve been through some trial and some stroms.. But for God I live and for God I die… The bible says when Lazereth begans to praise him.. Death Clothes began to fall off… IF you praise him stress, worrry anxiety and worry is comeing….  Say neighbor it’s not too late…

I know you’ve been waiting, and I know it’s been a trial , but I want to tell you that it’s too… Whateever you prayed for and asked him for is getting ready to happen… Whatever you wrote down is coming to past… It’s not too late… If you see the devil before I do.. Tell the devil it’s too late… You should have killed me while you had the chance… Now, it’s too late for  me to be a drug addict… It’s too late for me to be stressed over a relationship…. It’s toooooo late!!!!!   Oh my….  Hey!!!  Hey…. I can’t get no real praisers in here..

It’s not too late!!!!     I feel something electric in the room! I need you to just cry out from your belly… “It’s not too late!!!”

It’s not to late for you to fall in love and find the person of your dreams… It’s not to late to step out on God and follow your dreams… I”m praying to God adjust your time table… I pray whatever it is God gave you the gumption for, that you will go after it….

The birth of Lord and savior Jesus Christ… That is not the case for Abram and Sarah.. He gave the prophesy… It did not negate the fact that they had to do the work… If they would have just heard to prophesy and not put in the work their prophecy would not have come to past… If you work you gift, and your fruits, you gift will make room for you… Celebrate a gift you have that you have not been using… Believe that something is going to happen so you can use your gift.. God is going to use your gift to convert a non beliver… I’ am going to use your anointing so somebody can see that the gift of God is still at work….  When the unsaved say they want to go to work with you… Just laugh… When the supervisor that is usually not nice to you , then they start to be nice to you, just laugh…

God help us work on undeveloped gifts…. Intercessors, healers, preachers prophets have a gift that is resting upon them.. God please develp their gifts, and please don’t let another year go by without them working in their gift… Left their fruit pay off the them… I’m praying that there will be a battery of testimonies that God has been good to me….  Give God praise!!!

It’s not too late to get right with God… While you were in worship, God adjusted your time… He is not just going to give you a long life… He is going to give you long healthy life… God if you gone let me stay, let me stay with life more abundantly… I don’t want to have to take an abundance of pills andwaith for a physical therapist to come to my house… I want you to live that you have life and have life more abundantly… .I want you to see your grand children and great grandchildren give their testimony…  It’s not too late…

Here’s what you have to give….  Sarah laughed and said, can I still find pleasure?  They stopped trying because they stopped believeing that it was possible… Stop beleiving what other people say… You waisted enough faith on other folks diagnosis…  Do you know how many nights and opportunities God had the chance to snatch you?   Can you recall and count how many people gave up on you?

Stop waisting God’s time!!!!  When he keeps giving you more time to get yourself together.. Without any theatrics or drama connected to it….. I want to open up the doors of the church and let you know that you have to get saved… The sand has come down in the bottle… You have seen so many people go before you, and you know you have waisted enough of your time, and God time… You know you need to step on on faith and beleive God… I know if he can give Sarah and Abram another chance at 90, he can give you another chance too… I know you done waisted time in the streeets and in the clubs, but it’s not too late to give your life over to Christ…

Move and talk to 3 people and ask them do they have a church home and are they saved?  This is not the time to be reserved…

You are in the right place at the right time, serving the right God… I know that right… If you know that’s right , come on and give God some praise…

Can a man or a woman rob God?   I now you probably robbed God the first months of this season, but it’s not to late to give your tithes and offering.. In the month of May, God is going to do something unusual and bizarre in the month of May…. I’m going to do something miraculous… When this good thing happens, it’s going to leave them shaken-ed, rattled and unnerved… May is going to be a month of odd occurrences…   How many of us trust God to do something strange.. .Buckle up for un-candid opportunities… God is getting ready to give you great favor with somebody that is going to seek you out…    Get an odd offering… I need your offering to end in an odd number as a testament of your faith… I want something odd to happen… Those that are watching on line, I want you to give an odd offering… $53, $73.00, $103…  Lord in the month of May do something strange, unusual and unscripted… I trust you to even me out with an odd blessing…

 

Verbatim Notes taken by Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas – April 29, 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

Encouragement, Faith, Holy Living, Revelations

Thank you Lord for all you’ve done for me….

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1 Thessalonians 5:18 (ESV) Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Today I stop  to show my gratitude to God and take the time to say:

“Thank you Lord for all you’ve done for me!”   

“If I had ten thousand tongues, I could not thank you  enough for all you are doing in my life”…

Everyday is not Sunday, but life still just keeps on getting better and better as I yield my life to you dear Jesus and begin to focus on God all by himself and pray for other’s rather than focusing on my problems and what I don’t I have…  I realized a few months back when I really sick and in tremendous chest pain that it’s not about me, but it’s about “Jesus!”

God has always been my all and all, and that right there makes is to easy to pause and say

“Thank you”

on this Saturday in the month of April 28, 2012….


 

Being Thankful

1 Thessalonians 5:18 ESV / 548 helpful votesGive thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

Psalm 107:1 ESV / 345 helpful votesOh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

Ephesians 5:20 ESV / 317 helpful votesGiving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

Colossians 3:15-17 ESV / 254 helpful votesAnd let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching and admonishing one another in all wisdom, singing psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, with thankfulness in your hearts to God. And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

James 1:17 ESV / 202 helpful votesEvery good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.

2 Corinthians 9:15 ESV / 155 helpful votesThanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

Philippians 4:6 ESV / 132 helpful votesDo not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Psalm 105:1 ESV / 122 helpful votesOh give thanks to the Lord; call upon his name; make known his deeds among the peoples!

Psalm 106:1 ESV / 121 helpful votesPraise the Lord! Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever!

Psalm 118:1-18 ESV / 84 helpful votesOh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever! Let Israel say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let the house of Aaron say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Let those who fear the Lord say, “His steadfast love endures forever.” Out of my distress I called on the Lord; the Lord answered me and set me free. …

Colossians 3:15 ESV / 83 helpful votesAnd let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.

Psalm 20:4 ESV / 79 helpful votesMay he grant you your heart’s desire and fulfill all your plans!

Colossians 4:2 ESV / 75 helpful votesContinue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.

Psalm 30:12 ESV / 72 helpful votesThat my glory may sing your praise and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks to you forever!

Romans 1:21 ESV / 60 helpful votesFor although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Colossians 3:17 ESV / 47 helpful votesAnd whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

Psalm 23:1-6 ESV / 47 helpful votesA Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. …

Romans 10:9 ESV / 34 helpful votesBecause, 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.

John 3:16 ESV / 30 helpful votes“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Romans 10:10 ESV / 28 helpful votesFor with the heart one believes and is justified, and with the mouth one confesses and is saved.

2 Peter 3:9 ESV / 27 helpful votesThe 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.

Ephesians 2:8 ESV / 27 helpful votesFor by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Micah 6:8 ESV / 26 helpful votesHe has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?

Psalm 9:1-2 ESV / 26 helpful votesTo the choirmaster: according to Muth-labben. A Psalm of David. I will give thanks to the Lord with my whole heart; I will recount all of your wonderful deeds. I will be glad and exult in you; I will sing praise to your name, O Most High.

Psalm 46:1-11 ESV / 25 helpful votesTo the choirmaster. Of the Sons of Korah. According to Alamoth. A Song. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam, though the mountains tremble at its swelling. Selah There is a river whose streams make glad the city of God, the holy habitation of the Most High. God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved; God will help her when morning dawns. …

John 14:1 ESV / 22 helpful votes“Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

Acts 2:38 ESV / 21 helpful votesAnd 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.

Isaiah 12:4-5 ESV / 21 helpful votesAnd you will say in that day: “Give thanks to the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the peoples, proclaim that his name is exalted. “Sing praises to the Lord, for he has done gloriously; let this be made known in all the earth.

Psalm 100:4 ESV / 21 helpful votesEnter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name!

1 John 1:9 ESV / 20 helpful votesIf we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Romans 10:4 ESV / 20 helpful votesFor Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV / 20 helpful votes“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Psalm 95:2 ESV / 20 helpful votesLet us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise!

Psalm 22:1-31 ESV / 20 helpful votesTo the choirmaster: according to The Doe of the Dawn. A Psalm of David. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer, and by night, but I find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our fathers trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried and were rescued; in you they trusted and were not put to shame. …

Philemon 1:4 ESV / 18 helpful votesI thank my God always when I remember you in my prayers,

1 Thessalonians 5:21 ESV / 18 helpful votesBut test everything; hold fast what is good.

Romans 6:23 ESV / 18 helpful votesFor the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Romans 9:1-33 ESV / 17 helpful votesI am speaking the truth in Christ—I am not lying; my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Spirit— that I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart. For I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my kinsmen according to the flesh. They are Israelites, and to them belong the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the worship, and the promises. To them belong the patriarchs, and from their race, according to the flesh, is the Christ who is God over all, blessed forever. Amen. …

John 3:3 ESV / 16 helpful votesJesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 1:12 ESV / 14 helpful votesBut to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God,

Romans 10:13 ESV / 13 helpful votesFor “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”

Matthew 10:28 ESV / 13 helpful votesAnd do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 12 helpful votes“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.’

Psalm 100:1-5 ESV / 12 helpful votesA Psalm for giving thanks. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth! Serve the Lord with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! Know that the Lord, he is God! It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good; his steadfast love endures forever, and his faithfulness to all generations.

Acts 17:11 ESV / 11 helpful votesNow these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

James 1:1-27 ESV / 10 helpful votesJames, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. 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. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. …

Romans 5:1 ESV / 10 helpful votesTherefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 10 helpful votesJesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. …

Psalm 7:17 ESV / 10 helpful votesI will give to the Lord the thanks due to his righteousness, and I will sing praise to the name of the Lord, the Most High.

1 Chronicles 29:13 ESV / 10 helpful votesAnd now we thank you, our God, and praise your glorious name.

Malachi 3:11 ESV / 9 helpful votesI will rebuke the devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruits of your soil, and your vine in the field shall not fail to bear, says the Lord of hosts.

Psalm 118:28 ESV / 9 helpful votesYou are my God, and I will give thanks to you; you are my God; I will extol you.

2 Corinthians 9:6 ESV / 8 helpful votesThe point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.

Ecclesiastes 7:14 ESV / 8 helpful votesIn the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider: God has made the one as well as the other, so that man may not find out anything that will be after him.

Psalm 91:1-16 ESV / 8 helpful votesHe who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly pestilence. He will cover you with his pinions, and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness is a shield and buckler. You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, …

1 John 2:27 ESV / 7 helpful votesBut the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and you have no need that anyone should teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about everything, and is true, and is no lie—just as it has taught you, abide in him.

1 Peter 3:21 ESV / 7 helpful votesBaptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,

Ephesians 1:11 ESV / 7 helpful votesIn him we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of him who works all things according to the counsel of his will,

Romans 7:1-25 ESV / 7 helpful votesOr do you not know, brothers—for I am speaking to those who know the law—that the law is binding on a person only as long as he lives? For a married woman is bound by law to her husband while he lives, but if her husband dies she is released from the law of marriage. Accordingly, she will be called an adulteress if she lives with another man while her husband is alive. But if her husband dies, she is free from that law, and if she marries another man she is not an adulteress. Likewise, my brothers, you also have died to the law through the body of Christ, so that you may belong to another, to him who has been raised from the dead, in order that we may bear fruit for God. For while we were living in the flesh, our sinful passions, aroused by the law, were at work in our members to bear fruit for death. …

James 4:6-12 ESV / 6 helpful votesBut he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. …

Colossians 2:7 ESV / 5 helpful votesRooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.

Psalm 35:18 ESV / 5 helpful votesI will thank you in the great congregation; in the mighty throng I will praise you.

John 10:10 ESV / 4 helpful votesThe thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.

Malachi 3:15-18 ESV / 4 helpful votesAnd now we call the arrogant blessed. Evildoers not only prosper but they put God to the test and they escape.’” Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name. “They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him. Then once more you shall see the distinction between the righteous and the wicked, between one who serves God and one who does not serve him.

Ecclesiastes 12:1-14 ESV / 4 helpful votesRemember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come and the years draw near of which you will say, “I have no pleasure in them”; before the sun and the light and the moon and the stars are darkened and the clouds return after the rain, in the day when the keepers of the house tremble, and the strong men are bent, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those who look through the windows are dimmed, and the doors on the street are shut—when the sound of the grinding is low, and one rises up at the sound of a bird, and all the daughters of song are brought low— they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets— …

Psalm 40:1-17 ESV / 4 helpful votesTo the choirmaster. A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the Lord; he inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me up from the pit of destruction, out of the miry bog, and set my feet upon a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many will see and fear, and put their trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie! You have multiplied, O Lord my God, your wondrous deeds and your thoughts toward us; none can compare with you! I will proclaim and tell of them, yet they are more than can be told. …

2 Samuel 1:1-27 ESV / 4 helpful votesAfter the death of Saul, when David had returned from striking down the Amalekites, David remained two days in Ziklag. And on the third day, behold, a man came from Saul’s camp, with his clothes torn and dirt on his head. And when he came to David, he fell to the ground and paid homage. David said to him, “Where do you come from?” And he said to him, “I have escaped from the camp of Israel.” And David said to him, “How did it go? Tell me.” And he answered, “The people fled from the battle, and also many of the people have fallen and are dead, and Saul and his son Jonathan are also dead.” Then David said to the young man who told him, “How do you know that Saul and his son Jonathan are dead?” …

Psalm 102:2 ESV / 3 helpful votesDo not hide your face from me in the day of my distress! Incline your ear to me; answer me speedily in the day when I call!

Psalm 145:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votesA Song of Praise. Of David. I will extol you, my God and King, and bless your name forever and ever. Every day I will bless you and praise your name forever and ever. Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable. One generation shall commend your works to another, and shall declare your mighty acts. On the glorious splendor of your majesty, and on your wondrous works, I will meditate. …

Psalm 6:7 ESV / 2 helpful votesMy eye wastes away because of grief; it grows weak because of all my foes.


Posted by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas
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Encouragement, Faith, Holy Living, Revelations

I will bless the Lord at all times….

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God has been so good to us and he has done great thing for us all..  We should always stop and take the time to  bless the Lord at all times….No matter what it looks like.. Whether I’m up or down, I’m still going to bless the Lord because he keeps right on blessing me in spite of my pain, my shame, my difficulties, through the storm and the rain through my heart aches and my pain.. . I don’t know about you, but God has done great things for me so  I will bless the Lord because he has done great and mighty things for me!!!(Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas 4/27/2012)

I’m just gone let Psalms 34 speak for me on today and the bible says:

Psalm 34 King James Version (KJV)

Psalm 34

“I Will Bless the Lord At All Times”- He’s good! Joe Pace

 1I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.

 2My soul shall make her boast in the LORD: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.

 3 O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together.

Byron Cage – I Will Bless The Lord


 4I sought the LORD, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.

 5They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.

 6This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.

 7The angel of the LORD encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.

 8O taste and see that the LORD is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

 9O fear the LORD, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.

 10The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the LORD shall not want any good thing.

 11Come, ye children, hearken unto me: I will teach you the fear of the LORD.

 12What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

 13Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from speaking guile.

 14Depart from evil, and do good; seek peace, and pursue it.

 15The eyes of the LORD are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

 16The face of the LORD is against them that do evil, to cut off the remembrance of them from the earth.

 17The righteous cry, and the LORD heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

 18The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

 19Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the LORD delivereth him out of them all.

 20He keepeth all his bones: not one of them is broken.

 21Evil shall slay the wicked: and they that hate the righteous shall be desolate.

 22The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them that trust in him shall be desolate.

 

 

 

Posted by Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas – April 27, 2012

Encouragement, Faith, Holy Living, Revelations

Grace and Forgiveness

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 Psalm 19:12 King James Version (KJV)- 12 “Who can understand his errors?
cleanse thou me from secret faults.”


The late Bishop G.E. Patterson
“Yes Lord/Invitation to Christ”

Greeting to all of my wonderful subscribers, family and friend’s of World In Focus International Ministries (WIFI)…  Thank you so much for your continued love and support, I can’t say thank you enough…

Today I want to touch on grace and forgiveness which is a big issue in our world today and tends to be a very touchy subject when it comes to us truly and really forgiving each other like Christ has forgiven us and showed us time and time again his precious love, grace, compassion, forgiveness and mercy.  Often times we become angry at the thought of forgiveness because it just seems so hard to let go of the things that hurt us so bad. It’s not that we don’t want to let it go, it’s just the thought of never wanting it to ever happen again in our lives.  I had to come to grips on yesterday and realize that the battle really is not mines  but it’s the Lord.

So after a long day of thinking, I had to come to terms that Grace and Forgiveness are vital for  Christian growth if we desire to move forward and go higher in him.  The scripture says in Luke 18:13  (KJV) 13And the publican, standing afar off, would not lift up so much as his eyes unto heaven, but smote upon his breast, saying, God be merciful to me a sinner.

I asked God to please ease my pain and take all these bad memories away from me and be merciful and replace them with things of  Love, Peace, Joy and  Happiness..  When we develop  a positive  attitude,  God takes care of us – forgives us, cleanses us through the blood of Jesus which  covers our transgressions and keep us under the shadow of  his wings .  God’s grace is sufficient!                                                                               

1 John 1:7  (NIV) 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin. 

Romans 4:7 – “Blessed are they whose transgressions are forgiven, whose sins are covered.
Psalms 17:8-9 (ESV) 8 Keep me as the apple of your eye;  hide me in  the shadow of your wings, 9 from the wicked who do me violence,  my deadly enemies who surround me.

 I seek for those things which are good and pleasing to God.  I never want to find myself bitter, because I feel no better than the person that has trespassed against me.   As Christians, we have to learn how to be the bigger person.   The word of God  teaches us how to be good disciples and  gives us instructions on how to come to him and draw others to him by taking them down the Romans road which is full of Grace and Forgiveness.  It really simple too!

He said all we need to do is confess with our mouths and believe in our hearts that God raised Jesus from the dead and thou shalt be saved.

So you have to stop and ask the question:  Do you believe that Jesus Christ Died for your sins?   If the answer is yes, you are headed on the right road!  Then the next step is letting you know that God is faithful and just to forgive us from ALL unrighteousness.

He gave his only begotten son who was wounded for our transgressions, beat and bruised for our iniquities.  He then locked his head in the arms of his shoulders and God died, BUT he did not stay there very long!

He stayed there all day Friday,  and Saturday, but early Sunday Morning our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ got up with all power in hands to show the world the kind of love he has for you and I.    That’s what I call real love that a man would lay his life down for friend!

It’s not happening much these days, but we do have some people that love each other so hard  that they would give their all for them…    I say just love unconditional like Christ loved us. 

The Cost of Being a Disciple
Luke 14:25-34
New Living Translation (NLT)
25 A large crowd was following Jesus. He turned around and said to them, 26 “If you want to be my disciple, you must hate everyone else by comparison—your father and mother, wife and children, brothers and sisters—yes, even your own life. Otherwise, you cannot be my disciple. 27 And if you do not carry your own cross and follow me, you cannot be my disciple.

28 “But don’t begin until you count the cost. For who would begin construction of a building without first calculating the cost to see if there is enough money to finish it?  29 Otherwise, you might complete only the foundation before running out of money, and then everyone would laugh at you. 30 They would say, ‘There’s the person who started that building and couldn’t afford to finish it!’

31 “Or what king would go to war against another king without first sitting down with his counselors to discuss whether his army of 10,000 could defeat the 20,000 soldiers marching against him? 32 And if he can’t, he will send a delegation to discuss terms of peace while the enemy is still far away. 33 So you cannot become my disciple without giving up everything you own.

34 “Salt is good for seasoning. But if it loses its flavor, how do you make it salty again? 35 Flavorless salt is good neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown away. Anyone with ears to hear should listen and understand!”  

Posted by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas / April 26, 2012

 

Encouragement, Faith, Holy Living, Revelations

There’s a war going on and you better fight…

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Revelations 3:11 I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.

REVELATION 12:10-11 *(NKJ) -10 The accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down. 11 “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.

“Satan is a thief and so are his helpers. John wanted his readers to receive “a full reward” which is his equivalent of 2 Pet. 1:11, an abundant
entrance into the eternal kingdom.”

 

“If  you want to win and win every time, DO NOT GET IN THE RING WITH THE ENEMY!”
(T.D. Jakes) 

The battle is not mine, it belong to God!…

God shall supply all of my needs  Philippians 4:19

I can do all things through Christ that strengthens me!  Philippians 4:13

Satan,  the blood of Jesus is against you !  REVELATION 12:10-11 

 

Satan,  I hear you knocking, but you can’t come in!

 

Don’t get in the ring with enemy!

 

“Satan Lord rebuke you!!!” Jude 1:9

 

“Greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world!”

1 John 4:4

 

1 John 4:4 (NIV) 4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

 

 

Encouragement, Faith, Holy Living, Revelations

Remember who you are….

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1 Corinthians 11:2 (ESV) Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.

Don’t even lose sight of the gift that is you.  When life seems to knock you down, get back up and get back in the game….

Remember what you’re made of.  Remember what’s flowing in your veins.  Remember what you were given, and remember what you went out and created on your own.  Like any great masterpiece, you’re not done yet.

Inside of you is the best of everyone who has come before you – and the best of everyone yet to be.  You can forget some of what life hands you, but never forget who you are…  A true child of God… A child of the King!!!!

You Are a Gift to the World!

Simba Remember Who You Are

remember    remember  remember  remember  remember!

 

What does the scripture say about: “Remembering”:

 

1 Corinthians 11:2 ESV / 16 helpful votes

Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.

Acts 20:35 ESV / 8 helpful votes

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.’”

Deuteronomy 6:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Then take care lest you forget the Lord, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

2 Thessalonians 2:15 ESV / 5 helpful votes

So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.

1 Corinthians 11:1-34 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you. But I want you to understand that the head of every man is Christ, the head of a wife is her husband, and the head of Christ is God. Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head, but every wife who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, since it is the same as if her head were shaven. …

Revelation 5:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then I looked, and I heard around the throne and the living creatures and the elders the voice of many angels, numbering myriads of myriads and thousands of thousands,

2 Peter 1:2-4 ESV / 2 helpful votes

May grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord. His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world because of sinful desire.

1 Peter 3:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect,

James 1:1-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. 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. If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask God, who gives generously to all without reproach, and it will be given him. …

1 Timothy 5:1-25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Do not rebuke an older man but encourage him as you would a father, younger men as brothers, older women as mothers, younger women as sisters, in all purity. Honor widows who are truly widows. But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show godliness to their own household and to make some return to their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God. She who is truly a widow, left all alone, has set her hope on God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day, …

1 Thessalonians 2:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.

Ephesians 5:11-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.

Galatians 5:19-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality, idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

2 Corinthians 3:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Who has made us competent to be ministers of a new covenant, not of the letter but of the Spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.

1 Corinthians 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes

I appeal to you, brothers, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that all of you agree, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same judgment.

Romans 14:23 ESV / 2 helpful votes

But whoever has doubts is condemned if he eats, because the eating is not from faith. For whatever does not proceed from faith is sin.

Romans 10:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.

Romans 5:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 1:21-22 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools,

Romans 1:20 ESV / 2 helpful votes

For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.

Acts 6:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now in these days when the disciples were increasing in number, a complaint by the Hellenists arose against the Hebrews because their widows were being neglected in the daily distribution.

Acts 2:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

When the day of Pentecost arrived, they were all together in one place.

Acts 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

In the first book, O Theophilus, I have dealt with all that Jesus began to do and teach,

John 21:25 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Now there are also many other things that Jesus did. Were every one of them to be written, I suppose that the world itself could not contain the books that would be written.

John 3:1-36 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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. …

Luke 6:24 ESV / 2 helpful votes

“But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation.

Mark 9:1-50 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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, and led 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.” …

Matthew 18:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, let him be to you as a Gentile and a tax collector.

Matthew 16:18 ESV / 2 helpful votes

And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Matthew 16:15-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes

He said to them, “But who do you say that I am?” Simon Peter replied, “You are the Christ, the Son of the living God.” And Jesus answered him, “Blessed are you, Simon Bar-Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 2 helpful votes

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. …

Psalm 14:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes

To the choirmaster. Of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, they do abominable deeds, there is none who does good.

Genesis 2:7 ESV / 2 helpful votes

Then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.

Genesis 1:27 ESV / 2 helpful votes

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

1 John 4:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits to see whether they are from God, for many false prophets have gone out into the world.

1 John 3:1-2 ESV / 1 helpful vote

See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we should be called children of God; and so we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.

James 1:14-15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.

Hebrews 1:13-14 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And to which of the angels has he ever said, “Sit at my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet”? Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation?

2 Timothy 3:16 ESV / 1 helpful vote

All Scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness,

1 Timothy 3:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

If I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God, which is the church of the living God, a pillar and buttress of the truth.

2 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.

Ephesians 6:12 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

1 Corinthians 6:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,

Matthew 16:1-28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed. When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread. …

Matthew 5:27-28 ESV / 1 helpful vote

“You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall not commit adultery.’ But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Ezekiel 16:49 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Behold, this was the guilt of your sister Sodom: she and her daughters had pride, excess of food, and prosperous ease, but did not aid the poor and needy.

Isaiah 57:15 ESV / 1 helpful vote

For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

Isaiah 55:11 ESV / 1 helpful vote

So shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it.

Isaiah 40:5 ESV / 1 helpful vote

And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.”

Psalm 53:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

To the choirmaster: according to Mahalath. A Maskil of David. The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, doing abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.

Genesis 16:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

The angel of the Lord said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her.”

Genesis 4:9 ESV / 1 helpful vote

Then the Lord said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” He said, “I do not know; am I my brother’s keeper?”

Genesis 3:9-10 ESV / 1 helpful vote

But the Lord God called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?” And he said, “I heard the sound of you in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked, and I hid myself.”

Genesis 1:1 ESV / 1 helpful vote

In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

 

Posted by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas WIFI Ministries / Inspirations to inspire!
Cited: Scriptures are from: http://www.openbible.info/topics/remembering 

 

 

 

 

 

Encouragement, Faith, Holy Living, Revelations

“You are already victorious:The struggle is not to win, it is to occupy”

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Empowerment Temple

Celebrating 12 years of service excellence!!!

Sunday, April 22, 2012 9:30 service!

“Shout to see where you see yourself going….” 

Of note, notes are ***Uncut / Unedited Sermon Notes taken by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas*** 

Guest Speaker:  Apostle Ron Carpenter

Scripture 1:  9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.  12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. ” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.  26 Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,[a] and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.

You are not getting up every morning trying to win.. Jesus has won the war, it perfect it’s done… Salvation is God’s victory… From the skin he put on Adam…  He’s perfect, and God has already won the battle.. Your struggle is not to win, it’s to occupy….  I have given you a land that flows with milk and honey…

We still trying to get people out of Iraq…  We are trying to occupy with a democratic government… Your job is to occupy… You are slowly becoming what you already are….

I”m going to give you a few tools to help you understand what you already know…

There is a difference between when you were made and when you were created… You were made from  the dust of the earth… The clock started clicking through your life….  A man and woman came together…   There is a difference between being created and being made… God had a thought, and he called it your name… Before you ever came into the earth realm a plan for your life had already been ordained…  You are in this world slowly creating what you to be….    God gives you a greater revelation…    Therefore whenever God wants something he does not speak to the things he wants, he speaks to the thing he wants….  He speaks to what is holding the things that come forth…   He said let the water come forth…  The water gave up what was already inside of it…  It did not speak to the sun and the earth… He wanted the heavens to bring forth the stars that was already in heaven…    God gave up you!!!  You came out of God.. .He decided to bring to people together how you were made but not how you were created.. You were God’s creation… When you dies we go back to God… When the fish dies it goes back from which it came from.. A flower go back to where it came from..   I came from God… I was inside of God…

My God has supplied all my needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus..  If I’m reading my word right, I don’t have a need.  The word says it’s done..    When he went to the right hand of the father, it is finished… You just have to occupy what’s yours.. Alll of my needs are met but they are in glory…    My needs have been met in heavenly place.. .  I’ve been blessed with everything, but I can’t wait until I get to heaven….  I have some needs to that need to be me while on earth…  You kids are going to need some shoes, you gone want some lunch….. “These are random thought”   Watch me, I’m going some where… .

I need these things to work in the natural realm..   Faith is the evidence of things hoped for and the evidence of what I cannot see…  God is not going to let you have faith for something that is not there..   Invisible does not speak to the object..  It does not mean that it is not there… My eyes just don’t have the ability to pick it up….

How many of have bills that need to be payed?   Some want to go back to school…   We have to pull our faith when things are limited…

Insider:  ‘I’ve gotten use to not wearing a tie, but your Pastor is so clean, I knew I needed to put on a tie”

The first thing God created was sound… He had to say it to get the first created thing…. There would not have been no light if God did not say it….  If you believe in God just say it!!!!!      Everything in life follows the sound that it makes…  You don’t have the sound go one way and the thing go one way… The car is moving in the direction it makes…   You move in the direction you wake up…  Put on  a garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness.. You can guide your direction with a spirit of sound.. IF you don’t like the way your life is going, change the sound.. .If you are in depression , change the sound.. You have to change the sound to come out of depression.. You have to change you life in the way you want it to go… I’m about to pull out one them old time sounds…

Everything that makes a great sound… Chain saws can take down a tree but it makes an incredible sound.. A tornado makes a great sound… Why do you think the enemy is trying to make our churches silent?   It’s when you make a big sound a big God shows up in our midst… I know if I give God a big praise he will show up in our midst…

I have to move fast… Pastor Bryant aint gone feed yawl if I don’t get you out on time… Sound comes from manifestation… I don’t see nothing but I hear an abuandance of rain…. When I walked in the room, I hear the sound of triumph in this place…

It came a time when the walls begin to fall as they marched around the walls of Jericho…. Let me hear those that have been going through hell…  Make a sound and shout unto God… ‘Glory’

I got to quit, I got six minutes to preach…  Everything is determined by sound… The skill, the power you posess as a musician.. .The sound you begin to make will shift the atmosphere….   Give me a tribal beat….    All the men come out like the tribe of  Juda  when they hear the sound of the tribe… You ready to cast out some demons…

If it’s just me and my girl at the house, I aint going to put on no praise and worship…   I put on “why you want act like that” (lol)  He setting the atmoshphere.     He is off the chain….  Sound determines destiny… .If you take your tv and watch it but turn off the sign… If they show you a lady by what you see..   The movie is beginning to give away her future by the sound… The music is telling you where she is headed..  If you hear that gory sound you know Jason is getting ready to hop out…  Faith is not what you can see but where you can see me headed.

What does that have to do with Genesis 1… God blessed every segment of creations except affirmament… It was thing God put in the middle of two… The bible teaches there are 3 heaves… Right above your head, where God lives… John went there…  God created a 2nd heaven but he did not bless it..   Hell is reserved for Satan….  Revelations 19-20  Hell is being reserved…

When God taught us to pray, he taught us to pray like number one and the same in number three…  Whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.. The key is getting your stuff down from number one to number three.. Satan don’t have the keys to your house…  Pray for number one, and then pray for number two which hates you… God did not bless the affirmative, but he blessed number 3.. .There are three heavens and I found three dimensions of praise.. How do I get it through number 2… Believe that you receive… When you pray.. .When you prayed you got it… Well where is it?   The enemy is also verbal..   The enemy lies about you past, etc…  There is a 2nd level of praise that shuts the devils mouth…  Through the praise he can longer block you… The highest dimension of a praise is not a dance it is a shout!!!!   Shout is the part of praise that takes you praise and let it be done on earth like it is in heaven…

When I can get to the place when I’m not worried about how I look, but when I can get to the place where I can shout unto God…How God can release them blessing from number one down to number three.. . All of your prayers are about to be answered.. Some of us got some stuff on us..   Number 2 has been running around stealing your blessings…. Things you have been praying for years start popping into your life..   Take 30 seconds and command Satan to turn it loose…. I don’t mean pretty, make the devil turn it loose…  Your kids were suppose to be saved a long time ago….  That job is yours.. .Turn it loose by giving God a shout!!! No music, just give God a shout… Let the heavens shake!!!  God we praise you right now… Let every demonic principality go… Just praise him!!! Praise the name of the Lord!!!   60 more seconds… Lift up your voice and shout one more time!!! Get your praise on!!!

Dr. Bryant says:   Everything that has been a blockage to your prayer and destiny…. The sound of your shout will move things out of your way… Shout like you are coming out of the middle of it… I’m in the middle of foolishness, unemployment but I know that my God is able… God is getting ready to push you to another place….

Sermon notes taken by:  Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas… Uncut, unedited verbatim sermon noted… – Will try to insert video sermon soon…

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