Sunday, April 29, 2012 – 9:30 a.m. Service
Uncut/ Unedited Verbatim Sermon Notes: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas

Empowerment Temple Church, Baltimore, Maryland ~ Dr. Jamal H. Bryant

 

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!!!!

 

Uncut / Unedited  Notes taken by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas  April 29, 2012