**Worship and Sermon notes taken by: Minister Evelyn Diane Thomas /
Notes are verbatim, unedited and uncut…
Opening prayer: Dr. Jamal Bryant – “There is no sorrow that heaven cannot heal…. No matter what the enemy tries to put into your mind… Today is going to be a day of Peace… Speak your mother’s name out loud ________… Then say “Lord, I thank God for her” – I pray that God give you a peace that passes all understanding.. I pray you are flooded with good memories… Thank you for the time that we had, and we do not take it for granted.. Praying for those that have a dysfunctional relationship with their mother’s…. We are stronger than you could ever imagine… Today we woke up with a sigh of relief knowing that you are still on the throne and you are in charge… In Jesus Name we pray… You are going to make it through the day… ” Pastor Jamal Bryant
Scripture Reading: Isaiah 49:14-1515 “Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! 16 See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.
Sermon Notes: I know what that feels like…. In a rare moment of transparency my own Pastor Frank Reid III is not preaching in his pulpit right now because the doctors have called him home to St. Lois to let him know that his mother is in the last stages of Alzheimer’s… I’m praying for him…. The person that’s been a care giver for you, you now have to be a caregiver for them.. His mother is getting weaker, but my love for her is getting stronger.
Dr. Jamal tells a story about a boy and Uncle Charles the farmer. The new family moved in next door, and they had a little boy… The man was battling with Alzheimer’s…. The farmer asked the boy: What was the name of the flower that had a long stem , thorns and a red thing on the end… The boy told him it was a rose, and the man then started to call out “Rose” which was his wife’s name…
The woman in the bible that committed adultery, she will never forget the condition she was in… She had 5 husbands and the one that she was with is not hers…So she had 6 husbands… God said…”you thirst”, but Jesus said you will never thirst again”…. She will never forget the bad unhealthy, disconnected relationship God rescued her from…
In Mark Chapter 5, there was a man that would never forget….This man lived in the tombs, and no one could bind him anymore, not even with a chain. For he had often been chained hand and foot, but he tore the chains apart and broke the irons on his feet. No one was strong enough to subdue him. Night and day among the tombs and in the hills he would cry out and cut himself with stones. When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees in front of him. He shouted at the top of his voice, “What do you want with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? In God’s name don’t torture me!” For Jesus had said to him, “Come out of this man, you impure spirit!” He was practicing self sabotage… .The text said every night he was crying…. This demoniac man was calling out because nobody could restrain him… Then the Lord speaks peace into his life… As Jesus was getting into the boat, the man who had been demon-possessed begged to go with him. Jesus did not let him, but said, “Go home to your own people and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you.” So the man went away and began to tell in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him. And all the people were amazed.
I know you are puffed up on today and got on your game face… You will never forget the night that you were loosing your mind… The night you were feeling unglued… It was not necessarily what others did to you… You felt like you were sleeping in a cemetery… You knew if you stayed in that path you were headed in the wrong direction… God broke into your dark face…. Let this mind be in you… There was one particular day that you did not know whether you will live to see day break …. God said, you shall live and not die…. You wake up early because you knew how dark the night use to be…
The woman will never forget the condition she was in … She was caught in adultry… She was attacked for her moral failure… The church brings the woman to trial God brings us from shame to sanctified… You cannot afford to be aroggant in worship, because you know where you came from… Some of us should be careful when we talk about other people… I have not always been where I am… If you knew who I was running with…. When nothing else could help, Love lifted me..
I want you to remember the time that brought you the greatest level of embaracemetn…. I want you to be reminded about the people that persucuted you the most… Lord thank you for saving me…
The man in Luke chpater 23 will never forget the mess he was in…. He was a thief, he was caught and gone through due process… He was convicted and found in crucifiction…. Peoopel think because you were being crucifed because of your past… God said today you will live in paradise… Some of us are able to slip through because they don’t know whether you did it or not… But some of can say we did it….. But Father thank you for forgiving me…
It was not the day we got the car or graduated, but it was the day we got saved… SOme of us just need to thank God the day we got saved… Somebody needs to remember the day they were crying at the alter, and somebody was rubbing you on the back…
Isaih, is called the Shakespear of scipture… Can the mother forget the child that was at her breast? How can a mother forget her own child? The Lord arrested me in my spiritual arrogance… Have you forgot that church is always in the feminine tense?… Ask the church… Have we forgotten our children, while I am yet preaching to you mother’s?… There are 95% of our children incarcarated and we don’t have prison ministries…. We have girls having babies at a high rate… Have we forgot to teach abstinence… Have we forgot the times when we had to sit down, and get out the choir when got preganant out of wed lock in church?..
Have we forgotten about the childrenc that have special needs & ADD, and have to take meds, etc…. I’m glad you are listening… Have we forgotten our children that are gay? We keep sweeping it under the rug and act like it don’t exisist… As if it’s not in pews, and in many of our pulpits…. Have we forgotten that these are our children… Then he asked the question: Where is your compassion? My compassion is not condoning… My repsonspibility is to love them… My responsibility is to turn them around… It’s not the parents responsibilty to the be the friend to their child…. What happens when we don’t have a memory? What happens when we act like it dont’ exist… The black church has had a tubu in church like we are not getting none… In the church, we don’t address insest, date rape, etc… It seems as though the church has forgotten..
From outside appearance, maybe the black church is in the last stages of alzhemiers… Maybe our mental capacities have desenegrated…. Maybe we have been shouting and turning to our neighbor to much… We need to hold a standard where we know what spiritual authority is… Maybe President Obabma had gotten a memory loss… Maybe he will realize that he needs the black church…. Don’t take the black church for granted….. Come November 6… The homosexual are only 3.5 and and the black church is 7—%…. There is a memory loss… You have no ideal how sleepless I’ve been this week… I was the only black preacher to stand on the front line and stand for what is right… It don’t make me a gay basher, but it makes me a Jesus freak… There should be a standard, and I’m tired of the black church compromising… We should be preaching to please our God.. .If the church fail to address issues then we are just a social club… .If you agree with everything I say… The God in me should ruffle your feathers… The God in me should speak power..
Some of the elected officicals have forgot… They forgot they put their hands on the bible… Pastor Bryant, you are not suppope to speak your opinion…. But we are suppose to stand on the princiapals… It’s not just Christians that beleive in Man and WOman are suppose to married… Muselims, Jews dont’ beleive in same sex marriage… If we are approving same sex marriage then should we approve paligomy?
I am unphased by lobbyist, and people coming to protest… For me Homosexuality is Sin!!!… So is adultery, and so is fornication…. Homosexuality is Sin… Sin is sin and we must all repent…. How can you forget the one that was at your breast? Even if your mother forgets, or your mother forget her responsibility to you, it’s the responsibility of the church..
Whenever I look at your name, your name is already written in his hands… When Thomas streteched out his hands, he saw his hands was already piereced…. When you stretch out your hands you shuld be reminded about the sin you should have died in…
Your name is etched in my hands.. Everything that is connected to me is In God’s hands… You should thank God that everythign the enemy meant for evil, God is working it out for my good….. Maybe somebody have lost their way with their children or can’t pay your bills… Just know that it’s all in his hands… Maybe you have a medical condition is stopping you from breathing right… Please know that it’s in God’s hand…
When God get around the walls, things are gettting ready to come down…. When they marched around Jericho 7 times, the walls began to come down…. When he called on God, and said God do you remember when I was faithful… I came to tell ever woman that has been faithful… Those that are called by my name would humble themeselves and turn from your wicked ways…. Turn to your neighbor and say the walls are coming down…..
Some of yawl are gettting ready to hit a wall…. If Ihave some bonafied praiser… For God I live, and for God I die…. His praise shall forever be in my mouth… The road has been rough and the going has been tough…. I started out a long time ago, and I’ve deciced to follow Jesus a long time ago….. I told that wall, you don’t klnow who you are messing with because the gates of hell shall not prevail against me…. No weapon formed against me shall prosper…
Every wall is coming down and be shattered when I give God praise…. Let the redeem of the Lord Praise him… When you shout and give him glory, walls are coming down….
I can’t hear nobody…. Walls are coming down…
Right where you are… Face your walls… Walls are getting ready to crumble and collapse… Whatever has been a strong tower or strong hold is getting ready to fall… I need you to put in your mind, what is your greatest obstacle or greatest level of pain… That wall is getting ready to fall…. I don’t know who these impostors are but I need my church to show up… Every wall is getting ready to come down…
He asked a critical question: How can you forget that you have fed off of…. I can’t insist on what you should shout about, but I want you to give God glory for you most outstanding season or episode you will never forget and God has brought you out of…. You will never forget!!!!
Stand to your feet… There are some people who are going to get their memory back… Not by might or by my power, but by his spirit… Somebody prayed for you… Can you remember one significant thing God has done for you…..
If you can’t forget what he has done for you, how can you forget? I cannot forget what God has done…. Today I want to get saved, and remember what God has done…
Can you remember how bad you needed him? Do you remember how significant the church was in your life? Ask someone are they saved and have a church home? If they don’t remember their Pastor’s name where they go to church, they need a church home…. Don’t let this moment pass you by…. This is your moment and your season… Even at the risk of getting on somebody’s nerve… Ask them when is the last time you experienced God on this level…
You are in the right place, at the right time, serving the right God…
Some of us rembmer right until it’s time to give… Then we don’t remember nobody in the room – Pastor Jamal Bryant”
Give a seed today for $49.00 – God is getting ready to restore your memory…. God is going to help you remember!!!
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