1-24-21 SUNDAY SERVICE 7AM

come on lift this praise up one more time to the lord thank you though he's welcome saying [Music] lord [Music] heal and deliver send your anointing move by your spirit have that own way have your way in this place come on sing it again have your way [Music] we need you lord we give ourselves to you jesus please well this is the day that the lord has made we will rejoice and be glad in it i was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the lord we may not be able to meet physically but even in this virtual space god is still worthy to be praised i don't know where you are but wherever you are if you're in your living room give him praise if you're in your kitchen give him praise if you're on your way to work give him praise children will you praise him you will you praise him college student will you praise him young adults will you praise him middle-aged adults will you praise him see your saints will you praise him let everything that has breath praise the lord i will bless the lord at all times god and shall be continually in my mouth my soul i so shall make a vote in the lord and the humble shall hit thereof and be glad oh magnify the lord with me and let us exalt god's name together for the lord is good for the lord is kind for the lord is gracious for the lord is merciful let everything that has breathed praise the lord i said praise ye the lord [Music] [Music] [Music] in move place this place will be hallelujah we give the lord praise honor and glory it is now time to pray to lay our request before the lord we ask that you posture your hearts and center yourselves that you may take your cares to the lord as we pray together there are names scrolling on your screen we ask that you take note of at least one two three all of the names if you can and pray for them during this week but likewise we pray for ourselves as we celebrate and likewise go through difficult times even in these seasons let us pray [Music] o lord our lord how excellent is your name in all the earth god you're great you're awesome omnipotent omnipresent omniscient god you're a great guy there's nobody like you god we give you praise honor and glory just for being the great god that you are that you have been and god that you will be god we don't look like you all the time we don't act like you all the time our attitudes don't reflect your goodness forgive us now of our sins anything that does not honor you god make us right and suitable for your service god i ask that you lift our hearts and our minds god that they would always be focused on you we will lift up our eyes to the hills from whence cometh our help knowing that all our help comes from you god you've been faithful and god we celebrate even just for a moment of the great things that you've accomplished and done for us even this week god as we look forward to the work that still needs to take place in this country god we still thank you right now for the changes that you've already made god the work that needs to go forth i ask that you focus our attention on the things that we need to do got in support of the direction that you're trying to take us as a nation and as a people god i ask a blessing upon our leadership of this country god and i just ask that you direct their attention toward you and god meeting the needs of the people of this land god this is a difficult time but god is likewise a time where we can focus our eyes set our minds on you god and follow right after you god thank you lord for your faithfulness your kindness your mercy god even as we go through this pandemic still god we thank you lord that you are still a waymaker you're still a miracle worker you're still a promise keeper and so god we just look forward to the great things that you're going to do in the lives of your people those that are broken hearted god i ask a blessing upon them lift up their heads lift up their hearts god that they would not be so solemn or even depressed god god hearts are are broken even now god is we have to bury loved ones in different ways and god that we have to see our sick in different ways but god we thank you that you're both a comforter and a healer and so god we look to you to meet the needs of your people god as we go through this service i ask that it would bless those that hear it those that see it god those that are present even in this space today god i ask that you would help us to see your glory in the midst of all that we are doing and going through you've been a great god and we love you god we love you from the bottom of our hearts god and we just thank you for the great god that you are the great things that you've done and the great things that you will do we thank you now for the word of god that will go forth in this service i ask that you bless our pastor as he breaks the bread of life god that it would minister to the needs of the hearts the minds the spirits of your people and god i ask that you would help us to be obedient to the word that goes forth god that we would be faithful to you in the midst of it thank you lord for this time of worship and praise we love you it is in the name of jesus that we pray this prayer with thanksgiving amen once again let me tell you once again let me say [Music] how much i [Music] deeply love you my heart beats to give you praise [Music] [Music] [Music] let me say [Music] face [Music] and with the once again let me tell you let me tell you once again [Music] [Music] say [Music] just lift your hands oh [Music] each i love you jesus once again once again [Music] yes oh yes it is [Music] yes [Music] yes [Music] [Music] yes i [Music] good morning beloved this sunday scripture reading comes from psalm 40 verses 1 through 11. i waited patiently for the lord he turned to me and heard my cry he lifted me up out of a pit of the slimy pit out of the mud and the mire he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand he put a new song in my mouth a hymn of praise to our god many will see it and fear the lord and put their trust in him bless is the one who trusts in the lord who does not look to the proud to those who turn aside to false gods many lord my god all the wonderful wonders you have done the things you have planned for us no one can compare with you where i to speak and tell of your deeds they would be too many to declare sacrifice an offering you did not desire but my ears you have opened burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not require then i said here i am i have come it is written about me in the scroll i desire to do your will my god your law is within my heart i proclaim your saving acts in the great assembly i do not seal my lips lord as you know i did not hide your righteousness in my heart i speak of your faithfulness and your saving help i did not conceal your love and your faithfulness from the great assembly do not withhold your mercy from me lord may your love and faithfulness always protect me may the lord bless you is my prayer [Music] trying to conquer my soul or when i heard the voice of jesus telling me it's still because he promised that he would not lead me never to leave me jesus christ [Music] me [Music] winds are blowing [Music] my savior stands [Music] when all my friends are gone oh [Music] thank you and [Music] oh my savior he helps me to carry the cross sometimes so heavy to bad [Music] his power [Music] oh [Music] hallelujah [Music] mountain for me they pierce aside [Music] and he promised he would not leave [Music] no matter what comes the one down hallelujah [Music] hallelujah [Music] foreign and if you're glad for that promise come on and praise the god who is who was and who is to come what a mighty god we serve angels bound before him heaven and earth adore him he's a mighty god come on tell your soul he's a mighty god and then look over and tell your neighbor he's a mighty god oh what a mighty god we serve so angels the earth is here with your [Music] as they say [Music] to the earth [Music] glory can we join the heavens and earth and declare this truth you are [Music] is come on wherever we go [Music] [Music] and there's nobody [Music] [Music] god you're the mighty god [Applause] foreign [Music] mighty in wisdom mighty and strength mighty and battle mighty to heal mighty destruction come on one more time [Applause] is come on he can't do anything but oh [Music] [Music] god [Music] hallelujah beloved this is the day that the lord has made we've come to worship to celebrate to rejoice to thank god for his might what a mighty god we serve angels bow before him heaven and earth adore him right where you are why don't you give great praise to our great god who is greatly to be praised from the rising of the sun even until the going down of the same our mighty god is worthy to be praised bless the lord all over wherever you are come on give god great praise wherever you are give god worship adore this god of ours he's mighty empowered mighty in battle he's mighty to heal mighty to save mighty to deliver mighty to set free come on bless our mighty god welcome to wheeler avenue bless this god who is mighty and we thank god for all that god has done all that god will do and all that god continues to do even right now bless this mighty god this lord's day [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] here [Music] hallelujah oh yes oh yes oh yes oh praise the lord for that that's that's kind of that that remix version when you get happy in church they put that bass in there but old pentecostals didn't do it like that duncan they did it like this what a mighty god let me get happy about it on a sunday can we put those left hands together [Music] everybody [Music] is oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] one more round is is [Music] [Applause] run it run it run it god when he speaks the wind of the waves behavior and when he speaks light comes out of darkness like a lot of darkness oh yeah we're getting out of here same children [Music] [Music] yes lord yes lord hallelujah hallelujah somebody needed that right there somebody needed that and we praise god that we're able to celebrate this mighty god whom we serve to god be the glory for our god and for all that our god continues to do in the lives of each and every one of us his children to god be the glory for this opportunity for worship i hope that you feel welcome our executive pastor shared words of welcome with you i pray that those who are not members of the wheeler avenue family feel welcome as a consequence of all of our worship all of our praise all of the words of welcome and affirmation that you've received today and i pray that those who are members of our congregation are worshiping god right along with us wherever you occupy space right now because our god is present right there with you and we thank god and in his presence there is fullness of joy and the joy of the lord continues to be our strength i praise god for each of you who is fasting with us during this season since january 2nd we've been fasting believing god for great things in our personal lives and our congregational lives and in our national experience and for those of you who have been fasting with us i celebrate you i honor you and i thank god for you for those who may have fallen off as a consequence of some experience maybe you just made a mistake you forgot maybe something just happened and you went back uh to the feeding frenzy that we're accustomed to i want you to join back with us starting today or tomorrow join with us we only have eight days left eight days left in our fast and i want you to join with us as we continue to experience god in very powerful and powerful ways please be a part of our daniel fast and then next sunday when we conclude our fast at midnight we'll be going into monday next sunday we conclude our fast at midnight going into monday i want you to join me in our prayer call we're going to pray together to close our fast at midnight monday monday morning sunday night at midnight we're going to conclude our fast in prayer so please join me on our prayer call the same line that we use on wednesday morning we will use on sunday night and i hope that you will be a part of that experience this coming sunday but throughout the week i hope that you'll be fasting and believing god for great things join us in bible study wednesday we'll be praying and fasting throughout the day 6 a.m for prayer 12 noon bible study and then again 6 p.m prayer and 7 p.m bible study that's our recharge our refuel and you want to be a part of that experience those experiences some of us participate in all four of them some three or two but i want you to participate as much as you can in the refueling process you need something to hold you between sunday and wednesday and then wednesday to sunday so we want you to be a part of our midweek experiences it will certainly bless your life i want you to know that tomorrow two events are going to take place tomorrow one at 12 noon the other at 6 30 p.m at 12 noon we will have our january mental health moment dr barbara williams our minister of christian counseling has been guiding us once a month on mondays to get our mental health together to be stabilized in our mental health certainly this season in which we find ourselves during this pandemic can destabilize if we're not careful and so we want you to be in uh the mental health moment tomorrow at noon tomorrow at noon you can get all of the information via our website and please share with us either during the website facebook live zoom however you participate with us throughout these months on the mental health mondays we want you to be a part of that experience we're going to be uh delighted to welcome to the wheeler avenue experience the minister of counseling from alfred street baptist church and dr williams and and their counselor are going to share back and forth with us how to keep on pressing on keep on persevering despite the weight of these moments in which we find ourselves so we're looking forward to when alfred street and wheeler avenue come together alfred avenue baptist church tomorrow at 12 noon for the mental health monday and then tomorrow evening our waiting room experience will take place that is for those who are dealing with infertility if you have any challenges with infertility uh whether you're a single woman or a married couple we want you to know that we you are available to meet with the waiting room ministry tomorrow evening at 6 30. you can likewise find the information on our website and we hope that you will join the reverend tamila wilson and the waiting room ministry as they share together in that experience it has been very beneficial to those who have been experiencing infertility and i believe it will be a blessing to you as well so please share with our infertility ministry with the waiting room tomorrow at 6 30 pm those are our announcements for uh this week and i hope that you will govern yourselves accordingly let's continue to do great things for god and believe great things from god during this season of our lives it's offering time at the lord's church and we're excited about giving to god we give back to god a portion of what our god has given to us the tithe and the offering is holy unto the lord and so we honor the lord with the presentation of our tithes and our offerings and our gifts to missions and mercy as well as our gifts to the building effort and all of you who have continually and consistently given of those gifts let me thank you so much for your generosity for your consistency uh helping us to make sure that we do the best that we can to minister to the total person as we work here through wheeler avenue baptist church and then go out into the community to bless other brothers and sisters so get your device in your hand make sure that you are using that device whether it is a phone or a tablet however you use devices to give if it's your computer or if you want to mail your device your gifts into the church will certainly be available to receive them if you want to bring them to the lot box that is still on the door right across from our matthew 25 missions and mercy service center we invite you to use that drop box as well however you're led to give your texting to give your push pay however you're led to give we want you to be generous and consistent in your giving as we now pray to our god gracious god we do thank you for your goodness and your mercy toward us thank you for loving us with an everlasting love and forgiving to us all that we have needed for this life for this journey on which we find ourselves we thank you that you're so generous with us every breath that we take is a gift from you every thought that we think is a gift from you every time our limbs are unable to move it's a gift from you every time our heart beats and our lungs expand and contract that's a gift from you you're so generous and we thank you for that often we use we we sometimes reduce our gratitude of your generosity to money and tangible things but thank you for the intangible things things that we cannot see our joy our peace our contentment we thank you for good night's rest we thank you for the strength to endure the journey thank you for everything that you've done for us you've been good to us and you've required of us a tithe and requested of us an offering and so we pray that as we give our gifts this sunday that you will be pleased with all that we bring into the storehouse today so that the work of ministry might continue to flourish and thrive through wheeler avenue baptist church thank you so much for entrusting this ministry into our care and we pray that we'll be found faithful to utilize the resources that you have given to us to ensure that men women and children are made better as a consequence of the air experience with wheeler avenue baptist church so now will you receive our gifts and i pray that no one will go lacking as a consequence of what they give this sunday but that you will return to your sons and daughters as you see fit so that we'll always have the testimony that we can't beat god giving no matter how we try god ultimately every time we pray we thank you that we will have victory in our finances in jesus name amen music ministry prepares us for the word of god receive them with joy we lift you up we magnify your [Music] i holy sing of your mercy i wanna tell the whole world of the greatness so i'll sing of yours and i'll sing of your love and i'll tell the whole world [Music] jesus [Music] hallelujah jesus we lift up your name [Music] hallelujah let's sing it like one big choir come on say i want to sing [Music] i want to sing of your mercy yeah all who listen i'm telling another greatness so much to sing about so i'll sing of yours [Music] the let's do it together [Music] foreign [Music] sweet [Music] hey [Music] with the heavens [Music] everything we need is [Music] we [Music] is [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] forever [Music] is cheers [Music] [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] with all my heart i lift you up [Music] hallelujah we you'll be exalted above all god [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is that name is worthy of our celebration it's worthy of our praise the bible says that there is no name given among men and women whereby we must be saved except the name jesus we love that name around here and if you're grateful for jesus i wish you just celebrate jesus wherever you are whatever you're doing just take a moment to celebrate the jesus who has done so much in each and every one of our lives if you can't thank him for anything else you ought to be able to thank him for salvation because we're it not for the salvation that only jesus provides none of us would be in relationship with our god today we thank god for jesus thank god for this magnificent music ministry and for the wonderful ways by which they share with us each and every week i cannot thank god enough for them these gifted musicians these sainted singers i thank god for each one of you and i praise god for your giftedness and the utilization of your gifts in worship to all of these clergy who have shared with us today and even those who are in the sanctuary who have not uh been have not shared with us in the microphone they're praying even where they're sitting and we thank god for all of them and all you who walk by faith and not by sight it's good to be in church this day and we thank god for the privilege of such we're going to conclude our series of messages called what's new today what's new that's been our series for this past uh month as we began this month of january we looked at that passage of scripture and reminded us that if anyone is in christ that person's a new creation a new creature old things are passed away behold all things are become new and we thank god for that reality we thank god for the newness of life that we have in our god even last week we looked at isaiah chapter 43 where god says i will do a new thing in you don't you perceive it don't you see it on the second sunday we look at the lord jesus christ who says that you can't put old wine in new wine skins and so we've been looking at the newness that jesus christ and our god requires of us and today i call your attention back to that passage you heard the reverend dinkins read from psalm 40 my favorite book of the bible is the book of psalms and every now and then for comfort and encouragement i go to it and in this 40th psalm the 40th psalm you'll find these words at verse 3 psalm 40 beginning at verse 3. uh pastor dinkins read from the new international version of the holy word of god i want to read this just from the king james version i just want to read a portion of verse 3 that goes a little like this and he hath put a new song in my mouth that's enough amen praise god for his holy word and god hath put a new song in my mouth for the time that is hours of share together on this sunday i simply want to talk from the subject you already know what's new part four what's new part four we conclude our series with this question what's new and the fourth installment thereof this past week brothers and sisters was filled with newness wasn't it at the top of the list of new ness is our new president who came to his office with new priorities tuesday and wednesday he showed us a new picture of this country one with which we had not been quite familiar at least from the national perspective during the covet memorial on tuesday evening he used watch this an all black group of individuals to commemorate the lives of the more than 400 000 individuals who have lost their lives as a consequence of the virus known as coronavirus this pandemic this this covid19 and several of those who were commemorated a few of them at least were members of our congregation we were able to experience the ministry of the first black cardinal of the catholic church who led us in prayer and a powerful prayer it was we were able to experience our new vice president who spoke to the nation and encouraged us in the midst of the madness of this virus we met the young black nurse from the from the detroit area didn't we who went viral for singing amazing grace to the many covet patients on her unit there in detroit and of course houston's own yolanda adams sang hallelujah as we commemorated the lives of those 400 000 individuals in addition to our new president and our new vice president we were inspired weren't we by our new youth port laureate this 22 year old woman amanda gorman who shared her classic poem and her grace as she recited the hill we climb we enjoyed being introduced to this precious and powerful young woman who we should be able to look to in years to come to do great things in literature and even beyond as she claims that she will be the president of these united states as well we're excited about our new youth poet laureate and then we got new press briefings lord have mercy we haven't had press briefings since the month of november and we got new press briefings to keep us informed about that which is transpiring in our government the newness abounds as a consequence of this past week unfortunately all of the news wasn't good news though we were confronted with the new predicament that the jobless numbers the unemployment numbers in the united states of america right now are the worst that they have been since the presidency of franklin delano roosevelt fdr you remember when that was it was the 1930s the great depression the jobless numbers unemployment numbers have not been this bad since the 1930s and if that wasn't bad enough we must deal with the new pandemic variants that are more highly transmissible and the current statistics state that 60 of all new cases have occurred since election day in november that is getting worse not better the numbers are deplorable brothers and sisters which is why our beloved mayor and brother bow wow to had to have some words as a consequence of all those houstonians who just had to go out last weekend and had to enjoy themselves in the midst of this crisis my brothers and sisters newness has abound some of it was good news some of it wasn't that was bad news as a matter of fact as a consequence of these decisions to make our way into the streets and to party like rock stars and enjoy ourselves and find ourselves not doing what the medical professionals have asked us to do the expectation is that we will have to deal with no less than 500 000 casualties by this time next month in one month we can go from a little more than four hundred thousand to over five hundred thousand and that is because we were now we will refuse to exercise the discipline we need to exercise but fortunately there are new physicians who are working feverishly with dr fauci to help us get past this pandemic reality we are excited about these new medical professionals who are working together to ensure that we can have some victory over this adversity may i while i'm talking about newness may i may i suggest to the good people of california that you should have a new purpose that your new purpose is to get the spirit of stacey abrams to handle representative kevin mccarthy i'm thinking you ought to get the spirit of stacey abrams and mobilize to get rid of old kevin mccarthy and let me suggest to the great state of missouri that you ought to get the spirit of stacey abrams and get rid of old josh hawley and may i please suggest to the great state of texas that we ought to get the spirit of stacey abrams and get rid of ted cruz we need my brothers and sisters to have that new purpose that new purpose that fuels us over these next couple of years to do that which is necessary to handle to rid ourselves of the challenges that we now face i hate to address it but of course we had to deal with new pettiness last week didn't we as the first outgoing president in 152 years decided not to attend his successor's inauguration but we learned last sunday not to dwell on that kind of stuff we're in a new paradigm aren't we and as a consequence last week we learned that god is doing a new thing and since god is doing a new thing last sunday we concluded by telling you we need to give god new praise new praise that's what we need to give to our god do you remember the praise we were compelled to provide last week if you were listening all the way to the end of the message you heard that the hebrew word for praise in isaiah 43 is the word to hela to hela means to sing and i'm grateful my brothers and sisters that the israelites the hebrew people were a singing people these brothers and sisters from isaiah chapter 43 and the brother who has written this set this this psalm before us in today's text is a singing group of people these brothers and sisters know what it means to lift their voices for the glory of god in song they took seriously their responsibility to sing unto the lord a song that would enliven them and encourage them and enable them to move past their adversity to a place of victory oh my brothers and sisters we know something about singing don't we our negro national anthem compels us reminds us of the need to sing listen to those words sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us facing the rising sun of our new day begun let us march on when till victory is one we are a singing people we are a celebrating people we are a people who don't mind lifting up our voices in adulation to the god who keeps on doing great things for us the bible repeatedly tells us from my brothers and sisters from genesis to the revelation to get a song and sing it i said the bible keeps on telling us from the old testament through the new testament to get a song and sing it psalms 33 96 98 144 and 149 tell us to sing a new song isaiah chapter 42 tells us to sing a new song revelations revelation chapters 5 and 14 and 15 inform us that the people of god sang a new song and today my brothers and sisters when we approach this text that is before us some from psalm 40 we are invited to join the psalmist as he sings a new psalm the psalmist seems to suggest that the last season of his life listen was filled with struggle and stress and strain but there has been a shift in his situation that made his life so much better rewind press play i got to say that again because somebody must have may have missed it the bible helps us to understand when we approach psalm 40 that the psalmist is has been in a season of struggle and stress and strain but there seems to have been a shift in his situation and that shift made his life so much better oh i love it struggle and strain and stress they show up for some from some seasons in our lives and to be sure some of those seasons are extended seasons but by contemptual implication we can deduce that this season robbed this psalmist of his song yeah we can watch the text unfold and recognize that although he is a singing individual he comes from a singing people something happened in the pre-previous season of his life that robbed him of his song but lean into his testimony because by verse three we find out that and it is clear that the psalmist has reclaimed his song he's got his song back well i like it he's got his song back better still he's got a new song tune in to the text brothers and sisters because the text suggests to us that no matter how bad your season of suffering and stress and strain has been no matter how difficult the season was that robs you of your song you can get your song back you can start singing again you can get a new song now maybe this word is not for you so you stink because you're not yet on the other side of your season of suffering and struggle and strain may i submit to you this sunday beloved that you may have to hold on to this one tuck it into your pocket put it in a safe space so that by the time you get on the other side of your season of struggle and stress and strain you'll be able to reclaim your song get a new song and sing it i submit that all of the saints of god ought to hold on to their song i submit that as much as you can you ought to sing your song and if your song slips through your fingers if you don't find yourself in a place right now where you feel like singing just hold on a little while longer because trouble does not last always and god is able to give you your song back is there anybody listening to me on this sunday who can testify i love to sing because i recognize just how much god is doing for me and may i submit to you while i walk through this little passage of scripture that there's a song for every season yeah there's a song for every situation my older boy marcus d cosby likes to say it all the time there's a song for everything everything you go through every season you endure there's a song for it and i submit brothers and sisters that every now and then you want to open up your mouth i've told you before even if you can't sing you still ought to sing your song even if you're not on the praise team you still ought to be singing even if you're not in the choir you ought to be singing even if you're not one of those who likes to lift up your voice with melodic verses i want you to learn how to sing sing in your bedroom sing in the shower sing in the car sing while you're walking down the street sing while you're exercising on the treadmill whatever you do do your best to keep a song on your lips and if you miss your song if you lose your song if your song slips through your fingers this passage of scripture in isaiah chapter 40 testifies to the reality that god knows how to give you watch a new song yes lord a new song tune in will you please because if you tune in to this psalmist you'll find out first of all that he has a new declaration let the church say declaration he says it right there in chapter four in psalm 40 verse 1 psalms don't have chapters they are song lyrics they're hymns and so in psalm 40 he says listen i waited patiently for the lord and he inclined unto me and went once he inclined unto me he heard my cry he brought me up also out of an horrible pit out of the mirey clay and he set my feet upon a rock and established my goings listen to the declaration of the psalmist i mentioned to you he's on the other side of a season of struggle and strain he's on the other side of stress and setback he's on the other side of an administration that has been warying him and bearing and bearing down on him and on the other side of it he begins to testify while i was going through it i was waiting on god i was praying to god i was depending on god and here's my new declaration on this side of my struggle i waited patiently for the lord and he inclined unto me and he heard my cry don't miss it child of god he's saying to us that he found out some things in the process of struggle and stress and strain that was beneficial to him as he moved past his season of struggle he found out some things that were beneficial to help him still have confidence in god and one of the things he learned that some of us may still need to learn is this my brothers and sisters every now and then in some seasons of our lives we have to learn that god really does require patience now i know i know everybody didn't say amen right there because few of us want to experience the turmoil the tumult of having to deal with being patient that is difficult for some of us because we live in an instantaneous society we're accustomed to getting things how we want it when we want it we are accustomed to being those who get instant gratification i told you a few months ago that all of us at some point in our lives have to learn the benefit of delayed gratification the psalmist says i've learned something about delayed gratification i waited patiently for the lord i love the hebrew idiom the reverend alexander johnson because the hebrew idiom seems to suggest that in waiting i waited let me give it to you again i waited patiently the hebrew idiom is in waiting while i was waiting i had to keep on waiting that literally meant that it did not happen overnight it did not happen in the course of time i anticipated i had my schedule all written out but none of it happened according to my time frame i had to wait and while i was waiting i had to learn how to keep on waiting that's the patiently it literally means that in waiting i waited but i love the hebrew word because the hebrew word literally suggests kawai it literally suggests that while i was waiting i was expecting yes lord oh friend you must understand that we cannot get so frustrated by our life's reality that we don't have still an expectation in the midst of our waiting processes i want you to know that the god you serve is still a god who shows up just in the nick of time he's the god who may not come when you want him but he's always right on time help me dr tim sloan he may not come when you want him but you will want him when he comes and somebody today can testify that we serve a god who does attend to the needs of his children he says in waiting i waited i waited patiently for the lord and i learned that this god of hours really does require patience but that's not all i learned i also learned that this god of ours really does hear me dr barnett answer prayer yes he does he says i waited for him and in waiting i waited and while i was waiting i found out he inclined unto me and he heard my cry he inclined unto me and heard my cry i love it it is the picture brothers and sisters of a parent who understands his child her child is in the midst of some despair some disappointment some disaster and as a consequence this this parent who is much taller much larger much bigger than the child leans over to the child to get in the midst of the situation with the child brothers and sisters i love a god like that who loves us enough not to leave us where he finds us but to meet us where we are inclined to us and listen to us there's somebody listening to me today who can testify as you look back over your life of christian journey you can find you can find point after point after point when you prayed to your god your god listened to you inclined you leaned over to you and heard your cry is there anybody listening to me who can thank god that we serve a prayer hearing and a prayer answering god the god who says if you call on me i will answer you and show you great and mighty things i'm talking about the god who says that the effectual fervent prayer of the righteous availeth much i'm talking about the folk who know something about a jesus who says ask and you shall receive seek and you shall find knock and the door will be open i'm talking to somebody who knows something about the god who says if my people call by my name humble themselves and pray i will hear from heaven forgive their sin and heal their land is there anybody listening to me who can look back and see the points in your life when your god really did answer prayer i mean he stepped in he fought that battle for you he stepped in he hadn't handled that financial situation for you he stepped in he healed your body he stepped in he healed your emotions he stepped in put your mind at ease somebody can testify we really do serve a god who answers prayer i waited on him i yes i did i had to wait it didn't come overnight it didn't come instantaneously i had to wait but i found out he inclines under me leans over toward me he puts his ear down to me and he heard my cry and if that was enough it would be reason enough to shout for the rest of the day but that's not the end of the story reverend janella piles your bible says he lifted me up out of the pit out of the mirey clay i love it he literally decided i cannot leave you in the same state i found you i refuse to leave you struggling in the way you've been struggling all this time i hear you crying out to me and i wouldn't be much of a god i wouldn't be much of a heavenly parent if i left you the same way i found you and so he lifted me up anybody in here anybody in the virtual space ever found god to change your situation anybody ever found god to hear you after supplication and shift your situation to a place where you're able to testify if it had not been for the lord who was on my side i don't know where i would be all i'm trying to tell you is the psalmist learned that god really does have power oh friend somebody has learned that in the midst of your waiting all during this pandemic season you found out you had to be patient you couldn't just get a quick fix from this situation but you also found out that when you call on god he answers prayer but you also found out that the god you call on has power to do what nobody else can do i need of somebody who can testify the god i serve is an able god the god i serve is a powerful god the god i serve is strong and mighty and for him nothing shall be called impossible the bible says he lifted me up out of a out of the pit out of a muck in the mire the clay he set my feet upon a rock and established my goings he said this god of hours shifted my circumstance he fixed what was wrong in my situation he he he inclined and it would be good enough if he just listened to me but then he lifted me up and i love what saint francis of assisi says saint francis of assisi says this is one of his favorite verses in all of the bible because it literally means that god loves us enough not just to listen to us but to get in stuff with us because the only way he was able to get him out of that thing was to love him enough to put his hands down in it and lift him up up out of it oh child of god will you hear me your god is with you in your grief your god is with you in your disaster your god is with you in your frustration your god is with you in your financial circumstance your god is with you in your family for frustrations and the same god who is with you on the mountaintop is with he gets in that thing with you lifts you up out of it and puts your foot on a rock hallelujah it literally means he stabilizes me in unstabilizing situations indeed stability he stabilizes me when circumstances want to ruffle me and keep me off balance and mess up my equilibrium he stabilizes me he takes me from a pit from the miry clay and puts me on a rock thank you lord oh thank you lord he literally says i refuse to allow you to keep sinking in the stuff that's kicking over you i i refuse to allow you to keep sinking in the stuff that's trying to drown you i'm gonna move you from sinking to standing up on a rock and oh saints had a song for that yeah if any preacher of old school would catch that little verse right there that preacher would go old school and sing on christ the solid rock i stand all of the ground is sinking saying can i find 10 people in here who know something about the stabilizing rock who is jesus christ who is able to keep you stable in unstable circumstances that's his new declaration he says i waited patiently for the lord and this lord of mine inclined unto me and he heard my cry lifted me about a bit set my feet on the rock established my goings he said i'm gonna put you on a different trajectory i'm gonna put you in a different on a different path so you can see my glory constantly being revealed oh yeah old saints had a song for that too they say order my steps in your word dear lord lead me guide me every day send your anointing father i pray order my steps in your word that's his new declaration but keep watching the text because the text moves from a new declaration to what i call a new disposition a new disposition if you're real still walking with me through the text you'll find out by verse three says he put a new song in my mouth even praise unto our god put a new song in my mouth you must understand he's been having a pity party because he's been waiting patiently in the mire of his situation he's been sitting even sinking in the muck of his circumstance and now on the other side of the struggle and the stress and the strain on the other side of it he has a new disposition you know you ought to look a little differently when god brings you through some stuff you ought to you oughta you ought to act a little differently when god brings you through some stuff on the other side of your situation you ought to have a greater praise than you had before your situation ever got started i'm talking to some people who know what it means to lose a job and then the lord gives you another job after sustaining you through the jobless season you ought to be able to praise god a little bit better on the other side of that thing than you did before you got into it i'm talking to somebody who's dealt with some sickness and the doctors didn't know exactly how to handle your sickness and you didn't know what to do about it but now you're on the other side of that sickness and you can testify i don't act the same kind of way on this side of it that i did on the other side of it he put a new song in my mouth even praise unto our god i'm talking to somebody today who had some family friction and the lord brought you through that thing one way or the other on the other side of it you ought not have church the same way you had church before you went into it don't you get any sanctified amnesia now you've got to remember what the lord has done and by the time you get on the other side of that situation you ought to be praising god differently than you did on the front front side of it somebody can testify the reason folks shout every sunday is because they've been through enough stuff hey watch god bring them through enough stuff to celebrate god with everything that is within them i really hate y'all ain't in the sanctuary today because every sunday of the year i could always depend on a few folks shouting every time they came to church i kind of hate the fact that y'all ain't here because if we were here we see sister thomas run across the front of the church it didn't matter whether you didn't like it or not because when she thought about how god had healed her body when she thought about the fact that the doctors told us she'd never walk again and if she did it would be on a walker and she runs across the church every sunday and folk be looking at her with a jaundiced eye and i'm like run sister run because you don't know what she's been through to get her to the point where she praises god the way she does is there anybody listening to me on this sunday who can testify when god brings you through it you ought to have a different disposition yes lord you ought to have a new disposition you ought to be able to celebrate every time you get a chance even if you're tired you still give god praise even if you're weary you still give him glory because somebody can testify that the joy of the lord is your strength yes lord and so the psalmist says i got to celebrate i got to praise god because now here's the rest of my disposition now i trust god more than i did before i went through it oh it's right there he says i trust god more now than i did before i went through it he says many shall see what god has done for me and they'll begin to reference god too and they'll trust in god and then he says blessed is the one who makes the lord his or her trust yeah i like it i like it he says blessed is the lord who makes blessed is the one who makes the lord his or her trust who puts a confidence in god that should not cannot must not be removed that when you watch god do some things for you it's not just that you shout although i believe if god brought you through some stuff you ought to rejoice every time you get a chance but rejoicing is not the only reason why god brings us through it he brings us through it so that we will know how much power he really has and when we know how much authority he really has we will trust him in every situation let me tell you why you gotta trust him because if you live life long enough you're not just gonna go through one season of struggle you're not just gonna go through one season of stress and strain you will have to endure multiple seasons of struggle stress and strain but by the time you get 20 years into a relationship with god by the time you get 30 years into a relationship with god the subsequent sub struggle and strain does not mess with you to the same degree that the previous struggle and strain has bothered you because now you got a confidence in the god who've been pulling you through all these years and you can testify now that there is nothing too hard for our god oh you missed it you missed it if you had heard what i said you'd have at least thrown something at the screen just to say hallelujah i need 10 people who understand that i've already been through enough in the years of my life to have enough confidence in god that even if it shakes me a little bit it will not shake me to the point that i turn my back on god i trust him with everything now i believe him in every season now i've been broke he paid my bills i've been sick he healed my body i've had family trouble he reconciled it i had job situations he worked it out i had some stuff that bothered me that i couldn't tell anybody about but him and he let me know that even those secret things can be handled by god and somebody can testify now i trust him more on this side of it than i ever did on the other side of it is there anybody in here who can testify i still trust him i got a song for it i will trust hallelujah in the lord i will trust yes lord in the lord i will trust yes lord the lord how long church until i die i will i will trust in the lord i will trust in the lord hallelujah i will trust in the lord how long church until i die yeah that's the song he'll put in your mouth he'll put his song in your mouth and that song is not just for you it's for everybody around you so as they see it they'll put their trust in him as well many will see it and they will revere god and they'll put their trust in god as well old child of god you never know what your testimony is doing in somebody else's life oh beloved you never know what your trust factor is doing in somebody else's life don't you be weary in well-doing in due season you gonna reap if you faint not and somebody around you will be able to say if god did it for them he can do it for me anybody in here trust in god because you saw some elder trust god trust in god because you saw what god can do in your life trust in god because you know he's a trustworthy god all right we passed time let me close i submit to psalm 40 gives to us a new declaration gives to us new discipline this disposition but let our clothes kind of close when i tell you it also gives you a new delight new delight verse eight if you get down there to it i'm gonna cut across the field as my friend bishop rudolph mckissick said i'm gonna cross the field of a few verses to get to verse 8 because the bible says i delight to do thy will o god he says i got some i found some delight in doing the will of god and he begins to talk about in verses 9 10 what that will is he says you have called me to proclaim to preach your goodness in the congregation you've called on me to proclaim your loving kindness your tender mercy to everybody who's listening anybody who will listen everybody who gathers physically or virtually you want me to open up my mouth and let my testimony be known it's not just enough for folk to see me trust god they ought to hear what i got to say about god i said it's not enough folk just to see my trust in god they ought to be able to hear what i say with regard to god and so he says in verses 9 and 10 i've been proclaiming your goodness everywhere i go i've been talking about it i've been i've been letting the world know can't nobody do me like the lord can i i've been talking about it that god's faithfulness is still great i've been talking about it i i i've watched god open doors and i've watched god make ways and and as i talk about the doors god has opened and the ways god has made everybody in the congregation starts getting happy that that i take delight in opening up my mouth and speaking for you i take delight now let's be clear everybody won't have the benefit of the microphone like i do everybody won't have the opportunity for me to tell you for them to tell you about what god has done in their lives i get the privilege of talking to you about the ways god is made for me from a family from a loved one from africa i get the benefit of talking about it you you are so kind to listen but everybody doesn't have a microphone but you do have somebody who comes across your path and when they look at you and how good you looking in the midst of a pandemic situation when they see that you're on the other side of suffering with covet 19 you're on the other side of grief because you lost your loved one to covert 19. you're on the other side of it at least you pressing your way through it and you begin to talk about if it had not been for the lord who was on my side they began to put their confidence in god and now they take great delight in god too all i'm trying to tell you church family is you can't stop testifying now i know you've been in this pandemic situation for a long time and you don't like this season you're in some folk have gotten real weary you've gotten fatigued that's the that's the phase we call it now we're in covet fatigue i get it we started with covert fear and now we're in copic fatigue and i say some of us in covet foolishness because we're still running out there and doing what we want to do and i need to tell somebody today don't you get weary now you calm yourself down just begin to talk about how god has sustained you in the midst of it all i need i need you to talk about how god has held on to you when you thought you were coming to pieces i need somebody to testify about the fact how god put you in your right mind when you thought your mind was going gonna play tricks on you for the rest of your life i need 10 or 12 people in here who can testify the lord has prospered me in a pandemic is there anybody in here who can testify everything about the pandemic hadn't been bad there's been some good days there have been some good weeks there have been some good months as a matter of fact every sunday is a good time for me to worship the lord in the beauty of his holiness and when i put everything together i recognize that every day there's a day of thanksgiving and so i'll open up my mouth and begin to talk to folk i don't care if they don't know me if they engage me in conversation i'll have to tell them that i've got a god who's on my side who keeps making ways for me who keeps opening doors for me who keeps fighting battles for me who keeps forgiving sins for me who keeps giving me brighter day after brighter day i need somebody to help me now i'm gonna close the little message but even if you don't speak about it the psalmist says god knows how to make you sing about it as a matter of fact it's the lord's will that you will speak about it but it's also the lord's will that you sing about it how do you know that brother preacher cause the bible says god put a new song in my mouth all i'm trying to tell you is when god does something for you that nobody else is able to do he puts a song in your mouth have you ever found yourself just walking around the house singing your song have you ever found yourself walking through the mall singing your song what's your favorite song child of god church song please what's your favorite church song what's your favorite hymn of the church have you ever found yourself singing that song because you recognize just how good god is may i please tell you that happy people sing that delighted people sing that satisfied people sing i sing because i'm happy y'all excuse me i sing because i'm free his eye is on the sparrow and i know he watches me so sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us we're facing the rising sun of our new day begun we can't give up now we can't stop now we can't stop praying now we can't stop fighting now but let us march on until victory is one is there anybody listening to me who still believes that god gives us victory is there anybody listening who still believes that we're more than conquerors through him who loves us is there anybody who still believes that greater is he who is in me than he that is in the world well if you believe it you ought to sing about it don't waste a day don't let a day go by without singing your song if you're not singing about it you ought to be talking about it either way you ought to be telling your story this is my story this is my song what's your story cosby what's your song wheel of avenue all the day long and somebody can testify while you're praising he's working out the next season while you're praising he's working out the next predicament while you're praising he's working out the next circumstance while you're praising he's working on the next situation while you're trying to figure it out he's all already working it out and if you believe it i need every believer to open up your mouth and tell him thank you open up your mouth and give him glory open up your mouth start singing while i'm preaching you ain't gonna bother me i can't hear you know how start singing celebrate god [Music] yes [Music] [Music] yes lord yes lord yes lord i got a song in my heart gotta sing it i to sing it because god put it there you're not going to waste a god song are you if god put it there you ought to sing it if god gave you a song that the angels cannot say you ought to sing it i've been redeemed glory been redeemed by the blood of the lamb glory to his high name oh yes oh yes oh yes we're a singing people we're a celebrating people and every now and then when life tries to knock you down and knock you back and topple you you just open up your mouth and begin to sing you've got to pull up on the song from the last season pull it up and sing it if you got to pull up on your mama's song that she used to sing all the time pull it up and start singing if you got to sing your daddy's favorite song pull it up and start singing it and i promise you while you're singing somebody else's song in the midst of your circumstance god will give you a new song he'll put a new song in your mouth even praise unto our god well we've got some good singers here around wheel avenue baptist church they're going to sing in just a minute they're going to help us to invite encourage some brother some sister to give his or her life to jesus christ become a part of the family of wheeler avenue baptist church these singers are going to sing they they're real good they're real good at what they do i praise god for their ministry they're gifted they're anointed they're not pretentious and proud they're humble they're of meek spirit and they use their gifts for the glory of god they sing i would say professionally but they sing congregationally but but there's somebody who may not be able to sing with them up here but you can show enough sing right there and i don't want you to miss this moment if you haven't given your life to jesus if you like to join our church just email us right now at new members ministry at wheelerbc.org email us and we'll get right back in touch with you and let you know how welcome you are into the family of wheeler avenue baptist church but i don't want anyone to miss this opportunity i know there are some of us who can get real obstinate and just fold our arms and not sing i'm asking for 100 congregational participation if you know this song you'll know it by the time they sing it the second or third time i want you to sing because you got a new song on the other side of your struggle on the side of your strength same church is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] because [Music] [Applause] make me [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] i was singing to the lord a new song come on don't you know what it is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] finally [Music] [Applause] hey [Music] is [Music] he [Music] the lord bless you and keep you the lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious unto you the lord lift the light of his countenance upon you and give you his peace and you're going out and then you're coming in in your labor and in your leisure in your joy as well as in your sorrow in your laughter and likewise in your tears until that day when we meet the lord face to face and cry holy holy holy to the lord of hosts until that day my brothers my sisters go in peace go in love go enjoy and may the very god of peace love and joy go with you now and forever as you sing your new song in jesus name [Music] amen don't you [Music] you know that's why good sunday church family it's time for bible study that's right grab your bible and catch us on the website facebook or youtube this wednesday at noon or 7 p.m as we're led in a powerful time of study by our pastor in this season of spiritual development join us every sunday for your journey to spiritual growth our sunday school class sessions are engaging interactive and provide exposure to impactful transformative biblical principles these will improve your life in your everyday walk as a disciple of jesus christ registration details can be found on the church website please join us for the mental health moment on january 25th at noon to hear an informational conversation on how do we handle all of this as christians with reverend latasha morgan minister of counseling at alfred street baptist church alexandria virginia and reverend dr barbara williams minister of counseling here at wheeler avenue baptist church you can join us via facebook live or by registering online for the zoom webinar in response to the economic impact of covet 19 and ongoing efforts to remain safe through social distancing wabc avenues to employment ministry has partnered with workforce solutions to host a virtual job fair on friday february 5th from 10 a.m to 1 p.m if you're searching for full-time or part-time employment we encourage you to connect virtually via your laptop tablet or smartphone and we will bring the search directly to you also hear directly from employers about their immediate openings to register visit the events page on the church's website one of the most powerful messages of 2020 was that it is okay not to be okay the pandemic politics and pressure have caused many christians to face discouragement anxiety and even depression in response to this the wheeler avenue baptist church first aid care team presents strength for the journey a 10-week support group experience that applies a biblical perspective to discouragement and depression strength for the journey virtual support group begins on zoom february 9th from 6 30 pm to 7 30 pm register now on the wabc events page and begin your healing journey there's so much taking place and we hope you stay connected for more information join us on flocknote facebook instagram or twitter i'm jasmine yates and this has been your avenue news remember we are wheeler wherever

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