34th Pastoral Anniversary 8a 09-19-2021

good morning will you help me honor the god of the bible on this morning help me give his name some praise truly the lord is worthy oh we magnify the lord come on give him the fruit of your lips on this morning god has been too good to us for us to sit idly by and not say thank you thank you lord for another day thank you lord for life health and strength oh bless his wonderful name oh we honor we honor we honor the great leader that we have here 34 years of unmovable unshakable and unbreakable leadership we honor our first lady the fragrance of the house she just celebrated 60 years aren't we grateful that god allowed her to live to see another year we have in our midst the pandemic pastor the dynamic duo and the pandemic first lady here at the upper room and how about the pandemic saints in here on this morning give yourself some praise glory honor oh we honor each other i thank god for the first assistant we all help me appreciate him he is the president of the pastoral anniversary committee the first assistant elder john aman chukwu oh a powerful man of god we thank god for him on this morning we thank god for district missionary margaret mose oh a powerful woman of god we honor all the elders all the ministers all the preachers all the missionaries all the evangelists that's right show them some love these are faithful servants so we honor them on this morning i thank god for the mothers of our church our founding mother mother willa dean turner we thank god for mother shirley williams the president of the mother's department and to each and every one of you i am filled with excitement even though it's not my birthday i feel like it is even though it's not december 25th it feels like christmas i'm just so excited about being a blessing to our pastor how many of you all are excited about being a blessing on the day you look so beautiful and handsome on this morning oh i'm excited and we're gonna have a power pack service at this time we're gonna have our prayer by elder john price and then our scripture reading by evangelist karen fairley please receive them in that order my soul loves jesus my my soul loves jesus my my soul loves jesus my let the church say yes yes lord oh yes yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord of father in the name of jesus did god we thank you thank you father for life health and strength thank you lord god for your love and kindness and your tender mercy thank you lord god for a reasonable portion of health and strength for goddamn lord you've been good to us oh god and for that we say thank you thank you lord god because it's been 70 weeks old god and yet lord god we're in your sanctuary one more time lord we give you glory lord we give you honor lord we give you praise o god lord your word that you be praised lord god you are god you are a king you are lord lord god in you we live we move and we have our being lord god we ask oh god that you look upon our bishop bless them right now god keep them oh god strengthen them right now god in the mighty name of jesus lord i look upon the first family oh god bless them o god in the name of jesus and father god we act oh god that you sent your word on this morning send your word on this morning oh god send your word on this morning oh god we need a word from you oh god in the mighty name of jesus oh god bless to speak on this morning touch him right now god in the name of jesus oh god have your way oh god have your way lord god have your way into service on this point oh god touch right now god heal right now god deliver right now god in the name of jesus lord god we magnify your name lord we magnify your name lord we magnify your name oh god oh your were there you were the old god you were the old god in the name of jesus in the name of jesus lord god we thank you god oh god save on this morning oh god save oh god in the name of jesus oh god that man that woman oh god that girl oh god that show this near hell oh god save oh god in the name of jesus and father god if there's any sick among us so god heal right now god touch right now god deliver right now god in the name of jesus and lord we put our hands together we praise your name we praise your name we give you the fruits of our lips oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah in the name of jesus now god bless the first of the service oh god bless this anniversary god and god this is your day and lord god we will rejoice and be glad in it in jesus holy name we pray thank god thank god thank god amen our scripture reading will be coming from first corinthians the 15th chapter and the 58th verse and it reads therefore my beloved brethren be steadfast unmovable always abounding in the work of the lord for as much as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the lord the word is blessed uh hallelujah come on once again let's thank god for his son jesus christ while we're yet standing you may be seated in the presence of the lord at this time we're going to actually have our welcome from missionary to betha rayford please receive her at this time with a warm claps good morning good morning great morning exciting morning it is we are so excited that we are at this time and place celebrating our pastor our leader our bishop patrick l wooden's 34th anniversary to all of our visitors if you're visiting here with us please stand at this time for the first time or at just visiting with us please stand we're so glad you're here so so excited that you're here hopefully you will greet it with a great smile if not you have one here so glad that you are here today visiting with us i pray that you are excited as we are if you're not you will be um we also appreciate you taking the time out to come visit with us to our special guest artists musical artists thank you for coming to share with us and especially our bishop bale will be giving us the word of god today we uh appreciate you and again i say welcome thank you so much hallelujah will you all help me appreciate one of our own that have come into the building superintendent and first lady james parker come on superintendent it's good to see you first lady god bless you all you heard in the welcome there is a word from the lord have you all been praying for today amen we are honored to have with us bishop destroy c bell all the way from missouri texas he's going to bless us with a powerful word and we also have let's thank god for bishop bell as he's coming in at this time hallelujah thank the lord also we have some powerful musical guest artists with us on today come on now let's show some love for brother jerrell small he's gonna bless us as well as reverend michael boone come on let's show him some love on today welcome welcome welcome listen to me bishop wooden in a time where many refused to stand here we are i believe it's 70 weeks 70 weeks that god has kept us 70 weeks where god has covered us 70 weeks where god has healed some delivered others he's worthy to be praised i don't think you understand the gravity of what i'm trying to tell you on this morning it could have been the other way but we stood on god's word ah hallelujah i remember there was a time my testimony is still today what it was before which was i believe god if god in fact if god in fact wants to take me from this earth it doesn't god doesn't need covet to do that i put my trust in the law whether by plane train or automobile if god doesn't have to sin an illness through god just has to say stop breathing that's why i put my faith in him i know many are talking do this and do that that's your own decision but i'm here to tell you on today make it your declaration to put your trust in god oh my brothers and sisters the time has come look to your left and say the time has come we're standing on our feet all over the sanctuary the greatest pastor that i know himself the one the only bishop and first lady patrick wooden senior please receive our leader oh thank god for bishop wooden thank god for first lady one celebrating the bishop patrick a wooden senior and first lady pamela wooden come on put your hands together all right this is not a dead sunday no it's not we're worshiping in the god of the bible but we're honoring our man of god one more time come on and put those hands together for god's servant the pandemic pastor the prince of preachers in our day in time come on somebody make some noise we're excited we're excited to celebrate the man of god i'm wavering still standing oh the enemy tries to come against three because we gotta keep system the preparations come on and give god on once again let's celebrate our honorees on today god bless you bishop buddy first lady god bless you come on let's thank god once again for his son jesus christ it's not just on the walls it's really all about jesus it's all about jesus oh we glorify you may be seated in the presence of the lord i could barely sleep last night filled with anticipation so much and for so many reasons this is a man of god and no i don't need to sell you on him but i love talking about it because of his preaching and his teaching i know what it's done for me and my family i can testify that this is a man of god and when he prays and talks to the lord god answers his prayers he lives his life in such a manner that when he preaches the gospel he doesn't have to look around because he lives the life that he teaches and preaches that's the type of unmovable leadership we have here at the upper room church of god in christ if we're joining in i love you and thank god for you coming in on today now i've given everybody honor and this is his day but i do thank god for my beautiful wife on this morning well y'all help me appreciate sonya felicia wilson oh i love you baby god bless you this is a ministry that supports marriages amen when the world is trying to kill him this is a ministry that supports marriages my brothers and sisters bishop everybody is excited we all help me appreciate the committee that has worked so hard look at these committee members would you stand up please come on all the committee members part of the pastoral anniversary please god bless you look at them help me appreciate them and as i said earlier at the helm of this committee the one and only elder john amanchuku let's thank god for this powerful man of god evangelists some of them are standing out there so many have put a lot of work into this and i can tell you it is a labor of love we look forward to putting this on to honor this man of god faithfully throughout the year he goes before the lord in prayer seeks his face for a word for you and for me so that we might get a crown of glory in heaven on that great day and for that i am internally in your dead bishop god bless you sir oh we're about to be blessed in a matter of minutes today we're going to have an awesome musical guest brother jerrell small who's going to bless us real good on today that's right go ahead and show them some love so without further ado please receive this man of god as he blesses us through song praise the lord everybody come on let's clap and give god a hand clapping praise we bless god for you bishop wouldn't god bless you first lady happy anniversary listen can we have a little church real quick it's a song that says the lord will make a way somehow if you're trusting obey lean on this word i'm going right into it john listen here y'all lean on his word all day learning how to is hold on i'm come come in the morning come on i need y'all to i know it's early but let's wake up let's let the 11 o'clock know eight o'clock is bad too come on oh you got it i see it that's called the real dance y'all doing it hold on he keep on making the wigs keep on making the way keep on playing the lord every time i turn around i got trouble to the level i got trouble to the right but the trust me if you know he's a waymaker come on let's go out give him praise listen don't got long i'm old school to the bone come on and they told me bishop is old school too they tell me hey man he's a man he's he's unchangeable come on stay man unconditionally amen glory to god can i sing some old school for your bishop listen it don't matter what denomination you're from you can be baptist baptista courgette whatever it is and man grandmamma taught me this song when i was a little boy that applies to every generation can i sing it for y'all it's a song that see these words gnawing foreign let me see if y'all remember this part and my grandma used to say she said son i don't want you to go down a dry devil and come up a wet one yeah she said you got to have your heart fixed she said you got to have your mind regulated she said glory to god you got to be converted when she told me that i told brandon i said well since you said you make it plain like that i said take me oh thank you jesus i can't remember how much time i got amen huh okay listen i i'm one of these ones that i just love old school singing is that all right ain't nothing wrong with it i know i know they say something about the new way but but he said i am the way the truth and they're like come on no man come under the said you come this way and i got a question for y'all do you got the old-time religion if you got it you ought to open your mind and say yes i do all right listen there's a song that says i've got a right to praise the lord can we do that it's a little churchy come on clap your hands y'all making me feel real welcome listen here you are you ain't got no choice about the goodness of jesus and all he done for me my soul ain't crying hallelujah i said i can tell somebody oh come on do you really got a right i need y'all to help me have some more country oh for me oh is i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry i got it i almost forgot i i almost forgot i got another servant but when i think of the goodness of jesus and all that he's done for me last year i got sick with the virus i got to tell the truth and i went in the hospital i was in icu for a month on a ventilator for 13 days but i heard the law saying you can't kill who god would alive the doctor said that they tried everything medically to save my life but how do you know they didn't try everything biblically come on i read the scriptures saying no happened that's wrong again shall be able i to to hide by your neighbor and say neighbor so i don't care what you've been going through see your condition is not the conclusion to the things getting ready to get battled before i reach the city way beyond the sky you want to look at your neighbors in trouble wheels all right i could have been six feet under but i'm six feet over i should have been in the cemetery but i'm in the sanctuary that's why i've got a right to praise him the fact of the matter is i had a triple bypass coming here i bypassed that accident come on i drove past the hospital come on and i've run past the cemetery and i'm in the sanctuary i've got a right all right all right all my time is whoa lord i'm trying not to dance i'm a big piece of leather but i'm all putting together my feet getting a little light i don't want to take up too much time but i feel juicy in the room all right i'm sorry y'all y'all come back 11 o'clock we are dancing all right let me go in the prayer room real quick all right okay can i go in the prayer room real fast let's go there come on is one more time oh is touch with me i'm sorry is just keep moving listen i'm from a place called charleston south carolina can i take y'all to charleston come on jesus denied come on oh come on and give it up for brother jarrell small ah come on come on let's show him some love he had triple bypass on his way getting here this morning ah lord have mercy ah lord have mercy feel right churchy in here don't any are y'all gonna give him some praise on this morning hallelujah oh bless his wonderful name at this time we are going to be blessed with video tributes and so we're gonna have our very own evangelist crystal amanchukwu come at this time come on let's show her some love on this morning god bless you amen to god be the glory for the great things he has done we are so excited about our service today greetings to all of you the saints of the lord congratulations to our bishop and first lady we are so excited about all the things that god is doing for decades now the upper room church of god and christ has had outreach ministry via radio and television broadcast and eventually expanding to include youth youtube live and facebook live and for decades we have had supporters viewers fans followers and those who connected to the god first broadcast and the god first message today through the covet 19 pandemic and the mass closure of churches throughout america and all over the world not only do we have well wishes supporters fans and followers but we have 19 full partners and members of the upper room church of god in christ around america amen and when i say that they are full partners and members i mean that they attend new members class with elder williams they have had their virtual right hand of fellowship they support the ministry financially and they attend the services weekly online so now in this presentation we want to introduce just a few of them to you as they participate in the celebration and congratulate their pastor on his 34th pastoral anniversary roll that tape oh hi bishop and first lady we are brother lawrence assistant marjorie without a family from new york city we watch the service every week on youtube and we wanted to wish you a very very happy 34th pastoral anniversary we love you we thank god yes we do we are proud of the church of god we thank god we know that you are praying for us um we also watch every sunday and every thursday bible study so we are just glad and we know that you are truly truly unbelievable god bless you hi bishop and first lady wooden this is carrie and rebecca blue boswell memphis tennessee overjoyed with the opportunity to be able to wish you a happy 34th pastoral anniversary thank you so much for the superior bible studies and sermons that you give every week thank you for being an example of holiness and courage and thank you for helping us to always keep god first god bless you and all of upper room saints we can't wait to come worship with you in the house of the lord happy anniversary from the robinsons the robertson family from hill new jersey hi i'm aleah robertson and on behalf of my husband judson robertson and our family we would like to say happy 34th pastoral anniversary bishop wooden as well as first lady wooden we just like to encourage you and tell you that your ministry means so much to our family especially via youtube that we're able to um fellowship and stay firm and what we believe because the unadulterated truth the word of the lord is preached well at the upper room church of god of christ so we're so grateful for your commitment to the work of the lord bishop wooded we're so thankful in the name of jesus for all that you continue to do and stir up and believers the willingness to live holy and to stand firmly on what we believe god bless you happy shoot and first lady woodland this is mother mary walker assistant senator darling my daughter from georgia we watch the service on youtube we want to wish you a very happy 34. pastoral anniversary i love you and god bless we love you and god bless you greetings bishop and first lady wooden this is presario smith your upper room church member from sanford florida i watch the services each week on youtube live i'm here today to wish you a happy 34th pastoral anniversary thank you bishop for being unmovable and for standing on righteousness in all things thank you for teaching the inerrant truth of god's holy word may god's rich blessings rest upon you and your family is my prayer hi bishop and first lady woody we are the davis family from florida we watch the service every week on facebook live we want to wish you a happy 30 past anniversary and we also want to thank you for keeping god the bible first and always continue thank you bishop for remaining unmoldable and also teaching us that worship was always worth the risk we love you bishop first lady wooden and our entire upper room all over the world let's clap our hands for youtube live facebook live amen we love you and we congratulate you both happy anniversary come on let's thank god for the daughter of our honoree today evangelist crystal armand jupo at this time i want to acknowledge we have some guests awesome guests visiting from all over i'd like to acknowledge from the west coast in california pastor lonnie and dr edna burnell will you all help me appreciate them come on there they are right there come on let's thank god we're so glad that you are with us on today we honor you on today at this time are y'all ready for a little more singing some more hand clapping foot stomping well the next musical guest is coming at this time i would ask that you would greet him as we only the upper room can please receive reverend michael boom come on if you love the lord come on put those hands together come on come on come on come on come on that all was if we were talking for me but i'm talking about the man that woke you up this morning come on come on i'm talking about the man that started you on your way i'm talking about the man that gave you life health and strength if you love the lord why don't you give him a great big shot of praise for he alone is worthy or y'all don't hear me i said but he alone is worth it it's worth it we ain't got a lot of time we're so glad to be here to help celebrate a giant in the industry listen i'm gonna probably sing two songs to get out of your way all right but these two songs i'm gonna have some church okay i'm just like my friend jarrell i'm old school to the bone i was raised in old school quartet and i know bishop love quartet can i sing some quartet for you this first song i did on a project called quartet is in my dna song said let's get closer you and me can i sing it come on let's get closer let's get closer living in this great big oh oh oh oh come on oh i feel like i have a church now i'm getting ready to get out of the way but can i go to los angeles california right quick and sing a song by a man named julie gone and the mighty clouds of joy if you know the day that you got rid of your heaven lord and you came to jesus i want you to put those hands together when i said oh i came to jesus is that's is i came to jesus is is somebody don't remember talking about the holy ghost and then i'm gonna leave you alone i ah if you know yes wow oh god god bless you we love you i see you all there definitely i have no talent to sing but if god did good to you if god be good to you you ought to come on this show if you know it's good god bless you god bless you let thank god you if the lord has done anything for you you are to give god some glory in this place if he's made a way out of no way if he's blessed you to be here at an anniversary one more time you want to give god praise right up in here and bless the name of the lord i said bless the name of the lord i said bless the name of the lord the name of the lord is a sean tower the righteous run in and they are safe is anybody in here safe this morning we're getting ready to raise the offering at this time but i feel god moving in this place i just want to see some of the some of the saints of god who know that it was god that kept you over these past 70 weeks it wasn't a mask it wasn't a vaccine but it's been the good hand of the lord now if you believe that in this house i need you to give god some glory right up in here your immune system has they kept you strong vitamin d didn't keep you strong vitamin c didn't keep you strong but there's been nobody but jesus if you believe that give god some praise in this place hallelujah listen listen 70 weeks ago we receive word that a federal judge overturned the ruling of governor roy cooper and as a result of that bishop wooden got on the phone called a few people he already had a plan that was in place assemble the members to come on a sunday morning and we came 70 weeks ago and today here we are on his 34th pastoral anniversary celebrating an unmovable leader who has moved with god throughout the course of this pandemic you know when paul said that he was unmovable he says in first corinthians 15 and 58 be ye steadfast and unmovable always abounding in the work of the lord for as much as you know your labor is not in vain what he was referencing there was that there were some in the church who were teaching a false doctrine saying that there is no resurrection paul had to come in 1st corinthians 15 and 1 down to verse 10 and make it plain that jesus was seen by cephas being peter then he said that he was seen of the disciples then he was seen of 500 brethren some were dead at that time and but the majority were alive then it was scene of james and then he was seen of the apostles and of paul i heard him say if we have hope in this life only we are above all men most miserable but then by the time he got over making his way towards verse 58 i heard him when he said he said after the manner of men i have fought with beasts at ephesus house say to me that there be no resurrection of the dead you know bishop wooden has fought some beasts over these past 34 years he's been contending for the for the faith fighting the beast of lgbt fighting the beast in the abortion movement fighting the beast of the black lives matters movement fighting the beast of progressive doctrines and teaching fighting the beast of idolatry and over these past 70 weeks he's had to even deal with the beast from within but there was a certain period of time where a decree went out that we were not supposed to have services on sunday mornings but our man of god stood tall resisted what was being said said by those who said we should close down and held true to hebrews 10 and 25 but the bible said we should not forsake the assembling of ourselves together he has fought with some beast but then i heard paul say even though you have to contend with some beasts be steadfast be unmovable always abounding always excelling always moving forward in the work of the lord for as much as you know your labor is not in vain in other words based upon what was delivered unto me based upon what i saw through stephen stephen the first martyr being killed paul was there at the time and saw they laid the clothes of stephen at paul's feet that thing did something to paul and paul finds himself writing and saying that your work is not in vain i want you to know this this morning upper room that the labor of this congregation the labor of this pastor and the labor of this first lady is not in vain god is not going to forget your labor of love bishop would it the bible says they that sow in tears are going to reap enjoy and if you believe that just bless the name of the lord right up in here we i i'm going to move home but if you know that you're going to reap enjoy come on help me praise the lord in this place now that i've said that it's time to raise a whole lot of money i stand today as a individual who has been blessed by the life of this man of god bishop wooden has been a father indeed first lady wooden has been a mother indeed and i honor you both for your steadfastness and for the integrity and character that's on your life 34 years doing anything comes with great trials in opposition but i've never seen you reduce the bar or the standard i've always seen you walk in the utmost integrity you've always loved your family always loved your children and you've always put god first when i came to the ministry at 19 years of age you wrapped your arms around me and and welcomed me in and bishop wood and i want to honor you this morning to thank you i'm going to ask if my wife will come at this time if she's in the sanctuary if not we'll carry w we'll carry on she's probably out with john junior or something but bishop this morning on behalf of the amachuku family we're giving four hundred and thirty four dollars we wanna tell you thank you for your faithfulness god bless you oh let's thank god once again for elder armand doing an exceptional job good morning and welcome to the upper room church of god in christ where we are celebrating our pastor bishop patrick l wooden senior 34 pastoria anniversary yes you're right we are right we are here at this date we've been planning for a long time and i hope that you've been enjoying the service it's been a power pack service thus far but now we're at a part of the service where each and every one of you can participate i'm elder robert l williams this is my wife evangelist van williams good morning and we have with us evangelist crystal amman chukwu the wife of the first assistant of pastor wooden god bless you you want to say something good morning everybody we are here we are at the big day and you being here with us online via facebook live youtube live you are making our day special because you get to participate in the celebration as we honor this man of god who has been tirelessly preaching the word of god throughout the pandemic and for 34 years if we could put some claps in the chat that would be awesome we have so much to celebrate we value the word of god and we value the people of god and we are so excited that you are here to join us as we financially also bless the man of god this morning amen thank you thank you thank you for being a part of our celebration we know that you are as just as excited as we are to bless our man of god he has certainly labored in the vineyard and today is his day our opportunity to show our appreciation to him so thank you one and all for joining us on this morning amen thank you sister williams the bible said with every opportunity that we have amen we take advantage of that and be a blessing to them who are of the household of faith and today just that's just what we're going to do we're not asking you to do something that we're not going to do my wife and i we are giving on today 2 534 oh yes elder john and i are giving 3 and 400 100 per year of the anniversary awesome awesome see we are sowing also and we are going to ask you to give liberally on this morning to give let us have a giving heart amen god loves a cheerful giver and the liberal soul shall be made fat we asked every member of the upper room to give 334 dollars on this morning now we're asking you to do the same thing some of you say i can give more we're asking you let the lord lead you let the lord touch your heart and be a blessing to this man of god who we call our pandemic pastor who has been preaching us preaching to us and teaching to us navigating us through this pandemic and all the challenges that it brings we want you to be a blessing how do you bless the man of god you say well you can go to easytide.com forward slash u-r-c-a that is easy tide dot com forward slash urc not urca amen it's easytide.com forward slash urc the other way is text ursc give then four five seven seven seven urc give four five seven seven the other is the upper room gospel dot org then select the giving tab and the drop down box will come and then you will be able to select that box upper room gospel dot org select given tab it's in the chat as well uh we're going to come back and give you these ways to give before we end this but we want to thank you for being with us throughout the years the youtube family our facebook live family you've been tremendous you've been praying for our pastor you've been supporting the ministry throughout the year and now it's time for us to be a blessing to him because he's been preaching to us all through the year the bible said let the elder that rules well be counted worthy of double honor especially they that labor in word and doctrine and we have a pastor that does just that he labors in the word and the doctrine so we're going to esteem him highly on this morning very highly the bible says esteem them very highly in love and in works so we want you to be a blessing to our man of god on today let's show him how much we love him let's encourage him to keep on keeping on preaching the unadulterated word of god sister machuca well i'm excited about the theme for this year also which is unmovable and it's amazing because in our culture today the sands are always shifting under our feet and there's always the expectation for churches and for church people to change their beliefs and go with the times and so for a lot of people that were unmovable it sounds like you know that's not that good but we understand that that comes directly from the word of god for the bible tells us to be steadfast unmovable always abounding in the work of the lord the church is called to be the pillar and ground of the truth we are called to be consistent and as i think about bishop wooden over these last 34 years and you can think about him as you've viewed his broadcast he has been a signpost for the unmovability and the consistency of the word of god sometimes you feel that pressure to change or to move or to adapt but when it comes to the things of god and the word of god we cannot move we have to be consistent and it's always good to know that if nobody else is going to hear from me if nobody else is in my corner i know that bishop wooden is somewhere standing on the word in the very same way and this is what we celebrate we celebrate the fact that we can be consistent in understanding the roles between men and women we can be consistent and understanding that marriage is between a man and a woman so many of the things that have been questioned and challenged in our day-to-day that we see on headlines everywhere we thank god that we can count on the god first broadcast to give us common sense uh gospel and reality so we thank god for that and the bible says that when we're steadfast and unmovable we find ourselves abounding in the work of the lord and that's what's exciting when we're steadfast in the word we can go leaps and bounds above the things that are holding us down and i believe that anointing is on bishop would it yes and i believe that it's on me and you thank you for joining us and giving today let me give you those ways to give one more time it is easytide.com forward slash urc text to give is urc give four five seven seven seven and the last is upper room gospel dot org select the given tab we thank you for your giving we thank you for your support bishop wooden loves you he thank you for all that you do for the ministry god bless you and may heaven smile upon you amen amen amen god bless you god was in the house are you still feasting on that prayer from your man of god he he prophesied and told us that there will be a reversal and i believe hey i believe god is turning things around there is a reversal there is a reversal if you believe in that reversal this morning if you believe that god is doing it you want to give god some glory in this place he's turning it around i don't hear nobody if you know that god is turning it in your favor it's going from bad to good it's going from ugly to better you're going from sick to wow god is sitting over here and then he came in and he smoked the priestly blessing on us god is doing something and we glorify god i got to move on i feel like running in here i feel god turning some things around you ought to look at your name and tell them it won't always be like this it won't always be like this it's gonna come in the morning reverse all right we got to move on we got a preacher coming we got a real preacher coming we have a real preacher coming amen let's pray the heavenly father we thank you for this good deed this good work that this congregation has done we pray that you will bless this offering some thirty some sixty and some one hundred fold in jesus name we pray amen put your hands together this time and receive elder wilson as it comes come on let's thank god once again braille drama on youtube at this time it is my privilege to present the speaker of the hour this powerful man of god respected throughout the brotherhood who hails all the way from missouri texas i would ask that everyone would rest on their feet at this time as we receive god's man for this hour to preach the gospel of jesus christ put your hands together and receive bishop destroy c bell the prelate of texas gulf coast jurisdiction missouri texas come on you all are showing some love oh that was all right if it's oh it would be no it would that was all right if if that was for me but give give the lord a clap for him give him give the lord a prayer come on y'all let's praise him the unbelievable man of god the bishop patrick l wooden come on let's give him let's let's praise god for this lovely made in marriage and in ministry the lady pamela woodson come on let's give them some love now y'all listen that's that's not good enough that's what i'm talking about come on put those hands together and let's shout to them congratulations 34 plus years and counting what an extraordinary accomplishment bishop wooden and i'm so honored and delighted to be with you i'm proud privileged and pleased to be with you and lady wooten today lady bell sends her regards her love and from the saints back in houston texas we say god bless you we love you with the love of the lord god has been good to us amen if y'all don't mind let's lift those hands and just thank you long come on 34 years is a long time so good have you been good you've been you've been so you good you you you you you you you your pencils if you don't mind you made so many top one more time thank you lord thank you help me yeah to stand before these your people to honor such a great man of god a great woman of god a great church historic church church that is changing lives changing the world for jesus christ standing in the day that rome want to be taken for right and right for wrong we thank you for his unmovable fortitude attitude the meanest spirit tenacity to stand when standing sometime is not popular but god we thank you for the grace you've graced him with the anointing you have filled him with your spirit you have empowered him with we thank you today and we give you glory for his lovely wife who's there to lift him to build him to strengthen him and to encourage him his church who have sustained him we thank you we give you glory for the healing that's in this room we give you glory that the devil has got to leave we bind the devil and cast them out now satan you're trespassing you're not welcome here we decree and declare that you have no place here get out of the mind get out of the body get out of the pocketbook get out of that marriage get out of that home that family satan i command you in the name of the lord satan i rebuke you the blood still works and we command the power of the holy spirit to rest rule and abide with us now now lord give me clarity of thought articulation of speech give me what to say and how to say that your people may be blessed that god you may be glorified satan horrified and we declare that we have the victory in jesus name we pray amen come on give the lord another handclap of praise you're standing if you will turn your bibles to romans chapter 10 verse 13 and 14. let me say bishop wooden i want to thank you again for having your little brother to come and share with you all today we love you we respect you highly and i want to say to you sir in person you're my friend and you're my brother and the best is yet to come god is doing wonderful things in your life and in your future lady pamela we love you we admire you and respect you rita sends her regards and her love thank you so much verse 13 and 14 for whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be saved how shall they call upon him in whom they have not believed and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher i'm gonna preach this morning for a few moments from the subject the preacher and at 11 a.m i will preach from the subject unmovable you may be seated the apostle paul traces the plan of salvation back to preaching to the preaching of the gospel you hear him saying whosoever shall call upon the name of the lord shall be saved then paul begins his dissertation how then shall they call upon him whom they have not heard or believed or how who how should they call upon him who have that whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a preacher the preacher paul says is god's man if y'all say man i'd be finished in a few minutes preacher paul says is god's man of the hour for the evangelization of the world and i want to share with you my brothers and sisters we cannot overlook the fact that all men regardless of the capacity in which they serve this frail humanity are not only valuable but they are indispensable we need the grocery man around the corner we need the butcher and the shoe maker we need the laundry man the fruit dealer on the sidewalk the doctor and the druggers we need the garbage man who comes and collects our debris we need the farmer who grows our vegetables and food we need the policeman who keeps law in order we need the mayor we need the city council we need the commissioners we need the fire chief but the most valuable man in town is god's preacher y'all don't hear what i'm saying folk would say that we the preacher need to hear what the president have to say no the president need to hear what the preacher got to say the governor need to hear what the preacher got to say the mayor need to hear what the preacher has to say i'm not going to get no help i see now and we should live from a perspective and from a position to where people can respect us enough to want to hear what the preacher have to say and i can certainly say i see that in bishop wooden that's why we have to we have to watch how we live and how we interact with the world you know many many years ago there was not a whole lot of bishops it was so few bishops until you could see cause when you saw the bishop you saw the church you saw his character you saw his demeanor you saw his lifestyle but now we have bishops on every corner man amen you can send off for your kid to become a bishop about 60 dollars online and um and you're a bishop overnight but but but let me tell you something the the value of of character and being battle tested and have and making full proof of your ministry has almost gone out the window i believe that we ought to live as godly men we ought to be an example of what fatherhood and what what it means to be a husband and what it means to be a pastor and what it means to be a brother and a friend to the community we have to be an example it's not about just looking like a preacher or sounding like a preacher or having the back of your neck make you look like a preacher it's about living god's word in a day when the world don't want to hear the truth the bible says my people perish for the lack of knowledge and so we need to understand this these other men deal with the temporal matters of carnality the perishing things of life the police the food the grocery store man all those they deal with the temporal things of life the things of carnality the perishing things of life but the preacher deals with the spiritual and the eternal things of life his service cannot be excelled or superseded by any other man because it's the preacher who holds the keys to the kingdom of heaven it is the preacher who unlocks the door to the gospel of jesus christ and how shall they hear without a preacher somebody died you got to wait on the preacher y'all don't want to talk back to me oh you get the mayor at the wedding you get you can't have the wit and if you're going to do it right without the preacher i wish i had a witness here and so how shall we hear how shall they hear without the preacher the most valuable man in this world is the preacher you see the value of the preacher man is determined by the weighing of the spiritual against the material things of life the man who feeds the soul is far more important than the man who feeds the body the fireman who rescues you from your body from a burning building is not as valuable as the preacher who snatches your soul from eternal damnation all eyes are on the preacher his work comes under more scrutiny than any other man or woman on earth if he hoofs some will say he's showing off if he doesn't they will say he can't preach if he uses a manuscript some will say he's not called if he doesn't others will say he's illiterate if he preaches long sermons which i'm trying not to do he's long-winded if he doesn't oh he's too lazy to preach if he preaches the truth he's meddling if he doesn't he's a bread and butter preacher but i want to say bishop patrick l wooten is not a bread and butter preacher he is a gospel preacher somebody's wondering what i'm doing i'm i'm eulogizing him while he lives ooh meaning good logie our logos meaning word means simply to say a good word and too often we wait to say a good word when folk can't hear you and i believe we ought to do more eulogies while folk can hear you and while folk can appreciate you it might help them live a little bit longer so i'm trying to close here but let me tell you something he's not a bread and butter preacher if he's friendly then he's a flirt if he's not friendly then you know y'all will say he's big headed if he tries to rebuild the sanctuary he's putting us in debt if he doesn't you say he have no vision if he asks for money he's charged with worldliness if he doesn't he's condemned for not providing for his family if he praises some members others will blow up if he doesn't he's not motivating the congregation if he lives right some will say he's holier than thou if he slips and commits a sin they'll say you know he's the devil's child y'all not gonna hit me i see that no matter what the preacher does he is a condemned man i believe it was dr martin shepard who first said he's damned if he does and he's damned if he doesn't yes the preacher has the most difficult job in the world i know some of y'all don't think so that's why you have to guard against the spirit of absalom because many preachers i'm talking to y'all online many preachers who sit they calculate what they see the pastor of bishop do don't get quiet say amen get quiet make me feel like you're guilty or something just say amen like something wrong because because people look at us and what god has graced us to do looks easy it appears that it's effortless like we just know what to do and how to do but let me tell you god is tired of people who know what to do god is looking for some people who don't know what to do so that they will depend on him you all don't want to help me out and that's why you have to support your leader any preacher that won't pay tithes while they're not pastoring they're not going to treat the congregation right after they start pastoring i wish i had a witness here so no matter what what he does he's a condemned man but yes the preacher has the most difficult job in the world preaching is never easy it takes a lot of study time and effort a lot of preparation prayer to be a preacher preaching is the hardest job ever assigned to mortal man the preacher is charged to deliver the gospel to all men the man with the doctrine and the man wearing the blue collar the lawyer and the factory worker the form owner and the form hand he must preach to the illiterate and to the university graduate the preacher has a responsibility to preach the gospel yeah we got to preach to the folk who love us and the folk who dislike us y'all do know there are some people that don't like the preacher some folk just don't like the anointing some people just don't want the truth some some people just just love and they have been seem like demonically possessed to give the preacher hell but let me tell you something when you have a man of god who walks under the oil of god you better be careful i ain't got nobody here i say you better be careful you know you got to be careful you know jeremiah said i will give you pastors after my own heart you got to be careful how you treat your gift got to be careful how you treat your gift your pastor and wife are gifts to you and you can't run them down and then feel good about calling them to ask them to pray for you because you found out you have cancer no no no no no in fact in fact in this period in time in which we are living in this is not the time to be changing from upper room to first macedonia you don't want to be caught dead in between churches y'all don't want to hear me this is the time for you to stay where you've been shepherded where you've been counseled where you've been corrected where you've been loved where you've been supported it's not the time to be switching churches you know now folks don't want to be corrected they get mad with the preacher pastor tell me say something to me the first lady said something to me i ain't got to take all that i'm just going to go where i want to go well go ahead on because i have a problem i got a question if the pastor can't correct you if the first lady ladies can't correct you but then who's supposed to do it if we're in a house where everybody is doing whatever they want to do go and come when they want to act like they want to talk like they want to present themselves the way they want to rather than the way that the set man has set the image for the house then you out of order it's strange we can but we can obey what the police say yes sir we can obey what the doctors say you walk in the office you don't even know their name take off your clothes you naked in about three four minutes you don't even know what they gonna do to you but when you get to the church you got a hundred questions y'all don't want to hear me out i mean and i'm not knocking questions i'm not taking a question as a challenge but what i'm saying is if god is giving you a man to lead you you ought to have enough confidence in the god in him to trust that he's going to make the best decision for the church y'all not gonna help me i see that now god never called the board to run the church i'm gonna say that one more time god spoke to joshua joshua spoke to the officers and the officer spoke to the people god has an order anything with multiple heads is a freak it's a muslim it's a monster it's it's it's it's it's messed up it's confusion god always has a leader come on clap those hands everybody so the preacher must preach to the man who works in the office and the man who works in the shop he must preach to the high-rise dweller and to the skid row popper he must preach to the honest businessman and to the pickpocket he must preach to the refined lady and it also to the prostitute he must preach he must preach you see the to the lifetime christian and to the no account gambler the preacher must preach to the old man on a cane and to that young man who's just starting out on his christian journey the preacher must preach he must preach to the discouraged and to the inspired he must preach to the vexed and to the virtuous he must preach to the evil and to the enlightened he must preach to the burden and to the blessed the preacher must preach the gospel yeah that reaches every man woman child he must preach to be a successful minister of the lord jesus christ he must preach you see building a large edifice is a good work but it doesn't make a preacher a talented architect can do that raising a lot of money is commendable but it doesn't make a preacher a wall street stockbroker can fill your bank account packing the church house is not always evidence of a good preacher an eloquent sinner can do that the preacher is not evaluated by the temporal things in life his success is measured by the salvation and growth of the human soul and for 34 years god has given you somebody to preach when it was raining preach when it was sleeting preach when the when the storms came and when the storms were preached when they came preach when they left god has given you somebody to minister to your soul y'all know y'all have seen him bless people people take his resources and four months later they leave and lie and demonize the leader y'all don't hear what i'm saying you know they did it they called you they called you they only call you one time if you got the right answer they're not gonna call you back no more no y'all have to watch folk coming to you know what they say most of the time it's not a day it's not a day it's it's it's one person and sometime today is the person you talking to with this this is what's going around let me tell you what's going around the holy ghost let me tell you what god is going to do in our he's going to heal our bodies he's going to heal our minds he's going to keep us covered anybody who's been coming to church at this church for 70 weeks strong bishop patrick would led this church through a pandemic seven the week strong when other worship places were shut down closed down some of them not gonna even open back up because they shut down the sustaining power was trusting god we walk by faith and not by sight it's not popular it's not convenient well you know baby it's just not convenient i'm looking for a church close over by the house god is not concerned about your comfortability or your convenience god may assign you to a church that's 50 miles away and i think the church is messed up because we're trying to accommodate people schedules like the world too much world in the church we want to look like the world we want to have church like the world well you know it's too long don't don't say that don't do that now don't bother nobody just be nice and many preachers have to almost i'm gonna say they need to go to the altar for allowing the world to dictate what they're going to preach from their poor people y'all want to help me out i'm trying to tell y'all you we need to call we need to call sin and sin there's not no cues it's not no cute names for it it's either holiness or unholy you're either righteous or unrighteous whatever the word of god says that's what we need to stand on the word of god i'm gonna walk with it i'm gonna live in it i'm gonna eat it i'm gonna sleep it because at the end of the day when folk walk out on the preacher he still have god's word let me say bishop let me say 34 years yeah there were folk that forsake you but he told david i've never seen the righteous forsaken or receive their grant god will take care of you and some folk need to go you don't want to help me out they need to go tell somebody they need to go the apostle paul said he gave some apostles some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and some teachers for the perfecting of the saints he's given you a man of god here who walks under the apostolic anointing the five-fold anointing as a preacher as an apostle evangelist prophet pastor teacher you would not be where you are right now if it had not been for the anointing that god plays not only on bishop wooden but his wife lady wooden you know cause i know some of y'all you know you know but i'm all right with the bishop but it's that you know you know this lady you know lady wood i'm all right i'm all right with the bishop but you know i you know no it's not i don't know what is it you watch folks i'm like you you know what i mean i don't know what you mean you know what i'm saying i don't know what you say i'm listening to what you're saying what what what no we we have to understand that there's a cause to work in ministry and some preachers being been treated so bad until their children want nothing to do with ministry they run from the preaching of the gospel they run from it why because they see the sacrifice that their father and their mothers make to minister to people that really don't care or appreciate them y'all doing a good job in your celebration but i got something to tell you whatever you do at the end of the day it won't be enough because the workman is worthy i ain't got nobody gonna help me now he's worthy of double honor triple honor he's worthy of it and the way you release your blessing is by putting your money in his hand it's not it's not based upon whether he needs it or not the bible says it's right to do it muzzle not the ox that you got to untie the mother he got to be able to eat some corn he got to be able to be strong so when adversity comes to your house i got to hurry so the preacher is called we all come into the unity of faith he said he gave those officers for the perfecting of the saints and yes the preacher is the unifier he brings men and women together in the common bond of faith and it's a difficult task and for too many instances it is the poorest paying job in the community i'm getting ready to close you see the professional ball player makes more money in one year than most preachers make in a lifetime so why does the preacher preach the actor makes more money in one movie than a preacher makes in a lifetime so why does the preacher preach the doctor makes more money on one surgery than the preacher makes in one year so why does the preacher preach the lawyer makes more money in one good case some lawyers are in here say amen than the preacher makes in five years so why does the preacher preach he preaches because necessity is laid upon him woe unto me if i preach not the gospel it's not about the money i was pastoring a wonderful church i was sent there i pastored 12 years before going there very prestigious church i was sent to pastor and they told me when i walked in the door this is a bishop's church and you're not a bishop and you're beneath us and i said to them in the meeting i said i might be beneath you but i'm your pastor hear what i'm saying and they went on for four years almost turmoil turmoil turmoil bishop garrett patterson came in and intervened and worked for me and stood with me said this boy has done nothing wrong why are y'all acting the way you're acting but pride would destroy a church pride will destroy marriage the inability to say i'm sorry the inability to say forgive me the inability to say you know i messed up they messed up and ultimately they locked me out of the church locked me out they sent me a letter two or three weeks before and said we're going to cut off your cell phone and we're going to stop paying you and y'all know what i did with the letter i went to the church and read the letter i preached the letter on sunday morning we're not gonna pay you i said but god gonna see my need we're gonna cut this off i said but god's gonna take care of me and i'm trying to tell you i know it wasn't about the money i kept on preaching we preach because necessity is laid on us you see when you are called to the ministry it doesn't matter about the money sometimes we get anniversaries that have to give half of the money back to the church sometimes we get appreciations and people think we going home with a whole lot of money folk will call bishop wooten tomorrow morning saying bro pastor i saw it you were blessed yesterday can i have some help with my rent because everybody who coming to the anniversary ain't coming for the right reason but thank you for 34 years do i have a witness here so we have we preached because of what the necessity is laid upon us the prophet jeremiah already tried to quit he tried to go on strike he tried it but it didn't work he ended up saying it was like fire shut up in my bones the prophet jonah tried it but it but god forced him into an all-night prayer meeting in the belly of a fish the spirit spirited him out on the shores of obedience other professions may offer better livelihood and they may give better benefits but there's no greater reward than preaching the gospel thank god for the preacher who accepts the necessity laid upon him to preach the gospel to yes to that that many may be saved and delivered the pain may not be attractive but the benefits are out of this world and as i get rid of clothes i need to tell you never under underestimate the value of a preacher he knows how to get you up when you're down he knows how to keep you going when you feel like quitting he knows how to build you up when others have torn you down he knows how to put you back together when satan have torn you asunder he knows how to direct you toward the straight and narrow when the world is pointing you toward the crooked place i'm talking about the preacher and that's why we ought to take more care of the preacher we need to look after their need we need to pray for the preacher and understand that he's a man and hurt sometimes just like you hurt sometimes we become disappointed just like you become disappointed but i found out if you have a real preacher he knows how to preach through his pain he knows how to preach through his disappointment and i'm glad to tell you that god has graced this church and i believe that if you would just keep on loving your preacher loving your pastor you gonna help him go to the next dimension i got a word for your upper room eyes have not seen east have not heard the great things that the lord has for your preacher this church is a beacon in this city this church is a beacon in the country a beacon in the world you want to know why because god gave you patrick hill oh yes when his mother and his father burped him into the world god had destiny god had purpose god had a plan for his life god knew that in 2021 he would celebrate 34 years and i'm glad to tell you i hope i'm around when you get to the 50-year mark i want to come back and be with you and celebrate 50 years that's not that far away all i'm trying to tell you love your preacher stand with your preacher don't be found on the negative side of a conversation about your preacher cover your preacher in prayer most of y'all don't know that many pastors most of them are depressed most of them are suicidal most of them feel like giving up because they're tired of fighting with difficult boys and committees but thank god you have a preacher that knows the word of god you have a preacher that stands in the face of opposition you have a preacher that'll tell the truth on cnn on fox news on nsa bcrm whatever it's called tell the truth he'll tell it in city council he'll tell it in the governor's mansion he'll tell it in your house thank god for the preacher isn't anybody here that's glad for your preacher oh yes oh yes mr wooden i want you to be encouraged don't be weary in well doing you gonna reap if you faint not ain't no time to fame god has done it so many times he brought you out before he'll bring you out again i know you don't want to touch nobody but just look at somebody around you and say neighbor what god has done god will do if he's healed you before he'll heal you again if he's got you out of debt before he'll bring y'all again if he restores your marriage he can restore it again he can save your son he can save your daughter thank god for a preacher who won't come down off the wall he's unmovable but i got another one for you the preacher the bishop and his master god being his master hut they're not only unbeatable but they're unmovable whatever you believe god will take care of you he prays for you he lifts you up in the midnight hour he calls your name when you're slumbering in sleep thank god god in the upper room it was in the upper room that the holy ghost fell it was in the upper room that they were filled with the power of the holy ghost it was in the upper room that they spoke in other tongues yet the spirit gave her to return in the upper room there's a love in the upper room there's salvation isn't anybody here there's no amazing grace how sweet the sound oh that saved the rest like me i want to lose won't he do it y'all don't hear what i'm saying they're just waving somebody across the house hey won't god work it out for this moment and for this time we know god that you are our god you are our strength you're our peace you are a deliverer you are sustainer and god when we think over the years that bishop and lady wooten has served there were those that started out with him in this church the same time in ministry but they fell away couldn't make the journey but god we thank him that you've kept bishop wooten and his wife standing strong standing strong standing bold when it comes to the gospel of our lord and savior jesus christ we thank you and we ask lord that you would touch his body touch his wife give them continued great health and long life god give it to him he's a man of impeccable character and integrity his wife stands hard by side bless them beyond what they can even imagine we thank you we thank you if you really thank god for your passion put those together come on put those hands together bless the man of god bless the man come on let's give him an ovation let's give them an ovation let's love them let's bless them will you help me will you help me appreciate this powerful message by bishop destroy c bell thank you man of god how many of you know we're resting on our feet all over the sanctuary we are blessed here at the upper room to have a preaching man hallelujah oh bless his holy name bless the lord we're resting on our feet because we're about to receive this preacher man who has the bible in his hand the honorees for today are about to give us remarks please receive the fragrance of the ministry our spiritual mother first lady pamela wooden and our spiritual father bishop patrick lane wooden senior god bless you thanks of the most high god oh to god be the glory for all the wonderful things that he has done we do give glory honor and honor to the god of our salvation you may be seated and to um our great pastor our leader our mighty man of god we thank god for bishop patrick lane wooden senior oh wow we're so proud of him and so thankful to the lord for what he has blessed and anointed this man of god to do lo these 34 years and i will just want you to know there's so much that i could say but the time has has is far spent i just want to take this opportunity to thank bishop destry bale for that amazing word what an encouraging word that you have delivered to that today we appreciate that word i want to thank god for elder almanchukwu elder wilson to the entire committee god bless every one of you i want to thank god for our board of directors for how they are so supportive of all that our pastor does and to you the saints of god god bless every one of you and know that we love you we thank you and we appreciate you all for what you have done the sacrifices that you have made the gifts that you have given we love you and we appreciate you i want you to know that you are our inspiration when times get tough when you know when we feel like giving up and throwing in the tower we think of you praise the lord and you all give us that that that encouragement to keep on keeping on and i tell you the great encourager of us all is certainly our pastor and our leader when we think about what god has called and anointed this man of god to do it rallies us to get behind him and to push him and to support the things that god has given him to do god bless you know that we love you and our prayers are continually with you praise the lord thank you let's give praises to our king today who is the reason that we're here for the mighty god what a mighty god thank you bishop bell for that powerful necessary on time word would you praise the lord for this man of god today oh my that's that's good preaching and that's that's preaching that comes from living it and experiencing what it is like to do this because it's not always what it appears to be but it is always necessary and i'm honored today to have my friend to come and thank you for that powerful powerful word amen and i given the the time constraints that we have i want to say to elder amanchuku and to elder wilson and to the entire staff the committee job well done thank you so much for uh this powerful powerful service and how about these powerful singers today who blessed us real good with the word of the lord in song and i like i like it when you if you don't sing sing if you're going to do it do it and they did a tremendous job today thank god for uh pastor james superintendent james parker amen thank you for being here today pastor malloy he had to leave to get back to fayetteville to preach the word of god at his church this morning but i think it was mighty kind of him to come today and thank god for superintendent cyprus and his lovely wife first lady district missionary disciples we're touched to have you with us today all the way down from jacksonville the wilmington area and to our very special guests we had a chance to dine with them on last night and um i tell you uh they're just marvelous people um we met through social media and became just friends and i thank god for pastor and uh his lovely wife she served as a a district missionary she served in the lord's church she's yet serving and doing and they're making a difference in the los angeles california area and that they would come all the way from there to be here for this service and they told me bishop we've never been to north carolina we don't know anybody in north carolina but they discovered the upper room and uh and would fly all the way from los angeles to be here god bless pastor and his lovely wife evangelist burrell give them a big hand they're going to have words in the 11 o'clock service he is a scholar in hebrew studies and i told i said to my wife and she's an educator um and i said that that that they would um with their knowledge base of the word of god the scripture the text the hebrew text would appreciate the ministry to that degree that says something special because he's in a position to know and what they're searching for is somebody who is preaching god's truth there is nothing like the truth of god would you please give god praises today amen to all of our mothers today and um to mother walker we just thank god for you and our local mothers and our mothers all the way from i think i'm getting it right now covington georgia we praise the lord and she she talked to my mother and she said mama i want i want to adopt your son as my spiritual mother and uh and she she got a chance to speak to my mother before i could talk to my mother about it and i said lord let my mother give the right answer because my mama is territorial and my mother said yes and i'm honored mother and to my sister sister dolmen she's up she with the that she is taking pictures she's a professional photographer and she said i want to work with the anniversary committee thank you so much would you give them a hand amen just i praise the lord i want to thank you uh upper room for your your your generosity and for your your prayers you have stood by me for these 34 years one thing is uh brother hartman one thing is for certain dr harris and dr pete and your families the saints have not allowed pam and me to stand alone we've been in many battles because the truth clashes with the culture and as the culture grows darker and darker the church has to shine the light i think that this is the finest hour for the church but that's only if the church will be the church i believe that the measure of ministry is not merely found in its adaptability in its ability to shift with the times to reflect the times i believe the strength of the church is found in its ability to not do that can you remain how true can we remain to the original praise the lord how how how close can we remain to god would bishop patterson would bishop mason would moses would paul recognize us as a christian body if they came in to our services today would the founder of the upper room the late great james henry turner email your daddy would he rejoice with our manner of worship our manner of service and what we have to say about god's truth if he was with us today or would these great leaders of antiquity and yesterday stand up and say what is this the challenge to the church is to remain the church the challenge of the church is to stay awake and not fall asleep and to keep all in our vessels and you have you have certainly stood by us and prayed for us and we serve a god who have promised that he would never allow us to be made ashamed um i don't know if you've heard it yet or not but sister cynthia's latest uh recording it's entitled no half-stepping and i'm tell you that song is bad to the bone i'm telling you right now and you got to get it you got to get it no half stepping and she told me he said i was sitting in service and i heard you preaching god gave me the lyrics to it and then after god gave her the lyrics you should see what she did with those lyrics and uh i want everybody to have no half stepping because we're in a day we're in a day where satan wants us to either not step at all or at best half step and at the upper room we're saying we're having none of that we're going all the way for jesus christ all the way all the way so i want to thank the lord and and as i just wrap this up and we'll talk a little more uh in the 11 o'clock i want to thank god for my lovely wife you know in in in starting out you know the bible says despise not the days of small things and we certainly have had them and i thank god that in looking back on them they were not despised um we had to work and uh and serving the lord you know god doesn't tell you if you do this i guarantee you this this this and this he just says follow me and serve me whatever the lord has in store you you have to you walk in it you know uh people matter of fact uh there are some things that if you if if god told you he was going to do there's something that that that has happened that i wouldn't have believed it anyway so the lord just says follow me because some things are beyond your ability to comprehend you know some things are beyond your ability to believe and but in those days up until now the constant has been to the lord jesus christ and pamela she's been right there and i praise the lord i praise the lord for her and then when the uh pandemic hit some call it a planned gimmick when it hit um that changed everything it's a new game now and what are we going to do well the lord gave us that worship was worth the risk and we're going to come and worship the lord and we're going to trust god now i'll tell you something i'll tell you something you're talking about a preacher turning to god and talking to god i said i need to talk i got to talk because i'm sailing in uncharted waters i'm dealing with something heretofore unseen in many ways unprecedented and you know the lord let me know he said you're not the first he said noah did the same thing he said he preached about something unprecedented heretofore never seen what was that noah said it's gonna rain it had never rained before the rain the flood of noah's day well how was the earth water the bible tells us that a mist came up a mist came up and and it watered the whole earth and yet noah preached and when the time came god said take your family and put them in that ark and we don't see where noah's wife gave him any problems i thank god that god blessed this noah and blessed my wife and god put us in the ark and the lord the lord god of the bible have shown himself faithful faithful faithful faithful i said to the lord god if anybody's got to get it covet that is god give that to me i'd rather bear that um than for my wife because she's following me and the leader leads and i thank god every day that as we um laid it on the line that here we are today in week 70 in the house of the lord carrying on in jesus name god has been faithful upper room you have been faithful and i want to speak a blessing to every one of you today this is not something we do at the close of each anniversary annually out of tradition but it's something that we do because god said bless the people the blessing of the preacher the blessing of the prophet the prophet's reward doesn't come from his pocket it comes from his mouth and i speak a blessing over your lives to every one of you right now for your prayers for your faithfulness for your generosity for you sticking with me even when you didn't quite understand lord what in the world is he saying what's going on yet you said i'm gonna trust my man of god and you did that and god has brought us safe thus far and i'm telling you the god who had brought us safe thus far god spoke to me the other day and said tell the people not to lose their faith in me i am the same yesterday today and forevermore be blessed of the lord be blessed of the lord god bless you in the ways that you need it most for somebody's finances for someone else it's physical healing for someone else it's mental healing for someone else it's their children for someone else it's a job for someone else it's this or it's that whatever it is the god who doesn't miss the god who never majors in minors and minors and majors the god who knows how to do it when to do it where and how the blessings be upon you in jesus name and it is so hi manifestations manifestations manifest stations manifest stations manifestations manifestations coming into fruition doing a reversal manifestations shivamosa in jesus name oh bless his name let's thank god again for bishop wooden and first lady wooden we're getting ready to leave but bishop wooden first lady are first class all the way they have a token of appreciation for each and every one of you on this morning as you exit i would ask that you would pick up one per person look at your neighbor and say one per person not mama nem not uncle not nae nae or shine one per person amen everybody with your right hands lifted we're saying god curse god bless you thank you we're gonna allow our seniors to leave first we're gonna allow our senior members and those with underlying conditions to leave first thank you for your support and love once again you

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Published: Sun Sep 19 2021