8am Morning Manna Service @ Greater Community COGIC for 09/26/2021.

this is almost extraordinary you can find music everywhere i'm excited to be here morning to really welcome you to church sunday morning time to get up let's get ready let's get ready i'm very excited about what i'm doing every day is a new day you know the word god talks about new mercies that we have every single day and god has been faithful to us i'm reminded of a song is great is thy faithfulness i think the lyric is morning by morning new mercy new mercy that i see so we're excited for a new mercy we're excited for what god is doing today and this month you know in our church we have really been focusing on thriving awareness in conjunction with marriage and family month and i'll tell you i've been blessed by by just thriving over this it has really made me more aware in many areas of my life and has been a tremendous blessing actually all year life has just been great so with you sister and what do you have what's god given throughout the month about being aware and awareness well for me it's about realizing and being aware that god is involved in every moment of my life every aspect of my life even when i don't feel like he's there god is always involved he's constantly working in our lives and being aware that he's there being aware of his presence being aware of his working in our lives being aware of his moving in our lives through our lives and so that's that's been a blessing and i was thinking about this song i'm full of songs this morning but i am a friend of god pastor touched on that i believe it was earlier this month or last month but for me also it means that god is also aware of me so not am i not only aware of god god is aware of me yes and that just makes me feel real that's amazing yes with a word just the word created everything yes and uh but yet he's mindful of us yes yeah he's listening that's good right he knows our name we're not gonna get into all these songs this morning i wanna talk to you about a few things that we have happening first of all every our church have sunrise devotional prayer monday through friday 7 am 7 15 we have tuesday friday prayer at 12 o'clock here on the grounds 9 a.m also monday through friday here on the great time to fellowship in person and virtually calling the calling line for the prayer i mean there's so many ways to connect so let's make sure that you know those dates but we have a few things coming up i believe this weekend we are having prayer on the grounds right we're having prayer on the grounds this weekend to kind of kick off our motorcycles which will actually start on sunday that saturday night will kick it off uh we're also this week completing out our thriving awareness and our family and marriage american family we'll have a presentation of wow on wednesday so we want you all to be sure that you tune in for that as we close out marriage and family month yeah make sure also you download our app because our app is really where you can find all the information that you need for anything happening at our church i mean from last week's sermon to purchasing thrive gear to anything that you need our faith focus is on there there's so many things links to events so make sure you do that as well as well as wednesday nights pay attention to your text messages because the eventbrite registration is there for service i think it's time for us to wrap up and go to countdown wrap up and go to countdown i want you to start sharing like um tag some friends make sure that everybody's watching today we're going to have a wonderful time in the lord god bless you thank you [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] good morning good morning good morning good morning good morning good morning time to worship oh magnify the lord with me and let us in god's name together if you're in a sanctuary come on let's make some noise this is the day that the lord has made and we shall rejoice and be battered good morning i'm joined this morning with uh elder torreira good morning good morning good morning and welcome to a greater community church of god in christ or 8 a.m morning madness service we have an exciting speaker this morning yeah we're looking forward to hear the word of get up god out that bed let's get ready for worship send this strength to your family your friends those that may even hear because we are ready to engage god and worship all week all business we've been thinking about driving awareness and how we are aware of just god's presence in every aspect of our life and we know that today is going to be no different we have an expectation of what god's going to do amen amen this is the day the lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it all right it's time to worship that's worship come on put your hands together this morning as we give god praise as we give him honor hallelujah we have come to make the praise of the lord glorious on today [Music] oh yes if you know it sing along with him when you come into his presence lifting up the name of jesus and you hear the music playing and you see the people praying forget about your words put your [Music] another troubles just get up and on your feet [Music] [Music] glorious glorious [Music] lifting up the name of jesus and you hear the music playing and you see the people praying [Music] don't you wait another minute [Music] [Music] is [Music] to glorious [Music] glorious [Music] glorious yes [Music] [Music] we [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] yes [Music] glorious [Music] the order of his name make his praise glorious hallelujah give him your best praise today giving me your best praise he is [Music] [Music] uh [Music] [Music] to praise the lord he says [Music] come on everybody [Music] again [Music] one more time [Music] [Applause] to yeah [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah we've come to praise him we've come to magnify him we've come to give him the glory that is do his name that there is no god like our god and we recognize today we are aware that he is god and there is none other like him no where you can search high and low but you'll never find anyone else like our lord like our god and in that awareness that he is god in the awareness that he is lord in the awareness of who he is we worship him today when we come into his presence we humble ourselves we lift up our hands and we begin to worship him come on just lift your hands now in the presence of the lord and just begin to give him the glory let's do his name we worship him because of who he is we ascribe worth to him in order to ascribe worth to something you must know the worth of it hallelujah who is he to you what is his worth to you who has he been to you how has he proven himself to you has he been your healer has he been your redeemer has he been your salvation has it been your friend has he been your comfort have he's proven himself to you worship him for being fat he's all that and so much more hallelujah we give you glory more we worship you yes we do come on when i come when i come into his presence i am old myself lift up both my hands [Music] i worship him hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] we [Music] [Applause] [Music] my words oh [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] we [Music] again [Music] the victories [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] peace [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] [Music] i give everything to you oh [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] ah me [Music] and just begin to worship him because of who he is give him glory because of who he is and because he's god he deserves all the glory hallelujah he is god [Applause] he alone is god and because he's god he deserves all the grace [Music] [Music] you redeemed me and you set me free and i worship you because [Music] just because i give you glory because hallelujah just yes gone yes thank you thank you thank you thank you because you're god because of all you've done i thank you my god you set me free gone thank you because you're god why don't you just continue to praise god let's stay in this moment of worship because god has done so much for us [Music] [Applause] and it set us free will god bless you greater so god we just thank you this morning lord because you're god god we thank you this morning lord because you redeemed us and set us free god lord we thank you when we look back god and how you brought us through some difficult and challenging times god and lord how you've delivered us father and healed us o lord and set us free god lord how you bind the hands of the enemy in our life oh lord god i thank you this morning god because your god lord i come humbly before you this morning lord because you're god lord and i thank you god so lord we ask this morning that you will be with us oh god and lord that you will speak so distinctively clear lord that we would know that it is you god lord we ask that you would have mercy upon us god i pray that our hearts will be open to you speak a word to each of us lord speak a word to us today father and everyone that's under the sound of my voice god lord we thank you for your prevailing blood and god we thank you lord [Music] for your divine presence you may be seated [Music] well god bless you greater it is an honor to be here today i thank the lord i thank god for what god has what god is doing and what god is going to continue to do i stand here before you today because of god and i just wanted to acknowledge god's presence first and foremost because if it had not been for the lord where will any of us be let's give a praise to our ministry of music required this morning thank you to our shepherd of this house our beloved bishop and his absence you you [Applause] i don't speak lightly about this man i i love our bishop he's my pastor he is the shepherd of this flock and i believe that when the shepherd is healthy the flock is healthy i believe that god has plucked him from new york and brought him to marietta georgia and the evidence of that growth is on all of us and i just want to just just acknowledge him and just give him praise [Applause] [Music] see we don't really know how fortunate we are to have a man a shepherd with god's heart that has led us into greener pastures and i thank god for him i thank god for the leadership here i thank god for the elders elder humphries elder elliott elder stewart thank you for the leadership to the deacons to our mothers and to all of those in their respective positions i thank god for my family and my friends thank god for my beautiful wife i can go on all day but i just want to just say this is that you know it we're bringing to conclusion the end of the month for the um marriage and family and um so october the 4th my wife and i will be married 35 years [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and um she deserves the ticker tape parade because i have not always been saved and i thank god for a saved wife i thank god for a wife that i can lean on a wife that i can trust [Music] [Applause] [Music] and then her birthday is next week so happy birthday to you as well and also to all the birthdays of september and those that are celebrating their anniversary the month of september as well god bless you so i'm not going to be before you long i'm just going to give what god has given to me when the pastor asked me it's funny because you know we often talking and sometimes when we're talking i'm doing the talking and he's kind of listening to me a little bit and one day i was talking and he just you're going to preach and i said to him i know i should have walked off about five minutes ago but i love this man and i thank god that he sees something in me and i thank god for that this morning i'm gonna go into the word if you would please stand this morning i am going into second corinthians uh chapter four verse 16. and we've heard this for this verse of scripture before but i'm going to try my best to go into a piece of it that um that really touched my heart and i see um ii corinthians chapter 4 verse 16. and i'm reading from the king james version and the amplified bible says it a little bit differently but therefore we do not lose heart even though our outward man is perishing yet the inward man is being renewed day by day for our light affliction which is but for a moment is working for us a more for a for our more exceeding and eternal weight of glory while we do not look at the things which are seen but at the things which are not seen for the things which are seen are temporary but the things which are seen are not are eternal you may be seated also i want to um thank god for my mother here today yeah [Applause] i don't want to mess that up because she will surely remind me but i thank god for my mom this morning because um i know that as a parent now to see my children doing right trying to do right there is something about that because in the beginning stages we we try so difficult we try so hard to ensure that there's an outcome that's right and so i thank god for a saved mom that even though she was hard i i often think about um that she didn't allow us to think any kind of way you know and she would quickly check us you know on certain things because she wanted to make sure that we saw things from the right perspective and at the time when we're young you know that's challenging because we want to do our own thing we want to see things differently but she knew after a while by and by i would see so i thank god for i thank god for her and thank god for how she raised me because truly you train up a child the way it's supposed to go he does not he does return and so i thank god for her this morning so in this text this morning i i was reading and i was looking at the renewing part of being renewed day by day you know paul speaks to the corinthians and you know if you know the text the corinthians was complicated people but in second corinthians it was a point of his encouraging them and in this renewing process we need to see that how our christian life needs to be guided for god's purpose for god's purpose this christian life that we live this believer's life that we live it comes to a question are we living our life or we live in his life because in his life we're going to be renewed day by day and in order to live his life we got to love the lord there is impossible for you to live his life and not love the lord second corinthians 4 16 says that our inner man is being renewed day by day now this earthen vessel that that's here before you [Music] this earthen jar is decaying but there's something on the inside of me that in spite of what's going on is being renewed day by day because i know this and because i'm living his life i have faith in that it's being renewed day by day and this renewing that we have is regardless of who you are regardless if you good or if you bad mm-hmm god has assigned to us this unique purpose of suffering sometimes when we're suffering we get sideways and we get distracted because we don't want to have any sufferings but as i read through the bible in order to have any revelation you got to have some experience uh all of us here together are not just here together because our cause all of us are together because of god's cause because this is the ministry that because of what i've been through i can tell you about something it's impossible to tell anybody about anything if you've never been through anything i can encourage you while you're going through i can encourage you not to throw in the towel i can encourage you not to wade the white flag because of our experiences this christian life we must understand it is a matter of life this matter of life involves you and i living his life and it involves us doing and and reading and studying and serving it involves all of this i believe that when we do all these things all of this is wrapped up in our life and i believe when all of these things that we we just discussed is dealt with all other things are resolved when you come to a place in in your life and you understand that it's his life that i want to live you become to where you have a singleness of mind i like the story of paul where paul loved the lord absolutely and and but he came to a point where paul dealt with many sufferings to a point that he was dealt with death there are many things that you and i can get ourselves out of your intelligence your resources your finances your money but there's one thing that neither of us can get ourselves out of and that's death paul had came to the conclusion that if if god didn't do it it wasn't going to get done and i think that even in my sufferings even when i look at my life there was a point in the period in time where things had came to a stand still you know things were cut off and and at that point at that stage i didn't understand and to those that are viewing us from uh social media platform good morning welcome to morning manor there was times when i just didn't understand but that suffering i dealt with brought me to a place where i totally and absolutely depended upon god this christian life that we have is a crucial matter but we need to learn how to touch this way of life so that you and i can begin to grow it's very simple for me to go and get some artificial flowers and put them together in about 20-30 minutes but when something that's planted in the ground it takes time to grow but god has meant for us to grow in this life in this life god has meant for us to be joyful and not sorrowful this his life so there's a distinction between your life and his life we talked early in the month about the importance of fellowship and if anybody's been up under the teaching of our pastor for the last 10 years god has organized and arranged things and he's given him the word of god that has positioned us to be in the right place for the right time to have grace for this season but this fellowship that we have to have with god because god has want us wants us to live a victorious life and this victorious life god wants us to live is holy and it's powerful but there's a key to this victorious life first we need to repent see we can't just do this some way we just can't do this some of the time you have to push all the chips in the middle of the table either you're going to be all in in order to experience his life god is ordained us to live this life and this life that god has ordained is hidden in christ and this life that we live sometimes can shake us when we look around and we look all over the world and we see the things that's going on in the world today there are some things that could shake you but beloved we serve an unshakable god and it's going to come a time and now is the time that you and i got to be rooted and grounded in the word of god [Applause] the only way we gonna be rooted in word and grounded in the word of god is get in this word because then this word is foolproof it's been tested and it's been tried god can do anything but fail the question is are we living his life his life are we being renewed day by day are we being revived day by day in spite of what we dealt with yesterday today is a new day this is the day that the lord has made and we shall be glad and rejoice in it the bible says be not conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of our mind and the renewing of our mind makes us come to a decision is it my life or his life the scripture says don't lose heart the scripture says amplified by the bible don't be discouraged no matter what went on yesterday no matter what i'm dealing with today and that's what i liked about paul when i was reading the story of paul paul had come to the conclusion that no matter what god was with him no matter the circumstance no matter the situation if i was on the edge god is on the edge with me the experience experience is not always easy it's difficult sometimes but the revelation i can stand here and tell you and talk to you because of my experience god does not want us to be thirsty out of the world the things of the world we come here every sunday we leave here and we hear the word of god and we deal with it but have we changed our heart is the teaching what the pastor the bishop has been teaching as it made a difference in our life because if the text is right where we know the text is right that i'm being renewed day by day that that the old man is perishing and the spiritual man is being renewed then everything i hear god saying i'm applying it to my life but for to will is present with me but to work it out it's not good because our life has some failure and it has been bound by sin and as paul says that old wretched man that i am he knew the difficulties of it this fight that we have this this war that we worn with but god has given us the power to overcome god has given us the holy spirit to overcome and that's what we need we got to have the power of the holy spirit it is we can't do this by ourselves it is impossible to walk this out by ourselves we need the power of the holy spirit i'm talking about the power of the holy spirit that convicts you that convicts you to where there is a conversion but there are some things that that get in the way of us living this christian life this his life there's some sins pride gets in the way unbelief gets in the way lack of prayer gets in the way doubting god gets in the way some people are filled with unbelief not trusting god for anything but i can say that trusting god is not you trying to figure it out is allowing god to do it but because man always wants to whenever a situation comes we try to figure it out if we're going to have fellowship with god if the spirit of god dwells down on the inside of us then that spirit has to bring everything under subjection that means my opinion that means that whatever i do whatever i think the spirit of god ought to examine what i'm about to do what am i about to say how i'm treating you how i'm loving you now it's easy for me to just wrong you and then come to you and shake your hand and greet you and tell you i'm sorry but what's really in my heart what's in my heart see if we're going if we're going to do this and if we believe in what god says then we got to do something in the sound man there's some stuff there that prevents us from being and living his life let's talk about undisciplined eyes let's talk about adultery not anything from the physical sense it's you with your eyes have we dealt with ourself have we dealt with the things that we know that's creating a barrier between us and god have we dealt with the things that that has created a burial between the husband and the wife the father and the son the mother and the daughter how we are going to we talked about in the beginning of the month the fellowship of god but but how are we going to come into the presence of the lord and knowing that we have a barrier without repenting we have to be careful of some of the friendships that we have you just can't hook up with anybody to the young folks to the young people we got to be careful of what our thoughts are let's go a little farther that's we got to be careful our own imagination see in order for us to live his life his life in order for us to be renewed day by day it is interesting that the beginning of the month we're going to start a fast that the bishop has called the mordecai fast and but while we're about to enter into this fast these are some of the things that we need to examine how are we going to enter into a fast when we haven't examined some of the things that that are hindering our relationship with god remember god wants us to grow god wants us to grow god wants us to thrive and this is not just a slogan it is important that we have a clear understanding of the life that we're living it's important for us to understand god's intentions it's important for us to be saved and if this living is so important god desires for us to do so it's essential to know that we must love the lord i've come to a place in my life where i understand that whatever god is doing god is trying to work something out in me and whatever god's taking me through i know that it's working for my purpose and i've come to a place where i'm beginning to trust god in spite of whatever i'm dealing with i'm gonna trust god even if i can't trace him i'm going to trust god even if not see sometimes we want to trust god when things are working good now i'm going to trust god when things not even working good we serve an awesome and incredible god that has laid a foundation for you and i to grow and be closer to him but we got to understand in order for you and i to be closer to god we first must take it to the cross because on that cross there's some things that's going to have to be dealt with there's some sins that's gonna have to be dealt with there's some attitudes that's gonna have to be dealt with there's some dispositions that's gonna have to be dealt with and if you say there's nothing that you got to be dealt with i don't want to say it but it's a lie because we all got some stuff down on the inside of us and even though we come here dressed with our nice suits and our nice clothes but some stuff down on the inside that still need to be clean and this cleaning is not an outward cleaning but this cleaning is an inward cleaning and it's part time for you and i to start to reevaluate our walk with the lord and if we're gonna do this and we're headed to heaven it's time for us to turn some things around it's time for me to make some things right it's time for me to put some things down it's time for me to look towards heaven and not at the things that i see because the things that i see is temporal but the things i see is eternal and my way and my love is for god and i'm not ashamed of the love that i have for the lord because of what god has done for me but i come to tell you this morning that god is no respecter person what he done for me he can do for you all you got to do is make up your mind that you're going to serve god for god i live and forgot i die i put it all in because i love the lord because he saved me and delivered me now i'm not saying that you don't have a testimony but i'm wondering today are you still living out your testimony are you still living out the testimony that you had 10 years ago are you still reading your bible are you still praying are you still serving or you're still fasting are you still doing the things that god did for you or you're waiting for trouble to happen again i know that god is able to do abundally above anything that i ask to think so i'm putting my trust in him it don't matter what you say it don't matter what you do because i'm past what you think about me i'm past what you thought about me because i know god has saved my life he can deliver me from drugs and alcohol he can deliver me from the sins of the world and i'm gonna stand and tell everybody about the goodness of the lord he's a good god and i love him he's a good god and i love him and i praise his holy name i praise his holy name it's not about my right or wrong because if it's about right or wrong all of us are throwing the tower right now little by my heart my heart has been changed and i thank the god i thank the lord for it i thank god for the life that i live now that i chose his life and not in my life because he pulled me out of the moderate leg and set my feet on solid ground i thank the lord that he spoke to me and told me that you're gonna have to get it right if you don't get it right you're not gonna make it so i thank god he cared enough for me and i want you to encourage you today that he cares for you as well god bless you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] amen [Music] as we close out this month of marriage and family we just want to pronounce the blessing upon you upon your family upon your home your children and their children the lord bless you and keep you make his face lord turned him face toward you and give you peace the lord bless you i keep you make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you your turn is you [Music] [Music] man [Music] oh [Music] amen come on help me sing if the lord bless you and keep you make your space shine upon you and be gracious [Music] and we sing amen [Music] amen [Music] what a powerful word this morning from elder hill amen are we living god's life or reliving or life so we know that the body is just an earthly vessel it's decaying as he said and we got to look to god for that continuous renewal of our spirit of our mind so that we can have and that live that eternal life so today as we come before you as the ministers bring the word forth and we go through the abcs if you are far away from god right now all you have to do is simple steps let's acknowledge that he is our lord our savior he died and he raised again from the cross do we believe that he rose again and then see if we can confess with your mouth believe in your heart that jesus is lord today just text it's me to 24251 we don't know we do not want this time to go away this opportunity to go away right now to have access to the kingdom to have access to eternal life this body is just temporary if we've gone through this past year year and a half and we've seen loved ones we've seen friends that have gone on we do we our time has come the bible says it's appointed unto every man wants to die where do we go once we are at that point so text it's me to 24251 and get your opportunity to get access to christ we're believing that somebody out there even somebody in this building may have prayed that prayer for the first time you know we made it simple with the abc so if that's you online please put in the chat that i prayed that prayer for the first time please as elder terrain said text me to 24251 because not only do we have a body of believers in the building but we have a body believers online that are here to support you here to walk with you through your walk with christ may not be perfect but you know god's grace is sufficient to cover us and he wants to meet you right where you are so so please please please please if you haven't given me your life please give your life to christ today we want to talk about an opportunity that we have um that everybody in the building and everybody online can play proud of that is our ministry of giving so if you'd like to give today there are several ways for you to give to our ministry you want to make sure that you are aware given the fight you can go to the giveaway and search greater community church of god in christ you can give by cash app that's dollar sign greater coaching 406 also via paypal you can give as well or our website at www.greatercommunity.cogic.org those are our ways to give we would that you would partner with us in ministry if it's your first time visiting us in person online you don't have to give you under no obligation but if you're a member of our church please make sure you're sowing into the ministry now we give you good ministry here our bishop and our pastor feeds us naturally and spiritually so fun to make sure we're partnering with the ministry that god has called us to there are a few things happening um this week at our church first being the greater table tonight we're in the table our sunday school department presents greater table do you see me it's tonight at 6 00 p.m speaker of dr latoya williams she's a licensed social worker she'll be sharing with us tonight at the greater table it's a wonderful interactive experience that's put on by our sunday school department you don't want to miss it our zoom information is on the screen if you need more information check our facebook and instagram pages the information is for you right there we'll also talk about our mordechai fasting consecrations we are excited to enter into a time of prayer of fasting and of consecration so if you weren't on our bible study on wednesday night you need to go watch the replay head over to youtube head to our app download the app and visit our service on wednesday night our pastor and bishop and also pastor gary metric from pennsylvania really laid out the mordecai fast we want to make sure that you are a part of what god is doing for us and with us here at greater community so please join us for our morning high fast starting october 3rd all right our bishops banquet we are celebrating 10 [Music] amen absolutely so it has been rescheduled um to monday february 28 2022 it's still time to go online you can register purchase your tickets make your hotel reservations um don't take this delay and wait until next year to try and prepare let's start planning now also the celebration in buffalo is also rescheduled to october 20 to april 29th and 30th of 2022 so you have ample time to make plans uh to be in attendance saturday morning the first saturday we have face-to-face prayer on the grounds so meet us here next saturday at 7 00 am that's october 2nd i believe we will be here on the grounds praying and getting ready for our consecration i know that guy's gonna do some great things amen i believe so too absolutely so listen we are going to depart from this sanctuary and we're going to close our stream soon but we want you to just remember that god is faithful god is present elder hill preached a wonderful message an inspirational message so please dwell on these words amen we celebrate you on the hill for that word on today and let's remember to keep god as we continue to bring kingdom to community god bless you [Music] generations and your family and their children and your children and their children may his faith be upon you and a thousand generations [Music] your children their children their children you

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Published: Sun Sep 26 2021