Allegheny West Conference Day 2

you beyond the hills to where my help comes from [Music] there's lifting up the hands would you do that today would you lift your hands yes lifting of the heart be encouraged of the eyes beyond the hills that's where my help comes from I'm gonna say it one more time there's a lifting of the hands that means I will always give God praise no matter what and the lifting of the heart that means I refuse to be discouraged there is a lip stain of the eyes it's beyond the heels because that's where my health comes from everybody say there's a lifting on the hand [Music] come on the hill to where our come on one more time the live scene on the hands up [Music] now lifting up the heart today [Music] the eye we all know here now say this our help comes from you we'll just and one more time I welcome [Music] our help comes from you Oh Oh oh say we will lift up our hands and do it we will lift up would you lift your hands today say we will lift up our hands [Music] like we realize where our you know do you know do you know do you know [Music] somebody say Lord you are good somebody say Lord you are good [Music] it's one of my favorites you need to give God praise [Music] [Applause] [Music] thought you ago lost you like you've been so good [Music] I owe you my life [Music] even if [Music] so good so cut to me [Music] Oh Killman Sokka dawn you're good you be better than now I'll owe you my life ah so good [Music] let's all good [Music] one more time - been so goods made feel me [Music] [Music] Oh stop man I feel the Holy Ghost so good [Music] it's all good to me and you keep me good [Music] I live Oh no man good helping us Oh God [Music] so minutes ha I wish I could get somebody that knows God's business all in all so anyway Oh many times to bed better than good to me solving it Salomon away Psalm anytime - mentality got to me [Music] good so many ways [Applause] rather than good to me they're gone today so good I don't feel good I feel the Holy Ghost guilty good to me [Music] god [Music] [Music] sorry Oh so good good so good too in that same place of worship lift your hands toward heaven and just begin to magnify him father we have come here today because we want to acknowledge that you are good father we have come from the north the South the east and the West because you're a good god god you're a faithful god you have been a healer Oh God you've been a deliverer Tommy you have saved us time and time again God you have provided for us you have protected us on the highways and byways and that is why we have come into this place to worship you to magnify you to glorify you bowed our heads are lifted high because we recognize Lord that you deserve all the praise in this place you deserve all the glory in this time of worship father I pray right now that everybody from the front row to the back row everybody on this platform will experience that it's counter with you god I'm asking O Lord that you saturate us with the power of the Holy Spirit o God I pray that we will not get in the way of you doing what needs to happen in this service today O God if somebody needs to be delivered deliver them if somebody needs to be saved save them if somebody needs to be encouraged encourage them O God yeah if somebody needs to be challenged challenged them in the name of Jesus we want you Lord just them have their way in this place have your way have your way away after away and when we leave we will be careful to give you all of the glory and say truly we have experienced you again we love you God and we thank you if you agree with this prayer put your heads together and give thought the raise in expectation of what God is going to do for Kenny 2019 while we keep standing let us recite the fourth commandments together as found in Exodus 28 through 11 remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy six days and do all that work but the seventh day is a Sabbath of the LORD thy God in it shall not do any work thou nor thy son nor thy daughter not a cattle nor thy stranger that is within decades for in six days the Lord made me heaven on earth and the sea and all that is in them and rested 7-day wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and harmony thank you please be seated [Music] good morning welcome to our 2019 camp meeting for Allegheny Wes [Music] we're happy that you took time out of your busy schedule to come and worship the Lord with us in spirit and truth it is a blessing to be here and what we want to do first of all I'm going to I'm looking for bishop Claude Bishop Clark are you in the audience bishop Clark I know you said you was gonna be here [Music] I know that he was out of town on yesterday he may not have made it if he comes sometimes during the service we will certainly have an opportunity to have him bring a special on greetings on to us Bishop Clark has been a a true friend we're actually neighbors and we live about three homes apart and he has been there with me and multiple experiences and we appreciate him as well as First Church of God membership allowing us to come and worship in the beautiful facilities it becomes important that if we ever need him again in reference to utilization of this facility that we treat this place better than we treat on a man and we are very thankful for that I want to do a quick roll call if if you are from the virginias would you just stand you from the virginias come on Allegheny where's gear family members a hand clasp god bless you god bless you you came the longest from the farthest distance to be a part of our worship service today if you are from Pennsylvania would you just please stand [Applause] amen amen we are excited to to have use excited to have you if you are from southern Ohio if you were to stand at this time southern Ohio [Music] all right southern Ohio is in the house amen god bless you if you were from central Ohio if you would just stand all right hey hey man Amen god bless you then of course if you are from northern Ohio if you would just stand yes Andy [Music] yes indeed we want to welcome you and thank you for coming and being a part of camp meeting 2019 it would not be the same without you now my sole purpose is to let you know how much we appreciate you being here and like times past I will say to you that you look so good out there that I wish my arms were long enough to hug to reach out and hug each one of you but since they're not I'm gonna ask you to turn to the person next to you give them a nice warm handshake or hug [Music] and tell them god loves you and so do I thank you [Music] now if more thing if you are a visitor and this is your first time coming out to one of Allegheny West conferences um camp meeting we're going to ask you to just wave your hands and saint's if you are close to them give them a nice warm Allegheny West conference a hug hey man hey man we are just excited to have you with us this is our annual family reunion it is an opportunity for us to come together as a part of the body of Christ in this area to just worship and praise the name of the Lord has there has anyone ever been blessed because someone close to them was being blessed oh yeah yeah when we come together as a family where we can talk in fellowship and share one with another this afternoon at 4 o'clock at what time everyone at 4 o'clock they're going to be some special activities that are going to take place each each camp meeting we have talked with the president sometimes individuals even though my cell phone number is available to everybody sometimes individuals don't get an opportunity to talk and so we take time at every camp meeting to get an opportunity to talk to the members that are here and so today at 4 o'clock we're going to be having a special meeting all of our shepherdess that's the wives of our pastors there is also a special meeting for you today at 4 o'clock we want to encourage you to spend time with my wife and we have a very special guest presenter that is going to be sharing some barium interesting information with you at 4 o'clock we have a very special meeting for our Millennials now that means that if you are chronologically between the age of 18 and 35 I didn't say in spirit but if you are chronologically between the age of 18 and 35 we have a very special group meeting for you and then finally there is going to be an opportunity for our youth and our children to get together we are excited about what God is doing I am looking is pastor Brian Smith in the audience Pastor Brian Smith I'm going to ask Pastor Smith if he would come forward at this time I see pastor Jack McQuarrie he is seated to my right I'm gonna ask that he would come forward at this time also [Music] now one of the things that sometimes we don't do very well is to say thank you to individuals I have worked very hard and they love Allegheny West Conference somebody ought to say man out there we can get so busy and so involved in what we are doing if you missed the preacher last night you missed a blessing oh my god I will never look at the tekserve of Martha coming to Jesus and asking Jesus what's going on you need to tell Mary to come and help me in the kitchen and Jesus says what you need is to take a seat there's some things that we need to talk about and and there are individuals who work very hard and we don't say thank you enough well today we want to say thank you to two gentlemen that has been extremely valuable to the Allegheny West Conference and if the truth be told to me personally we did not have a communication director and pastor Smith was more than willing and committee to come and to to assist us and for the last few years he has been carrying the communication department more recently he came in he shared with us that there was someone that he knew that he thought would be a great asset to the Allegheny West Conference bonier Jennings and Bonilla has come on board and has continued the the great job that Pastor Smith has been doing he is currently the pastor of the Shiloh seven dead in his church here in Cincinnati currently Shiloh is our second largest church in the Allegheny West Conference and we are very thankful and very appreciative for the job that he has done pastor Smith want to [Music] want you to present this plaque to you on behalf of the officers of Allegheny West Conference pastor Marvin Brown Jermaine Jackson our Executive Committee and the members of the Allegheny West Conference for the wonderful job that you've done in communication in taking us forward the plaque says Allegheny West Conference presented to pastor Bryant Smith for your outstanding services as communication director June 22nd 2019 god bless you sir [Applause] [Music] faster faster Jack Macquarie has literally been a jack-of-all-trades he has worked every in every possible area wherever he has been needed there is a there is a secret that I'm about to to share we were at a point we were looking for an educational director and I went to Pastor Macquarie and asked him if he would serve in this capacity and he said chief um that's really not my forte but if if it is going to be beneficial to Allegheny West Conference I'm all in for Allegheny West Conference and he took up a very arduous task and today we want to just say thank you we want you we want to declare that we appreciate you I want to publicly say how much you have meant to me personally and the advice and the ideas that you have shared and we are very very thankful for that here is what what is happening since violet Acosta is going to be taking this position on an interim basis we need pastor Jack back in our churches he has been a tremendous gift to ministry and he is going to be pastoring one of our churches here is going to save the conference some money oh don't act like you don't need money now but here here is the truth and this is off the subject but it's on the subject back in 2015 we had an indebtedness of 1.3 million dollars our working capital within the conference was at 8% we changed how we did business we developed a new paradigm in reference to how we were going to manage our churches and make sure that we would live within our means I am just delighted to stand here and to tell you that as of 2018 every penny of that 1.3 million dollar deficit has been erased and we are debt free from that amen you ought to be on your feet you ought to be on your feet that's when you've done that is what you have done because of your faithfulness in 2018 we reached the highest mark of the history of Allegheny West Conference we went over the seven million dollar mark in terms of tithes and that's because of you we could not have done it without you the CFO Jermaine Jackson he made a report to our Executive Committee on June the 9th that I will working capital has gone from 8 percent in 2015 to 103 percent Oh y'all mighty quiet out there somebody ought to just say God did it no I said God did it somebody ought to say God did it we are very thankful that in spite of all of our shortcomings God has looked beyond our faults and here seen our needs he is declared that we are the head and not the tail and we are very thankful for that and so I wanna just again say thank you to Pastor McQueary for all that he has done and what he continues to do we are going to be bringing in an educator who has experience on the conference level and also on the union level and we believe that this is going to be beneficial to our conference and educational program and so the plaque says to Pastor Jack McQuarrie for your outstanding services as educational superintendent June 22nd 2019 pastor Jack thank you for all that you have done [Applause] [Music] can you say man I said can you say man the Lord is continuing to bless Allegheny West Conference and I know that we're taking a little time here but the way the program is set up this is a part of our overall plan I'm I'm going to a long time valued member of the Allegheny West Conference cliff Renaud's if he would just come to the front at this time I have a smile on my face and I also have some issues in my heart because the truth of the matter is we've been trying to get cliff to do some things for us for a while he has served faithfully on our executive committee has done a phenomenal job he has been an integral part of the Akron church and served as an elder there he and his wife Charlize and kids as charlize here charlie's come on up here come on up here alright and their kids come on down and y'all be running if this was the price of right oh the price is right [Music] you know within regional conferences we have two educational institutions ID or uniquely ours versus Oakwood University it is the regional conference churches or the largest supporters of Oakwood University and that's on a higher educational level but we also have a major feeder into that program and that is pine forge it is our only currently our only existing high school that allows individual students to stay there and it is our only boarding academy and just recently cliff has received a call to to go to two pine forge and serve as the principal [Music] [Applause] somebody said if you want the best you're gonna have to go to Allegheny Wes yes indeed and they reached out Allegheny East reached out to cliff and his family to come to pine forge and we are proud of you man we are excited that God is using you and your family and a very special and unique way and we wanted to just take this moment and just have a word of Prayer because the greatest thing that can happen in a person's life is for someone else to pray for them Mike my grandmother prayed for me and I was frustrated at the point when she she passed and I said Lord who's gonna pray for me now and the Holy Spirit said to me you okay because prayer outlives the prayer yeah yeah prayer outlives the prayer would you just lift your arms up towards the front as we ask God's blessings upon this family loving father we are so thankful today that you are a good god we're thankful that the plans that you have for us cannot be thwarted by man men or women Oh songwriter said you may not come when we want you but you're always on time we are thankful that this is cliffs time that your hand is in this process we ask that you would give him wisdom and knowledge to to do those things that will help to lead our children most of all into a loving and meaningful relationship with thee we thank you Lord for his wife Charlize that stands faithfully by his side and the job that they are doing in parenting their two kids we ask in the name of Jesus that you would send the angels that excel in strength as they go they will be protected from seen and unseen dangers and we'll look forward to that day we stand on the sea of glass we see the numerous numbers of individuals that have been touched by the ministry [Music] of cliff and we will give you a name alga praise the glory Indiana for having done this for us in Jesus name we do pray amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] you're almost as tall as your dad all right god bless you we about to go into our time of prayer I read a a statement that blew my mind where the servant of the Lord says that if there is one thing that amazes the angels it is that the people of God do not pray more what would happen if we just spend more time in prayer I am thankful today that sister Dorothy Keith is here some of you may not know her I'm a sister Keith if she would just just stand we want to honor you and to say thank you sister keeps husband Dennis Keith served as he served as treasurer here in Allegheny West Conference and everyone that come that has come after you is building on the foundation that you've laid and we want to just publicly thank you I know you're not in Allegheny West Conference now you're in our sister conference but we are thankful for your presence here and we remember what you've done and what your husband has done and we look forward to a time when we can be a part of a family reunion and never be separated again god bless you I'm going to just ask that if there are individuals who are hearing impaired and you want to come down front we do have our sister Morton who is doing sign language for for those disability ministry is going very well and we're very thankful for that prayer more things of what wrought by prayer than by any other means and I'm thankful today that had one of our pastors pastor Stan hood is going to lead us to the throne of grace as we begin this worship and praise service to the God that is able to do exceedingly abundantly above anything or everything that we could ever ask or think when I ask our praise team to lead us in song in worship then we want to ask pastor hood if he would come and share with us a word to the Lord [Music] get ready for prayer this morning God knows who you are we nose he knows my feels [Music] my [Music] Oh Oh I am [Laughter] [Music] how [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I everybody's faiths [Music] you're in [Music] for us [Music] when everybody's saying my name [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] yeah [Music] [Music] everybody's saying along [Music] [Music] I was shocked you've got a place today nyeh there's no mountain that No [Music] Wow [Music] [Music] ah [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] No not me [Applause] [Music] No [Music] come on everybody said one time home [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] bless the Lord bless the Lord what's the Lord is the Spirit of the Lord not in this place it is time to call on the precious name of Jesus if there's a special burden on your heart we invite you down to the altar at this time if you would come if you believe that God knows your name if you believe that you are his own [Music] he is set up an encampment and put guardian angels around this place he's come to see about his children [Music] you know [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] let's talk to our Father Father in the name of Jesus according to Daniel 9 for you are the only great and dreadful God we dare not come to you without acknowledging that this encampment belongs to you we yield to your authority over us you reign over Allegheny West conference we invite your presence into this place right now in the precious name of Jesus we yield to your power to shift the atmosphere in this room but take charge of my lips and my voice the Lord speak through the one who is speaking today we we ask Lord that you bless this house for allowing us to come and share it with one another we ask Lord that you bless the bishop as he is feeling healed today that you be with him at his home right now that you begin to heal him we ask Lord that you bless our Bishop our president and vice president and CFO and and our ministerial Lord we pray that you bless all of the worklist of this conference for we know that you are placed us here is such a time as this we ask Lord that beyond this encampment that you go into our schools where our teachers are teaching into our homes where fathers and mothers are doing the best that they can to read it according to your will Lord we come here today asking that you would forgive and restore we acknowledge that you came to this gathering to destroy demonic triggers and save some who didn't know that they needed to be saved cancel every satanic plan devised to distract contain us restrain us and bind up the enemy Lord father God we ask you right now with the name of Jesus let you do what only you can do we acknowledge that we are weak and we are human we are limited but you got all power in your hand if you authorize to shift then the drought ends today if you authorize the shift down in West Virginia down in Virginia home and southern Ohio and in central Ohio and northern Ohio in Pennsylvania Lord we know that when you breathe something got to change we are losing our children and and people are walking away from the flames and not taking you seriously we're asking you Lord took them to cancel some contracts that need to be put out call the fire to utterly destroy we pray Lord for those who are sick those who have come down to the altar we stretch our hands to turn to dr. King's niece Rene today saying Lord we know that what she is facing but we know who is standing beside her who is leading over her who is holding her and Lord we pray that the healing process began in this very hour we're ready for the word to come but Lord establish yourself in this place we understand that some of us came to get away but you came to go in and we give you permission Lord to go in on all of our issues all of our secret things all of our hidden things wherever and whatever you want to do God come in and interrupt our plans and come on in Lord and cast out familiar spirits come in and put some marriages back together come in and expel some demons out of our children come in and disrupt the spirit of intimidation and replace it with your divine power in this place we are in need Jellico sisters if they happen to date Lord upload everything you got this is a cold blue 9-1-1 we barely hanging on by a thread we need and shake up this place today somebody came of the financial strain where they had enough money to make it down here and don't know how they gonna get back they don't have time to play Lord they need financial solutions some came under a death sentence the doctor said they don't have the so long the doctor Jesus er is in the house today authorized a new life right now somebody came under sexual bundage somebody came addicted to something and we asked Lord they just send a cleansing flood somebody had to answer somebody has no more tears and God we're asking you right now to come see about your children we acknowledge our limits before you we make no excuses we are guilty of whatever we've done but we heard that there was a blood that reaches from the highest mountain and it flows to the lowest Valley so all we got to say to the enemy is it is lift up your head or gates being lift it up you everlasting doors and the King of glory shall come in bring to an end the sins that so easily beset us let the heavens be open in the rain come down looking for the farmer and the land arena beginning at the altar and flown all the way back to the end of his property get inside of the preach of the day who you ever need for such a time as this Lord in them aware the bring down mountains and break strong rules straight in the name of Jesus let nothing stand in the way of salvation today you have preordained in this moment and so Lord unleash your power don't hold nothing back Lord we ask that you break the bonds of ignorance immaturity ego false identity the spirit of bitterness doubt and shame release us Lord from us so easily besets us take back your territory we give it to you creating us a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit at us cause Allegheny West to ride on the high places of the earth authorize us to move forward in the battle remove the spirit of paralysis and indifference give us a zeal to work and save us in your kingdom Lord for every unspoken prayer for every hearts cry for every mother who is weeping for every father is suffering in silence for every grandparent is raising another set of kids only pray that you pour out strength and grace and mercy kiss our prayer if we fail to mention anything the Lord we ask that you do it anyway cuz you're just that good is heart fleeing the precious name of Jesus let the people of God say Amen amen [Music] No Oh [Music] [Music] that is within me yes his holy name as we continue our worship experience if you have one of these cards I'm gonna ask that you would just lift it up at this time [Music] if you have one of these cards if you don't have a car that you need a card you can put you those who have the cards you can put your cards down there but if you need a card raise your hand you need to call it I see some individuals up front we can have our Usher's [Music] make these cards available to to those that raising their hands can you go and get them now please if I am [Music] sharing when I asked that those that need a card if you would just raise your hand we want to put this card in your hand sometimes individuals say we don't know what's going on in the conference well we are very thankful that God has blessed us with communication technology that will enable us to be more in touch with you all right I see the ushers have the cards if you would raise your hand if you do not have a cold this year and next year we will not be on our campground we're in the process of doing some upgrades on the campground that will make the grounds more comfortable for you but we can't do it all without your help these are pledge cards now I've talked with the treasurer and he is willing to take you at your word and what you put on these cards you want to actually do okay I'm I said again what you put on these cards you're gonna actually do and we're going to make the sacrifice of taking some funds to get this process done is believing that you're going to do what you said you would do we want to keep you informed we'll let you know what the specific upgrades will be in how we are coming along how we are progressing but we've just decided that those campgrounds are Holy Grail we want to just make sure that they're in a condition that young and old will be comfortable coming out is a hiatus from the world to just praise the name of the Lord when I asked our see a fool to come at this time now are we about to collect offering these pledge card should not go in the offering basket as the service goes on you need to talk to the Lord that's the Lord what is it that he would have you to give to this project at the end of the service we will collect these cards and based upon your word we will begin the upgrades on the campground God loves a cheerful Giver God loves a person that will keep his word the word says it's better not to vowel then to vow and not keep that farm ask God what he would have you to do based upon the blessings he has bestowed in your life [Music] I was reminded when on a particular night when I decided to take my lovely wife out how many of you know it's okay to date your spouse [Music] I mean you know it's okay to take your spouse out on a lovely evening and if you don't know now you know it is alright so as we are finishing up our dinner and as the gentleman that we men are before the check could come or before it was placed on the table I reached over and grabbed it and I looked at it and the total on the deal he was not a problem but then right below the total were a couple of lines that was on there that I don't remember sharing and on those lines it said gratuity or tip and they went so far to assist me in providing suggestions and in those suggestions it said hey if the service was pretty good how about 15% if the service was better than good how about 20 if it was more than enough 22 would be good but then to my surprise I saw another one that I haven't seen in a while or ever really and it was basically saying if it was excellent then how about 30 and as I said that was like wow all I wanted some water ask for the food that I ordered to come and now you're recommending me to give at least 15% but all the way up to 30% and then I and I'm supposed to pay my total looked at my wife like we may need to leave [Music] but then another thought came to my mind and the simple message that came to my mind is said I only asked for ten and on the other side of that I just asked that you're a cheerful Giver so I have two thoughts in my mind here I just ate a very good meal very nice service but they're asking for 30% but they're expecting something but the god I serve who does more that I could ever ask for more than I can ever imagine and more than I could ever expect only requires 10% I don't think you guys hear me when we wake up every morning and we pray Lord protect me and keep me safe I only ask for 10% when you go on are your knees and we pray and ask for Lord heal me from this disease I only ask for 10% Lord protect my children I only asked for 10% and the rest is up to you so ladies and gentlemen I could recommend 30 percent I would love to recommend 30 percent but the God we serve he doesn't put a percentage on that all he says is be a cheerful Giver so as the ushers come today I ask what is the value of what God does for you each and every day is it worth that dollar or the pocket change that you have or is it worth the sacrifice that he does for you not every day not every hour but every second that you breathe let us pray father all we can do is say thank you for we're not worthy but you are so father at this time impress our hearts impress our minds and let your will be done for you already own it but all you're doing is testing us so let us pass this test a question in Jesus name I did say Jesus will there's the real quick I failed to help you out this afternoon if you don't have your checkbook it's okay if you left all that cash at home it's okay because we've provided a ram in the thicket for you this afternoon so if you look at the screen we have given you an additional four ways to give you can go online and AWC or to uh to allign giving and go to AWC conference you can go to cash out dollar sign AWC onf you can also put it in your envelope and we can also pay with paypal how many of you have a smartphone everybody has a smartphone you have various ways to give it to Lori thank you very much [Music] opens OH [Music] [Music] [Music] I just said [Music] we'll make our [Music] [Music] see [Music] [Music] [Music] oh yeah [Music] [Music] in the [Music] [Applause] [Music] just real quick announcement very very very real quick if there is a faith Mariah I believe that's your last night faith Mariah you are needed immediately at the kids corner right behind me faith Mariah if you are in the sanctuary please meet me at this door near the faith corner or the Childress corner thank you very much our scripture reading will be taken from Genesis the 32nd chapter and verses 3 through 21 Genesis chapter 32 and I shall read in your hearing verses 3 through 21 then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of sierre the country of Edom and he commanded them saying speak thus to my lord Esau thus your servant Jacob says I have dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now I have oxen donkeys flocks and male and female servants and I have sent to tell my Lord that I might find favor in your sight then the messengers returned to Jacob saying we came to your brother Esau and he is also he also is coming to meet you and four hundred men are with him so Jacob was greatly afraid and distress and he divided the people that were with him and the flocks and herds and camels into two companies and he said if he saw comes to the one company and attacks it then the other company which is left will exceed then Jacob said O God of my father Abraham and God of my father Isaac the Lord who said to me return to your country and to family and I will deal well with you I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies and of all the truth which you have shown your servant for I crossed over this Jordan with my staff and now I have become to companies deliver me I praise from the hand of my brother from the hand of Esau for I fear him lest he come and attacked me men the mother with the children for you said I will surely treat you well and make your descendants as the sand of the sea which cannot be numbered for multitude so he lodged there that same night and took what came to his hand as a present for Esau his brother two hundred female goats and twenty male goats two hundred ewes and twenty Rams thirty milk camels with their coats forty cows and ten bulls twenty female donkeys and ten folds then he delivered them to the hands of his servant every drove by itself and said to his servants pass over before me and put some distance between successive droves and he commanded the first one saying when he saw my brother meets you and asked you saying to whom do you belong and where are you going whose are these in front of you then you shall say they are your servant Jacobs it is a present sent to my Lord he saw and behold he is also behind us so he commanded the second the third and all who followed the droves saying in this manner you shall speak to Esau when you find him and also say behold your servant Jacob is behind us for he said I will appease him with the present that goes before me and afterwards I will see his face perhaps he will accept me so the present went on before him but he himself lodged that night in the camp may the Spirit of God permeate our hearts as we meditate on this word god bless you [Music] today I am excited to be able to introduce to you the speaker for this our pastor debonair case nail master key Snell was born in Tallahassee Florida to Debra and Larry Snell 1999 he graduated with a BA in theology from Oakwood college that spring he accepted a call to pasture with the South Central Conference upon graduating passes nail began his graduate school matriculation at Andrews University while at Andrews he served as the youth youth pastor for the praise fellowship a church in South Bend Indiana in December of 2001 he received his master's Masters of Divinity from Andrews Theological Seminary just before graduation he began courting the former Jena Norman of Nashville Tennessee pastor Snell's life was made complete as they were married November 2nd 2003 pastor Snell and his wife has three kids Jayden brookey and Brayden they are with us this afternoon and we're going to hire sister Snell and the kids if they would just stand at this time [Music] a man named ed from 2002 to 2006 passes Nell Lera church district in Columbus and West Point in Mississippi from 2006 to 2010 he served as the lead pastor of the Lima Drive SDA church in Lexington Kentucky on July 7th 2010 past the snail began his post as the senior pastor of the first seventh-day Adventist Church of Huntsville Alabama since his arrival at First Church explosive growth has taken place as over 1,000 precious souls have been baptized in the last eight years pastor Snell also serves as an adjunct professor for the religion department at Oakwood University pastor Snell has written five books and he has had numerous articles and essays published his favorite text is second Corinthians 5:17 which states that if any man be in Christ Jesus he is a new creature old things are passed away behold all things were made new we are excited to have pastor Snell with us every time I have heard him preach he has been a tremendous blessing to my spirit we started a couple of years ago talking to Pastor Snell about coming and preaching at this camp meeting last week he was doing another camp meeting I don't know what his schedule is after this but he is a heavily sought preacher of righteousness and we are very privileged to have him come and share a word straight from the throne of God as he prepares to come will you ask God to prepare your heart to receive the word of truth [Music] [Music] have you savage family oh we can do a little better than that happy Sabbath everyone happy Sabbath it is my privilege to introduce to some of you today or most of you today our musical guest for this service who just so happens to be my cousin Terrell hunt as many stories I can tell you but I'll stick to the script by profession he is a singer songwriter actor speaker and entrepreneur he's currently a session vocalist with Walt Disney Studios while preparing to play the role of the lion in the touring production of The Wiz while simultaneously working with Broadway and green leaf director Charles Randolph right on American profit the Frederick Douglas story which is slated to debut on Broadway in 2020 his latest song entitled you did it featuring Avery sunshine landed him a spot on the first round nomination of the 61st annual Grammy Awards but his greatest joy is when he gets to minister to the people of God come on us amen through music and worship ministry and he does so as a worship leader and a muse of music ministry leadership consultant I can confess to you today with full confidence that God has touched Terrell's life musically in ways that not many people have been touched before and just by a show of hands that anybody come here to worship God today here's my here is my prayer and I want to warn you on this right now that as we transition into our praise and worship time I hope you did not come with the intention of sitting on your pries because I'm not gonna sit on mine amen so I'm praying that somebody gets freed in Jesus name today and so can we put our hands together and welcome to rail hunt like only Allegheny West can do bless you [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on Allegheny West hallelujah praise the Lord bless we can do a little better than that I will bless the Lord at all times and his praise will continually be in my mouth I don't know about you but God has been good to me this mercy endures forever he's been faithful he's been a provider he's been my keeper he's been away making he's been a door opener he's been my best friend with all my friends walked away he's been my family when they weren't available and he in the my so I will lift my hands will you magnify the Lord with me today come on let's exalt his name together for the Lord is good I lift my hands to get the glory I lift my hand together great come on [Music] Oh [Music] Oh Oh [Music] [Music] Oh let's get a go in this place we just want to say thank you to him we want to say thank you top that you get the glory out of our lives hallelujah and we just lift our hands [Music] [Music] my life be glorified be glorified [Music] be glorified be glorified [Music] will be glorified be glorified they be glorified people are fine catch the glow you can you get beyond I just wanna say thing ah [Music] so you get the glow thank you because I thought my god [Music] you you love your cat you not to being son thank you you loose my shackles and you say you've been Cline [Music] you've been buying [Music] you mind five seconds [Music] you bet nautical [Music] fighting you [Music] [Music] [Music] I know somebody needs a quiet moment How Great Thou art let's sleep together no no it's the him then sings my soul then [Music] great [Music] my soul [Music] [Music] come on get ready to receive the word with this oh great [Music] [Music] has it been great how great Oh [Music] some of you struggle to be in this place right here abortion thought you work will make it but just sitting here to me Oh God [Music] [Music] [Music] let's give Minister Heine his team with other harder you been today thank you so much for your ministry in Psalm 100 I had a chance to attend them together at an event at Nashville a few weeks back and we thank God for his ministry and how he allows God to use him to lift up the name of Jesus Christ but God's been good to you today won't you say Amen if he's been real good you oughta shout hallelujah if he's it on time God you ought to say thank you Jesus if you love him just shout glory today and if you're glad he's coming again can you put your hands together for the king giving his name a great phrase I know you tired of praising God for the words is there from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same that the name of the Lord is to be praised amen and amen I want you to know Saints that I am completely elated and estatic about the opportunity to be able to share in the camp-meeting tradition here at the great Allegheny West Conference I want to just share just a few words of affirmation I'm going to begin by just thanking God for the leadership of your president in pastor Cox can we give him a hearty amen today thank you so much elder for the invitation I want you to know that we appreciate deeply your commitment to excellence evangelism the strength of your character and many of you should know that your president has been termed by many of the preachers the preaching president because of his right handling of God's Word and so we thank God for you and it is always a privilege to be with you and with elder Brown and I want to thank Jermaine for all of my accommodations and getting us settled here and I'm always thankful to be in the company of dr. and mrs. Joseph is good to see you again today I just want to before we get into word I want to acknowledge the presence of my wife she doesn't always get to go with me but just kind of wave at us one more time can we give her a hearty amen today [Music] we've been buried down for 15 years and seven months and 18 days and about 22 hours at about 14 minutes every day with her gets a little sweeter than the date before and I thank God for great partnership beauty that starts from within and that she's stayed with me come what may today we want to get to God's Word is that all right so do me a favor I brought you to stand to your feet for the reading of scripture today and we'll go back to the book of Genesis chapter 32 Genesis chapter 32 good to see my good friends the Howards from Cincinnati in the house today praise God for you Genesis chapter 32 and we'll pick it up in verse number 22 how many of us just need to see God move in our lives today not just need know who I'm preaching to like it had just come for a show you need to show enough see God do something in your life today amen Genesis chapter 32 and we'll begin together verse number 22 when you get there just say pastor I'm ready Genesis chapter 32 and verse 22 still see a couple of us turning and if you having a hard time finding Genesis just begin at the beginning Genesis chapter 32 and verse number 22 the Bible says and he referring to Jacob arose that night and took his two wives his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed over the for Jabba and he took them and sent them over the brook and he sent over what he had then Jacob was left alone and let me just say to anybody that feels by yourself today sometimes that's where God needed you to be sometimes he's got to get you away from the clutter of life he's got to get you by yourself to do something the Bible says that he was left alone and a man wrestled with him until the breaking of day and now when he saw that he did not prevail against him he touched the socket of his hip and the socket of Jacob's hip was out of joint as he wrestled with him and he said let me go for the day breaks but he said I will not let you go until you bless me so he said unto Him what is your name and he said Jacob and he said your name shall no longer be called Jacob but Israel for you have struggled with God and with men and you have prevailed but again I'm gonna read for emphasis verse 26 and he said unto Him let me go for the day breaks but he said unto Him I will not let you go until you bless me I want to lift our title from one of the lyrics of a Sam Cooke song do me a favor turn to your neighbor and let him know it's been a long time coming but a change don't come today we don't talk under the subject change is gonna come let's pray together father I asked for permission to join my human weakness to your divine strength I am praying that in this moment that during the preaching of the word that faith would be multiplied exponentially and so Lord I am praying that you would just allow us to just have a temporary break from the stresses and the cares and concerns of life that in this moment we would get a fresh hold on your omnipotence as all of my prayer as it is often the case is that you would hide me in the shadows of the cross that Jesus alone might be seen that Christ alone would be heard and at the end of all things may Jesus alone be praised so Lord may our experience today not be theoretical may it not just be based upon what happens in the front but Lord made change erupt all throughout this auditorium we pray this in the Blessed name of Jesus that God's people say together amen and amen you may be seated in the house of the Lord today and will allow those coming in to be seated and I'll ask us yours if you don't mind closing that door right in front of me so that the movement is not a distraction again we're talking under the subject hold on a change is gonna come you know dr. Cox sometimes at the end of a long Sabbath day of teaching and preaching and serving God's people at the end of the day I'd like to sit down on my couch to decompress and at the end of the day I may sit down and watch some of my shows that I've recorded during the week and one of the things that helps me forget about the stresses of the week is a nice slice of apple pie and a good bowl of french vanilla Breyers ice cream and sometimes it happens that as soon as I get good right there on the couch the Lord has a way of disrupting my comfort that as soon as the desert stars getting good on the television that will come a diet pill or exercise program commercial and it is crazy whenever they show these diet or exercise commercials one of the things they'll always do is they'll show a before picture of an obese person and they'll show an after picture of a thin lean person and the reason they contrast before and after is that they want you to see the change that takes place in other words it is the change that gives credibility to the product it is the change that makes the product worth your consideration they don't spend time explaining you the ingredients because they know that what's ultimately gonna sell you is not the ingredients what's gonna sell you is the change that you see and my belief Saints is that every Christian ought to have eight before Jesus picture and in after Jesus picture and the truth is that some of us ought to be able to say before Jesus I was broken but after I was made whole before I was bound but after I got free before I was lost now unfounded once I was blind but now I'm able to see but the problem with the Christian witness and the reason the world does not believe our testimony is that when they see our before picture and our after picture they can't tell no difference between the two in other words some of us are talking now the same way we did before we met Jesus we treat folk now the same way we did before we met Jesus we act now the same way we did before we met Jesus and the reason the world doesn't believe our testimony is that when they see their lives and they look at their own they can't tell the difference between the two and it is amazing that one our Christian antagonists he accepted concludes that all Christian change is simply surface in nature he points out certain things he says in the Christian Church your liturgy is different at the weddings but the divorce rate in the church is the same as it is in the world they say your kids go to special Christian schools but then they wind up in the same jail cells as the sons of this world y'all have your special health message but y'all got the same cancers and diabetes as those that don't know the Lord they say men in the church watch the same amount of porn as men who are outside of the arms of faith and my contention Saints is not that the claims of the gospel aren't true my contention is simply that we've not laid hold of them like we should and let's just talk real because the truth is about the church that we don't want change we want improvement we don't want change we want adjustment we don't want to be transformed we want to be tweaked we don't want to be made over we want to be modified we don't want to be like Jesus we just want to be better than them and the reason we don't want change is because change is painful and I telling the truth today see one of the things that you'll never see is change and comfort in the same sentence because even though the fruit of change is peace the process of change is filled with conflict and the truth is beloved that because change is hard we would rather function broken than to let Jesus make us over and heal us see see let me say it this way I remember about a year and a half a gold mine my wife and I bought our kids a trampoline for Christmas and and so I decided that I was gonna do the man thing and put this trampoline together by myself and so I started out pretty good as I got the mental frame in place but when you put the springs and they jumping mat in place you've got to align certain Springs over certain joints in the trampoline and because my count was off by one eye my springs were misaligned and even though I noticed it was functional the kids were still able to jump but what I didn't realize is that when you put the safety net on the top the safety net on the top has to align with the joints on the bottom and the problem is the mistake I made at the bottom didn't show up until I tried to put the net on at the top and as I'm trying to put the net on at the top because it was misaligned my net at the top had a lean and a ridged look to it and because I spent six hours putting it together I just didn't want to start over I would rather let it lean and be broken than to have to let it start all over again and see and this is where some of us are we would rather function broken than to let Jesus start all over again so we would rather sing broken we would rather uh sure broke him we would rather Deacon broke him we would rather preach broken than to let Jesus begin a new work in our am i preaching to anybody today and say I need you to know the thing that saved today is that when my wife came outside she knew how long I had been working on the trampoline and she saw how it was leaning over to the side and she said baby I know you've worked for a long time but we made too much to let it lean like that the sacrifice was too great to let it function broken we can't give up on it because we pay too much for and how many of us know the reason that God doesn't give up on you is because he paid too much to let you function broke him the cost was too high to let you remain like that the reason God hasn't given up on you is because the cost was too high to let you stay broken so he'll disassemble your life take off all the boats begin from the beginning so that you look like what you've been paying for are you hearing me today thanks and so today's Saints as we look back at the story of Jacob I want you to know that Jacobs story has a number of relevant ideals but the first thing that Jacob teaches is that God is able to save anybody can you say Amen see one of the things that you'll notice about the story of Jacob is that when you look at his story Jacob does not have any major spiritual redeeming qualities about him in other words when you look at Jacob like I mean you know he does not have a great spiritual moment anywhere in his journey in other words I respect Jacobs hustle I like the fact that he's got some grit I like that Jacob is quick on his feet but Jacob doesn't have one trait that would commend him to being the progenitor of Jesus Christ in fact most biblical characters they have at least a bad moment but at the same time they have a signature moment that says this is why God chose them in other words Abraham lied about Sarah but at least he left his father and mother's house by faith Noah gets drunk and he curses but at least he builds the art and gets inside Jacob sleeps with passion I mean David sleeps with Bathsheba but at least he was willing to kill Goliath Peter denied the Lord but at least he was willing to get out of the boat and walk water but when you look at the story of Jacob he don't have a good moment he doesn't have a high day in Zion he is a deceiver from the time he comes out of the womb to the time he defrauds Esau to the time he compromises Laban swamp and there ain't nothing in Jacobs life to suggest that he is the one to be called by God and see the thing that I love is that God beforehand decides to take a broken man and a flawed man and reveal Jesus through him in other words before you see Jesus beauty you've got to first experience Jacobs brokenness and see God allows Jesus to be revealed through broken Jacob and Jacob becomes a type of all of us because God still wants Jesus to be revealed through broken people and see the reason that Jesus God starts out with messed up Jacob is to teach us that salvation was never to be gained by merit good works or accomplishment we were to be saved by grace through faith are you hearing me today see see Jacob teaches that we are not saved by being good or doing good Jacob teaches us that we are saved alone through the miraculous grace of Jesus Christ all the sinners in this room on a shout amen today and I realized that there would be tension when I said that because some of us believe that you've got to be faithful in order to be saved but how many of us know that faithfulness is not a requirement for salvation faithfulness is a response or reaction to salvation in other words our faithfulness cannot save us only the faithfulness of Jesus is able to redeem so that if I'm faithful and I live a clean life I don't do this as a requirement to be saved I do this as a response to the saving grace of Jesus Christ in other words how many of us know that you ain't gotta work to be saved you work in response to the fact that you've been saved by Jesus are y'all here mean any sense I'm not here me there do me a favor brother stand up here and be real quick in other words let's just say real quick that we got my man here God's there with me and he's trying to get a new house but the problem is he's got bad credit do we got one witness in this room today in other words he's got some missed payments and some late payments and as a result he is not able to get approved for the loan and the only way he's gonna be able to get the loan is if he gets what's called a cosigner in other words he's got to get a cosigner by somebody that's got perfect credit he's got to get a cosign by somebody that had missed no payments that's got a perfect record and when he cosines for him what happens is he's approved for the loan based upon the strength of somebody else's perfect record and then what happens is once he gets approved he's so thankful for what he did for him he's going to determine to make all his payments on time he ain't gonna never be late he's gonna make every payment not that he's trying to be approved he's already been approved based on the works of somebody else in other words his faithfulness is out of appreciation for somebody else's perfect record and what's been done on his behalf y'all not here today and see how many of us know that spiritually we got bad credit in other words we can't be redeemed on our own but the good news is that we've got a cosigner in Jesus and we get redeemed based on the perfection of his record and so I do good not because I'm trying to be approved I've already been approved my record is already been expunged my seat is already purchased and now I'm just reacting to what Jesus already did y'all hear me today Saints and see one of the things I like about Jacob is that Jacob really shows us what our ministry should be in other words y'all realize that some of us like Jacob you've been given the Ministry of proof you've been given the Ministry of evidence and what I mean when I say that today Saints is that they're some of us in this room and I hope that you you can be real with me today like like you realize that the only reason God has saved your raggedy life is so that when folks see that you in church and they knew you back in the day come on and say Amen like when they see you it is the evidence or the proof that God can save anybody who am i preacher to in this room see see the problem is beloved that if your testimony is too perfect it intimidates broken people in other words if your testimony is only that I got 18 generations in the church and ain't never smoked that ain't never drink and I always pay tithe and ain't never had a lapse in my faith all that does is it keeps broken folk in bondage but every now and then God needs some folk that know where God has brought their prom who when they see you in church and they see you on the pulpit and they see you in the praise team and they see you on the deacons bench they have to look and take a double take come on and say man come on oh you saved now your Bibles are big and your skirts are long but can you remember back in the day where you had a cigarette on your lip a baby on your hip a boombox on your shoulder and a jheri curl in your hair come on eat a mint today but but how many of us can thank God that he's brought us our mighty long way and what I'm saying is don't forget where God brought you from but use your testimony as proof that if God can save me that God can do the same for you are y'all hearing me today sings and see I just want to encourage anybody in this room to know that even if you're messed up today and you look feel like you're not enough God can do more with your willing little than with your perfect history are y'all hear me today sense okay see something y'all not hear me it's just kind of like this like one of the things I struggle with cooking even though it's simple is I struggle some time to cook grits y'all eat grits here in Ohio and see one of the reasons I struggle to cook grits is I struggle to get the right amount made because you know how it is when you put a little cup of grits in a big pot it actually looks like it's not gonna be enough and so my tendency is to put too much in the pot because that little pot of grits doesn't seem like it's going to make enough but the thing I like about grits is that even though it starts out looking like it's not going to be enough when you add water and you add Heat grits have a way of expanding they have a way of multiplying and once you keep on stirring it it winds up in the end looking different than it did in the beginning and I just need to know do I have any grit Christians in this room you didn't look like a whole lot at the beginning but God added some water he added the heat of adversity and he keeps stirring you and you wind up looking something different now than you did at the beginning to the church amen second thing that Jacob teaches us beloved is that you can't create your own favor alright so go with me to verse 3 y'all oh my if we stay in the book today second thing jug of teachers that you can't create your own favor so Jacob now is aware that Esau is coming the word says that then Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Sarah and the country of Edom he commanded them speak saying thus the lord to Esau thus your servant Jacob says I have dwelt with Laban and stayed there until now he says I have oxen donkeys flocks and male and female servants and I have sent to tell my Lord that I may find favor in your sight then the messengers returned to Jacob saying we came to your brother Esau and he is also coming to meet you and four hundred men are with him see one of the things that Jacob teaches our sense is that you can't create your own favor see this right here what you just read that's Jacob's problem see jacob's big issue is that he actually thinks that he has the wisdom and the skill to talk and manipulate every situation he finds himself in he has this need to try and dictate and determine all of the outcomes of his life but did you notice in the text the one thing about Esau is that Esau cannot be negotiated with not even a little bit and see Jacobs problem is that he schemed his way out of favor and he thinks that he can scheme his way back in and so he sends several affirmations and salutations ahead to Esau but what God does is he allows his charm to be useless he completely nullifies jacob's hustle he doesn't allow any of his wit to prevail because he's trying to teach Jacob that you can't create your own favor and see let me just pause to say to all of the palm greasing back-scratching sucking up butt-kissing folk in this room that no matter how much hustle you got you can't create your own favor am i telling the truth in other words I need you to hear me on that because see I believe don't get me wrong I believe in being nice to people I believe in loyalty and partnership but whenever you show kindness with a motive it doesn't create favor it just makes you indebted and in other words when you scratch their back you expect them to scratch yours when they do something for you then you have to do something for them but I'm at this place in my life where I don't want to owe nobody nothing I don't want to be indebted to no man it's why Jesus said he would not commit himself to any man because he knew what was in man that's what the Bible says oh no man anything except the outstanding debt of love are y'all hearing me today Saints because see I need you to focus and folk like Esau's that can see through your phone eNOS and see the thing I need somebody to get is that when you live your life indebted and trying to create your own favor what you simply do as you allow other folk to get the glory for things God does in other words when folk are having to do favors for you it allows them to say that they helped you and they came through for you and they exalted you and they opened the door for you but I believe that when you're a child of the Most High God you ain't got to be connected with the right group you ain't got a pledge a certain fraternity you ain't got to be down with the city officials you just got to know the right guy y'all reach am i preaching to anybody today see the word says that God opens up doors that no man can shut and he shuts doors that no man can open and you ain't got to be down with the right group you've just got to know that your gifts are going to make room for you and that favor comes from God are y'all hearing me today sex and see the thing I need you to understand is that when you let people lift you up you got to understand that people can also bring you back down okay let me say like this I remember growing up in Florida as a kid we would we were play on this little toy on the playground called the seesaw y'all we had to see songs here and you know how it is when you mash down on one side and you raise your partner up and and they match down on their side and they raise you up and I remember one day I was out on the seesaw and I would match down and raise up my boy it and then he mashed out on his side and he got me way up in the air and I remember when he got down and he got me way up in the air I remember seeing the devilment on his face where he decided to jump off of his side and let me come crashing down to the ground and I learned in elementary school be careful who you let lift you up in other words if you let man lift you up then is able to bring you down but having us know that when the hand of God lifts you up there ain't nothing that man can't do to bring you back down let the church say Amen today third thing that Jacob teaches us that if you're gonna be changed beloved you got to have a driving agent in your life see one of the things beloved that Ellen White makes clear is that the rise of Esau is God's doing the presence of Esau beloved is literally an essential component to Jacob salvation and because God raises up Esau there ain't nothing Jacob can do to pray him back down so you got to see how this thing unfolds because Jacob is at that place where he is simply running out of all options and all of his schemes are beginning to close in on him but the thing I like about Esau man your boy is just coming you don't send I Jacob no heads-up he doesn't try to make it easy for Jacob he doesn't try to give Jacob any way out he doesn't try to alleviate the pressure or stress what God literally does for Jacob is he allows him to feel the pressure of the nearness of Esau and it is beloved this sense of pressure it is this crushing weight of despair it is this unchanging circumstance it is his inability to manage the situation that causes Jacob to find a place and prayer that he would never get through any other means and see I need you to know that Jacob is like each and every one of us because we are so carnally minded that we'll never volunteer for deep prayer by ourselves see there has to be an impregnable circumstance that you cannot handle that gets you into a place of prayer that you will never find under any other circumstance and the thing I need somebody to get is that Esau is a driving agent he is not a satanic attack see I need you to understand the difference between a satanic attack and a driving agent is this a satanic attack keeps you from praying but a driving agent pushes you to your knees so sometimes the driving agent is the trouble that's in your marriage the driving agent can be the problems that your kids have the driving agent can be the disease that touches your body the driving agent can be the financial stress that you face the driving agent can be the problems in your church the driving agent is that impregnable circumstance that deepens your prayer walk and get you closer to God than you can ever get by yourself and say I just need to know that if Jacob was here to preach this sermon on this side of the circumstance even though Esau and the driving agent was uncomfortable he would tell you I enjoy my intimacy with God so much that I actually thank God for the driving agent that pushed me closer to him than I would ever get by myself and I just need to know do I have 12 Saints who will just thank God for the driving agents in your life see the problem is we'll only praise God for things that enhance our comfort when you ought to be shouting over the stuff that enhances your character tell me the place now where I thank God for the pressures that caused me to pray I'm thinking for the tensions that took me to the throne I thank God for the aches that got me to the altar I think him for the enemies that made me enter into his presence I thank him for the death that caused me to go deeper I'm thankful for the failures that put me on my face and got me out of rehearse prayer and ceremonial prayer but I'm talking about that real prayer and I appreciate anybody today what you ain't worried about how it sounds you ain't worried about whether or not it's eloquent where sometimes you don't even know what to pray for but you just got a moan in your spirit and you have to call on the name of God because a driving agent pushed you there that's all the word says to us here and verse number 20 y'all know mine we say the book for just a moment where it says here in verse 20 and he said behold your servant Jacob is behind us he finishes praying watch this then what Jacob does is he sins a whole bunch of more gifts after he prays he says behold your servant Jacob is behind us and he said I will appease him with the presence that goat before me then the Bible says in verse 24 that when Jacob was left alone a man wrestled with him until the breaking of the day all right saying I need you to get this do you realize that the story of Jacob and Esau should have actually ended when Jacob said amen with his prayer but notice what Jacob does he pray I mean he gets down his face literally read the prayer I mean he literally prays the promises of God he says Lord you said how you were blessed the descent Lord you said how you would keep me but notice what Jacob does he prays but then when he does not receive any good news he begins to take his hand off of God and try and fix things himself in other moments one minute he's holding on to the promise but when there's pressure he lets go of the hand of God and his pattern is more pronounced here than ever before because Jacob again is a type of all of us because we will cling to the promises of God for a moment but when things don't get better quickly we let them go we hold on to God in a stretch but when pressure comes we'll let him go we'll hold on to God for a second but when your boot comes you'll let him go we'll hold on the God in a moment but when it gets tiny tight financially we'll let him go will hold on to God for a second but when the kids that crazy will let him go and do you realize that this night of wrestling with Jacob was simply designed to teach him that if he kept holding on a change was gonna come so so watch this church it's crazy how God does this thing see the problem is we've been reading certain stories so long that certain values just go over our head see it trips me out pastor that God would decide to save Jacob in a wrestling match now I get this intellectually theologically he wrestled with Jacob to the breaking of the day but real talk you don't really understand why in the world would he just decide that I'm gonna take on man's form and wrestle a child I know I can beat come on y'all know that don't make no sense y'all just accept it because you've been reading it so long like he doesn't save Jacob in a church service he saves him in a challenge he doesn't sing Jacob a vision he sends Jacob an opponent he doesn't save him in a Bible study he saves him by beating him up he doesn't save him by being kind he saves him in a confrontation and it shows us something about salvation that you've gotta want it so bad that you don't have no preference about how God saves you you've just gotta say Lord I give you permission to save me by any means necessary are y'all hearing me the Saints so I'm trying to figure this out man man coughs why is it that God the Father would decide that I'm gonna come down and wrestle with one of my son's and the joint never really made sense to me until I had sons of my own because how many of us daddies you will get this that one of the ways that fathers and sons bond is by wrestling oh y'all y'all not hear me in other words mommies and daughters will bond while getting their nails done or getting their hair done or baby while cooking but sometimes a five and a son we bond literally in conflict while playing tackle football in the backyard or by wrestling on the basketball court and fouling each other or by wrestling in the living room that's how fathers and sons knit their hearts together in fact I've got two boys I got a 9 year old and a 4 year old and from the time I get home from work there is times there is a constant wrestling all the evening long there are times where I literally will walk by them and push them just to start something there'll be times where I'll slap them on the back of the head just to get something going there'll be days where I'll create a conflict just so that we can begin the process of wrestling and bonding one with and I don't hear me today Saints but I need you to know that there is another reason that I wrestle with them because see my boys even though they're being I thank God that they are lovers and not fighters they are conflict averse in other words I have to give them a fight with me I have to create a battle that is bigger than them so that they can handle opponents that are their size y'all y'all not hear me I have to try them on a higher level of conflict so they can handle conflict that's on their level in other words Jacob is afraid of Esau who's on his level so daddy says I'm gonna create a fight that's greater than your level so you want to be afraid of that wishes on your level and so when I wrestle with my boys I know they can't beat me I know they can't whoop me but I just believe that if I hold them against the couch and I get them in the headlock if I wrestle with them if they just hang in with me if they just contend with me if they just don't let go of me if they'll just stay in the fight with me if they can just prevail with Daddy they can handle anybody in the fourth grade nine years old in kindergarten but I gotta train them on a level that's bigger than their and Sam you gonna know that some of us are afraid of some earthly conflicts you afraid of your neighbor you're afraid of your coworker you're afraid of your boss but God is saying I gotta take you through a night of wrestling because if you can hang in with me you can handle anything that goes on with them I y'all hear me today Saints this man's like hiss about two years ago man my church family they have this little race in Huntsville it's a 10k a 6.2 mile race and so they dared me and so I agreed to run in this 6.2 mile race in Huntsville and so because I didn't want to embarrass myself I would go in my neighborhood every day now they call Huntsville the city of hills because we have inclines and mountains in Huntsville and so what happens is man I go up every day and I run up and down these hills around my neighborhood in preparation for the race now I need you to get that I ain't trying to break no records I just want to finish the race with my ACLs and my ankles intact now I have a witness called brothers over 40 you ain't no idiot for no glory you just want to finish that thing come on say man so I remember man you know how to get it you got to get this thing that runners they have like their own culture and so on the day of the race like when you get there and you're my size these real runners they look at you with a condescending look like you don't really belong here with us and so I'm talking with we went about cousins and and this guy I need you to know man this guy's so condescending he looks at me he's just like man you got on the wrong equipment your shorts are too long you don't have the right shoes you shouldn't carry your phone in your pocket you ought to put it in your arm and then when we get ready to start the race he looks at me and he says all right sir I'll see you when you get to the finish line so much as to say I know I'm gonna get there before you I'll get to you when you cross now again I'm not insulted because again my goal is just to finish the race now I need you to get what happens is I my number three and five number four and I get there around the arm number five I see home board with these special shoes and these two short shorts and this little halter top that he's got on and I realized that it's the same guy who told me he was gonna see me at the finish line now get me ain't breaking no records but I see him getting closer and closer to me as I get to mile for and mile five and right when I get right there where I'm about to pass him I want you to know I wanted to be Christian when I passed him but but when I ran by homeboy I said I'll see you when you get to the finish so y'all not hearing me in this room and it's crazy because I couldn't believe that I beat him to the finish line but when I got to the finish line I remembered that he had traveled to Huntsville from Florida so y'all know in Florida the ground is all flats but in Huntsville I have been training on heels and because I had a more intense training I was able to beat a superior opponent because my training was more intense and do I have any folk that can thank God that you didn't always have flat terrain you didn't always get to go down hill but God brought you up the rough side of the mountain you had to go some heels along the way so that when other folk run out of gas you just get started because God trains you on a higher level then your opposition are y'all hear me today Saints so watch this so look at this look you're putting this quote on the screen from patriarchs and prophets preached on some prophets page 192 like this thing literally blew my mind put it up with a real quick come on when you get insane man listen watch this so watch this so Jacob is wrestling with God but watch this while Jacob was wrestling with the angel another heavenly messenger was sent to Esau Oh Yuri no no why he's praying another angel goes to Esau in a dream Esau beheld his brother for twenty years in exile from his father's house he witnessed his grief at finding his mother damn he saw him encompassed by the host of God this dream was related by Esau to his soldiers with the charge not to harm Jacob for the god of his father was with him o God y'all y'all didn't get this see I don't see what just happened that while Jacob is wrestling and praying on this end while Jacob don't know how he's gonna work out on this end God did already with a head on the other end and gave a dream to Esau that he should mess with Jacob he shows a esau vision of the angel of the Lord he kept about Jacob so what his contrived favor couldn't accomplish God had already with ahead and work that thing out y'all not hear me why he was stressing out God was working it out wildest why he was trying to figure it out God hadn't already worked that thing out he couldn't see it on this side but God was already working on the other side and so the night of wrestling beloved it wasn't designed to prepare Esau it was designed to prepare Jacob put the blessing that God had in store for him and God is trying to teach us Jacobs that if he can make Esau stand up he can also make Esau sit back down and God is saying I need you to know that what I'm taking you through I'm not about preparing a blessing I need you to know that the circumstance has already been prepared the only thing that's left up to question is whether or not your heart has been prepared he's saying I gotta grow your faith he's saying I've got a deep in your prayer he said I've got an it your heart to mine I've got to help you find a depth in God that you won't find in any other circumstance and I just want to encourage somebody to know that when you came here to camp meet with all the stresses and the worries and the pressures of life weighing down your worship experience I need you to know that God then already win ahead of you I don't know y'all y'all act no y'all don't believe God has already gone ahead of you and God is already in the future working some things out for you I need somebody to know that some bills have already been paid I need somebody to know that the test results are already negative I need you to know that your kids are on they way back to church I need somebody to know that check is already in the mail I need you to know that the house loan is already been secured know that the healing is already in route I need you to know that the car has already been prepared that why are you over here tripping God is already on the other side working no - I've seen him do it for myself listen I tell the story all the time I remember my wife and I man we're living in Lexington Kentucky we're at a place man where we had lost a number of kids through miscarriage and we had some medical bills that had literally stacked up to the heavens and we're at a place man where we were like $700 short for what we needed to make it to the end of the month and I don't know if you ever had one of those stretches where your money was funny your change was strange and your credit couldn't get it come on and say man and I remember man we were stressing because it was about two or three weeks before payday and I remember we were on the verge of calling home to our parents for the first time since we had gotten married and I remember man before we went to call my wife said let's take one more night and pray about that thing and I really want to pray I had an attitude I just want to call and get the money come on say man and man I remember we got down on our knees and prayed and I don't know if you ever prayed one of those prayers where would you pray you claimed every promise in the Word of God man I got down on my knees and said Lord you say you would open up the windows of heaven Lord you say you would supply all my needs learn you sail the righteous would never be forsaken Lord you said the seed will never be begging bread Lord you said you will take care of us and so we got down on our knees and pray the promises of God and I need to know I go to the mailbox the very next day ain't got no helping here today I called the next day and I get an envelope from the Kentucky Department of Revenue I get mad I say Lord I ask for blessing and you send another bill with my name on it but I begin to read the letter it says mr. snail on the previous year we overcharged you for the property taxes on your house on the inside is a refund check in the amount of $1100 so y'all got here in other words before I prayed God took it from me the year before put it in heavens escrow allowed it to mature put it in the mail four days before I pray so that the day after I prayed it was show up right on time and I just need you to know that God ain't working in the presence your God it's working in the future he's already figured it out he's already paid the bill he's already saved Hakeem he's already restored the marriage you ain't gotta wait the racecar you can praise Him in advance because this ready I know hear me this place it's already done he's on the other side working it out for your good breaking it out for your glory working it out for him for his glory when you get out to your benefit y'all hear me today sinks so they saying man it gets good and good to me y'all ready to go home give me one second listen so the Bible says that Jacob is left alone and the Bible says that a man wrestles with him to the breaking of the day and I can see this thing where as Jacob is afraid his paranoid his teeth are set on edge he's waiting for it to finally catch up to him and when the angel of the Lord grabs his shoulder I need you to know your boy Jacob does not back down but Jacob begins to come in full assault toward God he grabs the man's arm and the man grabs his leg he grabs the man's shoulder and the man grabs Jacobs arm he gets Jacob in the headlock but Jacob breaks away he gets Jacob in The Full Nelson but Jacob gets hellooo somehow he knocks Jacob on the ground but then Jacob gets back up again he pushes Jacob on the floor but Jacob rebounds one more time but now this wrestling has been going on all night long the man is sweating on Jacob and Jacob is sweating on the man they're so close in this wrestling that the man can smell Jacob's breath and he can smell the breath of God in fact they're so close that Jacob can see his reflection in the eyes of God and it's amazing how the man sees that the day is about to break and so he says let me go because the day is gonna break and I love what Jacob says he says I've been wrestling too long til in the night the way I started it he says ain't going back the way I came so he gets up the gumption to say I don't mean to be rude I don't want to be unseemly but I want you to know Lord then I'm not gonna let you go until you bless me so what's this church so the man seeing Jacob's defiance decides he's gonna touch Jacob on the hollow of his thigh and the touch is so forceful that with his pinkie he knocks Jacobs hip all the way out of socket not the thing I like about Jacob is you realize that most of many of the one of the places where you have two bunches of nurse is right here in the hip so that I displaced him it's gonna be one of the most painful things that your body can ever go through and notice what happens with his hip gets not out of the socket his infant reflex should be to hold on to us hurting him you're gonna get it his reflex should have been to grab the painful area his reflex should have been to nurture his pain but the thing I like about Jacob is that when it hurts he doesn't hold on the was hurting him he holds on to his God didn't hold on to his pain he holds on to his God he like hold on to his agony he holds on to his God he doesn't hold on tailless excruciating he holds on to God and what I'm saying Saints is time for some of us in Allegheny ways to stop holding on to us hurting you and start holding on to your God stop holding on to your pain it's not holding on to your God stop holding on to your hurts and start holding on to your God stop holding on to your bitterness and start holding on to your God stop holding on to your memory and start holding on to your college stop holding on to your ex-husband and start holding on to your God stop holding on to your failures and stop holding on to your God because things will change until you stop holding on to your pan and put both hands around God and say I won't let you go until you bless me Lord [Music] hey listen Bible says James says man what's your name man that's what's your name he says my name is Jake he says your name is not gonna be checked but I'm gonna change your name your name may no longer be called check it but it's gonna be called Israel Prince or son of the Most High God and when he changed his jacob's name he changes his identity he clears his history he sets forth a new assignment and it all begins when his name gets changed listen let me tell this quick story and I'm done this time we were growing up I uh my mom oh she still does when she retired we went back to work she worked at Florida State University all my childhood and she was over housing for the University so in the summers we would get these jobs they called me Oh PS jobs where we would go into the dorms and we would do these little odd jobs we were paint and we would pressure-wise sidewalks and we would build blinds and screens and that was my job from the seventh grade all the way up through my time in college what we're going to do this work but I remember one summer I think it was at the end of my ninth grade year like on the very last day of the summer being kind of foolish as a young person it was the last day of job and so me and some of my friends we didn't really feel like working and so we decided we don't get the day off early today and don't judge me on this this is my before Jesus picture come on it's a man so so what we did was we decided that if we go and pull one of the fire alarms and the sirens went off they would have to evacuate the building I say don't judge me before Jesus come on now so we're gonna pull one of the fire alarms and once the sirens went off then we wouldn't have to work no more for the rest of the day so man you know being being a leader had to lead by example so I went by our workstation I pulled the fire alarm the sirens go off the fire department comes and everybody just gets to wait outside for the next hour and a half and so these are the days before cameras so we weren't really scared about being caught but I remember when the fire marshal got there he says in just a little while we'll know who pulled that fire line and he says the way you'll know who pulled the fire alarm is whenever somebody pulls a fire alarm there is an invisible die that shoots all over their hands and it doesn't show up for about 20 minutes and I need you to know that as soon he says this I look down and I got this red dot on my hands and on my clothes and whoa nothing let it get rubbed out and it's crud funny man because now they called my mom they called the boss it becomes a big thing because whenever they call the fire department they charge University about twenty thousand dollars whenever they show up and so now I've been working here for a couple years I just know then gonna let me come back the next year now I need you to know that one of the things that happens is is this when I was born I was born deadly air Smith which is my mother's maiden name now in between my sophomore year in my junior year after my mom got married my dad's name or my stepdad but he's my dad his last name is snail and so what happens is is that we I receive an adoption so that our entire family has the same last name and so what happens is because my name has been changed I assume that the next year I was going to be able to get the job because I had a letter of reprimand in my file but when I go back to next year to interview they can find no record of the fire alarm because they were still looking under Smith and my name had been changed to snake and when they change my name my history was clear my record was expunged my negatives were thrown away new beginning a new slide because my name have got about 36 that will praise God with me that your name has been changed yo history has been clean yo record has been expunged don't iniquities have been blotted out your transgressions have been forgiven [Music] I ah [Music] can y'all say that song change but is it remain hook it a wonderful change yeah you you get that so so I'm done but can y'all just take a moment men meditate on the words of this song because I need to know that God didn't come to tweak you he brought you here so he could change he didn't come to improve you he came to change he didn't come to modify he came to make you over again but we gotta be willing to undergo to change and we don't live in him it can't be like it always is the trees can't be just surface it's gotta be pervasive as God does a new thing in us [Music] a has come Oh [Music] each [Music] [Music] he washed away oh my sin happy me Oh [Music] he changed my life complete and now I see I see that he is free one must be down working words ha until he car Oh wonderful chain come on Oh wonderful the change - Wow danger yeah not been to the flat would you be you change [Music] over me have them all Thank You Love change pass them over me [Music] [Music] allegheny Wes [Music] allegheny West's I need you to know that God is not in the improving business I need you to understand that in the salvation equation you ain't got nothing that God can work with and renovate you you ain't got no raw material that has standing with gamma God has to tear it down front to the ground and he's got to rebuild the character on the very ground up and let me tell you why for so many of us we've never been set free from anything the reason we've never found the joy of Jesus the reason we've never been baptized with the Holy Ghost is because we just been wanting Jesus to modify and see the portions we we only let him modify other things that people could see from the outside but see the thing where God doesn't want to begin he don't want to begin with your makeup and your jewelry he gets to it but where he wants to begin is he want to begin with your hearts your inside your character he wants to deal with that hidden man of the Spirit that person that nobody sees in a person that is there when nobody else is around Jesus ain't dealing with your image he wants to deal with your character and there are too many and the body of Christ that have been baptized but never change they become board members but never change and and what we literally do is we take the principles of the world and economics and and systems of this world and we just try to incorporate them into Church and God says I won't have it I will have it the god is saying I brought you to this camp meeting under the thing living in him is because there is a need for a radical transformation a total rebuild God is saying I don't want to just let you function broken I need to start all over again then there's somebody today you just your your humble enough to make the admission to say Jesus I need you to start again in me I give you permission to tear down I give you permission to hug group I give you permission to knock down wall I give you permission Jesus to do whatever you have to to help me perfectly reproduce your character is heard if that's your desire to die right to the statue feet invite you stand to your feet look it really fills out the service you're saying Lord not a modification Lord not an adjustment Lord not improvements but make it all over make it all over make my mouth over make my meditations over make my fantasy's over make over how I deal with my money make over how I deal with my marriage make it all over Jesus I need you to start it again and me the good work do that begin I need you to continue it all the way to Jesus Christ so I'm gonna make two brief appeals and do me a favor musicians if you can bring down just a little bit my first a few is for that person who for whatever reason maybe you have never experienced Christ or maybe you just have an experience Christ in a long time and you're saying I realize that I are we brought here today not by habit or camp-meeting tradition Providence brought me healing and and I need more than just a closing prayer at an Amen I need to fully commit to Jesus now one of the things you hear preachers say and it's it is the wrong thing a lot of times we say once you give Jesus a try that's the wrong thing because that's experimental see I try it if I don't like the way it goes and I try something else and see the problem is we've been giving Jesus a try and as soon as it doesn't work out like we want to we didn't try it or ourselves and I'm not asking you to give Jesus a try I'm asking you to make a commitment to the Savior and there's somebody in this room today that needs to do more than just a consecrate or prayer you need to make a commitment to Jesus so there's somebody here today for the first time you need to make a decision to become a disciple of Jesus Christ there's somebody that needs to make the decision to come back into the fold and into fellowship and intimacy with the Savior and if you're here today and the Spirit of God is moving upon your heart I just want to invite you and I had you stand for this reason so it'll be easier just tell your neighbor excuse me step out of the aisle come down to the front give one of these preachers your hand give Jesus your heart today you're saying I need to make a full commitment I need to not surrender most I need to surrender all I need to let him into every room in every space and in my heart today and if you're here today and the Spirit of God is moving upon you won't you say yes to the Lord once you respond to the call of God today what you submit to him and so the Spirit of God is moving upon you don't be shy don't be afraid my sister my brother call God is calling you just tell your neighbor excuse me come down to the front give me a hand give Jesus your heart you're saying I'm coming to Jesus I'm committee I'm committing them committing today if you here today won't you come god bless you god bless you praise God is there somebody else you saying I need the Canada commitment I'm tired of experimenting I'm tired of giving Jesus a chances or giving him a trys if he needs to audition for me I'm committing to him so today my brother sisters the Spirit of God moved upon you much calm doors of the church rope won't you come on in and let Jesus do a new work in your life god bless you sister praise God is there somebody else today you need to say yes to the Lord yes to his will yes to his way yes to his direction won't you come won't you come won't you come don't make a second appeal in just a moment but I just want to give that one last few individuals opportunities say yes to Jesus [Music] do me a favor ban bring it all the way down bring it all the way down bring it all the way down because he's somebody's trying to hide in the music today Saints we drove through storm and rain for nine hours Thursday so that I could give this invitation for somebody to begin their life as a disciple or begin it again and see I'm gonna ask you a question and it's the only question in life that matters it's not what your name what you do for a living where you from but I want to ask you this question if in this next moment we heard a trumpet blasts we heard an arc angel shout and the roof of this building was peeled off would you begin to rise with God's people to meet Jesus in the air or would you be bound to this earth that you invest in so much the reason I asked the question it is not to frighten but guess what if when I asked you that question you had imbalance or you got a little nervous or you became unsure it's because you've got unfinished spiritual business and what I'm saying to you today beloved is that it don't make no sense for you to leave this place wondering about your salvation you need to leave this place knowing that when the roll is called up yonder that you gonna be there so today if there is any question any doubt I want to invite you to come on down god bless you god bless you come on down to the front to give this preacher your hand give Jesus your heart to say I want to begin again my life with Jesus I want to rebuild I want to start over I need Jesus to do a new work in me and there's somebody who say pastor I want to come but I'm afraid I'm gonna mess up again I'm gonna come past but I gotta get some stuff right no that's not how it works you don't get yourself right then come to Jesus he says you can come just like you are it doesn't matter where you were last week it doesn't matter where you were last month it doesn't matter where you were last night but if God's Spirit is calling you god bless you sister then you want to say yes on the equip acclaim say yes in a committed way saying listen I'm not gonna be I'm not promising to be perfect but I'm just simply saying that come what may I'm not gonna let go anymore until the change so fear today come on down come on down god bless you ladies come on down quickly there's somebody else come on down Saphira God is moving you want to be baptized you need to be rededicated maybe you just need to just have to say Lord I need you to do a new work in my heart and eat you to work and send me your Holy Spirit if you here won't you come come on down god bless you praise God praise God bless you sister come on down come on down salvation is coming to this house salvation is coming to this place there's somebody else if you're in the mat if you're in the back we'll wait for you brother if you hear man of God I'm prophesied man of God you may even think I'm talking to you I'm talking to who God is gonna make you to become become man without if you hear God is calling you god bless you brother come on down is there somebody else god man oh god if you come she'll come if you come maybe your children will come you want to come god bless you praise God praise God praise God do me a favor Judy's folk on the Jesus cheer up on the Jesus that's good man cheer him on the Jesus god bless you brother come on come on come on come on come on come on sis praise God praise God we don't let this we only let it go in a second but I just want to give every possible person in the event that this is an event that this is our last camp meeting we got to make the count so if you're here today God's Spirit is moving upon you my brother my sister young person young adult and maybe you say pastor I'm in the church but but you can be in church and not be in Christ you got the form of godliness but you've never had the power you never had the experience and you're saying I'm tired of settling I'm tired of ordinary religion I need something that changes me if you're here today what you go what you come something that rededication something baptism summary man says god bless you brother way to move way to move way to move way to move god bless you please gotta feel it's a good decision I bless you bless you you're saying I need more III want more than just a form of godliness I need the real thing I need Jesus it working me I don't want a surface change like your conversion should not have stopped when you took off makeup and Joey God wanted to do more than that your whole disposition your language your attitude your faith everything about you should be made new my last appeal is this you're in Christ you walk it in the spirit by the grace of God but you just say Lord I want to leave with a double portion if you hear come on down and play for you I just want a double force you say I got the Holy Spirit he's living in me I know it but I need that double course I'm gonna pray for you these next 10 seconds I'm just gonna pray a prayer I'm gonna pray a prayer come on come on you send a double portion not just so so I can witness but so I can live I want my before picture and my after picture to be so different that folk know God has done a work inside of me your sermon ought not begin with your lips but you're serving ought to be with your life that would folk who knew you way back way and they see you now they ought to they ought to read for that if God can do it for them then I know that the Lord can do the same thing for me I want to pray for that person you want to say I'm going to be a difference maker for the kingdom of God a soul winning an agent of change color want to just be a church occupant a church complainer a pastor destroyer I want to be a difference maker for the kingdom of God I want to pray for you today that God will add his spirit to you in a rare distinct way father Lord for anything good the results of this service all the glory belongs to you and I ignite the acknowledge and accept that only the mistakes are mine but Lord we have come today with the humble admission that we've not yet apprehended we come admitting that we are not inwardly all that we show ourselves outwardly to be and Lord we just we're gonna be real enough and transparent enough to say Lord we've got religion and we've got the right doctrine and we are in the right church but we haven't had the intimate Jacob experience so Lord we won't come to you with any preferences about how you ought to transform us below we just say is the old song anyway you bless us more we will be satisfied so Lord without fanfare or much ado in the silence of this moment we open up both corridors of the heart in humble submission to you and I am praying that the heavens would be open that the Spirit of the Living God would shower down and that latter rain authority and power would be bestowed upon the sons and daughters of the Most High God I am praying that that power would not just modify or tweak or adjust but I'm praying that the old would be discarded and that you would make us a new creation in Christ Jesus Lord I'm praying that you would transform with our eyes watch transform the meditations of our heart transform the words that come out of our mouths transform the places that our feet go the things that our hands touch Lord transform us so that we're not just people that leave church and and and just say it was good or bad but maybe we be difference makers for the kingdom of God men would be soul winners may we be on fire for your glory doing new thing and I saw God and I'm praying that throughout the virginias and the ohio's and throughout of west virginia throughout this entire conference I'm praying that as a result of this very day that the whole trajectory of the conference would be changed as men and women go forth with this place when their faces are glowing holy consecration as the power of the latter rain has been bestowed so lord I pray that for those that came down first that before they are baptized in water may they be baptized with the Holy Ghost I'm praying for those that came down second that we're walking in the spirit give us a double portion give us the joy of the Lord may we find freedom from every sand I pray that your anointing would destroy the yoke I'm praying that you would rebuild churches I'm praying that you would rebuild ministries I'm praying that you would rebuild marriages I'm praying that you would rebuild spiritual men that you would rebuild spiritual our women I'm praying to God that you would not just meet modify or tweet but make us over again and I'm praying that while we're praying on this side that you will already be on the other side working it out for our good and for your glory and so Lord we conclude this prayer not as a whole or a wish but believing we shall receive the things that we asked for we pray in the name of him who makes all things beautiful in his time we pray in the name of him who is altogether lovely we pray in the name that is above every name it is in the name of Jesus that we pray all things let God's people say together amen you give God some praise [Music] but those who came down for rededication or baptism we want to just have you follow our they have the names already okay so your names will be distributed to the local pastor where you live so they can follow up with you and help you continue in your discipleship journey can you say man bless the Lord O my soul what a message and may the Spirit of God bring about necessary change in our lives thank you pastor snail allowing the spirit of the and speak through you today when I asked um Jermaine if he would come at this time and just give us a few instructions in terms of where do we go from here and then we will have the benediction has God been good have you been filled with the Holy Ghost do you feel his fear running for you hallelujah just a few announcements as we leave here as you can see the time has been far spent but it's been spent in Jesus name the man that can hold time when we can't do it ourselves and so we are asking that right now we have the conference has prepared a meal for you it's free because jesus paid it off so we have a meal that's that's for you now I will tell you that we are going to be calling on the name of Jesus to make sure that he multiplies what we have provided amen so let's do some praying now but God will make a way the instructions is very simple these where we have in the meal will be at our beacon of hope Church which is literally a block away from here there's two things that we really need you to do especially for safety we will have a van a shuttle service if you're wanting to go to the meals there's picnic tables out there there's meals already prepared all you will need to do is go to this side my left which is the east side of the building there are shuttle buses that will specifically take you over there they would do a rotation and a run if you are driving we are asking that you can drive over there if you can't drive please drop there is specific instructions that will go on the screen please take note on how to get specifically to the beacon of hope Church because there is a special way that you will need to go there to park okay so there is a show that will be here if you're going to drive we're asking that you please play close attention to the it is up there the way to get to the church lastly we are asking even though it is a beautiful day outside and even though the churches of ma is a block away we are asking please do not walk over there this is a busy road and we do not want to hear of any tragedies coming from this event amen so we are kindly asking that you please even though it's very close even though the shuttle may take too long please do not walk over to the church because this is a very very dangerous intersection and road here amen secondly we will have the all of our meetings will still start at 4 o'clock what time what time 4 o'clock we have the presidential Town Hall that would take place here in this sanctuary at 4 o'clock in the Youth Chapel where the youth were this morning we will have a discussion for the Millennials between the ages of 18 and 35 you will be able to go over there and have a discussion at 4 o'clock there also if you are a shepherdess we will have a room here in the back that's specifically just for you with a presenter by the name of dr. D Andrea Anderson Jackson say that again because it kind of sounded good dr. D Andrea Anderson Jackson happens to be my wife amen presentation for the shepherdess so please be there there will also be a Kids program going on here in the back as well at 4 o'clock and the Pathfinders will be going out at 4 o'clock so everyone should have something to be a part of that 4 o'clock is that Alright and at 6 o'clock what time did I say 6 o'clock we will begin our concert on time whether you're here or not we will begin on time and I promise you you want to be here early because there will be a lot of people here this is not just the crowd that you see here today there will be more coming so I urge you to make sure that you're here on time at 6 p.m. what time did I say again Oh in a time we have a great group of people that will be here with with us harmony will be in concert minister Terrell hunt will be here and also we have Anthony Brown and group therapy will be here they're actually here already so again we have a lot going on we really need you to be of assistance for us so I'm kindly asking that as soon as the benediction is done - please make your way through these doors to the various areas so that we can clear out this sanctuary as soon as possible so that we can be prepared for the rest of the evenings activities is that ok thank you so much at this time we are asking that the ushers will come forward we pray that in your heart you have been praying earnestly praying for God to give you the answer that is needed to write on these cards we're not asking for money I promise you that we're asking for your sacrifice because that's what God is asking you is for your sacrifice because all we want to do is more for him to show him that we love him so at this time we were asked the ushers even at the door before everybody leads to please drop your cars there at the door and we would collect them at this time if you will please pass them down to the end of the hour so that they can collect your cards if you're going out the door please be sure to have your cars with [Music] and salvation [Music] my mouth [Music] Oh [Applause] and I will Oh [Music] everyone's attention for one second please if the ushers at the door can stop the door for one second one second please one second one second one second before we all leave let us have a word a benediction before we leave and then we will be able to be dismissed at that time which we please stand as we dismiss please stand wave our heads for in addiction we've been blessed today can't you say a man the Lord bless you and keep you the Lord make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you the Lord lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace the Lord dismiss us from this place but never forget presence riggo's back at this time in Jesus name god bless you please asthma state move quickly so that the Lexx events can take place god bless you [Music] [Music] [Music]

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Published: Sat Jun 22 2019