Back to Church Sunday 09/19/2021

hope everybody is doing well today well guess what i was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the lord and i got up here and i came today i really got i it was it was rough getting to church this wasn't it it was you know it's one of those sundays where you your pants just won't iron out right your shirt has a lot of lint on it yeah i i was doing about 89 on the beltway forgive him yeah before he knows he might have been driving so fast you pass the cop and you just you just pray you just pray that he's off praise god well you know what i'm excited about service today because today is back to church sunday thursday sunday yeah what's the thing hope is here hope is here and i'm excited about the fact how many guys know that god is still our hope he is he's still our hope still i hope i was amazed when i was what about 14 15 years old and i heard pastor wright uh define hope as expectation i was like wow so you're telling me that god is my expectation so everything that i expect is wrapped up in i'm not going to preach i mean you were there you were there you might as well you know what in today there's so much going on we have a horn section today oh yes a real one not these fellas but listen there's a lot going on here at the fountain of parades we want to encourage you always if you want to know how things are going on here at the fountain price you can catch us at tfop.org there's upcoming events slide right in there you can see all the things like what what do we got going on this week well speaking of you know really quick we want to make sure please share today's service so take a quick second because this is back to church sunday as we just mentioned please share today's service so it's down here there's a button down here somewhere yeah yeah down here please share today's service but we do have some really awesome things going on this week we have the beauty of forgiveness forgiveness happening with the um sacred marriage ministry i love that happening so that is coming up so what else do we have fellas anything well new members orientation september 25th we want to announce that listen we have a lot of people who've joined during the pandemic and i thank god for that like that people are saying listen this is my church even though i'm not in the building i'm still a part of this ministry and so we're doing new members orientation so you can learn more about the ministry more about our pastors and how you can get involved even virtually and i have one more i have one more so we do have a financial seminar coming october 20 excuse me october 2nd get your money um at nine in the morning apparently yeah so please go to tfop.org forward slash connect for more information there get your finances together i like to say that these uh the individuals who handle these seminars they're really well versed they're good at what they do and so i'm guaranteeing that it'll be a wealth of information if you just if you just join in i promise you you'll learn something right oh you know what speaking of community i forgot to mention this last night a member of our church was being featured on channel 11 with one of the high schools that's in the area and that member was the minister right yes but no we are in the community we want to let you know that we are a portable church we're not just in these four walls and so they featured some of the stuff we're doing with the high schools last night specifically thurgood marshall high school so that was really really cool shout out to the buffaloes you know what i'm excited about i'm excited about you being on tv wheel i'm excited about all the announcements but i'm excited today because the fountain of praise is debuting its own personal theme song we have a theme song we have a theme song now i don't know who wrote it i think it was pastor wright was it p right pastor right right been known to write a jingler too him and our very own pam davis wrote this together and it is phenomenal i'm telling you we're going to play that thing for you as soon as we get done it was produced here at the church all in house yes because we want our own music we got i mean the founder praise should have his own music out rays we got our own theme song listen it's about to go down it's going down whenever you got a theme song you are somebody right and like immediately after this they're going to play the song are you all ready there you go y'all ready wait before we go let me give them a scripture i'll give a scripture psalms 119 says you are my refuge and my shield your word is my source of hope and being that today is back to church sunday and our theme is hope i hope that you guys enjoy our song to pass right and pam davis worked so hard on with no further ado i would like to play this mug right now we might even screw and chop it for y'all let's do it right well you know what family let's go to church [Applause] [Music] if you're saddened by your circumstance life is given many chances seeing somehow you've lost your way if you're feeling bound down on yourself reaching out for love and help and a little piece to chase the clouds [Laughter] you about a away where god's amazing grace is available to help your face each day friends it's just [Music] you will find where you want to be [Music] is oh oh amen amen amen amen we all stand for our congregational hymn please my hope is built on nothing less the solid rock [Music] on the ground [Music] my anger holds oh oh oh [Music] is [Applause] [Applause] is [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] we thank you for the incredible sacrifice that was done on calvary cross so that we may have life and have it more abundantly we thank you for your grace and your mercy we thank you for your love and your kindness father god help us to put you first in all that we do reveal to us father god that you are a god and that you will never leave us nor forsake us for the god we thank you father god for your son jesus christ who made the ultimate sacrifice for the god we cannot thank you enough we thank you father god for this congregation we thank you father god for our leaders we thank you father god for just empowering us brother god to continue to do your will father god we love you we need you today and every day you for you alone are worthy father god we give you all the praise and all the glory it's in jesus name that we pray amen well come on praise the lord everybody [Music] i said praise the lord everybody speak well of the lord this morning open your mouth and give i know you got your mask on but can you just open your mouth and give him just a little bit of glory all right so let's do let's do a check this morning is anybody glad he woke you up this morning is anybody glad that he clothed you in your right mind is anybody glad that your family is doing well and they're blessed and they're healthy you got a good portion of health and strength yourself well then you all open your mouth and tell god thank you today he said when two or three are gathered in my name i will be in the midst so can we just get out it's way more than two or three in here so if we can just get on the same page and give god a praise i promise you he'll show up hey david can you start the loop button clap your hands just start the loop i'm gonna clap your hand just stay right there i just want you to clap your hands we're gonna do nothing else [Music] come on put your hands together i don't want you to think about nothing you got to do today i know you left your pot roast in the slow cooker i know you got greens on i know the game come on at two o'clock but i want you to forget all that right now and i just want you to clap your hands we got to get our mind on jesus and to do that we don't need to concentrate on one thing at a time we can only do one thing at a time and right now is the time to praise so i need everybody to just come on to clap your hands y'all hit me one time real hard once come on put your hands together i don't mind if you're sitting down or if you're standing up long as you clap your hands in your mind on jesus this morning y'all ready to give god praise this morning if you're ready let me hear you say hallelujah come on give me the highest praise hallelujah come on here we go [Music] together and we're gonna shake it again [Applause] if you came to church to give god praise this morning i want you to just get you a little bit of room get you some space then you signed up and you're registered and you got up early and you put your makeup and your hair on and you brush your hair and you're on the shirt so you might as well go and give god praise we ain't come out here to spectate today so come on just we just move a little bit to the right and to the left all right everybody come on here we go there you go put a smile on your face and let's give god praise with exceeding joy this morning and while you're rocking you might as well clap your hands huh yeah don't that feel good we can just forget about your problems forget about everything around you forget about coping and all of this stuff and just give god praise and let him saturate your mind with joy ain't that all right i said like that all right come on if you came to give god glory open your mouth and give him glory right now everybody shriek there you go hallelujah we serve a good god and he deserves a great praise amen all right y'all ready we're gonna bring this song back and we want y'all to sing along with us we don't want you to just watch us all right okay here we go you ready you ready david here we go [Music] together [Music] come on everybody come on put your hands together and sing with us this morning come on put your hands together out there and give god praises go all right we're gonna get him right come on put your hands together come on clap your hands however we just want you to give it to him let's go everybody sing it again if this morning [Music] everybody all right now let's give god praise this morning happening give for me [Music] for me [Music] [Music] know verses he made away for me [Music] [Music] [Music] and you can't testify for me but we all have a testimony i want to pull the house and i need you to answer a question for me when will it come when will it come [Music] everytime [Music] when will it come [Music] every time he never let me fail open up it's your blessings when will it come when will it come stay if you know him [Music] [Applause] what are people who got a testimony here let me hear you make some noise said he never failed me yet he's never walked out on me yet tried all of my kids we're gonna get out of here but i just got one more question to ask you i said i just got one more question to ask you when will it come [Music] jump on your feet and grab your blessings [Music] is when i see the for me i'm gonna give you 30 seconds and i'm gonna get off the stage to give god your best ways open up your thoughts open up your mouth open up so [Music] let the holy ghost do his work and let the holy ghost do his work open your mouth and praise so ah come on together every time every when i time about jesus what he's done for me when i think about jesus how he died when i think about jesus what he's done for me when i think about jesus how he died on the tree oh all night been too good oh man [Music] see ya get out of here [Music] [Music] this is the day that the lord has made let us rejoice and be glad in it yes hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah let's go to garden prayer [Music] thank you lord god for your grace and for your mercy thank you for your holy spirit oh lord god that is in the room right now lord walking up and down the highway glory father we thank you because you continue to touch our bodies oh lord god you continue to crown our head father with goodness and mercy o lord god father we just want to thank you because all is well we thank you for a reasonable portion of life health and strength oh lord god we thank you o lord god for allowing us to come together one more time giving fellowship unto you oh lord be in the witness one to another about your goodness about your grace about your mercy about justice justified us oh lord god [Music] father we just thank you we thank you oh lord god from the writing of the son to the going down does the same come our lord father we want to lift our children up until you that are going back to school father with everything that's going on father we are asking for cohesiveness with the school with the students with the parents oh lord god with the church oh lord god because that's what we need right now we need a word from you o lord god father god we give you thanks we give you praise father god i want to lift up our past and our compass oh lord lord i thank you for crowning their head with wisdom and knowledge i thank you lord god for god in their footsteps oh lord i thank you lord for looking inside of their bodies anything that's in there oh lord god that's not a deal i thank you in advance oh lord god we rejoice in the fact of you taking out all those things that's not up there filling in with your holy spirit oh lord god but god i thank you i thank you o lord god i thank you lord because they pour out until we the congregation wake up today it's your day we just want to honor you we want to adore you oh lord god we want to give you praise oh lord god for all of your wonderful and miraculous works in our lives it is in jesus name that we pray and we say amen delivered you from something ain't no use to the spirit falling and we just let it go by how many can say god delivered me from something wave your hand if you know god delivering you from something psalm 47 tells us oh clap your hands because when you clap your hands the enemy can't stand and hear you praising god i'm gonna give you to the count of three i want you to clap your hands get in that holly do your dance and we just gonna have a party are you ready y'all ain't ready are you ready one two one [Music] let me see you wave your [Music] i god [Music] said i got it yes anybody knows okay wow [Music] hallelujah hallelujah we have a special guest this morning i know god has been in this room right now thank god for his presence and his anointing for this room right now amen we have sister the lenora hightower she's here she's a woman of god she's going to come and bless us give her a warm welcome as she comes a warm welcome we're going to stay right in the presence of god amen hallelujah come on and say hallelujah hallelujah you know there's something important about being able to open your mouth and speak how many of you have ever had to open your mouth and encourage yourself it's ironic that i'm singing this song today because earlier this week i got a phone call that mama was taken to the hospital and kept and i said well i started commending my soul ah get up don't you fall of pieces right now it's time to pray i didn't have time to call nobody all i had time to do was pull on a word from the lord for myself so i could be there like i should be for mama are there any people in the house that are willing today to open your mouth and just encourage yourself hallelujah in the lord because he's worthy of completing what it is that we need for him to do amen hallelujah we thank you jesus thank you lord [Music] [Music] time [Music] do you have to speak victory during the dance and no matter how you feel just speak the word [Music] yourself [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] you will be here [Music] [Applause] [Music] you have to speak a word over yourself depression is all around but god is a present hell while the enemy created walls but remember giants way too far over yourself encourage yourself [Music] [Music] [Music] in my head [Applause] [Music] you gotta remember you gotta remember is is [Applause] oh is [Music] [Applause] is [Music] stay right there stay right there speak over yourself somebody ought to begin to do it right now speak over yourself encourage yourself somebody do it in this house open up your mouth open up your mouth and encourage yourself this morning encourage yourself in the lord yourself in the lord and for that reason the fountain of praise has set our fall revival with dr john adolf and dr jesus stewart to bless us to help us and to be renewed once again in the spirit and the word of the lord join us each night october 13th and 14th at 7 pm online to be refreshed and revived it's going to be an awesome time join us oh come on somebody shot amen again what a joy it is to be here with you today to see each and every one of you good morning fountain family those of you here in the sanctuary and those of you watching us by way of social media outlets and throughout the world we praise and thank god for each and every one of you this is back to church sunday amen amen we're saying in spite of pandemics in spite of conditions throughout the world we refuse to give up on our god we refuse to release our faith we re we refuse to give up hope that's the reason why the theme of today is hope is here because we want those of you watching whether you be christian or non-christian believer or non-believer hope is here and it has come in the person of jesus christ we give him honor and glory and thanks amen thank you sister lenoir for that wonderful song thank you so much bless you god it's good to see you too it's good to see you god bless you and certainly to our wonderful musical staff and department we're just grateful i'll be honest with you when they had that shout that toe tapping foot clapping foot stomping hand clapping music going on i didn't want to stop but i know that oh you know i know because you're not here and you're just watching by way of social media platforms you can't really catch what's going on uh but i want you to know we want you to know as the cameras look out at you right now we're having church over here at the fountain of phrase and we are excited we are delighted and thankful to each and every one of you this is a wonderful wonderful season we are going into our fall season and we're believing god for great things we're believing that god is going to continue to bless us as co-pastor mia just intimated to you uh you know we have a fall revival coming up in our anniversary church anniversary is coming up as well as many of the activities that our youth young adults and children have planned for the fall around the time of hallelujah night and then over into epiphany and then into new year's eve we're just excited about what god is doing we refuse to allow the conditions around us to muffle our praise to stop our effectiveness and to hinder our hopes in god amen amen so we're grateful for each and every one of you i'm really glad to have how we have this new horn section man i'm really so excited about them [Applause] and and i want them to know today you played every note just like i showed you [Music] it is a blessing to be in god's house you know i love that old hymn what a fellowship what a joy divine church is not just about coming to get your breakthrough or your deliverance church is a great place of fellowship amen amen church is a great place where we can come together with kindred hearts and spirits and we can share with one another church is a place where you can come and you can see somebody that's doing a little bit worse off than you but you can then encourage them that god is still able to bring them through amen am i right about that today oh yeah i just praise god because i know that this is a great fellowship and we're glad and we're thankful to god for all that he's doing and so today i want to invite your attention to one of the most familiar passages of scripture i'm sure that you've read in the book of jeremiah chapter 29. i want to read just verses 10 and 11. on this hope-filled sunday jeremiah chapter 29 verses 10 and 11. i'm reading from the new living translation and it says this today this is what the lord says you will be in babylon confusion trouble chaos adversity for 17 years seven is always the number of perfection 10 is always the number of judgments so hence 7 times 10 means perfect judgment and watch what god says but then i will come and do for you all the good things i have promised i will bring you home again for i know the plans i have for you says the lord they are plans for good and not for disaster to give you to give you and even you a future and a hope thank you you may be seated may god had a blessing to hearing the freedom of his word i thank god for that anointed prayer this morning it is those kind of prayers that get me through my day and i'm grateful and thankful today i'm going to simply talk about hope is here hope is here of of the three divine characteristics of blessing that god gives humanity nestled in the middle is this blessing of hope paul says now abide faith hope and charity or love these three the greatest of these was love but snuggled nestled in the middle is hope because hope is pertinent to the survival of any individual no matter where they are and what shape they're in one great writer said that in the rule of threes you can survive three minutes without oxygen you can survive three days without water you can divide survive three weeks without food but you can't you can't survive three seconds without hope hope is a necessary quality that every human being needs to have i like what one great writer said he says that if i could find a way to package and dispense hope i would have appealed more powerful than any antidepressant on the market see because hope is often the only thing between man and the lowest lowest place of hell it is that hope that gives a resurgence and a new energy even when you don't feel like trying anymore one great psychiat psychiatrist says that as long as a patient an individual or a victim has hope they can recover from any and everything that they face hope gives a new insight on life hope gives a new dimension to living hope brings about a sense of optimism that only god can give and this very word hope for definition's sake means the confident expectation of what god has promised and its strength is in his faithfulness it is the confident expectation of what god has promised and its strength is in god's faithfulness see christian brothers and sisters we hope because of god for those of you that are bible readers you know in the psalms when david the sweet singer of israel was going through a crisis that no earthly hands or earthly hearts could help him through david at the conclusion of looking at his down-spiraling situation says why art thou cast down o my soul and why are thou disquieted within me he says hope thou in god and friend that's really what hope does when we know that it's the confident expectation of better things which god has promised we then rely recline and relax in his faithfulness we know that god will do what he said he will do because that's the kind of god he is yes friend hope is the belief that circumstances will get better it's not a wish for things to get better it's the actual belief the the knowledge that things will get better no matter how big or how small it's the kind of belief that a 55 year old person can have after a disaster of losing their home car and possessions everything material but to know that you still have your health and your family your hope then tells you that god will give you not only the blessings and benefits but the power to start over again that's the kind of hope i'm talking about hope that not to begin at the conclusion hope starts at the beginning and shows you through all of the different waters that you must wade through that you will survive it is the steadfast determination of a cancer patient who fights and fights and fights believing that eventually the cure will come and if the cure does not come god will sustain them through it that there is still victory on the other side of this dreaded disease that's hope hope is a man losing his job having a family to support who knows that his new employment is just around the corner as long as he keeps looking to god i'm trying to get you to see that hope always goes beyond the rationale because hope can see the sun shine through the clouds hope can see the blessing on the other side of the rain hope recognizes that in spite of what we're facing that the god that's in us is greater than us and he has divine devised a plan for our survivor how many of you know what i'm talking about that god has devised a plan however i need to say this hope hope must have substance in other words it must attach itself to something else to to withstand the uncertainties that life will bring if not it becomes nothing but a wish a fanciful dream our hope is attached to our lord and savior jesus christ he is the one that we hope in he is the one that our hopes look toward but but perhaps i should pose the question to the listening audience both live and on the stream what oh who do you put your hope in 2021 where we've seen spiraling tornado-like time of cataclysmic events who do you put your hope in who are you looking toward are you looking at the financial system of this nation friend i'm going to tell you today if that's what you're hoping in finances fluctuate that's the reason why you don't know what your investment is from day to day because based on nasdaq and the dow it can change with uncertainty do you put your hopes in your finances i want you to know they can easily crash or perhaps you're the one that puts your hope in the political system perhaps you think there's one man or one group one legislative body or one senate house that can change and relay rearrange all the ills of our nation and i won't you know today that a political party cannot save you in the crucial and the critical times of life i'm saying this because i want you to understand that we must make sure that we build our hopes in the right places man by the name of edward moat many years ago a young boy that was unlearned and uneducated came to reality of who god was was walking down the street one day and thinking about how god had saved him and changed his life and he wrote these words he said my hope is built on nothing less jesus blood and righteousness i dare not trust the sweetest frame but holy lean on jesus name for on christ the solid rock ice tank all of the ground is sinking sand i wish i had some witnesses that could hit like on your phones right now i wish i had some folk in the sanctuary that can raise your hands and wave your hands right now that say in times past i trusted and hoped in a lot of things i hoped in a marriage that failed i hoped in a relationship that went south i hoped in friends that forsaken forsook me i hoped in all kinds of things but i've learned now that the only constant that i have in life is the hope that i have in god he always shows up just in the nick of time [Applause] i need you to put your hands on something right there yes it is the blessings of god and i want you to understand that it's important to think about this hope and using this as the entry into this text let's look now at this popular and promise field scripture as most of you well know this scripture shows us that israel was in captivity they had been there for some time and had almost lost their hope in god i mean israel had faced some very difficult and dark days and as a result many of them were walking with their heads down many of them were living with pessimism not recognizing that god was still available and so as we think about this text and we read these verses i want you to see at least several things here first of all i want you to recognize that you lose your hope when you can't see a future you lose your hope when you can't see a future in israel's mind there was no way out of this i mean after all the babylonian king was so powerful the babylonian army was so prominent babylonian soldiers were so beastly seems that nobody could overthrow them bully-like methods they made sure that they brought down every other group of people israel felt they had no way through this and now that they're exposed to bondage once again they're wondering what can they do when they feel that there's nothing left they now abandoned their hopes and i feel today that there are people that have used the pandemic as an excuse that they've used the pandemic as an excuse because even though they may not be able to come to come back to the physical church they have abandoned seeking and looking and searching out to find some kind of anointed and deliverance-filled message that will help them through these very difficult dark days that they're living in friend i'm telling you they're in bondage some of us are in bondage once again all the gains that we can report that god had given us as a result of us confessing a hope in him we see that we've lost those gains and advancements but friend i want you to know the people of israel are being overpowered because they had forsaken and abandoned their god in this age i believe that so many christian people have abandoned their faith they've forgotten about who they serve they turned their backs on the savior that brought them out of darkness and friend i know this is true because when you look at what's going on in the world when people look at every every chaotic event and they get frightened and weary could it not be that we should take some time to observe that god is trying to get our attention i mean come on stevie wonder can see that in these times that all of these things would not be happening back to back unless god was trying to get our attention i mean think about it you've got hurricanes in the midwest tornadoes i'm sorry hurricanes in the south tornadoes in the midwest fires out on the west coast earthquakes all over the world poverty everywhere you turn 10 000 haitians are at the back door of texas right now because of the problems that they face in their country i'm telling you that these different disturbances are occurring but maybe just maybe just maybe just maybe it's god's way of saying you have forgotten me [Applause] you have gotten where you are by my grace and my mercy you were called and saved because i drew you with cords of love and once you got where you wanted to be you felt like there's no longer a need to have me as your number one friend i'm telling you right now god is not a plus one god is your number one it seems that spiritual amnesia had set in with the favored people of god and they had forgotten how they had become prosperous in the first place as a consequence god allows them to be carried into captivity if you read the living bible job chapter number 8 and verse 13 he says those who forget god have no hope did you hear what i said that those who forget god have no hope in many cases that's where we are today we've we've forgotten the gains that god has provided we've forgotten the blessings that god has given we've forgotten all the wonderful things that god has done and the bible says that now israel sits right in the midst of captivity wondering will there ever be a better day well friend i'm here to tell you today better days are ahead when you re uh reinspect the hope that god has given you in who he is better days are ahead when you remember how powerful he's been in your life better days are ahead when you remember that everything else fell out the bottom fell out of life for you but you had a hope in god and god raised you back up you've got to remember how we got here america christianity we've got to remember that our hope is in jesus christ our hope is in god our hope is in what god can do our hope is in what god has already done and where god is taking us in the future [Applause] i want you to understand that that to begin you lose your hope when you can't see a future anybody listening that cannot see their future they've been so traumatized by trouble that you can't see it friend you don't need to see your future to see god did you hear what i said god walks in your discomfort god walks with you in your darkness god walks with you in your trouble god walks with you through your tears god walks with you through your sorrow god walks with you through your pain god works the pain out of your life and replaces it with joy but you've got to recognize that's where your hope is [Music] i believe the revival that will sweep this country will be the revival of people and recognize that i lost track of who i was but now that i've revealed and reconciled my situation with god i believe that my hope is going to take me further so israel was going through because they had lost sight on their future but secondly i want you to recognize you can't allow a postponed hope to take you on there you can't allow a postponed hope to take you under you know one of my favorite scriptures in the bible is proverbs 13 12 that says hope deferred or postponed makes the heart sick but when the dream is fulfilled it is a tree of life king james says hope deferred makes the heart sick i want you to understand that when we think about postponed hopes it's never god saying no is god saying not now whenever we think about postponed hopes it's never god shutting the door on your ambitions and drive and desires is god pulling the door shut only enough to let you know that it's not the season yet and so when we look at this this is where jeremiah comes in to encourage and inspire the people of god that a place now where they don't want to hear too much about god or about life because they feel as a people that they're at a point they're at a point where they're going to be destroyed but he tells them here that the process of deliverance is not going to be quick god gives them this word you will come through this when you have time go home and read verses 5 through 10. in verse 5 he says thus saith the lord build you houses live in them plant gardens eat from them enjoy the peace of the land make peace with your enemy marry your children and your grandchildren together because you're going to be here a while he wants them to know that your deliverance is not going to be quick but i'm bringing you this word so that you can recognize that it's about to produce something that's going to be life-changing for you see see we must learn to make the most of our dilemmas what god is really telling them is even though you're going through this situation of captivity don't stop living even though you're going through this situation of captivity stay active and that's my word to somebody listening today i know you're going through some storms and some hard times but stay active don't stop living keep on doing what you've been doing keep on pushing and pressing keep on believing and trusting god look i know right now things seem quite hopeless the thing that you wanted you didn't get back in school for this fall semester it didn't work out the way that you wanted it to but that does not mean that there's still not a degree with your name on it friend you've got to recognize that sometimes there might be a postponement but that does not mean that he is annihilating your opportunities and possibilities i've stopped by to tell you today god is speaking to somebody telling you no matter what it is stay active keep on living continue to push forward even though you can't see your way push forward because god that dwells in the darkness is holding your hand and he's leading you to your blessed place even when you don't see it come on somebody give god some praise in other words it may not be an ideal situation god wants them to know you have options that this is temporary what's happening this is brief this is momentary but he wants you to know it's just for a season i know you're asking some of you right now is this how it's always going to be is something better on the other side of this turmoil telling his people he says after a certain period of time when you're at your wit's end when you're at the end of your room the word of god says that god tells my people i'm going to come i'm going to visit them look at this i love i love the language here he says i'm going to visit them and perform my good word to them well that makes me want to shout i'm going to visit them that means you're going to have a private personal visitation from god himself anybody know what a visitation from god is that means when god comes in your house walks in your bedroom stands at your bed and speaks healing over your sick body and raises you up that means when god walks in your office when you've got stacks of bills to pay and don't have any idea how you're going to have the revenue to pay it but god walks in and says already done i'm talking about a visitation from god that's when god walks in your living room with your wife sitting on one side and your husband's sitting on the other side and when you're talking about divorce papers he walks in and rips up all the paper and says you don't have to do this come let us reason together i'm going to restore your marriage and make it better than it's ever been before i'm telling somebody that i'm preaching to today that there's a visitation of god that's about to show up at your house he says i'm going to visit them i know your promises seem to have been postponed i know that your hopes are hanging low but i'm going to visit you and when i visit you i'm going to perform my good work i'm going to make some things happen i wonder can i find anybody in the house today that knows what it's like for you to be at your wit's end and god step in and do more than you could ever imagine and you still scratching your head trying to figure out how in the world could he have gotten me out of this how in the world could he have delivered me from this how in the world could he have restored me in spite of this the word of god is telling you that that's what god is about to do in your life but you've got to recognize that even though it may seem that your hopes are postponed it does not mean that god is still not working on your behalf can i close by telling you this i want you to know you can hope again yes you can hope again god tells them in conclusion and we quote it all the time but let's break it down to its simplest denominator why he tells them i know the plans or the thoughts that i have or i think toward you he says the thoughts of good are not of disaster to give you a future and a hope that's what the new living translation says king james says to give you an expected end and i like that because an expected end indicates to me that god who knows the end from the beginning already has mapped out what he's going to do in your life i wish i had some help right here because i feel like preaching a little while i know what it's like to be going through the valley and not be able to see your way but then i can feel the gentle nudge of the holy spirit telling me it might be rough but son keep on walking the end is not yet i know what it's like to see a young lady raising children by herself and have no money can get no food stamps and have no sustenance to sit there crying and wondering what shall i do but the holy spirit whispers in here baby get up and start shouting because the end is not yet do i have anybody in the house today that knows what it's like to be up against it but god to tell you the end is not yet and i'm telling you that because god wants you to know you can hope again look at what god is doing in your life he's turning your mourning into dancing he's turning your sorrow into joy he's turning your bitterness into praise he's turning your trouble into triumph but friend in order for it to work you must hope again you've got a bright future and god's telling you i've got some wonderful things prepared for you but it won't work unless you hope again can i close by telling you a real story just last week on friday of last week i was going to have some pants altered at my favorite tailor so i'm going down in midtown and when i get down there i know there's a lot of homeless people a lot of indigent people and riva i always know when i'm going that way to have something extra in my finances so i can be a blessing to somebody i'm not like some of you i'm not worried about what they're going to do with the money when they get it see that's not your concern because after all you didn't give it to them because out of the goodness of your heart you should have given it to him because god inspired and anointed you to do it if god anoints you to be a blessing don't worry about how the blessing ends but when i got down there on alabama i ran into a man he couldn't have been more than 32 years old [Music] had some socks on his feet no shoes socks were filthy on the bottom had on some shorts and a small top you can see how much despair he was in he was standing about 20 feet from my car well that was about 35 people that were his same condition but his eyes caught mine and i beckoned at him like this and called him to my truck he walked up and i took a ten dollar bill and stuck it out the window no i'm not crazy you know we're still going through covet so i wasn't trying to get too close but i stuck the 10 bill out the window the man looked at me and said sir i don't have any change y'all stay with me now i'm going somewhere [Music] and i look back at him and said what would make you think that i wanted some change he said wait a minute you mean you gonna give me all of that i said young man what worth do you have do you feel that your worth is less than ten dollars he bowed his head and tears started streaming down his face i said listen consider something you are the change that you make [Music] somebody over here didn't get it yet see once once that denomination that 10 bill left my hand and i put it in his hand i no longer had control over it he is now in control he can keep it like it is or he can split it down into smaller denominations the change is his to make but he will not change i tell him until you renew your hope in life and in yourself there can be no change until you can hope again in who god has made you and what god has ordained for you and what god has spoken to you in terms of what he's going to do for you and i'm talking to somebody now that's been on the mental and emotional attack and the enemy has been duping you into thinking that your worth is nothing friend the devil is a liar it's time for you to take the change that you have that which you have and use it to your best good hope again oh i feel it in here today somebody's hopes are rising up again they thought they had me down forever but i'm not gonna stay there life thought it was gonna push me back and i'd never get ahead again but i'm not gonna stay there the tears have been streaming down day after day but i'm gonna wipe my eyes today and i'm gonna tell god lord i believe you i'm gonna shout instead of crying i'm gonna rejoice instead of having sorrow because i'm hoping again i'm believing now in a better tomorrow i'm believing now in a better future i'm believing now in a better plan [Music] it's time for you to hope hope again yolanda will come to god broken bruised and beaten and at that time if we allow our feelings and emotions to dominate the canvas of our future will never survive but i've learned to hope again oh come on somebody i need somebody stand behind me on this i need somebody that knows what it's like to contemplate suicide i know what i need somebody to know is what it's like to want to give up i know what it's like for somebody to want to end it all and for god to well up in your spirit and say hope again hope again friend hope is here your hope is here church is more than a place to shout and testify [Music] church is a place of fellowship where you can find other people that have gone through the same thing that you're going through i think that's one of the reasons that the devil wants to keep us out of church because when you come to church you discover that you've been lying to yourself i didn't raise one child by myself i raised five and i'm shouting because god has given me an expected end i'm blessed now beyond words i want you to see that because it's important that you recognize that hope is here hope is a person the person of jesus to give you clarity on what god is doing i know the plans that i think for you their plans of good to prosper and not bad for disaster i'm gonna give you a future and i'm gonna give you back your hope i need you to pray with me now if you're watching i need you to pray that god will invade your space with a renewed hope a renewed sense of joy and excitement god will touch you as you've never been touched so that you can say like peter said that god has begotten me again unto a living hope simply pray this prayer with me those of you that are seeking jesus christ as savior i want you to believe with me and pray with me lord jesus i recognize that i am a sinner and i need you to be my savior come into my life lord jesus and make me clean come into my heart lord make me whole i i acknowledge the fact that you died for my sins and that you rose on the third day with all power in your hands put that power in me [Music] and lead and guide me into all truth i promise to tell others about you to praise you and to thank you and right now lord god i glorify you and magnify you for this marvelous salvation that you're setting in motion in my life come on let's praise him all over the building let's praise him all over the airways come on you can do better than that let's give god the praise somebody shout i'm hoping again i'm hoping again i'm hoping again i know i'm going to see some more troubles but i'm hoping again i know i'm going to see some more dark days but i'm hoping again marvelous things that god is able to do and now i want to extend an invitation to those who are in this sanctuary back to church sunday means so much to you now because you've had a chance to get back in the fellowship of the saints of god in the free flow of the holy spirit and the power and the anointing of jesus christ i want to give you a chance if you [Music] have never accepted jesus as your lord and savior or if you are already a christian but you've fallen by the wayside the wayside [Music] the wayside's easy to fall back i want to give you a chance to stand i want to give you a chance to stand to stand to give god bless you young lady bless you god bless you somebody else ought to be standing who are you brother where are your family is there somebody else someone else thank you yes god bless you god bless you somebody else ought to be standing we're looking for you we're waiting for you god is about to do some great things yes he is yes he is yes he is who else is here who else is here and you know that god is on your side and you need that power [Music] just get up just get up [Music] [Music] inside you so you sacrificed your life so i can be free i can be free [Music] you thought [Music] so you sacrifice your life so i can get free [Music] you [Applause] [Music] look at god moving in here yes yeah come on [Music] and i will pray [Music] bless the name of the lord today come on let's give god a praise for these souls that happen hallelujah what a glorious glorious day and now it is offering time at the fountain of praise amen amen we worship god with our gifts and with our giving we believe that god has been greater to us than we could ever imagine so as we give today we pray that you may give out of the abundance of your gratitude for him we pray that you might give cheerfully that you might give liberally but most importantly that you might give expectantly knowing that god truly honors a cheerful cheerful giver amen father how we thank you today for your word and for the gathering of your people we thank you for those lord god who are intently listening by their cell phones or computers televisions or whatever means of social social media they might be using we thank you for each and every one of them today and we pray that this word lord might be a lamp unto their feet and a light to their pathway i pray that you'll help them to hope again oh god even in this season and now lord god i pray that you might open their hearts open their hearts to give lord and let them know that their receiving is in giving for as we learn to give we learn to live be a blessing right now oh god to each and every life and use what's given today for kingdom building that your kingdom might come and that your will might be done on earth even as it is in heaven we thank you when we bless you and we praise you in jesus name amen and amen god bless you go pastor mia amen amen come on somebody should say it to yourself hope is here amen what a blessing today we just have a few reminders we want to encourage all of our new members to get registered for this saturday's new members orientation blitz it will start at 8 a.m it will be online you can go to tfop.org connect and get signed up for that and then all of our married couples and engaged couples we're having a marriage ministry sacred will be on this friday you can go online at tfop.org connect and get hooked into that as well and then we have coming up soon our financial education series this is some information that you want to know these are four excuse me three classes that will occur over the first three saturdays in october we'll be talking about children and money uh men and money women and money we're talking about the household we're talking about refinancing your house we'll talk about also what's the lending process for buying a new house so get connected find out how you can be blessed financially moving into abundance we thank god for that opportunity for that now to all our parents remember that right after this service our rock children and rock youth services are live on youtube so join them right there and then for those of you who are here in the lobby now or here in the sanctuary meet us in the lobby we're gonna have a quick little lobby fellowship and if you're online come back and join us at tfop.org or on our facebook page we'll have a little lobby fellowship we miss you guys we look forward to seeing you again in the building once again and for all who will come back for back to church sunday we bless god for you thank you for being part of the fellowship we pray that god will bless you this week encourage you and strengthen you as you move forward now we're going to go back to our praise and worship team as we close out the today's service and we ask that those are part of that are in the sanctuary if you would follow the directions of the ushers so we can exit the building very safely god bless you be safe when we love you in the name of the lord jesus christ our father [Music] amen thank you co-pastor man well you all have heard our new little motto little church opening song now this little jingle that we put together we're going to teach you a little bit of it so that as you go throughout the weeks you'll know exactly what it is come on let's go with it clinton [Music] we're reaching us out so let the praise begin we're reaching out with arms of love giving glory to the father up above that's it if you're looking for a place [Music] [Music] [Music] praise can lead to victory amen god bless you have a wonderful wonderful week [Music]

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Published: Sun Sep 19 2021