Be Resilient & Persevere! - Saturday Noon Prayer

good afternoon and god bless you this is angie ray ministries and i am pastor kimberly ray gavin here with three of the most wonderful women of god my natural sisters i want to begin by thanking god for our eldest sister sister cheryl amen and our assistant pastor assistant jd is here with us today and we're blessed to have the baby sister our beloved sister tanya amen and all of the body of christ we thank god for you we welcome you to this time of prayer i want to say hello to our callers that are on our prayer call ready to hear the sound of intercession but we want to say uh we will bless the lord at all times his praise shall continually be in our mouths we honor the lord for our last saturday our last saturday of 2020 and the truth be told this year has been quite a challenging year it's been daunting in so many different facets but i will tell you this that we're still here and because of this we give god the glory i want to ask you something do you have many reasons to give god glory to praise him in spite of the challenges of the year in spite of the test in spite of the trials can you still say hallelujah can you still say thank you jesus can you still say wonderful savior i want you all to continue to give god the glory because god is great and he's greatly to be praised i celebrate him because he has not lost any of his power and he is still on the throne again we thank god for all of you that are watching us live on facebook and we praise god for those of you that have been just a part of us all year you know i thank god that god gave us technology that even when we were on lockdown here uh that we were still able weekly to either pray on the phone line or still go live virtually i want to give god the glory for that yes the churches were shut down but we've still continue to lift up the name of jesus the name of the lord is a strong tower where the righteous run into it and they are safe glory be to god i want you to be encouraged today i want your faith to be lifted i want your joy to be strengthened amen the best is yet to come i want you all to know that 2020 amen is about to be behind us and we're going into a new season a new time and a new day today before we go any further i want to share with you that we have counselors here today that will take your call those of you that desire personal intercession you can dial right now 708 503 11 40 you can call the prayer intercessors will take your call and pray and intercede with you and for you throughout the duration of this hour as we're here to lift up the name of jesus how many of you love the lord today hallelujah if you love them you ought to say amen i love the lord hallelujah i love the lord because he heard my cry he is a faithful god i tell you thanks be unto god who gives us the victory and cause us to triumph through christ jesus our lord bless the holy name of jesus well we're getting ready to begin and i want to just share with the girls before we begin our time of prayer today i want to ask and i'm going to start with assistant j d praise the lord my beloved assistant pastor who let me say this before i go to her that she has been so diligent and such a strength in this year amen yes she's had some challenges as well but she has continued to persevere and continue to preach the gospel speak the word of god pray for the saints despite her own personal concerns and i want to thank god for the anointing that rests upon her we consider her a pillar around here she's just a strength and we give god the glory and i just want her to share what the lord has placed on her heart on and this the last saturday of the year god bless you praise the lord pastor kim and the great sisters and to each and every one of you that are listening by way of telephone those of you that are on facebook and our social media connections we love each of you today with the love of the lord and i tell you the lord is just so good to us and he's a god that warns us before destruction and i'm grateful for a pastor and for the word of god and sisters that pray and for church on the rock and how god prepared us for all the things that are going on right now the lord didn't leave us in the dark he spoke to us he told us to prepare the lord spoke to us and let us know something was coming upon the earth and that we were to intercede for his people i'm grateful today that god is the god that knows all he knows everything and when we seek him and call out to him he has a way of speaking to his people and also i thank god for on this year how pastor kim had us to really get in the word of god for it is written and you know normally we go we do prayer revivals and our prayer tour and this year we were not able to get out to do that but i want to appreciate each one of you that have stayed connected to us and on our wednesday night bible class and i realize that so many people don't know the word of god we have been dependent upon the preacher the pastor the prophet and the musicians to keep us going but this year is a proven year of those that are really saved and loved god if you have don't if you don't have a relationship with the lord may i admire you today to fall in love with jesus and find out who he is he is a god that really loves us and so my word for you today is that jesus loves you and only what you do for christ is going to last yeah i'm telling you saints of god don't be shaken don't be moved yes tests are going to come but god is a god that will bring you out of each and every one of them so i love you all i want to thank god again for my pastor and my sisters and for the church on the rock these are some praying people around here and even those of you that are connected you know um with us by way of ministries and you know our alicia daniels i just want to say again thank you we love you so much i'm not going to start calling names because i know entirely too many people uh that have been a blessing but again i love you all and you know the lord gave me a word the other day and he says so many are looking for a new word for the new year and they want to know lord what are you saying for 2021 but the lord spoke to me and said tell my people to repent for 2020. and i thank god today that if we repent in 2020 2021 can be a whole lot better so you all be encouraged get before god and i love you with the love of the lord amen you know um pastor nissi it's fascinating that back in the month of uh march and we all began to discover that there was a virus that had been released in the in the world and i remember so clearly it was on a wednesday night that we were asked to give information to our congregation to let them know that they would need to um use the hand sanitizers and they would need to wear masks and they were saying wash your hands often and giving these instructions and trying to prepare people for what was happening and i just remember i didn't understand something that the lord was giving me earlier in the year and he was saying this would be the year of the servant and i didn't know i just didn't understand you know i have learned not to try to with my natural mind understand what i'm seeing i just say what i see speak what i hear and the lord just kept showing me the year of the sermon and i just want to say that you know even despite the coronavirus and the state of emergency and all of the things that happened we had never heard the name dr fauci if we heard it we didn't really embrace it but just to see that you know in spite of all of the deaths and the loss of life that god still allowed the people in the hospitals the doctors to emerge people that's usually on in the background but but the servants began to emerge the nurses and the first responders the janitors and those that keep things clean you know i just say that god is a wonder he's a wonder and i was just going to ask cheryl cheryl what are your thoughts on the people that have sacrificed in spite of the coronavirus to still go to work to still try to help other people and what would you say in reference to those servants today well pastor kim i believe that i would simply say thank you um i i was watching uh of the news in actuality and i saw a nurse break down into tears and she said i am watching people leave here i've seen 12 people die in the last hour and so um i think about their their mental state you know usually nurses and doctors they're telling you give them this give them that you know they come back and see about them an hour later and if they're going to release them or if they're going to you know admit the patience but they're watching them die just and and it's nothing they can do and um i often think about the nurses that you know they've gone to school for so long and they have the understanding of this blood and that blood and they understand that you need this medication for this you know and um now uh the loved ones can't even go in the rooms and so some of them are not only caregivers but then they become family because you can't uh go in and see your loved ones they're standing beside the bed watching them take their last breath or they're standing behind on the side of the bed saying you can make it come on i want you to breathe i want you so i personally would like to say thank you um to the nurses and the doctors and the first responders i know that they get called first but i want to say thank you to the pharmacist they've been overloaded too with new prescriptions and different things and you know i think about um i think they call them herbalists people that uh rely on um the the knowledge of the natural met you know the natural things you can do to strengthen the body and uh i want to say thanks to them it's so many and i want to also say thanks to pastors because pastors um i think pastors get a bad rap sometime in that everybody wants to know what the prophet got to say see the prophets go come to town they go you know call your name and tell you something to make you swing from the chandelier or whatever but it's the pastor that's got to stay there and see about the sheep see about the flock it's the pastors that are attempting to okay how do i reach my people in this pandemic you know and then you've got sheep that said well why are we not doing that why we don't do it then why are we not and the pastor has got to stop and say i'm going as the lord leads me i can't go as the deacon board leads me or the the nurses board leads me or the trustees lead they've got to understand that they have got to hear from god personally in this day and hour it's it's it's imperative that the sheep back off and let the pastor lead the flock you know i i just think that you know um in the way that my mind processes things i had to ask god to allow his spirit to touch my perception my preception to touch my understanding the way i perceive a matter you know um because i have to let you are our pastor you understand so we have to stop and wait for the instructions that you give you understand and so um i i say to you and to every pastor whether you shepherd 20 people or you shepherd 50 000 i say thank you today because i know that it's not been an easy task especially to lead a rebellious people because you and and everybody has their own way of thinking the millennials are thinking this way the young children are thinking this way the senior citizen and then you've got to deal with all those different mindsets and you've got you understand it so i just want to say thank you for uh to the pastors um that are leading the people of god today yeah you know cheryl that is so kind of you to say and you know just to actually highlight the truth of the weight and the responsibility of pastors it's it's quite a bit and i don't even believe that even this year a lot of pastors kept going by way of facebook or they kept going and and they kept con teaching the words speaking the word and doing the best that they could given the circumstances and i pray i pray that they find encouragement today as well but it's it's fascinating it's it's more to what you know a lot of people think pastoring is this glamorous position where you just get all of this glory and this fame no it's not about the glory of the fame it's really about winning souls it's serving it is service and you know pastor kim i also think about pastors that um have families they have jobs they um have to see about not only i think about our cousin um pastor taylor he has he's pastoring two churches and then he's our spiritual kind of family person you know and he's trying to he and pastor barnes and yourself you all are trying to see about the family you've got everybody's got individual things going on you know and so i i just think that um today if if you're under the sound of our voices it would be nice just to drop a card in the mail and say thanks pastor you know i think about um even you had to uh bury one of your sheep you know i i don't want you to start crying and everything because i will but when you consider that we could not come together and say goodbye together but you had to see about the sisters the children the husband you had to see and then it's all different facets you know and to me it's like well you order you order the flowers you go to the service but it's so different now you got to deal with the emotional cares of the sheep now and that's very important so pastors again we love you with the love of the lord jesus christ i think that you're doing a fantastic job whether you meet two times a week a hour here 15 minutes there thank you thank you thank you a thousand times cheryl the other part of that is when you have a state that you are actually you're responsible to respect we have a governor governor pritzker we have we have a governor we have mayors and they give it different directives and different um instructions and as a church of course there are times that we have we have to respect those that are in authority and so if the authority says to shut down the city of madison for 30 days then you can say well i'm not going to pay no attention you know you got to respect those that have the authority and so a lot and i saw this cheryl a couple months ago i saw a pastor and he rebelled he told his church that we gonna pray in the name of jesus and we believe god we ain't scared of no virus he told his senior citizens his members to meet him at church and they didn't wear masks they didn't wear gloves and and a few months later that pastor died so what is is what's more important obedience is better than sacrifice even if you don't understand it if your pastor is saying we need to not meet for a few days you gotta humble yourself and respect the instruction because that's where the blessing is it's in the obedience and pastor again that's why i'm saying that you know when you have a personal relationship with god it's not the building the church is on the inside of you and when you love the lord you can connect on the on the uh facebook or you know by telephone with a person to pray with you or you can just get in the closet and call on them for yourself i guarantee you you know there are people that you have fellowship with throughout the years and this this is the true testament of what kind of relationship you have with god this is the true testament of who are your real friends and can they get you to god or are you just you know um reaping the benefits of just being a church-goer see it's a difference and i remember when uh pastor kim began to take on the responsibility of leadership even here and some of the people had complaints were they not casting demons out like they used to and pastor kim said i want you all to learn how to maintain your deliverance i want to teach you the word of god so when you're not in the building i'm telling you all god has been preparing us for this for a couple of years and you kept telling him and we were telling the people of god you have to live holy when you're not in the building you have to live right when you're not in the church so that when you're at home by yourself or when you're caught somewhere and you can't get to the build we have said that so much in the last couple of years suppose you can't get to the church then what suppose you can't find your prayer partner then what you got to know the word of god for yourself you got to have a relationship with the lord that if you just say lord i can't get to my pastor today i can't get to the saints but i know that you're there and i need your help he said they that call on the name of the lord shall be saved and when you start just saying jesus jesus help me lord and know that you have a relationship with him i told someone yesterday i'm glad that me and the lord i'm acquainted with god all right and i know god so there are days that i don't do no harm you know you all see pastors in these a lot of times in warfare there's a difference between prayer and suffocation and warfare when i'm in warfare mode it's all about casting the devil out buying him up getting rid of him cutting up his plots his plans his schemes and his strategies pulling down the strongholds over you over our families telling the devil he will not do what he want to do because of the power of god that is within us and greatest he that is in us that he that is in the world satan we but we command you to be bound and cast out and no weapon formed against us is going to prosper and neither the tongue that rise against us in judgment god said he would condemn it and we found out that god has greater power than the devil will ever have and a lot of times he just wants attention but when you are by yourself you got to go back into that world come on soldiers and get your put your backpack on come on and get your helmet of salvation on put your breastplate on and tell the devil you come but you don't find nothing in me and because you came so let's bounce if you want to fight let's fight because i'm going to win because i already won according to the word and will of god and many are the afflictions of the righteous but god will deliver us out of them all so i may go through some fleshly things because as long as we're in the flesh our flesh is going to go through but you can put your flesh to death because a dead woman and a dead man don't feel nothing and when you put your flesh to death your spirit man that is renewed day by day will lift up hallelujah to god but when you have a relationship and this is why i thank god for pastor kim because she kept telling these things she said get your word come on says we're going to learn how to pray we're going to learn how to go back to the world what did the bible say about your situation and so now because we know it is written where the coronavirus lasts in the year and we are praying that it does not but one thing about it the saints everywhere ought to have a greater relationship with god so that when we finally do come out together we're not still dealing with the foolishness of flesh and worldliness and y'all some of y'all just can't wait to get back into your flesh but i'm telling you god got a way to break us down and bring us into us i'm sorry for taking so long but i'm telling you all that the spirit of the lord that is that is on us it's not even for us the lord saved us to be uh vessels of honor in the land and you all be we recognize that the word of god is what's going to keep us sustain us get in the word tell somebody meet us on wednesday night so you can find out what is written not the cliches not all of these extra sayings and trying to be hip with the word and everybody trying to come up with news to gather somebody and branding yourself we want to brand god jesus the father the son the holy ghost it ain't about you your flesh stank and the nostrils of god is stink and your flesh has to die and come on and die die to yourself the bible says die daily and so when you begin to die daily and let the spirit of the lord come into your life when you open your mouth you'll hear jesus when you sing a song you'll hear jesus when you say have a conversation you're here jesus it's not about you so get somewhere and sit down and some of you all even doing this pandemic you're finding out i didn't know god like i thought i did i don't even know him i don't feel his presence i don't know about you but when i left my hands in my kitchen in my living room in my bedroom i can feel the presence of the lord how long is it going to take you to know that jesus loved you so much and all he ever wanted all god ever wanted with his people was a relationship so i want to thank god for pastor kevin and all pastors that are taking your people to the word of god take them to the book and then if no nobody take it you go get in it yourself and find out what god has to say because he's speaking but he's not speaking like some of these people are saying because it's not about your flesh it's not about your money let me let me put it like this god wants to bless you he want to take care of you he wants you to be wealthy but he gave us a principle by which we follow by paying your tithe soaring seed having the right spirit not having jealousy and in being your heart not having the lust of the eye the lust of the flesh and the pride of life and then the blessings of the lord are going to catch up with you and overtake you all right let me say this is something you even though you that have been going through for a very long time and the devil want to fight you with doubt and unbelief that god is not going to be on this earth while you're down here god made a promise to you that he was going to bless you he's going to open up the windows of heaven for your blessings you don't have room to receive i guarantee you there are millionaires coming out of this there are people that are already blessed god is going to bless even the more but it's not for you to keep it on yourself it's to help reveal the kingdom of god so why i'm saying that let me say this go to give the pie go on into cash at the injury ministries and so you'll see this is good ground and we're not we don't ask often we bet we don't even talk about money often but i decree and declare this is going to be a year released by angie ray ministries in the name of the lord let me tell you all one more thing and i promise i'm giving this over and that is this i thank the lord for the ability to help build other people and help build their ministries and to be a servant come on somebody just put in your little comment servant a servant loves everybody and the bible told us to love our neighbor as we love ourselves some of you are not blessed like god won't you you may even say but pastor mesa i'm so blessed but you still not blessed the way god wants you to be blessed because you won't walk in the love of god you won't follow the commandments of the lord and the lord is coming back for a church without spot blemish or in me such thing so i want to encourage you to give and just don't leave this part of your life out don't leave out the giving and the sowing sow your seed and eat your bread oh bless the lord don't rob god and then don't be ungrateful and unthankful be content and as soon as you get some blessing in your hand don't spend it get off of that on amazon and all of these different things and try just spending spending going to spending fast for 21 and let the lord restore back to you everything that the cankerworm have eaten up i say unto you today repent for what you've done in 2020 and go with expectation in 2021 and watch god do what he's promised to do i want to thank god for my pastor i thank god for the holy people that the lord has put in my life and one other thing i want to say is i thank god for my mama and my daddy some of y'all are thank god for your mamas and your daddies whether they're here or gone ah bless the name of the lord and be an example to somebody else be blessed go press that button give the five i ain't forget go press gimplify cash app and they're gonna put it on there so a hundred dollars five hundred a thousand some of you all can say i'm gonna make a a ten thousand dollar donation today listen i don't care a hundred thousand i'm not putting no limit on it but it is time because you come on here and you get delivered you get set free you call as number y'all want counsel all of that then you go bless somebody else i'm telling you i rebuke that spirit of selfishness in the name of jesus and usury in the name of jesus listen here if you call in this church all the time and you know you're getting a breakthrough testify tell somebody send a praise report let us know that god is answering prayer and most of all saw a seed so we can do what we have to do to keep bringing the word of god to you so that every now and then when you need the devil cast out or bound up over your family you can cut the television on and see one of the races and saying satan come on out of there the blood the blood the blood the blood the blood the blood in your house the blood of jesus if you want us to stay on the on the air you all gotta help us and sow not because you have to but because you love us and we love you all with the love of the lord bless you all praise god hallelujah that number to dial is 708 503 11 40. we have prayer counselors as well as saints of god that will receive your contribution those of you that want to call in and say pastor kim i want you and those ray girls to stay on the air we need your support amen and i'll tell you this many of you all know that we've been on the word network for 18 years and we're entering into possibly our 19th season 19 years saints of god listen to me every monday night it is live every monday night we come on and we've been coming on for years saints of god this is a non-sponsored time of ministry there is no corporation sponsoring us there is no one person saying this is what we want to give you this week every week every monday keeps coming amen so we need the support of those of you that believe in a time of intercession i want you all to say it put it in that subject line i believe in the time of intercession i believe in angie ray ministries the ministry has stood as a ministry of integrity a ministry of honor godly women leading the ministry i give god all of the glory and i believe that god is raising a people that will say i want you all to keep going keep pressing on and if that's you we need to hear from you this is the time that we need and listen we don't need someone to just write on one monday but there are 52 mondays coming up we need somebody that will say pastor i want to commit to a continuation of sowing to support the work of jesus christ we're not asking you to do this for us we're asking you to do this for the kingdom for it is the message of jesus christ that we are preaching how god anointed jesus christ of nazareth with the holy ghost and with power who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed of the devil for god was with him it is our desire to lift up jesus we decrease hallelujah we die to ourselves we want to lift up jesus and the cross of calvary bless the name of the lord as our assistant pastor was talking denise you are amazing you are anointed you are on the pulse of the heart of god i just want to say to my sisters today this is how i feel i feel that god has given you such a amazing gift and we thank god and honor you today i want to honor my sister cheryl cheryl is brilliant she has a great ability to do the business of the church i thank you cheryl even god has been using cheryl this year to do her facebook post and our facebook post has been a source of ministry and encouragement so many people have been watching the words that you've spoken and it's been a point of great joy and we honor god for you sister tanya i want to honor god for our sister tanya is full of the word of god she's anointed not just a psalmist and a singer but if you ever listen closely she has the gift of wisdom and i want to say thank you tanya for allowing god to use you in such an amazing way and thank you for using your voice to sing songs of victory songs of zion i mean to lift the hearts of god's people i just want to say thank you before the end the year end praise the lord i honor god for all of you all i want to tell you all that the scripture said david said it was good for me that i was afflicted see when you get to the point in 2020 that you can say lord i thank you for every test trials tribulation i want you all to know that god is going to get the glory out of all of it all things work together for good to them that love god and to them that are called according to his purpose the best he is yet to come god is still on the throne so listen let me hear from our baby sister tanya what is on your heart today hallelujah you may build a great coffee troll large or small you may feel skyscrapers grand and tall you may conquer all the failures of your past but only what you do for christ will last remember only what you do for christ we'll last [Music] only what you do for him i hadn't planned on singing only what you do for christ will last only what you do for him is going to be counted in the end only what the songwriter said only what you do for christ will last and i appreciate again the racists as those of you that are viewing today that are listening on the phone line want you to remember that all that we do for christ is going to last and as pastor has said at the beginning of the year she told us the lord had given her for this was the year for us to be servants and for the servant so i want to encourage every person in whatever capacity that you have served the lord served his people if it was marching in the street if it was feeding the homeless if it was feeding those that were standing in line to get a bag of groceries a box of food we appreciate you serving and being a blessing to people being a blessing to humanity and to the body of christ god is going to bless you in turn for being a blessing and we appreciate what god is doing and has done those of you that heard pastor nisi sharing just a few minutes ago and you know that you need to strengthen your relationship with the lord call right now at 708 503 11 40. prayer counselors are standing by to pray with you to speak a word of life into your life today we encourage and know that god sees he knows and he cares we shared on monday night the scripture has thou not known and has thou not heard that the everlasting father the everlasting god is neither weary he fainted not he giveth power to the faith and to them that have no might he increases strength if you need more strength today even before the new year god is going to renew your strength he said he'll renew your strength as an eagle you'll run and not be weary you'll walk in that faith if your weight on the lord so we're some of you are in a place of waiting on the lord stay right there god is going to answer god is going to hear you and i know you're expected us to pray and we're going to pray but know that the lord is nigh unto his people we love you with the love of jesus amen cheryl what else is on your heart this afternoon well pastor kim i think i told him what was on my heart praise the lord i would like to say though um oftentimes i'm sitting here at the church and there's another group of people i'd like to say thank you to and those are the paramedics and those drivers that are driving up and down the street driving that ambulance um i realize that i when i hear the the sirens i just instantly go into prayer and ask god to touch the person that's on their way to the emergency room and so um i'd like to say again thank you to the ambulance drivers to the technicians to those people that um i'm not sure what your official titles are but you you take the people and they get the cat scans and um you you're taking people to take those tests the transporters they come in and out thank you so much you know sometimes i think that people get a bad rap because they're you know you have a very stressful and tedious job so i want to say thank you to all of those and then you know at when at the beginning of the year there were not enough tests to take to see if you had covey then they got the test and um people started taking the test then they not moving the results fast enough i i want y'all to get somewhere and get some patience and some understanding and stop hollering at the the workers in the grocery stores and different things the line is long and you know it's it's a thousand people in the store instead of they're usually uh 200 and so everybody is a little stressed a little stretched everybody's just got to be you know the the people that serve um in on the they say a lot about the mayor but i i asked the pastor the other day about one of the mayors of one of our cities how is it that we're blaming that mayor for the actions and behaviors of your hard-headed children uh other other people that you'd enraged they had nothing to do with you and i just i just don't understand it you know you want to blame somebody blame you not getting up and telling that child you got to be obedient you know you you can't blame your pastor because you didn't get up and teach your children the abc's yeah the ten commandments that's a good example do your little kids know the ten commandments i just don't ask that question okay but you know i was telling somebody yesterday again um when you our prayer times and our arsenal has to increase and that's why i'm really happy that you have been intensifying it is written what is written in god's word um when you think about 20 years ago when you looked on the television it was a a husband and a wife or if you know when they were dealing with adultery or whatever it was one set of people today 20 years 20 years later it's a totally different game out here now it's a total you know it used to be a man and a woman now it's a man and a man or a woman and a woman or it's yeah it's a whole lot of rigmarole but your prayer life has to come up to where the assault is you know 10 years ago we could just pity pat you know but now you got to get down in that word and recite what god has said so that you can fight the enemy uh with the word of god effectively and so um again there's so many that we need to thank that you know it it's just um it's amazing to me when you when the lord gave you at the beginning of the year that this was going to be the year of the servant and uh i had no idea because you know all the other preachers was talking about 2020. it's the year vision we gonna see and we go and i was like well we got to i want to see and i want the vision i want the 20 20 vision you know um but she you know the lord gave you the vision he said this was going to be the year of the sermon and i think next year going to be the year the servant too because you know this stuff has got to manifest and so i just say pastor kim again and to the pastors pastors that are on our prayer line the pastors that are watching thank you so very much and to those that just stop and take time you know to the daycare workers the nursery school teachers the people that are actually serving you know those that are taking care of the um shelters and the homeless people that are fixing food and taking it to them and you know even in the midst of a pandemic you're taking a chance to just go out you know to where the tent people are or where ever there's a need thank you ever so much and to those people that people say they have a heart of gold they go see about somebody thank you for being that caring person um somebody people may not say thank you a lot of times you don't get a big pat on the back because you went to you take some hot soup to to somebody sick but today to the servants of god to the servants of humanity thank you so very very much amen cheryl i i think it is also necessary to reference people that have lost loved ones and i really want to make it make this very clear there are some people that have lost fathers mothers wives husbands it has completely overwhelmed them some some people's grief has shattered them you know i love my husband so much he was really devastated by the loss of his mother you know there are some people that the loss has stayed with him and we want you all to know we are praying for you i want to say to apostle leon wallace who lost his wife this week we send our love to the man of god we send our love i want to say to brother patrick bolton in california he lost his brother chris he went home to be with the lord chris was an amazing talent a gifted psalmist a friend and a brother we were all all of us were impacted in the depths that we've been just just sharing with you all you see sometimes the loss can affect you in a way that it's hard to get up and get just get out the bed the next day i remember cheryl when our mother passed and how devastated we all were devastated but it was something about what happened with cheryl i remember you just being on the couch unable to just get up just the loss the loss you know and so i'm just saying that some people are affected in different ways by death and so we want to say to those of you that are grieving to grieve we want you to grieve you know that god will give you the right season you know in the old testament and this is just a reference they would give the berea 30 days and they would grieve the loss of that individual and then they would have to get up and move forward and so i just want to thank god again and let you all know that we are sensitive to those of you that have had losses this year we thought about pastor willie james campbell bishop campbell excuse me amen listen bishop campbell was an influencer in the area of ministry for years one of the greatest preachers that we i mean that we've ever met amen and so the loss is impactful bishop william ellis passed away we've heard just one after the other and even a bishop dr iona lot just passed away just you know about two weeks less than two weeks ago my point is this is that we've been affected by these losses and we want to pray stand in the gap for their churches for their families for their children listen these pastors had families and so we want you all to know that we are standing in the gap and praying pastor kim i also would want to say too um as you're discussing those that are grieving um people are grieving because they feel like they weren't there for the person that passed away you know they could they weren't there to hold their hand or you know they they weren't they they feel like they weren't surrounded by their loved ones or whatever or what have you so i want to say to those people today too that you feel like you may feel the enemy has this uh weight that i wasn't there or i i should i didn't see him this and i didn't see him that um but uh know that god sees your heart and that he feels your heart he is not um he's not cold-hearted he understands where you are and so we want you to take on strength take on encouragement and yes it's a grieving moment i think i could not when uh when mama passed i went through like oh all kinds of emotions and i remember the day that we needed to get up to go out together i think tanya actually put my stockings and shoes on because i i think did i have on mitch mac shoes or something something was going on i helped to dress it up but you know what i wanted to say that even in that because grief is a process and you have to process it in the spirit of god and know that even jesus wept and so you don't have to try to be extra strong and you know get all of that but don't allow the spirit of grief to overtake you because even and i'll tell you i had a running spirit with dr ray passed away i was just gone yeah i was i drove for two days straight i drove to uh uh kentucky then i drove to alabama left alabama went to saint louis left st louis and i went to missouri somewhere home and then my brother and the lord pastor gary ballard i love you today uh he called me he said the lord told me to call you where are you and i told him i don't even know i didn't even know where i was he said look at the signs look where are you and i just broke down and he said i'm coming to get you and he flew and came and got me and drove me uh to a destination where he and his wife prayed for me for about two weeks just stayed in and prayed and talked and so you need to talk it out you need to pray it out when you feel like crying cry but when you get through crying get yourself up and move forward because the enemy would have you stuck in those tears and stuck in the moment and your loved ones would want you to live and i know for sure and you all i want to speak on behalf of being a patient can i just want to tell you all something being a patient is is as difficult as the people taking care of the patient a lot of times the patient feels as if they're getting on people nerves they feel like i don't want to be a burden to my family they recognize the you know the they're tired of fighting trying to just process what's going on in their bodies they don't know what's going on in their bodies then they one day they feel a little better and before the day is over they're feeling sick again i you know i want you all to be patient with people that are sick and don't make them feel as if what they're going through is nothing or you'll be all right you're going to be fine just because you don't know how that person really feels on the inside and sometimes the sicknesses are more mental than they are physical but that person still needs mental healing and if it's a physical thing that they're going through they need physical healing sometimes one doctor may miss it and another doctor may find it so in the process it's a process on both sides of the fence the patient those that are sick those that are shut in don't forget about the elderly and don't just write them off i heard a columnist say that in new york that they uh when the person had the virus to a certain degree then they would just take those people and put them in a certain area and just looking for them to die and so just imagine you hearing people talking around you one thing i tell you all when people are in comas don't you think that they now oh if they're not in a very deep deep coma they can hear you talking so if you have to discuss something even if they're in deep sleep don't discuss money and materialistic things and when they die what we gonna get and all of those foolish things because the lord may raise them up and you believe before they do so we have to pray earnestly one for the other and know that grief is a process and you don't need to lock up and another thing that the enemy will do is cause you to lock yourself up in a room and cut all the lights off and just go to sleep and you you can try to sleep all day or eat all day or turn to that man or to that woman in fornication and all kinds of stuff that's not going to fulfill that void that you have on the inside trust me i'm telling you all today walk through your process of grief with the love of god and talk to somebody get somebody not just for you to be talking but i mean to pray and to help pray you through and be encouraged in the name of the lord and every patient every sick person hold on to god's unchanging hand and know that god love you he's a healer and don't let the devil make you line up with death tell death you are a liar and i'm not aligning with you and learn how to turn change your burbank how you doing all is well in jesus name how you feeling i'm gonna be i'm blessed in the city and in the field you have to confess out of your own mouth i am healed i am strengthened and like tanya would tell me yeah yeah i know all about how you feel and then i would say well this is abc is what's wrong but god is going to do it so be encouraged to be honest walk the process take your time grieve cry i mean cry holler if you want to go outside get in your car holla let it all out and then straighten yourself up wash your face and live in jesus name i want to thank you all for just giving us this opportunity to just speak from our hearts today i know that we didn't intercede and we didn't travail praise the lord but just know this that the word of god is coming forth to bless people with being real i thank god for dr ray teaching us a very important principle she told us to be honest and to be real if you're grieving greed you know it's part of the steps there are denial some people get stuck in anger some get stuck in the ability with the bargaining i should have done this i should have done that and then the other part of this i really want to reference this is when our father passed away we were praying fasting believing god that he was told that he was in the fourth stage of cancer and he did not tell the racist he did not want us to know because he wanted to protect us from you know some of the suffering that he was going through and we literally felt like well daddy you could have told us so we could have kind of more we could have done more and had we known but he had such a uh as a man and as a father he wanted us to be okay but anyway i remember telling my aunt yvonne i'll never forget this after our father passed and of course we were all i was in a state of shock because i thought that god was getting ready to raise him up like the next day so i was like the blood of jesus devil is a lie you know he had this man this faith level that was like way up here you know and i remember when he passed away um i had never been inside of a funeral home to know what the process is when somebody passes so i was in shock we had to walk in the room and they had caskets lined up to the ceiling nobody ever prepared us or said now listen when you go in this room this is what you're getting ready to see nobody kind of gave us well i'll talk about myself i had no idea we didn't know but you know so it's not just the loss of that person but it's the process it's a discussion it's the them talking to you about a vault right they're telling them where they're gonna lay exactly and choosing the cemetery plot they take advantage sometimes yes of your emotions and that's why you have to be a tiny uh cheryl someone said that in business be men during that time one of the pastors said you have to gird yourself up and in business be men i appreciate that tanya and my sisters could handle certain things and you know pastor kim was talking about going into the room there's a process they're looking for insurance they're trying to see how much money you have then you have to go to the cemetery there are things that you have to do but if we don't have the mind of christ and have that strength you know it'll take you out it'll cause you to fall apart and i'm saying you don't have to fall apart today in the name of the lord and i remember of them talking about my dad and we were just saying lord save them fill them with the holy ghost and god did that and i mean when i say god did it he did it and the night before he passed he was singing a song my father had a melodious beautiful voice uh they they were um he's compared to sam cook and others in that realm and my he was just a good singer and he was sitting on the side of the bed singing jesus thanks a million for all you've done for me thanks a million thanks a million and so i'm saying that a lot of times we're praying for a certain thing for a person but god knows their heart he knows at their time and then remember saints when you're dealing with family that don't get along when people are alive they're not gonna get along when people are dead and that's why it is so important for us to forgive one another love one another walk in the spirit with one another in the name of jesus christ i'm sorry i promise i'm coming right to you and again we still have counselors here 708 503 11 40. if you're grieving if you need prayer dial that number now 708 503 11 40. you know i will say that much has been said about you know the funeral homes and the funeral directors but i want to personally thank god for mr a a.r leake i want to thank for excuse me mr spencer leake senior and that was a.r leake was his father but i have i have seen him take care of the debt and even when the family could not afford to take care of a bear of the funeral i need so many families without anybody knowing that man of god has helped thousands of people i want to personally say to him and to his beautiful wife today and his family and to other funeral directors mr callahan and your beautiful family those that have been sensitive to the plight of people i i remember hearing that mr liquid if a person's son had been killed violently that there were days that he would he would help them you know what i'm saying so again i just want to thank god for them our very own pastor samuel edwards we want to say we love you today we just know that you work you know uh with funerals and things of that nature just to all of those that serve our very cousin earl barnes those are just different people who have had to watch death every day it is something saints we have to pray they have to preach funerals uh there was a gentleman that said i'm tired of burying people that nobody knows babies that have died that they didn't have parents and they had to have the funeral home to bury them and have the services at the cemetery you are we are blessed people and we love god and we have to share god's love all over the world and this has been rough for those that have been in that particular industry because just like the first responders they are there picking up these people daily those have to comb their hair those have to address them those have to do the work and i'm telling you all pastor ray we have i have a little funny story pastor ray dr ray was really really a faith believing i'm talking about believing faith woman and i'm not gonna tell the whole thing i'm just gonna say one day she made me she even sent me to a funeral home and the woman that was at the the woman that was at the funeral home that owned the funeral home she was with come on do what pastor ray say come on in here and i'm looking at all of them like y'all special but i'm gonna do what the pastors they do but many times when you have to be in that position where you're dealing with people that have from all walks of life with all kind of faiths and thoughts and memories we need to pray for one another because they too go home at night and their minds are bombarded i got a prayer request from a man of god that said i keep seeing the dead i need help because i keep seeing the dead because i deal with them all day long every day so let us pray for them not forget about them hallelujah again we have prayer counselors standing by you can call right now 708-503-1140 those of you that are on the phone line those of you that are on facebook youtube periscope if you're in need of prayer you know someone that needs prayer tell them to call right now 708-503-1140 i want to shift the subject for a second sure pastor at the beginning of the year when the pandemic first happened i thought as as a servant of the lord that i was going to get a some rest and a vacation and a break praise the name of jesus and because we had been traveling and on planes and you know from going in cars going from city to city and i was like whoa yeah we get a break i could just we could just stay home and seek the lord and call on jesus and and the turned out that uh after a few months we were like okay well we can't have service okay we're going to have parking lot service and then we're going to have service on on zoom and on this and that and so for those of us that work in the media area of church and and the pastors and the prayer intercessors our our our jobs never stop you know the choir couldn't sing anymore so but the praise team was still singing and so i was like oh man everybody else getting a break but for those of you for those of you that know what i'm talking about we thought we were going to get a break too but we did not get a break and then had to learn new things and just you know begin to do more and adjust to this new way of living during the pandemic and uh and then uh having so many and evangelists and singing friends that you knew they knew okay they live in this city they can't come to my service but then everybody start having a virtual service so they would invite you to come to their virtual service so i told one of my friends i said y'all have made me tired all over again because those of us in ministry have been going going going and i believe even during the pandemic was a time that the lord was giving us to rest and to shut down to seek his face to go after him to get in the word and to hear from him but so much started happening all over again i have a friend pastor lazenby who's been preaching he's been he had started sharing a word of inspiration but he's been on the air every day on facebook since june and i was like man let's you gonna preach every day and actually he really has which is an awesome blessing because somebody needs to hear the word of the lord but that's when when sheryl was saying thank god for the pastors i want to encourage the fellow our fellowship and those lay members to uh appreciate your pastor appreciate the worshipers appreciate the intercessors and those on the media team those that work in behind the scenes in in christian television because we've been depending and needing them and so i i counted the honor and a privilege to continue to serve but i honestly you said you talked about being real i thought we were going to get a break and then for the airplanes yes we did get a break praise the lord not that we're not grateful and we don't appreciate but you know i i know a lot of pastors and preachers and singers that it it became a job so you're going from week to week to week so a lot of them they're not seeking god they're not seeking the face of the lord they're in rehearsal they have prayer before the rehearsal start and prayer at the end and that's about all the praying that they're doing but there are some people that really seek god and seek god for songs and for the word of the lord so those times that you have quiet time time by yourself appreciate it because it's rare and it's a blessing and even for pastors there's more more work being done because you're not seeing your members every day so you have to depend on media and telephones and all that so it means when you would come and speak to a whole congregation now you're breaking it up in sections and people so you're not resting as much in you know the cause that we get from pastors for us to pray for them is you know it's amazing that we are where we are in ministry and again i am grateful for the word of god and you all know what pastor kim she doesn't talk about it often but even the the people that she can just call someone and say pray for this one or pray for that one we appreciate that because again our prayer intercessors have been more busy than they normally would be because you know and we're grateful to god for that amen again we thank god for the time the time has just gone by so fast thank you all for spending this hour with us we again this is the last saturday of the year and we are loosing upon all of you the spirit of prayer the spirit of intercession we pray that god's anointing will rest upon you and whatever you're dealing with whatever you're going through that god will give you the grace to go through it and to come out on the other side of it victoriously and so i'm going to ask one of my sisters to just close us out in prayer but just before we do our final time of prayer once again we do have counselors here for the next few minutes if you still want to call in and receive personal prayer dial right now 708 503 11 40. and we know that god has kept us for another year we thank god for bringing us through i want to encourage you to praise your way into 2021 yes you've been through some difficult times but god has kept you he's answered your prayer you're still here amen walk in gratitude be grateful tell somebody today you know what i thank god for you i'm grateful for you i appreciate you let the love of god and the sweet communion of the holy spirit rest and rule and abide within your heart mind body and your soul even as we go into the next amen the next thing that god would have us to do going into the new year again we love you all so very much which sister is going to close out praise the lord jd is right here next to me come on somebody see how they work [Laughter] praise god let's just pray father we thank you for a day that you blessed us to see that we will never see again we ask that you would cause this day to be a day full of blessings and the joy in the holy ghost lord you see every person that's on the media outlets all over everywhere and we ask that you'll bless each of them one by one and name by name lord let your precious blood cover those that need to be covered today and heal those that need to be healed deliver those that need to be delivered encourage those that need to be encouraged lord we thank you right now for a year and you brought us through lord we thank you for how you blessed us with people that love us and we truly love them lord go through the eat the waves and just pour out on all of angered ministries church on the rock followers and faithful people that love us and that pray for us that hold us up lord we bless them today in the name of jesus christ and lord we ask that you and let your word come alive in them the more give your people a love for your word god calls them to seek your word and to seek your face like never before well we thank you today for a day of peace joy lord i lose upon your people a spirit of peace give them rest from warfare today lord let them rest in your love and take a nap and feel your power in your presence lord we just thank you for sweet fellowship even with families lord calls families to be restored in the name of jesus and help your people to forgive one another for lord we know tomorrow is not promised to us but we thank you for this day and that your will shall be done now god in jesus name but we thank you that this may be the last saturday of this year that we will be together but we thank you for the days that are to come and lord are we asking you to just keep your people keep your people lord cover them and sanctify them and lord when we gather together again that we will gather together with with testimonies of victory in jesus mighty name now say that you know we bind you in the name of jesus we bind you now in jesus name and lord we loose upon your people your perfected will according to your word and we lord thank you for pastor kim thank you for evangelists cheryl and tanya and lord we give you all the glory and praise today thank you for those that are sowing right now that are sowing into ministry give it back to them quickly lord press down shaken together and running over we honor you for all that you are and that all that you have shown yourself to be according to your word we all agree by saying amen amen you

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