Bible Study 09-15-2021

god bless you tonight and welcome to the bible study here at the fountain of praise we welcome you to come tonight for a word from the lord and we admonish you to sing with us psalms hymns and spiritual songs we want to encourage you tonight as the apostle paul admonishes the church at corinth he says that let the peace of god rule your hearts to the which also you are called in one body and be ye thankful let the word in christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom admonishing one another in psalms hymns and in spiritual psalms and then he says whatsoever you do in word or indeed he says do all in the name of the lord jesus giving thanks to god and to the father by him listen wherever you are all across houston texas perhaps all across this country even all across the world we invite you to this worship space tonight as we lift up the name of jesus he is truly worthy of all over the glory yes i want you to know the holy spirit woke me up at 3 a.m this morning just giving thanks to god because if you are under the sound of my voice we have the same testimony that he kept you alive i think that's worthy of worship so wherever you are right now i want you to lift up holy hands and extend your heart towards the heavens as we sing a chorus unto god as to his greatness we esteem him and subscribe greatness to his name for all that he has done he's healed our bodies some of you he kept you from sickness you how great is our god how awesome are your ways and we extol the high tonight there's nobody greater than you no one more lovely than you no one more forgiving than you no one more loving than you you have done great things and we're not ashamed to say how great hallelujah is our god glory to the lamb of god [Applause] the splendor of the king [Music] let all the earth rejoice let all the earth rejoice he wrapped himself [Music] and trembled at his voice how great [Music] is our god how great how great is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] how great glory is is we love you tonight say how great glory is [Music] we'll see how great is someone how great is our god if you know it sing with me how great it is [Applause] [Music] great is our god this will be declared before heaven and earth [Music] [Music] and you're truly worthy [Music] my heart will sing [Music] worthy and my heart will sing from the bottom of my heart [Music] and my heart will sing [Music] yes [Music] you're truly worthy absolutely worthy of my praise and my heart and [Music] not just from my mouth but my heart will sing how great when i think about everything you've done i'm ready from what should've happened to me i will sing how great [Music] is [Music] you are worthy and only you are worthy of my praise my god and my heart will sing i can't let go of that right there can you journey with me just for 15 more seconds you're [Music] you are worthy and only you are worthy of my praise [Music] [Applause] will sing how great from my heart i'll sing how great from my heart i'll sing [Music] [Music] love you is love you i love you lord today because [Music] in such a special way that's why i praise you this is personal i lift you up [Music] that's why my heart will sing how great that's why my heart will sing how great that's why my heart will sing how great [Music] wherever you are in the presence of the lord and let your heart sing to him not just your words but your heart told now you're my death we love you lord we love you lord oh [Music] thank you brother derek you're definitely a blessing to the kingdom a blessing here to the fountain of praise wasn't that some good worship he says why my heart will save how great is our god how many ways can we tell god he's great i think about that there's more than one way to tell god he's great is it verbally through your worship audibly through your words this is physically through the way that you live your life how many ways can we say how great it's our god thank you brother derek i appreciate your worship on this evening listen i want to shout out a couple of people who are online diane good to see you uh reverend martin moshe good to see you george good to see you nikitharito good listen while you're watching why don't you do me a favor why don't you hit the share button miss unique good to see you rita good to see you who else am i seeing over here i want to shout a couple people out listen i like that because i miss the fact that we can talk to people in the lobby so i'm gonna talk to people in the lobby right here uh george williams good to see you who else is on here shout yourself out where are you put to put it in the check candace it's good to see you sydney man we're glad where are you guys viewing with us tonight let us know where you watching if you are watching right now i dare if not challenge you hit the share button because i believe god's got a mighty word for us on this this evening this evening this evening listen you can you can take your seats for a second listen my name is will come to youth pastor here at the fountain of praise you know this is my 15th year serving here at the fountain of praise and i love it absolutely love it i want to remind you all we have dynamic youth and children's ministries you can catch the youth services sundays online at 10 30. children are 11 o'clock online at uh children or 11 o'clock and then every wednesday we also have youth and children bible study so you can catch us online there too i challenge you man get your kids in there there's a lot of ways and the fountain praise has some great great ministry leaders and we encourage you to get into it first of all let me shout out my pastor pastor wright where am i where where is all my fans we have to write in the building good stuff yes we're celebrating we celebrate his birthday right that's good that's good okay well let's let's get into the word of god and also before i go any further i want to shout out my wife my children and of course my lovely mother dr white let's get into this word um true story true story i i live in manville texas right that's kind of the country but not really it's a look look country not a whole lot just a little country and the other day derek you'll love this story i was i was walking out of my house now i have three children i always tell you a nine-year-old a five-year-old and a four-year-old now my four-year-old that's my baby girl she does not do bugs any other people here that just can't do bugs it's like i don't do bugs that's that's my daughter she sees a bug it doesn't matter if it's an ant or it's a butterfly she's screaming she just don't do bugs true story so i i was i was on my way out the house on the saturday morning and and i walk out my house and lying on the the porch area in front of my house is a cicada y'all know what a cicada is that bug that's real loud usually here in the summer and it's rubbing it have you ever seen no cicadas so i see the cicada sitting in front of my house not sitting it was laying there now i know my daughter will scream if she sees this bug and i know my wife will also scream if she sees this bug i said well i'm going to do the manly thing i'm going to get rid of it so i reached down no i'm kidding i'd do that i saw the bug there and i said i've got to get rid of the bug so i went and i said well if the ants get to it i don't want this dead bug with the ants all over in front of my house i said guess what i'll do i will just kick it into the grass and let the ants do their thing in the grass so i got in front of it i saw the bug right y'all see the bug i saw the bug right there and i pulled my leg back to punt this bug i wasn't gonna just move it that bug was gonna get punted and so i get there i see the bug i pull my leg back and i went to punt to mess out this bug and boom as soon as i my toe well what am i told my shoe got to the bug guess what that bug did that sucker took off running and so did i i was running because this bug i thought was coming after me but the truth be told as soon as my foot got near that bug that bug said and took off running today i want to talk to you about how many of us are laying pretending like we did when god has called us to fly man let's pray for a moment father i thank you for this moment that we're sharing together i thank you that your presence is here god i thank you that today we are here to receive a word a word that we need a word that we've been expecting something to push us not only through today but the rest of our week father i thank you that your word has already gone forth use me today as your vessel open our ears to be receptive to what you have to say it's in jesus name amen so i want to take you guys to the book of haggai it's a fun book the book of haggai it's it's sandwiched in the old testament it's only two chapters but these two chapters are full of promise and potential hagga haggai chapters one and two we're only going to read a little bit of haggai chapter one and then we'll dig right into it haggai chapter one we're gonna read verses 14 and 15. i'm shouting out to my people hi miss malika good to see you shout out to dr white good to see you okay here we go in haggai chapter 1 verses 14 and 15. i'll read it it says this so the lord sparked the enthusiasm of zerubbabel if you have a pen circle that word sparked if you're on your phone highlight this chapter so the lord sparked the enthusiasm of zerubbabel who sparked it anybody the lord who sparked it all right so we understand here right at the beginning that the the sparking or the person that provided the energy to do it was not someone outside of them it was who what it was the lord so the lord sparked the enthusiasm of zerubbabel son of shivtel a governor of judah and the enthusiasm of yeshua also translated to joshua son of jehoshadek the high priest and the enthusiasm of the whole remnant of god's people they began to work on the house of their god the lord of heavens verse 15 on september armies on september 21st the second year of king darius's reign it's an interesting story it's an interesting story here let me give you some some background here we find the remnant right and what happened was this group of people had become slothful let alone sluggish in their activities they were once able to do great and mighty things they they had they were able to do these things and god had given them the energy to build great emphasis but what happened was they moved from building what god had called them to do to building things for themselves they had become if i could say the word selfish the bible says they had built all these great things and as they were getting to build them and they were doing these things and after they built them they became lazy and the bible says that the rain was no longer coming the crops were no longer producing like they used to and they sat back and they became slothful this word slawful lazy they had crossed their arms and said we've we've done enough and i guess i'm good i think about this because i believe and where we are right now in this pandemic new normal next normal society that there are people correct me if i'm wrong who have gotten if they didn't know it lazy and they don't know how they got there but somehow you ever looked up one day and said how did i how did i get here and what happens is we blame this inanimate object we we blame this invisible person called the covet tell me i'm wrong they say oh man you know i can't go to the gym you know the covet is at the gym oh well you know what i can't spend time with with my wife like i used to because you know if we go to the restaurant you know the covet is there oh you know i i can't spend time with my kids and my kids can't do activities out there um and with the other kids cause you know the covet is out there or hey you know what i've lost all of my friends i used to have all these friends and we would do great things together and and boy you know the reason i can't hang out with my friends you know what it is you know that the cove didn't that didn't cut my friendships what you know i my credit card bill is crazy and amazon won't stop dropping boxes at my house well you know why you know that that covey it makes me spend all my money can i be honest with you i don't think it's the covet that caused these things to happen truth is i believe that we're blaming someone when the truth is it's just expose the bad habits that we already had you didn't need the covet to prove that you didn't want to go to the gym you were lazy before it got here you you your relationship with your kids and with the things and your friendships didn't fall off because of the cove it just proved the fact that you weren't really doing the work to make it work in the first place and so i find myself as we are in this pandemic new normal next normal society that we see ourselves we we feel like we're out of weight we're out of shape our relationships are out of whack our kids are out of control and and our spending habits have gotten just outright crazy and we blamed the covet and we said the covet is the enemy when the real reality is the enemy is really enemy so what do we do with this we let's look back at the scripture haggai chapter 1 it says so the lord sparked the enthusiasm of them so what happened was they had gotten lazy and gotten tired and they had blamed everything else except themselves and the bible says that the angel of the lord the lord came down and and spoke to zerubbabel and spoke to uh joshua and said listen you guys have got to change your ways you got to do something different because the way you're going is not how i've created you or purposed you to be and you have gotten lazy in your efforts the bible says that when when when um the angel speaks the haggai and haggai begins to tell this to them that they immediately change their ways i wrote this down that you are your greatest cheerleader and potentially your worst enemy that you have the potential to either promote yourself into promise or to pause the reality that you should be pushing forward towards do you not realize that you speak to yourself more than anybody else so what are you saying think about the course of your day if you were to catalog the hours the minutes of your day who do you speak to more than your what are you saying friend and we blame other people for what we've we've told ourselves see here's the deal we can't fight enemies we refuse to acknowledge i can blame everything else and i can just allow things to happen and i allow my body to get out of shape but i allow my relationships to get crazy and allow my marriage to get crazy and i allow my kids to get crazy and i'm like i just don't know what it is here's the thing and my first point is very simple my first point put it up on the screen is you must know who you are fighting in order to fight them when we wrote that down is that we must realize that our energy comes at a premium did you know that your energy is a premium if you were to go to your house tell me now i had someone show me their electric bill the other day and i i almost lost it i'm not gonna say who it was but they showed me their electric bill i said well sweet lord but i tell you this though the energy company doesn't care that you need to turn your lights on all they cares about is that you paid for those lights that you turned on and so if we realize that you must pay the energy company to turn your lights on why are you allowing things to extrapolate or pull energy from you without you getting anything in return don't you realize there are things that are intentionally and purposefully trying to steal siphon and suffocate your energy without giving you anything in return do you understand that worry does not care that it can take everything from you and leave you without anything don't you realize that anxiety can take every bit of energy from you leave you lifeless and say i don't care do you know there are people who will pull all of your energy arguing with you about absolutely nothing and then walk away like there's nothing left and you're sitting there like i have no energy to do what's necessary there are things that are taking your energy the question is where are you putting it and are you getting something back for it and we find ourselves tired and and like the the people of the scripture they were slothful and they were sluggish because their energy had been pulled because they were placing it into things that were doing no return i cannot eat from an empty oven nor can i pull money from an empty account but yet when we allow everything to extrapolate all the stuff that we need from us and we go home to our wife and they're like baby i need you like i ain't got nothing left for you who are you giving your energy to or your kids or your family or your goals here i wrote this down i want to keep going i wrote this down that in order for us to figure out why we have allowed these things to be stolen from us we we must we must catch this and okay okay there my notes got turned around is that we must continue to believe that something greater will happen for it to occur we've got to continue to believe it because when we allow the things to pull the stuff from us and we we've lost hope we've also lost the energy to do what hope can ask for us to do we must continue to leave here's a quote that i read down by samuel beckett it says have you ever tried ever failed no matter try again fail again fall better that's the whole point of my number one point is that we must be careful and conscious of where our energy is being pulled from here's the second thing and i'm almost done here's the second thing the second thing that i want to give you this is my second point is hard work works it's a simple statement hard work works when we figure out what has stolen or siphoned our energy we'll know what we need to do to fix it when we know what is taking it we'll know how to fix it you you know if you have if you are in your house and you notice and your electricity bill is high do you just go well i'll just keep paying it if you notice that there are places in your life that are constantly pulling at you and you don't do anything about it why are you mad i was uh driving leaving my neighborhood this morning true story i was leaving my neighborhood and there's a big sign right outside of my neighborhood that says expect delays and it made me think why am i mad about what i expect and you allow people to pull things you allow anxiety you allow worry you allow uh poor behavior habits to pull from you and then you go i don't know how i got here the truth is and this is a teaching lesson tonight is i want to share with you in order for us to get progress or promise in this pandemic we must address what's being pulled from us hear me friends and this is my heart with you i i looked up today and i was looking at an outfit that i had on and i was like man this used to fit me real well and now it fits me better than i wanted it to because i'm filling it out and i said why is it fit this way i i'm a personal trainer i know how to to get in shape but how did i let myself get here is because i've allowed things to take priority over what i know needs to be done and we look at ourselves and we say how did i get here how correct tell me if i'm wrong have you ever been in that place you said how did i get here and you in order for us to figure out how we got there we must take catalog of what has been pulling the energy from us what has been extrapolating what's been stealing from us because here's the deal if i know somebody's stealing from me i'm not going to let them keep stealing with free from me without us having a conversation correct me if i'm wrong you're not going to let somebody keep stealing from you without you saying hold on now you just took it up when the truth is we're the ones stealing from ourselves so we have that hard conversation hey look here's what we need to do okay let me get back to my second point second point here we go here we go second point hard work works here are a few points on how you can stay motivated in the midst of a pandemic here's here two points on how to stay motivated in the midst of pandemic i wrote down that said okay we looked at that we must realize that motivation can be stolen from anybody in the business industry it doesn't you don't have to be the low personal totem pole or the high personal totem pole every single person has the potential to be lack of motivation right look what it says it says um the uh uh uh sparking deals in missouri the son right the governor of judah right so we have the top person the energy is stolen from them then it says and the enthusiam of jeshua the sun right it was stolen from him the high priest and the enthusiasm of the entire remnant of god all of them have potential for it to be stolen from us don't think just because you're in high high authority that you can't be touched because just as much as you're the person that may be the servant just as much the king can be tired right so if all of them can be tired what happens the bible says that the lord sparked their enthusiasm and they began to work on the house of their god the lord of heaven's armies on september the 21st i'd like that because what it tells me is that the motivation to do what we need to do has to come from god we we can read all the motivational books in the world we can write down all of the stuff but we have to have this alignment with god and saying god are the plans that i have aligning with the purpose that you have for my life do you know that you can work wrong that you can put a lot of effort into the wrong place and think that you it's like running on a treadmill expecting to get somewhere you can work and not go anywhere but it says the bible says that the lord sparked their enthusiasm the lord sparked their enthusiasm there has to be something on the inside of you that says listen i have to do better that there's something more than where i am right there right now and and some of us hear me out are lying there full of potential saying god why can't i get up from here i've listened to every book i've watched every video i've listened to every song and i'm still here and he says listen i was waiting for you to ask me it says the lord sparked their enthusiasm if you go back and read it they had built houses and they had crops and all these things and they had gotten lazy and some of us have gotten lazy because we've gotten full and my question is what did you eat that made you so full what did you eat that made you so full i'm gonna listen when i pull up to the table i'm always hungry and in personal training i tell people if you eat a bunch of small meals you'll continue to be hungry it'll help you to lose weight but many of us eat that one big meal and we expect it to last all day and what happens is the body suffers from that big meal you had when you weren't eating properly so my second point of hard work works let me get into it because i didn't move on too far second point of hard work works here's how you can do it number one we talk about how we can move forward in a pandemic number one is you must understand your why you must understand your why why why is it that you got into this in the first place the bible talks about going back to your first love when you say i've lost shape and i'm not in the shape that i was in why why were you doing this in the first place when you look over at your spouse and you're like man you don't do what you used to do why did you fall in love with them in the first place it wasn't because they were just a good cook there were more than reasons than that why why have you gotten lazy in your business why have you gotten why have you lost energy in the things that were your great goals what what happened to it understand your your why here's number two here's number two we'll move quickly through these number two is you must clearly define your goal clearly define your goal if we are trying to get things and accomplish things have you clearly defined it or have you made it so egregiously large that you're like this is too much for me to manage there's a there's a thing that say we don't fail from setting the bar too high and missing it we fail from setting the bar too low and hitting it over and over again the truth is is we've got to set these goals that are smart manageable goals okay here's it and did i clearly define it or you're like okay my goal is to to be successful well how my goal is to have a good marriage well how my goal is to be in shape well when how the specificity of your goal allows you to keep maintaining it but when your goal is is vague and large the chances of you missing it will happen here's the truth if you don't know where you're going you'll end up somewhere else we have to clearly define what it is that we're trying to get to you the reason you've gotten lazy in in the pandemic is because you said uh i'm here but i don't know what what here is here's number three here's number three uh number three you must get an accountability partner and not an audience an accountability part do you know the difference between an accountability partner in an audience an audience is one that goes ooh you got drunk last night what happened next oh you stepped out on your wife well what does she look like oh you you you oh you you ain't bad this weekend man let me tell you what i ate this weekend oh what did you what oh you you you can't do that no more okay well then with that that that's an audience an accountability partner is one that says i hear what you say it but let me tell you about the goals that you told me we were going to get through together do you have people in your life that would not only celebrate your success but will stop you when you're doing something silly do you have an accountability partner or an audience here's another way about how we can maintain our our momentum during the pandemic here it is uh number four keep revisiting the plan keep revisiting the plan i do this there are things that i want i put them as my screen saver on my phone so every time i pull my phone out i have to look at it i've told this story before i wanted to write a book and my brother took my phone and he put another friend of mine's picture as his picture on my phone and so every time my brother would call me i was forced to look at the picture of somebody i wanted to be and he asked me this question he said how long will you watch other people live your dreams so every time i saw that picture it was like oh get up it's time for you to do get up it's time to do this every time he called me he'd have to say nothing but as soon as i saw that picture on my phone as a reminder i need to do it again here's the next one swing from a different stance i like that we will never get a different result doing the same thing over and over again if you want something different you must do something different and what happens is we see the same thing happening over and over again and we do this thing where we say well it is what it is well truth is it is what it is until it is what it isn't and the reason we say it is what it is is because we don't want anything to happen next that is what i it is what it is attitude comes from the well i guess that's all we can do when the truth is don't you know that you were created for greatness don't you know there's more inside of you i i was watching it was a fight between a guy named javonte davis he was fighting a guy named barrios and they were fighting really well around the eighth round that was he was not doing as well eleventh round he's uh he steps to his corner and um mayweather walks up to him in the sideline says something to him javonte actually knocks out the guy in the 11th round true story after the fight they asked javonte they said javonte what did mayweather say to you while you were sitting on the bench waiting to get back into the ring he said mayweather whispered in my ear show me that you're great it's like the cicada that was laying on the ground it was like all it needed was a kick to remind itself you weren't born to lie here who in here has been sitting there saying god i just wish actually you weren't even saying god you were saying self why won't you get about this bae itself why don't you do this friends why won't you help me uh daughter why would your wife why don't you help me and god said you didn't ask everybody else but me what did it say and the spark came from the lord my last point we're done it says we must learn to break what we're dealing with into manageable pieces see there's a difference between an idea and a decision see the difference between an idea and a decision is action you can you can do vision boards all day you can write goals all day heck you can write stuff on your phone all day but what will move from this idea into into a decision is you've got to get up and do something about it you can write it down you can talk about it all day but the moment you make the decision to do something that's when it when you get up and actually do it i'm proud of people with vision boards i love all the the goal setting and stuff like that that's beautiful but i would rather you show me your work then show me what you're going to work on does that make sense because we can talk all day about what we're going to work on but i'd rather see the work that you're working on here's the end of my story we talked about how javonte was there and mayweather asked him he told him he said show me that you're great come close to me don't you realize the bible says that he that began a great work in you will see it to completion don't you realize the bible says greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world if all these things are true about you being great understand this you were not born to be average you were called to be amazing so why are you being average here's the end remember that cicada at the very beginning of the story i told you about that was laying in my front of my yard and pretending like it was dead until i went and kicked it maybe some of us need that good kick that kick that says you were not born to lie here but maybe you don't know the story of a cicada thank you for playing that music the story of cicada is this when the cicadas are are little eggs what happens is they they when they're when they break through the egg they become a nymph it's a true story and when they become a nymph they burl themselves in the ground and the story says that that what they do is they are living in the ground for 13 to 17 years depending on your cultural differences 13 and 17 are usually around the ears where you have this what new birth and there may be someone today who's watching online or sitting in this room and you realize that you have birthed out of some things that have been pretty difficult when you were born you felt like you had been buried in some pretty terrible places where it felt like life kept continuing to pile the difficulties of life on top of you and you felt like you were buried when you've heard preachers before say you weren't buried you were planted and then what happens next after that nymph has lived in that ground for 13 to 17 years the story says that what they do is they come up out of the ground they instinctively know that they can no longer be in that place and some of you had something on the inside of you that told you that i could not live under this dirt i can't live under this anymore i must get up and grow out of this and some of us have had that birthing moment and the story says that they climb up out of the dirt and they start to climb the nearest tree or plant next to them look it up it's on google i'm not lying and they climb this tree or they they climb this plant and when they get all the way to the top of the plant the story says they love they they become this amazing cicada and that makes this loud noise in the summer and they're alive long enough to guess what reproduce the whole purpose of the four to eight weeks that they've come out of that dirt and climb that tree is to reproduce and understand this ladies and gentlemen god did not allow you to climb up out of the dirt to climb that tree to the level of success that you've seen for you just to do nothing he said i want you to be productive and so i think about the cicada that was born to be productive that was laying pretending like it was dead on my doorstep saying it had no more life in it until i walked up to it and said i'm gonna kick the mess out of you i pray god is kicking somebody right now that he is sparking something on the inside of you that said listen that was that listen those are the former things the bible talks about forgetting those things which are behind us and pressing towards what's ahead of you it's time for someone to get up off the ground stop lying there pretending like you're dead allowing people to walk by you thinking that that is good enough you were not called to lie you were made to fly [Music] so just as god told them jesus told the man rise take up your mat and walk it's time for somebody to fly again go get your marriage back go get your friends back go get your body back go get your health back get your mind back listen to this god is about to do something and you i feel it right now would you would you if you if that's you would you stand with me real quick i want to pray a quick prayer with you if you say listen you are all in my street you in my business you you didn't read all my emails would you stand with me real quick i i want to pray with you you've allowed the pandemic and the excuses to like to cause you or to be in this space that you know you're not supposed to be in and the bible says the lord sparked something and they began to build again i think it's time for you to fly father i thank you for every person that's standing virtually and in person god you see exactly where we are father for it says in your word that you're close to the brokenhearted but god just the same you said old things are passed away behold all things are god i thank you and your word that says see i'm doing a new thing don't you perceive it god where we've allowed the scales to come over our eyes and caused us to become lackadaisical to become slothful or become sluggish in the spaces that you called us to fly in god we repent for these spaces and we say god reignite that energy inside of us by god just as the word says stir up the gift that's inside of us god i'm praying for a stirring right now in the name of jesus that you are restoring marriages that you're restoring relationships that you're revitalizing health that you're bringing families back together that you're revitalizing goals and dreams and god just as your son jesus stood at the tomb of lazarus and called him by name god i'm praying now that you're calling people by name jennifer get up matthew get up david get up you get up and rise again because it's time to fly god i thank you that dead dreams are starting to fly again that you're revitalizing dead bones that you're reconnecting relationships so we can fly again when we weren't born to be average we were called to be amazing help us fly it's in jesus name we pray amen i pray you were blessed by the word today there's a thing that someone said i can't point one finger at you without pointing three back at myself i'm going back i've got to get back together a little bit myself on some things but you can do it i think the song says if he did it before do it again begin again begin again and now it's offering time here at the fountain of praise i love this part of the service because listen it's our way of saying listen god i'm gonna honor you with my gifts i'm going to honor you with my gifts god i know i've gotten even lazy with this where i've been holding back what you told me i'm supposed to give so god you know what i'm going to begin again just like the people in this story how they got lazy started holding on to their stuff and they were not building the kingdom like they were supposed to god you know what i made some you know what i'm done with that you know what he says i'm not even worried about your past let's begin again there are three ways that you can give here the fountain of praise you can come up to the church you can give in person you can give online at tfop.org you can text to give there are several ways and we encourage you to do that and even on your way out today we have our deacons that are at the doors and you can place your offering into one of the receptacles amen amen amen can we stand so that we can be dismissed amen amen i want to remind you all that this coming up sunday is back to church sunday amen it's back to church sunday so we encourage you to invite a friend you who are watching share this with a friend our st we are talking about hope this sunday and so you know what why don't you share a little bit of hope with someone someone you know that's become down on their luck or feel like they just don't have it share with them this series sunday push them to show up on sunday in person or online we want to see you sunday fair fair let's let's pray and now unto him who's able to do exceedingly abundantly far above what we could ask or think according to the power that's at work within us god we thank you that you're doing it now and you're able that you're able to do it through us father let us be blessed in our rising up our lying down our labor as well as our leisure let anyone that comes across our presence know they have been blessed because we've been a blessing it's in jesus name we pray amen derek hallelujah what an awesome word we got tonight that the lord spoke to us through pastor will listen as we leave this place we enter to worship we leave out worshiping we want to remind god of something that he already knows about himself and that's simply lord you are good is there anybody who can echo me and say lord you are good seems like good isn't good enough but that's what we have and if your heart is pure he can receive it from your mouth put your hands together with us as we leave from this one if you don't sing with are good at me mercy endureth forever [Music] [Music] forever [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] who you are [Music] [Music] yes you are yes you are [Music] put your hands on [Music] yes [Music] oh

Channel: The Fountain of Praise

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Length: 47min 2sec (2822 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 15 2021