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[Music] [Applause] [Music] hello good morning everyone come on in the room like they always say come on in the room hello good morning it is a beautiful sunday morning yes we are having a great time here at the plaza we had a wonderful worship experience for the 8 a.m service and i am so glad to be here with you all and also being here with miss sakia we are here we are happy to have all of you so like i get like again like i said come on in the room i need you to put some likes and some hearts on this yes yes yes in the chat where you are tuning in from whether you are locally or you are geographically locked out let us know exactly where you were tuning in from we are so excited to have all of you here and don't forget to share yes you have to share you have to hit that share button listen we always talk about the algorithm that is on facebook we never absolutely know when someone will see this video but i pray that when you shared that whoever sees this video whether it is earlier within today or later on in tonight that they would see the broadcast at the exact moment in time that their spirit needs to be fed so go right ahead and hit that share button post a youtube link if you have to do whatever you can send it in your group chats i know a lot of us have a lot of different family group chats or friend group chats that are going on so go right ahead and do that for me all right yes so we are coming into our transforming lives month i know you've heard us saying it all across all of our social media platforms um whether you're youtube whether you're facebook whether your instagram whatever it is right please make sure that you are letting people know that we come from a family a community under god in his spirit and we are covered and we want to spread the love with everyone so in transforming lives um this particular month we want to make sure that you tag at least three friends three three three for the father son and the ghost make sure you because you know like me i use youtube a lot so you know i share through youtube i send it via text or something like that yeah and you you know shania over here might be on the facebook a little bit yeah you can tell which friends do you usually uh majority of the time i definitely do use facebook hit that share button but you can also tag people right within the comments just by hitting at and then their name and that'll pull them straight in so even if they don't see it as soon as you tag them they'll see it later on so look at all throughout the week at least three people and you can start that today and start that right now so we have a video that we really want you guys to hear and it's related to transforming lives month as many of you know we are in our transformation month we do a heavy evangelism so what does that mean that means we call on other individuals we want to build the body of christ by inviting others to worship with us and what happens during transforming lives month we're trying to get a transformation that happens on the inside that emanates from the outside so what things are we trying to transform our minds our attitudes the things we do the places that we go when you transform your life it's it's not just hearing the word but making it practical for your life to be able to transform that situation to walk boldly to walk um with authority just like bishop preached about today um and to know that who you are in christ whatever the situation whether it's housing whether it's relationships whether it's just anything transforming your life means that i am a child of god and every situation that i find myself in i am able to walk through and be victorious this is the month to come out give your life to christ and rededicate your life god is not concerned about where you have been just like the father the prodigal son he went out acted a fool and as he was coming to himself and coming towards his father's house his father ran to him and welcomed him with open arms and that is what god wants to do for you this month and the only way that we're able to do that is when we come out we'll become a part of the worship experience to be here on days like today for our driving service when we invite people on our online experience where we can see them because you know we can't invite them into the church just yet but you can host your own watch party you can invite your family invite your friends let them become a part of the worship experience and allow god not only to continue to transform you but to transfer them it's a beautiful thing to experience transformation and not only in your life but to offer that opportunity to someone else and i just you know i'm excited because we're here this morning and we have everybody tuning in with us i want to welcome sister sid arthur weathersby you know it's great to have you all here with us and and joining and joining us in our virtual hallway and um hopefully you are having the opportunity to share with people how your life has been transformed um through uh christ through bethany um being connected to bethany so if you want to drop that in the chat that'd be a wonderful thing we wanted to give you a love shout out to here yes exactly how this church and how bishop and pastor nick has transformed your life and then we also if you are a time viewing with us if you are jumping on to bethany jumping on to engage live for the first time even please let us know who you are if this is your first time engaging you are our vip people we want to say hi to you okay all right so we do have a little game for all of you today and it's continuing in the theme of transformation we are doing a transformer game do you want to explain the rules of the game today okay so let me see if i can explain the rules of the game um we are going to pretty much um it's basically letting you know that more meets the eye for the people of the bible and a story of the people in the bible whose lives have been transferred or or they transformed the lives around them yeah when they couldn't or they felt they weren't worthy because very often we think we aren't worthy yeah and we are we're the prime people for and god shows us that so i'm going to read a little snippet and then you guys are going to guess exactly who i am talking about ready so when the angel first came to me i thought they had the wrong one me of all people to carry such a precious gift how it was impossible that i could do this but i decided to trust in god and what i thought was impossible came to reality transforming the lives of many who am i who am i so we know that y'all have to chew on it a little bit you're going to think about it a little bit and um i just we have donna on we have uh sister sid uh sister sis said um mary hmm [Music] mary i think now let's move on to the next one it says ha me of all people chosen to be part of the cool club i had better things to do than walk around this new guy named jesus i fought against it and was eager to arrest those who walked with jesus but then one day on the road to damascus i heard the voice of jesus and was blinded long story short after my sight was restored so was my faith in god and in his son named jesus to think me of all people was called to help spread the gospel who am i who am i chew on that everybody do we have some answers from the community who am i so um in the meantime while you guys are chewing on it i want to oh well sister sid if you know who it is say who it is now um we want to say hello to our vip people michelle welcome and i also want to welcome vicki it's good to see you with us vicky we're excited to have you with us um anybody know that answer before shania gives it up all right so we're going to vicky look at you you are cool today y'all know your bible thank you for joining us annette all right so we are absolutely glad that you know within this church of being transforming lives one at a time that we are constantly transforming each and every single day um bishop and pastor nick pastor val you know they all work collectively under the same thing the same theme every single year even within under umbrellas of different things but our main theme is always transforming lives one at a time and you guys all know that that is exactly what august is all about it's just transforming lives so again we want to make sure that you are tagging people that you are engaging with people and letting them know that we are here to transform lives one at a time yeah we are an example of god's love and so very often people see him through us and so one of the things we're always asking is not only how have you been transformed but what ways are you trying to support and transform people yeah and you know sometimes we share and we wonder did anybody watch it did they get it and um it's funny i've had people come up to me later on to say you know what um one day i just happened to click on it and that was really good i took so much away from it so you never know it may not happen immediately but just taking that moment to share and represent and be a fisher of men as we have been told to do in matthew 4 19 we make sure that we represent god's kingdom and we pass it forward and spread to everyone the word of christ yeah so what are other ways in which that we ourselves can be transformers of of god's word um you know i think bishop one time was just saying um sometimes it's just even when someone walks into your room at the office and they see a bible on your desk and people might have questions i have um individuals in my community at work where they will ask me to pray for them because they've seen me praying they see me take a moment at lunch to stop and pray and while i don't always impress it upon people people respectfully take that moment and pause with me but then when there comes time and they are in need they come and so it's in those moments that you know i take it and make it a sharing moment a teaching moment a learning moment a loving moment so i think it's very important that you stated that um being a wonderful example of who god is unto us you know walking that daily life because you know sometimes walking through life it can be a little bit difficult you know you can be tempted to do a lot of other things use different words you're not supposed to join in on things that you know that is not like god but he calls us to know be not of the world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind so you know it's very important that we are those examples of christ because you know a lot of people have one opinion of what you should be as a christian but you have to show them exactly what god has called us and what he has told us that we have to do yeah and so and when you're doing that just um prayer um we are asking you know every time we come together and um engage live we ask for prayer requests so you could be praying for those people you're transforming lives and they don't even know that you're transforming lives and supporting them in the way that you are and so when we are all challenged with those things that very things that shania was talking about all of us um that prayer is important so please drop drop your prayer requests in the comments let us know who needs prayer if you need prayer and even if you can't give us details because of course we want to be specific when we pray for you and on your behalf um if you can't give the specific details then just let us know because god knows your need and your aunt your prayers will be answered yeah and you can always send your prayer requests at social go the number two bethany.com those are for any of those special prayers that you know you don't want to post them on social media and that's completely okay but even if you want to just put like a wide range of what it is yeah healing you didn't have to say exactly what it was but manifestation yes you get what i'm saying it's just things like that but again if you need someone to pray specifically for that issue again you can email it at social go the number two bethany.com and sometimes you may not know how to pray or what to say when you pray that's where you know we have this intercessory prayer going on and as a community we pray and support each other and then that's why we have you tuning in on engage live because then we have these discussions with pastor nick and bishop where they are giving us so much content so much information on how to reach god how to speak to god how the angels speak and have conversations with us you know there's so much to be learned and we have yet another opportunity for you to get some more good word in and understand the bible as it is in god's word so pastor nick and bishop are coming up with our discussion i hope you're dropping in some questions you all know how it goes every week this is the time that we drop questions in the chat we make room so that our our past our dynamics our dynamic duo bishop and pastor nick come in and they answer whatever question you have and um if you aren't sure you know because i watch eight o'clock service and i get a little information and then i'm asking questions to my well hello there you would i took my heels off well as you can see pastor nick is ready so we're gonna get you guys all ready to go head on right over there to them grab your snacks your coffee your tea we will see you guys in a little bit hey y'all what's up how's everybody doing uh this morning welcome to another sunday uh discussion time we hope you enjoyed the message this morning and our engaged live team uh please do me a favor and if you haven't shared share we hope that you all are enjoying the experience here at bethany church the transformation church of new jersey um of course uh bishop will be here in a minute we start a little early but we're so glad that you have uh joined us again and again please share at this time get your questions ready 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[Laughter] i didn't want to disappoint her and not blame herself right right amen good morning great so the angelic yeah um talked about mary what's interesting about the mary story well at least interesting to me the text implies mary is in a location in the house for a chance whatever and all of a sudden this being shows up um an angel shows up and says hail mary you know highly favored et cetera et cetera bless you among women and it says mary uh was more focused on what he said she was reasoning what he said i don't know about you if i'm sitting in the room by myself and some random being shows up in my living room i'm scared i'm a little nervous about what i'm seeing mary wasn't concerned about what she saw the salutation the message what the he what she heard was messing with her so that would imply that she was a person of faith which we um would have to not assume we would have to she was a jew she is she had to be a person of faith she had some understanding of angelic manifestation so it was just the message overshadowed the messenger yes which i believe is what's supposed to happen absolutely absolutely okay and we know it's god because again he messes with your sensibilities he offends you challenges your faith and usually from what i see in scripture majority of times when god speaks the first response from human beings is usually reason sure it is how can this happen are you sure about this they're either saying it or thinking it yep you know moses reaction was you know i can't talk saul's reaction to david was i'm he's too young uh solomon i don't know what i'm doing you know i'm too young so there's there's a there's a a mindset based upon existing facts yeah that faith has to overcome absolutely yep when um the angel came to sampson's parents angel shows up talks to talks to one of them and says yo you're going to have this child and she's they're like bewildered but the angel god takes his time working on them until they finally receive the message that this boy is going to be born you know that's going to have this future yeah he keeps speaking god tends to keep speaking his words yeah until faith is birthed yeah but there's that transition from human reason and intellect over to faith where i'm i'm not taking a risk i'm stepping into my purpose i'm i'm stepping into certainty i'm not taking a risk with god yeah you know even though what he's saying is not making sense as it relates not to him but to where i am in life right now absolutely it's that's why i love the power above the sower the sower sows the seed he keeps on sowing until he reaches good ground he doesn't stop here at the wayside doesn't stop the stony ground throwing around god just keeps on because somewhere around here is some good ground and and that's the spiritual principle that understands that the sower's job is to suck to choose the best ground possible but in that process there will be some seed that falls on ground that's not productive yep but you can't stop sowing because there's a loss every now and then yep yep that's an amazing that's amazing dynamic yep god's grace just keeps on yeah to keep you moving and even job he said if god knows he speaks once yet twice but because man won't listen yeah god sends a dream and it could be possible again the reason why god sends us dreams is because we're not listening while we're awake well we some stuff is just too big for us yeah yeah you know so we're married when the conversation with mary is a conversation which kind of blows out social norms blows out circumstantial norms blows out her her idea of time blows out her idea of social appropriateness blows i mean just it kills everything yep and then here comes the angel with god's message and she's spiritually astute enough to know this is a spiritual moment but how is this message applying to me because it totally contradicts everything i know about me absolutely yep i mean you got this teenage girl she believes she's around 14 to 16 14 16. somewhere around there yeah but i love it because youth are usually more open mm-hmm than um in our naivete not jaded by life as much well you know you see it joseph was probably a teenager 16-17 um david was a teenager 16 17. so you know that that is that those are visionaries that have not well they're not old enough to be afraid yet yeah yeah there's a little bit of that yeah okay i can do this nothing's going to happen to me you know david had been through several you know life-and-death struggles and he'd come out with very little evidence yeah you know mary's coming through life and you know she she knows her cousin's gotten pregnant by miracle so she's thinking well this you know yeah god visits his family so i but i think had the angel not come i'm not sure that the angel came in a normal corporeal way to talk to mary which is why there may have been immediate recognition this is a god moment it's not somebody breaking in my house right yeah yeah is this something about him yeah it's just different it's different yeah but but the whole reasoning and faith thing because they're messengers and uh it's not until she finally gets to that place where she says okay cool beat unto me according to your word and the angel jumps up and leaves right at that moment because she recognizes and i love god's patience with us yeah it's amazing yeah how it keeps working on her yeah until she finally submits to it and then i think later in the text when she's talking to elizabeth she actually testifies you know yeah this is what's up with me yeah you know i'm getting ready to have god yeah the great birth the son of god yeah yeah you know but she goes from from what is this to oh yeah it's me isn't it yeah yeah and and god opens up the possibilities and it's he opens up the possibilities and he wants us to remain open um as a child like childlike faith yeah and something we're talking about on wednesday got shining that light in that darkness it just keeps on piercing his light piercing his light until that darkness kind of starts to dissipate and that light breaks through and it may be a small point but i don't ever recall the bible calling christians the adults of god so there is a there is a maturity that is expected but a child like receptivity yep to god and i believe that's what's necessary for wisdom and faith to dwell together absolutely yeah absolutely let life give you wisdom but childlike yeah we can do this daddy can do anything yep you know yeah that kind of thing and even you know they my kids you know you know your kids too they think they don't think about if i jump from this step to that step oh no i can break my ankle they're just like oh fun just nothing's impossible no that's impossible nothing that child-like belief system so have you ever gotten a situation when one of your children was astounded because you said maybe you didn't know or or i don't know if i can do that or they're like what they'd like whatever go fix it i'm like we'll figure it out mine don't mind like yeah but you can do anything i'm like and i don't want to argue with him at that point i i better figure out a way to do it he's even better yeah yeah talk him through we'll figure it out we'll work it out it ain't that big of a deal but you know what's funny the enjoyment was walking upstairs this week i didn't turn the lights on upstairs in the classroom who's just going to grab something real quick okay and he's i said come on he's like well i can't go any further i can't it's dark i said just keep on going and paraphrasing he said okay as long as i can see you i'm good wow and that thing right there just showed me something absolutely if that's trust that's trust right there i can't see everything in front of me but as long as i see you i'm fine because i was able to see yeah he's trusting your presence and trusting that you're not going to lead him into anything that's going to hurt exactly man i'm like ain't nobody here isn't that the kind of faith that's the kind of faith yeah man and it reminded me of that uh yay do i walk through the valley of the shadow in the darkest valley i'll fear no weevil because you're with absolutely all right so the first question is from sid uh seems that numbers are important in the kingdom of god are there more angels than demons yes only the only the third of the angels were thrown out of heaven yeah yeah just that one third yeah so there's two thirds left because there's no new ones he's there yeah yeah all right this is from joe i understand sometimes we entertain angels and don't know it what happens when we screw up this visitation if it feels like i failed the test and won't be promoted to the next grade does god hold this against us no i i think it's with everything with god i believe is like pastor nick can you correct me please i although it's hard to see everything happens with god is a teaching moment yes so what happens say i do miss the angelic manifestation which means i'm missing the inception of a new season or an opportunity god didn't say i'm never going to do that again yeah but what god does expect us to do is learn yes from that failure yeah so that when that presentation happens again we don't miss it absolutely i think that's the answer yep so he's not going to put you in the penalty box forever but you will have to wait until the cycle for your particular uh move of god comes around again yeah yeah because that's the case if we missed one moment never came back again we'd all be in trouble come on man come on you wouldn't have nothing there would be no recovery here's another question from sid it's so easy to resist and miss the will of god unfortunately how do we encourage young folks especially that this challenge is natural well let's back it up i don't think it's easy to miss it i think we decide to ignore it i i think his will is so plain and so so thoroughly written in the bible that the bible says only a fool could make an error so we're in a situation where we willingly we see both sides of a thing and sometimes we choose what we know is not god and i think that's just the reality of it yeah so as far as just not seeing it at all i think when i don't know about you but when i was unsaved i still knew whether something was righteous or unrighteous and many times i would decide to do the unrighteous thing yeah some people unfortunately don't live an aware life okay if i can say it like that we know people like that all right they're kind of they're not woke they're not booked they're oblivious to not by choice though oh yes but they're oblivious by choice all these times it's not it's not by they're not it's not it's not denial it's avoidance yeah it's a voice i'm not living it aware of life to pay attention to it's like you always teach us pay attention what goes on during the course of the day so in the evening you can reflect on your day so you can consider what you're going to do tomorrow that's right i don't think a lot of people actually sit down and say yeah i think people live haphazardly yeah and not intentionally yes there it is yeah and i think that is more but the problem with living intentionally is that you create expectations in other people yeah for you true and many people don't want you want to be expected to do anything yeah yep that's true yeah and i think the answer to the youth part i don't know about you yeah the older i get when i look back on my teenage years early 20s i'm like man you didn't know nothing i'm just like yo you you thought you knew some stuff you were just dumb like when i was when i when i was 16 i thought my mother was insane the older i got the smarter she got yeah until there was a point in my life when i realized looked back she'd never given me a wrong answer a human being yeah that never gave me the wrong answer never gave me the wrong advice yep i believe it i followed him correctly yeah but i heard what i wanted to hear but she never gave me the older i got the smarter she got yeah by the time i was 40 i thought she was a genius yep that's so true it's so true they say youth is way uh youth is wasted by folly something like something like that yeah that vanity thing and yeah and uh song of solomon ecclesiastes is just amazing to me just it's just yep all right this is from kiefe my question is this can we as people be angels to another human who needs one can we ask people to be can we as people be angels for people if you have a message from god for an individual and here's the thing the word angel translates messenger it also has that apostolic uh feeling of being sent so if god gives you something to say now here's the problem in the bite of christ many christians think because they are saved if they feel a thing that must be god and if they feel it strongly it has to be god yeah adding is so untrue right so if i'm led to talk to pastor nick and god gives me a specific word and it agrees with the word of god right then i'm becoming quote unquote a messenger angelic in that moment yeah yeah but it is not the entity that makes the angel it's the message absolutely yep yep yeah hey girls i have always doubted myself and what i can accomplish how do i move past my doubt that really turns into fear say that again yeah i have always doubted myself and what i can accomplish how do i move past my doubt that it's really fear i i think we place too much emphasis on self-esteem rather than self-respect you don't really have to do anything or accomplish anything to have self-esteem but you do have to produce things to have self-respect so a lot of times what happens is we become image creators rather than productive individuals i'm taking the long way around so when i am consistently underperforming i would and under believing underperforming because i'm under believing i will create doubt but if i am striving to produce i'll create if you will self-respect or productivity right now when that happens productivity will always diminish doubt in this context for christians especially the bible says you know a tree by the fruit that it bears a lot of us intention is enough glory productivity when intention is enough glory productivity does not have to be reached so i'm not being productive or i'm failing along the way because of doubt because i have placed my emphasis on esteem and not respect so what has to happen is when we uh are in a situation where doubt creeps in it is because not only of a lack of trust in god but it is a lack of respect or self-respect now if if if i'm a failure but i tell you i'm all that i you think i have great self-esteem right but i have not great self-respect so when things challenge me my image of esteem cannot handle the pressure of a new opportunity so i find myself doubting if i can accomplish it why because self-respect is built on one accomplishment after the other so but if all i have is this empty self-esteem i'm going to start doubting as soon as there's no one to hear me say i'm all that i'm going to start doubting and then all of a sudden fear kicks in because opportunity tends to reveal whether you're a person of faith or whether you're a person of fear that was a long way around but that was the good answer okay okay from denise on youtube what traits should we possess and exhibit so that we are aware and don't miss opportunity blessing of entertaining angels unaware i mean i would think that let's go back real quick okay i don't think we can be aware of angels if we're not constantly aware of the presence of god in the first place thank you very much i think we put we we put the cart before the horse yeah i think if we live throughout the day and not talk about some spooky you know god but that constant awareness that god is always with me and king search out of matter i'm constantly talking to god during the course of the day seeking after him searching him out it can make you more aware of when he's moving through the angelic through you know or through any other means so you get a spiritual sensitivity yes there you go so someone sitting down talking to you at lunch does not have the same impact on you someone that's saying what the lord says yeah and almost in every situation when an angel speaks it is thus saith the lord the lord has said you found favor with god it's that this that message in there that is a message not only to to heal whatever present is going on but to also prepare you for what's coming next yeah um and that's why in mary's case i think it's really glaring as an example you have the holy spirit and the angelic working together at the same time angel brings the message and he brings the message that the holy ghost is going to overshadow you so that shows me the spirit's response to the word that's spoken but it also shows me the angelic work that happens when faith is released yeah do angels have a will are they able to make decisions in the same way as humans if so what would keep them from sin and if not how do we account for the fallen angels they made the wrong decision [Laughter] yeah angels make decisions you mean there's a couple of them a couple of situations in the bible where they're offered meals and they're like nah we're gonna do something different with this yeah you know sometimes when they they could have destroyed something that they didn't you know but they don't come with their own agenda yeah that's the chief difference between fallen and well fallen angels have their own agenda too god's angels come with god's agenda demons come with satan's agenda so the authority that sins is the authority they represent and i should have said that in the sermon so you got you got this god sends his angels in apostolic authority satan sends his demons in demonic of thought problem is people don't know that satan's already been satan does not have authority over the believer anymore it's just like goliath most of israel didn't know that his spiritual authority over them was gone it took david's battle with them to reveal it yep i love this series especially the part about angels can you talk a little bit more about our placement with angels i think there is scripture that says we are above below and equal to angels which should i believe i missed that last part i i missed the front part okay could you just say it all over again a little louder i love the series especially the part about angels can you talk a little bit more about our placement our relation with angels okay okay um and they said they believe that there's scripture that says we are above below and equal to angels which one should i believe okay okay great well the bible says we're um made a little over yeah yeah yeah but we are the crown jewel of god's creation on earth right uh so we're made a little lower than them but then it says later on that we will judge the angels too so you know to me maybe being too pragmatic here i'm not really worried about my placement with the angels now this is just me talking here okay i'm more concerned about me being in tune what god is doing yeah and the angels being that synergistic relationship that we have i think you're right and i'll we'll answer the question of course um jesus is very clear the bible is very clear in the new testament that even though he's given us power over the demonic power of a serpent and all that he says don't get hung up in that just be content or satisfied or glad about the fact you're in the lamb's book sir yes sir so that's that's the ultimate yeah thing to be excited about don't get so hyped yeah about these other abilities i've given you through gifted which is what the modern day saint is really hung up on he says what you really need to be happy about is being in relationship with me yep now created a little lower in creativity yes in judgment above so what we do we compartmentalize the relationship when the relationship is circumstantial but then at the same time on earth if a child of god speaks the word of god angels have to get to work because they work for the saints so there is this relational cooperation that happens that depends on context how much authority or how little authority we have to sure okay so this is from ruth i was sharing this message with my kids and they asked if there are boy and girl angels i didn't know how to answer all the world's images of angels seem to be men is this right i think they get that from gabriel and um uh michael for guys but i've actually seen angelic pictures of women too yeah men's pictures of them yep yeah like pictures of the angel being a woman or being a male but the bible doesn't go into the gender of the angel because at the end of the day it really it doesn't it doesn't matter it doesn't matter no i think i think with um there are a variety of angelic beings that are around the throne um there are angels several different stratas of them and then there are according to revelation beasts and that's not a negative type of beast but creatures that have been created that are around the throne so i would have to believe that there are male and female representations in not just male and female in the way we're thinking yeah yeah it's not gender like human beings no yeah that's all i have at the moment one more that's all i have for you okay [Laughter] all right i think we're over time right well we got that two more minutes okay two minutes um so i think you said next week you're going into the angel of the lord i believe yes some of that i have to do some other stuff um because in the in the discussion concerning the angelic it would be half of a discussion if i did not include the demonic angels yeah and how that whole piece worked out and what relationship they have with us absolutely yeah it's going to be fun because you got i mean they just they work they do their job and you know primarily messengers work in god's agenda part of god's will in the earth and i think i believe in angels let's do great things sometimes we make the mistake of looking for god and the angelic to do stuff but god is the power to us to do absolutely as messengers here though absolutely you know you're taking the you know i'm i was thinking why you were saying that that um when we understand in the calling and position that we are bible refers to us as angels not because we are are that ethereal spiritual being but the message message causes us to be angelic at that moment absolutely yeah how we live what we say yeah all that good stuff so be a good messenger this week you know all right so don't forget uh 11 o'clock service coming up of course we'll be back at 5 30 this evening for 10 times better discussion 6 o'clock the video then we'll be back after for a post discussion this evening so join us all day today and again mark your calendar is the 25th of this month we're having bible study outdoors drive up service wow outdoor bible study um we're going to take our allergy medicine and be out there and it's killing me today man oh jesus we got to park with the kids last night i'm all just i didn't do all that and i'm all i'm still jacked so he's out there preaching man at outdoor service man every week it's the same thing takes me three days to recover it's terrible yes so join us and we'll be all right and we'll send you back over to the crew well welcome back and once again we have been truly enlightened yeah i love the discussions it is definitely um the moment in engage live where i i'm always wondering who's going to ask what question and never never never do we come across in a a time where bishop or pastor nick can't answer that question yes so blessed to be guided by these men of god so what we want to ask you is what did you enjoy what did you enjoy about the discussion today yeah of course 11 o'clock service is coming up and you're going to have the opportunity to see a little bit of what they were talking about if you didn't catch eight o'clock service but we do want you to drop in the chat what you enjoy today so keisha thank you for joining us sid thank you for all the questions eugene is with us cheryl's with us we have a lot of people with us this morning with us i'm so glad that you guys are truly engaged so really what we want to do is make sure that again transforming lives is our focus yeah and so there's so much happening through the week um so much we are packed with a lot of different things that go on again like you know we are the church that never sleeps we always have something going on so we have wednesday bible study coming up this week we have you know our different engagement opportunities with you know all of our different pastors here and ministers and stuff like that we have our driving services on saturdays because we are packed with so much so much going on here at the plaza we also want to encourage you that if you want to pick up any of your copies of any of the services that have happened that you can come here on the property of the church and go to the harvest bookstore we have all of the copies of all of bishop's sermons so you are more than welcome to do that buy one and share one with one of your co-workers i like that buy one share one yeah buy one share one buy one share one in the chat and pick up because you know there's literature that you can pick up you can pick up books um that bishop has written there's bibles there there are a number of uh swag um t-shirts yeah i love it so definitely if you are missing the church you want to get a good visual of it you can see it from afar of course and go to a harvest bookstore and then when you feel like you're also want to have a little more up close personal engagement with us please know we are now going to be having a drive-in we want you to come for our very first driving bible study so if any of you have been here for our driving services on saturdays you know exactly how it is we have brought the worship out of these four walls and brought it outside into the back and it has been a wonderful encounter each and every single time but i am pleased to let you all know that we are starting that with our own very bible study out there in the back on the same exact stage and this will be starting on august 25th at 7 00 p.m yes yes so we want to gear you guys all up for next person ready to honk your horn we're social distance but y'all know we'd love to say hi aaron so everybody please come in and um really we have a lot going on around the church and so not only will we be coming in to do the drive-in service but well as you come in know that we are starting to uh we're catching up and we're catching the fire so maybe during those times those are opportunities for you to decide or figure out how you're going to volunteer yeah so next saturday yes yes august 21st at 9 00 a.m we are catching the fire it is that time again we are gearing up to send all of our kitties back to school for anyone who is who is in need of backpacks school supplies pencils folders notebooks calculators erasers glue crayons colored pencils we have all of that here for you we are going to be at three different locations this year ready lindenwald high school woodrow wilson high school in camden and thomas h dudley elementary school so i want to encourage you all that if you want to be a part of this awesome endeavor to go out go out and purchase your school supplies we have bins here at the church that you could bring them here make sure you wear your mask but you can bring them here and place them in the bins and then i encourage all of you that if you want to come out meet us at these locations we are going to be handing out all of these different school supplies and i promise you it is a wonderful experience and don't forget give the five if you can't go and you can't shop you can't get this stuff you can always in another way offer that support so let's show you a video that we have with relation to catch the fire hey everyone it's maya and i am here with the amazing alex so you touched on this a little bit earlier about how much of a joy it was for you to see the happy faces and how blessed people were in receiving the gifts from our cast of fire initiatives but i think something that's often forgotten is how much of a joy it is to be the ones giving and to be able to help out in the way so i want to hear from you what has been the biggest blessing in volunteering for our catch to fire initiatives yeah um you know it's blessed my life first in really helping me see that all of my problems every single one of them are very small and very insignificant in comparison to some of the things that a lot of other people are going through and it's really added meaning and purpose to my life at a time where i really didn't know what to do with myself last year i suddenly found myself with a lot of free time and filling it with things that were only self-satisfying just wasn't working anymore so volunteering has been a really special way for me to use this gift of time and it's something that i really look forward to doing more of again really soon amazing so i just have one more question for you alex what words of encouragement or advice would you give to someone who may be interested in volunteering for one of our backpack giveaways or any of our cash the fire initiatives for the first time my advice would just be jump into it get out there whatever you're doing however small the task you're making a huge impact in someone else's life and you will be blessed in the process and if i could share a quote that i read recently from mother teresa um something she said which was we can do no great things only small things with great love so i really like that you know what better way to put our love into action than by serving at bethany so that would be my advice to anyone volunteering this year or for anyone thinking about volunteering just sign up and get out there you won't regret it okay so as you can see it is just a blessing catch the fire everyone find a way that you know you can give you can share and volunteering it can be such a pleasure and rewarding and as you see you know individuals that never thought that they could make a difference in a change they are just giving in such small ways that are great and it reminds us that we are truly blessed i think sometimes we do forget how blessed we are when we're going through and so when you're a blessing to someone else it helps you see yourself and your life in a different light so just know that these videos the full video can be seen on our social media channels yes yes so have them here on facebook we'll have it here on youtube and we'll also have it on instagram so be sure to you know look out for that because we will definitely have that posted for all of you and it will give you many different ways that you can volunteer with us here at bethany church we everyone can do something you know and so if you feel like oh i'm someone that may not be able to move as much may not be able to do as much we can always find a little nook for you so um thank you for those that are and have joined in the past please come back out as it relates to our catch the fire if you like anything that we're doing here like also under the umbrella of volunteering this what we're doing is volunteering being a part of the media ministry and social media ministry is also a source of volunteering so if any of you or anyone that you know are looking to volunteer or to be greater in service you can contact us at social go the number two bethany.com again that's social at go the number two bethany.com yeah i think people aren't realizing like when we do these drive-in services you know there's people that are guiding you into driving into your parking spot there's people behind the camera there's you know us there are people giving out you know uh the different things that we need throughout and this is all a part of volunteering yeah all of its volunteering so take the moment um uh reach out to us let us know that you're you're just interested and we are excited to have you on board um because uh kova didn't shut anything down for bethany we are on and moving and loving god in the way that we always did right yep we sure are but you know we've been talking about transformation all day long and completely all month how has transformation been for you and what does it mean to you so i think what it means to me you know i i think about the times when i look back and how lost i was in different aspects of my life in the past and bishop was talking about the book of life and i feel like transforming lives it helps me know that i can be impactful on that book of life right yeah um i don't want to make it to the book of life and my family not be there my friends not be there i want us all i don't i would feel horrible that i didn't do something impactful to someone that was in need to ensure that we are all in god's kingdom when the time comes so transforming lives is you know i feel like that's a big reward for something so small as clicking a share or mentioning my god to someone or you know what i think of i think of the skit that corey and cara did yes that skit to me was very impactful i'm just speaking on you know why didn't you tell me you know because we all had the opportunity to tell someone someone and that's all god calls us to do evangelize tell someone because you never know how that will change someone's life yes and so if you have something to share with us as far as what transforming lives means to you please drop it in the chat please let us know what transforming lives means to you and what you do to transform other people's lives because you never know someone might be reading the chat and you give them an idea on how they might be able to go about sharing with someone and also offering the opportunity for someone to transform their lives we're going on all month for transforming lives but this happens for a lifetime we should be constantly pursuing the trans um transforming someone's life yeah so i want to take this opportunity we've asked you guys earlier to drop your prayers in the chat um i know this has been a crazy year and a half yes it has we have been in covet and we've also been losing people left and right whether it was coveted or not kobe but we also have been having our own personal struggles so we want to take this opportunity to you know pray for you guys get you guys let you guys understand that we are here with you we stand in the gap with you and we are you know believing god for you so you want to pray yes i can definitely pray please everyone drop your prayer request in the chat but know that even if it isn't said on air someone has read it and we are all looking into this chat and everyone in our community is praying over you so never forget it your prayers don't go unnoticed your prayer requests don't go unnoticed and they don't go unheard and they will be sent up to our lord and savior so if everybody can come with me come together with me and we would just want to say dear heavenly most gracious father oh you are the great i am and father god you have shown us time and time again that you are there for us in every moment of every single day we thank you father god for letting us to come together and to share and worship and worship your name give you glory and honor and praise we thank you lord for having a community to congregate with so that we can pray over those that are in need here in our community and across the world father god thank you for the platform that you have created for bethany baptist church that is reaching everyone all over the world thank you for those that join us every sunday and we pray that those that can't join us that you will still cover them cover everyone that has had a prayer request today and some of those prayer requests are unspoken and unwritten father god we ask that you just cover them because we know that you know all that goes on in your kingdom and that at the end of the day it will all come to your greater good we thank you father for blessing us as a community we thank you for lifting us up and allowing us to transform the lives of others we pray that you will give us the strength and the courage to lead others to christ every day of our lives i pray that you will continue to care and cover everyone give them good health and bring them closer to you each and every day so that we all end up in the lamb's book of life i ask that you will watch over us and watch over all those that are traveling out there today give them traveling mercies and i pray that you will guide them yet to another week and through another week with us as a community and to the next week where we will get some more of your good word from the pastor and the bishop that are overseeing this church thank you for our leaders thank you for everyone father god we ask that you'll continue to lead us and we ask this in your precious thing amen amen we will see you next time be blessed bethany

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Published: Sun Aug 15 2021