Family Still Matters || AY Service 4th Sept 2021

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] so [Music] [Music] happy [Music] though god is [Music] [Music] is [Music] hold him next [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] in love to thee [Music] [Music] [Music] good evening everybody veronica are you here with me today yes i am good evening sister winner and good afternoon to our ey yes so we are glad to be here once again this afternoon to continue our family life week and this ai is small different we continue with the family life team and receiving love courtship and marriage big things this evening mr renegade yes i agree i agree it seems to be a full evening of information and knowledge yes so we're going to start with prairie and i have a young lady christopher quito who will open us up with her it's like herself afternoon everyone mary please go ahead and close the eyes for prayer the heavenly father thank you so much lord for spending our lives on blessing our sister the beautiful sabbath day that you have made for there are many who have begun this week and didn't make it as far but i asked of you to bless everyone who are president here and even those who aren't happy to visit them at this point in time and bless them plus the ones who are taken up this evening's program i pray that everything goes according to plan without any technical difficulties and i pray that everything that is being taught to lord that we wouldn't just keep it for ourselves but that we would go on until this upcoming week and tell everyone and share the word this is my prayer to you in jesus christ's name amen amen okay so we're moving straight on to our song service okay good evening everyone we've been doing song service live and um for song service we wanted to ask that if there are any persons who want to volunteer is there one person who can volunteer to do song service with us i see isabella put her hand up so she's volunteering so i would like to ask the host to pin isabella so we see isabella as well that would be reneka charles is the another participant who would want to raise their hand and just participate in the song service i'm not seeing all of the um angelo raise this hand hello my brother angelo please pin angelo in the is there one more thank you very much angelo thank you very much is there one more no other person will pin there put their hand up all right this is how our song service will go we are going to sing one song immediately after we are finished angelo will start singing his song for song service and immediately after andrew is finished with that one song you have one verse then it will go to isabella and renika each of us get one verse of one song right so this is a quick relay for song service could we get one more anybody else if we took your song you have only a second to get the other song that you have to sing all right and um yes because i'm doing some serious i'm going first so i get to sing anything first or we decided to sing right okay so we'll go angelo you are next and after angelo is isabella and right after isabella we come back then right after us angelo comes back and isabella finishes our song service this evening all right he's able my lord [Music] [Music] i know my lord is able to calm me true hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Applause] the [Music] [Music] on the day of the raindrops i love the buzz buzz buzzing of the bees but the thing i love the best yes the very very best is to know [Music] is to know that god loves me this isn't this isn't day that the lord has made that the lord has made we will rejoice we will rejoice and be glad in it and be glad [Music] [Applause] [Music] this this is the day that the lord asks me i am delivered i am [Music] [Music] i am delivered [Music] [Music] yay [Music] all right i want to thank everybody who volunteered for the song service be prepared zoom church next time to volunteer so we can have more than three persons pass this song or wrong amen amen well done welcome everybody please amen at this time we will have our welcome good evening everybody [Music] foreign pleasant evening to all welcome to a family-oriented ey where love courtship and marriage exist we virtually extend a hub to each and every one of you we hope you'll stay with us is one like no other and we hope to keep you connected with you and your family togetherness this week welcome amen amen amen well welcome bananas that we'll have our devotional or aim the advent message to all the world in this generation motto for the love of christ compels me pledge presentations loving the lord jesus i promise to take an active part in the work of the youth society of our church doing all i can to help others and to finish the work of the gospel in all the world order arms song adventist youth away from every [Music] [Music] is [Music] amen this afternoon our devotion will be coming from the adventist home chapter six it is entitled the great decision and i'll just be doing a short bit from this chapter a happy or unhappy marriage now everybody would want a happy marriage so let's hear what sisterhood has to admonish us if those who are contemplating marriage would not have miserable unhappy reflections after marriage they must make it a subject of serious illness reflection now this step taken on wisely is one of the most effective means of ruining the usefulness of young men and women life becomes a burden and a cruise you can imagine imagine living in a marriage where it is constantly a burden no one can so effectively ruin a woman's happiness and usefulness and make life a heart sickening burden as her own husband and no one can do 100 parts as much to chill the hopes and aspirations of a man to paralyze his energies and ruin his influence and prospects as his own wife it is from the marriage hour that many men and women date their success or failure in this life and the hopes of the future life marriage is something that will influence and affect your life both in this world and in the world to come a sincere christian will not advance his plans in this direction with all the knowledge that god approves his course he will not want to choose for himself but will feel that god must choose for him we are not to please ourselves for christ please not himself i would not be understood to mean that anyone is to marry one whom he does not love this would be sin but fancy and the emotional nature must not be allowed to lead on to ruin so we are seeing here that in choosing a like companion the young person or the person considering marriage should allow god to be chosen for them make hate slowly you have correct views of the marriage relation many seem to think that it is the attainment of perfect bliss you know i often tell young people i said marriage is not what you see on tv you know it's a real experience that you have to face day by day with your spouse and with your family members so plenty times young people feel that marriage is only peace and concern happiness like because we show but we used to see long time some people would be able to identify with me and family ties however we have challenges in marriages so you need to take your time when you are choosing a live companion if she goes on to say here marriage in a majority of cases is a most golden yoke there are thousands that are mated but not matched the books of heaven are burdened with the wars the wickedness and the abuse that lie hidden under the marriage mantle this is why i would warn the young who are of a marriageable age to make here slowly in the choice of a companion marriage is not something to be rushed into the part of married life may appear beautiful and full of happiness but why may not you be disappointed as thousands of others have been the question is being asked those who are contemplating marriage should consider what will be the character and influence of the home they are found in as they become parents a sacred trust is committed to them so now you are not responsible for your wife and your husband alone but when children come into the scene you know you are committed to take care of these children and bring them up in the fear and admonition of the lord to a great extent it says here upon them depends in a great measure the well-being of your children in this world and your happiness in the world to come to a great extent they determine both the physical and the moral stamp that the little ones receive and upon the character of the home depends the conditions of society the word of each family's influence will turn in the upward or the downward scale so we know that family influences our society vital factors in the choice great here should be taken by christian youth in the form in the formation of friendships and in the choice of companions taking less what you think to be pure gold turns out to be base metal worldly associations tend to place obstructions in the way of your service to god and many souls are ruined by unhappy unions either business or matrimonial with those who can never elevate or a noble wear every statement and watch every development of character and the one with whom you think to link your life destiny the step you are about to take is one of the most important in your life and repeat the step you are about to take is one of the most important in your life and should not be taken hastily while you may love do not love blindly examine carefully to see if your married life would be happy or harmonious or inharmonious and wretched let the questions be raised will this union help me heavenward will it increase my love for god and will it enlarge my sphere of usefulness in this life if these reflections present no drawback then in the fear of god move forward so if you answer these questions and as just a white is saying here there are no drawbacks or hindrances you can move forward so before i wrap up i'll just go over five key points from this afternoon's devotion and the first key point from this reading is that marriage should be contemplated upon very seriously and it should be founded on true love secondly a wrong choice of a companion can ruin your life here and even ruin your chance of gaining eternity thirdly a sincere christian will not enter into marriage without god's approval the individual will want god to choose their companion the fourth point persons of a marriageable age should take their time in the choice of the companion so young people don't rush out and get married because you feel that jesus might come quickly and you want to experience marriage no no no no take your time and let god do the choosing for you and the final point don't love blindly your choice will also affect your home and if you are blessed with children it will affect you of bringing in this world and in the world to come so with these few words i pray that we will contemplate the word that was given and that truly young people if you are contemplating marriage you will do so in the fear and admonition of our lord jesus christ amen amen amen amen and we thank sister rayanne for that lovely devotion at this time i have a very simple task for all of us i am looking to see how many cameras i have on because i need just a little bit of help with this activities so um oh hi jim hi janissa i see you um i see jar and jeron so i just have a little ice breaker that angela i see you a little ice breaker that we're gonna participate in as far as possible so those of you who don't have your cameras on yet i want you to get your pen and your pencil and just a little paper so when i ask these questions you can um you can write down your answers or you may you may be able to use your phone to write the answers on so here i'm seeing um uncle ron and auntie jose and however they are they're not a new couple or a recently married couple but they're relatively all in the business so i'll borrow them because i see them and i'm still scrolling through my participants and i am i see crystal was here so i'm going to borrow crystal keto also because i know she is quote unquote courting i prefer the term dating so we're gonna borrow crystal and everybody is going to answer for yourself however these are two responses that we will hate generally so yes brother ron don't look surprised i want to see how much you really know this gorgeous wife of yours we we we have been around for a long time yes you can also um give me crystal keto thanks crystal so our first question will be um who wakes up first in the morning so i know most of you have a significant other if you don't have yet and you're still living with mommy and daddy like jamisa who who i see that's okay you could you could write your brother or your sister but for these for people who are married or dating can you tell me who wakes up first in the morning so think about it some of us have to write it down oh sister marlene here you go we have we have this season couples coming in here on corona you might get a slide but don't go just yet if you were to answer currently in your relationship who wakes up first in the morning definitely me okay okay all right anthony paris i see you seeing me uncle ron who wakes up first i do sister erenica oh all right okay we have some early wake up us sister marlin wakes up first um all right sister joycelyn said her husband wakes up first so samana you mind helping me with the chat responses no problem all right good so that's question number one um question number two who takes longer to get ready sister crystal if you have to go to the grocery sometimes or even while food places just open who takes longer to get ready me oh okay no woman dude no that's not true [Music] that's when i don't leave monday i'm not sure who that voice was but all right brother christopher who you said i said that um jose will will um get ready faster than i would all right all right so there you have a lil um the person who said all women do says that jose is um that's not [Music] well that would be me that would be me all right all right um anthony paris and his wife and joycelyn boyd says she takes longer all right so she takes longer who does most of the cooking oh that's you tara we heard you sister crystal who does most of the cooking well we don't live there obviously all right brother christopher if you are the better cook um more wisely no no in your case who does most of the cooking let's not let's not put ourselves in any hot water my my internet is not allowing me to be great brethren pray for me did we get a response nothing like any chaps i do most of the cooking yeah said she doesn't know anthony said his wife does it all right who has better taste in decorating so these are very trivial simple questions eh by your head you know my wife my wife i heard i think i heard anthony said his wife also yes sister marlene well i do all the decorating all right all right my name is said mommy okay [Laughter] pete we appreciate that so as a couple right can you um no you may not want to answer all but just can you give us one of your weakness as a couple just one we both have a strong opinion all right okay yeah no no that is a solid pointer you all may laugh and think you know that that is a that's solid okay so we have um just one more right can you tell me what is one goal you have as a couple yay you're sticky creepy the question it's the cupboard repeat repeat that we missed the last part here internet went you know one goal you have as a couple for the next year no for for the next year period for the next 12 months what is one thing you want to achieve as a couple um because um finish the batch you won't be in your roof in the bedroom all right brother run i hear you what's the malignant mutated you know um this ninja brother run there you know with the physical structure and all of that most of us have that wish but i say i'm drawing closer you know when i grow old as as fast i was saying this morning sometime you forget the the courtship days so i want to return to those culture days all right sister krista you have one goal yes uh well uh two or three months ago martin and i decided to start a business together and it is going good so far but within the next year we pray that it will be even more successful and it will grow a lot more people will know about it all right okay good and amen to that sister crystal now i'd give you two questions you would not answer it um on hey but it's something that you think about um within yourself personally so these questions i give now is for everybody in general but it's not for you to respond on here and you will respond rather to your significant other was that clay so i gave one i give a question you wouldn't respond to me but you would respond this to this question to your significant other so what is something special i did last week that made you feel loved or honored or respected so you would respond to a significant other with that and that's question one and question two is what does your upcoming week entail what is something specific i can do to help you feel loved honored or respected so you'd give me a thumbs up if you heard the question and you can um respond it to your significant other yes i see a few thumbs up and i i read a man lips so those of you who did not turn your cameras on i hope that you would have also received these questions and participated in our little icebreaker now at this time we would have special music by the one appointed [Music] we made away [Music] standing here not knowing how we'll get through this test but holding on to faith you know best nothing can't get you by surprise you got this figured out and you're watching us now [Music] but when it looks as if we can't win [Music] and everything we need you supply you've got this in control and now we know that you made a way when our bags were against the wall and it looks as if it was over you made a way [Music] and was standing here only because you made a way [Music] made away nowhere looking back on where we come from because of you and nothing we've done [Music] to deserve the love and mercy you showed your grace was strong enough to pick us up and you made [Music] away and we're standing here only because you made [Applause] [Music] i was standing here only because you made [Music] [Music] there is [Music] [Music] [Music] amen amen hey man young lady amen god bless you veronica yes sister mona so by now i am here however i would try it with my camera off just to see if my connection is a little better so by now i think you would realize that we are dealing with courting and nicely quoting and also marriage so let's see dating and marriage that is love courtship and marriage is where we are today so courting is a traditional dating period before engagement or marriage during courtship a couple gets to know each other and decides if they will if there will be an engagement courting includes activities such as dating where couples or groups go together to enjoy an activity whether it's a meal or a movie or any fun activity courting can take place without personal contact especially with modern technology so you have virtual dating you have online chatting we have the famous sending text messages we have over the phone conversation we even have writing letters so these are just a few ways in which we can communicate during courting our relationship with god through jesus christ has to be our highest priority a christian needs to live a life that is funded upon the word of god and led by the holy spirit there must be one in christian's life and that love that is the love for jesus before we think about courtship and relation between people it is important to recognize that there is one relationship that really counts and the most important one is a relationship with god through jesus christ yes so i'm going to go on to marriage according to a dictionary marriage is illegally or formerly recognized union of two people as partners in a personal relationship historically it's a union between a man and a woman it is regulated by laws rules costumes believes that prescribed rights and duties are good partners according to the bible in malachi 2 14 it's a holy covenant that you made before god now in the adventist foreign devotion as well and what's advice is that if you are contemplating marriage you have to make haste slowly take your time she said that marriage is something that would influence and affect your life's care and any life to come as such if you have plans for marriage make it a subject of serious illness reflection now the choice of your life companion should be as such as the best secure your physical mental and your spiritual well-being now there are many questions i'm going to leave two with you that i like one sense a great marriage is not when the perfect couple comes together it is when an input the couple learns to enjoy their differences and another one says marriages come from heaven but so do lightning and thunder they come from heaven too so you must choose wisely and this event to talk about culture by marriage we have some very important guests and we have our pastor williams okay with us who will introduce those guests us all right good good afternoon everyone i trust that you hear me well and i've got um we've got um lighter here yeah okay yes yes you do all right sister dan meet you mike all right so we've got three um special guests with us this afternoon we've got sister dr adrian silly uh we've got also dr liverpool robert liverpool and we've got also pastor wayne andrews so i'm going to start with um the ladies first amen and we have dr deidre uh dr dj and silly and uh dr de jian silly is an associate professor in the school of public health loma linda university she was recently the dean of graduate studies and research at the university of the southern um caribbean institute and tobago our university here in trinidad and she received her doctorate from the university of georgia in health promotion and behavior in 2012. she has a master's from the university of the west indies and a bsc from caribbean union college slash andrews university she has 28 years teaching experience and has taught in trinidad and tobago and international in the united states she has taught at loma linda university and the university of georgia she has a passion for women's health and research her research interests are cancer cancer education social support and chronic disease dr silly is also a fulbright scholar she started teaching the class marriage and the family at the university of the southern caribbean since 2001 and did so up until 2020 and i must say i was a student of dr silly and when you get a b-plus it's it means you did very well she's not a hard um lecturer but she's very torah amen praise the lord she loves teaching and enjoys working with students she enjoys serving the lord and working with health ministries she enjoys cooking and entertaining our favorite text is jeremiah 29 11. for i know the plans i have for you declares the lord plans to prosper you and not to harm you plans to give you a hope and a future so one of our favorite quotes is an italian proverb and it goes like this after the game both the king and the pawn go back into the same box it is a great reminder to always be humble welcome dr dj dejian silly to the point porton district aye williams for the invitation i am delighted to be here god bless you right now let me i have to go on my phone to get the um the other two so just bear with me a moment well we have dr robert um liverpool and he's no stranger to our platform dr liverpool came on our platform a couple times so dr liverpool welcome good to see you good to see you fun song amen thank you very much dr robert liverpool is of course a son of the soil he was the former president of the adventist university in haiti he is now the vice president of marketing at the university of the southern caribbean he is married to um his one wife miss cheryl modest liverpool and together they have three adult children he has accepted our invitation to be with us this evening and we are delighted to have him thank you dr liverpool for being with us this evening i must say dr liverpool is one of my favorite preachers all right that's that's right that's a little bias okay just one correction i'm actually the assistant to the president assistant to the president yes okay good well i'm just reading it as i got it thank you very much okay okay okay all right and then we have pasta wayne andrews now let me see how i can find this you know lord help me please thank you very much all right there we go pasta andrews well of course pasta andrews is my immediate boss so pasta andrews welcome to point 14 district i think it's the second time he's coming on our platform good to have you pastor andrews and of course pastor andrews pastor wayne and jews has been a minister of the gospel for the past 32 years he's married to the lovely deborah andrews a teacher by profession they have two adult sons dr josiah and javon andrews his educational qualifications include ba and theology cmc usc certified family life educator from angels university and several other certificate courses related to leadership emmy educational psychology from angie's university during his ministry he has served the church in several capacities district pastor school board chair zuna leader conference divorce and marriage committee conference committee member conference president and currently he's serving as the ministerial secretary of the um south caribbean conference his passion for ministry causes him to exalt ministry as a divine privilege bestowed by a loving and infallible god upon fallible human beings he embraces ministry as his substantive whole calling and this one thing i do whether uh in administration or in the field he has a special burden for harmonious family relations uh he sorry let me read that over oh yeah yeah i think i have to change the glasses he has a special burden for harmonious family relations right good um is a structure he's a structured individual yet adaptable and fully accepts the value and quality of all men male and female at the foot of the cross he his desire is to see god's kingdom grow and envelop all peoples to daily um live in readiness for christ's soon return uh for christ soon coming kingdom together with his family and to help others and individuals and families to be ready for our soon-coming king our lord jesus christ pastor andrews thank you very much for accepting the invitation to be on our platform this evening and we welcome all three of you thank you so very much over to you sister thank you so much pastor for that those introductions so this evening ai members all of you are here with us this is fun it will work if you guys are interacting with us we want you to ask your questions okay we wanted to ask questions our panel is here so that we can inform us so we can get to know more about question and marriage so does anybody want to go through so should i start before the ruling it's a question anybody has a brilliant question that they have that now you can't be shy this evening okay people we need to ask your questions so i will go through it and i'll ask since you have one lady i'll ask her first says dr silly do you think that there's a right age or age group when people should start courting uh so let me say first of all in today's world that word courting is hardly ever used yes young people either say they're dating or sometimes they actually say talking to and who even knows what talking to means but those are the words he actually used so people no longer caught so like let's try kind of put it where they are heading is there right to a wrong age to start i wouldn't say that there is a right or wrong age but you want to ensure that you are mature enough and you also want to ensure that when you start dating because you you can actually start dating at 16 but at 16 you may not be looking to get married you may just be looking to socialize with the opposite sex which is also dating and you the the goal there is not eventually married so that may not that may not necessarily be wrong but you also want to focus on what is the goal that you're going towards at whatever age you begin dating or socializing with the opposite sex when we say courting we actually mean that we're working towards marriage and then that will have a different age group that you're probably looking at because there will be a certain age when you start thinking about marriage so dating is is more likely what people would say that they're doing or they may say talking to because they don't give it a label and then it's harder to define okay any other gentleman want to add anything to a chair set or are you okay with that i think i'm quite comfortable with it um i just want to add that um the concept of of dating uh as we use it today folks will wander and show that they're not left out and they want to know that this i socially fit in i have somebody but i could call a person of interest to me that i'm seeing or having a relationship thank you yes the whole concept of dating is more americanized type of concept that has been infiltrated into the to the western to the to the british economy i suspect because in america they would start dating as early as 12. um if you were involved on dates and things like that so it's it's it's different um the the in the caribbean we may not um allow that to happen in at such a tinder i mean knowingly i'm not saying that young people may not do it because in high school you know all kinds of things happen but i don't think our parents will new only one day their daughter that each you know 12 11 to start dating but in america it's a common practice you know so that it's a little different i think the courtship on the other hand is perhaps when we get a little more serious i mean probably starting to more zooming into somebody we're looking at in terms of having a form in some sort of bond and commitment with perhaps even engagement you know so that to my mind is the only difference but the dayton um you know lng white says that um during the teenage years we should probably go more as groups rather than than peers you know but i mean even among the groups and they still have peers you know but um but that's the better way to go try to socialize with larger groups get to know different people and and see because there's a question coming up that would be related to this in any case thank you so much mr anika you have a question if nobody else wants it can i ask a question sister nana sure you can okay so on the background of dating or courtship whichever one we want to use if i am talking to a guy um for how long should we be talking before we before i consider marriage how long should she talk before marriage is confident well let's let me jump in here i think if you if you're seriously dating someone you should know that this is a dating relationship that you are the only person he is supposed to be seeing or he is supposed to be dating how long before you consider marriage it suspected that you would it is suggested that you date at least one year before you start thinking about marriage but you get to know the person or you get to know as much of them as you probably can in that time i think in today's world young people are connected more than is probably normal from the time they wake up they send you a good morning message throughout the day they message you five six more times and the message you have to message when you read through you have to message when you leave home you have to message when you go to hang the clothes on the line and they tell you to be safe while you're doing it and you are in such constant communication that it may seem as if you know this person but it really takes time to know someone so you want to at least give it at least one year and then you all could probably start talking about marriage and after that there will be some other factors that you have to consider before you decide when in terms of finances and living arrangements and education plans but all of those would vary based on the age of the people and what stage in life they can also be i i'll leave the other points here for the others to jump in yes please jump in okay um i wouldn't really want to set that time but i think if we would want to set up time i think i'm a year is a good time okay um because you know there are arranged marriages that last and and sometimes the people never saw the person before and things like that you know so i mean it's kind of dying out now arrange marriages but um in the past the marriages were arranged and they lasted forever for eternity you know until dead do his part but um i think it like dr silly said you could get to know a lot more people now than before um with the kind of technology we have because it's not just it's not just they're telling you um good morning and what have you the folks at the restaurant they take you know pictures of the food and sending it to you almost everything in their life you know now you know i mean so um so there's a i think it's a little difficult now to hide things from people than it were back then it's a lot more difficult all right because of the information if you're living in but i think you still need to know the person intimately um not sexually but intimately and that would take some time thank you i think a lot has to do with the level of maturity at which a person is at the older you are um definitely you may have a shorter [Music] expectation level for dating in that you know what you want you're more settled the younger you are yes you may take you may take more time even with even with the um devices we have that facilitate um regular more than what we normally had um communication yet still um getting to know that person better to to understand that person but it would require some time i think i think at two years one to two years can be a a good period of time if if i were to set a time okay mr arenas are you satisfied yes yeah i think that's a good resolution but i i agree with the point of maturity and expectations with the relationship so thank you very much so i saw angelo's hand but it went down aren't you do you have a question yeah um my question is um foley youth so sure or not maybe online that kind of don't know the difference steps are the relationship i just feel like uh at the different definitions and um in these stages and how much time you're supposed to be in this stage right before marriage so if it's beef right before marriage is what was called japan then before courtship chippers i know boyfriend you in front of before that if we could just define it now like give you a nice where's the idea yeah where's the idea what should be any ideas so we could have some kind of guideline on you know something i don't know i fell in love coming from [Music] if i should power freeze he wants to move their stages in the den before you get to marriage so if you should start the with my girlfriend how i'm thinking that's what he's asking yeah and the age and age two and there too yeah well i think they have been aged already oh well that'd be really nice because some people don't really know what they're doing tonight so i'm just asking for everybody else well of course we we are mindful of the legal age in our country uh perceived to be a age of an adult um 18 upward so that um although it's not illegal age for marriage or based on religious beliefs and what is allowed within some religions that you can have people marrying at earlier ages but surely um the pathway of one um getting to know the person may may find it's unknow the interest of the person and the direction of the person's life a lot depends on what you are looking for and so as you transit from one stage to the next whether it be friends close friends go and study engagement which is the which is the one we consider the penultimate act just before because once you get engaged you should not be hanging out there as if you are still dating for this um indefinite period of time once you've gotten to that point where you've made that decision then um it should be expected that within a short period of time about six six months to nine months a year they're about but one should tie the knot but a lot depends on not so much um the stages and how much time i spend on the stages but how well do we get to know and understand each other because you could very well trip over from stage to stage and say yes we've covered that time but yet at the same time haven't really gotten to know each other sufficient enough as you should in terms of being able to take such a similar step as marriage any other thoughts [Music] let me say that um there are different stages in your life and i think as you you mature there'll be different stages in terms of your relationship with with individuals and and young ladies so that at high school you would be going through another dollar sometime where you would be probably in getting having going on dates and things like that but you're not really considering marriage at that point in time because you're still in school and what have you you're not working um you're not um bringing in an income it's like that but you might be dating but that's a very important part of your life experience as well because you see what happens is that let me let me give you an experience from from my home perhaps and then i it's it's it's it's really different but i'm going to just share it when my children were young i didn't give them a lot of conquers and snacks and things and what i found now that they're working they buy a lot of conkers and snacks so if you don't go through that stage where you you commingle with young ladies and things like that you know like i'm not saying it's nothing sexual or anything but you're fraternizing with them and things like that what happened is that if you wouldn't go to that stage perhaps when you get married you see a lot of people trying to relive their childhood days and that is the problem so in every stage of your life you're supposed to be developing certain ways so you're going from the group to the to the specific and that's very important now doc in terms of the marriage in 2017 you just muted yourself dr liverpool sorry in 2017 the law changed so there's no longer the hindu and muslim rights the age now to get married and that is 18 it doesn't matter what religion they change the law in 2017 and that was past unanimously in parliament so if you're under 18 in trinidad no you cannot get married all right well you have to listen can if your parents sign sign for you no they're not allowing that again they're not allowing that again in 2017 they changed the law before if you could have gotten married if you were 12 as a muslim and 14 as a hindu but um in 2017 the law was changed where you must be 18 now to get married in trinidad and tobago okay so i just thought i just let the folks do that in other words and i think that's important because even when the law had permit people to get married under the age because christina could get married at 16. i never married anybody under 18 because to my mind if your parents have the sign for you to get married you're too young to be married so in terms of a marriage officer i never married somebody under the age of 18. but that was just my conviction personal conviction you know yes but i i would like to say i don't think that i could prescribe a specific statement yeah then do this because maturity made they feel as they were saying and at which you start this whole thing could be a different one too but i also want us to focus on one thing too i think before we even get into a lot of this we need to spend time on getting to know ourselves let's know what we like what we want what are our preferences because many times we don't even know that and without knowing that we are not even sure what we are looking for in the other person how that's going the psychologist says that your brain for the immediate brain doesn't develop until and mature until they reach 25 so you really shouldn't be considering marriage until your brain is fully developed i don't know dr silly or something like that but some people get married before and they succeed but but so we don't want to say that you have to but they say generally it's got a good rule of thumb you know thank you so much for those answers so we have another question people are texting me and spending something what would you say are some of the do's and don'ts of dating or courtship who's on those well i i think this could be so many things but let me start off by saying i always say that whatever relationship you're in it should be one that's filled with respect so usually treated with respect throughout this particular relationship as you get more serious first corinthians 13 is a guy for us when he talks about love so for example i am dating jim i should be able to put jim's name in and say jim is patient jim is kind jim is loving jim is forgiving but the other thing is jim should also be able to put my name in and say that about me so you should be trying to focus on that i think when that happens that would be respectful i know we also could talk about how what our boundaries should be in terms of physical intimacy that's another issue but i really want us to just look at whatever we're doing should be filled with respect and it should be honoring and glory and glorifying god to put it simply i would say um do everything that will bring honor glory to god and don't do anything illegal immoral [Laughter] and yes i would also want to add that let your morals and your religious values guide you in your conduct of yourself within your relationship be mindful that premature actions can have consequences that can negatively affect your relationship and your desired goal for your relationship so ensure you both committed to those um common values of protecting your relationship and letting let your moral compass guide you at the same time and yes the issue of boundaries very very strong you have to learn to respect each other's boundaries and nonsense impose or enforce himself upon the other in a relationship we've been everything going around so long and and other couples are doing this and doing that no you'll be guided by your moral compass don't try to impose on your other or your partner so true sister really your question all right so good evening everyone my question is actually from the standpoint of this idea that the contemporary will suggest that of us soul mate so it often we often hear poison stop sorry about that yeah um a soul mate and the right one for me and it almost seems to suggest that there is just one person that you have to search this entire world to find who would be your quote unquote soul mate or your perfect match and we see it a lot in movies and the music around us so i'm just wondering what is our what is our standpoint on that concept of a soulmate and there being just one right match for me okay now hollywood and the movies are not always founded and based in reality okay they are the movies are designed to serve a certain emotional um feelings as related movies and things like that so you get a lot of those soulmate talk on in the movies there's no there's never just one person for you um the way how life is look okay i like when i'm counseling people i usually tell people almost any two persons could get married and a marriage could last if they have two things i mean besides love and god and all that they have two things if they are mature and they are flexible all right they must be pliable and because in a relationship it cannot be rigid all right and of course the other thing well that people would mention as well number three would be contentment so those are the three things you must be mature because marriage is not for children you must be flexible because you know some of these little things is this upset in our marriage but if you're mature enough you could overlooked it you could overlook it and the other thing is that you must be contented the one of the reasons why we have so many divorces i think besides infidelity and what have you is because of the lack of contentment there are a lot of people who get married and then they have roman eyes they're not contented with what they have and if and ziggy apostles that if you're nothing contented in life nothing would be enough it doesn't matter how much you have you still wouldn't feel satisfied and what have you so in terms of a soulmate i don't i don't i don't think that's recognizable because what is it there are six billion people in the world what is the possibility that you would actually meet somebody that that is the only person for you i mean that that probability would be very very high almost impossible well of course six billion people about three three billion women make that distinction [Laughter] oh three million men three billion men you know let me agree with dr liverpool here i don't think that the soulmate concept is based on christian principles as he said we can live come compatibly with self with several people because then if we only have one soulmate what happens if your soulmate dies yeah like like how how is that going to look at you anybody else yeah because the but you see the whole idea with a soul mate means that when we get married and we meet and we hit our rough spot we assume this isn't also meant yes you know what i'll leave you i'm going to find my soul mate but then you'll hit another rough shot with that person too and will you constantly be searching for the soulmate idea so that leaves a lot of people feeling very discontented with who they have selected when the challenges come so we we need to because you also made maybe in the airport and you and you went to the port instead and you completely missed each other what's going to happen then so we we need to start thinking that we can live come comfortably and compatibly with several with several persons yes indeed i do agree with my fellow panelists that indeed um persons a perfect person wow in this sinful world and environment an id i this so-called perfect person is really an imperfect person looking for another imperfect person so the whole concept really is is based on privacy and and perhaps um fantastic fantasies that that the hollywood industry could provide for us and and i like how it has been stated by both panelists indeed because marriage is a is a lifelong journey in which we will have some highs and some loads in which you will encounter some successes and some failures in which we will have some smooth moments and some rough moments and the existence or the coexistence of the two of them does not mean that you do not have a lifelong partner that you can spend your time happily with so the concept is really uh uh one in which one could say listen it's not founded on on the word of god or on the principles as a spouse in the bible thank you marriage marriage and soul mate is for richer for poorer in sickness and inheritance you have to make that person your soul mate you know be that the person that you want the person to be and and things like that you know and help bowl and fashion that person to what you you would want the person to be and i know some people feel we cannot make people um what we would like them to be while that is totally true you cannot make the person you could guide them in certain ways you know you could guide them and lead them in certain ways you know i'm gonna accept of course you need to accept the weaknesses as well you know the weaknesses and differences yes when when we look at enough hallmark movies we get confidence that it will work out like the whole map movies like yes yeah it's the main mentality they ride openly you know so if we look at a lot of hallmark movies we could probably start thinking this looks like a little a little more like what should happen to me and what and what impossibilities what could also come out of that is what you have a desire of of individuals as a marriage commitment to want to alter the valves to change the valves pasta i can't handle this part for better or worse which are for people get that out only give me a smooth vow really that says one thing ah no the other thing too we need to stop looking at those likes all those lifetime movies that shows men uh just abusers and and things like that you know that station was designed to if you watch our station long enough you'll probably never get married [Laughter] okay so someone is asking on youtube should could you date a christian but not an estimate so could you talk to somebody but they are a christian is that okay what do you think i'll let one of the [Laughter] that still continues to be one of those hot uh issues and um you know you look in the bible and you can find some folks can find support for either case just a day uh my wife and i was uh reflecting on that and i said you know even joseph was given the daughter of the high priest i think in egypt to be his wife and my wife noted she stayed faithful she bought him those children and i came back i said but then look at samson a different context different context a context in which joseph's own was allowed but samson's own his parents first um response was aren't there enough uh dam cells i think in israel in israel and he insists get her for me she pleases me he is indeed an enigmatic character you can't really make sense at times out of samson's life except or civil perhaps you see a string of confusing decisions apparently wrong decisions in the end yet still that man tried what i'm getting at is this is that in israel that's where god wants us to have a mate or a mate should be having the mindset of israel you look also at elimelech when they when he and his wife naomi left left israel because of the farm and they went down to moab and look at that those guys have no other choice their contacts they had to take a wife they said from there from their environment one was committed to their god the other one wasn't once bent with her mother-in-law and was a faithful and loyal daughter-in-law simply speaking then and i'm not saying this to legitimized persons because i am a strong believer in looking in israel because that's where god would have us look when it comes to choosing a mate i have this debate with my sons on and off as adult men uh the whole issue of um of that selection and ensuring that not everything in israel is perfect but still look in israel and let god guide you because that's where god that is where god calls us as his children to look so the context when we see them in the bible is instructive to us in regard to but the bible is absolutely clear do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers i would say no more at this time so let me tackle this from a different perspective and thank you for that explanation pastor andrews the the books and relationships tell you that the more things you have in greater your common of marital success so you're looking for two things things you have in common you have to ask yourself how important is religion as one of the factors you have in common for many of us our religion would determine how we eat where we socialize how we dress or we spend how we raise our children and if your religion helps to dictate so many of those things do you want that to be something that you have in common as the basis for starting out on the other hand you have to know think about what you want for yourself in the practical sense is it that you imagine when friday came you always sit and worship together is it that you imagine you all would go to church together is it that you imagine you all will be going to church as a family sitting and praising god those practical basic things is that something you want for yourself if you have decided that something that's important to you then you should not trade it in because even when i say this all the time when you make a list of the things you would like in a spouse you have to have some non-negotiable things and you probably have to have some things you can negotiate so you may want somebody tall but you didn't get taught and say i could take short right and once again i make a plug for short men all the time [Laughter] negotiate on religion is that a negotiable for you if it's not a negotiable even without seeing the person and seeing how cute they are and see how much money they're making then don't negotiate on it so you have your negotiable things on your list and you have your things that you must have and you have to think about that but always bear in mind the more things you have in common the greater your chances for maritime success and stability i like dr liverpool himself i was just going to support you by saying amos 3 3 and can two walk together except they agree all right um um no this is very important because remember marriage is not just preparation for this life but for the life to come and as dr silly said the more things we have in common is better because i mean i mean i was a catholic before and i consider myself a good christian i went to church and what have you but i also played mass i drunk you know i mean and and that was all permissible in my religion so i was not behind catholic doing those things i ate pork you know and i was still a good catholic but becoming an elephant this man had to give up those things you know what i'm saying so that if you marry a catholic and christmas time come and you bring it to my home as a wife you have to bake it would you be making it you know i mean so you're causing tension in the home you know i mean so you don't want to do things to cause more tension but having said that i would also say opposites seem to attract so that for some reason and then attack but but somehow we always seem to be attracted by the opposite you know i mean for some reason and that's the same case with uh samsung delilah you know the opposite that truck you know sure i also want to add as as we look at more things we have in common there are some of those more things that will be core things yes and religion and belief religious values is one of those core issues that really has and significant impact upon marriage and family perfection religion and money are the two things that cause a lot a lot of tension in marriage religion and money you know not the lack of money but the management of the money good so i think those answers are pretty clear on what that person should do so another question here it says how important is attraction in a relationship should i get someone for their personality if i don't find them attractive should i get them because i'm related with god but i don't find them attractive what do you think well as the only person probably still dating here i would say okay it's rough tell us [Laughter] i think the attraction is important it's not the all-important thing but it is important because if you're not if you're not attracted to the person you know you could have romanized after the marriage but it's not the all-important thing the other important things but i think that is the physical attraction is also important okay but i will also say here many times we start off knowing people and they don't seem very attractive yes yes yeah yeah that's true you get to ignore them yeah yeah that's right that's right you meet people that drop they're gorgeous yes you like them yeah right so it has to be balanced remember there are some things that can be fixed people's clothes fix people's teeth might be fixed [Laughter] yeah everything could be fixed now right almost everything could be fixed now right you really can't fix rotten ways as easily sure sure but you take them to the mall you say let's do a makeover they come they go to the dentist right and this is a lock everybody's wearing a mask my time they take off the mask so you know there are some things that you could work with you don't really want it sure oh because we can be lost we can be gay you don't cause people out because something on the external but you really want to focus a lot on personality but of course as i'm saying we know that you want to wake up and be i'd be happy to see this person's face yes but all that comes with maturity to where all that comes with maturity and that's what i'm saying you have to be mature together you know because because if you look at it some of the some of the most attractive young ladies are sometimes very most unattractive looking men you know and you wonder why you know so it happens and if the inverse is also true so it happens and and the the the attraction of that was an attraction initially may not necessarily remain as the attraction during the relationship or throughout marriage for you will become to this you will begin to discover new gems or undiscovered gems that you didn't pay as much attention to in each other as relationship you know grows and expand and you find that listen while i needed this to start i think this now is more important as i continue the relationship as an attraction in my mate so it really moves it's not static and remember the ugly duckling the ugly duckling could become a beautiful swan you know yes it's pleasant good evening to everyone i have a question and this question is mainly based on marriage how long after the death of a spouse should one be remarried and should they date before well of course you have to date the person before you get married to them unless were looking at the person while his fox was alive [Laughter] there must be some dating process will take place because you have to get to know the person and all that it's the same it's going through the same process again if you're going to get remarried as to the length of time perhaps it might be as long as as as when you're youth because a different kind of age and stage you are you probably already know what you want the person might be already settled so they have home they might have their own home and things like that depending on what at age and stage it is all right so it may not be as long and and intense you know in terms of the courtship and what have you but always keep in mind i always tell people this passage to people that um when um when um isaac's mother died the bible said he took her wife and he was comforted after the death of his mother the only thing that could comfort you after the death of a wife is another wife or that the debt of a spouse is another spouse so you know because there are certain needs that the man or woman may have that they cannot fulfill in their children or their parents and what have you um that could only be fulfilling marriage and when if you had a good marriage then you would be longing for certain things you know and desiring certain things um so i don't want to give a date because i remember i remember once um our ella wife died and the church were up in arms because they found he got married too quickly they thought he got married too quickly as if he didn't like love the first wife i don't know i wouldn't be so judgmental i would meet surgeon's mentor because remember um i remember i remember when i was getting married the deceased pastor wilson told me that the same qualities and and that you see seen your wife or your wife saw in you is the same qualities that people other women may be seeing you knew so they may be attracted to you as well and that's why it's so important to be contented because there'd always be people who may be attracted to you because of the qualities and that you possess and things like that you know i am happy the question was not whether you should get married after that of a spouse as against how soon after because uh sometimes in in marriage we we go through the idea that i am uh i am to stay unmarried even after my my spouse has passed and that if i contemplate marriage or remarriage it may be an indicator or be perceived as an indicator as to what extent i love or or lack love for my for my former spouse so that um i'm glad the accomplished conversation is not on that aspect of it but surely uh thereafter and uh you find there after ruth is a ruth is a beautiful example she after her spouse she was young yes but and so she had enough to want to still desire marriage and the beautiful response of boaz was he was so amazed by her willingness to select him a more mature and older man because boaz himself said rude you could have easily gone with the younger men but he was truly impacted by the fact that this woman who understood that listen it's okay for her to get married after the loss of her spouse that she could have chosen him uh even a more senior person than herself so that remarriage is is is quite in place and at the time the time is really dictated a lot uh by another number of those factors that dr liverpool has referred to and i would not want to go over again but surely those will influence how soon one will choose to be married let me as the only female here one of the things i've observed is that men tend to get remarried faster not just myself [Laughter] the reality is here though let me finish this first point um so you also want to ensure that whoever the situation is they have handed breathing because they're what they have handed grieving well okay sure they have been caught that has been processed that has been handled and this is not necessarily bound something that grieving has has to be handled men tend to get married faster and there's some supportive so because marriage is up is sometimes a bigger burden for a woman she's cooking cleaning washing taking care of things so my husband guys she's probably just enjoying the new the new vacation she has just gotten like you know what was emancipated [Laughter] and sometimes when especially men rush into it quickly eight months six months seven months then they're probably not as happy later on but you can't get over someone by getting under someone sure if you're trying to get someone you have to go to your grieving image on your support group you mean you might have to with what those emotions are in the real sense and not just try to cover them up but i think oftentimes because men are not encouraged to express emotions and to show that level of pain and grieving they try to cover it up and rush into something else when the grief is still unexplored and if the space is gained for people to explore what that grief looks like and songs like and feels like probably would be easier when they get into a new situation to know that they are ready for it i hope that made some sense yes you're somewhere like a professor there you're starting like a marriage counselor dude [Laughter] of course there will be circumstances where perhaps as you mentioned women will have all this freedom but she does have this responsibility and economically it may be some more um inclination for wanting a spouse because she is now thrust with the full responsibility economically for the survival of a family and in those cases there is a potential for for wanting to get married remarried uh especially by a woman but this brings us this brings us to the conversation we should have with men yes that's how they should plan this prepare yes yes yes yes and how's that going to say that then that they pass that their family is not left financially destitute so that's right but every man out here listening ensure you probably have some plans in place your family is secure so many people who didn't think they were going to die at some young ages yeah that's very important but you know because when we talk about we talk about um the the marriage and the family but we do talk about the finance in the family of financing the family and that's very important so that well as when i got married the only first thing i did was to call the life insurance policy because if anything happened to me i want to know that my family is provided for i know the church found on life insurance policies i know they found on that but but the church is changing on evolving and they're recognizing that the church cannot support the families like they used to so it's a different time so you need to provide um a good husband would provide for his family even after he would have passed away um in the bible time they said you should provide not just for for your children but their children generation it's your insurance as well so your grandchildren you're supposed to provide for them as a good father or someone children's children that's a good one so we have a few questions what i'm gonna do so i'm gonna ask maybe two more someone is asking how do i know if it's infatuation or love how do i know a person party which are all love just because of time let me just make it one of the things you could tell is time with time infatuation will probably fade because infatuation happens without knowing a lot of the person there's a whole trance and love intimate that has intimacy certain things on it if when it's infatuation you may not know a lot but you feel like that with love it's with a yeah it would last two years infatuation fades after a while pretty fast once you use spending the time and and this is going on a while you realize you don't feel the same way in a short time so that's that's the abridged version of the answer yes i think we will someday i'll give you another question somebody else can answer how do i become less critical and more encouraging to my spouse wow uh appreciate uh the value and the uniqueness of your spouse he or she is an individual and the value that established that person as an individual should never be lost of and see see that as expressed through the unique personality that your spouse possesses so that they're not so much things to be critical of but unique ways in which she or he expresses the personality that god has blessed him or her with that's one thing i would say i would i would just say that you know some of these things are uh family traits as well um it it starts in the home you know we are very critical because your parents might be critical of your husband the father might be critically modern nature and things like that so we have to break those those um generational chains that hold us back i think a good thing too is to read books you know the books are messages to young people we still need to focus on this it's a very good book for young people to read you know it says here that christianity with makers ladies and gentlemen and things like that straight would teach you how to treat your spouse and what have you so i think we needed inculcating our people young people they let them get back to the art of reading especially the books by energy white um the bible and and other books that would help them to be better persons individuals you know we we need we need to develop in our the um the whole art of being human and kind and courteous and tender-hearted and beautiful because diligently white you know i think we need to develop that as christians we shouldn't be just be critical of people and and always looking for evil and everything you know we need to look at the positive and and and try to be joyful in some occasions okay and this one is a kind of quality one about the attraction it's in what qualities actually look for when you're looking for a partner what qualities tell us dr celine [Laughter] i'm listening i wanna hear what she has to say but the truth is it may vary for different people but at the bottom of the character i think first corinthians 13 is and when we reach first corinthians 13 it lays it out patient and kind and not jealous and long suffering and all of those things are the things we should be able to see you are trying to be that person and you're able to say that about the person you are actually dating so if the person is short-tempered or they're not kind they could be as kind but if they look as if if they are unkind and they look as a greek god leave them alone if they are abusive if they speak to you disrespectfully that's when i say run like the gingerbread man like you that's not a reason so there are certain key things they may vary but overall you have to know what it is a lot of us though put physical things high on all this a lot of us put things like finance is high in all this we have to ask ourselves why is that why is that the priority as opposed to the character dreams but i would say but what i found what i found among the young people now especially some of the young girls is that it seemed to be more attracted to the bad boys than the good christian young men you know um i don't know what it is if it's the movies you're looking at or what but even in the movies the young the the good guy always will not end up with a young lady he's always a bad guy you know so that um and the good guy always end up looking like a whimpical kind of person but the truth is when you're thinking of getting married it's those of the qualities you'd want your spouse to have the good guy qualities you know um kind courteous things like that um but the bad boy seems to be the one the young ladies are attracted to now i don't know why i would also uh add here be be very careful of those push factors in terms of those negative push factors like those things you want to escape from they want to escape from poverty you want to escape from from a certain kind of situation so you rush into marriage be careful ensure that you see in that person the kind of value that you yourself espouse of proverbs 31 talks about the virtuous woman but as i as i counsel i often like to look at this woman who is virtuous what kind of a husband is she searching for would she be as a woman of virtue be searching for a husband who lacks virtue uh surely not so that what you're looking for in someone be willing yourself to hold those positive valuable traits that would lend to a lasting relationship yes thank you so much and we had over 200 people on youtube who are asking questions and commenting as well but we cannot take all those questions or comments now so we have to stop because of time sister renek are you with me no it's my co-host on us you know however we're going one we will stop requesting i'd like to thank our panelists so much for sharing your expertise and your knowledge with us this evening it was well received and i'm sure a lot of young people who were contemplating marriage who are put in or dating as they call it have had a lot to think about so thank you so much for taking your time this evening and spending this time with us dr liverpool it's good to see you i met dr liverpool when i was in northeastern college he was my ri teacher and then he was my pastor [Music] for a long while so it was nice having you guys here sharing such wonderful clothes off with them with us i pray not available am i am here thank god i'm still here um before we do a closing song i too would like to join and say and thank you to our very special guest for such an informative evening and taking time off just to be with the point 14 um zoom church so we really appreciate all that you had to share with us and i i found myself laughing heartily sometimes with um dr liverpool i too would have done one or two courses with him and i am truly happy to meet my new best friend she doesn't know it yet but doctor silly like definitely enjoyed every bit of it and pastor andrews i have to go on to say that i am indeed blessed i appreciate all the knowledge that was passed on with great ease towards us young people so i say thank you on behalf of all of my friends who i know had questions that really would have liked to ask but we didn't have time so be be warned that you may be called upon again to join our wonderful family one last thing though sure so i would like to just say here that pastor eddie was a wonderful student i neglected to say that you don't have you you don't have to put yourself through that on this platform yeah i have complete enjoyed the programs that this that your district has been putting on i think they have been meaningful if they are if there's a past i would like to salute in this pandemic it will be pastor eddie and i have said this to other people before so i'm not making this up i think um i tell the truth i am serious but i tell the truth so if i have an award it will be for pastor eddie i have been impressed with the programming i have been impressed with the consistency and the discipline and that is the truth and the fact that you're doing longer tells you i am telling the truth all the way so amen amen let me just thank you all for inviting me as well i really appreciate it pastor eddie i really enjoyed being with you he got me to preach even while i was in haiti you know [Laughter] [Music] and also it was my pleasure to be here with you on this um ay of course we i can resonate with uh dr c lee in that we have recognized that uh pastor edison williams has done marvelously well uh in keeping the folks and the saints not only alive but pretty active and soft and has mastered pretty well together with his team this um this technology in the time of a pandemic we do recognize this leadership rule as well in uh adapting to very difficult circumstances in which the pastor so i endorsed the comments of dr silly amen and this time we would ask pastor eddie to just give a prayer for our very special guest pastor williams thank you very much i'm humbled by your kind sentiments thank you so very much thank you appreciate it let's bow our heads as we pray heavenly father we thank you very much for the time we've spent this afternoon thank you for three panelists um dr silly dr liverpool pastor andrews and we thank you for the expertise that they would have shared with us this evening we pray especially lord that you would be with them in the end of us in their field of work and ministry that you would endow them with your holy spirit and that you would cause them to increase in their in their labors for you bless their families keep them by your grace keep them safe may your heads be around them by your holy angels presence thank you for allowing them to share with us this evening we really appreciate the giftedness of these three individuals so we commit them into your hands and we pray for your your providence your protection and your presence in their lives thank you for our two hostesses and thank you for all those who would have come on to the program this evening we pray a special blessing on all our participants both near and far on zoom and on youtube again lord we thank you for your presence your presence made it been worth being on this platform this evening and we thank you lord for the way you are guiding us and directing us in jesus name we pray amen we came back to sing safely through another we god has brought us on our way all right so this is the closing song sister ranika is this the closing song yes brother run all right safely true are not the we god has brought us all away let us know our bless and seek wits and in his course today day of all the week the best emblem of eternal rest therefore [Music] make the fruits of grace abound bring relief to all complaints thus may all of us be till we rise to reign with thee thus may [Music] to allah [Applause] [Music] thank you so much mr family for our closing song and again i would like to thank everybody who came on who asked questions you should listen participated thank you so much for being part of our ay this evening and we will now have our closing prayer whether ricky pompeo can you pray for us yeah amen let's go ahead for prayer uh father in heaven we give you thanks this evening for a wonderful experience in your courts we thank you god for helping us to experience and understand what is necessary for us to prepare for what you have ordained and what you have blessed this is marriage and even in the process of marriage over we thank you for being able to appreciate where the idea is so lord continue to bless us continue to bless uh our panelists oh god continue to bless their families continue to bless our pastor congress blessed moderators and leaders and our young people and all those in the listening of the program this evening zoom and on youtube we ask that you bless them touch them and keep them in perfect peace continue with us as we experience the end of another sabbath this be my prayer in jesus name we pray amen amen have a blessed week everybody amen have a happy week bye thank you everybody [Music] do [Music] [Music] do [Music]

Channel: Point Fortin SDA Church

Views: 1,383

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: Point Fortin SDA, Reservoir Hill, Hollywood, Cap de Ville, South West, fyzabad SDA, Cochrane, Edison Williams, Cayman Islands, Cayman sda, Five Rivers SDA, South Caribbean Conference, Inter-American Division

Id: 9vImodmB0j8

Length: 121min 11sec (7271 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 04 2021