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foreign rising we're rising up in up in the sky telling this world this world couldn't buy oh we'll be there and we'll fly glory to share and give by coming monday morning you know we're gonna make jesus is coming oh jesus if jesus is coming soon is know good morning good morning good morning let's go to our father in prayer righteous and heavenly father thank you so much for all that you do for us thank you for your son jesus christ thank you for the forgiveness of sin thank you for letting us live the lives that we live because it's all because of you and lord we thank you because one of these days you said there's going to be another place that we can go a place where there's no more sorrow no more pain don't have to worry about all this craziness that's going on in this world lord have mercy one of these days because of you this is why we serve you this is why we come to this place and serve you and and and live the lives that we that you have allowed us to live to be for you so we can see your face again and lord we thank you we thank you we thank you in the mighty name of jesus we pray amen good morning good to see y'all again today y'all alive and well i am to canaan's land i'm on my way y'all know that one if not you're gonna know it today two canes and i am on my way where the soul and never die where am i and no and i will spend a noted there will be is everybody will be happy over there i know i will there's a happy land of promise over in the great beyond where the save on earth is just will be singing and the christians of our nation will join in the triumph song they will be everybody will be happy who saved us and who kept us by his grace and who brought us to that land so bright and over there yes singing everybody kind of tough to follow that song kelly you don't know my journey yesterday let us pray i'm a summoning gracious father father we come to you always with thanksgiving in our heart uh no no matter the burdens we have to bear uh we know that you're in charge of everything and we thank you for that father for the bereave of this church right now father we just ask you to continue to bless those that have buried loved ones over the last couple of weeks father be with them and be with me also as we give encouragement to others that that we can lift them up father and father we thank you for your son jesus who died on that cross for us father without that cross there'll be no salvation for us it follows so many things this morning we have to thank you for all that even though the all the chaos that's going on in this world today father we just ask your prayers on each and every one of them sinclair and collectively father that you may contentiously bless us all here in this world the calamities and uh storms and raging and everything that's going on we just look forward to the heaven which your shuts come from and father we just ask you now the people the medicines gonna come to break the bread of life with us father be with him give him the things just that he may impart with us and maybe we can learn from things that he says and use it in our everyday application we love you lord forgive us of our sins these are many more blessings we shall push us on jesus night amen amen if you have any kids that are uh eager to go to children's church we are having children's church today i'm sure some are already over there but if you have any kids that are eager to go to children's church this morning you can send them over to the christian life center amen i mean we're going to try this one a little different this morning y'all know it but we're going to try it a little different sopranos let the spirit of the lord rise among us let the spirit of the light rise among us let the praises of our king rise among knows one more time let the spirit of the lord rise among us let the spirit of the lord rise among us let the praise of our king rise among us let it rise rise among us let the spirit of the lord rise among us let the praise of our king rise among us let it rise let it rise tenders come missing let the spirit of the lord rise among us let the spirit of the lord rise among us let the praise of our king rise among us let it rise you gotta let let it rise let the rise among us and let the praises of our king let him rise rise and let the praises of her you gotta let him rise among us and let it rhyme that's the reason we all learn to love them of the lord oh whoa and let the that's the reason we got a lot to love oh let it rise is a pleasure and a privilege to be in god's house you know that he did not have to give us another day you know that right you know that he did not have to allow you to wake up in your right mind you know that don't you every every once in a while we ought to stop and count the truckload of blessings that are in our lives so so so many times we go through life and we even come to church and there is no praise in our heart if we know that if it had not been for god on our side ever every once in a while we ought to just let loose and say god have your way i'm a thankful child i'm a blessed child anybody in here know today that today is the lord's day talk back to me it is the lord's day and i'm thankful i'm thankful for the privilege to be able to stand before you i am thankful that you did not allow anything to keep you from coming to the house of the lord i am thankful for those of you that are connecting with us right now that you've stopped what you're doing you put things aside and you've said to yourself this is my time whether i'm in the house or not i'm a worship god and so i'm i'm i'm praying i'm praying that god is just gonna send this spirit and his spirit is gonna move all among us today that somehow today when you walk away you will say to yourself it was good for me to be in the house of the lord is that our right church i need you to grab your bibles if you don't mind electronic media whatever you have and meet me in the book of matthew and we're going this morning to matthew chapter 6 and i want to read in your hearing nine verses matthew chapter 6 beginning at verse number 25 and what we normally do if we are able we give reverence to the word of god and we stand for the reading because we know that it is the word of god matthew is the book chapter number six beginning at verse number 25 jesus is talking it has been read in a number of bibles therefore i tell you do not worry about your life what you will eat or drink or about your body what you will wear is not life more important than food and the body more than clothes look at the birds of the air they do not sow or reap or store away in bonds and yet your heavenly father feeds them or are you are you not much more valuable than they can any one of you by worrying at a single hour to your life and why do you worry about clothes see see how the flowers of the field grow they do not label or spin yet i tell you that not even solomon and all his splendor was dressed like one of these if that is how god closed the grass of the field which is here today and tomorrow is thrown in the fire will he not much more clothe you you of little faith so so do not worry saying what shall we eat what shall we wear what shall we drink for the pagans run after all these things and your heavenly father would somebody shout your heavenly father no no no no help me with it would you look at the person next to you and and just point and remind them as you point your heavenly father say that your heavenly father your heavenly father knows that you need them but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness and all these things will be given unto you therefore do not worry about tomorrow for tomorrow will worry about itself each day there's enough trouble of his own somebody ought to say amen each day each day has enough trouble of its own i want to entitle this message this morning six passages six passages to know when you are tempted to worry six passages six passages to know when you are tempted to worry on your way to your seat look at your neighbor and just say you need a pencil and a piece of paper today yeah you need it today six passages six words six thoughts from god that will stabilize our heart anybody's heart ever start racing talk back to me anybody ever get queasy and nervous because you don't know what you're about to encounter i want to i want to take you for a moment back to childhood in childhood we were taught some basics to build our life on from childhood from childhood we are taught to know your abcs remember remember that a b c d e f g what is it i'm just checking to see if y'all were out there so from from from from the time even before we got into nursery school they started teaching us our abc's and at the moment we entered nursing school or nursery school they started teaching our colors do you do you know what color that is what color is that then from there we stepped up and as we stepped into elementary school the elementary teachers started making sure that we knew our timetables ken you know your timetables two times two is four times fourth eight times eight is oh you're getting too high better back it back down and and and and almost as soon as we were taught math we begin to get lessons in subject-verb agreement make make sure you know what subject goes with this verb make sure you understand your pronoun and can i suggest to you today that most of that information that we were taught way back when was foundational stuff foundational stuff it was taught to us in to in order to enable us to be able to read it was taught to us to enable us to be able to write it was taught to us to enable us to be able to communicate to be able to add subtract and divide and so those basics were basics that has brought us a mighty long way but but can i suggest today on the lord today as i talk to the lord's people that there are some spiritual principles that all of us need to be reminded of every once in a while in order in order to thrive and not survive there are some spiritual principles we need to apply to our lives what would somebody that that's tuned in maybe you're not tuned in i i know sometimes people come to church and they read their bulletins sometimes people come to church and they look around sometimes people come to church and they miss the opportunity to serve god but if you tuned in this morning would you just shout shout lord i want to thrive and not just survive somebody shout that so so so so many people are meandering through life and they are missing the opportunity to thrive and and can i suggest today that learning your abc's learning your timetables learning your color all of those things will help but as it relates to being able to thrive we need something else in fact what we need is we need the word of god and we need god anybody want to say amen right then there are there are some spiritual principles if we can grab hold to those principles we'll be able to be all god would have us to be i i need you today i need you today to open your mind when god's only begotten son got to planet earth his very first sermon is a sermon that is recorded in the book of matthew matthew chapter 5. matthew chapter 5 is the sermon on the mountain and in that sermon on the mount jesus is talking to some of his followers and one of the things that comes out of that sermon is that if you want to thrive you need to stop worrying can i can i remind you that worry is a joy killer it's a joy killer i mean you could be sitting at a fabulous restaurant you could have tons of money in the bank you could have good health and if you allow worry to take hold of you worry will make you sick i don't care how well off you are i don't care how many degrees you have i don't care how many titles you have i don't care how much money you have in the bank we all end up on a street called worried sick worry worry worry is like a pressure cooker i remember when i was a little boy my mama had one of those pressure cookers and and and it had a little knob right on the top of it and and mama would sit that pressure cooker on the stove and and when it got hotter and hotter at some moment steam started to build up and after the steam started to build up it built up so strongly that it lifted the lid and the whistle started to blow worry where it is like that worry where it can cause sleepless nights worry can cause short fuses just keep blowing up everywhere you go worry can cause depression you you sad i don't care whether the sun is shining whether or not you got whatever you need you you depressed worry worry can cause outbreaks of tears you just keep crying over and over again worry can cause ulcers in fact in fact someone has said that of all the sicknesses you can have worry is the most deadly worry can lead to high blood pressure worry can lead to heart attacks worry can lead to strokes worry can lead to mental breakdowns now now y'all help me y'all help me smile smile real big we're talking about mental breakdowns now smile real big look at your neighbor and let them see your whites and then tell them don't let worry drive you to the cuckoo house don't let look at them just don't don't let worry drive you to the cuckoo house jesus jesus understood the negative effects of worry so he commanded his followers not to worry and so i want to take this message in the midst of all of the stuff that's going on because we got stuff going on right now somebody ought to say amen we got stuff in america we got stuff in the world we got stuff in our lives and so i want to take this message right here today and i want to apply this message to stuff so i i i'm going to give you some old passages we used to sing in the old church those old 100 hymns and be one of those brown paperback books that we'd go to and so this morning i want to take you to some old 100 passages and and i need you to write them down i need you to see them first passage i want to take you to is a passage located in the book of psalms go to psalms chapter 40 verses 1 through 3. psalms psalm chapter 40 verses 1 through 3. that the word of god says i waited patiently for the lord he turned to me heard my cry lifted me up out of the slimy pit out of the mud and my he sat my feet on a rock gave me a firm place to stand he put a new song in my mouth a hymn of praise to our god many will see and fear the lord and put their trust in him when you are tempted to worry one of the things that i believe that will help you and help me is to have some patience when somebody shout patience show patience again don't don't don't don't miss this passage this passage in psalms chapter 40 is written by david himself this is the shepherd boy david this is the great king david this is the one that god describes as a man after his own heart and though he became king of israel though god anointed him as king of israel though god helped him to defeat goliath though god helped him to write a number of the sum can i tell you he walked with god but he still had stuff in his life i i believe today i'm talking to somebody today that's walking with god but you got some stuff in your life see see see sometimes we assume just because we accepted jesus as the lord of our life that it meant that we got a free get out of jail car but i need you to hear me that when you accepted jesus as the lord of your life it meant you signed up for a cross oh yeah yeah yeah when you accepted jesus as the lord of your life along with jesus came your own personal cross you didn't hear me i want to remind you because sometimes christians get so despondent what did i do why am i going through this why is god upset with me and none of those things are relevant the only thing that's relevant is that life is not a fail life's not a fair journey y'all we're going to have some valleys and we'll have some mountain tops and because we signed up to follow jesus we're no better than the master himself we all have some stuff in our lives we all have some trials in our lives it's a part of life david david when he got ready to talk about his stuff david said his stuff was like a slimy pit david david says his stuff was like mary clay david says his stuff was muddy anybody here i'm talking to today ever been through some stuff talk back to me problems problems at the job problems at the house problems in my body problems in my marriage problems in my finances problems in my just problems stuff trials stinky stuff sticky stuff jesus reminds us that no servant is above the master if they mistreated jesus if jesus had to go through some some something and we're following him we have to also go through a little something something and so i'm i'm reminding us today that when it is our time to endure some trials that one of the philosophies that we ought to adopt is patience somebody needs to remind us wait on god don't don't wait on the doctor don't wait on another paycheck don't wait on the child don't wait on the parent no wait oh god yo folks folks used to say trouble won't always last old folks used to say and it came to pass it didn't come to stay it came to pass and so right now in this season where the delta variant is absolutely going crazy we need to remind ourselves i'm gonna wait on god oh oh yes ma'am i'm staying six feet oh yes sir i'm washing my hands i'm wearing my mask i'm getting the shots i'm doing all of that but i'm waiting on god listen to david here david say god heard hit listen to david david says god lifted listen to david he said god set my feet on a solid rock can can i can i just ask today anybody standing on shifty ground right now talk to me you you're trying to get your foot hole you're trying to get stable but the truth of the matter is the ground is shifting david said god heard me david said god lifted me now i don't know how long david had prayed to god i don't know how long it took for god to lift him but god heard him god lifted him and god put his feet on solid ground i need to remind somebody today that if he did it for david he'll do it for me if he did it for david he'll do it for you he is no respecter person and so so david says the key is to wait on god isaiah isaiah talking about the same thing isaiah chapter 40 isaiah says do you not know have you not heard the lord is the everlasting god the creator of the ends of the earth he will not grow tired or weary and his understanding no one can phantom he gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak even youths grow tight and weary and young men stumble and fall but those who wait on the lord anybody waiting on the lord today let me check let me check let me check let me check let me check if you're waiting right now on the lord to speak to something in your life you've been talking to him about it it's been on your heart but you are at a place where you know you need to wait on god if you are waiting on god today can i see your hand please show me your hand show me your hand show me i got both of mine up see every once in a while children of god need to be reminded wait on god if we wait on god it'll help us to quit worrying i want to take you to another o 100 text this time it's in psalms chapter 46. psalm chapter 46. psalm chapter four the sixth beginning in verse number one the other word of god reads god is our refuge and strength and ever-present help in trouble therefore we will not fear though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea though its waters roll and foam and the mountains quake with their surging somebody says no no no wait what are you gonna get out of this old 100 passage i i want to remind us to know to know to run to your refuge i got a refuge my refuge is an unbelievable refuge i'm talking about a safe place i'm talking about a resting place i'm talking about when it storms in my life i'm talking about when i need comfort i've got me a refuge oh don't miss it some people some people take refuge in drugs you hear what i said some people some people take refuge in their bank accounts some people take refuge in their things some people take refuge in their title some people take refuge in their old girlfriends and their exes some people take refuge in partying and clubbing but the writer says my run to place my go-to place is god when when the road gets bumpy in my life when the wind starts to blow in my life when the reigns of life come down if you want to find me find my god because i am with him i mean pawpaw's laugh anybody ever climb up in paw paw's lap pawpaw's lap is our place of refuge and so when it starts to fall part in my life i'm not gonna have a pity party and honor myself by me i'm not going to do that i'm not going to the back seat of the church house and sing the song woe is me i'm not i'm not going to the club looking for a quick pick up i'm not i'm not i'm not i'm running to my god he's my refuge somebody somebody says preacher what's your point there well my point is that when things start to shake in our lives when things seem to come apart somebody says everything that's nailed down is coming up when things happen like that in our life know that we have a refuge huh i don't have to run to the psychiatrist i don't have to run to the counselor i don't have to run to my ex i don't have to run and get a a a fifth i don't have to do that i can run to my refuge speaking of refuge speaking of running i love what jesus said in matthew chapter 11. he says come unto me we're hitting up some old favorites today come unto me all you who are weary and burdened and i'll give you rest what are you saying jesus i got a refuge place for you take my yoke upon me and learn from me for i'm gentle and humble and hard and you will find rest you'll find a refuge for your soul but my yoke is easy and my burden is light jesus is a solid rock jesus is the wheel in the middle of the wheel jesus is my go-to place jesus is my refuge anybody anybody today want to apply and say jesus i need you as my refuge uh been with a lot of different jobs some jobs i stayed 10 years some jobs i stayed 30 years i been at this place and that place but i have learned that when your time is up people don't care how much time you have given huh you don't care anything about seniority your shelf life is up and when your shelf life is up you need to know your shelf life is not up with god well i hope that when you get the inclination i i'm worried know what this gonna happen here you tell yourself i got a refuge i'm going to my refuge how about this next one oh 100 here's another hebrews chapter 13 hebrews chapter 13. verse 5 and 6 another one of those old 100 scriptures hebrews chapter 13 verses 5 and 6 keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have because god has says never will i leave you never will i forsake you so we can say with confidence the lord is my helper i will not be afraid what can mere mortals do somebody somebody just shall never shout never again so i want you to know never will he leave you michael jackson michael jackson at this beautiful places mansion and he called it neverland it was a fantasy it was unbelievable it was unimaginable and so the hebrew writer uses the word never god says never will i leave you it's unbelievable it's unimaginable it's unthinkable god will never leave his child i don't know when when my kids were little they were on my heart but i thought that as they grew up and as they found their own way in life that they would get off my lap and out of my heart but can i tell you that my children are still on my heart today uh-uh before i left home today i i sent them all text messages telling them i'm loving you i'm on the way to the church i can can i just remind you that if you are a child of god you want god's heart god said never will i leave you i am with you in your lonely hours at night with you in the pain of a divorce i'm with you in the passing of a loved one i am with you when you are on top of the world and i am with you when the world is on top of you i love the fact 24 7 365 days god is with us help me help me help me help me help me this is one of those moments where i i just need you to help me with this um would you just y'all god is with me shout it again god is with me i went to uh this is the linda buttroll's brother's funeral the other day i went to foster billfoot's father's funeral and i don't know when your brother's funeral is but if the lord says the same oh i missed it sorry oh lou call me aloof said john i want you to know uh my mother passed at 1 40 this morning i'm trying to figure out now can i get on the plane and go be with olu can i remind you that whether or not we are present god is always present god god knows our uprising and our down city god knows our going and are coming god says never you can't get rid of me i love the fact that not only is god with us god is our helper while he is with us he is helping us he is making things happen for our good i love the passage from the book of jeremiah jeremiah chapter 29 verse 11 the bible says for i know another one of those old 100s 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 hope and a future god says now listen i i know you're going through a little something something right now i know it's not easy right now but listen if you could walk in my office come around to my desk look at my calendar flip open my calendar look at your name look at the plans i have for you you would say god you got some plans to prosper me plans to take care of me let's let's get another old 100 first corinthians chapter 10 verse 13. first corinthians 10 verse 13 the bible says no temptation has overtaken you except what is coming to mankind and god is faithful which is somebody just shout faithful god is faithful he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear but when you are tempted he will also provide a way out so you can endure it no without a doubt that god is faithful i wish that passage said that since god is faithful we won't have to go through a little something something since since god is by our side everything is going to be all right and it does say everything that's going to be all right but it does not say we don't have to go through things it says that god is faithful i'm faithful and i'm with you in the springtime i'm with you when things are going smoothly i'm with you when things are not going smoothly i'm with you 24 7. i'm with you 365 days a year a question anybody ever just paused in the silence of your mind and gone back over god's track record in your life and saw god's hand have you ever have you ever just stopped and said you know i'm going back over my life and when i go back over my life i see god's hand ever here's a question ever wonder why you didn't die in that car wreck you you you made some bad moves behind the steering wheel like everybody else but for some reason you're still here can i suggest that you're still here because god is faithful watch this one ever wonder i wonder why you didn't die of a heart attack you ate the ox tails you ate the chitlins just like everybody else but for some reason your arteries did not clog up your heart is still beating you want to know why cause god is faithful watch this ever wonder why you didn't get strung out on drugs come close now you you smoke the weed just like everybody else but but but for some reason another you didn't get strung out on that stuff you want to know why you didn't get stronger because god is faithful somebody maybe maybe maybe i didn't touch the area in your life but when you put your life in your rearview mirror and you look back and you see all of the accidents you see all of the wrecks you see all of the tragedies you could have had and you know you're still here somebody ought to stop right now and just say praise god pray he's god he has he has done a marvelous job in taking care of us it's not because we're so smart it's because he is so faithful love love this passage and if you read it too quick you'll miss it in this passage god declares i am the shot-caller in this passage god declares i am the controller god says i control the switch god says i control the clock god says i control the load and if in fact you feel like it's too heavy i have already put an emergency parachute packed right in the middle of a situation for you god says i'm i'm not going i'm not going to let you go through anything that you're not able to stand if you're going through it if you in it that means god has already looked and done the evaluation and he's already said my child is strong enough to go through this i love the fact romans 8 35 another one of those passages who shall separate us from the love of christ shall trouble a hardship a persecution a famine a nakedness or danger or sword as it is written for your sake we face death all day long we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered no in all these things whatever it is we are more than conquerors through him who loved us for i am convinced that neither death nor life neither angels nor demons neither present nor the future nor any powers nor height or death nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of christ jesus our lord help me help me again you'll walk away with some things in your basket with somebody just shout with everybody shout i am loved by god shout it again i'm loved by god nothing's going to be able to separate me from god god god is there and so so these minimizes these let's get one more and let's let's quit with this last one let's quit with this one second corinthians chapter 4 verse 16 through 18. this is another one of old favorites ii corinthians chapter 4 verse 16 through 18. he says in this particular passage therefore we do not lose heart though outwardly we are wasting away yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day for a light and momentary troubles are achieving for us eternal glory that far outweights them all so we fix our eyes not on what is seen not on the trouble that's around us not on the situation but on what is unseen since what we see is temporary but what is unseen is eternal would somebody just shout momentary shout again momentary i would imagine i would imagine if i took a poll right now and ask you did you have any troubles when you were 10 years old everybody would raise their hand say yeah i had trouble if i would take a poll and say now did you have any trouble when you got your 20 somebody would say yeah i had some trouble and so as we go through our tens our twenties our thirties whatever age it is all of it we look back and it's in the past and the reason that it's in the past is because it was momentary not gonna stand here i'm not gonna stand here and tell you that trouble isn't bad i'm not gonna stand here and tell you that trouble isn't real i'm not going to stand here and tell you that the pain isn't real i'm not going to tell you that the disappointment isn't real i'm not going to tell you that the hurt is isn't real but i am going to tell you it's momentary there is a philosophy that says now if this is momentary if this is just a second in a season i can go through this one day the apostle paul felt like his wagon was overloaded he had too much in his wagon it was weighing him down life was pulling him down so in second corinthians chapter 12 verse 8 he says three times i pleaded with the lord to take it away from me but he said to me come on y'all my grace is sufficient for you for my power is made perfect in weaknesses therefore i will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that christ's power may rest on me that is why for christ's sake i delight in weakness and insults and hardship and persecution and difficulties for when i am weak paul says now i got some stuff going on i'm i'm on my missionary journey for jesus i don't have to ask you you're on your missionary journey for jesus on his missionary journey for jesus he encountered some difficulties paul said i prayed three times that this stuff be removed from my life but then all of a sudden i heard something that said now when you are weak that's when you are your strongest can i can i can i just speak to somebody today that's going through something and say i empathize with you everybody goes through something preacher goes through something the elders go through something song leader goes through something the faithful member goes through some the the bible everybody goes through something and when we go through those somethings we have to be careful not to allow those somethings to worry us see what do we do well there's some things we remember we remember to be patient and to wait on god we remember that god is our refuge we remember that god will never leave us we remember god is faithful we remember that it's all momentary we've got to fix it stand to your feet this morning may god bless you may god bless you let me be very quick let me just say as the shepherds come as the worship leaders come we all have some stuff going on right now somebody say amen yeah you know if i if i ran the mic to you and and and put the mic in your face you can say well now this is what's going on in my life and i'm dealing with it but but jesus reminds us as we deal with it don't let it worry us sick don't let it and so this message today was about a whole bunch of old passages of scripture that we applied to our life and reminded ourselves be strong you can handle it because god is with you may god bless you if you have not made jesus the lord of your life if you have not accepted jesus as your savior why don't you accept him as your savior today why don't you accept it he loved us so much that he left the courts of heaven he came and on a hill there's a cross on that cross there's some blood blood for me and blood for you bloody but beautiful get it right today accept him as the lord of your life go down in the watery grave of baptism have all your sins washed away be added to his body be added to his church become a christian a member of the church of christ if you if you if you back sled and you just need to come back and rededicate your life won't you do it you got something that you need to pray and ask for forgiveness for why don't you do it why don't you just come and confess today whatever's going on in your life right now if you there's something you want to ask the church to pray about whatever it is bring it to the lord right now as we sing the song of invitation pass me not holding to say where do not pass is see do not pass oh do not pass me by we'd like to thank brother tillman for the message sometimes it's so hard not to worry and hand it over to god but it's so assuring knowing that if we give it to god he'll take care of it we have several that have come forward we'd like to give you an opportunity to make your statements and please state your name and your statement at this time you know this is uh brother pon sanchez uh i'm glad you know that uh every time when the hurricane season starts it gets very nervous for the ones who kind of flooded before and now that they're saying that there's a storm in the gulf that it may curve he might he might hit us uh you know sometimes a day or tomorrow i just want to make sure it doesn't come out and it's worth until people think to just pray for houston that that doesn't happen god bless you i just wanted to thank those that have been praying for me and i appreciate it may god bless you good morning church you know sometimes i try to be pretty strong sometimes you can't motion won't let you but anyway i thank everyone for the cause for the text messages for the prayer for the cards flowers but just warmth that i felt in my heart from this church so unfortunately the film was saturday i wanted to smile didn't want anything big didn't want nobody to get in no trouble so we just had it in the neighborhood that he grew up in so his bicycle riding butters could come by and visit him and be with him and so i just thank you from the bottom of my heart it was six of us two left that's kind of rough you got six brother each one of them took their own path didn't stop us from loving each other sometimes i think we try to out love each other for brothers and unfortunately the one of us left william got up in church and said it was too standing and he want to be the last one god bless you man god bless you and then the preacher come up there and say well william i hope you're right i said i ain't got nothing to do about that i thank you god bless you good morning everyone i'd just like to say thank you for uh those who came out to linda's brother's funeral uh that was another small occasion and uh everything went well and we didn't have any problems thank god and a few people wanted to come over to my house and he was nope we're not doing that so thank you for all your calls your calls and she uh she's done well she's a strong lady and uh it's one of one of the reasons that i met her and narrative thank you may god bless you we also have i think her name is sister patricia cannon she's one of i was sick and shut in and she asked for prayers and uh sheila cannon uh please keep her in your prayers you know this has been i'm sure i guess every week we hear someone getting sick or dying from covert they say the numbers are getting better than they were last year but it almost seems like every week we hear someone we know and love or relatives that are getting sick and dying from covert so let's stay diligent let's continue to pray for our loved ones in fact this week has been a difficult week because we had uh one of our brothers his father passed and one of our sisters her brother passed one of our brothers his younger brother passed and and i know that there are so many more families that are hurting and it seems as if they're young people are getting affected by this culvert and i don't know if the old folk have gotten their vaccines or it's moved i heard on the news a four-year-old baby that passed so i just we want to encourage you to be careful to be safe if you hadn't gotten your vaccine and you're putting it off do it because your life may depend on it because they say you are ten times more likely to die from this disease if you go in the hospital if you have not gotten your shots so be careful but let's pray for all those who come forward is that all right our father in our god god we thank you for this day dear father we had nothing to do with the fact that we woke up this morning it is all you the father there are times we worry about things around us and our worrying will not change a thing so help us dear father to put our worries in your hands and let you manage our problems the father again for we ask you to forgive us of our sins whether they've been by words thoughts or indeed we ask you a god to lift us up give us the courage give us a strength but give us the assurance that you will fix it for us lord you can see into our future you can see into our past and you have control of our future help us dear father to honor you as our god and our savior dear father we ask a special prayer for those who come forward those who are concerned about this the weather that may be coming our way those that are praying for loved ones and those who are worried about the sicknesses that are in their families hey father we ask you to be with us and help us dear father as we give it to you that we let you have it that we will not contr try to control our destiny but that we will trust in you to god and direct us the father again we ask you to be with all those that are in this landing country that the father there are so many issues that's happening the father we pray for the families in the louisiana area that suffered a storm and trying to get their lives back together their father we pray for their families that are in afghanistan that's coming to this country that they've never seen before trying to pick up their lives and start all over again the father as we remember this day for 9 11 the father for those families that were affected and are still affected and many times their father we forget about families such as that help us to remember their father that you and only you are in control and help us dear father to give all of our allegiance to you so god be with us watch over and protect us as we continue this service these are so many other blessings we asked of you in jesus name we pray amen oh amazing grace how sweet the sound is like me now i'm oh i see amen we now come down to the portion of our service in which we take us communion we take up the bread and memory of our christ's body and we take out the blood of the fruit of the vine and more of his blood that was shed upon the cross of calvary on this morning we will take our reading from first corinthians the chapter is 11 beginning at the 23rd verse and it reads for i receive the lord what i also passed on to you the lord jesus on the night he was betrayed took bread and we had given thanks he broke it and said this is my body which is broken for you do this in remembrance of me in the same way after supper he took the cup saying this cup is a new covenant in my blood do this whenever you drink of it in remembrance of me for whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the lord's death until he comes with these things in mind this time let us now give thanks for the communion dear lord our most kind and loving heavenly father again we just want to thank you so much for sending your son jesus the father i want to thank you so much for his life for his preaching to the father for all the things that he did for all of mankind but most of all dear father we thank you so much that he went to that cross i want to thank you so much to the father that he went through the agony the pain and the shame of that cross their father that we'll have a right to the tree of life dear father we thank you as we take up this bread and we take of this fruit of divine we pray that our minds will be sent upon the sacrifice that christ made for each and every one of us we pray this prayer your son jesus name amended my way what thou has taught me to say it is well it is well with my soul my sins is no more praise the lord praise the lord my soul with my soul my soul amen now we come to the portion of our service on which we give back to the lord as he has prospered us we'll take our reading in second corinthians the chapter is nine beginning at the sixth verse how we ought to properly give back to the lord and verse number six remember this whoever soul spiritually will also reap sparingly and who serve souls generously will also reap generously each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give not reluctantly or under compulsion but god loves a cheerful giver and god is able to bless you abundantly so that in all things at all times having all that you need you are bound in every good word at this time let us now give thanks for the offering our most wise and our most wonderful heavenly father again we so humbly come before your throne of grace and mercy just thanking you dear father for all your blessings the father we just cannot say thank you enough the father for everything that you've done for us the father and everything you're doing for us right now and the father in your will you're doing for us in the future dear father we just can't thank you enough but at this time as we give a portion back to you dear father we pray that we'll keep these things in mind that father that we'll be able to give generously to your father give put you first in our lives then father the father again we pray for those who are in need their father we have so many things that we're in need of their father we know that you know of all of those things and you'll be there and be with us in our times of need help us to reach our hands out to our community to show them your love and your guidance their father and that you will always be here for each and every one of us the father be with us as we give back to you we pray and spread your son jesus name amen i will call upon the lord who is worthy to be praised so shall i be saved from my enemy you let the god of my salvation be exhausted whoa i will call upon the lord who is worthy to be praised my salvation oh i will hey what's up everyone this bryce here and i'm here with this week's announcements as usual as usual as usual before we get started if there are any visitors in the audience we ask that you stand up real quick because we want to see you we want to welcome you and we hope that you had a good time so visitors visit us real quick stand up and let's give the visitors a round of applause amen amen i see you i see you i yeah i see you so as we get started we want to remind you all that every second and fourth sunday that we will be having children's church and since this is the second sunday the kids are probably over there they should be over there right now so um remember every second and fourth sunday children's church children's church children if you would like to be a teacher for the youth bible class on zoom and wednesday night speech reach out to brother brandon dickinson or sister demetria to get signed up on the list teaching is very easy they give you all the materials and if you need help with anything just reach out and we will help you out but we're looking for more teachers for wednesday night so again reach out to sister demetria or brandon diggers last week i was very vague with the announcements that are happening in october because i wanted to make sure that i had the dates right so on october 16th and 17th october 16th and 17th we're calling all youth to come out to the mendoza ranch we're going to be worshiping with the hidden valley church of christ for the bob owen is going to be out there giving a devotion and remember we are going to have tacos you heard me right taco so um if you're interested in going please reach out to myself brother dedrick or brother mendoza and we can get you signed up so we can have the right accommodations to get everybody out there again that's october 16th that's a saturday for the youth devotion and then that sunday morning brother bob owen will be preaching so october 16th and 7th very next weekend on october the 23rd we're going to be having our trunk or treat so we're looking for people and volunteers to lend their trunk decorated there's going to be a trunk decorating contest there's going to be lots of candy it's going to be food we hope to see costumes i'm probably going to put my picture in my costume from last year right here again we hope to see you all out there invite your nephews your kids your grandkids everybody invite the whole neighborhood out because we want to make this a successful event and again that's october the 23rd to wrap up the month of october the united ladies are going to be holding a fundraiser for the southwestern christian college in the form of a musical so i know uh we miss songfest we have songs as virtual this year um this is our first time uh we're going to be having a in-person musical so if you are uh looking for or in the mood for some good singing and hoping and and are willing to support the southwestern christian college please reach out to any of the united ladies or our very own sister juana como for more information um and like i said more details that come in regards to the groups that will be performing on that evening again that is october i told y'all october is a stacked month if you if you're looking for something to do it's something to do you just gotta come to the church so we hope to see you all here during the month for our last announcement of the day we want to remind you all that if you have any clothes that you're willing to donate for the garden oats clothes closet um we are going to be collecting donations for that on every thursday some things that we're looking for are casual or dress attire that's new or gently used clean and it has to be on hangers don't just throw it in a bag and drop it off make sure you you know put some thought into it um gently worn shoes and also no donation should be in need of repairing so what that means is if it has holes in it if it needs to be patched up or hemmed up and the hem is all jacked up don't bring it don't bring it we want to make sure that what we give to the people in need is ready and it's um up to par with something that we will want can i get an amen amen amen amen some things that we're not looking for we're not looking for any party ware or formal dresses no sweatshirts or t-shirts or undergarments so we want to make sure that um also when you come to donate that you have a mask on when you're donating any uh items so please reach out to brother elsie your brother bob butcher if you need any more details um again reach out to pops or brother bob butcher if you have if you uh need more details in what you can bring or what they might need again this is going to be on thursdays from 10 to 12. from 10 a.m to 12. we hope to uh to to give them more than what they need amen amen so as we wrap up today's announcements again as always i hope that you all had a spirit-filled day i hope that you all were challenged i hope that you all learned something and and like chance the rapper says when praises go up lessons come down once again when i say praises go up lessons come down we hope that you all have a spirit-filled week we hope to see you all again next week thank you before brother roberson comes up as i took my seat i received the information that walter fletcher passed this week and i think they said he had heart issues y'all know sal his stepfather passed also audrey clark that sits in this area with two or three children over there her father passed as well we just want to remind you that uh folks are dying all around us so we we truly truly truly need to make certain our relationship with god as it should and we should be safe as we possibly can thank you again it is good for us to be here this day brother john thank you for the message i received the call we received the card from sister marcia and said states greetings garden oaks family thanks you mean so much to me thank you for your prayers your calls your texts and food while i was under the weather god is faithful blessings marcia tillman for i know the plans beautiful card thank you for praying for those that ask for prayer those that are sick those that are under the weather and also i've got five grandkids and i want to ask the church to pray for my my grandkids one is named kristen mcneil you know him uh he's trying to be a personal trainer and he has the test coming up soon i want you to pray for him that uh that he passed this test because he's really zeroed in on that's what he wanted to be in life then i have uh granddaughter candace who is a police officer and she does this van traveling she gets in her van with her dog and everywhere grand canyon all over the place then also when she finishes up then she reports back she has a follower and also that she pulls back how the trip was and this kind of thing then i've got three girls who was baptized this past year uh keanu kyler and kiara mcintyre one finished uh this past year kiana the oldest one in animal science from prairie view university then we have uh uh chiaro who is a senior will will finish also this uh term then the baby girl is kyla now she's finished two years at prairie view in the nursing facility and they've sent her to she's in the medical center so she has to go out there in the medical center the reason i'm asking for prayer especially for her she goes to the medical center she has to get an apartment this is the baby girl now right she has to get an apartment there in the medical center and it's a little off from the center but you know it's kind of like the first time being away from home kind of on our own so and as you know crime and everything is just so rapid in this city so pray for her that she'd be able to handle what's been thrown at her because they're moving up pretty fast because as you know there's a need for nurses so she's rapidly going through the system there in in-house training in other words at the hospital at this hospital so pray for her and all three of them made the dean's list at prairie view university so they they are really trying to do do the best so pray pray for them and pray for us sister roberts and myself uh she's a little close so we don't have to make so many trips to privy but let me say this also wear your masks get your shots and social disses this virus is is bad prairie via amm university experienced a lot of problems i mean cases so so pray for those students also all right let us stand when we go home thank you so much thank you for the lesson brother john almighty god in heaven the father by law and savior jesus christ we're we're thankful almighty god that you've blessed us with another day we're able to come to this place and hear brother john stand bowling and preach your word and your word almighty god we we pray that we we take your word and hide in our hearts and almighty god help us to to not worry not worry about tomorrow because tomorrow will take care of himself just be with us help us guide us leaders and that we can be all that you would have us to be thank you for those that are present here thank you for those that are not here thank you for those that are watching on tv almighty god we pray that something was said here this day to cause them to to to fall in love with our savior jesus christ not only that be willing to become a child of god if they're not already one so be with us go with us we're getting ready to leave this place and we thank you for your grace and your mercy and return us the next appointed times that be your holy and righteous will we ask this in jesus christ our lord amen and for those of you that are out there listening in the audience you need to know that this facility that we worship in is a facility that has the capacity of roughly 2 000 people and so if you say 25 occupancy i believe you're in the neighborhood of four to five hundred people and so as i glimpsed the audience today there are roughly 100 or so people so that means 400 more of you 300 more of you could come and we'd have plenty enough space to worship god i want to break up my friends to experience heaven's fees singing breaking always praising things we can't comprehend because i got all i need and i'm on a mission to bring people oh yeah so pack your bags is

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