God Checked | Dr Garrick Wilson | NTCG Chrisma

[Music] god is fighting for [Music] [Music] jesus you were [Music] we will not [Music] jesus me [Music] [Music] [Music] we will not jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] hey is [Music] and we will shout [Music] pushing back [Music] [Music] he will show me [Music] me [Music] [Music] and we will shout it out [Music] [Applause] [Music] shut up [Music] [Music] that [Music] jesus [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] in the name of jesus come on in the name of jesus we have to victory [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] at the dawn of morning mercies are falling and the shadow of your goodness follows me in my darkest valleys when evil surrounds me i will not fear your presence is here it's over me [Music] constant mercies unrestrained [Music] is your faithfulness great is your grace great is your grace each day great is your faithfulness great is your grace [Music] oh as your grace [Music] is says [Music] is your grace [Music] greatest grace [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Music] great is your faithfulness [Music] grace [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] in the valley [Music] 150 verse 6 just says let everything that have breath just praise the lord so i'm going to ask you to praise the lord one more time for his goodness for his mercy for his kindness for getting through this week for all the challenges that we faced lord we just want to thank you we just want to give you praise and honor that we can come into your house another time and we can lift you up and give you all the praise and all the glory that is due unto you hallelujah blessed be your name hallelujah hallelujah is [Music] [Music] blessed [Music] when the darkness [Music] still closes will say [Music] [Music] [Music] world is old as it [Music] [Applause] should be your name [Music] [Music] i'll turn still i will say [Music] me [Music] happy [Music] say [Music] say [Music] away [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we place you at the highest place today you can take away [Music] you can take away my heart will choose [Music] [Applause] [Music] my heart will choose to say [Music] my heart will [Music] blessed be honest [Music] [Applause] [Music] blessed be your glory yesterday hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah praise the lord blessed to be your glorious [Music] name hallelujah hallelujah [Music] i know i haven't been in church for a few weeks and when i tell you like some of the challenges you face when you haven't been in church it's because of work i haven't backslidden i haven't been answer backwards just i've been working that's all um but some of the challenges that we face it seems to hit harder when you haven't been in his presence even though you know you spend time in his presence at home but you know there's there's so many things and so many challenges that i had to face that i had to just even even in the midst of it i just still had to say thank you lord i still had to just give him praise i still had to just you know it's like we say this word press on through i didn't really we were laughing at that word press today like through the struggle um but this next song just simply says bless the lord all my soul oh my soul and it's the title of it's ten thousand reasons and in those times it's like you have to find those 10 000 reasons just to give him praise to give him honor to just bless his name lord i don't know why i'm going through this but i'll still bless your name i'll still honor you i'll stop you i'll still give you the highest praise in everything that i do amen amen [Music] bless the lord o my soul oh my soul worship his name sing like never before oh my soul i worship your whole [Music] name let's go from the top the sun comes up it's a new day it's time to sing your song again whatever may pass and whatever lies before me [Music] my soul [Music] oh [Music] [Music] is i will keep on singing 10 000 reasons for my heart to let's sing all together bless the lord [Music] three and on that day when my strength is failing [Music] [Music] still my soul will sink your praise [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] your [Music] oh [Music] i worship [Music] oh [Music] i worship your holy name let's do that one more time one more time [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] oh [Music] sing like never before [Music] i will [Music] but i will [Music] i will [Music] because you're with me because you're with me [Music] because you are with me because you're with me because you're with me [Music] let's go to the chorus sing my hiding place my safe refuge my treasure lord you are [Music] that's who you are [Music] you're my hiding place [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you must take refuge and you continue to be my that's treasured you are [Music] most holy [Music] thank you for being [Music] [Music] one more time let's declare that my hiding place you're my safe refuge you are my friends [Music] [Music] you're my treasurer that's who you are [Applause] [Music] those holy [Music] oh [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus we give you glory thank you jesus thank you jesus praise god good morning everyone good morning you may be seated i'm really glad to be in the house of the lord today and to share a testimony with you my name is laverne anderson and i greet you all in the mighty name of jesus the subject given to me was who is god to me and when i meditated on who god is to me i thought about a lot of things the many ways that his spirit had spoken to me through scripture through song through worship always tapping on my heart's door reminding me of who i am and the power he has given me and the mission to go out into the world and usher souls into his kingdom he is my god and my source of power on a daily basis trust me helping me to choose the right path you know and um that is so important that we listen to him and we make the right decisions you know psalms 32 8 says he will guide me with his eyes and proverbs 3 says if i trust him he will guide me with his eyes if i trust him i have to trust him and not lean on my own understanding and he will direct my path he will give me strength and the wisdom i never knew i had there are so many ways that makes god real and important in my life it gives me purpose he gives me hope guidance and demonstrates his faithfulness and his love to me in so many ways he is my reason for living my belief in this world has given my life meaning and purpose a reason to get out of bed in the morning yes there are some days that i would rather not but for the grace of god and the purpose that he's put in my heart in my heart i know i'm designed for god for his service to be part of something so much more bigger than myself and ultimately to serve others his kingdom right now is certainly the place to be especially in these very uncertain times when many are asking what is the purpose of life why are all these things happening around us none of it that we could control none of it that we even know what's right and what's true and what's not true there is so much confusion in the word though i find comfort comfort even in revelations yes i do because it tells of a future for those who believe in his name and have trusted him and of his glorious return i know there's a lot of things in revelations that are not really pretty but i choose to focus on the glorious reappearing of my lord because that's what i am hoping for all the other things that are going on around me they have to happen because god said so but what i want to focus in is when i'm with him when he returns and i'm in the right space when he returns so god and his word has given me direction to navigate this life so without him i don't even want to think about where i would be today there are many answers in the word of god for this generation so many of the sufferings of humankind and above all the world gives us hope how can i not love my god how can i not you know love someone who's protecting me and keeping me and guiding me every day and also know that god is a complete definition whatever he starts he will complete in every single one of us here i don't know if you had an experience when you've opened your mouth and the words that have come out from your mouth you did not even know you had in your head well how does that happen and i mean this is because of the god that we serve we don't have he doesn't have to give us a process where we think about something when he has a word for us a word for the people around us he gives us the words in our mouth that we will say even the scriptures we don't think we remember at the time when we need it most he brings it back into our remembrance this is the god that we serve the holy spirit will give you the words to say at the moment here is the confidence that we have in the god that we serve god speaks to me and gives me great counsel all the time i would like to say i listen to it all the time and debate strictly all the time but that would not be true and i'm in church and i remember he told me a lot of story and he does tell stories he told me a story about the tomb and the butterfly he said in stepping out from the darkness into the light be sure to leave your grave close behind because they have done their work put your trust in me in acknowledging him as my lord and savior i needed to accept the process that brought me to him with all of its traumas with all of its difficulties and pain and received the forgiveness and the healing that he has to offer and not to be drawn back into those grave clothes because frankly they don't fit me anymore i have grown i have moved on because of the grace of god and like the butterfly i have a very different mission now i am released from the cocoon and i'm free to demonstrate and show his love in a world that is filled with problems and pain doesn't the world need christians who know who god is to them i imagine sometimes a god shaking his head at times wondering what else do i need to do to show laverne that i love her and she is forgiven does anybody else feel like that sometimes you think oh my god you must be so fed up with me yet he always finds a way to do just that he has rescued me from very different difficult situations i've got myself into through his grace he has shut my mouth and to do otherwise would have caused me immense pain and maybe people around me he has given me and helped me to forgive myself and to forgive others this is also areas where i am still receiving healing in different areas of my life yet his mercy has kept me alive when the enemy was seeking to destroy to destroy me mentally oh lord and physically but because god holds the blueprint for my life not him why can't the enemy get that you know god has the final say absolutely he has the final step when i was thinking about preparing i was thinking about the three hebrew boys shadrach meshach and abednego and in daniel who were thrown into the fiery furnace because they would not bow down and worship the golden image of kin nebuchadnezzar made how hot is your furnace well god is keeping god is helping me to find joy in my furnace the furnace represents trouble and trials in the furnace we find a few good friends and when you truly open your eyes you will see christ because he is there and suddenly you don't feel the heat no more because it's not about your power is not about your strength is about the power of the almighty god that we serve it's not you also in that time find a reason to worship god because you let go of the reigns and allow him to have his way in the furnace you also find yourself not the one you're constantly beating up yourself about but the one that god sees when he sees you oh what comfort that has given me at times god says he will never leave or forsake me he will never let me down or block my phone number to him he has proven to be a god of his word and he cannot fail and he has never lost a battle he always has a plan in everything that he allows 2020 was a bad year for many of us and my mom had been suffering from dementia for many years so eventually i moved her into a home and then because i was there were some issues with her safety i moved her to another home last year in september 2019. by january she had a four in her new home hit her head on a concrete floor in jamaica leaving her with a blood clot in her brain at the age of 79. the pandemic hit in march and even though her operation was successful my mother's health decide declined rapidly she died eight months later in august 2020 there is my furnace right there my dad had passed from the same dementia just six years earlier and in my sorrow i lost sought sight of his goodness god my father had to sit me down and remind me that he is god and i am not these plans are not my plans and he reminded me of my pain that he was still god and he reminded me of his grace and favor during that difficult time so what happened to me that difficult time first of all i was studying i hadn't studied for a long time but i successfully completed my psychotherapy and counselling program in that furnace [Applause] in that furnace i made it to my mother's 80th birthday she had the fall in january her birthday was in february and i was determined to make it and i got in before the pandemic really took hold of the country in the nation so i got there i made it and i lived to watch my mother eat a slice of birthday cake followed swiftly by her favorite drink ginger beer which i know she loved and this is significant to me because in the few days i was there before in february i watched the nurses force-feeding my mom and my mom was there with her mouth very firmly closed tightly closed i'm not eating this i'm not eating this and i saw her eat the cake god it's good i was also in the nursing home in jamaica when she collapsed and was there in the ambulance with her as they took her to the hospital i wasn't there for the many visits that happened from february to august but i was there god was with me and i was truly blessed to be in that furnace at that time with my mom being able to be a source of comfort even though i doubted at times whether she even realized it was me god knows how to give good gifts to his children my mom had been unable to speak for many months even when i was on the phone to her before i went to jamaica nothing but a mumble at times maybe her breathing which i was very grateful for that she was breathing even though she couldn't talk to me in the last five minutes before i left her in the hospital in kingston i walked away and she motioned me to come back and i was like oh okay i tried i probably said goodbye several times before then but there was something about her emotion in me that i better got and i went back and leaped forward to her to her ear and she said to me i'm hungry and i want some apple juice well that just blew me away my mum didn't even say hello she said a whole lot sentence right there and i heard it and of course she got her oranges her apple juice but i nearly lost my balance how blessed she saved that for me she saved that for me almost telling me that i'm all right i'm good god's plan allowed me the privilege to hear my mom say complete sentence and i knew in that moment she realized who i was that i was her daughter so god is my anchor in my storm in my furnace everything it wants to be negative coming my way he is my anchor even though i feel like sometimes he's asleep in the boat but don't follow feelings i'm learning not to follow my feelings as what you believe is really what matters the truth is god is everything everything i need and more and everything is what god is to me thank you [Applause] good afternoon everyone i'd just like to thank laverne um sister laverne for sharing from her heart and i'm sure that everyone under her voice whether online or in the house would have been able to um say yes i've experienced some of that themselves so god bless you for sharing openly and honestly um i'd just like to welcome everyone to um our service today welcome those in the house and welcome those of you that are on that have joined us online and at this time i just like the ushers if they could position themselves to receive the tithe and offerings if anyone needs an envelope can you please raise your hand and one of the i've seen a hand already so ushers i don't see any of the ushers around they're coming god bless them right so if you can keep your hand up then shortly someone will give you an envelope and you can put cash or checks in them can you please fill in the requested information on the envelope and deposit it at the front where the ushers are if you wish to give online go to slash www.ntcgcharisma.org click the give button and follow the instructions there remember if you are a taxpayer tick the box that says gift aid on your envelopes or online as we can claim back 25 pence on every pound you give before we start giving our tithes an offering i'm going to say a short prayer for a financial breakthrough and declare god's promises over those that are financially struggling let us pray heavenly father i pray for everyone under the sound of my voice that is struggling financially that they would receive their breakthrough this week father i pray divine favor would locate them chase them down and overtake them in the mighty name of jesus i declare deuteronomy 28 verse 12 the lord shall open onto thee his good treasure the heaven to give the rain onto thy land in his season and to bless all the work of thy hand and thou shall lend onto many nations and thou shall not borrow i declare proverbs 10 22 the blessing of the lord it maketh rich and he addeth no sorrow with it i declare psalm 68 19 blessed be the lord who daily loadeth us with the benefits even the god of our salvation i declare philippians 4 19 but my god but my god shall supply all your needs according to his riches in glory by christ jesus father god i pray you would give everyone wisdom on how to spend what you have given them i pray for jobs with good salaries i pray for promotion father you said in your word the lord is my shepherd i shall not want to hear your cry hear the cries of your children grant them divine intervention in their finances give them a testimony in jesus name amen amen amen and if you believe that prayer why don't you stand why don't you stand and give god praise for that prayer i'm sorry i thank you sister johnny for that prayer i received that prayer amen amen [Music] strength the lord wait upon the lord wait upon the lord strength arises we wait upon the lord wait upon the lord wait upon the lord [Music] however [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] you lived [Music] strength will rise [Music] wait upon the lord stress for us as we wait upon the lord wait upon the lord [Music] i [Music] [Music] god [Music] [Music] everlasting [Music] oh [Music] always like eagles [Music] [Music] oh [Music] you are you are you are you you are you are you are you are [Music] i think you are you are you are you are you are you are [Music] my savior [Music] you'll be right there [Music] that's who you are thank you [Applause] [Music] i'll find it [Music] [Music] thank you [Applause] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] here i am [Music] you won't grow weary i know you'll never wear [Music] you lift us up [Music] you are the everlasting [Music] god the everlasting god let me tell you i've been wrestling this week but you do not faint you won't grow i'm singing this for myself you're the defender of you're the defender of the week and you come for those in need [Music] you are the everlasting [Music] we [Music] you live [Music] you are my strength we're about to go into the world strength [Music] strength like no [Music] [Music] you are my strength [Music] strength strength like no one reaches to me and the next part we just say in the [Music] fullness of your grace [Music] [Music] whatever you have to say lord god we ask that you a sata right now in the fullness [Music] [Applause] you lift me up [Music] [Music] lord [Music] [Applause] [Music] blessing you all my hope sing you all my hope you are my hope [Music] like no other [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Music] is oh [Music] is [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] reaches me [Music] reach us to me [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] um [Music] of his grace god will lift you up [Music] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah harlan will everyone stand with me does anyone want to praise god come on just just just hallelujah hallelujah [Music] hallelujah you know hmm [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign lord has something to say today it's the 19th day of the month of september it is four days past the halfway point of our month of fasting and prayer and it is a good time for the lord to begin to speak to his people for the lord to begin to do some progress check as to where we are at what is he saying what is he doing and just before you take your seat let's go to the scriptures which comes to us today from the book of second sorry first kings chapter 22. [Music] the niv version reads thus for three for three years there was no war between aram and israel but in the third year jehoshaphat king of judah went down to see the king of israel and the king of israel said to his officials don't you know that ramoth gilead belongs to us and yet we're doing nothing to retake it from the king of arab and so he asked joseph will you go with me to fight against ramath gilead joseph replied to the king of israel i am as you are my people as your people my horses has your horses but jehoshaphat also said to the king of israel first let us seek the counsel of the lord and so the king of israel brought together the prophets about 400 men and asked them shall i go to war against ramath gilead or shall i refrain go they answered for the lord will give it into the king's hands but jehoshaphat asked is there no longer a prophet of the lord here of whom we can inquire the king of israel answered jehoshaphat there is still one prophet through whom we can inquire of the lord but i hate him because he never prophesies anything good about me but always bat his name is makaya son of imla the king should not say such a thing jehoshaphat replied so the king of israel called one of his officials and said bring makaya son of imla at once dressed in their royal robes the king of israel and jehoshaphat king of judah were sitting on their thrones at the threshing floor by the entrance of the gates of samaria with all the prophets prophesying before them now zedekiah son of kenana and made some iron horns and declared this is what the lord says with these you will gore the aramians until they are destroyed all the other prophets were prophesying and saying the same thing attack ramad gilead and be victorious they said for the lord will give it into the king's hands the messenger would go on to summon makaya said to him look the other prophets without exceptions are predicting success for the king let your word agree with theirs and speak favorably but mccain said as surely as the lord lives i will tell him only what the lord tells me when he arrived the king asked him makaya shall we go to war against ramath gilead or not attack and be victorious he answered for the lord will give it into the king's hands the king said to him how many times musli make you swear to tell me nothing but the truth in the name of the lord then mccain answered i saw all of israel scattered on the hills like sheep without a shepherd and the lord said these people have no master let each one go home in peace the king of israel said to jehoshaphat didn't i tell you that he never prophesied anything good about me but only the bad okay i continued therefore hear the word of the lord i saw the lord sitting on his throne with all the multitudes of heaven standing around him on his right and on his left and the lord said who will entice ahab into attacking ramoth gilead and go into his death there one suggested this and another that finally a spirit came forward stood before the lord and said i will entice him by what means the lord ask i will go out and be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all his prophets she said you will succeed in enticing him said the lord go and do it now and so now the lord has put a deceiving spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours and the lord has declared disaster for you then zedekiah son of king and i um went up and slapped michaela in the face which way did the spirit from the lord go when he went to speak to you yes mccair replied you will find out the day you sat i'll hide in your inner room the king then ordered israel take me the king rather of israel ordered take mikhaia send him back to amnon the ruler of the city and to jose the king's son then say this this is what the king says put this fellow in prison and give him nothing but bread and water until i return safely michael said if you ever return safely the lord has not spoken through me then he had it mark my words all you people let us pray father in the name of your son jesus christ say what you want to say do what you want to do however you want to say it and however you want to do it that is our simple ass today in jesus name amen please be seated harder for those of you watching online you may have seen the title progress review however i'm led in a slightly different direction this afternoon and i want to talk from the subject matter god checked god checked it will make sense shortly as i said we're both just over halfway through a month of prayer and fasting and god should be speaking to us by now we've heard a lot said about god today in our service from laverne and also the songs that were sung we're the place now in our fasting and friends month where we should begin to review what is being said so far and it is imperative that we ensure that when we do the review that we do not mistake the voice of god for something else likewise we should ensure that we do not mistake the voice of the devil for the voice of god jesus having just completed 40 days and 40 nights of fasting and prayer was met by the devil who showed him incredible possibilities he took him to a high place and he said look at all these kingdoms i can give you influence and these are the things we normally praise and give god thanks for but what if it is not god speaking and we have to be careful that we learn in this season of fast in prayer how to distinguish between the voice of god and the voice of the devil and certainly it is the fact that when we fast and pray satan will always present a conversation uh i don't know if you saw recently there was channel 4 did a day called black to front and as part of that there was a program called celebrity gogglebox everyone knows gogglebox and and it was just the black people and show this time around reviewing and critiquing what was on the previous week's television and one of the things that popped up on there was this show called skin a and e and it's where they start showing some skin problems one of them was a lipoma where you have to cut into it and squeeze out the stuff that's in it it's a it's a very graphic image um and certainly that's something and this is going to tell you a lot about me that's something that i like uh it's it's it's it's the science that i did excuse me and so i went and found the program and i watched it from start to finish fascinating stuff how you squeeze out that pus that infection out of a boil or out yes i've seen some faces think about it think about it it is fascinating stuff and and really i i i'm painting that picture to say that's what prayer ought to do prayer is not just confession of known sins it's not just to reveal the pimple and to burst the pimple and squeeze out the corruption that is obvious prior as a way of opening doors to some inclinations and some root causes and you see if we don't get the roots squeezed out of these boils and when we close them up they just form another infection and the secondary infection can be worse than the primary infection and so we have to make sure that we squeeze out everything and that's what prayer ought to be doing for us by now 19 days into the fast it ought to be squeezing out the root issues the inward inclinations that drives us to think and behave in a certain way say garrick you're talking to me good i appreciate your support i really do appreciate your support and uh we're coming to second king sorry first kings chapter 22 i was in second kings four last time i spoke to you and i told you to make a demand on the anointing and not to give god nuanced prayers but be very open and be very honest as to exactly what it is that you're asking him to do and today as we come to first kings chapter 22 let me just give you a bit of backstory and then we'll get there and i've got three points to put before you and then i'll just get out of your way uh backstory is ahab king of israel son of umri uh inherited the throne of israel and inheriting the throne he made in israel at the time i should say was thriving economically it was thriving but he made some alliances in that he married the daughter of ethbau king of sidon or sidon as some people may say he married the daughter of fbal king of zidon and and this was a political alliance because when you are in government it is useful it is most prudent for you to make alliances with key strategic figures to ensure that your reign or that your tenure is successful and so he married the daughter of the sidonian king her name was jezebel the sidonians worshiped a different god remember now i must put this there and you must notice that yahweh was the god of israel but the sidonians worshiped baal and certainly jezebel acted in the role of a priestess of baal and this is who he married in marrying her the bible tells us in first kings chapter 16 ran about verse 31 through verse 33 that the lord was displeased with him not only displeased with him the word that is used in the king james version is that the lord was angry with him he provoked the lord's anger uh because he bowed down and he worshipped baal not only did he bow down and worship baal he built altars in israel to bail and he built temples and so very much what he has instituted there as part of his reign as part of his government was another form of worship and so now we have this kind of worship taking place in israel where on one hand people were worshiping yahweh and on the other hand they were worshiping baal it is syncretism this is what we call syncretism it is the merchant or the amalgamation of two things that don't belong together it's this mix-up mix-up business uh that so often we see going on and the purity of christianity has been contaminated as a result you see people are not turning away from god people are not turning away from the faith per se and and i think sometimes we think that people are leaving the faith people are not leaving the faith they they want a bit of yahweh but then they also want a bit of this and a bit of that and so as syncretism entered the nation of israel where yahweh was the national god of course uh there was a movement of rebels they are called in the book of kings the company of prophets there was a movement of rebels notable among them were the prophets elijah and elisha they were the rebels that would basically uh stand against anything that the government was introducing in the form of baal worship are you with me so far and and the government you know sometimes we have to be careful because the government will bring in some things and they say be tolerant uh for other religions and we're here this morning and it's poignant that we're singing about how a god how he is the everlasting god and how he's our strength and all of those kind of things etc but why is it that we put him just as one among the other gods all the other gods they are the works of men there is none like you you are the most i god let all the other names fade away jesus take your place syncretism syncretism it is not the banishing of christianity it is the rendering of christianity to a point whereby it incorporates other viewpoints other worldviews other ideologies philosophies and practices syncretism is when a solemn assembly of fasting and prayer has been called such as we are in right now and some of us have made the decision that we are not going to participate in that fast and prayer that is syncretism because a solemn assembly has been called and we've incorporated these ideas that it's up to me if i participate or not yes it is but at the same time we're expecting the blessings that god gives to those who have fasted and prayed earnestly and god said in this season if you've not fasted prayed for it and sought my faith for it you're not gonna get the blessings that those of us who have spent time earnestly in prayer day after day seeking the lord for and so we need to stop synchronizing these ideas and think that the lord is pleased about it syncretism is when we amalgamate this idea that we should treat our worship services the same way that we treat any other theatrical or concert performance in that if those on the stage in front of us doesn't perform in a way that basically lifts and elevates us we will not participate we will sit and look at them with a broke down face sorry we will sit and look at them with a sad face a sour face and we will just wait to be stirred to be conjoined cajoled and to be rehearsed into worship and yet when i read my bible according to psalm 100 and verse 5 6 they're about it says enter into his gates with thanksgiving in your heart and into his courts with grace be thankful unto him and bless his holy name and if we come and we sit and we're waiting for somebody to get us to stir us to there that's not worship in spirit and in truth that's not the kind of worship that god is seeking and yet we bring in these cultural concepts and ideas and think that the lord is pleased about it syncretism is when we present ourselves not as holy not as consecrated is when we amalgamate and we merge fornication we merge lie we merge deception all these other things and yet we just come and say it is what it is because the grace of god covers me let me rebuke your theology of grace grace is not full fool grace and an idiot grace is not ah help me there do you hear today jesus grace is not there to basically have fuel or petrol to your sinful dysfunctionalities uh if you have experienced the grace of god it should lead you to a place of transformation such that you would want to step away from those things that god is not pleased about let me deal with that theology of grace and and and hey i brought this synchronous worship into israel and and and it was being proliferated it was being elevated it was being protected and it was being covered uh elijah the prophet did a check on it and decided this the god has not sanctioned this the lord has not certified this and so he was sent to do something about it he called a congregation at a mount called carmel and he invited some people there but he also invited the prophets of baal 450 of them came out to put on a spectacular prophetic performance where they chanted and they danced and they cut themselves for most of the day trying to call on their god behold to send down fire from heaven elijah mock them uh and sometimes you know we get into this thing and it's a tense situation you know we get into this thing where there is tension when when there is when there is aggression we get in this thing that we need to do conflict resolution and we are doing conflict resolution to the point where we're becoming synchronous we're doing conflict resolution to the point where we are merging and amalgamating things uh but i hear the lord say turn up the beast turn up the beef this is not something that we should be uh looking for conflict resolution on and so elijah put them to the challenge and they could not call down fire from their god their god could not send down fire but when elijah called on yahweh fire came down from heaven and consumed the altar hallelujah to your name god hallelujah and what elijah was doing there he was making a point that there was just one god we're not into the fake we're not into the counterfeits we're not into the ideologies and the philosophies there is just but one god his name is his name is god and beside him there is no other immortal invisible or powerful all-knowing incorruptible indestructible somebody do we serve the same god [Applause] [Music] and the point was made elijah made the point and then he said we need to stop this now there's certain things we need to kill it out we need to stamp it out and so we said to the people get those fake prophets and slaughter every single one of them ensure that none of them escape whatsoever and they did so and because they did so what that did was set a trajectory in place whereby the government was against the prophetic company things got tense in israel as we come to first kings chapter 22 i want to put before you three questions and get out of your way the first question is who have you included the second who have you excluded and the third what has god concluded inclusion exclusion and conclusion we come to first kings chapter 22 and we're invited almost as if we are a press corps a pack of journalists who's been called to see the official visit of jehoshaphat king of judah to the king of israel and as we go behind the scenes to get the scoop we realized that it was ahab's intention to attack rammath gilead because it was promised that they would return that city to israel but three years had passed and they actually did nothing about it if you read now in 2nd chronicles uh 24 around there you find a very similar story what you find is that ahab started to feed jehoshaphat and his delegation they killed the best animals the best lambs and so on and so forth and they put on a good dinner party for them before they were asked the question will you go to war with me against syria will you go to war with me against aram uh jehoshaphat responded i will commit my people my soldiers and my horses to go to war with you against rammuth gilead who have you included before you are drawn into the inclusion of what people are planning to do before you include yourself in somebody else's ministry before you include yourself in somebody else's ideas before you get drawn into somebody else's fight you better be careful to ask the question to check the facts with god to check it out with the lord and said what am i to do here and of course jehoshaphat said to her let us seek the counsel of the lord and i want to say to somebody here who's on the verge of making a decision do not make that decision before you complete this month of fasting and prayer we have a way of making decisions and then asking the lord to sanction the decisions we have a way of doing things and then asking the lord to bless the thing when it's already done we have a way of committing ourselves and then asking the lord to affirm the commitment instead what we should do is before we sign up before we commit before we affirm it we should go to god and said is this your will lord give me some wisdom concerning this situation somebody say speak to me lord hmm jehoshaphat said what is the counsel of the lord watch what ayaab did now he sent and got his 400 prophets and as you read the text you get the distinct impression that these are prophets arab and not necessarily prophets of the lord their loyalty was with ayaab what a thing it is to surround yourself with people who speak just like you do i have a problem with christians who only have christian friends i have a problem with black people who only have black friends a problem with white people who only have white friends because we have a way of gravitating around people who will tell us exactly what we want to hear these are the people that are we allowed to keep our council these are the people that we allow to support us in our endeavors there's not going to be a divergence or a difference of opinions because they will never check us careful now careful as we go through this month of fasting and prayer that we begin to review we begin to analyze who is in our corners who is around us what kind of things are they telling us what kind of stories are they feeding us are they telling us things in the name of the lord when in truth not no gossip when in truth it is not like that he included in his court he included in his command his community or rather in his in his company he included these 400 individuals who will tell him exactly what he wanted to hear exactly what he wanted to do who will affirm his decisions who will affirm his convictions who will affirm his ideologies who will affirm what he wanted to do what a dangerous place to be jehoshaphat was a man of god he had his own mistakes yes he made mistakes one of those mistakes was he married his son to the daughter of uh jezebel and ayah and and that right there was an alliance and now he's in a tricky situation because through marriage he is in an alliance he is in a compromising situation and he must now figure out how to navigate his way through this he was a man of god he feared the lord he sent priests throughout the land to make sure that the people heard the word of god he said these priests also righteous men as judges throughout the land of judah just to make sure that the council of god was in the land of judah when these prophets these 400 prophets came out and they were there doing all their prophetic performances and it was a production it was a performance i don't know why you need 400 people to tell you the same thing i don't know what kind of show was that that you were putting on look how grand this is and i think we sometimes get drawn to these grand things you know uh where we begin to think oh 400 of them said it that's confirmation it must be from the lord but the more i read scripture the more i've learned sister paulette that often time what god is saying is in the minority and we would go it is a tough message and we will go for the voice of the 400 because it's all on the same page and it's lit and it's good church and it's good vibes and all of that and they found favor with the government with the king and therefore that's the side that we need to take that's the approach that we must be drawn to god said don't watch that don't watch that and we must not just be so into with what we see or what we hear but there must be something sensitive enough in our spirits to say to us something about that is off something about that is not quite right something about that is off something about that is not quite right and where you are right now in your fasting and prayer something should be saying to you that not right this is wrong that doesn't sit well with me there should be something that upsets your spirit so much that you'll look at the king and says is there no real prophet of the lord here of whom we can inquire joseph had said is there no real prophet is there no prophet is there no longer a prophet of the lord of whom we can inquire who have you excluded he said there is one prophet of the lord his name is michael but i hate him because he never tells me what i want to hear he has nothing good to say about me and bible scholars believe that at this time he had already had michaela in prison the way that mikhail was introduced tells us that there was history between him and the king they had a history because mecca would prophesy but the king wouldn't listen to it and and the prophets at that time they were in troubling you know they were in trouble in fact we found out about this in first kings chapter 18 in that jezebel was killing them one by one there was a massacring of prophets taking place but god as it had a civil servant in place according to first king 18 his name was obadiah and this civil servant knew what was going on in governance he was a palace servant he feared the lord and sometimes god will put some people in strategic positions to protect his work in the world to protect his prophetic order and when he saw that jezebel when he saw uh that the queen on her throne was killing off the prophets of yahweh he took a hundred of them and he hid them in caves he split them into lots of two 50 in one cave 50 in the other case uh and he fed them with bread and water what am i trying to say to you right now god should be speaking by now and identifying to some of us some people we ought to be strategic in covering in prayers in building caves of prayers for hallelujah god almighty there are some people with a looming threat on their lives and we need to be big about covering them in our caves of prayer i cannot emphasize that enough i cannot emphasize that enough i cannot emphasize that enough reverend sandra we need to cover you in our caves in our enclosure or prayers we need to cover pastor wayne and sister beverly in our caves in our enclosure our prayers reverend david we need to cover you in our caves and our enclosures are prayers elder and sister beverly we need to cover you in our caves and our enclosures our prayers sister bridget we need to cover you in our caves and our enclosure of prayers and i'm not just dropping random names god showed me your faces specifically sister donna we need to cover you in our caves and our enclosures are prayers sister clancy's not here but we need to cover you can we work on this please in the name of jesus we need to cover you in our caves and in our exposure sister maxine borel and sister maxine reed we need to cover you in our caves and our enclosures off prayers edward we need to cover you in our caves and our enclosures are prayers i'm calling out certain people and if i don't call your name don't get upset don't get offended because some of us need to do the covering while some of us need to be covered and if we are doing covering and we're having cover taking place at the same time that's an impenetrative impenetrable barrier that the devil cannot get through we need to cover these people there is a looming threat and we need to cover these people hey mikhail was locked up and he sent the palace guard to go and get him ah i wonder who have you excluded i wonder if we think that the exclusion of somebody from your court means that they're excluded from the courts of god it matters very much what courts you belong to what king you belong to what king you are serving i wonder if we have this ideology that exclusion means that the person is no longer anointed i wonder if we have this anointing that exclusion means that they no longer perform or have the prophetic calling or the prophetic mandate on their lives i wonder if it's we have this idea that when we incarcerate people into prisons of hatred prisons of anger prisons of unforgiveness prison of denial and prisons of lies and all these other things i wonder if we've got this viewpoint that because we have incarcerated them that god has incarcerated them it is a tough message but we are reviewing where we are in the fast and prayer i'm going to wrap it up shortly i know the time is against us he excluded michaela because he didn't like what mccain has to say and i don't mind being excluded i think sometimes what we have in as christians is this idea that everybody should like us in that we are called to be liked jesus said in john 15 verse 18 says if the world hates you they hated me first and if christ himself experienced hatred who are we to think that we should be any different in fact if you're not experiencing any hatred any backlash for the things for standing up for god for god checking certain things then you're not doing your job very well at all uh because everywhere i look in scripture people come under fire even christ himself came under fire simply for doing the work of almighty god we are not called to be light we are not called to be affirmed or to be confirmed by this world we are called to do the work of almighty god he was under pressure michael under pressure you're walking into a situation prophet where there are 450 others sorry 400 others who are saying the same things they've got their production going they're putting on their performance one of them called zedekiah took his horns out and he began to do a demonstration uh and said this is how you're gonna gore the armenians and all of these kind of things the palace god began to counsel him ensure that your word aligns with what the other prophets are saying and make sure that you do not go against anything that they have to say what a tense situation to walk into knowing that everybody else will be against you what a tense situation to walk into knowing that this this time round you may not just get sent back to prison you could lose your life over this what a tense situation you'll walk into knowing that if you don't get this right with god something could happen to you what a tense situation you walk into knowing that if you don't say what man wants you to say something could happen to you it's a catch-22 situation it's a my head between a rock and a hard place it's knocking against a brick wall it's an army behind me and i see before me what a tense situation to be in because god must be heard he puts us sometimes in these conflicting situations mikhail went in the king asked should i go and attack and he said sarcastically yes attack on the victorious king but the king had enough history with him to know when he's just messing about and he said how many times must i tell you to swear to tell the truth in the name of the lord and again there's that syncretism going on you know because it's not that um ab didn't believe in yahweh the lord it's just the fact that he has incorporated or introduced some other elements and some other aspects into worship in israel he said how many times must i tell you not to lie to me so a i've got up and began to prophesy and when he prophesied he said i see the people of israel like sheep without a shepherd oh my god in other words you're dead if you go to war you're finished with if you go to war and so you've got to be careful now some things that we are taking on was that god who really told us to take it on or is this our own desires leading us astray and god is not in the midst of it at all we can sing about god we can testify about the lord we can shout about the lord and yet still do we really know what he has to say to us it's a tough message it's a tough message 11 days to get this right 11 days to get this right he excluded in fact he allowed him to be abused in his presence zedekiah walked over and slapped him in the face and said oh do you think you are coming in here prophesying like that you are a liar and he sent the prophet he sent michaela back to prison and told the gods to keep him there until he returns because i mark my words if you return today who have you excluded what has god concluded michaela paint a beautiful picture of being caught up in another court it was a greater court than the court of ahab and jehoshaphat though they sat on their thrones at the gates of samaria in their royal roads and though it must have looked impressive and incredible michael went to another courts and this other court he said he saw the lord it's similar to other stories we see in places like isaiah chapter 6 when isaiah said that in the year king uzziah died i saw the lord he was high and lifted up and his train filled the temples and i saw the heavenly host and one to another they cried holy holy is the lord god almighty and there's something wonderful there that in the year isaiah saw the lord lifted up in the heavenlies a king came down in the earth because a king died and was removed from his throne the same way we see mecca caught up in the evidence at the throne room of god and when god called court ineffective when god called court rather in the evidence it will affect what we see going on in the courts in the earth below i want you to know that god is still in control and some people are making decisions and going about doing things in a certain way and think that they are out of the reach and out of the control of god god is still in control and when mackay was caught up in the evidence and he saw the host of heaven surrounding the lord on the left and on the right god asks a killer question and it runs shivers down my spine he said who will go and entice ahab to go and fight against aaron and die wasn't should we go and entice ahab to go to ramath gilead to fight and die it wasn't a matter of should we it was who will and i wonder this applies to me too you know we like to sing these songs he knows my name i am not forgotten god knows my name you know we like to talk jeremiah he has good plans and good thoughts towards me you know we like romance ah all things are working together for my good we have these ideas and these concepts and we never know or we never a factor into that rather that maybe the good plans and the good thoughts involves a chicken involves a correction not what we've deemed it or determined it to be but it may involve a correction and it's a sobering thought to hear god's call of god calls on man's name and death in the same sentence and we say god knows our name what does god say when your name comes up on the council agenda of heaven what is the conversation that is taking place about you in heaven what is god's counsel saying concerning you he had his name and death in the same sentence so as ahab was in the earth plotting being king worshipping false gods allowing his wife to kill god's prophets god was in heaven orchestrating corrective measures god was in heaven orchestrating a check god was in heaven having a conversation saying who will entice him to his death and this is now where we must be careful as we continue to go for this period of fasting and prayer the decisions that we are making the ideas that we have the conversations that we're involved in the activities that we're involved in did god sanction those activities that god tell you to do those things did god say those things to you did the lord's voice speak to you and i asked this question now because uh one suggested this and one suggested that said the scripture the host of heaven these were the angels of heaven and one spirit one angel stepped forth and said i will go and entice him god asked the question how will you do it the angel said i will be a deceiving spirit in the mouths of his prophets his prophets not the lord's prophets i will be a deceiving spirit in the mouth of his prophets uh the king james version said i will be a lion spirit in the mouths of his prophets and i will entice him to go into his death and his destruction of rammath gilead blew my mind blew my mind what god said next he said go you will succeed but i thought he has good plans towards me and good thoughts go you will succeed in deceiving him in enticing him in in in lying to him go and make it so and we have this concept of god lord you are so wonderful lord you are so good lord you cover me from all and while these things are truth don't play with grace you know don't play with grace and i'll show you how even grace was exemplified in this in this text we have these concepts that god won't check us in the most term of ways i'm talking to the church today we have these concepts these ideas that when good things happen it must be god and when bad things are going on it must be the devil and we have been raised with a theology to say as soon as it goes wrong rebuke the devil assault the devil bind the devil in jesus name and sometimes yes the devil is behind it but we better get to the place where we know the difference as to when it's the work of the devil or when it's the corrective measures of almighty god and god says i'm correcting some of us and myself included uh i'm correcting some of us and so when things are going wrong don't just go and bind the devil and say the devil this we have a way of ascribing to god what the devil is doing and have a way of ascribing to the devil what god is doing it was the jesus the holy spirit rather who sent jesus into the desert to be tempted of the devil it wasn't the devil that drove jesus into temptation uh it was the holy spirit who sent him into the desert and i wonder where god is sending you and you're misinterpreting it saying that the devil is against me and the devil is on my back and we're having prayer meetings to pray for the devil to get out of your life and off your situations when in fact there is a correction taking place there is a check-in taking place god is working out something it blows my mind to think that god would sanction a deceiving spirit god would sanction a lion spirit that god would sanction deception isn't this our wonderful god that we sing about and we only say you are my strength and these other things do we have a full perspective and thank you this morning sister laverne for your reflection on god do we have a full perspective of how he works how he operates 11 days do you have a full perspective perspective of how he works and operates in 11 days 11 days 11 days 11 days 11 days 11 days 11 days or judgment will come 11 days 11 days god sanctioned the deception and sent this lion spirit to speak to the 400 prophets of ahab and they came and they sounded like they were speaking life but in fact they were speaking death and something sometimes can sound so good that we think that is life when in fact is driving us towards our death they came and they sounded like they were speaking of the lord that this is the lord's decree that you will have victory but in fact what they were speaking was defeat 11 days defeat 11 days and we're at that place now in the period of fasting and prayer where god is challenging us challenging us to know his voice and to be sensitive to his voice isaiah 45 and verse 7 says i am the lord and there is none like me i make light and i create darkness i create good and i create evil in other words sometimes when evil things are going on when calamity comes our way we have a way of saying that this is of the devil god says evil is just a tool in my hands and i can use it to correct i can use it to check you i can use it to put you in place i can use it to hand the syncretism i can use it to destroy pagan worship i can use it to bring the prophetic mandate back i can use it so my voice will return to your courts i can use it to direct you and just stop you from going in the wrong direction i can use it to stop you from interrupting my business and thinking that you're in control you are in charge of the trajectory god says i have never lost a battle and i never will will you stand with me tough message tough message who have you included who have you excluded and what has god concluded he concluded the death of air and if you continue to read the same chapter you will see that he died and the dogs licked up his blood later on his wife died and the dog ate up her flesh because god will remove systems of wickedness he will remove systems of injustice he will remove sin he will squeeze out the pus to the very root of it such that it won't have a way of thriving he will put a check in place he will put a corrective measure in place we're going to do a different kind of alter call today you're going to build an altar right where you are and it's twofold firstly it's a prayer of repentance prayer should get you into the place where there's a gateway or a doorway that leads to those inwards inclination that drives us to sin that drives us to go against the will of the lord it's a prayer of repentance and then secondly it's going to be a prayer for counsel what does the lord have to say you're reviewing everything what should i conclude what should i exclude what should i include what is your counsel almighty god for the next 11 days of fasting and prayer what is your counsel what moves should i make what steps should i take lord what must i do let's have a prior meeting firstly a prayer of repentance and i want you to lift your voice say it like you mean it talk to jesus said lord may never be that i'm taking certain steps and i'm under a deception that i'm taking certain steps and i'm going towards my destruction let us repent hallelujah every one of us let us repent every one of us let us repent let us check ourselves in line with what god is saying and god is doing lord we confess our sins lord we confess our wrongs lord we turn from our wicked ways lord we seek your face lord we have gone far enough we have gone astray lord we've gone against your counsel lord we have become full of ourselves lord we have angered you we have provoked you lord we have turned away from your light lord we have sinned we have fallen short of your glory lord we are in the wrong lord help us to return forgive us change us sanctify us through and through consecrate us mighty father deliver us from evil deliver us from deception deliver us from lies deliver us from wickedness deliver us from destruction deliver us from defeat deliver us from death deliver us holy one deliver us keep your hand upon us and speak favor over our lives draws back to the place of worship draws back to the place of prayer to the place of consecration draws back to holiness draws back to purpose and calling draw us back holy god pull us back from the brink of destruction holy father forgive us of our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us forgive us of our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us forgive us of our sins as we forgive those who have sinned against us forgive us of our sins jesus wash us cleanse us purify us make us righteous before you make us holy before you every sin every evil thought every bad act every bad conversation every bad thing everything lord jesus lord god remove us from that place may we experience your grace and your counsel in jesus name hallelujah hallelujah and our second prayer is to seek the counsel of the lord i think ab had a root of escape had he heeded the prophetic words of michael his outcome would have been different but he chose to exclude those words and followed the council of the 400 and in this moment i want you to ask the lord for counsel about who to listen to and it goes for everything i mean everything everything who you should stop following on social media who shouldn't be in your space who should you stop keeping conversations with on the phone what's the habit that you should no longer be feeding what's the temptation that you should no longer be involved in what's the company that you should no longer be keeping and yet what are the companies that you should keep who should you bring into your space where are you taking me lord are my decisions on point are they in alignment with yours have i infiltrated my worship with syncretism with things that are mix and match and has no business being part of it let us see the counsel of almighty god hallelujah let us pray hallelujah spirit of the living god what are you saying spirit of the living god what is your counselor for me wonderful counselor we need counselling we need your counsel wonderful counselor we need insights we need understanding we need to know who to include who to exclude what to conclude we need to know lord god almighty which doors to close which ones to open we need to know lord god what you are saying in this season what you are doing in this season god almighty father we need answers we need insights we need an explanation god almighty so many things are going off lord god is it the devil lord god or are you in the midst of this father lord what is your counsel lord what is your advice lord what is your intention lord what are you doing in this season god god what steps are you taking what moves are you making what direction are you going into am i in alignment father am i with you jesus am i going with you lord god almighty who am i following [Music] the city holy father we need your counsel we need to be checked we need to be god checked we need to be checked we need to be god checked turn us away from the path of wickedness turn us away from the path of iniquity turn us away from the path of unrighteousness turn us away o god from faulty counsel from deceptive spirits from deceptive decisions from deceptive conclusions from deceptive voices lord god turn us in the other direction our god close our hears to them lord god almighty close our hearts to them in the name of jesus and open our hearts now here's our understanding to what you have to say what you are doing in your name jesus [Music] in your name jesus in your name jesus in your name jesus we seek your o with your entire counsel your whole counsel when you call our names god almighty may you be pleased with our actions may you be pleased with our lives may you be pleased with our worship may you be pleased god send your anointing father i pray what are my steps in your words [Music] help me worship team order my steps in your word what are my steps in your words [Music] one more time order my steps [Music] [Laughter] [Music] every day send [Music] steps [Music] take a moment to be silent in the presence of god we will close shortly but just take a moment what are you saying harlem so father i thank you for your counsel and your word and that the next 11 days will be prosperous and successful ones that we will have a clear understanding of what you are doing god almighty and we will bow to your ways we will be careful to turn our attention to you god almighty that oh god almighty our steps will be ordered off you your word declared that the steps of a good man are ordered by the lord hallelujah you know the way that we take lord god almighty and i pray right now that we will not be of path but we will be in line with what you are doing and what you are saying in this season one songwriter said whatever you are doing in this season lord please don't do it without me god almighty and so father let it be the case that we understand you that our decisions are shaped by you lord god that our thinking are is shaped by you lord god almighty that our doing is shaped by you that are growing is shaped by you that our being is shaped by you lord god that our totality is shaped by you lord god that there is nothing in us or god where where influence of deception can come in and take us off half lord god almighty and wreck our lives wreck our families wreck our relationships wreck our ministries wreck our prospects wrecked our jobs wrecked our minds lord direct our bodies lord god almighty no we come against that lord god almighty we're putting counter measures in place today lord god almighty we're putting corrective measures in place today lord god and say not me and my house not me and my family not me and my brothers not me and my sisters not me and this church lord god almighty we will come out victorious because we will turn our eyes to you the king of kings and the lords of lords we god almighty will stand up against syncretism we'll stand up against false religions and false narratives even when it's not popular lord god he when he causes us to be disliked oh god almighty even when he causes us to be excluded father god we make a firm commitment to stand for god not to stand for hab not to stand for jehoshaphat not to stand for baal but to stand for yahweh because yahweh is god yahweh is king yahweh is lord yahweh is master yahweh is deliverer yahweh has the final say and so we o god would rather be oh god in good stead with you we would rather be in good standing with you than in standing with anybody else lord god almighty and so for the next 11 days sharpen our instincts sharpen our understandings lord god almighty so that we will know what you're doing what you're saying and what you are up to lord god almighty and as much as you are correcting some of us lord god almighty the truth of the matter is that the enemy is also attacking some of us lord god almighty and so father god i'm sealing them now in a cave of prayer i'm stealing them now in a secure place i'm sealing them now in a protective place i'm sealing them now in a place of refuge a place of safety lord god almighty and i'm praying for those who the enemy has come up against their bodies lord god almighty that your healing will flow that's something of the supernatural something of the miraculous will happen over the course of the next 11 days that there will be signs wonders miracles testimonies after testimonies of the witnesses oh god of your goodness and your mercies lord i'm praying for breakthrough financial breakthrough i'm praying for a breakthrough god in every area that your people are seeking you lord god almighty let breakthrough come but father i pray for your counsel also that we will not be caught up in false narratives and wrong ways of doing things that we miss when you are correcting us i thank you in jesus name amen i want you to give god a big praise harlem [Music] [Applause] come on lift your voice lift your voice lift your voice lift your voice for the counsel of god for insights from god hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah bless the name of jesus bless the name of jesus bless the name of jesus [Music] hallelujah hallelujah i want you one more time one more time because grace is available grace is offered admit i have listened to what mike had to say he could have been another way grace is available and god is correcting some of us as i said and i want you if you're grateful for god's corrections because i see corrections as a blessing we ask for blessings but we have this mindset as to what blessings should look like those who he loves eat chastens so one more time stand on your feet and just give god a praise don't let me have to coax you choreography [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus if you've not turned your attention yet to the fact that we are undergoing a period of fasting prayer there are still 11 days to get on board hallelujah hallelujah still 11 days to get on board we continue on the prior line tomorrow morning at 5 30 a.m i apologize we continue the pride line at 8 00 p.m to 8 30 p.m we do so on mondays tuesdays and thursdays on wednesdays we gather here for prior meeting at 8pm i want you to make an effort to attend on friday we gather on zoom and then on next week the 29th of september the wednesday evening our guest speaker for our prior session will be evangelist sharon miller we are joining with the rest of the district and it is the final day the penultimate day before we conclude the fast and i believe that the lord will have much to say to us through evangelist miller so do come out and support that if you're struggling to pray call a prior partner and ask them to keep you accountable to ensure that you're staying in prayer so good to see so many of you in the house today sister hannah it's great to see you back with your tambourine god bless you hallelujah to your name lord so sister sylvia earlier paige thank you so much for joining us it's good to see you in the service of the lord hallelujah will you raise your hand with me as we pronounce the benediction the lord bless you and the lord keep you the lord makes his face to shine on you and be gracious to you and the lord turn his face towards you and give you peace amen holly [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Applause] so

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Published: Sun Sep 19 2021