Homegoing Celebration for Lady J Wilson

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the final view today is all about queen lady jay only have three minutes remaining for the final hour of this family hour we thank god for all of the dignitaries that are here preachers ministers psalmist musicians producers thank god for this fine choir and at this time since this is the family hour and only two minutes is left we're going to allow bishop this final moment and if you are not a part of the immediate family the instructions are please be seated if you are not a part of the immediate family please be seated at this time please allow bishop and only the immediate family this last minute and a half the servants are coming at this time so do [Music] oh love the lord [Music] [Music] all right [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] come on clap your hands [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] is [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] yes [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] say [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] yes [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] oh yes we may be [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] this is the day that the lord has made and we still choose to rejoice and be glad in it now i don't know about you all but i've learned with the wilson family the question is not why is she gone but the real question is why are we still here and that is to still give god the glory and to magnify him for this family for bishop wilson for their children for their church family please stand to your feet and put your hands together for the life the legacy the ministry the businesses the counseling of miss queen pastor woman of god mother auntie friend your friend miss jackie [Music] hallelujah thank you jesus all right with the few minutes that we have left before amen my pastor comes to take this further i was given instructions by the family listen y'all there's so many special guests that are here today if all of you could share your story your funny memory your counseling session uh your your trip uh we'd be here all day but obviously we have limited time because we want to honor bishop and his family the time to celebrate her life and then to reflect after it doesn't end today y'all it doesn't end today amen but new life begins today so um i've been given instructions there is a microphone to my right and your left we only need three short i'm gonna say that again three short remarks and then if you could keep that remark to one minute somebody say one minute or say it like y'all love mom say one minute please give only one minute worth of remarks we will be here to make sure that the time is honored because we want to honor this family as they have the time to grieve we're grieving here with them so we want you to share words of love and of comfort and of peace uh just something short something spicy something sweet have your seat and then we're going to begin the life celebration of miss queen jackie m wilson if there are three please come now because we only have so much time y'all so move now because when that time is closed we're going to move further in the service and only those designated by the family will be speaking during the celebration of this fine awesome powerful woman of god miss jackie and wilson if there are three please come now please come now please come now we appreciate everybody coming from both far and near i see those are coming now please one minute hold your remarks god bless you thank you good morning family especially my ccf family and to all of you i'm gonna miss when she's preaching to the nations hello lights and you know when she said hello lights you knew what she meant love you lady jay to life love you bishop tash sam and shayna amen praise god saints i'm pastor glass lord of lords christian church lady jay and i grew up on the east side of detroit sam wilson we're really good friends and brothers in the lord and i i know i just got one minute but i just want to say to you in our prayers god bless you and may heaven continue to smile on you and your family [Music] jackie was an angel i am tasha's i.t god is good that was an angel you know what god said watch who you talking to she was an angel i knew jackie since she was 12 years old 12. so you know i know what i'm talking about i know bishop wilson he was about 17 18 when i met him god is good i live in texas tasha's my niece all her sisters and brothers and my niece i praise god y'all god gotcha you know what y'all did real good they all kept it in within a minute is that all right bishop shayna that's good okay good y'all they kept it within a minute good job y'all listen i've been giving instructions that we can have room for maybe two more and then we're going to go further in the service pastor's just refreshing himself to come back so that we can celebrate mom the best way if there are three that are not speaking during the family hour um two excuse me that you can come now and while we have the liberty since this is going to be such a beautiful long day all pastors that share this great gospel with bishop wilson and their family could you please stand and make yourself known at this time all dignitaries ministers pastors bishops come on look at this room full of love with these great carriers of the gospel of jesus christ amen my friend go for it my name is tim lichty i represent the indiana michigan mennonite conference sam and i have been friends for over 25 years and as we grew together we started as theological friends we became visionaries together i lived and i live in northern indiana but over the years sam and jackie have allowed me to be a partner has allowed our conference to partner and yes jackie's loss makes us weep and at the same time we know that the work is not done and so i say to the church as sam and jackie allowed me to become part of their family and to task together as partners i commit with you i trust to continue the work of building god's [Applause] kingdom let's honor it continuously thank you hi everybody i'm noah um i came up here to represent the youth of cccf um we love lady jay uh i i moved to california when i was young and they always kept up with me they always made sure i was okay my god mom love you guy mom we always she always makes sure i'm good even when i'm bad and i really truly do believe that that's just because of this sweet lady right here she raised the beautiful kids and they always like loved me thank you bishop for always keeping me like in your prayers and you guys just keep praying for them and we love you and yeah we love you lady jay final two remarks final two remarks amen praise the lord i'm evangelist katrina hurst and i'm coming up to speak about first lady jackie from the fashion industry stage she was one of my queens in my showroom she was always a baby doll no matter where you see her she was together from head to foot even to now today beautiful just want to continue to let you know we she's just a classy lady from her women's conferences to her church home to her children her family everything exudes elegance and grace and god bless you all i'm praying for you all and even to today just a great job may god bless you bishop love you all [Applause] girls praise the lord everybody i said praise the lord everybody hallelujah glory to god we come to celebrate the life of my sister i'm so grateful that the lord has allowed me to come in contact with with such a wonderful powerful woman of god i met her a few years ago and i had her come over to one of my women's conferences and when i tell you she was a powerful preacher and she pulled me and took me in because i believe that i'm one of the youngest out of the sisterhood out of the first ladies and i mean she pulled me and ministered to me and encouraged me as her little sister and i tell you i know one thing my heart is broken but i know and i rejoice because of where she is and i give god praise because i know that she was saved sanctified and full of the holy ghost and all the way until the end and we ought to get up and celebrate the life of our sister our mother the wife our cousin friend whoever she was to you we got to celebrate her life because that's what she would have wanted us to do hallelujah when i think of the goodness of jesus and all that he has done for me in the midst of my hurt in the midst of my brokenness my soul still cry out hallelujah god bless you to the family i love you all i thank you all for sharing her with me god knows some know how much she meant to me and i thank you all for sharing your mom your wife and your friend with the little old me god bless you all amen let's give the lord a round of applause for all comments remarks amen at this time this is the final moment of family hour and i am minister ryan rutley from christian tabernacle church on behalf of my fine pastor dr james l mormont and sister loretta mormont we see you today wave your hand sister mormon thank you we thank god for you it's an honor to be here to serve you all today listen if you did not get an obituary please go to ladyjaywilson.comladyjaywilson.com if you did not get an obituary you can download the obituary there such a creative uh generation that we have to be able to access the obituary online again go to ladyjaywilson.com at this time we're going to turn the furtherance of this service over to my pastor dr james a mormon who is the pastor of christian tabernacle church here and we want to thank god for you today let's put our hands together and welcome him at this time [Music] come on let's praise him praise him praise him like you love him come on somebody come on get on your feet and give god praise for this woman of god ladies come on and praise god for who she is who she was amen hallelujah god bless you can they see before we go any further i want to recognize all of the bishops pastors preachers let's stand let's all stand let them stand so we may recognize them all the bishops pastors and preachers who came to share with us today on behalf of this family thank you so much amen god bless you i want to have um apostle caldwell to come and recognize the chaplaincy if you might if you will please thank you thank you shepard for allowing us to celebrate and just talk about our sister bishop we love you family you know we love you amen today i'm a yield this time to our first assistant chief todd bettison from detroit police department we have corporal bartel here city council grady here as well sir we ask all the chaplains to stand praise god oh boy this is tough i just wanted to say that service is definitely the written we pay for the space that we occupy and over at the ninth precinct i want everybody to know how important many of you referred to as lady j queen over at the ninth precinct we referred to as lady wilson and to bishop wilson serving as a chaplain you both were a dynamic team i don't know if you really know the impact that you have on our officers into the to the saints here you see officers and police as coming to your rescue we're the shepherds but let me tell you this lady jay bishop wilson the chaplains could i have our police chaplain stand up please stand they're the shepherds they're the shepherds for the detroit police department they comfort us lady j bishop wilson they comforted us they fed us the officers our youth programs our ceasefire and the officers at the ninth precinct they put in a special request but this saint right here they sent me a request they sent chief white a request and said we want her to have a spirit of detroit award and they wrote it up and so at this time i would like to welcome my brother in christ mr stephen grady from council president brendan jones office to read that spirit of detroit award thank you [Music] good morning church now you know what somebody told me this was a celebration today that didn't sound very celebratory did it so let's try it one more time good morning church yes thank you so much absolutely and and first assistant chief of with your permission i'd like to give our our um chaplains an opportunity to take a seat go ahead chaplains you can see it my name is stephen grady muhammad and i am chief of staff for your detroit city council president brenda jones council president was not able to be here today but she extends her most sincerest gratitude and condolences bishop wilson to the family you all allowed our city to have the beautiful first lady lady jay over in one of the roughest precincts if not the roughest precinct in the city so that lets us know how strong and resilient but compassionate she was because that was the the part of the city that needed the most pastoral care so appropriately we today want to honor her with a spirit of detroit award which is presented here with as an expression of the gratitude and esteem of the citizens of the city of detroit to the family of chaplain and first lady jacqueline wilson and this is in memoriam in recognition of her exceptional achievement her outstanding leadership and her dedication to improving the quality of life of detroiters this spirit of detroit award is presented by the detroit city council so council president brenda jones and the detroit city council along with the detroit police department ninth precinct would like to pay homage to the family of police chaplain and first lady jacqueline wilson of community christian fellowship church you know what i'm sorry i'm going to step away just for a moment and say this this was a woman here who didn't just minister to those in her church she took the ministry out into the street isn't that what jesus did she took the ministry out into the street she will always be remembered for her prayers her generosity her kindness and her tireless work we are thankful for chaplain wilson's involvement with the faith-based coalition of detroit her support for ceasefire outreach and many other detroit police department youth programs many thanks to you wilson family for sharing her with our ninth priest with our ninth precinct with our youth and our community her service to others will always be appreciated chaplain and first lady jacqueline wilson truly exemplified the spirit of detroit and council president always says the spirit of detroit is not that statue that you see at the corner of woodward and jefferson what the spirit of detroit is is what you care around in your heart and the good that you do on the streets of detroit for the citizens of our city this is signed by all eight members there are only eight council members right now i'm not going to talk about that but it's signed by all eight members and it bears the official seal of the city of detroit and on behalf of council president jones i am so honored and humbled to present this beautiful spirit of detroit award to the wilson family thank you [Music] [Applause] we will now begin our celebration for this woman of god who ideally loved and loved my wife her her best friend amen they were close and they they were so blessed because they love god and they love the people of god we will begin with an old testament reading pastor lucky riley following him shall be the new testament reading pastor frederick dupree and the prayer of comfort pastor david johnson in that order praise the lord saints glory to god amen i know i've been called to do the old testament reading i'm i'm just full right now but i thank god i'm going to read the scripture and get out the way amen i'm coming from psalms 27 1 through 4. lord is my light and my salvation whom shall i fear the lord is the strength of my life of whom shall i be afraid when the wicked even my enemies and my foes came upon against me to eat of my flesh and stumbled and failed though and host encamped against me my heart shall not fear the war may rise against me and this i will be confident one thing i have desired of the lord that i will seek after [Music] it may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my house in the beauty of the lord and inquire in this temple let the lord have a blessing to the reading of his words amen hallelujah it is often said that people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care lady jay karen and she loved all of us if it wasn't for lady j i would i went from running from the police to working with the police thank you mama thank you dad john 14. let not your heart be troubled in god also believe in me in my father's house there are many mansions if it was not so i wouldn't have told you and i go to prepare a place for you that where i am you may be also and i will come again to receive you unto myself thomas said to him lord we don't know the way that you go tell us the way that you go jesus said unto him i am the way the truth and the life no man can come to the father except by me love you lady jay shall we pray oh lord our lord how excellent is thy name and all the earth you have established your glory above the heavens and today oh god we acknowledge you as king of kings and lord of lords shackled by a heavy burden beneath a load of guilt and shame but in the hand of jesus touched us and now we're no longer the same he touched me [Music] he touched me and all the joy that now floods our souls something happened and now we know that you have touched us and made us whole and so we thank you today we don't thank you that lady jay died but we thank you that she lived and we know that to live is christ but to die is gain and so father we lift our heads this morning in adoration and in praise we thank you today for lady jay's life some have known her as mother others grandmother other sister brother lovely wife first lady but you knew her as servant who served her community and served this country and served her church and served her children and served her husband and father we thank you for that and our hearts rejoice today in knowing that to be absent in the body is to be present with you now god we need a touch today bishop wilson needs a touch today sam and erica and shayna and richard and tasha and these grandchildren sisters and brothers they need a touch today so god i pray that not only you'll sit on their seats but i pray that you'll sit on every seat and speak to every spirit and heal every hurt and mend every broken heart god today we need you to give us beauty for ashes the oil of joy for our morning and a garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness and we say like david we're going to bless you at all times your praise shall continually be in our mouths our souls shall make their most in the lord and the humble shall hear thereof and be glad oh magnify the lord with me and let us exalt his name together with a heavy heart we still say you're a good god with tears in our eyes we say you're a good god with questions in our mind we say you're a good god with with heaviness on us we say you're a good god and we command our souls to praise you let mount zion rejoice and let the daughters of judah be glad let the redeemed of the lord say so whom he has redeemed from the hand of the enemy now father bless the man that's going to stand in john shoes bless pastor morgan today as he prepares to give us a word of hope and of comfort anoint them afresh and anew and we'll be careful to give your name to praise the glory and the honor when peace like a river attendeth our way and sorrows like sea billows road we lift our heads and say whatever my lot thou has taught me to say it is well it is well it is well with my soul in the precious name of the lord jesus the christ we pray and thank you oh god we thank you oh god we thank you we lift our hands and say thank you we lift our voices and say thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] ugh [Applause] ugh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] we came to praise him we came to lift him up [Music] hallelujah [Applause] we will we will now have a musical selection the minister todd gilbert won't you come amen just shout something to jesus it's been it's been brewing pretty good for the last 15 minutes but i know that the lord he inhabits the praises of people which means he shows up wherever there's praise and if there's one thing that this family needs today is to be in the presence of a real god so can we just take 30 seconds to just open up our mouths right here in this moment and just love him just shout to him just tell him how amazing he is how faithful he's been how good he is how gracious he is he is a good father and we love him we bless him we give him honor we give him praise we give him glory for he alone is worthy of praise uh to the wilson family bishop wilson the entire family and friends thank you guys for allowing me to be a part of this amazing occasion shayna i love you um just grateful to be here i love that the the pastor the minister that was up before me he started quoting the scripture when david said i will bless the lord at all times and his praises shall continue to be in my mouth you would have thought that david wrote that in a mate in an amazing time in his life but he was actually on the run for his life when he said even in this i will bless the lord at all times and his praises shall continually be in my mouth because my situation doesn't dictate if he's good [Music] he's just good he doesn't do good he is good and even when things aren't good it doesn't change his nature because he is a good good god and today we just want to celebrate him for even his goodness in her life in the life in our lives and we just praise this amazing savior because no matter what we feel no matter what we go through it does not change the fact that he is a good god so i can't praise you enough [Music] i owe you my life i can't praise you enough even if i'm trying cause you've been so good on my bad days you've been oh so good even when i don't understand god you've been so good [Music] come on [Music] somebody [Music] right there [Music] [Music] yourself one more time [Music] 10 000. [Music] [Music] somebody tell them so many times so many times [Music] to me [Applause] now [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] so [Music] and you will continue to be you will continue to be you won't stop [Music] to me now somebody cut those hands and give jesus the best praise you've given them all day this is only for those who he has been better than good to if he's been average you can have your seat if he's been okay you can sit down but if god has been better then you know you deserve because you know the truth you know the behind the scenes and he kept you anyway he blessed you anyway he made ways anyway that's why we can please him in the middle of this because he has been good prizes for his [Music] you've been so good you've got praise for him for the todd gilbert thank you for coming and sharing with us from today you've been so good you've opened doors [Music] nobody can close god bless you today i thought i saw bill murphy over there somewhere you there send a bill come on give god praise for him love you man thanks for coming and that the wife too amen praise god both of you guys stand up they can see you something like that yeah give god praise with them thanks for coming and sharing with this this family words of expression uh bishop has spoken with me and he's and he was emphatic about this he said dad i want you to make certain that they only speak one minute and a half so i'm going to honor that because i'm obedient too amen and so we we will have coming now brother philip reynolds theresa mattheson time friend and charles moore the family accountant would you come in that order god bless you god is good god is good and all the time god is good amen i am um the big brother of my little sister and i've learned not to question god when things like this come on because god knows more than we know his ways are above our ways and we just need to trust him but you know most of you don't know because you didn't live in our household but jackie was the littlest thing in the house but made the biggest noise it was eight of us and she always had something going on i remember one time when she was little she was out you know with her little friends jumping and playing patty cake and all of that and and then i remember one day she came home from school in the wintertime and it was cold and she said my feet are cold it was snowing outside she went into the bathroom and i was coming around the corner and she had put hot water in the sink and somehow she had climbed up in the sink to warm her feet and then she reached up to turn on the light and she said all that tingles i was in a in a sprint to snatch her out of that sink i said lord you got to help this child and it always amazed me she was always into something and she always used to bug me as a little sister you know then quickly i was taken off sam took uncle sam took me off to to the war and i missed a lot of her childhood growing up but word came to me years later that she had met a man called sam and they were in the ministry god had snatched her heart and snatched him and put them in the ministry and what blessed my heart was during that same time god snatched me and put me in the ministry and i would call my little sister and we would talk on the phone about family but we would really talk about how the church was going and how we were ministering to the people and how the hardship of the ministry but the joy that god had given us to walk this walk and if he if she had anything to say it would be this this thing is real you can talk it you can shout it and you can dance it but this thing is real you got to live it because when you come to this point of the jordan you got to have more than a shout more than a jump you got to have something deep down inside that's going to carry you over and i'm encouraged my heart hurts but i'm encouraged because i see in my two nieces more of my sister then they know god is good all the time god is good amen [Music] amen amen amen uh we will now have remarks by bishop charles middleton is he in the house come on bishop give god praise for him amen [Applause] there he comes he's a young man coming young man coming thank you one of the things that um has increasingly become clear to me is that over the years for preachers our challenge is not having something to say if you like bishop and pastor mormon and others around here preachers are known for talking our challenge in this season is trying to get a hold of whatever it is god is saying and say that i did not really want to be here today to say anything i really wanted to be here with my friend my wife my sweetheart we've been hanging out since 1962. she could not be here today she tried but uh had a little challenge sam and she told me to tell you and the children that she's sorry but she'll make it up later um in a nutshell what i want to say is kind of based on something i read in the book of jude it's not really a book it's uh 25 verses a letter [Music] jude wrote to a group of christians who had taken a hit some ungodly folks had gotten into the church [Music] and were causing quite an uproar and jude wrote saying if i can paraphrase he said i'm not going to write about what i started to write about because you're dealing with something that's serious so serious until i want to urge you to fight fight for the faith that has been handed down to you and i believe that's basically all that the lord wants me to pass on to you today brother and and to others in the church and family god has entrusted to you a body of truth a body of revelation a body of life and experience that if you're not careful you get caught up in the moment and you lose hold of the treasure that you have i hear the lord saying this is the time to hurry up and get past the emotional side of this and contend for the faith not only your survival depends upon it but there are others around the neighborhoods and in your church and in the community that need to hear what god has given to you i love you my brother i love you all i pray for you and say this with me what's coming is better than what's been [Music] amen god bless you bishop thank you for those remarks of encouragement is dr theresa mattheson here dr teresa mattison is she here all right all right praise god we will now have a musical selection by toria adams and peggy james never lost my praise come on come on [Music] [Music] so praise the lord everybody while they're coming in this is my bff i gave me some new kids i'm auntie mama now i just want shayna tasha and sam i love you girls and boys and we you all got to make some dates to take me to lunch because we got a lot to talk about bishop you'll be hearing from me all the time he was always in on our conversations me and lady jay talk like fast six seven eight nine times a day and every time she'll call me out i'm like what up i hear bishop in the background peggy she say hold on i got to put you on the speaker you know he got to be on our conversation so we talked every day amen and it's been such a joy i'm gonna miss her so much i'm gonna miss her so i'm not gonna talk cause i gotta try to remember these lyrics darius was trying to give me an ipad shayna making me sing this song huh bishop so don't go far okay y'all praying [Music] i've lost some good friends a long life [Music] everything [Music] but in my time of crisis they were never there in my disappointment in my season of pain one thing never [Music] i never lost my hope [Music] i never lost my joy i never lost [Music] i never lost my grace [Music] [Music] [Music] and i begin oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] up [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] disappointments [Music] [Applause] me [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i said of jesus [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] i never lost my face [Music] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] thank you [Music] i can't speak for nobody but me right now i may not have been a daughter or a son or the spouse but when i tell you these last fair weeks we cried and we prayed we pride prided we cried but we never lost our faith we said lord we trust you every day they put it lord we trust you whenever us [Music] we gotta learn how to walk insane [Applause] me [Applause] [Music] eyes [Music] come me [Applause] pastor pastor willie pastor willie hill mount nebo baptist church and then pastor bobby davis christ fellowship church and then apostle donald coleman knew breakthrough will come in this order in that order we acknowledge our lord and our savior jesus the christ on today and to this entourage of pulpities we thank god for each and every one of you i didn't come with flattery words or eloquence of speech i was talking to bishop the other night and i said it's difficult because i don't have the preacher voice today because i want to speak very briefly about the lady jay that i knew personally and i confessed to bishop the other night confession is good for the soul and i had to confess to him that but first of all how much i love him and my extended family here little sam tosh and shayna they know how much uncle willie loved them but i confessed to bishop the other night i said man you just don't know how close lady j and i was and he said oh man i know you and lady jay was all right i said no bishop there was a conspiracy going on he said uh reverend reverend what what do you mean i said you don't know how lady jay and i just sit up and talked about you he said what i said oh yeah we had a lot of conversation she was tempted now you have come get him you you got to come get him do something with him start him to fishing doing something i said but lady jay and if he was late or he missed an appointment anything she called me he said you and lady jay was really doing that i said when you get time i show you my text messages brother i love you in 1996 bishop wilson and i started michigan theological seminary together and we completed that journey and we've been together ever since and boy do i love him i tried to get rid of him if it wasn't for little sam and tasha and shane and lady jay i would have gotten rid of you a long time ago may god bless you please keep them in your prayers whatever you do bishop will be fishing with me on next week god bless you [Applause] greetings in the precious name of jesus christ our resurrected redeemer whom we celebrate his presence and our lives today we thank god for lady jay the bishop tasha sam erica shaina and richard i feel like i should be sitting there with you all because that's how far our families go back 1807 concord the wesley chapel missionary baptist church right off kerchevo where my late father was the pastor a time when um we were much younger and tasha and i called ourselves liking each other and uh we were little and sam i'm sorry bishop uh he didn't know but lady jay would allow us to sneak on the phone and tell us now you know when your daddy get home y'all can't be on the phone see he was he was always a father first and he didn't care that i was the pastor's son but after a while something changed with him it didn't bother him no more i believe lady jay got to him and told him they all right so we go back way back and so uh i thank you bishop for giving me a little space my heart is heavy today because lady jay was just lady jay long before being a diva was deified she was a diva she she made the role of a first lady to be honored and admired but sometimes coveted by people who didn't have the touch but wanted the title see lady j she rolled up her sleeves and got in the dirt with bishop to to organize ccf and she didn't stop rolling up her sleeve she didn't just sit up high and want everybody to give her accolades no she was a servant and there's some first ladies that can tear a page out of this trailblazer's life your role is not to be esteemed you got to get your hands dirty and when you're serving in the lord's church you you can't you cannot not be afraid to get your hands dirty she was she was bedazzling stuff long before but dazzling was being bedazzled i'm not surprised by this layout that was her she started the lady j movement in the 90s the lap scarf with her initials on it she started that rhinestones all on your handkerchief she started that trailblazer y'all or some homage [Applause] i'm in my seat i'm in my seat you order some homage she always maintained a smile wherever you seen her she had a smile on her face uh i'm in my seat i'm i fly with delta airlines and when you are a frequent flyer with delta they they give you some points another day they emailed me 90 000 points that i can get if i travel more and travel more and you get so many points they they say that they're gonna give you an all paid exclusive trip to a place that you can't even imagine because when you join delta you you earn points holy spirit started talking to me the other day it said when you join when you join the family of god you earn points exclusive benefits so you earn points when you treat people right you earn points when you when you when you love people that are not lovable you earn points when when you smile even when you're hurting you you earn points you earn points when you need encouragement but you encourage people you earn points when when when when your heart is hurting but you still tell somebody that god is faithful and the other day lady j cashed in her points and now she gets an all-exclusive paid trip to a land that we can't even imagine i'm in my seat if you can't take being talked about sometimes no cross [Music] no crime blessings to all what an awesome experience we've had this morning to dr uh to the pastor of this church of dr mormon the man of god that has been leading and officiating thank you so very kindly for making sure that things have gone forward so excellent because i feel that i'm on a little bit of a mission for lady jay to make sure that everything is checking out okay and you've done an excellent job of making sure that things have gone forward in such a wonderful way to all of the the singers and leaders that have come before you have really done an outstanding job to really put a signature upon the life of an absolutely outstanding woman of god uh to bishop and to your family to each of you we don't have to get too formal because we know each other as as friends and as family and just to say very quickly that along the way our lives have interfaced in a very very personal way because we've known each other for so many years and lady jay and bishop took care of our children while they were just little young people while my wife and i my late wife pastor april coleman and i while they were yet kids we would leave them with bishop and lady jay and they took care of them and treated them as their own and we were able to entrust our young babies with them and just over the years it's been wonderful to interact with with all of the children to see sam grow up to uh to see shaina and tasha and all of the blessings that their lives have been and we all know that lady jade was just an outstanding woman of god who knew how to bless us and strengthen us on so many levels and i feel the constraint of the moment and i made the commitment that uh dr mormont i was going to stay within the minute and a half just like all of the others that came stayed within their minute and a half so so i bring you greetings indeed from the coleman family from the new breakthrough church and also from the state of michigan uh judiciary the 36th district court of the city of detroit where i've had the opportunity to serve for these past 29 years i am delighted to be able to just reverberate the things that you already heard and that is that lady j served on several different levels she was not a celebratory first lady of a ministry she was a founder of that church she was not a celebratory wife she was a wife that raised her children and assisted in the raising of everybody else's children too she was not a celebratory community person she founded community programs tutoring and outreach programs that ministered to a generation she was not just someone that was standing by and holding a title or that you could call by a name she was someone that lived the demonstration of the word of god she was a she was a living manifestation of all of what we should be doing and i believe that one of the things that our gathering together in this time does is it reminds all of us of the importance that we should leave more than we receive we should leave more than we ex more than we spent and so when i think of lady j i think of our gathering here today and our coming together and celebrating uh this time and i certainly expressed my love and heart to uh to all of all of you and i know how hard this is on bishop i know how hard this is on the children you know lady j is just that special kind of lady i mean you can uh say it over and over again but these will have some difficulty in navigating this journey god will give them the grace to do that but it should be difficult because of the magnitude of the woman that this great woman of god was and is to all of us and i just want to say this as i as i take my seat i believe that our gathering here and celebrating her life is about the challenge of being able to gather up the fragments i want to thank god for the first lady of new breakthrough who is with me she's a lady shea and i want you to know the first person ever to call her lady shay was lady jane i was over there i was over there to preach at a service and i was dating this young lady some years after my wife passed away and when lady j saw her she crowned her with lady shea i said not quite yet she said well that's what it's going to be and lo and behold there it is she's an expression of her prophetic capacity as i was saying i believe that she leaves with us the responsibility of gathering up the fragments you remember how that when uh jesus uh was faced with circumstances where the disciples were trying to find bread sufficient to eat and could not find any jesus it was brought to jesus attention that there was just a child that did have a basket a small lunch that had been prepared and jesus asked they would bring it to him they brought the lunch to jesus and when his hands touched it and then the apostles hands touched it then it was distributed to the multitude and at the end jesus said gather up the fragments i want us to understand that lady jay gave us so much to work with she deposited her life in so many different ways until the blessing that she has left to us is to gather up the fragments that is that while we start while we may have started out with a little bit because she allowed god to touch the beauty of who she is we're able to gather up more and more and more there is no end to the blessing that she has been and i want all of us to gather up the fragments and keep on living out the expression of the beauty of this great woman of god gather up the fragments [Applause] amen praise god for all of those who've come and shared with this family words of encouragement and i deeply love this family we go back a lot of years now and you talk about obedience you you talk about love giving this family exemplifies all of that i often tell the bishop i say i say bishop you're one of the greatest preachers i know more importantly you're the greatest person i know anything you ask of him if he can do it he will do it we love you man i love your son in the faith amen amen we have a video by jacqueline carr words of expression jacqueline carr after that my favorite will come and she's one of my favorites amen um shayna will come and minister to us amen but before she comes jake lynn hello there family it's jk lynn carr wilson's you already know i love you so very much i know that this is a challenging time for you but i'm here to encourage you that in the midst of all of what's going on that god is still a keeper and not only is the a keeper but he can keep you my prayers that the peace of god will continue to intensify in your life through this time that you're going through i know it may be tough but you have people like myself and thousands of others who are joining together as a force to help pray for you and pull you through we got you we're holding you up in the spirit because we believe that god will allow you to get through this i love you all so much and again remember that the peace of god is intensifying on your behalf even in this trying time of your life god bless you my mom always said that i was her son bird even in her wheels she wrote i want shayna diana wilson to sing so i can't not sing today as hard as it is i'm like what do you want me to sing if you're gonna tell me to sing mama what you want me to see and i've been just back and forth don't know what to sing but i know one of her favorite songs of mine i wrote it actually after my grandmother her mother had passed away and it was the song that catapulted my entire uh ministry and it says if i can just press press in your presence behold the beauty of your face if i can just press press in your presence never leave this place again if i can just press press in your presence and leave all my cares behind me i will be home i'll still believe i will just lay lay at your feet i will be home i'll still believe i will just praise praise out of your feet right here [Music] [Music] never leave this place [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] you're the beginning and the end [Music] and because of that i'll give you praise i'll give you glory because you call me so lord i give [Music] you call me [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] will be [Music] say [Music] [Music] take me [Music] [Applause] hey [Music] say [Music] [Applause] [Music] my [Music] [Applause] say [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] somebody [Music] so if i can just press i need to just press press in your presence to behold the beauty of your face i know mama oppressed pressed in your presence and left all her cares behind her so she could be home she still believed [Music] [Applause] [Music] when we say thank you thank you thank you [Music] i can just press [Music] i'll continue to press in his presence and leave all my cares behind me i will be home i'll still believe i will just lay there your feet right here in your presence [Music] uh that was special she is special let me just say this bishop china was going forth ministering god spoke to me and said this family is blessed and god shall still do some miraculous thing in your life and whatever i it always comes to pass as you well know this family shall prosper beyond measure you shall see it in the spirit and you shall grow beyond measure all let the family touch and lay their hands to do it shall come to pass this [Applause] amen apostles apostles lynell and carol caldwell first baptist world changer after that apostles tony and cynthia brethelton victory christian ministry and then lady j's three babies three children will come and share amen in that order again thank you shepherd and to all the bishops and apostles and fivefold ministry in the house bishop sam we know we you love we love you i'm gonna let my wife say what she has to say amen yes we love you bishop and wilson family there's a friend that loves at all times and a brother is born for adversity i have no biological sisters but lady j showed up in a time of my adversity we've known each other for a number of years and when i first met lady jay was a look in her eyes and throughout the years as we've had our challenges she kept that same look as if to say i got you i got your back it's easy to be friends with someone during the good times but during those bad times those rough times when it seems there's no way for that person can you stand with them so recently lady and jay we had a conversation she asked me what did apostle preach today and i said he preached on taking the victory to the battle and she and i got in a conversation about taking the victory to the battle because when challenges come in your life you don't have time to work up victory you got to know you have the victory and take it to the battle and so we would talk every now and then we didn't talk every day but we would talk every now and then and when we did it was like we had just talked the day before and i can honestly say about lady j that she fought a good fight she taught a very good fight based on our conversation she kept that faith and she finished her course she never lost her faith and she finished the course i thank god for the relationship the friendship that i had with her it was truly one of a true brother during the times of adversity amen praise god bishop i asked the question yesterday why did it rain all day i turned on the news they said the freeway was flooded the streets was flooded the graveyards was flooded so i asked the question why would it rain so i searched the scriptures that the bible says or someone said this that rain is a nuisance to somebody that don't have seed in the ground so jesus said unless a seed dies it abides alone but if it die it bears much fruit so i leave this with you never underestimate the power of a seed for you can count how many seeds that's in an apple but you can never count how many apples that's in that one seed we're gonna plant this seed today and look out for the harvest god bless you [Music] praise god to the presbytery here we send you we bring you greetings from victory christian ministries international in the dmv area in washington d.c area you know it was many many many years ago that we adopted shayna into our family oh i shouldn't let me take that back she adopted us into her family and little did we know that we were receiving a whole entire family it wasn't shortly after that that shayna brought her whole family to the dmv area and then we adopted and fell in love with the whole entire family bishop we love you our prayers are always with you tasha sam and your new wife erica's a pleasure meeting shayna rashad majesty and rj you guys are in our hearts forever we are truly family and we love you so so very much lady j meant a tremendous amount to us and our family our whole church family when our family heard about her going home to be with the lord every we got so many and dated with calls from our church just people sending their condolences because they remember her and she made such a mark in our lives and the f and the people that she just greeted they remember her smile her love that she shared with us and i'm so glad to be able to call her friend and we spent a lot of times as you know communicating with one another and she would always text me and and said send me a video send me a word send me something she was a great great woman of faith i know everybody knows that in here full of the word of god loved to pray it was such a blessing to be able to talk to someone and to share with someone of like precious faith and it was an amazing thing because she's a woman that's full of power believed in the miracle working powers of god believed in the supernatural so you can imagine the kind of conversations that we had and i'm telling you she's a great woman of faith and again we love to share the word of god with one another and this is one of the scriptures we shared with each other and i believe it speaks of her today it's found in luke chapter 1 beginning at verse 46 and it says my soul is ecstatic overflowing with praises to god my spirit bursts with joy over my life-giving god for he has set his tender gaze upon me his lowly servant girl and from here on everyone will know that i have been favored and blessed of god the mighty one has worked a mighty miracle for me holy is his name mercy kisses all who fear him from one generation to the next generation and i know that lady jay has left a life of a legacy of blessings of honor of faith of prayer of intercession for her whole entire family in the ccf family and we salute her today and we bless god i will greatly greatly miss her but i can't wait to see her again god bless every single one of you um bishop we we greatly appreciate you and and your entire family just i want to openly thank you for just welcoming us to just be a part of your family i know that shayna just she adopted us but you just welcome us you and lady jay both and um and we love you as well thank everybody i mean this this celebration has been absolutely um anointed um and i was praying to god what should i say you know david often times inquired of the lord and the lord gave me a trait that she has that jesus has and it's the trait that she's intentional how many people know that lady j was intentional it was an attribute that god himself has he's you know one thing about god when he's doing something he's doing something and when he's not doing something he's doing something and when you don't know he's doing something he's still doing something that's what lady jay was she was doing something and we're still discovering all the things that she's been doing in other words we could say that lady j was a planner you know when i think about god god is a planner just like that you know god gave jeremiah a message for his people and i think that this is the word that god wants me to just share with you this morning he gave jeremiah a message for his people of people that were exiled of people that were oppressed a people that were depressed a people that were ripped from their homes and ripped from their families and ripped from their freedoms of people that were ripped from their religions and in the midst i believe of the worst season of their lives god gives them a message that would elevate them and god begins to say them for i know the plans i have for you right in the midst of them being perplexed and um just burdening and worrying about what we're going to go from here and what's next to be done and here's what god says to them for i know the plans i have for you notice he didn't say that you know the plans he had for you god says i know the plans that i have for you i love that while they were crying god says i have a plan for you while they were worrying god says i got a plan for you while they're frustrated god says i got a plan for you while they're upset and confused and disappointed god says i have a plan for you while they were hurting and why some might want to give up god says i have a plan for you i want you to know that god has a plan for you we don't always know the plan he doesn't always tell us what the plan is but he will tell you what his plan will do he said this is what my plan would do for you he says i have plans to prosper you bishop i've got plans to prosper you family not to harm you plans to give you a hope and a future come on somebody god has a plan when we don't know what to say we don't know what to do we don't know how to respond god wants to elevate you right in that time and he says i have a plan for you why because god is a planner and one thing about lady jay was that she was a planner she was just like her god her father god has a plan for you i just i want you to get a hold of that when we don't know what to do don't know how to respond don't know what's going on when we're crying right in the middle of your tears i've got a plan a plan to prosper you declares the lord a plan not to harm you a plan to give you a future and a hope somebody said god has a plan for us family we love you we know that the best is still yet to come god bless you [Applause] amen amen amen we have [Music] acknowledgements okay of course amen resolutions telegrams condolences johnson johnson god daughter praise the lord everybody praise the lord everybody we are still in a celebration so god be the glory bishop tasha sam erica shaina richard my deepest deepest condolences to you as you all know um lady j always had a habit of putting me up to speed before i was ready um it doesn't go without guessing that this one has been the hardest but we shall get through this i have acknowledgements and cards and with the overwhelming love and support from everyone of course you know we would be here all day if i read all of them so i will just read a few resolutions from some churches but bishop and the entire wilson family would like to thank every last one of you for your condolences your cards your words of sympathy at this time bishop i love you so much she was dear to me and y'all are stuck with me amen all right first and foremost words of comfort to the family of lady j wilson from transfer to the church of triumphant we stand in agreement with you today that the god of all comfort will bring you peace surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows and by his stripes we are healed and the healing he bought for us at calvary was not only physical but emotional too rest in his love of jesus he will comfort you during this time of bereavement love bishop charles l middleton jr charles l middleton senior co-pastor mary e middleton and the leaders and members of mount zion new covenant baptist church i also have a resolution from oversee anthony and redona bell and so much as god in his fine infinite wisdom has brought to a close the life of co-pastor jackie lady j wilson our beloved mother in ministry we the bell family and members of the restoration of life ministries international church feel it be befitting to express our deepest sympathy to the family during this time of bereavement whereas lady j has passed from labor to reward we now bow in humble submission to the will of the almighty god his will be done whereas our hearts have been set into the loss of lady jay we convey our sorrow to the family and friends we shall stand with you in belief by faith that she is in rest and peace with the father whereas we have penned the tribute of respect and we pray it will bear some comfort for the hearts of the most that she have left behind why do we mourn loved ones in france or shake at death's alarm tis but the voice of jesus sends to call them in his arms yes she is another soldier gone to her great reward she fought the fight she kept the faith and is now gone home to her god it is resolved we the bell family and the romy church family join with you to rejoice memories of the life love and legacy left behind by lady j we be assured that god's mercy and grace will stain shall re sustain you and keep you on the road ahead be it further resolve that we have paused to pay our deepest respects to lady jay and the family we love you and will be there to support you and the family loved ones for the days to come this is from anthony and rodonaville i won't read all of them for the sake of time i will read one more from pastor robert davis jr to the family of lady j wilson bishop wilson and the wilson family in his own way and for his own purpose a few days ago god our father called the spirit of his beloved daughter lady j wilson to be with him throughout eternity the members of the christ fellowship church lady d and i sent our deepest heartfelt sympathy to you in the loss of your loved one we realize words may seem empty as you are grieving but know that we are the praying members of your family i offer you the words of comfort from matthew 5 and 4 blessed are they that more for they shall be comforted may the lord and savior jesus christ be your source of comfort during the difficult time lean on him and hold firm in your faith that is all the cards and resolutions i will read at this time but again the wilson family is beyond grateful for all of your deepest condolences we will now have lady jay's story by minister kyra williams please put your hands together [Applause] praise the lord everybody amen i thank god for this opportunity i first want to give honor to the angel of this house dr mormon god bless you to pastor tolin god bless you to all the ministers staff the angels the laity everybody we love you god bless you to bishop wilson i love you my sister tasha sam erica shayna my brother richard grandma thank you for always loving me as an in love and not an in-law i honor my father and my mother bishop dr raphael william senior and dr patricia williams thank you for raising me in holiness amen that lady you know the one we call lady j born april 12 1961 that lady who unequivocally emphatically served with her whole life that lady who had the propensity to literally reach everyone she touched and touched everyone she reached that lady who defined and redefined and refined class grace virtue statue that lady oh that lady j that lady who represented what a lady is come on somebody know it's hard to find a lady nowadays oh i know you know what i'm talking about a female is by birth a woman is by age but a lady baby that's a choice she exemplified a real lady with her tone her words her wisdom her nobility she illustrated a lady through her dress her hair her statue her speech and yet she defied the laws of lady every time she went to war oh i want to tell you that one thing today this lady didn't mind getting down and dirty she didn't mind getting down in the trenches she didn't mind rolling around in the mud she didn't mind throwing a punch or two it was no such thing as beauty sleep cause she prayed all night long i'm talking about that lady that lady j that lady whose voice i can still hear shouting philippians 4 and 13 that i can do all things through christ which strengthens me for it is not by power not by might but by my spirit sayeth the lord that lady who would correct you and caress you that lady who would pray with you and praise with you that lady who would help you and hype you that lady who would tell you right now you can go ahead and cry it's okay to weep right now but please believe i want you to understand that i want you to get your life right so you can see me on the other side i'm talking about that lady that lady j the islay brothers once asked a question who is that lady yeah that lovely lady that beautiful lady who is that lady that lady who would take her grandkids through the car wash just for fun and never missed a birthday that lady who raised the valiant daughters that resemble her every single day that lady who bore a son that will carry the mantle of ministry one day that lady who served her husband who adored her husband who loved her husband faithfully and effortlessly that lady who used to be a gang leader now convert it to sanctified holy ghost filled up fire baptizer oh i'm talking about that lady demon chasing warriors serving the lord serving her ministry serving her family and even her enemies so i'm talking about that lady that lady j that lady has wiped our tears comforted our fears held our hands and in her transparency when we she said you know what i definitely understand i'm talking about that lady who preached talk to the prophet [Music] to tell you god be the glory for the things he had done that lady would go on the battlefield and help wounded warriors that lady would go in the hospitals up and say take up your bed and walk that lady will go into homes as they put this family back together again that lady that will talk to the women's ministry and say honey yeah you know you gotta get your life right guys i'm talking about that lady yeah i'm talking about a virtuous woman i'm talking about a woman where the law of kindness was on her tongue and every time she spoke all you would hear is wisdom that lady was a bad lady that lady was a bad girl i'm talking about that lady jacqueline lady jay wilson come on and put your hands together and thank god for that lady thank god for lady jack come on and bless him god bless you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] amen [Music] words of reflection now samuel wilson ii and shaina wilson williams and natasha wilson once you come don't you come give god praise for them that will come [Music] [Applause] in [Music] praise the lord everybody praise the lord everybody put your hands together and praise the lord with me give thanks to the lord right we thank god for breaking our body right come on put those hands together and bless this holy name [Music] god is so good dear mama my queen my rock my baby doll my friend my life i'm not sure how i'm gonna normalize you not being around but i know mama you're gonna always be on my heart and my memories and my thoughts in my walk and my talk i miss you i'm gonna miss hearing your beautiful voice you telling everybody in the house what to do i'm gonna miss you calling me early in the morning and i'm like ma it's too early i'm still asleep oh what i give to hear that call again i miss you i'm gonna miss you asking me to buy you all the gucci in louisville vuitton brooches before i get on the plane and come from atlanta i know how bad you and dad are ready for me to get married don't worry mom my man coming just know i'll be able to cook for them now because i mastered your recipes how to cook your infamous roast hello somebody how to cook your pound cake how to make your pumpkin cake how to make that lasagna thank you mama yes you raised us to be strong independent fearless holy and all the above but you never told us what to do once you're gone well wait yes you did you taught us the word of god and you told us to hide it in our hearts you and there raised us up with the fear of the lord so i'll stand firm on god's word i know he'll get us through this as your eldest i promise to watch over take care of encourage uplift build with and hold a family down your legacy shall live through all of us myself your two sons your daughters erica your grandkids your wilson legacy i love you baby doll and oh yeah we got daddy [Applause] i never really get a chance to talk but man i i can say so much but mom would always call me and say can you sing that song for me and i'm like mama but did you ever know that you're my hero and everything i would like to be i can fly higher than any goal cause you are the wind beneath my wings did you ever know that you're my hero and everything i would like to be i can fly higher than any goal cause you are the wind beneath my wings i'm gonna keep singing it i'm gonna always remember the times that we talked a lot of the times that we talked was always a lesson for me and i realize why you instilled in me so much wisdom and so much grace so much compassion so much love thank you for showing me how to love a man to take care of him cause daddy don't even know how to make eggs cause you did it mama thank you for the times sorry daddy but he don't know what to do with his life lord that's a bad girl yes we got you though daddy we got you oh jesus he did he said somebody made me something we like what you want we don't but thank you mama for your compassion thank you for your endurance thank you for your fight thank you thank you for showing us how to be gracious how to extend grace to those that didn't never experienced it before thank you for the wisdom thank you for the the night prayers i will never forget when she began to get ill she called me and my sister and said y'all pray with mommy and we begin to pray and at the end of the prayer she was just so moved and she said i just can't believe my daughters can pray me and tosh were like [Music] we know how to pray but mom has always been the prayer warriors every time we needed anything she's always been praying for us and it was just an honor to be able to return that prayer back to her mama we love you we're going to continue to continue your legacy make you proud we know and i can hear you every day speaking with us and speaking to us your wisdom will not fall to the ground i love you so much i'm gonna take care of my man like you take care of yours love you mama amen [Music] praise the lord somebody pray i said praise the lord somebody praise the lord [Music] this was this is one of the toughest things to do but i don't want to adore the moment i want to actually tell y'all something funny uh growing up at my mom's i don't know if y'all knew but she was a jokester man she would do pranks on me and me and shayna and tasha one day i was out in the backyard playing baseball i had my plastic back [Music] and she chose to put on a mask she chose to put on a mask she knew me and shayna would scare the mask back when we were younger and so after i got done playing baseball i went into the kitchen went to the living room sat on the couch i still had the back so y'all know where this is going mama i'm sorry but i got to tell this story to keep me from crying man i've been crying all week tossing and turning but um she she chose to come in and charge at me in the living room with this mask on and i started beating my mom with this bat i mean she couldn't get the mask off fast enough she like his mommy his mommy i i just closed my eyes beating her beating her beating and by the time i opened my eyes she had the mask off and she was in the she ran to the other [Music] and as i was tossing and turning on last night and and all this week the lord dropped something in my spirit he said just as she tried surprising you with this mask the enemy thought he was surprising us with this death but he ain't know i have the secret weapon come on he ain't know we have a secret weapon so right now i'm i'm joyful we gonna beat the devil until he run away and we ain't gonna stop until he flee and mama i just love you i love you on today and we're gonna make you proud we're gonna hold on to your legacy that won't die that's gonna continue to live your name ringing bells right now man we love you mom uh giving honor to god who is the head of my life to the angel of this house dr mormont this church and the christian tab family has a very special place in our family's heart this is where my wife and i got married and just to be back here again to lay our dear mother to rest we know we're in good hands amen giving honor to bishop wilson my dad uh i'm not going to be before you long but a lot of things have been said about my dear mother today and we talked about how she was fearless they put her in one of the toughest districts as a police chaplain because she was fearless i heard somebody say she was a trendsetter she started the lady j cloths she bedazzled everything she was a prayer warrior she was compassionate but for me my mom was a an accomplished cook my mama could throw down and i'm all about family i've been raised in a close family and this one particular year we traveled to atlanta for thanksgiving and that had been the first time in my 37 years of living that i had been away from my immediate family for thanksgiving and mama prepared a great meal for us all and after we ate uh we went out we did some bowling and some arcade games and family stuff and when we came back you know i was still hungry and my wife she was tired and i was telling her i want some meat before i could turn around mama had told me uh son i made you another plate i knew you'd be hungry when you get back she already knew but i like to think of that as a certain special power or a gift if you may that god gave her and i like to call that lady janus and today there's a lot of people in the room because i believe you've been touched by lady j niss hey man and if you can just by the simple gesture if you've been touched if you truly been touched by lady j niss just raise your hand that's her legacy amen god bless [Music] i'm not one for many words so i won't say anything much but as the newest member of the wilson clan from day one two years ago sam bought me to the house and she said oh hi erica hi nice to meet you and the second time she saw me at shayna house she said hey daughter it took me back we had only been dating a couple of months but that was mama thank you for welcoming me with open arms for calling me yours and treating me just like you raised me before i was a child from every text every call every text in the middle of the night that said you've been praying for us i promise to take care of your baby boy and as the new mrs wilson i'll carry your legacy and your grace as you would i love you mama [Music] amen give god praise again for the family of the children of this powerful woman of god lady jay well i'm excited about hearing the word of the living god i really am and as we prepare to hear from heaven through this powerful preacher there's a brother here who i i so admire i've known him down through the years i kind of watched him grow and prosper everything that this young man touches he's anointed every song that he writes is anointed god has his hand on him we're in a gym years back and i mentioned to him that he would go far and prosper that has come to pass down your feet stand on your feet receive william mercy come on bishop bishop brilliant protocol having already been established we honor this bishop and this grace and this family shaina always wanted to be my family and so she had her brother marry my cousin uh erica is my cousin and uh so we we family listen do me a favor just put your hand on your neighbor there is enough strength in this room to get this family through this and while your hand is on your neighbor i just want you to open your mouth and let's just give god our best praise right now come on come on [Music] come on just raise that up they're gonna need this praise about three weeks from now come on just just throw your hands up now and and open your mouth and let's let's release our best praise they're gonna need it about two months from now this family's gonna need it come on just open your mouth one more time there's enough strength in this room to get this family through it the scripture is clear that we ought to offer to god continually the sacrifice of praise the sacrifice of praise is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name and so we just simply declare you are my strength come on wave your hand and say it you are my strength you can't have it if you won't say it come on you are my strength strength like no other and it reaches to me reach over to your neighbor one more time just tell them i command you to only be strong bishop be strong [Music] yes lord it's a simple song we can sing it together are you ready come on you are my strength strength like no other strength like noah reaches to me yes lord you are my strength yes you are strength like no other come on declare strength like no other and today it reaches to me would y'all sing with me come on say you are my strength come on church raise it up i need somebody to raise your voice and just a glass you are that's how we gonna get through it come [Music] [Applause] [Music] it on to me now the next part goes like this you're gonna save me in the fullness of your grace give the power [Music] [Applause] and [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and i'm so glad it reaches [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] here we go in the fullness of your grave [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you'll find out it's amazing [Music] somebody help me praise god in here in the fullness of your grace [Music] [Applause] now listening about three weeks from now this family is going to need this praise i need you to put your hands together and help me give god praise that when heaviness comes when weariness comes when the process tries to set in for that the strength of god is going to lift them out of that place i need you to clap your hands and walk with your mouth [Music] we're gonna only be strong [Music] it's the last time [Music] [Music] let's freaking over this church [Music] [Applause] sing it out [Music] [Applause] yes [Music] they'll stand on our feet and to receive this powerful man of god my brother and my friend fellowship baptist church give god praise as [Music] you may be seated in the lord's church to god be the glory for the many things that he has done what he is doing and what he will do this is the day that the lord has made and we still choose to rejoice and be glad in and we honor our heavenly father his son our savior the lord jesus christ who hung for six hours one friday [Music] died until death died three days later he comes out of the grave not as a weakling but with all power in his hands 50 days later he sends the holy ghost to reside in the preside on the inside of us and what a joy it is for us to be gathered together not just as his creation but as his children we honor the lord today for this life well live would you help me celebrate lady j wilson come on let's salute her life come on let's salute her life hallelujah [Music] we thank the lord for a life well lived a life that was lived in service to our master thank god for her as a mother as a wife as a minister of the gospel of jesus christ we praise god for how god used her to further his kingdom for the glory of god we honor our host pastor today pastor james mormon to everybody who has done anything in this service to minister to this wilson family and to a general and a gentleman statesman in the faith bishop samuel wilson somebody helped me celebrate bless you man come on church he needs our strength [Music] we love you man i want to ask the community christian fellowship church to intensify your love for your pastor amen [Applause] something's going to happen for the first time after this service ends next week or week after next he will walk into that church for the first time without his wife and you're going to need to be of great strength to your pastor amen having started this church and having been married so many years life is going to be different and i pray that this family and the church family will do all you can to make this transition as easy as possible for him and for his children we celebrate the children amen amen god for you i want to i want to thank uh bishop wilson who entrusted me with this responsibility uh he had other options and so i want to thank you bishop for this assignment and we praise god that something will be said and shared that will bless you in your walk with god lady j has already been eulogized i said lady jay has already been eulogized [Applause] the word simply means to speak well of her i remember many years ago that i was invited to preach at the church and they've shared with new saint paul back in the day and so we know each other amen and we thank the lord for the witness of god that has continued throughout her life if it is your custom that you stand for the word of god i ask that you would do so if you're giving just a little bit more monitor here on the pulpit that would be great i want to summon your senses and invite your intellect to the book of acts chapter number nine and it is there at the holy spirit has highlighted for us this context of scripture beginning with verse number 36. your bible should read now there was that joppa a certain disciple named tabitha which by interpretation is called dorcas this woman was full of good works and arms deeds which she did and it came to pass in those days that she was sick and died whom when they had washed they laid her in the upper chamber and for as much as little was near the joppa and the disciples had heard that peter was there they sent unto him two men desiring him that he would not delay to come to them then peter arose and went with them when he was come they brought him into the upper chamber and all the widows stood by him weeping and showing the coats and garments which dorcas made while she was with them but peter put them all forth and kneeled down and prayed and said and turned to the body and said tabitha arise and she opened her eyes and when she saw peter she sat up and he gave her his hand and lifted her up and when he had called the saints and widows presented her alive and now was known throughout all joppa and many believed in the lord i want to tag this text made the work i've done speak for me you may be seated in the lord's church all of us work every day to aspire for what we call the good life we do all we can we invest we work we labor we hustle to do everything we can to achieve this thing called the good life unfortunately the world's concept of the good life is defined by how much you consume it is defined by how much you collect it's defined by how much you own and so we are continually enticed into this life of consumption when we read the word of god the good life is not based on what you collect it's based on what you contribute the good life is not based on what you get it's based on what you give when you find yourself in the posture of giving it presumes that god is already providing for you so that you can provide for other people that has become the signature put on this woman of our texts whose hebrew name is tabitha her greek name is dorcas she holds a significant spot in scripture because she is the first greek female to be mentioned in the new testament and she is the only adult woman who was brought back from the dead in all of scripture she holds a signature spot in the annals of church history because the book of acts is about how to get the gospel out to the world that it would spread beyond jerusalem into judea and samaria and the uttermost parts of the world she gives evidence that the gospel had spread beyond the borders of jerusalem and there were those who were not of jewish descent who were receiving the lord jesus christ but her manifestation of christianity was different because it's clear when we read this text that she believed that being a christian was more than worship she believed that being a christian was more than praise she believed that being a christian was more than gathering in the sacred portals of some edifice dedicated to the glory of god she she believed that there was something more to the christian conviction other than spirituality and here's what we learned about her ladies and gentlemen verse 36 gives us a brief snapshot of her biography the text says her name is tabitha in hebrew dork is in greek both words mean the same thing in their transliteration they both mean a gazelle the animal gazelle was known for its beauty when we look at the translation of these words that bespeak her name she by name was a woman of beauty but the text also says that she was a certain disciple which not only means that she was a woman of beauty but she was a woman of belief text also says not is she just a woman of beauty but a woman of belief but the text says she did good works which means she's a woman of benevolence not only is she a woman of beauty and a woman of benevolence and a woman of belief but the text says she was in the clothing business she was a business woman she was a beautiful woman she was a benevolent woman i'll try this once again the text says she was a woman of beauty the text says she did good works which means she's a woman of benevolence the text says she was a certain disciple which means she was a woman of belief and the text also says she was in the business of clothes she was a business woman it seems very evident to us automatically bishop that this brief snapshot of who tabitha was gives us a revelation about what she valued because she believed that there was more to her than just a pretty face the text says she was beautiful but that's not the only thing we know about her she was benevolent and a businesswoman she made it clear that i don't want my last will and testament to be that i was attractive without being effective [Applause] that's god's word for somebody in here you're not working with much if the only thing you got going for you is that you are attractive because might i tell you find fit and firm wears off it's standing up now but in a few years [Applause] it's gonna fall and drop you you you got it going on now but you keep living in a few years you're gonna be forced to put clothes on [Applause] there's got to be more to you than just beauty and body tamitha wanted it to be clear that i'm not just another pretty face i'm a woman of business benevolence and belief we're clear to understand at the onset of this periphery that she didn't just do good works for the sake of being a philanthropist she understood the difference between philanthropy and ministry the text says she wasn't just a good worker she was a godly woman that her behavior was previewed by her convictions she was a disciple of the lord jesus christ she believed that there was no separation between being a follower of the lord jesus christ and a doer of good works for tabitha they went together i think we need to be reminded of that ladies and gentlemen that you and i are not just called to be gifted we are called to be doers of good works for the lord jesus christ paul told titus in titus chapter 3 verse 8 he says affirm constantly that those who have believed in god should be careful to maintain good works james puts it this way in james chapter 2 verse 26 he says for the body without the spirit is dead so is faith without works it is dead alone you and i are not just called to get dressed up to come to church we are called to do good works we have spent the last two hours rehearsing the good works of a beautiful woman one who was benevolent one who believed in the lord jesus christ we've got to be reminded church that if we get to a place where christianity has no good works then christianity for us is reduced to a weekly talent show when we get to this point where we're no longer working for god outside of the sanctuary then christianity becomes weekly entertainment in jesus name that provides a platform for the gifted and the greedy we got to be careful but the biggest lesson that we learn from lady jay is how to be beautiful and benevolent how to be beautiful and a believer that the last testament about your life is not how attractive you are but how effective you are i won't suggest bishop wilson that tabitha gained a reputation by not using her beauty as the focus her reputation was her works that was accented by her beauty and her reputation that leaves us on record was that she was a woman of good works and despite good works uh pastor davis she was a believer she was benevolent she was beautiful but she still died the text says she got sick and that beautiful unbelievable benevolent and graceful but one day she got sick die beautiful benevolent a believer a beautiful woman but one day she got sick and die now if you like the bible a little bit you know that luke is the author of the book of acts and luke by trade is a physician and the problem with this text bishop wilson is that the doctor didn't tell us what she got sick from the doctor left this information out he just said she was beautiful benevolent and one day she got sick and died maybe pastor smith the doctor left this information out because he didn't want us to be nosy as much as he wanted us to get a revelation the way the text is framed y'all it is framed as though one day sickness just hit her body and she died but here's what makes it worse y'all if y'all got a bible the bible says she died and it came to pass in those days what days if we stay true to the context she got sick and died in the days when she was doing good works you see the problem ladies and gentlemen is that life is not guaranteed that you have time to do what you want to do because this text says that tabitha died in the midst of a useful life tabitha died while she was blessing other people which means y'all she was giving life while she was losing life lord i wish i had a church in here ladies and gentlemen you've got to understand that life is not promised to you because sickness and death will come into your life at the very time you blessing somebody else i won't suggest that the reason why luke left the medical report out welton is because he wanted to remind us today that you ain't got time to waste time can y'all help me preach that to somebody and don't touch your neighbor just look at them and tell them neighbor you ain't got time to waste time you don't have time to be sitting up talking about i'll do it later god life can sneak up on you right in the midst of you being effective and useful you ain't got time to waste time you don't have time to be laying up with people who have no drive and no vision you don't have time to waste your gift on people who don't understand your anointing you don't have time to keep company with people who have no drive about themselves you don't have time to be sick up in a ministry that's not doing anything you got to find your place of value and maximize your time tell somebody i ain't got time to waste time cause death can sneak upon you in the midst of a useful life please don't rush me because i didn't sit through your service for two and a half hours ladies and gentlemen i want to remind you today that lady jay has a message for us her message for us is to maximize the time you got by using your life to be a blessing to somebody else god deliver us from selfish people god deliver us from narcissism in jesus name god deliver us from people who made church all about them god deliver us from people who made their lives all about them when you stand before god he's not gonna ask you how many shirts you got how many shoes you wear how many callers you got he's going to ask you did you serve my people [Applause] she got sick died and she got sick and died and something interesting happens in this passage bishop wilson i noticed something that aggravated me lady van it was this after she died the text says she was full of good works and arms deeds but if you got a bible and can read it that's luke's report of her life we didn't hear from the people she blessed until after she died lord i wish i had a church here luke said she full of good works but the people she blessed was nowhere to be fought until after she died they show up at the service with coats she made with comments she made and ladies and gentlemen the way the texas framed tabitha didn't hear from these people while she was alive but the minute she dies they show up oh look how good she was to uh ladies and gentlemen let me help you god took me here to tell you to stop taking for granted people that you need to go think today because they made cults for you that covered you when you couldn't cover yourself i got about 50 people in here i make number 51 that when you leave out of this service you got to make some thank you calls cause there are some people in your life they are the reason why you are where you are right now look at somebody tell me don't wait till i'm stretched out to come thank me then i want to hear from you when i can see it and i can feel it wilson james the reason why you got some people to thank is because they made stuff that would cover you i'm gonna come back to y'all in a minute you got some folk to think cause they covered you in a season when you couldn't cover yourself i'll come back to you in a minute you got some people to thank cause they covered you before you got exposed lord i wish i had a church around here do i got anybody it feel like church now do i got anybody in here that will thank god that god got some people in your life that covered you when you couldn't cover yourself that way you don't have to show up at the funeral and say stuff she can't hear if you live your life right we don't have to show up at your funeral and lie i said if you live your life right we don't have to come to your funeral and lie we come with a clear conscience that the deceased knows my appreciation before they got to this place bid y'all good night thank you all for letting me have this little easter speech i bid y'all good night bishop van here's my clothes that's it if you've got a bible and can read it here it is pastor mormon william murphy here it is she dies she got sick and died and after she died everything about her life went up missed it if you got a bible and can read it when she died they put her in her upper chamber last i know when people die they go down but when she died they put her up y'all still missed it when peter shows up he says tabitha arrives that means she stood up when she said arise the text says she opened her eyes that means she looked up when she looked up peter gave him his hand and the text said she sat up lord i wish i had some help here i wish i had some bible readers in here the after death things are going up good night church may the lord god bless you real good but samuel i've got to tell you this what we're getting ready to put in the ground ain't your wife cause your wife has already grown up this is just the shell that's got to go back in the ground but some glad morning when this life is over [Music] if y'all got a bible and can read it the text says they moved her up the texans they sat her up the text says they lifted her up and i gotta win this here it's consistent with what the bible says is gonna happen after death here's what paul said for we know lord that when this earthly house of this tabernacle has dissolved i'm gonna build it and i got a home eternal in the heavens have i got to win this here y'all still ain't feeling me first thessalonians chapter 4 says when the lord shall return the dead in christ shall rise first and those of us that remain shall be caught up together to meet him in the air and so shall we ever be with the lord i gotta win this here the good news is lady jake has already gone up into the presence of god her spirit has already entered into the presence of god and the good news is the reason why tabitha got up y'all slept on that i said the reason why tabitha got up because when we read this text somebody died and rose again you still sleep i said when we read this text somebody died and rose again you still sleep i said when we read this text somebody died and rose again it was tabitha that walked in the resurrection because a few days ago there was another man that died and rose again i wonder do you all know his name his name is jesus one friday they hung him i thought i was in a church they stretched him wide and he stayed dead sunday morning he got up with all power in his hand and now that he got up tabitha got up now that tabitha got up lady jay is gonna get up and we're gonna see her again in that great resurrection morning would y'all do me a favor and just look at somebody and tell them neighbor we're just in practice about rising since heroes your praise ought to rise since he rose your joy ought to rise since he rose your victory ought to rise i know you got that mask on but open your mouth all over this church and give god praise that this is not the end one day we all are going to glory and we might as well not wait to give him praise when we get there but we might as well give him glory right now now let everything i said let everything i said let everything i said let everything that's got prep praise it [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all the people say [Music] what a word for this season and for this time thank you pastor thank you pastor told him thank you father for that word in this season that way in this and you might get refreshed you want to stay [Music] amen jesus jesus [Music] okay [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do do [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] so [Music] do [Music] you

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