"I'll Throw This In For FREE" Pastor Reginald W. Sharpe Jr. June 14, 2020 10AM

[Music] welcome aboard the virtual ship with fellowship Chicago while we can't have Church traditionally we can still be the church consistently new method same message new platform same power new season same God now let's go into our worship experience good morning fellowship family welcome aboard the virtual ship again what a blessing it is that God has brought us through another week the Bible tells us old magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together right where you are take a minute and praise your God for all of the great things that God has done the songwriter didn't say to God be the glory for the thing the song says to God be the glory for the things he woke you up this morning put breath into your lungs strengthen your muscles a smile on your face those are some of the things you have food on your table clothes in your closet a roof over your head angels around your bed those are some of the things you drove this week and he kept you safe he was looking out for your children even when your eyes weren't on of somebody or to lip your hands this Sunday morning and tell God thank you for all the things the things I couldn't buy the things I didn't pray for the things I didn't ask for for all of the things that you have done thank you lord today is my graduation Sunday and later on in the service we're gonna salute preschoolers and middle schoolers and kindergarten graduates high school graduates and college and collegiate level graduates we're gonna have a great celebration honoring what God has done through all of our graduates but first we're about to worship with the one and only jonathan McReynolds he's coming in his own way to bless us don't just watch him less worship with him let all the people say Amen see you in a minute with you guys today I want to go ahead your atmosphere turn your living room turn your kitchen into a life room and make sure that we focus on the one who gave us this life all right let's go when you get the word sing along she crazy is the Lord my Conqueror he is never feel me through all my trials tribulations he will deliver he's the greatest one he's God everybody let it upset [Music] through all my trial my trial tribulation he will one he's died yeah what is he crazy Lord he's my comforter left me in all my days I've never seen the righteous forsaken he's look away he's got go ahead and separate [Music] in all my days see [Music] yeah we got one more secret Lord Izumo and he's a man [Music] comes like a saliva he's already [Music] [Music] see [Music] [Music] [Music] good good [Music] good [Music] that's what we see you like this [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] come on if you know that God is gonna go ahead and make some noise in your room boy a minute joyful noise I don't care how old he is he deserves all of your glory all the honor all the phrase [Music] yeah [Music] we serve a great God that can handle great problems we serve a great God that can handle great issues so when I go to that great God and give him my so called great prayers I know that he can hand I pray that you can hand [Music] hope you can handle this cheese no you can handle even specific unique prayers here's mine they are the best and the worst you've created loving and hating nothing you need loners in basements in those congregate dealer for me far from the feasts for sure I was sinking deep in the ocean thoughts they were thinking I don't know what validation I was seeking deliver me from people people when you said you could heal me from anything did you mean people people do cuz I can't point them out I won't say the names I don't know the damage on which one the blame is just people [Music] people deliver me cuz of hurt are the broken are breaking the ones who had their joint taking away are out here taken from the people people people people heal me from people people tell me to forgive me he teach me how to serve key people even when they get on my knowledge evil people teach me how to love fever heap it teach me out even crazy [Music] [Music] but forgive me when I'm one of those people people [Music] [Music] I'm just thinking that if we have all this time to kind of be physically deliver from people maybe we can start to break some cycles right now who knows maybe 20 20 came in this crazy way to give us an opportunity to break some cycles off of our life signs of depression isolation maybe some generational cycles I declare some victory last year tell me what me cuz I feel yeah that is coming back up again must be something I ate some song some show some hate the devil wants to extend the game free throws we need in she wants to make the sequel cuz if he has another chance he feels like he can take my joy my peace my faith [Music] here even if you don't that's how me keeps you inside traffic aches [Music] I don't see what I'm not going [Music] whew sustained take me to the bridge oh so long [Music] me tell me [Music] if this is what you [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] oh gee to bring every side [Music] [Music] [Music] to break every to bring all this to end all these to break every cycle [Music] [Music] Thank You fellowship I love you good morning again fellowship family thank you for tuning in weren't you blessed by the ministry of jonathan McReynolds we thank him for coming and blessing us today in his own way with his own swag his own energy we appreciate you my brother thank you for stopping on a boy at the virtual ship today and then on top of all of the excitement that comes with graduation Sunday we get to pause now and call the names of those members of a fellowship Chicago from the class of 2020 wherever you are if you're around the Graduate make some noise right now for all of the members of the class of 2020 we are so proud of you you all have done something historic you have finished this semester whether you are leaving kindergarten pre-k elementary middle school high school college BA degrees master's degrees or a PhD or doctorate degree we salute you for graduating in the midst of a global pandemic congratulations to you one more time give it up for the class of 2020 y'all make some noise the names are as follows daniel artis being promoted from eighth grade victoria Barner eighth grade courtney battles Bachelors of Science Elena beard pre-k Mia Brantley eighth grade tiara Bradley bachelor's degree Breann Bragg's eighth grade Caleb brown kindergarten Dylan Clark pre-k Imani Coleman kindergarten Angela Camille Bachelor of Arts degree Kevon Connor eighth grade Victoria Cotter MBA degree chase Davenport kindergarten Mariah Dilworth kindergarten Kylie Dixon pre-k David Dunlap general business Wanda pearl Associates Degree angel Edmund Master of Arts Jeremiah fan old eighth grade Malik flowers eighth grade Madison Floyd eighth grade heavy Elif all sir doctor of Education sanaya Gia's eighth grade India Hallman kindergarten Brendan Harris eighth grade grace Harris Jarmon eighth grade McKinsey hodo kindergarten jaylen Johnson kindergarten Lesya Johnson eighth grade Aiyana Jones pre-k jacory in Jones eighth grade Jakari Jones MA degrees Josiah Jones pre cave Diane Kelly bachelor's degree Sarita Landrum associate's degree andris Laura pre-k Michael Lee deferred kindergarten Shandell LaShawn Thomas junior bachelor's degree Kendon Mann elementary to middle school Ava Marshall kindergarten Taylor McCormick eighth grade Moriah McHenry eighth grade Ashley Nash kindergarten Jayda Nash pre came torrents Prinze jr. eighth grade Chiara read eighth grade [Music] Jakari Ralph bachelor's degree Andreea Ryles master's degree kopi Robison kindergarten Naima Robeson eighth grade Cassidy Rowland kindergarten Jonathan Skinner eighth grade Brazil steward eighth grade am on Swain eighth grade Malachi Vossler kindergarten a Kia West pre-k Camille Wheatley eighth grade cierra Whitaker Bachelor of Science [Music] Malaysia Willis eighth grade Noah winters pre-k the nail woods pre-k listen family the next names that I'm about to call our our high school graduates and I didn't just want to rush through this list this is a major moment we have 26 students who are headed to the next season of their lives from high school can we make some noise for our high school graduates we're so proud of you all you've had to sacrifice you had to miss out on your regular prom yet to miss out on Senior Week some of you and you've pushed through with great fortitude with great focus and ultimately great faith and so as a gift this year to everyone that's graduating from high school we have some scholarships we have a graduation gift for you every high school student that is graduating and a member of fellowship Chicago this year you will receive from our church a gift a scholarship a gift of two thousand dollars we're sowing into your life today can y'all make some noise for the class of 2020 come on they're going to college they're going to tree school they're going to the military and we want to put some blessing in your hand in your life and so I salute you class of 2020 this is a graduation gift from your fellowship Chicago family I want to take this time to thank our own brother Lewis Carr who donated twenty thousand dollars towards this endeavor I want to thank the newly chartered the Chicago metropolitan alumni chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Incorporated for donating three thousand dollars to this endeavor and then I want to thank my old family the fellowship Chicago family for donating over fifteen thousand dollars to this scholarship alone can somebody give God praise in a pandemic he can still blow your mind in a pandemic he'll still keep something your pocket I thank you fellowship I thank you brother car I think you took my Delta sisters in that chapter and I thank you for each and every one of you around this country who's sold seeds so that these high school graduates could walk into their next season with possibility power and promise to God be the glory our high school graduates Michael Adams darriel Barnes Casey Bostick Mia Bruce Jamia hurt Gerald Butler jr. Nehemiah Clarke Carrington esteridge taya thinner Dontrell flowers Linnell foster jr. shall be foster Elinor Goodman Chiara green Ayanna hearing Harmonie hold [Music] janay McElroy Kimani Mohammed Ashanti Norris Raven Rogers Lauren system Malachi Sullivan [Music] Kenneth Taylor [Music] Carmen Talbert Brooklyn Walker jamario westfield y'all make some noise for the class of 2020 come on get goin crazy go crazy go crazy we love you all we celebrate you all we're so proud of you all listen graduates from my heart to your heart so I want to tell you again I could not be more proud of you I always get excited around graduation season because of this one simple word commencement and a lot of times at these graduations we go in there and cut up and scream as loud as we can because we feel like something is coming to an end but it's not called a combination is called a commencement that very word means to begin and so I don't know what season you're walking into for some of you all you're headed into a season that's unknown for some of you all you know the next school the next degree the next opportunity that you're working on but whatever you're doing next I want to congratulate you on your new beginning don't look at this as him is over now no is just getting started you haven't seen anything yet so let me drop three simple ideas in your pocket that I wish someone had told me especially when I was coming out of high school in and an undergraduate number one this is what I want you to always remember from my heart to your heart just put it in the freezer you may not need it now you might need it later at number one don't live your life trying to please other people don't live your life trying to please other people the only person the only person that matters whose opinion matters more than anyone elses is God's opinion you might have to leave you might go to a school and need to transfer you might have to take a break your route your role may look different than other people don't let your grandma name your mama name bad email friends mentors anybody tell you what you ought to do I'm talking to high school graduates in college now if you and pre-k in middle you better listen to everything they tell you to do if you want to eat and keep them shoes on your feet and keep texting and your phone you do everything they tell you to do I'm talking to my older people who are becoming adults because adults Inge is real out here in these streets you cannot live your life for other people make sure you discern what God wants you to know number to know who you are you can't live your life comparing yourself to everybody social media is doing a disservice to so many folks because we compare ourselves to other people you're looking at their pictures and looking at how many likes they get in looking at them post there Luke are looking at them post a new house and you feel like you're behind the only time you feel like you're behind is when you're comparing yourself to somebody else if you're not racing nobody can beat you you're not in a race you got to run your race you got to live your life you have to accomplish your dreams stop looking over and everybody else's Lane and let them drive how God has led them to drive but the only thing you can do is control your life control your destiny control your actions your habits your work ethic but don't spend your life comparing yourself to other people let me tell you a secret a lot of people are filter do you know what that means they've put filters on their life to show their best self nobody posed ugly selfies nobody posts the pictures that they took they took 30 pictures and only one made it because the other 30 they were looking cross-eyed and their hair wasn't in place and they had the lady eyebrows back down lick the tongue and lamb back down there to make sure that lipstick went on their teeth you don't see the real person I woke up like this that's fake don't nobody wake up on fleek we wake up with crusts in our eyes and our breath smells stop comparing yourself to other people and live your life come on touch yourself say I gotta live my life I gotta live my life don't live your life worried about what other people think about you know who you are for yourself and then thirdly and finally don't be afraid to fail don't be afraid to fail there is a book called The Alchemist and my favorite quote in that book says this the only thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve is the fear of failure you cannot walk around your whole life saying I will it but I don't want them to reject me or I would apply but I don't want them to discount me I would sing or I would try out but I don't want them to judge me it's okay the greatest people in the world have failed at something I don't care if you name Oprah Winfrey I don't care if you name Steve Harvey I don't care if you name Kanye West I don't care if you name cardi B I don't care what name you name every person that is successful has not been successful at everything but what they have been successful at is getting back up after life knocks them down and I want to tell you don't be afraid to fail gone and fail your way to your next victory fail your way to your next opportunity fail your way to your next triumph and then when you get up and shake the dust off your feet people gonna be wondering how did you do it how did you make it tell them off every time I fell down I got back up again your testimony is like Maya Angelou still I rise that's my gift to you today I want you to listen to the words of the legend everybody's grandmama the words of that great famous poet dr. Maya Angelou still I rise everyone in the world has gone to bed one night her mother with fear or pain or loss or disappointment and he had each of us has awakened arisen somehow made our ablutions seen other human beings and said morning I want you fine thanks in you it's amazing wherever that abides in the human being there is the nobleness of the human spirit despite it all black and white Asian Spanish Native American pretty plain then fat Valda celibate we rise you may write me down in history with your bitter twisted lies you may chide me in the very dirt but still like dust arise does my sassiness upset you why are you beset with gloom just because I walked as if I have oil wells pumping in my living room just like sons and like moons with the certainty of tides just like hope springing I still I rise did you want to see me broken bowed head and lowered eyes shoulders falling down my tear drops weakened by my soulful cries does my sassiness upset you don't take it so hard just as I laugh as if I have gold mines digging in my own backyard you can shoot me with your words you can cut me with your lives you can kill me with your hatefulness but just like life arise does my sexiness offend you Oh does it come as a surprise that I dance as if I have diamonds at the meeting of my thighs out of the huts of history's shame I rise up from a past rooted in pain I rise a black ocean leaping and wide Welling and swelling I bear in the tide leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise into a daybreak miraculously clear I rise bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave I am the hope and the dream of the slave and so naturally the anko rise hey family thank you for tuning in again we're so grateful to have this opportunity to share God's Word and I am really excited today because there's a whole different set up going on up here and I am seated with my bride seated with Lady breeze you all know her who I know is Breanna Jame Sullivan Sharpe we would have been married in December we will be married five years and so we've been walking together on this journey in marriage five years but I've known her since 2010 and I'm just so excited because last Monday on her birthday her single drunk and it even shocked her she came running down the hall screaming about it and I said what's going on and she said it dropped it dropped my single dropped she had no expectation for it to fall on her birthday and so we are first of all just excited and we celebrate with you all that God is doing in this next level of your life so fellowship family helped me salute our own lady breed and celebrate her single she just celebrated a birthday and we are so so proud of you we're just elated and excited over your now in your next I really do believe that this is just the beginning just like I told the graduates a minute ago it's a commencement it's just getting started so I'm gonna hush a little bit and we're gonna hear from God to date through what God has done with this single and our first lady today so brie tell us about the story behind this song what why is this song hidden like this listen first of all thank you Pastor aka my booth thank you for you know taking this time to share this beautiful platform to allow me to share my song and share my story to the world I just want to thank you and thank thanks to my fellowship family I love love so much like words cannot express how much I love y'all so let's get into it the story right so I wrote it free last year of August it came from a very deep personal place I was very low in my spirit you know he had just moved to Chicago in March and we were we have been transitioning and now it's the summer time and you would think you know I kept hearing all these stories about wait till summertime shot hits there's nothing like the summertime shy so I was excited about summer time hitting Chicago but I was so depressed and down in my personal you know spirit him in my you know personal space and so I remember it was in August where it was one of my lowest days I just couldn't get out of the bed I didn't have any energy I didn't have any Drive and these words beginning to come to my mind you know it's all in my head you're not good enough you don't have a chance and what's so crazy is the words that began to come to my spirit are words that I have told myself through you know these years you know I'm 33 now praise the Lord just under 30 30 Amen yeah no but you know for 33 years I would wrestle with myself and you know just very I dealt with insecurities and just didn't think I was good enough and people would affirm me and tell me oh you have an amazing voice you have an amazing gift but I didn't believe it and so that's when the guy begins to drop the words in my spirit now next thing I know there's a song birthing out of me and so I wrote the words wrote the song and I remember coming up to the church and I saw Willie and I said Willie I got this song but I need you to hurt you and put some music to it before we lose it because I felt the urgency that it needed to be done and so we began he began to put some music to it and like maybe the next week we began recording it and so I recorded the vocals I laid the vocals down Willie began to get some musicians together and laid the track down and that was that so we recorded the song but we didn't do nothing with it and so the year you know transition on out and I knew that this song needed to be heard but I was terrified because the song is so vulnerable it's my personal story it comes from a deep place but I didn't know how people were going to accept it so even after writing a song about freedom I still wasn't free and I mean just wrestling with myself well I don't sound like you know the artists that they hear on the radio and so I kept pushing myself back no don't put it out there you know just just have it as a some material on the side but the top of the year here in Willy I thank God for our MD musical director Willie Jones can we give it up for him that's a really really stayed on me at the top of the year he said lady breathe you know we got this song well we gonna do it we're gonna do I'm like okay Willie you know we gonna put it out we gonna put it out and then of course March came around the pandemic kid and Willie came to me he said Lady Braves no excuse now everybody is at home we have nothing to do let's get this song done what is your potential date so he literally shift my mindset and that's why it's important you have to have people in your circle that's gonna push you and get you to where you need to be when you don't feel the energy of the shrimp to get yourself where you need to be so it really got on me I said okay let's get it done I told him my potential date which was June 8th and lo and behold the song drops on my birthday which was a surprise as you just said and it literally was one of the best gifts that I receive and it's just amazing well I think that's it's ironic that you say was the best gift you'd receive because I think a lot of people felt like it was a gift that you gave on your birthday and so you've received a lot of feedback the song is entitled free for those of you who have not heard anything about this I'm rocking this word because there is a deep spiritual meaning behind this and with the context I believe everything is sacred ly synchronized like we're celebrating our graduate today we're still in the midst of two pandemics covert and overt racism in this country and covet 19 we're still wrestling all of this and then here comes this angelic drop of goodness and delightfulness out of nowhere they just reminds people free in a world where we're not free we're literally quarantine so what does this why do you think it hit because there were people messaging you and and and writing you on Instagram and Facebook and in boxing you tell us some of the things you heard from people and then tell us why you think this song is hitting right now in our culture well some of the feedback that I received was this is my devotional every morning this is my anthem this is a song of affirmation this song has saved my life I mean it's just mind-blowing what people are you know telling me and I think the song is resonating with everyone because in a time where we are sheltered in and we're quarantined God is allowing us to still be free you can still be free while you're quarantined while your shelter in even in the middle of a pandemic even through racism you have to make up in your mind that yes even though the system does not look at me as a human being I look at myself as a human being and I am free so you can't allow people to put their filthy mouth on you you can't allow that because you you are bigger than them so it I think it comes with mindset and and this song dropping in the middle of a pandemic I really believe is a source of healing that's something else I've heard that this song represents healing is is motivation is empowering it's inspiring and so I mean all praises go to guys seriously well you know it's amazing to me because I've known you for 10 years now may of 2010 is when we met yeah I've known you for 10 years I've been getting on your nerves for 10 years it's official now it's beautiful and and so you know tell us a little bit about the background of your life these lyrics come out of a story these lyrics come out of an experience and there's somebody out there ray now listening today somebody in fellowship a family or friend or someone listening who they don't even feel any kind of freedom they feel like they're trapped by their past or they're trapped by low self-esteem or they feel like bondage you know maybe because if something didn't go the way they wanted it to go resentment or regret or anything tell us a little bit about some of the experiences where you had to work through to get to this free place and then as you said earlier when we were talking earlier this week it's not a destination right it's a journey so tell us about this journey that you've been on and you're still oh yes so I grew up in a pastor's home my dad was a pastor my mom was the first lady in the minister of music so my brother and I we grew up as preachers kids and that is not the most glamorous life to be in to grow up as a passive child because so many people have a magnifying glass on you so instead of having the magnifying glass on themselves they put it on my mom or they put it on the preacher's kid or they put it on the first family and so just personally I felt that pressure that you know I used to hear things when you go out in public you represent your father you represent the church so you make sure that you're on your best behavior and then I also had to fight against the stereotype that preacher kids are the worst kids I was determined not to come out and be one of the bad kids and and this stereotype was formed but people don't understand why the stereotype is formed you know being a preacher's child or preacher's kid is it's it's very I don't know it's just hard because you have to share your parents with like depending on how big you know your your parents ministry is maybe with the world with the church family and sometimes you don't get to see your parents all the time or share that intimate something because they're always serving they're always on the go and so that was something that I had to deal with so I was living towards the expectations of people because I wanted to please people and I didn't want to be the bad child I had to be the good child and I'm gonna prove everybody wrong and as I kept telling myself I was telling myself that I was digging a deeper hole of bondage because I'm living for people instead of myself and so I'm going through the years you know middle school everybody knew that my dad was a pastor go through high school everybody knew my dad was a pastor now I'm in college everybody knows that he's a pastor I'm I graduated from college and then 2010 I meet a preacher Lord I thought I was gonna be staying free and then what did your mama tell you my mom told me stay away from the preach is free she says stay away from him I don't just stay away but you you were different you know you weren't like the typical I guess the typical preacher and and I had to tell my mom that before she met you and when she met you for herself she saw that nah he's different he's definitely your mother yes she loves you too but I mean after you know going through the years of just being living in a home where my father was a pastor and being a part of a first family the last thing on my mind was to meet a preacher and then we ended we started dating and then we get married so it's like I for a second I felt like I'm never going to be set free from this world where I have to be perfectly stereotyped yeah box that you got to live in yes and so I felt like that for a long long time and I believe it wasn't until last year once we transition from home to come to Chicago and it's amazing how you know you when you leave home and you go into a new land in place come on guy things be God begins to break things off of you and so you know just transition into Chicago and you know get into know this brand-new place and this brand-new church family that's when I begin to wrestle with myself and said hey need to change some habits and I need to start living for me and then of course that's when the song began to birth and like you said this is a life process this is not something where you can just arrive to freedom okay talk about it no no it's a it's a mindset change and you have to continually do things that are gonna help you and heal you yeah so yes I do want to be free but I had to do some things that will help me get to the place I'm that I'm in today I really want to share a very vulnerable story come on come on I think you need to tell the people I want y'all to hear by Charles first lady yes yeah no you know we were new to the city but this is this is so beautiful at the same time we transition to Chicago and now we're here at fellowship Chicago and I this coming to the church I noticed something about the women here at fellowship Chicago and something I had never seen before from Atlanta because you know the cultures are different I know this that a lot of women have nose-rings Church and I thought it was so beautiful to see because where I'm from the women didn't wear nose rings like that was a big no-no and so I started to see that and I'm like oh this is so cute like I get a little one and before I remember before I even like mention it to you I wrestled with it so bad because I knew that that's something that I didn't think he was gonna prove that you know just from the context that we come from and I mean I would see older women with no strings here at fellowship Chicago not find me your roles right okay but maybe like forties fifties like it was just liberating for me to see beautiful black women rocking their nose rings and rocking it with confidence and for some reason I think the culture has kind of stereotype nose-rings as if it was as if it's something negative or bad but it Knight is a form of art it's beautiful and so I decided to say hey I want a nose ring too but then how dare you want a nose ringing you're about to become the first lady of fellowship Chicago it just didn't go together and so that was one of the things that I wrestle with and I remember talking to you about it and I'm like I want a nose ring so remember last year for my birthday I got a fake nose ring you sure do and I put it in my nose and I took a picture and the Saints went in on me some of the older women and some oh the first ladies now what are you doing why do you have that you know you and your nose you know you got to be your first lady she went in on me I don't want you to get on up then get wild and buck wild in Chicago don't lose yourself your grandmother was the first lady yes this is Bree is the third generation of being a first lady so this is a this generational print so do you remember what I said at first about that yes I remember you you know you really were not 40 you know you were you were totally against there I mean you cool with the fake one because you could take that out it wasn't permanent um but I'll never forget that day that you came to me at the house earlier this year and you told me you said breathe I got something to tell you it was the discussion at a donkey day preached about that donkey getting free come on and then the Lord freed you come on and the Lord said you told me that God told you to let Bree be free and and let her just be her authentic self so if you want to get a nose ring come on to get a nose ring and I couldn't believe he was telling me that I'm like is this a joke like come on don't play with me and you were so serious and I could tell that you were serious because this big white smile came across your face and it looks so genuine and you really the energy I felt from you was I want what's best for you and so if you want to go out there and get a nose get you a nose ring if that's gonna make you happy and you know and it was even deeper than that it's like whatever you need to do to be free in your humanity that's what God was like you your position as the husband which which literally means you know in the biblical sense a house band the keeper of the house like a gardener so if I am your husband it is not my job to make you grow like I want you to grow my job is to make sure the atmosphere stays you know in a conducive way for growth I'm trying to help somebody our relationship it's not your job to tell somebody how to be and who to be but just make sure that in your atmosphere they are free to become what God wants them to be so it's deeper than a nose ring right because every time we stand on this stage or approach leadership eyes are watching and it's thousands of eyes watching I can't even shot without going viral I I can't give a church announcement without going viral because people are watching and just like they're watching me they'll watch even breathe and so God released me of feeling the need to to to worry about what people would think about you because it's like oh now I don't want them saying this about my wife I don't want them thinking this about my wife or I don't want them thinking this about me because a lot of times we project our own bondage on to other people and because I wasn't free enough to be who I'm supposed to be all the way without worrying about what people thinking all of that you know I was trying I was almost keeping you kind of keeping a lid on you but that day I think we both got free along with that donkey we did how did it feel you know cuz because I'm gonna ask another question in a minute but tell me how freedom feels what does it feel like to get free cuz somebody's gonna get free today I believe by faith and I want you to be able to express to them what did it feel like when you walked into this freedom and the moments of freedom along your journey because it's deeper than a nose ring y'all ain't no only thing we talking about but but what what does freedom feel like you know freedom is it's no feeling it the feeling that you get is so liberating because I look at it like this it's like you're climbing up Mountain right and when you climb up the rough side of the mountain it gets very hard it gets very difficult but when you get to the top of that mountain you feel the victory because the work that you put in to get to the top it is it's like it's an accomplishment that you feel and so freedom it's it's it's beautiful that's what it is it's beautiful because now you have gotten to a place where you are pleased with yourself and you don't care what nobody else thinks yeah and nobody can take that joy from you nobody can take that feeling from you home the Sun sets it's free indeed yes well would you also say to I want to just add in here freedom is scary too very freedom is scary you think about the slaves that were free a lot of them chose to stay because freedom comes with responsibility freedom comes with the unknown because a lot of us stay in bondage because it's comfortable you think about that don't care we did not intend to come here to talk about this donkey did baby okey-dokey then don't keep that Jesus rolled in on on Palm Sunday at least he knew where he was you know he knew those change he knew that stable he knew the keeper of that stable but what happens when God calls you to a free place anything it's not comfortable and you don't feel the joy yet you feel absolute fear because you've been so comfortable for so long and that job in that relationship with those happen with that addiction with that relationship with those people with those with those proclivities and now God is trying to release you but you're like well I like it over here ain't where I'm supposed to be but at least I'm comfortable at least I know it is over here so what do you say for people who are feeling that freedom cuz you you you were with me you with not made some hard decisions where I got free and it cost me everything I wouldn't be here we wouldn't be here if I didn't get free free enough to to say God said it's time to leave or it's time to move or it's time to transition and it's not always fun and game so what do you say to the people who are feeling that scariness of that that Tim it kind of nerve yeah I would say I think your inner circle is so important having people surround you that support you and they may see you in bondage and they may see you unhappy and they see that you're on this journey trying to be free but their job is to push you and I keep thinking about the midwives come on come on Midwife so you're you're pregnant with free right and it's time for you to birth free but you need some midwives to help you push this baby out and you need midwives that are willing to see you win not being wise they're gonna try to steal your baby once you birth the baby no midwives that are gonna help you push this baby out and and and see the gift because they understand the gift or the baby that you're about to burn they understand the baby's purpose they understand the baby's power that they have and so you got to have some people in your corner pushing you saying come on come on you got this I know your days are low you feeling really low you feel like you don't have the drive to do this but you got this people that's gonna pray for you like people they're not gonna talk about themselves all the time people that are interested in your well-being because they want to see the best out of you they want to see you birth this baby because this baby may save your life and other's lives so you got to you got to surround yourself with some people who authenticates not because of who you are and your status hmm come on know you genuinely care for me you genuine yeah and then it takes a special person to help you birth something that that has nothing to do in them you know it's like I'm with you and I'm caring for your dreams I'm caring for your destiny I'm caring for your work you're next and it and that's not even my baby like I can't put my name on this I can't take credit for this but you ought to be around people who don't need any credit they just want to see you in you win see I see you know when I think about your story Willie like like Willie IMD if it wasn't for him if God didn't use him to keep pushing you like he didn't you know his face is not on the album it's not on the single cover but you need somebody who said yeah just put my name on the back of that or just know where I am because when we get ready to do the next one I'll still be here ready to push you again and I think that's major we need to stop right there I think there's a preaching point that then some of us need to get some squares out our circles a lot of us need to make sure we're not are surround it with people who are leeches because some folks have a leech spirit and Alisha scientifically is a parasite and they add no value all they do is take from you they are takers they suck life out of you they suck energy out of you some people every time you get off the fool with them you're more tired than when you were before you answer the phone that's a leech spirit they won't know can I borrow something can I get and it is always about them but but when you really are about to get free you don't need leeches you need some leaders you need some dreamers you need some reaches and some workers and some folk who can say hey you may not be there yet but i'ma walk with you t we get there I think that Jesus had an inner circle didn't yet 12 but he didn't go everywhere with all to 12 he went with the two or three come on you know James Peter John and he went to the garden with them he went into the house to heal that look girl with the three my grandma used to say if all you got is 30 friends you're doing pretty good if you've got two or three real friends so I mean you know I get so happy I don't care whether I'm standing a sitting like it's happy but but but here's this piece what's keeping us bondage what's keeping us in bondage that's that's not final question before I share that what the revelation we had together this week what's keeping people in bondage man some things we need to look out for I think for me what kept me in bondage so long was my inner thoughts inner thoughts you know in the song I said I say that my inner me was my enemy yeah you know you wrestling with yourself because yourself is you you're telling yourself that you're not good enough you know years have gone by I haven't scratched the surface of plans for my life that's foolishness that that's like that is a spirit the spirit that you do not need to allow to overtake your mindset so I really believe that us being in our heads especially you know I love the man but you know I have special love for the women come on we know women we are good for overthinking and being in our hair all of the time instead of processing it and right and get out in a journal or talking it with somebody and their piss or somebody but we have to get a get out of our heads get out of that mindset get those evil inner thoughts out of out of your mind so you can push through you need to delete some people out of your phone mm-hmm get rid of the people they are not helping you get to the place where you need to be they just bag it come on heavy baggage and it costs to fly with extra baggage can you just talk about it for it's a cause unless you got to pay your fees I got to pay you gonna pay for it now you can carry much as you want to but you're gonna pay for it yeah and you able to get through you're able to get through security quicker with less you able to move faster when you don't have so much on you so you have to get rid of that seriously so get rid getting rid of those negative thoughts that changing your mindset getting rid of people they are not supporting you and and most of all if anything your prayer life needs to increase you know that were that is my relationship with God it needs to increase because see when people see you on this journey being free some people can take that they cannot understand this vibe this mood that you carrying and they start hating on you and they're upset because God has grace you for this journey and and and they waiting on their time to come but they're not ready you got to get out of Bundy's first so you can be in this flow that I'm in you know freedom looks good on you come on so so you have to increase that intimate time with God and be be be real with God be honest and say now Lord look cuz he god is the homie for me yes so you have to let him know I am not feeling my business what do I do need to do percent some people my way that will help me come out of this low place this pits then I'm in and I believe that that that the journey of freedom that goal that where you trying to get will happen it's gonna happen that's that's so powerful I really appreciate you coming and just talking with me today and talking to fellowship and all of the ship ice today because I I have been blessed by your song you know I'm not wearing this for promotional things I'm wearing this because I really am free I mean I you know better than anybody else that the journey of walking right here fellowship as the associate pastor to the senior pastor position it has been a wrestle of identity you know who do I do I do i do I act like Reverend Evans do I act like pastor Jenkins or am i unapologetically unashamedly in due to belief fully holy Reginald Wayne Sharpe jr. and when you come into a new space you don't know how people gonna receive you I mean the truth is now you know six we're bout six months into the new past all of this has happened in six months I've been through more in six months than some preachers been through in forty years six months but now it's like okay I'm finally finding my groove you know and I'm like all right I can flow and be me but it ain't always been like that and so I had to get over myself you remember that day last year we were at Hampton and you tripped over yourself Bri was walking we trying to get to the okay I can't let it go cuz the Saints need to know this hey Bri was walking are we trying to get to lunch I was walking ahead of her cuz you know where the preachers conference everybody want to talk hey they hit that back package bunny is Bugs Bunny comfort hey doc doc doc and I was knocked out it's off was a head of Brie I said breathe Lizzy you gonna talk and do what you got to do and all of a sudden I heard do - - do I look back and Bree is laughing I'm like what just happened she said I just tripped over myself I said Wow and that's something how many of us trip over ourselves it ain't the devil is not our family it's not a friend we trippin over I said I was tripping over me and I think that what a lot wouldn't work in kept me or disabled me to get to this free spot is I had to get me out the way and let God work and do what God wants to do so listen y'all I'm about to share a revelation that then I pray blessing somebody can I share your permission yes all right listen you know we had a revelation we're in the kitchen eating shrimp and grits one day this week and I just we start talking about what it means to be free it's an identity issue freedom requires us to know who we are somebody say identity if you don't know who you are and I just said this to the Graduate if you don't know who you are you're gonna spend your whole life letting the voices of other people try to try to make you who you're supposed to be and what gave me freedom this week is that we discover Jesus even wrestle with his identity there is a moment in Matthew chapter 16 where Jesus asked the disciples who do people say that I am if you know who you are fully why would you ask or care what are they saying about me even Jesus had a moment where he needed more freedom in his humanity now in his divinity I'm sure he knew who he was because the Bible says in John before Abraham was I am which means his eminence I was before Abraham was this or is this you know it's because he's the I am his eminence preceded a perhaps isness and Apryl him is over in the book of Genesis and Jesus says before Abraham was I am so he knew who he was but there were still moments and I think this is powerful because even the greatest of us even the most confident of us will still have these secret moments where you have to wrestle with your own identity Jesus knowing who he was I am the bread of life I am the resurrection and the life I am the door he says who do men say that I am who do people say that I am and then a disciples respond what some people say you are you are the recapitulation of Elijah are you one of the prophets or your John the Baptist some people are confused if John the Baptist was you or if you were John the Baptist he said okay okay I heard on like I heard about all what's going on on Facebook and on Instagram and on Twitter he says but who do you say that I am and the only person that spoke up was who hey Peter Peter said thou art the Christ the Son of the Living God and you know what's so beautiful Jesus responds and he says flesh and blood didn't reveal that to you but only my father which is in heaven meaning you gotta have some people in your life who have heard from God about you cuz when you get low somebody needs to be able to speak as a huh no you're the head and not the tail no you're not gonna keep working at that same job you weren't called to be there you know you're supposed to be a minister you know you're supposed to move you know you're supposed to start that business what you you make all that good cakes on them cookies and you don't have a business yet somebody has to be able to hear from God even when you can't hear from God I know I'm about to get a little happy but for that I began wait don't do it I'm having um I'm being Oprah and dr. field today I'm trying to contain myself so so Jesus wrestles with his identity who's the only person that tells him who he is Peter right so watch this later on who's gonna deny Jesus three times and the issue is an identity issue because they say hold on Pete weren't you the one that was traveling with Jesus at naw naw that wasn't me he was scared for his life because sometimes you've been so close to Jesus it's gonna get you in trouble that's a whole nother sermon sometimes you're so close to God that you won't have to pay for that closeness cuz other people don't understand that closeness and they want so they asked him weren't you the one that was with Jesus aren't you his homeboy and he denies Jesus three times what was he denying his identity but on Sunday morning when when when when when Jesus gets about the grain he says tell my disciples and Peter to meet me in Galilee and Jesus restores Peter because watch this when Jesus was wrestling with his identity Peter restored him so later on when Peter wrestles with his identity is Jesus that restores all feeling me here it's reverse it's a reciprocity it's a reciprocal restoration here because their moments were you on it and I got to lift you up in their moments where I'm on it and and I got to lift you up we gotta work in this thing together and we can't dismiss anybody because all of us have been there when we forgot who we were in God but the good news is that when Peter on pentecost sunday morning preached one sermon 3,000 people got saved I'm so glad God doesn't throw us away somebody yell free to the top of your lungs Peter free Jesus Jesus free Peter and and when he freedom he said do you love me he said feed my sheep do you love me he said feed my sheep he said do you love me Peter and Peter answer yes Lord I love he said go feed my sheep and I speak over anybody's life watching today thank you later Bri Thank You Bree for doing this with us today I speak over your life today that God has not created you to stay stuck in the mud of your life God has not created you to live small God has not created you to lay there in the darkness get up put your feet on the floor try again dream again breathe again laugh again reach for it again and I speak freedom over your life whether Spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty I don't want anybody to get off of this service today and fill as low as you were when you came on here somebody shot Humphrey and you gotta say it so loud that hell shakes you gotta say it so loud that the devil gets nervous you gotta say it so loud that your inner voice here's your mind and your mouth because there is life and death in the power of your tongue I am free I may be sick but I'm free I may be divorced but I'm free I may be an unknown season but I'm free bring what you want to tell the people about freedom listen I keep thinking about we're at the airport right and we're walking on the mocking movement I think is a walking walkway I believe is that Midway and you're walking on the Midway but you have two options you can stand there as the walkway is moving or you can keep walking I don't want you to be that person that's stuck on a place where you supposed to be moving come on I need you to keep moving so you can get to where you need to be so you can get to your freedom that's all I got to say you know I ain't like you be trying to hoop and get loud but that's it you got to keep moving keep pushing because you need your freedom listen God has not given us a spirit of fear but of love of power and a sound mind I'm gonna ask lady Bri to pray for you and then she's gonna bless us with her song and I'll be right back to offer Christ to you but I want I want you to pray for us today I need prayer the ship needs prayer the people of God need prayer somebody's in bondage this morning somebody's in a stuck place somebody's on a moving escalator and they're standing still somebody's in a season where the pain is just too traumatic to try again to love again because they feel like you know if I if I do that again I'm gonna be hurt again or somebody knows that that one season one chapters past and they can't leave because they're too comfortable or because they're too scared they don't know how they're gonna make it by themselves and I want you to pray for freedom today let's pray God how we come to you this morning just want to tell you thank you that you are a loving and an amazing God you are incredible and we just take this time we what a privilege and an honor it is a come in your present sky our prayer today is freedom that we are praying for people that are tuning in right now that wants to be set free God they are on this journey guys some of us are stuck we're stuck in a pit we're stuck in that same place that we've been in for years but God we're claiming today that we want to be free and so god I'm asking right now in the name of Jesus that you step in that room step into the hearts of your people step into their minds step into their thoughts God and begin to change the atmosphere in the name of Jesus God I'm I'm believing that healing will take place God I'm believing that deliverance will take place God I'm believing that you will set your people free and God we know that this is a journey but the good news is that we know that you will forever be with us on the journey and so even if it when it gets low God or when it gets dark and when it gets heavier and we know that that baby that we're carrying is heavier we're right at the end where we wanna birth god be with us give us the peace that surpasses all understanding god have your way in our lives God we thank you for this word today god I thank you for this song that you have birth to me God that you have blessed the whole world to hear God we thank you for a fellowship Chicago God we pray for our members God even in this pandemic we're experiencing two pandemics God but we want to experience freedom in you guys so have your way have your way Holy Ghost and let us be free you got and let us keep our focus on you and let us not focus on people we got to focus on you in the name of Jesus Kyle were claiming the victory we're claiming freedom in the name of Jesus God we love you and we bless you in Jesus name we pray amen amen if you're free and free indeed put those hands together right there where you are and praise your God for what's coming and what's already here come on thank him for the freedom that's here and thank him for the freedom that's coming you're not gonna be the same after this day thank you lady Bree all help me thank God for our first lady blessing us she's about to bless us with her new single free and I'll be back in one second god bless you [Music] come days will be greater starting [Music] I review to let these down [Music] then I concur my days will be greater sorry [Music] tall my [Music] no more got his open doors I have such a store I am free [Music] there's not be no more God is open doors I have something to live for I am free come on wherever you are you can help me say that [Music] no more that is open doors I have legend sword I am [Music] That's not me no war that has open doors I have something to live for [Music] That's not me no more that it open doors I have something to live for yeah [Music] That's not me no boy that is open doors I have something to live for [Music] [Applause] [Music] That's not me no and open doors I have something too before open doors free [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] come on you can live your hands right there come on and begin to say something to God thank you for your freedom that's on the way thank you for the freedom that you're in now thank you for the journey that you're embracing of being free [Music] That's not me no more God is still a little bit Lawrence yeah [Music] That's not me no more God is open doors I have so much to live for it's no greater feeling than being free once you feel their feeling you never want to go back to being bound bound by people's expectations bound by sin bound by past mistakes you never want to go back when God brings you out of Egypt don't go back to Egypt your promised land is too great your promised land has too much fruit and and too much flavor and too much goodness and it go forward and God has sent His Son Jesus to create for us the ability to move forward and to live free whom the Sun sets free the Sun s Oh in not s UN who Jesus sets free is free indeed and I speak over your life today that if you just say yes to Jesus that if you start walking with him if you allow him in your life you will never ever ever be the same again it does not mean you won't have anymore storms but it means in the middle of your storm you'll have a storm partner you have somebody to hold an umbrella over your life over your children I pray in the name of Jesus that if somebody today needs to be free you've lived in the same old same old same old thinking the same ol same ol why not try Jesus I tried him for myself and I I accepted Christ at the age of seven or eight years old and it's been the best thing that's ever happened to me when the storms came I knew I was gonna survive when the waves came in rushing against my body I knew I had a lifesaver when he turned up I knew that I had a God who could take the heat out of fire and in every transition and in every failure and in every moment of weakness and in every mistake God looked down and said you steal my child and I can still use you yeah don't be caught up in the yoke of bondage but rather live in the freedom that God has for you if you need Christ today email us and info and fellowship Chicago comm if you need Christ today we welcome you to text us at three one nine nine six two word one word all aboard jump on on this virtual ship if you're looking for a church home I've talked to new members who live in New York who live in Las Vegas who live in Florida who live in other countries there's a young lady in Germany that watches us every week we have no excuse this virtual ship is a global ship and we all head it to a heavenly destination and if you need a church home today you need to make some changes today or if you need Christ today we want to help you make the best decision that you could ever make in your life and let's start a new journey with Jesus again email us in for fellowships Chicago comm or or text us three one nine nine six the words all aboard let the church say Amen I pray that you don't stay in bondage another minute longer listen it's an opportunity at this moment to give to soul and if there is someone here who knows that God has just been good that God has been keeping you I don't have to beg you to give I don't have to cajole you I don't have to convince you but you already know what to do let's keep God's principles and God will honor God's promises well what's the principle I'm glad you asked bring you all the tithes into the storehouse so that there may be meat in my house you keep on reading in Chapter three of Malachi it says and I will that's the promise open the windows of heaven over your life pour you out blessings that you don't have room enough to receive if you're struggling if you're in a tight place I dare you to trust God I dare you to do what God's Word says and watch God keep honoring you I'm not telling you what I think I'm telling you what I know I've given my last twenty dollars in church and before I left the building old lady gave me 40 dollars and told me baby I just want to so that's God's Way of making all things work together for the good of them who love him and to those who are called according to your purpose to his purpose I challenge you now to look at those six ways to give you can Zell you can cash up you can mail it in you can text it in you can go to the website you can use your Shelby Knicks giving out whatever way God leads you to give today would you join me and our first lady in sowing a seed into the kingdom of God we just gave away almost sixty thousand dollars to graduates this Sunday we just gave away 60 thousand almost in scholarships and a few more weeks we're giving away through the clay oven scholarship ten thousand dollars and I look forward to continuing to pour into this community the church does not exist to get stuff the church exists to give stuff and as long as God has this ship doctor right here on 45:43 South Princeton Avenue we will be the church even when we can't have the church like we used to have and thank you for your seeds thank you for your generosity let me pray for you god I pray in heaven that you would not have anybody lack because of the Seas day so today thank you for the generosity of our ship ice thank you for the generosity of those family friends extended family and friends all over this world who continue to sow so that this ship can sail for your glory and for the people's good in Jesus name we pray amen fellowship I love you lady Bri wants to say something real real quick we gonna allow her to say some words to you her birthday was last week lady Bri what you want to say to us lacy I just want to say fellowship Chicago you are showed out on my birthday and I want to tell you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you so much I love each and every one of you from the bottom of my heart I'm just grateful to serve as your first lady and you are really really show it out and help me feel the love even you know being away from home on my birthday I felt like I didn't miss a beat so thank you all so much and I love y'all well we love you and I think you felt that we have 10,000 balloons in our kitchen right now and she won't let me pop on one of them so they're just gonna stay right there till they start sinking to the ground but fellowship again thank you for living on us the way you do listen our first lady has just dropped her first single and we're so proud of her she just blessed us with this I guess we call it a free conversation and I'm so delighted and proud of her and I know fellowship is proud of her and I know so many supporters of her and the ship want to know how they can find this album so Bri tell us where we can go and download this yes so you can download it on iTunes Apple music Amazon music YouTube Spotify it is available in all musical outlet so just search and you will find it type in Brianna sharp free that's all right well let's do that I already downloaded it and it just it felt so good to see her with all of the music I put her on my play list yeah you are my special special play list and so y'all go download go support lady breathe thank you for doing it in advance let's thank all for every man who is a father and taking care of their children or half taking care of their children we're gonna do the same thing we did for our mothers we want the father's name we need a picture of your father and a video of you describing your father and one word the sentence is my father is blank fill it in don't go over 15 seconds because we want to be able to show everybody's video so send in your video with your picture of you and your father just your father his name and my father is a man the deadline is June 17th at midnight so get those ends listen we're getting ready to celebrate our founders birthday he passed away November 27 2009 teen but his legacy lives on his spirit lives on the church that he used he with his hands built literally lives on and I want us to salute right now Reverend dr. clay Evans the one and only help me thank God for him right where you are let's thank God for him he would have been 95 years young on June 23rd he would have been 95 years young so we're doing a couple things to celebrate him typically when Pastor Jenkins was pastor Father's Day was always a time to celebrate Reverend Evans and so that legacy will continue as well we celebrate him because without him none of us would be here I wouldn't have a pulpit to sit on I wouldn't have a church to preach to I wouldn't have a church or community like this to serve so we will always honor the legacy the memory the life of Reverend dr. clay Evers tune in on Father's Day at 9:00 p.m. on all of our social media platforms because we're gonna do a special virtual broadcast in honor of Reverend Evan so just like he used to start his broadcast promptly at 9:00 p.m. that's what we're gonna do we're gonna have a throwback if you will we're gonna have a flashback throwback hangout with the the the ship hang out with the choir that 200 voice quieter used to feel this sanctuary we're gonna hang out with mama Lou and Reverend Evans and then we're gonna have special guests that show up just to share memories sweet precious memories of Reverend Evans as we remember his legacy and that night on Father's Day 9 p.m. three students will be rewarded a total of $10,000 one student will receive $5,000 and two students will receive two - huh - what is it $2,500 scholarships see it's hard sometimes saying all the numbers with all that richness I don't know about $2,500 scholarships we have two of those and one $5,000 scholarship all of that will happen that night and we're gonna have good church having a throwback and a flashback with Reverend Evans and then on his birthday June 23rd from 9:00 to 5:00 in honor of his 95th birthday you can tune into all of our social media platforms YouTube Facebook and the church's website we're gonna play Reverend Evans classics from 9 to 5 on June 23rd all day long you could tune in and just listen in the Reverend Evans when he may be singing he may be preaching he may be fun and who knows but is Reverend Evans that we're gonna enjoy the flashback we love your Reverend Evans thank you for leaving us with such a rich legacy to uphold fellowship Chicago thank you for watching today lady brief thank you for blessing us today all of our musicians and our media and the people you can't see behind the screens Mike James and audio Obie and and Deacon Greg and the entire media team thank you the security that makes sure that we are covered in Jesus name thank you miss Linda who makes sure I have notes to read Thank You elder V in the praise team and everybody and Jonathan McReynolds thank you thank you thank you to the Deacons that ha let me even when I'm not saying nothing thank you to everybody to light it daddy everybody fellowship I love you we're gonna close out now with Jonathan McReynolds and then we have a special special treat it's like a cherry on top right at the end I'm not gonna tell you and ruin the surprise but watch all the way to the end cuz this is going to bless you real real good Jonathan is gonna sing before he closes the benediction that I've been singing and reciting over your life for the last couple of months it is our benediction that I will continue to use until God releases me from it he is his words but as our benediction simply means a final blessing may your struggles keep you near the cross may your troubles show that you need God may your battles end the way they should and may your bad days prove that God is good may your whole life prove that God is good and let me add this and may you live free free so free that nothing or no one can ever change you again I love you and we'll see you River song peace peace another incredible message by my brother I think it's really interesting it's an honor for me to be here with you guys you know in the church house in the sanctuary amongst like-minded people but I want you to know that a lot of my music kind of took me in to different venues took me into different places and sometimes we be it like a club and somebody in the back would say chomp and good luck when you go out there you know I always want to tell him you know I don't need luck right you know I'm up here on something even better than luck something more unconditional and that's the love of God so I need you just to say to yourself if you might not have a neighbor sitting next to you just say I'm not lucky I'm loved [Music] maybe I'll succeed jumped up from the floor to the middle you think I won't credit I don't a maid for me but I know who sits on the throne who makes the stage advise the son Oh she's a complain I've seen Boston shopping rain my lucky stars but that's not whatever Mother sings I'm no Pig as far as hi the sky [Music] [Music] - this [Music] [Music] beginning his life [Music] my lucky stars cuz that's not where my blessings are no they come from the fibers ha the sky [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] one lucky stop cuz that's not my blessings are no they come from father's heart not disguise not change the truth is another key [Music] listen I know at times like this we have to hold on to the idea the truth the reality that we are truly loved by God I want you to know that even when things look look can go up and down we have good luck sometimes and bad luck sometimes feels like we're fortunate and blessed some days and other days it feels like what underneath but if you can hold on to the fact that God loves you and that he himself is good and always looking out for you I think we're gonna make it do anything this fandom it ain't nothing when you compared to how good and how great God is so I want you to remember this may your struggles in a way they should in me kind [Music] Oh [Music] come on give the word she may heeey [Music] cross [Music] away ooh [Music] good in May [Music] to see never yourself see me [Music] good God seemed even lockdown proves that God he's good 20:20 was wind but my whole knife will prove that God is good remember that even your babies they prove God he's good trust him that's your whole life he really is good [Music] fellowship I love you so much [Music] do you know who you are who you really are do you know you can't be what you want to be if you try to be what you can't be a black cow do you know where you're going where you're really going do no killer what you want to learn is you try to learn what you can learn hey black cow do know you are strong I mean really strong too low get to what you want to do and you try to do what you can do hey black cow eat what you can't be Lara to Butler do what you can do and tomorrow your nation will be what you want it to be thank you for worshiping with fellowship Chicago on the virtual ship you've always had a commitment of service and during this season we've increased our efforts to serve you better you have made it easy for you to stay connected to get to compete with sources you need you can email us at info at fellowship Chicago comm call the church office Tuesday through Friday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at seven seven three nine two four three two three two and our social media on Instagram 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Length: 106min 16sec (6376 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 14 2020