"I'm Still In It, All the Way"

be glad in it hallelujah I'm gonna put your hands together with [Music] and above the nation and Natori above the nation hi I'll take a moment Oh I live ha high above that heaven and above the nation I'm natori abomination [Music] yeah who [Music] yeah yeah yeah [Applause] hallelujah hallelujah for these worthy hallelujah bless your name God hallelujah hallelujah well hallelujah morning welcome to the temple this morning let everyone that is able to please stand for the proclamation what is today and what shall we do come let us enter into his courts with praise [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] what time is the highway [Music] let us reach and touch a neighbor's hand let us all connect today as we go before the throne of grace let us center our hearts and our minds father God we love you we adore you we come this morning to worship honor and give you the praise that only you and you alone deserve God we just glorify your name this morning you are Almighty God the one who is sovereign and compassionate all-knowing and omnipresent we thank you God for this morning we thank you for this day may 19th 2019 one that we haven't seen before for allowing us to be a part of it God we thank you for your power and your plan that woke us up this morning you allow blood to run through our veins and you guided us to this appointed time in place and for that we just want to say thank you Lord we give you the praise for never leaving us nor forsaken us we worship you for your boundless mercies and your everlasting love there is no one like you Lord Lord we ask right now for forgiveness of our sins that we may have committed knowingly or unknowingly lord have mercy lord have mercy lord have mercy on us in holy spirit we invite you into this service today fashion our hearts and our minds our ears to receive your word let it fall on fertile ground penetrate and transform us afresh a new removing any and everything that is not pleasing unto you O we thank you we thank you all for all who are gathered here today in the sanctuary and those who are viewing us online although we are unworthy it was you who saw fit for us to join together in corporate worship today father God we are grateful for the opportunity to experience your power your love and just to be in your presence for in your presence there's the fullness of joy there's peace and there's strength and there's so much more father you know every detail of our being and you know where we all stand in need of send your healing power and transforming power say Souls today turn hatred into love make the week strong where there is division unite us for your glory we look to You Lord God and we wait in great expectation knowing that no eye has seen no ear has heard no human mind has conceived the things you have prepared for those who love you you get all the glory God you get the glory we bless your name as we celebrate woman's season 2019 it's because of you we are women who stand strong and mighty we are women who come to lift up the name of Jesus to serve you and to be a living witness of his love so we thank you right now we thank you for moving in every heart in every woman and doing the miraculous show yourself mighty and strong know God we ask you to bless this service today bless our pastor and his family and all who are serving today and gathered may your name be glorified may your name be praised it is in Jesus name that I pray amen [Music] [Music] to the heels my [Music] Oh [Music] the Lord [Music] anybody lifting their eyes to the hills to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ here's our strength keep the answer to all our prayers whoa these are holder Tyra my robot ha in the time of tribulation they shine [Applause] [Music] [Music] I heard [Music] somebody bless in this road get me what you after doing you today whatever you're going through he's waiting on you hey the white Nonya amen praise the Lord re temple praise the Lord everybody come on this is the day the Lord has made and we ought to be glad about it amen listen this morning we have a guest with us and I said it in the earlier service that he's really not a guest because he's been coming to read temple now for a number of years sharing his gift with us and he is originally from Little Rock Arkansas comes from a huge family siblings about nine sisters and brothers his dad was a musician so he's followed in his father's footsteps he's an awesome saxophone player he has a tremendous gift but more than the gift he's anointed amen he's a member of the spirit of Faith Christian Church right here in our area has a beautiful wife and family and so we want to welcome Merlyn and divine here this morning come on give him a hand as he comes he has a brand new CD and we hope that you were supporting him after this morning's worship praise the Lord well good morning Reed temple are you blessed it is always a joy and an honor to serve and worship with you all I want to actually how many want to be where God's glory is that's just a manifested presence a man of God and now this song I want to administer to you right now just speaks about that it says I'll do anything to be where your glory is for your glory [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] good morning church our scripture comes out of John chapter 13 verses 31 to 35 and it reads when he was gone jesus said now the son of man is glorified and God is glorified in him if God is glorified in him God will glorify the son in himself and will glorify him at once my children I will be with you only a little longer you will look for me and just as I told the Jews so I tell you now where I am going you cannot come a new command I give you love one another as I have loved you so you must love one another by this everyone will know that you are a disciple if you love one another may God add blessing to the reading of the word [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh Oh Oh [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] all time Oh [Music] Oh [Music] [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] we [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] good morning REE temple family isn't it just a blessing that we can come into the house of the Lord to declare that he is holy that he is omnipotent that he is right just don't play with the Lord and here indeed he's holy and he's omnipotent and he's righteous after all of the food since we've dealt with all week the Lord has given us an opportunity to declare his riches that he is holy that he is righteous that he is omnipotent and he's worthy to be praised amen I greet you on behalf of my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and again I want to say welcome to our services at 11:15 this morning amen well all of our first-time and returning visitors please stand and remain standing all first-time and returning visitors please stand and remain standing well read temple we can do a little bit better than that amen a member of our greeters ministry will be coming around to hand you a Welcome Packet and we're asking that you please fill out the enclosed card and leave it at the Welcome desk at the end of the service as you leave now with all the persons who invited these persons to come will you please stand as well amen and so again we want to thank you for using pastor Washington's Andrew plan for inviting these persons to come today and Andrew simply was a disciple who went around telling people about the gospel of Jesus Christ and so we thank you for following in that plan and again to our visitors if you could remain standing on behalf of our senior pastor the Reverend dr. Lee P Washington and the only lady his wife mrs. Anna Washington Amen yes the only lady his wife mrs. Anna Washington the ministerial staff the officers and members of Reed temple were happy that you have come to worship with us today and we pray that you will back and bring a friend amen you may be seated have the funeral announcements this week as well the homegoing celebration service for brother George Lawler the brother of sister Shirley Patterson who's a member was held at Trinity World Christian Center in Marietta Georgia on Saturday May 11th and the sister and sister Josie battled the aunt of sister Debbie Morton who was a member has died and the funeral arrangements are pending and so we're gonna ask that you keep these families in prayer as they walk through the valley of the shadow of death we know that in our father's house there are many mansions if it were not so Jesus wouldn't have told us so we are to remain faithful that indeed we look to see them as well on the other side now turn your attention to the screens for this week's announcements god bless you praise the Lord read temple I am Reverend Diane and here are this week's announcement are you ready join read temple every Wednesday in the month of May for the 2019 miracle month of May revival each Wednesday night at 7 p.m. we will worship an expectation of God's many miracles to manifest in our lives may 22nd join us as we welcome Reverend John Faison senior pastor of Watson Grove Missionary Baptist Church in Nashville Tennessee we can steer low and care for others while we're going through our own stuff can I help somebody tonight listen listen listen if God often allows us to go through things so they will be able to be a blessing to others but sometimes we are so selfish and so superficial and so nasty and so self consumed and so conceited that we can only see our own issues our own problems what's not working out on our behalf that we miss the opportunity to be a witness and a blessing to those that God has put in our space in our company and don't miss may 29th where our guest preacher will be Reverend dr. William H Curtis senior pastor of Mount Ararat Baptist Church in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania its revival time Reed temple are you ready if you're looking for a new opportunity Reed temple might be looking for you Reed temple is hiring for the following positions chief of business and financial affairs the applicant must have seven to ten years of experience and be a CPA manager of accounting and financial computer systems the applicant must have a degree in accounting and seven to ten years of experience and finally a director of kids for Christ choir more details are coming and if you are interested in applying email your resume and cover letter to sister Gwen Hughes at G happy xxx at aol.com attention 2019 graduating high school seems the leap e Washington Reed Temple AME churches scholarship committee would like to announce that the applications for this year's scholarship will be available in the lobby between June the second and June 23rd if you would like to be considered for scholarship this year don't forget to pick up your application all applications must be returned by June 25th they may be dropped off at the glad-tidings bookstore or at the desk in the church's administrative wing join the faith and finance ministry on Friday May 24th at 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. as they present their faith in finance 2019 series here and read Temple this month's topic is lender borrower debt elimination credit restoration each month there will be a different financial session held on the fourth Friday now remember the faith and Finance 2019 series will include useful financial courses designed to promote and increase biblical stewardship and financial awareness and these courses are designed for people 18 years and older to register email read faith in finance at gmail.com now you're up to date with this week's announcements for more information about these announcements and other brief simple events visit us at breed template or subscribe to our YouTube channel friend us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter and Instagram and remember have faith in God and we continue to praise God on this day the Lord has given unto us the day that the Lord has made we should rejoice and be glad in it want to continue with the announcements official board will be tomorrow at 7 o'clock so we ask that your reports would please be submitted to the office the director of academic affairs dr. Kip Hart and his team from the Maryland Higher Education Commission met thanks to the board of retail Christian Bible College it was a successful site visit and things went very well we can we are looking for persons who have expertise in the area of finance accounting legal attorney accreditation experience as it relates to the Bible College and universities former or present persons serving on college boards and those familiar with Bible College curriculum if this is something that you'd be interested in please contact the office the the video has been lifted about those persons who are graduating so we ask that you'd certainly govern yourselves in accordance on the June the first the applications will become available and deadline for the submission is June the 25th the summer summit registration that's going to be held in Norfolk Virginia is up up online at the website WWAMI to comm so we're supposed to not suppose we're sharing this so their body would no click the button for frequently asked questions if you have questions with regard to that here a tree temp we want to get ahead of the registration June 17th at 7 p.m. that will be a private showing of the movie Emanuel across the DMV read and other local AME churches will be showing this at the Regal Cinema watch Apple each location will have survivors directors and producers of the film the national civil rights organization are helping to strategize to strengthen hate crime legislation where there it does not exist since the Tiffany Brooks is the young adult who's leading this charge so please I ask that you ask govern yourselves in accordance we will have the trailer forthcoming so that we're closer we get to that date everyone will have an opportunity to see the trailer let me answer getting persons visiting us for the first time or return visit would you please stand if you're here and you're not a member of read temple want to acknowledge you from the pulpit you acknowledge from the floor would you stand just one more time we're glad to see you glad and see you so glad to see you so glad to see you visitors make a difference in our service and we're glad to welcome you gonna ask all of the members of standard this time put a smile on your face greet that neighbor that's beside you and encourage them as we move deeper into worship at this time [Music] [Music] [Music] we're glad to be every temple where the Spirit of the Lord so glad you decided to join and we worship [Music] Oh amen as we come to water let's thank God for Marilyn divine Marilyn divine he's such a gifted instrumentalists and he is being certainly a blessing to the kingdom we have a CD that it's available after service is entitled now and he said you will help them if you buy it now this is this is well worth adding to your collection to play inspirational music around the house inspirational music anointed music drives unclean spirits out so you need to get this and while we on that I want to thank that don't the choir look beautiful this morning and sound great we were talking in the back that you know reach reach temple is a singing church they can sing and when the Holy Ghost is really on them they really really really can say and so we're glad for the music department of this church and all the choirs that we have and certainly we want to highlight the temple choir this morning for doing an exceptional job as they always do and now we want to lift up our tithes and offerings and we challenge you to join in sowing into fertile soil God will bless you he opened up the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that will make your head swim you won't be able to figure out where in the world that all these blessings come from and so we he says prove me try me test me see if I won't do it do we have any first time timers here personally never time before but grown to the place you want to begin this or you've started tithing would you please stand will acknowledge you any first time tireless seeing none follow these instructions from the rear of the front if your tithing goes to the center box if you're going in faith the tablet goes on the table God loves what kind of a giver that's me that when we come to the table never ever be cheap with God cuz because God has never been cheap with you God always gives us the very best that he has god bless you as you come god bless you as you give and the temple choir will take us further in the worship at this time [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] No [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] have a Lord done everything for you somebody say now witness my see you through yes you will pick me up and turn me around feet on solid ground I'm victim ahead and they were new I lived in my feed and they were too Oh do you have to run you are to run you are to run until you ought to run until the end you you are and tell them what can I get one women I wonder can I get you until until the you ought to run [Applause] [Music] whoa [Music] [Music] hey man thank you so much when you'll give freedom to get let's be fair now for the cymatics election [Music] [Applause] [Music] I'm say [Music] but the crew c-51 I'm saying I'm saying by his power I'm saying White's power diva my life has been sweet and my joy golly [Applause] [Music] Lori chica I'm sorry I'm saying [Music] I'm sane [Music] by the blood [Music] of the crew not crucify one I'm saying hallelujah by the blood [Music] [Applause] hallelujah the devil is trying to take my words from the pastor and every time I get ready to lead a song look like the words just go away [Music] the last shoot is for something and if I had gotten safe hallelujah your prank with me I believe songs on my life now pastor my husband passed at the church and I let fire so I want you to know today that I'm saying passive after Widow start the song all over again that while glory to God thank you Jesus I'm saying by the power of the crew got crucified wanted me I'll say and a new life has begun my life has been sweet and my joy let's go ah I'm say I'm so glad [Applause] [Music] for the Lord Oh [Music] I'm so glad I'm so glad I'm so good ah [Applause] if it wasn't for the law if it wasn't for the law I'm so glad tract I'm so glad said me [Music] [Applause] [Applause] if it wasn't for the law Oh [Music] I'm so glad [Applause] that cologne [Music] come on throw your head back [Music] cool tell somebody if it wasn't for the woman [Applause] a man listen she said the devil was trying to take the words and then she turned around and testified he may take your words but he can't take your testimony when you've been saved when you've been bought by the blood of the Lamb the devil can't take that away from you I was sitting there and I was listening to what she was saying and all of a sudden I quickened and I heard the spirit saying even when you can't speak I'll let you know I'm still with you I think we ought to dance for about three or four minutes in here I'm gonna say this and then I'm gonna move on but see when the devil tries something and fails you got to know that's the time for you to let him know don't try this again don't you come back with this again that's the time that you clap your hands and you pat your feet then you open your mouth when you give God some glory to let him know don't you try this again cuz i'm saved i'm saved sho'nuff [Applause] [Applause] [Music] amen whoa friend we have been G that [Music] I'll sing whoa [Applause] Oh [Music] [Applause] Oh everything [Music] you know [Music] [Music] whoa so snow [Applause] well [Applause] we're so glad that you know all about us you know how troubles you know our trials you know our struggles you know our disappointments you know where we heard and you know where we need to be healed and so we sing unto you this morning and we shout and praise God because you are our Savior you are Redeemer you are our healer and you are our restorer and we expect you to do what you've been already doing and that is given us victory out of our despair bless us now as we have come for corporate worship let your word go forth let your people be blessed God let us rejoice on this day that you have made give your name glory and honor and the people of God said amen while we're standing we'll look at Acts chapter 1 verses 6 through 14 and it reads this way in the NIV version then they gathered around him and asked him Lord are you at this time going to restore the Kingdom of Israel but you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth they were looking intently up into the sky as he was going when suddenly two men dressed in white stood beside [Applause] then the Apostles returned to Jerusalem from the hill called the Mount of Olives a Sabbath days walk from this city Alphaeus and Simon the zealot and Judas sons of James they all joined together constantly in prayer along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers you may be seated let me stay with verse number 14 they all join together constantly praying in prayer along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers they all join together constantly in prayer along with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers I want to preach this morning briefly the spiritual guide from the subject I'm still in it all the way I'm still in it all the way it was after the death of Jesus resurrection of Jesus we're told from Luke's version in the book of Acts that they returned to Jerusalem to the Upper Room this story flows as if they are taking roll call to see who is still in it who's still with them and the role went like this Peter here John here Andrew here Philip here Bartholomew here Matthew present James son of Alphaeus here Simon the zealot here and Judas son of James present we want to see who's left us want to see who has abandoned us want to see who's walked away from us and so they all joined together constantly in prayer along with the women who are not but Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers are named it appears to me that they were all together and whatever was to come next they were in it all the way now it is particularly interesting to me the fact that Luke highlights the women which is one of the characteristics of his writings because Luke seems to include those who are marginalized those who are generally forgotten about and specifically he focuses in on women and their relationship with Jesus and so he highlights women Mary the mother of Jesus with his brothers now those of us who know a little about Mary know that she had already been through one of the most challenging experiences of her whole life I mean from her birth Mary was numbered among the disenfranchised she was of the law economic ladder of the Palestinian social order this was married she held on to a hope that one day the Messiah would come and some say and some day a man would come and put a ring on her finger in marriage because that would give her a sense of security but little did Mary know she would be selected to carry in her womb what she had always hoped for and that is the coming of the Messiah little did she know that she would be given something from God that she did not ask for and not only that wasn't even looking for Mary had no expectation that a girl from the ghetto of Nazareth would be given a divine mandate to carry the Holy child of God in her womb what is so interesting to me is what she did not ask for was given to her by God and what God gave her put her very life at risk sometimes you have to be careful what you ask god for little did Mary know that she would carry in her womb he who would upset Herod agreed and threatened the Roman empire mary did not know that she would have to go to africa to avoid going back to jerusalem a Bethlehem because crazy Herod had put a death sentence out on all first newborn children and especially mayor little did Mary know that she was carrying the word she was carrying the word Mary was carrying the word I said Mary was carrying though and when you carry the word your life becomes a constant threat to the devil the devil is not worried about anyone who's not carrying the word it's not enough just to be able to recite the word and you have to carry the word at the age of 33 the man she gave birth to the one she gave life to the one that God had called for her to carry God had already decided that he would allow him to give his life now here is Mary after this gruesome death and crucifixion she had to watch the one she gave birth to hang between two thieves and be put to death all that mary had gone through anyone would have went through that kind of thing would have come to the point where they decided enough is enough and walked away but when God sent the angel Hotel Mary she was pregnant he said to her she was blessed and highly favored hold on put a pin in that if this is what blessed and highly favored looks like it makes me want to wonder blessed and highly favored and you have to watch the one you gave birth to die in front of your eyes blessed and highly favored and you have one struggle after another blessed and highly favored and you have to watch your dreams die and yet this is Mary's still hanging out with the apostles I mean if it had been me if it had been you you'd probably say where were you when my son was hanging on the cross none of you were there are the exception of John you abandon we would have had an attitude with them wouldn't we about right here because they were not to be found and yet Mary is still in it all the way somehow it suggests that no matter what you have to go through in life God will sustain you when your strength is gone somebody here is at the point where your strength is just about going well I want you to put your hand on the doorknob of faith and turn it because the door will open and when you are at the point where you can't go any further when you are at the point when it looks like you can't take yet another a continuation of what you've been through that's something about God that shows up and give you strength that you never thought you would ever had I know I'm talking good this morning there's something about God that will give you a power that you were not even aware of that is something about God that when you cried until you can't cry no more until you've been doing all the hurt that you there's something about God that will step in just in the nick of time and give you strength that you thought you never had power that you were not aware there is something up about God when you stay when you stood at the grave and put yours up one down in the ground and you have had lonely nights and grieving like you've never grieve before that is something about God when bad news camps out in your living room news that you were not expecting and you fall under the weight and burden of that bad news there is something about God that will sustain you when the report comes back and says in stage four and we've done all that we can do there is something about God that will step in when you are fired from your job and you've been trying to do the very best that you can there is something about God when you raise your child to do right but your child becomes obsessed or even possessed and seem to be determined to go in a direction that you did not want that child to go in there is something about God when you've been faithful in your marriage and you've done the very best that you can to keep you the two of you together and yet the other parties decide that they don't want anymore about it and walk out on you there is something out of all mary has gone through she's still in it look at your neighbor one time and tell her honey I'm still in it I'm still in it and what Mary demonstrates is I'm not gonna turn my back on God just because of the contradictions of life has fallen into my lap maybe I'm talking to someone who feels like writing a resonation letter to your boss and leaving a letter because you just can't take any more of the ministry and maybe this is for someone in ministry who has gotten to the place where in your ministry it seems like there's more misery than there is miracles in your life I've discovered why Mary was there after all she had been through I may be that somebody here this morning is feeling like I'm building this quiet long enough and this choir hadn't been it has been one issue after the other but you're still here and maybe there's a preacher who's sitting in this pulpit this morning who feels the same way I mean I've been through the roughest moment of my life and yet I'm so I do you stay with him why are you still here after all you've been through I heard sister Gladys say I've been through a lot I lost my husband I I've had but she's still singing what why did you steal jumping and crazy and waving your hands and praising God after all that you had to bid all you've been through it all of us setbacks and disappointments and all the whereís and flows through your mind why are you still here Mary said I'm still here and I'm still in it all the way I want to know what does it take to cope with the contradictions of life how do you deal with what Life offers you and it almost kills you Texas very suggested here Mary shows us first of all in order to cope with the contradictions of life and still be in it you have to have patience somebody say patience yeah Jesus says when your weakness gives way to weariness God has a divine word and you know what that word is that word is found in Acts chapter he says wait there are times in life all you can do is just wait I know I don't like it I know you don't like it when you want to know what the outcome is and you can't foresee what the outcome is and God took the spirit comes back to you and says wait maybe that's why David emphasized and underscored wait on the Lord and be a good cabbage why you're waiting be of good courage and maybe that's why Isaiah said that they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength which means if I have to renew my strength my strength has been there leader but if I wait God's gonna restore my strength that I used to have and probably give more strength that I have a new active highway also learned that after the struggle there's gonna be a blessing after the struggle that's gonna be a blessing after the struggle that's going to be a blessing that for us to get this in your spirit after the struggle that's going to be a blessing you may not be able to see the blessing in the midst of the struggle but after the struggle that's going to be a blessing and that's why we have to be patient can I can I talk to someone new in ministry don't try to do in three years what it took 37 years to do people who want to arrive real fast I want to be number one I'm gonna be at the hair now I want I want to be at the top don't you know that God has to take you to a process God is the process this is not a fly-by-night encounter o folk taught us this sometimes you up sometimes in town tell you to the ground God take you you don't know how many times I felt like throwing in the towel giving up only to realize that God was saying I'm working on you I'm doing something in you and he who has begun I could work [Applause] sometimes God works like a subway God is moving underground you can't see what it's doing God is doing what is doing out of sight it's not visible but doesn't mean is not valuable sometimes you can't see what God is doing in your life God is working underground God's working behind your back God is working beyond your vision but God is working you cannot see it in the way of your natural vision that leaders not valuable because after you go under for a while God's gonna bring you back up that's gonna bring you if we have been faithful for what what are you what are you what are you doing what are you doing God why do I have to go through this because baby I'm working on you I'm processing you I'm getting some stuff out of you so I can get the right stuff in you so I have to take you through a process even when you can't see it I realize that some stuff I just can't rush no there's a danger in being exposed too soon and that's why we need to learn patience memory demonstrated patient Jesus said go to Jerusalem and wait even more so you have to maintain not just patience but you got to have the right perspective will you restore the kingdom and give us positions in the kingdom no because this is not about kingdom positions is the way you understand it no I want you to wait so that you understand the difference between timing and trusting see we work by you know this call no sweet tower the clock time God works by chaos chaos becomes manifest not by clothes but through the faithful trusting of the individual I don't know how you going in this God but I trust you to bring me out the way you promised me you said you would not be hold one good thing for me so I'm trusting you in this I don't like it at all but I'm still trusting you if I had my way if I had options the play out but there's some circumstances that are just non-negotiable when it comes to God all you can do is just wait and let God take you through it and while God takes you through it he will give you the right perspective on it Merritt had the right perspective because faith is not knowing but faith is trusting faith is believing in the midst of the not yet I know what you said I don't see it it's not happening yet but yet I still trust you and so you need patience and you need resolve and you need to have the right perspective Mary had paces and Mary had the right perspective that's why she was still in it all the way this is employed Mary receives something else jesus said go to Jerusalem and wait and you shall receive power there is promise power promise power power is promised to you but you gotta wait for it it's promised to you Jesus does not always give us all the answers we're looking for but here's what he gives us he gives us the power to endure when we don't have the answer what many of us are lacking and what many of us have lost is the promise power that Mary had when you have taken all you can take God will give you power power to tread on scorpions and power to go face your haters and when the economy is unfavorable and things are not going your way God will give you power the only reason you did not put a gun to your head when you were up against the wall and the only reason you did not take the overdose the only reason you did not jump out of the high window or in front of traffic is because God gave you power and you didn't even realize it God gave can I can I tell you why Luke gave gave us the names of the people that is important why Luke gave us the names of the people because the people that Luke were the people that went to the room to get the power come here come here draw near I got something to tell you be careful of the people around you who don't have promised power she see when you have people around you who don't have the power that God has promised they will compete against you instead of complimenting you they will cremate you instead of trying to celebrate you so make sure that the folk that are in you let me flip it another way when you are going through dark moments of your life make sure you got the right people with you while you're going through it because some folks only want to know what you're going to to tell somebody else but they cannot help you you don't need people alongside you who can help you when you're going through the moments of your daughter's life you'll need somebody who's got some power somebody that's got some power spirit one of the things I'd like to pray for my mama early in my life is that God would put the right people in my life I don't take relationships for granted I ain't friends with everybody but from I love everybody well good for you cuz I got to that point yet but this is from some people because I'm no crazy and everybody doesn't meet you good and some folks like to see you down and some folks feel superior to you because you were down lower than them I don't need everybody in my circle I don't need everybody around me especially when I've got tears coming down my eyes then I'm vulnerable but I do need somebody that's got connection and got power there's somebody got some power somebody got some power when my battery is dead and your battery is dead you can't help me when my battery is dead I need somebody that can jump stalk me I need somebody that I can connect to I need somebody I can connect I need somebody like a nectar while I'm down and you got some power transfer some that power to me I need somebody that's got an anointing hey man I need somebody who's batteries not down I need somebody that's still alive I need somebody whose faith is active I need somebody who can touch and agree I need somebody who can come and agreement with me I need somebody that can connect me to glory I need somebody they can connect me to the promise of God don't come around me feeling sorry for me no I and I only nobody come around me , where's your faith this ain't the time for that question for me where's your faith you ain't in my shoes you don't know what I'm going to you don't know my struggle you don't know my chalice I need somebody to come around me and say I don't know what you're going through but I know that the one that can bring you out of it I know the one that can help you through it and baby I'm gonna agree with you that the Lord is going to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we could ask because of the power that's in us I need somebody with power Mary it's still in it all the way because she values the right people the right perspective Mary's still with the church after all she went through Lord help me with these thin-skinned Christians [Applause] join the choir one month somebody say the wrong thing you set them up you when they buy your singing I sure wonder we can somebody you catch a mean Negro on our bed Sunday and then you off the Usher board you preach it in a pulpit folk answering you and then when they sit on you you decided you ain't preaching Lord forgive me but deliver me from them skin them still thin-skinned skanks I need somebody that our struggle knows wouldn't like when what you're asking for it doesn't come in the time that you're asking for it I need somebody that knows what it's like when tears are coming down the side of your face not because you're sinned but because you're just being tried and you're going through this moment of difficulty I need somebody who can come alongside me and still say God is good and His mercy endures forever I need somebody who can come alongside me and say honey I'm gonna stay in it all the way ain't running nowhere ain't going nowhere I'm in it for the long haul so if you don't like me you might as well get rid of then just get ready and get over it cuz I ain't quite nowhere I'm in this thing all the way all the way Mary is still with the church after all she went through how can how can how can she still be in it how can you still stand up and preach when you know people are talking about you how how can you still show up and praise God when under their breath they're saying it don't take all of that how can you still smile when you know folks talking about you behind your back huh huh because you're in it all the way Bible says because God gave you power and when God gives you parent power you remain focused focus on your purpose I don't care what comes I don't care what goes I don't care how high he gets I'm in this thing all the way most victories are lost because a broken focus you lost your focus from what God called you to do you got off track you got derailed because you lost your focus you blaming everybody know you need to blame yourself because you took your eyes off what God said he would do for you and the devil's job is to get you to break your focus so you can be defeated but the devil is alive God gave me purpose peppers the greatest challenge of Mary is yet not so much that her son Jesus died that's an even greater challenge in this and it is the unbelief of her children because they were raised notice the text says Mary and Jesus brothers they were raised in the same house but they didn't believe Jesus the Jesus chose us this hike was but couldn't pick any of them because he didn't believe him believe that's why they weren't named they they they're they're not named among those who came to the tomb cuz they didn't believe and when Jesus said feed my sheep he did not name them and and when he cried at the tomb of Lazarus they weren't there and in the upper room that night when they were not there and in the garden that night they were not there Peter James John but not his brothers they did not believe their brother they did not believe their mother but look at the text it says Mary the mother of Jesus and with his brothers there's a miracle we don't preach about the miracle of Mary giving birth to Jesus was something she could not do about do-do and then him and she couldn't do anything about it but the redemption of her boys Mary does for her sons what Jesus could not even do can I tell you that Jesus expects you and me to reach some folk for him how did she get them in the church that morning when they all gathered if they did not believe I believe that Mary Anna sit down go to Jesus meeting and Marie said to him look you disrespected him while he was living but he died for you and he died for me you may disrespect him while in his 33 on this earth but he gave his life to you and he gave his life from me you may respect him then when he was walking around on earth but now he's come back with all power and you've seen the resurrection of your brother you've seen that nobody can die and come back but him and it was something about that come to Jesus meeting that made them why I'm going back to the church with my mama do you know that there are some children that need us to witness to them who who haven't stepped foot in the church because of something they didn't believe in they saw from another church remember do you know that there are people out there I can't reach but you can reach and you have to Menace them to them because they may not believe because of something they've seen out of somebody there are people in your family who won't receive you but you keep sharing with them the redemptive possibilities you keep telling him about who Jesus is and what Jesus did you keep telling them that Jesus died one Friday was buried in a Barrett Barra tomb he died but on early Sunday morning you keep telling them about who Jesus is and eventually the walls of unbelief will come down Mary said I'm in this all the way I want to know about you are you in it all the way even when things don't meet your expectation are you hearing it when people talk about you are in it when they turn their backs on you are you in it when they abandon you are you in it if you have patience and the right perspective and you get the promised power you'll be in it [Music] Oh this is a redemptive moment this is a redemptive moment a time when God wants to bring you back to him for those who have decided this ain't for me if life is gonna be like this I don't want any more parts of it but let me tell you the race is not given to the Swift it ain't even given to the strong but it's given to those who endure you can't become who God wants you to become if you don't go through what God wants you to go through and this life is filled with Swift transitions and you have to learn how to take the good as well as the bad and determine to be in it all the way can you stand to your feet this morning God it's been too good for you to walk away from his grace in His mercy God has brought you through too much God has directed your footsteps God has provided for you when you couldn't provide for yourself God has sustained you when you were at your loss and the least that you can do is to say to God in this moment I'm in it all the way I want to do our church in this redemptive moment for somebody who reflect on your life and see now what's required it's a commitment commitment to the church commitment to the word commitment to the life of Jesus if you're here this morning can I encourage you to come you're in good company you had no more or no less than anyone else the difference is people decided I'm gonna stay with it I'm not gonna abandon it I'm not gonna walk away I'm gonna I'm gonna take what I have to take deal with what I have to deal with knowing that God is gonna be with me and God's gonna provide me with the strength that I need at this moment here's an opportunity for you brother an opportunity for you sister to come in this redemptive moment come under Jesus just as you are and even if your belief is not where it needs to be God has allowed your time to come in and be a part of a wonderful family your most your most friends we we all are being tested we all are being tried we'll all have been you know pushed but you can come this morning if you here this morning you can come you can come god bless you for coming there are others that are coming come on come on come on and join us come on and join with us come on we welcome you this morning come on come on life has not always been your friend but you can still come Jesus says come just as you are come on brother come on sister stay in it don't walk away all the way as what Marie said can you help me evangelize your pew evangelize your pew you've been sitting beside them for now I'm about two hours ask them are you in it all the way I get it all the way are you in it all the way are you in it when the blessings come and when the blessings don't seem like they're coming are you in it when the sunshine and even when their Sun doesn't shine are you in it not for what you can get out of it but because of who God is to you are you in it all the way I'm in it all the way I'm in it I made up my mind because there's nothing that can compare to what God is going to do in what God has done this is my last appeal you can still come you can still come and join these that are at the altar this is my last appeal you can come I get it all the way you may be seated god bless you [Music] Pastor we have David Bowman coming forward to coming to join read temple we have the Blackett family coming to a special prayer we have Jana white coming for a special prayer and we have Chucky Powell coming for a special prayer these are day passes god bless you go with brother Myers at this time we thank you for your patience let's stand and sing praise God from whom all blessings flow don't we don't forget our six o'clock service Reverend price is going to be preaching at 6 o'clock this evening we invite you to come back spread the word get happy about Jesus tell somebody what he's done and what he can do and the difference that it makes praise God from whom all blessings flow [Music] three we're below praise them above the heaven Hill do you have any home [Applause] Bible says look the father and holy [Applause] now done to him who is able to keep us from falling and present us faultless before his throne or Majesty Corey all power be unto him he is the one who saved and redeemed and restores the mighty God as the peace counselor and for him now henceforth and forevermore and the people of God in the presence of God has lifted up to the Lord open up their mouth and said amen amen and amen [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] you

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Published: Sun Jun 02 2019