It's been a struggle but i'm surviving

ah good morning empowerment simple praise ye the Lord praise got Amazing Grace how sweet the sound God is so good we gonna come before you and go to the throne and pray if everyone can bow they his and hold your neighbors hand I greatly appreciate that DeeAnn precious God father God we stand before you one more time just to say thank you Father God you've been so merciful so good to us father God we just kind of say thank you Father God some of us are not worthy of all the grace and mercy you have grant us father go but we've said thank you for the God because you are forgiving God father God you loved us man we won don't we do we don't now love ourselves as we should father God father God we ask you to come into this house Lord father God set the atmosphere Lord let the Holy Spirit one from the front door to the pulpit father God father I touch everyone in his room father God as we embark on mental health and month father God then maybe somebody that's going through loneliness that maybe the press father god that may be said by the guy may have a child or may be addicted to something father god father God we asking you to break it in the name of Jesus father God father God some of us may be just struggling financially maybe sick in our body father God but father God we know you could do all things father God we thinking you right now for breaking every yoke father God every so time every stronghold any chain Robin are we here to change breaking right now father God and for that we say thank you Father God but that we need strength father God we need to be renewed for the God we ask you to cleanse us from any unrighteousness and these sins that we may have committed by thought word needle head father God and Father God as we leave us and just as you lead us in this place father guy we asked you to touch every ministry father God every person in this room everyone that's on their way bless all three services for the God and father God we put a special prayer alpha our past the father God Father God attached them from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet father God father God nobody knows the pain the struggles he may go through inquiry father God and father thought we asked you to cover him right now father God give him a fresh anointing a fresh word father God lead him and God will protect his family Lord Jesus father God we just say thank you we praise you we love you in Jesus name Amen [Music] Oh [Music] this acute that's Oh [Music] you [Music] Oh Oh Oh ah [Music] [Applause] you your hands in his presence one more time come on if you know our God is king and Lord and on the keel there is a cross and on the cross there is blood for me and for you come on all over the sanctuary lift your hands if you thank God for the blood this morning come on with lifted hands begin to express to God your gratitude father thank you for the blood without the shedding of blood there would be no remission of sins and so thank you O God we thank you O God we thank you Lord are you really a grateful children this morning come on let's sing it together on the heal there's a cross on the cross there is blood holy I hear you come on on the cross come on if you're grateful come on see yourself saying say on the event across there is not for me for me all the he'll say yeah come on on this comedian Sunday father we thank you for the blood say on the gears the cross there is blood Permian on the heel say the cross hair is blood for me say Oh make you wonder he'll head say all that you say come on let's celebrate the blood this morning come on we're the only ones that can boast of a savior who came down come on he came down and he died four or five heroes and he's coming again we're the only ones that can boast of that this morning come on Christian believers on the keel for me [Music] [Music] [Music] power to heal my diseases to cover my we still still wonderful [Music] ah Turkey [Music] we [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] bless the Lord but you just lay hands on yourself this is a month in which we are declaring that no surgery will be necessary whatever's out of order whatever's out of sync whatever is maladjusted I am believing between now and before June 1st God is going to exact absolute healing on every fiber of your being I don't know how many of you need healing from God but I believe that God is still the healer you didn't hear what I just said I said I believe that God is still the healer if you believe that for yourself would you give God your best shout of Thanksgiving I want to ask Minister Valerie Norris to please come very quickly you can take your seats for just one moment minister Val I don't know you how many of you believe that this is gonna be a month where surgery will not be required where surgery will not be required come on please I want does sister vow to very quickly just share her testimony just on what God did in the last seven days hallelujah if God did it for her I believe he'll do it for you if you've got a spirit of expectation would you give God a shout now I said only if you got a spirit of expectation y'all not shout good I said if you believe there was nothing too hard for our God hallelu the doctors diagnosed me with a cyst am i right ovary most of you might know that I only have one long so before I could go under anesthesia they had to check to make sure that my breathing is stable in my left lung so I can endure the surgery so I've been going back and forth for the last four months to a lung specialist she trying to regulate my breathing so I could have this surgery to remove the right sis well I I did the ultrasound I did the CT scan months ago and I went back to Friday's ago and had another CT scan and I went to doctors this Friday and when I went to the doctors the nurse was in the room with me at first and I was like can I get a copy of the report she was like yeah but I'm looking at and they don't look like the sisters there anymore she said but I can't make that determination i'ma let doc tell you so that she went out the room and painting the doctor came back in and he was like that what you doing here ain't no sister no more I just start screaming I just thought shouting thank you Jesus and uh doctor's office he was like get out of here before I find something I said because your God is working God is a healer He healed me once again I thank God for God amen how many of you know God is a healer I want to come into agreement with those of you that need God's intervention in any area of your life I don't know what the doctor has said I don't know what the specialist has said about you are in fact a candidate for surgery or procedure of one kind or another how those of you that fit that bill would you come meet us at the altar very quickly you need God but to so heal that surgery will not be necessary if that's where you are I want you to come meet us at this altar if you've got the god-kind of faith' hallelujah surgery will not be necessary hallelujah I said surgery will not be necessary you all don't believe it like I do let me say it again and to that miss fear is right I said surgery will not be necessary hallelujah here's what I need empowerment I want you to stretch your right hand to faith stretch your right hand to faith towards our dear friends hallelujah our dear friends who are at this altar and wherever is the area by which our surgery has been prescribed would you lay your own hand in that area please hallelujah I'm gonna ask our ministers to come flink around them just lay your hands on their back very carefully gently hallelujah as a surgery will not be necessary surgery will not be necessary hallelujah surgery will not be necessary hallelu yesterday a young lady came to the church and says she had a brain tumor for seven years and the doctor couldn't understand how she was still breathing how she was still thinking how she was still functioning how she was still processing if you believe that God is a healer extend that hand and I want you to just flood the atmosphere with the sound of your intercession hallelu I'm not about next year this time God I need you to do it before June first gets here hallelujah I need complete healing to happen if every person at this altar every person who's watching online every person whose faith is connected and committed to mine hallelujah no surgery will be necessary I said no surgery will be necessary hallelujah lungs kidneys hearts ovaries ligaments cancer no surgery will be necessary [Music] hallelujah you all don't believe that God is able you don't think that again or you want me to rush on and go on to the rest of the service this is the service this is where God occupies the presence of his people hallelujah hallelujah I need you to do me a favor as an exercise of faith as an exercise of faith as they're moving to go back to their seats I want you to just begin to thank God for healing in this room I said thank God for healing in advance in this room come on embrace of me embrace um I want you right where it is that you are how dear friends are coming at the conclusion of this service to give more information but I want you to lay hands on your head please no surgery is necessary I know that at first glance you're thinking and believing it has everything to do with physicality I hate to jump you from the back but this is Mental Health Awareness Month and there are a whole lot of people who are hurting in their minds hurting in their thinking I just covered an over the this course of this month I'm gonna be dealing with the ten different forms of abuse ten different forms of abuse and how it is that so many of us have been impacted and inflicted with varying degrees of abuse and we need God to heal us as your hand is even on your head I'm praying that God would in fact cover you from neglect from abandonment from rejection physical violence emotional economic I can't hear anybody in here sexual abuse domestic every layer every strand every thread that you've been holding on to I'm believing that God is going to heal you from it that an intensive is going to take place over your life and over your mind because he that the Sun sets free is free indeed those of you who partner with me today not just for yourself but even for your children for emotional wholeness to take place in your household would you give God a sound of Thanksgiving even now [Applause] there's so many people who are hurting at varying levels varying capacities you don't even know how you want marvel at your own resilience the stuff that you've come back from people are still laid down from how it is that you're able to muster the strength and the zeal and the capacity just to get out of the bed with what you've dealt with somebody dealing with the same variables as high right now somebody who's dealing with the same deck of cards couldn't find the strength to get out of the bed and a couple of people with the same set of issues you had committed suicide but in spite of it all God has kept you he's grounded you and he's kept you together and for that you ought to be giving God glory you don't have anything to thank God I mean April was rough for a whole lot of us but in spite of all that you've been through you're still here my dear friends I don't know who you are I don't know where it is that you are but I wanted with intentionality on a partner with the women of this church who realize that sometimes a small gesture can go a long way a long way in so much as we've got countless numbers of women in this city who are in transitional housing who are going through circumstances that are beyond their grasp that are in fact fighting an uphill battle whether it's from a homeless shelter whether it's in transitional housing whether it's in in veca drug rehabilitation center but we want them to know just through a small gesture that God has not forgotten them as a consequence we've rung the alarm and we've asked you that in the month of May that every sister in the sanctuary would find an additional purse that you're not presently using and that you would in fact fill it with toiletries because at the end of this month how we're gonna go to all of the women shelters in the city of Baltimore just to remind and to underscore in spite of what you've gone through you're still a lady in spite of how you've been treated you were still y'all ought to be clapping better than that I wanted those of you who on this Sunday morning happened to have brought it with you you only have three more Sundays to do so how about those of you who brought them this Sunday would you please bring it to the altar even now on this sudden if you brought it thank you so very much come on would you clap your hands for them as they come I can't believe y'all not gonna clap better than that okay y'all clap better than that for me please look at this come on come on I'm telling y'all you can't beat the spirit of the people that empowerment temple you can't beat it I wanted God put something in my heart in my spirit on last week and I wanted to do no less on on this day come on give God some praise they still coming they still coming y'all ain't gonna shout about it they still coming I'm grateful for the Living God I share with our leaders a couple of weeks ago months ago now that you can't do so much outreach that you neglect in reach that there are people amongst you who going through and you got no idea what they're dealing if what they're contending with and how it is that they're navigating just because I'm in church and I'm saved don't mean I don't have a struggle it doesn't mean that I'm not going through something I I shared with the sisters on last Sunday at 9:30 God put something in my heart in my spirit before coming out to service that I ought be mindful of those who labor work and worship amongst us here's what I want to do please very quickly income very quickly take take yeah you'll need take not now yes all right since come help me please yes this dear sister is visiting from mrs. Tupelo Tupelo Mississippi her and her husband stand up husband amen from Tupelo Mississippi when was iron Tupelo in December 7th I was in Tupelo Mississippi and I told them they should come visit my church I didn't know they was gonna take me seriously hey they came all the way from Tupelo Mississippi and I told them they didn't bring me no cornbread no no nothin and I want you to hold this for me please I'll hold both yeah both handles just like that thank you so very much I want to ask a women who are in this room who have ever survived a serious season or your head to struggle and you didn't know how you were gonna make it how those of you wants this who are in this sanctuary and you went through about and you weren't sure how it is that you were going to navigate the variables of your life changed with no warning I don't know whether or not you got cut off from your job I have no idea with you to go through a painful divorce have no clue as to whether or not the person whom you were depending on was no longer available no longer accessible no longer around huh if you haven't gone through that kind of midnight cry of the soul I'm not talking to you but those of you who have gone through that and you seen God do it and you still don't know how it is that he did it here's what I need you to do please I'm talking really just the sisters at this moment I want every sister that kid would you just get twenty dollars in your hand those of you that endure that kind of battle that level of warfare I'm talking to the sisters first now I want you as soon as you have it as soon as you have it would you please just come put it in this purse for me please very quickly I want you to come put it in omelette watch this if you only if you're bringing it in cash if you're writing a just in a cheque I want you to write it I want you to put it on the altar oh that's what I want you to do please thank you so very much thank you I can't believe y'all are doing this look at that I've seen them do I've seen them do it I've seen them do impound but y'all may gonna celebrate this I've seen thank you thank put it right on the altar those of you write checks lay it on the altar thank you so very much thank you I see I've seen them do bless us all the night you writing a check I want you to leave it on the altar thank you so very much thank you so very much Mississippi thank you I appreciate it that's what I need to do Lisa would you come to me please I need you to do something no I just need you to do something just come to me please thank you so very much getting all that I just need you to do me a favor run that up to Ravi for me please thank you every now and again you just gotta be a blessing to people you don't know what they need you don't know what they're going through but those of you that know God is absolutely able to do anything but fail I need you to lift up your voice like you see them do it come on cry on the guy I see everybody I've seen him too I need you to do me a favor would you just go hug three people around you and tell them I've seen em do it I see them do it come on I say I come on give it I don't know who needs it I need you to stand to your feet somebody needed yesterday I needed a go find two people you don't know go in price of real quick salamat Cena Dylan [Music] whoa I see them too when I see them do I see them too come on I've seen a Buick I've seen them do come on while you're standing come on the singing I've seen them too well I've seen him do it I've seen them you I've seen I see them do seem to make away out of no way I've seen I've seen them work miracles I've seen them remove tumors a scene and provide like only he can provide I've seen them too come on now lift your hands if you thank God for doing it come on if you give got the credit for doing it come on it wasn't your finances come on it wasn't your relationships it was because the Lord waited for you patiently waited for you and provided for you right in the nick of time hallelujah thank you for waiting Lord God come on lift your hands and begin to tell the Lord thank you come on tell him hallelujah thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank you yeah thank you lord thank you Jesus you came down for me you came out to speak to V this some may see that you showed so patiently and you for me just for me Oh [Music] come on you called up my name you called out my name make your father knew my past and covered my shame knew my past [Music] this amazing crease this amazing grace you shown you shot so patiently so days [Music] [Music] and you you waited way come on to be really grateful this morning you waited for me until Christ reformed you just for me Oh [Music] just for me Oh me just for many tasks oh where where I feel if you left me God where would I be if you left me come on lift it up where would I I don't want to know I [Music] No but are you you so glad you you didn't get love show you again the to you come on if you're grateful for the lawyer you give me transaction [Music] can we sing where would I be if you left me come on but you give gargle over you if you don't know where you would be come on clap your hands would you secure your Bibles and go to st. John's Gospel st. John's Gospel chapter five we commenced a new series today called a nose surgery will be necessary no surgery will be necessary John five the fifth chapter of John and I want us to consider verses 1 through 7 John 5 verses 1 through 7 once you've found a won't you say I have it if you can't find it say lord help me would you mind reading silently as I read aloud sometime later Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep gate a pool which in Aramaic is called Bethesda which is surrounded by five covered colonnades he a great number of people who are disabled used to lie the blind the lame in the paralyzed from time to time and angel the Lord will come down and stir up the waters the first one into the water after each such disturbance would be cured of whatever disease that they had one who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years when Jesus saw him laying there and learned that he had been in this condition for a long time he asked do you want to get well would you look at the person beside you and ask him do you want to get well sir the invalid replied I have no one to help me into the pool when the water is stirred while I'm trying to get in somebody else goes down ahead of me you may be seated in the presence of the Lord he been in this condition for 38 years and Jesus asked of him do you want to get well and he said I don't have anybody who will help me every time I'm trying to get in there somebody beats me to the punch I want to preach for a little while this morning it's been a struggle but I'm surviving if you can handle the saying it without breaking down which is looking at a person masage and tell them I got to be honest with you he has been a real struggle but I'm surviving friends in front of every mall market and movie theatres is a parking space that is unknowingly reserved for black people it claims it's for handicapped but who has been left more impaired than the sisters who are in the sanctuary when you know that even to this day women earn 72 cents for every dollar that men earn on average women pay 7 percent extra in prices every day products and services not to mention hope that you can handle it and some of you may want to write this down it was just discovered that nearly 80% of haircare products aimed at black women contain chemicals linked to cancer infertility and obesity all the more think about the debilitating things that happened on the way to maturation according to the Center for Disease Control one in five black girls one in five black girls are sexually molested by 12 one in four have been beaten to the point of leaving a mark or a scar one-fourth of all young ladies in our community grow up with an alcoholic relative and one out of a have witnessed their mother being hidden was worth noting is that that so-called handicapped space symbolically suggests two things the first is that even after you've been hurt you're still moving the fact that the world calls you handicapped but you still have the ability to drive the second which I really want to put an exclamation point around this morning is due to what you've endured hear me very carefully at 7:30 because of what you've endured you deserve to be closer to a door I believe that for somebody who's in this room you don't even understand that a door has just been open for you in heaven back in February on the Congressional floor Republicans raised a curious claim as to who was benefiting the most from programs for the poor they took aim at the alleged able-body recipients they defined the able bodies as somebody who was not a child not pregnant not elderly not blind and not disabled as a point it should be noted that being able bodied is not a demographic label there is no standard for physical or mental ability that makes a person able linebackers queen Griffin has made NFL history this week by being the first person in the league to be drafted with only one hand he said on The Today Show I don't want to be known as the one-handed player I just want to be known as a great player that happens to have one hand you can excel in spite of being amputated you will not be known because of what happened to you you're gonna be able to make a name for yourself because of your achievements across the chasm of time it's been hotly debated about whether the able-bodied could work or why they are not working and all the more why they aren't deserve n't of assistance conservatives constantly use the argument to pontificate on the merits of reforming the working habits of the poor to suggest that because you are poor you must be lazy this lineage of thought dates back to England in 1601 with something called the poor law the poor law the poor law required local communities to collect taxes and distribute aid to the poor but only to the impotent poor which are those who are powerless to support themselves subliminally it was putting here this degrees on poverty what level of poverty you find yourself entrance in trying to distinguish the deserving versus the undeserving the idle versus the industrious the agile versus the aging it brings to mind jerome dyson writes classic book poor black and in real trouble we keep fighting each other to see who is better at being broke ballin on a budget leasing renting trading borrowing but still not own name and we think we're better because they are on a bus and you in a Oba the value of your house the value of your house goes up by the standard here this of the other houses around it so if in fact you've got a mansion in the middle of Lexington terrorists it holds no value because the houses around it cannot in fact substantiate or justify your value as a consequence you cannot afford to soar by yourself your value will not be able to maintain you have to in the words of Dubois in the words of Booker T rather you have to lift as you climb you can't afford for you to excel and everybody connected to you to be drowning you've got to extend some level of a lifeline to understand when I win we all gotta win if you bringing down my value I need you to look at the person beside you and tell them my success is contingent on yours hallelujah y'all didn't say it you don't believe it you might as well sue it seats now because I'm telling you whoever you set beside if they didn't look at you they get ready to sink your boat because they are so busy being in competition that they don't even realize they only hurting themselves and I do well all of us have got to do well the anointing on you is not just for you you supposed to in fact empower somebody else to get to the next level something is demonic for you to be the only one to do well there's gotta be something in you that says God if you did it for me do it for somebody else there's an unaddressed demon in the church and then unaddressed demon is called jealousy you you so mad about seeing somebody else do well that you don't even understand God is using them the most to your face hallelujah you expend so much energy trying to tell other people now that you don't even understand God was giving you a first hell look to see if I did it for them I'll do it for you when that sister gave her testimony about there being no sis said everybody in the room that was sick I should have been runnin to the church say god I believe unbeliev what has never discussed is the fact that many of the able-bodied are dismembered because of a lack of jobs absence of education mass incarceration and limited training kanye west insanely proclaimed that after 400 years slavery was a choice just like my ancestors didn't choose to pick cotton they didn't choose to live in public housing y'all not sayin nothin to me you didn't choose to be auctioned and you didn't choose to have no assets what kind of man would we have in fact to choose to let your mother get raped oh god I can't hear nobody in here no no don't you ever let the enemy miss up your man until you believe you chose to struggle hallelujah when you went through that struggle it was either at the hands of the enemy or you Bizet the hand of God trying to show you that day is grace for your struggle with what you don't need is pity you need an opportunity an opportunity to create wealth an opportunity to monetize your gift and opportunity for self-employment an opportunity for an upward trajectory you can't just sit in this position god I'm telling you if you just give me one opportunity I'll get out of what it is that I'm in but I feel like I'm dying I can't even breathe I feel like I'm being smothered to death because I'm hanging around sick folk who like struggle and they like struggle because it guarantees them attention god help me they get hellish delight and always complaining about going wrong so that when things go well they talk themselves out of the blessing hallelujah but I need some people who are in this room that are saying god I don't need you to just bless me change the mindset of the people around me because if you change the mindset of the people around me when I give bless I won't have to hide my blessing from folks that are jealous and insecure trying to take what you gave to me that there's a level there's a level of abuse that hasn't been duly recognized or dealt with and it is the torment of neglect it's the torment of neglect no no no nobody really has seen your folder they haven't been able to look in your jacket some handicaps didn't come from a car crash some didn't come from medical malpractice some would not inherit it from a hereditary deformity or an athletic incident but-but-but-but you've never sat through the panoply of psychology to do a full autopsy on on why you think the way you do because you are class a neglect nothing works at its best when it's just left if you leave a car Allwinner outside your house as soon as spring comes you trying to put the key in and make it work and you never started it there transmission is gonna give you trouble because he wasn't designed to just see it my grandmother have sainted memory Edith Holland Brian every now and again the Gran's at the house she made key ASHRAE Thema she made them polish the silverware they did they they just sit now because it's just sitting there something's got to touch it to make it shine or else is going to lose its glimmer if you leave a house idle cobwebs will occupy every corner if you leave a cell phone on sooner or later it's gonna lose its signal or lose its battery and how you think you normal how you think you all right have the all these years of neglect you you really think you function and okay you don't convince yourself to be black is to be independent strong and not need nobody to want to be held to firm depreciated value you think that means you weak only you realize what's been the repercussion of your neglect and you don't even understand that it has been a demonic plot ascribed to your life and to your mind to make people willfully withhold affection so I'm so missed you up you think there's something wrong with you be getting a question your desirability don't even know whether you attractive anymore somebody knowing you were in the clutches of despair and won't give support when they got it to give y'all gonna say nothing to me that you a rock star on your job but you often Annie when you get home everybody at work tell you how brilliant y'all how smart are how great a job you're doing you walk in the house don't nobody say nothing so you got to manufacture a work husband just look straight ahead I don't want get nobody in trouble they bringing you coffee a day they want you got plans for lunch and a person who you really want don't even know this you have normalized your rejection so you you force yourself not to make friends cuz the last time you got hurt last time you got left so now you'd alone ranging you forgot even the long-range ahead Tonto you turn navigate through this whole thing of life nobody ever helped you walk through your rejection and your neglect and you a person that don't like people you don't even know you sound crazy you know you don't only recognize it and I didn't even know how crazy it was till I started reading John five and I didn't even know how it impacts watch this worship us till I got in John 5 John 5 which would you look at it with me please don't take my word for it I want you to look at it cuz I'm talking at you and I know it's uncomfortable for you to make eye contact look at John five in John 5 watch this we see before John five we see Jesus walk water we've seen them in John chapter 2 we seen them watch this turn water in the wine y'all ain't gonna believe it in Exodus we say what's this Moses lifted up his staff in the water split in half every mother in the room knows you couldn't even get back till the water breaks hallelu so there's gotta be some clue to you when Jesus comes by water some get ready to happen oh god I can't hear nobody in here and Jesus man in his own business is his first time in a small hamlet of a town known as Bethesda and when he gets there what's this he just feels like I gotta do something cuz water is close by and all kinds of people to buy did this pool limb defense they're all kind of people people who are blind what you mean blind come here Helen Keller Helen Keller says the only thing worse than being blind is having no vision without a vision the people were come on Church they perish all around the pool of people that got no vision hallelujah the enemy one after Samson's hair because after they cut his hair they gouge his eyes out cuz they understood even when you feel like you got no strike if you got vision you can still get it back god I can't hear nobody sit sitting around that pool ah how people people who've come to a screeching stop they can't they can't move their stuff they feel like life ain't going anywhere and they trying to figure out how do I get my momentum and my drive back and all I keep seeing is a flashing yellow light sitting around that pool of people who are all not only people who are hard but sitting around that pole are people that are wizard people who are falling apart while they act like they got it all together you you sitting beside a leper right now whose whole life is imploding but because they act in church afire yes you ask them how you don't know blessed and highly favored and you ain't even get to sleep till 2:15 this morning cuz you stressed about everything that you're dealing with cuz the bills just keep coming in the money just keeps leaving the bills just keep coming and the money just keeps leaving apart cuz you worried sick about a child that just can't get it together and your problem is you care more than them smiling apart and he sees all of them sees all I'm hanging around this pole and here comes Jesus and something amazing happens that there's a man there who's been there 38 years 38 years friends and this is a problem because I don't know whether you realize it or not Jesus when he was crucified was 33 I'm in John 5 he just accepted his call to ministry two chapters ago and so what is at the oldest he's 31 god help me in here and this man watch this not he's 38 years old he been at the pole 38 years he'd been at the pool 38 years and this is Jesus's first time in Bethesda but he knows them god help me because before he ever put on a human body he saw him while he was in heaven oh god I can't hear nobody in here and said when I get tired i'ma take care that man that been sitting by the pool waiting on the moon cuz he don't believe a move is gonna happen but I'm gonna make a move happen because even when he can't see me I'm watching him and there's some of y'all that ought to be shouting now because there was seasons of your life where you thought God wasn't looking at you and now you're real yes yes own despair oh that's why I know he's watching over me and Jesus asked him a critical question that I how big leave to ask you this morning he asked him do you want to be made whole that's what Jesus asked him not how long you been in this not how do you feel now what is your insurance policy and do you have copay he asked him do you want to be made whole and Lauren is gonna blow your mind he is the evidence that he's fighting through the spirit of rejection and neglect that he says I got nobody to help me and that ain't what God asked them and my friends I got a problem and I hope I hope you able to fight back the tears for just three minutes because part of the problem and the lapse in exegesis by Biblica sand theologians long before me is they always exaggerate who's around the pool and I want to ask a question and maybe you all can wrestle with it in Sunday school when you get out of here if nobody ever raises uncle Charles the question who dropped them off nobody ever put any thought as to how he got there it's gonna get tight now he ain't 38 years old he'd been at the pole 38 years so for the time that's mine I want to launch an investigation to see who dropped him off did you ever think for a moment that maybe his wife dropped him off cuz um I ain't signed up it is I'm still young like I got a life ahead of me y'all I ain't saying nothing amazing I don't do home ki I ain't changing a grown man's bedpan oh god I can't hear nobody he he gonna have to figure it out on his own maybe his wife dropped them off I'm trying to figure out who dropped him off and not just dropped him off didn't help I am please before you recline in the lazy boy chair of self-righteousness I wonder I shudder to think whether his tear dropped him off God him they date they love pop pop as long as he can give him money and y'all y'all ain't saying nothin to me as long as he taking care of family but as soon as he's got any signs of withering away and can't stand for himself then the children got their own careers in their own life and they can't be bought he gonna be all right we done checked it out it's a good place they got five pools there he'll be comfortable wonder if his children dropped them all at the polls I I'm trying to figure out who job tomorrow I wonder I wonder if it was his old war buddies who dropped him off when he was his frat brothers that dropped him off they didn't mind drinking wittle god help me but he no longer had the strength to get up and go to the bathroom god I can't hear no worshipers in here yeah yeah they dig that care about him but they did say my responsibility I can't I can't do all it is how in the world you just drop them all I want to go a step further y'all ain't gonna like it I wonder if it was members of his church god help me here they they can at least say they dropped off communion and they at least had his hand his name on a hospice card and they they dropped by one of the ministers Windsong every now and again but they really didn't think he was gonna get delivered or heal or strike them so at least they put him in a place where he could be comfortable with other six save folk I wonder if it was the church folk that dropped him off folk will leave you when they feel like they can no longer lean on you oh god I can't hear did y'all hear what I just said I said folk will leave you when they feel like they can no longer lean on you and and I'm only talking to a few of you better be honest in church hallelujah that you could handle if it was random folk that neglected you but it was folk that you were investing in people Jesuits that gave years in your life to it you stay the whiffing counseled and pray for and rested their mother stop and that you go into a moment that you can't stand they job you off that spirit of neglect is so heavy spared a projection there's so Dave that it can't even hear what Jesus said Jesus said do you wanna be made whole but his mind is still a hostage how he was treated that he can't even get ready for the next chapter of his life he said I got nobody god I feel the Holy Ghost right through here do you know that you are in a sick place when you wait North sick folks to help you hallelujah they can't help you when they in a worse condition that you are here that's why your prey ought to be God in this season of my life help so many other people surround me with people that God's right because if they don't have strength they don't drain me to death and the critical question empowerment temple 7:30 here's what I need you to know I got a problem with I got no evidence that that lame man at the pole I got no biblical evidence that he ever asked for help he just assumed they wouldn't help him cuz he's used to being rejected and neglected I don't want you to get so broken in your life that you begin to believe everybody is against you every now and again God will drop people in your life that don't want nothing from you but to see you strong I don't know whether you realize it today but you sitting beside one of them that they don't wanna see you handy they wanna see you in the stronger blazer and they believe the best is yet to come god I got the wrong church maybe I should a priestess at another service if you wanna see your neighbors stronger will you just give God glory for them like they not gonna live a handicapped life you keep looking for aid from the infirm they not equipped to help you they broken God helmet they don't have what you need god help me there fail hallelujah but God says I don't care how long you've been struggling by yourself I don't know where I'll send somebody hallelujah I don't know who this is for maybe it's for somebody sitting two rows behind you are you prepared for when help comes so many you keep running away the that God sin into your life Saint not trying to blind swipe you trying to pick you up you walked through the New Testament whenever Jesus is healing somebody but there's some to ten lepers where's the blind men by the roadside whereas a woman has bent over watch the pattern of Jesus is after he heals them he only gives one of two directions the directions he gives watch this over and over again in the gospel it's after you get healed Jesus would only tell them one or two things you would either tell them don't show yourself to the priest god I wish I had Bible readers here y'all I'm called him I wish I would read the word outside Sunday he said watch it go show yourself to the priest ah he would say go home whenever Jesus hears somebody in the New Testament he only gave one of two directions show yourself to the priest or go home now the reason why this gives us a problem when we look in John chapter five is when he tells this man what's this pick up your mat and walk y'all ain't going like this here he never tells him to go to church preach them all I'm trying to do the best I can watch this he never tells him to go back home that's the why in the world didn't he tell them that he told them watch this not to go back to that church and not to go back to that house because those are the Negros there drop them and when I restore you go back to the same people that hurt you before you go another way Jesus I'm preaching better than y'all know Shelton and Jesus said watch this pick up your mat hallelujah and all I need you to do is start walking hallelujah you say for the benefit of the folk that left you because your necks healing this is for mature people is not to prove nothing to nobody I didn't do this for them I did it for you and God said that's why some of y'all can't get blessed because you can dress to show off the folk and the shut people up you got the wrong motive but I need those they are there to say don't care who likes me who talks about me who scandalizes my name what God's got for me I wish I wish I had something better something different because I'm obstructing neon the afro-american hermeneutic that calls for celebration at the end of a sermon cuz ordinarily when that man gets up and walking and that's what we supposed to be shouting and givin each other half a half but that's not the way that God directed me this morning my problem is watch this is that he tells them your stuff and just start walking I'm telling you where you going come on I can't hear nobody huh i nee been promising you know big house I'm telling you about no six-figure job he said when I bless you you gotta trust me when you don't know where you going next you gotta trust me when you can't see the next chapter your life Shawn I'm finished um so I just wanted to mirror and echo the gospel get your stuff and I know this is a chaplet sermon I know it is I forgot to tell you does the church open get your stuff hallelujah that's all I needed to get your bag get your coat get your sháá y'all I ain't saying nothing to me you got a Bible get your stuff and start walking to this altar I can't find nobody in here he says I know you thought you were always gonna be handicapped and disabled not on my watch I saw you struggling before you got here I'm gonna do something for your life that's gonna change your life it's gonna change your predicament and change your situation but I'm gonna do it to you get you both of you in this room and you're not saved but Church home you've never life over to God get your stuff please all the people looking at you crazy don't worry about them they bland they halt they're laying there with it or whatever you got left I want you to get your stuff and I want you to come meet me at this altar please I want you to get saved I want you to give God your heart I want you to give him your soul and I want you to give them your mind because you don't even know today is the day you get healed from neglect today you get resolved from your abandonment issues I want you all over this room you ought to be grateful you got two legs that work let's try them out would you stand please just to make sure nothing happened while you were sitting by the pool I need you to do me a favor please he's surrounded by all of these people who are infirm to a sick who are disabled and he's looking for them for help now realizing that none of them can stand you're surrounded in this moment by abled body believers who want to help push you into the pool you're here in this room in the day you want to give your life over to God you're in this room you're saying has something got to change for me something got a shift whoever you are wherever you are I so desperately want to be your pastor but more than anything I want to see you make Jesus your Lord it'd be good if you made empowerment temple your church but you know what would be better if you made heaven your home come on help me please [Applause] I need you to help me I need you wherever it is that you are in this room would you move and talk to three people bland lame with it I'll know which one they are but they need to get in this water I need you to get to them as quickly as you possibly can please every person would you get to him you're here in this room and you've never given your life over to Christ you're here in this room you're grateful under God that God has blessed you in spite of it all I'm struggling but I'm surviving and life for me ain't been no crystal stair said boards torn up whoever you are in this room I I want you to come please I can't believe you gonna act like that April Fool's Day was last month come on come on you got to make some better decisions some wiser choices some smarter options I need for you to come please bless that wonderful name of Jesus come on would you give God some glory for this man brother Clark go welcome um let them know we got me in here - the Bible says that the Angels rejoice over one that's found if there's somebody else that needs to come I need you to come please hardly I don't even know how you made it this far without them I don't know how you made it this far here comes another brother we just shout about it I'm believing by faith that there's still somebody else that needs to come some husband some wife some boys some girls some family some divorcees some widow I need for you to come this is your hour this is your moment this is your opportunity bless His Holy Name if there's somebody here that needs to come I'm waiting on you I'm pulling out all the stops just to see you get saved I need to see you at this altar I need to see you in right relationship with our loving Lord and Savior hallelujah would you just please just agitate somebody around you ask him are you sure you'll need me to walk you down now you look like you're ready to make a move you look like you get ready to step out on faith bless His name stretch that right hand into faith towards these two beautiful brothers brilliant we're grateful with less because they're now in our family just that right hand into faith and repeat after me you're on the right place at the right time John in the right church serving the only God and I know that's right if you're not right about it would you give God your best shout of Thanksgiving I can't hear anybody I say give God your best shout of Thanksgiving you may be seated in the presence of the Lord I want to ask if I can how many of you are grateful for how God made a way for you how many of you know that there was a season you were sitting by that pole I can't hear anybody anybody ever sat by that pool before haole how many y'all don't want no more weak friends you need some strong people in your corner and in your life the problem that I have with that man at the pole watch this is that his spirit of neglect his spirit of rejection is so deep it's so pervasive that he doesn't even know how to receive help doesn't even know how to take assistance pastor how would you say that why would you say that in it amazing that even after he got up he never said thank you he probably thought oh I'll just make it two or three feet and then I probably stumble and relapse back into what I was in before because he was so used to being left he didn't know that sometimes you just blessed with good intentions they gotta bless you with no strings attached the reason why I'll serve him so is because he said he'll never leave me he'll never forsake me he's a friend that sticks closer than any brother anybody known for yourself I'm telling if I start talking about him we'll never get out of here he's been better than me then I've been to myself and I just love him how because of what it is that he picked you up from because of what he delivered you from how much you to be better than that man in John 5 that's the house aw how much it be better by making sure that I am wise enough in tuned enough to say thank you to him for how he's blessed me and for how he's made away from me here's what I need for you to do ambassadors do you mind partnering with me now thank you so much if you're without an envelope I need you to lift up that hand you're without an envelope that hand I want every person in this room I want you to know that your harvest is getting ready to come can y'all believe in April it was 40 degrees April it was 40 walk around with a coat on one going to working by the time you got off work it felt like spring break you were going through the flu and pneumonia in the same day hallelujah without air Zbornak all cleared up you ought to thank God for the stuff you don't thank God for that he fought off your sinuses your allergies he removed the pollen from the atmosphere just for you to be able to breathe easy at night I want all of us to get a seed of Thanksgiving an expectation our dear friends who are watching us online those of you who are streaming by Facebook those of you at empowerment temple and want I want to challenge your faith on this day this is an exciting month watch this because it's the fifth month of the year and we understand that five is a favor five is the number of grace and I'm believing this it's gonna be a month full of favor and grace how many of you want the favor and grace of God over your life the grace and the favor of God you wanted over your life I know that you do here's what I need from you here's what I need from you I want all of our time as you know what is expected of us from Malachi chapter 3 then we will bring our tithes into the storehouse others hear me I want you to break the speed limit I want you to get a gift of 55 in your possession I want favor and grace I want double favor on my life because I know that he'll bless me indeed how much you please all of you on this the first Sunday of May this is your fifth time a communion table you ought to be grateful under God for what a sacred privilege knowing there's some people who pinion in January they got federalized in April you're not saying nothing to me dad that lost their faculties and their capacity in Feb weary but God allowed you to come be at the table yet another time how much did you get that seed in your hand all of our friends would you get that seed in your possession all of us would you get that seed in your possession as that you'll get it even now every person I want you to get it even now your tithes a seed of fifty five you didn't bring it with you you didn't know I was gonna call for that on either side of the sanctuary you can give electronically through a debit or ATM card if you're writing by cheque you're writing it out to empowerment temple if you're giving online that you'll do so even while we're giving in the house as that every person will please stand to your feet every person stand to your feet please every person if you'll stand to your feet lift up that gift above your head repeat after me Lord thank you for what you did last for what you did last week for what you did yesterday but the seed in my hand is an expectation for what you're gonna do before this month is over amen would you turn to your right I need you to begin coming from the last room every person I need you to be every person is standing please how grateful we are with quaking trepidation mindful can you believe with 30 days from Easter a month ago we were around this table celebrating our risen Lord we are still in awesome wonder but because he lives we can fish tomorrow he paid a price that he didn't know and now we owe a price that we cannot the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life I want you right where it is that you are pleased if a person Reverend Franklin is going to lead us in our prayer of general confession she's not praying for you not over you she's praying with you how little you because all have sinned the leaders who stand rank-and-file amongst you on this morning we stand not because we're perfect but because we're forgiving halleluiah we're thankful for double faith of grace and mercy we're going to pray together come on Reverend Franklin my father of our Lord Jesus Christ may be judge of all men we acknowledge and be welled our manifold sins and wickedness which we from time to time most grievously have committed by thought word or deed against your divine majesty provoking most justly your wrath and indignation against us we do earnestly repent and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings the remembrance of them is Grievous unto us hexie upon us have mercy upon us most merciful father for your son our Lord Jesus Christ say forgive us all that is past and grant that we might hereafter serve and please you in the newness of life to the honor and glory of your name through Jesus Christ our Lord amen amen here's what I want to ask for you to do if you'll pull back the first level of your receptacle thank you you'll lift that way for above your head I don't want you to think that this is just a piece of a cracker in your hand this is what theologians called transubstantiation that everything that was in him is now in this he said to the disciples as he brought them around the table for the Last Supper this is my body and is broken for you would you please break it you supposed to be left by the side of the pool but God got you together gave you the strength to walk again would you please take a knee ever so carefully pulling back the second level of your receptacle [Music] [Music] what can wipe away my SIA nothing but the blood of Jesus what can make me whole again none but the bloody G how much you think this is just a cup of juice in your hand he said this is my blood and is shared for you because of the wondrous blood of Jesus in those seasons those days those nights of torment and you feel like you buy yourself abandoned neglected rejected I want you to remember his blood for that would you please take and join the disciples queried of him master what ought we do when days are not as jubilant as this one he said in those moments I want you to pray the Lord's Prayer every person in the room would you pray with me our Father [Music] [Music] would you do me a favor would you plead these two or three people and tell them there's gonna be a good month for you empowerment would you mind after you would have done that would you take your seats please [Laughter] in some wonderful people in this room today as it you'll secure your seats there's some wonderful people who are in this room I want to introduce you to them some wonderfully blessed and anointed people are in church today would you allow me to introduce you to them please hallelujah what yep they did brilliant and beautiful in church today and I want to introduce them to you all the people born in the month of May would you please stand all the people born in the month of May would you please come and don't hate we just talked about their jealousy spirit come on would you give God glory for all the people born in the month of May 20 min favor if they're standing would you embrace them and tell them the rest of your life is gonna be the best of your life that's the Lord you may be seated in the presence of the Lord ladies I ask that all the ladies in the room but you please stand all the ladies in the room would you please stand may is our women seasoned I want every sister to lay hands on yourself and shout me to not because I'm a victim but because I'm an overcomer because greater is He that is in me than he that is in the world Women's Day is May 20th you already know that's the day before your pastors birthday so an alarm is already set on your phone May 20th is our Women's Day I want you to bring all of your girlfriends your soror your sisters or all the people off your job out your beauty salon bring them to church on May 20th all day long we have in a white party it's gonna be amazing I want you to please please I know you can go on a fantastic voyage with Tom Joyner but you with us we have in our own white party on May 20th 7:30 to 9:30 and 11:30 that is as a joke please do it I want you to do me a favor ladies I want you to give a round of applause for all those that don't need it barb we're indifferent to collect 1000 we want to collect 1000 purses by May 20th I and we're up to a running start they're still coming give God a hand clap of praise also ask that you'll please remember to bring them on next Sunday and the Sunday after that I want to pause if I can for just one moment next Sunday is Mother's Day is that correct next Sunday is Mother's Day this ain't even in my announcements but I just feel compelled to say it I forbid you to be depressed on next Sunday I know mama not here anymore I know she's gone on to be with the Lord but you are not gonna stay in that bed next Sunday you gonna come give God glory for the mother that God come on somebody give God praise for that we're gonna do a special recognition and acknowledgement for all of our mothers out ladies with partnering with ebony the AME Church in Fort Washington Maryland for their women's retreat which is May 31st through June 2nd our women's Coordinating Committee is out in the lobby they want to get all over your information you may be seated come on give God a hand clap of praise I cannot tell you amazingly proud I was as pastor of our intercessory team led by Reverend Cecilia Bryant at Morgan State University this past Thursday for the inter for the National Day of Prayer it was absolutely amazing it was awe-inspiring if you missed it don't worry about it come back here Wednesday at 12:00 at noon Wednesday at 12:00 at noon I told you this whole month I'm preaching this series called no surgery will be required I only do this when it is that God leaves and yields me to do so on the last Tuesday in May the last Tuesday in May I'm gonna be doing a special healing and delivering service here at the church the last Tuesday in May if you walk through that door I'm gonna pray over you personally I want to lay hands on you and I'm gonna believe God for complete healing in every area and dimension of your life how many of you know God is a healer the last Tuesday in May that does not mean don't come to church until they're how we got Bible study every I want you to please make sure that you are a part of it our dear friends this is a national awareness month national mental health awareness month come online and I am so grateful to share with you that empowerment temple is launching its own into health ministry here in our church somebody join me and giving God a Handclap appraised we're partnering with our long-standing friends up from the time organization I and I want to ask Lauren who's really the boss and in charge I've worked for her today she's about our mental health ministry and the capacity of what it is the time organization has to offer and what is gonna be made available to you today somebody give God a hand clap a phrase for Lauren now good morning so time organization has been providing mental health services for 18 years that's a very long time so today we're here to break down the wall of mental health stigma well we have a call we don't rush we rush to the ER to get ourselves checked out but when we have feelings and thoughts in our mind is in pain we don't rush to do anything about it so today we're here we're set up in the lobby to do many consult with you if you feel not right if someone you know is not right if your family is not right please stop by the table and find out what you can do about it because it is something you can do about it don't shy away from mental health it doesn't mean you're crazy it doesn't mean something's wrong with you it means that something needs to be healed and that's okay so please stop by we're set up in the front even if you don't know what's wrong just stop by and see that and we can help you try to figure out what it is thank you they're gonna be here at all of our services on today and we're so excited to partner with them would you stand to your feet please and said you'll stand to your feet take your neighbor by the hand if you'll do that lift up that neighbors hand I speak victory over your month y'all did hear what I just said I speak victory over your month the entire month of May Lee is gonna be met with success no failure in the month of May healing in your mind and your body and in your spirit now what do you move absolutely able to do anything but fail may God rest may God rule and may God abide with each and every one of you heads forth now and forevermore

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