Ministers Retreat 2021 | Friday Evening | Bishop C.M. Wright

tonight uh we have come not only to hear a message from our district superintendent who will be coming as the young folks say it'll be a minute before he comes [Music] our goal is to be done by 8 52 when the screens go up and the lights go off we're trying folks we'll find out if it worked tonight but we don't intend to be eternal but i'm going to tell you neither are we going to be in a hurry because we've come to honor bishop wright for his years of service as district superintendent along with his near and dear wife sister wright you've been an integral part of this 14-year journey along the way and the bible says in romans 13 7 give to everyone what you owe them if you owe taxes pay taxes [Music] let's go on if revenue then revenue if respect then respect and if honor then honor when we say honor we're talking about esteem and dignity offered and let me tell you we owe a debt of honor to chester and alice wright [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you i've often tried to live in the moment observing individuals who are exceptional in their craft hear me out on this if the apostle paul used sports as an analogy so can i in fact if elder gleason use mr rogers and cheers i can use anything i want as an analogy but what i'm trying to say it's easy to look back at a hall of fame player admire the sum of their career arrangement uh accomplishments isn't it you look back and i just thought what if we could pinch ourselves and and and realize and enjoy and honor an active player in this present life that no doubt will be a legend when we look back on history sometimes i tell my family you see that quarterback right there pay attention because you're living what you're going to find out in history and we watch records formed right in front of us that arguably may never be broken in the future and let me tell you tonight is such a moment because in our district family we are honoring the longest accumulative service of any district superintendent in 47 years of our existence 18 years bishop wright has served this district from 1988 to 1992 and then from 2007 to this present year 2021 and then as continuous service bishop wright and elder mcintyre bishop mcintyre they're a tie of 14 years they have served continuously for our district now i'm going to tell you right now bishop mcintyre if i know this man if he was going to be tied with anybody he'd wanted to be with you isn't this awesome we're living it right now [Applause] but i think you would agree with me as we pause to honor the rights you would see and agree it's more than just service records that we're going to talk about and speak about hear me today i'm not looking at a quarterback on television right now you see that man that's one of the most brilliant and anointed apostolic minds that we've ever seen [Applause] brother wright thank you for challenging us and leading us to all things apostolic and we love you for that and you know as pastor david wright said wednesday he tried his best to you know just do a one-and-done disclaimer as my brother joel said you saw that was pretty hard to do and i've kind of thought about that you know from here on out in our district can we assume just that the most apostolic concepts that we've experienced as a district were taught by this man and so we don't always have to give the preamble every time we'll just know yeah i remember bishop wright taught us that i'm gonna tell you right now sir you don't always get the credit at abundant life sometimes i give it to you but you don't always get the credit can't use your name all the time it's under the blood i will say another thing that was said wednesday night was that we are going from a moses generation to a joshua generation and it was mentioned that moses generations have strong opinions right meet the moses of all moses right here my dear friend scott systrack our name director he said i may not always be right but i'm never in doubt i remember years ago when joel was meeting the board i assume for his ordination the board was asking him you know just what are your plans you know where you see yourself going in ministry and he said this statement he said well i'm just kind of going with the flow and i was sitting there thinking should i do it or not that's all why not so i looked at him and i looked at joel and i pointed to his dad and i said is he the flow he said you're not right you know you i i've kind of picked up we experienced it today the queue when he's pondering if or how he should say that kind of that little chuckle you know he's he's fixing to decide whether he should lay that on us or not but i will tell you and i i don't know if you recall this but i have a moment etched in my mind we were under the tent for the 40th anniversary of antioch i'm not going to do my best i mean i'm not going to do is what i want to do to communicate this words won't help me but it was just from the backdrop that you may have been misunderstood over those 40 years i believe you're trying to acknowledge and certainly you recognize in your strong passion and your intense approach but here's what i do remember you saying and if you don't remember it i get this one because nine times out of ten you remember what i don't but i remember this man looking at a church that he had served for 40 years and he said everything i did was because of my love for you and it was a moment and he knows i'm always watching and looking and it was a moment when i saw a man that said there may have been misunderstandings but i promise you it's coming from a heart of love and i want to tell you sir i want to assure you i want to respond to you that we have never questioned what you are how you present things that it's always been from a place of love for this district and it's more than just about bishop wright himself there is an incredible lady she's affectionately called mother right she has respectfully called alice faye wright and while she's certainly still actively and willingly serving our district in her roles or responsibilities he may run off to the far beyond but she's still here and she's still loving us and still willing to serve us and but all that being said we've got to acknowledge her contributions that she's made in this office of the district superintendent through the years she has been what i call my secret weapon okay now let me tell you what i mean by that if this is hypothetical okay if bishop wright ever happened to get distracted or busy or focused or in a proverbial cave just hypothetically okay and we need an answer he's getting revelation from god but we're trying to run this place i say i have a secret weapon and i'll if i use the cc first lady on that man i'm telling you that means i've got to have an answer or i'll call and i'll say you know if you just happen to talk to bishop wright will you ask him i remember one time i was on the parking lot in some shopping center in the car whatever i was doing and somebody from the district called and they said i need this answer and i couldn't provide the answer and and uh john the revelator is the only one that could give it to me and um i said just a minute i said let me work on it i called my secret weapon and with minutes minutes later i called this district official back and gave an answer he said how did you do that i said well i have my sources and i've always kind of wanted maybe a fly on the wall when i hung up what took place on the other side chester i don't know how she did it scripture comes to mind i say unto you though he will not rise and give him because he is his friend yet because of his opportunity he will rise and give him as many as he needed let me tell you no man can no one can get this man's attention than the love of his life and that we love you and thank you for everything that you have done i'm going to tell you we know it's going to woefully lack our heart of what we're trying to do here tonight but it's our desire to honor you all for your years of service and we love you and with that i ask you to turn your attention to the screen there's a tribute that's been created at our request by nathanael wright [Music] and she turned and said ronnie the preacher is here he turned and looked at her her and said invite him in and uh four hours later it just wouldn't stop they were so hungry and it was just flowing and finally i thought you know i really i've been here a long time i really need to go and and i said to him well what do you think about it and he turned to her and said well linda what do you think about this she said i think we ought to look into this and he turned and looked at me and said what should we do [Music] [Music] so [Music] of every spirit that is not of you jesus in the name of the lord jesus christ i speak peace to these houses i speak joy to these houses i speak the grace of god into these houses i speak the mercy of god in these houses i speak the love of god in the manifestation of these houses in the name of the lord jesus christ in the name of the lord jesus christ [Music] [Music] and all he has done for me [Music] my soul cries out hallelujah it's an honor tonight for brother keats and i to stand before you representing representing the students and youth committee of this district our bishop loves the students of maryland dc over the past 14 years many individuals have served on this youth committee but over that period of time our superintendent has been a consistent voice that's because of his intentional investment in the lives of the next generation we're thankful for that whether it was bishop and sister wright attending events just in support special sessions that we asked him to be part of or as most of us know camp devotions that was a very special time for us and you saw just a touch of that here in this video the youth team has always considered it a high honor that our bishop would be willing to invest his time to come in and minister to our students we also thank sister wright for allowing him to come and to spend time with us many of us now serve on the youth team have heard you bishop as students as youth leaders and now as young leaders the special part of that devotional time would be when bishop would arrive early and he would bring in a bag and in that bag would be many of his old ties and what he would do is before a session he would lay them out all over the altar and then at the end of the devotion for that day he would call students to the front and he would have them take a tie and students would take a little bit of bishop back home with them that was always a very special moment bishop we just have a very small token for you brother keats if you could display that it's a tie and some photos of you ministering to us in devotion now you don't have to be obligated to wear this we wanted to frame it for you so don't worry about that and bishop many of us in this room probably some of those watching have your ties in our closets at home but sir it's what you have and what you continue to minister to us that we are going to carry for the rest of our lives we thank you for that i'm going to very briefly just read a letter on behalf of our students to bishop wright bishop thank you for your investment and love that you have poured into our youth our student leaders and our district at large our hearts minds and souls have been forever changed because of your example as a bold yet humble true apostolic while you've served this district officially a superintendent we've been honored to experience you as a teacher and a friend at supernatural camp devotionals and transformational altar calls your spirit-led ministry has imparted truth and love to generations of students thank you for responding to the call of god and never holding back and trusting us with precious revelation often it was beyond our years and age but right on time when we needed to hear it we're forever indebted to you with our prayers and gratitude may peace and favor of god rest upon you in jesus name amen bishop we love you we honor you and we thank you [Applause] praise the lord my husband was asked to represent the district and he has written a letter to the rights and for you to hear too i'm going to be his reader tonight i am his voice most of the time i'm his seeing my wife but tonight i am his voice also bishop for the right april 23rd to 2021 i'm glad and honored to be a part of this very special occasion we are here to show appreciation and tribute to our district superintendent bishop chester wright my experience with brother wright began the last week of the year in 1971 after christmas but before new year's day my wife and i as hippies and not yet saved were seeking god and planning on moving to colorado but i felt god had spoken to me telling me to wait there would be something for us in the new year so we waited shortly after brother wright knocked on our apartment door witnessed to us and taught my wife and i our very first bible study the baptist the mormons and others had knocked on our door it was a new apartment complex and everybody was coming but it did not feel right however when brother wright knocked on our door and we invited him into our home we knew that he was different there was a glow about him we did not know at the time but it was the holy ghost shine we went to service the next night were baptized received the holy ghost and began attending brother rights church he was our first and only pastor [Applause] [Music] brother wright spent many hours teaching and grounding us in the truth not just by what he preached but by how he lived i'd like to share with you three attributes of brother rights which he instilled in me and has shared with the district during his time here in maryland luke 9 62 states jesus said unto him no man having put his hand to the plow and looking back is fit for the kingdom of god brother wright was a great example to me one thing he instilled in me and tried to instill in the district was perseverance don't give up don't don't give up if brother wright had something in his sights he never hesitated he never looked to the left or the right he had that special ability to stand firm and strong no matter what happened to him devastation may raise its ugly head and attempt defeat let's remember the time of the huge snowstorm caused the roof of his church to fall in in annapolis it it caved in it was a big blow but brother wright did not stop did not let that stop him sure he was devastated but he encouraged himself in the lord and continued working and reclaiming the seemingly lost crown he knows how to persevere for the right was a man who put his hand to the plow and did not look back he was tested trials came but he stood steadfast and went through them mark 11 24 simply says therefore i say unto you what things so ever ye desire when ye pray believe that ye receive them and ye shall have them brother wright also has tenacity he is determined persistent and steadfast he was personally responsible for bringing so many young ministers to the maryland dc district to start churches he was a walking advertisement brother wright was not quiet about the work in maryland dc district and his love for the east coast he was an advocate for this district and was not shy about it has he poked you in the chest emphasizing with a loud voice how necessary it was for you to come to maryland it didn't matter where i've heard him preaching the district call in parking lots restaurants and of course at the altar how many of you came here because of brother right's influence i'm sure there are many of you first corinthians 2 and 5 states that your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men but in the power of god lastly for the right is a man of strong faith he is a man who trusts in god completely he is devoted and loyal to the things of god speaking personally my very first time in church which coincided with my first time to an altar brother wright looked to me and said when you lift your hands to god and start praising him i believe the first words you will speak will be in other tongues wow what faith he lived by this he was all about it he knew god would take care of his needs and the needs of his church this is just one small example of his faith of course as a sword cuts both ways i'm reminded of the other side of his strong faith prayers and brother wright's desire to see a particular person come to god and serve him he prayed for god to put rocks in this person's pillow in bed and not let him have a peaceful night asleep until he relinquished this stubborn streak and yielded to god's will and plan brother wright also taught me that if i wanted to be blessed i must bless others as far as i know missionaries have never left antioch empty-handed no matter the local church's pressures bills or obligations when you put the work of god first you always come out on top praise the lord brother i we thank you for your service to our district we thank you for giving us your best years we pray the continued blessings and move of god's spirit on you as you partake in this new venture in your life remember us pray for us and know that you are honored and loved ron libby and the maryland dc [Applause] district um well all that was true and i've been fair got problems today because in troubles because he worked me so bad i just fell to the ground my brother right came to our house we knew nothing we didn't know anything but we knew there was a god and was unbelievable and through years it's amazing and not interestingly he's been my friend for these low years you don't find that too much and it's and my son that had to live through that that was a joke don't you hate that when you say that it's funny nobody thinks it's funny then you say you've been a friend you've been a passer you've been uh i don't know how to explain it that's why i tell them to say i love you and i know that where your things are going and what's happening you will do fantastically blessed that anybody could do that amen okay i was one year of age and went where they took me i also have only had one pastor in my life because what brother wright was he poured into my father and which we are eternally grateful for i have two this is not part of the presentation i please allow me this liberty i have two uh indelible marks of interaction with you brother right one was in the columbia campground brother david mentioned it the other night it was i'm guessing it had to be in the late 70s the early 80s i'm guessing it was the early 80s so roughly 81 or 82 and my dad was doing one of his first mission trips to africa it had to be i had to be nine or ten and i didn't understand a lot that was going on and i did know that there was some risk and for some reason it just the overwhelmingness of the responsibility of what was going on was i i can't i don't i was trying over there i was trying to pull it all back but all i remember was i fell apart as a small child and i'll never forget brother wright sensing that coming over and putting his arms around a little kid and consoling me and really just sort of stepping into the spot if it was ever needed it was well communicated he was stepping into the spot in case one generation ahead of me would have challenges and difficulties at that time and then it wasn't just but a few years ago i say a few it was roughly five or six years ago that we were at um an occasion on your property and it was another tent and i don't remember why but we were at a tent service at your place we were having some um we were having some questions and some challenges and some difficulties my wife and i not together well we were having them together but not between us we were sharing them and in the same in the same gentleness and the same compassion and in the same love he stepped in and ministered care concern to yet not just the generation above me but to the generation beneath me in which i am grateful for thank you i am here representing the district board and this great body of ministers and wives and families the bible tells us in ecclesiastes chapter 4 and verse number 12 that a three-fold chord is not quickly broken and in some light way if you know bishop wright if you've known him for any amount of time he is wound together i didn't say tight he is wound together with a three-folded cord he's often said if he is cut and bleeds he'll bleed blue and gold and red white and blue that three-folded court is the court of the navy the court of america and the court of the gospel and the maryland d.c district has been blessed as a result that bishop bright is not easily broken and one function of this three-folded unbreakable life lived is the piercing clarity we have received from bishop wright the clarity of signaling the clarity of keeping time and the clarity of sounding alarms we have embraced this we will embrace this and we continue to embrace your leadership as we all make our way to our home in heaven the item that is most commonly used to bring such clarity in the natural is that of the bell and specifically a navy bell bells are a very important part of a ship's routine and readiness the ship's bell has been a part of the traditions of the world's navies and merchant fleets for centuries for both functional and ceremonial uses one of the earliest recorded mentions of the ship's bell was on a british ship around 1485. that bell is used for signaling keeping time and sounding alarms and bells are a very important part of a sailor's life time at sea is measured by the trickle of sand prior to the timepiece it was measured by the trickle of sand through a half hour glass the one that was on watch on duty watching that glass and turning it when the sand had run out would strike the bell as a signal that he had performed his vital function this age-old practice of sounding the bell on the hour and the half hour still holds a place in the modern navy the sounding of a ship's bell can serve as a warning signal to other vessels in poor visibility and fog even today the maritime law requires that all ships carry an efficient bell for warnings the ship's bell can announce the presence of important persons when a ship's captain or a flag officer or other important persons arrive or depart watch standers make an announcement to the ship and they ring the bell and bells remain a powerful and tangible reminder of history and heritage and accomplishments of the naval service bishop wright the district would like to present to you a ship's bell there's only two scriptures in the bible that have the word bell both are in the book of exodus and both are in relation to being a part of the priest's garments the first is found in exodus chapter 28 and verse 34 where it specifically says a golden bell the second is in exodus 39 and 26 where it tells us where this bell is about the hem of the robe to minister in and then it tells us why so that his sound shall be heard the bells were doubtless doubtless intended to keep the people's attention to the very solemn and important office which the priest was then performing the bells were so that their hearts would stay engaged in the work that was being performed and to keep in this passage aaron himself in remembrance that he was ministering before jehovah and that we should not come into his presence without reverence tonight bishop wright we present the ship's bell as a token of love a symbol of service and a reminder of this moment this very bell is believed to have been in service on a submarine but please tonight see it as a message that the ship's bell represents the kingdom of god and the maryland dc district is saying thank you thank you thank you for letting us know what time it is and thank you for at times in our life for sounding the alarm and thank you for signaling to us in times of low visibility and thank you for always reminding us whose presence we're in god bless you may be seated at this time if i could invite bishop and mother wright to the platform we want to do just a couple more things on behalf of maryland dc district we love you so much we want to give you this card that will express just a little bit of our sentiments and then also we want to present to you a designated amount for a trip of your choice on the date of your choice a getaway for the two of you [Applause] thank you vanna white we knew we loved brother reynolds another part of this great heritage uh we we knew there was no way we could say where to go when to go that would have been impossible but we will tell you that we are going to check on you and we're going to work out this and if you don't cooperate i have a secret weapon [Applause] so at this time what i'd like to do and she can forgive me later i'd like for mother right to greet us and then we're going to turn it over to bishop to respond and lead us how he feels one more time as i step off this platform our district superintendent and his lovely wife let's give them a hand right now thank you you may be seated i give honor to god for his goodness his grace his mercy it has been a privilege for us to serve in this position for the x amount of years we've been here they've gone by very fast [Music] we're not going anywhere i almost feel like it's kind of a goodbye service um and you're not going to push me out of the maryland dc district because sister linda mcintyre can tell you that i grew up here so this is home to me and i love this district dearly uh we've sing a lot of old songs this week so i think it would be all right if we sing this one and this is how i feel about jesus when i first fell in love with jesus i gave him all my heart i thought i could not love him more than i did right at the start of when i look back over the mountain [Music] do you feel this way it makes me know i love him so much more that i did oh i keep falling in love with him over and over and over and over again i keep falling in love with him over and over and [Music] over again my jesus gets sweeter [Music] as the days go by oh what a love between my lord and i fall in love with him over and over and over and over again and i love to sing this first there's a hand that i hold on to i've been holding in a long time through each valley and each trial and there's a shoulder that i lean upon as i face another roma and there's a love that i can [Music] it's fresh and new every day my heart is all overflowing [Music] over and over and over and over again every day that i get up here over and over and over again my jesus gets sweeter as the days go by oh what a love between my lord and i fallen in love with him over and over and over and over [Applause] is [Music] but there's a love that i can depend on [Music] [Applause] [Music] i want you to know that i keep falling in love with him over and over and over and over again i keep falling in love with him over and over and over and over again [Music] between my [Music] with lord over and over and over and over again let's give him the praise and the glory and the honor that is due to him in this place tonight we thank god for everything and all of your kind words but it's all because of jesus you wouldn't be here i wouldn't be here tonight if it wasn't for the love and the grace of god somebody praise him one more time we love maryland dc district i don't need a clean one [Music] we have learned the mass kiss i don't like it you may be seated wow i don't know how any human being in their right mind can respond to all that uh but i i want to say this to you uh in a just a little over a month on the 5th of june will be 53 years ago i stood on the grass at the naval academy football stadium and finished my sixth year in maryland my dad was transferred to maryland in july of 1962. and i went to the high school in oxford hill senior high school which is right at the junction of indian head highway in the beltway and i graduated there in 1964 and went from there to the naval academy i went to brother reynolds church when it was on minnesota avenue downtown washington dc so my first exposure to the maryland dc area was i attended church in dc graduated from a maryland high school and went to the naval academy four years as the only pentecostal there did not leave behind joyful memories it was a spiritual boot camp of the highest order and i would not be the person i am today without that but we were only gone two years and i was only going two years and three months when the lord got me miraculously out of the navy and uh sent us back here to build church my roots in maryland run very very deeply i have said on numerous occasions the birth certificate says florida but the heart says maryland and dc and uh we have loved this place we've loved the souls of this place and it's been an honor and privilege of god to be called to be a part of this district one of the founding ministers of our district when i first came here we were a part of the east central district which was maryland dc and west virginia of course in the upc it was known as the west virginia district which graded me no end you can you can you i can say you can't imagine you think you can you cannot you cannot imagine how much that graded me and so my loud insistent voice was one of the ones stirring it up brother mcintyre and of course the elder what can i say he's only a couple of months younger than my dad and he's been like a dad to me and we've had our ups and downs but mostly ups and we've had in those downs were when i was young and very stupid and he was very patient with me and loving me loved being loving to me and he probably showed more confidence in me than any other single being in the world has ever shown to me except for my wife i became home missions director in 1978 at 32 years of age and brother mcintyre said to me brother wright you go get them i'll back you you don't have to call and tell me who they are you're going to have to call and tell me anything about them if they're good enough for you i'll back you i've never heard of any superintendent ever doing that including this one i had to be fair to add that but with his support and backing and him being the covering and i i don't even want to think about the kind of heat he took from brethren here because he gave such latitude both of us knew that not everybody that was coming was going to stay but we thought if we could get enough come we would have a significant increase and we did in those four years 45 different home missionaries came to the maryland dc district and within a few years after that four-year period there was only about 30 of them left only about 30 of them left did you get that only about 30 of them left i think uh i think losing 15 to gain 30 was a pretty good bargain don't you amen and so the lord has blessed us so very much as a district he's brought us so far and um it has been such a an honor our elder our founding elder he was like everybody's dad i was can you believe i was elected presbyter in 1976 on one qualification i was 30 literally one qualification and honestly looking back on it that was the qualification but brother mcintyre in his persistence and patience with me brother brother libby talked about what god put into him through me well let me tell you something i had a good source for persistence and patience being taught me and he really did he really did it was the most amazing thing i'm going to tell on him i'm a student of people i i i first and foremost i want to follow god but i watch people i've done i don't even know when i started it was i was very young and i would sit in the board meetings once i got elected and i would watch him and of course mcintyre is irish if you haven't figured that out well two of my four grandparents have irish names also so they had a little i wanted to learn this and i watched this over and over and over again i watched the first time something came up i watched it rise and he'd catch himself he didn't do anything with that first reaction that first reaction was his humanity but he would catch it and then when he opened his mouth it was god every time i watched that it was the most amazing thing so in brother reynolds praise god what i remember as we were when we first came to the district uh their church was a little closer drive for us because to get to brother mcintyre's church we had to pay tolls and that was difficult for home missionaries to do so the reynolds just so graciously welcomed us into their home and and were so kind to us so loving to us so encouraging to us and no no one stands on their own no one survives on their own no one can take the credit and say look what i have done we're all an accumulation of all the investments that's been made into us over the years and the continued investments and we appreciate that so thank you for your kindness tonight i'll tell this little story on myself i was turning 60 and when i was younger and a lot more stupid i would use my sensitivity to figure out the surprises they try to do for my birthday party i thought it was cool to be able to tell them what they had planned after they did all that work to surprise me i would tell them you didn't surprise me this is what you've got planned i fairly quickly i wish i could say it i only did it a couple of times before i learned but it was more than that i learned that that was not a wise thing to do at all so i learned to turn all of that off and let be done whatever was going to be done and whatever but i so i had i knew that they were planning something big or whatever for my 60th and so the lord and i are having some very difficult conversations and i'm saying i don't want to go sit and hear all this stuff i don't hear it and i complained for a while complained for a while and tried to figure out a way out of having to sit through all that and then he finally said to me you don't get it do you and when he starts a conversation with that i know i'm about to have the boom lord on me he said you don't get it do you no i i guess i don't he said they're not talking about you you and i both know you what they're really telling you is how good a job i have done to cover you and hide you so i prayed today i said lord by your grace let everything said pass through and go to you don't let me do what lucifer did and hold on to any of it so while i thank you for your great great kindness the lord and i know me and i deeply appreciate the words you say because he was a lot more successful than i thought he was and hiding me [Laughter] praise god praise god i so appreciate you i would be remiss and i'm going to say more tomorrow but because we have brethren are not able to be here tonight but uh there's three people i want to thank so very personally here obviously my family that's not one of the three in case you wonder how long i've been superintendent david and angie had been married 15 years the month i was elected 14 years ago their oldest child was 10. their youngest was four joel and kate had been married four years when i was elected and their oldest child was three months that's how long ago this was so i thank them and the days of my distraction and i won't address brother rieber's remarks as to why i was distracted the second the person i want to thank his brother reverend of course sister river would be a part of that and uh i'm i'm gonna make it through this god alone and possibly my wife to a degree knows how absolutely selfless and pure the motives have been brother and sister reaver in working with me as a secretary they have given themselves tirelessly to make me look like a success if he's ever complained other than the frustrations of getting a hold of me sometime i don't i don't know anything about it the spirit motive has been absolutely pure and uh he hasn't served me to serve me he's served me to serve you and uh frankly brother reaver i will miss that absolutely the most about this job working with you and your kindness your faithfulness your loyalty and of course obviously my wife i've said many times my wife is going to get two crowns in heaven the crown of life which every saved person is going to get in a separate one just for being married to me and you're laughing and i appreciate you laughing but i'm deadly serious i am not an easy fella to live with and how she's put up with it 52-plus years i don't know it has to be the grace of god but i deeply appreciate her her support and those occasions when either the phone call came in or she discerned she said now she'll she'll say something along line now i know you're all fixated on what god's saying to you right now but you took a job you let your name stand oh yeah yeah so i know what you're doing right now is important in the spirit to you and this new thing god's showing you but you accepted a job and you need to do that i always recognize the voice of a superior officer in that context praise god so love of my life thank you and obviously the one who deserves all the praise and the honor and glory is the lord jesus christ thank you and i i so i really deeply appreciate i it's been so very moving to walk by so many people i can feel checking me out to see how i'm doing it's happened over and over and over again and some would say how are you doing i knew what they were saying how are you doing well when i took that oath of office that commissioning certificate that has hung on the wall and hangs on the wall now said that i serve at the pleasure of the president if i'm willing to serve at the pleasure of a human being who could tell me to go here and there and it didn't matter what i wanted then it is a deep honor and privilege to serve at the president of my at the prerogative of my god and uh this new thing is very new for me um is just it's very encouraging because this year i'm going to be in about 48 churches and i just turned 75 so you know how encouraging that is if i'm in the will of god that means he's going to give me the strength to do it that's like a promise isn't it god so i am very excited about that i have every intention to be a part of whatever i can here because i love you but the lord is moving me into a different place i'm not done i said to brother gleason today i feel like i've got so much unfinished business i feel like i've got so much unfinished business to do i'll say this i'm going to say this a look for a few moments tomorrow to the brethren but i need to say this tonight i understand and accept that my ministry to this district the last 14 years of necessity in the will of god is changing as the district superintendent i had the authority to say what i felt like god was giving me to say i respect authority i respect chain of command and if you think i'm going to disappear i'm not but i am going whoever is elected tomorrow and god has not told me who's going to get elected they will have my utmost respect and submission and i'm not going to work behind their back i'm going to do whatever they want me to do and i'm going to respect them and give them room and if you want to read something into that then you're reading the wrong thing because i am totally at peace with this change it is god's will god's time and i am thankful for that i'm thankful for it now i've tried to be quick i have not been okay and this is officially the beginning of ministry just know that okay this is my last shot do you have the gift of interpretation okay this is it i walked in the building today and i walked over by brother gleason and said you've got a word from god on you i do i do the lord last year talked to me about the last day i wondered jesus obviously knew it was his last day to live he knew it you can tell from the things he did the things he said to people he knew it was his last day to live but we all experience a lot of different last days and this is my last 18 hours or so of being district superintendent and so in prayer it's it's felt such a a weight of responsibility i mean i've as district superintendent i have preached some some things that have not always been easy to hear but i prayed now lord this is the last shot what are you going to say and if i could tell you honestly my humanity would love to get up here and preach something new and deep to you you've never heard before something i've never preached before i love ministering fresh revelation because while i re while i minister that revelation he's putting pieces of it together in a way that he had not explained it before and so he's doing that he's putting these pieces together and then i love that but it's not going to happen he right now has has given me a message that is the summary of my life the summer of my ministry and it's the word i want to leave with you in his will at his direction as my last message as superintendent on august the 30th of last year when he had made it clear that he was sending me to do a new thing in my life i was an evangelist loving every minute of it planned to do it for the next 10 years i made it eight months because he wouldn't leave me alone about coming to maryland and the other day he said when you wanted to travel i called you off the field and sent you to build a church now that you don't want to travel that's what he said because now you're doing this because i want you to do it not because you want to do it and uh i just heard these words finally my brethren paul said this to us was it six times five times yeah five times he used the terminology finally my brother i'm not going to use any of those verses as the text because it was i understood when the lord spoke that to me this was the last official word i get to speak to you as your superintendent the verses i want to use with or share with you is acts 13 21-22 and afterward they desired a king and god gave unto them saul the son of sis a man of the tribe of benjamin by the space of forty years and when he had removed him he raised up unto them david to be their king to whom also he gave testimony god testified about david and said i have found david the son of jesse a man after mine own heart which shall fulfill all my will in first samuel chapter 13 verse 14 but now thy kingdom shall not continue the lord hath sought him a man after his own heart the lord seeks for those who seek for him not from him no god is not seeking for those who seek from him if you're seeking from god you've missed the point entirely do i want to see a move of god here tonight yes i did not ask for that do i want to see the maryland dc district grow yes do i want to see souls saved in the maryland dc district yes i don't ask for those things what i prayed for you and i to have is an unswerving un mitigated un restrainable desire for the person of the lord jesus christ nothing else if i get him i get everything i cannot seek him without seeking his will not my will not seeking from him for him to give me my will i'm seeking for him and that's what acts 13 says i sought for a man after my heart or uh i found a man after my heart who will do all my will because it's an impossibility for you and i to seek for the person of the lord jesus christ without seeking to completely surrender ourselves to his will and his will only i've never had the lord do with me what he's done these last last year plus when he really began to talk to me in august about this change and he gave it to me little by little over a month six weeks time um i've never had a direction in my life that he gave more supernatural confirmations to i said at the time okay lord i've already said yes but over the last couple of weeks especially i understood why he went to such an extreme to give me so many confirmations because yeah praise god but he he began to talk to me and he told me what to do and told me how to do it he told me what i was going to do in these church churches what what what what he wanted to do through me and and how he wanted to do it and then he said and you're only going to go places that will trust you enough to not make you a part of their program but will forego their program and give it to you to do whatever god leads you to do and i'm thinking to myself lord in case you didn't know this is the upc and pastors don't just turn their services over to somebody from the beginning it just doesn't happen lord he said this is what i told you to do so i wrote an email and i sent it to people that that he told me to send it to and i'm going boy this is not gonna go well right and then i had guys and what i was saying was if you're interested in this let me know and i'll put you on a list and i will pray and here's the other one and i will come when the lord tells me to come if that works for you fine i'll be there if it doesn't that's okay too i'm going someplace else i'm just looking for the will of god he said i'm going to lead you like i led paul in acts 16. i'm going to give you a direction it'll be from me and then i'm going to tell you no and then i'll give you another direction and it'll be for me then i'm going to tell you no i'm going to check your submission to me and finally when i'm ready i'll give you my direction he said let me ask you a question did i tell abraham to offer isaac meaning kill him yes lord did i mean it yes did abraham believed that i'm in it yeah you made the point he did the fact that i didn't require him to do it wasn't in his mind i said do it he was determined to do it he proved to me he was determined but i chose to not require him to do that i will require of you and every other child of mine to give me what is absolutely their most important valuable possession whatever that is whether it's their dreams their visions their family their church their ministry whatever it is and i will test them and repeatedly test them to see if they if they give me what's most important to them i may give it back i may not give it back once they've passed the test but i'm going to try them now here we are we talk in tongues who god comes we get goosebumps we shout we praise we come to church do i want him no matter the cost or do i want do i want him as long as it doesn't cost this or this or this like this there are young men in this district there were kids when i first got here some some of you weren't born yet i am if i can say it like this not that i'm taking credit i'm giving you credit and god credit your family and your church i'm so proud of you guys you're not kids anymore by long shot you've done so well there are some that didn't make it there are some that are not a part of this anymore but there are so many of you that have and you've done so well and your credit to god a credit to your family and credit to your pastor in your church and i'm so thankful for you but god said to abraham now i know you will with not you will not withhold your son your only son now i know now i know and if you ever expect to be mightily used of god you will pass that test every time it comes your way because it's always a motive check always it's always a motive check god sought for a man who was seeking for him i love my sons of course i love my daughters i love my grandchildren and the lord gave joel's taint name to me prophetically david was named by desire oh there was something about that man every time i heard his name as a kid it called to me and called to me he called to me and called to me i didn't always understand exactly what god was saying what what this feeling i had was ever heard time i heard the name david as i began to grow and began to study for myself i realized that the name david personified a desire for god that resonated so deeply within me and i determined as a teenager that when i got married i was going to have a son you say you can't do that proof okay i determined in god that i was going to have a son and his name was going to be david and that every time i heard his name and every time i called his name it would be a reminder of me of what's most important to god someone who wants the lord more than anything and anybody else how about you so many times have i quoted them psalms 42 as the heart pantheth after the water broke so pantheth my soul after thee o god psalm 63 oh god thou art my god early will i seek thee my soul thirsteth for thee my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and a thirsty land where no water is to see thy power and thy glory so as i've seen thee in the sanctuary there's two hebrew words there for sea the first one is to see with the eyes the second one is to see in the spirit and he was saying i hunger for you god to be able to see manifested with my eyes for the world to see what i have seen of you in the spirit in the sanctuary when i've separated myself from so much what are you doing in your city what do you want your city to see what do you want your city to experience you a good church a good church service good sermons good songs what is it you you want your church your city to experience or do you want do you want to want him so that you want him so much you just become a conduit for him working in such a way that he's got somebody he can manifest himself through that he can trust to not take his glory to not take the credit for what he does which what do you want what are you seeking for i've used this so many times the last several years john says behold the lamb of god that takes away the sins of the world two disciples leave john and start following jesus they heard him say i'm not worthy to elusive shoes i don't know how long they followed he knew they were back there but he didn't acknowledge it i don't know how long he walked with them back there before they he stopped and turned and asked them the question what seek is though if you don't have the right answer to that question you're getting nothing of significance from god if you don't have the right answer to that question god is doing nothing of significance for you to you through you what seeketh thou what are you looking for what are you following me for they came up somehow they gave the right answer master where do i lost the church of the living god is supposed to be a house of prayer it's supposed to be that's what we call to be and do but i have such a problem with the concept of pre-service prayer when the focus of pre-service prayer is just to focus on praying to have a good service seriously we've come together as the body to pray and this is what we pray for as the body is just to have a good service seriously seriously oh god i've said this so many times you and i individually are male or female or sons of god you and i collectively male or female or we're part of the bride of christ those are two completely different relationships sons and fathers are not intimate in jesus name they're not intimate they have a relationship but it's not intimacy you cannot be intimate with god on your own you're a son but when we come together as a body we're the bride of christ we don't come together to to do a liturgy our pentecostal liturgy we don't come together for that we come to join together and come into his presence because there's two anointings there's that infilling that i get personally that makes me a son of god but to as many as receive them him to them gave he power to become the sons of god but when two or three of you are gathered together there i am in the midst that didn't stop at pentecost so the lord and i can fellowship by his spirit he and i alone but when two or three of us gather together there is he is in the midst of that he's there for fellowship that's the purpose of us coming together if we don't come together for that purpose all other purposes are absolutely worthless their value only is in the fact that we first and foremost come together to fellowship with his manifested presence with his body his bride and any kind of church service format that doesn't lead us into his presence and allows us to fellowship with him as a unified body as his presence it didn't come from god i don't care how long we've been doing it anything we do in church that the ultimate purpose of it is not to bring us into the presence of god so we can fellowship with him and be intimate with him in the spirit and hear his voice spoken to his body did not come from god it came from tradition i feel so sorry for those apostolics i've gone to my last place that hands me a sheet of paper it gives me minute by minute breakout now to what's happening if that's you don't invite me to come because you hand me a sheet of paper like that you're going to be preaching that night i'm leaving i'm not wasting my another moment of my life i'm too old to waste a moment of my life sitting there while you go through your minute-by-minute plan let me tell you what you must know something about god i don't because i've never been able to give him get him give me that kind of direction i've never been able to get him to give me that kind of direction while you're at it why don't you just give me all the scriptures you want me to preach from so you're going to trust me to find out what i'm supposed to be preaching to you as long as i'm done by such a time but you're going to tell me what minute i'm going to breathe whether or not you're being offensive if you do that i don't know it don't tell me please i'll feel like an absolute failure as a district superintendent if you do that thank god i don't have to be the one responsible for that anymore don't you believe in decently in order directed by the holy ghost well god gave me this really man i must be really carnal because i pray and feel a direction and more often than not he goes this direction over and over and over and over again i'm going okay god what is up with this you give these people this minute by minute direction and you won't and you i spend all this time praying and believe i've heard from you and studying it and preparing and then i get up there and you say oh by the way that's really good save that but we're going over here i'm going over here wow i'm doing my best not to be sensitive because to who because but i offended a couple of folks already over this last thing especially i i have i really have and i don't want to know who you are i've got my i got my sensitivity turned off from identifying who you are i don't want to know who you are i probably would be very disappointed i've said this too many times we brag about our divine interruptions boy we had a move of god today what a divine interruption do you know how self-condemning that statement is that god had to interrupt what we're doing in order to do what he wants to do i know why i've upset some folks because you got some folks here that knows that's how you do it and now you're on the spot i'm not trying to put you on the spot i'm trying to hear and repeat what's your purpose in coming together whether it's in a connect group a bible study full-blown church service whatever that terminology is what's your purpose of coming together if your purpose is anything else other than finding the flow that takes us into his presence here it goes i can preach in the dark too good things i don't need notes right okay praise god there it is thank you sir thank you that was quick tonight amen well i know what time it is it's 9 52 8 52. did somebody here pay them to let that go off again just as a reminder to me last year i was leading in a prayer meeting online and the lord interrupted that prayer meeting with a prophecy i don't i'm not used in gift of prophecy a lot enough but not not a lot and it was such a specific prophecy and there was such a there was such an appeal in the spirit from god to us there was such an appeal that i i went back and got the recording and transcribed it and i'm reading it to you the transcription of that prophecy thus saith the lord god unto my body this day i gave myself as a ransom for you i gave my life as the price to redeem you from sin i purchased you with my own blood and with my own life and i own you you're mine not yours yet there are so many that name my name and say that they are part of my body but i don't own them i don't own them they do their will they walk their own way they claim to be a follower of mine they only talk to me when they have things that they want me to do when they have things they want me to give them that's the only time that they have time for me they practice my word as obligation they do their homage to me trying to assure that i won't let bad things happen to them but i say unto you this day i claim only that today which is voluntarily given to me and i claim only that today which is given to me wholeheartedly and willingly out of faith nothing else belongs to me no one else belongs to me i have no obligation to protect nor provide for that which which has forsaken me as the prodigal has taken what i've provided and gone and used it to fulfill and satisfy their own lusts i claim none of that i can only work in those lives who return to me as the prodigal did and humble themselves before me and give themselves to me as my servant and my sons i speak these things to you today because it is my desire to do and say great things through my body but i cannot use any part of my body that is not in submission to an obedience to what my mind the brain of this body speaks to it i say unto you this day receive my word receive my word and i will receive your prayers and i will use you as my instruments and as my vessels and as my conduits and the earth to do and show my show forth my name and manifest my kingdom and perform my will but i cannot use that which is only partially given to me i gave my whole self to and for you then i expect your whole self to be given to me now repent and come to me repent today give me your whole self that i might give you the whole of myself as we together work and do my will and fulfill my word in the earth i can only receive into my kingdom when i come from my church those who are given to me holy those who are given to me according to my word that i have given and spoken and defended and provided for you to have and whole to read and believe and to follow by my grace i cannot protect i cannot support i cannot supply for that which is only using me for their purposes their idea and thought that i'm supplying for them is not true i have no obligation to protect them i have no obligation to provide for them i only provide that provide for that which is my own what they are receiving is the rain that falls on the just and unjust like what they are receiving is the sun that rises on the wicked and the righteous every day what they're receiving they think is coming from me especially for them is that which i provide for all of humanity they're not receiving what i'm giving to those that are mine and they are not being used by me by my spirit when they are doing their own will for their own purposes to fulfill their own ambition seeking their own glory yea i am ready to work today i am ready to do great great things in the earth but i cannot and will not use any part of that which claims to be a part of my body except that which is completely surrendered to me as its head every day hear me this day my children hear me this day my church hear me as the head this day my body and i will hear you when you pray and i will give you my words to speak and those words shall come to pass saith the lord god almighty in the name of the lord jesus christ in the name of the lord jesus christ i was during the very first saturday session as i had been told in august to do i was in ann arbor michigan and i it was the first weekend of october and uh i was in the room waiting for direction from god i was supposed to be picked up to go to church at 6 30. excuse me at 5 30 and hadn't received anything hadn't received anything i'm waiting waiting it's 5 25 i'm dressed i'm ready to go i'm about to pick up my briefcase walk out of the room to go down to the lobby to be picked up for church and i heard the voice of the lord say to me according to their hunger so be it unto them well like you i study the bible and i know there is no verse that says that there's a verse that says according to their faith so be it unto them and i said lord i don't know what this means he said you cannot separate faith from expectancy my people gather together with no expectancy they come and expect the next thing in the order of service knowing how far along that is until they can get out they don't come with expectancy because they don't come with faith he said and there are some with faith but their faith is not determined they're willing to settle for less than what i desire to give them i said then what is this hunger what what is hunger according to their hunger so being unto them he said he said this to me hunger is the combination of a desire that is so determined it will never settle for less than what it's hungry for coupled with a faith that is so confident that it matters not what the circumstances are that faith believes without any doubt it's going to receive what it's believing for and he said according to their hunger so be it unto them jesus name i he started these names started coming back saying please pray for us and he began to direct me and i said lord you know some of these churches are larger some of them are smaller what why these churches why are you sending me to these churches and not others and he spoke this to me and said most of these will not be names that are known in the organization but they are known to me because of their hunger i'm sending you to the hungry go feed them how about you i've preached some of this in various forms or parts in every church i've been in and when he began to direct me this way i actually had to laugh to myself and say the lord has heard something else you know here's my last shot instead of giving me some fresh brand new thing i've never preached before you want me to say this he said because if they don't have hunger it doesn't matter what else they have he said if they don't hunger for me if they don't hunger for me it doesn't matter what else i give them doesn't matter i remember many many years ago i believe harry helm was the pastor of the church in cambridge with a section one rally had been asked to preach it he rented a high school auditorium but i believe it was on a saturday saturday afternoon and evening and i preached a message then that i had i haven't preached very many times since it was there's no substitute for desire i believe in apostolic church structure i believe in apostolic giftings apostolic ministry i believe in revival i believe in end time harvest i am passionate about end time harvest i've lived all my life for this everything i that's happened in my life up to this point it's all been preparation for me to be whatever part he's got for me to play in endtime harvest all that i have believed for is ahead of me not behind me and i'm not minimizing anything god has done for me to me through me i'm not minimizing that but every bit of that has been preparation for what's ahead of me retire if you want to the rapture is going to be my retirement unless i am taken out of here against my will and i mean martyrdom i want to go to heaven i have said to my wife and others if i cross that finish line don't be the one that prays me back across i mean it don't be the one that prays once i get across that don't be the one that prays me back i will pray now for your loss and you you and jesus you can deal with your loss but when i finish the race leave me on the other side of the finish line but until he's ready for me to cross that finish line i'm not retiring from the race hunger hunger call it passion call it zeal call it whatever you want to it's hunger in the name of the lord jesus christ it is the will of god to baptize this district of fresh and new with a measure of hunger like we've never had before the blessing is hungering and thirsting after righteousness that's the blessing not being filled the blessing is not being filled the blessing is hungering and thirsting in jesus name right now it is the will of the lord jesus christ in these last few minutes with the authority to do so as the district superintendent right now with that authority i loose the the spirit of the lord to bless us with a measure of hunger and thirst for him like we have never had before in the name of the lord jesus christ hunger will keep you going when everything's working against you hunger and thirst will keep you focused when everything is trying to distract you from your focus hunger and thirst will cause would enable god to use you when everything physically and mentally and emotionally says that you're too tired to be used of god hunger will keep you moving in the direction god wants you to move if you just stay focused if you just continue to hunger and thirst for him in jesus name the hungry are always thankful but never satisfied ekaha the hungry are always thankful but never satisfied the hungry are never satisfied come on god's doing it here right now i'm not looking for a bunch of motion or even a bunch of noise but i'm believing god right now this is what he promised me he promised me he promised me that everybody here tonight that would open their hearts minds and souls and spirits to him he would give them a blessing of hunger and thirst beyond anything you've ever received before i want that to be the results of the last message i preached as superintendent it's his will it's his will for that to be the results of the last message i'm preaching to you as superintendent because it's his word it's his heart i hear his words spoken to the to israel through the prophet jeremiah my people have forgotten me days without number he said earlier my people have committed to evils they've forsaken me the fountain of living water and hewed themselves out cisterns broken cisterns that can hold the water i forget the the book in chapter but i was reading it again today the lord said my people are weary of me i can't understand that they were wearing a manna how can you get mere wearied of one of the greatest miracles of god and it happened every day not if you're hungry and thirsty not if you're hungry and thirsty not if you're hungry and thirsty not if you're hungry and thirsty i had a wonderful meal today but hear me right now as soon as i can get back to my room i've got banana sandwiches waiting on me you may not like that but i can't wait to get to them when it's time i had gray i had a good meal today it was a wonderful meal tasted really good but i'm hungry again god designed you and i like that this blessing is wonderful but it doesn't satisfy hunger forever if that meal was good i want more come on come on the lord's talking to you right now the lord's doing this right now come on come on in the name of the lord jesus christ come on district board come on whoever you are that gets elected as superintendent tomorrow i'm i'm sure that you'll better do a better job of administrating than me but while you're administrating don't forget the fact if i don't care how good you are of leading and administrating if you don't set the example of hunger for this district you're failing hungry hungry hungry thirsty hungry thirsty passion hungry thirsty not satisfied thankful but never satisfied i have learned paul said to be full and to be empty i've learned to abound and be a based i've learned it that's what the lord has tried to teach his church these last 12 to 14 months he's trying to teach us that no matter how dire the circumstances are we can enter into his presence and nothing will intimidate us he wants that kind of fellowship with you and i he wants us to want him not from him but him he wants us to want him but brother ryan i've got this physical condition in that physical condition you don't think the lord knows your physical limitations you don't think he knows that he knows it but he sometimes he makes us weak so we can be strong in him if he was stunned with us we'd already had your funeral if he's done with you we'd already had your funeral you're breathing he's not done with you in the name of jesus that i might know him it was preached this week in the power of his resurrection in the fellowship of his sufferings the only way to make it through our trials and tests and our sufferings is because we realize it it's a conduit to have him to know him to receive from him in jesus name things happen that slow us down things happen to us that causes us to stop all of our busy schedule oh we're so busy everybody and so many apostolics were so busy with their life they didn't have time for god what did they do when he stopped their lives and all of their business did they pray then did they pray then or they watch netflix did they pray then and study the word then or did they just binge out on youtube what did they do when god shuts your life down so it was just you and him what decisions did you make the hungry didn't complain the hungry didn't resent their lives being shut down the hungry were thankful come on the spirit of the lord's working here right now receive it receive it receive it receive it receive it pastor you can't lead people in the hungry hunger if you're not hungry pastor if you don't indeed get deep in god you can't lead people any deeper in god than you are pastor if you don't have a personal relationship with the lord jesus christ you can't lead your people to a relationship with the lord jesus christ and the difference is going to become more and more and more pronounced over these next few days weeks months and years the lord is going to make a difference between those that are seeking from him and those that are seeking him in the name of the lord jesus christ in the name of the lord jesus christ in the name of the lord jesus christ in the name of the lord jesus christ [Music] come on come on come on i'm not trying to be and consider your time i am more than willing to put this mic down as soon as i'm released to do so but i fear god more than i fear you come on come on the lord's trying to do something here right now in the name of jesus in the name of jesus in the name of jesus those of you that are watching online or on zoom come on let god move on you right now the word is the word where you are just as much as it is here what are you going to do with it what are you going to do with the word what are you going to do with the appeal of god for you to want him more than anything in the name of the lord jesus christ in the name of the lord jesus christ thankful but never satisfied thankful but never satisfied that's the attitude and spirit of the hungry thankful but never satisfied never settling never settling the hungry never settle in the name of jesus the hungry never settled for good church services the hungry never settled for a growing crowd the hungry never settled for those things because the hungry just wants jesus and wants people to know jesus that's it sum it all up that's where it sums up to the hungry want to know jesus and they want people to know jesus that's it nothing else matters to in the name of the lord jesus christ in the name of the lord jesus christ but brother right my life is so busy it's so complicated i don't have time to hunger for jesus yeah i know there are people that say i'm too busy to eat nah when you get hungry nothing takes a precedence overeating when you get hungry nothing takes precedence over eating the hungry will find a way to eat if you think you're hungry but you get busy and forget to eat you're not hungry yet you're not hungry yet i'm too busy to pray no you're not hungry enough to pray i'm not trying to be unkind here the one who gave everything for us just wants us to want him he just wants us to want him jesus name jesus name she's back there in jesus name in jesus name [Music] hallelujah hallelujah i know i know some of you think it's just brother right being brother right no this is just jesus being jesus sorry if that's a problem it's just jesus being jesus i've said this many times but on the night of february of november the 1st 1968 while i stood in my uniform next to the pastor waiting for my father-in-law to escort my bride through the back doors and down the aisle if there was a commotion and he started down that aisle and he was having to drag her and she was digging her heels and fussing trust me he wouldn't have made it much more about it a third of the way down that aisle before i got back there and i said listen if she doesn't want me like i want her this marriage is not going to happen do you want him like he wants you can we just close our eyes and raise our hands and just you know it doesn't have to be loud at all but just you and jesus just for a moment have a conversation as whoever's coming comes in the name of the lord jesus christ jesus i'm just a man father you remember my frame it's made out of the dust of the earth i can't do this father i can't do this myself in the name of the lord jesus christ in the name of the lord jesus christ i loose the spirit of the love of god the spirit of the grace of god upon this body and upon this district in the name of the lord jesus christ and loose this upon you right now in jesus name receive the spirit of the love of god receive the spirit of the grace of god because without him we can do nothing in the name of jesus in the name of jesus [Music] hallelujah [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus [Music] thank you [Music] thank you jesus [Music] thank you that's it go ahead we're not we're not trying to produce a moment right now we're trying to get this in our spirit that will manifest itself tomorrow next week one thing if i desired of the lord and that will i seek after that i may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my life to behold his beauty and to inquire come on it's already been said we're not looking for you to do some certain something [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus [Music] hallelujah thank you thank you lord [Music] we're going to switch things around a little bit bishop right in by the right if you'll come and just face the congregation elder i want you to come bishop mcintyre i'll have you greet the congregation a moment in the spirit of prayer i want us to pray i want the district board to come as well this was a request of our superintendent that in this the direction that god is sending him he wants to be sent by this district praise god hang on hallelujah hallelujah in the name of jesus hallelujah i believe an anointing from the people would you right now stretch forth your hand as bishop mcintyre anoints and lays his hand upon the rights right now i understand they're not physically leaving our district but god's got an assignment for them that he has to have the covering of this district [Music] the prayers of this district [Music] by the power that's in the name of jesus christ and the authority that's in the word of god [Music] i pray o god that you would put your hand upon them let your grace and peace be upon them of god [Music] in the name of jesus in the name of [Music] jesus oh god go before them let your will be done on earth as it is in heaven let your kingdom come manifest your glory o god let them show up where you are in the name of jesus in the name of jesus [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you lord hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah [Music] oh thank you jesus thank you jesus [Music] yes lord come on this isn't a ceremony this isn't a novel thing to do i believe there's a transfer of the holy ghost there's a covering of the spirit right now [Music] spiritual empowerment anointing of the holy ghost [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus yes yes there would be a a return of virtue into his mind and his body and his spirit thank you jesus thank you jesus [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus [Music] thank you lord [Music] i'm telling you this is a moment right now don't miss this moment [Music] hallelujah [Music] oh cc [Music] foreign [Music] my [Music] praise god praise me praise god praise god thank you lord thank you jesus praise god thank you lord you're looking at the hall of fame up here guys [Music] praise god thank you jesus [Music] i'm asking some of you may have been curious you may not have but we did not leave out bishop mcintyre we have intentionally saved him for this moment and we're asking him to greet this congregation say what's on his heart right now the founding district superintendent of the maryland dc district [Music] [Applause] god bless you you're so kind amen amen it's a my heart is just full tonight when i look in all these wonderful ministers and their families we started out with 10 churches and two of them failed after we became a district but what we have come to tonight it makes my cup run over i'm so thrilled i'm i'm glad and and that bishop wright has been such a uh and his family have been such a blessing to this district amen we had some rough times they they sacrificed they gave a lot they gave the life and they took this district into the kingdom of god and also they gave us two fine sons to carry the gospel on we're so thankful for that amen and so there's not much i can add to what has been said tonight other than say ditto because uh we appreciate what brother wright had to say tonight and uh he he believes what he believes and you don't mind standing for it and i appreciate that brother right now we got to know each other earlier in the district and from that point on we were we really loved each other appreciated each other and uh they've been on the co and i could put on a call and it'd be there amen so they're not they're not retiring they just trans transitioning amen so we want to pray for them that god will continue to bless them in their work and they're gonna without a doubt reach many hearts and lives we're in a day that needs a great revival and so this district has been a revivalist district and it's in the minds in the hearts of the people tonight amen and so that's why the district is what it is tonight it didn't happen overnight but it happened over a period of time and we're we're blessed tonight we've got i when i see all these young preachers and all it gives me faith to know that we're all right we're in good hands and so they're going to pick up they're picking up the banner they're going to carry it on and we want to be praying tomorrow for sure because you know it changed people most people just don't like change but that's what made things go and go like it has it's changed it has to come and so we want to pray that the mantle from them will fall upon the ones that god has chosen to lead us on and they make this district uh continue to what it's been where we bless you brother wright and sister wright you've always been very precious to us and uh we we're so we were a team that's for sure amen and god bless all of you we love you one thing about it all of my time i never had an enemy i never had that many i had people that did me wrong and and i didn't and the thing i did for them was i prayed for them and god worked it out and they would come back later and tell me how wrong they were and so that's the god we serve tonight if we lean on him he won't fail you we must not fail him praise god god bless you all we love you [Applause] amen [Applause] praise god i see the runway we're about to land well i'm going to say something at 97 years of age bishop mcintyre wrote this book at 95. he's 97 now he wrote at 96 yeah i was off a year it's his life story he has given us a gift and a treasure they have 10 of these that you can get now and then they'll fix you up to order more but i didn't know if you knew about this book but i thought that's wonderful that he has written that and we love bishop mcintyre amen [Applause] praise god this message will live on the ministry that has taken place tonight and uh a tool or a gauge that i know that i'm still on track is if i miss my time with jesus i'm talking about if if it didn't happen did i miss it did i long for it you have loved ones spouses family that sometimes you're not able to be with them [Music] but you want to be that's what he's ministering about today to be with jesus amen amen

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Published: Wed Apr 28 2021