Oh Give Thanks Online Worship Service | Whitehall Avenue Re-Broadcast | EJC Virtual Church | May 26

[Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] do [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] so [Music] my days oh cause all my life you have been faithful [Music] with every breath that i am labeled of the goodness you are close like no other [Music] i've known you as a father i've known you as afraid and i have lived in the goodness of god [Applause] you have been so of the goodness of god your goodness is laid down i'm surrendered now i give you everything cause your goodness is cause on my life you have been faithful and so my life you have been so so good [Music] [Applause] of the goodness of god all my oh i'm gonna sing of the goodness of god welcome once again to all give thanks your mid-week worship service which is designed to recharge your spiritual batteries and to refill your spiritual tanks i just want to say a big thank you to the praise team that's what we're doing right here on our worship service we are celebrating the goodness of god and we're thanking you for joining us we know you've got options you could have been elsewhere but you've decided to share company with us and we are delighted at this time i'd like to give a shout out to some of our uh favorite of our regular ogt members we're talking about sister leone from portland we want to tell you thanks for being our uh good ogt faithful ogt family member sister lynch phillips also we're talking about right now barbara robinson thank you so much for being with us faithfully nicole armstrong thank you so much and glennis smith all of my ogt family members i just want to say a big thank you to you because you are the reason why this worship service continues we thank you so much for the support we thank you for your words of kindness and affirmation and uh let me just say this i i want to encourage you to to subscribe just look at the bottom right hand corner of your screen you'll see a red button uh there on your screen saying subscribe hit that subscribe button and you'll see a notification bell and you will always be in the know of our contents when they're coming out we thank you so much remember to like and share the link with someone else and tell your neighbor right now that oh give thanks on ejc virtual church is about to start god has been blessing us last week we were we were furnished with a wonderful worship service and we give god the glory he has been intimate in the lives of his children tonight we have a special church family the white all avenue seventh day adventist church family and uh i am really delighted because it's it's it's a it's a nice little family that i've had a little time uh with some years ago and i have found them to be one spiritual bunch they are here today uh the youthful arm of the church they're here today to share their stories of god's goodness in their lives and you know as this customary we would have our opening prayer and that will be done by jordan williams let us pray dear loving and compassionate father thank you for the opportunity to be here to worship you in spirits and in truth you have given us many blessings more than we can count and we are here to testify of your goodness and your greatness throughout our lives lord let self be denied and you will be glorified in everything that we do and say tonight in your name amen amen amen thank you so much sister jordan for that prayer and you know that prayer is a signature feature of this worship service we cannot not pray this is what this worship service is about we constantly pray for you and we wanted to know that we're not just praying for you right here uh right now we're always praying for you in fact we've got a team of individuals who constantly pray and monitor the the chat and to see the requests that are there and i'm gonna ask you as we go through our worship service tonight feel free to pour into the chat your requests because as you know we're going to be entering our prayer garden at some time during our worship service so so stay with us and and if you're just joining us let me remind you you're you're tuning in to all give thanks and we want you to have a wonderful time with us at this time we will be having our scripture reading and that will be done by george jobson let's turn our bibles to psalms 148 and it says praise he the lord praise he the lord from the heavens praise him in the heights praise him all his angels praise him all his hosts praise he him sun and moon praise him all his stars of light praise him he heavens of heavens and he waters that be above the heavens let them praise the name of the lord for he commanded and they were created he had also established them forever and ever he had made a decree which shall not pass praise the lord from the earth he dragons in all deeps fire and hail snow and vapors stormy whims fulfilling his words mountains and all hills fruitful trees and all cedar beasts and all cattle's creeping things and flying foes kings of the earth and all people princes and all judges of earth both young men and maidens old and children let them praise the name of the lord for his name alone is excellent his glory is above the earth and heaven he also exalted the horns of his people the praise of all his saints even of the children of israel a people near unto him praise he the lord amen thank you so much sir johnson praise the lord that's what this worship service is about now let me just give you a little bit of uh you know amazing facts perhaps um there are only two places in the bible only two places in fact only two books in the bible where the word praise ye the lord is registered or praise the lord there is one in the old testament and one in the new testament i'm just wondering let me challenge you i was about to give it away but let me just challenge you right now as you are in the chat this is your assignment tonight i want you to type in the chat which two books in the bible only record the term praise the lord or praise the lord or hallelujah in fact that's what hallelujah is and so right there in psalm 148 we are given a multiplicity of reasons why we ought to praise the lord once it is created it must praise the lord do you realize that the mountains the bible says the mountains praise god i'd like to know how that sounds wouldn't you want to know how that sounds the mountains fire and hail and there is even mention of dragon yes everything that god has made is created to give him honor and glory and do you know that of all god's created things human beings are the most challenging ones in giving god the glory we're hoping that through oh give thanks each wednesday night you will be inspired to give god the praise you will live a life of perpetual praise until the lord returns tonight brothers and sisters and friends and our guests online we have a wonderful church family the white hall avenue seventh-day adventist church let me tell you something when i first made entrance uh on the premises some of the persons there may be new now but but we used to worship under a tent uh you remember them days right yeah on their tent that was not not necessarily the most attractive tent right it's not even the kind that we would we would have a crusade under but let me just tell you this they are a wonderful exciting and alive bunch of individuals they love to sing and we just have a slice of the singing congregation here a band of young people who i'm not even sure if they've got a name yet but they are singing to the glory of god by the way you can praise god through playing instruments uh praise him you know by speech but they've chosen to praise him tonight in two ways they're going to be singing for us and they'll be sharing their encounters with god tonight i am excited and i want you to be excited also because the god we serve is an awesome god and so tonight i want to welcome the white hole of in your 7th adventist church this band of young people good evening everybody good evening white hall good to have you and oh how jody has grown i am reflecting it's eight years ago i i remembered i came here i think it's 2012 or somewhere about there and jody was just uh you know eight years of severe serious transformation eight years god is good it's good to see you guys and you know i always enjoy when you come together and you sing for the lord and uh i know our our family online will be waiting to hear your songs and also your testimonies tonight we are going to be opening with a special special testimony can i say is it leader of the group george is the leader of this praise team george jobs welcome sir george uh it's not your first time on oh give thanks we're we're thankful that you have returned amen clearly you have a ton of testimonies and experiences that you're going through all right talk to us uh uh george tell us by the way george you know your name is a biblical name right yeah oh well no i didn't know but i know that it have a meaning um to some extent uh i think you know what it means george i think there's something with um you have one that is a king then refer to king and then they have other one that refer to fisherman i think something like that oh really i think so yeah it looks like you need an assignment tonight yeah yeah well your name your name is actually greek oh really and it's in the bible it's in john 15. the bible says i am the true vine and my father is the george okay the husband man okay no that's not your profession [Laughter] all right george talk to us talk to us tell us your story oh well you know um i came here the last time yes i basically give some of those um you know heart-wrenching testimonies oh yes you have the entire world on the edge of their seats yeah you know so but i think today i want to speak about um you know this this man of people yes uh so some years ago when i think it was our first the first time we actually merged with constant spring vital avenue and constant spring became a district that's before jody was born or um no man okay just just checking no no no um at the time you were we were with short wood and um yeah and then we emerged with um consent spring this time and um you know at the time the pastor for the church was uh pastor williams yes lincoln you know we we wanted to do uh he wanted for us to have this get-together thing the unity thing because there's a synergy between the he was saying that you know you know if he loved the poor church and you know i'm not really well happy you know deep back and forth all the time you want to make sure that all of us together because what is that constant swing you can see some without when he's like why he can't okay some cross pollination okay you know so you know the idea came to to to me to have a univ at this request yes you know and um we decided to come together and do this thing and you know something said to me that probably we should give it a name you know but i could not i really could not think of a name yes and i remember the day that the name came to me it was like i was sitting there i was saying lord you know what we want to do so those provide a name and out of nowhere vocals came to mind right yeah and it was voices offered to christ as a living sacrifice wow and then right away the text came that would be our motto it was romans about one verse or 12 verse one i think um for yourself yes i beseech you therefore brethren yes to offer yourself as a living sacrifice and you know when that came i realized you know god was working in the midst george before you go any further some people believe that prayer you must have a nice you know sizeable request i mean you pray to god for a name for a singing group simple simple simple prayer lord provide the name simple prayer nothing to it some weeks ago i i've been asking the question do we have a god who is concerned about something like names like that right um one sister spoke to us and told us that she she talked to god about her daughter should have a flat nose or a straight nose we'll talk to god about these things yeah yeah you know you see the bible saying the lord is so should be our friend yes you know he's the person that we should talk to about yes we should actually feel comfortable to ask him some of even the simplest things yes things that would be stupid to other people can tell him you can tell him right but truthfully um even though as simple as the prayer was i think the name was very yes could you could you tell us the acronym again vocals vocals is offered to christ as a living sacrifice wow yes and you know um when we got that name you know it was like the text itself really gave us that charge that yes that that push to actually do what we were doing and the choir began and we went for it but everything always have issues yeah and and it's time that's the thing life i mean success is always threatened right you know so we it basically we we crashed in some sense you know we just stopped we didn't really right call it a day but we just stopped and it bothered me it really bothered me because you know i think the lord had something in store yes for a name like that and for the district and for the district yes you know but you know it didn't work out that we continue that district but what we did was to go about and got other persons to be involved in the group and it was mainly white all right right so we got other persons to join the group and i'm telling you pastor after that it was just god's leading yes it was just god's leading we were out there moving and i was so motivated by that that i decided that because it took me a while to get back in whiter to deal with the choir because of some issues that you know we had as young people and you know young people still right you know we hear no and we talk happy and whatever and then all of us on these like problems but it gave me the motivation to actually get back into that um you know thing and when stefan became the the music director at church which was a wonderful dance and amen that you wanted to bring back all the choirs oh look different quests children choir adult choir youth choir women's choir men choir you wanted everything to be running again because he knew what it was before yes and he really wanted to see that movement continue and out of that we got the youth choir and what you're looking at right now is basically a representative of the youth okay you know um god has been blessing us and truthfully true when when i got to to lead the youth choir once again you know it it cannot shape me in a way because um there was a time i was kind of going through some stuff where i never really feel like i want to really participate in church or do anything really and when i was at that point i think that's a bad point to be as a christian or a young youth that grew up in the church for me a smile to be in the church at some point and you just don't want to do anything but god is always monitoring exactly and even if you stray and reach even to the point of the precipice he's always there too always there and i remember this sermon during the time that um uh elder from half a tree church spoke and he said to me even if and he was speaking to the young people even if you find yourself falling or you do things contrary to god yes still come to church yes still find yourself at church because at the end of the day god has something god has something for you yes right and that really kept me and pushed me and gave me the motivation for the youth choir and i'm telling you it has been some real blessings we have quiet practice and i'm telling you there are some times when it wasn't even about singing yes it was just prayer for the whole practice amen amen i never go home that was what it was it was more than just singing and some people think that young people don't want to participate in anything spiritually uplifting and want to be close to god and and want to be agents of god you know that they think that young people are so frivolous uh that they'll start a sermon the one church over quick and go but but that but you're saying that that's not always the case no that's not always the case you know um you know what i think it is i think that young people just have a different way of doing things right look up back then but then it was just about your actual bible and look at us now we're using our bibles on our phones yes and our tablets right young people just have a different way of doing things yes yes we might not worship the way you worship right but we still say amen we still say praise the lord we still have our fasting we might not do it in the way that you want it probably sit down in church for the whole day just sitting there and whatever no probably we want to go with our friends go to the garden and sit in the garden and just have our fasting and then go home you understand so it's just it's not a matter of we not wanting to do it we might just have a different way of doing it right right i really am thankful for that perspective i think it sets the tone for the direction tonight um that you know you can be someplace in your life but when you are involved in ministry yes something therapeutic and oftentimes will rescue you uh beyond your your control really really really i'm happy for that testimony and and listen to this something else that i extracted from it you can pray about some things that you wouldn't even tell somebody else about like the name of a group yeah size of your daughter's nose when she's born things like that it's true you can talk to the lord about your career and if god can be interested in some of those little things that you said really you really talk to god about that can you imagine about your weightier things that have that bears down on your soul god will be even more anxious so tonight we are still you know exalting the concept and the privilege of prayer and as i mentioned prayer i'm gonna ask sir johnson just to pray a special prayer just to set the tone uh for a worship service and also to pray for somebody who is growing weary in church you spoke to that not too often we have young people admitting that there was a time in our journey where they feel like you know just throwing in the towels not too often we hear that i'm really i really appreciate your honesty i'm gonna ask you to pray for young people and especially some young people right now some of your mothers and fathers are pouring into the chat that we need to pray for your children because they have stopped going to church and we are going to be praying for that so will you join us as we bow our heads our prayer right now it is free father god you see and know each person here and in the chat lord we are sinners and we come to you humbly bowed for repentance and father god we ask that you remind us that you are not just a ruler but you are also a friend you are a brother you are our father you are keeper and you are always there in the times of trouble and even in the good times father god help us to stay firm under your wings even if the ship is rocky even if we're going through some situations that we might feel that we can't get up and speak to you about it help us to remove that thought yes help us to stand up come to you and say god this is it help me father god help us to stay in the church help us to keep faithful help us to study your word and help us to pray father god it is important and we need you and everyone out there needs you and help us to continue to call on you whenever we need you grant us this blessing and grant us peace in your precious holy name we pray amen amen amen thank you so much for that testimony young people want to be used by god and here it is we're seeing a sample from the whitehall avenue seventh adventist church of a kind of ministry that that that that provides solace we've seen in scripture where where where music therapy was actually a feature in it featured in the bible where where saul oftentimes when the spirit left us all the bible says that that you know david would play the harp and saul would would would have a different spirit you know that's one sample of music therapy and i can tell you i love music and i'm really happy to have the white hole avenue seventh-day adventist church uh praise team a slice of the youth choir and they are here to tonight and they are going to be singing for us this special song always um this song when i suggested this song to the youth choir you know they went there and said ah how do i know this song but i told him before we sing this song yes i want you to go home and meditate on the words and watch it saying so when before you you sing a song you have to go through go through the words words understand the theology exactly yes i want you to get what this this song is saying i want you to internalize it yes because that's the only way you can minister to others if you it ministers to you first yes yes so this song says there are lonely days and there are times when you may mistake yes but regardless of that god is always there jesus is your everything and we want to help to suit somebody's soul tonight as they [Music] you say i've had some lonely days i made mistakes and had to pay [Music] i've had some friends that walked away just like my my told me [Music] but there's someone whose love is real who cares about the way i feel every pain that erases everything there's peace when i call out your name [Music] listen jesus you're my everything [Music] the cross you did just for me so whatever you take me through i promise you this is just a message for somebody out there to be reminded that god is always there no one can touch my hearts like you or made me smile the way you do i finally found someone who who really true they loves me and when my strength has come and gone oh your life in me it makes me strong your hand is where my heart belongs you took all my pain and erase everything [Music] jesus you're my everything yes the cross you did that just for me so whatever you take me through [Music] jesus my whole life has changed since since that day i cried your name for every time you brought me through my promise i promise you [Music] isn't that right [Music] jesus you're by everything [Music] the cross you did that just for me [Music] jesus my whole life has changed since that day since that day i cried your name for every time for every time you brought me through say i promise i promise you that i will spend i'll spin my away spare my always jesus [Music] for every time you brought [Music] you're my everything jesus you're my everything the cross you do that just for me so whatever you take [Music] [Music] somebody [Music] there's nothing too hard for god and he's always there she's spent wow i i know you you you felt like you you wanted to be singing with them i hope you were singing with them but the message of the song if you want to spend your always with god just type in the chat right now hashtag always always always spend my always with god as i listen to the song just the the temple the song the harmony you can't just imagine you know what it will be like when you get to him it's look here it it it's gonna be such a wonderful wonderful experience and i am provoking you tonight we are here to provoke it towards praise and to visualize yourself spending your always with god thank you so much guys wow i wish we could just turn this entire worship service into singing yes spend my always but i know that stefan has so much on his chest yes to share with you you got a brief introduction i i i didn't even um you got a brief introduction he wanted things to return to what he knew it was like music ministry overtaking whitehall church and if no now you saw that this is just a slice a sample can you imagine when you've got the entire choir with the body behind the thing look here hold a minute you you can talk with the church clerk afterwards i know you're contemplating moving your membership but it's not that easy not that easy uh but stefan it's good good good to have you man we're good to have you on oh give thanks good to see you and and um to know that as a young man you know you'll agree with me a lot a young man like yourself even in the white house in your area this god thing is not anything attractive to them would you agree i do agree yes man i've been around here i say a lot to them on the street corner um but god rescued you such that you form an appetite and a taste for spiritual things talk to us tell us tell us about your involvement with god what has god done for you well first i want to say that george set me up big time but just to say we're going to give god thanks yes well i want to speak tonight of the way i came into the seventh adventist church yes i remember i think i set you up too yes you set me i remember moving to whitehall my mom was telling me the story i think it was saturday night she was saying stefan come here i said all right mommy what's up mommy said you know when you were a child and we came to whitehall we were at home on saturdays but it's like every day you're crying and i can't get a for stop cry because we moved from norbuck and came to whitehall you know whitehall noisy bud sometime i hear the gunshots them and all these things on the music plane i never heard that no peace and tranquility so it's like she took me from that environment to carry me in whiter so i would say mommy then what did you expect did you say why stefan she said pasta are going to put in jamaican right she said your ball yeah that's your sentence well you remember that i don't anyway there's this lady that lived beside me her name is sister chris she goes to my church big obsessed circus yes she said say to my mother bashi why don't let me come to church with me mommy said what people a church one started there she said yes man get him ready anyway my mother said she buy some nice little church suit for me now and she just means nice someone said all right mommy tell me the story so she said saturday morning auntie come for me she said i'm ready and he took me to church and she took me back for lunch mommy said she was calling me i was older than her pastor she was calling to me and she said stefan but i'm not paying her no mind because i was so eager and focused that i want to go back to church yes and i said mommy stop telling me like she said yes anyway she told me the story before one time and she said she came down to church and she was calling to me but i was not paying any mind at all so i was kind of believing it till i know that we moved to watson drive now when you went to watson drive my mother carried me to church a couple of times what should we do she carried me over the scheme you know where the scheme is victoria she came over the scheme and she then should go back you don't want nobody really see her so i stayed at church i remember anti-valley ankara is saying torah that hey you don't have to come back for a minute you we take good care of him yeah that's how loving the family was that's why it all yeah and i should tell you that that time i wasn't baptized or anything do you remember how old you were because they said when you were a child i was calling you maybe that's three years ago i know i look young i know i look young thanks for telling me so anyway she said that she kept on carrying me to church taylor i went to church by myself no yes she said i would press my clothes every morning no like thursday get myself ready shine off my shoes because i love my shoes they shine and all these things and look nice i'm ready for church you know so i kind of believe it and then it's like i know i got baptized in 2005 right and from then is like yeah there's a purpose in this thing yes and as george said along the way we fault her but god is good just the same yes he never fails he never feels we're the one who messed up often times but always constant yes yeah and then when mommy told me the story of me crying every saturday morning i thought to myself you know i cried for a reason because i was supposed to be in church yes i was supposed to be in church i'm not going to cry juice no afterwards and i'm thankful to god that yes i'm still here because i've known a lot of persons that are not here persons that are coming to the church to see on a regular basis yes and they're out but i'm still there i'm not perfect but but god is perfecting you exactly amen and i always say we got in the vessel we can all smile at the storm yes and what i normally say to are you squired is that god loves us so much that you will never leave and you never forsake us so amen tonight pastor i just want to give god thanks for the journey yes and i'm looking forward to more journeys with him and to spend your always spend my always good good but let me ask you something george you you spoke to stefan you spoke of stefan and his dessert he had some kind of affinity for music he came into um i want to tell you know truthfully when when stefan came into the church and you know he's like you never really yeah even it's like except for this dear and then you know one day when when there was a time when me and him started you know the part and we were friends and became friends and stuff and after a while that that was the time we started allegiance and um you know he was many always far from them time there and one day although the blue where we were practicing him come to me and say you know what one thing you know you know yes you know you can't oh may i sing the beast teach me this and you know from that time until now stefan has been and you know it it's it's like a big improvement because when he started when we started allegiance like it was a struggle um yeah and the the three of us is here we can attest to it it was a struggle yeah sung the same song every sabbath every summer we sing the same song your love is better than life i will sing it till we get it yes and you know i started growing stefan you know being able to sing bass and then moving into baritone and moved to antenna and you know adam can sing even little bit higher if he push himself you understand to the point that no i'm missing in one and two leads in some song you know it's just it's also growth right that we've seen right now when when you were when he came for the crusade he was you know apart just in church and singing right no he's a leader in church amen amen amen you know what what is he doing um he's he's um one of the the white leaders and then he's also you mean leader in training lina leader yeah should be an elder no he's not he's not you're getting into the l.a at cal poly martin first and then all right oh yeah all right what is getting there here from from from the journey of being a little boy god planted that that urge and that thirst after him from such a young age to the point where he loves church and now he's as he said directors he discovers he has a purpose right and and please don't get weary of me i mean anybody who watches this program will know that when it comes to young men and rescuing young men that that is something that i talk about a lot i'm really happy for your mother stefan is she now in the church yes she is praise the lord praise the lord from hiding and don't want anybody to see her um to know being a member of the church i'm i'm thanking god for that but um but his mother would ensure that he goes to church allowing for that foundation early yes jody oh yes pastor i wanted to say something so listening to stephon's story i heard a growth coming out he was one that came into the church but there are some of us who were born in the church like myself and we really need to focus on the fact that growth is important even though you were born you cannot your parents salvation cannot save you i know you've heard this before and there's a point when you have to meet christ for yourself so whether you have come in or whether you are born into it you still have to make that personal decision and it leads to growth so it works for everybody amen i like that i like that point that the whole idea of growing and we ought to be growing in christ can i tell you that worship assists in that process and that's exactly what we're doing tonight we're worshiping the lord uh tonight we're glad you could join us and you know please be comfortable notice we're all in armed chairs we're not around the pulpit and the podium we are here in a relaxed environment just talking about our god just boasting about our god uh and and really thanking god for rescuing young people and for planting in them that urge that yearning that panting after him and so right now right now we're going to be getting straight into our prayer garden feature our prayer garden feature i have been telling you before that you need to pour into the chat your requests and we want to be praying for these requests uh for you tonight and whether or not you hear your name mentioned just make sure that you are in the garden uh right now as we get for prayer jennifer barrett please pray that my daughter kay will get someone to sign the affidavit paper for her blair h please pray for my sons fred gray please pray for me there is a pain in my neck joan gordon please pray for young people maureen mccook please i am asking for prayers for a church brother of mine last week he was hospitalized carmen radcliffe please pray for my friend in canada yvonne white i want her to return to the fold also at home cynthia roberts and mr mckenzie in new york ann goodin please pray for my children they are struggling spiritually as the demons of hell bombard them daily patricia stevenson please pray for my family that god will help us to serve him marlene brown please pray for me i am having a constant pain in my feet i can hardly move paulette graham i am requesting prayer i am having terrible pain in my spine macie fraser please pray for two of my friends who have been diagnosed with breast cancer please prayer warriors help us to stand in the gap for these ladies rena holland please pray for my co-worker sybil roach who was diagnosed with stage four cancer also my friend elaine morris who suffered a stroke last week janet taylor please pray for me i want to be a christian anita johnson please pray for me that i may stand for the lord tasha lynn francis pray for healing for my cousin cheryl's back let us pray spirit of the living god fall afresh upon me dear god tonight as i petitioned the throne on behalf of these requests that were mentioned there are many other requests that are in the chat many other requests that are unmentioned tonight oh god i thank you that you have provided an outlet for our burdens the songwriter says burdens are lifted at calvary jesus is very near we're happy to know that you have put in this mechanism called prayer whereby we can exchange our challenges our our concerns our petition we can give them to you in exchange for your peace tonight in our prayer garden you've heard the requests in the chat you're seeing the requests in individuals are chasing after running after peace there is upset in the life of many diseases have rocked many families in fact the requests that we've heard most of them registered some kind of malady that people are contending with tonight oh god we know that that diseases are no match no challenge for you in fact you said is there anything too hard for you to do we have read in scriptures we have seen your hand from time to time oh you have healed oh you have restored oh you have built up what the devil has broken down you have restored what he has torn down you have returned what he has stolen tonight king jesus we place in your hands requests that you knew about a long time you have begun working but while you work we pray that you will give your people the assurance that you will give them their breakthrough we put before you some folks who are suffering from cancer in fact we heard the request about breast cancer one of the leading cancers that are you know that is this destroying women tonight oh father we know that you have the power you are jehovah rapha you are our healer you can restore and like you did for the woman with the issue of blood we pray tonight that you'll grant somebody to your deliverance lord we've heard the request in the chat for prayer for sons and daughters sons and daughters who parents are praying that they will return to jesus spiritual challenges we ask oh god that you will plant it you will disturb you will plant in these young people an appetite an affinity for you we pray like you did with paul on the road of damascus that you'll stop that young man that young woman in their tracks and you will expose yourself to them in a very dramatic way so that they will come and have peace and have joy and have righteousness for righteousness exalts a nation but sin is a reproach to any people lord i put before you that request for uh some legal matter that that that the person is asking for you to involve yourself and god if you can if you can intervene in george's prayer you can respond to a prayer for just a name for a group lord i know that your heart yearns for your suffering children tonight so remember those who are sick remember those who are sin sick remember those who are contending with challenges social challenges in our country and lord we pray for our young people we put them before you tonight young people who whom the devil is oftentimes using as pawns in his hand we pray tonight that he will rescue the perishing care for the dying snatch them in pity from sin and the grave all these i put before you in jesus name let god's people say amen and amen this time we will be hearing special special heavenly music from the whitehall 70 adventist church praise team the song says magnificent [Music] so [Music] oh [Music] hallelujah [Music] is your name is [Music] hallelujah and holy is your [Music] name [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] is [Music] [Music] that was [Music] is your name [Music] is [Music] um praise the lord i hope you heard my base when i was coming in of course god is good magnificent and holy is his name do you know what we mean when we talk about god is holy it means there is none like him it means he is separate from other gods it means he is set apart you can't compare him and you will read about him declaring that oftentimes in scripture when he says i am the lord and there is none besides me what an awesome god amen do not shortchange yourself god wants to god wants to involve himself in your life young people who are watching stay close to god that's god gives meaning to life i'm telling you outside of him you literally have no identity so today tonight we are giving you jesus that's what we're doing that's what that's what the white house having you said that baptist church group is saying tonight we're giving you jesus they have accepted him he has been blessing them they're not perfect they made sure tell you that they're not perfect but they are being perfected amen praise god for god you know we we we're hinging closer to uh a close but of course music is is is very very very critical to this worship service and we're giving you a lot of it tonight we're gonna talk to to georgia it's not the first time you've seen passionate georgia um exciting georgia it's not the first time uh you know professional georgia effervescent georgia from the is she floating yet yes georgia ham she's here with us again whenever anybody who is involved in music he needs to make a conference if you love singing you cannot not encounter george and georgia of course brother and sister good to have them tonight but particularly uh georgia it's such an honor the last time you you you literally had the gut of the world cringing when you were sharing your near-death experience um i am thankful to god that that that you are here continuing to minister something the devil wanted to do you know the devil wanted to upset that he wanted to derail that but when jesus say yes nobody can say no praise god tonight talk to us sister georgia ah yes pastor god is good yes god is good all the time um my testimony is is going to be related to the group um the youth choir as well as a group that i have called the vespa group in 2018 i think it was i no it was 2019. i was a y leader for church yes and uh you know i had a lot of responsibilities including starting up um a youth prayer breakfast that i thought was very pertinent yes to the young people because you know getting the young people involved in prayer in a way that was creative and speaking to their youthfulness yes was really what i wanted and you know god was so good that he allowed it to happen um in that year as well as 2018. but there were so much things that was happening in 2019 i also started or encouraged some young persons to join the senior youth leader training um session at agency right and it was true that training that a friendship was formed that is very strong today with a beautiful set of people outside of the youth choir called the vespa group yes and i begin up the vessel group guys malovano yes now in that year there was so many things that was overwhelming me i was having issues at work i was having financial issues but as george said the youth choir was really a stronghold because i'm telling you pastor sometimes we did not have practice people would come and they would share that they're having a terrible week and some serious testimonies would come to the inquiry and we just have to not practice and just pray together hugging each other and really connecting and i love that about you choir i think it was one of the reasons i am still here today as well as the formation of that group when i when i started in the youth senior the senior leader training program many of them thought i would finish but pastor i don't think i went into that program to finish it and my parents are probably going to be shocked by this testimony but i have to share it that year the financial struggles were a lot um work was rough there was just a lot of rough things and my husband and i we've been trying to have a child and that was that's not working out for i'm a lot of reasons the young people know about it because i come to the youth choir and we pray about it all the time yes right but it was so bad i was trying to get out of the financial strain that i was under and i was trying a lot of different ways and prayer wasn't a part of it and i went to ncb the morning and i spoke to my loan officer and tell us what ncb means some some folks are from mexico oh that's national commercial bank yes it's a bank yes and i spoke to my loan officer and she looked at me and she said mrs ham i can't help you we can't help you and pasta something broke inside this quote-unquote strong person and i walked out of the bank and i i know i was going to make it to the door but i tried to make it i walked out to the bank and i was at the front and i was now shaking because no what was i gonna do i was i wasn't getting any pay because of whole the financial strain and it was majorly because of the sickness yeah because i had spent a lot of money had to be getting a lot of loans to go to the doctor and stuff as well as student loan and other things that had come over and when i reached out at the bank i picked up the phone and i called my husband who at the time was all the way up at golden spring and i couldn't speak he just he was like g g and then i started having panic attacks because i suffer from that and a lot of people don't know that i have panic attacks and anxiety attacks and when i'm going to sing i have to calm my mind before i sing a lot of people don't know that you never experienced that before you sat with us tonight no when i'm witness people have come oh that's good news right so i started having but it was more than a panic attack i i started hyperventilating there was a lady an old lady that was passing and i fell to the ground and i think i could yes at the bank yes i think i could hear my husband saying g g but everything else after that just went black and the lady she came and she was like miss what is wrong with you and then the security guard came and this other man came and i was just hyperventilating i couldn't breathe i was in uncontrollable tears and i just felt like everything just something just broke like i don't i don't know how to explain it something just broke now i am told because i'm telling you this is being related to me what took place because after i fell i don't remember what happened after that um there was a man there who knows my hod and he took off my id saw the name knew the department and called him yes and he got someone to come over to get me but by this time i didn't know that my husband who was that golden spring yeah was basically you is gate already wow he he's relating the story to me know how he drove like a madman because he has never heard me like that and he said he was just it was like he was a fire truck coming through the thing no stop light no nothing because he was like he had to reach the uae he had to reach to you because something is wrong yes and by the time they came for me my husband was driving around the ring road this is what he told me and he's the lady told him he said the lady told him what happened and he got me in the car by this time one of my very good co-workers she came and she hugged me and he said she said um it's going to be okay it's going to be okay and he said i said to her that i want to die and he took me in the car this time my parents them don't know what is going on and they're going to be shocked oh sh but i'm here today praise god amen and when he took me home he put me in the bed he took off my clothes and pasta i was selling for a good couple days he had to get me to eat get me to show up get me to this i had gone into a complete depression complete depression and one day we he was because i taken a few days off well the friend that came she told the hod what to play so honestly they didn't expect me back at work based on the severity of the situation but i know all of the department knew that georgia this so-called strong georgia was no not so strong and um i had a mental breakdown basically that's what they said but what was significant was one day he was carrying me up because he tried not to leave me alone and i turned to him and i said i don't want to be here and let me tell you something pastor i already plan out my suicide what yes i planned out what was going to happen who was gonna do it because as far as i was concerned i was done this was just too much there was just there was just too much things and to me it just seemed like everything was so unfair what are you supposed to be doing as a wife i couldn't do i can't have a kid why that's so hard why is that so hard for me like why me and then the whole final situation the sickness it was just too much and i said to him i said to him i don't want to be here and he looked at me and he said do you think that would be best and i shoved my shoulder i don't know and they can tell you my husband is a very quiet man but that day he said some things that really resonated with me that was that could have only been god yes by this time we were the only ones in the situation they did not know neither did the vespa group this time i had dropped out of the youth um leadership program and they were calling me and were clueless as to the fact that georgia was having had had a nervous breakdown and was shattered now the group of young people the vespa group yes we have a friday session for prayer every single friday yes and i went to the host that we were having it and i told your broken self yes and i told them and my friend ramona she started singing a song blessed assurance jesus is mine and then the songs just kept coming and we just kept singing and we just kept coming and it was just a series of prayer and singing prayer and singing then i went to the choir rehearsal and i shared the same story and again george george said some things i can't really remember exactly what he said but again instead of practicing everybody came together yes and we just had singing and prayer singing and praying you know some audio on george's mic i think i think i was speaking about things like your face yes i think it's something like that and everybody was like sharing the thing and then everybody i was given honestly that day i remember that day clearly the the i had nothing prepared for worship yeah and stefan came to me and said to me um i want to do worship i'm saying because and it's like that on that day god was not speaking yes because he knew he knew who needed that message he understand and georgia was there and it was so good that you know she's here today amen amen and you know pastor let me tell you something is the financial situation better not really because i am still in debt but you know out of all of these young people here yes and that vespa group today i praise god for everything amen this morning when you say everything tell us everything this financial problem yes man you're thanking for that yes man to the point where they can tell you sometimes i work not sometimes i work a seven day a week 24 hours a day job and there were times when the choir had um appointments and i couldn't make it because i'm a medical technologist and i had to be at work no it's a man when them come on them tell me say you know we have an appointment there have an appointment there i just said no problem i clear schedule because guess what the money no matter god matters yes and i'm telling you the the vespa group and these young people here pastor they said some things and i i found strength in their strengths yes and when i went into the youth leadership program you don't understand i wasn't supposed to finish it not that year yes i was supposed to meet these people yes that were going to be my strengths that were going to save me from what the lord knew i was going to go into amen and i'm telling you pastor i thank him for everything even this morning when we were doing the 10 days of prayer and after i read the powerful reading yes man i i said a prayer and i said lord thank you for the child that you will provide amen i know you will provide and pastor listen to me man he already gave me the name of the child yes the name of the child mean god has answered eliana and when i saw that name i said yes jesus i know you answering this prayer i just need to wait on you that is where i am today so my strength is no solely in god the power of of of of of of communion yes being gathering together with equals fellowshipping with one another the power of i cannot understand oh some people don't like church when you read the book of acts the bible says when peter and john were saying i cannot understand how some people just don't like church what is toxic about church i cannot fathom all my most of my years have been spent in church and the only regret i have is that i never started earlier that's right amen when peter and john were imprisoned the bible says the church the church prayed when peter alone was in prison the church prayed such that they could not even believe when peter was knocked at the door friends brothers and sisters god is a prayer here in god but he says we should not forsake the assembling of ourselves together watch this we oftentimes don't hear this part especially as we see the day approaching that part you know often hear being repeated i am saying to you tonight brothers and sisters friends who are watching this is not a show i tell you that all the time we're here praising god no as i was listening to georgia you know what came to my mind the story of blind bartimius why was bartemus outside your standing he was begging yes he lacked money but when jesus came he could have said when jesus asks what do you want me to do he could have said you know i want some money because that's what he was pursuing the entire day but when jesus showed up he said i want a sight something more important something he placed a higher premium on because if he gets back his sight then poverty is likely to go he could now work he could now be engaged in activities such that he would be independent you heard what sister georgia said emote she's not alternated but that doesn't matter and she said something that we don't often hear i thank god for the financial problem hmm hey um yeah you have to die no no you have to digest that is gross you remember some time ago i told you about my also was at the brink of depression on my rooftop i lacked money too is that i wanted but that was not what god gave me yes he gave me a new view on life amen he gave me a new pair a lens to look at life and clearly that's what sister georgia is intimating what other reason would she be thanking god what other reason would she be thanking god for the trials let me allow you to soak the testimony to soak in the group is going to be singing for us again and i love the song god favors me take a listen [Music] yes what's happening this is our test on our testimony but we're standing of how god favors us let's go [Music] yes when i think about my story and i know and i know yes you favored me because my enemies [Music] you don't have to worry about people who's going to work what's worse or take it for granted let me tell you something god is working for you always and for it let's sing it again somebody's [Music] [Music] you [Music] when [Music] [Applause] because [Music] [Music] [Music] i speak lie [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] whispers [Music] [Music] [Applause] let's [Music] [Music] yes [Music] yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] attack your integrity touch your neighbor encourage the person next to you tell him i got it tell him yes [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] yes someday [Music] but i just said yes is [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] amen what a testimony amen what a testimony in song and it aligns so much with all that we've heard since we've begun and especially sister georgia's testimony what the devil meant for evil god meant for good she is stronger and wiser yes she she recognized that god favored her is there someone in the chat tonight is there someone online tonight who who desires god's favor will you type in the chat hashtag god favors me i need to see that running down the chat everybody if that's your desire you want god's favor you must register that in the chat tonight hashtag god favors me uh before before we we take the curtains down i i just want to throw out to the group what's that what's that one message that as a a band of young people you're here tonight what's that one message that you want our our listeners our viewers our audience to take away from our worship service tonight um well i think the message that it's been done in my mind there might be difficult times there might be some times when you don't feel like you want to there might be times when you feel that this is direction that you should go but what you need to do first is as the bible says seek god yes seek he first the kingdom of god and everything else will fall into place yes it sounds simple and i know that there are times you know you're going to hit up on some bomb you see this life comes with trials yes he already promised promised us that there will be trials yes so don't add to the trials that you already promised accept the trials that it's supposed to get yes seek god and let him take you through yes so i think that is the message and also i want to to to to leave them with this that you might not have everything that you need or you want to have in your life but whatever god has provided is what is necessary for you accept it and give thanks accept it and do as this the theme of this is give thanks give thanks for what god is a little as much yes when god is in it amen so accept what god has given you know the world has defined for us what happiness is but the bible says happiness or a man's life does not consist in the abundance of things he has and sometimes god has to permit right sister george god has to permit some experiences for us to realize that with the premium that we place on possession and acquisitions that the greatest gift that or the greatest thing we should pursue is really to have the lord in our lives and to have that relationship i am really really really really indebted to you oh god for tonight's worship service you never imagined that young people could transport us to heavenly places many many people have stereotyped young people and and have labeled them and said that they don't desire god they don't want god they're frivolous the things they don't have appetite for god but you have seen that you know at the white hole avenue seventh adventist church there is a band of young people who have defied the expectations of many we praise god for them we ask you to continue to pray for their ministry that god will bless them and let me just say to you guys and to all you online there's a text in the bible that i use as my mantra psalm 84 and verse 11 the lord god is a sun and shield no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly sister georgia is claiming that child in the name of jesus and if you love sister georgia so much you're going to type in the chat that they're going to pray i'm praying for sister george i'm praying for sister georgia we are praying for her tonight that god will make a way will you join me now as i pray the final prayer for the evening i know you probably think that the worship service is short but we have been we have been on a journey and this these young people have really taken us to heavenly places we want to have a one final talk with our god so will you join us after having poured your requests in the chat yes i just wanted to also pray for or youth yeah trying to find a way and now to see if we can because they can't start calling me and stephan and say you cannot miss you yeah so just pray for us that we find a way to figure it out yes you know on this online you know medium right and stuff and i just can i can i just pick up some of them for me yeah sure sure you know i don't want to leave them out and i love them dearly they love them to my heart yeah vanessa um petrina grayson mona oh let me almost call in the line so let me start with the alto vanessa mona grayson and jeanette yeah and then move to the tenor nevik who isn't it the nintendo tj me shack that's george's husband yes yes yes trivian i have two big obj and then soprano line we have amoi um um um who was she shanique shanique sorry jessica sorry and petrina just wanted to pick up all of you who who are out there you know continue to pray we're going to figure out a way and we're going to pray for it amen and i'm impressed with that so many young people um and i suspect it's not every one of the young people at the church maybe on the choir but but but but you know really really want to to celebrate you guys at whitehall avenue seventh-day adventist church continue to minister we're praying for your ministry and as george said uh that he asks that we pray for you guys and to to encourage so that god will encourage you and to even provide uh the wisdom to get this ministry back on track and we know that if god is so interested in providing a name forgive me i'm not leaving that one that is serious god was so interested in giving the name of a group then what is there that he won't do come on join me in prayer as we pray right now dear father in heaven thank you so much for tonight's worship service we thank you for this band of young people who who came out tonight to let the world know that yes they may be battered they may be bruised they have encountered turbulence but god favored them and here they are sharing their testimony of how god led them up the mountain the rough side of the mountain uh led them through uh the valley of the shadow of death and here they are sharing their stories of the power of god in your life tonight lord we pray for all the requests in the chat we pray for those who have health challenges spiritual challenges those who have economic challenges those who have social challenges family life issues we put all of them before you oh god because you are the way maker a very present help in times of trouble our mighty rock in our land the shelter in the time of storm our cooling shade on the burning you are just everything to us and the scripture tells us that in you we are complete tonight there are some young people online watching who have never given their hearts to you and they are now provoked they feel jealous i heard of one janet who indicated that you want to give her life to the lord we're putting janet before you tonight and we're asking you lord to continue to nurture that decision allow janet to make to make that leap of faith uh in spite of the difficulties in spite of the challenges and trust you and watch your hand at work lord we pray for the youth choir at the whitehall avenue seventh adventist church we pray lord that you will provide inspiration you'll provide wisdom you'll provide all the logistics and you'll provide everything that they need to ensure that the choir is resuscitated is revived and will be con will be ministering even in a more powerful and forceful way because the spirit of god will attend their ministry lord as we pray as we bring this worship service to a close how can i forget to pray for georgia i put before you her situation i thank you for her praise report i thank you for the faith you have given her and i am praying tonight oh god that upon the authority of your son jesus christ who is the way the truth and the life that he will grant her the desires of her heart that he will open a door of opportunity he will provide her with that child just like abram was concerned about a child and you said to him abram you are to uh uh mediocre with your request i am going to give you a nation tonight i am praying upon the authority of of your word i am throwing back at you your promises you said no good thing will you withhold from those who walk uprightly and you see the ministry of your daughter and i pray oh god that you'll bless this family with that bundle of joy and oh god give her another reason to come back and all give thanks to give you praise to give you honor to give you glory we pray for our finances we pray for we pray for for her in our going out and are coming in we put all of them before you tonight and we pray that you'll place a mark upon them so that when the devil sees them he'll recognize that they have been with jesus thank you for hearing and answering our prayers tonight in jesus name let everybody say amen amen amen what a wonderful night it has been what a wonderful worship service it has been we give god thanks that he's not partial and and as does our faces differ so are our situations and our needs but the one god is concerned for all of us on behalf of our hard-working production team band of young people who have been volunteering their services lending their gifts to god i just want to thank you for staying the course for blessing us for being here with us and for you know uh being patient and and and for pouring into the chat your excitement your praises your requests and your your your affirmat words of affirmation i just want to thank you for keeping our company tonight we just want to say thanks to them uh for their hard work for helping you to to to be blessed on the other side of the camera until next week when we meet again at the same place the same time the white all-seventh-day adventist church a slice of the choir will close the evening a worship service with isabel [Music] um tamara yes [Music] abundantly [Music] according to the power [Music] god is able to do just what he said he will do now and he's gonna fulfill every promise promised to you don't give up on god cause he won't give up on you now he's able [Music] why [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] don't you anybody out there believe that god is able to do everything that he wants to do he's about to work out a miracle for you i hope that you believe that let's sing god [Music] oh oh he's oh he's i don't care what anybody whenever i call on jesus he's always right here he's able if i'm over here if i'm over here if i'm in the cutter please he's always here say he is is [Music] don't you give up on god [Music] [Applause] [Music] my message out there for you all never forget god never lose faith don't lose hope no matter what it is because god [Music] is don't give up on god cause he won't give up on you [Music] amen join us tomorrow evening for it's all connected with dr michelle hamilton and her team remember grab your family and your friends it's all connected 7 30 pm sharp don't miss it you

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