September 19, 2021 Sunday AM

oh [Music] [Music] [Music] cool [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] good morning saints you know i was thinking as we walk through life we often feel that we have accomplished goals and aspirations that we set for ourselves you know we feel like we've done good things however i'd like for you to remember that it's not us doing it but god doing those wonderful things through us amen i'd like you to look at your neighbor and i need you to say it's not you it's god let's say it again it's not you it's god [Music] here's a scripture that speaks to that reality this is psalm 72 verses 18 through 19. blessed be the lord god the god of israel who only doeth wondrous things and blessed be his glorious name forever and let the whole earth be filled with his glory amen and amen are you thankful to be in god's house today come on can you lift your hands and love him in this place jesus we worship you today god we're thankful to be in your house one more time oh jesus we praise you today [Music] [Music] the weight of every upon [Music] [Music] the son of in god [Music] a battle in the grave the war on death was waged the power of hell forever broke his perfect love could not be is he is glorified forever is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] he is glorified forever [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] decay as heaven looked away forever laid in darkness a battle in the grave the ground began to shake the stone was rolled away his perfect love cannot be overcome now then where is [Music] is is [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] come on would you lift your hands in your voice and praise him today are you thankful that we're serving a risen savior come on could you worship jesus in this place today he's glorified in this house come on would you lift his name high if you believe he's worthy would you lift your voice and give him high [Music] on would you lift your praise and sing with us today [Music] foreign forever [Applause] [Music] we sing hallelujah we sing hallelujah the lamb is overcome please think hallelujah we sing hallelujah we sing hallelujah the lamb has overcome [Music] come on with us today stay with me [Music] [Music] [Music] me [Applause] is [Music] oh [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] these [Music] for me [Music] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Music] this perfect is foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] come on sing it today forever [Music] today oh god we praise him are you thankful he's alive today [Applause] [Music] good morning my name is jay hall and this is why my wife michelle we're so glad you've joined us at first pentecostal church today if you're joined us with us in person or online or listening we welcome you if you're visiting with us today we hope that you stop by the connect center outside the foyer for refreshments if you need to know where the connect center is it's out the center doors to your left we have a special gift for you yes and with that special gift there is a welcome packet if you would please uh fill out the card inside there and uh turn it in we would love to let you know of upcoming events going on at the church what i like to say is the greatest place on earth and in the back of that there is a place you can fill out for a prayer request if you have a special need we would love to help you pray if you will fill that out and submit that as well and just as we at first pentecostal church have a gift for you god has the greatest gift of all for you and that is the gift of the holy ghost and the 40s my grandparents came they got that gift when i was seven years old i got that gift for myself right after that my parents got that gift and it is the greatest gift on earth if you want peace that's your peace is the gift of the holy ghost so just as we at first pentecostal church have a gift for you that we hope you will get it you will open it god has that gift for you but you have to get it and we hope that you will reach out just this week i've had two people watching online listening online in their homes they received the gift of the holy ghost praying through so it's not just for those in the building it's for those you watching and listening so you can also text fpcnlr.com forward slash guest card if you would like to fill out that way as well rather than through the welcome packet either way we want to get to know you a little bit better welcome to the greatest place on earth [Music] the lord sits high he looks helps his low he sees and he knows he knows my trouble and my care my heavy burden he knows how to bear [Applause] [Music] and he sees everything that i mean oh yes the lord sits high and looks lonely he helps his children jesus and he sees he knows all of my rights and he knows all of my wrongs oh i'm so glad he knows everywhere i go and he knows just where i belong the lord sits high and all of my cares the lord oh [Applause] [Music] my secrets know [Music] [Music] oh he knows know know everything that i mean aren't you glad we got a god that knows more of it [Music] come on give him some praise out of your heart usher's come to the front i know he knows oh yeah god knows he knows when i'm right jesus know [Music] oh know [Applause] [Music] everything that i need hallelujah you want to give him a hand clap for thanksgiving aren't you glad we got a god that knows the god that's faithful a god that we can depend upon trust in bless that wonderful name of jesus well i feel victory in the house today amen i see sister jones here amen brother hall how god's touched him yes you know what i think we are to do instead of asking i just think we're to spend this time today thanking the lord do you have anything to thank him for do you know anything good about the lord that he's done for you come on let's thank him together as we thank him we're believing for help and healing for all those who are in need today lord we thank you for your faithfulness your greatness your goodness amen god bless you to be seated again god bless the ushers today as they come to serve you what an opportunity to give to the wonderful work of god amen aren't you glad the lights are still burning in this house amen it's because of you people amen god bless you as you obey the lord with your tithe and offering [Music] driving [Music] you don't have when your face went by oh i give you joy [Music] anybody got joy [Music] while [Music] so let your heart rest in my presence cause i am the fullness the god of abundance you don't have to walk alone and when you face [Music] if you only cling to him lean into me [Music] [Music] has god done anything for you this week [Music] the joy of the lord is my strength [Music] you ought to tap your neighbor and say i have joy i have joy through problems i have joy through pain [Music] [Music] whatever you need is yours if you want it oh help me save if you need healing today oh it's yours if you [Music] wanted to [Music] whatever you need today [Music] [Applause] you don't have to walk alone you were never on your own [Music] [Music] talk right [Music] he'll give you joy in the midst [Music] if you [Music] oh [Music] thank you god for your joy [Music] live is [Music] joy will help me love my neighbors [Music] you don't have to walk alone you were never on your own and when you're faced with unbelief [Music] leading to me peace has lead into me cause i'll give you joy unspeakable joy hallelujah are you glad for the joy that's unspeakable amen thank the lord for that wonderful joy that the holy ghost gives the world can't compare with the joy of the holy ghost there's nothing in this world so blessing and soothing and lifting up our spirits as to feel the touch of the holy ghost amen i want us to join up in prayer together today that the holy ghost will have its way in this house why don't you reach right now agree with someone if it's appropriate join up join their hands or shoulder and just let's believe together amen god we thank you for your presence your power your anointing thank you for your help today oh yes god we bless your wonderful name thank you for this joy that's unspeakable and full of glory thank you for all the great things you've done in your doing we give you praise honor and glory we lift up your righteous holy name you're so worthy o god you're so worthy o god hallelujah hallelujah i wonder if we couldn't put our hands together with the praise what about the mezzanine up in the balcony all over the house today amen amen amen amen amen it's great to see everyone here today all of our guests thank you for coming and joining with us today in this service and it's wonderful to come to church and feel such an anointing i tell you if you missed prayer meeting this morning over in the great hall you missed a great time in the holy ghost already amen the glory of the lord was there in such a special way thank the lord for it and then to see uh this house filled with people and people up in the balcony today worshiping god y'all gonna help us up there too amen in the mezzanine are we gonna get any help out of the mess thing today amen all over the house we come to praise him and to lift up his name well i just come to tell you again today the devil's still a liar and the truth is not in him amen hey we're on the attack against the enemy amen we're not trying to run a defense game we're an offense hallelujah here's your signal right here here's your signal [Music] worship oh yes hello balcony come on balcony come on yes lord i praise you out of my heart hallelujah hallelujah on church obey the holy ghost we didn't come to put on a show we come to obey the holy ghost today [Music] move as you feel the holy ghost moving on you come on step out in the aisle obey the holy ghost obey the holy ghost obey the holy ghost you feel in your spirit [Music] [Applause] oh we bless your name god we bless your name god we bless your name take somebody with a hand and hold it up toward the lord right now it's victory in the house it's victory in the house well thank jesus for his anointing today amen and his presence we feel in this house just remain standing with me today amen i thank the lord for the anointing his power his glory thank the lord for these wonderful singers today musicians thank you brother ken high and all of you great job amen we're certainly missing pastor today but i'm the substitute and fill in if you all help me fill in a little bit here amen i thank the lord i give the lord praise and honor god has been so faithful and wonderful thank you thank you all of you people sister johnnette and all family son daughter everyone this great church family for your prayers your help amen hallelujah this past wednesday was my eighth treatment and thank god they said it was my last treatment so thank you [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] so do [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] ah yes lord yes lord this will be a good day for somebody to get the holy ghost and for us to get it all over again today oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah let's bless his name together right now we bless your name righteous god [Music] pray with me i want you to just pray this prayer lord what do you want in this service today pray that prayer with me right now hey it doesn't matter to me it's just whatever he wants come on the messiah i feel a little bit come on lord whatever you want come on lord whatever you want this is your people this is your house this is your church oh whatever you want god have your way have your way have your way hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah oh bless the lord o my soul and all that is within me hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah i wanted you to just pray that prayer with me right now come on just hallelujah hallelujah come on hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah bless that wonderful name of jesus thank you jesus thank you for your presence your power your anointing god [Music] amen thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord bless the name of the lord aren't you glad that we're in a house today where the holy ghost is at best thing about this church is the presence of the lord being present and here and touching our hearts and touching our life amen it would be wasted time to come and the lord not be here the greatest thing the greatest gift in this house is to come and get a touch of the holy ghost feel his presence his glory his anointing oh thank you lord help us fpc god that we would never take you for granted that we would never take all the good things that's happened in this church in our lives all the blessings that's come our way oh god help us to never take it for granted would you pray that prayer with me right now come on all the good things that's happened in your life oh god never shall we take you for granted god oh jesus never shall we take you for granted god thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus oh bless the lord bless the lord bless the lord bless the lord bless the lord bless the lord that's the lord hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah you want to high-five someone back to your seat amen thank god that we're out of egypt come on we've been delivered from egypt amen just remain standing with me hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you lord [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you lord thank you lord hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah amen thank you for your response to the spirit of the lord here today and i trust that holy ghost would help us for a few minutes here today speak to you from the good word of the lord hallelujah romans the first chapter and the sixth verse let me read this verse a couple of verses of scripture here among whom are ye also the called of jesus christ to all that be it rome beloved of god and i want you to notice this is what i want to focus on today called to be saints would you say that with me today call saint that includes all of us we're all saints we've been called to be saints grace to you and peace from our from god our father and the lord jesus christ first i thank my god through jesus christ for you all that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world he was writing this to those that were rome rome was the city that hated god uh persecutor of the people of god but he said the beloved of god that's called to be saints and he said your faith is spoken of you throughout the whole world your faith is spoken because you have been steadfast because you held onto this truth everybody knows what god is doing and it's done in your life one more time before your seat if you reach your hand in this direction ask the holy ghost to help me lord for the next few minutes let me speak your word say what you would have me to say and you be lifted up in jesus name we pray and everybody said amen god bless you can be seated what an honor today that god has called us out of darkness into this wonderful light the greatest honor in this world is to be a sight of the most high amen to know that god has touched our heart and called us by his spirit i read this scripture at camp meeting and and it uh deals with being a saint and uh it's a ephesians the first chapter first verse and paul the apostle of jesus christ by the will of god to the saints at ephesus and to the faithful in christ jesus then the 17th verse i love this that the god of our lord jesus christ the father of glory and some people read this and they see three but they're confused here hear the word of the lord today that the god of our lord jesus christ the father of glory we know who god was god is a spirit everybody say spirit we know who lord is lord is what the ruler the king so the god of our king jesus christ who's the father of glory may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him that the eyes of your understanding being enlightened that you may know what is the hope of his calling and what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints he's got purpose in our lives he's got an investment in us what is the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints and what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us word who believe according to the work of his mighty power thank god today that we have been called to be in this great number of the saints of the most high then it gives us how god works through and leads and guides us and molds us and shapes us paul went on in that same book to write to the ephesians he said and he gave some apostles and some prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers now we're dealing with the purpose of all this in the 12th verse he said for the perfecting of the saints for the perfecting hey we can never stop growing everybody say grow we can never st what are we growing we're growing a different attitude we're growing a different spirit we were born shaping in sin and iniquity we were all messed up we were ill we were unhappy we were messed up every way with our spirit and our attitude but the holy ghost works on us and the holy ghost for the perfecting perfecting of the saints i'm going to tell you the key to living for god is how you think if you ever change your thinking you'll change your attitude your spirit everything changes when people change the way they think i want to remind you that god he listens when you're in the bedroom and in the secret place he knows the very fault of your heart he knows really what you feel about your church amen the house of god the people of god he knows deep down it's the deep seated thoughts that we have that we must let the holy ghost perfect in us and work on us and change us that we don't think like we used to think amen the biggest challenge for every child of god is to turn their thinking around we were born negative we were born messed up we were born thinking wrong we were born going the wrong direction and it takes the holy ghost to make us do a turnaround amen if you ever turn your turn your thinking around you'll turn everything around in your life amen you'll go from being sad to being happy you'll go from being finding fault to finding good you'll go from seeing all the wrong to seeing what's right and that's what makes a happy home that's what makes a happy dad that's what makes a happy mother that's what makes a happy family that's what makes happy children if you live in criticism and you always critical and you're sitting in the seat of judgment and you're always judging you're judging the songs you're judging the preaching you're judging the music you're judging your uh wherever whatever you're involved in job wherever you're working you're always in the seat of judgment they should have done it this way they didn't do this right they didn't do that right they should have done that right they should have done it this way come on i'm preaching to you i'm preaching to you about how to perfect yourself how to grow how to be what god wants us to be how to watch god work in your life how to rise out of defeat to victory how to be a beautiful person to live with how to have a happy home a happy life how to prosper you can't prosper thinking negative you can't prosper thinking down you've got to get your thoughts up you've got to think on the good what do the scriptures say if there's anything good think on that amen don't think on the evil think on the good find the good look for the good pray for the good come to church looking for good go home looking for good amen find the good in our country find good wherever you go hey we're the people of god we've been brought out of egypt you know what was so sad moses could never get egypt out of the people they said we want those onions and we want all that big pot amen i'm giving you bread from heaven no we don't want that we won't we want these uh pots that we were eating out of in in egypt you know what the holy ghost has got to change your taste your taste buds have got to change people call evil good and good evil they're messed up in their head they're messed up in their thinking they look at something that's evil and they say oh that's good a boy trying to be a girl and a girl trying to be a boy that's good they're so twisted up in their brain amen but thank god for the church thank god for the ministry of the church when you find out what's good you're living friend you got to let your taste buds change in life oh yes he said these these ministries are given for the perfecting of the saints it's for the work of the ministry it's for the edifying of the body of christ here's the purpose of it till we all come to the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the son of god unto a perfect man unto the measure of the statue of the fullness of christ that's where he's trying to lead us that we henceforth be no more children just tossed to and foe carried about with every wind of doctrine the society of men cunning crafters whereby they lie in wait to deceive us there's people waiting on today to mess up your thinking you better be careful what you read you better be careful what you look at better be careful what you read on the internet amen there's a bunch of deceivers in this world thank god for the bible thank god for the truth it's forever established he said but speaking the truth in love may grow unto him in all things which is the head even christ from whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted that's what god wants in a church the whole body is fitly joined together oh god let us leave the spirit of criticism outside the doors of the church and let us be fitly joined together and compacted by that whichever joint supply according to the effectual working in the measure of every part maketh increase of the body into the edifying of itself in love help us god today a church bound together oh thank god for fpc it's not perfect but it's just about that's the way i feel about it i just have to tell you it's about as good as it can get i'm telling you god has been so amazing in this church amen nobody knows better than i know it's been 50 years since 69 and to thank the goodness of god lord jesus i've seen so much heard so much church troubles church splits people trying to run the church that wasn't called to run the church amen going through building programs and everybody got to have their way brother we would have never got this far if everybody been trying to have their way brother henderson but you know what it's been it's been thank god you pit folks are a beautiful people i thank god for every one of you i sit over there sometimes and i think how the world i ever end up here amen i'm still scratching my head trying to figure that out how did i ever get the pastor of this church how'd i ever get to preach in a building like this i'm just amazed at the goodness of god the greatness of god you know how it all come about it's people that were fitly joined together strong opinionated people sitting in the seat of judgment always criticizing we would have never got to where we're at always expressing their opinion this is right and that's wrong no no we come to be fed we come to live for god we want to do the ministry of the saints of god oh are we blessed today i wonder if you couldn't put your hand together for the lord thanksgiving thank you god thank you for your faithfulness and greatness and goodness god jude said beloved when i give all diligence to write unto you the common salvation he said it was needful to me to write unto you and exhort you that you should earnestly contend i just come to stir you up a little bit let's just stay in the path we're on that we earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints you've already got that faith just hold on to it now don't let the devil steal it paul said i press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of god in christ jesus i'm going to keep i don't want to i don't want to be short of what god's got for me i pray why don't we say this together could we do it together i press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of god in christ jesus let's try it again i press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling everybody say hi calling of god in christ jesus amen i want that highest calling in my life i want to be what he had in mind for me to be i think about the ministry of the church and the saints of the most high one of the most important things for us to do is to perpetuate what god has already given us to keep this going and keep it alive what a what a challenge the devil would love to steal it thank god for the generation that's passed before us that handed this glorious truth down and this excellent spirit and excellent attitude they had an excellent love they had for one another could it get an amen in the house is that the way you see the past pentecost generation that's blessed us to be where we're at today and thank god for the whales they dug and the prayer life they had and the walk they had with god that's the reason we're here today now it it it is our responsibility everybody say our responsibility to pass it down to the next generation and keep this glorious message alive if it's been good for you why would it not be good for your children oh yes helpless god we should never give up we should never stop praying for children wherever they may be whatever may be going on in their life is is continually determined that they're going to live for god i like what psalms 78 and 2 he said i will open my mouth in a parable i will utter dark sayings of old which you have heard and known of our fathers have told us he said we will not hide them from their children we're going to shoot to the generation to come we're going to show them the praises of the lord we're going to show him his strength his wonderful works that he has done for he established the testimony in jacob and appointed a law in israel which he commanded our fathers that they should make them known to their children that the generation to come might know them that the generation to come that's where that's the ministry of the saints is that we would pass this glorious message on to the next generation as carefully as it has been handed to us we would hand it down to them and the fpc would continue on doing great things in the in this messed up world that we're in today because we were able to pass it to another generation what a danger you see it everywhere you go you see it in businesses you see great thriving businesses and all at once they shut their doors and they're shut down they're out of business you see it in churches it happens churches that were thriving churches mighty churches and they shut their doors we recently bought a church somebody said wonder what happened i said i can tell you what happened they didn't have a christian school they didn't have no young people and finally everybody dies out and that's what the devil left to do to fpc y'all hear me up in the balcony that's what he wants to do in the mezzanine all over the house he wants to shut the doors but somebody's got to say no devil no devil it's been good for us it's going to be good for our children and we're determined and we're going to give it to our children oh yes that's the ministry of the saints today is not allow the devil to close the doors of what god has done and god is doing in his house help us god you know it's easy to get caught up in your own little world right it's easy to get caught up it's easy to get caught up in things it's easy to get caught up in toys uh things that god has given us it's easy to get caught up in in in business and all these things it's easy to get sidetracked of why we're here and and the purpose of god that's in our life and uh there's not a better example i could give to you today than esther esther uh listened to her mordecai which was a type and a shadow of a pastor the bible said she didn't request anything other than what was given to her the bible said that mordecai went every day and checked on her and talked to her and the blessings of god was up on her she won the throne she became the queen and she gets in that house that the blessings of being the king's wife and all the things that went honor in the glory of it and she gets something happens in her thinking and then trouble breaks out for the children of israel that it looks like they're all going to be put to death because of haman and mordecai is at the king's gate and he's in sackcloth and he's praying and crying out to god she just sends him some hickey freeman suits she says all he needs to get rid of those uh all those sackcloth and put you on some new clothes you just need a new suit he sent the suits back to her and said i don't want your suits i want you i'm going to tell you god's looking for us to take a stand god don't want your money to take a stand god wants us to take a stand god wants us to be strong god wants us to be determined god don't want us to send somebody else he wants us to come ourself amen he wants us to be responsible to stand in defense for this glorious gospel and glorious truth amen i don't want to get my hands dirty with that i don't want to touch that i'm glad for the church i'll have to i'll help support it he wants more than just your support he wants you he wants all of us in the middle of it [Applause] she got so twisted up in her thinking that she almost missed her timing but mordecai said let me tell you something have you not ended up where you're at because of what's going on has this not happened to you that you would be in this position because god wants to use you for his glory and his honor and he told her he said i want to tell you something i'm not worried god will make a way if he don't use you he'll use somebody will get delivered but i can promise you you're not going to get delivered hey church we got to stay in the fire we got to keep walking with god we got to do his will amen we can't step back we got to step into this thing [Applause] let me stir you up can i stir you up a little bit today would you let me preach to you just a little bit would you open up your heart just a little bit huh well we're voting on it right now can i get a yes hallelujah listen to me church shake yourself you can't come sit on these pews and just look around stare off into space you're scaring me to death when i see people do that their hand never goes up we never respond to the worship service hey we're only here about an hour and a half that's not much time to give god somebody said they stand up and sit down stand up and say you've got a critical spirit on you you need to think different oh let me stir you up a little bit oh yeah let me stir you up a little bit hey we need a move of the holy ghost [Applause] pray with me right now come on pray with me right now in the name of jesus christ i believe you god i believe you god i believe you god in jesus name in jesus name amen you can be seated help us lord help us lord not to take well i'm going to church again it's more than i'm just going to church amen i'm coming to his house to receive food everybody say food what will happen to you if you go a few days without eating you're weak i mean you need food in the natural you need food in the spiritual amen i thank god and rejoice at the word of the lord that goes forth in this house and the anointing of god has been upon sun to preach the word of the lord it's amazing amen we're a very blessed people but we can we can enjoy all this and just sit and listen and it just zoom right over our head because we don't take it in our heart i want it in my heart i come i come praying lord preach to me let the preacher say something disturb me move me feed my soul everybody's soul needs to be fed everybody needs a drink of the holy ghost everybody needs a touch of god there's nobody exempt today or we can just walk in this beautiful building and just look around and say here i've arrived amen and now it's time to go home no amen we're going to participate amen we're going to participate we're going to participate when they're singing we're going to participate when they're preaching amen this is our church amen this is this is god's given us this house to worship him amen this is the ministry of the saints of the most high is to come and to praise and to glorify and lift up the name of jesus he is so worthy esther don't miss your time and don't miss don't miss out don't let a new automobile a house and a house find home maybe two houses whatever he's blessed you with don't let a don't let the foolish things of this world sidetrack your thinking you get to thinking you don't really need god don't get caught up in your little world that you miss out on what god the purpose that god had in your life the purpose of why he was blessing you his purpose and all that and you miss what god wanted to do oh he'll make a way he'll use somebody but you know what i want to tell him use me god i wonder how many would just cry out today use me god come on cry out to him with me right now use me god come on lord let me be a vessel let me be what you want me to be let me glorify you oh jesus i love going to church i like i believe as brother bass said i leave coming back amen i love i love hispanic church on friday night we have a time in the holy ghost it's been amazing brother james gill where is he at brother james gill got the holy ghost in spanish church amen last friday night and got baptized this past sunday night amen thank the lord for i know you a lot of you don't know brother james gill but you know what he had he had one of the most precious mothers sister gill she was a rock solid saint of god passed away a number of years ago prayed and cried of many a prayer for that man to live for god where are you at brother james amen y'all see him back there you're looking at a miracle james grew up with my brother ruble and brother clifton and some of these brothers and he was one that never prayed but oh thank god back a couple years ago or a year or so ago i guess it was god got a hold of his heart and he started reaching out and reaching out to sister alice who was the school teacher pray for me i need to get the holy ghost oh hallelujah hallelujah oh thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord thank god the way the lord filled it with the holy ghost i love going to church i leave coming back amen i love the house of prayer i'm just telling you a few things i love about the church i love the saints of god the younger young saints the older saints i love and appreciate those that have passed on what great examples they were for us thank god for worshipers thank god for the way you respond responded today amen i pray someday some of y'all can beat brother macdougall from getting down here in front first i pray someday some of y'all beat sister henderson running around this section over here first somebody can get ahead of her hey man oh thank god for worshipers it would be terrible to go to church and there were no worshipers you love worshipers amen oh yes thank god for it amen thank god thank god for the great music in church the great singers i'm going to tell you what we just got the best amazing was that not an amazing scene today in worship brother cal sister jessica said it right it's like going to a concert amen thank god for brother ken high amen yes thank you jesus thank you jesus thank the lord i love it all i love paying my tithes yeah i pay tithes too yes sir i love giving my offerings i love watching people get the holy ghost getting baptized in jesus name i love to be around happy saints amen you know what y'all just kind of disconnected right now but i even love my pastor here yeah that's right amen hallelujah hallelujah thank god the scripture said blessed be the lord thy god which delighteth in thee to set thee on his throne talk of them about solomon to be the king for the lord thy god because thy god loved israel to establish them forever he put him on the throne solomon amen thank the lord for the hand of god the anointing of god and how god has passed the mantle down i watched when i started preaching and god laid the burden of this church upon my heart i don't know a lot of you know the history but i know there's quite a few that don't my mother was the preacher my daddy was the drum beater amen i can tell you this it's a whole lot easier to beat a drum than it is to preach but it worked good for them and it was a great team together he was ever more of a leader but i watched as the hand of god was upon my mother and the mantle that was upon her and it was just obvious when i came when god anointed me the mantle fell on me and now i'm watching as the mantle has fallen on my son and i thank god for all of you and i thank god that we hadn't had no church split and nobody critical amen i don't know how you could be amen the wonderful anointing of god that's in this house and upon this church thank you jesus i love the church the wonderful things it's taught me the wonderful things that's put in my life i tell you what i love about the church it's taught me how to live with no condemnation the greatest life you'll ever live is a life of no condemnation if it bothers you you need to quit oh yes there's nothing like peace everybody say peace when you're troubled right here that's that's the most miserable life you can ever live it's when you feel like something's about two inches off the tip of your nose you ever been there you ever felt that you know what i'm talking about no you do yes no maybe so amen it's just like it's it's just right there everywhere you turn it's just right there get rid of it it ain't worth it to feel the holy ghost is worth everything in this world to have that deep sound peace somebody said other people do it they don't matter what they do other people do a lot of things if you judge everything but what somebody else is doing you'll do anything amen you do what god's put in your heart to do and don't pay nobody else no attention hallelujah i love the church i love the ushers my thank god for the group of men across this front today hostesses security sunday school teachers thank god for the choir leaders amen i'm just going over a thanksgiving list y'all mind helping me what about these choir members you know what i'd like to say i like to see this whole choir filled with people tonight singing for the glory of god somebody said there's nowhere for me to get involved it's a big church wrong wrong you just don't want to get involved you see these empty chairs up here you can be up here singing for the glory of god amen get involved turn your name in be usher be a worker in the kingdom be a cook amen well that didn't go over very good be a eater how does that sound that sounds better didn't it yeah what do you think about these ambassadors oh man i love these young men stand up ambassadors over here stand up ambassadors wherever you're at amen thank god for every one of them we love them and appreciate our young people i'll tell you something else we got around here to be thankful for that we take for granted we got a wonderful church staff that works here full time it's nothing but pure servants you just cannot believe some of the things they do to keep this building going and messes they clean up and things they fix that we tear up amen thank the lord thank the lord for the shuttle drivers thank the lord for all the blessings i'll tell you something that's dear to my heart and i thank god for it and that's what we call ca calvary academy if there's anything we ought to pray for we are to pray for calvary academy if there's any ministry that will help perpetuate the kingdom of god in this church going forward it's ca thank god for five days a week we've got teachers up here teaching under the influence of the holy ghost thank god they're having bible class up here every day and they're perpetuating this great truth they're not only doing that they're preparing them very well for the natural for life and to go out and compete i tell these students sometimes you get out in the real world your mother's not there that's a bad feeling when your mother don't show up in defense for you but it don't work out there when you're in the real world i tell them i said no matter how tall you are it doesn't matter how short doesn't matter what color you are has nothing to do with it you worried about that little twist on your hair quit worrying about it you get in the real world that don't make any difference it doesn't matter what the color your hair is doesn't matter what the color your eyes is you know what matters is from about right here up and they'll put a price tag on that right there well hallelujah man that's the reason all parents should be behind christian education because your children are going to have to go out one day and pay house payments hey by the way it's good to have brother sister brown y'all stand up do you believe they are back home sister natalie amen we love you both beautiful family good to see you today in his house amen oh are we blessed church are we blessed you need to you need to help them don't criticize the homework the teachers encourage them give them a tutor to help them they're gonna face the real world one day they're gonna need to make a living boy is this not spiritual boy y'all just please don't run the aisles right now they're going to need it all one of these days and help us god it's to prepare for the next generation thank you school teachers thank you principal brother pomeroy thank you for taking thank you for taking chewing out phone calls and people get side tracked sometimes sister candy homes principal in the elementary is god not amazing give us give us this campus up here north hills you know why god did that because this church would not stop let me tell you how it was and teachers would be standing right here they're back against the wall and the student will be sitting right there and god said you know what i'm going to fix that for them i'm going to give them an extra 43 000 square foot building you know why god did that because we've never turned down a child because of money and by god's help and grace i know how pastor feels about it i know how i feel about it we will never turn down a child hey if we're going to send money to foreign missions and we can't even be missionaries to our own country in our own city god have mercy upon us we don't want no child left behind we want every one of them to be in ca and live for god you can be seated sister holmes told a story here back a few weeks ago it touched me so deeply about it's it's sad we should pray for public school there's children there and god help them and god be merciful to them we're not against them we love everybody amen it's just a sad day it's it's the leaders that are in control it's messing things up they need to fear god and love god and go back to the bible and use this for a textbook amen it'd change everything sister holmes tell that story again this summer i got to visit with a a friend a public school teacher and she was just telling us that this summer they had had a big meeting and all the teachers came together and they were telling them some new things that were going to be happening this year one thing is they were going to be taking a lot of books out of their libraries and replacing them with books and what i said was there are books that you wouldn't even want your kids to see the cover of them it's i mean you see it on your phone you see it in the news we read it what's going on and those are the kind of books they're going to be putting in they've already put in we always think about oh that's off in california somewhere they're crazy out there but it's here and they're doing it now here he said that then they had someone come and speak and tell them that they could no longer basically tell the correct american history they told them you know we can't talk about christopher columbus he was a murderer he was i mean they just went down the list degrading talking about the different things in american history that they could no longer say we know prayer is already out of school they started that a long time ago but prayer is out of the school they just meditate pastor talked about it the other day in in our college class about the unknown god that's basically if they're just meditating they're just they're not even saying the name of god they're not allowed to she also said she's not allowed to have even a bible on her desk for fear that it would offend someone and i'm just so thankful that i'm a part of calvary academy a few weeks ago pastor was preaching the holy ghost was falling we were down front and i just thought you know i want to get sister alice to pray for me so i went over several other people had the same idea and she was praying and she stopped and she just looked me in the eye and she said sister candy carry on and i thought oh thank you jesus i'm so glad i've been taught what i've been taught in this church and brother holmes at calvary academy and first pentecostal church the lord help us we are going to carry on amen hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah oh stand with me lift up your voices to god right now [Applause] oh yes lord that's what it's all about you know i just felt such a burden in prayer this service today and i was thinking about my generation people here say 55 years and up oh he oh yes [Music] hey [Music] oh [Music] my [Music] hallelujah hallelujah come on let's love him right now together hallelujah i wonder if i couldn't ask that generation to walk down to this front with me today come on amen about 55 and up could you come down and join with me around this front yes lord yes lord yes lord come on oh yes jesus yes jesus yes jesus thank you for your faithfulness your goodness your mercy god oh yes lord hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah that's the way come on just if y'all will just step a little closer to the front there's so many behind you oh yes [Music] oh [Music] god oh god oh god oh god [Music] oh yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord yes [Music] yes god yes god yes god come on let's pray together lord we don't want to lose our fight we don't want to lose our direction oh come on i'm looking at the ones that are setting the direction for this church today come on lord speak to us oh yes god oh yes god yes god yes god oh you want to join up with one another and pray come on lord in jesus name oh yes god speak lord speak to our hearts today [Music] oh lord we would never lose [Music] yes oh we bless your name lord we bless your name lord we bless your name hallelujah i just want to encourage you today this generation i know [Music] i can feel what time has done to me can't run as fast but we can still run we can walk we can stand we can keep fighting we can help set the direction we can keep holding up the hands of those hallelujah hallelujah [Music] we can't allow just to get in the easy chair and come to church and just let the young people do it all they can't do it all we got to do our part we got to do our part we got to praise him we got to worship him we got to walk with him because you know what i tell them sometime in prayer meeting over there i say don't forget your children know where you're at tonight our children really know us they know whether we pray we don't pray they know our attitude toward all things oh we think they're you know this little innocent ignorant kids but they're not they're brilliant they pick up quick home spirits daddy you can say a few words about the service your children can pick up that critical spirit so quick you can find a little fault and they'll find a lot of fault why it's so important let god touch our thinking let god touch our thinking [Music] i've said it many times today it's not a perfect world but i tell you what god's been so good to us you don't need to focus on the flaws you need to focus on the goodness of god and the blessings of god oh what about it folks what about it let's keep leading the way let's keep holding up the banner let's keep standing firm let's keep being determined hallelujah hallelujah would you lift up your voices with me right now oh yes god yes god yes god yes god yes god and let me tell you we're not in those palaces just it's all about us we've been put there for a purpose and that's a higher purpose and that's the kingdom when i read things like harvard university has an endowment fund of 37 billion dollars yale 29 billion stanford university 26 billion notre dame mormon church 100 billion catholic church 170 billion you know what i feel a burden in my heart i want to see this thing perpetuated whether we like it or not don't think they wouldn't turn the lights out in this building if we didn't pay the bill they will don't think the school wouldn't shut down thank god for the sacrifice our teachers make but we still need to support them and share with them well i'm just giving you the burden of my heart amen let's keep it alive brother luper daddy did it and the meager i remember on friday nights them take up an offering for children's home and they had to get 50 for the groceries for about can you imagine 50 children to eat on all week and they'd get that 50 and then they kept the christian school going i read back over yesterday i thought about bringing a lot of it to you today some of the things i never realized how much my life my daddy's life paralleled losing a wife losing a boy was three years old on and on the list goes things they went through moved his dad moved to san antonio with his first wife thinking he'd get in the dryer climate because of tuberculosis that was one eating arlene and he had a boy named jerry his life that they moved there and she died in san antonio and he started back in an old truck that he had made a motor home out of and it threw a rod they sat on the side of the road two days until they could get that truck fixed to get back to the funeral they sent her body back on the train to tylertown mississippi thank god that people were willing to go through some difficult times and here we are today we're blessed abundantly if we're not careful we'll just close up our heart to the kingdom of god and let this christian school survive the best way it can no i thank god for you great saints and i'm just pouring out my burden to you your babies your grandchildren are gonna need this my grandchildren are gonna need this amen we don't know what the times may hold who knows what's ahead but i thank god we're living in a time of prosperity and blessings and many years ago we started the classes being minimal martin business classes teaching about business what a blessing it's been and can you believe now all over pentecost people are starting these classes somebody said oh that sounds carnal does it really when you can't pay your light bill can you shout very good at church huh it don't seem like to me that connects and that's what i've seen and felt and i said people can get in business for themselves and it's amazing what they can do and god's done it all to god be the glory and here we stand what a future this church has got what a future everything paid for everything everything god is blessed through you people giving then 160 something acres on the other side of the freeway and i'm going to tell you we haven't been backed off one bit we're right in behind it every week pushing it's just a it's an ordeal but god's got it in his hands he knows when to let this thing mature it's not in my hands if in my hands we'd already be headed over there but god's got it in control i just want to share my burden with you let's pray let's let god use us let's be a let's be a conduit that he can send his blessings through amen help us god today we had a brand new sister get the holy ghost this church sister cheney amen and she set up a trust for this church and she's been given to it steady every week and god bless you sister cheney i don't know how god just put it in your heart she's giving it to ca for christian education amen may we all get that vision may we all do something thank you sister cheney hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah i want to be kingdom minded what about you i don't want to be earthly minded i want to be kingdom minded amen god bless you thank you lift up your hands let's thank the lord thank you for letting me deliver my soul today oh i bless your name lord i bless your name lord i bless your name well one more time can we give him praise out of our heart lord we want to be what you want us to be thank you for such a great opportunity to be in the work of god bless and strengthen your people god lead us 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