Sunday 11a Service 08162020

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it feel all the house give god the glory for the upper room church of god in christ celebrating 40 years of blessings god's anointing amen deliverance healing and salvation in this place can we give honor to the god of the bible the god and father of our lord and savior jesus christ the one in whom we live we move and we have our being we give honor to the set man of this house our pastor and our leader bishop patrick l wooden singer amen clap your hands for him on today amen and we honor his lovely wife first lady pamela wooden on this morning god bless you first lady we honor his first assistant elder john on machuco his second assistant elder anthony wilson amen to these mighty men of god to all the elders to all the missionaries district missionary moles we honor you on this morning and to our founding mother mother willa d turner amen it was her husband superintendent james he returned the founder of the upper room church of god in christ we honor you on this morning amen and to my mother the the president of the mother's board will honor her and to each and every one of you god's holy children to the board of directors amen give god another praise on this morning amen how many of you happy to be in the house of the lord on this day this is a wonderful day 40 years ago the upper room church of god in christ amen that held his first official dedication service on august 16 1980 establishing it as the upper room church of god in christ amen we have so much to be thankful for amen let's give god another hand praise [Music] at this time we're going to have our invocation by elder daughtry miller old testament scripture by district missionary margaret mose new testament scripture by deacon jimmy spring then we will have our statement of the faith a statement of faith by evangelist joyce pickett then i hear mother morning by elder corey mcneal for all those who can we ask you to please remain standing during this time my soul loves jesus oh my my soul loves jesus my soul my soul loves jesus though i bless his name my soul loves jesus my soul my soul loves jesus [Music] my soul my soul loves jesus so help me bless his name let my church say yes [Music] [Applause] what a friend we have in jesus all of our sins and grief to bear what a privilege it is to carry everything to god in prayer a father in heaven we thank you for this day god we thank you because it is a day of celebration we thank you god because you established the church of god in christ superintendent james h turner oh god it was you oh god that showed him a glimpse of glory and he said these words i really don't want to come back here matter of fact i'm ready to go lord god he left here and went home to be with you but you made a choice of that time pastor patrick l wooden senior and god it was a moses and a joshua oh god time in our lives for you said moses my servant is dead take this people and go over this jordan as i was with moses so shall i we thank you we thank you because god you've been with us all of the time down through the years the highs and the lows it was you that was with us and it was a jehoshaphat moment [Music] when the enemies by many was coming against them and he said lord i don't know what to do but our eyes are on you he said oh lord god of our fathers ought not thy god in heaven and rule is not over all the kingdoms of the heathen and in thine hand is there not power and might that none are able to withstand thee god we thank you for that moment for we have been there but oh god we realized that you was with us all the time we thank you god for the 40 years that you've blessed us and god we pray now as we celebrate we pray for the eternal family the founding family and god we pray for the wooden family well god for you have sustained and you have kept us you've kept up a room on the move oh hallelujah god wherever you took us you went with us and we we have the blessed assurance and knowing that you are god you rule in the heavens and the earth you rule in their father men no cause there was a moment of david and goliath when david said is there not a cause hallelujah enslaved the giants thank you jesus oh thank you god there was a moment i say a moment that said cry loud and spare not lift up your voice like a trumpet show my people their transgression in the house of jacob their sin oh god we thank you there was a paul moment hallelujah there god even today our a man of god is crying out saying i'm not ashamed of the gospel of christ it is the power of god unto salvation to everyone that believeth to the jew first and also to the greek god we thank you we thank you as we celebrate today we thank you as we wish of you today we thank you as we magnify you we thank you as we glorify you well god because of who you are you are our god damn we thank you for it for your main wave and you open to it you call your face to shine upon us god you never left us alone but you were declaring lord i am with you always even until the end of the world we thank you for it we praise you now oh god we prayed that you would look on our man that you would continue to bless him continue to anoint him continue to lead him and guide him to continue to order his footsteps oh god as he acknowledged you you said oh god thank you jesus glory to god you will instruct him and we thank you for it we praise we bless you now for all things that's going to be done in jesus name amen reading from the book of proverbs 14th chapter 11th and the 34th verse the house of the wicked shall be overthrown but the tabernacle of the upright shall flourish righteousness exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people we'll be coming from saint luke chapter 16 verses 16 through 18 and he reads and simon peter answered and said thou art the christ the son of the living god and jesus answered and said unto him blessed are thou summoned by jonah for flesh and blood have not revealed it unto thee but my father which is in heaven and i say unto thee that thou art peter and upon this rock i will build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it [Applause] opposition i believe concerning sanctification we believe in the sanctifying power of the holy spirit by whom dwelling the christians are able to live holy and sacrifice life in this present world amen [Music] [Music] uh yes [Music] um [Music] amen thank god we thank god for all that i as i've seen in our years have heard we thank god amen for this day amen for this is the lord's doing and it is marvelous in our eyes we thank god at this time we're going to go further into our program we're going to have a two-part welcome on this morning by sister teresa turner amen she will be followed by evangelist crystal ahmanshuku they're coming in this order and after which we will have a musical selection from the upper room praise team amen let us receive them as they come [Music] foreign good morning saints it's so wonderful to be here and the irony is 40 years ago august 16th 1980 i was tapped to give the welcome address for the first service of the upper room church of god in christ so it's wonderful to be here i'm so glad to see you one of the things that was different for us is children upper room was not the first church that my father preached out but what was different for us is that because we were a little bit older we became builders we became part of the kingdom work so that means welcoming you to the service for a welcome address or we were the choir we were the devotional leaders we helped um our cousin cousin beverly and her girls helped set up the service the sanctuary before the service and we helped take it down but we were so happy to do it because we wanted to be part of kingdom building and we are so glad to be able to welcome you to the kingdom building service for today and we pray that you all feel welcome and that you feel the power of the lord and that the power comes down on you and you leave different than when you came and pray my strength in the lord [Music] today we celebrate 40 years of history at the upper room church of god in christ amen we celebrate our founder the superintendent james henry turner whose living legacy lasts and touches us today we greet and we thank god for all of his family who are here mother turner we love you and greet you this morning all who are here this morning we are so glad to see you i am here to also celebrate and to acknowledge 33 years of impeccable integritous biblical foundational progressive innovative and forward-thinking leadership of our current pastor bishop patrick l wooden senior amen we thank god for him leading us and being a man of this time we know that he has spoken to the supreme court he's spoken to the general assembly he's spoken truth to power he's spoken on many facets of our society but just as they say that duncan that america runs on duncan we know that upper room runs on preaching we thank god for a man of god who preaches the unadulterated word of god not only do we celebrate our founder and our current pastor but we also celebrate all of you as upper room i believe amen if our bishop were here he would confirm and say he is here if he were speaking now he would say that a leader is nothing but a person taking a walk if there's no one behind him together over the last 40 years we have lived out the mission of god first god first in government god first in marriage and education in our churches and in our communities together every weekend week in and week out every time our area needed a church we heeded the call and we took the god first message to our communities cities our nation and our state so we all have so much to celebrate today if i were to give our future in a few words i would only say that god is exalted the devil is defeated and jesus is lord we pray that you have a god first experience so [Music] anybody still in all of the presence of god today [Music] standing in your presence [Music] we're in awe of your glory [Music] with our hands lifted and [Music] standing in your presence we're in awe of your glory with our hands lived in [Music] of your glory we gonna lift our heads [Applause] to the god of the bible jehovah's oh [Music] to the comforter to the holy spirit [Applause] [Music] and we revenge your name [Music] we're just amazed that you've got and reverence your name everything we just want to reverence her not just that nobody we just wanna be pleased be pleased with the sacrifice would you open up your mouth oh come on and reference him wherefore god has highly exalted him and given him a name above every name that at that name jesus every knee shall bow every tongue shall confess him that jesus christ is lord that shall we worship today jesus christ the savior the only one that died for our sins the only one that sacrificed it all that gave it all up for my sin we ravage him today come on and give him glory come on and give him glory come on and give them glory this one's for the king this one's from the king to the matchless to the incomparable to the only one that was he is and he's still to come give him glory give him glory he's the world king come on reference his name come on [Music] morning [Music] what almighty god we serve we reverence his name jesus our lord and our savior amen glory to his name amen amen hallelujah we thank god for amen elder chris turner amen the son of superintendent james and return [Music] amen we thank god for the praise team on this morning amen amen give them another hand we had our welcome by the daughter of superintendent turner sister teresa turner by the daughter of our great leader bishop patrick elwood and evangelist crystal ambanshuku we thank god thank god for the upper room amen the upper room has been many things and everybody here has an upper room experience whether the lord save you in this place amen he'll deliver set free amen in this cause driven church we thank god i thank god for what the upper room has meant amen i'll never forget over uh what 16 20 14 years ago because of this church my wife is the land of the living amen in this church my children were born in this church bishop i said that the upper room joining this church is in the top five of the greatest events of my life being saved marrying my wife the birth of my two daughters and then joining this church my life changed because of the upper room church of god in christ and i believe that's there so many that sitting in the congregation today can say the same thing because the upper room [Music] amen has meant a lot to each and every one of us bishop wouldn't say we don't just come to church but we're coming to have a god first experience clap your hands for jesus give god the praise amen at this time we're going to have our announcements sister patricia evangelist lester is coming at this time join us tonight as the acts 6 and 3 men declare in the box preaching of god's truth get ready for one hour of power from 6 pm to 7 pm as real men teach and preach the word of god the upper room evangelism department is pleased to present evangelism training changing a culture part 2 to be held tuesday august 18th at 7 pm the bible declares he that winneth souls is wise and our guest speaker first lady pamela wooden will give us words of wisdom to enable us to win souls for the kingdom this evangelism class is open to everyone especially men and women in ministry a zoom link will be sent for participating the tuesday night service has been cancelled you now have a choice of attending one of two worship services on sunday mornings the upper room church of god in christ is pleased to announce the addition of our new 8 am sunday worship service you can also join the upper room church of god in christ every sunday at 11 a.m and thursdays at 7 30 p.m for the live stream of our services on facebook live and youtube live bishop patrick l wooden senior will bring a fresh word from the lord relevant to our times and equip you to contend for the faith the upper room church of god in christ continues to abide by cdc social distancing guidelines our ushers will seat all individuals entering the sanctuary and overflow areas only members from the same immediate family will be permitted to sit together and everyone will be seated using designated markings providing a six feet diameter around each area additionally temperature checks and hand sanitizing protocols have been added to further promote measures of safety your cooperation is greatly appreciated for additional information on face covering requirements in north carolina visit nc.gov our giving is crucial to the success and operation of the church during this time there are several ways to give to the upper room church of god in christ for online giving please visit easytive.com forward slash urc also the easytive app can be downloaded from the google play store or the apple app store you may visit our website upperroomgospel.org and select the giving tab or you can mail your gift to the upper room church of god in christ post office box 447 garner north carolina 27529 for text to give text urc give to 4577 and you will receive a link to complete your giving thank you very much for supporting the upper room church of god in christ the fellowship hall will be closed for maintenance friday august 21st and saturday august 22nd during this time entry will not be permitted be sure to join bishop wooden and the happy warriors every saturday in the fight to save the lives of the unborn at a woman's choice abortion clinic located at 3305 drake circle in raleigh participating for one hour in prayer will be greatly appreciated registration for the fall semester of the nc third kojic academy is now open through friday september 4th with classes beginning saturday september 5th all classes will be via zoom video conferencing tuition is 225 dollars per semester and new students must submit a 50 non-refundable application fee when applying to enroll or obtain additional information visit nc3.org or send an email to infotech.nc3ca gmail.com for an application hey man we have two additional announcements the men's service scheduled for 6 p.m has been canceled attention all elders and ministers wives please join first lady wooden for a virtual minister's wives meeting this friday evening at 8 21 at via zoom at 8 pm excuse me don't miss this time of fellowship to stay connected to one another more information will be sent via email again that's this friday evening august 21st via zoom at 8 pm thank you for your attention amen thank you sister lester for those announcements this time bishop wood and the first lady wooden wanted to recognize those members who have been here at the church for 35 consecutive years amen and they wanted to recognize you and present you with a plaque to say thank you they are coming at this time as i read your name we ask you to come forward bishop wasn't the first lady wouldn't wants to come wants to shake your hand and thank you personally i'm sorry not to shake your hand amen but absolutely i'll be glad when covert is done the plaque says recognition of dedicated members for 35 consecutive years at the upper room church of god in christ it reads 40th church anniversary presented to deacon and mrs jimmy springs we celebrate you for 35 consecutive years of dedicated membership august 16 2020 bishop patrick l wooden senior pastor deacon daughtry miller and lillian [Music] miller sister darlene spring and she's been here for she said 38 years the chairman of the deacon board deacon and mrs joseph morgan mother is waving at the top mother morgan is waving at the top god bless you mother deacon and mrs carl clock amen i saw they was here sister wonder chris [Music] amen sister brenda bowden sister george pickett here she come amen my classmate we graduated kojic academy in 1996. sister pickett in this church district missionary margaret moses brother william morrison mother ella taylor mother edna morgan and mother leoma naomi sanders not able to be here today but we're going to get them their play amen we have another special presentation that reads the 40th church anniversary presented to tara frazier rogers we celebrate you for 40 years of dedicated membership august 16 2020 bishop patrick l wooden senior pastor 40 years amen she started back in july of 1980 this is a distinguished uh presentation she's in a category of one amen and at this time bishop wooden and first lady wooden has a special presentation bye praise the lord we're gonna ask our daily beloved founding church mother mother willa dean turner if she will stand it reads we would like to present to you mother this plaque and it reads 40th church anniversary in esteemed honor and recognition of the foundation that was established by your husband superintendent james h turner senior in appreciation of his vision exemplary example and servant leadership of the upper room church of god in christ given this 16th day of august 2020 bishop patrick l wooden senior pastor [Applause] that's right our founding mother our pastor know how to do things right amen he's a class a bishop i'm sorry we do have one more i think we should have got that one first but we do have one more presentation and this presentation without this incredible lady um the upper room would have never become the church that it is when the late great james henry turner founded this church he founded the church on a vision from god with support from his wife and family but the persons that he founded the church on was a beautiful young lady named beverly beverly turner and their family and odell and those beautiful daughters were the upper room church of god in christ she served as a distinguished board member and has been a part of the fabric and fiber of the upper room and her dna is all over this place god bless beverly please come forward paul we love you and we want to present this to you [Music] this lady right here come on let's give it to her board member a hard worker and she served with distinction and honor until her beautiful daughter married a handsome man and they started awesome church in charlotte north carolina and we had her until grandbabies came and i knew the show was over beverly we love you thank you we honor and acknowledge you thank you bishop first lady bishop we ask you to please just stay right there in that position for just a few more minutes extra ordinary leader bishop patrick l wooden senior for your passionate spirit-led god-fearing god-fearing leadership to fulfill the assignment of upholding god's truth by defending the christian faith with tremendous courage we honor your extraordinary devotion and immense contribution to the upper room church of god in christ bishop we want to say thank you [Music] for your leadership for the last 33 years we thank god for you amen as sister armachuku said you're not out taking a walk you have followers and we're proud to be followers of your leadership thank god for you [Music] and we recognize your wife who stand faithfully beside you for the church dedication was held on saturday august the 16th 1980 but on that very first sunday morning august 17 1980 bishop wooden pastor elder wooden at that time a young minister under the leadership of superintendent turner preached the first sunday morning message at the upper room church of god in christ and i remember him saying from time to time they were not married at the time but he would go to his leader and say is it okay if sister pam arrives with me sometime amen so from the beginning in the infancy stage i remember at this time the board that's the foundation of god stand ashore having this seal the lord knoweth them that are here that everyone that nameth the name of christ depart from iniquity if the foundation be destroyed what can the righteous my god first lady as they always say you are the fragrance of this ministry we present you with flour bishop patrick l wood sing we honor you we honor you first lady we honor you because you've been right by his side down through the years you know when the tough get going folk leave [Laughter] but we thank you we thank you because you know you've been a fighter and you've been right by your man's side i appreciate that [Applause] [Music] that demonstrated so much because i always say to the pastor bishop i like what you have taught and what you have done for the young people to marry to have children and the church grew from within and then the lord sent levels into the vineyard from without bishop we thank you we honor you because you built on another man's foundation and god knows the walls didn't get crooked they didn't fall but they're still standing and we honor you for that we present you faster than that praise the lord glory to god [Applause] on behalf thank you to godzilla on behalf of the board of upper room church of god and christ at large we i want to give you a token of love let you know that we're with you and god knows we pray for you we pray for you every day and for the ministry and we honor you because of what god is doing in your life god bless you thank you [Applause] let's give it up to all of our recipients on this morning we thank god upper room we are blessed we are tremendously blessed now we're going to have greetings from missionary beverly hall who you heard she was the charter member amen after which we will have mother willa d turner our founding mother and then we will have greetings from our first lady first lady pamela wooden they're coming in that order thank you good morning i give honor to my lord and savior jesus christ i do honor appreciate and esteem the president bishop of nc third jurisdiction and pastor of the upper armed church of god in christ bishop patrick wooden senior i also give honor to his lovely wife first pamela first lady pamela wooden i give honor to the board of directors all of whom are my dearest friends and brothers in christ i give honor to the memory of the late superintendent james henry turner the founder of this great church i honor his lovely wife mother willa turner and i give honor to all whom honors do it is most certainly indeed my humble honor and joy to be here today to celebrate the 40th church anniversary of the upper roman church of god in christ 1980 is the year in which this great church was birthed there was no building no congregation and at the time no guarantee that the call to this work would be smooth and easy but this did not hinder the mission and vision from being carried out this 40th anniversary is a milestone year and today is a special day when we look back to reflect and celebrate this church's founding its history and its kingdom impact to this congregation city and nation doubtless this church means so much to me and is an integral part of my life it is here that i learn among so many things the nature of church work from serving as an usher a nurse a hospitality worker a testimony service facilitator a choir member secretary superintendent of sunday school sunday school teacher bookkeeper board member i learned that church is a lot of work i have so many great and fond memories i remember worshiping at the raleigh safety club on branch street upper room's first dedication service in a building on martin street and when that building was condemned i remember services relocating to my home just a few blocks over from this current building i remember worship services being held in the kitchen of my home i remember hurrying home from work rushing to prepare and eat dinner and then setting the kitchen up for service putting out chairs putting up hold the podium for the man of god i remember services were then moved to the community building in the garner road trailer park again not far from here i remember the motorcade from the trail apart to upper rooms first church building on lake wheeler road i remember many sunday morning services elder patrick wooden senior was sent to preach at the upper room church according god in christ then the baby church in the district i remember elder wooden senior appointed pastor when god called superintendent turner home i remembered the church experienced exponential growth on lake willa road and quickly outgrew that building i remember the fire marshals received we received repeated citations from the fire marshal because the building always exceeded this is the capacity of the building always exceeded the building's limitations i remember upper rooms next purchase on center for road just a few blocks over and once again the church grew exponentially i remember the building of this beautiful sanctuary where we're sitting today i remember all the meetings with the bank weekly meetings with the architect lee reynolds lee reynolds and barbic construction this all under the dynamic and faithful leadership of bishop patrick wooden you know it's so i remember i have so many fond memories and i could go on and on and sharing the kingdom impact of this ministry but time will not permit me to do so but as we reflect back we can truly say god has been good my family praised god my family and i we drove we got here a little early so we drove around we visited uh lake willa road and we visited elder everest drive and we visited santa fe road and we visited the church that used to be ours right across on santa fe road and i'm telling you we can say god is good he's brought us from a mighty long way you know my life is and has been blessed you know you can't be around greatness in the midst of greatness and it not affect you you know elisha was blessed because he was there when elijah was taken up so my life has been blessed from being a part of this great ministry literally from its beginning and my life continues to be blessed even now as i live and worship in charlotte north carolina under the nail leadership of another great man of god pastor gabriel rogers yet my foundation is noteworthy i received christ was filled with the holy spirit develop a biblical worldview and learn how to live a godly life here at the upper room church of god in christ under the leadership of bishop patrick wood not only have i been blessed by this ministry but this blessing has trickled down to my grand to my children and my grandchildren all who are present here today praise god pastor we my family and i love and appreciate you so much eternally we honor your devotion your dedication your love for god the things of god the people of god and your stand for christ in the face of all opposition so on behalf of me and my family we want you to know that the impact of this church and your leadership will always be invaluable to us matthew 16 and 18 jesus says and i tell you that you are peter and upon this rock i will build my church and the gates of hell should not prevail it shall not overpower it god continue to shine on the upper room you and first lady god bless you [Music] [Music] [Music] praise the lord i will bless the lord at all times his praises shall always be in my mouth i was blessing the lord in 1980 and here i am still blessing the lord in 2020 when i look back over my life i can truly say as the song says god has been good to me hallelujah praise the lord and i just thank god for his goodness how he has been with us yay these 40 years i give honor to my pastor and my bishop bishop wooden and i praise god for my first lady first lady pamela wooden thank god for my district missionary and to everyone in the building all the elders ministers and missionaries uh and just each and every one of you thank god for mother elsin coming in hallelujah praise the lord but because of her praise god her son stands here today as pastors as church for in 1966 when bishop wells sent elder turner to um rockingham he went there to hold the church together to bishop wells because sitting somebody else well 1967 when we got ready to get married three weeks before the wedding we uh we had come to raleigh to put in applications for jobs application for a place to stay because this is where the lord has sent him and this is where we're going we're going to start our life three weeks before we got married bishop was called in and said i want you to stay in uh rockingham i haven't found anybody to sit in there yet i said oh no praise the lord they keep cross crossed my mind said you know we should postpone the way until he sent somebody well we pray he decides to obey his pastor and he went stayed in rockingham and he preached the word of god there like he preached the word of god here but during that time mother ellison came to church then she went back and she got uh then but then she wasn't even brother wouldn't but she can't but she went back and she got her son and tom he's back there garcia and they were singing and i said you know when i look back over things i said now god was orchestrating this day back in that day let me know that you know if we trust god we can never go wrong you see we can't see everything but god knows the beginning from the end he knows the future that we cannot even see and he kept on preaching kept on working and um wooden became brother wouldn't then he became elevated and uh then he came passively and thank god he stayed with him and worked with him and and now he became the pastor of this church and i just thank god because 13 years after the lord first talked to him about coming to raleigh the lord began to speak to him again in 1980 he came to raleigh knowing nobody no place to have service we went to the ymca and i was looking at the pictures a few days ago and i saw chris on there with the bungle drums james was the bum girl drum i was beating the tamarine when i saw bishop wood's hand raised you know the camera caught him in a praise hallelujah so he was there even at the ymca and down through the years praise god and when everybody was trying to get the other rooms the other proper room grew so fast you know at first it didn't but when we got on lake miller road upper room grew so fast some everybody was trying to start to die everybody was somebody everybody was trying to get you know get the upper room i know the uh the banker mr green asked him when we got to got a church on um lake villa road he said what you gonna do with that big church with them few peoples you have and he said i'm gonna fill it up and he filled up the upstairs downstairs and people were outside couldn't get in for the service he filled it up then we got ready to go home you know what when i thought about when i looked back you know only i said we were going from place to place like this beverly said but he didn't leave us until he got us a church building he was he he got we were in that building three years before he died and the lord had filled it up but i thank god for how that how the lord worked things out pastor wooden called me and he was already in a coma in the hospital that's the the and the revival was already set so he called me he said well do you think we should go on with the revival i said yes because alternate didn't stop church for anything even when it snowed and everything he said but let the people come who can come the ones who can walk let them come he didn't close church so i said go ahead with the revival not knowing that he was going to go on to heaven and leave us but he died on a thursday morning the revival was closing out on a friday night i found myself in the house of god on a friday night my husband had just died on thursday morning but i just thank god looking back god orchestrated everything even the things that he couldn't fulfill in his life has been fulfilled through his son in the gospel thank you jesus hallelujah glory to god oh hallelujah when you witness what god can do if you get out of the way and let him do it praise god he always said he wanted a school he said we teach our children at home and then we have to send them out to the second of the schools he said you know i wish we had a christian school and uh it was already in the works you know we had gone to see a building a school building that uh was up for sale that had a little chapel on the uh on the you know on the grounds but in the meantime he got sick but look at god how that that school pastor wooden bishop wood was able to do that school for so many years hallelujah praise god he started the food pantry you know and it's still going on it's still we're still feeding the hungry we are still helping those that are in need and we thank god for how this was going on we fed the college students and we had a campus ministry and this all is still going on and oh i thought my time was up praise the lord but i just thank god hallelujah glory to god god is so good so good he has brought us from our mighty long ways [Music] hallelujah hallelujah now thank god that his neighbor hallelujah was not in vain and highly swell in the gospel reaching hallelujah all over this world hallelujah god is so good i'm just so glad for the upper room church of god in for my bishop bishop patrick elwyn senior you know we got the greatest first lady in the world thank you jesus and i just thank god hallelujah for having six of my children you know today thank you jesus i love my family god gave me children when when the devil the doctor said i would never have any hallelujah bless the lord he blessed me o god thank you for my daughter district missionary cynthia littles carrying on the work praise the lord when i listen to her when i listen to a bishop wouldn't i says oh my god if they don't sound like their father in the gospel when i saw and heard my son singing on today hallelujah just last week i said lord i wish i could hear my son preach and sing again and here he is singing thank god my my husband had told me to don't worry about the children he said all my children are going to be saved and i thank god how they're saying and they're working in ministry thank you lord james wants to be here today but if he leaves new york they will they stop you when you're leaving and then they stop you when they're coming back he said mama we would be able to get back in new york for 14 days and the children have gotten ready to go to school well all of us have a love for the upper room because this is where god sent their father and i enjoyed working with him we were team in the gospel i miss him to this day but i praise god for his son thank you lord thank nice [Music] well clap your hands for the lord jesus i give god a thunderous praise oh the lord is so good and he's worthy of our praises we bless the lord today we give him glory honor and thanksgiving [Music] praise the lord i do give glory and honor to the god of our salvation [Music] i do give honor to our bishop god bless the man of god and um to our board of directors to um to all of the men of god to our founding mother mother willa dean turner i thank god for this amazing woman of god to our district missionary missionary mose um to a missionary uh beverly hall god bless you to first lady stephanie rogers god bless you and to the entire turner family uh to sister beverly's family and to all of the saints the members of the upper room to my family and to everyone who is present here today we thank god for his goodness and we thank god for his multitudes of tender mercy we thank the lord for 40 years that god has blessed us to be here that god has blessed this church to be in existence my husband has been here for 33 years as the pastor of the church and the lord certainly as as has already been indicated has used us to do great things to do great exploits for his glory but i think it would be befitting to say that it's been because we had a awesome foundation amen in the seven years that superintendent turner was the pastor of this church uh the lord used him to establish a firm foundation that we have been able to build upon and everything that we have done from uh september 1987 until this day has been upon the foundation that superintendent turner and mother willard dean turner has built and we we are yet standing upon that foundation we are yet building upon that foundation and we give glory to god for the things that he has done and for the things that he has allowed us to do and i tell you it um moves our heart to no end to have mother turner here she is she is an example she you know just to look over at her um her presence stands for something her presence stands for um our foundation it's a reminder of who we are where we came from um it's a reminder of of what superintendent turner started 40 years ago and i'm just honored to have been a part and to have played a role i thank god for my husband what an awesome man of god he is and has been down through the years these 33 years uh the lord has certainly used him mightily i thank god for you you and especially you god bless you and pray my strength in the lord [Music] bless his wonderful name [Music] elijah and elisha turner and wooden the founder and his successor how many of you remember the connect the dots this is a form of a puzzle containing a sequence of numbers number dots to be precise when a line is drawn connecting the dots the outline of an object is revealed in adult discourse the phrase connect the dots can be used as a metaphor to illustrate an ability to associate one idea with another come with me on this historical journey on this journey we will examine the life and story of two sets of men of god the parallel of the biblical example of elijah and elisha and superintendent james h turner and bishop patrick lane wooden senior it was 40 years ago to this date august 16 1980 the official dedication service of the upper room church of god in christ took place the pastor and founder was superintendent james h turner a giant in stature and a giant in the faith and one of his faithful ministers was young patrick wooden as i researched the lives and history of superintendent turner and bishop wooden i could not help but see the correlation between elijah and elisha see elijah was elisha's mentor much like superintendent turner was bishop woodens elijah was a man of iron and is presented in many ways he was a mighty intercessor praying with faith and intensity a god-inspired prophet ready to obey and trust god like elijah superintendent turner had these same traits and qualities they both presented their bodies a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto god which was their reasonable service the prophet elijah and superintendent turner both shaped the history of their times and molded the thinking of many for centuries and years after their transition the anointed superintendent james h turner left an indelible impression on one mind in particular the mind of pastor wooden few successors in scripture were as effective as elisha who was elijah's replacement as god's prophet to israel elijah prepared elisha for his commission and the two became devoted to each other this was the same testimony from the lips of our founding mother of the upper room mother willa d turner she said that minister wooden was dedicated to superintendent turner in first kings 19 verses 19 and 21 verses 19 through 21 we see elisha did not mistake his prophetic summons was decisive he burned his past behind him and i want you to see the dots connecting like elisha bishop wooden embraced his calling he left his football days behind him and he had a made-up mind to serve the god of the bible and the god of his superintendent according to second kings chapter 2 verses 2 4 and 6 there is a pattern of commitment a pattern of servitude and a pattern of allegiance three different times elijah said unto elisha terry here i pray thee and elisha he didn't argue he didn't ask for an explanation he didn't say give me insight so that i can know he simply said as the lord liveth and thy soul liveth i will not leave thee when superintendent turner called bishop wooden followed bishop wooden wanted to be fathered mentored trained and developed and bishop was willing a willing participant hear me bishop wooden was a willing participant in god's plan by staying close to the late great superintendent james h turner his spiritual father elder wooden carried his briefcase just like elisha had a great example to follow in the prophet elijah bishop wooden had the same in superintendent turner and as elisha remained with elijah until the last moments of his teaching life on earth bishop wooden did the same with superintendent turner elisha much like bishop wooden was a man of dauntless courage a man of force and might a man of remarkable foresight a man of unerroring counsel bishop wooden much like elisha is a man of indomitable faith who preaches god's indomitable word in 40 years god has blessed us here at the upper room to only have two pastors and the constant that connects all the dots is that they served the same god the god of the bible and because superintendent turner and bishop wooden were on one accord the upper room ministry has been able to do great exploits many babies are yet living today because of the upper room hundreds of thousands of families have been fed because of the upper room god knew in his infinite wisdom that he could trust superintendent turner to lay the foundation of this work and to start this ministry and superintendent as well as god also knew that they could trust bishop wooden to keep the legacy alive the dots are connecting in heaven and the value and the purpose of the upper room has been and is yet being revealed one thing is clear from the foundation till now it's all about jesus come on put your hands together for the god of the bible and we're resting on our feet all over the sanctuary first there's going to be a video that give your attention it won't be long it won't hurt you give your attention to the screens if you can [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh but i want to tell you you can burn bibles i want to tell you that you can criticize the bible you can make fun of noah's ark but i'm glad tonight that thy word have i hid in my heart yeah that i might not sin against thee somebody will lift your hand and thank god [Music] alone him in here praise him north carolina third youtube live facebook live give god hallelujah come on and give god some glory give god some praise we celebrate our first anniversary saints and friends we are fortunate we are blessed to be members whether it's been for over 40 years 38 years one month what a privilege it is to be a member at the upper room church of god in christ will you help me in appreciating and receiving our leader and our pastor bishop patrick l wooden senior let us give praises to the god of the bible oh my god all over the sanctuary but let's just praise him all who are here today amen what a mighty god just give god glory he met us this morning in the 8 a.m service those who have joined us today on youtube live first uh facebook live i know you've been blessed by the service thus far we're here in the sanctuary we're social distanced many were at eight o'clock there are many who join us on social media but we're here today celebrating what god has done and his faithfulness for 40 years the lord has watched over our church oh the number of churches that have opened and closed during that time the number of pastors who have given up but by his grace and by his mercy the lord has watched over us we've seen many things in the 40 years of the upper room my pastor saw so many things in my 33 years of being here we've witnessed victories defeats good things high notes low notes but one thing we've never seen we've never seen the righteous forsaken noah's seed begging bread and all we can say to the lord when we look back on our time here it's been 33 long and short years you have to wonder where does the time go what a mighty god how many can look back on their lives and see what the lord has done and how many will tell the lord thank you thank you for all that you've done for all that you brought us from we just come to say [Music] thank you [Music] thank you lord you can be seated for all you've done thank you thank you [Music] for where you want me from hey for all that you've done over the last 40 years and all that you do [Music] thank you thank you way one more thing [Music] thank [Music] for all you you've done over 40 years you've watched over our church and you brought us from a long way thank you for where you brought us from here for all that you've done raised up turner and brought him to this city and all that you do you've been faithful to me lord i just want to say thank you thank you i just want to say we serve yes it is wow thank you thank you [Music] thank you jesus thank you jesus for what you brought me up a room where you brought us from for all that you've done and all that you do from the ymca to bloodwolf street to all of the different locations we come to say you thank you thank you and i just want to thank you [Music] oh you've done [Music] and all that you do [Music] i just want to say everyone who loves the god of the bible give him praises glory to god [Music] to our lord and savior jesus christ first and second assistance elders and ministers to elder robert williams and the committee for the church anniversary program job well done [Music] the mother william turner evangelist beverly hall [Music] to my lovely wife first lady wooden the first lady rogers [Music] to pastor oh he preached the other night all the way from [Music] san francisco california way pastor willihan thursday night he was amazing to his wife first lady princess haines the daughter of this church to my own mother amen district missionary mose evangelist lester to all of our mothers today to mother williams god bless you mother president of our mother's board the deacon board and all of the saints of god to the upper room church of god in christ who has been a constant force to be reckoned with for the last 40 years when elder turner came to this church when alternate came to this city he was a game changer things changed in the city when he arrived his presence his ministry his preaching changed things i was talking to a baba who cut his hair when he was living and said that elder turner would sit in the last chair at the barbershop cross his long legs and chris he'd have to move his legs over when people would walk past him trying to get to the to the bathroom because his legs were so long they'd block the hallway the barber told me he remembers his distinguished loud voice as even in the barbershop he made a difference in the opinion of all of us he caught the wings of the morning and went home way too soon but god knew what he was doing i thank god for my pastor i guard his memory and legacy 33 years later like i did when i first came he was my leader my teacher we were never equals we will never be equals we will never be conrad the servant is never as great as as is lord the student never catches the master all that i am as a minister of the gospel i owe of course to the lord jesus christ but the lord jesus christ used someone and oftentimes we skip over the vessel but it was a man that god used that my dog and mother introduced me to thank you mama for taking us to the temple thank you for your timing [Music] tom we were just getting ready to get crazy for real and we met elda turner and what el eternal brought to my life was two things three things brought christ but in christ he brought law and order i heard i met a man that i had to obey we never had an argument we never disputed back and forth praise the lord he was my leader and i'll never forget in greenwood south carolina remember went down there started a revival i went with him and he was supposed to preach two or three nights and then leave it with me but something went wrong in raleigh and he had to leave and come back to raleigh he told me he said now you preach the revival and he looked at me and he gave me the greatest compliment up until that time he said i'll be paul and you be silas and paul went to raleigh silas finished the revival and the ministries went on i'm it is true what my wife said about the foundation but to add to the foundation the reason i still stand here today is because on his deathbed he blessed me he blessed me he pointed his finger at me and he said hey the last words he said to me was hey i looked back at him because the nurse came in interrupted us he said you know you're my son don't you and i said yes sir and before that he told me you got to preach the word he said the people will come to hear you he said you got to preach to him there's so many ways that the devil can trick you look out for them but the people are going to come and you preach the word i said ella turner oh man you're going to be all right you're coming back to preach he looked away from me and said yes i know i'll be fine then look back at me and said preach the word i have written on this map preach the word same thing that paul told timothy the same words my pastor gave me and from that day to this day i have tried to preach the word let us praise god for the memory the legacy of the late great james henry [Music] [Applause] turner [Music] what a man 33 years later his memory and greatness still rings a tear [Music] his influence lives on i am eternal right chris that's what they used to criticize us call us back in the day and then rocking him look at him he's eternal right i said you're right i never fought uh being identified with my leader the pupil identifies with the teacher amen people say you're trying to be him i've heard all that and i hear people who who don't have spiritual sons criticize some of the spiritual sons here they think that but they they're trying to be you know you don't understand sonship in most cases sons take on the ways of their fathers it's called you're not trying to be someone else but there is such a thing as osmosis it's spiritual osmosis who i don't trust is the son or the in-house elder who is always trying to be different that's the spirit of a heifer always trying to break out of the stable the right spirit is one who with pride this is the house this is where god have placed me this is where i will serve mother turner you and your husband have been good to me you've been good for me i love you i thank god for you you're quite a woman may god continue to bless and keep you i thank the lord for how god raised you up amen and enables you to be here today thank god for district missionary cynthia little a woman of god indeed a woman of god indeed she has been she uh is in the family the turner family she was embedded in the turner she had turner dna when i got saved long before uh i even came along she was right there and lo these many years later you can't tell by looking at it cause she's a beautiful lady god has marvelously blessed her and we honor you today thank you for coming thank you thank you mr beverly we can't talk about this church and not talk about you amen she mentioned that she was the uh among things the bookkeeper and back in those days she kept the books with pencil and paper and and when as we began to innovate and get better and [Music] incorporate better means of accounting it only highlighted highlighted that her method the things that she did was always accurate always trustworthy never a dime a penny or anything missing or anything done wrong everything done above board a fierce protector of this house a guardian of the house a part of every loan that we negotiated a part of every bit of property that we purchased everything that upper room accomplished you were right slap dab in the middle of it on our board and uh and we love you and we salute you and we thank you we thank you we thank you to see her beautiful daughters adults now grown up beautiful young ladies all of them and it just rejoices my heart to see you and to see what you've become and the wonderful people you are look at first lady stephanie and a first lady indeed we honor you today thank you so much and you tell your husband i love him he's a one of a kind man and they have a tremendous ministry kingdom ministry taking place up in charlotte north carolina and i tell you god has blessed them and is blessing them in a miraculous way i want to thank you sister tara and and i'm going to get to the word and we won't be very long today um for your continued uh faithfulness and um i remember when we were appointed you were you were you were here you the oldest of the uh the uh turner daughters and and lo and behold all these years later she sent me a text the other day that really blessed my heart and she said thank you for being my pastor and for just preaching the word of the lord you have no idea what a blessing that was and i appreciate that would you give her a big hand and all of the of the family that these families amen um teresa you're awesome today email email is a warrior i thank god for my family i thank god for my wife who have stood by my side uh as my girlfriend then my wife as we did this have done this uh journey together and then we got married and had two she gave me two children and i was just blessed you know i just love crystal where she's uh she that she is right there and as she was up uh carrying on the day and singing and serving in the church i just look at her and i'm so proud of her proud of my grandchildren patrick was here he's on the crew they clean between the 9 30 service the 8 o'clock service and the 10 o'clock service they come in and make the church as pristine and uh in case covet 19 got in we kill it everywhere all the pews everything has been uh each one everything has been addressed and uh so we appreciate him i appreciate her i thank god for my grandchildren amen training my grandson he he's saying but we got him you see him running around changing the microphones and all that yeah you got to do all that in the in the in the work of the church i'm grateful for my son-in-law who serves as my first assistant and he was doing a tremendous job god bless you all much for your hard work and dedication he's a dedicated man of god and i love him i'll say this and and then i'm going to preach and thank you elder wilson for that powerful presentation uh today and uh yes give them a hand elijah and elisha i want the committee elder uh elder uh robert williams would you please stand and those who worked with you on this committee would you all please stand this is the sister latonya crystal email listen elder rayford you don't see him elder rayford just had surgery he he fell and injured his shoulder a little while ago and um and uh he went on and had surgery and he's on the man he's doing good he's gonna be all right but you know this is a big day his first time in years that we were here in church on a sunday morning without clarence and so that's you know we were praying for him but the these this is the committee elder miller and brother gary leach would you give these workers a big round of applause thank you all so much the hour is far spent let's go to the word thank you happy warriors they saved three babies yesterday thank god for that thank you food pantry ministry amen we worked with pastor washington's church yesterday and fed 100 people four souls got saved what a mighty what almighty move of god and uh at the close of the service we may mention a few other things isaiah chapter 54 isaiah the prophet isaiah the 54th chapter thank you facebook live audience and youtube live audience for joining us today many of our members are joining us on youtube live and facebook live and many many of our friends from across uh this country and the world tune in we hear from people from all over we want to thank god for sister lake sister lake was at the clinic yesterday sister lake comes up from macon georgia to help us fight to save the unborn what a woman of god she is and people come from near and far to hear the word of the lord to all of the visitors who are here today thank you for coming if you have isaiah the 54th chapter we're going to begin reading at the 11th verse and it reads as follows o thou afflicted tossed with tempest and not comforted behold i will lay thy stones with fair colors and lay thy foundations with sapphires and i will make thy windows of a gates and thy gates of carbuncle and all thy borders of pleasant stones and all thy children shall be taught of the lord and great shall be the peace of thy children in righteousness thou shalt be established thou shalt be far from oppression for thou shalt not fear and from terror for it shall not come nigh thee behold they shall surely gather together but not by me whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake behold i have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire and that bringeth forth the instrument of his work and i have created the waster to destroy no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn this is the heritage of the servants of the lord and their righteousness is of me save the lord for your consideration the 17th verse says no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper i want to preach from the subject no weapon father bless us now as we minister the word of the lord may we do no damage to your word but preach that which become of sound doctrine and gospel in jesus name amen the lord spoke to me on last sunday night god gave us a mighty service last sunday the morning service and the evening service and and how the lord blessed us dealing with how god delivered the children of israel uh from uh pharaoh and egypt and how the lord sent the deaf angel through and how god said when i see the blood i will pass over you after that mighty move of god in that mighty service when service closed and i went uh after i went home and enjoyed my wife's cooking and enjoyed the presence of my family uh the time came to retire for the evening i got on my knees and i prayed i said god what do i say next to the people of god the lord spoke to me he said it in parts initially god said no weapon then i heard the lord say no weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper then the lord spoke to me and said preacher encourage my people so today i'm preaching to you a word of encouragement no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper no weapon that is formed against me shall prosper no weapon that is formed against us shall prosper even though there are many weapons even though there are many weapons formed and they are powerful and they are shooting at us they are uh they've been they they're aimed at us they are beaming into our homes we contend with them every day there are those who have a vested interest in keeping the believers afraid and keeping churches closed and keeping americans off kilter and keeping people wrapped in fear and the enemy is attacking uh any uh sign of hope tony fauci said this about temperature checks the other day and as you know when we have our services uh everyone who comes who enters the sanctuary uh has to have a temperature check thank you so much for your patience and how you work with us and uh there are many other things that we put in place to um to try to fight against the uh covet 19 virus uh this pandemic we do not assume that it is that it is not real because it is we do not not take it seriously because we do um but we do believe that there is a way to uh combat this virus and also worship in the house of god and i tell you this is our 13th sunday back since we reopened after being forced to close by the governor of our state the moment the governor was overturned we had a plan in place thank god for sister patricia lester whom god had given the plan to three weeks prior to the governor being overturned the moment he was overturned i made two phone calls i called her and i called my first assistant everything else fell in place and the very next sat sunday the next day we were worshiping here in the upper room and we've been worshiping ever since and we have not had one coveted 19 outbreak thank god this is our third sunday uh we're going to a 8 a.m service because we discovered by 9 30 on sunday mornings we had turned away over 50 cars or more people coming and they can't get in because with the social distancing we don't just social distance six feet apart is six feet in diameter so this is why you see the the the openings because we're trying to trying to go by the guidelines and keep people uh safe and so uh thank god for our visitors many of the visitors would come at 9 00 and at 9 30 and a quarter 10 and sit patiently for the 11 o'clock service many of the members weren't accustomed to coming that early to wait for a service so when the members came the visitors had the seats the members in too much particularly careful sitting in the overflow rooms so the time came to shift to an 8 a.m service and thus far uh you have certainly been wonderful give yourselves a hand for the way that you have worked with us [Applause] but it seems to me that everything that is done that seems to give a glimmer of hope there are people who do a great job shooting it down tony founcher uh said this the other day um and some have frowned on me because i have uh let people know and you can check me i know you do uh that fouchy i don't know him personally and i bid him god speed but he's a backslidden catholic who is a self-professing humanist humanists do not believe in prayer humanists do not believe that god intervenes humanists do not believe that we need help from the lord at all that may be one of the reasons why he could easily recommend that churches be closed but he fumbled and waffled when they suggested perhaps perhaps the the protests were should be uh curtailed because don't they spread the virus if you if singing in church and gathering in church spreads the coronavirus most certainly marching down the street everybody on top of each other screaming and hollering ought to spread the virus as well but he would not he would not speak against uh people's constitutional rights to protest but the same constitution that speaks to our right to protest speaks to our right to practice our religion and yet they had no problem shutting down churches so the latest from um fouche uh this is according to forbes forbes dot com august the thirty first twenty twenty dr tony foucher director of the national institute of allergy and infectious disease said thursday past this thursday's past that temperature checks are unreliable for detecting coronavirus symptoms and people entering businesses and other establishments as infrared thermometers have been embraced as part of the protocols for reopening so as soon as people embrace the thermometers and said okay we're going to do the temperature checks now he's saying that they're unreliable but according to dailymail.com on the 23rd of march of this year the same man said this to the science uh magazine journal dr foucher said give serious consideration to screening shoppers at us stores we when asked if this measure speaking of uh temperature checks could be introduced in u.s stores he replied yes of course i think the logistics uh of that have to be worked out so when he said yes people just scrambled and got the temperatures because this is a good thing now that people are practicing it and people are saying well this gives us a measure of safety now he comes and says well it's unreliable it seems that his role is to extinguish hope anything that seems promising and hopeful he shoots down unless of course he has a vested interest in it also he's allowed to be all over the place with his recommendations january 26 2020 he said and he said this to the cats round table he said the american people should not be worried or frightened by this this is january 26th it's a very low risk to the united states this is what he said about the coronavirus in january of 20 of this year the 26th he said that american people should not be worried not frightened by this also on february the 29th almost 30 days after the president put the travel ban in place because if you recall when the travel ban was put in place he was called xenophobic said it was hysteria he's overreacting he put the ban in place on january 31st on february the 29th dr fauci said this right now this is right now at this moment there is no need to change what you are doing the risk is still low but this could change so as late as february 30 days after the travel ban was put in place he told americans not to change anything that they were doing i think all of us would agree now that he was wrong uh his his concern has drastically changed cnbc.com august 13th 2020. quote the bottom line is i'm not pleased with how things are going end of quote and he also said we certainly are we certainly are not where i hope we would be we are in the middle of a very serious historic pandemic he added and there have been many other inaccuracies that dr voucher has a given for example cbs news 60 minutes march 2020 there is no reason to be walking around with a mask infectious disease expert dr tony foundry told 60 minutes there is no reason he says that in march of this year to be walking around with a mass while masks may block some droplets voucher said they do not provide the level of protection people think they do wearing a mask may also have unintended consequences he said people who wear masks tend to touch their faces more often to adjust them which can spread germs from hands from their hands and now uh uh his most recent position according to abc news july the 29th 2020 dr foucher says if you have goggles or eye shields you should use it it's not universally recommended but if you really want to be complete with the mass you should probably use it if you can for those who are wearing masks and those who are here with masculine i am by no means insinuating that you should take your mask off uh when i am in public uh in public places i wear max when i go into businesses that require mess i wear max wearing a mask is not my point my point is he's allowed to go back and forth back and forth back and forth and whatever direction he points us in we go in the direction and minded nobody voted for him that he points us in that black lady doctor in california who treated uh 375 the patients who got well from hydroxychloric and who treated the patients many of our own people shot her down when voucher has never treated any patients [Applause] and that lady said let him tell me to my face that these these people didn't get well and yet folk what's my point my point is uh many of these people are working hard to keep you depressed listen to me now youtube live facebook live listen to this preacher whether you agree with me not just think of what i'm saying they're working hard it appears their goals is to keep us in fear really to keep you in filter after the election but i'll tell you a little more about that because the truth is after the election the coverage will change now the virus may not change but the coverage on the virus will change it's late now i had i had a tape cued i won't show it to you now because we've run out of time but uh i will show you you know they said that the government has been getting on peace for protesters i wish i was gonna show you a tape today where a man drive through the streets of new york where the national media won't show you and show you all of the buildings all of the businesses that have been destroyed downtown new york in the in the in the shopping districts people's businesses destroyed and all of this in the name of peaceful protest i didn't know i didn't know that a peaceful protest would allow you to to burn my house down because i may disagree with you or have a different idea then you it's peaceful and you're attacking my property it's peaceful and you can throw bottles with frozen with ice in them and hit the police bricks and and different things and that's called peaceful the coverage will change whether the virus does or not what are they trying to do they're trying to control you depression is up as a result of this ever-changing coverage that seems to evolve with the winds of politics you know when politics get involved uh in medicine medicine loses when when when when doctors become pundits when they become partisan it's hard to trust what they tell you mass general.com june the 25th 2020 depression is on the rise during the covet 19 resources for patients and their families listen to this the u.s census bureau reports that a third of americans show signs of clinical depression uh one-third and uh clinical depression and anxiety these on other these and other medical conditions are becoming amplified during the recent pandemic while covert 19 patients and their families are also at high risk for developing depression and anxiety maurizio fever md psychiatrist in chief within the department of psychiatry at massachusetts general hospital he said this is not surprised by the correlation between mental health conditions and covet 19. he says it's quite understandable the covert 19 pandemic is likely to cause significant stress and psychological distress i would add our response to it is likely to cause psychological distress and significant distress for a large portion of the population he says and we are and we know the rates uh are progressively increasing according to dr favor there are various factors related to covet 19 that contribute to the increase in depression rates these things include trauma from the widespread disease is having an effect on people grief over the losses of life and that's real grief fear of getting sick um unprecedented physical distancing people were made to be touched financial concerns including unemployment and housing insecurity loss of community and reduced access to caregivers all of these things is leading to an increase in depression the media won't tell you how depressions are up because it doesn't fit their narrative they want you to stay home they won't tell you how suicides are up they want you to stay home see all of this is a game but god told me to tell you no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper the bible says this about the times in which we live in luke's gospel chapter 21 and verse 26 men's hearts failing them for fear and for looking after those things which are coming upon the earth for the powers of heaven shall be shaken men's hearts failing them for fear for fear that is depression anxiety depression and anxiety jesus predicted that it would come for looking after looking after better translated looking for or an expectation uh to accept to receive that is men's hearts would fail them because all they expect and all they are looking for is more of the same the devil don't want you to believe that this pandemic will ever end the devil don't want you to believe that things will never get better when you believe that things will never get better you lose hope when you lose hope you lose the reason to live praise the lord the devil wants you to think that this is the new normal i taught you a new term i call it the new never to be called normal i won't accept this praise the lord i won't allow the enemy to cause my heart to fail when you have nothing to look forward to when you have no hope when you have no expectancy or you're beginning to die even when people retire from their jobs do you not know that most people retire who retire from their jobs die quickly after they've retired because they have no reason to get up they have no reason to fix up they have they have nowhere to go no one's expecting them you can't go shopping but for so long you can't go fishing but for so long human beings need to have something to live for some human beings need to be needed human beings need to get out of the house and yet they tell you stay home stay home lock up don't go out and oh my oh my some have even reached over and got isaiah chapter 26 and verse 10 and they've read this scripture that says come my people enter thou into thy chambers and shut thy doors about thee and hide thyself as it were for a little moment until the indignation be passed and they say well this is the scripture where god is saying shelter at home well if if that is true it is a narrow interpretation of that particular passage because the same ones who close their churches they they still go to walmart they skip they still go to the box stores they they're still everywhere else they want to go so they they go they go to a ho there you you see them in a whole many places that you wouldn't call their bed chains so how are you going to just interpret this to me and close the church when i just saw you crossed across town besides when isaiah said this there was no church the church age had not uh started the last thing that god said to us during the church age about church attendance he said and not forsaking the assemblies of yourselves together uh hebrews 10 and 25 as the manner of some is but so much to more paul says as you see the day approaching yes the devil is trying to break our spirits he wants our hearts to fail us the word hearts failing literally means to expire it means to die these people have a vested interest in breaking your spirit and breaking your will and breaking you down and bringing you into submission they're literally trying to kill you and you see signs of depression some of you all you're doing is staying home and gaining weight you don't fix up like they used to you don't get dressed up like you used to you're not fixing your hair you're not getting made up you're depressed you better break out of that you better break out you better go outside you better do something better open your bible you got to live god bless you one with your buried her mom the other day got to live you can't you can't let the devil just shut you up in a bedroom and you ain't gonna come out and oh you're just afraid that that's depression my god the bible even said when you're fasting it says put all in your hair don't walk around with the white mouth but grease your lips the bible says don't even appear to be fasted well fix up look like you expect the lord to deliver you act like it can i get a witness don't you let don't you let him cause you see these people have an agenda and their agenda one of the things is to get rid of the church to get rid of the church to have abortion on demand to the promotion of all things lbgt you know kamala harris oh she's uh running for the vice presidency i call her miss lock up a brother for when she was the a.g in california uh negro knew a black man knew that he was dead in the water he was dead in the water matter of fact you will need to try you might want to go into jail if you appear before her because she took pride in locking up black folk and now all of a sudden she's trying to be sister girl i'm telling it check out her record she locked us up left and right yes she did yes she did yeah she did yes you did kamala kamilah however i should pronounce it you did and now we're supposed to forget all that stuff and uh and she boasted in california that she was one of the first i got the tape cued but my time's up today one of the first i could show i showed you thursday night to perform a same-sex marriage y'all want to see it do you want to see it let it rip let the rings exchanged and the vowels declared symbolize your commitment sincerity and affection and may your love never falter by virtue of the power and authority vested in me by the state of california i now declare you spouses for life cut cut no no no now that that that that is who supposed to deliver us now are you crazy i i like what my angelo says she said when people show you who they are believe him that's kamala and let me tell anybody who's trying to turn america into sodom and gomorrah is not good for this nation she's not good for the state and she ain't good for black folk [Applause] we need husbands and wives we need fathers we need mothers men born male women born female we need real people [Applause] wow somebody shout something to god they have their agenda this is why they're trying to stay home stay home don't go out stay home they're trying to break you break your mind so that they can get in place and promote open borders which would flood the country with illegals where they take the rest of the job that black folk used to have they want to bring in socialism and marxism forms of government that teaches that god is not the deliverer and that our rights do not come from god but that government is god and that we must serve the state it is antichrist that's what's behind praise the lord keeping all this stuff going do you think people are just protesting are you have you ever asked what are you protesting why are you still doing it what's what's wrong now oh they're being paid to do it they're being paid to do it george soros is financing antifa and they've given black lives matter millions of dollars hundreds of millions any black businesses seen that money any other black community seen that money any black kids trying to go to college seeing any of that money if you read what they say they're for they don't mention the black male one time they're not for the black male and you can't have a black community without the black male preach wouldn't they say that they are trained marxists marxists they are not for you they are not for me this is the spirit of antichrist and i will not allow the devil to break my mind you won't break my spirit for i had the louds no weapons can i get a witness in here give me some love youtube live give me some love say you know i'm telling the truth don't give me that don't give me that color thing well you got to support somebody who black cheated trump passed legislature and i did an op-ed on it to help get black folk out of jail to help us get out of jail she put us in jail preach wouldn't and you know what i hope you do fact-check me fact-check me fact-check me praise the lord he can't remember it now but he did preach a eulogy of a white supremacist and he did praise him the man name is robert byrd west virginia senator joe biden you eulogized him and talked about how bird was loyal to his people praise him for being loyal to his causes praising for being an extraordinary man white people the clan white supremacists and uh while i'm at it y'all got me started but i'm almost through i'm almost through my mama cut it sharp but while i'm at it you see all these commercials of these athletes sending coded messages to black folk we got to vote we can't win unless we don't we vote well let me tell you something that's a dumb message because here's the problem here's the problem here's the problem you support people who support the number one killer of black folk which is planned parenthood ain't nothing killing black people like abortion so therefore i don't care if you tell us all of us to turn out and vote you could say that but abortion is keeping the numbers of all of us down so if you're supporting the the organization that's keeping our numbers down it doesn't make any sense to tell us to vote because what make votes count is the number of votes where we're not able to deliver a certain number of votes because we're killing our own every monday tuesday wednesday thursday friday saturday and sometimes twice on sunday what we need to do is stop killing our own how abouts putting out a public service announcement about that the black community there's not enough of us to sway an election we didn't put obama in white people put obama in that's not enough for us we only make up 11 of the population and on a good day 13 and of that level that 11 or 13 uh most a great number of that percentage are not voting age and another great number of that percentage are in jail and then there's a number who don't vote no way so now we're down to about five or six percent we can't sway no election because we're killing our own the devil is a liar black folk gotta wake up and see what's going on [Applause] [Music] i've been preaching like this for 33 years i'll turn over preaching like this before i came and we ain't going to change now oh god you see they have an agenda but i heard jesus said concerning their agenda in luke 21 and 28 jesus said when these things begin to come to pass well look up he said then look up he didn't say shelter in place he said look up and lift up your head for your redemption draw if not to look up literally means to raise oneself up from a bending position you know they wanted to pull down the emancipation uh statue lincoln standing there slave on his knees folk who know no history looked at it and saw the slave kneeling but folk who knew history looked at it and saw the slaves standing coming out of slavery slavery being pulled away the devil is trying to keep you depressed but i was challenged somebody today in your spirit you ought to stand you're the rise in your spirit and tell the devil you're not gonna change my mind you're not gonna break my spirit because there's something on the inside of me that keeps telling me to go ahead down on the inside keeps telling me to go ahead jesus said lift up your hands while for your redemption drawings now soon and very soon the lord is a is coming back so the point is don't crack don't break don't give up don't give in because no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper let me go home i preach long enough but when we look at our text in our text we see hallelujah we see here the analogy of a makeover let me prophesy somebody today you've been weather beaten you've gone through a lot the enemy's been working on you you're just like a house hallelujah no matter how pretty the house is sooner or later it's got to be repainted no matter how wonderful that roof is sooner or later that those shingles have got to be replaced wow no matter how beautiful it is it's going to need some repairs because it has to deal with the weather it has it has to deal with winter summer spring and fall i have to deal with the heat of the summer and the cold of the winter good god almighty and you've heard the expression weather beaten weather beaten you've heard hi you know how the weather can dull a car's finish they can mess up the outside of the house but thank god that god knows how to give a makeover he knows how to do a new paint job to remove everything that need to be removed and replace it what need with what needs to be replaced well in our text we see god speaking to jerusalem and he said ow thou afflicted and tossed with tempest and not comforted you've gone through god said behold i will lay that i will leave our stones with fair colors he said i'm beginning to make you over i'm going to start at the bottom and i'm going to lay the foundation with fair colors and lay the foundation with sapphires i'm redoing and redoing the house but it's not just a superficial makeover i'm making it over from the inside out jesus did only make over me but jesus made me over he didn't just put new pain on me but he changed me from the inside out he changed my heart and he changed my mind how many people in here can say the lord changed me that he didn't just make over me but jesus made me over not only do i not live like that like i used to live but i don't think like i used to think for me from the inside out he made me over do i have any folk in here who've been made over if you've been made over and you don't care if they see you let me see you wave your hands if you've been made over and you don't care if the cameras catch up let me see you say wave your hands up let me hear you say amen the lord the lord the lord made me holy yes yes thank you jesus let me preach here and i heard him say i'm gonna make you over starting with your foundation and look at how god the bible says that god beautifies the meek with salvation he said i will make your windows of a gate that is of a hard semi-precious stone i'm going to make your windows of a gate and your gates of deep red gems called carbuncles and not only am i going to make the house over but i'm going to give you borders i know they're against borders but god gives borders he put he surrounded jerusalem with a border god is surrounding you with a border the angel of the lord he can't be round about them that fear him to deliver them the devil can't cross the bloodline aren't you glad today that the lord have put a hedge around you why the devil can't get to you you're to praise the lord for your heads i feel my help coming here yeah yeah oh lord thank you jesus thank you jesus from my head the devil kate and kobe 19 it came either and ain't it good to know that when it's not your time the enemy can afflict you he can try to make you sick he came on you the other day mother when you went down to your brother's home going the devil tried to grab you but i thank god that the lord is more powerful than the devil i thank god that jesus is still on the throne i thank god that god is exalted the devil is defeated and jesus he's still alive to the glory of god the father he's still able ah yes he is somebody praise him for his healing power somebody praise him for his delivery power yeah i'm gonna close this i'm gonna close i wanna get a fuel i just shout no weapon no weapon oh lord not only am i to give you a border but all thy children shall be told of the law and greed shall be the peace of the children parents tell your children about the law tell them hallelujah who jesus is and how jesus died and how jesus rose again the third day ask them every day have you prayed today sit down and show them the bible make sure they know that the lord loves them make sure they know that they can make it don't let them grow up to be little militants don't let them grow up to hate their nation don't let them grow up thinking that people who are not their color hate them but let them grow up knowing that they're just as smart as anyone else and knowing that if they serve the law that god will make a way for them that god will bring them out you don't have to be a gang banger you're going to get caught up in hip-hop you have to go the way of the world going to get all tagged down with tattoos it rings everywhere just beside the lord and he will y'all don't hear me preaching he will make a way for you he will win yes he will yes he will yes he will i heard him he heard him say in righteousness somebody's out of righteousness shout righteousness righteousness thou shalt be established you'll be made firm into righteousness made firm in righteousness not in fornication not in adultery not in homosexuality not in gang banging not in thievery not in rioting rioting not in the world but you'll be established in righteousness and i got something for you god says thou shall be far from oppression fall excuse me from tyranny far from the government becoming your god so you got to be careful with the media the very one they call a bully the very one they call uh a hitler the people who are who are fighting against them they're the ones who are trying to bring socialism and marxism and well that's the form of government where your rights are taken away they want to take your guns they want to affect the way we worship they want to outlaw the bible there are certain legislations they can't get through congress right now and the reason it can't is that it can't get past the senate the reason it can't be it passed the senate i might as well tell the truth the republicans will block it in the senate and some of this equality stuff that they're trying to get past if that stuff passed then you can't preach against sodom and gomorrah you can't preach against this and that because the democrats have put legislation out there that will outlaw portions of the bible and call what we do hate speech you better know what time it is you better get informed you better watch something other than see it in and msnbc you can't be lazy you got to go beyond the headlines and see what they're trying to do but i thank god that the lord promised that we will be far from oppression and look at what he says for thou shall not fear look at your neighbor and say do not be afraid you you can't hug them unless you come from the same household but you can tell them don't be afraid don't be afraid don't be afraid i know they're trying to frighten you i know they got you thinking that you're going to die tomorrow oh kobe 19 is killing everybody you know found you told them that if you die with covet it should be counted as though you died from kofi look it up you know i know i'm on facebook live youtube live i know everybody's going to check me so when i say things i've already done my homework see patrick wouldn't know what he's talking about hallelujah if you die with it they count it like you die from it and to pad the numbers if they brother preacher brother facing if they would test you for corporate 19. there's only one james facer standing there right you're one man right if they test you five times and if you found negative five times same man tested five times found negative five times they count that as five negative tests when that's one person that's one test that's one person counted five times but they'll count him as though it was five different people it's a game it's designed to mess with your head i'm not saying that the virus ain't real but my point is see when when you get i'm suspicious of anybody when they gild the lily when you start doing things to make it worse you catch my when you go to exaggerating because if you die if you fall out the plane you fall out the plane playing 32 000 feet in the air going 700 miles an hour if you fall out the plane whatever they can find of you that's left if when they test that they find covert 19 they chalk it up you die from covert 19. everybody except except that one has been one exception you know the exception has been george floyd he had covete but covert didn't kill him oh y'all looking at me now oh i'm not defending what happened to i'm showing you but my point is for those who can't hear because you know you got an audience who never hear what you're saying in context let me make it plain my point that i'm making is they're padding the numbers to control you to keep you at bay to hold you down to fill you with fear to make you fear these weapons they have scared churches to the point where churches and states where they can legally open won't they've scared pastors to the point where where they can legally open and they won't they have shut uh businesses down and different things and all this to control you and people are cowering and they're afraid even though god said no weapon no no is inclusive of all weapons is it a weapon and is it against you if it's a weapon and if it's against you god said unless it's your time to die god said that it shall not prosper wear your mask but don't put your confidence in that where i got one in every car i own two or three wham but my confidence not in that i talked to a man the other day the condition hit him he's struggling with a condition and he said said to me i don't understand how i i this this happened to me i take all my vitamins i live right i eat right i do this i do that and he said i don't understand how this happened to me and and i said that's the point i've been trying to make to you all the time see after there is a gap between human preparation and optimum living the gap between that is god see after you take all the vitamins get all the sleep wear all the masks take all the medicine and do everything you know to do you steal you still need the lord if god don't help you hallelujah if god don't help you the bible says accept the lord keep the city you can put all the guards out there the watchmen still wakeeth in vain accept the law build the house you can have the hammer the nails the equipment the manpower and everything but accept the law the law build the house they labor in vain that building except the law the gap between the best we can do and reaching our goal is god and i'm counting on the law i'm counting on the lord to keep me and he told me no weapon and he told me to tell you no weapon that is formed against you you got to believe it shall prosper oh i didn't say that the weapon wouldn't make you sick i i didn't say that the weapon wouldn't break your heart i i didn't say that the weapon wouldn't injure you but injuring you wasn't that goal the goal was to kill you to break you i didn't say it wouldn't make you cry but i've been many times that i cried but when i finished crying i was just as determined to follow the lord after the cry that i preached right there after the cry i was just as determined after the cry matter of fact more so than i was before i went through i got off my knees saying god i'm going anyhow praise the lord and this is where we are today i am challenging you to not allow your spirit to be broken i am challenging you as your man of god i'm giving god told me the lord told me encourage them he said remind them of what i said i said no weapon and what gives god the position of strength he speaks from a mighty position of strength because he says this he says i'm going to keep you from terror terror is ruined you're not going to you're not going to be ruined i know how am i going to pay my rent how am i going to do this god's got you what you do you live right and you trust the lord he will make a way he will make a way you live right and you trust him he says for it shall not come not thee he says now despite my promises that will be a satanic a satan induced attack and a tax for he says in verse 15 he says think about this i'm done he says this behold they shall surely gather together but not by me say now wait a minute even though i promise you no weapon doesn't mean that no weapons will be formed i just told you they're not going to prosper they will surely gather together god said but don't worry i'm not in it i didn't tell them to do it so you can gather all you want against god's man a god's woman but if god is not in it it will not stand and i'm here to tell you that that mess that they're pumping in your home that we paid and got all these flat screens to bring that negativity and oh these kill joys and oh they they're gonna they're gonna worry if if if it kills them god says don't you buy that and the lord spoke to me the other day god said make sure you tell the people this he said you tell them that the talking heads on these networks who frightened the people the lord told me to tell you said they go on for an hour or two and scare you to death they get off from work and they go get drunk they go play tennis they go swimming they live their lives you sit there and watch the next show and the next show and then so you have spent your whole afternoon being inundated with the numbers of the coronavirus they have grown and the numbers are going up and they got a corona virus here and this is the numbers of the coronal bible and this is many people died and there you go sitting there oh lord then people get off from work and go live and you you don't watch four shows now multiply that time five days a week no wonder you're half falling out no wonder you don't fix up anymore no wonder you're going down you're depressed cut that stuff off cut that stuff off reject that stuff then the people who work that don't watch it they don't do that the radio personalities when they get off from work they turn the radio off or if they ain't talk radio they turn to music if they're in music they turn to talk they don't inundate themselves with that kind of stuff [Music] beautiful that's the game that's the game to get you how much i even watched don lemon man said that jesus wasn't perfect if you could still watch him after he says jesus is not perfect you deserve to get what you can get whatever's coming whatever coming you ask for that you ask for that you don't like me now do you i think i'm a little too frank i don't see how you do it they say you love the lord the man said jesus admittedly said jesus if that's who you serve well that's who i serve jesus wasn't perfect all i can say to him is your makeup is getting thicker and thicker what is that all about don't get me started now you know what happened believers would get more outraged that i said that about don then they would get outraged about what don said about jesus the the church world had a hissy fit when the president stood in front of a burnout church and held up the bible oh my god that's a photo of throwing up but when the people burnt the bible i didn't get one text i didn't get one call i didn't hear from one preacher who was outraged that they burned the church not one but when he stood in front of the church they held up the bible you had to cut your phone off it's amazing what the devil has done to us the lord told me to tell you no weapon who here today are fighting weapons are against you the enemy has launched an attack because i'm getting ready to pray if i'm talking to you today i won't ask you to come to the altar but i will ask you to quickly stand on your feet hallelujah and i'm going to pray and rebuke those weapons because god speaks from a position of strength he says they shall gather together but not by me and whosoever shall gather against you he says they shall fall for thy sake and then he speaks from a position of strength and you got to be theological to understand this he says behold i have created the smith that blows the coal on the fire see a blacksmith with a blower heating up the coal and as he as the coal gets hot enough he puts his instrument the iron on the coal and he beats the iron into a weapon of war he says i have created the smith who beats the coal who blows the coal on the fire who brings forth the instrument of his work that sword and have created the waster god says i own the waster to destroy covert 19 is not beyond god no condition is beyond the lord no no weapon is beyond the lord so when the lord says no weapon that's formed against you shall prosper he's speaking from the ultimate position of strength because he owns do you are you listening to me he owns the weapons i don't know if these pharmaceutical companies are going to figure out a cue or not i don't know if congress is going to agree on whatever they're trying to agree on now not i don't know if the president's going to come up with a solution or not or any of those say i don't know but i look beyond them i will lift up my eyes into the hills for with coming my help my help comes from the lord i look to jesus i look to jesus i don't look to the cdc i do not look to tony fought you ain't never some of these preachers preached time tony fought you more than they'd preached paul it's a disgrace it's a disgrace we we're taking the word of a backslidden man a self-professed humanist more than the word of god the lord told me to tell you it's not going to prosper and even when people make moral accusations it says every tongue that rise up against you in judgment says thou shalt condemn for this is the heritage of the servants of the lord because their righteousness is of me save the lord when the lord began to show me this i want you to know i began to thank him chris i began to thank him and revel in his security knowing that he is going to take care of me he's going to take care of you he's going to take care of his people he told me to remind you that no weapon formed against you shall prosper get that weapon on your mind think about whatever it is whatever the situation is that enemies using against you and i want you to declare right now declare to it in jesus name you can say it audibly if you would like to you will not prosper you will not prosper it won't work in the name of jesus you will not bring me into ruin you will not bring me down you will not break my spirit in the name of jesus i will keep my joy glory to god i will keep my hope i will believe on the lord my god i will have joy in this season i will be happy in this season i will have optimism in this season i will live and not die i will not be depressed in this season we'll feel the devil loose here i rebuke the enemy's instruments i rebuke the waster to destroy i rebuke the weapons of destruction in the name of jesus and i declare with the authority of the scriptures that they shall not prosper in jesus name [Music] in jesus name in jesus name in jesus name in jesus name ecclesia in jesus name lie in jesus name in jesus name on this church anniversary gonna get your blessing sister through the years i keep on turning [Music] oh i was talling the storm and rain [Music] patiently waiting and watching [Music] until the same year [Applause] comes again i'm waiting long every day i'm trusting your holy word y'all gotta help me sing [Music] teach me i need your love to teach me i need to know a lot how to love my friends oh lord i want you to refill me refill me [Music] with your holy spirit comes again [Applause] i'm trusting is [Music] wow [Music] lift your hands and praise him [Music] coming to the close of this 40th anniversary service ain't got a good god we're getting ready to give our offer but what he make away oh lord i said won't it make a way if you know god will make a wing let me see you wave your hands oh lord he made a way for my mother yes he did made a way for my wife [Music] make it away you have joy today on the inside for 40 years women for 40 years wait a minute for 40 years for 40 years up a room you ought to say 40 years we're getting ready to leave here but for 40 years god's made a way we stand here [Music] completely out of debt ain't god a good god won't he make a way by my side stood by my side yeah he was always there swings [Music] [Music] let us bless the lord now by the way of giving we're getting our offerings and tithes ready facebook live and youtube live you know how to help us today by my side hallelujah you know how to help us today remember how many of our members are watching many of our friends online giving [Music] www.easytime.com urc or there's a text to give option you can text urc give two four five seven seven seven and then hit send and you will receive a link yeah yes other methods on the screen upper room members get your tithe and office ready here i've been through the storms and i've been through the rain i felt heartache and pain 40 years the times i cried i wiped tears from my eyes but the lord stood by my side 33 years ago been through the storm and i've been through the rain i felt heartache and pain many times i cried i wiped tears from my eyes with the lord [Music] he's been with me i'm so glad that the lord stood by my side i said the lord [Music] the lord glory to god what a mighty god what a mighty god are you ready to give let's pray father receive each offering whether they've given online whether we're given here in the sanctuary text to give visit our websites however lord you know bless every soul bless every gift bless every giver in jesus name thank god amen glory to god glory to god you're in the hands of the usher do not pass the offerings down you know we've changed that and uh we praise the lord amen thank you jesus oh my glory glory glory glory glory glory god love every one of you and god bless you today [Music] he's been with me night and day [Music] [Music] all my life yeah bless the offering lord in jesus name bless every gift and every giver in jesus name amen amen i understand some college students are getting ready to go back and if you're here today and you're going back to school going getting ready to go back to the college campus getting ready to go back to the uh to the campus where they've been been invaded by leftists marxist socialist antichrist i was talking to someone the other day and they were telling me that uh that uh that they have a friend who is getting ready to go to duke divinity to school i said i don't know your friend but i'm gonna give you a word of advice he better know what he believed before he get there because all them schools do now is they unteach christianity because halftime professor professors are not saved they don't love the lord and none of them got the holy ghost and then there you go sitting up in there what you ought to do is join nc third academy [Music] [Laughter] that'll be a good idea amen and the lord will bless you but college students who are going back would you please come right quick if you're here please stand where are you god bless you god bless you god bless you come come quick come quickly come quickly i want to pray for you i want to pray for you i want to pray these are ours and see what i want them to do i want to go to school learn what they're teaching you but come back sanctified come back go sanctified and come back sanctified you can do it you can do it so you can do it look at all the girls today look at the girls look at the girls you all spread out a little bit i'm trying to y'all try to socialize that's a young man social distance y'all social distance i don't want nobody to be calling me the police coming up here bothering us that's right see you can't tell they social distance see amen god is so good i'm proud of y'all and see let me tell you they already assumed that because you're black you think a certain way that's the assumption you can do it you can cut it you're as smart as anyone else amen and hold to what you learned at church amen because they ain't gonna teach you anything as powerful as what you've been taught amen everything is going down but the word of god everything everything don't be intimidated by the size of the campus by the pace of the campus don't let them fraternities and sororities draw you anything that requires a ritual by definition has a god because you got to say the ritual to some entity and when you make pledges the bible says we serve a god of covenants a god of pledges when you make a pledge god pays attention to it whether you're making a pledge to him or to someone else god married israel in exodus on mount sinai exodus chapter number 34 and he told them not to go a whoring from him after other gods that's bible and you know what israel did they did just that don't you do it you're sanctified go stay save let the lord you your young men you know they're going to target you be a man be strong have the courage of your conviction have them college athletes and have them nba players they don't want to buy they don't want to kneel for that for the anthem but they're scared they're scared not to it's all up on their knees kneeling to the anthem that made them millionaires where's they leave money like that running down the court with equality written on the back of that jersey now ain't that some equality they don't believe that because every one of them have agents to get them as much money as possible and none of them are for equality in pay that's why you get your agent oh no no no so that's what that's stuff that for stupid people who don't think you take you i got to go we got a dinner so ain't gonna get started but i love you all i could just pray a little prayer jesus and then let you be gone but i really want you to make it eltona told me when i went to college look young man i don't call and i don't write he said now when you go to school when you're not here at the temple church of god in christ i want you at smith temple church of god in christ with elderly and when you're not there i want you to come home and that was my college talk [Music] you can i made it you can make it [Music] father bless these kids unknown i'm lord we're counting on them or we're looking at our future leaders our future decision makers satan knows how important they are god anoint them i got anoint them god let them continue to be the champions that they've been up until now god you've used charis you've used some of these young ladies and young men to impact their campuses god let the impact grow greater whatever weapons that satan has already planned for them we cancel it today it will not prosper in jesus name go and the lord be with you in jesus name amen god bless you give them a big hand we're getting ready to go home amen today was a special day we've been getting out around 1 30. uh but today was a special day we went over but you know they put me up late and i preach fast but we had to celebrate 40 years you yeah you can't have 40 years in 20 minutes you know what i'm saying and it was a good service so thank you we're going to go home now when we dismiss what we ask you to do we ask you to allow our precious senior citizens seniors start grabbing your things uh to exit the sanctuary first and uh amen so that we're trying to keep them keep them safe and that kind of a thing amen and we encourage you to be wise um and continue to practice uh our being wise in our best practices and the lord will bless you amen the senior citizens they leave wait hold on seniors hold up hold on wait a minute hold on everybody stand up they're getting ahead of god first they said we're getting out of here everybody say god first all right y'all go ahead now let the seniors with those with pre-existing conditions that's right that's right that's right that's right let them go amen god bless my mother amen look at this upper room prison ministry has taken the gospel of jesus christ to 16 prisons throughout north and south carolina now the rest of you can go thank you all so much god bless what you want me to say yes sir no no it's just a family family do they know yes sir you

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Published: Sun Aug 16 2020