The Gathering (REBROADCAST)

so i am so grateful to have my sister here with me she did you know she was on the phrase worship team i am surprised super aren't you are you singing tonight i am singing tonight yep oh yeah they're probably going to miss you for a few minutes this is great so listen this is eva right and so this is elder nade and i appreciate you guys joining us every single week to be a part of what we do here at a church and so there are a couple of things we want you to do yes so first thank you for the warm welcome elderly uh you know this is my first time and i love to feel welcomed um but we would love for you guys to do a couple of things so first connect with us in the chat and tell us who you are where you're from we don't know so let us know right we don't really know right we can't see you well we can see them online we can so it helps us when you guys let us know who you are and where you're from and the second thing is share any notes or highlights that god has like put on your heart tonight let us know when there's a moment during service that you know it really just gets you and you're like oh my goodness that was so good to me let us know in the chat isn't she a natural at this point i mean this is like she's been doing it forever i love it listen when we keep things like just real yeah it just becomes easier and easier and so i appreciate you coming again tonight this is awesome so listen we want you to share share share go into right now into your facebook page if you want to start a watch party you know if you want to share your your page our page with your friends i know you got like a thousand friends my god i don't really have a thousand either but listen we trying to get out we're trying to get we're trying to get our fan base up yes we are this is fantastic so listen if you can please share your page if you want to start a watch party please feel free to do that it's going to be an amazing amazing service tonight and because we're ready for praise and worship we're ready for the word we're ready for prayer we're ready for everything that the lord is going to do in this service so i thank god that you are here if you're visiting with us from the first time and you're from another state let us know let us know what state you're dialing in from right because let us know that if it's from north carolina or georgia or tennessee what's up family i know you out there i've seen you and when i said i was gonna do it i just failed to do it sometimes but so what i said to do is gonna look at the comments i do look at the comments every single week and i see that that there are certain people that join us every single sunday they're there we have members that join us from california we have members that join us from south carolina and so uh listen we are going to shout you out so i if you if you say to me on the chat don't you say my name [Laughter] i won't sing the beyonce song for you save my day save my day that's the angels out here oh my goodness yes because we know she's the best singer out there she will be singing it all right so what else we got to do um so on sunday bishop reached an amazing message titled why oh my god oh i was in the front seat standing up for almost the whole service i just couldn't sit down it was amazing and so i know as believers sometimes we have these questions where like like why am i not married or why is this pandemic still going on or why did i lose my job and i know sometimes we can feel like it's taboo so elderly i want to ask you is it still taboo or consider taboo or do you even think that it's taboo to ask god why sometimes wow you know what that's a great question because sometimes i know i grew up in a household and you don't ask any questions you just if they if your mother tells you to do something you just do it just know why like why do i have to clean my room you can try to be what so sometimes that becomes a little taboo when we have when we when there's authority yeah and we ask the authority why we have to do something but they see but god is not like that right he's not like man right and so we can always ask god why we can we can always come to him and here's the thing we can always come to him with a pure heart yes and if we're angry if we're upset with god he's not gonna strike us down because we're angry with them exactly sometimes we just don't understand because we just don't know we don't know why okay why did what happened to my in this pandemic i lost my job why god and so um this is an opportunity for us to just really tune into god and and just say god why did you do this god wants he wants our attention yeah what about you what do you think honestly that i don't think it's taboo to ask god why and i'll tell you why when i was younger my mom had got me a teen study bible and in the teen study bible it talked about doubting god and i remember when i was younger i thought you were never supposed to doubt god like what elder nate said if your mom tells you to do something you do it and i thought it was the same exact way with god and while he does value obedience he doesn't mind us asking why and i'm even reminded of thomas you know when um jesus resurrected and he was in the upper room thomas doubted you know and he didn't hesitate to let that be known to jesus and we often do right we often make fun like oh you would doubt in thomas but if we think about it thomas was one of the only ones to touch jesus directly when he resurrected and so sometimes our wives you know they will draw us closer to god he doesn't want us to be afraid to ask him why it does draw us closer wow listen get your offerings out right now because she just preached what an amazing response that was i thank god because yes because if we adopt that same philosophy yeah and we just sometimes it's just a matter of us stretching our faith a little bit right and sometimes we don't maybe we don't we don't know 100 but if we touch something and we feel something right then it increases our faith exactly it increases wow that's amazing that's amazing look so ask the question why don't be afraid to ask god why in your in your personal circumstance in your personal situation because at the end of the day god wants fellowship and communion with you right he wants you to talk to him and isn't you sitting around being mad all the time don't do that don't listen sometimes we i get mad at god i'm not going to put on anybody else but sometimes i get mad at god because i just don't understand right and so i try to go into that that secret place i try to ask god what is it that you're trying to show me what is it that you what about our relationship needs to be closer in this regard and and that's what we asked the question why so i have a question for you yes how do you prepare for your why to be answered or even not answered sometimes oh boy wow see one of the things that bishop talked about this past sunday was our our relationship with him yes and one of the things that pastor angel and i talked about at the end if you watch the end of the the service on sunday one thing we talked about is the difference between whether or not we are serving and whether or not we have a direct relationship with god that's so good because when you when you're serving you serve and then you you're used and you're done right but if you have a relationship with god and i look at it like this i look like this you can you will never have to ask a mother who really loves her child to feed them right you'll never have to ask her to feed them exactly because she loves she does it because she loves her child and so if we if if what we do and we ask god the question why so we don't necessarily always have to have the answer to that whether it's yes or no sometimes we always oh well i know i do always want the answer to be yes god can have a million dollars yes yes yes are you god okay he said he was but we even in our own personal relations we want to say yes to our to our brother and our sister but sometimes it's not right right they ask us a question and we want to say yes to it but really god is saying to us well the answer is not yes the answer is either not yet or sometimes it's just an outright no because god knows us better than we know ourselves and so how do i prepare for that i try to deepen my relationship that's so good so that i can at the end of the day i can just accept whatever they got whatever the lord says come on elderly that's good you see what i'm talking about wow isn't god i'm not listen today tonight bishop is going to preach a word to us and and we really want even i really want you to open up your hearts we really want you to open up your minds and your spirits to receive some things he may say you may not like he talked a lot this sunday about whether or not you should you want to or should come back to church we listen we want to see you we do we do we want to if you close by we want you to come and say hello we'll be like yeah what's up what's up sis what's up bro we're going to say hello to you but if you're not able to make it this is this is why we're here yeah and so we ask you to just open up your heart tonight to receive the word from the lord i want to say a prayer tonight for our folks would you mind i don't mind at all so father we thank you and we praise you for the excellency which is yours god if we had 10 000 tons we could not thank you or praise you enough would you prepare our hearts tonight to receive your word so that we might hear the the answer to some of the why questions that we've had in the past god we thank you and we praise you for all these things come on we're ready for service tonight they're about to start praising worship are you ready i am so ready all right well get to the stage and see [Music] we thank you father god for allowing us another opportunity god to come into your holy temple oh god to gather together o father god in unity in oneness of mindset in unity in the spirit of god being reminded and to know that we have come together in your name and in your name father god we seek your healing god we seek your deliverance oh god we seek for you to do a new thing in us oh god continue to create in us a new heart oh god in the name of jesus saturate us for tonight oh god saturate our minds o god to receive and to hear your word o god you minister to us o lord in the name of jesus oh god father god we ask that you forgive us o god for every sin every transgression every iniquity everything that we have done that has come against you and we ask oh god after you have cleansed us oh god in the name of jesus oh god fill us up with your holy spirit oh god fill us up with your presence oh god so that we can move and operate and do what you have set us in the earth to do o god in the name of jesus god help us o god to spread your gospel help us o lord to show love help us lord to forgive when we need to forgive o god but lord we pray right now that you will saturate this atmosphere oh god that you will release your word oh god a rhema word oh god let the fire of the holy ghost of god surround us oh god in the name of jesus remove everything that is not of you and not like you in the name of jesus we submit to your will god we say yes god we surrender oh god in the name of jesus not i will but your will be done on tonight oh god have your way father god in the name of jesus we come here for one thing and that is to praise you to worship you to honor you and to hear from you oh god in the name of jesus don't let us leave here the same do we knew enough so god a right spirit oh god renewing us oh god a new mindset oh god and we thank you for this time and we ask oh god that you would have your way in jesus name we pray amen [Music] hallelujah come on citizens of heaven praise the lord with me god we honor you we give you all the glory and we give you all of the praise come on if he woke you up this morning we give you all the glory and we give you all the praise and he brought you here safely we give you all the glory and we give you all of the praise if he kept you in your right mind lord we give you all the glory and we give you all of the praise hallelujah if his name is jehovah we give you all the glory and we give you all the praise hallelujah come on clap your hands with me i will sing praises unto my king [Music] i will [Music] here we go [Music] [Music] [Music] glorify thee [Music] oh [Music] uh [Applause] [Music] [Music] uh [Music] yes we give you the glory yes [Music] yes [Music] [Music] we're giving you [Music] [Music] come on we give you all the glory [Music] [Music] we declared [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] come on [Music] there's no one [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i [Music] [Music] [Music] peace [Music] in [Music] [Music] come on in here [Music] there will be glory after this there will be glory after this you're ready come on [Music] nobody [Music] now [Music] do you believe that there's nobody like our god do you believe that there's nobody in my car savior come on help me [Music] [Music] come on [Music] come on and praise him in here [Music] [Applause] [Music] please [Music] wow [Music] receive our love [Music] receive our praises [Music] [Music] as we shout [Music] here we go [Music] oh [Music] come [Music] give you all on glory [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] your name is [Music] hello [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is greater [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] screen [Music] right [Music] jesus [Music] come on [Music] when we have no words we say [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] sing over us [Music] sing over us [Music] father sing over us [Music] no one like our god [Music] no one like our kingdom [Music] no one like [Music] no one likes thank you jesus father we declare that there's no one like you in all the earth in the heavens above the earth below there is none like you none that can compare with you we declare this week after week day after day month after month year after year and there's no way that we can exchange what we say based on what we are experiencing from the world's perspective so lord we stand steadfast unmovable always abounding in the work of the lord what you do works for us what you do provides for us what you do answers our questions what you do lifts our burdens what you do lightens our load what you do causes us to forsake sin and the operation of the flesh and step into the most powerful generation of the spirit the qualification of the spirit that makes us alive in you thank you for being who you are thank you jesus thank you lord for above you there is none other none beside you and so we honor you lord today as we move our faith toward you and a at a greater pace for greater dimensions now speak your word unto us tonight lord cause your servants to hear and obey so much so until we become that light that's in the world the salt that makes the difference in this earth we thank you for this opportunity to serve you in the capacity by which we do and we honor you today be glorified cause your people to be edified and strengthened we ask this in jesus name that all god's people shout amen amen there is none like you no one else can touch my heart like you do i can search for all the eternity lord and vine there is none oh there is none [Music] [Music] for the lord is good in his mercy endures forever just before you take your seat would you just look around uh well you normally say reach around and touch somebody but just look around and smile at your neighbor if you're in your homes if you can turn around and smile at your family members go right ahead give a big old smile and tell them god's up to something in your life you're in the right place at the right time there's an explosion coming to your house yes that's going to rock your world you hear what i'm saying explosion of the power the presence of jesus christ in a magnificent way in a magnificent way somebody helped me say in a magnificent way in a in a mind-blowing way in an earth-shaking way there's some new dimensions of god's power and presence that is about to be unfold right before you the people of god the body of christ i want you to know something that i've read this uh as a devotional the the cows are coming that's what i say what is that all about in first psalm chapter four the philistines had defeated the israelites in a battle captured the ark of the covenant which was pretty much a symbolized symbol of god's presence god's power for the people of god they stole the ark but then the ark was returned it wasn't returned in the normal way it got hooked up to some cows and the cows brought the animals brought the ark back into the house of worship into the presence of the until the presence of the lord was so dominant it was so powerful i don't know i don't know what you got coming or who's bringing it but the cows are coming cars are coming mail is coming because god's sitting god sitting your miracle god sitting your breakthrough god's said in your blessing and he's returning some glory back to your house there will be glory supply in your house somebody help me shout there will be no worry no fear but glory provision coming to my house hallelujah somebody help me say it's coming it's coming this comet is coming it's coming i don't know but every now and then when you know something is coming you have that unsurety you look for it and you wait for it the waiting has everything to do with its coming i wouldn't be in the position of waiting if i didn't know something was coming but i know something is coming so i'm waiting on it because cause it will it will show up somebody wave your hand and say it will show up i believe it y'all better sit down glory to god be seated in the presence of the lord all right real quick grab your bibles turn with me to the book of saint john's chapter number 15 saint john's gospel chapter number 15 and we're going to begin reading at verse number 14 tonight something i believe i'm sorry verse 4 tonight four five six and seven i think that's where we're going to go tonight and i need you to prepare yourself for a fresh new uh i can't describe it any other way but a new awakening and the awakening is going to come through a new fresh connection somebody help me say a new fresh connection we talked about this on sunday about the body of christ being fitly joined together compact by that which every joint supplies the spirit of the lord began to minister to my heart concerning that he said take a little bit further and i wanted to encourage you the people of god the body of christ to really begin to look deep into the power of connection ah the power of connection we need i believe this is the time for the greatest connections in the history of the body of christ it's time for real connection not superficial connection but real connection well some are standing why don't we all stand in respect to the word of the lord tonight oh that's i like that amen oh yeah we're getting back to some good old principles and forms that unites us together as the people of god now here's what i need you to do i need you to discern this thing called connection tonight okay because while we are while we are here and not everybody is here but while we are here god's about to deliver us into a new dimension because we are here you know sometimes god does things because because you released your faith he released a miracle because you decided that you weren't going to let go of what he promised he sends more promises it's even so powerful that once the musicians are connected when musicians are connected to musicians when when you all are connected with each other there's a great outpour of the anointing called oil when the worship team that's why y'all can't be disconnected because when the worship team is connected you get what happens tonight you get what happens last sunday you get what happens suddenly before that you get what happens during the revival this is what happens when there is real connection when you get when we get rid of all the isms and schisms when you get rid oh wait a minute wait a minute let me go a little bit deeper and i'm going to point it out in a minute when you get rid of all your flesh god can move when you get rid of oh here's another thing when you get rid of all your sin all right yeah because it is sin that disconnects us it's all that pain and hurt that you don't experience for no reason john chapter 14 verse 15 john chapter 15 verse 4 here's what it says dwell in me and i will dwell in you live in me and i will live in you just as no branch no branch can bear fruit of itself without abiding in come on listen to this very carefully being vitally united to the vine okay let me let me just pause just for a second abiding in the vine this is important neither can you bear fruit unless you abide in me let me just let you think about that marinade marinade on it no fruit except you abide in me this is what the bible says and then jesus takes a little bit further he says now just in case you weren't clear on who i am i'm the vine and just in case you forget who you are you the branches he said i'm the vine you the branches whoever lives in me and i in him bears much fruit come on abundant life much fruit however apart from me cut cut off cut off cut off from vital union with me you can do absolutely nothing i'm telling you it can be made more plainer than that if a person does not dwell in me he is thrown out like a broken or broken off branch and withers and withers and withers such branches are are gathered up and thrown into the fire oh and they are burned [Music] you ain't in him he ain't in you you get cut off and you get burnt up i'm sorry for laughing but that's crazy verse seven final verse if you live in me abide vitally united to me live in me and my words remain in you and continues to live in your hearts you got to get that word in your hearts because when you do ask whatever you will the bible says and it shall be done for you this is the word of the lord thanks be unto god you may be seated in the presence of the lord so what do we say when we can't get online just the other day pastor marion was doing her thing with the um just us girls and uh we have we have uh we have uh we have the necessary equipment i thought in my house so that we could broadcast on stream yard and facebook uh her just us girls got modems i got everything i thought was necessary and just at the 30-minute mile marker before the broadcast was aired she went on and all of a sudden while we were online we got offline and we went bananas well i went bananas because i was the engineer she yelled out i'm not on i yelled there yes you are she said no i'm not on i'm not on i went and checked all of my computers all my stuff and i figured it out we're we lost the connection truth of the matter is we put great value in connection all of us now we are computer savvy and we know how to start compute the computers up we know how to we don't have to plug it in so it gets powered so it can boot up and there's nothing that's more frustrating i don't know about you but for me to already put the power in the computer and go to turn it on and i don't have no connection because it was more than the power in the wall from the wall into the computer i needed that connection to the router there's things that that are necessary for uh the broadcast necessary for you to be online with your job online with your friends and we can be online and all of a sudden lose the connection screen goes out we had several of our meetings with my staff my executive board and my staff and every now and then while i'm talking somebody's screen would go black or you know we can manipulate it now and put our picture on but there's no real you because we lost the connection when i get in my car and well just the other day got in my car and i was looking for my cord that charges my phone and somebody had taken it out and i was not upset i was angry because i need that cord to connect to my phone so that i can charge it so that it works nothing worse than having a phone and you ain't got no connection to the power same thing with the car my my wife i brought her this car several years ago how many years ago maybe almost 18 years ago 17 years ago i bought her this car this little car convertible car to uh for her for our anniversary i thought it was just nice if i just get her this car and uh had a little money and i i got the car they they let me make monthly payments until i paid it off the car would ride nice we'd be traveling down the road there's convertible air blowing through her hair so we've had this car for a long time but just the other day i went out to start it up and all i could hear was tick the car somehow has lost its charge your car isn't going to work and i've discovered this car not going to work unless the battery is connected properly if it's a bad connection from the battery it ain't gonna work and then if if the battery is working dennis but the generator has lost this connection to the battery i said battery i betcha you i get that fro it won't work so i raised a general question to those of us that are here tonight those who are watching the general principle to the question i'm going to raise is what disconnects you from god if we if excuse me if we go down a little bit deeper it is is what keeps my connection active is i've discovered i must do what jesus says i'm supposed to do uh i got to do what he says i'm supposed to do and and if i am truly his disciple i gotta obey everything he tells me to do i gotta go where he tells me to go i gotta say what he tells me to say i gotta be where he commands me to be and the only way that that connection is going to remain solid and strong is that i got to die [Applause] that ain't [Music] [Applause] there has to be i'm getting right to it y'all a daily crucifixion of your flesh because if you don't kill that it will disconnect you from him [Applause] just like those battery connections get at some point corroded so it is with our spirit and our flesh and the work of sin in our heart it grows it diminishes it it ultimately disconnects us from god's presence more succinctly it it erodes our desire to be in god's presence when you are disconnected not only will you know it but everybody around you gonna know it when when there is corrosion in the connection that brings about a disconnection you got to pay attention because it's hard to hear the voice of god when you have already decided what you want his voice to say [Applause] if you already decide this is what i want him to say that's all you listening for you'll never really hear what he wants you to do [Music] and ultimately that is a dis connect you see a disconnected spirit feeds on pride it feeds on lust a disconnected spirit feeds on reasoning that that closes off our spirits to the voice and the word of god that's what it does it it disconnects us from god disconnected from the spirit of the lord your the thing that's gotten you in trouble is your pride he just got you in trouble is your lust don't be blaming it on me so many i've discovered so many people their spirits and their hearts and ears have become deaf to the voice and the word of god because they have become eroded over by religion and not only religion but by personal feelings and this is the big one by offenses [Applause] when you get offended by something in church that's you give the enemy the opportunity to erode the connection that you have with god where you no longer want to be in the presence of god you would rather be in the present that makes you comfortable [Applause] the disconnect raises up pride in us and we get the spirit of what you don't want to do what i won't do rises up in us i'll tell you something i i hate that spirit i hate that spirit i hate that spirit i hate when i see it i can smell it sometime on people i can smell it i smell it on people sometime i smell it on people sometimes lord help me to jesus name lord jesus help me tell me don't but but when people are offended on something especially those who get offended in church the first thing that happens when people get offended in church is pride rises up they say stuff like i ain't got to take that you're not going to do that to me oh help me or you'd be surprised how many saints of the most high god experience this this thing called being offended and the problem is they don't know what to do when they get or become offended they don't know what to do and they they don't they don't humble themselves they let pride rise lord jesus how they let pride rise up yeah you see that's why i've come to understand humility cannot survive in that type of atmosphere when you allow yourself to to be eroded by an office y'all know what i'm talking about you know when you allow yourself somebody didn't say right words to you somebody didn't speak to you they didn't even see you you thought you was the only one coming to church walking through the door you see here's what i've discovered if you really want to find out where somebody is at you want to know where they're at in their spirit all you have to do is give a word of correction you want to know where people live in their lives and their minds and their souls in their hearts give them some correction it will always reveal pride or humility correction will reveal either pride or humility i'm not talking to y'all i'm just looking at y'all i'm talking to y'all too it will it will awaken pride or it will awaken humility it reveals it it reveals it it shows it up when you get corrected because you didn't like what was happening proverbs told us proof of instruction are the way of life proverbs chapter 9 you're going to read it tells us to reprove not a a schoner lest he hate thee oh my god rebuke a wise man and he will love thee what the bible says if you rebuke a wise man he'll love you that's the word son but escorter he will hate you because he don't understand what's really going on [Music] the bible says give instruction to a wise man and he will be yet wiser teacher just man the bible says and he will increase in learning get away from these stupid if correction and instruction is coming from a source listen to this it's coming from a source that is not trying to tear you down but trying to tear down wrong behaviors and wrong directions and wrong ideas and wrong justifications if correction and instruction is coming from a source that is not attacking you as a person but simply revealing behaviors that undermine your personal success then bless god stupid you ought to embrace that you ought to embrace it embrace it like gold embrace it like love embrace it embrace it embrace it like a hot chocolate molten lava fudge cake with vanilla ice cream on top in other words give an ear to the voice give an end to the voice of correction i don't know i don't know who this is for i don't know who this is for somebody's watching and you got all offended because somebody tried to help your little narrow self somebody tried to show you that you were walking in the wrong direction they didn't come to kill you they tried to help your little self lord jesus help me tonight i don't know this i don't know i don't know where this is going but a lot of folks aren't fighting demons but they're fighting accountability they're fighting responsibility they're fighting submission they're fighting humility ain't no demon it's their own self that they're help us tonight lord proverbs chapter 9 verse 6 forsake this is what the bible says in chapter 9 verse 6 of proverbs it says forsake foolishness and live and go in the way of understanding i'm just trying to give you some understanding about your discipleship shame on you if you can't take instructions that's based on your appearance from that which is in you as a disciple of jesus christ you see because real disciples will take correction fake disciples will get upset and get mad come on i'm leaving the church we'll leave i know did i say leave no i'm not i'll take that back don't leave get delivered don't you go nowhere sit your tail right up in here and learn how to live with god's people and live with the ones that correct you live with the ones that kind of rubs you the wrong way people get up get out of order and then think preacher myself had an attitude you get an attitude with me when some correction is given to you shame on you shame on you yeah she warned you no one puts money in a in a vending machine when it's that there's a sign on the outside of the vending machine that says out of order foolish for you to put money in a machine that you read in the sign that says out of order let me put this money in there and then you want to hit it then you want to kick it then you want to abuse it silly person well you're a foolish person because nobody puts money on the vending machine that's tells you it's out of order so how much more will god jesus hear you all out of order god is not responsible than putting stuff in you if you all out of order why would god put something in you when you're out of order but the lord gonna bless me anyhow no hey so [Applause] so what we got to do is we got to get connected right we got to get the right connection somebody's helped me say the right connection come on help me say say the right connection i'm almost done say the right connection y'all say the right connection say the right come on shout the right connection the right connection yeah some of these connections you got with some of the people you're hanging out with is the wrong connection you hanging out with the wrong crowd the wrong person my god you know it you feel it you don't always feel your best when you're around them because they got the wrong you making wrong decisions based on the bad connection you have going on my god why don't you get around some smart people get around smart people see smart people will tell you the truth you need to get around some truthful people you don't need to get around some people that would just give you what you want and say what you want them to say do what you want them to do no you need somebody that will rock your world a little bit come on somebody somebody say lord help me help me help me no don't say lord help me because he'll send you some help he'll send you somebody that will make you feel like you have been abused because they're just bringing you some correction but because you let your pride get in the way humility steps out of the way donna linville says and i quote she says this your sense of sin is the is in proportion to your nearness of god your sense of sin is in proportion to your nearness to god your sense of sin when i read that that bless my life i went when i read that i went to repent because if ever i feel like i'm not as close to god as i want to be i have to then check out my sin realm the further you get from god ah you ain't gonna like this the father you get from god the further i get from god the more comfortable i get around sin [Applause] that's how it works y'all you you you talking man i can't sin no more no no you've been around it so much now that it has it has disconnected you from your god that now you're comfortable with it and when you get comfortable with something called sin you give every reason for it to be in happening in your life you make excuses for it you you wrap it up a little bit here you turn it over a little bit you make it make sense based on your condition matter of fact you go as far as to blame stuff around you for the sin that's going on in you where did we get this from on this thursday night why don't we just have a good howdy howdy holy holy service [Music] when when king david watched this when king david was connected to god he was dancing in the courtyard with all his might he was dancing and coming out of his clothes dang it before the presence of the lord he dates before the presence of the lord he does i need somebody to to remember the presence of the lord before the presence of the lord he danced but when he was disconnected from the presence he's hanging out on the rooftop in the wrong place at the wrong time and then if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time watch this you will ultimately cultivate the sin that's crouched down at your door now y'all didn't get that if you're in the wrong place at the wrong time you are still growing something you got to understand when you disconnect from god you're connecting to something else no human being just exists outside of stuff we exist based on our connection so when you lose your connection with god you connect yourself with something else and he was in the wrong place at the wrong time just in the presence of the lord but being in the wrong place at the wrong time just in the presence of the lord but being in the wrong place at the wrong time he began to cultivate the lust that ultimately led to murder i need somebody to shout we got to get connected right somebody ought to shout on the other side in your home say i gotta get connected again i need to i need to get connected and i need to figure out how to stay connected i got to get connected i got to figure out how how to stay connected when we're not connected we allow the horizontal to affect the vertical too often when when god wanted to create fish he spoke to the sea when god wanted to create trees he spoke to the earth but when god wanted to create man my god he said wait a minute let's turn him into who we are he turned to himself when he made man he turned to himself the bible says and he breathed the breath of life into man and they became a living soul the scriptures say we were made in the image of god if if you take a fish out of water it will die if you take him out of water he'll die if you take him out of the water he'll die and when you remove a tree from soil it will die it will help me jesus only jesus he will die it will die likewise when men and man is disconnected uh from god he dies a spiritual death and a physical death physically remember god breathed a breath of life into man and he became a living soul so when you stop breathing when you no longer have breath your physical body becomes disconnected and you die throw your arm at somebody's hand and say don't die around me no no don't be dying around me i need you to keep on breathing the breath of jesus i need you to let the breath of god keep moving in your life in your soul in your mind in your body in your eyes in your ears in your hands in your feet the breath of god needs to be all around you inside of you everywhere everywhere until god becomes our natural environment [Applause] [Music] uh i hope we are as people created to live in his presence paul said in him we live and move and have a being this is what he said he was clear he said i cannot exist i cannot live outside of that we breathe and we have our he says we have our very being thank you jesus and a child shall lead them thank you baby so to live spiritually we have to be connected to him because it is only in him that life exists so when i crucify my flesh when i have done the dirty hard work of bible reading when i do the work of praying when i do the work of fasting when i do the work of of submitting myself to the will and the purpose of the plan of god through the word of god when i turn my plate down when i discover that i need to spend more time with jesus than i do on social media when i discovered these things it becomes for me a discipline and what it needs to do is discipline your flesh so that on sunday morning you get up and go to church oh oh so you discipline yourself until you oh until when thursday night rolls around you get up and go to church you do that because you're connected right and your flesh is not running the show the breath of jesus is running the show and the thing that you desire more than anything else is to be in his presence i don't know about you but for me and i think this is what happened what happens to us marie i think what happens to us is that when we desire more of the presence of the lord there is that desire to move in the presence of god from our spirit and not from our flesh that's what happens to us folks don't understand that we worship leaders that's what happens to us that's the reason why we can keep doing this week after week and we don't get tired of it because we we value the presence of the lord so much so that it has rearranged some hunger in us it has rearranged some desire in us and come on somebody there is a passion that swells up within us ah i don't know about y'all but the reason why i could i do what i do is because i got a hunger i gotta hunger for something more than a worship service [Music] i hunger for something more than just being able to just preach any kind of i hunger for more anybody want more anybody want more i want it until i get a new experience the fresh presence of jesus now for me i value the importance of a god connection in my life not just a religious ritual connection but the power of the holy ghost connection the spirit of the lord connection flowing that spirit flowing in my spirit that spirit bears witness with my spirit not only my spirit but it connects with my heart my heart begins to pant after the presence of jesus more than my necessary foods i want it more than my oh enlightening you i want him for me jesus said he that believeth on me as the scripture have said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water and this he spake of the spirit that they that believe on him should receive i don't know about y'all but every time i come i'm coming for the spirit of the lord i'm not coming to impress you i'm not coming to make you do what you think you ought to do but i've come to because i want to be in his presence and i can't be in his presence without his spirit so i'm looking first of all for where the spirit is but where the spirit of the lord is there is liberty there's freedom i can't be stuck i can't be jacked up i can't be messed up i can't be burdened i can't be broken if i'm in the spirit that gives me life and that more abundantly yeah i close baby you better come d.a carson writes and i quote they write people do not drift toward holiness apart from grace driven effort people do not gravitate toward even godliness they don't gravitate toward prayer not anymore obedience to scripture not anymore even to faith not anymore and and they no longer delight in the lord we drift toward a compromise and now we call compromise tolerance we drift toward disobedience and call it freedom bishop you can't tell me what to do you can't tell me that i gotta walk circumspectly you can't tell me now i gotta obey my spirit i gotta obey what my life wants because you can't bind me up i gotta be free free y'all gonna judge me for this and i don't really care but free will cause you to oh jesus was i thinking that some the wrong freedom makes you look like a freak i knew it was going to get quiet because it was it was back here you started acting freaky weird yeah that's that's what happened to some people that's what happens when we start exchanging the truth for a lie we drift toward superstition and and we call that faith did you read your horoscope today we we cherish the discipline of loss self-control and call it relaxation this is what the writer wrote i'm just sharing what the writer wrote we sloth toward prayerlessness and delude ourselves into thinking we have escaped legalism we slide toward godliness and convince ourselves we have been liberated you'll be surprised how many people get in this thing accidentally oh but i hear the lord come on baby come i'm done i hear the lord calling us to a deeper connection to a greater connection to a very real connection and that kind of connection causes you whatever state i find myself in if i'm being corrected amen because god loves those in whom he chastises he he will he if you if you always think you're always right and god never sends somebody to correct you i don't believe you really belong to him but he loves you so much that he will correct you he will send somebody to give you some good clear correction and direction so that you can live in your place of success do me a favor come on baby i need somebody to shout real loud what are you going to do with the connection that you have my god my god my god oh lord we thank you for your word on tonight lord you said heavenly efforts gonna pass away but your word will stand forever so lord we come lord and they ask that you will wash us again lord cleanse us in the name of jesus give us clean hands and a pure heart lord and renew the right spirit within us on tonight god we want to be right with you we want to be connected to you god we don't want our will but we want your will to be done in our lives we realize that you're coming back lord for a church without spot or wrinkle so god we submit ourselves to you god and we say lord have your way you are the power source god we want to be plugged into you tonight god we want to be connected to you father so we ask god if there's any offenses in our hearts we surrender to you tonight god and we say lord forgive us i don't know about you but i sat on the sidelines and i said lord wash me again uh wash me with peace of lord i need you god i can't make it without you i'm like a ship without a sail for so long for you huh as the deer painted that's in the waters so does my soul the seat of my emotions oh god we come oh god we come oh god we come and we yield to you tonight we surrender lord we submit to you [Music] spirit of the living god fall fresh on us tonight god give us fresh fire give us fresh oil restore us renew us revive us holy spirit holy spirit have your way god holy spirit have your way god oh this very moment in time lord you said our times are in your hands so we give everything to you right now wherever you are take 60 seconds and take inventory of your life wherever you are streaming online facebook youtube stop what you're doing right now and take inventory the word has gone forth and it will go forth and accomplish all that you sent it out to do god so tonight god reconnect us to you god thank you lord thank you for the connection god thank you for the longing for the more of you god thank you that we stay thirsty for you lord thank you that we hunger for you god fill our cups tonight lord and cause it to overflow lord hallelujah god thank you lord if the rapture took place right now would you be ready will you be ready to meet your savior are you still worried about what people think about you what has happened to you jesus came that we would have life and that more abundantly so surrender it to the lord that's right come on 15 more seconds just surrender it to the lord give it to him you know what it is holla you've been saved for a long time yes you have but there are still some things that you need to give to the lord and this very moment in this very time god has given you this opportunity to give it to him give it to him tonight lay it at the altar your altar is in you can have an altar right there in your house lay it at the altar glory to god commune with him oh thank you jesus god i pray tonight that you will reclaim the backslider god oh thank you lord those of us they have felt comfortable lord some level of comfortability god no no more push no more press no more desire for the more of you god i pray that you will stir them up god give them their passion again for you god bring them and put them back in right relationship with you on tonight god restore the backslider save god those who that do not know you as lord and savior god i pray that you will save them on tonight god save them from their sins god and let them know that you love them god with their everlasting love glory to god fill us lord tonight with the power of the holy ghost hallelujah you said there are many feelings fill us again on tonight god we lift our cups up to you god and we say fill us again lord yes jesus fill us with your love fill us with your power fill us with your peace god fill our hearts lord take away the fear and the doubt and the worry and the unbelief lord fill us on tonight give us our prayer language god that when we pray there is power in our prayers you go into areas that with a natural we can't go into lord so we ask tonight that you will fill us it's a gift it's a gift and we want to receive it on tonight and we thank you for the power of the holy ghost that's in our homes that's in our cars that's in this house of worship on tonight god give us this powerful connection lord so when you come back again we'll be connected oh glory to god said the dead in christ your eyes and those that remain will be caught up to meet you god we still believe that you're coming back god and we will not be fearful because god is the greatest power and we shall not be defeated if you believe that on tonight put your hands together give the lord a hand praise if you're at home watching come on put some clap claps lift your hands on social media and let us know that we are connected to one another tonight in north carolina in california in south carolina in georgia and new york and delaware come on somebody give god praise because a connection is taking place in our lives god is reconnecting us glory to god i feel a reconnect i feel a reconnection gloria the router is working right your wi-fi is working tonight you can't see it but god is at work he's working things out on your behalf he said all things are working together for your good marilyn is working for your good kathleen is working for your good michael is working for your good to them that love the lord and called according to his purpose i'm not an accident shelly i'm not a mistake aretha i'm here on purpose hallelujah i love him on tonight and i bless him and i thank him oh thank you jesus you may be seated for about three more seconds i meant to say three minutes i'm sorry i said three seconds one two three be finished right there my god i just felt the reconnection hallelujah some of you had to press your way to church tonight some of you didn't even really feel like coming but you said i'm gonna come i'm coming i'm pressing my way i'm getting in my car because i really can watch it online i've been blessed by watching online for the last 15 months but there was a press some of you press your way to the house on tonight if you're here if you don't mind just give god praise for the press on tonight there was a press because if you don't press in god the devil will press you out hallelujah you're pressed to be online tonight some of you got tv shows that you watched but you said let me i'm going to put them to the side eight o'clock i'm getting online because i miss my press i used to press during the pandemic but i stopped pressing god don't put you through you're still here you stop pressing this is the time to pressing god press with your connection don't stop pressing don't stop praying don't stop serving don't stop fasting this is the time to press in god the devil wants you to stop pressing he wants you to feel like everything's okay he wants you to feel like the vaccine is your deliverance ain't nothing wrong with the vaccine but that ain't our deliverance that ain't robo shayta god is a source he's the strength of our life he's a very present help in the time of trouble and this world is in trouble this world is dark this world is chaotic but we've got the lighter we are the lights of the world we're the salt of the earth and we should tell men and women everywhere that jesus saver to the utmost he said if i'll be lifted up i will draw men i'm going to join the men i'm going to draw the children i'm going to join the women i'm going to draw the gay man i'm going to draw the gay woman i love them and i'm gonna draw them in i'm gonna bring them in i'm a drunk i'm gonna draw the drug addict i'm gonna draw the trucking i'm gonna draw the prostitute i'm gonna bring him in and i need you to love my people these are my sheep these are my people and i love them he's bringing us in he want us to be connected connect the floor connect us with your love god we're not better than anybody else if it had not been for the grace of god if it had not been for the mercies of god we would have been consumed elijah [Music] coleman almost took some of you out but god kept you and then you got scared and then you got fearful but god says i'm not giving you the spirit of fear but i've given you love power and a sound minor you better stay connected to jesus stay connected to jesus stay connected to jesus y'all better get your fire back you better get your fight back you better get your zeal back you better get your passion back up wherever you are if you're watching right now get your fire back up let the enemy rub almost let the enemy know that god is the greatest power i said it once already and i say it again he's still the greatest power he's still the greatest power and we will not be defeated if you believe that on tonight lift your hands and say i will not be defeated because i'm connected to jesus glory to god my god when you get the right connection shelly there's something about the right connection when you get the right connection god starts opening doors when you get the right connection god starts opening give you vision when you get the right connection he will give you that husband when you get the right connection he will give you that wife when you get the right connection glory to god you gotta get the right connection people of god you gotta get your vertical right so your horizontal can work right oh i'm thanking god for my connection i'm so glad i'm connected to jesus christina i'm so glad that god has kept us doing this very dark season in our lives and it's all because elijah we were connected thanks of god don't lose your connection bishop taught us tonight and that was such a powerful word and those of that on social media i need you to share this on your page somebody needs to hear this word on tonight we're not going to be selfish this is a word to me in the earth we need to place it in the earth and in the body of christ the enemy is trying to separate us in the body of christ he's trying to separate the vaccine from the non-vaccine vaccinated whatever he's trying to separate us from those that are you know those are just the intercessors the devil is a liar we all intercessors in the body of christ because when he separated us then that's when the connections just we get disconnected rather and that's why he tries to separate us but today tonight starts a new thing we are all connected because of jesus and if you believe that tonight i just need you to give the lord a yes or tonight yes lord yes to your will yes to your plan yes to your purpose yes to holiness yes to deliverance yes to you oh we say yes again to you if you're on social media give god a yes if you're in target pull over now and say yes lord if you can put it in a comic session tell the lord yes again tonight i'm thanking you god that you're reconnecting me on tonight on august the 26th 2021 there was a reconnection that took place in my life and i blessed the name of jesus oh i love him on tonight i know we don't went past our time oh glory to god but we know that our times are in his hands amen and we love him on tonight you could if you don't mind keep your mask on just hop on somebody and say i'm so glad i'm in the presence of the lord i'm so glad i'm in the timing of god i'm so glad those that online just say i'm so glad i tuned in tonight those in the house of god say i'm so glad i came tonight i'm so glad david said i was glad when they said unto me adrian let us come into the house of the lord i'm just glad tonight i'm just glad tonight that the joy of the lord is my strength i'm just oh my god [Music] i'm glad i'm glad i'm glad i'm glad he kept my mind i'm glad he kept my family i'm glad amen you may be seated real quickly upon their life come on all right we got to go we got to go we got to go hallelujah oh my god but we are connected sarah we are connected tamika we are connected that's right we are connected carlos we are connected my god i know y'all in there on social media but we are connected to each other danielle armstrong we are connected nesi i thank god that we are connected let's give god praise for the word that we receive from our bishop on tonight oh my god i'm stirred up in my spirit on tonight that's what the word does it stirs you up and keeps you motivated but i just want to encourage you let's stay connected here at abundant life you go to our website you can know everything that's happening here in the house tomorrow morning at 6 a.m prayer let's not stop praying let's not stop praying rather let's continue to pray set our day and set our mourning with prayer also on tomorrow evening at 6 00 i'm sorry at 8 pm 8 p.m there is online only youth night live so please have make sure that the youth are tuned in on youtube on tomorrow evening at 8 pm also this upcoming saturday is our book bag and school supplies we're giving them away this saturday and we're giving away food and it's not just for our community if you know anybody that would love to be blessed we will be here to serve them we will start at 10 a.m sharp and if there's a line we'll start a little bit before that but we need you to come we have again book bags for the children it's a drive by so please stop by please pick them up first come first serve and we want to be a blessing to you join us on this sunday morning at 10 a.m we start prayer at 9 30. those of you that are becoming in person come with it just a spirit of expectation when you come through those doors amen just come and believe that god's going to do something miraculous for you and for somebody else if you're tuning in with us make sure you're in um on social media we start as early as 10 minutes uh before 10 and we start our a church and all are welcome to join in and at 10 am sharp we will set it off with prayer then there's worship and there's a word that bishop has for us also this sunday we will be praying for our children um that are going back to school our faculty um even the college students that are going back we're gonna believe god for divine protection over our children over the professors and all those that work in the school system we're believing god to cover them shield them and protect them with their master and we're believing god for protection amen so we're going to be doing that on sunday morning it's going to be a wonderful service and we are looking forward to what god wants to do and before we leave tonight if you would like to sow a seed we believe here at abundant life as always this is good ground amen and we just love for you to sow your seed you can give on give the fly you can also go to our um our streaming platform a lfwc.org and you can sow your seed there also you can mail it into p.o box 870 new brunswick new jersey zero eight nine zero three and those of us that are in person tonight as we exit out to church you can drop it off uh minister monique will be back there with the um bucket just smiling because we and you will be smiling as well because we know the lord loves a come on people of god we know the word of god he loves a cheerful giver and we are tremendously blessed i got i got a testimony um today um but one of the members of the church and she's how god has tremendously blessed her and a large portion of this blessing has been because of her faithful tithing giving to god what belongs to him amen and how many know that god wants to trust us as he blesses us with employment and and us with businesses we're gonna give our ten percent and we're gonna sow it in the good ground here at abundant life so bless your people lord as they give on tonight keep them and cover them lord pray for blessings to come upon them lord in their household that there will never be a day of lack in their home because they are connected our seed is a connector glory to god yes thank you father and we will be continue to be connected to you god because you have blessed us in jesus name we pray amen amen everyone's standing and everyone's smiling as we leave this house but never from the presence of god because the presence of god goes with us in our cars and god is going to bless us to give us safe travels home he's going to bless us to rise up early in the morning and give us another day so lord we thank you for the service on tonight god we thank you for the prayer the worship the music god we thank you lord for the word we thank you for our bishop god we pray that you will continue to bless them and keep them as the apple of your eye god we thank you lord for the people of god that sat and heard the word through social media god we thank you for everyone that's working in social media and security and everyone that serve here in ministry god and we pray for the body of christ at large that you will continue to connect us together we thank you for this now and we pray that you will be glorified on tonight and that the works of the enemy will be nullified and we will stay connected in jesus name amen grace and peace be unto you from god our father and the lord jesus christ we blessed love you all ah thank god for you isaac thank god for you amen god bless you all keep smiling keep praising god keep worshiping him and stay i i don't know what else to say i mean i almost like no word i knew we were in trouble when bishop said the cows are coming you know i had no idea when he said the cows are coming i said bishop i'm gonna need you to explain a little bit but he went on to explain and i said glory i knew he was in for him right there i knew it and then marie got up and she was singing and you you were on stage with praise and worship i mean can you just i just want to always wanted to know when you're up there and and the presence of god is right in the midst of the praise and worship team bishop talking about talking about that connection tonight what is it about that connection that you have when you're worshiping god as you're not even i mean you're leading but you're not meeting right yeah and i know you lead too she sings too don't make it now listen just cause she's singing on the side she sings too but what is what is that connection like that connection you know honestly i won't lie guys sometimes the lights and the cameras it can get a little distracting but there are moments where in the midst of praise and worship i really just have to close my eyes and really focus on the words of the songs and i'm like well god any song that i sing any word that comes out of my mouth it's coming to you it's going right to you when we're singing um there's nobody like you i have to reflect on that you know i start to think well god there really is nobody like you and if there was somebody like you then you wouldn't be god and i wouldn't be able to rely on you and that's just not possible wow oh yeah wow yes i mean it's so important and and we're so glad that you stay connected with us and we understand that there are some people that are just are either not ready to come back or you're in maybe you might be sick and you can't your way of college right have you graduated already i look so young you look so young oh i am so there you might be away at college i know i know i've i have children that are in college and they tune in and so the connection is the most important thing that bishop is driving home and sunday's message along with this message you know if you're not coming why right that's that's an important question to answer and then if you're not able to come how are you keeping that connection solid with god i mean that is it's all i can say is that uh i will be listening to this message again the great thing about technology is that we can we can continue to watch it over and over and over again until until we have those moments those aha moments when god reveals himself even more to us wasn't that great yeah yeah so listen we are so grateful that you joined us tonight uh we're grateful that that you are members of abundant life family worship church some of you are a church members it's all one family if you do not have a church home as bishops here tonight come on listen listen if you're not able to find that church that you can go to uh or maybe you just don't you decide that your online ministry is where you wanted to be then why don't you consider a church we would love to have you we would love it wouldn't we love it [Music] so listen uh we thank you for coming tonight uh we appreciate you as always we love you for on behalf of bishop george and pastor mary c wright we love you guys and we hope you have a great rest of your week tomorrow is the beginning of the weekend i'm always glad about that and we look forward to seeing you on sunday morning so uh grace and peace from god our father lord jesus christ on behalf of myself elder nate and eva here we thank you for joining us and participating in this in this service tonight god bless you have a great night have a great week thank you eva thank you thank you all right god bless have a good night bye guys you

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