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The second night of our annual district meeting, gathered in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank God we are here in this beautiful sanctuary, First Church of God in Christ.

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the headquarters of our Panama District now, under the capable, able, knowledgeable, faithful leadership of Superintendent Edward Parker.

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Amen, amen.

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We invite each of you to praise and worship God at this appointed time.

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Our great God is looking for true worshipers.

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Are you a true worshiper?

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We want to worship God tonight in the beauty of holiness.

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We want to worship him in spirit and in truth.

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So first of all, we want to establish protocol and address the house to our wise, again, understanding, teacher, preacher, leader, excellent planner, and business manager, Edward Superintendent Parker.

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and our honored leader tonight, our own district missionary, Linda Cooper, a faithful woman of God that fears him and leads by example.

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Emeritus Superintendent John Gibson, still serving God's people.

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to all the workers that make up this great Panama District, pastors, elders, ministers, licensed missionaries.

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And you know what?

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I want the licensed missionaries to raise their hand.

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We thank God for you if we got any of them in the house.

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And if you're not licensed, we thank God for you being missionaries, carrying on the work of the Lord.

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Any youth in the house,

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Oh, we got any youth, come on.

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Thank you, Lord.

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And even our visitors, we thank God for you visiting with us tonight in our annual district meeting.

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We thank God for each of you being with us tonight.

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Prayer by Evangelist Cheryl Perry.

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Bye!

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Amen.

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Did we come to praise his name?

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Hallelujah.

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Why don't we stand for the prayer?

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Thank you, Jesus.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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What a mighty god we serve.

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We come to praise his name.

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We didn't just come out but we came to praise his name.

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Amen.

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Lord heavenly father, we come before you right now

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Thank you for another opportunity to praise your name.

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Father, we thank you because we know you're able to do exceedingly and abundantly, above all we can even ask or think.

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My God, another district meeting, and we want to say thank you for it.

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Thank you for being out on a Thursday night, Lord.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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My God, we come to praise your name.

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We come to magnify you.

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We come to glorify you, Jesus.

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We come to give you all the praise and glory, Lord.

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Heavenly Father, we ask right now, Lord, that you touch this congregation, Lord.

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Father, we ask right now that them that are on social media, my God, that when the word goes forth, Lord, my God, my God,

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Lord.

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When the word goes forth, Lord.

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Lord God that it will penetrate their hearts, Lord.

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Father, touch this woman of God is going to bring the word tonight, Lord.

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My God, we thank you for her right now, Jesus.

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My God, we ask that you bless our praise team, Lord.

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As they bring forth the songs of Zion, Lord.

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My God bless our musicians,

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My God, that not one person will leave this place the same way they came.

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My God, but they'll leave out encouraged, Lord.

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If they came in encouraged, they'll be even more encouraged.

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Oh, Heavenly Father, we thank you tonight, Lord.

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We thank you, Jesus.

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Father, we come today, Lord.

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We come, Lord God.

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to give you all the praise, Lord.

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We thank you for another opportunity, Lord, to lift up your name.

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We give you praise.

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We give you glory.

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We give you honor.

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Let your will be done this night.

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In the name of Jesus, we pray.

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Amen and amen.

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Our scripture lady, Clementine Howard.

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Amen.

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A scripture reading will be John chapter 9, verses 1 through 5.

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And it reads, And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.

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And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?

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Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents.

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but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

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I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day.

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The night comes when no man can work.

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As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

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I read for you John chapter 9, verses 1 through 5.

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May God bless to the heroes, most of all the jewels of his most precious holy word.

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Thank you.

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Praise and worship is coming, but I just wanted to say to everyone, I got to acknowledge our chairman, the chairman of the Panama District, Elder Howard, and thank God for the word of God that came forth through him on last night.

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Stand on the wall.

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You got work to do.

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And our district evangelist, Pastor Radford.

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So we thank God for all of you leaders in our district.

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God bless you.

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Glory to your name.

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Glory to your name.

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Glory to your name.

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Forever you are the same.

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We worship and adore you.

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We bow ourselves before you.

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Giving you the glory that is to your name.

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Glory to your name.

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Glory to your name.

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Help us sing, come on!

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Praise is what I do.

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Praise is what I do Praise is what I do Praise is what I do

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Hallelujah.

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Anybody lifted up the name of the Lord tonight.

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Sing praise is what I do.

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God, when I'm tired, I still praise you.

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Hallelujah.

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When I'm stressed out, God, I praise you.

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And the more I praise you, God, the better I feel.

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Hallelujah.

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The more I praise you, the better I feel.

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Praise you.

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God, I'll lift you up.

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God, I'll worship you.

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Hallelujah.

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God, if you say so, God, I'll go.

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♪ It's what I do ♪ Hallelujah, hallelujah, Jesus, because you're worthy, God, hallelujah.

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♪ It's what I do ♪ It's what I do ♪ It's what I do ♪ It's what I do

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It's all I do.

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It's all I do.

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It's all I know to do.

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All I know to do, y'all.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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Thank you, Lord.

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What I do.

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Late in the midnight hour.

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inviting you to praise and worship in this house.

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Give God all the glory that is due unto his name.

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We thank God.

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Amen.

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That's what we do.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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And now we will have greetings from the most beautiful, saintly, godly, first lady, elect lady, Louie Parker.

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Come forward.

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God bless you.

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God word is a good God.

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I welcome one, I welcome twice.

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I welcome church to God and cry, I have your way of freedom to join the Lord.

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Freedom.

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Amen.

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Thank the Lord.

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Thank you, Lord.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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Thank you, Lord.

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Yes, first church is first lady, but that's our district first lady as well.

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Thank you.

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Thank God.

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Amen.

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Now we will have spiritual presentations by Park Street Church of God in Christ under the leadership of Pastor Walter Ailes.

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And we thank God for all of the youth workers.

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Scriptural presentations.

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Good evening.

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My name is Angel Eastman.

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I'm a member of Park Street Church of God in Christ in Diffuniac Springs and in the ministry of Pastor Walter Ailes.

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I would first like to give honor to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for enabling me to be here tonight.

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I would also like to give honor to those in leadership and, of course, my pastor, Pastor Ailes.

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Today, our title is We Got Work to Do.

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So before I can do any work, I have to let God work in me.

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That work that I have to do first, according to the word of God, is repent of my sins, confess that I am a sinner, believe that Jesus is the son of God, receive the Holy Spirit to dwell in me, and be born again of the Holy Spirit.

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After getting saved, some other work that God has told me to do is obey him like praying for others, continue with him, study the word of God, and share the gospel.

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Tonight, the Lord has personally told me to share my testimony.

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So in obedience to God, I will be sharing my testimony.

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When I was younger, my biological mom was an alcoholic, drug addict, and was barely home.

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But because of those things, I didn't believe as a little girl that I would live long.

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Most days, my brothers and I would try to spend the night at our friend's house so we could eat.

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Our light and water was cut at home most of the time.

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For years, I couldn't sleep without getting a nightmare.

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Eventually, I was placed with my grandma, who became very ill and died of cancer.

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She knew she was dying, so she gave me up to the foster care system.

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I went through two homes that I didn't like before I was blessed to walk into the Eastman household.

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I struggled at the new change like anyone would.

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A year later, I was adopted on September 18th, 2015.

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Being a child with a traumatic childhood, I was behind mentally and academically.

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After a lot of therapy and tutoring, I finally got on grade level.

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Eventually I graduated high school with a 3.6 GPA.

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According to my peers the reason I also became homecoming queen is because I was the only nice person on the ballot.

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I also won military ball queen in JROTC which I was also the battalion commander of.

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And lastly, I got the great experience to also be on prom courts.

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I don't believe I was popular in high school and that is how I had those experience but I had those experience because I had the love of God in me and I showed that to others and others saw it.

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Now in my life I will be graduating from Northwest Florida State College in Nisville with my AA degree in December and moving to UWF to get my bachelor's in social work to help other kids who are going through the same thing that I went through.

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Even though I got saved in 2017 and I'm still continuing, this doesn't mean that I haven't sinned since then.

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But I thank God for his forgiveness and his word that I know that I need to repent of my sins.

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This past November, my biological mom passed away.

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I had failed a class, I had drama at my job, and was going through a breakup that was filled with lust.

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I was at my lowest, but God, in the anointed encouragement from my family, I've been healing from the death of my mom.

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I got straight A's last semester.

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I was blessed with another job, and I learned again how to focus on Jesus and let my future husband find me instead.

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As I wrap up my testimony, I have a question that I want you all to ask yourself if you are a Christian.

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Will you still trust God if he took everything you love?

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Thank you.

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God chooses and uses young people.

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So don't think young people can't live for the Lord.

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So we thank God.

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A lot of young people are living for the Lord.

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It's just that the devil magnifies so much of the ungodly and disobedience, but there are young people living for the Lord.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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And now we will have an exhortation evangelist.

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Velmandria Macy.

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Praise God.

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How do I come behind the youth?

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She said enough.

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We should just give the benediction.

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So the theme for 2024 is we've got work to do.

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Luke 10 and 2, then he said to them, the harvest truly is great, but the laborers are few.

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Therefore, pray the Lord of the harvest to send laborers into the harvest.

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Luke 10 and 2 is a challenge.

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We know that Jesus often spoke in parables during that time.

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Agriculture was a big thing, so Jesus often used agricultural terms and analogies to reach the people.

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When he says the harvest is great, in reality he is saying there are so many people who've never heard the name of Jesus.

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That name that is above all names.

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That name that will make demons tremble.

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That name that will make every knee bow and every tongue confess.

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That name that is a healer and a deliverer.

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Calling on the name of Jesus signifies more than just uttering a word.

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It represents an acknowledgment of who Jesus is and what he came to do.

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By calling on his name, we express our faith in his work and invite him into our lives.

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When I hear the name Jesus, I hear provider.

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When I hear the name Jesus, I think way maker, miracle worker.

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When I hear the name Jesus, I think salvation.

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When I hear the name Jesus, I think mind regulator.

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When I hear the name Jesus, I think comforter.

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When I hear the name Jesus, I think of lifter.

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When I hear the name Jesus, I think of king of kings and lord of lords.

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When I hear the name Jesus, I think never failing.

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When I hear the name Jesus, I think of company keeper.

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When I hear the name of Jesus, I think my redeemer, my all in all.

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God is calling on the name of Jesus as an act of power.

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surrender, vulnerability, and expression of faith.

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It is an invitation for God to move in your life.

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When you sincerely call on the name Jesus, amazing things happen.

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Don't underestimate the power of the name Jesus.

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It carries weight.

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Now, my pastor would say that will preach.

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We've got work to do.

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God created work as a part of his plan and gave it to us as a gift.

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The Bible says that work is a blessing that can benefit the worker and others, and those who are able to work should do so.

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Some people might say, that's the pastor's job.

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That's not in my job description.

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The Bible tells us we are one body, but many members.

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And every joint supplies something.

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We can't put everything on the pastor.

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John 9 and 4 says, I must work the work of him who sent me while it is day.

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The night is coming when no one can work.

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The verse is encouraging us as believers to have the same attitude as Jesus.

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God uses the work that we do to shape us, to form our hearts.

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This may cause us to step out of our comfort zone.

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As believers of Christ, we are not alone.

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We have a guide, a compass that help us navigate.

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God uses the work to mature us as disciples.

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I'm closing.

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It is 2024.

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We have to learn how to work a little differently than we worked 10, 20, and 30 years ago to reach all generations.

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People are hungry for the word of God.

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The issue is how can we reach the hungry?

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We have to figure out how can we reach the baby boomers, the millennials, Generation X, Z, and Generation Alpha.

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We've got work to do.

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Luke 10 and 2 is a challenge, and I challenge you to view work with dignity because God himself worked and created us to work.

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View work as service, a way where we can co-create with God and serve others in this world.

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Last thing, view work as a place where discipleship happens.

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Remember, in your laboring, 1 Corinthians 15 and 58, therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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We all play a part in the building of the kingdom of God.

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God needs us to stand on business.

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Get in where you fit in.

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We've got work to do.

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Encourage us to go to work.

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We got work to do.

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Amen.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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Thank you, Lord.

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now the Ministry of Giving.

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And we thank God we've already been given directives as to what we should do in the Panama District and we are ready, Superintendent, we are ready.

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And Superintendent Parker is coming to help with this offering.

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He's coming to help, praise the Lord, amen.

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I want everyone tonight to prepare your heart to give us, praise the Lord, amen, a good, healthy offering.

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Tonight, praise the Lord, what we do will be given to our district missionary, amen.

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I think I broke that out for you that you ought to know by now, praise the Lord, this is customary.

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in church of God in Christ, amen.

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This woman have labored, amen, down through the year.

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Amen.

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You other churches know because he's been to your church a few times.

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Amen.

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So we're asking you to prepare a special offering tonight.

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Amen.

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young lady that will come up to present our speaker for this program tonight.

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I just want to say something about her.

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We thank God for giving our district missionary, missionary, evangelist,

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Williams, we thank God for her, Kathy Williams.

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She has traveled with our district missionary, has helped her tremendously.

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So I'm saying we thank God for you, Kevin, to take care of our district missionary.

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So now the presentation of our speaker is missionary evangelist, Kathy Williams.

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I'm sorry, see there?

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Get so excited.

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Is there anyone, I'm so sorry, that has a presentation for our district missionary?

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Please come forth and do that.

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Thank you.

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Okay.

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Lady Howard, thank you.

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Mr. Missionary, we thank God for you.

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One Spirit for the Church of God in Christ, upon the leadership of Pastor Tony Howard.

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I just want to give you this presentation, this gift.

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We just hope you love it.

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Thank you for being a special lady, a great woman of God.

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I love you.

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We all love you.

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Good heart, good spirit, beautiful smile.

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I love you.

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Lady Raffer, bless you.

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Praise the Lord.

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This is from House of Praise, Women's Department.

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We love you, we support you, and everything that you do, we love you again.

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Thank you.

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From First Church, amen.

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Amen.

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I am presenting on behalf of our wonderful women's leader, Evangelist Deidre Gary.

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She could not be here.

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But when she asked me to do it, I started to think about, you know, I love you so much.

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I can't even.

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But there's three things that I just want to point out about you.

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When you think about what you want in a leader, you want a person that trusts, believes, and knows the word of God.

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And you want someone that when you're in trouble can get a prayer through.

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And you want someone who is called and walking in their purpose.

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And I know you know the word of God.

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And I know you can get a prayer through.

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And I know you're called and walking in your purpose.

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And when you walk, you look good.

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So I want to say thank you for everything.

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We love you.

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And you know anything you need, we'll be right there for you.

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God bless.

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Praise the Lord on behalf of me as her armor bearer.

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I find it an honor and a privilege just to be by her side because she is a woman of God, a true woman of God.

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And I thank God that I am her armor bearer.

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I love her with all my heart.

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There's not anything that I wouldn't do for her because I know there's not anything that she would not do for me.

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And I thank God just for being

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in her presence for she is a wonderful wonderful woman of God.

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And I thank you.

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To God be the glory.

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This evening I'm introducing and presenting to some our district missionary

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Linda S. Cooper.

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Evangelist Cooper is a native of North Carolina, and she joined the United States Army in March 1980.

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She gave them 21 years of her life.

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The other achievements you can see, but I'd just like to highlight the last one, the last achievement in her biblical studies.

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was a certificate of graduation on January 2019 from the Servant Leaders Academy of Central Florida First Jurisdiction.

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Sister Cooper is a worker.

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She has done and is still doing adult Bible adult Sunday school.

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She's a Sunday school teacher.

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And formerly, she was the elementary Sunday school teacher for the youth.

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And she was a Bible study teacher for the youth.

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She's also, as you have probably seen if you were here last night, that she's a praise and worship leader.

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She's also an accessory prayer leader.

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She was appointed as the district missionary over in Panama, over the Panama City District

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on September 2019 under the leadership at that time of Lily C. Hutchinson, who was our state mother at that time.

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And on a more personal note, District Missionary Cooper is married to Chester Cooper.

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In September, they will have been married for 31 years.

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He that findeth a wife findeth a good thing.

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And brother, I must say, you found a good thing.

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And they have two sons, and they have three grandchildren.

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She takes care of her husband.

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Y'all read about that lady in Proverbs 31?

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That's her.

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That is her.

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She takes care of her husband.

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She takes care of her children.

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Even when they're grown, you know children need you more.

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She talks to them.

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Whatever they need or advice, she gives it to them.

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And she's also like that with her friends.

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She has a heart of love.

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The love of Jesus is in her.

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And when she sees someone in need, she is the one who will give or take them somewhere.

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Whatever it is that they need, she's open to that because she loves people.

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And that's because she loves the Lord.

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And she's doing the work of the Lord in so many ways.

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I can't even tell you what this woman does.

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But I do know she loves to shop.

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And she don't be shopping for herself.

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She be buying stuff for other people.

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But sometimes we might go to a store and we see some pretty shoes, woo.

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They might not be in her size, but they might be in mine, you know.

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But she still loves me.

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I'd like to present to you at this hour

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and introduce to some, as I have already, our district missionary, Linda S. Cooper.

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Please stand.

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And before our district missionary comes forth,

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We have something special for you, the expression of praise.

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First, Kojic Youth Department, and then the next voice you will hear will be our district missionary, and I will relinquish my stand.

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God bless.

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♪ Our people are dying slowly every day in the... ♪

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you

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Our people are dying slowly every day.

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The enemy's trying, attacking every way he can.

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We gotta fight.

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We gotta fight.

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We gotta fight.

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You see, in this generation, materialistics swallow the minds of these innocent children, yeah.

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We gotta fight.

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♪ We gotta fight, we gotta fight ♪ Oh, you see the fame and the drugs ♪ The money, the lust, the violence, the hatred ♪ And we must plead the blood of Jesus ♪ We gotta fight, we gotta fight, we gotta fight ♪ Oh, and I say devil, you can't have my mind ♪ Devil, you can't have my soul

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I say devil, you can't have my mind.

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Devil, you can't have my soul.

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I belong to God, and I'm fighting you up with the power of the Holy Ghost.

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This is a war cry.

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The war cry

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We got some pastors false preaching.

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These church folks are leaving.

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Because they're so confused about these wrongfully teachings.

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Making a bad name for all of us Christians.

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So many saints are holding unforgiveness.

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We got nation against nation.

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Earthquakes in various places.

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People living in famine.

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Everyone's losing patience.

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This is a war cry that everyone needs to hear.

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I said, devil, you can't have my mind.

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No, devil, you can't have my soul.

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This is a spiritual warfare, a spiritual This is a spiritual warfare, a spiritual

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This is a spiritual warfare, a spiritual This is a spiritual warfare, a spiritual A spiritual warfare, a spiritual Our souls are crying out to you, Jesus Our souls are crying out to you, Jesus Our souls are crying out A spiritual warfare, a spiritual

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You're the demon of my soul

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War cry This is my war cry

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Hallelujah.

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Hallelujah.

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How many know that this is a war cry?

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Hallelujah.

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And God is worthy of all our praise tonight.

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This is a war cry.

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So we have to fight.

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Hallelujah.

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We have to fight.

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Amen.

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Let's go to God in prayer.

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Eternal God, our Father, Lord, we thank you again.

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for your grace and for your mercy.

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God, we thank you for your keeping power.

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Lord, we thank you that you kept us all day to this moment, Lord God.

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And God, I thank you for the blood that is still running warm in our bodies, Lord.

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And Lord, right now, hide me behind the cross that they not see me, but they see you, God.

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Lord, increase in me, Lord God.

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Lord, you said that your word would go out, that it would not return void, but it will accomplish everything that you set it out to do.

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So Lord, you do what you need to do tonight.

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We glorify your name.

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In Jesus' name, we pray.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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You can have a seat.

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Hallelujah.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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I'd just like to say give an honor to God, who's ahead of my life, to the superintendent, amen, to Chairman Howard,

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to our associate pastor, Elder Eckers, to all the district pastor wives, to all the missionary, the ministers, and to the love of my life.

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I don't know where he went.

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I just saw him, but he's gone.

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Amen.

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But to the love of my life and to everyone else that's in their respective places, I know that the house have already been addressed.

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But my thing is, we can't get distracted.

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by other endeavors, because life without a mission is life without a meaning.

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Distraction can affect our spiritual lives.

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Untold numbers of people go through life controlled by distractions, texts, emails, meetings, phone calls, errands, and surfing the internet.

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Everything seem importantly.

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Ironically, they find enough time for distraction, but not enough time to reserve

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I say not enough time to restore your life equilibrium with a few words reading God's word every day.

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We can't let things come to sidetrack us or to distract us from doing what God have called us to do.

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But I want to tell you tonight,

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that we can't get distracted by endeavors.

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And I just wanna say this, on Saturday, because see, even little things can distract you.

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On Saturday, I went into Walmart, and I had my cart filled, and I went up and I paid for everything, but when I got out to my car, I realized that it was a bucket in my cart that I hadn't paid for.

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And the devil, you know how old Sneaky Joe is.

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Here he come, he said, if I were you, I wouldn't go back in there.

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It's only a $4 bucket.

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I said, a devil is a lie.

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I said, because this is a thing that I need from God.

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And you're not going to make me miss what God has for me, because he said that whatever I asked that he would do it.

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Amen.

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So I want to tell you tonight that we're going to look into the book of Haggai.

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And it tells a story about a group of people who had a clear mission who were distracted.

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When God had given us a mission, we can't let nothing distract us.

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So let us go to the word tonight.

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And it was so profound because I started, you know, when God gave me this, I started studying.

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And when I looked at the Sunday school lesson last Sunday, it was, hey, God, one, one through 11.

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I was like, oh my goodness, confirmation.

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And then it seemed like all this week, all I was, I heard things about distraction, distraction.

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I said, okay, God, I'm right where you want me to be.

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Amen.

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So we're going to go to, please stand for the word of God.

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Amen.

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Haggai chapter 1 verses 1 through 11.

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In the second year of the Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai and the prophet of Zerubbabel and the son of Shekel.

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Governor of Judah and Joshua, the son of Jodeas, the high priest, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come, the time that the Lord's house should be built.

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Then came the word of the Lord by Hagar the prophet, saying, Is it the time for you, O ye, to dwell to your children's house, and this house lie waste?

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now therefore does said the lord of hosts consider your ways ye have so much and bring in little ye eat but ye have not enough ye drink but ye not fill with drink ye clothe but there is none warm and he earneth wedges earneth

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earneth wedges to put into the bag with hoes.

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Thus say the Lord of Hosts, consider your ways.

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Go up to the mountain and bring wood and build a house, and I will take the pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, said the Lord.

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Ye looked for much, and lo, it came to little.

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And when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it.

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Why, said the Lord of Hosts, because of mine house, that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.

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Therefore, the heaven over you is stayed from dew, and the earth is stayed from the fruit.

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And I call from a drought upon the land, and upon the mountain, and upon the coin, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon which the ground bringeth forth, and upon men, and upon cattle, and upon all labors of the hand.

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If I had to use a subject tonight, my text would be don't get distracted in doing God's work.

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Don't get distracted in doing what God has called you to do.

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So the book of Haggai, it begins by giving us a date.

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And the first date, if I need to explain a little bit about this background of this book.

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The Israelites had been taken into captivity.

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And many years before that, the Babylonians had besieged and eventually conquered the Jerusalem.

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The city was burned to the ground and the walls were demolished.

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Most of the people were taken into exile to live in Babylon.

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So at the end of 2 Chronicles 36, verses 15 through 19,

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It said, the Lord, the God of their fathers, sent word to them, brought his messenger again and again, because he had compassion on his people and on his dwelling place.

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But they mocked God's messengers, despised his word, and misused his prophet until the wrath of the Lord rose against his people, and there was no remedy.

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He brought up against them the king of the Sharades, who killed their young men with the sword of the sanctuary, and had no compassion upon the young men or maiden, old men, or them that stooped of age, who gave them all into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.

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And all the vessels from the temple of God bought large and small, and the treasures of the Lord's temple, and the treasures of the king and his officials, and they set fire.

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to the Lord's temper and broke down the walls of our mission.

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Oh, I'm sorry.

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and broke down the walls of Jerusalem, they burned all the palaces and destroyed everything that was valued there.

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So after 70 years, the Babylonian Empire fell to the Persians, and they had different policies with foreigners.

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And King Cyrus made a proclamation that anyone who wanted to return to Jerusalem could do so.

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They were given the task of rebuilding the temple so that they could pray and intercede for the king.

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The book of Ezra caught what happened.

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When the Israelites moved back to Jerusalem, there were people living in the surrounding area.

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They were mixed people.

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There was king of Assyria forcibly brought in as immigrants of the land.

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And when they offered to help the Israelites with the rebuilding, the exile refused.

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And the Jews wanted to keep the temple pure and untainted by the Gentiles.

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And particularly, the surrounding people didn't react well to this rejection.

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They started a program of sabotaging the construction.

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They even hired people to frustrate the Israelites.

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They finally sent a form of protest letter to the king of Persia and got the permission to stop the building.

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And all the work stopped for 16 years.

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That was when God acted.

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He sent two prophets.

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He sent Haggai and Zechariah to encourage the spirit of the Israelites to continue the building the Israelites had returned with a very clear goal.

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They came to rebuild God's temper.

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They started well, but when they were forced to stop, they had begun again over one and a half decades.

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But we Christians, we often have very similar situations.

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We have very clear mission for life.

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Our mission is very clear.

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We are to love God and others, and we are to glorify God by making disciples.

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Now saying that our mission is clear, the specifics is different.

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Where are we to go?

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Whom are we to share this message with?

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How to love and what are we to do with it?

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Those are different.

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The details may be different, but the mission is clear.

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The problem is that though we have a clear mission, we often lose sight of it.

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We are just like the Israelite, we get distracted and sidetracked.

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What are those things that distract us from life mission?

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Self-centeredness,

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When you only focus on yourself and disregard others, you might be even worshiping yourself.

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Pride.

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When we can think that we can do these things on our own, all right, you may think that you don't need to turn to God.

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Willfulness.

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When you are stubborn about what you want, you may prevent God from having his way with you.

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Your past.

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I say your past.

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Some of us refuse to let go of our past, whatever it is.

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If you get stuck in your past, you cannot go forward.

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You cannot go forward in your present if you get stuck in your past.

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Amen?

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So what you gotta do, you gotta let it go.

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You gotta let your past go.

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You can't look at what happened last year.

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You can't look at what happened 50 years ago.

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You gotta let your past go in order for God to work in your life.

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The Israelites started well, but they were distracted by opposition.

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They experienced opposing people surrounding them to compel them to stop.

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And when they were in that position for 16 years, sometime the same things happened to us.

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We will allow someone to come in our life and let that very thing that God have called us to do, not to do it.

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Are we here?

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Girl, I don't know.

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You sure God told you to do that?

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We let people talk us out of what God called us to do.

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We let people talk in our ear so that we, and then it stops up our ear because we can't hear what God is saying.

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And in that time, what they were doing, not a brick was laid.

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It wasn't placed on the foundation of the temple.

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And verse two tells us that the attitude of the Israelite, they said that it wasn't time yet.

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They say, it ain't time to start building.

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That sound just like some of us in the meantime.

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They had to just struggle to survive.

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They had to tend their fields and repair and improve their home.

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I'm sure that sometimes they thought about their mission.

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Maybe they even walked past their mission.

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My God.

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But how many times have we been reminded to work, to do the work that God have called us to do?

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But there is always a but.

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Well, but?

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They reasoned they self out of what God had called them to do.

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Hallelujah.

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We can talk ourselves, that's just to say, right out of our blessing.

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They had to wait until they had the perfect situation, until they had the perfect time, until they didn't begin to question they self.

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What would that be?

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When would it be the right time?

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If you don't wait 16 years, how many more years you gonna wait?

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Hallelujah.

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They still had to wait.

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It was the opposition that caused the Israelites to get distracted from their mission, from their reason for living.

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What about us?

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What are some of the things that cause us to forget about our life mission?

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Well, there are many, but let me give you one.

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Luke 9, 62 says, and Jesus said unto him, no man that hath not put his hand to the plow and looked back is no good for the kingdom.

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I didn't say it, God said it.

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And we can see what happened to the Israelite in the Hagar time.

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In verse one, three through six, the Israelite had stopped building the temple at the very reason they had returned to Jerusalem in the first place, and now they were forcing to make themselves comfortable.

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They lived in these houses that was more than just basic structure.

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They also made ornamentation to make it look good, to make it look better than,

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Come on now.

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The Israelite had become distracted from their main goal of building the temple of God and now went on just trying to live a comfortable and possibly life in the ruins of Jerusalem.

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But even in the lesser goal wasn't being met, the Israelite experienced only frustration after frustration.

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They worked hard in planting crops, they cleared fields, they plowed them, they planted a grain and they carefully weeded and watered them.

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But when harvest time came,

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They found a little crop that was writing.

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It wasn't just their crop, but it was everything that was going wrong.

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They ate, and even when they ate and left the dinner table, they were still hungry.

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My God.

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Oh, God.

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They drank, but nothing seemed to fill their thirst.

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Come on, because you know when you're drinking something, you got a thirst, but that thirst ain't fulfilling.

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What is wrong?

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Something is wrong.

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I can't get full.

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Something is wrong.

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I'm still thirsty.

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They put on clothes, but they was still cold.

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They couldn't get warm.

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They worked to earn a wage, but they couldn't seem to save any money.

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In verses 9 through 11 it explains why the Israelites experienced frustration after frustration.

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And the reason the Israelites couldn't get ahead, the reason they couldn't have any crops, the reason why they were disappointed and were unfulfilled is because the Lord did it.

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God did it.

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Because the Israelites had neglected His house.

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When we neglect the house of God, God frustrated all their business with everything that they were doing, their own houses and their businesses.

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They left God's house untouched.

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Then God called the drought on everything that they put their hands on.

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Lord Jesus.

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The field couldn't produce crops.

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The men and the animals, the cows couldn't have calves.

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The wives couldn't have no children.

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There was a drop in everything that they put their hands on using this frustration to turn the Israelite, that's what he did, to turn them back to him.

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God will turn us back to him if we don't want to do what he say do.

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He got a way of doing it and turning you back to him.

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My God.

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The Israelite, oh my God, they turned their back on Him, but they needed God.

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When we turn our back on God, we need God.

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We think that when everything is going right, we don't need God, but we need God.

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That's why God tell them twice to give careful thought to their ways.

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God was using these negative circumstances to get their attention and to call them back.

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God used the same method today.

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The method hadn't changed.

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The method had changed.

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If we are Christian and we have become distracted from our own true goals in life, to love God and others and to make disciples of our nation, he told us to go into the highways and the byways and compel them to come in.

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Hallelujah.

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He will bring circumstances in our life that will frustrate us and leave us unfulfilled.

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I heard someone say that many people reach the top of the ladder and find themselves leaning on the wrong wall.

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I said, they said, I heard a saying say many people

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reach the top of the ladder and then they find themselves leaning against the wrong wall.

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How many people have reached the pinnacle of success only to find out that achieving their goal didn't satisfy their souls?

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Look at your neighbor and say, we got work to do, don't get distracted.

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If you are a Christian and you're not living out your mission on earth to love God and other than make disciples of all nations, then you will never be satisfied.

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You may buy a big house, you may even climb to the top of your profession, but there's always something that's gonna be missing.

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We may live, oh my goodness, maybe, oh my goodness, we were made to live for God and God alone.

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If we get distracted from our true purpose, then we will experience frustration and disillusionment.

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Maybe we've been experiencing it in your life.

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It seems no matter how hard you work, you just can't get ahead.

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Month after month, you fall deeper and deeper into debt.

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You're trying to work longer hours and taking over time, but nothing seems to work.

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As soon as you start getting a hand on your finances, you get an unexpected expense.

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Or maybe you wanna achieve your goal, you done went out and you done bought that big house with a three-car garage.

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You done bought that Mercedes Benz and that Merazzi, Maserati.

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But when night come, but when night come and everyone else done fell asleep, you say, is this it?

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What is it that I need to do?

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What am I doing wrong, Lord?

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Oh, Lord Jesus, where are the barriers?

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There are barriers that's in our life that keep us from hindering and doing what the Word of God is telling us to do.

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We have barriers in our life.

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The Lord tell you to give thought to your ways.

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It may be very well that the Lord is bringing this frustration in your life to bring you back to real purpose on earth.

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What does God ask you to do?

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He said, seek ye first the kingdom of God, and all his righteousness and everything else will be added unto you.

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But first of all, you gotta seek.

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Y'all know we used to play hide and go seek?

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And then you gotta find the person.

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God want us to seek him.

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God want us to play hide and go seek.

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We may seek the Lord while he is found.

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Cause the man of God say while he is found because there is nothing you can do at nighttime.

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While he may be found.

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Because when night cometh, no man can work.

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You can't work from the grave.

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When nightfall, you can't work from the grave.

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01:14:46,043 --> 01:14:47,844
You gonna get up out of the grave and go to work?

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You can't work from the grave.

688
01:14:52,767 --> 01:15:06,955
So when we look at the Israelite, what God told him to do in verse seven and eight, God tell the Israelite to start building, and he was calling them back to their mission, but it wasn't easy because God was calling them to go up into the mountains.

689
01:15:07,476 --> 01:15:09,197
I want you to go cut down some wood.

690
01:15:09,257 --> 01:15:11,118
I want you to drag it down the hill.

691
01:15:14,366 --> 01:15:17,248
to the construction site and start building again.

692
01:15:19,330 --> 01:15:20,151
That's hard work.

693
01:15:20,451 --> 01:15:22,432
At least some of us say, ooh, that's hard work.

694
01:15:24,975 --> 01:15:36,684
And not only would they have to stop paneling their own houses, planting their crocks, oh my God, they will have to quit their jobs and join the construction crew.

695
01:15:37,364 --> 01:15:42,789
Not only, but they will have to start facing the opposition of those ones that told him to stop.

696
01:15:46,852 --> 01:15:51,053
they would have to quit living that life that they thought was a peaceful life.

697
01:15:53,574 --> 01:15:54,034
Amen.

698
01:15:54,434 --> 01:15:55,675
Ain't that right, Brother Vincent?

699
01:15:59,356 --> 01:16:06,638
They had to face constant persecution and attacks, but God was calling them back to their mission.

700
01:16:07,678 --> 01:16:12,200
But this wasn't something easy and simple that added to their schedule that they was called to do.

701
01:16:16,391 --> 01:16:17,352
Do you know something?

702
01:16:17,792 --> 01:16:19,633
We are exactly in the same position.

703
01:16:21,114 --> 01:16:24,317
God is calling us back to a life mission, and it isn't easy.

704
01:16:24,857 --> 01:16:30,421
And it is something that we don't wanna just add on to our calendar and think that God is gonna be satisfied.

705
01:16:32,322 --> 01:16:34,444
We can't just say, well, I'm gonna follow God.

706
01:16:36,045 --> 01:16:39,387
I'm gonna choose to live a life to glorify him and enjoy him forever.

707
01:16:39,908 --> 01:16:42,870
I'm gonna go to the prayer meeting once a month.

708
01:16:43,792 --> 01:16:46,714
I'm gonna go to Sunday school every other month.

709
01:16:48,135 --> 01:16:50,916
I'm gonna go to Bible study and stay 15 minutes.

710
01:16:52,297 --> 01:16:53,518
God ain't pleased with that.

711
01:16:54,318 --> 01:16:56,159
I'm not going to Bible study at all.

712
01:16:56,239 --> 01:16:59,161
I'm just gonna sit at home and look at it on Facebook.

713
01:17:01,843 --> 01:17:04,524
I can hear the preacher at home sitting at home.

714
01:17:09,968 --> 01:17:12,189
I'm gonna do devotional for 10 minutes.

715
01:17:15,307 --> 01:17:17,208
just add to the church event.

716
01:17:19,470 --> 01:17:20,611
God ain't pleased with that.

717
01:17:22,112 --> 01:17:23,213
God want our all.

718
01:17:24,013 --> 01:17:26,975
And he calls us to change the very course of our life.

719
01:17:27,776 --> 01:17:39,884
I believe that God will bring someone in your life and move them in to frustrate your comfort zone.

720
01:17:43,717 --> 01:17:50,467
God will bring somebody in your life to frustrate you and bring you out of that comfort zone next thing you know.

721
01:17:50,507 --> 01:17:52,710
Why they got, why he got her doing that?

722
01:17:53,050 --> 01:17:54,092
Why she doing that?

723
01:17:55,394 --> 01:17:58,157
Why he didn't ask me, me not doing anything.

724
01:18:02,898 --> 01:18:09,083
When we choose to live our God mission for our life, that alone should be motivation enough to change our life.

725
01:18:09,624 --> 01:18:18,031
And I urge you tonight in the view of God's mercy and offer our bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable.

726
01:18:18,271 --> 01:18:20,393
He said, this is your reasonable service.

727
01:18:21,193 --> 01:18:23,755
We can't conform to the patterns of this world.

728
01:18:25,016 --> 01:18:28,920
Our mind can be transformed, but we got work to do.

729
01:18:30,779 --> 01:18:37,044
But in order for you to do the work, your mind got to be transformed on the godly thing that God want us to do.

730
01:18:38,165 --> 01:18:39,606
It can't be transformed.

731
01:18:39,966 --> 01:18:42,248
And then you say, well, you know, do it a little bit.

732
01:18:42,588 --> 01:18:43,649
Then you step back.

733
01:18:44,089 --> 01:18:45,490
Then you do it a little bit more.

734
01:18:45,550 --> 01:18:47,492
Then you take two more steps back.

735
01:18:47,912 --> 01:18:49,774
Then the next thing you know, you're out the door.

736
01:18:55,987 --> 01:19:00,790
The world can't just sit back with their hand folding and don't do nothing.

737
01:19:02,611 --> 01:19:05,592
Well, I just wanna ask one question.

738
01:19:05,652 --> 01:19:08,454
Where are you tonight with your walk with God?

739
01:19:10,615 --> 01:19:13,517
Have you been distracted in your Christian life?

740
01:19:14,057 --> 01:19:22,342
Is God calling you back to the mission on earth to glorify him and to enjoy him forever, to work while it is day?

741
01:19:24,821 --> 01:19:27,283
It may be changing your career to serve Him.

742
01:19:28,724 --> 01:19:33,388
It may be breaking a relationship that is drawing you away from Him.

743
01:19:35,910 --> 01:19:40,633
I don't know the specifics of what God is doing in your life, but I do know one thing.

744
01:19:42,315 --> 01:19:46,518
If you're a Christian, God has a plan for each and every one of us.

745
01:19:48,739 --> 01:19:49,560
He has a plan.

746
01:19:49,600 --> 01:19:51,662
He said, I know the plan that I have for you.

747
01:19:54,178 --> 01:19:55,379
To be good at what?

748
01:19:55,459 --> 01:19:56,040
Prosperous.

749
01:19:59,583 --> 01:20:03,667
He said, I know the thoughts before you even think them.

750
01:20:05,769 --> 01:20:06,370
My God.

751
01:20:09,874 --> 01:20:11,655
That's the best thing that we can do.

752
01:20:12,156 --> 01:20:15,900
Because life without a mission is life without a meaning.

753
01:20:16,780 --> 01:20:17,901
And we got work to do.

754
01:20:19,013 --> 01:20:26,156
And he said, and Chairman Howard said last night, the hobbies is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

755
01:20:27,036 --> 01:20:34,639
They few because you got people 90% sitting in the church not doing nothing, and the other 10 is working like they don't have good sense.

756
01:20:36,860 --> 01:20:37,180
Why?

757
01:20:38,441 --> 01:20:44,603
Because the 90 ain't doing nothing, but they sitting back running their mouth about what somebody else is not doing.

758
01:20:51,041 --> 01:20:54,022
But what we gotta do, we gotta focus on God first.

759
01:20:55,263 --> 01:21:01,865
And then everything else, he would take care of everything else, but we got our focus wrong, our focus is in the wrong place.

760
01:21:06,046 --> 01:21:10,388
And then we wonder, oftentimes we wonder at the end of the day, well I wonder why I didn't finish that.

761
01:21:14,409 --> 01:21:16,130
You're trying to accomplish too much.

762
01:21:18,123 --> 01:21:21,265
because we have allowed distraction to get in our way.

763
01:21:23,526 --> 01:21:31,530
And when we move out the way and let God, God will redeem that time that you think you lost if you seek him first.

764
01:21:39,114 --> 01:21:40,555
We can't do it all in one day.

765
01:21:42,236 --> 01:21:44,277
If you don't get it done today, do it tomorrow.

766
01:21:46,272 --> 01:21:50,453
But if you're doing God work, he'll make time for you to have to do what you need to do.

767
01:21:50,533 --> 01:21:51,493
Ain't that right, preachers?

768
01:21:55,734 --> 01:21:57,174
That happened with Martha.

769
01:22:00,194 --> 01:22:01,675
Martha was busy in the kitchen.

770
01:22:03,455 --> 01:22:06,456
She wasn't helping.

771
01:22:07,616 --> 01:22:09,556
But Mary was at the feet of Jesus.

772
01:22:10,936 --> 01:22:14,597
Martha got mad and told Jesus, Mary ain't even helping me.

773
01:22:16,056 --> 01:22:21,538
And it wasn't nothing wrong with what Martha was doing, but she wasn't doing it in the right timing.

774
01:22:22,678 --> 01:22:24,058
Her timing wasn't right.

775
01:22:27,979 --> 01:22:28,480
Busy.

776
01:22:31,080 --> 01:22:32,481
But Martha said, you know what?

777
01:22:32,501 --> 01:22:35,922
I don't care what you do in that kitchen, but I'm going to sit at the feet of Jesus.

778
01:22:37,642 --> 01:22:38,042
OK?

779
01:22:40,603 --> 01:22:41,863
You can do what you want to do.

780
01:22:41,883 --> 01:22:43,764
You can cook all day till you fall out.

781
01:22:45,330 --> 01:22:47,071
I'm gonna do what Jesus want me to do.

782
01:22:53,633 --> 01:22:59,235
Because God is not nearly as interested in our efficiency as he is in our faith.

783
01:23:00,855 --> 01:23:03,256
It's a faith without works is we're dead.

784
01:23:05,477 --> 01:23:11,719
God lets our battle of inefficiency distract to build our dependent faith on him.

785
01:23:12,700 --> 01:23:13,440
That's what he do.

786
01:23:15,868 --> 01:23:17,670
Keep messing with him, he'll stir it up for you.

787
01:23:19,452 --> 01:23:21,454
He will, he'll stir it up for you, won't he?

788
01:23:21,714 --> 01:23:22,955
He will stir it up for you.

789
01:23:26,018 --> 01:23:33,506
Don't let your distraction in doing God work, because we got work to do if you fully committed.

790
01:23:34,867 --> 01:23:38,190
If you're fully committed, we got work to do.

791
01:23:39,232 --> 01:23:41,793
But we got to be about our Father's business.

792
01:23:42,233 --> 01:23:46,214
That's why Nehemiah said that people had a mind to work.

793
01:23:47,975 --> 01:23:54,097
See, we gotta have a made up mind to work that we gonna say we gonna do the thing that God want us to do.

794
01:23:57,270 --> 01:23:57,851
And you know what?

795
01:23:57,931 --> 01:24:00,033
It's a lot of distractions in the world.

796
01:24:00,614 --> 01:24:02,757
And any little thing can distract you.

797
01:24:02,857 --> 01:24:04,319
It's a lot of distraction.

798
01:24:04,979 --> 01:24:11,287
But we got to realize when the enemy is coming in and trying to distract us from doing what God called us to do.

799
01:24:13,850 --> 01:24:15,312
We got to recognize that thing.

800
01:24:17,472 --> 01:24:23,698
And that word y'all was singing, be ye steadfast, I'm always abounding, knowing that your labor is not in vain.

801
01:24:23,738 --> 01:24:27,101
Your labor is not in vain when you're doing the work of the Lord.

802
01:24:31,405 --> 01:24:32,706
Let's stay fully committed.

803
01:24:34,247 --> 01:24:36,289
Don't get distracted in doing God's work.

804
01:24:37,290 --> 01:24:37,750
Amen.

805
01:24:39,812 --> 01:24:41,334
I just want to do a little bit of this song.

806
01:24:41,374 --> 01:24:41,794
You know what?

807
01:24:41,834 --> 01:24:43,736
A lot of time we complain about it.

808
01:24:45,131 --> 01:24:46,232
everything sometimes.

809
01:24:50,755 --> 01:24:54,938
If you could pick me up just a little bit, just a little bit.

810
01:24:57,220 --> 01:24:59,682
I've had some good days.

811
01:25:02,624 --> 01:25:06,327
I've had some hills to climb.

812
01:25:08,348 --> 01:25:11,551
I've had some weary days.

813
01:25:15,074 --> 01:25:17,275
and some sleepless night.

814
01:25:18,936 --> 01:25:39,447
But when I, when I look around and I think things over, all of my good days outweigh my bad days.

815
01:25:42,468 --> 01:26:05,167
♪ I won't complain ♪ ♪ I had some good days ♪ ♪ I've had some hills to climb ♪ ♪ I've had some weary days ♪ ♪ Some sleepless nights ♪

816
01:26:05,865 --> 01:26:22,131
But when I look around and I think things over, all of my good days

817
01:26:23,015 --> 01:26:28,218
I'll wave my bad days.

818
01:26:29,278 --> 01:26:30,439
I won't complain.

819
01:26:31,199 --> 01:26:36,422
Sometimes the clouds hang low.

820
01:26:36,442 --> 01:26:40,724
I can't hardly see the road.

821
01:26:40,744 --> 01:26:47,068
I ask the question, Lord, why so much pain?

822
01:26:48,675 --> 01:26:53,351
The Lord, He's been so good to me.

823
01:26:55,035 --> 01:27:01,516
Even though my weary eye they can't see.

824
01:27:02,057 --> 01:27:05,037
But I just say thank you, Lord.

825
01:27:05,697 --> 01:27:08,138
I just say thank you, Lord.

826
01:27:11,159 --> 01:27:12,339
I won't complain.

827
01:27:12,919 --> 01:27:20,621
The Lord, he's been good to me.

828
01:27:23,102 --> 01:27:49,681
♪ Oh, oh, I know he'd been, he'd been mighty good to me ♪ ♪ Even though my weary eye day can't see ♪ ♪ He'd been good, he'd been good ♪ ♪ He wiped all of my tears away ♪ ♪ Turn my midnight into day ♪

829
01:27:50,512 --> 01:27:53,594
But I just say, thank you, lord.

830
01:27:53,614 --> 01:27:57,457
I just say, thank you, lord.

831
01:27:57,477 --> 01:28:01,100
I just say, thank you, lord.

832
01:28:01,580 --> 01:28:02,841
Thank you, lord.

833
01:28:03,261 --> 01:28:04,402
Thank you, lord.

834
01:28:04,902 --> 01:28:06,243
Thank you, lord.

835
01:28:06,263 --> 01:28:08,205
Thank you, lord.

836
01:28:08,625 --> 01:28:09,706
Thank you, lord.

837
01:28:09,726 --> 01:28:10,806
He's been good.

838
01:28:10,826 --> 01:28:12,127
He dries.

839
01:28:20,856 --> 01:28:26,558
Turn my midnight in today.

840
01:28:27,519 --> 01:28:30,780
But I just say thank you lord.

841
01:28:30,800 --> 01:28:32,800
I've been lied on.

842
01:28:32,901 --> 01:28:34,381
I say thank you lord.

843
01:28:34,401 --> 01:28:36,382
I've been talked about.

844
01:28:36,462 --> 01:28:37,442
Thank you lord.

845
01:28:37,462 --> 01:28:39,103
Thank you lord.

846
01:28:39,623 --> 01:28:40,843
Thank you lord.

847
01:28:40,863 --> 01:28:42,664
Thank you lord.

848
01:28:43,104 --> 01:28:44,325
He's been good.

849
01:28:50,836 --> 01:28:51,556
Hallelujah.

850
01:28:51,656 --> 01:28:55,438
If you know that you're not fully committed tonight, hallelujah.

851
01:28:58,579 --> 01:28:59,719
Give god your life.

852
01:29:01,140 --> 01:29:01,920
Hallelujah.

853
01:29:02,860 --> 01:29:04,721
We don't know when we walk out of here.

854
01:29:04,821 --> 01:29:05,481
Hallelujah.

855
01:29:05,541 --> 01:29:07,402
That this may be our last time.

856
01:29:11,203 --> 01:29:15,345
So, if you know that you are not have been doing everything that god has

857
01:29:20,492 --> 01:29:21,192
Hallelujah.

858
01:29:22,032 --> 01:29:24,053
God has been too good to us.

859
01:29:24,753 --> 01:29:28,093
For anybody that sit back and say, oh, I got it.

860
01:29:28,533 --> 01:29:29,194
No, you don't.

861
01:29:29,974 --> 01:29:31,374
Cuz don't none of us got it.

862
01:29:32,514 --> 01:29:33,234
Hallelujah.

863
01:29:36,115 --> 01:29:37,055
God is faithful.

864
01:29:39,596 --> 01:29:45,897
We need thee oh we need thee

865
01:29:50,158 --> 01:29:55,699
Every hour we need thee.

866
01:29:58,140 --> 01:30:06,722
Oh, bless me now, my Savior.

867
01:30:08,861 --> 01:30:12,245
I come to thee.

868
01:30:12,525 --> 01:30:14,587
I need thee.

869
01:30:14,607 --> 01:30:17,490
Oh, I need thee every hour.

870
01:30:31,248 --> 01:30:39,712
If you know that god was coming right now,

871
01:30:57,543 --> 01:31:05,329
and you know without a doubt, without a shadow doubt in your mind that you would go back with him, it's okay.

872
01:31:06,289 --> 01:31:21,480
But if you're not sure tonight, if you wanna just rededicate, you know what your relationship is with God, you can come to the altar, hallelujah, to rededicate, hallelujah, in the name of Jesus.

873
01:31:22,581 --> 01:31:25,243
In the name of Jesus, Lord, we thank you right now.

874
01:31:26,718 --> 01:31:27,439
Hallelujah.

875
01:31:27,479 --> 01:31:32,564
You don't have to be afraid but if you don't want to come to the altar, just slip up your hand.

876
01:31:32,965 --> 01:31:33,666
Hallelujah.

877
01:31:33,766 --> 01:31:35,007
In the name of Jesus.

878
01:31:35,848 --> 01:31:36,449
Hallelujah.

879
01:31:36,529 --> 01:31:46,059
If you know for sure, for sure, for sure that you know that you know that you know that if god came that you will be ready to go back with him.

880
01:31:49,468 --> 01:31:53,953
But if you have any unsurety in your heart, just raise your hand, just slip your hands up.

881
01:31:54,353 --> 01:31:57,296
Everybody eyes are closed, everybody heads are bowed.

882
01:31:58,197 --> 01:32:00,200
Hallelujah in the name of Jesus.

883
01:32:01,564 --> 01:32:06,048
But Lord, right now, we just pray over the whole body of Christ tonight, Lord God.

884
01:32:06,949 --> 01:32:09,712
Father, we thank you for your grace and for your mercy.

885
01:32:10,272 --> 01:32:12,094
Lord, we thank you, Lord God.

886
01:32:12,114 --> 01:32:16,378
Oh God, if we don't have it right, Lord, let us get it right, Lord God.

887
01:32:16,999 --> 01:32:23,064
Lord, I don't care if they don't know me, but if they walk out of here and don't know you, Lord God, it's sad, Father God.

888
01:32:23,144 --> 01:32:24,225
In the name of Jesus.

889
01:32:25,086 --> 01:32:29,769
Lord, I ask right now that you will meet every need, every household tonight, Lord God.

890
01:32:30,149 --> 01:32:32,090
That your blood will cover, Lord God.

891
01:32:32,431 --> 01:32:35,953
Lord, you say if you see the blood over the house that you will pass over.

892
01:32:35,973 --> 01:32:37,714
Hallelujah, Lord God.

893
01:32:37,774 --> 01:32:39,075
Cover our homes, Lord God.

894
01:32:39,135 --> 01:32:40,896
Cover our loved ones tonight, Lord.

895
01:32:41,256 --> 01:32:44,178
Lord, we have loved one that is not saved, Lord God.

896
01:32:44,578 --> 01:32:47,159
Save our loved one that's not saved, Lord God.

897
01:32:47,640 --> 01:32:49,561
Lord, we glorify you, Lord God.

898
01:32:49,921 --> 01:32:51,883
There is power in your name, God.

899
01:32:52,203 --> 01:32:55,165
And everything that we need is in you, Lord God.

900
01:32:56,006 --> 01:32:58,928
Great is your name and you are greatly to be praised.

901
01:32:59,469 --> 01:33:02,731
We honor you and we glorify you in Jesus name.

902
01:33:03,092 --> 01:33:03,432
Amen.

903
01:33:43,872 --> 01:33:46,395
Say the name of Jesus, amen.

904
01:33:47,476 --> 01:33:50,199
Come on and give the Lord a good hand clap of praise again.

905
01:33:50,319 --> 01:33:52,102
Come on and bless his holy name.

906
01:33:52,522 --> 01:33:54,284
Oh come on, you can do better than that.

907
01:33:54,344 --> 01:33:57,167
Come on and give the Lord a good hand clap of praise.

908
01:33:57,668 --> 01:34:02,814
It'd be one thing if I say give me a hand clap of praise, but give the Lord a good hand clap of praise.

909
01:34:03,394 --> 01:34:05,295
It is a blessing, blessing, blessing.

910
01:34:05,315 --> 01:34:06,775
You may be seated.

911
01:34:07,116 --> 01:34:10,037
If you just give me just a minute here, amen.

912
01:34:10,317 --> 01:34:12,258
Did you have a good time on last night?

913
01:34:13,038 --> 01:34:15,419
All right, let me hear you if you had a good time on last night.

914
01:34:15,779 --> 01:34:17,280
Did you have a good time tonight?

915
01:34:18,040 --> 01:34:18,520
Oh, yes.

916
01:34:18,580 --> 01:34:20,941
Didn't our district missionary bring a good word?

917
01:34:21,601 --> 01:34:22,142
Amen.

918
01:34:22,242 --> 01:34:25,405
As the old saying used to say, then our hearts burn.

919
01:34:25,926 --> 01:34:26,466
Amen.

920
01:34:26,546 --> 01:34:27,407
Praise the Lord.

921
01:34:27,467 --> 01:34:29,529
Wonderful message, District Missionary.

922
01:34:30,029 --> 01:34:30,470
Amen.

923
01:34:30,550 --> 01:34:31,891
Keep doing what you're doing.

924
01:34:31,971 --> 01:34:32,432
Amen.

925
01:34:32,832 --> 01:34:36,215
I'm here to encourage you tonight about tomorrow night.

926
01:34:36,335 --> 01:34:36,876
Amen.

927
01:34:37,296 --> 01:34:38,137
Friday night.

928
01:34:38,177 --> 01:34:39,578
Come on, say Friday night.

929
01:34:40,559 --> 01:34:41,100
Amen.

930
01:34:41,200 --> 01:34:42,461
Superintendent night.

931
01:34:42,601 --> 01:34:43,141
Amen.

932
01:34:44,082 --> 01:34:44,703
Amen.

933
01:34:44,743 --> 01:34:46,024
That's what I want to hear.

934
01:34:46,084 --> 01:34:46,844
Amen.

935
01:34:46,925 --> 01:34:49,467
Get excited about tomorrow night.

936
01:34:49,507 --> 01:34:51,188
This is our district meeting.

937
01:34:51,528 --> 01:34:54,991
Our district meeting is coming to a close on tomorrow night.

938
01:34:55,392 --> 01:34:58,474
Our superintendent is going to put the icing on the cake.

939
01:34:58,634 --> 01:34:59,135
Amen.

940
01:34:59,575 --> 01:35:03,919
So I want to challenge you tonight to bring somebody with you.

941
01:35:04,419 --> 01:35:06,020
Can you bring somebody with you?

942
01:35:06,060 --> 01:35:06,381
Come on.

943
01:35:06,421 --> 01:35:09,123
Let me hear somebody say, I'm going to bring somebody with me.

944
01:35:10,253 --> 01:35:12,334
Come on, I want to put you out there on the spot.

945
01:35:12,654 --> 01:35:15,635
I'm going to bring somebody with me tomorrow night, amen?

946
01:35:16,076 --> 01:35:17,516
I'm going to try to fill the bus.

947
01:35:17,556 --> 01:35:18,937
Y'all help me, Spirit Field?

948
01:35:19,337 --> 01:35:21,258
Help me to fill the bus tomorrow night.

949
01:35:21,658 --> 01:35:27,080
We want to come out, and we want to encourage our superintendent in this district meeting, amen?

950
01:35:27,961 --> 01:35:31,042
We only get a chance to do this once a year, amen?

951
01:35:31,522 --> 01:35:33,063
Let us come out and give it our all.

952
01:35:33,463 --> 01:35:35,244
all tomorrow night, amen?

953
01:35:35,685 --> 01:35:39,427
Encourage somebody, tell somebody, invite a coworker.

954
01:35:39,747 --> 01:35:44,530
Listen, a lot of times you don't know who might come unless you invite them.

955
01:35:45,150 --> 01:35:48,573
Sometimes people don't come because we don't invite them, amen?

956
01:35:48,913 --> 01:35:50,454
Sometimes they wanna hear it from you.

957
01:35:50,774 --> 01:35:56,437
So invite someone, bring someone, and let's come out and be a blessing to the house tomorrow night, amen?

958
01:35:57,278 --> 01:35:59,639
Amen, God bless you, we love you, amen?

959
01:35:59,900 --> 01:36:00,460
Praise God.

960
01:36:08,567 --> 01:36:09,788
Go ahead and put my phone in.

961
01:36:18,413 --> 01:36:19,613
Amen, amen.

962
01:36:19,774 --> 01:36:21,835
If everybody's hearts and minds is clear.

963
01:36:41,325 --> 01:36:55,933
♪ May His peace be with you ♪ ♪ Till we meet again ♪ Please be with you.

964
01:36:55,953 --> 01:37:02,837
♪ May His peace be with you ♪ Till we meet.

965
01:37:02,857 --> 01:37:05,739
♪ Till we meet again ♪

966
01:37:09,973 --> 01:37:11,734
Till we reach that distant shore.

967
01:37:12,434 --> 01:37:17,636
Till we reach that distant shore.

968
01:37:17,696 --> 01:37:19,337
And we'll shed a tear no more.

969
01:37:19,357 --> 01:37:25,219
And we'll shed a tear no more.

970
01:37:25,279 --> 01:37:27,020
May he give you strength to endure.

971
01:37:27,820 --> 01:37:32,942
May he give you strength to endure.

972
01:37:32,962 --> 01:37:33,583
Till we meet.

973
01:37:34,483 --> 01:37:36,224
Till we meet.

974
01:37:40,611 --> 01:37:41,472
Till we meet again.

975
01:37:41,492 --> 01:37:48,576
Till we meet again.

976
01:37:50,197 --> 01:37:55,981
But ye, beloved, building yourself up of the most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost.

977
01:37:56,841 --> 01:38:03,225
Keep yourself in the love of God, looking for the mercies of our Lord Jesus Christ until eternal life.

978
01:38:03,986 --> 01:38:06,768
And of some, having compassion, making a difference.

979
01:38:07,808 --> 01:38:23,418
Now unto him who is able to keep us from falling and to present you fall is before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy to the only wise God our savior be glory, majesty, dominion, and power both now and ever.

980
01:38:23,438 --> 01:38:24,478
Amen.

981
01:38:24,498 --> 01:38:24,659
Amen.