Get the Lord a good hand clap of praise tonight.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
It's a blessing.
That's right.
Praise God.
Amen.
Hallelujah.
It's a blessing to be back in the house of the Lord again tonight.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
We got our superintendent up to bat tonight.
Come on, somebody give him some praise.
Amen.
He's going to put the icing on the cake.
Amen.
I'm looking forward to hearing from the Lord tonight through our superintendent.
So at this time, we call our service to order, and our choir is going to give us a lecture.
Come on and say amen for the praise team.
Amen.
Do not pass me by.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
That's a different little tune on it from what we was raised up in the old church on, ain't it?
Amen.
It gets you excited.
Get the blood flowing.
Amen.
It's all about the blood.
The blood still works, don't it?
Amen.
At this time, we're going to have our prayer.
Amen, by Pastor Sammy Radford.
And after that, the scripture by Pastor Timothy White.
Amen.
And then the praise team is going to come back before you again.
Amen.
Praise god.
Let us stand.
my soul.
love Jesus.
My soul loves Jesus.
Bless his name.
My soul loves Jesus.
Bless His name.
He's the wonder.
in my soul.
He's the wonder.
Hallelujah.
in my soul.
He's the wonder in my soul.
He's the wonder, hallelujah, in my soul.
Jesus is the wonder in my soul.
his name all day.
I love him.
all day.
I love him.
Hallelujah.
all day.
Bless His name all day.
Glory to His name.
I love Him all day.
I love him.
Bless his name.
Yes.
Let it ring out.
Yes.
Hallelujah.
Yes.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you, Lord Jesus.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you.
Thank you, Lord Jesus.
Thank you, Jesus.
Lord, we thank you.
Thank you, Jesus.
Lord, we praise you.
Lord, we magnify you.
Lord, we glorify you.
Lord, we give you the
We give you the praise.
Lord, we thank you tonight.
Thank you for your goodness.
Thank you for your loving kindness.
Thank you for your tender mercy.
Lord, we thank you.
We give you the glory.
Let's do your name.
Thank you, Jesus.
Help us, Lord, to praise you.
Help us, Lord, to open our mouth.
Help us, Lord, to lift our hands and not be ashamed.
In the name of Jesus.
Lord, we thank you.
Hallelujah.
We give you the glory.
Oh, Lord.
Help us tonight.
Touch us, Lord.
Spirit, soul, and body, that we might bless you, that we might praise you, that we might give you the glory.
In the name of Jesus, you've done marvelous things.
You've done wonderful things.
You've done incredible things.
And we thank you tonight.
Help us, Lord, now.
Oh, God.
Lord.
As we go forward.
Help us Lord.
Oh God.
Help us to live holy.
Help us to walk upright.
To be found pleasing in your sight.
In the name of Jesus.
Cast the devil out of the mind.
In the name of Jesus.
The blood of Jesus.
The
Come in every soul tonight in the name of Jesus.
And Lord, we thank you for all that you've done.
Thank you for salvation.
Thank you for deliverance.
Thank you for setting us free.
Thank you lord for putting light in us and filling us with your spirit.
Thank you for the Holy Ghost.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Hey, hey.
Thank you for
Oh God, in all truth, we praise you now.
We give you the glory.
Now Lord help us.
Hey, lord.
Oh, yeah.
Hey, bless, help, and strengthen.
Oh, let your will be done.
The people of god say yes.
Oh, yeah.
Yes, lord.
Yes, in my soul.
Yes, in my spirit.
In the name of Jesus.
Hey, hey, hey.
Lord.
and god we're here to give you the glory and all the glory belongs to you and we thank you now oh god send your word hey bless the preacher tonight touch him spirit soul and body oh that the word might come forth in power and authority in the name of jesus and lord we're careful
God, to give your name the praise and all the glory belongs to you.
Now, Lord, let these people praise you like never before.
Let them open their mouth and give you glory.
Let them clap their hands and give you praise.
Let them thank you for the marvelous things you have done.
Oh yeah, thank you.
Your name is great.
And you are greatly to be praised.
And we bless you now.
We thank you.
We thank you now.
In Jesus' name.
Hallelujah.
Hey, thank you.
Hallelujah.
In Jesus' name.
Oh, Satan, the Lord rebuke you.
We come against you now.
In the name of Jesus.
You can't hold on to this.
You gotta let go right now.
Lose your hope now in the name of Jesus.
The blood cover these little ones.
Hey, thank you.
The blood cover these little ones in the name of Jesus and lord, we thank you for power of all the power of our enemy and we thank you for the victory now in
Hallelujah.
Clap your hands in this place and bless the Lord.
Tell him how you feel.
Lord, I thank you.
I give you the glory.
I give you the honor.
I give you the praise.
Lord, I thank you for blessing me and keeping me and helping me.
Lord, I thank you.
We're thinking tonight.
Our scripture will be coming from Hebrews,
4 and 11.
Seeing then that we have a great high priest that is passed into the heavens, Jesus, the son of God, let us hold fast our profession.
For we have not an high priest which cannot be touched,
with the feeling of our infirmities, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.
Let us, therefore, come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
Word of God for the people.
Hallelujah.
He's worthy of all our praise.
Hallelujah.
We have a friend.
Hallelujah.
Jesus is our friend.
He
you love me.
It's amazing.
Who am I?
Who am I that you are mindful of me?
That you hear me.
When I call.
Is it true?
How you love me.
Who am I?
Who am I that you are mine for?
Love me.
That you hear me.
When I call.
Is it true?
Is it true that you are in me?
Love me.
How you love me.
It's amazing.
You have called me Lord of glory.
You have called me friend.
You have called me.
Thank you, Jesus.
Thank you Jesus.
Hallelujah.
He called me friend.
Hallelujah.
We are to worship our friend tonight.
He said that we are to worship him in spirit and in truth.
Hallelujah!
You're a worthy God.
Hallelujah!
Lord, you are worthy.
And no one can worship you for me.
For all the things you've done for me.
And no one can worship you for me.
Here's my worship, all of my worship.
Receive my worship, all of my worship, you Lord.
You are worthy.
And no one, and no one can worship you for me.
For all the, for all the things you've done for me.
And no one, and no one can worship you for me.
It's my worship, all of my worship.
Father, receive my worship, all of my worship.
You are worthy.
And no one, and no one can worship you for me.
For all the, for all the things you've done for me.
And no one, and no one can worship you for me.
worship him.
Come on and worship him.
Come on and worship church.
Come on and worship.
all of my all of my Father, we sing my we sing my all of my all of my and I will and I will not
As long as, as long as I am free, I will, I will always worship you.
Come on and stand to your feet and worship the Lord tonight.
Come on and worship.
Hallelujah.
And I will, and I will not be silent.
I will always worship you as long as, as long as
Here's my word.
all of my
Receive my worship, all of my worship.
You Lord, you Lord, you are worthy.
And no one, and no one can worship you for me.
♪ For all the things you've done for me ♪ ♪ And no one, and no one can worship you for me ♪ ♪ Here it is, here's my worship ♪ ♪ All of my, all of my worship ♪ ♪ Father, receive my, receive my worship ♪
All of my, all of my worship.
Father, receive my, receive my worship.
All of my, all of my worship.
Father, receive my, receive my worship.
All of my, all of my worship.
You, Lord.
You are
Hallelujah.
You're worthy God.
Hallelujah.
Looking for the true worshipers that will worship him in spirit and in truth.
Hallelujah.
As long as I'm breathing.
I will worship you lord.
Hallelujah.
At this time, at this time, at this time, while you're standing, come on and give a hand clap of praise to our district missionary as she comes and brings us greetings tonight.
Amen.
What a powerful message on last night.
Hallelujah.
He's worthy of all our praise.
Hallelujah.
This is our worship.
Hallelujah, hallelujah.
He's worthy of all our praise.
We thank God today for being here.
I thank God for my superintendent and all the pastors on the roster tonight.
All the evangelists and the missionaries that's in the house tonight.
Our pastor wise, we thank God tonight for each and every one of you that's in your prospective places.
Thank god.
We bless god tonight.
We're looking for a word tonight.
We know that there is a word in our superintendent tonight and let's make a joy for the lord.
Amen.
Y'all be blessed.
Thank you, District Missionary.
Amen.
We thank God for her.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
We thank God for you.
And at this time, we're getting ready, as we will say in the old church, a part of the service where everybody can take part in.
Amen.
The ministry of giving.
And at this time, we're going to have our very own Emeritus Superintendent Gipson.
And he's going to come and lead you in the way that you should go.
Come on and say amen for Superintendent Gipson.
Amen.
Bye for now.
you
meeting to represent our superintendent and to represent our district.
So he could get some rest.
Put your hand on that.
You see, when someone has served you and God put you in a place, I'm saying this because God's been good to me.
Now, if you serve on the three bishops,
in this jurisdiction, and you're still here, you ought to tell the Lord, thank you.
I better quit now.
But thank you all for receiving.
See, a lot of you, I don't know you, because when I first came to Crestview, many of you wasn't here.
It's a whole new group now.
I talked to the students in the night.
I said, who is who?
Because the older ones are no longer with us.
But God left me here for this time.
So that's why I'm so excited to still be here by the grace of God.
God bless you.
Thank you.
Mayor to Superintendent Gipson.
Amen.
Thank you for those kind words for our superintendent.
Before we move forward, Abe-man, we want to take a moment, if there's any special gifts or special presentations for our superintendent tonight, we want to ask you to please bring them at this time.
Abe-man, Abe-man, praise the Lord.
Abe-man, I know that you have already given your offerings and all, but he takes cash, too.
He will, Abe-man.
Cash works.
Cash works, Abe-man.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
Amen.
Come on, Superintendent.
Amen.
You got it?
OK.
Come on.
Hey, Superintendent Gipson.
Superintendent Parker.
Sorry guys, Superintendent Parker.
We are Spirit, Faith, Church of God and Christ upon our leadership of Pastor Tony Howard.
We want to present you with this gift and want you to know we love you and keep up the good work.
God bless you, sir.
Oh, and I also got a gift for First Lady.
We can't leave First Lady out.
We thank God for her, the other half, the better half.
Both of y'all work together as teammates.
When he called, when God called Superintendent Parker, he called you also.
We thank God for you and want you to know we love you.
Thank you so much.
Amen.
Thank you, First Lady.
Amen.
Anyone else?
Amen.
At this time, amen.
Praise the Lord.
Just a token of our love and appreciation.
We could never give them what they're worth and what they deserve.
Amen.
Old saying, somebody said it like this, give me my flowers while I can smell them, amen.
Not until I can't, amen.
So we do thank God for all that you have done, amen, because it's your superintendent's night, so all of you have taken part in it, amen, praise the Lord.
So we do thank God for you.
As I stand before you,
to present to you and to introduce to some, as Mayor Superintendent Gipson said, a lot of people, it's new, amen, praise the Lord, and I see new faces, amen.
I've been around a little while, but not nearly as long as these guys have been behind me, amen, praise the Lord, but it is a new church, amen, and most of the older ones,
have passed away, gone on to be in glory, and some have just gotten to the point that they're not able to come back.
But you ought to thank God that you are here tonight.
Amen.
Thank God.
Amen.
And one of these days, somebody going to take our place.
Amen.
That's why we got work to do, right?
Amen.
We need to get them in so they can continue to go on.
This man, I wouldn't have time enough.
I would get my coattail pulled if I tried to tell you everything about him.
But at times, he's a man of many words.
And then at other times, he's a man of few words.
He's a man that says what he means and means what he says.
And I thank God for him, amen.
He's someone that I am honored to follow.
He's someone that I am honored to call my superintendent, amen.
I'm not ashamed of him, amen.
He's a man that wears a lot of hats.
As you heard our superintendent emeritus John Gipson says he's going to give him some rest because he wears a lot of hats.
He really does.
I know First Church knows that but a lot of you don't know that.
He wears a lot of hats.
He's not only the pastor here of the largest church in Iowa
district with membership.
He's also the superintendent.
Amen.
He works in the community.
Amen.
Much work in the community.
Holds a lot of titles in the community.
As we was talking, he's also known as the community pastor.
And believe me, that carries a lot of responsibility by itself.
But it also, listen, it also means how he carry himself.
Because people don't just call you the community pastor if you ain't acting right.
Amen.
They see something in him for him to be the community pastor.
I've been here on several occasions and at other events, and I've seen the mayor and different people like that come.
They don't just come for anybody.
Amen.
So I'm honored to introduce this song.
Amen.
And to present to others.
After the next selection, will you please stand and give honor to our superintendent, Edward J. Parker, amen?
Amen.
How many of y'all know that we're in the army of the Lord, amen?
We're on the battlefield, amen?
We're still fighting on a daily basis.
Come on, y'all, put them hands together.
On this Christian journey, I promise still my, will serve until I die, and I'm fighting, yes I am.
I have heartaches and pain, sunshine and rain, but I'm fighting for the Lord.
Don't you give in.
All right, all right.
Look to the neighbor and tell him, say, I'm on the battlefield.
Yeah.
Come on, come on.
On the battlefield, fighting for my Lord.
Hallelujah.
I bless you tonight.
God bless you.
Praise the Lord.
How many glad to be here?
Anybody glad?
Anybody glad besides me?
I'm on the battlefield.
Tell your neighbor fighting for the Lord.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
We're glad to be here tonight.
Amen.
The Lord is good to us.
We honor our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, amen, who died on the cross of Calvary.
Amen.
They buried him, and he got up out the tomb on the third day morning and declared that all power, both in heaven and in earth, belong unto me.
You serve a mighty God tonight.
Oh, you didn't come here to look at me.
God bless you.
We serve a mighty God.
And my God was dead.
If your God is dead, try mine.
How many know he's still alive?
Hallelujah.
He's worthy tonight.
We honor him and we bless the Lord.
We thank God for all of you that are here.
All these pastors, we'll deal with that in a few moments.
Amen.
Why don't we look to the Lord in prayer.
Father, we thank you and we give you all the thanks and all the praise for who you are.
We thank you, God, that you allowed us to be here once again.
Look on each and every person in this place, those that are watching by Facebook.
Touch the hearts and the minds of all.
We give you praise and glory and honor for what you're about to do.
Thank you for the word that you've given us on this evening.
Now give us, Lord, how to share what you gave us, that the people of God will be blessed.
And we'll give you all the praise, all the glory.
And the honor is yours now, in Jesus' name.
Amen and amen.
Come on, have a seat in the house of God.
Amen.
I can't ask you to stand while I read because it's too much for you to stand for.
We'll be reading a little bit.
Amen.
But thank God we're here tonight.
God is good.
Yes, he is.
We serve a good God.
Amen.
Again, praise the Lord.
We thank God for our district meeting.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
We've had a great time thus far.
Amen.
I tell you, Elder Howard, Superintendent Howard just preached himself.
I mean, I keep calling him superintendent.
I must be getting ready to go somewhere.
But anyway, let me stop.
Anyway, Pastor Howard, Chairman Howard, amen, preached on Wednesday night.
Amen.
That man preached.
Howard preached.
on Wednesday.
Huh?
Amen.
He preached.
Amen.
District missionary came back last night and gave us a word.
Being distracted.
Praise the lord.
Amen.
God is awesome god.
Amen.
I'm so glad tonight to have all these great pastors with us.
Praise the lord.
Won't y'all just stand?
Look at that.
Look at what we got here in our district.
All of
in the district is here tonight.
Amen, come on, Chaplain Woods, raise your hand.
Y'all turn around, take a bow.
Amen, praise the Lord.
I'm always messing with him, Blue, next to him, Pastor Blue.
Amen, got Elder, come on, Elder Johnson.
Yeah, take a bow.
That's it, amen, Elder L, Pastor L. Come on, take a bow.
Amen, I mess with Junior here all the time.
Praise the Lord.
Come on, take a bow, Junior.
Amen.
He's holding down the church.
Pastor Tinsley is over here.
And of course, praise the God, Pastor White up here with me.
And y'all know the other two.
Amen, thank God for you preachers, God bless you.
Amen, we'll thank God for their wives.
I wanna do something quick, cause my mind, I can't keep things long.
Amen, I got two new preachers in the house that I'm just super excited about.
Them and their wives, and they would be sitting together.
Ain't that awesome?
I want y'all to stand up, ask Elder Bell.
Ah, Sister Bell.
Amen.
How Bell will preach.
Oh, that boy from Tennessee, y'all.
Why is he already a Cozy Tide superintendent?
Amen, then we got a newbie in the house.
Yeah, stand up, stand up Mendocin Zell and his wife.
I'm thinking of finding out what's in it real soon.
Ain't nobody gonna come in here and sit on me.
Amen, but why did, I see you in the future.
Have a seat there my brother.
I'm getting excited already.
Praise the Lord.
You said something a while ago, there's others gonna replace us.
Amen, and I ain't coming, we didn't come here to stay.
Peaches make a mistake trying to stay in there forever.
I will leave that alone.
Not now, Parker.
Come on here.
Praise the Lord.
God bless you.
Woods, pray for me, man.
I say what I think.
Now, I'm sorry.
Put it on A. Put it on A. Amen.
God bless you.
Amen.
Put it on A, Blue.
Put it on A. All right.
Come on.
Right quickly.
Let me get on with it, though.
Praise the Lord.
I have something for you tonight.
Really do.
That's gonna bless you.
I believe because it blessed me today.
Praise the Lord.
The Lord was dealing with my heart.
Lord been dealing with me about this all week long.
Because the church, the church, the church.
The theme is we've got work to do.
But I wanna add a little bit to that.
It's time for the church to go to work.
Look at the neighbors, time for the church.
Go to work.
Now watch this, we make up the church.
All too often, praise the Lord, everybody expect the preacher, the pastor.
Before I finish tonight, I'm gonna ordain you to be a preacher.
Can I talk?
Oh yeah, see that's what's wrong now and the preachers take it all on and don't help you understand what is your responsibility in sharing the gospel.
Oh, y'all not, ah, y'all not look at me like that.
I been having some fun now.
You are responsible.
And my brother visiting back here.
How you doing, man?
Yeah, there you go.
Amen.
Listen, listen.
You, we, we, we, everybody say we have a responsibility to share this gospel.
Ah, you don't want me to talk.
I want to talk.
You don't know you've been called.
And I don't come running up here tomorrow talking about the Lord told you to come in this pulpit.
That ain't what I'm talking about.
I told you I said what I'm thinking.
But every one of us have been called.
Mm, y'all don't want me to talk.
Yeah, matter of fact, I was reading this the other day, today rather, Jesus commissioned you to go ye into what?
Y'all know your Bible, into all what?
The world, some of y'all slack, maybe you don't know the scripture.
You've been commissioned, go to Matthew chapter 28, last two verses.
I am not going there, you go there.
You've been commissioned
to go ye, but he was telling his disciple, aren't you a disciple?
See, I want to speak plain language this evening, because we've taken on this thing, and then they want the pastor to do everything.
Well, no, don't say it, Pastor Parker, sweeten it up.
You have a responsibility.
I thought I said, well, never mind, not that.
Mm-hmm, you have.
Now, I'm going to read the scripture that I have just to, you know, sweeten it up for y'all.
Go ahead, son.
Give me my scripture.
Take Luke 10, 1, and 2.
And then John 9 and 4.
That's where our theme comes from.
After these things, the Lord appointed others.
Did I say it right?
Yeah, he was there.
All right.
Put him on the screen for me, brother.
Amen.
Luke 1.
There you go.
10, 1, and 2.
After these things, the Lord, because I don't want to stay here long, because I got some deep stuff for you.
I'm going to tell you right now, you're going to get your bibs out, and you're going to need to take some notes.
Because I'm not dilly-dallying around with folk in the church no more.
No, I'm going to put some responsibility on you.
Because, can I say something to you?
God expects you to win souls for Christ.
After these things, the Lord appointed other 70 also and sent them, watch this here, oh, Lord, don't read it, because I get excited.
Sent them what?
These lone ranger folk gonna be in trouble.
I'm gonna leave that alone, because I don't want to stay there.
Sent them two by two before his face and to every city and place, whether he himself would come.
Next verse, write quick, quick, quick, quick.
Therefore, there you go.
Said he unto them, watch this here, the harvest what?
Now don't tell me this world we live in, there aren't enough folks out there in the harvest that need to be saved.
Can I talk to you?
And no way, no one individual in the church can reach all these people.
Look here, if all of us would get up and do what we've been commissioned to do, there would be plenty laborers.
He says here, the harvest is truly great.
That was Jesus talking in his day.
How many know it's still great today?
You know, I don't want to say greater, because I don't know what it was like back there.
But it's great today.
But what would it say?
But the who?
The laborers.
Can I talk?
Lord Jesus, now you got a long way to go.
The laborers.
There's a problem with, how many know, even in this country, there's a labor shortage?
Woo!
Lord, help me.
Lord, leave me alone.
Lord, don't do that to me.
I'm sorry.
I just thought of something.
Even in the church, you're going to get, what, 10%?
And 90% are going to sit down, and you preached it the other night.
And then they're going to come in and wonder why somebody haven't done something.
Y'all ain't saying nothing to me.
Uh-huh, but the laborers, if you just start in the house of God, there's only a few.
Everybody, y'all paying attention, aren't you?
Nod your head, I see you.
Yeah, I got you.
Now look what the Lord said.
Pray you there for who?
The Lord of the, that he do what?
And to what?
His harvest.
Amen.
So my subject, again, is time for the church to go to work.
Now, Jesus' main mission, I believe, was he came to save the lost.
He came to save the lost.
And this scripture helped me out.
here talks about, because one thing about church, us in the church, we give folks a hard time trying to get in the church.
Can I talk?
Lord, don't let me.
For some reason or another, you back there, you're going to have to follow me a little bit.
Give me that first scripture up there, son.
I gave you Matthew 9, 36, 38.
I want to talk for a moment, though.
I'll read that first, and that might help me stay in my place.
Watch this here.
Watch this here, y'all.
Y'all see it?
But when he saw what?
He was what?
Stop right there.
when he saw the multitude.
Look, Jesus was always moved about people.
He was always concerned about people.
Can I talk?
Anytime the church is not concerned about people, something missing.
Oh, Lord, Lord, I'm trying to stay up here, because if they come down there, I'm going to give you a fit.
Listen, folk trying to get in the church, we set and badge them up.
Oh, y'all don't want me to preach.
I'm going to preach.
Now I'm feeling my hip.
If they come to church, they got to be dressed a certain way.
No.
That's why nobody don't want to come to church.
Oh, y'all got to be holy.
Stop it.
You can't get holy until you get saved.
Stop it.
We're judgmental.
I'm talking about in the church.
Because I talk, because I'm feeling my heart.
Sometimes I think, sometimes we preachers, we got to be careful.
Oh, I'm going to mess up here tonight.
I come to mess up.
Sometimes we act like we mad with the folk.
Oh, you don't want me to talk?
If they can't come to church and get right, where they going?
Now, watch this.
Uh-oh, I knew I was going to mess up.
Listen, listen.
For a long time, I didn't want to go to church.
Oh, leave me alone, Blue, because they had a bunch of hypocrites in the church.
How many was out there before?
All y'all born, raised in the church.
All y'all was born and saved when you was born.
Stop lying.
Leave me alone for you.
Don't make me get here.
Don't put me there.
We want folk to come to church, look like us, and they ain't even saved.
I'm going to go a step further.
Even when they get in here, won't you leave them alone?
You ain't the Holy Ghost.
Oh, y'all leave me alone.
We don't even give the Holy Ghost room to change people.
But it took the Holy Ghost to dress you up.
I'm so sick and tired of church folk, judgmental, everything looking, looking, looking.
Let the woman alone.
I'm not talking right there Clementine.
The church is the hospital.
That's what they told me when I first came.
That's what Ella Banks taught me.
I don't know no better.
That's what Rafford taught me.
The church is the hospital.
The church is a place where the sick, the lame, the homeowner, the liar, the hypocrite.
If they can't come in here and get some relief, where you gonna get it at?
don't.
He will move with compassion.
That that word.
You know, we live.
Sit down, y'all.
Cuz I got a long way to go.
Y'all, y'all in here tonight?
Don't be.
Cuz I got something for you tonight, okay?
I'm gonna cook your glutes.
You gonna learn to what your
When folk come to church, watch this, you gonna learn to have some compassion.
Somebody had compassion on you.
The Bible said, God, God, God, what?
With love and kindness have I what?
Is that in the Bible?
Somebody tell me.
Is that in the book you carry?
With love and kindness I have drawn good God Almighty.
That's the only way God was going to get me.
He had to love me to death.
He loved me when I was still jacked up.
See, what it is, y'all done forgot you were jacked up.
But I'm here to remind you tonight, you was jacked up from the floor up.
I want to say from the top down, you were just jacked up.
I'm feeling at home.
Let me get back up here.
Because they faint and were scattered abroad as sheep having what?
They need a shepherd.
Watch this.
Your job is to go out and get them, bring them in here, and let the shepherd deal with them.
And I say that again, let me holler in the mic.
Your job is to go get them, bring them in here, and leave them alone.
You can't even shepherd yourself.
Give me that, where's the next verse, son?
Because I done got drunk and screwed around.
Then said he unto the disciples, the harvest truly is plenty.
But what, there it is again.
Tell somebody, get up off your do-nothing and start doing something.
In front of you, standing in line.
And what this is the way, folk dying, going to hell, and we sit and talk about the folk dying, going to hell.
Something wrong with that picture.
Can't you see they need Jesus?
You have what they, you have the antidote.
Did I get that big word?
You have the antidote for them and you won't even share it.
They messed up on drugs, you got the antidote to help them come in out of darkness and won't even share it.
Talk about these folk messed up.
What's the next one, son?
Is that it?
That's it.
Pray you there for us.
The Lord always telling us to pray.
I came to tell you, go to work.
That's what I come here to do.
Listen, we must be soul winners.
I know where I'm going now.
Ooh, y'all in trouble.
Yeah, we gonna need it.
We must be soul winners.
Uh-huh, uh-huh, watch this here.
Now, Proverbs 11 and 30, I think that's what I gave you today, because when I get over here to Ezekiel, I'm going to park the car.
Watch this.
The fruit of the righteous, the fruit of the righteous is a tree of life.
Oh, I just saw it.
Did y'all see what I see?
See, my problem is I hear it.
Now I see.
Watch what I see.
Watch this.
The fruit of the righteous.
How many think you saved?
That's number one.
Then you are declared right by Jesus Christ.
You are in a right standing with God.
So why this, why this, why this?
So the fruit.
You ought to be bearing some fruit.
That mean you gotta do something.
The fruit of the righteous is a tree, a whole tree.
Lord help me.
And he that, this is what I wrote it for.
Watch this here.
And he that what?
Stop right there.
Nobody is gonna come to you if you got your measuring stick.
Forget it.
They ain't coming to church with you if all you do is talking about
Y'all gotta be careful in the church, I'm going there.
You gotta be careful talking about church folk in your church.
Around the unsaved.
Why this year, can I say something?
And then you wanna invite me to church.
Y'all ain't saying nothing.
I told you I'm going to cook your goose tonight.
You can't talk about the church you go to and then invite folks to your church.
What's something wrong with that picture?
So what is it?
Look what it says.
He that went and sold is what?
Wise.
So you got to be wise.
You got to butter them up.
Got to be nice to them.
Love on them some.
Make them want to follow you to church.
Y'all ain't saying nothing to me.
Huh?
And when you get them in there, learn how to treat them.
Can I tell you that?
Learn how.
One thing I get a pleasure out of is treating folk right.
I talk the way I do, but they ain't going to say I mistreated them, not on purpose.
All right, you with me?
I'll give him the next verse, son.
James 5 and 20, because when I get over here, the other one, I'm going to have to park the car a little bit.
Look at this here.
James 5 and 20.
Let him know.
Watch this here.
Let him know that he was what?
That converteth the who?
Oh, are y'all reading this?
So watch this.
He didn't say the pastor.
that converted the sinner, but he that do what?
Which converted the sinner from the error of what?
Shall do what?
Now let me tell you, God is in the business of saving souls.
That's what he came for.
Matter of fact, Jesus Christ died for souls.
Give me that next verse, son.
2 Peter 3 and 9.
What it say?
The Lord is.
Lord have mercy.
The Lord is what?
Nice like what?
Concerning his promises, as some men count.
But what?
That's the part I want to get to.
How many glad God has long suffered?
You hear it a lot, folk in the world, we in the church rather, talking about, I don't know why God keep letting these folk get away with this.
Why don't he do something with these people?
You remember when you was one of them people?
Michelle, I'm so glad he was long suffering with us, sister.
How many glad the Lord was long suffering?
When I was sitting in that club, I'm glad the Lord didn't come back.
When I didn't even know who I was, I'm glad the Lord didn't come back.
Y'all don't want me to go no further, do you?
See, I start naming some stuff, and y'all gonna act like you don't know what I'm talking about.
But I went out there by myself, because I had a plenty of company in the club.
And why did you might have been somewhere else and y'all was in the club?
How many glad that what?
The Lord, what?
Long-suffering.
Are you glad he long-suffering?
Shout, I'm glad you long-suffering.
Oh, we always want God to punish somebody.
What if he punished you when you were lost?
What if he punished you?
You ain't got children out there.
God still, we trying to pray to get them in.
I want God to be long something taught my children.
I'm gonna make it personal.
Anybody waiting on family members to be saved.
Watch this.
Y'all sit down.
Preachers, we gotta watch it.
Because my children ain't all of them ain't got saved yet.
See, if yours is saved, praise the Lord.
God bless you.
But mine ain't.
And don't be sitting there judging my children, talking about that's the preacher's children.
Can I help you?
Your children out there.
Ah, yours out there.
Folks are always talking about my children.
Did you want me to tell you something?
I passed yours.
I'm going to fix you.
I hope he suffer long enough for them to get saved.
After all, isn't that what it's all about?
Always wishing evil on somebody else's children.
You better be careful what you sow, you reap.
Don't spit nothing on somebody else's child.
It'll come back on yours.
Be careful.
Tell your neighbor, I said, be careful.
I ain't even got where I'm trying to go.
Love suffering.
To all of us not willing to have what?
Innocent parents.
Jesus just, God, God don't want nobody in the parish.
Can I say this?
Watch this, what is it, John 3, 16, we know that one.
What about 17, 18?
Huh?
Can you pull that up right quick, quick, quick?
John 3, 17, 18.
And see, it wouldn't bother me if the world were doing this.
John, John, John, John, John, John, St.
John, my brother.
Amen, I'm patient.
There we go.
Why this?
Why what?
Y'all read it, what it say?
Said not his son in the world, but what?
Oh, stop, stop, stop, stop.
Well, can I ask you something?
Why are we always condemning?
Don't make a mistake.
Lord, please.
I'm talking about a saved person.
Don't make a mistake in the church.
Don't do it.
You hear I say?
Oh, I'm sorry.
That's one of them countries saying, my mama used to say, did you hear what I said?
For you proper England folks.
As it may say, you hear I say?
Don't make a mistake in the church.
You come in there and think they gonna pray for you, and get on the altar and pray with you.
Lord have mercy, everybody, and I'm forming a little posse.
Leave me alone, Bill, oh.
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fix it.
I ain't even got where I'm trying to go.
Son, go ahead and take me over there to Ezekiel, so I can get out of here.
It's gonna be real good.
Cause see, the Lord showed me something with this.
I was reading this morning, and I was like, oh my God.
Now y'all know this one.
Just a dry bone.
And we gonna look at something.
The hand of the Lord was upon me.
First of all, the hand of the Lord.
I could talk night and night.
And carried me out, what?
I know they did.
Say that again.
In the spirit of the Lord.
Not in my emotion.
I'm gonna leave a lot of this alone.
Not because I felt something.
But the spirit I was in, it carried me.
You got that?
Why did it get better?
And sat me down in the midst of a valley.
With what?
Read some more, come on, come and read the next one.
And caused me to pass what?
Round about, and behold there was a very many, where?
In an open valley.
Y'all gonna help me teach this and I'll be done.
Watch this here.
And lo, they were what?
Give me that little tile up there, Chairman Howard, that black one.
They were very,
Listen, let me tell y'all something.
The bones there in context, help me, represented the house of Israel.
Can I go there?
Watch this, in today's term, it represents the world.
There's some dry bones.
Watch this, watch this now, but look what the Lord does with this man.
Verse two, verse three, what does it say?
And he said,
Under me, son of man, what it say?
Can these bones live?
What does Ezekiel say?
And I answer and say, oh Lord, you know.
Ezekiel said, I'm gonna stay out of trouble.
You know.
See, some of us try to get deep and try to tell God what to do.
Sometimes you need to be quiet.
and let God tell you what's going on.
A lot of folks just been saved two or three days, now you gonna tell God what he's doing.
Be quiet, brothers and sisters, be quiet.
You can learn something from God sometimes just being quiet.
Read, I don't know where that comes from.
Y'all ain't ready for me tonight.
Again, there it go.
Now I'm gonna deal with the words here.
Preachers, y'all help me out if I'm wrong.
Don't say I'm wrong.
Again, he said, they belong woods.
Under me, what he said?
Well, no, no, no.
Shabbat, shabbat.
This is where I got drunk at today.
Prophesy.
Shabbat, shabbat, shabbat.
Watch out, Parker, watch out.
Prophesy.
Speak to.
Preach to.
Preach.
I'm sorry.
Preach.
Everybody have been called to preach.
Not the pastor.
Y'all hear that?
Uh huh.
So, stop putting it all on me.
You vote to preach, prophesy, and don't get deep time and I
I'm going to talk tonight.
Why this?
The man only said what God said.
Why this?
I'm teaching one on Wednesday night.
God's order.
I'm going to tear it up.
They don't know they in for a roasting.
Because everything about God is order.
Everything he did from Genesis to Revelation.
I'm going to give you the tip of the iceberg, but I'm going to dig deep.
Everything about God is order.
He said, prophesy, speak to, even though smell, preach to these bones.
Now why did Maria, he told him what to say.
That's what we miss up here.
Can I talk?
We'll get an England of what God, we think he wanna say.
You know, sometimes folk get dangerous when they pray.
Oh, no, where you going, Parker?
Because they don't stay there long enough to get the full revelation.
Oh, I'm feeling it now.
See, sometimes you gotta stay with God to get the whole revelation.
Sometimes God say, here, Parker, and I'm jumping up.
Yeah, Lord, I'm gone.
Where you going?
I ain't told you nothing yet.
You laughing now.
I'm telling you, what I see, I see, else I see a lot of that in the church.
Yeah, just leave me alone, man, because you ain't going to be no good.
You going to make me worse.
Watch this here.
He talking about, there's a whole lot of that going on.
Oh, you drive on.
Watch this.
Do what?
Hear the word.
Come on, everybody.
Hear the word of the Lord.
We want everything but the Word.
That's why folk coming to you talking about, I see you on the house on the hill.
You don't see nothing.
I told folk, I cut folk out from that message.
Coming to me, Pastor, I said, don't know.
Because first of all, you ain't going to tell me nothing that God ain't already told me.
That's number one.
They'll have you going out, doing stuff, and you ain't know what you're doing.
Sit down!
Sit down.
Look at your neighbor and say, sit down.
I'm sorry.
I'm trying to get out of this.
Sit down.
What's that?
They're seeing.
No, they heard things.
Them greens, girl.
Leave it up.
Oh, ye dry bones.
Hear the word of the Lord.
Come on, son, next one.
I got to get out of here.
I can't hold y'all past nine.
Thus saith the Lord God.
What'd he say?
Under these bones.
Now, who said it?
The Lord said it.
Read it.
I will give you this bite.
Thus saith the Lord God.
But what'd he say?
I will do what?
Cause breath.
to enter into you.
We got a dead world.
Wait for somebody to preach to them.
Y'all hear what I said?
You work beside them every day.
You just need to open your mouth and preach the word.
Let's speak it.
Don't get out of order on that, y'all.
You don't own that, y'all.
You don't get fired.
They ain't gonna bring yourself back.
I use your daddy words so much in here, boy, I get in trouble.
Crazy.
No, you did that.
I'm trying to get away from L's.
You don't get fired, ain't gonna have no job.
So don't do that.
I will call breath to enter into you, and you shall live.
Next verse.
And I will, oh!
I will lay sign news upon you that everything is order.
He didn't make the bone get up and walk without nothing.
No, no, no.
It's about the order.
See that?
I told you I can show you order in that whole Bible.
Join me on Wednesday night if you don't know what I'm doing.
Watch this here.
And cover you with skin.
And put breath in you.
Right now the only breath you got is the breath of God.
And then on top of that he give you the breath of the Holy Ghost.
Watch this here.
God breathed upon you.
And you became a what?
Living soul.
Y'all leave me alone.
You who were dead in trespasses and sin, have he what?
Quickened me, snatched you, made you alive.
I was dead in the club, God snatched me.
I was on my way to sin, and the Lord, y'all ain't talking about no, y'all won't sinning, snatched me, literally, spoke to me while I was on my way, said, don't do that.
I'm serious, I'll never forget it.
1974, March 1974, the Azores Island, the Lord spoke to me.
I was thinking, go do wrong.
And why this here?
Why this wood?
And this brother wouldn't let me go.
Everywhere I went, there he was, this is messy right here now, with a bottle of matoose wine and a cigarette and a Bible.
That whole picture's messed up.
But the Word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword.
It reeked down between the sun and soul of the marrow of my heart, of my spirit, of my, no!
I said, go back.
Never forget that long as I live.
That messy boy, when you want to do wrong, he said, go back.
See, y'all don't mess with nobody.
Y'all up in here just getting in here, trying to tell me something.
Hush your mouth, hush your mouth.
I'm trying to tell you everything I know, and you ain't even receiving it because you think you know something.
You can't learn something until you make room for something.
Girl, I messed up a scooter burn right now.
I'm drunk.
If you just be quiet, you might learn something.
Tell your neighbor, say, you might learn.
For whatever reason or another, God done released me to pour out everything I got.
Chairman, I ain't what I used to be.
He said, let it go.
Let it all out.
Tell him everything you know.
Watch this.
Oh, Lord, you got ways to go.
I want to, na, na, na, na, na, na, na, na.
And you shall, oh, no, he didn't.
That last part, and you shall know.
That's why you're here tonight.
Let me help you out.
You know why you're here?
Because you know that he's the Lord.
Everybody ought to shout out that.
The only reason why you here tonight, because you know you wouldn't be here on no Friday night in here.
I know I wouldn't be in here with you.
Leave me alone.
I'm feeling it.
The next one, brother, because I'm all messed up.
I'm waiting to get drunk today.
So I prophesied about this here.
Leave me alone, Benson, as I was what?
God tell some of us something, we still won't do it.
Leave me alone.
And see, let me tell you something, until you do what God tell you to do, you have no peace.
And as I prophesy, oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, he didn't.
Y'all, can y'all read for me, cause I'm messed up?
Watch this, watch this here.
And as, do y'all see it?
Well, you finish the rest of it, help me.
And as I, hold on, no, no, no, stop.
Stop, stop, stop, stop.
Watch this.
God told him to do it, but he didn't do nothing until he did what he told him to do.
Oh, y'all, that's too much for you.
That's too much for you.
That's a blessing that God has for somebody.
He waiting on you to open your mouth and tell somebody, but you, can I tell you, you holding somebody's blessing.
Oh, yeah, we are.
Sitting in the church, fighting each other, beating up on each other, holding somebody's blessing.
I don't know where that come from.
As he prophesied, there was a noise.
Notice the process.
Notice the order.
There was a noise.
I ought to quit.
And behold what?
A shaking.
I'm feeling it, Suzelle.
A shaking.
And the bone what?
If we ever the church come out the closet,
and start preaching, there's gonna be a shaking in the land.
If you can get the church to stop fighting one another about who's in charge of what, and why you decided to do that, if you would just follow the pastor, follow the leaders, and those he put under him to help him lead, there will be a shaking.
I got one amen.
Bones came together, verse eight, son.
I think I gave you eight, I don't know what I gave you.
And when I looked, when I beheld and lo, he said, I looked.
I'm gonna quit.
Read it, leave me alone.
Wait till you see.
Sinews and the flesh came upon them.
Watch it, first the bones got together.
Y'all heard it preached, the foot bone.
It's joined to the ankle bone.
Ankle bone joined to it.
Now, ain't no knee bone, son.
You gonna leave out some bone.
Joined to the leg bone.
Your knee ain't fitted down there, son.
It's joined to the leg bone.
And the leg bone joined to the knee bone.
You just gonna work your way right on up on that thing, ain't you tender?
You all right.
Right?
When he finished joining all the bones together, what did he do?
Then he covered them.
But watch this here, y'all.
Watch this.
But what?
There was no breath.
Who said that?
I heard it.
No breath.
And you got people walking around here with no breath.
Because outside of God, you're spiritually separated from God, spiritually, and you're spiritually dead.
Without Jesus Christ, you have no life.
So these folk need light, and you have the light in you, which is the light of the world.
All right, what else I give you, that it?
Oh, yeah, it's gonna roll on.
Then said he unto me, prophesy, uh-oh,
Uh-oh, here come the Holy Ghost.
I'm going to get up here and quit, because I don't know where he going to stop at.
He prophesied to what?
The wind.
Oh, Lord.
He prophesied to the wind.
Now, watch what he told Ezekiel to say to the wind.
What did he say?
Thus saith who?
Now, watch this.
He didn't tell him, you out there, and say wind.
That's what folk do when they get in their own prophecy.
I say you gone.
No, you ain't it.
Leave me alone.
Watch it.
If you use the Lord and his proper place as the authority by which you are trying to do things, why did things happen?
I done taught a whole lot here tonight.
Go back home and watch it.
Thus said the Lord God, come from the four winds.
Oh breath.
Watch this.
And breathe upon what?
These slain that they may.
Come on.
I don't know how much I gave, but give me a little more since you're there.
Oh, you're going to skip down.
Oh, that's all right.
I'll take that.
That was some more that I didn't give you.
But I need to quit.
That's why I gave you what I gave you.
But I could be here all night now because I'm feeling it.
Then tomorrow I'll be tired.
Point I'm trying to make out of all of this, if we would preach the word of God, Jesus said in John 6, 63, and I close on this one, we got that one.
John 6, 63, y'all know that, that's one of my favorite verses, and we gonna quit.
I could quote it, there it is, what it say?
It is the spirit that what?
Ah, Shabbat.
Quickeneth.
Makes you alive.
Watch this here.
So when you get in the flesh, it don't profit.
All that stuff you do in the flesh, profit.
But the words that I speak, watch this.
That's why the Lord want us to preach, to share the gospel with the lost.
The only way they can be saved is through the word of God.
That's why I put that Hebrews, I think, 12 and four in there.
Only, four, 12 rather, only through the word of God.
It was the word.
Now, I'm gonna quit on this.
See, this brother that shared Christ with me, he kept reading the Word.
Y'all gotta get this.
See, y'all can't picture this because he had a bottle of my tooth wine and a cigarette and a Bible.
I was raised in the church, y'all ain't getting it.
Y'all ain't with me yet.
I was so confused, but it's just the way he kept reading the Bible.
I said, man, he sat up all night long with this one brother, they all saved, and preaching the gospel right now.
One in North Carolina and one in Atlanta.
He read that Bible all night to that hard resistant one, and them little walls that I was behind were paper-bowl thin, and I could hear that word, listen to me, all night long.
Watch this.
Jeremiah said, the word of God is like a hammer.
Oh, y'all ain't got it.
If you take the word, I don't care how hard you got somebody in your family, I keep telling them, they don't look like they gonna never get saved.
Just give them the word.
Now watch this.
Remember I told you, you gotta be wise.
You can't, every time they see you, you gotta be wise.
Cause I saw that brother coming.
I'm gonna tell the whole truth.
I did, Johnson.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I saw him.
I said, oh, man, here that dude come again.
Smith, I turn around him.
I said, man, don't come over here.
He said, the Lord gonna get you.
Then, by this, he played dirty.
We were out of Seymour Johnson Air Force Base and had to leave and go back on a C-130.
He said, what if that plane go down on the way back?
I said, no, you didn't.
Now, I don't know about y'all, back then, I won't say, and I was sure enough scared of death.
Ain't about saying nothing, nothing.
And I said, man, why you gotta do that?
So that night I went in the room by myself and said, Lord, save me.
Well, just hold on a minute.
I'm gonna mess up all you Pentecostal folk mess.
I didn't say thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus, thank you, Jesus.
All I said was, Lord, save me.
Whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
We put obstacles in front of people's way of being saved.
Because we tell them you got to turn 10 flips.
And they took my mom, my wife, brother, into the Pentecostal church, dressed her up,
I'm gonna mess you up, Sister Raffer.
Put on her long white dress.
Now I was saved.
She won't.
My mama said, that ain't gonna make her saved, boy.
See, I had one of them old sanctified mamas that didn't pull no punches, Sister Raffer.
She got to be saved.
They don't need to put no dress on down to her feet.
So one night while we were at church, I'm gonna give her testimony.
Ain't done yet, somebody gonna get delivered in here tonight.
We standing at the altar.
Cause see, I was saved.
Rita, I was so happy to be saved every time the door opened.
Ain't like y'all, y'all come once in a while.
And that's the truth.
But every time they opened the door, brother Polk, I was in there with my hand lifted up.
Ah!
And she was standing beside me.
We had to bet the girl with the baby then.
Somebody done snatched the baby.
And we were both standing there and they were praying.
Oh!
Lord, I'm about to messed up right now.
And next thing I know, the Holy Ghost.
See, I'm trying to tell y'all something.
I'm trying to tell you how to win souls.
The Holy Ghost picked her up, Sister Eve, and laid her down so soft, I didn't hear it.
So when I came to my senses and opened my eyes and looked, I said, I said, what you doing down there?
And you know, Sir Parker was so off on you.
I said, that woman showed out on me.
We got in the car and got ready to go home, and she said, the Lord saved me.
I said, what?
Y'all ain't got it.
She said, the Lord saved me.
I said, how you know?
Cause he talked to me.
Watch this, ain't done yet.
I said, what language did he speak?
My language.
He told me, I forgave everything you ever done.
All the pots and pans cease.
All you want marriage counseling, I just gave you some.
Get saved.
I'm done.
I think I done.
Did I do enough damage?
Y'all enjoy that?
Give God a hand.
Give him a hand.
Sing it, sing it.
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♪ Reaching souls for Christ ♪ ♪ Working together in ministry ♪ ♪ Projecting Christ in our daily lifestyle ♪
Reaching souls for Christ Working together in ministry Projecting Christ in our daily lifestyle Reaching souls for Christ Working together in ministry Projecting Christ
Let's pray.
Father, we thank you tonight.
Thank you for your word, Lord.
I pray that something has been said that would cause us to check our own self.
And Lord, when we come in contact with others, that we won't be afraid to open our mouth, but we will speak as the oracles of God, as the Holy Spirit and Holy Ghost move upon us, a word that will encourage people, not discourage.
Lord, let us not come with a stick to beat up people, but come, God, ready to share Christ with love and kindness.
And we thank you today.
We give you all the praise, the glory and honor in Jesus name.
Amen and amen.
God bless you.
You may be seated.
God bless you.
Amen.
God bless you.
Praise the Lord.
I tell you again, we're so glad you all came to be with us.
Appreciate everything you do.
Pastors, it's such a pleasure to work with you in this district.
I can't lie, we all can't get up here and preach and say something, because if we do, we'll be here.
Amen.
But I appreciate you.
And the only way I can show that is come to you when you need me.
And I mean that.
Praise the Lord.
I mean that.
And I'm going to say it again.
Come to you.
And I want to say this to you.
Don't think, because your church is small, that I can't handle it.
I can come.
I'm talking to you, brother.
I'm talking to you.
It doesn't matter how many people you got.
I started with nobody, honey.
So it don't mean nothing to me.
I learned to preach.
I carried a revival in a church once, and it wasn't nobody there but me, the pastor, and his wife.
And I preached like it was full.
You know what the Lord told me?
Cause someday, someday, amen, you gonna be the pastor.
Amen, so do, amen, let us serve.
Let us work together.
Amen, it's time to work.
How many agree with that?
A lot of time we don't define what the work is.
The work is working in the harvest, winning souls, helping the sick.
Amen, going visiting those folk out that's homeless.
Amen, doing what you can to help somebody.
That's the work.
It ain't all in the church.
Amen.
Praise the Lord.
We have a lot of work to do if we just get busy.
Amen.
I just certainly want to thank my chairman for being there with me down through the years and Superintendent Emeritus Gipson.
Sometime I went around and murmur because he gave up his post.
and gave it to me.
Let me say this, I've never asked for a position, never.
Oh, there you go.
See, I knew you had something to say.
I didn't even ask for the position of chairman of pastors and elders.
That's over 60-something churches.
Amen.
But I'm gonna say this to all of y'all, so you'll learn how the process work.
Your gift may get room for you.
You don't got to move nobody out the way.
Watch this.
If you can handle the small things, God will give you the bigger things to handle.
A lot of times we want to start from the bottom and rise up to the top.
People like their name to be called.
I'm not one of them.
I love just serving and doing what the Lord want me to do.
Amen.
That's where I'm at.
Amen.
God bless you tonight again.
Amen.
Any other comments, anybody?
Amen.
All right.
God bless you.
Praise the Lord.
I'm going to let Chairman Howard dismiss us.
Amen.
Come on.
Till we meet again.
May His peace be with you.
Till we meet.
May His peace be with you.
Till we meet.
Till we reach that distant shore.
And we'll shed a tear no more.
May he give you strength to endure.
Till we meet.
Till we meet again.
Father God, in the name of Jesus, we just want to say thank you, Lord.
Thank you for showing up here tonight.
Thank you for showing up here all this week.
Thank you for your many wonderful blessings.
Thank you for your anointing.
Thank you, Holy Ghost.
Oh, thank you, Holy Ghost, for working in us tonight, working through our superintendent, Lord God.
Father God, we thank you that we'll not leave out of here the same way that we came in.
And Father, we'll be careful to always give you the praise and the glory.
Replenish your spirit back to our brother.
Strengthen him where he's weak at, Lord God, both physically and spiritually, Lord.
And we thank you tonight, Lord God.
Bless us, Lord God, as we journey back to our destinations, Lord.
We pray for traveling grace and mercy, Lord God.
Let us return home safe and find everything well.
And Father, we'll be careful to give you all the glory.
In Jesus' name, we pray.
I'm sorry.