Good morning great people welcome to the Fountain of Praise a place of refreshing whether you are seated in the sanctuary or connecting virtually we are grateful for your presence let’s see what’s coming up and share how you can be a part of our upcoming events Fountain
Family get ready for a new Bible study experience with Dr Remis Wright beginning Wednesday January 17th join us in person or online for what it takes to win this Bible study will enhance your life and prepare you for a great 2024 are you ready to to answer the call
To help others by becoming a Christian counselor Dr Scott Davenport will begin a new Christian Counseling advising course for the spring semester starting January 22nd registration begins on January 14th RSVP to BNS counseling at icloud.com what an awesome time we had at the Rock children’s prayer breakfast
Last Saturday shout out to Dr Mary White and her entire team for hosting a soldout program that strengthened families and connected our young people to Christ don’t forget the Rock Church will return to service at the fountain Life Center next Sunday at 10:00 a.m. parents be sure to bring your children
For a youth centered worship every second and fourth Sunday leaders mark your calendars for our biannual training this in-person training will take place on Saturday January 20th remember it’s a requirement for all all elected and appointed leaders we look forward to seeing you please be sure to register online at tfop.org
Connect attention everyone next Sunday we will host our ministry fair in the lobby after each service we look forward to sharing the wealth of Ministries at the fountain you will be able to meet Ministry leaders and sign up to join let’s make 2024 our year of impact and engagement the tfop financial education
Ministry invites you to attend an online course wealth mindset Revolution unlocking our financial potential on Friday January 19th this event is perfect for anyone looking to improve their financial situation whether you are just starting out or already on your way to success if you want to pay off
Debt build wealth or create passive income streams this event is for you you can sign up online at www.om tfop.org connect we want to acknowledge the members of tfop who serve in Greek letter organizations and recognize Founders Day for many of the organizations this month happy anniversary to the members of Alpha
Kappa Alpha sorority January 15th 1908 Kappa Alpha Sai January 5th 1911 Delta Sigma Theta sorority January 13th 1913 by Beta Sigma January 9th 1914 Zeta beta January 16th 1920 and also other organizations that will celebrate later this year Omega sci-fi and Iota F Theta special shout out to the first of
All the divine nine alpha alpha fraternity who celebrated 117 years on December 6 stay tuned for upcoming announcements as we will have a Greek day and invite everyone to wear colors and letters to all our our first time visitors we’re glad you’re here make sure to stop by the Agape Zone as
You exit the sanctuary we have a gift just for you thank you for tuning in to the Fountain connection and please be sure to follow us on all of our social media platforms now let’s go to church Hallelujah bless the Lord Fountain of Praise come on bless the
Lord Fountain of Praise anybody excited to be in the house of the Lord well I was glad when they said to me let us go into the house of the Lord hallelujah for he is great and greatly to be praised I don’t know about you but I’m
Excited that he woke me up this morning I have the activity of my limbs I’m in right mind Hallelujah that’s enough reason right there for me to give God some praise if he doesn’t do anything else just the fact that I’m alive and breathing Hallelujah and the Bible says
Let everything that has breath uh praise the Lord so somebody ought to be giving him some praise right now Hallelujah because you can breathe in and you can breathe out come on can you just open up your mouth and tell God thank you come on can somebody tell him thank you he’s
Been a good father Hallelujah he’s been a provider he’s been a Healer he’s been a protector he’s been a way maker he’s been a friend he’s been Joy and sorrow he’s been a Healer he’s been a deliverer I don’t know what he’s been to you but
For me he’s been everything that I need him to be even some things that I didn’t even know I needed he stepped in right when I needed him the most hallelujah hallelujah so I came for no other reason but to lift him up and to give him the
Praise because he said and if I lift it up uh I’ll draw all men unto me I don’t know about anybody else but I want to be close to him Hallelujah I want everything that he has for me Hallelujah so I’m going to lift him up
H yes God yes God come on put those hands together and just start blessing him all over the I need to see some victory claps in here clap him like your B already got the victory woo clap him like he already delivered you clap him like he already
Healed you clap him like he already saved you clap him like he already provided clap it like the work is already Done the Bible says if we don’t praise him some rocks reserved that’ll cry out in our place I don’t know about anybody else I’ve been given a gift that no other being have been given and that is to be able to open up my mouth and to
Bless him and to speak well of him and to give him the glory so who am I not to praise him and allow the Rocks the things that we walk over to give God praise look at somebody and say the rocks are not gonna cry out in my
Place tell them I gotta do it tell somebody it don’t cost me a thing but it benefits me much to give God some praise look at somebody else and tell them never will a rock cry out in my place cuz what he’s worthy I know he’s worthy he’s worthy of all the
Praise come on y’all I came to magnify the Lord that’s all I came to do magnify the Lord come on put your hands together with Us come on Everybody I came I came to magnify the Lord Praise His holy name praise His holy name Lift Jesus Higher LIF Jesus Higher LIF him higher Lift Jesus Higher I just came to magnify I just came to glorify came to pra Lord I came to magy the
Lord PR His holy name Lift Jesus High LIF Jesus High LIF him glor to praise the Lord oh how many of you know he’s worthy wory of all worthy he worthy wory worthy of all my praise worthy of all my praise wory he who are worthy worthy of all my
Praise worthy of all my praise never will a rock cry out will a rock cry out in my place glor pra come on how many of you can truly say he’s worthy he’s worth yes he the Lord is wor oh yes he is wor all my wor all my
Pra will a rock will rock in my he’s worthy Wor in my He’s Worthy wory he God worth never never never never I will bless the Lord and all all sign and his prises Contin continually The Rock I got to praise him I got to bless him he been so so good to me to mag just to glorify Hallelujah come on and that’s what you
Came to you give us the glor if that’s what you came did you give him some Glory I said never now when the rocks out in my place CU she why in the good times in the B he’s Worthy why all my pra not just half of it not just a little bit of it but all of my Praise never will the rocks cry out in my place he’s worthy of all my praise never will the rocks cry out in my place cuz he’s worthy of all my praise never will the rocks cry out in he’s worthy tell somebody never cuz he’s worthy look at your neighbor and Telly all he’s worthy stop right there he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s worthy he’s wor he’s worthy anybody know he is he’s wor I’m just than to
Mag I just than to glorify I just than To hallelujah hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you Jesus somebody really mean that this morning somebody really mean it this morning so many reasons to praise him so many reasons to praise Him continually one because the Bible says it let everything that has breath praise the Lord so if you’re alive and well
That’s what you ought to be doing Jesus but I’m blessing him because somehow I made it through the storm through the rain through my heartaches through my pain I sheded tears down through the years but through it all God brought me through look at somebody and say through it all God
Brought me through tell him I made it I made it somehow I made itow I made it somehow I made it all me through oh somehow I made I somehow I made I do it all I shed it tears tears down the me through I shed tear I sh te down through the
Year it all sometimes up sometimes through it all yeah sometimes sometimes I’m but through it all heart acent pain I made it heart AC and pain I made it heart AC and pain a pain it walk through the rain have to walk through the rain I it have
To walk through the rain have to walk through the rain sometimes I shed a tear sometimes I share the te but I made it made it I made it I made it Lord I made it Lord oh somehow I made somehow I do it all come on put your hands together
Somehow I madeeh made somehow I made made I sh te I down through the it all I shed it tears tears sometimes I’m sometimes I’m down but through it all we sometimes I and sometimes I’m do it all pain pain itent pain itent pain have to walk through the rain have to walk
Through the rain made it have to walk through the rain made it have to walk through the rain sometimes I’m up sometimes I’m down sometimes I’m long to the ground I made it made it I it made it it made it tears in my eyes sometimes I had to cry I it
Sometimes I have to cry sometimes I have to cry it sometimes I Cry Sometimes I Cry Sometimes I Cry Sometimes I Cry made it made it made it made it Jesus by my side Made It Jesus by my side I Made It Jesus by my side Made It Jesus by my side keep on pushing me through keep on pushing me through come on pushing me through come on
Pushing me through let on my hand let out my hand would let out my hand would let out my hand now I’m able to St I it now I’m able to St I it I made it I it I made it I it all I can say is thank you
All I can say is thank you all I can say is thank you all I can say is thank you like giving up like giving up like throwing in the to like giving up if the enemy would have had his way would be here today the enemy had his way what be here
Today I made it I made it I made it somebody ought to tell them than somebody ought to tell them he did what the doctors couldn’t do he did what the doctors couldn’t do he did what the doctors couldn’t do he did what the doctors could do made a way out of
Nowhere made a way out of nowhere turn my darkness turn it in today I made it I made somehow I made it I made itow I shall I made it I sh I made I said I’m M I said IED even on broken pieces I’m I’m you ought to step high five with
Your neighbor and tell them if you only knew what I’ve been through you would be thanking God that I’m standing here today a living testimony of the keeping power of Jesus oh to be kept by Jesus somebody got a testimony of healing somebody got a testimony of restoration
Somebody got a testimony of Deliverance somebody got a testimony of forgiveness uh somebody got a testimony of provision somebody ought to be a witness today I know tell somebody it was nobody but Jesus it was nobody but Jesus I can do it by myself when Mama can help
Me when Daddy can help me went to the preacher talk to the teacher Jesus Jesus I made it I made it somebody out of that shout out I’m might it woo oo thank you Jesus y’all can keep on praising him y’all can keep on giving him glory somebody got a real testimony 2023 wasn’t easy for somebody but you ought to just shout out I made it I made it h i made yes I did yes Lord God it is now
Altar time so if you in the sanctuary and you feel like coming forth to the altar the place that God has prepared the place that the church is prepared please feel free to come forth to the altar if you were in the sanctuary but you just don’t want to come up you can
Make an altar right where you are you can make an altar in your Pew you can make an altar in the alleway if you are streaming if you are watching us online you can consecrate the ground right where you are you can make an altar in
Front of your TV in front of your screen in your car just sanctify your mind right now just bring it to Christ thank you heavenly father that you just allow us to come forth that you give us audience heavenly father that you allow us to approach your throne of grace we
Just come thanking you for that Lord God we do not take it lightly We Praise You Heavenly Father for this day Lord God thank you Heavenly Father for just bringing us into 2024 Lord God we praise you for the open doors that you have for us this year Heavenly Father we thank
You for that Heavenly Father p ministered last week on Moses and Joshua Lord God we just come thanking you heavenly father that just like Moses was a man of God he was a man who just LED people who led his family who led others Lord God and you were with him you told
Joshua that just like you were with Moses you would be with him I thank you heavenly father because we are fathers we are husbands we are wives we are leaders in our community that just like you were with Joshua you will also be with us heavenly father just like you
Were with people that we admire in the past with pastors with prophets with deacons just like you were with them you are with us heavenly father and we just come thank you thanking you for the strength for the grace for the fortitude that you have blessed us with this year
So that we can go forth into the promised land into the place that you have for us Lord God we thank you heavenly father that 2024 we will move into all that you have for us Lord God thank you that you show us our promised land that you show us
Our wealthy place not only will you show us Lord God I thank you that we have the strength the fortitude the attitude to go after all that you have blessed us with all that you have promised us with in 2024 Lord God I thank you that just
Like Joshua might have seen Rivers might have seen obstacles might have seen issues in front of him but he stepped forth into the river he stepped forth into the obstacles into the challenges to move into the Blessed place that you had for him Lord God so I thank you you
That each and every person in here Lord God they might be looking at obstacles they might be looking at challenges they might be looking at things that they might fear in the natural Lord God but I thank you heavenly father that we have the strength to cross over the strength
To get into the river the strength to go into what might be fearful to us Lord God but I also thank you Lord God that once we cross over heavenly father that once we get into the promised land the place of blessing for us you give us the
Strength to overcome the Giant in the things that might be in temporary possession of the land that you have given to us Lord God we will not fear we will not cower but we will be strong to go into and pursue and take over all that you have already promised to us
Lord God we thank you for that Lord God because we realize that we are blessed to be blessings Heavenly Father we are not pursuing things just for us we are pursuing things for our family members for our loved ones because the people coming behind us the people associated
Us will be blessed Lord God and we just come thanking you that our children are following us our children are looking at us Lord God and the blessings that are falling Upon Us Falling upon our leaders they will fall down to all those that are connected to us Lord God I speak
Over our children right now Lord God I thank you that our children just like we are boldly walking into what you have for us I thank you that our children our loved ones are walking into what you have for them Lord God as they going to schools Lord God they are young kings
Young king Queens princes princesses Lord God and I thank you heavenly father that you cover them that you protect them heavenly father I thank you Lord God as people are out fighting Lord God that you are protecting the homes heavenly father that the enemy will not
Sneak in and attack our homes that even though we might be focused on what it is that you have for us we just thank you Heavenly Father the the blood covers Us it also covers our children it covers everybody associated with us Lord Lord God I thank you heavenly father that our
Minds are strong that our children’s minds are strong I speak against depression I speak against anxiety I speak against mental issues heavenly father I thank you Lord God that you have given us a sound mind Lord God so therefore we are whole Heavenly Father we are complete Lord God we are walking
In your blessings Walking In Your Grace walking into all that you have for us Lord God we thank you Heavenly Father we receive it Lord God thank you Lord God for our pastors for our church Lord God that 2024 is going to take them into new levels heavenly father and just as it
Takes them into new levels Lord God those of us who are behind them Heavenly Father those of us who are supporting them Heavenly Father are going into new levels as well Lord God I thank you heavly Father for provision for the vision that you have provided Lord God I
Thank you Henly father that every need is met not just met but exceeded that we walk in abundance thank you Heavenly Father the blessings just chase us down Heavenly Father father and that we are stewards Lord God over all that you have promised to us Heavenly Father we are
Not going to ask for things heavenly father and then walk away but when we are blessed we will bless others Heavenly Father we will be faithful tithers we will be faithful givers Lord God when you bless us that is like blessing everybody heavenly father not only will the word go forth from this
Pull pit heavenly father but I lift up our partners around the world Lord God I thank you heavenly father that the Fountain of Praise Is is blessed and we are a blessing not only to our city not only to our state not only to our country but we have a global Ministry
Heavenly father and our pastor’s influence is reaching the four corners of the world heavenly father not just now Lord God but I believe that the word that goes forth the ministry That Goes Forth will just be a Perpetual blessing heavenly father I thank you the generations will be blessed from what
Goes on right here in our pull pit in this church in our Our Lives we thank you Heavenly Father we seal it we call all these things done in Jesus mighty name Amen can I just get a few people to just lift your hands just open up your mouths and start speaking well of him speaking well to him tell him how much you love him how much you adore him how much you appreciate him come on I don’t hear
Anybody can you turn the volume up just a little bit Hallelujah I don’t know about anybody else but he’s been so good to me in spite of my shortcomings he still provides he still make a way out of no way he still open up doors Hallelujah somebody has a testimony that he still
Saves he still heals he’s still a keeper Hallelujah can you just begin to bless him for just being so good to you Hallelujah in spite of what we do in spite of where we are in life our God remains faithful Hallelujah he remains good to us hallelujah can you just shout
Out Lord you are good you are good you are so good hallelujah thank you Jesus Hallelujah Lord you are good you’ve been so good Lord you good you’ve been better than good I can’t praise you enough I owe you my life can’t praise you enough even if iy CU you’ve been so
Good oh you’ve been oh yes you have so good oh youve been oh yeah so good to me if you know it sing it with the S Lord you are good you are so good so good Lord you you are good you’ve been better you better than tell them I can’t
Praise you enough praise you love I ow you my life you my life I can pra praise you God even if I [Applause] try you been how many of you have that testimony that he’s been so good so good to Me Lord you are good youve been so good Lord you are good you been I owe you my life how many life praise even if I TR Lord you been stronger to me yeah Lord you’ve been so good are you’ve been better I can’t praise you enough I owe
You my life ow you my I can’t praise you enough even if I try cuz you be you ought to just lift your hands and declare today that he’s been so good you been so yes you have so good to Me now everybody all over the building can you just lift your hands and make this declaration show many doors many doors you open show many ways many ways you make so many times many you you’ve been better than good to me yeah so many many doors you so many ways you make
Many you so many times you so many so many way many ways you so many times many you You’ been better good to me many you many many you so many times many times youal me many many youve been better than good to me so many you so many ways
You keep Jesus you’ve been better than good to me better than good to me you’ve been better than good to me you better good to me you’ve been better than good to me better than good to me you’ve been better than good to me better than good
To me come on you want to shout it out and say you’ve been better than good to me better than good to me you’ve been better than good to me better good to me You’ been better than good to me good to me you’ve been better than good to me
Better than good to me you’ve been better than good to me better than good to me you’ve been better better you’ve been better than good to me better than good to me you’ve been better good you better to me go back here go back here say so many so many ways show Many you’ve been better than good to me so Many so many ways and so many you been better than good to me do door after door and way after way so many times yeah you been better than good to Me so many times you’ve been better than good to me he’s been better than good to me better than good to me he’s been better than good to me I shout it everywhere I go he’s been better than good to me better good he’s been better than good
To me better than good to me he’s been better than good to me good to me you’ve been You’ve been so good You’ been heer you’ve been provider you’ve been way maker woo you’ve been yes you have you You You every time I turn around blessing after blessing new mercies I see he’s in so Good come on you sing it Say come on can you just lift your hands and just tell them sing it to him Say And he may not come when you want him but he’s always right on time yes he you been so good so good so good so good so good so good so good so good so good so good so good so good so good so good
So so good so good so good you’ve been so so good so good you been you oh yes you have Lord somebody ought to tell him thank you for being so good even when I didn’t deserve your goodness even when I didn’t deserve your grace you been Lord you been hey you
Been you been yeah you been good God Almighty you been you been you been you been you been you been you been you never let me down you yes you you be yes you thank you Lord thank you for your goodness thank you for your goodness [Applause] you You’ been so good you been Strong you’ve been so good to me oh yeah come on come on come on oh yeah let’s give him some praise let’s give him some praise from the rising of the sun unto the going down of the saint his name his name his name is worthy to be praised how we thank
Him how we bless him how we love him for this is the day that the Lord is made let us all rejoice and be glad in it you know that Nikita just rars back in sand doesn’t my Lord I love the fact that with all the giftings that God has deposited within
Her she never short changes the body of Christ she always gives it all she has come on let’s give God praise for that great gift that he’s deposited in this ministry amen and not only in this ministry but Ministries throughout the world her gift has made room for her and
We continue to open her up to environments that she’s not even aware of I I believe that I I believe that in the year 2024 the oil of God has flowing through this through this church yes yes yes we’re we’re claiming that this year that the oil of God is
Flowing and when the oil of God flows it simply means that God’s blessings that God’s goodness that God’s purpose starts to be manifest in the earth and I just has sensed that in this house this year that he’s doing some great and tremendous things amen amen amen all of you
Visiting us today just raise your hand just wave your hand raise your hand amen I know we have some political figures here today and for all of you listen I am just so glad and thankful that we have an opportunity to worship with you today we welcome you to the Fountain of
Praise I know you’ve already been welcomed but I just wanted to say it myself that this is the place where everybody is somebody and no nobody hears a stranger amen amen so it’s a joy to have you with us today and to see the mighty things that God is doing in our
Lives also I want to uh just highlight and thank our agape’s own Ministry amen amen amen they are diligent and consistent uh in terms of making sure that our first time visitors receive a gift from us and also a prayer from them letting them know not only we appreciate
Their coming here but also to let them know that we put our stamp and seal of God’s blessings on your lives when you leave here and so I want to thank Agape zone for what they continue to do and the way that Ministry just continues to
Grow and Excel in this church amen amen God bless you today I want to invite your attention to the book of St Matthew chapter number 15 I want to read verses 21- 28 in your hearing today Matthew’s gospel chapter number 15 veres 21 through 28 and I’m reading from
The new King James Version Bible this is what it says to those of you watching by way of stream and listening here in this Sanctuary then Jesus went out from there and departed to the region of TI and sidon behold the woman of Canaan came from that region and cried out to him
Saying have mercy mercy on me oh Lord son of David my daughter is severely vexed or demon possessed he answered her not a word he answered her not word strange behavior for Jesus by this time now his disciples came and urged him saying send her away but she cries out after
Us but he answered and said I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the House of Israel she came and worshiped him saying Lord help me but he answered and said it is not good to take the children’s bread and throw it to the little dogs preachers in investigating that
Text doesn’t that kind of stir you to see Jesus’s demeanor changed so much here look at the retort and she said yes Lord yet even the little dogs eat the crumbs which fall from the master’s table Jes Jesus answered and said to her oh woman great is your faith let it be to
You as you desire daughter was healed from that very hour thank you you may be seated may God add a blessing to the hearing and the reading of his holy word on this third Sunday of this year 2024 I want to talk today from the subject when it’s time to be
Intentional when it’s time to be or to become in tension brothers and sisters from the beginning of this new year I have endeavored to reignite your passion for Spiritual Development and personal growth or personal accomplishment by challenging you to take a deep dive into God’s word so that you may go
After what God is speaking to you how many of you are familiar with the voice of God in your personal life so so that means that God is speaking to you and if that be the case it is time to go after whatever God is saying the blessings of God are before
You the presence or the promises of God live with you the power of God over sh battles you so Brothers and Sisters Let’s Get Busy let’s involve ourselves in the plan that God has laid out for us we must keep in mind although that God’s blessings are not given to you without
Contest you will not receive anything from God that the devil does not try to take away let me talk to you over here every single Miracle every Victory every breakthrough is contested territory and he is out to try to steal to kill and to destroy none of God’s blessings or without
Contest nor does his abundance just fall in your lap you have to be present and prepared you have to be intentional because being intentional means making deliberate choices to pursue what is most important to you it it implies expressing a delate mindset about what you want about what you
Need and then the way you choose to live with your Pursuits I mean being intentional is not for the weak it it’s it’s not for the capricious for the people that are up and down all the time it’s it’s it’s for the strong and for you to become successful
In this area you have to believe in God but you also must believe in yourself it it becomes a matter of sheer Focus you you notice I said present and prepared pres present simply means that you’re not allowing distractions or defeats of yesterday or problems that
Want to exist or people that try to bully or to or to criticize you you do not allow them to stop you but you’re going to be present that means you’re focused in the moment you’re not trying to reach so far in front of you you can’t see where you
Are right now nor you reaching behind you trying to remember where you came from you’re focused on the moment was pushed before or Beyond I should say your fickleness and instability concentrate on your ordain pathway I I I love what Paul says in Philippians chapter number 31 13 and 14
You all know it when Paul’s locked up in a Roman jail in a Roman prison not knowing what the outcome of his life will be in a cold damp sale dark and having no support system at all and yet with this condition Paul is present in his relationship with God and he says
Brethren I count not myself to have apprehended but this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead I press toward the mark for the prize of the High Calling of God in Christ Jesus Friend there should come a time in your
Intentionality that you get your mind off of everything else you strip yourself of all those that do not believe in you the Nays says but you focus on the present there is a Latin phrase that I love it says fora it means literally fortune favors the brave fortune favors the Bold
Fortune favors the strong and the thought here when you when you look at this it’s it’s saying that when you’re intentional about your efforts and your Pursuits Good Fortune will find you you you can’t work hard in pursuing the purpose of God in your life and with all your bad breaks and
Setbacks with an intentional attitude not see success in one form or another because it’s your pushing through and you’re pushing ahead that brings about the victory that you’ve been seeking and and I believe today that so many of us so many of you are living with amazing potential and have
Tremendous possibilities in front of you in 2024 but you can’t sit on the sidelines and wait for life to come to you you got to get up and be intentional can’t Procrastinate and allow yourself to get caught up and wrapped up in your failures and mistakes you’ve got to be intentional about where you’re going because brothers and sisters being intentional characterizes a deliberate action CU life is about moving forward about moving forward life is not static life is constantly changing it’s
Constantly moving and no matter which what what you feel like is going on in your life you have to have this attitude of moving forward anytime you’re moving forward it comes with emotional risk talk about emotional risk here is a woman that was willing to risk it all to save her
Daughter I I love this woman she she wasn’t influential she she wasn’t a Jew she was not a part of what they consider the mashua which is uh the Brotherhood she she was not well known she wasn’t even well respected but it was her refusal to take no for an answer that impresses
Me this woman was surrounded by people that were toxic for her and her condition and yet she refused to take no for an answer and that’s one of the great things about this whole uh piece in St Matthew chapter 15 concerning this woman from cof phenicia she was was
Refusing to take no for an answer and so then when we talk about parallels let me Begin by saying first of all being intentional means that you’ve got to be intentional with your presence be intentional with your presence show up in every single moment like you’re meant to be
There y’all missed that y’all miss that man you got to show up every single moment like you’re meant to be there you going have people looking at you sneering at you Whispering behind your back talking about you and you need to just let that be like water rolling off
A duck’s back you got you got to be in a place where you act like you know what whatever you say I’m supposed to be in this place how many of you have Miracles you know have your name on friend listen when you start to see that
Miracle manifest in itself don’t you let anybody talk you out of your breakthrough live your life like I’m supposed to be here because being intentional is about bringing Focus to something that is important to you not only should you make your request known should also make your presence
Known I I love brothers and sisters that have that Godly holy spiritual Swagger that they’re not trying to be arrogant but when they show up they’re showing up like me and God are here together and that’s what we see in this in this text today you know there’s an
Old metaphor that used to say that the squeaky will always gets to greef learn to make your presence known and you don’t have to show off just show up and when you show up show up unapologetically unashamedly and undeniably just show up that’s what this unnamed woman in this
Text does she asserts her presence watch this now let me give you some context Jesus has experienced a whirlwind weak I know when we think about him and read about him we only think Messiah but we forget that Jesus had a human side in this particular week Jesus has been up against
It his cousin John the Baptist has been beheaded by Herod multitude of hungry people had been without food and were looking for him to feed them he had healed sick body after sick body goes into the mountains to pray and he’s interrupted by the Panic of his disciples caught in a storm
On the Galilean sea next crowds of people throng him just to touch the HM of his clothes then finally he has a heated debate with some of the scribes and Pharisees about some outdated religious Traditions put all these emotions in one man in one week and you see it up that would make
The average person lose their good mind Bible says he goes he leaves and goes to an out of way place to get rest when he gets there he is confronted by this desperate woman who makes her presence known she refuses to let the disciples push her back she presses her way to the
Front she refuses to let the hollering people and the hecklers prohibit her from talking with him she speaks up anyway this happens in a societal system brothers and sisters where people were not friendly to single women as a matter of fact they were treated like they were less than cattle
Because they had nobody to cover or protect them this this woman not caring about any of that undaunted by the challenges that she faced makes her way into the face of Jesus and I like this woman because she is Unapologetic with her presence and then she makes a request she cries Lord have
Mercy isn’t that amazing she comes to him the same way the people of Israel come she comes asking for Mercy for a sense of tenderness and compassion on her situation she asked this for her daughter her daughter’s not with her and yet in spite of all that she’s pressed
Her away from mile upon mile to get to him to get an audience with Jesus because this woman was intentional with her presence she knew she couldn’t send somebody else she had to go for herself she knew nobody else was going to cut for her she had to cut for
Herself she knew nobody else was going to support her she had to support herself and there’s some of you right now walking with God that are looking for your next blessing to show up and you don’t know where it’s coming from yet God continues to let it know let you
Know that it’s coming and you don’t have anybody to push you out there time for you to push yourself you on the political circuit you might have not might not have a whole Camp of people that want to be supporters and pass out flyers and make telephone calls if they don’t pass out
Fliers and make telephone calls make telephone calls yourself you you’ve got to learn how to be intentional in whatever you do I’ve discovered that every time I need prayer I’m not going to have somebody around that can touch and agree with me I got to learn how to pray for
Myself I have a lot of great Minister friends and people in Ministry that are pastors that that speak words into my life all the time that affirm what God is doing but sometimes they’re not around and and that means that sometime I’ve got to believe God for
Myself I’m trying to to help you here today I’m trying to show you what it means to be intentional in your presence when you come into the presence of God let God know I’d recognize who you are Lord you’re the one that brought me out of Darkness into this Marvelous Light
You’re the one that put my feet on Straight Street you’re the one that restored and revived and rejuvenated all of my desires and dreams you’re the one that keeps me you’re the one that hides me in a secret place of your love you’re the one that is my strong tower and my
Hiding Place Lord I believe you for myself and like I told you last Sunday when discouragement is on every side and there’s nobody there to encourage you learn how to encourage yourself I I just want you to hear on stream today in 2024 you got to be intentional with your
Presence don’t don’t just be intentional with what you say but let people see the person that’s saying what they’re saying be be intentional with your presence Jesus is looking at this woman strangely because she comes out of nowhere and yet she’s not afraid she’s not apologetic she’s not poor mouthing she’s not mil
Mouth she’s saying just what she for Lord have mercy I’ve looked to other leaders and none of them can help me nor touch my daughter’s situation look I’m asking you to have mercy Lord everywhere else I turn There’s Nothing But anxiety and frustration and trouble but Lord I’m
Coming to you asking you to have mercy I had to show up here because I knew if I could get in your face Lord perhaps you would answer my pray prayer Lord have mercy and I just got to believe that somebody came to church this morning physically and somebody came to church
This morning virtually asking God Lord have mercy on me this week last week was a rough week on me but I’m believing Lord if you take my hand next week’s going to be better than last week intentional with your presence but then secondly be intentional with your worship
That that’s really what made me preach this today that’s really what brought me to this the Bible says uncharacteristically of Jesus it seems that he ignores This Woman’s PL do you get that you see the tension in the text strangest passage of scripture in the Bible that I’ve read it seems that she
Ignores or he ignores her request he allows her to be subject to The Whispers And the opinions of other people seems that what she’s asking is not being received come close to me now how many of you in your prayer life have felt this way that you brought a desperate demand to
God and yet received no response you you came to God with tears and pleading you came to God with petitions and and anguish and yet there seems to be no response H how many of you know what it’s like to push the plate away
And push it away for days and weeks at a time and get on your knees or sit in your rocking chair and seek God and yet not hear anything back I’m talking about how it feels when it seems that your prayers are going unanswered and I want you to know even
In that season we must be intentional when we’re seeking God and unashamed in our approach to him doesn’t Hebrews say in Hebrews 4:16 let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace that we may receive or obtain mercy and find Grace to help in the time
Of need every prayer is not responded to immediately and while God’s reaction in heaven is it’s already done it takes time many in many instances for you to see the manifestation but but God wants to see how many people he can have that would trust him even when they can’t see
Him that will believe in him even when he’s silent that will continue to follow him even when they don’t see a manifestation notice that the people in the crowd verse 23 start to whisper the disciples said get rid of her master doesn’t have time for her After All This Woman’s not a
Jew she’s not a part of our family she comes out of nowhere with no pedigree we don’t know anything about her she’s just an ordinary person we don’t know what’s going on with the master has too many other things to handle to spend his time dealing with
Her but as if that’s not enough then Jesus responds to her and says it’s not good to take the children’s bread and give it to the dogs now let’s get real let’s get real right here you’re already desperate and he’s called you a dog you you’re already filled with frustration and
Anxiety and he’s ignoring your request you’re already troubled and now he’s throwing shade for most of us that would have been enough to cause us to turn and go home but not her look at what the Bible says this woman does and instead of this woman cursing or getting angry or
Screaming or Hing the Bible says now she goes into a position and starts to worship him on the heels of being told I didn’t come here for you she starts to worship Him Jesus tells I didn’t come for you but the woman looks and says well Lord I came for
You that that didn’t hit Jesus right so then Jesus says it’s not good to give the children’s bread to dogs which indicated she was not a priority to him but she responds to Jesus and says you’re a priority to me because I’ve searched all over and I couldn’t find
Anybody I couldn’t find anybody that could heal I couldn’t find anybody that could help I didn’t find anybody that can make a way I didn’t find any anybody that could calm the storm I didn’t find anybody that could exalt the valley I didn’t find anybody that could lead me
Out of this condition Lord you might not want to but I’m telling you this whatever Crumbs are Fallen I’m going to accept those and friend I got to tell you she she must have been a worshiper in the past she she must have been a worshiper in the past because only true
Worshippers refuse to leave until they get an answer from God see only only true worshippers know how to block out their flesh and get in the spirit realm or only true worshippers know how to get past all of those strongholds and all those satanic thoughts that hit your
Mind and get beyond that and say Lord I’m standing before you as a picture before an everlasting Fountain Lord I’m looking to you for grace and mercy and help in this situation she must have been a true worshipper cuz she understood what it mean to lay in his
Face and I wonder how many of you get up close and personal with Christ when you really need him I wonder how many of you learn what it means to worship Him in spirit and in truth I I’ve discovered I’ve discovered that worship is even more intense and greater when you’re
Going through a storm because God wants to see those of you that would Worship in a storm and not flee those of you that would praise in a predicament and not bow out he wants to find that out the Bible say says this woman was in a
Position where she said master I know that you’re not come for me but I’m going to be intentional about my request and I won’t take no for an answer you’ve got to help me friend I’ve had some people that I’ve seen Afflicted to the point of almost
Giving up but in worship they refuse to take no for an answer I’ve seen people that the doctor says there nothing else we can do but instead of them starting to cry and call the family in they start to worship and they say Lord I know
You’ve got the last say and I wonder how many of you know that’s true today God wants to get us to a place where we’re on our knees because there’s no place on Earth that’s more safe than when a man or a woman is on their knees before God the Bible says in
Isaiah I have set a Watchmen upon the walls oh Jerusalem which shall never hold that peace day nor night you that make mention of the Lord keep not silence and give him no rest until he make his people a praise in the earth you You’ got to be intentional that that
Prayer life you got to have attitude Lord you didn’t answer me today but I’m going to be here the same time tomorrow I’m going to show up the same way tomorrow Lord I know I didn’t hear what I want to hear today but I’m going to peruse your word and find a scripture
That’ll give me Comfort and give me strength and conviction I’ll be right there tomorrow anybody know what it’s like to labor in prayer and worship and to give God the glory in spite of what’s going on and and can I help you right here I’ve discovered that when you
Really worship and you get locked into God and you go behind that Veil that whatever you’re facing you forget about that because now you’re in the presence of God see Jesus’s response I got to clear this up Jesus’s response to this woman was not to destroy her faith but to develop
It because faith is not faith if it’s not tested any anybody can say surely what they believe God for but but not until it’s tested it’s not real faith I mean when you’re on the Mountaintop and when you’re living in luxury and when success is at your door step it’s no
Problem but what about those periodic hindrances in in those Seasons where things should be going up but it seems like things are tanking God needs people that can worship them too what about when your marriage is falling apart and it doesn’t seem like there’s anything you can do about it God
Wants to get you to worship him in that time too this woman here was not willing to take no for an answer here’s the last thing we’re done you know what I Don’t Preach long anymore oh no you you get old and you don’t it don’t take all
Day yeah it does not it does not but but here’s the last thing I want you to see about this woman that we can correlate with our lives being intentional means that you got to have a stand of confidence got to be intentional in your stand of confidence that this woman is
Intentional about her requests because she feels that my time is the right time and I and I guess what I’m trying to say it means that you have to be sensitive to your season to your see life is not linear life is cyclical the greatest things of Life are
Cyclical the things of creation that none of us can alter change orar are cyclical you have summer then you have fall then you have winter then you have spring cyclical you have Darkness then you have light they’re cyclical you have flowers that we call perennials that they die out in the
Winter but they come back in the summer life is cyclical now I know sometimes it seems that the time wasn’t isn’t right and the circumstances aren’t right God wants you to know that this is your season that this woman says in her mind I don’t know if I’ll ever get in his
Face again but now because I can I’m G to make my presence known I’m G to make my requests known and I’m GNA make my confidence known and when she shows her confidence she has an attitude that my faith now has given me an all access path into everything that God has
Promised me that this woman is now determined she says this will not be a season of denial for me but let me get up in his face I’m looking at this camera right now and telling somebody watching by way of stream that God’s telling you if you
Get in his face this morning there are some things that you’ve been praying about that are coming forth in joy and power today if you get up in his face you you got to know what season it is that God has for you and friend I believe this is a season of unparalleled
Blessings I believe that there’s some things springing forth in this season that are going to blow your mind I was not out on my patio last week not this week because it’s cold as can be now but but I was out there last weekend it was extremely hot and I’m trying to figure
Out in January why is it this hot I’m standing out there want to sit out there and just think and I start to go back in the house and then all all of a sudden a beautiful East Wind Blows through circulates my entire patio now instead of me going back in
The house I’m inspired to take a walk and as I walk I’m talking to God saying Lord this is just like you when when we feel like we’re in the heat of life you you send us a fresh wind to bring us comfort and peace and
Strength a a fresh wind that heals us and that helps us in our season of need you know years ago as a child if you would go outside and you would cut your leg or scrape your leg your your mother would put something they call murom I’m showing my age now surley they
Put that murom on there and and it and it would cover over that that particular place and bring some sense of of comfort but now if you cut your leg deeply and they can see infection might set in they had another thing they called Mei and when you put that meate in that
Womb it would sting like hell but Mama knowing it would Sting would get down close to the wound and Start she she start blowing on the womb now I know there was nothing medicinal in Mama’s blow but the fact that she’d get real close to it and start to blow on it brought you a s a sense of peace and comfort and you felt like it was going
To heal right away what am I saying to you I’m saying some of you right now that have been cut to the soul because of disappointments cut to the soul because of discouragement cut to the soul because of bad breaks and setbacks God sees that wound and he’s blowing his holy spirit
Letting you know your season is about to change I’m telling you that because I want you to know don’t get comfortable where you are but get purposefully uncomfortable see the grind can be gruesome but it pays off the hustle can be like hell sometimes but it pays off
Making moves sometimes begins when it seems there’s no moves to make but they pay off talk back to yourself and out of of that frustration and anxiety let God know I’m walking by faith because Faith tells me that there’s a narrow opening and I can get through it Faith tells me
That there is a large Valley but I can go through it Faith tells me that there’s a lot of push backs but I’m going to continue to push myself forward and go through it Faith tells me that I’m not looking at the negative but the positive in life I’m going push past
Whatever condition is coming my way that’s why the old church used to sing every Sunday I’m pressing on the upward Way New Heights I’m gaining every day still I am praying as I onward bound Lord plant my feet on a Higher Ground Lord lift me up and let me
Stand my faith on Heaven’s table land a higher place that I have found Lord plant my feet on higher ground I’m going to my seat but let me tell you this intentional people walk with an attitude that I’m striving to become the best virgin version of myself intentional
People say that trials might come but they won’t break me disappointments might happen but they won’t destroy me I may have come from behind but now I’m here I may have struggled to overcome but now I’m here I may have started at the bottom but now I’m here
In spite of what others might think I’m going to be intentional in 2024 about getting what God has for me do I have just 20 people that can say with me I’m going to be intentional in all of my life’s Pursuits I’m going to do better I’m going to get better I’m
Going to be better I’m going to stand stronger because if God is on my side there’s nobody that can stop me we are troubled on every side but not distressed we are perplexed but not in despair we are persecuted but not forsaken we’re cast down but not
Destroyed you can’t stop what God has started you can’t hinder what heaven has declared is Victorious I need somebody that can wave their hand and say Pastor I’m all in this year I’m intentional about my blessing I’m intentional about my business I’m intentional about my body I’m intentional about my family I’m
Intentional about my life I shall I shall be victorious in Jesus name I’m finished UNF finished and I I love I love this woman in the Bible she she had to come from my hood she had to cuz you got all these Jewish leaders standing around and Jesus in the midst of
Them strong of people all around him and this woman comes out of nowhere and says I’m not from the same side of the tracks but Lord I’m intentional about my blessing and with all of the shade and denigrating terms that are thrown her way she takes them Blow by
Blow and responds Lord I know that this is not your custom but I’m intentional about getting my breakthrough come on deacons preachers come on intentional 2024 being intentional I’ve started this year out trying to reignite each of you to live a better life listen it’s not just just about going to heaven or
About getting fire Insurance the reason why so many people are turned off by the churches because they they they shout in their in their sanctuaries but don’t show up in their communities they don’t show up in corporate boardrooms they don’t show up among the people that are the movers and the Shakers in
Society but God wants us to be intentional that’s why we Aspire for greater because we recognize this is not only a sense of spiritual salvation but it’s personal development it’s personal development that’s right come on baby come on it’s personal development I haven’t even exed
Alt to call yet here they come yes amen come on come come on come on come on come on come on come on get up get up get come on come on I see you come on that’s right come on come on come on see see what I’m talking about look at the
Holy Spirit yeah yeah come on come on come on personal development but no it’s not my job to just stand up and preach and entertain people my job is to try to teach people how to walk every day walk in power walk in wealth walk in worth you notice I preface this message
By saying not only loving God but loving yourself enough to recognize that you’re fearfully and wonderfully made to recognize that God has a plan for you and that God’s taking you someplace that goes beyond your wildest dreams and your human comprehension that that there’s some things that God wants
To have you ever just sat back and thought whoa Lord how’d you get me here that was not the plan but God knows what he wants to do so I’m calling you now the rest of you join these that have come just stand up stand up brothers sisters stand up
Family stand up and come stand up and come be intentional about your life going forward and it begins by you simply standing and accepting what God has for you now listen some have come with no prior experience in serving Christ and there are those of you right now that are
Already Christians but you need a church home you’ve gotten dislocated or you’ve relocated or you’ve been in between churches or you’ve kind of been visiting places but you haven’t made up your mind for today let’s be intentional I need you to get up and come get up and come
Whoever you are whoever you are God is about to plant you so that he can do great things through you yes that’s right come on brother look at God come on come on come on come on come on I need you to step out step out step out
Step out there are people that are ready willing and able to change their lives there’s a shift taking place and God has you in on it I know this is true friend God is doing tremendous things and I need to talk to you just one more minute because there’s one
Person somewhere I know you’re here and you’re holding out not because you don’t love the Lord but because the people there’s crowds of people and you’re concerned about that I want you to stand and we’re going to meet you we’re going to meet you all you have to do a stand
We’re going to meet you where you are so that God can transform your life and change your circumstances who are you who are you come on say keep my keep your hand up me who are you who are you friend just get up just get up I see you
Yes look at God oh yeah oh yeah sunshine and rain is there anybody else if one would come two would come sickness and pain you stretch out God is going to get the victory out of your life all you have to do is trust him enlarge my territory en
Ter enlarge my territory enlarge my ter enlarge my territory yes ter Enlar ter I pray for in Lord say say that say that say it I pr for Inc Spread it out stretch it out embellish enlarge increase flow Lord flow flow through my life that your people may see my your glory in me enlarge bless Bless me increase increase increas increase increase increase increase increase inre tell them Mita tell them more love in in in more favor more favor say come [Applause] On I see you look at God yes come on young people M M M M M bless me indeed yes yes I pray for increase I pray bless me indeed come on somebody shout Harvest and to those of you watching by way of stream friend listen I know this
Message was for you today I know what God is looking to do in your life and you’ve started off this year with tremendous possibilities and a whole arsenal full of ideas you start off this year with the determination to get better to become better to do
Better but you need the power of God in your life you need Jesus Christ to sit on the throne of your heart and Rule and navigate your course friend you can have that today it’s as simple as praying this prayer with me right now Lord Jesus I recognize that I am a
Sinner and I need you to become my savior come into my life Lord Jesus and make me clean come into my heart and make me whole I believe that you died for my sins and that you Rose on the third day with all power in your hands
Put that power in my life that I may be able to live for you I promise to worship you to serve you to shout you out and to praise you everywhere I go and friend if you pray that prayer with me right now you’re already on your road
To recovery just give with a Bible preaching Bible teaching Bible centered Bible believing church and watch God continue to develop you as a Christian believer as a matter of fact we’d love to have you join us at the Fountain of Praise we we have thousands of virtual
Members right here in this church you can join us simply by contacting us at f.org jooin and a care disciple will get with you now to Usher you into this new family God bless you thank God for you somebody shout Harvest amen amen I don’t know what God
Is doing in this church this year and man I tell you amen week one we had 53 people joined here and then last week it was 29 God continues to add to this church that’s because his oil is flowing and we’re grateful and thankful amen and now
There offering time at the fountain of prayer I know many of you watching us online today because this cold weather got next to you you didn’t come out cuz it’s cold it’s 40 something degrees but back where I’m from in Indianapolis it’s 15 below that’s that means you learn to
Thank God for little things I thank God I’m not in a bad shape that they are amen but today let’s give with one of the things we have to do be intentional about our giving and before you give anything make sure that through prayer and expectation
You let God know that I’m sewing the seed into your kingdom Lord that you might not only grow your kingdom but grow my life and all that I do we’re believing God for you today and we’re believeing he’s going to do great marvelous things in your life father we
Thank you today for your word we thank you you today for these Souls that have come we thank you today Lord God for this opportunity to serve you once again and now father we pray that as we give these gifts are pleasing in your sight use them for Kingdom building that your
Kingdom come that your will might be done on Earth even as it is in heaven we thank you and we praise you in Jesus name amen and amen come on co-pastor we got some very special friends here today don’t we we do we do we do I’m so
Delighted about the family to introduce this beautiful couple that Pastor and I have had an opportunity to meet Bernard and Shirley Kinsey are owners of the keny Art Exhibit uh keny art collection which is on exhibit at the Holocaust Museum and many of you know yes y’all
Can go ahead clap for them come on CU they’re come as they’re coming up excuse me many of you know I served on the board and I’m blessed to co-chair this event Barry Mandel is here he is my co-chair wave your hand Barry I’m glad to have you here I also saw Kristen
Albert Lambs who is the interim co-director stand up stand up so I can see you who’s here as well from the Holocaust Museum um I truly am honored to be able to serve in this capacity outside of the Fountain of Praise and to help people come to learn more about uh
Atrocities of the Holocaust as well as human rights and then wonderful programs that come through such as the kiny Art Exhibit we’ve invited them to share a little bit about it today but I want you to follow me today to the museum or come tomorrow to the museum and uh their
Exhibit will be on display until June the 23d but it start it started this week Bernard and Shirley welcome to the Fountain of Praise well thank thank you so much um let me say it this way I’m sitting here and you just filling my heart bless
You Lord okay just filling my heart and and you know we have a saying uh don’t wait to be chosen Choose Yourself okay and um you know it it it’s and and these these sisters back here where are they insane too I mean and that song you all
What what was the name of that song they enlarge me yeah and that’s how that’s how we feel about first of all 57 years marage just put that in perspective understand so when you put that in perspective then a lot of other things come in Florida ANM University
Okay that’s I know we I know we a little outside of our country we did we did win swack this year just so you know all right okay all right okay how about them Tex yesterday oh man boom boom you Know let me say this come come come to the Holocaust Museum Houston we have an exhibition this is our 39th City we’ve been all over the world we’ve been translated in Chinese and Spanish so we want everybody but everything we’ve done for the last 57 years is all about how
Do we put the African-American story in the conversation and all right and we have a we have a concept that you’re going to see at the Museum called the myth of absence and the myth of absence says that we as black people are invisible presences talk invisible presences mean
That we’re here we’re just not part of the story we’re not part of the picture we’re not part of the consciousness of this country and what Shirley and I and our son khil have been doing is trying to put us there and I’ll just give you
One example if you go to the Holocaust Museum we have the doors of no return from slave Coast Castle in Ghana where 4 and a half million of our brothers and sisters went through on the way to the Americas there’s another thing I want you to see that there were black
Soldiers in World War II that liberated the concentration camps you never hear that okay we’re not part so that’s what we’re doing put putting us in the story and let me just say this everybody out here that want to walk on water you got
To get out of the boat got to get out theat okay okay because if you don’t get out of the boat you always and what did you say you got to be intentional go ahead all hey give me some being intentional this morning I just want to make sure that you
Understand with us being here today and inviting you out to the Holocaust Museum of Houston You Are are now ambassadors for that Museum and for the ks collection we’re going to be here through June I want to make sure you know to bring your children it’s very very important Black History Month
There’ll be items and stories and in and and all kinds of things that they can find there to do reports about I used to say that uh as a teacher African-American our kids for Black History Month only heard about three or four people each month in school right
Regardless of what grade you’re in that’s all you got our son used to come home and say it’s a joke bomb I decided that we needed to know more about our ancestry and so I made sure that he every year he had to do a report it had
To be on somebody black who did something there’s one artist in the exhibit Ava cozy when you go there there’s a green dress and she has written in Gold lettering just about every invention that a black person had a hand in doing so it would be great for your kids
Just to go through there and find that and then find out who did that it’s very very important as we understand that our children need to know who they are and whose they are and as I said that our kids only hear that in class other kids only hear
That in class too so all those children grow up thinking the black people didn’t do anything we know better we know better it’s about our Collective ancestry we claim all of these people there as our own and we want you to do the same thank you so much for having us
Here this morning let me just make one more comment we we have a saying that we say all over the world leave the door open and the ladder down let’s everybody say that leave the door open and the ladder down and there’s a saying if you see a turtle on a post he
Had help all right right because everybody in this room had help that’s right so what we have to do is to learn how to open and pull pull and bring each other’s because we got to fight on our hands that’s right that’s right and if we don’t don’t get our butts out and
Vote shame on us okay oh yes I said it so today today I’ll be at the Museum right after church I’m heading over there they’ll be there doing uh tours today and and listen this is a treat all I can say is it’s a treat if you have an opportunity to do the
Tour with them you got a special special treat so this is a wonderful opportunity for you to learn and to gather more information and to be able to teach somebody else about your history okay so let’s see you there today if you can’t come today come tomorrow tomorrow is
Free for Martin Luther King Day 10: to 5:00 pm and some of you may want to come out tomorrow evening to Antioch Baptist Church uh the Kines will be talking with Pastor Lou mroy and they’ll be sharing a little bit more about the history of Freeman’s toown and how that ties into
The art collection as well so definitely we want to see you there okay how many you coming yes yes good okay bring somebody with you God bless y’all thank you I’ll see y’all today y’all stay for another service okay one of our minister is going to take you to the back and then
We’ll see everybody y’all want to go to the lobby or y’all want to go to the back okay y’all sort that out Carrie where Carrie sort it out okay thank you so much all right let’s welcome in our brothers and our sisters who’ve come to
Be a part of the Fountain of Praise so please hold your seats so we can get all of them in I want to bring uh Deacon Dallas Jones up over and as he is saying uh coming up to recognize some of our elected officials that are here with us
Today thank God for you being here and present I want to also let anyone that is being baptized know that baptism has been moved to the fourth Sunday because of the heater in the pool so uh fourth Sunday we look forward to having our baptism service and you want that heater
In the pool you definitely want that today especially I can tell you that all right well you know Mr kinie started talking about voting great segue great segue we’ve got some VIs visitors here we’ve got an election coming up it seems like there’s always an election I know
Because there is so March 5th is the Democratic and Republican primaries early voting starts on February 20th we have some some ladies here visiting with us today I’m I’m going to ask them to stand and be recognized um I’m going to start with someone I’ve known a very long time
Judge Erica Hughes she is running for the 181st civil district Court we’ve got judge Stacy Allen Barrow she’s running for the 487th criminal District Court we’ve got Miss Tasha Francis who I call my cousin running for the 157 civil district court we grew up in the same Hometown Louisiana Believe It
Or Not uh Lillian Alexander running for the 507th family court Ashley May G running for Harris County Criminal Court at law we have Miss sioban Carr running for the probate court number five and we have Carana Cloud running for the 488th criminal District Court good friend good to see you here carvana
Thank you all for worshiping with us this morning they’ll be available in the lobby I think they may have some information at the voters empowerment table please stop by say hello get to meet them co-pastor thank you Deacon Jones all right I want to say happy j13 Founders
Day to the womers of women of Delta Sigma Theta sorority where you at Deltas let’s see you let’s see you let’s see you y’all okay I see some standing but I was going to say come on now represent there y’all are in the back good good
Glad to see you we’re going to take a photo after service today and to the members of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority happy J5 happy Founders Day where y’all at y’all ain’t making no noise this is too early I bet the 10:00 going to really let something out all right we
Come up to the stage we’re going to take a picture right after service and uh Miss Charley is a member of Delta sigment thetus we would love to invite you to jump in our picture as well all right everybody as we stand to be dismissed today also my if you want to
Sing if you you know you got that gift like those praise singers we have auditions coming up check out our page at tfop.org connect for all of the great things that are happening right here at the found praise we pray that the Lord would bless you and keep you and that he
Would make his face to shine upon you that he would turn his countenance towards you and give you his peace God bless you have a great week in the Lord remember this Wednesday the 17th Bible study returns with a brand new series God bless you have a great week and we
Look forward to seeing you next Sunday Members of alpha cap
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