Okay can you see me yes and you can hear me yes and you can see a caption yes yes yes all right it might lag a little forgive me if that happens you know technology is not the best but it works it works when it wants to work amen let’s begin in prayer
Okay let’s pray dear heavenly father I thank you Lord for being our Rock The Rock of Ages Lord thank you for being present throughout time in past present and future and for being available for us Lord no matter where we are in this life in time and in our
Journey of faith I ask that you will be ever so present Lord be even here on Zoom father um use me touch my mouth speak through me Lord and I ask that you may reach every heart and every ear that is listening and may listen um if
Possible I thank you Lord for your love and we pray this all in Jesus name amen amen amen okay so if it starts to lag y’all just talk to me let me know um CU I can’t see what you’re seeing but if you let me know then I can fix it I am
Also going to ask that at this time you unmute yourself unless you know you have a really noisy background going on unmute yourself because since we’re not in person I can’t hear y’all amens amen I can’t hear y’all Mercy Lord amen hallelujah okay I need the oh help us
Father I I I need to hear that while we’re going forth so I can understand that the Lord is moving amen amen amen amen I love it so oh hope this doesn’t St way okay the best sermon I could ever preach and you know what it looks like
It is lagging on my side yes you’re Frozen yeah okay so for the sake of this I’m G to let me come out of here thank you for bearing with me I’m going to stop this share for a moment all Right okay no problem no problem thank y’all for working with me amen okay so I’m GNA open this back up I just won’t turn the camera on and that should be just fine all right all right how we doing amen good good beautiful and I get to
See y’all um well now that I’m like back on the zoom space again if you can please also open up that camera okay I love y’all faces I love to see the the the the hand on the chin or the shock you know I I love that I love to see
Y’all thank you oh my goodness look at look at the Brethren look at the baby look at the sister thank you so much all right here we go let’s rock okay so our Focus text um was read beautifully I’m just going to read it one more time just to get it in our
Meditation and hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us for while we were still helpless at the right time Christ died for the ungodly can someone read seven and eight anyone you could just read seven and
Eight for for a righteous man one for scly for a righteous man will one die yet perad sure for a good man some would even dare to die but God commanded his love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us amen amen thank you so much for reading
That okay so the best sermon I could ever preach is actually what I consider to be a case study of my own life anyone ever heard of a case study in here yeah all you Andrews folks are you Oakwood Oak woodan I don’t know what yall call yourselves have you ever heard
Of a case study I just get a yes or no yes yes beautiful beautiful so um I believe that the best sermon I could preach is a case study that shows how God loved me when I did not love him somebody say my God my God my my God my
God my God I’d like to also suggest amen I’d like to also suggest that your life is also a case study something that someone on the outside can observe even yourself you can observe past time of your story and see the hand of God anybody ever
Took some time just to sit down or maybe it just dawned on you how much God has done for you or the time where he delivered you or moments where you didn’t know it during that time but later years down the line you said wow God was protecting me or he was
Preserving me or he was providing for me anybody have those moments yes yes amen yes amen so your life is a case study we are going to look at the case study of some portions of my life now just a question can y’all see a bar with
Everyone’s videos are y’all able to see this yes yes okay all right so I’ll keep moving it if it gets out the way uh gets in the way case study begins let’s go all right this is also very particip T thing so I’m going to be asking y’all
Questions and feel free to answer um I am from the states I am from Los Angeles California if you want to put it in the chat or you can just uh mention some of the places that y’all are from go ahead and do that now where where are y’all
From where where do you originate from what land I’m from the Bahamas Bahamas and I’m from Haiti Haiti cu cu wow okay Malawi wow look at this uhuh I know there’s more Zambia come on Zambia ah Madagascar come on that’s beautiful well I love it I love it I’m from Los Angeles California
Um and I realize when people ask me where I’m from and I tell them see if I can move this out the way they tend to have this picture oh that’s better they tend to have this image of Hollywood and beaches um and they ask me things about
Celebrities and just you know the Beautiful Life The Sweet Life and I say that’s interesting this is what comes to mind when I say I’m from California or I’m from Los Angeles they imagine that this is what I’m from but I would like to propose and show you all that
Actually the Los Angeles that I come from looks more like this can you see it yes okay this is actually the street um the picture to the far left is actually the the street that I lived on the graffiti these are things that I’m used to seeing the mini markets the bodegas
Um the picture to the far right is actually an image a screenshot from a video I took um I took a vacation back home back in 2022 my first time going back home from being at Andrews and this was the first thing I saw coming home so I get off the plane I
Get in a rental with me and my son we drive home and I’m pulling up to get to the parking lot we have to go through an Alleyway and I’m going to the alleyway and there’s like eight police officers running chasing after two 9-year-old boys who are walking with um they have
Like these BB guns that look more like AK-47s and I said wow this is where I come from this is what home is for me it was a it was a shock but it was something it was a reality check that I needed especially after being in Andrews
In Baran Springs where I don’t see this so much I have been so removed but going home I was reminded this is the Los Angeles that I’m from so a little bit about my Early Childhood I was raised in a low income single parent household um if you look I
Think I was about 5 years old in these pictures and you can see the housing okay can you all see the picture where there’s like two two kids the tree okay so those are if you’re not familiar those are project Apartments project housing which um I know they have them
Like in Benton Harbor and in different areas these this is where I live this was my my neighborhood and I was very accustomed to um gang violence and drive-bys and helicopters and a just a lot of Chaos in that way that was the neighborhood and climate that I I was raised in um
I want to talk about what my faith was at that time what do you see in the picture where I’m standing and I got my arms folded what do y’all see in that picture looks like you dress for church dress for church come on now Hallelujah I’m dressed for church um gift
EAS okay I’m here sorry my son you all know Solomon so um yes I was dressed for church now who can guess just by looking probably what event what holiday what time was it that I was going to church Easter Sunday Easter Sunday Hallelujah yes so you know those
Christians we talk about that only go to church on special holidays great that was me that was my family we were not raised in the church um con like consecutively or continuously we weren’t like at Sunday school all the time and this was this was a Baptist Church um we but we also
We weren’t there every Sunday we weren’t there all throughout the year um Faith was not faith and religion were not things that were deeply rooted in my home in my family but I can tell you this if there was one thing I learned during my Early Childhood at church it was one scripture
And there was one scripture that stayed in my mind the only scripture I knew in the Bible John 3:16 can somebody recite John 3:16 for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believe believeth in him shall not perish but have everlasting life
Amen look at that amen you like you didn’t have to think too hard about that you just that verse is so iconic it was the only verse I knew though in the Bible and that was all that I knew about Jesus that was it let’s see if it’ll work with me okay
So I’m having some lag all right here we go so teenage years I’m going to talk a little bit about my teenage years and again like I said I I was not raised in the church some of you have the privilege of knowing the gospel while you were still
Holding baby bottles praise the Lord praise the Lord um by the time I became a teenager however because there was not enough roots in the Bible in church in God in faith I still needed truth so I went and sought truth wherever I could I was an
Advid reader I loved reading I had boxes and boxes of books you can see some of them um are there any any any books or or titles that stand out to you all yeah what what do you see I Stein relativity there we go what’s another one life the Quran the
Quran Purpose Driven Life Purpose Driven Life interesting one I’ll touch on that in a second Robert’s Rules Robert’s Rules I love that book by the way so I loved learning and I loved learning what seemed true and to be honest I really just wanted to know where to find God but I
Did not have people who could steer me in a direction and say this is where you find god um we weren’t going to church we weren’t reading Bibles we weren’t being evangelized to and our family just wasn’t rooted in it so I didn’t have that the interesting thing is out of all
Of these books which I did read by the age of uh about 1516 um the purpose-driven life was the only Christian book that I owned it was given to me at graduation and I did not open that book because I did not want to accept the Christian
God it is the only book of every book I owned that I did not read and looking in hindsight many years later I said I wish I would have read this book 11 years ago it would have saved me a lot of heart uh heartbreak so what did I believe in I
Believed in solely science science without God because we know that God and science go together but I believed in a science without God you can see under possibly under the the book of Relativity um there’s a book on the principles of energy which says that nothing no energy um can ever really be
Destroyed it is only transferred and that gave me doctrines on life I began to believe that you don’t no one really dies I applied these principles of science without God and with without a balanced understanding I just applied them to philosophies and I kind of created my
Own philosophy like as a conglomerate of all these things that I read so let’s keep going class of 2022 the picture all the way to the left is an image of me and my mother this is my high school graduation I graduated in 20 2012 sorry 2012 um it was very emotional mostly
Because y’all see where I come from I I showed y’all pictures of where I come from many people where I’m from do not go to college they don’t get out of college I mean they don’t get out of the neighborhood to be able to go to college but I was
Blessed with the opportunity to go to not just any college but UC Berkeley anybody heard of that school yeah yes yeah yeah top tier right top tier this is where I went straight out of high school and you can see on the far right this is
An image of me actually on the Amtrak train on my way to UC Berkeley all along and there’s a time stamp on there just to prove it this was August 10th 2012 um and just to give a a bigger image of Berkeley and and and what
Berkeley was at the time back in 2012 UC Berkeley was number 10 in the whole world so they ranked 10 as a university looking worldwide not just in the United States but worldwide this school was number 10 and that’s where I was going a lot of pressure that’s not where people where
I’m from typically got the chance to go now I wonder if I can anyone know how I can move this so that it’s not blocking these titles does anyone know how to get this out of the way so it’s not blocking the whole time you want to move the the
Pictures of the it’s like the bar at the top for Zoom that says like stop video chat that’s that’s you oh great okay good say welcome to college oh wonderful good good good okay so welcome to college this is my first year at UC Berkeley and there are plenty of people I’m
Networking it’s a great time um I actually lived in a house with about 20 people so you got 20 young adults living in the house together and we ran this house as a Cooperative um awesome experience nothing like what I had ever seen in my life before and here we are with some
Students from Stanford University if you’ve ever heard of Stanford okay there we go let’s move into the young adult years though so I’m at Berkeley we’ve been at here for we’ve been here for maybe about a year um these are all my personal images you might be able to spot me if you look carefully um in each image but what did
I think about God at this point remember the books that I was reading remember that I was not rooted in Christ or in church or in Bible at this time but there was one verse that I had ever really known at this point I I believed at the age of 18
That God was you I did not believe in a Supreme Being I believed that each individual person was God and had the power to create like God to um destroy things and I it was a very very mixed idea but this was my idea okay I didn’t believe in
Prayer I would see people praying and I would say who are you talking to right you’re just talking to thin air I don’t do that if I’m going to do something I’m going to make that decision that’s my power as God choosing to do something this was my belief I also got involved
With um the Greek frater fraternities and sororities I’m sorry so if you look to the far right you’ll see um you’ll see me with like a hat on it has Greek letters on it I joined the Sor during my first year in college um which also kind of went into that
Idea of we are Gods everybody um every man can control his own destiny there we go that’s what I believed have you ever heard something like that you can control your own destiny yeah many people believe in it um and I believed in it not in a harmful
Way either it was it was empowering it was um encouraging that if I wanted to dictate and change the course of my life all I had to do was do it now in a sense that can be true but it you need Christ you need God yes right but I didn’t have that
Foundation again at this point you see me with a lot of people in all these pictures I was constantly surrounded by folks I was um always engaging involved I gained some popularity I would just walk down the hall oh hey Janelle hey see people oh across the street hey how
You doing I was I was known I was pretty known um even in different states I was known and in different parts of California I was known because of the work that I was doing um as someone who was in a Greek sorority and also as
Someone who was just very involved in um in social justice that’s my background that’s my history all right let’s progress so here we are I just had to give y’all that background this is really the meat and potatoes here um what’s the date that’s listed on the title September
20 2013 do you remember where you were September 20 2013 anyone nope that was a while ago that was a while ago um but I remember vividly where I was on September 20th of 2013 I woke up in the morning and I was light you ever wake up and you feel
Light and the Sun is just beaming through your window and and you feel like weight you know this is after weight coming off your shoulders and you feel free this is how I woke up that that morning on September 20th I was free and here’s why the night
Before I I didn’t believe in God okay guys I did not believe in God but the night before I had been impressed with this idea to call my father whom I had not spoken to for years years I was impressed to call my father and forgive
Him I was impressed with this concept of forgiving forgiveness and redemption in hindsight y’all what do we call that who gave me that impression Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit the Holy Spirit and that’s just proof even though I did not believe in the Holy Spirit at that time the Holy
Spirit was indeed with me impressing upon my heart to forgive people and I didn’t stop with just my father I started to forgive people who hurt me Years Years prior to that moment and I didn’t know why but it was freeing it was freeing so I wake up the
Next morning from that I felt good I felt like it was a new day and I just wanted I wanted the times to be redeemed who can redeem times God God I hear one voice who can redeem the times for us y’all God God God no one else that’s right that’s
Right but I didn’t know that at the time so my friends are outside in the car they’re they’re honking they’re waiting for me to come down because we are about to drive about an hour and have to Sacramento California to go perform at Sach State University okay so we got a
Performance I get in the car we’re all matching we got our sorority colors on We’re Young right we’re happy and I’m like y’all I am so excited for some reason I just all of a sudden felt like forgiving my father and talking to him and we talked all night and we made up
And things are well and everybody’s like I’m so proud of you you know that sounds amazing sounds like you know life is turning around and you’re turning a new le and as we are on our way while I’m telling the story as we are on our way
Um mind you we were late okay the place we were going to was an hour and a half away but we only had 30 minutes to get there so what do you think the driver did speed oh and that is exactly what the driver did and as she
Sped um mind you so you have the driver I was sitting in the front passenger seat next to the driver there’s three seats this is a small Nissan um Versa if you’ve ever seen that it’s pretty small car good for college kids though there were the the back seat was full there
Were three people the driver’s mom the driver’s baby brother who was about four years old three three years old at the time and then another sorority member so the car is packed we’re all in we’re late she’s speeding there’s four lanes on this freeway and we were in Lane
Three a car cut us off while we were speeding the car spun three times flipped a couple of times and we landed upside down off the side of the freeway so we’re off the freeway now we’re not even on the freeway um but there’s usually grass and Tre trees on
The side of the freeway so we’re jammed into a tree upside down never I’ve never experienced that in my life before um so we’re hanging everything’s hanging right and there’s a branch coming through the window that stops can you see me the branch stopped right here and
It was like it it was aiming to go straight through my cranium but it stopped right here now the glass was shattered glass was shattered I could feel the glass in my eyes you know juice I I think I had like some juice in the car and I remember while the car was
Spinning I said oh no you know my juice I don’t know these were just the Dos that I had and I could literally see the juice flying you know while the car is spinning also in that time for some reason I decided to protect the driver
Because I I heard I could hear that she was scared she let go of the will she didn’t know what to do so I protected her and as a result of that I experienced I received a really bad concussion I didn’t break any bones but every muscle in my body forgot how to
Work W okay thankfully though people pull us out civilians they just pulled this out which was one of those things that in the secular realm I’ll say we CU I’m speaking as a convert y’all I was in the world for a while so I’m going to say we in the
Secular realm we really looked at Good Deeds of humanity when people pull over after they’ve seen you in a car accident and they deci they decide to pull you out of the car they could have kept going but they decide to come and literally help you know the the door is jammed they’re
Doing whatever they can to to drag you out I was was dragged out by civilians not police not firefighters not an ambulance just by civilians keep that in mind this was life after the accident though I felt to mention forgive me I felt to mention that while I was at UC
Berkeley I was actually a double major in architecture and dance theater theater Dance I’m sorry architecture and theater dance you need your body to dance don’t you you yes need your body to dance and I actually had been dancing my entire life and it was all that I knew but at this
Point I can’t even walk here’s a letter that someone um I had to be taken care of I’ll say this I had to be taken care of by fellow peers by other students my family didn’t come to get me they didn’t know what was going on I
Couldn’t reach out to them I couldn’t even even communicate okay because I was always on pain medicine I was stuck in a bed let me just read this letter it says um hello Professor I’m a close friend of one of your students Janelle green I’m writing because Janelle was in a major car
Accident yesterday September 20th she was hospitalized briefly and is now eMobile and on heavy pain medications as a result she will be unable to attend class or complete any home homework at least for the upcoming week now he was being um it was hard to hard to know how long
It would take me to heal so he just said about a week until we knew more information due to being bidri thank you for your understanding so on and so forth um and this was actually to my dance instructor I was always in in the dance
Studio that was my whole life this is who I was this was mainly what I came um what I had came to Berkeley for was to dance I wanted to be a dance instructor to have my dance studio it was the only thing that I knew and I want to share this especially
In the world when you do not have an identity in Christ when you do not have an identity in Christ you’re still going to find something to give you identity and mine I got my identity from dance that was my whole world because I didn’t have anything else that was my
World because of the accident I can’t sit I can’t stand I can barely talk I had to learn how to turn my head again y’all this was exercise from PT just practice turning your head that was all I could do I had to learn how to move fingers move arms move knees
How to walk when I would use um to use the restroom students had to help me do it to shower students they weren’t being paid there was no nurse there was no caretaker but they decided to help take care of me I am trying not to cry right
Now but that’s powerful because they didn’t have to but I can tell you that every student who did it they did it because they knew God Amen I remember being carried cuz my room was upstairs like there were three flights of stairs you had to get to to
Take me to my room someone carried me because I couldn’t walk so they carried me all the way up to my room laid me down a bunch of berley students came in and one of them I just remember her sobbing okay she was sobbing and she
Said God saved you and I said what are you talking about she said God protected you and and she is sobbing okay at my bedside sobbing and and at that time I did not believe in God but when I saw how strongly convicted she was about what she was saying it pierced through
Me and I just want to speak to that we have to have con true convictions about what we say we believe in because those are the things that are going to pierce through the heart that are going to love on others that are going to drive us to do things we normally wouldn’t
Do out of love but it must be a conviction not just a knowledge it has to be a conviction so here I am dance student can’t move can’t dance guess I’m taking the semester off we know that good old withdraw process so I go through the withdraw
Process and what ends up happening is since I withdrew I no longer was receiving student aid which means I couldn’t have student insurance which meant I can’t I couldn’t get physical therapy anymore and I cannot pay for rent anymore so now I’m homeless because
I have no Aid coming in because I am not enrolled life started to slowly unravel from me in every way right let’s keep going let’s talk about the mental and emotional impact I just told you I lost my identity and whether we see dance as something silly simple or not my
Identity died in that car crash have mercy I did not have Vision anymore of what I was going to do who I was who I wanted to be and my what was my purpose in life I didn’t know anymore this is a young 18-year-old girl I didn’t know
Anything anymore I had no guidance I didn’t my family didn’t know what they didn’t really understand what was going on on the other side I had to figure it out on my own young 18-year-old girl from the projects first time in college just trying to figure it out and she slowly
Losing everything in life I went into a depression I’m sure you could imagine I went into a very deep depression and I was angry I was so angry I started talking to that God that the girl came to my bedside talking to me about I said you know
If you’re so great and all why are you doing this to me I don’t hate people I don’t have hard feelings why are you doing this to me all I wanted to do was dance I blamed him and I would yell at him and yell at him but guess what I was
Talking to him wasn’t I God is Not intimidated even when you’re upset even when I was upset he was not intimidated because guess what all he wanted was for me to talk to him Anyway so here we are this is an image of me dancing before the accident but just to show I was always dancing couldn’t do that anymore um and that was also my therapy so what do you do when your primary therapy is now eliminated I didn’t have a backup I
Didn’t know how to take care of my mental health at that time I’m just a kid living alone in a big city so I become depressed and you can see these are images during that time um I just I don’t know there was just this weight this I was just heartbroken every day
Sad trying to figure out why am I here on this Earth why am I here on this Earth and I didn’t have a book to tell me that because everything that I read in my books went out the window I couldn’t stand on it it wasn’t enough for me to
Know who I was and what my purpose was after that car accident so now I’m really confused because I’ve done all this studying with all these different with imams with all these different teachers all these different Fates all these different schools of thought and none of them were
Able to care carry me through this time I was completely lost on top of that and I’m I’m I’m not too far from clothing just so yall know but on top of that I started losing people around me I started losing people around me friend of mine tedu 20 years old
Defensive lineman um for our our our uh football team uh at Berkeley he dies because he was being driven to work harder than what he needed to work he died instantly the school had to pay the family $4.75 million is that a lot that’s a lot of
Money he died from being driven to work harder than he needed to my friend Bryson was on his way to be a bilingual doctor he was a Premed student and also a major in Spanish and he was becoming so fluent in it also 20 years old I
Would watch him study all night all day all night all day all night crazy hours and he was he was retaining but it caught up with him and he died at the age of 20 in his sleep in his sleep have mercy more people at Berkeley were dying students I’m talking about young
Students and it started to click something is what is going on then what are we here for and I need to know it now because if I can die young I want to know that my life meant something before some great God tells me
My time is up I want to know what then what what was I here for okay there was also if you see the two bottom pictures this is actually a picture of the back of my head in front of the police um at the time I was very
Involved there was a the climate was wild um there was a lot of civil unrest you could just be in your room or in your dorm and you hear protesting or you hear yelling and you hear police officers and you hear there’s tear gas there like there was war going on
So not only did I lose my identity I’m losing friends people are dying um I’m feeling I’m feeling more and more insecure about this world about my life then what’s the purpose what am I going to stay here for If all we’re doing is fighting each
Other I just knew something was off and that I needed more so at this time my big questions as you see on the side my big question was why were innocent people suffering you ever heard that before mhm why do innocent people suffer you might even ask yourself that sometimes what did I
Do what I why why is this happening to me I didn’t do nothing wrong that young lady that young man they don’t deserve that why why why are they experiencing this pain this loss that suffering but these are the questions that I needed to ask to bring me closer
To someone that might have answers and who probably had those answers God did God did so I was kind of becoming open to the idea of God I remember I started asking people questions um specifically about Jesus because all I knew was that he died for a bunch of people in the world
That he did not know per se like he wasn’t friends with all them but he he thought it was worth him dying for them so they could live a better life that was the concept I had and even in that concept alone it was powerful because why would this man die
For me and I don’t even I don’t even want him I don’t even like him I started asking questions I didn’t have any answers yet I just started asking questions can someone read this title anyone not Dr Han Jeremiah 333 call to me and I will answer you thank you amen thank
You and that’s what I did and this would be the final Act of this whole story that I’ve been sharing with you this is my case study call to me and I will answer you I didn’t have answered remember everywhere I looked around me things seemed to be completely dismantling falling apart everywhere
Around me I would look and all I saw was Brokenness inside Brokenness I did not know where to go or what to do and so I actually started to develop suicidal ideation and I thought you know this is not the world that I want to live in if
This is what life is going to be this is not where I want to be it was during my attempt before I made the attempt I kind of gave God not an ultimatum but I said you know and that’s to show you how serious I was I was at
The very edge I had nothing left and I remember I I looked up and I tell you my fists were bald and I said if you really are God then talk to me or show me something right now and he did amen it’s interesting because even in that
Moment I didn’t have a lot of Hope but there was this tiny very small like I’m asking this I don’t think he’s going to answer but I actually hope he does I hope he says something because this would be a sad way to end it but I was
Willing but God I called to him and he answered hallelujah amen and that is the first day that I was able to acknowledge God as the god amen Amen on that day he showed me that love that we read in Romans he showed me his love was I the
Ungodly yes I was I actually would try to I would tell students believe in anything but Jesus believe in anything but those crazy Christians they’re just sheep they even call call themselves sheep they just follow a leader they don’t think for themselves I was the ungodly I was The
Sinner but what but who died for me Christ Christ Christ died for me y’all amen he really died for me some of us won’t even die for the people that we do love the people that we do like he died for me when I was in opposition towards
Him so this is my final sum here I truly thank God for the Christians who did not shame me for what I looked like or what I had on they too were case studies and I would watch them closely y’all I wasn’t Christian but I watch watched them all the
Time and you know what I saw I saw Joy I saw a forgiveness and they had a type of peace that I just didn’t have and I didn’t get it but I I watched them they were always kind they were always kind to me they were case studies for
Me let your life be a case study all nations let your life be a case study so that when someone is watching you or when someone hears you they will see and hear the love of God amen amen amen I’m going to read these text for a final
Time and God does not disappoint does he disappoint y’all I’m sorry and hope does not disappoint God does not disappoint indeed but hope does not disappoint I’m sorry because the love of God has been poured out within our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us for
While we were still helpless at the right time Christ died for the ungodly for one will hardly die for a righteous person though perhaps for the good person someone would even dare to die but God demonstrates his own love toward us and that while we were still sinners
Christ died for us amen amen amen I have a call to action for you all if if you have not been recognizing your life as a case study if you don’t know what it would look like to continue to allow your life to be a case study
For God to use you for got to be involved if you’ve been watching other people as case studies I want to make this an invitation an invitation for you to say on your own to God I want you to use me amen make my life a
Case study so that when others see me they will see the love of God and if you’ve never started that case study yet but you’ve been watching others this is also an invitation I’ve been seeing people with so much kindness and joy and peace I’m sorry and I just don’t
Have that but I’m interested may I too have a case study Lord so that I may see the love that you have for me let’s pray dear heavenly father Lord you are amazing you are amazing and we cannot praise you enough we thank you Father for being the
God who delivers the God who hears The God Who is is with us father every step of the way even as we were in the womb Lord you knew us and you know us right now help us dear God to open our hearts as the spirit and the bride say
Come help us Lord take from those Waters that you have offered us help us Lord not to den not to deny others of taking from the water of life but to bring them closer to you or to bring the water to them Lord may we too be springs for those who are
Looking for purpose looking for understanding looking Lord for you and looking most importantly for your love I thank you Father father and I pray that you will be with us not just today but this week as we interact with others as we reflect bless our hearts Lord to exemplify the love of
Christ and even if we fall short help us to come to you and be honest about it Lord and to ask you to fill our cups so that we may love others the way that you have loved us I pray this all and I thank you Lord in Jesus name amen amen amen
Amen praise the Lord praise the Lord there is a place hold Qui with r near to the heart of God a place where sin cannot more near to the heart of God oh Jes Jesus bless Redeemer near to the heart of God oh as who we wait for you near to the heart of God there is a place oh sweet com for near to the heart of God a place where savior near to the heart of God oh Jesus bless redeem near through the heart oh
God hold us who we wait for you here through the heart of God oh as who we wait for you near to the heart of God near to The um at this time we will have our closing prayer it doesn’t mean that we have to you know V after this but you know I just want to just formally close our worship let’s bow our heads Father in heaven we thank you for being with us today
For the time we’ve had at the beginning of the Sabbath School talk where we talk about prayer through the Psalms and then for the various aspects of worship during your Divine hour we thank you for the message that we re received today the powerful words that were shared through
Chanelle thank you for using her today we ask that you will remind us and continue to remind us that our lives are our um our lives that you’ve given us to reflect you help us to do so better and better each day as we study your word
And as we commune with you we thank you and we ask that you will be be with us through the remaining portion portion of this day in Jesus name we ask these things amen amen amen as as Ian said we don’t have to Vose right away you can sign off when
You’re ready but we can also spend a little time of fellowship and and as we do when we’re in person in church uh and I’d like to start it off by saying Janelle how much I appreciated you sharing your case study with us today and reminding us that each of Our
Lives can be a case study in God’s grace and love and his trans forming power if there’s anyone else wants to say thank you to Janelle you can do that or share other words of greeting and fellowship as we wish each other a happy Sabbath here today anyone else was blessed by the
Message praise the Lord hallelujah happy Sabbath everyone happy Sabbath happy Sabbath and I just wanted to join in thanking Janelle for sharing her testimony and just reminding us reminding me about the power of God and how he is patient and longsuffering and what that looks
Like and so I thank you for sharing and also the call to action just to be reminded that um our lives can be a case study so amen amen amen yes yes uh I just also want to thank everyone and also our preacher today you know sharing a life testimony you have
To be vulnerable you have shared some information that uh for you to share with us number one we see the trust that you have uh for the members and you have used the case study of your life that some of us have a privilege of knowing
Not only uh to use it as something we have heard but also to teach us to be mindful of every everything that we do because um at least sometimes if you know that you are a case study you become more attentive to everything that you are doing but sometimes we forget
That while we are observing others others are also looking at us so it is so powerful God bless you and uh I hope it’s a good for all of us amen amen anyone else would like to say happy Sabbath greeting or response to the message today feel free to unmute your
Microphone and let us hear your voice good to see all of you together with us as we Fellowship by zoom on this cold winter Sabbath sorry go ahead Harry P Harry this is a very wonderful message and I say God bless you for the message that
Has touched most of our hearts God be with you amen amen just want to welcome Pastor Shaka yes happy Sabbath everyone I sadly I was trying to see if I could catch the message but I I can see at least I can say I caught the messenger and the people of God
So gretings greetings greetings greetings greetings and God bless you all thank you thank you it is recorded so yeah oh praise the Lord amen thanks again Janelle for that inspiring message and for um for you being strong enough to share that message um I’m sure it took you a
Long time to put this on paper and feel comfortable in a place comfortable enough and I’m glad we were the ones who were the recipients um so uh it is very inspiring and it’s just another remembrance and how God works in our lives and I think I sent you a
Little message saying God was with you when you were born you just didn’t know it you weren’t ready um and then he was there when you were ready so thank God for that amen amen okay well thank you so much everyone for participating thank you Ivan for leading
Out and again uh thank you Janelle and may the Lord uh keep this word fresh in our hearts all through the week ahead of us until we see see you on Wednesday evening those who are able to get to the prayer meeting at 7 o’clock and see you
Next Sabbath and we gather together on God’s holy Sabbath day amen
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