When he got ready to work with his clay he would go to the Quarry okay and he would get clay and and does anybody know what clay dirt is amen that’s a red substance where you know some people back uh some people even now eat the dirt because it’s
Sweet they say I don’t know amen ah but he would gather the dirt put it in his bucket and bring it back to the house amen how many of you uh have ever as children played in the dirt Maj your little um uh biscuits and cookies and
Pies and things of that nature and then when you got a some good soil you would Pat it out and get an old can and cut it out and make a biscuit just like Mama would been there done that but when he looked at the
Clay he could see the clay was a mess because initially it was unidentifiable he didn’t know exactly what it was going to be but the shaper knew the shaper had already envisioned in his mind what he was going to do with the clay amen and the message was to the
People of Israel Israel was a mess and what we say a mess is is something that’s disordered untidy offensive in a state which everything is is out of order well I’ve been there done that and I don’t want to be in that state again hallelujah amen amen the Lord the scripture says the
Lord let him here hearing hearing the word of God and he sat there and he absorbed everything everything the Lord had to say but the message was to the children of Israel you know the children of Israel were God’s people he loved him so loved them so but you know what God was
In a one way relationship anybody ever been in didn’t feel good huh God has feelings too God loved his people but one thing I want to mention that God remember God formed Adam from clay so that’s a very familiar well Jeremiah should have been able to identify with
That my mother always said grass does not grow where children play is that right amen children have acid feet it’s something about the bottom of their feet that causes grass to wear away quickly amen amen amen but you take that lump of dirt put a little water with it
Amen we got some we had something to work with amen but he noticed as the Potter began to spin the wheel he began to feel some things in the cray in the clay nowadays the clay is sifted because there’s a process it has to go through through but back in Jeremiah’s days
There was no process he had to put the clay on the wheel add the water and anything that he felt in the clay he had to pull it out he had to pull out sticks he had to pull out uh Stones maybe he found a gym in there who
Knows but he had to pull out as they called cuab bugs and birds in order to um make the clay pure but I wanted to mention that the the topic I I want to bring to you is the whe and the F amen the F of God yeah when we got
Saved we made ourselves candidates for the wheel amen we got saved but there were still some iner affections in us I know it was with me amen I had some there there was some some friends of mine that Drew me to my home church and they would tell me all
The time Joanie o Joanie if you you got to be careful what you ask God don’t ask God to be in his will because you you asking him something you going to have to go through a suffering I’m a Bab baby Saint didn’t understand but as I grew I began
To understand that the will of God is best for us amen so because what that means is we are in his hands and if we’re in God’s hands he can do as he pleases and it’s going to work out for our good so a song as said the safest place
The safest place in the whole wide world is in the will of God and I wouldn’t have it no other way for my life what about you would you have it any other way now if we’re going to be stubborn about it that’s a different thing I
Always say to ELD when we’re in the street going from place to place he likes to take the scenic rout around I said baby the shortest distance between any two points is a straight line oh yes but when you ask God for his will amen you Woo hi God’s will you’ll get from point A to B in a short period of time but when you decide to go your own way oh yeah it takes longer and you go through stuff I mean stuff that you just don’t have to go with and it means you no good but God’s
Will woo thank God for his will the perfect will of God is the safest place amen amen I thank God for his will you know when the word came to Jeremiah it was for him too it was for him because like I said he was a wher he didn’t want to go he
Cried and whine he was weeping for Israel but he whined because of himself he was in himself but we thank God for his will I’ll have it no other way for my life and as I matured in the Lord I understand the will of God Come on put your hands together hallelujah oh Yeah for the rest of my life for the rest of my life for the rest of my life life for the for the rest of my life for the rest life I Ser for the rest of my life for the rest life I’m trust so good to me so good to [Applause] me For the rest of my life rest life I TR for the rest of my life for the rest of I serve him for the rest of my life for the life I trust him I he been so good to me so good to me yeah My life I Ser it I Ser for the rest of my life for the rest I’ll I So good to [Applause] Good I the I Ser the Lord I the Lord I the Lord I Ser the Lord I Lord I don’t know about you what you love to do Ser [Applause] Ser I Ser the I Ser the Lord I the Lord I the Lord I you won’t be up this
Morning to be on my way put on know my God is make those different what’s the doctor report his right here his right I serve the Lord I Ser the Lord I serve the Lord I ser some of you this even sitting in your seat trying to be you serve the Lord
Giving yourself a reason serve the Lord not to serve the Lord serve the Lord I serve the Lord Ser the Lord I serve the Lord Ser the Lord I serve the Lord the rest of my for the rest of my for the rest of my life for the rest of come on put your hands together and give give God a praise in Here come on put your hand Together can y’all do this real quick just open up your M say I serve the Lord I serve the Lord I serve the Lord I serve the Lord I serve the Lord I serve the Lord I serve the Lord I serve the Lord serve I serve him Ser I’m going to serve
The Lord Ser Ser Lord I serve the Lord I serve Lord LIF your hand as our Ser for the rest of my life every single day because I believe that Ser Lord will pay off I don’t know when I and I don’t know how I Ser Ser him serve him lifes
Ser for the rest the rest life for the rest of my life life oh yes for the Come on clap your hands and give him praise come on clap your hands and give him praise clap your hands and give God praise yes thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you thank you thank You Yes Lord listen now now this is a conference meant to minister to the workers and I don’t know about you but I grew up here and the old Saints say serving the lord will pay off then one of the old Saints would put another scripture with it say
Weeping may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning I need you to look at some somebody and say keep serving him and it’s going to pay off after a while look at him and tell him I believe he day is coming any day now come on look at
Somebody say any day any day in now any Now yes Lord look at somebody and just say any day any day any day any day any day any day any day so what do I do while I’m waiting to way till the Battle Is Over shout right now shout shout right Now hallelujah hallelujah yes Lord I I tell people this I say I’m never one to waste a good praise moment but I’d like to capitalize off of the praise moments and the reason I I do that because I believe there Strength In Praise we’re gathered here today with pastors and missionaries evangelists
Teachers and preachers and God comes to strengthen Us in this moment and strength comes through our praise and some of y’all just sitting there looking like you don’t need God to do nothing but I believe there’s about 15 to 20 people that say preacher I need a touch
From the lord well I heard it said like this when Praises go up look how some of y’all still sitting there looking blessings come down but I believe that when Praises go up the blesser himself comes down I dare you to send up praise and watch the Lord come and touch you right
Now come on somebody give it Praise somebody giveing Glory yeah yeah yeah yeah yes thank you God don’t try to be cute just let go and let God have his way take this moment and give God praise come on praise him with your hands and praise him with your Feet yes Lord yes Lord yes Lord hold on can y’all do me a favor just real quick I want you to look at your neighbor and say neighbor as we praise God there will be a lifting there will be strength there will will be renewed Joy there will be renewed peace there will
Be renewed hope look at him and say Don’t just look at me praise him but help me praise him help me lift him up help me Magnify Him help me give him glory come on somebody give him glory right Now Somebody give him Glory Yes Lord yes Lord yes Lord Listen listen stay right there the Lord laid this on my heart to just testify real quick cuz I’m I think I’m going to help somebody here March of last year we paid off our church building on the 31st Friday morning Friday night a tree fell into our church
Building and we were dis place from March up until Sunday before last superintendent as the building got through the insurance told us that they were going to cover chairs in the sanctuary then they came back and said they wouldn’t cover the chairs I went in a finished sanctuary not knowing how we
Were gonna get in there super Bishop I even told him I said y’all if we got to just come and stand in here and do a BYO seat everybody bring your own chair but we going back home the Lord told me just like I made the way for you to get the building
Restored you better know I’m going to make the way for you to sit in the building and praise me I said all right Lord I was laying in my bed and the night before I heard from anybody about any chairs I got up out of my bed and
Every every now and my wife will see me do this I’ll just sporadically praise her I got out of my bed I Just and she looked at me and I looked at her and I just kept On one of my members inboxed me early the next morning said pastor I see somebody with an ad that’s giving away chair now normally so you know we we we ain’t listening too quick to that I said all right I’ll tell you what I said reach out to them and
See what they talking about she text me back five minutes later said it’s a big old Baptist Church in Mississippi trying to give away some chairs I said okay ask them how much they want it was only a 100 in 22 chairs I said forget it I’ll
Take whatever went to the church looked at the chairs I asked them how much do you want now anybody that knows anything about chairs you know it’s about $10 to $1,000 the man looked at me he said I tell you what he said give us $3,200 we’ll give you 122 chairs I said
All right fine told my my C CFO and I said we’re going to go back the next day and get them I went back home I laid down my mama said Charlie God’s going to work something else out for you I went back home I laid down I got up again and I
Started I got a call the next day from the pastor of the church said you know what I like to know who we’re blessing and I went on YouTube I heard one of your messages and I want to give you those chairs plus 300 other chairs then
He called me back and said I got 500 more I want to give to you Saints we got chairs and we a have to do nothing for it all I’m trying to tell you is when you praise him he’ll do what you need him to do I don’t know what you need but
Just praise him right now come on praise him praise him right now somebody Praise Him somebody Praise Him yes Lord yes Lord somebody Praise Him somebody give him glory sering the Lord will pay Off hallelujah Hallelujah got to move on just give him Glory yes Lord we got to move on I want you to do me a favor clap your hands and give God the best praise you can give him right now come on open up your mouth clap your hands and praise him like you love him praise him like you love [Applause] him we got to move on but Saints the glory of the Lord is here the glory of the Lord is here I know that our Bishop has labored before the Lord for this moment and this moment God is moving on our behalf we thank God for our Monday night and our Tuesday
Night and God is going to move tonight as he’s done each night I believe God look at somebody and say I believe God say it like you mean it I believe God at this time my superintendent superintendent Carl irons is coming from the new Millington district and he’s
Going to lead us in the ministry of giving and after superintendent Carl irons has come we’re going to hear from Elder Tony irons our jurisdictional secretary with Conference highlights let’s say Amen as they come in that order amen As We Worship the Lord in the ministry of
Giving the best investment on this side of Heaven is in the ministry of giving you can give your way out of debt I’m a witness I told the Lord get me out of debt and the Lord got me out of debt and I went back in
Debt but you can give your way out of death the Bible lets us know give and it shall be given unto you good measure pressed down shaken together and what running over that lets us know that we hold the measure in Stick ah and I’ll have who men to give
Into your bosom amen we’re here to Worship the Lord amen the house I don’t think the house has been addressed but we thanking we praise God for those that are here we praise God for our Bishop amen God bless you Bishop we praise God for mother Pina
Praise God for the executive board the Bishops that are here God bless you and I just want to say that I appreciate our leader I was telling someone that the Lord has made him a distribution center amen amen lights God that has made him a distribution center to be a blessing unto
Us amen the pallets have been a blessing we’ve gotten three pallets the pallets have been a blessing amen and the cost for the pallets is minimal oh but you’re talking about amen good stuff when I say good stuff good stuff is no junk and we thank
Him we praise God for him amen I’m here I’m going to ask the executive board Amen to join me in giving a $50 offering on today amen as I digress you that made pledges we’re asking you to make those pledges as soon as possible we realize a conference like this amen requires
Expense and so with that we want to be a blessing oh I can say that pastors when we have revivals and the revivals amen we look at uh the meetings and the revivals that we have and the money falls short and so we ask God and we
Look to God but then we also ask the members to give and when you ask God Will Supply I’m going to ask amen you that haven’t made your pledges pastors elders missionaries make those pledges and then the offerings the special offerings from the church amen it’s $200 give that I’ve
Already paid mine I paid mine on Sunday via cash cash out and you that are watching us online you can give three ways you can give by cash app you can give by Gil gifi and also by PayPal so I’m asking the executive board to join
With me and giving a $50 offering we’re asking the missionaries to give a $25 offering the pastors to give a $25 offering and I hope and I trust that no one will give no less than $20 on tonight amen it’s a blessing to ourselves when we give and let me say
This I remember when sister irons and I got married and then we were at Pentecostal Temple and at Pentecostal Temple when Bishop J prison senior will ask for a special offering at the end of the services and uh I couldn’t help but to give sister IR
Was newly saved and she said that I would give my bill money and I would call Memphis like gas and water I don’t have it all right now I’ll pay so much now and I pay so much later I did that with the phone company I did that with
Other Lo loaning institutions but I’m here to tell you that God will bless you when you give amen all of a sudden amen the promotion start coming I would leave one company and they would give me a a significant increase oh I will leave there and go to another company and the
Increases started coming and God blesses give it shall be given ah God is true to his word and I say that you can work the word when you obey it amen everybody standing let us give thanks As We Worship the Lord in the ministry of giving now gracious and eternal God we
Thank you and we praise you and we glorify you and we lift you up there’s none like you in all the Earth and oh God we thank you that as we come oh God preparing to worship you in the ministry of giving we pray that no one will
Suffer for the gifts that they give unto you God we pray that each hand is stretched forth toward the offering receptacle that you would stretch your hand back to theirs oh God bless us accordingly not just 30 not just 60 but oh God we’re declaring 100 fold blessings manifold blessings and more
For your people in Jesus name thank God Amen and amen we asking the ushers Amen to direct You $50 Bishop right amen if you like me to acknowledge your offering I’ll do That morning on my my table come On wonderful and wonderful wonderful Wonder all of my you you [Applause] wonderful me on my way on my table Me up this morning me on my way T My Washingt amen thank you sir God bless our Ushers God bless bless you all and good evening Tennessee Central we are in our third night of our 2in one conference and what a time we have had amen just a couple of quick highlights and I’ll get out of your way one registration to everyone to all of Tennessee Central family members friends
Registration is still going on if you have not done so you still have’t opportunity to register basic registration is $20 and executive registration is $60 which includes two breakfast tickets for our breakfasts on Thursday and Friday beginning at 900 a.m. in the morning specifically on tomorrow at 9:00 a.m.
Our breakfast speaker is none other than superintendent Bobby Kinton do we have any persons from Brownsville District in the house who can get excited for superintendent Bobby Kinton amen also as my uncle superintendent Carl irons mentioned to all of us that have made pledges we want to encourage you to stay committed to
Your pledges to those of you who have not made a pledge feel free to do so even if you aren’t a member of Tennessee Central jurisdiction if you’re a friend if you are family to the jurisdiction you are welcome to join in with us to support the efforts of this meeting Amen
On tomorrow on tomorrow also I just want to retract let’s keep superintendent Bobby Kenton in prayer as well he recently just lost his brother superintendent Kenton we are praying for you and the family also on tomorrow you don’t want to miss our power pack empowerment day sessions on tomorrow and during this
Time we have some very capable gentlemen lining up as facilitators from the Executive Board of the jurisdiction beginning at 10:30 in the morning we will have Pastor Tracy Boyd up first with understanding emotional Fitness and mental health then we will have qualities of a good leader by none other than Bishop Joseph
Fiser amen financial literacy in the church superintendent Andrew perena will be facilitating that session and then we will have a must workor mentality a team approach for making it happen by none other than Dr J Anthony Taylor amen also to All General Assembly delegates to all delegates registration will close this Friday March
22nd at 11:59 p.m. so to all of our our members who are delegates to the general assembly for the Church of God in Christ’s April call General Session you have until Friday at 11:59 p.m. to register email has been sent to All delegates and I’m going to take this
Honor and privilege to uh use some verbiage and quote like our chairman I want everyone our a chairman I would like for everyone to keep these dates in mind June 10th through the 15th 2024 as our chairman would say all roads lead to Jackson Tennessee for our aim convention
2024 during this year’s aim convention we have some special things happening some new incentives some new ideas and we want everyone to be on Board Registration will begin for the aim convention this coming Friday evening just letting you all know information special information will be forthcoming
But we would like as an aim Committee Member we want to see your face in the place and I know our chairman will be more than happy to see your support and to receive your support as well The Bishop’s Golf Classic April 8th 11 a.m. hosted by none other than our own
Jurisdictional pret Bishop Brandon B Porter that classic will be taking place April 8th at 11:00 a.m. at the Pine Hill 11:00 a.m. yes at the Pine Hill Golf Club in Memphis Tennessee registration fee is $100 $100 and you can register at the Bishops gool classic.com or for more information you can dial
9015420606 brother my friend a mentor my fraternity brother of the alpha alpha Fraternity Incorporated my brother and again Mentor he was someone that I looked up to as a teenager he’s one of my favorite preachers growing up so we you are in for a treat by none other than
Administrative assistant pastor John B Smith on this evening God bless you Sir these have been your Conference highlights on this evening please draw your attention to our evangelism president who has one brief announcement for you all as well amen God bless you on tonight can somebody put their hands together and give God a praise honor you Bishop thank you for
This opportunity to be able and uh to to speak for the Evangelist Department uh somebody say evangelism evangelism evangelism is a very important part of our ministry and we want to make sure that our Tennessee Central evangelist department is visible uh tenness we will be having uh we’re putting together now
A uh 2024 it’s going to be called a 2024 Fire Conference many of you might have seen a little graphic I had out there that I put together it was a Spring retreat but uh Bishop I was late because the Holy Ghost was dealing with
Me uh tonight no just kid Y come on y’all ain’t going to lie anyway uh but no I was um the the Lord said change it uh we’re going to have it’s going to be called the 2024 Fire Conference which stands for uh where did I wrote it down fueling internally revealed
Externally fueling internally revealed externally um and of course you know our theme for for the years we have work to do uh so April the 19th and 20th it will be at Harris Chapel there in Millington Tennessee Pastor Dixon is going to be our host that’s April 19th and 20th um
There will be registration uh there’ll be registration out in the hallway you all can register and get more information on that uh we’ve got several different local people and uh on that Saturday I do want to mention because our goal is to reach the community on that Saturday we’re working
On getting the naval chaplain uh to come to uh our brunch we’re having a brunch on Saturday there will be Revival fire and some other things going on on Friday night but on Saturday we’re trying to get the naval chaplain to come and uh minister to our evangelist and just
Share with how he deals uh with the soldiers because y’all know we soldiers in the army of the Lord and how he even deals with the soldiers and ministering to them in their time of distress so uh we’re working on that there will be some Street Ministry and some other things
Going on so we will be in the new Millington the new Millington District we’ll be in that area but we will be at Harris Chapel that will be on April 19th and 20th see myself uh and also the elect lady evangelist candra first lady Springfield and some of the
Other workers can give you more information God bless you can we say amen amen at this time we’re going to have a special get vaccinated ten moment and after that we’re going to have Pastor marles flowers who’s going to come with the presentation of our Bishop let’s say
Amen at this time we’re going to have Pastor flowers he’s going to come and bring our Bishop to us let’s say Amen can we say praise the Lord Lord can you imagine what the Lord can do with all the faith in this room tonight Anything Could
Happen amen with all the faith that is in this room tonight I’m blessed tonight to be here amen because God has been good to me I am here tonight to present to you our leader a man of Faith amen he cannot help help it because we were birthed out of Faith
Amen this jurisdiction he follows amen second in succession to the leader organizer of this jurisdiction Bishop WL Porter a great man of Faith oh you ought to say amen amen I honor God tonight to be blessed to be standing here amen because of faith I am honored tonight to be present
To you my brother my cousin my leader Bishop Brandon B Porter say amen for [Applause] Him thank you Pastor flowers amen God bless you why don’t you turn to someone and say I’m so glad you came to church amen y’all y’all came on in and I was about to ask if we could cap about 25 more women tonight amen the women have
Had a great sharing in this meeting come on give it up for our ladies thank you lady papina please be seated I won’t be Bel long we want to hily get the messenger up we do have a preacher in the house on tonight and and we wanted to celebrate
Our own this year amen we’ve got some of the thank you Pastor Singleton and you’re sharing and all of our um administrative assistants Bishop fiser thank you sir and um ministrative assistant Norman and of course our speaker Smith and Taylor thank God for Bishop Barber amen my brother love you
Man of God Amen he is a humble and integral person and we appreciate you man of God and your commitment as long as you’ve been a part of Tennessee Central you’ve done it full throttle and even driving up this week we appreciate him and y’all continue to pray for the
Success of the Venture that God has put on his heart with the great people that are following him amen amen Bishop Wright love you man of God good to see you God bless you thank you for allowing your wife to minister I wasn’t able to come but they told me she
Ted a good lesson and somebody told me they said she talked about um submission I said oh yes I’m what were y’all here were y’all here ladies were y’all here for it I’m I’m going to go back and watch it so I can see how many of y’all were standing up
While she was talking amen that is a true teaching so I forgot who was telling me about it but they said Bishop you going to want her at your church with that I think it was Andrew some don’t act like it wasn’t you you know it was superintend Pita and he said you
Going to want her at your church with that I said really did it help yours I’m like so uh I uh I’m thankful all of our superintendant will you praise God thank you thank you thank you superintendent irons he has a tremendous testimony in
His life every time I look at him I see a miracle I thank God for him all of our can you give all of our superintendants a hand come on good to see Pastor Bryan here love you man come all the way up from Atlanta and Pastor Griffin bless you man of God
Came all the way from Memphis thank you all uh for joining in with us tonight and to all of our pastors if you’ve got the best pastor Make Some Noise if you got all [Applause] right I’m glad to hear that now make sure you keep that sound keep that sound around the appreciation
Time we thank I want to thank you for your your continued support your continued support um to the conference and you know we have our pledges as you heard superintendent irons mentioned thank you as they’re still coming in it costs money to do ministry amen cost money to do ministry
I was just in asking getting a little warming here because here in the state Temple that you know God blessed our founding leader uh Bishop WL Porter don’t we miss him amen and mother Porter amen and thank you program committee for putting their photos in the program um but when we purchased this
Church that big Bower in the basement and it survived for a while this is how many years we’ve been here now what years 42 y’all don’t have it on the program is it 42 now and um since 81 you do the math um and that boiler went out and
Nobody we could get to revitalize I wanted them to repair it I said new wood because I knew that would cost and so thank God uh with the uh flowers and local Pastor meeting with some of the various ones we were able to um get a whole new heating system put in this
Church amen and we had to bypass the baller right and they put it underneath the the church and so logistically and we were able to do that it cost right at about $60,000 uh did you all get the notice to your churches about the donations we
Needed to pay for it did you get the notices to your churches I’m asking you did you get the notices to your churches no oh you know why because we tithe yes sir and that’s why your tithe of tithe is in supp I know jurisdictions that can’t put a water fountain in without
Having a rally amen but we’re able to have some strength because we have faithful tithing churches listen when you tithe I’m saying it’s not just for the church you be a tithe at your local church quit robbing God Amen somebody come on why can’t we do this
Why can’t we do this you ain’t got no money if you give then the church can live and you can Thrive you can make things happen you can pave the parking lot and knock down some trees get some more chairs and other stuff that you got
To do cuz he got to have more than chairs amen and that’s going to take TI and offerings keep supporting your local churches members members are you going to be a member and you don’t support it he somebody just got to saying they were alfha I think
That was Tony they have dues they had to pay that stuff both of my son are alphas and I’m still trying to figure out why but anyways when I saw all the stuff they were doing I’m said I’m paying for this all the stuff they were doing I’m like what in the
World but if you want to be a part of something you going to have to pay and if you’re going to be faithful in church do that do you hear me the Lord’s bless how many you blessed let me see hands if you’re blessed who blessed
You God did amen and He blesses people to bless people and to bless the first responsibility from your income is your the ministry of the Lord and then your family and then you to give to others cheerfully so thank you but so we’ve got good heat in here because uh we have
Supporting churches and continue to do so your money is going to good usage tonight we’re favored and I can’t talk enough about the women’s department and our supervisor and the great say amen for my wife lady Melody amen and the great work they have been
Doing I do want to pause because I had to slip out because Dr shiron Westbrook you know her mother is pass but her father is living in California and she just got word from her brother that he had a stroke and was nonresponsive and so we went out to pray
With her she’s leaving now to go back to Nashville to get on a flight to get to California uh to be with her father so we all keep her in prayer if you would uh I know trouble is happening but we believe God don’t we amen we rebuke death right now
In the name of Jesus Hallelujah lift your hands say Lord we believe you amen send strength there now in Jesus name amen and amen listen tonight I don’t want to T longer I want you to prepare your hearts one of the sons of this jurisdiction and uh he’s preached in the
National meetings and he walks with a statue with a certain dignity and sophistication he is respected within the National Church and throughout the Brotherhood uh by many and noted as one of our promising preachers in the Church of God in Christ we’re proud he’s come from good stock amen that’s right amen
UK that’s Churchman um Dr Rita Smith Rita Smith amen uh who was intergal in helping uh the late Bishop W Porter bring this jurisdiction to where it is now amen amen and he would always brag about that he had the biggest little church in anywhere because whatever you asked the
Big churches for his little church came up with it quicker he knew how to make things happen we would take him around to teach with our marriage seminars and his son is doing marriage seminars even with his beautiful wife even now that church roseark Church of God in Christ
Boy they’re doing some stuff they’re renovating and building on and just God is just doing great things through his leadership he’s so Innovative and then his very creative wife too she is so gifted as well they are a good team together he served in many capacities in this jurisdiction amen he’ll serve about
A couple years and he said I got to move on to something else now Bishop uh but he has served in so many areas in our jurisdiction and now he’s serving as one of our administrative assistants uh in the jurisdiction and has a wealth of knowledge and informative and ready to
Get busy in the Kingdom of God I know that you’re going to be blessed tonight I have no questions about it I know those of you that are watching online clap your hands for our online viewers you’re about to be blessed as we prepare our hearts open our hearts to
Receive he’s not only just a great preacher but he’s a great singer and musician oh we’ve got the most talented people in the world in Tennessee Central jurisdiction is that right you all I want want you to receive him after the choir would have finished their selection and open your hearts that he
Might preach to a ready church tonight are you ready for a word he has a good name John Brandon Smith amen he don’t tell it much I’m going to tell it for him it’s John Brandon Smith amen and I want y’all to hear Brandon tonight I want y’all to hear the
Anointing that on his life in a tremendous way amen once the choir finish I want you to stand and prayerfully receive him as he brings to us the unadulterated word of God thank you hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah Hallelujah Hallu hallu Hall Hallu I am grateful for the that you Have grateful for the victory we won I could go on and on God about your word because I’m grateful grateful so grateful just to praise you Lord my heart [Applause] Love my [Applause] heart Hallelujah I am grateful for the things that you have yes I grateful for Theory with I could go on and on and on your Word because because I’m Greatful Greatful to praise you Lord oh my heart is true God my heart [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] is Greatful my [Applause] [Applause] heart [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] my [Applause] [Applause] My [Applause] My heart to love my Heart from my heart part to God my Heart May the words of my mouth meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight oh Lord my strength My Redeemer in Jesus name amen before you take your seat if you could just touch someone or give them a n by your elbow and tell them it’s getting ready to happen to
Me amen amen it’s getting ready to happen to me I want to say while you’re standing get your Bibles or your electronic devices in your hand I want to thank our jurisdictional leader Bishop Brandon Porter I want to thank you for this opportunity I do not take it lightly it is because of
His um his um the opportunity that he’s given me that I’ve been able to serve and to do things in the jurisdiction over the past 19 years or so I’m okay with this if you like I’m okay with this one yes thank you thank you so much and I I want
To thank him and I want to appreciate him uh for allowing me to serve in the Lord’s church and many opportunities that I have been afforded um I want to thank him for that and I want to openly appreciate him and thank him for allowing me to serve and
Do the things that I do in the various capacities I want to thank these um men who serve at at the level of the episcopacy uh Bishop Barbara and Bishop Wright thank you so much for being here tonight and all of these superintendents and Elders our state supervisor first
Lady the house has already been addressed and I want to thank you let’s go to the word of God thank God my wife is here our son is here uh John our daughter is probably watching online uh pray if she’s not cooking soup and cabbage like she was
The other night we praise God for her there in college and thank God for Apostle Griffin and all the saints of God my friends thank God for the best Church in the world Rose Mark Church roseark Church of God in Christ I appreciate y all so much for being here tonight Jeremiah chapter
31 Jeremiah chapter [Applause] 31 verse number one and two thank God for our only online audience and I I solicit your prayers tonight at the same time say the Lord will I be the God of all the families of Israel and they shall be my people thus said the
Lord the people which were left of the sword found found Grace in the wilderness even Israel when I went to cause him to rest tonight I want to talk for a few moments I found Grace in the wilderness I found Grace in the wilderness you may have your seats tonight Yes when we think of the word Grace uh Grace we often hear it being defined as undeserved or unmerited favor God’s grace is a free gift uh God doesn’t count our success mother Lawson and failures to determine whether we are to receive his love or life rather he provides his unfailing love towards
Us with a road map for Success his word commitment and the remedy for for our failures his word in the form of repentance and instead from the intention of his will he gives us all goodness freely and in the Bible describes himself as gracious when you look at the book of Exodus
34:6 and the Lord pass by before him proclaim the Lord the Lord God merciful and gracious longsuffering and abundant in goodness and Truth when you look at the Old Testament you don’t see the word Grace much you see the word gracious the Old Testament defines Grace as simply God’s gracious
Response to Fallen human beings that deserve the wrath of God his Divine action is that He blesses us anyway his Divine action is that in our troubles and in our burdens he chooses to bless us anyway in our contrariness in our thoughts in our contradictions he chooses to bless us
Anyway I wish I had a Praying church here within you tonight that you would tell somebody next to you that he chose to bless me bless me anyway anyway when I didn’t know his will when I didn’t seek his way he chose to bless me anyway any way you bless me
Lord I’ll be satisfied and tonight you may have your seat it’s it’s a manner and and whether his his Divine action is that He blesses us whether it’s what the seminarians would call common grace through perservation or special grace through salvation it is the manner in which God
Deals with those who have rejected him so Grace is this it’s more than unmar favor it’s more than giving me what I don’t deserve God’s grace is the picture of a loving God faced ah my god with rebellious creatures Desiring to bring them back in communion with
Himself and I got a question for you tonight how many times in your life how many has God been gracious and merciful to you how many times in your life has God decided to show unmerited favor towards you when you didn’t deserve how many times in your life many
When you said you would never do it again you found yourself doing it again thank God for his hand but I thank God for his hard and I thank God that he didn’t destroy me when he could have but his grace reach way down and pick me up I’ll preach if you
Help me today he is merciful he is gracious he is kind he is loving he is longsuffering so it wasn’t because we love God it wasn’t because we did anything uh to deserve it neither did we work to get it but it was his grace
Alone and all we had to do was to believe God loved us and his Mercy uh on us and quickened our spirit to join him in Christ or to Christ Jesus and that’s why Ephesians chapter 2:8 said for by grace are ye saved through faith and not of yourselves for it
Is the gift of God but the enemy doesn’t want us to know the completeness of Grace so he creates diversions and distractions he creates spiritual Illusions to confuse us he creates obstacles to offset us he lures us into false doctrines and obscures us with counterfeit so that we don’t know what’s
Authentic he creates this life of make belief and have us thinking that we’re something that were not he creates these Wilderness experien to divert and distract the believer but I came to let the enemy know tonight that his diversion didn’t divert me but it only brought me closer to understanding who God really
Is you ought to just tell somebody I understand now who God really is the peace that I have lets me know that he’s a peacegiver the healing that I experience lets me know that he’s a Healer the reconciliation that I experience lets me know that he’s a loving
Father that’s why Grace is so important in the life of humanity John 1 and4 says that Jesus Christ is Full of Grace Grace is intended to enable us to live a more perfect life and the keep the Commandments and pursue a godlier walking go until we attain the full stature of Christ more
Perfectly God’s grace is divine help God’s grace is divine strength God’s grace is enabling power God’s grace enables us to do what we cannot do in our own strength God’s grace is Kingdom power operating with Earthly Authority God’s grace God’s is help in the time of
Need but I’ll tell you what Grace is not Grace is not a red redundant cliche that is fixed in a sermon at the point of climax Grace is not a word that is on a plaque on your wall that reminds you that your life has been extended Grace is not a ticket to
Sin actually Romans 5 and 20 say where sin abounded where sin was Grace did much more bound where Grace is where sin was Grace took its place where sin was great Grace gave strength yes sir where sin was Grace gave power where sin was Grace gave help you ought to just
Tell somebody lift your hands up and say neighbor neighor I thank God I thank God for his grace for his grace that was the wrong neighbor look at somebody else and say neighbor neighbor I thank God for his [Applause] grace that’s why that’s why the preacher must preach the
Gospel I’m almost through here because the Gospel of Jesus Christ is a gospel that includes Grace and the grace that’s found in the gospel is not an exit Grace it’s an entry Grace Grace found in the gospel I’ll preach if you help me Christ does not
Give you an excuse to be entangled in sin it does not give you a pass because of your embedded habits it does not give you a pass because of your habitual practices but the grace of the Gospel it reminds us of who we are and it reminds us of who’s we are God’s
Grace gives us another chance and chance after chance that comes with the reminder that Jesus loves you each chance comes with this reminder that your worst days are behind you and your best days are before you God’s grace reminds us of Titus 2 And1 for by the grace of God that bringeth salvation
Haveth appear it to all men and that’s why Grace is the Gospel of Jesus Christ Grace is able to make a corrupt man good and a drunk man sober Grace is able to make a Godless man righteous and a weak man strong Grace is able to make a Conner man
Holy and a line man truthful Grace is able to make a foolish man wise and a vicious man gentle God’s grace is able to make a defiled man clean and a miserable man happy God’s grace is able to make a dying man alive and a see evil mankind God’s
Grace is able to make a confused man peaceful and a sinner man holy you ought to look at your NE and Shout I thank God God for God’s grace put your preacher voice on and look at your neighbor and [Applause] sayoo God’s grace that’s the wrong
Neighbor move out of your seat and look at another neighbor and sayoo God’s grace it is the word of God that takes our in significant s and washes Us in the blood of Jesus the word of godone becomes a cleaning agent and I heard the words in the song says for my
Pardon this I see nothing but the blood of Jesus my cleansing this my plea nothing but the blood of Jesus oh how precious is the flow that makes me white as snow no of the fountain I know nothing but the blood of Jesus you ought to just touch three people and
Say I’m thankful for the blood tonight I’m thankful for the blood I’m closing now in our text tonight Jeremiah records Northern Israel he records their activity that lying in captive by the Assyrians a nation that’s in captivity because of their own doing a nation that had been
Broken but put back together again and now they’re broken again but God tells them in due time you’re going to be restored and I came by to tell you that some of us here tonight have been broken and God is trying to tell you that you’re going to be put back together Again some of you have been disappointed but I came to tell you tonight the partner wants to put you back together again in due time peace and honor will be restored in due time great and plenty shall be in your fingertips in due time your children shall be
Multiplied but these are the people that were left of the sword these are the people that were left of Calamity these are the people that were left after disaster these are the people that were left after catastrophe Wars and floods these are the people that were left out the sword they escaped
Pharaoh they escaped the Red Sea but they could not escape the sword of captivity god with hell damnation and destruction but he could not withhold self aess and humility but the sword of God has its way of bringing down the highmed the sword of God has its way of humbling us the sword
Of God has his way of bringing us back into communion with God and I came to tell you tonight don’t get caught up in the has be but I want to be in step with the ear now I want God to use me for thy Glory can you say
Yes I don’t want to get caught by the sword but I want to find Grace in the wilderness my life has been a Wilderness I came to tell every Pastor every Ministry worker it’s not a Time to give up now it’s not a time to throw
In the to it’s not a time to stand in the background it’s not a Time To Hold Your Head Down it’s not a time to be discouraged but I came to let you know that you found Grace in the wilderness your your church can be a Wilderness your marriage can be a
Wilderness your children can be a Wilderness your job can be a Wilderness your community can be a Wilderness but lean on your neighbor and say neighbor I found Grace in my Wilderness your heart headed tonight lean on somebody and say I found It I said lean on somebody and say I found Grace in the wilderness when my head was hung down I found Grace say yes Lord all of my sufficiency was no good without the grace of God grap your neighbor by the head and said neighbor you ain’t grabbing nobody here
Move out of your seat and go grab somebody like they excited and Shout in your preacher voice and say neighbor I found what I’ve been missing look at your neighbor and said neighbor I found what’s been missing in my life I found what I’ve been looking for I found
What the enemy trying to steal from me Grace Grace I found Grace Grace in my trouble Grace in my mind Grace I found Grace touch three people and tell them I’m going back home with a little more grace I said touch up and tell them I’m going back home y’all ain’t moving out of your seat move out of your seat and go tell three people I’m going back home with a little more Grace I’m going back home with a little more Grace I’m going back home with a little more power power W power power power power the TR over scorpion power to tell the devil for God I live and for God I die he gave me power look at your NE and say I got power I got power if you know you’re going home with a little more grace lift your hand and sound
Grace they found Grace in the wilderness but I got one more thing one more thing to tell you look at your neighbor and say neighbor he got one more thing look at your neighbor and say he got one more thing to tell you about Grace if you want to hear my one more
Thing say I want to hear it preaching y’all ain’t talking to me I wish I had about 20 preachers and 20 lady preachers that have come down here and I say I want to hear you one more Thing one Friday Grace went to goa’s Hill can I get any help in here one Friday Grace hung on the cross and Grace died until the dog stopped walking Grace died until the fish sto swimming Grace died to the rooster stop growing can you say yes Grace
Blood came streaming down he laid there all night Friday all day Saturday but early y’all used to shout when he said early point to somebody your preacher about and said early Sunday morning he got up with all power in his hand and Grace will make you get
Up from your horrible pit I came to tell you don’t lay in loab bar but tell the Lord give me you’re getting up power I got getting up power that neighbor that your holding grab him by the hand this is my last time as a matter of fact Let
The hand go put your hand on the shoulder like they owe your money Rock them side to side rock them side to side and said NE I’m glad that he got up for me I’m glad that he got with all power power to overcome the enemy power to overcome the evil one power
Power [Laughter] power power power say say Say he gave me power you’re overcoming I found Grace in my situation Lord you praying for money you praying for favor but Lord just give me a little bit more grace we don’t shout for Grace like we used to Grace not just undeserved unmar favor but Grace is strength Grace is
Power Grace is his empowerment when we’re weak everybody that’s in this room I only have about 60 more seconds I want you to look around this room and look for a praiser and I want you to find a praiser and go to them if the person is not of praiser say
I’m sorry but I ain’t got time to be playing with you tonight go to go to somebody and lock arms with him get next to him appraiser I’m done Bishop after this I hope I didn’t disappoint you tonight Bishop if they’re not appr praiser if they’re not a praise
It I didn’t have time to finish the message tonight listen the Lord stopped me at the scripture the Lord stopped me at the scripture when he said these are the ones that were left of the sword these are the ones that were left when the church Split these are the ones that were left when all the gossiping died down these are the ones that were left when things didn’t go the way that they thought these are the ones that were left when the people didn’t want to follow Vision left but you stayed and obeyed
God if you read on down he talks about the restoration and the blessing for those who were left tonight the praise that you’re getting ready to give God is because Lord I Thank you cuz I was one of the ones that was left people that you graduated with are
Dead but God kept you here some of the people in your family are jealous because you were left of the sword they can’t understand why you’ve got favor on your life and they seem to be going through but tonight this praise is because I was one of the
One that was left the sword cut me but it didn’t kill me hold it hold it hold it you ain’t got nobody you got to get somebody by the hand you going to dance tonight yes sir listen if you ain’t never danced before you going to dance
Tonight thank you Holy Ghost that’s what he told look at your face on in the face look at them in the eye and after you get get through saying this I want you to praise God like you about to lose your mind I want you to praise God I’m
Talking to all the praisers that were left of the sword I want you to look at them in the eyes and I want you to tell them what your preacher voice y’all ready to dance you ain’t talking to me now said I want the folk that ready to pray I want
You to shout with everything that’s within you say neighbor are you ready to praise God listen look at him and shout and tell them neighbor the sword cut me but it didn’t kill me you ain’t Dancing you ain’t dancing it cut you but it didn’t kill you you better praise him for the second chance ra him for another chance it CAU you but it didn’t kill you You ain’t praising him I said praise him he kept you for such a time as this he kept you for such a time as this He kep you for such a time as This Glory Glory Glory Glory I can’t hear your prais put your foot on it I can’t see put your foot on it and praise [Applause] It I’m grateful tonight that out of all that I’ve been through out of all that I’ve been through he left me here listen I’m going to my seat but with those hands lifted up I thank you because I found what I was looking for Grace in the wilderness I don’t know what your
Wilderness is tonight but God said there’s Grace for You thank you Jesus while you’re standing tonight if there’s a person that don’t know God no walking no talking nobody leaving just give me five minutes and I’m done there’s a person here that don’t know the Lord and you’re saying John I want to experience that Grace that special Grace that salvation Grace those of you that are online if you don’t know the Lord or if you’re here and you don’t know the the Lord and you’re saying I want to make him my
Personal savior I want to be committed to him come down to the aisle right now come on come on on the altar we won’t let you stand here by yourself we have Ministry workers that’ll stand here with you those of you that are online stretch out your hand that radio that television that
IPad that desktop computer came to tell you that you don’t have any trouble all you need is fath faith in God stretch your hand toward that television shout after me Lord Jesus Come into my life I believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross that he rose
Again it’s with that power that I receive Christ into my life I won’t walk the same won’t talk the same for I am a new creature in Jesus Christ all things are passing away behold all things are becoming new thank you Lord for saving me if you’re here tonight if you’re
Online and you prayed that prayer I want you to click that message button I want you to leave your name and your address and your email we want to send you some discipleship information that’s going to help you in your walk with the Lord we have churches across the state we want
To plant you in a Bible believing church where you can grow in the ways of the Lord will you clap your hand for those that are online that receive Christ [Applause] [Applause] tonight the Old Testament Church why y’all sitting down Old Testament Church excited people stay with the preacher till the end uhhuh the Old Testament Church when the Lord met them often times they consecrated that ground and said the Lord spoke to me here the Lord dealt with me
Here the night we consecrate this ground with not only prayer but after the word we consecrate the ground with the seed to say Lord you met me here I thank you for ministering to my heart I thank you for ministering to my soul I thank you for I found what I was looking
For I found Grace I found Grace every person under the sound of my voice want you to get a $25 seat in your hand cash app TN Central those of you you that are online God is moving God is moving on your behalf now gify Tennessee Central jurisdiction PayPal www.tn
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Have give your best seed get that $25 seat in your hand say Lord I want to SW where you met me get something in your hand and stand on your feet stand on your feet now stand on your feet father I declare and decree now that your house is blessed your seeds are
Blessed we give you glory and we give you praise lack will not reside at our house but we thank you for living in overflow in Jesus name amen come on come on out from don’t wait on nobody don’t wait on anybody but come and show into the kingdom
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Amen God is good thank you listen um tomorrow breakfast let’s be up early and come to the breakfast tomorrow I am here amen and thank god um and I will be with you in the morning the breakfast our session started 10:30 the breakfast at 9:00 I ate at Waffle House this morning
And I know where I’m going to eat tomorrow it’s going to be better than Waffle House cuz it’s the Saints cooking it amen and so I want you to meet us tomorrow for the workshops then tomorrow night now listen get on the phones y’all got to call somebody tell them tell them
Women’s comert still going on Amen I need them here amen our very own uh Dr Anthony Taylor going be preaching Tomorrow he going to come through here like a choo choo Chattanooga train amen and I’m praying for pray for his strength as well amen we’re moving on and then Friday night and I look forward to your coming so those of you that are watching us from AF far Tennessee Central Family watch the
Volume on this morning please come on out to the meeting and God is blessing let’s stand at this time Pastor Springfield is going to come amen unto you to dismiss amen you know that’s why you wore those shoes come on up here you know he sharp tonight ain’t he
Amen say Amen Pastor BR bless you God bless you Bish father God we thank you now Lord as we give it to leave this place father God don’t leave our pray go with from our many different direction guide us down the danger Highway Lord cuz you see the seen and the Unseen Lord
And when we get back home let us find everything better than we left cuz you said except the Lord keep the city the Watchman wake but in vain watch over us throughout the rest of the night God As We Lay Down give us a sweet sleep in the
Morning when you call us by name father God when our eyes come open when we realize that we have made to wake up list let us have a Hallelujah and a thank you Jesus down on the inside Lord as you do it we’ll thank you we’ll give
You all the grace all the mercy and all the honor that you deserve in your son Jesus name thank God Amen and amen hallelujah Historically black colleges and universities aim to empower our students with the knowledge and resources they need to pursue higher education opportunities these institutions are instrumental in offering many benefits to their students such as providing a supportive and nurturing environment one that Fosters academic success personal growth cultural pride and Community Health together these
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