If you are glad to be in the house of the Lord you to put your hand together and give our great God great praise this is the day that the Lord has made somebody ought to rejoice and be glad and won’t you stand on your feet and as
We stand we are grateful and thankful to God for the blessing of this day and the privilege that we have to worship Our God in spirit and in truth let us join together in a word of prayer God our Father we are grateful and thankful to you for the blessing of
This new day thank you for life for health and strength thank you now for the privilege that we have to gather in this Sacred Space and place in this sacred week to find strength and hope and Revival thank you for how you have met us and bless us already and now in
This new day speak again in a fresh new way challenge us charge us and Inspire us to deepen our faith and to develop a closer walk with you you know what we need and stand in need of and we come to you because we know the every need that
We have you are more than able to meet it by your sufficient Grace anything anyone who seeks to enter our mind or our thoughts in these moments of worship help us to uh negate them ignore them and focus on you because we need to hear your voice and feel your power speak and
Have your way in this place transform Us For Your Glory in Christ’s name we pray the people of God together say Amen clap your your hands all you people Shout to the Lord with the voice of Triumph because this is the day that the Lord has made and somebody ought to rejoice
And be glad in it amen our Hymn for this day is himym 81 in our himels lead me to Calvary to the glory and praise of God we sing together himym 81 lead me to Calvary King Of My Life King Of My Life Crown thee now thine shall the glory
Be lest I forget thy thorn crown brow lead me to calary L I forget gony lest I for for get thine Agony lest I forget thy love for me lead me to calary show me the tomb where thou was laid tenderly mourned and we angel and Robes of light
AR guarded thee while thou SL L I forget guon me lest I forget thine Agony lest I forget thy love for me Le me to calary let me like Mary through the Gloom come with a gift to thee show to me now the empty tomb the me to calary let I forget
Gony L I forget thy Agony lest I forget thy love for me lead me to Calary may I be willing Lord to Bear daily my cross for thee even thy cup of grief to share thou has B off come on you want to sing L I forget L I forget Geon L I forget thony l i for get thy love lead
Me come on you want to sing today come on let’s I forget yes I forget L I forget oh L I forget leave me one more time we say let not foret let’s not forget oh let’s not forget me to Cal come on put your hand together and give our great God great
Praise tell your neighbor good afternoon tell them how glad you are to see them as We Gather in the Lord’s House and let’s thank God for our virtual worshipers who join us today via live stream it is good to be in the house of the Lord on this Wednesday amen God has
Been blessing us God is blessing us he is a blessing God and the blessing business for that we give his name Glory we give his name honor and praise at this Noonday hour it is my honor to present again our preacher who has come to share with us on this day Bishop W
Darren Moore he needs no introduction because he has come to this pull pit and this hour during this week for many years and every time he comes he leades a rich deposit with us and Among Us and today we are gathered because we know that God has a word for
His people amen anybody need to hear a word today amen there’s a preacher in the house and he has come to share with us the word of the Lord he is the 112th uh consecrated bishop and the and the am Zion Church the Freedom Church he is our
Brother he is our friend Pastor Horton he is God’s preacher after the singing of sister Matia Washington we blessed by the preacher of God’s word by Bishop w d moce sister the washing Bishop Mo by saying amen and praising God for them as they Come tears so sweet Oh and oh Jesus Jesus pray just Jesus Oh for Grace to trust him more I I’m so glad I’ve learned to trust him Precious Jesus say and friend and I know that he is with me will be with me until the in Jesus Jesus how I I trust him and how I prove
Him oh Jesus oh Jesus my pray my precious Jesus Oh for Grace oh for Grace oh oh for Grace oh I thank you for the grace Lord we thank you for the grace Lord we thank him for we thank him for the grace to trust in my Savior [Applause] Hallelujah wow thank God for you amen may be seated God bless sister Washington Wow Let’s Celebrate that music gift what a joy it is to be back in this one of my favorite places uh at this time of year um I thank God that your pastor
Continues to show kindness towards me uh to allow me to have the St Luke experience again and again when he first invited me I was a a young thin preacher but things have changed I tell people I’m more of a man than I used to be because God has expanded my territory uh
But St Luke is uh a great congregation great people and you have a singular impactful Pastor amen we thank God for him and his ministry I tell people he is a friend and a brother beloved and then he was wise enough to take that Brotherhood even further and take it all
Way to become a Man of Distinction one and only alpify Alpha Fraternity Incorporated uh and so uh he he’s added notches to his level of uh impressing me I thank God for pastor Clayton because he is uh authentic there’s no fluff and artificiality to Reverend Dr Kenneth
Darl Clayton he is uh authentically who he is and I’m telling you when you’re amongst when you amongst preachers all the time it is refreshing to be around someone who is authentic uh and uh he’s comfortable in his own skin only two people are I know
That uh can keep him in line that’s mother Clayton and now KJ has become his boss and so but it’s a joy to be here it’s also a joy to see my brothers and sisters in Ministry in the AM Zion Church I always appreciate them
Coming to be with us it is an added gift pres presiding Elder uh Emeritus I guess or just immediately pass presiding Elder Doug Maven but he and I have been friends for so long uh I tell the story often that uh he and three other preachers young
Preachers uh almost 40 years years ago well it’s over 40 years ago now they conspired because they wanted me to follow him in pastoring and they thought they had had it hooked up that I would follow him at Brown’s Chapel am or brown Memorial in
Concord amen and U it was all said we got it worked out but they had worked it out with everybody but with the bishop and so but uh I have been uh a dear friend since that time we thank God for him I need to just shout out um preso to
John given because he uh he is he and Reverend Dorothy Patterson had made a huge difference uh in our work in Guyana and uh I could not do what I do as the bishop of that area without their support guidance and uh advocacy so thank God for you Pastor Graham it’s
Good to see you my brother amen good to see you again that means a lot I know all of you took time out of your day to be here and so would you do this for me look down your pews smile at your neighbor don’t scare them a amen and
Then give them a round of applause cuz they press their way didn’t have to do it but they did when you come out at noon on Wednesday that is a major major blessing and I thank God for you unless you are a day late and you came looking for Dr
Gina Casey you have my apologies but uh for everybody who is here what a joy it is I need to thank God that my wife came to hang out with me I’m going ask her to stand that’s my my wife of uh will’ll be 40 years and uh three three months and
So thank God for her let me call your attention to the Gospel According to St Luke chapter 10 and I’m going to read verses 38-42 Luke chap 10 verse 38 through 42 now as they went on their way they entered a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home
She had a sister named Mary who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying but Matha was distracted by her many tasks so she came to him and asked Lord do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by
Myself tell her then to help me verse 41 but the Lord answered her Martha Martha you are worried and distracted by many things there is need of only one thing Mary has chosen the better part which will not be taken away from her God’s word for God’s
People thanks be to God I want to speak for the time that is before us from the subject keep the main thing the main thing now I need you to help me because if people don’t remember anything else from today I need them to remember that
So help me preach this let’s do what I call participatory PR preaching look down your road look at somebody close to you and give them that look I mean that look like I’m serious now and just tell them tell them keep the main thing the main thing amen I need your prayers
Consecrate me now to thy service Lord by the power of Grace Divine let my soul look up look up look up with a Stead fast hope and my will be lost in thine it is only then God that I can authentically say draw me nearer draw me nearer to the Cross
Without thou H has died draw me nearer draw me nearer to thy precious bleeding side it’s in your powerful name we pray amen I mentioned to you that Dr John given and Reverend Dorothy Patterson are my partners in Ministry in our work in Guyana South Africa and
Um almost now a year ago we um completed the construction of what is a beautiful daycare facility in Guyana uh and it is accommodating approximately 50 children every every day in one of the most impoverished [Applause] neighborhoods beautiful facility and we dedicated that facility H in a marvelous Community um
Program we had children there we had uh officials from the daycare system in Guyana there and it was spectacular wonderful Refreshments balloons and ribbons and we were cutting the ribbon to enter into this brand new facility it was quite a spectacular program but with all of the decorations all of the
Programming all of the refreshments all of the music all of the prayers being said and all of the celebratory uh amenities when it came to enter into the building nobody had the key and it reminds me over and over again that we can be great at peripheral issues and performative
Issues but the main thing is often forgotten if we don’t remember what the key is it doesn’t matter how much and ceremony we have it doesn’t matter our titles our positions it doesn’t matter how well we dress it doesn’t matter how much noise we make the key is
Jesus and beloved I’ve been at this long enough now to realize that the enemy knows that in the end he cannot win no I I think somebody needs to be aware of that in the end the enemy cannot win Pastor hold he is already a defeated foe
Satan’s already defeated he he is an expert in eschatology he knows what the end is going to be like so since he cannot win in the end his job is to try to defeat those of us who are in the Kingdom from reaching our fullest potential but can I
Get about 10 or 12 folk up in here who say it won’t work you should know that the enemy knows that he cannot win in the end but he wants to keep you from reaching your fullest potential and so he uses three primary and perilous weapons of mass destruction against God’s people three
He uses uh distraction Division and discouragement to thwart us from reaching our potential I know that I’ve got uh sophisticated Saints in this place so I don’t have to do a whole lot of explanation of it but let me suggest to you every single thing that causes us
To drift from our purpose in the kingdom is related to one of those three weapons either because we are distracted or because we are divided or because we are discouraged it will keep us from reaching our fullest potential all of them are not new weapons in fact do your research throughout Biblical history
There has been distraction Division and discouragement used against God’s children uh because this is the Noonday message I won’t take you on the journey from Genesis to Revelation let’s just stay in the gospels H there was Peter who was distracted uh when he was walking on
Water and he lost sight of Jesus and started concentrating on the waves instead of God’s word In the Flesh and his distraction caused him to begin to sink it was James and John who were a member of the church who started arguing over who could sit on the right and the left
And wanted division in God’s kingdom it was Judas who was so discouraged that Jesus wasn’t a zealot to overturn the Roman Empire that he actually betrayed Jesus uh am I making my case that it is distraction Division and discouragement that thwarts God’s people from reaching their fullest potential
Distraction says I know better than Jesus what’s most important to Vision says I want Jesus to Value me better than somebody else and discouragement says having my way is better than Jesus having his way uh I’ve come to suggest to you belov uh that we can use better
Than as a way of dividing distracting and getting discouraged because whenever we put ourselves in the place of measuring uh whether or not God’s program is effective then we’ve moved from receiving uh to trying to dictate and that is verging on idolatry Have Thine Own Way Lord have
Thine Own Way ah somebody shout I know that’s right well let me invite you beloved to consider the text this afternoon because it has been a controversial paropy for centuries when it presents a contrast between what’s good and the main thing I want to suggest to you that Martha is
Not the villain in this paropy I want to suggest to you that contrary to much of what I’ve heard in preaching over the years Martha likely started out with the right motives in fact I want to give a shout out to Martha because it appears that it was Martha’s idea to have Jesus
Over for dinner this is a home in Bethany that you’re well familiar with because it is the home of Martha Mary and Lazarus uh will visit them again in The Gospel According to St John but in this occasion it seems like there was no particular issue where Martha needed
Jesus in the house uh in fact there doesn’t seem to be anybody in the house sick yet it apparently there is nobody in the house in trouble yet it seems that there’s nobody facing a crisis yet but I need to say yet because trouble has a way of showing up at
Everybody’s house everybody up in here up in here will have trouble coming to your house if they hadn’t come yet as the old folk used to say just keep on living because trouble is coming your way but I love the fact that Martha invited Jesus before there was
Trouble hallelujah hallelujah cuz if you wait till you get in trouble in order for you to invite Jesus to come into your house then you are trying to use Jesus rather than have a Rel relationship with Jesus so can you help me thank God for that motha spirit that
Says I want him with me before the storm I want him in my house before the sickness I want him in my house before the crisis because if Jesus is present when it is calm then he can handle it when there’s a storm come on and bless him up in here
Yeah y’all must have had some preaching going on this week cuz it feels right preachy up in here and the text says that Martha was busy serving let me suggest to you that every church needs a good motha oh God I’m not I’m I’m telling you every
Every church needs a good motha cuz cuz there’s some folk that come to church look cute but when the work has to be done you need motha there’s some folk that come to church they styling but the things that keep the ministry going is because Martha is in
The house and the thing I love about Martha Martha doesn’t always have to be visible Martha doesn’t always have to be seen Martha doesn’t always have to get credit because Martha is often the one keep keeping the things going right behind the scene so we ought to thank God for the
Mothas mothas mothas mothas can nobody fry chicken like motha can can nobody B pound cake like Matha can nobody make macaroni and cheese and cic green po tato salad like Martha can’t nobody decorate the fellowship hall like Martha can’t nobody organize the women’s ministry like Martha can’t nobody keep
All of the things moving and the dates on schedule like Martha thank God for the maras in our churches however the cautionary note is that Martha needs to be reminded to keep the main thing the main thing oh God this this this pushes us a little bit beyond our Sunday school mentality
Because of times we just think a good thing is the right thing but often it’s not the bad things that keep us from reaching our fullest potential often it’s doing a good thing that keep Keeps Us stuck with a good thing rather than the right thing wasn’t it Jim Collins in
His book from good to Great who sagaciously suggested that the greatest enemy to Great is good cuz if you think you’re good enough then you just stop at good enough instead of getting to great and sometimes in the church y’all may never invite me back on another holy way
But sometimes the thing holding the church back is not the wicked folk out there or even the trifling folk in here but it is the folk doing good that have become comfortable with doing good thing instead of doing the right thing somebody shall preach Bishop that’s what I came to do that’s
What I came to do let me let me let me let me suggest let me suggest to you yeah uh we preach the gospel that’s a good thing but living the gospel that’s the main thing we teach Bible study that’s a good thing but when you
Begin to live the word in your life that’s the main thing we usher in the church that’s a good thing but when you usher in the presence of the Lord that’s the main thing we sing until the power of the Lord come down but if we sing and
We don’t have joy in our heart that’s the main thing we worship we lead the worship but if you lead the worship and you’re not a worshiper then that’s the main thing baby I’ve come to tell you do do the main thing keep the main thing the main [Applause] thing what profits a
Man if he’s a good church member and loses his [Applause] soul what profits a woman if she pays her TI and shows up every week and fails to have a relationship with Jesus Christ can I suggest to you and I pray that you don’t throw your Bibles at
Me um but uh can I suggest to you that Martha doing the good thing became very close to missing out on Jesus and here’s why this is so disturbing to me uh Pastor Graham it’s so disturbing to me is because her motives were right she wanted Jesus in her
House she wanted to serve Jesus but this thing is working on me because it’s in her desire to do a good thing that she was Teeter tattering on missing the greatest Encounter of her life because she got distracted caused Division and became [Applause] discouraged here’s the thing I want you to focus on three things because in this one text all three of those weapons are operationalized go the this one paropy all three are operationalized and if we can get out of this text how to face these three your
Walk with Christ is going to be revolutionized so can I just say this to you it’s real simple I know I got theological degrees and all of that and you expect to bishop and neign church to be more profound but can I just say these three things to you and get out
Your way can I say stay focused somebody shout stay focused Focus listen listen it was uh it was Richard Foster that uh several years ago suggested that superficiality is the curse of this generation uh in other words we’re a mile long but a millimeter thick and deep uh and it’s
Still true people are so superficial in fact um your pastor and I often bemoon uh the performative uh nature of contemporary preaching uh because you got to have flashing lights and hoverboards and Ziplines and uh preachers have to wear muscle shirts uh you know I look good in a mistress shirt
Yes I would don’t don’t judge me now don’t be don’t let don’t but uh when you don’t have substance then you need a circus uh you got to put on if you don’t have any substance and so you be careful the more performance you see it’s because the
Less substance they have uh but is there anybody that knows from the old mothers in the kitchen who used to tell you that good meat makes its own gravy Hallelujah if you focus on the substance uh the joy will come afterwards but the truth of the matter is that we are
Living in an age where Richard Foster’s attack about superficiality has been compounded by his son’s observation Nathan Foster who recently said while the curse of the last generation was superficiality the curse of this generation is distraction God I’m preaching and you don’t even realize it because what
Nathan Foster the son is saying that you’ll never deal with the superficiality until you can deal with distraction we live in a day in an age where people are so easily distracted in fact one social scientist says that the attention span of an average young person is 8
Seconds that means that a goldfish has a longer attention span than many young people and it’s not just young people that’s why you got to always be texting or tweeting and looking and messaging and FaceTiming because you can’t keep your attention and even a 30 minute
Sermon is too long to to keep people’s attention and so let me just pull the veil back and tell on some of my preachers and I’m included in this so we have to not only study the word and not only work out homedical strategies but we also got to think of pneumonic
Devices and other strategies in order to keep your attention because we know that your minds are wondering after 8 seconds uh your minds are going every place El your body may be here with me at St Luke but your mind is on the other side of
Town so I got to have you turn to your neighbor so I have to say repeat after me so I have to say do you know I’m right I have to say can I hear you say Amen cuz it shakes you back in to your attention being on the word of God but
Is there anybody here that said I came into this place uh to get a word from the Lord everything else can wait but I need uh to hear from Heaven I need to hear from heaven so will you give me at least a little more than 8 [Applause] seconds because you need to
Stay focused because can I let you she see I was multitasking and I my wife is here I’m about to get in trouble because fellas you know how we do when our wives are talking to us we always she’s like do you hear me I was like
Mhm and she said you don’t hear me I I hear you I’m multitasking I’m watching the game yeah yes sir and I’m listening to you well scientists tell us that there’s no such thing as legitimately multitasking in fact they say they call it serial intelligence in other words you might
Call it multitasking but your mind can only focus on one thing at a time see there was a wife right there that went to sh she knew she said I knew it was I was right I knew he wasn’t listening to me I knew he wasn’t paying [Applause]
Attention I’m sorry fellas I’m I’m with you I’m with you but I got got to get this word out uh and so what we have to do is be intentional about staying focused ask Martha after all was said and done what did the Jesus teach that day what subject did he talk
About ask Martha what text did he take what insights did he give I don’t know I was busy in the kitchen I was busy watching what Mary wasn’t doing instead the very words of Life were being disseminated by the word of life and you were distracted by good things and missed out
On the main thing can I suggest to you stay focused everybody say stay focused Focus the second thing is be faithful come on encourage somebody tell them be faithful because listen I want to suggest to you uh that God has a plan for your life and so be faithful to what you’ve
Been assigned to [Applause] do Martha had a gift for doing what she was doing and if she would stop being so worried about what Mary wasn’t doing and just focus on doing what she does to the glory of God then Martha would not have been so distracted that she could have missed
Her own blessing in fact I want to suggest to you that sometimes our anger is not at other folk but it’s what other folk show about us I didn’t say this sermon would be easy I didn’t say it would make you shout but can you uh imagine with me
That maybe Martha’s biggest issue was since she was so good at culinary arts she wanted everybody to focus on how good she was ain’t it interesting that we think the most important thing in the church is what we do yeah the choir didn’t sing right unless
They sang my song so I could sing my solo uh the most important day on the calendar is my organization’s anniversary isn’t it interesting that whatever I do is so important that everybody else needs to stop and recognize what I’m doing I need to get a
Plaque for what I’m doing I need to have my name on the Pew for what I’m doing I need the pastor to call my name out let me stand up let folks see me because I need folk to focus on how important I am ah You’re So Vain I bet you think this
Song is about you but the truth of the matter is to God be the glory for the things that he has done whatever the Lord has called you to do do it to God’s glory and can I tell you is this mic working mic check one two 3 can I tell
You that if you’re doing it to God’s glory you ain’t stutting whether or not somebody pays attention to you if you’re doing it for God’s glory folk can’t make you quit folk can’t make you stop nobody’s going to turn me back if they take my appointment away from me if they
Say Bishop you’re not a bishop anymore you can’t preach in the AM Zion Church I’d say God bless you and I get out on the corner and begin to say Jesus is the light of the world shout yeah to God be the glory to God be the glory this is about the
Lord ah uh be faithful because your distraction is causing [Applause] Division if every Church could see with spiritual eyes let me tell you there would be miniature Graves outside the doors of our churches because we’ve run some folk away and hurt people with our nasty behavior and our ugly
Attitude here motha is humiliating so she thinks her sister in front of her savior cuz she wants her savior to choose her over her sister tell her Jesus to come and help me not realizing that Mary was in the position of a [Applause] disciple only disciples would be sitting at the feet
Of the [Applause] rabbi so Mary was breaking convention Mary was breaking the glass ceiling Mary was saying there’s no tears with women in Ministry I love Jesus so much scoot over Peter scoot over John I’m taking a seat at the feet of Jesus and what Martha didn’t understand is that what Mary was
Doing was being a blessing to her because if she could be a disciple then Martha you can be stop being a hater on somebody else’s blessing oh preach Bishop I’m doing the best that I can if God is blessing your neighbor stop being a hater on how God blesses them that
Sister Washington can go from singing to singing she does more than sing she sings and I love it even though I can’t carry a note I’m not hating on her girl sing to the glory of God is there witness in the building can you celebrate what God is doing in somebody
Else’s life shout yeah when we lived in Mount ver y’all sit down I’mma finish when we said yikes when I when I grew up Mount Vernon New York money earning Mount Vernon we grew up in Mount Vernon New York old school enough uh uh Pastor Barry our old school enough uh that we
Used to have the Good Humor uh ice cream truck come by on Saturdays I know young folk don’t know anything about that good good humor man but we lived on 12th Avenue and Third Street uh and so when he turned the corner on First Street he
Was two blocks away from our house and then he start coming down 12th Avenue slowly ringing the bell but we heard the bell ringing all the way down on Third Street and we kept saying ice cream truck is coming and and we had kind of that Eddie Murphy spirit I want some ice
Cream I want some ice cream I want some ice cream the proud problem H uh Pastor Maven is that he would keep stopping before he got to us and my good friend Joe Brown lived way up 12th Avenue and he was just rubbing it in cuz he got himself a strawberry shortcake
Ice cream bar and he would stand up way up there on 12th Avenue looking down our way and waving his ice cream bar at us I got mine but do you know I never got mad I wasn’t a hater cuz I knew that if we just could hold on a little while
Longer that that same ice cream truck was coming in my direction he could bless Joe right now but my blessing was on the way I dare you to put your Blessed Hands together and give God praise for your neighbor’s blessing give God praise for how he’s
Making a way for them for how he’s healing them how he’s opening doors how he’s lifting them because while on others Thou Art calling do not pass Pass Me By shout yeah shout yeah will you preach this with me say I’m focused I’m faithful but let me close when I tell you I’m
Favored oh y’all can’t handle that y’all can’t handle that I know you’re Baptist up in here but can you holler one time I’m favored come on will you put your hand on your chest and Shout I’m favored Hallelujah because here’s what Jesus said said Martha you’re too distracted and
Worried about too many things there’s only one thing that is required and Mary has chosen the better part now that’s not the favor the favor is this when the Lord of Life says to her it will never somebody shall never it will never be taken away from you oh God good gooda
Can I just preach two more minutes cuz I’m feeling it in here that when you decide to make Jesus your choice that’s the main thing and it’ll never be taken away from you Shout Never Shout Never no ugly acting Usher no treacherous trustee no devilish Deacon no perverted preacher
Nobody can take what the the Lord has given you this joy that I have the world didn’t give it and the world can’t take it away are there any Praises in the house are there any Praises in the house Hallelujah one author says that life is simply a series uh of
Decisions the choice you make determines the choices that’ll be available to you and I just need to check this house is there anybody here that has decided to follow Jesus shout yeah shout yeah I was in Atlanta with my three children donon Dana and Dion and I was
At we were at Linux mall and I said to each of them I’ll give you some money so that you can buy some things I gave donon $50 I gave Dana $50 and I reached to give Dion $50 but Dion said Daddy you keep the money
I want to just hang out with you in other words he decided to hang out with Daddy we started walking around the mall Theon went one way Dana went another way but Dion stuck with his daddy I said Dion we’re passing True Religion do you need
Some jeans he said yeah Daddy I could use some jeans so I bought him some jeans we went a little further I said Dion we’re passing Banana Republic do you need a top to go with those jeans he said sure daddy I’d like to get a top we
Went a little further we started passing by Champs I said de don’t you need some sneakers to go with them jeans and top he said yeah Daddy I could use some sneakers we walked a little further we passed Lids I said don’t you need a cap
To go with that outfit he said that should be nice we got back to the food court donon had one bag Dana had one bag but Dion had five bags [Applause] and Don said Dion how much money did Daddy give you and Dion said nothing well then how did you get all
Those things and Dion said I stayed with Daddy I stayed with my daddy I just need to take my seat but is there anybody up in here who said I decided to stay with Jesus and the Lord is Blessing Me Right Now right now some folk would rather have
Houses and L some folk choose silver and gold these things they treasure and forget about their soul but I decided to make Jesus my choice the road gets rough and the going gets tough and the hills are hard to clim but I started [Applause] I started I
Started a long time ago and there’s no doubt in my mind I’ve decided to make Jesus my choice keep the main thing keep the main thing keep the main thing in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost amen [Applause] [Applause] Won’t you Stand God our father thank you thank you for worship thank you for your word thank you for the preacher help us be focused help us be faithful so that we can elicit the favor of God in our lives when the road gets rough yeah and the going gets tough and the hills get
Hard to climb remind us that we made a choice that we decided to make Jesus our choice bless this preacher restore unto him the strength he’s expended in preaching today and continue to use him Beyond this place for your glory and for the good of those who will hear your word through him
Thank you for allowing us to hear your word deepen our faith deepen our commitment our trust our confidence in your sovereignty there’s someone Among Us who is without Christ in their Liv without a church to call their own we pray that this time of worship might lead them to
You the rock is higher than I but for all who believe in you through your son who belong to your church already and are Faithfully serving you grow us mature Us in the faith that we might be light and salt in this community and in this world that we live in in Christ’s
Name we pray the people of God together say Amen come on put your hand together give our great God great praise while we stand if you’re in the room you’re without Christ in your life you’ve never said yes to Jesus Christ as personal savior your lord and King he’s
Here today he wants you to come to him to surrender your life to him to make him king of your life if you’re here today you are a believer in Christ but without a church on the doors open you to come today that you might make him uh
Make him king of your life you reattach yourself to him to his church to his people the door is open to you as we sing it’s your moment it’s your time the invitation is for you my sister you my brother to give your life to him make
Jesus your choice that you might find faith and favor in him in my mind won’t you come we’re waiting it’s your opportunity it’s your chance to make Jesus my sister my brother we’re waiting for you come on you know the road is rough and the go is get T are you here the
Road and the go and the heels the hills are hard to clim I SP it out you my sister you my brother a long time ago there is no doubt there is no doubt in my mind to make Jesus my Choice and the glowing get up and the heels are hard to climb I stop R it out a long time ago there is no doubt in my mind I’m deed to make Jesus my choice come on let’s give God thanks and praise for his word today let’s thank
God for the preacher amen keep the main thing the main thing one more time let’s thank God and praise God for Bishop W Darren Moore won’t you stand we are on our way from worship back into the world and the business of our days as we do
Remind you that we gather tomorrow at the 700 p.m. hour celebrate uh Monday Thursday Gathering worship around the communion table then on Friday at 12:00 noon We Gather for seven words on one Friday may God bless us we continue to make the road toward Calvary to seek
Power to live our lives and Minister as resurrected people engage in Resurrection Ministry amen thank God for the preacher the pastors and for all of you share with us today go in peace at the back of the sanctuary sister Lanta Royal till the CLE is going to be to my
Left they receive our gifts as you leave give generously and liberally as is the custom of God’s people you are released today go back and go in joy and peace
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