Yesterday was a blessed day of ministering God's word. I preached for a friend and bro, Pastor F Demond Harris of New Harvest Christian church at 8:30 am. I preached Hang In There for James 1:12. The central point of the message was "You can make it if you hang in there." I got caught up (and so did the church) as I tried to explain the principle of disposition for which if tried to argue the tension of between the word, blessed, in context with testing moments or life's pressure points. Testing points in life are generally kill joys for the believer but the text says testing points are not kill joys but blessings. Which is to say we're being blessed during testing time.
The worship was wonderful and God used me to preach with passion and power. I pushed the envelope to my full capacity.
Again, thank you Pastor Harris and the New Harvest church for your kindness and invitation.
At 11:30, I preached for my friend pastor Al Johnson and Divine Direction Church. I also was able to meet pastor Lamar Simmons for the first time of Greater Mt Olive Baptist Church. He's immediate response upon the introduction of my name was, "Smith, heard a lot about you and now I finally get to meet you." I just pray he heard was of good and not of evil...lol
The worship was good and I preached from Genesis 17:1-8: Our God Is Sufficient. The central point of that message is God is all you need to make it from day to day. God blessed the message and pushed the enveloped again to full capacity. After the service Pastor Johnson commented how he appreciated the fact that I didn't anything back based on the number in attendance. I told him I don't preach for numbers I preach for changed lives. In my opinion that outweighs numbers any day of the week.
Again thank you Pastor Johnson and Divine Direction Church for your kindness and invitation.
My throat is soar but getting better. It really hurt yesterday. But it's my fault for not pushing through my stomach and using more of my throat during my whoop or what I call singing my sermon.
After church Tracy and I got some soul food from our favorite spot Carolyn's on Manchester. Sooooo gooood!
She took a nap and watched the football games (well as much as I could).
Later we got 31 Flavors and then I crashed for the night.
Both football games were good but the Giants/49ers game I enjoyed the most. I can care less who wins The super bowl I just want good football.
Until nxt time have a God blessing week.
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