Love

[00:00:25] Speaker A: Welcome and thank you for choosing freeconferencecall.com. [00:00:29] Speaker B: You. [00:00:29] Speaker A: You're helping people around the world communicate for free. Please enter your access code followed by the pound or hash sign. The recording has started. Please announce yourself that you came on. [00:00:47] Speaker C: Tonight to worship with us and the fellowship. Most of all, our fellowship with one another. So glad that you're on. Is on. She's just on mute. Good afternoon, Minister Graham. Thank you for always coming on. [00:01:08] Speaker D: God bless you, Minister Cassandra and everyone. [00:01:11] Speaker C: Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. [00:01:19] Speaker D: That's your brother Thomas. Good evening. [00:01:23] Speaker B: How you feel? [00:01:24] Speaker E: Great, thank God. [00:01:26] Speaker C: All right. Thank God. Thank the Lord. We're so thankful to be on the night another Friday that we can lift up the name of Jesus. Another Friday, another day. We can just say thank you to our God. Thank you. Thank you to our God. [00:01:49] Speaker B: Good evening, everyone. God bless you all. [00:02:23] Speaker F: That was really strange. [00:02:50] Speaker A: Welcome and thank you for choosing freeconferencecall.com. you're helping people around the world communicate for free. Please enter your access code followed by the pound or hash sign. The recording has started. Please announce yourself. [00:03:19] Speaker C: And we are looking at the time. A few more minutes and we're going to get started. Minister Regina did mention that maybe tonight. I don't know if the speaker is on, but maybe tonight should get off a little early because people have different functions to go to the night with their church. So we definitely don't want to hold nobody up. And we're just so glad that you took this time to come on and fellowship with us. So I want all of us to know that God bless the diligent as we be diligent. God is going to keep on moving and doing what he promised us that he would do for us. Yes, he will. No matter what. Amen. [00:04:12] Speaker E: Yes. [00:04:13] Speaker B: I think she was saying that had someone that. That was going to speak, but. [00:04:21] Speaker E: They. [00:04:21] Speaker B: Have something to do with their grandkids or something. So. [00:04:25] Speaker C: Okay. [00:04:27] Speaker A: Good evening. [00:04:29] Speaker D: Good evening. [00:04:30] Speaker C: Good evening. [00:04:31] Speaker D: Thank you. Minister Cassandra, you're the best. Isn't she wonderful, you all? [00:04:37] Speaker C: Praise God be the glory. [00:04:42] Speaker A: Get ready to get started a little early tonight. Thank God for Minister Cassandra. Minister neutral. We are going to get ready to get started. We have our speaker on Brother Wells. So Minister Cassandra, please open us up in prayer. [00:05:00] Speaker B: Amen. [00:05:01] Speaker G: Amen. [00:05:01] Speaker C: Amen. Father, we're just so grateful that we can come together another night. A great speaker for the night. God, we just thank you. We thank you for Minister Regina that she's steadfast and that she's unmovable and always abounding. In the works of the Lord. We're just grateful to you, God. We thank you for everyone has joined in with us tonight. We thank you for minister Graham. We thank you for maybe 15 days on. We thank you for brother Wells. We thank you for sister Anitra. We thank you, Lord God and everybody else that's got on the line to just lift up the name of Jesus. We are so thankful that we are family. We are joined and we are knitted together as a family on meeting of the saints. God. And we desire to grow. We desire to do your will. We desire God to please you and spirit and in truth God. And we take it not robbery coming on on Mondays and. And Wednesdays and Thursday. We take it not robbery and we're just so grateful, God. Now I myself and I sang this song because God is really good and I want to sing this song. [00:06:19] Speaker G: God is so good. God is so good. God is so good. He's so good to us. God bless up us. God blesses us. God blesses us. He's so good to us. God answers prayer. God answers pray. God answers prayer. He's so good to us. [00:07:38] Speaker C: Amen. God is so good to us. Really, really do answer prayer. Amen and amen. And now we would have sister Anitra to bring us a song for us and we definitely gonna be blessed. [00:07:57] Speaker B: Amen. [00:07:58] Speaker C: Amen. [00:08:00] Speaker B: Hey man, can you hear me? Yes, ma'. Am. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Oh, God is so good. As minister Cassandra sung so lovely. He's just so good. He's a big father. And we bless the Lord on tonight. Just thanking God for being in the number one more time. Thanking God for our the leader of this line, Minister Parker, and also all the ministers on the line on tonight and everyone in their respective places. We thank God for those that desire to be on the line but could. [00:08:36] Speaker C: Not be on the line. [00:08:38] Speaker B: So I'm going to sing a little bit of this song. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. [00:08:47] Speaker G: Because the Lord is my shepherd Yes, I have everything I need. [00:09:01] Speaker B: He rests. [00:09:02] Speaker G: Me in the middle ground. [00:09:08] Speaker B: And he. [00:09:08] Speaker G: Leads me beside the quiet stream. [00:09:15] Speaker B: He. [00:09:16] Speaker G: Restored my family that's why I'm safe that's why I'm safe that's why I'm saving Wind the storm Wind the storm of life is raging and below. [00:10:14] Speaker A: To. [00:10:28] Speaker G: Shall hide me today. [00:10:42] Speaker B: I'm so glad I'm safe Are we glad we're safe in his arms on tonight Hallelujah. [00:10:52] Speaker E: We don't have to want for anything. [00:10:54] Speaker B: He is our shepherd. Bless you. Bless you. Bless you. [00:11:00] Speaker F: Bless The Lord. [00:11:01] Speaker B: Amen. [00:11:02] Speaker D: Amen. [00:11:05] Speaker G: Amen. Amen. [00:11:08] Speaker A: Thank you, Minister Cassandra. Thank you, Minister Nietzsche. Praise God. At this time, our speaker tonight is from the Mount Olive Disciples of Christ Church in Mount Vernon, New York. And most of us on the line, we know him. He is our brother, Vaughn Wells, and he's going to bring us the Word tonight. God bless you, brother Vaughn. [00:11:35] Speaker B: Thank you. Thank you so much. Okay, I like to start with just a quick word of Fred so that the Word will be blessed by the Lord himself. Heavenly Father, we pray that as I bring the word that you have given me in my heart today to share with you with the saints of God today over this phone. Lord, I pray that you will bless it and keep it and let it sink into our hearts and to our minds and into our spirit, Lord, and in some way help us as we continue this walk. Lord, I give you praise, thanks and glory. And I say this in the name of the Father and of the Son, of the most precious Holy Spirit. All God's people say amen. Amen. [00:12:29] Speaker D: Amen. [00:12:31] Speaker B: Okay, what I chose today, the topic I chose today is the word love. I chose the word love. No, hold on. [00:12:51] Speaker A: Love. [00:12:52] Speaker B: Are we ready? [00:12:58] Speaker C: Please mute your phone. We hear you talking. [00:13:04] Speaker B: Okay, yes. Like I said, I chose. I chose the word, the word love today. And that word is a very misunderstood word for many reasons, and it's been used for reasons that it wasn't intended. The word love is a word that we use loosely because, for instance, we say we love things. You know, I love my car. I love that movie that just came out. Oh, I love that dinner. You know, I love the sunset. I love the sunrise. And, you know, we use it for different things, you know, but the reason I chose it is because the word love is associated with God himself. And we know that. For instance, in First John, if I go to First John, Chapter 4. [00:14:28] Speaker F: I. [00:14:28] Speaker B: Can show you, I can read into your hearing what John speaks about love, what true love is. And we know that the love that God has for us is not the same love we have for each other. That love is called agape, which is a deep, deep, deep, deep love. Now, in John, chapter one, First John, chapter four, starting at verse seven. [00:15:04] Speaker E: It. [00:15:04] Speaker B: Says, beloved, let us love one another. For love is of God. And every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God. He that loveth not, knoweth not God. For God is love. And this was manifest the love of God towards us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him, therein is love. Not that we love God, but that he loves us. And sent His Son to be a propitiation for our sin. Behold, beloved, if God so loves us, we ought also to love one another. No man have seen God at any time. If we love one another. God dwelleth in us. And his love is perfected in us. Hereby know we that we dwell in him, and he in us. Because he has given us of his spirit. And we have seen and do testify. That the Father sent the Son to be the Savior of the world. Whosoever shall confess, confess that Jesus is the Son of God. God dwelleth in him and he in God. And we have known and believe the love that God has to us. God is love. And he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God and God in Him. Herein is our love made perfect. That we may have boldness in the days of judgment. Because as he is, so are we in this world. There is no fear in love. But perfect love casts out fear. Cast out fear, because fear has torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love. We love him because he first loved us. If a man say, I love God and hated his brother, he is a liar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he have seen. How can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this commandment has we from him. That he who loves God loves his brother. So that love that John is talking about here. Is a love beyond our comprehension. Because I don't think any human being could love the way God loves us. Because at times we struggle to love one another. Even though we know that God told us to love each other. Jesus told his disciples. He said, peter, people will know that you are My disciples if you love one another. So that works. So as we continue in this life, as we strive to love each other. And sometimes it's very hard to love someone. Because at times we have a neighbor that is very uncooperative. We have a neighbor that just. I mean, the word gets under her skin. I mean, just rubs us the wrong way. You know, it's hard to love somebody like that who always, you know, looking for a fight. Looking for some kind of an opportunity to cause trouble. And so it's hard even within our own family. We have trouble loving each other sometimes. You know, the saying goes, I really love you, but at this moment, I don't like you very much. You see? But love is not something that we do one day and then we don't do it the next day. Oh, I love you today, but I don't love you. I don't love you tomorrow. I love you five minutes ago. But the way you acting and the way you're behaving right now, I don't love you anymore. You know, you hear the saying all the time, oh, well, we're getting divorced because we fell out of love. What does that mean? How can you fall out of love? That's not true love. That is not true love. That's not the love that God is talking about here when he talks to us to love one another. You can't fall out of love with somebody. It's either you love him or you don't love them. So I'm going to try to get to a couple of scriptures before, you know, before we. The time runs out on me. And then another point that I like to make too is where it says, where it says that we see how love could be misdirected. Love can also hurt. But what Jesus is teaching us here is found in Matthew 5. If we go to Matthew 5, I can just do it real quick. Matthew 5:43, Matthew 5:43. And this is a very this to me, this is the most powerful. [00:20:55] Speaker C: Command. [00:20:55] Speaker B: Or the most powerful thing that Christ has called us to do. And it's like I was saying before, we run into a neighbor that's very, very obnoxious, hard to get along with, causing trouble all the time. It's just a conflict between neighbors. But in Matthew 5:46, it says, you have heard that it has been said, thou shalt love thy neighbor and hate thy enemies. But I say unto you, love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you. I mean, that is a command that and it's very hard to do. But it says that he may be the children of your Father, which is in heaven. For he maketh the sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and set it rain upon the just and the unjust. For if we love them which love us, what reward has he? Do not even the publicans the same. And if you salute your brethren only, what do you most than others do? Not even the publican. So be he therefore perfect, even as your Father, which is in heaven is perfect. So that is a very hard command to accomplish in this life. But we try. When it says be perfect as your Father is perfect, we can't be perfect as God is perfect. We can strive to be perfect by the way we live by the way we treat each other, by the way we follow his command. So that love he's talking about, that agape love that God has given us is. Is beyond our comprehension. You know, that's what I'm saying. We can love our wives to death. Jesus says, you know, a man so loves his friend that he can give his life for his friend. Sometimes, you know, we love someone so much that we'll give our lives for that person. But that love still can't compare to the love that God has for us. He has an eternal love. He has a love that is beyond this hemisphere. We know one of the favorite chapters and verses in the Bible is John 3:16. And I can read it by heart, but I like to read it because it's more profound when you read the word itself. I like to memorize scripture and repeat it, but I like to read it because it speaks for itself. And in John 16, Jesus was talking to Nicodemus, telling them about the rebirth to be born again. If a man is to be born again, you cannot see the kingdom of God. And Nicodemus was trying to figure out, what is this rebirth you're talking about? Should I get into my mom's womb again and be born again? But Jesus is. But Jesus went on to tell him in John, Starting at verse 15, to get the concept of it, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. So you see that love that he has for us, no matter what we do, when we sin, when we fall, we get up. We repent of what we just did to him. But we don't sin against man. Whatever we do, we stand, we do. [00:25:11] Speaker D: It unto the Lord. [00:25:12] Speaker B: When we sin, we sin not of the deeds that we are doing. [00:25:16] Speaker D: We sin against Him. [00:25:17] Speaker B: That's why we have to go at the throne of grace and repent. Because his love is so profound and so embedded in us that he forgives us. He forgives us because it says, for he loves the world so much that he gave his only Son. That is a love that would you. Would, you know. In other words, if either one of us have to give our children for this world, it's going to be hard. Some of us won't be able to do it. We won't be able to give up. [00:25:57] Speaker D: Our childhood to save the world. [00:26:00] Speaker B: We won't be able to do it. Going to be A hard thing to do, you see. But God so loved us that he gave his only Son. And if we only believe in him, we will not perish but have everlasting life. So I'm coming to a close, but I got a couple, just maybe one or two more scriptures just bring home. The point that I'm trying to make is that it says that love can also hurt. But what Jesus is teaching us here, and we went through Matthew, time is enhanced because that sin nature is still within us. So when we go to John and Paul tells us about truth about that love in First Corinthians, chapter 13, we know that that's the love chapter. And when we go to that love chapter, we see what that true love is talking about. And I'm just going to go over just a couple of verses in chapter 13. He said, though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels and have not lost charity, which means love, I have become a sounding brass or a thimble and cymbal. So no matter what we do, we can. And he goes on to talk about he can give his body to be burned. He can give a million dollars to the poor. We can serve at the soup kitchen, we can serve at the hospital. We can do all of these things if we have love. If we don't have love, if love is not behind it, it's in vain. [00:28:07] Speaker D: It's in vain. We do a lot of charitable work. [00:28:11] Speaker B: And I know some of you brothers and sisters on the phone tonight are involved in helping other people and helping charity and helping different things. We do the pantry, we pass out tracts, and we do all these other things. But are we doing it in love? Are we doing it in sincere love that we try to reach these people for Christ? And I always say this is one of my favorite things. Are we working with God? Are we working? If we work in for God, I don't think the true love is there because I use myself as an example. When I used to work in my job, I work with the company that I that hired me because I put pride in my. In the company. I put pride in the work that I had to do because I do it not onto men, but onto the Lord. So the love is there. [00:29:11] Speaker D: If I work for the company, the. [00:29:14] Speaker B: True love is not there. I wouldn't put myself in positions where I could help the company, even though they don't even know I'm helping them, you see? So when we work with God, we work with love. We do what he tells us to do. He says, when I was four. You didn't feed me when it went out, help me when I was hungry. You didn't see me when I was sick. You didn't come on, come and visit me. You didn't help me. You didn't come into prison. You didn't clothe me when I had no clothes. He said, but if you do it onto the least of these, you have. [00:29:49] Speaker D: Done it onto me. [00:29:50] Speaker B: And how are we going to do it to the least of these? Because we love them. Because we love Christ enough to do what he commands us to do. To love one another, to put ourselves in other people's shoes, to see that they need and to show them the love of Christ. We can't bring anybody to Christ if. [00:30:14] Speaker D: We don't love them first. To show them the love of Christ. [00:30:19] Speaker B: That's the key. [00:30:21] Speaker D: That's the key in First Corinthians 13. [00:30:26] Speaker B: And at the end of it, it says, and now abiding faith, hope, charity, these three. But the greatest of these is love. You see, the greatest of this is love. [00:30:41] Speaker D: We have to love him first. We have to love him first. [00:30:46] Speaker B: And if we. And in closing, I just want to go to. I just want to run to first John again and just look at first John real quick again. And then we can close up and get the feedbacks and what have you. But in John 4, 1st John 4, where it goes on to say that God is love again. And it goes on to say, why I like this chapter so much that John speaks of the love of God in so many ways. In so many ways. He said, beloved, let us love one another. That's the key. We have to love one another before we can love anybody else. We must love ourselves, but we must love one another. And Christ demands that we love one another. For if God is of God and everyone that loveth is born of God and knoweth him. So how are we going to know God if we don't love one another or love our enemies? We read back in. As we read back in Matthew. How are we going to love God if we hate our brother? How are we going to do it? We can't do it. We are congregated if we go about. Yeah, well, you know, the word Christians is a very, you know, it's a controversial word to me. I think Christianity. I think Christianity is a word that, like the Bible says was created in that first used in Antioch. It says Christ. It means Christ like. That's all it means to be Christ like. But. But a relationship. That's where it is It's a relationship between you and Christ, you see. So to love Christ, before we can even love one another, we must love Christ. And he demands us that we love one another. And this is in closing. We cannot love one another. If we don't love Christ, we'll be a counterfeit. We cannot say we love our brothers and don't love Christ, or we can't say we love Christ and don't love our brother, love our sisters. There's a verse in Matthew, I think, when Christ was teaching in a home. And some people come and say, oh, your mother and your brother is waiting outside to talk to you. And he says, well, who's my mother and who's my brother? [00:33:49] Speaker D: He said, those that obey the word of God. [00:33:53] Speaker B: And if we can love our brothers and love our sisters and love our mothers and love our fathers, we must obey God. We must love him first. You can't love Christ without loving and not love your brother or your enemy. We must do it in love. And perfect love casts out death. Timothy says, for he gave us the spirit of love and power and of a sound mind. So we must cling to that. We must cling to that word love. Because without that, Christ wouldn't have come. Because if God didn't love this world so much, he would have not sent His Son. If he said, you know, these people are too wicked. I can't deal with them like he did in the days of Noah when he destroyed them. But in this dispensation of grace by sending Christ, we are saved by grace through faith, not of works, but of love. And if God didn't love us, to send his only son to die on a cross, that is so, so brutal, we wouldn't be here and we wouldn't have the opportunity to say, God loves me. God loves me. You see. So as I say, for us to love each other, we must understand John 3:16. We could put ourselves in John 3:16. For God so loved the world that he gave. He gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but hath everlasting life. May the Word of God be praised, and may it seep into our hearts and mind as we continue this class. We give him all the praise, we give him all the glory and all the worship. All honor and glory is his now and forever. Amen and amen. [00:36:12] Speaker F: Amen. Bless the Lord. [00:36:15] Speaker D: Amen. [00:36:18] Speaker F: Praise God. Praise God, brother. Well, I thank God for you, my brother. Wow, that's a powerful statement concerning love. You know, I Happen to be looking it up. And I was saying, like, you know, how many times is the word love mentioned in the Bible? And it says about 133 times. Love is a primary thing. After all, the scripture says God is love, you know, so what a beautiful thing that you brought before us. So I'm thankful for you, my brother. I appreciate that you just let go and let Jesus lead you in this testimony of love. You lifted up love wonderfully. What a beautiful thing. I was thinking really quick that when you were saying, you know, people use the word love and all kind of interchangeable things, like saying, I love my car, I love my cat, I love money. [00:37:40] Speaker D: I love this, I love that. [00:37:42] Speaker F: But that's not the love of God, that carnal love. [00:37:47] Speaker B: That's the love of the world. And I thank you for making that. [00:37:52] Speaker F: Clear and bringing that to a very fine point. Love you, brother. God bless you, brother. [00:37:58] Speaker B: Amen. [00:38:01] Speaker A: Amen. [00:38:03] Speaker C: Amen. [00:38:04] Speaker A: Thanks and praise for the word, brother Wells. I love this world needs so much more love. And from us loving God and keeping him first in our lives and doing whatever we can to help our brothers and our sisters. [00:38:22] Speaker B: Amen. [00:38:23] Speaker A: Just thank you. I want to thank you for that word this evening. If there's someone else that would like to help encourage our brother. [00:38:33] Speaker E: The floor is open. [00:38:34] Speaker A: God bless you. [00:38:36] Speaker B: Thank you, brother. [00:38:37] Speaker D: Well, for that wonderful word. [00:38:39] Speaker B: Oh, a reminder. And I really came from the part where you say that we love God. [00:38:45] Speaker D: Lord, I love you so much. [00:38:47] Speaker C: I love you. [00:38:47] Speaker B: Lovely. I'll be. And yet we come up with, oh, I don't like that. [00:38:52] Speaker E: Brother or sister. [00:38:53] Speaker D: It cannot be. [00:38:54] Speaker B: And you made us know that tonight. [00:38:56] Speaker C: Again, as a reminder. Thank you. [00:38:59] Speaker B: Amen. Amen. [00:39:01] Speaker F: Bless the Lord. [00:39:02] Speaker C: Yes. [00:39:03] Speaker F: Yes. Hallelujah. [00:39:06] Speaker B: Amen. [00:39:08] Speaker D: Amen. [00:39:08] Speaker A: Is there another? [00:39:16] Speaker E: Praise the Lord? This is Pastor Janet. [00:39:19] Speaker D: Can you hear me? Okay. [00:39:25] Speaker E: I just want to thank our brother Wells for that word. I was just listening, and I was just reflecting on so many different things. And, you know, that is an action word, But I was just reflecting on this week, honestly, and some of the things that I've had to do and some of the things that I've had to experience. And I tell you, you really know when the love of God is in you, when you can look beyond yourself, don't look or look beyond an individual who may not be in a position to do for themselves. [00:40:15] Speaker B: So what do I mean by that? [00:40:16] Speaker E: And I'm not going to try to go over anything he said, but I was just reflecting because I was having. [00:40:22] Speaker B: As some of you know, I've been. [00:40:24] Speaker E: Having work done around here. And one of the young men, he comes with the crew of people he works with. And if I'm making breakfast, I'm offering him some. If I'm making lunch for my husband, offering him some. And if he just happened to be here while I finish dinner, I'm offering him some. So many different things. And I'm saying this to say this individual is homeless. Love is not about trying to figure out getting into a person's business all the time, but just being led by the Holy Spirit and having that spirit of. And he's been with this crew for. It's a month now. But I was just reflecting because I was sharing with someone. He was here Tuesday. We had to do something. And how he just began to open up, not me asking any questions. And he began to talk about his life. And he knows the Lord. I don't know what his journey has, but I know he's in a ministry where he's being fed the word of God or around a ministry where he's being fed the word of God. And you know, I'm talking but the scripture that talks about if a man comes into the church well dressed, we quick to put him to the front. But what about the individual who is not in fancy apparel? I'm paraphrasing it. What do we do? So I just want to say thank you to the Brother Wells because I was just reflecting and I was just thinking about it and I know that the Lord is speaking to the body of Christ at this time for us to come on up a little bit higher with that love because God is no respecter of person. So I just wanted you to know I was really thinking deep on that and listening to you. And may God forever bless you. May you continue to move forward in the way that the Lord will have you to go. God bless you. [00:42:42] Speaker C: Amen. And I agree with all those wonderful words said. I just come in agreement because it's always a great place to talk about the love of God. So I'm just so grateful for the Word tonight and it's something for us to make us feel our moment and think about the love of God. So God bless you, Brother Wells, and we thank God for you. Amen. [00:43:12] Speaker A: We just give thanks and praise for our brother Wells tonight and for the word that he came forth with tonight. But at this time, we're going to close this portion of the floor and we're going to go into our prayer time. If there's anyone that has a prayer request at this time, you can call it out. And our minister Graham is going to take us to the throne of grace. God bless you, Minister Graham. [00:43:37] Speaker D: God bless you. [00:43:38] Speaker C: Thank God for prayer request, please, anyone? [00:43:42] Speaker B: Yes, I do. [00:43:44] Speaker E: I'm sorry, I do, Minister Graham. And to everyone on the line today, I heard some news and this is regarding my pastor in New York, Pastor Cook. [00:43:57] Speaker D: Some. [00:43:57] Speaker E: Well, Regina knows him and I don't know who else, but the long and short of it is that he's had challenges. He's a diabetic, a teenage diabetic, and he's had challenges for a very long time. I've known him for over 30 years now. And I just want to ask you all because his wife put the request out today and it was on Facebook. So Regina, you might see it. I don't know. But the long and short of it is that she's asking. She's soliciting the prayers from the saints of God to come in agreement with them as Pastor Cook is now totally blind. And the other part of her testimony that she shares is that, okay, their anniversary will be 30 years in September after mice. But shortly after they got married, she was a perfect match for her husband for a kidney. And that kidney has functioned for 25 years. And now with the blindness, they live in Florida, by the way, Melbourne. So now with the blindness, the kidney is not functioning the way it was before. And I understand Pastor Cook was in the hospital these past four days. So now it's the blindness. Not only that, his hearing, from what I understand, is also beginning to go some. But the blindness and the kidneys. So she asked for prayer that Pertussin agree with them regarding the kidney situation because it's not functioning as it has been for the past 25 years. [00:45:50] Speaker B: So that is a pride, that is. [00:45:52] Speaker E: A clarion call with the people of God, wherever you are, to hold up that Cook family is the name Pastor Dennis Cook and co pastor Bernice Cook. I ask that you please keep them up in prayer and. And those who were on last week, I just want you to know that Brother Gerard is out of the hospital. Thank God he still needs the prayers as the doctors are continuing to treat him as well for his condition. Thank you. God bless you. [00:46:28] Speaker C: God bless you, Pastor Janet. [00:46:32] Speaker E: Anyone else? [00:46:36] Speaker F: Well, I just. I would just say because after Brother Wells had preached that. Wonderful. I didn't preach that, but brought to us the word of love. I just want, you know, just to magnify love among. Among the Christian family and not just the Christian family, because we need to show love to those who don't know love. And we want to be lights of. [00:47:03] Speaker B: Love in this world. [00:47:05] Speaker F: So, you know, we just want to lift up love, real love, not carnal love. We want to lift up real love, caring love, compassionate love, helpful love. Thank you. [00:47:20] Speaker E: Amen. [00:47:22] Speaker D: Anyone else before we go into prayer? [00:47:26] Speaker C: I don't hear anyone. So we're gonna ask Holy Spirit to lead God as we go into our prayer time. [00:47:33] Speaker D: Father, God, we're so grateful. [00:47:35] Speaker B: Tonight, we bless you, we praise your. [00:47:38] Speaker C: Holy name, we magnify you. [00:47:40] Speaker B: Thank you for being a good, good father. [00:47:43] Speaker D: Thank you for being so good. Thank you, God, for. Oh, God, Every song that was sang, the prayers, the word of encouragement. God, we say thank you. Thank you for the leader of this. [00:47:57] Speaker B: Line, this precious minister Regina. [00:48:00] Speaker D: Thank you, God. [00:48:01] Speaker B: How she either is on or she. [00:48:03] Speaker D: Has someone in her stead. But we thank you for her diligence. God, we thank you, Lord God, for minister Cassandra. Thank you, Father. How you just touched her body and all is well with her heart. We are so grateful. Her physical heart and, Lord, spiritual heart. We're so grateful tonight. Lord, we thank you for everyone on this line. God, we ask tonight that you pour back into brother Wells, God. Continue, Lord, to flow through him, Holy Spirit. Oh, God, we thank you, Lord God, for that topic, Lord, as we talk about love, Father, we thank you that we will do it even more. We thank you that we will flow in the adopting love. We thank you, Lord, as brother Thomas has said, that we will love one another. Oh, love our brothers and our sisters. Love those even though some we've never seen. But, God, we thank you that our spirits connect and the love of God flows. [00:49:05] Speaker B: We thank you, Father, that we'll have. [00:49:07] Speaker D: Compassion, Lord, on those that need compassion. We thank you, Lord God, that we will have a forgiving heart. Thank you, God. That we will know, Father, that how you loved us so much, that you forgave us for many a thing. He had mercy. You, oh God, have shown us grace. God, let us exemplify that to our brothers and our sisters. Lord, let it start in our homes. Oh, God, the love of God. We thank you, Lord God. Thank you, Father God, for each and every family on this line. That your love will flow from heart to heart. We thank you, God, that. Oh God. The love will flow, Father, just like it flows. Oh, God, that God loves us so much. That agape love, that agape love, that First Corinthians love where we don't hold grudges or we don't hold things against those that might have wronged us. God but help us, Lord, Holy Spirit. Oh, help us to check ourselves and. [00:50:07] Speaker B: Make sure that we're loving people the. [00:50:10] Speaker D: Way Christ loved us. He loved us so that only gave. [00:50:14] Speaker B: His life for us. [00:50:15] Speaker D: We're so grateful, God. We lift up all those tonight, Father, that might have an infirmity in their bodies. Father, we thank you. From the top of their head to the sole of their feet. We thank you, God, that we decree and declare that all is well. We thank you, God, as we cry out for brother Cook, Pastor Cook. We thank you, Lord God, that I know that you are miracle working. God, Father, whatever attacks the enemy has sent towards this man of God, God, you can turn it around in an instant. God, we thank you that we choose to believe your word tonight. That you father said that by your stripes we're already healed. Oh, God, don't let his faith fail even Lord God, in the palm of your hand, I know you will. God, I thank you for him tonight. And God, we thank you that as he goes through this challenge in his eyesight, God, we command and decree and declare that you can turn that around. You can reverse it, Lord. Thank you, Lord, for this kidney. Father, you made kidneys, God. And I know, God, if you can have Rudolph Stanfield. Oh, God. Off the dialysis machine after 23 years, Lord, this kidney that has functioned for 25 years, we say whole body healing. We say total, total restoration, God. Oh, God, we thank you, Lord, that as he goes through this test and trial, God, thank you, Lord, for his spirit, man keeping the joy. Thank you, Lord, for his wife, oh God. First lady Bernice Cook. Thank you, Lord God, for her diligence, Lord, her strength, Lord, as she cares for her husband. We thank you, Lord God, that we will not say, God, that these things belong to him. But he's under attack, God. And we know, Father, that we don't claim these things for him even though they're working like that now. We say, God, total wholeness, total healing. Oh, God. Kidneys functioning, eyesight restored. God, oh, we use your name, God, in the mighty name of Jesus. The enemy is a liar. We thank you, Lord God, for a praise report. And God, we thank you, oh God, as he goes through, Father. God, he will continue to say each and every day, father, I thank you for my eyesight. I thank you that my kidneys are functioning. I thank you, Lord, for wholeness in my body. Wholeness belongs to him. We send your word to Melbourne, Florida. God, we thank you, Lord, that there's no distance in prayer. Father, we thank you. We praise you, oh God. For those that will come along, God. And assist. Oh God. Oh, Father. First lady cook. God. We thank you, Lord God, that nothing took you by surprise. But we cancel the assignment of the enemy right now. And all others, God, that are dealing with major challenges. God. Whatever the challenge, God, we thank you that we're whole. We thank you that we're healed. We thank you, Lord, for what you did for Minister Regina. We thank you for what you're doing, oh God. For Sister Anitra. We thank you, God, for what you're doing, oh God. For our dear brother Sirod. We thank you for what you did for Minister Cassandra and continuing to do in her body. We thank you, Lord. For her husband, oh God. Brother Sheldon. God we thank you, Lord God that all is well. We thank you, Lord for shaking and waking God. All of our loved ones that need to draw close to you, God. We thank you and praise you, God that they will hear God and they will see God. The things that are occurring just not by happenstance God, but oh God. Pointing us back to you. Pointing those that have walked away, those that have gotten lackadaisical God. Direct and Holy Spirit back to the answer. And that is you, God. We thank you and we praise you tonight for healing this land. We thank you, God that you told us what to do in order for our land to be healed, God and we say thank you, Father that we will, Father. We've got to repent, God We've got to turn from our wicked ways, God, we thank you, Father. Oh God, that you are the healer and you are the deliverer and you know the state of our land, God so we say thank you, Father. We thank you, Lord God for 2 Chronicles 7:14 God we thank you, Father God that you told us the steps to take, God and then the land will be healed, Father so we thank you, God that we know God that you told us that we call you by your name God, we're called by your name. We humble ourselves, God and pray what we do, Father three, four, five times a day but earnestly lifting up others greater than ourselves and seek your faith, God, we need to seek your faith even the more God and O God that we in this earth realm will turn from the ways the wicked ways, God Then you said you would hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and will heal their land. So God, we thank you. We climb intercessors for those, God who have some wicked ways don't even recognize it, God but oh God, Holy Spirit, draw them away from the wicked ways. Thank you, Father God, that they will repent, God. And they will know, Father, that the things that they've been doing are not pleasing to you, God. And we thank you, God, that we as believers, Lord, will stand in the gap and check our own selves and have forgiveness, Lord, for the sins that we might have committed. God, we thank you, Lord, for healing this land. We thank you, Lord God, for all those that might be in a facility, whatever facility that might be. God, we thank you that they'll be cared for with the love of God. We thank you, God, the people that are there to care, Father, that they really will care. Oh, God, we thank you, thank you tonight as you bring those, God, that might be bound. Oh, God. Behind the jail cells, God. But you're still right there, Father. You're the God for them as well. God. We thank you, Lord, God, for those chaplains and others that will go in, Father. And Lord, they can recognize, God, that God is already forgiven. Oh, God, as they ask, Lord, you don't remember it as far as the east is from the west, God. So yes, in the natural sense they have some time to pay consequences for what they've done. But, oh God, spiritually in their minds and hearts, set free, cover them, Father. You know everyone, Lord, that's bound tonight in prison, but set free in their minds, God. Oh, I thank you tonight, God, as you bring oh father Freddie Smith Jr. And others to mind, God, Lord, touch now, deliver now, set free now. We thank you, Lord, for deliverance. Father, we thank you for every child represented on this line. Lord. We thank you for the children, the grandchildren, the little babies, all those pregnant, Lord. God, we thank you for healthy babies, God, we just thank you. I thank you for little Henry Brooks. Oh, God, that those bones are not fusing together, Father. In the name of Jesus, we decree and declare, Lord, that they will find out that that is not what they thought it was. Thank you, Lord. God, that we will leave the report of the Lord and God, we just bless you. Touch his little body. God, thank you, Lord, for deliverance. Thank you for what you've done for Shelton, God, thank you, Lord for all of our loved ones, God. Oh God, we lift up this United States of America. God help today, Father. Oh, we come against everything that doesn't line up like you, Father. We thank you, Lord, as those, Lord, that are mixed up and confused in their identity. God, we thank you that we will remember what you made, God. A man and a woman. Not woman to woman, not man to man. And Lord, we just thank you for deliverance, Lord. Let Them recognize somebody helped them back to God. We thank you Lord, for them coming from the north, southeast and west. And Lord, they will not sit up under your word and holy Spirit can't change them. So, God, we thank you for the desire. We thank you, Lord, for those desire, for the drugs, for the alcohol, whatever the addiction is, the food, whatever it is. God, thank you for deliverance, Father. Thank you, Lord. We'll be no longer conformed to this one world, but transformed by the renewing of our mind. God, I thank you and I praise you, oh God, as you bring brother Howard to mine tonight. God. Oh, only you know why, God, but I thank you for his very life. Set him free. Deliverance. Let it be closer and closer to you. I thank you for Marcus and I thank you for oh Lord, I thank you for Marcus and Joshua. I thank you for oh, God, our dear brother Brandon. God, I thank you, Lord, for him, Lord. Just touch his heart and mind. Draw him closer to you. Thank you for the doors that you're opening, God, thank you for the love that you have for all of our children, God, everyone on here tonight. I thank you for my family, God, I thank you for opening a door for Roger. I thank you, Lord, that this little baby, Lord, will be brought up in the fear and have the mission of you, Zayden. I thank you, Lord God, for little oh God, I thank you for Dontrell. I thank you, Lord God, for his little son. Father, I thank you for this baby, God. I thank you Father, for his very life. Continue to cover him. Thank you for praying mothers and grandmothers and great grandmothers that will lift them up, that will speak life over them. God, I thank you for Mitrell, Lord, thank you for his art. Thank you, Lord God, for all these little ones that are about to come forth. Oh God, you have a plan and a purpose for them. And Lord, we thank you Lord for the patience, Lord, that the parents need, knowing that they've given a great responsibility when they've been placed with these children in their care just as loners because they belong to you, God. Oh, we lift up every ministry represented on this line tonight. We we thank you, Lord, for everyone in the fivefold ministry, Father. We pray for the peace of Jerusalem tonight. We thank you, Lord God, for all those leaders, God, that have a soul to be saved. We thank you that it is so, God. We thank you, Lord God, for even our president Donald J. Trump, Vice President Lord God, Vice President Vance and all those, Lord, in the cabinet and those, Lord God, that oh Father God, just need to Know you and father, we thank you for caring for the elderly. We thank you that they're protected and shielded from this heat. All the outside workers, God protect and shield them. Give them a cool breeze, let them stay hydrated. God, Father, God, we just thank you. So many things to thank you for traveling. Grace and mercy, Lord, for all those God that have traveled and come back home. We thank you for those that are still away. God, we thank you Lord for those that will be traveling down to Florida. Oh God, we thank you for the revival. God, we thank you Holy Spirit for flowing in and through that meeting. Flow through the woman of God. And Father, we're just so grateful. Thank you Father for all that you've done, all that you continue to do. Thank you Lord for those with housing issues. We thank you father that all is well. Those that are believing you for transportation. We thank you that you are the provider and God, we just bless you. You're so, so good to us. We thank you for your favor that will cover us for a lifetime. We thank you Lord God that we've determined to dwell in the secret place of the most high God and Lord God. Then Father, oh we will abide under the shadow of the almighty God. We bless you. We thank you Father as we leave this line tonight. Never leaving your presence because you're inside of us. And holy Spirit, deep down and direct thank you for traveling grace and mercy. The blood of Jesus covering and we say thank you Father for all that you've done and will continue to do and help us Father to be the son and the daughters that you're calling for so we can hear you say. [01:03:14] Speaker B: Well done thy good and faithful servant. [01:03:17] Speaker D: God bless you all. We love each and every one of. [01:03:20] Speaker B: You and thank God again for that message tonight. [01:03:24] Speaker D: Back in the hands of minister Regina. [01:03:27] Speaker B: Hallelujah. [01:03:30] Speaker C: Amen. [01:03:31] Speaker A: We thank God for that powerful. We thank God for that powerful prayer. We thank God for minister grant. We thank God for each and every person who has helped on this line who is pray the prayer. Who has lifted up our brothers and sisters. [01:03:49] Speaker B: Just thank you all. [01:03:50] Speaker C: Thank you. [01:03:51] Speaker A: We will be back on Monday for Bible study God's fair and I pray that you all have a safe and blessed weekend. God bless you all and good night. [01:04:06] Speaker B: Good night. [01:04:07] Speaker A: Good night everyone. [01:04:08] Speaker B: Have a blessed evening everyone.