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Amen. The lord bless me, amen, with life, health, and strength. Amen. Amen. Bless us all to wake up and see another day.

Alright. God bless you all that are here, amen, in person. Those that are with us, amen, on various platforms. Amen. Facebook and YouTube.

Amen. God bless you. Amen. You can be in anywhere today. Amen.

With the with the spirit of god have led you, amen, to be here with us at Greater Love. Amen. Amen. We wanna go ahead and move forward into our service. Amen.

I'm gonna ask our very own uh-uh elder Jewel to come and lead us with with scripture and prayer. Amen. And then follow with him. Amen. We'll be blessed by our very own praise and worship team.

Bless him as he come. And to praise you, to lift you up, and father god to thank you for what all you've done. Yes. All that you're doing and father god, all that you do. Thank you, lord.

We thank you for this great man and woman of god, oh god. You. You. You. Yes.

I will come again and receive you to my son. Yeah. That way I am. We bless the name of the lord this morning. How many of y'all know he's worthy?

He's worthy. He's worthy. Amen. And at this time, amen, we just wanna make an announcement before we go before we go into our offering time. Amen.

Which is an exciting time. Amen. For our service. We also want to prepare you for an exciting time that that lays ahead. Amen.

This coming Saturday, amen, February. Right. Amen. We look forward to the opportunity of blessing, amen, our very own bishop. Yeah.

Bishop Raymond Garrett. Amen. Amen. Amen. The whole celebration banquet.

Amen. The inauguration. Hallelujah. This is a principal celebration banquet for our very own bishop. Amen.

Bishop Garrett, amen, alone. Hallelujah. Awaiting of opportunity, amen. To display this man of god to display what god has has done, what god is doing. Amen.

In and through this man of god. Amen. Hallelujah. Like we used to say a long time ago, be there or be square. If you will.

Amen. This this event will be taking place at the Hilton Atlanta Northeast at 5993 Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Peachtree in Peachtree Corners, Georgia. Is that alright? That's alright. Amen.

The event will be at 5PM. So, by all means, make make every opportunity. Yeah. To be there. We will want to see you in the crowd.

Alright. If that's alright. Amen. Amen. Now, we're back to praise and worship.

I'll I'll always say that our time, our offering time. There's a praise, there's a opportunity to praise god in your gifts on today. That's another opportunity to tell god thank you, to worship the lord, amen, in our giving. Amen. We often say that this is an opportunity for prosperity.

Amen. Amen. Back back doing the back doing the old times. Amen. In the the the the in the Judaic times, amen, before they, before they reap the harvest.

Right. After they reap the harvest. Yeah. The first fruits, amen, went unto the priest. Yes, lord.

Amen. They had to give god his first. Alright. Amen. Before they can eat on the corn and the barley.

My lord. Amen. And and and make bread out of the wheat. My lord. They had to give god his first.

Yes. Amen. Not not so much to feed, to preach, to the tangible aspect of it but it was a it's a sign of let the lord know god. I'm telling you right now that I acknowledge that if it was not for you, not one stalker wheat would have come out of the ground. Lord, if it was not for you, amen.

I wouldn't even have the strength to go out and harvest. Right. Right. Amen. This crop.

We just wanna give you the honor and the praise and the glory, acknowledging that all good things come from you. Amen. Amen. So, this is the time in our service. Every week by which we make that by which we say that in our giving.

Yes sir. Lord, we are we honor you for blessing us with life, health, and strength, waking us up each and every day. That's right. Amen. Those that are here with us, amen, on various platforms.

Amen. Social media, amen. If you would just go on to GLMWC.org. GLMWC Org. Amen.

And hit on here at Greater Love. Amen. And god has given the man of god, the bishop Garrett, visions. Amen. And new ideas.

Amen. For this ministry. Amen. Not just for this ministry but also for the uh-uh Georgia Regional Conference. Yeah.

Amen. God has given this man vision. Alright. Amen. And we just want you to get on board.

Amen. And and and support this ministry at this time if you can. Amen. So, if you if if that said, amen. If there be anyone here, that would like to sow into this ministry, just raise your hand.

Amen. And someone will definitely be glad to get with get to you and serve you. Amen. For those that are not here, amen. If you just and just just bow your heads and let's go before the lord in prayer.

All head and eyes bow. Father god, now we come to you lord as humble as we know how to come. Lord god, we just wanna say thank you one more time. Thank you, lord. God, thank you for giving us life.

Yes. Thank you for health. Thank you for strength. Thank you father god for giving us abilities father god to to provide for our families. Thank you for homes.

Thank you for cars. Thank you for jobs lord. Thank you, god for giving us good health. Father god, that we might be able to go out and sow and reap, father god. And lord, we just ask you lord to ask we give and sow into this ministry, father god, the seed that we give.

God, we have, we ask you to bless bless it as we put it in the hand of the under shepherd. Father god, though it might be little, father god, we pray and we ask that the man of god is able to do mighty, great things. And father god, we just ask that you look upon those that desire to give, but they don't have it, lord. Lord, we ask you, you know the situation. You know the circumstance, father god.

Lord, we ask you to bless them in a way that no man can. Right. And father god, when you bless them in a tangible way, let them know that it come from you and father god, give them a mind, father god, to bless others. Uh-uh not just that the blessing is not just for them but it's also to be a blessing to somebody else. And god now we'll be so mindful to give you all the honor, all the praise, and all the glory.

In Jesus Christ name. Everybody in the house just said amen. Amen. Amen and amen. God bless you.

Amen. Amen. As you as you continue to sow into this ministry, amen. We're gonna have a sermonic solo following myself by our very own evangelist Connie And following her, we will be blessed by the word of god, by our very own bishop, doctor Raymond Garrett. Is that alright?

Amen. Thank you, Lord God, for all that you've done. Thank you for all that you're going to do. God, we ask that you speak to us this morning. Give us the word we need for this hour.

We will be careful to give your name the praise, the glory, and the honor. Come on. Give him the praise. Come on. Give him the praise.

Give him the praise. Come on. All the praise is glory. Amen. Amen.

This is the day the lord has made. And we are glad and rejoicing in it. Amen. Amen. The lord has just done great things for us.

Amen. So, Samaria, we are filled with joy. Amen. Amen. Anybody else excited about the lord today?

That's alright if you can't get here. But if you can get here, we invite you to come. Praise the lord. Amen. Thank god.

First lady Garrett and I I just I'm just gonna keep it real here this morning before I get into my text. I don't know if I still be in ministry for what to up. It's been a lot of days. I need to march. It's been a lot of days.

I ain't even marching. It's been a lot of days. I wanna say, man, thank you. But no thank you. I could just do what everybody else doing and take my moneys.

I could pay my tithes. Lord. To do all the stuff I'm supposed to do and be good. Yes, sir. Tells you about.

Be good. But God troubled me, so I believe I wouldn't get no sleep of him, Kim, if I did that. My lord. Because sometimes god had a calling on your life. That's right.

And when god has a calling on your life, you can't have no peace. If you do something other than what the lord tell you to do. He make it so that you won't have no peace. That's right. Amen.

He'll trouble the water so that you just can't rest. My god. Amen. Until you do what he say. They told me that the safest place in the whole wide world.

Is in the will of god. I believe that you won't have any peace if you're not in his will. My I believe that the enemy won't leave you alone if you don't, amen, operate in the will of God. Amen. Praise God.

Praise God. Well, listen. We've had church thus far. I just I'm not gonna be too long today. We got a lot of things going on, and we're just excited about what's happening this weekend.

And I wouldn't go even do no celebration, but they said you need to do it. You need to do it. I done got no papers. I'm good. But they say you need to do it and go on and you know, allow those here in Georgia to really have a chance to come and celebrate you.

Yes. Yes. Amen. And my wife reminded me of something Not long ago. She said, you and I believe the spirit gave her that.

Amen. She said that you celebrated others. Yes. Yes. Yes.

You spent a lifelong time celebrating others and the lord told her that it's time for others to celebrate you. So we wanna do it. But I'm honored because it gives me a chance to see some friends I haven't seen in a while. Oh, yeah. And have others come.

So we are certainly excited. I know the team has been working tirelessly. Amen. The last couple of months and and just been, amen, been getting it done, and it's all come together here in a few days. A few days.

We'll come together. We'll come together in a few days. We'll come together. We'll come together. We'll come together.

We'll come together in a few days. We'll come together. We'll come together in a few days. We'll come together in a few days. We'll come together in a few days.

We'll come together in a few Just talk to the family and just share with you. Something that I would really like to see happen as we go forward in our ministry, as you go forth in your ministry. Alright. And I really wanna see us, thrown up a little bit in some areas. And so I think today will kind of help us to sort of clarify this thought.

As we as we get into it here. Looking at Mark four verses 35 through 41. Just a few verses there. Verse 35. And the word of the lord says, and the same day, when even was come, he said unto them, let us pass over unto the other side.

Yes. When they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were there were also with him other little ships. And those arose a great and there arose a great storm of wind and the waves beat into the ship. So that it was now full.

And he said at the hinder part of the enemy, he he was in the hinder part of the ship. Up asleep on a pillow. And they awake him and say unto him, master, carest not thou not that we perish. And he arose and rebuked the wind and said unto the sea. Yeah.

Be still. My god. And the wind ceased and there was a great calm. Yeah. And he said unto them, where are you so fearful?

Why are you so fearful? How is it that you have no faith? Why are you so fearful? Why is it that you have no faith? Is Jesus talking?

Yeah. And they feared exceedingly and said one to another, what manner of man is this? That thou that the that the wind and the sea obey him. Yes. Yes.

Amen. Amen. Amen. Praise the lord. Alright.

Put something in my eyes there. Alright. Please be seated. I wanna talk to you this morning for just a few minutes about being spiritually healthy. Alright.

Alright. Come on. Say, being spiritually healthy. Spiritually healthy. Amen.

And so as we start to think about, you know, this time that we're in, we're in the winter season. We're in this time of the year where, you know, it really becomes evident as to whether we have been taking care of our health. Taking care of ourselves and taking care of our bodies. Amen. And and it's a time when we have a lot of folk that, you know, they get, sick and they get to a place where, they're miserable.

Yeah. I've had folks close to me that have had the flu, have had colds, all kind of stuff that, you know, and it just, you know, it just, it really becomes important whether you're taking care of yourself or not. Alright. Alright. Am I right about it?

Yeah. And and and and, you know, the weather begins to to mess with us and change And one day is hot, one day is cold, one day is like spring, and we get it out. You know, you see folk running down the street in their bathing suits. I mean, I mean, really. I mean, in their bathing suits and shorts and, no wonder we're running around just sick and spreading that all over the place.

My lord. But it began to during this time, you know, when when sickness comes and when people begin to get sick from different, different things going. It's a shift in the weather that causes a lot of this. Oh, yes. But what happened is it become a strain on the body.

My lord. And if our bodies have not been taken care of and we're not doing the business we need to do. Yes, sir. Amen. And then we get in a frantic.

My lord. We get in a frantic and we start, you know, losing it. My god. Amen. And and and and so sometime we pull back and we do what we have to do because, you know, we didn't take care of ourselves.

Alright. Will you say amen today? We we didn't do the the necessary prerequisites. Uh-huh. So that when the weather change.

Alright. And then the strain on your body start to happen. Amen. You ain't got your vitamin Caesar. My And you don't have everything, you know, really Jew.

You gotta prepare. Come on somebody say prepare. Prepare. You have to prepare for stuff that you know is coming. My lord.

My lord. Amen. Seasonal change. You know that's coming. My lord.

Thing that you know is on the way. Yeah. And so we have to take care of ourselves. Yes. Yes.

Amen. And you know it worked the same way in the spirit. Uh-huh. Alright. Uh-huh.

We work the same way in the spirit. The same principle applies. Amen. And when the wind begin to blow and the weather begin to change and the season begin to challenge us. Yeah.

Amen. We we have to decide and and and make sure that we are spiritually in tune. My lord. That we're spiritually well, sister Mary, so that when the strain comes. Right.

Right. Right. We can make it through the stone. Come on somebody. Say amen.

Amen. Amen. And so that's where we are today. I want to to challenge us as we move into this new season and we move into this new year to to to make sure, evangelist Amy, that we are spiritually well. Yes, sir.

That we are spiritually healthy. Amen. And and as we sort of take take a look at this story today where Jesus is with the disciples and the Bible said they were moving across to the other side. They were on a boat. Uh-huh.

And fortunate enough to have the lord present. Yeah. And, he was already there and and so they started out and they left the crowds and they began to move and as they begin to move, the scripture say that a fierce storm. My god. Was presented upon them.

It began to come. Amen. And and and the waves begin to move in such a way that this wasn't just no no no little rain. Alright. This was a storm.

This was the real deal that came and it was a real, you know, you just think about the way it portrayed here like a hurricane type wind. Alright. Now, just think about it. You out on the boat and a hurricane coming. My lord.

My lord. You you you know, very little protection on a boat. My lord. I just said it was on a ship. Yeah.

They're on a boat. My lord. My And you know, and then so they begin to, you know, the wind begin to beat the boat, begin to attack. Yeah. And and you know, and and all this going on and just imagine now the the disciples there, they're just in a ruckus.

Lord. Running everywhere from back to front, front to back and just panicking and and I get it because I've probably been doing the same thing. My lord. My lord. You know, if the storm came and I'm on a little boat that got very little protection.

My lord. My lord. That what the eye can see. Come on somebody. Yes.

Amen. And so you are just, you know, you just and you end up frantic and you you're not really ready for such a storm to come. Alright. Are you following? Yes.

And so Jesus, Jesus is just sort of back in the boat chilling. My lord. He just back there laid out and they in a frantic and they're going having a panic party and he just back there chilling. Yes. Yes.

In the back of the boat. My lord. And And the Bible said, that that that they were so frantic and began to declare you know, woke Jesus up and said, teacher, don't you care? My god. What's going on?

My lord. Don't you care what's taking place here on the boat? It's it is this is a real storm here and you just back there chilling. My god. Like it ain't no big deal.

It ain't nothing going on that that we need to be worried about. And he's there and and and they they they will the Bible said that they will feel in awe among themselves. Uh-huh. And they begin to ask Jesus, who is this man that even the the the waves and the winds obey him? Jesus just declared peace.

Be still. So so so you gotta take your time and read it like, you know, with the full flavor. Yeah. He said, peace. Yes.

So, it really it it really was a couple of things happening in that in that command Jesus gave. First of all, he said, peace. So now, who was he talking to when he said peace? Alright. Who was in a frantic?

Who was in in disarray? Who was running back and forth? So, he was telling really, he was really telling the disciples. And then he tells the storm, be still. So, he had to tell him.

So, what was in that peace that he said to the disciples. What was in that piece was he was saying to them, wait a minute. Uh-huh. Aren't y'all prepared for this? My lord.

Oh my lord. Wait a minute. My god. Did y'all do your homework and then you know that we were getting ready to go out on the boat and anytime you go out on the boat, anytime, it's possible that a storm can come. My lord.

Because storms sometime come out of nowhere. My lord. They happen and so when you get on the boat, you're prepared for the worst. Come on say amen somebody. Amen.

You always put what you need on there just in case. My lord. My lord. Come on say amen somebody. You always have what you need.

Amen. So that when the storm do come. Yes. You're ready. Come on shout you're ready.

You're ready. You're ready. And so he had to really tell them peace. In other words, y'all need to chill out. My lord.

Y'all need to calm down because, I know you're you're more prepared than what you're demonstrating. My lord. Than what you're showing me and so, he speaks to them and says, peace. Peace. Yes.

And then he tells the winds, be still. Yeah. Alright. Wow. Alright.

So much so that now the disciples are in awe and say, oh my god, who is this man? Lord. Yes. That even the way, the wind and the waves obey him. You know, we ain't just got anybody in our presence.

Alright. Alright. Amen. When you start to think about. Yeah.

Amen. Who you really have on your side. Yeah. Tell your neighbor, that's enough. Amen.

Tell your neighbor that's enough. Amen. For the to calm you when you feel like you're in a fix. Come on, say somebody. Amen.

That's enough. Don't say it like you mean it. That's enough. When you start to think about what god has done for you, tell your neighbor that's enough. That's enough to calm any fears that you may have.

Oh, but the Bible said in verse 41 that they feared exceedingly. Yeah. And said to one another, who is this man we got with us? My lord. Amen.

Now, whatever he got, I want some of that. I know. What whoever he is, I wanna I wanna partake of whatever it is that he have. Alright. But they will puke us.

What are you saying? Pastor Gary, what I'm saying, I know sometime things are going to happen in our life. Amen. That are going to cause. Amen.

Sometimes for us to be a little unsettled, a little uneasy, maybe even a little trouble. Amen. But you gotta remember who you got on the boat. Y'all not saying nothing to me. You gotta remember who you in fellowship with.

You gotta remember who's connected to you you. You gotta remember who's connected to you and who you connected to. So much so that even though a moment of fear may come upon you, you can't dwell there. Come on, say amen somebody. Amen.

You call you even though you may have a a momentary setback. Amen. You can't allow your setback, not to have you ready for the comeback. Amen. You gotta remember some of y'all remember.

You gotta remember that that there's nothing too hard for god. You gotta remember, amen, with man, things are impossible. God, all things are possible. You gotta remember that no matter what the storm look like in your life, amen, that you got god on your side. And so when you when you're going about and you have storms that rise up in your life, storms that come about in your hand.

Amen. You gotta start thinking about. Amen. That's why somebody said, when I think of the goodness of Jesus and that's enough to make me start thinking about the goodness of Jesus. So, when I think, I can pray.

And so after they are realizing the seriousness of the situation. Yeah. They they they they started to look to Jesus. They started to at least they had enough sense to go back there and talk talk to him. Yes, sir.

Amen. Because they was in a frantic but at least they had enough sense. Sometimes folk don't have enough sense to even look to the lord. My lord. The Bible is yet saying, looking unto Jesus.

Yeah. Who is the author and the finisher? You got things that when you you can't look to your best friend. Hallelujah. Glory to god.

Amen. Hallelujah. And so they did. They they had enough sense to look to the lord and make a decision, amen, that they were gonna uh-uh lean on him. Yeah.

Yeah. Amen. So, so, so, so let's look back at the idea of the sickness and how that we sometime we are not prepared. How many of you know that god is available? Jesus is available.

He's ready to help us through every matter. He's ready to help us through every situation but sometime we have to, amen, we have to lean on our own strength. That's why he wants us to build such a wellspring in our lives, sister Ellen. So, that when we do get an effect, we don't have to always call on him. My god.

Oh my god. Amen. We are strong and we are we're healthy and we're well enough so that we can dig down in our wellspring. Hallelujah. We can we can lean, amen, on what we already know.

Lean on who we god. God forbid. Amen. That grace may abound. We've gotta you you know, get to a point where we are not always working god's grace.

My lord. Come on say amen tonight. Amen. Grace is available. It's there.

It's available to us but you know what? There are times a time when we have to be strong enough. Yeah. Well enough. Whole enough.

Come on somebody. That we are not always having the full of god's grace. Hold on god's grace. That amen. Sin may abound.

My lord. Amen. Shall we continue in sin that grace has to abound. Come on somebody. There comes a time when we ought to be able to walk in grace if we have to.

My lord. But we ought to have something in us that we can walk in as well. Amen. Amen. So, we we we gotta get well.

Tell you, neighbor, we gotta get well. We gotta get well. We we as we go further into this year, we gotta be strong enough spiritually that we can use what you got. Tell your neighbor, use what you got. Use what you're built up.

Use what you, amen, would be poured into you so that you can walk in what you have. Tell your neighbor, use what you got. You gotta be able to use what you got. Yes. Amen.

That can help you in time of trouble. Yeah. Really? You gotta prepare. Alright.

You gotta spend time in god's word. Alright. You gotta spend time in prayer. You gotta lay the foundation, amen, and you gotta have enough built up in you so that when the when the bad weather comes, when the tough times come, when the storm begin to come, then you got something, you got enough spiritual vitamin c inside of you that can help you weather the storm. Amen, somebody.

You gotta have enough spiritual strength inside of you so that you can work, amen, through those tough times. Yes. Yes. In your journey. My god.

You gotta make sure that that you you get the spiritual nutrients you need so that you can continue to walk strong in the lord. You can walk strong in what's down inside of you. You can walk strong in the power and authority that god have put inside of you. Will you say amen somebody? Amen.

My god. Thank you. Hallelujah. The Bible tell us. Yeah.

Amen. That we have to be diligent in our faithful walk. Yeah. Amen. And if we're diligent in our faithful walk.

Yeah. Amen. That we will continue to walk in strength and power and authority. So, we're working to build our faith. We're working to build our inner strength.

We're working to build the spiritual nutrients that we need from the lord. Alright. Amen. We gotta keep on working so that when we need, amen, to, to, to, to pull up that wellspring. Yeah.

That is available unto us. Amen. If you wanna have peace along the way, then we gotta walk in the faith that god has given us. Alright. So that we can walk in the fullness of god.

Walk in the peace of god. Walk in the authority of god. We gotta be able to do just like Jesus did in the midst of storm and just set peace. And command things that are in our way to be removed. Command things that are in our path to be removed.

Command that. Hallelujah. Speak those things. Yes. Hallelujah.

That are in our way. Out of our way. Alright now. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Glory to god. Glory to god. Glory to god. So, we gotta call on the lord. Amen.

But we also gotta walk in the authority that's been given unto us. Alright. Amen, somebody. Amen. Amen.

Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Lord.

So, but when the winds and the waves begin to attack us. Jesus. Jesus. Are we strong enough? Eschenae by your strong enough.

Are we strong enough? Are we strong enough? Are we strong enough? Do you have enough word in your spirit? Do you have enough faith in your heart?

Do you have enough, amen, strength, spiritual strength. To pull from. Alright now. Alright. Are we strong enough?

Are we strong enough? Have we are we prepared for the storms? Uh-huh. Are we prepared for what the enemy may try to bring upon us in 2025? Are we ready?

Come on say, are we ready? Yeah. It's it's it's it's it's too late to be getting ready. When the storm come, you ain't got time to get ready. When the storm come, you gotta be ready.

When the storm come, you gotta already have your stuff in order. When the storm come, you gotta already have what you need. So, when is the best time to do that? Uh-huh. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. The best time to do that is when you don't need it. My lord. Amen. The best time to do it is before the winter time comes.

My lord. When the summertime is upon us and the summertime represent harvest, the summertime represent fullness, the summertime represent everything being whole and complete when everything feels like it's alright in your life. That's the time. Tell somebody, that's the time. That's the time to be preparing for the storm.

Come on stay masturbated. But wait a minute. Thank you Jesus. Everything is well. Amen.

My lord. Why do I have to spend time, Elder Jules? Uh-huh. Pulling stuff together and working and doing and getting together when everything is well. Alright.

Uh-huh. Because there's not a storm. My lord. That's not that's not a time when you're troubled. Yes.

That's the time to gather. That's the time to collect. Yes. Yes. Come on.

That's the time to to pull things in order, pull things together so that when that time does come. God, lord. Tell your neighbor, it'll be alright. It'll be alright. Tell em are you, ask somebody, are you, are you ready for the storm?

Ask them, are you if you're not ready, are you getting ready? Are you preparing your spiritual house so that when the storm comes, you got everything you need? I'm trying to help somebody. I'm trying to help us today. So, when the storm comes, I can pull what I need.

I I don't necessarily have to call pastor Gary. Alright. I don't necessarily have to call first lady. Call us if you need us. Alright.

But need us when you call us. Yeah. Yeah. Come on somebody. What he say?

What I'm saying is if you can pull it together and do it and you got such a storehouse built up, a prayer, a storehouse built up, a studying the word, a storehouse built up, a faith, then, call me when you need me. My lord. Alright. Come on somebody. Yes, sir.

And that's where Jesus was. He's like, wait a minute. Y'all y'all y'all ain't spending no time in prayer. My lord. My lord, Jesus.

Wait a minute. Y'all ain't spending no time in your in at your faith desk. What what you been doing coming to church every Sunday? What you been doing Monday through Saturday? What you been doing?

That's what he's getting at. Are you spiritually with him? Are you spiritually healed? Have you done the the the the necessary work to get ready? Get ready.

Come on somebody. How is it that you have no faith? Have you not done your homework? Come on somebody. What are you saying pastor Garrett as I bring this in?

Uh-huh. Do your homework. Tell your neighbor, do your homework. Be ready for the storm. Come on.

Be ready for the test. Be ready when the storm of life come against you. Come on. Tell somebody. Be ready.

Come on tell somebody. Be ready. Be ready. My god. When you're ready, you don't have to be so fearful, sister Robin.

When you're ready, you don't have to, amen, freak out and be in a frantic with a little setback come in your life. Come on. Tell somebody. Be ready. Get spiritually healthy so that you're in a good place Then you don't have to freak out and You gotta have enough stuff ready.

So that when the attack come, you can say, okay. Next. Okay. Next. What else you get?

That's not what you got. You. Come on. That's what's standing. We're walking in faith.

No longer in fear. I see you all full. I see you already. I see you all fully endowed. I know.

I know. With what you need. With what you need. For what's coming. Don't think just because you had one or two victories.

That the battle is over. The battle is not over. But I'm a tell you one thing, but the battle is fixed. Tell your neighbor the battle is not over. But the fight is fixed.

And guess what happens? Tell somebody, you win. Tell them, you win. If you walk in faith, you win. I'm spiritually well.

Because this is my season. My god. The Bible is his saying. Hallelujah. Whatever your faith, so be it unto you.

And if you're walking in faith in this season, I want you to know that there's nothing gonna be impossible to you. As a believer, there's nothing gonna be impossible to you. Come on, say walk in faith. Walk in faith. And you'll walk in favor.

If you walk in faith, you'll walk in favor. God's looking at your faith. Looking at your faith. And he is determining the level of favor that you have. The Bible is just saying thirty, two thirty, two 60, some a hundred.

That's the level of favor that you're gonna have. How do you get that that level of favor? Ask your neighbor, what is your level of faith? What is your level of faith? Your level of favor will be determined by your level of faith.

And if you have zero faith, that's somebody that's fearful and don't believe the word of god. Panicking and losing their mind. There's somebody with zero faith. But if you got a little faith, tell somebody that's alright. That's alright.

If you got 30% faith, that's alright. Amen. That'll get you, that'll get you in the arena. Alright, lord. Are you following?

That'll get you here. That'll get you pass the door. You got pass the gatekeeper. You're in the arena. Yeah.

If you got 60% faith. Yeah. Then that might get you some closer seats. Come on somebody. But if you got 100 faith, you gonna be right down there in the middle of it.

In the middle of it. Come on, say in the middle of it. I want us to be ready. I want us to be prepared. I want us to be spiritually fit, sister Marcia.

I want us to be spiritually fit. And you know you can't be fit looking back. You can't be fit Holding on to be here and I don't know why. I tried that once and it didn't work. Tell somebody, you can't be fit.

Yeah. Yeah. Looking back. Looking back. The Bible said, amen.

Looking unto Jesus. So, you gotta be looking ahead. Yeah. You can't look back. Amen.

He said, Hammond put your hands to the plow. Hallelujah and not look at that. Hallelujah. If you're going to be fit, you gotta be looking forward. You can't hold on to things and defeats and old habits and things that you couldn't couldn't survive.

He said, but but if you have faith to believe god, as the size of a grain of mustard seed, if you just got a little faith, that'll get you in the door. Hallelujah. That'll win victories. Hallelujah. That'll bring god's blessing on your life.

We believe god. We have 100 fold faith. 100 fold belief that god's gonna bring us the victor. Come on. Say total victory.

Total increase. Total favor. In the lives of his people. Because we are ready. We are prepared.

We're excited about what god's going to do, but we're moving as he moves. We're as god's speaking, we're doing. We're not waiting to to get it confirmed. We are moving when god said move. We're doing what God said do.

We are shaking when God said shake. We are operating when God said go. We're not waiting. Come on somebody. God, we thank you for this word today.

Asking the questions, are we spiritually ready? Are we spiritually healthy? Are we ready to go to the next level? We want your blessing, but are we ready to receive it? Are we in a posture to receive what you have for us?

Are we in a posture to have total total favor in our lives? Are we in a posture to to to to get the victory? Are we in a posture? Hallelujah to walk in the full favor of the Lord. God, are we in a place where we can accept the increase and be able to keep the increase in our lives?

Are we in a posture that when storms come our way, hallelujah, that we can deal with storms with the confidence that there's nothing too hard for you. Have the confidence that nothing, can by any means can harm us. Hallelujah because we got faith in you. Thank you, Lord God, for walking up and down in your people today. Giving us the faith that we need, the faith that we are going to need.

And god thank you and give you we give you praise today. We give you praise right now. Come on. We give you praise right now. We give you praise right now.

We give you praise right now. We give you praise right now. We give you praise right now. We give you praise. Thank you, lord.

Thank you, lord. Bless your people now. Bless the members of Greater Love. God, we thank you for giving us the increase spiritually. Thank you for giving me the increase.

Thank you for giving me the fullness of your spirit. And if I'm falling short, fill me. If I don't have what I I need, fill me. If I'm missing or lacking, come on declare it. Nothing missing.

Declare it. Nothing lacking. Nothing broken in me. Feel me, lord. Restore me, lord.

I'm able to walk in your fullness. Command things to be as they should in my life, in my family's life. Hallelujah. And for my children, in my family, extended in my immediate family. I'm declaring it to be so.

Hallelujah. I want us to be ready. I heard somebody say that for every level, there's a new devil. Why are you telling us that? Because I want you to be ready.

Why are you saying that pastor Carrie? Because we're moving up as a ministry. We're moving into another another realm, bloating and blessing and favor and assignment and work and authority. And each one of those steps, the enemy is gonna try us. Pastor McKinney, he gonna try us.

And what I've noticed is that when it come to the ministry, doesn't matter if it's jurisdiction, local district. I've seen it. My god. The attacks, they seem like at the base level first. I know they said, well, he attacked the head but that ain't always the case.

You know, that's that's a that's a nice thing though. You get the head, the body fall. That's that happens. But not in every case. What I have personally seen is he attacked the membership.

My lord. My lord. Personally. To make it so where the head don't have the support. My lord.

My lord. Don't have the the backing. Don't have the underburden. And it makes it difficult for the leader. So, what he does and I don't know if this is a shift in strategy.

But I see him trying to attack the saints. My god. The membership. My lord. That's why we have to pray for one another.

Encourage one another in the membership. My god. My god. Pray for your families. Yeah.

Because that's the level I see him attacking now. My god. My god. Maybe at one time it was the leader and he still does. But he's attacking the the members.

Get them distorted and confused and dealing with life issues so much so that their mind is not old church. My god. My god. I'm telling you what I've seen in the spirit and in the flesh. Yes, lord.

Jesus. Jesus. Attack them so that you're so preoccupied. Alright. Tell the Jews I'm right.

Right. With life matters and life issues. Right. I ain't got time for church. No time.

My god. I work that in when I can. My lord. But that's not the way it should be. Church should be first.

Ministry should be first. Your assignment should be first. Yes. And when you do those things, and you seek you first the kingdom of god. And his righteousness.

That's everything pertaining to the kingdom. Come on somebody. Yeah. Then stuff could be added. Issues can be worked out.

Problems in your life can go away. So he's attacking the the members, attacking churches so they keep focusing in the jurisdiction, attacking memberships and family relationships. So now you're so preoccupied focusing on that to where you can't focus on the things of the kingdom. Because see, when you're focusing on the things of the kingdom, folks getting saved. Right.

We're working in unity and working in That's what I'm talking to you about, being spiritually healthy. If I can tear the house up, oh, I ain't gotta worry about the church. I got the church. If I can tear the houses up, disrupt the homes, keep them so confused and just dealing with stuff. My god.

And and it's not that this regarding, I mean, they're they're real issues. I get it. We have them. But I see sometimes, during the first lady, the enemy is trying to come and just sidetrack you with something. It's like, okay.

Now I gotta deal with that. And the stuff I'm supposed to be My lord. Yeah. And the stuff I'm supposed to be focusing on. I'm doing doing it, but not fully.

My lord. Because I split. I I'm a get it. I'm a get it. My god.

So what are you saying? What I'm saying is in this new season, my prayer for greater love in the in the, Georgia conference is that we are able to be spiritually well, spiritually healthy, spiritually strong, so that as he's a tax con, we we we we gotta be like the disciples in the story today, losing our minds and can't focus. Jesus is yet saying, why are you so fearful? Yes. Yes.

Where's your faith? Alright. Where where's all this training you done got? Yeah. You were made for moments like this.

Come on somebody. You can handle this. Tell your neighbor, you can handle this. Yeah. This too shall pass.

Grab somebody by the hand and tell them you can make it. You were made for this. God's preparing you for this. He's prepared you for this moment. Yeah.

Come on. Speak into that life and have wholeness, healing, fullness, completeness, You're gonna be so powerful and such in, in in filled with the power of God and so healthy that when folk touch you, get a word from you. But I'm serious. That's how strong I want you all to be this year. Amen.

Come on, say amen. Amen. Amen. Musicians, y'all too. My god.

I want y'all to be that strong in the spirit and in tune. My god. So when stuff hits you, so he'll make try to mess with your brain. You know, I well, I ain't gonna do it all today. I'm a uh-uh.

My god. Give it everything you got. The more he'll attack you, you coming in and feel like you don't play before. I believe God. I believe God.

I believe God. I believe the word of God. I'm standing on faith. And I'm standing on the promises of God. Yes.

Hallelujah. Somebody There's a release that's getting ready to take place. The enemy is trying to find your hands, tie your hands, but I hear God saying I'm gonna release what the devil God's getting ready to release your hands. So you'll be able to do what's in your heart to do. Your husband will be able to do Yes.

Yes. Yes. But we come against that spirit, disruptive. We disavow that spirit today to try to mingle and and tangle in the fellowship. Hallelujah.

Oh, God. Thank you, Lord God. Make them spiritually well, so they can weather the storm. Make those spiritually whole, so they'll be complete and as one. Not walking separate, but as one in the whole.

Thank you, James. Alright. Alright.