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Comment by Minister Jimmy L. Bagwell on April 2, 2009 at 1:37am
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Trust God More Than Poeple and God Will Show You The People To Trust
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Comment by Minister Lonnie D. Hampton on April 1, 2009 at 2:43pm
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The Church of God In Christ mourns the loss of another great Bishop.
Take the time out to keep the families of Bishop Jack Stephens in your prayers.
Bishop Stephens was the Prelate of GEORGIA SOUTHERN SECOND JURISDICTION.
This is a great loss to our national church.
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To all of my fellow Church of God in Christ brothers and sisters.
SAVE THE DATE!
Calling all COGIC Pastor's, Elder's, Minister's, Missionaries, Sunday School Superintendents/Teacher's and lay members. Starting this Saturday evening, April 4th at 8:00 pm Central Standard Time, we will be starting a live Sunday School Preview Conference Call. (COGIC Sunday School Preview). The number to call is, 712-432-0075. The access code is 701273#
The lessons are taken from the "Power for Living" Sunday school book. This Saturday's lesson is a preview for Sunday April 5th. We will be reviewing lesson # 6, "Jesus Is Crucified."
Luke 23:32-47
If you are a Pastor, Sunday School Superintendent or teacher and would like to share the teaching rotation, please email me at cogic_preacher2006@yahoo.com
God Bless you,
Minister
Lonnie D. Hampton II
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Comment by Nya's Financial Services on March 30, 2009 at 10:19am
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Comment by Mark H. Stevens, Th.D on March 21, 2009 at 6:49am
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Pastors MUST Be Content
A man or woman of God MUST be content in order to serve God with integrity. There may be times when the Lord will place you in situations that you will have to suffer loss or be thrust in harms way for the Gospels sake. I love the fact that Paul was ready to be offered up for God’s service. He was beaten, stoned, starved, shipwrecked, and lied on for the sake of preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Paul could NOT be bought, or compromised in any way because of his devotion to God’s will. Materialistic preachers are the most likely to become false prophets. Why? Because they can be bought with the lure of MORE! A materialistic person ALWAYS wants MORE. If you remember Paul warned Timothy and Titus against Elders and Bishops that are materialistic.
Phil 4:12 (NAS) I know how to get along with humble means, and I also know how to live in prosperity; in any and every circumstance I have learned the secret of being filled and going hungry, both of having abundance and suffering need.
Phil 4:12-13 (Jer) I know how to be poor and I know how to be rich too. I have been through my initiation and now I am ready for anything anywhere: full stomach or empty stomach, poverty or plenty. There is nothing I cannot master with the help of the One who gives me strength.
Paul was a soldier of Jesus Christ, a good soldier that wasn’t corrupted by the world and the lure of wealth. If you are so consumed with making yourself comfortable and wealthy, how can you truly go to hard places for the work of the Lord? Imagine the Lord speaks to you and compels you to go to a Third World Country and preach the Gospel? Do you think you will be living in the lap of luxury in Haiti or Somalia? I have been to many of these places and I can tell you the Prosperity Message doesn’t work in a place where just having a roof over your head makes you blessed. God needs men and woman that can adjust to being with OR without. That is why Paul said “If you have food and clothing BE content!”.
Will We Follow if Jesus Asks Us to Enter Poverty For a Season?
Mark 10:21-27,31 (Jer) Jesus looked steadily at him and loved him, and he said, "There is one thing you lack. Go and sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." But his face fell at these words and he went away sad, for he was a man of great wealth. Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter the kingdom of God!" The disciples were astounded by these words, but Jesus insisted, "My children," he said to them, "how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God." They were more astonished than ever. "In that case," they said to one another, "who can be saved?" Jesus gazed at them. "For men," he said, "it is impossible, but not for God: because everything is possible for God... Many who are first will be last, and the last first."
Is it likely, with all of his contacts and experience, that this man would not have remained poor for long? And yet he was unwilling to obey Christ with all these advantages, even temporarily. The rich young ruler could have been the 13th disciple literally! Jesus offered a chance to hang with Him! He turned it down because he loved his STUFF! So often people forsake Jesus because of STUFF! Stuff like money, fame, and influence. I am not trying to say rich people can’t serve Jesus, but what I am saying is so often the rich make money their God. Money is a powerful thing; money can buy fame and influence. Money can buy friends and love…not REAL friends and love but a great counterfeit of the two. Money is the God of this World’s source of power. That is why the Bible states, “Man cannot serve TWO masters, God or Mammon (money), you will love one or hate the other.” What is YOUR God?
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Comment by Pastor Bruce Whitley poke on March 20, 2009 at 12:30pm
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Reverend Kim Gladney
Oak Grove Missionary
Baptist Church
Pastor Phil Harris
Mason Temple
Pastor Olivia C.Q. Aiken
Memorial Missionary
Baptist Church
Our theme: Healing Oppressed People with Evangelism.
See, I have this day set thee over the nations and over the kingdoms, to root out, and to
pull down, and to destroy, and to throw down, to build, and to plant.
Jeremiah 1:10
Crusade starts nightly at 6:45 pm with an Evangelical teaching, and the service starts at
7:30 pm.
Hope Crusade Revival
Wednesday March 25, 2009 thru Friday, March 27, 009
Christian Tabernacle Church Of God In Christ
7405 Paseo Blvd
Kansas City, Missouri 64132
6:45 PM Nightly
Wednesday Night Speaker Friday Thursday Night Speaker Night Speaker
Evangelist Shirley Sampson
Elect Lady
Evangelism
Elder Bruce Poke
President
Evangelism
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God bless all the people of God,
I just wanted to invite some to and remind others about our Saturday morning prayer call. I'm excited about what God is doing and how He's opening up doors, saving the lost, healing the sick, providing jobs for people that are looking for work and all the other wonderful things that He's doing. I'm encouraging you start your day off in prayer with us tomorrow morning. The number to call is, 712-451-6100. The pin code is 819102#
The times are as followed: 7 AM PST, 9 AM CST and 10 AM EST.
If you would like your name and prayer request on the list, please email me before tomorrow morning at cogic_preacher2006@yahoo.com
God bless every one of you
Minister Lonnie D. Hampton II
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Comment by Evangelist Patrica A. Allbritton on March 18, 2009 at 1:39pm
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God bless you and those in this group and I am glad that this group is formed. I was just about to form the group if you didn't.
Evangelist Patrica Lewis
National Security Agent/Adjutant
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Oh clap your hands, all ye people; shout unto God with a vioce of triumph
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Mat 6:19-21 (TEB) "Do not save riches for yourselves here on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and robbers break in and steal. Instead, save riches for yourselves in heaven, where moths and rust cannot destroy, and robbers cannot break in and steal. For your heart will always be where your riches are."
It is easy enough to "explain away" one or two verses to come to the conclusion we want. But what you are about to read is more than one or two verses: Scriptural teaching about money is clear, consistent, and radical. It is plain and clear that our focus as believers should be on The Lord and His work and not becoming rich. If the Lord blesses you to be rich, then it is His will for you to be rich. Too often preachers have lied and misrepresented the Bible and the Lord by teaching ALL should be rich. If riches was the indication that one is blessed, then Donald Trump and Bill Gates are the most blessed men in America!
Be Content with Your Needs Being Met…. Beware Of Materialism!
Heb 13:5 (RSV) "Keep your life free from the love of money, and be content with what you have."
Contentment is very rarely preached now days, the primary message today is centered on receiving a blessing. Giving is preached with the purpose of receiving! We are taught to treat God like a Cosmic ATM machine that is at our beck and call. Kenneth Hagin had a book titled, “How to Write Your Ticket with God”. We are so busy trying to BE GOD; we forget that God is in control! The Bible says that God will supply ALL of our NEEDS according to HIS RICHES in Glory! Key word is NEEDS, we don’t call the shots in this life HE DOES! God is a personal God that wants to KNOW us, we need to seek His face and NOT His hands. God wants our hearts on Him and his plans and purpose, not the other way around.
Ps 37:7,16 (NAS) Rest in the Lord and wait patiently for Him; Do not fret because of him who prospers in his way... Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.
One of the lies of Prosperity Preaching is that ABUNDANCE means monetary wealth. The favor of God is not measured by the size of ones bank account. If this were true then Donald Trump and Bill Gates have more favor than anyone. This doesn’t mean a Christian cannot attain wealth, but wealth is NOT the indicator of an abundant or blessed life.
Prov 23:4-5 (NIV) Do not wear yourself out to get rich; have the wisdom to show restraint. Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle.
Wealth as transitory and can leave faster than it was acquired. Notice the scripture says “Cast a glance at riches…” The message of Prosperity is consumed with the concept of attaining riches. The preachers often convince the hearers that IF you give to THEM God will give to YOU! That is the essence of Prosperity preaching. Back in the 60’s there was a preacher named “Rev. Ike”, he was the Godfather of this preaching and teaching. He used to promise people that they would have “Good Luck” if they gave money to him. Rev. Ike was very obvious and wasn’t very scriptural in his delivery. But today’s false prophets are more skilled in twisting the Word of God.
As time moved on the Prosperity Preachers became much craftier at using scripture to justify their larceny. Oral Roberts coined the phrase, Sowing Seed, He suggested that money is seed to be sown into ministries (his in particular) in order to REAP a harvest. The scripture is very clear when it speaks of SEED and HARVEST, Jesus was speaking of the WORD as the seed, and the harvest is LOST SOULS! The devil has taken the emphasis off of souls and placed it on MONEY! I have seen offerings in churches last longer than altar calls.
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