August 12, 2002
About yesterday's Worship Service
When I mentioned the tangible presence of God. It really refers to an overwhelming peace or sense of a presence that overshadows everything. Basically, you make contact will the supernatural. It's really hard to explain beyond that point.
Here are the details of what happened.
We fondly believe in the power of prayer so we set aside an hour and thirty minutes of prayer time prior to our worship service.
This intercessory and preparatory prayer starts every Sunday morning at 9:00 AM and continues until 10:30 AM. At that point we go into our worship service.
The prayer time was charged with power, that same energy overflowed into our worship. Deacon Jerome Sims made the transition from the private prayer into a corporate prayer setting when he prayed from the podium from 10:20 to 10:35.
Following that, I started praise and worship by singing a Judith Christie-McAllister song, " Everybody Dancin' ". From there, I sang a variation of "Oh, How I Love Him". That song transitioned into a time of ministry and then to the song by the Full Gospel Baptist Fellowship Mass Choir , " Bow Down and Worship Him ." From there, I sang a couple of songs as recorded by Benny Hinn's Ministry, "I Worship You, Almighty God" and "There is None Like You."
Next was our Confession of Faith... (I'll post that later)
Let's jump to the Word of God. Our Pastor, Bishop Stephen Christian, was out of town ministering so his wife, Minister Masako Christian, preached. In continuing with the series at our church, "What the Bible Says About...", her subtopic was "Women in Ministry."
She shared with the congregation that there are Seven areas in the bible where women serve in ministry.
Those areas are:
(1) Prophecy -
Acts 2:17, 18
(2) Giving -
Luke 8:3
(3) Teaching -
Acts 18
: 24-26
(4) Servant Leadership -
Romans 16:1-3
(5) Service -
Luke 10
: 38-41
(6) Evangelism -
John 4:29
,
John 4:49-42
,
Acts 8:104
,
Acts 22:4
(7) Ministry to the Family -
II Timothy 1:5
We were really blessed and encouraged by this message. God really blessed us through Minister Masako Christian.
Hey...
God bless you, today.
More on the Confession of Faith a little later. . .
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