Bishop Joseph Garlington (Spoken Word)

Linda Ravenhill said on one occasion "opportunities of a lifetime
Must be seized in the lifetime of the
Opportunity" and you′re here in a significant moment
This is a great church,.
So there is no limitation on what you can
Do in this place: just let go and let God
But the thing that I love so much about Israel
New Breed and the message that God has given them is their ability to
Take something that's floating around in the atmosphere;
Everybody feels it but nobody can say it and he reaches up and just
Pulls down a phrase that you can hear all
Over the place and he wraps it in a song
And when people can′t remember the
Message, they walk around saying things like "
Did you know that I was God's friend?
" It's amazing because I might say it′s
Amazing you don′t really know what that means for God
It's one thing for me I′m Israel's friend
But God will call you you′re friend or His
Friend sometimes at the lowest moments of your life
He doesn't look at you and say No when
You get your acts together we can be friends

He looks at Abraham when he′s lying about
His wife but at the same time believing God
He looks at Abraham when he's going through this terrible time when
Like my daughter Shana
Trying to hold on to two
Confessions; she was saying my head is hurting
I say don't say my head is hurting
She said what should I say and her
Brother said say I believe I′m healed
And she said alright
I believe I′m healed;
I believe I'm healed but my head is still hurting
It′s not a contradiction
It's just a statement of two realities and one of them is going to
Overwhelm the other if you keep on saying what God says about you
And if nobody else cares anything about; nobody else loves you
You can look at somebody and just say
"You know what I like about God is that ...