City of Refuge Live! | City of Refuge Los Angeles was live. | By City of Refuge Los Angeles | Facebook | God will keep you in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on him. This is Edwin Perry and good day City of Refuge and friends from around the world. Listen, I need for everyone to create their own watch party on Facebook. for those who are viewing us on YouTube, share this broadcast, invite someone to our worship, text someone, wake them up Now, let’s go into our praise and worship may not come when you want him. when you want them. Just before we go into our CD News, another soldier went home to be with the lord. We want want to honor and pay tribute to mother Jerry Johnson, Mother Jerry Johnson served on the bereavement team down through the year. She was responsible for all of our repass. She prepared the food the night before and served families throughout the city of Refuge. So, so we just want to take this moment just to honor Mother Jerry Johnson and to her family that god is a comforter and he will comfort you. So, please keep this family in prayer. We are praying for you. We love you. We know to be absent from the body is to be present with our lord. CDA Refuge. You’ve been calling the church. You’ve been asking everyone but back together again. Listen, our first in-person service will be the Fourth of July. Listen, we are aiming to have one service at am following all type of guidelines but listen, if you’re feeling ill on that day day or the night before, it’s okay to stay home but we encourage you to stay home. We will have temperature checks. We would do everything to keep everyone safe but I need your help and your support but listen, if you’re feeling ill, stay home. We will continue again. we will continue to stream all of our service online. So, listen, we’re looking forward to in person Irving on the fourth of July. Listen, come Ready. Come a little bit early because there will be a lot of procedures that have to take place before you enter into our sanctuary. Listen, fret, not. We will keep you safe but we need your help. COVID-19 is still a testing site here at City of Refuge. You still have the opportunity to stop by on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from nine to four to get your free COVID-19 test. Listen, you will get your test results back less than forty 8 hours. So, please log on to our website, City of Refuge LA.ORG and register or you can simply walk up and you can do it on site registration and get your free COVID-19 Test CD of Refuge. Get ready for our new members online Two-day Workshop, June 12th, and June 19th at 9 AM via Zoom. This is what I need for you to do. Go to our website at CDA Refuge LA.org. Click the button and click the new members workshop and rest assured and we will be in contact with you. Last but not the least, wake up a little bit early and have your devotion with City of Refuge every Sunday at 7:45 AM followed by Sunday school. Please write down the zoom ID and the Zoom password and we look forward to having in Sunday school with you every Sunday morning at 725 Don’t forget every Friday at 8 PM Pacific Standard Time is our corporate online prayer. Listen, if you have a prayer request, you can Email us or call us at the office. The Email address is prayer at City of Rescues LA.ORG or call us at the office. That’s 310 5161433 and remember, We will be praying for you as you are praying for us but it will be a wonderful thing that you can join us online every Friday at 8 PM Pacific Standard Time. Listen, follow up on all of our official social platform. Listen, there’s no need to dialogue with anyone portraying to be bishop Noel Jones, Bishop Noel Jones, North City of Refuge Ministries. We’re seeing you a personal DM or direct message. Listen, this is what I need for you to do. I need to report the page and block them but please do not engage in any personal conversation but if you need prayer, call us at the office 310 5161433 and remember, if you’re going to join the chat line, please do not give no personal information and please be spiritual and positive. It is now time for our offering. There’s five different platforms for you to be able to give. If you text the phone number listed below, we will send you a text back follow all of that information. You can’t be god given no matter how hard that you try. If you’re ready, let’s lift up. Our phones are tied in envelopes and let’s go to god in prayer. Father god, in the name of Jesus, we come once again to give your name the praise God. We want to thank you for the seeds god. You bless them with god. We want to thank you for the time that you told us to bring our gift to the storehouse. So there will be meat in your house and god you have promised us You were rebuked the desire for us and god, you will increase us now. God, we give it to you and we say thank you. Bless those who have the desire to give but not to me. God keep us safe. God bless our families. God keep us healthy in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Let’s go back into our praise and worship. Life’s a mess. filled with so many hearts. That used to be. to join me to That’s all the time. I just want to be real with you. I just want to live I just want to be I just want to be I just want to live. what it takes. I don’t want to be that there’s it is. keeps trying to leave me. you. I’m going to the truth. So, I just want to be I just want to live in I just want to be to your presence. I’m going to be real. When I’m but I the sanctuary. I want to live. I’m for everything. I want to be pleased. I just want to I don’t want to be cleanse me. You tell me. I want to be real with you. You want to be real with the hands of whoever’s watching all over the world. no more. No more creeping in. come out with your hands. My my addictions head on. It’s over the day. He’s calling you. Go. this country. Hallelujah. That’s your name. Jesus. I am so glad that I’m able to stand here today and to speak you about the marvelous god that we serve as we see, this pandemic seems to be shifting and seems to be going away. We still have to be wise and still have to be smart and our prayer this morning is for everyone who has suffered loss. I’m talking about psychologically, physically, financially, spiritually, everyone who suffered loss. We’re praying right now and today is a good day for those of us who are listening today is a good day to be saved. Today is a good day to give your life to Christ Jesus. Father, we thank you for the opportunity. We thank you for. We’re back again. We thank you because you’ve allowed us the privilege and the honor to be a part of your kingdom and we pray now that many will respond this day and we will give you the creeds and the glory We pray god that you will comfort and throw your arms around those who have suffered and I pray that you would bring things back quickly and as only you can do it and we speak that now in Jesus name. amen. I want you to hear from a young man today, Pastor James Theros Jr. And he is from the Kingdom Life Ministries in Orangeburg, South Carolina. I want you here. This message this day and give your life to Christ. Well, great morning. This is the day that the lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. Welcome to the sanctuary of the city of Refuge Church in Gardena, California. I am so excited and blessed to be with you all today. I have nothing but praises to god and I am thankful and humbly grateful for this privilege that I’ve been given to share with you my dear brothers and sisters. It is of the lord mercies that we’re not consumed. His compassion fail not. They are new every morning and great is god’s faithfulness and if you know he’s been faithful, if you know he’s been consistent in his care, if you know that he’s been unfailing in his love, if you know that that he has been unconditional and unwavering in his grace and mercy toward you, type on the screen. I’m thankful today. Give god a praise right where you are. Let the world know how grateful I am so grateful that I have Christ in my life. Jesus. is that god? he is god and beside him, there is none other and we certainly want to thank god this morning for the privilege of sharing with my the man of god. the my mentor the the angel of this house the chief servant in this great holy kingdom his grace. The honorable bishop Noel Jones. Can you give god praise for bishop Noel Jones? Come on. Let him know about the comments. how much we appreciate the life and the ministry down for the years. All of us, our lives are made better as a result of your sacrifice, sir And we salute you and we honor you today in the name of the lord. I don’t know what god is up to but I sense that he is up to something and if I could get anointed attention just for a few moments. I believe that god has a word for your life. Let’s pray. as we seek the counsel of god today. If we were in the building, I would ask you to grab hands and so we’re not in the building and we’re not physically connected but I want you to grab and join hearts together and let’s go before god. Men are always to pray and not faint and more things are up through prayer than the world has ever known and I that we’re living in a day that if we would carry out the responsibility as communicated in second Chronicles seven and fourteen, if my people who are called by my name would humble themselves and pray, seek my face, turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven? I’ll forgive sin and I will heal the land. Our land needs healing People in the land needs healing. minds need healing hearts have been broken. Need healing. So, it is. we know the answer. The question was, is there a bomb in Gilead? But we know the answer. There is a bomb in Gilead. Father in the name of the lord Jesus. We thank you for this moment. that you have carved out of eternity and dropped into time for us to experience your greatness. your glory, riches of your mercies. We thank you because we woke up this morning to brand new mercies and everything we needed in this day. Your hand has already provided You are faithful and we are grateful. now. Father, thank you for this great, awesome body of believers. all over the world who are tuned in to hear, not me but they need a word from you. Gone are the days where we gather to hear a man’s philosophies and vain repetitions. We need a word from the lord. A word that will remove the doubt and cause the sun to shine and give peace of mind. Speak lord and if you speak, we’re going to be better. We thank you right now for our leader. We thank you for our bishop. Thank you for touching his body and his mind and and giving him the kind of rest that he has needed that he has needed as he’s been leading us through this difficult season. this pandemic and even pre-pandemic. He’s been Star Wars and faithful and leading us through this and I pray even now that you would cause him to be refreshed in the spirit in the name of Jesus for the journey that is ahead and we thank you for it. Now, he’ll deliver set free and touch everybody that hears your word today and I thank you. save some sinner that’s near as hell today. Someone will cry out What must I do to be and we thank you because you are still a savior and we believe it in Jesus name. You sent your word and it healed them and so we really believe it and we embrace it by faith in Jesus name right where you are. Give him a great praise. Come on. Give him a great praise today. I’d like to call your attention for the next few moments that remain in this worship experience to two passages of scripture. really just two verses and I won’t read all of the context but I will read and extract out of the context that which is pertinent and significant to what god has given us to say. Genesis chapter number two verse number seven and also John’s gospel chapter number twenty verse number Twenty-two Genesis two and seven and John twenty and twenty Jesus is the sweetest name I know. and he’s just the same. I’m a worshiper. as his name. The reason why. So, for Jesus. is the sweetest name. I know. Is the sweetest. name I know. Anybody know what I’m talking about? And he’s just the same. as he is. And here’s the reason why I love him so is the sweetest. know. Jesus. There is something master. He’s my Hallelujah. let all heaven and earth Kings. go. pass away. but there’s something Genesis chapter number two verse seven says, and the lord god formed man out of the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living or living soul. John chapter number twenty verse Twenty-two says and when he had said this, breathed on them and said to them, receive the holy So far, the scripture, he’s a mighty god from these two very short verses. I like to extract the thought entitled today. Spiritual resuscitation. spiritual resusc spiritual resuscitation, and for reoccurring theme. If you don’t mind, just type on the screen. Let me know that you are engaged and just type with me, resuscitate me, resuscitate me Lord Resuscitate me. Ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, the act of resuscitation is only needed when something or someone is on the something or someone is on life support or is in a state of unconsciousness. and needs to be awakened. reawaken or in fact, revived I’m like to suggest to you my brothers and sisters that after a season that we have had here. now, over a year that we have had I think it is safe to suggest that all of us have had the proverbial win knocked out of us There is something that has happened is a trial. There is a circumstance. There are human experiences that have happened to all of us that have knocked the wind out of us. This is an interesting idea and thought because to understand the power of resuscitation, we must journey back to its origin or the beginning and it is interesting because in Genesis chapter number one, we see that god created man according to chapter one verse Twenty-seven he creates man and then he makes man, he creates him. He is man is the creative thought of god. He says, let us make man in our image and after our likeness by the time he speaks it, he simply communicating his creative idea of what man would look like and how man would function So, he creates him and establishes his identity and function. He says in our image and after our likeness and then he says and let him have dominion over the birds of the air or rather the fish of the sea. First, the birds of the air everything that’s creeping upon the earth, he speaks to his function. He immediately communicates What man’s identity would be and then what man’s function would be Now, the challenge with chapter one verse 2728 and twenty-nine is that man is nowhere to be found. So god now has spoken to his function and man is not even on the scene yet Then we flip the page to chapter number two verse seven. and here we see so the God formed man out of the dust of the ground. He forms man after he commissions, man. he forms man after he communicates his function. Hm. Isn’t it interesting that we spend way too much time trying to get the form I wish I was talking to the right people. We we spend a lot of time working on the form. We we spend thousands of dollars. I’m not going to bother anybody but we spend all kinds of money working on perfecting the form We spend countless hours in the gym working on the floor. Mm hmm. Just keep looking straight. We we we we spend a lot of time and energy and effort into somehow crafting the form in such a way that it would be pleasing to the eye and validating to everyone that sees us but unfortunately, we spend the least time on perfecting our function but god spoke to the function of man even before he was formed which tells me then that my function is in this form at my function is the most significant part of me. It is not the form. It is not this Let me see if I could say it like this. This hunk hunk of plasma, our physical is not. it is not the essence of who I am. The essence of who I am is who god intended for me. and how he intended for me to function. He intended for you and I to have dominion. He intended for you and I multiply and replenish the earth and take a thoughts of do it and have dominion So, in Genesis chapter number two verse seven, the lord god formed man out of the dust of the ground and then he prepares him to carry out his function Then in that same verse, god then breathe He breathes into man’s nostrils. The text says that he breathes and in the Hebrew the word, there is nesh to breathe out to inflate or to blow hard. That’s the essence of who he is. His spirit into man. and man becomes a living or a speaking spirit. I hope you’re hearing me. God then says, I’ve got to put in man the ability to be mobile because prior to this, prior to the breathing in by god’s breath prior to god breathing into man’s nostrils, man was void of animation. and he could not move until god breathed into him. here I come. You can’t move until you receive the the breath of god. It was Adam’s sin that causes spiritual death. because prior to him disobeying god, Adam was functioning as the region and co creator in the earth. all was functioning as god would function in heaven. Adam was functioning on earth as god was functioning in heaven because what god says is I’m going to put everything that’s in me. I’m going to put it in Adam and I’m going to place him in the earth and he’s going to have authority over everything in the earth. As a matter of fact, I don’t need to come to the earth. I don’t need to deal with the earth because I have Adam there and whatever I Now, he possesses. He has the authority to name things He has the ability as it were to command and everything on the earth obeyed him. It was it was Adam as he was 1 Day milling around the garden and god decided to have a parade and he brought all of the animals in front of Adam and he told Adam, whatever you name them. that’s what they will be and from then to now, because of the dominion that Adam had that mankind had in the beginning that which Adam called the animal has stuck even to this day but when man sinned, it caused spiritual separation. it caused spiritual separation from god and man loses. Now his ability to live as god. He’d lost and fell from his place of dominion and he now has fallen into the abyss from life to now just merely existence void of the essence of a god life. He now is susceptible to things that he here to for was never even concerned about. He didn’t he wasn’t concerned about closing. He wasn’t concerned about elements of the of the atmosphere because he was a little G. He was gone. Lowercase G in the earth but when sin entered it, waited Adam from his god likeness. Hear this but he still possessed it but it was lost in and or rather separated in the process. You know, I grew up in the holy church. I grew up in the apostolic church and one of the things was was interesting to me always is that anybody who was not a part of our particular denomination or anybody who was not a part of our particular religious matrix. We would suggest that they were lost and we would suggest that they were sinners and that they were no good but as I studied the scriptures, I discovered something that all of us were born with a God Gene and the reality is it’s not so much that the person is lost. The thing that is in them has been lost. They are disconnected from their god like and before you cast dispersion and send everybody to hell. I think that the mission of the church is to restore people back to their sense of their god likeness. That’s why there are gifted people who don’t claim to have the Holy Ghost but operate in a very high level of giftedness. It is because whatever god put in them from the beginning, not even the sin can separate them from the thing god. Put them in. Put in them. I hope you’re listening and so it is that our assignment should be to reconcile people back not as if they’ve never been with god because all have sinned and come short of the glory of god and if all have sinned and come short of the glory of god, I’m just a little I’m a little closer than my brother who has not come to the knowledge but it doesn’t mean that he doesn’t have a chance. It means that my assignment and your assignment in the earth is be able ministers of the New Testament. He’s made us ministers and given us rather than ministering of reconciliation. So, from that time to this time, man has been on a quest. man has been on a search, and it’s been in on a journey rather to reconnect to this god like life and so it is always interesting in the scriptures because what we see god doing is through various methods and various means providing a way for man to be reconnected to god but every time god got ready every time god got ready to manifest his greatness and power in the earth. What he do is he would raise up a prophetic voice and I’m not talking about these prophets for profit. I’m not talking about in 7 days, you’re going to get this and I’m not talking about in 21 days. If you turn around twenty-one times, I’m not talking about all of that. I’m talking about someone who he would give vision and he would give as it were insight as to what he was doing and what he was going to do and they would see it before it would happen. In many cases when you deal with the Old testament prophecy. it. What? It had such a time. It was so time sensitive to many cases. It did not even manifest in the life of the prophet. It would it would be a prophecy that would be in fact matured and sometimes when you’re walking with god, you got to be okay with receiving a word that takes time to mature God will sometimes give you a for your life. He will speak a word in prophetic utterance to you and you will blow it and you will miss it because it does not happen when you want it to happen and unfortunately, there are too many people that want to get you. I don’t know who want to get as it were your confidence and they will throw out names and they will throw out numbers and they will throw out dates as if god needs a date in order to do something but when the mouth of the lord speaks of fame. He will watch over his word to perform it and it is not that the word cannot come to pass before a certain date. As a matter of fact, if he said it, it’s already done. Lord, I wish I could talk to the right people If he speaks a thing, then the thing is already done. The problem is you and I have to mature into the prophecy. We have grow into it. We have to grow in our faith. We have to grow in our spiritual development to the point where we can handle what god has spoken over our lives. Prophecy always precedes a manifestation and so it was we see in Ezekiel chapter number Thirty-seven, Ezekiel chapter number Thirty-seven. The Bible says, it is the accounting of Jeremiah Ezekiel going to the valley of dry bones and when he gets there, the Bible says that the lord shows him in an open vision This valley of dry bones. Now, notice something these were not just random bones of of of anybody or just random people but this was an army. This was a slain army. This was a people who were once warriors. These these bones belong to decorated soldiers who had been slaying and cast in the valley. but god says to Ezekiel, he said, I got a question for you and the question is, can these bones live? In other words, Ezekiel, do these men have a chance Do these have potential and I’m I’m mighty afraid to let me just say this to the church while I’m thinking about it. One of the concerns I have is that I don’t think that we believe lord Jesus that Jesus is still a savior. I don’t believe that. we think that people can still be saved. Some of us have written off our family and we’ve written off our friends and we’ve written off people in neighborhoods and we’ve written off people because of the behavior because We think that because they are beyond our reach, that they are beyond the reach of god but I love Ezekiel’s response. Ezekiel says to god, only, you know, and as long as we can remember that god knows the potential. I’m grateful because when I was laying in a valley and when my bones were dry, hallelujah. Somebody believed that. Amen. If they preach the gospel that something would happen to me and Amen. The lord told Ezekiel. he said, I want you to prophesy to the the bones. He said, prophesy to the bones. prophesy. preach to the bones. Yes lord. I praise him. He said, preach to the bones. He didn’t say preach to the bodies. He said, preach to the potential. Preach to what you see. I know it. They don’t look like anything. I know. She don’t look like she has a chance. I know he doesn’t look like Amen. He’s worth saving but preach to the bones and when Ezekiel preached to the bones, he said, he he the word of the lord. he says, I’m going hallelujah to raise you up again. This is what god said I’m going to I’m going to hallelujah as it were. I’m going to put your bones back together and then I’m going to put on the bones and then I’m going to put skin on the and then I’m going to breathe to you. Yes, lord. And when I breathe into you, you’re going to stand up and you’re going to live Long story short, when we keep reading that text, we discover that after. Amen. Ezekiel prophesied to the bones. the lord told him, I prophesied to the wind and tell the wind to blow from the four corners of the earth and when the wind blew, the Bible says, as he preached wind. The wind started blowing and there was a shaking in a rattling here in the valley and I want you to understand and know my brothers and sisters. get ready. God told me to tell you city of Refuge, get ready. La. There’s coming a shaking. Yes, lord. To every dry place, there’s coming a shaking to every house. God is about to blow again. a county. Do you hear what I said? God is about to because the wind to blow again in the direction of places and people that you gave up on and some of you under the sound of my voice, you gave up on your own self and your family gave up on you and your friends gave up on you. God. but god told me to tell you he’s about to blow in your direction and you’re going to get and you’re going to live. Lord, if I was in the church, I would tell you to touch your neighbor but we can’t do it but give yourself an air high five and tell your neighbor he’s getting ready to breathe on me. He’s getting ready to breathe on me. Hallelujah. So, the wind blew in the valley causing there to be as it were a resuscitation to the bones and the bones stood up as a great army. It was another prophetic word that god released in the book of Joel He said in chapter number two verse twenty-eight in the last days, saith god. it shall come to pass in the last days that I will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh sons and daughters shall prophesy All men shall dream dreams and young men shall see visions and upon my hand meetings and my servants will I pour out of my spirit and I came to announce we’re on the verge of the greatest revival that we have ever seen. Yes. according to our history, the history of America, America has seen four great awakenings or four great revivals and it is interesting because when you check this the record around about the 1700s, somewhere between 1700, 1720, there was a pandemic But at the heat in the end of the pandemic, there was a revival, a great awakening, and out of that great awakening came. Hallelujah. as it was a revolution in America around about eighteen, the early 1800s there was another pandemic of epic proportions but after the pandemic was over, There was another great awakening. Thank you, Jesus And out of that came the abolitionist movement where men rose up and woke up and realized that all men were created equal and that slavery was an abomination unto god. Hallelujah nineteen, the early 1900s that came another pandemic and it wiped out. Oh god. Hundreds of thousands of individuals but out of pandemic came a great awakening. Hallelujah and from that time, it was in that time where the Pentecostal movement, Amen, took shape and had momentum like never before and right there in a Los Angeles on Bonnie Brae Street. people from all walks of life Russians and Chinese, Japanese Europeans and African Americans came from everywhere to experience. The second win to experience this wind blowing again. because for 3 years, there was a win that blew through the earth. Yes sir. And people were being filled with the holy Ghost. I know we don’t talk about it anymore and we don’t even like to discuss it anymore and we want to water it down and we want to act like it’s not essential and necessary but I am grateful I said, I’m grateful. I’m grateful because when I was coming along in holiness, they told me that the Holy Ghost was necessary. They told me that I had to be filled with the Holy Ghost I feel something pushing me now. They told me that the holy Ghost was necessary. They told me that I had to be filled with the holy ghost. Hallelujah. Speaking in other tongues as the spirit of god gave utterance Now, we want to amen. Put it on the side and we want to as it were. Amen. Preach a passive gospel that suggests that it doesn’t take all of that but I’m grateful that the holy is still at work in the in the earth and god here we are. Hallelujah At this time, this turn of the century at the beginning of the 21st century Here we are almost 100 years from the last pandemic to the day almost here we are experiencing another pandemic. Hallelujah and so I’m trying to suggest to you that just like in years past after every pandemic came a great revival and a great awakening. I believe with all my heart. Come on, let’s ride. I believe with all my heart that we’re on the verge of another great awakening and God is about to do something in the earth that we have not seen in our lifetime for our say I will do a new thing and now it shall spring forth Shall you not know it? I’m going to make rivers in your desert and streams in your valley. Get ready. for a great awakening. Get ready. for revival. The saints used to sing The lord’s getting us ready. for that great day. Hallelujah. and I just believe that god is getting us ready for that great day but before breaks out. This is what he told me to tell you. before. Revival breaks out and before we go back to in-person, assembling again, our prayer ought to be lord give us spiritual resuscitation Breath on me again, like you breathe in at like you Amen. Breathe in the valley of dry bones. Breathe on me again. The Bible says that in the book of John chapter number twenty and I got to close y’all. Let’s I’ll hold you too long but Jesus reenact what was done in Genesis two and seven but the Bible says that he breathed on them and said, the holy Ghost. The power to function. the energy. to do what I have assigned you to do. and I came to announce to somebody this is the season. This is the day where your prayer ought to be lord, we don’t me again, lord touch me again. Lord, Feel me again. Feel me till I feel your presence The journey is far. The journey is great. The The is intensified. The enemy has done everything he can Knocked the wind out of the church. not the wind. out of the saints. you’ve gone through. a whole lot. If you’re like me, you’ve experienced what you never thought you would experience before but god told me to tell you, be not weary. in well doing for it. Yes, sir. In due season, you’re going to reap. if you faint not. I know you had the wind knocked out of you when they announced that the world was shutting down. and we had to be quarantined and everybody had to go in the house without warning. 1 week, we were in church the next week, we will hold ain’t helping me. 1 week. You are at work. the next week. you are either unemployed or trying to figure out how to work from home. 1 week Thank you. You are feeling fine and all of a sudden, you went out came back in and had symptoms that were in it. of a bad situation. 1 week. you were tested and you were negative. The next week, a positive in the wind. believe in you. Do I have a witness? I said the wind the passion the energy, was leaving your life. 1 week, Your loved ones were here and then days later, they were hospitalized. We washed our loved ones go on ventilators. Hallelujah. 1 Week. We had no idea that this was this bad and then after that, The phone was ringing. this one. needs prayer. This one is in ICU. This one is on the ventilator. This one don’t think they’re going to make it and the wind was being taken out of us. I don’t know about you but I had the wind knocked out of me situation after situation, circumstance the circumstance. Hallelujah. Some of you know what I’m talking about. Some of you under the sound of my voice. never thought that that job would ever close You thought you were going to retire from there. and everything’s going to be fine now you’re fighting for unemployment benefits and the wind the financial wind has been knocked out of you. Thank you. relationships that you thought were always going to be and your thought will always going to be fine. All of a sudden, the pandemic who your real friends were. The pandemic has exposed where people really were all of a sudden, you thought you were going to grow old with that individual but the pandemic knock the wind out of the sail of your marriages. Knock the wind out of the sale of your relationship. and it left you scratching your head bewildered. lonely and abandoned. Lord, I can’t breathe. Don’t know where I’m going to do. Yes, sir. A few days ago, we commemorated the 1 year anniversary of a man with the mitigated go to put his foot up his knee on the neck cutting off the oxygen. that will go to the brain. of one named George Floyd who died from Aysia because somebody took it in their hands. to take the wind out of it but I hear the lord say, I’m about to blow wind back in your I’m about to breathe back in you. and if I blow in you, you’re going to win. Live. to announce to somebody get ready for the second win. Get ready for the resuscitation. Holy Ghost breathe on us again. Holy Ghost I said Holy Ghost. on me. breathe in me so I can walk. in me so I can stand up, right? Breath in me that I can tell the devil you and a loser. I said, I said breathe on me so I feel the power of the holy ghost. on us. so we can lay hands on the sick and watch them recover. on us until folk get the holy ghost in the parking lot. We on us until my family gets saved. on us until my friends get saved. breathe on until deliverance. takes place all around us. Resuscitate me. revive me, restore me. So over your mouth. and tell God restore me. Restore me, renew me, revive me, Give me back. What a loss I lost it but it’s coming back. Somebody need to declare your power. is coming back. Your energy is coming back. Your passion is coming back. You’re fire. is coming back. Somebody shout glory. Somebody Praise him in your house. Praise him. I don’t care where you are. Break out in the praise. I said break out in a praise. I said break out in a praise. right where you are. If you can feel the wind of god, right where you are, I need to dance in your house. dancing. dancing. in the living room. I said praise him. because he’s breathing in there. for spiritual resuscitation. somebody under the sound of my voice. having having trouble breathing. Life has taken a breath. circumstances and situations. have knocked the wind out of you. and here you are. You got all this function and it’s trapped in a form. I can’t move. can deal with such blows until you don’t know whether you’re coming or going You don’t know. if you can function. I want to pray for somebody today. It’s pastor Preacher. I’ve had so much to happen. The wind is gone from me. There’s no wind in my sails. There’s no oxygen in my spiritual lungs or my emotional lungs and even mentally, these things have happened. It’s caused me to experience such debilitating until I don’t think that things are going to change. but I need god. to breathe and to and I’m telling you right now, the god that I know what it is. As a preacher, as a pastor, have the wind knocked out of you and you’re trying to function and you’re struggling to get you in and you’re struggling to believe God is struggling, struggling to walk with god because it seems like every step I take something puts you in the gut and it knocks the wind out of you but today, I said today, you that are under the sound of my voice that will be honest and type on the screen and say, whoo I need my wind back. is about to blow into you again and you shall experience spiritual recess. You’re going to get up and square your shoulders and all of a sudden, you’re going to be start. You’re going to start declaring things like I can do all things through Christ no weapon that’s formed against me shall never be able to prosper. What shall we say to these things? If god is he that is in me. that is in the world. I want to pray for somebody who says, you know what? I want to give my life to Jesus. The pros are on the screen. You’ll know what to do and how to communicate and we’ve got prayer counselors and we got people who are prepared. We got people who know how to get a prayer through. We can intercede on your behalf and god is going to meet you at the point of your need but let me pray now. Father in the name of the lord, I thank you for Who’s listening? Who’s watching? Who will admit I’ve had the wind knocked out of me but god just like you breathe into Adam and he became a speaking spirit, a living soul, breath into us again, just like the wind blew in the valley of dry bones and the army stood up again. Hallelujah. Raise up. warriors who will worship you again. after you breathe. just like you breathe on the disciples and told them to receive the Holy Ghost and just like on the day of Pentecost, as they were in one place on one accord, suddenly, there came a sound from heaven the rushing mighty wind and it filled all the house where they were sitting and they sat upon them. Each of them clothing tongues as a fire and they began to speak in other tongues while I am preaching that the Holy Ghost fall Now in Jesus name and I thank you for it. I believe. hey, I believe you right now. Somebody’s giving their life to you. Somebody’s receiving the fullness of who you are and I thank you for it. Now in Jesus name. It is so give him praise right where you are. I said give him praise. I want you to give him praise. Every last one of you. Give him praise for he is breathing. of his spirit. The breath of life. the wind, the pneuma, bringing it back into you so that you can stand up and now function in your form. Give god praise everybody. Listen, I want you to do something with me. on this first Sunday, the month of January. Here we are. It’s almost half time. It’s almost half time. it’s halftime and I said January but it’s you. So, that’s really when it’s halftime. Here we are at the 6 month and I want you right now to sow with me. If you’re grateful that god has kept me 6 months and you’re grateful that god has kept you through this pandemic and you’re grateful that god is keeping you right. Your hands and not just in your hand but of course to your devices and of course, the the props and the platforms on the screen but I want you right now, I’m going to sew $100. I’m not asking you to do that if you don’t have it but if you have it, I want you to do it. Yes, I do. I want you to do it but I’m going to sell 100 $100 in the name of the lord and I want all of you that can join me but if you can, I want you to get the closest thing you can be the Walmart price is the rollback price. 9988, but seriously, I want you to get the greatest seeds you have right now. I want you to get a seed that is significant to you and so it right now and watch god turn I don’t care what kind of first half of this year you’ve had. I speak this in the name of Jesus. God is about to turn it around for you. I decree and declare it’s a turnaround coming in your life. No, I can’t give you a date. I can’t give you a time but I can tell you what god says. He’s about to turn things around for you. If you believe that, I want you to get that seed right now. Whatever the seed is, some of you going to get some of you going to sow a $1000. Some of you can sew $100000. I don’t care what you can sow. It’s not about your mouth. It’s your obedience and your faith. Get that seed in your hand. Sew it right now. in the name Hallelujah. I’m believing god that by the end of this year, your testimony will be that god turned it around Hallelujah. Do you believe it Father, thank you for those who would give in Jesus name. Bless them according to your word and your good pleasure in Jesus name. It is so Wow. What an amazing word we heard on this Sunday. Listen, now is the opportunity for you to begin to make that call The altar workers are here. We’re waiting for you to call. The lines are open. It’s a wonderful time for you to give your life to the lord. We must be born of the water and of the spirit. Now is the opportunity. We heard the word of the lord today. So, now is your time backslider. Come on back home. Jesus is married to the backslider. Come on and come back home For those who are hopeless, call us and let us encourage you. for those who are grieving, call us because he is He will comfort you. He will encourage you not just only one time but he will continue to comfort you If you need strength, if you need just someone just We are here. We have a listening ear and we can go to god in prayer. Come on now is your opportunity. Bring your whole family. Just put the phone on speaker and our altar workers will begin to pray for you and your family. There’s Refuge. The reason why god woke you up this morning because he’s not done with you. The tears that you’re crying even right now is an indication that god have not about you The pain that you feel in it’s a part of your testimony. It’s a part of your journey. So, yes, there’s not always a perfect day but through the midst of the trials and tribulation, there’s victory and I believe and I know victory belongs to god but you will reap the benefit of his victory because he died on the cross for you. You have a right to victory. Come on. There’s a restoration. There’s strength waiting for you. Your hope lies in god. Your victory lies in god. your your way out is god. Your strength, your sleepless nights will go away because you trust. I put my trust in him. Just call us We’re waiting for you. We’re waiting for you. Yes. you don’t have. If you don’t have enough strength to call us even right now, you can call us anytime through the week. 315 one I will I will pray for you If you want to be baptized, call us. If you want the precious gift of the Holy Ghost, call us. You You don’t have to be in the sanctuary to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. The Bible say, if you repent, turn away from your sin then he will begin to fill you with his gift of the Holy ghost. Oh, I know to be so I can receive the Holy ghost before I got baptized because I turned and my heart to god. I yield myself to god. What he is asking you to do today, We’re getting ready to come back to church. You don’t have to wait until a Sunday morning church service. You can be filled with the Holy Ghost even right now. We’re waiting for you. Thank you for calling. Come on dry your tears. Put that smile on your face. Open those windows. Those blinds. Put some sunlight in. Let’s pray. Father god, in the name of Jesus, we come. We want to thank you. Another beautiful day. God, we want to thank you for those souls who is calling and calling and for god god for those who are you are pressing to call god. We ask you even renowned guys to send a breakthrough god and god as we are returning to some type of normalcy God we ask you god for two things god. God deliver us god from this pandemic and heal us god mentally from this pandemic god because it’s many of us, God who’s kind of weary and scared to return back to our outside environment, god but god be our healer god and heal us god. God we pray for every bereaved family. God who calls city of refuge and who did not call for bereaved family around the world. God do what you do best and be their comforter and we will give your name the praise God. We ask you god to continue to strengthen our leader, our bishop, and god we ask you even right now god. For everyone who is viewing us even right now and and after this, in god, we ask you god to give them the strength that they need. The boldness god, the confidence god, the encouragement god and we will give your name the praise In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. Listen, before we get off the air, our phone lines will still remain open and we will be waiting for you. Listen, I look forward to seeing everybody this coming Wednesday at twelve noon with the rebroadcast at 7 PM and guess what? We are back together again on the fourth of July. 10 AM One service details will come shortly but listen, get ready and if you’re feeling sick, please remain at home and view this broadcast but continue to wash your hands, cover your mouth, and be safe. I love you. Bishop Jones Love you, the City of Refuge. Love you. I miss you and god bless you. Don’t forget that you still have opportunity to give even after this broadcast is over. All the ways of giving is before you. God bless.