The video is a live sermon from 514 Grace Church, led primarily by Speaker A with responsive interjections from Speaker B. The message is part of a “Kingdom” series and focuses on 1 Kings 17, the story of the widow of Zarephath. The preacher argues that God deliberately chooses the most unlikely, resource‑poor individuals to fulfill divine purposes, using the widow’s role as a sustainer of the prophet Elijah as a central illustration. He emphasizes that brokenness or lack does not disqualify a person; God does not need to “break” people before using them, and suffering does not have to be fully healed before one can serve. The sermon develops a theological framework of reciprocal ministry: God sustains the widow, the widow sustains Elijah, Elijah’s word sustains the widow, creating a divine circuit of provision. The preacher expands this pattern to biblical examples (Moses, Gideon, Hannah, David, Paul) and to contemporary church practice, warning against exploitative ministries that take from the wounded without reciprocation. He calls the congregation to recognize their own capacity as sustainers, to serve even while wounded, and to engage in healthy, reciprocal ministry. Practical outreach is highlighted: a call for donations, a list of West‑Georgia towns served, and an invitation to join the church community. The sermon concludes with an evangelistic invitation, a prayer of salvation, and a plea for financial support and social media engagement. Throughout, worship chants (“Kingdom authority”) and repeated affirmations create a liturgical atmosphere.
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Coming up next, the one that was counted out. God chooses the most unlikely person that does not have the resources to get the job done. She needs Sustaining herself. She has no husband because according to the scripture, she is a widow. She has—
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The cross has spoken the truth.
Yes, Jesus.
God, let your minstrels play, Father. Holy Spirit, saturate the environment This atmosphere. Let your glory fill this place. Let the anointing of God destroy yokes at this moment. Whatever you need, God is here. Whatever you need, God. Is here. Yes, you're so good, Father. You, God, we thank you for your tangible presence. Thank you for your presence, God. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, we thank God for his presence. Amen. I don't need to pray. The prayer was prayed during the offering, but I want you to open Amen. If you would open your Bibles this morning, I want to teach from the Kingdom series that we've been preaching on. Pastor Keith led us off the last month and a half teaching on the Kingdom, but I want to— I don't need to build a foundation. The foundation is already established. I just need to go ahead and walk on what God has already laid. The foundation is already laid and it is very clear what God is doing. So I want to title this message this morning, if we could, I want to title this message this morning, When They Count You Out, God Counts You In. When they count you out, God counts you in. counts you in. And this morning, we're going to be teaching from an unlikely Scripture. It does not have very much detail as it relates to who these people are. One of the individuals we know, famously know, because he is a prophet of God. But this widow of Zarephath, We have very little detail about who she is. We don't know her name. We don't know the name of her son. We don't even know the name of her deceased husband. And I asked the Lord, I said, Lord, what do you want me to teach from this? I don't have anything that I could possibly share. He said, well, it's not dependent upon you. It's dependent upon me.
Amen.
I just need you to hear my revelation in my spirit.
Amen.
So, if you would, turn your Bibles to 1 Kings 17, verse 19. I'm going to be reading from the KJV version of the Bible, and it says this. It says, arise. God is talking to the prophet Elijah after Elijah issues an edict to Ahab and Jezebel. God is telling him there is a judgment coming. So, God says to the prophet who's at the brook being fed by ravens and drawing water, but the water dries up because there's a famine in the land. And God says, Arise, get thee to Zarephath. Which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there. Behold, I have commanded a widow woman there.
Where?
In Zidon. The widow woman there in Zidon to sustain thee. Ah. I want you to look at this because the shock is in the word sustain. God chooses someone who was counted out by all accounts. 1 Kings 17 verse 9, 1 Kings 17 verse 9. So when God says there is a widow woman there to sustain you. God chooses someone visibly that does not possess the resources necessary to perform the assignment.
Amen.
The one that was counted out. God chooses the most unlikely person that does not have the resources to get the job done. She needs sustaining herself. She has no husband because according to the scripture, she is a widow. She has almost no food. How can she sustain the prophet?
In the revelation.
She has a dependent Amen. She is living through drought and famine herself, and according to her own testimony— listen to this— she believes she is preparing her final meal. Yet God says to the prophet Elijah, I have commanded her To sustain thee. That tells us something profound, Minister Ophelia. Tells us something profound about how God understands capacity. God did not choose her because she possessed enough.
Right.
Pastor Keith, body of Christ, God chose her because He possessed enough. Amen.
Hallelujah.
The provision required for her assignment was never supposed to originate in her. That changes the whole passage, that one statement. Elijah isn't merely being sent to a widow who will sustain him. God is going to sustain Elijah through a woman whom God himself must sustain.
Amen.
Now, that creates a divine circuit. God sustains the widow, the widow sustains Elijah, Elijah carries God's word, God's word sustains the widow, and God's purpose continues in the earth. To me, this is extraordinary, but I would make one distinction about brokenness. God does not need to break people in order to use them.
That's right.
That's a lie that people have been teaching. God needs to break you. He does not. And listen to this, and pain itself isn't inherently harmful.
holy.
Amen. Abuse isn't holy. Trauma isn't holy. Poverty isn't holy. Loss isn't holy. What is remarkable about Scripture is not that God requires brokenness, but that brokenness does not disqualify someone from participating in God's divine Brokenness, ah, is when men count you out, but God counts you in.
Yes.
Because the distinction is in fact essential, body of Christ. Otherwise, suffering people can hear us saying, God destroyed you because he needed to use you, and that is a lie. I don't believe that is what this text is teaching. I don't believe that. I don't believe that's what this text is teaching. Instead, what wounded you does not possess the authority to determine whether God can still work through you. Now look at God's wording again. I have commanded a widow woman there. Before Elijah sees her condition, he sees— before Elijah sees her condition, God sees her assignment.
Amen.
The beautiful thing about this, Minister Tracy, is she doesn't even know her assignment. She doesn't even know that she has been commanded by God to be a sustainer. Elijah arrives and sees a woman collecting sticks. God has already called her a sustainer before she even knows it.
That's right.
So you're wondering what you're supposed to do when God has already placed the resources inside of you.
That's right.
To be a sustainer for your family. Elijah sees insufficiency. God sees capacity that will exist through his provision through the famine. And she doesn't even know that God has given her the power to sustain herself, her son, a community, and the prophet.
Amen.
There are so many people in our communities that are going through, and we said, I have nothing to give. But God has called you to be a sustainer in the West Georgia area for our community. She says, I have not cake. God says she will sustain you. She says, I have a handful of meal. God says, she will sustain you. She says, I have a little oil. God says, she will sustain you. She says, we're going to die, we're not going to make it. God says, she will sustain you.
Amen.
There is an enormous theological collision between what she calls herself capable of doing and what God has already spoken over her life. And perhaps she doesn't even know she's being commanded by God. Now, that's another fascinating aspect of the text, that she doesn't even know that she's been commanded by God. There is no record There is no recorded encounter between this widow and God, and where God says, I've commanded you to her. God has no conversation with her. A prophet named Elijah is coming, feed him. God doesn't even tell her Elijah is coming.
Right.
But God says, I made you a sustainer. And when Elijah arrives, She appears completely unaware of the arrangement that God has made with her.
That's right.
So God's command may be describing divine appointment and providence, not necessarily a conscious verbal revelation she had already received. God has included in her something she doesn't yet understand. And to me, I don't know about you, but that's powerful. And now your question is, you say, Pastor, I got a question. Why would God entrust his prophet to someone that is broken, someone that is vulnerable, someone that has lack in their life, someone that can barely talk, someone so weak and feeble? Why would God trust his prophet with this widow woman? She has nothing to offer.
Right, right.
She lives in abject poverty. Why would God trust this woman with his prophet? Because the method itself reveals the God behind the movement. If Elijah had been sustained by the king's treasury, people could credit the king's treasury. If Elijah had been sustained by a wealthy merchant, people could, could credit the wealthy merchant. If Elijah had been sustained by abundant harvests, people could credit the agriculture. God chooses the most unlikely candidate. Faith!
Faith!
God chooses a woman with almost nothing to offer. Deep, Pastor, deep. God chooses a place. You would think if Jesus is in fact the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, he would stay in a 5-star hotel during his conception. No, but God chooses a barn for the Savior, the Creator of heaven and earth to be born. God chooses a manger, the most unlikely place for a Savior to be born. The Bible says that Jesus was wrapped in swaddling clothes. Now, if you know anything about that, the swaddling clothes symbolize the towels that the shepherds would use to wipe the milk off of the cow. Jesus smelled Ah, not too good. Ah, because if you know anything about milk, it soured in the cloth. So God chooses the most unlikely candidate, ah, to sustain his prophet. Now there can be no confusion about the source now because we know who the source is. This pattern, ah, body of Christ, runs throughout Scripture. God chooses Moses with his inadequacies. Gideon says his family is poor and he is the least in his father's house. Yes. Hannah ministers out of profound pain, embarrassment, shame, and anguish. David is overlooked amongst his brothers, the disciples who are ordinary men. Ah, Paul eventually says this in 2 Corinthians chapter 4, verse 7. Listen to this. You ready? Are you listening to me?
Yes.
He says, we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. Who has the power? It says that the excellency of the power may be of God and not of us. So Elijah wanted to know who was sustaining him, not the king's treasury.
Right.
Not all— not, not his own giftedness. Now you see the theological connection. The vessel does not explain the treasure. The treasure explains what keeps happening through the vessel.
Amen.
And there is another dimension to this word sustain. The widow sustains Elijah physically, but Elijah's presence sustains her spiritually and materially. They need each other differently. The prophet has a word but needs bread to eat. The widow has a little bread but needs a word of confidence and consolation.
Yes.
Ah, Elijah carries revelation. Guess what she carries? She carries provision. Neither possess— neither one of them possess everything, but God connects 2 insufficient people and becomes the sufficiency between both of them.
Yes.
Who is the man in the middle? Jesus is.
Amen.
When people have counted you out and, and they said that you're no good, you're just like your family, you're no good. God counts you in. They say you have nothing inside of you that matters. You stutter, you can't barely read, you didn't graduate from high school. But God says, I counted you in. All sufficiency comes of me. God connects the 2 people together. And this is an extraordinary picture of community, how we need each other, particularly in the body of Christ. We need each other. We're part one family, but we need each other.
Amen.
And now I think we can even go deeper in the text. God sends Elijah away from the brook Cherith. After the brook dries up at Cherith, God uses ravens. This particular species of bird out of all animals, Minister Ophelia, God uses ravens.
Amen.
That have a ravenous appetite that will not share with any bird.
That's right.
They eat voraciously. They have an appetite to where they won't share.
That's right.
But God uses the most uncommon animal on the planet to feed Elijah. He uses a raven.
Yes.
At Zarephath, God uses a widow.
Why?
A raven cannot develop through sustaining Elijah. The widow can. Ah, you're trying to go to animals and animal can't sustain you. You're trying to meet your needs in, in a dog and a dog is just going to be a dog. So you trying to call him boyfriend, but God is saying, no, he's still a dog. You're trying to be sustained by this individual, but God says, no, you get your sustenance from community, from the body. So you, you trying to call him nice. God says, no, he's still a dog. You're trying to say, well, I can change him. God says, no, he's still a dog. He can't sustain you. Ma'am, so you need to get up and get out of there because this is not where I called you to, because there's someone that I've commanded to sustain you. The raven participates in Elijah's preservation.
Right.
The widow participates in Elijah's preservation and experiences transformation herself. The assignment that sustains Elijah becomes part of what God uses to sustain the widow woman. Her obedience doesn't deplete the little she has. Did you hear that? I said her obedience doesn't deplete the little she has. Her obedience is what opens the door for blessings for both she and her progeny, she and her son, she and our grandchildren. Her obedience becomes a place where she discovers the source of what she lacks. Amen. That is why the barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail. The miracle is not necessarily that the house suddenly contained warehouses of food.
food.
The miracle is enough.
Yes.
Again and again and again. Daily sustainability. Ah, now connect this to the mental dimension we've been developing all along. A wounded person doesn't always need to be completely fixed before they have purpose. That's important. Sometimes religious communities communicate, when you get yourself together, God will use you, and that's wrong.
That's right.
People are hurting in this country, and we say to them, God will use you when you get yourself together. God doesn't need you to get yourself together.
Amen.
He's God of more than enough. He is Jehovah Rapha, the Lord God, our healer. God can get you together. He created you. He knows how to put the pieces together. If it's broken, guess what? He is the potter. He can shape and mold the clay into the image that he wants it to be. And religious communities communicate this every Sunday, every Wednesday, severely wounding people. When you get yourself together, brother preacher, when you get yourself together, we'll determine— we will determine if you can be used by God. But this woman is not introduced after everything is resolved. She participates while grieving. Remember that her husband is deceased.
That's right.
And, uh, what I didn't talk about at the beginning and I saved to this moment is I need for you to walk slowly with me through the scripture. I need to give you some background of what's going on because this widow of Zarephath that's in Sidon. That is the territory where Jezebel was the prince and her father Bethel was king. So she was, she was citizen of a torrential monarchy that abused the people, that starved the people, that hurt the people, that sacrificed the people. If you know anything about the god of Baal, They would sacrifice young babies. And all of her life she's been told to just get over it, deal with it. All of her life she's starving and she know what it means to be hungry. She know what it means to grieve loss. And I asked God, I said, God, why did you not give her a name? He said, because she represents so many people like her. There are so many people that are going through lack, hurt, and pain, being told that they're not enough, that you're no good. And that is unfortunate because you are what God called you to be. You are a sustainer.
Yes.
This woman is living in a community where she has experienced object poverty, Because if you know anything about Jezebel, Jezebel was cruel. She was a monster. She abused the children of Israel. The same behavior she took from her own home country, she took with her when she married King Ahab.
That's right.
The people were starving, but yet they had the very best clothes, the very best food. They were being abused. They were forced to worship a god that did not do anything for them. They were forced to worship a god that took everything. But yet and still, Baal was supposed to be the god of rain, uh, the god of prosperity, the god that could give mothers babies. Yet and still This God demanded that you sacrifice your children.
Take it, take it.
But you're the God of rain. Where is the rain? We're in famine right now. And all of her life she's experienced this. She participates in what God says while afraid, while grieving, while experiencing loss, while experiencing hunger, while experiencing object poverty, while economically vulnerable, while uncertain, while carrying unanswered questions. God does not wait until verse 24 to involve her.
Right.
He calls her in verse 9. Her confession comes in verse 24. But see, what we don't understand People of God, body of Christ, is we read verse 17, but see, nobody knows about the chapters before verse 17, those personal chapters that are unwritten, that's on our conscience, that's in our heart.
Yes.
You see verse 17, but the pain and suffering that this woman endured, her confession comes in verse 24. Now listen to what she says. Now by this I know, but her assignment was spoken in verse 9. God included her before she fully understood. That gives you another powerful line to study. God did not wait for her healing to be complete before he declared that her life still had God didn't— he don't need to wait for you to be healed. God can use you. God told this woman she was a sustainer even when she lost her husband, even when she was starving, even with her vulnerability, even with her inner turmoil. God said your life still has purpose. Amen. Glory to God. But we need to add something. Purpose is not permission for people to exploit wounded people. Let me be clear on that. Because they have purpose, that is not permission. That does not give you permission to exploit people that are wounded.
That's right.
That's especially important for the church, and I need preachers to hear this, because there are people that are broken, and people in churches or exploiting God's people. That's so true. God can use you while you're hurting. Since God can use you, and you now know this, since God can use you, keep serving while everybody ignores your wounds. Keep serving When they see the wounds and they say, oh man, now can't you see the stench, the wounds? Why don't she go and get something done about this? Arrogant people.
Yes.
Erudite people. God says, keep serving because greater is he that is in me than he that's in the world. Keep serving. Elijah receives from her, but God also provides for her. What does God provide? God provides healthy ministry, because healthy ministry— listen to this, body of Christ— healthy ministry is reciprocal. If you are a part of a church and you are not reciprocating, then that is not where you should be. If they cannot not nurture you, nurture your family, then you need to go. Because healthy ministry is reciprocal. It's reciprocal. It's not one— it's not a one-way street. If the church constantly takes from wounded people while never helping restore them, we have reproduced the very taking system we are preaching against that's in this scripture, because that's all Baal did was take.
Right.
Take the lives of innocent children.
Yes.
Take the monies that people worked for. Take the groceries out of their homes so that Baal could be glorified. And that brings us back to this Baal. The Baal system does nothing But take.
But take.
God's kingdom gives and receives. Gives and receives. The widow gives bread. God gives provision. She gives Elijah a place. Elijah gives her God's word. She sustains the prophet. God sustains her household. Her son dies. Elijah carries him. Hmm. But let me not get ahead of myself. I just said that healthy ministry is reciprocal. This woman, her son now dies, and Elijah says something strange to her. He says, hand me your son.
Right.
And I said, But her son is dying, and you're asking her to give you a boy that is dead. This woman has already endured enough. But by revelation of the Spirit of God— the Spirit of God showed me this. Are you here?
Yes.
He showed me that when people are going through, sometimes you have to carry the burdens with them. Elijah said, give me your burden to carry. You said, Pastor, what are you talking about? The Bible says that the strong should bear the infirmity of the weak. Body of Christ, they're wounded, but God still says that they are a sustainer. Amen. Elijah then carries the boy upstairs to his room. And then after God gets involved, God sees the anguish and the pain that she's endured, and Elijah returns and gives the boy back to her alive. Baal takes, God gives life and life more abundantly. God restores the boy 100-fold.
That's right.
Nobody in God's economy is merely being consumed for somebody else's destiny.
That's right.
That may be the strongest revelation I taught today, that nobody is being consumed, because that distinction all by itself will preach. Because abusive systems say, we need your sacrifice so our movement movement can survive. God says, I will sustain you while what I place inside of you may sustain my purpose. God is sustaining you.
Yes.
When everybody gives up and they count you out, God counts you in. And perhaps this becomes one of the defining statements of this entire teaching. Brokenness does not sustain purpose. God sustains purpose through people whose brokenness was unable to cancel their assignment. There's even a sharper version of what I just stated. She thought she had enough for one last meal. Pastor Keith, she thought she had enough for one last meal, but God knew she was carrying enough obedience to sustain the entire movement for 3 and a half years. Then after being sustained by this most uncommon person, Minister Philia, the most unlikely person, the person that's quiet, The person that everyone overlooks has the sustaining power for the entire movement. She sustains the prophet, the one who has the title prophet, but the person, the main character in the text is this most uncommon person, this poor person, this broken person, this person that stutters. This person that has odor. This person that does not have money. This person that is sick. This person, their hair is coming out. This person that does not have Air Jordans. This person that does not have the best car. This person that is living on a bench. This person that is living in a box.
Ah!
The most uncommon person. God uses the most uncommon person to sustain the movement.
Hallelujah.
Then God says to Elijah, Elijah is headed toward Carmel. The confrontation with Baal is coming because this most uncommon person sustained the prophet. Ah, the fire is coming. The national showdown is coming. But before Elijah stands before a nation in 1 Kings 18, God places him inside the house of an unnamed widow. She didn't even— we don't even know her name, but she has credit with us. She has credit with me because I now know that God can use the most uncommon, the one that stutters.
Right.
The public confrontation is sustained by private obedience. Before Carmel has fire, Zarephath has flour. Oh my God, before Carmel has fire, Zarephath has flour. Ah, before Elijah confronts Jezebel's system publicly, he lives in the house of someone from Jezebel's territory.
That's right.
Well, you know, God has some guts. When God— when they're looking to kill Elijah and God says, I tell you where you need to go, go to the heart of where Jezebel lives. I said, Lord, why would you send him to send him to Zidon? He said because they wouldn't think to look for him there. So who in their right mind would go to the enemy's territory? That's what God says. He says, "I've gone to the enemy's camp to take back what he took from me." Only God is that bold. Only God is that bold to tell a disciple, "How can we pay our taxes?" Just walk over to the water and there'll be a fish there. I want you to reach in and pick him up. Man, what type of God do you serve? A God that can use the most uncommon thing.
Yes.
God tells Moses, speak to the rock and the water will come out. A woman in society that has been written off has no value because She's definitely not in Forbes magazine. She's definitely not on the COVID of GQ. She's definitely not on the COVID of People. Nobody knows who she is. God says, go to a place where this woman is living in abject poverty.
That's right.
God says, go here. What? God— surely God would send Elijah to to the Rodel Drive of Zion. Surely God will send Elijah to the mansion in the hills where there's nothing but milk and honey. Surely God will use someone of influence and affluent that lives in Zion to sustain his prophet. God says, no, go to the most uncommonly place.
Amen.
Her clothes were tattered, her hair was matted to her head, and then she was out of her mind because the Bible says she had 2 sticks and she was suicidal. God, why would you send me to someone that's suicidal?
That's right.
And the woman who decided to count it out. But God counted in, considered the least capable of sustaining anything, because surely she can't sustain anything. She can't even take care of her own son.
That's right.
Her husband is dead. Who is she? God says she's important to me. God says, I like to, I like to use the throwaways. That's the part that you don't look for.
Fill it up.
I like the ones that have the rough edges. Fill it up. Yes, I like to, I like to look at the edges that are rough, the ones that nobody look for. That's the one I can use. I love to use one crying in the wilderness wearing camel hair, eating Locusts and hair matted to his head, and he's screaming. I love to use him. I love to use the ones that are in the tombs, that are cutting themselves, screaming, breaking chains, and the community is afraid of them. Ah, God says— tells Jesus, go to Gadara because there's a demoniac there that I want to use. He's out of his mind, but I'm gonna give him my mind.
Yes.
As I hasten to a close, this is much bigger than a miracle about flour and oil. God hid the future of a movement inside the obedience of a woman who thought her own future was over. This lady birthed the movement of God. When she gave up on her own life, she said, she said, we just have a little bit of meal and oil, and I'm going to start a fire, and my son and I are going to eat this, and we're going to die. That's right. Imagine in her mind that this is over with. I'm checking out. Surely death is better than what I'm going through. Can you imagine what she's dealing with? Listen to the cries of people that deal with suicidal ideation. Mental health is real, body of Christ. But I wanna tell you, if you're mentally challenged and things are going on and you have turmoil on the inside, God can still use you. You're ripe to be used by God, Pastor Keith. You are ripe to be used by God.
God is great.
Ah, the poor. Ah, Jesus wants them.
Amen.
Churches all across America are building edifices, buildings, but forgetting to take care of the widow and the poor and the needy while you sit in your homes rested and cool, while so many are hungry and need nurturing and feeding, while babies are starving. And you possess all the material things you can give, but God says, that's the one I want to use. And thank God for his blessings upon our lives, but God has not blessed us just to bless us. Many of us have beautiful homes, beautiful cars, and God has sustained us. But all things come of thee, O God. All things come of thee. Where do they come from? From God. Amen. Both heaven and earth belong to God. The Bible says God owns the cattle on a thousand hills. How dare you not give God back his? And this woman who is selfless trusted Her whole life she's dealt with lack. She's lived in a society where people don't trust anybody because to cry publicly could end the life of both you and your family. She's dealt with lack her entire life, but yet and still, the little she has, she trusts.
Amen.
She has a little faith. She says, I'm gonna trust you. We're gonna die anyway, but I'm gonna trust you, God. That's the one that God wants. He can use the one that is experiencing lack and vulnerability because the prideful God resists This woman of Zarephath, poor, economically broken, and God uses her. Bow your heads. Father, we thank you for Jesus our Savior. Father, we thank you that our Savior gives us strength. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Father. Yes, Jesus. We love you, Father. Thank you for how God You love us. Thank you, Father. God, we're so grateful this morning for Jesus. We thank you for Jesus, our Savior, Father, because without you, Jesus, we have no life. We have no strength. Jesus, we thank you this morning for your graciousness. You're worthy of it all, Jesus. Father, be glorified in our lives. God, let us be sustainers. God, Amen. Let this ministry be a ministry of reciprocation. No pride, no arrogance, only you be glorified, for we know that you are our sustenance, you are our source. And Father, we thank you for your hope and peace. I want to say this, if you don't know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior. This is your time. We're living in a time where it's very interesting. The Bible says in the last days there will be wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes in diverse places. Amen. We just had an earthquake recently that was I think it was 7.1 or 7.2 on the Richter scale. The Bible also says a marker of the last days would be that knowledge would increase. Now we see this taking place at this time, but yet and still people ignore Jesus our Savior. He is so good. If you don't know Jesus this morning, pray this simple prayer with me. Say, Father, come into my heart. Forgive me of all of my wrongs. Jesus, I thank you for saving me. Jesus, thank you for redeeming me. Glory to God. Thank you for the blood of Christ that removes my sins, that casts my sins as far as the east is from the west, into the sea of forgetfulness. Jesus, thank you for saving me. I believe and I confess with my mouth that you died on the cross of Calvary That you are that you now rose and seated with God in heavenly places. That you're seated on the right-hand side of the Father. Jesus, I denounce all wrongdoing. I denounce the lying, the debauchery, the treachery, all of the things that were not pleasing to you, Father. Forgive me of them. Jesus, come into my life. Jesus, save me. Thank you for your salvation that you can give. If you prayed this prayer with me, thank you and welcome to the family of God. You are now born again. But I also need to handle some more business. We're a ministry and it takes finances to get things done. Do me a favor. Go to our website, www.514gracechurch, and click on the give icon. Whatever you can give—if it's five dollars, twenty-five dollars, fifty dollars, a hundred dollars, a thousand dollars—please give so that we can continue to help our community, so that we can feed and clothe people, so that we can pay for time on on networks to get this word. Out globally, not only here in the United States because there are people globally need to hear the truth. We're not here to make name or reputation, but we're here in fact to make the name and reputation of our God known, to say thank you to Jesus. And if you're watching us, follow us on social media. We're on every social media platform. Facebook, YouTube, X, Twitter, Instagram. Follow us. Look us up. 514 Grace Church. You'll not only see me, you'll see other other of our leaders, the leaders, the ministers, the elders, the deacons. You'll get to know more about us. And if you're in this area, if you're in West Georgia, if you live in Villarica, if you live in Carrollton, if you live in Amen. Bremen, Bowden, Tallapoosa, the surrounding counties, Roopville. If you live in Temple, if you live in Douglasville, come by and fellowship with us. More so, if you're looking for a good church, this is a good church. Come and join and plug in and allow God to fulfill his purpose in the life of both you and your family. We would love to have you. God bless you. Thank you for watching the broadcast. Thank you for giving. Do me a favor, at the bottom of this video there is an icon that says subscribe. Hit that subscribe button and comment. Not just subscribe, but comment. Share this message with anyone you know, a friend, a neighbor, a co-worker. Let them know that even though the world has counted you out, God has counted you in. You may be considered the least of them, but you're popular with God. You're exactly what God is looking for because you can sustain the movement of God. God bless you guys. Thank you. We want to say that we love you. We're not out of word, but meet us again here next week where we're preaching the gospel of the kingdom of heaven. God bless both you and your family in Jesus' name. We love you. Be sweet. God bless you.
Hey, yeah. Oh yeah, I came to reclaim what the darkness stole. Every piece of my mind, every part of my soul. Not by my power, not by my might, by the blood of the Lamb. I step into light. The fire did not break me, God carried me through. Every lie fell silent when he spoke what was true. He restored my peace and commanded the sea. All glory to Jesus, the one who set me free. There is power in his name, there is freedom in his truth.
