Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Father, we bless your holy name.
We bless your righteous name. We thank you for who you are in our lives. We thank you for being our rescuer. We thank you for being our sustainer.
We bless you for being our keeper. So, Father, we come before your presence because we know it's a privilege and an honor just to meet with you in the house we've dedicated to you, the house That is of your name. Father we just bless you this morning.
We take the time out to come and spend with you. For you are worthy of the time. Father we just come before you. Acknowledging you as Lord.
As sovereign. As holy. As the covenant keeper.
As faithful and true. Father we just adore you. We bless you this morning.
We come full because we know that you've been so good. good to us, God. And we just bless your name. You've been better to us than we've been to ourselves. So we just come before you to tell you thank you this morning.
God, we come with grateful hearts. We say we appreciate you, Father, for you are good. thank you for being the seer El Roy who sees us oh God we just thank you father for loving us God all this time you've been loving us father we just want to tell you thank you this morning hallelujah and father we come praying for our church anniversary and holy convocation this year Father, as we celebrate our 20th church anniversary, we glorify your name because you, God, have brought us this far and you will carry us through. God, in Isaiah 46 and 4, it says, Yahweh, you declare that even to our old age and gray hairs, you are him. You are him who will sustain us.
You have made us. You have carried us. you will succeed.
sustain us, and you will rescue us. So, Father, we come united to tell you thank you. Thank you for all you have done.
Thank you for what you're doing. Father, thank you for what you've done for Everlasting Life Christian Church. Thank you for what you've done in our founder, Apostle Vamory Green.
Thank you for God, us as leaders and members, as well as our surrounding community. Because of your presence, your presence makes the difference. God, your presence remaining in our ministry.
We come to magnify your name for your goodness towards us. Father, not that we've been so perfect or done everything right. But God, you've been faithful and true and you remain with us. Father, God, throughout the years, through season, through uncharted territory, God, through warfare, God, you have given us victory time and time again. God, you continue to carry us, God, even when we didn't know.
God, you continue to just carry us through times and times and seasons over and over again. So we say great is thy faithfulness to us all. God you are worthy because you are faithful through the ages God we just bless your name this morning we come to bless you for bringing us thus far and carrying us through God for picking us up father in the mighty name of Jesus therefore we come to celebrate all month long. God, I think of your goodness when we look back over these 20 years. God, you've been so, so, so good.
You've been sustaining. You've been keeping. God, you let us go through the water and not drown.
We've gone through the fire and didn't come out smelling like smoke. So God, we just want to tell you thank you this morning. God, we come with grateful attitudes this morning.
You've been constant and faithful. You've been steadfast. You've been the same yesterday, today, and forevermore.
So Holy Spirit, we invite you into every one of our prayers, every Sunday in holy convocation services. That you will come. And that you will have your way. We are looking for and we are expecting more of you so supernaturally.
That you will blow our minds. That we will see you in ways we never seen you before. God that we will sense and feel and see the manifested presence of your glory.
God with your glory cloud. God, just come and saturate and sit on us. God, as we come to be with you, we come to meet with you. So, Father, if you don't come, it won't be, it'll be all in vain. So, God, we come to be with you.
You and you alone. You who we want. God, are you who we have?
So God, we're looking for you to show up and show out. We're looking for you with great expectation. So move how you want to move and do whatever you want to do.
We're yielded. We're surrendered. We're submitted.
We come under your subjection. God, we fully want you, God, in the mighty name of Jesus. So we ask Jesus to draw every one of our members to return into your home. holy house where we have made covenant with you.
May we all come in unity with the seeking out. spirit come in unity with the presence of our soul come in unity with the desire in our hearts to be in a place by attending the services to receive more of you we want more of you on the inside as you carry our church into a new year father we apply the blood covering of Jesus over our founder, Apostle Green. Elder April and the executive team As they prepare and make preparation For our 20th church anniversary And holy convocation services We plead the blood of Jesus blood covering of Jesus over our apostle, our guest speaker, prophet pastor Alvin Edwards, and the members of Everlasting Life Christian Church who will be asked to speak on fourth Sunday as they study and prepare God.
We cover their study time, their mind, their body with the blood of Jesus. By faith we call upon, we call forth, we invoke and put a demand on the pure anointing and the gift that your Holy Spirit has already given them. We thank you that each speaker will flow, they will function, speak and move under the direction, under the leading and guidance with and by the Holy Spirit with truth and clarity.
God, we plead the blood of Jesus. Clovering of Jesus over every member scheduled to serve as a greeter, as an usher, as a media team. Exhort, dance, and praise and worship that we will serve with the willings and joyful heart and excellent and unity. And under the power and the leading of your spirit.
And most of all, in love. In the mighty name of Jesus. We plead the blood of Jesus against every scheme, every plot. every plan every distraction every hindrance of the enemy binding him and loosing him from every activity and assignment in Jesus name we declare and decree no weapon formed against us our our leader apostle green elder april or us shall prosper it is nullified it is void it is inoperative it's ineffective in the mighty name of Jesus we bind every trick every trap every distraction of the enemy that will try to hinder us from being in every service to hear, see and receive the word from the Lord, we loose it from us in the name of Jesus, in the mighty name of Jesus and we bind to us determination perseverance to be in prayer and services we bind to us ears to hear what the spirit of the Lord is speaking, we bind to us eyes to see what the spirit of the Lord is doing. God, we won't be looking around.
We'll be active participants in the mighty name of Jesus. We bind to us hearts to receive the instructions and directions of the Lord. Father, so help us now. Tear the ground of our hearts now.
Make us ready now. In the mighty name of Jesus. We thank you now for what you're going to do in our hearing, in our seeing, in our hearts.
God, make us ready for you have declared this is the year of the ears. So give us ears to hear what the say of the Lord. Give us eyes to see what the spirit of the Lord is doing.
And God, help us to receive it in its fullness, the instruction and direction of the Lord. And give us a holy desire to be swift to do what the says the Lord. God, so help us now with the mighty name of Jesus. We thank you for causing us to hear you clearer, Father, as we get cleaner.
Oh, we are here clearer. So have such a supernatural encounter with you, Holy Spirit. So help us to hear clearer, Father, in the mighty name of Jesus, that Holy Spirit will manifest in such a way. With power and demonstration. That it will overflow.
To affect and change the very atmosphere. That it will change our lives. And lifestyles.
And the people in the neighborhoods. That surround everlasting life. Christian church. So Holy Spirit. Do whatever you want to do.
Change. just some more so we can be effective for you god in the mighty name of jesus that you will draw souls in from the community around everlasting life christian church god continue to let us be a city upon a hill father in the mighty name of jesus we call upon jehovah jireh because you give seed to the soul we thank you by faith that you will provide for every member to be able to give our holy convocation seeds on time during the planting season. We thank you for an overflow in our financial goal causing us to exceed our expectations.
Because our hope is in you to carry and sustain our church even the more. So we thank you now, Father. And Father, we expect miracles.
We expect signs and wonders in this 20th year. So we declare, decree, we proclaim and confess that we are repositioning ourselves to be carried by you to receive. Increase in reading and studying the word.
Increase in understanding, comprehension, and revelation of your word. Increase in time of prayer and meditation and trusting in you, God. Increase in songs of praise and worship. Increase in love, in obedience, and in truth.
Father, increase us in holiness, spiritual growth, maturity in the things of God. Increase us in the wisdom and in the anointing. Increase us in paying our tithes and giving financially.
Increase us in prosperity and in favor. Increase us in sowing our time, skills, gifts, and talents to you. Increase us in faithfulness and commitment to serving you, God.
God, in our whole lives at Everlasting Life Christian Church under the leadership of Apostle Van Marie Green. Now, Father, we bless you for the goodness towards us. We glorify you for a supernatural 20th church anniversary and holy convocation.
We thank you for being for Lord for being glorified be highly exalted father in our church in our lives from generation to generation as we sing on one accord praise the Lord for your mercy endures forever hallelujah we bless your name God now let the words of our mouth and the meditation of our hearts be acceptable in thy sight oh lord our strength and our redeemer in jesus name amen hallelujah