March 6th & 7th: Reflection

"Just as it was said right after the attacks on Pearl Harbor,        

'A sleeping giant has been awakened.'" 

- Bishop Aaron Elliott

Little Bethel Reformed Pentecostal Holiness

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"I have been in meetings going back to the Civil Rights Era, even all the way back
to Billy Graham when he was getting started. This was by far
the best meeting of them all!"

- Judge Robert Leeper
Vice President of the Lowcountry Ministerial Alliance

January 22nd 2010 Reflection: Banner Prayer & Worship

January 22nd, 2010 Reflection

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Holmes Avenue Baptist supporting community prayer!
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Richard & Debbie Summey were very encouraging!

The youth choir practices were wonderful!
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These kids love the Lord! What a blessing!

Jerome Griffin has an anointing to lead worship!
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Bishop Ricky O'Neil from Greater Joy Tabernacle
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Benjamin Dickert came from Augusta again to be with us!

Judge Robert Leeper
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(l-r) Pearl Griffin (Christ Temple), Rachel Peterson (Crossroads Community), Scott Zieglar (New Life Assembly) and April Elliott (Little Bethel Pentecostal Holiness)

Worship leaders from 18 congregations as a team!
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Pastor William Davis with Churches United leads worship!

Dr. Alfred Williams from Canaan Missionary Baptist
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Nick Nicholson, Naomi Elliott & Reverend Richard Summey pray behind & with Dr. Williams!

Lincoln & Jason Weathersby and Sean Kennedy
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These high school friends really were a great source of help and encouragement

...know them that labour among you... 1 Thessalonians 5:12 * ...pray for one another... James 5:6 * ...the eye cannot say to the hand I have no need of thee... 1 Corinthians 12:21 * ...there is one Body and one Spirit... Ephesians 4:4 * ...the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth... Ephesians 4:16 * ...I pray that they may be one with us so that the world will believe...John 17:21 * ...how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity...Psalm 133:1 "The purpose of life is companionship." *** "Worship is that form of companionship where we love on Him in response to His great love for us." *** "The most powerful drive in the human heart is the desire for companionship." *** "We inherited this drive from the One we were patterned after." *** "The difference between manipulation and leadership is motive." *** "Motive is purified and guided in the presence of God: Prayer." *** "Pride is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency, an attitude of self-entitlement and a motive for self-glorification." *** "Pride starts subtly and then turns into the aggressive enemy of real companionship" *** "The Cross and the presence of God brings fellowship (heart to heart), but the world offers only socializing (facade to facade)." *** "Every relationship has a foundation. The pride of public ministry has been a foundation for too many. At some point it consumes" *** "There is a difference between worshipping the idea that we worship God and actually worshipping God." *** "Why do we want to see prayer back in the schools, when it is no longer in our homes or churches?" *** "Corporate prayer around the Throne must return the center of church life if there is to be any hope for the masses." *** "Corporate prayer produces effective preaching, not preaching produces corporate prayer." *** "If we are so in the know, why do we no longer gather together to seek God, navigate through our haughty hearts to get a glimpse of God's heart and then pray in the lost?" *** "Christianity is not an enterprise, venture for self-discovery or political or civic organization. It is a Blood-bought fellowship of prayer focused on One." *** "Prayer-based friendships are the only ones that last." *** "Prayer-bathed friendships are not incidental to ministry, they are foundational." *** "Prayer is not a ministry of the Holy Spirit. It is the ministry" *** "It's one thing to tell somebody what we believe about Jesus, it's quite another to be able to introduce someone to our Best Friend." *** "We are more like Martha than Mary; More like Christian activists, than people of prayer." *** "We need unity in humility found at the foot of the Cross, not prideful uniformity that says: 'Look at us doing God's work'" "There has got to be a practical, excecutable strategy in place for us to dethrone the ministry of Hollywood in our homes and bring families and communities together via corporate prayer inspired by the Spirit. Technology is not the enemy; Our disobedient laziness is the enemy." ***