Thank God For Pastor Series

This morning we celebrate the dedication and labor of this anointed man of God. The Vision God has given him to continue to fight the good fight and the dedication to stay the course. There are times when life will throw you a curveball. There will be times when it gets hard to fight, when your arms are tired from swinging, sometimes it gets hard to Stand, when your knees are weak from standing. Sometimes it seems as though you are Boxing giants with the arms of a small child.

Yet is there anybody here who knows that with God on your side nothing is impossible, if God be for you then who can stand against you! No weapon formed against you shall prosper, not that it will not form, Jealousy will form, people will walk away from you, and sickness will come, but that it will not prosper. The winds of trouble will blow. People will talk about you, friends will walk away from you and they will criticize you, the people you started with won’t always be the people you finish with. But I believe Pastor Tommy is like Nehemiah and said I cannot come down from this wall, I am doing God’s work. There is work to be done.

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For 16 years of fighting the good fight, 16 years of running for Jesus you have stayed your course. The great Apostle Paul said, For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels,

nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God,

which is in Jesus Christ our Lord. There is something to be said about staying your course especially in this world in which we are living in now in the 2nd year of this Covid 19 pandemic everyone who starts this race will not finish the race. Paul while writing from Rome to the church in Philippi, Paul said in Philippians 3:14, I press toward the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Paul said I press which means there was something in his way that he had seen trouble, when he stood before King Agrippa to plead his case and Paul become enemy not only to the Jews but also to the Roman government, Paul said I have been locked up because of my faith. He said I went from on top of the world to the world on top of me. There is something about being in the press the bible says that there was a woman with an issue of blood and when she heard Jesus had come she got in the press behind him and touched his garment. There is something about getting into the press. The bible speaks of a young man who was paralyzed and could not get to Jesus because of the press so his friends took him on top of the roof and began to tear away at the roof until they could get to Jesus. Sometimes you have to tear away some things to hear God. There is something about being in the press that will cause Jesus to take notice of you. I believe this great man of God has had to press through sleepless nights through some sick days through hurt and tragedy, disappointments and pain, press through tear- stained eyes. There have been days when he did not feel like preaching but he had to preach anyhow, days when he did have the strength to pray but had to pray anyway. Nights, when he had to get out of his bed when he was sick. To go visit the sick bed of another. Days when it looked like the problem was solved only to have it come back again. But if he had to testify today, I believe he would say God has been good to me, and God has been a friend like no other, HIS grace has kept me and his mercy has held me. When I though I couldn’t get up and go another step he lifted me and when I couldn’t lift my head, he was a ray of sunshine. When my eyes burned with tears, he dried my tears. The song writer said it best, when I look back over my life, and I think things over.

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I can truly say that I’ve been blessed, I got a testimony. There is something about being in the press and pressing your way through. That will separate those who don’t know from those who know. Those who have not stood in the fire from those, who have the walked thru the flames. Trouble will separate the weak from the strong.