Antioch AME Church

Antioch A. M. E. Church Sunday Morning Worship Service - March 14, 2021

Your life’s journey was not design for you to travel alone. Yet it is you who has to travel the course. As you travel, surround yourself with those who will help and encourage you along the way. Likewise, seek God. For He can order your steps as well as send Angels to help along the way. When we go alone and things don’t go our way, we tend to blame God for the outcome. In all things seek God’s will. Seek his guidance. Never take the Journey alone.

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Pride is like unnecessary luggage when traveling. Too much baggage will slow down progress. Life can be tough. Along the journey we pick up extra baggage: troubles, doubts, fears, or worries. Opposed to letting go we accumulate them. The weight slows us down mentally, physically, spiritually, and sometimes financially. Go to God with all your burdens. For his yoke is easy, and his burden is light

Your subconscious mind hears every word. You have a choice of listening to the positive or negative, yet most of us focus more on our mistakes over complements. Criticisms tend to impact us more than good news. I’m guilty. Despite all of God’s goodness and miraculous things he has done in my life, I’ve focused on the negative, making me no different than many prophets in the Bible. Negative events have a greater impact on our brains than positive ones. After all of Moses’s gr...eat feats, it was easy for him to focus on his burdens over how far God brought him and the children of Israel. Moses asked God to kill him (Num. 11:11-15). Jonah was no different, he ran from God because he felt inept. It is better for me to die than to live. As humans, we tend to Remember traumatic experiences over positive ones. Recall insults better than praises. For me, I had to find a way to combat the negative thoughts over positive. God created me and you in his likeness. We are conquers. Giants! Warriors! Yet we discredit our greatness. Through prayer and being cognizant of how I talked to myself was the first steps to more positive thoughts over negative ones. I reframed the situation in a more positive light. When new negatives try to resurface, I look for an uplifting activity to pull myself out of the negative mindset. I try to redirect thoughts to things that bring joy, a peaceful spirit. Is it easy? No. Some days are harder than others. Here are a few things I do get my mind off negative thoughts: * Pray & give thanks for all my blessings * Go for a walk * Listen to uplifting music * Read a good book Know that you don’t suffer alone. The subconscious mind can be your friend or enemy. Guard your mind. There is power in the tongue. Speak positive into your life.

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Satan reminded me of all my failures and imperfections. Once I allowed the thought, it festered in my mind and it became my stumbling block to greatness. I focused on failures and lost opportunities opposed to God’s Power. Negative thoughts and self condemnation caused spiritual blindness. Depression and doubtfulness set in. I exiled God and took matters into my hands. This is the point where the strongest of people fail. They hear or experience negative and they take it as ...the gospel despite the greatness that’s within! Elijah ran because of Jezebel’s decree ( 1Kings 19:2), the children of Israel would rather stay in eternal slavery and die opposed to being in the wilderness (Num. 20:4-5), Abraham failed in his faith (Gen. 12:10-20,) and Job lost patience (Job 4:7-10), yet he never lost faith in God. The devil prowls like a lion seeking to devour us (1 Peter 5:8-9). Don’t listen to Satan’s reminder of your past! Put on the full armor of God. Cover your mind and heart so you can stand against the schemes of the devil (Eph. 6:11-17). God hears your cry. Find the inner strength and call upon the name of Jesus. Your life is worth living and God is there waiting to help. Keep moving keep praying and continue to destroy the obstacles in your life! Be encouraged! See more

If there was someone who could pull you from your pit of misery without condemning you, satisfy your desires with good things, compassionate, gracious, and slow to anger, abounding in love. Would you want to meet them? What would you do or say when you did meet them? God is that someone. We often forget God’s mercies. More often than not, we forget to give God praise. We tend to complain and ask for our desires rather than praise Him. Psalms 103 is probably the most perfect a...nd purest Psalms in the Bible. 2020 has been an unprecedented year, and it’s not over yet. From COVID, fires, hurricanes, riots, police brutality, and Hatred we have seen or have experienced the fury one way or another. Take time to praise God through life’s storms. Use Psalms 103 as your praise guide. Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name! See more

ANTIOCH AME CHURCH MEMBER OF THE MONTH IS DOROTHY REESE!!!!!

Anxiety is capable of finding its way into the best of people. Uneasiness and worry blankets the mind like a pending storm. Believe it or not negative (positive) words manifest life As a man thinks so is he. Think before you speak. What you say can be damaging words in your life. It’s unintentional but we unconsciously speak failure to ourselves and others through conversation with friends. The continuous unleashing of burdens, and unfairness of life, increase the dismal outlook currently faced. A defeated spirit destroys people. Learn to speak positive even in a negative situation. We can proclaim victory by the words we speak. For as he thinks in his heart, so is he Proverbs 23:7.

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A word from our Bishop Jackson

There was a time when I coped with life just to exist. I coaxed my mind that everything was okay. Pep talks and prayer were all to no avail. A consumed soul, teeming with self-inflected guilt, and disappointments. The mind is powerful. God can manifest all power in you, and your mind would convince you differently. The great prophet Elijah was no different. He called down the wrath of God on 450 of Baal’s prophets, (1Kings 18:16-45) yet he feared for his life simply because Jezebel said he would die in 24hrs (1kings 19:1-3). What are you telling yourself? Death or life is in the power of the tongue. Encourage yourself daily. Pray daily. Seek God. Trust God’s word. You are a conqueror.

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Faith it cannot be felt, tasted, touched, or seen yet we believe. Faith begins where reasoning ends. The parable of the persistent widow (Lk 18:1-8), illustrates how deep her faith was and how Her steadfastness prevailed. For many, all hope would have faded at the first rejection. After a few more denials, they would revert back to their own understanding, disbelief in man, and doubtfulness in God’s capabilities. Faith is a way of life. It’s a life of fearing God, respectin...g neighbor, trusting in God’s goodness and power, even while being surrounded by injustice. Life’s challenge is how to live in this cruel unjust society loving #neighbor, seeking to do justice, and trusting that in the end God’s will shall be done? God hears your prayers. He knows your situation and pain. Through prayer, never give up. God answers prayers in his own time. It’s through faith we don’t lose heart. See more

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ONE OF OUR VERY OWN. SHE IS THE SECRETARY OF ANTIOCH AME CHURCH’S RAYAC MINISTRY. AND A LIVING TESTAMENT THAT THE YOUTH OF TODAY ARE THE LEADERS OF TODAY AND TOMORROW. HAPPY BIRTHDAY PERRI HIGGINS!!!!!

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Humans are the only creatures to have the capacity to exercise their creative imagination. Dreams of what you want to be, where to go, goals you want to accomplish. Dreams Can be divine. They are Planted Visions from God in your mind. You are made in the image of God the creator. So What are your dreams and visions? What’s hindering you from setting the dream into motion? Be renewed in the spirit of your mind (Eph. 4:23). Commit your work to the Lord, and your plans will be established (Prov. 16:3). Write the vision; make it plain on tablets, so he may run who reads it. For still the vision awaits its appointed time (Hab. 2:2-3). You can do all things through Christ who strengthens you (Phil. 4:13). So whatever you are dreaming, now is the time to pray about it and and bring the dream to life.

Congratulations Sis. Alfreda Brooks!! Sixth Episcopal District Layperson of the Year