This is my FAVORITE Song!! The song of the year, When you see me coming i've got him on my mind!!
Daily Manna
Saturday, 23 June 2007
Bishop Norman L. Wagner - El Bethel
Bishop Norman L. Wagner, Mount Calvary, Youngstown, Ohio USA - One of my favorite Preachers of all time!
Friday, 15 June 2007
Bishop Noel Jones - "Lord Double My Anointing"
Bishop Jones preaching a great message at New Birth (Bishop Eddie Long)
The Late Great G. E. Patterson - "Theres Power in the Blood"
As Bishop Patterson says here, there really is power in the Blood, this is one of my all-time favorite preachers at his best.
Thought for the Week
Here are four practices that can keep us out of our place of blessings.
1. Loyalty to our past pains.
• Rather than dwelling on you past pains turn your past into gain (profit).
2. Lack of forsight.
• Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18 – Or where no purpose is, the people walk without direction.
• To have forsight is to see the future, now and see what God is revealing and bringing into the present. When driving your cars on the High Way’s do you focus only on the car in front of you or do you look ahead with with anticipation! There is a rule in driving that says, when driving in foggy conditions one should drive only as fast as one can see because you aren’t able to see ahead.
3. Gross/Sin
• Knowing what to do, but doing not doing it
• Jesus told the man he healed, “Afterwards, when Jesus found him, in the temple, He said to him, see you are well! Stop sinning or something worse may happen eo you.” St. John 5:14 (AMP)
Romans 1:21-22 (AMP)
21. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Knowing is one thing, doing however is another, but either way, if one knows what to do and doesn’t do it, one could miss all that God prepared for them from the foundations of the world.
• Note: “Uprightness and right standing with God (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) elevate a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” Proverbs 24:34 (AMP)
“For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.” (KJV)
4. Disagreement
• “Agreement is the place of power, but disagreement is the place of powerlessness”. Dr L. ED. COLE
• Jesus said “If two of us shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of his father which is in Heaven.” Matthew 18:19
• Amos wrote, “Can two walk together, except they be agreed.” Amos 3:3
• When God looked down at the tower of Babel that was being built by Nimrod and Co. He said, “And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” Genesis 11:6
• What we are seeing here is, if we agree, we can accomplish all that we imagined even if it is wrong. Agreement is only potential power. Therefore, let us agree to do the right thing for the right reason, reasons that will bring Glory to God.
Stay Blessed.
1. Loyalty to our past pains.
• Rather than dwelling on you past pains turn your past into gain (profit).
2. Lack of forsight.
• Where there is no vision, the people perish. Proverbs 29:18 – Or where no purpose is, the people walk without direction.
• To have forsight is to see the future, now and see what God is revealing and bringing into the present. When driving your cars on the High Way’s do you focus only on the car in front of you or do you look ahead with with anticipation! There is a rule in driving that says, when driving in foggy conditions one should drive only as fast as one can see because you aren’t able to see ahead.
3. Gross/Sin
• Knowing what to do, but doing not doing it
• Jesus told the man he healed, “Afterwards, when Jesus found him, in the temple, He said to him, see you are well! Stop sinning or something worse may happen eo you.” St. John 5:14 (AMP)
Romans 1:21-22 (AMP)
21. Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
22. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
Knowing is one thing, doing however is another, but either way, if one knows what to do and doesn’t do it, one could miss all that God prepared for them from the foundations of the world.
• Note: “Uprightness and right standing with God (moral and spiritual rectitude in every area and relation) elevate a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.” Proverbs 24:34 (AMP)
“For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.” (KJV)
4. Disagreement
• “Agreement is the place of power, but disagreement is the place of powerlessness”. Dr L. ED. COLE
• Jesus said “If two of us shall agree on earth as touching anything that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of his father which is in Heaven.” Matthew 18:19
• Amos wrote, “Can two walk together, except they be agreed.” Amos 3:3
• When God looked down at the tower of Babel that was being built by Nimrod and Co. He said, “And the LORD said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do.” Genesis 11:6
• What we are seeing here is, if we agree, we can accomplish all that we imagined even if it is wrong. Agreement is only potential power. Therefore, let us agree to do the right thing for the right reason, reasons that will bring Glory to God.
Stay Blessed.
Make God a Memorial
This morning as i sat in my conservatory listening to the rain coming down and hitting the roof. I began to look through my Pastoral Journal where i make notes and came across this theme “Make God a Memorial.” Every believer is to remember what God has done for them. Too many of us receive but are not appreciative, yet we celebrate at the thought of healing, financial blessings, new houses, cars, and other things that will be promised in the name of the Lord, but as soon as we recieve we forget.
Deuteronomy 8:1-20
Verse 10-12:
10. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
11. Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
12. Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
God is amazing, Paul in his writing to the Hebrews reminding them of the new covenant, a new way of thinking, a new way of living and a new way of relationship. God was going to put “His law into their minds and write them in their hearts: and i will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people.” In Hebrews 8 verse 12, God continues to reassure them, “For i will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will i remember no more.” In our Christian walk we need to remember where the Lord has brought us from. One way to remember God’s goodness, is to make Him a memorial in our hearts. We would do well to make Him a dwelling place in our heart, a place for Him to abide.
Deuteronomy 8:1-20
Verse 10-12:
10. When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the LORD thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.
11. Beware that thou forget not the LORD thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:
12. Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
God is amazing, Paul in his writing to the Hebrews reminding them of the new covenant, a new way of thinking, a new way of living and a new way of relationship. God was going to put “His law into their minds and write them in their hearts: and i will be to them a God and they shall be to me a people.” In Hebrews 8 verse 12, God continues to reassure them, “For i will be merciful to their unrighteousness and their sins and their iniquities will i remember no more.” In our Christian walk we need to remember where the Lord has brought us from. One way to remember God’s goodness, is to make Him a memorial in our hearts. We would do well to make Him a dwelling place in our heart, a place for Him to abide.
My Biography
Chief Executive of New Jerusalem Apostolic Church Ltd, Author, International speaker, Mentor and Overseer of Churches in Scotland, India and Birmingham, Bishop Melvin Alphonso Brooks was born to Catherine Rebecca Howard and Joshua Emmanuel Brooks on 7th October 1955 in St Catherine, Jamaica, W.I. In 1971 he emigrated to England at the age of 16yrs, joining his family in Stafford.
Bishop Brooks progressed through the ranks of Deacon to Assistant Pastor for the Mount Peniel Church in Stafford, where he served for many years. In 1981 he took up the mantle as Pastor for the Birmingham branch. At this stage the church had only eight members, including children. In 1997, not deterred by having a minimal 30 members he followed the Lord's leading and decided to enter the ministry full-time. Today with a new name, New Jerusalem Apostolic Church has a membership in excess of 200.
Bishop Brooks and his wife Yvonne (the Associate Pastor) conduct a variety of counselling sessions. Having co-authored a pre-marital counselling manual entitled "Prepared For The Future", they have assisted numerous couples through their counselling ministry and marriage seminars, which they have presented throughout the United Kingdom and various other countries world-wide.
Bishop Brooks currently holds several positions, all of which ensure the church is in a position to influence change. He has personally served on the Board of Parole for Her Majesty's Prison Service, and is currently a Chaplain at Draken Hall Women’s Prison. He has seats on the boards for the Nechells Development Programme, the Nechells Redevelopment Committee Group and also on the governing body of two inner city schools. He is chairman of Windrush Training and Education Consortium, in addition to which he is a Race Relations Independent and Diversity Development Officer. Bishop Brooks has also served in the capacity of Chaplain for Wolverhampton University and Stafford College. In 2004 he received an award from the House of Commons for his astounding work in Prison Ministry. A very influential man, Bishop Brooks has advised many politicians and religious leaders around the world. This is a pastor who sincerely believes that the church has much to offer to both it's congregation and the wider community and has particular interests in reaching minority groups, single parents and juvenile ethnic youths, especially those who have been excluded from mainstream education. In a bid to assist these and other groups in the community Pastor Brooks initiated a supplementary school in his local assembly which offers extra curriculum tutoring, a venture which is sponsored by the Birmingham Education Department and the Birmingham Partnership for Change. In 2001 he initiated New Jerusalem’s first Youth Conference, catering for the 10-25 age range, with the aim of giving young people hope and purpose.
Happily married for over twenty-five (25) years, Bishop Brooks and Pastor Yvonne Brooks have three very blessed and talented children, Rebecca, Adam and Matthew, who are all involved in the praise and worship ministry. Adam being a very accomplished keyboard player, Matthew a very skilled drummer, and the psalmist Rebecca, widely renowned for her powerful and dynamic vocal talents.
Bishop Brooks progressed through the ranks of Deacon to Assistant Pastor for the Mount Peniel Church in Stafford, where he served for many years. In 1981 he took up the mantle as Pastor for the Birmingham branch. At this stage the church had only eight members, including children. In 1997, not deterred by having a minimal 30 members he followed the Lord's leading and decided to enter the ministry full-time. Today with a new name, New Jerusalem Apostolic Church has a membership in excess of 200.
Bishop Brooks and his wife Yvonne (the Associate Pastor) conduct a variety of counselling sessions. Having co-authored a pre-marital counselling manual entitled "Prepared For The Future", they have assisted numerous couples through their counselling ministry and marriage seminars, which they have presented throughout the United Kingdom and various other countries world-wide.
Bishop Brooks currently holds several positions, all of which ensure the church is in a position to influence change. He has personally served on the Board of Parole for Her Majesty's Prison Service, and is currently a Chaplain at Draken Hall Women’s Prison. He has seats on the boards for the Nechells Development Programme, the Nechells Redevelopment Committee Group and also on the governing body of two inner city schools. He is chairman of Windrush Training and Education Consortium, in addition to which he is a Race Relations Independent and Diversity Development Officer. Bishop Brooks has also served in the capacity of Chaplain for Wolverhampton University and Stafford College. In 2004 he received an award from the House of Commons for his astounding work in Prison Ministry. A very influential man, Bishop Brooks has advised many politicians and religious leaders around the world. This is a pastor who sincerely believes that the church has much to offer to both it's congregation and the wider community and has particular interests in reaching minority groups, single parents and juvenile ethnic youths, especially those who have been excluded from mainstream education. In a bid to assist these and other groups in the community Pastor Brooks initiated a supplementary school in his local assembly which offers extra curriculum tutoring, a venture which is sponsored by the Birmingham Education Department and the Birmingham Partnership for Change. In 2001 he initiated New Jerusalem’s first Youth Conference, catering for the 10-25 age range, with the aim of giving young people hope and purpose.
Happily married for over twenty-five (25) years, Bishop Brooks and Pastor Yvonne Brooks have three very blessed and talented children, Rebecca, Adam and Matthew, who are all involved in the praise and worship ministry. Adam being a very accomplished keyboard player, Matthew a very skilled drummer, and the psalmist Rebecca, widely renowned for her powerful and dynamic vocal talents.
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