The Titantic Church

Bishop Dan Goodman @ Church of the Living God Temple °1

• A lot of people lose their lives who didn't have to.

• Jesus used the word to defeat the enemy, so we should too.

1. Keep my relationship with God in tact.
• Study his word.
• Obey his word.
• Pray his word
* 2 Timothy 3:16-17 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

2. Be purpose driven!
• Once you find your purpose, you begin to walk in it.
• Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the lord with all your heartand lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him,and he will make your paths straight.
• 2 Chronicles 7:14 if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.

3. Love people.
• Deal with them honestly, fairly, and with service.

BONUS
>Little Faith
Mark 9:24 Immediately the boy's father exclaimed, "I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief!"
• Basic Faith
>Great Faith
Matthew 9:20-22 ...Jesus turned and saw her. "Take heart, daughter," he said, "your faith has healed you." And the woman was healed at that moment.
• Faith after a looooong time.
>Perfect Faith
Daniel 3:16 Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego replied to him, "King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. 17 If we are thrown into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and he will deliver us from Your Majesty's hand.
• Faith beyond circumstances.

-- Sent from JRochelle's Palm

Forsake Not The Fellowship

Pictured Above: me with Bishop Goodman and his lovely wife.
Today I have arrived at Wheeler Avenue Baptist Church to celebrate the homegoing of Bishop Dan E. Goodman. He served here on earth as a student, a scientist, a teacher, a pastor, a father, a friend, and so much more; from the remarks I heard at his wake he served well in each role.

Wakes and funerals always make me a little sad until I remember my Uncle Ray who departed his earthly vessel some time ago. In reference to wakes, Uncle Ray said, "Niggas always doing stuff backwards. They want to come and have visitation with someone after he dies. The person been alive all this time and you never want to come see them..." It makes me smile a little. I'm glad to say my husband and I didn't do things bacwards when it came to Bishop Goodman. We had just visited with him less than a week before he passed.

Unfortunately, we can't say that about a list of family and friends far too long to count. At the beginning of this year, during our Family Vision Casting Session, we resolved to visit family and friends regularly. We want to put our friends and family on the schedule. We don't want to do things backwards.

Hebrews  10:24-25 And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.

-- Sent from JRochelle's Palm Pre