She's No Miniature Miracle (baby dedication)- Bro Jeremy Howell 12-1-2024

This morning, we're going to dedicate little Ada Hope Howell,

we're going to give her back to the Lord. These

parents have prayed about this special service and have selected

this special day, coordinated with me to see it today

would be a good time for such a beautiful ceremony

as this, And I want you ought to know there's

great spiritual significance in what they're doing this morning, and

I'm glad that we can be partakers of this time

of them given their gift they received from the Lord

back to him. How many of you know it's important

that Christians do that, that they dedicate their child to

the Lord. Sister Hall and I, no doubt have been

blessed time and again, over and over again simply because

we have dedicated our children to the Lord. And what

I mean is, I'm sure there have been times that

God said, you know, your parental guidance and parental instruction

was good, but it wasn't enough to spare their lives.

So it's justster how and I have been blessed by

obeying the Lord and doing as the others have done

throughout history, also as these in the Bible have done,

you know, given their child back to the Lord, we

followed these biblical examples, and also other spiritual leaders throughout

the years. We followed their examples, and I believe we

have been blessed through a simple active obedience and just

given our child back to the Lord. You know it's

his anyway. And I want to tell you something. I

was praying, as I have done now for about thirty

something years, and when I pray, I don't say my wife.

This is how I pray. I say, and Lord, would

you help the wife that you have given me? And

whenever I pray for our children, I do not pray

and I say, pray, Lord, I pray that you would

help my children. Say Lord, I pray that you would

bless these five sons that you have given me, and

which you bless this daughter that you have given me.

Sometimes when I pray words like this, Lord, would you

bless the wife that you have given me? Since to

how we're whispering, you say, oh, so you're blaming God

for this. But I have learned to show appreciation to

the Lord for every gift that he has given me.

And I want to encourage you to pray along them

lines from time to time. I know that we love

to declare ownership over things. We're very possessive by nature.

If you don't believe that, let me give you a

Snicker's ice cream bar, and I have brother rope gapes

over there and try to take it from you. You

know you're very possessive by nature. Let somebody try to

swipe the keys to your automobile, slide that seat and

drive away with it. You've read possessive but nature. You

love your claim to ownership for possessions, right, We love that.

But what this is about. This is saying, God, I

appreciate you lending this precious baby girl to us. Speaking

on behalf of the parents, I appreciate you Lord for

lending this special little bundle of joy to us. We're

borring it, Lord, and we would like to return her

to Descender, not in body, not in spirit, not in mind.

We're not praying that God would rapture her out of

this building and take her home to be in His

presence today. But we are saying, Lord, we want to

give you title and ownership to this bundle of joy,

this little miracle. And I was praying and seeking the Lord,

and I said God, I in need a sermon that

is served specific for Brother Philip and Sister Elizabeth's little girl. Sure,

there's plenty of sermon books with cookie cutter sermonets that

we could follow. There's preprinted outlines that we could follow

and just run them through here as a farmer would

run cattle through a shoot. Stamped this thing certified as

a baby dedication, put a date on it, put a

signature on it, and say, you know, we've done what

we needed to do. But I said, God, we sure

would like to hear from heaven anytime we preach. We

ought to hear from heaven before we preach. We ought

to have the mind of the Lord and have the

sermon that servant specific for the people that would be

within earshot of our preaching, whether we're preaching on a

street corner, whether we're preaching in a pool, bitter teaching

behind e lecturing in a Sunday school class. We ought

to have something for somebody, something for someone. And I

believe that the Lord did speak into my heart this

title I want to preach a message the Holy Ghost

titled She's no miniature miracle. She's no miniature miracle. And

if you like old fashioned, old school holiness, preacher come

back tonight. But this morning I want to be mindful

of the occasion, and I want to speak to Brother

Philip and Sister Elizabeth, and the grandparents, the aunts and uncle,

the cousins, and to the beautiful bethln Church family. If

you have your Bibles, will you turn with me to

the Book of Genesis. May I direct your attention to

the eighteenth chapter in the fourteenth verse. We want to

say we've missed those that are unable to be here today.

We missed them terribly. Truly, there is a vacuum in

this place because of their absence. And I know I

do not have to remind you of this, but any

time you miss church, there's a vacuum in this place

because of your absence. Somebody told me a couple of

days ago. They said, Pastor, is so good to have

you home, because the atmosphere is so different when you

and Sister Howell are not there. They said, Brother Jesse

and Brother Nathaniel, they do such a great job, but

the atmosphere is entirely different when you're not there. And

so I want you to know that your pew probably

feels different to somebody when you're not there, and the

church said, amen. So I'm glad you're here today on

this special occasion, as we dedicate baby either who have

you failed? Genesis chapter number eighteen. Are you looking at

verse number fourteen. Let's read that together shall win this

step for the reading of the word.

Of the Lord.

Let's begin with verse number eleven. The Bible says, and

he said, I will search return unto thee according to

the time of life, and lo, Sarah, thou wife shall

have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent

door which was behind him. Now, Abraham and Sarah were

old and well stricken in age, and it ceased to

be with Sarah after the manner of women. Therefore Sarah

laughed within herself, saying, after I am waxed old, shall

I have pleasure my Lord? Being old? Also? And the

Lord said, unto Abraham. Wherefore did Sarah laugh, say, shall

I of a surety bear a child? Which of old?

Is there anything hard? Too hard for the Lord? At

the time of pointed, I will return unto thee according

to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

Reading our golden texts to give verse number fourteen, the

Bible says that any is anything too hard for the Lord.

At the time appointed, I will return into thee according

to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.

Let's pray, Heavenly Father, we thank you for the opportunity

to be in your house this morning. We thank you

God for this day that you have made. We will

rejoice in and be glad. I'm thankful Lord that we

have a happiness. I'm thankful that we have a joy

that is unspeakable and full of glory, which is our strength.

I'm thankful for that, Lord, and that we have a

reason to celebrate today, Lord, because parents are willing to

live in compliance to your.

Word and to bring their child up and the nurture

and admonition of the Lord, and to walk before you

had fear driven, and to return this precious gift to

you that you gave them.

I pray you would apoint my lips, help me to

say the things that you would have to say, nothing

more or less in north this thy people, God, help

them to hear what the Spirit of God says. And

to the church this morning, we'll be mindful to give

you all the praise and honor and the glory in

Jesus' name, and the Church said, heymen, looking at that

golden text, agive, Brother Jesse, what you turn with me

to Hebrews chapter number eleven and verse number eleven. Brother

Ethan turned with me to Genesis chapter number twenty one,

Verse number six. Brother Nathaniel Genesis, Chapter number twenty one

and verse number seven. Again, Brother Jesse, Hebrews, Chapter number eleven,

Verse number eleven. Brother Ethan, Genesis chapter number twenty one,

Verse number six, and Brother Nathaniel, Genesis, Chapter number twenty

one and verse number seven. Reading our golden text again

Genesis chapter number eighteen and verse number fourteen. The Bible said,

is anything too hard for the Lord? Would you answer

that question? Is there anything too hard for the Lord?

No?

Absolutely not, But sometimes we feel as though it is

that's too hard for the Lord. Be honest with you,

even though without reluctance or hesitation, you said no. But somehow,

at times your inner being says, I'm not so sure

that God is able to do this thing for me.

Sometimes it's not his ability that we question, but it's

his willingness that we question. Is he willing? I'm not

questioning that he's able, I'm questioning whether or not he's willing.

But how many of you know this morning that God

is willing? The Bible said that God is not willing

that any should perish, But it goes on to talk

about how he's willing that all would come unto the

knowledge of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, and that

they would repent and not perish any eternal damnation and

hell fire. So there is an unwillingness concerning the Lord.

He is unwilling that anyone would go to hell. Somebody said,

how can a loving and adjust and holy, righteous, pure

God sentence anyone to eternal damnation and spiritual death and hell?

How could any person willingly and knowingly deny the existence

of God and willingly reject Salvation's plan and God's gift

for our fellow man. How could anybody willingly and knowingly

reject the blood of Jesus Christ as the method, being bloodball,

born again and a child of God? How could anybody

reject that? But they do. There's a lot of people

unwilling to be saved from their sin. Why because men

the sin and darkness. They like that darkness. They choose

to sit in darkness, and even when they see that

great light that illuminates the mind that opens the understanding

that salvation has appeared to every man. They'd rather turn

out the light. They rather dampen and darken their hearts

and their spirits so that they can sit in darkness.

And so we found that man has a will right.

Some are willing to put on the mind of Christ,

while some are unwilling to put on the mind of Christ.

Brother Nathaniel taught us this morning about this manuscript, this

God breathed, God inspired inside of the hearts and minds

of men that were holy ghosts filled, men that were

spirit led, these holy words of God penned by holy

men of old. And how these words are settled forever

in heaven, how they are not to be revised, and

they cannot be revised. The words of God cannot be changed.

But there's people willing to try to revise the words

of God. There's a lot of people that are willing

to do things today in midweek service rather than be

in obedience to God's word, rather than to live in

compliance with the word of God. And we've got a

mother and father here today that says, you know what

I feel like, It's very important that I don't let

my child live their life undedicated to God. Now, while

it's my responsibility to return this little baby, this bundle

of joy, this bundle of blessing to my Lord, I

will do it while I have time to bring that

child up in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord.

I'm willing to do it. I'm willing to do it.

I'm willing to do it. How many of you know

God is willing to work a miracle in your life?

I want brother Jesse to read Hebrews, chapter number eleven

and verse number eleven. Through faith, Also, Sarah herself received

strength to concede see and was delivered of a child

when she was past the age because she judged him

faithful who had promised, she judged him faithful. That's a

lot of things said about Sarah and her faith wavering,

her faith lapsing, her doubting that God was able to

do these things. But according to the chronicler that gave

us that chapter of Faith, the one that chronicled the

actions of the heroes of faith and also the heroines

of Faith, we find that there was a whole lot

more going inside of the heart of Sarah than what

a lot of people give her. Credit for I want

Brother Ethan to reach Genesis chapter number twenty one, in

verse number six, and Sarah said, God has made me

to laugh, so that all that here will laugh with Hith.

A lot of times we criticize Sarah for laughing at

the promise of God when it was spoken. When that

promise was given, she snickered and she laughed. And when

the Lord questioned her about her laughing at the words

that had been spoken, she denied a laughing, and the

Lord got very serious with her, pointed a finger in

her face, and sip, but Sarah, you did laugh. Now,

Brother Ethan just gave us an explanation for why she

laughed a little later on, she laughed again because she

held in her arms the blessings of the Lord. And

there was no way anybody was going to be able

to wrap their mind around the fact that an old

woman had given birth to a little baby, that in

her arm she held a miracle that was no miniature miracle. Again,

I want to preach a message the Holy Ghost title.

She's no miniature miracle. It wasn't a little thing that

God had done for Abraham and Sarah, Brother Nathaniel, Genesis

chapter number twenty one and verse number seven, And she said,

who would have said into Abraham that Sarah should have

given children son right born in the son in his

old age? All right, Now that's a miracle, is it not.

So Sarah is rejoicing greatly in spirit, and also openly,

she's praising the Lord greatly because God has laid in

her arms this little miracle. Now, I want to take

time here this morning to help your faith. I want

you to have a faith increase. And the Bible said

that you can have a faith increase. You can do

that of one or two ways, or actually both ways.

By hearing the word of God, you can have a

faith increase. I want to exercise your faith this morning.

And secondly, you can build up your most holy faith

by praying in the Holy Ghost. And so let me

take you to a book of miracles. The Book of

Genesis is a book of miracles. I've said it many

times throughout the years that even that name Genesis is

an awesome name, that first book of the Bible. It's

captivating simply because of its name. The beginning, the Book

of Genesis is a book of first In it we

read about many first For example, the first man, the

first woman, the firstborn son, the first encounter between God

and Man, the first day, the first night, and the

first miracle, and so many other first Aida Hope Powell

is the first child of Reverend and Reverend Philip and

Missus Howell. As the Lord did for Abraham and Sarah,

the Lord has given the Howells a miracle baby. Hope

Powell is a miracle baby. There's a lot of you

that do not have the specifics and the details to

understand why it is we say this, But Aida Hope

Powell is a miracle baby. And I know there's going

to be that person in every service that says, will

bless God. Every child is a miracle baby, and it

is the conception. The conception of a child in the

womb of its mother is certainly a miracle. To know

that prophets are formed in the womb of a woman,

to know that people are formed in the womb of

a woman, to know that the Son of God, that

greatest miracle of them all, was formed in the womb

of a woman. It is true that every baby is

a miracle baby. But we thank God for human nature

and the ability for us to reproduce. Aren't you thankful

that God included reproduction in creation, that we can recreate

after our likeness, after our image. And there's no doubt

that Aida is a reproduction of brother Philip and sister Elizabeth,

Brother Jesse. You read just a little while ago of

how Sarah had rejoiced greatly in what God had done

for her brother Ethan and brother Nathaniel. Shed some light

on that. Sarah said, God hath made me to laugh,

so that all that here will laugh with me.

Now.

I want to ask you a question. Do you believe

that everybody rejoiced with Sarah over the news of what

was forthcoming, or over the news of what had happened,

of the blessing of God coming to fruition. Do you

feel like everybody had rejoiced about that very thing? I doubted.

It's highly unlickly, because not everybody was okay with Abraham

receiving a commission from God. We find that recorded in

the twelfth chapter of the Book of Genesis, where Abraham

received a commission from God to depart from among his

own people and his own kindred, had gone to a

land that God had promised him that he would become

a possessor of. In that promise. God told him that

of your seed, I will make of you a great nation.

Of your seed, I will make of you a great nation.

Now Sarah was his wife, and it was God's will

for this miracle to happen between Abraham and Sarah. And

those of you that know your Bible, you know very well,

very well, that Abraham and Sarah allowed their faith to

lapse at some point, and Sarah's handmaid, Hagar, was introduced

into this marital situation in order to hasten the workings

and the plans of God. And that was not uncommon

in that day and hour for there to be a

surrogate mother. No, you may feel that it's very disgusting,

and it is in that day and hour. There was

nothing unusual of this at all, nothing whatsoever unusual of this.

But it was not God's will. And so the consequence

of Sarah taking Hagar and introducing her to Abraham biblically

and him knowing her biblically, the consequences of that is Ishmael,

the infamous, notorious Ishmael, the father of the Islamis, the Ishmaelites,

the greatest thorn in the side of the descendants of Abraham,

the Israelites, the Ishmaelites, brothers Isaac and Ishmael, blood brothers,

half brothers, different mothers, the same father. But there was

still a plan, and God had a plan, and it

was supposed to happen between that one man and that

one woman. So do y'all believe that whenever that plan

began to come to fruition and God began to do

as he had promised, and that first, that first miracle,

so many people felt like it was a miracle. It's

a miracle. Have you heard Abraham as a son Ishmael, Ishmael.

He's got a son Ishmael. That's the first miracle. God's

gonna do it. He's gonna bless that young man. He's

gonna become a great nation. That's exactly what happened.

He did.

But that wasn't a miracle in the making by God.

That was a mistake. A miracle, yes, but a mistake nevertheless,

again a miraculous birth. Yes, this conception, Yes, was the

fingerprint of God upon that situation. Yes, Yes, When I

look at all these little children today, I look at

them and say, well, praise God. The fingerprint of God

is upon all of these children, and I believe they

are little miracles, every one of them. But sometimes what

some people perceive to be a miracle, it's actually a

major mistake. And what some people perceive to be a

miniature miracle is actually a major miracle. I'm going to

go somewhere and I'm trying not to get too fiery here.

I'm trying to preach a little bit here this morning

to you about this miracle. There's a miracle in the

making for other people in this building. If you will

maintain that measure of faith inside that Sarah had. If

you will maintain that measure of faith, and if you

will do what you can to increase it, do not

allow it to diminish. You must have a faith in

grease for that miracle to come into fruition. So I

asked the question again, Do y'all believe that everybody rejoiced

greatly when they found out that Sarah, at her late age,

late in life, had conceived the child and was about

to pop. Do you think everybody rejoiced greatly in that

fact that that particular promise was being fulfilled? Absolutely not.

The Bible said that we are to rejoice with them

that rejoice because The nature of mankind is not to

be happy for others when they are blessed. The nature

of mankind is not for us to weep and to

comfort those that are mourning. So we rejoice with them

that rejoice, and we weep with them that weep. Sometimes,

Brother Ethan, we become recipients of miracle well simply because

we're thankful and grateful for what God did for somebody else. Well,

God has done so much for them. Why is God

not doing anything for me? Why am I'm not experiencing

an act of God Almighty in my life? Are you

rejoicing with others after they experience an act of God

in their life, after they experience the fulfillment or promises

in their life? Do you rejoice greatly or do you

find yourself being envious and covetous? Do you view that

miracle through the green eye of envy or do you

view it through the brown eyes of love and compassion?

Do you have an attitude of gratitude or do you

despise the fact that God work the miracle in somebody's lives.

If you're needing to pay raise and somebody stands up

in the church service and they say, hey, I gotta

pay raise. I've been praying about this, or hey, I

got another job or another position. I've been fashioning and

praying about it. Do you find yourself rejoicing greatly in

their miracle and being encourage in this fact, knowing that

if God done it for them, he'll do it for you.

I'm telling you, I'm gonna help you this morning. Understand

that God wants to work a miracle in your life.

Some receive miracles while others never experience some miracle. I

told Sister Hall the other day, I said, do you

realize standing before you is a walking miracle? I said,

I say this humbly, but I cannot tell you how

many times God has worked a miracle in my life.

And I've got to thinking about that. Why Why have

you done this?

God?

Why did you do this for Abraham? And what is

the common denominator? Why did you do this for brother

Philip and Sister Listenbeth.

Why?

And I know that probably seventy people are in this

building this morning, and probably there's at least seventy miracles.

I would say probably every child of God in this

building could say, I know God has performed a miracle

in my life. Now, I believe that God uses men

and women and medical science to help our health improve

when we have a decline of health. I really believe

that God uses men and women of medical science to

help us overcome illnesses due to bacterias and viruses and things.

I believe that now I too come to church and

give God all of the praise and all the honor

and all of the glory I do. I thank God

for the involvement of medical science. And I know there's

a lot of people to speak of miracles that just

about every bit of it is due to medical science,

because there's atheists and people that are not God hearing,

people that have had what you would call modern miracles

in their lives simply because they trusted a position to

do what they felt like was best in order for

their situation to improve. And they walk around and they say, Hey,

I'm a modern miracle, and I thank God for the

ability of the human body to reachiner rate and for

it to cleanse itself and for it to heal itself again.

There's a lot of you this morning that are facing illnesses.

There's bacterias and viruses in this building this morning, and

you know some of you are own antibiotics. Some of

you have relied upon your immune system. Some of you

have taken certain supplements in order to boost your immune system,

and you have found the actor you have boosted your

immune of your body was more than able to defeat

the invaders of bacterias and viruses. And I thank God

for that. I thank God for the ability of the

body to work miracles on itself. I thank God that

if I could suffer a laceration on my hand, that

I could depend on in three to five days that

that laceration has sealed and that tissue is rejuvenated, and

that it's healed. But it doesn't heal perfectly. There's a

scar there where the body itself was not able to

heal perfectly. But I could tell you Jesus could heal perfectly.

And I know there's a lot of people that give

God praise because of certain types of things that help

and assist them in childbearing and conception. And I'm trying

to talk about these children's There are certain people that

go to certain facilities and they get certain assistances and

helps in order to conceive a child. And I thank

God for that. And you know what they walk into church,

and they say, I'm thankful for this miracle that I'm

holding in my arms right now. And I do believe

that's a miracle, and I thank God that men and

women and medical science was able to help them conceive

a child. But in Abraham and Sarah's case, that was

not so. And many many, many, many many years after

they received the promise, it was still not so. In

fact of my study yielded to correct result after twenty

five years, a quarter of a century. After twenty five years,

it still was not so. After twenty five years of

news attempts, it was still not so. How many of

you feel like after twenty five years they had probably

given up hooop. I don't know that our feelings concerning

that are correct, because I don't know that I've ever

found it to be so that when somebody has given

hope that God is interested in performing a miracle in

their life. Faith is the substance of things not seen,

the evidence of things not seeing, the substance of things.

I hoped for for bya it to elders obtained a

good report. I found in that eleventh chapter of the

Book of Hebrews that Sarah was hopeful for a miracle,

Hopeful for a miracle. How many of you are expecting

a miracle? I'm expecting a miracle in this service this morning.

I'm expecting a miracle because I know that all things

are possible through God. I'm expecting a miracle today because

in our presence there are examples of God performing miracles

in individual's life whom I go to church with. There

are things in this building that are in order simply

because God miraculously put them in order. There have been

divine appointments that have been kept by people in this building,

and God has joined people together to form the beautiful

congregation we know as the Methel hol Inness Church Family.

And what God had joined together, Let not man put

as under this beautiful marital unions in this building right

here this morning that are ordained of God. God peace

these beautiful families and lives and marriages together miraculously. I mean,

I want you to really think about it. How you met?

How did you meet? Was it by divine appointment? I

don't believe some of you stumbled into it. I believe

he met by divine abortment. So do y'all believe that

Ada Hoe Powell this morning is a mistake. No, do

y'all believe that she is a miniature miracle. Huh? I

believe she is a major miracle, not only because I'm

previou to some specifics in details that some of you

are unaware of, but because of the way this thing

came about. Now, Sarah's testimony was, God hath made me

to laugh, so that all here will laugh with me.

I want you to rejoice with me, and magnify the

Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.

Sarah said, because the promise has come to fulfillment. And

she said, who would have said unto Abraham that Sarah

should have given children suck? For I had borne him

a son in his old age. Now, according to the

sacred writ I believe she gave birth to one son.

Did she have more children? That's a question for the

learned among us, those that love the Bible, the Bible students,

the Bible scholars amongst us. The Bible said right there

that Sarah said, for Sarah has given children suck? So

does that mean she became a wet nurse? Does that

mean she had multiple children? What does that mean? Or

does that mean that the promise has been fulfilled, and

that it is stuck, gonna stop with one miracle. But

through Isaac there's gonna be a lot of mummies. Through Isaac,

there's gonna be a lot of daddies. And in fact,

is Sarah being prophetic here and stating the same thing

that God had told Abraham, that of our seed there

will be a great nation, that there will be many

babies that are the descendants of Abraham and Sarah. This

marital union, these recipients of the promise, there shall be

many sucklings. There shall be many babies in the face

of the dimple, in the face of her adversaries, in

the face of Hagar, in the face of her enemies.

She said, this is not the first and last miracle.

It's only the first. Abraham had received a promise from

God that over your seed, this shall be a nation

that most deplos so many, and be as though the

grains of sand upon the seashore and the stars scattered

into knights. God, So Sarah said, who would have ever

said that Sarah would have given children suck For I

have bored him a son in his old age. That's bara,

But it's also miraculous to a young man in his

early twenties with a young wife in her early twenties.

A young man that's going through cancer and being served

a major cocktail of chemotherapy drugs to the point that

a strand of hair does not remain upon his head.

Medical science says it's impossible for him and his wife

to conceive a child. It's not gonna happen. Don't expect

it in the next three months, don't expect it in

the next six months, don't expect it the next year,

and in fact, you probably shouldn't expect it ever. Expect

chemotherapy drugs to see to it that you're unable to

do what God said. Do expect chemotherapy drugs to thumb

their nose up in the face of God and say

they won't be influent multiplied. Expect chemotherapy to say, I've

taken away your reproductive rights. But I want you to

know there must have been faith somewhere in the heart

of brother Philip and Sister Elizabeth, as there was faith

somewhere not only in the heart of Abraham, but in

the heart of Sarah, because the impossible became a possibility

because of their hope and their faith. Amen, I feel

I preach it, but I want to stay dignified for

this baby dedication. The story of the birth of Abraham

and Sarah's child highlights the fact that there are times

when our heavenly Father intervenes in the affairs of mere

mortals if they are willing. The story of the birth

of Abraham and Sarah's child lies the fact that there

are times when our heavenly Father intervenes in the affairs

of mere mortals and does the unbelievable and the miraculous.

I was praying, I said, God, can their prodigal sons

and daughters come home? He said, in my heart, just

as surely as there was a baby conceived in the

agent gloom of Sarah, I can conceive my word in

the heart of that prodigal son and daughter, and I

can make them miserable and bring them home. Is there

anything too hard for God? A church? I want you

to know when God performs she had another miracle. It's

not going to be a miniature miracle. It's gonna be

a major miracle. I'm preaching the Son and the Holy

Ghost putting his baby dedication day. She's not a miniature miracle,

as Sarah's womb began to expand and as it began

to contract. It was not a miniature miracle. The Lord

did this very thing for brother philipp AND's sister Elizabeth.

In the twelfth chapter of the Book of Genesis, we

read of the promise Abraham needed a son to go

through the womb of Sarah in order for him to

become that great nation of God fearing people. So Abraham

needed a miracle. There's some of you as desperate as

Abraham and Sarah right now, God, will they ever come home?

Will they ever come back? Will they ever straight?

Now?

Will I ever get healed? Am I gonna die crippled?

Am I gonna die halting?

Am I gonna die?

Mabe?

Am I gonna die with this dreadful disease? Not if

you don't want to. I hope that right now, during

this message, you're gonna be healed or die eighteen. I

hope right now, during this message, that you're going to

receive here miracle. I hope, right now, during this message

that your prodigal son and daughter is saying, what am

I coming to my senses? If God could bring the

imp emperor Nefican Nezar to his senses, God can bring

your child back to their senses. If God can bring

an embryo into the womb of an ancient womb of

an ancient woman named Sarah and cause it to bring

forth life, God can plant a spiritual embryo in the

heart of your love. I'm telling you right now, you say, well,

they're dead. My womb of hope and my womb of.

Faith is dead.

I've given up hope and giving up You better not

give up hope and give up going to prove to

you this morning to Sarah. Although she laughed when the

promise was reiterated, when the fulfillment of the promise was reiterated,

yet once more she might have laughed. But you've got

beyond laughing. You got beyond thinking there's hope of this happening.

You got beyond thinking there's a possibility. There's some of

you giving up hope. There's a lot of people right

now in South Florida that has not conceived because of

chemotherapy treatments are there's a lot of people right now

in South Florida that are not cancer free because of

a willingness to disobey God. Y'all remember during that service,

the Holy Girls spoke through the leadership and said, brother Philip,

go to the back door, open that back door and

cast out cancer in the name of Jesus. Brother Philip

couldn't wait a week to act upon that. He could

wait a month to act upon that. I'm gonna tell

you that I believe that Sister Sarah and Brother Abraham

that acted upon what God had instructed them to do. Oh,

y'all ain't getting this, but we received word last week

Brother Philip has went through screening. Yet once more, they

said there is no longer a trace of cancer in

his body. That's no minuture miracle. That's somebody means her miracle.

Is there anything too.

Hard for God?

There's nothing too hard for God. And so after twenty

five years of being faithful to the Lord, and yes

there were moments that their faith wavered, but they were

visited by the Lord once more, and they received confirmation

again that they would be blessed. They were to expect

a miracle to take place in their life. God would

visit them and God would do as he had promised

to do. Now, some of y'all have received some promises

in the last ten years. I know because I have

been Prince and when he became a recipient of some promises.

I've been an eye witness to some promises, contractual agreements

between you and God that was instigated and negotiated by

you and God, and I've expected God to bring them

to permission again. God visited them again to remind them

that he would do it. In the life of Abraham

nearing this trial, we find that there were times that

he tried to hasten the hand of God to the work.

But at some point God visited Abraham and say, again,

y'all heard me.

Pray like this.

Over the years, God rolled up his sleeve, may bare

his right arm, and he revealed his power to Abraham

and Abraham's bride Sarah. This morning before us are two

notable miracles. Brother Philip AND's sister Ada are two notable miracles.

God did wonderful thaiths. God flexed his power and displayed

his might to do the impossible. And I will rejoice

greatly with him and what God has done. Because if

I rejoice greatly with him and what God has done,

my faith may be increased and bolstered. If I acknowledge

this as the will and the working of God, my

faith will increase, because I know that God has got

a respect to a person. What I do for one,

he'll do for the end other. Let's look again at

our text. Is there anything too hard for the Lord

at the time appointed, I will return unto thee according

to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a shun.

This conception came about through the power of God.

Right through the.

Power of God, he said, I will return unto thee.

The seed that was faltering and failing, the seed of

that man that was faltering and failing, was strengthened by

the arm of God. I don't know if it had

been unable to reach his desired destination up until this point.

And I'm speaking about the children's minds. But it said,

God said, I will return to you, and this time

you're not gonna come up empty. This time you're not

gonna come up short. That's what I believe about churches

that are of the mind of God and in the

will of God, they will not come up empty. They

will be fruitful and multiplied. There will be fruit on

the tree. God is a god of addition, of multiplication.

God is never involved when there is a depletion of

people that were saved, sanctified, and holy goes feel. God

is not a god of depletion and diminishing. God is

a god of replenishing, refeeling, rejuvenating, refueling, refiring. And so

the hand of God, brother Ethan, is what made this possible.

God to our visit you, and this time it'll work.

I'll visit the altar again. Who knows, this time it

might work. I'll jump on that foot again. That not

God spoken to me. I had to hop on that

right foot.

And now heal it.

Whatever's wrong with it? Oh, heal it. It never ran

through the radar. It never was a screened it never

did have an X ray gun to it, Brother Samuel,

But I know God revealed his arm and displayed his power.

I'm talking about Ada whole power is nothing less than

a display of God's power. Philliparent true Howell is nothing

more than a display of God's power. And I was

praying and I was asking God about this. I said, God,

I need a servants pacific for this prince's baby. And

he's precious parents. He said, my son, he said, or

not upon them my fingerprints, And I want to tell

you upon another Philip and sister Ada. If you look

plus enough, this is the your print of God. If

you want investigate enough, you can hire the best of

forensic science. Oh come on, I feel like preaching. I'm

trying to hold my composure. You can hire the best investigators,

the best detectives, and everybody's going to reach the same conclusion.

Upon these two is the finger of God.

And I want to.

Ask, Sister Elizabeth, how does it feel to live every

day of your life with two miracles? How does it

feel every day of your life to look at.

A man and a little baby.

Upon which are the finger prince of God?

Oh?

Come on now, I'm telling somebody in this fielding this morning,

God is going to do a great thing if you

will receive it. But for us this morning are too

notablemighty men of pistation into the miraculous power of God God,

these wonderful things. Brother Philip and Sister Elizabeth. When you

two look at little Aida, you know that only God

could have done this. You know her name means ornament, adornment.

I have to be careful because I'm a granddaddy to

whatever it is, fifteen or sixteen beautiful grandchildren. And they

are all good looking because of their grandparents. Every one

of their grandparents are good looking. With me, they're all

good looking because of their parents. All their parents are

great looking. I don't know how they ended up so

good looking. They're all good looking. But one night I

was praying, and I know you have to be careful

talking about this, because I'm not saying she's any prettier

than any of my other granddaughters. My question is, can

you rejoice for them? They rejoice. I don't know why

the word of faith gets spoken in the heart of

some men, and I don't know why the word of

promise gets spoken to some couples. But after studying the

loss of Abraham and Sarah, I'm starting to have an

understanding as to why the word of faith and the

word of promises are spoken to some people. But I

was standing right here praying for Brother Philip's sister Elizabeth

one night and it came to mind, and Brother Philip,

if you remember I said the beautiful one, right, do

y'all remember that?

Now?

I believe that every granddaughter I got just dropped their

gorgeous they're beautiful, y'all, very women. Is I'll clean up

my mess. I believe every one of them is just beautiful.

But for some reason through my spirit, I prayed the

beautiful one, the beautiful one. And that's what her name means.

I didn't know the meaning of her name. It literally

means the beautiful one. That one has been given a

little bit extra, an adornment, an ornament. I'm telling you,

if you get a hold of what I'm preaching this morning,

you gonna go home with something a little bit extra.

And when God puts his fingerprint on your life, when

that pronicle, son and dollar comes home, when you get

healed of renal failure, when you get healed of diabetes,

when you get healed in your feet, when you get

healed in your heart, when you come home, when you

get healed, you walk away with something a little bit extra.

You walk away with a customery love. I've got the

fingerprint of call on me God, No lode cuts impossible

in me. God come out. And what everybody else thought

was too hard for anyone to do, God was able.

To do it.

Now ought to him that is able to do exceedingly

and burdonly about all. If we asked her think for

the simple minded, they would say, well, was that God

proposied through their Papa that she would be the prettiest

of them all. To the simple minded that would be

prone to jealousy and prone to not joyce, would others rejoice,

to those that would despise, and those that would be

battling coveteousness and jealousies and envying, But to that one

of a pure spirit that will rejoice when others rejoiced them.

And say, you know what all it was was. God

was just letting us know she's gonna be pretty. But

it didn't stop there. I ask God to help me,

please preach something through me, or preach through me or

something at a Serman's Pacific And God said, look further

into the meaning of her name. How many of you

know the Bible said a good name is rather to

be chosen the great riches and love and favor the

silver and gold. We've talked to people here led by example,

be careful what you name. That child hesitate before you

name him, Sampson hesitate before you name or Jezabel hesitate.

I don't know that brother Philip or sister Elizabeth done

this much research. I'm sure they know the meaning of

her name. But there's another meaning of her name besides

that of the Hebrew meaning of ornament, adornment, beautiful esthetically,

a little extra beauty on the outside. There's something beyond that.

There is a tribe in Nigeria that claims to be

of Jewish descent. I think they're called the Igbo tribe.

It's spelled Igbo Igbo tribe. Brother Nathaniel, I looked up,

as led by the Holy Ghost to look up the

meaning of her name in that language. Ada, you want

to know what it means. I'm telling you, the fingerprint

of God is on this church, It's on this family,

It's on that little girl. There's no way they plan this.

You've read it. You're fixing a witness a miracle. You

know what that name means? First daughter? You know where

Ada whole power is, Brother Philip or Sister Elizabeth's first daughter?

Talk you who she wants? Just like coffee? Who's here?

Mind was?

When he was in your room, I.

Said, he ordained him go be a prophet up to

the naissance. I'm not talking about a minuture.

Miracle here this morning.

I'm talking about a mile and manifestation of a mirockless power.

A God almighty. I'm glad I serve help from Mira

to work in God. Here's more day. The doubts of.

The past, We're gone. They left so quickly, as quickly

as the morning do does when it flees after facing

the sunbeams. In Florida was dissolved the minute Sarah felt

the power of God on her, not the second, but

that baby was born into this world the moment she

felt the power of God on her. And I'm telling

this people, there's been a lot of miracles amongst this people,

simply because when the spirit of God moves, you move.

I feel this in my I'm telling you you can't

expect the healing, you can't expect the prodigals of her

daughter to come home. You can't expect any miracle whatsoever

from the Lord if you're not gonna move when the

spirit of God gets to move. And that's when we

pray for the sick, not after somebody's requested prayer for

seven minutes to trying to have the biggest and the

baddest prayer request and they have no intention whatsoever of

praying about it and all. But when the spirit of

God moves, we'd come up to the altar. When the

wonders are troubled we may not even make mention of

that prodigal son or daughter's name. We may not even

make mention of what's going on inside of our heart.

Chemo therapy said, we won't have children. Chemotherapy said, we

won't have children. But God visited Sarah. God loves Sarah

enough to come down they're sin in.

Her tent.

And remind her. What's more, the converted to her. What's more,

I can holyghost in this place. Don't you think it whatever?

Jesus asked her, why did you laugh? If she had

just said, Lord, how just Richos's great in what you're

about to do. There's no use whatsoever in us hide

the excitement in a sense of pots humility of what

God has promised us. I'm telling you, Sir, I should

have got every part. She should have ran around a tear.

She should have ran.

I'm telling you it was in her heart to do that.

She knew the God that Abraham served, She knew the

God that she served, She knew the ability of God.

I tell us somebody this morning, I reminding you that

all the things are possible true God. Lord, I said, Ah,

the things that possible true God. Support If Abraham and

Sarah were here today, they would speak of their miracle baby.

They could tell us that the hand of God was

involved in the making of that miracle. Sister Elizabeth, every

day that you live, you live with two people who

are bearing upon themselves the fingerprint of God. Brother Philip

and Sister Elizabeth. Ain't a hope. Looks so much like

you too. In fact, sometimes I think she's the perfect blend.

Other times I see a little more of you in her.

Other times I see a little more of Elizabeth in her.

But you know what, Sister, that is to be expected.

It's because she was made in the likeness of her parents.

She is a miniature Philip and a miniature Elizabeth. But

Brother Philip and Sister Elizabeth, I want y'all to know,

even though y'all have made your mark on her, there

is another mark that I want to bring to your

attention today, and it is the fingerprint of God. She

may be a mini me, yeah, yes, but she is

not a miniature miracle. She's a major, mighty miracle. How

many of you feel the presence of the Lord in

this place this morning? I feel like, just according to

her name's definition, she is a beautiful addition to this family.

She is a beautiful ornament to Brother Phillip's cancer battle.

For whenever the world was screaming there's no hope, whenever

the physicians on the highest boards of the cancer doctor boards,

when they were saying, we're not sure that we even

know how to treat it or how to handle it,

God hung on their tree a beautiful little ornament we

weren't expecting. In addition at all that God added. And that's

what Jesus has been doing for centures. He's been added

to the church daily such as should be saved. Let's

stand here this morning. We feel the Holy Goes witnessing

in our spirit. We feel the Holy Goes witnessing in

our spirit. She's no miniatured miracle. Bet I thought it's

a beautiful thing to witness. Brother Philip and Sister Elizabeth

dedicated their child in a Hope Powell to God, Brother

Philip and Sister Elizabeth, which y'all approached. That told that

y'all look how beautiful she loves. She's so pretty and

that white, long flowing gown looking around with that long

black care I told somebody yesterday, I said, I guess

she's gonna manage to keep her hair and like some

of us are doing now, how can you not look

at her and see the fingerprint of God on her,

Brother Philip, A Sister Elizabeth. God gave Ada to you,

and now you're holding up your little miracle and say, God,

I thank you for the Marian, but I wanna give

it back to you. And there's not a service that

goes by that I don't look at beautiful Bethel. You

won't know I love you. You never questioned that. That's

why you take her from me is because you know

I love you. Every one of you knows I would

take a bullet for you in the next five minutes.

I wouldn't have to take it through. I wouldn't have

to weigh it out. If it's you or me, it's

gonna be me. There's some of it you would consider

your wife and your family, but because of your pastor,

it would be me without any further ado or consideration.

That's why you take correction from your pastor, because you

know I love you, Brother Philip and Sister Elizabeth. God

has done a beautiful thing in your family in despairing

of your life, Brother Philip, for your not to be

here today, but You're not only here you have a

head full of hair. You have restored renewed health, restored

renewed energy, restored renewed imp immune system. Like a wife

that's start grieving the morning, a real lass and a

little baby upon which is the finger print of God.

And I'm going back to something I was saying, Brother Jesse,

there's not a service that goes back everything. Then when

I look out here and see these seventy to eighty people,

when we did it when it was six or seven,

we do it with seventy eighty, we'll do it a hundred,

two hundred and twenty. There's not a service that doesn't

go by that I don't say in my spirit, look

at beautiful Bethel, and I say, God, your yours, just

like when I pray and I say, God, Bless the

wife you gave me, Bless the sons you gave me,

Blessed the daughter you gave me. Then I say, bless

beautiful Bethel that you gave to me. When you have

that attitude, that mindset, you're letting God know there's nothing

between me and you, and I acknowledge you that you've

given this gift to me. And I said it at

the beginning of this message. We like to claim tide

on ownership, and sometimes when we claim ownership, we also

try to demand and dictate to God what he is

to do. But it's best for us to say, God,

we give you ownership. And that's what Brother Philip and

Sister Elizabeth are doing. In fact, they are giving God

ownership of baby Ada today, Brother Philip and Sister Elizabeth,

believing that this child is in fact a beautiful gift

from the Lord, and that she shall hold you to

accountable on that great day of judgment as she stands

before God as he judges her, and as she holds

y'all accountable as her instructors of Christ, and then the

God shall hold you to accountable in return. Do you

realize what you're doing today and giving her back to God?

Do you solemnly agree that it is your purpose to

dedicate this lovely child to the Lord in his service?

Will you pray with her, instruct her faithfully and bring

her up in the nurture and the admonition of the Lord.

Will you faithfully teach her in the doctrines of the

Christian faith, and will you teach her to read the

Word of God. And betrayed by example. Will you teach

her to live a holy life? Will you bring her

to the House of God every time the doors are open.

Will you do everything within your power to bring her

to the knowledge that Jesus can be and should be

and is her personal Lord and safety. Praise the Lord.

I wanna ask all the holy ghost field saints together

around everybody, if you will just move forward, We're gonna

dedicate to read the whole power to the Lord. Praise

the Lord.

What does she do.

You?

You'll say that I'm annoying oil?

Well, what is good?

The word of God? When you go like get with

or the praise and pray? Do you know those little

stay and sometimes got to recover the models as a

show and has everything to do with our old our expectation.

I pray you, I believe full of.

This morning his brother buildings, just the liers just our

more than anything to get a mador in a God

when she tells them about arms, just to signified that

they have transferred ownership to their arms. I deserved with

a servant to the Lord's the message.

That he is to have cause when I take the lady,

you know maida first.

Year the God is taking her time.

We will pray over her. Go on we have mom,

We'll all will pray for them, will pray to God.

You there wisdom and strength. But your God hearn to

the vest of their ability and just brings them to

the house together.

She can see her instructure.

When at the same time they're gonna pray for the

mercy of God to get lady older days of her

lot to tell you that you well a fella, you

ever no doubt how you fa what do you may

that you most? You know?

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Say that on the home right there? You think you.

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think what good alcohol do you think you?

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Lord.

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them know that you would have that you.

Would go home God, and you have a brother Phillers.

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You've never returned to your seat.

We might ask to the Phillips to miss, but if possible,

to just stay up here for just a second. Hey man, man,

why is showing a man? How many of you were

asking Tellau to help you with something in your lot?

You need a miracle. I want you to listen to

the words of this song.

As they sing it.

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