What Type of Garment are You Wearing?

WOWgroup Global Fellowship NY is happy to present a Mime Praise (If We Are the Body)
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Andrew is a teenager on the autism spectrum and has had a very difficult time adjusting to "traditional worship" services. Parents with a child on the autism spectrum understand how difficult worship services can be. Many parents avoid Church, because it's simply too difficult to enjoy the worship service while trying to prevent behavior problems in their child.

One of the ways WOWgroup Global Fellowship NY has helped Andrew grow as an individual is by giving him a special job. The most important step is to keep this as positive as possible. Since the mime tells a story and uses movement and music, which Andrew enjoys he is able to attend for at least 10 minutes. Andrew's presence at church is so important. I believe that the more we involve our special needs population into our communities (churches) the more we will be like Christ.

Minister William Merced Jr. brought forth an awesome word titled: What type of Garment are you wearing? We learned that some of us are wearing garments of complaining, lies, rebellion, etc. Minister William Merced Jr. showed us how important it is to wear the right garment and that is the one that the Lord designed for us Ephesians 6:11.

"Put on all of God's armor so that you will be able to stand firm against all strategies of the devil."

Let us all wear the garment of righteousness!

Maintaining a Relationship during the Mountaintops &Valleys

Maintaining a relationship with the Father when things are going great is easy, but what happens when we find ourselves deep in the crevices of the valleys?

Minister William Merced Jr. shared a powerful word with WOWgroup Global Fellowship NY and gave us great examples from the Word of God.

David a great king led his army, but they were losing and he was afraid. We learn from the scriptures that David had to speak the Word and remind himself that God was dependable. God never let him down before. God knew that David was afraid, but through David's sacrificial praise and thanksgiving even when he was at the lowest was acceptable to the King of Kings. The Lord's Word was something that David knew he could hold onto no matter what. Today we learned that as long as we have a firm foundation on the Word of God we can make it through the valleys and on the mountaintops.

1 Chronicles 29:10
David praised the Lord in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, "Praise be to you, O Lord, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.

Psalm 56:3
When I am afraid, I will trust in you.

Psalm 56:4
In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me?

1 Chronicles 29:11-13
Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. [12] Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all. [13] Now, our God, we give you thanks, and praise your glorious name.

Focus on Perfection - May 30, 2010

By Minister Tanya Merced

Hurricane Harbor was a blast! Willie, Andrew and I worshiped in our car on our way to Six Flags Great Adventure. The journey about 45minutes to an 1hr without traffic. Since we didn't have any particular praise music planned, my son Andrew requested that we sing What it means? By Jeremy Camp. I am going to post the lyrics to this beautiful song so that you too can experience the power that transpired in our old beat up 1993 Black Le Toyota Camry :)

What it means By Jeremy Camp

I’ve been here a thousand times before...
Face down on the floor
Wondering how I even reached this place again

But you’ve shown so endlessly,
How your love pours over me,
No picture can re-create the beauty that I see

Show me What It Means,
To live my life a sacrifice,
If only I would realize how much
It took to pay the price,
I know I’d always give,
Everything to you

I want this world to always see
Your perfect majesty,
Reflecting from my life this brilliant poetry

Written all over this place,
The signs of all creation that you breathed,
Words can’t even state how much you mean to me

I want to face my very crime,
Of not always giving all of mine,
But I can feel the hope you bring to me

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Perfect Creation

Since we were on the road and I did not plan a message ahead of time I decided that we needed to be very sensitive and have God lead us through the scriptures. Andrew and Willie waited patiently as I turned the pages of my IPHONE. I was about to begin with Daniel, but I felt the Holy Spirit tugging at my heart and say go to the very beginning. Next, I asked Andrew to turn to Genesis Chapter 1 and we each took turns reading the scriptures aloud. We focused on the different things that God created and how He blessed them and commanded each one to be fruitful and increase. God reminded us that there was a conversation in the heavens and that when He created us in His image and likeness He said it was good. Not only did God say we are good He blessed everything He made and commanded it to be fruitful, multiply and increase. We are called to worship God and produce fruit not only in us, but others.

Freedom to Love Him

The following paragraphs might cause several eyebrows to raise or heads to nod in agreement, but the truth of the matter is that I have made up my mind. Reading Beth Moore's Get Out of The Pit kind of gave me more of a push. I am not being prideful, but honest. I have to admit that years ago I would not have dared to go to an outing on a Sunday for fear that I was committing a great sin against God. I thought that I was not keeping the Sabbath and that I was backsliding. Then reading the scriptures, studying the scriptures and spending time with other believers who were free to worship the Lord helped me to realize that I wasn't really free to Love Jesus at all. Christians are saved by grace. When I read Romans 14:5-6 and Colossians 2:16 I understood that the bible has no explicit biblical command that either Saturday or Sunday be a day of Worship. These scriptures tell me that Christians have the freedom to observe a special day, or to observe every single day not just Saturday and Sunday.

Why am I taking the time to write this? Many of us feel that if we miss a day of "Church" or do not enter a building we are not right with God. Again when I read the scriptures it tells me that whenever two or more are gathered in His name that is where Jesus abides (Matthew 18:20).
Jesus said "I will build my church" (Matthew 16:18) Jesus believed the church was so valued and important to Him that He gave His life for it (Ephesians 5:25) We too are called to love the church as Jesus did. The Greek word for "church" is ekklesia, which means assembly. Among Christians the word means all who believe in Christ.

Theologians use Luke as example, the first time Luke uses it He writes, " great fear seized the whole church (Acts 5:11). Luke did not have to explain to the people of that time what the word church meant, because the readers used it in their everyday language. It meant all Christians, not just those who were present there. "The Church" means all disciples of Christ. It refers to people, not a building.

It is important to note that I am not advocating that we should be Lone Rangers, or that " The Church" not meet with other believers. On the contrary, (Hebrews 10:25) tells us that we should meet with one another. Believers need to fellowship so that we can encourage one another, have a sense of belonging, we need to be accountable to one another. God has given each person unique and different abilities so that we can work as one body (1 Corinthians 12:4-7). Together we can accomplish the great commission that Jesus commanded us to do and that is to go out and make disciples of all the nations.

WOWgroup Global Fellowship NY invites you to freely love Jesus with all of your might and understand that " We are the Church" and together we can make a difference.