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A Lasting Marriage

In today’s world, 50% of marriages end in divorce. Marriage no longer means anything. It has become just a contract that one can null and void if one is unhappy. It’s no longer a covenant relationship that we make with another person. There are no longer any lasting marriages. The author of the song Love Is Not A Fight said,

Love is not a place
To come and go as we please
It’s a house we enter in
And then commit
To never leave
Love is a shelter
In a raging storm
Love is peace
In the middle of a war
If we try to leave
May God send angels
To guard the door
No, love is not a fight
But it’s something worth fighting for

Marriage should be built on the principle of love. And love is not just a word; it’s a way we live. It’s the way we treat our children. It’s the way we treat our friends and family. Most importantly, it’s the way we treat our spouse. Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he sends forth the powerful message, A Lasting Marriage, because love is worth fighting for.

Ephesians 5:21-33 NLT
Genesis 2:19-20 NLT
Genesis 2:23 NLT

A Lasting Marriage

3 And Pharisees came up to Him and tested Him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one’s wife for any cause?” 4 He answered, “Have you not read that he who created them from the beginning made them male and female, 5 and said, ‘Therefore a man shall leave his father and his mother and hold fast to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’? 6 So they are no longer two but one flesh. What therefore God has joined together, let not man separate.”

7 They said to Him, “Why then did Moses command one to give a certificate of divorce and to send her away?” 8 He said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart Moses allowed you to divorce your wives, but from the beginning it was not so. 9 And I say to you: whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another, commits adultery.”

Matthew 19:3-9

4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.

Hebrews 13:4

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The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

Honoring mothers shouldn’t be celebrated just one day a year; mothers deserve honor all year round! They do so much for us, and oftentimes, they receive nothing in return, not even a thank you. Often times it is a mother who will guide the world. How? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he shows us the importance of a mother in his message, The Hand That Rocks The Cradle. And Happy Mother’s Day!

1 Kings 3:16-27
Matthew 20:20-23
Proverbs 18:22

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle

16 Then two prostitutes came to the king and stood before him. 17 The one woman said, “Oh, my lord, this woman and I live in the same house, and I gave birth to a child while she was in the house. 18 Then on the third day after I gave birth, this woman also gave birth. And we were alone. There was no one else with us in the house; only we two were in the house. 19 And this woman’s son died in the night, because she lay on him.

20 And she arose at midnight and took my son from beside me, while your servant slept, and laid him at her breast, and laid her dead son at my breast. 21 When I rose in the morning to nurse my child, behold, he was dead. But when I looked at him closely in the morning, behold, he was not the child that I had borne.” 22 But the other woman said, “No, the living child is mine, and the dead child is yours.” The first said, “No, the dead child is yours, and the living child is mine.” Thus they spoke before the king.

23 Then the king said, “The one says, ‘This is my son that is alive, and your son is dead’; and the other says, ‘No; but your son is dead, and my son is the living one.’” 24 And the king said, “Bring me a sword.” So a sword was brought before the king. 25 And the king said, “Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.”

26 Then the woman whose son was alive said to the king, because her heart yearned for her son, “Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and by no means put him to death.” But the other said, “He shall be neither mine nor yours; divide him.” 27 Then the king answered and said, “Give the living child to the first woman, and by no means put him to death; she is his mother.” 28 And all Israel heard of the judgment that the king had rendered, and they stood in awe of the king, because they perceived that the wisdom of God was in him to do justice.

1 Kings 3:16-28

This story is not just about two prostitutes or a wise ruling by a very wise king. No, it’s much more than that. It’s about a mother’s love. The real mother couldn’t bear to know the son she had carried for nine months, the son she had travailed within childbirth, the son she had given life to would be cut in two. She’d rather have the thief have him than to see him killed.

The pain of death would be more excruciating for her than the pain of someone receiving his love, enjoying his first steps, rejoicing over his first words. Mothers will suffer so their children won’t have to.

Happy Mother’s Day! May God bless you each richly!

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He Is Risen!

God got off of His throne, came to Earth, was beaten and whipped, He was nailed to a cross, and then He died. But His story didn’t end there. His body didn’t stay in the grave because on the third day; He rose again! Hallelujah! Jesus is alive! God’s not dead! Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he delivers his fiery message, He Is Risen, explaining everything Jesus accomplished on the cross. Oh, Death, where is your sting? Oh, Grave, where is your victory?

Matthew 21:1-11
Mark 10:32
Zechariah 9:9
Mark 15:22
John 1:11
Hebrews 4:15

He Is Risen!

1 But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they went to the tomb, taking the spices they had prepared. 2 And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb, 3 but when they went in they did not find the body of the Lord Jesus. 4 While they were perplexed about this, behold, two men stood by them in dazzling apparel. 5 And as they were frightened and bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them, “Why do you seek the living among the dead? 6 He is not here, but has risen. Remember how He told you, while He was still in Galilee, 7 that the Son of Man must be delivered into the hands of sinful men and be crucified and on the third day rise.”

Luke 24:1-7

Our God is not dead. He is alive and well. Jesus is alive. He is seated at the right hand of the Father. We serve the Living God.

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Here Comes The King

There was a large crowd laying down their cloaks and palm branches before Jesus as He rode into Jerusalem on a donkey. But what was Jesus doing there? Why was there such a large crowd going to Jerusalem? What does this have to do with us today? Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he shed some light on Palm Sunday in his message Here Comes The King.

Matthew 21:1-11
Matthew 12:38-40
Leviticus 23:4-8
Leviticus 23:9-14
1 Corinthians 15:20
Leviticus 23:15-22
Leviticus 23:42

Here Comes The King

12 The next day the large crowd that had come to the feast heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. 13 So they took branches of palm trees and went out to meet Him, crying out, “Hosanna! Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord, even the King of Israel!” 14 And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,

15 “Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey’s colt!”

16 His disciples did not understand these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they remembered that these things had been written about Him and had been done to Him.

John 12:12-16

Our King came riding on a donkey as they laid palm branches before Him. The King has come. And the King is coming back very soon.

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He Promised You A Rose Garden

Others may not promise you a rose garden, but Jesus did. This is a promise of God. He promised the good and the bad so that you can grow. A rose can’t grow unless it rains every now and then. Neither can we grow without hardships every now and then. Join Reverend Kenny Yates as he explains exactly what that rose garden will look like in his message, “He Promised You A Rose Garden.”

Ephesians 6: 1-4
Song of Solomon 2:1-3
Matthew 5:1

He Promised You A Rose Garden

1 I am a rose of Sharon, a lily of the valleys.
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2 As a lily among brambles, so is my love among the young women.
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3 As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Song of Solomon 2:1-3

God didn’t promise that it would always be sunshine, but He did promise you a rose garden. He promised that when rain and muck came, He would help you to grow.

1 Therefore, since we have been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Through Him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4 and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5 and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Romans 5:1-5

This is a promise of God, that we might be strengthened and grow because of our struggles. Tribulation, pain, suffering, none of that will weaken us because when we are weak, then He is strong.

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