Dance Into Destiny by Sherri L. Lewis

Author:Sherri L. Lewis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Urban Books
Published: 2013-06-04T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-One

When Shara opened her eyes when worship ended in service the next morning, she was surprised to see Keeva standing beside her, lifting her hands. She had felt someone slip into the seat beside her, but was too caught up in the presence of God to look and see who it was.

“What are you doing here?” she said in a loud whisper while giving Keeva a hug.

“What—I can’t come to church?” Keeva turned to hug Mother Hobbs who was sitting on her other side.

Shara gave her a wide grin.

Pastor Kendrick came to the podium and pulled out his Bible and some notes.

“Good morning, saints. Wow, with worship like that, I can push right on into the Word. I feel like the atmosphere is ripe and ready and I pray that your hearts are good ground that will take in this Word and produce 100-fold. Turn in your Bibles to . . .”

Shara noticed that for the first few minutes of his sermon, Pastor Kendrick was struggling. She looked over at Jenell who appeared to be equally puzzled.

“I’m sorry, folks. I have to obey the Holy Spirit. I had one message all planned out to share—notes and everything, but the Lord is leading me in another direction. I don’t know why, but I know Him well enough to know He knows what He’s doing.” He laid his notes aside. “Walk with me now, I’m hearing this as you are, so I’m gonna trust the anointing is going to take over because I have no idea where I’m going.”

“Preach, Pastor!” several members encouraged.

He smiled and flipped through his Bible. “Okay, we’re going to look at several scriptures. Turn to John 18:28-37. I promise if you follow me, this will all make sense.”

He read the scripture and then paraphrased. “Basically, Jesus is about to be crucified and He’s being questioned before Pilate and is not saying anything. Finally, Pilate, the Roman governor, looks at him and says ‘I don’t know if You realize what’s up here, man—but these people are trying to kill You. You ain’t got nothing to say? Are you a King or what?’

“Jesus is real cool and says, ‘Yeah, I’m a King. In fact, to this end, I was born, and for this reason I came into the world.’ Key phrase saints, ‘to this end I was born, and for this reason I came into the world.’ Jesus knew exactly why He was born and exactly what He came into the world to do.”

Pastor Kendrick started doing that little pacing thing he did when the Word got good to him. “All right, now turn to John 4:34. I promise if you follow me, this will all make sense.”

He read the scripture, then summarized, “Okay, here Jesus has been talking to the woman at the well and the disciples just came back from grocery shopping. They’re telling Jesus, ‘Yo, man, you looking a little tired. You need to eat a little ‘sump’n sump’n.’ Jesus tells them He has food they don’t know nothing about.

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