Thank You, Lord!
Posted: November 18, 2011 Filed under: ENTERTAINMENT, FAITH, FAMILY, GOSPEL MUSIC, Prophecy, RELATIONSHIPS, ROLWIM | Tags: Elder Timothy Wright, GOSPEL MUSIC, PROPHETESS KIM, ROLWIM, Thank You Lord, Timothy Wright, Tye Tribbett Leave a comment »It’s cold and starting to act like winter today. I LOVE the changing seasons. There is always something for which we can appreciate God. Something as simple as feeling the brisk weather did it for me today. What is it that you are thanking God for, today? We are admonished to give thanks to God in everything, for this is the will of God concerning us. Truly, I can say I’m learning to thank Him IN everything. A lot of stuff we experience in this life, God doesn’t author, endorse or participate. However, wherever we may find ourselves situated, we can surely say, “THANK YOU, LORD.”
In talking with our Father this morning, I had no idea He was going to usher me into a miracle today. I’m talking about a foot-stomping miracle. I SMH right now! Faith without works is dead. Fight the good fight of faith and put whatever works that are necessary to see the substance for which you hope, appear right before your very eyes.
For those of you who need an extra push today, sometimes it is DIFFICULT to even want to read the Bible or pray. I’ve been there. Remember, it is at our weakest moments that we are made strong through Christ’s strength. Put on strength today by hiding in Jesus. Go and dwell in that secret place of God’s pavilion where He knew you’d need to be. The reservation is made and the Angels of the Lord are in route to carry you. You’ll make it! He’s waiting to give you peace, rest and cover you. You are SAFE in HIM.
Meanwhile, listen to a couple of songs to uplift you as you focus on the only one that can change you as He changes your situation.
Because I am a fan of New York choir gospel, here’s one of my favorite Timothy Wright songs, Thank You Lord:
And, you might as well listen to Tye Tribbett & G.A., I Need You:
Love you!
Prophetess Kim
Love Songs
Posted: November 11, 2011 Filed under: FAITH, GOSPEL MUSIC, ROLWIM, Uncategorized | Tags: Christianity, I Love You Jesus, James Hall & Worship and Praise, Lamar Campbell & Spirit of Praise, Love songs, More Than Anything, PROPHETESS KIM, the Church Leave a comment »To our new subscribers and followers, thank you! I hope that you will find this blog to be uplifting and a continual encouragement to your life.
Today, I just want to share a song that has been one of my favorites since I first heard it in 2000 at a musical showcase. Sometimes, with all that we know about God, all we need is one song which will bring forth our own new song in due time. This song is the one that resonates in my heart over and over again. It’s a love song and I dedicate to the Bishop and lover of my soul, Jesus. Jesus, are you listening? This one is for you:
Lamar Campbell and Spirit of Praise
More Than Anything
I lift my hands in total adoration unto You
You reign on the throne for You are God and God alone
Because of You my cloudy days are gone
I can sing to You this song
I just want to say
that I love You more than anything
Love me in Your Arms
You were my shelter from the storm
When all my friends were gone
You were right there all along
I never knew a love like
this before, Oh
I just want to say that I love You more than anything
I Love You Jesus
I worship and adore You
Just want to tell you
Lord, I Love You more than anything
And, as a bonus, here’s James Hall & Worship and Praise
Great Is Our God
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Chorus
Great is our God Almighty art All glorious, victorious How great thou art King Lord of all Hallelujah, we serve a great God Chorus 2 |
The orchestra instrumentalist in me loves this one! Listen, and I hope you enjoy our Great God.
Look and Live
Posted: August 18, 2011 Filed under: EVANGELISM, FAITH, GOSPEL MUSIC, ROLWIM | Tags: Christianity, HYMNS, Look and Live, PROPHETESS KIM, ROLWIM, Spiritual Songs Leave a comment »The hymn, Look and Live, was authored in 1887. I’ve always declared, and am more convinced today than ever, that I am glad that I “came up” in the church before the personality-based/celebrity church age. I might have been confused as to how this life in Christ is really supposed to be, had I not seen the days where the pastor drove the van to pick up the saints (if need be), we didn’t set time limits to service (and saw blinded eyes literally opened), everybody took the time to know one another, the choir sang and vocalists doing too much were “in their flesh” or a distraction, there were no auction lines for offerings, and most importantly, the preacher had to preach the Word-not his experience as tantamount to the Word of God-or “Sit down”! You couldn’t get up and say, “Tell your neighbor,” and run a bunch of cliches and neglect to really teach or preach a sound message. And, when something happened-because as long as there are human beings in the church, something will happen-we prayed and chose to cover one another. Even when folks really didn’t care for this one, or that one, when trouble hit, all of that became meaningless. If one could fall, we would all suffer lack because every member was needed to have a working body.
We could be who we still are today, a collective assembly of believers in the Body of Christ, because we knew that this walk isn’t about Bo Bo, Bishop High Name, or Pastor 29th generation preacher. We knew that it was all in God, and all about God. We understood Jesus’ priesthood which fulfilled the priestly line through the new birth experience. We dared not know the blood of Jesus’ cross and its’ power to redeem all and think that spiritual lineage came through a natural bloodline and sell books, tapes, and DVD’s to disqualify non-familial congregants from elevation and use within the household of faith. We believed in the Word of God. We knew it; We believed it; We declared it; We walked in it. And, when stuff happened, we stood on it, as truth. The message was one where we agreed with the words of the hymns which focused on God, not merely our experience in our relationship with Him. The value of these hymns and songs were in making sure that the center of our affection, devotion, dedication, conviction and service was to Him, who caused us to Look and Live:
- I’ve a message from the Lord, hallelujah!
This message unto you I’ll give,
’Tis recorded in His word, hallelujah!
It is only that you “look and live.”- Refrain:
“Look and live,” my brother, live,
Look to Jesus now, and live;
’Tis recorded in His word, hallelujah!
It is only that you “look and live.”
- Refrain:
- I’ve a message full of love, hallelujah!
A message, O my friend, for you,
’Tis a message from above, hallelujah!
Jesus said it, and I know ’tis true. - Life is offered unto you, hallelujah!
Eternal life thy soul shall have,
If you’ll only look to Him, hallelujah!
Look to Jesus who alone can save. - I will tell you how I came, hallelujah!
To Jesus when He made me whole—
’Twas believing on His name, hallelujah!
I trusted and He saved my soul.
His name gave us a place of refuge as a strong tower when we could run and be safe; Not the, Master Chief Elect Gift of Gods who think they have the power to bless your life, as if God is restricted to operate within the signature and validation of someone simply because the world watches and reveres them. We believed were were born-again blessed, abide-in-the-Word blessed, and have-the-power-to-decree-a-thing, blessed. We trusted in Jesus who saved our souls, not the revival preached by slammin evangelist elect. And oh, how we had a confidence that we could look and live, because it is recorded in His Word. If His Word said it, not merely the televangelist we chased down to get a Word from the Lord, that was enough; Surely, we would look and live.
So today, I encourage you to know Jesus in the fulness of who He really is to YOU and the Kingdom of God. Look past all of the fringes, and denounce the false doctrines and idol worship. Regardless of when you were birthed into the rich heritage of the Kingdom through the gospel, know that you can look and live. Look to Jesus, the Author and the Finisher of our faith; God is still on the throne and the heavens and the Kingdom of God is alive, well and secure. Fix your gaze on the True Vine and remain connected to Jesus. Make sure there is no blockage in the flow because the source from which all things flow is still pouring out into the Body of Christ. The idols in today’s worship experience will come down and God will continue to get the glory. Look and Live!
Looking and living,
Prophetess KIM
A TRIBUTE TO REVEREND TIMOTHY WRIGHT
Posted: May 5, 2009 Filed under: ENTERTAINMENT, FAITH, FAMILY, GOSPEL MUSIC, ROLWIM | Tags: Elder Timothy Wright, ENTERTAINMENT, GOSPEL MUSIC, Pastor Timothy Wright, ROLWIM, Timothy Wright 1 Comment »I met Timothy Wright long before I could even remember knowing him. He was a young budding musician and one of the organists at Washington Temple Church of God In Christ in Brooklyn, New York at the time. My dad was a new young pastor and our church was walking distance from Washington Temple. Timothy Wright encouraged my father, who was “dibbling” at playing the organ, to put me into the first class of the Washington Temple daycare. Needless to say, I was in their first year of the daycare program, and my dad spent many hours talking to “Tim” each day when my father picked me up. Dad tells me that “Tim” used to be at the church almost every day-as if he was paid to be there-honing his gift and playing that organ. Back in those days, Upper Room Baptist and Washington Temple had the “baddest” (best) choirs in Brooklyn (aside from Institutional Church of God in Christ). If I remember correctly, both church choirs did a couple of concerts on Sunday nights at our church.
This was long before Timothy Wright launched out and began a concert choir, community choir and married his wife, Co-Pastor Betty Wright. Years later, I came to fellowship with them through gospel music industry functions and even visited his home a few times to pick up and drop off masters for recordings. Of course, he didn’t remember me at all, but he remembered my dad. By then (the late nineties), he was well-known as the “Godfather” of gospel music. I would later interface with Pastor Wright and Co-Pastor Betty Wright several times.
The best way to describe Pastor Wright would be to share the testimony of a woman I met through him-Samantha Holmes Elliott. When I met her years ago at a conference, she told me how much she adored Pastor Wright. She had a solo gospel music project, and told me how much he supported her music ministry and career. Just about everyone who I would come across after years in NYC gospel music radio would speak well of Timothy Wright in the same light. He was truly a godfather. Not the Mafioso image of a godfather. But a father who would make sure that singers, psalmists, minstrels, and the like were advanced as much as he could push them, without any favors or “strings attached”. Pastor Wright was known to call Samantha Holmes Elliott out of an audience, whether she was on the program or not, and hand her the mike and let her minister. When he had a door, if she was in the building, chances were, she had an opportunity.
I can rattle off a number of young men and groups that Elder Wright would put up during his recordings and concerts just to give them “exposure”. Anyone can observe his sons and their giftings and skills and know that the apples didn’t fall too far from the tree, and in fact, did as good trees do: dropped fruit that is greater. “Tim” had the ability to pick up the singers while frying chicken in the church basement-literally-and calling them to sing since the late seventies/early eighties and put ten leads on one song before it was popular.
All of my life, Reverend Timothy Wright has put out great gospel music. When I joined the staff of WGBB 1240 AM radio’s Gospel All Night Thru the Morning in 2000, Timothy Wright and a number of New York artists who had been writing, singing, playing and recording before they ever got a play on the radio, charted Billboard, performed at industry showcases, ministered at conferences, or won any music awards, were always on rotation. Elder Wright was loyal to his passion of ministry and truly a dynamo in the gospel music arena. He was a servant loved by many and I will never forget the image of the young man behind the organ with a huge choir in a small Brooklyn church on Kent Avenue in Brooklyn, New York. Reverend Wright may have had an inkling back then of where God would take him in helping to form the traditional choir sound, New York style. I’m glad he lived to see it come to pass. The greatest lesson in watching his life is Pastor Wright valued and worked to perfect the gift that God gave him. Since he practiced every day in the early seventies as a faithful steward, you and I can be encouraged to know over eight hundred songs later, that Jesus Will, Yes I’m A Believer, Testify, Been There Done That, Who’s On the Lord’s Side, Worthy Of The Praise, I Hear Music, Come Thou Almighty King, Moving The Spirit, Trouble Don’t Last Always and so much more.
Just reflecting on a life well-lived,
Prophetess KIM
