Let It Go for 2011


There are people who can walk away from you and hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you; let them walk. I don’t want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you.

When people can walk away from you let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody that left. The Bible said that, they came out from us that it might be made be made manifest that they were not of us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us (I John 2:19)

People leave you because they are not joined to you, and if they are joined to you, you can get super glue and you can’t make them stay. LET THEM GO. And it doesn’t mean that they are a bad person, it just means that their part in the story is over and you’ve got to know when people’s part is over so that you don’t keep trying to raise the dead. You’ve got to know when it’s dead. You’ve got to know when it’s over. Let me tell you something, I’ve got the gift of goodbye. It ‘s the tenth spiritual gift, I believe in goodbye. It’s not that I’m hateful, it’s that I’m faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have he’ll give it to me. It takes too much sweat I don’t need it. Stop begging people to stay. LET THEM GO!!

If you are holding on to some thoughts of evil and revenge….LET IT GO!
If you are involved in a wrong relationship or addiction….LET IT GO!
If you have a bad attitude…LET IT GO!
If you keep judging other to make yourself feel better…LET IT GO!
If you’re stuck in the past and GOD is trying to take you to a new levelin
Him….LET ITGO!
If you are struggling with the healing if a broken relationship….LET IT GO!
If you keep trying to help someone who won’t even try to help themselves…LET
IT GO!
If you’re feeling depressed and stressed…LET IT GO!
If there is a particular situation that you are so used to handling yourself
and God is saying “Take your hands off of it,” then you need to LET IT GO!
Let the past be the past. Forget the former things. God is doing a new thing
for 2011…LET IT GO!
Get right or Get Left…think about it, then…LET IT GO!
~Unknown

Special Thanks for the Candle Lights Service!

I would just like to take this time and give special thanks to those who helped with this program. Without you none of this would have been possible. To Pastor and Sis. Jones and my church family thank you for your permission to have this program (again); and your love and support. To the parents and guardians for your time, energy, and patience while we worked with your child. To my many children thank you for your obedience and desire to participate, To the workers, Christal, Shari, Sis. Rosa Street and the parents who help out extra or wherever I needed you.


To my co-chair and friend, Gabrielle, thank you for everything you have done to make this service as successful as it was.

I pray that this Christmas Candle Light Service has lifted your hearts as we continue to worship our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ during this Advent season. This is the season that we celebrate the Glory of the Good News that Jesus was born to die for our sins.

Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!!

In His Service,


Rev. Feltus C. Frost, Youth Pastor

O COME, O COME, EMMANUEL

O COME, O COME, EMMANUEL
Latin hymn from 12th century
English translation by John M. Neale, 1818–1866
He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give Him the throne of His father David, and He will reign over the house of Jacob forever; His kingdom will never end. (Luke 1:32, 33)
The preparation for the celebration of our Lord’s birth begins four Sundays before Christmas Day. This begins the period known as the Advent season. Advent centers on the Old Testament prophecies concerning a coming Messiah and His establishment of an earthly kingdom. The Messiah’s coming was prophesied 600 years before His birth. At the time the Jewish people were living in captivity in Babylon. For centuries thereafter faithful Jews earnestly anticipated the Deliverer-Messiah with great longing and expectation, echoing the prayer that He would “ransom captive Israel.” And finally the long awaited heavenly announcement came— “Unto you is born this day in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord!” (Luke 2:11).
“O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” was originally used in the medieval church liturgy as a series of antiphons—short musical statements that were sung for the week of vesper services just before Christmas Eve. Each of these antiphons greets the anticipated Messiah with one of the titles ascribed Him throughout the Old Testament: Wisdom, Emmanuel, The Lord of Might, The Rod of Jesse, Day Spring, and The Key of David.
The haunting modal melody for the verses is also of ancient origin. It is based on one of the earliest forms of sacred music known—the Chant or Plain Song.
O come, O come, Emmanuel, and ransom captive Israel, that mourns in lonely exile here until the Son of God appear.
O come, O come, Thou Lord of might who to Thy tribes, on Sinai’s height, in ancient times didst give the law in cloud and majesty and awe.
O come, thou Rod of Jesse, free Thine own from Satan’s tyranny; from depths of hell Thy people save and give them vict’ry o’er the grave.
O come, Thou Day-spring, come and cheer our spirits by Thine advent here; O drive away the shades of night and pierce the clouds and bring us light.
O come, Thou Key of David, come and open wide our heav’nly home where all Thy saints with Thee shall dwell—O come, O come, Emmanuel!
Refrain: Rejoice! rejoice! Emmanuel shall come to thee, O Israel.
For Today: Isaiah 7:14; 9:6; 11:1; 22:22; Matthew 1:22, 23; Luke 1:78, 79; Galatians 4:4, 5
Christ came not only to be the Emmanuel—“God with us”—but even in a more personal way, God in us. Carry this truth throughout the Advent Season.


Osbeck, K. W. (1990). Amazing grace : 366 inspiring hymn stories for daily devotions (361). Grand Rapids, Mich.: Kregel Publications.