Ron Winans Family & Friends Choir II - We Must Work

Life is about the love of God 2

                             

                  Life is about the love of God  -  playlist

John 4:16 New International Version (NIV)
And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them

John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
Romans 5:8, "But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us." In this verse and in John 3:16, we find no conditions placed on God's love for us. God doesn't say, "as soon as you clean up your act, I'll love you; " nor does He say, "I'll sacrifice my Son if you promise to love Me." In fact, in Romans 5:8, we find just the opposite. God wants us to know that His love is unconditional, so He sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to die for us while we were still unlovable sinners. We didn't have to get clean, and we didn't have to make any promises to God before we could experience His love. His love for us has always existed, and because of that, He did all the giving and sacrificing long before we were even aware that we needed His love.

God is Love, and His love is very different from human love. God's love is unconditional, and it's not based on feelings or emotions. He doesn't love us because we're lovable or because we make Him feel good; He loves us because He is love. He created us to have a loving relationship with Him, and He sacrificed His own Son (who also willingly died for us) to restore that relationship.

Paul gives us an excellent description of love:
Love is very patient and kind, never jealous or envious, never boastful or proud, never haughty or selfish or rude. Love does not demand its own way. It is not irritable or touchy. It does not hold grudges and will hardly even notice when others do it wrong.

It is never glad about injustice, but rejoices whenever truth wins out. If you love someone you will be loyal to him no matter what the cost. You will always believe in him, always expect the best of him, and always stand your ground in defending him.

God’s Love and Ours
7 Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love. 9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11 Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us and his love is made complete in us.

13 This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit. 14 And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15 If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God. 16 And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.

God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them. 17 This is how love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment: In this world we are like Jesus. 18 There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.

19 We love because he first loved us. 20 Whoever claims to love God yet hates a brother or sister is a liar. For whoever does not love their brother and sister, whom they have seen, cannot love God, whom they have not seen. 21 And he has given us this command: Anyone who loves God must also love their brother and sister.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+4&version=NIV
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+John+4%3A16&version=NIV
https://www.cru.org/us/en/train-and-grow/transferable-concepts/love-by-faith.2.html
https://www.allaboutgod.com/god-is-love.htm

                             

Ronny Jordan - Heaven

Aretha Franklin Loved God

                   Aretha Franklin Loved God Playlist


Dear God our father we thank you and praise you. I come to you in prayer thanking you for your gift of  Aretha Franklin. Her music has blessed so many of us all over the world. She encouraged us when we have been discouraged by the problems in this life. She told us You'll Never Walk Alone, God Will Take Care Of You, What A Friend We Have In Jesus, Surely God Is Able, and also Willing To Forgive,  Honey,  A Rose Is Still A Rose,  Bridge Over Troubled Water, “I Never Loved a Man (the Way I Love You),”and , R-E-S-P-E-C-T.

God almighty we ask a special blessing on the soul of our sister Aretha Franklin, we trust she will always abide with you now and forever more. Please comfort her family and guide them.
              Amen, Amen, Amen

ARETHA FRANKLIN GOSPEL TRIBUTE - MARY DON'T WEEP, JESUS BE A FENCE, HOW ...

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Love God with all your heart

                     Love God with all your heart playlist

Dear God, our father

Dear God, our father, our creator, and maker of all the world, we thank you and praise your name. We come to you wanting more faith, more understanding of your truth. Please help us to lean upon your love, help us to see you are the true love we seek in this life.

 My God, I ask that you give us a clear understanding of what you want of us, what are the things we need to do to serve you better. Help us to become instruments of your Love in the world around us. Teach us to share your Love in how we live our lives every day in this world.

 Oh God, I ask for your continued blessings in our families and our communities and our country and thru out the world. I know we don't deserve your Grace but we can't survive without your Grace and Love.

 Help us, dear God, to love each other for we are all your children whether rich are poor, Black or White, Hispanic or Asian, Native or Immigrant. Jesus Christ gave his life for the souls of us all. It is done !!! We all have been saved by the blood of Christ.

 Thank You, my God, I Love You, I honor You, I Praise You Amen Amen !!!

                      God Love's Us All playlist 

Tasha Cobbs Leonard - Your Spirit ft. Kierra Sheard

Shirley Caesar

                                    Shirley Caesar

"I'm in the fourth quarter of my life, and I’m doing everything I can to be the best humanitarian and best person that I can be."

Shirley Ann Caesar-Williams born October 13, 1938 in Durham, North Carolina.

Shirley Caesar is often referred to as the First Lady of Gospel. She recorded in the 1960s with the esteemed gospel group the Caravans, and launched a solo career in 1966 with the album My Testimony. Caesar has created an iconic body of work through the decades that includes such powerfully affecting recordings as "Faded Rose," "I Remember Mama" and "Rejoice."

Gospel music singer, songwriter and recording artist whose career has spanned over six decades. A multi-award winning artist, with eleven Grammy Awards and seven Dove Awards to her credit, she was known as "First Lady of Gospel Music" and now the "Queen of Gospel Music" now since the death of the late Queen Albertina Walker.

Beginning recording at the age of 12 in 1951, Shirley Caesar has released over forty albums. She has participated in over 16 compilations and three gospel musicals, Mama I Want to Sing, Sing: Mama 2 and Born to sing: Mama 3. She is also the creator of the #unameit challenge, which occurred during one of her sermon. She opened her eponymous store and plans on using the profits to help others during the holiday season.

Caesar graduated from Shaw University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in 1984. She also spent time studying at the Divinity School of Duke University and has received honorary doctorates from Shaw University and Southeastern University. Caesar pastors the 1,500-member Mount Calvary Word of Faith Church in Raleigh, North Carolina

     
Shirley Caesar For The Love Of God playlist


She has won or received 11 Grammy Awards, 14 Stellar Awards, 18 Doves, 1 RIAA gold certification, an Essence Award, McDonald's Golden Circle Lifetime Achievement Award, NAACP Lifetime Achievement Award, SESAC Lifetime Achievement Award, Rhapsody & Rhythm Award from the National Museum of African American Music, as well as induction into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. According to Soundscan, she has sold 2.2 million albums since 1991.  She has made several notable appearances, including the televised Live from Disney World Night of Joy, the Gospel According to VH1, a White House performance for George Bush, and a speech on the Evolution of Gospel Music to the US Treasury Department. In 2017, Caeser was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from The Recording Academy.

Between 1981 and 1995, she received seven Dove Awards for Black Gospel Album of the Year for Live at the G.M.W.A., Celebration, Christmasing, Sailin‘, Live ... In Chicago, Go and Rejoice. She received two Black Gospel Song of the Year Awards for "He's Working It Out for You" and "Hold My Mule". She has performed with such performers as Patti LaBelle, Whitney Houston, Dorothy Norwood, Faith Evans, Dottie Peoples, Arnold Houston, Kim Burrell, John P. Kee, Kirk Franklin and Tonex, Tye Tribbett among others. Shirley Caesar is also an actress. She acted in movies, such as Why Do Fools Fall in Love (1998) with Larenz Tate and Little Richard, Fighting Temptations (2003) with Beyoncé and Cuba Gooding Jr. and The Unseen (2005) with Steve Harris. She also acted in 1 TV episode of "Good News" in 1998 as Aunt Shirley.

Caesar is a recipient of a 1999 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.

Caesar married Bishop Harold I. Williams in 1983. The two were co-pastors of the 1,500-member Mount Calvary Word of Faith Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, until his death on July 4, 2014. She is a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority. She cites her mother as a strong influence in her decision to give so selflessly of herself. Caeser has committed a sizable portion of all concert sales to her outreach ministries. She continues to deliver weekly sermons and also leads an annual outreach ministries conference. She notes, "I cannot sweeten the Atlantic Ocean, but I can take a pitcher out of the ocean and sweeten that."

Information sources:
https://getuperica.com/11964/pastor-shirley-cesaer-satan-tear-your-kingdom-down/
https://www.spin.com/2016/12/shirley-caesar-suing-unameitchallenge/
http://www.joemygod.com/2017/01/05/gospel-legend-shirley-caesar-defends-kim-burrell-blames-obama-making-homosexuality-alright-video/
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/shirley-caesar-mn0000032071
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirley_Caesar
https://www.grammy.com/grammys/artists/shirley-caesar

Great choir music playlist

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"It Came To Pass" - Mississippi Mass Choir

Thank You God For Your Grace

Thank you God for all your years of loving me. I thank you for your mercy and blessings in my life. You are my creator, my way maker, my guide and the light of the worlds. Please continue to be with me all the days of my life.

When I am low, weak with the sins of my life and this world, when the pain in my body is more than I can bare some how I can feel your closeness and your Grace is with me  , your Grace consoles me,   your Grace gives me the power to keep going. I thank you God for all the blessings of my life. Thank You God For Your Grace

  Thank You God For Your Grace - Playlist

Donny Hathaway - We Need You Right Now Lord

Donny Hathaway - We Need You Right Now Lord

Donnie McClurkin Great is Your Mercy

Kurt Carr & The Kurt Carr Singers - For Every Mountain

HBCU III - Choirs Playlist

                                        HBCU III - Choirs Playlist




From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before the Civil Rights Act of 1964 with the intention of primarily serving the African-American community. This was because the overwhelming majority of predominantly white institutions of higher-learning would not admitte African Americans for enrollment during segregation. There are now 101 HBCUs in the United States, including public and private institutions. This figure is down from the 121 institutions that existed during the 1930s. Of these remaining HBCU institutions in the United States, 27 offer doctoral programs and 52 schools provide master's programs. Of these, 83 colleges allow their students to obtain their bachelor's degree and 38 schools offer associate degrees.

In 1862, the federal government's Morrill Act provided for land grant colleges in each state. Some educational institutions in the North or West were open to blacks before the Civil War. But 17 states, mostly in the South, had segregated systems and generally excluded black students from their land grant colleges. In response, Congress passed the second Morrill Act of 1890, also known as the Agricultural College Act of 1890, requiring states to establish a separate land grant college for blacks if blacks were being excluded from the existing land grant college. Many of the HBCUs were founded by states to satisfy the Second Morrill Act. These land grant schools continue to receive annual federal funding for their research, extension and outreach activities.

I Love You My God

                                I Love You My God Playlist


     I love You my God, creator of all the universe. King of Kings and protector of all life in the worlds, known and unknown. I praise You and honor You  and thank You for Your grace and mercey. Please continue to bless me, guide me and give me wisdow so I can make better decisions about life choices.

     Help me to see and understand and obey your will for my life, I am  yours and I want to do your will. Help me to be a lamp post giving light and a place to lean along life's way. Guide my words to be of help and peace in the soul.

     Please forgive my lustful and sinful mind. Help me to think clean thoughts and help me to do the right things.
Teach me the power and wonder of love, the God force the glue of life.

                                                I love You my God amen                                             

Center of My Joy [Live]

Richard Smallwood

Composer, pianist and arranger, Richard Smallwood has clearly and solidly changed the face of gospel music. He has impeccably blended classical movements with traditional gospel, and arrive at a mix that is invariably Smallwood’s alone. A diverse and innovative artist, Richard Smallwood has achieved many honors; Dove Awards and a Grammy also attest to his talents.

Richard Smallwood was born in Atlanta, Georgia on November 30, 1948. After graduating from Howard University (his classmates included Donny Hathaway, Debbie Allen, and Phylicia Rashad), where he earned degrees in vocal performance and piano, Smallwood taught music at the University of Maryland and eventually formed the Richard Smallwood Singers, putting out an eponymous debut album in 1982 that spent an impressive 87 weeks on Billboard's gospel chart. The group enjoyed success into the early '90s, releasing a bevy of hit records before Smallwood put the project to rest and began releasing albums with his choir, Vision, who made their debut in 1996 with the Verity-issued Adoration: Live in Atlanta. In addition to his work with the Richard Smallwood Singers and Vision, Smallwood has had his songs recorded by the likes of Whitney Houston, Destiny's Child, Kelly Price, Gerald Levert, and Aretha Franklin.

Richard Smallwood has been honored by the Smithsonian Institution as a “gospel innovator and songwriter,” and his hometown, Washington, D.C. heralded two separate occasions as “Richard Smallwood Day,” also, distinguishing him with the Mayoral Art Award for “precision and excellence in artistic discipline.” Smallwood’s gift has made room for him to minister to presidents and dignitaries at all of D.C.’s halls of fame, including the Smithsonian, the Kennedy Center and the White House. Touching all areas of the arts, Richard and his singers toured with a theatrical musical, “Sing Mahalia Sing” starring Jennifer Holiday, which segued into a guest appearance on television’s “Ryan’s Hope” for ABC.

         Richard Smallwood - Adoration: Live In Atlanta Original May 21, 1996


         Richard Smallwood with Vision - To God - Live In Detroit


         Richard Smallwood - Behind The Scenes of Promises


         Richard Smallwood - Psalm 118 [His Mercy Endureth Forever]


         Angela Winbush/Richard Smallwood - I Won't Be Troubled


Angela Winbush and Richard Smallwood, along with the Union Temple Baptist Church Reunion Choir, minister with "I Won't Be Troubled."This song was originally written for Ms. Winbush back in the 70s, but was recorded on Smallwood's "Testimony" album in 1992.

Richard Smallwood was the original keyboardist and director for this choir back in the 60s and 70s. Union Temple Baptist Church was founded by Richard's step-father, the late Rev. Chester Smallwood.

        Richard Smallwood - It Is Well/Come, Ye Disconsolate

The Story of Gospel Music: The Power In The Voice (1998)

The Story of Gospel Music provides a thorough overview of the history and performers of gospel vintage recordings. Viewers feast their eyes and ears on some of the most soulful concert footage ever recorded. The biggest names in spiritual music, including Aretha Franklin, Mahalia Jackson, The Edwin Hawkins Singers, The Dixie Hummingbirds, The Reverend Thomas Dorsey, and The Fisk Jubilee Singers perform. The program was originally broadcast on PBS's Great Performances series. ~ Betsy Boyd, Rovi

Performers: Tramaine Hawkins, Robert and Lillie Mae Butler, The Fisk University Jubilee Singers, The ARC Choir, Cissy Houston, Rance Allen, Thomas A. Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson, The Fairfield Four, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Aretha Franklin, The Clara Ward Singers, Shirley Caesar, The Dixie Hummingbirds, James Cleveland, Vanessa Bell Armstrong, The Edwin Hawkins Singers, The Clark Sisters, John P. Kee, Danny Eason and Abundant Life.

Kampaign and the me band - Jesus Children of America

Thank you God for your Love

      Thank you God for your Love you have been with me always, your grace has protected me, your grace has comforted me in hard times. I have not been the kind of person you taught me to be. I have sinned repeatedly and yet I know you love me. I have lost faith and turned my back to you oh God and still you loved me. I know you are the creator of all things and still you love me. I praise you and thank you God for your love.

                  Thank you God for your Love Playlist

Patti LaBelle Sends the audience into a frenzy with "Changed" [Live]

Tasha Cobbs - Break Every Chain (Lyrics)