The Father’s Heart

Overflow Christian Center Sunday Service
"Progressing, Advancing, Seeing your Highest Expectations Fulfilled!"

WHEN: June 16, 2024

WHERE: Hidden City Loft - 136 E. 24th Street, New York, NY 10001
Doors Open at 9:30 a.m.

Worship service begins at 10:00 a.m.

As you enter the sanctuary, please maintain an attitude of reverence. Please keep the noise down to a minimum.

Order of Service

• Praise and Worship
• Everyone is Welcome
• Announcements
• Offering
• Reflection Service
• Music Ministry
• Ministry of the Word
• Invitation
• Prayer for Healing (Life Threatening / Pain or Depression)
• Announcements

Please remember to turn off your cell phones while in the service.

The Father’s Heart
By: Kenneth Copeland

"But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him" (Luke 15:20) How much love do you have for sinners?

That may sound like a strange question, but it's one I want you to think about today. All too often, once we get saved and get our lives cleaned up a little bit, we lose our compassion for those who are still lost. We look at the drunk stumbling down the street or the guy at the office who lies to the boss and tells dirty jokes and turn up our spiritual noses.

But if we ever truly understood the heart of our Heavenly Father, we'd never do that again. Jesus told a story that can give us a glimpse of that heart. It's the story we call the prodigal son. You've probably heard it many times, how the son rebelled and dishonored his father, and how the father, in spite of it all, received him home with joy when he repented. But there's one phrase in it I want to draw your attention to today. It's this one: "But when the prodigal son was yet a great way off, his father saw him.

That phrase gives such a moving glimpse of the heart of that loving father. It tells us that even before his boy had repented, even during those long days when he was up to his eyebrows in sin, that father was watching for him, longing for him to come home. Every morning he scanned the horizon, hoping to see the silhouette of his returning son. And the last thing every night, he'd look again...straining his eyes in hope. His son was constantly on his mind, and his heart was always full of love for him. The kind of gut-wrenching love that, on the day his son came home, drove that father to run to him and kiss him.

That's the kind of heart our Heavenly Father has for those who are lost. It's the kind of heart He had for you while you were still wandering in the world. It's the kind of heart that embraced you with open arms even when you were still covered with the grime of sin. There's a whole world full of weary people out there who haven't yet found that embrace. They're more than just "sinners," they're our potential brothers...lost ones in desperate need of a loving Heavenly Father. God forbid we should ever turn up our noses at them. May He help us instead to start bringing them home.

Scripture Reading: John 8:1-11

Congregational Songs

Overflow Welcome

So glad you're here, you're welcome, get into the overflow, where love and peace, are present, the Power of God is here, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is joy and liberty, so come on, get in, get into the overflow.

So glad you're here, we are family, get into the overflow, where hope and faith they are present, the Power of God is here, just to meet your needs. The Son has made you free, you're free indeed. So come on get in, so come on get in, come on get in, get into the overflow.

Offering Confession of Faith

According to: Deuteronomy 8:28 / 2 Corinthians 9:6-9 / Luke 6:38 / Hebrews 1:14

Shout unto to God it is time to give! We are workers together with Him!

I will remember the Lord my God, for it is He who gives me power to get wealth, that He may establish His covenant in the earth.

This is why I am a cheerful giver and it is given to me to the point of overflowing! Because I invest bountifully I receive bountifully and I have abundance to give for every good work!

So Father, according to Your Word this is my investment in the kingdom of God, therefore angels go now and bring in my return on my investment .

Increase, promotions, wealth and riches for I call those that be not as though they were, therefore I call myself a millionaire! I am a millionaire for this is my confession of faith.

In Jesus’ Name – Amen

Casting Your Bread!

According to: Ecclesiastes 11:1

Give, it will be given to you, press down and shaken together.

Believe and know the Word is true, with your faith God will be pleased.

Just know that when you cast your seed it will spring up on every hill.

So get ready, get ready, release your faith and with gladness prepare to give.

Casting your bread on the water, casting your bread on the water.

And in many days, on every wave it will overtake you!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

If you are graduating from elementary, middle school, high school, university or college, trade school or any accredited institution of higher learning, we would like to honor you on Sunday, July 9th during our in-person Sunday Service. If you meet that criteria, please submit your name, a graduation picture or head shot, school you are graduating from and what grade you are in and what school you will attend in the fall and finally any awards or accolades and future endeavors to us at overflowchristiancenter@gmail.com. All submissions must be in by Friday, July 5th. Let us be the first to say congratulations to this year’s graduates! Well done!

Join us for faith clinic every Thursday evening at 7 PM as Pastor Marshall teaches us how to utilize the faith that takes with simplicity so you can obtain the promise by faith! The zoom link is available to you and your family and friends who want to join us during this powerful time of basking in the Word of God! So the doctor is in, for Faith Clinic Bible Study every Thursday at 7 PM! Fill your prescriptions with faith! See you there!

Back by popular demand!!! Get ready for another trip to the immersive stage of the sight and sound theatre in Lancaster, PA! Ticket price is $210.00 for adults and $165.00 for children ages 4 yrs - 12 yrs old. Departure time is set for Saturday, August 3rd at 7:00 AM. Departure location will be announced at a later time. Join the Overflow church family as we travel to see the story of Daniel set to stage in an aesthetically impressive state of the art theatrical experience. Prior to the show, we will enjoy 1 hour of shopping at Tanger’s Outlet Mall and a family buffet meal at the Golden Corral. Payments can be made using our giving platforms! We’re on the road again, so join us overflow style! Because it’s overflow for life!

Set your calendar for two Dream…Girl! Women’s Fellowship events! First, the kick-off will take place on Saturday, August 31st and the Dream…Girl! Experience will take place on Saturday, October 19th. Details are forthcoming!

We Continue to Stand in Faith for the Following
They Receive Their Total Restoration

• Rose George
• Rafaela Mojica
• Lillie Mae Johnson
• Christopher Franklin
• Pastor Daionne Sparks
• Jenee Carter
• Sharon Bailey
• Catherine Marshall
• Lorna Benn