Converted Heart Christian Methodist Episcopal Church

Dr. Darryl A. Burton Sr.: Welcome to Converted Heart Church. Whether you're joining us for the first time or are a valued member of our community, we're delighted to have you with us today. As we continue to navigate through these challenging times, we believe that every person who enters our virtual doors is guided by the Lord. Though we may be apart physically, we greet you with a smile and embrace you with a virtual hug. On behalf of our pastor, Dr. Darryl, and First Lady Burton and the entire Converted Heart family, we joyfully welcome you to our spiritual home.

We are Christ-centered, preaching messages of love, community-minded, being aware of the needs of the community, cultivating relationships, partnering with businesses who have the same vision and caring hearts, connecting the heart of God with the heart of the people. Thank you for being with us. We're thrilled to have you here and look forward to sharing this journey of faith and fellowship with you. Please enjoy the service.

That’s what I want you to do this morning. Give God some praise for this is the day that the Lord has made. We shall rejoice and be glad in it. I’m just so excited every Sunday that I get the opportunity to stand before you to minister the word of God, to see your beautiful faces, to hear your voices because God has been good to us. He kept us all last night and allowed us to wake up to see another glorious day.

For that, we don't want to take this opportunity of worship for granted. God did not have to wake us up this morning. He could have left us lying there in our bed. But we thank God that all last night, as you slumbered and slept in your bed, He was keeping you and He woke you up still clothed in your right mind on this morning. So again, come on, let’s worship the Lord this morning. Let’s magnify His name. Let’s glorify His name. Let’s exalt the name of the Lord today because He is good, great, and greatly to be praised.

Our call to worship this morning comes from Psalm 117. It says, "Praise the Lord, all you nations. Extol Him, all you peoples, for great is His love towards you and His faithfulness of the Lord endures forever. Praise the Lord." Two verses of Psalm 117 is encouraging us to praise the Lord. So let us move out the way and Reverend Kim will lead us into praise and worship on this morning.

Reverend Kim: Praise the Lord, everybody. God is great and greatly to be praised. He is worthy of our praise. He deserves it. Hallelujah. You deserve it. You deserve it. My hallelujah belongs to You. You deserve it. All of the glory belongs to You. All of the honor belongs to You. All of the praise belongs to You. Hallelujah. God is worthy.

Dr. Darryl A. Burton Sr.: Lord God, we thank You for being so great, so merciful, and so kind. How great is our God. Sing with me, how great is our God. All last night, Lord God, as we slumbered and slept in our beds, You were great. You were great when You touched us with Your gentle hand this morning and woke us up. You were great, Lord God, when we recognized that we were still clothed in our right mind.

You are great, Lord God, because we can come to a God who loves us unconditionally. As we come this morning, we come with a thank you in our hearts. Thank You, Lord God, for the blessings that You have bestowed upon us. Thank You that we are here today. Your word says where two or more gathered in Your name, You will be in our midst. So we thank You this morning for Your presence here today.

Thank You, oh Lord God, for the Holy Spirit that's falling fresh upon us on today. Thank You that our hearts are open to receive a word from You today. We’re not going to worry about what happened last night, last week, Lord God. We’re just going to praise You and magnify You because You have given us this day. For this is the day that the Lord has made. He said let us rejoice and be glad in it.

There is so much going on in this world, Lord God. We don't need to report to You what's happening because we know that You see all things. But we are asking that in the midst of all that's going on, in the midst of death and chaos and confusion, we ask that You would steady us. Allow us to continue to walk by faith and not by sight. We come before You today, asking that You would mend the hearts of those who are broken.

Touch those who are grieving. Touch those who are mourning this morning. Touch those who are looking for a place to stay and sleeping under the bridges and highways. Touch those who need food and who need to feed their bellies. Lord God, touch those and bless them. We thank You for every person here within the sound of my voice. We pray that You would meet them at their point of need.

Whatever they are struggling with, whatever is holding them back, whatever stronghold that is attached to their lives, we bind it up right now in the name of Jesus. We call it dead, Lord God. Don't let it continue. We pray that You would release them from whatever stronghold is over their lives. If it’s greed, if it’s procrastination, if it’s a negative mindset and attitude, release them from that and fill them with Your spirit.

Lord God, we thank You for all that You have allowed us to be and do. We thank You for this moment to simply come in this worship setting to praise Your name and to worship You because You’ve been so good to us. You have put food on our tables. You have put clothes on our backs. You have given us a job, a place of employment. You have given us family and friends. We thank You for all that You are doing.

We may not have everything that we desire to have, but we have what we need. For that, we say thank you. Now, Lord God, we ask that You would touch this nation. Touch those, Lord God, particularly who was in the accident just recently on I-95 south, the bus accident. Comfort those families who lost loved ones. Be with those who were injured. We just thank You for we know that You comfort the hearts of those who are broken. You are close to the brokenhearted.

Thank You this morning as we continue to go higher in worship that You would be with us and keep us. This is your servant's prayer in Jesus' name. Let every heart say Amen. Let’s affirm our faith on this morning. Everyone should have it in the program.

Dr. Darryl A. Burton Sr. and Congregation: I believe in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord: who was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead and buried; the third day He rose from the dead; He ascended into heaven, and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty; from thence He shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Spirit, the holy universal church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen.

Brother Mike: Good morning. I’ll be reading from chapter five, Ephesians, verses 18 through 21. "Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit, speaking to one another with psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit. Sing and make music from your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ." Amen.

Dr. Darryl A. Burton Sr.: Thank you, Brother Mike, for reading that passage of Scripture this morning. Just the announcements that are in the bulletin for everyone to see. For those of you who are watching on our YouTube channel, we will have Money Matters of the Heart tomorrow at 8:00 PM on our YouTube channel. You're more than welcome to join us. I’m doing a little bit of a series on defining marriage. Many of us are married, many of us have been married a long time, some of us have been married before.

I'm going to be talking about part two of defining marriage tomorrow on Money Matters of the Heart. On Wednesday, we have our Journey Through the Word Bible study. Come and join us as we study God’s Word and discover biblical truth so that you can apply them to your everyday living on our YouTube channel as well at 8:00 PM on June 3rd. Then on June 5th, we have our corporate prayer time. We come together and pray. That number is 605-313-5682 with the access code of 75343 pound.

Then, of course, we have our upcoming general conference. This is a conference that takes place every four years and this year we will be prayerfully considering at least two, maybe three office bishops to be filled, judicial council persons, and also general secretaries of our church. I ask that y’all keep us in prayer. I’ll be traveling down on June 12th, which is a Friday, and I’ll be returning on June 19th, the next Friday, from that conference.

We are praying that the Lord would allow us to come and do the work of the church, and that is to elect our new bishops and to continue to support the work of the church, which is to share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Then on June 29th through July 3rd, we have our annual conference. It’s going to be right here locally in Arlington, Virginia at the Hilton Landing in Crystal City. You’re more than welcome to participate and come as we give reports and as we do all the wonderful things that our church do at the annual conference.

More detail is forthcoming on various schedules of ordination services, Saints Beyond the River services, the missionary march, those kind of things we’ll be having at the annual conference. As I get the information, I'll make sure I pass it on to you. Let us remember our sick and shut-in who are in hospitals and rehab facilities. Also, let’s remember those who have transitioned over the last several weeks. We want to be prayerful for those who have gone home to glory.

We thank God for their legacy. We thank God for their light. We thank God for what they have left for us to live out here on this earth. Then certainly let us celebrate birthdays in May, but we’ll be celebrating birthdays in June on June 28th with a cake and punch and all the stuff that we normally do. We have chosen June 28th to be that day. It’s good to see everybody and certainly we want to continue to pray for our dear sister Sharon. We're glad to see her back as well.

Reverend Kim is going to come now with our sermonic selection and then we’ll have the preached word.

Dr. Darryl A. Burton Sr.: God is faithful. Hallelujah. I believe that means a whole lot of things. When I'm not doing so well, for me to say God is faithful, I'm in a place where I'm believing God for something. That’s a place of not complaining, but just to know that God is faithful. Whatever it is that I'm going through, I believe God is bringing me through it. Hallelujah. Reverend Kim, Cory, thank you so much for the worship. God bless you.

Father God, we thank You for this preaching moment. Now may the words of my mouth, the meditation of my heart be found acceptable unto You. Lord God, You’re my rock and my redeemer. I thank You for this preaching moment. It was ordained before the foundations of the world began. So I thank You that You would see something in me today to be used for Your glory and to share a word to Your people.

Now open the hearts and minds of those who are here and those who are listening from near and far, that this word may be planted in fertile soil and bring forth the right fruit. This is Your servant's prayer in Jesus' name. Amen. It’s great to be with you on this morning again for this worship experience. Last week, we learned what it means to be baptized by the fire. Fire is the Holy Spirit. We have arrived in the season of Pentecost and I'm going to stay with that overarching theme of Pentecost this Sunday and preach a message from Paul’s letter to the church at Ephesus.

I want to thank Brother Mike for reading our scripture. Let me add a little bit more to what he read, starting at verse 15. "Be careful, be very careful how you live, not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity because the days are evil. Therefore, do not be foolish but understand what the Lord's will is." Then verse 18 says, "Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit."

If I can use that last piece of verse 18 as my sermon topic, it would be: Be filled with the Spirit. Several years ago, there was a man who was driving down the highway when his car all of a sudden sputtered and stopped. Frustrated, he got out, looked under the hood, kicked the tire, and called AAA for help. When the mechanic came, he conducted a quick inspection of this vehicle and the mechanic asked one question. He said, "Sir, did you put any gas in the car?"

The man looked embarrassed and admitted that he had become so preoccupied in driving that he forgot to refill the tank. The mechanic replied, "There is nothing wrong with the car. The problem is what you failed to put in it." Perhaps that’s a story for some of us on today because many believers are living exactly like that. We attend church, we know some scripture, we sing songs, we serve in ministry, but for some of us, we are running on empty.

Paul’s letter to the church at Ephesus is an encouragement for the believers to live by faith. Paul wrote this letter while he was in prison. Can you imagine somebody being in prison, but yet they are writing a letter of encouragement for you to continue to walk by faith and not by sight? The problem with this congregation at Ephesus is that this city lived among one of the most pagan societies in the Roman Empire. The worship of the goddess Artemis dominated the city.

The culture was filled with sexual immorality, drunkenness, materialism, and spiritual darkness. That description could actually fit into what we’re living in today. That could be what we see take place here in 2026. Anything that you wanted, the doors were open to you. Anything that you wanted to do was available to you in Ephesus. Any type of sin you wished to indulge in was available to you.

Paul understood that believers could not survive by simply trying harder. Some of us want to just try harder, but sooner or later, you need the power of the Holy Spirit to help you in your walk. Whatever the sin that you may be struggling with on this morning cannot be conquered by your own strength. You are going to need the power of the Holy Spirit to empower you. What we should understand is that the Christian life is not simply avoiding sin. It is being empowered by the Holy Spirit.

I hope you’re not waking up each day stressing over how to avoid sin. Instead, I suggest we get up each day with an expectation that whatever we face, we can overcome it by the power of the Holy Spirit. Those of us who wish to live righteously can only do that by walking according to the spirit and not according to our flesh. Verse 15 says, "Be very careful how you live, not as unwise but as wise." Let us examine this passage because this is where I wish to make my first observation, and that is: Walk carefully because every day shapes your destiny.

From the time we were born, every decision, every interaction, every encounter, good or bad, has shaped you into who you are today. Some things we have done out of ignorance. Some things we have done because we just felt like we wanted to do them. It is likely that where you are today, both physically, emotionally, and mentally, is a result of the decisions, the interactions, or the encounters that changed your trajectory to who you are and where you are right now.

Well, I don't want us to beat ourselves up over that foolish thing that we have done because we have the propensity to do that. But I believe that Romans 8:28 says it this way: "And we know that all things God works for good of those who He loves and who have been called according to His purposes." Meaning that everything that we have experienced, everything that we’ve gone through, be it good or bad, that all things are working together for good for those who love the Lord and who are called according to His purposes.

Who's to say that what you have engaged in over your life, good or bad, was not part of God's plan? In the midst of what we have endured, God is still going to work it out for your good. Paul says, "Be careful how you live." Paul is giving us a warning in this text and he is saying to the church at Ephesus, and he is saying to us today, that the Christian life requires intentionality. Turn to your neighbor and tell them we need to be intentional.

Paul is saying we gotta be intentional. Don't live foolishly. Don't be unwise as you live, but be wise. We have to pay attention to how we live this life and who we associate with. That means you got some people you have to cut off. That means some family members you got to let them go. You got to be careful who you associate with. You may have to cut off some coworkers. You may have to block somebody on your social media pages.

Paul says don't live as unwise but live as wise. Why should we live as wise men and women of God? Because Satan is watching and scheming to how he wants to trip you up. You know the story. Satan was watching Job. He complained to God. There was a meeting up in heaven and Satan came and started complaining to God that God had a fence around Job and the fence was preventing Satan to from messing with Job. But God said, "I'm going to remove the barrier. I'm going to remove the fence. But don't take his life."

When we are walking as believers filled with the spirit, we become targets of the enemy’s attacks. When you accepted Jesus as Lord, when you made a decision to walk, God has proclaimed you to walk. All of a sudden, stuff starts happening. The enemy started attacking you, attacking your marriage, attacking you on the job, attacking your wallet. You begin to wonder is it worth walking this walk of faith. Is it worth following God if I’m going to be attacked like this? Well, the answer is yes. Because all things work together for good.

Nobody accidentally becomes spiritually mature. Nobody drifts towards holiness. People drift towards compromise. Many believers don't wake up intending to fall into sin. What happens is they stop paying attention. They neglect their prayer life. They neglect studying the word of God. They neglect a life of worshiping like other like-minded believers. And over time, small compromises become major consequences. The spirit life begins when we become careful about what influences us. Ask yourself, what am I watching? What am I listening to? Who is shaping my thinking? What is feeding my spirit? Whatever or whoever fills your mind eventually directs your life. You gotta walk carefully because every day shapes your destiny.

My second observation is: Be filled and not controlled by something else. Paul does a clever thing in this passage. He takes wine, a drink available to everyone, and uses it as a comparison for the spirit and his warning of the church. He says here in verse 18, "Do not get drunk on wine." Why compare wine and the spirit? Because both wine and the Holy Spirit influence our behavior. If you had a drink or two back in the day, you know that it influenced your behavior. Wine changes our speech, but the spirit changes our speech. Alcohol changes our judgment, but the spirit changes our judgment. Alcohol controls a person from outside, but the spirit transforms a person from on the inside.

Paul is talking about wine to make a point, but his thoughts run deeper than wine. He’s talking about influence. In our society, there are many modern-day intoxications. People are drunk on other things other than alcohol. Some are intoxicated on social media. Some are intoxicated with politics. Some are intoxicated with money, entertainment, success, relationships, and personal ambition. I have concluded that whatever controls you, fills you. Whatever fills you, directs you. Whatever directs you will eventually define you.

The question for us on this morning we should ask ourselves is what is influencing your decisions today. Paul said that we are to be filled with the Holy Spirit and not controlled by the vices of this world. Paul said the same thing to the church in Rome in Romans chapter 12. He said, "Do not be conformed any longer to the patterns of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of our minds." The Lord is looking for some spiritually filled people on today to impact your homes, some spiritually filled people to impact your community, some spiritually filled people to impact the society, some spirit-filled people to impact the nation and beyond. We cannot do it if we are drunk or intoxicated on the vices of the world. So again, we are to be filled and not controlled by something or someone else.

Finally, my third observation is that a spirit-filled life produces evidence. It’s right here in verse 19 and 20. "Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ." I like that because the Lord is requiring us and Paul is saying that we are to sing spiritual songs to each other, that we are to make music in our hearts and always giving thanks to the Lord. Now, we have to understand that this passage here could be challenging for us today because Paul’s audience naturally lived in a culture where singing was something that they did. Reciting scripture was something they did. Communal worship was part of daily life. The principle, however, stands beyond music. Paul is describing what happens when people who are filled with the spirit, their speech, their attitude, and their relationships are transformed.

What Paul is saying to the church today and where he’s saying to us, let our conversations, our mindsets, our interactions be shaped by God's truth rather than by negativity of the world. There is a lot of negativity in this world. Many people are constantly speaking anxiety to one another, political outrage at one another, gossiping at one another and to other people, complaining with one another, fearful for one another. Paul said the spirit-filled believers should be speaking something different. We are to speak a different language, a spiritual language, a language of uplifting and not bringing down.

We are not going to walk around singing all day. However, our conversation should regularly remind one another of God's character, God's promises, and God's faithfulness. Remind one another how good God has been to you. Life can make it seem like you don't know how you’re going to make it, but a spirit-filled response may be God has brought me through this season and I know I can trust Him to bring me through it again. Instead of spreading discouragement, spread encouragement. Instead of feeding fear, speak faith. A spirit-filled believer draws on what God has done with the expectation of what God can do. Don't you know that God is great? Don't you know that God can do some great things? When you are filled with the spirit of God, He can take you higher no matter what may be going on around you.

Some of us have a playlist on our mobile device. We have a playlist, we have a workout playlist, we have a road trip playlist, we have a relaxation playlist. A spiritual believer also has a worship song playlist for their souls. When trouble comes my way, my playlist says, "Encourage my soul and let me journey on, for the night is long and I am far from home." My playlist says that there’s going to be a brighter day. My playlist says to trust in the Lord all you nations, turn to the Lord and be grateful. I don't know what’s on your playlist, but when I'm in trouble and when I’m down, when I don't feel like going on another step, I can call on a playlist that encourages my soul, that gives my soul encouragement to let me know that I'm going to make it in spite of what’s going on in my life. You gotta be able to have a playlist that you can call on in your times of trouble. When you are filled with the spirit, the spirit helps you lift yourself up.

The spirit helps you to stand up straight. The spirit helps you to look at your glass as half empty, still half full. Your playlist should be one of encouragement that knows that the character of God, the promises of God, and the faithfulness of God will always be carrying you through. You may not be singing literally, but your heart remains connected to God. And when trouble comes, worship rises up. When blessings come, worship rises up. When uncertainty come, worship rises up. Whatever fills your heart will eventually come out of your mouth. If all that goes in is anger, anger will come out. And if all that goes in is fear, fear will come out. But when the spirit fills your heart, praises come out. When you’re spirit-filled, exalting the name of the Lord comes out. When your spirit-filled, the manifestation of exalting God's name will come out of your mouth. When the spirit fills your thoughts, encouragement comes out. When the spirit fills your outlook, gratitude come out. When the spirit fills your journey, hopes come out.

I’m so glad today that you are here so that you can be filled with the spirit, filled with the Holy Spirit to help you in this journey. Jesus says out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaketh. Paul points that the spirit-filled people create a different atmosphere. I want to encourage you, and in fact, I want to challenge you today when you leave out of this place, when you leave out of this worship experience, when you go back to your home, I want you to create an atmosphere of being a spirit-filled believer, knowing that God is faithful, knowing that God will never leave you nor forsake you, knowing that God will elevate you in your time of need.

Ask the Lord to come into your house. When I pray sometimes, I get down on my knees, I say, "Lord, You are welcome in this place. I want You to be in my bedroom. I want You to be in my bathroom. I want You to be in my kitchen. I want You to be in my living room. I want You to be in every room in this house because everywhere I go in this house, I want to know that the spirit of God is in this place. I want to know that the spirit of God is resting upon me. I want to know that the spirit of God will always be with me and never leave me." That is what it looks like to speak with one another in songs and spiritual songs in today's world. Be filled with the spirit.

Let us stand to our feet as we open up the doors of the church on this morning. I never want to take it for granted that we come in here having it all together. But perhaps we come in here after being beat up all week long by the world, what's happening in our homes, what is happening on our jobs, what's happened to us individually as we are wrestling with ourselves. I never want to take it for granted that we don't, that we come in here all together together. Many of us come to here, I know sometimes I come in here, I'm having a moment and I’m often asking y'all to pray for me because I’m having a moment. Can I just be real with y'all? Can I be real with y'all today?

I sometimes I have a moment when I come in here. I'm like, "Lord, help me." I see certain things God exposed me to see certain things and and I begin to pray. But I also begin to thank God for the experience. Thank God for the moment. Thank God that I can just be able to place what's on my heart, what’s on my mind in His hands. We have to do that. Isn't that right? We have to get to the place where we just we begin to release what we’re dealing with and put it in the hands of the Lord. So whatever we are facing, whatever we’re dealing with, we want to turn it over to God. We want to ask the Lord to fill us with His spirit. Fill us with His holy spirit.

This is important for us as believers of God that as we walk this life, as we live this life, as we live outside of these doors and go beyond this controlled environment of worship and praise where we get emotionally and spiritually high, when we leave out of here, we want to leave out of here knowing that God has filled me and that no matter what comes my way, no matter what I face, I face it with an expectation that God is going to carry me through it. Amen. So those who are watching, if you want to accept Jesus as Lord today and become filled with the spirit, you can text the word JOIN to 240-269-5193. It’s coming up on your screen. There you will see a one minute and 26 second video of what it means to become a disciple of Christ. It's a process.

Only one that I know of that happened immediately was Paul, Saul when he became Paul when he was converted on the road to Damascus. So if you want to accept Christ, we want to invite you to text the word JOIN to 240-269-5193. If you want to rededicate your life, there may be somebody here who want to rededicate their life today. I don't want to take that for granted. We fall down but we get up. And we can get up being filled with the spirit of God today, being renewed, a rebirth, a realignment of where we wish for the Lord to take us. Amen. You may be seated if there’s no one here. Again, if you are there and want to reach out to us, please text the word JOIN to 240-269-5193. Can we give God some praise for the Word of God?

We are grateful for this moment that we’ve had with you on today. And before we leave here, as you know, those who are here, we have envelopes in the back if you'd like to give. Sister Sharon, you can pass them out. Many of you, most of you I think, at least 90% of you give electronically and let me say thank you. I'll have your reports to you on next Sunday. It will be for quarter one and quarter two of this year. We want to encourage you to continue to give. Those who are watching me, if you’d like to give and support this ministry, you can also use the number 240-269-5193. Text the word GIVE, G-I-V-E, to 240-269-5193.

If you’d like to go to the website, that's another way you can give by going to convertedheartcme.com. There you see the give tab. Go to the give tab and you have the option of giving electronically through Givelify or through PayPal. If giving electronically is a challenge for you, we are very sensitive to that and we appreciate the opportunity to extend another option for you and that is to mail a check payable to Converted Heart CME Church, PO Box 10157, Silver Spring, Maryland 20914. Again, that's PO Box 10157, Silver Spring, Maryland 20914.

So let me just thank you in advance for what you have done in terms of supporting this ministry. I just received before I came up to preach this morning, I received a text from a young lady who has been poured into this ministry for many years. And I'm always grateful for anybody who takes the time to give. And I always make sure I extend a thank you because people don't have to do what they do. Amen. They don't have to do what they do. But it's not that we per se need your money. We want you to be obedient to what God has called us to do to give the first fruits or to give a tithe.

I was talking to my niece just a week and a half ago and I was sharing this with Reverend Kim. She called me and said, "Uncle, can you lend me or can you send me $40?" And right away, without any hesitation, I sent the $40 to her. And I, the next day I reached out to her, I said, "Do you mind if I can share with you an opportunity to help you develop a budget?" She had never done this before. Have anybody done that before, develop a budget? Yeah. So y'all know what that, y’all know what that looks like. Amen. And so not to go into a whole deep dialogue about it, anyway, to make a long story short, she is working and not really exercising wise decisions in how she manages her money.

By the time I got off the phone with her, she was grateful and she was thankful that I took the time. Sometimes we got to take the time with our young people and teach them how to use what God has given them. And then I told her, I simply told her this, and it goes into what I'm talking about now. I said, "Listen, if you are a part of a church community that you worship with, begin to tithe." And I said to her like this, "If you’ve never done it before," I said, "three, five, and 10." I said, "Start with 3%. Start with 5%. When you get to 5%, get to 10%." Because starting at 10% for a lot of people who have never done it before, they get frustrated when a bill come, when something’s due, mortgage is due and you're negotiating, you're looking at, "Okay, my tithe, my mortgage. My tithe, my mortgage."

But God don't want you to be homeless. He don't want you to be out on the street. But the principle of it all is that when God sees you being faithful to the little He gives you, He’ll make sure that the rest that you have will stretch to make it to the next week. Come on, anybody, can anybody testify to that? I'm a witness to that. I’ve been tithing in a long time and God has met our needs every step of the way. Now, we’ve had some tough moments. We’ve had some challenges. Amen. But I’m grateful that His principles are true. God is faithful to His word. David said he’s never seen the righteous forsaken or his seed begging for bread. God is faithful. Amen. That's all I want to say on that. Reverend Kim, come on up as we begin to close out. Thank y'all again for being here with us. Come on, let's give God some praise. Hallelujah.

Dr. Darryl A. Burton Sr.: Amen. Amen. Let us bow for our benediction, which is our final blessing before we leave this place. Lord God, thank You. We are open, Lord God, to be filled by Your spirit. Lord God, the spirit that will help us to love, the spirit that will help us to forgive, the spirit that will help us to be gentle, kind, patient, and everything that represents You. Lord God, we thank You for the opportunity this week as You fill us with Your spirit. Now to Him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before His glorious presence without fault and with great joy; to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power, and authority through Jesus Christ our Lord before all ages now and forevermore. Let the people of God say Amen, Amen, and Amen. Come on, let’s give God some praise. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen. God bless you. We look forward to seeing you again on next week.