21 February 2012 10:49:00
2.18.12 VERBATIM:
TYLER PERRY@ WHITNEY HOUSTON FUNERAL "BISHOP T.D. JAKES, SR. PASTOR, POTTER'S HOUSE: Can the church say amen?
CONGREGATION: Amen.JAKES: Can we say amen again?CONGREGATION: Amen.
JAKES: I want to convey and take just a moment. I realize the dichotomy that the family faces at this time, surrounded by a world full of friends and admirers who are enthralled by the beautiful Whitney Houston. Her voice, her song, her poise, her class, but that is not what brings you here, because you knew who she was. Not just what she did. You paid a tremendous price in life. You shared her with the world. And we want to take a moment and say thank you.
JAKES: In moments like this, it feels -- it feels like death is wrong. But the bible says that love is stronger than death. Your hearts are heavy, tears flow down. Your spirits are wounded. I feel that too. I didn't have the privilege of knowing Whitney as long as many of you have done. I met her on the set of the remake of "Sparkle." but I understand what it is to be in pain. You look around and everybody you love and everybody you can count on and everybody you can trust seems to be slipping through your fingers. And it feels as though death is wrong. The first family, when Cain killed able, it seemed like death had won. Noah escaped the flood. Still he died. It looked like death had won.
Isaiah was an eagle-eye prophet, he could see thousands of miles and years away. Still he died. It looked like death had won. Habaka had come as a prophet to Israel, spoke truth so powerful and so profound, but no matter how close he was to God, still he died. It looked like death had won. We've seen scientists and astronauts and politicians and great thinkers of the ages and no matter how profound and prolific or bright they were, still they died. It looked like death had won. But the bible kept saying that love is stronger than death. And like two gladiators in a fight. Every time they enter into the ring it looks like death has won. I know to some of you today it looks like death has won. But I rose to tell you that 2,000 years ago.
JAKES: Love rolled into the ring and said wait a minute, death. You've been bullying people for a long time. But I want to set the record straight. Love is greater than death. Rolled up his sleeves and they fought all over Jerusalem and wrestled all through the cross and the fight went down to the grave and death said, see, I did to you just like I did all the rest of them. Death started having a party on Friday night. It was one of those weekend parties. Lasted all the way through Friday night and all Saturday, looked like death had won. But early Sunday morning, love rolled up his sleeves and said wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. Snatched great death and took the sting out of death and the victory out the grave. And I want you to understand I'm not going to preach, I'm not going to start, but I feel it. I want you to understand in a very practical and pragmatic way that death has not won.
Your tears may flow. Your pain may come. The flowers will wither. The cards will all be filed away. The phone will stop ringing. Mama said, they're going to stop ringing after a while. Cakes and pies all stop coming. Don't you dare think that death has won. You will learn what all of us know who have lost people that we love. You'll be driving down the street one day and you'll hear Whitney's voice talking in your head. Something she said or something she did will pop up in your spirit and you'll giggle inside of yourself as if she were sitting in the car with you. And you will find that people that you really love, they may leave you outwardly, but they never leave you inwardly. May the love of God, the peace of the Holy Spirit, the sweet communion of knowing that you are a child of the king keep you through this period in life when it might appear as if death has won, but it's alive."
Love will last forever, for God is love. "
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21 February 2012 10:31:00
2.18.12,VERBATIM,TYLER,PERRY,WHITNEY,HOUSTON,FUNERAL
"God bless you. The Houston family, I know this -- I know this grief. It was Pat who introduced me to Whitney a while back, and she and I sat in a restaurant in Atlanta, just the two of us, sat there talking for about an hour and a half about four years ago.
And during this time she was telling me about her life. I was very surprised at how candid and open and revealing she was as she was talking to me. She would talk about some things that she had went through. Some things that had made her sad, some things that were tough.
As I would see her talk about this, I would see this heaviness come upon her. I'm the type of person that when I would see this with anyone, I would just want to say something encouraging. But before I could get words out to encourage her, but she would say "but the Lord."
And the conversation went on, the conversation went on, we would talk a little bit more. She would go back into sadness and just when I'm about to step in, she would say but my Lord and my Saviour, Jesus Christ and his amazing grace. It was at that moment that I knew that I would do all I can to stand with her. From that moment until now I've been standing with the family and with her. I'm just completely thankful to God for all that he has done in her life.
There are two constants that I know about Whitney Houston. One is that there was a grace that carried, a grace that carried her from heaven down through Miss Cissy Houston, a grace that brought her up through singing.
A grace that brought in -- from what I understand she wasn't even supposed to be able to speak let alone sing because of an incident that happened to her as a child, but there was a grace that kept on carrying her all the way through.
The same grace led her all the way to the top of the charts, sold all of these albums and has just done some amazing things, won all these awards. She sang for presidents. There was a grace that kept on carrying her. That's one thing I know.
The other thing I know for sure, and this is more important than anything that she's ever done in her life. Whitney Houston loved the Lord. And in every conversation we had over these years, it was evident that she loved the Lord. She loved the Lord.
When I think about her, there's a scripture that keeps burning in my heart. I keep thinking about the Apostle Paul in Romans when he is talking about I am persuaded that nothing shall separate me from the love of God. So what I know about her is that nothing separated her from the love of God.
If you look at what Paul was saying, he was describing her life so perfectly. He said neither height, which no matter how far she went in the stratosphere, nothing separated her -- neither height nor depth, no matter how much struggle.
No matter what she had to go through, no matter what she had to walk through, it still wasn't enough to separate her from the love of God, nor principalities or power or things to come. Nothing was able to separate her from the love of God.
So what I know about her is that she loved the Lord. And if there was a grace that carried her all the way through, it was the same grace that carried her home. And I just want to close by saying this because the Apostle Paul said something else that just fascinates me as I read the words sometimes.
He said, what then say you to these things that if God before you, who can be against you. So say whatever you want. God was for her and she is resting, singing with the angels. God bless your family. God bless you. God bless you, Whitney. We love you so much."
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