Guest Recording Artist John M.A. Bibbs The Testimony & Story Behind The Song We Gotta Pray 3

Guest Recording Artist John M.A. Bibbs The Testimony & Story Behind The Song We Gotta Pray 3

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Blessings. This is Kelly Lee, founder of Music Lovers and
Testimony Tuesday podcast. Please stay tuned for season nine of
Let's Talk to the Lord gospel radio talk show created
and hosted by Apostle John E. Ross.

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Lord, you came.

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And awsome.

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You are the great geez ho.

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Prothaun.

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We're not saying of his sunness and is so I
can help the house. I can't help the.

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Search me, old God, search me, oh guy, search.

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Me, o God, search me, old God?

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Never baby, because.

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The baby.

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That a baby.

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You're be by the a bat see cleaning ou mother

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cue befor w I won't you have a regent John

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with you? I won't you begin now freeze with your love.

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Relationship ob a relation ship, a relationship.

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Relition to just touch.

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Lord, I mean, cannot touch me, for oh Lord, I
suppose my lit my tuty, not touch me, your Lord,

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you mean your love pleading me from the inside of
time to.

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Lessen mean sally let me do me nothing to serve me. Yea, Lord,
hurt me.

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Let me.

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Search me a lot of what arch me, a lot
of what you charged mert.

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Listen, Lord, can I talk to you for a moment?

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Something's over chers. How do I approach this? I'm going
to compotely you, just like he Bruce told me. You know,
be sure you can feel.

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Me, ruminate, navigate my emotional state, estake, escape like we
won't get awake. My heart is faint, but you won't
let go and want to have you say, deliberate me
from the way I feel, which importunate at least load
of process to heal.

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I can't contraded feeling badly. I just want to walk away,
al you are let me. I can't count reading feeling.

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Really, I just want.

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To walk away with an are you.

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Listen?

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Suffery, sucts thought, a soul, scary cat.

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Looking in the mirror camera. Run from this, trapping the problem. Lord,
pull me out. I gotta be free from this before.

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It takes me that my interestedness is described It best
in your no suppressed fuel by stubbornness under mostly no
unapproachable even though wonder for me.

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You you know what's best.

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Micropens sits infensively, discontentedly, overwhelmingly calm, distressingly so exhaustibly throwing
in the towel, y'all come help me please.

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I feel like I'm on.

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On my own, just help me, Lord, to.

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Be be strong.

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I can't contempland the feeling weirdly, I just want to.

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Walk away before you are let me.

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I can't contemplate the Really, I just want to walk away.

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Where are you are?

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Let me.

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Listen?

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Gotta give him a phrase up to get that urb
and touch made ineffectual till I touched.

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Jesus.

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No one losing me that can't stay on track.

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Take with the innum stole in walking mug listens, Bag,
I gotta be more.

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I'm gonna do you want me to, Sir, gotta bean you,
o Adomy, Oh, when you want me to, I gotta be.

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I gotta be.

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Moll you whatever you want me to do, y Moneadomy.

Speaker 16 (08:41):
Peace and blessings to you. Peace are release to you
in the name of our Lord and Savior. Yes you
will the Messiah. I am your radio Apostle Apostle.

Speaker 14 (08:52):
John E.

Speaker 16 (08:53):
Ross, creator and host of this Podcastle the Apostle and
founder of a mega international process May Ministries. Thank you
for tuning in for season nine. The Number of Divine
Completeness and then let's talk to the Lord. Gospel radio
talk show and Kingdom Our returning guests for season nine

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of Let's Talk to the Lord is Indie gospel recording
artist John M. A. Bibbs. Brother John Bibbs, welcome back
to Let's Talk to the Lord.

Speaker 14 (09:30):
Welcome, it's glad, thank you so much once again a
possible ros for this time and this space, and it's
great to be here.

Speaker 16 (09:38):
Amen and Brother Bibs. For those who may have missed
your first episode and Let's Talk to the Lord, please
tell the Kingdom or remind the Kingdom when and where
Christ founds you, and share a little of your journey
to relationship with our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus.

Speaker 14 (09:59):
Well, I'm a PJ by trade. I had no trust
in the matter some my preacher's kids, so I had
the story here like everybody from like something could say
like I always say, it's from janitor to pastors. So
started with my father many years ago. It was in
high school. I was in high school in my twelfth
grade year and a friend of mine, of course they

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knew what I did for church and ministry. They had
been to the church a three times and in lock
of my pay drums in the band, a friend of
mine came up to me and said, man, you can't
be hanging out with us. You can't be cussing like that.
You can't be really doing the things we do, man,
because it's a purpose for your life, you know, And
the way that you act is not where you're supposed
to be. And I think that day I probably had

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went to the altar many times, but true salvation began
that day. I had the conversation with my friend. Helped
me really to change my life and really follow after Christ.

Speaker 16 (10:56):
And the rest is history, hey man, And what is
your purpose and calling in the Body of Christ and
in the Kingdom of God?

Speaker 14 (11:08):
My purpose in the Body of Christ, I'd like to
see it like this. I am what we call, I
would say, a minister of the Gospel. And of course
I'm still a pastor. You know, I don't have my
church anymore because in the year twenty twenty two I
decided to take a different journey and move to another city.

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So we are out in the state of Georgia of
progressing and training and doing what we need to do
to fulfill God's purpose in our life. So that's exactly
what I do here. Even in the Body of Christ.
I teach every day online, I pray every day online.

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I think one of My strongest prayers that I pray
every day is I pray for faith and family and
finance and help. I pray every day, and that story
goes on. So my role in the Body of christis
is the five four ministry. I teach, I minister. I
do whatever I can do in the ministry at this time.

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So just whatever God has me to do, and music
is what I love. Is one of the things I
never changed. I started as a minister of music in
the church where I actually started as a janitor, then
went and started doing music in the church, and we
were the only choir, my brothers and my sisters, and
there was no one that leads. So a musician left
the church and I got then and started playing and

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the rest is history. So music is always my first love.
But I love to teach. I love to see men change,
you know. It was one of the things in my
heart to pour into men to help them to find
their purpose in God. So that's exactly what I love
to do when it comes to ministry. Wherever God plays
is meant whatever you decide to do. Whatever person here

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is the person on the street, don't have to be
the poor pit. Whatever I find to do in ministry
and God gets me right person to play him right
in front of me. That's when his purposes are failed
in my life.

Speaker 16 (13:06):
A man, a man, and a man again Kingdom. I
will be interviewing Brother John M. A. Bibbs in regards
to his latest single Pray three to begin. Prayer is
sacred communication with God, our Creator. As we pray, we

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take part in fellowship with our Master and maker of
heaven and earth. We do so by praising Him and
confessing our sin before him. Prayer is communication with God
where we praise him, thank him, and asking him for
our needs and desires. We also devote time in speaking

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in tongue in our prayer language, utter to Him by
the utterance of the Holy Spirit. The Bible says to
always pray, meaning there are many ways of praying and
talking to the Lord. We can meditate on Him while
listening to praise and worship or prophetic worship music. We

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can pray in our secret closet where we still away
from everyone and are alone with God. The Bible says
when two or three are gathered together, he will be
in our myths. So we have partnered in prayer where
we agree together concerning a thing, and we have corporate

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prayer where we come together as one body for the church,
community and revival. We pray before beginning anything, inviting God
and the Holy Spirit into our meetings, services, rehearsals, and
all gatherings. We have prayer time when we cry out

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for a move of God and a move of God
to bless and revive our souls. We pray for one
another and events taking place in our community, cities, world events.
The Bible says, in all of our ways, acknowledge God
and allow His direction in our lives. We have family

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prayer for our homes. We pray for the sake for healing.
We pray during times of sorrow and loss for God's
strengths and our understanding and guidance during grief. We pray
as we give our offerings and tides so God will
accept and receive our offerings and multiply what we have

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given and return it back to us. Kingdom prayer is
a two way relationship where we also listen to God
and through prayer God releases his heart and wisdom. We
pray as we travel for traveling grace and mercy. We
pray when we leave places and events for safe return home.

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Brother John M. A. Bibbs, please tell your testimony and
the inspiration behind your song Pray three.

Speaker 14 (16:16):
The inspiration behind Pray three actually began probably I was
in the hospital for about three months. And after I
got out the hospital, you know, I had a true
desire to want to do music again. And my son
Wisdom does music and he was doing music and I

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asked him to send me some songs so I can
begin work on it. I actually was in the car
and I played all the songs in one of the
songs that came to me stood out to me. It
had the way, it had that feel, and I was like, man,
this song is absolutely powerful. And then I wrote an

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initial version that was the first prayer. It's three versions
of prayer. I have original version, I have a second version,
the third version, and the song was so good I
just said for the next you know, three times that
I put it out, I'm gonna do three different versions
to it. And from that feeling, from that time in
the car, I never let that feeling just to even

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the melodies. How it came out. I was telling my
wife how it came out, and we were singing it
and I was tyed telling her how it went and
my son. I gave my third both of my sons
to do music, and I told my baby's son, I
was like, I want to David, I need to do
another version to this. I needed to be a little
up tempo. And that's the meaning behind Pray three. So

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the album that I have out now has all three
versions of Prey on it. Now you got Pray one,
Pray two, and Pray three on it, because I truly
believe that's the focus. When I got out of the
hospital in twenty twenty two, the first thing I did
was was pray. I told God, I pray for you
every day online. I'll sowing to you people just like

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Job Job said. You know he prayed for what's friend.
I said, gotta, I'll pray for people every day. So
since that time, since twenty twenty two, every day I'm
dropping prayers online. Done so much that one of the
prayers that I pray has over seven million likes on it.
But that's because I understood that it's important. The Bible

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says that men ought to always pray and not faint,
and I think that's the thing that we talk about.
You have all different types of things online you got,
you got it, from sex to drugs, to rap to
hip hop, all these different things. But when it comes,
I said, well, I'm gonna make prayer a focal point.
If it's twenty four hours, if it's eight times a day,

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whatever it is, we're gonna pray. So that was the
reason behind the song. I feel like prayer is the
answer to what we're all going through. The Bible says
men ought to always pray and not faint, So prayer
is it came from the birthday of me having to
understand it's important that the world needs to know that
prayer is key. Like they said years ago, prayer is

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the key in faith, unlocked the door. The prayer is
simply inviting God into your day. And that's the reason
behind the song. That's what I desired to fulfill. So
every time I hear it, I make sure that's the
entity that's coming from that song.

Speaker 16 (19:26):
And Kingdom. In the Old Testament, the kingdom needed the
priest or the prophets to talk to God for them
because of sin and unrepenting sense. However, when Jesus died
and resurrected to Christ and from the outpouring of the
Holy Spirit, when Jesus died the ville and the temple

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was torn into, opening the way for us to talk
directly to God from our in her man, Brother Bibbs,
how do you use prayer in your ministry and songwriting?

Speaker 14 (20:02):
Prayer in my ministry? First of all, I make sure
that everything that I do, I always have prayer. Like
you were saying on the onset, I pray in the end,
and I also pray in the beginning. I make sure
whatever I talk about it, if I tease something online,
and make sure I end with prayer. Because I believe
that prayer saturates the environment, is saturates, it opens the

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line of communication. Like I said previously, that it invites
God into whatever we are doing. And in my songwriting
years ago, my father, when I first started writing music,
he told me said, I don't care what songs you do,
what you say, just make sure it's lined up in
the word. And that's what I think is powerful that
when we as as Christians are people to God, understand

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when we pray God's word back to him, it's absolutely
that we're connecting to him. We're connecting his word and
we're making We're not making him, but he's recognizing that
what we're speaking is in communion with Him. And when
you pray, you say God, your word says this. Your word,
you know, your word speaks this. So in my songs
and my music, I make sure that everything that I

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say is biblically blased and make sure that the foundation
of the song and what I'm saying has words and
infused in it. I don't care what the song is,
it has to have pray. Like the song we Gotta
Pray comes from the Scripture of men Ila was praying
not thrayk and uh pray without ceasing. You know that's biblical.

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Everything song that I sing does a biblical infuse. And
you know because something is in the gospel. Now what
people are singing and you don't know if they're talking
about Jesus or a boyfriend or a girlfriend specifically. I
wanted to make sure that the Holy Spirit, Jesus and
God are prevalent, trying is prevalent in my music and

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what I say. So that's what That's what I truly believe.
That is what focus my focus is with ministry and
song and kingdom.

Speaker 16 (22:00):
We also have a war room of prayer where we
can go to war against spiritual wickedness and high places,
demonic activities and attacks against us personally, our families, our churches,
our cities, our youth, in our government, in the media, etc.

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We pray for hallelujah souls to surrender their all to
the Lord and Brother. John M. A. Bibbs, How has
prayer affected your life?

Speaker 14 (22:41):
The Bible says this. It says it's in James chapter
two that faith without works is dead. Also goes on
to say that without faith, it's impossible to please God. Yes,
and prayer in my life and even in my music,
and even even my life even as a father, even

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as a senior pastor or pastor, as a minister, or
even as a regular person. Prayer ignites my life, and
I make sure that I spend that time with God,
and I make sure that I constantly talk to Him.
And I think we misunderstand prayer sometimes even when it
comes to prayer, because it's simply God inviting himself into

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our day his purposes and what we do and what
we say. It's connected to what we do when it
comes to prayer. It allows us to speak what His
word says, and when we do that, there's an energy
that comes. There's an energy that comes when we recognize
that what God is doing within our life. And I'm

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understanding now that in everything that I say and I
do in my ministry and when I'm teaching, when I'm
talking to people, I apply His word, and I also
make sure that I align it with prayer and to
help us and to help those to know, and also
myself to know that prayer is always key and afraid

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they un locks.

Speaker 4 (24:08):
The door.

Speaker 16 (24:10):
Man Kingdom's Romans eighth and twenty sixty players in the
same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness when
we don't know what we ought to pray for, but
the Spirit himself makes intercession and intercedes for us with
groans that words cannot express, which means in prayer we

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gain support and God assists with divine assistance and strengthens.
In prayer, we are fortified where we fall short, bridging
the gap between us as human flesh to God's perfect will.
In prayer, the Holy Spirit makes a petition and appeal

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on our behalf that transcends human language, which means the
Spirit in prayer is not limited to or buy our
verbal abilities, but penetrates from the depths of our needs
and groanings because we cannot articulate it. Emphasizing God's redemption

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and transformation. God the Holy Spirit. He plays a crucial
role in prayer, interceding and helping during times of trouble
and weakness. But the John M. A. Bibbs, please give
a testimony when God in prayer worked a miracle in
your life during a time of fragility.

Speaker 14 (25:41):
I spoke about this. The first time that I went
to the hospital is two twenty two, which there was
a year of just God really having me in my
season on the backside of the desert, and I went
into the hospital the first time. The first time I
went to hospital on their blood clots in my love
and because there were blood criss in my lung, I

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didn't know that my breathing had stopped, shortness of breath,
didn't know that was happening. So the first time they
removed nine blood cross toward the end of the year,
happened again toward December, right around my birthday. It flared
up again. And when I tell you this second time

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was a little bit different because I was mentally facing
things I feel like, I like I really mentally lost
it a little bit, and I was in the hospital
and my wife was in there with me, and it
felt like people were coming after me. Man, it was
just the enemy trying to attack my mind. He was

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trying to attack my thoughts and my abilities and just
was messing with my mind. In the hospital bed, I
was getting hot of it, cold, didn't know what was
going on, could barely breed. And my wife climbed up
in the bed. She climbed up in the bed. She
laid her head on my chest and she put hands
on my heart and she started praying for me. And

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the Bible talks about it. Sometimes we can't pray for
our the as there are people who are out there
praying for us. And she began to pray for me.
They they hand on my heart and the spirit of
God began to move within me. There was a relaxing,
There was a calmness that came over me. I could
fear her, feel her tears for falling on my chest.
Because she is nothing. All she could do was pray.

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And that's what prayer is. When the end of your life,
sometimes you can't even pray for yourself, others will come
and pray for you. And she prayed for me that day.
She was my strength in that time and I'll never
forget that. And that's why I love her to this
day because she in that moment, she didn't screams, she
didn't holler, she didn't fuss at the people. Oh she

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fussed the people a little bit, but she she made
sure I was taken care of and coverage in prayer.
And that's what prayer is. It's simply inviting God in
so that He can work within us.

Speaker 16 (28:01):
Ay man, ay man and a man again. Brother John M. A. Bibbs,
please introduce yourself to the Kingdom.

Speaker 14 (28:15):
I am John M. A. Bibbs. I am senior pastor,
tash slash pastor, uh slast, minister, slast musician, all those
different titles. I'm a husband of a beautiful wife, Tranisa Bibbs,
and I love music, I love ministry, I love teaching,

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and it's just truly I'm just here for the Kingdom.
If anyone needs someone to come and sing, or need
someone to come preach wherever God needs me, I'm available
to do that. So that's exactly what I'm here for.
I I I just love ministry and I love being
a part. I'm a p ka ky. I am the
third child of of eleven. So I'm the oldest son

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and uh so my father when he passed away, he
left me his church and from this day forth, man,
I loved ministry and love helping people. So that's that's
Johnny Maybibbs.

Speaker 16 (29:19):
And how may the Kingdom reach out to you? And
how may the Kingdom follow you? On social media?

Speaker 14 (29:27):
You can follow me my passably been saying that the
whole time, John M. A Bibbs. You can actually look online.
You can look John m Abibbs dot com. That is
my website, or you can search me on any any
of the social media. Uh the social media, John M.
A Bibbs, you can look they spelled out jhn M

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A b I b b s. And all my bookie
information is on there. Anything you needed me to come do,
everything setting place on there, from Twitter to Snapchat, any
of those places. I'm every where, John M. A. Bibbs.
And that's how you get connected to me.

Speaker 16 (30:04):
And how many of the Kingdom purchase your music and
support your ministry.

Speaker 14 (30:12):
They can support the music, and once again they can
get to go to the website as well as they
can just google my name. I'm anywhere that music is.
I'm on actually Apple, Spotify, It doesn't matter title. I'm
everywhere that music is. You can actually get any of
the songs that I have here that that are out

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there now. So even some of my oldest stuff, but
did Adam Apple years ago even that when it's still
it's something the different name John Mark Anthony, but it's
still out there. So music is everywhere.

Speaker 16 (30:45):
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Until we meet again, May the Lord richly bless you
and smile upon you, and his grace keep you at
the foot of the cross under a open heaven. And
yes it was mighty name. We pray a man, I gotta.

Speaker 4 (33:37):
We gotta pray.

Speaker 14 (33:48):
Sitting in church one day after the.

Speaker 17 (33:51):
Rea, say no, doge to worship, reach your word and pray.
Some day I don't feel too pray. I gotta push
myself Tuesday, I gotta pray, pray wish of season.

Speaker 13 (34:16):
We gotta pray, prayish love ceasing. You may be going through,
don't know what to do.

Speaker 17 (34:31):
All you gotta do is hit your needs and pray
on through lost nod turn seems a place of gum.

Speaker 12 (34:41):
Ask God to have builtiness a prick of moment.

Speaker 15 (34:45):
We gotta pray, pray, say we shot you shot. We
gotta pray, pray, wish usion.

Speaker 14 (35:05):
It's hard to do.

Speaker 4 (35:08):
How you got to do?

Speaker 17 (35:10):
Open up your mouth and lift him up and praise
all through.

Speaker 4 (35:15):
Just say God help me.

Speaker 14 (35:17):
I need you to go for me.

Speaker 15 (35:19):
I'll note you right now for you to bless me.

Speaker 17 (35:23):
You gotta brash if we fresh, wet, fresh, fresh, fresh,
wh