put it where it belongs. I picked the table up with all its contents on it. Unbeknownst to me the table started leaning and some of the things on it fell off. One of the things that fell was this nice looking centerpiece. When I looked on the floor, a piece had broken off. I laid the piece on the table and covered the vase up. It was damaged and so many of us are like this vase. We are damaged and we are hiding our issues, our brokenness, our problems and nobody knows. But when the covers are pulled from over us, we find out there is some damage to our lives.” Hampton continued saying that it is up to each person to make a conscience decision whether they want to do something about the brokenness in their lives or not and encouraged everyone that it was time to start putting those pieces back together. He then introduced the three invited conference participants and announced their topics of discussion. The first presenter was Bishop Michael George of Covenant Restoring Ministries who spoke on “How Do We Gain Faith?” Pastor Delbert Means of Christian Faith and Prayer Church followed speaking on “How Do We Maintain Our Faith?” and Pastor Mike Braggs of Power of Prayer International Ministries ended the forum by addressing “What are the Consequences of Losing Faith?” Following Pastor Braggs a there was a brief “Ministry in Giving” service, several musical selections performed by the True Believers Holiness Outreach Ministries (TBHOM) under the direction of Choir Director Rita Brownlee, and the introduction of the event’s special guest speaker, TBHOM Senior Pastor, Bishop Antonio Lawson. “In order for God to use us, we got to have a heart that He can talk to,” said Lawson. “When your heart is hardened, a heart of stone, God can’t get that easy Word over to you. I don’t know what you’re going through right now, but I know God said he is going to work on your heart. What the devil meant to destroy you, God is going to use it to restore you!” Bishop Lawson gave the closing remarks and benediction and the event ended with a prayer. “What is faith?” said Hampton. “You can’t lose something if you don’t know what you got.” 3
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