![]() Our assignment was to do what God sent us to do. Our assignment was not to tape the biggest deal in Christian television. They sent word to us to let us know that they would accommodate us, as they had ever done for two major world-wide ministries. So, I refused the interview because the studio taping schedule conflicted with our meeting time. God’s call was for our team to complete the assignment for which we had been graced and anointed. Yet, it didn’t take a phone call, hickomoshnda, or call up to heaven’s line to know what to do. Just about every one that I know would have adjusted the meeting schedule to sit in front of some cameras and have a moment, or what people call doors. When our ministry was offered an exclusive interview during a meeting, I did not “jump” at it. ![]() For years I’ve been carrying out what is now referred to as the “legacy” of Pastor Boyd. Years of receiving Pastor Boyd’s wisdom, teaching, and correction–“Go ahead with your bad self”–have helped to make me the woman of God that I am. If you keep at something long enough, it will eventually work. Faithfulness is what made him keep church doors open with sheets of ice on the road when most others thought he was absolutely ridiculous for having church in winter storms. He didn’t allow anyone or anything to move him, when he believed God required something of him. That night, I understood why Pastor Boyd was so faithful. He said (and those know his teaching know he would talk like this), “It’s a good thing God isn’t too busy when you need Him.” He said this in response to how busy we often become doing everything that matters for God and the Kingdom, but always want God to be available and willing to fix everything overnight. Faithfulness is what God loves and looks for. Although faith is required to please God, faith is not enough. He was sure to distinguish the difference between faith, which requires works in order to produce or else faith alone produces nothing, and faithfulness. That Wednesday night, Pastor Boyd–who had an uncanny ability to make the wisdom of God so very simple and practical–taught on faithfulness. Pastor Boyd used to get up, exhort the people, and say, “Let’s go to work!” That meant, get your Bible out and get ready to delve into the Word of God because our walk is a faith walk that requires WORK. It was a Wednesday night service, and at that time Wednesday nights were “Family Night” Bible studies. I remember the day I walked into the New Greater Bethel Ministries sanctuary in the mid 1990’s and heard one of the most profound messages that impacted my life. ![]() Once the final breath is taken, the life we have lived speaks for us. There is so much that I could say, but for those who had the privilege of knowing him, his life spoke volumes in ways that no one can capture in words. It has taken me some time to be able to write this tribute regarding one of the greatest leaders of our time, Apostle John H. ![]()
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