Magnify Him

Three Angels Broadcasting Network

Program transcript

Participants: Yvonne Lewis (Host), Carmen Calhoun, Lawrence Wells

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Series Code: MGNH

Program Code: MGNH000019


00:01 Magnify the Lord with me
00:04 Magnify the Lord
00:08 Jesus alone is worthy
00:11 Magnify Him
00:17 Hello, and welcome to "Magnify Him."
00:20 Thank you for tuning in. My name is Yvonne Lewis.
00:23 There's a dynamic program in store just for you.
00:26 And I'm excited because today
00:28 we're gonna hear from two artists
00:30 who are passionate about using their gifts.
00:32 Not to glorify self but to honor
00:35 and glorify the gift giver.
00:37 So stay tuned as we lift up the name
00:39 of Jesus, our Savior and Lord.
00:41 Come magnify the Lord with me
00:43 and let us exalt His name together.
00:46 Magnify the Lord with me
00:49 Magnify Him
00:54 Carmen Calhoun is here with us at Magnify Him.
00:57 We are so happy to have you, Carmen.
01:00 Welcome.
01:02 You know, when I was listening to you in your sound check.
01:05 There is just an anointing on your music
01:07 and I'm so happy that you are here,
01:09 because our viewers need to get acquainted with you
01:12 but you-- this is, you have more than one CD.
01:15 How many CD's do you have?
01:16 I have three.
01:18 And one, the first one is entitled Broken and Blessed.
01:21 The second one is Life and the current one is I am.
01:26 Wow, and did you write
01:27 all of the songs that are on your CD?
01:29 Not all of 'em. I wrote 98%.
01:35 What a blessing it is to be able to sing and write.
01:38 Do you play an instrument as well?
01:39 No, just sing.
01:41 Wow.
01:42 Sing melodies from heaven.
01:43 Amen, amen. When did you start singing?
01:47 I was a little girl, you know, I came from a singing family.
01:50 And so I-- I've been singing all my life.
01:54 Yeah, and your--
01:55 your brothers and sisters sing as well.
01:57 So when you get together, do you guys sing?
01:59 No, we don't. We don't do it at all.
02:02 But I'm the only one that went solo
02:04 and you know pursue my dream.
02:08 What is your vision for your ministry?
02:11 My vision is to serenade people
02:14 with the love of God through song.
02:16 That's my passion.
02:17 That's what daddy has called me to do.
02:20 It's just when I heard that from him, he says Carmen,
02:23 all I want you to do
02:25 is to serenade them with my love.
02:27 Just tell 'em, how much I love them.
02:31 That's beautiful and that's in your music.
02:33 That's in your music too.
02:34 You can just sense it when you sing Beautiful
02:39 and when you sing Are You Ready to Move.
02:41 I mean, these are just beautiful songs
02:43 that the Lord has given you
02:44 and you give Him praise which is a blessing.
02:47 What would you tell the artist
02:49 that wants to get out there and do something?
02:52 What would you tell that artist?
02:54 Before going out--
02:56 While you are in the process of doing
02:58 whatever you are doing for the Lord.
03:00 Feed on Jesus.
03:02 Just see Jesus in whatever you are doing
03:05 and you won't become prideful, boastful.
03:08 You won't become so sensitive to what people say,
03:14 it's all about Jesus.
03:17 See that is that goes along
03:19 with our whole philosophy here at Magnify Him
03:21 because it's all about Him.
03:22 We're not here to magnify the artist
03:24 but to magnify Jesus.
03:26 And that's what you do with your music.
03:28 So if you-- you are an author.
03:31 Yes.
03:32 You are a singer. Tell us about your books?
03:35 Well, I wrote a journal first.
03:37 And the journal was entitled Dare to be You
03:40 and it's a 21 day covenant journal.
03:42 And that journal is just simply designed
03:44 for you to hear God and then pen.
03:47 I tell my story and then how I left space
03:51 for you to write and to hear what--
03:53 just write what daddy is saying and if my story relates to you,
03:57 pen your hurts, pen your anger and then give it to Him
04:00 and you know then repeat if, if you're hurt I'm healed.
04:03 You know, don't stay in your hurt,
04:05 confess your healing.
04:06 Yes, do you do a lot of work with women?
04:08 Yes, women's ministries and all.
04:12 Are you looking to-- what's your goal
04:14 in terms of your ministry, your music ministry?
04:17 What is your-- is your goal?
04:19 My goal is to become full time.
04:21 Okay. Right now I'm not full time.
04:23 I work for a construction company.
04:25 Oh, wow.
04:26 I used to drive a dump truck for them.
04:28 Did you?
04:29 Yeah, then they found out, I had a brain
04:31 and they brought me into the office.
04:33 And so I've been in the office for few years,
04:35 but it is my desire to serenade people
04:38 all over the world with the love of God through song.
04:41 Now where have you been? What places have you gone to?
04:44 I have been to Africa. I went to Nigeria.
04:48 I went to Lima, Peru, Dominican Republic.
04:51 I've been to some other places in just, in the United States.
04:55 Yes, yes, give us in 30 seconds if you can.
05:01 Basically your testimony,
05:02 how did you come to know the Lord?
05:07 30 seconds. 30 seconds, I know. I know.
05:10 I had an experience with daddy.
05:11 I had been going to church for a long time
05:14 and then I had an experience with Him
05:15 because I had lost my father
05:17 and when I lost my father, I mourned for a long time,
05:20 God came in the room and said, look,
05:21 I'll be daddy to you forever, just change your focus.
05:25 So that's my testimony.
05:26 Oh, wait, you can give us a little more.
05:28 You give us a little more.
05:29 So when I heard Him say that to me about turning my focus
05:34 and turn in, I'll be daddy to you soon.
05:37 I call him daddy, I don't call Him God sometimes maybe.
05:41 And then I relate to Jesus as my older brother.
05:44 You know, He's my everything.
05:46 So that's really my testimony. So I'm a daddy's girl.
05:49 You are daddy's girl. I'm a daddy's girl.
05:51 I love that.
05:52 You need to know that Carmen has this heart for God
05:57 and it comes out in her music
05:59 and as she sings these two songs.
06:01 Are You Ready To Move and Beautiful,
06:04 you're going to be blessed.
06:06 You're going to be blessed beyond measure,
06:09 so sit back and enjoy.
06:32 Are you ready to move
06:36 When God says move
06:43 Are you ready to move
06:47 In what God has for you
06:54 And are you ready to move
07:00 In the visions and dream
07:03 He's given you
07:11 Are you ready Are you ready
07:13 Are you ready to move
07:17 When God says move
07:22 Lord give me wisdom
07:27 And understanding too
07:31 To do Your will Lord
07:36 Just as You want me to
07:40 For not my will Lord
07:45 But thine will be done
07:49 In every situation
07:55 Lord I yield my will to you
08:35 Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah.
08:43 And if it be Your will
08:48 I'll go where you want me to go
08:52 And if it be Your will
08:57 I'll go where you want
08:59 Be what You want
09:01 Do what You want me to do
09:04 And if it be Your will
09:09 I'll go where you want me to go
09:19 Are you ready to move
09:25 When God says move
09:43 This song is entitled Beautiful.
09:46 And we too are beautiful just like our heavenly Father.
10:06 Who is like You
10:11 And who can compare to You
10:17 The earth and the sky above
10:21 Tell the glory
10:23 Of Your beautiful name
10:30 No one is like You
10:35 And no one compares to You
10:41 The earth and the sky above
10:45 Tell the glory of Your beautiful name
10:53 Every time I'm in this place
10:56 Your presence leaves me so amazed
10:59 I can only imagine Your beautiful face
11:05 There's no words that could express
11:08 The beauty of Your holiness
11:11 Every part of my heart cries out
11:15 And says You are so beautiful
11:22 So beautiful
11:25 So beautiful to me
11:29 You are so beautiful
11:34 So beautiful
11:37 So beautiful to me
11:42 Who is like You
11:45 And who can compare to You
11:48 Who can compare to You
11:51 The earth and the sky above
11:55 Tell the glory
11:58 Of Your beautiful, Your beautiful name
12:03 No one is like You
12:07 Thank you Jesus.
12:09 And no one compares to You
12:12 No one compares to You
12:15 The earth and the sky above
12:19 Tell the glory
12:21 Of Your beautiful, beautiful name
12:29 And every time I'm in this place
12:32 Your presence leaves me so amazed
12:35 I can only imagine Your beautiful face
12:41 There's no words that could express
12:44 The beauty of Your holiness
12:47 Every part of my heart cries out
12:51 And says
12:56 You are so beautiful
12:59 You are so beautiful
13:01 You are so beautiful to me
13:06 There's nobody like You Lord
13:08 I love the way You hold me
13:10 I love the way You call my name
13:14 You are so beautiful
13:17 Halleluiah, Halleluiah
13:20 The heavens and the earth declare Your glory
13:23 You are so beautiful, so beautiful
13:28 So beautiful to me
13:30 There nobody like you
13:33 Words can't express my gratitude
13:36 No, you are, you are, you are
13:40 So awesome, so beautiful
13:46 You are so beautiful
13:48 There's nobody like you
13:51 There's nobody like you
13:54 You are so beautiful
13:59 so beautiful
14:02 Thank you Jesus.
14:05 You are so beautiful
14:11 So beautiful
14:14 So beautiful to me
14:23 Magnify the Lord with me
14:26 Magnify Him
14:32 Lawrence Wells is with us today.
14:34 Welcome, welcome to Magnify Him.
14:37 Thank you.
14:38 Lawrence, when did you start singing?
14:41 At the age of 13.
14:43 Oh, really then wasn't your voice changing at that time or?
14:47 I imagine it was but it--
14:52 I had some people who mentored me
14:54 and I continue to sing regardless
14:57 and this is what I have.
15:00 Well, praise the Lord.
15:01 Do you have that smooth silky kind of sound?
15:04 I know.
15:07 Praise the Lord though. Thank you.
15:09 What church do you attend?
15:10 The Ephesus Seventh-day Adventist Church
15:12 in Harlem, New York City.
15:13 Yay. That's my old church.
15:16 And actually we came there this past summer
15:20 and did a Dare to Dream talent search.
15:22 And you came and sang and we heard you there.
15:24 I did.
15:26 That was a blessing.
15:27 Are you in full time music ministry?
15:30 Actually no, I'm not.
15:32 All right, what do you do?
15:34 Well, I'm an elder in the church
15:35 so that takes up a lot of my time.
15:39 I'm a former mortgage broker.
15:41 I used to be in that business
15:43 when it was a good business to be in.
15:45 Yeah.
15:46 And now I'm-- I'm just land lording so.
15:48 Oh, amen. I mean praise the Lord.
15:51 You're able to do that. That's a blessing.
15:53 What's your vision for your ministry?
15:55 Where do you want to go with your music?
15:58 You know, I realize that God has given me a gift
16:02 and I may not have used it fully to--
16:07 as fully as I should have early on
16:09 but, you know, He's directing me to minister
16:14 to those who are not ministered to.
16:17 There are so many people out there
16:18 who are lonely in hospitals and nursing homes.
16:23 My mom now has Alzheimer's
16:25 and so I've gotten to see a lot of that side of life.
16:30 And there are a lot of lonely people but they--
16:33 what's interesting about them
16:34 is that they remember the hymns,
16:38 if they are church people,
16:40 if they were church going people
16:42 in their better days, they remember hymns.
16:46 And when you sing with them,
16:48 they begin to sing, so every third Sabbath
16:51 our elders go to the nursing home in our area.
16:55 One of the many nursing homes in our area.
16:58 My wife's grandmother
17:00 also is in a nursing home with Alzheimer's
17:03 and in that same nursing home when you start singing,
17:06 you'll hear the elderly begin to sing with you
17:10 and if I do nothing else but make them happy.
17:13 I'll be happy.
17:14 How beautiful.
17:15 You know it's so nice to be able to minister
17:17 to those in need
17:18 whether its physical needs, spiritual, emotional.
17:22 That music just really resonates with people.
17:26 It cuts into their spirits so to speak.
17:29 Who's had the largest impact on you musically would you say?
17:33 If I were to say one person, Walter Arties.
17:36 Okay, I can hear that. All right, all right.
17:39 Well, you do have that smooth sounding tone.
17:43 So we invite you listeners to listen to Lawrence
17:48 as he ministers in music with those smooth,
17:52 silky tones from one high.
18:07 Far away in the depths
18:12 Of my spirit tonight
18:16 Rolls a melody sweeter
18:20 Than psalm
18:25 In celestial-like strains
18:30 It unceasingly falls
18:34 O'er my soul
18:37 Like an infinite calm
18:45 Peace! Peace!
18:50 Wonderful peace
18:54 Coming down
18:56 From the Father above
19:03 Sweep over my spirit
19:08 Forever, I pray
19:13 In fathomless billows
19:18 Of love
19:27 What a treasure I have
19:32 In this wonderful peace
19:37 Buried deep in the heart of my soul
19:45 So secure that no power
19:50 Can mine it away
19:55 While the years of eternity roll
20:04 So I am resting tonight
20:09 In this wonderful peace
20:13 Resting sweetly in Jesus' control
20:23 For I'm kept from all danger
20:27 By night and by day
20:32 And His glory
20:34 Is flooding my soul
20:42 Peace! Peace!
20:48 Wonderful peace
20:52 Coming down from the Father above
21:01 Sweep over my spirit
21:06 Forever, I pray
21:12 In fathomless billows
21:17 Of love
21:26 O friend, are you here
21:31 Without comfort or rest
21:35 Walking down the rough pathway of time?
21:45 Make Jesus your friend
21:50 Ere the shadows grow dark
21:54 O accept this sweet peace
21:59 So sublime
22:06 Peace! Peace!
22:11 Wonderful peace
22:15 Coming down from the Father above
22:24 Sweep over my spirit
22:29 Forever, I pray
22:36 In fathomless billows
22:41 Of love
22:46 In fathomless billows
22:55 Of love
23:01 Of love
23:14 The words of this next number
23:16 really expressed the love Jesus has for us.
23:20 No one ever cared for me like Jesus
23:23 and I can guarantee you,
23:25 no one has cared for you like Jesus either.
23:44 I would love to tell you
23:49 What I think of Jesus
23:53 Since I found in Him a friend
23:57 So kind and true
24:01 I would tell you
24:03 how He changed my life completely
24:09 He did something that
24:11 No other friend could do
24:19 No one ever
24:23 Cared for me
24:28 Like Jesus
24:34 There's no other friend
24:40 So kind and true
24:49 No one else
24:54 Could take the sin
24:58 And sadness from me
25:06 O how much
25:10 He cares
25:13 For me
25:21 Ev'ry day He comes to me
25:25 With new assurance
25:29 More and more I understand
25:32 His words of love
25:37 But I'll never know
25:39 Just why He came to save me
25:44 Till some day I see
25:47 His blessed face above
25:55 No one ever
25:59 Cared for me
26:03 Like Jesus
26:10 There's no other friend
26:16 So kind as He
26:25 No one else
26:31 Could take the sin
26:34 And sadness from me
26:43 O how much
26:46 He cares
26:50 for me
26:59 O how much
27:02 He cares
27:07 For me
27:28 Magnify Him
27:33 I am always so blessed by the artists
27:36 who come to minister on this program.
27:38 They really minister to my soul
27:41 and I pray that you received the blessing today as well.
27:44 Thanks for tuning in.
27:45 Until next time continue to put Christ
27:47 first in all things and Magnify Him.
27:51 God bless.


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