Perpetual Love, Light & Power: Honoring the Life of Bishop Troy Sanders (Poem)

Perpetual Love, Light & Power: Honoring the Life of Bishop Troy Sanders

September 25, 1977 ~ April 19, 2025                                             

Bishop Troy Sanders, like a towering, mighty oak tree planted by the rivers of water. Roots deeply connecting in the earth alongside the sandy road of Denmark, SC.  Inviting God's favor to continue to abound in the streams of blood, sweat and tears shed for pioneering purpose throughout these years.  Honey Ford Baptist, as a young boy slain in the spirit and preaching, growing up to be a pastor and professor. The elevation of Troy’s soul tapping into the moaning and groanings, at times, unable to speak. Encompassing the love of God. Embodying the love of self. Channeling the love of people. With an unwavering commitment to make room for whosoever will desire to come. Walking in the authority as an ambassador of the Most High One. Tethered between the spirit and the flesh.  Infused with hope, well-versed in culture, flowing as living water in peace. We speak, your name…

Perpetual Love, Light & Power (5 29 25) Poem

Inviting God's favor to continue to abound in the streams of blood sweat and tears shed for pioneering purpose these years

Like a towering mighty oak tree planted by the rivers of water

Roots deeply connecting in the earth alongside the sandy road of Denmark, SC

Honey Ford Baptist, as a young boy slain in the spirit

growing up to be a pastor and professor

As Samella Sanders witnesses in the heavenly clouds

As a willing conduit allowing the Spirit of God to freely flow through her spiritual being

Your spiritual being bearing much fruit

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness,

goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control

The fruit of your mind, the essence of your thoughts

The elevation of your soul

Tapping into the moaning and groanings, at times, unable to speak

Encompassing the Love of God

Embodying the Love of self

Channeling the Love of people

With an unwavering commitment to make room for whosoever will desire to come

Walking in the authority as an ambassador of the most high one

Tethered between the spirit and the flesh

Infused with hope, Well-versed in culture

flowing as living water in peace

peace, peace be still

Peeling back the layers of one’s self

Raised to this seated position, discernment and outgrowth

Seeing a people and a place

People coming from all spaces and places of life

Coming together to honor our diversity

Without harm nor fear, hearing a sound and seeing a worship

That transcends, people’s backgrounds, titles, individuality

Getting into the river and flow until power and answers come

A returning to the spirituality of our ancestors

Taking it back to where it started from

same Holy Ghost power visits you in one place

while you are in another place and you, there

An outpouring of God’s Spirit, everywhere

People who were the last of the invites to the table, creating a larger table so no one is ever uninvited

A space where Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, Orisha practitioners,

spiritual Baptist, Methodists, and Presbyterians

Come together and fit in, as a wind blows, a river flow

We all can be together

Causing the walls of oppression to come down

The great old giant called racism in America, divides

With God, spiritual children picking up spiritual weapons to fight in the spirit

Praying till dawn, speaking in tongues

Burning candles, cutting down roots

Binding up the strong man

Watching liberation breakout in America, in the world

Seeing the feet anchored in the journey

Of every woman, man, boy and girl

For beautiful are the feet of them that stand as God’s messengers in the earth

Indescribable undeniable joy of the Lord

Knowing your worth

Reminder to mindfully place our heaviest concerns

in the open hands of God, receiving God's truth in return

Peace, provision, protection

Wise beyond years

Hidden in the Pavilion of God

Set high upon a rock

An appetite, a hunger to exemplify

The unification of all of God's people through love itself

Finding nourishment and fulfillment in a sacrifice of praise

For heavy is the head that wears the crown

Capturing the hearts of the masses and doing it now

The epitome of love thy neighbor as you love thyself

Contagious attitude of loving the Lord

Yet God still called you by name

Transforming pain into purpose

Trauma into triumph

Choosing love and trust over fear

Overcoming struggles as stepping stones to success

Walking in the sunshine of God’s love

For God is love

Resting in the assurance that God is with you

With a posture of thanksgiving, a spirit of revival

Sacred rite of passage from your mother's womb

Surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses

Aligning self with God's creation, elders and ancestors

Bishop Wyatt I Greenlee

Thank you, thank God

Calling upon the powers of heaven

The Earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof

A charge to keep I have

A God to glorify

A living sacrifice

For It's already done

It is already written

Ask, believe, receive

Wisdom, downloaded

Elevated, full manifestation of our being

God's anointed masterpiece

Sculpted, dedicated and dictated by the mighty hands of a timeless God

Good and very good

The power of Sankofa

Go back, go back, going back and get it

Reclaiming that which was lost

Taken backwards to bring you forward

In highest ascension

One flame, Love God 

One flame, Love Self

One flame, Love People

Carried by the many gifted lifted hands of

Rehoboth Fellowship Atlanta

Answering the Clarion call to love all of God’s creation the way God loves us, unconditionally

To love God, love self and love people

In love, if we do what we can do and do our best,

God will do what we cannot do,

God will take care of the rest

You are perpetual love, light and power

God touched you and made you whole before your conception

Your answer was yes, yes Lord out of your mother's womb

Anchored in the Spirit

A pure and powerful prism, reflecting God's Love

Agape, Imago de

Rejoicing in gladness

To freely dance upon the colors of the rainbow

And just live life like it's golden, no, platinum

Smiling widely, brightly as an eagerly curious child

Soaking up God's love as a sponge

Basking in the Son, Jesus

People will know us based on the love we show one another

Tap into the deep silence

Listen for the beat of the Yoruba Sakara and talking drum

As a heart's beat

Connecting us to the familiar

Your laugh, your wisdom, your evolution

Our inheritance awaits

Freedom to love

Freedom to forgive

Freedom to escape, the bondage

Your perpetual love, light and power

Enlightened our spiritual transformation

Life, healing, peace, victory percolating from your gifted hands and prophetic voice

Elevating the masses with a profound word from God

The choice; choose life

A life, well lived

A job, well done

Good and faithful servant

You won, the highest victory

A beacon of positive energy

Your Anointed words soaking into every nook and cranny and crevice of our soul

Igniting our imagination as the world watches the blessed unfold

One flame, Love God 

One flame, Love Self

One flame, Love People

Carried by the many gifted lifted hands of

Rehoboth Fellowship Atlanta

one flame writes the vision

one flame continues the legacy

many hands never dropping the torch

Whosoever believeth in Him

As we draw closer to the God of our understanding

enveloped in the light of the Divine

Driving out darkness and permeating us with perpetual peace to shine

Our light, In this season, all things will be new

As the unplanned, unexpected and unprecedented surprises

challenge our Rehoboth Family standing strong

While igniting imaginations in times of adversity

And igniting imaginations watching the unexpected unfold

Re-dreaming those dreams you thought were unattainable

God has made room for us to continuously grow

One flame, Love

One flame, Light

One flame, Hope

One flame, Peace

One flame, Rehoboth

Carried by many hands

This we understand

Bishop Troy’s resting in perpetual love, light and power

Your legacy, one flame, carried by many hands.

Ase' Amen

Marcia S. McNeill

Words By Marcia

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