Doris Akers - Sweet Sweet Spirit (Live)

[@johnhenryholiday4964]

The sad fact is that most all of these people have passed.... Billy Preston passed in 2006, Doris Akers passed in 1995, Albertina Walker passed in 2010.... It is terrifically sad but they crossed over and now their voices are eternal.... I can hardly wait to cross over and hear these wonderful people sing and play the piano and organ without being weary .... Everyone in this assembly is special... Yes there is a God and a Jesus who died for us....

[@okic7b4i81]

When, in 59, we were in the church on Normandy, in Los Angeles, we, the choir, would meet in a side room and Ms Akers would say, "Pray children!" and EVERYONE would raise their voices and pray loud! Even the well-to-do and sophisticated ones. Then a peace would come down, from the ceiling, and slowly continue from our heads, to our feet. Reserved women and adult men would have tears dripping from their chins and NO ONE WOULD WANT TO LEAVE and go into the big room with all the people waiting for the event to start. As we walked to the big room, the warmth and the peace that could only be described as thick, would begin to leave and a cold feeling would take its place, as we walked up the isles, toward the loft, singing, It's a Highway To Heaven. One evening, after the big room was close to empty, and people were going home, about five of the choir were at the center of the stage, but on the floor below. The piano was above us and Billy Preston walked out. When he saw us he motioned a greeting and sat down on the piano bench and began to play Sweet Sweet Spirit. The peace and warmth slowly descended over us as we sang our parts. I looked next, to me, and saw a guy about six feet tall and maybe two thirty, with tears dripping from his chin! He wasn't effeminate, at all, but the experience was overwhelming and it was a surprise to see a real man being bathed, in the Spirit, unafraid to bow to his Master.

[@anniedouglas1058]

GOOD MORNING AND PEACE AND BLESSINGS BE YOURS NOW AND 🙏 ✨ ☺ LOVE AND DEVOTIONS CONTINUED AT ALL TIMES IT'S SAID AND DONE ✔ 👍 😀 🙌 😉 CONTINUED IN HIS TIMING AND HIS CREATIONS AND ESPECIALLY HIS PROMISES AND WISDOM

[@peggystephens8381]

❤Amen🙏🏼💙 Spirit is All sizes. 😅 Amen and Thank God.

[@jeffdawson2786]

No exaggerated ornamentation, no pompous performance, just the straight Truth from this woman. Wonderful clip. Thanks. ❤️

[@authorlydiagreen1862]

Exactly

[@deb1920]

Be careful how you speak about how the various people of God express themselves.

[@jamesrederburg7994]

When we, the sky pilot choir, were waiting in the choir room, Aunt Doe would say: "Pray chirren!" and the whole eighty-member choir would loudly pray and that powerful PEACE would descend from the ceiling and slowly lower upon us, from our heads to our feet. Full grown MEN would have tears dripping from their chins as we felt the warmth descend! THAT experience said what we needed to believe and it inspired people to attend that church! It's what convinced me this is what real religion is! I could believe and trust it!

[@yesiownfrodo]

She was an amazing force :) I love her attitude! :)

[@brandonvandine1695]

Be careful they're the people of god

[@chevydude658]

Most people don't even know Doris Akers was Black. She was a giant in Gospel music. She was friends with the giants like Mahalia Jackson and heavily influenced Nancy Harmon. Her fruit remains. What a testimony about what Jesus said: You haven't chosen me, but I've chosen you and ordained you that you should go forth and bear fruit and you fruit should remain.

[@bjunior1988]

Thanks for the confirmation!! I had a feeling she wasn't totally white!

[@JudahCub1981]

Mahalia introduced a lot of Sis. Akers songs on record or in concert. They co-wrote, “Lord Don’t Move the Mountain”...

[@rennedelorean3341]

Sometimes on the album covers they would make her look a little darker, but she was light skin with blue eyes

[@mayanking339]

The Black Woman has the eve gene

[@jaysoulxselah8260]

She literally looks like a lot of the black women I grew up around in south Louisiana. So I had no doubt she was black when I saw her. She Looks like my aunt sherry

[@yesiownfrodo]

Doris Akers was like no other. A legend. She not only sang this song, she wrote it. She died not long after this was filmed. When I was growing up, her songs were greatly anticipated.

[@christopherwebb1225]

My my my.....the modern church sure could use this now!!!! Praise God for these Soldiers of the Cross.....Cant wait for Heaven cause Heaven doesnt know a color other than the love of God!!!!!

[@paulndaoc]

Your absolutely right. I pray every day for our young and downtrodden living in a world where religion us mocked as if we are simpletons, as often portrayed on shows like "Big Bang Theory'.

[@misshari1964]

Amen Amen AMEN!!!!

[@misshari1964]

(Phil here) - Amen Amen AMEN

[@paulablair9311]

Exactly! This stuff out now is not good.

[@David-qr8pi]

Amen my brother!

[@jamesrederburg7994]

Doris Akers and twelve-year-old, Billy Preston were the leaders of our choir, at the Sky Pilot church on Normandie, in Los Angeles and I was a second tennar in 1958. I had never known of the Sacred Breath descending on a crowd, so thick everyone felt Him and full-grown MEN would stand silently as tears would drip off their faces. The church did, because on Sundays, the choir, Ms. Akers and over a thousand people would FEEL the peace and power descend on us, when we sang, or prayed. I was fifteen when Billy played the piano and organ with Doris. That's when I discovered religion wasn't always a fake ritual of emotional dialogue in EVERY church. We believed the biblical forgery of Constantine, like everyone else, but the Massiah caressed us anyway. We had no real teachers; just real passionate followers. We didn't know Jesus was a cuss word, or that the Protestant bible was a knock-off of the Catholic, which was a corruption of the Jewish bible's Deities' names, like the replacement of the Creator's name: I Am, with the demon: Lord and god, Babylonian, Ba'al the sun god, mixed with Babylonian rituals of sorcery, like Christmas and Easter. All we knew was what the fake preachers told us and none of the protestant preachers said we were taught from a Catholic bible, which was a corrupted Jewish one, by a pagan named Constantine, of Rome. He murdered Jews preaching on Roman streets, who were popular and getting the results the original apostles did, with Massiah. He studied Jewish history, where Israel and Judah were cursed and divorced in 605 B.C., for obeying the order of the bribed Levite priests, to stop using the sacred name of the Creator, I Am in Exodus 3:14, to replace it with those of the Babylonian demon sun god, Ba'al: lord and god. The result was an eternal curse. Israel and Judah were divorced and renamed, Lo Ammi: Without I Am and Lo Ruhamma: Without The Promise, respectively. The Massiah: I Am Salvation The Anointed, said, six hundred years later: "I have explained your names (I Am) to the men you gave me out of the world." (John 17:6) Exodus 2:13 says: "Make no mention of the names of pagan gods, (Demons) neither let them come out of your mouth." The Holy Ghost, forged by Constantine, has always really been the Sacred Breath and the title, Christ, also forged by Constantine, as the Greek: Christus; where demon idols, stacked on a table, were anointed by a pagan priest. The apostles were never Christians. Jesus was a cuss-word contrived by one Pope John VII in 650 A.D. to mock the pagan Greeks. The first European to use the term, was King James in 1618 A.D., to replace the Catholic name Iesus, (Zoos) the Greek demon lightning god, replacing I Am Salvation The Anointed.

[@lfc211]

Praise the Lord. I'm learning English. I can't understand all the words but i felt the Holy Spirit. Hallelujah!!!

[@MikalWoodsFabulousFashions]

Luiz Gabriel how about now?

[@paulndaoc]

Luiz, el espíritu santo no conoce fronteras. God bless

[@ryanneel1029]

My friend, God is so awesome and amazing.

[@ageelett5993]

Hallelujah! Good morning Everyone

[@madeinmississippi662]

Yes! God bless you brother!

[@kylviivarsson64]

Never heard this song before, never knew about Doris Akers before, but this was the real thing, THE REAL thing!!!

[@bowlingmaster168]

No, you're the real thangg

[@gwenmorris113]

Yes, never heard of her before but a friend recommended that I look her up. I was not disappointed!

[@austinhaywood24]

100 percent. Can't really explain it but it hit me right in the heart

[@ericpeterson5608]

This was a sister who knew what family she was a part of, she was unafraid of being who she was a daughter of the most high God!

[@hardikkarelia3783]

Same here. I came across "you can't beat god" song accidently and also this one. Now I come here daily to listen this. Never heard this type of songs before and I am loving it.

[@jmcnealful]

These are songs we don't hear in church no more, and these are the Songs we need to hear. Lord bring us back to songs like these and the Cross and the Blood of Jesus.

[@davidcooker6903]

Hello,how are you doing?

[@margotblanchette3767]

As a New Christian hearing this song absolutely melted my heart & singing it in our fellowship Holy Spirits Anointing on this Beautiful song & His Presence overwhelms me to this day. How we need Him. Beautiful Spirit of God.

[@yesiownfrodo]

To those who might not know: this song was such a big deal that even ELVIS sang a cover. Doris Akers was an giant. She was biracial and it didn't stop her.

[@haileyelam3214]

Doris Akers was my great great Aunt. Heard many stories about her growing up from my grandmother Barbara Akers (maiden name) ❤️

[@juanshawntravel]

I truly miss these days...the Church of today just doesn't get it...and yet wonder why there is so much going on. We've got to get back to the old way where Church meant something!

[@need4HIM]

That precious generation of saints are really missed. We NEED them. They had the real deal and knew how to live it. Those songs need to be reintroduced to our churches.

[@cathythomas9128]

Amen brotha!

[@colejacobs9880]

Truth

[@dariusjackson142]

oh because there wasn’t foolishness in the church back then? 🙄 shut up the old time religion just as tarnished

[@trudypink577]

@@dariusjackson142 you are missing the point u are part of the problem sadly 😞 xxx

[@karengraham5732]

I love God's unexpected moments. He doesn't just show up, He rushes in! What a pure anointed sound of that carries & welcomes Him. Hallelujah.

[@Raven-ug8uw]

Love ur insight.

[@corneliuswellmaker7681]

Doris voice is so beautiful you can just feel the spirit of the Lord when she sing

[@SEGoddard]

I love the way Doris puts her hand on Billy Preston's shoulder halfway through, making him stop playing. And a little later when he looks round at her awaiting instructions, as if he was eight years old again. Such awe and respect from a man who was himself respected by the greatest musicians of his generation.

[@stokesfitness7492]

I loved that aspect of it also. The way she gave cues and directed the entire song. Your right Billy looked at her like he was just learning how to play waiting for her instruction. I'm still trying to figure out who she was pointing to at the very end of the song.

[@eaqua56]

@@stokesfitness7492 I’m guessing the sopranos

[@stokesfitness7492]

@@eaqua56 I think that was one of the Barret sisters who hit that high note. The youngest sister.

[@olcam6071]

The soprano she pointed to at the end of the video was none other than Cleo Kennedy of the Gospel Harmonettes

[@albertakono3932]

Excellent observation. It shows real humility

[@louburi1568]

These beautiful gospel singers sung/came together in love, peace, harmony!!!!!!! My dear brothers/sisters, one day we too will come together in CHRIST, in sincerity/ truth!!!!! When we all love/embrace/obey, place GOD first in our lives, as our most precious common denominator, love one another, our HEAVENLY FATHER will return to bring us to that house, with many rooms, John 14: 2-6!!!!! Let's continue to 🙏 for one another, this country, Blessings/peace to all!!!!!

[@clarencestubbs1442]

Never saw this lady before, but like the late great Mahalia Jackson, you can see and hear the spirit of the Lord on her face & in her voice! When that great it transfer to the audience! Thanks for posting!

[@davidcooker6903]

Hello,how are you doing?

[@colossians28]

What an amazing rendition!!! Praise the Lord Jesus Christ for Doris Akers!!!

[@byronautry2555]

How many know that this song that Sister Doris Ackers wrote was Elvis Presley's favorite gospel song ! It was sung at Elvis's funeral at Graceland mansion days after his death .

[@TemeikaRoinetteWarthenBarlow]

Amen yes Doris Akers sweet Temeika Roinette Warthen Barlow 🙏 ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@sandrasampson8319]

Billy Preston had much respect for Ms. Doris Akers. He accompanied her and her group in Doris Akers church years ago, that's why he looked at her the way he did because they had a close personal relationship. Billy Preston LOVED his Mother and Doris Akers probably was a mother figure to him. May God bless and rest their souls🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Doris Akers passed away in 1995 and Billy Preston passed away in 2006🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽😥😥😥😥😥🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@davidcooker6903]

Hello,how are you doing?

[@hank6887]

She was amazing, and I have been struggling with alcohol for so long time but I love hearing this Angel and sing much respect to her .

[@biggladyk159]

I am praying that The Most High delivers and heals you from that addiction of alcohol! Keep praying and believing for your deliverance!!!

[@grantlouw2783]

Hank don't despair my freind.ive been struggling with alcohol abuse as well for so many years but my hope and faith is in the lord.we will overcome this.keep your focus and soul on jesus.he will deliver you.Grant

[@marcleo1411]

Absolutely gorgeous arrangement and true passion.

[@O0O0-n7q]

하나님 하나님 주님... 저의 죄를 용서해주세요... 평생을 죄사함으로 살께요,,,그리고 감사해요 봉사하며 배풀고 살께요

[@Posark]

Thank you Lord, that it is not just in church, but in every day life, you are the sweet sweet Spirit who abides with us and in us 💕 Thank Jesus for your presence!

[@wilburreeves8329]

Yes Amen, sense the presence of the sweet Holy Spirit as Sister Doris sings!! She knows in whom she has believed, and is persuaded He is able to keep that which she’s committed unto Him against that day, hallelujah!!! ❤️✝️👏👏

[@ViolinOnFire]

I heard a voice while flipping through the radio, it shot through my heart like a bullet. I HAD to know who this was. Doris Akers you are a gem from above. I’m just now discovering this GREAT artist and finding out she’s one of the pillars of gospel music. The real deal right here. 🙏🏽

[@rennedelorean3341]

Yessss! Doris, Rev Dr James Cleveland and Thurston Frasier, they would show up with their individual choirs (100 to 150 members each choir) and what a time they would have!!!

[@austinhaywood24]

had the same experience. heard that voice and immediately something happened on the inside of me

[@robertkendall1037]

I met Jesus at Sky Pilot church in Los Angeles in 1964 while she led the choir there. I will never forget her sweet voice

[@ramon.wagner]

Great.

[@randybock82]

Good for you! Bet that was a time!! Wish I could have been there.

[@jamesrederburg7994]

Jesus left that church in 1962, with the choir, Doris and the retired Sky Pilot, pastor, Aubry Lee. Only seven kids, from the choir remained. The family, of the church's female trio, claimed criminal assertions regarding Doris, instantly splitting the choir and the church leaders. Doris and Billy were instantly gone and we, the choir of eighty singers, stayed home afterward.

[@jamesrederburg7994]

Doris was gone in 1962, after a blond church-witch verbally attacked Doris, causing Aubry Lee, the pastor, to turn on Doris. The next day, none of the eighty-five members of the choir ever returned to that church. Billy Preston was gone too. Within a month, only five choir members were still at the church and it finally folded. I was drafted into the Army, at eighteen and Billy was taken to meet the Beatles, in England at fifteen, while I was shipped to Germany to the Army communications center in Zirndorf. I walked into a bar, in town one night and heard a radio, that was playing a crappy song. I asked the server who was singing that song. She said, "Ze Beetles!" I asked, "Aren't those bugs?" I had no idea my friend, Billy was with them playing the piano!

[@chrisjones2377]

Thank 💖 God for this song of praise. Grateful in Jesus' name.

[@markchwala2913]

Sing It Doris,Sing it Doris as only you can sing it! It is your song!

[@jasonchilds4423]

May 21,1923 - July 26,1995 Happy birthday Aunt Doe 🎼🎂

[@ellenarmstrong2842]

Now that is what I call real Praise Music. So well done...brings tears to one's eyes.

[@davidcooker6903]

Hello,how are you doing?

[@anitamichael]

This is the most beautiful version of this song I've ever heard beautiful song sung by God's beautiful children

[@theofficialmonicasams]

Who’s feeling the ANOINTING on Pentecost Sunday in 2021! 🔥🕊God rest the precious soul of the gift from God who was Doris Akers! May her memory and gifts to the world be forever blessed! 🙌🏾❤️

[@moeilevasasuani1217]

Yes Amen!!! Praise the Lord.. Sweet Holy Spirit💕💟💕💟💕💟💕💟💕

[@ernestt4969]

Praise God for Doris Akers! Wow what a voice, love this! This is what church should be like!

[@isaiahhemphill4057]

Billy Preston sure can play that piano and organ

[@rennedelorean3341]

Yes he could, Doris knew him ever since he was a little boy. Sometimes he would play the organ for her choir "The Sky Pilot Choir" along with another great organist Albert Goodson.

[@deloreskeys7872]

He makes that organ walk Billy Preston play with joy.

[@Lexy_Meier]

Just excellent!

[@pamelahenry2927]

Hallelujah..Took me back!!!🙏🏽❤

[@greggriffin3422]

Hello! How are you doing today! Please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you're a fan!....Stay safe!

[@mytexas493]

Amen Amen Amen

[@melissahyatt7395]

“The poor and needy seek water, but there is none. Their tongues fail for thirst. I, the Lord, will hear them, I, the God of Israel will not forsake them.

[@jermainebraxton5702]

Trust and Believe Jesus Is Real 🙏🏾🙏🏾

[@MD-hg9dq]

My objectives using wonderful words of life found in the attached prayer for unity is to encourage the disheartened and help the weak by being patient with everyone because our contract with life is brokered with fragility, sadness and anxiety. On a balcony of space STEPPED A PURE AND HOLY GOD. IN AWESOME SOLITUDE YOU STOOD ALONE. Not one faint star to give YOU light; just endless darkness, it was blackest night. But somehow in the darkness YOU COULD SEE. YOU SAW mountains high and lofty, YOU SAW valleys lush and green. YOU SAW babbling brooks, and wildflowers grow, YOU EVEN HEARD a robin sing. Then through YOUR COMPASSION STANDING OUT THERE IN YOUR TOMORROW, YOU SAW forum's visitors. 🥰 YOU SAW them as sinners because there is no intrinsic righteousness in any of us due to Adam’s sin. YOU SAW them as they grew from a baby into adulthood due to YOUR HANDS OF MERCY. 🥰 YOU SAW them pursuing a career path for the purpose of obtaining the gains of the world not realizing that it is a loss compared to what YOU DID on the cross. YOU SAW them working long and laboring hard to receive the grace by justification even though YOU stated, "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent."(John 6:29 KJV) YOU SAW the unwillingness to accept YOUR PLAN OF SALVATION THROUGH YOUR SON JESUS CHRIST. YOU SAW them living with the guilt of committing crimes to the heart. YOU SAW them enduring personal crisis. YOU SAW the weight of the burden on their hearts with each tribulation. YOU SAW them seeking comfort from the above mentioned topography, ONE OF THE MANY MARVELS YOUR PERFECT HANDS HAVE MADE. 👏👏👏 YOU SAW their worries about tomorrow. If their hearts were a window that they could look through, oh the pains and scars they would see. What a cruel fate the skin gives as a mask to the inward pain. But the skin couldn’t cover THE SUFFERING YOUR ONE AND ONLY SON BORED on the cross as PAYMENT for all our sins because HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS ALONE HAD THE MERIT TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF YOUR HOLINESS. Indeed, ONLY HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS IS SUFFICIENT TO SAVE us from this present evil world as evidenced by Mary's song of praise. "And Mary said, My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour." (Luke 1:46-47 KJV) Awesome thanks to YOUR GREAT PARDON for being easy on the heart. 🥰 They have seen a lot of crazy things done in YOUR NAME. For example, the father of lies futile attempts to make crooked the right ways of the LORD to turn people away from faith in the WORKS OF JESUS CHRIST ALONE. How can anyone bear the thought of his or her life story detracting from the GLORY AND HONOR KNOWN TO BELONG TO CHRIST ALONE? As a consequence, YOU ARE A MYSTERY OF GREAT MYSTERY to them. Despite this conviction, YOU ARE MINDFUL of them as evidenced by the fact that YOUR JUDGEMENT is not speedy, allowing them to pursue the desires of the flesh. They are aware of hypocrisy in religious assemblies that like to be seen and heard. In addition, secular education teaches that there is no right and wrong, if GOD exists there is no way of relating to HIM, and moral standards shift according to the whims of fashion. Therefore, their minds are conditioned to question everything this world has to offer including “THY POWER THROUGHOUT THE UNIVERSE DISPLAYED.” They have accepted the heavy burden of dealing with the troubles of this life and seeks to know another way, YOU THE GREAT COMFORTER TO ALL who did receive YOU as their personal SAVIOR. Still, YOU have shown them NEW MERCY every day with each thought they make and each breath they take. Unfortunately, like the prodigal son, we are all guilty of wandering far from YOU LORD because the negative experiences of our lives tend to build roadblocks to the TRUTH. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them to identify the way, truth, and eternal life (that is YOU). Since to know and follow your SPIRIT is more exciting than any 007 movie, and YOU DELIGHT MAKING the ordinary into extraordinary. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST MAKE them understand that there is no way around YOUR TRUTH, and that there is something about YOUR NAME. As time marches on, JESUS CHRIST HELP them defeat in their minds what is false in YOUR EYES. LORD GUIDE their thoughts to know that the path of sin is hard on their hearts for the purpose of crying out to YOU to know the joy, peace of having the heavy burden LIFTED by THE GOD OF PEACE I AM, and ANCHOR their souls in THE HAVEN OF REST. In other words, LORD use the storms in their lives to get a hold of them to trust YOU and believe. In truth, YOU ARE THE JOY that seekest them through pain. LORD HELP their fainting hearts to believe that YOU, who was slain on the cross over 2000 years ago has the POWER TO CHANGE lives today through the INSTANTANEOUS GREAT FAVOR from GOD to the house of Israel made known in believers by YOU to make YOUR NAME EVERLASTING. 🥰 For as the statue liberates the citizens so the cross liberates the soul. ONLY YOU can calm the trouble waters of the mind when one admits to wanting salvation from one’s sinful nature, JESUS IS LORD, and believes in the heart that GOD RAISED HIM from the dead TO LIFT the heavy burden of sin's guilt away from the heart in accordance to YOUR WORD found in Psalm 51:1-10 KJV. 👏👏👏👏👏👏 O, the wonder of it all to experience within the flesh the feeling of a tree being cut back/pruned inorder for it to grow stronger and more beautiful after meditating on the words of said Psalm. 🥰🙌 LORD MAKE them know that ONLY YOUR HOLY SPIRIT, through the experience of a new birth within believers, can prevent the family circle from being broken because THE HOPE OF ETERNAL LIFE YOU HAVE GRANTED means a chapter of their lives is decided. Creation sings the rebirth song for them yearly, through YOUR PROMISE of springtime, giving rise to the idea that by the mention of YOUR NAME flowers grow, and the desert blooms again. 🥰 LORD GUIDE their understanding of words to use to come into YOUR PRESENCE with an honest reverence of WHO YOU ARE to experience the beauty that time can't erase YOUR WISDOM resting on their faces. LORD STRENGTHEN their determination to never waiver in efforts to search for YOU because the wages of sin is too high for anyone to pay. Additionally, THE KING OF KINGS is needed in their hearts to learn how to expand their capacity to love for YOU are LOVE in any language. 🥰 Once they learn to speak it with boldness through YOUR WONDERFUL COUNSELING all the world will hear, and know that LOVE is the language of their hearts. So LORD, KEEP KNOCKING on their doors until they let YOU in to know hardships and struggles will end with a GREAT CELEBRATION WITH YOU. 🥰🙌 If one believes faith cannot be forced, YOU WILL GIVE that individual over to the stubborn heart to follow own counsel which will surely fail him or her to the extent that the punishment will last forever found in Psalms 81 NIV. Given this, I pray that YOU WILL MAKE that person see that this feeling is wasted for a world in which we become strangers as we age, gives us thrills instead of peace, aims to solve a problem but creates another, and unrest surges with each passing generation. Shed some light into their broken hearts for YOU ARE THE GREAT JEHOVAH, THE GOD THAT HEALETH thee. Lastly, LORD when they call on YOU in earnest prayer to come into their hearts to be born again, I pray that YOU WILL GIVE them the blessed assurance of their salvation because nothing breaks YOUR HEART, or tears YOU apart like when they cry from the trials of the devil who comes to slander, falsely accuse, steal, kill & destroy. Only by drawing nearer to YOU LORD will put them on a path to a glorious one way trip winding upward to YOU where pain is not welcome because the heart will never break anymore. For ONLY YOU UNDERSTANDS our tears since YOU LOOK at the heart, while humans look at the flesh. O LOVE that will not let them go. When they don't have the strength to try, and have cried all they can cry hear their hearts that need YOU more today than yesterday. Many thanks LORD for speaking TRUTH in our lives TO BLESS those who are not offended by THEE. LET YOUR WILL BE DONE because YOUR LOVE ALONE CONQUERS everything by WAITING for them to cease struggling, and finally surrender to YOUR EMBRACE to learn about YOUR LOVE AND PROMISE TO TAKE CARE of your children exquisitely. 🥰 Since... "at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore"... (Psalms 16:11 KJV), and the nail print for them to know YOU by answering the following question. How did CHRIST LOVE people into a relationship with HIM? 🥰

[@donnierichardson1643]

I adore the songs she wrote. You can just feel the spirit when you hear and sing this song.

[@paulndaoc]

I find so much more inspiration in the gifts the Holy Spirits brings when, I see a congregation gather and proclaim their faith and love for our lord with such joy.

[@alethiabrown898]

Donnie Richardson indeed❤️these are the songs that will keep you if you want to be kept.

[@alethiabrown898]

Some of our young people and adults believe that you have to jump and dance with every song, however doing that you are just being emotional....but songs like these minister to the soul.❤️

[@need4HIM]

Her songs were weighty with the anointing of God.

[@jovitahollins8130]

Yes every last one of them

[@jacekr2655]

The first time, I heard this song it was sung by the choir at St Peter Claver Church in Robbins, IL. I was strongly moved by the song's simplicity and the spirited beauty of the melody. That was 30+ years ago, and that song is still in my heart. Thank you Doris Akers.

[@juliebowen5204]

Jacek R M’n

[@wilkins304]

This song of the Spirit by Doris is soul stirring and I listen to it, sing it and it is part of my daily devotional. Thank you Doris.

[@jamesrederburg7994]

We, in the choir, called her Aunt Doe. She and Billy taught me soul music and I never went back to white.

[@marilyntkeller]

Yes, LORD!!!🙌🏾☝🏾👏🏾✝️💟☯️☮️❤️🖤💚👑

[@djwinchell]

I can feel THIER hearts and THIER love for my Savior!

[@LexClement19]

This song makes me yearn for Him everyday. How blessed are we to listen to this moving melody of His sweetness and love. Altogether sing of His greatness and shout for joy. Praying for a stronger faith in Jesus, my sweet Savior.

[@amberwaves2020]

WOW. That sent goosebumps through me. I never knew who wrote or originally sung that song. I was just in the mood to hear it after many years of not hearing it. Then I looked up the history of, found Doris, and I’m not sure I ever want to hear anyone else sing it. LOL. Powerful powerful powerful sweet holy spirt.

[@page617]

Beautiful, I need the sweet Holy Spirit to come stay right here with us and fill us with your love. Allow that Spirit to flow through our lives into the world. 😇💯❤

[@omegadean96]

Up at 3am with my love greatgrandma on mind RIP💞

[@daina8124]

She was an amazing woman and Pioneer for gospel music. Love her so much. Grew listening to her.❤

[@lucastorres5175]

These really are God's people.❤️🙏❤️

[@a.b.sproductionsllc]

This song brought me to tears while I was driving one day. I’m 30 years old and ever since I was a kid I liked gospel like this.

[@pauljbrown9111]

I'm pleased Doris and her anointing moved you. Coodoos to you! Hold to this type of songs, they will carry you through life. I'm 70 and Doris Akers has been my mentor in music since age 13 as well, the Lord has blest me with this style of playing. I was never privileged to have heard her in person nor met her but have her albums. Embrace her music and carry on her legacy, I still am. God Bless!

[@SEANSOREAL]

ppl don't even know she wrote most of our most famous and favorite gospel songs I mean sing u wouldn't even think yea she wrote them... because of her I truly believe Jesus has no color he is all of us every color every size idk who or wat u believe in at the end it's only one "Sweet Spirit"

[@DoogieHowser93]

SEANSOREAL Doris was black!

[@GodsChild43va]

It sounds like you think she is white. Doris Akers is a woman of color. She just is of a light complexion.

[@mrhammondb3]

Yes Doris was black

[@roberthenry8000]

Yes just dont look at color.. but Doris was African American.. I was shocked too

[@richardschroeder4948]

She might have written the lyrics, but I think Kurt Kaiser did the music. Kaiser’s compositions number more than 300 copyrighted songs, many of which are regular fare in Sunday worship services, such as “The Lord Whom We Love,” “Pass It On,” “Oh How He Loves You And Me” and his popular arrangement of Doris Akers’ “Sweet, Sweet Spirit.” His writing and recording, with 16 solo albums to his credit, earned him a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers as well as election to the Gospel Music Hall of Fame. www.wacotrib.com/entertainment/christian-composer-kurt-kaiser-writer-of-pass-it-on-dies/article_9884aa60-3d43-5010-b24e-c18aa4fd042e.html?fbclid=IwAR28-2qq_XUj8q8TONH4-m8fLheq6epo8PNhkYqnYlZmPgRhZGxMdmrTgsQ

[@bettypierce552]

I love this song. Sweet, sweet spirit in this place ❤💕💖

[@starrysky7056]

How glorious! A foretaste of Heaven!

[@vimcelhoes4833]

60 years ago I was in a choir in our Church when Doris Acres came and brought Billy Preston with her to minister with our Choir. It was this beautiful song we also sang.

[@superbowserlogan5059]

I Love this song R.I.P. Ms. Doris

[@shantaking9946]

I grew up hearing this song my great grandmother would sing it during her morning prayer and while cooking, just her every day routine. ❤

[@hunterdowdle5204]

We sang this every Sunday morning before church began. It brought the Holy Ghost out in everyone. Sweet memories.

[@Ma1nguy]

Thanks a million for showcasing these pioneers artists many of whom are gone from us now

[@need4HIM]

We still have their music but I wish they were here to help give direction to today's church. We need them

[@nitahammett-bell2019]

"SWEET HOLY SPIRIT" "GLORY".OF THE "LORD".

[@jrhurtado731]

Love this amazing song 😢❤

[@FTA.29]

I can just imagine sitting among these great gospel legends in an atmosphere so awesome during the days when things were more simple, sincere and pure.

[@renatoaaron5440]

Doce Espírito Santo! Que unção! Mesmo 30 anos depois, Hoje, primeiro de março de 2.022

[@xrigtrk]

A master technician that's what she is and highly anointed.wow.

[@grettageragi9598]

doris mae akers wrote over 500 songs. sweet sweet spirit is one of her most famous hymns. and my favorite! especially sung by her, aretha franklin or jimmy swaggart

[@AudreyJones-d9g]

The BEST Rendition of this song, SWEET HOLY SPIRIT, lead by Doris Akers, I have ever heard. This is a GREAT Choir as well. Simply Beautiful, it brought me to a place of Praise with tears in my Eyes.

[@TaylorMadeCori]

You can always tell those singers who didn't just sing - but they were choir directors, wrote songs, arranged music, etc. By the middle of this song, the legendary Ms. Akers was directing that choir!!! Loved this.

[@davidcooker6903]

Hello,how are you doing?

[@davidvicari5139]

That is all true. And, Doris Akers handled the business, music publishing as well.

[@jasonstokes7567]

What I like about this video is the admiration the other people have for Doris Akers. It's obvious she was well respected in the gospel community among white and black gospel singers.

[@bettypierce552]

Growing up I was not familiar with Doris Akers. And the many Songs that she wrote. I am glad to get to listen to her Songs. They are A blessing indeed 🙏🙏🙏🙏😊😊👍

[@misterp9242]

Can we talk about her directing skills? True professional ! 🖤🖤🖤

[@MrJerry8159]

I saw her as a kid and loved her. She has both soul and spirit! Not to take anything away from her at all, but my favorite version is of the Imperials gospel quartet who sang this acapella in 1969. Nobody has ever matched their blend to this day.

[@BrianJuntunen]

Wow! Now there is power here in this message.

[@PHILDR85]

Just makes you cry for no known reason...oh I know it's that sweet holy spirit... hallelujah

[@gregorywillis8400]

Lol keep crying in Praise!!!! Hallelujah!!!

[@JAMY77777]

Wow Amen , GLORY to GOD.

[@hesabletv2495]

These are connected and committed Christian in mission with Gospel music 🎵

[@debsvoboda2161]

I love how Dick Bott still plays her music on Bott Radio Sat morning programs from time to time!!

[@aaronfleming4176]

This is one of my favorite songs of all time

[@gohdux]

As a 61 year old white man I watch this and wonder why we can’t take our Common Denominator and heal our country.

[@louburi1568]

My dear brother we can, but not until we all love/embrace/obey/place GOD first in our lives as our most precious common denominator!!!!! Let's continue to 🙏 for all of us, this country, Blessings/peace!!!!!

[@lawill3559]

Every word that Mother sang, it seem she felt it and believes it

[@teajelmore]

Dang that was so awesome

[@timothyj1966]

amazing song writer! Doris Akers -- classic Gospel

[@OPedroVilaNova]

Simply Legendary! Wonderful! Praise the Lord of Lords!

[@denisecurtis7184]

Give me that old time religion... so pure, genuine, and not about the show but real worship that touches the heart.

[@williamrhael5572]

Just became follower of ms.Akers a few months ago,and am so inspired by her music.I listen to "lead me guide me " every morning when I wake to begin my day.

[@jamesrederburg7994]

We, the choir, made three L.P.'s at R.C.A. in Hollywood.

[@62WILDCAT]

POWERFUL 💜🤗

[@robinshay9180]

PTL! Does the Holy Spirit manifest Himself through goosebumps? I believe He does because I have them from head to toe. Thank you Heavenly Father! Unfortunately, we in New England don’t get to hear southern spirituals like this.

[@calvindavis007]

Put your hands on somebody and pray for them right there and now. You will feel the presences of the Holy Spirit. And yes you get the same goose bumps. :)

[@JanReasonover]

She certainly wrote a most moving song!

[@davidcooker6903]

Hello,how are you doing?

[@djmango407]

Our family of 8 (including mom & dad) throughly enjoyed singing with Doris Akers since the 50’s! We played her records over & over again knowing each & every line! In fact all it would take was for one of us to put the black 33 1/3 record on the spin table & my mother seen her whole house get cleaned while singing each song- not missing a beat before both sides were finished! (mine you, this was on a good day around the Parent Family House)! Thanking our mother & father for teaching all of us at a young age to depend on the Lord for our health & strength for years to come! ❤️ PS/ By the way... I, too introduce my children & they passed it on to theirs... Yes... “God is...so good...to me”! May the Lord Richly Bless You... ...DJPM 😊

[@rennedelorean3341]

Hallelujah!! I too first heard Doris at a very young age (1958) and to this day (2019) when I am called to play 'keyboards' at church, I will always play "You Can't Beat God Giving" and other selections by Doris!

[@sheiladenton8541]

Jesus is Lord

[@temalesikaruru1325]

Whoa..!! 👏👏👏BEAUTIFUL!! Great worship..thank you Lord for blessing us through the songs Miss Doris wrote

[@edefranco6501]

Essa canção me leva ao céus...Que bênção poder ouvir uma mensagem assim poderosa e edificante .

[@1973deepee]

Franklin Graham sent me here. Thank you, Franklin Graham!!! These are the beautiful people; aren't they?

[@teddyboy252]

Beautiful

[@doncorleone7940]

We sing this song in our church everytime we end the service

[@BontleNdimande7]

I got goosebumps listening to this wonderful piece

[@georgemurphy2579]

Thank you for this one of my top five most endearing songs in the worship experience ❤

[@mslcjohnsonbghs]

Billy Preston was an accomplished organ player 👏 and we see 👀 he also mastered the keyboard 😎.

[@michaelsahr6002]

Pure Rhythm!!!