Doris Akers - Sweet Sweet Spirit (Live) 

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

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

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

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

The Black Woman has the eve gene

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

Exactly

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

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!

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

AMEN. This reminds me of the Pentecostal women and my grandmother singing at revivals back in Chicago!

No, you're the real thangg

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

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

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!

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.

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'.

Amen Amen AMEN!!!!

(Phil here) - Amen Amen AMEN

Exactly! This stuff out now is not good.

Amen my brother!

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

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

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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.

@@stokesfitness7492 I’m guessing the sopranos

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

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

Excellent observation. It shows real humility

Love ur insight.

Luiz Gabriel how about now?

Luiz, el espíritu santo no conoce fronteras. God bless

My friend, God is so awesome and amazing.

Hallelujah! Good morning Everyone

Yes! God bless you brother!

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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!

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!!!

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

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

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.

He makes that organ walk Billy Preston play with joy.

Just excellent!

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!

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.

Amen brotha!

Truth

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

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

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Great.

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

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.

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!

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

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

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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.

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

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.❤️

Her songs were weighty with the anointing of God.

Yes every last one of them

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

SEANSOREAL Doris was black!

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

Yes Doris was black

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

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

Don't be ashamed, just enjoy her ministry. Her carrier started around 1945, you probably weren't born yet.

Just goes to show her Spirit hasn't died. Her music is definitely anointed! I cherish all those Gospel singers whom pioneered Gospel music that have passed on of which the vast majority I'm never had the privilege to attend nor meet. But their music is SOUL music, gets to the heart and the anointing they have is my drawing point. How can they be drawn unless the Holy Spirit draw them? So I love this music, play it and sing it. God Bless you!

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

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. :)