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We are here today, hearts broken but yet with god's strength we celebrate the life of whitney houston. today. [ applause ] >> now i want to say this as protocol has already been set. this is not my house, this is not your house. you all can finish that next part. this is god's house. whitney, you are the only one that could bring all of us together. whitney, today is your day.
She's a young lady that whitney adored, and always said boy, she's got a lot of talent and she does. here's alicia keys. mren applause ] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
In heaven who is making god himself wonder how he created something so perfect. so of a you go, whitney. off you go. ers ko escorted by an army of angels to your heavenly father, and when you sing before him don't you worry, you'll be good enough. [ applause ]
And i just want to close by saying this because pastor paul said something that fascinates me as i read the word sometimes, he said what then say you to these things? that if god before you who can be against you? so say whatever you want, god was for her and she is resting singing with the angels. god bless you, family. god bless you. god bless you, whitney. we love you so much. ♪ ♪ [ applause ]
Whitney. [ applause ] ♪ >> i had a chance to sit back a little bit and start remembering until last night when we were here and i said cece, if anything i want to share in what i'm going to miss is that whitney when we were getting ready to do our first major headline tour and whitney told us we had to come over. so we came over to the house, and she said -- okay, she was sitting in her closet and her closet about big as this church, though. we weren't crowded and so we're sitting there and she said okay, so, i have to tell you what we're going to do. we're going to -- i went and i -- i had ...