 Praise the Lord everybody. Hallelujah. Come on it's worship time. Hallelujah. Thank you Lord we're so grateful for your goodness toward us oh God. So we come to praise and bless your day. Hallelujah. Come on. Both savior. What a friend we have in Jesus. Love our sins and griefs to bear. Hallelujah. Because you hear us when we pray. Thank you Lord. I thank you because you answer our prayers. Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. Not shy. Hallelujah. Bless our service today Lord. We came to praise you and honor you. We came to glorify your name. We came to bless you. Oh bless us in so many ways. We want to say thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. How you brought us from a mighty long way. Please save today those who are not saved. Touch the hearts of those who need you Lord. Draw them close to you in Jesus' name. Keep us safe. Hallelujah. From dangers seen and unseen. Bless our children. Save all of our children. Oh God. Yes. What a Messiah. We put them in your hands. Thank you Lord. Thank you Jesus. Be glorified in all that we say and do. Hallelujah. We came to praise you and bless your holy name in Jesus' name. Thank you Jesus. We honor you in Jesus' name. I pray. Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. This is the day of the Lord that's made and we shall rejoice and be glad in it. Amen. I'm here to read the scriptures for today. Our scripture is going to be found in Psalms 46 beginning at verse one all the way through through verse seven. Amen. Amen. Will you have it? Say amen. God is our refuge and strength. A very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear though the earth be removed and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled. Though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof sea line. There is a river the stream thereof shall make glad the city of God the holy place of a tabernacle of the most hot. God is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved. God shall help her and that right early the heathen raid the kingdom was moved. He uttered his voice. The earth swelled. The Lord of hosts is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge sea line. When I read this I thought about Israel. You know Israel is in war right now and I said whoever's fighting against Israel is not going to win. Because the scriptures say they're not going to win. They might as well give it up. Amen. So I read this when it said God is in the midst of her. She shall not be moved. God shall help her and that right early. Amen. Praise God for another word. We are here this morning ushering in the presence of the Lord. We want his spirit to fill this place. Hallelujah. To break chains. To remove yolks. Hallelujah. To deliver and save. Our special music by Brother Mike. Everybody has their own. Come on somebody. He's done one thing for some person. He's done another thing for many other people and all of us have a testimony that we need to share about what God has done. Come on somebody. Everybody needs to be a witness. Some people may be a little ashamed of the road they traveled but we're here. We're here. I'm excited today to see each of you who are here. For those who are watching by way of media we're excited that you're watching with us. The spirit of the Lord is in this house. He visits us every time we come. I got a witness. He visits every time we come into this place and we thank him. We praise him for his goodness towards us. He didn't have to do it but he did and I'm glad about it. I want to make this announcement. This is October the eighth finally. Amen. Amen and we're having a Los Angeles metropolitan diocese meeting on this afternoon at four o'clock in the city of Pasadena, 1127 North Lake Pasadena, California. I'm the diocesan for the LA Metro Churches. The churches will be meeting. We're going to have a great time in the Lord. Amen. Fellowshiping with our brothers and sisters and if we don't stay too long in service we can eat and we can go and fellowship with our brothers and sisters. Amen. Now I said that because we weren't expecting Sister Haskins. Sister Haskins has prepared dinner. Amen. So we'll stay around after the service and have some good food. She's a great cook. She's not a good cook. She's a great cook. Amen. So I'd like for us to as many as will for us to after service eat fellowship with each other and then head over to Los Angeles now Pasadena over to Pasadena where the Spirit of the Lord is going to meet us there. Amen. So that's my little spiel for right now. Now we have a young man who's great to get to the Lord and he hasn't been a young man or a little guy in my life in my eyesight. He's always been a big man even when he was a little man but the Lord has blessed him. He's gifted not just in singing the young man is gifted. Amen. Come son in case you didn't know this is our second in command in an audio visual room working all that heavy equipment and he knows what to do with it. So the Lord has gifted this young man and I want you to receive him as he comes bringing music for us this morning and after he's finished Elder Ross will be speaking and he'll come that'll be the next voice you hear after he's singing. God bless you sir. Because I can't leave without you. I can't leave. What can I do? Because I can't leave. I need you to take. Thank God for Brother Michael one more time. Before you take your seats I feel like singing but I know better. I got to save some but praise the Lord everybody. I bless and give honor to God. I bless him and I praise him. My testimony is God has been nothing but good to me. I give special honor to our bishop and our shepherd. Bishop Orling McClure Alexander point two junior. Our first lady pastor Bobby. I'm gonna call her junior too. She looks so much like a mother. So I'm gonna make her honorary junior for the day. Your sister's gonna find out they're gonna be mad at you but that's all right. That's all right. They're gonna have to get over it. I honor them men and women that shared the preaching of the gospel with me greeting to the saints and friends and all those watching us by live stream. We are so honored to be here this morning. No matter how young you are no matter how old you are no matter how rich you are no matter how poor you are no matter how much education you have or don't have God has a plan for your life. Say he's got something he wants you to do and I'm convinced that none of us are here by accident but God wants you to know he says I have a plan for your life. I have something that I want you to do that nobody else can do but you. And I want to be found doing that. Father we thank you for this time. We thank you that your presence has already been with us and we pray Lord that you would anoint us for this service. Go with us even in the Word and we'll give you the praise. We'll thank you for because you're great and we give you glory in Jesus name. Amen. Praise the Lord everybody. Praise the Lord everybody. Praise the Lord. Look at your neighborhood neighbor. I'm glad you're here. Just a neighbor you sure look good today and tell them show you right. Show you right. Show you right. Come on somebody. But God has a plan for your life. Proverbs said where there is no vision the people perish. Where there is no plan the people perish. Genesis one in one says in the beginning God. That's it. In the beginning God. This is not a question. This is not a suggestion but it's just the fact that in the beginning was God and this God he created the heavens and the earth in six days and on the seventh day he rested. Day one he created the day and the nights. Day two he created the waters. He divided the waters from the waters the oceans and the rivers and the streams. Day three he caused the dry land to appear. Day four he created the moon or the sun and the moon and the stars. The sun to rule by day and the moon to rule by night and the stars to create a beautiful celestial glowing curtain. That's God. And on the fifth day he created the fish of the sea and the fowl of the air. On the sixth day he created the beast of the field the cattle and all of the animals. And his creation was almost complete. But now it is time for God to make man. I like that. But before he makes man he declares and lays out his plans and his purposes for man. But notice he didn't do that with the other creations that he created in specific but man was something special. Man wasn't a bird. He wasn't an animal. He was something special to God. So turn in your Bible to Genesis 1 26. Genesis 1 26. And God said let us make man in our image after our likeness and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God said and God said and God said let us make man. Number one he said let us make man in our image from the Hebrew word teslam meaning resemblance or a replica. Number two he says and let's make him after our likeness. Coming from the Hebrew word demi meaning a model or a similitude. And then he said let them have dominion. Notice he said let them have. Let them have. Now he's talking about creating the man but he says let them have. So in the mind of God he's going to create a man but he also knows I'm going to make a woman out of man. So he said let them have dominion. God he has such amazing foresight. Everything he does in creation he said let that be and he did it and then he stood back and said oh that's good that's good. He might have said oh I'm good I believe I don't know I don't know but he said let them have dominion. Coming from the Hebrew word rada meaning to rule to reign to prevail to dominate. Dominate over the fish of the sea the fowl of the air the cattle the whole earth and everything that creepeth upon the earth. So God has given dominion to man over his works that he has created. And then God said so let us make man and he made man and his name was Adam and he was the father of all mankind and this was God's original plan for man to dominate in the earth and to rule this was his plan. This was his plan for man and this was his plan for us. You need to understand that you have been born again but God has created you or recreated you to have dominion over. But there's always a but but but the problem was what had happened was Adam had a fall and as a result of that fall all of mankind had a fall and Adam having fallen forfeited his dominion and because Adam forfeited his dominion we forfeit our dominion because we all fell in Adam. It's Adam's fault but this is what I like it says and at the appointed time God chose a people to be his people. God chose a people to be his very own. God chose Israel turned to Deuteronomy chapter seven Deuteronomy chapter seven he says with our order holy people love to the Lord thy gods and the Lord that God has chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all the people upon the face of the earth. So the Lord did not say his love upon you or choose you because you were more in number than in his. A matter of fact you were few among all and what he's saying is you were nothing special. Says but because the Lord loves you and because he has kept the oath which he swore unto your fathers that the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage from the him the Pharaoh the king of Egypt verse nine it says know therefore that the Lord thy God he is God the faithful God which keeps covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations and so we rejoice in the fact that God keeps covenant he keeps his promise to a thousand generations if God makes you a promise you can take it to the bank God is not a man that he should lie no the son of man that he should repent if God said it he's gonna do it but there's that but again but the problem here was the children of Israel they did not keep covenant to a thousand generations like God have you noticed a pattern here the faithful God the holy God the righteous God who chose us and he chose the children of Israel yet they did not keep his commandments as a matter of fact they sin before God and they fell in their sins and they broke the covenant has anybody in this room ever broke the covenant come on you'll have to be sure because I'm gonna raise both my hands and my feet matter of fact at one time bishop I was breaking it on the regular I think the Lord said I'm gonna have to take this boy out because he had lost his mind down there but they broke the covenant and as a result of their sins God sends them down into captivity into Babylon for seven years 70 years that is an appointed time a measured time you need to go when you go through tests and trial God has appointed a time every trial every test has an expiration date and you need to know I don't care how long you've been in it I don't care how short you've been in it God's gonna bring you out at the appointed time I like that so God says you're gonna be down there for 70 years and the false prophets they rose up and said I say unto you it's not gonna be but a few years and you're gonna go back and you're gonna have everything that you said and God said don't believe the lie see there's some lying prophets out here don't believe the lie if you can't find it in the word it's a lie God said I tell you what build you some houses plant you some gardens take you some wives have some children let your children marry somebody have wives and so have children so we don't diminish it but you're gonna be here just like I said see when we disalign ourselves with the known will of God for our life we set our self in jeopardy we can cause ourself to suffer needlessly you know I was when I was thinking about that and reading that I thought about Pastor Bobby she said y'all out there acting crazy stop acting crazy Pastor Bobby you don't know how you helped me so many times I get ready to do something crazy and before I could do it I could hear you was a stop acting crazy boy what you getting ready to do hey man should tell you in a minute but the children of Israel were down suffering for their sins and God told Jeremiah I know that Israel has sinned against me I know that they have not done what they ought to do and I'm punishing them right now for their sins but I still love them see when you go through a test and a trial or hard times even if it's your fault you need to know God still loves you he won't throw you away he won't give up on you he says I still love them tell him that for me he said I know what I think about them turning your Bible to Jeremiah chapter 29 very familiar texts but it is wonderful when we understand that God sent this word to his people that were down in captivity for their sins but he wanted them to know that I still love you I still have a plan for your life I'm not giving up on you I don't care what other people say about you I still have a plan for your life verse 10 says for thus said the Lord after 70 years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you and perform my good word towards you and causing you to return to this place here it is for I know the thoughts that I think towards you says the Lord thoughts of peace and not evil to give you and expect it in to give you a good in her so they're down in Babylon and God said yes you messed up yes you sit and blew it yes you're suffering right now but this that you're going through what you're experiencing right now this is not the end of the story and I'm here to tell you today if you're going through the test if you're going through the trial you are not experiencing the end of the story God says I still have a plan for your life I know what I think about I still love you I've got plans for you I'm going to bless you I have not changed my mind I know what they're talking about you they're saying those people are no good they've never been no good their mother wasn't no good their father wasn't no good but God says I don't care what they're saying I know what I think about you I still love you I still have a plan I still want to bring you out I still want to deliver you I still want to use you I got a plan for your life has not changed hmm God says I still have the plan I'm still going to bless you I'm still going to use you at the appointed time I know you're going through right now but I'm saying at the appointed time I'll say the time where you're coming out and at the appointed time I'm going to bring you out I'm going to deliver you I'm going to bless you tell your neighbor at the appointed time I'm coming out I'm coming out I'm coming out you let Israel know the end of your story is going to be better than what you're experiencing right now the Lord told me to tell the saints the end of your story I know it's been tough I know it's been hard but if you would just hold on to God he said at the end of your story it's going to be better better better than what you're experiencing right now somebody ought to be happy that God has a plan and his plan is good for your life hallelujah you need to know today that your holy ghost party is just about getting ready to start because ain't no party like a holy ghost party because a holy ghost party don't stop you need to know that your best is still yet to come God is ushering you into a new season a new season the things that you tried to do in the past says I'm going to help you to accomplish it see some of you God gave a dream and a vision of ministry and you turned your back and you did not fulfill that ministry but God says I still got that plan still got that plan all you got to do is repent get back in life says I'm going to help you do what you could not do you're going to see the supernatural move of God in your life up you need to know God says it's time for you to dominate him to dominate him to dominate in your health to dominate in your finances to dominate in your relationship to dominate in your ministry dominate dominate dominate this is your time to dominate in the spirit tell somebody it's my time it's my time it's my time to dominate God says I'm going to take you back to the future I'm going to take take you back to the promise that I made in your life. And everything God told me to do, I'm gonna do it. Everything that he said I could be, I'm gonna be that. This is my time. This is my time to win. This is my time to celebrate. I'm the head and not the tail. I'm above and not beneath. I've got victory. I've got victory. You've got victory. You've got victory. So walk in your victory today. Yes, I messed up. Yes, I blew it. Yes, I was acting a fool. But I repented. I repented. I got it right. See, that's sometimes, that's what you gotta do when you mess up and God repents you. Repents you and get it right. I repented and got it right. Sister Merley, and I'm reclaiming my time. Tell somebody I'm reclaiming my time. I lost some time, but I'm taking it back. The enemy did something, but I'm taking it back. The enemy tried to stop me, but I'm taking it back. I got victory. I got breakthrough. I got healing. God has a plan, a good plan for your life. You need to know it ain't over until it's over. It ain't over until you win. It ain't over until you got the victory. You need to know that the best is still yet to come in your life. God has a plan. Now Barbara said, weeping may endure for night. You may be going through it tonight. But joy, but joy, but joy is coming in the morning. It's time for joy. It's time for healing. It's time for breakthrough. It's time for deliverance. Someone said it won't always be like this. Said God's gonna perfect some things. He's gonna move some things. He's gonna fix some things. He's gonna allow some things to get out of my life. He's gonna bring some things into my life. I don't know how he's gonna do it. I don't know when he's gonna do it. But sooner or later, I don't care how long it's been. But sooner or later, I don't care how you suffered. Sooner or later, it's gonna turn in your favor. He's gonna bring it out. So rejoice. Celebrate. Shout out to God with the voice of triumph. God's bringing you into a new season. A season of healing. A season of prosperity. A season of deliverance. Your season is just about here. And God said the rest of your life is gonna be the best of your life. He's gonna do some things you never thought he would do. So I want you to know as the musicians come that God has a plan for your life. God still wants to bless you. God still wants to use you. God still wants to bring you out. Even if you missed it, just like the children of Israel, they missed it and they were down in captivity. But God says, I know the thoughts that I'm thinking for you. Even though I know you sinned and got caught up into some things that you shouldn't have. This doesn't have to be the end of your story. Young people, middle-aged people, who said old people? Thank you. I'm 66, I'm a junior senior. I'm not quite a senior yet. I'm a junior senior. And we got a few real seniors in the house. But God still has a plan for your life. As long as you have breath in your body, God wants to use you. There's something that you can do for the kingdom of God. But your expectations have to believe God is not through with me yet. He wants to use you. He wants to bless you. And he wants you to turn around and bless somebody else. God bless you. Say yes to the word of God. Yes. Yes to the word of God. It will be the greatest value to each of us is to hear the voice of the Lord. And when we hear the voice of the Lord, the only thing that we should think about is obeying what He said. What a wonderful message. Encouraging message to know that the Lord doesn't throw us on the heap at the very minute when we do something out of His will. The Lord loves us. And I say that we're His greatest creation, mankind. And He loves us. Elder Ross said that out of the appointed time, things are gonna turn around. Come on, somebody. This caught my spirit, it just turned my spirit over. Jeremiah 29, 11, I know the thoughts. Yes. Then he said, then, he said, then shall ye call upon me. And ye shall go and pray unto me and I will hearken. It's conditional. I have thoughts of you, but it won't come true. Tell you, do what's necessary. Verse 12 said, then shall ye call upon me and ye shall go and pray unto me and I will hearken unto you. And ye shall seek me and find me. When ye shall search for me with all your heart. The Lord wants your heart, not just a part. He wants all of your heart. He wants you to say, I'll take Jesus for mine. You can have the whole round world, but give me Jesus for my part. Let us stand. God's promises are true. We can trust Him. No matter where we are, what our condition is, you can trust God to keep His promise because He loves us, but He wants obedience. It won't always be like this. I will prevent that concern. Sooner is required is repentance. Tell God your Godly sorrowful for your sins. The pit, then be baptized in water in Jesus' name. And the promise after that is ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. A free gift is there one today who's heard the voice of Jesus. And it's your determination to get it right. The Lord said, I'll help you. I'll hear you when you pray. I'll hear when you call out for my assistance. All right, the altar is open for any needs. Turning around to cause us to be victorious according to His word. Thank the Lord for the service on today. At this point in time, it's time for us to receive our offering and our tithes. Promise that goes with tithing. Promise that if we would pay our tithes and then give Him an offering, see the tithes is what we owe Him. And He said, after you give me what you owe me, He said, give me a tip, tell me what you think about. See, I'm not young like this fellow right here. He said, the Lord said, break me off a piece. He said that if we pay our tithes and giving Him an offering, He would open the windows of heaven and pour out a blessing that you're unable to receive. I like those kind of promises. Thank you, Jesus. And I'll further thank the Lord that He helped me to embrace what He said there. There are people who want to argue about tithes, this or that is wrong is right or whatever. But I thank the Lord because He's softened my heart. For those who don't know me, I grew up in a family with 16 children and we were taught to pay tithes. No, I'm bowing my head because it took me a little longer than it took some of the others. But I learned to tie. Ever since I've been married to that young lady right there, we had no problem whether or not we're gonna pay tithes or not. Her family was 12 strong. Her daddy was a bishop. And so I can testify that it works. God has been so faithful. God has been so faithful. He brought me further than I could ever have dreamed in my youth and I'm glad about it. He said, I'll pour out a blessing on you that you're not able to receive. He pours out so much blessings on me, it rolls over onto my kids. And then He said, I'll revoke the devour for your sake. And I testify to that. He's revoking the devourer for my sake. Amen, my wife has gone through, this is her second time through cancer. She should have been gone a long time, but God, God always keeps His promise. I take her to all her appointments and I'm glad that I make the appointments so I can know firsthand. See sometimes you might ask somebody who's near and dear to you, so how I think, well, it's all right. No, they're hiding something. I go and sit there with the doctors. The last doctor's appointment we went to was a surgeon who had promised her that she had stage four cancer. Said, if anything else happened, we can't do nothing about it. We're not gonna do anything. And my wife said, all right, we'll see. Now, when that doctor came in the other day, she goes, wow, you look good. She had a dim light to cast. We wouldn't receive it. That's right. Thank you, Jesus. Well, when she went to her oncologist after that surgeon had talked so negative towards her, oncologist says, I'm gonna do everything I can to keep you alive. And she was planning on giving her chemotherapy again while wife was dreading it, but she found out that they had run a test on her and they found that appeal would accomplish what? Radiation. And chemotherapy. She couldn't have radiation again, however. She said, but it might be a little costly, but I'll see what I can do. And so she said, my wife said, well, when can I get the medicine? She said, you can get it today. I ordered it. You can pick it up in Pasadena. And when the medicine came, my wife started taking it. And then she said, let me see how much this costs because she said it might be a little expensive. And she said, well, I'm thinking maybe like $2,000. I can make that. When it came back, she looked at the figures and the pills cost $16,000 a month. But God is good. We'd be in the poor house shortly at $16,000 a month. We have to, our co-pay is $5. One, two, three, four, $5. I can rest in Jesus. I'm going to say it. I don't know if she'll outlive me. She might outlive me. And the last time I went to the doctor, the doctor said, I was doing fine. Don't change nothing you're doing. But see, I don't know. The power of God might make her be 103. All right. Amen. All right, that's my testimony. I didn't intend to do all that, do all that. But I think, no, I know that when the Lord does something for you, especially when it's fantastic, something that he's done is fantastic, you need to talk about that. And so, we used to have testimony service in church. We don't do that no more because we don't have enough time. Let us stand and receive the offering. Y'all, excuse me, will y'all forgive me? Let us raise our offering to the Lord, internal God, our Father who art in heaven. We thank you, oh God, for your goodness, for your mercy, for your long suffering and your kindness unto us. We thank you for the opportunity to serve you. We thank you, oh God, because we're able to support your ministry in this place, in long be shield of faith. Thank you, oh God, for giving us the desire, helping us to understand, be obedient to your word. And I ask you to bless it, oh God. Each one, oh God, that contributes, bless them in a special way. We thank you, we praise you, and we give you a glory and honor in Jesus' name, amen. You may come.