 Oh, tell me, little angel, our blessed Savior was born. God sent to us salvation. That blessed Christmas, oh, come on and go. Oh, tell me, oh, Lord, Jesus Christ. Who are you going to tell, oh, tell somebody. Who are you going to tell, I'm going to tell somebody. Who are you going to tell, I'm going to tell somebody. Who are you going to tell, I'm going to tell somebody. Salvation is here. Beach, the pastor here is Bishop Arling Alexander and the first lady, Pastor Bobby Alexander. Hallelujah. We come here and we learn about the Lord. Come here to give God praise and to give Him glory. Nice to go. Go for the throne of grace. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus, we thank you this morning, Lord God. We glorify you. We magnify your name, Lord God. We come this morning, Lord God. With thanksgiving and praises, Lord God. In our heart, Lord God. We come this morning, Lord God. That we may hear from you, Lord God. That you may speak, Lord God. To our hearts this morning, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Lord, we ask you this morning, Lord God. That you are the anoint, Lord God. Every portion, Lord God. Of this service, Lord God. We ask you this morning, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. That you receive, Lord God. All of our praise, Lord God. I don't have a worship Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. Lord you said that you do well Lord God. In the misappraises Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. Lord we ask you this morning Lord God. That you would know the musicians Lord God. As they play skillfully before you Lord God. As they play Lord God. Under the anointing Lord God. Of the Holy Ghost Lord God. Lord we ask you Lord God. That you would know this speaker this morning. As he come forth Lord God. With your word Lord God. In Jesus name Lord God. Send forth your word Lord God. You know the needs Lord God. You know the desires Lord God. Our hearts Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. We are your people Lord God. And the sheep Lord God. Of your pasture Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. Leader Lord God. Goddess Lord God. Director Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. Have your way this morning Lord God. Have your way Lord God. Have your way Lord of God. Your will Lord God. Not our will Lord God. Help us this morning Lord God. To get out of all sounds Lord God. And get into the spirit Lord God. You said those of us. Those of us that worship you Lord God. We must Lord God. We must worship you Lord God. In spirit and in truth Lord God. For you Lord God. In spirit Lord God. In Jesus name Lord God. In Jesus name we pray amen and amen. Let us eat. Let us eat. Psalms 121 verses 1 through 8. It says I will lift up my eyes unto the hills from which come at my help. That's a decree I. It's a personal decision that we have to make because of who God is to us. Yes. Yes. Verse 2. My help cometh from the Lord which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved. He keepeth thee. Will not I'm sorry. He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold he that keepeth Israel shall never slumber nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper. The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil. He shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth and even forevermore. May the Lord add a blessing to the reading and the hearing and the doing of his word. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The Lord is our keeper and our shade. Hallelujah. He won't allow the sun to smite us by day or the moon by night. Hallelujah was a holy night. A blessed night. The night that Jesus Christ was born. The Savior was born into this world. Hallelujah. So that he would be able to redeem us unto himself. Thank you Jesus. Oh holy night. The stars are brightly shining. It is the night of the dear Savior's birth. Long lay the world in sin and never pause till he appear. A thrill the weary joy says for young a new and glowing hearts by his grave. His law is love and his God shall he break for the slave is our brother. His name all need hymns of joy for chorus raise we let all praise his holy name. For saints rise in the house of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Bless his holy name. Thank you Lord. Thank you Jesus. Inside from the inside from the inside. I know I want him to be glorified in my life. Hallelujah. I need the Lord every second every minute every hour of the day. Hallelujah. I can't make it without the Lord. Hallelujah. I don't know. Can you can you make it without Jesus? I can't make it without the Lord and I thank him that when I cry out to the Lord he hears my cry and he's right there. He's right there. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. The Lord is so amazing. The Lord is so amazing. Thank you Lord Jesus. Lord you are so strong and mighty of all others without you. I know that's why I'm strong when my life would be without you. I know what my life we move forward in the service at this time we will hear from Bishop Alexander. Amen. Let's remain standing. Praise the Lord saints. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. What your life would be without the Lord. Can you can you wrap your mind around it? I can't that's above me. I understand that I can't make it by myself. I've got to have the Lord. Come on. Raise your hands. Come on. Raise your hands and give praise to God. Come on. Tell him Lord I need you. Lord I need you. Hallelujah. I need you every day. I need you every hour. I can't live without you. Thank you oh God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. In in a flight song came to my mind. Jesus. Oh what a wonderful child. Come on. Come on. Come on somebody. We needed him. We couldn't do anything without him until Jesus came. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Jesus. Oh what a wonderful child. Jesus. Jesus. Listen. Hear the end of prayer. They're singing glory. Glory. Glory. Body who will receive him. That's why we sing glory. Hallelujah to a new born king. Oh aren't you glad aren't you glad for Jesus. You may be seated. Hallelujah. I thank God for Jesus. Amen. He's great and he's greatly greatly greatly to be praised. I'm glad to see each of you who are here today. I'm excited that we're able to come together in such a meeting as this where we can reach out to the one who come to deliver us. The one who came to save us. The one who came to save us and I love him with my heart. Come on somebody. Do you love Jesus? Jesus has a name that is above every name. Come on somebody. Come on somebody. Come on somebody. Come on somebody. His name is great. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We have our victory in his name. I'm excited today because the Lord's going to speak to us through his servant. Anybody come to hear from the Lord today? Anybody have a spirit that is open? You surrendered your will. Not my will any longer but your will be done. If you're in that position the Lord is going to speak. He's going to direct us from his word. And I invite you to sit attentively as the speaker of the hour Elder Kevin Ross comes with the word of God. Let's receive him with a hearty amen. Come on stand on your feet. Let's exalt his name together. Say everything that has breath. Say let everything think of the goodness of Jesus and all that he's done for me this week. My soul thank God. Thank God for saving me. See he didn't have to save me but he did. I may not be able to tell but I'm excited about this time. Amen. God's been good to me. Take your seats if you can if you don't want to take your seats run around the church for a while. I don't bother me. I might fool around and run with you for a minute. At least one lap. I give honor to my Lord and save you Jesus Christ. Honor to our bishop and our fabulous first lady in her absence. To all the ministers and the saints and friends of God we say praise the Lord. We are so excited to be here today. Not coming with anything new but I believe the Lord has given us the word for today. Tell somebody next you say neighbor sin Judah first. Hey sin Judah first. See Judah means praise. Bishop I have discovered that praise will prime the pump to cause the blessings to flow and so if you need a blessing if you're having a challenge or if like me you just feel like praising him I say sin Judah first. Sin up some praise first. Turn in your Bibles if you will to Joshua. I mean I'm sorry Judges chapter one. Judges chapter one verse one and two. Very familiar verses to us. It says now after the death of Joshua came it came to pass that the children of Israel asked the Lord saying who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first to fight against them and the Lord said Judah shall go up. Behold I have delivered the land into the hand of Judah. In other words he said praise shall go up because I have delivered everything that you need into the hand of praise. See I fight my battles like this. This is the position that I I fight in. The position of praise. So here in our text Moses had led the children of Israel out of Egypt through the Red Sea until the brink of Canaan and he died. Joshua takes up the leadership position and he takes the the people of Israel through the Jordan and into the promised land and he dies. Bishop leadership can be kind of tough sometime. I want to lead him but I don't want to do that and he died for it not yet. But then the children of Israel they went to the Lord I was talking to Elder Sodom this morning and we were talking and he was saying how sometimes we just go out and do stuff and we don't consult the Lord and we come back with that tail between our legs. I was telling the Lord it inspired me to do something this week and and I did it and it didn't work and I thought about it that next morning I thought Lord I thought I thought that was you. He said yeah it was me and you did what you were supposed to do but you didn't pray you didn't come to me you didn't consult me and immediately I did that thing that he told me to do right then I did it again and I prayed and it worked. See we've got to be smart enough like the children a lot of times the children of Israel they didn't consult the Lord but this time they went to the Lord and said Lord what shall we do? He says now when we go to fight against the Canaanites who is going to go up first and lead us and in your life and in my life the enemy will try to come and stand between us and the prophecy in this text the Canaanites were the only thing standing between the children of Israel and the promise in our life the enemy tries to come and stand between us and the promise of God he will try to use people but I have discovered that people are not your problem the enemy may use somebody but people are not your problem the enemy is your problem and you are involved the Bible said for we wrestle not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers and wickedness in high places so our warfare is spiritual by nature the Lord said Judah shall go up first the Lord said I have delivered the land into Judah's hand now the land represents whatever you need from God he says I have delivered it into the hands of Judah so the Lord was saying Judah or praise shall go up first to fight her because I have delivered everything that you need into the hand of praise hallelujah if you give God some praise he'll open doors for you if you give God some praise he'll make ways for you if you give God praise he'll heal your body yes she will see I have discovered that the enemy's number one tactic is to get you to stop from giving God praise to come in the house of God and sit on your hands so I did that one time well not just one time but this one particular time I did that and I was mad and I was I was sitting there on my hands and I said oh you're not gonna praise me today I said Lord you know I'm upset you know what you know what they did to me and the Lord said what have I done what have I done to you all I did was woke you up this morning knowing you were going to come in here to sit like a fool what have I done to you to make you sit there like that and immediately I jumped up and began to give up some praise and we began to give up praise God turned that situation around see sometimes we wonder why am I going through this over and over and over again a lot of times it's because we will not praise God see I'm gonna praise him after I get it but faith says I'm gonna praise him before I get it to him and when I get it I'm gonna keep on praising him because I've seen his track record in this book I've seen his track record in my life so the only thing that I can do is to give him praise see when you praise him like that the enemy he don't know what to do that boy they're lost in mind but your praise is a setup for your blessing the enemy will try to use your friends your enemy your family your children your boss your money or your honey he'll try to use whoever he can use to stop you from praising God he knows that if he stopped you from praising God he renders you helpless to his attack so you've got to understand the enemy is going to attack you don't have to worry about it you don't have to wonder about it the enemy is going to attack I don't care how good you think you are I don't care how bad you think you are I don't care how saved you are I don't care how much money you got the enemy is going to attack see if you notice when Israel when they went to to God they said not if but when the enemy comes up against us to fight who do we send up first we understand that the weapons of our warfare are not cornered but they're mighty to God to the pulling down strongholds we don't fight with our heads we don't fight with sticks we don't fight with bricks we don't fight with guns but our weapon of warfare as they say our weapon of choice because we have proved it over and over and over again and the enemy still doesn't understand how it works he shoots his best shot and we give God praise and all of a sudden we're on the other side of the promise David said I will bless the Lord at all times when I feel like it when I don't feel like it when I've got money in my pocket when I'm broke because I will praise the Lord at all times and his praise his praise shall continually without ceasing never ending be in my mouth when the enemy slaps you upside the head and say what you're going to do tell him I'm going to praise God because if I praise God I know he's going to deliver me he's going to bless me somebody said praise is what I do praise is what I do see I have learned that worship and praise is the only thing that I have that I can give to God that's of any value everything else that I have he gave it to me so if I give him everything that I own so what but if I give him praise he was praise see he is living he's sitting on the throne and I have discovered praise is the only thing that he cannot walk by see I tried I was in trouble and I cried and cried and like Lord don't you see me I didn't hear nothing I went to my mother I went to other people and I told them this long sad story and nothing happened but when I began to praise the Lord when I began to give him praise and glory when I began to lift him up when I began to send a Judah as a Judah send a praise he says I cannot resist a worshipper there's something about when you worship God he moves off his throne he stands up he says I've got to do something because he's giving me praise see God doesn't need my money the cattle on a thousand hills is mine but I have discovered that he will take my ties and offer but he don't need my money he doesn't need my car because he rides on the winds of the wind he doesn't need my house because the earth is his foot shoe ha nothing that I have does he need but he wants what he really wants what he wants what he really really wants is our worship he wants our praise he wants us to give him praise and glory he wants us to open up our mouth and bless him I will bless the Lord at all times bless him going in bless him going out bless him when I feel like him bless him when I don't feel like him bless him when I know what to do bless him when I don't know what to do because if I give him Judah if I'll send up worship if I fall down before his feet and worship him I worship him when I understand it I worship him when I don't understand it I worship him when my heart is broken I worship him when I don't know what to do I worship him when my children are acting crazy because sooner or later sooner or later he's going to turn that thing around he's going to open up a door he's going to make a way he's going to give me the blessing he's going to give me the favor that I need if we'll give him praise he'll give us the victory if we'll give him praise he'll give us the breakthrough if we'll give him praise he'll give us the stuff what stuff whatever stuff you need see I have discovered that he is concerned about every part of my life I worship him and I praise him in every area of my life I go downtown I said Lord give me a good parking space and I go downtown ain't no parking space I sit there for a minute and somebody pulls out there it is he's going to show up he's going to do what he's saying I know that sounds foolish to you but I don't feel like walking four blocks trying to get to something see but if I will praise him and pray about small things what about the big things when I need healing in my body I can pray and I can praise him when I need fine answers I can pray and I can praise and he will open up a door for me every time somebody says send you the first send you the first send you the first the Lord told you hosaphat look you hosaphat in this battle you don't even need to fight he said because this battle is not yours but this battle belongs to God he says all I need for you to do is just show up give me some praise and get out the way if we'll show up and give God praise and get out the way he'll bless so jahosaphat he sent up Judah first he sent the praises out and they got got got to sing it for the Lord is good and his mercy his mercy endures forever and ever I believe they got to praise the Lord so they forgot about the enemy they got to shout and dancing for the Lord is good and while they began to praise the Lord the enemy got so confused they began to kill each other and when it was all over it took jahosaphat and his boys three days say three days say three days to collect the spoils and the Lord put it in my heart he said if you will give me praise if you'll send up Judah first don't complain don't whine don't cry don't have a pity party but send up Judah first I'll call your enemies to destroy themselves he said and then I'll turn around and give you their stuff I'll give you their job I'll give you their promotion I'll give you their parking space I'll give you that house that you were supposed to give and they said you couldn't have it and they turned around and gave it to you because you didn't cry about it you didn't cuss nobody out this time praise the Lord hallelujah but we begin to send up praise see God can't pass up a worship I have discovered even when I have messed up and I believe the Lord is not happy with me I begin to give him praise I begin to worship I begin to tell him how good you are and how powerful you are and that you can do anything that I need you to do and all of a sudden he stops because he cannot pass up a worshipper see we give God praise simply because he's God simply because he is due the praise and the glory he is the creator of all things he is the sustainer of all things but God said I will deliver you if you will send up Judah if you will lift up your hands and give me praise he says I have placed everything that you need in the hand of Judah he says I put healing in the hands of Judah I put deliverance in the hands of Judah I put peace in the hands of Judah I put joy a speakable and full of glory in the hands of Judah and all you've got to do is give me what I want he says whatever whatever you need you'll find that I have put it in the hands of praise I will do exceedingly and abundantly above all that you can ask or think if you will consistently praise me I will give you promotions I will give you favor I will give you houses I will give you land not because you're so smart because you give me praise you should praise him in the morning praise him in the noon day praise him in the evening somebody said praise him in the midnight hour ha something about the midnight hour he said late in the midnight hour said God will turn it around if you need to turn around give God some praise give God some glory he's worthy not only is he's worthy he's able see some people want to bless you but they're not able some people want to bless him they can't afford to but we've got to learn to praise him when I feel like it and praise him when I don't feel like it praise him when I got money in my pocket praise him when I'm broke up because if I give God praise he'll give me the answer if I give God praise he'll open up a door if I give God praise he'll heal my body the enemy is defeated in the face of praise the enemy cannot stop you if you give God praise if you make up your mind when trouble comes when situations come the first thing I'm going to do is send up Judah now I might have to call the police and do some other things after that but the first thing the first thing the first thing he wants it he wants it bad see I have discovered that worship and praise is what I call kingdom currency see God moves when you begin to worship him when the enemy attacks and you don't know what to do and the enemy thinks he's got you covered and you lift up your hands and begin to worship him we lift up your hands and to give him glory the Lord said to tell the people that I have some supernatural blessings for you if you will give me praise if you'll send up Judah if you'll send up praise him if you'll glorify my name he says I have houses I have a land I have cars I have jobs if you will give me what I want see I have three grandchildren and they love me for no apparent reason except for one she loves me for the stuff love every time I see her she said grandpa what you bring me and even when I tell her I brought you nothing or I brought you a rock she says she put a big smile on her face and she'll help me say grandpa I love you and that's when I reach in my pocket and give her some money she know how to work me now I ain't gonna lie about that but I was thinking what a blessing it is to have family and let love you I have uncles and aunts and my grandparents my mother my father and a multitude of cousins people that love me for no reason and I was just thinking about that the other day and the Lord said as many people as there are that loves you their love for you compared to my love for you is absolutely nothing and God wants you to know you may feel lonely you may feel like nobody cares you may not feel like nobody is concerned about you but he wants you know his love for you is greater greater greater than anything you've ever seen anything you've ever experienced all he wants from you is praise so let me admonish you today whenever the enemy attacks and comes up against you and it feels like there is no way out and nothing you can do if you will throw up your hands see that doesn't mean I give up that means I surrender to the king hey I don't surrender to the problem but I surrender to the king I may not be able to fight the problem but I surrender to the king because he's able to do he's able to open the door he's able to make a way he's able to heal your body and if I'll send up Judah first because I know that he has delivered everything that I need into the hands of Judah and into the hands of praise clap your hands and give God some praise right now what a wonderful word that we've received on this morning and the Lord sends his word with purpose when he sends his word with purpose he's expecting us to respond come on somebody you know one of the things that drives me insane is when I when I'm speaking to an individual and get no response when we were growing up but if somebody said something to us instructing us you better say yes you better say yes and if you don't say yes you may ask a question but a non-response a non-response is unacceptable and Elder Ross what I want to know is did anybody have a response to what the Lord has said to this congregation on today what are you going to do about what you just heard come on somebody somebody on a get up on your feet you ought to get up and praise him with everything you got give him glory hallelujah the problems that you have you can get rid of your problems when you send Judah he said there's an order to think he said Judah's got to be first I won't relieve you I won't take it away I won't strengthen you I won't give you joy not until you send Judah come on hallelujah hallelujah come on raise your hands tell them how you love him tell him thank you tell him thank you he's great he's great need to be praised the goodness of Jesus and all he's done for me my soul my soul pass out hallelujah thank God thank you Jesus thank you hallelujah thank you for the sacrifice thank you for your love thank you for your protection hallelujah praise him hallelujah praise him praise him praise him in the morning praise him in the new time just praise him the sun goes down praise him in the new Jesus in the morning victory the victory come on somebody praise brings the victory whatever your problem is whatever your test whatever your trials you need to praise call on Jesus hallelujah he said I came to set you free I came to give you peace I came to give you deliverance that's why I left heaven and that's what the celebration is about because I didn't say just relief for a minute I said victory victory come on somebody and I said you send up Judah the Lord said I'll send down the rain I'll send down you whatever it is you need I'm supposed to make the altar call excuse me excuse me wonderful job yeah now I need to know come on whoever needs deliverance whoever is struggling whoever is having a test in a trial that you haven't gotten over yet and you ready to get to get some relief you want the victory come on down right now don't wait just come right on down the Lord is ready and willing see we've sent up praise hallelujah we've sent up praise hallelujah the Lord heard us we were praising him for who he is to us we're praising him for who he is to you come on somebody hallelujah hallelujah now let's exercise that that that we've heard that the Lord said elder we're going to recognize and we're going to praise we need to praise hallelujah come on come on come on let's some more let's some more hallelujah hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you for the provision that you've made for us hallelujah hallelujah thank you Jesus hallelujah this time I want to call minister sorton we're going to praise God for his peace and his joy come right right on over minister sorton lost his sister on this morning and the Lord is the prince of peace you know when we lose ones that we love dearly many times we're we suffer from sorrow there's a pain that's a part of us doing these times and we're going to pray that the Lord will comfort him in this time of sorrow and we're not so strong that we that we don't sorrow the scripture said for us to sorrow not as others do but we're we still sorrow we're going to pray we're going to ask the Lord to comfort him comfort his family give them peace in this time come on father we thank you because you're the God of all comforts father not pray that you will comfort my brother right now in the name of Jesus that you'll give him strength to carry on and continue right now in the name of Jesus let him know how much you love him how much you're concerned about even him because we understand that tears are not a sign of weakness but it's a sign that there was great love and you're the God of love and compassion so comfort him like bishops say we speak peace the peace that passes even his own understanding that he won't understand how he can have such great peace so father we speak the peace we speak peace bless him god we thank you because you have ordered his steps and he will give you the praise in Jesus name it is well what a beautiful beautiful service hallelujah the Lord has given us today our God is a God of purpose and he orchestrates things well he orchestrates things amen for the deliverance of his people amen he orchestrates things to meet the needs hallelujah of his flock hallelujah thank the Lord amen for all that has been done here God dwells in the midst of praises and everything that God is shows up when you praise him so whatever it is that you need from God it is present when you praise it is present when you praise whatever it is that you need a healing deliverance finances salvation hallelujah it is present when you praise God let's give God a hand pray for all that has been done amen hallelujah the Lord is even going to send comfort to minister sorting he meets the needs of his people hallelujah thank him for being the mighty God that he is his offering time saints of God it's offering time hallelujah come on and present your seed present your offering to the Lord amen amen you may hallelujah oh yes it's right there hallelujah just i'm full i am just so full the Lord is such a good God hallelujah hallelujah he shows up you all he shows up every Sunday you praise him and he'll show up and he will he'll meet your need whatever it is that you need he sends ministering angels hallelujah to give you the assurance that he's there for you and he's promised never to leave you nor forsake you he won't leave you without your needs met hallelujah thank you Lord hallelujah for being the good God that you are has everybody given hallelujah you can give also by give the five shield of faith amen long beach hallelujah you can also mail it here to 49 34 long beach boulevard long beach california 90805 amen amen amen let's give the Lord another hand praise oh y'all just patty kicking y'all tired y'all better give God some praise come on he deserves the first lane that means he deserves all the energy that you can muster up he does hallelujah don't give him your leftovers give him all that you have all that you have hallelujah muster it up again hallelujah come on i'm determined to walk with the Lord Jesus oh Father we thank you for the offering God bless it hallelujah multiply it God and give it to do all that you would hallelujah in the name of Jesus God we thank you for the giver hallelujah bless them God as it says in your word hallelujah multiply it in the name of Jesus we thank you and we praise you we will see you all next week hallelujah God bless you thank you for tuning thank you for coming out hallelujah and come on back next Sunday determined to walk with Jesus hallelujah come on i'm determined yes i am oh i'm determined to walk with Jesus yes i am i'm determined to walk with Jesus yes i am persecution i'm faithful i'm determined to walk I want Jesus next to my head Till God's journey I want Jesus Who walks with me Hold my hand