 Step right up and join us on the evenings of November 3rd, 4th and 5th for a spectacular family-oriented fair atmosphere that will leave you with memories to last a lifetime. From heart-pounding fair rides to classic fair food, we've got something for everyone, and for the little ones, we've prepared a wonderland of excitement with blow-up slides, interactive games, and other attractions designed just for kids. We've got toe-tapping live music that will have you dancing the night away. And for those seeking a true thrill, you won't want to miss the incredible bullriding action and the awe-inspiring Paul Bunyan Lumberjack show where you'll see amazing feats of skill that will create memories for you and your children. And don't forget to capture those unforgettable moments. We've set up fun photo opportunities throughout the festival so you can snap the perfect family picture to cherish forever. So mark your calendars for November 3rd, 4th, and 5th, and bring your whole family to Pace Family Fest where the fun never ends. Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime. See you there. Welcome to Prophecy Files Briefing. We're glad that you've joined us today. I hope that you will stay with us for just a few moments as we share with you some things that are happening in the headlines that is drawing our attention, of course, to the imminent return of Jesus Christ. The signs of the times are more prevalent than they ever have been before. And today I want to deal with one that's not often talked about and is persecution. Just this past week, 43 Christians have been massacred. Now, according to the article from Mike Pompeo, the former Secretary of State, he said the Biden administration sees religion as an unfortunate feature of a backward society trapped in the past. This start statement concerning Nigeria, get this, last year, according to the Human Rights Group Open Doors, 90% of Christians murdered for their faith worldwide were killed in Nigeria. When you read the number, 90%, listen, the staggering number the article says is up from 80% in just one year before. Christians comprise nearly half of the population in Nigeria, the most populous country that is found there in Africa. I want you to understand that persecution is ramping up more and more, but this one perhaps becomes, to me, the most egregious for free speech, especially with young people involved. The National Anthem, this particular article reads, the Bible and Christian faith are all considered to be highly offensive in America now. First, let me read this to you just a little bit. The Rushing Brook Children's Choir was silenced by Capitol Police in the middle of singing the National Anthem in the United States Capitol. Despite having prior approval from Congress members, the police, the Capitol Police, deemed their performance as a form of protest, sparking an outrage and concern among citizens and lawmakers. It goes on to say that now that they have silenced it, there seems to be no one standing up for the rights of these children. I want you to see this very short little video clip of what took place in the Capitol with the Rushing Brook Children's Choir singing the National Anthem. Now, my friends, that is unbelievable to me, especially since it's the National Anthem in the nation's Capitol sung by children of the Rushing Brook Children's Choir, and they were literally stopped by the Capitol Police because they deemed this a protest. This was given prior approval by the state senators of their particular state, as well as others who had given approval for them to sing in the retunda there in the nation's Capitol. So what's happening in America? Well, this is religious persecution that is taking a number of forms. That's the reason why he says to us in Mark 13, take heed to yourself. They'll deliver you up to the councils and to the synagogues to be beaten, and they brought them before the rulers, and they were outlawed Christians were in the early church. But you can get ready for it here. You can also get ready to be able to know that whenever persecution comes your way, that the love of Jesus Christ has got to be what comes out of you and me. Understanding that when we enlist persecution, when we rejoice, he said, and be seedingly glad for great is your reward in heaven due to the persecution you're receiving. My friends, you can get ready because Jesus Christ is soon to return in an atmosphere where the people of God are oppressed. And before that we become extinct, he's going to come in a moment in the twinkling of an eye. Thank you for joining me for this prophecy vile's briefing. I want you to make sure that you spread this around on social media because I believe Jesus Christ is coming soon. Are you ready for an unforgettable family adventure? Get ready to experience thrills, laughter and excitement at the Pace Family Fest. Step right up and join us on the evenings of November 3rd, 4th and 5th for a spectacular family oriented fair atmosphere that will leave you with memories to last a lifetime. From heart pounding fair rides to classic fair food, we've got something for everyone. And for the little ones, we've prepared a wonderland of excitement with blow up slides, interactive games and other attractions designed just for kids. We've got toe tapping live music that will have you dancing the night away. And for those seeking a true thrill, you won't want to miss the incredible bull riding action and the awe inspiring Paul Bunyan Lumberjack show where you'll see amazing feats of skill that will create memories for you and your children. And don't forget to capture those unforgettable moments. We've set up fun photo opportunities throughout the festival so you can snap the perfect family picture to cherish forever. So mark your calendars for November 3rd, 4th and 5th and bring your whole family to Pace Family Fest where the fun never ends. Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime. See you there. Family ministry. My name is Ben Martin and I'm one of the associate ministers here at Pace. My roles include hosting the most excellent way, outreach and events, and pastoral care. And I am so excited that you've joined us in service today. The most excellent way is about overcoming drugs, alcohol and any other life dominating sins through Jesus Christ. We are a loving group of men and women who meet every Thursday at 7pm in the firehouse. Whether you have been affected directly or indirectly by addictions, we invite you to come and join us and experience the freedom that it can only be found in Jesus Christ. John 836 tells us, whom the sun sets free is free indeed and I am living proof. You can follow us on Facebook to stay up to date with everything that's happening that most excellent way. You can also email us at bmartenatpaceassembly.org for more information. If you're watching online or so glad that you joined us today, let us know where you're watching from in the comments. Do you have a prayer request? We have a team ready to pray for you. I'm so excited for what God is doing at Pace Assembly Ministries and I'm glad that you are here with us. Service is about to begin. Lord, this is your day and we, your people, have come into your house to give you all the praise. You are a mighty God. You are wonderful. You are great. And you are greatly to be praised. Lord, this week we have experienced your grace and your mercy. The fact that we have been able to join together one more time lets us know that the faithfulness of our God is so great. Every morning your mercies are new. Great is your faithfulness, God. Now, Lord, today visit us. Don't let us leave the same way we came in, but let us know we've been in the presence of God. And we thank you now and give you praise. And, Gloria, will you put your hands together with me? Let's make a joyful noise unto the God of our salvation. He is worthy this morning. Hallelujah! We praise you, Lord. So that we may receive my grace to help us in our time. Grace, you need God's mercy in your life. If you need that, I want you to give God the greatest salvation of the morning and get out to somebody else and say, my God is grace. Turn to somebody right here and tell them that my God has grace. And for those of you who want to be on live stream from the round war, we welcome you to Pace Assembly this morning. We're so glad that you have joined us. Everyone give all online guests a great big hand. Let them know they're welcome to Pace Assembly this morning. Amen. You may be seated in God's house this morning. Are you glad to be here this morning? I said, are you glad to be here this morning? Alive and well breathing with the breath in your lungs that God gives you. We are so glad that you're here. If this is your first time here, I want to say that you're welcome to Pace Assembly every time, anytime these doors are open. And if you're here, this is your first time, whether it's just you or with your family. At the end of service, if you'll step out into the foyer, right over to the left-hand side, we have a place called Guest Central. If you'll step right inside there, we want to get to know you, you know, let you know that how you can stay connected with our church, let you know that you're a part of our church, because you're not just an acquaintance, you're not just someone we just met. You are now part of our family. So we want to make sure we want you to how you can stay connected and then Pastor Ms. Rita have a special gift just for you in there. So please step in there at the end of service. You know, this whole year we've been doing back to the Bible, getting your physical Bible on your hands. So this morning we are going to give our Bible away. So if you've been here for a multiple number of services, you know that if you'll reach right underneath your seat, and if there's an infant seat next to you, let's see who gets the golden ticket this morning. Whether it's blue, green, yellow, orange, some type of color, whatever color it is, reach really far up underneath there, underneath there, really far, really far, because I mean it's like literally all the way underneath. If there's an infant seat, check the seat next to you that's empty, because it might be underneath there. Play like the Jeopardy music right now until we find it. We find it right back there in the back. Amen. Always, always bring your Bible to service, and then, you know, if you decide to come in and look under every seat before you sit in it, if you don't have a Bible, I'd advise you to do that. Come to church a little early, just check under every seat, and your family, why are we sitting right here? Because the ticket is right here. I don't want to move. So, but make sure you bring your Bible every Sunday to service. A couple of announcements that I want to make you aware of before we receive this morning's tithe and offering. Next Sunday is Father's Day. So make sure you honor your Father next Sunday by coming to church for one thing, but for every man that's in the house on that Father's Day, we'll have a special gift just for you that'll be back in the four year as you leave next Sunday. So next Sunday is Father's Day, be aware of that. Also, KidCon is coming up next week. Not just coming up Monday, but the following week. So if you have not registered your child to be here, go online today and register your child. We're getting the numbers down. They're getting the numbers down for need to know how much food that we need to prepare. So if you have not registered your child, or you know of someone that wants to be a part in register, please go online and register your child today. And if it comes to the last minute and they want to be able to let you know if you haven't registered, that's okay. The doors are open for everyone and anyone to be here. They're going to be right here in the sanctuary where the services are going to be happening. It's going to be a blast. It's going to be a whole lot of fun. So make sure you register today. And again, you say Pastor T, you know, I don't know what else to do. All I can tell you to do is be in prayer for that week, that there will be tons of kids in this place that will not only be safe, filled with the baptism of the Holy Spirit and everything. And that's what we need in this next generation is the power of God to pour out in their life. So make sure you're aware of that and be in prayer for that. Also, you can get ready to give in your time and offering. If you're giving online, there's a place that you can give. You can give on the app or if you have cash, grab an envelope and you can drop it in the buckets as you leave today. And I don't know, God will bless you for whatever it is that you give today. How many of you know that God can do great things? He can do great things. Our God that we serve is not a God that does little things or does just minor things. No, no, no, he does great things this morning. So if you believe that in morning, I want you to stand with me this morning. I know it's summer and there, so what you're going to have to do this morning, you're going to have to amen for all the empty seats that are next to you this morning. Amen. Amen. God, in the Bible it says that Gideon had too many men and God said, I need you, you got too many. I need you to drop it down and still drop it down and drop it down. And Gideon ended up with 300 men next to him and he won the battle where he was totally outnumbered. He was totally outnumbered. So there are seats that are empty in here but I know God says all I need is 300. And then also he goes even further down and said all I need is two or three. I just need two other people to agree with me and then let me show you what I can do. So if you leave that in the way, I want you to sleeve your hands off in the air and let's ask God to do great things this morning. Lord, we thank you, dear Jesus. Lord, we need you this morning. We invite you into this room because we're ready to see great and mighty things this morning. Do it only what you can do and let your spirit be poured out in this place this morning. Is impossible, is impossible for me. You may face a sickness. You may face a circumstance. There might be a challenge in front of you that seems insurmountable. Our God is mightier than at all. He's victorious and the Word of God tells us He's already put it under our feet. Take a minute right now. Put your hands up in the air and begin to worship God in advance of what He's going to do in your life. We thank you today, God. Honor you, Lord. We serve a mighty God today. He is mighty. That's the Word of God. For you as we continue to worship your name, as we continue to magnify to be praised and I know in this atmosphere, God, that you're going to do something awesome, something wonderful, something miraculous. We honor you today. Oh, God, we expect you to do it today. We believe you today to do it. Hallelujah. Before I walk, send in me a text that their son passed away yesterday with a massive heart attack at 30 years old. I want you to understand something. The reason why you're alive right now, the reason why you're still existing, the reason why you're still standing here this morning is not for you to be silent. It is to lift up your praise unto the Lord while you still have the breath on this earth. After it's over with, I just want you to know that when you're singing these songs and you're quoting these lyrics, some folks are quoting them from rote just because they see it on the wall that you're my healer. Some of us are quoting it from a different level, a different thought because I know that you're my portion. Wait until I get into what my situation is. God is what I want you to do. I want you to reach over and grab them by the hand because, you know, sometimes, go find somebody you can agree with. Sometimes, ladies and gentlemen, sometimes you're in such a shape, you're in such a battle, you're in such a struggle that it's hard for you to get a praise out because the enemy is suppressing and depressing and oppressing, but I don't want you to just hold their hand. I want you to let them know you're not in this by yourself. I want you to lift that hand up. Church, this morning, I'm so glad to have each and every one of you in service with us this morning. All of you that are first-time guests, all of you that are watching online from around the world, from Kenya, from Alabama, from Washington, from Illinois, from Florida, from Mississippi, from Brassos Valley, Texas, from Wisconsin, from the Philippines, and regions far beyond. Would you let them know how welcome they are at that pace assembly this morning? Come on, give them a great big God bless you. Glad for you to be here this morning. Of course, there's always the start of summertime. I will tell you that I love vacations, but as a pastor, I hate vacations. So if you're going to take one, hurry up and get her done and get on back here, is all I'm saying. Aren't you glad God don't take vacations on you? If God took vacation like some of y'all take vacation, we wouldn't see you. But I'm glad you're here this morning. Hey, there is somebody that's very special to me. My bride is out this morning. It's not necessarily a vacation. I don't know. It depends. She's visiting her family in Orlando. I'll leave that to her whether it's a vacation or not. I know they're all watching. Hey, sweetie, love you. And hurry back because I ain't got nobody in this service this morning to pull their ear. For those of you who don't know what that's all about, it's time to land the plane in my sermon. So I've decided this morning I'm going to throw the clock out and use a calendar. Is that all right? I know, Taylor was telling me back there a few minutes ago, you know mom's going to text me in this thing and say pull your ear. I'm glad for you to be here today. What a blessing. It is refreshing to be able to come into the house of the Lord on the first day of the week, isn't it? It's refreshing. It's good. It's good. Thank you for all this wonderful worship that's coming this morning. Don't you thank God for this great team leading you into a place that lifts you up. Praise God. Lifts the Lord up and in turn it lifts you up this morning and I'm thankful. I'm glad to be able to have our very special friend who's filling in for us this morning. J. Vaughn is off the drums at a football camp right now that's going to a football camp. Basketball camp. It's one of them balls. And so the multi-talented poo is on the drums and we're glad to have a wonderful friend who's been here before. Would you let Brandon know how much we appreciate him coming in for this weekend? Amen. Praise God. It's a blessing. It's a blessing to be blessed by an anointed musicianship. Amen. Praise God. In a moment I'm going to ask you to turn with me or I can ask you now you can be looking for it in your actual Bible. How many of you brought your actual Bible today? Not one of them fake ones on your phone. Come on. Wave your hand at me. You know this is the year of the Bible and I had no idea whenever I started at the beginning of the year telling you that we were going to not only be giving away Bibles as we did this week but we're going to be working with. I found out last night that and actually through a website that I look at for Bible prophecy that right out here at Santa Rosa County and if my prison ministry team is here any of them are here today I'd like to connect with you after the service or you can see Paul after the service. He's got some information I need to get to you because on this website I'm just clicking through and reading some Bible prophecy and right on the top of it was Chaplain from the Santa Rosa County and Milton, Florida Correctional Center is asking for a donation of 2,500 Bibles to come into the prison and so this ministry had been contacted by them and they're going to help do it and they're trying to raise the funds. I said let me find out who that is because the last thing I want is somebody out there incarcerated who don't have their own Bible in their hand to read because after all that's said and done the only thing that can rehabilitate any of us is the living breathing word of God. Can you say a man to that? So we're going to find out if we can help them get Bibles whatever that it is, we're going to get some Bibles and this is the reason I had no idea at the beginning of the year that this was all going to take place but just last night as I was looking at some articles and preparing for upcoming prophecy file briefing and I hope that you've been seeing that every week it's being posted on Tuesday I encourage you to go there and spend just a few moments to get updated but the state of Utah has now decided that the Bible is full of vulgarity and violence and have removed the Bible from the school districts in the state of Utah. The parent that is out there is certainly doing everything he can but now ladies and gentlemen you're finding out what I was telling you for years how that the Bible will become hate speech as they are declaring it right here and saying that it's full of all kinds of vulgarity and violence and it needs to be banned and here's what happened now listen carefully this this is important because you know let me say it like this when the nation of Israel would get in trouble just like America's situation now around the world the first thing that people want to do is pass more laws because we wouldn't heed the genuine law of God in his word they passed more laws and it became more restraining well let me tell you they passed a law in Utah to remove books of pornography and so forth and it seemed good at the time and is right and true but when you have leaders whose hearts are evil and bent on destroying children I don't know if I got my church in here or not but anyway that's alright they want to remove it now and they've used that law to say that the Bible is pornographic vulgar, full of violence, incest beastiality, all that they don't read the Bible because all those immoral acts are denounced by God Almighty in his word how about thou shalt not commit adultery come on somebody why are you saying that pastor because the value of the written word and this is why it's important that you have a copy or multiple copies of the Word of God because I'm telling you in the days ahead and actually of your children's books and history books you need to get a physical copy I know you like Kindle and all that kind of stuff why am I saying that? because the brain trust in this article here I share with you this is the reason why that we're passing out Bibles this is the reason why that we bought a number of Bibles and sent them into different locations all around in fact there are precious friends that are out in Brazos Valley and sent them cases of Bibles to give to all of the members that are in their church this church did that for them amen now why are we doing that? because the brain trust of the World Economic Forum that is changing the landscape all around the world made this statement this past week let me not misquote it this is his statement title of the article AI, artificial intelligence can create a new Bible influential author declares and this is what he said in a few years there might be religious religions that are actually correct in other words the rewriting of the Bible according to artificial intelligence just like they did a few weeks ago when Peter who's supposed to protect animals and so forth rewrote the very first book of Genesis it took out the sacrifice of the lamb that we know to be type and shadow for the protection of the lamb a type and shadow of Jesus Christ with Abraham and Isaac they rewrote it why is it important for you to have the original copy something that you can hold in your hand because they're rewriting everything but when it all said and done ladies and gentlemen heaven and earth will pass away but God said my word shall never you better hold on to that right there because it's the word that comes in to make you free the word you know is what is able to make you free now this is my pre-sermon before my post-sermon and now as Paul Harvey would say the rest of the story take your Bibles take your Bibles and stand with me and turn to the book of Acts chapter 16 we welcome all of you that are viewing online pray that God will bless your life there are prayers that are going out for all of you if you can physically stand come on and stand with us and I'm going to just tell you how important it is for you to pray and to read your Bible and have the sermon and leadership of the Holy Spirit this past week or actually yesterday we saw the article coming online where one local restaurant just down the street from us was supposed to be serving up food and instead they were serving up meth out of the kitchen that affected many many people who ate in that restaurant let me just tell you something you better be sensitive enough to the Holy Ghost and the time we're in that if he whispers in your ear get up and go you better get up and leave from a restaurant from people from whatever that it may be this is an hour when we need discernment this is an hour when we need discernment this is an hour when we need the close presence of God around us can you say amen I believe the Lord has led my mind to this and I believe that we'll have subsequent messages that will come but in the book of Acts chapter 16 not only a familiar passage of Scripture but one that I want to use this morning as a backdrop text for this message starting in verse number 16 if you found that say a good amen what do you do when you're in the trial of your life and the night the darkness closes around and you're wondering is there any way out what do you do well let's read and find out something here this morning Acts 1616 starts with this story and it came to pass as we went to prayer a certain damsel possessed with the spirit of divination met us which brought her master's much gain by soothsay the same followed Paul and us and crying saying these men are the servants of the most high which show unto us the way of salvation that's the reason why you need discernment everything that says Lord, Lord is not Lord verse 18 and this did she many days but Paul being grieved unto the unction of the Holy Spirit turned and said to the spirit not to the girl to the spirit I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her and he came out the same hour away with all this rasslin with the devil the Bible says he spoke and the devil came out verse 19 and when her master saw that the hope of their gains was gone in other words they weren't getting any money off of her anymore they were prostituting her they caught Paul and Silas and drew them into the marketplace into the rulers and brought them to the magistrates saying these men being Jews do exceedingly trouble our city God help pace assembly to trouble the city and teach customs which are not lawful for us to find the multitude the multitude rose up together against them in the magistrates ran off their clothes and commanded to beat them when they had laid many stripes upon them they cast them into the prison charging the jailer to keep them safely that means verse 24 who having received such a charge thrust them into the inner prison where the real criminals were and made their feet fast in the stocks and at midnight Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises under God and the prisoners heard them well pastor I'm not very exuberant like you I just pray and praise under my note and suddenly I like that there was a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all the doors were to open and everyone's bands were loosed not just Paul and Silas everybody got free my prayer is this morning everybody here and everybody watching gets free and the keeper of the prison let's read some more of this and the keeper of the prison waking out of his sleep and seeing the prison doors open he drew out his sword and would have killed himself supposing the prisoners had fled you gotta be a believer at this point but Paul cried with a loud voice saying do thyself no harm for all of us are here we're all here then he called for a light the jailer did and spring in and came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas and brought them out and said sirs what must I do to be saved and they said I believe you're my healer they said believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved and thy house they spake unto him the words of the Lord and to all that were in his house and he took them look at this transformation and he the jailer took them the same hour of the night and washed their stripes and was baptized he in all his straight way and when he had brought them into the house he set meet before them and rejoiced believing in God with all of his house and when it was day the magistrates sent the sergeants saying let those men go it's alright we're already gone and the keeper of the prison told his saying to Paul the magistrates have sent to let you go now therefore depart and go in peace and Paul said to them they beat us openly uncondimmed being Romans and have cast us into the prison and now they do thrust us out privately nay verily next time somebody wants to do something to you publicly and then they want to privately say oh I'm sorry oh all you need to look at them and give them some King James and say nay verily look at somebody tell them nay verily yea nay verily I'm going to use that one sometime just confuse them but let them come themselves and fetch us out and the sergeants told these words under the magistrates and they feared when they heard that they were Romans and they came and besought them brought them out and desired them to depart out of the get out of here and they went out of the prison and entered into the house of Lydia and when they had seen the brother and they comforted them and departed what a word that God wants to speak to our heart and I'm going to talk to you this morning preach to you this morning teach to you this morning whatever comes out treat you this morning about how to fight at night everybody in this building anybody in this building watching online have you ever had to fight at night time I want you to know that Norman Schwartzkopf made this statement I paraphrase he said it's better that battle is fought at night time they were asking why do you fight at night he said it's better for us to do that there is an advantage for us to fight at night I believe what God wants to say to us today is no matter what and where you're at in your night time experience God wants you to learn how to fight in the middle of the night and before this service is over I pray that you know how to do that lift those hands Father in the name of Jesus release the kind of anointing that makes it easy to preach in here today I pray in Jesus name that every praise that goes up out of the mouth of people will drive 10,000 demons from this place and release the anointing from heaven down upon this house and upon those that are watching and viewing online until there is everybody is loosed from their shackles we give you glory praise and honor in Jesus mighty name and everybody believes that shout a great big amen look at your neighbor and tell them we're about to learn how to fight at night tell them I'm a night fighter that's what I am in the book of Genesis the book of beginnings we get insight in the very first few verses of the process of God we see the potential of God who speaks things that be not into existence but you really see the process and the process is really important the process the way God does things the process of God is not always understood the Bible says in Genesis 1 verse 4 and 5 and God saw the light that it was good and he divided the light from the darkness and God called the light day and the darkness he called night and then notice what the scripture said he says this and the evening and the morning were the first day and the evening and the morning were the first day this morning you said well the alarm clock went off or whenever it was you got up and you looked outside and there was some daylight and you said okay it's time for me to get up and in your average standard operation it takes place for you every day when the sun goes down you say well the day is over and you lay down at night and we say to one another how was your day referring to the time that the sun is up we call that day and we call that night but I came to tell you this morning that God does not start the day and in the day like us as a matter of fact he starts a day in the middle of the night and the morning was the first day the evening and the morning was the first day in other words God goes to work in the middle of the night and I submit to you today that God does his best work at night time what are you talking about night I'm talking about not just the sun going down darkness incorporating your life I'm talking about the night time experiences that every person is going to go through I don't care what your social economic, cultural, racial political economic status is everybody here and everybody watching will have a night time experience in your life where there's trouble some of you are in it right now where there's trials that you're going through the heartbreak of your life where there is pain where there is a place that you don't understand the processes of God in Genesis the darkness in the darkness that was there in the beginning it was empty and void the Bible says and darkness covered the face of the deep and God himself who is light spoke into that darkness and yet the sun was not born until 4th day what did he do to turn the light on well if there's anybody who understands the night time and the darkness it's God the emptiness and the void of it some of you sitting in this building and watching online are in that state of being right now much like if there ever is an example of walking through trials it is the very first book that was written from the book of Job hear this if it might describe where some of you may be at this morning in Job chapter 30 verse 16 he says my heart is broken depression haunts my days my weary nights are filled with pain as though something were relentlessly gnawing at my bones all night long I toss and turn and my garments bind around me God has thrown me into the mud and I have become as dust and ashes I think Job's writing some of our current situation he says in Job chapter 7 verse 1 how mankind must struggle a man's life is long and hard like that of a slave how he longs for the day to end how he grinds on the end of the week and his wages and so to me I also have been allotted months of frustration these long and weary nights verse 4 he says when I go to bed I think oh that it were morning and then I will toss until dawn what a hopeless verse of Scripture verses of Scripture and yet it describes many places that you and I have been in I can look into this and read this and remember the times that I rolled in the night and tossed in the night until my garments were wrapped around me and I was up into the middle of the night some of you can as well the Psalmist wrote this in Psalm chapter 6 I'm worn out with pain every night my pillow is wet with tears my eyes are growing old with grief because of all of my enemies you ever felt like the Psalmist maybe you felt like the example that's found in Psalm 22 where it is a foreshadowing of what would take place on the cross of Jesus Christ hear these words my God the Psalmist says my God why has thou forsaken me why aren't thou so far from helping me and from the words of my roaring in the daytime but thou hearest not and in the night seasons and I am not silent listen to the change in the Psalmist talking in verse number 3 but thou art holy O thou that inhabit us the praises of Israel our fathers trusted in thee they trusted and thou didst deliver them ladies and gentlemen the secret of their success I hope you don't describe to them your PhD I hope you don't describe to them how much money you've got in the bank account and boy I feel the Holy Ghost pushing me now I hope you don't describe to them your economic financial pedigree status of your family and the hammy down inheritance that you got I hope that you will stop and recognize like the Psalmist like Job and many other examples in here it was the Lord who kept me it is the Lord's reason that I am here and all glory and all honor and all praise goes unto him in fact I think you ought to take about 10 seconds right now and give the Lord of glory honor do his name do it right so you can't praise him enough I know you think that you got here by yourself but if it had not been for the Lord you wouldn't have got up out of bed this morning I don't care if the alarm didn't ring come on somebody sometimes people's pride put them in a place where they don't think that they need any help like the government official that came to the farmer from the DEP he showed up to inspect the farm land of the farmer and said I'm here to find out what the situation is and I have on authority to get the government from the DEP to inspect your property he said fine the farmer did you can look for any place out here except for going into this fenced area right over here he pulled his badge out shoved it in the farmer's face and said do you understand who I am I'm from the DEP I can go anywhere I want and the farmer said sure you can go wherever you want and of course like a government official from the DEP he goes to the very place that he was told not to go into suddenly the farmer here screeching crying and there is the DEP official running through that bordered fenced in area that he told him not to behind him is the farmer's great big bull chasing him down to which the farmer cried out show him your badge show him your badge you better recognize that if it had not been for the lord you wouldn't be here to show your badge somebody the nighttime experiences can bring out the real you how many of you know what I'm talking about I'm not talking about that Sunday you I'm talking about the one who walks through the trial and wants to give somebody a piece of your mind but you better hold on to that piece of your mind you're probably going to need it in the days that are ahead the real test of true worship I'm not talking about some facade that we go through with the lifting of our hands or maybe fooling with our phone when we're supposed to be singing and praising God the real test of worship comes when the pain the suffering the attack of adversity comes in the middle of the night time of your life have you ever been there have I got a witness in here has anybody ever been there before I submit to you I am there even right now while I'm preaching this message in fact to the business if you weren't even in this building and watching online I need this message right now for myself so if you don't say man or raise your hand I'll kick my legs and run through this place because when you recognize that you're walking through the trial and you're walking through the pain and you need a word from the Lord I don't need I don't need your opinion I need a download from heaven in the middle of my night because it's dark in here and I need some help is anybody needs some help in here somebody cry out help that's what we need it's then that God has commanded us to use the weapon of choice what is that weapon of choice I'm glad you asked it is simply put praise out of your mouth in the night time fight let me talk to you about praise a little bit because it's personal when it's your family isn't it when it's your family that's in the hospital your baby your business suddenly it gets personal you want to call the prayer team you want to get a praise or let's have a revival and all that but I submit to you that that the success of your journey is not the destination it is the next step you take and ladies and gentlemen I will bless the Lord at all time praise shall continually be in my mouth more times than not in my walk with the Lord I've had to push out a praise like a baby pushes out a baby why pastor because it is in those times of adversity and trial that we recognize that we've got to get something in the atmosphere in the heavens that glorifies the God who knows how to bring me out and the more trials you go through and the more you walk with God the more you'll recognize God is not in trouble the Holy Ghost is helping me this morning I said God is not in trouble y'all you might be in trouble but God is not in trouble you might be in pain but God is not in pain so when I'm calling on somebody I don't need somebody to sit down and suck their thumb with me I need somebody who's walking up in the clouds and sitting on the throne who knows exactly what I need I don't need to sit down and give you a hundred bucks to tell me how I hate my mother what I do need though is a word from the Lord that says he's working all things together for my good I feel like shouting right now that's why you gotta learn how to praise God with people and without people have you ever praised God in your car right by yourself before have you ever walked in your house right by yourself didn't have no band didn't have no do why singers didn't have nobody around and you just started praising and magnifying God and suddenly heaven came down and glory filled your soul ladies and gentlemen the enemy wants to keep you from that he wants you to sit there and shut up he wants to bind your lips and keep you from praising but I defy I will bless the Lord at all time in my trouble in my trial on the mountain blessed and not so blessed I will bless the Lord somebody shouting here this morning for me you gotta learn how to praise when there ain't nobody around you my best praise is not when I'm in here my best praise is at the front office of my house when tears rolled down my cheeks like that last night when I hear a song or a sermon or something that I begin to turn over in my spirit suddenly I don't have to get to church on Sunday morning I prepped for this last night I came into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with pray ain't nobody got to pump me up I'm ready to praise him right now push your neighbor and say what's wrong with you you better learn how to fight tonight my dear friends for the Bible said Jesus said the night is coming when no man can work I believe we're there now that's the reason why the story is told right here in Psalm 22 you're the one O Lord who inhabits the praises of Israel you're the one who sits down in the place where praisers make a sacrifice have you prepared a place for the Lord give me a chair I'm stealing your chair Adam I looked online the other day during Memorial Day and there was a restaurant that had made a table in that restaurant and set the chair up with the finest of the china and an American flag sitting right there in the middle of that plate in honor of those who had fallen let me tell you something wonderful it was an inspirational thought but this morning I'm not talking about veterans who have fallen I'm talking about making room for God and making a place for him because the Bible says whenever we praise him he sits down in the middle of our praises now ladies and gentlemen I don't know what you're thinking about this morning if you're thinking about lunch or you're thinking about work tomorrow but I'm thinking about God putting you down in the middle of my trouble because if you ever step in in His presence as fullness of joy at His right hand there's pleasure forevermore I don't need somebody to talk to me and counsel me and write me a letter or give me a check what I need is the Lord of Glory to sit down right here and let me talk to you because when God sits down I want to notify all the enemies that are throwing their darts when the God of Heaven sits down in my praise court is in session the righteous judge of all the universe is sitting on the throne ladies and gentlemen and when it's all said and done somebody said look at the injustices that are going on look at all that's happening in our world don't you worry my friend you just keep praising him when it's all said and done the God of Glory is going to smite the hammer on the desk and he knows how to declare right from wrong good from bad and I will bless the Lord at all time until he delivers his judgment and then let there be glory and honor and praise to the King who sits on the throne forever I want you to know that your praise is acceptable to God but you got to make sure that you don't get off of the pattern because God's given us a pattern y'all he didn't even leave up to us I'm going to get him a message in a minute I'm just he didn't even leave up to us how we would do that he writes it down in the only religious book that has a song book right in the middle of it called song it's the only religious book that gives you the order and the pattern of praise he said lift up your hands in the sanctuary and bless his name he said let the fruit of your lips bring praise unto his name that means that our praise is visual oh you're just emotional no it's a bible pattern it's visual not only that but it's vocal because because you can't stand there and just think of praise you got to say a praise because whenever you think right you think right I think you miss that whenever you think right you think right whenever you think right you think right in other words I appreciate what everybody else has done but whenever I get my head on straight it is the Lord who deserves all the glory all the praise and all the honor so he says lift up your hands in the sanctuary shout unto God with the voice of tribe that makes so many people nervous except at all gay thousand fans how is it you can sit so quiet in here and get disturbed by somebody else praising God out loud listen that don't disturb me half as much as people getting up and down in the middle of the service and going out and playing on their phones for me I see that stuff but you're disturbed by somebody who's going to shout out an amen and a praise and hallelujah what's wrong with that because at the game you sat out with 80,000 people that you paid $100 a ticket to sit that close to somebody and 895 for a drink and some popcorn at the movie come on somebody and then you come in here and there's nothing that comes out of your mouth and your judgmental looking around popping your heels and your gum and you're wondering why in the world God ain't happening for me I'll tell you why he's waiting on you to get a praise up before he comes down and intervenes in your life I wish I had somebody to preach to this morning I think I'll preach to myself why all this hand clapping pastor because it's the pattern he said clap your hands all you people shouting to God with the voice of Troy why do you think that I want a multicultural church in here I'll tell you why because when you get all these cultures together and they get in a big pot of a mixture all the sudden things start coming out praising God and the next thing you know it's like light and fuses all the way around because everybody's contributing to the great big fire and if we will build a fire at pace then ladies and gentlemen people come watch God burn in the house so your hand claps are in order your shouts are in order your hands being raised David dance before the Lord I'm gonna promise you one thing my wife tries to give me to dance at the house all the time and I'm like a two by four ginger Roger Sarah where he dances she's shuffling her feet and I'm like a two by four I don't know how to do that but when the spirit of the Lord moves upon my soul I will dance like David dance I don't know how David dance all I can tell you is he started coming out of his clothes because there was nobody worthy of that much praise but God you better save your basketball football pray for somebody else and give God the heart because I don't know how long this is gonna last I'm just about on fire for this right here why we sing so much because it's a pattern when my soul is overwhelmed lead me to a rock that is higher than I I don't care listen to me we have found out during the past few years that it makes no difference if you sing Hillsong or out of the red book hymnal right here at pace and all around the world you know why because whatever it is that brings him glory you can sing rock of ages or you can sing he's a chain breaker I don't care what you're seeing just sing glory hallelujah to the God who is he Bible says let's praise him on the high cell let's praise him on the trumpet and the heart let everything that has breath after what the Lord has brought you out of you don't need another sermon experience in a high place he ran over the football go open your mouth and give God me this morning or not if you don't I'll do it by myself I can tell you I've learned how to be content with it or without let me if you've had a go the doctor said there ain't no cancer what you're gonna do with that voice and that there has said this and that and there ain't no cancer there's no problem there's no issue what are you gonna do after that are you waiting for something else are you gonna give in glory until he comes from me up all I gotta do Kevin is look right there at that miracle she's holding in her arm and I will bless the Lord at all time you know why because if it had not been for the Lord he would she wouldn't meet here this morning but the law at least you ain't running to get a drink of water like somebody don't you embarrass yourself this morning you better bless the Lord while you got to chat give me some power here I need somebody who knows what it's like to walk through the nighttime experience and still have a praise on your lips where is my church this morning I don't know what to praise it for how about the fact that COVID tried to get you but you're still alive and breathing this morning my help in here where is my people where is my praise the Lord said give me somebody or praise him and I'll show you somebody who it makes no difference what they walk through they know this battle is just another battle the Lord did it before and the Lord can look at somebody and tell them God's getting you ready to fight at McFighter and shake their is getting ready to fight at night for you don't care if you're in a wheelchair controller I can tell you we're on the shadow of any doubt God's been better to you than you've ever thought in your life so I want to know all of you that are a little closer to God standing in the riser have you got anything that God has done for you that you can bless him continually not looking for an emotional response I'm looking for somebody who knows how to praise him in the spirit come on somebody what they do is keep you silent they're trying to cancel the culture they want to take the Bible out of the schools they want you and you and you who have Christian values who are raising your children to just shut up and sit down but I came to tell them I'm gonna stand up do a question can you stand in the middle of your night time ask somebody beside you are you gonna stand in the middle of a night there's some people that are watching me right now in prison you're sitting in jail and the last thing you heard was the clank of the door but I came to bring you good gospel news this morning if you'll bless the Lord with all of your heart and not look at your circumstances God ain't afraid to step in the middle of the jail and shake that thing until he gets you and you and you ain't gonna preach in better than you recognize this morning stay with me now you're so caught up in the night time experiences we're so worried about stuff pastor only reason why I'm worried is cause you ever Wednesday night every Sunday morning you come up here telling us about AI is gonna write a new Bible and there's war in Ukraine and there's this and there's that that shouldn't shock you if you read this book the Bible said all that stuff is gonna happen I'm just telling you it's happening right now so you don't think it's somewhere in the future it's happening right now what does that make me want to do it makes me want to praise God I say you are crazy oh no no no I'm not crazy that's exactly what Paul and Silas did they didn't wait around to get out of jail before they praise him anybody can praise God in the daytime anybody can praise God whenever things going good in fact there's some people here watching that that's the only time you do praise God because if there's a cloud that gets over your head or you lose your job or you get a diagnosis or whatever that it may be the next thing you know you're ready to throw your hands up and quit and suck your thumb and get all depressed but the devil is a liar I commend you in the name of Jesus come out of that depression come out of that obsession come out of that thing and lift your voice and praise the God who is the God of all God I wish I could preach this thing like I feel it many times we get caught up in the experience of the nighttime and we talk to God about the nighttime experience instead of talking to the nighttime experience about God and you inhabit the praises of your people I wonder what that means is that supposed to mean that just because I'm walking through a valley that somehow God said whoa this is too much for me I'm out you haven't read far enough in that book that book says I will never leave you come on do you know the rest of the story I will never leave you he didn't say I will never leave you unless you get cancer he didn't say I will never leave you unless your spouse runs off on you he didn't say I will never leave you if you put your loved one in jail he said I will never leave you I covenant with you I will never leave you and I will never forsake you what am I waiting on to praise God a better feeling I feel like praising God and don't mistake it because people have preached this thing all messed up the sacrifice of praise means that you praise him when you don't feel like it well that's a lie you don't have to feel it or not feel it he's holy anyway you don't understand it let me say it like this God is light can I get a witness God is light He is light so whenever you're watching they're all afraid of New York and Vermont and all that because the Canadian fires have got a smoke cloud going over the top and it looks like they're using words like apocalyptic and Armageddon and all these kind of words that they're using because they're afraid things are turning orange out there and you know as soon as that happened AOC jumped up and said it's climate change problem is what they don't tell you is all those wind farms that are up there because the smoke is covering over the solar panels they're only producing 50% power I'm talking about the ones they want to sell you come on somebody why is that so important? because I'm not hooked up to residual I'm not hooked up to a resource I'm hooked up to a resource so let me make it plain for you before I tip my hat and get out of here because I feel like I just need to drop this download on you and then I'm out I haven't even preached my message this morning I just need to let you know that God is light and the reflection of God is the Son that you look at I want to let you know that the Son though it's a little cloudy out there right now the Son is still shining we get so enamored with the eclipse of the Son because when that thing moves over in front of the Son and what do you know we are so we're so messed up there guys right now they're sitting in high offices that think they're God so we're going to change this and change that and I promise you we're having in that book right there that when it's all said and done there's still two genders because God said it there's still a Son that's shining because God said it in order there's still the moon that's still shining in order there's still the stars that are out there twinkling in the middle of the night and God calls in my name because God said it and ladies and gentlemen what does that have to do with my praise it has everything to do with your praise because if you're going through a trial the Son and the moon and the stars and recognize that God is the God who is still in the charge look at somebody telling me he's preaching to you right now just give him a little shove in the arm tell him wake up he's preaching to you right now eclipse as all the devil's trying to do to you you're out there living for the Lord walking with the Lord trying to do what you can and all of a sudden in the middle of the day you get a nighttime eclipse we are so finite to the infinite God that is that in order to look at the eclipse we have to punch a small pinhole in a piece of paper turn around backwards and look through the hole lest the brightness of the sun burn our eyeballs out well where do you want me to preach with that thank you Bible says that Moses started walking up the mountain because God called him up there to a burning bush he said I had an encounter with him I'll see you later he walks out with three million Jews in the middle of the desert and God said come up here I got something to write on some tablets with my own finger when he gets up there he said Mo take your shoes off you're on holy ground you're on my territory I love it you better thank God that you've been brought into the truth of God's word and you're saved to the bone because the mess that people are believing out there is there is no God or somehow he's an AI God or somehow he's a creature or somehow he's a figure or image that we made up but I came to tell you right now he is the infinite almighty eternal everlasting father, prince of peace bride and morning star the rose of Sharon the lily of the valley Moses is up there take your shoes off this is my territory when you get to your house this afternoon you need to take your shoes off walk around in there and say this is God's territory right here the devil ain't got no place in here I will bless the Lord mama don't don't don't don't don't turn on those psalms that praise God I'm gonna turn it on and I'm gonna turn it up loud I'm gonna drive every devil out of the county with this kind because I am not waiting around to fight this devil on my own there is a God in heaven who's about to shake this earth with the glory of God Moses gets up there he starts coming back down the mountain and the glory of God in that eclipse the sun's still shining I've taken off in an airplane in Mexico, Florida on a rushing mighty wind that brings and it looked like it was darkness all around and that old pilot said or maybe young pilot I don't know he said hold on we got a little turbulence but we're gonna climb up and above it I said we're going with your bad self let's ride that thing starts shaking all around people start calling on the Lord some of them start calling on the waitress to come get some more of those little glasses everybody getting saved at that moment brother Lichero that thing's doing a shake you feel like every rivet in that thing is about to pop out storms are all around lightning flashing I said Lord I'm in this plane all you sanctifiers out there that don't say nothing you'll be praying in that storm Lord forgive me my sins forgive all my church for their sins they don't tell you how long the storm is going to last they don't tell you how long the bumping is going to be in fact they're not serving you any refreshments right now no peanuts for you right now be prepared they said your seat belt they said we're going to run into some turbulence they said not even the waitresses are walking around stewardesses they went strapped in too on that plane and that guy had that thing cocked straight up in the heaven you think Lord Jesus if you're going to come you can come right now all these other heathens on this plane you can leave behind just give me that life jacket don't work when you're up there three thousand feet doesn't all of a sudden he starts to level out and I look out and raise up the window and look outside and behold what do I see I know on the ground my perspective was cloudy and rainy and stormy I was just waiting for the Lord to yank me out of the storm I don't know when it's going to happen I don't know how long I've got to endure it but all I can tell you is there is a sun that is shining on the other side of this night time experience sometimes the cloud tops go to 50,000 feet I'll show you how tall they are this is a big one God said I don't 50,000 feet God said that don't impress me I know you're in trouble and I know you're feeling the pain and I know you're walking through it and you're all anxious and everything but I want you to know I got you I heard you I see you I've been watching I've been seeing your tears I've been watching you crawl through your house to try to get somewhere I've watched it toss in the middle of the night and you may not have thought that I was there but I made you a promise I would never leave you and I will never forsake you your trial doesn't make God afraid let me put it like this God is not afraid of the dark because he's light he walks right on in and the Bible said psalmist wrote it down and said whenever his glory shows up he makes even the dark turn to light are you hearing what I'm saying he makes the dark light because of his prayer how can he do that without turning the light on pastor because he's the light the sun was the light you said that's day when the sun comes up but remember that the sun didn't show up to the fourth day what was that light pastor that shined in the darkness and separated the light from the dark I'll tell you what it was the Hebrews called it shekaina shekaina come on somebody say it out loud shekaina the glory of God yeah oh my god brother Christ the glory of God the glory of God it's what Adam and Eve were wearing when they were in the garden in the cool of the day walking around oh I know I know that's a Bible story but let me bring it home to you it's what climbed in the car when you were about to get into a wreck and the shekaina came in and said not today when you were about to lose your mind and you didn't know what to do the shekaina said I got you you got the diagnosis somebody lift your hand and praise him I feel the glory in the room what was it that was riding in that plane with you pastor you don't understand what happened and that happened that will not interrupt the shekaina believe me church you better believe me when I tell you I don't understand the providence of God I don't understand the processes of God I looked up last night to the only picture I have of my mother drawn from her driver's license I said oh I wish you were here you know what I heard I wish you were here but while you're there you better get up and preach tomorrow boy you know what that says the shekaina is getting us ready though I walk through the valley as some of you walking through a valley right now have I got a witness in this house ha ha ha who I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemy thou anointest my head with oil I got to come to a point where I can say surely I got to get to the place where I can't look at the problem I got to look at my God and say surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I have determined come hell and high water I will dwell under the horses in the house of the Lord forever in one week you're quite aware of it I'm going to be transparent that we're coming to the altar those of you that need help I've decided I'm going to have to praise my way through it in one week I've gotten two notifications that I'll be sitting in mediation in lawyers all around the table two different mediations some of you know some of what's happened I'm not here to describe my trouble because I'm not here to tell God about the trial I'm here preaching to you this morning because I'm not some angel that is not affected by everything that you're affected by I've just gotten news this week that some of my best friends are going through the trial of their life never their entire world turned upside down their church turned upside down eyes turned inside out and and you know it's one thing Brother Grimes to go through the trial when it's secret and private and nobody knows about it but when they beat old Paul and Silas they strip them naked in the middle of the street in front of the multitude it's one thing to go through it in the private it's another thing for people to know your business especially if you're the pastor some of you are going to whisper on the way out the door don't wonder what that would it don't matter I will bless the Lord at all times His Pray not mine, His sometimes I can't get mine out but His praise shall continually be in my mouth when I asked you to stand in a moment I don't want you to dart for the back door because I'm closing this service and everybody everybody everybody everybody everybody have you got that song for me the Lord is my shepherd I want everybody in this building who says pastor I'm going through a trial I need help from the Lord the Bible says this in my time of trouble He will hide me in His pavilion in my time of trouble He is my present help I will praise Him He is my present help in time of trouble so I want some folks that are walking through some things that I've been preaching about this morning to get out from where you are and come right now come right now the Lord is my shepherd come on now He goes before me come close to this altar come on right now my cuts over flow come on say it no weapon come on say it the Lord is my shepherd the Lord is my shepherd He goes before praise out this morning I'm going to push out bones shackled to the wall and when they started praising I said you can praise God like this too unnecessary bridge I want you shouting in your churches shut it down but I know this I know God praise through this trial I will survive one of the darkest nights of my life in ministry mine and Rita's I got a letter from the general superintendent of the Assemblies of God he knew that we had been walking through a trial talking about from the top dog wrote me a letter I don't remember all the letter but I remember this one line and he quoted the scripture he said from the scripture says and the birds will sing again you know what he was telling me you may feel like that everything's desolate all around you but I'm coming to tell you this is a turning point for you right here am I prophesying to somebody in here is that bearing witness this is a turning point for you the birds will sing again and you know what I'm not going to let those birds sing by themselves if me and the bird are the only ones singing then we're going to praise our God you got a hold of that hand I want you to lift it up towards heaven in the praise motion look at here, look at here, look all around you look around you look around you Jehoshaphat's army is all around you I know the enemy's been coming in but like a flood the spirit of the Lord is raising a standard while you got their hand lifted why don't you just begin to praise him we can hear you praise him because this week when they run into the devil when they run into the roadblock they're going to remember this moment and they're going to remember your voice like those prisoners did of Paul and Silas father in the name of Jesus let the praises of your people arise in this hour until the enemy hears it and flees seven ways I give you glory praise him in your own way right now just whatever you do we came out of the door with a praise today nobody's defeated nobody's destroyed his praise for my friends that are watching online and your heart has been trampled by a thousand horses I submit this to you and to this entire congregation the Lord bless you and the Lord keep you and the Lord lift up his countenance upon you the Lord be gracious unto you and the Lord of glory give you his peace now and forever more in the mighty strong matchless name of Jesus the Christ the only begotten of God if you believe he is Lord of all and in control give him the highest and last praise of this service the highest and last praise of this service