 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on. Let's receive minister Bruce, minister Tanisha Bruce. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Let us pray before our father, our king, our lord and savior. Father God, we thank and we praise you for you. We love you God. We appreciate you and we ask that you continue to have your way in our lives. Lord, receive our praise and our worship this morning. Hallelujah. Receive the songs that we sing unto you. Receive the sacrifice of praise that we give unto you, Father. Help us to be on one accord today. Let your shekinah glory fall on our hearts and in our minds. We thank you for the rain. We thank you for replenishing the land. Lord, we ask that you anoint every portion of this service. Hallelujah. Speak to the speaker today, Lord, as they minister to us. Lord, help us to receive your word with open heart, open understanding and clarity. We ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Hallelujah. We thank the lord this morning. Hallelujah for his goodness, for his grace and mercy. Hallelujah for his precious blood that flows like a river. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. We give thanks unto the Lord for giving us breath in our bodies in another day to lift up his name. Choice in our lord and savior Jesus Christ today. Glory to God. You know, we don't know the day or the hour that the Lord will require our souls. And so, every single day that the Lord gives us. Hallelujah. We need to acknowledge that it's his breath in our lungs. Hallelujah. My sister-in-law passed on Friday and she didn't know, we didn't know that that would be her last breath. But you know, with every breath that she had, she gave God the praise, with every breath that we have, we need to give God all the glory and all the praise. Thank you, Jesus. You give life. You are love. You bring light to the darkness. You give hope. You restore every heart. All your praise, our heart for the breath and the life that he gives us. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. At this time, we'll have special music this morning by Sister Amber White. I've seen this morning is, Jesus, I love you because you care. Amen. I tell the Lord all the time. Jesus, you're a faithful God. Come with us as we stand to provide. Hallelujah. The Lord is in this place. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank God for the anointing. Hallelujah. The anointing breaks the yoke. Hallelujah. God bless you. You may be seated. Oh, get thanks unto the Lord because he's good. His mercy endures. Thank him for his goodness. Thank him for his loving kindness, for his mercy, unto the children of men. God is great. God is great. Let me just say a little bit. God is great. He's great, big to me. Appreciate the fact, the greatest Father that ever, and he's supply. He'll supply all of our needs according to his riches and glory. And that's some riches. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'm glad my dad is the king of kings. He's the Lord of and he loves. Amen. That is a truth. It is a promise that he has given to his people. He would always with us. He said, I'll never leave you. I'll never forsake you. He said, I'm everything that you need. His supplies are every need. I think about where I've come from. I didn't get here by myself. It was the hand of God that moved upon my life. He moved on all of our lives. Amen. I'm delighted today to be here again before you. I counted the privilege to stand behind the sacred desk and bring to you the word of God. Before we go any further, I want to praise God. I want to praise God. Amen. Hallelujah. What a wonderful, wonderful music section we have. God is blessing us. The Lord is about joy. Amen. So there's singing and shouting will be in heaven and there'll be all kinds of music. And we're excited because we have a great tune. We've added to our team from the Jesse Adams. Amen. We're delighted to have him to be a part of our music group here. Amen. All right. Now, God is so good. He provides for us everything that is necessary for us to live a holy life. God's people are chosen by him. And when we're called into the kingdom, we're excited about it. And as the Lord blesses us, we sometimes forget where the blessings come from. And I'll say to you the blessings that come our way, come our way conditionally in this day and time in the kingdom of God, there's something that is lacking that comes from the church to God's people. God requires holiness. God requires holiness. Scripture said without holiness, no man can see the Lord. When we understand that there are requirements that we must meet in order to see the Lord. And I maintain that there will be some saints in this. This is not, I'm not prophesying, it's just a fact. There will be some people who have been baptized in water in Jesus' name. Well, I'll say, let me start from the beginning. They repented and were baptized in water in Jesus' name for the remission of their sins and God filled them with the Holy Ghost. But I'm feeling this morning like maybe we preachers don't preach hard enough or clearly enough to cause people to be more careful about their walk. The Scripture says that if we repent, be baptized in water in Jesus' name, the Lord will fill us with the Holy Ghost. And when we accomplish that, we get excited because we're part of the family of God and we don't move forward. We wind up staying at the place where we began. I have the Holy Ghost and I'm going to heaven. But I want to say there's sin among God's people. Amen. I'm not saying that I'm not pointing to any particular sin, murder, robbery, adultery, fornication, whatever sin. I'm not pointing just at that, but I'm pointing at whatever sin comes to be in the house of God. Sin can't be ignored. Sin has to be acknowledged and dealt with. And I'm so glad that the Lord made a way for us to get it right. I said that preachers in this day and time, well, I'll just kind of have to back up on that a little bit because it has been this way down through the history of the church. Today I'll be talking to you, speaking to your heart about the church restored. The church restored. The church belongs to God and God says, I'm going to have a people. We're God's greatest creation, mankind. And mankind who was part of the body of Christ is the greatest creation ever created. And the Lord says, I'm jealous for my church. He said, I'm not willing to let the adversary of the soul, the devil. I'm not willing to let him have my church. He said, so I'm going to see to it that something's done about the sin. And so I'll call your attention this morning to Joel chapter number two. Joel chapter number two. And I want to begin calling your attention to verse number 18, Joel 2 verse 18 through 27. Now this is begins the restoration of the church. God's people had gotten all off doing their own thing and still wanting to be and wanting to receive all that God was able to supply for them. And so when we get to verse 18, we began to look and see that the Lord is reclaiming his church. Verse 18 said, then will the Lord be jealous for his land and pity his people. Yea, the Lord will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I will send you corn and wine and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith. And I will no more make you a reproach among the heathens. He said, you've been among heathens and they've had you under reproach. He said, but I will remove far off from you the northern army and will drive him into the land barren and desolate and his face toward the east sea and his hind apart the utter the utmost sea and his stink shall come up and I and his ill shall come up because he had done great things. So let me kind of break that down. This is a picture of God's coming kingdom. It hasn't happened yet, but it is a promise. And so we see that the Lord promises his people things may not come when you want it, but it's always on time when he makes a promise you can be assured that the promise shall be fulfilled. So he lays out for us in this passage. He laid out for us six promises. The first promise is of restoration. God will restore material property. He said your enemy the adversary came against you, they beat you up, took your lunch and stole your property, but he says that's not always going to be the way it is. He said I promise that's not going to be the average. Then he said God would restore respect and honor his people. The Lord says I see where you are. I see your shortcomings. I see your misunderstandings. I see you're arguing and fighting one with the other. He said but what I'm going to do is I'm going to restore respect among the people. I'm going to honor my people. Verse 20 said God will restore peace and national security. He would drive back the northern army and defeat them and he would do this great thing himself. He said I'm not leaving this to anybody else. He said I'm going to handle this. I'll take care of this. I'll restore order in the world. Then he said verse 21 fear not Oland be glad and rejoice for the Lord will do great things. God will restore the land. He would provide for the wild animals. He would provide abundant fruit from both tree and vine. Now I failed to point it out but we're down to the fourth promise. The first promise God will restore material property. The second promise God will restore respect and honor to his people. The third promise God will restore peace and national security. In that promise he said he would drive back the northern army and defeat them. He would do this great thing himself. Now the fourth one is the one I just spoke of. He would restore the land. He said yes you've been in a serious condition where there was not enough food to eat. The land wouldn't cooperate so forth and so on. He said but you don't have to fear. He said be glad and rejoice for the Lord will do great things and we witness many things that the Lord does that nobody else can do when you see how things turn around in your life. See how the Lord brought you out of a deep dark pit and set your feet in the kingdom. We know that nobody can do that. Nobody but God. We can't go to anybody that we know because nobody has the power. Nobody has the authority to set free. Jesus said I'm going to cause you to be restored. All right. He would provide for the wild animals. He would provide abundant fruit from both the tree and the vine. I'm not going to just provide for you. He said I'm going to provide more than enough. Can you get that in your head? He says not just a little bit. Not just so that you can exist. He said but I'm going to make more than enough and you're going to be completely satisfied. The fifth one is God will restore good weather. Amen. Thank God for good weather. God will restore good weather and abundant rain. I think we saw that this week. And in that he says be glad then ye children of Zion and rejoice in the Lord your God for he has given you the former rain moderately and he will cause to come down for you the rain and the former rain and the latter rain in the first month. He says I'm going to cause the elements to participate. Come on somebody. He said I'm not doing it by myself. He said I am the cause of it. He said but I'm going to cause the elements to join in and help to make this turnaround that is needed by my people. Verse 24 said and the floors shall be full of wheat and the vats shall overflow with wine and oil. He said so what I'm doing for you is where there was meager amounts of flour. He said the wheat is going to be on the floors and it's going to be full of wheat and he said and when I turn things around he said the vats shall overflow with wine and oil and here's verse 25. Verse 25 is the one he said and I will store to you the years that the locust has eaten the canker worm and the caterpillar and the Palmer worm and my great army which I sent me among you and ye shall eat in plenty and be satisfied. Come on somebody and praise the name of the Lord your God that has dealt wondrously with you and my people shall never be ashamed. He said I'm going to turn this thing around. He said you ought to be rejoicing right now just at the promise. He said you haven't seen it yet. He said I haven't accomplished it yet but you're going to be everything that I say you're going to be. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Then he said the purpose the reason that I'm restoring is the purpose for restoration is to stir the people to praise the Lord. Come on somebody. I think we did a pretty good job this morning. Amen. I want to thank you Sister Amber. Thank you for letting the Lord use you. Now we ought to want to praise the Lord after all he has done for us. We don't just have a promise. We've received a part of the promise and so we ought to be praising the Lord with all we've got. He said stir the people to praise the Lord. Make sure God's people are never again shamed. He said when you come when the Lord puts you on on front street he said you'll never have to hang your head. Then the next thing is to make sure God's people know that he is with them. Come on anybody know the Lord is with you? Yeah. Come on. That requires praise. You shall know that I am in the midst of Israel and that I am the Lord your God. I am the Lord your God and none else and my people shall never be ashamed. The major verse in that text was verse number 25. I will restore unto you everything that you lost everything that you lost. He said I'm going to restore it. He said because I'm a forgiving God and when I call for sacrifice from my people he said when you do it you get the result that you're seeking. In the early part of this chapter it was call a fast. Call everybody into to the assembly and fast and pray. And when it fasts it's not just y'all but the children too. The animals too. Don't feed nobody. It's a sacrificing time because we have sin that has to be dealt with and when we come to God like that he said I'll turn it all around and make it right for all of you who participated. He said you my people and I'm going to restore you. I'm not letting the devil take my stuff. Hello. I want to go to the New Testament and this is a familiar parable in Luke the 15th chapter. It says you all know this but I'll just read down for a little bit. Luke 15 beginning at chapter I mean verse number 11 and he said a certain man had two sons and the younger of them said to his father, Father give me the portion of goods that fall to me and he divided unto them his living and not many days after the young son gathered all together and took journey into a far country. There wasted his substance with riotous living and when he had spent all their roles of mighty famine in the land and he began to be in one. I don't want to spend a lot of time on this but the nerve the nerve the son the younger son came to him and said give me my part and if it'd been me I'd have said what part you ain't got no part. He insisted on having his part and the father was gracious the father was caring he loved his son and he let him get away with one how about that what the young man wanted he wanted his inheritance right now give me my inheritance I want to be independent sometimes when young folks ask for independence they they don't have a clue what that means they don't know how much toilet paper costs they don't know about the rent or the markets that has to be paid they just know I want to be free I don't want nobody telling me nothing this is my life I'll live my life because it's mine well there's a wake-up day coming not many days after the young's younger son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country and wasted his substance with riotous living and when he had spent all their roles of mighty famine in the land and he began to be in want and he went and joined himself to a citizen of a country and he sent him into his field to feed the swine the pigs now let me point out to you this young man was a Jew Jews didn't work for nobody else I don't think they do it even now they work for themselves are others of their kind so he broke the rule and left being a Jew and joined up with a Gentile who had it feeding pigs when Jews feel that pigs are the the worst thing ever to eat verse 16 and when when he would feign have filled his belly with the husk that the swine did eat and no man gave unto him and I've always liked that particular verse right there see because I see redemption in that scripture right there amen no man everywhere he looked all the friends that he had while he was spending all that money and there was good timing and when he looked up all his stuff was gone and so were his friends when he found that he said I've got to do something or I'm going to starve I'm going to die and so he broke down and joined in with feeding pigs then the next verse is the verse the verse of redemption and when he came to himself just that portion right there points out well I'll just tell you how the Lord feels of feels about us when we act in this fashion he feels like you didn't lost your mind so when he came back to his mind when he finally started to reason properly when he came to himself he said how many hired servants of my fathers have read enough and to spare and I'm perishing with hunger he said my father's rich in spite of the fact that he gave me my portion he's still rich and I'm down here about this about to die of hunger and he said I will arise and go to my father and will say unto him father I have sinned against heaven and before thee and I'm no more worthy to be called thy son make me as one of thy hired hands now this is where the Lord wants us when we don't live close enough that we wind up out of fellowship with the body of Christ the Lord says if you confess your sins if you turn your back on sin and determine not to do it again he said I'll forgive you I'm glad to forgive you but you've got to have repentance and and that's what Joel talked about that portion that we we talked about it was about repenting you can't you can't just take sin and throw it away something's got to be done it's got to be dealt with we know the plan of salvation the salvation people somebody asked you well how do you how do you become saved the first thing you have to do is repent you have to decide Lord this is not the place where I want to be Lord if you can help me I'd give myself to you I ask you to forgive me of my sins I want to be washed in your blood I want to be saved and when you come to God like that you come to Him repenting the Lord delights in your coming He said my strength is made perfect in your weakness in your weakness He said then I get a chance to show how perfect I am He said and I delight in helping you the Lord is so much different than mankind and I thank Him for being here because if you do something to me one time I'll probably forgive you now this isn't me in the flesh I'm not in the flesh if you do something to me twice that all right look like you're making a habit out of this if you do it a third time you said three strikes and you out but God delights in every time you make a misstep come on somebody He said I'll strengthen you I'll claim you as my own I'll bring you back to me He said I delight in straightening out your mess hallelujah hallelujah when I think about that God is just so good when you see how God hates sin you ought to be excited well Lord I did it again but I ask you to forgive me and the Lord says no big deal come on I'll restore you I'm going to give you what you need to do I'm going to strengthen you this is going to work in your behalf hallelujah hallelujah now He said in verse 19 I'm no more worthy to be called your son and guess what that's the way you ought to feel when you trespass when you miss the mark and we miss the mark continually and we say oh well but God will forgive you every time you do it and guess what some of us have a trophy but but never having sin since they got the Holy Ghost and walking with Jesus 48 years I ain't sin yet liar repentance is so very necessary you need to repent every day I repent in 1949 have you repented since then have you missed the mark of God anywhere between 49 and 23 remember a song that I learned as a young boy if I have wounded any soul today this is the prayer to pray at night if I have wounded any soul today if I have cost one foot to go astray if I have walked in my own willful way dear Lord forgive forgive forgive the sins I have confessed to be forgive the secret sins I do not see oh guide me help me and my keeper be dear Lord forgive I'm repenting I'm repenting and I need your strength I need your power and I want you to help me oh Lord I want you to help me oh Lord I want you to help me on my journey help me on my way oh Lord I need you to help me hallelujah hallelujah verse 20 said here rose and came to his father when he was yet a great way off his father saw him and had compassion come on and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him it delighted the father to see his son coming back coming back to be restored and he he was an elderly man and he was supposed to walk but it said he ran he saw him he had been standing on the porch looking down the road he said he's coming back he's coming back so he ain't come back yet dad he's coming back I know he's coming back and he looked down the road and saw his son and he struck out running had compassion the Lord has compassion now the devil will tell you the Lord's going to get you because you know you stole the cookie and now that you stole three quarters he wants to build a case in you against yourself so you'll say oh well I better not say it you know because the the Lord said don't do that the father knew when that boy got his share he knew what was going to happen the Lord knows what's going to happen to you when you fall off the wagon come on somebody but he's got compassion he's got love for you verse 21 the son said unto him father I have sinned against heaven and in thy sight I'm no more worthy to be called thy son the grand conjunction but but the father said to his servants bring forth the best robe and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet and bring hither the fatted cat and kill it and let us eat and be merry he said the father the father began to to show his acceptance and so the father the father called him to bring the robe and the robe was of the finest and put it on him and put a ring on his hand and shoes on his feet and bring hither the fatted cat he said this is a time of celebration he said I'm not sad about what happened I'm able to stand it I'm able to take it he said and when I take it I'm willing to forgive we might take a little detour right there sometimes I've heard people who are carrying a grudge for many years can't forgive him because of what he did to me well what was that was that last week no that was eight years I haven't spoke to him in eight years and when I see him I ain't gonna speak to him next time that's not the spirit of God you you can't have that in your heart and be saved amen amen I talked to one person I said he was talking about what somebody had done to him and he said I ain't gonna forgive him I go well you got to forgive him he goes no I don't I said yeah the bible said you do he goes oh if you belong to Jesus if you're planning on receiving mercy if you're if you're wanting God to forgive you of your sins you can't be in that condition with anybody I don't care what they did how long they did it or any of that kind of stuff to to forgive is to be forgiven if you can't forgive you can't get forgiven so well that goes on further so he said had bring they had the fatty cat cat well maybe you all might not know about that I think maybe sister Edwards might know about a fatty calf or such we we lived on a farm for about a year when I was 14 we had pigs and cows dad said we're gonna fatten this pig up sister Marilyn you might know about this we're gonna fatten this pig up and we put him in a pen on on the floor and we didn't give him garbage anymore we gave him corn and mesh we fattened him up we fattened him up to kill dad did the operation on the pig that was necessary and he began to swell and one day it snowed in January Deacon Sykes was there dad let the pig out of the cage and he began to run in the garden spot and dad had a 22 rifle he asked Richard you want to shoot it really Deacon Sykes said yes I'll shoot him and he went one shot right in the middle of his forehead don't don't mess with Deacon Sykes what what that was was that was a sacrifice to kill that fat hog I had never tasted real meat before until I tasted that sausage and that bacon and that ham so that's what the father did for this son who had the nerve to want his stuff give me my stuff and he went out and took it and threw it away and it was back before you knew it but he said I'm gonna celebrate him because he's my son he said yes he did wrong but I don't remember that I take that and push that out of my sight and I because he's repented because he came to himself if he had stayed crazy it wouldn't have never happened but when he came to himself and said lord I need your help I need you to embrace me hallelujah hallelujah he said I love you I love you and I'll do whatever it takes to cause you to walk right with me I'll give you strength that you didn't have before hallelujah hallelujah he says he said his 24th verse he said this my son was dead and is alive again and he was lost and it's found and they began to be married hallelujah hallelujah thank god though we were dead in our sins we were had we were in our way would be in with our personalities that had to have everything that it wanted in spite of the fact that it wasn't even ours we had the nerve to do that but god says because you've come back and you came back right he said I'll restore you I'm gonna restore my church I'm gonna restore you individually when your heart becomes to the place where it ought to be he said you can belong to me again he said yes you were dead but I'm glad to see I brought you back to life hallelujah hallelujah thank god thank god for his forgiveness thank god for his loving kindness he didn't have to do it but he did he went to Calvary for for the mission of our sins he was the only sacrifice that was was possible because he was the only perfect man hallelujah thank god for Jesus thank god thank god for Jesus I'm so glad he he took my sins away I came to Jesus weary worn and sad he took my sins away hallelujah hallelujah don't be afraid of Jesus y'all hello please please do not be afraid you haven't done anything bad enough that he'll reject you all he wants his repentance he wants you to come back in your right mind amen amen you know the whole thing about that mind thing is a person just want what they want how about trying to find out what god wants amen everybody want to go to heaven amen you better find out what he want you better find out what's acceptable come on somebody he'll hear you he'll hear you all right y'all shout next time that's the message that's what the Lord said give you today amen I love it I love it amen I know I know that that's what the Lord requires that's what he's looking for and he'll bless us he'll bless your socks off if you're abiding him keep your heart right with god god bless you in jesus name all of us we are the church amen so we did he's talking about us being restored amen amen preaching that i as scripture came to my mind now second peter's chapter three verses nine the Lord is not concerning his promises as some man's count slackness but is long suffering to us we're not willing to end your parish but that all should come to repentance and i'm going to read that in another uh uh version it said the Lord is not slow about keeping his promise as some people think he is waiting for you the Lord does not want anyone to be punished or to go to hell forever he wants all people to repent but he wants everyone to repent and you know what you need to repent of now i think everybody in here um no old plan of salvation with pitt britchett had gone over it already and uh so we have to look at our self do a self-examination on self for repentance i want everybody here to just take a deep breath and blow it out take another one and blow it out sister terry sang a song with this breath it's your breath in my lungs that cause us to praise him do you know that you can't live without the deep breath that you just took he allowed that to happen but people don't realize that that god allowed you to be able to take his air in and blow carbon monoxide out carbon dioxide out right he allows that and sometimes we act like yeah it's nothing to do with us i know and nobody in here is like that but i'm talking to maybe the young people they're looking at me explaining all this and he allows that so that means that nothing you can do in this world can be done without jesus nothing at all nothing is your breath in my lungs it's god's breath that's in your lungs hallelujah yes this was reading joe about the cake of worm about us to praise god that's why he does that so we can praise him and give him glory because it's god's breath in us that causes us to give god praise and we have to remember that when we come to praise service we can't be sitting around you know like but hey think about god you gave me this breath so i'm gonna praise you with this breath that i got i'm gonna praise you with this that i got and whatever hallelujah whatever it is i'm gonna do it and also when it comes repentance he gives you the mind to repent the devil don't want us to repent the devil don't want us to restore it had a friend who called me her 12-year-old uh young daughter sister mary mackin and sister edna ross went to her house to see her new house her husband had died and her lord blessed her where she was able to move into a new place and uh so they went by to see her house in her little 12-year-old granddaughter said came in as mary and uh edna was getting ready to leave said i want the holy ghost and then she says that you do she said yeah do you know what it's all about yes i know what it's all about they took her in her room and she came out grandmother grandmother i got the holy ghost speak it as i got the holy ghost speaking in tongue see sometimes we get the hold and sometimes people tell us we got the holy ghost but you got to know within yourself you got to know within yourself that you speaking in tongue nobody tell you you got the holy ghost you got to know that you spoke in tongue yourself and that's what this little girl said grandmother got the holy ghost speaking in tongue so she knew that she had the holy ghost and then she called me again yesterday and told me that mackayla went to school and the devil started attacking her right away mackayla came home crying that day because he was messing with her and so she had to sit her down and tell him mackayla the reason the devil's neck down inside of you so the devil's trying to discourage you so what you gotta do you gotta pray when you get up pray before you go to pray when you get home you got to pray so the devil could not mess with you so she began to explain that she was so excited she put it all on facebook she showed everybody and her little granddaughter had the holy ghost and that's how we got to be about god and then another song sister sister um oh wow i'm okay i'm i didn't fall anyway sister amber's saying jesus i love you and every time i think about that song i think about a young man he used to go to this church minister bill minister bill hasson he's saying that song he said jesus i love you and they say not because i've been so faithful or not because i've been so good you know what all right what's wrong with this thing no okay okay this is the devil this is the devil these watch it sometime for the devil okay but not because i've been so faithful or not because i've been so good to forgive us for and he's dead everything but you may not have been what people call quote the big sin but maybe you talk about somebody that you shouldn't have been talking about maybe you had to talk about somebody you weren't supposed to have that's what god that's what god is telling us today because i don't think nobody's here gonna go out and murder kill or do all that kind of stuff but you know some of the stuff but anyway that's what god is talking about today we got to ask god to forgive us because guess what god don't want any of us lost he said he promised that he would not that he does not want to see any of us perish that's the mercies of god that's god love for us so i ought to call today to remember that every breath that you breathe is because of god and also remember that god wants us to all to be restored back to where he wants us to be we got to be like that prodigal son we got to go back almost whatever you want me to do lord i'm gonna do it whatever you want to take me lord i'm gonna i'm gonna let you do it but we got to remember that we have a heart to play in our salvation this has started out by saying that people come to the church and get baptized and repent and get baptized and get hold of those and i know the hold of those not gonna keep you unless you're allowed to keep you it's not gonna hold you unless you're allowed to hold you but you got to do something about that when temptation comes your way you got to avoid that temptation when things come before you you got to avoid it learn how to say no no no i don't do those kind of things and then you got to listen to the voice of the lord you got to listen to god you know god will show you things we were invited to a celebration and the celebration is something that's not conducive to what we think of what way we celebrate and we have been in the past to this person house and we have went to the past and but the lord began to deal with me about going to that particular celebration and i thought and then i thought and then my brother law was also invited and the lord began to deal with him so this year they wanted us to come again and he said no i can't go the lord convict me on that i said robert the lord did me the same way and we don't know why the lord convicted us because it's just going to house have dinner but then my sister carol who i talked to when i explained to her she said well i don't see no harm in just going to having dinner then about three or four days later there was a message on youtube that she heard explaining why it was inappropriate for the other go to this particular dinner so you can't go to everything but the lord had convicted me that i can't go and participate in this particular celebration and i didn't do that but when carol sent that tape to me i said that is why i said thank you jesus for confirming the way you convict me and how i felt so when the lord convict you and you don't do it guess what that's a sin if you convict you or something and you just ignore that conviction that's a sin you're it might not be sin for you but it might be a sin for me so if i do it it's a sin for me and i'm done wrong but you god hasn't convicted you yet so it's not not a sin to you yet amen so we have to realize that god wants us all to go to heaven you don't want any of us paired so we're just gonna pray just stand up and we're gonna pray father in the name of jesus oh god you're so wonderful you're so loving you're so kind and lord god we thank you because you want to see us all rejoicing up there with you oh god we ask you to help us lord god help us like god to come to you with repentance in our heart forgive us lord god for things that we are aware that we don't do wrong and we shouldn't do lord god and forgive us for things like god that we do lord god that that we don't do and we should do we ask you to bless us lord even our presumption sins lord god those things that we don't think much about lord god that's wrong and against your law we ask you to forgive each of us lord god for anything in our lives lord god that's not according to your word according to your will we ask you lord god we come to you creating us a clean heart lord god and renewing us a right spirit lord god oh god search our hearts lord god search us lord god there's anything you find in us that's not right lord god hang it out and restrain us lord god we know that you're able lord oh god we thank you we praise you lord god in the name of jesus we pray in jesus name we pray praise the lord saints it's time put the gift to the lord as the lord has given unto each and every one of us as i was listening to the first lady as we feed this flesh we have to feed the spirit also with the word of god so both go hand in hand if we can feed the flesh we got to feed that spirit and by feeding that spirit is by the word of god that's what we must do that just was in my heart we have to feed that spirit our offerings coming from uh first Corinthians second Corinthians it gives us three reasons why we should pay our tithes and give our offering it's a gift consistently they say on the first day in first Corinthians 16 too it said on the first day of every week each one of us is to put something aside in proportion to his prosperity and save it so that no collection will need to be made when i come the second one is the second one is joyfully it says each one of us each one this is found in second Corinthians 297 each one was given as he decided in his heart not reluctantly for under compulsion for god's love a cheer for giver then in second Corinthians eight three it's a gift generously for our testify that they gave as much as they were able and even beyond their ability then followed then he followed by saying who's forever so sparingly we're also reap sparingly and who's so ever so generously will reap generously generously so this is what the lord is telling us as the lord has given to us we give back to the lord you know it's when time for offering if you come up here with a frown on your face you give it grudgingly this is part of praise and worship we continue to worship lord with our offering and that's what we give back to the lord as the lord has given back to has given us nothing that we have belongs to us it belongs to the lord the lord only lonely to us they expect each and every one of us in here to be good stewards of what he has given us and we put whatever if we have for the lord we put that on the side first and and give take care of other bills later if we don't have enough the lord will make a way he'll open up a window to pull you out of blessing that you will have room to receive so that's what we must do think about the lord first then give generously not grudgingly not penny pitching you know it's one thing I used to warn us sometimes we can follow every rule in the book every law in the book every commandment in the book but when it comes to paying tithes and offering something happens why why why because we aren't yielding to the flesh and not that to the spirit the spirit say give and it will be given back to us god say his word when I would turn him to me a boy that it would do what it was set out to do so please stand with me in jesus name everyone please stand with me that we may be on one accord offering up to the lord in jesus name father in the name of jesus we thank you we praise you lord we glorify we magnify your name hallelujah we thank you lord for this offer that we are about to receive lord god in the name of jesus lord god that's this offering lord god that the work of of you may continue lord god in this church that they may further the work lord god in the name of jesus lord god you said lord god that you love a cheerful giver lord god you told us lord god to give consistently joyfully and generously lord god in the name of jesus lord god touch the hearts and the minds of your people lord god help them to stand lord god stand on your word lord god stand on your promises lord god in jesus name lord god bless this offer multiply let it continue to meet the needs that he may further the work that's going forth here lord god in jesus name we pray amen and amen you're now in the hands of the usher's family praise the lord everybody before we're dismissed we're going to have announcement amen amen praise the lord amen we are preparing for our annual convention amen apostle henry and bishop marty are making plans and inviting special guest in to minister to our hearts amen the theme of the convention for this year is i will reveal saith the lord amen and that is out of x 15 and 16 amen um the date of the service is april the 12th through the 15th that's wednesday through saturday and each day there will be seminars that will restore rebuild and recover amen our lives amen special guests have been invited bishop gentry richerson from bethlehem temple here in los angeles bishop kelly woods from covenant worship center in berkeley amen and for the women apostle veronica more will be ministering on friday afternoon amen the special consecration service on friday night amen it should be a marvelous marvelous occasion amen amen also um those of you that are coming out of town those of you that are tuning in on facebook or youtube uh best western hotel has been reserved at the airport there for our guests amen and um further information if you want to be a part of the choir amen if you can make a joyful noise unto the lord amen amen you can actually um participate apostle henry is looking forward to leading in with music with a hundred voice choir so if you've ever wanted to make a joyful noise unto the lord this is the time amen if you want to usher you know if you want to do anything to be a part of the convention that a bless the people of god amen you can actually contact the office to shield the faith fellowship office amen and they will connect you to the people who are over those particular ministries amen also did i say rancho kukamanga yeah amen the service will be held at immanuel praise fellowship in rancho kukamanga that's at 95 92 7th street and again the hotel that has been reserved for the guest there is the best western airport i'm going to get the address i'll have the address for you the next time they just gave it to us yesterday um i do believe that is it registration is 20 and then and they're also asking if you will to sponsor amen and they want anyone that can to sponsor uh 100 you can sponsor families you can sponsor people you know but they're asking for 100 sponsorship and i'm going to do that amen because i want to make sure that everything goes off smooth and it takes all of us to help when we're in ministries it takes the whole body amen to participate to make sure that everything runs well the seminars are going to be wonderful financial seminars seminars on mental health amen god is just putting things together through apostle henry and bishop marty and their programming committee so let's look forward to that you can start registering right now and shield fellowship.org amen you can go there now and we are going to have some personal registration here um for those of you that are not computer savvy and perhaps don't know how to do that we can register you here also amen amen amen i'm excited amen this will be one of the first times that i've ever really really really really participated in the convention and i'm excited about it amen so let's stand up we're going to get ready to go home amen the lord has blessed us amen with a wonderful word hallelujah and now our determination is even the more hallelujah come on put those hands together yes