 to shield the faith, Long Beach Hallelujah. The pastor here is Bishop Arling Alexander. The first lady is First Lady Pastor Bobby Alexander. Hallelujah. Come and adore the Lord with us. Come in and worship. Come in and fellowship. Come in and lift your hand. Come in and lift your voice and worship the Lord. Hallelujah. Worship Christ our savior for he alone is Hallelujah. Come on. Let's don't stop praising him. Hallelujah. He's word Lord. Hallelujah Lord. We praise you this morning Lord God. We glorify you. We magnify your name Lord God for you alone Lord God. Hallelujah Lord God. Jesus is the reason for this season. Thank you Lord God. We come now Lord God. In the precious name of Jesus Lord God. Hallelujah Lord. We come this morning saying thank you Lord God. Thank you for your mercy Lord God. Oh thank you for your grace Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. You said Lord God that your mercy Lord God is renewed. Amen Jesus Lord God. We come this morning Lord God to glorify you. To magnify your name Lord God. We come this morning Lord God. To lift your name Lord God. On high Lord God. For your name Lord God. He lifted up Lord God. Come this morning Lord God. To ask you Lord God. That you will have your way Lord God. In this service Lord God. That you will move Lord God. In a mighty way Lord God. That you will move Lord God. Upon every heart Lord God. Every mind with Jesus Lord God. Be glorified. Be magnified this God. Have your way Lord God. Lord you said with price goes up Lord God. Blessed come down Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. Help us Lord God to get out of ourselves Lord God and get into the spirit Lord God. You said those Lord God those that worship you Lord God. We must Lord God. We must worship you Lord God in spirit Lord God and in true Lord God. In the name of the service Lord God. Anoint your word Lord God. As it comes Lord God. With man Lord God from on high Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. Anoint the musicians Lord God. As they play skillfully Lord God. Before you Lord God. In Jesus name Lord God. As they play Lord God. In the ocean Lord God. After all they go Lord God. Lord touch hearts this morning. Touch my Jesus Lord God. Help us Lord God to surrender Lord God. Our Lord God. That you will be done Lord God. Orders Lord God. As it is Lord God. In heaven Lord God. Be glorified. Be magnified this morning Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We get it Lord God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah Lord Jesus Jesus. Praise your name Lord God. In the service Lord God. In Jesus name Lord God. In Jesus name we pray Amen. Amen. Thank you. Hallelujah. To God our Savior. Hallelujah. Thank you Lord. Our scripture this morning is Psalms 124. Psalms 124. Praise your name Lord Jesus. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side. Yes Lord. Yes Lord. Now may Israel say. Yes Lord. If it had not been the Lord who was on our side. Hallelujah. When men rose up against us. Then they had swallowed us up as quick. When their wrath was candled against us. Then the waters had overwhelmed us. The streams had gone over our soul. Yes Lord. Then the proud waters had gone over our soul. Yes. Blessed be the Lord who had not given us as a prey to their teeth. Our soul is escaped as a bird. Hallelujah. Out of the snare of the snare. The snare is broken and we are escaped. Our help is in the name of the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you. Hallelujah. Thank you Lord. Our help is in the name of the Lord who made heaven and earth. Glory Jesus. Thank you Lord. Bless your name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. All of our help is in the Lord. Hallelujah. Come and let us adore him. Hallelujah. Let us bow down before the Lord this morning. Hallelujah. Give him all glory, honor, and praise. Thank you Jesus. Yes. Bless your Lord. Yes. Light of the world. Light of the world. Light of the world. You stepped down. Raise a lamp and holiness is what the Lord can make us new. Broke everything. That's what you the Lord wants us to be holy. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Acceptable unto you Lord God which is our Lord is calling for holiness. Amen. At this time we'll have our solo this morning by minister Marilyn Alexander. Amen. Amen. These times are difficult and we know it. Divas of God have to do is look to the Lord. Amen. Lift up my eyes to the hills from which come our help. Our help coming from the Lord. Amen. For the Lord which my help. Hallelujah. Coming from the Lord. Hallelujah. When you think about it. Yes Lord. You understand that you didn't wake up on your own this morning. The Lord woke you this morning. Hallelujah. Started you on your way. Help you find your way into his house where he longs to communicate. Hallelujah. When we come into the house of the Lord, the Lord tells us what he desires of us. Hallelujah. My help. My help. Come from the Lord. Come on. Hallelujah. In spite of what we've tried on our own. We failed consistently. Yes. When we come to Jesus and say Lord, you're my help. You're my keeper. You're my everything. Hallelujah. He's praised. You may be seated. Praise the Lord everybody. So good to be back in the house of the Lord again on this Sunday. Times are very difficult and without the help of the Lord we're completely lost. I said completely lost. I don't know about you if you've ever been lost before. It's not a very good feeling. Amen. When we get lost and we're truly lost we start to panic and don't know what to do next. We know that we serve a God who loves us. Our every thought and he's able to deliver. I'm glad to see each of you who are here today. I want you to continue in prayer as we're going into a new year. Amen. This time next week we'll be in the new year and I want I want us all to continue to seek the will of the Lord because what it is that we need to do is we need to be in His presence and we long for Him. We want to spend eternity with Him. So we want to be aware that in these times that are the most difficult times and we don't have to fret we don't have to fear you know the the virus keeps changing Amen. Amen. But what I understand is that the Lord looks out for His people. So He's able to deliver. He's able to bring light out of darkness and if He can bring light out of darkness whatever problems we have in our little bitty lives the Lord doesn't have any challenge. There's no challenge for Him He's able to deliver us. So I want to encourage you now you all can be comfortable the pastor got up and came down this morning before he put his suit on and disinfected the whole sanctuary. Every door knob, every seat you're sitting on, they've all been taken care of and you can relax in Jesus Amen. The virus is changing and continues to change but He's able to deliver us. Amen. Without further ado I'm going to call for the speaker for this morning Elder Kevin Ross Amen. I invite you at this time to give him your best attention. He's going to bring the Word of the Lord to us He's a good preacher. Amen. He's able to deliver. Let's receive Elder Ross as he comes in Jesus name. Jesus name is mine. Hey! I told Satan victory. I had to tell Satan get behind because victory is mine. Greet somebody on your way down to your seat and bless God. Victory is mine but that blessed me all of my help when I don't know what to do all of my help, Bishop I feel like giving up all my help comes from the Lord and He's never let me down we used to see He never failed me yet but I had to change that Bishop. He never failed and it ain't going to happen not yet and not ever because He's God He's God all by Himself. Give honor to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. We give honor to our Bishop and our fabulous First Lady to all the ministers and saints and the friend and we bless those that are watching by stream today. We live in challenging times yesterday my family and I we celebrated Christmas together apart on Zoom because things have changed and even though things have changed I want you to know I have not changed I'm still God I'm still on the throne you don't have to worry you don't have to fret nothing has changed in heaven I will give you the victory Bishop said this morning you don't have to be afraid when we look at the changing tide and all that's going on and all that's happening around us this morning and the Lord said tell my people that they don't have to be afraid because I'm still in control see they had the plagues down in Egypt but in Goshen hey they had light in Goshen they had joy in Goshen they had peace in Goshen and we're living in Goshen today in the presence of the king I believe Jesus wants us as we go into year 2022 to be armed and dangerous with faith let's pray Father we just thank you for this time together Father we pray that you speak to our hearts speak to our minds we celebrate you we give you the praise we give you the glory in Jesus name amen do you know somebody I believe I believe I believe I believe the report I believe the report because he loves me I believe the report because he cares about me I believe the report because he's good I believe the report of the Lord somebody say whose report do you believe I believe the report of the Lord I'm sorry I just sometimes I just get excited. Turn to Numbers chapter 23. Verse 19. I believe the report. Verse 19 says God is not a man that he should lie. Neither the son of man that he should repent. hath he said and shall not do it or hath he spoken and shall he not make it come to pass or make it good. Amen. Amen. God is not a man that he should lie. We live in a society that is information driven. Bishop, it seems to me that we have more information than we've ever had before and less understanding than we've ever had before. We have TV and radio and Facebook and Instagram and CNN and MAMAMIM and everybody claims to say I am the voice of reason. I have what you need to know if you will just listen to what I say and then they in there say trust me. Bishop, I've discovered when somebody says trust me, you better watch out. Don't go for the oaky-doke when they say just trust me. The truth is the best that they can do is try to interpret the truth that they have gathered from somebody else. And so sometimes we have so much information. Today sometimes we go into information overload and we struggle with who can I really believe? The truth is the only 100% proven source of information that we have today is the word of God. The Bible said, for we walk by faith and not by sight. The Bible said that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the words of God. Tell somebody I believe. Tell them I believe the report. Turn in your Bibles if you will to Isaiah chapter 53. Isaiah chapter 53 and I'm going to read that out of the amplified and if you will follow in your King James. Isaiah 53 starting with verse one that says who has believed, trusted in, relied on, cling to, our message, our report for what was revealed to us and to whom the arm of the Lord or the strength of the Lord was disclosed or revealed. It says for he Jesus the servant of God grew as a tender plant like a root out of dry ground. So, he has no form or comeliness or royal pump that we should look at him and no beauty that we should desire him. Verse three says he was despised and rejected and forsaken by men, a man of sorrow and pains and acquainted with grief and like one from who we hear our faces as it were. He was despised and we did not appreciate his worth or have any esteem for him. Here it is. It says but surely say surely, surely without doubt, without question, without debate. It says surely he has carried our grief, our wickedness, our weakness, our sorrow and our pain and with arrogance we considered him smitten and stricken of God and afflicted by God as if one with leprosy. But after all that, this is what I like it says. But he was wounded for our transgressions. He was bruised for our iniquities, for our sin, for our guilt and the chastisement of our peace was upon him and by his stripes we were healed. Hallelujah. This is a reporter. This is a reporter. This is a reporter. He was wounded for us. He suffered for us. And by his stripes, sister sees he by his stripes even when you don't feel like it by his stripes. You're healed. You're delivered. You're set free. Whose report? Hey, whose report? Will you believe this is a reporter that we've received from the word of God? And all of the information that you get that is proclaimed to be truth has to be funneled through the lens of this word. This is a report. See the Lord, he spoke to my heart and said, people have gone through troubled times and sicknesses and problems and diseases and now the enemy is trying to tell him you're defeated. You're not going to make it. I'm going to tell you but Jesus said, don't worry about it. Believe my reporter. Believe my reporter. Believe what I said. He was wounded for me. He was bruised for me. He was sessized for me. Sometimes I think we don't realize the suffering that Jesus went through just for me. So, you have to make a personal. He did it for you and you and you and you but he really did it for me. Hey, he really died for me. He really rose for me. He really went up to the heavenlies for me, for you, for us. We've got to believe the reporter and it's just for me. Make me feel like singing that song and hear somebody say just for me. Jesus went and did it. Hey, just for me. See, my father did some things. He did it for me but he did it for him too. I was talking to my father one time and we were just talking about he said, you know, if some soldiers came in the room and said, one of you have got to die. He said, and you know, if we talk about it and I think you look more ready to go than I am. He says, it's been real. It's been cool but I'm going to see you on the other side. He didn't do it just for me. He said, if I have to, I'm going to do it for myself. But Jesus did it just for me. He was born. It came into the world but he knew I came to die. I came to give my life. I came to redeem. I came to set people free just for me. I don't mean to be selfish but he did it just for me. See, I believe, I believe, I choose to believe the report of the Lord. I choose to believe what God said. He meant it. I choose to believe that he came to set us free. I believe the report of the Lord. I don't care what the enemy tries to tell you. I don't care what the enemy tries to do to you. Believe the report of the Lord. Tell your neighbor, fight. Now, tell him like you say, fight. Say, fight. Say, fight the good fight of faith. Hallelujah. It's not time for giving up. It's not time for giving out. It's not time for giving in. But it's time to fight. Fight the good fight of faith. When the enemy tries to tell you, just give up. I'm gonna fight. I may go down but I'm going down fighting. I may not win all the time but I'm gonna fight. The enemy may try to attack me but I ain't no punk. I'm a fight. I'm a fight and I'm a fight that I win. Not by power but not by might but by the name of Jesus. I'm a fight the enemy. See, we give up too quick. We throw in a towel too quick. We give up on our children too quick. We gotta fight them. Fight. Never surrender to the enemy. Turn in your Bible to Second Corinthians. Second Corinthians chapter ten, verse three says, for though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh. We do not fight after the flesh. It says, for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but they're mighty, mighty, they're mighty through God to the pulling down a stronghold. Tell somebody I'm in it to win it. Hey, tell me I'm in it to win it. I got weapons. The enemy doesn't even know about him. He backs me in the corner. I'll throw up my hands and begin to praise God and all of a sudden the enemy has to scatter. I use my weapons and I fight and I fight. I remember I was young one time I was talking to my grandmother and something happened and I was talking about it. It was it was some bullies and whatnot. She said, boy, you didn't run, did you? She said, you better stand and fight. She said, I don't care what happens. You better fight. You better fight for your life and in the kingdom of God, don't let the enemy run you home and take your lunch. You better fight for what belongs to you. You better fight what's in this book. You better fight for what got said about you. You better fight for your children. Fight for your marriages. Fight for your family. Fight for your friends. Fight for your neighbors. Fight a good fight of faith because you will win if you just don't give up. Verse five it says, and casting down imaginations and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity. Every thought. Say every thought. Every thought that the enemy tries to bring to you. It's bringing into captivity. In Matthew said, take no thought, say. In other words, take no thought from the enemy and saying. Proverbs said, life and death or in the power of your tongue and say, and if you will speak life to your life, speak a life to what the enemy says, you will have the victory. Don't curse your life with your mouth. Don't use your mouth against your life, against your family, against your children. Stop seeing your how dumb your children are. I say, my children are smart. My children are blessed. My children are conquerors. Immigrant children are greater than them. Use your mouth. Use your words like God used them. God said, let that be what it was. He said, let that be what it was. So he says, in every thought to the obedience of Christ. So let's go back and look at that again. It says, for we live in a carnal world, a carnal body, it says, but we don't war after the flesh. The Lord said, tell the people that your flesh is not your body. Your flesh is not the battlefield. Right here, right here, your mind, that's the battlefield. If you renew your mind in the world, your body will light up. That's for the fighters. That's for the battle. Get the battle one in your mind to the word of God. It said, renew your mind in the word of God and think like God thinks. We think too small, Sister Merlin. God thinks big. Why would he make a big earth if he thought small? He thinks big. See, Dr. Syke, she thinks big. She says, if I'm about a house, I'm about a block. If I'm about a block, I'm going to take a city. See, that's how you got to think. It may not ever happen, but you got to set a point. You got to set a target. If you don't set a target, you will hit nothing. And it says, but the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. We have prayer. We have fasting. We have praise. We have worship. We can declare the word of God, but our weapons are mighty through God. Not in my own ability. I of myself can do nothing, but I can do all things through Christ. Hey, I can defeat the enemy through Christ. I can open doors through Christ. I can lay out my future through Christ. And it says, and casting down evil imaginations. Evil thoughts. Don't let evil thoughts linger in your mind. See, Bishop talks about it quite a bit. The thoughts may come, but you don't have to let them stay. They may come, but you say, in the name of Jesus, you got to go. You cannot save. You cannot dominate my mind. You cannot dominate my time. My my my mind is dedicated to the word of God. And in the name of Jesus, we bring every evil thought into the captivity, into the obedience of Jesus Christ and the word of God. See, the enemy is going to tell you you're gonna get sick and die, but the enemy, he's a liar. See, the enemy is going to tell you, you not gonna have enough money, but the enemy, he's a liar. The enemy gonna try to tell you, you can't live right. You can't live holy. Why even try? But the Bible said, the Bible says, I can do all things. Say, all things. I can do all things. Say, all things. I can do all things through Christ. He strengthens me. I may be wicked and flesh, but in the spirit, I'm Superman. That too. Michael Jackson thought he was bad. We really bad. We're bad in the spirit. So, when the enemy brings all of these negative thoughts, what's gonna happen to you? How bad it's gonna be and tries to scare you. Tell the enemy, I believe him. The report of the Lord. I believe what God said. I believe that I'm healed. I believe that I'm delivered. I believe that I'm set free. I believe that I'm prosperous. I believe that I have all things that pertain to life and to godliness. I believe that in the name of Jesus, I'm more than a conqueror to him that loves me. I believe in the name of Jesus. That greater is he. That's in me. That he that's in the world. I believe that no weapon. No weapon. That's formed against me. That's going to prosper. See, I believe the report of the Lord. I believe I can do all things through Christ. See, the enemy says, you can't make it. You're defeated. Even when I was sick the other day, I felt so bad. I threw up in the trash can and when I got through you know what I said? I can do all things through Christ. I'm more than a conqueror. I don't care what it looks like by his stripes. I am healed. Two hours later, I was shot in the victory because I speak the word over the enemy. I speak the word over the feet. I speak the word. I believe the report of the Lord. He didn't lie to me. I believe the report of the Lord. See, I believe I'm blessed in the city. I'm blessed in the field. I'm blessed going in. I'm blessed going out. My family is blessed. My children are blessed. I don't have a dog but if I had a dog, my dog would be blessed. I say, dog, are you blessed? He said, wow. Then he go to barking in tongues. My dog is blessed. Come on somebody. This if it works for me, it works for everybody in my house. If I had wrote this, they'd be blessed but I had to cast them out into out of darkness of the neighborhood. Never to be seen in my house again. I said, be blessed as you go but you got to go. I'm sorry. See, I believe what God said. Say, if anybody asked you, whose report do you believe? Who's got the 411? I tell him, I believe the report of the Lord. I believe what God said. He always keeps it 100. I'm sorry I had to go back to the ghetto. He keeps it 100 with me. I believe that God is not a man that he should lie. Nor the son of man that he should repent. If God said it, if he's going to do it, you don't have to worry about it. I don't care what it looks like. I don't care what it feels like if God said it. I believe that our God is a covenant keeping God. He keeps covenant to a thousand generations. In other words, into infinity and beyond. He's a covenant keeping God. He never lies. I believe that he'll never leave me nor forsake me. David said, Yay though I walk up through the valley of the shadow of death, I'm not going to fear any evil because thou art with me. If God is with me, everything is all right. If God is with me, I don't have to worry. If God is with me, my ship is not going down. Say, he's a lily of the valley. He's a bright and morning store. He's my bridge over troubled water and he says, I will be with you no matter what you're going through. Even if you're going through some stupid stuff that you cause yourself, he don't get out your ship. He says, I'll deal with you on the other side of this, but I'm going to take you through this because of the mercy of God. The kindness of God, the faithfulness of God. This is a report. He was wounded for us. He died for us. He suffered for us. If you believe that, say yes. Say yeah. Say, I believe the report. Come on and give God some praise. I believe the report. When my head says no, I believe. When people say, you crazy, I believe. When everything around me is falling apart, I still believe the report. I believe it. Bishop, I don't believe he brought me this for. Sister Terry, I don't believe he brought me through all this stuff. I don't believe it's Dr. Sykes. I don't believe he brought me through hell and hot water to leave me now. He brought me this for and he's gonna take me all the way. I'll go this far by faith, but I go this far believing the word of the Lord, believing, believing the report of the Lord. So this is my answer. Whose report do you believe? Whose report are you standing on? Whose report are you trusting him? It looks bad right now. It looks like no way out. But I'm here to tell you, I don't care what I'm going through. I still believe the report of the Lord and he's gonna bring me out with victory. I believe the report of the Lord. I was enjoying it too much to be ready. Come on somebody. The Lord has spoken. We've been assured that we can win in spite of what the adversary, the soul, the devil, in spite of the devil, we can win. And the reason we know after this message is the report comes back to us that we win. In his word, we read and we understand according to the word of God that he is able to deliver out of any situation. And God doesn't make a promise that's shaky. Come on somebody. You know sometimes when you want to set something down on something, maybe a little table or something that you got from some store. I was going to say that. But what you what you do is you're taking kind of shaking. Want to know is it going to hold it? That's right. That's right. But after hearing the word of the report that has been left, we have hope and I couldn't help it Elder Ross, the report. My hope is built on nothing less. Nothing less. Not on anything that I'm able to accomplish for myself. Not according to what somebody else has promised to me other than the report of the Lord. My hope is built on nothing less than Jesus blood and righteousness. I dare not trust. I dare not trust the sweetest frame but holy completely. I stand on Jesus name on Christ. The solid rock. The solid rock. All other ground is sinking sand. Oh we have a promise from God. I believe the report Elder Ross. I believe it down in my sanctified soul. All other ground is sinking sand. All other ground. Everything else other than the report of the Lord is shaky. You can't depend on it. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I just want to sing that on Christ the solid rock I stand. All other ground is sinking sand. Sinking sand. On Christ the solid. To the report. Hallelujah. I believe the true report. Hallelujah. To the land for salvation. According to his word. Thank God for the blood of Jesus. That washes us wider. That cleanses us from all sin and unrighteousness. And I don't have to threaten the devil because I believe the report of the Lord. Oh he's a great God. He's a mighty God. Strong to deliver. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So now we believe the report. If we can just believe. But see the adversary. Who is the devil? I love to say that. See because we found out that we're not each other's problem. Come on somebody. It ain't nothing against you against me or against you or not against me. It's all about the spirit of the adversary. The one who wants to see you lost. The one who wants to see you miss the rapture. Yeah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. But I thank God that I know. I know that we are victorious. I know we're victorious and I know we win every battle that we're willing to fight. Thank God. Thank God. What a wonderful word. What an assurance. Hallelujah. The devil never quits. He doesn't get tired. But see we can outdo him. That's right. Come on. See when he declares I'm not quitting. I say I'm not quitting either. Yes. And greater is he that is in me. Yes. I've got some power that's greater than you Mr. Devil. I've got the power of the holy ghost that lives down on the inside of me that makes me willing to stand. No matter what comes to stand. No matter what goes hallelujah. Thank God for Jesus. Thank God for Jesus. Hallelujah. We just we just had we just had Christmas the other day and we were happy for whatever gifts we got. Whatever somebody gave unto us. We were excited about that. But that don't amount to a hill of beans. See because stuff we don't put our faith or our trust in things. Because they all perish. Hallelujah. But what we've learned to do is we learn to trust in the Lord. Yes. With all of our heart and lean not to our own understanding. In all of our ways we'll continue to go back to the report. What does the report say? The report says stand in dark times. Hallelujah. Let us all stand. See this is the this is we're living this is our last week in this in this year. And I think we need to confirm what we believe. I think we need to gather our thoughts and let's plant our feet on solid ground. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I think we need to confess victory. Yes. Yes. The thing is is that I don't like to talk about the adversary because I don't want him to get any part of what he thinks that we're giving him some glory by calling him by his name and by mentioning him all the time. All I got to say to him is we've got our foot on your neck and you're not gonna win. We're victorious because it's in the report. Come on somebody. Hallelujah. We have the victory. But now before we sing our we have the victory is we have to make sure that our feet are planted on the firm foundation. We've got to believe and respond according to what the report says. It says we got to live right. It says we got to live holy. It says we can't be slipping and sliding and peeping and hiding. He said well you got to come right if you're going to win in this fight. So he said repentance is absolutely necessary. He said I won't receive you when you come but your chest all stuck out. Like you big and bad. He said you're a sinner. All of us sinners. Sinners. Some saved by grace and others perhaps not. Not yet. Not yet. But it's available. The report says come unto me all ye that labor. All ye that are heavy laden. He said I'll give you rest. He said all you got to do is take my yoke. Take it. Take it. Put my yoke on you and learn of me. He said you got to learn something. He said you don't even know what to do. Not without finding out what the reporter said. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So I want to say if you not repent according to the scripture. We have to say this because people think we make stuff up. There are many people don't know anything about the book of Acts. Acts is the book because the beginning of the church when people saw that Jesus had come back into the room where the 120 were waiting for the power of God. They all began to speak in other tongues as the spirit of God gave them utterance. He said they began to speak languages they never went to school to learn. They didn't pick it up on the street. They didn't pick it up at home. And when they when those who were standing about saw and heard what was going on in that upper room they said that sounds like something I'd be interested in. He said I feel something and I understand that something a wonderful change has taken place within the inner group. He said what shall we do brother? And Peter said repent. Be sorry for your sins. Be sorry you were born in sin. Come on somebody. See you had nothing to do with that. When you were born you were born into sin because your mama and daddy was sinners. He said repent. He said be sorry that you were born in that nature. He said then be baptized. Yes. Some people don't think baptism is necessary, but isn't that in the report? They didn't read the report. Repent. Then be baptized in the name of Jesus. Jesus shed his blood so you could be baptized and get your sins washed away. He said when you're baptized in Jesus name he said the Lord removes all of your sins that you've ever done up until this point. Isn't that a wonderful thought? Wonderful. Wonderful. You know we we came out doing a whole lot of crazy stuff. Yes we did. Went a long way around trying to get to where we're going and we still didn't get it right because we didn't have the power. He says I'll wash your sins away. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. He said you had sin on your life. He said but when you go down when you repent of your sin and you go down in water in baptism he said I'll wash you wider than snow. Then a promise comes. They tell me in the report there's a promise that comes after you've been forgiven of all your sins. He said you've been forgiven of every sin. He said but now you got to have something that keeps you. Yeah. He said I'll come into your life. Yeah. He said I give my spirit to come and not walk with you. He said but my spirit will be in you and it will walk with you everywhere you go. That's why he said I'll never leave you. I'll never forsake you because I'm a part of who you are. You're a part of who I am. So he said repent then be baptized and he said you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost is the keeping power. Hallelujah. He's able to save. He's able to straighten your mess up and then he comes along and he gives you power. He gives you power. He said I have control over every part of you. He said I'll keep you if you'll just fight the fight of good faith. Fight. Fight. Fight. Fight. Is there anybody here today who've not had that experience? If you've not had that experience the Lord is speaking to your spirit. You know you felt something. He says I long for you. He said I want to make you whole. I want to turn everything around in your life that needs to be turned around. Then we can be determined according to the report. I just want us perhaps why don't we just all come down to the altar. This is a good time at the end of the year. I think this is a good time. We just all come to the altar and as we come to the altar we're saying to the Lord. Lord continue to move on my life. Continue to move in my life. Lord I want to be yours. I want you to guide my steps. I want to surrender my will to your will. See that's what we pray when we say we pray the Lord's prayer. Thy kingdom come. Thy will. So we're saying Lord it's not about me. I don't have an agenda that goes against what you're saying. So he says Thy kingdom come. Your kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. And when we say on earth that means here and in us the Lord is anxious to turn our lives around wherever it is needed. So according to the report we understand that there are difficult times and things we need to reckon with but we don't have to worry. The report says we don't have to worry. It won't it won't always be like this sooner or later. It won't always be. It won't always be. God will perfect. The Lord has done something here today. What to do? And as we humble ourselves before God he said I'll turn it around. Now he's not going to turn it around. As you humble yourself the Lord will respond according to your humility. So don't keep fighting with the stuff you've been fighting with. Let him turn it around. I'm going to ask bishop but he'll just step down here. We're going to lay hands on our bishop. See he gives out of his spirit over and over and and see you don't understand what it takes to lead. You don't understand the draw that it has. When he leaves he is so tired but it's not just his body because we pull on his spirit. We pull on his spirit. Sister Terry I'm going to ask you if you will lead us and everybody that's close all the ministers come on around and everybody else they can get close just lay your hands on it. Sister Terry you're going to pray. Thank you Father. Lord God we come before you today Lord God. Hallelujah lifting up the bishop Lord God and first lady Lord. Hallelujah in the name of Jesus. Lord we thank you for this leader Lord God for this shepherd that you have placed over this sheep Lord God. Father God we ask you to strengthen him Lord. Continue to encourage him Lord. Hallelujah mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally in the name of Jesus. Lord God from the crown of his head to the soles of his feet Lord God. Saturate him Lord with your spirit Father in the name of Jesus. Lord God we thank you. Hallelujah. Replenishment in his body Lord God. Anything Lord God. Hallelujah. We come against any attack Lord God. Hallelujah in the name of Jesus. It cannot stay it has to go in your name Jesus. We believe your report Lord God. Hallelujah. We thank you right now Lord God that you continue to give the bishop the bishop for this body of believers in the name of Jesus Lord. We ask Hallelujah that you continue to keep his mind Lord God. Keep his heart keep his spirit and his soul in you Lord God. In the name of Jesus we lift up the first lady Lord God. Hallelujah Lord God that you heal her. Continue to heal her completely in you Lord God. We thank you Lord God and we believe your report concerning that Lord God. We thank you for strengthening her. We thank you for providing for each and every one of their needs Lord God in the name of Jesus. We thank you Lord God that you saved even the generation, the generation and generation before. We thank you right now. We lift up all of his children, his grandchildren and great-grandchildren in your name Jesus. Bless them Lord God like never before. Favor in your name Lord God. Hallelujah. We thank you and give you all the glory. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Victory is mine. Victory is mine. Victory today. So say it. Oh say it. That you will bless the giver. Hallelujah. Bless those that had to give and even those that did not God. Hallelujah as we hear the word about giving God. Strengthen their faith about it in the name of Jesus. God we thank you and we praise you. Use it for your kingdom God. Get glory. Hallelujah all the days of our lives. In Jesus' name amen. Amen. Come on. Victory today. Oh for Jesus yes I am. Come to the end of this service but I want to let you know that on next Saturday night, Friday night, next Friday night we'll be having watch meeting with communion. So what we're going to do in watch meeting is we're going to look back over the year. We're going to have testimony service. Come on somebody. See we ain't so sophisticated that we we drop testimony service. We're encouraged by each other's testimony. When the the Lord gives one of us a victory if it's shared he's giving us all a victory. So now I want you to think, think about the the year or whatever past that you have that you want to thank God for on next Friday night. And so we'll be having testimonies and they won't be all thank you praise the Lord for being here. Thank you praise the Lord for being saved. Praise my strength in the Lord. It won't be a it'll be it'll be something that the Lord has done in your life. Come on somebody. Something you couldn't do for yourself. Something nobody would help you with. Come on. So we're going to have testimony service. We're going to have communion. We're going to have some preaching. Service starts at 10 o'clock on Friday night. Now you ain't got nowhere better to go on Friday night than right here. 4934 Long Beach Boulevard. All right. So you can get your party on in Jesus name. Amen. Anybody ready for that? Yeah. All right. I'm ready. I'm ready. Father in the name of Jesus we come and we thank you old God for who you are. Thank you for your loving kindness for your tender mercy on towards your people. We thank you Lord that you love us with an everlasting love and we thank you that you promised you never let us go. So we thank you and we rest in these things. We have to go over this as we leave this place. Continue to lead us and guide us into the direction you would have us to go. We thank you and we praise you for that that you're going to do in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. God bless you.