 to shield the faith where his bishop Arling Alexander, I'm the first lady. Jesus, it's Jesus, it's Jesus. Mr. Bruce Sording is gonna take us further into this. And his name is Jesus, Jesus. Father, we come this morning, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God, we come this morning, Lord God, with thanksgiving, Lord God, with praises, Lord God, in our heart, Lord God. We come this morning, Lord God, to glorify, to magnify the name, Lord God. We come this morning, Lord God, to lift your name on high, Lord God, for your name alone, Lord God, is high, Lord God, and highly lifted up, Lord God, in all of the earth, Lord God, in the name of Jesus, Lord God. Lord, we come this morning, asking you, Lord God, that you will move in this service, Lord God, that you will move, Lord God, in a mighty way, Lord God, in the name of Jesus, Lord God, help us this morning, Lord God, to draw our minds in, Lord God, Hey, keep our mind stayed on you Lord God in the name of Jesus. Lord God be glorified be magnified Lord God in this service Lord God We ask you this morning Lord God in the name of Jesus Lord God that you to be in the midst Lord God I want to praise Lord God. I want to worship Lord God that we offer I'll tell you this morning Lord God in the name of Jesus Lord God You said Lord God that you do well Lord God in the midst Lord God I'll praise you Lord God. You said when praises goes up blessing comes down Lord God in the name of Jesus Lord God Hallelujah Lord God Hallelujah Hallelujah Lord God Hallelujah For you alone Lord God You alone are worthy Lord God Worthy of the praise Lord God We'll wait this morning Lord God Watch Lord God move Lord God In the name of Jesus Lord God We ask you Lord God as your message will come forth this morning Lord God in the name of Jesus Lord God We ask you this morning that you will speak to him Lord God In the name of Jesus Lord God You know the needs Lord God of your people Lord God In the name of Jesus Lord God for we know Lord God That is your word Lord God that is going to save us Lord God It is your word Lord God that is going to keep us Lord God It is your word Lord God that is going to heal us Lord God In the name of Jesus Lord God help us Lord God Help us Lord God to us Lord God, spiritually, that we issue people, Lord God, until the end, Lord God. Be glorified, be magnified. In Jesus' name, we pray, in Jesus' name, amen and amen. Beside him, there's no other savior. Thank you, Lord. Our scripture this morning, it's found in Acts chapter 4, verses 8 through 12. The Holy Ghost said unto them, ye rulers of the people and elders of Israel, if we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent men, by which means he is made whole, be it known unto you all and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye crucified, whom God raised from the dead, even by him that this man stand here before you whole. This is the aton which was set at naught of you builders, which has become the head of the corner. Neither is there salvation in any other, for there is none other name under heaven, given among men whereby we must be saved. Amen, Jesus. Hallelujah. To God this morning, we welcome him into this place this morning. We invite each and every one of you to join us as we worship with the Lord this morning, as we uplift him and as we encourage one another. Amen. Hallelujah. The Lord is worthy. He's great and greatly to be praised. Amen. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Welcome, Holy Spirit. We are in your presence. Fill us with your power. Live inside of me. Fill us with your power. Hallelujah. That's what the scripture was talking about earlier. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. He was under the unctioning of the Holy Ghost preaching, because the Lord had come to reign and rule in his life, and the Lord has come in our lives. Hallelujah. We worship the God who was and is and is to come this morning. Thank you, Jesus. We worship the God who was. We worship the God who is. We worship the God who evermore will be. He opened the prison doors. He parted the raging sea. My God, He holds the victory. Let's sing that again. We worship the God who was. We worship the God who is. We worship the God who evermore will be. He opened the prison doors. He parted the raging sea. My God, He holds the victory. We're gonna shout out. We won't be quiet. And we won't be quiet. We're gonna shout out your prayer. Sing to the God. We sing to the God who deals. We sing to the God who saves. God who always makes a tongue up on that cross. And he rose up from the grave. We won't be quiet. We're gonna shout out. we're gonna shout out and now we're royalty we were the print now we're running free we are forgiven accepted redeemed by his grace let the we won't be quiet we're gonna shout out your we're gonna shout out we won't be quiet we're gonna shout out your prayer amen amen amen we have to come the Lord he said if we confess him before men he'll confess us before the father amen amen so we shout out a praise to our Lord this morning the word of God says that in him do I live move and have my being hallelujah the Lord is the one that gives us life he gives us life here on earth and he gives us eternal life hallelujah thank you Jesus in him do I live move and have my be in him do right because I'm nothing without oh I'm nothing without oh I'm nothing without in him do I cause I'm nothing without oh I'm nothing without you said I'm nothing without you I'm nothing without oh I'm nothing without thing without you Lord I'm nothing without you like a shit toss cuz I'm nothing without Lord I'm not I can't even breathe on my can't make my limbs move oh Lord I'm nothing without let your glory we have to understand we're nothing without Lord we're nothing without Lord I'm nothing without you believe you're nothing without the Lord hallelujah just think about where you were before the Lord hallelujah found you we didn't find Jesus we were nothing nothing without you I was not so free that's the Holy Ghost and let your glow my light shine in me let your glory dwell our solo this morning by sister Amber wise amen man praise the Lord we are nothing without him amen this morning it's my hallelujah belongs to you hallelujah hallelujah we think of we think of a hallelujah is the highest praise but it's also a praise of surrender amen I surrender all to you Jesus cuz we know we're nothing without his noble service amen to surrender hallelujah to the Lord praise the Lord praise with us as we sing if you feel it in your one more time stand to our feet universal highest praise fits and the blessings he's done for us and I feel like right now we just ought to have a break for a minute or two and raise a praise to the Lord God Almighty the one who loved us with an everlasting love the one who brought us out of darkness into a wonderful marvelous light oh hallelujah hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you Lord thank you for your mercy thank you for your loving kindness thank you hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah praise me to be praised in the midst of your people oh God we praise you we raise a praise hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you Lord thank you Jesus there's nobody like you God nobody like you hallelujah we praise you we thank you we magnify your name thank you Jesus we think about it if it hadn't been for the Lord if it hadn't been for the Lord who was on our side we'd have been swallowed up but we have a loving merciful God who saw us in the condition we were in and he loved us in spite of ourselves that's why I thank him hallelujah hallelujah I thank him thank you Jesus thank you Lord you're great and greatly to me a song just came to me and I want to sing it God is great and he's greatly to be praised God is great he's greatly to be praised God is great baby seated in the presence of our God hallelujah thank you Jesus there's nobody like him I know of a person who said he was the greatest but he hadn't gotten up yet come on somebody God is truly great and because of his greatness he ought to be prayed amen amen it's our duty to praise him well it's good to be back in the house of the Lord on this Sunday morning God is continually good to us it's great to be in the land of the living there are many who have left us during the pandemic and they continue to leave but God saw fit to extend mercy and love to us his people I want to call your attention to the book of Psalms or Psalm number 118 not actually a book it is a number it's a psalm is a song so Psalm 118 I'm feeling very good about the service thus far because I see that is woven into what the Lord would have this tapestry to be on this morning in Psalm 118 it gives us a direction to go in in time of trouble when enemies surround us and confront us we have a direction that the Lord would have us to go in God's people have always had enemies to deal with in the Old Testament Israel had to battle numerous foes both from within and without their nation then in the New Testament the early church was persecuted by the Roman government as well as by the Jewish leaders and so there's trouble on every hand you can't be a child of God and walk Scott free without troubles coming into your life that's why we need Jesus that's why we need a helping hand to make it through here so I began at verse number one the psalm is this is a psalm of David he said oh give thanks unto the Lord for he is good because his mercy endure it forever and so in saying that he said give thanks to God because God loves you and his love is in Dury mercy is love he says that God is not a person who will love you for a moment he's not a God who will just love you when you're right on the mark he said he loves you first of all he loves you when you're in your sin and you couldn't help yourself and you tried to behave and it wasn't possible because of the nature of your being human beings but God looked at us and he saws and he loved us in our sins but he wanted to love us out of the sins so this is not just a today love I kind of got that on the song the song said from the past in the present and in the future the Lord has loved us exactly like that so he said what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask Israel which is the church he said let Israel now say his mercy endure it forever he said you got to get that in your head church in spite of what goes on don't be upset about it he said just know that his mercy endure it forever then the third verse said to the priest let the house of Aaron now say his mercy endure it forever he said we're not leaving anybody out he said encourage all who fear the Lord to say let his mercy endure forever David began to give his testimony at this verse 5 he said I called upon the Lord in distress and the Lord answered me and set me in a high place he said the one when I cried out to the Lord he said the Lord always hear me when I pray and he always understands and he feels what I'm feeling said he set me up on a high place the Lord is on my side and because the Lord is on my side he said I will not hear now that's that's a good statement it's a great statement to make because when you're in a position where you're perhaps the underdog you're in a position where you had a diagnosis from a doctor and it wasn't what you wanted to hear there's a great thing that comes upon an individual that causes them to fear fear is a part of what we're made of if we didn't fear we'd walk out in front of a train but fear is built within us when we see something that is opposed we fear but David says the Lord is on my side he said I found out that he's never failed to hear me when I cried he's on my side I will not fear what can man do unto me and he further said the Lord take it my part with them that helped me therefore shall I say my desire upon him upon them I'm sorry there shall I see my desire upon them that hate me he says because the Lord is on my side and I I wouldn't want anybody else to be on my side he said because the Lord is on my side he takes my part he favors me therefore shall I see my my desire upon them that hate me he said the Lord is going to go forward for me the Lord is gonna give me victory in everything that comes against me he said I'm not gonna be one who turns around and runs off from my tail between my legs he said he said the Lord is going to do it he's got mercy he has enough love for me that he's gonna do what I ask him to do against my enemy he said and the Lord's gonna let me watch come on somebody then he says now I'm gonna tell you I'm sharing with you now he said it is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes he said your best bet the best result that you'll ever get is when you let the Lord do your work come on somebody let the Lord fight your battle let the Lord remove whatever is in front of you let the Lord open up a way that seems like there's no way he said you just know that you can trust in him all nations come past me about but in the name of the Lord will I destroy them he said I'm not confident they come past me about yeah they come past me about but in the name of the Lord I will destroy them he said yes they they were in the best position he said but I got Jesus on my side he said and I'm going to destroy them they come past me about like bees they are quenched as the fire of thorns or in the name of the Lord I will not I might I will it is definite I will destroy them thou has thrust sword at me that I might fall but the Lord helped me he said the enemy came at me with his sword and he's thrust forth to stab me and take me out he said but the Lord helped me the Lord is my strength he's my song and has become my salvation salvation is deliverance he said the Lord has proven himself every time I needed him every time I needed to be brought out or to be set upon a high place he said the Lord saved me now we were born in sin scripture said we were shaping an iniquity we didn't love God we didn't love his church we didn't love his people we didn't love anything about God because we were fleshly until Jesus came along and Jesus said you need the strength that I'm able to offer you need somebody to set you free you need to be saved come on somebody the voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacle of the righteous right hand of the Lord does valiantly he said the Lord with the Lord on my side he said I rejoice over the victory that God gives at times I see people who are doing well in life seems like they'd never had a problem seems like they were able to pull things together on their own but I want to tell you nobody does that any success that you have any righteousness that you have any hope that you have of eternal salvation you can't do that by yourself you need somebody to give you the strength you need the power of God to help give you a hope for eternal life and what I'm speaking about today is the stone of hope that's a stone of hope we'll get there the voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacle of the righteous right hand of the Lord does valiantly the right hand of the Lord is exalted and the right hand of the Lord does valiantly he raised his right hand the Lord has raised his right hand and what that speaks to is most people are left-handed or right-handed most people are right-handed and this is your your hand of strength so he said the Lord has raised his hand of strength against anything that would choose to come against his people he said I've got the power in my hand and I've got my people in my hand and nobody but nobody can take them out of my hand and so we thank God for salvation thank God that he loved us enough thank God he looked down on us and he brought us out of sin brought us out of darkness into a marvelous life and he did it with his right hand hallelujah thank God for the hand of victory he said I shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord the Lord has chastened me sore but he has not given me over unto death and the Lord keeps saying this to this church right here amen he says you've not been everything you ought to be he said but you're not gonna die he said David said the Lord doesn't deal with me like that he said I I shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord he said even though I got out of line even though I lost my mind for a second he said the Lord is still gonna use me he said I'm still gonna declare the works of God I'm gonna testify my testimony I'm gonna tell him tell the world how he brought me out of I'm gonna tell the Lord how I'm gonna tell the world how the Lord brought me back and restored me and gave me another opportunity he didn't take my life he didn't cause me to get out of here he said but I'm gonna let you come on back I'm gonna work with you I'm gonna use you in the building of the kingdom of God hallelujah hallelujah thank you Lord the Lord has chasing me me sore but he had not given me over unto death he said he could have took my life come on somebody he took somebody's life because they didn't do right but he didn't he didn't he didn't declare that for my situation so he said open to me the gates of righteousness I will go into them and I will praise the Lord hallelujah so ask God to open the gates of righteousness come on somebody that leads into his presence see you got to go when these this mortal life is past and we're going from this earth and we've got to stand before Jesus we want the gates to be open unto me come on somebody I don't want to be rejected I don't want to be lost throughout all the eternities so I say to the Lord open the gates of righteousness to me give me a desire to please you to strengthen my my will to go through the test strengthen my body so that I can continue to do that that you call me to do the Lord has chasing me sore but he has not given me over unto death open the gates of righteousness I will go into them and I will praise the Lord this gate of the Lord into which the righteous shall enter thank you Jesus I will praise thee for thou hath heard me and art become my salvation he said you have become the saving portion that I needed the stone which the builders rejected is become the head stone of the corner come on somebody then I'll turn just for a minute then I'll come right back to this Peter said in Acts chapter number four he said be it known unto you all to all the people of Israel that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified whom God raised from the dead even by him does this man stand here before you hold now this was the man that set at the gate and Peter and Peter and and John came by on the way to prayer he asked him for some money shaking his cup they said silver and gold have we none but such as we have we give unto you we don't have being you're looking for but you're not looking for the right thing so they told him rise up and walk and he got up and he walked on faith and he got into the temple and he was dancing around and people said it's not the quibble man they used to say out there they say yeah that looks like I'm sitting yeah that's him and so when Peter and John began to preach the people in the temple the leaders of the temple they felt fear for their jobs and said don't preach that I've been here well so then when this gets down to verse 10 he said be it known unto you all to all the people of Israel by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified whom God raised from the dead even by him that this man stand here before you he said you're looking at a healed man you're looking at one who couldn't help himself but the hand of the mercy and the mercy of the God that you crucified on Calvary he said but thank God that he got up out of the grave and when he got up out of the grave he had all power in the middle of his hand in that right hand of strength he had the strength to raise that man up who was crippled from birth hallelujah said this is the stone he said the Jesus that you crucified the Jesus that you you didn't take any stock in the Jesus you were afraid of he said that stone you said it or not of you builders which has become the head of a corner he said now the stone you set aside you said it wasn't good enough he said look at it now he said it is now the chief cornerstone what I understand about a cornerstone it bears the weight of the the building so he said neither is there salvation in any other but there's none other name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved now I'll go back to Psalm 118 David said I will praise thee well thou had heard me and I have an art become my salvation stone which the builder refused to refuse is become the head cornerstone and he said this is the day this is the Lord's doing I'm sorry this is the Lord's doing it's marvelous in our eyes he said we've not seen anything like this ever before we've not seen a man who's crucified and buried in the grave and did just what he said he said on the third day I'm gonna get up I'm gonna rise again and when I come back I'm gonna have all power in my hand and he said you're gonna benefit by the power in my right hand he said I'm gonna do great and marvelous things I'm gonna open doors I'm gonna make ways I'm gonna shake stuff up I'm gonna turn things around hallelujah he said this is the Lord's doing it's marvelous in our eyes and he said this is the day which the Lord has made we will rejoice and be glad in it now this is one of the most common quotes at this particular time everybody saying this is the day the Lord has made I will rejoice and be glad in they don't understand this right here that that has never been brought to their attention they say you know it's the day that the Lord has made and it may be good and it may be bad he said but I'm gonna rejoice in it that's not what it's really pointing to it's pointing towards Jesus come on somebody this is the day which the Lord has made we will rejoice and be glad in it he said this is the day of salvation the fact that he went to the cross that he bled and died for our sins and he took stripes from on his back and he was tortured and his beard plucked out and his hair pulled and on and on he said this is the day that the Lord has made he said I will rejoice in the day of salvation he said it's the day the Lord has made because he brought salvation to this day he brought salvation to our places into our homes into our hearts hallelujah I'll rejoice he said you need to thank God you need to raise the praise you need to raise your hands and praise the Lord tell him thank you Lord thank you for your love thank you for your kindness thank you for your mercy your long suffering thank you oh God this is the day of salvation hallelujah he said we've been brought back into favor with God because of this day of salvation hallelujah you can't be saved without Jesus hallelujah you got to turn your heart turn your life give your spirit humble yourself before the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords and say Lord Jesus I need you Lord I got to have you in my life when the storms of life are raging against me I need you Lord I need to be able to hide in you when my friends turn their backs on me Lord I need to salvation I need you to be in me to give me the strength to stand in the midst of trouble he said this is the day of salvation hallelujah the day of salvation brings joy it brings happiness it helps me to know that I'm favored helping to know that I made the right choice in choosing to walk with Jesus come on somebody hallelujah hallelujah this is the day this is the day we can now go before the Lord and give ourselves to him completely hallelujah and he's gonna wrap his arms around us he's gonna love us he's gonna hold us hallelujah he said I will never leave you I'll never forsake you no matter what comes up whether you're up or whether you're down he said I still got you he said you just hold on and give me praise for who I am give me praise and give me glory and honor for what I've done in your life hallelujah hallelujah he's a good God he's not just a good God he's a mighty good God hallelujah we owe him praise we need to thank him every day thank him every hour hallelujah when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all he's done for me my soul cries hallelujah hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you for the day of salvation hallelujah hallelujah he's a wonderful Savior he's a wonderful protector he's a wonderful God hallelujah I can't live without him so many people doubt him but I personally my testimony is I can't live without him and when I look at the world and see the turmoil that they're in the troubles and the and the unsettledness in the spirit I say I don't know how people make it without Jesus how do people make it without Jesus hallelujah I wouldn't want that journey hallelujah hallelujah I'm glad that I've got Jesus anybody glad anybody glad that Jesus found you anybody glad that he brought you out of darkness into a marvelous light hallelujah and cost your feet to be set fast on the solid rock a rock that is a rock of hope a rock of help that we all have to have to walk into the kingdom of God oh I love him oh I love him hallelujah hallelujah I thank him hallelujah hallelujah thank you Jesus this is the Lord's doing the day the day that the Lord has made this is the Lord's doing and it's marvelous in our eyes this is the day which the Lord has made we will rejoice and be glad in it save now I besieged the old Lord oh Lord I besieged thee send now prosperity come on somebody hallelujah do you know you're in such favor do you know that God loves you that much he said I'll save your soul I'll pick you up out of the myri clay I'll claim you as my own he said and then I'll walk with you and then I'll talk with you and then I'll hold you up when you seem like you're gonna see he said I won't let you go and he said after all of that you can ask me for some don't rape me come on somebody come y'all didn't hear y'all didn't hear that you didn't hear that hallelujah he said save now save now I besieged the old Lord oh Lord I'm crying out to you I'm begging you Lord I'm tired of eating crackers and blowny I'm not too sure about the steak but I'd like to try a steak come on somebody I feel they mean y'all would with some bacon wrapped around the side of it come on somebody he said you don't have to stay in the in the condition you're in hallelujah he said the songwriter said the Lord wants to put you back together again hallelujah but he says when you get through asking me for all these things that from up above he said you pray and ask me to prosper you you don't have to be broke hello he said you call out to your father the one who brought you out of darkness if he can bring you out of darkness he can show put some money in your wallet if he save your soul from sin and cause you to change your mind about the way you were going he said he can surely give you a house come on he can surely give you an honor on bill he said that ain't nothing for God my hallelujah belongs to you my hallelujah belongs to you you've done so many wonderful great things for me I have to say thank you Jesus I have to say hallelujah nobody like you you've been everything to me hallelujah hallelujah I beseech thee sin now prosperity bless be he that coming in the name of the Lord we have blessed you out of the house of the Lord God is the Lord which has showed us light let me pause right there that comment God is the Lord God is the master God is the boss God is in charge he's in charge God is the Lord which has showed us the light you couldn't come to Jesus by yourself you couldn't be born again of the water and the spirit unless he drew you to him and he said I didn't bring you through darkness he said I brought you out of darkness come on somebody God is the light which has showed us light bind bind the sacrifice with cords even unto the horns of the altar thou art my God and I will praise thee said I will praise thee thou art my God I will exalt thee come on we need to praise him we need to exalt him for what he's done all give thanks unto the Lord because he's good because his mercy his love endured forever I thank God I thank God that he found me come on somebody I know who I was I didn't know who I was when he first found me hallelujah hallelujah I was in a mess I couldn't help myself I was aligned one through nine year old I was a liar I know none of y'all can say that I was the thief hallelujah hallelujah but he saw me in my sin and he says I claim you as my own he said your mind I'm gonna put some but I'm gonna put some power inside of you so you can be an asset to the building of the kingdom and because he did I love it I love him I love him I love him I love him I love him because he first love I couldn't love him until he loved me I thank God for the stone of help in Jesus name okay there we go can I testify I was sinking deep in sin yeah far from the peaceful shore very deeply stained within I didn't even want to rise but the master of the sea heard my despairing cry and from the water he lifted me now safe am I I made a decision a long time a long time ago I was their age in the back row right there and my decision was to follow Jesus and what does that look like what does it look like to follow Jesus if the Lord Jesus himself says make a left guess what I'm doing if he says make a right guess what I'm doing if he says stop lying guess what I'm doing if he says stop living with my boyfriend guess what I'm doing if he says Arlene stop drinking guess what I'm doing right in order to have that you must have a relationship with the Lord you have to have a relationship with Jesus you have to be able to hear his voice so I made a decision a long time ago and I'm saying that like I'm you know but it was a long time ago because I was like eight or something I don't know it was a long time ago and the thing about it is I found that it was worth it it was worth the decision it was worth even today when eight years old eight turns into 18 right 18 turns to 21 21 turns to 30 and now 30 turned into 40 bless the Lord oh my soul but can I tell you every step of the way every sacrifice I've had to make make it has been worth it to follow Jesus and I am here to say this in my testimony that there is no failure in God there's a song about it y'all want to hear it I'm gonna sing it I don't know if you know that I'm sure you do Milton Brunson and it goes in God there is no failure he will do whatever you ask him to just have faith and believe and you will receive for there is no failure no failure in God let's do that one more time in God there is no failure guess what he will do he will do whatever you ask him to just have faith and believe and blessings you will receive for there is no failure no failure okay so I say all that because we all have a decision every day every single day to follow Jesus and every single day it will be worth it if you are intentional about about following Jesus and the blessings that Bishop talked about the shielding that Bishop talked about when he when he talked about the right hand of the Lord is valiant it's he's determined to bless you that's what that means he is determined to bless you if you follow him it's not enough just to come to to church it's not enough just to say you're a Christian and you know this sounds like a message that I'm speaking to the young people I'm talking to everybody I'm talking to the deacons I'm talking to the praise and worship leaders I'm talking to Bishop I'm talking to the musicians I'm talking to myself it is so important especially now in these last and evil days that we make a decision every single day to follow Jesus so I took I took down some notes how do you follow Jesus of course right so if there's a couple of young people here I know that may have not been baptized yet right and there is a decision that you can make today because that's what today is the day of salvation you don't have to be 20 or 30 or 40 to give your life to Jesus you just say Lord I want the type of life that you have for me which is a blessed life a life where I don't have to pull out my hair and go to things like sex and drugs and alcohol I want the peace that surpasses all understanding that will keep me my heart and my mind in Christ Jesus there are challenges that we are have yet to experience you know all the Ukraine and the inflation and things of that nature guess what if we follow Jesus we'll be alright we win I promise you that is the guarantee I am telling you if you follow Jesus you will win so you know we talk about the invitation because this is the altar call right and we talk about the invitation and there's often when it's faced with us there's that often and that's why I said daily it's a daily invitation but this is one that maybe you have not considered before so I'm circling back a little bit because I talked to the young people about baptism right so that's that's one component you must repent and say Lord I'm sorry I am genuinely sorry for not even my actions my nature I'm sorry for my desire to do to talk back my desire to turn to the things that don't fulfill me I repent for my desire and I want to be baptized and I'm seeking to the young people but I'm also speaking to those in Facebook land right in in YouTube land in all those individuals that will hear this and what does baptism do it what it does is after you say you're sorry you go down just like Jesus went down into the grave and as soon as you come up white as snow that nature that we just talked about it's like being born again and now guess what you have you have a new chance on life a new chance on life that's not enough because you need the strength of Jesus you need the strength of Jesus to push you through to keep you in spite of and you know people say well you know I have a holy ghost and they talk about do I need to speak in tongues Jesus said I didn't I didn't say he didn't say nobody else said Jesus said how do you know you have been feeling of the holy ghost and you not just in the back of your mind saying you know what that sounds right how do you really know you have the holy ghost there's gonna be a couple of signs one of the first signs is that you will speak in a heavenly language that's how because he wants to give you the strength and how do you know you have the holy ghost he said the first sign is that you will speak in other tongues that's the miracle of Jesus I can't explain it I won't even try to explain it that's what he said and then other signs of course we know guess what we're gonna love our neighbors we're gonna walk in contentment we're gonna find joy and tribulation those are other signs that the holy spirit lives on the inside of us the same spirit that Jesus operated to as he put hands on people as he did miracles that same spirit that is in him is in us yeah so I encourage anyone who is interested in making that decision today you don't have to wait that's the thing why wait when the guaranteed is a blessed and favored life when the guarantee is that we win in the end that is a guarantee it's not like a maybe so possibly I'm just gonna do this just because no you will win if you follow Jesus so what that's that's all I have to say that is the invitation but what I will do is I'll say everyone please stand and if there's anyone who is ready to make that decision today I want you to make a step and actually you know we ask people to come down I want to do what I see a lot of people do I want you to raise your hand if you want to make that decision today if you want to make the decision to have a favorable life if you want to make the decision to be at peace if you want to make that decision to live in a good place I want you to raise your hand amen amen I see three people who say you know what I'm ready to really make that decision I'm gonna ask those three people to come down right now come on down and then you guys come little guy with the Laker shirt come on down you raise your hand come on down and I applaud all of these individuals here because you can get sidebarred and you can walk away from the promises of God but on today these three these four individuals say I want to make that decision for real you don't have to fall out to make this decision I know I'm taking a long time I'm sorry but I just I really want to communicate this okay you don't have to but all it is is an awareness to say Lord today is that day for real what's your name come here what's your name Malachi can you tell me we're gonna pray okay Malachi do you want to get baptized today you want to make that decision today oh you did okay so what about the Holy Ghost so we're going to pray everybody's gonna pray okay and everybody's gonna pray for our brothers and sisters that they have the strength that they need to endure I think the wonderful thing about it can I tell you you're gonna make it you're gonna make it you're gonna make it sometimes we don't hear that enough amongst each other right okay so let's bow our heads and everybody point your hands up here and let's pray for our brothers and our sisters in Christ daily Father God we thank you Lord we praise you for your goodness we thank you because you know us you know us by name you know us God in our our thoughts in our actions Father God and you said Lord I've come that you may have life and that more abundantly I thank you because this is not a hard decision because guess what it's a decision that will change every part of us and Lord it's gonna change every part of us for the good and so Lord we ask that our minds will be changed oh God we ask that our hearts will be changed oh God we ask that Lord you will talk to us daily our ears will be opened oh God and Lord when we dig into your word God you will show us very clearly what it is that we need to do Lord today March whatever 13th March 13th Father God is that day because we know we need you we know we can't do it without you and so today we step into a new place in you oh God and so Lord we just pray right now in the name of Jesus God that Lord you will allow us as a community of people to encourage these individuals that we will speak life to them and Lord we thank you right now for restoration you said you would restore so I thank you for restoration Lord we thank you we praise you everybody that's out there in internet land and website land Lord that you will meet them at their need whatever their need is healing in their bodies Father God peace in their minds financial freedom we gonna say it in Jesus name financial freedom is that something wrong with that okay financial freedom Lord so we pray these things because Lord you said we're two or three Father God if we touch and agree that God we can ask anything and so we ask right now for you to work in our lives give us a new mind give us a new heart and give us rejuvenated joy and strength we pray these things in Jesus name amen Malachi guess what you gonna be all right you believe that you gonna be all right my friend James you gonna be all right Linisha you gonna be all right cookie you gonna be all right amen well we thank God I think what we're gonna have is sister Marilyn come and she's gonna take the offering and the ties and she's gonna close in Jesus name amen be encouraged everyone amen amen I go to the oh come on father we thank you hallelujah for all that you said and done on this day God we thank you for this offering hallelujah we thank you that salvation brings prosperity hallelujah we thank you God for those that gave hallelujah we thank you Lord for even those who had not to give bless them oh God hallelujah so that there will be meat in this house oh God we thank you and we praise you for the cheerful givers hallelujah God hallelujah make ways open doors in the name of Jesus God and we'll thank you and we'll praise you in Jesus name give the fire you can give by give the fire shield of faith Christian Center Long Beach amen and you can also mail it here to 4934 Long Beach Boulevard amen here in the city of Long Beach California the zip code is 90805 God bless you God bless you hallelujah it's good to know that we have a rock in Jesus amen and we don't have to worry hallelujah salvation is in that hallelujah all that God has for us is in Jesus amen come on so we're gonna be determined hallelujah to stay right here with him we're not going nowhere we don't stay right here with Jesus hallelujah take us from this place but never from your presence bring us back at the opponent time ready to give you and it's in Jesus name that we pray you are dismissed God bless you all we'll see you next week hallelujah