 I'm going to shoot the Lord. We'll bless you. Hallelujah. To pray. Hallelujah. To pray. Hallelujah. To pray. Amen. At this time, we're going to give it to Hallelujah. And she's going to lead us further into the story. Yes. What's his name? Jesus. Jesus. He's the king of kings. He's the Lord of lords. There's nobody like him. Hallelujah. Father, in the name of Jesus, we come into your presence this morning with a grateful heart. Thank you for being our Lord, Savior, and our King. Thank you for dying on the cross for our sins. Thank you for calling us out of darkness and to the light of holiness. Thank you because you said you'd never leave us nor forsake us. You're with us all the time. We bless your holy name. How many doors you've opened. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. For us, you made a way where there seemed to be no way. What a wonderful Savior. What a friend. What a keeper. We honor you, Lord. Hallelujah. We have held up holy hands before you this morning. We came here to praise you and honor you. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus, Lord, continue to save and add to this church, oh God, such as should be saved. Touch the hearts of those who are members. Put it in their hearts to come out to help us praise you, Lord. Hallelujah. We give you glory and we give you honor. In the name of Jesus, bless our pastor, bless his sister, Bobby, Lord, and completely heal her body. Completely restore her to help in the name of Jesus. We honor you, Lord. Speak to our hearts today. We want to hear from you, Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. Our hearts are open to receive you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Help us to be more like you every day. Help us to win souls into the kingdom. In Jesus' name we pray. We honor you. We give you glory forever and ever. In Jesus' name, thank you, Jesus. Amen. Hallelujah. Glory. Praise Him. Praise Him. God is good saints. Amen. Amen. I'll be reading the scripture this morning. It'll be out of Lamentations, chapter 3, verse 21 through 26. It says, in this I recall to my mind, ha, therefore I have hope. Do you have hope today? Say, it is a Lord's mercies that we are not consumed. Say, because His compassion, they fail not. Say, but they are new every morning. Somebody say, every morning, say every morning, great, great, great, great is our faithfulness. The Lord is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in Him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for Him, to the soul that seeketh Him, said it is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. Come on, give God praise because His mercies and compassion are new every morning. Great is His faithfulness. God bless you. Hallelujah. What a great God we serve. Hallelujah. He's compassionate. He's merciful. Hallelujah. And He is our Savior. Amen. We come to lift His name up today. Lord, I lift Your name on high. Lord, I love to sing Your praises. I'm so glad You're in my life. I'm so glad You came to say, Lord, I lift Your name on high. I lift Your name on high. Lord, I love to sing Your praises. I love to sing Your praises. I'm so glad You're in my life, Lord. I'm so glad You're in my life. I'm so glad You came to save us. I'm so glad You came to save us. Lord, I'm my life, Lord. And as earlier, we asked what was His name. His name is Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The name will be exalted. Hallelujah. Up by everything and everyone. Hallelujah. In heaven and in earth. I will sing praises unto my King. Exalt Him, His name adore. And I'll declare that worship. We worship. Adore You. Adore You. We worship. We worship. Adore You. Adore You. Adore You. There's nobody like You. Nobody like You. Nobody like You. Nobody like You. Nobody like You. Nobody like You. Nobody like You. Nobody like You. El Shaddai. Nobody like You. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Elohim. Amen. Come on. Keep praising him. Keep giving him the glory. Yes, Lord. Yes. Hallelujah. Every worship. We're on one accord today, giving God the glory. Amen. With one accord, every praise. Hallelujah. Because he's great and mighty and because he alone is God. Amen. At this time, we will have a selection, a song by Brother Michael James. Praise God. Go ahead and give God a hand. Praise for Brother Michael. Worthy is his name. He's no God better than our God. Nobody like our God. Nobody can do what he does. Nobody loved us like he loved us. Nobody delivered us like he delivered us. Worthy is your name. Worthy is your name. I thank the Lord because he's such a powerful God. We prayed for my son. He went to Haiti. He went home to Haiti. He's like, and it's just a blessing. You need to understand the power of prayer is for for real. Yeah. While he was there doing the Lord's work, 17 missionaries were captured and kidnapped while he was there. So, but you know what? When I heard about it, I didn't worry. I didn't fret because we prayed. I don't know about anything else, but I knew he was coming home in one piece and he was gonna glorify God. All right. Now he has a presentation. He'd like to make the bishop. We're gonna give him just a couple of minutes to them to come and to do that in Jesus name. Opportunity to worship with you this morning. I was so blessed by Brother James wherever he went that his voice is absolutely Michael James. Yes. Excellent job. Excellent job. We just wanted to give a brief presentation. We're not gonna stand before you long. These are my notes usually. I don't have the notes with me, but I just wanted to let you know that the 34 boxes arrived in Port-au-Prince. They weighed 700 pounds and our DSV air and ink company gave us a 66% discount. So praise the Lord. I love 66% off. And so we have the report for the pastor and for the deacons on exactly how the monies were paid and exactly where everything went. So all that documentation is there and we just want to say thank you. Thank you for your contribution. Thank you for your prayers. This is a sculpture of the it's the shape of map of the island of Haiti. And you can see exactly where Harris arrived into Port-au-Prince and then the earthquake was down in south. It's ensued is how it's said in French in the city of Lecais. That's where the earthquake was the epicenter was and where he traveled to go and see where our supplies are going to be going to help the people there. And so this is just a gift to you to say thank you and to remind you please continue to pray for the people of Haiti. There's a lot of as my father mentioned violence going on. Harris had his own exciting time trying to get through roadblocks which is code for people stopping you armed with their various homemade weapons and asking for a fee to pass safely. So I was praying. My dad was praying. Sister's praying. Everybody was praying but God was so good and brought him safely back home. So thank you again for your contributions and your prayers. We're just so blessed to be with you today. Amen. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. You know it's a blessing to know the God we serve is so faithful. I want to give proper appreciation for that that you've shown for us that the Lord caused us to feel the burden and the want to share in that ministerial event. And I've found the Lord to be faithful in all of his ways. He remembers his people. I thank God that you were able to go there. And as Elder Ross said we prayed and we had the belief we had faith we had hope and trust in God that you would return safely to us. And I have to admit that while he was there I looked at all the events that were going on and I said keep him Lord keep your let your angels protect him bring him back safely and God is faithful. I said he's faithful. He never lets us down. So I thank God for what he's done in your behalf and in the behalf of the people of Haiti. We thank you for the opportunity to share in this blessing. Lord bless you in Jesus name. I'm going to put your hands together and bless the Lord. I want to thank brother Michael for that song. He's such a good God and it just made me think that as the dear pants for water so my soul pants for the living God he's such a wonderful God. I long to work you're my friend you're my friend and you're my king even though a person want perfect unity for you alone for you I'm saying you alone my she desire say hallelujah say hallelujah come on worship we bless your name we glorify come on raise your voices hallelujah hallelujah the hallelujah the greatest praise Thank you.dessus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you. For you. We've blessed your name. Praise is comely. Praise is right. Praise is due. Somebody just said it simply this way when I think of the goodness of Jesus. And all that he's done for me, my soul. Come on somebody. My soul, not my lips, not sign language, but down in my sanctified soul. My soul magnifies the Lord. Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. He's great. He's great and mighty. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. He's here. He's here. He's here right now. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you. And when I say God is great, that's an understatement. I don't have the words in my vocabulary to express the greatness of God. And it is commonly said among many people, among our group, we just say He's everything. He's everything. He's everything that we need. Hallelujah. What a privilege it is again on this Sunday morning to come together with God's people. God's people I'll continue to say are the best people on earth. Amen. God's people. Amen. You know, the scripture says it tells us our original state. The scripture says to us that we were born in sin and shape and in iniquity. And let me just tell you, let me just tell you with my expression, we came here all messed up. Didn't have anything in the good column. Everything we were and everything we were about was over in the bad column. Come on somebody. But we were born in sin and shape and in iniquity, but the long came Jesus. Then came Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank God. Thank God for Jesus. Now I didn't always understand that. When I was growing up in church when I was a little boy, I used to hear the old folks say, thank God for Jesus. I go, but let me tell you when when you come to the realization of who you are, who you were, who you started out and the road your feet were upon and the desires that you had in your heart towards wickedness and Jesus came along. Come on somebody. Thank God. Thank God for Jesus. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. I feel it right now. Thank you, Jesus. Let me go to the message. See, sometimes I get up here and I'm too excited from the get go, but I'm gonna put it in reverse and I'm gonna back up a little bit and see and I understand homiletically that I'm not supposed to do that, but I can't help it sometimes. They say you're supposed to do the didactic portion, then bring in the praise and the worship portion on the other end, but it's something about the Holy Ghost. Said it's something about the Holy Ghost. I can't explain it. I got it and it makes me kind of different sometimes. Hallelujah. Let us consider from the word of God that we addressed in the devotion portion of the service from Lamentations chapter three and in Lamentations chapter three, we see that salvation was the greatest thing, the greatest need for God's people. And what we find in Lamentations, God's people were untrue and unfaithful. God had called them to a clean life, called them to righteousness, but they couldn't contend along the way they'd do it for a while and then they'd drop off and go a different way. But the Lord was determined to have a group of people who were true to him. And so the Lord helped them to get themselves together. When I say he helped them, he loved them. Now let me just pause for a second and throw this in. My wife said, tell everybody today that she loves you all, all right? And while I'm in that vein, I thought about what her father used to say to them when they were growing up. When they misbehaved, their father would say, all right, come on, I'm gonna love you. And he wasn't saying that after they had done some admirable feat. He had began to say that when they had gone in the wrong direction, he said, so I'm gonna love you. He said, what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna get you back on the right road because I love you. And so I'm going to chastise you. And that's where we find this group. Verse 21 said, this I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope. It is of the Lord's mercy that we're not consumed. He said, the Lord had to do something very special for us because we're all knuckleheads and we couldn't get it right. So he said, it was the Lord's mercy that cost us not to be consumed and wiped off of the face of the earth. He said, his compassion failed not. The Lord feels our pain. He understands our coming and goings and he understands how the devil has such a challenge on us. We can't hold on to what we know for a long time. Our memory gets very short. He said, but God has compassion. His compassion failed not. They're new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness, Lord. The Lord is faithful unto his people. The Lord is my portion. He said, I realize that the only thing that I have that's worth anything is the Lord. He said, when the deal goes down and when everybody finishes trying to weigh the balance and see who's the winner and who's got the biggest amount here and whatever houses and land and golden silver and all. He said, when it get all down to that, he said, all of that counts for nothing. He said, the Lord God is my portion. He's the part that I have. The Lord is my portion said, my soul. Therefore, I will hope in him. The Lord is good unto them that wait for him and to the soul that seeketh him. God, God shows his favor. It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord. And I want to stop right there. And as I looked at this passage, you all know that I know a thousand songs. All right, I have one that will fit verse 20, 26 right here. It says, have thine own way, Lord. Have thine own way. Thou art the potter. I am the clay. Mold me and make me after thy will. While I'm waiting, yield it and still. Now, this verse says right here, it is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait. You know what that quietly waits mean? Don't be complaining while you're waiting. Why don't you come on? Look like you would have been here by now. Don't you see where I am? It looks like I can't find you anywhere when I need you. But he said it is good to hope and quietly wait. In other words, keep your mouth shut and say, you are the potter. I'm just a lump of clay and I'm I'm surrendering the will that I have. I said, Lord, I give you my will and whatever it is that you decide for me, whatever you want me to be, whatever you want to make me into, he said, I'll hold still and I won't resist while you trying to shape me. Come on, somebody. I won't fight the progress you're trying to make in me. Let me give you another verse. Have thine own way, Lord. Have thine own way, search me and try me, master today. Wider than snow, Lord, wash me just now as in thy presence, humbly, humbly, humbly with my mouth shut. Humbly I bow. I'll give you the rest. Have thine own way, Lord. Have thine own way, hold over my being. Absolute sway. Come on. Come on, somebody. When you live for Jesus, you can't withhold anything. Lord says, give me all of it. He said, everything that's in your negative column, which is everything that you own, he said, you give that to me. Don't hold on to anything. Hold over my being. Absolute sway. Fill with thy spirit till all can see. Christ only. Christ only. Living in me. So now I'll leave there. I'm going now at this point to Psalm 119. And what Psalm 119 offers to us, it gives us the understanding that there's power in God's word. There is power in God's word. And when we think about it, if we think clearly, we understand that everything that is, everything on earth or any place else in outer space or wherever, there is something. It all came to be because of a spoken word. God said, let there be light. And at his word, the light came on. Now, sometimes a person perhaps might say, let there be light. And they say, but first I've got to get some materials together so I can create electricity, so I can create a bulb to burn it, to bring forth the light. And so what they have to do, they're manufacturing something. But God said, let there be light. And it was light. So now, understanding that everything that is came about by spoken word, we need to learn how to conduct ourselves. And we need to know one thing that I'm here. I've heard many, many times. Anybody ever heard of saying there's no free lunch? There's no free lunch. When you walk with God, there's always adversity that comes. There's always testing that comes into our lives. And we're never left alone by the adversary of our soul. And so we need to understand that the Lord's not going to take your test away. He has all power. And if he didn't want the test to come, he wouldn't let it come. So we understand that every test and every trial comes to us by order from God. God allows it. And because he allows it, we have to say, have your way, Lord. Have your own way. Not my will, but your will be done in me because I want to please you. I want to do what you call me to do. I want to humble myself enough that I don't have to beat up all the time. I'm going to hold still while you change who I am. Come on, somebody. It's going to cost you. Begin reading at verse 65. Thy health has dealt well with thy servant, O Lord, according unto thy word. He said, Lord, I acknowledge your goodness to me. I thank you for all that you've done and that that you're doing in me. He said, but teach me good judgment and knowledge. He said, my slate is pretty much clean when it comes to judgment and knowledge. So I need to be taught while I have believed thy commandment. He said, I hear what is said and I believe it. In one place, the scripture says, Lord, I believe, but help thou my unbelief, a dichotomy. I believe, but I need help. I need help believing. So Lord, you see me. You see my position. You see my heart's concern. And Lord, I need you to help me to have the wisdom and the judgment that I should have so I can walk right like you want me to walk. See, there's some teaching going around in different churches and they say you can do anything long as you get to confession, go in the box and confess and then go on out next week and do it all over again and come back again and do the same thing. And see, that will cause you to never have growth. You'll never reach perfection. The Lord is wanting to perfect what he's put in us and he wants to perfect. He gave us his spirit so that his spirit can perfect us. We don't have to fight it by ourselves. We don't have to have the ingenuity and we don't have to have all wisdom. We just need the power of the Holy Ghost on the inside saying to us, thou shalt not, you can't go past this boundary. You got to stop there. So Lord, teach me good judgment, teach me some good sense, give me the knowledge for I have believed thy commandment. He said, I believed your word. He said, before I was afflicted, I went astray. He said, Lord, I was walking with you. I believed your word and I attempted. I attempted to do what you required me to do. He said, but I found it was too hard. I found out it just didn't make sense. And I found out people were laughing at me behind my back because of the stand I had taken with you. He said, but thank you because you afflicted me. I thank you that you didn't let me lose my mind completely. And you said, you get back on the right track. I'll make sure you do. I'll bring affliction to you and turn your heart around. Come on, let God love you. Every one of us, each of us, every day, we have an opportunity to do the right thing. He said, before I was afflicted, I went astray. But now have I kept your word. He said, when you put that whooping on me, when you came down on me hard and when you came down on me and didn't show me the mercy that I felt like I needed to feel, he said, that helped me to come to my sense. Anybody want to grow in God? We need to grow. We need to grow in grace. Come on. We need to grow in our walk with him completely. He said, bowed good and doeth good. Teach me thy statues. He said, Lord, when I looked at you and I saw how you felt about me, I said, Lord, you're good and your mercy endured forever. Y'all know that song? Lord, you are good and your mercy endured forever. I have to say again, Lord, you are good and your mercy endured forever. He said, I found out when I looked at you and I looked at your record that you're everything that is good. You are good. There's no bad in you. There's no wrong in you. He said, you're good and you do good. So teach me thy statue. He said, Lord, I want to be like you. Anybody want to be like Jesus? Anybody want to walk like Jesus? Anybody want to talk like Jesus? Anybody want to give their will over to Jesus? Wait, wait, don't say that too fast. Don't say yes too fast. Because sometimes it don't seem like that's the way it's going. You know, the truth of the matter is you're tested and you're tried every day and you have opportunity to do it right or to do it your way. Come on, somebody. Teach me your word. Help me to get it down in my heart. Help me to tell it. It saturates my soul. Help me. I won't think of anything bad to do when the situation comes. When afflictions come, I'll be right in the path where you established me. And then he says, Lord, you see my situation. You know how they do me. You know how they laugh at me behind my back. Call me old church boy, lame brain on and on. He said, the proud have forced a lie against me. He said they made up stuff that wasn't even true. Then comes the great conjunction that I love but he said, they lied against me, but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. He said, Lord, my heart is fixed and my mind is made up. And I don't have to wake up every morning and say, Lord, should I serve you today? Should I, should I walk with you today? Or should I take a break? Lord, can I go on vacation for a couple of weeks and I'll be right back? He said, I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart. Whole heart. Whole heart. Whole heart. He said, everything in me is going to be caught trying to do your will. Their heart is as fat as grease. I'm going to let the airplane get over so I can talk about that fat, fat heart. Their heart is as fat as grease. How fat is grease? Fat. Fat is greasy. And it says their heart is slippery and slimy and greasy and nasty. He said, they can't bring it to me too hard because I made up my mind. I've decided to serve Jesus. I decided to make Jesus my choice. So bring it on. Bring your fat, greasy stuff all over here. He said, in all of that fat and greasiness, he said, I delight in your law. I get happy when I think about what you called me to you. You called me out of darkness into a marvelous lighter. You set my feet on a solid rock. You gave me determination to walk with you and I'm going to stand on it and nothing shall change me. Nothing shall move me. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And you know what, after he said that, he says, Lord, I just want to thank you. Lord, I just want to thank you because you've been so good to me. He said, it is good for me that I have been afflicted to Lord when it came the time for the testing and for the trying and when the arrows were being shot at me and they were out to get me and trying to take me down. I thank you that you let it happen. I thank you that you let it come into my life. I thank you that you didn't take the test away, but I thank you that you let the affliction come on because it made me stronger. It made me better. It made me love you more and more. It is good for me that I've been afflicted, that I might learn that stature. He said, the affliction helped me to get stronger in you. Come on, somebody. The affliction helped me so that when it came, I didn't cry like a baby. Come on. I did not crazy like I never had the power of the Holy Ghost. I understood what the power of the Holy Ghost was for. It's in me to guide me, to protect me and give me deliverance out of every situation. So Lord, I thank you. I thank you for the affliction because it caused me every time the affliction came. I said, let me see what God said. What's in the word? What did he say about this situation? Come on, somebody. You know, he says different things about different situations. So he says, when your heart is overwhelmed, he said, you can, you can come to me. He said, lead me to the, Thomas said, lead me to the rocker that is higher than I. Lead me to someone who knows every answer. Lead me to one who has all power in his hand. Hallelujah. Thank God. Thank God for the Holy Ghost, but thank God for the afflictions. It made me better. It made me better. It is good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statues. Lord, help me to get your word down in me so your word has complete control. Come on somebody. You know, I'll say this, but the word, I want the word to have complete control over me. Now, in order for that to happen, somebody's got to do something. Somebody got to pay a price. Somebody got to pray a price. There's no free lunch. You can't walk with Jesus on two sides of the street at the same time. Come on, you got to come out from among them and be separate. Say the Lord God. He said, it's going to cost you. Come on, but it's good for you. Hallelujah. Thank God. Thank God for that understanding that when the Lord chastises us, we don't get mad and poke our mouth all out and go walking around, acting like you're some big shot or something. Lord, why you let this happen to me? Why did it have to happen to me? Why not? I'd say when you say why did it have to happen, he'd say just because you said that. You ask why? That's sure you need it. Why that? Why that? Hallelujah. It's good for me that I have been afflicted, that I might learn thy statues. The law of thy mouth is better. The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver. So he ends this by saying, Lord, let the test come. Let the trials come. He said, I'm not in a race trying to see who dies with the most stuff. Come on somebody, cause everything you accomplish when you close your eyes in death, it all remains for somebody else. Elder Ross, they tell me that it's never been seen that following funeral procession behind the hearse was a U-Haul truck. You won't see that. A U-Haul truck. Even if it got it, if they put it in there, it wouldn't go with you. Let me take it this way. I'd rather say it this way. If they took everything you owned to the grave, you couldn't take it with you. You, you couldn't take it with you. People say, well, you know, he had a special ring and so I put that ring on him. He didn't take it. You put it on him. He don't know it's there. Come on somebody. So he says, Lord, I've looked at this thing clearly and I just want to thank you. Lord, I just want to thank you that you cause my eyes to be open and see and understand what your word is saying to me. And Lord, I humble myself. I bow down to you and I say, have your way with me. Have your way. You're the potter. I'm the clay. Just make me into what you want me to be and I'll be happy in what you want me to be. And I looked and I saw that all the rat race who can drive the biggest car, who could fly the biggest airplane, who can live in the largest house on the hill. When I looked at that and I saw that it was all foolishness, vain, vain, vanity and vexation of the spirit. And I said, Lord, you're more precious than silver. Lord, you're more costly than gold. Lord, I love you with everything in me and I give myself. I say, take control of my life. Use me in the building of your kingdom. Make me your child. I thank you. I thank you because you've given me the, the, wherewith, wherewith all to accomplish that that I was placed on this earth. Now I thank God. I'm going to quit. Yeah. Come on. Come on. Come on. Stand right here. I'll stop if you stand right here. We were born in sin, shaping in iniquity. That's not the end of the story. I'm about to make the altar call. Go here. He's everything. He's everything to me. He's everything. He's everything. He's my father, my mother, my sister, and my brother. He's everything to me. He's everything. He's everything. He's everything to me. He's everything. He's everything to me. My father, my mother, my sister, and my brother. He's everything to me. One more time. He's everything. He's everything. He's everything to me. He's everything. He's everything to me. He's my father, my mother, my sister, and my brother. He's everything to me. I want to know do we have any ex-greasy people in the house? Let me hear you make some noise. Do I have any ex-greasy people in the house? Let me hear you make some noise. He's her. He's everything. He's everything to me. Now, Bishop said the Lord is my portion. He'll be everything that you need. The Lord wants to be your portion. He wants to be everything that you need. But let God love you. Let Him love you. Even when He has to correct you, let God love you. Let God change your heart and change your mind. Someone has to say, I surrender all my will, my thoughts, everything that I have. See, we like to be independent. We like to feel like we have it all together. But at some point we have to surrender it all. We have to say yes to the will of God. We have to say not my will, but your will be done. We have to begin to desire to do it his way. Said, and Peter said unto them that you repent and be baptized. Every one of you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, he says, and you shall receive the gift. I like that. I like gifts. See, I don't have to pay for a gift because Jesus paid it all and all to him I owe. I receive the gift. And then he said, it's not just to you, but to your children and to your children's children. And it's to many as all four of many as the Lord our God shall call. See, I know it's true. He gave it to my grandmother, the gift. He gave it to my mother, the gift. He gave it to my uncle, Bishop, the gift. I think he gave it to Irma over there, the gift. He gave me the gift and he gave it to my daughter to as many as the Lord your God shall call and he will give you this gift of the Holy Ghost and power. See, I can't live holy by myself. I need power. And after that, the Holy Ghost has come upon you. You shall have power. Yeah. Power, Sister Cece, to live right. Power to walk right. Power to talk right. Power to stop lying. Power to stop stealing. Power to love your neighbor. Even when your neighbor don't love you. There's something about the Holy Ghost. That's right. That's right, Sister Cece. She said be nice. I remember somebody's sister was sharing to me and she said, really, all the Lord wants you to do is just be nice and that covered everything. But I can't be nice without the power of the Holy Ghost. I can't be loving without the power of the Holy Ghost. I thought that I could and someone says that said something to me. I didn't like it. I wanted to slap him. But the Holy Ghost held my hand and said, oh, this thing is real. This thing is real because I wanted I wanted to lay some hands suddenly and repeatedly. But he said, hold your peace. And I've seen it over and over again. When I held my peace, he fought my battles in ways that I never could have dreamed of doing it by myself. So today we offer you the gift of the Holy Ghost. We invite you to come if you haven't been baptized, if you haven't received the Holy Ghost, we invite you to receive the gift. And I promise you, if you will do that, your life will be changed. And the best part is you'll be ready to fly away when Jesus comes. So it's a some glad morning. When this life is over, I'm going to fly away either by the rapture of the great, but I'm going to fly by out of here because I've got the Holy Ghost and flying power. I used to be greasy. I used to be no good, but I'm ready to fly away now. So we invite you. No more grease. That's right. No more grease. Give it up. Grease a kill you. Grease a kill you, somebody. So we invite you. If you're not here, come next week and receive Jesus into your lives. Come and be baptized and let him feel you with the Holy Ghost. And you'll begin to worship like my sister over here, sister Merlin. See, he said it's like fire. Shut up in my bones. When I want to be quiet, when I want to shut up, I find myself dancing. I find myself praising because it's like fire. Shut up in my bones. I ain't here to preach, but Lord have mercy, bishop, you got me all stirred up. All stirred up. Tell somebody I'm tired of being greasy. Tired of being greasy. Give it up. I better stop. I better stop. I'm gonna get myself in trouble. So if you can't, if you're not here, come next week, let the Lord do what he wants to do in your life and you will never, ever be the same. Sister Merlin. Bishop, that was a great word from the Lord. Hallelujah is so good to us. However, hallelujah, he sets us free. However, he delivers us. Hallelujah. It's a great thing. No more grease. Jesus is good. I love the Lord. Hallelujah. Come on. Let's give the Lord a hand. Pray for the word like share. This was an excellent word. If you're not say regenerating or renew, this was the word of the Lord for you. Hallelujah. God is so good. My heart is so. Sometimes when we're going to allow us to stay in our stupor, hallelujah, and dwindle and dwindle away. Hollister to others about the saving power and the delivering power of the Lord Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. He can take us through anything. Hallelujah. He can take us through anything and make us better. Hallelujah. Make us better than we were before. Hallelujah. He's a great God. God is into perfecting. He's into making you better. Hallelujah. It's offering time. Come on. It's a beautiful word from the Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Come on, deacons. Come on, deacons. Come receive the offering. Hallelujah. Come on. I left mine right there on the off, on the organ. Hallelujah. You can give through Ghiblify, Children of Faith, Long Beach. Amen. You can mail it to 4934 Long Beach Boulevard, Long Beach, California, 90805, right? Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you for your love. Thank you for your love. Amen. Has everyone given? Hallelujah. Come on. Receive your blessing. That's what that is. Hallelujah. You get an opportunity to bless the kingdom of God. Amen. And the Lord will bless you for blessing the kingdom. Amen. Hallelujah. Press it down. Shake it together so some more can drop down. You can put some more in there. Hallelujah. That's how he blesses. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Father, we thank you for the offering. God, thank you for everyone that gave. Thank you, Lord, even for those that didn't have to give. Teach them, Hallelujah, to give. Teach them, Hallelujah, that you are a chip. You love children, givers. Hallelujah. And the sacrificial offering, anything that you have to give to the Lord, the Lord, Hallelujah. You'll never beat him giving. Hallelujah. And so, Lord, we thank you. Hallelujah. Bless it. Amen. Multiply it, Hallelujah. And stretch it out for whatever the kingdom needs here at Long Beach. Amen. And even throughout the entire kingdom, God, we thank you in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. How many are determined to walk with Jesus? Come on. I'm still up there, y'all. I'm still, I'm just right there. Yes. Come on. I'll be faithful. I'm determined to walk with Jesus. Yes, I am. Walk with me. Walk with me, Lord. Walk with me. Hallelujah. Walk with me, Lord. Walk with me. All I'm on is, yes, till your journey. I want Jesus to walk with me. Hold my hand. Hold my hand. Hold my hand, Lord. Hold my hand. Teach us, turn. I want Jesus to hold my hand. Don't leave me alone. Teach us, turn. Father, we thank you, Hallelujah, for the service. God bless you all. We will see you all next week. It has been wonderful. Hallelujah. Come on back next week and see what the Lord will have for you. I'm sure it will be sumptuous. God bless you.