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The Bible said let everything everything that has breath praise you to lord hallelujah hallelujah Lord Jesus father we come this morning Lord god in the name of jesus Lord god we come this morning Lord god thanking your lord god for your mercy Lord God thank you for your grace lord god thank you for your loving kindness lord god in the name of Jesus Lord God Lord we thank you this morning Lord God for raising an up Lord God in the name of Jeesus Lord God that we we may be here to smart Lord God, to glorify, to magnify your name Lord God, to lift your name on high Lord God, for your name Lord God is high Lord God, and highly lifted up Lord God, in all the earth Lord God be glorified, be magnified Lord God, in this service Lord God, you said Lord God, let everything, everything that has breath Lord God, praise ye the Lord, hallelujah Lord God, hallelujah Lord God, hallelujah Lord, any much Jesus Lord God, hallelujah Lord God have your way this morning Lord God, we ask you Lord God that you remove in this service Lord God that you remove in a mighty way Lord God, said Lord God, every portion Lord God, this service Lord God, there you Lord God. And you alone Lord God may be glorified, magnified Lord God, Do you remember one of us Lord God? You said Lord God those of us that worship you Lord God We must Lord God. We must worship you Lord God Inspire Lord God and in truth Lord God in the name of Jesus Lord God have your way Lord God touch every heart Lord God Every mind Lord God in the name of Jesus Lord God help us to keep our mind Lord God Stayed on you Lord God in the name of Jesus Lord God We ask you this morning Lord God that you an annoying Lord God the messager Lord God as he come forth Or God with your word or God help us Lord God to receive it Lord God help us to apply it Or God to our lives or God in the name of Jesus Lord God help us this morning Lord God We need you Lord God more and more Lord God in the name of Jesus Lord God Help us to draw now unto you Lord God as you draw now to us Lord God in the name of Jesus Lord God Be glorified be magnified Lord God. We ask you this morning Lord God that you don't know it Lord God The praise team Lord God as they come forth this morning Lord God with the songs of time Lord God in the name of Jesus Lord God I know no musician Lord God every note every beat Lord God in the name of Jesus Lord God that you Lord God You alone may receive Lord God all the glory all the honor Lord God all the praise Lord God Shall be yours Lord God will be yours Lord God in Jesus name Lord God in Jesus name we pray amen and amen reading your scripture today fountain Psalms 37 verses 1 through 5 Psalms 37 verses 1 through 5 fret not thyself because of evil doers Neither be thy enemies against the workers of iniquity For they shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb hallelujah trust in the Lord and Do good So shall thy dwell in the land and verily thy shall be fed Delight thyself also in the Lord and he shall give thee the desire in the heart Commit thyself also in him and he shall bring at the singing angle rock gonna cry in my place We've been to have our worship service So let's worship like we're the only one around to worship the Lord No tree is gonna raise his branch in hers this morning a man morning bless the Lord We are so we got to know who we are in the Lord. This is your friend Next time this time we'll turn the service over to Bishop Alexander. Amen. How great is our God? How great how great is our God? He's awesome Awesome Awesome God There's none like for each of you who are here today. I thank the Lord that he has Provided us another opportunity to come into his house to enter his courts with Thanksgiving it coming to his courts would praise Give thanks and to the Lord because of his goodness. I want to say to those on our streaming Program, welcome to you To the shield of faith Christian Center in the city of Long Beach, California Amen, we praise God That he's favored us With a house of worship The Lord has blessed this congregation Down through the years And we're excited because we have a great love for God That we extend to you. We want to share the love of Jesus with you We invite you to come and be with us in any of our services So that the Lord might bless you bless your life as he's blessed offers going to call on our solo before the message The Lord has blessed us with Capable servant Elder Kevin Ross He's gonna be our minister on today in this service And I want you to expect the Lord to speak to you Time time is out for us coming to church here in the message and applying it to someone else But the Lord wants to move in you The Lord wants to show you his favor But the Lord wants you to learn to trust in him He's the only source The only source So I encourage you Open your hearts allow the Lord to speak to you in The word that he sends to this congregation on today I'm gonna listen for what he says to me and I'm gonna I'm gonna walk in the light See when when the Lord sends a word to us It's light for our pathway and when you see the light The only thing to do is get in the light Come into the light and walk in the light If it's time we're gonna call for our solo for the morning Mr. Marilyn Alexander We praise the Lord for her She's an anointed gift from God. I said she's a gift from God Amen, she's highly anointed. She's well well well capable And we thank God that she's a part of us here today. Come on sister Alexander and Minister and to our spirits Amen, how many of you love the Lord today? I mean really Ain't playing Hallelujah the Lord saved me and Delivered me from myself pretty much it He delivered me from myself and then I was lost in sin Amen, and he prepared a way Hallelujah for me to Receive his love and receive his forgiveness Receive his grace and receive his mercy and for that I give him praise All the days of my life Praise While I have breath in my being I will give him praise Hallelujah, thank you. Hallelujah Jesus Jesus Jesus Stretch my heart Daily Pause in your presence. We don't take your presence lightly when we show up we bother me and We worship daily we shall worship Your king of kings and Lord of lords and you deserve The glory you deserve the honor Falling in love with Jesus Falling in love with Jesus Say it again falling in love with Jesus Jesus you like Jesus in his arms in his arms in his arms Falling in love falling in love falling in love The love of lift your hand and just begin to give him a wave all free If you love him today worship here is the best thing is Love with Jesus Wish if I had some lovers that broke my heart, but Jesus will never let you down Jesus will never break your heart If you fall in love with him The best thing you'll find the best thing That you've ever done Come on. I bless your lord Open your mouth and give him praise Give him the fruit of your lips The sacrifice of praise He's worthy He's worthy He's worthy goodness of Jesus And all he's done for me This week my soul cries out Holiday for me. He opened doors for me. I love him today. Sister Brown said I am persuaded This great gospel This is a great news. This is great gospel Hey, man, I hate to move on when folks get the praise of God like that Because when you praise him like that, he will show up and he will meet your need Solomon had offered a thousand sacrifices we got through God showed up and say what can I do? He didn't say what do you what do I want? He said what do you want me to do? He loves our worship and our praise and give honor to our bishop Great men of God and our first lady and the ministers and saints, but I'm here to tell you that I choose Jesus. Hallelujah. I choose Jesus. I love Jesus I worship Jesus. I live for Jesus Choose you this day Whom you will serve See if you're not saved if you Haven't been born again of the water and of the spirit that you want to go to heaven You need to choose Jesus If you have been saved and you have been born of the water and the spirit and you've chosen Jesus You need to continue to choose Jesus every day I choose Jesus. I choose Jesus. We're on the Brink of another election day and we're going to make a choice In the choice that you make It matters The right choice will bless you and the people around you the wrong choice will bless you Will or hurt you and the world around you. So you need to understand that the choices that you make They matter Where you are in life right now Is usually a sum total of the choices that you made in the past But if you made some bad choices in the past, you don't have to stay there You can turn around and choose Jesus and make him your choice and he'll bring you out He'll take you out. He'll put you on another plane I choose Jesus now our personal choices they Matter they will affect the rest of our life. The truth is we make hundreds of choices every day What am I going to eat what I'm going to wear Where am I going to go? And on and on and on and the truth is we don't eat the same thing every day We don't wear the same thing every day If we do we wash it out Before we wear it again. Amen Hopefully someone said hopefully praise the lord We know we know because if you don't there's a great cloud of anointing and it's not the anointing or god that's following you I've been there. I've seen it. I've seen that cloud Some of the fellows I used to run with and one time I looked back and there was a cloud behind me So what can I say? We don't go all the same places every day So every day we must make good choices And but there is one choice that I make every day And I make that choice exactly the same for every reason And I choose Jesus every day And every day I choose Jesus See you have to understand the choices that we make We make them sometimes whether we make them consciously sometimes unconsciously, but we make them for a reason We've read something we've learned something we've been taught something we experienced something But there is a reason why we make the choices that we make And so we choose Jesus and we choose him every day. We used to sing a song I'll take Jesus for mine Says you can have the whole wide world But I'll take Jesus for mine. See we understood that it is a benefit in living for Jesus It's a benefit in serving Jesus. The writer said one day in thy courts or one day in your presence is better than a thousand out there in the world So he's saying one day in that court is better than two years 278 days out there in the tenths of the wicked But we have made Jesus Our choice and so the spirit of God is asking us and the people in the world are asking us Are you on the Lord side? See the people in the world they want to know is it anybody that's really living for God I met a I met a man the other day and he says I found out that all Christians and he said in all preachers a phony And I waited a while for I said anything and I let him talk and I let him talk and I said, you know Praise God I'm a preacher myself. I know what you mean See the world is counting on us To be what we say that we are I had a woman she used to give me a fit and I really wanted to jack her Because she used to mess with me all the time. I'm tell I wanted out Sister barbie I wanted to lay hands on her suddenly and repeatedly And she came up to me one day. She said, you know why I give you such a hard time and I thought I don't know And I really don't care She says I do it because I know that you saved and you're not going to beat me up After lord, you trust my holy ghost more than I do girl. You better back up for me. No, I didn't But the world wants to know are you on the Lord side and our words and our actions Our words and our actions What you say doesn't mean much if your actions contradict what you say Your words and your actions will let everybody know if you're really on the Lord side And so the choice to choose Jesus is as important today As it was in jesus day The people of jesus day they were giving a choice And they said Give us Barabbas my god And the choice is given to us today in many different ways and forms, but unfortunately there are many people that are still saying Give us Barabbas In other words, I'm in my sin. I'm happy in my sin and leave me alone He said give us Barabbas, but I choose jesus. I choose jesus. I don't know about you, but I choose jesus today. I love jesus today I'm counting on jesus today That's very father. We thank you for this time. We thank you for this time in the word Speak to our hearts Speak to our hearts And we'll give you the praise we'll give you the glory father help us to make wise decisions To live for you To choose you to walk with you and to live for you We'll give you the praise in jesus name amen amen amen the truth is that We need jesus We need jesus But jesus is such a gentleman that he will never force himself on you You have to choose To love jesus you have to choose to worship jesus You have to choose to live for jesus. Nobody can make that choice for you. You've got to choose it for yourself My mother couldn't do it. My father couldn't do it. My uncles couldn't do it But I made a choice to live for jesus And I did it for myself in first king's chapter 18 Elijah the man of god because of the sin of israel because of their idolatry He declared that there will be No rain There's going to be a drought And so now israel hasn't had rain in three years Says it wasn't even the dew in the morning In other words, it was dry It was dry And so god tells elijah now. I want you to go to that wicked king ahab now Many people scholars different ones Believe that king ahab was the worst king to rule in israel because he led the children of israel into the worship of bell Bell was an awful god He they even they even sacrificed their children in the fire to bell And king ahab said This is who we ought to serve But after a series of events it rained and and as a matter of fact it was a deluge it was a pouring down Of water if you've ever lived in the midwest and you know what real rain looks like See what what we call rain here back folk people call that sprinkling You see back there it can rain so hard you can almost put your hand in front of your face and not see your hand It was raining like that I found it interesting though that Ahab was so offended by what elijah did Because bell was a god of fertility. He was a god of rain and elijah. He shut bell down. He said there will be no rain See when you live for god, you can boldly declare that the enemy has to stop and stop right now In the name of jesus so for three years there was no rain, but now there is rain So the problem of rain is solved Interesting fact 70 percent of the world is covered by water We have five major oceans in the world all of them are comprised of salt water, which you cannot drink Many nations around the world are desperate for water in the u.s We have water plants with all kind of technology to purify water and yet we are still in a water shortage See we need the rain God sends the rain So as long as we live we're gonna need god See people think they don't need god, but you are fooling yourself if you think you're gonna live this life and not need god He doesn't have to do anything to all he has to do is stop giving you birth and see what happens Stop giving you life and see what happens We need god So the problem of rain is solved But there's even a larger problem a bigger problem a more gigantic problem There was a children of israel themselves Because why are the children of israel as a whole they believed in god? The problem was that many of them believed in god and bell See the god that we serve he's not a hybrid god There the the loyalty was divided between god and bell And bell was he represents a type of the world now the problem is for us today That some believers some saints believe in god and the horoscope god and sister Call me now on her hotline God in the terror god in the weegee board god in my money God in transcendental meditation and god in and god in and god in But luke says that no man No servant no individual can serve two masters Either you will hate the one And love the other But we have to decide do i choose jesus or do i choose the bell? We are jesus only people Not just in the godhead But we are jesus only people we exclusively serve jesus Not jesus and but jesus only If we serve him we'll find that he'll be everything That we need And he requires total allegiance to his followers turn to first kings chapter 18 first kings chapter 18 And we're going to look at this story a very familiar story you could probably Teach it or preach it to me But i believe this is what the lord is saying he wanted us to look at this today verse 21 and after it has rained then Elijah told them you gather the people verse 21 says And then Elijah came unto all the people and said How long haught ye between two opinions? If the lord be god follow him But if bell then follow him And the people answered him not A word have you ever noticed when people are acting crazy? And you call them on it? They don't have nothing to say They've been doing all this bad talking And all of a sudden they don't have anything to say So Elijah is calling israel to make a choice Make a decision Make up your mind What do you want to do how long will you be hard or how long will you be held frozen in between two opinions? Do i serve god? Or do i serve bell and we look at this story and we think how tragic but in our own life Sometimes we wrestle with Do i serve god? Or do i serve my own desires? Do i serve god? Or do i serve money? Have you ever have you ever had anybody tell you if you'll just tell this lie? You know i'll take care of you If you'll tell this lie i'll give you that promotion If you do what you what what i want you to do i'll give you this promotion i know my daughter She was on a job and she is Professional and her boss came and said we need you to tell her lie. She said i ain't telling a lie for you or nobody else And she's and i got a document it Right here when you on a job you better back up everything that you do See when you live for god, you don't have to lie. You don't have to see him You don't have to be afraid all you have to do is tell the truth So he says how long will you be suspended between Two opinions caught between two opinions. So let's look at verses 22 through 24. Let's read about the contest Denializes said unto the people I and I only remain a prophet of the lord, but bill's prophets are 450 men Let them therefore give us two bullocks and let them choose one bullock For themselves and cut it into pieces and lay it on the wood But put no fire under And i will dress the other bullock and lay it up on the wood and put no fire under They said and ye call on the name of your gods plural He says i will call on the name of the lord singular This is what i like he says and the gods That answers by fire Let him be god and all the people said well spoken well spoken So elijah said we're going to have a contest And the god that answers by fire We're going to worship him fire was a symbol of power And a symbol of might you don't want to serve a weak god, but you want to serve a god that answers by fire Because he's full he's full of power. He's full of authority. He's full of might That's all bill's prophets they cut up the bull They laid it on the altar with no fire under it And then they began to call on bill bill we need your bell come on down and do something for your bell We need you and they cried from the morning till noon But they got no answer They got no answer Said they started leaping up and down I believe they were turning flips They carried on so that they broke the altar Now if you come down through this altar and you start jumping up and down to break this altar You will have to pay for that or no We'll fix it. We'll fix it in jesus name But they got so carried away that they were screaming and yelling and hollering and they broke down the altar and still No answer Now he lied just clowning them. He says maybe He's on the phone Or maybe he took a road trip and he's not back yet Or perhaps maybe he's sleeping. You need to call a little bit louder and wake him up So they're crying bell Get up If you sleep wake up Talk to us Said they began cutting themselves He said and they cut themselves to the blood gusto Sounds like a rave doesn't it? When they do crazy stuff Stuff that doesn't make any sense And see they don't realize it, but they're doing that unto satan You need to know who you're serving see sometimes young people you do so it just sounds good and it seemed like fun You need to know that's of the devil But young folks don't don't feel bad because us old folks we do the same thing We do justice bad Sometimes worse because we got money Y'all ain't got no money. Y'all can't do much but we can get crazy And so they're jumping up and down and they Break down And so now he lies just clowning them And they kept on calling bell and they Cut themselves and they kept on and on and on and it was a sad display Of futility Because after all that they did There still was no answer from bell And they did it from morning to noon To the evening time And they still Got no answer From bell See we can be worshiping things like houses and land and stuff The problem is when we do that we come up empty See we thought it was going to make us feel Invincible we thought it was going to do everything to make us happy And we got it and we thought Is it all that there is And so they got no answer from bell And now as he lies us turn I like that he lies us turning he regathers the people together and he repairs the altar He gets 12 stones which represents the 12 tribes of Israel. He puts it around the altar It said and then he dug a trench That's odd. Why are you digging a trench? We can't figure out What you are doing But when you get a word from the lord See sometimes when god tells you to do something it may not make sense to man If it may not even make sense to you, but you just believe god and trust god and do what he tells you to do He's going to work out just fine So he digs a trench And then he cuts his bull into pieces He lays it on the altar Again No fire And then he gets cemented. He says go get me four barrels of water Not a cup full Not a bucket full But four barrels of water And poured on the sacrifice And they did it three times So they went and got 12 barrels of water And they poured it On the sacrifice The sacrifice was soaked The altar was soaked The ground was soaked The trench was full of water This is what I like Verse 36 says and it came to pass At the time of the offering in the evening sacrifice That Elijah the prophet He came near And he said now remember that Bell's prophets have been calling on bell And praying to bell all day long They've been jumping and shouting and cutting and bleeding all day long And Elijah prays a prayer that is 63 words long That's all it was he said Lord God of Abraham Isaac and Israel that was Jacob Let it be known to you this day that thou art God in Israel and that I am your servant and I have done these things at thy word He says hear me. Oh lord That the people may know that thou art the lord god And that thou has turned their hearts back to them and this is what I like up He said and then the fire hallelujah and then the fire of the lord fell down It consumed the sacrifice consumed the burnt offering consumed the wood consumed the stones It consumed the dust and it is soaked up all the water that was in the trench God the true god the living god he answers by fire I like that And we serve We serve you and I serve The god that answers by fire It said and when the day appeared your calls have fully come They went and won a court and in one place and suddenly there came a sound from heaven as a russian russian mining wind Say in the field the house Where they were sitting Is it and they appeared after them tongues just like what? Like what fire Say fire Fire and it said on them and they were filled with the holy ghost and began to speak in tongues As the spirit gave them entrance The fire Someone said and I spoke in other tongues When the fire fell when the fire fell when the fire fell I spoke in other tongues When the fire fell when the lord he baptized me We serve the god that answers by fire. We serve jesus christ. He's king of kings and lord of lords He's a captain of the lords hosts He's a great. I am him the everlasting father The prince of peace But you've got to choose Today choose to serve him It's your choice I choose jesus, huh? I choose jesus. Do you choose jesus today? Does anybody choose jesus today? See I'd rather have jesus That silver or gold I'd rather have jesus more than riches untold I'd rather have jesus more than houses or land. I'd rather be led By his nail scored hands Than to be a king of a vast domain Than to be held in sins Dread sway I'd rather Have jesus more than anything That this world Can afford today And make that your testimony That I choose jesus that I love jesus that I lived for jesus. I choose jesus He's my savior. He's my redeemer. I love him today Do you choose jesus today? Do you love jesus today? I choose jesus over money. I choose jesus over men. I choose jesus over women I choose jesus over the lifestyle of the rich and famous I choose jesus over cars and trucks and houses and land and jewelry and stuff Young people I choose jesus old people I choose jesus I choose jesus for mine I made him my choice This morning. I want to know who's on the lord side today Is anybody in this room on the lord side today? If you love him, let me hear you shout glory Say glory Tell somebody I made jesus my choice See I made up my mind Even though the world is seeking everything and choosing everything but jesus I choose jesus I love jesus I live for jesus I serve jesus him. He's my deliverer. He's my counselor. He's my joy. He's my peace if you will choose jesus. Thank you He will bless you If you choose jesus He will bring you out If you choose jesus not only will he'll bless you, but he will bless your children And your children's children And their children he will save your children. He will save your grandchildren. He will save their children See my grandmother and grandfather they chose jesus And then what they did they gave jesus To the next generation And that generation they gave jesus to us See I was blessed on both sides of my family. They chose jesus See my grandmother on on the other side She was a mighty woman of god But the fact that she made jesus her choice We think if I can just get more education If I can just get a better job I'll be doing all right, but the truth is Once you choose jesus Your life will be blessed and you will never ever be the same Satan may try to attack you Satan may try to stop you But you have to tell Satan Satan I've chose jesus and greater is he that's in me Than he that's in the world a more than a conqueror. I'm an overcomer. I've been delivered because I chose jesus I live for jesus I trust jesus He's a waymaker He's a miracle worker He's a promise keeper The bible said god is not a man that he should lie if he said it He's going to do it if he makes you a promise. He's going to bring it to pass. He's a promise keeper See, I know some people that made a promise to me either they couldn't keep it or they wouldn't keep it But god's a promise keeper He's light in the darkness And he is my god He belongs to me And he is your god. Hey, hey Shandabah, hey if you've chosen him he is your god He says and I will never leave you and I won't forsake you I don't care what the enemy tries to do if you belong to me. I'll bring you out with victory Someone said he's everything He's everything to me My mother my father my sister my brother my provider my protector my strength my joy my song He's light in the darkness when I don't know what to do. He gives me wisdom When the enemy attacks, he said the spirit of the lord will raise up a standard against it Because I belong to him and when you belong to Jesus, he will keep you. He will take care of you He will provide for you. He will cause you to prosper when everybody else is going down But you got to choose him You got to choose him You got to choose him over sin You got to choose him over all the stuff that the world is trying to put in front of you My sister Merlin said you've got to choose him over yourself Because myself can get crazy sometimes Lord deliver me from myself. They said we have discovered the enemy and we found out that the enemy was me myself But when I get my life to Jesus He will make me steadfast unmovable Always abounding always prosperous always growing always moving always going to the next level He said he will take you from glory to glory from strength to strength But you've got to choose god. You've got to make him your choice. You've got to say i'm on the lord side I don't care what it looks like. I don't care what it feels like. I don't care what i'm going through I'm on the lord side And he will bring me out See I believe that living for god is right I believe that serving god is right I believe that living holy every day before god is right him and if i'll do what he told me to do He'll bless me. He'll deliver me. He'll bring me out. He'll heal me. He'll make way to me That's why I made him my choice And I like what the old saint said I made Jesus my choice and he Walks with me And he talks with me And he tells me That I am his own And the joy That we share The peace That we share The love That we share Says none other He's talking about nobody out in the world They don't understand See the world looks at us and they don't understand how when everything seems to be going wrong, we have peace When everything seems to be falling apart. We're walking around with a smile on their face But see what they don't know is that we belong to god and I made Jesus my choice And because I made him my choice. He made me his choice And he Loves me If you want joy him choose jesus if if you want peace him choose jesus if you want deliverance Choose jesus if you want to be blessed choose jesus if you want your family and your children to be blessed Choose jesus If you want to have Everlasting life Choose jesus If you want to walk the streets of gold Choose jesus If you want to have victory in your life Choose jesus If you want your children to be blessed Choose jesus if you want to walk up a ride you choose jesus And he'll turn you around He'll turn situations around when you don't know what to do He'll turn it around when you don't have peace he'll turn it around when you don't have joy He'll turn it around when your children acting crazy. He'll turn it around Even if your dog is acting crazy. He'll turn it around Won't he do it? Yes, he will He is concerned He said cast all of your cares On me Because I care for you And I am begging you today If you're not saved Choose jesus It'll be the best decision that you've ever made If you're saved Keep on choosing jesus Because he will take you places That you never dreamed that you would go He'll take you before a great man And they'll want to know your story how what brought you to this place And give them jesus See sometimes I I I I listen to people and they say, you know, it's something different about you I can't put my finger on it. What is it? And I told them I chose jesus. Hey I was a mess. I was tore up from the floor and if you didn't see me you wouldn't believe that it was me But I chose jesus and when I chose jesus everything Turned around it wasn't overnight But it turned around Choose jesus Choose jesus Sing into jesus Forever you're my king Say it again I I love Forever with all my heart With all My I Forever For your Your mercy Your mercy Your mercy Forever Shall follow me Shall follow Lord your mercy your mercy Your For forever you're my king Tell them all the glory all the glory and the honor All and the honor And Forever And right now I want to invite you to the altar If he if you haven't made jesus your king If you haven't chosen him And say lord, I surrender All that I am I surrender it to you And I choose you over everything in this life And I want you to forever be my king Is there one All right Next thing I want those of us that remain This is a time of rededication Because when I get through I'm going to come down and stand before that altar and rededicate myself to jesus But I'm going to ask you to come to the altar And say lord, I choose you again If I've said anything Or done anything Or put anything before you I repent And I'm sorry And I choose you today And I want you to forever Be my king I love you today I'm going to give you a couple minutes to come down. I believe god is speaking to your heart Said I love you. I love you. I love you I love Forever For Do you love him with all of your heart with all my heart? with all my I love you. I love you. I love you I love you Forever Forever, you're my king Forever You're my king. Come on. I tell him you're my shelter in the time of storm my shelter Myself Forever For times of storm It's But come and rededicate yourself rededicate your life give it to jesus My shelter forever Forever, you're my king First lady first lady Will you come and pray for us for everybody amen. Thank you lord This time thank you jesus thank you jesus Everybody everybody look in here The lord wants to heal The lord wants to strengthen The lord wants to do a mighty work In this body and what we're doing today After we've heard this great message Let's all choose him again Are you willing to choose him again? Has he ever failed you? Has he ever done anything? Wrong to you So you need to choose him you need to choose him today I'll take jesus for mine I'll take jesus for mine. None of the other false gods will do They don't have the power. So now we're gonna ask as the first lady to take us before the throne of grace Father in the name of jesus Oh god We come to you lord god With umber hearts We come to you lord god We know that you are our supreme god. Yes. We come to you No lord god. There is no other god beside you You are the only true The only living god Oh god, we come to you lord god Knowing that you able to solve all our problems We come to you lord god because you are our deliverer You are our savior. You are our redeemer lord god We come to you lord god. We ask you to touch each and every one of us lord god Oh god, we ask you lord god. Is there anything in our lives? That's not a name of jesus lord god in the name of jesus In a clean heart Help us lord god To do your will lord god Help us lord god to humble ourselves before you lord god. Help us all i got to choose you Lord god, we know lord kingdom of god And your righteousness and everything else will be added lord god. We thank you. We praise you lord god We glorify you god. We give you the glory god Wonderful god God is the savior You are the great i am hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah And we worship you lord god We worship with our whole heart, mind, body and soul We thank you and we praise you lord in the name of jesus hallelujah We give you honor lord god in jesus name. We pray amen Amen hallelujah Give him glory Put your hands together Thank you jesus hallelujah You are the great old god hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah You may return to your seats ask what time is it? It's time to give unto the lord Amen, amen. Thank the lord for the wonderful message That we received on this morning Thank god for his presence that is clearly in the house Now at offering time Perhaps you're asking how much should i give And when you have a question in your mind How much should you give i want to introduce perhaps a word to some Some of you who may not understand the definition of this word, you know what? reciprocal is reciprocal And i'm a carpenter by trade We have a call We have a saw that's called a reciprocal saw And it has a motor here with a handle And it has a blade that goes out And it comes back And so it's called a reciprocal saw because it goes Go out and comes back out and comes back out and comes back Well In the book of luke chapter six jesus is talking about The reciprocal lifestyle And when he gets down to Uh a verse here that i want to point out to you It said Jesus says Judge not And you shall not be judged out and back Condemn not and you shall not be condemned Then he said forgive And you shall be Forgiven So out and back Then he said give And it shall be Given out and back So Given it shall be given unto you And he says good measure Press down Shaking together and running over shall men give into your bosom He said now you give in the offering And he says I'm not going to wait To compensate you he said men are going to give Into your bosom Somebody on this earth is going to give into you when you get the right spirit about giving unto the lord Or such with the same measure that you meet with all It shall be measured To you it's gonna whatever you put out Is coming right back put it out coming right back put it out coming right back So now what i'll say to you when When the devil Begins to talk to your mind about how much to give You just remember how much you want to receive Come on somebody See give and it shall be given Now I didn't say that that's not my word That's Jesus christ the righteous Your heavenly father he said you give And then It's gonna come right back to you And can it can anybody receive that? Come on You you you'll do well if you receive that See first the kingdom of god And his righteous And he said all things Will come back all the stuff you need all the things Will come back into you So I want to encourage you now you probably made your You're offering out already But if if you didn't do it Didn't up it a little bit or something this time. Maybe you will next time I just want you to have the understanding Of reciprocation Out and back out and back Let us stand and hold your offering up to the lord Father in the name of jesus we come And we thank you oh god for your loving kindness unto us Lord we thank you for understanding this understanding that you've given to us on this day reciprocal giving Lord we thank you because you've always made a way You've opened doors at every opportunity for us and we magnify you and we praise you And we thank you for the the kindness that you have towards us We thank you for the many things that you're doing and the things that you're going to do in our lives And so lord we come before you we offer unto you our sacrifice In jesus name we ask you to receive it. Oh god as it comes from our heart In jesus name we pray amen and amen. You may come with your offering You're all supposed to let me give births. You're all supposed to let me give first Glory Just before we dismiss like to Recognize our visitors. We have any visitors to stand any visitors first-time visitors God bless you Amen All right, sorry All right, god bless you We're glad to have you with us We want you. All right. All right. Amen. God bless you Just want to praise it. Let's go here Come on. Yeah, I just want to praise you forever You for everything bless your lord bless the offering Hallelujah. Thank you god. Hallelujah fellowship amongst each other and watch each other grow Hallelujah. We thank you for our leaders. Thank you for this beautiful house that you've given us god Everybody bless everybody that gave and help them To be able to reciprocate hallelujah Because we know that you're reciprocating god in jesus name. We pray amen. Amen. Amen I'm I'm determined. Come on hallelujah Hallelujah. Come on. We're gonna get out of here. God bless you all. We'll see you next week. Hallelujah. Thank you so much I know you were blessed today. Hallelujah. So sing this with us too. I'm determined hallelujah. Let's stay with jesus hallelujah