 praise the lord hallelujah good morning hallelujah this is the day the lord has made come on in and let's rejoice and be glad in it hallelujah thank you hallelujah thank the lord for a new day bless you lord Jesus and forth is the sunshine after the darkest night coming through the shadows the bursting of new sight waking up from the dawning with the hope of life standing clear is the vision the new day a great day a new day of the lord hallelujah hallelujah this is the day that the lord has made we will we will rejoice and come to you this morning lord god in the name with Jesus lord god we come lord god thanking you lord god for this new day lord god for another for you lord god with thanksgiving and praises lord god we come this morning lord god to magnify your day lord god we come this morning lord god to lift your name on high, Lord God. For your name, Lord God. It's high, Lord God. And highly lifted up, Lord God. In all New York, Lord God. Lord, we come this morning thanking you for your mercy, Lord God. Thank you for your grace, Lord God. Thank you for your loving kindness, Lord God. And your 10 to 11 mercy, Lord God. Lord, we need you this morning, Lord God. We need you, Lord God. We need a word from you this morning, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. They we, Lord God. As your people, Lord God. Me, endure, Lord God. Until the end, Lord God. We thank you this morning, Lord God. For your protecting, Lord God. And you keep it power, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. We look to the hills. From west comes our help, Lord God. We know, Lord God. That our help, Lord God. Coming from you, Lord God. The one, Lord God. Who made heaven and earth, in the name of Jesus, Lord God. That you would annoy, Lord God. Every portion, Lord God. Of this service, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Anoint the praise, Lord God. As we come forth, Lord God. With the sons of Zion, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Receive our praise, Lord God. Receive it in Jesus' name, Lord God. Hallelujah, Lord God. You said that you do well, Lord God. In the midst, Lord God. We ask you this morning, Lord God. That you to continue to anoint the musicians, Lord God. That they play skillfully before you, Lord God. Anointing, Lord God. Of the Holy Ghost, Lord God. As your messenger come forth this morning, Lord God. With your unadulterated word, Lord God. We ask you, Lord God. That you will feed us, Lord God. Feed us this morning, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Feed our spirit, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Help us this morning, Lord God. Deliver holy and a righteous life before you, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Remember those, Lord God. Those that are lost, Lord God. Those that don't have a personal relationship with you, Lord God. We ask you this morning, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. That you withdraw them, Lord God. Draw them until you, Lord God. Save them, Lord God. Bring them out of that world of darkness, Lord God. Into this marvelous light, Lord God. In Jesus' name, Lord God. Save them, Lord God. Save such, Lord God. It should be saved this morning, Lord God. In Jesus' name, Lord God. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. Amen. This morning we'll be reading from Proverbs 3, 1 through 6. Say amen when you have it. Forget not my law, commandments. For length of days and long life and peace shall they add to thee. Let not mercy and truth for safety. Bind them about thy neck. Write them upon the table of thine heart. So shall thou find favor and good understanding in the site of God in man. Trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not unto thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path. Amen. May God add a blessing to the reading of his word. Hallelujah. We're trusting in the Lord this morning. Hallelujah. We're not leaning to our own understanding. We welcome the spirit of God in this place today. Hallelujah. He's already here. Thank you Lord because this is a new day and a great day and it is the day of the Lord. We are in your presence. Fill us with your power. Word of inside of me. Fill us with your power. You're the living one. Fill us with your power. Fill us with your power. You got breath in your body today. Give God some praise. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. But we want to take it to a higher level. We say let the glory monster. Amen. To the Lord. To with joy he's strengthening you. He's strengthening us. Hallelujah. I thank God for his wonderful wonderful power. At this time we'll have minister Marilyn Alexander come with us solo this morning. Worship. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. To the God that we serve. To the God who gave his life for us. Hallelujah. To the God who always causes us to triumph. To the God who all the victory always causes to work together for our good. I know each and every one of us have a time when our backs have been up against the wall. And all to stand to trust in was the Lord. Hallelujah. Yeah. Hallelujah. Try it. He was the one the Lord made away. Hallelujah. Where there was the Lord. And for that today we give him glory. We give him honor. And we praise his name. Bless you Jesus. And our backs were against the wall. And it looked as if it was old. And we'll stand backs were against the wall. And we're standing here. And we have the victory. Yes. Only because you may one more time. You Jesus. And we're standing here. And we're standing. And we're standing here. Yes. The enemy thought he had us. The enemy thought he was going to destroy us. But we're standing here. Only because he made. He made away. Someone said he made away out of no way. Yes, yes, yes. He's good at doing that. He opened a door where there is no door. He'll bring a parachute when you have to jump out the plane. But we're standing here. Not because of our own intelligence. Not because we were so smart. Not because we had it all figured out. Amen. But we're standing here. Only because Jesus made away. Go ahead and give God some praise. Standing here. Ha. I like that. We give honor to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To our bishop and to our fabulous First Lady. We miss you. We love you. Amen. To all the ministers and saints and the friends we say praise the Lord. We're living in difficult times and it seems like things are getting worse. But I'm here to tell you today that we have the victory. Hallelujah. This is a good place to give God some praise. We have the victory. I don't care what it looks like. I don't care what it feels like. I don't care what that's saying. We have the victory. Ha. The enemy will try to tell you you can't make it. He'll try to tell you you can't survive this. He'll try to tell you why don't you just give up and quit. But I'm here today to tell you that we have the victory. Somebody said don't wait till the battle is over. Shout now. Praise now. Dance now. Give God some glory now. Someone says you ought to give God some praise. He said praise him in advance. I like that the Bible said that the just shall live by faith. God promised Abraham a son and Abraham was 99 and his wife was 90 years old Bishop. That is an impossible challenge. As I read that I wonder if that's where they got the name for that movie Mission Impossible because this was impol- I'm not saying they did. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. But the Bible said that Abraham was not weak in faith. He considered not his own body that was dead and it wasn't function. Neither did he consider the deadness of Jesus' womb. But I like that the Bible said that Abraham staggered not. He staggered not at the promises of God. We can stand on the word of God. We can stand on the promises of God. He's a faithful God. But this is what I like to say. He was strong in faith. Giving glory to God. Praising God for what God was going to do. See that's faith. When you praise God for the answer in advance I don't know how he's going to do it. But I'm standing here because I believe he's going to make a way. That's faith. The word that the Lord gave me for today was be strong and courageous. Say. Be strong and courageous. Be strong through the midst of your test and your trials. Be strong in your challenges. Be strong when you're tired. Just be strong and courageous. Let's pray. Father we thank you for this day. We thank you for your presence already in the room. We thank you for the worship that has blessed us and we believe that it blessed you. Be glorified. Speak to us. Today we'll give you the praise. We'll give you the glory. In Jesus name. In Jesus name. Be strong and courageous. Be strong and courageous. Hallelujah. Turning in your Bible to Joshua chapter one verse nine. Strong and courageous. It says have not I commanded thee? Be strong enough of good courage. Be not afraid. Neither be thou dismayed. For the Lord thy God is with thee whether, so ever thou goest. I like that. Strong and courageous. Strong and courageous. I like that word courageous. It means to be fearless, to be bold, to have a lion's heart. I like that. That kind of sounds like I bishop. Have a lion's heart. We'll call him bishop lion heart. He's strong and he is a courageous man of God. But in the world that we live in today, with all of the challenges, all of the struggles, all of the sickness, all of the illness. We need to be strong and courageous. See, bishop told us God don't want no cowers in his army. Didn't you say that bishop? He don't want no cowers soldiers. But God is saying to us today, I want you to be stronger and courageous. I know the battle is tough. I know the battle is real. I know the struggle is real. But you'll be strong and courageous. Trust me. I will see you through. In Joshua chapter one, verse one and two says, now after the death of Moses, the servant of the Lord, it came to pass that the Lord spoke unto Joshua the son of none. Moses's minister saying, Moses, my servant is dead. Now, if this were the book of Kevin chapter one, verse two, it would begin like this. Arling McClure, Alexander senior, my servant is dead. And Jacob, Colonel Ross, my servant is dead. Morris E. Golder, my servant, he's dead too. And James A. Johnson, he, you know, he told marvelous stories. But he's dead. Robert William McMurray, a man of the people. He was my servant and he's dead. See, these were the spiritual generals that Bishop and I looked up to all the days that we've lived. We had confidence in. We had our trust in these men. We watched him do great things in life and great things in the kingdom of God. As a matter of fact, we measured ourself by them and our strength by them. And it always seems that they were just a little bit better and a little bit stronger. It says, but now they are gone. And I thought that's how Joshua must have felt when Moses died. See, Moses was a hard act to follow. After all, Moses he divided the Red Sea with a stick. Who does that? So Moses is dead and this is not an uncommon occurrence. Isaiah said, in the year that King Uzziah died I saw the Lord saying that he was high and lifted up in his train or his glory or his magnificence. It filled the temple. So you have to understand King Uzziah that was Isaiah's his hero, his mentor, his leader and now he is dead. But back in Joshua it said, Moses my servant is dead. And by him saying that God established his three things Moses for his day and for his time was a servant of God. No question about it. No mistake about it. But second thing was Moses is dead. And the third thing was he's not coming back so it's time to move on. See, sometimes we don't know when it's time to let go and get over it and move on. But he said, Moses, my servant is dead. New day. New day. Verse two through four says Moses, my servant is dead. Now therefore arise, go over this Jordan and all these people come to the land which I do give them even the children of Israel. So it's every place that the soul of the feet shall trial upon that have I given unto you as I said unto Moses. Verse four. It says from the wilderness of this Lebanon even to the great rivers the river Ephraim and all of the land of the Hittites unto the great sheeps towards the going down of the sun shall be your coast. So God establishes two things. He says he gave Joshua his new assignment. You're replacing Moses as the leader of my people. Now that's big shoes to feel or should I say big sandals to feel and then God gives Joshua the perimeters of the promised land or the perimeters of the blessing. And in verse five God gives Joshua a three-part blessing. Let's read verse five. He said, Now there shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life as I was with Moses so I will be with thee. I will not fail thee nor forsake thee. So he said no man is going to be able to stand before you and stop you from doing the assignment that I gave you to do. Secondly as I was with Moses I'm going to be with you. And then he says I will not fail you. Now if I said I won't fail you you might say well that's just wrong but if God says I will not fail you this is God this is Elohim this is the Creator of the universe this is the God of God and King of kings said I will not fail you that's a promise you can stand on. He said I won't forsake you I'm not going to leave you in the middle of a fight. I don't know about you but I've been in the middle of fighting some of them I turned around and some of my friends that said they had got my back they were gone way back way back I got, I was more mad at them than I was getting beat up but this three port promise you can take this and make this a promise to you God spoke it to Joshua but he is speaking it to you today say that no man is going to be able to stop you from doing what I told you to do if God said you can do it you can do it if God said you can have it you can have it if God said you can make it you can make it nobody can stop you and he said as I was with Moses as I was with Alexander as I was with Golda as I was with Joshua as I was with Johnson as I was with Ernest Alexander I'm going to be with you I'm not going to leave you I'm not going to forsake you that's a promise to Joshua but that's a promise to you say he belongs to me make it your own make it your own make it your own take it your own and here it is here it is this is where we want to go verse 6 I'm going to start in verse 5 the end of verse 5 says I will be with you I will not fail you and I won't forsake you then he says be strong and have a good courage for unto this people shall thou divide the inheritance of land which I swore to give unto you so God is saying in verse 5 he's given the promise I'm going to give you this I'm going to give you that I'm going to give you that and then immediately in verse 6 he said be strong and courageous be strong enough good courage be strong and fearless be strong and go possess the land why would God say that I'm glad you asked God knew there's going to be an enemy the Canaanites that were trying to stand between the children of God and the promise ha ha ha and in your life and in my life there is an enemy the devil who will try to stand between you and me and the promises of God but you've got to be bold and take the promises of God and say everything I said I can have I can have it everything I said I can do I can do it I'm bold I'm courageous I'm fearless verse 7 says whatever you do be strong and courageous verse 9 says have not I commanded you be strong and have a good courage be strong and courageous what about when it's too hard be strong what about when I'm tired be strong what about when the enemy is too great be strong and courageous for the Lord thy God is with thee and if God is with you the enemy is defeated if God is with you you've got the victory see this is the word that God has given to us today be strong and courageous when the enemy attacks be strong and courageous when the enemy tries to stop you be strong and courageous when the enemy tries to block you be strong and courageous see when he attacks you've got to get in the mirror tell yourself see I'm strong I'm courageous I'm fearless you might have to tell that two or three times I'm strong I'm courageous I'm fearless said I'm strong say it like him I'm strong I'm courageous I'm fearless huh the Bible said the righteous or as strong as a lion do I have any lions in the house today do I have any lions in the house today let me hear you roar roar some lions in the house today I like that the Bible said greater is he that's in you and you and you and me than he that's in the world the Bible said it's not by power it's not by might but by my spirit says the Lord okay it acts and says and after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you you shall have power say power power power power to walk right power to talk right power to live right the Holy Ghost power if you got that power clap your hands and give God some praise power power power tell somebody I'm Holy Ghost strong I'm strong and courageous I'm one bad man I'm a jammer for Jesus I don't take no stuff from your mama or the devil I didn't mean to talk about your mama I take that back from your mother or the devil let's get it straight I'm strong and courageous when I feel like it. I'm strong and courageous when I don't feel like it. Even when I feel weak, the Bible said, let the weak, shame, I'm strong. I declare my victory, I prophesy my overcoming. I'm strong in Jesus' name. See, I'm strong and courageous when it looks like it and I'm strong and courageous when I don't look like it. I can do all things through Christ. You can do all things through Christ. He strengthens you, He enables you. He empowers you to go over the top. Let me amonish you today. If you're going through a test, if you're going through a trial, if you need victory in your life, just be strong and courageous. Don't worry about it. Don't trip about it. Just be strong and courageous. Yes, there gonna be battles. Yes, there gonna be fights. But don't you worry about it. Don't trip about it. Don't be afraid. Don't throw in the top. Just be strong in the Lord. Be strong in Him because the Lord that God is with thee. Whether so ever thou go, because great is He that is in you. That He that is in the world. Rejoice because no weapon, no weapon, no weapon that's falling against you. Show prosper, tell somebody it won't work. It won't work. The enemy may try to stop you but it won't work. He may try to destroy you but it won't work. You may lose a battle here and there but you're not gonna lose the war. See I looked in the back of the book and guess what, we win. Hey, I don't care what it looks like, we win. I don't care what the struggle is, we win. We're bold, we're courageous, we're fearless. In Jesus name. See you have overcome and I have overcome and we have overcome by the blood of the Lamb in the word of our testimony. We just have to be strong, hallelujah. Be strong, tell somebody. Be stronger, be strong and courageous. Never surrender, never retreat, never give up. Just fight, fight the enemy. He's already defeated. You fight for your victory. You fight for your breakthrough. You fight for your healing. You fight for your joy. You fight for your family. See I declare I'm strong and I am courageous. I declare that I'm strong in the Lord and the power of His might and I put on the whole armor. See I came to fight. I ain't no punk, I didn't come to roll over. If you want what I got you gonna have to fight. You gonna have to take it from me and if it's mine, I ain't giving it to you. We gonna fight. See I'm bold and courageous in God. As I was studying for this, this week, guess what? It seemed like everything that could go wrong went wrong. I said devil, I know I'm on the right track cause you wouldn't fight me like this. So I'm gonna be bold and courageous. I'm gonna fight you. I'm gonna rejoice in every battle I won, every struggle I won, every problem I had to go with cause I was bold and courageous. To declare I'm an overcomer in Jesus Christ. See I declare that I'm more than a conqueror. To him and he loved me. I declare that God is on my side. I declare that he gives me the victory. I declare I can do all things through Christ. He strengthens me. I declare that no weapon that's formed against me is gonna prosper. The Lord that God is with me, whether so wherever I go. See I discovered Jesus, having Jesus is like having American Express. I don't leave home without him. I don't go no place without him. When I get up, he gives up. When I move, he moves. I like it like that. I said, come on Jesus, we going in there. I might have to get a little crazy so you might have to back me up. Cause I'm bold and courageous like that. It reminds me of my father. My father was a little man. My father wasn't scared of nobody. I saw my father walk up on some men. I said, oh Lord, I told my brother, look like we going to have to fight today. He was bold and he was courageous. He had the spirit of David. He believed I can do all things through Christ. He believed I can do the impossible. My father brought a school building. Who does that? We like, well, what you going through with a school? He said, I don't know, but I'm buying it anyway. See, when you believe God, the impossible becomes possible. What couldn't happen can happen. Said, if God is for you, then what enemy can be against you. If God is for you, you may have a struggle, but victory is on the way, hallelujah. But you've got to be bold. You've got to be courageous. You've got to be fearless. You've got to trust in the Lord with all of your might. You've got to know he's in control. He's in control. Bishop, I made up my mind. I'm going to quit quitting. I'm going to stop stopping. I'm going to walk the walk of faith. I'm going to be bold and courageous. I'm going to declare the word of God. I'm going to stand on the word of God. I'm going to see what God is going to do because I'm in it to win it. I'm not in it to lose. I'm in it to win it. And if God is for me, if God is with me, he says, I'm not going to leave you. I'm not going to forsake you. I won't fail you, period. So I'm going to stand on the word of God. What has God said? I'm going to pray my way through. I'm going to praise my way through him. I'm going to be bold and courageous. Tell somebody I'm going to be bold and courageous. Do I have any lines out here? Let me hear you roar. Be bold, be strong and courageous. For the Lord your God, the king of kings, Elohim, he who spoke into nothing and made everything, he says, I will not fail you. Neither will I forsake you, but just be strong and courageous. Be strong, God bless you. What a wonderful word from the Lord. Come on, say amen to the word that God has sent us. We now understand without a doubt that victory is possible. Victory is possible because of the promises that God has made for us. I love, I love, I love this message. Elder Ross, magnificent message. Lord said that wherever we put our feet, it belongs to us. We're victorious in every place we go. Then he said, I like in verse number six, Elder Ross, we're instructed to be strong. And again, in verse nine, as you pointed out, he said, haven't I said to you, be strong? He says, you got it made. If you'll listen to me. I said, be strong. The answer to your problem is be strong. And what I got out of this Elder Ross's victory comes through commitment to do what God said. Come on, somebody. I'm committed. I'm determined. I'm gonna be strong. Whatever comes, whatever goes, I'm gonna be strong. I'm not backing up. I'm gonna be strong. And now that's the way we deal with our sin problem. Come on, somebody. Come on, somebody. That the Lord called us to holiness. He called us out of darkness into a marvelous light. And he said, walk with me. He said, do my will. He said, I'll give you the desires of your heart and I'll give you everlasting life in the kingdom with me. If you'll commit to be strong. Be strong. Hallelujah, hallelujah, wonderful Savior. A wonderful keeper. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for the victory. Got the victory. Don't know the Lord if you don't know the Lord. You need to come to him right now. Right now. In the days and the times that we live, things are untenable. We can't make it. We can't do and need a Savior, first of all, to bring us out of darkness, to help us, to lead us to the light so that we can make a commitment to him. He said, if you commit to me, he said, you got it made. It's all taken care of. Hallelujah. So I invite you, if you've not been baptized in water in Jesus' name, for the remission of your sins, and you've not had the experience of speaking in tongues as the Spirit of God gives utterance, I invite you to come on down to 4934. Long Beach Boulevard in the city of Long Beach, California 90805, right there by Del Amo and Long Beach Boulevard. Come on somebody. You need to come on over. Where the table is spread. Where the feast of the Lord is going on. Hallelujah. Come on, be fed. Be fed. Be nourished in the word. The Lord loves you. He's not willing that any should perish. So what's our song? You. He's not willing that any man should want you to let him come into your life. So you can go forward. You can go towards God. See, we live in a world that is untoward God. Towards God, as opposed to untoward God, is the direction. So we invite you. Hear the voice of Jesus. Let Him lead you. Let Him guide you. He's promised wonderful, great things. He's a great and mighty God. He's the lover of my soul. And I find no fault. No fault in Him at all. He's perfect in every way. At this time, we're going to receive our offering. Come on, minister Marilyn. Thank the Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. Oh, how God must love us. He wants to encourage us to be strong and courageous. God knows there's need for it. There's need for strength in these last and evil days. There's need for courage to stand for righteousness. Hallelujah. Folks don't want to stand for righteousness these days. But it takes courage, hallelujah, to stand on the word of God. Hallelujah. Let's give the Lord another. Hand praise for that beautiful, beautiful message. Amen, amen. If you have your offerings prepared, amen, you may come on with it. Come on down, amen, and be a blessing to the body of Christ. Be a blessing to the body of Christ here at Shield of Faith Long Beach. You may give by givelify. Shield of Faith Long Beach, amen. And you may mail it if you're so inclined to use a stamp. And mail it to 4934 Long Beach Boulevard, Long Beach, California, 90805. Amen. Amen, amen. Wonderful God. Wonderful Savior. He's a great provider. He gives, hallelujah, to those, amen, who have a willing heart to give to the kingdom of God. Amen, amen, amen. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Bless your name. Bless your name. Are we all given? Did we all give? Amen. Let's bless the offering. Father, we thank you for all that you have done today. God, we thank you how you have provided. Hallelujah, sumptuous meal. Hallelujah, for your people. We thank you, oh God. Hallelujah, for counting us worthy. Hallelujah, to speak your name, cleansing us, and redeeming us. God, filling us with your holy ghost, giving us a mind to work in your kingdom. God, now bless the offering, bless the giver, and even bless those who had not to give God. We thank you that you're going to cause them to be a blessing. Press it down, shake it together, and run it over. Father, we thank you for it. We give your name praise, and we give you glory. Let it be meat for this house, oh God, and stretch it that all things might be taken care of. Father, we thank you in Jesus' name. Amen, amen, amen, amen. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Well, we're committed, and we're determined. Hallelujah, to walk with the Lord, hallelujah, to be strong and courageous, and stay right here, and see what the end is gonna be. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. I'm determined, oh Lord, Jesus, yes I am, oh Jesus, yes I am. Be strong in the Lord. Amen.