 Why it helps them like that, but God is in control. And when God in control, Janet Jackson is not in control. But God is in control. In the vision of Psalms 34, the first verse, somebody can read it for me, please. I got a cataract, and I get it taken out the end of the month. The first verse in the 19 verse, I can see it, but it's a little cloudy. I will bless the Lord at all times. His praises should continue to be in my mouth, the 19 verse. Many are the afflicted of the righteous, but the Lord delivered them out of them all. I would like to enhance your spirit this morning to uplift your mind and encourage your heart. I've been through many things, but I still got to praise. I've been through many things, but I still got to praise. Not only I have been through many things in my life, I was in the hospital for 10 days, bladder problems, kidney problems, high blood pressure problems, on top of problems divided by problems, economic problems. But in the midst of what I've been through, I still got a praise to God. Not only I've been through something, but you've been through something. How many here have been through something this week? How many been through something last month? How many been through something last year? How many still going through things this year? But you can make it up in your mind. I can do all things through Christ with strength in me. You must realize that without a test, there's no testimony. Your testimony is not to put yourself on a high pedestal, but your testimony is to edify somebody that's going through the same thing that you went through. When you've been down, you're not out. When you're going through something, you're not going to stay there. You must understand that many are the friction of the righteous, but the Lord delivered them out of them all. When God stepped in your situation, and when God said, it's over, it's over. When God said, you have the victory, you are victorious. When God said, no weapon form against you shall prosper. No word that come up on you to exodite your mind. But you must realize that what you've been through is to build you up better than ever before. You just can't stay on the same level year after year. But Paul acknowledged to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We must realize that if you've never been through nothing, how you know that God can unsolve the mystery of the situation. God don't need no psychic to set what you've been through or what you're going to go through in the future. But he's omnipresent, and I'm the present. He knows how much you can bear, and some of us can bear more than others. But Paul said one right and said, when you are converted, strengthen that brother. In other words, when you get up stronger, do not manipulate your brother. But go to your brother and say, I'm praying for you. I'm fasting for you. I'm asking God to intervene. I'm asking God to turn that situation around and around. I'm asking God to let you know that it's not by might. It's not by power, but it's by his spirit, said the Lord. And the Bible said, where the spirit of the Lord is, there's liberty. And when God said it's over, it's over. Satan can dig up your past, but it can't affect your future. He can tell you what you used to be, but you can tell the devil, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things have been abolished, and everything been said clear. God don't need someone to come to his system to bring you out. But the Bible said he looks high and looks low. If he cover the lily of the field, if he know the stars of the heaven, if he knows everything that you think right now, and he knows your thoughts in the future. See, God don't need no psychic to see what's wrong with you. God don't need no Ouija boy to check your future. The future is in our eyesight, because the Bible said, eyes have never seen, and ears have never heard. What God got in store for them, they're loving. And when you love them, you ignite and tell somebody, O, taste, and see that the Lord is. He's good. He's better than Maxwell House. He's good before the first drop. He's better than Domino. He's always deliver on time. Fret not that self because of evil doer. They will soon be cut down. But David acknowledged to the Church of the Living God, he said, I will bless the Lord at all time. Not some, not one, but all time. David said when I'm down, I will still give God the praise. In the midst of my affliction, I'm still giving God some praise. I might be hurt in my body, wrecked with pain, but I still got a praise for my God. Because my God shall supply all my needs according to the riches in glory by Christ Jesus. I wonder how many woke up this morning and raised their hand up. And so, Lord, I just want to thank you one more time. Lord, I just appreciate you let me live one more time. How many stand up this morning and say, Lord, you've been good to me. All last night, somebody could have came in my room and broken my house and raped me or cut my throat. But the angel of the Lord is a camp around him that fear him. And the battle for the fear of God is beginning of knowledge. But I don't know about you, but I don't need Kirk Carr to stop here in Long Beach to tell me praise him in the sanctuary wherever. But when I walked in the doors, I had a praise on my heart. I had a praise in my mind. I had a praise in my heart. I had a praise to give God. An excellent praise. See, you can't wait to God give you the victory to praise him. But in the midst of what you're going through, you got to acknowledge when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all he have done for me, my soul cries out, hallelujah, thank God for saving a wretch like me. And as I was coming in this morning and I looked at Bishop Alexander, I said, Lord, you have blessed him. Be good looking at the age of 80. He's still in his right mind. He's still focused. He don't have no cataracts. He don't have no diabetes. He don't have nothing. But Lord, you gave him good health. You gave him good strength. And you should be glad that God gave you a pastor that in a sound mind, you should be glad that God gave you a pastor that can let you know about the word of God. And you should praise God for your passage. You should praise God for the first lady. You should praise God for the congregation of the righteous because you are in a church that believe in one Lord, one faith, and one baptism. You should give God some praise because you're in a worship service to magnify and lift up the name of my God with somebody in the bow. Lift their hands and say, Lord, I just want to praise you one more time. This might be my last time to praise you. But if I'm going to die today, I'm going to praise God in the time of death. I'm going to lift them up. Oh, come on, let somebody clap your hands and give God some praise. God watched over you last night. God took you this morning. God gave you a job. You should praise God. God gave you a health in a mind to praise him. You should lift your hands up. Somebody don't have a hand to lift their hands up. Somebody can't walk. Somebody's in the wheelchair, but you can walk in the church and give God some praise this morning. You should praise God all you've been through. You should praise God. You've been sick, but you still should praise God. You've been through surgery. You should give God some praise. I will bless the Lord at all time. His praises shall continue to be in my mouth. I don't know about you, but I don't need Mississippi Mads to tell me he's on time, God. I know he's on time because he's always on time to deliver me. He's always come by and touched my heart, touched my soul and touched my spirit. You should praise God because God dwells in the midst of praises. Many are the flexion of the righteous, but the Lord delivered him out of awe. I come to tell somebody, look what you've been through all last year. Look what you've been through right now, but you still gotta praise in your heart for God. You can't let the devil give your TKOTOLA. Knock out for not giving some praise to your God. God been good to you when you all by yourself and raising your kids. God still made a way for you. You should give God some praise. Some of y'all, oh God, some backup praise. What is backup praise? You didn't praise him last week, but you gotta praise him this week. You gotta wave your hand, you gotta stump your feet. You gotta praise God because he loved to be praised this morning. He's worthy to be praised. You must acknowledge that the devil is trying to strip your praises. He's trying to make you give up your praises. He's trying to tell you it don't take all of that, but it take more than that to praise God. You gotta understand my brother and sister, I will bless the Lord at all time. His praises shall continue to be in my mouth. What you see in brother preacher, when you praise God, something got to happen. When you praise God, the heaven got to open up. When your praises go up, the blessing got to fall down. When the praise they go up, the deliverance got to come down. When the praises go up, your hope is in God. You gotta praise your God. I will bless the Lord at all time. His praises shall continue to be in my mouth. You must understand my brother and sister, the devil trying to grip you from praising your God. He's trying to bring up everything that they don't take all of that. You gotta tell God why I live, I will exalt you, why I live, I will extene you, why I live. I will tell somebody, oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. You can't wait to God give you blessing, to praise God. But when you down to your lowest level of life, you gotta look unto the hills for which cometh thy help, your help coming from the Lord, which made the heaven and earth, he will not suffer your feet to remove, he that keepeth Israel, shall not slumber thee, if God keep Israel, he'll keep you. God knows we got to praise him. That somebody is on his way, they've been backslap for 10 years, went back down in the water and came back out of the water, cause God restored him back and they giving God the praise, God could have cut them all, but God didn't cut you off this morning, God woke you up this morning, it was not your alarm clock, get that out of your mind, it was not your baby that was crying, that woke you up, it was the goodness of God, it was God's mercy that woke you up. It was God that shook you up. Somebody tied their shoes up yesterday, but the undertaker that untied them tonight is God. We all deserve to give God some praise, no matter what sickness you're going through, you could still give God some praise. You might be down to the lowest level, ain't got no money, but the Bible said the earth is a Lord and the fooling that's up. Everything you got, God gave it, your education, God made a way for you to go to college, that job you got promoted, God gave it to you, we need to praise God, we need to esteem God, we need to tell the goodness of God, it's the small thing that God blesses, it's not the big things, the small things, somebody give you a job, somebody give you a car, give you some money, it's the small things, it's not the big house, it's the small things, the small things. If you be faithful with few things, God can make you better over big things. God can give people a million dollars, but he know if somebody get a million dollar, evangelist's like, some not gonna pay their tithes, some not gonna lead the church and go to non-denomination, won't give a sacrifice y'all. If you get a million dollar, you just give 100,000 to the church and get an extra 50,000, you still got 850,000. We forget where the blessing come from. The blessing is in the blessed hope of God. What you got is because God allow you to do it. Will you live that in your neighborhood? It might be buried around you, but God is still protecting you. It might seem like everything going down except the word of God. David said, I will bless the Lord all the time, in night, in the morning, in the noon day, weekends, leap year, I will praise God. God been good to me. God been good to you. Look at you. God still beautify you. All y'all look lovely. All y'all look wonderful because God beautify the meat with salvation. You should be glad to give God some praise. Shilafate, you are the most blessed church in Long Beach. You might not have a lot of members, but you got a big God. I'd rather be in a church that unifies than flip-flops. What you mean flip-flops? Flip-flop is this size for you, that size not for you. This is head, this is tail. I'm with you, I'm not with you. I'd rather be unified together in the harmony of peace of God in a small segment than a big segment. In other words, it's a unified spirit in Shilafate, huh? Ain't no big E's and little I's, ain't no T's, but it's we, we together. We are the people of the United States. We, we mean we all together in the peace of the bond of the spirit of God. You have the Holy Ghost? I got the Holy Ghost? Bitch, you got the Holy Ghost? First lady got the Holy Ghost? Holy Ghost, Holy Ghost, Holy God, eating them by Holy Ghost. Huh? You gotta understand, you've been through a lot, but God got to still get the praise in the midst of what you're going through. The doctor told you this, but you wouldn't go back and check it up. It's gone. Many are the afflictions, not one eighth, not one 16, not one third, not one eighth. Many, your affliction, my affliction, bring all your burdens to the Lord. Your burdens, my burdens, everybody's burden is on one burden. He's a upper liver. He said, come unto me all ye that labor in a heaven later and I'll give you rest. In other words, when you bring it here, don't take it up. Don't take it up. See, somebody, when they bring their burdens to God, it's like an Indian giver. They take it right back. But God said, come unto me. I am the one to help you. I'm the one who want to bless you. How many in here had a checkup last month? How many had a checkup? Raise your hand. The results is, it's better than it was. You got to acknowledge in your heart, it's going to be better than it was. Huh? The spot they saw, it's not there no more. Cause by his stripes, not the stripes on the flag, his major stripes. They say there's 39 major disease in Jesus when they whooped him, the only kid who whooped him 39 times. And every time they whooped him, their torment blood killed that disease. As a customer, they couldn't whoop him 40 times. But they whooped him 39 times. And if you check it out the history, there's 39 major great disease. There's always disease come, but I'm talking about these majors, you should be glad that he bore your sin on Calvary. He dropped everything you had and dropped in you with the Holy Ghost. You should be glad that God looked down the elements of time and saw you. When you was yet sinner, the Bible said God commanded his spirit towards you. You was alien from the commonwealth of God, but thank God that God brought you back. The second Adam brought redemption. The first Adam brought shame. You could tell the devil, you might be raising cane, but God is able. He's able to do anything I need. You got to tell the devil, it's a dumb deal. When God says I'm healed, I'm healed. When God says over, it's over. You got to understand my brother and sister, if you never see me till next year, one thing I want to put in your mind, you're being through so much, but you're coming out. You're coming out victorious. You are coming out. The doctor, your family gonna shake their heads. I don't know how, I don't see how you got there. When you live right, heaven got to back up your quest. Even just like you've been in this world years, think it's like you've been here a long time, but guess what? You know down and you know down right that God have made a way for you. I'll come on somebody. I said God have made a way for them. Now you look at these people, they old in your handsome bishop, but she still look lovely, he still look lovely. Oh, come on somebody. Tell me, you know what? Pitch in my mind what I'm trying to tell y'all, these people is in their 80s and they ain't walking like this. That's a blessing. That's a blessing. What you can say, I don't believe to see 80 years. There's a lot of people have, I know a mother in California in Florida, she had 10 kids, she buried seven of her kids before she left. You should be glad that you are in the land of living. I'd rather be on top of the ground than under the ground. Cause the Bible said a dead came praising, but David said, well, I'll live. If I got to tear up my Louis Vuitton, I'm still gonna give God some praise. If I got to tear up my Gucci, I'm still gonna give God some praise. Cause the same God that gave me the Gucci can give me another Gucci. Oh, if I get my hair done yesterday and I got this morning and pray to God all I want to, if your hair get happy, slappy, nappy, still good God some praise. We done got in a mind that, oh, we dress nice. I got a nice dress on, I got a nice suit on, I can't praise God. I got this expensive perfume on. Baby, let me chase up. If the Holy Ghost get up on you, I don't care how much perfume you got on. It gonna sweat out. Your hair dude gonna be flopped down, huh? You talking about teasing and pleasing? Oh, come on baby. God, God, it's been like, God know how to get, and he can say, God know how to get his praise from you. You can be sitting here, all hasadity. Thank you all there, plus a bag of chip. I don't think in the bag of chip is most air. And all wants the power come in the church. Man, sister so-and-so went out this morning, cause you didn't give him the praise for last three Sundays. God wants you in a mind to praise him. You got the praise God in your car. How many have been in your car? And all wants a song come on, or a scripted prop in your mind, and your hand go up like this, and your neighbors on your right think that you're waving at them. But if they only know, all takes a seat. Have you ever been in the shopping center, or in the grocery store, in the Holy Ghost? You got to try, obtain yourself. Huh? Cause when you think of the goodness, firstly, when you think of the goodness of Lord, and all, oh man. Don't you know God, I was in the hospital 10 days, I was telling the doctor, I'm healed, I'm delivered. God, and bless me. They're like, what? Thank you for your report. But who report you on belief? I love the doctors, but guess what? You can't put all your confidence. Thank God for the doctors. Thank God for the medicine. But the medicine have side effects. But in Jesus, there's no side effects. How many going through a checkup this month? Who, am I going to check up? This month, as I was in the pulpit, the Lord spoke to my heart, is that somebody is going to get a checkup this morning, this week, this month. I don't know when, who's at? Okay, I want to let you know that it's going to be better than the results from last time, in the last time. So you should praise God. In advance. I say you should praise God in advance because your checkup have been checked in by the checkup, the check-ees. You know, when you go to the ER, they said, check it, right? Well, you already checked in with God. He said, by his stripes, you healed. Thank the Lord for the doctor. Thank the Lord for the results. The results is, no spots. The results is, no blockage. The results is, it's gone. It's O-U-T, total knockout. God says, over with, it's done, it's finalized. Your checkup is your check-in. Your check-up have been checked in with the check-R. You know, when you play check-er, if you go through the boards and you go to the other end of the board, you get, you become a king, right? So in a word, God said, you was on the check-up board. You went through his setting, trying to block you, but you came this way, that way, he put another setting block, but he kept blocking you. Then all at once, God gave you a triple threat. You jumped over that problem, that problem, that problem. Now you're the king's children. You can go wherever you want to, and your check-er, you can go check over here, check over, you jump all the way over. In other words, what are you being through? You can jump over everything, huh? Because you are child of the king. And when the king is in the house, you gotta take attention, huh? We are the king's children because we are Rory, priesthood. You should be glad that God checked you in before the devil checked you out, huh? He told you you only had six months to live, and God still got you here, huh? He said you're gonna need surgery, but God said you don't need it. Cause what? He didn't work it out, huh? I don't know about you, but Bishop, your brother said something to me early. He said, he said,