 Praise the Lord, everyone. Hallelujah. So good to be in the house of the Lord again. Hallelujah. God is great. He's greatly to be praised. God is great in my soul to be praised. It's the desire to come into your house to praise and to worship you. Thank you for putting the sweet savor of Jesus on our lips and in our hearts that we may glory. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Oh, how I worship today. We're so meant to hear to, to shoot Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. We love you and we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Our scripture this morning is Psalms 100. Make a joyful noise unto the Lord. Serve the Lord with gladness. Come before His presence with singing. It is He that the Lord He is God. It is He that hath made us and not we ourselves. We are His people. We are the sheep of His pasture. Thank you, Jesus. Enter into His gates with thanksgiving. And into His courts unto Him. And bless His name. Hallelujah. For the Lord is good. His mercy is everlasting. And His truth endured to all generations. Hallelujah. It's a God. Hallelujah. What a wonderful God we serve. Amen. And His name is Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Climbed up to the highest mountain and looked all around, couldn't find nobody. On into the deepest valley, looked all around down there, couldn't find nobody. Went across a deep blue sea, couldn't find no one to compare to your grace, your love, your mercy. There's nobody greater, nobody greater than you. Come on and join me in the mercy. Climbed up to the highest mountain and looked all around. Climbed up to the deepest valley, looked all around down there, couldn't find nobody. Went across a deep blue sea, couldn't find no one to compare to your grace, your love, your mercy. There's nobody greater, nobody greater than you. Oh, I searched all over. I searched all over. The sanctuary today will be Yes, Lord. Yes. We have a yes in our spirit area of our lives. Just stop and think about what God has done for you. Blessing us. He keeps blessing us. Thank God for His blessings. Amen. Hallelujah. No matter how dark a situation might be, God's blessing you right in the middle of that situation. Late in the midnight, that's why we're blessed. Hallelujah. We are blessed. We are blessed. You know, I don't know what you need to thank the Lord for. I don't know, but I know that I thank God for everything. And in everything, I am blessed. Amen. At this time, we'll have our sister Amber Wise come with us solo this morning. Amen. I'm going to just have a little moment of transparency real quick, okay? So, the Lord gave me this song. I just happened to be scrolling on TikTok like I normally do. And this song came across, but it was sped up. And people were doing the praise break to the song. And at the time, I was like, I know this song. Where do I know this song from? And something told me to go in and look the words up. So, I went to YouTube. And the words of the song is, come on in the room. Jesus is my doctor. He fills out all of my prescriptions. And He brings me all of my medicine in the room. Amen. I said, tell the people, I'm still the doctor that fills out every prescription. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Tell the people, I still have the cure and the answer for everything that they need. All they have to do is tell me to come on somebody if he's willing to write our prescription and give us the medicine we need. And what he's doing is greatly to be the sanctuary. The Lord is here. Do I need to say it? The Lord is in this place. Can anybody recognize the Lord is visiting in this place? Right now. Right now. He's come with a mission. He's going to speak to our spirit on today. This is a day of increased faith. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Praise and worship. They led us into a praise that said, nobody greater looked all. I couldn't find anybody greater than Him. Then they said, we will praise you for the rest of our days. The greatest thing there is, no need to look any further. Just get busy praising. And praise for the rest of your days. Then they said, I have a yes in my spirit. Yes, Lord. For the rest of my days. Y'all didn't get that one. See, sometimes we get to praise and we get tired because of this physical body. But the determination is to praise Him for the rest of your days. And then they said, we're blessed in the city. We're blessed in the field. We're blessed wherever we are because of this great one that there's nobody better than. They said, late in the midnight, God's gonna turn it around. Anybody had a late in the midnight hour? You had a turnaround in your situation that seemed hopeless and helpless? God is faithful. He said, I'll turn it around. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. And what I hope to extract today is from the book of Isaiah chapter number 40. And as I previously stated, this is a faith-building day today. If you have any doubts, any question in your mind, today the Lord is going to speak into our spirit. And He's gonna help us to understand the search is over. The search is over. In the book of Isaiah chapter 40, I'll be beginning at verse number one. And the topic of this message is, Behold your God. Behold your God. In this passage, it speaks to freedom given by God's salvation and His greatness. Jesus came down to bring salvation. Now, this is in the Old Testament and it is spoken of by the prophet Isaiah. The prophet Isaiah saw way down through the years to when Jesus comes or Jesus came in his presentation, he already saw that Jesus had come down from heaven to bring salvation to the lost and the dying souls. In God's Word, we find the most wonderful, encouraging news. God promises to set His people free from their world of hardship and heavy burdens. Their captivity and enslavement by the wickedness of His world. He also promised to walk with the true believers through every trial and misfortune and any experience that would come into His life. But He not only walks with His people through their trials, He also brings them through victoriously. So no matter what grips a person's life, He or she can be liberated by God's salvation. God's going to rescue or deliver His people from whatever forces hold them in bondage or holds them down. This is the wonderful message of the present Scripture. Now, in the previous 39 verses or chapters, the previous 39 chapters of Isaiah, Isaiah was telling the church everything they were doing wrong. Everything they did that didn't please God, He was sharing that with them. The Scripture says there's just recompense for every action that we take. That means God's going to hold you responsible for what you've done. You can't get do-overs. When we sin, we have to be addressed. We have to have a higher power than we to address that situation or to prescribe a medicine for us that is able to give us the healing that we need for our bodies. At the time, Isaiah wrote this wonderful passage. He knew that the Jews were facing 360 plus very difficult years. For about 93 years, they would witness a stream of unpropelled wickedness flowing through their nation. A stream would gain momentum and rush madly to the invisible end of their nation to Babylon. They were going to fall into Babylon's hands. They would then be deported and serve 70 long years scattered throughout the Babylonian Empire. They were to suffer unbearable discrimination and hardship of a subject enslaved peoples. So now we can kind of we can kind of feel that position. We can feel that thus encouragement a deep sense of God's care and comfort would be desperately needed during these long difficult years. People needed to trust God to believe in his glorious promise of deliverance. They needed to live righteously and godly. As they looked forward to the day of their redemption by the Savior within their hearts they needed to keep alive the hope of God's salvation. The hope that he would deliver them from their captivity and lead them back to Judah the promised land. And somebody saw this before and they said to keep hope alive keep hope alive. The Lord stirred Isaiah to preach this much needed message that is set free through God's salvation and greatness. So I began the reading of this passage in verse number one. You don't have to get excited if you don't want to. This is Lord Isaiah This is a wonderful wonderful message of assurance that everything is going to be alright. Everything is going to be alright. Now in this chapter the Lord speaks at various points and then there are other speakers. So in verse number one the Lord is speaking to the prophet Isaiah and he says comfort ye my people saith the Lord. He said speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem and cry unto her and her warfare is accomplished that her iniquity is pardoned for she has received of the Lord hand double for all her sin. The Lord's God was speaking to Isaiah and he says you've told them enough about their errors they're getting it and they need to be assured that I still love them. The Lord still loves each and every one of us no matter what we've done no matter how we approach our life's pattern. The Lord still loves us who are his people. That's the catch word his people. He doesn't love everybody who sins. I'm glad that we found the way the Lord says I love my people in spite of themselves. Now that's true love when one says to you I love you in spite of you what the indication would be there is there's something unlovable about you but I love you anyway and so the Lord wanted Isaiah to speak to his people and say I know who you are I know where you came from I knew you when you were born and you weren't any good because you couldn't be any good because the person who gave birth to you was not any good either he said I know who you are and I see he said I'm the present living God and I see every action that you've taken he says speak comfortably to Jerusalem and cry unto her that her warfare is accomplished. He said the things that you're going through right now he said are already accomplished hello and he said you tell her that her iniquity is pardoned he said because Jesus has come in the future Jesus has come to pardon the sins of the world for she has received of the large hand double for her sin and I kind of always wanted about this because I'd heard it preached he's give you double for your trouble what that points to is as you had a sheet of paper if you took it and you folded it over evenly you would have double so he said the Lord is covered and he has covered you doubly that's not anymore there needs to be done there doesn't need any other ingredient to be added into your pardon because you've got double maybe that didn't hit it it works for me I studied it and that's the right understanding of that passage so then verse 3 said the voice of him that cryeth in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the Lord straight in the desert a highway for our God he said this is a prophecy he says you've got to get busy working so that when Jesus comes there's going to be a smooth place for him said we don't want to have to waste any time when he comes when we find that there's a pothole in the road that he can't get across he said get busy and work on that road prepare ye the way of the Lord make straight in the desert a highway for our God he said we don't want it to be like the Pasadena freeway he said he's going to make time he's coming and he's bringing his army and when he comes through with his army he said I don't want any over hill over dale we will hit the dusty trail he said I want a highway straight and ready for our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ he said every valley shall be exalted every place where there's a dip that goes down deep every valley shall be exalted and every mountain hill shall be made low he said somebody's going to be filling in the valleys somebody's going to be cutting down the mountains making way for our God the crooked shall be made straight and the rough place plain verse 5 said and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed come on he said the glory of the Lord the glory of the Lord is Jesus himself Jesus is going to be revealed to every man on earth he said I come to save the lost I've come to save the dying and he said it doesn't matter who they are he said I'm coming I have come in the future I have come so that anybody who's not right can get right there's got to be a way to bring men back to me he said the restoration has to take place the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together he said no matter what the person calls himself no matter who or what tribe they're from he said everybody's going to see the glory of the Lord when he comes he said he's not discriminating against anybody and he said for the mouth of the Lord has spoken it now he said all men are going to see it together and he said so take that believe that trust in that because the Lord himself has spoken it so then the boy said the boy said cry and he said what shall I cry all flesh is grass and all the goodliness thereof is the flower of the field then the next verse said the grass withered flower faded and because the spirit of the Lord will blow it upon it surely the people is grass now what the prophet was to cry was you not any comparison for the God that we serve he says yes you may be cute you may be handsome you may be rich you may have great wisdom a great amount of knowledge and people look up to you and wherever you go you're the smartest one in the room if you have all of that going for you he said you're no comparison for who God really is he said you're just like the grass that the gardener cuts when the gardener cuts the grass now when we were growing up we used to cut grass and when we cut the grass we throw the grass on the sidewalk because the sidewalk was hot the grass withered the grass is cut often and it falls to the ground and it withers and the wind comes and blows it away he said that's what man is worth grass withered the flower faded but the Spirit of the Lord blow it upon it and he said there's no doubt that you're gonna leave this place in short order grass withered flower faded but the Word of our God shall stand forever so he said don't trust in yourself don't try to lean on anybody with what you perceive to be greater wisdom than you got you need to go to somebody who knows what's going on for sure you need to go to somebody who's everlasting you need to go to somebody who's been that body before the world existed the creator of the heavens and the earth to get in touch with him and find out what he's saying oh Zion that bringeth good tidings get the yoke into the high mountain oh Jerusalem that bringeth good tidings lift up thy voice with strength lift it up be not afraid say unto cities of the cities of Judah behold your God he said you need to get some strength in your back you need to get some strength in your muscles you need to be willing to go through test and trials no matter what comes no matter what goes he said yes you're going to experience some difficult times he said but God has called each and every one of us who belong to him he's called us to work and get things going so that he can bring this thing he said so you don't worry about when you want to witness for somebody you want to testify to somebody about what the Lord has done for you you want to tell the world that the Lord came to you in your midnight hour and he turned your situation around you need to be willing to spread the world spread the word to the world he said oh Zion Zion is the church oh Zion that bringeth good tidings you need to bring good tidings to people you need to tell people God is able you need to witness that yes I was lost in sin but Jesus found me and took me in and he's been a great thing for me he turned my life around he made me whole he took my sins away he changed my appetite for the things that didn't please him hallelujah so he said you all get busy Zion church get busy hallelujah bring good tidings and some church people who haven't been completely delivered and I I'm not talking about their in gross sense but there are some people who are not willing to admit what the Lord has done for them they're not able to say yes I was lost or yes I was down come on somebody but they want to be steadfast in who they are that's not going to get it that's not a testimony of the goodness and the mercy the compassion of our Lord and Savior and then there are people who don't want to be delivered catch this there was one lady in my father's church back many years ago when you meet her and greet her sister so-and-so how are you today oh Lord my back hurt my eyeball is itching on and on and on and every time I greeted her she did the same thing I recognized that the Lord wasn't getting his due so I said to myself I'm not participating in that one time I spoke to her sister so-and-so how are you today oh my back hurts and my knees are hurting I said good, good alright God bless you see that's not a testimony to God turning anything around that's not a testimony that needs to be passed along to people who are lost and dying in this world those people who are going through trials in the church and out of the church all the problems you got you going around saying nobody knows the trouble I've seen nobody knows my sorrow keep it to yourself take it to Jesus take it to Jesus he's the only one who can help you oh Zion bring forth good tidings get thee up into the high mountain oh Jerusalem that bringeth good tidings lift up your voice with strength be not afraid say unto the cities of Judah behold your God look at how great your God is look what he's able to do look what he's able to turn around and make brand new look at your God don't look at anybody else don't look at the preacher don't look at the teacher don't look at the deacon look to Jesus look until who your God is he can do what you need done in your life hallelujah hallelujah behold your God verse 10 said behold the Lord God will come with strong hand his arm shall rule for him behold his reward is with him and his work before him behold the Lord God will come with strong hand now Jesus is meek and mild that's not all he is this verse right here says he's coming and he's bringing his arm he's not coming by himself because there's going to be so much work he's not going to even bother with it he's going to turn it over to his army and his arm is going to rule for him look his reward is with him and his work before him he says God sees and he knows his people all of this we've been talking about is for God's people verse 11 said he shall feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather the lambs with his arm and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young he said God is not all terror he said you're not going to have to experience some of the things that other people experience not walking with God who are not in relationship with him who doesn't love him and doesn't love his word he said you're not going to have to go through what they go through he said I know my sheep come on somebody and he says I know their capabilities y'all well I'm not going to go into that he will minister to the ones who are weak he will feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather the lambs and with his arms and carry them in his bosom now generally the way a shepherd carries a sheep one who is going astray he grabs him and picks him up and puts him around his neck and walks with him with him under control come on somebody that means that the Lord however you are whatever kind of one you are walking with him I love you enough if you're weak and you have not the strength he said I'm going to take it I'm going to put you in my bosom I'm going to put you next to my heart I'm going to show you love I'm going to show you compassion he said you don't have to be what everybody else is you just need to be mine he said if you're weak and you can't do no better you can't fool him I'll tell you this he won't take a wooden nickel put it in his bosom and love you or either if you're out of line he said you're mine and I'm going to help you put you over his shoulder and he said I'll hold you in place come on somebody don't you understand you know that you can't make this journey by yourself you've been walking with God for a few minutes and you know that at times you want to do what's wrong the adversary comes and starts your mind and you have to struggle and sometimes you lose the fight but when you lose the fight the Lord said I'm your shepherd and I'm going to carry you I'm going to make sure you make it I'm not going to let you go you belong to me you don't belong in another fold you're mine I love you hallelujah hallelujah aren't you glad and unconcerned yeah yeah yeah see in the world when you date somebody and when you when you're finished with them they have an expression just kick them to the curb the Lord doesn't have any kicking to the curb people nobody that belongs to him you'll never be kicked to the curb you stay in compassion with God you keep on loving him love him for what he's done for you and he'll do more for you hallelujah hallelujah I'm not preaching cheap grace not preaching cheap grace if you leave the Lord you're going to have to fight him which one of your children would you kick to the curb because they broke a dish anybody we love our children in spite we want to see them do the right thing and we lean on them and we expect of them to do what is right because the teaching has been given to them and they need to embrace it and if they won't embrace it sometimes you got to lay hands sometimes you have to restrain them yes you have to decide but I'm going to help you make your decision lean on Jesus take your burdens to the Lord and leave it with him let me move on hallelujah now behold your God verse 12 says who has measured the water in the hollow of his hand and meet it out heaven with the span of the earth in a measure and weigh the mountains in scales and the hills in a balance who has measured the water who has measured all of the oceans around the world God has God knows every gallon he knows every ounce of the waters who has measured the waters in the hollow of his hand and meet it out heaven with the span you know what the span is the span is from this thumb over to this finger right there the ring finger who has been able to measure the heavens this way God can God can God can He created the heavens and the earth who comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure who took all the dust who knows where every speck of dust is in your house and all of our houses and all around the world who knows that He weighed the mountains in scales and knows how much the mountains weigh and the hills in a balance He put the hills in a balance you know lady justice scale on this side and this side he said God did that who has directed the spirit of the Lord are being his counsel have taught him who did the Lord go to for information congratulations minister Bruce she just graduated with her masters on yesterday amen we thank the Lord for her we thank the Lord for her willingness to expose herself to greater wisdom she had to go to see son to get some more wisdom to add to what she has but the God we serve he has no one to go to nobody who knows more than he knows I'm going to interject this the apostle might see this and he might want to get me when the apostle was young he was a little boy he knew everything and he was walking around and he was coming and telling us this and this and this and we said how do you know I read it in a book and we immediately said who wrote the book can't depend on adding wisdom to yourself based on some book you read you got to go to somebody who knows everything everything verse 14 said with whom took he counsel who instructed him and taught him in the path of judgment and taught him knowledge and shield to him showed to him the way of understanding who helped the Lord get the understanding that he needed to be the God that he is behold your God look at him there's nobody like our God nobody like the Savior nobody who can deliver you out of any situation no matter what test no matter what trial he said whatever you got bring it to me and I can fix it how to do it behold the nations as a drop of a bucket and when I when I studied this it said not just a bucket he said behold the nations as a drop of a big bucket and counted as the small dust of the balance behold he take up the aisles as a very little thing or cancun and labor and Lebanon Lebanon is not sufficient to burn nor the beest there are sufficient for a burnt offering he said if you took all the trees of Lebanon and made a barbecue or made a bonfire and threw all of the animals on top of it that wouldn't be enough for sacrifice to the God we serve he's great there's nobody greater than him nobody deserves to be worshipped nobody deserves to be praised not like our God behold your God look at God when you come to a problem you come to a test and you think that the world is coming to an end you think that you're the only one who's walking right you think you're the only one who says God behold God he said God can fix whatever your problem is all nations before him are us nothing and they are counted to him less than nothing and vanity he said when you look at all the nations who've ever existed when God looks up on them they're all nothing and foolishness to whom then will you liken God or what likeness will you compare unto him workmen melt a graven image and the goldsmiths spread it over with gold and cast silver chains he said there are people who want to present something they will consider worthy of praise he said they're workmen they're skilled and they make an image and then they pour gold on the top that ain't like God there's nothing that needs to be added to God nothing he's perfect when you say he's perfect in every way that means every way that doesn't mean that you found a piece of stump wood and you carved it and made it look kind of good and then you poured something on the top of it you put an alloy on top of it he said that's not our God we need to understand who our God is we need to know what we're involved in we need to know how favored we are that the Lord loves us as his own children he brought us unto himself and he claimed us as our daddy behold your God look at him he that is so impoverished that he has no oblation chose a tree that will not rot he seeks unto him a cunning workman to prepare a graven image that shall not be moved he seeks to find he never finds but he's looking all the statues they have likenesses of Jesus no power no power and I tell you if you have one sitting on your dresser or hanging on your wall let the earthquake come along and see how strong it is see what power it has it doesn't have power to remain put verse 21 says have you not known have you not heard have it not been told you from the beginning have you not understood from the foundation of the earth what's wrong with y'all how did you get to this place where you didn't know who your God is he's the one who created heaven and earth have you not understood from the foundation of the earth in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God so nothing happened before the beginning earth began with the word of God it is he that sitting upon the circle of the earth there are grasshoppers that stretches out the heavens as a curtain and spread them over as a tent to dwell in and let me stop right here this one tickled me I don't know if it was Isaiah or somebody before Isaiah that gave him to understand that the earth is round in the history books they say well people thought the earth was flat they thought if you went to a certain point then you just follow over over the world Isaiah hundreds and hundreds of years before Jesus Christ he said he sits about the circle of the earth and the inhabitants there are like grasshoppers he said when he looks down on us we just look like a grasshopper no bigger than a grasshopper not any more word than a grasshopper bring it the prince to nothing make it the judge of the earth as vanity yea they shall not be planted yea they shall not be sown yea their stock shall not take root in the earth and he shall also blow up on them and they shall wither and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble then he said now to whom then will you liken me who you gonna put next to me who you gonna compare me to to whom then will you liken me or shall I be equal said the Holy One give me an equal who's equal lift up your eyes on high and behold who have created these things that bring it out they're hosted by numbers call it them all by name by the greatness of his might for that he is strong in power not one fallen he's talking about the stars right here he said lift up your eyes lift up your eyes and behold who have created these things to bring it out they're hosted by numbers I was 14 years old when my family some of the members of my family purchased some property out in the country Sister Merrill and my parents they were country people they came from Ripley, Mississippi and when they bought some property that had a farmhouse on it and a barn and a shed and all they had a hog pin and everything chicken coop the whole and they longed to be there and so they took the young ones of us and we moved out to the country and probably one of the first nights I was there I went outside and I just happened to look up and it scared me if you haven't been in the country in the dark dark dark dark night you don't know how many stars there are come on somebody oh it scared me I got scared I saw so many whoa you know what God did God put those stars up in the heavens and he knows every one of them by name look at your God who can do that who can begin to know the magnitude of what he has done for us hallelujah thank God for one who knows thank God for not going to a doctor who's guessing on me hallelujah thank God he knows my treasure he knows my trials he knows my trouble and he cares for me he loves me he holds me in his arms and I thank him this verse said he knows every star and he calls them all by their name why say it though oh Jacob and speak it oh Israel my way is hid from the Lord and my judgment is passed over from God get a hold of yourself get a grip that's right thank you get a grip on yourself who are you that you think that God knows all that we just spoke of of all the stars and all the planets and everything and he don't know what you going through get a grip you don't have the faith that you need the reason you don't have the faith you need is because you haven't looked at your God you haven't seen what he's done matter of fact you saw it but you didn't give him credit for it then the voice cries again have thou not known have not heard that the everlasting God the Lord the creator of the ends of the earth neither is he worried and there is no searching of his understanding he never gets tired he never gets distracted he's able he's the everlasting God he'll never leave you he said I'll never leave you I'll not forsake you count on me I'll be with you in your troubles I'll be with you in your testing I'm your God trust me hallelujah hallelujah next verse said he gives power to the faint now sometimes well I don't know about you all but the preachers they are tasked with somebody encouraged but seem like some people just can't get a hold and you have to keep encouraging keep assuring them one more time well guess what that's my job that's my job and if you come to me with a friend and cry I'm gonna help you I'm gonna help you I'm gonna tell you you look at your God don't look at me look at the one who created you look at who the one who formed you you look to Jesus He's the only one that can help you He's the only one who can save you I can't save you I can tell you what he said but you gotta trust in him and know that he's able hallelujah hallelujah that he gives power to the faint and to them that have no might this seems like the oxymoron to them that have no might he increases strength hallelujah that's an assurance that's not a maiden that's not a perhaps he might them that have no might he increases strength even the youth shall faint come on somebody the young people who have great strength they just come into their own their muscles are tight and they're able to do great things but even they will get weak even the youth shall faint the youth shall faint that means what does that mean what they used to say is they didn't say faint they fell out so the youth will fall out and be weary and the young men shall utterly fall verse 31 but they see somebody's gonna get weary and somebody's gonna fall out but they that wait upon the Lord they that will allow their God that they've seen and come to understand his great power his great might but they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength your strength is gonna be renewed come on somebody it doesn't matter where you are right now but you just stay right there stay with God he'll strengthen you he'll make you better he'll fix you, he'll turn it around he'll give you the desires of your heart they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with wings as eagles they shall run and not be weary they shall walk and not fall out hallelujah thank you Lord thank you for your power thank you for your love thank you for your concern about us your people we're weak Lord we're not able to make it by ourselves but I thank you that you came one day and got into my heart I thank you because you take me when I'm weak and put me in your shelter you put me next to your heart and you love me and you encourage me come on going boy don't stop now you've got too much invested keep walking keep talking keep depending on me when your way grows weary only let me see something in my life that you've done for me there's a song they used to sing Lord don't let me fail I want to be in the bride when my way grows dark keep me by your side when my faith grows weak only let me see something only let me see something in my life that thou have done for me oh Lord I love you Jesus I love you Jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah I'm glad he allows us to take a look only a look at Jesus oh so bow down with care he has promised to defend you he'll all your burdens bear only a look only a look turns me away from sin turns me away from sin when I look at who our God is one look one look one look will bring salvation salvation brings eternal life one look will bring salvation eternal life to win oh do you love him oh no that wasn't enough hey I sweat it too hard for y'all to just get that little bit somebody somebody ought to be glad somebody ought to praise him somebody ought to jump and shout say thank you Jesus thank you God for who you are thank you for what you're able to do thank you for bringing me out of darkness into a marvelous life you didn't have to do it but you did you loved me when I was a sinner in spite of myself thank you hallelujah glory hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you Lord hallelujah behold our God behold my God behold that's why we have to say come on in the room I'm just gonna have heard the message right y'all have seen how great God is and how big God is and how much God loves you and all that be seated for a minute I'm just gonna give a little more of my testimony because when I didn't know what Bishop was gonna preach but everything he preached hit right at me I don't know if you've ever been diagnosed with a deadly disease I was diagnosed with a deadly disease twice and I this last time I began to make preparation in case I do die because I had seen so many people during the time I was diagnosed dying from cancer cancer is a deadly disease and even with chemotherapy and all that stuff that I went through but guess what I behold my God I beheld my God that's what I did Bishop and I have just recently the songs that people sing that we sing we begin to want to know the meaning why writers in fact it's more than we said that why do writers write particular songs what inspire what God to give them that particular song and what's behind it and I just having to look up come on in the room and that song was inspired by there was a family going traveling and there was an automobile accident and was back in the day where there wasn't cell phones that's when it was no cell phones and what they did they had an automobile accident the car turned over and they were one of the young men's was really really hurt badly some of them in the car wasn't hurt so they saw they was on a country road they saw a house a white house a little up the hill they took this seriously injured kid a man up to the white house and opened the door and a carcassian lady let him in and she said they said we just want to use the phone we just want to call the doctor we just want to call the doctor so they got on the phone and they called the doctor no answer then they called the grandmother this is really like an old Negro spiritual song they called the grandmother the grandmother came to the door and said what's going on she told him what was going on and she said ask the lady do you have a closet the lady said yes I have a closet she said I'm going I'm going in there and call my doctor I'm there and going in there to call my doctor that's what I'm going to do and she called she said come on in the room said come on in the room he said Jesus is my doctor and write all my prescription so she began to call out to Jesus and see that's what we need to do when we have problems to call out to Jesus we don't need to come up here every time we have a problem every time we have a problem come up here all the time for the same problem over and over and over again I couldn't come to the altar but I had people praying for me and when I couldn't pray for myself I even asked the Lord I said Lord am I going to die with this he assured me that I wasn't going to die but I know why I got afflicted because since then I've counseled many people with cancer myself I have a niece who has cancer had to call her out of state younger than myself and counsel her about her cancer because God put people in people's lives to counsel them for different things and let you know what God did for me he can do the same for you he can do the same for you when I was sick I told the doctor I told people pray that the Lord guide those doctors didn't I tell y'all that didn't I tell you that sister Edwards guide those doctors that's what you want to pray for that the God God take over and I saw God do that take over that and anybody out there in media land who hearing this you need to call on Jesus you need to call on Jesus for your healing you need to call on Jesus Jesus for every problem in your life not only for healing for every problem in your life you need to call on Jesus you need to say come on in the room hallelujah hallelujah but I also did this I also did this the last verse of that scripture he say but they there wait on the Lord I waited I was gone seven months and I waited and I waited and I knew God was going to bring me back I wasn't worried about that and guess what y'all I was worried about my hair my hair is growing back not only do God know about the stars he put but those who got wigs on how many hairs on your head right now and I told this is what I told the Lord Sister Everest told me stop worrying about your hair she just told me and I did just what she said and guess what I told the Lord you said my hair is my glory and you don't want me to be completely bald and he didn't let me be completely bald but I said Lord you know my story I say you know that your hair is my glory you know how many hairs I start selling Lord every morning Lord you know how many hairs I got you know how many are going to fall out you know all this Lord and I start putting past the Sykes some time ago before the pandemic everybody in the church a bottle of blessed oil she went to the 99 cent store everybody a bottle of blessed oil and we minister prayed over that oil so I got my big big bottle of oil and I put that on every day I say the blood of Jesus in the name of Jesus my hair real grow back in the name of Jesus I do it every day in the name of Jesus so for your illness your sickness and all the little problems you having come on in a room ask Jesus just to come on in ask Jesus just to come on in and even for salvation is there someone in our audience today who need Christ who need Christ the thing about it this message was to our saints this message was to the saints behold our God in order to behold our God you got to have God in your life so what you need to do is come to him come to him and then you can say come on in the room but you need to come to him first so that anybody who need Christ in their lives today who don't know who Christ is who have not been baptized in his name have not been filled with the Holy Ghost guess what it's time to come on in a room come on in a room come on to the throne room that's what I'm talking about come on to the throne room there's anybody here today who need salvation who need salvation come on to the room honey come on to the throne room come on sister Edwards come pray with her come on you know what I do every day I pray every every Saturday night I pray Lord let our service be anointing Lord you come into the midst of our service you let the service be anointed Lord God you be in the presence of it right now Lord God in the name of Jesus and guess what God does it every time so pray for your services amen amen amen hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you Lord thank you Lord thank you Lord let's give a hand clap for this young lady amen amen amen thank you Jesus thank you Lord thank you Jesus thank You Lord thank you Lord thank You Lord hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah put your hands toward her let the Lord fill her with the Holy Ghost when she goes down in his name hallelujah Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Young lady. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Let me talk to her for a second. Young lady. Young lady. Would you all take her in the back and talk to her? Oh, Lord, don't let me down. Sister Edwards, I want you. Oh, she's been baptized already. Oh, she's been baptized already. In Jesus' name. Here, you got baptized here. Whoo. Do you have a holocaust? You want to rededicate yourself back to the Lord. Amen. Now, the pastor have given you twos to pray for yourself. So I'm not going to have everybody come up to the altar today again. But the pastor has given you what to do. Plus the song we have sang, all the songs. Come on in the room. Call on Jesus. Go in your secret closet. You know what to do. You don't have to have us pray over you or put our hands over you and all that kind of stuff. I know the Bible said when you're sick, call for the elders of the church. But for anything else, you need to let God do it for you. And have a merry spirit and a happy spirit as you go through your trials and tribulations. A merry heart does nobody good like a medicine. Let God know you appreciate. Every morning I get up, I say, thank you, Lord. I'm alive one more day. I thank the Lord for that. Amen. And you do the same thing. Appreciate and behold. Behold. Make it personal. Behold. My God. Because He's all-powerful, all-knowing, and everywhere at the same time. So He's my God. He's your God. But make it personal. Behold, my God. Amen. Amen. So I guess we'll turn the service into... Just have a seat for a moment. Then we'll be receiving our offering. It has something that he wants to say. You can use this microphone. He's going to the mountaintop. Praise the Lord, everybody. Praise the Lord, everybody. I give it all to God. Bishop of the First Lady and all the men in the house. I just thank God for another day. I thank God for His blessings. Everything happening today is about my testimony. From the beginning to the end. I'm going to call my wife. We are two sets of testimony. My wife, she got the first set of testimony. All right. Praise the Lord. Capitalized with my testimony. Talking about the goodness of Jesus from us. Praise the Lord. I wanted to thank God because where we're living at right now, I've been there for nine years. And I had a neighbor, previous to this one I have now, never complained about us. Always nice, but the neighbor had lost his wife around the same time Kobe Bryant had died. And I prayed. I said, Lord, I know he's going to end up moving, which he did. And I said, Lord, please don't give us a neighbor that got issues, problems that's going to be complaining about us because we have vinyl linoleum floor. And so I live above somebody. Somebody lives underneath us. This new neighbor, I kept on praying every single day and I kept telling James Jern, I hope we do not get a complaining neighbor because we have all these kids. Next, you know, we get a complaining neighbor. This lady complains about the children. She made comments about how I have so many kids, about James Jern not working, which she does work, wondering if I'm pregnant, if I'm not pregnant, just watching every little thing we do. And so there was an issue where one day we was coming home from getting the kids something to eat and she had eggs at her door. She said there was kids doing a ding dong ditch at her door and she said she thought it was very like harassing, I guess, towards her. And so when they had the eggs at her door, I'm like, ooh, somebody really don't like this lady. And so James Jern was like, well, let's just keep going upstairs. So she kept blaming everything that happened around our apartment on Noah. She would ask my daughter, is that your brother, have something to do with firecrackers? And Noah had nothing to do with none of that. I know sometime Noah is disobedient, but don't blame him for everything that's going around, happening over there, excuse me. And so one day recently she wanted to take us to court. She wanted to get a restraining order like we were harassing her. There was an issue where I went outside to confront her because I'm like, why are you talking about my son? My son had nothing to do with it. She started making comments about James Jern, myself and the children acting like my kids are some animals saying you need to control your children. And I'm like, excuse me, lady, I don't even know you. So we started arguing back and forth. My kids had to go to school that day. And I'm like, I'm not even like this, this lady is really taking me to another level. And I kept praying. I had like hormonal issues going on. I was just all over the place and I kept crying. I'm like, James Jern, I have to move away from here. I cannot deal with this lady. So fast forward, we had to go to court. And the first time we went, before we went out of town, the judge didn't get a chance to get to us. So they had, she didn't have her paperwork done correctly. She had us served with two restraining orders, one for myself and one for Noah. And I'm like, what did I do to this lady? I never touched her. I never said nothing to her, but she's making comments about us. So when we got to court, the judge, it was like 21 people were sitting there listening to all these people's stories. And next you know, Noah had a job. He was working and he had to go to work that day. He was complaining. He's like, mom, this lady is getting on my nerves. This is so ridiculous. So we're sitting there. We're like the 21st, 20, we were number, I think nine and 10. Nine and 10, they didn't get to us till like maybe the 21st, I guess, or something like that. Last one. And so after that we get up there. She says she couldn't make it because she had COVID, which is a lie. She didn't have no COVID. The day before that she tried to go around the apartments asking people about us. They said we were toxic. She got information from the maintenance people and the maintenance around there, the office. And I'm like, I asked them, are you guys able to give her information about us? And they're like, no, we don't give out personal information because I was like, if you guys are, I'm going to take this to court because she has, this has nothing to do with her. I mean, she has no business. Oh my gosh. She has nothing to do with our household. And I said, we're not toxic people. This lady has nothing, no information about us. So she's going around asking people questions the day before trying to get like a case going on. So we get to court. The judge talked to us. She couldn't even get the camera on or nothing. And the judge said, what did Noah and Crystal Patrick do to you? And she had no evidence. Talking about all this unnecessary stuff, how we're harassing her. All I do on a daily basis, take my husband to work, take my kids to school, in and out the house. I have no clue what she's talking about. But I kept praying. I said, Lord, I'm going to listen to James Jerome this one because I was getting upset. And I wasn't being disobedient because I'm very respectable of my husband and what he tells me to do. And he told me this battle is not ours. And I kept on crying. And I said, Lord, please get this lady away from us. Because these kids are not a mistake. And I didn't ever want them to feel like, you know, they were not meant to be here. And I had told one of them say, well, maybe you shouldn't have had all of us. And I'm like, please ignore that. I'm sorry. And I thank God for each and every one of my kids. And I kept on praying. And I said, Lord, God, please just intercede. The judge did not even talk to me and know if she sat there. And she said, ma'am, I don't see any evidence here. And she said, case dismissed. And I said, oh, I don't have no paperwork. Nothing. And they said, no, don't even worry about this. You stay away from her. Let her stay away from you. And I just thank God for a loving husband that correct me when I'm wrong, when I'm feeling down and confused. And I thank God for loving us and being there for us. I'm about to put the icing on the cake. I have my job. I was on this, as a matter of fact, this Tuesday, I was coming in at what I clocked in. So my boss came on the call and he said, how long have you been doing security? I said, I'm experiencing this 2005. He said, you got dispensary all this man. He said, what about this? I got a position because of Mike, my co-worker. He wanted to retire. So he's been there 20-something years. He said, you can have Mike's schedule. He wanted to schedule from 2 in the afternoon to 10 at night, Monday through Friday, with weekends off. I said, let me talk to him and my wife. So I told my wife about it. And I said, you know, this is from God. This ain't no other way. This is God. I said, I prayed for this, as a matter of fact. I said, God don't pitch you in the low. You don't pitch you low for a long. He put you up and eventually he's going to lift you up and do season. He's like an opera in the orange. Different season for different folks. So I just said, I've got a challenge. He's like, when I go to this supervised position, it's not on any position. It's supervised invention. It takes on, I got trained on last Thursday but this week I'm going to be getting trained by my big boss, Mike. And then we also got undercover. It's like, they've been undercover. No, they retired LAPD, detected. So they didn't want to wreck me. They said, use the high candidate. And I ain't been there that long. So I'm like, I said, why me Lord? I said, use a chosen one. You did that. You've been and did that. And also I was like, and he also said, you need to help that I'm on that church. Your job is to, I didn't give you hands to do this. Hallelujah. And all of that. He's like, you had to work for me. So I said, I said, I need to help. I said, I miss my duties. I said, I miss all of that. I miss the brothers. I miss the deeks. I miss all of that. I said, I miss, I miss my job. This is, this is what's going to take me when I got to go to heaven. This is, this is heaven buying right here. This church is a grand church. I thank God for the resistance. They came, they came, they came, they played skills we wanted to the Lord. I think my church family, man, this is a praying church right here. It's a prayer. So I just thank God for the great opportunity about to elevate me in my job career. I'll just thank God for being a supervisor and doing, and thank God more times. Me and my wife always talking about more times in the storehouse. Blessings, when blessings come up, blessings go now. When blessings go up, blessings come down. I just thank God for more opportunity to get God where God belong to him. Y'all pray for the Patrick family while the Patrick family goes stronger than the Lord. Behold our God. And I'll say as Steve Harvey has become famous for saying, won't he do it? Amen. God is so loving. He favors his people. I'm glad that I belong to him. I'm glad for the Patrick family. They belong to him. And the world better step back. Amen. That's right. All right. Now, at this time, let's prepare to receive our offering. Praise the Lord. My soul says yes to my Lord. My soul says yes to my Lord. He's done great things. He's done great things. My soul says yes, yes, yes. Come on. Everybody got a yes. My soul says yes. Who wouldn't serve him? Who wouldn't serve him? Yes to my Lord. Oh, yes he has. Oh, yes he has. So says he has. Amen. God. And we see you when your train does feel this temple. We thank and praise you for all we thank and we praise you God. Bless this offering God. Bless everyone that gave. Hallelujah. And those that did not have to give God open up their understanding. Hallelujah. The principles of giving. How you say give and it shall be given unto you. Press down, shaken together and running over. And you'll use men to bless your people God. And we thank you and we praise you in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Let's give the Lord a hand. Praise. Hallelujah. Bishop that message was out.