 has made. Come on, it's worship time. Let's give the Lord some glory. Hallelujah. His precious name is wonderful. His precious name is glorious. Hallelujah. We lean on that name all the time. So, let's call it. Hallelujah. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Sweet, I'd like to take this opportunity, amen, to world leaders that we hear there. Our pastor is Bishop Arlene Alexander. Amen. Amen. This is the wonderful Bobby Alexander. Thank you for this privilege and this opportunity that you've given us to worship and to praise you. Father, we welcome you into our hearts. We welcome you into this place. We know that you were here. You was here when we minister to you in Jesus' name. Amen. Works are done in truth. He loves righteousness and judgment. The earth is full of the goodness to the reason of the word. Our God is great and greatly to be praised. Hallelujah. We give him all the glory and all the honor this morning. There's no one like our God. Amen. There's no one like our God. Thank you, Jesus. Water, you turned into wine. You opened the eyes of the blind. No, there's none like you. Into the darkness, out of the ash, none like you. Start from the top. Water, you turned to one. Open the eyes. The Lord says that he's not a man that he should lie, right? Hallelujah. If the Lord says it, it's the truth. There's a difference between facts and truth. Sometimes God's word never deceives us. What he says, he will do it. What he says is true. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. And he lets me know that exceedingly and abundantly above all things that I could ever ask, think, or dream. Hallelujah. That the Lord is able to cause it to come to pass. Amen. Amen. He's a God. Hallelujah. That answers our prayers. Hallelujah. And meets our needs. Thank you, Lord. Thanks to you all here from our bishop. Amen. Thanks unto the Lord because he's good and his mercy endures for what an exciting time to be in the house of the Lord on this morning. I thank God we're called to do continually excited about the service to rejoice in the Lord, all the righteous folks come on somebody, praise him with the harps and so forth and so on. And that's what I see that we've done today already. The Lord is with us. And what I understand this last song, the praise team sang, they assured us of what verse four in the scripture reading this morning said, for the word of the Lord is right and all his works are done in truth. That's saying that the word of God goes forth and it can't be defeated. Everything that we need, everything that we ask him according to his will, he said, I'll do it. Hallelujah. Praise God, praise God. I'm excited to see each of you who are here today. For those of you who are watching by media, we thank the Lord for you as well. We're just excited about the things that the Lord has done, the things he's doing and furthermore the things he's going to do. We have faith in God, know that he's our Father and he cares for us and he's going to see us through. Amen. Now, the next thing on the program is special music by Minister Marilyn Alexander. Amen. We're so favored. The Lord has blessed this church tremendously. And I thank God for all that he has added to this church. In times past, we may have been light in some areas of music, but not today. Not today. God has blessed us and we're excited for what he does for us. He helps us to do his will. Without further ado, I'm going to call on Minister Marilyn Alexander and she's going to bring us some special music. I don't know what she's going to sing, but I know it's going to be good. Let's receive her as she comes in Jesus' name. God bless you. Praise the Lord, Bishop. Thank you for the confidence that you have in the spirit of the Lord that is in me. Hallelujah. I thank God. Thank God for our Bishop. Thank God for our First Lady. All the saints of God to the Lord. Lamentation 3 and 22 says that it is because of the mercies of God that we are not consumed. His mercies are renewed every morning and he is faithful to his children, women, that the goodness of God to repentance because he is so good to us. The whole earth is filled with his goodness because he is so good to us. It's amazing to me and I love him for his goodness. I love him for his faithfulness. So I'm going to sing this song. The name of it is God is good and just think about it. Just think about it. How God has been so good to you. You know, we all hear this morning and like the old saying says, we have a reasonable portion and I thank him. Thank him. Thank him. So may your His name is worthy to be praised. Yeah, yeah. Thanks unto the Lord for he's good. He is good. He's like Maxwell House coffee. He's good to the last drop. He's like Campbell soup. He's good to give honor to our bishop and the ministers. Oh, that man would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works to the children of men. Come on and put your hands together and just bless the Lord for a minute. He's worthy of praise. He's worthy of glory. We serve a God that is able to make the impossible possible. We serve a God who's never late. Pastor Bob, he's always on time. We serve a God that's able to take our greatest devastations and turn them into our greatest miracles and our greatest testimonies. We serve a God that's able to turn your tragedy into triumph. So now unto him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that you can ask a thing. This is a God that we serve. This is a God that we can trust. This is a God that we love. What's his name? What's his name? His name is Jesus. There's power in the name of Jesus. There's healing in the name of Jesus. There's deliverance in the name of Jesus. Every knee shall bow at that name. Deem his symbol at the name of Jesus. He's a Lily of the Valley. He's a bright and morning star. He's Alpha and Omega. The beginning of the year. The first and the last and everything in between. He is our King. He is the God that we serve. Oh, Shabbah. Father, we bless you today. We bless you for your presence that we've already since and felt. We thank you that your people have worshiped you because you're worthy. It's nobody like you. Nobody besides you. Nobody can do what you do. You're God all by yourself. I don't know about you, but I feel his presence. I felt it when I came in the place. I don't know what you're going through, but God said, this is a day of deliverance. This is a day of breakthrough. This is a day to believe him for the impossible. He says, I can make the impossible possible. He's God. He's God. He's highest in break power and authority. Nobody can do what he does. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He's God. We bless you, God. We bless you, God. Sometimes I think we just get in a hurry. We need to stop sometime and just be in his presence and be under the anointing and take some time to just to fellowship with him and to talk to him and let him talk to us because he's got something to say. Yeah, yeah. The word that the Lord gave me for today was victory in the face of apparent defeat. Victory in the face of apparent defeat. Romans 837 says, and all these things, what things, all these things, whatever your thing is, and all these things, we're more than conquerors through him that loved us. Hey, he gives us victory in the face of apparent defeat. See, we may not like it. We may not want it. We may not be ready for it, but we're involved in spiritual warfare, and we have been born, or should I say, we have been reborn to win him because greater is he that is in you, than he that's in the world. And I don't care what you're going through. You've already got the victory in Jesus. He settled it at Calvary. Somebody said Calvary settled it all. The truth is that we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and power and spiritual wickedness in high places. Don't let that scare you because I don't care what you're facing as long as you stay in Jesus, you've got the victory. The enemy has already been defeated, but you need to know that people are not your enemy. Situations are not the enemy. What you're going through is not the enemy. Satan the devil, that's your enemy, and that's where the fight is. You need to know who you're fighting with. There is a war going on between good and evil, between God and the devil, and many times it plays out on the battlefield of our life. But the Bible said, now thanks be to God who always, always, always, what does always mean? I looked it up in the dictionary and always means always. You always got the victory. You're always going to triumph. Now you need to understand that the victory is not in us, but the victory is in Jesus. We've got the victory in Jesus. We don't have to be afraid. We don't have to fear because the victory is in Jesus. Now we may lose the battle here and there along the way, but tell somebody we win the war. We win the war. We win the war. I looked in the back of the book and we won. There is no defeat. The problem is sometimes I don't feel like I am triumphant. Sometimes I don't feel like I'm winning, but I can't go by how I feel. I got to go by what I'm knowing. What I know is what this book says. See, my mind tells me, it's over. You can't win it. It's over. But the Bible said, greater is he that is in you than he that's in the world. The Bible says, I'm more than a conqueror. Therefore I agree. I agree with what God said about me. See, sometimes I'm going through the struggle and it seems like all the signs are pointing to defeat. Sometimes bad things happen in my life and I think maybe I don't understand how this happened because I don't know how God let this happen because I'm one of his favorites, you know. Come on somebody. He likes me and he loves you. So you need to know that God is with you. But see, too often I'm looking at the situation. I'm not looking at it from God's perspective. See, he said, my ways are not your ways and my thoughts are not your thoughts and I've discovered every time I get to the place where I am upset and feel like, you know, God, you know, I'm mad at you and all that. See, we scared to say that, but we are really thinking that. But when I see the end of the story, then I understand that all things will work together for my good to them that love God. But you got to wait on God. It may not happen overnight, but if you'll give him time, it will work together for your good. See, sometimes we forget that, that all things will work together for my good. See, and I discovered just because it's working together for my good doesn't mean it necessarily feels good when I'm going through it. I don't want to feel bad stuff, but I've learned if I'll just wait on the Lord, he said, and be a good courage that he will strengthen your heart. He will deliver you. He will make a way out of nowhere just for you. He will defeat the enemy just for you. He will cause doors to open for you. He'll divide the Red Sea just for you. He'll bring you out with victory in the name of Jesus. He'll give you victory in the face of a parent defeat. Turning your Bible to John chapter 11, if you will, Saint John chapter 11 verse one through four, we're going to read that. It says, now there a certain man was sick named Lazarus of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha. It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair. I remember when I read that, I realized right away that she was no sister because you can't get no sister to do nothing with their hair. You know, I just got my hair did. Are you crazy? But she wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick. It says, therefore his sister sent unto him saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. When Jesus heard it, he said, this sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God that the son of man might be glorified. He might be magnified. He might be lifted up thereby. So Mary and Martha sin word to Jesus, that Lazarus, the one that you love, your friend, your boy, your ride or die. He's sick, assuming that Jesus is going to come and see about his friend. And Jesus gets the message and he says, this sickness is not unto death. I'm sure his disciples, when they heard it, they had no idea what was getting ready to happen. So Lazarus, the brother of Mary and Martha, he's sick and Martha and Mary sin word to Jesus. Jesus, your friend is sick. And Jesus said, this sickness is not unto death, but to the glory of God. See, sometimes when we're going through a test or a trial, it feels like this is going to kill me. It feels like I can't make it through. We don't like it, we don't want it, we don't get it, but God is saying, just hold on, saints of God, hold on, child of the king. This test is for the glory of God that is purpose in your pain. See, I have discovered that hard times, if you let it, will produce faith. Hard times, if you let them will increase your faith. It will increase your capacity to believe in God. See, because if you didn't come to a trial where you needed a miracle, you wouldn't know that he's a miracle worker. If you never had a time where you needed to be healed, you wouldn't know that he was a healer. If it wasn't a time when you were broke, you didn't, you would never find out that he's a waymaker. He can open doors. He can pour out whatever you need. Not only that, but I discovered he put out some stuff you want. He's blessed me with some stuff I didn't even ask for, but you have to allow it. I find it interesting in the text that Jesus didn't seem to get in a hurry when he got the message. See, when we're in trouble, we want Jesus to come right now. Come down right now, Lord Jesus. We get King James on them. You know, we get to talking to King James. Die with sinners upon the throne. That's all right. Nothing wrong with that. I just usually pray what they call an effectual fervent prayer. I just say, Jesus, he know what that means. It's something about the name of Jesus. We can call on the name of Jesus. When I don't know what to do, I call that name. When I don't know what to do, I depend on that name. When I don't know what to do, I look to the name of Jesus and he will deliver me. Let's look at verse five and six. It said, now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus says, and when he had heard therefore what he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. So when Jesus gets word about Lazarus, his friend, he stays two more days, say two more days. He stays two more days where he is. Write this down. Faith doesn't panic under fire. Let me say it again. Faith does not panic under fire. I may panic under fire. You may panic under fire. I don't think I've ever seen bishop panic about anything, but sometimes I do, but I've discovered faith does not panic under fire because faith knows that I'm going to bring you out. I'm going to make a way. I'm going to open the door. I'm going to deliver you. I'm going to give you victory in the face of defeat because I am God. The Bible said that the just shall live by faith. And so then Jesus tells his disciples, let's go to Judea and his disciples said, Lord, you know the Jews in Judea, they've been trying to kill you lately. Last time we were there, they did a little drive by in their chariot and tried to take you out. And they said, are you sure that you want to go to Judea? And so Jesus continues to talk to his disciples and then he says this, our friend Lazarus is asleep and I'm going to go there and wake him up. And the disciples say, well, if he's asleep, he's doing better. Do you really want to wake him up because he's doing better now? Jesus is getting hot now because they're not paying attention. And then Jesus said, just wait a minute. Then he said, Lazarus is dead. Wow. Lazarus is dead. And I'm sure his disciples began to talk among themselves and said, you know, I I thought that Jesus loved him. I thought that Lazarus was Jesus friend because last year they watched the Superbowl together and they hung out together and they played video games together. And now he's telling me that Lazarus is dead and he didn't even try to do anything. Let me say it again, faith does not panic under fire. See, he knew what he was going to do. And see, when you link up with Jesus, sometimes he'll tell you something you don't understand. But what you have to do is trust him because he knows what I'm going to do. He knows how he's going to bring you out. He knows how he's going to open a door for you. He'll make a door if there is no door. When you're under fire, don't let the fact that you're going through a difficult situation cause you to be determined or be determined that maybe Jesus doesn't love me. See, it's a temptation when I'm going through a test. Maybe Jesus doesn't love me or maybe he's mad at me or maybe he's trying to take me out. But I'm here to tell you Jesus loves you. It reminds me one time, the first time I flew in the airplane and my grandfather said, this is the first time you're flying, you and Jerry. He said, yeah, he said, y'all going by yourself, right? I said, yeah, he said, you don't have to be scared. I guess he could tell in my face how scared he said, he said, Lord, don't have to get you in no plane to kill you. He can kill you on the ground. I said, thanks, granddaddy. I feel much better now. See, but don't let difficulties or hard times, don't let the devil talk to you and say, God don't love you. If he loved you, he wouldn't let you go through that. Tell the devil to shut up. Get the behind me. I may not understand it, but I trust him. I may not see what he's doing, but I trust him. See, sometimes God allows you to go through a difficult time because he knows he can trust you. See, I look at people like First Lady and Sister Terry and Sister Merlin, how they have kept the faith through difficult situations. See, I know their story, not all of it, but I know enough to say, wow, God is good. God is faithful. And they know it. See, see, in the Old Testament, the devil said, they don't love you. They just, they just, they just, they play in you, as Jesus said, but have you considered my servant Job? See, has God said, have you considered my servant Darryl or considered my servant Sardin? Have you considered? You know, has God said, have you considered my servant? Because he will be faithful. He's not going to give up. But what I like about saying, you can test him, but you can't kill him. You can touch him, but you can't kill him. Because I'm not through with him yet. I've got something for him to do yet. And God said, it doesn't matter what you're going through. It's not going to kill you. I'm going to bring you out the other side. Better, stronger, faster. Six billion dollar man. Y'all pray for me. I know I need to be. Anyway, somewhere between three and four days, Jesus shows up and it is obvious that apparently he is too late because Lazarus is dead. See, you may be too late and I may be too late, but God is never late. See, he can turn back the time. He can hold the sun still. He can open the rest. He never late. He can do whatever he wants to do when he wants to do it and it'll always be the right time. This looked like apparently this is defeat. What do you do when your dream dies? What do you do when your hope dies? What do you do when your plans die? Here's one that I experienced and I boy, I tell you, it was something. What do you do when your job dies? When they say we're closing the doors for good. In those times, we have to begin to wait on the Lord, be of good courage, keep on praising, keep on dancing. I told the Lord, I'm in such bad shape. I said, my ship is about to go down. I said, I ain't going to ask nobody for nothing. I ain't going to tell nobody for nothing. If you let this ship goes down, this is on you and what? You guess what? He made a way. I don't know. He opened the door that there wasn't there. Ask me how I do it, how he did it. I don't know, but I'm on the other side and I came out better. So, Mary and Martha, they tell Jesus, if you had been here, our brother wouldn't have died. Bishop, they kind of rose up on Jesus. They were kind of feeling themselves. They hot now. In other words, Jesus, if you had to come when we called you, when we told you to come, if you loved us like you said you loved us, this wouldn't have happened to us. See, but we say without saying, Lord, if you had a showed up earlier, I wouldn't have told that lie. If you'd have showed up a little bit earlier, I wouldn't have stole that money. Ladies, you tell Jesus, if you had a showed up a little bit earlier, I wouldn't have smacked her on that television shows. Housewives are shield of faith. Lord have mercy. I would have got that promotion. I would have got that job, but I did not. Lord, I thought you loved me, but I don't get it. I was on a job and the Lord told me, you know, I'm going to give you a promotion. In six months, I got seven promotions. And then there was another job that I really wanted. He said, I'm going to give you that job. And Sister Sykes, they gave that job to somebody else. And I thought, I've missed it. You know, in a big company, they have to post the job. Legally, they're supposed to post it and everybody's supposed to get a chance. And they gave the job to somebody else. And I thought, wow. And after about six weeks, they didn't post the job again. They just came and got me and said, this job, we need you to do this job. See, God will make a promise and it may not happen right away. But if you will trust him, if you'll stay with him, I didn't go get it. They came and got me. Your blessings will follow you and overtake you and say, I need you right now. Here it is. And so Jesus tells him, show me where you've laid him. And they take him to the tomb and Jesus said, Rome, the stone away. And Martha, Martha, she was, Martha, she was kind of brass. I could tell she was kind of brass. She always, she reminded me of some people I know, they're going to tell you what's on their mind, whether you like it or not, or whether they should or not, they're going to tell you what they thinking. And she said, Lord, it's been four days and surely, surely by now he stinks. When a person dies, decomposition starts about four minutes after death. The blood circulation stops. The body is no longer getting oxygen. So the cells begin to break down and rigor mortis sets in. The body begins to bloat and sometimes it will blow to twice as normal size. The organs, the muscles and the skins begin to liquefy. Somewhere between 24 and 72 hours, all the organs decompose and this process usually smells quite bad. Usually it stinks. So Martha said, Lord, it's been four days. That's 96 hours. Surely by now he stinks. He is dead. See, sometimes we go through situations and it's been so long, we said it's dead, it stinks, it's over. Sometimes we've been in a struggle for so long and we said it's over, it's dead, it stinks. Sometimes we've been in relationships. And it stinks. And I'm not just talking about husband and wife. Sometimes it's sister and brother and father and parent. And sometimes it's your coworker. Sometimes it's your fellow students. But the relationship has been bad for so long. It stinks. It's no hope. But Jesus said, roll the stone away. Jesus said, uncover the cover up. She's done some things that stink in our life that we try to hide. We don't want nobody to know about it. But there's something about Jesus. He's always willing to talk about the elephant that's in the room that nobody wants to address. So we say, Lord, we don't want anybody to know how bad this situation is. Jesus said, roll the stone away. We said, Lord, this hurts so bad, I just can't deal with it. He said, roll the stone away. People will think I'm weak. People will think I'm caught on Jesus saying, roll the stone away. Jesus is saying, let me deal with that stinkin' stuff in your life. You can't fix it, but I can. You can't deal with it, but I can. Let me turn it around for you. You can't do it, but I can. Let me give you the victory in the face of apparent defeat by the power of the Holy Ghost. The Holy Ghost is moving in our life if we'll just stay out the way and let God do what he's trying to do. He'll work miracles for us. He'll bring breakthrough to us. He'll open doors for us. He'll make ways for us, but we gotta let the Holy Ghost do what he's trying to do. We used to sing a song something about the Holy Ghost. I can't explain, but I got it. So Jesus said, roll the stone away. And they rolled the stone away. And Jesus said with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth, hallelujah. And Lazarus got up from the dead, hallelujah. He was wrapped in his grave clothes. So he just began to hop out of the tomb because he was wrapped in grave clothes. And Jesus said, loose the man and let him go. And they loose Lazarus. The Bible says, he whom the sun sets free. It's free indeed. When he bring you out, not only will he bring you out, but he'll make you free. He'll bring you out with joy. He'll bring you out with hope. He'll bring you out with the promise. He'll bring you out with the word. Jesus gave Lazarus victory in the face of apparent defeat. Some of you been going through a test. Some of you been going through a trial. Some of you think it's too late. This situation will never turn around. But Jesus said, hold on saints of God. Hold on woman of God. Hold on man of God. Don't throw in the tile. Don't give up. Get ready. Get ready. Get ready. Because Jesus is about to say, come forth. Come forth. Come tell somebody. Come forth. Jesus said, come up out of that sickness. Come up out of that sadness. Come up out of that poverty. Come up out of that depression. Come up out of defeat. He said, come up out of that stinking thinking. See, sometimes we think defeat. Our thinking is stinking. But God said, tell the people to begin to think the victory. Think the victory. I don't know how he's going to do it. I don't know when he's going to do it. But he's going to give me the victory. The victory. The victory. See, you've got to tell yourself sometimes, I can do all things to Christ. He strengthens me up. You've got to tell yourself, thanks be to God who gives me the victory. He gives me the victory. Sometimes tell yourself, no weapon. No weapon. No weapon that's formed against me is going to prosper. But I'm coming out. I'm coming out. I'm coming out and I tell myself, it's my time. It's my time for healing. It's my time for breakthrough. It's my time for deliverance. But I've got to fight. The Bible said, lift up your heads. Oh ye gates. And be lifted up. Ye everlasting doors. And the king of glory shall come in into your problem, into your struggle, into what the enemy's trying to do. He told Jehoshaphat, look, this battle doesn't belong to you. This battle belongs to me. This fight belongs to me. He told Jehoshaphat, all I need for you to do is show up. Give me some praise and get out the way and let me do what I do. But we've got to determine, we've got to decree that I'm coming out. I'm coming out. I'm coming out in Jesus' name. I'm coming out with the victory. I'm coming out, but I'm going to fight the enemy. I'm coming out with my joy. I'm coming out with my peace. I'm coming out dancing. I'm coming out shouting. Somebody says, don't wait till the battle is over. Shout now. Believe now. Declare now. I'm coming out. I'm coming out. I'm coming out with the victory because Jesus has given me victory in the face of apparent defeat because greater is he that is in me than he that's in the world. He's given me the victory. So I'm coming out. I'm declaring that the devil's defeated. I'm declaring that greater is he that's in me than he that's in the world. And I've got the victory. I'm coming out with the victory in the name of Jesus. Come on and bless the Lord today. Hallelujah. Praise God. Victory. That's a great word in my vocabulary. That means I don't have to succumb to anything that the Lord is willing to do for me because he is my victory. I thought as Dr. Ross preached, I keyed in on that victory, victory, victory shall be mine. Not might be mine or could be mine, but I've made up in my mind according to the one who I serve, the one who saved me, the one who raised me, the one who brought me out of the darkness of sin. He promised me that I could have the victory no matter what. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'm not going to preach it again, but he said, Jesus said, Lazarus, come forth before he said that. He said, Lazarus is dead, but nevertheless, he said, Lazarus is dead, but that don't make no difference. He said, I have the victory over every problem that comes your way, even down to death. He said, nevertheless, let's go unto him. Then I saw this other portion that says this sickness is not unto death. A promise. I remember a famous person who did healing ministries. Her name is Sister Maddie B. Poole, and she would say to people, why should you die before your time while others are being healed? And what that says to me, it's up to you whether victory comes to you or not. It's there, it's available for you, and God has made a promise. He said, I will. He said, not yet. We have to open our hearts. We have to receive what the Lord has provided for us. We'll be happy all the days of our lives. I love Jesus. I love Jesus. He's my savior. When storms are raging, he's my shelter, and where he leads me, I will follow. I love Jesus, and he loves me. Come on somebody, come on somebody, wrap your arms around that. Get that in your head that the Lord is for you if God be for us. Who can be against us? Let the devil and all of his ips let them come forth, but they can't stand against us. God is on our side. God has made us a promise, and we can claim it in His name. Well, I'm excited about what the Lord has said to us today. Anybody else excited? Anybody else know that God has spoken this to this house? You know how I know He spoke to this house? Because it was here. He's spoken right here, and He wants us to embrace that. Victory, victory shall be, let me sing that a little bit. Will y'all help me? Oh, victory, victory shall be mine. Oh, victory, victory shall be mine. If I hold my peace, let the Lord fight my battle. And I told you everything has flown right in this direction from the beginning of this service. God makes a promise, and God cannot. See, some people promise us things they can't produce, but our God is great. God, God is great. Need to be praised. That's why we should sing it. Praise, praise up to the name of the Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Praise is comely. Praise is right. And you know what? I realized that the praises that we send up, they're not even for us. The praise that we send is up to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And what I want most of everything is for Him to be praised. I'm excited about all our musicians, but I praise God. I get some joy from what they bring to the service, but I praise God when I think of the goodness of Jesus. And all He's done for me, my soul gets happy. My soul pray, Lord, hallelujah. Thank you. Thank you. He brought me out of shame. Amen. And I love it. That's what He does. That's what He does. Just what He does. All right. I'm going to quit. I'm excited. Y'all might not know it, but I'm excited today. What the Lord is doing in our midst, opening the word to us and helping us to be victorious, victorious, always. We're winners, always. All right. I'm through. Come on, minister sorting. Here's minister sorting. Now, you can start to prepare when you see Him coming. You know what He's coming for. Praise the Lord, son. This is also part of our praise and worship. When we give unto the Lord, as the Lord has commanded each and every one of us to do, the Lord supplies all our needs according to His riches and glory in Christ Jesus. We go out there and we work. Yes, we work for the money, but it's guys that give us the health, give us the strength, the how to do it, where to do it, when to do it. It's God's. In 2 Corinthians 9.7, 9.7, it says, every man according to his purpose and his heart, so let him give, not grudgingly, or necessity, necessity for God's love of cheer for giver. Verse 6 says, but this I say, he will sow it sparingly, shall reap also sparingly, and he will sow it bountifully, shall reap also bountifully. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. And God is able to make all grace abound, all grace abound towards you, that you always have all sufficiency, that you may have everything that you need, whatever you need. And if it is, and you got favor with him, he'll give you some of your wants. He'll give you some of your wants, providing that we are faithful to God and doing what the Lord asks us to do. He said, bring all the tithes and offerings into his storehouse, that there may be me in my house. Hallelujah. And that's a promise. That's a promise. Yeah. God can't go back on his word. His word is true and it stands alone. Hallelujah. So please stand with me right now in Jesus' name, that we prepared to give our offering to the Lord, being obedient to the Lord in Jesus' name. Let's hold our offering up. Father in the name of Jesus, Lord God, we thank you. We praise you, Lord God, for the wealth you have given us, Lord God. We come back to you, Lord God, being obedient, obeying your word, Lord God. You said, bring all the tithes, all the offerings into your storehouse, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. He said, try me, test me, prove me. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Lord. We come, Lord God, bringing all the tithes and offerings into your storehouse in Jesus' name, Lord God. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen and amen. Thank you. Bring your offering up. That you will bless this offering. Multiply, Lord God. Let it continue, Lord God, to meet every need, Lord God, that it may further the work, Lord God, that's going forth here, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God, that the doors, Lord God, may stay open, Lord God, that souls, Lord God, will be saved, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God, we ask you this morning that you bless the gift and the giver in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen and amen. Just before we dismiss, we're excited to have our brother with us again this morning. Amen. God bless you. Did you want to preach or anything? All right. If you wanted to have words to say that, we'd accept that. All right. God bless you. He's not anxious to preach. All right. All right. Mrs. Marilyn. This Mrs. Amen. We're going to sing our going away song. Yes, sir. Let's all stand. Amen. Praise the Lord. Come on. Let's get ready to go home. Amen. God has been praised and blessed. He has been glorified in this place, Bishop. Amen. Our determination is raised. Hallelujah. And we're going to keep on walking with Jesus. Come on. Jesus, yes, I am. I'm determined to walk with Jesus. Yes, I am. Through hard times, tribulation, persecution, I'm a faithful. I'm determined to walk with Jesus. Yes, I am. Through hard times, tribulation, I'm a faithful. I'm determined to walk with Jesus.