 For he is good, yes he is good Oh, give thanks, I to the Lord For he is good, I to the Lord For he is good, I to the Lord I to give him glory Endure it for El Luya Thank you Jesus Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah Hallelujah, he is worthy He is worthy to be praised To be magnified Stop Lord God In all the other things that have breath Praise is Lord God In the name of Jesus Father, we come this morning Lord God In the precious name of Jesus Lord God We come this morning Lord God Saying thank you Lord God Thank you for your mercy Lord God Thank you for your grace Lord God Thank you for your loving kindness Lord God And your tender love and mercy Lord God We thank you this morning Lord God For who you are Lord God And what you are Lord God In our lives Lord God We thank you this morning Lord God. For being Lord God. Everything Lord God. We need you to be Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. We ask you this morning Lord God. That you will have your way Lord God. In this service Lord God. That you will touch Lord God. That you will move Lord God. In a mighty way Lord God. Touch our hearts. Every name of Jesus Lord God. You said those of us Lord God. That worship you Lord God. We must. We must. We must worship you Lord God. In spirit Lord God. And in truth Lord God. We ask you Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. That you will take control Lord God. I move. In a mighty way Lord God. Anoint the praise to you Lord God. As we come Lord God. Offer it Lord God. That I tell you this morning Lord God. We ask you Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. That you will anoint Lord God. The musician Lord God. Anoint every note. Every beat Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. Hallelujah Lord God. That they may play skillfully Lord God. Before you Lord God. In Jesus name Lord God. As the message of come forth Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. We ask you Lord God. That you will continue Lord God. To anoint him Lord God. Anoint every word Lord God. That proceed out of this mouth Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. Give us a heart to receive Lord God. In the ear to hear Lord God. What you are saying Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. Help each of them with us Lord God. To apply Lord God. Your word Lord God. To all our sight Lord God. That we may live Lord God. A holy and righteous life before you Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. You said be holy. For you are holy Lord God. In Jesus name Lord God. Be glorified. Be magnified Lord God. In Jesus name Lord God. In Jesus name we pray. Praise you oh Lord. With my whole heart. I will tell of all your marvelous works. I will be glad and rejoice in you. I will sing praise to your name. Oh most high. When my enemies turn back they shall fall and perish at your presence. For you have maintained my right and my cause. You sat on the throne judging in righteousness. You have rebuked the nations. You have destroyed the wicked. You have blotted out their names forever and ever. And I have to stop right there but that's not the end of that chapter. God's word is pure. It's holy. It's righteous. What a wonderful savior we have. Thank you Jesus. Praise the Lord saints. It is good to be in the house of the Lord. Hallelujah. We come to lift up the name of Jesus to glorify him. Magnify his name because he is worthy. Thank you Lord. Let the glory of the Lord rise among us. Let the glory of the Lord rise among us. Let the praise of our King rise among us. Let it rise. Let it rise. Let the glory of the Lord rise among us. Let the glory of the Lord rise of the Lord. The presence of God in the sanctuary lifting up the name of Jesus in the sanctuary. He was out of his royal robe. He wasn't naked. He just danced out of that royalty and humbled himself and began to give God some praise and give him some praise. When the spirit of the Lord comes upon. When the spirit of the Lord comes upon. I just want to encourage you that every time you come into the house of the Lord. Be determined to give the Lord. Because God is so worthy. Hallelujah. At this time we will have our solo president. Oh I'm sorry. Remarks by the Bishop. Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord everybody. Praise the Lord. Oh give thanks unto the Lord because he's good. Not because his Thanksgiving day or season. But give thanks to the Lord for his goodness and for his kindness towards the children of man. Oh God is great. God is good. Now y'all stand by it. Minister you get a chance to wipe your face. I'm excited. I'm rejoicing in my soul. When I think of the goodness of Jesus all that he's done for me. My soul cries out. Hallelujah. There's a praise on the inside striving to get out and I'm going to let it out. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. Now I want to draw your attention to kind of scoot over a little bit. I want to draw your attention to this back wall. It says welcome. Everybody's welcome in this house. And it said welcome. Get ready to worship. All right now you all can move back over. Come on somebody. I understand that this is the end of the Thanksgiving season the the week of Thanksgiving but we can thank him all the time. We can praise him every day. We can praise him every hour. He's worthy of the praise. He's worthy of the praise. Thank you Jesus. Thank God. Thank you Jesus for stopping by here on this morning. The presence of the Lord is all throughout this place so you're welcome. You're welcome to praise him to give him glory that is due to his name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord. I want to tell you the the Holy Ghost is here. Yes it is. And the Spirit of God is moving throughout this place and if you don't want to get burned come on somebody it's hot in here today. Hallelujah. I invite you to join in. Join in wherever you are in your home at school at work wherever you are today in the sanctuary here. I invite you to praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Let's worship. Let's speak of the word. Hallelujah. The word of our Father our Savior. Hallelujah. Come on somebody. Let's do that another couple rounds of praise that last one you did. That one got me. Amen. Amen. When the Spirit of the Lord comes upon my heart I will dance like David dance. I'll say Lord you have your way. Yes. I got the preach but I ain't the preacher. I want to introduce to you at this time the speaker of the hour of the Kevin Ross. Amen. True man of God walked with the Lord down through the ages. Amen. He's been faithful in ministry to God. Yes. That's why his life is blessed. Amen. Amen. So now I want you to stand. Let's all stand and receive the man of God Elder Kevin Ross. Receive him with the hearty amen. Amen. Praise the Lord. Just lift your hand to begin to worship. Amen. The presence of the Lord is here. Thank you. Bishop help me sing this song. Thank you Lord. Lord I love you. Yes I love you. Come on sing it with us. How I love you. How I love you. I really love you. Hey. I really love you. Lord I praise you. And Lord I praise you. Yes I praise you. Yes I praise you. How I praise you. How I praise you. I really praise you. Just for who you are. Just for who you are. And all of your glory. And all of your glory. Everything needs you to be. All the great, great I am of you. I read how I praise you. Yes. Just for who you are. You are everything needs you to be. Come on and bless him. Come on and worship him. There's no God like our God. Everything is everything. Worship you Lord. We worship you Lord. You're the great. The presence of the Lord is here. If you need healing I want you to raise your hand. We're gonna pray. We're gonna believe God with you right now. See when the presence is here that's when you want to jump in the water. When the anointing is here that's when you want to jump in the water. Bishop why don't you lead us in a prayer of healing right now. The presence of the Lord is here right now. Hallelujah. Yeah. Father in the name of Jesus. We come to you O Lord. In the name of Jesus. Thank you O God for your strength, for your power, for your might, for your love and concern for these your people. Yes Lord. O God we ask you O God to move through this audience O God. Move up on the listeners and the hearers O God at this time. If there's any illness in the body. Yes Lord. O God we know that you're able. You've been our healer down through the years and you've made a way every time that we were seen. Thank you for that O God that you're able to do and we come to you in faith believing knowing that you hear us knowing that you're able to do it and so we thank you and we praise you. Come on let's lift up the praise O God. We praise you right now for the healing that is taking place even at this moment as I speak. Glory. Heal in the name of Jesus. Glory to God. Glory to God. Be healed in the name of the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. We thank you and we say this prayer. We end this prayer believing knowing that it's done in your name. We thank you right now in Jesus' name. Amen. Give God praise. As I was saying this, God told me to tell the people he said I will meet your every need. I will supply your every need and no it's more than stuff. Come on. Come on. I'll bless you. I'll give you peace. I'll give you joy. I'll give you happiness. And then I'll bless your basket too. I'll make it overflow. You won't know where it's coming from but it's just coming. You keep pouring it out but it'll keep coming in. He says I will supply. I will supply. I will supply. Bishop he will supply every need. Oh God. Thank you Lord. I feel like I can just about sit down. We give honor to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ and we give honor to our bishop and our fabulous first lady in our asps to all the ministers the saints and the friends and those watching us by live stream we say praise the Lord. Let's pray. Father we just thank you for your presence that's here already. Speak to our hearts. We believe you've given us a word. Speak to our hearts. We declare that we won't leave the same way that we came in but we're going from glory to glory from strength to strength. We're seeing your hand moving a magnificent way. We give you the praise in Jesus name. Amen. Hallelujah. Go ahead and give God some praise as you take your seat. I always wonder why they say take your seat. I hope they're not still in chairs out there. Bishop as you sit down is what I what I meant to say but I was thinking about great people and different fields of endeavors and sports and medicine and music and education and I thought all of these people have one thing in common an insatiable desire to do better say better say better to do better and to be better no matter where you are on your level with your walk in Christ you may feel like your way up here you may feel like you're down here but wherever you are you can do better say better say better see everything that we need we can find in Jesus everything that you need you can find in Jesus and so if you can find it in Jesus the thing you ought to do is to know him better better I need to know him better if anyone and anything gets in my way it stops me from knowing him better it's got to go any position any amount of money I don't care what it is if it stops you from knowing Jesus better it's got to go turning your body was if you will to Philippians the third chapter Philippians the third chapter I'm only going to read one verse there he says Paul is writing here and he says that I may know him and the power of his resurrection the fellowship of his suffering being made conformable unto his death but what I want to talk about is that first portion of that verse it says that I may know him and the power of his resurrection see many people knew my father Jacob Colonel Ross but I knew my father Jacob Colonel Ross not his public persona but I live with him close and personal every day I even knew why he was named Jacob Colonel Ross he was named after his uncle a German Jewish gentleman named Jacob see but I knew his backstory I knew what made him him that's what the media wants today they want to know the backstory the story behind the story so now when we are in love with somebody not just fascinated with them but really in love with them will have a desire to understand them at a deeper level we meet a person and we think I you know I might like this person and we get friendly with that person and then we become friends but in order to take that friendship to the next level to relationship we must be intentional say intentional about getting to know that person better the same thing is true in the spirit if you want to really get to know Jesus better you have to be intentional about getting to know him better in Psalms 103 says and he got made known his ways unto Moses and that is because Moses sought after him to know him says but his acts unto the children of Israel in other words they only knew him from afar so in our quest to know people better we have questions we have criteria how we judge them when we're young he's so cute he's so fine he's so tall he got a six pack I wonder what kind of car he drives and brothers you know how we do that girl so fine she's a brick house bishop look at that long pretty hair I wonder if that color purple is really the real color of her hair that's because we owe that we were young but then when we get a little older we get to our 30s and our 40 we say well he looks okay he looks all right but does he have a job I need to see his bank account and his credit score does he have a record see sisters y'all need to know these things before y'all call yourself hooking up with somebody and all the fathers said amen if he ain't got no job if he ain't got no education if he ain't going to school you tell you better just keep on rolling ain't nothing here for you oh and if he don't know Jesus I don't forget that that's the most important thing but then when you get to be a little older get to be my 60 and beyond can he walk can he talk does he have at least one good leg and it can't be the same good leg I got because we hold hands trying to hold each other if we both got the same good leg we're gonna tip over or we keep walking in a circle because we can't get no traction with that bad leg criteria criteria criteria criteria you need to know these things but if you read Philippians chapter one two and three you'll see that Paul already has a relationship with Jesus but in chapter three verses five in sick Paul six Paul gives us his credentials he says I will circumcise on the eighth day I'm of the stock of Israel born to the tribe of Benjamin I'm a Hebrew of Hebrews as touching the law of Pharisee concerning zeal I persecuted the church as for righteousness concerning the law I was blameless like the old folks used to say you can't spot my life and then Paul goes on to say this but all of those things that are considered great accomplishment to most people he says I count them as dumb as crap he says but what I really want what I really really want more than anything it's all that I can know him and know him better say better say better say better I want to know Jesus better Philippians 3 10 says that I may know him and the power of his resurrection as King James version this is the amplifier it says same verse for my determined purpose is that I may know him and that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately associated with him perceiving recognizing understanding the wonder of his person and in the same way the power of the resurrection hallelujah all that we could recognize Jesus all that we could be acquainted with Jesus all that we could understand but the power of the resurrection is our salvation our healing our prosperity our redemption that's what was accomplished when he rose from the grave see I don't care how good you think you were I don't care how bad you think you were if it wasn't for the fact that Jesus shed his blood on Calvary but not just the fact that he shed his blood that he laid down and died but not just because he laid down and died because he got up hallelujah if he hadn't got up it wouldn't mean a thing but he got up Muhammad is dead Confucius is dead Jesus was dead but he got up that's the power of the resurrection that's holy ghost power hey I like that I kind of get a little hit of myself but I like that something about that holy ghost I can't explain it all bishop but I got it hey can't explain it all but I know I got it makes me walk right time makes me talk right time makes me live right time makes me want to do right it's something about the holy ghost makes me want to love my enemies when I don't want to love my enemies makes me want to do right but it's something about the holy ghost in Matthew chapter 16 Jesus he comes into the coast of Caesarea Philippi with his disciples and he asked them a question who do men say that I am what are they saying about me on Facebook TMZ and the breakfast club I want to know what they're talking about out there on Facebook they're saying that you're John the Baptist TMZ said he is Elijah but I was watching the breakfast club and they say he must be he's got to be Jeremiah one of the prophets but then Jesus asked his disciples his road dogs his crew a question who do you say that I am and that's the question I'm asking you today who do you say that Jesus is is he just a fairy tale is he just a story that you read about who do you say that Jesus is and Jesus has a way of asking questions Bishop that we don't really know quite know the answer to or he asks us he asks us questions that we know the answer to it but we just don't want to answer it because it's tough but he asked the question who do men who do you say that I am so these type A outspoken brash know it all men all of a sudden they didn't have a word to say and so Peter big mouth Peter loud mouth Peter cut your head off Peter says thou art the Christ of the Son of the living God hallelujah and Jesus says Peter you're blessed because flesh and blood has not revealed that to you so there it is if you really want to know about Jesus if you really want to know him better it takes revelation revelation through the written word of God revelation through the preach word of God revelation by spending time with him in prayer and fasting and meditating on his word I go in the closet and I shut my door and I spend time with Jesus they said and he I talked to him and he talks to me and sometimes Bishop when I go in my closet and close the door I get down to pray but I fall asleep y'all know y'all do it too don't act like it's just me but he's there when I wake up and he keeps talking to me and so I find I have personal experiences with him and that also adds to the revelation of God but you need to know not only do we want to know about Jesus Jesus wants you to know about him better hallelujah say better that I know him better he wants me to know about him better better and the Old Testament God reveals himself to us through his Jehovah vistic titles Jehovah Jarrah the Lord God our provided Jehovah Rafa God our healer Jehovah Shama I like that Jehovah Shama the Lord is present in many many other names in the Old Testament the revelation of God has given into us a little bit at a time it's kind of like breadcrumbs a little bit more and a little bit more but in the New Testament I like say New Testament in the New Testament the revelation of God was given to us in Jesus Christ because Jesus is a fullness of the Godhead bodily I said Jesus is a fullness of the Godhead bodily Jesus is all that God is all in one person someone shall glory hey someone shall glory he's a fullness of the Godhead bodily there is no more after Jesus he's all that we need to know we don't have to worry about people we don't have to worry about stuff but he is the fullness of the Godhead all in one person in other words he's everything that you need I don't care whether there's sickness in your body he's a healer I don't care the way you broke he's a provider I don't care if you don't know what to do he's a waymaker he's everything that you need so based upon the data that you have who do you say that Jesus is I say Jesus is a lily of the valley he's a bright and morning star he's alpha and omega the beginning and the end he's El Shaddai the breasted one the God who supplies all of our needs he's my redeemer he's my savior he's a waymaker a miracle worker a promise keeper he's lighting the darkness he's a lion of the tribe of Judah he's my healer he's my redeemer he's my protector he's my bridge over troubled water when I don't know how I'm going to get out he's a bridge over troubled water someone said he's everything he's everything to me he's my father my mother my sister my brother he's everything everything everything to me I've got to know him better I got to know him closer he's everything he's everything to me see I've got to know him better because I've discovered the better I know him the more I can trust him the better I know about him the more I know he is a fateful God the better I know him the more I understand that he can do all things all things through Christ but I've got to know him better hey I've got to know him better because someone says he is so sweet to trust in Jesus just to rest upon his word see I've discovered a lot of times we think we need stuff we think we need a sandwich we think we need to grow and ride with the wind blowing through our hair kind of hard for me these days has to stick my chin out the window but what I discovered a lot of times what we really need is rest I'm not talking about just laying down I'm talking about the rest of God see wouldn't you be going through tests and trials and you don't know what to do and you lay down and you sleep and get up tired because you didn't get any rest but he says cast your cares cast your cares on me he said because I care about you I want to bless you let me fix it for you let me open the door for you let me heal you let me make a way for let me redeem you let me fix the broken places in your life and if you let him do those things for you I don't care what's going on around you you can sit down and have rest everything falling apart all around you but I've got the rest of God we get that rest of God because I've learned to know him on a personal level I've learned to know him better better hallelujah tell your neighbor I know don't say it like you mean say I know who Jesus is tell somebody else I know who Jesus is but neighbor but neighbor I want to know him better better better I've got to know him better I want to walk better I want to talk better I want to love better I want to live better I want to know him better I can do all things to Christ better better because he strengthens me that I may know him see I I know Pastor Bobby she's my aunt I know her but I don't know her like he knows her and when we get into the place where we have a relationship with Jesus that we know him Moses said that Moses understood his ways how he operated you can get into such a love relationship with Jesus that you understand I don't know why he's allowing this in my life but I know somehow it's gonna work out for my good somehow he's gonna bless me somehow I'm gonna use this for a testimony he loves me enough that I trust him even when I don't understand what he's doing because I know him like that see my father was a great man and people love my father and my father would give you the shirt off his back but he was my father and anything that I needed if he had it all I had to do was say daddy I need you had to finish saying it he knew what I was going to talk about daddy I need your help and see the Bible says we get into such a relationship that we call him Abba father not just father have you ever met a little child that walks up to his parents his father but most times children run up and say daddy I need you and Abba father means daddy god that we can have a relationship when we get to know him because we spend time in his presence we spend time praying and fasting and calling on his name and reading his word that I might know him in the power of the resurrection the power of the resurrection is a holy ghost power hallelujah and said something about the holy ghost I can't explain but I got it it's something about the holy ghost that turned my life around it's something about the holy ghost that made me a new person but as I got to know him for myself that I might know him better and better and better I've got to know him saints and saints of God get to know Jesus better he'll take you to another level I've got to I've got to I've got to know him better but bishop you know what I I've got to know him better for myself I can't rely on the relationship that my mother had or my grandmother had or my grandfather had or even my bishop I've got to know him for myself young people you've got to know Jesus for yourself middle-aged people you've got to know him for yourself old folks and if you're old folks don't say nothing just play it off you know who you are you know who I'm talking to you've got to know him for yourself but whatever you're at no matter how you know him never lose a desire to know him better say better I want to know him better I want to love him better I want to trust him better I've got to know him better I've got to know him on a personal level I've got to go deeper in prayer I've got to go deeper in praise I've got to go deeper in the word of God God. Oh, that I will know him and know him better because he loves me and he wants us to know him better. God bless you. What a wonderful, wonderful message the Lord has sent to the body today. The cross has pointed out that we all know him, all of us who are called by his name. We all know him, but it's to different degrees. Somebody says, I want to know him better and better. Somebody else said, deeper, yet I pray, higher every day and wiser, blessed Lord in your precious holy word. Now that's where better comes from, from the precious word of God. If you're here, and if you understand that there's another level that you can go to, let's stand on our feet. Everyone stand on your feet. There is another level. No matter how high you've attained in the Spirit, there's another level to go. Where the Lord stands waiting and he's anxious to help you reach that goal. Come on somebody, they say in Alcoholics Anonymous, we have no help for you until you express your need. So now what we need to do today is we need to get honest. Be for real. Examine yourself and see where the Lord wants to take you. So the Lord is calling. The Lord is crying out for us to come unto me. He said, I'll give you rest if you take my yoke upon you. He said, hear me and be blessed. Come unto me. You know that song. Hear the blessed Savior calling the oppressed. Are ye heavy laden? Come to me and rest. Come no longer, Terry. I, your Lord will bear. Bring me every burden. Come on somebody. We're burdened for different reasons in different areas. He said, bring me every burden. Bring me every care. Come. Come. If you're here today and you need prayer, you know there's another level that you want to attain. Why don't you come down, the factual fervent prayer of the righteous. Availeth much. You can trust in Jesus. Amen. He's faithful. He never comes short of his word. He never comes short of his word. He said, I will cast your care on me. He said, I'll give you rest. I like that. When it says cast your care, it's talking about a boulder. He said, take that boulder and throw it over here on me. Hallelujah. He said, however heavy it is. He said, I can do it. Thank God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Say it again. Oh, how God must love us. Because he sends us the word of God and is fresh from heaven. I thank the Lord. Come on. Let's give him a hand. Praise. We're going to get prepared for our offering. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen. Those of you that are in media, in media land, you may give through givelify at Shield of Faith Long Beach. Amen. And you may also send it. Mail it. Keep those postal people employed. Amen. And send it to 4934 Long Beach Boulevard in Long Beach, California. The zip code is 90805. Amen. Hallelujah. Amen. Those of you that are ready to give, amen, you may come on down. You may come on down. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. Amen. Come on down. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Come on down. And depend on Jesus. Because He's my strength. And He's my God. I learned how to lead. And depend on Jesus. I know Him better now. Because I found out that if I trust Him. I'm going to sing one more time. I learned how to lead. I learned that in the Baptist church. And depend on Jesus. Because He's my strength. Yes, He is. And He's my God. I know Him better now. I learned how to lead. Trust Him. Thank you for the offering, God. Thank you for the givers, God. Those that came and were cheerful. Hallelujah. Bless them, oh God. Bless them. Increase them. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus. Even those who did not have to give God. Hallelujah. Teach. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. How to give. Father, we thank and we praise you. Increase, oh God. Increase. Let it meet the needs. Hallelujah. This house, Father. We'll thank you. And we'll praise you. And we'll give your name all the glory. In Jesus' name. Hallelujah. And if I trust Him. I learned how to lead. And He's my God. I learned to stay with Jesus. Hallelujah. Come on, God bless you all. Hallelujah. I want to recognize Minister Bruce Sarton. He's back to thank the Lord. The Lord took him down to see his family. And brought him back safely. Hallelujah. Amen. We're delighted to have him back. Why don't you come and dismiss us at this time, Minister Sarton? Ain't nothing like being back home. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. I missed all of y'all. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Let's follow His. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you. We praise you, Lord God. We thank you for the message, Lord God. That came forth, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Lord, we want to know you better, Lord God. We want to know you better. We want to draw nigh unto you. As you draw nigh unto us, Lord God. Lord, we want your will to be done in our lives. Not our will, Lord God. Lord, we ask you that you will search our hearts, Lord God. Anything, Lord God, that you find in us, Lord God. That is not like you as, Lord God. Take it away, Lord God. Remove it, Lord God. In Jesus' name. Create in each of them what is a clean heart. And renew, Lord God, the right spirit, Lord God. That you may say, Lord God, well done. Thou good and faithful servant. We ask it all in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen and amen.