 I got your show. Come on. Let's stand up here. We can give God some glory. Come on. Service, Lord God. We ask you this morning, Lord God. That you will touch, Lord God. And my God, say, you're all in Jesus, Lord God. We should be, Lord God. We must, Lord God. We must worship you, Lord God. Inspire, Lord God. We should worship, Lord God. That we offer until you this morning, Lord God. In Jesus' name, Lord God. In the service, Lord God. As your message will come forth, Lord God. We ask you this morning, Lord God. That you will speak, Lord God. Speak through him, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Send your word, Lord God. Send your word, Lord God. Hallelujah, Lord God. This morning, Lord God. To apply, Lord God. In the name of our lives, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Amen, Lord God. It is your word, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Have your way in this service, Lord God. Have your way. Annoy the musicians, Lord God. They play skillfully before you, Lord God. In Jesus' name, Lord God. Annoy the praise team, Lord God. In the name of Jesus, Lord God. Be glorified. Be magnified, Lord God. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen, and amen. Everybody. This is the day that I shall be. I shall be glad in it. Amen. We're going to be reading from Psalm 63. And verses 1 through 11. Amen? Say amen when you have it. Psalm 63. Okay. Oh God. Thou art my God. I see thee. My soul thirsted for thee. My flesh longed for thee in a dry and thirsty land where no water is. To see thy power and thy glory so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary because thy loving kindness is better than life. My tongue shall praise thee. Thus will I bless thee while I live. I will lift up my hands in thy name. My soul shall be satisfied as with moral and fatness and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips. Amen. When I remember thee upon my bed and meditate on thee in the night watches because thou had been my help therefore in the shadow of my wings will I rejoice. My soul follow hard after thee. My right hand upholds me. Hallelujah. But those that seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth. They shall fall by the sword. They shall be a portion from Fox. But the kings shall rejoice in God and everyone that swears by men shall glory. But the mouth of them that speak it lies shall be stopped. I want to read that see My soul shall follow hard after me my right hand upholds me. But those that seek my soul to destroy it shall go into the lower parts of the earth. God is good. God is good. We have to praise God with everything we got regardless of what's going on around us. Praise God. Amen. And our God is great. And our lungs that we breathe is God that understand how great He is. Thank you, Lord. Bishop, come forward. Praise the Lord, everyone. Oh, give thanks unto the Lord because His mercy endure the privilege of assembling ourselves here today because of the goodness of our God. God is great. And He's greatly to be praised. Hallelujah. We'll praise Him when I saw the cleansing fountain. Thank you, Jesus. I'm glad the Lord woke me up this morning. Come on, somebody. He didn't have to do it. But He woke me up this morning and started me on my way for the Lord's presence. The Lord's presence. The Lord's presence. Scripture says we should enter into His gates with thanksgiving and entering into His courts with praise. Why? Because the Lord is good. He's good. I'd like to see each of you who are here today to come together again on this Sunday morning. In the presence of the Lord there's fullness of joy. In God's presence it's all joy. And the Word has told us to count it all joy. When it seems like it's going wrong, count it joy. When you think you'll never pull it through, count it joy. As you all might see, I'm happy. I'm happy with Jesus. I'm excited. Y'all forgive me. I'm excited. Amen. It's good to see all of you here today. When we come into the house of the Lord we come with our hearts fixed and our minds made up to hear what thus said the Lord to the church. Amen. And I don't know what Elder Ross is going to preach today, but I know it's going to be from the Word of the Lord. And I invite you to pay your best attention to what the Lord is saying to the church. I'm going to just go off on left field a little bit. I know you can do whatever you want in Mama's house. And you might get by with it, but you need to hear. You need to incline your ear. Like the scripture said, incline your ear. That means lean in. So you can hear and clearly understand what is required of us. You know, if you're going to apply for a position in anybody's company you need to know what they want to hear. And you have to get somebody to perhaps give you a little tutelage and give you the high points that you might want to touch. Well, that's what I'm doing today. I'm going to give you the high points. And when the Lord speaks through this preacher the Lord is going to set some people free. Come on somebody. He's going to set some people free. They're bound and they will be set free. Thank you Jesus. Let me stop being daddy. I want to thank the Lord for all he's done for us and I want to congratulate one of our members Sister Shardae Alexander Amen. Praise the Lord Sister Shardae. Amen. I thank the Lord that she had a great presentation for us on last Sunday. Amen. Black History and she did it with ease. Amen. I thank the Lord for people who are gifted and people who are willing to do the work of the Lord. Amen. Some people will come in and sit down and wait for somebody to tell them what to do. I think if the chiefs get all puffed up they won't let me do nothing. Well that's not Sister Shardae Alexander. Amen. Amen. Come on. Praise God for her. She came in and saw something that needed to be done and I thank the Lord that she went forward with that and it went off with ease. Amen. Now I'm going to give you this announcement then. I'm going to sit down. On next Sunday if you come at the time you came today church will be almost over. Daylight saving time comes in on next Sunday. Amen. So I wanted to just make you aware of that so you won't be disappointed at the time. Amen. Amen. Some people don't like daylight saving time. I love daylight saving time. It gives me more evening time. Amen. So God is good and I want to say to you all you can relax today with an inclined ear and the Lord will do what he's purpose to do for us on this day. Amen. Now at this time before the speaker comes Elder Ross comes Minister Marilyn Alexander Amen. Amen. Thank God for her. Amen. She's going to do the special music for us today and I say to you sister Alexander go for it. Amen. We'll join you if you allow us. God bless you. Then after that you'll hear Elder Kevin Ross will be the next voice you hear after the music selection. God bless you. Praise the Lord. Come on. We want to make sure that we hear what the Lord is saying to the church. Amen. Now it's time to fight the devil. See the Lord is my strength and he's my hands to war and my finger. See the devil's been acting the fool. You got to understand that the enemy is already defeated and that there is power in your praise. We can't allow the devil to so discord and fighting and not in this house. He's got to go. Devil you got to go and we're willing to fight for the victory. Judah Pastor was talking to all about it this morning that we have come to praise him that we have come to sin. Judah before us. I give honor to God. I praise him because he's been good to me. As a matter of fact he's been better than good to me. Amen. Sound like we got a new sound system. He's been good to all of us. I give honor to our Bishop Bishop Arlene McClure Alexander Jr. and our fabulous First Lady. She looks awful beautiful. She always looks good but she's rocking that blue and black. Go ahead sister Bobby. She said that's just how I roll and to the ministers and saints of God and blessings to those who are watching this by stream. Today is a day that we need to get free to bless the Lord. Free to praise the Lord because there's victory in your praise. There's power in your praise. There's deliverance in your praise. If you open up your mouth and give him some praise. Sin Judah First turning in your Bibles to Judges chapter one. Judges chapter one. That's where we find our ticks. Judges chapter one verse one and two says now after the death of Joshua it came to pass up the children of Israel. Ask the Lord saying who shall go up for us against the Canaanite first to fight. The Lord said Judah shall go up. Behold I have delivered the land into his hands. So he said send Judah first to fight the enemy. Now Judah means praise. In Psalms 33 one says rejoicing in the Lord O ye righteous for praise is comely to the upright. The Amplified Praise is becoming inappropriate to the upright. The Living Bible says it's just right that the upright would praise the Lord. Someone said when I think of the goodness of Jesus and all that he's done for me my soul cries out hallelujah praise God for saving me. Praise God for delivering me. Praise God for bringing me out. It wasn't by any goodness of my own. It simply was the mercy of God. They said there was a woman whose son and he had broken the law and they went before the judge and the mother begged for mercy for her son and the judge said your son doesn't deserve mercy and the woman said true if he deserved it it would be justice and not mercy. But we have obtained mercy from God. In other words it is always suitable and appropriate for the saints of God to give God praise. See sometimes we sit in our seat like I just don't feel like him. But if you look back over your life and remember the good things that God has already done for you then you will give him praise. You'll open up your mouth and God's Judah will go before you and fight your enemies. Now the children of Israel had been under the leadership of two great men, Moses and Joshua. Moses the great deliverer and law giver. Moses led the children of Israel out of Egypt through the Red Sea to the brink of the promised land. Moses dies and his successor is Joshua, that great military leader who leads the children of Israel on a military campaign taking that great walled city of Jericho and then taking the children of Israel through the promised land the land of Canaan the land flowing with milk and honey. God had promised them the land of Canaan and I have discovered every promise that God gives you every gift that he gives you is good. He doesn't give you junk he doesn't give you leftovers but if you do what God says at the end he will bless you with something better than what you had before. So Moses and Joshua, these two great leaders are both dead and Israel is without a leader. It is a dangerous thing for a nation to be without a leader. So Joshua is dead and all the men that serve with him they are there looking in your Bibles to Joshua 24 verse 29 through 31 it says and it came to pass after these things that Joshua the son of none the servant of the Lord died being a hundred and ten years old. So they buried him in the border of his inheritance in Timothyus to the mountain in Ephraim on the north side of the mountain. Yes in Israel the people of Israel served the Lord all the days of Joshua and all the days of the elders that over lived Joshua which had known all the works of the Lord which he had done and so all of the leaders that served with him and now there's a new group of leaders and elders and they understand that they have come into the promised land but in order to keep the promised land at some point at some point there's going to be a fight. The question is not if but when now let's look at that Scripture Judges again. Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass that the children of Israel asked the Lord who shall go up against the Canaanites first to fight for us against them and the Lord said Judah shall go up behold I have delivered the land in his hands and in your life and in my life you've got to understand that God has blessed us but at some point the enemy is going to attack and we need to know what do I need to do first and God said sin Judah first sin praise first I have given everything that you need in the hand of Judah and so God says when trouble comes the first thing that you ought to do is sin praise before you don't complain don't cry don't have a fit don't lay out in the floor but if you will sin praise first you will invite the presence of the Lord into your situation because he says I inhabit the praises of my people when God shows up the situation has to change people have to change problems have to change when I sin Judah up first he says sin Judah first I have put everything that you need I want you to see that everything that you need has been released into the hands of Judah and if you will praise him he will discover that he will give you everything that you need as a matter of fact he'll do exceedingly abundantly above all that you can ask of think if you give God some praise you'll see miracles if you give God some praise you'll see healing if you give God some praise you'll see breakthrough give God some praise and watch God work in your life see I don't but if I will praise God in the trouble he will deliver me out of the trouble so we've got to someone said don't wait till the battle is over shout now don't wait till the battle is over dance now he says because you know that in the end we're going to win so we need to praise him in advance praise him for what he's going to do thank him because he's going to make a way he's going to open the door don't sit there and cry but give God some praise praise him because you know greater is he that's in you than he that's in the world praise him because you know I'm more than a conqueror through him that love me praise him because you know no weapon that's formed against me shall prosper it may form against me but it ain't going to work see the enemy is telling you you are defeated I'm going to have the last word you don't have the victory but the demon that demon the devil he walks around is a roaring lion seeking who he may devour the problem is sometimes we do his work for him we do stuff to devour ourselves we do stuff to put us in a place where God can bless us see God wants to bless us he wants to use us he wants to do things for us that we have set ourselves in a place he says I gotta back away because you are doing the work of the enemy someone said I have discovered the enemy and the enemy and I say that because the enemy was used the same thing over and over again until we say this means war we're going to fight here I ain't giving up no more ground I'm not going back anymore I'm not going to let you defeat me this means I'm taking authority over you in the name of Jesus I'm going to send out some praise and then I'm going to fight I'm going to fight I remember Bishop about last year I was going home from church and I stopped by the store and picked up some things for my wife seemed like every time I go to the stores I get in the line someone act a fool and you know sometimes I can't keep my mouth shut and I say you know what what is your problem and I got in my car and I said Lord I just came out from under the annoying Bishop preached and we were shouting and we was having a good time and then sister Marilyn and sister Terry were singing and we had such a wonderful time how come every time I come to this store the devil act a fool he said because it works because you keep acting a fool with him I said oh oh that kind of hurt but see we've got to get to the place when we see the devil begin to act up I said devil you are a liar I take authority over you you will not disturb this house you will not stop the worship the glory of the Lord is going to feel this house and we going to keep praising God until you got to get up out of here he can't stand in the presence of praise and he can't stand in the presence of worship when you begin to magnify the Lord and the glory of the Lord comes in the enemy has to leave so Bishop I made up my mind the next time I went to the store and I did it intentionally I said I'm going to get in the line and they going to act a fool and I'm going to stand right there and say when I think of the goodness of Jesus and you know what it stopped it stopped because I stopped see sometimes you fight in a battle and you say how come I can't get the victory because you keep fighting don't let the Lord handle it for you I told you recently a gentleman he threatened my life and I told him I said you know what if I have offended you I apologize but let me tell you one thing if you think that I'm scared of you you have lost your mind two weeks later he was dead dead not the first time I experienced something like that but see we've got to get to the place where we understand if I will bless the Lord if I will praise the Lord if I will honor him with my mouth and with my lips and with my life he'll fight my battles for me he'll do what I can do I could have done it but I didn't want to he did it for me see you don't see sometimes we don't understand the magnitude of the God that we serve if we will worship him if we will praise him if we will bless him if we will honor him you never expected never expected and so they said who will go up and fight the Canaanites for us you have to understand that the Canaanites they were heathens they didn't love God they didn't want to serve God and now God is blessing Israel and now they hate the people of Israel and I lie sometimes people hate us just because we're a child of God we're living for God and we just get on their last nerves they'll say I don't know why I don't like you but I just don't like you sometimes people hate us because we trying to live holy see they want to do that thing and they want to smoke that crack they want to smoke that weed and get high they want to fornicate and they can't get off because we're sitting right there in the room I know a sister she tried to back slide she went in the club had never been in that club before went in the club they stopped playing the music and you know what they says we don't know who you are but we can't do our thing until you leave so you got to get up out of here see when the anointing is on your life when the glory is on your life even when you act a fool people see there's something different about you there's a glow about you you have a God on the inside that it will serve him it will live for him he'll do things to us that will astonish us and the world and there's sometimes people don't know why they don't like us but they don't like us but when the world hates you don't be discouraged don't be defeated don't worry about it the Bible says lift up your hands and be lifted up you everlasting doors and the King of Glory shall come in to your situation shall come into your problems and it gets back to that thing Bishop about worship that if we will send Judah first when the enemy comes against you send Judah first when the enemy tries to attack your body send Judah first when the enemy tries to attack your money send Judah first it doesn't matter what the enemy tries to do if you send up Judah you will have the victory he will give you breakthrough he'll open doors for you but send Judah first see we got to get to the place that we don't care what people think about how we praise the Lord David says I will bless the Lord at all times and his praise shall continue to be in my mouth we need to give God some praise we need to give God some crazy praise we need to give God some undignified praise praise him like you've lost your mind praise him till your weave falls out your head that's getting serious y'all praise him because you know he's going to bring you out praise him because you know he's going to heal your body praise him because he knows he's going to give you the breakthrough praise him because you know he's mindful praise him because you know he's faithful praise him because he loves you when the enemy attacks open up your mouth and give God the fruit of your lips see I know it's wonderful we can clap our hands and bless the Lord we can sing unto the Lord but sometimes we need to open our mouth and say Lord you're good Lord you're faithful Lord you're powerful Lord you've been magnificent in my life you've done everything that you said that you would if we will praise God and open up your mouth and give God praise the enemy may try to rush in he may try to overwhelm you but God will give you the victory if you'll praise him God will give you the healing God will open up doors if you'll praise him God will make a way for you I don't know if you'll give him praise see sometimes you've got to open up your mouth and bow your back make up your mind I don't care what it looks like I don't care what it feels like I'm going to bless the Lord and when I get through praising them then I'm going to fight hey I'm going to fight I'm going to let them know you ain't got no right in my house, in my life in my finances, on my children I'm going to fight the enemy and God's going to give me the victory we've got to make up our minds we're going to the enemies camp and take back everything that he took from us David was at Zyglag and while he was going on fighting the enemy came his wives, their children, everything they had and they began to talk about killing David but David began to go into a worship service he began to bless the Lord he began to honor the Lord he began to give God praise and thank God for what he's already done in my life sometimes we're so ungrateful and unthankful we forget about what he did last year we forget about what he did last week he began to praise him and honor him and bless him and then he said, shall I pursue he said pursue and go get everything that belongs to you and God is saying to you today if you will worship and praise me I will release you to go to get the blessing go get the promise everything that belongs to you I'll give it to you so I'm going to the enemies camp I'm going to get my stuff but when you go to the enemies camp just make sure that you use the name of Jesus there's power in the name of Jesus there's deliverance in the name of Jesus the Bible say he's giving him a name there's above every name and at the name of Jesus every knee shall bow every tongue shall confess sickness has to bow sickness has to bow disease has to bow poverty has to bow lack has to bow every demon in hell has to bow when trouble comes and you don't know what to do if you would do what God told the children of Israel to do he said send Judah first and then fight the enemy because I've already given you the victory all I need you to do is show up I'll fight your battle for you I'll make the way for you I'll defeat the enemy for you just fight the battle and go before me he says send Judah first he says I've given everything that you ever need into the hand of Judah my name is Kevin Ross and I approve this message send Judah first as we come to the end of this sermon I want to read a couple verses into your hearing Proverbs chapter 3 Proverbs is a book that will get you straight if you'll apply it but we have to be careful that everything that is given to us is retained all the instructions all the corrections Proverbs 3 beginning at verse number 1 said my son, forget not my law but let thine heart keep my commandments said for the length of days and long life and peace shall they add to thee he said listen to what I'm saying listen to the instructions of the teacher I hope that the word of the Lord was able to find a resting place somewhere as opposed to going in one ear and out the other verse 3 said let not mercy and truth forsake thee but bind them about thine neck write them upon the table of thine heart he said pay attention to what I said to you write it down take notes don't count on remembering it he said write it down so that you won't forget then verse 4 said if you do that so shall thy find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man verse 5 and 6 verse 5 said trust in the Lord with all thine heart lean not unto thine own understanding in all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy path the Lord is speaking the Lord has spoken I'm not preaching this is a backup the Lord has spoken and we got to get it right we can't do stuff just cause we want to do it verse 7 said don't be wise in thine own eyes fear the Lord and depart from evil I mean to make it I mean to make it I'm going to make it I'll fight the adversary I won't give in I won't give up we send praise and as we send praise we trust the Lord that he'll make it all right he'll make it all right if there's anyone here today and you feel like you maybe need a little help along the way we've praised we've praised worship praise and worship went up in this house now it's time to do battle do battle blessed savior he's worthy to be praised let us stand he's heavy praise us blessed saint praise him praise him blessed saint from the rising of the sun to the going down of the saint of the main standing I invite you to come to the altar let us all come to the altar and have a seat adversary of our soul who is the devil wants us to decide we're not fighting anymore we must fight if we're going to win come on down come on down make room so they can come down through here thank you Jesus thank you Jesus Jesus blessed savior he's worthy alright we're going to wait we're going to wait until everybody's anointed come on finish the anointing come on down come on down come on down come on down what I want to bring to your attention is that the Lord is for us if God be for us who can be against us so the adversary wants to play dirty he doesn't fight fair he cheats he fools people and he wants to gain a victory but I say not for sale not for sale we're not giving up we're not divided we're all one team thank you Jesus thank you Jesus I'm going to ask minister Tanisha Bruce come on sister Tanisha Bruce is a prayer warrior and she's going to ask the Lord to take control of every situation bring us together in unity that we might praise him acceptably hallelujah father God we thank you for your word today we thank you for bringing us here to hear what you have said for us today we thank you for empowering us God to carry on hallelujah not just today but throughout the week in the weeks to come and the months to come and the years to come God we thank you for strengthening us we thank you now the prayer has been given and the next thing that needs to happen need to say yes come on say yes to the Lord yes Lord I hear you we thank you for the message you sent we thank you for the prayer that has been prayed and now Lord we say we say yes to your word yes to your word Lord we say to you I will I don't have to have it my way I need you oh God I'll do it your way yes Lord come on say yes Lord yes Lord come on I'm listening yes Lord hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you Jesus thank you Jesus I'll say yes Lord yes to your will I'll do it your way I'll say I will trust you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus we'll say let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight oh Lord my strength my redeemer God bless you you may return to your places thank you Jesus and thank the Lord thank the Lord now we're preparing to receive our offering minister sorting thank you Jesus thank you Jesus praise the Lord saints this time part of our worship part of our praise we bring our tithes pay our tithes and bring our offering to the Lord our Lord said bring all the tithes to our house that there may be meat in this house hallelujah we thank the Lord Lord may provision for each and every one of us or else we wouldn't be here today hallelujah thank you Lord whatever your situation is you be faithful to the Lord the Lord will be faithful to you none of us in here can be God giving if we rob God he say he gonna rob us we're gonna have holes in our pockets holes in our purses holes in our wallets hallelujah we won't be able to hold on to money because we are robbing God he asked the question he said will a man will a man rob God hallelujah thank you Lord hallelujah I don't want to be one of them that rob God because I don't want to suffer the consequence that's come behind it hallelujah I want to be blessed he say he will open up witness and pour your own blessing that you won't have room to receive he open up doors that has been closed doors that only he can open hallelujah the Lord want us to be faithful to him so stand with me in Jesus name everyone please stand with me let's be on one accord hallelujah hallelujah every able body please stand with me let's hold our offering up to the Lord in Jesus name Father we thank you we praise you we glorify we magnify your name we thank you Lord for the gift you have given us Lord God Lord we come back and give back to you and return we thank you Lord God in the name of Jesus for the provision you have made for each and every one of us Lord God we come being obedient being obedient you say bring all the tithes and the offering into your storehouse that that baby need in your house Lord God we come standing standing on your word standing on your promises Lord God you setting your word that you will supply our every need Lord God according to his riches and glory in Christ Jesus we thank you this evening for the gift and the givers in Jesus name we pray amen Amen I want to do something a little different let us all stand we're not going to sing a useful determination song I want to admonish you to always remember Jesus amen always keep him on your mind I'll get to that later oh okay hold on for one minute alright here it is among the stuff alright now again on this Sunday you may be seated for just a moment can't Marlea? Marlea alright we're calling for Marlea A. Jackson amen and this gives me a great privilege and an honor I love to bless babies I love to marry couples and I love to give certificates and I thank the Lord for this young lady it says now when they heard this they were pricked in their hearts and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles men and brothering what shall we do then Peter said unto them repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins and you shall receive the gift of the holy ghost that's Acts 2 37 and 38 reads baptismal certificate come on give God glory this certifies the Marlea Marlea Marlea A. Jackson in obedience to the command and in following the example of our Lord Jesus Christ was baptized in the name of Jesus Christ on the 25th day of February in the year 2024 at Shield of Faith Christian Center Long Beach, California pastured by yours truly Bishop Arling M. Alexander Pastor I want to present this to you while we're posing for our picture I want to present this to you and tell you this is one of the the greatest the greatest decision you made to walk with the Lord the Lord will strengthen you he's going to fill you with the holy ghost and he's going to strengthen you and cause you to be a witness amen so God bless you alright now we can stand