 Praise the Lord everybody. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. It's not too sunshiney outside, but how many know Jesus brought the sunshine? Hallelujah. Bless his name. Come on. Let's bless his name today. You may down the shield of faith Long Beach. Thank you Lord. What a wonderful Savior we have. Hallelujah. He died that we might have life eternal. Let's pray in the name of Jesus. Father, in the name of Jesus, we come into your presence with thankful heart. Thank you for your grace and mercy. I thank you for your kindness. Thank you Lord. You went to the cross and you died for our sins. Hallelujah. You died that we might have life eternal. Thank you for heaven that you prepared for our, we're to go to heaven soon Lord. We look forward to being with you. We will look forward to hallelujah living in your presence. Thank you Lord Jesus. You are all in all. You're the king of kings. You're the Lord of lords beside you. There's no other God. Glory to God. We honor you today. Thank you for giving us health and strength in our bodies that we might come to church to praise you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you for your presence. We feel already in this congregation as we praise your name. Please speak to our hearts today Lord as word comes forth we open our hearts now to receive you. In Jesus name help us to be holy and righteous and just according to your word in the name of Jesus. Bless those who are on their way Lord. Give them safety in traveling. Feel this church up Lord. Help us to invite people that they might also be saved. That we can hallelujah, spend eternity in heaven with you. Bless our pastor Lord and the pastor's wife Lord and whatever's necessary Lord added to her life in the name of Jesus. Thank you Father. You are our Lord and Savior. You're our king. You're our deliverer. You're our hallelujah. Hallelujah. We honor you. We praise you. We bless you. Be glorified in all that we say and do today oh God. Be glorified as we praise you. In Jesus name I pray. Thank you Jesus. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. How many can read this sign back here? It said welcome. Get ready to worship. Amen. The scriptures I'm reading this morning the Psalms 34. It says I will bless the Lord at all times. His praises shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make her both in the Lord, the humble share here thereof and be glad. Oh magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together. I sought the Lord and he heard me and delivered me from all my fears. They look unto him and were lightened and their faces were not ashamed. This poor man cried and the Lord heard him and saved him out of all his trouble. Let's get ready to worship and praise the Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah for all that he has done for us. We're coming here to celebrate the blood of Jesus this morning. Hallelujah. How many of you know that it's the blood? It's the blood of Jesus that allows us to have salvation today. I know Jesus. You know without the shedding of blood there is no remission of sins. Hallelujah. Thank God that Jesus shed his blood. You know all those other sacrifices that were made prior to that they couldn't do anything. They had to keep doing it all over and over killing more and more animals. But the the God we serve, hallelujah, provided the best and the last sacrifice and his blood still is flowing today. Hallelujah. His blood is still flowing today. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord. We thank you Lord God for your precious blood. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. It reaches to the highest mountain and to the lowest of valleys. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord for the blood that Jesus shed. Back on Calvary. From death to the lower Jesus. Oh we thank you Lord for your precious blood. It will nip Jesus. Hallelujah. I thank you Jesus for your precious blood. Hallelujah. Hallelujah saints. Hallelujah. This time we'll have our solo by Sister Amber Wise. Oh Bishop, Bishop is coming before then. Amen. You may be seated. Aren't you glad for Jesus? No, no, that's too weak. That's too weak. But I think of the goodness of Jesus and all that he's done for me. My soul cries out hallelujah. Anybody got a hallelujah? Anybody got a praise for the king of kings? For the lord of kings. We serve hallelujah, hallelujah. Oh hallelujah. Please pray. Thank you Jesus. I thank the Lord for everything that he affords us his people. Be mindful continually. Understand that you didn't have the ability to wake yourself up this morning. Come on you could have slept on off into eternity. But the Lord woke you up this morning and you might say well that's not that significant. Yes it is. It's who you are right now. Hallelujah, hallelujah. I thank God. I thank God for Jesus. What a wonderful time we're having in the house of the Lord. In this season particularly we need to be mindful of what Jesus did for us. He brought us salvation. Hallelujah. Now I have the privilege today of presenting a couple certificates. Amen, amen. I'm going to ask Fabian Patrick and Ethan Patrick. Come stand next to me young men. Thank God for these young men. Hallelujah. Come on give God some praise. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Let me read the certificate and then I'll have my little say after that. The certificate says baptismal certificate. It says now when they heard this they were pricked in their hearts and they said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles men and brethren what shall we do? Then Peter said unto them repent. 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 acts to 38 and so further it says this certifies that Fabian Patrick in obedience to the command in the following of the example of our Lord Jesus Christ was baptized in the name of Jesus Christ on the 27th day of March in the year 2022 at Shield of Faith Christian Center Long Beach, California and is being presented by his pastor Bishop Arling Alexander. Now let me ask you Fabian how old are you? He's eight years old. He's eight years old. He just turned nine. Perhaps somebody doesn't understand what we're doing here today. There are people perhaps in cyber space who's watching us and they're saying well they're too young. Wrong answer. He made a great choice. He got to the church in time. Now I was about his same age when I got baptized and I knew what I was doing. Both of these young men they have the ability to think and reason and they understood that they needed their sins washed away when they came to Jesus and they were taken down in the water in Jesus name. He washed their sins all the way. Their hearts were sinful but the Lord washed them clean. I want to encourage you young men walk with the Lord. Now the other thing that I'll point out is I'm delighted to see these young men make this decision at this time in their life because my testimony at one time I was just kind of being a little smart. I was at a new church in a new church and they knew about the Alexander family and I gave my testimony one evening and I said I thank the Lord for being here and being saved. I thank the Lord because he saved me from stealing. The Lord saved me from robbing. The Lord saved me from murdering. The Lord saved me from drugs. He saved me from alcohol. I said I didn't do those things but he saved me from it. Come on somebody. He saved me before I got to it and he's going to save these young men before they get caught up in the world and the world gets ahold of them and they can't let be let loose and so I'll read the other one. I'm going to read it up the whole thing. Now when they heard this they were they heard this they were pricked in their hearts said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles man and brothering what shall we do then Peter said unto them repent be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission for the removing of your sins and you shall receive the gift of the holy ghost acts two thirty seven and eight baptismal certificate this certifies that Ethan Patrick in obedience to the command and in following the example about Lord Jesus Christ was baptized in the name of Jesus Christ on the 27th day of March in the year 2022 at Shield of Faith Christian Center in the city of Long Beach California Bishop Arling Alexander pastor young man we're the we're the photographer take this and hold this in front of you I want to admonish you to continue your walk with God this is one of this is the greatest decision you've ever made in your life to choose to walk with God because the Lord is everything that we need he's promised to supply all of our needs according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus the Lord bless you you got you got the picture you get me in it all right thank you young man you can return to your seats all right now have I have a couple announcements that I want to make on the executive board meeting that I attend on Friday on this last Friday the apostle made us aware that there are three weeks say three weeks to the shield of faith convention in person amen three weeks just three weeks so start to adjust your schedules and and put your mind in the right place it's only going to be two days this week this year so they're going to be Thursday and Friday and we're inviting you to come out and be in the service it's going to be a great time we're going to have a wonderful time in the Lord at the convention announcement concerning the convention in many instances religious religious institutions have a difficult time with taking a loan out from the banks and the board of bishops decided that we should try to do something about that and so for an extended period of time this this wasn't just the thought we had an extended period of time bishop rick johnson from pasadena has been working with a group to help the shield of faith have a credit union raise your hands thank god thank you jesus thank you jesus and we've gone and we're at the place where we're just about to get an opportunity to present ourselves to the federal government and they say hold on to your seat they want to know how many people are interested in having a shield of faith credit union and so they said you're going to have to show us some signatures anybody anybody guess how many signatures we need 400 400 signatures come on i have no doubt that we'll have many many more than that but i want you to give your signature to support this all right then the next thing is the registration and license renewal and uh we have information here that we'll be putting a posting today and then the next thing i'll sit down after this the next thing is a sponsorship and we're asking again for a hundred dollar sponsorship before the convention to defray all of the the cost that's going to be incurred all right so the lord is is doing a great thing among us when sister shemika came in she was addressed and she didn't say anything and i said to her what we used to always say cat got your tongue i want to know cat got your tongue come on let's get ready to worship now we can worship we had praise and worship but we can worship throughout the whole service amen god bless you come on at this time we're going to have our sunday morning solo uh brought to us by just amber wise god bless you amen praise lord everybody when i was thinking about this song there's another song that says as the deer panted for the water so my soul longs after you you oh lord are my heart's desire and i long to worship you amen when i think about the deer the deer goes to the river and the deer is not leaving until the deer is filled up amen until the thirst is quenched amen so like the deer i want the lord to fill me up amen amen fill me up till i want no more amen amen worship with us as we sing who provide the fire if you provide your spirit if you provide the fire oh and if you provide your spirit if you will provide