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With my hands lifted up and my mouth filled with a Heart of Thanksgiving, I will bless Ed man. I will blessed.
With my hands and my mouth filled with grace, Hallelujah! Bless the name of the Lord. Praise God, praise God, praise God. I truly give God the praise, the honor. You maybe see that today, and I thank Him that I have hands to lift up. I thank Him I have feet to walk. Amen, somebody. Praise God.
I was reading something where a gentleman said, amen, he was a bit worried about having no shoe. When he was worried about that, but when he looked, he saw somebody didn't have any feet. And so he began to praise God that, amen, he had feet but didn't have no shoe. Come on, give God some praise in this house. There are little things we we allow to slip us by from day to day, but today we come to praise the Lord. We come to thank Him for all His promises and all His goodness to us. Amen.
Praise God. I want you to take out your Bibles today, amen, and you're going to preach. And the first promise He made here may not be the first one, but the first one I'm using today is from Saint John, Chapter 14, verse 12-14. And I want you to find it. Praise God. And jot these things down. Amen. Praise God. Saint John, chapter 14, amen, somebody. And we're going to be reading from verse 12 through 14. Verse 12 through 14. It says, "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my Father. And whatsoever ye shall ask in my name, that will I do, that the Father may be glorified in the Son. If ye ask anything in my name, I will do it." Do you believe that? Oh, praise the name of the Lord.
You see, Jesus knew He was about to leave the disciples, and so He wants to encourage them. And He has gone to prepare that place in heaven for us. Praise God. We are so glad. He said, "In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were not so, he would have told us." And even our loved ones that leave us in by deaths, praise God, and all we haven't lost them. I know they are ahead of us, amen, and they are at that place because the Bible said, "When they are absent from the body, they are present with the Lord." Lift your hand and praise the name of the Lord.
And hear the word: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do, because I go unto my Father." I saw something here where a lot of Christians sit down and will do nothing because they don't think that there's anything for them to do. But come to church and maybe sing a song or read the scriptures and go home, and that's it for the day. But believe me, when you leave here, when you leave here church, when you go to the market, there should be a word in your mouth to offer to somebody. When you're washing the clothes, there should be a word to offer to somebody. As I said that, I remember our little evangelist, Sister Mavis. Come on, how many members is the Mavis? And she would go just walk to the where the laundromat and, amen, with her tracks and help somebody pull their clothes and talk to them. At the next thing, she'd get a telephone number and everybody's sister Mavis called God save and come to City Mission. Isn't that wonderful? That was a true evangelist, and she never wore a title on her head that she was an evangelist, but she did the work of an evangelist. I heard Paul told Timothy, he said, "Do the work of an evangelist. Make full proof of your ministry." Amen, somebody. I just pray that nobody will ever enter the kingdom of God and not having a soul. Amen. To offer and say, "Lord, I bring one soul to the Lord."
And so I want to stir up your memory today that God has made you a precious promise. Oh, praise His name. Believers, and He said, "Truly, truly, I say to you, he that believeth on me, the works that I do you shall do also." And we saw the Lord went about doing good, healing the sick, ministering to the poor and the needy. Amen, somebody. He was always doing good. I love Him for that. Praise God. Comforting somebody, even the man among the tombs that had no hope. He was hopeless. My God, he thought that was his end, but Jesus rebuked those demons and set him free. Lift your hand and give God some praise.
And how many know that every believer has the power of the Lord Jesus Christ in you? You have the power to cast out devils. You have the power to speak with that new tongue. You have the power, amen, to say, "In the name of Jesus, be still, devil, and know that God is God." You have the ability. He has given that to you in the word, and you ought to use it. Lift your hand and praise Him with me. Praise the name of the Lord. Praise the name of Jesus.
The next promise, and I found out something, and as I was looking, that many of the believers will not witness because you don't have the power in you to do it. Turn to this verse, amen, in Saint John 14, verse 15 to 17, and hear what Jesus said here. He promised the power of the Spirit. Amen. He said, "If you love me, keep my commandments. And I will pray." The word pray here means I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Comforter, even the Spirit of Truth, the Comforter that He may abide with you forever. For how long? Forever. He said, "Even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because the it no set Him not, neither know Him. But you know Him, for He dwelleth with you, and shall be in you." Shall be in me? Shall be in us.
And so I wanted to know, the Holy Ghost doesn't come here today and go back to heaven this afternoon. He lives with me. He walks with me and He talks to me and with me, and He tells me the things that God has in store for me. Amen. I'm encouraging this church and every church that is listening to me online, wherever you are, everybody, even should seek to be filled with the power of the Holy Ghost. Are you hearing me? Amen. It's a promise to the believer. Amen, somebody. Lift your hand and praise Him with me. Oh, the Lord said He would talk to His Father. He would ask His Father to give us another Comforter because He was the Comforter with disciples while they were here. Amen. He comforted them. He talked with them, and He taught them through parables. Are you hearing me? And He took them places to show them what the power of Almighty God can do. And so we ought to learn these things because we are followers of Jesus Christ. Are we? I said, are we? Because someone's behaved like we are just members of somebody's organization. You are not. You are the member of the body of Christ. You're a child of God. And today we have people making noise about which church they go to, which church is the best, and which preacher preaches the best. Amen. Who is their bishop and their teachers and all that? That's not important. Thank God for Jesus. Thank God for Jesus, somebody, and for the promises He made. Amen. He said, "I will ask my Father to give you another Comforter." Do you have the Comforter? The Comforter is the Holy Ghost. He said, "I will send Him in my name." Praise God. Even that Spirit that speaks truth, whom the world cannot receive. If you're not saved, you will not understand a word I'm saying. Are you hearing me? But when you are saved and you have received in the worship, to as many that receive Him, to them He gives power to become sons of God. Lift your hand and praise Him with me. Who are we? We are the sons of God. I'm so glad in the Kingdom. He didn't mention about any daughter, any granddaughter, or any. He said, "We are all sons of God." Lift your hand and praise Him here. Oh, praise the name of the Lord. He said, "The world cannot see Him. The world don't know Him, but we, the children of God, know Him, for He dwelleth with you and shall be in you." Amen. Praise God. Praise Him, somebody.
Ephesians 2 and 1 said, "And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sin." The word quickened means He has given us life, and He has given to us more abundantly. Lift your hand and praise Him with me. Do you have the abundant life? Then lift those hands and praise Him. Praise Him. Hallelujah. Praise Him. I honor Him today for the Holy Ghost that lives with me. He sleeps with me. I wake up this morning, say, "Good morning, Jehovah. Good morning, Jesus. Good morning, Holy Spirit." Hallelujah, somebody. Oh, blessed be God because, amen, when I'm all by myself, I'm not by myself. I have Father, Son, and Holy Spirit with me. Amen. Brother, please keep it a little quiet for me, please. I want them get the word. I don't want you to tickle anybody, amen. They need to get the word. Praise God. Praise His name.
We're going to turn to the third scripture, praise God, John 14:27-31. And this is the promise of comfort. Praise God. Praise God. Praise His name, somebody. 27-31. He said, "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, because the world gives sparingly, the world gives limitedly. Come on. But when Jesus gives you, He gives you abundantly." Lift your hand and praise God. Amen. He said, "Not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. Ye have heard how I said unto you, I go away, and come again unto you. If ye love me, ye would rejoice, because I said I go unto the Father: for my Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it come to pass, that when it is come to pass, ye might believe. Hereafter I will not talk much with you: for the prince of this world cometh, and hath nothing in me. But that the world may know that I love the Father; and as the Father gave me commandment, even so I do. Arise, let us go hence." Oh, praise the name of the Lord. Praise the name of the Lord, somebody.
God wants you to know exactly what the promises are. He wants you to be comforted. He wants you to have peace in yourself because there are some believers have no peace at all. Are you hearing me? Some are troubled on every hand. Every little thing disturbs them. But you should not be disturbed. Even people are saying, "Well, I've never seen things." I said, "It's the last day." Said God, and He said, "In the last days, perilous times would come." Are you seeing it? I say, are you seeing it? I look at the government, amen, in America, and I said, "Lord, my God." As a matter of fact, I don't know who want to vote anymore because all you'll find is contention, misery. They want to kill one another, and they're supposed to be representing you and me. Come on. Where is that representation? We need to stand up and give God the praise, somebody. Concentrate on Him and worship Him. Come on. Tell people that there's deliverance in Jesus. There's victory in Jesus. There's fullness in Jesus. And there's a life in Jesus, for He said, "I'm come that they might have life, and have it more abundantly." Lift your hand and praise Him. Glory be unto God. Glory be unto God. I don't want you to come in here and sit down and cool off and leave here dumb. I want you to be alert that the kingdom of God is coming soon. Enough promises here to make you wise unto salvation. Lift your hand and praise Him with me. Lift your hand and praise Him again. Glory to God. Make the right decisions and serve God in spirit and in truth. Amen. Amen, somebody. Praise His holy name. Glory to His name.
The next, the next, amen, portion I'll deal with is the commands that Jesus gave to His believers, the disciples, to love one another. John 15:12-16. Find it, and somebody please read for me. John 15, verse 12 through 16. I tell you to open your Bibles and read with me. Yes, verse 12. Amen. Amen. And the reason some are not receiving anything from the Lord because there's something missing. We're not forgiving one another. We're not loving one another. We love ourselves so badly, amen. But here, said, "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you." Can you imagine the love of God? That I should be crucified? I should be hung on a cross, but He took my place and died in my place for me. Come on, people. You should appreciate that. I should be the one hanging on the cross. I should be the one wearing the crown of thorns. I shouldn't be the one nailed to the cross, but Jesus took my place and He paid it in full for me. Lift your hand and praise God. He said, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." And did you hear what He just said here? "Are my friends, if you do whatever I command you. Henceforth I call you not servants; for the servant knoweth not what his lord doeth: but I have called you friends; for all things that I have heard of my Father I have made known unto you. Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that you should go and bring forth fruit and your fruit should remain." Lift your hand and praise God.
And we had that very same sub came in a few weeks ago, praise God, in our anniversary. Am I right? Amen. How many remember that? And he declared, "You have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and I have ordained you to do what?" Sit down and just no. You should go and bring forth fruit. Praise God. In Matthew 28, He said, "All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost." He said, "Lord, I am with you always, even to the end of the age." Or the end of the world. Has the world end yet? So why are we sitting down here and playing games? Why are we not winning souls? Come on, people. And some of us expect just the minister alone to win the souls, and we don't do anything. No, everybody has a part to play. Everybody has a part to play. You have not chosen the Lord, but the Lord chose you and ordained you that you should go and bring forth fruit. And the words are the only way you can bring forth fruit. We have to abide in the in divine. And He said, "He is divine, and His Father is the husbandman." So He said, "Those branches that don't bear fruit, He cut it off." Anybody here want to be cut off? Nobody want to be cut off. Praise God. But those, amen, that their fruit, He prunes you. Oh, Lord, help me. So when you're going through some things at times, you're being pruned. When you're tempted, you're being pruned. When you're tried, you're being pruned. Are you hearing me? That you should be a real, real good branch and the vine that can produce fruit. God Almighty, clap your hand and give God some praise. Amen. You are here for a purpose. Don't just try to make it in. Make sure you're bearing fruit. Are you hearing me? And you can bear fruit by the love, loving one another. Even one smart or sad person could be a blessing to somebody. Are you hearing me? Praise God. I carry a smile on my face, and somebody asks me, "Industry, why are you always smiling?" And I was able to witness and to let them know, "Because of the love of God that's shed abroad in my heart." Are you hearing me? People, praise God. I work with some guys in the transit authority, and many, many times that they didn't believe a word I said. Even sometimes I have a paper bag with a soda, and they're drinking, they'll tear it up to see if I'm drinking beer, you know, they want to expose me to see it I'm I'm not truthful. But I heard one declare one day, "You know, the reason why I'm in church and testifying is because of the way I see Brother Maxwell live in transit." Come on. I give God praise. I give God the glory. And I'm not boasting because I'm better than anybody else, but I have a joy living in my soul. Lift your hand and praise God. And the more I tell people about Jesus, the more the joy grows. Are you hearing me? Ah, some of you are not hearing me, and some sit down so sad and miserable. Come on, my God, people. We have a joy unspeakable and full of glory. Half of the joy cannot be told. Are you hearing me? Oh, praise Him, somebody. Praise the mighty name of Jesus. Amen, somebody. Praise God.
So the Lord commands us here to love one another. He commands us, praise God, to stand on His promises. Are you hearing me today? Lift your hand and praise Him with me. Praise the name of the Lord. Praise God. Amen. At this time, we go to the next one, uh, John chapter 16, verse 7 to 11. 7 to 11. Somebody read that for me. Indeed. Amen. Praise God. Praise Him, somebody. Are you still, are you still with me today? Praise God. And here He's, He's giving us this promise, "Nevertheless, I tell you the truth, it is expedient, or it's important for you, if I go away; for if I go not away, the Comforter will not come unto you: but if I depart, I will send Him unto you. And when He is come, He will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment." The word judgment here means of truth. Amen. Of sin, because they believe not on me; of righteousness, because I go to my Father, and you see me no more; of judgment, because the prince of this world is judged. Amen, somebody. We honor God for that, for Jesus being the judge. So we are not to judge one another. Are you hearing me? Don't judge anybody because people loved. I heard them, especially Jamaicans, they have a word to say, "Well, if you don't go so, near go so." And I think that's a very wicked statement to judge somebody and to say, "If the thing don't go like that, it nearly go like that." You're still pinning something on them. Don't do that because Jesus Christ is the church. Lift your hand and praise God. And if you love one another, even if somebody gets into trouble, we should really go to them in meekness and try to get them back on track, not to beat them up. Are you hearing me? Not to beat them up or condemn anybody, but to encourage them to come on back because that's what the Lord would have done. Look at the prodigal boy in that parable. People think, "Well, you know, it was a real thing that happened." But it was a parable that Jesus is spoke about you and me. We wander away from Almighty God many times. Talk to me. We behave wrong many times, but the Father looked out every time to see us come back to Him. Hello, somebody. And when we will come back to Him, He put the best robe on. And that's why I said, when people even fall from grace and come back to the church, don't hold them captive. Release them that they could praise God again. Release them that they could take up position again and do something for their God. You are not their judge. Am I talking to anybody here? Oh, praise the name of the Lord. Because they need to be back in fellowship with their Lord. What a fellowship, what a joy, divine. Just leaning on the Everlasting Arms. They have perfect peace with your Lord. So near when they are leaning on the Everlasting arm. Lift your hand and praise Him with me. Praise Him again, somebody. Oh, blessed be the name of Jesus. Praise God. I love God today because His words are real. Praise Him.
Under John 16, verse 33, somebody please read that one. John 16, verse 33. I want you to stay in your Bible today. Somebody else read this, not somebody who read before. Go ahead. Three. Come. The world. Amen. Amen. Can we all read this together? "These things have I spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world." So I don't know what I was expecting from the world, only tribulation, sadness. Are you hearing me? Shame and disgrace. But thank God, the Lord gives us peace. Are you hearing me? He said, "In Him we have peace. In Him we have the victory. In Him we have joy." Are you hearing me? Joy unspeakable and full of glory. Lift your hand and praise Him with me. Oh, praise the name of the Lord. Praise Him. Amen. One song said, "I rather have Jesus than silver and gold. I rather that have Jesus than all the wealth untold." Amen. When you have Jesus, you have everything. Are you hearing me? You might have a lot of clothes, a lot of shoes, and homes, and all that, but if you have Jesus, you have everything. Oh, praise God. Lift your hand and praise Him with me. Praise the name of the Lord. Amen. I rather have Jesus than silver and gold. Are you hearing me? And even now, I think I am a millionaire. You are a millionaire. I saw, uh, some time ago, about two or three years ago, a millionaire lost one million dollar. He had millions, and he lost one million. He'd jump out of a window and kill himself. Are you hearing me? But thank God, we won't jump out of any window because we have Jesus. Be comforted, God's people. Be strengthened in Him. Lift up your heads, O ye gates; be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors; let the king of glory come in. Who is the king of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. He is the Lord. Lift Him up and praise Him. Praise Him with all your strength. When you have no strength, praise Him. You're weak, then you are strong. Are you hearing me? When you think you have nothing, you have everything because you got Jesus. Are you happy about your salvation? Are you really happy about being a Christian? I don't mean being a church person. I mean being a true child of God. Are you really happy being that? Oh, praise the name of the Lord. I honor Him today. I honor Him today.
We'll now turn the next scripture is John, amen, 17:24-26. John 17:24-26. Come on, praise God. 26-26. May be in them. Oh, praise God, people of God. This is beautiful. This is the prayer that Jesus prayed, that last prayer, amen, part of it. Praise God. And He declares it. Praise His name. Lift your hand and praise Him with me. Praise Him. "Father, I will that they also whom thou hast given me be with me where I am." That's a prayer the Lord is praying that we be with Him. And that's why the word of God said He is interceding daily for you and for me. Come on, people. When you get in trouble, you fall down, don't lay down there. Get up and run back to Him and ask for forgiveness, amen, because He promised He will hear you. Are you hearing me? Lift your hand and praise Him here because He wants us to be with Him. Oh, praise God. Say, "Where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me: for thou loved me before the foundation of the world." "O righteous Father: the world hath not known thee: but I have known thee, and these have known that thou hast sent me." Buried and rose on the third day. Will you believe that? That's all you need to be a child of God. If you can believe that, if you can cross on the third day, you're a child of God. You shall be saved. Lift your hand and praise God. You don't have to roll in anybody's floor. Are you hearing me? You don't have to make any noise and burn and holler, make noise, but all you got is just believe that Christ was crucified for you. He was dead and He was buried and He rose on the third day. It's not about when you're ready, honey. It's about what Jesus has done for you already. Oh, praise God. And I love when I read Hebrews, Hebrews 9, and verse 12. And He said, "They brought up bulls and goats, and those things couldn't do it, but this man Jesus went in once and for all and hath obtained eternal redemption for us." And that gives us an eternal inheritance. Lift your hand. Heart to be overflowing like command. You see, my God should be saying, "Oh, Lord, I thank you." And we sit down, we sit down in church, start thinking about your dinner tonight. And listen, if I don't have any dinner tonight, I know He's going to send me dinner because He said, "I take care of the spouse and I take your little lilies." Look at Solomon, all his glory. He said, "Solomon could not look like a lady." Are you still here? Amount of time you read the word of God, but we are not seeing what the word is saying. Are you hearing me today? Amen. But thank God, He prays for us. Amen. Amen, somebody.
And then at verse 20, He said, "And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it: that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, and I in them." Oh, you don't understand. It's good to know the love of God is shed abroad in my heart. How many have the love of God today? The love of God is great afar than pin our tongue can never tell. It goes beyond the highest star. It reaches to the lowest hill. Oh, love of God, so rich, so pure, so measureless and strong. It shall forevermore endure. And I'll sing it with the angels because the angels are singing about it. I read in Revelation, we have 19, where the angels saying, "Honor and glory and power, power and majesty be unto Him that is worthy, for He alone is worthy." Have we seen anything lately? And some can just barely sing, you know. We praise God, we just barely do like this. The hands can live high. Try them and give God some praise. And I feel when I feel my legs get weak, I'm going to stress them out. And if my hand feel weak, I'm going to lift them up because power will flow because of my faith in Him. Lift your hand and praise Him today. Lift your hand and praise Him, somebody. Praise God. Blind Bartimaeus, when when the Lord called him, amen, he came to Jesus. The Lord, "What do you want from me?" He said, "That I might receive my sight." And the Lord asked him, "Do you believe I can do this?" Expect me to do it? And he said, "You have to believe God for it. You have to believe God for it." I don't know what you come to do today, but I come to praise the Lord. I come to thank Him for His greatness and for His power. Thank Him, amen, for the prayer He prayed for us. Oh, praise the name of the Lord.
And the next, the next verse we'll get to is John 20:21 and 22. John 20:21 and 22. Praise God. John 28. Amen. All right, go ahead and read. Bless the Lord. Come on, bless the Lord, people. Praise God. Praise God. "Then said Jesus unto them again, Peace be unto you: as my Father hath sent me, even so send I you." Are you, are you hearing that, people? We are being sent. Amen. Don't you go if you're not sent. We know we are sent by the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. He said He has sent us. And then in verse 22, He said, "And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said unto them, Receive ye the Holy Ghost." I don't know how many of you today have received the Holy Ghost already, but you can be refilled again. You can have a refreshing again by the laying on of hands. Are you hearing me? And by your prayer to the Lord Jesus Christ, even at your bedside, you can get another refilling. Lift your hand and praise Him with me. Lift your hand and give Him glory. You have the most powerful ministry there is, the ministry of intercession, of reaching out to the Lord Jesus Christ and declaring your faith in Him. I love the Apostle Paul. He said, "I know in whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against the day." The day might not be a good day, but you have a good promise. You have precious promises. The day might be a rough day, but you have the authority. You have the Holy Ghost living in us to teaching us and guiding us into all truth. And praise God, in Psalm 91, He said, "I give my angels charge concerning you in all your ways." Not some ways, but in all your ways. Are you believing God for the promise He gives you? He who dwells in the secret place of the most High. Where do you find this secret place? Anywhere can be your secret place, as long as Jesus is with you. You can go anywhere. Lift your hand and praise Him again. Praise Him again, somebody. Oh, praise God. What have I to dread? What have I to fear? When I'm leaning on the Everlasting Arms, I have blessed peace when my Lord is near. I'm leaning on the Everlasting arm. Oh, praise be unto God. Praise be unto God.
And I want to say to the Church of God, you can be effective. You can have every promise there is written in the book. Every single one belongs to us. How many believe that? Some belong, it belongs to the bishop and to the pastors and to the evangelists, but they don't belong to me. And we even have some who claim to be prayer warriors, and their prayer nothing, believe me, because they make more contentions and more problem in the Church of God when they claim they are this and they are that. But when you humble yourself and let the Holy Spirit demonstrate who you are, then you are victorious. Lift your hand and praise God with me. I, I love this. I love this. Praise. Gonna let our last scripture, amen, for for this subject today, amen, Jesus promising to the believers all of the precious promises. He promised them to you. And that one, praise God, is Acts chapter 1. And Brother Luke put it well in verse 4. Praise God. I want to say to the church today, you cannot be effective if you are not, if you're still doubting who Jesus is. You cannot be having what God wants you to have if you're not believing Him for it. Are you still listening to me? And verse 8 said, "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me." We are in Jerusalem, in Judea, in Samaria, and to the other most part of the earth. That means even in Far Rockaway. Are you hearing? Or any place you travel to. A room with you. Am I right? He is with you. The Lord of hosts is with you, and the God of Jacob is your refuge. Psalm 46. "Therefore shall we not fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea; though the waters thereof roar and be troubled." Are you hearing me? But the Lord of hosts is with us. Lift your hand and thank Him for being with you. The Lord is with us, and the God of Jacob is my hiding place. He is my safe place. I can run into Him and hide. And when the enemy is trying to be a bad boy, I can tell him where to get off my train. Are you hearing me? Because I got Jesus. I got Him with me in the person of the Holy Spirit. Are you hearing the church? He walks with me, and He talks with me. And sometimes the enemy wants to beat me up. You don't believe that. He'll be happy if he could kill me because and I wouldn't be able, you won't be able to get the truth. But I'm gonna make sure you get the truth. You must not go to heaven and say you didn't hear the truth. I've heard some lying people leave this church and said they never hear the truth, but I think they have backslidden. Are you hearing me? If you come to this church and you didn't hear the truth, you have backslidden, and you, you must have put something in your ear and stopped it up to you and hearing anything. Lift your hand and give God some glory. Give Him some praise here. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
And I look at the disciples, praise God, in Acts chapter 2, when He sent them to go wait for the Holy Ghost. I'm saying to your church, you will not be effective if you are not filled with the Holy Ghost. Amen. You have the Spirit, and you get saved, I agree with you, but you need a refilling. You need an outpouring. I know pouring, amen, somebody. I don't know about it. The night when I got filled, that I felt, and I began to speak new languages. My God, I felt powerful. Anybody see like that, man? Yes. Since I felt it, and you know when I got to my room and opened my Bible, black and white, every word that looked up turned gold. Lord have mercy. Amen. I said, "Every word, I know I have to wanna." It's not my baby, black and white, yes, but I'm, I'm seeing God. We've got the power of the spiritual, the power of the Holy Ghost. Hallelujah, church. Move forward. I said, move forward. Come on up higher. Lord have mercy. In the power of the Holy Ghost. Don't sit down here and warm anybody's bench. Make sure you're on fire for the Lord. Make sure the joy is overflowing within you. Make sure you have what God has given to you, and you're using it well. You're not here. Mm-hmm. Don't safely and don't quench the Spirit, says the word of God. He said, "Christ not the Spirit." Because, okay, when I pray, God, your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. Thessalonians 4. God go there, you'll find it, because God wants you to be effective. I want you to be strong. Are you hearing me? I want you to lay a hand on your own sick body and have recovery time and never go to a hospital and came back together and so the doctor said, "There's arthritis in there." And lay hand on it. No more friends. Are you hearing me? I said, "You got it. You have it. Use it or lose it." You want to lose it? Don't lose it. It's precious. Hallelujah, church. And today, I thank God. I've given it. It's not long, but I've given you what God gave me to give you. I've given it to you. Don't lose it. Go back over it when you go home. Ponder on it and make sure if you don't got what God expected to have, seek for it. Ask. I love this Sunday school lesson this morning. Everybody should be in Sunday school this morning. What a powerful lesson this morning. Amen. He said, "When you pray, say, Our Father." That means it belongs to all of us. He is in heaven. Anything we ask Him for, He gives it to us. What a powerful is for her. Did you pass through here? You must know what God is saying in His words. Are you hearing me? And when I die, this church should not die. Because I heard people say, "When the leaders die, church died." It's alive from the pit of hand. Too many of you have been taught the word of God, so the church should believe. Amen. Amen. The church don't build on me, on Christ, the solid rock I stand. All other grounds are sinking sand. Thank God. I didn't preach and let you know I'm Jesus. I'm not Jesus. I need Him even more than how you need Him. Are you hearing me? Because for me to stand here daily to tell you about Him, I need Him a little bit more. But I pray you could feel the same way, that you need Him more than ever. Hallelujah, church. Glory to God. I want you to praise Him with all your heart. Amen. These are the promises, or some of the promises, because if you go through the scripture after I go through, you'll find a lot more, amen, that He wants you to know about the promises. Precious promise God is given to the where it passes by all the way from Earth to Heaven. He said, "I'll guide thee with mine eye." I'm talking to those in line, those at home, maybe you're in your car. The Lord wants you to know Him. Whom to know is life eternal. He wants you to know Him so you can stand. If something happens, just your alone left somewhere, you can stand up and be victorious. Are you hearing me? And I guarantee you, if I go to any part of the world by myself, I'm going to lift up Jesus because I know Him. Do you know Him? Do you know my Jesus? Why, I don't even know something. Do you know by Jesus? Do you know my Lord?
Do you know my Jesus? Do you know my friend? My friend. Sing it again. Do you know my Jesus? Do you know my friend? Have you heard me? See it one more time. And if you don't know Him, I invite you to come. Maybe you're getting weak somewhere, want to lay down arms. I ask you to come. My friends. Heal us. And I want to say that somebody's not until problem come. Maybe we might have a civil war in this country. Maybe, maybe, maybe they might start to burn the churches down. Maybe they might even walk in here, want to kill us individually. But if you know Jesus, you have protection. If you know Him, you're covered. Are you hearing me, somebody? And I know no devil can kill me. No devil can kill you because you're under divine coverage. How many believe that? You're under divine coverage. And make sure you don't go to anybody to look for any help. Make sure you look to the Lord Jesus Christ for your help, for all my help comes from the Lord. Are you hearing me today? Do you know Him? Do you know? Have you heard? He said, "I will not leave you comfortless, but I will talk to my Father, that He send you another Comforter, even the Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because the word anoint Him not. But you, my children, you know Him, for He lives with you. He abides with you. He abides with you. He's living in you." Don't let nobody tell you any difference. He's living in you. He is living in you. And that he that's here, let us pray. Can we come close and pray? Everybody come closer. Let's pray. And I feel for those who are playing, playing around the bush and don't want to come closer to Him. Make sure you make your calling and your election sure. Make sure, make sure, make sure you're trusting Him. Hallelujah. Make sure you're depending on Him. Make sure, make sure, make sure whatever you do, you're doing it with Him in it. This is, do you know my Jesus? Do you know my friend? Have you heard that He loves you and that He, He will abide till fear. Holy Father and our God, we thank You for today. We thank You for the promises. We thank You for Your greatness. We just thank You for Your power. You've given to Your servants, the disciples who believed on You. Oh God, we are so happy. You've given us power to cast out devils, to speak with that new tongue, to lay hand on the sick and they recover. Oh God, I pray in the mighty name of Jesus, You'll touch Your sons and Your daughters. Allow the anointing to flow over them today from the throne. Lord, send it down. We need a new anointing. We need a breakthrough. We need something more, Lord God, to continue in the journey. The road seems getting rougher, and they're going getting tougher, and the hills are hard to climb. But I've made it up in my mind, Lord, I'm going to seek Your face. I'm going to follow You. I'm going to trust You to the very end. In the name of Jesus, I break every chain of darkness. Every demon that come on in here, I try you out by the blood of Jesus. I command you to take your fight. Don't come back here anymore. But the blood is dangerous. The blood of Jesus burns you right now. The blood of Jesus consume every trust, consume every pain, every sick one in the name of Jesus. Healing in Jesus' name. Ah, Lord, Your words and eyes our Lord. Elijah was a man of like passion as we, and he spoke and said, "Let there be no rain," and there were no rain for three years and a half. And then again, he said, "Let there be rain," when there were no cloud in the sky, and God, He prayed until there was a little piece of cloud seen like a man's hand, and rain began to fall. Almighty God, to give us that kind of faith. Give us that kind of strength. We have faith as a grain of mustard seed. We speak to mountains and command them to be cast into the sea, and it will not doubt in our hearts. Remove every doubt, remove every fear, remove pride, remove self, remove whatever is to be removed, and let Your will be done. I claim this today, and I give You praise. I give You honor, and I keep Your glory. Thank You, Lord. Thank You, Jesus. Thank You, Holy One. Thank You for the promises. Thank You for the promises. Thank You for me not choosing You, but You choosing me and ordaining me to go and produce fruits. I honor You today. Remember all the churches, every single one of every tribe, every nation, Lord God, in every country, in every land. Let Your glory cover the Earth as the waters cover the sea. Let the glory cover the Earth. Lord, let the glory come down. Down. Send it down, Lord. Send down some glory. Send it down on the altars of Your people. Allow Your people to repent and turn from their wicked ways and come back, my God, to the throne of God. Come back to the hiding place. Come back to the shelter. Come back where rain is falling. Come back where joy is flowing like a river, and all the church will grow and become strong. Bless us in this month, Lord. Bless us, we pray. As we start this new month, send revival. Lord, send it down. Send revival. Pray for those at home. Seek for those traveling. For those who are not listening. For those who are listening. I pray for everybody today and declare You as Lord in their lives. In Jesus' name, He is Lord. He is Lord. He is risen from the dead, and He is Lord. Every knee shall bow, every tongue must confess that only Jesus Christ is Lord. His Lord. Lord. He is Lord. He has from the dead and His Lord.