Be Led By The Spirit of God | Minister Tunisha Bruce

every one of us, Lord God, in the name of Jesus, Lord God, you said those of us, Lord God, those of us that worship you, Lord God, we must, we must worship you, Lord God, in spirit and in truth, Lord God, we ask you that you WOULD TAKE CONTROL OF THIS SERVICE, LORD GOD. MOVE IN A MIGHTY WAY, LORD GOD, IN JESUS NAME. Lord God, we ask you this morning, Lord God, THAT YOU WOULD ANOINT, LORD GOD, ANOINT THE MESSENGER, Lord God, THAT AS SHE BRING FORTH, LORD GOD, YOUR UNADULTERATED WORD, LORD GOD, ANOINT HER, LORD GOD, AS she bring forth your word, Lord God, WHAT THUS SAID THE LORD. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. Give us a heart to receive and ear to hear. Lord God, what you are saying, Lord God, to each and every one of us, Lord God. Help us to continue Lord [music] to take your word and apply it to our lives. Be glorified. Be magnified in this service, Lord God. Anoint the musicians, Lord God, as they play skillfully before you, Lord God, in Jesus' name. Lord God, anoint every note, every beat, Lord God, in the name of Jesus, Lord God. Father, we ask you this morning, Lord God, that [music] you will continue to send those, Lord God, that should be here, LORD GOD, TO HEAR WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY, LORD GOD, IN the name of Jesus, Lord God, THAT THEY, AS YOUR PEOPLE, LORD GOD, MAY ENDURE, LORD GOD, UNTIL THE END, LORD GOD, HELP US TO CONTINUE, LORD GOD, TO STAND THIS MORNING. STAND ON YOUR WORD, LORD GOD. STAND ON YOUR PROMISES, LORD GOD, IN THE NAME OF JESUS. Lord God, YOU SAID YOUR WORD, LORD GOD, WHEN I RETURN UNTO YOU FOR IT that it would do, Lord God, what it was set out to accomplish, Lord God, in Jesus name, Lord God, HAVE YOUR WAY this morning, LORD GOD, HAVE YOUR WAY, LORD GOD. FATHER, WE ASK you this morning in the name of Jesus. Lord God, that you remember those, Lord God, those that are sick and afflicted and IN THEIR BODIES, LORD GOD, WE ASK YOU, LORD GOD, THAT YOU REMEMBER OUR FIRST LADY, LORD GOD, in the name of Jesus, Lord God, remember malign, Lord God, in the name of Jesus, Lord God, we know, LORD GOD, THAT YOU ARE ABLE, ABLE TO DO A SEEDING ABUNDANTLY, LORD GOD, ABOVE ALL, LORD GOD, THAT WE MAY ASK OR THINK LORD GOD. HALLELUJAH LORD GOD. HALLELUJAH LORD JESUS. Hallelujah Lord. We need you this morning Lord God. We need you Lord God. We need you this MORNING LORD GOD. WE COME THIS morning Lord God looking unto the hills Lord God from which cometh our WAY UP LORD GOD. LORD OUR HELP LORD GOD. OUR HELP COMETH FROM YOU LORD GOD. THE ONE WHO MADE HEAVEN AND EARTH LORD GOD. HALLELUJAH. Lord you the ultimate healer, ultimate deliverer. Lord God, in the name of Jesus, LORD GOD, HAVE YOUR WAY. LORD GOD, HAVE YOUR WAY, LORD, TOUCH and move this morning. Lord God, IN A MIGHTY WAY, LORD GOD, HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH, LORD GOD. UH, HALLELUJAH, LORD. UH, SEND YOU ANOINTING, LORD GOD. SEND YOUR ANOINTING, LORD GOD. UH, HALLELUJAH, Lord Jesus. HALLELUJAH, LORD. UH, PRAISE YOUR NAME, LORD GOD. UH, PRAISE YOUR NAME, LORD GOD. PRAISE YOUR NAME. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. this morning, LORD GOD. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. LORD, YOU SAID IN OUR DELIVERANCE, Lord God, IT'S IN OUR PRAISE, LORD GOD. OUR DELIVERANCE, Lord God, IS IN OUR PRAISE, LORD GOD. HAVE YOUR WAY, LORD GOD. HAVE YOUR WAY. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. LORD, HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. YOU SAID THAT EVERYTHING, EVERYTHING THAT HAS BREATH, [screaming] PRAISE YE THE LORD. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. Lord Jesus, your will, your way, Lord God, be glorified, be magnified this morning, Lord God, in this service, Lord God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. IT'S THE ANOINTING. IT'S THE ANOINTING, LORD GOD, THAT DESTROYS THE YOKE, Lord God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah, Lord Jesus. >> [music] >> Thank you, Jesus. Praise your name, Lord God. Bless your name, Lord Jesus. Have your way. Have your way, Lord God. Have your way saved this morning, Lord God. Such, Lord God, that should be saved this morning, Lord God. Hallelujah. Give them the mind and the desire, Lord God, to say yes, Lord. YES TO YOUR WILL. YES TO YOUR WAY, LORD GOD. IN JESUS' NAME. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. And amen. [music] Thank you, Lord. Come on, let's praise him, saints. Praise him. Hallelujah. [applause] >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [music] >> Hallelujah. The Lord is worthy. At this time, we're going to go before the Lord in our scripture reading this morning. We'll be coming from Isaiah 54, and we'll be reading verses 11 through uh 17. Isaiah 54 verses 11-1 17. Amen. I ask that you uh read along with me. Amen. In Jesus name. Beginning at verse 11. Oh thou afflicted, tossed with tempest and not comforted. Behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colors and lay thy foundations with sapphires. And I will make thy windows of agots, and thy gates of carbunles, and all thy borders of pleasant [music] stones. And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord, and great shall be the peace of thy children. In righteousness shalt thou be established. Thou shalt be far from oppression. For thou shalt not fear, and from terror, for it shall not come near thee. Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me. Whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake. Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work, and I have created the waste waster to destroy. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment, thou shalt condemn. >> This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, sayaeth the Lord. Amen. May God bless the reading of his word. >> This time we'll have Minister Marilyn and the praise team. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. [music] This is the heritage of the saints. Hallelujah. No weapon. Hallelujah. So, come on, let's say yes. [music] My soul says yes to my Lord. Soul says yes to my Lord. Oh, he's done [music] great things. He's done great. My soul says yes [singing] [music] to my Lord. My soul says [singing] yes to my Lord. My [music] soul says yes to my Lord. [music] >> Yes, he has. He's done great things. [music] Lord, >> brought me out of darkness. Woke me out of darkness into his mountain of light. Put my feet on straight street. Gave me the strength [music] to He's done great things. He's done great things. My soul says yes. [music] >> Come on. My soul says yes [music] to my heart. >> My soul says yes to my heart. >> He's done great things. >> Great. >> He's done great things. >> My [music] soul says yeah. [singing] >> Brought me out of brought me [music] out of darkness into his marvelous light. Put my feet on straight street. Tell me it'll be all right. He's [music] done great things. He's done great things. My soul [music] says yes. Come on. My soul says yes. [music and singing] I hope you have a yes in your spirit. My soul says yes. Lord, [music] he has done great things. Great great things. Great things. Yes. Yes. Yes. [music] Brought me brought me out of darkness into his marvelous light. Put my feet on. Gave me the strength. Gave me the strength to fight. He's done great things. My [music] soul says yes. [singing] Yes. My [music] >> soul says yes. You are my soul says yes. [music] >> Bless you God. Bless you Lord. Yes. He's done. >> Yes. [music] >> Yes he has. My soul said [singing] yes. >> Come on. God gave me God gave me a song. The angel glory. Ah redee. [music] [screaming] [music] >> Come on. We going to do that one again. God gave me a song. The angels. >> Come on y'all. Glory. >> I've been redeemed. >> Yay. Thank you Lord. [music] >> My soul my soul says yes. >> He's done great things. >> Great things. [music] >> He's done great things. >> He's done great things. Woo. He has >> [music] >> He had he had hallelujah. Hallelujah. [music] >> Woke me up. Started me. Gave me a mind to come and praise him. [music] >> He had Jesus. He has come on healed my body. Heal my mind. He's done great things. >> Great things. >> He's done great things. >> Great things. >> He's done great things. >> Great things. >> He's done great things. >> Great things. >> WOKE ME UP. >> He's done great [music] things. >> Blessed my mind. >> Great things. >> Gave me salvation. >> HEAL MY BODY. BLESSED ME EVERY DAY. >> Gave me a life. >> Gave me a life to serve him. Yes. >> He's done great [music] things. >> Great things. >> He's done great things. My soul, my [music] soul says [singing] yes. Yes. Yes. To my Lord. Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Come on. Listen. If God has saved you >> Yes. Yes. >> and gave you a mind >> Come on. Come on. >> To fellowship in HIS HOUSE AND LEARN MORE ABOUT HIM. >> Come on. >> He's done great things. >> Great things. >> How can you NOT SAY YES TO HIM? >> YES. >> How can you not say yes to him? >> Yes. Yes. >> Hallelujah. God. >> Hallelujah. >> What a mighty God we serve. >> Yes, sir. >> He didn't just save you and go dump you in the middle of somewhere. He saved you >> and gave you the provisions. >> Thank you, >> to be strengthened. >> And to grow in him. >> Thank you, Lord. >> Amen. To learn how to live this life. >> Yes. >> Of holiness. >> Hallelujah. >> On a daily basis. Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. I hope and pray you have a mind to say yes to him. I do. >> Say yes all day. Say yes. Just say yes to him. >> Hallelujah. [singing] It will do you well. >> Yes, Lord. >> If you say yes to God. Hallelujah. >> Thank you, Lord. >> Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. >> From the bottom [singing] of my heart. Hallelujah. to the depths of my [singing] soul. Yes, Lord. Completely. Completely. [singing and music] >> My soul says yes. My soul says [singing and music] yes. Come on, say it again. Yes, Lord. [singing] Yes, Lord. >> Yes, Lord. [music] From the bottom of my heart, >> the bottom of my [singing] heart >> to the depths of my soul. >> Yes, Lord. Completely. [music] [singing] My soul, >> my soul, >> my soul says yes. [singing] Come on, tell us yes. [music] Oh [singing] >> yes [music] to your will Jesus. >> Yes to your ways. Can you say hey >> not my will but thine will be done by [singing] yes [music] Lord I surrender. Hallelujah [music] >> my soul. >> My soul. [singing] [music] Come on, tell them I love you. I [music] love you. I love you from the bottom of my heart. Oh yes. [music] In the depths of my soul. Oh, I love you. I really do. [music] I really my soul. My soul [music] [singing] says again. Say it again. I love you. I love you. I love you, Lord. [music] >> From the bottom of my [music] heart, the best of my heart. [music] I got you. I really [music and singing] do. >> My soul, [music] >> my soul said yes. >> My soul say [music] yes. My soul. >> Come on. Yes, Lord. I need it, Jesus. [music] I need it. I need it. I need it. My heart. [music] >> I need it, Lord. [music] Yes. Yes. [singing] Yes. [music] My soul. [singing] My soul. [music] Yes. Tell him again. I love you. I love you. I love you, Lord. I love you. [music] He said, if I love you, if you love me, keep my commandments. I love [music] you. I really do. I really [music] do. And my Lord [singing] said yes. One more time. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. [music] Yes, Lord. From the bottom. From the bottom of [music] my heart to the devil my soul. [music] [singing] Yes. Yes. My soul. [music] My soul. My soul says yes. Yes. Yes, Lord. Come on. Come on. From the bottom of my heart. From the bottom [music] of my soul. Yes, Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. To the depths. To the [music and singing] depths of my soul. Yes, Lord. Hallelujah. Come on, say yes. Yes. Yes. [music] Yes. Yes. Yes. The say yes. Yes. Yes. [music and singing] Yes. Yes. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [music] Say yes. I say yes, Jesus. Hallelujah. Lord, hallelujah. My will but thy will be done. We say yes. We say yes. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, give thanks unto the Lord. >> Yes. >> For he is good >> and his mercy endureth >> forever. >> My That's why my soul says yes to the Lord. >> Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Yes, Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. [music] When I think of the goodness of Jesus >> and all he's done for me, my soul cries out. >> Hallelujah. >> Thank you, Jesus. >> Thank you, Lord. >> Thank you. >> You may be seated. >> Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. >> God is great >> and he's greatly to be praised. >> Thank you, Jesus. >> He's the great I am, >> the everlasting father, >> the prince of peace, >> great eternal wonder, >> holy counselor, >> and he's Zion's righteous governor. [music] He's great. He's great. He's great. [music] God God is [singing] Elohim of all the holy prophets. The Alshi [singing] of all the seers and sages. He is Jesus Christ redeemer friend and savior. [singing] He's the great He's the [music] great I am. Oh great, I [singing] am the everlasting God and the prince [music] of peace. Great eternal wonder, holy counelor [music] by his righteous governor. He's a great He's a great [singing and music] I am. Oh. Oh. He's the great high, the everlasting and the [music and singing] prince of peace. Great eternal wonder. Holy counelor. [music] I am righteous. He is a great I [music and singing] am. He's a great I am the [music and singing] everlasting father. He's a friend of peace. Have you heard or wonder? Holy [singing] counelor, [music] high and righteous governor. He's the great He's the great I am. He's [music] the great He's the great I am. He's the great He's the great I am. [singing and music] Hallelujah. >> Hey, >> hallelujah. Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you, Jesus. >> Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. >> Thank you, Jesus. >> Thank you, Lord. >> Hallelujah. >> Can't nobody >> do me like Jesus. >> Hallelujah. >> Can't nobody do me like the Lord. >> Nobody. >> Hallelujah. Hallelujah. >> Thank you, Lord. He brought me out of darkness. [music] >> Not just into light, but into a marvelous light. >> Marvelous. >> Yes. >> And I thank him. >> I praise him. >> Hallelujah. >> I lift up his name. >> Yes. Yes. Thank you. >> Hallelujah. >> Amen. You all may be seated. >> Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. >> Amen. I'm excited. >> In case you all didn't recognize, I'm excited. Come on, >> Jesus. >> God's been so good. >> Yes. Yes. >> Thank you, Jesus. He's been good. >> Thank you, Lord. >> Hallelujah. >> He's been better than good. >> Yes. Yes. >> Thank you, Lord. >> And I thank him and I praise him. I'm delighted to see each of you who are here today. >> Thank you, Lord. >> Hallelujah. >> We've come to worship the Lord. >> Hallelujah. >> We came to lift up his name. >> Yes, Lord. >> Thank you, Jesus. Thank you Lord. >> Hallelujah. >> Thank you Lord. >> At this time >> Hallelujah. >> Thank you Lord. >> Can we have a Can we have some music from the band? >> I I put him on the spot. I put him on the spot. >> [music] [music] >> Oh, great. [singing] How great [music] is our [singing] God? >> How great, [singing] >> how great >> is our [music] God >> is our God. >> Sing with me. How [singing] great, >> how great [music] >> is our God >> is our God. >> All will see [music] how [singing] great >> All will see. How great >> how great >> is our God >> is our God. [singing and music] >> You're the name above all name. >> You're the [music and singing] name >> the name above all name. [music] that he's worthy. >> Worthy of all [singing] praise. >> Worthy of all praise. >> Heart will sing. [music] How great. >> How [singing] great is our God [music] [singing] with the name above all name. The [music] name of [singing] the name above all name. I'm worthy and worthy. Worthy [music and singing] >> of all praise and [music] my heart will sing. [singing] How great >> how great is [music and singing] our God. Thank you. How great [music] is our God. >> Oh, how [singing] great is our God. [music] It will [singing] be our praise is our God. [music] All sing, [singing] how great [music] is [singing] our God. [music] How great [singing] is our God. Sing [singing] with me, how great is [music] our God. Oh, we see how [singing] great how great [music] [singing] is our God. [music] And all will [singing] see how great, >> how great is our [music and singing] God. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. >> Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Praise your name. Bless your name. >> All right. At this time, we're calling on the speaker for the morning, Minister, Tanisha Bruce. >> Amen. >> She has a word to speak to this congregation. I can verify that she's been sent. >> Amen. >> So, let's all stand and receive her as she comes in Jesus name. Minister Tanisha Bruce, God bless you. >> God bless you. Thank you, Bishop. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord, saints. >> Praise the Lord, saints. >> Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I feel led to do this, but let us pray real fast for our sister Milan. While we were worshiping and praising, she was encountering difficulties. I don't know what the difficulties was. Hallelujah. But it's been impressed on my spirit to lift her up right now. Hallelujah. Because that's what we were called to do. Hallelujah. >> Let us pray. Oh, some oil. >> Yes. Yes. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Father God, we thank you. Hallelujah. We thank you. Hallelujah. Lord, you are our healer. You are our deliverer, God. Hallelujah. By your stripes, we are healed. Hallelujah. And we lift up our sister Milan, Father, in this challenging time of her life. Lord, we ask that you touch her like never before. Touch her from the crown of her head to the SOLES OF HER FEET. REMOVE the anxiety. Remove the discomfort. Remove the pain. REMOVE ALL THAT SHE'S ENCOUNTERING IN HER EMOTIONS. HELP HER TO GET OUT OF HER HEAD AND into the spirit. GOD, WE GLORIFY YOU AT THIS OPPORTUNITY, GOD, to see you. Hallelujah. Be the healer that we know you are. That we've encountered you to be doing and when he wants to do what he wants to do because it's his program. It's his program. Hallelujah. I don't know much about what she's going through, but I know she's 17 and she could have been at home and she pressed her way. >> She pressed her way to get here >> to hear THE WORD OF GOD BECAUSE HER PARENTS BEEN RAISING HER UP IN THE WAY they should that she should go. And she came here to praise and to worship the Lord. And her body is being afflicted. Her mind is being afflicted. And so we gather. Hallelujah. In the presence of one another and in the presence of the Lord TO LIFT HER UP TO LET YOU KNOW WE LOVE YOU MILAN. AND YOU are healed and you are okay in Jesus name BECAUSE WE SERVE THE HEALER. We serve the great healer. Hallelujah. The great I am. Hallelujah. You may be seated. Hallelujah. In the presence of the Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you Lord. Thank you Jesus. I give honor today to [sighs] Jesus Christ, God Almighty, the head of my life, the author and the finisher of my fate and my faith. Hallelujah. I thank you for this opportunity, God, to give honor to Bishop, my pastor and first lady, beautiful, lovely, wise first lady. Hallelujah. She's in the house today. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Pastor Ross, the ministers, the saints. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. My son said, "Mama, why you don't give acknowledgement to us?" You know how when speakers come up and the when they married, they say, "I want to give honor to my wife. I'm not married yet. Y'all keep praying for me." Hallelujah. But he says, "You don't acknowledge Tanila and myself." I said, "Why should I?" HE SAID, "WE YOUR CHILDREN." SO, I want to give a shout out to my children, [laughter] Michael James Jr. You're into Nyla Janelle Hunter Bulock. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [laughter] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So, hallelujah. I've cleared everybody. I've cleared everybody. I'm in the good. [laughter] [gasps] Hallelujah. Let me pray. Father, I thank you for this opportunity. I don't take it lightly. I thank you for placing us on your mind, for caring for us and and wanting us to be better and wanting us to do better. Lord, I decrease that you may increase in me. Help them to hear you and not me. Help them to see you and not me in the name of Jesus. Amen. >> Hallelujah. The songs that we sang, Amen, was yes. My soul says yes to my Lord. My soul says yes to my Lord. And the other song we sung was yes Lord. Yes Lord. The Lord has placed it on my spirit to encourage us to be led by the spirit of God. We have to say yes in order to allow him to lead. >> We have to say yes. And we just saying yes. My soul says yes. Hallelujah. And the Lord says, "Well, let me lead you. Allow my spirit to lead you." >> We already said yes. So, he's going to lead us and we must follow. >> We must follow. Hallelujah. Being led by the spirit means allowing God to guide us. allowing God to be in the forefront of our lives in the front of the situation situations because they keep coming. Allowing God to direct us ing this word means to continue. So this allowing is not just a one-time thing or a two-time thing. It's a continuous thing that we must do day after day, >> minute after minute, hour after hour, second after second, is allow God to lead us. Allow his spirit to guide and to direct us. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. When we allow something, we are giving permission for that something to act, that person to act. We're giving permission on our behalf. We're surrendering our will. We're surrendering our way. And we're saying, "You go ahead. You do it." The Lord wants us to allow him to lead us by his spirit. >> In 2026, we we're in the second month. We just started. We what 32 days in. We are allowing many things to lead us. Even at this juncture and we just started, we just got started with the year. We are allowing distractions to lead us and to guide us away from the Lord and his purpose for our lives. I'm going to mention a few things that we're allowing to get in front of our walk with the Lord job. And these are things that we prayed for and God has favored us and blessed us with. And some of them God may not have blessed us with, but we went out and got it on our own. And he in his permissive will, he allowed us to have it, >> but he gave it to us. He allowed us to have these things. And yet we are allowing them to lead us jobs. We prayed for the jobs. And yet when we get it, we don't come to church on Sunday. We don't come on to Bible study on Wednesday nights. Even though Bible study is online, we can log in from at home at the grocery store. We can log in while you driving, picking up whoever you picking up. Just click the link and and listen. But we're allowing what we ask for the job to keep us from coming. >> The money, Lord, I need money for my bills. I need money to take care of my family. And then he gives us the money and then we don't pay our tithes. We don't give our offering. We make excuses as to why we can't and why we won't. These are things that we're allowing to distract us from allowing the Lord to lead us. Relationships, husbands, we want husbands, we and the wives want husbands, the husband want wives, we want relationships, family, uh companionships. And the Lord gives these things to us and and then we get busy. We stop praying like we were. We stop reading our Bibles like we were. We're hanging out. We're doing other things. And there's nothing wrong with hanging out and having these things. But when we place them before God, it's a problem. >> And I want to go back to the jobs for a moment. I I remember when my daughter started working at Knoxberry Farm. And many of our youth was working at Knoxberry Farm. And I don't know what they were doing, but I know what the Lord had her to do and what he had me to do. I told her, I said, "Tanyla, when they ask you what are your availabilities, tell them you cannot go to work on Sundays. If they want you to work, you will go in after 12:30, 1:00." And that was during the time we were in um worshiping. It was during COVID and we was outside and service was from 11 to 12. And so I said, "Tell them you can come anytime after 12:30." Now she was 18. She could have did what she wanted to do, but she listened and she told them, "I I need Sundays off or if you schedule me, schedule me after church, and they did that." There was one time in particular out of her four years of working there that they scheduled her on a Sunday. And I think it was a new scheduleuler. I don't know, but she went that day. But what I'm saying is when God gives us these things, yes, they're going to schedule you on Sundays maybe, but you tell them your availabilities and if you are following the spirit of the Lord and what he wants you to do, he's going to make a way where they won't schedule you on Sunday or it will be after your time with him in his house. Right. >> Social media. We're watching IG, Instagram, and and Facebook, and we're allowing all these distractions, and we're listening to what these people are saying. These influencers who not saved, who's not seeking the Lord, but their opinion matters. What they found or what they say they researched and found. We're believing them. But we won't believe what God say. We're picking and choosing what we want to receive from the Lord. The governments trying to scare us with all these different things that they're doing. We see the bigger picture because we've been informed. The Lord said, "The world, as my day draws closer, as it draws nigh to my returning, the world will wax worse and worse." And that's what's happening right now. But as children of God, we're supposed to be prayed up. We supposed to have the word of God in us so that we can rebuke these things and we can see the Lord in all these situations. Yes, rent is high. Lord, I thank you that you have blessed me to pay this high rent and still take care of my household. Yes, food is high. Lord, thank you for blessing me to still BE ABLE TO FILL MY refrigerator and and bless me with the money to buy these things in spite of the high prices. We have to look for God in these things. Yes, it's happening. But we can't allow it to distract us. We can't allow it to get us fearful in operating like the world is operating >> in material things. And the list can go on and on. These are things that God has given us, but he don't want us to place it before him. He don't want it to lead us. He says, "Let my spirit lead you. I will lead you and guide you." At any moment in time, God can take these things away from us. >> Excuse me. He can take them away from us because we are not taking good care of it. We're not being good stewards over what he entrusted us with. >> But it's because of his grace and his mercy that we still have them. >> Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. God wants us to allow him to guide and to lead us. He wants us to take the back seat and allow him to be in the driver's seat to do all that he wants to do >> in our lives. He wants us to trust and commit. He wants us to submit and he wants us to actively follow. These are key themes in letting God lead, lead us, trust and commit, submission, and actively following. When we're trusting and committing, we're actively trusting and committing our plans to God's plan rather than ourself. When we're submitting submission, we're submitting to his authority even when we do not understand all the instructions. Even when we don't know what he's instructing us to do, active actively follow. We're not we're following him recognizing God before us. He acts on our behalf and he's guiding and he's ordering our steps. Psalms 32:8, the AV room is going to assist us with placing the scriptures up. Psalms 32:8 says, "I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go. I will guide you with my eye." God is telling us, "Allow me to lead you. I know what's going. I know what's happening. I know the intentions in the hearts and the motives of others. You don't know." But he says, "I'm seeing it with my eye. And I'm giving you instructions, and I want you to follow me. >> Follow my instructions because I know it all. I know the beginning from the ending. >> And in following him, we are covered. We're safe. We're in good hands. >> We are in good hands when we are allowing the spirit of the Lord to lead us. That's not to say that trials and tribulations is not going to come. It's not going to be challenging. Yes, it's going to be challenging. But the Lord have already made provisions for that. >> Once when we are doing what he asked us to do, we're covered. We're in his safe haven. We're under his wing. He's going to protect us. And he's protecting us because he's protecting his word. >> He's not going to allow you or me or anyone, government, anyone to embarrass him. >> So he tells us to trust him, to prove him. And so in doing that, we are yielding our way, our understanding, and we're saying yes, and we're allowing him to lead us. And in that, we're covered. Isaiah 48:17. Thus says the Lord, your redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. I am the Lord which leads you by the way that you should go. Now in Isaiah it's it's read and we know red writing means the Lord is speaking. He's speaking and he's telling us what we already know and he's reminding us but he know who he is. We sometimes forget we sometimes don't know who he is. So in this scripture he says thus says the Lord your redeemer. He says I sacrificed my life for you. No one else did it. I allowed them to crucify me for your deliverance for your healing for you to be reconciled to God the Father to have a relationship. He says I'm your redeemer whether you acknowledge it or believe it or not. I am because no one else did that for you. He says, "The holy one of Israel." He says, "I am the only perfect one that ever walked. I am the only sovereign one. I am holy." He says, "I am holy." You remember, I'm your redeemer. I'm holy. So, I know what's right. I only do what's right. >> I only operate in justice just. I am love. I am right. >> It says, I am the Lord. I'm Jehovah. I am the God which leads you by the way that you should go. He says, allow me to lead you. I'm telling you which direction to go because I see the distractions. I see the snares before you. But if you follow me, I'm going to cover you. I'm going to protect you and you won't go into that snare. And even if the enemy puts you in a snare, he says, "I will make a way of escape >> and it won't hurt you. >> I will make a way of escape. And I and if he allows us to be in that snare, it's not that he couldn't prevent it." He says, "I want you to allow me to lead you blindly. >> Let me lead you. >> But then I want to show you who I am. I want to show you that there's no weapon formed against you that can prosper. >> Even if the enemy has you in a snare, he says, "I'm going to make a way of escape." >> He says, "I did it for Shadrach, Mach, and Abedneo. I did it for Daniel. I did it for the many patriarchs before you, the patriarchs that of are of today and yesterday and of right now for you. He did it for me. He's continuously doing what he do. And sometimes, and I'm learning this, he allows us so that we can see him in a different light. We put God in this category and we put him in this box and we put limits. When you put something in a box, it can't come out of that box. >> It it can't move outside of it. But we from TIME TO TIME PUT HIM in this box because of lack of knowledge or our experience to that point. But he says, I want you to get me out of this box. So I'mma allow you to be shaken up. I'mma allow something to to disturb you, to shake you up a little. But in the shaking up, I want you to know that I have you. >> I have you covered. I'm going to protect you. I'm not going to allow anything to happen to you. That's the God we serve. >> If we are being led by the spirit, we we're good. Allow the Lord, the spirit of excuse me, the spirit of God to lead us. Philippians 2:13. Philippians 2:13. For it is God which works in you both to will and to do his good pleasure. God is working. Whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we understand it, he's working. He's working right now while we're listening. He's working while we're sleeping. He's constantly working, >> but he's working for his purpose. >> It's outside of our comprehension, our understanding. But it's his perfect will. It's his perfect will. It's his way. It's his show. Right? >> He says, "I'm doing it for his good pleasure, not yours, not mine's. It's for his pleasure." And so, because it's for his pleasure, and we know that he's the redeemer, he's the holy one of Israel, he's the Lord Jehovah, he's the great I am, he's El Shadai, he's Jehovah Rafi, HE'S JEHOVAH NI, HE'S ALL these things and more. He says, "I'm working for your good pleasure. I don't owe you anything, but I'm doing it because I love you. I'm doing it because I want a relationship with you and I want you to understand that I'm for you. That I'm not against you. That if you listen to me and you allow me to lead you, he says you are in great hands." And that's where his perfect peace comes in. We don't understand it, but we say, "Lord, just la this week, I was feeling a little down and I said,"Lord, I need the comforter to come and comfort me. I need you to regulate the thoughts that's coming through my mind." I began to give him his word back. >> And then all of a sudden, everything was turned around. My perspective was different regarding what I was going through. I began to allow him. >> I allowed him. >> I allowed him to stir up the spirit of God in me. >> I received his word. He comforted me >> and I felt better. >> We have to allow. >> We have to yield. >> We have to yield. And in yielding, we're saying yes. My soul says yes. I'm not gonna sing to Nyla and Michael. My soul says yes to the Lord. And in that yes, we're being led by his spirit. >> A few minutes ago, I shared with us an exhaustive list of things that we are allowing to distract us, things that we are allowing to lead us. Now I want to share with us a list of great leaders who were led by the spirit of God. Yes, they were humans. Yes, they sinned. Yes, they fell short of the glory of God. But God's mercy and grace saw them through. His mercy and grace favored them in their situations. and he saw fit to favor them and to allow their ways to be acceptable enough, pleasing to him. We're trying to please him, not each other. We're trying to please him, not each other. We have to keep that. I have to keep that in mind because sometimes we're I'm doing it for bishop. I'm doing it for first lady. I'm doing it for my son. We name everybody >> but the one we should be naming. I'm doing it for Christ. And when we do it for him, he says, "All your deeds should be done unto me." >> When we do it unto him, he strengthens us to continue to do. >> And then we're representing him. We're in his image and in his likeness. So, we're showing love. We're showing forgiveness. >> We're operating under him and under his covering when we're being led by him. Again, these men and women allowed the Lord to lead them. Let's go to Hebrews 11, chapter 11 verses 7 through 13. Hebrews 11 7 it says, "By faith Noah being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith." By faith Abraham, when he was called to go into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed, and he went out, not knowing whether he went, by faith he sojourned in the land of promise. As in the strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heir, with him of the same promise. For he looked for a city which hath foundations, which builder and maker is God. Through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. Therefore sprang there even of one, and him as good as dead, so many as the stars of the sky in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable, these all died in faith, but having received the promises, I'm sorry, these all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them aar off, and were persuaded hated of them and embraced them and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on earth. These among many others, they were led by the spirit of the Lord. They allowed the Lord to lead them. Noah, it had never rained before. He allowed the spirit of the Lord to instruct him to all the way down to the specific type of wood, the length of the wood. He followed the spirit of the Lord instructions to the tea, >> while people mocked him, why people was talking about him. And he kept going. He kept going and he built this ark and he saved himself, his three children and their wives and the male and female of every animal that the Lord created >> because he allowed the Lord to lead him. The spirit of God to lead him. Abraham, he his family was wealthy. They were rich. They had but they worshiped pagan gods. He was under his his family and and and all that they had. But the Lord told him to leave your family, to go to a place, I'mma tell you where to go. I'mma instruct you. He didn't know. He had everything. He walked away from everything because he listened to the spirit of the Lord and allowed the Lord to lead him. And the Lord blessed him and made him father of many nations. When I was a kid, we we sung that song, Father Abraham had many sons and many sons had Father Abraham and I am one of them and so are you. So let's just praise the Lord. The Lord allowed he Abraham allowed the Lord to use him and he yielded to the spirit of God. And now we're singing of Father Abraham. Now we are under that covenant and that promise because of disobedience. Sarah, she didn't understand. She was old. I can't have kids. What you talking about? But the Lord favored her because she yielded and she allowed the spirit of God to have his way. And she fathered I mean father, she motherthered a child in her old age. These among many are men that were led. You and I, they they're human. They made mistakes. They missed the mark like we do. But they allowed the Lord, the spirit of God to lead them. And in their lead, in his leading, in them following, they persevered. Did they have problems? Yes. Was it trials and tribulations? Yes. But the Bible says, "No weapon formed against me shall prosper." >> Because we are under his covering. We're in his protection. We're obeying him. Because we're obeying him, he says, "I have you. Don't worry about what the enemy is going to try to do. It's a try. A try is a failed attempt. It's a failed attempt. We are not just living by food, bread, and water alone. We are living and eating on every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord. >> Your mother, father, aunties, uncles, family members that was before you, they were praying for you. That's why you and I are here today. They prayed the word of God over you, over your name. And you are to do the same for the next generation. We're not living by the food, the crabs, the lobsters, the juice, the water. That's not why we're here. We're living by the word of God. His word, when it goes forward, he says, "My word will not return unto me void." Let's go to Deuteronomy 8:3. >> [snorts] >> And he humbled you and allowed you to hunger and fed you with mana which you knew not. Neither did your fathers know that he might make you know that man does not live by bread only. But by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord does man live. We are able to live because we are operating under the word of God. God wants us to allow his spirit to lead us. Allow him to guide us. Allow him to strengthen us. And in this obedience, we gain, we win, we benefit. We get life and we get life more abundantly. We get eternal life in heaven with God. And then we get the benefits on earth that comes with our obedience. Just like we reward our children, the Lord rewards us when we obey. We are extremely blessed and well taken care of when we allow the spirit of the Lord to lead us. On Wednesday night Bible study, the Lord used Pastor Ross in a mighty way to encourage us about a secret place. For those of you that was not in Bible study, you can log on to YouTube or our um website, Shield of Faith Long Beach, and you can listen to that Bible study teaching. It was awesome. For those of us that was there, this is just a recap. with going off your notes and what you obtain um from that in this secret place he spoke about this secret place in the presence of the Lord. It's in his word. The secret place establishes a personal relationship with God. He instructs us there and in those instructions he's trying to lead and guide us to the next level in him. Let's go to Psalms 91, which is where he came from. Psalms 91 1-13. I had it marked here. Here we go. It says Psalms 91. It says, "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, he is my refuge and my fortress, my God. In him will I trust. Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the nosome noisome pestilence. He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wing shall thou trust. His truth shall be thy shield and buckler. Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night, nor for the ma the arrow that flieth by day, nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noon day. A thousand shall fall at thy side, and 10,000 at thy right hand, but it shall not come nigh thee. Only with thy eyes shalt thou behold and see the reward of the wicked. Because thou hast made the Lord, which is my refuge, even the most high thy habitation. There shall no evil befall thee. Neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways. They shall bear thee up in in their hands, least thou dash they foot against a stone. Thou shalt tread upon the lion and add and young lion and the dragon shall thou trample under feet. Here this is being this is being in that secret place. And these are the benefits that comes when you're in that secret place. When you obey and you allow the Lord to lead you. Because when we are in that secret place, we're worshiping. We're praising. We're reading the word of God. And he's preparing us. He's strengthening us to go on tomorrow and all the other days throughout the week and throughout the years. And he's giving us instructions on what to do. How will we know what to do if we're not spending time with the Lord? If we're not reading, if we're not consulting with him who sees. We already saw scriptures earlier. He sees and knows everything. It's his eye, not my eye, not your eye, not your neighbor's eye. It's his eye that goes beyond. His eye is from the beginning to the ending. When we are led by the spirit of the Lord, we are safe. Safe from all the devil's snares, tactics, and devices. Does that mean he won't try? No. But no weapon formed against you. No weapon formed against me shall prosper. I can do all things in Christ that strengthens me. You can do all things through Christ that strengthens you. But this is where you find out your instructions in that secret place. You get the instructions in the word of God. You get the instructions when he wakes you up in the in the middle of the night. I couldn't sleep for nothing last night. I was a little irritated and and and I was in in the flesh. And then when I woke up and I got up, it dawned on me. I said, "Lord, you've been trying to get me up to speak to me. you've been trying to get me up and I know this, but at this moment I was trying to sleep. I I was under a lot of things was going through my mind and I just wanted the rest because I was real tired and I guess the Lord allowed me to sleep for the amount of time he allowed me to sleep for because I literally didn't get no sleep last night. I was up. But I said, "Oh Lord, you want to speak to me? I'm so sorry." I began to repent. But it's in those moments that if we allow our flesh to take control, we will miss those moments. It's God tapping, knocking, trying to get our attention because we're so busy. We have all these distractions. The world is so loud. Have you ever taken the time to be quiet? Turn your phone off. Don't put it on vibrate. Put it on silent or turn it off. Don't watch TV. Don't do nothing. Just sit in silence. is the most challenging thing if you haven't done it. >> But it's when you can hear the Lord. >> You can hear him clearly >> and you're like, "Is that me, Lord? Is that you?" >> You hear him and you can see things in ways that you never saw them before. He begins to give you revelation. He begins to instruct you and guide and direct you. But we won't get that if we're not spending the time with him. We won't get that if we're not allowing him to lead us. >> Let's go to Psalms 37 22- 24. Psalms 37:22- 24. It says, "For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth, and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off." The steps, the steps, the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord. And he delights in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down. For the Lord upholds him with his hand. When we are allowing the Lord to lead us, we're good men. were good women. And in that leading, he says, "I'm ordering your steps. I'm telling you where to go and what to do." And he says, "And in that, I'm delighting in you because you following me." He's really delighting in his word, but if we're following his word, he's delighting in you. He loves us. He wants us to get it. And he's constantly meeting us here. He's constantly meeting us at Bible study. He's constantly meeting us everywhere we go. Even if you don't have the Holy Ghost, God is still talking to you. >> He's talking all day long, every day. But are we listening? Can you hear him? Turn the radio off. Can you hear him? And in your listening, he says, "Your steps are ordered." Your steps are ordered when you are covered and you're following me. >> That's the only way it can be done. That's the only way we prosper is when we are yielded to him because it's his instructions is his reward is his consequences. So if we're following them to the tea, even though the enemy comes and tries to distract us, he comes to try to to to get us caught up. The Lord says, "I have you. I'mma cover you. I have you." And he gave us many patriots in the Bible to see that. And even in your time, God has provided a way of escape for you. I don't know from what, but I know because he's the same yesterday, today, and forever more. He did it for the patriarchs in the Bible. He's doing it for me today. He's doing it for our leaders and our patriots today. He's doing it for you. And he's going to do it for your children. He's going to do it for your grandchildren and your greats and and generations to go on and on and on. >> He's following his word. >> He's following his word to see if his word is being done in the way he instructed it. He says, "And if you are following me to the tea, you good." When we allow the spirit of the Lord to lead us, we are safe. We are covered and we are good. We are in good hands because we're in his perfect will. We're not in his permissive will. We're in his perfect will when we are being led by the spirit of the Lord. >> There's no weapon that can form against us that can prosper. >> Who do you know where a lion won't eat you when it's hungry? Who do you know where you in a fire and the fire they don't even smell the residue on you and you come out not touched? Who do you know can do that? >> They obeyed. >> They allowed the spirit of the Lord to lead them. And God is saying, "I'm trying to get you and me. Allow me to lead you. I'm going to cover every which way. You can't even think of the different ways in which the enemy is going to attack you, but I know. And I have them all covered. >> I have them all covered. There is one more cloud of witness. This is the one, the perfect one, the ultimate example that we should be mirroring after. The perfect example we should be looking up to is Jesus. Let's go to Matthew 4:1. Matthew 4 verse 1. Then was Jesus led up of the spirit into the wilderness into into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil. And when he had fast 40 days and 40 nights, he was afterwards and hungered. And when the tempter came to him, he said, "If thou be the son of God, command that these stones be made bread." But he answered and said, "It is written, man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God." Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setth him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down, for it is written, He shall give his angels charge concerning thee, and in their hands they shall bear thee up, least at any time thou dash thy foot against a stone." And Jesus said unto him, "It is written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God." Again, the devil taketh him up into an exceeding high mountain, and showeth him all the kingdoms of the world, and the glory of them. And said unto him, "All these things will I give thee, if thou will fall down and worship me." Then said Jesus unto him, "Get thee hence, Satan, for it is written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shall thy serve." Then the devil leaveth him, and behold, angels came and ministered unto him. Jesus an allowed the spirit of the Lord to lead him. The Lord does not ask us to do nothing that he didn't do. Everything that he's asking us to do, he did it and he led by example. Here we know Jesus and God are the same. We we won't get into that. But we know that in his deity, he's God, but in his humanity, he was Jesus. and he allowed, he submitted, he surrendered his way and he allowed the spirit of the Lord to lead him. He was tempted, but in his quality time with the Lord, in his secret place with God Almighty, the Lord poured into him and gave him the word of God to fight in this battle. This battle is not ours. It's the Lord's. >> This battle is not ours. It is the Lord's. He has given us everything that we need to stand. The word of God. We're standing on the word of God. We're standing on his promises. He gave Satan the word of God and he fled. Are we giving our situation the word of God so he can flee? That's the key. When we're up against situations, speak the word of God. And after saying it once, it the devil might stay you. He He He stayed here a couple of times. He He stayed three times, but then the word says um after hearing the word of God, you keep hearing it, you hearing it, and it's supposed to transform you. The enemy didn't want to keep hearing it, so he left. He gonna leave you alone if you continue to give him the word of God and you just keep saying it. Say it two or three times and watch he leave. Say it four or five or six times. He going to leave you alone probably the rest of the day. We have to allow the Lord to lead us. Because in that leading there's provision. In that leading there's reward. And I'm not saying don't do it for the reward. Do it to put a smile on his face. Do it to make him proud that he chose you. Do it so that he can say, "Look at my servant. Look at Sister Lois. You You thought you can get her, but look at how she stood and represented me." And then your family is looking at you. And then they're friends and so forth and so forth. And then we become that cloud of witness. I can't do it. You can do it. I did it last week. And we began to share our experience. give your testimony of how he saw you through, how you allowed the Lord to lead you and it was in his leading that he provided provision and now you witnessing and now that person tries the Lord and then they experience the Lord for themselves. This is an example of not allowing the cares of the world to get you choked up. The enemy presented all kind of things to Jesus. everything, but the Lord rejected it. When he come when the enemy comes to tempt you and me and and offer us all these marvelous things that we want and we desire, turn it away if it's not representative of God. If it's contrary to holiness and righteousness, speak the word against it and watch the devil flee. The beautiful thing about Jesus, he's not asking us to do anything that he didn't do. He's not asking us to do anything that he did not do. He's letting us know if I did it, you can do it. He is the ultimate example that we should be following. Let's allow the spirit of God to lead us. And I have two more scriptures. Let's go to Psalms 37. Psalms 37. Verse five, it says, "Commit your way to the Lord. Trust also in him, and he shall bring it to pass." Commit your way, my way. Let's surrender and allow him to lead us. And then we have to trust that everything is good. We have to trust that he's going to make it come to pass. And it says, "And he shall bring it to pass." He's bringing it to pass because we obeyed. He's bringing it to pass because we yielded to him and we followed his instructions. And then he says, "I'm going to reward you." So, we get a double reward on earth and in heaven. Our last scripture, Proverbs 3 5-10. And we know this. Proverbs 3, "Trust in the Lord with all thy heart, and lean not unto thy own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths. Be not wise in thy own eyes. Fear the Lord, reference the Lord, and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navl, and marrow to thy bones. Honor the Lord with thy substance and with the first excuse me the first fruits of all thy increase. So shall thou so shall thy barns be filled with plenty and thy presses shall burst out with new wine. New wine. The Lord says, "When you follow me, when you allow me to lead and to guide you, you're saying yes. I'm going to bless you. I'm going to keep you. And there is no weapon formed against you that will prosper when you are under my covering, my perfect will." Let's allow the Lord, the spirit of God to lead us. Amen. >> Amen. >> The word has come to us great fashion >> and it should touch each heart. So, I've taken notes and so many notes and good notes. I want new wine. And what we have to do after we put these things in action that we've heard, it's time to surrender. >> The Lord is able to meet every need that we have in our lives. And so what I I will say at this particular time, you need to surrender to the Lord. >> I surrender all to Jesus. I surrender all to him. I freely give. I will ever love and trust him in his presence daily live. Let us stand. >> [clears throat] >> All to Jesus [music] I [singing] surrender all [music] to him. I freely [singing] give. >> I [singing] will ever [music] love and trust him in [singing] his presence daily [singing] live. [music] I surrender [singing] all. [music] I [singing] surrender all [singing and music] to thee my blessed [music] Savior. I [singing] surrender [music] all. [singing] >> Oh, I surrender. [music] I surrender [singing] all. [music] I [singing] surrender all. [music] All [singing and music] to thee my [music] savior I [singing] [music] surrender all [music] all to thee I surrender. We've been challenged [music] today to do it right. We've been challenged >> to let the very tempting things in life. And we have to be perfect. We have to do the things that the Lord commands. The Lord doesn't suggest. >> He says, "If you're going to be mine, you've got to do what I say do." >> And you got to do it, you can't do it almost. >> He said, "You got to do it perfectly." And when we struggle and try, temptations come to us. We miss the mark. Missed the mark means we didn't get it right. There's grace [snorts] and there's mercy. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. >> Thank you. >> Thank God for grace. >> Thank God for mercy. Thank God that we missed the mark, but he said, "Come unto me all ye that labor." >> He said, "And I'll give you rest." He said, "I'll [snorts] set you free. I'll give you another chance. Is there anyone here today and you need comfort, you know, the devil, he he'll fool with you and mess you up and and you'll be all out of your head. But if you come to Jesus, he will save you. Save you completely. Is there one? All right. If there's anyone who needs prayer for any anything, sickness, [snorts] help, grace, mercy. Maybe if I sing that one more time. [crying] [singing] >> All to thee. All to thee. My blessed savior. I [singing] surrender all. >> I surrender all. >> Oh, I surrender [singing] all. [music] >> I surrender [singing] all. [music] All [singing] [music] to be my preious [singing] I surrender all. [singing] [music] All [singing] to Jesus I [singing] surrender all to him. [singing] >> I freely give. 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[music and singing] All to thee, [music] my [singing] blessed [music] Savior, I [singing] surrender all. Oh, [music and singing] I surrender. Oh, [singing] [music] I [singing] surrender [music] all. [singing] All to thee, [music] my [singing] savior. [music] I [singing] surrender all. >> One more time. Oh, I [singing and music] surrender all. [music] I [singing] surrender all. [music] Oh, to me my blessed savior. [singing] [music] I surrender all. [music and singing] Put your hands together. for Jesus. Come on, clap [music] your hands all ye people. >> Hallelujah. Hallelujah. It's good to have new wine. >> Hallelujah. Hallelujah. >> Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. >> Hands [music] are lifted. >> Thank you, Jesus. >> Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. >> Thank you. Our hearts are [music] ready to >> Our hearts are ready to >> Thank you, Jesus. [music] >> Thank you, Jesus. >> Hallelujah. >> I just want to sing another song. >> Amen. Showers of blessing. Showers of blessings [singing] we [music] mercy drops around us are falling. But for the showers we believe he [music] there shall be showers of blessings sent from [singing] the father above. [music] There shall [singing] be seasons refreshing sent from [music and singing] the father above. Oh sh of blessing, [music] showers of blessings [singing] we need. [music] Mercy drops round us are falling, [music] but for the powers we flee. >> [singing] >> Oh, showers of blessing. [singing] [music] Showers of blessing we need. Oh, mercy drops [music] around us are falling. [singing] But for the flowers we bleed. Thank God for the showers of blessing. Come on. Come [music] on. Come on. Showers of blessings. Hallelujah. Mercy drops rounders [music and singing] are falling. Amen. We thank God >> for >> the service today. All right, it's time to receive our offering. >> Praise the Lord. Get ready for your blessings. Praise the Lord, saints. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. It's time for our offering. As Minister Tanisha Bruce was speaking, she read in the Proverbs chapter 3. Hallelujah. Two verses. They said chapter 3 verse 9 says, "Honor, honor the Lord >> with thy substance and with the first fruit of all thy increase as the Lord has given to us. It's our responsibility to give back to him first. first even before we pay our bills. >> It's his right off the top. It says, "Sur shall thy barns be filled with plenty, >> and thy press shall burst out with new wine." >> You want to be blessed, pay the Lord his tithe. Give the Lord what's blown to him, and the Lord will open up a windows and pull you out a blessing that you won't have room to receive. But if you withhold from him, he going to withhold from you. >> You going to have holes in your pocket. I don't care how much money you have. Before you know it, that money is gone and your bill still has not paid. >> So we give the Lord what belongs to him >> as he has given to us. >> Honor the Lord. He's worthy of it. >> He's worthy of it. You know, in every area of our lives, the Lord is worthy of our tithes. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And she mentioned obedience. Being obedient to the word of God. Give the Lord what belongs to him and watch the Lord bless you. You won't have room to receive all the blessings that he will pour out unto you. Please stand with me in Jesus name. Let's hold our offering up to the Lord in Jesus name. Father, we thank you, we praise you, we glorify, Lord, we magnify your name. We thank you for this morning, Lord God, for giving us a mind and the desire, Lord God, to be here, Lord God, to sit at your feet, Lord God, and hear from you, Lord God, in Jesus name. Lord, we ask you this evening, Lord, that you will bless this offering. Multiply. Let it continue to meet the needs, Lord God, in Jesus' name. Lord God, we thank you for those that had a mind to give, a mind to be obedient to your word, Lord God. In Jesus' name, Jesus name we pray. Amen. And amen. He may come and bring you offering >> and ever for all you done you done for [singing] me. [music] Blessing and glory [singing] and honor may all belong [singing and music] to you. Thank you Jesus for blessing me one more time. Just want [music] to praise you forever [music] and ever and ever. [music] for all [singing] you done. You done for me. [music] Glory, >> blessing and glory [music] and honor they all [singing] [music] belong to you. Thank you Jesus [music] for bless. >> Hallelujah. Let's pray over all the offering. Father we thank you. We praise you. We glorify. We thank you for this offering that we have received Lord God in Jesus name. Lord God multiply it Lord God. Multiply it Lord God. Let it continue to meet every need Lord God in this church Lord God. Hallelujah. Lord God we thank you. We praise you. We glorify. Hallelujah. Hallelujah Lord God. Hallelujah Lord Jesus. Hallelujah. We thank you for this offering in Jesus name we pray. In Jesus name. Amen and [music] amen. >> Praise the Lord. Amen. Thank you, Minister Tanisha. >> Amen. The the the the Lord had really, you know, when you're praying in your in your personal prayers and the Lord had really um put it on my heart how the saints need to say yes. >> They need to obey God. >> Trust his leading. >> Trust his lead. Listen, he got you. >> He got you. All you have to do is just lean in. Lean in. When um my my my uh grandbaby, a little girl, she has she has a special attachment to her grandfather. when he comes along, her whole countenance changes and she grabbed one of his legs and just hold on to it. You know the um she calls him daddy too just like she calls her daddy daddy. They look alike and so she calls him daddy. and to see her. She listens to what he says. She has this little thing where she knows he's in trouble. She'll drop stuff. She'll throw it and run. And he tell her, "Come back here. Pick that up." And she comes her little happy self right on back and pick it up and put it where it needs to be. Trust God. Yes. >> Trust God. You know, if if we put confidence in our parents, which sometimes don't have the best, you know, sometimes, you know, but their intentions are well, but God is always intentional about what he's does. He minister said he knows your beginning from your end. So, come on. Come on and trust him and lean on him. Be led by him. Obey him. He has your best interest at at heart. Thank you, Lord, for sending us a beautiful word of God. Let's give him another hand praise. Hallelujah. Come on. It's time for us to get ready and get out of here. Come on. Amen. Listen. Listen. If you don't have the link for Bible study, you need to get it. I know Sister Terry has it. I know it's probably on the website or you know, but get it so you can come to Bible study because there's a lot that's going on in Bible study and you need to be a part of it. Amen. Come on. [music] Okay. I am determined to walk with Jesus. Yes, I am. I'm determined to walk with Jesus. Yes, I am. Through all trials, tribulation, persecution, I'll be faithful. I'm determined to walk with Jesus. Yes, I I am. I am determined to walk with Jesus. Yes, I am. >> Come on. I'm determined to walk with Jesus. Yes, I am. through hard trials, tribulation, persecution. I'll be faithful. I'm determined for Jesus. >> Yes, I am. >> Hallelujah. Come on. Hold my hand, Lord. Hold my hand. Hold my hand, Lord. Hold my hand. [music] Why? Cuz I'm still on it. Yes. I want Jesus. to hold my hand. Walk with me. Walk with me, Lord. Walk with me. Walk with me, Lord. Walk with me. [music] I want Come on. I'm [music] >> keep me on. Keep me on this journey. I want [music] Jesus [singing] to walk with me. Come on, walk with us, Jesus. Walk with us, Jesus. [music and singing] Walk with us, Jesus. God bless you. We love you. We'll see you on Bible study on Wednesday night. Hallelujah.