to welcome you to shield the faith long beach and then our pastor here is Bishop Arleigh Alexander and our first lady first lady pastor Bobby Alexander hallelujah we're so glad amen that you came out to me truly it's time to worship the Lord come on think of his goodness did he take your sins away did he save you he took my sins away father we thank you today for your goodness and your mercy we enter your gates with thanksgiving and we enter with praise you have been faithful to us you've made ways for us you've opened doors for us you've delivered us again and again and we've come to your house to say thank you God you've been good you've been merciful you paid the price for us we thank you for that we thank you Lord when we think of the goodness of Jesus and all that you've done for us this week this week this morning my soul cries out hallelujah so father we say be pleased to be in our worship today be pleased to be in our praise today anoint the man of God as he brings a word today we say we'll be hearers of your word and doers of your words not hearers only hey but we declare that you're worthy and we've come for no other reason than to give your praise so we will bless you and we will praise you and we know that you will meet every need in Jesus name amen if you believe that come on and give God some praise open up your mouth and give God praise if he's worthy today he's holy today he's an awesome God I love to pray hallelujah if you can be seated in the presence of the Lord as we call the bishop amen Bishop Alexander thanks unto the Lord because he's good and do it for rabbis to be in the house of the Lord again on this Sunday morning fast in your seat belt through this place as he has done our music selection I don't know if he's gonna sing a solo elder Ross is coming we ask you to receive him as you always do introduce our speaker today David said I will bless your Lord at all times and his praise shall continually be in my mouth I will praise him when I feel like it I will praise him when I don't feel like it I praise him when I got money I praise him when I'm broke I give him total praise because even when I'm in trouble I know he's gonna deliver me if I'll just give him praise Lord will this come in time the store the store my hair is cut you key in time somehow somehow somehow somehow somehow I got to make this journey she said it somehow somehow somehow she said it on my track is the truth that the devil's on our track we've got a savior we've got a keeper Jesus causes us to be victorious you may be seated testing one to there it is the devil's crazy he can't do nothing up in here today come on we never had problems like this before but he's scared come on somebody you know the devil's afraid at the name of Jesus demons tremble all right it's trembling time there are many of you who know the speaker he's been a friend of this church for a number of years know how long I've known him it seems like I've known him for a long long long time and I say to you he's a man for all seasons he's gifted he's called by God he's anointed he's appointed he's God's man and when I say all of that he's gifted he could be a one-man church he could sing he can wear that organ out he can preach he can teach like nobody else he's got it he's he's that capable so he's gifted the Lord gifted him with that and the Lord called him out of darkness into the marvelous light like he did all of us and then the Lord put his anointing on it he appointed him to be at this place at this time on this Sunday morning to speak to God's children I'm going to invite you to prepare your hearts to receive what the Lord has sent to this church today we're not a church that comes to church just for habit this is the good church Bishop and this church loves the Word of God and we want to be instructed we want to know what the Lord is saying to us individually and collectively and so we humble our hearts and we stand let us all stand and we're going to receive the man of God for the hour Bishop Tony Hall let's receive him with a hearty amen reach the word Bishop God bless you hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah do you love Jesus today I said do you love Jesus today I'll try it one more time do you love Jesus today do you love his man that he placed over you do you love your pastor can you just clap your hands and praise God for pastor Bishop Arlene Alexander and Mama Alexander praise God let's give God praise for the miracle that God has done praise God you can be seated we're certainly glad to be here now so the Lord today and we honor Bishop Arlene Alexander and to Mama Alexander and to all of the saints of God good to see all of these great ministers of God and all of the great teachers we greet you in Jesus name our soon-coming king and I'm just so excited I'm glad for the queen being here with me today praise God you say who the Queen if she don't put me out by October it'll be 45 years yeah stand up baby praise God stand up Queen praise God we're glad for my wife she often her last name is Alexander and she often reminds me that I've been not act up because she'll call her cousin and these two right here I gotta watch them but God is good to us and we're just very grateful and very glad to be back in Long Beach California praise God still a faith Long Beach and every time I come I enjoy our time and those of you that know us I've been coming here for many years but I consider this is my California church praise God so when I come when I come to California I always come here to Sheila faith Long Beach and so we're glad that all of you are here and we're glad we're on a book tour right now those of you that follow us on Facebook we're on a book tour and I just wrote a book called fight like hell a guide to building an amazing marriage so those of you that are married those of you that want to be married those of you that expected me so I said no I think that I hear somebody say no wherever you are in your journey that you want to be married or you're believing God for a mate you want to get this book and I don't care how long you've been married this is the real and those of you that know me you know it's like real stuff we don't we don't just kind of play around with it we really talk about some real stuff on how two young people that were 18 years old and nobody thought we would make it hallelujah I mean nobody when I say nobody I mean nobody our pastor didn't think we was gonna make it her parents that they was gonna make it my parents that they was gonna make it the church didn't think we're gonna make it and if you saw pictures of our wedding it looked like a funeral because everybody was sad and depressed and they just knew it was the disaster and we couldn't even have the wedding at the church they wouldn't let us because I got my 18 year old girlfriend pregnant and they just said it's a disaster both of my high school dropouts and if this is just a disaster she has one kid he gets her pregnant again and it just ain't gonna work out and so I actually married me and they said you can't have it at church because you such a disgrace to the church and so we had to have it over my sister's house a little bitty house and I'm the only two people that seem to be happy with us and everybody said included my family my sister went to her and said you need to find something better than that because that nigga can't give you nothing that's what my blood sister told her hey man hey man you get married to something like that you better know that Jesus on your side and here's because we I'm at home am I give out to you yet did I give out to you and so here's the crazy thing all those people that didn't think we were gonna make it most of them are on their third marriages and here's what they're saying now we always knew that y'all were gonna be great all of them were liars all of my liars all of my life well we always knew you were gonna be great my sister I told everybody you were just amazing and you were gonna be great she didn't know until this day that I know what she wouldn't tell my girlfriend and so now we've been all over the country and some parts of the world teaching people how I had how to have an amazing marriage and this fight like hell is a book that's gonna really help you and those of you that haven't been married yet and you you shacking up or whatever like that this is really gonna help you amen and so we hope that you would get one of those and of course the fatherless generation that we're dealing with some of you have this book already but the 10 things I wish my father had talked to I taught me I tell every parent you need to read this with your child especially when they become a teenager if they don't have their father in their lives and it will really really bless them and so I am I am glad to be here and and we're gonna be signing these books we I bought some boxing gloves I'm on a book tour we left home in May we've been on the road since May and at first I wasn't gonna do it because gas is crazy how about this gas in California y'all but we've been on the road since May the in the mid-May we've been on the road and we're out here for another three weeks and I just feel like this work that God has given me fight like hell is gonna really help a lot of people and I believe it'll help you and some of you we have a lot of young people here I'm telling you something this some stuff in here you need to read before I don't care how good he looks how strong he looks or how good she looks and how her shape is you need to get some information because the enemy will fight you I don't care how long you've been married come on some of y'all be married a long time I don't care how long you've been married the devil don't want you to stay married and there's the reason why he don't and so I believe that's gonna help you also we have something that's called a marriage a relationship boot camp one of the things that we do now after retiring can I just can I just give God praise that I retire for pastoring at the foremost 40 years and I am thankful for that I really died in the pandemic I believe if I hadn't and God has just been a way maker and a provider for us it's just absolutely amazing how he's done it and my health I am in better health than I've been in 40 years amen when I retired my a1c mama was 9.3 and the doctor began to ask me what you want us to cut off first and my diabetic high blood pressure craziness all kind of stuff and so God has just really been very good to us so we have a marriage relationship boot camp and we counsel people all over the country about having a great marriage that's what I believe that God has called us to do so we'll do it all right let's let's let's try to jump into this I'm teaching from our book today is another book that I wrote called the green room it's wisdom and the reason why I'm teaching from this today number one I talked to our pastor I consider him my pastor also and and I was what I've been teaching across the country about was the fight like hell piece but I begin to share with him about my book about the green room wisdom for all stages and ages and he says that is what I feel that you need to share with us today because listen it's not a problem that people are not fasting enough these here this I'm already in the message right now some people are fasting this is a worshiping church where you can feel the power and the presence of God we have great musicians we have great singers we have anointed singers thank God to hear some of those old songs that we that you know because now we're we're in a contemporary time where they don't seem those old songs like you're like you saying today and we got people that's worshipers we got people that's faithful to church we got people that's tithing and their lives are still in shambles and so you will be surprised how many people are mad at God because their life is in shambles and mother they say but I fasted and I prayed and I saw God and I I given my time then why is my life still in shambles I believe for one reason or one reason only there's not enough wisdom in your life oh Lord Hammers let me jump on in this hallelujah so I want you to stand your feet and and so I want you to open the Bible to Psalms 90 and the 12th verse my God all of these young people are growing up when they were delivered babies I used to pray over and prophesy over my God these babies are growing up my God hallelujah praise God father I pray right now that that you would just touch my list these next few minutes and let me say something that will bless people and change people's direction or trajectory where they're going in their life so that they can have that life more abundantly that you promise in Jesus name amen I want to read just one scripture from songs 90 and the 12th verse I'm sure they have it in the King James version I'm gonna read the King James version then I'll read in the Amplified Bible it says this in the King James version where is that let me see it's around here all right song so let me read songs 90 and 12 in the Amplified Bible it says so teach us to number our days that we may cultivate and bring to you a heart of wisdom teach us to number our days so that we may cultivate and bring to you a heart of wisdom in Jesus name God bless you you could be seated there was a lady that came to me in in the state of Maine and her her her family her marriage was falling apart and one thing that she said to me is probably 20 25 years ago she said one thing to me and I'm not gonna be long but I need you to really open your spiritual ears to hear some things that I'm gonna share because I'm gonna share with you wisdom from all ages here's what she said to me in tears in her eyes she said I said her Jesus says that I come that you might have life and life more monthly here's what she said to me she said Bishop I want that life it was not that she wasn't hiding it was not that she wasn't worshiping it wasn't me it wasn't that she wasn't coming and prepping all night prayer but even at all of that her life was falling apart and her marriage is falling apart and the problem is with so many people the lack of wisdom listen the enemy is not only afraid of you making it to heaven he's more afraid of you having success on earth yes he's afraid that you're gonna go to heaven that's why he don't want you to get saved but what the enemy is more afraid of is that you have an amazing life on earth because if you have an amazing life on earth then you will impact other people the goal is to live the goal to live an abundant life in Christ Jesus says the thief coming to the Amplified Bible the thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy I came that they might have and enjoy life and have it in abundance to the fear until it overflows so what the perfect alignment say the perfect alignment come on man they put up two hands right now and say the perfect alignment is kingdom and my life and what you want is the God life and the God life producing produces God's plan for your life you have to be in Christ first and having that kind of abundant life because I know a lot of people with a lot of money and don't have peaks I know a lot of people that have a lot of money and big fancy cars and big fancy homes and I believe that one of the problems with this modern-day church they're telling people how to get more stuff and not get God yeah yeah you gotta have a Bentley and now they talk about Bentley's and Rose Royce's and you want to have all that stuff and it make it looks like the great things of life but I'm telling you something you can have all that and not have Jesus you can have all the stuff that you want come on here somebody you can have all the stuff that you want but not have any peace you can have the best bed the best bed you can buy but you can't buy one minute of peace so you got to find out the plan of God for your life hallelujah I said hallelujah same Matthew the 6th chapter 32 33 says for the pagans or the Gentiles eagerly seek these things but do not worry Jesus says for your Heavenly Father knows you have need of them but first and most importantly seek aim strive after his kingdom and his righteousness his way of doing and being right the attitude and character of God and all these things will be given to you I think that we've got it mixed up because the world said get stuff and then come to church but the God kingdom will say coming to Jesus first and all these things will be added to you how many of you glad that where God has brought you from and and where you didn't have anything and then because listen your help is not in Washington I'll say it again your help is not in Washington if you ain't found out by now you go find out if you keep on living your help is not in the White House but your help is in this house your help is in this house so I break down the I break down wisdom for all ages and so I want to I want to break down I want to try to I want to try to do this and break down wisdom for all ages all right praise God all ages and so I break down first birth to 20 years old and I give I give every age a wisdom because Moses says teach me to number my days to apply my heart towards wisdom and saying that there's a different wisdom that's needed in all ages and the wisdom that's needed in the 20s is different from the wisdom that's needed in the 60s hey man hey man and so and so the from birth to 20 I call those the brain dead years come on parents come on come on parents oh come on I call I call the birth to 20 year olds I call them the brain dead years some of you parents you're gonna say tonight cuz you don't want your kids mad at you right there tells me where the problem is in your house because if you really honest your kids think they smart and they don't know anything and that's why from birth to 20 parents you have to be your kids wisdom you have to be your kids wisdom you can't expect them to have wisdom you have to be their wisdom one thing that I've been very concerned about is well I thank God that I was raised in the time that we were raised in because in the time that we were raised in we had Sunday school we had all of these things putting the word into us amen when I was a little kid when I when I I lost my mom when I was seven years old and so my father and mother moved us into a predominantly all-white neighborhood back in the early 60s my mother died in 1966 so my father had to work two or three jobs to take care of seven kids and one day a little white woman knocked on our door because they never spoke to us they wouldn't say anything to us but one day somebody knocked on our door this little video tiny white woman she came to do and she said mr. Hall we have a Saturday Sunday school can I take your three kids and so my father it was good for him because he had to work every Saturday my father said okay but he didn't know what he was signing up for and it took us to that little white church little white Baptist church and what we did not know was they didn't allow people like us to be in that church and there me and my brother's eight years old eight years old five years old and four years old we got in that little church and it just was it caused the uproar and those people went crazy hallelujah they went crazy until the parents went to the pastor and says I'm not gonna have my kids in those in those in the rooms with those little nigger kids so the pastor made up a sort of mr. Mary her name was miss Mary went to the pastor and told the pastor these kids lost their mom they don't have a mom and and I'm trying to help them and so the pastor came up with a with a great compromise says okay well put them outside the door of the room so while the kids are in the Sunday school class let those three little kids sit outside the room so we had to sit outside the room and listen to what they were trying to try to listen what they were teaching on the inside there and when they got out they were feet the little kids hot dogs and and and and orange punch and we had to sit in those seats until all the little white kids ate the little hot dog and punch and then if there was anything left that they would let us come and let us eat something and every week that went on and when miss Mary would pick us up people would open the door and scream out the door you nigger lover leave those little nigger kids alone but every Saturday miss Mary came and got us and walked us to that little church and it was a uproar but we was too young to know but we just knew that something wasn't right but every Saturday miss Mary came and got us because I believe that she knew that there was something different about us and it's amazing that those three little kids that the church didn't want and society didn't want all three of us are holy ghost field preachers today oh hallelujah hallelujah because even though they didn't want us God wanted us to be somewhere where we could be hearing the word of God and what we're lacking today we're not lacking stuff we're lacking the word of God 20 years old worth the 20 years old those are brain dead years so every parent has to be their wisdom the Bible says in Psalms 127 3 through 5 the whole children are heritage and the gift of the Lord the fruit of womb is a reward and listen what he says like an arrow in the hands of a warrior so are the children of one's youth how blessed happy and fortunate is the man whose queries filled with them they will not be ashamed when they speak with the enemies in the gatherings at the gate and so normally and I went to Walmart yesterday try to find me a bow and arrow I could you know you can't find it you know this this California they only let himself born arrows anymore but anyway and so listen with this implying that every parent has to take their kids and point them where they want them to go every parent has to point their kids where they want them to go not let them run the show but you need to point them and aim them where they should go oh my god it got quiet here hey man I said every parent has to point their kids you have to tell your kids you're not gonna do what you want to do but you're gonna do what I tell you to do because I'm trying to point you somewhere I'm trying to train you how to go somewhere that even when the enemy come in I'm trying to point you hallelujah like arrows in the hand of a warrior so are the children of one youth what we need is more parents to point their kids where they want them to go because this society has gone crazy at trying to get your kids it used to be a time they just tried to get adults but now they're trying to get the kids they're going into the schools telling your boys and you don't have to be a boy you could be a girl telling your girl you don't have to be a girl you could be a boy and while they're doing that the church is sitting around playing games while they're influencing our children but I'm gonna tell you something right now as a man who has four kids my baby is 40 years old I'm glad that we took them and we pointed them in the right direction we ball come on here somebody we pointed them in the right direction did all of them do what we everything we taught them no but there's one thing about it now that they're getting older they're starting to come back to the things that we pointed them to do what if I'd have been concerned about them being mad at us what would I better what about what about it back down because everybody is doing it you see when I grew up and when I raised my kids they couldn't go over everybody's house they oh my god Lord have mercy Jesus I don't know if this is right message they're not that our kids couldn't go over everybody house our kids couldn't spend night over everybody house and everybody couldn't spend night over our house one no reason why because we were pointing them in the right direction the reason why we didn't talk about divorce and talk I the reason why we didn't talk about all those kind of things in the house is because we were pointing them in the right direction we were pointing our sons that our daughters in the way that they should go because we wanted them to go somewhere and I believe that the one of the problems is is that our parents are not pointing their kids in the right direction our kids participated in church because of where we were pointing them at come on here somebody I'm preaching real good right now I said where we were pointing them at because if we were to give it up we would have been pointing down and that's where our children would have went they would have went down because what we hear some things that we were pointing them to and you got to point your kids to you have to point your kids to let them know that God is the standard of life you got to put your you got to point your kids and education is a way to break poverty not the government education is a oh come on here somebody education is a way to prevent poverty after 50 years I've gone back to school it's not admirable y'all I just watch I know it's not admirable I'm in college I'm the oldest thing in there I'm older than my teachers why you doing it I'm not doing it for a job because I'm happily retired where's the organist let me shot up here for a minute that I'm not going to school because I want another job because of God help me I ain't getting no more jobs but I want to finish something that I started I've never walked across the stage and graduated I never walked across the stage to receive the other diploma and so I'm doing it I'm trying to do it now in order to I can say to my grandkids and my seven great-grand can you believe it I have seven great-grandkids I have 14 grandkids and seven great-grandkids and I want them to know that even if you mess up in life I'm trying to point my grandkids I'm trying to point my great grandkids that there can be a greater day even if you make mistakes you can get back up somebody ought to say something to me in here today what are you pointing your kids to I tell all of our couples that we counsel that you need to make a 10 commandments for your family I said you need to make a 10 commandments for your family these are the things that we stress and that we do in the whole home and whatever your name is these are the things here's the 10 commandments that we stand on in this house I don't care what they do at the Jones house I don't care what they do at the Billy house but in this house this is what we do because as for me in my house we gonna serve the Lord oh my god I don't know if I make a sense to here today and you got to have a 10 commandments for your house and and you need to put that in your kids that they don't forget them you need to point your kids to marriage first and then babies oh lord have mercy you said but you make that mistake yes I did and I've been through it and I've told you you don't want to do that so we put in our daughters marriage first and then babies we put in our sons marriage and then babies and even if one didn't do it at least I was pointing them come on here somebody help me point I'm I was trying to point them in the right direction I was telling my young girls yeah you're beautiful yeah you're cute yeah you walk like that but guess what marriage first the next thing that we you ought to be pointing your kids to is honor will be your prosperity for the rest of your life watch is give it and you receive it honor honor your father and mother that your days will be long in the land honor is so important honor the house of God this is not some shack this is not some kind of shack where you just do anything when you come into the house of God I told somebody the other night in Texas I was at we were in Texas a couple days ago and I told people even when I was smoking dope and getting high even when I was on the streets of Detroit in gangs and and living like a fool and on drugs and all kind of stuff like that when I would walk down the street when there was a church I would go across the street from the church because there was something about that that I just fear I just had a reverence for the house of God and we're living in a day now maybe not here in California Bishop but where I'm from right now they don't even respect the house of God they think the house of God is like their house but listen the house of God is not like your house the house is where God lives oh my god Lord have mercy hallelujah hallelujah somebody say hallelujah then the 20s can I get I better get to the 20s I don't want to make everybody mad today but the 20s is I call the 20s the release of wisdom or pain hear me those of you this in your 20s the 20s is the years of release is the release of wisdom or pain and a lot of people in their 20s are in a lot of pain because they don't have wisdom teach me to number my days Moses says teach me to number my days because let me tell you something you could be 20 today but you're gonna blink your eyes you're gonna wake up you gonna be 60 years old I said you're gonna blink your eyes you gonna be 60s oh y'all don't believe that hallelujah and so the 20s are is the release you're releasing something in your 20s you're releasing something in your 20s because for the first time you don't have to do what your mom and daddy told you to do and you get a chance to do what you really want to do in your 20s and the 20s are the release of pain or wisdom look at what Proverbs Proverbs 1 7 says the reverent fear of the Lord that is worshiping him and regarding him as truly awesome is the beginning of preeminent part of knowledge it starts power and start it's starting point and its essence but arrogant a full despise skillful and godly wisdom and instruction and self-discipline because in your 20s you need to strive for wisdom somebody say wisdom so there's some things you need to be aware of oh my god can I get to these say preach oh my god can I get to these things you got to be aware of those of you this in your 20s hallelujah number one you need to be aware of relationships of parents as adults I know you think your parents are crazy right now but they go look a lot greater the older you get hallelujah you need to be aware of relationships of the opposite sex you need to be really you need to be aware of your personal relationship with your god your personal relationship with your god you need oh here's a here's a big one right here let's see if you can get this you need to be aware of your personal struggles and appetites I wish I could have preached about turn around three times and slap sand somebody God God's got a miracle at your mailbox I wish I could have preached something like that but but you need to be a very aware you need to be very aware of your personal appetites and struggles because if you're here today and you're in your 20s and you say I don't have any struggles you're lying to everybody and yourself because everybody and this is what I say to our clients everybody has a kryptonite some of you won't struggle with drugs some of you don't struggle with alcohol some of you don't struggle with pornography but all of you have some type of struggle that you struggle with preach preach preach preach yes you look good yes you got on your church clothes yes you got the church face on but what do you do when you're by yourself you got to be aware of your personal struggles and appetites you got to be listen you may say to me oh I don't struggle about alcohol oh I've never been to a club I've never been in gangs and stuff like that but I and I thank God that you haven't been to any of those what you got something and you need to be aware of your personal struggles and appetites the last one is you need to be aware of what you're willing to give for your dreams some of you have dreams of being great some of you have dreams of being great in God but all you need is one Negro or Negro Ed can I preach it can I preach it oh Lord have mercy some of you used to be on fire for God some of you used to be on fire in church some of you used to be on fire praising God but the devil sent the right Negro or Negro Ed some of you dreamed of going to college and getting your degree and driving that big old BMW and living that nice fine house but here he came and here she came and you threw away your dream some of you have been married to a great woman or a great man but then here they came and you threw away your dreams oh my god Lord have mercy Jesus my god today and you got to be careful but you need to be aware of those and the only way that you're gonna be aware is you need to pray the prayer that Moses prayed teach me to number my days I ain't gonna always be young and tight I ain't gonna be always be young and cute Lord teach me oh come on here somebody say and teach me the number of my days that I can apply my heart to wisdom that I can cultivate to you a heart of wisdom in the 30s let me jump on here the 30s say the 30s maybe some of you in your 30s right now because here's what the 30s are the 30s are the selfish years those of you that's been counseling people those of you that's in a place for you counseling people you know that there's a difference in the 30s than any other any other age group let me say this to those of us in your 30s I don't want to actually raise your hand who's in the 30s but let me tell you something if you screw up your 30s your whole life is going to be messed up self-assisting the 30s there's more divorce that happens in the 30s in any other age group there's more abortions that happens in the 30s the any in age group I found out yesterday there's more to the suicide rate is higher in the ages among 25 to 34 than any other age group because the 30s are the selfish years church dropouts in the 30s women 35 to 59 in the US for example are most likely to have that the men in the same age group to be single parents 30 year olds and listen I'm not trying to dog I'm not trying to dog you out because one time I was 30 the difference is I got married when I was 18 so we had four kids by the time I was 23 and so we didn't have time to be selfish we're just trying to raise them rascals come on here somebody come on here somebody amen amen and so the 30s are the selfish years here's the problem and you need to write this down if you don't get rid of your selfishest in your 30s it will affect the rest of your life look at what Philippians 2 3 through 5 says this is an amplified Bible most of my scriptures are amplified Bible it says do nothing for selfishness or empty conceit through factional motives or strife but with the attitude of humility neither be an arrogant or self-righteous regard others as more important than yourselves do not merely look on your own personal interest but also for the interests of others have the same attitude in yourself which was in Christ Jesus look at him as your example net an example of selfless humility the best way to get over yourself in your 30s is serve somebody else you want to get rid of your selfishness serve your church serve somebody get involved with something that's bigger than you you're not the most important person in the world if you want to get rid of your selfishness you ought to do something to serve somebody else somebody say amen about that selfishness we're dealing with it we have a whole generation of people that's basically selfish say amen somebody selfish the selfishness is killing our whole generation selfish just makes you to have a baby and they walk away from it oh my god I get I have a lot of people get mad at me when I start talking like this right here we're living with a generation that don't know who their fathers are because somewhere another him and her got close enough where he oops and fell inside of her and then made a baby and walked away from a child even if you go walk away from the woman why would you walk away from your child selfishness we live in a selfish generation we live we live in a selfish generation and so listen don't miss your season here's here's a quote that I wrote my book you need to get this whatever you miss the season or mess up a season you have to pay for it another season whenever you miss a season are you hear me today or you mess up a season you have to pay for it another season that's the reason why I'm going to school because I messed up my teenage years my parent my mom my father whipped us beat us beat us beat us there was no time out when I there was no go to your room there was six more Negroes in our room amen somebody what no go to the room my father took us downstairs and got some switches said we're gonna deal with this right now but but he couldn't stop me from using drugs that when I was 11 years old and 12 years old dropped out of school when I was 15 years old so I miss seasons and I messed up seasons and so I'm paying for something that I messed up when I was in my teen years and my make a sense here today I hallelujah and so listen it's important to get rid of yourself but just in your 30s because in your 40s I'm moving on in your 40s are the years of influence I said the 40s are the years of influence but watch this if you don't get rid of yourself in your 30s instead of being a influence in your 40s you become a manipulator come here elder come here elder let me Lord have mercy I really want to preach about to make something to make you shout this I love this great ordinance he can follow me man I would help him hit E flat and I would just have a shouting about the blessing is coming around the corner up and down the street in your mailbox but this is what my assignment is today so if you don't get rid of your self-assisting your 30s in your 40s you become an influencer an influencer as you get connected to people and you lead and direct people but if you don't get rid of your self-assisting your 30 instead of becoming an influencer you become a manipulator and that's why you see a lot of people in their 40s always got some kind of scam that they're trying to push not here in California everywhere else they always got something you need to check this out you need a sign up for this I got something that's gonna make you rich come on here somebody always got something to get you hooked up and so the reason why instead of them being somebody that leads you along the way they become a manipulator and they manipulate people they always got some kind of scam that they're trying to run on so come on here somebody because they're manipulators and the problem is in their 30s they never got rid of their self-assisting 30s and so if you don't become a if you don't become an influencer in your 30s and be in your 40s then you become a manipulator and you tie up people and some of you are tied up to people that never got rid of their self-assisting their 30s and you get tired and you can't get away from them and be and listen that's why so many people are hurt by people you listen to most preachers all they preach about people and what people have done to them you listen to preachers always talk about people and how they try to hurt people and how they try to take advantage of people the reason why is because they never got rid of their self-assisting their 30s and they always tying people up with some kind of game and when you don't have wisdom you'll get tied up all right I'm almost finished I'm almost finished the 40s are the years of the season of influence I love my 40s it seems like it's been forever but I love my 40s because people think you start know what you're talking about when you get in your 40s people think you know what you're talking about when you're getting your 40s and the only way that you will be successful in your 40s is you had to get rid of yourself was just in your 30s you had to get rid of and understand that it's not about you but it's about the bigger portion it's it's about the bigger thing that's why the people the happiest people in church are those that give themselves those people that never serve in any kind of capacity in church those are the ones that always complain the ones that's not tithing those are the one that's raising hell about time the rhythm though those that's not serving and don't have their kids serving that's why your kids are so bored in church the reason why they're so bored in church is because you taught them that it's about you and it's not about them 40s are the years of I'm moving on the 40s are the years of influence here's what Paul says be followers of me even as I am also a Christ look at what he said this is 1st Corinthians 11 1 and 2 number the verse 2 verse says now I praise you brethren that remember in me and all things and keep the ordinances that I've delivered to you because now people are following you people should follow you I'm glad for the men and women that led our me and my wife to Christ it wasn't those old people to let us to Christ it was those teenagers in church our age they told come on you can go man you can make it come on you can make it you don't have to quit come on but we was following somebody what happened to the church now well we have all this truth and nobody's following you you mean nobody's following you you mean you come to church with an empty car because nobody's following you you mean nobody sees the Christ in you where they want to say give me what you have I want what you have the joy that I see you on your face on Monday morning I want to go to a church where there's joy like that I want to go to a church where the pastor can preach like that you mean you come to church and you're comfortable with nobody's coming with you I supposed to preach just in back in back in Louisiana I guess right now but the the the problem is nobody following and listen when you get comfortable with nobody following you then you cease to be effective I said when you get comfortable with nobody following you you cease to be effective hallelujah hallelujah so my son hallelujah all right all right all right so the 50s oh my thanks try messa the 50s are you ready for 50s are you sure you're not gonna walk out on me are you all right so the 50s are the years of fathering or mentoring the years the 50s are the years where you're pulling somebody up the 50s are powerful years because you should be pulling somebody up the 50s are the years where pastors stop dropping bed because you're on it the 50s are the years where people should be that I'm old enough now that my kids are almost grown and I know what I should not be doing and so I'm gonna reach out and touch somebody who didn't have a father I'm gonna reach out and touch somebody who didn't have a good mother I'm gonna reach out and touch some young person they don't know where they're going I'm gonna reach out and touch some young Christian who just got saved I'm gonna reach out and touch somebody who don't know the way I'm gonna reach out pastor when we have somebody to just come to Christ you can depend on me sir I'm gonna pull them by the way that they don't flip back out and go back into the world. I'm going to be that one that helps them. The fifties. The fifties are the fathering years. It's the mothering years. It is the mentoring years. And my question is, where are the mentors? Come up and help me. Where are the mentors? Where are the mentors? We have baby Christians getting their life to Christ. And they have to go out here and fight this devil by themselves. And then we look up and say, where they go? We just baptize some people. Where they go? Oh, we're pastor. He'll take care of it. No, what about you take care of it? What about your life being so strong that guess what? The pastor can depend on you to pour into that man and that woman's life. What about the, what about some of you need to do like the, like sister Gail did on my wife, my wife, my wife got saved. Sister Gail will call. Where are you at Denise? I missed you in church today. Well, you need, you need a ride. Can I come pick you up? Denise, where are you at?  I know you made some mistakes, but come on, get back up. I don't care what, I don't care what's going on in your life. I'm right here with you. Oh, you're not ready this Sunday. Okay. I'll call you next Wednesday. Oh, you're not ready this Wednesday. Oh, I'll call you next Friday. Come on, girl. Let's go out and have a big Mac together. Come on, girl. Let's go out to in and out together. Where are the mentors? Where the mentors teach me to number my days to apply my heart towards wisdom.  Maybe you have people that's in their forties that now we're trying to influence people, but they've not been influenced. We have over a hundred people around the world that looked at me and my wife as a father and mother in Zion. Because now we can, my oldest son is 46 years old. He'll be 46 in a couple of weeks. We have 14 grandkids and seven great grandkids and probably a hundred spiritual sons and daughters. And the reason why is because we give of ourselves to pull somebody else up because mother, my father never got saved. My stepmother never got saved. They fought us when I would go out and get high. They didn't say anything.  Come home drunk, stumbling, smelling like weed.   He gonna end up in jail. But as soon as I gave my life to Christ and stop using drugs and alcohol and running up streets, all of a sudden my father to punish me. He stopped me from going to church. But when he was stopping me from going to church and we didn't have cell phones, we didn't have, we didn't have caller ID, but my phone rang off the hook. Tony, I miss you in church today. Where are you at? I miss you. I miss you in church. I'm praying for you. You can make it. Come on. Come on. Let's go. Let's let's go to Dairy Queen together. Let me just talk to you.    Come on. You can make it. Come on. You can make it. Come on. You can make it. I know it's tough right now.  You can make it. You can, you can make it. Come on. Let's go to the altar and pray. Let's, let's go to the altar and pray. Some of the couples is in our church. We go to a church. They run probably, I don't know, a few thousand people and some of them that are part of our boot camp, which are individual sessions helping people with their marriages. So we have a very, very wealthy couple in our church, a very wealthy white couple in our church.  I'm real quiet. I don't say much and and I'm, you know, I just, I sit in the back and I don't say much, but he really wants help from God. I walk right in the back of God, him. Come on, brother. Where are you going? We're going to the altar. I brought him to the altar. Now, every Sunday, he's right down at the altar with his hands raised up saying, God, I need you. Somebody needs you just to be mentor enough to bring them down to the altar. Some young mother trying to raise their kids by themselves.  Why don't you go to them and say, baby, what can I pray for this week? What is your baby's need?  We got grandmothers raising their kids now. When do you call? Look, look, sister, what can I pray for today? What can I do for you? What do you need? You say, well, they're going to take advantage. Let me tell you something. There is no seed that God, you can't give God. God don't look at waste of seed. God looks at oh my God. He looks at your motive. He looks at your motive and your and and he looks at your obedience. I'm closing with this. I'm closing with this. So, that's the fifties. The sixties, you're ready for the sixties. The sixties, somebody said, that's me. Okay. I'm I'm I'm coming to you. I'm coming to you. I'm coming to you. The sixties are the years of honor and glory.  The sixties are the year where you begin to see, watch this, the fruit of your labor. I want to shout right now. I want to shout right now. I say the sixties are the years of fruit and labor. When you begin to see, God opening up the winners of heaven and pouring you out of blessing for your faithfulness. Those of you that's in your thirties and forties and you're trying to struggle through, here's what my encouragement is for you today. Don't stop. Keep on giving, keep on tithing, keep on worshiping, keep on praying, keep on trying to bring people to church, keep on ministering the people because sooner or later your your victory is going to come. When I was 59, I had been given. I had started eight churches. I was sold. I was out of it. I was my health was really bad, really bad. But when I turned 60, God opened up the heaven and we are living now under an open heaven because of our faithfulness to God. Here's a little bit against 1932 says stand up in the presence of the elderly and show respect for the age. Fear your God for I am the Lord. There's a blessing in age. I said there's a blessing in age. You see those of us that are old people. Amen. Say don't say you're old. I listen. I feel old. I really do. I've done a lot of stuff. Amen. And so listen that there's I have a young spiritual daughter. She says, Pop, you're old as you feel.   You don't know what you're talking about. You oh my god. Somebody say, man, some of y'all know what I'm talking about when you get up and you gotta oh my goodness. Lord have mercy.  You gotta oh thank you. Come on here somebody. When you get up and try to roll out that bed, you just know thank you Jesus. Some of y'all ain't saying nothing. Amen. Some of y'all ain't saying nothing. Lord have mercy. Jesus. Come on somebody. Say amen somebody. That old age is a monster to catch up with you. Amen. I don't care if the people have seen that song. I don't I don't feel like I look like or something like that.  I know I look like what I've been through. I've been through some stuff but guess what? He's brought me over.  People will be getting honored if you've been faithful. Mm hmm. And so I had a man come to me several weeks ago in North Carolina and say to me, but you ain't talking about the seventies. I gotta I gotta answer for that. The seventies. The seventies are the years of a plentiful garden. The seventies are the years of a plentiful garden. You know, a garden is really incredible. Especially a plentiful garden. That means when you're in your in your seventies, you can go pick all kind of stuff. All kind of healthy fruit from a plentiful garden. The sad thing mama Bobby is people that are in their seventies and have nothing in their field. All they have is dirt and there's nothing that you can pick and pull to bring you any substance. You got a woman right here who's been through cancer three times.  The reason why the reason why watch is she has a plentiful garden. Hallelujah. My bishop here. I told him this morning, I hope I look that good when I turn seventy but in his garden is a plentiful garden. I'm gonna write a I'm gonna write another book that's about the the green room because listen, the green room is a place for preparation and it's preparing you for the next season and so when you start singing them songs about this is my season, this is my season, let me tell you something. Stop shouting about the season is to come and do something about the season that you're in. Stand to your feet. I'm finished. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Do you need me to holler some? Do you need me to holler some? No, I'm gonna holler none.  I hope I didn't bore you. I hope I didn't bore you too bad. Amen. One of the things that I that I put in this book here, I put in this book a way that you never let people hurt you again. I don't have time to tell you about it. I used to always be a person that people always hurt me whether it was pastors or somebody I was always hurt, always offended and God gave me a revelation how to deal with that and everybody who has purchased this book always tell me that's the one thing. They got a lot of stuff about this book but that's one thing that always trends people's life because listen, the only thing that God has given you to do on this planet is deal with people. Some people live in California. Some people live in North Carolina. Some people live in Texas. But can I tell you something whether you live in California or Texas? The one thing that's common everywhere is that is people and you gotta learn how to deal with them. Would you lift your hands right now? I wanna I wanna pray for you and then I wanna I feel I feel really led to do something. Father, I thank you that these are your people and I thank you for the green room. I thank you God whether in the 20s, the 30s, the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, the 70s or the 80s. I thank you God that you've given us this season. When you taught your disciples how to pray, you said teach pray like this. Give us this day. Our daily bread.  So I pray right now that you would move in their life and they go back and listen to this message today and it will impact whatever season they're at. I thank you for it right now in Jesus' name. Somebody say in Jesus' name. Amen. Listen, while I was preaching, I really felt that somebody is really against a storm and there's some storms that have come up in your life. I know this is true because of for the last two days I have been in struggle after struggle in my mind as I prepared for this message today. I want you to come and let me pray for you. I wanna pray. Me and my wife, we wanna pray for you. Whatever storm you're in, God has something for you. Whoever you are, don't don't wait for anybody else. Come on. Come on. I really feel that. I really feel it. Come on. I really feel it. I really feel it. I really feel it. Hallelujah. Bless the Lord. Oh my soul. And all that is within me. Bless his home. I need water. What key you in, sir? E flat. A flat. Go up to B flat. I will bless the Lord. Come on. Lift your hands. Oh my soul. And all and all. Hallelujah. Come on. One more time.  Come on. I will bless the Lord. I will. Hallelujah. Come on. I feel like we need to do that one more time. Come on. Everybody worship. Come on.  Come on. I will bless the Lord. Come on. I will. Come on. He has done great things for me. Come on. If you believe this. Oh, he has done this and he. Hallelujah. The the nointen of God is here today. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The struggle is real. Right? So, God wants to do something in your life today. But it's time instead of just a little touch, God wants to do a real transformation. And and the change has to come with what you heard this day. And there's some people you gotta excite your life. Do you hear me? Do you hear me? That there's some people you gotta excite your life if you're trying to go the way you're trying to go. Because the challenge has been how do I hold on to this and hold on to that. And you can't hold on to both of them. You gotta make some drastic change in all your life. You've been used to people that's doing this. But God wants to do something different and a change in your life. But you gotta be willing. They gotta be a yes in your spirit. You hear me? They gotta be how old are you? 29. So, you're very young. There has to be a change in your life. Did you hear me preach this one? Did you hear what I say? Did you hear what I said about the different age groups? Lift your hand. You're about to go into your 30s. So, you're gonna have to get delivered from all. You know what I'm talking about? There's a lot of things. There's a lot of struggles and there's a lot of stuff that's been spoken over your life. Even as a young child in your teens, there's been a lot of drastic stuff that's happened to you in your teens.  God's gonna set you all in the. Oh, every chain. I want somebody to worship right now. I want somebody to worship. I want somebody to worship. In the name of Jesus. Set her free now. Set her free now. Oh, with somebody to worship right now. With somebody to worship right now. Is this the baby that was playing the piano this morning? Is that her? Is that the baby was playing the piano? I remember when she was a really young baby. Oh my, how old are you now? I thought she was about 14 years old. Oh my God. Listen, the enemy wants that peace that's on your life. Stop being afraid. Stop being stressful. Stop being needy. God has everything that you need. The hand of the Lord is on you. The hand. Lift your hands, baby. The hand of the Lord is on you. God has everything. Say everything. Come on. Listen. Your word for this week is everything. You hear me? He has everything that you need. In the name of Jesus. Heal her body. Oh, I speak healing now.  Healing. I will bless the Lord. Come on. Come on. Come on, everybody. Help me. Come on. I will bless the Lord. And I will listen. Listen.  Several times in my message today, I just, I, I looked over and saw you and I don't remember any time that I've come here. I don't remember seeing you before.  Drastic. Are you ready for it? Are you ready for it? Okay. There's a drastic change that's coming and it is going to change your life forever. I wrote in my first book about becoming what you wish you had versus what you got. What you've been chasing is this is what happened to me and this is what I've been chasing. But listen, the change is going to happen. You need to become what you wish you had. You get it? See what changed my life? My father wasn't safe. I grew up in a very ungodly home, very dysfunctional home. And so, and so I didn't see when I got saved, I didn't see anybody in my family that really led me how to live for God. So my chapter in my first book about becoming what I wish I had versus what I got, if I would have continued what I got out of being alcoholic now, probably in drugs or probably dead. But I had to become what I wish I had versus what I got. And I feel that word is for you today. You need to start becoming what you wish you had. Start serving, start giving. Listen, don't just don't be just kind of halfway in. Oh, don't just don't lift her up, lift her up because I need I feel like I need to get this. Listen, baby, listen, I need I need to give it. Oh, not what you not what you had, but you got to become what you wish you had.  There's miracles that's going to flow through you and your family not going to know you. You're fat. Oh, Jesus. I wish somebody would praise God. I wish somebody would praise God. I hope I'm not taking too long. I hope I'm not taking. Lift your hands, baby. Lift your hands. Listen, you have been singing and have been faithful in serving.  Now, how come it happened to me? But I'll tell you right now, this thing is going to get real in your spirit and you're going to sing into your own deliverance in the name of Jesus.  Come on.  Let this thing be real. Let this thing be real. Let this thing be real in her spirit. Let this thing be real in her spirit. I wish somebody would worship God. I wish somebody It works for God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. He has done great things. Come on. He has done great things. Listen. Here's what I hear. This is a kind of crazy word that I'm hearing. This is the last year you're going to be here. And when I mean here, I'm not talking about in this place, in this condition that you're in right now. I just feel like God is saying to me, this is the last year you are to be here.  You know exactly what I'm talking about because God often talks to you about that. He often talks to you and he even sometimes chastises you. But when you try to go forward, something comes and knocks you back. So you get comfortable with just going back. So you just kind of stay back so you're not hurt. But guess what? God is going to give you wisdom. You need to talk. And this is the last year you're going to be here. Oh, glory to God. I wish somebody would worship. He is done. We break generational curses. Use this baby, God. Let your anointing be great on her. In the name of Jesus. Let her be educated. Hallelujah. Most of all, let her be anointed by you. Let her be great for the kingdom of God. Teach her how to serve when she's young. Let her, let there be a worship. I feel that. Let there be a worship in her lives. Let there be a worship that as she worships other young children will hear her worship. He done, done, done. Let her set a fire in this church. Let her set a fire. I'm trying to get done. I'm trying to get done. Jesus. Hallelujah. I pray that what you didn't see, you'll see. What you didn't see as a young man that you'll see now. That the change will happen now. You look at a lot of men. You say, man, I wish I was like that. God is going to change and transform some things in your life. Where greatness is on you. In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. He dada daba sha ta. In the name of Jesus. He dada daba sha ta. Let the anointing flow out of his lips. Put a praise in his mouth. Oh, put a praise in his mouth. Put a praise in his mouth. In the name of Jesus. Put a praise in his lips. In the name of Jesus. Put a hunger in his heart, God. Put a put a hunger there, God. That only praise will feel it. Let me, let me, let me, let me tell you something. Let me tell you something, sir. God is going to put a hunger in your heart. That the only thing that will fulfill that hunger is praise. And I see the time me coming in here one of these days. And you're going to be shouting all over this church. And it's going to surprise you because the only thing that will fulfill that is your praise. So your mouth will get started right now. I want you to just start giving God thanks. Say, Lord, I thank you. Come on. Come on. Open your mouth. Say, Lord, I thank you. In the name of Jesus. God. I thank you for the praise. I wish somebody would praise God with him. I wish somebody would praise God with him. In Jesus name. Oh, yeah. Oh, I wish y'all stop playing around and come on. Give God praise. Y'all playing too much. Come on. Give God praise. He has done great things. The devil is after you. Hold to you. 26, the devil's after young black men like you. He's after all of us, but especially your, your generation because you are the generation that will set a fire for the next generation.    There's people like bishops, like Bishop's sister over there and her brother-in-law and those of us that are in here. But the fire is up to you.  There has to be a praise you and a dedication to God in your heart. And I am praying that God will turn and transform all the stuff that turns you against God as you're young. That God is going to turn that thing.  Come on.  He's going to turn your heart to him. He's going to turn your heart to him. You get it? He's going to turn your heart to him because you've been offered a lot of things by a lot of different people. You're a good looking young man. I'm sure you're very intelligent, but this world wants you and I am pleading the blood of Jesus over your life today that no weapon that's formed against you can prosper. Stuff that you want to do, you're not going to be able to do. Places that you want to go, you're not going to be able to go. The hunger. The hunger. Let there be a hunger. Let there be a hunger. Listen. Listen. I have to be, I have to be transparent. I have to be transparent to this young man. Mother Bobby, after I got saved and gave my life to Christ, I was really on fire for God and my brother, then they made up in their mind, they was going to talk me out of it. So my brother one night, he says, Tony, come and go with me. He took me to a party and I was very uncomfortable. I was very convicted.  So he says, come on the kitchen. There's probably 20 people in a circle and they had a gas mask and they had drugs and stuff in this gas mask. They said, oh man, just try it. It ain't no big deal. And I put it on my face and began to snip that stuff. I could not get high because the hand of God was on me and I sense the same thing on your life.  I just, baby, I sense a hunger. I sense a hunger. I sense a hunger. There is a hunger that God has placed in your life, son. And I need you to submit to that. I need you to get a praise in your heart and a praise in your lips that will change your life forever. And God, if you could do it for me, you could do it for this young man. Let him be the fire. He did not allow my shot. Let it be in the day, God. Let it be in the day. Let a fire be lit in his heart today. I praise you right now. Yeah, yeah. That's right, God. Come on, son. Give God praise. I wish somebody would praise this. Oh, shataya, Ramamama, yattaya. Oh, shataya, Ramamama, he is done. Listen. Listen. Look at me. I see the tiredness and the weariness in your eyes. I see the tired and the weariness. That's because of fighting. We don't yet do a surrender and say yes to God. It's simple. There has to be a yes in your spirit. See, when I got saved, this came in March, next March 28th, 1973. I was on drugs. I was an alcohol. I was in gangs. I was a 15, trouble year old, 15 year old kid, right? And what they used to tell me is to say, say yes to God. We didn't know about the 12 step programs, all that kind of stuff like that. But those mothers taught me, son, just say yes to God. And your struggle is you keep trying to work it out. And that's the weariness that's in your eyes.  Lift your hands. Just say yes to God. Come on. Come on. Come on. But listen. No, no, no, no, not whatever he wants. We already done that before. There has to be a yes in your spirit, baby. There has to be a yes in your spirit. Come on. There got to be a yes in your spirit. You got to mean it. Come on. There got to be a yes in your spirit. Hallelujah. I wish somebody would praise God. Hallelujah. Come on. Yes. Let there be a yes. Yes. Let there be a yes in her spirit. Let there be a yes in her spirit. Yeah. Come on. That's right. Come on. Let there be a yes. There got to be a new yes. There got to be a new yes. There got to be a new yes. There got to be a new yes. Oh, I wish somebody would praise God. All right. There got to be a new yes. All right. Come on. Yes to the depth of my soul. Yes. Yes. Completely yes. Hallelujah. Come on. Come on, everybody. Come on. See. Yes. That's what it got to be a yes in your spirit. In the bottom of my heart. To the depth of my heart. Completely yes. Hallelujah. Hands, baby. How old are you? 19? Yeah. Aren't you tired of this world? Aren't you tired of it? Yeah. It just takes you and use you, right? It just takes you and use you and use you up. You probably got a lot of my messages today, didn't you? Huh? Did you? Yeah. Yeah. Listen, here's the powerful thing about it. The reason why I share my story, I need you to hear this. This is powerful.  And listen, I used to be so ashamed because everybody seemed like they had a better story than I had. But here I am 50 years later, and I'm sharing my story. I wish I could have testified that I always been in church. I wish I could have testified that I played by the rules. I wish I could have had a testimony that I didn't get my girlfriend pregnant back then. But guess what? My testimony is my story. Yes. Yes. Y'all church people, you don't even understand that. All you church people, you don't even understand that. But those of you that's been through some stuff, those of you that's been through some stuff, and I wish this, I wish that I could have had testimony that I'd never seen, and I've been in church all my life, and I didn't make the mistakes that I made. Oh, but what the devil can't take is my testimony. Oh, what the devil can't stop is that he brought me out. Oh, somebody know what I'm talking about right here. I've been through, but I came out. Come on here, somebody. Yeah. Yeah. Today is a change in time in your life, sweetheart. Today is a change in day in your life. You hear me? Today is a change in day in your life. You are not going to forget today. What's today? July, something, 24th, 17th. I've been on a road. I've been on a road since May. I don't even know where I'm at most time. I've been on a road. So today is July 17, 2022. Today, you're going to mark that today was the day of a transformation that's going to happen in your life. Are you ready for that type of transformation? You ready? You got to put this stuff behind you, but here's what I want you to know. Don't put it so far behind you that you can't tell how good God has been. And listen, people would judge you by the mistakes that you made. But let me tell you something. What marks you is your testimony. So if nobody else can praise him, you're going to have to praise him because the only way I've been able to stay free, when I was 15 years old and gave my life to Christ, I was a high school dropout. My life was jacked up and messed up. But the thing that kept me here until now that I'm in my mid sixties and I'm still praising God was my praise. And baby, your praise is going to have to bring you through. So lift your hands. Are you ready for that type of change? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I break every chain, every yoke. I wish somebody would help me to pray in the name of Jesus. Every chain, every yoke. Heal now. Heal now. Oh, oh, heal now. Heal now. Oh, somebody give God praise right now. Come on, give God praise right now. Y'all too cute. Come on, give God praise now. From the bottom of my to the depths of my soul. Come on, completely. In the name of Jesus. Touch her right now. Y'all remember, I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. From the body, if you love the Lord, one more time. Now clap your hands if you really love him today. Come on. I say, don't pity Pat. Don't pity Pat. Don't pity Pat. I say, don't pity Pat. I love him. I said, I love him. I said, I love him. Come on, y'all remember. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Somebody say, hallelujah. One more time. Clap those hands and give Jesus a big hand praise right now. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Somebody say, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Hey, beautiful.  Lord have mercy. Hey, who baby is this? It's your baby. She's so cute. She got, you got two. Oh, Lord. Her name is what? She's seven. This baby here, sir. Her name is seven. Hey, seven. Girl, you're too cute. I could take you home without a wonderful kiss. Y'all didn't hear that, did y'all? Y'all didn't touch her right now, God. Lay your hands on her. She that I touch these babies, protect them from rapists and murders, psychiatric things that's going on with our children. Help her to know she's a woman of God. No weapon has formed against such a prosper. What's your name? Jordan, the babies are getting cuter and cuter. Maybe because I miss my grand baby so much and my great grand babies. I think that's what the problem is. How old are you? Four, really? Jesus, bless her. Protector in these schools. Protector from rapists and murders. Protector in the name of Jesus. Help her to grow up to be a great woman of God. Mm, Jesus' name. And what is your name? Who? Amelia. That is a beautiful name. My goodness. And how old are you, Amelia? Five. Lift your hands, Amelia. The hand of God is whose baby is this? God's hand is on her. You hear me? I'm his hand is on all kids, but God's hand is on her. The thing that I talked about, about birth is 20. You gotta point her to a higher place. There's certain things that she can't do because the hand of God is on her. There's certain people that you can't have in your life because the hand of God is on her. You hear me? Lay your hand on her, God. Amelia, bless her in a special way in Jesus' name. Put their praise in her lips that she will not walk in fear. I come against fear or I just, I sense that it's fear, right? I come against fear. I come against it right now. Mama, Bobby, I felt, I just felt the spirit of fear, but I come against it because God is not giving you the spirit of fear. You make sure, you make sure your pastor lays hands on her, you know, as she grows because the enemy will take fear and turn it into a lot of things. God has not given you the spirit of fear. Do you hear me? Against power, love, and he giving us power, love, and a sound. I'm trying to get you out of here. I'm trying to get you out of here. I love you, Amelia. You are too cute, girl, and that's not seven. Jordan.  My God. All right. There's more kids. Come on, bring them up here. Bring them up here. Pastor, I hope I'm not taken too long. And who is this? Come here, baby.  She says, stranger danger. My wife teaches me about stranger danger. I don't blame you, baby.  What's your name, son? Malachi. Who? Malachi. That's a powerful name. Lift your hands, Malachi. How old are you, buddy? How old are you? Yeah, think about it. Ten. You got to remember those ages, man, because one of these days, you have a wife and you got to remember birthdays and anniversaries.  That's very important. Lift your hands. Now, this is your son? My God, all these years. How many kids you got now? Be proof of all the blood. All right. Malachi. Bless Malachi, Jesus. Strength in Malachi in his school. Just because people, just because you want to be like people, that don't mean you have to be like them. You got to know who you are. You thank God that you have a strong father. Okay? Because he can easily influence. Right? So, you have to really make sure that you declare, you need to make a declaration over him every day. Make a declaration, dad. He needs to hear your voice and the declaration that you need, he needs to hear your voice. Right? I just, I just sense that. He needs to hear your voice. So, I thank you, God, for Malachi, for the greatness on him, that he'll speak to the end times. He'll be a man that understand the times and he will speak what he hears and he'll be sensitive to the voice of God. In the name of Jesus. Love you, Malachi. You stand right by me right here. You're going to be praying for your siblings. Do you like your siblings? Do you like them? They okay? All of them okay? All right. I know how these siblings could be now. Oh, man, the lines getting longer. Okay. Now, what's your name, buddy? Who? Fabian. Fabian? I have a doctor that, that is, that's a part of my boot camp. His name is Fabian. How old are you, Fabian? You're what? Nine? Jesus touched Fabian.  He's going to be a worshipper. You're going to be surprised how God is going to use this kid. He's going to be a worshipper. He's going to worship in mountains before. Touch them right now, God. Touch his heart while he's tender, God. While it's tender, use them for your glory and your honor. In the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Now, while I'm praying for him, you're supposed to be helping me pray. I don't have you sitting and looking good. You do look good, but even if you just got to put your hands on my side while I'm praying for him, you pray for me, okay? Can you do that? All right. You just put your hands right here. And then while I'm praying for them, you pray for me. All right. All right. The worshipper, I thank you for that right now. In the name of Jesus. All right. You stand next to your brother over here, buddy. Who's oh, he's the bold one. He's the bold one. You're going to be bold like a lion. And right now he's a challenge, but that challenge, that's what I, this reminds me. I stepped right up, man. There was no shyness in me at all. I stepped right up. I have boldness touching right now, God. Turn that boldness into power for God. In the name of Jesus. I praise you. Are you, are you praying for me? Is that praying for him? Okay. All right. Make sure you're doing it. Bless him in a special way in Jesus name. All right. Bold as a lion, bud. How old are you? Seven. All right. All right. Come here, beautiful. What is your name? Genesis. How about that? And how old are you? Five and a half. Did she say five and a half? Five. Okay. Five. Lift your hands, baby. Don't be afraid. I'm a father. Bless her. Protect her. Protect her little tender heart. This, this is going to be your intercessor right here. She's, God is going to, he's going to put a hunger in her. She's going to intercede. She's going to be intercessing. You got to protect this one because this is the one the devil is after more than all of them because she's going to be your intercessor. You got that dad in Jesus name. Get your beautiful self, girl. Come here. Come here. Come here. Your daddy going to be right here. He ain't going nowhere because I don't want no more kids. I can promise you. Now what's your name, beautiful? Legacy. Oh, this is legacy. Touch legacy, Jesus. Moving her life in the name of Jesus that she'll be great for you. And we got more. Come on. What's your name, buddy? Elias. Elias. All right, lights. Don't worry about it. I don't want you. Don't worry about it. My baby is 40 years old. I'm, I'm just grateful. Mama Bobby, I am grateful.  Touch them right now. You know, God's hand is really on you. I saw it when I was preaching. God's hand is on you. You don't have to look back. Look forward. And when you look forward, there's some things that God is going to challenge you to do. And there has to be a surrender in your heart. You got it? How old are you? 39. 39. You don't look 39. That's okay though. Life will catch up. Don't worry about it. But you go, black, don't crack. That's the only blessing that we have. Now that's, that's the truth. Now I'm just saying the truth. I ain't trying to be, I ain't trying to be ugly. I'm just telling the truth. I've been around a lot of all kind of people. But guess what? The age happens inside there.  And you got to be, you got to, there has to be a yes in your spirit. All right. I feel that today. In Jesus' name. Bless her in a special way.  The glory of the Lord. In the name of Jesus. Let there be a yes in her spirit. Let there be a yes in her spirit. In the name of Jesus. Bless you, sweetheart. Bless you. All right. Let's do a couple. Is this yours too? That's your oldest daughter? No, this show. Really? All right. Now what's your name? Milan? How old are you? 14. You got to lift your hands. There's a lot of things that want you, Milan. There's a lot of forces that you don't understand. And your parents are struggling just trying to bring you into these things.  And that the enemy can get you to make decisions. When I was 14 years old, I was using drugs and all gangs in the streets and the enemy wants you. Do you hear me? There's things that your parents don't even know. And you're trying to battle those things by yourself. But today I pray that God will move in your life and do some healing in Don't y'all get tired? Would y'all help me to pray for these babies? There's a lot of things that teenagers go through, Mama Bobby, that they can't even share with their parents because how do you identify with some of the stuff that you go through? But I pray for healing in your mind. The name of Jesus. Somebody's saying the name of Jesus. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Let him do it, baby. Let him do it. Let him do it. Come on. Let God do it. We're not in such a hurry. God can't do it. God wants to do it. God wants to do it. God wants to do it. Let your hands, baby. Let him do it. That's right. Tell God yes. Yes. That's right. That's right. Let him do it. Let him do it, baby. Let him do it. Jesus name. Jesus name. Jesus name. Hallelujah. Come on, son. Man. Man. How old are you? I'm 16. I'm so short, man. My God. Jesus name. Hallelujah. Listen. You need to thank God every day you got a father in your life. I know it's tough because most of your people that you hang around with, they don't have fathers. You feel like a standout, but you're going to stand up in the name of Jesus. And I just come against depression. I sense that, baby. I sense depression. I come against depression. I'm sorry to be taking so long saints, but I just, we need to, come against depression off of your life in the name of Jesus. I break the chains of depression that you'll be free in your mind and you'll be free in your mind. You'll be free in your mind. That's right. Come on. Let God do it, son. You'll be free in your mind in the name of Jesus. Come on. I want you to begin to praise God right now for being free. Say, Lord, I thank you for setting me free. Come on. Come on. Don't be ashamed. Come on. I thank you for setting me free. He who the Son set free is free. Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Somebody say thank you, Jesus. Touch this baby, Jesus. She's so cute. Oh, Jesus. She's looking at my wife. Won't you look at me?  She looked right past me. Look at you. All these kids, no matter where we go in the world, Mama Bobby, people running my kids. They run right past the speaker and the people that's minister. Sweetie, you are too cute. Bless her, Lord. Protect her, Lord. Hallelujah. That she'll love you all of her life. She'll make a commitment for you early and she won't be ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name. Good job. Hallelujah. Long live the glory. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. He da da da ba ka ta. Hallelujah. Long live the glory. Revive us. Revive us. One more time. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. He da da da ba mama. Glory. Jesus. Hallelujah. Hold on. Hallelujah. Listen, I'm glad that you brought those of them up, but you really came for you, right?  So God's going to do something for you today, okay? Hold on. Thirteen? Yeah, God's going to do something for you. Lift your hands, baby, in the name of Jesus. Say, Jesus, do it for me. Come on. Say, do it for me, Jesus. He da da da ba ka ta. He da da da ba ka ta. I pray that you would do something special for her today.  Is somebody saying Jesus' name? In Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you. Oh, Hallelujah. Long live the glory. Thank you, baby. Oh, hallelujah. Lift your hands, baby. You da da da ba ka ta. Every change on your mind, you da da da ba ka ta. Holy, the battle over your mind, I curse every assignment over your mind today. In the name of Jesus, the battle over your mind. You're probably very young, aren't you? How old are you, baby? 15. I just see that when you close your eyes at night time, your mind just begins to spin, with spin almost out of control. But I rebuke that stronghold that's over your mind. Today is going to be a change where you're going to sleep with a piece of God. In the name of Jesus, the peace of God that pass understanding is going to keep your heart and your mind through Jesus Christ. Would you just begin to praise God right now? Let's just start praising God. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, in the name of Jesus, hallelujah, amen. Come on, clap your hands. Hallelujah, hallelujah, come on, one more time. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, one more time. Hallelujah, in the name of Jesus, hallelujah, hallelujah. God has not forgotten you. He's not forgotten you. He's not forgotten you. God has not forgotten you. He's going to touch your family. Touch this young man God. Lay your hand on him right now. Thank you for his faithfulness in serving. Hallelujah. A lot of seasons he'll avoid because he has a heart of serving. Let it be real in his spirit in the name of Jesus. Everybody clap your hands and give God praise. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on one more time everybody help me. Hallelujah. There is an anointing here that's so powerful.   I need as many people that can sow $100. Me and my wife we're going to sow $100. We always want to bless the house of God wherever we go. But I want you to get a seed in your hand right now. Because there's an anointing. There's an anointing. I love sharing with your pastor how a seed that I sown way back when I was 17, a seed of pain, God has turned that thing around and now we are blessed for the rest of our lives. And so the seed that you sow when an anointing like this you need to expect for God to do something supernatural. What if I had given up when I turned 40 Bishop? What if I had given up when I turned 45? What if I had given up when I turned 35?   God has blessed us. Your pastor knows about it. Hallelujah. I want you to sow into this ministry today. I want you to get ready to sow. I need everybody to sow some kind of seed. Hallelujah. And the same God that blesses us. Mama Bobby, God has blessed us. I remember years I would come to the convention and we would be struggling, boy. We would be struggling so bad. But we all, we came. A lot of times we didn't have anything to eat when we came. Amen. But God has always provided. Amen. This book tour that we're on, we almost didn't do it because everything went skyrocket. But God has provided everywhere we've been. And we've been on the road since May. Now you may say, but if I saw, I won't be here to buy a book. That's okay. God will provide. But I just feel like there's a sense of, there needs to be a seed that's sown to thank God for what you've received today. Amen. I need at least 20 people that will console $200. I need you. Those are, but if you can't do that, I want you to sow something near as you can. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And believe God for a supernatural blessing. When my wife, my wife is done writing a check.  Because I want you to stand with me. We feel like we're at home. We're not a visitor around here, but we feel like we're at home when we come here. And me and my wife, everywhere we go, we do this together. We sow these seeds together. Hallelujah. Do you have a seed in your hand? Do you have a seed in your hand? I said, do you have a seed in your hand? Praise God. I'll be signing books somewhere around here, probably out here. I'll be signing my books. You, each book is $20. You can get, today you can get all three books for $55. And we'll sow them. If you buy the book called Fight Like Hell, I have some boxing gloves somewhere in my thing. And you're going to be able to put the boxing gloves on and take a picture with me. With the book Fight Like Hell. Amen. When you got your seed in your hand, stand on your feet. I'm waiting for my queen to come and join me up here. Because we need God to do something for us on this book tour. We have three more weeks on the road. Next Sunday I'll be preaching in Pomona or wherever they're meeting at. And then the next Sunday we'll be in Haman, Haman, Louisiana. And then we finally get home on August the second or third. And so I know that you will pray for us because a lot of you follow us on Facebook.  But I love when I make hell mad. Amen. Amen. You got that seed in your hand. Are you ready to give? No matter what it is. You have a seed in your hand. Are you ready to give? Somebody say hallelujah. Come on one more time. Say hallelujah. Man, I'm really blessed by you, sir. You're anointing. And as you play and as you worship, is this your wife right here? I'm just so blessed by you. I'm blessed by both of you. How you pour yourselves out. And you could be anywhere in Los Angeles and for God to place you here. I am blessed by you too. And there is a, that's the son of a drunk. It's just amazing. I remember when the last guy, when he passed, and I talked to this of us and said, man listen, I'm praying because that guy could really play. And he knew how to flower the floor of God. Man, there's something on y'all that's amazing. It's amazing.  There's a turnaround switch that's happening where your family is going to see something that y'all been having before God. There's a change that's coming mama. There's a change that's coming. There's a change coming. It's a change coming. Amen, there's a change coming. All right, you got your seed in your hand? No, what we're going to do is we're going to make a confession over the seed. And then you have to come out. I just want to touch your hand as you give. Because I believe that something is being released today. Y'all believe that? Say I believe it. Even if you don't say I believe a release, a release is being released today. I believe that seed is producing a release today. You believe that, babe? I just feel like we need to sow into ground like this. We need to sow in the ground like this. So repeat after me. Not a death that I owe. Y'all can say that better. Come on. Not a death that I owe. But a seed that I sow. I sow this seed on good ground. Shilla Faith Long Beach is good ground. I give. And it shall be given to me. Good measure. Press down. Shake it together. Running over. Shall men give to me. I am the righteousness of God. My finances are blessed. Y'all need to say that again. My finances are blessed. And God has somebody somewhere in a place of authority waiting to meet me. To hear my name. To be a blessing to me. I wish you know what you just confessed right there. I wish you knew. I wish you understood what you just said.  To hear your name. All right.  We want to just touch your hands. The regular offerings are right here. You tie the offerings over here. This offering you're sewing in this. I want to just touch your hands. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Somebody say in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Oh, in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Regular offering over here. The special offering over here. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. He taught yadadadadada Open doors, God. Open doors. Open doors. Open doors. Open doors. Open doors. Open doors. Open doors. Open doors. Hallelujah. Yeah. A blessing in the city. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. In Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. In Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Last thing that I finished. If you want to get a book and you do it on Cash App, I take Cash App and Zail in Jesus' name. God bless y'all. Love you very much. Here you go, Bishop. Thank you for allowing me to come back. Come on, put your hands together. Anybody feel blessed today? Come on, somebody.  The Lord moved in this place today. You know, I want to hear a whole lot more sound than that, but y'all tired. Amen. And I thank you for staying to the end. Because some people had stuff that was too important. To stay for the dismissal portion. Their loss. Their loss. Now we like to pray and ask the Lord to protect our parishioners as they go their way. Amen. But I'm excited about what happened here today, Bishop. You've been such a blessing to this church. And somebody will say, well, how do you know all the things he said hasn't happened yet? It's gone up. I claim it in Jesus' name. Come on, somebody. I see the signs of an abundance of rain. Come on, somebody. It was just a hand cloud today, but I see abundance of rain. I ain't going to preach. Let's stand up. I'm going to praise the Lord for his goodness and his mercy to us. I want to thank him for what he's done, for what he's doing and what he's going to do. Scripture said Jesus Christ the same yesterday, today, and forever. And what he's been doing in the past, he's going to continue to do even to a greater extent. So I'm excited about the Lord. I'm excited about the growth in the kingdom of God in this spot. Now, I'm going to ask you to buy the books. See, maybe I shouldn't have stood you all up so quick. I'm going to ask you to buy the books. When I grew up, people had a pencil and a book that they wrote down the notes so that they could refresh their memory at a later date. I didn't see nobody taking notes. I think I might have seen one person. Yes, I saw one person taking notes. All right, good. For those of you who took notes buy the book anyway. But for those of you who didn't buy the book, I mean, who didn't take notes, you need to own that property. You need that book for yourself. I thought I was saying something right. All right. So now, Bishop, I'm about to buy the books. Books. And I'm going to use that to further my growth in God. Y'all think I know everything, but I don't know everything. Amen. My wife knows I know everything. So I'm just asking you to buy the books and support the ministry of Bishop and Sister Hall as they go across this country with all that it cost. We need to support them. Even if it didn't cost $5 a gallon, what the Lord has done in this place today, we owe God. Amen. And we can pay God by buying these books. All right. Do you want to hear me? All right. Let's look to the Lord. Eternal God, our Father, we thank you for who you are. Thank you for your loving kindness and your tender mercy. Lord, we thank you that you care so much for us, O God, that you visit with us. Thank you for your spirit that rest rules and abide in this place. We thank you for these your people, O God, those who are called by your name, to a marvelous light. We thank you for each and every one where should strengthen in their resolve, O God, to do your will. Help us ever love you above all other things on earth. You're the greatest thing that has happened. O God, and we magnify you. We praise you. We thank you, O God, because you're great and you're great in our lives. Lord, we yield our spirit. We yield our will unto you. Let your will be done in our life. And as we go from this place, Lord, let your angels go before us as you promise that they may watch over us, O God. Deliver us unto our destinations. We thank you. We praise you, O God. In Jesus' name, let every heart say amen and amen. God bless you. You're dismissed.