Welcome back to my channel and welcome if you're new here. I am so excited today is my first ever Clean eating baking a video. We are going to make a chocolate chip cookie bar. Yes, you heard that right a clean eating Chocolate chip cookie bar you guys I can't wait to share this recipe with you They are absolutely delicious. You would never know ever ever know that they don't have any flour And that they are clean eating you would never know. They are that amazingly delicious So if you want to see how to make a delicious clean eating chocolate chip cookie bar, stay tuned I am so excited about my first ever clean eating dessert video recipe I can't wait to share this with you guys. We are making a chocolate chip cookie bar. Oh my goodness Cannot wait. Let me show you what is in today's dessert first. You're going to need some ground flax seed meal I picked this up just in the refrigerated section in the health food aisle of my grocery store You're also going to need some coconut flour Highly recommend the thrive market. I can't talk about it enough It is an amazing website where you can buy everything and anything good for you They even have household pet kids cleaning laundry. They literally have everything and it is so Amazing the prices are phenomenal. They do have $20 worth of free products right now If you sign up for a membership, there's a link in the description box highly highly recommend You're going to see a lot of thrive products in my baking and cooking videos That way you can kind of duplicate them and have the right products on hand But love me some thrive.  I love the enjoy life, but to keep the points down I'm going to be using the lilies still not a bad choice for a chocolate chip at all And then you're also going to need an egg. So let's get started on our dessert. Let's make some dessert I'm so excited you guys. Okay. So in our bowl, we're going to add all of our ingredients except our chocolate chips So first we are going to start with one egg And then I have three tablespoons of water I did not show you guys the water when I showed you the ingredients And I also forgot to show you the vanilla. So clearly I have some issues today But we're going to go ahead and add in a little bit of vanilla extract as well And then we are going to add in one third cup of maple syrup And that's going to be a lot of the sweetness in our bars and maple syrup is such an amazing Sweetener such a good choice for a sweetener And then here I just have some salt. So I'm going to add Just a pinch of salt salt always enhances the sweetness. So it's a good thing to add as well And then I have my baking soda and I need one half of a teaspoon Of my baking soda. So I'm going to go ahead and add in that And then I am going to add my nut butter So what I did is I measured out on my food scale Eight tablespoons or one half of a cup of nut butter. That is the easiest way To get a good accurate reading on something like a nut butter or a peanut butter versus Taking tablespoon by tablespoon and adding that to your bowl It just makes it a lot easier to do it on your food scale And then we need to add in one tablespoon of flax meal So one tablespoon of that that's just going to help bulk it up give it some good flavor And then while we have that tablespoon out, we're going to do two tablespoons of our coconut flour And then we are good to go. We're going to give this a good mix. There's one There's two and then we are going to add in our chocolate chips once everything is mixed together Once you've got that everything nice and mixed. Oh my gosh, this smells so good We are going to go ahead and add in our lilies chocolate chips same process I measured these out on my food scale. This is 240 or Four servings of lilies chocolate chips. So I just took the grams and times it by four Wade that out on my food scale was 240 chips total or four servings of lilies chocolate chips Now we're ready to get this into a greased eight by eight pan So my pan that i'm going to be using is actually a bit smaller than an eight by eight It's more like a six by six, but that'll just give me a thicker cookie bar. So i'm good with that I'm going to go ahead and spray it with some avocado spray You just want to make sure that these delicious bars aren't sticking to your baking dish So a good amount of spray there And then we're going to go ahead and add this deliciousness to our baking dish This is going to go into a 350 degree oven until it is cooked through Now I wanted to give you guys kind of a quick substitution while I get this into my pan If you are vegan and you don't eat eggs You can make a chia egg Which is basically taking the tablespoon of chia seeds in place of the tablespoon of flax that we used Put that with a little bit of water And the chia seeds will become gelatinous and it'll make a chia egg And that way you can avoid using any dairy at all and this would be a vegan Dessert recipe. So how fun is that? So there we have our bars So we're going to get these in our oven and I'll be back to show you our completed cookie bars I just pulled the bars out of the oven. They look so good. They puffed up quite a bit So I'm going to let these cool for just a few minutes I'll cut these up and I'll be back to share with you the final product and give you the smart points So here are our chocolate chip cookie bars you guys. I'm telling you These look so good. I am actually going to do a taste test for you I'm just going to let them cool just a little bit longer and then we'll give them a try But I want to show you these they are good size Look at how nice and thick these are. I mean, they are nice and thick and ooey gooey chocolate So breaking this up into six servings. So this is a good sized bar Each one of these bars is going to be seven smart points on the blue plan I will be putting here on the screen the points for the green and purple And also just to let you guys know if you decided to cut your pan into nine bars So making them a bit smaller, they would be six smart points each 10 bars five points and 14 bars If you just wanted, you know a smaller bar, they are four smart points apiece But with the ingredients in these the nut butter the honey the coconut flour They are a whole real food. They are a great option for breakfast You could have one of these for seven points pair it with some eggs and some fruit And you have a very very good clean breakfast So I am so excited and let's taste these bars. All right I'm trying to get the best light in my hair cast the shadow on my face, but Let's try these delicious Cookie bars. So I am excited to try this Yeah It is like It is really soft Moist Mmm. My gosh, you know what it tastes like Mmm That is so freaking good it tastes like A chocolate chip cookie literally like a soft baked chocolate chip cookie kind of mixed with a blondie It has just that really moist but chocolatey. You can't really taste the peanut butter But I think it's just part of the overall flavor So good you guys definitely Must make I hope you enjoyed my first ever clean eating baking a video How fun was it to make something so decadent and delicious? That is clean eating and really good in smart points considering the nutritional value of the food that you're eating You can still have fun sweet treats when you're following a clean eating approach to w w If you just cut them into smaller squares You get a little bit more points bang for your buck, but they are absolutely delicious Just depending on how many points you are choosing to spend on this dessert So if you're new to my channel, I'd love it if you would come on over and subscribe Join my youtube friends and family hit that little bell So you're notified whenever a new video is uploaded This recipe is down in the description box along with all of the links and discount codes to my very very favorite things And the link to head on over and join my facebook group We would love to have you be part of that community It is great for sharing ideas Support recipes and sometimes you just need to vent and it's a great place for that as well So head on over and join us there Give this video a thumbs up if you're liking this new clean eating Cooking baking series and of course i'll see you guys all in my next video. 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with us. He's the Word. We come into your presence. Thank you because you're with us. You are already here. Hallelujah. Thank you Lord. We came to honor and glorify. We came to praise your holy name. We came to lift you up. We came to give you glory. You did for us. You died on the cross of our sins. We bless you today. Thank you Lord. Hallelujah for loving us and saving us. Thank you Lord. Please bless this service today as we go. We came to praise you. We came to honor you. We came to bless your holy name. We came to hear your word. So we'll be encouraged to continue to walk by faith until that time comes. When you come for your church, you're going to take us away from this world. Oh God. Hallelujah. Even so come Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord. Bless our service today as we honor you. Yes. Thank you Lord. As we honor you Lord. Hallelujah. Save those who are not saved by your power divine. Save that others might also make it into the kingdom. In Jesus' name we pray. Bless your saints Lord. Bless the saints each one Lord that's even here today. Help us as we go. Thank you Lord. God in direct our steps. Keep us by your power. In Jesus' name I pray. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Amen. Thank you Lord. Praise the Lord. I'll be reading into your hair in Proverbs 3 1 through 6. It says my son forget not my law but let thy heart keep my commandments for the length of days and long life and peace shall it add to thee. Let not mercy and truth for safety bind them about thy neck. Write them upon the table of thy heart. Hallelujah. So shall thou find favor. Favor. All of us want favor from God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So shall thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man. It says trust. Trust. Trust. Hallelujah. Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not unto thy own understanding. He said in all our ways not some of our ways. He said in all our ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy past. May the Lord have a blessing to read to the end of his word. Hallelujah saints. Hallelujah. We come to give lift up the name of Jesus to glorify his name to magnify Jesus. Hallelujah. Forever and ever and ever. Amen. Amen. At this time we will be calling up sister Marilyn. Amen. Praise the Lord. Amen. Minister Marilyn Alexander for our solo today man. Man he sure is good to know that yes the governments are on his shoulders. That's right. He's in control and God has promised us as believers and as children of God that he will never leave us. Never forsake us. Hallelujah. I don't care where you go. Hallelujah. If you ascend to the heights he's there. Amen. If you go into the valleys low. Hallelujah. He's reigning in the midst of us. Hallelujah. So glad to know it.  You are holy. You are holy. Oh boy yes you are. You are holy. You are faithful. You are faithful. God yes you are. You are faithful.  What a privilege. Hallelujah. As you're old and I saw he grace and lifted up and he shall in the midst of this forever and ever. For the presence of the Lord is here. Just lift your hands and open your mouth and begin to worship him. Tell him how good he is to you. Tell him how much you love him. Tell him how you worship him. He's in the midst of us right now. Whatever you do you can receive it by faith right now because the presence of the Lord is here. Come on and worship him. Come on and lift him up. Come on and exhort his name. Worthy of praise. He's worthy of glory. He's worthy of honor. The presence of the Lord is here. The presence of the Lord is here. Hallelujah to God. It's such an awesome thing. I don't take the presence of God lightly. When he shows up I believe in giving him due reverence. Hallelujah. We have a program but I get with his program because his program will always supersede what we do. I certainly give honor to the bishop.  He's meant so much to me and I honor him and our fabulous first lady. First lady come on and wave to the people. Tell her she's looking good today. Come on everybody. Tell her she got it together. She looked like royalty today and every day I give honor to the ministers and to the saints of God, to the friends of God. Most of all I give honor to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I bless him today. I don't take my relationship with him for granted. Now sometimes I do act like I take him for granted and he should have cut me off but he didn't and I'm glad that he didn't. You see because we want to pretend like we're always on the mountain top but sometimes we're down below the valley in the basement and he finds us down there and lift up your heads all your gates and be lifted up your everlasting doors and the king. A glory shall come in. Who is this king? I like that. Who is this king? The king of glory the Lord. Strong and mighty the Lord. Mighty and battle. I don't need a weak king. I need one that's mighty and battle because I had to fight some big fights in my life and I didn't lean on myself. I just bless the Lord. I find it interesting as England and the world mourns the passing of Queen Elizabeth and the media spotlight has not been able to not focus on the royal family and what it means to be part of the royal family and so the Harry and Meghan saga continues. They just won't let it die but also notice that Serena has now joined the sports fraternity of the goats the greatest of all time and she's enjoying the honor of belonging to that family of the goats. And yesterday I was at home and two of my daughters just randomly stopped by and they had my grandchildren and my wife and I we were cooking breakfast and we had enough so we could breakfast for everybody and we all had breakfast together and we laughed and we talked and I rolled in the floor with my grandkids and wrestled with them. It just felt like Christmas and I sat back and I was watching my children and my grandchildren they didn't know I was watching and I was watching them and I was just thinking what a blessing to belong to a family. But the truth is that you and I we belong to the real royal family. We belong to the family of God hallelujah. It's no family that supersedes the family of God. There is no family like our family because there is no God like our God and I belong to him. Let's pray. Father we just thank you for this time. Speak to our hearts encourage our hearts give us a word that we will give to your people. Father we know that your word is anointed so we ask that you would anoint us to deliver your word. We'll give you the praise. We'll give you the glory. We'll bless you and we'll honor you in Jesus name somebody shall glory hallelujah. Amen. Tell somebody I belong to God. Tell somebody I belong to God. He's my father. I belong to him. Now tell yourself say self. Say self I belong to God. See sometimes you got to get in the mirror tell yourself some things. I tell myself I belong to God. So if I'm overcoming so if I have all things that pertain to life and to godliness and sometimes I look pretty good.  So we'll say the poor dog won't wag his own tail. Scripture Jeremiah chapter 32 verse 38 says and they shall be my people and I will be their God. So you need to know that you know that you know that you know that you know that you know that I belong to God. See there's so many people that are confused. They don't really know who they are or they don't know who they are. So many people caught up in the middle of an identity crisis. I saw a young lady she was talking to this gentleman. He was I believe he was a college professor and he was a black gentleman and she said sir do you identify as black. He looked at what in the world are you talking about. She said he said yes of course I am see the world has an identity problem. They don't even want to identify whether they are man or woman. They say it's fluid right now. Baby you better know who you are. You better know what you are. You better know that I belong to God that he belongs to me. That's right. Don't be confused. Don't get it twisted. Don't get it twisted. We are saints of God. We find our identity in Jesus Christ at the foot of the cross. I want to talk about a word that will be paramount to what I want to talk about today and the word is covenant. Covenant. Covenant. A covenant is a formal binding agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties. Once a covenant has been ratified it is irrevocable. It cannot be altered. It does not change. In Genesis chapter 17 God he initiates the Abrahamic covenant with Abram. Now there are two types of covenant. One is conditional covenant. That means you do something and the other party does something and you do something and the other party does something. That's conditional. The other is unconditional. There is nothing needed to activate the covenant. It's unconditional. It's just going to be what it is. And so the Abrahamic covenant is an unconditional covenant. God had predetermined what he was going to do. He knew as he knew in the anals of time this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to initiate this covenant with Abram. Turn in your bibles to Genesis chapter 17. Genesis chapter 17. Let's start with verse 1. It said when Abram was 90 years old and 9 the Lord appeared unto Abram and said unto him, I am the almighty God walk before me and be thou perfect. And I will make my covenant, my covenant, my covenant between me and thee and will multiply the exceedingly.  Neither shall our name any more be called Abram, but that name shall be called Abraham for a father of many nations have I made thee. And I will make the exceedingly fruitful. I will make nations of thee and kings shall come out of thee. Verse 7. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant. To be a God unto them, unto thee and thy seed after thee. Verse 8. This is what I like. And I will give unto thee and to thy seed after thee the land where in thou art a stranger, all of the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession. And he says, and I will be their God. So in our text, Abraham is 99 years old and God appears unto him and tells him Abram, Abram, I am the almighty God Elohim. He says walk before me and be thou perfect. I will make my covenant between me and you and I will multiply you. My covenant be with you and you shall be the father of many nations. But note here, this is what I like. God changes his name from Abram to Abraham, transformation. Whenever anybody enters into a covenant with God, there has to be transformation. They can't stay the same. Romans says, be ye not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed or changed by the renewing of your mind. You have come in covenant with God. So you've got to change who you are. You've got to change what you do. You've got to change what you believe. Can't stay the same. You've got to come to another level if you're going to be in covenant with God.  I will make nations of thee. Kings shall come out of thee. I will establish my covenant between you and me on your seed after you. And it will be an everlasting covenant. It will not end. It is an eternal covenant. He says, I'll give to you until you see the land cane and the land that is flowing with milk and honey for an everlasting position. He says, I will be their God. God, notice that in every covenant, there is the blessing of that covenant. If you keep the covenant and then there's the curse of that covenant. If you break the covenant and if you want to see the blessings and the cursings of this Abrahamic covenant looking Deuteronomy chapter a read it on your own times. I promise you, it will bless you turn to Deuteronomy chapter seven, one of my favorite scriptures, Deuteronomy chapter seven. And here the writer is speaking to Israel and he's also speaking to us because we're spiritual Israel. He says, for thou art a holy holy people unto the Lord thy God, the Lord thy God has chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all the people that are upon the face of the earth. I said, the Lord did not send his love on you or choose you because you were more in number than any people. In other words, you were nothing special. You were the fewest, but the Lord, he chose to love you. I like that. See, he didn't just he didn't love me because I was so great because I was so smart. He just chose to love me.  I said, but because the Lord loved you, he chose to love you. He, because he would keep the oath that he schooled unto your fathers unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Here it is verse nine says, know ye therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, let it be settled. I don't care what people say. I don't care what they think about. You need to know that the God that you serve, he is God.  I don't care what they say at the end and say he is God. I don't care what you say. I don't care what the media says. I don't care what the actor says.  I like that. Then I said, he's a faithful God, which keeps covenant and mercy. Because sometimes Pastor Bobby, we break the covenant, but thank God for mercy. Thank God for mercy. When he should have took me out, mercy stepped in and said, not today. When I should have been destroyed, when I should have been killed, mercy said, no, justice demanded payment, but mercy said, not today. Justice demanded person. Payment and Jesus stepped forward and said, I will pay the price. So I said, Jesus paid it all. All to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson sin, but he washed it. He paid for it to him. He took my place. It should have been me, but his mercy said, not today. He said, he keeps covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. That's infinity and beyond. I like that about the God we serve. So here in Deuteronomy, we see that we are in covenant with God. We see that we belong to God. Turn to 1 Peter chapter two, the minister at which she talked about it Wednesday night, if you didn't hear it, you missed it. She was all up here myself. I said, Lord, I ain't going to have nothing left to preach. She going to preach my whole message before I get a chance to. I said, it looked like I'm imitation. Lord said, that's not imitation. That's confirmation. He says, I'm saying the same thing. I'm talking to my people.  I need you not to be afraid. I need you to stand and see the salvation of the Lord because you belong to me. I take care of my people. I can't care of my folks. So let the enemy try to roll up on you and let them see what happens.   Bishop, you're going to have to come and get me out of jail. Lord have mercy. I told you, I'm going to work in progress. He's still working on me. He's still working on me.  That means you're exclusive. You are the exclusive treasure of the God of the universe. You're his peculiar people. The world doesn't really understand why we live like we live, why we do what we do, but we are peculiar to them, but we are serving a God that he understands. It's not that we're afraid. It's not that we're calling, but we yield to the will of God. God said, love your enemies. He didn't say smack your enemies. He said, love your enemies. You know, Sister Terry, she say, but I believe Sister Terry was militant before she got say, she might slap her enemy in a minute. I ain't going to mess with her now. I trust your holy good. Well, you know, said, peculiar people, for this reason that you should show forth the praises of him that has brought you out. See, it's not that I get, you know, I have people tell me, say, Ross, you were so nice. I said, I'm not this nice. Really, I'm not, but I'm showing forth the praises of him that called me, him that brought me out of darkness. I used to fight. I used to do all kinds of crazy stuff, but now I'm showing forth his praises. If I will praise him, he'll open the door for me. If I will praise him, he'll give me a victory.  I don't do it for myself, but I give him praise. See, this is how I fight my battles now. This is how I fight my battles now. This is how I fight my battles now. I give him praise. The Bible says praise is coming. See, praise is always in order. You're always in order when you begin to praise God. When you don't know what to do, when you don't know where to go, just lift up your hands and begin to praise him. See, when you praise, your praise will summon the presence of God. And when God shows up, he's going to show up. When God shows up, things have got to change. But I'm showing forth the praises of him that had called me out of darkness into his marvelous light. It's something about being in the presence of the Almighty God. The writer said, one day in that court, one day in your presence is better than a thousand days out there. See, they think they're having a good time and sometimes they're having a good time. But sooner or later, you got to pay the piper. He said, but one day in the presence of God, one day in the presence of the King, last night I was just got down and I was just praying, not about anything. I just got down and just began to worship. And as I was in the presence of God. See, in the presence of the Lord, there's fullness of joy. It doesn't mean you don't have any problems. Don't mean you don't go anything. But see, when you go into his presence, leave all those problems over there and just begin to praise him. He'll deal with that stuff over there, but you begin to praise him and to worship and to exalt him and to honor him and to bow down before him. If you're doing that, he'll show up and he'll change some things. I've seen it over and over. This is what I like. Verse 10 it says, which in time pass you were not a people, but are now the people of God, which had not obtained mercy, but now you have mercy. See, it's something about wonderful about having the mercies of God. See, when you're out there in the world, see, it talks about your calamity coming on you suddenly and that without remedy. But we have the mercy of God. I remember I was, I was, I saw a situation and some people did some stuff at work and it was wrong and one of the saints did the same thing and they got caught right away. They got written up over right away and I said, no, what, what does that mean? He said, when the saints, when you mess up, I allow you to face it so that you can repent and get it right. He said, but the unsafe, when my judgment falls on them, they don't have time to get it right. He says, I allow the enemy, I don't do it, but I allow the enemy to destroy them. But when it seems like it's not fair, he says, I'm giving you a chance to repent. I'm giving you a chance to get it right. He said, but we have obtained mercy. Ephesians chapter one verse four, you can read it on your time. Let's just know that not only did God choose us, but we were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. You were not an afterthought, but God planned to save you. He planned to bless you. He planned to deliver you. He planned to have you part of his chosen family. It's not by mistake. It's not by accident. God chose, he chose you to be part of his family. So we are the seed of Abraham. We've been grafted into the vine. Jesus says, I am the vine and you are the branches. If you know anything about forming, when they try to graft something in, they splice it, put it in and they wrap it up. It's a hybrid. You and we were hybrids. We used to be sinners, but now we're saved. We have a dual citizenship. We're citizens in this earth, but our citizenship is in the heaven. Hallelujah. We're hybrid and we're waiting to be seen. The manifestation of the sons of God. We've been grafted in. I think minister Terry talked about that Wednesday night. I believe we've been grafted into the vine. Turn to Romans chapter nine, Romans chapter nine, verse 25, Romans chapter nine, verse 25. It says, as he said also to OC, he's talking about Hosea. He says, I will call them my people, which were not my people. And her beloved, he's talking about the saints of God, the bright of Christ. I will call her beloved that was not beloved. How beautiful is that? See, my father's name was Jacob, Colonel Ross. And I belong to the house of Jacob, Colonel Ross. He was my protector, my provider, my counselor, my supporter. He was my friend. My father would tell us everything I have and everything I work for is for you. Now you have to ask me for, you can't just roll up in here and take something that everything that I do is for you. Even when I displease my father, he never stopped being my father.   I have four daughters, smart, intelligent, educated. These girls are making money, but sometimes I think, who in the world are these heathens? They have lost their mind. But you know what? When they were growing up and acting crazy, I never stopped feeding them. I never stopped clothing them. I never stopped loving them. I never stopped protecting them because they were part of my family. See, but then they came out of it and God is like that. Even when you miss it, he doesn't throw you away. He says, I'm your God and you are my people and I'll be with you. I'll never leave you. I won't forsake you. I won't give up on you. I won't throw you away. You belong to me. You belong to me. See, that's unconditional love. You and I, we are saved today. We've been baptized in the name of Jesus and filled with the Holy Ghost speaking in other tongues and we are part of the family of God and we belong to God and he's given us all things that pertain to life and to godliness and we are as and joint heirs of the covenant, heirs and joint heirs of problems. We belong to God. Say, I belong to God. Say, I belong to God. Say, I'm an heir of the covenant. See, that sets us aside from the world. We are the called out ones. We are God's prize, possession. See, because we belong to God, we have protection. The Bible says the name of the Lord is a strong tower. The name of the Lord is a strong tower and the righteous run into it and are safer. What's his name?  What's his name? His name is a strong tower. The Bible said a thousand shall fall at that side and ten thousand at that right hand, but it shall not, shall not come 9V. I didn't realize it today until I just happened to look at my phone that it's 9-11. And I read some years ago in a magazine that on the day of 9-11 when it happened, there was a church in the area that had a number of people that worked in those buildings. A lot of them, maybe it might have been 5,200 people. And for some reason, none of those people went to work that day. Some people had flat tires. Some people called them sick. Nobody talked to each other, but nobody from that church showed up.  He knows what you need. He knows how to take care of you. He knows how to keep you. He's protection. I don't need a 45. I don't need a Uzi.  But God will protect you. He'll protect you. I had a friend wonderful saying to God, she went to church. It's chicken. Of course, she was, this is chicken.  She went to church to get some chicken and a man came in and robbed the restaurant, pulled out a gun and robbed the place. She stood in one spot. He walked all around her three or four times, never looked at her, never touched her.  He walked around her four or five times. She stood in one spot, robbed that place and left. And she brought her chicken. She says, I don't know if he didn't see me or if he just decided not to mess with me, but God is a protector. He will keep you in the midst of the storm. The enemy will be all around and he can't see. He said, the enemy may rush in like a flood, but the speed of the low will raise up a standard against it. He's our protection because I have God. I have provision. He supplies all of my needs. When I come up short, he supplies all of my needs. When I don't know how I'm going to make it, he supplies all of my needs. He said the cattle on a thousand hill belong to him and he knows how to get some roast beef down to my house when I need it. Like First Lady said, he'll take you to Golden Corral and fix it all for you. He is my provision. He is my healer. He heals me of all of my diseases. He's Jehovah, Rapha. He's the Lord that heals me. He is supernatural wisdom to me. He's been made wisdom to me. James said, if any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God and God will give it to him liberally. I remember I was going through something. I don't even remember what it was and I prayed about it and the Lord gave me direction. Do this, do this and this. And I did it and it worked out just like God said it was going to work out. And I go so excited and I went, got down and pressed the Lord. You're amazing Lord. I thank you. Lord, you said to do it like this and I did just what you said and it worked out just like the way you said it.  I talk to you all the time, but most of the time you don't listen. He'll be wisdom to you if you will listen to him. If you'll spend time in his presence, time in his work, listen to the bishop, listen to Bible class. He will give you wisdom. Supernatural wisdom. He's been my doctor in the sick room, lawyer in the courtroom. Even when I missed it, when I messed up, when I was acting crazy, I had an advocate. I had a lawyer that stood in the presence of God and pleaded my case. Mercy. I know he missed it, but mercy. Yes, he did wrong, but mercy. I have an advocate. We belong to God. Babies, you belong to God. Children, you belong to God. Young people, you belong to God. Singles, you belong to God. Mary folks, you belong to God. Seniors, we belong to God. And because we belong to God, because I know I belong to God, I have no doubt in my mind I can declare I'm safe. I'm safe. I'm safe. Somebody shout save. Say save. I'm safe. I'm safe because I belong to God. I'm part of his royal family. He watches over me. He protects me. He keeps me. He provides for me. He makes ways for me. He gives me wisdom. He gives me understanding. I don't care what you're facing. I don't care what you're going through. I don't care what your struggle is. You need to make it up in your mind. Hey, I belong to God and everything. I said everything, everything is going to be all right. He's going to bring me out. He's going to make a way because I belong to God. The Bible said even when you're going through tests, lift up your heads.  He everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in. Come into your problem. Come into your situation. Come into everything that's going on in your life. See, that's what I want. I want the presence of God in everything that I do. As long as I know I belong to him. I know that everything is all right. Someone said he's a good, good father. He's a good, good father. Someone said he's a bridge over troubled water. Somebody said he's a way out of nowhere. Someone said he's everything. He's everything to me. He's everything. He's everything to me. My mother, my father, my sister, my brother, my peace, my song, everything that I need. He's everything to me. So know this.  You are heirs of the covenant. You've been chosen by God. Hallelujah. You've been chosen by God. Hallelujah. And you belong to God. Say, I belong to God. Say, I belong to God. I'm his and he's mine. And I know I can trust him because I belong to God. Somebody shout glory. Hallelujah. I belong to God. What a wonderful word the Lord has sent. The Lord has sent to us today. I don't have any problem confessing who I am. And the greatest thing that we can do is to look in the mirror at ourselves and tell yourself the truth because some of us are so fine and so good looking. So much money, so much wisdom that we get carried away over what God has done for us. We didn't start out here in the church when Jesus found us. We were no good. Born in sin and shape and in iniquity didn't have a mind toward God, but in loving kindness. And tender mercy. He sawed us. He sawed us. The song says, years I spent in vanity and pride, knowing that it was for me he died, caring that for knowing that he was crucified at Calvary for me. Now it took great mercy. See the Lord saw us in our original position and in spite of what we thought of ourselves, he saw clearly who we were. And he claimed us for his own. Do you understand that you are God's greatest creation? And when Satan came and came and caused us to fall into sin, God said, I'm not having it. They're mine. They belong to me. They're my creation.  He said, I choose you. We started out in darkness, but when Jesus had mercy on us by going to Calvary, now we can belong to Jesus. Songs that now I belong to Jesus. And Jesus belongs to me and it's not just for a year or time alone, but it's for all of eternity. Come on, somebody. Understand how God feels about you. Understand what it took for you to get to where you are today from where you started out. It took a miracle. It took someone who cared so much about us. He said, I'll give everything that I have and I'll give it for you so that you can come back to me. He said, I want to bring you back to who I made you to be. Mercy there was great at Calvary and grace was free. Pardon there was multiplied to me. There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary. At Calvary. At Calvary. Don't forget Calvary. Don't forget Calvary. No, it's not all about you. You're not your own. You've been bought with a price. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now I belong to God. When I belong to God, see he chose me. He chose you. And when he brought you to himself, he owns you. And so he has a right to expect dividends on who you are. I'm going to live so God can use me. I'm going to live so God can use me because he chose me. And because he chose me, I'm going to give it all I got. I'm going to walk with Jesus every step of the way.  That's past history. Now you belong to God. Anybody glad? Anybody see the benefits? When I think of the goodness of Jesus and all that he's done for me, my soul cries, Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I thank you for making a way. Thank you for calling me out of darkness into a marvelous life. Hallelujah. Thank you. Thank you.  Any father or mother who would dare think about putting them out of the family is something wrong. But thank God for his tenderness, his loving kindness unto his people. When you fall down, he said, I still love you. He said, I'm married to a backslider. He said, I ain't going to let you get away. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Isn't God wonderful? Yes. He said, I made a covenant with you. He said, you can stand on what I promise you. I'll never change.  I'll give you everything I said I was going to when I when I put my normally when back in the day, they had a what they call a salt covenant. And they carried salt with them in a little pouch because it was precious. It's still precious today. But when you made a covenant, you take a handful of salt out of your pouch and they take a handful of salt out of this and you'd exchange, put your salt in their salt their salt in your salt. And he said, what we're saying by that is, I promise you, I'll never turn against you unless I get my salt back. And I want to tell you when you drop some grains of salt in a pouch, know how you're going to get your salt out without taking some of the other. So they said, we're bound together with purpose. And I promise you, I'll not take back from you what I've given you, your mind. I love you with an everlasting love. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. And so when you when you feel like maybe you've gone a little bit too far. And the devil begins to speak into your spirit and tell you that God doesn't love you because of what you did. You know you stole the cookie out of the cookie jar. And you know that's against God said that should not steal. The devil be quoting the scripture to you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. But Jesus Christ the righteous called us into covenant with him. And he said, you're mine. And I'm going to claim you to the end. Hallelujah. So with that spoken, what we need to understand is you better do right. You better do right. Hallelujah. He said, you belong to me. You're you're disobedient child of God. He said, but pay days coming. He said, I'll take you back. Yes, I'll take you back. Sometimes when people want to leave a relationship, they say, we threw and I'm going to never take you back. But thank God. Thank God for Jesus. Thank God for Jesus. He said, I'll take you back. If you want to, you can come on back. I'll love you as never before. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. So now is there anybody here today? Not been baptized and filled with the spirit of God. If you, if there's such a one as that, this is your day.  Today is the day. You didn't just happen to be here today. God knew you were going to be here today. And I love that Elder Ross, when I preach, I don't have to worry whether the audience responds. So God gave me the message. God told me what to preach. And when I preach it, I'm released. Come on somebody. Come on. The altar is open for anyone who has a need of prayer. Now don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed. If you need prayer and you realize it and you come for prayer, that's exactly what ought to happen. And the Lord stands here. He's ready and willing. I say he's ready and he's willing. And he can. He can do whatever it is that you need him to do. Thank you, Jesus. I love you. I love you. I love you, Lord, today. Because you cared for me in such a special way. Oh, I praise you. I lift you up. I magnify your name. Yes. That's why my heart is filled with praise. I love you. I love you, Lord, today. Because you cared for me in such a special way. Yes, I praise you. I lift you up. And I magnify your name. That's why my heart is filled with my soul. You praise him. Thank you for your mercy. Thank you for saving my soul. Hallelujah. Thank God. Hallelujah. What a wonderful service. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The Spirit of the Lord is all over this place. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. We're sitting in heaven made itself manifested in this house again. Again. Or because he visited us regularly. When we come here to meet him, he meets us. He meets us here. Hallelujah. I thank him. Without further ado, it's now time to continue worship. And the First Lady is going to come and tell you how you can continue to worship. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank the Lord for our precious First Lady. And I can say it. She's cute, y'all. Amen. She's looking all cute again today. Amen. I thank the Lord for my wife for 50 years. 50 years. 50 years. Come on. Come on. So, we put our salt in each other's pouch. All right. We decided we're just going to stay together. Amen. Amen.  We've had such a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful from the beginning to the end service today. That's why I love coming to the house of God because our service is so wonderful. We don't have a whole bunch of people here, but there's not a church in this California can beat us with our praise and worship. There's not one church can beat us with our praise and worship and our message bringing and our altar call and everything. They may have other things else, but honey, if they don't have the word, they don't have the praise and stuff, that means nothing to them. That's right. They have to have the anointing. The anointing is in this place. Amen. From the beginning, I hear them while they're down here after they finish rehearsing and they're praying. The anointing starts from the first note that these musicians pray, the anointing starts. They come in with the anointing and I praise God for that. Thank you all, musicians and praise leader and all you all. You do a fantastic job. The anointing of God is all over you all. And I want to put in a plug for a drummer over there. He has a podcast that come on. I don't know how often it comes on, but it's on Facebook. It's on Apple. Watch it. He has some encouraging words. I mean, Lord, use that young man. I've listened to him twice and it's been really anointing word. It's not very long that come from him. So let's book out for minister Terrence. Amen. I'm not calling him the preacher. He knows what the Lord is doing in his life and I praise God for that. But listen to him because I'm his friend on Facebook and you will hear some anointing word coming from brother Terrence Alexander. Amen. From a young man. And I mean, it's amazing. Okay, I'm here. Billy Preston said you can't be God giving. No matter how you try. And just as sure as you are living, the Lord is in heaven on high. The more you give, the more he gives to you. But keep on giving because it's really true that you can't be God giving. No matter how you try. So I'm here to lift your offering and I don't need to go into a big spill. Y'all have heard before. Y'all know what you're supposed to do. Just do it. Do it. Nike said just do it. Amen. Give God's what do him. You give him worship. You give him praise. You listen to the ministry. But this is a form of praise and worship to God. But somehow when it comes to our finances, we tighten up. We're not free to give. But the Lord wants us to be free to give because it don't belongs to you anyway. So give him to the Lord what's doing him. Amen. So I want you everybody to stand. Raise your offering before the Lord. Five in the name of Jesus. We thank you for giving us finances that we may have to give back to you, Lord God. We thank you, Lord God, because you're worthy of our sacrifices and our giving.  And this is our form of praising you by giving back to you what you have given to us. And Lord God, we ask you in the name to bless every seed that's been given, Lord God, and every sore Lord God that's given to this offering. We ask you to bless it, Lord God, double it, triple it, whatever you need to do with it, Lord God.  In the name of Jesus, we pray, we thank you, we give you all the glory. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. And if those in media land would like to give, you can give by if you look on the screen, it's give a fight. You can give still faith Christian center of Long Beach. Also, you can mail it in for 4934 Long Beach Boulevard, Long Beach, California 90805. And we would appreciate your giving. I thank God for all he's done for us. Amen. God has blessed us a lot of little churches that closed down, but we still keep getting to go because God is blessing us. Amen. Amen. So without further ado. So you clean me up inside.  So I can be free. So I can be whole. So I can tell everyone. Come on. You saw I was worth saving.  You thought I was worth healing. Yes, you did. So you clean me up inside.   So I can be free. So I can be whole. So I can tell everyone. So I can be through. Make an observation of something that I saw that rejoices my heart. Notice in the service today that there are two fathers shepherding their family. Brother Lance. Amen. He and his sons. They're here and they came down for prayer. Deacon Patrick, he got all of his kids. He shepherded all of them down to the altar. Now that's what God would have. Amen. When children are under the leadership of parents, they just need to do what they're told to do until they understand it. Amen. And the Lord will bless them. I'm a witness. I'm a witness. I used to be a little boy and I didn't want to do everything I was supposed to do. But I had somebody who put in me to follow authority. I'm not going to preach. The rule of the house was whoever the oldest one in the family that's there, they're in charge and you better do what they say. And I'm number 14 of 16. I didn't get a chance to be in charge. I didn't get a chance to be in charge.  You have two ears, right? Amen. And one mouth? It pays to do a whole lot of listening and a little bit of talking. The Lord will bless you. Now, what that did, that kind of training, it put a yes in my spirit. I got to the place where I didn't know that I could say no. I'll share this with you another time when I'm preaching. Amen. Come on, Sister Alexander. Amen. Amen. Amen. We thank the Lord for the great leadership that we have. Amen. The Lord is teaching us. Hallelujah. All the time. Amen. And he's instructing us this year. Amen. All the time. And we appreciate the leadership that we have here. We thank the Lord for the word and the songs. Amen. First Lady, it's just marvelous. Every time we show up, the Lord comes and he shows out. And I'm going to tell you something. Invite your friends and your families. Don't be stingy. And here, keeping it all to yourself. This is a blessing. Amen. And anyone who comes in here, if you leave out of here the same way you left and not better. I mean, for the better, then it's because you want to be that way. You want to be that way. You don't want because the spirit of the Lord shows up. And he never, he always accomplishes what he wants in our lives through the word. Hallelujah. And if you yield, you will be blessed. You will be blessed. Amen. If you yield. Yes. Right. If you yield, you will be blessed. Say yes. Hallelujah. And stay encouraged and determined to walk with Jesus. Amen. Come on. Let's sing our dismissal song. Amen. We're going to go ahead and get on out of here. Lord, we thank you for everything that happened here today. Come on. Hot trials, tribulation, persecution. I'll be faithful. I'm determined to walk with Jesus. Yes, I am. Come on. I'm determined. Persecution. I'll be faithful. I'm determined to walk with Jesus. Yes, I am. Hold my one Jesus to hold my. Bless you all. We'll see you next week.


Okay so again we understand our purpose, we know ourselves, what is our main goal in this world and we constantly check in inside, inside this is very important, inner management, inner engineering, we always see outside, do outside but check inside, check in with your brain, your heart, your gut, how do you feel about what you're doing and check in with yourself more often about your purpose, your destiny and then you see how it can be applicable to something like the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, the biggest challenges on the planet, how can your science become translationally applicable to the biggest challenges on the planet? Make a list of your top five, your top 10, your top 50 people that you want to get in touch with in the field and do research about what they're doing at the edge of their field. Synthesize, ask questions, work on our social skills, build groups of people that we can engage with on these cutting-edge topics and share that content around China and the world. Know someone's opinion may contradict yours. Where's my friend Alan? It's all about your perspective. Who are we and what is the nature of this reality? Ni hao. Xie Xie, Xuelin, Xie Xie, Yulong and Peking University. I will not be speaking in Mandarin, I wish I could. My name is Alan Sakyuan. I host a show called Simulation in San Francisco, California where we interview some of the greatest minds across all different fields, biotech, neurotech, AI and robotics, blockchain and cryptocurrency, emotional intelligence, geopolitics, meditation and spirituality. We feature all different leaders from different fields. And we'll be talking about some of the strategies that we can embody to help us reach our maximum potential fastest. One of the most important pieces of advice over the last thousands of years that people have been talking about ever since the beginning of civilization is know thyself. So who are you? What is your purpose? What is your mission? What are your goals? What are your dreams? What are your aspirations? You know, here we are in the life sciences building at Peking University. So many of you are focused on biology, animals, plants, neuroscience, all different aspects of the life sciences. Is this what is going to get you excited every single morning when you wake up and you say I'm very excited to go and pursue my field of research? So that's the big question is look at look at ourselves in the mirror and figure out every day. Is this what I'm doing that I'm most passionate about, that I'm most excited to wake up in the morning and do every single day? So that first piece of advice know yourself and if you don't know exactly what you want to do in life sciences or if you don't know exactly what how you want to apply it out into the world, a really great place to start is by looking at something like the sustainable development goals. So you can identify how your life sciences can help with ending poverty, with maximizing education, with helping our environment around the world, with helping feed everyone around the planet. There's so many different ways to increase our longevity and so this is another really good way to kind of be able to see what exactly how do how do I want my science to make a translational impact out into the real world. So much of what we want to achieve is based on people that we connect with that we network with that we meet and so we have this idea called a top 50 that we like sharing. So how many of you and you can raise your hand how many of you have a list of at least five people that you want to get in touch with that you would like to maybe mentor you or you'd like to get coffee with how many raise your hand if you have a list of five people one two three four five six okay so this is very good this is very good that you have these lists because this is one of the most simple things to do to maximize your potential if you have at least the list at least you know in the general direction more for where you want to go and what you want to achieve. So if you want to study something like neuroscience and you want to get deeper into neuroscience who are five leaders in neuroscience that are doing things that you find really interesting and then learn more about them learn more about them and learn more about their research and why is that important well what people are doing is they're usually pushing what is called the edge of knowledge it's the farthest out we know we know the brain is very complicated and so some people are doing some things with the brain that are at the edge of what humans know about brain science and so if you want to go and find people at the edge you can more easily find them as mentors you can more easily advance your career and advance your impact that way so if there's at least one thing to take away from this talk is make your list of the people that you want that you look up to that you want to get in touch with that you want to do more research about you see how it sets a goal and then it gives us something to reach out towards yes and when you do identify those people you start doing research on them and there's a lot of different ways to do research on people this is one way that i personally really enjoy which is going and finding we have an interview with you long later today and you are all welcome to sit in in that interview if you would like the whole audience the whole audience and so what have i been doing i already have a note in my notes with you long's name on it and it has information about him i've been looking up his lab i've been looking up his papers i've been looking up what he studies and i've been adding that information into my notes so i'm parsing what he's been doing finding the key points putting them into my notes and then synthesizing adding my own ideas my own questions my own ways of thinking to what he's been studying and so by doing this research you can do this via videos you can do this via papers you can do this via uh via journal articles all different types of ways audio podcasts and so by doing this you gain a better understanding of these you know five people that you want to reach out to in plant science and if you want to reach out to them you do research on them you get to know what they're doing better and then you can more easily do something like organize you and your friends to come together and get talking about what's going on at that edge of science so in order for us to become really well rounded people we have to learn social skills we have to learn emotional intelligence we have to learn empathy we have to learn how to look at someone in the eyes and have that deep genuine love and curiosity for who they are and what they strive to achieve in their life these social skills will take all of your science and amplify it five ten times because you will become better and better at talking to other people at collaborating with other people at networking with other people does social skills make sense is very important yes okay because it'll help the science so much other aspects of the social skills are like emotion regulation so if something comes up and you're starting to feel a little neurotic about it lots of emotions flying everywhere you know you this is emotion regulation maybe go out and go for a walk go out into nature for a little bit or maybe do something like go exercise you know how can you regulate your emotion so that we're not dwelling on negative thoughts but that we're constantly going towards a more and more positive future for yourselves and for us all perseverance is also crucial how many times do we hit a wall we hit walls all the time in everything we do and so to be able to go past that wall of adversity it's like a test of faith every one of those walls is like a test oh my experiment failed yeah that's gonna happen we're gonna have we're gonna have challenges like this come up and we have to persevere through them and we have to have good friends and family and community that helps us get through these things so these social skills are so crucial to advance the science as well and then once you do get a couple friends that are really interested in that field of animal science or in that field of cell biology maybe if you're studying the mitochondria what you want to do is you want to find five other people that are also interested in the mitochondria and its effects in the cell and the body and then what you do is you set up a group you set up a group that can specifically go and study the most cutting-edge research on mitochondrial science and then you can all talk together you all go do research and you come back and you share ideas about what you think is happening at the edge of the science and how you can ask questions that maybe haven't been asked before and then what you do with the content maybe you spend an hour or two hours taking a bunch of notes asking a bunch of questions maybe you want to do something like take a picture of what your biggest questions were and maybe you want to take a picture of the group and how you guys got together and maybe you want to post that into WeChat and you want to start sharing that publicly so more people around China and around the world can get interested in what you're studying and it's like a butterfly effect that happens someone sees you talking about some cutting-edge science and they say wow I didn't know that that was happening I want to get more involved too and we have a more knowledgeable world so the sharing side of this is really crucial as well okay so again we understand our purpose we know ourselves what is our main goal in this world and we constantly check in inside inside this is very important inner management inner engineering we always see outside do outside but check inside check in with your brain your heart your gut how do you feel about what you're doing and check in with yourself more often about your purpose your destiny and then you see how it can be applicable to something like the united nation sustainable development goals the biggest challenges on the planet how can your science become translationally applicable to the biggest challenges on the planet make a list of your top five your top 10 your top 50 people that you want to get in touch with in the field and do research about what they're doing at the edge of their field synthesize ask questions work on our social skills build groups of people that we can engage with on these cutting edge topics and share that content around shine in the world so that's it that's it for the this portion of the talk I wanted to keep it very short I wanted to open it up for a lots of questions from the audience I want to you know go back and forth with you guys about what your questions may be and maybe I can help provide some some insight you know I was actually talking to Shwell in yesterday about about some of the differences between the United States and China because in so many ways you know we're we're human and we and we have families and friends and love and all these types of things very similar things but there's like different cultural dynamics in a sense where in the United States I may be comfortable doing something like sending a cold email out to someone that's you know in that list of my maybe top 10 top 50 people but maybe in China it's not so okay to do something like send out just a cold email so there's these interesting different cultural dynamics that I'd love to you know to unpack and just see maybe there are some things that we can talk about that I can share I can learn from you you guys can learn from maybe what I have to share so that's it shes sure thank you