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Welcome everyone. I'd like to invite you to stand as we get ready to enter into a time of worship. Thank you so much for coming out.

There's no better place to be than in God's presence with God's people. So, let's invite the Lord to work in this service today. Open our hearts and prepare our hearts.

How many wants the Lord to work in this service? It's it's going to work. The Lord's going to work if if we invite him to work.

He's going to come here by permission today. Sometime he can do whatever he wants, whenever he wants, however he wants. But why don't we invite him to work?

Let's open our hearts and ask him to work in this service today. We want the Lord to do a miracle. We want the Lord to pour out his spirit.

We want the Lord to transform and change lives. So, let's invite him to work. God, thank you for the privilege to be together, Lord.

We we we're just grateful, Lord, to be with your people uh in your presence, Lord. And we're asking that you would work in this house, Jesus. Let your spirit be poured out.

Let miracles be done. Let our hearts be opened and transformed and changed, Lord. Give us what we need in this house today, Lord.

Not what we want, but what we need. And you know all things. You know every need that's represented by every individual in this house, Lord.

And I pray that there be not one person walk out of here, Lord, today not receiving what they need from you, Lord. That's what we're believing in faith today, Lord, as a body of believers. And Lord, we of course enter into your gates with thanksgiving.

We enter into your courts with praise. We enter this service today, Lord, with expectancy, believing that you're going to work, Lord, believing, Jesus, that you have things that you're trying to do in our lives. Lord, I pray that you give us the grace to receive that as we begin to worship you.

In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Let's worship the Lord in song.

I'm not alone. The God of heaven calls me his home. He's not seated upon the throne.

I know he's right here inside my home. I've got a treasure here in my heart. And in my weakness, it won't depart.

I have a savior who will abide. He's not just with me. He lives inside.

Just don't let Daniel live. God will bring you out and he will testify. He shuts the lion's mouth.

As those Hebrew boys, they will like the fourth of the Yes. Yes, he is. is in the room.

I'm not forsaken, never alone. The God of heaven calls me his own. He's seated upon the throne.

I know he's right here inside my home. I've got a treasure here in my heart. And in my weakness, he won't depart.

I have a lie. He's not just with me. He lives inside.

Just go. Our God will bring you out and he will testify. He's just a lion's mouth.

He will stand by your side. They will I don't tell you. >> Oh, he's in the rock.

He's in the room. He's in the >> If I search the heavens high, >> he's there. >> If I search the earth below, >> he's there.

>> If I make my bed in hell, >> he's there. No matter where I go, >> he's there. >> Where can I run from the spirit?

>> He's there. >> Where can I go from his presence? >> He's there.

>> Even in the deepest, >> he's there. >> No matter where I go, >> he's there. >> If I search heaven's heart, he's there.

>> If I search the earth below, >> he's there. If I make my bed, >> he's there. >> No matter where I go, >> he's spirit.

>> He's there. >> Where can I go for? >> He's there.

>> In the no matter where I go, >> he's searching heaven. He's there. >> He's there.

>> He's there. >> No matter where I go, >> he's there. >> No matter where I go, >> he's there.

>> No matter where I go, >> he's there. >> No matter where I go, >> there >> no matter where I go. >> He's in the room.

He's in the room. >> He's in the room. He's in the room.

>> He's in the room. >> He's in the room. >> He's in the room.

>> He's in the room. >> He's in the room. >> He's in the room.

>> He's in the room. >> He's in the room. >> He's in the room.

>> Yes, he is. >> He's in the room. >> Yes, he is.

>> He's in the room. >> Yes, he is. >> He's in the room.

>> Yes, he is. >> He's in the room. >> He's in this place.

>> He's in the room. >> He moves here. >> He's in the room.

>> He's in the room. >> He's in the room. >> Get up.

Get up. >> He's in the room. Get up.

Get up. Get up. Get up.

Get up. Get up. Get up.

Get up. Get up. That way.

Get up. Get up. Get up.

Get up. That way. Get up.

Get up. Get up. Get up.

That way. Get up. Get up.

Get up. Get up. That gets in the room.

Oh, yes. >> Oh, he's in the room. >> He's in the room.

>> He's in the room. >> He's in the room. >> He's in the room.

>> Oh, yes, he is. >> He's in the room. Oh yes he is.

>> He's in the room. >> Oh yes he is. >> He's in the room.

>> Oh yes he is. >> He's in the room. >> Oh yes he is.

>> He's in the room. >> Oh yes he is. Get up.

Get up. Get up. Get up out of that.

Get up out of that. Get up. Get up.

Get up. Get up out of that grave. Get up.

Get up. Get up. Get up out of that.

Get up. Get up. Get up.

and get up that grave. Oh, he's in the room. Oh, he's in the room.

Hallelujah. How many believes he's in the room here today? Amen.

I don't know about you, I'm already feeling his spirit moving in this place and feels good. Amen. Said it feels good.

If you're a guest here, thank you for being with us today. I was visiting with somebody at my satellite office which is known as Starbucks on Cherry Road. You see airport Yeah, I was talking to a guy came up and started having a conversation with me and he's got a Presbyterian background and he's asking what church I was with and everything told him Pentecostal and uh he said, "Oh, I I dated somebody one time and said they had a Church of God background.

Is that kind of similar to that?" I said, "Yeah." Said, "There's some similarities there." And I said, "Do you ever visit our church?" He said, "Yeah." I said, "It's a little bit different." And I said, "Well, from Presbyterian to Pentecostal." He said, "You know what? The big difference you're going to feel at our service is that we just kind of feel like just letting people have liberty and let God have liberty and worship him as we feel. We don't hold anything back.

Amen. So, if you're a guest here, that's what this is all about. We just want people to feel able uh liberty to express themselves, enjoy the presence of God, enjoy the worship experience.

Amen. And I feel he's here today. Amen.

He's here for a reason and that is he wants to touch you. Not touch us. He wants to touch you.

Every single one of us can leave this place today feeling like we have been impacted by the presence of God. >> Amen. >> Praise the Lord.

Lord bless you. You can be seated. Uh we want to uh well I just told you to be seated.

Normally we take some prayer requests to the Lord. So I'll just we'll just pray while you're seated. I guess God can still hear those prayers.

But we do want to pray for brother Dean Webster. He sent me a text. Not able to be here today.

Not feeling well. I'm sure we have other needs that are represented here today. So you can still just go and lift up your hand if you've got a need in your life or you got a need something about your life, your family, your circumstance in life you want us to pray about.

Church, look around, see those hands that uh are up. Go ahead and lift them up again. Hold them up there for a second.

You got needs, just look around, church, and right there where you're at sitting. Let's just go to the Lord in prayer right now. God, we thank you, Lord, for the faith, the confidence we have, your word, your ability, dear God, to intervene on behalf of every situation.

God, Sister Gloria Williams, we want to pray for her also. Brother Dean Webster, dear God, just pray, Lord, that you would intervene, God. Every hand that was lifted up, God, I pray that you would make a way, God.

Prove yourself to be faithful in Jesus name. Amen. Amen.

Amen. Amen. So again, thank you for worshiping with us here at CLC.

And if you're a guest, I hope you fill out a connection card. If you didn't, to where you can scan, get your phone and scan that QR code there on the back of your pew and you can fill out a digital uh card. And this enables us to to follow up with you, keep you informed of what's going on around the church.

Also invite you to our next VIP breakfast. Uh time to sit down with me and my wife, just have some conversation, just get better acquainted. Uh so I hope you'll fill one of those out.

If you do fill that out, uh, as far as our VIP breakfast, you should be receiving a letter at some point inviting you to that and we hope that you'll respond, give us a confirmation that you're going to be here. And thank you to those that joined us last night for prayer. We had a beautiful time here praying last night and first Saturday of the month.

Just enjoyed a beautiful time in God's presence. I don't know about everybody else here, but after Saturday evening prayer time, I usually I nearly always leave just feeling clean. feel like I've just been bathed in God's righteousness.

Such a beautiful time here last night. And thank you to those that join with us and keep that in mind. The future, first Saturday of every month, we have prayer time here in the sanctuary for church family.

We also have bulletins available. This is the first Saturday or excuse me, first Sunday of the month of May. We have bulletins available.

Keep you informed of what's going on this month. And just real quickly here remind you that we have Spanish service this afternoon at 3 o'clock. And also celebrate recovery every Tuesday at 6:30.

That's for people hurts, hang-ups, and habit habits. It's not all just substance abuse. It's hurts, hang-ups, and habits.

That applies to a lot of people. Amen. So keep that in mind.

Tuesday at 6:30. Church family, we remind you from time to time, but keep it in mind. Tuesday at 6:30, 7 o'clock.

Just take a few minutes there. two or three minutes, five minutes, 10 minutes, 15, whatever you can spare and just pray for Celebrate Recovery. Amen.

Great ministry and we appreciate our Celebrate Recovery team. Also, midweek matters. Every Wednesday at 7 p.m.

And this is the first Sunday of of the month. So, tonight, tonight at 6 o'clock, we have worship and waiting. I'm inviting you together with us here at six o'clock tonight.

Come for a time of worship. Hope hope to see you here tonight at 6 o'clock. Sister Kathy Morrison, she's got an announcement to make here.

I'll just bring the mic down to you here. >> Praise the Lord. >> Can I have all the ladies say June 5th and 6th?

>> All right. Then y'all hear me? Okay.

June 5th and 6th, we're going to be having our Muslim yard sale. Yesterday, they had a vendor sale, but this June 5th and 6th will be a church yard sale. And we got two purpose in that.

One is to raise money for Musa and the other one is to use as a church outreach. So all you ladies that want to participate uh in this the proceedings would go to Musa. See me.

Okay. The next announcement I have is that um I'm just going to pretty much read that. It's in we love our children and they going to be soon out of school for this year and then they going to have to go back to school.

And that's the part that we want to help with. We want to help our kids for in the community as they prepare to head back after they get out. We want to give away 200 book bags filled with supplies.

And we need your help to make this a success. The event is scheduled for Saturday, July 25th from 10:00 a.m. to 100 p.m.

Feature activity will also be hosting a free yacht sale for our community during this time. So what we going to do, the yard sale we're going to have for Mus Memorial, everything that we don't sell, we're going to give it away. So donations.

No, I'm sorry. How can you help? How can you help?

Donation supplies. See Sister Kathy Morris, uh, Sister Demetri Roland for special supply list. You can also find this list on announcing board in the hallway.

It's not there yet, but it'll be out there shortly. Drop off place, all donation supplies in the black and yellow bin located in the gathering place. That's out there.

Financial contribution, that's your money in person. You can give the money to Sister Kathy Marson. That's me.

Uh, Sister Demetri Roland. You can cash out me at dollar sign Kathy Larson. that K is capital, L is capital M is capital.

Please include in your subject line back to school event. Thank you for your hard service and being blessed to our community. But before I sat back down, last year I want to thank everybody that participated in the sponsoring the backpack drive last year.

Last year we did 67 book bags to give away that was just strictly to the church. This year we are have opened up to give to the community because we want to give back to our community. And one way if we can reach our community is just just showing love.

And sometime believe it or not just a little book bag can speak a lot of love. It ain't all about how much you gave or whatever. But I'm telling you, I mean, I already don't picked up a lot of stuff cuz God just put it there right at my reach and he put it at my price because I like to bargain hunt.

But he put it there at my reach. So you don't have to spend a a lot. Maybe about $10 sacrifice a little McDonald's meal.

That'll get 10 packs of paper Walmart. But we do have we have supplies already. some that people have given already donated, but we just need a little bit more help and I want to count on you.

Thank you. >> Thank you, Sister Kathy. And thank you, children's ministry.

Glad and honored to be able to be a blessing in our community. Amen. Amen.

So, next Sunday is Mother's Day. So, this is a great day to invite special ladies in your life. you know, bring your mother, your grandmother, special aunt.

Uh, invite somebody, bring somebody with you. As is typical for Mother's Day here at CLC, there will be some giveaways, and also we're going to be blessed to hear from the heart of Sister Gan. She'll be speaking next Sunday.

Now, something very important I need everybody's attention on here, and that is that Monday, May the 11th, Monday, May the 11th, at 7 PM, there's going to be a special business meeting. And some of you already aware of this, but want to make sure everybody is that the purpose of this meeting is going to be to vote on brother Bria as the pastor elect for Christian Life Church. This will be a yes, no, yes or no secret ballot.

And I just want to make sure everybody is fully aware that I'm not looking for the nearest exit ramp. Uh my concern is not that I'm ready to leave. The concern is that we're wanting secure wanting to secure the future long-term future of the church.

So, Brother Bria is elected. Uh, he'll be the pastor-elect and I'll still be senior pastor. Nothing changes for the remainder of this year.

Uh, but in January of 2027, Brother Bria will become the pastor and I'll transition into the role of bishop. U, my wife and I are still going to be here. We're still going to be serving.

We're still going to be involved, but the roles and responsibilities will change some because brother Brio will become the pastor and I'll be more involved in a support role assisting and helping him where he has been assisting and and helping me. So, just securing the long-term future of the church here and I think it's a it's a good consideration here. Uh I think uh you know they've been here for a little over two years.

I think they've been here long enough for you to get acquainted with them. Feel confident uh how you feel about this unfolding for the future. Uh so it's just going to be a yes or no vote by secret ballot.

Trust you. I respect you to determine how you want this plan to move forward. But something else we need to make sure everybody's aware of.

I I love every single one of you. We love everybody. Uh we are super honored anytime somebody wants to be part of Christian Life Church.

Uh you can be a member of this church. However, to be a voting member, uh, that is one who can participate in business meetings like the upcoming business meeting according to our bylaws, you must have experienced a new birth as we teach according to John chapter 3. Also, the fulfillment in Acts chapter 2.

That means you have to experience the baptism of the Holy Ghost. You must have been baptized in water in the name of Jesus Christ or you must be born again according to water and spirit as we teach. uh because that's what the Bible teaches.

And you must also embrace our teachings on holiness and a separated lifestyle. And you must be fully supportive of our financial plan here, giving regularly of your tithes and offerings. And this can be easily verified by us just looking at the financial report for the past 12 months.

Uh so again for voting members this is going to be a meeting here on Monday May the 11th at 7 pm. So any questions about this feel free to visit with brother Bria Pastor Brio or myself. Any questions you want to get clarity about this?

Uh but according to he and I both talking about this for quite a while here. There's really not a whole lot going to change as far as the optics what you're going to see. We're still going to be here helping and serving alongside of them.

So, you're going to be better off by having both of us here. But main thing is just securing the long-term future. Something happens to me.

Uh you won't have to go into a pastoral search. Uh he's elected, he's in place, and this is how the future's going to look. So, we're thankful for this opportunity to do what we can to advance the kingdom of God.

And also, speaking of financial support, we're going to ask our usher to come at this time. So, you can all stand if you would. Ushers are going to come.

And today we give you the opportunity to be obedient to the word of God, but also the opportunity to make an investment in advancing the kingdom of God. So thank you. Thank you for your investment, for your financial support, your faithfulness in giving today.

Ushers will be coming through the sanctuary for you to give. We also have a credit card terminal in the back or you can scan the QR code, give from your phone. And uh we we thank you.

Let's pray right now. God, we're thankful, Lord, for your blessings on this church. We're thankful, Lord, for how you've provided.

Thankful how we believe you're going to provide for the future. And we're thankful, Lord, for these that give to financially support the church. We ask you, dear God, that you would continue to bless.

Let these gifts that are given be multiplied. Give us wisdom to be able to spend them appropriately, Lord, as we advance your kingdom. And we ask all this in the precious name of Jesus Christ.

Amen. Lord, bless you as you give. Let's worship some more.

Put your hands together. Anybody have joy this morning? Joy.

Speak for joy. Hallelujah. I've got a river that's flowing inside.

It's full of light. It's ever growing. I've got a fire and it's always lit.

It won't go out. It's always burning. You've given me joy.

It's unspeakable. Joy, undeniable, unexplainable. I've got the joy of the Lord.

I got a river. I got a river that's flowing inside. >> It's alive.

>> It's ever. I got a fire and it's always out. It's always burning.

I got a mirror that's glowing inside. It's full of light. It's growing.

I got a fire and it's always lit. It won't go out. >> It won't go out.

>> It's always burning. >> Say you g me joy. >> It's unspeakable joy.

>> Undeniable, unexplainable. >> I got the joy of the Lord >> down in my heart. Deep down in my heart, >> deep down in my soul, >> uncontainable.

I got the joy of the Lord. >> I got the joy. Got the joy.

Got the joy. Yeah. I got joy on the inside.

Feels like I can't keep it in. And I keep praising in the midnight. Joy of the Lord is my strength to say I got joy on the inside.

>> It's like fire. >> Feels like fire. >> I keep praising.

>> I keep praising. >> Joy. >> Joy of the Lord is my strength.

>> I got joy. >> I got joy on the inside. Feels like fire can't keep it in.

I keep praising in the midnight. Joy of the Lord is my strength. Say I got joy.

I got joy on the inside. Feel my fire. Can't keep it in.

>> I keep praising in the midnight. Joy of the Lord is the joy of the Lord is my joy of the Lord is mine. The joy of the Lord is my strength.

Joy of the Lord is my >> The joy of the Lord is my strength. >> Joy of the Lord is my >> Joy of the Lord. >> The Joy of the Lord is my >> Oh, say, "I got a river.

>> I've got a river that's flowing inside. It's full of life. It's ever growing.

I've got a fire and it's always lit. It won't go out. It's always burning.

I' got a river that's flowing inside. It's full of light. It's ever growing.

I' got a fire and it's always lit. It won't go out. It's always burning.

>> You giving me unable unexplainable. unexplainable. I got the joy of >> the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart, >> my heart, >> in my soul, >> down in my soul.

>> Uncontainable, intainable. I got >> I got the joy. >> I got the joy on the inside.

>> Feels like I can't keep it in. I keep praising in the midnight. Joy of the Lord is my strength.

>> See, I got joy. >> I got joy on the inside. >> Feels like I can't keep it in.

>> I keep praising in the midnight. Joy of the Lord is the joy of the Lord is my strength. >> Joy of the Lord is my joy of the Lord is my strength.

Joy of the Lord is mine. >> Joy of the Lord is my strength. >> Joy of the Lord is mine.

>> Joy of the Lord, >> Joy of the Lord is the joy of the Lord. >> The joy of the Lord is my >> joy of the Lord. >> The joy of the Lord is my strength.

>> And I'll trade in my sorrow. And I'll trade in my pain. And I'm laying in that for the joy of the Lord.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

And I'm trading my sickness. And I'm trading my pain. I'm laying I'm laying them down for the joy of the Lord.

Say, I'm traing my sorrow. I'm trading my sorrow. I'm trading my s I'm laying them down for the joy of the Lord.

I'm trading my sickness. I'm traing my sickness. >> I'm traing my >> I'm traing my >> I'm laying them down.

>> I'm laying them down. >> Let's sing that one more time. >> Say, I'm traing I'm traing my sorrow.

I'm trading my sorrow. >> I'm trading my shame. >> I'm traing my >> I'm laying I'm laying >> I'm the joy of the Lord.

>> I'm traing my sickness. >> I'm traing my sickness. >> I'm traing my >> I'm traing my >> I'm laying them down.

>> I'm laying them down the joy. >> Joy of the Lord. >> Say, I got joy.

I got joy on the inside. Feels like I can't keep it in. I keep praising in the midnight.

The joy of the Lord is my strength. >> Say I got joy. >> I got joy on the inside.

>> On the inside. >> You can't keep it in praising. Joy of the Lord is my >> say I got joy.

>> I got joy on the inside. I can't keep it in. >> I keep praising the joy.

The joy of the Lord is my >> The joy of the Lord is my >> joy of the Lord is my >> The joy of the Lord is my strength. >> Joy of the Lord is my >> joy of the Lord is my joy of the Lord is my >> joy of the Lord. >> The joy of the Lord is my strength.

>> Hallelujah. Anybody have joy this morning? Hallelujah.

Say I got joy on the inside. Feels like I can't keep it in and I keep praising in the midnight. Joy of the Lord is my strength.

Can we lift that up? Say I got joy on the inside. Do you got joy in the inside?

>> I keep praising it. >> Joy of the Lord is my strength. >> Say, I got joy.

>> I got joy on the inside. Feels like I can't I keep praising. Joy of the Lord is my strength.

>> See, I got joy. I've got joy on the inside. >> I keep praising in the midnight.

The >> joy of the Lord is the joy of the Lord. The >> joy of the Lord is mine. >> Joy of the Lord is my strength.

>> Joy of the Lord is mine. >> The joy of the Lord is my joy of the Lord is my Lord. >> The joy of the Lord is my strength.

Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah.

How many know this morning that there's nothing that you can do without Jesus? Hallelujah. So grateful for him for being always being by our side.

Hallelujah. So tell me what can I do without you? Oh, tell me what can I do?

Cuz I can't live without you. I can't live without you. Oh, tell me what I do.

I can't live without you. So tell me what can I do? I can't live without you.

No, I can't live without you. So here's my heart and here's my mind. I give you my soul, Lord.

I need you to take control. I tried it. I tried it on my own.

What I found is I can't make it on my own. On my own. I can't make it.

I can't make it on my own. On my own. I can't make it.

I can't make it. Tell me what can I do? >> Cuz I can't live >> I can't live without you.

>> I can't live without. >> So tell me >> tell me what I cannot do >> cuz I can't live >> I can't live without >> I can't live without. So here's my heart and here's my mind.

I give you my soul. Lord, I need you to take control. Cuz I tried it all.

I tried it on my own. What I found is I can't make it on my own. On my own.

I can't make it. >> I can't make it. >> I can't make it.

>> I can't make it. >> Oh, on my own. >> On my own.

>> On my own. >> I can't make it. >> I can't make it.

>> Can't make it. >> I can't make it. >> So tell me, >> tell me what can I do?

>> Cuz I can't live. >> I can't live. >> I can't live.

I can't live without. >> Tell me, >> tell me what >> can I do? Cuz I can't live >> I can't live without you.

>> I can't live without you. See, wo say I can't walk without you. And I can't walk without you.

>> And I can't talk without you. >> I can't talk without you. >> And I can't sing without you.

>> I can't sing without you. >> I'm nothing without you. >> Without you.

>> Oh, I can't live without you. >> I can't live without you. And I can't breathe without you.

>> I can't brea without you. >> And I can't be without you. >> I can't be without you.

>> There's no me without you. >> There's no me. >> I can't walk.

>> I can't walk without you. >> I can't talk. >> I can't talk.

>> I can't sing. >> I can't sing with you. >> I'm nothing.

>> I'm nothing with you. I can't live. >> I can't live without >> I can't brea >> I can't brea without >> I can't be >> I can't be without you.

>> There's me without you. So tell me what I do without you. I can't live without you.

won't tell me what can I do cuz I can't live without you. I can't live without you. Whoa.

W >> I can't live >> I can't live without you. >> Tell me what can I do? >> I can't live without you.

I can't live without >> I can't live without >> I can't live without >> Tell me >> tell me >> what can I live >> I can't live without >> I can't live without >> Tell me >> tell me what can I do >> I can live >> I can live I can Lord. magnify your name over by the blood of the lamb and by the words of my tongue. testimony over by the blood of the lamb and by the word of my testimony.

He saved me. He rescued me. He delivered me and he set me free.

Ever since I've been changed, I'll never be the same. I will lift up my hands and say, "Thank you for your grace." overcome. I've been overcome by the blood of the lamb and by the word of my testimony overcome.

I'm an overcomer. By the blood of the lamb and by the word of my testimony, >> he saved me. >> He rescued me.

Oh, he delivered me. Oh, and he set me free. Ever since I've been changed, I'll never be the same.

I can lift up my hands and say, "Thank you for your grace." Overcomer. I'm an overcomer. By the blood of the lamb and by the word of my testimony.

Overcomer. I'm an overcomer by the blood of the lamb. And by the word of my testimony, overcome more than a conqueror.

I'm a winner. The joy of the Lord is my strength. I have dominion and I walk in authority.

I've been washed in the blood and by his love I'm filled with the spirit. By his stripes I'm healed. I'm free.

Yes. Jesus gave me the victory. Over the cover more than a conqueror.

I'm a winner. The joy of the Lord is my strength. I am dominion and I walk in authority.

I've been washed in the blood. I'm held by his blood. I'm filled with his spirit.

By his stripes, I'm healed. I'm free. Yes.

Jesus gave me the victory. Oh, come more than a conqueror. I'm a winner.

The joy of the Lord is my strength. I have dominion and I walk in authority. I've been washed in the blood by his love.

I'm filled with the spirit. By his stripes, I'm healed. I'm free.

Yes, Jesus. I'm an over by the blood of the lamb and by the word of my testimony over by the blood of the lamb and by the word of my tongue. testimony.

Yes, God. You believe you're an overcomer today by the blood. Amen.

not in ourselves, nothing without him. I want to direct our attention this morning to Isaiah chap 10 verses 24- 27. The Lord is no doubt at work here today.

Presence of God is strong. The songs have created the atmosphere and I believe God just going to continue to work through the word today and expecting the unexpected. Praise God.

Isaiah chapter 10, begin reading at verse 24. We're going to read down to verse 27. And uh after I'm done reading, I have a little exogetical note and then we'll get into the message.

You're reading a different version of the Bible. Some of this might sound a little different. Isaiah chapter 10 verse 24, "Therefore, thus saith the Lord God of hosts, oh my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian, he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee after the manner of Egypt.

For yet a very little while in the indignation shall cease in my anger and their destruction. And the Lord of hosts shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Midian at the rock of Ob. In other words, the Lord's going to deliver his people.

And as his rod was upon the sea, so shall he lift up after the manner of Egypt. And it shall come to pass in that day that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed, because of the anointing. And that's where I want to focus today on verse 27.

And it shall come to pass in that day, and I believe even in this day, that any burden on our shoulders, the yoke upon our necks, the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing. If you're reading from the ESV this morning, it says that the yoke will be destroyed because of the fat. If you know the anointing oil of course is a fat NIV.

Little interesting wording here. It says the yoke will be broken because you have grown so fat. I take that to be the bountiness of the Lord.

If you're reading from the NLT this morning, they just omitted the phrase alto together. a little disappointed in the NLT there, but I the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing, because of the fat of the Lord. Amen.

Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this day, this time, this moment. We know that all things are ordained by you.

Nothing goes without you, you in the midst. And I pray this morning as we open up your word that you would minister here in this house. That your anointing would fro flow freely, Lord.

That any yoke of the enemy that's on our necks this morning, that it would be broken off and that freedom and liberty uh that truth would reign in this house. We give you the praise and glory this morning in the name of Jesus. Everyone said, "Amen." You may be seated.

I want to preach this morning breaking Satan's yoke. breaking Satan's yoke. I sent a picture there.

If we have that, we can put that up here. You know, if you're not been around church very long, and I remember as a younger person hearing this preaching about a yoke, and the only thing I knew that was closest to a yolk was the yellow of an egg. Just so you know, that's yolk k.

Amen. I love some eggs over easy yolk. Y O ke.

I'll explain this picture in just a moment here. But throughout scripture, God speaks about various relationships, spiritual relationships, using the imagery of a yoke. A yoke is a harness, as you see in the picture here, that is used to connect oxen or cattle or any other animal that's going to be used to plow a field as a team.

And in order for the oxen to plow effectively, they have to move as a unit in the same direction. If one ox wants to go to the left and the other one wants to go to the right, there's going to be a problem because the yoke binds them together. Both are either going to go to the left, both are either going to go to the right, but at the end of the day, they're going in the same direction because they have been yolked together.

The two oxmen will engage in a game of tugof-war until one side gives in and follows the other. So if a farmer wants to get any work done, he must ensure that the oxen are equally yolked together. In other words, they must have similar strength, discipline, etc.

The scriptures, we know, we've probably heard this preached, to not be unequally yolked together. That's a different message. That's not my message today.

But there's a reason why the scripture says not to be unequally yolked together. Because when two are unequally yolked together, the one who's stronger, that's the direction you're going. So this imagery of a yoke, it should go without saying this morning that a yolked animal as we see here in the picture is under the complete direction and control of its farmer or its master.

The master applies the yoke to the animal because the master owns the animal. And for animals that have good masters, they have nothing to fear. in the relationship of having a yoke applied to their necks.

But for animals that have bad masters, evil masters, the yoke can subject them to horrible treatment and torture. Church, when it comes to the realm of the spirit, every person walking planet earth today lives under the yoke of a spiritual master. Hear me today.

Every one of us here this morning live under the yoke of a spiritual master. those who deny that God even exists. It's amazing that they still have a religious dogma that they follow.

You talk to anyone who who adheres to Darwinism and if you really dig into the theory of evolution and Darwinism and they will all claim to be atheists, but at the end of the day when they're confronted with the facts about things like macroeolution and and and the the big bang and and the lack of the very evidence of what they proclaim that at the end of the day, it's a religious dogma because they have a yoke on their neck. Every person walking planet earth today has a yoke on their neck from a spiritual master. This is why the scripture says that no man can serve two masters.

Uh because it is impossible to wear two different yolks. You're going to wear the yoke of only one master. I want to remind us this morning that without Jesus, we carry the burden of sin and we wear the yoke of Satan's kingdom.

He was and he still is a cruel taskmaster. I know that in the age we live in today in 2026 that it is not popular to preach about sin. But can I remind us today that the ultimate problem in our world it is sin.

Uh the Bible says that it is our sin that has separated us from God. Uh it is our sin that keeps us from his glory. It is the wages of sin that is death.

Uh there is no amount of medication there is no amount of therapy that can address the sin problem. There is only one today who can address the sin problem and his name is Jesus. Uh it is the blood, the water, the spirit.

The very words of the songs that we sung about the only one who can break the yoke uh off the neck today uh IS JESUS. UH ALL POWER and authority belong to him. We have to confront our sin head on and realize this morning that our righteousness, the Bible said it is as filthy rags.

Uh we are separated from him and it is only by HIS GRACE THAT WE can come boldly to the throne today. Uh it is not in our talent. It's not in our ability.

It's not in our bank account. H it's not in our buildings. It is only in the name of Jesus.

IT IS ONLY THE FLOW OF THE ANOINTING uh that breaks the yoke today. The momentary pleasures under the bondage of sin will never outweigh its destructive consequences. You go look at Egypt when the The children of Israel are there.

They had the garlic and the leaks and the onions. The food of Egypt, it tasted good. But there was a price to pay for that good tasting food.

There were long days and hours of hard labor uh and the continual threat of physical punishment. You see, the Bible tells us uh that the pleasures of sin uh only lasts for a season. Uh and then we have to face our wretchedness.

Uh we have to face our loneliness. Uh we have to face our brokenness. Uh we have to face that we don't have all the answers.

Uh that we don't have everything figured out. Uh that we can't control the future. Uh but church, we know the one who can.

Uh we know the one who knows the end from the beginning. Uh we know the one who's ordered our steps according to his word. Uh praise God.

A good man's steps, the Bible said, they are ordered by the Lord. Uh, I'm telling you that Jesus Christ, the author and finisher of our faith, he's the one we need to look to today. He's the one we need to worship today.

He's the one who we need to call upon today because when it's all said and done, he's the only one that can carry us through. I don't have a fancy revelation to preach this morning. A very simple message.

When we experience the salvation of God, the yoke of sin, Satan's yoke is broken and the yoke of righteousness is placed upon our lives. I want to dwell on this yoke for a moment because we look at the world we live in and if you watch the the news or read the news or however you get your information, there's some crazy stuff that's happening in our world and you wonder how can it be that someone would do these things. We see the things today where a man doesn't know they're a man and a woman doesn't know they're a woman.

And we see people engaged in child pornography and and of course I'm going to the extremes, but we could back it up and we could talk about lying or cheating or stealing or committing adultery, FORNICATION. THERE'S A WHOLE laundry list of sin, BUT BUT WHAT IS IT? Why can people go down this path?

It's because of the yoke of sin. And one sin's not better than the other in God's eyes. They're all sin.

And it's a yoke that's placed upon the necks of people. Yes, people have a conscience. And yes, people make decisions.

There is a yoke that keeps them tied to the taskmaster. And there's no way of escape except Jesus. I'm preaching about a supernatural power that can break any yoke of addiction.

It can break the yoke of shame and the yoke of condemnation and the yoke of guilt, the yoke of gambling, the yoke of adultery, the yoke of fornic. I don't care WHAT IT IS. THERE IS THE POWER THAT WE HAVE supernatural anointing that can break ANY AND EVERY YOKE OFF THE NECKS OF THOSE BOUND in sin.

The Lord kind of put this in my spirit a couple weeks ago about presence to think about presence. You know, there's many different denominations out there today, many different flavors of Christianity, many different traditions of worship. God, why am I here?

Why am I Pentecostal? Why am I apostolic? What was it that made the difference?

I came to the Lord at the age of 12. My parents, I guess you could say, were nominal Christians. We kind of went to church on Christmas and Easter that kind of believe in the type of deal.

The age of 12, I went to church, the friend from school. And I was just reflecting back, what was it that 30 years later, I'm a preacher of the gospel? And you know, when you're a kid and you have a list of the things you want to be when you grow up, I don't think preacher was one of those.

Here I am. What was it? And I began to think and go back in memory lane and I hope for some of you that you could do the same.

And as Paul told Timothy, stir up the gift within you. What was it? It was the presence of God.

It was the anointing of God. I didn't know the Bible. I couldn't tell you anything about Genesis to Revelation.

But one thing that I know uh when I went to that Pentecostal church uh and the altar call WAS GIVEN UH I FELT SOMETHING I HAD NEVER felt before. I felt it PULLING AT MY HEART. UH I felt tears going down my cheeks.

Uh and I began to call on the Lord and say, "Jesus, uh I need you. Uh Jesus, I want you. UH I PRAY THIS MORNING that through this message I can put the fire back in us again.

That the Lord will speak to us and say we still need the anointing. It is STILL THE ANOINTING THAT DESTROYS THE YOKEH. It's only the anointing.

IT'S NOTHING ELSE BUT THE PRESENCE of God in our midst flowing among us drawing men and women to him. Lord, let us not lose sight of the anointing, the yoke. Jesus can break the yoke today.

You don't have to leave this place this morning. If you're if you feel bound and you feel hopeless, helpless, you don't have to leave that way. You can be changed, transformed, freed, delivered, at peace in the name of Jesus.

Jesus in Matthew 11, he gave the following invitation. He said, "Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest." Then he says, "Take my yoke." Remember I said earlier, everyone has a yoke. See, when we come to Jesus, he breaks off Satan's yoke and he places his own yoke upon us.

Take my yoke upon you and learn of me, for I am meek and lowly in heart, and you shall find rest unto your souls. That's what we're preaching about here this morning. That's what Christian Life Church is about here today.

That you and I would we would find rest for our souls. The world can't give us that rest, that joy we sung about earlier. It can only come from Jesus.

Verse 30, he said, "For my yoke is easy. My burden it's light. not heavy.

He's not a hard taskmaster. He's not looking to beat up on us, but to give us rest. The yoke is destroyed by the anointing.

Church, it is the master of the yoke that makes all the difference in the world. Because if we're not wearing the yoke of Jesus, we are wearing the yoke of Satan. There's no middle ground.

There's no third option. There's no I think I'll pass on both. We're wearing Jesus's yoke or we're wearing Satan.

The master of the yoke makes all the difference. For those of us who have been around church and living for the Lord and disciples for any amount of time, I want us to know that once we have been freed from Satan's bondage and we take the yoke of Jesus, that the devil will work over time with the sole purpose of bringing us back into his bondage and slay. slavery to put his yoke back on us again.

You see, Israel, whom we read about in Isaiah, that's exactly what happened to them. They fell into Satan's trap. They began to worship other gods and give into idolatry and just outright disobedience.

and they invited Satan's yoke back onto their necks. Much like the Egyptians had done, the Assyrians had taken Israel captive and enslaved them. And God allowed this to happen because of their continual rebellion and disobedience.

You see what the Assyrians would do when they conquered a people, they would spread them throughout the empire with the uh hope that they would intermingle and accept the cultural and religious practices that were prevalent throughout Assyria. They encouraged things like intermarriage to make this a reality. And what Israel had done, they had learned to willingly accept the burden that their master had placed on their neck and the yoke that the master had placed on their neck.

The prophecy here was that the Lord was going to relent and that once again the anointing would flow and the yoke of the enemy would be destroyed. Galatians 5 and1 Paul writing to the church in Galatia and they were dealing with some doctrinal issues people there teaching that circumcision was required of Christians and among other things. Paul says the following in Galatians 5:1.

He says, "Stand fast therefore in the liberty." Everybody say, "Liberty." That's what we're preaching about this morning. Liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free. And be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.

This this is why disciplehip is important. This is why the church is important. This is why an ongoing relationship with Jesus is important.

Because if we get saved and then we just go back to the place we came from and doing the things we used to do, no doubt in due time, we will invite Satan's yoke right back on our neck. But I am further convinced that we can be seated here in the church and if we're not careful, we can have Satan's yoke back on our neck. You say, "Well, how can we find ourselves in that position after living in the liberty of God's kingdom?" Well, for one, it can happen when we become weary and welloing.

We can bring the yoke of Satan back on our necks when we forget the big picture of God's kingdom and our purpose within it. It can happen when we entertain voices that are contrary to God and his work. Inviting Satan joke back on our neck can happen when we begin to question and overanalyze everything without seeking godly counsel.

It can happen when we start to trust more in ourselves than in the power of his grace. It can happen when we no longer seek the flow of his anointing in our lives. You see that constant flow of anointing.

If you could just picture the the oil being poured out and flowing in our lives, that anointing that breaks the yoke, it requires a daily investment. It requires a daily relationship with Jesus. I'm not talking about checking boxes and doing things just for the sake of doing them.

But I'm talking about an authentic daily relationship with Jesus. Uh I pray that our relationship with him is not just here on Sunday morning uh but on Monday morning and Tuesday and Wednesday and Thursday. Uh that he's walking with us and talking with us.

Uh praise God. >> The yoke of Satan appears in many different forms. We talked about sin, but I'm going to talk about those of us on the inside this morning.

There's three particular yolks that I believe keep us from having revival and growth and advancement of God's kingdom that I believe he so wants us to have in this hour. The first yoke is that of doubt and unbelief. We go back to the gospels.

There was a time that a man had brought an ill son to the disciples for prayer. And they prayed for his deliverance and healing. And they prayed a while and nothing happened.

And Jesus then comes along and he prays and the job gets done. And later the disciples asked him, he said, "Lord, why couldn't we do it?" And he said, "It was because your unbelief." But it was those very same disciples who after the spirit had been poured out on the day of Pentecost oversaw the birth and expansion of the church. Wednesday night we heard about Peter preaching the first message of the church.

A man who had denied the Lord three times and now he's preaching the first message of the New Testament church. How can that be? Peter and John, they walked by the man at the gate of the temple.

They were not able to heal in Matthew's gospel, but now there's been a reversal in their ministry. And the gate, the man at the gate of the temple was healed by Peter and John when they spoke the word of faith. And you say, how what's the difference?

The difference is the anointing. The difference is the presence of God. The difference is the Holy Ghost and fire that was poured out upon the believers in Acts chapter 2.

Uh I know I'm preaching very basic this morning, but I want to stir up in our spirit uh that we have the goods today. Amen. The full gospel, the death, the burial, the resurrection of Jesus, REPENTANCE, UH, WATER baptism in Jesus' name for the remission of sins and the infilling of the Holy Ghost with the initial evidence of speaking in other tongues.

I I like the old song. It says, "It's real. It's real.

I know it's real. It's those Pentecostal blessings. I know.

I know it's real." Uh church, can I encourage you this morning? If it's been a little while since you've tapped into that flow of anointing, I encourage you here today before you leave, uh when the altar call is given that you would run to this ALTAR AND SAY, "LORD, LET THE anointing flow again. H let the power come again.

H let me speak in tongues again. Let me shake and quake under your presence once again. The second yoke is the yoke of fear and intimidation.

In Acts chapter nine, a man by the name of Ananas, he was told to go preach to Saul of Tarsus. Now Saul of Tarsus had been the one persecuting the church and killing Christians. How would you like that job?

Go preach to Saul of Tarsus. I think Ananas's initial response was, "Lord, are you sure about that?" Scripture says, Ananas said, "I've heard about this man, how much evil he's done. He's killing us, and you want me to go preach to him?" You know what the Lord said?

Go. You see, when we're under the anointing of the Lord, he will go before us and he will prepare the way. Yes, the church's number one enemy can be the cause of our fear.

But God said, "I'm bigger than that." God said, "I've got plans bigger than what you can perceive. Just go and do what I said do and I've got your back." I'm preaching to myself this morning because sometimes I get a little fearful and intimidated by what we face in this hour. But I want to encourage us today that when we're when we're in the anointing and we remember who we serve, the God who's for us and not against us, that no weapon formed against us shall prosper.

We can go and do what God has called us to do. We don't need to wait for a lightning bolt. We don't need to wait for a thunderstorm.

Uh we have his word. We just need to go and act upon it. Uh and the anointing will flow.

Uh and God will work through his people. Talked about the doubt, doubt and unbelief. The second yoke, fear and intimidation.

The third yoke is that of inability. When God called Jeremiah, Jeremiah said, "I am but a child." And the Lord's response was, "Do not say that I am a child. You shall go where I send you and speak the words that I put in your mouth.

I'll be with you. I will deliver you." How did he go forth and do this calling? It was through the anointing.

It was through the presence. From Genesis to Revelation, you can find the anointing at work. The presence of God at work.

The power of God at work. He does not need our ability today. He needs our availability.

How do we reclaim our calling, our identity, our purpose in God? It comes through the flow of the anointing. As we read Isaiah's prophetic words to the Israelites concerning the Assyrians, the yoke will be destroyed because of the anointing.

God had a promise of victory and deliverance through the anointing. God has and always will destroy the yoke of the enemy through the anointing. You do a study of scripture.

Not going to take much time here this morning. I'm almost finished. Anointing always accompanies calling.

Prophets, priests, and kings in the Old Testament, they were anointed for the service of the Lord. That anointing consisted of applying oil, hence the word fat. we read about from the other versions of scripture, the other translations.

This was usually olive oil and it was poured upon the person selected for service. The anointing oil, it symbolized separation. It it denoted appointment.

It signified God's power upon a person. And in the New Testament, the anointing oil is a type for the spirit of God working in our lives. Today is the day that we pray for this flow of anointing to take control of our lives.

That this anointing would help equip us for the task that has set that God has set before us. that the anointing will break every yoke that the enemy has or is trying to place on our necks. Or if you like the NIV version this morning, the NIV translated this passage that the yoke will be destroyed because you have grown so fat.

You know, there's a place in scripture, see if God would open the windows of heaven. I've learned in living for God, you're either in a time of famine or a time of feasting. And we all knows what happens when we feast.

What the NIV was trying to say is that these oxen, there's going to be so much plenty, there's so much bounty that these oxen are going to eat so much, they're going to get so fat that it's going to burn the ropes of the yoke and cause it to fall off their neck. So, whichever version you read it from this morning, the message is still the same. If God before us, who can be against us?

If God before us, who can be against us? We can stand this morning. I want to direct our attention here and that's Psalm 105.

This is a scripture that often gets taken out of context. We're going to put it in some proper context here this morning. Israel covenant people in the Old Testament started with one man Abraham and grew into a national powerhouse.

That can be said even to this day. the events we see in the world around us. Such achievement would not have been possible without the anointing.

Psalm 105 is a promise to God's covenant people. We've been studying covenant in Sunday school for his covenant people. I want to read this promise to you and we're going to open the altar and let God work.

The psalmist wrote here in Psalm 105. I'm begin reading at verse eight. He says, "He hath remembered his covenant forever, the word which he commanded to a thousand generations, which covenant he made with Abraham, and his oath unto Isaac, and confirmed the same unto Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an everlasting covenant, saying unto thee, I will will I give thee the land of Canaan, the lot of your inheritance." When they were but a few men in number, yay, very few and strangers in it.

That's when the prophetic word came. When they went from one nation to another, from one kingdom to another people, he suffered no man to do them wrong. Yay, he reproved kings for their sake.

That's what God do for you and me. saying, "Touch not mine anointed and do my prophets no harm." Who are the anointed? All of us living for the Lord are the anointed.

I'm telling you that there is a special place for God's covenant people. I'm I'm not saying we're better than other people. That's not what I'm saying.

But I want us to recognize the God whom we serve, he's got it all in control. He's fighting for us. He's going before us.

Praise God. You got a yoke on your neck today. If you feel like you need deliverance today, you want the Holy Ghost today, you want to grow closer in your walk with God today, we have what's called altar call.

And all that is is we we simply come to the front and pray. Of course, God's in the back of the room, too. But we invite to come to the front and receive prayer and be prayed for by the ministry.

and we're believing together for God to break any and every yoke that the enemy has placed on our necks. This altar is open this morning. If you'd like to come and pray, say, "Lord, I need that anointing.

I need that anointing. I want your anointing to flow in me. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. If you're not comfortable coming forward, you can pray right where you're at. Lord, I want your promises in my life today.

I want everything that your book says it's mine. I pray for it today in Jesus name. Oh, forgive me of my sin today, Jesus.

Lord, forgive me of any offense that I've done to you. I want to live for you. I want to serve you.

I want that rest that your pro that your book promises me. Lord, let there be supernatural anointing right now in this house. Jesus, let every chain be broken right now in the name of Jesus.

In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, Word, my word. My word. Wo wo.

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He is our deliver. Oh, heat, heat. still working in this place right now.

Um, if it be okay, I just want to invite uh some of our men to to pray with pastor right now. The Lord is is uh working in our church. He's transitioning our church in a lot of ways.

And we all want the Lord's will. Uh, nobody wants it more than uh, brother Gan. And uh, I just want to pray if we could pray for him right now, the Lord would minister to him like only he can.

Jesus name. Lord, guide him and direct him. Jesus, we want your plan and your will, Jesus.

Pray that you help him, Lord. Let your way be clear. Let your way be clear, Lord.

Help us. Help us. Help us.

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