Warriors Count | Pastor Paul McGee

Hallelujah, Jesus will love you God, Thank you Lord, thank you

Lord, thank you Lord, Amen. You can be seated this morning,

Amen. Good to see each and different

ones of you today. House of the Lord.

Good to see Bob here again this morning.

Amen. Appreciate him being here again

today. Again, this is Memorial Day

weekend, Memorial Day weekend, and so we take time and pause on

this weekend. This is more than a day or time

off work, right? We gather around our families,

but there's some families gathering with vacancies because

of the sacrifice that their son or daughter or what however the

relative relationship may be, that allowed us this opportunity

to gather together in freedom of worship today within this

building as a result of them. And so we, we give honor today

to those families and we memorialize the lives of those

who gave the ultimate sacrifice. Amen.

To help protect our freedoms and even other countries.

Just real quickly today, there was a book that I read years

ago, Man by the name of Zell Miller, who gave a speech

concerning the soldiers of America.

And it's just very brief. This is just a portion of it.

He said never in the history of the world has any soldier

sacrifice more for the freedom and liberty of total strangers

than the American soldier. And our soldiers don't just give

freedom abroad, they preserve it for us here at home.

There's been said so truthfully that it is the soldier, not the

reporter, who has given us the freedom of press.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of

speech. It is the soldier, not the

agitator, who has given us the freedom to of protest.

It is the soldier who salutes the flag and serves beneath the

flag, whose coffin is draped by the flag, who gives that

protester the freedom to accuse, abuse and burn that flag.

No one should dare to even think about being the commander in

chief of this country if they don't believe with all their

heart, soul, and mind that our soldiers have, are, and always

will be liberators abroad and defenders of freedom at home.

And I appreciate Amen them. Today I'm going to be turning to

the Book of Numbers, Numbers chapter #1 and I'm going to be

reading the three verses of Scripture there today.

And my competition today is food.

There's food on the grounds. There's food right here at the

church when that grill starts going later and it starts eking

through the the AC. That's my struggle today verses

one through 3 I'm going to read today.

If you want to stand you can. If you don't have to, if you

don't want to, Amen. But the Bible says these words

in the 1st chapter of Numbers. And the Lord spake unto Moses in

the wilderness of Sinai, in the Tabernacle of the congregation,

on the first day of the second month in the second year, after

they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, Take ye the

sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after

their families by the House of their fathers, with the number

of their names, every male by their pose, from 20 years old

and upward, all that are able to go forth to war in Israel, thou

and Aaron shall number them by their armies.

Amen. For a little while this morning,

just simply this and with a little bit of a mindset

concerning this week. And I want to speak to you about

Warriors Count. Warriors Count, Amen.

Let's ask God to help us in the next little while.

Father, I need you today. We need you, Lord, in this

place. And we're appreciative, the Lord

for your spirit. We're appreciative, the Lord,

for the songs and the lyrics that have brought the Lord Jesus

praise and exaltation to your name.

I pray, O God, that you have to help us in the next little

while. God touch our hearts and minds

afresh. By your word.

I'll put God to speak to us. Help us, O Lord Jesus, to hold

fast. God, these truths in the lovely

name of Jesus Christ that I pray and the church say Amen, Amen.

And you may be see it this morning and I failed last

Sunday. I believe it was.

And I'll make mention of it this Sunday as well.

But Sister Margaret, one of our shut insurance has been with

this last Sunday and this Sunday.

It's so good to see her here, been able to be out and about

and trailblazing the road and, you know, coming in here and

worshiping with us. I know that that has to be

uplifting, encouraging to her to be able to be here.

And we're glad that she is here. Yes.

So on this Memorial Day weekend, again, as I've already said, our

nation pauses. There will be flags all across

that will be flying at half masts and there will be people

going to cemeteries to adorn them with flowers and maybe

little small American flags that the headstones of veterans and

such. And families will pause to

remember loved ones that they have lost to war, to battle, to

great causes, no doubt maybe on our own soul and abroad.

And it's in these moments that we understand that we we will

never be able to repay the debt that that they have.

They have left us by number means in every generation.

We even teach our children to remember not, not not just

history, but the cost of of this particular setting in time.

President Ronald Reagan once said freedom is never more than

one generation away from extinction.

And so that's the reason why our taking time to remember matters.

And it reminds us that that what we have today came at a cost and

it came at someone's cost yesterday in order to give us a

tomorrow. And so there were in the World

War Two, there was great fighting that took place, of

course, all over in countries abroad.

And the Marines that fought in World War 2, that says they

fought for 43 months and yet in one month at a particular small

island called Iwo Jima, 1/3 of their total deaths occurred

right there. A Navy corpsman, John Bradley,

who was there made this statement concerning the event.

He said, I want you to always remember something.

He said the heroes of Iwo Jima are the guys who didn't come

back. And so that's why we pause this

weekend to count the warriors, so to speak, to remember those

who paid the ultimate price. And as we remember each name of

the fallen, I think it's also important then to garner that

God values the name of every soldier as well, not just

literally, but those that serve, if you will, in the capacity of

soldiers in the arming of the Lord.

He also observes a Memorial Day of sorts.

The Bible says in Malachi 3 and 16 that a book of remembrance

was written before him. For them that feared the Lord,

and that thought upon His name. Recorded are those who Revere

the Lord and serve the Lord, and God never forgets those who

fight for him. He'll show up on that line of

fire, so to speak, whatever their dilemma may be.

He'll show up in the middle of a furnace with the three Hebrew

boys because he do does not forget those that stand for him

and even fight for him. You'll remember the story that

when there were ten other spies, the first time that Israel was

going to go into the land of Canaan.

The Bible says that Moses had sent 12 spies into the land to

seek it out. What type of people were there?

What type of land it was, The Bible reports that all 12 came

back with the same report concerning there's giants in the

land and it's a well fenced city if you will.

It's it has walls that are thick.

But there were ten that thought that they could not take it.

There was fear that was in their hearts and the Bible says that

too. Caleb and Joshua said quite the

contrary concerning that. Caleb even stood up and said

let's go up at once and possess it for we are well able to

overcoming. We understand the story maybe a

little bit as a result of the fear, as a result of the

children of Israel not acting upon the promise of God and

possessing what God said they could possess.

They would wonder for 40 years in the wilderness, one year for

each day that they had spied out the land, only for all of that

generation of that older generation to die off during

those 40 years in the wilderness.

But not Joshua and not Caleb. They would come the second time

to that place of the Jordan River to crossover into the

promised land. And the Bible says that Caleb is

over there and his feet is walking some familiar ground

that he had walked 40-5 years earlier.

Hey, man, he's looking around and he's telling those as land

is being divvied up and the allotments are given to the

different tribes. He declared with his mouth.

He said, give me this mountain. It was that same mountain that

he was willing to fight for 45 years earlier.

And God remembered Caleb, a man who was willing to fight then

and still yet willing to fight now.

God remembered his courage and he preserved the inheritance,

that inheritance, that mountain for Caleb for all of those

decades because God never forgets those who fight for him.

The opening verses of the Book of Numbers.

It's it's, it's not real real, real detailed, but within it

contains account or a census, as we might say.

Just over a year earlier from this point of time, we read in

Scripture that that Israel had been slaves in Egypt and now

they stand as soldiers ready for a fight.

Amen. Just a little earlier, the Bible

describes that they had been at the Mount of Sinai for about a

year, receiving instruction about how they should go, what

they should to do, and how they they should prepare themselves

and condition themselves for what was ahead.

But now they are a people not in captivity, not slaves, but they

are on the verge of becoming a very mobile nation that's

destined for a conquest of the land that God had promised them.

Exodus had set them free, but now Numbers was going to prepare

them for war and they would participate in war.

And so here's the fact of the matter.

They have been delivered from their bondage, but they were not

yet totally ready for battle. Because you can be delivered and

yet not ready for battle when the Israel the Bible says we're

let go by Pharaoh. Scripture says that God did not

lead that nation through the land of the Philistines,

although it was near it would have been the shorter route, the

closer route. But God did not lead them

because he he thought to himself, had they come against

some opposition and some battles, they might want to turn

back to Egypt. They they were not quite ready

for combat. Their hearts and their minds

were too fragile for such a thing.

So God delayed the fight for them in order to develop the

fighter. And so here again, he has been

conditioning at Mount Sinai for about a year, people who have

been delivered but maybe wasn't quite ready for the fight.

And he's developing them and he's pouring into them.

And God wanted them to know that he never meant the wilderness to

be a permanent place. He was preparing them for a

possession. But don't most of us know that

possession doesn't come without a fight?

Possession does not come without an opposition.

And so Israel would soon face some enemies.

The Bible tells us that they would come up against nations

that were mightier than them, that were greater than them.

The Bible says there were giants in the land.

The Bible says the cities were well fortified and walled and so

God needed some warriors for the first time in generations.

God's people were not slaves, but they stood as warriors.

And so a census is taken. This this just wasn't good, just

good bookkeeping for their day. Moses and the people, they're

not the ones that initiated this count or this census, but God

did. This is God's role call that he

ordered. And the Bible says one

translation says this. He says, I want you to count the

names of every male 1 by 1. In other words, God wasn't just

interested in an estimate. He wasn't just interested in

numbers alone. But the Bible says he said count

the names, count the names. Why?

Because every warrior's name mattered to God.

God didn't ask Moses to count the cattle.

He didn't ask Moses to count the tents.

He didn't ask Moses to count the treasures.

He said, Moses, I want you to count the men and I want you to

record their name because God's greatest resource is not the

goods, it's always the people, it's always the people.

When God wanted to make a great nation that he would call his

own and a people that He would call his special treasure, he

didn't start with some great infrastructure or armies or

wealth. No, he began with one man called

Abraham. When God wanted to deliver his

people out of Egypt, Amen, He speared a boy from being

murdered during the time when it was imminent, and he calls that

same boy, that estranged kid to be nursed by his own Mama when

it shouldn't have happened. And he caused that same man to

be developing condition on the backside of a desert.

He chose a person when he wanted deliverance, Amen.

Even to reach this world after his ascension, Jesus didn't

invest in a building. Jesus didn't invest in budgets,

but he invested in his disciples.

People. He calls them, He quips them, He

sends them not things, but people, because God greatest

resource is not goods, it's people.

He said count the names, count the names of the warriors.

Even today, if you were to go to Washington DC and you were to go

to that black wall there, there are 58,318 names, names that are

carved in the stone there. Each one is a life that was lost

in the Vietnam War, not listed according to the rank.

They're not on that stone. Amen.

According to the race, it's just a name.

That's all that appears. Because every name matters. 31

of the 39 verses in Second Samuel 23 are littered with

names, and the introduction to this list says this.

These be the names of the mighty men whom David had.

These men weren't kings, they weren't prophets.

They were warriors, and their names are recorded in scripture

for all time, not because they sat on the throne, and not

because they ruled, if you will, with a scepter, but because they

stood their ground. You'll read through that chapter

and you'll read of some that fought alone by themselves

against hundreds, like Eleazar the Bible says, who smote the

Philistines until his hand was weary and his hand clave unto

his sword. He was seemingly by himself.

The scripture even says there were many of Israel that left

him that day that he fought. But after he had won the battle,

all the troops are showing back up.

Amen. To spoil the enemy.

But they had a chance to spoil the enemy because one man

warrior stood his ground until his hand became weary.

God counts in our lives more than just the victories.

He counts the warrior behind the victory by name.

Amen. These were not men who fought

with words. These were men who fought with

swords. But they weren't looking for

some type of headline in the New Jerusalem post about faithful in

the trenches. No, they were just the greatest

warriors that stayed at their post quietly, steadfastly

holding a line. Amen.

So that others could stand as well.

There's another everyone mentioned in Scripture, the

Bible says when everyone ran away that Shama stood what seems

like is said in a field of lentils.

In other words, he stood in a field of beans and he wrought a

great victory by God that day because when everybody else

moved, he refused to move. He stood his ground.

We go to New Testament scripture and it echoes in the New

Testament as well. We read Hebrews Chapter 11, the

Hebrews 11 · chapter mention

great faith chapter, and it includes a list of of faithful

people and also flawed people who fought battles for God.

Some of them are very well known.

They're like household names, but they're others that are not

known. They're they're barely even

mentioned in Scripture, but they're there in the Scripture

because they're a name that was a warrior for the Lord.

Hebrew says, who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought

righteousness, obtain promises, stop the mouths of lions,

quenched the violence of fire escape the edge of the sword out

of weakness were made strong wax value and fight turn to flight

the armies of the aliens note what the Bible says they're out

of weakness were made strong. What does that say?

These weren't people with superior strength per SE.

These weren't superheroes per SE, but they were men and women

that surrendered themselves for A cause to God.

And God doesn't always call the qualified.

Many times he qualifies the call and he he does.

He looks just for the availability.

He can take weak men and make warriors.

This is case in point. The Bible says that David hid

away in The Cave of Dulum and while he was there, he's there

was a drawing of people that started coming and you know who

it was? All those that were in debt, all

those that were in distress, all those that were discontent.

But you know, from those men came an army, about 600 people

that David would lead. Now, I don't know about you, but

that doesn't necessarily describe army to me when you're

talking about the discontent and the debt and the no, no, no.

But God can take something that doesn't look like much of

anything and he can develop that and spend some time with that

and he can raise it up. And God will remember many of

these mighty men aren't those same men that came to David in

that cave. Now they're spoken of as being.

Mighty men. Why?

Because God counts the names of the warriors.

Just someone say Amen. He many times he'll qualify them

even after he calls them. Think about Moses, unqualified

by his own admission, but God calls him.

Look at Gideon the Angel says, thou mighty man, the valor

Gideon's looking around as he's threshing wheat in a wine press

doesn't look hopeful, but God called him.

Look at David Ruddy faced lad taking care of the sheep on his

father's farm. Doesn't look like much, but God

called him Jeremiah, right? Didn't think he could be much,

but the Lord said I ordained thee a prophet from the very

womb. You look at Esther right, Amen.

Who knows that thou art come to the Kingdom as such a time as

this. We look at the Apostle Peter,

Amen. We look at the apostle Paul,

Amen. All these different ones.

We look at the Rahab who was, if you will, a woman of a ill

repute in the city of Jericho, but she was kind to some men,

and she finds her name in the genealogy of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to be qualified to get in this thing, but if

you're available, God can qualify the call.

Warriors count and they're counted by name.

They're counted by name. You may never wear a uniform,

you may never be seen on a battlefield, but you could still

be a fighter or warrior, if you will, in the Kingdom of God.

As a matter of fact, we have scripture after script scripture

that implores this or or colors with this type of hue that when

we've been called to the Kingdom or even called to Christ and

Christian Christianity in the church that we've been called

into an army, so to speak. We've been called into a battle

arena. Paul told Timothy, he said

endure the hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

He goes on to tell him to do this because God has chosen us

to be so. Amen.

Do you know that whenever you came to the Lord, you enlisted

When you came to the Lord, you enlisted into an army.

You enlisted into a division of the army.

You said, Brother McGee. I don't know.

I'm I'm not a warrior. I'm not a fighter.

Sir. Ma'am, let's change your your

perspective here. You fight when you pray for your

family. You fight whenever you refuse to

bend and bow as the children. Amen.

Of the Hebrew boys Did you fight when you take up your cross

daily and you follow him, you're fighting.

You fight when you worship, even though you're weak and you're

tired and and things are not going your way.

When you lift up your hands and you raise your voice, you're

fighting. And God remembers the names of

his warriors. Revelation 19 and 14 says the

armies of heaven follow Christ on white horses.

It's Speaking of a day clothed in fine linen.

They're going to follow him into that last battle.

And that's more than just imagery being depicted there in

the Book of Revelation reality. It's a legacy that's being

depicted in the Book of Revelation.

Here's God, here's the Lord leading warriors, and they were

called to ride with him because the King knows who marches in

his ranks, whether you are seen or unsing.

The Apostle Paul, he is addressing the last chapter to

the book of Philippians, to the Church of Philippi, and he does

as he oftimes does with some of his letters.

He gives a lot of accolades and he acknowledges various people.

And in that last chapter of Philippians, he again is

acknowledging what are called some yoke fellows or fellow

laborers with him, both men and women, if you will, people who

were in the gospel arms alongside him.

He's naming them by name. He's given acknowledgement to

them, Amen. And had he not mentioned them,

Amen, they would have been seen, or at least many of them unheard

of, because it's not like you see their name popping up all

kinds of different places in Scripture.

But he mentions them and he names them.

And this most importantly, is what he says concerning them.

He said whose names are in the Book of Life.

That's interesting to me. A lot of these names are not

well known in the Bible, but he names them.

They're fellow laborers. They're yoke laborers, if you

will, together with him, he says, whose names are in the

book of life. Folks, there is no greater

evidence I can give to you today that warriors count than this,

that God says, I want their name numbered in so much.

I want their name numbered in my book.

The folks, whenever this thing all wraps up someday, the Bible

says the books will be open. That means this book right here

and the book of life. But in the book of life will be

not the legacy, not if you will the rank, not the race, not the

the language they spoke, but name after name after name after

name of a warrior of the Kingdom of God.

That said I'll stand for Jesus and let the world go by the

warriors count they by name by name.

You don't have to be famous to be faithful.

It don't have to. We don't do these things

anymore, but it don't have to be in the church bulletin or on the

social, social blurb today in order to be faithful.

But is it written in heaven? Because that's where it matters.

And that's the only list that really matters.

God commands Moses numbers to count not for the purpose of

just population, but for the potential.

Verse 3 indicates and from another translation even

indicates it like this. Everyone who can serve in

Israel's army the way it is in your King James Version is all

that are able to go forth to war.

To those that were 20 years old, males that were 20 years old and

upward seeking out who would be eligible to serve in the Lord's

army. Again, I think it's important,

important. Glenn, God wasn't counting.

Oh, let's take inventory of all the singers.

Let's take inventory of all the musicians.

I'm just saying how sometimes our perspective is is in the

church where we like place as humans importance.

I'm not saying they're not important.

I'm saying God wasn't wanting the list of those those that

were going to go gather the manna.

No, he counted who could go to battle.

Goodnight Paul, St. Ephesians.

He admonishes us. He said put on the whole armor

of God. That wasn't written for a group

of spectators. No, that was written for people

that would be fighters. And so as the census is being

made, it's not like he's passing out the volunteer form or

anything like that. No, in reality, it was an

expectation. It's an expectation that that

God had that if you were of age and if you were of strength, you

fought. It might be several eligible,

but there could be some that didn't serve.

But all those that were of strength of age, the expectation

was they should remember the story of Gideon.

I know it's familiar to some. The Gideon started with 32,000

men. God reduced his army.

It's important that we understand God did this.

God reduced his army to 300. Now that's quite a downsizing.

Not because God per SE needed fewer, but because he wanted

them eager and ready. Because the first Test that he

gave to the 32,000 men by Gideon was basically if anybody was

fearful or afraid, go home. There was a chunk of them that

went home. Because God wants a warrior, but

he don't want a warrior with a mentality that's going to infect

other warriors. Because see, this is the similar

thing that happened when they were going to go the first time

to the land of promise. Those that thought they couldn't

started infect others think and they begin to think they

couldn't. And before you know, you got a

nation, perhaps millions of people that for the most part of

believing we can't do what God says we can do.

Amen. That's what he says we're going

to remove. We're going to remove the

fearful because I need warriors. Amen That that that are ready.

And the second test was is how they how they would drink water

there If, if they would bring their hands to their face or

where they would bend down and and and and go to it themselves.

Because if you bring water up to your face, your eyes are still

at a level where where you are alert and you can see.

But if you're going down to the water and your head's down,

you're not aware of everything around you.

If, in other words, if I could state it like this, God was

looking for in Gideon's army to have some men that weren't going

to be distracted. Warriors count.

Ready warriors count. He's looking for the faithful

men. On June the 6th, 1944, there

were young men, many of them just 20 years old, who stormed

the beaches of Normandy. One survivor said this.

He said we weren't heroes. He said we were just doing what

we were asked to do, some of them, and never been further

away from home than the next county that they lived by.

But when the time came, they were counted as warriors because

they were just doing what they were asked to do, General Patton

said one time he said the soldier is the army.

That's a vast statement. The soldier is the army.

No army is better then it's soldiers.

If I can take that same statement of patent and I can

apply it to us today, I would say it like this.

No church or church body is better than its members.

We often think of the church in terms of buildings and

ministries and so on and so forth.

But when God looks at the church, he doesn't count the

bricks on the exterior, He counts people in Acts 2.

The early church didn't grow just because Peter preached 1

sermon. It grew because 3000 people that

were deeply impacted that they stepped into a lifestyle of

sacrifice and devotion and bode witness the Bible says in Acts 2

and verse 42 and they continued steadfastly in the apostles

doctrine and fellowship and in breaking of bread and in

prayers. These 3000 that were impacted.

Yes, on the day of Pentecost, if you will, enlisted, they

enlisted in the Army. They enlisted in whatever their

branch or whatever their division was in the Kingdom and

they continued. It wasn't a moment of time of,

of, of a little flash in the pan, but they, they, they, they,

they had fatigues at the war, so to speak.

They, they, they had a lifestyle.

They continued and, and everything that the apostles

taught and Jesus taught and the fellowship and the prayers and

the breaking of bread and the fastings and the witnessings and

all those things. Can I speak just in a modern day

generation, just a little bit this morning, say this, There

wasn't no fog machines and there were no worship teams that were

getting cues in their ears about when to go to this or to that.

No, they were just warriors that had bought in.

They didn't just attend church. They were the church.

They were the church. I I'll hasten to a close.

You can stand with me today. And I'm I'm, I'm on about a 30

minute schedule here. And so that's that's keeping

your hamburgers. OK.

So if the soldier is the army and the believer is the church,

we've posed these questions before.

It's good to pose it though again today.

Then what kind of army would this be if every soldier fought

like me? To ask ourselves, what kind of

church would this be if every member prayed like me, Every

member gave like me? I'm not talking about me, I'm

just speaking as you know, our own selves.

If every member served like me, If every member worshipped like

me, because the roll call is continuing, he's naming them by

name. And so I want God to find within

each and every one of us the same courage he saw in Caleb,

the same faith he saw in Eleazar until his hand was growing weary

around the the halt of that, that sword, the same grit that

he saw in Shama that he's standing there.

Everybody else is leaving. He's like, I guess I'm going to

fight here if I have to fight by myself.

So we're here today and then we do.

And I, I think it's important that we give honor all those who

gave all. I think then on the flip side,

it's important for us to give our all for the Kingdom that

we're a part of. So I wonder today if we could

just bow our heads today and someone, if it's just even by

the lifting up of a hand that you could just cast the vote of

enlisted and say, God, just count me in.

Not because I'm qualified, God, but because I'm willing.

Because I'm willing, because I am a able body and I am a body

with strength. I am a body that is available

not because I've never fallen, but God count me in because I

have the personality and the tenacity that I'm one.

That even when I do fall, I get back up.

And Lord, if you're still calling names, God, Call My Name

among them because I know that warriors count.

And so today you need to be counted.

It's not just, oh, this is number, this is #35 of the

people know. Count them by name.

Mike Trout, Aaron Brown, Don McGee, Erica Goadsmith, Jerry

Mason, Glenn McVeigh. You understand what I'm saying?

Count them by name. This altar is open today.

We've been called, we've been enlisted.

There's a count going forward. I wonder if there's anybody that

would say today, Lord, if the army depends upon the soldier.

And I want to be the best that I can be for the purpose of your

Kingdom. I know there's still a lot of

conquest that needs to be won. I know there's still a lot of

ground that needs to be covered. Is there anybody today that

would just come, whether you stand or kneel today and just

say, Lord, count me in. Count me in, Lord.

I'll be willing, God. I'll be willing, Lord.

Maybe, maybe, maybe you just freshly been delivered some

things of your old life and maybe you're not ready for the

fight yet. But God, God can condition you

and God can prepare you, and he can set you up for success for

that next time that we go out, if you will, and we brave all of

the things that would come against us.

We, we, he can condition you. The warriors count today.

Warriors count. I don't want to sit idly by.

I don't want to just have an experience with God and let my

life with the Lord end at that experience.

I want to continue in prayers and supplications and breaking

the bread and fellowship. I want to continue in the

apostles doctrine. I want to be able to look over

my shoulders and say someday I'm further along than where I

entered into this place. I I want to be a warrior, a

warrior that counts. A warrior that counts.

If you don't know the Lord today, if you don't know Him,

you can enlist today. If you don't know Him, you can

enlist today. Hey, man, by means of

repentance, Hallelujah. They were delivered from Egypt

before they ever were enlisted in the Lord's harmony.

He can today. He can do a marvelous thing in

your life. If all you've known is slavery,

so to speak, in captivity and you've answered to the call, the

number another did what they wanted you to do today that that

can come deliverance today. You can lift up your hands where

you stand, or you could just bow your head and say, God, I look

back over my life and I see, oh Lord, the things that have

entwined me and entangled me and have been, if you will, Lord,

they've been the master and I've been to slave, so to speak.

I've been at their beck and call.

God, I want to change that today.

I don't want to just live the same old life that I've always

lived. God, I want some newfound

deliverance and freedom today. God, if it could be altered, if

it could be changed in my life, and it can be.

You can repent today. You can make a conscious choice.

This morning to turn in a new direction, a different direction

away from the way that you have lived life formerly up to this

point in time. God will help you, empower you

to do so. I believe that today,

Hallelujah, the warriors count across this place.

Warriors count. Come on, Sir.

Ma'am, Hallelujah. But it's been a while since you

made a move for God and he strikes for God.

Amen. Make yourself available.

He said from 20 years old and upward, there wasn't a capstone.

If you would, there wasn't a capstone on those of being

warriors. It's not like the age, he said

from 20 to 50 or 20 to 45. No, no, he said 20 and upward.

That are able, Amen. That are willing, that are

strong, that are capable. Is there anybody here able

today? Is there anybody willing today?

Will you present yourself?