Introduction: Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, November 5, 2023 The way to approach God – Psalm 100: 4: “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.” Even before you start asking, just start thanking and praise Him. You are thanking the Lord for what you have received from Him. You are believing the infallible Scriptures. “bless his name”, Lord Jesus, for I have come in His name, the Lord Jesus said. When the Bible states “bless his name”, it means the Lord God has a name and you should bless it. Isaiah 9: 6: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” In Matthew 1: 18 – 25, Joseph was told by the Angel of the Lord that what was conceived in Mary was “of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS”. In Luke 1: 26 – 35, Mary was told by Angel Gabriel that “thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.” Thus, all along, the name of the Almighty God is Jesus. He hid His name in the Old Testament and revealed it to us when He was born as a child, “and thou shalt call his name JESUS”. Settle it in your heart that the name of God is Jesus, He is the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord Jesus is the Father; He is the mighty God (Isaiah 9: 6). He is the Holy Spirit (Matthew 1: 20 – 25). When you wake up in the morning, thank the Lord. And at night, enter into the praises and thanksgiving of the Lord. Thank the Lord for your salvation when you wake up in the morning and when you go to bed at night. Be appreciative that the eternal God gave has given you His eternal life. Create an atmosphere of positive, create an atmosphere of confidence and power that only belongs to the Lord. Thanksgiving is telling Him that you are believing. Your prayer is telling Him what you want. 1 John 3: 2: “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” Thank the Lord Jesus that He considers you beloved. So, start off the day in thanksgiving and praise and the Lord will bless your heart. The day that we are living in will never return again, saith the Lord God. Once that sun comes up and goes down, and once the moon comes up and goes down, and the earth revolves, that is past. What’s coming tomorrow is the future. Yet, it is with us today if we were eternal. It means the Lord can show to you today all that will happen tomorrow if you were in the eternal realm with Him. You will see all events exactly as they will happen tomorrow, even though you are still in today. Psalm 90: 4: “For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.” Did you know Jesus is happiness, all day long, no matter if you have to cry sometimes from being hurt? Oh, that’s Him, praise the Lord. You will be blessed. Josephus Oluwatoyin Thomas

Summary of Sermon preached on Sunday, November 5, 2023 We listened to a sermon titled “The Right Outlook”, CD # 1001, Part One, preached by Brother Neal Frisby. In the sermon, Brother Frisby said: You know Satan tells people, sometimes he says, he makes them think they wish they were dead. He tells Christians to wish that they were dead. Well, you can’t do anything more for God, then. Can you? That’s why he makes you feel that way. You can’t do anything for God. And if you wished that you were dead, you better have been caught up with what you were supposed to do with the Lord. He may take you. You say where are you getting that? From the Lord, plus Elijah the prophet, one of the greatest in the Old Testament, in God’s Hall of faith. One time, he lied down, you know, after great victory. And it seemed, after he had won the victory, somehow it seemed like he had lost. And he laid down, he said, I wish I was dead, in so many words. I’m no better than my fathers and he wished that in his heart (1 Kings 19: 4). But, had God granted that wish, that Satan put there in his heart, a very tired prophet, and yet, if God would have granted him that wish, all of history to where we are today would have been changed. Because he had yet to choose his successor. He had yet to go get Elisha the prophet and train Elisha the prophet. And just like today, before we leave with a such great power, such great anointing, that in our ministering and preaching and witnessing, some of those foolish virgins will be trained like, because it said they almost got up and got it, but there was a translation took place and the great tribulation. So, he trained his successor, Elisha the prophet, which came to Israel and changed everything nearly. Then he crossed Jordan, showed us some more miracles and he went away in a chariot, symbolizing the translation of the elect of God. If God would had took him as he wished, none of those things would have happened. History would have been changed. Elijah doesn’t run the show nor any minister, He does. The Lord had him to say that, today to show how, He allowed him to say that, to show how today, how that Satan will attack Christians and he will cause you to feel that way many times. Because he doesn’t wany you to do any more for God, any more prayers, any more witnessing, any more worshipping the Lord or praising the Lord. Satan is on the move. And the sermon I am going to preach this morning is a value outlook or the right outlook. Everywhere you look in this world, it sets up a negative attitude, if you begin to follow it. Then you must have something inside to respond to what’s coming off those people and what’s coming off those world events, and the things that are occurring and the threat of annihilation that hangs over the heads of the earth. So, you have something inside of you to respond, and I have been teaching it. It is the anointed faith that responds back positive. It will not register negative, but it will register positive, because you have inside you, greater is He, and the power of that anointing that’s been set up in here and the power of faith in your heart. Sometimes, they’ll try to drag you down, but use it. It is within you. Some people don’t use what they’ve already received in their soul because they listen to the flesh or they listen to satanic forces. But use what the Lord has planted in these revivals, planted in the word of God, and planted into these sermons that we have today. There are two voices that you can listen to. One is the voice of God. He’s positive, always. He’s confident of this one thing. He’s a conqueror, He will win, He will make it. Nothing will drag you down. I’m with you, lo, always. I will never leave you nor will I ever forsake you. Those words are eternity. They are true. You can either listen to Satan’s voice, negativism, drag you down. The things that you see in the world and what’s happening in the people, the way they are talking on different places and what you see on the news or you can listen to the voice of God which always revelates and uplift. Always revealing His power and His plans and His manifold wisdom to the church. One thing we do need is divine wisdom and that is what’s coming, out of the ministry, on the church. Do you know why the Lord said seek Him early? He said seek me early and I will hear you and I’ll will answer thee and show thee great, mighty things. The reason He wants you to seek Him early in the morning because the Satan’s forces start off early. You want to beat him, get up early with God. Because Satan’s start off, first thing right in the morning and sometimes, married couples if they get up and start off wrong in the morning, it’s wrong all day long. Or, if you got a friend and you get up it, and you start off wrong, why you can hardly, can get it untangled for the day’s over, on the job or whatever you are at. Just start praising the Lord, “thank you Lord Jesus”. Do not go to sleep with anger, it says in the Bible. Did you know if you get that out of your heart, then the next morning you wake up nice. They stoned Apostle Paul. They don’t know when he was caught up into the third heaven. But you know, at one time, he was stoned and left for dead. Now, it says he was dead and then he was raised up again. I wonder when they stoned him for dead if that didn’t, when he go saw paradise, and his spirit left and saw God. When you are resting in peace, then God can slip in there and reveal something to you. But I believe if you want to wake up to a good start in the morning, you want to go to bed with a good start, that’s God. Start off positive, start off with thanksgiving and seeking the Lord. If you start the day off right, evidently, it could end right for you. If you start it off wrong, it will be hard to right it again. If you fail, then say, tomorrow, I’m going to do better and you keep that up in your heart. If this sermon can stay with you up until the translation, I believe that you’ll make it because your heart will be prepared, it will be positive. The Lord wants you to be positive. See, when you get up, have a positive outlook, be full of confidence and positive with the Lord. There may some events that you run into, I’m not saying they are not. But, at the same time, have confidence that you can overcome them. You are an overcomer. Did you know it? Well, you’ve got to have some things to overcome or He couldn’t call you an overcomer. There gonna be some roadblocks because they are going to be set all around you and every place that you can go. Because it is called, the ones that are translated, the overcomer. He can overcome anything. Now the flesh is hard to keep down. Paul said I die daily. I keep the old man under. And so, you have to have divine wisdom. Whereas, sometimes, you may not be able to do it every day, but you practice it, and your whole life will change, your sleep, your soul, your merriment, you’re happy, stay happy. Did you know Jesus is happiness, all day long, no matter if you have to cry sometimes from being hurt? Oh, that’s Him, praise the Lord. Paul said I am more than a conqueror. And I am content, in no matter what state of affairs that I am in, I am content. There is a real Christian. There is one that has value from the Holy Spirit. So, start off the day in thanksgiving and praise and the Lord will bless your heart. When you wake up in the morning, resist the devil and he will flee from you (James 4: 7). You tell him God doesn’t fail and God is in me and I am not failing. I’m going on. You may try to put me down once in a while, but I’m a winner with the Lord Jesus. The Lord, He is always on top, that’s why He is called the Capstone. Face everything with thanksgiving. Ephesians 5: 16 – 20: “….. but be filled with the Spirit; ……Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ”. Colossians 3: 17: “And whatsoever ye do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.” Philippians 4: 6: “Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.” Thanksgiving is telling Him that you are believing. Your prayer is telling Him what you want. Thanksgiving is telling Him that you are believing, you are having it in your heart, until it is manifested; it is there. Psalm 50: 14 – 15: “Offer unto God thanksgiving; ……” The day that we are living in will never return again, saith the Lord God. Once that sun comes up and goes down, and once the moon comes up and goes down, and the earth revolves, that is past. What’s coming tomorrow is the future. Yet, it is with us today if we were eternal. There is no past, present or future with God, unless He wants it. No such thing as time with Him. He creates that we are trapped in a time zone here until He says otherwise or you depart and be present with Him. 1 Thessalonians 5: 18: “In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.” In everything, thank the Lord for this day, thank the Lord for the days ahead, thank the Lord for what He is doing in this message, thank Him that you believe it and if you thank Him in your heart, you are delivered and you have gained wisdom and knowledge and power. This kind of message is what helps the people to rise above just the normal type Christian life. But, I mean, they sit in a position of heavenly places, they are these we call the elect of God. The way to approach God – Psalm 100: 4: “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.” Even before you start asking, just start thanking and praise Him. Create an atmosphere of positive, create an atmosphere of confidence and power that only belongs to the Lord. “bless his name”, Lord Jesus, for I have come in His name, the Lord Jesus said. When you wake up in the morning, thank the Lord. And at night, enter into the praises and thanksgiving of the Lord. If you can remember those things, then the Holy Spirit will guide you in things to come. He will reveal Himself to you and He will teach you things and you will feel better about the Lord, your confidence will be better and He will bless your heart.

I started the sermon: The way to approach God – Psalm 100: 4: “Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.” Even before you start asking, just start thanking and praise Him. You are thanking the Lord for what you have received from Him. You are believing the infallible Scriptures. “bless his name”, Lord Jesus, for I have come in His name, the Lord Jesus said. When the Bible states “bless his name”, it means the Lord God has a name and you should bless it. Isaiah 9: 6: “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” In Matthew 1: 18 – 25, Joseph was told by the Angel of the Lord that what was conceived in Mary was “of the Holy Ghost. And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS”. In Luke 1: 26 – 35, Mary was told by Angel Gabriel that “thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.” Thus, all along, the name of the Almighty God is Jesus. He hid His name in the Old Testament and revealed it to us when He was born as a child, “and thou shalt call his name JESUS”. Settle it in your heart that the name of God is Jesus, He is the Lord Jesus Christ. John 6: 39 – 40: “And this is the Father’s will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day. And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” When the Lord Jesus talks of the Father’s will, He is talking about His will from eternity. The Lord Jesus is the Father; He is the mighty God (Isaiah 9: 6). He is the Holy Spirit (Matthew 1: 20 – 25). John 6: 44: “No man can come to me, except the Father which hath sent me draw him: and I will raise him up at the last day.” You cannot come to salvation unless He, the Lord Jesus, has drawn you to Himself. John 11: 24 – 26: “Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day. Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believeth thou this?” John 6: 62 – 63: “What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” John 8: 56 – 58: “Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad. Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.” Jesus told the Jews that He is from eternity; “Before Abraham was, I am.” When you wake up in the morning, thank the Lord. And at night, enter into the praises and thanksgiving of the Lord. Thank the Lord for your salvation when you wake up in the morning and when you go to bed at night. Be appreciative that the eternal God has given you His eternal life. Create an atmosphere of positive, create an atmosphere of confidence and power that only belongs to the Lord. Thanksgiving is telling Him that you are believing. Your prayer is telling Him what you want. 1 John 3: 2: “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” Thank the Lord Jesus that He considers you beloved. It is the anointed faith that responds back positive. It will not register negative, but it will register positive, because you have inside you, greater is He, and the power of that anointing that’s been set up in here and the power of faith in your heart. 1 John 4: 4: “because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.” There are two voices that you can listen to. One is the voice of God. He’s positive, always. He’s confident of this one thing. He’s a conqueror, He will win, He will make it. Nothing will drag you down. I’m with you, lo, always. I will never leave you nor will I ever forsake you. Those words are eternity. They are true. Hebrews 13: 5: “for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.” Do not go to sleep with anger, it says in the Bible. Did you know if you get that out of your heart, then the next morning you wake up nice. When you are resting in peace, then God can slip in there and reveal something to you. So, start off the day in thanksgiving and praise and the Lord will bless your heart. When you wake up in the morning, resist the devil and he will flee from you (James 4: 7). You tell him God doesn’t fail and God is in me and I am not failing. I’m going on. You may try to put me down once in a while, but I’m a winner with the Lord Jesus. The Lord, He is always on top, that’s why He is called the Capstone. The day that we are living in will never return again, saith the Lord God. Once that sun comes up and goes down, and once the moon comes up and goes down, and the earth revolves, that is past. What’s coming tomorrow is the future. Yet, it is with us today if we were eternal. It means the Lord can show to you today all that will happen tomorrow if you were in the eternal realm with Him. You will see all events exactly as they will happen tomorrow, even though you are still in today. There is no past, present or future with God, unless He wants it. No such thing as time with Him. He creates that we are trapped in a time zone here until He says otherwise or you depart and be present with Him. Psalm 90: 4: “For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.”

I read from Scroll # 41: “Behold saith the Lord Jesus this is the hour of which I have spoken I would gather My chosen Sheep by name! Yea they will turn in and follow Me, Yea they be but few but they will be powerful! I have with held many wonders until now and I will release them unto My Elect, for in them I have put a desire yea to know the deep things of God. I have spoken that the spirit shall show you things to come, yea the mighty secrets of the Lord shall appear in this last hour of prophecy! “Behold run little ones, run unto the sanctuary of My Word and ye shall be clothed with sudden power”, but the nations shall be covered with astonishment. Yea I am writing, this is the last time and signs, and My Elect shall be given the last signal!!

If you can remember those things, then the Holy Spirit will guide you in things to come. He will reveal Himself to you and He will teach you things and you will feel better about the Lord, your confidence will be better and He will bless your heart. Did you know Jesus is happiness, all day long, no matter if you have to cry sometimes from being hurt? Oh, that’s Him, praise the Lord. In everything; thank the Lord for this day, thank the Lord for the days ahead, thank the Lord for what He is doing in this message, thank Him that you believe it and if you thank Him in your heart, you are delivered and you have gained wisdom and knowledge and power. This kind of message is what helps the people to rise above just the normal type Christian life. But, I mean, they sit in a position of heavenly places, they are these we call the elect of God. Ephesians 2: 4 – 7: “But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.”

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