I trust you'll enjoy the reading of the Word of God with me. The Lord never has made a mistake. Not even came close to making a mistake. And so He's right on tonight. Amen. Somebody said, Preacher, I know what time it is. It's time for us to get in. I've told them at our church there's enough of folks going to church. He's looking for somebody to have church. And it's been in order, what's took place tonight. And I'll tell you what else would be in order is if you had just enjoyed yourself. There's some of us in, but we're not all in yet. And not a doubt in my mind, there could be a second wave blow through here tonight. We walk out most time when God decides to show up. So don't miss God. Preacher, it's late. Boy, God could do some things in the next 30, 40 minutes. You wouldn't even worry about what time it is. He would change you for eternity. It changed your mind. It changed your life. It changed your marriage. It changed your ministry. It changed everything. So hallelujah. I trust you to read with me in your Bible. I appreciate the privilege and the opportunity to be here tonight. I just want to be mindful of God. Thank the Lord for the good message already been preached. Thank God for Pastor Dale. But I thank God for God's man. Amen. Psalms chapter 107 and verse number 1, the Bible said, O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is good, for His mercy endureth forever. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whom He hath redeemed from the hand of the enemy, and gathered them out of the lands from the east and from the west, and from the north and from the south. They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way. They found no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, and He delivered them out of their distresses. And He led them forth by the right way, that they might go to a city of hesitation. Verse number 8, as you just enjoyed. Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and for His wonderful words unto the children of men. Would you look in verse 15? Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness and for His wonderful works to the children of men. Verse number 21. Oh, hallelujah. Oh, hallelujah. Oh, that men would praise the Lord for His goodness, hallelujah, and for His wonderful works to the children of men. Verse number 31. Are you Bible readers with me? Get on this train with me. Let's ride tonight. Don't be looking at your time. Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh! That man! That man! That man would praise the Lord! Would praise the Lord! would praise the Lord for His wonderful work. And to the children of men, you may be seated. Father, I pray for a few moments tonight. You would empower me with the Spirit of Almighty God. We would preach under the influence and the direction of the Holy Ghost of God. Father, for without you there's not one word that will be shared that would influence any individuals in our presence. But if you'll come by, and if we'll magnify you and uplift you, what glory will be shared, what glory that's already here for the saints of God to rejoice, walk down an aisle and shout, I'm glad that I'm in this place. here tonight in the presence of the Almighty. I pray it may never need physically, mentally, spiritually and financially touch us tonight. In Jesus' name we pray, all of God's people said, I want to preach if God will help me just a minute tonight. Oh, that men would praise the Lord. I believe it's one of the greatest needs in our Baptist churches tonight. I believe the thing that we are missing in our churches across America. The dear preachers already said it. We have done pushed our car into the parking lot. We have done pushed ourselves down the aisle. We have done pushed ourselves in the choir. We have done, watch this, pushed ourselves in the pulpit. It's about time we quit pushing. Get in and ride. Lift an unworthy hand to a worthy Savior and just praise God tonight. Now, somebody said, well, you're a preacher that'll work on the work of an emotion. You tell me another way you shout. I'm not trying to be super spiritual. I want to tell you I've hung around them, said you ought not shout unless you can help it. That's the biggest lie out of hell. You ought to lift your hand to a worthy God. He saved you out of hell, honey. Whether you feel like it or not tonight, he's worthy of all praise tonight. I'm not talking about silly ignorant stuff, neither. I'm not talking about a loose-tongued woman. Somebody holler, Amen. I'm talking about every one of you sitting in here tonight, including myself. I don't want to hurt your feelings, but every one of us ought to be in hell. We ought to be in hell. Every last one of us ought to be in hell right now. I ought to be in hell. But thank God divine, I'm hell-proof. Impossible for me to go to hell. And what y'all do is just praise God. I was raised on this stuff. That don't bother me one bit. It bothers me when it don't happen. We've got so much entertainers. Ain't it good to have some worshipers? We got enough of them rolling across this country, entertaining. Give me somebody done been over there in a prayer closet with God, done hooked up with God. And when they say, there, how do you feel the presence of God? Oh, that man. Praise his name. Stay with me in Psalms 107, verse number 4. They weren't in the wilderness in a solitary way. I'd like to take you back. I've been on a church pew all my life. I don't know what drugs is like. I don't know what alcohol is like. I don't know what a cigarette tastes like tonight. I don't know what a jail cell smells like. I don't know what a beer tastes like. I don't even know what they smell like tonight. Somebody said, what are you saying? Just come on, girl, here with me. It took it just much God to save me. I was walking around in that solitary place. I was alone. Nobody would have anything to do with me. I couldn't even push my truck or truck and enjoy my friends because God the Holy Ghost had done got a hold of my heart, convicted me of my sin. I wish somebody would go back to that solitary place in your life when they wouldn't nobody have nothing to do with you. And you sat in a beat-up garage somewhere. Grease may have been dripping off your fingers. And the smell of booze may have been on your breath. But ain't you glad the good God of glory came for you was? Reached down in that man's sin. Saved you out of hell. You ought to shout amen. That God came to your lonely place. Amen. Oh, that men would praise the Lord. Well, we're reserved, preacher. Well, I understand that. There's a time to refrain. Amen. There's a time for that. But I'm going to tell you, there's a time just to rejoice in the Lord. I see these young men sitting around. You've got them in the right place tonight. Amen. I see these babies, you're in the right place. Well, they get on my nerves if they get a little too loud, is what some of them would say. Oh, honey, we ought to praise God. Them babies ought not bother us one bit, honey. Matter of fact, he said the praise is perfected out of the mouth of them babes. You better just be glad we're here and in this race tonight praising. that solitary place you's in. Would you think back to when God saved you? Would you remember what you's doing? Would you remember where you's at? He's due all praise. It is not something we ought to participate in. It's a need this hour. I believe in having the truth. I preach in a lot of churches, but they got the truth, they ain't got no spirit. Come on now. I preach in some, that's all they got is the spirit and they ain't got no truth. Long as the beat's high and the song's loud, but if they're shouting, man of God, get up and they dry up. Somebody come on now, come on now. Packin' out for no so-and-so pulls up and 18 wheels he's got in the parking lot. I ain't even gonna run that rabbit. And they gotta have a thousand dollars just to put gas in the bus. Come on now, don't die on me, honey. And then the poor man of God bent over our fashion and prayin'. Wanna get up, make dry up on him and walk out. Oh, they sum up all they got's the spirit. Storms come, they blow up. And then I've been in them, I only got the truth. They ain't got much spirit. And they drive cracker juice. Come on now. Well, we wouldn't act like that. Somebody said you trying to get me to shout, if I could, I would. I'm promoting this stuff, friend. Amen. You said you ought not to promote Him. That's what God's called me to do, is to promote His Word. He said, lift your hands in the sanctuary and bless the Lord. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me. Bless His Holy Name. Some of them, all they got is the Spirit and they drive. You know what'll happen if you get the Spirit and the truth? you'll grow up. Let me tell you, when I shout the loudest, it's when I'm going through my deepest storms. You know, when I cry and shout the most, it's when I'm over buried up, about four days of darkness and no sun. Come on, friend. Every demon in hell seems like it done crawled out and gnawed on your heels. You're trusting God for your finances. You're trusting God for your family. You're trusting God for your church. And all you know to do is to crawl your way around the house of God and lift up a hand to it. Oh, hallelujah. I'm glad when trouble comes, a real shit, it'll not run that way. It'll run that way. I mean, I'm telling you, you'll praise God because He delivers you from that place of solitary. Said they found no city to dwell in. I was raised by a preaching dad and a praying mama. And Pastor Dale, I ought not be where I'm at tonight. Reared in a Christian school, raised on a family altar. I ought to still be in hell. I ought to went to hell. and I ought not been saved, and I ought not been called to preach. You listen to me, friend. I'm not here to bust anybody's ego, but there's not a nary one of us righteous within ourselves. Can I remind you that you're still the flesh? Can I remind you? Let me show you how spiritual you are. Somebody said, I'm a spiritual jive. Would you want to testify of everything you've thought about today? I'm not here to dap in this thing. I'm just here to preach what God told me to. Oh, preacher, I'm a spiritual man. I've prayed, I've read. Well, honey, I have, too. I don't want to tell you everything I've thought about. I got over at the motel and tried to pray, and it seemed like them hellhounds crawled out of the backwoods, crawled on my shoulder, tried to break up everything I'd ever done, made me sick. Oh, but I'm glad to thank God tonight. Hallelujah, honey. Glory to God. My sins are gone. They're under the blood. Whoa! To be remembered no more, they're washed away. We ought to praise God. We ought to praise God. What about them days that set in darkness? Verse number 10. How many of them set in darkness? How many of them just set in death? It's easy to get comfortable. I'm preaching to myself tonight. It's easy to get comfortable. What about them days of loneliness, when you couldn't stand yourself? You couldn't stand nobody else? I'm talking about that solitary place. Weren't you glad the Holy Ghost came where you was? Somebody said, preacher, I need something new. I need something deep. I need something theological. I need something I'll never forget. Honey, you ought to go back to Calvary. Go back to where you was. Let's get back to the nations, honey. I'm glad, thank God, we've got to have a right. So let's raise our hand and praise him. I can tell you a lot of things I ain't done. It makes you think I was a real good person. But I was just as bad as the worst of all, that solitary place. Look with me in this same chapter. Oh, that men would praise the Lord. What about it? We need to think about the memory of that solitary place. Anybody ever been shipwrecked in here? Anybody ever experienced shipwreck? I got people in our church that's losing their jobs. And, brother, they're faithful pay and tithes. They're faithful tithers. Matter of fact, they're some of the biggest givers we have. Our faith promised offering. I'm talking about they're giving the most in it and losing jobs. One of them come to him one day and said, preach what I'm going to do. I said, we're going to have to hang in here and pray together and trust God. He said, the devil's been telling me to quit giving. He said, but I'm just going to have to keep giving. This was his words. He said, man, it's shipwrecked. He said, why say it's shipwrecked? He said, because everything I've tried to gather up myself. He said, I've had it to the bottom of it. He said, and the ship's going down, and I'm losing it all. I want to face somebody in here tonight. Brother Dorsey, you don't know me, and I don't know you. And I know you're looking at me and sizing me up, and I'm not going to worry about that. And I'm going to tell you God's got a word for some of you. You may be here. You drove up in the parking lot, and you said, I don't know why in the name of God I'm even here. I look at your finances. You look at your life. You look at it. It seems like it's all turned upside down. It looks like a ship's going down. Honey, but I got news for you. The one in the ship with me, it can't see coming. It can't go down. It's impossible to go down. Don't you quit in the midst of shipwreck when the wind is tossing you to and fro. Look with me in your Bible. Look with me in your Bible. Verse 25. He commandeth and raiseth a stormy wind. would slip and cut waves thereof. They mount up to the heavens. They go down again to the depths. Their souls melded because of trouble. They reel to and fro and stagger like a drunken man. And they're at their wit's end. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, that men would praise the Lord. I've had tragedy in my life. I've had valleys in my life. I've had darkness in my life. And I can't tell you but one way that God ever shined light in the midst of the darkest days of my life. I can testify about it, but I'm not going to do it. Somebody said, pitcher, you're just a young whip snapper. You ain't been around long enough. Well, honey, that's for them to judge. Hey, that's God's business. It ain't mine. I'll tell you one thing, honey. I know what a dark night's like. I know what depression's like. I know what shipwreck's like. Oh, hallelujah. But I know that when you get down on your knees, And you thank God for every trial! And you thank God for every battle! And you thank God for every barrier! And you thank God for every dark night! Somehow, someway, joy will show up! And Jesus will manifest Himself! And He'll give glory! And He'll give honor! And He'll allow it for His wonderful works! I'm for education. I'm for it for these young men of God. But they need a prayer closet and a pine thicket and a rock altar. You listening to me? I encourage mine to get it. And I'll tell you what one needs is a prayer of God. He done preached it. He done preached it. I can't add to it. But in the midst of your storm, in the midst of your shipwreck. You need to praise him anyhow. You need to praise him anyhow. Somebody said, well, Prince, I can't praise him unless I'm on the high and I'm on that mountaintop. He ain't never got real real to you. Boy, when you're down there in the doctor's office and they've done give up all the hope on you, When you're down there, and the devil's got you hemmed up in a corner, and it looks like you're going down, buddy, I'm glad somewhere in the shadows stands the Almighty. Honey, and He promised me He'd never leave me nor forsake me. There ain't nothing, ain't nothing I'll ever go through. Honey, He's with me. I'm with Him. He's with me. We came to power because of a promise and a covenant God gave to His Son. in the midst of shipwreck. Praise Him. All that man, all that man would praise the Lord. I've just come out of the most holiest meeting I've ever been in. I'm talking about, I can't even describe it. Brother Dale, I've got to have more. can't survive just off of that. And if we just realize who we are and who he is, somebody said, put your time getting me to run. No. You got to act like me. Somebody said, I don't know how. Won't you act like him? That's Bible order. I can run just like my preacher. You hear me? I don't run like that tonight, though. But I did when I was 14 years old, because that's how my preacher shouted. Come on now. I didn't know how, but I watched the man of God. And he gave me my own share. He gave me my own days. You say, what are you saying? Oh, that man would pray. I didn't know how to pray. But I got up beside him and him all recalls. And I'd say in the name that's above every name. Whoa, that name. That blessed, holy, loving, kind, gentle name that's above every name. I tell you, that's how he prays. I don't pray like that all the time now, but I do every now and then. I just learned how from him. You said preaching ain't right. Oh, yes, well, it is right. You all right? We ought not say that. You let your daughter, let your son watch that television Listen to that secular music. I'm not going to skinhide. I'm just preaching truth. It ain't my job here. It's the preacher's job. These youngins, these youngins in here this evening, these preachers don't know how to worship you girls. I don't know his wife and don't know him real well. Watch how she does it. I don't even know if she's in here. She's got to be a good woman to be married to a man of God. Somebody holler amen. Huh? Amen. Look at Miss Glass. Look at little Miss Henderson. I got to go to bed tonight and this is Holy Ghost work. It ain't my work. I ain't preaching for them good nations, but God just wants me preaching the Holy Ghost. Woo! Ain't that right, preacher? I got a 91-year-old granny tonight. And I love her. And I'd stay all night with her. She'd have an apron on cooking in that kitchen. Always had a little hanky with her. I remember sitting at that little old country table Have a little house about to fall in. That woe out apron should be frying them Oscar Mayer hot dogs, whooping up that grease gravy, done whooped up some biscuits she made with her hand. That's what she'll do. I remember waking up when I stayed all night for Granny. God, God's good. Oh, God's good. She'd get to singing, oh, how I love him. Oh, how I love him. Oh, how I love him. I'm not making this up. God knows I'm telling it. I'd walk in that kitchen in my Superman pajamas and granny would be shouting in the kitchen. You say, what's that all about? She's praising God for his wonderful words. I know it ain't the proper thing. This holy thing. We need to praise Him. That place of solitary. That place of shipwreck. Watch what He'll do in the midst of your storm. Are you with me in verse 19? Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble. And He said with them out of their distresses, What's this? He sent His Word. I'm gonna say it again. He sent his word. He sent his word. He sent his word. That's right. Help yourself, sis. He sent his word. The making of the scriptures tonight. Any of y'all been watching the news? They want to change that textbooks. Anybody seen that? Out of Texas. They want to change history to fit them. That's what them liberal ERA hussies that walked out of hell, them lesbians and sodomites and queers, look up in here, walked out of hell, changed the version, wrote their own Bible. It'll not work. There ain't but one scripture, and it's the infallible, inherent, God-breathed King James Bible in the English-speaking translation. You ought to praise God for His Word tonight. I know we ain't got to expound on that, but we need to stay on about it. I've got boys I graduated with, got boys I street preached with, nursing home preached with, jailhouse preached with. They done changed Bibles. They changed them songs, too. Walter praised his name for the making of the Scriptures. Serious business. I got a little 11-year-old boy at home, a little 8-year-old girl at home. We play. I ain't going to tell you everything. We run the ridges. My little girl's got a pair of Rocky boots. She runs them ridges with me, chasing them old coonhounds. Mama don't much like it, but Daddy loves it. Here's a school night the other night, and this whiz out. And I had to hurry up, and I had to try to get them back in by 1030. Them dogs got crazy and got wild and run off. I think that's deer dogs. Julie said, what we gonna do, daddy? I said, y'all just have prayer meeting. She said, no, you get to prayin' too long. Bubba's my spiritual help. He said, daddy, let's build a fire. And he said, we'll pray around the fire. I'm tellin' truth. We built us a little fire. Them dogs is done far out of the country. My tracking system wouldn't even pick them up. And me and Bubba and Julie sitting there warming our hands around that fire. I said, well Bubba, you pray first. Bubba got to praying. I'm going to tell you something. It works. Can I have a little liberty? Can I have just a little liberty? Just a little. Joel Holstein can make fun of a family altar. He can make fun of Bible reading. He can make fun of it down at his house. It works at my house. You might well holler amen. He can lie about it all he wants, but it works. Hallelujah. That's all right, ain't it? Now I'm feeling a little too much liberty probably. You heard him on Lion King live. I've always known God. I've inherited my father's ministry. He'll go to hell, honey, if he don't believe in the shed blood of Jesus Christ. And you said, Preacher, I like him. Well, when I heard him on the radio, I liked him too. Amen. But bless God, when I saw him the first time, I saw that he's a limp-wristed liberal. I didn't need nothing to do with him because the Word of God's right this evening. It's all right, ain't it? Feel good. Just feel good. Just give and feel good. You'll go to hell feeling good. This is inspired. It ought to be the most precious thing you have. You ought not even lay your coffee cup on it. You go in my house, I got one on top TV, I got one on each end table, I got one at the back door, one at the front door, I hear it in my house, you see them over there. I'm telling you, the Word of God, it's right, it's powerful, we ought to love it, and we ought to thank God for His scripture tonight. I hope I ain't got in trouble. But it's right. I'm not here to hurt you, I'm here to help you. It's right. Somebody said, I can't believe he said that. We need some more to stand up against them devils. Won't you call that crowd to come see your grandma in the hospital when she's dying? I've had two had surgery today, and some of you think I'm a bad pastor probably, but that'll be all right. I made much prayer about coming. And they had two. I got one having surgery in the morning. And you know what? I can pray for them over here in this motel, just like I can pray for them down there. I called Sister Barbara on the phone. I prayed with her over the phone. She said, preacher, matter of fact, she said, little man of God, I'd rather you be over pleasing God than over here pleasing me. You say, how can she say that? She's in the Word. Hallelujah. She's in the Word. You get in the Word. You get full of the Word. And it'll be a witness in your heart. And it'll be a worship of your soul. And you'll praise God for the making of the Scriptures. Now watch this. I'm going to quit. We're going to get out. We're going to quit. I ain't been up here about 25 minutes. I ain't even preaching my A's, B's, and C's. I got them. You men of God, you got one, and then you got an A, and B, and C underneath them, and they're rated two. And I didn't get this off of Keep It Simple for stupid preachers, neither. God give it to me. Amen. I'm just giving you the highlight, and we're going to go home. I see the Memory of being in that solitary place. The misery of being shipwrecked from making the Scriptures. Watch this. Verse 29. He maketh a storm of calm, so that the waves thereof are still. Anybody been in a storm and all of a sudden God show up and just calm it? That's the miracle of the Savior. Ain't nobody else can do that like Jesus. Watch what He can do in verse number 33. He turneth rivers into a wilderness and the water springs into dry ground, a fruitful land and a barrenness for the wickedness of them that dwell therein. That's what He can do. But watch what 35 said. Hallelujah. He turneth the wilderness into a standing water. Why does it say standing water? Sheep can't drink where the water is moving. Are you sheep or goat? Them sheep will get around that still water and drink. Hallelujah. Any dry ground into water springs. And there he maketh the hungry to dwell, that they may prepare a city for habitation. We ought to praise God that He's still in the miracle business. I'm just 34. And if it wasn't for Him calming the storms, and I say this with no apology, I wouldn't even be in the ministry. You said, Preacher, you're too young. We can tell that by what you say. Well, I can't help but just preach the truth. If it wasn't for the grace of God, I'd already lost my mind. If it wasn't for the grace of God, commoners storm. And turning my wildernesses into standing water, and turning my dry grounds into wells that spring up. I wouldn't be standing before you here tonight. Neither would you. Some of you have been in some great storms. You've been in some deep valleys. You've been in some dark places. You said, Preacher, I just can't take no more. I just can't take no more. You know what you ought to do? You ought to crawl down here to this altar and thank Him. Started getting deliverance in my life. 1996, after some great trouble, holding on to a tar and thanking God for my storms and thanking God for my valleys. You've been praying for years, God gets you out of your trouble. John 4, 23 and 24. is in the Bible.