2024-06-16AM- Testimonies

The speaker shares their personal journey of faith, starting from their childhood. They talk about their struggles with sin, their experience at a church camp, and their eventual commitment to God. They also express their desire to hear testimonies from others in the church. Another person then shares their testimony, discussing their salvation experience and their later struggles with sin. They emphasize the importance of repentance and seeking forgiveness from God. God, here's what I'm going to do here. Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to ask for some testimonies. I'm going to ask for something more than I'm glad He saved me, sanctified me, filled me with the Holy Ghost, pray for me that I do what God would have me to do. Okay? I'm going to get us started here, okay? I've said many times that I was raised up in the church house. Probably from about two years old, I was taken into the house of God. My dad never was saved my whole life growing up in my house. My dad felt good and fine that when I became a teenager, he would take me places that he didn't want my mother to know that he was taking me. And I went into taverns. I went into bars. And we were there with rough people. And I would hear my dad speak in ways that he wouldn't talk around my mom. And it led me in a way, it tore me. I had one side wanting me to do right, and I had another side that didn't really care what I did at all. But I remember as a child, probably 11, 12 years old, when the Lord really started getting a hold of my heart. And I remember the revivals would come and the minister would preach. And they would step out in the aisle like we're accustomed to. And I did like some people do today. You know, I started my own little mini Bible study as the preacher got close to me. I wanted to look like I was so intent in what I was reading that he wasn't going to bother me because I thought for sure he was going to stop right where I was, raise me up, and tell the whole church all the things that I'd been doing. Conviction was so heavy on me at that time. The preacher may not ever have even known the condition that I was in, but I knew. And I knew that God knew. And there'd come time that in an altar call, I would get up from my seat and I'd go up. I remember the altar was a big round area in the front carpeted with red carpet. And I would go up and I would cry and I would weep and I'd spend more time there than anybody. And I'd get up. Was this it? Did it happen? Did I get saved? Well, I hadn't. But it happened over and over and over again until it reached a time when I was 13 years old. And those times would come and go. It wasn't every service I was in the altar. Just when I felt like that I really was under it and I needed to pray. But there'd come a time when my mother decided that my high school years, she was pulling me out of the public school system and would send me to a private school, a Baptist school there in town. And my sister had been there one year ahead of me. And Mom was sending her there more for like, I think these people might be able to straighten her out. It was like reform or something. So I didn't really have a good feeling about it. But in that time, what they did before school ever started, it was mandatory. All the kids, we went to Wisconsin to a camp. A church camp. Different from camp meetings like we know it now. But it was pretty good. And the people I believe were doing the best that they knew. There were chapel services. And I was so rebellious in my heart. For one, I didn't want to go. I was an introvert. I did not want to go around all these people that I did not know and spend a week with them. I mean, sleeping in a cabin around people that I didn't know. That was not me. I don't know that I'd still like doing that. But we went to that camp that week. And as we would get up, there would come a portion in the day where we were required to sit in an auditorium where a man stood up front and he ministered to us. Simple lessons. Simple. I mean, nothing deep. He wasn't thundering the Word. And there came a time I was so angry to be there, and he said, there's a time here that we're going to take where you're going to spend, every one of you, with your Bible and time in prayer. And I had heard what people had said in my church before. You can't make somebody serve God. You can't make me read my Bible. What good does it do for you to stand there and tell me, demand that I'm going to pray? This doesn't work. And that went on. But there was one day in that chapel service when that man stood up there. I don't remember who he was. I don't remember what he looked like. But I remember what he said. And he spoke to me about things that I had struggled with and how to handle them. And the light just simply came on. And I prayed and I said, this is what I need. I've gone to the altar and I've confessed my sins, laid them all out, but I never walked away with strength to overcome those sins. Because I'd walk right back into them. I'd engage myself right back into them. But the Lord turned a light on in my life and there entered that peace that the Savior brings when He comes. Now, Brother Michael, you were talking. You were 18 years old. And how even after that, you really strayed away from that. I did too. I did too. There wasn't the support that I needed. There wasn't always that growth that was demanded of me. And so I slipped in with the crowd, other people, and I would do things. And I actually was around people because I was in a Christian atmosphere. They were doing things that I had been taught not to do, but since it was a Christian atmosphere, we were all allowed to do those things now. And so I fell into those things and actually turned away from ways that I had been raised. But it all seemed so acceptable. And it took me years before I finally got serious and grounded with God. When I met my wife and we began to get serious and we got married, something turned. Something happened in both of us that really became serious. Maybe it was the gravity of raising children. I really don't know, but God did a work in our home. Time would go by. He sanctified us. I can point to where we were when I came home from work and we had that discussion. I remember going into the basement of that house and praying. Now, I'm not going to tell you, I didn't still have struggles. Still had problems. And it has taken growing consistency to get past things. And it's put me in a place where I'm far more able to hear the leading of the Lord and to do what God would have me to do. And somehow, somehow today, I'm standing on a platform behind a pulpit and a group of people that call me pastor. God hears me say this all the time. I don't understand this. I don't know why you would ask me. But if you have, I want to give my best and do my best and commit myself completely to You. Now, I'm asking people of our church here today. We've got time. We are not on a time limit. We don't run out in ten minutes. I want to ask somebody. I want to hear a story. I want to hear God's deliverance for you. I want you to bless the church and glorify God. Somebody begin. I'm looking forward to hearing everybody's testimonies. When I was seven years old, the Lord began to deal with me at an altar to be saved from my sins. And I don't know, I don't remember what was preached that night. I just remember that I was convicted of my sin and that is the night that I was saved from my sin. And I'm thankful for the Lord saving me at that time. I remember that same day raising my hands in church for the very first time. And the Lord had delivered my soul from sin and really although He had done that, I really didn't understand all of it at that time. But I knew that my sins were forgiven and that I was saved. And not because people told me that I got saved, but I had it in my heart that the Lord had saved my soul. And I'm thankful that the Lord did that. Now, years down the road from that time, I didn't really try to make any more of a move toward God. I didn't try to strengthen that relationship with the Lord. I just left it as the Lord saved me. And I'm saved. And that's what I would testify if I was asked to testify. And that's just what I always knew I was supposed to tell people that I got saved. So yes, I'm saved. And that's all there is to it. And I didn't know that there was more of a work that God had for my life. I didn't know that the Lord would eventually start dealing with me on other things. But there came a time in my life where sin entered my life in a terrible way. Of course, I would argue with my sisters and that was still in my life. But I didn't realize that that was that big of a deal. I thought I was still saved when I could just argue with my sisters or disobey my parents. I didn't really understand that that was that big of a deal. But I knew that something had entered into my life that was a very big deal. And it was very much a terrible sin in my life. And I don't understand still today how I got into it, but I know that I was in sin. And eventually, I started feeling the effects of that sin in my life. I started feeling the guilt. And I started feeling the repercussions of sin and how I just could not escape such a sin. And it dealt with me and worked on me in a negative way until I was a very miserable child. And I did not feel like I was able to escape the sin. And I was bound by it. But one day after another, I would pray, and I knew that that was right to do. I prayed probably every day. Nothing serious, but just day after day I would pray, and nothing really happened. But one day at Highway of Holiness after years of being in sin, the Lord forgave me again because I humbled myself down and I came to the altar and I repented of my sin. And the Lord brought deliverance at that time. And eventually, the Lord dealt with me at different times of getting rid of things and doing certain things that were more pleasing to Him. And He began to work on me about reading the Bible every day when I was 15 years old. And at other times, He revealed that things were wrong in my life that I did not know were wrong. So I started getting rid of those and started separating myself from such things. And the more I read the Bible, the more I was interested in listening to preaching. I really hadn't ever listened to preaching in my life, even going to church every Sunday morning, every Sunday night, and every Friday night. I was not listening to the preaching. But I began to develop an interest in the preaching when I would go to church. And God dealt with me in the preaching. I heard of my sin that I was bound with. And that's when the Lord had really started convicting me about my sin. And then I was delivered from that sin. And then I fell back into it a couple of times. And then I really got to the point at some time where I realized that God was sanctifying me. And I'm thankful for it. And He began to sanctify me. And I knew what sanctification was. At some point, I found out what it really was. And probably as a result of actually listening to the preaching and reading the Bible. I'm thankful that God did that. And that He really encouraged me with using others in my life. The Lord put friends in my life. And He put an interest in me to talk about the Bible with my friends and with other people. And the Lord dealt with me about my shyness and started to work on me to open up and to be more outgoing. And He really made a change in my life in a short time when just certain things started falling in place. And it looked like that things were really shaping up and God was working on me. Now, there's been trials and temptations. And there has been snares that I have given into and I'm ashamed of that. But the Lord has delivered my soul from this sin. And I'm thankful for it. The Lord has sanctified me. And I'm thankful for that. And eventually, God filled me with the Holy Ghost and He called me to preach. And I love the Lord, and I'm only doing it for Him because of what He did for me. I love the Lord. I want to thank the Lord for being saved over the years. I was not raised in a Christian home. And my wife and I, two or three years ago maybe, we shared my testimony with a young lady from Highway over there because she was a children's individual. Over there because children in church are always raised up around other church people. And she had never met somebody that was never raised up in church. And I wasn't. My parents didn't go to church. It seems like a dream in a way because my mom and dad didn't go. They had no interest of going. But it seemed like I was called out of that situation. You know, I always wonder why did He call me out of my home and my parents didn't go? And I contribute some of the stuff to my grandparents, my grandmother, and my aunt, especially my grandmother. She didn't witness it to me or anything, but I would be around her and she was a church-going lady. And that was one of really my first beginnings of really listening. But then at a young age, we had people that came to our house, especially out in the country. It was a Nazarene preacher named Brother Step. I remember him. It's crucial how some people are put in your life to influence your path. And Brother Step came to our house and mom and dad allowed us to go to church with them like on vacation Bible school and stuff out in the country and do little odd and then things that way. But somehow, he got mom and dad to come to church one Sunday morning. And I was sitting between them. I was about eight, nine. And he got to preaching. And I cannot tell you, Brother Tim, what he preached on, but it touched my soul. As a little boy, I didn't understand it, but it made such an impact on me that I began to cry. I couldn't stop. And I remember mom and dad nudging me, telling me to quit. And I couldn't quit. I didn't understand what conviction was. I didn't even know there was a word of conviction in the Bible. And I didn't know a lot about the Bible at the time. I knew what that sweetness felt to me that day. It seemed like a dream back now, so many years back. But I remember after my dad moved from the country and got a job in Louisville, and then he moved just to Louisville. And I was a little boy, just like every little boy, riding your bicycle and everything. And I had a brother, Maynard Emory. Some of you know Brother Maynard Emory. He'd go with the Brooks up there, a church. And he had stopped me on the street there and invited me to a church, to a tent revival around the corner. That's how close God was. There was a tent around the corner from my house, a little place called Green Hill. It was an open field there. Around the corner, just a walking distance from my house. He invited me to a church service. It was Assemblies of God church tent revival. And I went home and I asked mama, can I go to church tonight? You know, I had a lot of stuff I could have done, you know, playing and stuff like that, outside, you know, and stuff. But mom said, as long as you get back, you know, time for bedtime, whatever. So I got cleaned up. I can't even tell you what I wore. I might have just wore short breeches and a t-shirt, just like any other little kid off the street, you know. I don't know anything differently, you know. And I went to church and I enjoyed it. Didn't understand all of it, but I enjoyed it. I mean, it was like I was about ten, maybe, at that time. And then the other ones that lived around there was friends to my mom and dad. Their parents next door, people next door to their son, live up and out with his family, invited me to the Health Avenue House of Prayer. And I went with them. And I didn't understand them either, but I know that when I look back, I see the steps of God directing my path, not knowing how, you know, that's the greatness about God's wisdom, isn't it? How He takes interest, and He does take interest in all of us, even from our little ones all the way up. And I got to thinking, when I got saved, I went to an altar one night, the preacher preached. And I remember when you first come in at Health Avenue, that back door there next to the podium there, there used to be a bench like this on the side. I knelt down over there by myself. No one there but me praying that night. And I felt an arm come around me when I asked Jesus to forgive me, because I had to realize that I was a sinner from that point. You know, my understanding as a child, you know, the things about sin and death and hell and all that. And I remember that. And I remember asking Jesus, will you please come into my heart? I don't understand everything, but I knew that I was a sinner. And He forgave me of my sins. And I felt like I was so light and so free, if you want to say. I don't know the exact words of how to say it. And from that point on, I've always wanted to serve God. And there's a place in my soul right now that I can't find words to tell how much I love my Savior for saving me. And I thank God for that. He put it in my heart. But after I got saved, Sister Carrie, He put other people in my life to teach me about holiness and all that. I didn't know the do's and don'ts. I mean, after I got saved, I wore short pants, T-shirt, sometimes an old shirt. You know, I didn't know the difference. And then there was people that taught me things that I learned as I went. But then the most important thing that I've learned is when God begins to deal with me like Brother Mike was talking about them tires, the fence, you know, the walls being built up to the tire. And then they built a second tire. And he was talking about personal convictions. And I got to thinking about some of them things, some things that may not mean anything to anybody else, but it meant something to me personally. And He still works on me to this day. And I thank God for that. But I did come from a Christian home. But I feel like God called me out of darkness into that marvelous light. And He loved me because of who I am. And He still loves people right now that are out there in the world that don't know nothing about Jesus. And I guess that's why the Lord has called me into the ministry that I do now is that it's the same thing that I felt when God called me. And I believe that if we have that desire, how God called you, that you want to go out there and tell them how much Jesus loves them. I certainly do appreciate the Lord. My children know that I don't like talking about my past. I don't like talking about those things. They ask me questions sometimes. I don't like talking about it, but I will share just a little bit of my story. I do appreciate what God has done in my life. I have to say that one of the things that I struggled with growing up was peer pressure. I always wanted to be accepted, Brother Ronnie. In elementary school, I was the kid that always got looked down upon. Brother Michael is back there smiling. I was made fun of. I was talked about. You know, they just always looked down on me. And I always wanted to be accepted. And the older I got, I had a great idea. I said, well, if I'll join in and do the things that they're doing, they'll accept me. And I knew Mom and Dad taught me right. They taught me not to do things. And I didn't want to do them, Brother Quentin, but I would just get in right in the midst of the crowd and indulge in their sin and do things. But as I would do that, Brother Michael, it seemed like it got easier and easier and easier to do those things. It just got a hold of me. By the time I was a teenager, I was out in the life of sin. I'm not proud of it at all. But one day it finally came. I don't know. I was driving at the time. And what I wanted finally came. I was accepted. Not only was I accepted, I was pretty much the life of the party. I became popular kind of. I was like, I like this. This was cool. Because this is what I always wanted. I was one being looked up to then. They always wanted me to take me out to the country clubs. Let's go and do this and all that. And I was going to these places. And I knew that it was wrong, Brother Ron. I knew Mom and Dad taught me the right way. I didn't want to go to those places, but it had a hold of me. And I didn't want to lose that life because it was cool. I was being accepted. I was being wanted. And going to the country clubs and everything else and this and going to all the rodeos, I met a guy, a young man that was a professional bull rider. And he was very popular. And I got hooked up with him, and we became good friends. And he was telling me how to apply because that's what I wanted to do. I was wanting to be a professional bull rider. My dream is to ride a bull. And that's what I set out to do. And I'd go to the rodeos, and I'd talk to the bull riders and try to get in there. But God had a different plan for my life, and I'm glad that He did. I'm thankful that He did. I remember one night, and I'm not going to go into a lot of detail, but I remember one night that I was with some friends, and I did something that I would have never, ever dreamed of ever doing. And it affected me majorly. I mean majorly. And it got a hold of me, and it scared me. And I knew then, right then, Brother Quentin, if I'd have died that night, I knew that I'd have split hell wide open. I knew where I was headed. I knew where I was going. Going down the wrong road. My dad was a, if any of you all knew my dad, he was a pretty hard man. My sister could vouch for this. He told me one time, he said, I'll tell you, Anthony, and he told me as straight-faced as he could, he said, if you ever find yourself in jail, he said, don't waste a phone call on me, because I ain't helping you. That was my dad, and he meant every word of it. But I remember I got scared. It terrified me. I knew that if I'd have died, I was going to go to hell. And I got a job at Sears. I was working there, and blowing my money, I mean, just paycheck after paycheck, just blowing it away. And I found myself going down and down and down the wrong road, and I knew that I was going to end up in a bad place sooner or later. But June the 6th, 2002, you all have heard me say it so many times, I never forget that I was coming home from work that evening, and I was coming down Ring Road, and I had just got a brand-new sound system installed in my truck. And I was coming down the road, and I had Kid Rock in my CD player playing as loud as it could go. I mean, I couldn't hear a thing around me. That's all I could hear was that music in the back of my ears. And I was listening to Kid Rock, and I was smoking a cigarette. And I remember I was coming down Ring Road, and I was going to merge over into the other lane, not paying a lick of attention to what was around me. And as I looked over, I mean, I was inches away from sideswiping this vehicle. And I went back over real fast, ran up on the curb, come off the curb. I could have flipped my vehicle right there, but God had mercy on me. And I remember I went home, and I told Mom, I said, I'm going down to Liberty and Holiness tonight, they're in revival. And I went to church that night. And Brother Ray Asher preached a message I'll never forget, on another nail in hell. And that night, me and Junior Knapper were sitting back there. And he was sitting next to me. And we were sitting back on that side of the church. And when that altar service came, Brother Ronnie, I got up. And I walked down to that altar, and I was in my Wranglers and my PBR t-shirt. Hey, man, I'll never forget it. And I walked down to that altar, and every step of the way, the devil was pulling at me. But I remember walking down to the altar, and I knelt down. And I wouldn't embarrass him for nothing in the world, but I remember Michael coming up behind me. I'll never forget it. I'm at that altar, and he laid his hand on my back. Hey, man, and he said, you know what you've got to do, Anthony. I'll never forget it, and I poured my heart out to the Lord. Hey, man, he turned my life around that night. Brother Camden, I've been in trials, and I've been in valleys. Hey, man, I've had to go back to the well of grace. And he sanctified me, and he's still sanctifying me. But I'm telling you what, he turned my life around. And I've never looked back. I've never wanted to go back to it ever again. Hey, man, he changed me. He gave me a wonderful family. And I'm glad today on Father's Day that I can stand, hey, man, and testify to my family what God has done for me. I'll never forget it, and I'll never go back to those ways again. Thank God. It could be so much different, so much different for you, Landon. Glory to God. Somebody else. Go ahead. I want to thank the Lord for everything he's done for me. I was raised in church, Brother Tim. I was raised in church from when I can remember all the way through my younger years. I remember when we first came to Highway, when we first went to Highway. It was years and years ago. It was somewhere in either 96 or 97, 1996 or 1997. I don't remember exact on the date. But that's when we first walked in. I still remember when we first started going there. But what I'm really talking about with my testimony where I want to start is 1999, 1999 when I first went to an altar and I gave my heart to God. We was in a revival with Brother Ray Asher. It was in the church of Brother Walter Fletcher's in Indiana. And I gave my heart to God that night. There was a lot of conviction in the church. There were a lot of people in the church that was under conviction for their sins. And I'll never forget that night when I went to the altar. There were so many that I wasn't noticed, Brother Tim. And it bothered me just a little bit. But my mom and dad noticed. And I guess that's the most important part. But that night, I'll never forget, that night, Brother Ron, that couple that was in that church that the Lord spoke to them, prophesied to them, told them it was pretty much their last chance. And they walked out that door. They were reaching tires in the intersection. And they went on to their destination. They didn't heed to the Word of the Lord or the Spirit of the Lord, so I'm sure they went to hell. But they were lost in sin and they went out the door and they left. I'll never forget Joe Durbin going to the altar and getting saved that night. It didn't seem like it was that important after all this stuff happened. You know, years had gone by, Brother Tim, and we would go to every revival and every church service we could with Ray Asher. We pretty much followed him around everywhere. We went from Ohio to Indiana to Tennessee to everywhere. He was in church service. Of course, Dad's a truck driver, so he didn't care to travel. So we would go just about everywhere. And I'll never forget, I got lost in the family, if that's what you could say. I was in the middle of the family. All of us were in church. We were all just going on, doing the things we were doing. Going to church with Brother Quentin. Always going to Highway. Always going to other churches. Going to London. Going to Brother Danny Scott's. Going to all these churches. And, you know, I got lost in the motions. And I went on, you know, the motions were going on. You know, we'd go to camp meetings. We'd go to all these revivals. And, you know, I just always assumed I was just fine with Quentin. But when that time came when it became an option for Joe Durbin, when I was no longer able to drive to church, when I didn't have those options to ride on my shirt tail in my family, I made a decision to back out on God and go and live my own way for a little while. And I always knew. I don't know how many times I had somebody try to tattoo something on me, and I'd tell them I just don't know. I just don't know. I can't settle on nothing. And I'd always tell them I'll think about it, but I'll get back with you. And I never went that far and done that. And there was multiple, multiple times. I come across one time where the guy tried to offer me something that was not a cigarette. And I turned it down. I had enough to know, Brother Tim, what was right and what was wrong to not make that step and go that further than I had been already. And I was living in sin, Brother Michael. I was doing things that I will not speak of up on this altar, up at this pulpit. But I'm not up here to go back on everything that I did, but I'm here to tell you God brought me a mighty long way. When I went to that altar, it was almost ten years ago in Highway of Holiness in 2014. When I went to that altar and I gave my heart to God, Brother Quentin, I was sitting there thinking, I'm my own person. I get up and I go to work every Monday morning, Brother Tim, and I do exactly what I want to do. I go where I want to go. I don't have to answer to Mom and Dad no more. I don't have to answer to nobody. But why am I sitting here so miserable tonight? And I was thinking, you know, I could go to that altar and I could be a happy person. I've got a beautiful family and I could have everything if I just go to that altar and give my heart to God. And I'll never forget the message that was preached in Naaman, dip down seven times, get self out of the way. And I don't remember exactly the title of that message, but I felt like I needed to go and dip again. I felt like I needed to go to that altar and give my heart to God, and that's what I did that night. And I'll never have any regrets for walking to that altar. That night in October when I walked to that altar and I gave my heart to God, it has never been something I look back to, Brother Quentin, and thought, you know, I wish I would have done something different. I'm glad that when I was up in that altar and I gave my heart to God, I made a decision that it was not worth what I was living that, Brother Anthony. I'll never forget I rode a motorcycle, as all of you know. You kind of have to know. I don't remember the way things went and turned out, but I'd get upset with Lindsey and my thing was we would have an argument or something and neither one of us were saved and I would take it out on my vehicle. I'd either drive real fast or I'd drive real stupid. Kind of both was mixed up in the same. But I would take off on that motorcycle and I don't remember how many times. I'd go up through the grass where we was living and I'd leave a 150 foot skid mark up the grass until I hit the road and then I'd take off on that. I'd drive up and down them roads, Brother Anthony. That one lane road where we lived at, I'd drive up and down that road. I'd have that thing geared plumb out and I was going at it. I'd take them curves over 100 miles an hour and it wasn't no joke. But there's just something about that time, that last ride that I was on that bike and I had just gave my life to God and I come around that curve and hit that truck head on. Just something about that. I'm glad I made that decision. It has taken me a mighty long ways and I'll never forget what He has brought me from. I'm here to tell you tonight that choice is never simple to walk away from God because it becomes something that haunts you. Brother Walter Fletcher, very recently, a couple of weeks ago, his wife died and I found out last week that she died in her sleep. She backslid a few years ago, probably 10 or more years ago, maybe 20 now. But she backslid, Brother Tim, and she lived a life of misery. And she died in her sleep just like that. I'm so thankful that the Lord has moved on my family, moved on my wife, moved on my children and moved on my life that I don't have to worry about what I used to worry about when I laid my head down and worried about when I wake up in hell because it's my last time. When I wake up in a different place, Brother Michael, and I'll not have another second chance. But God seemed fit to save Joe Durbin that night. And I gave my heart to God. Yes, I've made mistakes since. Yes, I've not always been the strongest Christian that ever walked. I'm not now the strongest. I've got a long ways to go. I'm not there yet, Brother Quentin. I've got a lot of things to do. I've got a lot of things to accomplish still, I feel like. We all do. There's those people we talk to at work. People we come across in the grocery stores. That's where we are here for. We are here to win souls to Christ. And I'm here to thank the Lord for everything that He's done for me. Sanctifying me. Filling me with the Holy Ghost. Calling me to preach. Brother Michael, I'll never forget what the Lord has done for me. Amen. Amen. I remember the first time I met Sister Lindsey. We had heard that Joe Durbin had a second child. So we figured we'd go visit. And so we took a gift and we brought Robbie a girl gift because we hadn't heard. We didn't know that they had a boy, the first one, so sorry about that. But when they got committed to God, God saved Joseph and Lindsey. I remember thinking, talking to my wife about it, what a difference that these children will grow up in the direction that they were heading. I thank God for it. Now maybe you're not ready yet this morning, or this afternoon now, to give your testimony. But I want to ask somebody, come back tonight prepared, okay? I'm not asking you, you know, you might say my testimony is not interesting. We're not here to make interesting testimonies. We're here to give glory to God. That's it. That's it. You know, I don't want you to think, well, nobody will be impressed or nobody will think that's really something. It will strengthen people when you give your testimony. So I do want to ask folks to come prepared tonight. And if we run out of time, so be it. We'll do it again, okay? So let's be prepared. Thanking God for the service today. Glad for the Sunday schools. I'm so happy for all of you. I love you all. I love you all. The Lord knows that I do, and I hope that I can demonstrate that well to you. But I sure do appreciate everyone. So let's remember the service tonight. We'll come back at 6 o'clock. Please be prepared for worship and to hear from God and to offer to God things that we can give him. I want everybody to have a great Father's Day this afternoon. Enjoy your family doing what the Lord would have you to do. So let's stand together, and we'll be dismissed with prayer. Will you dismiss us, please? Those that come before you, we're so thankful again for your mercy, your grace, and God's bestowed upon us. God, thank you, Lord, before and after your blessing this morning. God, upon this service, the meal, the spirit, the God that was here today, God, for the testimony.