THE SOUND FROM HEAVEN

Let's lift up His name, magnify His name, worship the King of kings, worship the Lord of lord, and begin to praise Him.
Begin to magnify Him, He is worthy to be praised, He is worthy to be adored. Lift His name high, He is the Almighty God, give Him all glory, give Him all honors, give Him all adoration, bless His name.
Bless His name; King of kings, Lord of lords, Ancient of days, Unchangeable Lord, we lift you high.
We bless your holy name, we give you all glory, we give you all honor, we give you all adoration Lord.
Blessed be your holy name, Kings of kings and Lord of lords blessed be your holy name, thank you Ancient of days blessed be your holy name.


Thank You Jesus, thank you Father.  We worship you; you are worthy to be praised, you are worthy to be adored, please be glorified forever.

Yes Lord we worship you, we magnify your holy name, thank you Daddy, thank you Almighty God, blessed be your name Lord...

In Jesus mighty name we worshiped.

I want you to lift your voice to God and say Father, please before this year end, give me a pleasant surprise....

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Lift your voice to him and say Father don't let me carry any problem over into the coming year, don't let me carry any evil into the coming year........

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

You are high and lifted up,

There is no one like you (Halleluiah!)

You are high and lifted up,

There is no one like you (Halleluiah!)



Jehovah you are the most high (Halleluiah!)

King of kings; you are most high (Halleluiah!)

Lord of lords you are the most high, (Halleluiah!)

Redeemer you are the most high (Halleluiah!)

Physician you are the most high (Halleluiah!)

Provider you are the most high (Halleluiah!)

Elshadai you are the most high. (Halleluiah!)



Almighty God, King of kings Lord of lords, Ancient of days, Unchangeable changer, the Holy One of Israel, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Rock of ages, glory be to your holy name.

Thank you for January, Thank you for February, Thank you for March, Thank you for April, Thank you for May, Thank you for June, Thank you for July, Thank you for August, Thank you for September, thank you for October and Lord thank you for November.

Please accept our worship in Jesus name.

Father this year is going to an end, long before this year ends; let all our problems be over.

In the way that only you can do it; before the New Year, give us a pleasant surprise.

Tonight let us hear from heaven, send your word to us , heal us tonight, deliver us tonight, set the captives free tonight, save souls tonight, do something mighty tonight.

Father not only for us who are here but all those who are listening by Radio, by Television, on the Internet all over the world, today visit all of us in Jesus name.

At end of everything, let your name be glorified.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

Let someone shout a big halleluiah!

Prayer for those born in November

My Father and my God I want to commit your children born in the month of November into your hands, November is the eleventh month of the year; eleven  is ten plus one, and so eleven is double grace plus extra.

For all these children;  give them extra blessings, extra joy, extra testimonies, extra breakthroughs, in all areas of their lives, let their joy overflow and let their new year be extremely successful and let them serve you like never before.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

November children congratulation, God bless you.

ANNOUNCEMENT

This is the last Holy Ghost service of this year; that means there will be no Holy Ghost service the first Friday of next month, the reason being that next month is Congress time.

The congress this year will be from December 9th to -14th  2013 and the theme of the Congress is The OVERFLOW.

David said, Thou anointed my head with oil, my cup runs over.

Some people manage to survive, but some people leave in the overflow.

Physically; they overflow with health,

Materially; they overflow with blessings,

Spiritually; they overflow with anointing.

Just a little over a month from now, there will be someone here listening to me who will begin to overflow in every areas of life.

Do everything within your power to tell your friends, relatives including your enemies to attend this year congress.

It is going to be one of a kind; there have never be a one like it before, there may never be another one like it in the future, so don't miss this year holy Ghost Congress, the theme is OVERFLOW.

The song we will be singing as we advertise the congress is simply:

I HEAR A SOUND FORM HEAVEN 2CE

MY BLESSINGS SHALL FLOW IN

I HEAR A SOUND FROM HEAVEN.

Genesis 1 V 1-3 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth, and the earth was without form and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light; and there was light.

The first time there was a sound in heaven, the very first time in the history of man that God spoke; what He said was let there be light.

And there was light.

So tonight in the Name that is above every other name, I am echoing the voice of my Father, as I say to you, in every facet of your life there will be light.

That first sound from heaven; let there be light of course could mean several thing but the basic thing is darkness get out of the way.

In Mark 10 v 46-52 the Bibles tells us that there was this blind man who was born blind and he heard that Jesus was passing by and so he began to cry; Lord have mercy on me!

And there was a multitude and when there is a multitude, there are all manners of noises but this man wanted to hear just one voice, one noise from heaven, when he finally got to the presence of Jesus Christ and he heard that sweet voice;

What can I do for you?

So that I might receive my sight,

The voice came from heaven,

Receive your sight.

Let there be light and immediately there was light.

In all areas of your life where there have been darkness, they will light tonight.

Let there be light means darkness depart,

In Mark 5 v 1-15 we have heard of him again and again this mad man of Gadara who has six thousand demons.

Six thousand forces of darkness holding him captive.

But one day Jesus came on the scene and the mad man heard a voice from heaven saying to the demons go.

Forces of darkness depart and they all departed.

It doesn't matter how many forces of darkness has been tormenting you, today they will hear a sound from heaven, they will lose you and let you go in Jesus name.

When that first sound came from heaven; a new day was born, because the Bible say in the beginning God created heaven and the earth the earth was without form and empty, there was darkness all over the place but the moment he spoke, the first day began.

Psalm 30 v 5 says weeping may endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.

The first sound you are going to hear from heaven today is that, you shall weep no more.

Thank you Father, the Lord say there is a student here tonight; He said the fire that the enemy started in your brain has been put out.

A new day, a new dawn, a new day of joy is dawning for someone here tonight.

I heard the testimony of one young man who wasn't just born blind, he had no eye balls, where eyes were supposed to be were just empty sockets.

Then one great evangelist was holding a crusade that was to last a week.

And every night they took this boy there, the first night the man of God preached about the creative power of God, that God can create what was not there originally.

The faith of the boy jumped!

"That is what I need."

But he left the crusade that night, he was still blind.

But when he woke up in the morning and he was washing his face; he discovered that the eyes where the socket used to be was very cold.

Incredibly cold because there was no blood flowing there, he felt some warmth there, he came to the crusade the second day

Nothing still happened other than that warmth.

But when he woke up the second day, he saw that something seems to be bulging where there is a socket.

The Third day he came to the crusade and suddenly he heard a voice from heaven that says you can open your eye now.

I am prophesying to someone here today, before Monday you will shout a big victory shout.

And then God spoke again in the same Genesis 1 v 4-5  He said and God saw the light and it was good and God divided the light from the darkness called the light day.

The darkness he called night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

God spoke again, another sound from heaven, he said light you will be day, darkness you will be night and I separate the two of you.

Second voice, the second sound that came from heaven is that there will be a separation between light and darkness.

A separation between you and your enemies; a separation between you and those who want to destroy you.

In Exodus 12 v 21- 36 the night that God was going to visit Egypt to destroy all the first born, He put a separation between the children of Israel and the children of Egypt.

So if you read Psalm 68 v 1-3 the Bible says let God arise and let his enemies be scattered.

He said as wax melt before fire, let the enemies melt before the Almighty God; He said but let the righteous rejoice.

Every one of you truly serving the Living God, between now and tomorrow morning, a definite separation will come between you and your enemies.

Those of you who are a little older you will remember the testimony when we were still in the second auditorium which is now the children auditorium.

A woman came from the next town for the convention and after we finished one night, she wanted to go home quickly to go and get something, on the way she entered into a bus not knowing she was being kidnapped.

So they took her and one other brother far into the jungle.

And they were doing all manners of atrocities to those people that were In front of them.

But then ... they already took this woman they were already shaving her hair off in preparative to whatever they wanted to do but all of a sudden behind her back, the brother they picked with her began to speak in tongue and as he began to speak in tongues trouble came in the camp of the enemies.

Who brought this one here?

Where did they get them?

And they told him they got them in front of the Camp,

"Ah you took the wrong people!

Get away from here and immediately they set them free.

In the name that is above every other name, those who want to destroy you will hear a sound from heaven and they will release you.

There were several other sounds but because we have another meeting after this one, we will go to Genesis 1 v 20-21

It reads and God said (that I heard another sound from heaven)

Let the waters bring forth abundantly, the moving creature that has life and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

One of the sounds that came was the beginning of human race.

At the beginning of creation was when God said; bring forth plentiful, increase tremendously.

In the Name that is above every other name, tonight, you will hear a sound from heaven and that sound is going to say increase abundantly.

In 1 King 17 v 8-16 the widow of Zarepath had only one meal left which she wanted to prepare for herself and her son to eat and die.

But then a prophet of God came and for the first time in her life, she had a word of prophesy, she had a sound from heaven, a sound that said;

No! your oil is not going to dry up, it is going to increase abundantly. You flower is not going to extinct, it is going to increase abundantly and the abundant increase began.

In 2 King 4 v 1-7 another widow had two sons, and a lot of debts and the creditors have come and said if you don't pay by tomorrow we are going to sell your sons.

She ran to the man of God and from the mouth of the man of God came a sound from heaven.

The sound that says: the little that you have will increase abundantly and before the end of that day she had paid her debt and she had enough to live on for the rest of her life.

I represent the Most High God today; I stand on this holy altar to prophesy to someone in the Name that is above every other name, all that you owe shall be paid and you will never lack again.

When you are looking for an example of increasing abundantly you will find it in the life of the children of Israel.

Genesis 46 v 26-27 says the numbers of souls that Israel brought into Egypt including Joseph who was already there were seventy.

Seventy souls came into a town but by the time you read Exodus 12 v 37 when they were leaving Egypt the Bible says the men alone numbered six hundred thousands, not counting women or children.

They came in as seventy; they left more than six hundred thousand.

I am believing the Almighty God for someone here tonight; before this time next year, you will look at yourself and said I don't understand; I was very small last year, I was very small last year but now I have increased tremendously.

I give all the glory to the Almighty God for his faithfulness, because many at times when we read some of these things in the Bible there is a tendency for us to believe that can only happen in the old days.

But The Redeemed Christian Church of God started with twelve people.

But as long ago as 1981 when by his grace I became The General Overseer, we had forty Churches; one headquarters, thirty nine parishes in all together.

The convention we had in 1980; the total number of people who attended the convention in 1980 was a little over six hundred people and we thought that was big.

Today by the grace of the Almighty God we are in one hundred and seventy four Nations of the world.

There is a God, a God who can speak from heaven and suddenly little will begin to increase abundantly.

That God of The Redeemed Christian of God will speak to you tonight. He will say to you; increase abundantly.

And then there was another sound from heaven, and I love this one, let me read it to you from Genesis 1v 28

He says that: And God blessed them.

You know it is impossible to bless someone with your mouth close.

When you want to bless you open your mouth, a sound came from heaven to Adam and Eve and God says I bless you.

There is someone here tonight, you will hear a sound from heaven saying, you are blessed.

In Genesis 27 v 26-27 Isaac blessed Jacob and if you read that passage alone, you will know the meaning of blessing.

I think I have explained the meaning of blessing before;

A blessing is a summon to all the forces in heaven, all the forces on earth, all the forces underneath the earth to come and help you succeed.

I was telling my children yesterday, there is no bigger prayer than God bless you.

If God bless you does not solve your problems, nothing can.

Because when God blesses you, all the angels will begin to help you, even demons will begin to fight demons to make sure they clear your way for you.

I say tonight to every one of you who happen to be my children, God bless you.

You see you will find an example in Genesis 48 V 8-20 when Joseph brought his two children to his father in Egypt for blessing, the young one is Ephraim the elder is Manasseh.

In fact their father Joseph positioned the two of them so that the right hand of his father can lie on Ephraim and the left hand on Manasseh.

But his father crossed his hand.

And Joseph said to Jacob (because by then Jacob couldn't see),



sir, no, you are putting the right hand on the wrong head,

Jacob said I know what I'm doing.

He said the younger is going to be greater than the elder.

He blessed them with his hands crossed.

I have always told my children when they ask me what is the meaning of the crossed hand?.

And I say I don't know all the full meanings, but when your father wants to bless the two of you, put your head where your father's right hand is.

That right hand carries tremendous power.

Within a short period of time, the blessings of Ephraim were ten times that of Manasseh; the young one has been blessed ten times more.

Well am raising my right hand to all my children tonight and am saying God bless you.

I have told you the story of one of my children who came to help me when I was at the university of Ilorin.

He came to help me repair all the electrical installation in my apartment and when he was about to leave, I said how much am I going to pay?

He said "how can I work for you and you pay? 

He said all I just want from you is that you pray for me.

I have no money to travel back; you can give me money to travel back and pray for me that is all I want.

I said there is no need to pray for you. You have done this for me?

The Bible says you honor a prophet, you get a prophet's reward.

I said my son God bless you.

I gave him money for transport; he had no money for transport that was how poor he was.

When I saw him two weeks later he was riding his own brand new car.

How did it happen?

He came down from the vehicle that brought him to Lagos at Iddo Motor Park.

And as he was coming out he saw one of his classmates, someone they studied together in College of Tech at Yaba.

Long time no see, what are you doing now?

That one says I am working in Dordon barracks, and you?

I am practicing electrical engineering.

The one in Dordon barrack said see me tomorrow,

He saw him tomorrow and things changed.

The one who will help you to reach your goal you will meet you this month.

Daddy says that there is someone here tonight; He said if you command that mountain tonight, I will help you move it into the sea.

Daddy asked me to give you two minute to command any mountain that you want out of your way...

In Jesus mighty name it shall be so.

The Lord says there is someone here tonight, He said I created you to be a blessing and regardless of your situation you will be a blessing.

In Genesis 1 v 28 God blessed them and said unto them be fruitful and multiply and replenished the earth.

Another sound from heaven says be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth.

You know in the songs 4v2 the Bible says clearly there shall be non-barren among the children of God.

When I got this revelation years ago, I told those who came to Shiloh hour that day, I said:

Lay your hand on your womb, command the womb and say womb you must obey God. It is a commandment from God that you are to be fruitful, and you must be fruitful.

But we are not just talking about the fruit of the womb again now, there are some brains that are not fruitful. 

You know it takes one idea to make you a billionaire. And yet there are some brains that can go from one idea to another, idea keeps coming because they are fruitful.

Lay your hands on your head and say brain, hear the word of the Lord, be fruitful...

In Jesus mighty name.

In 2Kings 4v8-17 the Shunammite woman had everything except a child and she was hospitable, she was looking after Elisha the man of God, she even built a house for the man of God.

And then one day she had a sound from heaven, when the man of God said nine month from now you will have a son, she didn't believe, but the sound didn't come from man it came from heaven.

And a sound is coming to someone here tonight, physically you shall be fruitful, mentally you shall be fruitful, spiritually you shall be fruitful.

I have just returned from Britain and there was lot of testimonies, but I had one that made me dance.

One friend of mine a professor said sir,

You will remember that some time ago, I wanted to bring my secretary to you for prayers because she has been trusting God for the fruit of the womb but by the time I phone you, you were already on your way out.

But you said give her the phone let me pray for her and as I prayed over the phone, the Almighty God backed up the voice of His servant.

My friend said sir; she has given birth to triplet.

She heard a sound via the phone, now you are not hearing your own via the phone now you are hearing it direct;

You shall be fruitful, you shall multiply, you shall replenish the earth.

The same Genesis 1 v 28, He didn't stop there, after He said God bless them, God said unto them  be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea  and over the fowl of the air and over everything  living thing hovering upon the earth.

Sounds from heaven say have dominion;

You know what that one means? Be in charge, take control.

In Exodus 12 v 30-32 we hear Pharaoh saying to Moses bless me also.

The one who used to control Moses came to him to beg for help.

In the Name that is above every other name, from tonight you will begin to control your controllers.

Each time I read Joshua 10 v 12 -14 when Joshua was fighting and the sun was about to set and he said I have not finished my assignment, if darkness falls my enemies will escape.

He said, sun stand where you are!

Moon stay where you are!

Nobody had ever done that before.

But God says have dominion, be in charge.

The problem with many of us is that instead of running from our enemy, we should be in charge.

David didn't run from the lion; he said come Lion, I will beat you to death. Come Goliath I will cut off your head. Be in charge!

I was invited to come and preach in Denver Colorado in January of one year.

And if you know any Geography at all you will know that place can be very cold in January and I don't like it cold.

God knows what He was doing when He made me a Nigerian.

I don't like living in the cooler, some of you don't mind living in Ice box, I prefer to have my weather like this.

"Daddy I have been invited should I go"? He said yes,

What are we going to do about the cold?

He said you go ahead I will go along with you.

Wherever you go as from now on, God will go with you.

From the day I arrived till the day I was about to leave people were wearing t-shirt because summer replaced winter.

Now the beauty of it was, my plane took off at 5pm, within two hours of my leaving, more than ten centimeter of snow fell because what God did was that He just suspended the snow until I got out of the way then He released it.

I prophesy to you today, whatever  God has to suspend in other for you to reach your goal, shall be suspended tonight in Jesus name.

I want you to have some time to pray tonight, I want to leave Genesis, maybe one of this days, the Lord will allows to use SOUNDS FROM HEAVEN  for Congress, so that we can spend a whole week to look at it.

I want you to look at 2King 7 v 1-11 you will hear Elisha saying to the people, he said within twenty four hours there will be abundance in Samaria.

At a time when things were so bad that women were eating their own children.

The man of God got up and said within twenty four hours there will be so much food nobody will want to buy.

Which caused an academician, the economic adviser of the king to say "how can that be?

Even if God opens the windows of heaven and begins to pour in food, how can that be?"

And the man of God said "you will see it only you won't be part of it.

But the beauty of that story was that the Bible says there were four lepers outside the gate and they said to themselves why are we sitting down here until we die?

If we sit down here, hunger will kill us. There is no food in the city so don't need to go into the city, let's go to the camp of the enemies.

The worst they can do is kill us, after all if they kill us we will die quickly.

So they began towards the camp of the enemies. And as they were moving their legs were shuffling because they were lepers.

The Almighty God pick up the noise that there legs were making to heaven, amplified it and sends it to the camp of the enemy.

When the enemies heard the sound; they say they said ah!

A great army is coming and they fled, they left all their food, all their clothes, all their money and they ran.

God can speak, make a single statement in heaven; His children will hear one thing His enemies will hear another thing.

The children asked within twenty four hours your problems are over; the enemies heard within twenty four hours the attackers will come and overtake you.

One sound from heaven and immediately the siege was over.

Even if you don't hear any other thing tonight, you are going to hear a sound that says the siege is over.

It could be a siege against your health; like in the case of the woman in Mark 5v 25-34 the woman with the issue of blood.

There was a siege against her health, the blood was dropping. A drop at a time continuously the enemy just decided that this woman was not going to get well, but the Almighty God lifted the siege.

Everyone here tonight, with any form of sickness, any form of disease, any form of pain, in the Name that is above every other name, the siege against your health is over.

It could be a siege against your finance's like the same woman the Bible said she spent all she had on physician and instead of getting better she grew worse but in a single day the siege against her finances was lifted.

And I know what this can be; before I became born again I was a lecturer in the university, in those days lecturers were well paid and glory day will return.

So I had a car and I had a driver, I could afford a driver. But there was a siege against my money, I will pay the driver at the beginning of the month and by the fifteen of the month I will be borrowing money from him to buy petrol.

Then I met the Lord Jesus Christ and the siege was lifted.

Whatever is like siege that is draining your resources, that siege is ceased in your life today in Jesus name.

Maybe  the siege is against your children, 2Kings 4v 1-7 the enemies was actually after the children of the widow, otherwise how could you come to a widow and say if you don't pay our money within twenty for hours, we are going to sell your sons.

Why?

Why the sons?, the enemies knows that if he can deal with those boys then the family will have no future, no heritage, no legacy.

There might be one or two people here tonight, the enemy has decided to focus on your children, on your son or your daughter or your entire family, tonight the siege is lifted.

It could even be a siege against your destiny.

In Mark 5v 1-20 the mad man of Gadara, who would have thought that the plan of God for this man was to be an evangelist, the enemy knew  that this man was going to be mightily use of God and decided that no, no!

Before he can become an evangelist let's grab him. And to make sure that he will never become what God wants him to become, he didn't send one demon, seven or ten, he sent six thousand.

But that man heard a sound from heaven and his destiny was full restored.

I know there are people here listening to me that you knew it deep within you, even when you were young that the plan of God for your life is for you to be great but now you look at yourself and you are growing old and there is no sign of greatness at all.

In fact you are merely surviving.

You will hear a sound from heaven from tonight, your destiny shall be restored.

Sound from heaven, children of God heard one thing, the enemy heard another.

Thank you my Father; it seems as if God is focusing on student because He is saying there is a student here tonight, He said one day you will be listed among the most brilliant people of the world.

Daddy says there is someone here tonight, He said very soon you will compose your own song and the song will go something like this: Now the flood gates are open, I am more than a conqueror"

The Lord says there is someone here tonight, He said there are two words and the two words are sisters, they are relative. And He said the two will never occur in your life again, and the two words are failure and defeat.

Romans 6 v 23 the Bible says the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is life and is to be found in Jesus Christ.

If you are a child of the living God you will hear good news from heaven, but if you refuse to accept Him, you will also hear sound from heaven saying the wages of sin is death.

But tonight there is a sound from heaven coming to every sinner saying come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest.

The Savior is still pleading saying there is an invitation, come and be safe from your sins.

Come let me wash away your sins, come let me give you a new beginning.

I know there are at least a few people here from the moment you step in something tells you "God is going to speak to me today.

I know I have to surrender to him tonight".

Like the one who spoke before me said, he said the sound is not effective until you do something about it.

It is an invitation to you now, come and surrender your life to Jesus.

If you like accept the invitation, if you like ignore it, but if I were you, I will run forward now and give my life to Jesus Christ.

Come and cry unto Him and say Lord I have heard of your voice speaking of your love for me, and I want you Lord Almighty to draw me near, near your side so that I can wash in that precious blood, come quickly

As you come begin to pray, begin to cry unto Him and say Lord begin to have mercy on me, save my soul.

Lord have mercy, please be my Lord and savior.

Come this is your day of salvation, come and cry unto Him for mercy, for salvation, call on Him tonight.

Cleanse me with your blood; I will serve you for the rest of my life

Please the rest of us let us intercede for these people also that the savior who saved our souls will save their own souls also, that the Almighty God will be merciful unto them...

In Jesus name we have prayed.

In the mighty name of Jesus, I want to thank you for your word I want to thank you for this people who have come forward to surrender their live to you, you promise oh Lord, you will not cast out, please receive them in Jesus name, forgive them in Jesus name.

Cleanse them in your blood in Jesus name, save their souls, write their names in the book of life and from now on anytime they call on you please answer them by fire, from now on let them hear the sound of joy and let them serve you till the end please don't let them backslide.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed. Amen

I want to rejoice with those of you who have come forward tonight, I'm rejoicing with you because by the grace of God, I will be praying for you and very soon you will be receiving miracles that will show you somebody somewhere is praying for you, that is why I will need your name, your address @ your prayer requests.

PRAYER POINTS:

1. Praise God

2. Father, please speak light to my life

3. Father, put a solid divider between me and forces of darkness forever.

4. Father, command abundance into my destiny

5. Father, please pronounce a special blessing on me and my family tonight.

6. Father, command an end to fruitlessness in my home

7. Father, put me in total control of all situations in my life.

8. Father put an end to every form of siege in my life

9. Father, please command total victory for all my neighbors tonight.

10. Your own Individual requests.

... In Jesus mighty name we have prayed.

The Almighty God will grant your request, the light of God will shine into your lives, God will put a major barrier between you and darkness, from His throne in heaven, He will pronounce His special blessings on you.

In your entire family there will be no more bareness, there will be no more fruitlessness.

You will no longer labor in vain; the Almighty God will command abundance into your life.

From now on you will be controlling your controllers.

Every siege against your health, against your finances, against your family, against your destiny are cancelled now, it shall be well with you, your blessings shall overflow, you will never know sorrow again.

So shall it be and you will serve the Lord.

In Jesus mighty name we have prayed. Amen.

Let me hear somebody shout halleluiah!