3 Most Imporatant Thing for 2025 | DR. Mike Woods | 1 JAN 25

Well, praise the Lord, everybody. I pray you are good this evening. This is the day the Lord has made. Matter of fact, this is the year of the devil's defeat, and we are excited, uh, to be alive. Happy New Year to everyone. I pray that you are well. I pray that the grace of God is strong it's powerful, uh, it's filled with joy in your life. Listen, if you're here right now, I need you to go ahead, please, guys, and share this experience. Praise God. I believe that somebody needs to hear this word on tonight. I'm not going to be long, but I wanted to kind of bring you in really quickly to share a few things with you, and I wanted to say Happy New Year. I pray that Everybody is doing extremely well. Glory to God. So do me a favor, hit that like button, hit that share button, uh, let us know that you are here. Comment below. Praise God. Uh, good to see you, Bruce. Happy New Year to you today, sir. Thank you for being here. Uh, just a few moments, I'm not going to be long. Uh, some of you will catch this by replay, but I wanted to jump on here tonight. I've been pretty much relaxing all day long. Um, and the Lord had dropped these things in my heart actually, uh, a few days ago to share with you concerning this year. I mean, and it really is stuff I've been teaching most of my life, but the reality is, uh, there is an urgency to embrace these 3 things I'm about to share with you and actually move your life into the dimension that God is calling you to move And so again, hi Stephanie, God bless you, welcome, Happy New Year to you, glory to the name of God. You guys type in the comments, let me know if you can hear me clearly. I want to make sure our audio is, um, doing exactly what we needed to do tonight. So please, uh, make me aware that you're able to hear, uh, praise the name of God. God is so good. So we're going to pray in a few moments, but before we do, I wanted to, uh, glory to God, I wanted to make sure, praise God, that I shared a few things with you. Okay, uh, one of the things I want to share, glory to God, as you're sharing, as people are coming in, uh, this week, praise God, uh, we're going into an amazing revival starting on tomorrow night. And I wanted to take a brief moment right here to honestly invite you. I want to challenge you guys. Listen, you really, uh, and truly, uh, don't need to miss this meeting. Glory to God, it's gonna be fire, it's gonna be good, and you need to be in the house. Glory to God. So Apostle Cornelius will be here. I talked to him today, uh, he's super excited about coming, and glory to God, you ought to be super excited about attended. Praise God. So I want you guys to make sure, uh, you're in the house. Glory to God. And come and get all that you need from God. The information is on the screen. Uh, you can scan that QR code there. Uh, praise God. And go ahead and get on our text list. Uh, we're trusting God that we're gonna have, um, not enough seats for this meeting. So I honestly want to make sure that you guys have a place to sit. Glory to the name of God. So go ahead and make sure you get on the VIP list if you have not already done that. Praise God. So yes, this meeting is going to be great. Uh, the power of God is going to be present, and you need to be in the house, people. Glory to the name of God. I promise you Uh, you'll be glad you did. Anytime Apostle and I get together and tag team, uh, not just because it's us, but just because the hunger we have for God and the hunger we have to see God's people blessed, healed, delivered, set free, something supernatural always happens. And listen, you want to make sure that you are a part— glory to God— of this great meeting. Praise God. So let's pray tonight. Glory to God. And I'm gonna jump into what I want to share. Like I said, I'm not going to be long, uh, but I do want to give you what's in my heart. I'm gonna give you really the 3 most important things that you need to embrace this year. One, so that you can have really a great year. Listen, no matter what idea you embrace about what '25 is going to be the year of, It will not matter if you don't embrace these principles I'm about to give you and apply them, because at the end of the day, God is working in such a way where there must be— again, there's an urgency for accuracy, there's an urgency for alignment with what's on God's mind. So I want you on this first day of the year to really make up your mind, guys, that you're gonna throw away your agenda. All right, um, so, you know, this is— this tonight is for people that want a better you, you know, and I'm gonna give you what I feel like you need. And at the end of the day, uh, you know, if you apply it, you'll, you'll see the blessing, you'll see the increase, you'll see the breakthrough of this. Um, some people will scroll by this and won't stay, okay? And, and probably those people are going to remain the Uh, but for those of us that can be disciplined enough to be a learner, because most of you have been programmed to a minute and 30 seconds on social media, and, and most of the time you watch less than that. So you'll start watching it, and with something about whatever you're watching doesn't interest or appease your carnality or your flesh, you keep scrolling. And the reality is, family, we're going to have to take the position of a learner if we want to accomplish what God has called us to accomplish in this year to come. So let's pray, and then I'm gonna release these things and I'm gonna get out of your way tonight. Listen, please share this, man. Share it. Some— again, somebody needs to hear this tonight. So I need you to go ahead and I need you to share this. Glory to God. Oh, God bless you, Stephanie. Looking forward to seeing you and your guests. Glory to God. It'll be great to have you in the house. Praise God. All right, let's jump into this, guys. Let's pray, and we're going to jump into this night. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for your goodness. I thank you for your mercy. Dear God, I thank you for your grace. I thank you for your favor. I thank you, God, that besides you there is no other. It's in you we live, it's in you we move, Father, it's in you we have our being. You're the joy and the lifter of our head. God, I thank you that heaven is your throne and the earth is your footstool. And Father, tonight as we disseminate these prophetic instructions, I pray, God, that we will experience the light and the illumination and the intelligence of the Holy Spirit. Father, I thank you that you'll do something that man cannot do, and I give you glory and honor for it now in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Again, Happy New Year, guys. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And if you're with me tonight, stay with me. Glory to God. I promise you, you're gonna be glad you did. So the 3 most important keys to 2025. Let's jump right in it. I want to lay a foundation with a couple of scriptures, and we're going to build this whole talk on the substratum of these two verses. So let's first go to Psalms, uh, verse number 16— I mean, I'm sorry, the 16th division of Psalms and verse number 11. The Bible says this, it says, thou will show me the path of life. In thy presence is fullness of joy and At thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore. Now he says, thou will show me. The word show in Hebrew is yada, y-a-d-a, which is also the word know in Hebrew, which means to intimately inspect or perceive, to see as God sees. So I want you to see something here really quick, and we're gonna— and I'm gonna give you these keys. But I want to break this verse down really fast. When God shows you something, his intent is for you to perceive it— watch this— exactly the way he showed it to you, not for you to perceive it and try to change it and make it fit your circumstance. So it's important that you understand this piece tonight. Because one of the keys I'm going to give you is a key to seeing what God sees and understanding that you must align yourself— hear me, family— with God's perspective of your life. Touch yourself and say, I want to see myself the way God sees me. Oh boy, I wish you grabbed this tonight. Matter of fact, write it in the comments: I want to see myself the way God sees me. See, here's the problem. Many times in our life, we're beating out a path, we're following a way that is based in someone else's perception, or what I call nominal perception, or psychological debilitating perception, where you have received words from people in your life who spoken actually word curses over you by diminishing your potential, diminishing your ability, telling you what you can and cannot do. Hear me, guys. Hear me, family. Oh, I need you to grab this tonight. But you gotta now be promoted from nominal perception, where you perceive yourself as limited because people have looked at you that way. But I want to submit to you, you are far greater than others' perception of you. Ooh-wee, ooh-wee. Listen, I'm telling you, I want you to have a great 2025, but in order to do that, you got to get delivered from approval addiction. Some of you are so addicted to being approved by other people that you shape your life based on their opinions. And watch this, what they want to see of you. And so there are some people who have created pseudo-success paths because they did it to please a perception— watch this— that was not God. So the key here is seeing yourself the way God sees you. So the Bible says here, he'll show me the path of life in thy presence. The path, the orach, orach in Hebrew, that word means— watch this, guys, um, he'll show you the design, the plans, the way you should be living, what you should be building in your life. The word orach, or orach in Hebrew, is where we get words like architecture. An architect designs a building, a house, before you see the physical manifestation of it. Now here's the key to that. When that architect designs their house— listen to me, guys— the house is finished because you have to take those plans of that house, that building, to the city. The city reviews them and approves them and stamps the building finished. Which means you cannot go back to that design and change anything while you're building without getting another approval. Watch this. Your life has already been pre-approved. God has already had a design for you. And as you move— oh my God, feel the anointing. Have mercy, Jesus. As you navigate through 2025, I want you to free yourself. Hear me. From faulty designs, from plans that didn't emerge from supernatural architecture. Oh boy, oh boy, supernatural architecture has already, before you ever got here, designed a plan for your life. And you gotta now choose to live life by design. We're gonna talk about a minute when I get to the 3 things. I'm gonna be done. I just want to break this text down so you'll understand what it's saying. He says, listen, I want to show you the path of life. I want to show you life by design. I want to show you the plans that I created for you. You and I have some significance. Oh God, that man didn't give us, that the world can't give us, that— watch this— that even our, uh, progenitors and our matriarchs could not give us. All they could do was nurture what's inside of us. Now here's the problem with patriarchs and matriarchs who don't understand who you are. Your parents— watch this— cannot be clear about what you need and who you are. And what they'll do is raise you to serve a purpose in their mind. And if your parents don't pray over you and about who you really are They won't shape you and put you in position to succeed. And no worries, it's not too late. You have a Heavenly Father that is totally interested in making sure the design that he has on your life— oh my God— that that design is maximized, that design comes forth, that design is actually realized. Hear me, family. Glory to God. Hear me. I got, I got to get out of here. He said, but thou will show me the path of life in thy presence. Whoo! Shai, shabbat, uh, in thy panim. God, I feel the Holy Ghost. I, I said I wasn't gonna be on as long, and I'm not, but Jesus, glory to God, I feel him. He says, in thy presence. Watch this, in thy face, and it— oh, in thy intellect. So the presence of God is not necessarily what we have called Oh boy, because we're gonna be in church and say, oh, the presence was there. But naim means that you are face to face with him for the purpose of receiving his intelligence. So that's being in the pre— his pre-sense, his intelligence, his sensibility, his ability to omnisciently know everything about you. Boy. He knows me. He knows you. And there's— he's all-knowing. He knows everything that could possibly be known. Oh my God, about you and I. Lord have mercy, Jesus. Lord have mercy, Jesus. He knows you. Touch yourself and say, he knows me. See, and, and when you get in the presence, his naim, you get in his face. In his face is his eyes. Again, you see what he sees. In his face is his nostrils, which is sensibility, or to be sensitive. So now you become sensitive to what he's sensitive to. In his face is his mouth. Watch this. When you really been in God's presence, you leave his presence speaking what he's speaking about you and about life and about the world. You can't tell me you've been in the presence and you still talking crazy. And you still talking like you used to talk because again, maybe you had good church, but, mm-hmm, but maybe the presence really wasn't there because you didn't transform. Because when you get face to face with God, your perception changes, your sensitivity changes, your words change. Oh boy. Oh boy, oh boy. You have to understand that God says here, inside of that perception, what he sees, what he senses, what he says is fullness. Say fullness. Soba. S-O-B-A. Soba in Hebrew. This word is soba. Means abundance. It means, whoo, beyond satiety, beyond satisfaction. So God wants you to see what God sees, sense what he sees, say what he says. Your life now moves beyond satisfaction. For— oh my God, tonight I feel you. No, I'm telling you, I'm telling you, it moves. You don't need nothing else to satisfy you except what he sees, what he senses, and what he said. People that's trying to be satisfied by everybody else, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. That's a sure sign that they have not been in God's presence when they need to satisfy everybody else, and they need to be satisfied by their carnality and their flesh. This is why I struggle with people that tell me they flow in the gifts and they're in the presence and they can hear God, but they still living in sin. Come on, children. Come on, family. Come on, come on, listen. There's a transformative nature to God. Oh, but his grace and his mercy. Yeah, okay, but still, if you really get in his presence, you won't need as much grace for your sin. You'll be able to use the grace, the charis of God, to empower you toward purpose and righteousness. Oh, that's another message for another day. Let me go, let me go. So thou will show me the path of life. In thy presence is fullness of joy. At thy right hand This is an anthropomorphic term, yamin, which means God actually has a hand. Watch this, God actually has a right hand. And it symbolizes God's right hand anthropomorphically. It symbolizes that God has authority. It is his hand of authority. It is his hand of release. It is under the right hand of God that impartation from heaven comes. Oh, it is under the hand of God. Glory to God. The right hand of God that we receive glorious encounters with him, that we receive the king's resources. He releases them out of his right hand. Now watch this. In this instance, it says, at his right hand there are pleasures Oh my God, forevermore. So wait a minute, wait a minute. Pleasure, pleasure. I am— I love these words, man. I am, I am. This word means that he gives you eternal delight, eternal beauty, through the manifestation— watch this— of what agrees with him, which means your life not only becomes agreeable to God, but from a heavenly perspective, pleasure means that God also gets pleasure out of the relationship with you. Which says to me there are some things God do not get pleasure about. Oh boy, oh boy, there's some things he's not pleased with. I need y'all to hear that. There's some things that God— oh my God, oh my God— he's just not pleased with, family. There's some things that he would rather— listen to me— you shift out of so he can be agreeable with what you're doing. Can I tell you something? There are people that believe that they are actually— hear me, family— in the will of God And God— hear me, family— he doesn't agree with what they're doing. My God, he— Shabbat, Shabbat— he really doesn't agree with what they're doing. I need you to catch this, catch this tonight. You gotta grab the fact that God— glory to God, hallelujah— is interested like never before in ensuring, glory to God, that his will flows out of you. I'm gonna get to where I need to be, 3 most important things. I know y'all waiting on them for 2025. When I get there, I'm gonna be almost done. But I want you to realize something. Hear me, hear me, hear me, hear me, family. Glory to God. I want you to realize that what God does is before you come to this planet, he packs all this destiny, all this purpose in you so that you can bring him pleasure and you can experience delight. Hallelujah! Blessing. Glory to God. Prosperity. Breakthrough. Things that bring pleasure to him will also bring pleasure to you. See, that's what salvation is all about. When you get saved, you ought to get to a point where you want to actually, for real, all the time, bring pleasure to God. Oh boy, oh boy. If, if you got saved and you still doing things that are not pleasing in his sight and not pleasurable to him— and I'm not just talking about quote unquote the big sins, because remember, sin, harmēsia in Greek, It means to miss the mark. Some of you don't have moral flaws where you're living in sin, but you are living in sin because you're missing the mark. You're not operating in your purpose, you're not operating in your assignment, you're not operating in God's plans and ideas. Hallelujah for your life. You're missing the mark. And many a times what saves people that do that most of their life is grace that doesn't penalize you for what you don't know. And this is why some people like religion. They like surface-level stuff where all they do is dance, shout, fall on the floor, and go through the motions. But they really— and then they want legalistic rules and regulations to make them feel safe, but they don't want to dig deeper to find out why they're really here, so that they can, oh, delight God and he have pleasure in them. All right, other scripture I want to read it, I want to read it, Zechariah. And I'm gonna just read this one because I don't want to hold you long. Glory to God. Zechariah, y'all, I pray y'all learning something. If you're learning something, glory to God, just type a thumbs up in the comments for me. Glory, let me know that you're getting this tonight. Hallelujah. And that this is actually blessing you tonight. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Zechariah 4 and verse number 6. We gonna get somewhere. Glory to God. Glory to Jesus. We love him tonight. I appreciate God for all of y'all. Glory to God. God bless you, uh, Stephanie Hall. God bless you, woman of God. Glory to God. Glad to see you tonight. Glory to God. Thank God for Stephanie. Again, got two Stephanies in the house. God bless you, Naomi, all the way from the West Coast. Thank you for being on here tonight. Glory to God. Welcome to everybody that's here. We appreciate God for your presence. Glory to God. All right, listen, again, we're streaming tonight over 5 different platforms: 3 Facebook pages, uh, YouTube, and Instagram. Wherever you're watching, once again, Welcome. We're releasing 3 most important keys for 2025. Uh, Zechariah 4:6, let's read this. The Bible says, then he answered and spake unto me, saying, this is the word of the Lord unto Zerubbabel. Ah yeah, I love this. See, and let me just— I said I wasn't gonna break this down. Let me just give you this. Let me give you this. Zerubbabel's name means sown in Babylon. So Zerubbabel was sown as a seed. Glory to God, uh, because he, he was the grandson of King Jehoiachin, and he was one of the first, uh, exiles that came out of Babylon after Babylonian captivity. What this symbolizes is that whenever there is captivity. Hear me, the spirit of Zerubbabel, it recommends to us that whenever there's captivity in any area of your life, what God does, he releases a prophetic word in the midst of captivity to tell you— watch this— that captivity is not God's way, and where you are— hear me, family— is not the end. Glory to God! I need somebody— glory to God— to touch yourself and say, this is not the end. I'm telling you, there is more. And, and, and listen, I don't care how great your life has been or if you've had a bunch of trials. I'm telling you tonight, if you hear me, there is more. And in the midst of captivity, whether it be in your finances, in your relationships, in your emotions, in your spirituality. If you're going through cycles of stuck, I'm telling you tonight, freedom is upon you and you need to receive it. Glory to the name of God. The word of the Lord came to Zerubbabel. Zerubbabel prophesies and says this. He says, not by might nor by power, oh God, but by my spirit, says the Lord of So watch this. 2025 won't be about might, okay? It won't be about might, which is human strength, human efficiency, uh, watch this, human ability, human wealth. Oh God, come on. It won't be about, by human forces or armies. The shifts that we will see here, hear me prophetically, in this year, you cannot expect them from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The shifts we'll see in 2025 in our lives won't come from your local government. It won't come from your congressman, your senator. Listen, it won't come from the people you expect. It won't be physical might and support from people you think. God says this is not gonna be the might. It won't be by power. Glory to God. Come on, come on. Koach in Hebrew. Koach means, glory to God, again, ah, God, it won't be entities who are more powerful than you, glory to God, that will assist you to bring— in other words, people of influence, people who are in high places. This won't be the key. He says the key will be, but by my Spirit. So the Spirit of the Living God and what the Spirit of Living God controls and says, this will be the coming forth— glory to the name of God— of your freedom, of your release, of your breakthrough in God. Woo! I need you to hear me. I need you to hear me tonight. So with that said, here are the 3 most important key, and I'm about to get off. I'm gonna run through these. I'm gonna give them to you because I want you to have them and I want you to use them. The 2025 is number one. Key number one is the Holy Spirit. Oh my God. So remember we read in Psalm 16:11, we read that thou will show me the path of life, the design of life, right? So it's through a relationship with the Holy Spirit that our eyes come open and we can see what God sees. Why is the Holy Spirit important? Let me just say this to you. First of all, the Holy Spirit is not an it. He is not wind. He is not fire. He's not prophecy. He is not gifts. He is not the church. The Holy Spirit is God living in us. The Holy Spirit is the person of God that lives in us and walks with us to maximize or fulfill purpose. In 2025, you're gonna have to be more than a dancer and a praiser and a worshiper that worships because the Holy Spirit is present or because you sense him. You're gonna have to become a person that has relationship with the person of the Holy Spirit. You ever notice how when people pray, they pray in Jesus' name and we talk to God, and those are good things, but we always dismiss the fact that the Holy Spirit actually lives in us. Listen, the Holy Spirit loves to be sung to, he loves to be worshiped, he loves to be talked to. And so you're going to have to decide that you're going to spend more time in fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Oh, shaya, mama diosa! Because again, he's the Apo Paracletus. He is in us, and he walks beside us, and he manifests gifts and fruit through us. He's the source of God in the earth. Matter of fact, let me give you another clear thing about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is our creative edge. You want to write my— you might want to write that down. The Holy Spirit created heaven and earth. The Spirit of the Lord moved upon the water. Glory to God. The Spirit, the Holy Spirit, was present. Oh, because he is God in us. So if you have the Creator in you, that simply means if you tap into him and develop a relationship with him, you can create like he creates. Are we hearing this? I'm gonna say that again. If you tap into him, you can create like he creates. One of the prayers I've been praying consistently for about 10 years is, I am a creator because God and the Holy Spirit lives in me. This year in 2025, I want you daily to decree in your prayer time, I am a creator Because God— because God lives in me. You could create like he creates. It's again, it's more than a buck and a shout and a hammer and a drum. Glory to God. And a hoop and a holler. You got God in you for real. And you— oh boy— and you can create like he— and God takes nothing and makes things. He speaks to things and they live. See, and in 2025, instead of accepting the challenges and the obstacles that will come at you, you gotta start using the creatorial power of the Holy Spirit to get an edge. He's your edge over the rest of the world. You could create opportunities. You can create clients for your business. You could create wealth. Glory to God. Through the power of the Holy Spirit. Ask me, I'm telling you, I'm a witness. I'm not as— I'm not that smart. I'm not as smart as most of you think. He gets the glory for my brain. I could create because the Creator lives in me. Most of the things I know about producing, about writing— glory to the name— about preaching, everything I know about preaching and ministry, the Holy Spirit taught me because I spend time with him. And he gives me creative ideas in my time with him because he's the creator. So the Holy Spirit is your creative edge. Secondly, I want you to grab this: the Holy Spirit is available to assist you— here we go— in heavenly communication. As a matter of fact, the Holy Spirit has a language. He speaks the language of the home country. He helps us in communication with God. Our home country is heaven. Watch this, your heavenly language. So if you're not saved, or if you're saved and not filled with the Holy Ghost, with the evidence of speaking in tongues. This is something I want you to major on this year, that you develop a prayer language where— listen, most of my prayer time, because I make a lot of decrees in prayer, but when the Holy Spirit takes over, it's spent praying in the spirit. Because when I'm praying in the spirit with moanings and groanings that can't be— I'm afraid of people that don't speak in tongues I really am, because it says to me, you, you don't go beyond the surface. You don't press in past your flesh until he takes over. Listen, I need you to understand, this year you got to develop that prayer language beyond ba ba ba ba ba ba. Now that— those are syllables. That's, that's what babies do. Glory to God. Babies go ba ba ba ba ba. But language, as you even grow in the English language, you start speaking fluently, fluent English. Glory to God. You got to develop this language through doing it. So that means when you go to prayer, you got to pray in the spirit and with understanding. Woo boy. Can I get through here? Can I get through here? I'm trying to get through here. Some of you got filled with the Holy Ghost at the altar calling on Jesus like me, but then you stop speaking in tongues. Tongues is your heavenly language. It edifies you, it builds you up. That's what scripture says. The Bible— it builds your faith. The Bible says in Jude 20, building up your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost. You wonder why you don't have no faith? Because you don't ever pray in the Holy Ghost. So coupled with faith that come by hearing, and hearing by the word of God, you need to couple that with praying in the spirit. Create a marriage of those two things this year so that your faith can be built up, because there's some things God wants to trust you with, but it's bigger than your perception. It's going to require great faith to ascertain them. So you're gonna have to build a relationship with the Holy Spirit. You're gonna have to pray. So the Holy Spirit is our communicator. He's our creative edge. The Holy Spirit also— and I'm gonna hit this and leave because there's a whole nother teaching— the Holy Spirit is responsible, watch this, for celestial expansion. So he's our creative edge, he's our communication assistant, and he's responsible for celestial expansion. So the Holy Spirit in us helps us expand heaven and the kingdom. It helps us advance it on Earth. Oh, but when you stuck in being churchy— oh my God, man. You don't understand that you— that your sole reason for being here is to expand the kingdom. Earth was originally a colony of heaven. God created the heavens and the earth at the same time. This was intended to be a celestial planet. What ruined celestial expansion and God being able to come in and out of the earth like he wanted to before Jesus was sin. And so now we got to restore this planet back to a celestial supernatural existence where the things of God are a priority. The Holy Spirit is the governor of the kingdom. The Holy Spirit's presence— listen to me, family— on earth is to ensure that you and I as kingdom citizens are carrying out the ideas, the plans, the concepts, and the decrees of the king. So the Holy Spirit is here as a governor to make sure we're doing what the king says. But you got to get a relationship with him so you can listen to him. All right, that's key number 1, the Holy Spirit. You need the Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit says Listen to me, guys, that somebody— I need y'all to hear me— somebody, good God from Zion, that somebody is leading you. I need y'all to hear me. Stay with me, stay with me. Say somebody. Matter of fact, type it in the comments. Say somebody is leading me. Glory to God. Listen, the Holy Spirit is the idea— my God, today— that you're not alone, that you're not in this thing by yourself, that truly, that truly, glory to God, there's someone leading you. I'm coming back to the camera. Glory to the name of God. I just need you to grab this tonight, write it in the comments: somebody's leading me. The Bible even says that the Holy Spirit will lead and guide you to all truth. Truth about what? Not just the word, but he'll lead you and guide you to all truth about yourself. That's why many people are not familiar with who they really are, because they do not have the Holy Spirit in their life. Glory to the name of God. They do not have relationship with him. You got to know it, and I want you to understand you actually need him. For real, I've got today— you need him for real. You need him for real. You need him for real. Glory to God, you need him for real. Thank you, Lord Jesus. We bless you, we honor you. Just touch yourself and say, I need it. Glory to God, do it again. Touch yourself and say, I need him. Good God Almighty, I want you to get it tonight, family. You need him. You, you can't really— honestly, you honestly cannot exist without this guy. You need him. You need him. Hallelujah! You need him. Lord, we thank you. Lord, we give you the glory. Ha! Shamaandiosa! Lord, we give you honor. Lord, we give you praise. We bless you. Ha! Shamaandiosa! Okay, I'm still with you guys. I'm still with you. I, I— we just hit a technical snag for some reason, but we— I'm still teaching while I'm fixing it. Glory to the name of God. We give him praise, we give him glory, we give him praise, we give him glory. Glory to God, glory to God. Yes, Lord, tonight we thank we thank you and we honor you. What a mighty God we serve. What a good God we serve. What a gracious God we serve. We need him. So we need the Holy Spirit to lead us. We need him to keep us. We need him to guide us. Glory to God. We need his spice. We need his life. We need his grace. Glory to God. We need his favor. Hallelujah. We can do nothing for real without him. Ah Lord, just say it with me. Say, I can do nothing without him. I think we should be good now, guys. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Sometimes we just got to get it together. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'm gonna run through the rest of these and we're gonna be good. Glory to God. We're gonna be good. The devil is a liar. I pray y'all getting something out of this. Shenemendu asaye. We bless you, God. We should be good. All right, so the Holy Spirit is somebody leading us. He— it is, glory to God, our creative edge, our communication assistant between heaven and earth. It— the Holy Spirit helps us with celestial kingdom expansion. Glory to the name of God. Number 2, here's the second most important thing. Glory to the name of God. It is your assignment. Remember we read in Psalm 16:11— stay with me, guys, I'm almost done, glory to the name of God— that thou will show me the path of life, the orak, the design. Well, your design is found inside of your assignment. So you have the Holy Spirit, someone leading you. You have your assignment, somebody needs you. Your assignment, family, is the problem you were created to solve. Every person, every human has an assignment built inside of them, and there's a problem you exist to solve. I've been teaching this for 30 years, man. The reality is, in this year, you're going to have to be clear on what your assignment is. You are a life jacket to somebody that's drowning. You must find them, and you must help them transform their life. Glory to God. There's a— and listen, the assignment is not just for the preacher. The assignment— oh my God, the assignment is not just— glory to God— for the bishop and the apostle, the prophet, the teacher, the evangelist. Every believer has housed inside of them a kingdom assignment, a problem that they have the solution to. Glory to the name of God. Listen, in every assignment there are people. There are people that you have to reach that need your solution. And every assignment, there are places, there are geographical locations you got to go to, to learn, to grow, to be developed for your assignment. That's why being in the wrong place, in the wrong church, in the wrong— y'all ain't got to talk to me here— will never cultivate your assignment. There are people that are hanging on in stuff because it's traditional, it's familiar, and they're never going to really adhere to their assignment. They'll be great churchgoers, but they'll never really tap into the assignment that comes from heaven. Hear me, family. My God, my God, tonight You got to be in the right places because then once you get developed, you get deployed from that place to another place where the people are that you're supposed to serve. And listen, there'll be places you'll have to go that will cost— that you have to sacrifice to be, but you need to be there so you can get what you need. There are some things, glory to God, that are in certain places you got to go to that will cost you The Bible said wisdom is the principal thing because that place is preparing you for your assignment. So in 2025, I want you to embrace the places and the people you're supposed to embrace. Every assignment, there are particulars. God is a God of specificity. He's a God of plans. So again, in every assignment, God has some particular— he, he has a set of plans that he wants to share with you. On how to do it. Not your way. I'm gonna say that again. Not your way. You can't just do this— oh my God— the way you want to do it. Oh boy, you got to do what he says and you got to obey him. Listen, I'm sorry guys, if you're going— listen, because I'm telling you, 2025 is not going to be as pretty as we think. I know people saying this is a year of this, this year of that. Uh, you know, all the slogans and all the catchy things. But honestly, again, whatever you embrace, you better make sure you got the particulars from God. All right, every assignment— people, places, particulars— every assignment also has provision. So if God is telling you to do it, he's going to provide for it. God will never tell you to do something and then the why and the how doesn't emerge shortly after. So God will tell you to do it, and then he'll tell you why he wants you to do it. And secondly, he'll tell you how you're going to get it done. He'll show you where the provision is. So you got to discover your assignment. And listen, guys, you're going to be remembered for one of two things: the problems you create or the problems you solve. And you got to decide tonight that you're going to be a problem solver. I'm gonna say that one more time. Because there's a whole lot of problem creators in the world that like to cause problems for people. And I'm telling you, 2025 needs to be a year where you solve problems for others through your assignment. All right, last thing on that: never talk to people about your problem that's not qualified to solve them. Because the reality is You're just gonna waste your time talking to someone about issues that they don't have something innately built in them to help you solve. Let me give you an example. If you got money problems, you don't need to be talking to broke people who don't know nothing about money about your money problem. You're just rehearsing your problem. Find the solution. Find who carries the solution to your issue. You and talk to them. So number one, 2025, you need to embrace the Holy Spirit. Number two, you need to embrace your assignment. You have something, oh my God, you need to embrace because somebody needs you. Number one, Holy Spirit, somebody leading you. Finally, third most important thing in 2025, it's going to be your seed. Hear me, family, stay with me, because many times when we hear that, we immediately go to money, and that's not what that is all about. Reality is you reap what you sow, and that's not necessarily just money. Glory to the name of God. Somebody leading you, Holy Spirit, your assignment, somebody needs you. Thirdly, your seed, you have something to give. See, through this year, you got to figure out how, with whatever you have, you can be philanthropic, because you reap what you sow. The scripture says if you sow sparingly, you reap sparingly. The word seed comes from the Greek word sperma, and it's where we get words like sperm. It means to set life in motion. So when sperm is released, life is now in motion and is running to find a place to connect, ground, so that it could produce a harvest. The reality is, every time you are philanthropic towards someone, every time you give of yourself, it's an expression really of gratitude to God for giving to you, because you give to others. Others. I need you to understand this, man. You have something to give. The Bible says in Luke 6:38— you don't have to go there, but I want you to hear it— he says, give and it shall be given to you. Notice that verse doesn't say pray and it shall be given to you. It doesn't say fast. It doesn't say speak in tongues. It says give and it shall be given to you. Now If you want love, you need to give love, and you'll get love back. The rest of the verse says, pressed down, shaken together, running over shall men give to your bosom. So if you lacking love, give some love. You want joy, give joy, give, and you'll get joy back. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over shall men give to your bosom. You want peace in your life, stop raising hell. And give peace. Glory to God! And you'll get peace back. Good measure, pressed down, running over, and shaken together shall men give to your bosom. Y'all get what I'm saying? Glory to God! You want money? Give some money and you'll get money back. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over. You're setting life in motion. This is the key to supernatural provision. It's called the circle of supernatural provision. And if you're, if you're sowing constantly good things, good things are coming back to you. You have something to give. Notice he says, at thy right hand are pleasures forevermore. God says, okay, in my right hand I got pleasure, I got fullness of joy. Joy is shey'ah in Hebrew. Which means harvest or profit from seed. Ask a businessman to define profit, he's going to tell you what's left over after the expenses of the business have been paid and covered. So joy is not, again, doing backflips at church. Joy is walking in profit. Oh, glory to God! It is walking in increase from the seeds you have sown. Glory to God! Ask a farmer to define— oh my God— harvest. He's going to tell you the fruit or the result of hard work and seeds sown in good ground. Oh boy, listen, you better make sure you're discerning the ground you sow in because the harvest can only come up again if it falls in the ground and dies. It cannot— the seed cannot fall in the ground and die except it be sown on good ground. So you better make sure that you're sowing into good ground that, oh, that God has ordained for you to put your seed in. And listen, anytime God talks to you about seed, he's got a future on his mind. Because nothing leaves heaven until something leaves earth. I'm gonna say that again. Nothing leaves heaven until something leaves earth. You, you got to release the exchange currency, which is your faith and your seed. That's your currency. And the great exchange between heaven and earth is met in that release. Heaven says, okay, there's a release, let me respond. You, you can't expect the harvest if you haven't sown the seed. I got, I got to get out of here, man. I feel people leaving. It's okay, because, because again, people have a mentality that all they want to do is take. And reality is, if someone shows up in your life and they didn't come to give, they came to take. Most people in this hour are cursed because they don't tithe. Tithing is your kingdom tax. Oh boy, yeah, you cursed with a curse because you don't give your tithe. People who really love God want to return their taxes to God. It's your kingdom tax. Taxes. Guess what? You cannot negotiate with the government of the United States if you're from America on taxes and you work. And you really can't if you don't, because they, they will fine you if you don't pay your taxes. They get their money from an employee off the top. You should make sure you take care of God because his should be first. Oh boy, we don't like this kind of teaching. Okay, let me tell you what money really is. Money is what you get when you give somebody something they cannot get without you. So when you discover your assignment through relationship with the Holy Spirit and you give to the world what they cannot receive without you, people will begin to pay you for what you bring to the table in your business, in your life. Money is also what you receive when you give somebody else something they cannot get without you. This year you got to figure out ways to be a blessing, and the more you do that, the more you'll be blessed, because God will say, okay, I can trust them with this. And they realize they are blessed to be a blessing. All right, you see, family— and I'm done— it leaves your hand, but it never leaves your life. And reality is you gotta become a sower, and you got to sow on good ground so you can shift the trajectory of what's coming back to you. Again, if you lacking love, it's because you ain't giving enough. You lacking peace, you raising hell all the time, you ain't giving no peace. You lack truth, it's because you lying all the time. Listen, you got to become a giver. You got to give yourself away to God and to others. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, Thank you for this word tonight. Thank you for the Holy Spirit. God, Holy Spirit, we love you. Holy Spirit, we bless you. Holy Spirit, we honor your great name. Thank you for who you are, and because of who you are, we give you glory. Because of who you are, we give you honor. Holy Spirit, we thank you for the revelation of assignment. Every person under the sound of my voice, reveal assignment to them in the mighty name of Jesus. Now, Father, I thank you, I thank you. Yes, God, for our seed. Every one of us, we have something to give from ourself to our finances. We have something to give from our service to our finance. We have something to give. And I pray in the name of Jesus that we will take this year seriously and we'll find people to bless in In Jesus' name, amen. And amen. Praise God. Thank you guys for listening. I pray you grab these principles. I want to challenge you tonight to get seed in the ground. Listen, some of you, no matter what I say, you're not going to give to ministry. But again, this is your first opportunity. Some of you gave in service last night, which I thank you. If you were at our services on last night, it was phenomenal. But tonight I want to challenge you to get seed in the ground. I want you to sacrifice to God. Stop negotiating and analyzing before you believe. You really can't expect harvest and God to move if you don't sow. So tonight I want to challenge you guys, get seed in the ground. We lost some people when I started talking about seed, but it's okay. It's really okay because You know, those that want to give will give. The ways to give on the screen. I want you to get seed in the ground. The 5 ways you can give, however works best to you. But tonight I really want to challenge you guys to, uh, sow, because the reality is, people, you cannot beat God's giving for real. And every time you sow, you're positioning yourself in the circle of supernatural provision and in God's exchange system to receive something. So tonight, guys, get seed in the ground. I pray tonight, Father, that your people will be led of you. You said as many as are led of the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. There's some of you that negotiate your tithes based on your budget. You're depending on your yourself. And in 2025, you can't do that. You're cursed. So you got to become a tither and trust God with the 90%, and watch what he'll do with it when you give God what belongs to him first. Oh boy, oh boy. The Bible said give God your first fruits of all of your increase, that your barns may be filled with plenty. Get seed in the ground tonight. Again, the ways to give are on the screen. I want to challenge you to trust God. You have something to give. You have something to give. Be a blessing to our church. We are— we planted a new church in Atlanta, and we're grateful for what God has been doing through us here in our new building. We're expecting great things this week in revival, and we got a lot of things we want to do this we can't do them unless you show your support to us. So be a support. The Bible says, when I communicate to you— hear me— when I communicate to you spiritual things, you should communicate to me your natural things. In this instance, if you want— listen, you're not giving me money, you're giving this money to the church to help cause. I want you to get seed in the ground. I love you guys. I command it to multiply a thousand times more than it is. Y'all be a blessing to ministry. Glory to God. And watch what God will do for you when you choose to do that. Glory to God. The, the ways to give should now be scrolling at the bottom. Get seed in the ground. Be a blessing. Help us do what God has called us to do. I love you guys, man. Y'all be blessed. You know, again, people— and that scripture I said about communication, when the Holy Spirit is communicating to you through a man or woman of God and you sow into their life, that should be consistent, and you should respond to the word in giving. Glory to the name of God. And position yourself for a harvest every single time. People be looking for the ministry to give them money, but according to that text, the church ought not be giving people money. God, you need to be positioned through your giving where you're blessed to be a blessing. And that's the goal, to teach— and I know everybody's not at that point— but to teach people to get to that place where they could be a paymaster in the kingdom, where they could bless other people, bless ministry, and give themselves away. Y'all be blessed, ladies and gentlemen. I love y'all. Thank y'all for joining me tonight. I'll talk to y'all soon. Peace. Glory to God. I love you.