5:00 AM Prayer | PRAYER FOR REVIVAL/SOULS, PART 1 | Apostle Mike Woods Sr.

Y'all come in, please. Pleasant good morning. We're getting ready to pray. Glory be to God. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. We're getting ready to bombard heaven. Glory to Jesus. Thank you, Lord, for your goodness, your mercy, your grace, your favor. Beside you there is no other. It's in you we live. Thank you, Lord. It's in you we move. Oh, Rabbi, breh, se tebekosi kabahaya, elabando lebohosiki kabasai rebaku. Ah, we bless your name, God, and we give you praise. We give you all the glory. We give you honor, God. Hallelujah. Come in, ladies and gentlemen. And if you're live with us this morning or by replay, we need you to do us a kind favor and share. Glory to God. We're going to pray, not going to be very long. Hallelujah. We are fasting this week. Eba salaba hosie. And we're trusting God for victory. Glory to God. And we're going to be here every morning at praying with you. I believe that revival needs to break out in the world like never before. Glory to God! And revival begins really with deliberate and strategic prayer. And so today, glory to God, we're going to lift up the name of Jesus. We're going to do exactly what we need to do. Glory to God! And we're going to speak Jesus. Glory to God. Hallelujah, hallelujah. I'm going to read the scripture in a moment, but before I do, I want you guys to share. Glory to God. I'm gonna jump in here really quick and share this with a few people, but listen, I need you— or rebbe by broski— to help me, and I need you to share. Glory to God. Glory be to God. We give you praise, God. We give you glory. Mansa. Bresa. Uraba, we worship and adore your great name, God. Beside you there is no other. We give you praise, God. We give you glory, Jesus. Oh God, we bless you, we bless you, we bless you. We honor you, Jesus. We honor you, Jesus. Whether you're watching us by YouTube or by Facebook, wherever you're joining us today, I need you to share this with somebody. The Bible says the effectual fervent prayers of a righteous man, it availeth much. The Bible also declares where two or three would just touch and agree on any one thing, that God would be in the midst of us. And so as we come together this morning, we're going to touch and agree. We're gonna believe God. Hallelujah! We're gonna believe God. We're gonna believe God for his goodness and his mercy to prevail today. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I believe that even as we pray this morning, somebody is going to be healed, somebody is going to be delivered. Somebody is going to be— be— oh my God, somebody's going to be made free. Hallelujah, hallelujah, from the yoke of bondage. I'm trusting God today, that, ah God, that the power of the living God will go out from these prayers. Glory to God. And it would change lives. Listen, if you're just joining us, please share. We're going to pray in a moment, but I, I feel the anointing of God. Glory to God. We bless your name, Jesus. We bless your name. We bless your name, God. We bless you, God. We bless you, God. We bless your name, Jesus. You're mighty and you're wonderful, God. You're glorious and you're mighty. Hallelujah! Glory to God. All right, so We're gonna get started. Praise God. Our prayer focus this morning, glory to God, and the rest of the week is centered around souls and revival. I believe like never before, God is not so much interested in just reviving us inside of the church, and we're constantly edifying, building one another up. That is his desire. That's a part of his plan. But you know what? It is the authentic and intrinsic desire of God to see men saved. And I think in this day of churchdom and social media. Glory to God, we have gotten so caught up in ourselves that we have literally forgot that there's a world that needs to be saved. Glory to God. And because of this, people are following their own way, they're following their carnality. Uh, you have a slew of carnal preachers who who are building kingdoms to themselves. And that's a dangerous thing, preacher, man of God, woman of God, when your plight is to build kingdom to yourself and all you're concerned about is stockholders and shareholders that will be investors in keeping the vision that you have for you alive. When the communities around your church is dying. The— if you talk to 10 preachers, line them up, probably out of that 10, 2 will tell you that they actually literally have a heart for souls. They may have a heart for members at any price, and at the end of the day, that's just not God's plan. And we got to get back to his plan. Jesus rose from the dead, came back, and the first thing he said to the disciples when he came back, go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. We have a commission that we have literally laid aside, and we got to get back to it. So I'm trusting God this month, uh, at Rhoda Church, and I want to invite preachers and pastors, glory to God, from around the country, from around the world, uh, leaders even on your social media where you minister and preach and teach. I want to challenge you to focus on getting people saved. We are a few weeks out from Pentecost. Pentecost happens 50 days after the resurrection of Jesus Christ, the Passover, and on May 23rd is Pentecost is where we commemorate the Feast of Pentecost. We celebrate, hallelujah, the, the great thing that happened in history, the baptism in the Holy Ghost. So I'm believing God that weekend we're going to have a meeting, May 21st, 22nd, 23rd. It's going to be phenomenal. I'm believing God that weekend, hear me, that 100 souls will be baptized, saved, and filled with the Holy Ghost, new converts in the kingdom of God. Um, and it starts right here with prayer. And I want you to believe with me for our meeting, and even for what you're doing, that whatever you're doing in ministry, that souls— hear me, ladies and gentlemen— would be saved. People need to be— hear me— born again. Glory to God. I'm going to say that one more time. People need to be born again, and we got to get our heart back in the right place. You know, I, I was doing a, a study, and right here in my— prophetic study I was doing— right here in my region where I live, where I serve as an apostle in the Lord's church, where I pastor a local church right here in this region. Hear me, and we're gonna pray in a moment, all right? But right here in this region, guys, the Jehovah's Witnesses— watch this— are outgrowing the Christian church 11 to 1. Wow. In this region in Georgia, the Muslims are outgrowing the Christian church 7 to 1. And this is because they're highly active in the community spreading the gospel that they believe, as erroneous as it may be. They're out spreading it and people are buying in because they're hungry. But it's the earnest expectation of the creature, according to Romans 8, that waited for the manifestation Manifestation of the sons of God. The world is waiting for us to come forth, and we're preaching on Facebook and, uh, scandalizing each other and tearing one another down, when in reality we have people who need what's in our bellies, and the enemy is seducing them. A seducer pulls you in. To something that cannot bring change and transformation really for real into their life. So we're praying, we're fasting this week, praying every morning at 5, we're fasting every day, and we're believing God for souls. I want to read our prayer focus scripture this morning and we're going to pray. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Listen, if you're just joining us, whether on YouTube or any one of our Facebook page, please share this, share this. I, I'm praying for your aunt, uncle, your children that are not born again this morning. This morning I'm going to be praying, glory to God. And if you have somebody that you want prayer for, drop their name in the comments below. I want to pray for them. Glory to God. We want to come to agreement and pray. If you have a specific need that you want prayer for today, drop it in the comments. We're going to bombard heaven on your behalf today. Glory to God. I'm believing God for healing and deliverance. I'm believing God for breakthrough. Eia! We give you glory. I feel the anointing. Glory to God. Acts 2, this is our prayer focus for this morning, and 47. Glory be to God. Acts 2 and 47, you'll find these words. The Bible says, praising God— hallelujah, thank you God— praising God and having favor with all people. Hear me. And the Lord added— hear this— to the church daily such as should be saved. I'm gonna back up and read verse 46 because it's just all right to read the Bible, right? Verse 46 says, and they continuing daily with one accord in the temple— hear this— and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God. This is the continuity of, of this statement I read at first. And having favor with all the people— watch this— the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved. We don't see this happening in our world today, God adding to the kingdom, adding to the church, the ecclesia, daily. Oh my God, such as should be saved. We see a lot of membership transfer. We see a lot of people leaving one church and going because they were hurt, or because they— listen— just got tired of the praise and worship team, or somebody looked at them wrong. So they'll leave one church and go to another church and serve because maybe the church is big or the preacher is popular, or maybe it's small because whatever they like. But the reality is what is happening, a lot of church growth that people are deeming church growth it's actually membership transfer. It's not really church growth. Real church growth happens when God adds to the church daily as would be saved, which means people are getting born— they're being born again, they're being baptized, they're repenting of their sin, they're being filled with the Holy Ghost. Glory to God. Hallelujah. How did that happen? And I'm gonna pray in a moment, glory to God, but I want us to get the clarity of this really quick because this is what we practice, our focus. Verse 46, first of all, said they together, they were together, they were not apart. And let me say something to you pastors, apostles, evangelists, prophets, teachers, we got to work together. We got to continue daily. Watch this, in the word, with one accord. That word accord is symphoneo in Greek, which means we have— we're different, but we must learn to, in our difference, in the way we teach, in the way we preach, in the way we may approach ministry in different ways, we got to have a symphoneo about ourselves where we come together. Hear me, listen, listen. As one. So what works like symphony, right? So you got different kind of instruments— wood, brass, oh my gosh, strings. You got, uh, percussions in a symphony. They all are different instruments, but if they're playing in the key of C and they come together in one accord, you cannot— watch this— tell the difference in key Because they're making one sound in synthenéo, different but one. See, here's the problem in the kingdom, in the church. We got to get in the same key. And this is one of the reasons why people are not being added to the church daily, because the focus of so many leaders— I know y'all don't want to hear this— have drifted to themselves versus advancing the kingdom. See, the problem with most leaders, they want to add people to them. Oh yeah, people do it every day. I want to add followers, I want to add likes. Yeah, you want to add people to you, but when was the last time you actually added someone to the kingdom of God? Oh my goodness, oh my goodness. I'm working on you this morning. Hallelujah! At 5:19, praise God, because we got to get back to our focus. And not— and, and watch this. The reality is the world needs Jesus. They don't need a dead man's religion. They need a, a people that are in one accord, that are passionately in love with Jesus, that's sharing the same message of power, victory, and deliverance. You know why a lot of things that have been happening in the world have affected the world in the way that it has? Is because God's people have spent a lot of time operating in discord versus accord, but they continued daily. So we want to add to the church daily. You and I as believers got to find some common ground and find a way— hear me— to continue daily with one accord. Glory to God. Watch this, in the temple. Now Now we know that every day we can't be in the temple in the physical church, but we can be on one accord. And we know that our body— watch this— is the temple of the Holy Ghost, where God dwells, where God lives. And so we got him in our temple, we got to be in one accord, we got to make sure that we're filled— watch this— with the Holy Ghost, and that the Temple is not empty. See, we got too many leaders out here now, man. We got a ton of them, a ton of them who are not filled with the Holy Ghost. That's a problem, you know. I'm, I'm talking about filled for real with the Holy Ghost. Preaching with no Holy Spirit in your life, with the evidence of speaking in other tongues, with the evidence of power. Glory to God! With the evidence of fruit of the Spirit and gifts of the Spirit. You know why? Because people have not separated Calvary and Pentecost. You think just because you went to Calvary and got pardoned for sin, you got forgiveness for sin, that once that happened, that was it. You received the baptism of the Holy Ghost. No, you didn't. You got to leave Calvary and go to Pentecost and get power. See, churches don't teach this because it's not popular, because it's not simplex, and, and the preacher don't want to take time to study and help people understand that you got to go to Pentecost. You gotta stop by Pentecost and the Holy Spirit. It is a different baptism. The Bible says there's coming one mightier than I in Matthew 3:11. He shall baptize you with Holy Ghost and with fire. Watch this. If it wasn't to experience this, why would the apostles ask individuals in the book of Acts, have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed? See, you can believe and receive redemption from sin and not have received the Holy Ghost. So my question to you Have you received the Holy Ghost since you believe? And if you— oh my God, I feel the anointing this morning. And if indeed— hear me, hear me, I'm praying them all. Glory to God. You, you think you've been filled? Let me propose this question to you: have you been filled or just been thrilled? Yeah, have you been filled or just been thrilled? Some people just been thrilled, got goosebumps and chill bumps and go through the motions and they're thrilled. But when you feel something changes in your life, the word filled is epiknosis in Greek. It means that you become thoroughly furnished and equipped with what fills you. Oh my God. So when God fills us, we become thoroughly furnished with his power, with his personality, with his way of doing things. So we got to have the Holy Ghost in the temple. We got to be in one accord if we want to see people saved every day. This, this is just where we're at, man. Watch this. Breaking bread from house to house. So we got to watch this now. We got a fellowship. We got to break bread with each other. We got to come together and display oneness. People shouldn't scroll my timeline to hear one thing and scroll your timeline to hear another thing, and we claim that we're serving the same God. We got to be central in our teaching, in our preaching. Jesus has to be the center. We have— we need a Jesus-centric Gospel. Glory to God. Where he is the focus, not the— not you, not people attracted to you. We gotta break bread together from house to house. So if the people that are assigned to you as a leader, as a believer, you're sharing with them, breaking bread from house to house every opportunity you get. Not physically giving them something to eat only. Watch this. You need to give them a spiritual word. Jesus says, I am the bread of life. We need to break Jesus, break that bread with people from house to house. Everywhere we go, we should be bold enough to share Jesus with someone. And sadly to say, it's not happening. We're afraid to be called a fanatic. We're afraid, uh, to not be hip, to to not, uh, be— watch this— relevant. The most relevant thing you could ever do is share Jesus with somebody because he's the creator of the world. Oh my God, he's the Savior. He changes lives for real, and that's not just a euphemism. You looking at a dude right here that Jesus changed his life for real. For real. I'm different. I'm changed. I'm born again. I'm not that dude I used to be. He's the— if it wasn't for Jesus, I'd probably be dead. I'd probably be locked up in jail somewhere. Thank God for Jesus. You think I'm not going to share this good news? Y'all share good news every day on your timeline. Glory to God. If you got a new house, if you're traveling on a trip, if you happy in your marriage, you put it on your timeline. Listen, you need to be breaking bread from house to house, from timeline to timeline. Glory to God. From Walmart to Kroger, oh my, from gas station to gas station. You should be the light of the world everywhere you go. You should be an epistle written and read of men. So watch this, so we can add to the church daily. Such is what we say. When I get done, I'm just going to pray for the things I've talked about. We're going to pray straight out of the word. It's not going to take long. We're really praying now because we're building our faith on this idea that, hey, we got to be in one accord. Hey, we got to be— the temple has to be filled with the Holy Spirit. 3, we gotta break bread from house to house. Everywhere we go, we ought to be the light of Jesus Christ. On our timelines. Yeah, yeah. In the grocery store, yes. In our schools, yes. The world needs him. We've lost that zeal. We've lost that fire. Ah, ibasa brisco rushe, so turebebebe, ikia densa. And that's what we're going to pray for. The the fire of God to come back into the lives of his people. Nisqeta dabasi aya. Eya baso briske labandi de beko siaya. That real revival can break out, and men would be saying, you know, the first revival was on the day of Pentecost. Glory to God. They were in the upper room. Glory to God. Starting in the upper room in prayer, waiting on the Lord, the Holy Spirit filled that place with 120. They began to speak with tongues as the Spirit gave utterance. Fire rested on them, glory to God, and sat on their heads. The fire of the living God consumed their own carnality, their own thoughts, raptured them out of their conscious mind. And then watch this, they came out of the upper room and Peter began to preach. And the Bible declares that 5,000 got saved in one sermon, one day, one message. When last time we seen that in the church? Have we seen that really since Billy Graham? In America, I've seen it happen in foreign countries. I've seen droves of people come to the Lord. I've been preaching full-time for 31 years, man, and I've seen a lot, good and bad. But let me tell you something, and I've been in Billy Graham meetings, I've been to Benny Hinn meetings, I've seen people get saved in Benny Hinn meetings, I've seen people get saved in Billy Graham meetings, I've seen, glory to God, droves of people coming to the Lord on— in various— I've seen Shambach preach and people coming to God. Listen, when was the last— I've even gone to, uh, see Creflo Dollar on the road before and saw people get saved in Creflo's meetings. I've seen it. But what happened growing up in the church? I've seen in my meetings where I would travel this country, I've seen men born again. What happened? What happened? We got to get it back, man. Y'all heard me. 11 to 1 in Georgia, the Jehovah's Witness. 17 to 1 in the entire nation, Jehovah's Witnesses outgrowing the Christian church. Oh God. 7 to 1 in Georgia. Muslims outgrowing the Christian church. Oh my God, 13 to 1 nationwide. And that's just two groups. I can go on, but that's not what I'm here to do. I'm here to make us aware that we've dropped the ball. And this is why we're fasting, this is why we're praying this week, because we want to see people saved and born again. Let me finish this. We got to break bread from house to house, and we got to eat with gladness and singleness of heart. We got to be happy about the fact that Jesus has saved us. We gotta— oh my God, we gotta receive the gospel and share the gospel with gladness. And watch this, with a singleness of heart, with a mindset. Here's the mindset: to share that joy, to share that gladness with somebody else. And as we praise God, watch this, and do this, the Bible said we'll find favor with the people. And the Lord himself, because of what we do, will add to the church daily. I'm talking about people getting saved every day. That's what the scripture said. This can happen if we follow the formula. That was a lot right there in those two verses, right? Daily with one accord, the temple being filled, breaking bread from house to house. Are you hearing me? Hallelujah! Eating our meat with gladness and singleness of heart, praising God. A lifestyle of praise. Glory to God. Having— and then watch this— and producing favor with all people, where we're received, not offending people, but being favorable. And you know what, most people I talk to in the world— I spend a lot of time with sinners on a golf course, or whether in a business world, professionally, people who are not necessarily in the church— you know what I get from them most? I don't go to church because church people are not real. I don't go to church because church be really not that serious. So why would I go in there and be amongst them and they're not serious? And watch this, I look at their life and their life is worse than mine. Why do I go to church? Listen, man, we got to get it together. We got to find favor where people will want to have what we have. And the Bible said when that happens The Lord adds to the church daily such as would be saved. Let's pray, Father. Let's pray, Father, in Jesus' name. We thank you this morning for the opportunity to come before you, Lord. We're praying for souls. We're touching the green this morning, God, one that you would put us in the position to be a light unto the world. You said in the— in your Bible, God, that we are lights of the world. We are the city that sits on a hill that cannot be hid. We are a situation that you have set on a hill that cannot be hidden, God. So now, Lord, I'm asking you to expose the church in light. Expose us in light and let the world begin to see the church for what it is. Let the world see its power. Let the world see its anointing. Let the world see our joy and our gladness, God. And may we find favor with men. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Oh, Mashiach, breh, shebotu rabaka, ha, shimando lobukushki ataya mansa. May we find favor, God. Hallelujah. God, let us— hande bebe surabakaya— continue daily in one accord, filled with the Holy Spirit, God. And God, let us break bread from house to house, God. Give us a mind to go into the world, Lord, even as the Jehovah's Witnesses are knocking on doors. God, may your people, the Christian church, kingdom citizens May we have a thrust to go into the world, to use our timelines, glory to God, to witness to you. And you said in your word, if you be lifted up, that you would draw all men unto you. And so, Father, I thank you for drawing all men to you, God. I thank you for giving the victory, Lord, in the name of Jesus. I thank you, Lord, for adding to the church daily such as would be saved. I'm praying, God, from now to Pentecost, even as we're fasting this week, God, that you will begin to add to the church daily such as would be saved. Save, God, even through these prayers. Save, God. Oh my God, through our church services, God. And even as we move toward Pentecost, I'm praying specifically for Pentecost weekend. I'm praying that as we assemble At Raleigh Church, God, you will— glory to God— add to the church such as would be saved. And I'm praying for 100 souls during that meeting, God. Bind every speaker, bind every singer to your word, God, and may every anointing that is released be pure and come out of the realm of glory and add to your church such as would be saved. Say, Lord, I thank you in advance, God, for every entrepreneur, every businessman, every doctor, every lawyer, every drug dealer, every drug addict, every prostitute. Glory to God that you will bring into the kingdom every whoremonger, every homosexual, every lesbian, that you'll bring to a place of deliverance and salvation. I'm thanking you now that many will come and repent of their sins, and they will be baptized and filled with the Holy Ghost. Oh God, even as you filled that upper room with 120, God, I thank you that as we come into agreement, even those leaders that are connected to this prayer this morning, God, that are listening to me, that are connected to me, I pray that even in their ministries, in their churches, that you will add 100 souls to what they're doing even this month. And we praise you for it now. Save, Lord. The world needs you. We need you, God. Superimpose your power on us, God. And God, I'm thanking you that even as I'm praying, there may be someone that is saved but have not received the baptism in the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues. So God, I'm thanking you now now. People, Lord, leaders today don't speak like that. They don't talk like that because they don't believe it's a necessity. But God, in the name of Jesus, I pray that you would baptize them even as we pray now in the Holy Spirit, and let them begin to speak with other tongues as the Spirit gives utterance. God, touch them where they are. Hallelujah, hallelujah! And we bless you now. And we honor you. Bless this day, God, even as we fast, as we sacrifice. Bless us, God, and we'll forever give you praise, and the glory and honor shall be thine, in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you, Lord. Glory to God. Listen, guys, I feel the anointing of God. We're believing God for souls. Listen, join us. We're fasting all week long. Our fast is simple: from midnight to 3 daily, one meal a day after 3 PM. And watch this, we're taking the sugar, red meat, all starches out of our diet. And at the end of the day, we're doing one meal Glory to the name of God. And we're praying daily at 5, and we're praying for souls. Listen, tell somebody, join us tomorrow at 5 AM. I'm even fasting totally from social media. The only time you will see me here is during this time of prayer this week, because at the end of the day, we need a move of of God. And some of you are so distracted, maybe you should fast as well from social media. And the only time you arrive on social media is at 5 AM, and we come together and we pray and we trust God. Glory to God. Listen, I'm believing God for souls. I'm believing God for my city. I was born and raised in Atlanta, and I've watched this city grow. I left to, uh, I was in the military, I've been to school, I have been blessed to go all over the world traveling. I've lived in other states planting church, but I've come— when I came back home, I, I sensed in the realm of the spirit that my city, that this region had been captivated by a very terrible spirit called deception, arrogance, and pride with growing of buildings and the expansion of business, uh, and it is spilled so heavily into the church. And so many people are deceived and not being born again. But I want to take our city back in the name of Jesus, and I want to see people saved. I want to see, uh, not just the homeless fed, I want to see them saved and restored. Hallelujah! Yes, glory to God! It's one thing to feed them, it's another thing to get them delivered. And restore them back to life. I want to see the victory wrought in America everywhere. And wherever you're watching from, we're praying for your city. I'm believing God that revival will come to your city and men would be saved. I'm telling you something, evangelism should not die with Billy Graham. It shouldn't die with Shamballa. Listen, we got a prime opportunity to get people in the kingdom. Let's do it. Let's unite. Let's continue in one accord. I love you guys. Please share this video. Y'all be blessed. Heaven smile upon you is my prayer. I'll speak to you soon. God bless.