5:00 AM Prayer | PRAYER FOR REVIVAL/SOULS, PART 3 | Apostle Mike Woods Sr.

Thank you, Jesus. Well, good morning everyone, please come right in. Um, this is the day the Lord has made and we rejoice and we're glad in it. Glory to God, I feel the presence of God this morning. We're going to pray, uh, we're yet in the midst of our fast. Matter of fact, this is the last day of our fast, and I'm telling you what a glorious fast it has been. We have turned our plates down for the purpose of souls. We're believing God for 100 souls to come to Jesus, uh, in the month of May. Glory to God. And you know, I am so excited about what God wants to do for humans, period, in the earth. It is His agenda, I got a glimpse of it. He really wants to draw people close to him like never before. There's so many people who have never really experienced God in a very real way, and I'm telling you people, God wants you to experience him outside of the parameters and lines of religion. He wants you to know him. He is the very thing that will change your very life forever. So we're going pray this morning. You know, I'm, I want to just disseminate a few scriptures, then we're going to jump right into this. I feel Jesus, man. Yes, Lord. Please share if you're coming in. Do me a favor, I need you to like this. I need you to share it. I need you to comment below and let us know you're with us. If you need prayer, please comment below. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. We love you, Lord, and we praise you, and we give you the glory. We give you the honor. There is none like you nowhere. Hallelujah. You're wonderful and mighty. You're wonderful and mighty. Oba, you're wonderful and mighty. You're wonderful and mighty. You're wonderful and mighty. You're glorious and awesome, God. From the rising of the sun— glory to Jesus— to the going down of the same, your name— hallelujah, hallelujah— your name is worthy of praise. And so, Father, we take a moment right now to worship you. We take a moment to give you glory, God. Those that are live or by replay today, God, God, we just take a moment to worship you, Father. You're the King of all kings. You're the Lord of all lords. You're the Lily of the Valley. You're the bright morning star. Oh, she— yes, God, you're wonderful, Jesus. You're wonderful, Jesus. We give it to you. How great, ah, is our God. You're a great God, you're a mighty God, and we hallow that great name of Jesus. We lift your name on high, God. We worship you, God, and Yeah, yeah, we give you glory, God. We give you honor. We're praying for revival, God. We bless you, God. Come on, just give him glory this morning. Give him glory, give him honor, give him praise. Beside him there is no other. Beside him there is no other. We bless you, God. We give you the praise, Father. We lift your name. Up. We exalt you, God. We exalt you, God. So I'm going to read some scripture, praise God, and, um, we're gonna pray. I'm telling you, I feel Jesus. Lord, we love you. Lord, we adore you. Lord, we thank you. Lord, we thank you. Psalm 85, verses 6 and 7. If you're watching us live or by replay, please write these texts down because these texts are going to be our prayer focus this morning. Glory to God. We're praying for revival, a revival of souls, a revival of fire, that men would be saved, men will be baptized in the Holy Spirit. Yes, Lord, we praise you with the evidence of speaking in other tongues. We give you glory. Verses 6 and 7 says, will you not revive us again that your people may rejoice in you? God knows we need that in America. People are rejoicing in themselves. But we need revival. We need a quickening of the heart, a quickening of the mind, where the fire of God inebriates the intellect and the humanity of men and calls them to rejoice in him. People are rejoicing in their own accomplishments and what they're able to do, but we need a revival— glory to God— that will cause people to rejoice. Verse number 7 says, show us your mercy. Yes, God, give us mercy, Lord. Show us mercy today. Show us loving kindness, Jesus. So verse 7 says, show us your mercy and your loving kindness. Glory to God. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Glory to God, O Lord. And grant us your salvation. So here we see revival is directly connected to salvation. Salvation, uh, the Hebrew word and the Greek word actually lend itself to rescue, to God reaching down and rescuing us, coming and get us, bringing us back to him. And listen, God wants salvation to inundate the earth and that men would be inebriated with the Holy Ghost and filled with his anointing, his power, not just to have good church but literally to take over economies. Glory to God! To take over education systems. Oh my God! To be authoritative in governmental structures and have full authority and dominion as God planned. His salvation is upon us, it's near to us. We just got to open our hearts and receive it like never before. James 1:22, let's read it. The Bible says, but be doers of the word. Hear me, be doers of the word. Obey the message and not merely listeners to it. Eh, shatalaba kaseyo no bohoshe. But train yourselves into deception by reasoning— Lord, I need you. Thank you, Lord— contrary to the truth. Oh my God, we need this so bad. We must be doers of the word, ladies and gentlemen, not just hearers. And we not— we must not become deceived by philosophies that we read on the internet and people who have changed the scripture because of their church hurt or to appease to their struggle. Oh my God, oh my God. And who have chosen to be deceived and walk in a deception that's contrary to truth. So many are doing it. Major, uh, brand name leaders and ministries. It's terrible. Some of the things I see, some of the things I hear. I've been doing this 31 years. I've been everywhere. I preached for everybody. And some of the things I see these people doing is absolutely ridiculous. And I'm just— I'm to a point, I've been to this place for a while now. Yeah, people don't have to like me, they don't have to invite me. I'm glad God has sustained me in a way where I can walk through doors on my own. I can go into regions and territories and do the things I need to do without having to mirror deception, and I can move in truth, you know, because at the end of the day, the truth is what's going to liberate us. The truth is what's going to bring revival. So this text tells us that obedience and truth are two keys to revival. I'm gonna say it again: obedience and truth. Now, how loud you pray, now how many tongues you speak in, but obedience and truth. Not being deceived by— and reasoning into reasoning that is contrary to truth, but obeying the truth and not reasoning in your mind adjusting the word to support your lesbian lifestyle or your homosexual lifestyle. This is why Facebook throttles my traffic, because I come on here and I tell the truth, and I— they can continue to— I don't care. We're gonna keep preaching it. Glory to God. Listen, you can't be a whoremonger. Glory to Jesus. And, and, and justify that in the word. You can be one, but don't justify it in the word. And, and try to make it okay. You know, you gotta understand that it's truth that sets us free, that gives us the liberty to move in a state of revival, so that we're not praying for revival, that our life is a state of revival, that we're in perpetual revival. We're— oh, Shabbat, lebasorabo. A revival of the heart, the mind, the soul. Yes, Lord, where we're moving in the things of God. Help us today, God. Help us today, God. Psalm 51. Psalm 51. Somebody type it, type it, type it in the screen, in the comments. Psalm 51, uh, verses 10, 11, 12, 13. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Glory to God. The Bible says here— so here's another key to revival, right? Create in me a clean heart, O God. Oh my God. And renew a right, preserving, and steadfast spirit within me. Verse 11: Cast me not away from your presence. Thank you, Jesus. And take not your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation. And uphold me with a willing spirit. Then hear me, I will teach transgressions— transgressors, I'm sorry— your ways, and sinners shall be converted and return to you. Another key to revival: a clean heart, a right spirit. Hallelujah! The presence of God. The Holy Spirit, joy— glory to God— a willing spirit. It's all in this text. And the Bible says when we have a clean heart, when we have a right spirit— hallelujah— when we're in the presence of the Holy Spirit, when we, we, when we have joy in our salvation, and when we have a willing spirit, the scripture says here we now can teach transgressors his ways. And when we do, when we teach transgressors the ways of God— you cannot teach anyone a way that you do not know. Listen, if you are a transgressor, it's going to be impossible to bring transgressors to God. If you're consistently transgressing against the law, against the ways of God, It's going to be hard to bring transgressors to God. I'm going to pray in a moment. I know y'all say I got on here for prayer. Yeah, I know, but we— this is what we're praying. This is the prayer focus. We pray the word. Hallelujah. The Bible said we ask anything according to his will, he'll do it. So we pray the word. We want— so revival is totally connected. Again, watch this. These people teach about revival and they don't involve the conversion of sinner Listen, don't teach about revival ever again if you do not have a discussion about the conversion of sinners. See, most preachers don't want to talk about this because it's a hard task. It's easy for them to show up in their church and preach church doctrine and to teach revival for the church and bring the church to another dimension. But listen, what about the transgressors? So there needs to be opportunity not only for the church, the believer, to receive revival, the transgressor, those that do not know God, those that live according— transgression is simply living against or transitioning against God's way of doing things. So anytime you do something in your life that's not God's way You are indeed transgressing. Oh my God, oh my God, we bless you, God, we bless you. Oh my God, oh my God. Okay, go to Psalm 119:25. We're praying, we're praying in a moment. 119:25. Glory to Ishkibadosh. We bless you, God. We bless you, God. Hallelujah, Jesus. The Bible says my earthly life— 119:25— cleaves to the dust. Revive and stimulate me according to your word. Here's another key to revival. So watch this, it is the nature of humans. So, so here's what we're seeing in the scriptures we've just read. I'm gonna pray. I mean, I got several more scriptures, but we're just gonna pray those scriptures because I feel the need to go ahead and pray after this. Listen, my earthly life cleaves to the dust. So watch this, your earthly humanity, your humanity has a tendency to cleave. Hear me, watch this revelation, to the Earth's, the dust's way of doing things, the systems of dust. See, the systems of the Earth are cheap systems of dust. Dust, you— it appears and it vanishes, which means these systems come and go. They're ever-changing, and as they change, you have to shift to change with them. But the, but the psalmist said, revive He said, listen, my earthly life pleases this dust, but I need you to revive me. I stimulate me not according to the dust, not according to the systems of man. Oh my God, not according to how— oh my God— Earth's governments decide things ought to be done, but stimulate me according to the kingdom constitution, according to the word of God. Revive me that I cleave only to the word. And God's way. Oh my God, of doing things. Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy. Jesus, help us. Would you help us, God? Would you help us today, God? Let's pray, let's pray, let's pray this word. Glory to God, let's just pray it. So Father, in the name of Jesus, yes God, I ask you this morning, according to your word we just read Lord, that you, God, would revive us again. Give us a heart for the loss. Give us a heart for souls. And God, revive us that— oh my God— that we may rejoice not because of you, but in you. Yes, God, not because we know of you, because we heard about you, but let us be so revived and inebriated with the Spirit of the Living God and be filled with joy and rejoicing because we're in you, God. Oh God, let us inner penetrate your very essence, your very being, your very way of doing things. Father, today I decree and declare, oh my— Mm-hmm. Jesus, that you will cause us to be ushered into you. I rebuke religion, I rebuke deception and everything that's not like you, God. Thank you, Lord, for showing us your mercy and your loving kindness according to the word. And oh Lord, I thank you for granting us salvation. Come and get us, rescue us, God. Pull— amashi andala la basako reba kiaia. Bring us into your refuge, into your protection. Let our life be found in you, dear God. Father, cover us in the blood, protect us from the will of the enemy. And we'll give you praise. We love you, God. We love you, and we give you praise. We give you glory. We honor your name. We honor your name. We honor your name. Rebaba talaboko sikala. Yes, God, we praise you. Thank you, Lord. And God, I thank you. I decree and declare that you have created in us a clean heart, oh God, and you have renewed the right spirit with us. You uphold us with your salvation, God. Hallelujah. And you restore unto us the joy of living in you. You and living for you, God. We thank you that the joy— the prophet, the shea in Hebrew— of our salvation, God, is you, God. It is the increase of our life. It makes us better. It gives us more. We are filled with abundance because we live under the banner of your salvation, Lord Jesus. So it is our joy to serve you. It is our joy to walk with you. It is our joy to worship you, God. Yes, Lord, we bless you, God. We thank you, God. And we thank you, Lord, that we have the ability because you uphold. We decree and declare that we will teach now transgressors your way. And sinners will be converted unto thee, God. Thank you, Lord. And God, we thank you that we therefore now cleanse our ways by taking heed and keeping watch on ourselves. And according to your word, God, we conform our lives to your word. God, we choose to be transformed by the renewing, the redoing of our mind. And we thank you, God, that as this happens, revival is happening in our mind, in our soul, in our spirit, in our bodies. God, we give you praise. We cleanse ourselves from everything that contaminates— glory to God— and defiles our body and spirit. And we bring our consecration to fullness and completeness and maturity. And God, we thank you now in advance that you're giving us and all that's praying with me now a deep consecration and a heavy anointing on their life, that they will be carriers of revival, that everywhere they go revival will go with them, that the light of the Holy Spirit will shine through them and men will see their good works, God, and men will be converted in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, we thank you that with our whole hearts we yearn for you, we seek you, we come after you, we need you, God, we desire you. Thank you, Lord. And Father, let us not wander or step aside, either in ignorance nor willfully, from your commandments, from your word. And Father, we have laid our word up in our heart. Thank you, Jesus, that we may not sin against thee. Oh God, this is what we need for revival. Oh my God, I have to teach this Sunday. Oh my, Shia, or sometime before Sunday. Oh my God, the revival cannot happen if we don't have the word stored up in our heart as a guide, working in collaboration with the Holy Spirit to, oh my God, speak to us. And oh my God, disseminate to us lessons and instructions that we may not sin against God. Thank you, Father, for your word, God. Jesus, I thank you for cleansing us through the word, through the teaching of the word. Oh my God, through the preaching of the word, through the studying of the word. Cleanse us in your word, oh God. And Father, I ask you this morning to do something unusual for us. Do something, God, that man cannot do. Saturate us with your power. Saturate us with your promises. And let those promises be made manifested in our life, God. Let the word become alive in us. May we be epistles that are written and read of men. That men, glory to the name of God, may read our testimony and overcome Satan by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. Yes, God. Oh, not stuff we make up, not lies we tell. Oh my God, not fake character we display. But God, let your word reign true through us. Not religious salutations and greetings, but let us really be epistles. Oh, hiya! Let us really be epistles, God, that men can read our book, that men can read our life, that men can read our story. Oh God, let us be epistles, God, written in red ink. Let our life, our salvation exude through us with great authority and great influence. I praise you, Lord. I delight in your word, God. And I decree and declare that your people connected to this prayer this morning, that they also delight in your word. And because we delight in your word and your statutes and your way and your kingdom constitution of your way of operations and doing things— yes, God. Yes, Shanna. God. Yeah, I decree and declare, Father. Yeah, yes Lord, yes Lord, that your way of doing things— hallelujah— is our way of doing things. And because we delight in that and we commit our way to you, I decree and declare today that we have the desires of our heart. We don't miss it to the left nor to the right, God. Yes, Lord, but in all things we prosper, in all things we win. Thank you, God. We will not forget your word. And Father, I'm asking you to deal bountifully with your servants, that we may live according to your word, observe your word, hearing it, loving it. And obeying it, God, in the name of Jesus. Father, in the name of Jesus, I declare that we, according to James 1:22, we're not just doers of the word or listeners to it, God. We declare that we are obedient to the word. We do it, God. The word is us. It's our culture. It's our life. Can't have revival without the word. Can't have revival without the Holy Spirit. Can't add new souls without the Word and the Holy Spirit. Horebashiyanda. God, it is you, oh Most High, who has revived us and stimulated us according to your word. Thank you, Lord, for turning our eyes from you, oh my God, from the world. Hallelujah. And vanity and idols and idolatry. God, thank you for restoring unto us a vigorous, fruitful, abundant life. And we thank you for health physically and in your ways, health spiritually, God. And God, we thank you, Lord, that we operate in your precepts and we long for your righteousness. God, we live for you. Thank you, Lord. God, this is our comfort, this is our consolation. It's your word, it's your presence. In, in affliction, God, we trust you. In good times, we trust you. In challenges and problems, we, we trust you, God. We strip ourselves today, God, of former natures. So that our soul can be revived. We strip ourselves of carnality. Yes, God, we put off and discard unrenewed mindsets, unrenewed values, unrenewed, unrevived religious thoughts. Oh my God, oh my God. And God, we thank you that nothing from our previous manner of life for living. Hallelujah. Creeps into our life now. We thank you, God, that no weapon formed against us from the past can prosper. We win. Yes, Lord. And we thank you that our mind is renewed, our spirits are renewed, we have a new nature, we're regenerated, God. We're created in the image of God, the likeness of God, and the righteousness of God flows out of our life, Father. So Father, I thank you today for revival. I thank you for souls coming to you, souls coming to you. And God, we're believing you for 100 souls this month, in the month of May. God, I'm praying for every ministry, God. Large and small, medium. I pray you add new souls to the church daily, such as would be saved, and you would bring it through revival. Not just a series of preachers over a few nights, God, but real revival of the heart, of the mind, of the spirit, that we may rejoice in your salvation. Not rejoice because our favorite preacher is preaching, but rejoice because we're saved. Hallelujah! That we'll rejoice because we have relationship with you, because we understand this is real and we don't play with it, Lord. And we thank you for it now. In the matchless name of Jesus, we do pray. Bless our day, God, as we run into it. Give us joy, give us peace, order our steps. I release now the spirit of accuracy in our day, Lord, in our profession, in our work, in our ministries, in our careers. May we not miss it to the left nor to the right. I thank you that we'll be accurate in all things and that the light of the Holy Spirit will shine through and we will move in great obedience, Lord. And I praise you for this now. In Jesus' name, amen. And thank God. God bless your hearts this morning. Thank you for joining us for prayer. Thank you for fasting with us these 3 days. Uh, today at 3 PM, our fast ends. Glory to God. And I'm super grateful that we've had the opportunity to spend quality time with the Lord. In fasting, in prayer. Glory to God. Well, really, the fast doesn't end at 3 PM today. It's our last— we eat our one meal at 3 PM, and then actually at midnight tonight, the fast is over. We give God praise and we can resume normal. Hopefully you'll change some eating habits after this fast. Glory to God. But I'm grateful to God that we've had the opportunity to seek his face. And spend some time together in prayer. I love every last one of you. Listen, let your heart be renewed. Get that bitterness, get that resentment, get that anger and unforgiveness out of your heart. Listen, you're looking at a guy that I had anger and resentment in my life. It was so heavy in my heart, but thanks be to Jesus, he delivered me. I was angry at everybody. I was waiting for opportunity to go off, to snap. Because at the end of the day, I was angry. I was angry with me. I was angry with things that I wish were different in my life as I grew up. But at the end of the day, listen, everything that's happening to us, everything that we've gone through, God bothers us to make us better. He allows things in our life to make us better. So I'm grateful to God that he'd let me go through, and he allowed me to survive the things Some stuff that I survived, other folk died in. And you too, there are things that you survived, that you got through, that other folk died in. And you ought to rejoice in your salvation, and you ought to let revival flow out of you and share your story with others. I'm a delivered man. I'm a healed man. I made a lot of mistakes in my life, and I'm 50 years— 51 years old now. But thank God for redemption. Thank God for freedom. Hallelujah. Thank God for revival flowing out of my life now. You know, in my life I see, you know, even, even when I was messing up, God would use me for other people, but I didn't have the tight relationship like I needed. Thank God that upon my deliverance, I was able to enter into places with God that I only imagined. Listen, he's real. He's real. Don't be used and refused, because he'll use you and then refuse you, because he don't do sin. He don't do transgression. You know the reality, saints? There's so much beauty in holiness and living for God. The Bible said he saves us in the beauty of holiness. It's beautiful. And if you ever cross over for real, not in a legalistic way, but you live the way you live because you love God and because of the relationship is pure, and you know that if by chance you mess up, he's got you. But your whole life is devoted to this King that sits on the throne of the universe, and he really interacts with us. He's imminent. He's transcendent. He's not some far-off guy sitting on a throne, angry, waiting to kill everybody, throw them in hell. That's not him. He wants a relationship with his creation. He's real. Now, if you go to hell, it's going to be because of what you do, because you chose not to enter into the right covenant with him. And so perhaps your business is not straight with the Lord today. I just want to end with this today. If you want to be saved, hallelujah, the first step is repentance. The Bible says in Acts 2:38, repent of your sin and then be baptized, every one of you, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ for the remission of your sins, and be filled with the Holy Ghost, and you'll be You could take that first step right here, right now, and you can repent of your sins and you can receive Jesus into your life right now. Glory to God! If you're not born again, I want to pray with you. Just say this simple prayer with me. Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, I repent of my sins. I confess I am a sinner, and I ask you, Lord, to forgive me. Say, Lord, I open my heart and I invite you in. Say, come in, sup with me, and me with you. Say, in the name of Jesus, I receive your sacrifice for me. In Jesus' name, amen. Listen, if you prayed with me and repented, your sins are forgiven right now and you are saved. I want to invite you to take the very next steps. We're looking to baptize and see 100 souls filled with the Holy Spirit this month, in the month of May. Listen, if you're in the Atlanta area and you prayed that prayer with me. I want you to meet me at Rhoda Church Sunday. Glory to God. We don't have to wait to Pentecost weekend. Meet me Sunday. Glory to God. And I want to pray with you that you receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit. I want to make sure you get baptized in water. Glory to God. Just go to Rhoda Church's Facebook page and get all the information about our church. Or glory to the name of God, inbox me and say, hey Apostle, I prayed the prayer I want to take the next steps, and I'll be glad, glory to God, to connect with you. Listen, I love every one of you. Heaven smile upon you, it's my prayer. Y'all be blessed, and y'all know that your worst days is over and the best days are yet to come. Peace.