5:00 PRAYER | PASSOVER FAST | 29 MARCH 2021 | APOSTLE MIKE WOODS

Yes, God. Yes, Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. Good morning everyone. Y'all come in. We love you, God, and we give you the praise. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I praise you. Now come in, everybody. Pleasant good morning. Good morning. Good morning. I pray everybody had a great night's sleep. Glory to God. We're gonna get started in a few moments. Do me a favor, guys, if you're here, uh, please share this. Glory to God. Please share, please share. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Hallelujah! Yes, Lord! Yes, Lord! Yes, Lord! Well, good morning to everybody and welcome to 5 AM Prayer. I'm super excited to bring you into our prayer time this morning. You know, the Lord is good, he's wonderful, he's mighty, and beside him there is no other. This is the day the Lord has made and we shall rejoice and be glad in it. Oh, taste and see that the Lord, he is good. Hallelujah! Glory to God. The Lord is the light of my salvation. Of whom shall I fear? Yes, Lord. The Lord is the strength of my life. Thank you, Jesus. Of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even my foes, came to eat upon my flesh, they stumbled and they fell. Though a host should encamp against me, Hallelujah! In this will I be confident. One thing I've desired of the Lord, and that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord forever. As you guys are coming in this morning, whether you're watching us live or by replay, I certainly pray, uh, you're praying with us this morning. Uh, this is day 1 of our 3-day fast for Passover week, and we're super excited to fast and pray. Uh, you're more than welcome to join us, glory to God, on this journey. Uh, if you want the details about the fast, it's simple. Just text the words RADANOW, all one word, to the phone number 877-698-9257. Uh, in a— it's also listed on my page if you want to find that number, and you'll get all the details about the fast. Uh, it's simple. We're fasting one meal a day from 12 midnight to 3 every day, and we're eating only fruits and vegetables. No sodas, no sugar, no water, nothing like that. We are praying every day at 5. We're meeting every day at noon right here online where we'll pray and we'll teach the word. Listen, this like never before, there is a need for prayer. There's a need for fasting. And the Lord just simply said to me, he said, son, we got to rebuild our altars, and we got to get back to a place where we understand that we need the King in everything we do, everything we set our hands to. So our scripture for today— we'll teach on this scripture later today at 12: noon, and we'll pray around it this morning. Glory to God. Is Matthew 6:33. The Bible declares, but seek ye first— yes, God— but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. I'll read it again because it's just all right to read the Bible. Matthew 6:33: But seek ye first— yes, Lord— the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you. Oh my, ishke tabasora bakia. Listen, like never before, we need the kingdom and we got to pursue it. I will say this, I won't teach it, we're going we're going to pray. Glory to God. We'll teach on it today at noon. But the scripture declares, but seek. See, in the midst of the need to worry and feeling like you're frustrated, you're not gonna make it, and nothing's working— glory to God— and you've been trying everything your own way, I want to submit to you, you got to get out of your own way, and you got to stop doing things the way you feel like it ought to be done, and you got to seek the kingdom way. And I'm speaking primarily to those right now, listen to me, who are in the church and you haven't really been taught how to move in the tenets of the kingdom of God. Listen, I need you to understand something, ladies and gentlemen, and I need you to grab this and I need you to get it with all your heart, all right? Because at the end of the day, you got to learn the kingdom way and you got to seek the kingdom in everything you do. And you got to make up in your mind that you're going to be a citizen of the kingdom. Basilia is the kingdom. It's God's influence, his authority, his rule, his impact, his way of doing things. So you got to decide when it comes to your finances, your family, your life, that you're going to tap into the kingdom. Not being churchy, not being religious. There's so many churchy people who go to church Sunday after Sunday and have no idea how to move and navigate through the principles of the kingdom of God. The kingdom is not something we just talk about. The kingdom— listen to me— it has to be, Lord have mercy, experienced. And so let's pray this morning that as we navigate through, glory to the name of God, these, uh, days of our life. Glory to God, that we would be able to sincerely— glory to God— navigate through the kingdom of God and do exactly what God desires us to do. So let's pray. So, Father, in Jesus' name, hold it. Father, we ask you this morning God, to lend your ear to us as we pray. Your word declares that your ears are forever open to the prayers of the righteous. So Father, we come before you as humble as we know how. We thank you, God, for life, health, and strength. The very fact, God, that our heart is beating right now, it is an indicator that we're still necessary. So Father, we worship you for life and health. And we declare, it is in you we live, it's in you we move, it's in you we have our being. We decree today, God, that you are our life source. And Father, we could do nothing without you. Hallelujah. The grass withers, the flower fades, but your word stands forever. And Father, we give you praise now. Hallelujah. That no weapon formed against us can prosper. We thank you, God, that our mind is clear, our heart is right. And Father, we repent, God, of anything we've thought, anything we've done. Yes, somebody need to take up a place of repentance. Glory to God. Where you've come short. Glory to God. So Father, we repent this morning. We say we're sorry. Oh, rabakande, rabakanda, metanoa. God, we say we're sorry. We Oh God, change our mind, our thought, our behavior concerning the actions that we displayed, God. And we say, Father, have mercy on us. And we believe your word, dear God, that your grace is— oh, sufficient for us, God. So we cry out to you today, God, and we say, Lord, hear our cry. Oh, shikande. Here I cry, God. Here I cry, God. We need you, God, and we need you now. Purge us, wash us, and we shall be clean. Create in us a clean heart, God, and renew us. Yes, God. We rebuke everything, God. Oh, oh God, that's not like you, God. Oh God, whatever you do, God, let mercy reign, let grace reign in us and through us, God. Father, I pray for strength, God, that you would continue to strengthen us, God, as temptation and test comes our way, God. We thank you for the ability to endure temptation, God, to overcome— or about Sunday— beyond all of those things by the fiery darts of the enemy. God, thank you, Lord! Hallelujah for the shield of faith, God! Oh my— And we quench brishka taba ba-ba-sando-lobo-oshia. We throw up the shield this morning and we quench the storm, the fiery darts of the enemy. And we decree and declare, God, that we have the victory in the name of Jesus. Father, we thank you for the kingdom, Lord. And I pray, God, in the name of Jesus, even as we read it in your word this morning that we are to seek— zeteio in Greek— pursue hard after your kingdom, pursue hard after your influence, your authority, your insight, your revelation, your innovation, your wealth, your resources. Father, today I bind up— o kota basikianda— the religious mind, God, that only seeks religious protocol and is deceived about true revelation and relationship in the kingdom of God with you, the King God. So Father, I'm asking you now today, give us real relationship with you, the King. Give us real relationship with you, the King God. Help your people to know you better and give them a mind to seek, to deliberately Oh my God, pursue hard after you, God. Thank you, God, for meeting us this morning in prayer. We bind up lackadaisical spirits. We bind up the spirit of laziness. And dear God, And God, I'm praying now that you will loose a heart to seek you. Loose, God, a heart to rise early and come after you. And so God, we come after you with all we got, God, with our whole mind. With our whole soul, God, with our whole spirit. Eba, ba, ba, ba, mo, so, ra, ma, ndi, a, da, sa, ka, nde, ne, ne, ne, ne, besi, ande, bo, go. We come after you, God. We come after you. We seek the King and his kingdom. We seek you, our King, God. We seek the kingdom. Let the kingdom and all of its ways have complete authority and control in our life, God. Let the kingdom message permeate in our lifestyle, God, not just in our lips. Yeah, God, I bind up lip service. Where our mouths say one thing and our heart is far from the thing we speak. Father, Abba, boss. Passable. So much lip service flowing through timelines, so much lip service in the world, God. People declaring one thing out of a religious heart and a religious spirit, God. Claiming to know you and don't, God. But I pray, God, this morning for real relationship that doesn't seek to impress man. Hora ba ba ba ba ba ba. Siyanda belongs for your presence, longs for your ways. Oh God, that pants for thee. Oh God, like the deer panteth for water. Oh God, we long for You, we desire our King to be imminent, to transcendently invade our lives. God, ilanda debo sora bababa sora makian da labade nebe. So let the spirit of transcendence invade our life. Transcend, get involved. Hallelujah. And we give you the right to be in control. We seek you, God. We seek you. Hallelujah. You said to seek you first, so Father, we give you superlative priority. We put none before you, none before you. We say you are number one. We seek you before we lean to our intellectual capacity. We seek you, God, before we lean to our religious desires and the desires of our flesh. We Oh, we vow to come after you first. We vow to pursue the kingdom way first before we worry, before we doubt, before we fear. Oh God, we choose the kingdom way. We will to move in a fearless way. Hallelujah! A bold, powerful way. And God, we ask you, God, as we pursue you, as we draw nigh to you deliberately and come after your ways of doing things, your ways, God, of impacting the earth, your ways of rule and authority, your resources your ideas, your innovations. God, we ask you to draw nigh to us. Yes, Lord, as we draw nigh to you. God, hey, I draw nigh, draw nigh to us, God, as we draw nigh to you. Elevate us with your kingdom, God. Your word says it's your good pleasure, yes, to give us the kingdom. Yes, Lord, it's your good pleasure, not to give us church, but to give us the kingdom. And we receive it. Woo! Thank you, King. We seek your way on this Passion Week, in this Holy Week. We seek your way, not religion. You'll have many, God, that will seek religious ways of doing things. They will have kosher meals and they'll do religious programs and protocols, God, but This week is about the passion of our King, about a King dying for a people. And so, Father, we seek you, and we're gracious and we're thankful. We seek you and your righteousness, God, your way of being right, your plan, your purposes, your assignments for our life. We seek that, God. We throw away our own agendas and we say, Lord, edesi andolo boko sia tabaya. Superimpose your agenda, your purpose, your destiny. Make it clear. Make what's right be bold and manifest in our life. God, we don't want to miss it to the left or to the right, so we seek your accuracy. We don't want to miss it, God. So in the name of Jesus, let your accurate, righteous, and holy way of doing things— let it show up in our lives, God. We bind up perverted ways. Yes, Lord. Perversion— that which is not right, that which is not authentic, that which is reversed from right. We bind up perversion, not just in a sexual sense, but in a sensual sense, in a spiritual sense. Oh God, we bind it up in every area, and we declare we are righteous. We declare, God, that righteousness exalts a nation and sin, yes, God, is a reproach to any. Oh, let righteousness, God, fill our land. May there be a heart, God, first with your people, God. For righteousness. Let the people of God stop it now in the name of Jesus, making excuses for unrighteousness, for following their own path, for doing their own thing, for living out a lie. God, oh, shababa. We need you, God. We need you, God. Oh God. Let righteousness rule. May we be a light to the world, a city that sits on a hill that cannot be hid. Oh, nah, siyandololobosiyandabagaya. May we shine in kingdom wealth and prosperity. Yes, God, I hear you. May our health reflect kingdom healthcare. With your stripes we are healed. That's what we seek. That's what's right. Your word declares there's a way that seems right, but the end of that way is the way of death. God, we decree and declare we're not living under the banner of what seems right, but we are of royal descent. Hallelujah! Oh, we're children of a king. We're in the royal family. So we actually have access to the healthcare of the royal family. We have access, God, to the financial resources of the royal family. I bind up pauperhood. I bind up the spirit of a pauper that causes free men and free women to live like slaves when they have been set free by your Precious Blood. I thank you for the kingdom citizens under the sound of my voice. I thank you for those that have not even heard the gospel that you already died for. God, in the name of Jesus, let us take our place in every way, not just as a churchgoer but as kingdom citizens for real. Not just saying it because we read a book or we heard somebody else say it. Let it be reflective the righteousness of God in our lifestyle. God, you said if we do this, all these things would be added to us when we deliberately seek the kingdom and the righteousness of the King, the way of the King, and dismiss and dismantle our own ways. Oh God. You said you would add the things we need: food, shelter, water, cars, houses, land, money, resources. These would not be things that are always at the center of our prayer time if we'd only seek you. And your right way of doing things, God. So Father, let the spirit of the seeker take over the land. Give us a mind to come after you with our whole heart and add what we desire, add what we need, God. For you said in your word, you know we have need of these things even before we ask. And so Father, we thank you for supply, for your word declares you would supply all our need. According to your riches in glory by Christ Jesus the righteous. Father, we thank you. Eda da basura baki. Right where you are. Oh God, we thank you, Lord. Lift your hands and just begin to worship the Lord and give the King praise. Come on, just give the King praise and glory. Father, we exalt you, we extol you. Hallelujah. We supplement you and we give your name the glory right now. We say yes to your will, yes to your way, God. Yes to your plan, God. Yes, we will obey. Thank you, Lord. So God, hear our prayer, and we ask these things in the mighty and matchless name of King Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. Hallelujah and amen. I want to thank you guys for joining us for prayer this morning. Somebody needs this, so share it. I believe God for a breakthrough in our land. I believe God that the citizens of the kingdom will rise up like never before. Yes, Lord. And take their place in righteousness and be a city that sits on a hill that cannot be hidden. Not just righteousness in a way. I prophesy to you today that you won't just be religiously and legalistically righteous, but you're righteously— oh my God, your righteous disposition will will be born out of relationship with God, and it will be your good pleasure to serve him in righteousness, as it is his good pleasure to give you the kingdom. So you will serve him in righteousness because you love him. Oh God, not just again doing all the moral worldly good things. But even in your purpose and your assignment, let's make sure we're doing what's right. Let's make sure we're not living as paupers, living as beneath our privilege. That's not right. It seems right. The end of that is death. Take your place and live as a child of the King. Oh my God, I love y'all. I gotta go, I gotta I gotta go, y'all. I gotta go, I gotta go. But hear me, hear me, hear me good, hear me good. I want God to touch your life in a significant way during this fast. So fast with us. We're fasting to 3 today, one meal a day, fruit and vegetables, water only. Glory to the name. It's just that simple, you know. That's what the fast is. Praise God. Uh, some religious person was typing on one of my posts last night. I saw that, I'm like, okay, it's really— it's a simple fast, guys. Um, what kind of fast you doing? We're fasting. We're doing the fast that the Lord has ordained, and we're doing it just like he said, right? So let's just be obedient and let's do it. Please share this so someone will get it. Glory to God. We love you all. And I want you guys to have a supernatural day. This is Dr. Mike Woods. For those of you who are not uninitiated, this has been 5 AM Prayer. I'll see you guys today at noon. We're gonna unpack Matthew 6:33. Glory to the name of God. And we're going to continue through this fast today. I love you. Y'all be blessed. Heaven smile on you is my prayer. Peace.