5 AM Prayer | 21 Days of Action, Day 7 | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr.

Thank you, Lord. Come on in, everybody. God bless your hearts. Welcome this morning. To our 5 AM prayer. Uh, so glad to see you, so glad you're here. Praise Jesus, glory to God. There's no God like our God. He's perfect and absolutely wise. Glory to God. It's in him we live and move and have our being. He's great. Glory to God and greatly to be praised. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah! Glory to God! Praise his great name! Praise his great name! Glory to God! All right guys, we're gonna get started here. Hallelujah! Hello to everyone. Glory to God. Hey, Tawanda. Hey, Pastor Jasper. Zion. Hey, Tanya. God bless you. Sharia, God bless you. God bless you, Mia. God bless you, Shannon. Welcome everybody. Do me a favor, guys, if you can just take a moment. We're going to get started and share this, and then we're going to jump right into praying in just a few moments. Hallelujah! But this is the day the Lord has made, and we rejoice and we are glad in it. Glory to God! He's a good God, he's a mighty God, and beside him there is no other. He rules and he super rules. Heaven is his throne, the earth is his footstool. Matter of fact, the scripture also goes on to say that the heavens declare his glory. Glory to God! And you know what, when heaven collides with us, we become an expression and a declaration of the glory of God. So what an amazing thing to be able to encounter God for real and enjoy his presence, enjoy his authority for real. Oh my God, what an amazing thing that is. So we are grateful today, glory to God, for the opportunity, uh, to pray and to spend time with God This is day 7 of 21 days. Glory to God of fasting and prayer. And you know, we're entering in today our second tier. Glory to God of these 21 days. We have 14 days left. Glory to God. Stay strong, uh, by the Holy Ghost, and just you know, basic wisdom and perception. You know, I knew the first 7 days was going to be a challenge for some of you. Uh, there's several of you that, you know, dropped the ball, and it's, you know, doesn't mean God doesn't love you, but I need you to gird yourself up and be strong. Glory to God. And, and really use this as an opportunity again to mortify your flesh and stay focused. Amen. Amen. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We love you guys. Y'all are so good. Y'all are so amazing to rise this early and spend some time with God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I, I need you to do me a favor right here. Just begin to worship him. Uh, we had such an amazing time yesterday in worship. I enjoy worship. I'm, I'm so glad all the time Uh, when God says unto me, uh, let's go into the house of the Lord. Hallelujah! It's, it's just a privilege to dwell in his presence and to be in his house. And man, we had so much fun yesterday, uh, just in the Holy Spirit. The word was great, uh, just the time of fellowship and worship was excellent. So we're tremendously blessed for that, uh, but today we're here, we're here now And I just want you to take a few moments, glory to God, right here and give God glory. He's worthy. Hey, hey, glory! He's worthy of glory. Come on, just raise your anticipation and your expectation today by worshiping him. We give you glory, we give you honor, we, we love you, Father, and we praise you. And beside you there is no other. You rule And you super rule, God. The heavens is your throne and the earth is your footstool. The heavens declare your glory. Ah, yabasoren kika tatabaya. And the earth your handiwork, God. Oh, taste and see. Yes, God. Excuse me, guys, that the Lord, hey, he is good. Glory to God, he is good. Glory to God, he is good. He is good. He is kind. We bless you, God, and we honor you. We honor you. We honor you. Glory to God. We praise you. Thank you, Lord. So today, guys, and we're going to pray shortly, but I just want to go over this second tier real quick. Uh, we're entering into tier 2. Uh, we, we've prayed, uh, intensely last week about seeking God, seeking God. Zeto in Greek, which means to pursue hard after him with deliberate passion, uninterrupted focus, with aggression, meaning that you don't stop till you get him. And, and the whole goal, uh, last week— and not that we're leaving that— but the whole goal last week was to incite— hear me— hunger. Glory to God. And to stir up the hunger, the desire to seek him on a daily basis. And I pray, uh, that we have scratched the surface of that because there's no way we could cover that in 7 days. But I pray there's been something ignited in your spirit that has given you a heart and a desire to seek the face of God, to touch God in a real way. You know, God is, is such an awesome— he's just such an awesome God. And he, he, he, he sends us the person of Holy Spirit to live in us, to take up residence in us, to fellowship with us. You know, Holy Spirit is just simply God in us. So God is in us. He, he is a person that lives in us. And God being the God he is, say, I'm not going to leave you comfortless. I'm gonna send you another comforter, and his name will be Holy Ghost and power. Glory to God. And, and he shows up with both power and authority to lead and guide our life. And we gotta seek him to to— oh my God— align with that. We, we've been learning that fasting— watch this— and fire and power, even— oh my God— they are not inseparable. They are one in the same. To be able to manifest the things of God through your life, there must be a life of sacrifice. So today we're going into this serving God piece where we're going to start praying through to service. And the substratum of this, the foundation of this, is that we have to literally plunder hell's agenda. Glory to God! So that we can plunder heaven. So we want to, we want to plunder, we want to plunder, we want to break into heaven. Glory to God! We want to experience heaven. Glory to Jesus! And we got to punish hell through prayer. We got to punish hell through service. Glory to God. So we go into prayer to, to break through to God so that we can render hell powerless, not just in our lives but in the lives of others, and that we can serve him better and effectively in the area of purpose without excuse. Hear me, guys, without fatigue. You know, I know we're all human, we get tired, you know, we go through it. But at the end of the day, uh, there's a supernatural element to us. And I believe if we walk in the spirit, we won't fulfill the lust of the flesh, the desire to quit, the desire to give up, the desire to throw in the towel. We will maintain a consistency— oh my God— toward the things of God. So we want to plumb to heaven so we can punish hell. The reality is Jesus is coming back, people. He is already here in the person of the Holy Spirit in us, but there is a great day coming. Hear me, and we're going to pray in a moment, and that's why we got to serve God completely. There's a great day coming where Jesus is going to crack the sky, and you know, my prayer is that I'm here to see that. I wanna behold him in the clouds, riding on the clouds and the host of heaven coming with him and heaven coming down to take over the earth. And I'll be caught up to meet him in the air. You know, one way to defeat death is never die. I'm gonna say that again. One way to defeat death is to never die. Glory to God. And I believe that we live to live again. Glory to God. And the reality is, if we plunder heaven, we punish hell. Hell will never have a place in our life if we live— oh my God— through the lens and the worldview of our home country. See, serving God is looking at the world the way God looks at it, is having a God's eye worldview. Oh my God, is being able to see the world the way God sees it. Yeah, so we plunder heaven so we can punish hell. Ah, so yeah, I want to see him crack the sky. Glory to God. I don't— I'm not looking at this like most believers, as God rescuing me. I don't have the spirit of escapism where my bags are packed and I'm just ready for him to come because I want to spend my time on earth. I'm supposed to be here, but the reality is I want to see it. I want to see it. Glory to God. I, I really want to miss the grave. Glory to God. Death, where is your sting? Grave, where is— somebody said, man, you're crazy. No, I'm not. I'm saved. Glory to God. My faith is optimistic. I, I want to miss the grave. Glory to God. And the only death I want to experience is the crucifixion of my flesh on this earth. Ah, God. So I can hunger for God and feast on God on a daily basis. Glory to God. Here's the victory. When Jesus comes back, watch this, he is not coming back for a church that's defeated. Come on, Zion. Oh, shaddai. He's not coming back for a church glory to God, that's a wimp, that's weak, that's spaghetti-backed. He's coming back for a conquering, victorious, triumphant church, a church without spot or blemish according to Ephesians 5:27. Oh my God, listen, we want his kingdom to come and his will to be done. On earth. Yes, God, as it is in heaven. So let's read Amos 5. Hallelujah. Shitamah nseye. Verses 18 through 20. Yes, God. The Bible says this. It says, woe to you who long for the day of the Lord. Why do you long for the day of the Lord? Again, why do you have this uh, escapism mentality. Again, what I was talking about was wanting to see the Rapture. I want to be here as long as I can, hear me, and I want to be here that long where my eyes can see Jesus crack the sky, because the Bible said when he comes, every eye shall see him. I heard one preacher say that he's already returned, and those of us that are left in the earth with the remnant that was left and we're waiting for the second coming. First of all, that's totally unbiblical. Secondly, I know for a fact he has not come because I didn't see him. I can't speak for nobody else, but because I didn't see it, he ain't came back. I need you to understand that he has not returned because my eyes ain't beheld him. Because the Bible said every eye shall see him when he beholds. Glory to God. I believe the— I believe the scripture. Glory to God. Hallelujah. So we're not looking for escapism. We want to have heaven on earth. We want to serve God on earth and complete our assignment. Are you hearing this? We don't want to escape. We want to bring heaven to earth through our prayer life, through our worship, through our study life, through the life we live, through how we show up in the world, how we show up for ourselves and how we show up for others. Glory to God. Yeah, yeah, they said it, Pastor Jasper. The devil is a liar. Yeah, they said it. I ain't gonna call the preacher's name because some of the folk love this particular preacher that said it. And, uh, we need to learn to listen to everything people say, not just the popular stuff, and we'll know what they really believe. Glory to God. But yeah, yeah, it was said. Glory to God. Yeah, yeah, Zion, they said it. Glory to God. The Bible says here, listen, he said that day will be darkness, not light. So why— this is why Jesus is going to rapture us out. We don't have much talk about the rapture anymore, but we will be raptured out. Those of us that are alive and remain, the Bible said we'll be caught up to meet him in the air. That's the rapture that's going to happen during the second coming. Because there's going to be a destruction of this earth that we know. Glory to God. The Bible says that there'll be a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth will be passed away. It's going to be cast into— oh my God— hell. So we plunder heaven now so we can punish hell now. So that's not our portion. We serve God in obedience. We serve God completely so we don't have to encounter— hear me— that dark day. Glory to God! Glory to God! Glory to God! Oh, shatta babaya! Glory to Jesus! We gotta break through to heaven now! Glory to God! Because that's going to be a dark day. And I'm telling you, I don't want to go there. I don't care what these pronosticators say, uh, these teachers of false doctrine say that there is no hell, there— the eternal judgment is just a figment of the imagination, um, that there's only heaven, everybody's already saved, and when you die, that's where you're going. It just takes everything out of context. And it says that The Bible is not right, but the Bible is right. Glory to God. And, and everybody that says something against this word is wrong. You know, at the end of the day, we don't need to write a new canon. What we need to do is get to know God for real, and then we'll be clear that this word, this word really is his constitution, and we can live by it for real. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We just need to know him and then we won't be trying to change what he said. He said what he said, right? And so we got to obey what he said and give the man what he want. What he wants is obedience. What he wants— hear me— is obedience. Listen to me, guys. That's what he wants from you. That's what he desires from you. He needs total obedience from you. That's what he's looking for. That's what he desires. That's what he's planned. Glory to God. He's, he's dependent on you to do that. Okay, that day will be darkness, not light. It will be as though a man fled from a lion— watch this— only to meet a bear. So again, if we're not ready, if we're not serving God with our life, with our actions, we shouldn't be longing for that day because it's going to be like, you know, I've heard them say, getting out the skillet or getting out the pot into the frying pan. That's what it is. You don't want to do that. Glory to God. The reality again, and I've said this time and time again, Why are you gonna go through hell to hell? Just obey God. Just do what God says. You know, it's not that hard. Stop looking for, uh, preachers and ministries that water down the gospel, that water down salvation, that water down obedience. Glory to God. Ah, yeah, man, that's right, Jeffrey. Glory to God. The Bible does say that many will give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. Glory to God. Stop looking for the easy route and let's just serve him. Let's just serve him. That's what this week is going to be about— our service. And our service is not so much passing out lunches and feeding the homeless. We got— we need to do those things as well, don't get me wrong. We need to minister to people outside the four walls. But when people do that, they think, glory to God, that they have exhausted— glory to God— etababa sorabaya. They think they might have exhausted their service, but that's not the end to service. As a matter of fact, it's not even the beginning. All service, the substratum of service to God, is rooted in obedience to his plan for your life. And alignment with his purpose, moving toward his destiny. And so that's what this week is going to be about. It's going to be about praying through the purpose, praying through the clarity concerning our future and where we're going so we can serve God accurately. Watch this, because when you obey and serve God with your life and deny yourself, take up your cross and follow him— that's service— when you do that It makes feeding the homeless easier because you have the resources. Uh-oh. It makes it easier to, to create a food bank. It makes it easier to create an educational institution. Whatever your purpose is and you tap into it, it makes it easier to serve people as you really serve God. Yeah, we call to be humanitarians, but we're also called to be Oh my God, servants of the Most High first, and then we serve humanity because we serve him in the area of our purpose, because then we become more effective because we're where we should be, not where everybody wants us to be. A lot of the social media influencers of today, many of them are misaligned because they start following their followers, because really at the end of the day, if you want to gain followers You really got to follow your followers, and what that means is you have to post what they like. And you follow them, you watch their engagement, you watch the statistics, you watch how long they watch the video. I, I follow that, but I'm not changing— maybe I'm going to change maybe the length or the time I say it or how we put it out there, but at the end of the day, I'm not changing what I'm saying just to appease people because my purpose is to be me and to say it how I need to say it. Oh boy, God have mercy. Eba sandabo koshiya, rantuta baso rabakaaya, reban sataba. A lot again, so a lot of influencers who they call quote-unquote influencers are misaligned with their purpose because they're building a life around that popular strand versus allowing God. Man, listen, I was thinking about this the other day. I've been— and I'm gonna pray in a moment— I've been full-time in ministry for 35 years this year, and there was a season of my ministry, a long season. Even now, I've built strong relationships in my life where a lot of places I go to preach, a lot of people call me to preach. It's relationships I built over time. Speaking engagements in corporate America, relationships built over time. I mean, I did this stuff before there was MySpace. There wasn't no MySpace, no Facebook, no nothing. The reality is we had to build solid relationships in prayer around purpose. Now you put yourself out there, random people reach out to you, random people you don't know. And you have to really pray about how you connect and where you go. And I ain't going everywhere. I get inboxes and calls almost every day. I'm not preaching for everybody. I'm just not doing it. I'm not speaking for everybody because if it's not where I'm assigned— because my relationship with God is that tight, because I can't give that which is holy unto dogs. I can't cast my pearls among swine. I won't be used for somebody else's agenda. Oh God! Hohoho! Rabba satala boshiai rekitata basatabai. We give you glory, God. We bless you. So again, this tier— these next 7 days starting today we are focusing on service. Let me keep reading Amos 5:18-20. So it says, it will be as though as a man fled from a lion unto me to bear, as though he entered his house and rested his hands on the wall only to have a snake bite him. That is deep. You feel comfortable in your own house, you feel like you can touch anything in your house. Last place you want to be bit by a snake or a deceptive person is in your own house. Oh my God. God says not serving, longing for to die and escape earth and not serve, it's like getting comfortable only to eventually be bit by a snake, which means deception is going to find you when you're not serving God or aligned properly with God and his way of doing things. Oh God, I'm almost— we're about to pray. He said, will not the day of the Lord, oh my God, be darkness, not light? Pitch dark, hear this, without a ray of brightness. That was Amos 5:18-20. We don't want that day, so we need to serve him. And what gets— what helps us avoid that day, hear me, is obedience. I need to be— I need to be very clear about something. While you receive— when you receive Jesus and the spirit of righteousness and salvation enters your life, you're saved. You're born again. But I want to tell you, if you choose to walk away from God and begin living a life of sin, that is called backsliding. The church has taken that out of the scripture. They won't talk about the backslider because we have adopted this grace, once saved, always saved mentality. The reality is you can make an intelligent decision to decide. I, I'm not saying the decision is intelligent because it's quite dumb to have God and walk away, but what I am saying, you can make a sound decision on your own in your flesh to stop serving God and start living as a sinner. If you do that, I need you to realize something Michael Woods told you. You're going to hell. So what you do is you wake up every day to live right. Somebody said, Apostle, it's Monday morning, it's too early for this, man, come on. No, it's not. I need you to understand, you can't do what you want to do. You cannot live like you want to live. You got to choose righteousness. Inside of your idiosyncratic ways and inside of your failures. You need to make up in your mind, I'm gonna, I'm gonna work hard to live for God every day. And then you can, if you sin, the Bible said we have an advocate with the Father. If, if, if, why are you trying to do right if you stumble? If you have a thought, the sin's gonna come. But you don't get out here and become a practicer of this. You stop going to church, stop reading the Bible, stop worshiping. And you just become an all-out sinner. You, you have walked away from God. You would not retain God in your knowledge, Romans 1. So God turns you over when you stay in there to a reprobate mind. Hmm. So watch this. If I'm almost a, a, a man, a heterosexual man and I get saved. Hear this, and I'm going to pray because somebody said, 'Apostle, you messing with us.' Yeah, I'm trying. I'm working on you. I'm telling you, these 21 days, I'm working on you. Glory to God. And this thing is working on me too. I'm working on us. The Holy Spirit is working on us. Yeah, I'm working on you. I'm working on you. Rumankande. God, I love you. I thank you. I get saved. I'm a heterosexual man, right? And I decide, as a saved man, I'm married, I'm gonna become a polygamist, and I'm gonna have 4 other wives in addition to my wife. First of all, I'm gonna get knocked out, shot, everything by my wife because she ain't going for it. Glory to God. But at the end of the day, if I decide that, I'm trying to live in sin but and keep saying I'm saved, I'm a preacher, I got grace. Oh, we need to write a new canon to justify my lifestyle because, because I want to have 5 wives. Oh my God, hear me. You can't. We can't. It's not the way of God. It's not the will of the Father. Oh God, today. So to my lesbians that get married, see, I'm gonna say it because the other preachers won't. I need you to realize it doesn't change the scripture what we believe. What we believe So if you get saved and you marry a woman, you're living in sin consistently. Because like adultery for a heterosexual man is sin, it is sin for womankind to be with womankind or mankind to be with mankind. So two men getting married, two women getting married, what you're doing, you're living in sin. So you're actually in a backslidden condition. For all you preachers out there that's got a first man, a first gentleman, and preaching the gospel, oh my God, if you don't repent, get deliverance, and get out of that sin, sir, ma'am, you're going to hell. Somebody said, Apostle, it's way too early for this. Well, go back to bed. But I'm trying to help you avoid that dark day. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Just because you want to live like that, the word of God is right. The Bible said prophesying shall cease. Hallelujah. But my word shall stand forever. Listen, this book is eternal, and if he said it, you better stand on the integrity of it. Hallelujah. So we gonna serve him, right? We're gonna serve him. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So let's pray. Father, we give you praise. I'm, I'm closing up the Bible. Glory to God. Because I teach all day. I got to come back and teach at 12. Father, we love you. Hosha tababaya, bransete kunsa, tebiyanso tokuska tebiyansay. We give you glory, we give you honor, God. We thank you for another opportunity to come into your presence and give you glory, to give you praise, to worship you. And Father, first of all, as we pray today, we repent for every moment of our life where we have not given you 100%, where we have not served you with our whole heart, our whole mind, our whole body, our whole spirit. Father, we give you glory. Father, we give you honor. Father, we give you praise. We exalt you. We extol you. We bless you, God. We honor your name. We repent for every place of disobedience, God. Places where we have not obeyed, for your word declares obedience is better than sacrifice, God. So I'm praying today that you will raise up a generation of obedient believers, obedient saints that will follow hard after you. Oh God, we repent today, God, for we have not taken your word seriously, God. Many have played with the word and, and believe the parts that they want to believe, not accepting the whole counsel. So Father, in the name of Jesus, we decree and declare that we will believe, we will trust in— glory to God— the whole counsel Right, my God, today of the word. We will trust the whole counsel of the word, God. And we will live out. What your word says. For you said in your word, God, them that are willing and obedient that they shall eat the fat of the land. So Father, I thank you, oh God, as we're willing, as we're obedient, God, that we'll eat the best parts of the land, that we'll eat the best fruit, God. That we'll have the best things in life, God, because we're willing, not because we're scared of hell. No, not because, glory to God, we know there's a heaven and we can go to it. But God, no, because we're willing to obey. And serve you in our purpose. We present our bodies living sacrifice. Yes, God, holy and acceptable unto God, which is our reasonable service. God, we commit ourselves to you. We commit our way to you, God. God, may our ways please you. Otababa Saya Baba. Bren Sete Beko Sotoba. Inini Ansu Kutataya Bansura Kisgata. Leke satadidi ansotobakosi antalaya, bransotobabaye. May our thoughts please you. May our behavior please you, God. Edaman sotobakoya, otamaman toloboso. May we serve you in light in public, God. Leke babaye sotobabaye kandiloboso rabakaya, otamaman sotobabaye. May we be in the world but not of the world. Yes, Lord. May we serve you as a righteous example. Oh God, don't let our good be evil spoken of. When we're in the company of sinners, God, I decree and declare we'll be like you. We will be the light. We will not become one with their culture, but we will bring the culture into their environment. We will bring the higher culture. Woo! Woo! Sha! Shemanta tababa babaaya! Rebeisata bababaaya! Branse kutaba kosota babaa! Rebeisata bababaaya! When we enter the environment of those that don't know God— my God, today— reba sata bababa kosura! Branse tebebe soto kosuwaya! We will bring the higher culture. That's in every regard, God. In our spirituality, we will bring a power into that culture that will transform. That will make those that are around us different, that will not draw them to us, but that will draw them to you. Oh God, today, oh God, we'll bring the culture, even in our resources, we'll impact the culture because we live from a different dimension. So God will bring resources into that culture. That that culture can see a higher culture. Glory to God. That through our service, glory to the name of God, they will, through our service to the world, they'll see that we bring the resources of a higher culture into the world. And that there is no lack in our world. We live from heaven to earth. There's no lack in heaven. There's no want in heaven. And because we pursue and serve God, we don't lack. Because we're your sheep and you're our shepherd. And because you are our shepherd, we do not— oh God, we do not lack. We do not have a need. We do not want. We're your sheep. We're the sheep of your pasture. Yes, God. Let's— and so when we enter into culture We raise the standard. We bring another standard of behavior that when that culture looks at our life, they see the life of God. They don't see lust. They don't see adultery. They don't see lying and stealing. They don't see cheating, they don't see lack of integrity, but what they see, God, is an alignment with you. Yes, God, we don't have to sleep our way to the top. Le basa tababa bayah, bran sete bababayo, rebbe. We'll move in obedience, God. We'll bring a higher standard, a higher culture, so that heaven will be glorified. And Jesus magnified, the devil terrified. We will punish hell, we will punish demonic realms, we will punish the strongholds of Satan and the diabolical schemes that come from the devil. We veto, we render powerless every plan that emerges from this. Oh, she can't talk about Uriah. Every plan that emerges from hell, every toxic thing, we create an atmosphere of purity. Toxic people, toxic conversation, toxic engagements, toxic words that are spoken of our life, we release ourselves from every word curse. We break it now in the name of Jesus. We raise the standard. Yeah, God, but we are a light to the world. We're a city, a situation that sits on a hill. We're lifted up on a hill as a light to the world. So when they look up, they see our light. We become the guiding light, become the lighthouse that leads them to you. We are a situation So I declare that every situation under the sound of my voice, I decree and declare today, God, that it is filled with light. Dear God, I give you the glory. I declare that our bank accounts are filled with light. Yeah, yeah, about the glorious light of God. I declare that our homes are filled with light. Brand city, baby. That our light becomes so strong and powerful that our roommates are saved, our roommates are born again, uh, oh, to the people we live with, our families desire Jesus the more. Because we're a city that sits on a hill that cannot be hid. And Father, that even means that when we're not being a light, we're still on the hill. Oh, because we can't be hid, so we're on the hill. And when our light is not burning, when our fire is not burning— mm-hmm. People see the dark places, they see the strange things, they see the things that don't align with you. But let our fire burn and burn and burn and burn. Burn, light, burn. Burn until our nation is changed, God. Let the light burn until America finds you. Bren shete bebebe sorakaya. A country that's lost its way. That's lost its moral compass. Riketa babababa. It was prognosticated that after the pandemic that over 70%— matter of fact, it was prognosticated that 74%, glory to God, of the humans that dwell in America would not return to church that many would leave God. Father, we're living in this reality. So Father, I decree and declare that our light will shine, that people will be reignited in the passion toward your house, a passion toward the things that pertain to you, a passion toward the things that glorify you, God. Oh, I give you praise. Reba satabaya. I give you glory, God. I give you praise, God. Let us be a city worthy of the hill. A situation. Sit. City. Situ. A city. The word city, itamanasa, the root is sit, is where we get situation. Otemamanasa. So in a city, there are various situations that make the city. We are a situation on a hill full of light. I declare it over you today. Glory to God that you are a situation on a hill filled with light. Yes, God. Father, you said whatever we bind on earth will be bound in heaven. So I bind everything in the name of Jesus that comes to steal our light. That comes to dim our light and bring destruction to our light. In the mighty name of Jesus, I decree and declare, dear God, that that thing— that, oh my God, even that person be bound up— that comes to steal our fire, that comes to steal our joy. I decree and declare in the name of Jesus, every scheme of the devil to turn our lights off, I declare that scheme be reversed in the name of Jesus. I pray, God, that you will release an anointing where we will burn in every setting, every situation, that your glory would be revealed. Rakiska talabaso torabashi. I glorify you, God. I macrograph you. I supplement you. Beside you there is no other. You rule and you super rule. The heavens is your throne, God, and the earth is your footstool. The heavens declare your glory and the earth your handiwork, God. Breathe fire, God. That emits a light that the world can't resist, that the world can't deny. Father, be a consuming fire today as we serve you. Consume us. Yes, rebaba sandala basatabaya. Consume us, consume us, consume everything in us that's not like you. And Father, let the heat Burn forever. Let the light shine forever. Yeah, this little light of mine. Yeah, let it shine everywhere I go. Let it shine. Yeah, let the light shine. The children used to sing that. We sung that as children growing up in church. This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it shine. Round my neighbor's door, I'm gonna let it shine. Let the flame burn, and may your little light become big light. Glory to God, that literal masses are drawn to your light, and they discover Jesus through the glorious light that comes through your house. We give you glory, we give you honor, we give you praise. We bless you, God, and we thank you for this time of prayer. We thank you for this Monday. May this be a Miracle Monday, God. May we see the miraculous today. May we experience your power. May we experience your glory. May the joy of the Lord Be our strength. In the mighty name of Jesus, I bless you, God. This is day 7 of our fast, God. May we find prophetically maturity and completion this day, for 7 is the number of maturity or maturation and completion. And so, Father, I give you praise that you will complete things in us. You will help us to see the fin— yeah, God, I hear that. Help us to see the finished work in us, the, the 7, the maturity in us, and help us to manifest that out of our life today on the 7th day of this fast. May we see maturity. May we see what you're doing. May we see that where we are now is not where we're going, and that the way it is now, it's not the way it's going to be. Ura shababa baya. I declare that over your life. The way it is now, it's not the way it's gonna be. I can see you you in your future. Yeah, yeah, every one of you, I can see you in your future. Yes, and you look better than you look right now. You're more prosperous than you are right now. You're more happy than you are right now. You're healed in your future. Yeah, yeah, I can see you, yeah, in your future, and you look much better than you look right now. Yeah, you're healthier than you are now. I can see you. The work is finished. The work is done. You have more love in your life than you do right now. I can see you. Yeah. In your future. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Receive it. You're going somewhere. You're going somewhere. You're going somewhere. You're going somewhere. You're going somewhere. You're going somewhere. In the mighty name of Jesus, we bless you and we honor you. In Jesus' name. Yes, Lord. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. We give you glory. We love you, God. Thank you, guys. Thank you so much for joining us this morning. God is good. God is good. Let this be a great day. Listen, those of you that are not fasting with us, hey, it's not too late. We're only 7 days in. We got 14 more days left. You can still join the fun. We're having fun, man. So listen, if you want to fast with us, simply go to rodchurch.com/fast24, click the red button, download the fast guide so you can join this fast. There's no cost. Glory to God. You don't have to do anything but fast with us. Glory to God. And it will give you the guidelines. Now, in this second tier, we've incorporated something back into our diet Uh, for those of you that want sugar, it's not sugar, it's not sodas, it's not coffee. Okay, we've incorporated chicken because some of you been eating chicken anyway the first 7 days, and I need you to be obedient, right? Okay, so we've incorporated chicken into our fast. You still can only eat 3 o'clock and until 12. The fast goes from 3 PM to 12. You come off, you get that your meal, and you can eat during that time. Then 12 to 3 daily, we're fasting nothing but water. During the fast, nothing but water, fruits, vegetables. Glory to God. Now chicken. No sugar, no chips, no snacks, none of that. Chicken, right? Okay, just chicken. Okay, we have reinstituted that. We did that on yesterday. So many of you are gonna have times this week where you're gonna, uh, want to do that, especially Super Bowl. Many are going to tailgate. Whatever you do, yeah, get you some chicken. Glory to God. I'm gonna go to Minister Anderson, get her to do me a lot of chicken for Super Bowl Sunday. So get you some chicken. Glory to the name of God. But let's keep this fast, guys. God is good. Well, somebody put up hands. Glory to God for the chicken. Praise God. Hallelujah. Thank God. Yeah, thank the Lord for the chicken. He's a good God. He's a merciful God. He loves us. Thank you, Lord. Listen, meet me here at 12. It's another word from the Lord. We're going to continue teaching our series on taking action against strife. You don't want to miss today, it's going to be profound. So I'll see you back here at 12. Listen, I don't know about you, but again, this fast is blessing me. And if you get a chance, guys, please— I posted a reel last night from our service yesterday. Where I was talking about I'm looking for the smoking section. Y'all go watch that reel and share it. There's some fire on that reel. I'm trying— I've been getting people inboxing me about that reel since I just last night I posted it. People are watching that reel and stuff is falling off of them. Share that reel. Glory to the name. People are getting free. I'm telling you, I'm looking for the smoking section. I promise you, when I walk in any church, put me in the smoking section. Glory to God, because wherever there's fire, there's smoke. Glory to God. And we want fire every time we come in the house of God. When we go anywhere, we want to turn up the flame. Glory to God. God is so good, he's so kind. That's my alarm, that means it's time for me to go. I love you guys. Heaven smile upon you is my prayer. Y'all be blessed today. Peace.