5 AM Prayer | 27 May 2025 #drmikewoods #radahchurch

A pleasant good morning, everyone. This is the day the Lord has made, and we shall rejoice. Glory to God, and be glad in it. It's 5:00 AM, and welcome to our Tuesday morning 5:00 AM prayer. Listen, family, as you're coming in, do me a favor. I need you to take a moment, and I need you to share this live stream. Glory to God! Someone, um, is possibly up scratching their head, don't know what to do, but we know that Christ is the answer. Oh my God, Christ is the answer! Praise God! And we're gonna call on him this morning, and we're gonna trust, glory to God, that God will show up for you, he will show up for me, and he will show up for every person, uh, that needs him. Matter of fact, we believe the Bible. The Bible declares if we call on the name of the the Lord, the scripture says he will answer. Glory to the name of God. Again, welcome everybody. Please share, send out a text, let people know. Glory to God that Apostle Woods is on live praying this morning. Glory to the name of God. Uh, I think I heard Pastor Jeffrey say a few times, glory to God, that if you log on here on Tuesday morning, I'm not here, trust me, something has happened. I've probably been up to 3 and went to bed, and, and my alarm went off and I didn't get up. If you don't see me, but the reality is for real, just pray if you don't see me on Tuesday at 5. But I'm here today, I'm live, I'm in the flesh. So we're going to pray this morning, we're going to bombard heaven. The Bible says where any two or three will just touch and agree, glory to God, the scripture declares that he will be in the midst of us, and we can ask what we will. So I'm asking you, glory to the name of God, hallelujah, to— hallelujah— join in with us as we pray this morning. And I want to pray, praise God, this morning about forgiveness. Glory to the name of God. And y'all know we pray the word, uh, this around here. Glory to the name of God. The Bible said if you ask anything according to his will, 1 John 2, he said God would perform it. So his will is his word. So we pray in alignment with his word. So today, glory to God, we're going to pray for forgiveness as we was teaching last night. And if you missed that teaching last night, it was impromptu, it wasn't planned, uh, but God led us to, uh, earlier that morning, he led me to share that conversation I was having with him, uh, with you guys. Praise God. I want to say good morning to everyone that's here. Uh, good morning, uh, brother Man of God Lamont Smith, good to see you, uh, this morning. Uh, I see my wife. Good morning, Felicia, love you. Uh, glory to God. Hallelujah. Good morning, Minister Anderson, good to see you. Glory to the name of God. Good morning, Lakita Rogers, good to see you all the way from Vicksburg, Mississippi. God bless you, woman of God. And God bless you, Prophetess Smith, good to see you this morning. Again, guys, we're streaming over 4 different platforms, 3 Facebook pages uh, one YouTube channel, uh, wherever you're watching, do me a favor and share. But again, this morning we're going to pray about forgiveness. I, I was— as I was teaching last night, I started talking about forgiveness and bitterness and how it's so important for you not to allow the root of bitterness to— I mean, to begin to settle in your life and start spreading as a cancer that begins to set you back spiritually. And so as I was thinking about that Uh, just kind of landed on my heart to pray about forgiveness, you know, because, you know, if we're living, if you're breathing, people are going to find a way, trust me, because they're humans, to offend you. And we have to be careful that we don't let that get in our spirit, and we got to quickly release them. And that's one of the things we were sharing last night. We got to be quick to forgive. We can't forgive at the moment it feels good to forgive. So a lot of time people offend us and we say, okay, I gotta feel good about this, I gotta get pa— listen, if you wait a year, they still did it. So you might as well release them immediately, all right? 'Cause you're only hurting yourself the more you hold it. Glory to the name of God. So let's look in the word real quick. Glory to God. Let's look at a few scriptures and we're gonna read these scriptures and we're gonna pray 'em. And we're going to believe God. Hallelujah. I want you to begin just to lift your voice. Mm. Lebo shiki atai. And worship him right now. He's a good God. He's a mighty God. Beside him there is no other. It's in him we live. My God, today. It's in him we move. Oshababa bati ataya. Lekisontu tobai. It's in him we have our being. He's good, and he's good all the time. Beside him, there is no other. Father, we bless you, thank you, we honor you, we give you glory. Come on, just glory. Begin to glorify him a few moments this morning, then we're going to go into prayer. We magnify you, we macrograph you, we lift you up, we honor your great name. You're holy, you're righteous, you're mighty, you're King God, and beside you there is no other. You rule and you super rule. We lift our hands and yada, we surrender, hiya, and we confess that you are God, and we confess and express our thanks. By the lifting of our hands, we express our surrender. By the lifting of our hands, there's none higher than you. It's in you we live, Father. It's in you we move. It's in you we have our being. You are the joy and the lifter of our head. Heaven is your throne, the earth is your footstool. The heavens declare your glory and the earth your handiwork. God, we glorify your great name. Hallelujah, hallelujah. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof, them and they that dwell therein. Oh, taste and see that the Lord, he is good. It is he that has made us and not we ourselves. The Lord is the light of our salvation. Whom shall we fear? Leto koshiai ante teboriashe. Notete basikite de di ansu rungusha te tabande de di ante rumbakalabahashi antoria. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. When the wicked, even my foes, came to eat upon my flesh, they stumbled and they fell. Lord, hosts should encamp against me, and 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. We love you, God. We adore you, God. We bless you, Almighty King. We bless your name. What a great God we serve. What a mighty God we serve. We bless you and we honor you. We glorify you and we lift you up. Oh, taste him. He said, oh, taste and see. Let's taste it. We, when we enter into worship, our spiritual appetite, that craze for him, begins to be satisfied with his very essence, his very presence, his very authority, his very power. God, taste him. Just love on him. Just love on him. A few more moments. We love you, Jesus. We bless you, Jesus. He's the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. I believe as we worship, someone that scrolls into this live will be healed. Someone that scrolls into this live will be delivered and set free. May your body be made whole now. May your mind and your heart be made whole now. In the Bokusha, in the Manshi, We bless you, God. We honor— we love you, Jesus. We glorify We glorify and magnify your good name. How mighty you are. Gorababa satalabaki. How glorious you are. We welcome you here. You're welcome, Jesus. We love you, God. Yatababa. And we say, I'm in love I'm in love, I'm in love. You're the sweet Holy Spirit, you're so sweet. Holy Holy Spirit, you're so sweet. Holy Spirit, I'm in love. Come on, worship, worship. I want you to— you got a Bible? We're gonna pray. Go to Matthew 6. Hallelujah. And verse number 12. Praise God. Matthew 6. Pray. We give you praise. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you. Bless him. He's sweet. He's wonderful. He's the sweet Holy Spirit. Come on, just praise the Holy Spirit. We bless him. We bless you, Holy Spirit. We adore you, Holy Spirit. Did you know the Holy Spirit is God in you? Hallelujah! And the Bible said the Holy Spirit will teach us all things. Glory to God! He's a teacher. A lot of times our ignorance is connected to our lack of fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Come on, come on, worship him. Adore him. We bless your name, God. Matthew 6:12, the Bible says, and forgive us our debts. Yes, God, as we forgive our debtors. The word forgive here is afemi in Greek. Afemi. It's important that we understand again the original transliteration of these words, uh, gets us closer to the mind of God and the writer's heart. Uh, so we transliterate it. We're not just trying to make you aware that we know these words. Um, we've studied these words for 30 years, right? So then just reading the Bible, this is how we learn to study. We've been taught to study. So it's not to impress you, but it's really to give you the deeper understanding Study to show yourself approved. The word approved means that you have the ability to walk out what you study. Glory to God. And to do that, you need understanding. And etymology or word studies give us great understanding of scripture. For the Bible says, forgive, athaemi. It is to bid a going away. All right, it literally means to divorce yourself from the debt, all right, from the offense. When you divorce a person, all right, it's the dividing of two forces. Divorce is two forces that divide. Glory to God. And you go your separate ways, all right? That's what happens in a divorce. That's what should happen. If people that get divorced still doing marriage stuff, okay, that's for another day, right? The reality is, hear me, family, can y'all hear me? Glory to God. Well, I want to make sure you can. Praise God. Just type it in the comments because I want you to grab this this morning. Hear me, if indeed You forgive, you divorce yourself from it, you go another way, you don't keep revisiting it. Matter of fact, you cannot forgive— watch this— with penalty. This is important to us praying. We want to get an understanding, and all that getting, get an understanding. So I can't forgive you if I constantly penalize you for what you did. Oh, that's heavy. But some people will say, I've forgiven Glory to God. But they still penalize the person for what they did. You mistreat them, you handle them differently. No, that's not forgiveness. And again, that's not rooted in love. But real forgiveness says— glory to God— ah, real forgiveness says, praise God, I let it go. I'm going another way. So when we pray to God, we're asking him to turn his face away from— whoo— what we've done, how we've offended him. And the scripture says here, forgive us of our debts, our trespasses, our sins, where we've come short, where we've offended you. So when we're praying to God for forgiveness, we're asking him to let go, praise God, of what we have done. Are y'all hearing this? But he gives a condition. He says, forgive us as we have forgiven our debtors. So a lot of times, glory to God, glory to God, we miss— hallelujah— the opportunity. Listen to to release people, my God, today and receive the forgiveness of God, because we're still holding stuff. So the question becomes here, I'm telling you, the Bible's right, somebody's wrong. Have you really been forgiven by the Father if you're still holding grudge? And debt against another. Because the condition here is, is as we forgive— and this is, listen, this is Jesus teaching a model structural prayer to the disciples on how to pray. So here's, I want you to get it. I want you to examine your heart, and we're going to pray this scripture. Is there any person any office, anything this morning you're holding, live or by replay, that you need to release. Glory to God. And I want you to get that thing out. I want you to release them. Afa emai, afa emai, or af emai. Release them, forgive them, divorce yourself from that offense. Somebody say, Apostle, that's easier said than done. But listen, I want you to know you're not in this thing alone. There's some things, there's some people, and my wife asked me a lot of times, especially based on some of the things she knows that, you know, I've gone through with people in particular, and how she sees I still embrace people. I still, you know, hold people dear because at the end of the day, it's not worth my life to carry that bitterness, and it's not worth God releasing me when I need him to release me. Are y'all hearing this? Ah, God, let it go. Let it go. Let Mama go. Whatever she did, let it go. I talk about— let— watch this. Some of you got bitterness against God, live or by replay, because maybe you feel like God took your loved one and that God just should have left them here. And many times you prayed for them to be healed and they didn't get healed. But do you realize if God brought them to him, they're more healed than they'll ever be? They're wholer than they'll ever be. They're with him. Their pain has ended. And there are people that are mad at God because their loved one— they've been mad at God for years because their loved one departed this life. The reality is you got to let God go. You're missing the opportunity to operate in the blessing, to operate in his power. Glory to God. To operate in his authority. Glory to God. To operate in his ability. To operate in who he is. Glory to God. So Father, we thank you. We pray this scripture now in the name of Jesus. I pray for every person under the sound of my voice, and I decree and declare that by your stripes they are healed. God, I thank you that by the authority and the power of your precious blood they are healed. And Father, I pray, God, that you will forgive us of our debts, our trespasses, any way we've offended you, God. We're asking you to put— let your blood cover every sin of omission, commission, every known sin, every unknown sin. Saturate us with righteousness. We come in true metanoia. We repent, God. We change our mind, our behavior, our thought. And God, we decree and declare we will not return— Shema lekusha tatavabatan sheh— to that thing that you have covered in the blood, that you have cast in the sea of forgiveness to remember no more. We will not bring it to your memory as you have vowed to forget it. The only way you see it again is that we do it again. So God, we thank you for the strength to not do it again. We thank you, le basa, for the power of the blood that empowers us toward righteousness. We let go of the person that offended us, God. And maybe there's someone again that's live or by replay, Father, that's holding someone captive. I decree and declare this morning, by the power of the blood of Jesus Christ and by the power of the Holy Spirit. I decree and declare, Father, that they are being made free in the name of Jesus, and they are letting that person go. They're giving that person the gift of afemi, and they're divorcing themselves from that offense, from that pain, from that trauma. And we thank you that healing and deliverance is the children's bread, and we're receiving now In the name of Jesus, we declare to be so. Amen. Thank you, God. Oh, well, give him praise for the release. Glory to God. Even if it's not applying to you, and listen, I'm just saying, you examine yourself. Quite possibly there's something you're holding. Oh God, from, from, from a loved one in the past, from an authority figure that Listen, let it go. Glory to God. And I was telling somebody the other day, you cannot even fully release someone until you actually embrace what is the fullness of their office. A lot of times to mask the pain, what we do— hear this, hear this— to mask the pain we demote or sugar down, water down— hear me— what the person did. And you got to fully accept what they did. You cannot make what they did honorable when it was dishonorable. In order to release them, in order to forgive them, you got to be able to accept that. Okay, yeah, they made that mistake. I'm gonna release them and keep thing. A lot of times, because people don't want to feel the pain of the full offense, they act like the person didn't offend them. But you have to accept that they violated you. Are y'all hearing me? Glory to God. Ah, we love you, Father. Go to Ephesians 5 and verse number 1. Again, remember, we pray the word around here. Glory to God. Ephesians 5:1. I know you get on some prayer, everybody's hollering, and yeah, okay, that has its place. But you know, the Bible said we ask anything according to his will. I didn't get up this early to play games. I know you didn't. We want answers, so we want to ask according to his will. His will, the ilma in Greek, is his word. Glory to God. So we ask according to what he has designed. And the Bible says he responds, he'll do it. So when we have times of deliberate prayer like this, let's, let's pray the word. Glory to God. Let's balance our intercession with understanding. And watch this, that raises expectation. You know why? Because the word cannot lie. The word is truth. When you pray the word, your expectation is stronger. When you're praying out of Glory to God. It kind of limits your expectations because you have room to doubt, but the word is true. And the Bible said you can't add one jot nor tittle to this word. He said prophesying shall cease, but my word will stand forever. When we pray the word— glory to God. Ephesians 5:1, watch this. The Bible says, be ye therefore followers of God. As dear children. So the Bible tells us to be imitators of him. Glory to God! To be imitators of him. Glory to God! To follow him. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Matthew 5:44 even says, pray for your enemies. Pray for those who despitefully use you and work all manner of evil against you, those who persecute you. Glory to God. So Father, in Jesus' name, we pray Ephesians 5:1 right now. And we decree and declare that we are imitators of you, as you have forgiven us. Yes, God, through your efficacious, vicarious, substitutionary work of Calvary. God, through your redemptive work of the cross, as we have been released, God, we release those who have offended us. We imitate you. We follow after your pattern. At any time we have fallen short and come to you, God, you have not punished us. You have not went back on your word, not one time. You have not penalized us for our sin when we repent, God. You have covered us in the blood and kept us. You have opened up heaven for us to experience you and have relationship with you. And so, Father, we follow after your example. And Father, I pray that you will give the people under the sound of my voice, those that are live or by replay, God, that you would give them the power and the authority to follow your example in the mighty name of Jesus. Leba shorangi setatabaya. Yeah, God, God, help us to be imitators of Christ, of your love, of your forgiving power, of your grace. Give us the compassion to express toward others that they may be changed. Oh, shabandi osa. That they may be healed. Glory to God. That they may be delivered. Ushamandi osa alabaki. That they may be set free. Father, we give, we come before you and we lift up the people in our life before you. And Father, we invoke blessings upon them. Oh, rababakaya. Yes, God. And we pray for their happiness. Glory to God. We pray for their longevity. We pray for their prosperity. We lift up the ones that have offended us, God, the one that have brought evil against us, the ones that persecute us. We Pray for them. Ooh. And we love them and we lift them up before you, God. Save them, deliver them, and we command your blessings upon them. Employ your blessings upon them. And not only will we pray for them, God, but we set ourselves this morning— yes, God— to treat them well, to act nobly toward them. Thank you, Jesus. To do good toward them, to be merciful, compassionate, sympathetic, tender toward them, God. Hallelujah. Responsive even as you are toward us. For God, it is our desire to be an imitator, Father, an imitator of you. And Father, we declare we can do all things through Christ. Glory to God that has strengthened us. Go to Philippians 4:13. Yeah, let's read it. Hallelujah. Because I know maybe you've been sitting there saying, I got— how am I going to release them? How do I let them go? Glory to God. How do I move on? Past the pain, past the offense. Well, the Apostle Paul decided to empower you. Glory to God. We, we use this scripture for a lot of other things, but I want you to lean into it. Glory to God. When it's time to forgive, watch this. Philippians 4:13 says, I can do all things, all things, including forgive. Yeah, including forgiving that one that you said you can't forgive. Glory to God. Woo! Including releasing them of their offense, no matter how bad it was or what they did to you or your family member. You know, you got people in families that don't like people that didn't really do it to them. They did it to somebody in their family, and they holding the grudge too, holding up their blessing. and they're saying, man, I just can't forgive them for that. And it's, it's a dangerous thing. Watch this, to know— okay, watch this— that someone offended someone or offended you, and you never get a chance to release them. They die. And watch this, you may know of an offense that was brought towards someone else and they died. And because you never said anything, the person they was offending never had a chance to fully embrace it. Hear this and release them. And you may say, oh my God, they didn't know it, so it really wasn't offended. Yeah, it was offended because they was doing what they were doing to that person in secret, and you knew about it and didn't say nothing. That's heavy. So I'm just telling you, get stuff in order, get your heart right. Hallelujah. And release people. And you can do it right here, right here. Philippians 4:13. I can do all things. Let's start right there. He says, I can do— before we get into any other part of this, the Bible says you can do all things. Who? You. The Apostle Paul says, I can do. Y'all just say that: I can do. Glory to God. That means you can take action, you can make a difference, you can operate in your purpose, you can forgive people. There's no limits on your life. Watch this because you're operating through Christ, but it takes you and him. Through Christ that strengtheneth me. Let's, let's just deal with that because a lot of time we read over this, we don't even understand what that means. Uh, in dunamis or in dynamo is what this is. In dunamis is how it's pronounced in Greek, but if you want to visualize the word in du dynamo This is powerful. Watch this, because it means that you receive strength to the point that you're headstrong, that that strength would not fail. But you receive the strength of God so much so that you're so confident that there is no person that could tell you you could fail, because you have received an operate in the strength of God. Hallelujah! And watch this, so you can do all things including forgive. You're gonna operate in the strength of God, get your business straight. Glory to God! Through Christ. See, when you're trying to do it in your own strength, you make life hard. Where his strength is available. You just got to receive it. You got to humble yourself and receive the strength— watch this— and the confidence that goes along with the fact that you ain't operating in your own strength. You're operating in his strength. You're not living in your own strength. As you embrace the rest of this week, hear me, family, embrace it in the idea that he's God wants to strengthen you, and if you receive it, you can live life through his strength. Now, God is not going to strengthen you toward disobedience. His strength is available for those that obey, for those that align with his promise, with his power, with his authority. Ah. Lord, have mercy. Bless us today, God. Father, we thank you that we can do all things through you that strengthens us. So Father, this morning I release the strength of God not only to forgive but to fortify. Oh, shabamandi ansa. That to create garrisons and protections through alignment Hallelujah. Oh, because we've operated in obedience, God, we have the strength to build spiritual strongholds, good strongholds that keep evil out, that keep distractions out, that keep weakness out, that keep poverty out. We, we erect a spiritual heavenly stronghold. Yeah, God, because the stronghold, God, is what's that which is designed to keep what's in, in, and what's out, out. What we want to keep in is you. We want to keep your purpose, your potential, your strength in. So we release strongholds that do the warfare for us. Glory, hallelujah. Why? As we pursue you and cultivate your relationship with us and build and advance the kingdom in strength. Oh my God, in the mighty name of Jesus, we can do all things. We declare all things. We're not limited. We remove the limits. We remove the limits. We remove the limits. We remove the limits this morning in Jesus' mighty name. We command the limitations to be lifted. And the glory of God to be released in our lives, in Jesus' name. God, we love you. Go to John. We're praying the word. Glory to God. I'm telling you, if you showed up here this morning looking for me hollering and screaming, thinking that's prayer, you're on the wrong line. It's the wrong one. This is not entertainment. We're here to touch heaven. We're here to see results. Hallelujah! Watch this, we're here to receive answers from God through faith. Watch this, faith come by hearing and hearing by the word of God. Huh, how can you hear without a preacher? Oh boy, how can he preach except he be sent? So that's not always preaching a sermon. Even in prayer, when me as a man of God, as a leader in the kingdom, as a sent one, an apostle— glory to God, how can he preach if he be sent? Another message for another day. Reality is my job is to ensure that your faith is appropriate to receive what we're praying for. So we're praying The word. La isu mongkuta bahaya. John 20:23. Glory to God. Lord, I love you. Mm-hmm. Watch this. The Bible said, whosoever sins ye remit, they are remitted unto them. And whosoever sins you retain, my God, they are retained. Let's look at the word remit. Let's break this down again. All you'll get to get it all understand. Now watch this, watch this. If you transliterate the word remit in Greek, ah, am I, am I— what was that? To forgive. So let's read it again and let's define the word. Whosoever sins, we divorce ourselves from, we turn away from, we release. The Bible says they are released. So if you divorce yourself from the sin, from the offense, the offense is gone. So again, you don't have a right to keep digging in the offense because when you release it for real, it's released. Hallelujah! You give it back to them, and then it's up to them to create the behavior, right? To operate in character that reflects their repentance and the remittance you've given them. Ah, glory to God! Glory to God! A remittance is— let me show you what it looks like in the natural. If you buy something from Walmart and you realize you don't need it, you have the receipt. Walmart has what they call a remittance policy. You call it a return policy. But if you take it back to the store and give it back to them, here's what they're going to do. They're going to give you your money back as if you never bought it, right? And you're going to walk away. From what you left at the store. You ain't gonna be walking around next week worried about what you took back. Come on, you leave it there and you leave it to Walmart to do whatever they want to do with your return. Because guess what? When you remit it, it's remitted to them, and you get to walk out the store as if the transaction never happened. This is the same thing with forgiveness. You get to walk away from the offense through the blood of Jesus and the strength of Christ like it never happened. But the Bible said here, if you retain it, you retain it. So same principle, you go to Walmart and buy it and you don't take it back, it's yours, you're keeping it. Some of you are holding on to offense, things that people have done to you. You're retaining it. You don't want to talk to them. Are you hearing this? You won't call, you won't check on them. You're retaining this because of their behavior. Ah, but you gotta let it go, and you gotta love like Christ loved. I ain't saying you got to be big homies. What I am saying is you got love, all right? And love is action, right? So you got to be nice. Glory to God. You gotta again give them the offense back. Oh boy, I love it, I love it, I love it. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for John 20:23. You said whatever we remit in power. Hallelujah. It is remitted to the person we remitted to. Whatever we let go, whatever we forgive, we have given them a gift. We have released them, and we have divorced ourselves from it, and we've gone our own way. Father, give us the strength to remit things that need to be remitted, to let go of things that need to be let go of. And we thank you for that now. We We thank you for it now. We thank you for it now. God, we ask you to purge our heart as hyssop. Wash us from the offense and we shall be clean. Create in us a clean heart and renew the right spirit within us. Lord, help us not to be angry, to be variant, to be— oh my God— combative. Glory to God. To fight. Hear me. Against those— —they have offended us, to mistreat those who have offended us. Oh God, we thank you that if we remit it, it has been remitted. Go to Psalm 119. We're praying the word. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Psalm 119. He loves us. He loves us. Because there are some people, I'm just cutting them all the way off, I ain't talking to them no more. That's okay, but that ain't God. Because guess what? You may still need to win them to Christ in spite of what they've done. Hmm. Psalm 119. I'm gonna leave that alone. 165. Psalm 119:165. God. Hallelujah. Maybe the actions they committed toward you, you know, you need to let them go. You need to confront them about it and forgive them, right? You need to say something. Glory to God. Really, forgiveness is a gift, so you got to give it to the person, right? There, there are people who have offended me in my life, whether in my past, my childhood. I have set them down and released them, especially if I've had the opportunity and I know that they have purpose in my world. Watch this, going into my future, I don't need what happened in the past to thwart my destiny. Hear me? To stop me from achieving and receiving what God has for me. Yeah, you gotta let it go, man. Psalms 119:165, it says, great peace have they which love thy law. Oh boy, watch this, man. You talking about maturity. We talked about maturity last night. And nothing shall offend them. He says great peace. I love this. The word peace in Hebrew is shalom. Watch this. Shalom, or peace, by definition is not the absence of confusion. Hear me, hear me good. Shalom. People think peace is the absence of confusion, where if you're not confused, you're at peace. Shalom in Hebrew means the presence of God's assistance. Because guess what? He called it great peace here. You got rab in it, rab or rob, which is abounding peace, which is peace that never leaves. He did say he'll never leave you nor forsake you. He'll be with you now, even to the end of the age. So he says, great is the presence of God's assistance. In other words, God's assistance is always abounding in every aspect of our lives. Y'all here this morning? Oh my God. Always abounding in every aspect of our lives. He never leaves you. He is with us. So he says, but this great peace, this abounding peace, only shows up for those that love his law. Well, somebody said, where— well, Apostle, we're not under the Torah anymore. We're not. And that's really what the word is in Hebrew right here, the Torah. Glory to God. Uh, but this is not what the word Torah means. It ain't talking about the Pentateuch, uh, Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy. That's the Torah. Jews only study those 5 books of the Bible. There are some Messianic Jews— another message for another day. But I just want you to realize that the word Torah in the Hebrew means supernatural direction. Ah, God. Now watch this. So the Jews are limited in their thinking by only studying those 5 books because they think these 5 books is the only supernatural direction. But all 66 books is supernatural direction. Watch this. All relational communication that comes through your time with God, it's also law. It's supernatural. Watch this, because God is a king. Oh, God is a king. Hear me, family. Hear me, family. And whatever he decrees whenever a king speaks, it's law. Even in the natural, when the king decrees a thing, glory to God, it's directive, it's law. It is spoken, so it will be obeyed. Ah, Omashyanda de Kashiaya, Rabaso Ramahi. In the mighty name of Jesus, we bless you, God. We honor you. We honor you. Do I sound— this is what I'm saying. You got to fall in love. You got to fall in love. Ahav in Hebrew, which means you gotta love to be directed by God above everything else. You gotta love God's law, God's word, God's voice. Above natural circumstances. You got to be committed to what he says. That's why I don't understand why people won't pray, why people won't study the word, why people won't listen. Hear me, family. Glory to God. Yeah, I heard that, Father. Yeah. There are people who will set their emotions— I know some people like this. I know some people that think like this. I know some people that think like this, and they don't even know I know they think like this, because God has allowed me to see it so I could pray them through this carnality. Watch this. They love the directive of their mind. And watch this, they love what they have established as God's voice. It ain't his voice. Watch this, it's not his voice. That's why a lot of people can say, I'm led to do this, or I heard God say this, and God ain't speaking. I want to submit to you too, God really ain't talking as much as some people say he is. 'Cause when they— a lot of times, watch the fruit of their lips. 'Cause if what they're saying doesn't align with the fruit of the word, the written decree of God, which is the law of God, it ain't God. I don't care. It's the God— it's the voice you've established as God. It ain't him though. 'Cause in the script— and you're out of order because the scripture says he'll have no other gods for him. You better make sure you're hearing his voice for real. Talking about God is directing you to do something and you do it. Come on, come on. And it really wasn't him, it was you. It was your emotion, it was your traumatized emotions. So you created a demigod in your mind, and some of you didn't even do it intentionally. You— it just emerged because you needed something that would be always agreeable with what you want. Listen, you spoiled brat, that's not how this works. God is your Father. He's real. Someone said, the Apostle just called me a small brat. Uh, yeah, I did. I did. Okay, um, because when you want your way all the time because here's what I know about the voice of God through my personal relationship with God. That's how I know he's real, because I know him, I've heard him, I spend time with him. Glory to God. Yes, I know you will do something that your demigod tells you to do, and then you end up back in the same place you were in when you first heard that word from your demigod, that god you created in your mind that you call God. God is real, people. He can't lie, and you don't get to get your way all the time. He's a father and knows exactly what you need. He's okay. He says, but I'm with you if you love my direction. I see it. So that means when you love something, you seek him. We're teaching Where Are My Lovers. We're going to continue that this Thursday. You look for his direction. You don't just start moving and doing stuff because you can. I'm talking about for real, because it goes beyond what you— I, I talked about this last night— maturity goes beyond what you do and in the church. It goes beyond your title. It goes beyond your position. Oh my God. We bless you. He says, and nothing shall offend them. This is so good. So you love God for real, you'll have very few times that you need to actually forgive somebody for something they do in offense to you. Because guess what? When you love him and his law and his direction, one, you know vengeance is mine, said the Lord, so you ain't got to retaliate. Two, your love for him and his present peace His help, his assistance allows you not to even be offended by what they doing. Your maturity level is so high you don't even get offended by what they doing. Are y'all here? Or what they did. Good God, we got to go. So Father, I thank you for the presence of your assistance, your peace. We, we understand, we're clear that peace is not the absence of confusion but the presence of your assistance. So Father, we thank you for assisting us. We thank you for assisting us. We thank you for assisting us. We thank you for assisting us to forgive. To release through the love of your supernatural direction. We lend our ear to your mouth, and we thank you that you're guiding our heart. And Father, we thank you that we will not be offended because we're in and under your direction. In Jesus' name, amen. Oh my God, we're praying the word this morning. Lord, we love you. Oh, we love you. Oh, Shabaya, we love you, Jesus. Go to Luke 6:27. We're praying the word, man. Luke 6:27. Stay with us, stay with us. God is here. He's here. His voice is here. His word is here. Luke 6:27. My God. I'm just giving you these scriptures as God has given them to me. Luke 6:27, he says, but I say unto you, listen, which hear, love your enemies, do good to them which hate you. So he said, now you got ears on your head, hear me. He's saying love your enemies. My God, this morning he's saying love your enemies. Hallelujah. What's the enemy, Michael? I'm glad you asked. Ekthros in Greek. Ekthros. It means those that are hostile, those that hate you, those that oppose you, just like you oppose God when you were in sin or when you operate in the carnal mind. The carnal mind is enmity against God. Ekthros, same word. It's an enemy to God. So there are people who literally oppose you, and you see them opposing you. The enemy is not something you can't feel or see, because even when you don't see him, you can feel the opposition, especially if you walk in the spirit. But then there are those enemies you can actually visually see what they're doing to bring opposition against you. The Bible told you to love them with agape. Agape, yeah, with unconditional love. And do good to them. Man, that's maturity. That's big. Which hate you? Let's pray that. Father, in the name of Jesus, I ask you to give us the strength. You said we can do all things through Christ that strengthen us. Give us the strength, God, to love our enemies and to do good to those that hate us. Hallelujah. To be beneficial to those that hate us, to be a light to those that hate us, to let righteousness shine before those that hate us, and to love those that reject and are against our progress, our alignment with you. God, help us to love them even to the point where your word says, "Love and kindness have you drawn thee." Let that love that is you come through us, and it draws our enemies to you, those that dislike us. God knows, I know there are people that don't like me, and God, ah, help me, God. I can't pray for nobody else here, but I pray for myself. Help me to continue to love them in spite of them being an enemy. Help me to do good to them in spite of them doing evil toward me, in spite of them gossiping and talking and lying behind my back. God, God, help me to continue to love even when I can hear it, even when I can see it in the spirit. Help me to love them in spite of their deeds, and we give you praise for it now in the mighty name of Jesus. I'm almost done. Glory to God. People dropping off, people didn't get on. Can you tarry with us an hour, man? We're almost done. We're at an hour and we're almost finished. Glory to God. Wonderful Savior, wonderful Savior, wonderful Savior. Go to Luke 7, just one chapter over. Luke 7:23. Lord, we love you. Are you still with me? Uraba shatalabai. Uramandi osai. We bless you, God. We bless you. Watch this. I told you, holding, uh, holding unforgiveness and offense in your heart, it robs you of your blessing. Luke 6:23 confirms it. And blessed is he whosoever shall not be offended in me. So when you choose to divorce yourself from offense and forgive people, the Bible says you release blessing on your life, which is— oh my God— makarios in Greek. And makarios means markarios, two words, which means to be marked with an indwelt quality of a deity. It means to operate in the happiness of a deity. So, and you cannot have this happiness if something doesn't happen. Happiness is different than joy. Something has to happen before you can be happy. What makes you happy in this is that God has marked you on the inside. Good God, with an indwelt quality. Glory to God, that produces blessed happiness. You have a quality of the deity of God to let people go. You get this when you remove offense. So in other words, offense and this quality cannot dwell in the same place. Wow, man. They can't— they're inept to each other. They cannot occupy the same heart. Oh wow. That's why you keep getting offended over and over again, because you're allowing that thing that doesn't belong there to continue there. My God, today it can't dwell in the same space. So if you want the blessing released, you got to truly dig that thing out of your heart, cast it out, send it into dry places, because it's a demon called bitterness. You got to get him out. Get unforgiveness out so that the blessing, the marked— because God is holy, so his quality of his deity that produces perpetual, continual happiness all the time— hear me— he says it can't be released in the same space where bitterness and unforgiveness and offense dwell. So let it go, let it go. Father, we praise you. And Father, I release the blessing upon your people this morning, and I decree and declare by the power and authority of the living God that they operate under the blessed hand of Jesus. And I decree and declare And every place of offense that's in their heart, every impure place of bitterness and unforgiveness that rests in their spirit man or in their soul, man, I decree and declare that it be cast out now in the name of Jesus. I cast it out and I send it to dry places, and I command them freedom and liberty in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name, we command you to go. And we release the blessing, the indwelt quality of God, because there is no offense in our life. Go to Matthew— well, we read it already. Yeah, I'm almost done. Go to Proverbs 16:3. Proverbs 16:3. Hallelujah. Next word, we made it to our next to last scripture. Stay with me. The Bible says, commit thy works unto the Lord and thy thoughts shall be established. I gotta break this down. So commit, let's start right there. Commit. Delilah Yeah, in Hebrew, so it means again to roll away. Watch this, to detach yourself from— hallelujah— thy works. So let's, let's— what is work? So if I'm Goliath rolling myself away from my Messiah, Mashiach, or my ashe, Glory to God. This means to— hallelujah— I'm detaching myself from my achievements, from my deeds. Yeah, he says I'm rolling myself away from it. Watch this: unto or because of the Lord. So because the Lord is in my life, I don't have to— oh my God— achieve alone. I don't have to live my life alone. I don't have to handle situations in my life alone. I don't have to respond to offense. Hallelujah! Because I rolled that thing away. Roll it away. Glory! Just like I take a ball— if I had a basketball or a golf ball, I could roll it away. Or bowling ball, that's a good example. You ever went bowling? You roll that thing down Oh my God. And guess what? That ball has left your hand. Glory to God. And it goes down and knocks those pins down. You separate yourself from it. God says separate yourself from the work. Know that you could do all things through him. It makes things sweatless. It makes it easy. And ultimately it leads us to sweatless victory. Victory. Are y'all with me? Glory to God. I, I hope you are. I hope you're getting this. He said roll it unto the Lord because of the Lord. You do this because he's present. You have him. Why are you making things harder than they need to be when if you just get out the equation, get out the way, hallelujah, and let him work through you and for you? Sweatless victory begins to happen in your life. He said, if you do this— see, you sitting around trying to figure it out with your own brain, but if you give it over to God through the relationship, if you commit to following his direction, his voice— God is weaving a tapestry in this prayer through his word. I pray y'all got these scriptures. Yeah, somebody should have been typing these scriptures on the screen, you know, that's why it's important. See, you know, I, I need— especially people connected to me— I need you guys to figure out a way to follow consistently. Listen, when these scriptures are tight, that, you know, when you show up and you know that's what you normally do is type the stuff on the screen, you should be here typing on the screen the scriptures. You're the scribe. You never know who will come back in and watch the prayer, watch it live, and you, you're not typing. But there'll be an excuse as to why you weren't. But the reality is people need what you do. Oh, I don't went to being an apostle. Okay, let me, let me, let me Let's stay right where we at, because I'm really— I'm thinking ahead about people that'll come back and watch this, because we, we have laid out scripture. Glory to the name of God. And who— Shabandi, you need to go back and pray this word. Praise God. You need to go back and, and revisit this prayer even, because you want to be able to release people because it hinders, it stops the blessing. But the Bible says here, if you roll this thing away, commit because of the Lord, your thoughts— what you're thinking— will be established. What do you mean, God, establish? Your thoughts will be stable, they'll be firm, they won't be all over the place, they'll be secure and enduring. You want to have these back and forth thoughts in your mind, having wars in your mind. Because you're living life through you and not God. Yeah. Oh, God help us. Jesus, help us, man. Help us. Your thoughts all over the place because you're more dependent upon you than you are God. You still think the work of your life is a result of you. Even though you may say another thing with your mouth, but you think that what you've accomplished, what you've done, is because you're smart or because you're skilled or because you went to school and you found a good job. No ma'am, no sir. What is happening in your life is a result of God's favor, as a result of God's blessing. And you, you listen, you got to commit your works to him. In other words, you get to take no more glory for those works. Commit the works to him, okay? And your thoughts will be stable, which means you have stability of movement, fidelity of direction. Well, God, I just really don't know what's gonna happen, uh, with my life. I, this is— I'm in this precarious place, or maybe you don't know. But listen, stop worrying about it and roll it over to God and get some direction from him. Oh my God, let's pray this. Let's pray this. Okay, let's pray it. Father, we thank you and we bless you. And we honor your great name. Father, yes, Lord Jesus, help us to roll our works away onto you. Help us to get out of your way so you can lead us, and then our thoughts may be at peace and our thoughts may be secure and firm and established. Help us to stop worrying about what we see see because we're dependent on us. And quite honestly, God, if we are looking at our situation and depending on us to fix it, quite honestly, we ought to be worried because we have disconnected from our Father, you, Father, the very one that can lead us through this. But God, I'm asking you tonight, for today, for faith to increase our mindset toward good works, that we only do the things that you order, the things that you have commanded us to do in your word, and we're led of you. In Jesus' name, in Jesus' name. Oh boy, I gotta go, I gotta go. Luke 6:28. Last scripture, guys. Jesus, our King. Bless them that curse you and pray for them which despitefully use you. Now, what do you mean bless them, Apostle? They cursed me. Uh, one gelzio, or one yellow, is what we get the word eulogy from. It means to speak well of them, celebrate them with praise. Somebody said, oh my God, how do I do that? It takes maturity. If you don't understand maturity, watch that teaching from last night. It takes maturity and you have to grow up. Now we're here so that You can bless those that curse you, and you can pray. You can invoke the blessing of God. Pray for them to be saved and to walk in the abundance of God. Pray for them that do you wrong. Instead of getting mad that they did you wrong and being bitter that they did you wrong, pray for them. Ask God to help them. Because they have despitefully used you. The word used there is emprezo, which means to— oh boy— insult you, to treat you abusively, to accuse you falsely. Those who threaten you, eparizo. He said pray for them, love them. God have mercy, because they despitefully threaten you, they despitefully insulted you, they despitefully abused you. Despitefully means they had no regard for what, what they were doing would do to you. Bible said pray for them. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Bible said love them. You don't get to beat them down. You don't get to fight them. You don't get to cuss them out. Bless them. Invoke the blessing of God over them. That means you speak blessing. Speak— again, one— eulogy. Speak well of them before the Father. Woo! Hallelujah. And ask him to bless them. Glory Glory to God. Hey, glory! And pray for them. And apparaiso despitefully use you, insult you, reject you, scandalize your name, talk about you, lie on you. Don't retaliate. Even if they post about it on Facebook, stop getting into these Facebook battles. Let me say Leaders, let me tell you something, man. It's so immature because anybody with discernment can see what you're doing, right? Ah, anybody with discernment can see what you're doing. Anybody with discernment can see what you're doing when you— somebody do something to you and you run right to Facebook and you start posting. You run right to Twitter bitter, right to Instagram and start posting your emotion. Even if you suddenly do it, those really got discernment know something that happened to you, or you talking to somebody. And guess what? You trying to make sure the person that did that to you gets the message when they read it: you're bitter and you need to be healed. No, what you should be doing is writing a post to bless them. Ah, God. Oh God, praying for them. Glory to God. You have to retaliate against evil. Let's pray and we're closing. Father, we thank you for this word. We thank you for this time of prayer. And Father, help us to pronounce blessings on those— hallelujah— who are our enemies, those that hate us, us, those that war against us. Help us to pray for those, God, that despitefully— eparizo— use us, insult us, abuse us, speak evil against us, gossip about us. Help us to pray for them. And Father, we do that right now. We pray for those that have come against us, those that have fought against us. Try to hinder our progress, those that have lied and gossiped. We pray for those, God, that have even in our childhood maybe done something wrong to us, touched us inappropriately, molested us, raped us. God, in the name of Jesus, we pray for those that have despitefully abused us, even if it's verbal. Oh God, even if it was ill-intent and bad motive to cause us to suffer, God, we pray for them. And we don't carry these things in our heart. We pray for our enemies. We pray for those who have reviled us. And God, we ask you to give us the power to love them. Holy Spirit, let love shine through us. And again, let that same loving kindness draw them. To you, Father. As we close this prayer today, bless us as we fast. Anoint us today the more as we sacrifice food. And when we release from this fast at 3 PM, may there be something different, something transformative that takes place during this day in our lives. Father, I release healing, for your word declares healing and deliverance is to children bread. So I decree and declare with by your stripes right now. Your people are being healed. Heal them now in Jesus' name and make them whole. I release financial blessing to your people now in the mighty name of Jesus. So be it, and thanks be to God. In Jesus' name, amen. My God. I love you all so much. Thank you for your patience. Thank you for spending this time with me this morning. I pray you were blessed. I pray heaven has— oh my God— touched you in a very significant way. Glory to God. I want to invite each of you to join us for these upcoming events at our church. Listen, write them down. Remember these days, they're going to be very powerful times in the Lord. Starting this Thursday night, I want to invite you to meet me in person. Last Thursday was phenomenal. God met us there. Meet me in person for TNT, Thursday Night Thirst. The Bible said them that hunger and thirst after righteousness will be filled. You— I want you to get a hunger for the word, a hunger for a move of God in your life, in your business, and your family. And there's something that happens in person that doesn't happen online. Come join us Thursday night and bring a friend with you. We're going to continue teaching Where Are My Lovers, and we're, we're in this part about the works of the flesh. You don't want to miss this, so join us on Thursday night. It's going to be powerful, a lot of breakthrough. Happened last week. We believe more breakthrough is going to happen this Thursday night. And then join us on Sunday morning at 9 o'clock in the sanctuary of Rhoda Church. Uh, I was out of the pulpit last Sunday. I'll be back this Sunday. I want to encourage each of you to be in the building. Glory to the name of God. And then the following week, we enter into Pentecost weekend, 50 days after the 7th Sabbath after the resurrection of Jesus Christ denotes Pentecost. We're believing God for a time of suddenly. We're believing God for the fire of God to fall in our midst. We're believing for the wind, the word, and the wonder of Pentecost. There was a word that went forth on the day of Pentecost where 5,000 people got saved. So watch this. Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. I'm gonna tell you the significance in this 4 days of revival. We're going to start Friday night, June 6th. We're going to preach, we're going to believe God for people to be saved and filled with the Holy Ghost. That can't happen if you don't tell people who are not saved about this meeting. Saturday at 10 AM, we're going to have a special School of the Holy Spirit. Glory to God! Hallelujah! We're gonna take a couple of hours and just learn about him, the person of the Holy Spirit, oh, and how to activate him in our life. So you're trying to activate gifts of the Spirit and offices Well, you ain't even activated him. You got to know how to engage him in your life. So we're going to talk about that Saturday. Make sure you're in the building. Uh, it's gonna— and listen, because of that, I need you to register. There's no registration fee, it's free, but I need you to register so that we can prepare the class materials for you. We need to know how many are coming so that when you show up— hear me— you'll have the materials you to go through the class with us. Amen. Glory to the name of God. And then on Sunday, Pentecost Day, glory to God, we're gonna be there and we're trusting God again for the word, the wind, and the wonder of Pentecost to show up and bless us. And then Pentecost Monday, we're believing for miracles on Monday. It's going to be a miraculous Monday night. Join us for all 4 days. Power of God is going to be present you should be also. Text the word FIRE to 470— hear me— 777-8279. And some of you already have that number, 470-777-8279, in your phone. Let's go back to it and type FIRE. It's going to put you on another list for Pentecost where you can register. Praise God. Doesn't matter if you're on any other list that we have, right? You need to text to this number so you can get the link to register and you can be on the fire list. Amen. That's what we need you to do. I love you guys, man. Y'all be blessed. Enjoy the rest of your day. Thank you so much for joining. If you have not shared this encounter, do me a favor and share it. Y'all have a wonderful, wonderful Tuesday. I'll talk to you soon. Peace.