5 AM PRAYER | DAY 9 OF 21 DAYS OF ACTION | DR. MIKE WOODS, SR.

In this 5 AM devotional, Dr. Mike Woods Sr. leads the ninth day of a 21‑day fasting and prayer series. He opens with greetings and a call to worship, then repeatedly emphasizes the need to become “God‑inside‑minded”—to let the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Truth, drive every thought, decision, and action. He explains the Christian trichotomy of body, soul (psychological self), and spirit, urging listeners to strengthen the inner man so that the spirit, not the carnal mind, governs life. Throughout the session he cites numerous Scriptures (e.g., 1 Thessalonians 5:23‑24, 1 John 4:12, John 16:13, Romans 8, Proverbs 20:27, Psalm 119:105, James 1:22, Ephesians 5:18, Joshua 1:8, Isaiah 48:17, etc.) to ground his exhortations. He warns against letting worldly ambition, emotions, or ego steer the “car‑outside‑mind,” and urges believers to trust God’s direction, to be doers of the Word, and to live in “profit mode” as God’s provision. The prayer segment includes declarations of sanctification, protection from dementia, prosperity, and a request for the Spirit to guide every aspect of life—personal, relational, and business. He concludes with a call to share the fast, attend the noon teaching, and keep the community connected, ending with repeated praises and blessings.
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Wonderful advice. All right everybody, a pleasant good morning. Uh, welcome to day number 9. Glory be to the name of God. One day of fasting, fasting for our Jehovah God, fasting for our God Jehovah Yamah, the King of Glory, the head advocate of the earth. More fire, more anointing, more power. Glory to God that we begin to really affect the environment around us with the power of the Holy Ghost, especially in this year, this season of preparation for— glory to God— the baptism of fire in the area of our service, serving God better. Glory to you, thank you, God. We're excited about that. We want to create an atmosphere where we have to have A zeal, a passion, a fire to be consistent in service. So we pray about that, so that in all areas we can be consistent. Glory to Jesus God. And finally, not caring what the world thinks. She, uh, whatever. Passionate and fiery about that. Glory to Jesus God. So this is day 9. Glory to God. Welcome everyone, a pleasant good morning once again. I pray today that this Wednesday, glory to God, will be a Wednesday that's filled, uh, with a thought process, glory to God, that emanates from the inside out. And that's really what I want to pray about today. I want to pray about being God inside minded. I'm gonna say this again: being God inside minded. Oh my God. Um, I want to be very deliberate in this. I want to pray this out of the word, basically, because a lot of times we don't even realize we get saved. Spirit of salvation comes in. I'm surely saved, born again, but in the rest of this, you know, a lot of hardness guys, where you go through this process, man, of learning how to live here consistently, to call on God, and actually be directed, driven, led by the mind of God. And that starts with strengthening the inner man, okay? You got to make this inner man strong. And when we got in side-minded, we can serve God really accurately because we're sensitive to him. We don't miss it to the left, right. We're accurate, we're on point, we're following him. We know what we're doing is him. Glory to God. And you know, the great thing is he wants to lead us, right? And we just have to do the work on our side to make sure he is leading us with fear that what we're doing is hell. Let me put it like this: how many of us ever got in the car with someone who was driving you somewhere, and after you got in and you were riding with them, you wish you never got in because of how they drive, how fast they drive, they can be reckless, they on their phone driving, Yeah, or they're not paying attention, and then you're sitting in the, uh, passenger seat, in the back seat, literally terrified because of how this person is getting you to their destination. It's not that they're not taking you where you want to go, it's, it's the way they're getting you there, and you become very uncomfortable with that. Some people have regretted getting in the car with the wrong people, and it has led to major issues, accidents, you know, that have literally, uh, changed people's lives forever because they got in the car with the wrong person. It's like that in life, man. You want to make sure that you're in the car because you can take you where you want to go. Don't listen— you can do it. People do it every day. People get up and lead themselves, they educate themselves, they read, you know, they learn, and they do life without God. Can I tell you something? Life without God is miserable. There's no joy. It's unpredictable. But when you got inside-minded and God is driving— oh my God, you gotta let him drive. Oh my God, this morning, I'm just here to tell you, you gotta let him drive. You got to strengthen your inner man and live from the inside out. Glory to God. Again, brother, good morning to everybody. We're going to read from here. Good morning, Kiara. God bless you. I love you, daughter. Good morning, Tanya. God bless you, God. We love you so much. God bless you, Sharia. Good morning, daughter. We love you. Good morning to my wife. Glory to the name of God. I love you. I just left you. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. Good morning, Miss Edward Bryant. Thank you for being over here. Glory to the name of God. We love you too. Glory to God. Good morning, Pastor Jeffrey. God bless you, sir. We love you much, son. Good morning, Shannon. We love you. Glory to the name of God. Thank you all for being here. Do me a kind favor, guys, share this whether you're watching us on Instagram, on Twitter, or X, or whatever they call it these days, or YouTube, or over 3 different Facebook pages. Wherever you're watching, glory to the name of God. Uh, pray with us, share this, and let's learn today through our prayers and through the word that we pray to God today how to be God inside-minded. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We love the Lord. He's a good God. So first, I want to read— like I said, I want to read. Glory to God. Glory to Jesus. We love you, Father, and we give you praise. Thank you for your goodness, your mercy, your grace. Let's start at 1 Thessalonians 5, verses 23 and 24. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah! Glory to God. God bless you, my brother, all the way from Pakistan. God bless you, sir. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24. The Bible says this— glory to God, thank you, Father— it says, now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. Watch this. And may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, who calls you by God to faithfulness, is sure to do this. I love that because God wants you to be faithful. Watch this, because he wants you to let him drive. He wants you to recognize that your whole body, soul, and spirit, all three parts of you. The scripture distinctly shares with us here. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Pastor, glory to the name of God. Welcome, sir. And glory to God. We won't— let's pray. Glory to God. Because at the end of the day, we're praying. Let's pray that your orphan children get help. Glory to the name of God. Let's trust God. Today. Glory to God. Let's be, uh, God-inside-minded this morning. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. We want the children there to be blessed. Glory to the name of God. But you're soliciting on Facebook and comments. I don't know, you probably do this with hundreds of pastors a day, sir. So let's, let's pray and let's trust God. If there really are orphan children there, let's trust God that they be fed. Glory to the name of God. Listen, God wants your whole spirit. Yeah, I'm all for today. Yeah, for real. His whole— your whole spirit, soul, and body. Glory to the name of God. Be preserved, blameless, blameless. Glory to the name of God. So you are a trichotomy. You are body, you are soul, and you are spirit. Glory to the name of God. You are body, you are soul, you are spirit. Glory to God. So you're three parts. So, so what is your body? Your body is your bio life. That's your biological existence. Uh, your body was created fearfully and wonderfully by God. You've been given this amazing biology that has 9 systems that make you function this earth realm. Glory to God. Now You also have a soul, which is your psuche life, your psychological existence, your mind, your will, your emotion. Everything about your soul is invisible. Matter of fact, your 5 senses are found in your soul. Your ability to touch— glory to God— your hands do the touching, but the very feeling of touch is invisible. You cannot see it. Feel it when you touch something hot, you touch something cold, you touch something hard, you touch something soft. You can feel that you're touching it, but feeling itself is invisible. Okay, your trichotomy takes all of these things for you to work. Your eyes is bio, your actual physical eye, but sight is invisible. If you take your eyeball out of the socket it. You'll never be able to actually see sight because sight is invisible. Hear me, guys. Sight— you can't see sight. You could take your brain out of your head, your brain would be in your hand, but you'll never see your thoughts because your thoughts are invisible. They are soul. Glory to God. So how we touch, how we see, how we hear, all of our senses, how we taste. Take your tongue out of your mouth, can't see the actual taste, uh, mechanism because it is soulical. But God says he wants all of that to be blameless. And your spirit, glory to God, is, is the driving force of your entire being. So when you receive God, you have to strengthen the inner man so that you're not controlled by your suke life— what you see, what you touch, what you feel, what you taste— but you're driven from the inside out, and your whole spirit is flaming. Glory to the name of God. Thank you, Lord. Glory to God. We give you praise, we give you glory, we honor you, and we match glorify your name, Jesus. 1 John 4:12. Glory to God. No one has ever seen God. Glory to God. Here we go. If we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. Glory to God. Give me guys. We got to be God inside. Again, because God is a spirit, and they that worship him, worship him in spirit and in truth, right? So he— watch this— his omnipresence gives him the ability to be inside of you, inside of me, inside of every other person in the world that receives him as God. He stands at the door and knocks, and he open, he comes in, he lives, right? Bible says this: if we abide in him, then he verse 13, glory to the name of God— we do this because he has given us his Spirit, and we do it through— glory to the name of God— perfected love. So isn't that something, that God loves us so much that he moves in? Give me God. He loves us so much that he moves in with us. Glory to the name of God. He loves us. No other faith around the world, whether it's, uh, Buddhism, Hinduism— glory to the name of God— uh, Confucianism, what Muslims— glory to God— glory— no matter what the faith, no other faith proclaims that the God of that faith— watch this— moves inside. Oh God, he moves inside of us, guys, and he gives us an opportunity to abide with him, to live with him. He doesn't, uh, position him far off and say, I'm not God. We all have access to him. Glory to God. Hallelujah. And a few days back, the Holy Spirit would again speak to us. He said to us clearly, you have access to me. And then he turned around and asked us the question, do I have access to you? And being God inside, mine is saying— is saying, God, you have access to me, and I don't want to serve you without you. Because serving God without God is religion, you know. It's just trying to find him. It's just trying to guess whether or not he's with you or not. And the reality is, that's no way to live. That's no way to be. Glory to the name of God. Uh, that's not the plan of God. Come on, y'all. Glory to God. I need you to grab this. Thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. God, God is interested on all levels. Hear me? And making sure and ensuring, glory to the name of God, that you win. He does that by moving in. So again, we got to be God inside, Mike. God is driving. That's really what we're going to pray about today in our service to God. Every, every turn We don't live with regrets because we let God drive. In all our ways we acknowledge him and he directs, he drives, he takes us where we need to go, he directs our path. Oh my God, oh my God, I love you, Jesus. Glory to God. Let me keep reading. Glory to God. John 16:13. Glory to God. Yes, Lord. You want to be God inside, my— glory to God. When the Spirit of Truth comes, this is Jesus talking, he says he will guide you— here we go— into all truth. So, oh my God, so that means when God shows up and gets— oh God— in the driver's seat of my my life. Again, I don't look to the left or to the right. I don't move in deception. Glory to God. I don't move in foolery. Glory to the name of God. I don't fall short because I follow the truth. I'm never bound because truth set me free. So when the truth shows up, I'm, I'm in freedom. I'm never trapped. So when the Spirit of Truth comes, he guides me to truth, which means, oh my God, I'm encompassed by truth in every setting. I— oh my God, you don't miss a beat when the, the truth is in your life. You're able to discern properly. Oh my God. Life. Oh, who loves you and who doesn't? Cuz truth is this: don't make the mistake of giving your heart to people that you shouldn't, because the Spirit of Truth is saying, glory to God, because you're being driven each time in the park. You're riding with him. Glory, glory to God. But we got to make sure, right, we're not letting the devil ride. Because if we let him ride, eventually he's going to get in the driver's seat. Got to make sure you're not being driven by your aspirations or personal ambition. You're driven by the spirit of truth. And the spirit of truth is making sure that you're all true about who you are, about where you should be, about what is decisions you need to make. Quite honestly, I sensed it strongly in my spirit. I don't know if you're here now or not, or gonna come in by replay, but like I said, someone listening to my voice right now, either now or in the context of watching a replay of this, you're in a position where you're like at a Y in your life. You don't know what to go through, right? And, and you're being driven by your emotions, what you feel. I need you to just stop, take a deep breath, let the Spirit of Truth rise, because he's going to give you the truth, he's going to give you the next step. And I want to challenge you, glory to the name of God, don't move, don't move, don't take another step. Hear me, hear me guys, don't move, take another step until God really speaks to you. Haven't you had enough of mishits and bad decisions where you moved on your emotion and your ego and you were driven out of hurt and pain? Don't allow that another day. Today I want you to choose to be God-inside-minded and letting the Spirit of Truth really drive again. The Spirit of Truth is not just for church. It's not just when you show up on Sunday. The Spirit of Truth should be driving your life every day. It should be driving decisions on how you deal with things that come up in your life. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. Let me finish reading this. He said, but he will not speak in his own authority. Whatever he hears, he will me, and he will declare unto you the things that are to come. So when the Spirit of Truth comes— Spirit of Truth, which is the Holy Spirit— is speaking on behalf of the Father. He's speaking on behalf of your Creator. He is the Creator's voice. He's the Creator's influence in you, and he understands clearly where you are coma. Even— watch this— when you don't. I'm gonna say that again. God knows where you're going. Glory to God. Even if you don't. Glory, glory, glory to God. He knows where you are, but you've got to allow that Spirit of Truth to follow. Oh my God, the voice of God, and you follow the Spirit of Truth. And when you don't change lives, God— glory to God. God is so good, he's so wonderful. Let me keep reading. We're praying today about being God-inside-minded. Uh, 1 John 2:20, the Bible says, but you have been anointed by the Holy Holy One, and you all have knowledge. So when I'm in God, the word knowledge here, glory to God, is the gnosis. The word gnosis, glory to the name of God, which is gnosis knowledge, which means that that's really past tense, gnosis, which means I've already been filled with all the intellect, all the knowledge. Oh my God, that I need for this life. So before you were born, good God, God filled you with every— oh my, even if you're in school and taking classes, you already have the intellect, the knowledge, the spiritual intelligence, the divine intelligence that comes from heaven to conquer whatever's in front of Oh my God, today. Oh my God, we give you glory, God. We give you honor. We give you praise. We lift you up. We exalt you. We honor you. We bless you, God. We bless you, God. That's a good thing. You never left not knowing what to do. Be your God inside-minded. The Bible says here, oh my God, when I have been anointed— so I don't just speak in tongues when I'm anointed. I can't just— I'm not just called to prophesy when I'm anointed. Come on. But I also— there ought to be a balance between my gifting that flows out of my spirit. But I just don't get it. I mean, there are people that can be extremely gifted, glory to God, and prophesy, see through muddy water, glory to the name of God. They can lay hands on the sick and they recover. They can, they can operate and tap into the power of God in a huge way, but then they act very dumb. That's— that, that don't match, okay? That— listen, that doesn't match. Because if I'm filled with God, with the spiritual things, I ought to be filled with knowledge to show up in the world and be effective and to make good decisions and make smart decisions. Oh my God, have mercy. Oh, but let yourself say, I have knowledge. You've been filled with spiritual intelligence. It's there. Use it. Can I tell you something? Wake up and think. Wake up and think. You got to be God-inside-minded. You've got access to the greatest mind ever. You got access to the mind of the man that created the universe, that orchestrated the world we live in. Don't let this just be religious. Get to know him. More real. Crawl up into his mind and walk through his mind and learn what you already know. Oh my God, oh my God. I just looked down in the comments. I'm sorry, guys. Is the music still too loud? I'm sorry, I didn't mean to keep it loud. I hope y'all heard me. Glory to God. Well, I see scripture still popping up, so I guess you can here. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We give God glory. Hey, God bless you. My little cousin is on here. God bless you, Tracy. Good to see you. Glory to God. Hallelujah. I love God. He's a good God. He's a mighty God. Beside him there is no other. Praise God. God is so good. Let's keep going. Proverbs. Glory to the name of God. 20:27. The Bible says the spirit of man is the lamp. Here it is, of the Lord, searching all his innermost parts. So when you— when Spirit of God is in you and he's driving and he's going forward, that fire comes. I told you, fire brings light, it brings heat, and it brings smoke. The light here from the fire of God, because he's a consuming fire, so when he shows up, his light comes on. And guess what happens? You start seeing these areas in you that you need to correct. You start seeing areas where you could be better. Y'all hearing me? Oh my God, I, I gotta pray, I gotta pray. God have mercy. Oh God, I don't have time. But listen, it's not for you to judge yourself or be down on yourself. The reason the light is on is so you can address those issues, adjust them, and allow him to be The transforming agent that transforms it. So you live on the inside out, you constantly are reminded of who you really are. Oh my God, today. Oh my God, oh my God, are y'all here? Let me just keep reading, I, I, because I don't have time. Uh, Romans 8:1. Oh God, Romans 8:1. Glory to God. The Bible says is this: there is never no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. So I don't walk in this condemnation— glory to the name of God— condemning myself, beating myself up, operating from this place of guilt, uh, because I see things in the light, because I'm in Christ Jesus. I'm God-inside-minded. When I'm in him, I don't condemn myself. I never say I'm not enough. I never say I'm inadequate. I never say I'm not significant. I, I am constantly and continually reminding myself that I am a co-laborer with God. So there is nothing in this life I cannot obtain, I cannot conquer. My purpose, glory to God, can be fulfilled because I'm in him. Because watch this, verse 2 says, for the law of the spirit of life has been set me free. So that inner spirit that has set me free from the law of sin and death. So where— so before God came in, I was dying. I was dying because of sin, because I was missing the mark. Hermetia in Greek, sin, which means to miss the mark, come short. Not necessarily what first comes to your mind when you think sin, but all unrighteousness is sin. So when you're coming short of doing your purpose was fulfilling your destiny, walking out God's plan, that's sick. That's just as much sin as fornication. All unrighteousness is sin, all right? It's, it's humans that categorize sin. Hear me, you're dying when you live in that. But when God shows up, you've been made free from that law because Spirit of Life sets you free. You got inside, mighty. You have the liberty Glory to the name of God, to work with God in fulfilling your purpose. Oh my God, my God, my God, let me go, let me keep going. Uh, 1 Corinthians 2:12. Yeah, it says, now we have not received the spirit of the world— good God— but the Spirit who is from God. That we might understand the things freely given to us by God. So I can't understand all of the gifts, all of the intelligence, all of the anointing that God has given me, all of the plans that God has made for me if I'm not God-inside-minded, if I don't allow God to drive. We haven't received the spirit of this cosmos. Cosmatology system. Paul has to remind the Corinthians, you're not worldly. You don't have to live according to the cosmos, the cosmatology system, the systems of the world. You've received the Spirit of God. You've been adopted by God. Glory to God! To do phenomenal things, to do great things, to do mighty things, to do glorious things. Oh God, let me, let me keep reading. Let me keep reading. I don't have time to teach this. Maybe I should have— maybe I should teach all of these at 12. Oh, Proverbs 3:5, he says, trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean to your own understanding. So again, to be God-inside-minded means I trust him with everything. I let him be in control. Glory to God. Let me keep reading because we got to pray. Romans 8:14, and I'm also I'm also going to read verse 16. The Bible says, for all who are led by the Spirit of God— he's driving— I would say they are the sons of God. Oh, so you gotta let him lead you. You gotta let him lead you. You gotta let him guide you into all truth. Oh boy. Verse number 16: the Spirit itself bears witness with our spirit that we are the children of God. What? What? So why are you beating yourself up? And you say you're filled with Holy Ghost. Woo! You say the Spirit of God lives in you. Whatever you call him, he's God in you. Glory to God. Holy Ghost, Holy Spirit, same thing, interchangeable. Glory to God. Whatever you call him, he's alive and he's well, and he's in you to bear witness with your spirit— watch this— that you are somebody. Woo! So when God shows up, he shows up to let you know that you are somebody. You're important, you're valuable, you're impactful, you're influential, you have purpose, you have destiny. And guess what? He lets you know you're not alone. You're not alone. I'm gonna just type that in the comments, please. I'm not alone. Listen, stop beating yourself up. Stop, stop downgrading who you are. Spirit of God validates you today. You're important. The world is better because you're alive. The earth needs you. Glory to God. You're important. And the Spirit of the Living God, again, he doesn't just show up so you can move in gifts, so you can talk in tongues, so you can pray in the Spirit. He shows up so you can be better in the world. Glory to God. Oh my God, today we love you, Jesus. We praise you. We magnify you. We bless you, God. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. You're so good. You're so good. You're so good. Oh God, you're so good. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory to God. Let me keep reading. I'm trying to get through, y'all. Glory to God. First, Psalm 119:105. Let's go. I'm almost done. Glory to Jesus. I'm trying not to get too full with this. Glory to God. Psalm 119 and 105. Yes. Your word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path. See, all of these scriptures— we're going to pray about this— are suggesting that we be God-inside-minded and not carnal, outside-minded. Remember your three parts: your body, your soul, and your spirit. Your psuche life, your psychological, your mind, your will, your emotions, your feelings. Can't be driven by that. You got to be driven, glory to God, by God, and let his word be the lamp unto your feet and the light to your path. John 3:6 and 7. John 3:6 and 7. I'm moving, guys, I don't have time. I wish I had time to teach these, man. This is Jesus talking again. He said, that which is born of the flesh is flesh. Yeah, that which is born of the flesh is flesh. Glory to God. And that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. So yeah, when you came out of your mama's belly, you born in sin, shaping in iniquity. You were flesh. Your life was governed by this world. But when— oh my God, Jesus— when you met your destiny, because it was already predestined that you be saved, if you're saved, amen, before you were formed in your mama's belly, he knew you. He predestined you to be a child of God. Glory to God. And when you're born of the Spirit, you're now a spirit being led of the Spirit. Hallelujah. Influenced by the Spirit of the Living God, not some religious entity, but the true and living God. Glory to God. Verse 7: Do not marvel that I said to you You must be born again. Glory to God. Let me keep reading. I don't have time. Glory to God. John 14:26. Why? I can work with all of these today. Of the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things, good God Almighty, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said. You should never be a moment of ignorance if you have the Holy Spirit. Jesus said this, not Michael. So I— that's why I refuse to be ignorant, because I have the Holy Spirit. I— he— listen, he knows everything that he promised. It will teach me what I don't know. I can't even begin to tell you the things in my business, things in ministry. I don't have time. We'll be here, we'll be here all morning. I told you everything God has taught me that I didn't learn in the book, I never learned in the classroom. My God, today this word is so true, man. God has anointed my brain to do stuff I never said in from just even from film, from production to post-production. I mean, from cinematography, from graphic design, from animation, you name it. The Holy Spirit taught me stuff that people spend years studying, and I could do it just as good as most or better than most. It's the spirit of God. So, so maybe the reason— ignorance is not a bad word, it just means gnosis in Greek. You ignore knowledge, right? It means you've ignored the source of knowledge or wisdom. Yeah, we were there yesterday. That is actually there. Ready to help you, because it's more comfortable just kind of stay in your mode and keep saying, oh, I just don't know nothing, or I'm just— why ain't on me. No, you got access to a wealth of knowledge that you need to tap into. Oh, it is the way it is, nothing ever gonna change. No, I'm a living witness, glory to God, that the Spirit of God will teach you everything you need to know about your purpose and anoint your mind. But you got to be in time with the Holy Spirit so he can teach you. Teaching takes time. That's why we've been on this, uh, prayer for 42 minutes. Glory to God. Because I've been going through these scriptures. We about to pray. When I start praying, the prayer won't be long today because the foundation is his word. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We give you glory. I love you, Jesus. I love you, Jesus. What a mighty God we serve. He says he'll bring also to remembrance all things. So in the name of Jesus, if I'm walking in with the Holy Spirit and he's alive and well in my life, oh my Oh my God, Alzheimer's, dementia can't live in me. Hallelujah. It can't be a part of my existence because I'm God-inside-minded, not outside-mind-minded. My neurology system doesn't govern— oh my God— my thought process, what I remember and what I don't. It's the Holy Spirit that brings things back to remembrance. For I, in the name of Jesus, today declare, glory to God, because the Holy Spirit lives in you and I. And according to the word, we will never have dementia, we will never have Alzheimer's disease. Glory to God. And the Holy Spirit throughout our life will bring to memory all things because we got him. Listen, if I lose my keys, I say, Father, where are my keys? Where'd it go? Listen, I just had to use this. Glory to the name of God. Wasn't because all time is a dementia, it was because I just forgot. It had been so many days since I wore this footwear, shoes. Matter of fact, I wore these shoes when Apostle Davis was at church. I came to church early to set up. I was there setting up the stuff. I had on a tracksuit and sneakers, and I changed before the service. The sneakers I had on were in my garment bag with the tracksuit I had, and I saw the box by my bed and the shoes. I'm like, where are these shoes? And at first I was freaking out, trying to— and the Holy Spirit said, stop. I know where they So I just— okay, Lord, where's my shoes? Bam! Just like that, they're in the garment bag with the green tracksuit. I mean, it's that simple. You just got to have faith. You got to believe, knowing that he's in control. I declare you'll never have Alzheimer's. You'll never have onset dementia or any kind of dementia. I declare and declare that your memory will always work properly, and you will always have strong neurology, strong health in your brain cells, because your brain is subject to your God-inside mind. Oh boy, glory to God. We give you glory, God. I'm almost done. Give you glory. Ephesians 5:18. Ephesians 5:18. And be not drunk with wine, that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit. The word filled is epiknosis in Greek, being thoroughly furnished and influenced by the Spirit, which means you have everything you need. It emanates from the Spirit of God. You're furnished with him. Oh my God. So don't be intoxicated with the world system. Don't be intoxicated with your way of doing— we talked about this yesterday— don't get drunk on you, on what you think is right. Glory to God. But be led of the Spirit. He is there to lead you, not just to say, I'm saved, sanctified, and filled with the Holy Ghost and the mighty burning fire. So it's more than saying it. He's there. He is in you. He wants to lead you. He has furnished you with everything you need. Nothing's missing, nothing lacking, nothing broken. Everything you need is on board. Watch this. You have everything you need already to be who you are. You gonna pray about this in a minute. You have everything you need to be who you are already. It's got to be God inside-minded so you can see it, so you can live it, so it can be manifested in your life. Oh my God, today I'm almost done, man. God help us. Joshua 1, verse number 8: The book of the law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate on it day and night, so you may be careful to do according to what is written in it. For then, for then, you will make your way prosperous and you will have good success. Quite simple. I keep the word in my mouth. I'm God-inside-minded, so I'm saying what he says. Glory to God. Hear me, I'm gonna have good success if I do that. But if I say and get all dramatic and all sensitive and all ultra, you know, and all freaking out over everything, you know, nothing is ever big as it first appears. So when odds are against instead of freaking out, losing it. Hear me, guys. Get God inside mind. And if you don't know what else to do, speak the word. Meditate on it. Hagiya. Meditate. Speak that word. Chew it up. That's what hagiya means. Chew it up. Swallow it. Watch this. Regurgitate it. Do it some more. Swallow it. What, what am I saying? That word has become one with you. You shape the world you live in with your mouth. So meditate through the word day and night. Because negative— come on, let that negative talk go. Use your words to speak positive. And I know there's some times where you feel merited to speak negative, but listen, there's never a time that's good to speak negative. The Bible says here, meditate on the word day and night. If you do this, one, you'll be careful to do what it says. You'll be always mindful to walk it out. Secondly, your way will be made prosperous. And then you have good success. I love that. I'm almost done. I'm telling you, when we get to praying, it's not gonna take long, but there's something on my mind. Apostle O'Neal, good to see you, woman of God. Glory to God. We give you glory, God. We give you honor. We give you praise. Isaiah 48:17, let's read. I'm gonna keep moving. Glory to God. Because I don't have time, because we're here to pray, right? Isaiah 48:17. I'm almost done. I got 2 more scriptures after else that I got to read. But you need this foundation, and you might ought to be writing these down because these are the keys to being God-inside-minded. 48:17 says, thus said the Lord your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: I am the Lord— watch this— your God. Wait a minute. So when the word of the Lord comes to us, oftentimes We don't realize that it comes with— always comes with the instruction to make us better. So he says, I'm the Lord your God— watch this— who teaches you to profit. So I can't learn how to live in profit mode, P-R-O-F-I-T. See, most of us are too busy trying to live in P-R-O-P-H-E-T mode. But listen, nothing wrong with being a prophet if you call to be one, all right? But we ought to also be living in profit mode. Ask a businessman to define profit, he's going to tell you what's left over after the expenses have been paid and covered, what you have left to enjoy, what you have left— glory to God— to invest, what you have left to continue to grow and be prosperous. Bible says God— do you hear this? You're not alone in anything if you listen and you're God-inside-minded and you listen to the people that know how to profit and you, you let them teach you. He said the God will teach you also how to profit. How to increase on the left and on the right. It shouldn't be named among us, glory to God, that we're saying we're full of Holy Ghost, glory to God, and we're living in the red, we're struggling, we're robbing Peter to pay Paul. It's not God's plan, man. It's not God's will. I just read it to you. Don't, don't shoot the in you. The prophet said he's your Redeemer, right? He your Redeemer. That's what the word say. Your Redeemer, your rescuer. When you guys say you were bought back, you were rescued, you were brought back to him, it says your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel, the Lord your God. He's your God, right? He teach you the prophet and he leads you in the way you should go. You should never be without direction when he's there. And when you don't have it, you got to just keep leaning on him until he speaks. Don't move out of your flesh. Don't move out of your carnal outside mind. Be led by your God inside, man. We're gonna pray in a moment. I got 8 minutes. Glory to God. We give you glory, God. We give you glory, we give you glory. God is so good. James 1:22, James 1:22, but be doers of the word, come on, and not hearers only, deceiving yourself. So you're moving in deception if you, um, we've been on, we've been on this fast 9 days now. I've been teaching for 9 days straight. We show up church every Sunday, we listen to the word every Thursday. We're scrolling daily, listening to word, quoting word, reading posts with the word. But the Bible said if you don't do none of the stuff you read in here, you're deceived. You're deceiving yourself because you're denying the power of it. It's designed to change you. It's designed to change what you're life looks like, not just to entertain you and make you feel good. His word is real. It should change you. It should liberate you. Things should be better because you discover the truth of his word. Oh my God, oh my God, I wish I had time to teach these for real, man. Ephesians 1:18: having the eyes of your heart enlightened, my God, that you may know— gnosko— glory to God, what is the hope which he has called you. Oh my God, what are the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints. Riches, purpose. He says, listen, I'm in you. So you can know your assignment, a real hope of your calling. See, we are not just called into offices and leadership and positions and assignments in the kingdom to be seen of men. We're called to bring hope. So when people see us operating effectively as who we are, it gives them hope that if they discover who they are, their life will change. Then he said, the Spirit is here to give us riches to enlighten us on how to produce riches, wealth. You transliterate that in the Greek, it's money, it's material good, it's abundance. Why are we living beneath our privilege, people? Let's praise him. I love y'all, man. I love you. That's why I tell you the truth. Glory to God. Would you rather have a leader that lied to you, right? You know, I, I love you, so I tell you the truth, man. It's a whole bunch of people out here selling hope, but they ain't living the hope they selling. I'm giving it to you and I'm living it. I'm giving you word that I'm aligned with. You know, these scriptures that They don't just come to me haphazardly. These are things that have taken me through life. I'll be 55 this year, glory to God. I have walked these things out in my ups and my downs, and I want you to experience the same. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. Let's pray, let's pray. Glory to God, we love you, we thank you for your word today, God, and we give you glory. And we decree and declare, Father, we thank you that we are spirits And we're learning today to be God-inside-minded. And so, Father, we decree and declare, God, even as we pray, God, as we have read the word today, dear God, we decree and declare that we're in the world according to the world, this word we've read, but we're not of the world. And God of peace, we ask you today to sanctify us in every way, set us apart from the world, let our assignment be glorious. Us. Let those we encounter be influenced by who you are in us, God, and who you are through us. And Father, in the name of Jesus, we declare now that our whole spirit, soul, and body will be preserved blameless— glory to God— unto the coming of the Lord. And God, we thank you that we won't be driven by our carnal outside mind, but we decree and declare, God, we've been set free. Yes, God, according to this word. Glory to God! From the law of sin and death. And God, we understand, we're clear today. According to your word, we can depend on you. You are completely dependable. We declare it out of our mouth: you are completely dependable. We do not trust in the world system. We can depend on you. You have proved it time and time again. And so, God, we, even in the temptation to follow the way of man, we trust that you are dependable. The Spirit of Grace says unto you today— I, I hear you, Father— he says to tell you that your dependency and Thank you, Jesus. Should be found in me always, at all times, no matter what the circumstance presented to you. I say unto you, my little ones, today that you can trust me. I will preserve you. I will keep you. I will guard you. Well, I said today I have come to you as a guardrail to protect you, to put light on your soul. Hallelujah! I come as a guardrail to protect you from danger. I come as a guardrail— to ensure that you stay between the lines, you stay in the road. Yes, God, I give you glory! And that you arrive at your destiny, that you finish your course, that you finish your purpose. Father, Lord say to you, your heart still beats because I have need of you. You ought to just give God glory right now. You ought to just worship him. You're necessary. And I heard that so clearly. God is putting guardrails in place. Guardrails. That's what's between— oh my God, that's what's between looking at you in the highway. God, when you're driving down the highway— glory to God, it's my alarm— you're driving down the highway, glory to the name of Jesus, and you're in the middle of the road. Those guardrails keep you from crossing over into the other lanes. It keeps you from going into the medium. Glory to the name of God. God says he's putting up boundaries around you. He just needs you to trust his mind. He just needs you to trust his way of doing and being right. Glory to God. Father, we praise you, we praise you, we give you glory. We're praying this word. Lord, let your searchlight penetrate our human spirit, God, according to this word we've read, exposing every hidden motive. Father, we give you glory that you have given us a spirit of life and light and liberty, and we follow after you, God. We do not have the world spirit. And Father, we thank you that if we follow you, we'll know the wonderful things that you have given us, God. Oh, in the name of Jesus, according to your word. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. We're born of the Spirit, we're filled with the Spirit, we're led by the Spirit. So Father, we listen to our heart as we look into the Spirit inside of us that influences our heart to the rightness decisions in the right directions. Thank you, Holy Spirit, for directing us, for illuminating our mind according to this word. God, thank you, Holy Spirit, because you lead us in the way we should go in every affair of life. And so, Father, we're spirit conscious and we submit everything to you today. Get the glory out of our life, God. Drive. Let the Spirit of Truth drive our life today, God. We declare, we give you the driver's seat, and where you lead, we will follow. What you ask us to do, we will do. You don't want to miss it to the left or to the right, so we want to be accurate. So we choose to be God-inside-minded. We're not carnal, outside-minded. We trust what you say. Drive us, God. Oh God, we're in the car, we're in the vehicle. Drive us, drive us, drive us, drive us, drive us into the right covenant, drive us into the right relationship, drive us into the right business opportunities. Drive us, God, that our way will be prosperous so that we will know the riches that you have prepared for us, God. And I bind up lack in the name of Jesus. I bind up living beneath privilege in the name of Jesus. And I decree and declare that wealth and riches are being released into our life even now, in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. Amen. Y'all just give God glory right right here. Give God glory. Ah, we give you glory, we give you glory, give you glory. Come on, just give God glory. Glory to God, we worship him, we bless him. He's in control, he's in control, he's in control. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. Glory to the name of God. God bless you all. God bless you. God, I love you, Tracy, man. God bless you all that were here today. Glory to God. Amen. That little fellow was born. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Glory to God. That's my little cousin Tracy there. He's an engineer. God is doing great things in his life. Thank you for being here, sir. I love you all. I love you all. God is so good. He's so wonderful. You ought to bless him today for leading us. I'm stopping, but I don't want to. Glory to God. Because my alarm— I want to respect your time. Glory to God. I want to respect your time. Glory to God. Thank you, thank you all so much. Thank you all so much. Thank you all so much. Glory to God. God is so good, he's so mighty, he's so wonderful. Hallelujah. Listen, you're fasting with us. Glory to the name of God. I'm glad this fast has been amazing. Listen, if you desire to fast of God. It's not too late. We're on day 9. Glory to the name of God. You can go to our website, uh, it's simply radaenglishconventionchurch.com/fast24. Click the red button, download the fast guide, and guess what? You're in. That guide is going to tell you everything to do. Fast with us. We're praying every day at 5 AM, every day, and every day at 12 noon during the fast, we are teaching the word of God. So listen, I want to challenge you to join us for both times. If you miss any of the messages, any of the prayers, all been good. Go back so you can get it. Glory to God. Listen, God is faithful as he promised you, and he just waiting on us to line up, man, and do what we're supposed to do so he can do what he needs to do for us. I love you guys. You guys have a blessed Wednesday. Meet me at 12 noon. It's gonna be good today. Looking forward to teaching another day. Glory to God. I get so excited when I get opportunity to share with you and be connected to you every day. Uh, it's a blessing. Um, you know, family is everything. Connection is everything. I just appreciate God for, you know, the family that God has given us. I thank God for the community we have and how he's blessing all of us. And I pray that, that we'll embrace these things, we'll walk them out, that God will get the glory out of our lives. Y'all be blessed today. I love y'all. Heaven smile upon you is my prayer. Y'all be blessed today. Thank you. Thank you.
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