5 AM Prayer | "Pursuing the Kingdom" | 13 JUNE 2023

Speaker A leads a 5 AM prayer session on Matthew 6, arguing that zeteó means pursuing God's kingdom with bulldog-like relentlessness. The teaching warns against serving two masters and calls listeners to replace anxiety with faith, drawing on the speaker's doctorate in psychology.
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A pleasant good morning, everyone. I pray that everyone could hear me. If you're coming in, guys, do me a kind favor. I need you to please mute your phone. Thank you so much. Hallelujah! This is the day the Lord has made and we rejoice. Glory to God! And we are glad in it. If there's somebody you know should be on this prayer line and you don't see them, please text them. Glory to God! Uh, we're gonna get started in just a few moments. Just trying to give everybody opportunity to get in. Again, welcome guys, uh, we love you all. Thank you for making the sacrifice and rising early. You know, the scripture declares that we should rise early to seek him, and that's kind of what we want to pray about today. We're going to pray about seeking— hallelujah— the face of the Lord. Glory to God. And seeking his kingdom first, and, and understanding that as we do that God adds things to us so that we can have abundance in our life, both naturally and spiritually. The Bible says in John— glory to the name of God— that he came that we might have life and have it more abundantly. And part of abundance starts with earnestly seeking his face. So, uh, guys, this is you know, just good practice. Praise God. So glad to see so many of you here this morning. Again, if you don't see someone, text them. Someone needs help, um, registering or whatever, um, make sure you, you know, help them out. But we're going to get started in just a moment, so stand by, guys. Hallelujah. We bless you, Father. Thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. All right, pleasant good morning again, everybody. I pray everyone slept well. Again, this indeed is the day the Lord has made and we rejoice. Glory to God, and we are glad in it. Listen, I want to start by reading a passage of scripture, and we're going to just, uh, very briefly kind of share a few things the Lord has put in my heart from this text this morning. Glory to God. Then we're going to pray around of these particular scriptures, because I really believe, as we taught on yesterday, that this month— hear me— is the beginning of months for you. And we taught that from Exodus 12:2. I believe that this is the month of new beginnings, new genesis, where we're right in the middle of that Kadosh on the Hebrew calendar, June, and we're celebrating like it's the new year. We have an opportunity to reset to refresh, to retool, and to revive, and to make sure that those things that should not be dead— hear me, that's the operative statement this morning— that should not be dead are living. And the stuff that's dead, it stays dead, because oftentimes we open ourselves up in our world to things that just literally need to die. Glory to God. So this morning we're going to go to Matthew 6 really quick. And what I'm gonna do for the sake of time, I'm just gonna read one verse, but I'm gonna talk to you about a few of these verses. I'm starting at about verse 28, but I'm gonna read the end cap to this, and then we're gonna pray. Again, I love you guys. Thank you for the sacrifice. Thank you for those of you that are fasting, especially if you're a part of Rodder Family of Churches, whether you're in Jackson, the DMV, or Atlanta. Tuesdays are our fast day where we fast together as a family in unity around specific things that we want to see God do, not just in our church but in the kingdom of God. Amen. So the Bible says this, it says, but seek ye first the kingdom of God and his righteousness. And all these things will be added to you. I'll read that again because it's just all right to read the Bible. It said, seek ye first the kingdom of God, hear me, and all of his righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you. And again, this morning, our focus is our perspective, what we're seeking. The word seek in the text— and I'll get back to this— is from a Greek word zeteio, or zito is how it would really be pronounced in English. But if you saw it in Greek, it would say zeteio, uh, zito. The reality is this word deals with more than just looking for something. It actually deals with a passionate bulldog-type tenacity to pursue something with uninterrupted focus, which means if anything tries to obstruct your focus, tries to distract you from seeking, as the scripture is teaching us here this morning, we dismiss it. Watch this, or we destroy it. Those are only two options. If it's taking your eyes off the kingdom, you can only do one or two things. You can dismiss it, hear me, or you can destroy it.
Glory to God.
And, and listen, I want you to understand something too, guys. There's a reason why I was led of the Spirit to, uh, have these 5:00 prayers, uh, close in to just our group, or those who would just take the time really to register, because that's an extra step, right? But the Lord said that these times of prayer needed to be focused. They need to be very poignant, very poignant, and they need to be very partnered, which means we have to be unified. And so I just didn't want a whole lot of eavesdroppers people jumping in on the live, jumping out. I wanted people on here that really wanted to be here. Again, we, we have to understand that part of focusing in on what God says is making sure we manage our space and making sure that the people who are walking with us are in agreement. How can two walk together except they be in agreement? It's impossible. It's impossible to have forward movement and establish momentum with people who are out of sync, with people who feel forced to be a part of what you're trying to do. And at the end of the day, or people who have bad motives toward what you're trying to do. So we want to make sure we, we manage this because it's very special. Glory to the name of God. And I believe every person connected to us, whether you're a part of our church or whether you're, uh, in covenant with me as a leader, uh, whatever your role is, uh, in my life, particularly as it relates to what God has called us to do. Praise God. The reality is I am glad, glory to God, that you would take that extra step, glory to God, and be a part this morning. So this text, again, it deals with pursuing hard. Listen, after something. And in particular, we're talking about the kingdom, which is the basileia in Greek, which is God's authority, God's rule, God's reign. And there's a conjunction here: his righteousness, diasune, his didactic instructions, or watch this, way of being accurate and right. So our pursuit is the King and his kingdom, his authority, his ability, his throne, so that his throne emerges out of our life. We got to let him sit on the heart of our life. And again, we're going to pray through this this morning. Glory to God. We got to let him sit on the heart of our life and be in control in every aspect. Praise God. Hallelujah. And his righteousness and his accuracy— we don't want to miss it to the left nor to the right. We want to be accurate, hear me, in everything that we set our hands to do. Praise God. Thank you, God. Thank you, Jesus. Glory to your high name, God. So this text, before you even get here, you have to kind of back up. I think it's around 28. Glory to God. I want to say 28, um, where there are a few problems in this text. Glory to God. Not— no, I'm sorry, not 28. We have to go all the back really to 24, because before we can really seek— hear me— you cannot seek effectively until we deal with these issues. And there are a lot of people who are saying, I'm seeking God, I'm going after God, but there are some problems that really are making that pursuit, that hard pursuit, non-effective. And many times you get stuck again and you have limitations and you can't really fulfill purpose and destiny in the right timing because you got all these delays around you. That's centered— hear me— around some issues, that's blockages. Glory to God. So the first one is in Matthew 6:24. He says, no man can serve two masters. First, he says here there's a problem with mastership. It's in, it's in the Bible. Glory to God. I'm not dyslexic at all. It's actually in the text. No man can serve two masters. Kyrios in Greek, masters. And no man can serve two supreme authorities, two supreme ways of doing things, which means you have to really— and I talked about this Sunday— you have to sell out to your desire to do things your way. You got to throw away your agenda. You got to throw away your doubts. You got to throw away your fears. You can't serve, uh, your carnality.
You can't serve—
hear me—
your desire.
Glory to the name of God. To roll in life the way you want to roll, after the things you've been cultured in that really are not God's way of doing things. You can't. You gotta dismiss that mastership. You know, there— yeah, there are people that need to be this, that need to be delivered from fornication, adultery, lying, cheating. But there are some people that have a bigger issue. They need to be delivered of wrong mastership. When religion is your master and you're not open to new things and new ways, when— watch this— your own intellect or your family is your master, where you cultivate your life based on what family says, based on how they have done things. And watch this, that master in your life could have been totally wrong. And so many times in the kingdom, we try to, what we wanna do is want God to accept that master plan that we were born again with. But no, that's the reason you're born again, so you can get unshapen from that iniquity. You were born in sin and shapen in iniquity. Iniquity is lawlessness. It means you were shaping under another mastership. Oh, oh, oh, you were shaping under mastership was not— that was not kingdom.
You and I both.
So when we came to God, we have to now—
hear me—
allow the kingdom way of operating to shape our mentality, because we take on a new king and a another master. You can't serve— serve in Greek is doulos, which means you cannot be a slave. Oh, you can't be a slave. Oh, to two masters. Oh boy, oh boy. Somebody said, Apostle, I didn't get up early this morning at 5 AM for you, sir. To be trying to tell me I got to let go of my masters? Well, if you want the kingdom to be the forefront of your life and you want to see the resources and the manifestations of the King, you got to choose your master. And watch this— when you choose Jesus as your master, you have to choose to be a slave. I know Black people don't like that word, and we shouldn't, in the sense that we were enslaved by the other race. Yeah, I get it. But in the spirit realm, we ought to be slaves to our King. Because here's what I know about this Master: he's full of love. And it's okay to enslave your thoughts to him. It's okay to let go of your system and trust his system.
Oh boy, it's okay.
You, you don't have to be afraid to just let go and get totally immersed in his way of doing things. So we got to deal with the problem of mastership. We're going to pray about that this morning. It's going to be one of our focuses, that we can be delivered from masters— religion, cultural masters, oh God, financial masters that have mastered our mentality about money. We need breakthrough and deliverance from those masters so we can connect with the King and his thought process concerning the kingdom way of operating and living our lives. Second problem, it's in the text, guys. He says, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. Listen, You cannot serve God and mammon. The second problem we got to deal with is a problem of priority. Notice we read in the end cap in Matthew 6:33, the Bible said, seek ye first. First— oh, here we go, here we go— is paraizo in Greek, which means to give something superlative priority, which means it's not secondary. So a lot of times, not only are we being mastered by systems and structures and mindsets that we shouldn't be after being born again, but we also have wrong priorities. See, it's really easy for you to get up— hear me— and pray at 5. When the kingdom is your priority, when this— when— watch this— when getting in the word and surrounding yourself with the things that pertain to God are really a priority. I'm working on you this morning. I know, I know. You, you, you take your nap after I get through to let this marinate if you ain't got to get up and, and work. Glory to God. Listen, you got to set your priorities on the kingdom. You got to seek it first. That's why you can't get up in the morning, jump in your car, driving to work, praying on the fly. That's not priority. No, what you said is priority was getting to work because as soon as you got up, you was running and running under the shower, throwing your clothes up in the air and running into your day. But you need to set some special time. Watch this: when God is priority in your prayer life, in your worship life, you give him prime time. Oh, prime time. Watch this. If there's a show that comes on prime time— prime time ranges between 7 PM and 10 PM on television, so there's shows, you know, come on during those times if you watch TV, and you know you got to be in front of television at that time. I know growing up, The Cosby Show was one of my favorite. I could tell you right now, every Thursday at 8 o'clock I was in front of the TV because I wanted to watch The Cosby Show as a young teenager growing up. It did something for me to see a Black man on TV, number one, in a sitcom who was successful. And listen, someone said, oh, what's that, corner? I was, I was a teenager, so I'm just trying to give you an example, right? The reality is it came on at prime time. I knew when it was coming on. Do you know when you're going to meet God? You got to give him priority. You know what time you got to be at work. I have a calendar every day of different appointments, different calls, different things I have to do. Reality, guys, hear me. Reality, listen to me.
Listen good.
Reality, he's first. I can't do any of that without talking to him. He's priority. Listen, I don't talk to anyone before I speak to him. You should make that a practice. You should make the things that— before I get in my word, before I meditate. You know why? Because I need him to guide my day for real. It's not a euphemism, it's not a cliché. I need God to guide my day for real. Oh my God, I need him to guide my day for real. Glory to Jesus. Thank you, Lord. So it was a problem of mastership, a problem with priority. Thirdly, let's keep reading it. Verse 25, he said, therefore I say unto you, take no thought for your life. What you shall eat— here we go— what you shall drink, nor for your body what you shall put on. Is not life more than meat and the body more than raiment? So in that— and we're getting ready to pray. Close my iPad. We're getting ready to pray these things. Here's third problem that keeps us from effectively seeking. It's the problem of anxiety. The problem of worry, and basically worrying about basic necessities— food, shelter, and water— is right there in the text. We tend to worry about basic necessities. When God says, I want to do so much more for you than the basic, if you prioritize kingdom and put God as master He said there's no need for you to worry or be anxiety— have anxiety about what you're gonna wear, what you're gonna eat, where you're gonna live. He went on to say, listen, I clothed the lily of the fields. How much more would your Father do for you?
So if he clothed the lily I need y'all to stop worrying. So I don't know who this is for.
I need you to stop it with the anxiety. The Matthew— Mark 11:22, it says, have faith in God.
How do you defeat anxiety?
Faith. You got— that's a command. Have faith in God, not in your bank account, not in your job, not in what people can do. Not— you know what, we're pioneering 3 different churches at the same time, y'all. Listen, we're pioneering 3 churches at the same time, and not one day do I worry about what we got to do in terms of taking care of buildings, taking care of people, our musicians, who— anybody that has to be paid, whatever utilities, whatever we have to do. I have no anxiety.
Because I trust God. He's priority.
When you're in right relationship with him, it eliminates anxiety. We live in a day where people say, oh, you got to take care of your mental health, you got to go see a therapist, you got to get some— yeah, okay, but listen, I'm not speaking against that, but I promise you, you won't need the therapist over anxiety if you trust God.
Oh boy.
At least I'm not talking against therapy. I have a doctorate in psychology. So I understand the value of that, but here's the reality. If I trust God, he eliminates my desire. Listen, you don't need no pills to calm your anxiety, no Ritalin and all that stuff. Listen, what you need is faith in your master and seek first the kingdom of God. Watch this, and his righteousness. And he said all the things will be added. Watch this, you ain't got to ask for them, you just seek him. And what you desire, hear me, comes with the seeking.
You got to seek him, you got to put him in superlative priority.
And you got to come as an inferior to a superior, saying, God, you're my daddy, and whatever I need, I believe you'll slip it to me.
So what do you mean?
So while you're pursuing him in the kingdom and in the heavenly realm, what you need is just added. It's just slipped to you. So if you're seeking God, he'll slip you a Benz. He'll slip you a house. He'll slip you some land.
He'll slip you—
oh boy, he'll slip you a business.
He'll slip you a BMW.
He'll slip you an Infiniti. He'll slip you debt-free living.
He'll slip you power and anointing while you're seeking him.
So that's— you ain't— he said, I'll give these things to you because I know you have need of them. Same text in Matthew 6. Even before you ask.
Oh boy.
Oh, Shabbat, haki letebesi. Let's pray, guys. Briskete bunsu to rakiska tabapati eusa. Bruska tabanso rokusko to mamanda da da basoto riki. If you got a prayer language, I want you to just begin to speak in it now.
Glory to God.
Leminsko to rabasa. And just begin to worship Jesus.
Brosko rosku to rababasa.
Rakilete bebe so rokus koto, rabanso toroku, ribasa tamando loboso toris kathaya, rambababobo so romondu sitiay, rekilete monso torasa.
Come on, worshiper!
We give you glory, God.
We give you honor.
We give you praise, God. We've come together this morning to worship you, to give you glory, God.
To give you honor.
We call you holy, God. We call you righteous. We decree and declare, God, that you are wonderful, that you are mighty. Hallelujah. And we say thank you, God. We were able to arise this morning because you woke us up.
Come on, worshiper! Come on, worshiper!
Come on, worshiper! We give you glory, God. We give you honor. We give you praise. Come on, the worshiper is worshiping.
We come into agreement around our worship this morning.
And Father, we agree that you're King. We agree that you are our Master. We agree, God, that beside you there is no other. We agree, God, that you rule and you super rule. You're Alpha, you're Omega. You're the beginning and you're the end.
You're the first God And you are the last. Heaven is your throne and the earth immense. Ran ke telemanso to rabbaia. Come on, Zion! Brisco to remamba bo to rabbaia. Brisco te bababo so to rebi.
Brisco te bayan po to pa pa pa so to rabba kata.
Reke le te bo so rabbaia.
We worship you, Jesus. And Father, today you said whatsoever we bind on earth that it would be bound in heaven.
So dear God, today, brunsutu rambai, brunsutu rapata, rebe po so rabataba, brenskete bamamandolo bo. We bind up this morning false mastership. We bind up mastership that comes from religious cultures where we've been mastered by religious ways of doing things and living. We bind it up in our lives now in the name of Jesus.
We bind up false mastership that came from homes we were reared in. Cultural values and things that went against kingdom living.
We bind up negative mindsets about finances and wealth. And Father, we decree and declare today that as your word says, whatsoever we loose on earth— hey, Shabbat, that you would loose it in heaven. Ha Yeku Rabbah. So Father, I loose the spirit of mastership that comes from heaven, and that the anointing of the Holy Ghost that lives on the inside of us— hallelujah— which is you, Father, in us, that it would take control. That it would take mastership, that it would take the leadership in our life. And God, you said in your word that you would lead us and guide us into all truth. And so, Father, according to your word, we receive it. We humble ourselves as slaves unto you. If you say go left, we're going left.
Glory to God.
If you say go right, we're going right. God, Father, we don't want to miss it to the front, the back, the left, nor the right, but in everything we do, we want to be accurate.
We loose mastership that brings creativity into our lives. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
I decree and declare that we are creators because the Holy Spirit lives in us. I loose the spirit of mastership in a way that it affects our parenting.
Lebikus kotorabatai.
That it affects our leadership in our prospective anointings and callings. I lose mastership, God, in a way, God, that the Holy Spirit houses within us giftings that we knew not of, and that those giftings, through submission to mastership, would emerge and come alive. Ah, sheba! I speak to the gifts in you today, and I command them to come alive in the name of Jesus. I command the prophet to arise. I command the apostle to arise. I command the entrepreneur to arise. Reba so reba babaya. I command million-dollar ideas to arise in the name of Jesus. I decree and declare that even as we pray, Rondo loco, Rikanda labasore mamandio.
That your mastership is shifting, and every area where you were unsurrendered—
whoa— God now is master.
Receive it.
Let him control that too.
Pray, saints, pray. Father, we thank you again that whatever we bind on earth, it is bound in heaven. So we bind up anxiety, we bind up doubt, We bind up fear, for your word declares that we should have faith in God. So we loose the spirit of faith on this prayer line this morning.
We loose the spirit of faith and we release the gift of faith. God, you said in your word that you have given us these gifts of the Spirit, and one is faith, tongues, interpretation of tongues.
Hallelujah.
Discerning of spirits, word of wisdom, word of knowledge, the gift of prophecy, the gift of faith, healings and miracles. God, I loose the gift of faith. It's interesting, Father, that so many would seek the other gifts. Many desire to prophesy, many because it makes them look good before men. Many desire to interpret tongues or to speak with tongues, but very few seek faith. And this is the very thing we need to please you. For without faith, it is impossible.
Who shut up Solomon? To please the Lord. So I lose the spirit of faith that every person on this prayer line would be connected to faith in a bigger way today, that they will get in their heart something big to believe you for.
Yeah, God. Yeah, God.
And they will get totally immersed in faith, and they will seek your kingdom, and everything they need will be added because of the spirit of faith. Yes, Lord. This is why Yeah, I hear you, God. I say that this real hard. Said, this is even indeed why we have prophets in the land who have astute abilities to prophesy, but they have no natural resources to advance the kingdom because they have no faith.
Oh, shabba ba ba do.
They increased their gifting. But never increased their faith for kingdom things.
And their focus on gifting was to bring pleasure to themselves before men.
Ah, she called it a man. So, Rabbi Mando, say, we bind up anxiety and fear, for you have not given us the spirit of fear. You gave us power, so we lose power.
You gave us love, so we lose love.
You gave us a sound mind, so we lose a sound mind, a well-balanced, intelligent mind. In the name of Jesus. Raki skatai. Brisket nemenen soto.
Oki a'ansata.
Rando roku rabaya.
Rus koto rebebe. Pan soto rabai.
Riki le demanso, Rabandi.
Oh God, I break every soul tie connected to old models, old mindset, old masters, old mentors. I break the tie and the emotional attachment So that lives can be opened up to receive the new and seek you afresh.
In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, we bind it up. In the name of Jesus, break, break, break, break it in Jesus' name. And Father, today again, we thank you for your word. Whatever we bind on earth, it will be bound in heaven. The person on here— yeah, I hear that, God— with back pain, just put your hand in your back right now.
There's an anointing that's about to flow through your body like liquid fire. And right now With his stripes, you're being made whole.
You're on this line, you've been diagnosed with pre-diabetes, you've been diagnosed with high blood pressure. Put your hands in your belly.
And I bind up sickness and disease. I bind up hypertension. I bind up diabetes. I command your kidneys to function properly, to regulate your blood pressure. I command your pancreas to pump out insulin in the name of Jesus. I bind up stroke. Aman so, uku rabba, miskete misketo, rabba bandide debo suto rebehe, briske tebebebe soto rabbaia. I bind up cardiovascular disease. In the name of Jesus. I loose long life and I rebuke death because the kingdom is our priority. I loose zitto, the spirit of zitto, the spirit of pursuing hard after the kingdom with uninterrupted focus, without delay, without distraction. Without detour. But God, we're locked in like a bulldog, and we're gonna hold on until the kingdom is ours.
Reba, until we maximize our purpose in the kingdom.
And God, as we seek your kingdom first, add the things.
I release the spirit of wealth Brisca tabamandolo bo. Oh yeah, and prosperity.
I loose wealth, I bind poverty because our priorities are coming in order now. So I bind poverty in the name of Jesus.
I decree and declare it's not your will for us to be broke, for us to not have resources to take care of our family, to advance the kingdom, to be givers. I decree and declare that there is a shift in financial resource now in your life in the name of Jesus. I release multi-million dollar ideas from the Creator. The Creator lives in you. I release the spirit of the entrepreneur. Go forth, build that business, build that dream in the name of Jesus. I declare it to be so. Add the things God— add cars, add houses, add property, I release Airbnbs. I release real estate.
In the—
I release buildings in the name of Jesus. So be it. So be it. Today we ask these things in the precious name of Jesus Christ. God, as we go into our day, go before us, and we yield to your leading. We yield to your plan, and we give you praise for it now. In Jesus' name, amen. And thanks be to God. Hallelujah! Glory to God! Ushamana utamandi! Mm, thank you, Jesus. We give you glory, we give you honor. Receive it, precious ones, receive it. God is with us, God is for us, and if he be for us, he's more than those who are against us. I challenge you today, trust God with all your heart. Lean not, hear me, to your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledge him, seek him, pursue him, become acquiesced to his plan, open yourself up. That's what acknowledge means. Acknowledge, act to open knowledge, to his knowledge. Open yourself up to his knowledge, become acquiescent with what he desires. And listen, he'll add the things. Take an inventory of your life, man, and whatever's there that's not him, kick it out. It's not worth it. You, you can't block— yeah, his grace is sufficient. I heard somebody's mind, it's sufficient. And you, you can get to heaven repenting, and you know, because you're saved, right? But you'll never have heaven on earth. And God wants you to have heaven on earth, not just in church falling in the floor, but he wants you to have heaven on earth in your everyday life. There's got to be a balance. And the way you get heaven on earth, you got to align yourself again, become acquiesce with his will. I love every one of you. Uh, thank you so much, thank you so much for joining us this morning and taking time out of your day to join us for this hour of prayer and teaching. Listen, every Tuesday, every Tuesday, we can't miss it. We got to birth these churches out in prayer. I cannot be present with all of you at 5 AM. So we have technology, thank God for that. So we are just as close together as we pray together. Uh, glory to God. At 5. Yeah, I'll say that. God, Darnetta, I see you all here. The Lord said you entered into a season of swift transition, and he said, think not strange that the Lord would order your feet contrary to what others may have planned for you. The Lord says that from day one, from the day you entered this planet, your purpose has been unique and it's been authentic. And because it's been so authentic, you have had to fight. Seemingly every time you look up, there's a level of war warfare that comes against you, but you go through this warfare, woman of God, because to whom much is given, much is required. And the Lord said the days ahead shall be filled with clarity. And watch this, I hear that— God, simplicity. He says he's getting ready to just make things clear and make things simple. He's about to reveal to you a simple plan for your next step. The Lord said, don't be ashamed of who he's made you. Stand boldly in who you are. Stand boldly in your— hallelujah— submission to his direction. And God said he's going to bless you for obedience, for yes, obedience is better than sacrifice. He said never enter into performance mode. To please people. He said, but live for the pleasure of him. He said, as long as you continue to do that, great and mighty things will your hands handle. Tangibly will you behold the promises he's made to you, says the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Tawanda, the Lord said to tell you, ever since you preached Sunday, I haven't had a chance to talk to you, but I've been praying for you. And I believe I hadn't talked to you because I've been praying, and the Lord wanted me to have this moment. And the Lord said, tell you, stand still and see. Open your eyes, stand still and see. The rescue, the salvation of God. Since you preached, there has been an intensified warfare. Because what happened— I wasn't there, and to be honest with you, because I trust what's in your belly, I probably had time to watch half of the message. But everybody I talked to told me they were blessed by what you did. I trust what's in you. The Lord said, you got to press through. And you got to use this season as a springboard. Allow it to catapult you and shoot you. Yeah, that's what I see. I see— oh, I just saw it just like that. You're a bullet in a gun. God has his hand on the trigger, and he's— let me, let me pull my finger to the camera— he's pulling the trigger.
Pow!
Pow! He's shooting you into your next at the speed of glory. He said just receive it and don't give up. Move in faith and watch what God does. Hallelujah!
Orebe samama!
I love all of you. Briskatabaye, bozo, rabande.
Yovanda, you were born to prophesy.
Yes, Lord. And no matter, glory to God, what comes against you, you gotta continue to stay focused on Jesus. Because the Lord said, and if I got anything to do with it, the prophet will emerge. You will prophesy. You will teach the word. The glory of the Lord will be revealed in your life and ministry. The Lord says he's about to do something very special. Hear me, for you, Bran Satamande, Otaba, Ikuta Mama, in your finances. Glory to God. Something very special in these next 90 days. Watch this. There's something about to happen for you financially, it's going to blow your mind. He's about to start eliminating some debt for you. Glory to God. He's going to show you he's your king. All he wants is for you to just continue in his will and pour yourself out as a drink offering, says the Lord. Hallelujah! Oh God, I love y'all, man. I gotta get out of here. I'm gonna let you go. Ah, I love God, he's so good. Thank you so much. Y'all enjoy this fast today. It's water only till 3 o'clock, but as you go through the day, just spend time talking to God and stir up that creativity. Seek the Him first and watch what God does. Few announcements, guys. Listen, I am super excited— hear me— about some of the things we have coming up. For those of you in Mississippi, uh, we're going to be moving all of the church furniture and things into the church on this Thursday, 2 days from now, and we'll be having our first service in the building in Jackson. Listen, on Saturday at 12 noon— I love you, Pastor Jasper, thank you, sir. Listen, we will— I want you to be praying for this because we're trusting God that Saturday will be an awesome move of God. So we want you guys to come out, share with us Saturday at 12 noon. Tell everybody you can. There should be a flyer posted somewhere today. Please share it. Uh, let's pack the building out on Saturday. Uh, we're looking for God and his glory to just superimpose itself upon us, and I know we'll never be the same because of it. We'll be right here, back here in Jackson on Sunday, uh, which is Father's Day, I think. So we'll be in service here in Atlanta— I'm sorry, on Sunday. So you guys, uh, here in Atlanta, be with us Sunday at 3. Glory to God! We're looking for God to bless. And if you can get your daddy in church, get him in church. Find every daddy you know, get them in church on Sunday. I believe there's going to be a special breakthrough for us again on Sunday. Uh, God is doing something. On tomorrow night, Jackson, DMV, and Atlanta, because we need to make sure again that we're in the middle of the week, that we're teaching the word and everybody's staying plugged in. Listen, I tried to post the stuff via live and do live streams every week. The problem with that is there's really no accountability to that. There's no priority to that. So the Holy Spirit said, do a global Bible study for all the churches on Wednesday nights. So tomorrow night is going to be the very first one. It's going to be just like this, another Zoom. So you need to— you'll get a link via text if if you're on our text list, make sure you register for the Global Bible Studies. You don't want to miss these teachings. You need them. We have been teaching a series entitled No More Limits at the church, and we're going to continue in that on tomorrow. We're going to be talking about what it means to be totally immersed, so you don't want to miss it. Make sure you're on. It's at 8 o'clock Eastern Standard 7 o'clock Central Standard Time. We're only going to hold you an hour. We're going to teach the word, but we want to make a deposit so that again you can set some priority, you can continue to grow. Uh, don't forget July 20th, please put this in your calendars, guys. July 20th through the 20— Sunday the 24th, no, the 23rd. We're celebrating my 54th birthday at Rodder Church, and really 54-34— 54 years of life, 34 years of full-time ministry. We got some amazing speakers and psalmists coming in that Saturday night. We'll have a banquet. Go ahead and get your after-five stuff together. We're gonna dress up. I think the saints, we've gotten so away from, you know, making sure that I know clothes don't mean nothing, but in terms of what God will do, he'll do it however you dress. But I think sometimes you listen— for me, when I put on a suit, when I put on— when I'm looking nice, I feel good. You honestly, you'll feel good. So we're gonna dress up, we're gonna get dressed up in our good stuff, man, and we're gonna come out on Saturday. Glory to God. And we're gonna have a great gala, uh, We got some great guests, great comedians, a great artist singing, great preacher gonna speak to us, great food. It's gonna be amazing. So I want you to celebrate with me. My wife asked me what I wanted for my birthday. I said I want to have church. So we're gonna have church 4 days. Make plans to be in Atlanta the 20th through the 23rd. It's gonna be awesome. You'll, you'll start seeing the flyers this week as well for that. There'll be a link for you to go ahead and get registered, get your ticket. Tickets for the gala. Listen, you got to be here, man. It's going to be great. I love y'all, man. My time's gone. Y'all run into your day. Glory to God. My alarm is going off saying, sir, you're, you're too long. Okay, so I'm, I'm going— I'm gonna be obedient. I'm gonna stick to my hour. Thank y'all again. I love y'all so much, man. I really, I really, really do. Uh, I will repost this, uh, for those that missed it. Glory to the name of God. But y'all be Bless. Heaven smile upon you is my prayer. Peace.
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