5 AM PRAYER WITH APOSTLE MIKE WOODS | 5 AUGUST 2025

Well, praise the Lord and a pleasant good morning to everyone. This is the day that the Lord has made and we shall rejoice. Glory to God and be glad in it. Listen, we're going to jump right into this this morning. I need you guys to do me a kind favor and go ahead and share. I need you to share this live stream. Glory to the name of God. Tag someone below, share the link. Glory to the name of God. To your feed, uh, I promise you this morning is going to be a blessing. The Bible says that we should rise early to seek his face. Glory to the name of God. I'm glad you're here. Glory to the name of God. I believe heaven's ears are open. As a matter of fact, the word of God tells us that— hallelujah— that heaven is constantly and consistently open to the prayers of the righteous. So the Father is listening, he wants to respond, he just needs our faith. Glory to God. So as we pray, we're going to trust, we're going to believe. Glory to the name of God, that God is going to heal us today. So please guys, go ahead, share this, share, share, share. I believe the miraculous is going to come out of this prayer today. I believe lives are going to be changed. Somebody's going to be hit home. I believe God is going to do something in your life, in your family. Maybe someone listening this morning in the back is up against a wall. You know what I've learned is that prayer honestly changes things for me. I heard that a lot of prayer changed things. As a kid, I would hear— I would see my parents look to the living God. And you know what? Often I would hear my daddy praying. I would see him crying about things. And you know, God always heard his prayers. God always opened doors, made ways for us as a family. I've seen it in my whole Prayer works. Prayer has won more battles than any military, any Navy, any Army, any Air Force, any Marines, any Royal Military. Prayer has defeated more enemies and brought more victories. For real. That's why we got to stand in the integrity of God's word and pray to God. So this morning, We are praying, glory to God. Remember, we pray the word, glory to God. So we're going to pray this morning according to the word of God, and our prayers this morning are going to be deliberately and strategically asking God through scripture, give us the ability, the insight, the focus to walk in the word. You know, one of my sons sent me something, me a text a couple days ago, and it was a panel of so-called preachers who are really compromising the integrity of the word of God. And it's all kind of erroneous stuff that's has been said on that platform. Morbius, the enemy is trying to take the integrity of the word out of the mouths of people so the world will continue. We watch this in chaos. People are twisting the word to their own satisfaction so they can do what they want to do, basically. Uh, the reality is when you got somebody like me and, and you perhaps that have seen the word of God work in your life, there's nothing people say or do to get you to compromise. Hear me, family, what the word of God is really saying. Ah, my— bless you, Lord. We honor your name. Give you praise. We give you glory. Good morning again, everybody. Please guys, share. Please share. Glory to God. Please share. Glory to God. Glory to God. Please share. Praise God. Hallelujah. We give God praise. Please share. All right, we're gonna jump into this. Glory to God. Hallelujah. I feel like praying. Glory to God. Again, I want you to hear me. Heaven is listening. Oh, Rabba, heaven is listening. Hallelujah. So, Father, we thank you and we worship you this morning. We give your name the glory. We give your name the honor. We give your name the praise. We exalt you. We extol you. And Father, we say, besides you there is no other. You rule and you super rule. Heaven is your throne. The earth is your footstool. The heavens declare your glory. The earth, your handiwork. Father, we thank you for who you are, and we declare this morning, God, that your glory and your power and your presence will be with us as we take this moment just to worship your great name, just to hallow your great name. Father, you are Jehovah Jireh. You're the Lord our provider, and because of this, we lack no thing, neither do we have a care. But we declare and we decree that all of our needs are met and we have the desires of our heart. God, we give you glory, we give you honor, we worship you, God, that you are Jehovah Rapha. Oh God, you are the Lord our healer, Lord Jesus, and we give you praise, we give you glory. That healing and deliverance is the children's bread. And we thank you that because of this, sickness cannot dwell with us. You are our healer. We're healed by your stripes. In the mighty name of Jesus, we bless you, we honor you, we thank you, we glorify your great name. You're good, huh? You're kind, you're wonderful, you're mighty. Glory to God, you're glorious. You're awesome. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah, hallelujah. We bless you, God, and we praise you. Hallelujah. Thank you for your word, and thank you for the integrity of your word. All right, our first scripture this morning, family, Hebrews 4 and verse number 12. Let's get started. Praise God. Again, we're praying the word. The Bible says we ask anything according to his will— his will is his word— that he would perform it, that he would do it. Glory to God. Hallelujah. So Hebrews 4:12, the Bible says, for the word of God is quick and powerful and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and the intents of the heart. Now I'm not going to spend a lot of time in this verse because I want to pray it, but there is so much here. But basically it's telling us that the word of God, what God spoke, what God says— and again, when my son sent me that clip and I watched it, I was like, okay, these people don't really realize They can't. The characteristics of the word and what it is able to perform. And I think the failure has been for each of them, every one of them sitting there, even, even the popular ones that was on that panel. Yeah, it has been a failure of the progenitors that have gone before them to really teach them to become intimate with the word and trust the integrity of the word. The Bible has just become, for a lot of people, an addendum to a religious cycle. And most people don't open the word of God until they go to church. And really, I said this Sunday, we cannot try this thing out every now and then. We gotta live by it, and we gotta let it be the priority in our life, and we gotta walk by faith and by sight. What we see in the word is what we have to believe, and when we do that, we'll see it become these things that Hebrews 4:12 says. Well, the word of God is quick. The word quick here is zio in Greek. It's a verb, glory to God, which means it's alive, it's breath, it's living. Uh, it is— watch this— zio means it is the true light. So And we're going to pray this in a moment. True life cannot be found outside of the word of God. I'm gonna say that again. Uh, you can think you having a good life because maybe you have a lot of money, maybe, you know, you got a great job, and you think, hey man, this is life, I am living. You know, people say it all the time, I'm living my best life. Honestly, you are not living your best life unless you are living your life and walking out the integrity of the word of God in— oh wee— in your life. Oh, glory to God. So, so you have to decide, praise God, that you're going to walk out the integrity of God's word in your life, and you're gonna do exactly what God says. Amen. So the reality is the word is alive. It's breath, it's life-giving. It is the thing that produces your best life. I'm going to say that again. It is the thing that produces your best life. So the word is alive. So if you want to have the best life, you want to maximize life, you want to have the life that God created for you, you got to do it through the word. Also, it says the word is powerful. This word powerful, energes in Greek, is what we get words like energy or energize, which means now it's not just alive, but it's— it is active or actively involved. When you open your life up and become acquiesced to the word of God, it becomes actively involved with your life. Watch this, to be an effectual force to give you an edge and make your life literally— hallelujah— a heaven-driven life. This is through the word. Listen, I, I don't care, uh, how much you fall on the floor, I don't care how much you go to church— watch this— if you're not living under the auspices of the powerful word of God it. Glory to the name of God. You're going to find it very hard to be effective. Hear me, family, in life. I'm gonna pray because I— we gotta, we, we gotta get through this in an hour. Glory to God. I told you it's a lot here. Last one, it's quick, it's powerful, and then I'm not going to deal with the rest of it. And sharper than any two-edged sword. So the word has an incising ability that cuts away— watch this— things in your life that do not align with God's mind concerning you. So the word does that. So that means you need to have a life in the word. You need to study the word. Here we go. Every single day, you need to read the word every single day and become acquiesced to it. And live by it, walk it out so it could cut away. Because you could be trying to remove things, but you got people, man, who will spend their life— hear me— trying to remove things out of their life. Glory to God. And God never called you to take up the burden of removing things. See, again, when I was listening to those preachers so-called preachers talk about the word and justifying sin and, oh my God, even disdaining who Jesus is. Okay, the reality is I, I know for a fact based on personal journey, personal relationship, they don't know God. And the sad part is that they once proclaimed the same exact things that we proclaim. They believed the Bible that we teach and preach, and they feel like they've come into this deeper revelation that some things in the scripture are just not apropos. And the devil is a liar. The whole book is a two-edged sword. And then this is why they don't want it, because it cuts away what they want to do. It cuts away selfish desire. But I'm telling you, God knows best. Let's pray this. Glory to God. So Father, we thank you for your word. We thank you that the word, number one, is quick, it's alive, it's the very air and breath we breathe. And so Father, I pray today for your people that your word will become breath for them and that we will begin to walk in the word like never before. And Father, I give you praise and glory this morning that the word of the living God Hallelujah, will be our very light source. And God will know that it's in you we live, in you we move, it's in you we have our being. And Father, we'll trust and we'll lean and we'll depend on your word and your word only. So easy so many times to trust systems that we have been taught that work, but the word introduces us to a kingdom constitution. It introduces us to an unshakable kingdom. And so, Father, I pray that we will allow that word— hallelujah— to be quick and to be powerful, to be the very energy, the very effectual force that operates in our life daily, that causes us to conquer and take control and take authority over the enemy in the mighty name of Jesus. And I decree and declare that every person under the sound of my voice will begin to take the word of God not just as a religious addendum that is used in a church service, oh God, or a book that was just sitting on a coffee table in a house. But God, we revere this book as sacred, as words that you have given us to live by, and may we have a life in the word. And Father, we come against every stronghold and every principality of error that is rising up to cause people to push and reject the word and push the word away. Father, we decree and declare that the word— in an— yeah, God, we decree and declare that the word of God will rise and it will become the standard, hallelujah, of our nation, of our world, because your people will begin to embrace it and live by it. And thank you for this two-edged sword. That reveals our flaws, that reveals our shortcomings, and then by its authority and power cuts them out of our life, God, and brings forth the details of heaven so we may live by them. And Father, we thank you for this now in Jesus' name, and we declare we shall walk in the word in Jesus' name. Oh my God, hallelujah! Just worship and praise him right there. Glory to God. Hey, hallelujah! We give you praise, God. Let's go to 1 Peter. Praise Jesus. 1 Peter 3. We give you praise for your word, God. Hallelujah! Just begin to thank God for the word. 1 Peter 3 and verse number 12. Glory to God. 1 Peter 3 and 12. Praise God. We give you praise, we give you glory. Hallelujah! Somebody ought to give him honor this morning. Somebody ought to give him thanks. We bless the Lord. 1 Peter 3:12. I'm telling you, we got to guard the word of God. We got to guard in our heart. David said, I've hid the word in my heart that I might not sin against thee, that I might not come short. And see, this is why again you have these direct attacks against the integrity of God's word because people want to miss the mark. Glory to God. But I choose, and I'm praying you choose this morning, to be like David and hide the word in your heart that you might not miss the mark. Glory to God. That you might not sin against God. That your life will be a representation of who he is. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Uh, 1 Peter 3:12, the Bible said, for the eyes of the Lord— watch this— are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers. But the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. This is 1 Peter 3:12. So here we go. The eyes of the Lord are over the righteous. Now watch this, watch this. Uh, the word eyes here again is, uh, Optimalos is where we get words like ophthalmology, which is the study of the eyes. You— if you go to your eye doctor and get your vision checked, that person is called an ophthalmologist. They study the eye, they study sight. Watch this, glory to the name of God. Here, optimalos means the eye or the vision of God. Watch this, or the perspective of God. Can I help you. Glory to God. You are totally— watch this— you are totally blind to spiritual things without God's eye, without being able to view spiritual things through God's eyesight and God— oh, we— and God's perspective. Here we go, here we go. You're blind. The word of God is the optomolos. It is the eye of God— God have mercy— that we have available to us immediately to put things in perspective and see things in a kingdom reality the way the king, or the way God, would see them. So when you're faced with anything in life, watch this, Instead of trying to handle it with your natural perspective, with your— ooh-wee— with your natural vantage point, what you should do, ladies and gentlemen— my God, today— what you should do, what you should do is put on the glasses of the word and look at the situation you're facing through the word of God. Instead of trying to analyze it with your natural perception. Watch this, because watch this: the eyes of the Lord, the word of God, watches over the righteous. Wait a minute, what's the righteous? The righteous is, uh, glory to God, dakaios in Greek, is you and I. It's those who are in covenant with divine law, those of us who walk in covenant Whoa, with divine law. What? Wait a minute, here we go again. So I'm righteous when I'm in covenant with the word of God, when I'm in covenant with divine law. Oh boy, oh boy, I hope y'all getting this this morning. So you gotta learn, instead of reacting to life through your natural vantage point, you gotta learn to react to life through the word of the living God. React to situations based on what God says. I know, I know you said, oh, I know I'm supposed to do that. Yeah, you're really supposed to do it, and so do it. Glory to the name of God. Instead of overreacting in the flesh, put on your optomilos. Hallelujah. And watch this, his ears are open to your prayers. So when you walking out the word, hallelujah, because God can't deny his word. That's why we pray the word, because we pray as the righteous, we pray divine law. As the righteous, we pray what God has already promised. We find a promise in scripture that covers our need, and the Bible said his ears are open to our prayers. And watch this though: the face of the Lord is against them that do evil. Now you may think evil here is, is just a witch or a warlock or some demon, but wait a minute. Now this, this word, kakos in Greek, this word means that it's actually a mode of thinking. It's actually a wrong foundation, a wrong base, uh, where you operate as troubled or troublesome when you don't have to. It is a wicked way of thinking because you have chosen to extrapolate yourself from the kingdom way of thinking and viewing life. And now you are going to church, but you're walking out life still worried, still troubled, still with your own agenda. That's kakao. Still adjusting and adapting to what the world says about things and doing things your own way. Oh boy. Somebody say, Apostle, I didn't get up for this. Yes you did, because God— I'm working on you this morning because God wants us to walk in the word. Glory to God. He wants us to be examples hear me, or what the word looks like. He wants us to be examples, glory to the name of God, of who we— of what he can do through a life when it's yielded and surrendered to the word of God. I'm a witness he can. If God can change me, he can change anybody. I'm just going to tell you right now, God can deliver, set me free. If God can heal me, if God can provide for me, if God can touch my mind to be creative through his word. He can do it for anybody. Hallelujah. Listen, his optomolos— grab that— is over those who walk out the word, those who walk by faith and not by physical sight. Let's pray. Father, we give you praise for 1 Peter 3:12, and right now we pray according to 1 Peter 3:12. And we thank you that your optima, your eyes are over the righteous. So Father, I decree and declare that every person under the sound of my voice will walk— oh, that every person under the sound of my voice will walk out your word, will do what you say, will move in obedience to your word, will create a vantage point. Hallelujah! That's otherworldly, that they will create a worldview where they see life through your word. Glory to the name of God. And that I rebuke worry, I rebuke a troublesome life, I rebuke fear, because we walk in the word, God. Hallelujah! Your word is over us, and we are the righteous. And because we're the righteous, because we have covenant with your word, because we believe your word. You hear, devil, you're a liar. We rebuke you now in the name of Jesus. We don't fear death, we don't fear sickness and disease. We declare we're healed by his stripes, and we release angels at our charge to enforce the covenant of the word. We activate the word in our life because we, we see life through your eyes. You said we should not die but live to declare the works of the Lord. You said you would supply our needs according to your riches in glory. We— yeah, yes, God, we thank you that that is so, that that is done in the name of Jesus. No weapon formed against us can prosper. We thank you, Lord, and we thank you that your face is not against us because we don't move in evil We don't move in doubt, we don't move in fear. Hallelujah. But we ascribe to that which is right in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Somebody ought to bless his name. Glory to God. You ought to bless his name for 1 Peter 3:12. Let's move. Glory to God. Oh, I feel Jesus, y'all. I'm trying to— I'm trying to be good. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. Let's go to Colossians 3. Colossians 3. Real quick. Colossians 3. Praise God. Hallelujah. We give you praise, Jesus. Colossians 3, and we're going to look at verse number 16 here. Remember, we're praying the word. Glory to God. The Bible says that angels hearken to the voice of the word. So when we pray the word, angels— they're ministering spirits assigned to us. Glory to God. To bring the word of God that we pray to pass. So watch this, when you're praying, you're simply activating the word. This is why really we gotta walk in the word, because every time we pray, we're activating the word of God. Hallelujah. Oh, Colossians 3:16, I love this. It says, let the word of God, or the word of Christ, dwell in you richly. Joyfully-yam in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. Hallelujah. Now, now, this, this, this entire text, uh, deals with how we approach worship, how we approach intimacy with God through singing. So I'm not going to deal with that, that, that part of it, but we got to get to that through the foundation. And the foundation is, is letting the word of Christ dwell, take up residence, move in you richly. I, I, I— so, so again, the word dwell here, the Greek word is, uh, enochio, which means to take up residence, to move in, to inhabit So the word should have an address in your life. Yeah, the word should have an address in your life. You know what, when, when you allow the word, uh, to have an address in your world, in your life, you have now allowed heaven— glory to God— to move into earth. Heaven functions through us who allow Heaven to dwell or move in. It cannot inhabit unless we allow the word. See, we can't skip over the word. Hallelujah, my God! And think we're gonna have heaven on earth. We just cannot do it. We gotta let— notice he said let it. So you can't, you can't expect, glory to God, uh, heaven to just show up and inebriate you, glory to God, and, and make you all powerful and anointed. Hallelujah. If you don't allow it, the Holy Spirit is a gentleman and he is not going to bombard your life and just make you eat the word. You have to want this. And this is why a lot of people of God are living beneath their privilege, because they will not allow the word to move in and take over the residence. I want you to think about it like this: when it says let the word dwell in you richly, uh, uh, plasio in Greek, which is richly, this word means abundantly in control. So I want you to think about this: you let someone move into your personal house, personal residence, and they take control of your house. You ain't having it, right? Glory to God. But in this instance, spiritually, you gotta let the word move in and the perspective of the word move in and abundantly take over. Uh, when I was growing up— I love oatmeal now because when I was growing up as a kid, I remember as a little boy, my mama used to prepare oatmeal for me almost every day. I love oatmeal to this day for this reason. And they would always say that you need breakfast that's gonna stick to you. You need something rich that's gonna stay with you all day. Watch this, to control your appetite throughout the day until you get to your next meal. So you gotta let word move in and take control of your life richly. Hallelujah! To be abundantly in control, which means every single area of your life, you gotta let him rule. You gotta let him— oh my God— be in control. You gotta let him— glory to God— have his way. Praise God! You gotta let it dwell in you richly. So watch this, when you get that doctor's report that goes against the word, that, that, that you don't buy in, that word says, okay, you heard him, but with your— with my stripes you are healed. You gotta let the word move in and take control. It has to be the priority that we live by. Glory to God. Let's pray. Let's pray. Father, we give you praise. Thank you for Colossians 3:16. Jesus, we glorify you, Father. We lift you up. We honor you. And I'm praying today, God, that the word would dwell in us richly. I'm talking about like thick, rich oatmeal, grits, God, that it would dwell in us richly. And Father, we invite you to move in and abundantly take control of our life, God. Let your word be the leader. Let it be— hallelujah— the thing that we follow. Let it be the architectural design of our life that leads us into purpose. God, we give you praise. Oh my God, I'm praying, God, for your people, that we will not dismiss what your word says, even in situations where it's easier to lean to our own understanding. But you said in your word that we should lean not to our own understanding, but in all our ways— that sounds like abundant control to me— acknowledge you, become acquiescent. Oh open up to you and you will direct our path. So Father, in everything we do, I declare we will consult the word and we'll follow the way of the word. In the name of Jesus, thank you, God. Oh, Shabbat! We bless you. Oh, and we honor your name, God. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Give God praise. Glory to God for his word. Well, again, we're praying to walk in the word. Hallelujah! To walk in the word. To walk in the word of God. Glory to God. I had to get out of here, man. Colossians 4. Let's— we're still at Colossians. Let's go to 4. 4 and verse number 2. Glory to God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He says, continue in prayer. And watch in the same with thanksgiving. So wait a minute, he's basically just saying here, continue prayer. Now remember, we pray the word, we ask anything according to his will and he'll do it. That's his word. His will is his word. So continue praying the word, but at the same time watch with thanksgiving. In other words, when you pray the word in integrity and you trust the integrity of what God said, and you invite the angels to bring to pass what you're praying. The Bible says here, watch for it to come with thanksgiving, which means watch while you're praying and when you're done praying. Hallelujah! Because the Bible said, believe when you pray that you receive that which you ask. So you need to be watching with thanksgiving. And listen, while we're praying, we need to be looking for the answer. We— and we need to be rejoicing that is already done. Glory to God. All God is saying here, don't pray, hallelujah, and not believe enough to rejoice before the results. That's what he's saying. He's saying, listen, you continue in prayer, but be watching with thanksgiving and rejoice. Give me thanks and praise before you tangibly see it. Because watch this, because the word said it, By faith, it's already done. So you gotta right now to watch for it and begin to rejoice in thanksgiving that what you're looking for is already accomplished in the name of Jesus. Let's pray this. Father, we give you praise and we decree and declare we will continue in prayer. We will continue to pray your word. We'll continue to be diligent speaking to you concerning our needs, concerning our health, concerning our strength, concerning our families, concerning our purpose, concerning our destiny. We will continue in prayer, God, and we will watch with thanksgiving, God. We praise you even now, glory to God, for what you've already done. We thank you, God, that it is already done, so we rejoice before the results. Glory to God, we thank you for our families being saved. We thank you for our families being delivered. We We thank you, God, for reconciliation in relationships in our lives. We thank you, God, for our bodies being healed. We thank you for our prosperity and our wealth. We just rejoice. We're looking for it. We're watching for it because your word promised it and you cannot lie. So we'll continue in prayer and we'll watch with thanksgiving. We rebuke the spirit of doubt, the only thing that will keep us from praising and giving you thanks before before it comes and rejoicing before the results is doubt. So Father, we rebuke doubt and fear right now in the name of Jesus, and we trust you and we believe. We praise you, God. We say thank you, Lord. We say thank you, Lord. Come on, right where you are. Yeah, Father, just open your mouth and tell God thank you. Come on, just Hey God, come on, open up your mouth. Thank you, Lord. We say thank you, Lord. We say thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. We watch and we say thank you. Glory to God. We look for it, we expect it, because your word cannot lie. Your word is true. We walk in your word, therefore we walk in thanksgiving. Because the promises of the word shall come to pass in our life. In Jesus' name, come on, worship him. Hallelujah! Come on, tell the Lord thank you. Glory to God. Hey, Shara, we give you praise, God. We give you glory. We commit to walking the word. Glory to God. We endure the word. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We're patient that the word will come, and we rejoice, Father. Hallelujah. That what you said shall and will come to pass. Glory to God. Go to Joshua. Hallelujah. We give God praise. We're getting through this. Glory to God. I know I feel Jesus this morning. Hallelujah. I don't know about you, but I feel Jesus. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Joshua 1 and verse number 8. Stay with us. Glory to God, we're coming quickly to a close. Praise God. Joshua 1:8, the Bible said, this book of the law shall not depart out of my mouth. So wait a minute, the word shall not depart from your mouth. Glory to God. So that means if you're walking in the word, you should be constantly speaking the word. You should Rebuke every temptation to speak negative, to speak against what the word says. Glory to God. Yeah, the word can't work if you don't believe it. And again, your words activate the word of God. So your mouth, what comes out of your mouth, is a switch that turns the word of God on in your life. So Joshua says, this book is not going to depart out of my mouth. So you— so every conversation should be laced with the word of God. Hallelujah. Even if you ain't quoting chapter and verse, your life and your speech should be based in what God's word says. He says, instead of letting it depart out of my mouth, but Thou shalt meditate therein day and night, that thou mayest observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then thou— oh, then thou shalt make your way prosperous, and you shall have good success. I believe everybody on the other side of my voice— I'm not going to touch this, it's a lot here— wants to have good success. I believe everyone under my voice wants to be prosperous. Prosperous. Well, the Bible says you make your way prosperous, you create good success with what you do with the word of God. First thing, you can't let it depart out of your mouth. Second thing, you've got to meditate in it day and night. Where meditate is hagah, uh, or hagah, uh, in Hebrew, and it literally means to chew it up, swallow. Hallelujah. Let it settle. Then— watch this— regurgitate it. Sounds horrible, right? Chew it up some more, swallow it again, regurgitate it, chew it up some more, swallow again. In other words, the idea here is let the word in dwell in you richly. Let it break down in your system that it becomes a permanent part of you. Watch this— that it has no need to be eliminated from your life. Oh, that's so good. See, when you feed yourself naturally, your body has a system in it called digestive system that breaks down your food. And what it does is it keeps the nutrients and eliminates the waste. Many times, most of the waste that is eliminated out of our body. It's things that we don't need, okay? But secondly, a lot of times it's things that we were not able to digest or our system has rejected. God is saying there's no part of you that should reject the word. There's no part of you that should cause one word that is spoken in your life, one word that you receive from scripture to be wasted. It should become a part of you. You got to chew it up and let it become a part of you. Glory to God. Hallelujah. You gotta let this thing never be wasted. Ah, oh boy. Meditating it day and night. You ought to go to bed chewing on the word. You don't wake up chewing on the word, not carnal stuff. Glory to God! You ought to rise with the word in your mind, what God can do, and chewing on that thing, the promises of God. Again, amen. He can't lie. Chew that thing and let it become a part of who you are. Let's pray that. Let's pray. Father, we give you praise and we declare this morning that we shall not allow the word of God to depart out of about. We'll meditate on it day and night. We'll speak it. Glory to God. We'll activate it with our words and our voice. God, we thank you that the word of God is voice activated. It's voice activated in the name of Jesus. And glory to God, we will speak the word and we will activate the word in our life. In the mighty name of Jesus. And we decree and declare, God, we'll meditate on it day and night. We'll chew it up, swallow, regurgitate it, swallow it again. We'll keep chewing until it becomes a part of us, and that no word is never wasted. And by that we mean we'll see the results of us speaking the word, praying the word, walking out the word. We'll have good success, and by this we'll make our way prosperous. And we praise you for that now in the name of Jesus. And we release angels at our charge to bring to pass Joshua 1:8 in our life, that we will be actively engaged with activating the word on a daily basis. We will meditate in the word day and night, and as we do this, we will make our way prosperous and we will have good success. I release good success and prosperity on your people even this morning. In the name of Jesus, we receive it for our life. We receive legacy for our families and our children. Oh God, somebody ought to give God praise right there for good success. Glory, oh shah! Give God praise for good success. I'm trying not to get excited, y'all. Praise him for good success. Glory to God. We got to walk out the word, family. We got to walk out the word. Praise God. Hallelujah. We got to walk it out. Glory to God. We got to walk it out. That's what we're praying about this morning. We're walking out the word. Go to Ephesians. Real quick, glory to God, we got 10 minutes. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Ephesians 6, glory to God, and verse number 10. Praise God, we love him. What a mighty God we serve. What a great God he is. He says, finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord and in the power of his might. I love this. Glory to God. So if I'm going to be strong, first of all, in the Lord, I gotta get in the word, period. The word brings strength. We just— we read it already. The word is powerful. It's alive. It's quick. It's sharper than any two-edged sword. It divides the son of the soul and the spirit. That's where you get strong at. It separates your flesh from spiritual matters. Glory to the name of God. And the word makes you strong. And watch, the word is also the power of his might. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. The word power here is not exousia, it's not dunamis. This word power, you can look it up, is kratos, K-R-A-T-O-S. And this thing is supernatural ability, supernatural vigor, force, strength. It is the ability to operate with great power. Now, what gives us supernatural ability to operate with great authority, great power? Watch this. To operate as God would in a situation is when we become one with his mind, not guessing at this thing again, not using the Bible as a mere religious addendum to a church service that you open only when the preacher starts preaching. No, this thing called the word of God is kratos. It is power. Glory to God. When you engage the text, when you engage scripture Scripture, you're engaging kratos, supernatural ability. The ability to operate from a different dimension, from a different realm than you've operated before. But you got to engage the word of God. You can't be a lazy Christian that doesn't study. How do you do this? Watch this. Paul told Timothy, study to show yourself approved. That's not for preaching, that's for living. A workman that need not be ashamed, a person that works in the vineyard, that's living, walking out kingdom principles, and that the word of God will hold integrity through your life, and that you will never be ashamed of standing in the word. You gotta work this thing out in the word. Stop trying to fix it yourself. Operate in this level of kratos. Then watch this, there is nothing that comes up in your life that the word can't handle. You have God's supernatural ability always at your fingertips. So he says, now be strong in the Lord, be strong in the word, be strong in Kratos. Allow that word to impart God's supernatural mindset and ability in you so you can handle every situation in accordance— wait— to God. God's word. Let's pray. Father, we give you praise. We thank you for Ephesians 6:10. And Father, I declare that we are strong in the Lord and in the power of your might. We have Kratos working in our life. Thank you for supernatural ability. We pray for that right now. God, let supernatural ability overtake us. Let it superimpose itself upon us. Let it take control of our life. Let us operate in a power that cannot be denied. And Father, we thank you that when we operate in this ability, we can influence the systems of the world through our businesses, through our day-to-day life, through the wealth that you trust us with. Uh, we'll become ambassadors for you in the world system. Glory to the name of God, because we operate in Kratos. And we thank you there. Oh God, because it's Kratos, we have favor with you. And God, wherever we go, that favor shows up, and we operate in power, authority, and glory because you are there. Oh, shabaya, because you are there, because you're a part of us, you're in us, you're working through us, and we give you praise for it now in the mighty name of Jesus. Glory to God. Thank you, thank you, God. Oh, somebody praise God. Hallelujah. I got to wrap this up. I'm not done, but I gotta wrap it up. Go to 1 Peter. Hallelujah. 1 Peter 1:23. Glory to God. We give you praise, God. Ah, Lord, we're blessed. Hallelujah. We're blessed. We're blessed. We're blessed. We're blessed. Glory to God. Hallelujah. I'm gonna stop here. I won't be really finished with this walking in the word prayer. We'll continue this. Glory to God. But Yes, shamandio. Well, I'm telling you, we got to walk this out, man. We got to walk and live life in the word. Hallelujah. Watch this, man. 1 Peter 1:23. Let's watch this text. He says, being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible. By the word of God. My God, today he said we're born by the word of God, was living and abiding forever. To stop Being so— yeah, this is a good place to bridge out for today. Being so challenged by the obstacle of your humanity, of the corruptible seed you carry through your natural parents and through being a human born in sin, shaping it iniquity. Watch me, because a lot of times we— even after we get saved, because we don't get delivered from generational curses— hear me, I'm gonna close my Bible— we don't get delivered from generational curses. What ends up happening, even though we're saved, we start walking through life and we are still allowing those generational demons and the corruptible seed to control how we think, to control how we live, to control our prosperity, to control how our family turns out. And God says, listen, I need you— don't embrace that. He's— we just read it in 1 Peter 2:23. He said, I need you to embrace the fact that you were born of incorruptible seed when you were born again. That generational curse now has to be broken through the word, because you're incorruptible seed by the word. So we're born through the— born again through the word of God. And the more you get in the word, the more you're cultivating the seed that brought you into the kingdom. That's why you got to stay in the word. Oh my God, you got to stay in the word. I always say this: get in the word and stay there. Be ready when Jesus comes. And that's not just an eschatological statement. Eschatological statement— that statement deals with being ready when Jesus shows up in your life in the here and now. He wants to show up as a living God to you, but you got to get in the word so that when he shows up, you're ready, you're prepared to receive him. Because it sets your spiritual mindset to receive what he's bringing. The corruptible seed only knows the systems of the world. The incorruptible seed operates under the auspices and the influence of the King. Let's pray. Father, we give you praise and we thank you that we're not of corruptible seed. Corruptible seed says we have to live with Corruptible seed says we have to live in poverty. Corruptible seed says that generational curses and demonic forces can control our life. But Father, we're born again of an incorruptible seed by the word. And so Father, we thank you that now the inheritance of that new seedbed is in our life. God, we decree and declare that that new seedbed is operating in our life. And I'm asking you this morning to cultivate the very word, irrigate us with your word, how to submerge us in, baptize us in the word of God. And may we never let go of the integrity of this incorruptible seed. Basically, you were telling us in 1 Peter 2:23, your word can't fail. That it always wins, it always works. And so, Father, we thank you that the word of God— shoto bramisa taba remisa tu— it cannot fail. We always win through your word. We will never die. We'll live forever, eternally, because of your word. Yeah. Corruptible seed says that death is imminent and is permanent. But incorruptible seed says death is defeated and we have eternal life with you. And so, Father, we receive eternity, not just after death. We receive eternity, heaven in our life even now, and we praise you for it. I release angels now to enforce the covenant of every word we pray this morning, and that it will give us strength and power and ability and kratos to walk in the word and have victory in every area of our life. And we thank you for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen. God have mercy. Whoo! Boy, God is good. You ought to give God some praise right there. Come on, just bless his name. Glory to God. Just bless his name. Glory to God. The word works. Glory to God. The word works. Just praise him for a great day. And I want you to start practicing this today. I mean, glory to God, we just started the day off in the word, in prayer. Practice walking the word. Every situation you face, if you don't know a word right offhand, pick up the Bible, find the promise in the Bible that covers the need you're facing, begin to activate that word. Remember, the word is voice activated. Activate it. And let's watch God work in our life today. Oh my God, God is so good. I love y'all, man. Y'all be blessed. Remember, we are fasting today. Glory to God, today is our fast day. Glory to God. So please remember, family, we're fasting until— glory to God— 3 PM today. Hallelujah. And so you need to make sure you are locked in. Praise God. To the fast and, uh, water only until 3 o'clock. After 3, you could eat. But I love you guys so much. We're believing God for souls, man. I want you to put a date in your calendar. Listen, if you're in Atlanta, if you're around anywhere in this country, you need to be in Atlanta, Arana Church, on August 29th, 30th, and 31st. We're having a meeting we're calling Soul Winners Weekend. When I was away a few weeks ago on vacation during my birthday week, The Lord began to speak to me, uh, about a series of meetings that we need to have, uh, to close this year out. And the first one is a Soul Winners Weekend. We're going to get together this weekend, glory to God, and we're going to learn wise strategies to win souls. The Bible says he that wins a soul is wise. And then every meeting, we're believing God that somebody is going to get saved. We're believing God for an abundant harvest that weekend. I need you to join us. Come get equipped, come get the wise strategies. Uh, a couple of my friends are coming— Apostle Michelle Sears, Apostle Tony Hill, and myself. It's going to be a great meeting. Make sure you're in the building August 29th through 31st. I love y'all, man. Y'all be blessed. Have a smile upon you is my prayer. You have a super day. Peace.