5 AM Prayer with Apostle Mike Woods Sr. | 25 March 2025

Well, praise God and a pleasant good morning to everyone. Uh, welcome to 5 o'clock prayer. Glory to God. Um, we're gonna jump right into this this morning. Uh, this indeed is the day the Lord has made and we shall rejoice. Glory to God, and be glad in it. Uh, do me a favor if you can, share this. Um, we're so glad you're here. We want to make sure that any person that needs to be a part of this time of prayer this morning has an opportunity to do so. And one of the ways that we assure that is that when we share, uh, our live stream. So please do me a favor, guys, share, uh, like the post, uh, It will be a wonderful thing if you do that. Uh, again, once again, pleasant good morning to everyone. Uh, this is the day the Lord has made and we shall rejoice and be glad in it. Praise God. Hallelujah. So we're gonna jump into this this morning. We're gonna pray, glory to God, because I believe one of the major things that cause people to come to God— remember, we're fasting about Souls. I mean, souls is serious business. And like I said, a lot of people just don't get that. They want to do everything else. And you'll even have people that eventually say, well, that's not for me, that's not what God is wanting me to do. Yes, you too, uh, if you are a believer, again, irrespective to your perceived anointing, your ministry position, and what you believe— glory to the name of God— I need you to understand You have a responsibility to be a light. Glory to God. To spread the glorious gospel of Jesus Christ. And somebody may say, well, why, why don't God just, you know, use other means to get people to him? No, he's, he wants to use you and I. We're the example. We're the human examples of heaven on earth, and we become conduits for heaven to flow through us so others can be born again. So this morning I want to pray for revival. Glory to God. I want to pray that, uh, because revival doesn't happen, uh, because— glory to the name of God— that— good morning, glory to God— you know, we just decide we want to have revival, or, you know, we invite a speaker or a series of speakers, and, you know, we go through the motions that may look like revival, but revival only happens when God sends it. So we have to pray for it, we have to ask them for it. And, and as I said Sunday, real revival occurs— hear me— when people are born again. In history, glory to God, whether it be, uh, you, you studied revivals in the past that were major moves of God, uh, like Azusa Street in, in the 19— early 1900s, even people were getting filled with the Holy Spirit. Glory to the name of God. And at the same time, there were people coming to those meetings also getting born again. See, we, we leave that part out. Glory to the name of Jesus. Um, people actually were getting born again by every day, by the hundreds upon hundreds, people coming to Jesus, receiving him, and being baptized in the Holy Ghost. So we need revival. Glory to God. We need God to superimpose himself on what we do. So let's read the word, and we're going to pray these scriptures today as we read them. I believe God, hallelujah, is going to meet us in our time this morning. I believe God's going to send revival. I believe our community is going to be saved. Glory to God. I believe the people we love is going to be saved. Praise God. Hallelujah. I believe that our families is going to be touched. Glory to Jesus. Hallelujah. I believe that life is going to be released. Glory to the name of God. To the people in our city, glory to God. Our state, our nation. I believe that revival brings about change, and I believe that you and I, glory to God, can be conduits for a real move of God. Watch this, where people are actually getting saved. See, some people call revival a move of the spirit because you know, they never experienced certain moves. And, and, and I get that, you know, they're dead and they come to life. But to revive means to bring to life. So men are dead in trespasses and sin, hear me. So when they get saved, they're actually being revived. Hallelujah! Glory to God! They're, they're actually being resurrected from a dead lifestyle, because when you're in sin, you're dead in trespasses and sin. So we're going to believe God for revival. Amen. So let's go to Psalms. We're going to read these scriptures this morning. Psalms 85. Glory to God. Psalms 85. Hallelujah. Say that with me. Say, we need revival. Wake up. Glory to God. Just go on and wake on up. Hallelujah. It's all right, just get on up. Hallelujah. We're going to talk to God. Thank you, Jesus. Psalms 85 and verse number 6. Hallelujah. You'll find these words. Uh, the psalmist, again, he's praying to God and he says, will you not revive us again? That thy people may rejoice in thee. All right, so again, remember, we pray the word. Glory to God. The Bible says in 1 John, if we ask anything according to his will, he'll do it. So if the psalmist is praying, glory to the name of God, for revival, hallelujah, then I think it's apropos that we pray for revival. Watch verse 7. He says, show us your mercy O Lord, and grant us your salvation. So mercy, grace, salvation, revival. Glory to God. So again, we really have a— okay, for you, again, for you revivalists, glory to God, hallelujah. We really have a— and again, for most of my ministry, I've been a revivalist. I started out, uh, in ministry. My first ministry assignment, my first ministry office was the office of an evangelist. I traveled all over this country preaching Gospel of Jesus Christ and seeing people transformed, seeing people get saved, healed, and delivered. Are we here? So a vital element in revival, and many revivalists of today do not see this. We could travel to conferences, we could travel to meetings, we can go to church on Sunday, and we will say we had revival-type services, and it really wasn't revival. You know why? Because we didn't see salvation. Hallelujah! We, we see a lot of mercy, a lot of grace, but we didn't see people actually rescued from their sin and come into the kingdom. And we got to get back to this so that we could see revival on a week-to-week basis, on a day-to-day basis. So what key elements in revival is mercy, grace, and salvation. We think key elements in revival is tongues, prophecy, healing, miracles, and deliverance. We think, glory to the name of God, just because those things happens with church folk, we've actually been revived. No, that's just a manifestation of the Spirit. That's what happened when spiritual people get together. But real revival happens when things that are dead, hear me, live. Okay, y'all got it? Now I've gone into some dead churches, granted, that when we come in with a revival culture flowing out of us, those people who are already saved, glory to God, they come to life. But here I want you to be clear, we cannot omit the fact that true revival happens when people are born again. So let's pray that, let's pray that right now. Glory to God. So Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you, God, for revival. And even as the psalmist prayed, glory to God, hallelujah, in Psalm 85, we pray according to this word, God, according to verses 6 and 7. God, first we initiate the same inquiry, God. Will you revive us again, oh God? Hallelujah. Will you bring life to your people again? And even now as I'm praying, I'm praying for your people, God, under the sound of my voice and those that are watched by replay and those that may never watch this. I'm praying for the body Christ, that those that have been dead to the spirit of evangelism and its doctrine— glory to God— that they will emerge and they will first be revived. Glory to God. And Father, I pray you will show mercy to those that have not been sharing their faith. God, show mercy, show grace, and revive us again. God, reignite the fire in our belly for lost souls. God, let there be a burning desire in the belly of your people to win the lost. Glory to God. Let there be a burning desire among your people to see people born again and to see people saved. And God, we give you praise for that. We give you glory, God, even down to our own families. God, may we not be silent when it comes down to who you are. Glory God. And when it comes down to our relationship with you. So Father, we thank you and we give you glory and we give you honor and we give you praise and we thank you in advance for what you're gonna do. We receive your mercy. Oh God, hallelujah! We receive your love, we receive your grace, we receive the spirit of revival, and we thank you now. Glory to God that it burns in us and through us, in Jesus' name, amen. You ought to give God praise. Glory to God that revival, that salvation is happening around you. Glory to God, you all thank God, that your family is being saved, that your close friends that are not born again are being saved. Glory to the name of God. You ought to be, oh, thankful that God is saving your, woo-wee, woo-wee, are y'all here? Glory to the name of God. He's saving your neighbors. He's saving your classmates. Glory to the name of God. You ought to give God praise that revival is gonna begin, this culture of revival that brings people to him. Glory to God, it's going to flow through you. Are you here? Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. Let's go to James 1:22. We're reading and praying the word this morning. We're doing it all at the same time. Glory to Jesus. James 1 and verse 22. Glory to God. We— because, because I pray that even through the teachings, you know, and I know some of y'all jump on the teachings at noon when you want to, and you listen to them when you want to, but you really need to listen to those words. And I know it may seem boring to you because again, most people don't want this responsibility to extend who Jesus is to them to others. But all I'm doing every day is opening up your eyes to your responsibility. And you must cease complaining about the world and what's going on in the world. Hear me, if you're not gonna do your part to do something about it, point blank, period, end of story. Glory to God. Don't complain about what you see on the news. Don't complain about what's happening in your community if you're not actively engaged in your role to help make that better. Shut up about it because you don't get to complain about what you permit. You don't. So you need to check yourself. Glory to the name of God. And check that slothfulness, check that laziness, and realize that when you don't evangelize, when you don't reach people for God, you're actually operating in a realm of sin, because harmisia means to miss the mark. You're missing the mark big time if you're not sharing your faith with people that need God, period. All right, so James 1:22, here we go to my point. Hallelujah. Be— but be ye doers of the word, come on, and not hearers only. Deceiving your own self. Glory to God. So we got to be people of action. Glory to God. So we can't, we can't just hear word. God, that's not the way this thing is designed. It's designed so when we hear, we do. Glory to God. We, we become actively engaged in what God said. This, this verse right here is all about obedience, because when you when you sit, go to a meeting, or when you sit in front of your phone, your tablet, your TV, you listen to the word and then you don't do it. So watch this, and you feel— well, here's the, here's the trickery right here. You feel a sense of, oh, you start feeling a sense of accomplishment because you actually went to church. Church, or you actually sat through a teaching, or you actually— oh my God— read the Bible. Here we— you feel a sense of accomplishment. But watch this, it's deception if you don't act on it. The word was never meant for consumption only. The word of God is a tool, uh, for redistribution. So when you consume it, you redistribute what you consume. Glory to the name of God. And you become actively involved and an active participant in what you've heard. So you can see those promises manifest in your life. Man, I taught last month about 10 messages on the faith that takes reality. Have you been taking it, or are you just sitting around worrying? Glory to God. Have you been speaking to the conditions in your body? Have you been speaking to your financial issues? Have you been using your faith to actually take what the word of God has promised you. Oh boy, somebody said, 'Possibly it's too early for this.' I know, I know. Yeah, but open your ears and listen, please. Thank you. Glory to God. Because I want you to win, and the only way you're going to win is that you become a person of action. You become a doer. So let's pray this. Glory to the name of God. So, Father, in the name of Jesus, we give you praise. And, and we repent, God, for where we have not been people of action. Father, this morning, in the name of Jesus, according to this word, you said again, if you— if we ask anything according to your will, you'll do it. So God, we ask you to release the spirit of action upon your people, that they will become actively engaged in life through your word. And Father, I thank you that as we do this We will be people that will pray in revival. Glory to God. We will be people, glory to God, that will go into the world and preach the gospel to every creature. We will be doers of that. We won't just read that. We won't just receive the fact that that's a good thing. But God, we will be doers and not hearers only. And we bind the spirit of deception that makes us believe we're okay if we just omit certain pieces. No, God, give us a forefront mentality. Bring that thing to the forefront of our mind, that if we know it, glory to God, we're responsible for it in the name of Jesus, and that we should be doing it, and that we should apply your word to every situation in our life. And God, we believe that when we do that, Father, that there will be change and there will be deliverance and there will be victory in the mighty name of Jesus. We declare it and we say it is so in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Glory to God. Go to Psalms 51. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We give you praise. We thank you for revival, God. We thank you for revival. We thank you for doers. We thank you for doers. We thank you for doers. We thank you for doers. Doers. Doers. People that'll do the word. Hallelujah. Hashianda. Lebiku santabaya. Psalm 51, verse 10, 12, and 13. Let's read this. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. Stay with me. We're doing it all at one time today. Again, if you ask anything according to his will, he'll do it. Hallelujah. So we, we're reading the word, praying the word. Glory to God. Hallelujah. The Bible says here, here's the Psalmist. Here we go. Create in me— see, we're talking about revival. This, this— listen. Create in me a clean heart, O God. And renew, or revive, bring to life again, a right spirit within me. Hallelujah. So here we go. So again, for revival to happen, we have to pray for it. Glory to God. And watch this, revival starts with you. If you're going to be an effective evangelist and you're going to bring revival culture to people that need it, you need create a clean heart. And so the psalmist says— this is David, he penned this after he sinned with Bathsheba and killed Uriah, her husband. Glory to God. He comes to God with penitence and says, create in me a clean heart, renew the right spirit within me. Watch verse 11, he says, cast me not away from your presence and take not your Holy Spirit away from me. This is for you people that don't think you could backslide. Glory to God. David makes it clear this is possible. So he goes to God and said, look, don't, don't take your spirit from me. Here we go. Glory to God. Revive me again. Bring me to life. I want to stay in your presence. See, really, there's no real value of this for people who don't spend time in the presence of God. If you— if all you got is surface religion Oh, if all you do is talk a good game, glory to God, if all you do is do what you do to be seen of men, then this really doesn't matter when you're out of the will of God. Watch this. Do you realize you are less engaged with God when you're not evangelizing? Oh, oh, than any other time in your lifespan of salvation. Because, watch this, evangelism and reaching people and bringing people to him is his chief purpose. Oh boy. So anything that comes to you and that God gives you in assignment and in gift, he gives it to you, hear me, hear me, so that, ooh, ooh, so that you can bring people to him. So, and guess what? You want to stay in his presence, right? But watch this, because when you evangelize, it ignites growth in you. It ignites growth. Oh boy, in the church, we read that the other day when we were teaching. He adds to the church daily such as would be saved. So it likes— it brings addition to the church. It brings addition to your personal life. He— you grow spiritually. Glory to the name of God. You— God starts— watch this— when you get a heart for souls, he'll give you the resources to win souls. Oh, that's a whole nother message for another day. Well, let me drop the verse. Well, let me just read through 13. Verse 12: Restore unto me the joy of your salvation. Wait a minute, so that, that can mean a lot. That's, that's not just, you know, the joy at being saved, because watch this, the, the joy here is shea in Hebrew. The word joy joy, which means the profitability of salvation. So what profit are we getting out of salvation? So the real joy of salvation is not things that God bless us with. The real joy of salvation is seeing someone else experience it. Well, it ought to be. Well, I'm just saying, it ought to be. It ought to be a sheer joy when you see others experience what you've experienced in When you see others come to the bloody cross of Jesus Christ and give their life to him, it ought to bring you joy. And if you probably really— for those of you that have been saved quite some time, if you look back in your walk with God, there was a time in life when you rejoiced when people came to God. Watch this, the Bible said the angels in heaven even rejoice at the coming of the one. So you should have a rejoicing in your spirit to see people come to him. Now what if I told you that you have control over that narrative of joy that flows out of your life? Because all you got to do is witness. All you got to do is talk to people about him and you'll witness it every time. Woo-wee! By God, today, Lord have mercy. He said, restore to me the joy of your salvation and uphold me with your free spirit. Verse 13, then here we go. Then I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will be converted unto thee. Revival, right? So when you get revived, you get restored, you operating in a free liberating spirit to evangelize, not worrying about rejection, right? Not worrying about you know, whether they receive it or not. Not being afraid to speak, not being afraid to pray for someone in public, to prophesy to someone in public you don't even know, right? You know, and that's kind of like really some real prophecy when you can be in Walmart prophesying, right? You don't know them, but God gives you a word and you walk up to them and start— I've done it so many times. I've done it with waitresses at restaurants. I've done it in Walmart with people I don't know. Oh, listen, this is a freedom that you have in the spirit, and you have to be in tune with him when you're in the world. This is how we show up in the world. We show up as believers, we show up as Spirit-filled people who are free, and then we can teach the transgressors his ways, and sinners will be converted. They'll start living for him. Let's pray these verses. Glory to God. Father, we give you praise. And even as the psalmist said, God, we ask you this morning, we repent of our sin, and we say, God, create in us a clean heart and renew the right spirit within us. Cast us not away from your presence. And Father, we give you praise, God, that you will bring revival in our spirit. God, you will liberate us, you will make us whole. Even according to these verses, we thank you that we'll operate in a free spirit. For where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. We'll be free to move gifts. We'll be free to submit to the auspices of your anointing to bring deliverance to others. Father, I'm asking you today for those under the sound of my voice, restore the joy of their salvation. I pray, God, in the name of Jesus, that you will bring joy to them being saved. God, there was once a time in, in the life of people where there was great joy in being born again. And Father, I pray that this life will not be a religious duty. Glory to God. Eesh, utamandi onsa. That it wouldn't be some dead, stale, oh my God, life cycle. Glory to God, that doesn't have joy, that doesn't have freedom, God. The freedom to soar, the freedom to live, the freedom to operate in the things of the Spirit. Restore the joy of salvation, God. God. Hallelujah. And we give you praise that people will look forward to prayer, that people will look forward to study, that people will look forward to gathering in the local church, that people will look forward to showing up in the world as a light, as a city that sits on the hill that cannot be hid. And so, Father, we praise you for that. And so, Father, we— and we give you praise that as you restore us, as you revive us again, God, that we will teach transgressors your ways and sinners will be converted. So there's a difference. So glory to God, we thank you, we, we thank you for that difference, God, that we will teach transgressors, people that are already saved but transgressing against your word. And then secondly, those that don't even know you, we'll teach them and they will be converted. And we give you praise and glory. We bless you and we honor you in Jesus' name. Amen. Oh my God, thanks be to God. Hallelujah. We give God praise. We give God glory. Hallelujah. We give God honor. Hallelujah. We thank you. Just touch yourself and say, I am an evangelist. Glory to God. See, whether you in the— and again, you may not be in the office of an evangelist, but every believer is called to be a believing evangelist. Glory to God. There's a difference. That's another message for another day. I'm going to teach on the difference one of these days before we get off this fast. But at the end of the day, you are a believing evangelist. It is your duty, hallelujah, to evangelize. It is your duty to bring people into the kingdom, hallelujah. It is your duty, glory to God, to give people what they need. Are y'all here this morning? Glory to God. Let's, let's, let's go. Let's keep going. Uh, Psalm 119. We're still in Psalm. We're going to stay right here for a couple of verses here. Psalm 119. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We love you, Jesus, and we bless you. We honor you. Thank you for this time of prayer, God. Thank you for your word. Hallelujah. We give you praise, God. We give you glory. Psalm 119:25. Here we go, here we go, here we go. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Yeah, it starts with the Hebrew word, or, and deleeth. Here we go. Deleeth. He says, my soul cleaveth unto the dust. Listen to this, here we go. Quicken me, or revive me, according to thy word. This is powerful. Couple things in here. Dalith, glory to Dalith, that, that's the Hebrew, uh, glory to the name of God, alphabet. Actually, if it would be equivalent to our Hebrew our English letter E. So that's where it would come in the Hebrew alphabet. But these letters have meaning in Hebrew. So deleith, watch this, it deals with the idea of obedience. It means push me to obey, push me to surrender, uh, encourage me, give me delight to surrender to what you say. Are we here? Glory to God. So So I'm telling you, like never before, we need people to be delighted about obeying God concerning reaching people. Because our world, you know, while we, uh, get excited about certain movements and, you know, organizations like, uh, Black Lives Matter and all these things that are raising up, the reality is what we need is obedient children of God to show up in the world watch this, and advance the word. That cannot happen unless you are quickened according to the word. How do I get quickened right here according to the word? He said, quicken me, God, revive me. I love this, this word quicken. Again, oh, this is so powerful, man, because the same word for joy in the text, you can study it, quicken is shea in Hebrew also, which means profit, which means, hallelujah, sustenance, to sustain me. Glory to God. According to the word. So watch this. It's easy to propagate revival. It's easy to, um, umansiaya, reach out and help others. Glory to God. And be a blessing to others when you ain't sitting around worrying about your own stuff. Right, right. So you need God to quicken and sustain you, and you need to be clear because I just don't believe a lot of people are really clear. Some people believe they actually sustaining themselves, but you need to be clear, Shayah, that God is sustaining you, that God has superimposed Shayah— profit, sustenance, increase— that the sustainability of is what keeps you. Glory to God. So it's when you're at peace with that, glory to God, that God's got you. Father, we thank you. Let's just pray it. Father, we thank you. One, we thank you for the spirit of obedience. And I decree and declare this morning that obedience will be released upon the lives of your people. I decree and declare that no weapon formed against your people will be able to prosper. I thank you, God. I thank you, dear God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah! Glory to God! Hashia! Mantora mandiko siantaya! That we will come to the understanding that obedience is better than sacrifice, and what you tell us to do, God, we will do. Glory to God! Hallelujah! We will operate in, we will carry it out, we will be active in it. Glory to God! We won't miss it to the left or to the right because we will choose obedience to your word. And when we choose obedience, God, concerning our life, God, concerning our family, concerning our finances. When we choose obedience, God, concerning our prayer life and our worship life, when we choose obedience, God, we decree and declare that the word will work for us and we will be quickened according to thy word. Lord, we thank you that we will be revived, God, according to thy word, that we will be sustained and we will live in a perpetual place of profitability and sustainability from heaven. And God, we won't lack a thing, we won't have a care, and be because of this, we'll be able to freely testify to others of your goodness, of your mercy, of your grace. We'll, we'll be able to testify how you sustain us, and others will be revived and others will be encouraged because of what you have done for us through your word. So we receive the quickening in our finances, in our life, in our businesses, God, according to your word. And we give you praise and glory for it now, in Jesus' name. Lord, I feel Jesus. Hallelujah. Something about the word is alive, man. It's alive. I've read a lot of books, man. Yes, God. Hallelujah. But this is the only book I've read that quickened something in me, that brings life alive in me. Glory to the name of God. This book is alive. Oh, and if you read it, it'll quicken something in you and it'll bring you to life. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. I love the word. Glory to God. See, religious people don't understand people that actually love the word. Glory to God. I love the word. Glory to God. And, and a lot of times you're misunderstood because religious people don't study. They just go to church and they still looking for God. They don't have— but when you use the word as a door, glory to God, into God and his actual presence, I'm telling you, something shifts in your life and your desire to obey becomes different. I gotta go drop down or drop up, I'm sorry, to verse number 9. I want to read. Glory to God. Still in Psalm 119, uh, it says Beth, which is the Hebrew letter B. Glory to God. Beth, Beth, which deals with time. Watch this, here we go. He says, wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? I, I, so here again, here's an inquisition. The psalmist asks the question, how can a young man cleanse himself? Wow. He asks us the question and says, by taking heed thereto according to the word. So you cleanse yourself through the word. Word, by the washing of the word, the cleansing of the word. Y'all hear it? Verse 10, he said, with my whole heart have I sought thee, O Lord. Let me not wander from your commandments. Verse 11, he says, thy word— yes, God— have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against thee. See, we're praying for revival. So when real revival comes, glory to the name of God. One, cleansing happens. Hallelujah! According to the word, the word cleanses, the word washes. Hallelujah! Watch this, people begin to seek God with their heart. They start having a desire not to wander from his ways. See, watch this, you remember when you first got born again and you had a desire, you wanted to do what's right, man. You know, there's some people people, you know, because of this major, uh, release of all the teaching on grace, people don't even walk circumspectly anymore. And the Bible tells you to walk circumspectly, which means you inspect your steps and you, you choose to deliberately live in obedience to the word and accurately. So you're watching what you do, watching what you say, watching what you think. Now people just free will it. They just do what they do. Hear me? And then it, you know, sin is not really a thing because, okay, I got grace for this, I'm just gonna— no, no, you got to be circumspect there. When you love God, there's something in you for real to keep his commandments. I mean, it's just real practical. If, if you really love him come, he said, you'll keep my commandments, you'll do what I say, you will move in obedience. And I'm telling you, the time, Beth, is now. Beth, it's now. It's now to serve God. Hallelujah. It's time now to live for him. And we believe in God that he will bring revival to people, that people will have a heart to live for him, and that they will hide the word in their heart, that they won't sin against God. God. Let's pray. Glory to God. The Bible— Abba, see, our Father, the Bible says that, hallelujah, we can be cleansed according to your word, God. By the washing of your word, you will cleanse us. And I don't find it ironic, Father, that you said in the beginning was the word, and the word was God, and the word was with God, and the word became flesh and dwelt among them, and the word ultimately died for us, and the ultimately resurrected for us, that we can walk in power. So Father, we thank you for the word, which is you. Hallelujah! Glory to God that has come into our life and cleansed us. We thank you, God, that you're giving us a mind. Even now we confess it, we decree and declare that we have a mind to hide the word in our heart, that we don't sin against thee, that we don't transgress against thee. And Father, we thank you that we will be able to be a light because of this, and people will want the lifestyle we live because we live a lifestyle of purity, of chastity, of integrity before them. We give you praise for it, God, and that they'll see our light and that they'll be born again and that our world will be different because we have hid your word in our heart. And it is our guidepost, it's our navigator that we don't sin. Aman sia. Yes, God, against thee, in Jesus' name. Glory to God. Go to 2 Corinthians. We're almost there, guys. Hallelujah, hallelujah. I pray you're praying with me. Glory to God. 2 Corinthians 7:1. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Stay with me. Glory to God. We give God praise. We give God glory. We honor him. I feel breakthrough this morning. Glory to God. I feel breakthrough. I feel burdens being removed. I feel Yoke's being destroyed. You ought to receive it now. You ought to lift your hands right in this moment and worship God. I feel something. I feel change. In the name of Jesus, I give you the glory, God. I give you the honor. 2 Corinthians 7:1. Glory to God. Hallelujah! We bless you, God. Here's the Bible. The Bible says, having therefore these promises, dearly beloved— here we go— let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God. So watch this. So this really starting to turn toward us as individuals, right? The last scripture in this one, because if we want to bring revival to others again, we got to be right, man. So the Bible says we have this promises, we have promises over our life, things that God wants to do. He wants to sustain us, he wants to keep us, he wants to save our family, our friends, our neighborhood, our state, our nation. But one of the main keys is we got to be in place, we got to be right. We can't just be out here religiously talking church and ain't living it. I need— for those of you that don't think holiness is a thing, for, for preachers that are living in adultery, preachers who are living in sin, believers who are living in adultery and fornication, and oh my God, and homosexuality and lesbianism, and we're openly doing these things, that's a problem, people. People, that's a problem. You know, the Bible says here we've got to cleanse ourselves. Wait a minute, so that means you got to be deliberate. You got to deliberately take an introspective of you and, and the stuff you got inside of you that's not like God. Notice he says cleanse us from filthiness. It's, it's— that's in my Bible, God have mercy. He said filthiness. Listen, uh, that word filthiness is molismos in Greek. This word literally means defilement. It means actions that defile the temple, that go against the will of God. So it's filthy if it goes against his will. Oh wait, oh wait, so not just the lesbianism, homosexuality, whoremongering, lying— not just those things alone. Anything that misses the mark, that's sin. Even our lack of evangelism, it's filthy, it's sin. So we need to say, God, cleanse us of filthiness of the flesh and of the spirit. So, so you could be filthy in your flesh and in your spirit. That's a dangerous piece, man. So you need to check again, you need to check yourself and identify the things that don't align with God. I admit it, everybody, you know your struggles, you know the places you fall short. So them places you fall short, you need God to cleanse, and we're going to pray about it. And watch this, perfecting holiness. This for you people that say no one's perfect, we all make mistakes, no one can get it all right. Well, wait a minute. Jesus lived on this earth and he was yet without sin. He perfected holiness. You know why he did that? To show us it can be done in your humanity. See, watch this. God— Jesus was God incarnate. So here we go, here we go, here we go. He was man and God in the flesh, right? So I said, well, that's how he did it. Okay, well, guess what? You and I have God in us. Oh boy. So instead of trying to perfect grace where we accept accept sin, all right, and we accept our fallacies, and then bam, play the grace card. How about we work on perfecting holiness? We work on being like Jesus for real so that our light can emulate to the world like he has did, so we can move in the power that he moved in. Oh boy. So we could do the things and greater that he did while he was on Earth, because he said greater works you shall do because I go to Father, right? So the reality is there's a high call on us, whoo, to operate in the realm of holiness so that there could be a holy and pure release from God and from heaven that flows into the world. So we ought to be operating in perfecting holiness. Watch this. See, it's easy to do when you got this last part in the fear of God. Oh, let's pray about that. Father, in the name of Jesus, whoo, help us, God, in the Mansiata, to cleanse ourselves from the filthiness of our flesh and of our spirit, God. Everything in us that's not like us, like you, God, we're asking you, God, through your word, to cleanse that filthiness. God, we come before you this morning, and God, we say, cleanse the filthiness of the flesh, Cleanse the filthiness, God, of our spirit. Everything that doesn't line up with your principle, with your word, with your desire, with your plans for us, God, cleanse us of it in the mighty name of Jesus. Oh my God, oh my God, help us, God. Help us, God, to perfect holiness. Give us a heart and a desire to perfect holiness in reverential fear of you, knowing that you're always watching. Watching, knowing that there's never a time that you don't see us, knowing that there's never a time, God, that you don't know what we're doing. So Father, let us operate in a reverential fear and respect of you, that we live our lives clean so that we can reach others without reproach, in the name of Jesus, that we could literally for real be epistles written and read of men, and we could bring revival Real revival to our world in Jesus' name. See, yeah, thank you, Lord. You can't be a conduit of revival because revival is pure, and the flow of revival culture that comes out of you is pure. You really can't be a conduit of real revival devil when you have filthiness in your spirit and in your flesh. Oh, oh, oh my God. Ebasi andelebe. Romogutasie. Korabandi didibesuturabakaya. We bless you, God. We bless you, God. We bless you, God. So regulate it, because even if you didn't do it You thought it, so get it out your spirit, get it out your mind, get it out your soul. Glory to God. Let God cleanse you. And listen, when you fear God, you operate circumspectly. Glory to God. Go to Ephesians 4. I'm— we were coming quickly to a close. Glory to God. Ephesians 4, we're almost done. Ephesians 4. Lord, we love you. We're praying the word, God. That's 4:22. Somebody said, why we praying like this? We're praying the word, we're doing what the Bible say. Glory to God. This is how we do, we pray the word. Glory to God. That's how you ought to always pray, pray the word. Glory to God. Because if you ask anything according to his will, the Bible said in 1 John, he'll do it, right? So we're praying his will. His will is his word. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Old will, new will. Old Testament, New Testament. His will is his word. Word. Glory to God. Ephesians 4:22, let's read. The Bible says that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man— help us, God, thank you for these scriptures, God— oh, which is corrupt according to deceitful lust. So your old man is corrupt, right? And so you got to put off conversations that the old man will even have, because your words are powerful, man. And that old man is deceitful, uh, and corrupt, and he lusts after things that are not aligned with the will of God. So you got to put that old man away, put him to death. So you again put him to death and be revived. All right, verse 23, watch this: and be renewed, revived in the spirit of your mind, right? So be revived, be renewed. Let's get a— okay, renewed here, the Greek word is ananeo. Thank you, Holy Ghost. So it's a restructuring of thought, a redoing of thought process. So to be renewed it— watch this— is to cause your mind here in this text to be graduated or elevated to a higher way of thinking. So in other words, when you encounter things in your life, instead of using your lower intelligence to process it, you elevate immediately to a higher way of thinking, and you process the issue, the situation through the mind of God versus your lower intelligence. Because you could be the smartest person in the group, you could be at the head of the pack, but your intelligence is still lower than God. But if you— glory to God— may not be academically the smartest, but if you think through God's mind, you can be the head of the pack. You can, you can operate in realms of intelligence that are heavily heavenly versus intelligence that is earthly. Oh my God, hallelujah! My God today, oh my God today. So he says renew the mind, the spirit of your mind, because the spirit of our mind tends to— watch this— battle often with our spirit man. Says the difference. So your mind, the spirit of your mind, is that undercurrent that operates in your will, your emotions. Glory to God. Your, your sensory perception. And so that sensory perception, because you notice the spirit in this text is lowercase, it battles with the innermost man, the Spirit of God that's in you. And the Spirit of God is trying to shift how you analyze, how you think, how you view things, your perception, your vantage points. And the sensory perception in your natural intelligence is constantly trying to get you to process things through your natural ability and your natural mind. And that ain't God's plan. Let me, let me, let me, let me read verse 24, and then we're gonna pray. Glory to God, almost done. He said, but put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness— here we go— and true holiness. See, true holiness is not making excuses and playing the grace are. And so I'm just like this, you know, or trying to change the Bible to fit things that are unholy. Come on, man. No, we can't do that. This word is true. It's been true for ages. It's the living word. And again, when you look at it not as just some book of archaic writings and, and some history book, this book is alive. The word of God is quick, it's revival, and it's sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing us under that which is soul and spirit. It divides that soul and spirit. So what you got to do is put on a new man which God created after righteousness. So the blood of Jesus cleansed that new— that spirit of yours, but you got to put it on. And operate and live in true holiness so that again revival can be displayed in your personal life, and then it overflows out of you. Saint John's Gospel 7:38: If you believe on me, as the scripture has said, out of my— your belly shall flow rivers of living water. Oh. Oh God, help us. If you believe on him, as the scripture has said. So if you believe that he's really died for you and he's washed you in the blood, his essence should be flowing out of you and revival should be happening for people. So let's pray those two verses. Let's pray these verses and let's pray John 7:38. Let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for this word. And Father, we thank you that we will put off formal conversations, which are deceitful, and we will put on the new man, God. We will be renewed in the spirit of our mind, and we will allow our mind to be governed by the realm of heaven, by the realm of the spirit. We will analyze our vantage points through heaven and not through our lower intelligence. And Father, we decree and declare that— oh— that we, we will let this same mind be in us that was also in Christ Jesus, so we can operate in true holiness. And because of that, we will believe, we will be totally confident and absolutely persuaded in your word. As the scripture has said, we will believe upon you. And we thank you that because we do that, out of our belly will flow rivers of living water. And we give you praise for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen. God is so good, man. Hallelujah. Go to John 15. Almost done, man. We're coming quickly to a close. Stay with me. Thank you for staying with us this morning. Glory to God. Hallelujah. John 15. Hallelujah. Oh God, we love you. Thank God for prayer. Hey, shaman diosa. Oh God. John 15, verse number 3. Somebody said, Apostle, this ain't prayer. We supposed to be speaking in tongues and crying and hollering. Oh, this is prayer. This is how we get answers. We pray the word. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We— prayer is not a time spent in having emotional tantrums. Glory to God. Prayer is deliberate, is very active. Glory to God. It's, it's an inferior coming to a superior. And when you come to a superior you bring to that superior the things that they, oh my God, respect, honor, and trust, which is his word. Okay, so let's do it. John 15:3, it said, oh, here we go. Here's revival. Here's revival. Touch yourself and say, God's reviving my soul. Say, I am revived. Glory to God. He says, now you are clean through the word which I have spoken unto you. Glory to God. Thank you for your word, God. God. Hallelujah, hallelujah. I declare it over your life right now in the name of Jesus, that now you are clean through the word that has been spoken over you. I've been speaking the word for an hour, we've been praying the word for an hour, and I decree and declare anything in you or upon you or after you or attacking you that is not of God, I decree and declare you are clean now, now through the word which has been spoken over you. Glory to God. I believe that the word of God has washed you and cleansed you in the of Jesus. Hallelujah. Go to 2 Corinthians 4. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We bless you, God. 2 Corinthians 4, and we want verse number 16. 2 Corinthians 4:16. Glory to God. Hallelujah. The Bible says, for which cause we faint not, but through our— but though our outward man perish, hear me, yet the inward man man, whoo, is being renewed day by day. So this body, this outer casing, is perishing as it grows older. It's perishing. Glory to God. Well, here's the catch: you should be reviving your inner man, your spirit, every day. Watch this, so that it influences the other parts of your trichotomy, your soul and your body, so that now your soul and your body become subjected to eternity. See, when you revive yourself every day, your soul and your body is subject to eternity. It has to soar in a different realm. Glory to— oh my God, oh my God. You know why in the Old Testament How come they live so long? People try to equate that to how they ate and what they ate. I think they had some of what to do with it, but mostly the time those people that lived those elongated times, it was because of the relationship they had vertically with God and their spirit was being revived and renewed every day and it gave them long life. Watch this, the Bible says, life, he'll satisfy us. That's one of the benefits of being saved and spending time in his presence. And watch this, he wants you to be renewed day by day so that people who you encounter can be affected by your life. Verse 17 says, our light affliction is for a moment— watch this— and it worketh for a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. So even though you may be dealing with something temporarily, as you're constantly renewed day by day, what's happening? These things are working together for your good. And there's a weight of God's glory, kavod in Hebrew, oh my God, doxa in Greek, that weight of his splendor and his majesty weighs down your life. Where he's in total control. Now watch this, the illumination that the glory, hallelujah, brings into your life and that flows out of you when you go to minister to people, they encounter that weight before they encounter you, and it shifts their whole world because you're now evangelizing through glory and not through your flesh. And watch this, it eliminates the fear as well. So let's pray this. Father, oh God, in the name of Jesus, we faint not. Even though our outer man has afflictions, our outer man gets attacked, we, we make a decision here today to renew our inner man daily, to revive and quicken our inner man daily. And we acknowledge, God, that our light afflictions Scripture is working out for a greater weight of glory. So Father, I release the weight of glory upon every person under the sound of my voice this morning, and I decree and declare that the weight of your glory is resting heavy upon them. Yeah, God, I give you glory in the name of Jesus, that the weight, the weight, the weight, the weight— le munsi kamande tebesu tu rabasa talamandi koshiantaya— of your glory rests heavy on them, that even as they minister to others, people will encounter you before they encounter them. And we give you praise for it now in Jesus' mighty name. Hallelujah! Glory to God. Last scripture, guys. Go back to Psalm 119. We got to go there, we got to go there, and we're going to close this prayer time of prayer. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. You all just begin to rejoice because God has heard us and he's going to answer us because we have prayed according to his will. And he's going to open doors, he's going to make ways out of no way, he's going to lift burdens. God, he's going to do a new thing in your life, and you ought to receive it. Psalm 119, verses 16 and 17 real quickly. We're gonna close with this. The Bible says, I will delight myself in thy statues, I will not forget thy word. So we got to get excited about the laws of God, the ways of God, the statues of God, and we got to keep the word of God in the forefront of our mind. Hallelujah. And we shall not forget the word when faced with opposition, when life brings those light afflictions. Remember the word, keep the word so you can live. Watch this, verse 17. Gamal, deal bountifully with your servant that I may live and keep your word. What do you mean, Psalmist? Deal bountifully. Hallelujah. And he, he's saying here, this word, this is a powerful word, Gamal. Which means recompense. Let bountiful blessings come into my life. Matter of fact, open your mouth and say that right now. Say, I receive bountiful blessings from the Lord in the name of Jesus. Glory to God. You, you ought to want God to recompense you, to deal with you fully, to give you everything that's coming your way from heaven. 7. Woo! See, see, we can be really effective when God deals bountifully with us. Glory to God. Watch this: that I may live and keep his word. So God wants to bless us. He wants bountiful blessings to flow into our life. So in the name of Jesus, right now we release— glory to the name of God— delight in your that you may delight in the statues of the Lord. We release the word of God in your life and mine in a way this morning that you will never forget his word, that you will never demote his word in situations, but you will promote the word over your thought process, over your lower intelligence, and you will cause the word of God to be the supreme intelligence in how you deal with matters. I decree and declare over your life today that God will deal bountifully with you and I, that the bountifulness blessings of God that make rich and add no sorrow will be placed upon your life, and that you will experience true revival. I decree and declare over you now, glory to God, that no weapon formed against you will be able to prosper. I thank you, God, that you will live and you will keep the word of God, and many will be saved and many will be turned to righteousness because of who you are. You are, in the mighty name of Jesus, I do pray. Amen. And you ought to receive it, and you ought to rejoice right now, in the mighty name of Jesus. Father, we give you glory, we give you honor, we give you praise, in the matchless name of Jesus. Come on, bless him. Come on, bless him, everybody. Come on, bless him, everybody. He's worthy to be glorified. He's worthy to be magnified. Come on, just a few moments. I wonder what will happen if we all blessed him that's on here at the same time. We're on 3 Facebook pages and YouTube right now. Wherever you're watching, right where you are in this moment, I want you to just give God praise with all the ability you possibly can muster up. I want you to thank God for his word and thank God that he has revived your soul. Through the word this morning, and we give him praise and we give him glory and we give him honor. La Mansaya. We give him amansi. We lift him up and we extol him. We supplement him. Glory to God. We give him— we bless you, God. Hallelujah. Beside you there is no other. You rule and you super rule. Heaven is your throne. Oh, glory to God. And the earth is footstool. We thank you, God, in Jesus' mighty name. Listen, I love you guys so much. Y'all have a blessed day, man. Listen, if you want to be a blessing to this ministry, hallelujah, please do so. Glory to God. The ways to give are scrolling at the bottom of the screen. Glory— no pressure. Glory to God. But if you want to be a blessing to ministry, get seed in the ground. Glory to God. I always say, whenever we are communic— communicated spiritual things, we should communicate natural things. No pressure, but glory to God, get seed in the ground. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. Trust God. The ways to give are on the screen. We love you and we bless you. Y'all have a supernatural day, man. God is so good. Thank you guys for joining us. I'll be right here at 12 noon teaching the word of the living God. Glory to God. And I want you to join us. We're still on our fast. We're going through to Saturday, and listen, we're trusting God for a move of God in our life. We're praying for the salvation of souls. We're also praying for the synergy of the saints through this fast. We're trusting God for great things at our church. We're trusting God for great things in your life. Listen, if you want to join the fast, it's not too late. Glory to God, you still can be a part of this fast. Amen. Uh, it's real simple. Simple. All you got to do, praise God, I'm gonna throw the, um, glory to the name of God, hallelujah, the thumbnail up so you can see it. You can join us on these 12 days of fast. Just go to, glory to the name of God, rhondachurch.com/fast25, download your fast guide. Uh, it's no cost to you, praise God, and just join us for these last few days. Glory to God. Again, we'll be going through Saturday 30. Uh, we're praying every day at 5. Glory to God. And we are teaching every single day at 12 noon. So if you want to join the fast, make sure you tap in. Glory to the name of God, to what God is doing. But don't miss today at 12. It's going to be great. It's going to be exciting. Uh, God is going to meet us. He's going to move for us. Listen, I love you guys, man. Heaven smile upon you is my prayer. Y'all be blessed today. See you at 12. Peace.