5 AM PRAYER WITH DR. MIKE WOODS | 26 AUG 2025

Well, good morning and grace and peace, everyone. This is the day the Lord has made, and we will rejoice and be glad in it. Welcome to 5 AM Prayer, and I am Dr. Mike Woods. For those of you who are uninitiated, Thanks for joining us, whether you're consistent with us or whether you're new here, whether you're live or replay. Welcome. The Bible said men ought to always pray and not faint. Glory to the name of God. So we meet here consistently, uh, corporately as a group on Tuesdays to bombard heaven early in the morning. And I'm telling you, the enemy doesn't like it. Why don't you do me a favor right now and share this live stream if you're just coming in? Well, do me the kind favor, hit the share button, let somebody else know that we're live, we're praying. Also, I need you to hit the like button, comment below, let us know that you are here. I think we got a few, uh, great people in the room already. So do me a kind favor, guys, uh, whether you're live via YouTube, whether you're live, glory to God, via Facebook— we're on 3 different Facebook pages Glory to God. Wherever you are, do us a kind favor and help us get this word out. Praise God. This morning, uh, we're going to be praying, praise God, uh, concerning souls. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We're going to be praying concerning souls. I believe, uh, God is going to meet us in a tremendous way in this prayer. Uh, we've been praying for souls for the past few weeks here. Um, and I'm believing for great harvest for our Supernatural Soul Winners weekend this coming weekend. We're going to be praying for that event, and I'm believing God that this weekend right here in this region called Georgia, in the city of Atlanta, that many will be born again, many will be filled with the Holy Spirit. Glory to the name of God! And know Jesus for real in a very real way. I'm even praying that the people that are already saved that will attend the meeting of this weekend— glory to God— that these individuals will get a fire ignited inside of them, that they will rise up in a spirit of contagious evangelism. Glory to the name of the Lord. I believe that as people of God, we should be evangelizing contagiously. Hallelujah, hallelujah! Contagious witnessing, contagious— glory to the name of God— sharing of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah! And I'm, I'm just believing God for it. I'm believing that we will be the light for real, that when we show up in the world, darkness will actually flee. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah! So let's, let's jump into this, man. Let's get this going again. Y'all remember we pray the word around here. Hallelujah. And that's what we're going to do again this morning. Praise God. Thank you, Lord. We give God praise, we give him glory, we honor him. He's so good. Glory to God. Hallelujah. He's so wonderful, he's so mighty, he's so glorious. Glory to God. And we thank him for his goodness. Glory to Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Let's go to Luke. Let's start here. Let's go to Luke 19:10. Praise God. Luke 19:10. 19:10. And, um, because at the end of the day, I think it helps as we begin to pray for those that are lost to understand according to scripture who actually is lost. All right, so let's go to Luke 19:10. Let's see what it says. It says, for the Son of Man came to seek and save the loss. This verse, spoken by Jesus, um, it— in the context of meeting Zacchaeus the tax collector, he started talking to him about why he was on earth. It states his purpose and his mission. He came to earth, he died on a cross so that people who are not connected to the kingdom of God would have an opportunity through him, the door, to be saved. So here's, here's the first thing we're going to pray this morning: that those who are lost will come to the knowledge that the only way to— hallelujah— the kingdom of God, the only way to heaven, the only way to escape judgment and damnation is through Jesus Christ is that they will discover, hey, they are lost. And once they really come to that realization that they are lost, glory to God, that they'll know that Jesus is the only way, the only truth, the only life that will get us in right standing with the Father. Glory to God. Let's pray that. Father, we give you praise And we thank you for this morning. We thank you for this time of prayer. We thank you for every person that has assembled and that is here with us this morning. And dear God, we decree and declare that no weapon formed against us can prosper. We decree and declare, God, that we live. Glory to God, because you caused us to live. Matter of fact, we are alive this morning because you touched us. There's breath going through our bodies. Glory to the name of God. Our mind is functioning at the right capacity, God, because you touched us this morning. We the activities of our limbs, God. And we give you praise. We thank you that disease has not overcome our body, and we decree and declare that we're whole and we're healed in Jesus' name. And so, Father, we're praying now according to— hallelujah— Luke 19:10, and we decree and declare, God, that the lost, those who are detached from the reality of who you are, any person, God, that is detached from the light is lost. And Father, you are the light. And so Father, we're praying in the name of Jesus that those that are detached from light, detached from you as King, and have not found your saving grace— God, I'm asking you today, God, that you will use your people, myself and those that are connected with me in prayer this morning, as we come into agreement. God, may we become conduits. May we become vessels of honor and not of shame. May we become vessels of power and authority. May we become, hallelujah, those that have been called, hallelujah, with Holy Ghost power to be witnesses, martyrs in Greek, those that will be martyrs for you, willing to die out to our own dreams, our own agendas, our own flesh, even for the kingdom and for the gospel, that others may know who you are. God, give us to understand the seriousness who— of our assignment. Because you— we have, hallelujah, been redeemed from our lost state. Many of us on this time of prayer right now or have already been redeemed. We have accepted the fact that you redeemed us from being lost. We have light in you. But because of that, God, we have now bear the responsibility to help others be saved. To help others discover who you are, to help others— glory to God— find their way out of darkness into the kingdom of your dear Son. And so in the name of Jesus, we decree and declare that even this weekend, God, as we go into our Soul Winners weekend at Roddell Church, God, from the very first day, from Friday night, I declare that someone will be born again. Glory to God. Someone who is lost will find you and know you more better. We pray to the Lord of the Harvest that you will send laborers into the vineyard, God. And even as I'm praying now, that the people under the sound of my voice will be proactive and very diligent, God, concerning bringing people into the kingdom. Ah, glory. Hallelujah. And bringing them in the space where they can hear truth. And we bless you now, and we thank you for what's to come, in Jesus' name. Why don't you praise God for souls? Glory to God. Why don't you praise God? Hallelujah. Right there, for people being born again. Hallelujah. Why don't you give God the glory? Give God the honor, glory. Glory to God for people coming into the kingdom, knowing him for real. Glory to God. Glory to God. Come on, just worship him a few moments. Father, we love you. Lekisu turangisa tabaya. Branse turamamandioso turababaya. Lekisu turakaya. We bless your holy name, God. We exalt you. We extol you. We lift you up, God. And we declare that besides you, korangasa talabandosu turakaya, there is no other besides you, God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah! There is none like you nowhere, God. You are perfectly and absolutely wise, and we worship you. Glory to God. But you are the Lord of the Harvest, and we thank you for the laborers that you'll send into the vineyard, the diligent. Hallelujah! That will align with your assignment and your plan for their life, God. And we— and we praise you, God. And we give you praise. Hallelujah, hallelujah. We thank you, God. Glory to God. We thank you and we praise you. We bless you, we bless you. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. So why, God, does he want us to pray for lost souls? Let's, let's look at this. Glory to God. 2 Corinthians 4:4. So we can be clear on the purpose. What is the purpose? What is the reason? Uh, someone may say, well, Apostle Woods, I got saved for me. I got saved for, you know, me, and I, I was in sin and I was messed up. And yes, that's a great thing, but there is a great purpose for your salvation other than for you. Matter of fact, you were born again, right? Again, we're teaching this series on Assign to Shine so that you could be a light to the world, a city that sits on a hill that cannot be hid. This is why you— hear me— are saved. This is why you are born again. And I need you to be clear, glory to God, that God wants you to share this thing with others. And there's a purpose for it. Let's look at 2 Corinthians 4:4. Glory to God. 2 Corinthians 4:4. Glory to Jesus. And I want to show you something, praise God, because again, we are alive to be a help, to be a strength to others. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 4:4, it says Satan, the god of this world, glory to God, has blinded the minds of those who don't believe. Wow. They are unable to see the glorious light of the good news. They don't understand the message about the glory of Christ, who is the exact likeness of God. So here's the point: when a person is lost, in most cases their actions only get them more lost when they don't know they're lost. So Satan, who is the god of this world, right, he blinds their eyes and their minds so they can't see the truth. They cannot embrace the facts of scripture. Oh my God. So what ends up happening, family, I want y'all to grab this, man. Many end up missing God. Many end up— glory to the name of God— deceived and in strong delusion because we don't show up as the light, because they don't understand the message. But when we who are in the light, in the likeness of God, we show up, hallelujah, they now begin to get a clear path on how to get to Jesus. So this is why, you know, we witness to them. Because the enemy is wicked. He doesn't play fair, and he blinds the eyes with his ways of doing things. So I want to pray, glory to the name of God, right here according to 2 Corinthians 4:4, that one, Satan be rebuked. Yeah, I listen, that we plead the blood against him. And his plans to continue to blind the eyes of those that don't know Jesus. And then I secondly want to pray for those who actually have been blinded by Satan's tactics and Satan's devices. And I want to pray that they will encounter someone walking in light, perhaps you, perhaps me, that will be a light that will lead them into the things that pertain to the kingdom, specifically the King of the kingdom. Glory to God. Father, we give you praise, and we pray now, God, according to 2 Corinthians 4:4, and we decree and declare that based on that information, based on that intelligence, we declare right now that Satan is rebuked We plead the blood of Jesus against Satan and his works in this earth. Shandorongushi kabandiaya, lutushiyata labakesetoramaya, usutukesete ledebekesitunranaya mandorobokoria, eayi andorobosuturaka. Yeah, the blood be against you. You have no authority. Ketamamandiosaya, mandaya mandisa, imamanda. And you are the small g god of this world. But the God that we serve, andetebe santalabanaya, is the God of gods, and he lives in us. And this morning we decree and declare against you, Satan, who is blinding the eyes of those in this world through deception. And Father, boshiku rakatalaban dia, we plead the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ against Satan and all his works, and we decree and declare he has no authority. We Thank you now that the minds that have been blinded to truth and the minds that have embraced systems of darkness and found comfort in doing things outside of the kingdom, doing things outside of the Holy Scripture, Father, we declare that Satan is bound and we render him powerless. Father, your word declares whatsoever we bind on earth, that it would be bound in heaven. And so Father, in the name of Jesus, we, ah, sheh-bo-ko rabba, We bind you up in Jesus' name. You also said, God, whatever we loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. So we loose the saints of light, those of us that have been transformed. Glory to God. Those of us that have been saved, those of us that have been born again, we release the saints of light And we decree and declare this morning, glory to God, that the saints of light will show up in the world and many will be turned to righteousness. Many will be saved, many will be born again, many will break through into kingdom authority. Hallelujah, kingdom influence. And we thank you that light will begin to cover this world. And we thank you that our purpose, glory to God, hashabandiosaya. Hallelujah! To be a light and to lift the blinders that the enemy has placed on the eyes of the lost. And so, Father, I thank you that in our behavior in public, in our behavior on social media, in our behavior, God, everywhere we go and whatever we do, we will represent light. Father, thank you for a deliberate attitude that when we walk in a restaurant, we walk in a grocery store, we walk in a public place, we understand that we are are in the premises or on the premises to be a light for you, and that somebody there, hallelujah, is assigned to our light. And so God, create encounters, create opportunities so that others can be born again, so that others can be saved, so that others can break through to the things that pertain to you. And we bless you for it, God, in— oh yeah, in Jesus' name. I feel I feel a shifting happening. Glory to the— among the saints. Glory to God. I believe God hears me when I pray. So not just for those of us on this live, I believe that there are people who are gonna be affected by these prayers who are in the body of Christ who will begin to emerge in light. Glory to God. And the kingdom of God will be advanced. My God, today, and many will be born again. Many will be saved. Hallelujah! Many will be changed. Many will be sanctified. Glory to God! Many will be filled with his Spirit and his glory. Glory to God! Many— oh, we give him praise. Glory to God! We give him honor. Glory to his great name. We give him glory. We bless him. There's none like him nowhere. He's good, and he's good all the time. Glory to God. So I'm praying for the lost. Watch this, let's, let's go, let's go. So I'm praying for the lost. Hallelujah. We need to pray to God. One, when we're praying for the loss, this— and so this is what we're about to pray about, how we do it. And again, we've been teaching, you know, strategy all month. This weekend will be all about— in, in— I'm talking about inebriating the saint with strategy. Why strategy? When so, so that's the first way we pray for the loss. We pray through wisdom. The Bible said he that winneth the soul, in Proverbs 16, is wise. So the reality is we need to be asking God for wise— and I just was doing that actually in my previous prayer where I was just praying— wise strategies to win souls. Deliberate encounters, intentional encounters, and having the wisdom to carry out those encounters properly. So now we understand lost souls, and we're praying for the lost. It's basically 4 parties involved, hallelujah, in the salvation of a person that's lost. So number 1, okay, you understand the person involved is the lost soul. So when we're praying for lost souls, we definitely want to always pray, and you should pray for lost souls all the time. Again, that's part of your fiduciary duty. Glory to God. Because it's transactional as a, a light bearer to pray for someone that is not carrying the salvation of Jesus Christ. Glory to God. Who has not received him in their heart. We— because this innately should be a desire that we as believers have for other believers to be saved and to be born again. So the lost person is involved. Secondly, when you pray for the lost And we've been doing this already this morning, and, and I particularly do it all the time. Secondly, the devil— we gotta, you know, he's involved in the salvation because he doesn't want it to happen. So again, we already realized he's blind in the minds. He's, he's— watch this— and many times he'll create convenience to stay in sin, and people get on the delusion that I'm okay, I don't need Jesus, I don't need the church. Watch this, he'll create situations within the body of Christ where the lost will see those situations and not want to be saved. You hear me? Because of what they see going on amongst the saints. They see tension, they see frustration, they see lack of accountability, they see disloyalty, they see slothfulness, they see people who are not serious about God, just playing the fence. And that's the devil's work. So we have to— when we're praying for the lost, we have to pray against that. All right. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Okay, third entity that's involved in praying for lost souls is God and the host of heaven. So one, we have angels at our disposal to help us. They are ministering spirits. Yeah, they are. The angels were created for us. Glory to the name of God. As well as to operate in capacities in the realms of heaven. So the Bible says angels hearken to the voice of the word. So when we pray the word like we do, glory to the name of God, angels, they get in place to bring to pass the word we're praying. So we're praying the word concerning souls as we're doing this morning. We got angelic assistance, glory to God, to help us to minister. So watch this, you're never alone, you're never alone when you're ministering to someone that needs God. Are we here? Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Okay, all right. And then fourthly, the people and circumstances around them. So this is a party that contains other lost people as systems, and even the saved people in those systems. So we want to pray that the people who are saved— you and I in the system of the world, as we're in the world and not of the world, again, we've already been doing this— that we be light. And listen, for a long time, I believe people have believed that if a person want to be saved, they gonna get saved. It really don't happen like that. Most people get saved. I'm saved, you're saved. Watch this, I promise you, because somebody was praying that you got saved. Oh boy, yeah, yeah. So why not? Ain't you glad? Wait, first of all, let me just propose a question, because none of this really matters. Okay, none of this really matters if you are not personally overjoyed, happy, exuberant, ecstatic about the fact that you're born again. Or is it just some religious activity that you pursue to feel like you've done your duty? Because, hey, I went to church, I read my Bible. No, you ought to be excited that you were— watch this— elected, selected, and protected to be born again. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. You know why? Because you were chosen before the foundation of the world to be saved. So it'll be something in your faith, in your belief, that excites you to the fact— are y'all here— that God chose to save you Even before you got on Earth. What a mighty God he is. I'm talking about, we ought to be super ecstatic. So when you understand that, there's something in you that ought to want to go into these systems willingly, intentionally, again, and strategically, and help other people have the same experience you down. Boy, this is— I mean, I know we don't like the responsibility because we want to float, we want to be deep, we want to fall out, we want to cry, we want to do all that, and we want to practice our gifts on church folk. And then most of our world is on their way to hell and enjoying the trip, and the saints are not in alignment because our focus is believer-centric and not non-believer-centric, when the whole purpose of Jesus again being on Earth— oh boy— was to see that people can have an opportunity to have eternal life through him. Let's go to 1 Timothy 2. All right, uh, let's go to 1 Timothy 2. Glory to God. So, uh, somebody said, Apostle, I didn't get up this morning for all this. Yes, you did. Yes, you did. Yes, you did. God is making us better, man. He works on us because he's making us better. Glory to God. He's where he works on us because he wants to get the goodness out of our life. 1 Timothy 2, uh, reading out of NIV, verses 1 through 4. The Bible says this, it says, I urge then, or I beg First of all, that petitions, prayers— here we go— intercession and thanksgiving— watch this— be made for all people. So when you go to prayer, you shouldn't be just praying for your four and no more. You shouldn't be just bombarding the altar, hmm, with your stuff. You should be making intercession prayers and petitions and giving God thanks for all humans. Verse 2: For kings. Instead of you complaining about Trump or whoever's sitting in the governor's seat or the mayor's seat or the president's seat, you need to be praying for those kings. Hallelujah. And all those in authority. Instead of complaining about your pastor, complaining about your leaders, praying for those in authority, that we may live peaceable and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness. Verse 3: This is good— wait a minute— and pleases our Savior. So when I pray for godliness for people who don't know God and pray for them to discover God or encounter light in somebody that's a light bearer, hear me, When I pray for that, the Bible said God is pleased and it releases peaceful, quiet life. Ah, God. And then our world now starts emerging as a godly world, as a holy world. He said this pleases him. Watch this, and here's the kick of all of it, verse 4. Who wants all people to be saved and to the— and come to the knowledge of truth. God doesn't want anybody to perish. He wants all to be saved. He wants every person to come to know the truth. How is he going to do that? He does it through you and I. We are the conduits. We are the vessels. Instead of looking for a platform and a stage inside of a building, that's assembled with nothing but church folk. And listen, the church is necessary. Trust me, it's an empowering station. The saints need to be empowered. This is why we have apostles, we have prophets, we have pastors, we have teachers, we have evangelists. Watch this, for the work of— watch this— to equip the saints for the work of ministry, the work of diasune, of serving the world. With the things of God. That's ministry, to serve the world, to take this charge right here in 1 Timothy 2:1-4 to the world. That's ministry. This is ministry right here, praying for humans. And then in Matthew 10, Jesus told the apostles, he said, now go cleanse the leper, cast out devils, cleanse the leper, glory to the name of God, and heal the sick. That was ministry. So that people could be saved. Now we have redefined what we call ministry. Most people come to church, they come to church, sit under a pastor so that their personal gifts can be stirred, so that they feel like they can be equipped to serve the church more. But the real work of ministry ain't in the building, it ain't in our ministry, helps ministry, our worship ministry. It ain't in administration. It ain't in the preaching of the, of the, uh, word. It ain't in leadership training. Because if none of that leads or culminates with someone coming to God, we missed the purpose. I know we don't like this kind of talk because it calls us to responsibility. It challenges our ideology. It challenges our intellectual prowess. Foolish. Oh my God, to, uh, think that what we're doing is right. But sometimes we can be doing a thing that may be right, but it's for the wrong reason, and it's not for the fact that people can say— let's pray this. I know, because y'all say, Apostle, you talking— yeah, yeah, I am. And I'm trying to get you to understand what we're praying about. I mean, listen, again, we pray the word around here. These are instructions. So Father, in Jesus' Paul giving instructions to his son Timothy to make thanksgiving, to make petitions, to prayers and intercessions for all humans. And so, Father, I'm praying for all of us that are listening under the sound of my voice today, live or by replay, God. I'm declaring that we will understand that our time of worship, our time of petition, our time of prayer, intercession, and thanksgiving it. It's not about us. But thank you, God, that our intercession is about other people. And Father, I thank you that angels hearken to the voice of thy word, and that when we pray, angels line up to bring to pass what we pray. And so, Father, as we set priority for all people, for kings, for all that are in authority, that we may have peaceable, quiet, godly, holy lives on this earth. God, I decree and declare that your desire will begin to be filled, that none would perish. That none should perish. May the church— and Father, I, I repent right now for your people, and even, hallelujah, on behalf of leadership in the body of Christ, we repent right now, God. But areas where we have forgotten this charge, that you would that none should perish but all would come to repentance. Father, have mercy upon your people, that our focus would be redirected to those that need you. And we give you praise for it now. We thank you, God, that we will desire like never before what you desire, that none should perish, that all should come to repentance. And we'll understand that that happens when we are in place. So Father, whoo, God, stir up the fire in us to get in place. Everybody wants to fire, everybody wants to burn. Glory to the name of God. When you don't really realize that you, you burn with fire when you have a hunger Glory to God. Fire really can't show up in your life. Glory to the name of God. If you're not willing to align with God's way of doing things. Oh God, your gifts are not for the— oh, the church only. Your gifts chiefly are for those that don't know God, and you got to accept that. And once that happens, the fire will burn in your belly, the fire will burn in your heart, the fire will burn through your lips. Because God will use your motive to see others changed. And your yielded vessel, he'll use. We bless you, God, and we honor you. Hallelujah! Just worship him right there. Come on, just give him glory. Just give him glory. Come on, just bless him. We give him praise. Oh, shaman, somebody needs what's in you. Glory to God. I hear that, God. I hear it, I hear it, I hear it. I hear the Holy Spirit saying to tell you there's some people around you in your life, every one of you that's listening to me live right now, there are at least a tamandolo, 7 people, which is completion and maturity, that need their life to be promoted to completion because you are there. And demacia. And God said, begin to cultivate a space around you that represents light like never before. Begin to be bold. Begin to open your mouth. And God says he's already prepared those in your circle to receive you. Stop waiting for opportunities to speak. I heard that, God. And speak. I hear you, Father. The Holy Spirit says to tell you stop waiting for opportunities to speak to them and open your mouth and speak to them. God, ah, God, we bless you. We give you praise, we give you praise, we give you praise. Hallelujah, hallelujah. So really, what we were just doing in that prayer and what I was sharing with you before I prayed it. You know, in praying for the lost, we need to be praying not only that the person who is lost is saved, but hallelujah, that at the same time the battle against the devil is won. So the person is delivered from that deception. We want to see them delivered. We want to see the blinders lifted. Right? Hallelujah! Glory to God! Let's go to Ephesians 2, verses 1— glory to the name of God— through 5. Glory to God! Ephesians 2. Ah, we praying the word, y'all! Ah, glory to God! Y'all happy this morning? Hallelujah! I love Jesus. I feel him. I feel the harvest. I feel a fire stirring to get people saved. And listen, a lot of times I'll minister, prophesy to people, and God will show me that fire is going to go either through their body or start burning in their belly while I'm ministering to them. But watch this, a lot of times, yeah, if that person's hunger is not stirred, if that person is mind to receive is not all the way there. Sometimes that fire will be delayed. And I'm saying that to say, many a times we have to just make sure we get aligned first so God can show up and superimpose himself on our life and really use us. There are days where I just sometimes don't be feeling But I have to go in prayer— watch this— long enough and worship long enough until my spirit aligns and God can superimpose itself upon me so that I don't move in flesh. Watch this: if you draw nigh to him, he'll draw nigh to you. So a lot of time we be expecting God just to pounce on us, but there's something you got to do as well. All right, so Ephesians 2. Okay, Ephesians 2. I'm sorry, did I say Ephesians 2? Yeah, that's what I said. Ephesians 2, glory to God, verses 1 through 5. Ephesians 2:1-5. Oh, Shabaya, we give you praise, we give you praise. Ephesians 2:1, it says, as for you, you are dead in your transgressions and sins. Let's start right here. So we're gonna pray this, but He starts talking to these folks at Ephesus and says, look, you were once dead in your transgression. He reminds them, you were once a sinner. Hermetia in Greek, sinner, which means to miss the mark. Transgression means to aggressively go against God's plan. Watch this. Or to transgress, to transfer God's plan, God's purpose, to fit your own desires. That's transgression, man, when you try to change God's will to fit your desire. So God says when you're in the state of transgression or sin, you're dead. All right, then he tells him, he said, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. Verse 3, also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh. He's describing what they used to be. And as I'm reading this, I want you to really think about what God brought you out of. Again, I want you to really understand The efficacious, vicarious, substitutionary work of the cross, the very presence of Jesus on earth— hear me— saved you from your transgression. Well, whatever it is you did, even if you weren't doing nothing and didn't know Jesus, you still was walking around dead in sin because you were not aligned with his will. But somebody prayed again, got you to God. Let me keep reading. He says, you gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following your desires and thoughts like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions. It is by grace you have been saved. So watch this, we want mercy for lost souls. How do you get that? By remembering your own testimony. It, uh, cause you to pray for people who are dead in trespasses and sin when you really believe and understand that you actually were dead in trespasses and sin yourself. Good God Almighty, when you just do what you want to do when you was just out there and had no parameters, had no guideposts, had no guidelines. But when you realize, man, that the hand of Jesus really touched your life, that the hand of Jesus really saved you, the hand of Jesus really brought you out of darkness into his marvelous light, and you really for real, not just lingo, not just talk, not just religious jargon, you really for real are going to heaven. And now guess what? Through your prayers, you got an opportunity to get someone else there. Let's pray this scripture. Let's pray it. So Father, we thank you. And dear Lord, we agree that so many in this world are lost. They are dead in trespasses and sin. They do what they want to do. They say what they want to say. They live how they want to live, God. And, well, and God Because people find themselves in sin, they deserve punishment for those sins. But Father, we're praying today, just like you saved us because we were dead and— oh God, we were dead in trespasses and sin and on our way to hell and on our way to damnation and shame. And Father, you saved us. And there's so many people out here through inclusionist gospel and doctrines, and through doctrines that there is no hell and that redemption is for everybody. The reality is, God, redemption is for everybody, but we must accept it, we must receive it. And so, Father, we pray against the deception, we pray against false doctrines, we pray against doctrines of devils that emanate from pulpits and stages and podcasts and vlogs, but— and we did— and reels. God, we decree and declare that the airways will begin to be flooded with light, with truth, with mercy, with testimonies of what you have done, of how you've delivered us from things. I thank you for the things you've delivered me from. I thank you for the sin you removed from my life through your precious blood, and I don't take that lightly, and I don't downgrade your death Glory to God. And I thank you that it must be something that is accepted. Thank you for your grace and mercy. I could have died and went to hell in my sin, but you've kept me alive and you've saved me by your blood. And I give you praise, God. Hallelujah. And so I'm asking you, Father, to help us, to help the world in a very powerful way, God. And even this weekend, as we seek to equip the saints. God, may in the mix of that many will be turned to righteousness and have a desire to be saved because of our testimony, because of your grace, because of your mercy. And Father, I thank you for people that you will raise up that will not just look, as you just prophesied to us, for opportunities to speak, but will literally know that if they're in the presence of someone in sin that is the opportunity that they will open their mouths and speak in the name of Jesus. Father, I pray for the loved ones of everyone under the sound of my voice. Yes, God, I decree and declare, God, that just like we were dead in trespasses and sin, that our children, that our family, our siblings, God, our, our senior elders in our family— I declare all of those that may not know you. I decree and declare, God, that you will begin to use each of us for your glory, to be light in our family. And we declare that our children will be saved. Our adult children, our young children, we declare that they will be born again. Our nieces and our nephews, we declare they will be saved, they will be born again. We thank you that the transforming fire, the transforming power of the Lord Jesus Christ— oh, shabandia sataya, bransoto rababa kiko roman sataya, we eh sutu rababa sataya— that they will receive God in their life as their King, and they will follow your ways, and they will fall in love with you as we are. God, may we have a zeal for you that's according to knowledge. And when our zeal for you is according to knowledge, we will share what we know. Oh God, I thank you. Then not just on Sunday, not just on Thursdays, not just on Mondays doing prayer, not just on Mondays doing leadership training and Tuesday doing 5 AM prayer. God, I declare that every day of our life we will be a witness to you. Everywhere we go, people will see the fire, they will see the light, they will experience the joy, they will experience the victory that we have. God, mercy. I pray for the spirit of mercy that you showed us that we'll have mercy and compassion for those who need what we have, and we will share it, God. We'll know that we have the gospel, the glorious gospel that changed us can change them. You said in your word, God, Paul said it in Romans, for I am not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ For it, for it, the gospel, it is the power of God unto salvation. So all we need, God, is the truth of what you did for us in mercy. And if we yield to that truth, others will be saved, others will be born again, others will be changed. In the mighty name of Jesus, we praise you for it, God, and we thank you now. Amen and amen. Glory to God. Hallelujah. God, you all just give him some worship right there. Just give him glory. Just give him honor. Glory to God. I'm gonna stop. I, I can go on and on, but I'm gonna stop. But I'm believing God for your family. I'm believing God for my family, those family members of mine that's not saved. I'm believing God that they will openly and boldly praise God. That they will declare that Jesus is Lord over their life, that they will be kingdom citizens that live out loud for Jesus. Glory to God. And that the— that they will turn it up and turn up the volume on their life so that people can see what God has done. But you know what? The only way our family will do that is that we do it. They got to see our commitment. They got to see our longing. Glory to God. To please God. God. And watch this, they gotta hear our voice. They got to hear it with mercy. They got to hear it with compassion. And real mercy and compassion is displayed when we can be transparent about what God has done for us. You know, we're no better than anybody. God has saved all of us from sin, no matter what that sin was. And we have to be able to be transparent and share what God has done. I love y'all so much this morning. I thank you for getting up and joining me and making this sacrifice to pray. Listen, I want you to do one thing for me. I want every person on this live this morning, do me a favor. I'm, I'm asking you from the bottom of my heart. Listen, we're off right now. If you're watching live by replay and you're still here I want you to invite 7 people. I heard 7, that there were 7 people around you that need to be saved. Each one of you in your world, I want you to make you a list, make you a list of 20 and invite them all. And at least 7 of them, listen, are going to come with you. I want you to get at least 7, at least 7. If you can get more, get more, but at least 7. To come to our Soul Winners Weekend that starts Friday night. Friday night, it starts Friday night, all right, at 7 o'clock. Glory to God. I need you to be in the building. God's going to meet us there. His power will be there. His glory will be there. Bring sinners. Glory to the name of God. Saturday during the day, we have two sessions at 10 AM 11 o'clock AM. We're going to break for lunch. We're going to feed you lunch. Listen, if you have not registered, registration is free. I need you simply to text the word SOULS, all right, to 470-777-8279. That's 470-777-8279. Even if you're already on another text list, I need you to register and text SOULS and fill out the form. We need to know how many people are going to be there on Saturday so that we can prepare enough food. Registration is free. You're going to get all the registration materials, the workshop materials that we're going to have there on Saturday. So please make sure you register. If you've already done it, you're on the list, all right? And we know that, but please, I need you to go ahead and text SOULS to 470-777-8279. And there's a question that says, how many people coming with you? Put your number in there. Glory to God. So we can know and count them. Glory to the name of God. Then on that Saturday night, we're coming back. We'll have another service, another opportunity for people to be saved. So again, on Saturday night, I need you to get some more sinners, get some more people who are lost. We're going to get them in the building. and we're going to turn that building into our evangelistic field. We're going to believe God for salvation. We got a great speaker Saturday night, Apostle Tony Hill, and then on Sunday morning we'll have our Sunday morning service. I'm believing it to be a super soul Sunday for people again to get saved. Then Sunday night we're going to close out. It's going to be powerful. We're going to leave equipped. So please, I'm inviting you, be with us. It's going to be a great weekend. Y'all be blessed today. Enjoy the rest of this fast, those that fasting with us. Uh, we're fasting today as we do always on Tuesday to 3 PM. Y'all be blessed. I love y'all. Heaven smile upon you. May God's richest and best always be yours is my prayer. Y'all be good. Talk to you soon.