5 AM Prayer with Dr. Mike Woods, Sr. | 19 AUGUST 2025

Well, grace and peace everyone. This is the day the Lord has made and I shall rejoice and be glad in it. I pray you're rejoicing and you're happy today that you're breathing, that you're alive, you're— the palpitation of your heart is beating strong. And you got a lot of purpose and life ahead of you. It's just an exciting time, for real, to be alive. So welcome to our 5 o'clock prayer. Listen, I want to challenge you right now to go ahead and share, uh, this live stream. Glory to the name of God. We are live at 5. Glory to God. And we're going to bombard heaven again this morning. Um, this morning we're going to pray concerning the salvation of the lost. This, this month we've been teaching a series entitled Assigned to Shine. The scripture says that in Matthew 5 that we are lights to the world. We are a city that sits on a hill that cannot be hidden. And when we understand that, we ought to show up and eliminate darkness from the society. I said on Sunday, the reality is we don't get to complain about what we permit. I'm gonna say that again. We don't get to complain about what we are allowing to take place. If you turn on a light in a dark room in your home, darkness is going to flee. Light is going to overtake darkness every time. We complain about the darkness in the White House, we complain about darkness in our governor's house, mayor's house, wherever. We complain about darkness in our communities. But we never really show up as the light. And so the reality is we must become a part of a solution that has already been provided by God versus complaining about a problem. We are solutions to the world's issues. So listen, guys, we're going to pray this morning that God will send the Lord of the Harvest and that souls would be saved. Uh, we're believing God this month, even at Rhoda Church, for salvation. I'm believing God that as we even approach our Soul Winners weekend at the end of the month, that that whole weekend will be filled with people getting born again. Praise God! Hallelujah! So please, guys, go ahead and share. Uh, again, thank you so kindly for, uh, getting up this morning and praying with us. Praise the name of God. Hallelujah. The Bible tells us we should rise up early and seek the face of God. Ain't God good? Any great? Any awesome? Any wonderful? He's an amazing God, man, and beside him there is no other. So please, guys, do me the favor and share. We're gonna jump in and let's pray. Uh, let's first this morning— y'all know how we do, we we, uh, read the word and we pray the word. Glory to God. We pray the word of God. The Bible says if you ask anything according to his will, he'll do it. His will is his word. So we, we believe that. We believe that when we pray the word, we got a 100% chance of what we're praying. Y'all didn't hear that. We got a 100% chance of what we're praying to be answered. I've said this before, I'll say it again right here. Maybe there's someone watching or by replay that don't quite get this. The reality is God is not moved by emotions, he's moved by faith. And when we pray, he's listening for his word, he's listening to what he's already agreed to. Glory to the name of God. And so this is why we read the Bible when we pray. This is why we pray the word and we trust God to bring to what he already said. Because you know what, guys? God on no day can lie. God cannot lie. Men tell lies all the time, but God, he cannot lie. And so if he said it, the Bible says, so shall it be, and so shall it come to pass. Glory to God. So listen, we need to get happy about that and rejoice over the fact that the word— my God, today it really works. Glory to God. I'm telling you, the word really works. So let's go to 1 Timothy 2. Glory to the name of God. And someone helping me this morning, glory to God, please, uh, put the scriptures on the screen as we go. I will certainly appreciate it. And I'm reading from the Amplified Bible, uh, 1 Timothy chapter 2, verses 1 and 2. And it reads like this. The Bible says, first of all, Then I admonish and urge that all petitions, prayers, intercessions, and thanksgivings be offered on behalf of all men. So the apostle is saying to Timothy, because this is actually the Apostle Paul's epistle to Timothy, he's actually in a dialogue, uh, as a patriarch to a son. A father to his son and preparing him for the things that he has to do in ministry. And so he says to him, look, I beg you, I urge you that your petitions, your prayers, your intercessions, and your thanksgiving be offered on behalf of all men. So watch this, we ought to be praying for all people. We ought to be praying that people would come to Jesus. And he's saying to Timothy, it's important as a person who represents God to not be selfish in your praying. So when we go to God with our petitions and our prayers, we shouldn't just be praying for our four and no more. And that's what a lot of times most people do. They pray for yo, yo four and no more. And the reality is that's selfish. That's not the way of prayer. And when you really love people and you really celebrate the fact that you're actually saved— hear me— you will pray for others. Glory to God. You will ensure— glory to Jesus— that others are in a position to hear and receive the good things of God. Watch this. He says, on behalf of all men— and this is really a conjunction here— for kings and all who are in positions of authority or high responsibility, that out— outwardly we may pass a quiet and undisturbed life, and inwardly a peaceable one, in all godliness and reverence and seriousness in every way. I love this, man. So wait a minute, again, you don't get to complain about what's going on in the government. Whether your local government, national government, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. If you're not willing to pray for kings and people who are in positions of authority, he says here, if you do this, we can outwardly, outwardly, the life we live every day, we can outwardly, woo-wee, pass through life quietly and peaceably, undisturbed, Glory to God. In godliness and reverence and seriousness in every way, which means the business of the kingdom. This is what he said will become the priority of our planet when the people of God take a posture of prayer. Glory to God. So, so let's, let's do this. Let's do what this says right now. Let's pray, uh, let's make petitions, prayers, and intercessions for all men and for kings. Let's do that right now. Let's pray. Father, we give you praise. And we thank you for this time of prayer, God. We thank you for this word from Paul to a young Timothy in 1 Timothy 2. And Father, we heed to this today. And so first of all, God, we pray for all men. We pray for all the peoples of the world. For a matter of fact, in 2 Chronicles 7:14, you said, if my people who are called by my name would humble themselves and pray, seek my face, turn from their wicked ways, you said then and only then will you hear from heaven and heal our land? So Father, here we are this morning, God, your people called by your name. We're humble. We know you're bigger than us. We bow our heads and close our eyes because you're bigger. Glory to God. We humble our heart and our spirit because you're bigger. You're wiser, God. You're omniscient. You're omnipresent. You're omnipotent. Oh God, there's nothing you cannot do. And so, Father, we humble ourselves to your mighty hand. And Father, we turn from our wicked ways, and we continue to turn from anything that remotely represents wickedness in our lives, God. And we choose to trust you, and we choose to follow hard after you and be an example and a light to the world. Your word declares if we do this, God, you would hear from heaven my God, today, and you would heal our land. Dear God, our world is in trouble. There's challenges on every corner, challenges in spaces of government, challenges in monarchies in different parts of the world, challenges, God, with threats of nuclear war, threats of poverty, threats of economic shutdowns. But God, in the name of Jesus, God, there are epidemics, although even though the United States is not currently experiencing a pandemic, but there epidemics and pandemics that are still all over our world, God. So Father, we're asking you to heal our land. There are broken people right here in America, God, hallelujah, that don't understand how to recover, don't see the light toward recovery, have accepted that their brokenness has to be a way of life. But God, we pray this morning— glory to God, hallelujah— that their brokenness will not be a way of life. We thank you because your hand Well, you will reach out with your long arm and your strong hand, God, and you will heal this land. And we declare it because as we pray, we believe it. And we believe that the greatest healing and deliverance is salvation. Glory to God. And when, when people receive you and accept you, their life can be made whole. In Jesus' name, we thank you for this now. Amen. And amen. Well, why don't you thank God? Hallelujah, hallelujah for what he's doing for people around the world. And Father, we give you praise. And for kings and priests and monarchs, and how God is going to cause us to lead a peaceable and quiet and serious life that prioritizes God's kingdom and God's desire. Why don't you worship him for a few moments for that? Glory to the name of God. We give you praise, God. We give you glory. We honor you. And we thank you that what's to come, glory to God, is better than what has been. We bless you because we are praying people, hallelujah, because we are believing people, we're trusting people, hallelujah. We trust God with our whole heart, our whole mind, our whole spirit, hallelujah. Let's go to Romans 2, glory to God, and verse number 4, glory to God. I'm still reading out of the Amplified Version of scripture. Listen, I feel God— I believe God's ear is inclined to our prayers this morning, glory to God. I believe that people that we know need deliverance, we know need salvation, even the ones in your life personally that you've been trusting God to save. Glory to the name of God. I'm telling you right now that deliverance has come. Hallelujah! And it's the time of salvation. Glory to the name of God. And God is preparing the hearts of those connected to you to receive him. You just must begin to open your mouth. Mouth. Glory to God. And declare the goodness of Jesus. Declare the love of Jesus to those you love. Wow. And when you begin to do that, their heart will be ready to receive. But you hear the word of the Lord, you must— oh yeah, I hear you, Father— you must open your mouth. Glory to God. And I'm telling you, this thing that I've been sharing, we got to get back to minding the business of God. I'm telling you, too many people are building kingdoms to themselves. Too many people are overwhelmed with their own business that we have forgotten why we actually breathe, why we're actually saved. We are alive and saved so that the gifts, the intellectual capacity, the talents that God has given us can be used ultimately to bring people to him. That's why we're here. Glory to God. Uh, Romans 2:4, the Bible says, or are you blind as to trifle with and presume upon and despise and underestimate the wealth of his kindness and forbearance and long-suffering patience? Are you unmindful or actually ignorant of the fact that God's kindness is intended to lead you to repent, to change your mind and inner man, to accept God's will. Oh my God, what an amazing passage of scripture! Two very powerful inquiries. Hallelujah! That the Apostle Paul is actually proposing— hear me— to individuals who are not saved. My God. He says, first of all, are you so blind and trifling? This is what he said, that you presume and despise and underestimate the wealth. I mean, how invaluable, high-priced is his patience and long-suffering towards In other words, he said, you know, God could have really already just killed you and took you out and not given you opportunity to be saved. He says something's wrong with that picture if, if you are taking for granted, he's saying, that God can actually save you. Then secondly, he says, are you unmindful? Are you just not thinking? Or actually just ignorant or operating in a high level of stupidity. Ignosis in Greek, ignoring knowledge. He says of the fact that God's kindness is to lead you to repent. In other words, the very fact that he's been kind enough to give you space to repent, to not allow you to die before you repent. He says it's an ignorant act to know that God is waiting on you and you don't respond. This is, this is powerful. Here's the problem in our world today. There are so many people who are not aware of these two questions. They're not aware, number one, of the wealth of God's kindness, of God's forbearance toward They're not aware that God has really been kind to them by letting them continue to breathe. Glory to God. And they ain't repented. They don't realize because you got so many levels of disbelief in people now where they think there is no life after death. And so— and, and watch this again— we must become a part of the solution and not a part of the problem. The world can't really address these inquiries if we're not making them aware of what has been made of— oh, glory! If you— I'm trying to behave this morning, but I feel the Holy Ghost. Glory to God. Listen, if we're not opening our mouth and making people aware of the value of what Jesus has done, first of on the cross, and actually that he has actually done it for the world, not the church, the world, because all of us was in the world system before we came to church. He died for the whole world, saint and sinner alike. For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever in the world believes should not perish. That's high value on that. And the fact that God is still giving people time to repent, they need to understand the wealth of that, but they won't if we don't tell them. So what we're about to pray now is for boldness on behalf of God's people to open their mouth and declare God's goodness to those that need to hear and to speak of the high value— whoo, glory to God— of what God has done on the cross through his efficacious, vicarious, substitutionary, and redemptive work of Calvary. We need to be able to speak well of that act. And you know what? If you ain't happy about it, I want you to hear me, you're not happy about what God did for you, you know, nobody else is going to get overly excited about what he's done. And the indication that you're really happy about it— hear me— is the fact— hear me, family— it's the fact— glory to God— it's the fact that you're talking about it. When you're excited about anything, you have conversations about it, you communicate it. Have a new baby, get a new house, get a new car, man, you talk about those things. But listen, I need you to get excited about really the high value. On what God has done for you and to be able to put such a high value on it that you communicate it with others. Hear me. And they can respond to these questions. They can understand, okay, well, God's waiting on me. He's waiting on me and he's being patient with me. And I could really go to hell if I don't accept this. Because now a group of people have emerged to address the unmindful thought process Watch this, that God has been kind and that the kindness should lead to repentance. But we have to be examples of people who God has been kind to. If you're not, see, again, we wanna do everything else, man. We wanna have conferences about prayer, about intercession. We wanna have prophetic meetings and yeah, and listen, I'm a prophet, I'm an apostle. I love all of that stuff. I love it, man. But we got to do better about the people that's not in our immediate world. We must begin to make this the priority in everything we do because God said it. I'm telling you, he said it so clear to me. We got to get back to minding his business. And that means we got to be very deliberate, strategic, and actively engaged in placing value on what has happened for us. So as we're praying this part of the prayer, I want you to think about a moment, really. I want you to think, okay? I want you to really think for a moment, family, about what God has done for you. I, I don't want you to just really haphazardly do this. I know it's 5 o'clock in the morning, but listen, I want you to take a moment and wipe that sleep off your brain for a And I want you really honestly to think about what God has done for you. Think about what your life would be like if you had not discovered Jesus. Woo! If you had not opened your heart and received him and begin to live for him. I mean, I'm getting excited. I, I probably would be very dead, okay? I, I know that for me, I probably would be very, very head. Because listen, I wouldn't have been able to, hallelujah, manage my life effectively without him, just considering the stuff I went through in the past. The reality is, man, we're nothing without him, and your life is better because you got him. And you better put some value on that and start talking about it. Make it your business. Let's pray. Let's pray this, uh, Romans 2:4. Father, we give you praise, we give you glory. Thank you, one, for what you've done for us. Thank you, God. Thank you for dying on the bloody cross, being wounded for our transgressions, being bruised for our iniquities, and the chastisement of our peace being upon you. And we thank you that with your stripes we are healed. And so, Father, we place high value on that. You literally for real died for us. And Father, I just pray first of all that we will understand that this ain't something we just talk about during the resurrection season or during Passover, but God, every single day we should be mindful of the fact that you laid down your life for us, and we should place a great value on that even above anything else, because it is in that work that we live. And so, Father, I'm asking you today that because of the value we will begin to place on it as your people— I'm praying not just for these people assembled here on prayer this morning, but the body of Christ worldwide— that there will be a shift in value. Yeah, yeah, a shift in values. Yes, God, that we will value the work of the cross at a high level. Glory to God, that we will value it. Oh, she can do a little bit above prophecy. That we'll value it above gifts of the Spirit. Libasan to tokushiantai. That we'll value it above, uh, operating in dimensions and atmospheres and walking in the spirit. But God, we can't even begin to touch those things without the cross. So Father, help us to place high value on the cross of Calvary. On what you've done for us and for your redemption that you gave us so that we can stand before God in purity, in holiness, in righteousness, clean. God, you did that, and we give you praise for it. And so, Father, help us to place value on it so that we will discuss it with those that don't understand the value and that they can honestly address the questions in Romans for, that they can honestly realize, glory to God, that you, hallelujah, have been patient in your forbearing with them. And Father, that they won't be unmindful to know that your kindness should lead them to repentance. May we be the examples of what true repentance looks like, what true change looks like, what true transformation looks like. May we be the examples Yes, God, in the mighty name of Jesus, I declare it to be so, and I say it is done even now, in Jesus' name. Hallelujah! Well, praise God! Hallelujah! Well, praise God! Shabiru bokushiti ataya. Well, praise God! Come on, give him glory! Hallelujah! We give him praise, we honor him, we bless him. Glory to God! Go to 2 Corinthians. I don't know about you, but I believe God is stirring something in us. Glory to God. Hallelujah. This is the shifting, uh, uh, there's the paradigm shift happening in our mindset concerning how we approach our life in God. Do you realize that other people being saved and born again should actually be a priority in your life. It should actually be something that's big on your daily agenda. Aya, bo sura ba daya. This thing was not done in a corner. Glory to God. And what God has done for you helps others overcome the devil. Ah, yeah. Okay, here we go. And we shall overcome him, Revelation, by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. So blood is one side of the equation. People need to, to believe that they can overcome through what you testify. Testimony is a monologue about your test. So you need to place value on how your life has been transformed and you need to testify so others can place value on it. Let's go to again 2 Corinthians, glory to God, 10. Hallelujah. Y'all know these pretty well. 2 Corinthians 10, and we're going to start at verse number 3. Hallelujah. We give God glory. For though we walk, live in the flesh, I'm reading out Amplified still. We're not carrying on our warfare according to the flesh and using mere human weapons. Verse number 4: For the weapons of our warfare are not physical weapons of flesh and blood, but they are mighty before God for the overthrow and destruction of strongholds. Inasmuch as we refute arguments and theories and reasonings and every proud and lofty thing that sets itself up against the true knowledge of God, and we lead every thought and purpose away captive into the obedience of Christ the Messiah, the Anointed One. Glory to God. I love Jesus, y'all. So watch this. Bible says here, this is spiritual warfare. We're in a real fight against real demons, real principalities, real strongholds. Watch this. Why, why do you think that is? It's because Satan desires to hinder people from being saved. You think the attacks on your life is about you can't pay your light bill or something that's going on with you personally? No, those attacks are to frustrate you so you're paying more attention to your bills and your problems than you are the need to share what God has done for you with somebody else. Oh boy. So the attacks are not— we're in a real spiritual dimension that real life is found when people find Jesus. And Satan knows that. Satan knows that people have peace and joy and prosperity, and then all the good things of the kingdom begin to manifest in their life when they find him and walk by faith and not by sight. They know that they have access. He knows that we have access to a healthcare system, we have access to an economic system, we have access to a military system, a whole military of angels at our disposal. Glory to Jesus! Another message for another day. But reality, the enemy wants to block people from getting saved. He wants to confuse their mind. He wants to get the saints all caught up in their stuff and drama in the church and, and gossip and, and lies and all this craziness. Watch this, to cast a negative light so people won't be born again. But we ain't war in the flesh. So next time you feel tempted to destroy another child of God because maybe you know something about them especially all you, uh, bloggers and vloggers out there that like to take someone's weakness when you— and most of the bloggers got tons of weaknesses themselves that are very obvious. Glory to God. The reality is what they like to do is build their audience on other people's downfall. The reality is that's— if you call yourself a child of God you are casting a negative light to people who are not saved. The Bible says if there is— whoo, God— failure in Gath, he says do not publish it amongst the Sanhedrin. In other words, if there's something that goes on in the camp, inside of the family, inside of the culture, we are not to blast this to the world. Here. Oh my God. And begin to tear people down in front of people that don't know our God. There is an inter— internal system on how we should handle— and it's another message for another day— conflict in church. But now, because people want likes and clicks, they want to be popular, they forgot you operate in the flesh. You, you fighting a fleshly battle trying to build your own thing. But you forgot there are people who need to be saved, and they looking at this mess and saying, I ain't going to church because all they're doing is fighting each other, contradicting each other, uh, making sound bites about each other over the pulpit. The reality is, man, listen, the world sees that. The world sees it, and we gotta stop the madness, man. Our, our warfare is not physical, but is mighty through God to overthrow strongholds. Watch this. A stronghold is a garrison or wall that's designed to keep what's in, in and protected, and what's out, out. So a stronghold keeps what's in, in and what's Out. When we— oh boy— operate in the flesh as believers and we war, try to war in the flesh with each other— oh boy— and sometimes we'll do it in the name of God and even call the other person a demon that we're warring with. Again, another message, another day. But what you're doing is all the hell in the person that needs to be saved— oh boy, there's a whole nother twist on this scripture. I could teach this scripture several ways, but listen, this right here is the part that we need, really need to get, because we jumping into— oh, we got to pull out a stronghold, right? And we go into the warfare, okay, for the believer. But what you don't understand This is also about strongholds around sinners. Oh my God, oh my God, oh God. Strongholds around sinners, because again, it's designed to keep what's in, in, and what's out, out. So when we acting out in the flesh, there's a stronghold around somebody out there who in sin, who's watching your life, watching my life. And now it's gonna— that stronghold is gonna keep what's in, in. All the wickedness, all the sinful desires, the desire to live for the enemy is going to stay in. And what's out is going to stay out because they're not going to receive the witness of us that's supposed to be in light. Oh God, have mercy. But we got to overthrow these strongholds and walk in the spirit. Let's pray this, man. God, God knows we got to do this. Glory to God. So, and then watch this, we got this, and this, this says we refute arguments and theories and reasonings that go against the Bible and the ways of God when we're walking it out, basically when we walking in the spirit, living what the Bible says, when we're seeing signs following us and catching up with us and working through us to heal and to deliver and set free. When we're seeing transformation happening in our lives, glory to God, and we're living it out, there's no theory or reasoning in the mind of any person that can refute evidence. So we ought to be the light and the evidence. Hear me. That God is real. God have mercy. God have mercy. Jesus Christ. I know y'all like to have good church and y'all want to be deep and wonderful, which is, you know, but we got to understand that it's sometimes it's not even as deep as you think because God's plan is always to save the world. That's what he wants to do. That's why he died. But it starts with you and I understanding that how we act can affect the world in such a huge way. Let's pray this, man. Father, we give you praise, we give you glory, we thank you, we honor you. We thank you for 2 Corinthians— glory to the name of God— chapter 10, verses 3 through 5. Oh God, a very familiar scripture. But God, we thank you that even we understand now that when we operate in the flesh, glory to God, and when we go after things in our own way, God, we are causing a problem for those that don't know you. And so, Father, I'm asking you today that you will help us to walk in the spirit, that we don't fulfill the lust of the flesh. Leshurantetebansakushaya remiki anta surabandionso. Yes, God. Father, mortify even the very members of our flesh. Yeah, God, I thank you. Yeah, God, cause our flesh to be mortified. Cause our flesh to be crucified. Cause our flesh, glory to God, to be broken down so that we don't hinder another or cause another to stumble. In the mighty name of Jesus. Jesus. And I declare God will overthrow strongholds that are keeping people, God, hallelujah, from coming to you, that are keeping people from coming to the light. Those strongholds that are keeping in their wicked ways, that are keeping in their desire to serve sin and the flesh, God. But we thank you that as believers we will rise up in example of light, and people will come to you and will overthrow many strongholds because of the life we live. In Jesus' name, hallelujah. Come on, bless God. Glory to God. Edebasi ano. We give you praise. Almost done, people. I love y'all. Glory to God. Almost through. Glory to God. Stay with me just a few more moments. Glory to God. We're almost there. Glory to God. Go to Romans 15. I feel Jesus Glory to God. I mean, I, I can have a— just glory to the name of God. I can just go off in my own thing right now if I want to because I'm just— I feel him. And I'm telling you, he's here, he's with us. And I'm telling you, God wants to use you as a vessel, as a conduit to get people to him. They are waiting for you. They need your spice. They need your life. They need your ability. Oh God, they need your gifting, they need your anointing. I'm gonna tell you something, God anointed you not just so you can use your gifts at the church, okay? Keep that— I've been teaching this, but I want you to hear it now. You're anointed for more than prophesying in the church. Church. You're anointed for more than laying hands on the sick at the church. There's some sick folk in the world that need what you carry. I mean, if y'all missed any of this series and you just tapping into what we're doing right now, you jump on the YouTube channel at Rodder TV and watch all those messages that say Assigned to Shine. And reclaim your responsibility. All right, Romans 15. Romans 15, let's go. Hallelujah, hallelujah! We love him, we love him, we give him glory. I bless you, God. Thank you, kind sir. Excuse me. Glory. Yes, God, we give you the glory, God. Yeah, yes, Lord, we thank you. Yeah, we give you the glory, God. My God, today, thank you, God. Ah, 15:21. Romans 15:21. Ebasiya, we bless you. Bless you, lebukushya, we bless you. The Bible says, but, ah, I'm reading Amplified still. Instead, I will act on the principle as it is written: they shall see who have never been told of him, and they shall understand who have never heard of him. Oh, God says, I'm gonna cause those who have never been told of me. Hallelujah. To see who I am. He says, I'm going to cause them who have never heard of me, hallelujah, to understand who I am. See and understand. How do you think think they gonna do that. Verse 21 is the conclusion of a dissertation Paul is making to the Romans. Well, they're worried about all the stuff that's going on in they camp, in they world. They're worried about spiritual gifts, they're worried about who's in charge of this, who's in charge of that. And he stops right here and says, wait a minute, Instead of doing all that, act on this principle: that they shall see who never been told of him, and they shall understand who has never heard of him. Instead of bickering— I just was talking about it— among yourself, instead of worrying about a position and a title, he said let this become a priority. Making sure those that have never seen him know him, those that never heard of him understand who he is. Let's pray it. Father, we give you praise. We thank you for this word, God. May again we make you the priority, not titles, not positions, not gifts, but God, in the name of Jesus, may we understand that everything you've given us has been given to us for others. And so, Father, I ask you in this moment that every person under the sound of my voice, live or by replay, dear God, I ask in the— ah, Sebo Suraka Sabaya, who rebased it to Tukushi Antai, Brinsete Bekusiante. Yeah, God, I ask God that we will literally go into the world and into the hedges and highways as you have commanded us. Us and compel them to come in, that we will make sure that people see you through us, that they will hear you from the words of our testimony, and they will come to an understanding of your love and your kindness toward them because of our acts of obedience in this area. Oh, thank you for your glory now. God, in the mighty name of Jesus. I love you, I bless you, God. Go to Matthew 9:38. I'm almost done, Father. We confess it. Yes, God, that they shall see who have never been told of Jesus. Yeah, that they shall understand who have never heard of Jesus. Hallelujah. And they shall come out of the snare of the devil who works overtime to stop them, God, from coming to you. We declare that snare shall be broken in the name of Jesus. Matter of fact, Satan, the blood of Jesus is against you. You have no authority, you have no power. And we Oh God, we plead the blood against you now. We plead the blood of Jesus against you now. Get your hands off our children. Get your hands off our family. Get your hands off our finances. Get your hand off our world. The blood be against you. We come against every attack, every diabolical scheme, every stronghold, every planned snake move to bring people to delusion and deception, we decree and declare that the blood of Jesus Christ silence your voice in the head of people. I bind up every tormenting spirit now in the name of Jesus. That thing that torments the mind of the believer, that torments the mind of the sinner, for God knows we can't reach other people if we're tormented. Ah, the trauma from the past, the blood be against you. The abuse from the past, the blood be against you. You won't stop our witness because God didn't save you just so you could have therapy to be free from your past. He saved you so you could be made whole, so you can go back and get get others who've gone through the same stuff and help make them whole. Ah, okay. All right, I gotta go, man. I gotta go, I gotta go. Matthew 9. We give you praise, God. 9:38. 9:38. It says, uh, so pray to the Lord of the Harvest to force out and thrust laborers into his harvest. So we ask the Lord of the Harvest to thrust the perfect laborers into the world even now in the name of Jesus. We pray this, God, thrust those laborers into the paths of the people that need to hear the gospel. Thrust those laborers, God, into the places they need to be in to be a light so our world can be different. God positioned them, forced them out. Oh boy, can you— I need you to hear me. I need you to hear me, church. God is forcing us out. Out. Not, not like you think. Not sending you to the nation so you can do great revivals with other church folk. No, he is forcing you out into your community, your culture, your— the places where you do life. He's thrusting you in position so you could cross the paths of the people who's already been prepared to receive you. So Father, we thank you for this now, and we declare that we will yield to the force out, we will yield to the thrust out, and we thank you that we will labor to bring in the harvest. Let me prophesy to you, we are in, believe it or not, a great season of harvest. As we move into the Hebraic year of 5786, in the month of September we'll cross into 5786. 5786 is harvest, it's fruit, it's the manifestation of promise. Glory to God! Hallelujah! The reality is we are in a prophetic— oh my God, a prophetic season of harvest. Oh God. And God says, as the saints accept the force out and the thrust out, the fruit will follow their obedience. I gotta go, I gotta go. Last scripture, 2 Timothy. We give you praise, God. We give you glory. Hallelujah. 2 Timothy 2:26. I gotta go, y'all. I love y'all so much. I love y'all with the love of Jesus. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Itadakimasu. Oh, I love to— I love, I love Paul's conversation with Timothy. It's just It's just amazing, the whole conversation, all the dialogue. Listen to this, y'all, listen. He says, and that they may come to their senses and escape out of the snare of the devil, having been held captive by him, henceforth to do God's will. So we trust God that he is going to cause people through us and our light and our witness to come to their senses and escape the snare of the devil. Now listen, that's strong verbiage. The verbiage that says you gotta escape— oh my God, listen— the verbiage that says you gotta escape means that there— an escape is a planned exit. It's a strategically planned exit from bondage. And it ain't like you just walking out the door. When you escape, you trying to plan how you gonna get out. You know what that says to me? The people that's actually in the snare of the enemy realize it, and deep in their spirit, deep in their knower, they understand this is not where I'm supposed to be. And guess who has the escape plan? You and I. And we gotta show— oh, shaw, my yamukusha— we gotta show up in the world, show up in their lives, and present that escape plan so that they can escape the snares of the devil and come to their senses. Let's pray. Father, we bless you for prayer this We thank you for this word. We thank you for the commission to win people to you. We thank you for the charge to be a light to the world, a city that sits on a hill, hallelujah, and that cannot be hid. We thank you for the command to go into the hedges and highways and compel them them to come in. And Father, even as I, I close today, I release compelling power on this people, live or by replay. May they become supernatural magnets for your glory. May their life be a magnetized entity that will not draw people to themselves, but that will draw people to you. And we give you praise for it. We give you glory for it. And we thank you that we will turn many to righteousness. We thank you that as we operate in this, you will add to the church daily such as would be saved. And we bless you for it, and we praise you for it. In Jesus' name, amen. My God, today I pray, family, that you have been blessed as I have by prayer this morning. You know, it's a sacrifice, and I understand it, to get up at 5 and pray, man. But God just meets us in such a great way. I'm really tempted to do this every day, but you know, at the end of the day, the reality is I thank you for this one. I mean, I, I do it every day anyway, but I'm talking about with y'all every day. But the reality is God shows up in, in this time, and I pray you've heard the prophetic plow and the prophetic charge to change our mindset, to let there be a paradigm shift in our head concerning the value of what salvation means to us. I love y'all, man. A few announcements, few announcements. First thing, glory to the name of God, I want you to meet me on Thursday night in person at Rhoda Church. Uh, we have in-person service on Thursday night. I'm inviting you to be in the building. Glory to the name of God. We're going to have another hot time in the Lord, another great teaching. So please be in the building. And then Sunday, we're in place at 9 AM, and we're going into another powerful weekend. So So you guys make sure you make plans to be with us and be in the building this weekend. It's going to be phenomenal. Now, at the end of the month, glory to God, let me see if I can find some media for this. Maybe I don't have any in here. Let's see. I might. Glory to the name of God. Listen, no, I don't. But what I want you to do is make sure, family, make sure crucial that you register for Soul Winners Weekend. All of the registration pieces are in place. Simply text the word SOULS to 470-7— I want to say 777-8279. Text the word SOULS or just go to roddochurch.com and click the link there and get registered. We're going to have a great weekend. We got great speakers. I want you to invite people who are not saved. There are flyers at the church. Come by Thursday, get you some flyers so you can physically invite people. Send out text blasts with the flyer from social media. Let's get people who we know need Jesus that weekend in the building. This is a great assignment. I'm believing that weekend is going to be filled with harvest, and I believe God's going to add to the church such as will be saved. I love y'all so much. Y'all have a good day. Remember, we're fasting to 3. Y'all be blessed, and I'll speak to you soon. God bless. Peace.