A Special Prophetic Word for The Region called, "Mississippi" | Apostle Mike Woods, Sr.

right now. The Spirit of God broods over that situation right now. Hallelujah! To the Lamb of God. Hallelujah. He's the Holy Ghost, Spirit of the Living God. He's the Holy Ghost, scepter of the King of Kings. Yes, God. You are bringing everything. Bless you, Father. We bless you in obedience to God. Oh, Spirit of God, we thank you, we thank you, we thank you, we thank you for your presence. We thank you for your presence. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. We thank you for your presence, for your manifest presence. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Thank you for fellowship. Thank you for partnership. Yes, Lord. I pray for the lives of your sons and daughters that they shall encounter you today. They shall encounter you, and no man encounters you and remains the same. Guys, please share for me. Glory to God. We're going to get started in just one moment. Praise Jesus. Please share. Please share. Yes, Lord, we bless you. Rambadosa deyade sikiaye, lamon sikiadosa. Thank you, Jesus. Glory to you, sweet Spirit of the Living God. We bless you, we bless you, we thank you, we thank you. Breathe on us, cause an overflow, cause an overflow. Sweet Spirit of the Living God, cause an overflow in the hearts of men, cause an overflow in the hearts of men. Let sons rise. Let an army of lovers rise. Yes, Lord. Tell people about the good news. They will tell people. All right, family, welcome, welcome, welcome, welcome. Do me a favor, guys, please share this today. Um, this is very important what we're about to disseminate. So please, please do me the kind favor and share this. I want to make sure our audio is good. Praise God to everyone is here. God bless you, uh, Shalonda Davis. Thank you for being on here. Glory to God. Thank you for sharing. Praise God. God bless you, Gracia. Thank you for being on here today. Listen guys, I need you to share this for me. Please hit the share button really quick. Uh, we're going to drop this, uh, extemporaneously. We're going to share what the Lord has put on our heart. Uh, you need to share this with leaders in Mississippi. You need to share this with people that you love in Mississippi. If you, if you have an assignment, you have any connection, you live somewhere else and you have family in Mississippi, this word, uh, today, glory to God, Uh, it's for you. So I need you guys to share, share, share. Glory to the name of God. And I promise you, um, this word is going to be edifying, it's going to be empowering to those of us that have assignment or connectivity in the region called Mississippi. So we're gonna— again, we're gonna get started with this in just a few moments, but I need you to do me the favor, my friends, my family, and share this. It is so vitally important. Please, please share. Thank you for the feedback on the audio. We just want to make sure it's good. Praise God. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. Hallelujah. We love the Lord today. He's wonderful. He's mighty. He's glorious. Thank you, Father. There's none like him nowhere. He's perfectly and absolutely wise. It's in him we live. Hallelujah. It's in him we move. Thank you, Jesus. It's in him we have our very being. He's our life source. He's our help. He's our strength. We give you praise today, God. So, Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for another opportunity to share your word. We thank you, Father, for the opportunity to speak your word today, God. We thank you for this prophetic utterance that you have pressed upon my spirit specifically for the state of Mississippi. And dear God, as we release this today, we pray, God, that it would superimpose itself upon every hearer, upon every listener today. And Father, we decree and declare, God, that not only will we hear it, but we will be doers. We will take application to what we hear. Holy Spirit, we yield ourselves to the word of wisdom, the word of knowledge, the word of faith. We yield ourselves to the discerning of spirits, God. We make ourselves available in this vessel, God, for everything you would desire to do today through us, Lord Jesus. Jesus, we need you. Oh Jesus, we trust you, we love you, we adore you. And beside you is no other. So we bless you and we honor you in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. And thanks be to God. Listen again, guys, I need you just for a few more moments. Yes, yes, thank you, Shalonda. You got me, you got it, you got it. Tag people because I promise they're gonna need to hear this. Um, God has had a word from his word over Mississippi for quite some time, that the last shall be first. And I remember years ago when I planted a church called the Destiny Place in Jackson, Mississippi, one of the first things God said to me in those seasons of starting and planning that church, my wife at the time Rachel and I started that church with no members, and, um, we leased a building that was pretty dilapidated on Northside Drive. We started there at 566 West Northside Drive in Jackson. And what we would do often, uh, ladies and gentlemen, is we would have a constant and consistent prayer meetings, praise the name of God, at 5 AM every day. And, uh, we birthed that ministry. All the great things, the great people that came out of that ministry, I was born through those times of praying, those times of seeking the face of God. Glory to God. And, um, reality is, ladies and gentlemen, as we Navigating through that season, hear me, of prayer and fasting, you know, we were seeing so many manifestations of God's power even back then in our ministry. So no, the glory, the anointing, none of those things are new to us, hear me. God would begin to speak in these 5 o'clock prayer meetings through myself, Rachel, even other prophets that God— hear me— was going to move Mississippi from the back of the line to the front of the line. A state and region that has been last in every regard, uh, education, economics, is nothing again. I love Mississippi. I love the people. We have a church in Mississippi, so I love this region. So this is not derogatory toward anybody. These are just facts. So God said, I will begin to move this region from the back of the line to the front of the line that has been, again, last in— last in education, economics. Hear me. Last and behind in real estate and land development, uh, in every sense of the word, in every demographic, in every category almost in the entire nation. Mississippi was last in demographic, in population, just, just down the line, unemployment, in every, um, area. And God began to say then that he was going to move— yeah, this people from the back of the line— hear me— to the front of the line. Hallelujah! He was going to reverse this process, for the last shall be first. And I got on here today. We weren't able to be in Jackson today, my wife and I, um, just basically because we've had a tremendously long week. Um, reality is we both were tired, and then, you know, we had a couple of our leaders in the church that had deaths in the family who had funerals today. So we just decided we would listen to the voice of God. God said, okay, y'all stay in Atlanta today. And, uh, release this word. Glory to God that I have for my people in Mississippi. Hey, B, God bless you. Good to see you, daughter. Good to see so many of you on today. Glory to God. And share with them that with the season is upon us here in Mississippi like never before. Listen, that the last— my God, today is about to be first. God's about to do something in Mississippi like never before. Now I'm going to share this prophetic word, and then I'm gonna put a scripture on the end of this so that we can have a balance in scripture concerning what's about to be said. And as we get ready to finish this year— hear me, guys— as we finish, uh, this year, glory to God, God is saying to us, we must finish this year strong. Hear me good, guys. He's saying we must finish out, uh, November is coming in a few days and we only have December, only 2 solid months left to finish. And so as we release this, I want you to keep that in your mindset. That God wants me to finish strong. And that means you got to embrace some of the things that are being said now. Glory to God. So that as, as we cross over, for those of us that have assignment in Mississippi or reside in Mississippi, we got to understand that there's some adjustments in mentality and mindset. Glory to God. That must occur now. Thank you, Lord Jesus. That must happen now. Hear me, guys, stay with me. Praise God, stay with me. There's some things that must happen now. Glory to God. And so as this word comes forth, yeah, I, I wrote it down in my iPad. I want you to keep that in your head. That, as a matter of fact, type it in the comments: I must finish strong. Yeah, somebody already typed it. I must finish strong. God wants me to finish strong. And I'm telling you, Mississippi, listen to me, ladies and gentlemen, today. Please, please, ma'am, please, sir, please, ma'am, please, sir, I need you to understand. Glory to God. That God, hear me, has always had Mississippi on his mind. And the word of the Lord came to me and he said, son, he said, I want you to say to my people in the region called Mississippi that this season and in this new year, this 2024 year that is about to superimpose itself upon us rapidly and very quickly, he said, son, I want you to say to the people in the region called Mississippi. Glory to God. He says, I want you to say to them that this is the state of all the states in the United States that must now, like never before, level up. I want you to remember those two words: level up. This is just how God gave it to me. He said the state must level up. So I say to myself, God, what do you mean level up? He says, son, I need you to say to them that they must come in absolute alignment with the things that I have promised for them. And the Holy Spirit began to say to me, he said, son, listen, many of them don't even understand what the promise is. So what I need you to do, glory to Jesus, I need you to share with them, glory to God, what the promise is. I need you to release the word of prophecy that's hovering over that state even today, and that I am ready to manifest and bring to pass. Glory to God. Hallelujah. I see your comments. I must finish strong. I must finish strong. I must finish strong. My daughter Mia, Gracia, Trina, God bless you all. God bless you, Yuvanda, my daughter B. God bless you all. Glory to God. We must finish strong, and you gotta get ready now in this mindset for this word again that's hovering over the state. Oh God, there's about to be a glory. That has never been seen in this state. There's about to be a release in this state that has never been known, but you got to get in position. You got to finish strong. Glory to God. Hallelujah. God bless you. I see those comments. Lord, we glorify you. The state said— God, he said, son, tell them they must level up, meaning they must come again in alignment with the promise that's over the state, with my plans for my people in that region. So hear me good, ladies and gentlemen. Glory. Shatabanda. He said, son, I need you to say to this people today He said that this state, glory to God, has been favored by me. And he said to share with you even my sentiments concerning Mississippi. I mean, I minister Mississippi almost every week. And so Mississippi for me is a state that the Lord shows me every time I go into the territory that's in one of the greatest crossroads of any people or state that I have ever ministered. Listen to this, and I have been to 4 continents. I've been all over this world to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ, for real. I mean, and I was, I was an itinerant preacher before Facebook, Instagram, MySpace. Glory to God. Before any of that, I was preaching on the road 10,000, 15,000 miles a month. And out of all the places I've gone, listen to me, this state in this very moment is at one of the greatest crossroads of any place I've ever gone. What does that mean? That means that the inhabitants, the human beings that are in this state, listen to me, glory to God, they must like never before again level up and they must make solid decisions to become, and we're going to talk about that a little today because that's one of the prophetic points I'm going to raise to you. You must be ready to make the correct decision because today as I speak to you You hear me? Mississippi, this region called Mississippi. Listen, there has been set before us— oh my God, I see it— three basically simple decisions that we must make to walk through these three distinctive doors. So that God can do what he's been planning on doing. A lot of the things that have been delayed in our life, Mississippi, a lot of things that have had us stuck, if you will, because here's the honest reality about a lot of the region. Most of the— a lot of the people that they have even bought into the deception that they're not stuck. They still— they are stuck because even if you're progressing in one area, there's still a distinctive area that's highly distinctive that you need to come up in. And so, so the Holy Spirit is going to unpack for us today how we need to move. We must level up. Hallelujah! We're at a crossroads. We gotta Remember this, that the state, your destiny, um, what you're doing as an assignment from the Lord, you got to understand that something has shifted in the spirit. And the Lord said, even though you may not be right now experiencing the manifestation of some things, he said one of the things he said to tell you is that you're— because you're at this crossroads, you are in balance, which means you're ready to move through, you're ready to move into, you're ready to experience what God has planned. You're in balance. The Bible says a false balance is an abomination to the Lord. But the Lord said, Mississippi, the heavens have aligned in a way that have brought you into a place of balance. But there are some things you must do to experience the benefits of this balance. False balance is an abomination. Real balance creates favor with the Lord. Oh God. And God said, Mississippi, you've been favored. You're in balance. But you gotta tap in to know that you're not still in the history. You're not still in the old wineskin. You gotta tap in to know, glory to God, ashikanda to the bosia, that there is something happening right at your fingertips that God says, I'm ready for you access in the name of Jesus. Holy Spirit, we're on the side. He said, son, tell them that there's something about this state right now that's very important to me. Oh my God. He says there's something that's very important to him. He says, and I'm raising the bar for Mississippi. Which means we gotta do better. We gotta think bigger. We got— oh my God, we gotta be bolder. We gotta be more aggressive in our faith and in our pursuit of him. He said, I'm raising the bar. He said, son, today as you drop this word, I want you to remind them that the word Mississippi, its historical meaning, is the father of waters. The word Mississippi— and this is so important to this prophetic word— is the father of waters. So God said to tell you that in this region called Mississippi Mississippi will be a major— whoo, whoo, my God. See, waters are, are spiritual in this sense, that one, they are apostolic because they are transitional and they move people from one place to another. Waters are also indicative of a burial of all things. Otamaman dete debo surabakaya. So that new things can move and emerge. So Mississippi is the father, the patriarch, is carrying the seedbed for what God is ready to do next in this— oh my God— nation. A place where people don't want to go. People have despised. People say Mississippi, what's in Mississippi? I'm telling you right now I'm reminding you of even in your history of who you are, you are the father of waters. And that's why so many of you have so much greatness in you and you get frustrated. When stuff doesn't come to pass, glory to God. You get frustrated. When things are not moving in the way you feel like they ought to move. You get frustrated where you're trying to get something done, it seems like things are held up, is because God has trusted you to be a major player in the transitional movement of not just the state, um, but the entire nation. Yeah, the last shall be first. Ota, samba, babai. Rukuta bahasa ya, rebiska tamaya. Somebody needs to receive this. Glory to God. I, I need you to understand, Mississippi, wherever you are on the coast— Biloxi, Gulfport, Ocean Springs— in the north, South Haven, Durant, doesn't matter— in the west, Vicksburg, Utica, Raymond, Meridian in the east, and everywhere in between. Jackson in the central, in the Delta, Greenville, Greenwood, Yazoo City. Doesn't matter where you are in this state, there is a water that must flow out of you. And the scripture on the end is going to make sense. Lebani sota, because you are the father of waters. And God is ready to position you, utamansa, to transition the rest of the world. This is why God will send major apostolic voices and insight into this region so that it can move. Not be stuck in old wineskins. I'm not talking about people who show up to trying to be popular, who trying to have the next great, uh, little church, even if you got 5,000 people, the next great little church. I'm talking about moving a whole state into a different dimension of wealth, a different dimension, oh my God, of power and authority in every kingdom of the world, ultimately poised to be influential throughout the entire nation. Oh my God, today, shaddai, rambai shaddai. This is bigger than a church. So God, God sends voices. I know that there are some voices there, and I'm clear of that. Uh, glory to God. And but he'll send others in from the outside. Who have a different insight, who can see. Because a lot of time— my wife gave me a strong revelation a few months back. She said a lot of times we can't see the picture if we're in the picture. And I, I see the picture because I can pick the picture and look at it maybe, but you really can't see what the picture looks like when the photo's being taken if you're the object of the picture, unless you got a monitor looking at yourself. But the reality is you really can't see the depth, the detail of the picture when you're residing in the picture. So God will send vantage points and perspectives. And so my voice today, I mean, years ago God sent me there long before I started the church. I was coming in there doing revivals. I started coming first for, um, a guy named Bishop Andrew Fulgham. I was doing revival for him, but glory rest his soul, uh, he was a, a pioneer of planting things in that region. He came from New York. Then I started preaching a lot, I mean a whole lot, for Bishop Philip Coleman at Greater Bethlehem Temple, again bringing a, a voice, a new perspective to break up old thought and old wineskins. Oh my God, glory to God! Shabbat ala bayi! Bruce katatabayaman totobosi! Revaya okondolobosi atanea isi! God is doing something, I'm telling you guys. Hear me today. I feel Jesus. I want to run out of the studio right now. I just feel like running. Glory to God. Hallelujah! Glory on my side! So here we go. So you're the father of waters. Next point. God says to tell you, he says, son, let them be clear that I want to break the orphan spirit that's over Mississippi. And I am raising up an apostolic mantle. Let me share with you in detail what the Holy Spirit is saying concerning this orphan spirit. Orphans often feel misplaced. Orphans often feel unloved. Orphans often feel overlooked. And listen, I've been dealing with Mississippians a long time, and a lot of them I have encountered, once they were able to conquer this orphan spirit and find a godly confidence in themselves, who that answer, and leave the dependency on man them and on what their predecessors did and what Mommy and Daddy defined them as and what the culture and the territory said there was and got rid of that orphan spirit, they were able to move in leadership, authority, entrepreneurship. God is saying today, even as I'm prophesying, he is defeating the orphan spirit. Oh God, today he says, I am defeating the orphan spirit. Those of you that have felt overlooked, misplaced, out of place, out of line, Kutama andiosa. God says, lebekums katavaya. The orphan spirit is being broken off of you where you gotta lean on some source that ain't God to provide what you need to do what God has called you to do. The orphan spirit is being broken over your life even as I prophesy. Listen to the prophet of God. I am telling you you today. Every place where you have felt like you were inadequate and not enough, that's, that's what the orphan spirit does. Every time you feel like giving up, hallelujah, or anytime suicide enters your mind, that's the— though these are the, hallelujah, residuals of the orphan spirit roaring in your life to get you to stop. And oftentimes end it all so you can't finish your course. God says, I'm defeating that spirit today. Lebasorana, Reki kurabahata, letemamandi tebosi. And he's raising up an apostolic mantle. Watch this. The word apostolic is that that pertains to the work of an apostle. Or apostles. So I'm saying to everyone on this live, you have to be connected to true apostolic streams that are called to cultivate you. And I'm not saying I'm the only stream in Jackson. As a matter of fact, my son is there who is a pure apostolic stream. Apostle Brandon Cornelius, one of my friends, he is an apostle in his own right, and God brought him back to Mississippi several years ago. Bishop Kevin Wright, who's in Byram. Let me tell you something, you have prophetic and apostolic people in Durant with the Landfairs. You need to be connected to apostolic streams. There's more, I'm just, you know, I have a daughter in my church, Apostle Hawkins, apostolic streams of people. And then not just the leader, but the people connected to them. You need to be around them because they carry the hegemony or the extension of the leader's government in their life on their anointing. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. He's raising up government. He's raising up established Tyrians. What does that mean? That means that you're going to go and start establishing things. Putting things in place. Stop waiting. You don't have to wait on anything. You have God. He says, remind them I am their Father. I love them. I am with them. I am for them. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Yeah, I say that. God, he said to tell you today— and I'm almost done, guys— he said to tell you that the isolation on you— because again, that orphan spirit often isolates you from society, of the rest of the world. But God said to tell you the isolation is about to break off of you immediately, even as I'm talking. As people hear this word, that isolated spirit that isolates them from the flow of God who— which makes them choose religious activity over the way God does things. God says today, I'm breaking cycles. I'm breaking the shyness. I'm breaking, breaking the desire to hide behind someone else and not allow your gift to be seen. God says the isolation is breaking. And you will show up in the world, Mississippi. The last shall be first. Let the basura kantaya. Letamando tabosiaya. Rebebebe mi surataramandi kosai. And God says, because of this, you're gonna see much fruit. Yes, Mississippi, he says you're entering into a season of harvest and fruitfulness. All I can see— glory to God— he says to tell you, as I see these farmers farming and bringing in harvest in this harvest season, He says you shall bring in harvest, you shall bring in the sheaves, you shall bring in the manifested fruit of heaven. So the world will look to Mississippi and say, how in the world are they building Fortune 500 companies? And how world are sports teams now showing up in Mississippi that are representative of the NFL, the NBA. Oh my God, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh my God, hallelujah. And the MLB. Hallelujah. Glory to God. See, see, the Mississippi Braves is a minor league team, but God says there's more, there's more, there's more. Because the land— you know, more isolation, no more being the second hand, being the B, the plan B for world. Many will look to Mississippi for its fruit, and it will be the Plan A. And God said to tell you, this is how it will happen. I'm gonna give you 3 prophetic points. I'm gonna put a scripture after that, and I'm gonna be done. But I need you to stay with me, darlings, and I need you to continue to share this with people. Please, rabata, remumski tabahi. Continue to tag people below. Share them as they come to your mind. People in Mississippi, they need to hear this. People that have any connection to Mississippi, tag them in the comments below, please. Because at the end of the day, they need this word. I wanted to be on the golf course today because I don't get to be home on Saturday. So I had these plans, grandeur plans to play golf today. Oh, I settled the tea time. I got my guys. I said, nah, dude, you're gonna go sit in front of that camera and drop this word. So listen, I'm telling you, this is from heaven. Here's the first thing that must happen if we are to see the last become first, and we're to see the fruit, and we're to see the true Mississippi rise as the father of waters, to be the transitional point into the things of God, into dominance in the kingdom and really see it happen, these are 3 prophetic action points we must take. It will start— glory to God— God said, son, tell them. Yeah, I hear you, Lord. It will start with solid decisions. Aye yi God. He says, number one, you must begin to make decision with precision that make incision, Mississippi. I'll say it again, you must begin to make accurate decisions, precise decisions that make incisions, decisions that align with your purpose. Glory to God. Decisions that align with the assignment and God's plan for your life. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Yes, Lord, we praise you, we give you glory. Solid decisions. So you got to tap into the mind of God so that going forward, from this day forward, hear me, that the things that you decide to do are accurate and in alignment with what God says. If they didn't watch the message— we got YouTube watchers and Twitter watchers on here too today— if you didn't watch the message that I taught on rules of the road, how to get to your destination. You need to make a decision to do all 5 of those things. I'm not going to teach those, but please go watch the video because where you're going is just simply the most important thing on God's mind. He's not concerned about where you are. He's really concerned about where he's trying to get you. And what we got to do is divorce our present. See, we're married to now, and now is temporary. What we should be doing in the now is preparing ourselves for where we're going. So part of the decision— thank you, Holy Spirit— is preparation. Preparation time is never wasted time. Oh my God, today. Oh my God, preparation time is never wasted time. So you got to decide that you're going to learn all you need to learn, optimize— hear me— your growth and development. Lord Jesus, learn everything you need to know if it's on your life. to be a doctor, if it's on your life to be a lawyer, if it's on your life to do anything, you need to get the knowledge. Find the people that have already done it. Learn what you need to learn so you can be the very best at it. Watch this. When you learn from them, then study who they learn from so you can be ahead of them. Then study who they learn from because God says you gotta make a decision to be prepared. That's, that's how you make accurate, precise decisions. You're prepared for what you're about to do. You're ready. Oh my God, I need you to touch yourself and say, I'm ready. Matter of fact, say, I'm more ready than I ever been. If you're on here still, type that down in the comments. I'm more ready than I ever been. Glory to Jesus! Oh boy, you already said I'm more ready than I ever been. Glory to God! More, more, more! I'm more ready, I'm more ready, I'm ready for the breakthrough, I'm ready for the increase, I'm ready for the authority. I'm ready to see people saved, healed, delivered, set free. I'm ready to deploy entrepreneurs. I'm ready to— Omanshatababa— for billions in revenue coming into my life, my ministry, my business, and me empowering all of— I'm talking about what I'm ready for. What are you ready for? I'm more ready than ever. You know what? The devil's mad, and that's why, Mississippi, he's been fighting you so hard. Hallelujah! He's been fighting you so hard, not just in your lifetime, generations before you. Your, your parents' parents' parents endured hell in this region and went through many, died in this region so you could be free to do what's been planned You don't have to live in alignment with that old wineskin. Glory to God. Glory to Jesus. Hallelujah. I'm more ready. I'm more ready. Glory to God. I'm more ready to, to live a total debt-free life where I'm buying church buildings debt-free. I'm building hospitals debt-free. Glory to God. I'm building homeless facilities debt-free. I'm buying vehicles debt-free. I'm supporting others without debt. I'm more than ready. It starts with solid decisions. So, so here's the truth today, Mississippi. You could choose to be mediocre and just go through the motions of having good church, getting hands laid on you, greased down, prophesied to, you know, all that stuff. That's good stuff, I love it. We're prophesying now. I mean, we're not against it, but we got to make a decision to carry a mindset into the world that the kingdom of God is alive, it's well, it's real, and it's being manifested through me through you. You got to have an attitude: when I show up, kingdom shows up. And because kingdom shows up, I move in the authority of the King. Good God Almighty, Jesus. You got to make decisions. You got to make decisions with precision to make incision, which means these gotta— see, decisions are a two-edged sword. They cut away bad habits. They cut away the wrong people. They cut away people and things that shouldn't be in your life. They cut away behaviors that you should not be displaying, because what begins to take precedence is the decision— the decision to be better, the decision to do more. So you got to make a decision that you're not gonna Watch this. Be as broke as your mom and daddy was. Or if your mom and daddy had money, you're going to have more than they had. You've got to make a decision that you're going to manifest at a greater level than the people that went before you did. Oh boy, is this too much? Oh my God, you got to make a decision that you're going to uniquely be you, and it will make incisions. It will cut the— again, behaviors Watch this, but most of all, it's gonna cut. You don't even have to tell people to be dismissed. They will be dismissed because you decided. It's gonna just cut them off. You won't have to cut them off. Your growth will cut them off because they can't go, and they don't have the capacity to go, and they know they don't have the capacity to go. Decisions. Number 2, I got to get out of here, I stayed on that too long. You gotta have discipline. So here we go. You gotta stay focused. Part of discipline is focus. The only desire, Mississippi, that the devil has in a battle with you is to break your focus. I'm going to say that again. The only desire the devil has in a battle with you is to break your focus. Wow, wow, wow, wow. That's all he wants. He wants to get your eyes off the things that matter to God for you. I'll say it again, he wants to distract you from the things that matter to God for you. So you got to have some discipline I'm not going to teach a whole message on this one, but prophetically, God is saying this is highly related, Mississippi, to your focus. You got to focus on what God wants for you, and you got to be disciplined to do the things you need to do to pursue it and get it. The devil sends distractions so he can break your focus. He sends a man to distract you, a woman to distract you. He sends— oh my God— habits and behaviors, bad spending habits, doing things that just are totally unnecessary to break your focus. He sends problems to get you distracted, but you have to stay focused because you gotta lock in and get disciplined and say said, God, I'm gonna get this. This is mine. Focus means I see it through the eyes of God. See, focus deals with lenses and cameras. Cameras all around here. Listen, focus is everything. This camera is showing as clear as it is right now on my face because it's properly focused. There's a lens a very powerful lens on this camera that's making it focus the way it is. I put my phone over there, it ain't gonna do this because the phone can't do this. It don't have this kind of focus. It's got 3 little cameras, got great camera, but it's— it can't focus like this. Hear me good, guys. You gotta lock in so you see life through the eyes of God. So you see yourself the way God sees you, Mississippi. Mississippi, you gotta get disciplined. You gotta get disciplined to see what God sees. And that's more than just saying it. It's more than just saying I'm heavenly. I'm glorious, or I'm supernatural. You gotta be it, you know. You just gotta focus in and be it. And you gotta walk in the spirit, discipline to walk in the spirit so you don't fulfill the lust of your flesh. So the enemy sends distractions. The first thing he does with distractions is get you off focus. And once you get off focus It creates delays, Mississippi. A lot of things that should have already happened hasn't happened. Hear me, because there's been delays because you got distracted and got out of place. You lost your focus. You start focusing on something else that wasn't the plan of God. So you got to get disciplined, get your focus back, and stay focused. Lord have mercy. Hey Bruce, God bless you, man. Good to see you. You gotta stay— you gotta get this one because those delays, watch this, turn into detours. A detour is a shortcut. So you start going away that God didn't ordain and align yourself with something that's comfortable, something that seems right, all right, but it ain't right because it's the wrong way. You took a detour. It's not God's way because you wasn't disciplined, you wasn't focused. Oh my God, today, man. And then ultimately those detours become destruction. It becomes death, death to the original plan. And you go to the grave not fulfilling that and living beneath the privilege or the honor that has been bestowed upon you to exist as a human being in the earth. You gotta lock in. I don't care how fine he is, lock in. I don't care how fine she is, Mississippi, lock in. I don't care how comfortable what you're doing is, you gotta lock in and focus and stop looking at how big it is. God didn't show it to you because it was too big for you. He showed it to you because he knew he was going to help you get it done. So discipline. So that's the main key to discipline today, it's focus. And finally, you got to have determination. Determination is passion. It's the driving force behind anything. You got to have a passion to say, God, I want to see the last become first. I want to see the orphan, orphan spirit destroyed. I want to see that true balance that you've given us as Mississippians come forth in my life. You got to have a passion to see Mississippi rise as the Father of Waters, that transitional place that leads people into another realm of glory. Here's what God said to tell you: you got to make decisions, you got to be disciplined, you got to be determined. And God said to tell you, make decisions now, have the discipline now. Some of you listen to me, there's so much undeveloped land around us in Mississippi. God began to speak to me and said, buy as much land as you can. He said, now I'm gonna favor you and people gonna give you land, but I want you to buy land. So I'm trusting God for resources to buy land debt-free. I'm saying it to you too, buy land. Mississippi is undeveloped. Hear me. And as the last shall be first, developers are going to start looking for land to build things— homes, hotels, condos, sky— oh my God, skyscrapers, amusement parks, football stadiums. Just think of the land you buy is the land they need to build the Six Flags over Mississippi. But you keep riding by their sign, they say land for sale. 'Cause you don't know what I'm gonna do with 40 acres. But if you can get 40 acres for $1,000 an acre in Mississippi, buy it and sit on it until a developer come and say, we need it. Because God is saying for real, your decisions, your discipline, your determination, this is what's gonna reverse you from the back of the line to the front of the line. Hallelujah. Here's a scripture, Saint John 7:38. I pray y'all got this today. Saint John 7:38, it says, believe on me. The word believe is pisteuo in Greek, which means to be totally reliant, absolutely confident, totally dependent upon. So covenants, your dependence, your reliance on him, God. He's— it says, believe on me. So you gotta believe on him. Watch this, as the scripture has said. So you gotta believe what the Bible says about God, about Jesus. It says, first of all, he is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. So that means that denotes two things. One, he is king. Hallelujah. But it also denotes there's some other kings. Hallelujah. And Revelation 1 picks it up and says we have been made kings and priests. So if I believe on him, he's the king of kings. That means he's the king of the earth, of the world. He owns everything, including Mississippi. That means he also has some kings city, Mississippi. Some royalty in Mississippi, you and I. Hallelujah! That is to rise up, raise the bar, raise the standard, stop accepting mediocrity and start moving in excellence and acting like royalty, because we believe on him. As the scripture has said, he's a king. He's a king. I need somebody just type in the comments, he's a king, he's a king. Hallelujah. And then after that, type, I am royalty, I am royalty. He's a king, I am royalty. He's a king, I am royalty. God have mercy, Jesus. Oh my God, he's a king, he's a king, guys. For real, for real. That's why 2024 is not about the election, it's about the elected. It's about the King and his kids. It's about you and I. He's positioning us, Mississippi, to be strong, to do more, to be better. Hallelujah. To build something great, to run faster, leap higher, to test the limits, to go beyond what we've done before, We got to believe on him as the scripture has said, and watch what he said happens. St. John 7:30, he says, out of your belly— touch your belly— say, my belly. That's your innermost man. Out of your spirit, out of God's assignment and plan that he's put in your spiritual DNA, will flow rivers of living water. So he's saying streams are going to flow flow out of you. Oh Jesus, hallelujah! Streams are getting ready to flow out of you into Mississippi. You can become the river. You're going to be representatives of the father of river, of Mississippi. These streams are going to come out of you and the world's going to need your intellect, your business savvy, your marketing ability, your medical hands, whatever your field of influence Those rivers are going to flow out of you and the world, Mississippi, is going to need it. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for this time to share with the region called Mississippi. Thank you for this word, God. Thank you for unpacking it the way you did. And I pray for every person that listened, that heard. I pray for every person that shared it. Put a special blessing on every sharer so that every inhabitant of this region can hear the promise. Because God, I believe it's time for Mississippi to level up. I believe you're raising the bar. I believe you're destroying and have destroyed already the orphan spirit. I believe Mississippi is coming out of isolation. I believe that Mississippi is at a great crossroads. And I believe as we make decisions, and move with focus and discipline and move with great passion and determination to fulfill what you said. I believe, number one, that the last will be first and that even under the sound of my voice, you will raise up entrepreneurs. I believe under the sound of my voice is millionaires and billionaires. I believe under the sound of my voice in Mississippi are land and property owners. And I believe that there are people who won't be selfish. They won't build kingdoms to themselves. But they— oh, shi! But they'll build kingdoms. Hallelujah! Unto you, God. And that the kingdoms of the world will become the kingdoms of you in Mississippi. And I declare today that out of their belly will flow rivers of living water. You raised us up, God. And I thank you for what's to come. And I declare for Mississippi and every person under the sound of my voice that what's to come is better than what has been. And I say it is so in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Listen, guys, family, I love y'all so much. Thank y'all for joining us today. Listen, I want to challenge your hearts really quick. I'm not going to tell you what to do, but I need you to sow a seed into your future. So I need you to be a blessing. Normally we would have church on Saturday. I'm gonna put on the screen the ways to give. Glory to God. They're scrolling to the bottom of the screen, but this is your miracle seed. This is your sow into this word today. If you're a member of Rhonda Church Jackson, you know you need to bring your tithe. So put, get your tithe in the ground. I thank God for those of you that tithe. We got basically 100% tithe in church. So I appreciate you guys. Thank you so much. But if, if you've been blessed today, You need to get some seed in the ground. The way to sow is on the screen. Our Cash App, uh, is simply Rhonda Church, or you can go online to rhonachurch.com/donate and get your seed in the ground. I believe that there is miracles in your finances coming. There's an exchange system between heaven and earth. I command your seed today to come back to you a thousand times more than it is is. So every person that is on here, get something in the ground. I know some people, they watch lives, they listen to the word, they never give. I get it, and it's fine. We don't do it for that. But I'm telling you, there's a blessing when you respond. The Bible says when you hear spiritual things communicated to you, you should communicate your natural things. It's a response saying, God, I appreciate you for remembering me. So listen, get your seed in the ground. Amen. I love you guys so much. Listen, we will be back in Jackson this coming weekend. If you're in the Mississippi region, listen, join us next week in Jackson, Mississippi, uh, 12 noon at our church there, rather, Church Jackson 2660. Glory to the name of God. Uh, Ridgewood Road in the city of Jackson, Mississippi. I'll drop it on the screen for you. Praise God. Hallelujah. Great church. Great people, come be a part of an apostolic culture that I promise you will not disappoint. We love you guys so much. Y'all pray for us as we continue to do the work of the Lord. I pray, man, that this message today has been a blessing to your soul. Y'all be blessed. Peace.