"Apostolic Industrialist" | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr.

Such a prophet. So let me tell you something. She, uh, so when we were coming Lord gave me a word. I thought I was going to preach it last night in the morning, and the Lord didn't let me preach it. On the way to Martin, he said, no, that ain't for them. They don't preach that. So he gave me another word, and I preached what he told me last night. And it was crazy, just tangible miracles, deliverance. It was amazing last night. And then this morning I said, okay, man, I get to preach that word, because I was excited about God giving it to me. She looked at me and said, the Lord's not gonna let you preach that today. So when I pulled up, before you came out and said it to me, there's only going to be leaders in this room, and you need to talk to these leaders, and this is what I want you to say. So I want to talk just a few moments, if you would allow me, because again, I think the ministry of the apostle has to be received It has to be accepted. And watch this, where apostleship is not— hear me good on this— which means those who have took the title and moved into the office who are really not apostles, they have to be displaced because it makes it hard for authentic apostles when you have false anointings who are moving in an office that they were not called to move in. So I want to talk just a few moments. I want to teach this. Again, my assignment is to teach, so, uh, if I bore you, I'm sorry, but I gotta share this with you today. I want to talk about apostolic industry. In every region, apostles come into a region as a spearhead anointing to develop the industry of the kingdom. Apostles are industrialists. Apostles have impact and influence not only in ministry, come on, but they also have influence in the marketplace. Amen. Amen. They also have influence in the municipality, the government. Amen. In my city, not only do I impact ministry and sons and daughters that are connected to me in my state, but I also impact the marketplace in a great way. Amen. I have my wife— my wife and I was talking about the things that I'm doing in business on the way down and how God is using that as an opportunity for me to apostolically reach CEOs and celebrities and athletes, people that would not come to church. But because I deal with them in the marketplace, my light comes on. And I mean, I was— we're— matter of fact, my team is shooting, uh, I'm one of the companies I own is a cinematography company. So we're shooting a documentary right now for the oldest African-American comedy club in America, Uptown Comedy Corner. So all these celebrity comedians I'm around every day, the owner who's dealing with everybody from Steve Harvey on down, dealing with all these people like Dave Chappelle. You, you people don't know who you are because you're just there, just kind of organize the whole film situation. But every time God has opened the opportunity on that set for me to minister, everybody gets quiet, everybody begins to listen. And as we begin to pray You start— I mean, you see grown men welling up in tears because the power of God hits them, and then they say, okay, you know, I should have came back to God a long time ago. I'm on this set because I need to give my life to God right now. I need to come back and get myself together again. Impact in the marketplace. Yeah, if my power only works in here, come on, I'm not really an apostle. Yeah, amen. That's Amen. The word apostolic is from the Greek word apostolos. Amen. And apostolos means sent one. Amen. Watch this, you can't be apostolic if you don't understand an apostle. So a sent one who is sent by God. Amen. Let me say this, an apostle cannot be elected by man. There's no such thing as an apostle elect. Praise God. Just craziness on the, on the internet. That's ridiculous. An apostle cannot be elected. He is or she is elected, protected, and selected by God, and then God sends the apostle into the earth. In that I was born with apostolic DNA. Let me take it deeper. All the apostles— here we go— because Jesus, the woman of God was saying when she was praying, she's the— he, he's the chief apostle. There are no other chief apostles. I don't care who says they chief, there are no chiefs but Jesus. And I'm going record to saying that if somebody watches this and you call yourself chief, you're not the chief. Jesus is the He's the chief. The Bible said the church is established upon the apostles and the prophets, Jesus being the chief. He's the chief apostle. He is the only master prophet. Yeah, even our church, he's the only master prophet. I'm not intimidated by the problem with people. I'm sorry. The reality is the apostle comes from God. Praise the name of the Lord. And the apostle is sent into the earth with several things functioning in his or her life. One, the apostle has plenipotentiary status. Yes, plenipotentiary means that the apostle has a diversity of potential. In giftings of the Spirit. So the apostle should be able to fluently walk in all 9 gifts of the Spirit. Okay, you, you can't tell me that you're authentically an apostle if you're afraid to interpret tongues. You, you've been speaking a whole lot of them, but when was the last time you interpreted? That's right. Meet your apostolic self. Hallelujah. And listen, apostles have discerning of spirit. An apostle has the ability to slip past your mask fluidly and get into your heart. Yeah, yeah. Apostle Peter says, even so, he can look— he or she can look at another and lay hands upon them or reach down into their spirit and stir up the gifts that are in them. So if I'm an apostle, I should be brokering gifts. Watch this. Apostles have the ability to see who you are and empower you to become that. Come on, come on, come on. Watch this. Prophets prophesy. The apostle brings it to pass. I'm ready. Watch this. You all have apostolic strategy, all your people getting all these prophecies, and you an apostle sitting watching them get prophesied to, and you ain't got no apostolic strategy to show them how to bring it to pass. Come on. The governmental plenipotentiary anointing that's on apostles has strategy to bring to pass the word of the the Lord. God, because they— watch this— because secondly, they are stratospheric warriors and interpreters. So apostles have the ability— oh my God— to go up in the realm of the spirit, pull the plan of God out of the realm, and say, this is how we're going to do this. Absolutely, period. Don't tell me God told you something and you don't know how. God is a God of precision. Yes, that's right. So if he says do this, the how-to is going to emerge shortly after that. So if you ain't got no how-to, it wasn't God, cuz God doesn't do anything incomplete. Amen. That's good. So he has plenipotentiary status. He has— watch this— gubernatorial authority, governmental authority. The Bible said the government shall be upon his shoulders, talking about Jesus. But again, all apostles are descendants of the lineage of Jesus Christ. If you're really an apostle, you come out of that lineage of sonship and you operate under the chief. And so you should be able to do what he does. That's because you operate in government over natural things. Come on. I gave them a testimony last night, and this is all part of being apostolic. I'll give it to you because it bears repeating right here. It's a good place to see it. Glory to God. But when I first went full-time in ministry, I was traveling all over the country and wasn't making no money because I don't want to— it's not about that at all. But I still had to live. I still had to pay my bills. And I had a young wife, and I was young too. And this particular meeting, I went to Ohio, preached for a week. They gave me $200 for the week. My God, my rent was due the following Monday. My rent was $550. I said, I can't tell this woman all I got is $200. Look how y'all looking at me. Y'all know, y'all know how people— listen, if you, if you don't want your man to provide, something's wrong. Yeah, a real woman wants her man to have some money. Amen. And watch this, a woman's— I don't care how deep and wonderful you are, a woman's number one emotional need is security. She needs to know you got her. And as a woman Watch this. If you're dealing with a man that ain't got you, you better make up in your mind, listen, this is something I can't continue to do. I'm going to get a step in here because I'm— listen, especially if you doing something, you progressive, why would you bring a negro into your life that ain't doing nothing? Nothing. My Lord, you better come with something. You got $25,000 in the bank and he got $200 How can two walk together except they agree? Ain't no agreement there. So anyway, anyway, anyway, anyway, and I know, oh, I just love you, you just treat me so wonderful, and he spending your whole $25 grand. Okay, okay, let me, let me just going. So I got to tell this woman, Jesus, all I got is $200. Come on. She said— no, what she said was, you said God told you to go preach, and you told me when you quit your job and went full-time, hear me, that God was going to take care of us This ain't taking care of us. She went to bed, man. I'm sitting up all night praying, Lord, what are we going to do? We got to pay this rent money. You got to show us something. You said do this. Yeah, get up Monday morning, God tells me wake her up. We had a little studio apartment. We came in the little living room part we had created in there. I said, sit down. I said, God's getting ready to show us that he's going to take care of us. I still didn't know what he was you going to do? I prayed, and then after I got through praying, God said, count the $200. Finish showing you gubernatorial authority to do what Jesus did. I said, okay, Lord. I counted, counted out that $200. It was 10 $20s. It was still $200. He said, count it again. I counted it again. It was $350. Say, y'all I say that. Same $200 had become $350. He said, count it again. I counted it again, it was $700. He said, count it again. I counted it again, it was $1,000. And then I said to myself, well, since this is happening, we might as well keep on counting. So I kept on counting, glory to God, until I had $2,500 I paid my rent for the next 3 months, filled the house with groceries because I took authority over what was in my hand. But let me— let me watch this. See, y'all, y'all struggling. But how can you read a book where Jesus performed these miracles and you don't believe he can do these same miracles for you? He took 2 fish, 5 loaves loaves of bread and fed 5,000. Why he couldn't take my $200 and multiply? Yes, because twice as much was left over. God is able to take care of us if we move in the authority we've been given. I don't want to just call myself an apostle, I want to be one. That means if you walk and move in the authority That's what they're giving you. Oh God, thank you, Father. God wants and needs apostolic people in this world. He doesn't need another TD Jakes. I mean, I know y'all love him, okay, whatever, whatever. I'm just— I mean, I'm not impressed. God doesn't need more popular preachers. He needs powerful preachers. The church has become iconoclastic. Well, we follow icons, and if you go home with some of these people, you would cringe at what you see. It's not the will of the Father. For us to build ministry around one person. People show up on Sunday morning to see one person, the man or the woman that's holding the mic, when you ought to be coming to the house to see Jesus. This is why we need apostolic industry. What is industry, Michael Woods? Let's, let's just do this. Let me teach this. I'm getting too excited. Every time I start testifying about what God has done out here, I just lose it. Listen, industry— listen to this— is consistent. Say consistent. And diligent. Say diligent. Watch this. Manufacturing that produces mass results. So apostolic industry should be consistently and diligently producing other leaders that come out of the loins of the apostle and create massive results. Watch this, in the ministry, in the marketplace. All y'all ain't called to preach. Everybody ain't called to preach. Some people called to own businesses. Some people called to be CEOs. And as apostles, we should be empowering our people to make a footprint in the world. And everybody gonna support me. Everybody. If Lord just let me be an entrepreneur, I would hand this mic over immediately. I have a conversation with God every day. Can I retire now? I've been doing this full time for 33 years. What? You retired? Lord has clearly said to me so many times, get out of my face, man. That's how he talks to me. Get out of my face. Of course, go somewhere and meditate. Because you're missing it, sir. You can't retire because when you sign up for this and you receive this call, it's eternal. Oh, but everybody needs to find their place. And what industry does, it sends clear definition to where you fit. Yeah, when I was growing up I used to love Legos, and so we could build— me and my cousins would get together and build some massive stuff with Legos. But here's something about a Lego piece: you can have a 1,000-piece set and 900 of those pieces will be different, but they all fit somewhere. And when you start building Sometimes you'll see a piece that just looks like it should fit in this place, but it doesn't. And you keep— you be trying to put it up. That's got to go there. Yeah. And anybody— Christ, that's how we're kind of jacked up because we don't understand what piece we are. Yeah. And we're trying to live according to comparisonitis. Yes, Lord. We have defined ourselves by what people on TikTok, Instagram, and Facebook are doing. So if we can duplicate them, teach— that's it— we feel like we're fitting in. But that creates paralysis. It paralyzes you spiritually when you define yourself by your— oh my God— by your failures versus his forgiveness. When you define yourself by your gifts— because that's not how you define yourself— versus define yourself by God's perspective of you. Because watch this, gifts are irrevocable. Scripture said gifts and callings are without repentance. But what is God's perspective of how I'm used in the world? What he gave me, or am I just using it to please people? Oh my God, you can't please folk no matter how hard you try. I remember a true story. I was in second grade. The teacher said, let me give you a story about trying to compete and please someone else. And she taught us this in 7th grade. She said, there was a man that had a donkey. It was 100 degrees outside. He got on the donkey and rode it by one group of people. That group of people said, look at that man riding that donkey, he gonna break that poor donkey's back. He should be ashamed of himself. He should get off the donkey and walk. This is what he did. He got off the donkey, started walking, went by another group of people. They said, what's wrong with him? He's foolish. It's 100 degrees. Why shouldn't he? He should just get on the donkey and ride. And the moral of the story is, no matter what you do, there's gonna always be somebody that's displeased with what you're doing. So If we going to create industry, we have to learn to live for the audience of one. That's right. I learned that a long time ago. I could care less what people think about me. Hallelujah. Only thing I'm concerned about is what he thinks. Cuz if I please him, if I please the Lord, hey, hey, he going to keep taking care of me like he does. Thank you, Father. We have to create industry. We have to have industry where we have politicians who are serving, that are Holy Ghost-filled politicians. Well, all the politicians shouldn't be devils. That means somebody's not doing their job if we're not reaching them with this message. We need a Holy Ghost-filled president. I'm so glad we have a Black president, but guess what? We need a Holy Ghost-filled president. I'll take Holy Ghost-filled over Black any day. So this is where industry happens, when we got business owners who are saved, filled with the Holy Ghost, anointed. That when people come into your business, then they see Christ, they experience Christ. But apostles are the spearhead to make sure that happens. Do things, and I'm almost done. I just sound long, I promise you I'm almost done. So industry, if you look at any industry, the car industry You look at, oh my God, the retail industry that sells retail in the marketplace, the technology industry. What these industries do, they move products on massive scales and they create— watch this— large amounts of capital. Watch this— they create sustenance for everybody that they employ. So you take a company like Walmart. Walmart is a huge company. They employ literal hundreds of thousands of people. But guess what? That company is responsible for the livelihood of all those families. Why can't we as kingdom have companies that are this massive? Thank you, God. Well, we're responsible for the livelihood It's so easy to get somebody to say if you're employing them. Listen, I'm gonna tell you something. Loyalty is born out of favor and honor. So if you work for me, there's a certain level of honor because I take care of you as an employee. I got an audience with you, and you can't stop me from talking about God in my own company. So if I own the company, every employee's got to be subject to prayer every day, subject to Bible study. Y'all not talking to me here, because if to work here you have to You have to be transformed because this is a kingdom coming. We're trying to get people into the church. Yes, we are. Yeah, listen, let me tell you something. We, we want to have control over the economic systems of the world. Can I, can I let you know a secret? Thank you, Lord. The system is already in place. Amen. We just have shouted around it, we prophesied around it. We've had a lot of good church around a system that connects earth to heaven. And God says, I'm just waiting for you to get inside of this kingdom system. My God, so that you can start affecting the kingdoms of the world. The Bible said in the last day, the kingdoms of this world will be the kingdoms of our God and our Lord in Christ. That can't happen if we don't start infiltrating through industry the kingdoms of the world. He ain't coming to set up the kingdom. When Jesus returns, He's looking for a throne. That's right. And he going to sit down and say, I like this. And let me tell you something, the Lord showed me this years ago. He said, son, my coming has been delayed because the saints are lazy. They go to church, they worship me, but they have not been deep. We're trying to get employed and not deployed. Everybody's looking for a job, but God says, I want to deploy you so you can take dominion. When we have apostolic dominion or industry, that means we're in control. Wait a minute, God did say, I want you to be fruitful. Thank you, God. I want you to multiply. I want you to replenish the earth. I want you to subdue it. And I want you to have dominion. Dominion. Our whole ministry is centered around that word dominion, radah in Hebrew. And radah means to be in control, to be in charge. You cannot be in charge if you're getting a check from someone else. Yes, Lord. You're in charge when you're signing the check. But it happens through deployment. Let me tell you why we have not moved into Dominion is because he said be fruitful and then multiply. Here's where we failed. We have been multiplying unfruitfulness. Yeah, yeah. Glory to God. Stuff that we thought was God. Woo! Glory! We start to multiply. Mama, you go— I go all over the country and see these cookie cutter churches. Now everybody wants to turn the lights off at church. Everybody, everybody does everything the same way. We start multiplying things that in our flesh we call fruitful. Jesus. I mean, I was— please cut the lights on that church. It's not the nightclub. Glory to God. God didn't even like the darkness. He said, let there be light. I was preaching at one church, it was probably 2,000 people sitting out there, and it was so dark when I got up, I just said, let there be light. He said, what you preaching? I said, I'm going to say it again, let there— y'all please cut on the lights. I want to see y'all. I— somebody might— the way I preach, somebody might try to sneak up on me and do— I need to see you. Listen, we cannot multiply things that just because somebody said it's fruitful and we start multiplying them fruitfully. And every time we can't move to the replenish, subdue, dominion, because God always takes us back and says, be fruitful. He didn't say I'm gonna give you fruit, he said be fruitful. Fruit starts with seed. God did not give Adam apples, he gave him apple seeds and said, be fruitful. Yeah, every one of you in this room have a seed in your belly. That's right. Listen, and the church has been so conditioned that when they hear the word seed, the first thing they think is money. Listen, the seed is that talent, that gift that you were manufactured with out of heaven. And the only way you're going to be fruitful is you sow that seed in the earth. And as apostles, we should be teaching people to birth that seed and sow. Let me say this: you will never reap a harvest in a field where you have not sown. So we cannot reap politicians if we don't raise up political gifts in the church and deploy them into politics so they plant the seed in the political realm. We can't influence the banking industry if we don't raise up economic masters in the church and deploy them to sow seeds unless we deploy people who have that gift in them. So we got to get out of the cookie-cutter mentality of multiplying what's possible. Oh my God, everybody, nobody— listen, I grew up in the church. And I'm a grown man all the way. So when I go to church or when I go to do business, I'm gonna look like I'm going to do business. We have multiplied in the church this mentality that we just come to church jeans all baggy, shirt all loose. Listen, just looking like we about to steal something. That's not God's will for for us. You got to look like royalty. How can you tell me you're a part of a royal priesthood and first natural, then spiritual? You ain't royal. Because if you look at England and look at the king and the queen, you never see them in jeans. When they go to do business for the kingdom, they look diplomatic. And we, we visit it, and, and it's just going to limit who you reach. That's right. Listen, I've reached billionaires and millionaires and ministered to them because I look like something when I show up. Thank you, God. Yeah, yes sir. Yeah, I already got an audience. And there's some people that will say, oh, that's just religious that you wear a suit to church. No, I'm gonna wear my clothes. I'm gonna look like I represent the King of Kings. Absolutely. And we're gonna teach our people that. Listen, I teach my children, you, you put a belt on, pull your pants up. That's right, that's right. You presentable, cuz we— that's— we want to multiply fruitfulness. Amen, amen. Yes, so true. Hallelujah. I'm just trying to give you some understanding of apostolic industry. So apostolic industry— watch this— based on everything I just said, and I'm almost done for real, it's a force. Say force. Force. That is related to— here we go— a sequence in building. It has to be a part of anything we build in the kingdom. To take the apostle out means that we have signed up for failure. Nothing can work in the kingdom without the apostle's spearhead anointing. He or she is the force that ensures, again, functionality And whatever is being built— 1 Corinthians 3, verse 10 says, by the grace God has given me— this Apostle Paul talking— he said, I laid the foundation as a wise master builder. Oh boy, wise, which is Sophia in Greek. You wonder why the word wisdom or wise is so fierce, a feminine Greek word, because women have attention to detail. No offense, brother, I'm a man too, but they have attention to detail when it comes to wisdom that men just don't have. And God built them that way so they can be helpmates. I am learning still had to listen to nobody. Because men have ego. I mean, we can be driving and know we going the wrong way, and the wife can say, "Man, you missed the turn! Turn around and go back the other way!" And here we go with our dumb self, "No, no, I got this. I know where I'm going." And then you get 3 miles up the road You know what, baby, you was right. Let me turn around. And you got to humble yourself, right? But that's why God gives them to us, because they carry a mantle. Women, especially women in ministry, let no man demote the wisdom God has gifted you with, especially if there's a stronghold in this territory that has opposed women preachers for years, and it's still here. Even the ones that say they accept it, they still undercover are against it. But I want to challenge every woman in this room to rise up in the wisdom as a Proverbs 31 woman and be the woman that God created you to be. Don't allow no nail just because he got pants on to stop you from flowing in the fire and the anointing that God has placed on your life. Hallelujah! They can be— watch this— very egotistical. We, we can move in ego, and whenever we start doing that, ego, we're edging God out. I'm telling you, we're moving in the flesh, because any real man could look into his wife and say, man, I see she got something something I need. That's why I married my wife. Listen, I'm too old to be worried about hips and tips and fingertips. I skipped past all of that, got down in her spirit. Y'all not talking to me. And understood her intelligence, her wisdom, and what she brings to the table in my life. It makes you a better A real man can celebrate the gift of his wife and not feel intimidated when she rises up in wisdom. Please help me, y'all not talking. Glory to God, because that's why you guys are here. Wait a minute, I didn't mean to go that way. I was reading the text. By the grace of God. So So let me just stop right here because I skipped over that. The grace— and I'm closing for real. Y'all pray for me, I'm dry. Close. Grace, charis in Greek, so we get words like charisma. Yeah, grace is not just something that is used to forgive sin. Come on, come on, Jesus wanted to abundance of grace, they're teaching it so strongly because there are hidden things in their life that they want to justify through grace. See, you, you gotta understand this. The reality is, because, because, and when you're an apostle and you're in regions with people, God will start showing you things about their life. So I just say that because not only Not only am I saying it because it's true, I'm saying it because what God has shown. And so I pray to cover him because it's too many people and the church can't afford another scandal. Oh my God. Okay, we can't afford another scandal of a huge ministry where somebody's doing something crazy. So they teach this grace to feel good. About their inability to control their desires. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Grace is not just for that. Grace empowers. Charisma means that your gift has been empowered By God. So the apostolic grace, God fuse it with power so that you won't misrepresent your office. Come on, come on, come on! Touch yourself and say, I have apostolic power. Let me tell you what that is. When you got apostolic power, you can create like God preach. Listen, God said, spoke to nothing and he made something. When you got apostolic power, you can say, go down to the river and the first fish that comes up— we're not intimidated by no bill, we're not intimidated by a price tag, we're just going to speak to the fish. We're going to begin to call money to us from the north, the south, the east, and the west. Why? Because God here, because we have Touch yourself and say, I have apostolic power. And even those of you who are not apostles, if you're connected to an apostle, there is something called apostolic hegemony. And so when you're connected to the apostle, the walk and the grace that the apostle walks in, that grace— when, watch this, when Ronda got up here, I heard my son, because that grace extends to her. Are y'all hearing this here? You got to understand something. When you're in the ministry with a real father or a real matriarch, that hegemony that's on them, wherever you go, that authority follows you. Yes, it will. That's why some of you got to realize you were not called to follow just a pastor. He gave some, some, some a God right next door There are hundreds of people who are frustrated because they're getting taught the word, but they're sitting there with a gift in them that Reginald can't stir. Glory to God! Let me just say this. What I do— I'm sorry, he can't stir it. If he was sitting here, I would tell him, you can't do it, because he gave some apostles He gave some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors, some teachers. My God, my God, they flow well in their place. But when you keep the apostle out, you rob your people. He should be walking over here every chance he get, talking to you, saying, hey, tell me what I need to do. Come over here and teach a Bible study, do something, pour into them, pull it out of them. That's right, because at the end of the day, God honors all 5 of those gifts. Yeah, but the apostle is first. He gave first apostles. Yes, again, when you're called to be led by an apostle, it means something in you needs to be pulled out. And you have an apostolic thrust in you that needs to be carried into the world and create industry. So you got people that sit in regular churches that are frustrated because they got gifts that the pastor never touches, and the pastor don't have enough sense to bring in an apostle to help stir those gifts. Look at, look at, look at Paul and Timothy. He looked at Timothy and said, hey, the gift that is in you, I stir it up by the— I— was it— no, he said, I put it in you, uh-huh, by the laying on my hands, and now I stir it up. Word stir is ergon in Greek. It means to turn on. In other words, an apostle can put his hand or her hand on your life and flip the switch, and you start moving in who you are. Hey, here's the problem, Body of Christ. Industry has not been created because the apostle has not flipped the switch in a lot of people. And so you got a lot of people who pick up their phone and start talking. I can tell, I sometimes want to just shut up because you need the apostle to flip the switch, and it's out of order. Oh God. Oh, I'm sorry if I'm— if I don't own it anyway, but I'm just being me. Glory to God. Praise God. And listen, we have to take a stand in a certain way against the things that are happening because it's making the body worse. And the world disrespects us. Come on, come on. I had a young man tell me, why don't nobody come to church, Pastor? They doing the same thing in the church that we doing out here. I didn't even make an— this what they were doing. And I said, all I can say, I said, hey, you're right, they're doing it. Not in my church is what I told I said, but what you, you, what you got to do— and I told him, you got to work out your own soul salvation with fear and trembling. And you got to give true ministry a chance to bring transformation in your life. Let me finish reading the scripture. He said, by the grace God has given me Watch this. This is Apostle Paul. He said, I laid a foundation as a wise— Sophia in Greek— master builder. Yes, I love this word master builder. It's the word architecton in Greek. As a master architect, as a master designer. The apostle, I told you, has the design. Yeah, the apostle understands the schematics of heaven and how it relates to your assignment. That's why you got to make sure you're assigned to the right house, to the right anointing, because otherwise, again, there's that paralysis. Again, you'll be stuck, paralyzed spiritually, because you have improperly defined yourself. Watch this. Where there's no revelation, there's violation. My God. If you have not been revealed to you, that's it. You will violate yourself, and others are going to violate you because you don't know who you are. And that's why you need apostles in your life to validate what's on you. That's right. And what's in you. Yes. He's a wise master builder, skillful, clever master builder. He says, and someone else— listen to this— is building on it. So apostles create models and foundations, substratum, that can be imitated. Our forefathers, in a lot of ways failed us because they did not create models that we can build on, that can be imitated. And so what we did was we multiplied the unfruitfulness. Yeah, which has messed us up today. And we cultivated ultimately something that was was good for an era, for a season, but it's not good for now. Listen, you can't fight a World War III with World War II weapons. You need something fresh, you need something innovative, you need something new. You need a clear word from God for this time. Come on. We can't redo Azusa. God is progressive. As much as I think Dr. Dad Seymour and Dad Mason and all them men, they introduced us to a foundation that was excellent, but we got to take it to another dimension. That was only an entrance into the realm. They introduced us to the Holy Ghost. We should be taking our relationship to the Holy Ghost to deeper levels and doing things in the spirit that they never did. Even Jesus said, these things I've done, but greater works I do you shall do because I go to my Father. We ought to be building and multiplying fruitful things. Yeah. And I'm telling y'all, every apostle in this room, you got it in you, it's in your DNA. Hallelujah. To produce something great. Yeah. He said, but each one should build with care if what has been built survives. My God, watch this. He said the builder receives a reward. There's a difference in a reward and an award. A reward is given when work is done. Award is given by choice. That's so good. Yeah, you can afford to give somebody the Best Actor Award reward. It's not necessary. The work is what— who liked them and who thought they were the best. But the Bible says here, according to what you do, he said you'll be rewarded. A lot of times the church goes rewardless. Heaven is not giving them the reward that they should be getting because they're not doing the work. We're becoming cheap copies of other things and not really building. Yeah, Jesus, Jesus. I'm, I'm going to close because I think I might be boring. I'm, I'm going to close. To build a successful work, it's not building what Jake's built. Come on. It's not building through TVN or the Word Network. Building a successful work is born out of apostolic authority. Amen. And God's mind. So God says, Michael, your local church will only be 100 people strong. I have to be satisfied that that is success if I build that correctly and obey. Yes. Oh, do you know how many people can't embrace what God says is success. Amen. Because they have measured success based on another man's success. Yeah, right. But if success for you is $1,000, $10,000, then we celebrate with you. Yes. But we cannot say you're successful because you have $20,000. But if God didn't give you that You just built something out of your flesh, and it's proven because you have men that build these size ministries and they fall. It's not sustained. Or watch this, they build these ministries and they commit suicide because they were doing it in their flesh and they couldn't handle the pressure. Yeah, yeah, pressure. But a successful one— oh yeah, I, I get it, God. Let me give you some characteristics and then I'm going I got to quit. Of a successful work. If you buy something that says it's industrial in strength— now you guys are cleaning stuff that's got industrial strength versus stuff you get out of Walmart. That industrial strength is going to clean it real good. It's strong because it's, it's built to clean large spaces. That is encompassed by lots of people. We need industrial-strength ministries and giftings to become successful and have industrial strength and move in apostolic ministry. The first thing it takes— we already read this— is grace. Again, that's the supernatural endowment of power and purpose. Grace is adequately supplied when purpose is being manifested, when heavenly purpose is coming out of you. Say grace. See, we got to stop using grace to say, Lord, forgive us for sin. Matter of fact, some of us been saved too long to be asking for forgiveness of the same stuff. When you was— when I was a baby in Christ, I had to repent a lot of some of the same stuff, but I've grown up now. When I was a child, I thought as a child. I behaved like a child. But when I matured, became a man, I put away childish things. I'm not going to be going to God about adultery and fornication no more. That's a I'm not a figment of my past. And you know what? You can't let people hold it against you when the grace has already been applied. The only reason they can continue to hold it over your head is because you stay in it. Listen, grace to be successful means that you have in you the ability— oh my God, thank you, thank you, Lord— to do what has not been done in the past. That's a real grace where you can do what has never been done. Thank you, Jesus. Would you believe if I told you there's innovation in you? Almighty God, there's something in you that has never been accomplished. Praise God. Yes, Lord. I thank you, Lord. I prophesied to a young man last night. It's amazing prophecy. He couldn't— he, he, he— it was so astronomical to him. He was like— but he knew because it resonated with his spirit. I said to him, I said, one, Bill Gates has nothing on you. This is what the Lord showed me. I said, there's a technology in you that the world has never seen. And I said, in the name of Jesus, we call it forth tonight, and we command you to begin to innovate and begin to— watch this— pull things together in your brain that you've never even thought about, that you never even went to school for. And I lay my hands on me without like a light, but I promise you, that boy out of Morton, Mississippi is going to emerge and create something huge because it's in him. I'm telling you, there's something in you that has never been created. Secondly, to have a successful work— and I'm closing with these— it has to be wisdom. We already talked about that a little bit. There's got to be some wisdom around. Wisdom is the divine plan— watch this— and understanding of the future. This is why prophets are necessary. So you need prophets around, real prophets. not just the ones that pull people out of prophesying, but real prophets that spend time with their ear to God's mouth, who can begin to analyze future trends and say, this is what's coming, this is how you move, this is what you should do, this is where you invest, this is where you put your money, it's going to grow most here. You're going to make more interest here. Your stocks are going to turn better in this company. Yes, because that's the wisdom that understand the trends of the future that protects you. Yes, Lord. I don't want no prophets around me that can't see what's coming. I need prophets that can see the trend and say, we're trying to do this, but Apostle, we need to do this, this this, this, and this. And if we do this, God's going to put his favor on you. And you need those trusted voices in your life. Yes, that's wisdom. That's prophetic wisdom. It's hard to be successful without a real prophet in the kingdom. You mean you can have good success in the earth, in the natural, and it's temporal? But what God wants to do is give you eternal success. He does that by using the wisdom of the prophet. My God, see, the prophet has the ability to sequence events according to God's wisdom, saying, okay, the country is going to have a recession and you need to make sure you pull your money from here and put it over, because they understand what's coming. Say wisdom. Number 3, foundation. You can't be successful if you don't have good foundation. Watch this. Foundation is a legitimate— say legitimate— relationship with God and conjunction his leaders. It's not just, you know, God But if you know God, he's going to give you leaders that help guide you. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord. Oh, this is a good one. Building skill number 4. We need skillful builders who have the ability— watch this— to properly construct things using kingdom principles. I ain't talking about worldly principles, but we need people to have a mind to build according to kingdom principles. Who— people who are not skillfully get into the kingdom system and disseminate it to the body. I say, this is how we're going to get this done. Builders. Kingdom builders. And you know, it's a, it's a very loose term when people start talking about the kingdom. And most people that talk about the kingdom really don't understand the kingdom. Amen. One of my mentors was Dr. Miles Monroe. I learned a lot from Dr. Monroe. Had an opportunity to see his feet a lot. One of the things I learned from him was that He was always very adamant about this fact, that the kingdom is in every person. And he would always say, if you want to access the kingdom, you have to internalize, go inside of your trichotomy, visit the King. Because the King— you say you got the Holy Ghost— the King lives in you, and the King has the strategy. Yeah, so all he said, just go inside. How do you get in? The key is worship. The king loves to be worshiped. We spend all this time a lot of times in prayer, but you better learn how to spend some time stroking his ego. And when you stroke his ego, he opens the door and he shows you the plan. Oh, I don't have time, I'm sorry. Y'all say building skill. Building skill. Oh, number 5, continuity. An industrious attitude is a person that will continue regardless to what the odds are. No matter what it looks like, you get up, dust yourself off. And you said, I'm gonna keep going because I saw something. People ask me all the time, because I was telling last night, I've gone through so many things in my life and ministry. I have been to a place where I lost everything. I was telling last night, but God rebuilt me. I don't have millionaire problems, I got billionaire problems. So I hang out with people that got billions. I listen to people that got billions so I can learn how to get to billions. Can I tell you something? I lost in one season of my life every single thing I had. I was living in my car. But God, he said to me one night, I was there, put my car back, get ready to go to sleep. He said, raise that seat up. He said, I didn't call you to this, and this is not your end. He took me back to what he showed me when I first started. He said, I brought you here to— so you can show people how I can restore and reconcile you back to purpose. He said, the crisis son. This is what he told me. It's an opportunity. Thank you, Lord. And then I started— when I— I just started weeping and crunk my car up. And he said, I'm— he said, I'm about to immediately restore you. And every step he ordered put my whole life back together and excelled it a thousand times more. But you got to continue I was at a point where I wanted to just say, look, forget this, I'm going to be a regular dude, I'm going to get a job, I'm just going to do what I know to do, forget this. God said, no, I showed you something. And what gives you the spirit of continuity is when you see something. See, when you really got revelation and vision and you know where you're going, no matter what happens, hell can throw every demon it's got at you. But when you understand that you saw something— see, the reason why the devil can't stop me, I saw something. The reason why he can't kill me, I saw something. Do I have anybody in here today that God showed you something? I want to tell you, where you are is not your end. It ain't over until God says it's over. You better get up and keep going. You got to be like that little Energizer Bunny. Go through storms, go through rain, go through sleep, go through storms. You got to keep going and going and going and going. And I wish I had somebody that's made up your mind. I will not quit. Glory to God. Jesus, glory to God. In my worst moment, he said, son, you've already survived stuff that other folk died in. I believe there are people in here today, you've already survived stuff that other folk died in. People are dead and you survived. The reason your heart is beating is because you still have an assignment and because you still have purpose, because power— Jesus— is ready to exude out of your life. Lord have mercy, I didn't mean to do that, I'm sorry. But somebody needs to make up your mind. I am going to continue. I will not stop. I will not quit. I will not give up. I'm gonna keep going. I'm gonna keep going. I'm gonna keep going. Come on, somebody shout, go, go, go, go, go! I'm telling you, there's a finished work that's coming your way. There's a finished work that God wants to manifest in your life, and he wants you to be a part of his huge kingdom apostolic industry. Hallelujah! He wants to give you successful work. Last part of successful work, and I already talked about this a little bit, is reward. Reward is the harvest Yes, it has, man, for remaining faithful. Thank you, Jesus. Keep going, stay faithful, keep honoring the Lord, Jesus, because your greatest days are still in front of you. Bless God. You are part of something bigger. Hallelujah. Than what you see. Hallelujah. Can I submit to you that the way it is now It's not the way it's going to be. I hear the Lord. The Lord said, this shall not be the same. Thank you, Lord. God said, I'm going to overturn, overturn, overturn it, and it shall be no more. He said, I'm going to remove the diadem, and I'm going to take the crown away from those that are wearing the crown now. And God said, I'm going to crown I'm gonna crown you with my righteousness. I'm gonna crown you with my favor. He said, if you would just trust me, if you would just keep going and do not quit. I heard the Holy Spirit say, whatever you do, don't stop. Keep moving. For as much as you know your labor— thank you, Lord— it is not in vain. But the Lord say, I will not forget your labor of love. I've seen your tears, I've seen your burdens, I've seen your frustration, I've felt the tension in your life, said the Lord. But God said, I've come to relieve you today. I come to usher you into a season of peace. I come to usher into you a season of perpetual provision, where no longer will you lack, no longer will you be without anything to do what I have ordained. But even today, I hear you, God. God says, I'm bringing lack to an end, and I'm moving you into abundance. Yes, I gave you the dream. Yes, I gave you the vision, but seemingly your bank account and your money does not align. Glory to God with what I said, but I heard the Lord say you're moving to a place now that you're going to have the resources you need. I heard the Lord say somebody today step into the system. It is already accumulating in heaven. It is already ready for you. Open your heart, open your faith, open your mind, and receive. Yes, Lord. What the Lord has prepared for you. But it's now, not later, not yesterday. It is upon you now. I need every person that has two hands, lift your hands and begin to worship the Lord right there. Come on, open your mouth and give him the the fruit of your lips. Come on, the worshipers of worship, come on, lift your hands, open your mouth and begin to worship the Lord. Come on, worship the Lord, worship. Father, we love you, we adore you, we love you. You're so wonderful, you're perfectly and absolutely wise. God, you're the King of Kings, you're the Lord of Lords. Hallelujah! Heaven is your throne and the earth is footstool. And Father, we give you glory today. God, you're the Great I Am, from everlasting to everlasting. You are God. There's none like you nowhere, God. It's in you we live, it's in you we move, it's in you we have our— come on, the worshipers are worshiping. Come on. John 7:38 says, if you believe on him as the scripture has said, out of your it shall flow rivers of living water. Come on, worship him. Come on, open up your mouth. Come on, come on, come on, come on. Let it flow out of your belly. Father, we give you glory, we give you honor. God, come on, come on. While you're worshiping, your worship is leaving this room, it's touching heaven. And as you're touching heaven, you're touching heaven on behalf of somebody that need to break breakthrough that needs deliverance. You're touching heaven on behalf of somebody that needs a lifting in their life in this region. And come on, cry out of your belly. Come on, cry out. That's an answer to prayer. Come on, cry out. This conference is called Igniting Fire. Come on, open your mouth. There's a fire that's burning in your belly now. Come on, burn like a firebrand. Come on, be the firebrand you are and let the Fire burn, let the embers burn until everything that's not like God in the region called Mississippi is consumed by his glory, consumed by his fire. Come on, cry out, let the fire fall. Father, as we cry out of our belly, let the fire fall and let the wind blow! Let the fire fall— let it flow—and wind blow! Let the fire fall—let it go-and-let-the-wind-blow! Wind blowing... Fire falling... And then the wind blows! Shh-shhh! What did I say? We bless your name, God. Thank you, God. We receive victory now in Jesus' name. We are a part of industry, kingdom industry that will revolutionize the world. We give you praise for it now.