Apostolic Industry _ Apostle Mike Woods _ Radah Church _ 11.14.21

Yes, it's a yes.

Hallelujah!

Whatever you need, it's a yes. Whatever you desire, it's a yes. Hallelujah! You woke up this morning telling yes.

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Yes to your will and yes to your way. Hallelujah! It's a yes.

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Glory to God. Hallelujah! Bless your name, God. Hallelujah! Yes, God.

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Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Glory to God.

Hallelujah! Come on, clap your hands again and tell him yes, Lord. Come on, y'all ain't doing it. Clap your hands and say, yes, Lord. Come on, clap your hands, open up your mouth and say, yes, Lord. Come on, somebody clap your hands and tell him yes. Clap your hands and tell him I need you. We need you, Jesus. Come on, clap your hands and tell him yes. Yes! Yes! We give you the glory, God. We give you the glory. We bless your name. You're everything to us. You're everything to us. I wish I had a blazer that believed he was everything to you. Shukonda rabatse. He's everything. Ah, come on. He's everything. I'm trying not to go there, but he's everything. He's everything. He's everything. Hallelujah!

You're everything, you're everything to me. The air I breathe, You're everything to me!

To—

you're everythiing...

Oohh! Everything to me! Me? You're everything to me! Everythin'?! You're evverything to m-e-ve-r-y-thin'.

Come on, just a few moments of worship.

Those watching live, right where you are, just lift your hands.

In just a few moments, I promise you, he'll come where you are.

He's in this room with us.

If you worship him, he'll superimpose himself upon you. He's everything.

He's everything.

He's everything to me. Glory to God. That's a word from the Lord. Praise God. Um, I want you to go to St. John's Gospel. Praise God.

Hallelujah.

Chapter number 9. He's everything. He's everything to me. He's everything to me. Thank you, God. We love you, Jesus.

Hallelujah.

Beside you there's no other. You're perfectly and absolutely wise. You're wonderful and mighty. St. John 9. I'm going to read one verse. And my wife and I got home from dinner and we was out to dinner last night with Harry and Chelsea. And, um, I planned on preaching something else today, but when I got home, I laid in the bed, I had my iPad, and the Lord started talking to me. And this is where I ended up. So I'm going to give you what the Lord said, okay? Saint John 9, verse 4. This is what it says.

It says, I must work the works of him that sent me.

Hallelujah.

While it is yet day, the night cometh when no man can work. I'm gonna read that again because it's just all right to read the Bible. Amen. I must work the works of him that sent me. While it is day. The night cometh when no man can work. Let me just read verse 5, because Jesus says, as long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. Glory to God. And just from that one passage, I know I'm not going to get through this. God started talking to me and I just started writing last night in the bed. And you may say, how in the world does that connect? But I'm going to show you before I get through. I want to talk about apostolic industry. I believe there's a need for people to understand really what it means to be apostolic and what the tribe of apostolic people are. Because I think there's a huge misconception, and you had a hope—

I said it, uh, Thursday—

that the church ought to be in a position kingdom-wise that the government turns to us, amen, praise God, for what they need. Are y'all hearing? That's, that's big.

That's big.

Glory to God.

Because at the end of the day, we need enough resources. That's why we ought to be in business.

We ought to be generating wealth.

Yes.

Hallelujah.

Because we ought to be creating economy and industry so that when the world needs us—

are you hearing this?

They can turn to us, and instead of being on welfare We put them on God fare.

Are y'all hearing what I'm saying? We become the bailout system. Do you realize that this nation is several trillion dollars in debt?

Yes, sir.

And I believe the church can be in a position, if we did things right, where we could bail our own government out of debt.

Yes.

Because we should be the light of the world.

We should be the driving force. Amen.

Okay, but then the substratum of this starts at the foundation with understanding what it means to be apostolic.

Yes. And I just really believe that there's a powerful and sovereign— and those of you watching me, please stay with me before you scroll.

I promise you You need to stay in, especially people connected to this church.

You need to hear. Some of y'all sitting at home in your pajamas eating cereal, watching me teach every week, sending your tithes in. Listen, you need to come to church because you're scared of coronavirus. We got the vaccine, it's called the blood of Jesus. Are you hearing me?

Glory to God. So listen, I believe again that there's a sovereign rule, a sovereign state of mind that the New Testament church has to embrace.

No longer can we live in this space where we're second class. We gotta emerge into our proper place and be the church.

I believe that God didn't bring coronavirus, but he allowed this stuff to position us in a posture of prayer.

Yes.

Whereby we will get a revelation of what we do next.

Amen.

I see pastors saying that coronavirus changed the church forever, and church would never be the same.

The devil is a liar. Yes. Yeah, it won't be the same. We're going to another place.

But no way God will allow pestilence and disease to stop the assembly of his people. That's not his plan. I'm telling you right now, it ain't his plan.

So this state of mind starts with industry. Somebody say industry.

Industry.

And I'm gonna share with you what that is in a moment. I believe that during this season that we in, and hear this prophetically, this is a very prophetic word.

I'm telling you, I laid down and my wife was over there snoring in another world, glory to God. And I'm getting a word from the Lord Jesus.

I said, Lord, I want to be doing what she doing. I done sat there and ate like I couldn't eat no more. Like it was my last time eating.

And I'm like, Lord, I'm ready to go to sleep. The Lord said, no, you need this word, brother.

So you stay on up and get it. So here's what he said to me. He said, during this season, the world is going to begin to see supernatural moves and manifestation of the hand of God in a whole lot of areas. I mean, we're going to see it in systematic racism.

We're going to see it with cancer.

We're going to see it with poverty.

Amen.

Once we take our place, we can start changing things. Amen. See, watch this.

We pray to God and then God partners with us to do the work.

Touch yourself, say, I'm a partner with God. So I believe what's going to happen, they're going to be great waves of conversion. This is what God showed me last night. He said, son, I'm gonna show— I'm gonna show the world great waves of conversion during this season where people who choose not to serve God— you're gonna see some of the strangest people give their life to God.

I mean, you're gonna say, Lord, I thought they was a real heathen, and they're gonna get saved.

Amen.

Because it's gonna take the supernatural to turn this thing around. We're going to need the supernatural intelligence of God and the supernatural intent of God. The supernatural intent is God deliberately aligning with us said, I want to work with you, co-labor with you. Yes, to get this done.

Amen. I'm telling you right now, y'all, and God showed it to me last night, something major—

somebody said major— is about to happen. I'm telling you, I've been saved since I was a teenager. I've been preaching since I was a teenager.

And I'm telling you, what we're about to see will be like nothing we've ever seen.

That's why we got to get in position. That's why God weeds out people. He cuts people away who are not serious.

Are y'all hearing me? Amen.

And he puts in place those that are serious about this major thing happening. Not only will it happen for the church, but it's going to happen for you. Yes.

Hallelujah.

Touch yourself and say, something major, something major is about to for me. Those who watch me, type it on the screen. Say, something major is about to happen for me. Now find somebody else and tell them, hey, did you hear what I just said? Tell them something major is about to happen for you.

Yeah, yeah.

Glory to God.

So what? So it starts with understanding first what it means to be apostolic. It's not just a title.

And so many people run for this title, man. That's true, that's true. I saw someone last time, saw a guy.

First of all, the guy, I looked at him, I suppose he ain't got no business affirming nobody because he ain't apostolic. And I looked at the—

he had about 40 people he was affirming.

I'm like, Lord help us.

Wow.

85% of the folk on the flyer were not apostolic.

Wow.

No government, no apostolic ability or fruit in their life.

I was doing apostolic work before I took the title.

Yes.

Matter of fact, who you are will manifest before you get labeled.

Yeah.

Matter of fact, my spiritual father had to force this on me. Wow. I'm like, man, I don't want to do that. I'm a pastor. That's why I used to tell him. He said, no, you're an apostle. You done planted 4 churches. How you just a pastor?

I said, no, I'm just a pastor.

And I'm finna grow this church in Jackson, Mississippi.

We gonna be the World Changers, the Potter's House of Jackson, Mississippi. I'm going to be a pastor.

I'm going to stay right here.

He said, no, sir, you are an apostle. And so I had to yield to it and accept it, but the fruit was there long before the title. So let's get this— look at this.

What does it mean to be apostolic?

First of all, and I'm just gonna— I'm gonna talk to y'all a little bit about this because I think the world needs to understand this because they're missing it.

Apostolic, first of all, is not a denomination.

I grew up in the church, Pentecostal and Jesus Only Apostolic, baptized in Jesus' name. They call themselves apostolics. But in the truest sense of the word, to be apostolic deals with that which pertains—

watch this— to the work of apostles.

Say, work of apostles. So you can't really understand what it means to be apostolic if you don't understand what an apostle is. Most of these people who call themselves apostles, they have no idea what it is. Oh God, I know. Okay, so the word apostle first comes from the Greek word apostolos.

And in its simplest form, it means a sent one.

What? So first of all, the apostle is a consideration of heaven.

God sends the gift into the earth. Ephesians 4:11 said he gave some apostles, some he sent, some to stand in his place. But how did he send them? Watch this. So, so then the apostle is a sent one.

Yes, by God. You can't—

watch this—

you can't elect an apostle. There is no such thing as an apostle-elect. Ain't no such thing as it. God selects apostles.

Now bishops can be bishop-elect because apostles elect bishops.

To be—

because the bishop, episkopos in Greek, is an overseer who has oversight. You can put a bishop on a piece of paper and say you're the bishop on this paper, because that's what it means to have oversight. Most—

as a matter of fact, in Catholicism, bishops don't even have a church.

That's right.

Bishops are forbidden to have a flock because they have oversight over the diocese.

Yes.

Okay, so you can be a bishop elect, but I just want to bring some clarity because a lot of people don't understand. You cannot have an apostle elect.

Apostles are designated by God before we're born. You're called to be an apostle.

Are you hearing this? Man has nothing to do with it.

When we do services for apostles, we simply affirm Yes, what God said in heaven.

Are you hearing me?

So an apostle is sent— let me break this down— with first of all gubernatorial authority. We just witnessed a gubernatorial race, a governmental election where men elected authority.

But what God does, he puts gubernatorial authority, governmental authority inside of the apostle.

Yeah, so every apostle should have a government on his shoulder to be able to govern not just other gifts in the church that are spiritual, but apostles have a gubernatorial authority to control fears outside of the church, even in business, even in government.

An apostle should be present on every mountain of the earth.

Yes, in every kingdom of the earth, the apostle should be present. Watch this, there's 7 kingdoms, 7 kingdoms. There is number 1 in the kingdom of God, there's 7 kingdoms.

So the first, there is what we call the religious kingdom. Religious kingdom is what we find in church.

Now most of the time in this kingdom, man has took control of this kingdom and does things his way. But when apostles emerge, they bring the order of God into that kingdom.

That's right. Secondly, we have education kingdom. Okay. This is where our children are trained. This is where we go to universities and schools.

We got—

we get educated in that kingdom. We need apostles to help govern that kingdom. We need saved teachers.

Are y'all hearing me?

We need people who love Jesus in the kingdom of education teaching our children. Yes.

Thirdly, we have—

watch this— economic kingdom. This is where the money flows. This is banking systems.

Yes, the apostolic nature should affect that system. Are y'all hearing this?

We hear it.

That's why you have various types of apostles. You got— watch this—

the military kingdom, you got the media kingdom, you got the political kingdom, and you got the entertainment kingdom.

And we definitely need apostolic authority in entertainment kingdom where we don't just have people like Tyler Perry and TD Jakes makes a few movies, but we need to have control. These guys have emerged to a certain place, but they don't have no control.

Yeah, that's a huge kingdom. Yeah, but we need to have some control where we can control programming, we can control Praise the name of the Lord.

A balanced diet that comes through entertainment.

Yeah, but because we just stay in the church, we don't touch those kingdoms.

Now watch this.

Jesus said the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord and Christ.

So if the kingdoms of this world is going to become his, then we got to start working in those kingdoms.

Because let me let you know a secret— Jesus is not coming back to set up a kingdom.

He's coming—

listen to me— to sit on the throne of a kingdom that's already established.

So we need to already be in these kingdoms working so when he comes back, he could take control as king.

Yeah.

Oh God.

So apostles have gubernatorial authority. They also have plenipotentiary status.

Amen.

Praise God.

Pleiopetichary means they have a diversity of gifts.

There are 5 ministries: the apostle, the prophet, the evangelist, the pastor, the teacher. Well, if you give every one of them a part of the finger, the pinky finger would be the teacher because the teacher brings balance to the body. The ring finger would be the pastor because the pastor is married to the church. Amen.

This finger right here, I don't know what you call it, it's the middle finger. Glory to God.

Would be, praise the name of the Lord, the evangelist, because it's the longest, it extends into the world.

This pointer finger is the prophet, because the prophet foretells and foretells.

The thumb— watch this— is the apostle. You know why?

Because he can touch every finger.

He's plenty potentiary. An apostle should be able to move in and out all of these gifts.

Yes.

If you— if there's a— if you see an apostle that cannot teach, that you need first to question that apostleship.

Amen. Praise God.

Because apostles just don't yell.

They are educators. They make sure the body is equipped. Watch this, that plenipotentiary status causes them to be spearheads.

There's a spearhead technology that moves inside of apostles.

So if you look at a spearhead on a spear, if you shoot, throw that spear, shoot it in a bow The spear penetrates before any part of the apparatus. It goes through first.

So the apostle is always the one that opens up the door.

Say spearhead technology.

Watch this, because we are the— we should be the first, not just as an apostolic man in the office, but watch this, apostolic people.

Because those that connect to apostles The authority of the apostle moves through the culture.

And so in your area of purpose, you carry that government.

Oh God. And you can penetrate barriers and open up new doors of opportunity. 'Cause, oh my God, because watch this, when we penetrate barriers and initiate true truth about the Kingdom in Heaven, we're now laying a foundation that the world can come and build on and stand upon.

Watch this.

Apostolic people, us, we initiate things that others could not.

Amen.

I don't want to just call myself an apostle and I'm not creating waves that others are not—

have done. I want to do things that other people have not done.

Yes, I want to tap unknown mysteries that have not been unlocked.

See, apostles have— they're stratospheric warriors that carry keys to access the heavens. That's right. They can unlock things, open up things.

Watch this, they can close things.

That's the authority.

That's why there's a lot of hell apostles go through.

Watch this.

Apostles also establish lineage in the earth, which means we leave an inheritance for other people to come and build upon.

Was talking last night about my son in Mississippi. Yeah, I paved the way with the grace on my life, established the church, built him up, and now he's an apostle and the gatekeeper of that region.

Yeah, are you hearing me?

That's because I was able to break a barrier there in Mississippi that nobody else was willing to go after. Everybody was in their religious state of mind.

I went against the grain, started moving in gifts, started operating in power, and now there's a lineage.

I mean, we had some 42 ministers in that church alone that left and was deployed—

not just left, but deployed by the ministry into their own stuff. That's powerful. But they carried the lineage, the culture of the house.

Oh God, what's the lineage? A lineage—

break the word down—

it's a line age. You create a line, a pattern for the ages that follow. You create a line for everybody to walk after. Listen, that's so important because a lot of times our predecessors—

yes—

did not leave good lines for for us.

They didn't leave good models for us to imitate.

So now we got to make sure we got good models in place for people to imitate.

So let's look at this text. I told you I'm almost through.

Watch this. John 9:4.

He said, I must work.

Nothing happens without work.

Work. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. I'll say it again, the only place success comes before work is in Webster's. If you're going to be successful at anything, we must work. Say, I must work.

I must work.

Now what I love about that particular word work, it's a pop word, ergonzomai. Now watch this, it's saying I must commit to doing business.

So not just any old work, but he said I must transact business.

Ergonzomai, I must do an exchange between heaven and earth, give the instructions, and do the business that heaven tells me to do in the earth. That's, that's good stuff, because that means that I can't just do what I want to do. There is a work that God has for everybody in this room.

Amen.

There is an assignment that you can do that I can't do.

Watch this. Your assignment is the problem you were created to solve.

Everybody in here was created to solve a problem.

Chelsea has a travel business, she solves travel problems. She draws airline ticket, hotel, resorts, she solves vacation problems. You wanna go on vacation, she understands the industry, she, that's part of her assignment. Watch this, her and Lady Woods and Harry saw a worship problem. Counsel. Glory to the name of God. Every assignment solves a problem.

Amen.

Pastor solves spiritual problems. Are y'all hearing me?

Yeah.

Bankers solve money problems. Yes. Are y'all hearing this? Teachers solve education problems.

Y'all get it? Everybody here has a problem they were created to solve. Here's the catch, you gotta discover that.

Yes, you do.

Your assignment is never your decision, it's always your discovery.

Yes, hallelujah.

Ah, it's never your decision.

God already decided, you just gotta discover what he decided.

Yes, right.

Have mercy, Jesus.

Which means we control nothing.

Yes, it—

so everybody in here is authentic vintage.

You have an assignment to do that's going to make a difference in the earth, that's going to help create apostolic industry.

Watch this, I'm gonna show you. It says, I must work the works, uh-oh, of him, uh-oh, that sent me.

Yes.

Hold on, I just said the apostles' office is a sending anointing.

Yes.

Did y'all just see that in the text? He said, I gotta work the one that sent me. So every one of us have to tap into apostolic ministry and do the works we are sent to do.

Oh God, what—

watch this. So works is different than work. Works actually is the root of that first word, is ergon.

Now I love this word ergon. Watch this, it means— let me just read it— it means to undertake enterprise, to create a product, to accomplish by hand, or—

watch this—

or industry.

So the works create an industry.

This is—

I'm going to show you something. The Bible says that God has put basically here, sent every one of us to this planet with industry in us.

Let me take it deeper. The Wright Brothers came to this earth with aeronautics in them. Yes, these dudes never took an aeronautical engineering course, but they were supernaturally endowed with the assignment to create the aeronautic industry.

They laid a foundation that every other airplane is built on. I don't care how fancy the airplanes become, they started the industry. Watch this, they revolutionized the industry.

That's major, man.

Can I tell you something? There's something major on the inside of every one of us. Touch your belly and say, I'm creative.

I'm creative.

Because the Holy Spirit lives in me. So there's something major that I must produce. So I must innovate. I must create something that's never been created. Say, I am an ambassador sent by God to do something great. I dare you give God praise if you believe that. He said, I must work the works of him that sent me.

My God.

Yes, Lord. While it's day.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

While your eyes still can see good.

Hallelujah.

Y'all not talking to me here. While it's still light outside.

Yes. Praise God.

He says, I don't want you to wait till everything gets bad, to everything in your life stops working before you decide to pick up your assignment. Again, watch this. This. Your assignment is the problem you created to solve, right?

Yeah.

So that means you should never talk to anybody about your problem that's not qualified to solve it.

My God.

Oh, y'all in heaven be here. Ain't no way I'm going to a broke person to talk about money issues. If I need $10 million for a project, I can't talk to somebody that never made made a million. That's why y'all not talking to me here. If you ain't never made 10 million, you can't talk to me about how to get 10 million for a project. I wish I had some help here. You got to go to the person that's got the anointing to solve that problem, and everybody's got an anointing on them to solve a problem. Give me about 10 minutes, Aaron. I promise you I'm gonna be with you in about 10 minutes. He said, I must work the works of him that sent me while it's day. Watch this.

Every assignment—

and this is why it's got to be Dave, because you got to recognize the details of the assignment.

Yeah, that's right.

Every apostolic assignment that's connected to industry has basically 5 things. Every assignment, number 1, has people.

You cannot have a God-type assignment And it does not involve people.

Hallelujah!

God is a people God.

Yes, he is.

So whatever he gives you is going to be a blessing to people.

Yeah, that's right.

And you know, I believe a lot of the creations in this world— cameras, computers— y'all not talking to me here— keyboards, cars, airplanes— God gave it to people. Telephone.

Yes.

You know you had to be on something.

If you sitting in the room saying, Lord, I wish I could talk to somebody in here.

You talk about creative, you talk about thinking. I mean, just think about it. There were no phones nowhere.

Alexander Graham Bell is sitting in a room and said, hmm, I wish I could talk to somebody in here.

But that's how creators think.

Yes.

They think out of the box. And he probably went to somebody else and said, you know what, I'm thinking about an idea where I can talk to somebody that's 20 miles away and still be in my house. They probably said, man, you crazy. I said that to say that when you start thinking out of the box, when you start thinking like an industry leader and saying, I'm gonna lead industry, I'm gonna take charge, people are not gonna understand you.

—No, they're not.

People don't understand me when I make statements like, "I'm gonna be a billionaire." They don't understand it. They don't understand statements like, "I'm on a grind, on a run to a billion." My stepmom asked me, "Sir, why you work so much? You never go to sleep, you never do this. You always focus." I said, "Yeah, 'cause I can't stop until I get a billion." I gotta get that billion-dollar idea, that billion-dollar product, and I gotta keep working until it happens. Yes, right.

Are y'all hearing me?

I'm telling you, people will think you crazy when you start talking like that. But don't worry about it, talk like it anyway. Because while there's people that will talk down on what you're trying to do, I'm here to tell you this morning, there's some folk that will celebrate it. And there's some folk that's looking forward to you rising. Everybody don't want to see you die. Everybody don't want to see you fail. There's some people people that want to see your success. I tell you, hit somebody and tell them, I'm gonna succeed whether you like it or not. I'm gonna be industrious. Good God Almighty, I got to get out of here. Good God. He says, I need you to understand, every assignment has people. Say people.

People. You have people for you and you have people against you.

You have people who need what's in See, you're—

your assignment is like a life jacket to a drowning person. Yeah, you just got to find out who the people is drowning. Yeah, right. Hallelujah.

And throw your life jacket out and they're gonna grab it. Yes.

Hallelujah.

Yeah, people, every time they watch this, because with people come problems.

Yes.

And every assignment has problems.

But that's a good thing because your assignment again does what? Solve problems. I don't even pray to God about my problems.

When I talk to God, I say, God, just send me the solution. I don't even want to talk. I want to have a conversation.

We know it's a problem. God, let's get a solution to this.

Don't mean you're wasting time with dialogue. Let's solve it. Where's the person to solve it? And sometimes you got to call that thing forth in the spirit and bring that person forth.

Yes, hallelujah!

I got to get out of here, y'all. I promise you, I'm already over time. Listen, every assignment has people, problems. Oh, she's— thirdly, every assignment has places. Yeah, I love that, because where you are It's just as important as who you are. You could be the most gifted person in the world in the wrong place. That's right. You can have the most astute mind and be in the wrong place where people don't understand it and won't appreciate it. That's right, that's true.

You got to make sure you're in the right place.

Like the Kirby, sometimes you gotta move. Yeah, from Vegas to Georgia to be in the right place. Yes. Are y'all hearing me? All right. Sometimes like the Kings, you gotta move from Tifton to Atlanta to be in the right place.

Like Sharita, you gotta move from Miami to Atlanta to be in the right place, because the grace that you need to do it in excellence is in the right place. Ah, God. See, when you're out of place, you're struggling.

It's hard. Yes, yes, yes. There's tension mounting every day, and because you don't have the resources around you to make happen what you're trying to make happen. Every assignment has places.

Yeah, watch this.

Every assignment also has periods. Lord have mercy. Periods, time frames. And seasons, periods. There gonna be some good days in the assignment, but there gonna be some bad days too.

The bad days come to make you stronger.

Yes, they do.

The bad days come to make you more powerful.

Oh my God, the bad days come—

oh Jesus— to build character in you. You know what?

I didn't like my bad days when I was going through it.

Oh, nobody does.

But when I look back over my shoulder, I'm thankful.

Yes, my God. Because it's the seasons of failure—

yes, hallelujah—

that prepared me for success. Yes.

That helped me appreciate the man I have become. Yes.

Are y'all not talking to me here?

Yes. So you don't have some good days. And here's what I love about a season.

Number one, you can't start a season.

There were times in my bad days I wanted to get out, Erica. I wanted it over, but I couldn't get out no matter how bad I wanted out because God says you got to stay here until I get through processing you.

Yes, you got to go through this season.

Because failure is always a prelude to success.

All right, my Lord, that's good.

Oh God, anybody great had some bad days first.

Can't start a season— much as I thank God for the Civil Rights Movement, a lot of the time they were trying to start a season. You could march on Washington, have sit-ins, shut-ins, picket signs. Yes, but the season is not going to change until God changes.

That's it. That's right.

God— there was a prophetic word over our people. Yes, that because we gave heed to idol gods, that we would experience 400 years of bondage. That was a prophetic word. Yes, it was.

That wasn't gonna break until God said, okay, time's up.

Because our ancestors worshiped idol gods. Are y'all hearing that?

That's right. Can't start a season. I tell people all the time, they want to get married, don't get married before time.

Try to start a season. People get married because it's better to marry than to burn. Yeah, the old church taught us that.

Yeah, it did.

But then you find out you married a person on full head, you get married to, you want to burn them up.

What did I do? What did I get myself into?

So that's why you got to make sure the season is right. Yes.

But here's the second part of that season: can't start one, but you can't stop one either. When is your time. Hallelujah.

They can work witchcraft, they can sprinkle goofy dust, they can lie on you, they can reject you, they can talk about you.

But guess what? When it's your season, they can't stop it.

And I'm telling you right now, somebody watching me live and somebody in here, I need you to understand your The season has changed. Hallelujah. I dare you to touch yourself and say, my season has changed. Can I prophesy to you that God's getting ready to open doors that you thought would never open? I'm telling you right now, the season has changed. Every person that said no, God's about to flip it and turn it into a yes. God says, I'm about to give you effortless, sweatless victory because the season has changed.

Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! I got to go, y'all. I got to go. Y'all give me 5 more minutes, I'm almost done. I want you to go to 1 Corinthians 13. My God, touch yourself and say, I got industry in me.

Glory to God.

1 Corinthians 3. I'm sorry, I'm gonna look at verse number 10. Just call them, something major is happening.

Major. You better get ready because I'm telling you, it's about to break through. First Corinthians. And this is—

this text right here is probably the greatest explanation hermeneutically of what it means to be apostolic. Hallelujah. Watch this.

He says in verse 10, 1 Corinthians 3, according to the grace of God.

The word according is a Greek word symphaneo. It's where we get the English word symphony. Symphony means to be in accord with God. Watch this.

Sinfonía, that's what sinfonía is, to be in accord with God's desire, to be aligned with what God wants.

Most people in this hour, their life is noisy, it's full of tension, and they move in discord. Yes. Harry, do me a favor, play a C. A F, a B-flat, and put an A on there somewhere. Play it all together.

I don't want it to sound good.

I'm trying to create a bad chord. C, E-flat, B-flat, and put a B, a regular natural B in there.

That's this chord. Now just bang on it. Yeah, just keep banging on it. That's how a lot of people's life sound. It's in discord. There's no order. They're tense, they're upset, they're always mad, they're full of strife. Keep beating it. But what God wants to do is move our life from discord to accord. Play a C, E, and a G.

Now just play a melody in Thank you, see, see, that's how he wants your life to sound. He wants it to be peaceful.

He wants it to be melodious. He wants it to have— glory to the name of God— a clear ear to hear what he has to say. He wants a melody to be— he don't want tension and frustration. He wants a constant, consistent melody of his grace. Thank you, sir.

Flowing in your life. He says according to the grace of God.

Yes, watch this.

The word grace there, I love this word, charis in Greek. Yes, the word charis means to, you know, it's not just forgiveness of sin.

Most of the time we— it's grace as a gift.

So yeah, that is part of grace if you need grace to be forgiven or something, but I think we should concentrate more on using the other side of grace that empowers us to do our assignment. Yes. See, there's a grace on you for your assignment. There's a level of empowerment on you to do your assignment.

Touch yourself and say, empower me, God. Empower me, God. Watch this. He said, according to the grace of God which is given unto me. So that grace is given to each one of us.

Yes, it is.

Watch this. As a wise Master builder. That word master builder is architecton in Greek. Architecton deals with design. Yes. And so you're like architect.

God says he wants us to live our life by a design, by a plan that he already put in place. Oh God, I want you to understand something. That's already a blueprint.

Yeah. Yes, sir. If you ever build something, you got to go to the architect and get them to do blueprints for you. Yes.

Once he finishes the blueprint, you got to go to the city.

Yeah, the city has to approve it. Once the city approves the design, the building is finished.

Yes. Hallelujah.

Before you lay the foundation, before you frame the house. Yeah. The building is already finished. Guess what? Your design for your life is already finished. Hallelujah! We just got to get a glimpse of the blueprint. You got to live life by design. He said, I have laid the foundation and another build on it.

Watch this, Israelite.

If any man works, abide which he has built, there he shall receive a reward. Wait a minute, the word abide is meno, M-E-N-O in Greek, and it means to stay in place.

It means to stay in a certain state of mind.

It means to hold steady and not be moved. So when you know you're—

no matter what comes, you got to say, I'm gonna abide And I'm gonna keep going until I finish. I'm gonna keep going until I get to where God has planned for me in the blueprint.

Let me tell y'all something this morning. The only way you're gonna lose is if you quit. I'm saying that one more time.

The only way you lose is you quit.

But you got a Mino. You gotta stay the course and make up in your mind, I'm gonna finish this thing because I want the reward. Yes. See, here's the catch: you can't get the reward according to this unless the work abides, unless you finish.

See, this is why you got a lot of people out here chasing rewards.

Creating things for themselves when God's already got the reward plan. Amen. I already got the victory plan. Just follow me. Yeah. Oh my God.

He said if you could just survive, you will get the reward.

How does it survive? You got to be able to endure the hard places. Yes. Hallelujah.

The reward for us was Jesus going to the cross.

His efficacious, vicarious work of Calvary. We're saved because of that. Now listen to me. If Jesus would have decided, I ain't going, I'm not going to finish my assignment, we all would be in trouble.

Yeah, but we get the reward of salvation.

Yes, because the Bible says he became obedient unto to death. Yes, even the death of the cross. He didn't say a word.

He did what God, God told him.

Go. His assignment was to die. Yes, he trusted that God would get him back up. Oh yeah.

And he finished. He completed the work.

Yes. Listen, the strength that you are strong you're industrious, that you can finish. Lord knows I've been bounced around a lot of times in my life. I didn't hit rock bottom a couple of times and had to rebuild. Oh God, but thanks be to God, there's no quitter in me. Yes. That every time I get knocked down, I get up. I'm like that little Energizer Bunny. The, the commercial said he keep going and going and going. He go through a rainstorm, still beating that drum.

Keep on going. He go through snow, they put—

blow him up, one ear off, still beat. That's how you have to—

you got to keep going.

Yeah, I keep going. Because I'm telling you, you ever see something that said this is industrial strength? Yeah.

See, when you become industrial strength, that's when you calling in the special stuff.

You become a specialist in your area and people come looking for you because you were able to endure. Hallelujah. Joseph in the Bible— I'm almost done, I'm going to stop right here. Yeah, Joseph, the Bible said he was made the prince of Egypt, but before he became the prince of Egypt, he had to endure Prison. Mm-hmm. Thought of his wife. Yes. Are y'all hearing me?

Yes. The pit. Yes. Come on.

They threw him in the pit.

Yes. His own brothers. Yes, they did.

But he endured. Mm-hmm. He didn't curse God. He didn't give up. No, he didn't. He had an industrious spirit. Y'all stand up, girl.