Apostolic Intelligence | Part 1 Kingdom Intelligence | Dr Mike Woods Sr | 08- 14

God bless us today as we teach your word. Let your word go out from this place into the world and let it transform somebody's life. Superimpose the intelligence of the Holy Spirit upon us now. And God, may your people be blessed by you and never impressed by me. Loose shackles, break chains. In the matchless name of Jesus, we bless you now. In Jesus' name, amen. And thanks be to God. We give God praise. Well, I'm so glad to be in the house of the Lord this morning— this afternoon, rather. Glory to God. And I believe that the Lord is here and he has something he wants to say to us. Praise God. I am super excited about this series the Lord has given me to start today. And for those of you watching online, please do me the favor, make sure you share this word. I need you to hear me, somebody needs this word today. So I need you to do me the kind favor and share this. Praise the name of God, because I promise you, uh, you're going to be blessed. We have been out of the sanctuary for a month. The Lord told me to take a sabbatical, and that's what we did. But I am revived and refreshed, and we trust God— glory to the name of God— that he has great things in store for us in the days ahead. So today we want to begin talking about apostolic intelligence. Apostolic intelligence. Those of you that are watching us online, do me the kind favor and just type that in the comments: apostolic Intelligence. Um, if you— it should be in the narrative of the live stream. Glory to God. But I want you to type it in the comments so that when people come in and watch this by replay, they'll be able to kind of see what we're talking about. This, uh, again is an extremely important message because when I look around the body of Christ, my God, There are so many unintelligent things happening. Matter of fact, a lot of the stuff I'm seeing is just plain dumb. I'm gonna say it again, it's just plain dumb. And there's no way in the world I would ever have church or proclaim to be be a man of God without God. The reality is there are tons of people who are doing things in the name of themselves. And because of this, the tragedy that has occurred is that we have failed to really advance the kingdom of God into the world. Matter of fact, if you're watching, if you're here, just touch yourself and say God wants me to advance the kingdom into the world now. So apostolic intelligence is directly related to the fact that we need the intelligence of heaven to do God's work. The moment we start trying to do this with our own mind with our own intelligence, we have literally failed. That is not God's plan. That is not God's will. And the matter of fact, the more we try to do things in ourselves, what God eventually does, he leaves us to our own devices. And whenever we're left to our own devices, because he'll never violate your will, he won't make you submit to him. He will not make you— glory to the name of God— do what he says do. He will not make you follow his ways. He will not make you trust him. Oh my God, he, he'll leave you to your own devices, and most of the time, if you stay there long enough, you self-destruct and you become frustrated, and you never really make it to the place that God has called you to be. I don't know about you, but I never— hear me— want to be where God was. I don't ever want to be anywhere— I don't want to be in a business, I don't want to be in the church, I don't want to be in a class, I don't want to work a job— I don't ever want to be where God was. I always need to be where God is because I have determined I can't speak for nobody else but Michael Woods. I can't live without God. I gotta have him. He's got to be a part of my life. And anytime I see God move, I gotta move with him. Yes, sir. I was telling my wife on the way to church, the Bible says, who is my mother? Who is my father? Who's my sister? Who's my brother? Who's my family? The scripture declares them that do the will of God. So I told her, that means I gotta cut out my own children. If I got grown children that refuse to support what God has called me to do in the will because they came out of my loins, I only got to say much. I'll still love them, I'll still parent them, but at the end of the day, I cannot tarry with them when they're grown enough to make their own decisions. Somebody said, oh, that's hard, Apostle. Yeah, I know, but at the end of the day, I can't afford to be in covenant with things that won't fall in line with the ways of God. All right, so again, apostolic industry is directly related— watch this— to the chemistry, this intelligence that God has is related to the chemistry, the architecture, the psychology. Watch this, the revelation of kingdom behavior. There's a way that people who are in the kingdom should behave. Now I know this time we live in, everybody says they're in the kingdom and they behave how they want to. When in reality, if you're part of the kingdom, there's a way, there's a behavior, there's a pneumaticos. Pneuma, atikos. Pneuma is wind, the Spirit of God. Atikos is behavior. So there's a way you should behave that is directed by the wind or the Spirit of God. The Spirit of God ought to direct our behavior if we're kingdom citizens. We should not do again our own thing. So we got to have— we got to have a chemistry. Say chemistry. Chemistry. We gotta have chemistry. Means that we connect. So you need people in your life that connect. How can two walk together except they be in agreement? We— I can't walk with my wife if she don't agree with me. And she can't walk with me if we're not in agreement surrounding the things of God. If she decided she wanted to be a sinner, I'm gonna stay with her, but I'm gonna minister to her until she gets saved. And I believe because of what's in her, if that happened to me and I decided I wanted to go off and start living like the devil, she's going to minister to me until I keep my mind right. And come back to God because of the chemistry we have and the DNA— hear this— that is embedded in our covenant, which is Jesus. See, he has to be the center of every chemistry. That's why I tell people all the time, physical attraction ain't enough. Oh Lord, have mercy. Physical attraction is not enough. I promise you, in my lifetime, I've been— I'm 53 years old and I've been saved most of my life, but I done made some mistakes and I done had some real fine women, but they were dumb as bats and didn't have no God in them. Y'all ain't got to say nothing to me, but at the end of the day, it's just the truth. It seemed like the finer they was, the dumber they was. Okay, I'm sorry. It just seems like you just can't get that balance. So at the end of the day, you better make sure that the chemistry is not just the package. That's right. You have to be able— and I'm gonna read some Bible, just, just give me a moment. You gotta slip past that outer casing and get in the heart. What's in the heart? What has God put in there that connects in agreement with who you are? Oh boy. So it's impossible, guys, to advance the kingdom if we don't have a heavenly chemistry that flows out of us, that we work together as co-laborers with God to present the kingdom to the world. So it takes apostolic intelligence that is born out of great teaching a understanding of the kingdom. So how do we cultivate this? We first got to cultivate the idea of the kingdom, because I don't need intelligence from heaven or apostolic intelligence if I don't understand where I got to use it. Because intelligence, again, is the chemistry, the behavior, the architecture— watch this— or the revelation of a thing that you apply to bring forth something out of that knowledge. So if I gain intelligence, I don't just gain it to let it be in my head. I gain it to apply it so it produces something. Yo, y'all get that? I gain it so I can use it. They don't need me knowing all this stuff and I don't never put it in action. That's something you going to college getting a 4-year degree if you ain't gonna never apply what you learned. No need reading the Bible 6 hours a day if you ain't gonna apply what you 'Cause the book is a living book. It's alive. And I'm listening to preaching all day and on YouTube, listen to every preacher, one after the other, and you ain't gonna apply nothing you heard. That's not intelligence. That's dumb. Because you got the key in your head and won't use it. So God is wanting us to get an understanding of kingdom. Let's go here. Kingdom, the Greek word is basileia. I'm going somewhere, I promise you. Basileia in Greek means the king's domain. It is the king's way of doing things. It's two words: king-dom. The word dom again is way or order of doing. So kingdom is God's way of order of functioning. So whenever you start talking about a kingdom, you're talking about God's way, and his way is always detached from the world's way. All right, so in order to push God's way, God's order— again, this is why I'm going to teach this series this month— we got to have intelligence, apostolic spiritual intelligence that's disseminated from heaven. Listen, it's a whole lot of people out here call themselves apostles. Oh Lord. But if they are not disseminating mysteries from heaven, intelligence from the realm of the spirit that believers can use to change their life— come on with that— a question their apostolic nature. Being an apostle is more than just hollering and prophesying. A believer, believe it or not, with the Holy Ghost can holler and prophesy because the Bible says prophecy is a gift. You can— if you got the Holy Ghost, you can have the gift of prophecy. You can have word of wisdom. You can have word of knowledge. You ain't even got to have the title. And let me tell you something, let me just say this right here: the more people need a title to define them, the less influential they are. You ain't never got to call me an apostle. I'm gonna be one by what I do. Glory to God. I'm gonna do the work that God called me to do. Some people need you to call them that because that makes them feel like they are, but they ain't never done work. You got to do the work. Glory to God. It's— and again, more than prophesying, more than laying no hands, pushing folk down. Apostles walk in an authority where they disseminate mysteries. They have a key inside of their office where they can go up into the realm of the spirit, unlock mysteries, and disseminate answers into the life of God's people. Listen, prophets prophesy. Watch this. But when— this is why we have very little prophecy come to pass, because people don't tarry with the apostle in the seasons they need to so that they can get the key to bring the prophecy to pass. Prophets prophesy apostles bring it to pass. Somebody said, oh, Michael Woods, you're wrong about it. No, I'm not. You, you say, oh no, God's gonna bring it to pass. No, God puts it inside of the office of the apostle to unlock the how-to, to bring to pass what was spoken over your life. And if you don't have an apostle that's willing to unlock the how-to The prophecy carries long and many times never comes to pass. Yeah, Lord. Let me give you an example of that. Before my wife was my wife, she was just a part of the ministry. I prophesied something to her, and I thought about this years, years ago. I think it's 2015, maybe. I told her God was going to cause her to live debt-free. I had no idea how that was going to happen at the time, that her house would be paid off. You remember that, Tawana? I prophesied that she would live debt-free. Well, as I married her, I understood the word, and God said, now apostolically, I'm gonna give you the creative key key to unlock that prophecy and bring that to pass. So now I'm using the keys every day to unlock that prophecy to make sure we have no debt. It's not just gonna fall out the sky, but the apostolic ability to tap into mysteries, or how God will direct me to the ways to create that debt-free life I have to apply them. I have to apply the intelligence. Hear this: revelation without application is constipation. I'll say that again. Revelation without application, constipation. That means if you get a revelation from God, a prophecy from God, and you don't know how to apply what you heard You're gonna be straining, constipated, stuck. You know, constipation means it's hard to come out, it's hard to pass. Look at how y'all looking at me like y'all don't know what constipation— okay, all y'all from the South, y'all know exactly what I'm talking about. Glory to God. Every one of us have been there in the natural, but every one of us have also been there spiritually. Ever had something come before you, a conference, an idea, a ministry, a business, and it was— you were struggling to get it out? It's because you needed enough apostolic intelligence to be a spiritual laxative, spiritual fiber to get that thing through. Are y'all hearing this? Oh God, help us. Okay, so I want you to write these down real quick, and then I'm gonna read the scripture, we'll be through. This series is going to be great, I'm telling you. I'm gonna give you 10 things because I want you to understand the kingdom, because this is what this intelligence is about, is cultivating the kingdom, advancing the kingdom for real. Somebody say for real into the world so that what we do is not just have good church. That's why I took 30 days off. I was here the first Sunday and the Lord said, I want you to go back to the second Sunday in August. I said, okay God, what if people come? He said, I didn't say— and I didn't say anything about that, just take off. So I did. I took a sabbatical. I spent time, I prayed, I talked to God. And God said to me, he said, son, what I'm doing in this hour is not about you gathering large groups of people. It's about you disseminating a word that will cause people to react in action. See, at the end of the day, God is giving us a call to action, not just to sit down. We got to do something. Jesus only had 12 people. They changed the world. At the end of the day, because his message was so powerful, it reached beyond a local culture of people. It was able to expand and it went into the world. He was an example of what the kingdom should look like. well, real apostolic ministry should look like. So in days to come, I'm going to show you guys some things the Lord showed me these 30 days. It's going to blow you away, because we have to really follow the cloud and not the crowd. Yeah, the Bible says every time the cloud moved, Israel moved. The cloud was the glory, so they didn't move till God moved. They didn't follow the crowds. People are now trying to follow the crowds, what everybody else is doing. But what we have to choose to do is follow the cloud, because the cloud is going to lead us to the people that need heaven. See, when you follow the crowd, that's a bunch of people building things for themselves. And I'm at a stage in my life where I really don't want to do church for me. I don't want to pastor for me. I have to do this for the people that's assigned to this assignment. And so we have to decide we're going to advance the kingdom into the world in every single way possible. So there are 10 things I'm gonna give you really quick, and then I'm gonna put a scripture on the end of this, right? 10 things I want you to remember regarding the kingdom. Y'all ready? I want you to write them down. Number 1, because you're going to need them: the nature of the kingdom is service. Somebody watching online, I need you to type it in the comments: the nature of the kingdom is service. Because guess what? The kingdom is led by a king. He's the only one in charge, and whatever the king says is law. And so when we become a part of the kingdom, we become a part of the kingdom to serve. Somebody say serve. Everybody in this hour wants to be a celebrity, but nobody wants to serve. Matter of fact, most people build their ministries around themselves because ministry today has become very iconoclastic. People follow popular men, popular women, and they don't see God at the forefront. But I'm telling you now, we're going to advance the kingdom. We got to remember that the attitude and behavior of the kingdom is service. Oh boy, we gotta choose to serve and say, God, whatever you want out of my life, you can have. God, I pour myself out as a drink offering. You, you got to come to a place where it's not about me, God, but it's about you. And whatever you want, whatever pleases you, whatever makes you smile— say service. That's the nature of the kingdom. It's not building celebrities, it's not building platforms for man, it's not sitting at tables. So used to people say they wanted to get on the stage, the platform. Now everybody say I got to get at the table. Well, neither. We all come to serve the King. And if you serve the King— I was praying about that before I started preaching— he will promote you. Let him promote you. Every time we promote ourselves, we fail. Every time we promote ourselves, we miss the mark. Oh my God. Say service. Number 2, watch this. The dynamic of the kingdom— watch this— is everything gets better. Oh, when you're in the kingdom, nothing digresses. You could tell if you're a kingdom citizen because when you're operating as a kingdom citizen and you're living under the auspices of kingdom principle, your life doesn't get worse, it gets better. Because you're submitted to serving the King. So the dynamic of your life is progression. The— oh my God, the dynamic of your life is always the best is yet to come. Even though you may be experiencing your best, the dynamic of your life is always my best is yet to come because I'm a part of the kingdom and everything I do is progressive. There's nothing digressive about God. Everything he does, he does it better. Some people trying to repeat Azusa. God says, no, I want to do something better than Azusa. Some people trying to redo Pentecost. God said, no, I want to do something more progressive than Pentecost. We're trying to redo woman thou art loosed. God said, no, I want to do something better than woman thou art loosed. Our God is saying, my kingdom is progressive. And, and watch this, when we we push this kingdom into the world— oh my God, I feel the anointing here. Glory to the name of God. Not only do we get better, but the world gets better. World's in bad shape because there's no presence of the King. The world is jacked up because the church is stuck in four walls and not in corporate America making things better, not in the medical field making things better, not in politics making things better. Do you realize It's more to the kingdom than preaching. The way we make the world better, we gotta raise up, oh my God, doctors in the medical field that sow seed in medicine so that medicine gets better. We need bankers in banking that sow seeds in the economic field so the economic field gets better. Oh my God, we need, oh Jesus have mercy, we need pilots, we need, oh my God, government officials, we need teachers, we need entertainers who are planting seed in the world so everything gets better. Hallelujah! I'm telling you, God's about to raise up a people who will submit to his dynamic so that things can get better. Hallelujah! You shouldn't have the same problems today you had 5 years ago. 10 years ago. You should be able to look back every day and say it's better. Tomorrow morning when you wake up, your testimony ought to be everything is better. Glory to God. When somebody asks you how you're doing, the next time just tell them everything is better. Glory to God. I wish I had somebody that realized that everything is better. Don't testify to your situation. Don't say, oh baby, I'm hurting, I'm pain and seem like I'm worse than I was yesterday. No, everything is better. I'm healed, I'm wealthy. Oh my God, here I'm prospering in business, I'm prospering in my marriage. Declare it out of your mouth: because I'm in the kingdom, everything is better. Somebody say better, better, better, better, better. Huh? It's got to be better. And listen, because let me tell you something. When I was in Hawaii this past week, I would go out on our balcony where we were staying and pray in the morning. So one morning I went out and I didn't see nothing but the Pacific Ocean, and I'm praying, and I saw it because all I could see was the moonlight reflecting on the water. And the water is just beautiful. But then one morning I was praying, I saw the water begin to move, the waves begin to stir. And as I was praying, out of nowhere I saw these doves. They start flying, and the Lord said, count the doves. I count the doves, it was 21. And the Lord says, 21 is 7 3 times. He says, I'm getting ready. He said to me, he said, I'm getting ready to take my people into a third dimension, 7 times 3 of completion. He said, tell them I'm getting ready to complete things that they thought would never be finished. He said, son, even in your life, I'm about to complete things that you gave up on. He said, because the dynamic now is something better. The dynamic now is something more. It's not the same as it used to be. He said, son, it will not be the same. And I'm not talking about the church as we know it. I'm talking about life as we know it. God said everything in the kingdom gets better. Number 3, write it down. Oh my God, the power of the kingdom is force. We don't relax and just let the enemy do what he wants to do. The power of the kingdom is force. I'm gonna read a scripture in a moment that connects all this together. But when you understand force, the Greek word for force is harpazo. H-A-R-P-A-Z-O. Harpazo in Greek. This word— oh boy, here we go— it means intelligence applied. It means what you learn from God, you apply. It's force against the enemy. We don't have to fight the devil. All we got to do is apply what God tells us. That's how we take things by force. We do what we learned. We live what we preach. Oh God. Number 4, the order of the kingdom. Here we go. Is structure. Cannot have a kingdom without structure. Your life cannot advance, your life cannot progress without structure. I don't care how much— how anointed you are, how much you pray, how many tongues you speak in. One of the problems with the church is we lack structure. We come and we have good church and don't have structure. I've met pastors who don't even, they have a church and don't even have incorporation with the Secretary of State. You have no structure. How can you operate legally? You're not obeying the laws of the land. You gotta have structure. You have structure if you're in the kingdom, which means you gotta pay your bills if you're a kingdom person. If you got structure, you pay your bills. That's right. Come on now, because guess what? You have structured a budget in your life and you understand I live according to this. This is my structure because my integrity is connected to, yeah, how I pay my bills. If the people at the gas company was going to get saved based on how some church folk paid their bills, they would never get born again because the saints don't pay their bills. Say that. Yes, sir. That is a problem. Yes, indeed. That— never let that be your testimony. Yes, because if you're in the kingdom, God will give you enough structure and enough resources to take care of what you need to do. If you live as a— I didn't say as a churchgoer, I said as a kingdom citizen. There's a whole difference. Oh my God, the order of the kingdom is structured. God is the head. Yes, sir. That's the top of the structure. He's the king. So if he's the head and he's the king, wait a minute, that means in a kingdom I have to understand that God— listen to this, y'all— he never will allow his citizens to lack, to struggle, to go without, as long as they're part of the structure. Yes, sir. In a kingdom— let's, let's just visit the kingdom real quick. In the Kingdom of England, the king and queen are the top of the structure. The citizens are part of what is called a Commonwealth. As long as they abide by the laws of the structure, the king and queen make sure they share in the wealth of the kingdom. Can I submit to you there are no projects in England? Not one. There is not a housing authority in England. Let me go deeper. There is not a homeless issue in England. The reason, because the king and queen takes care of those who abide in the structure. There's no difference in the kingdom of God. If I live in the structure and trust God, he's going to make sure he takes care of me as his citizen. Yes, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. The order of the kingdom is structured. So you got to understand, he's the head, you're citizens, you're his family. That's the structure. And everything he decrees from the top, we should obey it. Whether it's prophetically, whether it's out of his word, if it comes from God, it becomes law. Some people take prophecy lightly, but when a true prophet speaks into your life, instead of pushing it away, you need to receive the word, take it in. Glory to God, because that came from heaven. A prophet is one of the ways God speaks to his people. In the structure. He can speak to you directly in prayer. If he talks to you, do what he says, because those are orders from the structure. When I was in the military, we had no choice but to obey orders. That's right. You disobey orders if you want to. Try that. If they said we're mustering at 7 o'clock in the morning Everybody on the base needed to assemble at 7 o'clock in line to hear what the base commander had to say. Correct. Be laying in your bed if you want to, you end up court-martialed, you end up chastised for not being a part of structure. The kingdom of God has structure. The Bible says a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. Now watch this. Satan was saying that. Jesus didn't even say that. And he promotes division, but he's wise enough to know a kingdom divided won't work. He'll divide us in here, but he'll keep his people together. That's right. Oh boy, because he knows kingdom without order and structure, and that's divided, it will not stand. Let's keep moving. Glory to God. Number 5: the culture of the kingdom— watch this— is power. Oh, so we learned earlier that the power of the kingdom is force, but kingdom is governed by power, exousia in Greek, authority. Authority that is inherent to the citizens. So God doesn't just harbor the power for himself. What he does is he imparts the power, providence, to you and I and Felicia and to all of us and to Shria and every believer. He says, okay, I'm gonna share this power with you. Yes, indeed. When you receive the baptism of the Holy Ghost, it's only so that you can be in tune with the power of God and create culture with his authority. Isn't that generous of him to say, I got all power, but I'm gonna put it in you too? You realize because he lives in you, you have power as well. Think about this: the Holy Ghost is the person of God. And by the way, the Holy Ghost is the governor of the kingdom. God sends the Holy Spirit to make sure that we are operating like heaven operates. So he puts in our life and he brings heaven's resources with him. It's a matter of accessing the power you have again, and through intelligence, using it. And that's why we're going to teach this, because we, we got too much that we've been given that we don't use. Cancer should be bowing at the name of Jesus. Are you hearing me? Glory to God. There's— cancer is a demon, and there's no way it should take out so many believers, because we should be walking in a power that will when we walk in a place where cancer is, it immediately drives up, say, oh, I can't deal with that, because the power of God is in us. Hallelujah! Touch your belly. I got power, so I got power with God, I got power in God. And say, in the name of Jesus, say, sickness cannot dwell in my body. Say, in the name of Jesus, I have power over everything that's not like God, in Jesus' name. Come on, give God praise for that. Those of you watching, praise God for that. You got power in your belly. Glory to God. So, so the culture of the kingdom— we should be creating a culture of power where it ain't just a preacher that move in power. This is why we got so many people that doubt God because the intelligence has not been released in a way that everybody is clear. These signs shall follow them that believe. In my name, they shall speak with new tongues. In my name, they shall cast out devils. In my name, they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover. In my name they shall tread upon scorpions and serpents, and if they take up any deadly thing in their body, it shall not harm them. That's because every believer gets the power, not just the apostle, not just the preacher. Preachers want you to believe they the only one got a healing ministry because that's why people keep following them, because they feel they need to do that for— so that the people depend on them. But listen, I want you to be clear: you can lay hands on yourself and cast sickness out of your own body. Yes, God! Because you've been given the power. I dare somebody shout power! Power! This is a culture of power. That's why if you see a church that has no power, it is not a kingdom church. A church that refuses to embrace the power of God and operate in a dead zone. Everything dead, everything dry. That's not the plan of God. We need power. Ah, God, just give us power. Give us power. All right, number 6: the anointing of the kingdom— I'm trying to get through these quickly— is gifts So the anointing of the kingdom, God's— hallelujah— the anointing is the yoke breaking. Hallelujah. Yoke destroying. Glory to God. Power of the living God. The anointing was shach in Hebrew. It's God smearing himself on you and rubbing himself on you until you operate like him. So the gifts that flow out of the church are to flow through the anointing. Yes. So there are 9 spiritual gifts. I don't have time to, to talk about these today, but you got to understand that these gifts are available to every believer. These gifts are available to release the anointing of the kingdom. They should be with you everywhere you go, which means if you're in Walmart, the gift should work. Shouldn't just work at church. The gift needs to work everywhere. Okay, let me, let me give an example. So he, the first gift he lists is tongues. Diaschola in Greek is what we get, uh, words like a diakola, our tongue. Glory to God, our tongue is a diaschola. He says, I've given you the gift of tongues, the ability— watch this— not just to speak a heavenly language but the ability also to speak other languages. So that means if you run into somebody that understands no English, they're Hispanic and all they speak and know is Hispanic and you don't know an ounce, the anointing of God should be able to fall on you and you minister to them in Hispanic. See, y'all looking at me crazy. I'm telling you, I know this to be true. I know it works because it doesn't happen to me before. Glory to God. I'd have ministered to a Mexican who only knew Hispanic. I never took Spanish. Come on, church. But I ministered to him until he broke in tears. I still don't know everything I said, but he does. I led him to Christ. He saved. Because of that gift. That's the anointing of it. Do you realize if you did that, how many people come to God? If you just showed up in a place where everybody spoke something different than you and start talking to them about Jesus in their language, and you never took the language— oh, that's a miracle in itself. Just think about the anointing that is released when you start doing that. Secondly, he says he gives us the interpretation of tongues. So not only have I interpreted heavenly tongues where I heard people speak in church, but I've also been able to interpret other languages that I didn't learn because of that gift. Because it was necessary that me talking to these people, that I understand what they were saying. Because— and I, right in that moment, I knew they were saying something We were talking some stuff about business in English, and then they go off in their language talking something on the side. I said, no, God, I need to hear what they saying. I said, okay, bam, turns it on. I now understand exactly what they're trying to do. Because, you know, and watch this, what blew their mind was, was I told them what they were saying. So how did you know our language? I said, I don't. I'm saved and I have the Holy Spirit and I'm a part of the kingdom. So I was able to interpret your tongues. I'm telling you, God says the anointing of the kingdom is gifts. Watch this: word of wisdom. I don't have time to teach about these. Word of knowledge. Hallelujah. Gift of prophecy. Healings, miracles. Glory to— all of these are gifts. That's why I said when you're operating in this anointing, these gifts are working. You're walking through Walmart, see somebody in a cast, and because you you see them sitting there in a cast, you lay hands on them. Glory to God! And the healing gift work in Walmart. Do you realize what happens when they rip that cast off and they're healed? They come to Jesus immediately. See, I'm talking about operating in the intelligence of the Holy Spirit to the point where you understand that the kingdom is always available. And if God wants to do ministry because you're there, you yield yourself He releases the anointing through you. Glory to God. Number 7. Oh boy, the success of the kingdom— listen to this— is generational dominion. The name of this church is Radah Church. The word radah is dominion in Hebrew. It means to be in charge. It means to be in control. It means to have full authority. God wants us to obtain dominion in a way that we release generational dominion to those that come behind us. See, there's another thing the Lord spoke to me. Matter of fact, he has spoke this to me before. Fort Worth. He reminded me when I was in Hawaii, he said, son, you gotta realize that the generational impact of dominion, of legacy— hear this— has to be duplicated through a model that you have to set so that people will imitate. Watch this, Jesus said to Paul, tell the people, imitate me as I follow Christ. So it's okay to be an imitator of a good model. Watch this, the fathers before us, they left an old model. That model has worked as long as it could. Some of that model is not effective for the world today. Some of that model we have to dismiss because people won't receive it, people won't embrace it. But the model of dominion has to be set in a way that others will imitate it and leave generational dominion for their children. Yes. So then when they come behind you, they can operate in what you build. I was talking to my wife about my children today. And I said, you know what, mine, I got 3 boys, I got 5 children including hers, but 3 that came out of my loins. And the 3 that came out of my loins, the inheritance that comes from me should go to them. Now watch this. I was telling her, I said, with all that God is using me to build in business, and even the things how I make solid moves and build things in ministry, they're gonna mess around and miss it. Because if you don't plug in to what God is doing in my life now, don't you think you gonna have a top place in my will? I'm telling you right now, glory to God, because at the end of the day, where were you when we building. Yes, when you grown enough to support— I mean, if you can get online and watch everybody else's videos and share them, you can share mine. Y'all ain't saying nothing, and I'm your daddy. But you got other preachers. Oh, y'all say you just— I may be a little jealous of that. That's my child. But I'm saying, I'm like, okay, that man right there ain't gonna leave you nothing. Well, glory to God. But I'm trying to teach you generational dominion, and you think it's uncool to share your daddy video. And we're gonna see what's uncool when I'm laying in the ground and they read my will. They're like, wow, my dad was serious. I told my wife, I said, I'm gonna call a meeting with them next week, and I'm telling all of them, listen, you better plug in, because if not, I'm writing you out. Because at the end of the day, you— I got money, they don't, and I don't have to give them nothing. They're grown. Are y'all hearing this? I'm just telling you what I know, because at the end of the day, we can't have good success if we don't have good successors who come behind us and following our footsteps. You can't learn what I'm doing if you never plug into it. Glory to God. Oh boy. Okay, I mean, let me move. Number 8. Y'all excuse me if I went off on a tangent. I'm just saying. Glory to God. Number 8: the currency of the kingdom— hear this— is faith in the King. The only currency the kingdom has is faith. Which means pistos in Greek, to leave what you can see for what you cannot see. And watch this, to put absolute confidence and reliance in what you can't see. So I can't see the kingdom, it's an invisible kingdom, but I trust God in faith and make exchanges. The payment to receive from the kingdom is my faith. So the way that I receive kingdom resources, I trust him for them. Oh boy, glory to God. I'm telling you, this works, man. I've been walking by faith for 33 years and God ain't never failed me yet. He has been faithful. But anytime I have lacked or gone without, is because I did not spend my faith currency properly. So the only currency is faith. Even when you're tempted to disbelieve, you got to say, the devil is a liar, I'm gonna have faith in God. You gotta trust him when everybody else is doubting. You gotta trust him when people tell you you're crazy for trusting God. I've had people tell me, what you doing trying to live by faith? Go get a job. When I first started preaching and traveling full-time, man, I had people even do it in the name of prophecy. The Lord said thou are not called to travel, go get a job. The devil is a lie. I'm living by faith. I was giving my sister-in-law and my brother-in-law some testimonies of faith. Glory to God. When we was in Hawaii, one of them I gave him. I remember Michael Jr. was not even born yet. I was married to his mom, and I'm telling you, that's when I went full time. She got the real deal going through all the struggling with me. And I'm telling you, I used to get it from her and everybody else, but at the end of the day, I was going to stand still and trust God every time. So let me show you how faith is the currency for the kingdom. See, some of y'all want to do it yourself. That's why you wore out. That's why you're frustrated. That's why you're angry, because you're trying to do it all yourself. But so I did— I decided I'm gonna go into the vineyard and work, and what's right, the Bible said he would pay. So one particular month, we had to pay the rent. I had went to preach a revival, and again, drove about 6 hours to preach this revival. Preached a whole week, and I think they gave me $200, maybe— no, they gave me $250 for the whole week. And I was blessed to get that because that was money. Glory to God. Put some money in the gas tank, drove back to Atlanta, but I still didn't have enough for the rent, and the first was that Monday. I said, God, I don't want to be late. I don't want to hear this woman's mouth. We gotta pay this rent. All I got is $200. You said if I go in the vineyard and work what's right, you'll pay. Let me show you how faith is the currency. I'm gonna show it to you now. The Lord said the next morning, that Monday morning when the rent had to be paid, he said wake her up. Got her up, brought her in there. I said, the Lord said we're gonna pay the rent. He said, well, she said, how we gonna do it? I said, I got $200. He told me to bring you in. This is what he told me me to do? He said, count that $250— $200, because I had put $50 in the tank. I counted it, it was $200. He said, count it again. I counted it again, it was $250. Hallelujah! Faith, the currency. Hear me. He said, count it again. I counted it again, it was $325. Glory to God. He said, count it again. My rent was $550. He said, count it again. It was $425. Glory to God. By this time I'm screaming. Glory to the name of God. Because right before my eyes, the currency of the kingdom is multiplying this money that I'm counting. I'm telling you, it's a true story. Glory to the name of God. He said, count it again. I counted again. It was $600, $50 over what I needed. I said, well, since we're here, we might as well keep counting. I kept counting. Glory to the name of God. I counted that money in obedience to God until I had $1,000, had enough money for that month and almost enough for the next month. Y'all ain't got to say nothing to me, but faith is the currency. It opens up the kingdom. Glory to God. See, you could be out here trying to figure out, because you've been taught you were born in sin, shaped in iniquity. That the way you get things, you got to get up and work 20 hours a day. That's the devil, and that's a curse. That was a curse of sin. You, you realize that, right? You realize that God, after, after we sinned, he came back and said, okay, now that you done ate of this tree, part of the curse to man was you're gonna work now by the sweat of your brow. But how many know Jesus broke the curse? How many know he's the King of Kings? The Bible said, curses are he that hangs on the tree. So I have a right to use my faith. Y'all don't believe that happened. Y'all still down there. It's in the Bible. Jesus took 2 fish and 5 loaves of bread. See, y'all, you— if you don't believe that, you don't believe the Bible. He took 2 fish, 5 loaves of bread, fed 5,000. Why he can't take 200, turn into 1,000, pay my rent for 2 months. Come on, church! That's how he rolls. He'll supply your needs. Watch this, according to his riches. Not what you got, his riches in glory by Christ Jesus. Faith is only cursed. So if you— so the deeper you go in the kingdom is congruent to the the depth of your faith. So you got to grow your faith, you got to grow your intelligence in things that pertain to the kingdom, and you got to take risk to try the word. That's all I did. I took a risk and took God at his word. I said, hey, your word said you took 2 fish, 5 loaves of bread, you multiply. I said that in prayer, and he said, well, get up and count the $200, and I'm gonna show you I can supply for you. See, God is real. We just got to trust him as king and use the intelligence he gave us. Number 9, I gotta go. The strength of the kingdom— whoo, Lord, I feel God every time I give that testimony. Jesus, the strength of the kingdom is unity. The Bible declares where there is unity, there is strength. We have to learn how to dwell together in unity. The Bible said we should endeavor to keep the unity of the faith. That word endeavor is a hard word, which means we have to be deliberate and strategic to make sure we stay unified. See, the devil will do everything he can to disunify God's elect. The worst thing that could ever happen is you have someone anointed and elected who has no support, who has no one around them that they can unify with. It's a hard thing to be alone, and God never called us to operate alone. The body should be functioning together. But guess what? Everybody's busy building their own kingdom, doing their own thing, and we're so disunified, and we have very little strength because of it. I gotta move. Number 10, and this is where I'm closing: the access to the kingdom is understanding mysteries. The kingdom is a mystery— mysterion in Greek— which means it's hidden for a later time. It was never meant for you not to know the mystery. It just was hidden for a later time. God says, I want you to understand the mysteries of the kingdom, how to access it. I just gave you one: using the word to your advantage. God can never deny his word. You gotta learn how to use it. It ain't just some book of archaic writings. The Bible is alive. The Bible said the Bible is sharper than any two-edged sword. It's alive. It is glory. It pierces between the soul and the spirit. This book separates natural things from spiritual things. It's a real live book. And you got people out here who try to refute it because they're religious. I tell these Hebrew Israelites, all these folks, all the time— they stay away from me because they don't— they think they know the Bible, and so they challenge weak preachers. Even show up at their church, please come and challenge me, because this book is not just written, it's alive. And the mysteries of this book want to operate in our life. And you ought to be every day trying to unlock something deeper than what you've experienced before. So the key to access is understanding the mysteries. And watch this, applying the intelligence that they applied in the Bible so the mystery will work for you. Lord, let me tell you something, every time I go around some water I'm gonna unlock this mystery. Jesus walked on water. Call me crazy, tell me, well, you ain't Jesus, but he live in me. That's right. If I can figure out that mystery, oh boy, I'm gonna go into the ocean and just start preaching to folk out the ocean. Somebody said, Pastor, you lost your mind. Maybe so. But that's a mystery. How does God and man step out on water and start walking? Just walking, just taking a walk on the ocean. That's not fiction. That's real. That happened. Yes, indeed. How do we tap that mystery? Jesus really raised Lazarus from the dead. Uh-huh. He did. Every time I go to a funeral, I stop at the casket and say, in the name of Jesus, and whatever the person's name is, I say, come forth. Uh-huh. And I ain't seen it happen yet, but I'm looking for it to happen because I'm working on unlocking that mystery. Yes, God. Because the intelligence we have— Jesus did it. And if he did it, guess what? We can do it. We said we're disciples of Christ. If we're disciples and we're imitating him, then we should be able to operate like he operates. Hallelujah. Y'all stand. I'm through. I'm gonna read the scripture. Glory to God. I ain't gonna even— I done dissected the scripture through the points, but the text is, for those that need scripture for for this teaching is Matthew 11 and 12. And watch this, it says, and from the days of John the Baptist until now— somebody say now— the kingdom of heaven suffereth violence, and the violent take it by force. So So the text is telling us that throughout history— it didn't just start— the revelation of the kingdom has been under attack. Here's why: because the enemy knows that if the saints get a revelation of the kingdom of God, he's in trouble. So he attacks that revelation. He attacks the ability to unlock the mysteries of the kingdom. He says we suffer pathémangry, which means it's planned, it's thought out, it's strategic violence. This violence against the kingdom is strategic. It's a pathémangry. The devil is strategizing on how to keep us religious, how to keep us just going to church and going home, going to church, going home. Still not assessing the kingdom. He said, but us now— then he flips the script— the violent, we have to become violent, and we take the kingdom back. We take the revelation by force. Verpazo in Greek. So we'll get words like harpoon. Ever seen a harpoon? So once you get intelligence and apply, it's like throwing a harpoon at the enemy. Saying, you have no authority here, and you're— oh my God, your position here is illegal. What we got— that's why we gotta forcibly remove the enemy from our body, our finances, our family, and throw this harpoon of revelation and say, I'm a kingdom citizen and I can't be stopped. So how do we use force through our intelligence? One, we gotta rebuke him. We gotta speak it. We gotta say, Satan, the Lord rebuke you. We got to be very deliberate to rebuke the kingdom of darkness. The Lord said he will cause us to rule in the kingdom of man. That's in the scripture. The only enemy to that rulership is the kingdom of darkness, and we gotta build that kingdom. Secondly, we got to displace him. Oh boy, which means we gotta bring apostolic and prophetic rank. Instead of just using the title, we got to use the rank in the spirit to displace— oh my God, this— oh my God— displace demonic atmospheres. We got displaced. If they look, you do not belong here. And we gotta demote the devil and move him out. You have no authority, you don't belong here. And take our place, not just in the church, in the world. You realize that most of the world's systems are governed by demonic people and demonic systems, but we got to begin to speak it out of our mouth who we are and take our place. And then after we displace him, we got to replace him. How do we replace him? We got to get systematic teaching, systematic intelligence that speaks into the life of God's people, and we got to apply what we hear. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you for this this word today. Father, we pray in the name of Jesus, Father, that this word would— oh my God— destroy yokes and remove them.