ASSIGNED TO SHINE, PART 5: "AND HE ADDED, PART B" | DR. MIKE WOODS, SR. | #drmwoods

Jesus.

But there is something about that name. Master. Savior. Jesus.

Like a fragrance after the rain.

The rain. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. Let all heaven and earth proclaim That king and kingdom, they will all pass away, but there's something about that name.

We give you glory, Jesus. We worship your great name. There is no other name given among men whereby we can be saved, and we just lift that name.

You said if we lift you up, you will draw all men unto you.

So we lift that great name, God. We give your name the glory. We honor you, God. We honor you. You're our mighty King, everlasting King, Lord of everything. You are the air I breathe. You're wonderful to me. You're wonderful to me. Everlasting King, everlasting King, we adore you. We glorify you. We magnify your great name. Glory to his name.

Hallelujah.

He's a great king. He's a mighty God. He's perfectly and absolutely wise. He makes no mistakes. Hallelujah. He's perfect in all his ways.

Glory to your name.

Bless our glorious God.

Glory to you, Jesus. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

We welcome you here, God. We welcome you here. Just a few more moments. Just take some time to love on him. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

You're the King of Glory. You're our Lord God Almighty, and we bless you, Father.

Thank you, Jesus.

We praise your great name. Thank you, Jesus. From the rising of the sun to the going down of the same, your name is worthy to be praised.

Thank you, Jesus.

Hallelujah.

We supplement you, God. We macrograph you. We adore you. We glorify your name, Jesus. Jesus. Now, Lord, as we open your word this morning, we pray, God, that you would speak to us and through us. Do something in this room that man cannot do. Saturate the walls of this place, charge this atmosphere, and let your Shekinah glory be revealed. Father, let the weak leave saying I'm strong. Let the word go out in such a manner that the poor will leave saying I'm rich. The discouraged, encouraged. The doubter with faith. Even them that will watch us online. God, I decree and declare that change and transformation will happen in our life because of your word today. Thank you that our coming into this room this morning is not in vain, and we just give you praise for the fruit of our time together. We thank you in advance for what you're going to do, God. Your credit is good with me, so I thank you in advance for what you're going to do today, in the mighty name of Jesus. We praise and bless you now. Thank you for the light and the illumination and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost. We yield ourselves to you and we bless you now in Jesus' name. Clap those hands and give God praise, please. Glory to God. Wonderful Savior. Glory to God. We give God praise. We give him glory. We honor him. He's a mighty God, isn't he? Mario, on that— on the mixing board, turn number 7 down. That's my mic. Turn it down some, please. We give God glory. We give him honor.

We bless him.

Hallelujah. He's so good. Glory to God. Y'all love him?

I do.

Glory to God. I am so in love with him. Glory to God, he's so good to me. Glory to God. Hallelujah. So glad to see y'all in church on this Sunday morning.

Glory to God.

I want to take an opportunity to welcome those that are watching us live. Glory to God. Please do me a favor and share this live stream, whether you're on now or by replay. Please share it. Uh, there is a word from the Lord. Uh, this morning, uh, we're going to continue, praise God, our series we've been teaching on Assigned to Shine. Say that with me, say, I'm assigned to shine. Now there are a few things we've covered, and what I'd like to do, glory to God, is just kind of give a little review. First of all, let's read Matthew 5:16, glory to God, because I think the church in so many ways have forgotten why we exist. We are here not to build corporations and kingdoms to ourselves. We're here to advance the kingdom of God. We're here to make the world better. Are y'all here?

Glory to God. We're here so that, as a matter of fact, your whole purpose is aligned to your palpitation. Your heart beats because you still have purpose to be a light in the earth. If you were not still necessary, you already be dead.

But because you are necessary, your heart still beats.

Hallelujah. Just touch it. Just touch your physical heart. Put your hand on this. Say, Lord, I thank you for this heartbeat. Say, but I also thank you for the purpose that's aligned with this heartbeat. Say, I decree and declare I live to lift burdens. Say, I live to destroy yokes through the anointing, through my purpose. And may your glory flow out of my life so others are saved, so others are transformed, From darkness into light. Here I am, God, use my heartbeat for your glory in Jesus' name. Now if you believe what you just said, shout about it. Glory to God. So the Bible says in Matthew 5:16, he says, let your light shine before men. That they may see your good works. So again, and as the prophecy was going forth through the interpretation of this woman of God's tongues, he was talking to us about what we hear and see. The prophetic is, is both audio and visual, so you have to be able to see what God is saying. And hear what he is saying. You become a movement of prophetic expression when good works come out of your life. So when good works come out of your life, people need to see the hand of God on you. God didn't call us just to have good church. He did. He called us. Really, when we come in here, this should be Kingdom University. We should go out of this place and become a light so people can see God moving in every aspect of our life. But so many times we forget that our witness is really that important. Watch what he says. You— he said, let your light shine. In the same context, he tells us we're the light of the world. And I've already taught this, but I'm just going to review it. If we the light, we have no room to complain about darkness. Let's not complain about what's happening in our communities, what's happening in our neighborhood, if we're not turning the light on. Uh, me and my wife was at an event. I came over here last night, walked in the building, and it was pitch black. As soon as I hit the switch, the darkness left. If you're the light of the world, when you show up in dark places, darkness should leave. But if we're not intentional about being light, we'll start compromising with darkness, and that's not the plan. The plan is that men see our good works and that our life glorify the Father. So we've been teaching this series because we want to awaken in every believer the realities of this divine assignment.

Somebody say assignment.

And I've taught this, and again, that I'm gonna get into today: your assignment is the problem you created to solve. Say that with me. Say, my assignment is the problem I was created to solve. So everybody in this building, inside of you, there's a solution to a problem in Earth. It's not just the people you think that are talented or gifted in your eyes, but there's something unique about you. There's something on me. Uh, watch this, something so unique and authentic about you that You're the only person that really can solve that assigned problem for that particular person or group.

Wow, wow.

There's some problems you are qualified to solve, I can't. That's right. There's some problems I am called to solve, you can't. But each one of us, in our own unique way, we have an influence in our world to solve a problem. Now watch this. You should never speak to people about your problems who are not assigned to solve them. So listen, if they don't have the assignment to solve the issue, you're really wasting time. You shouldn't spend time talking to folk who are not assigned to make deposits in your problem so that eventually you come to a solution where you never go back to that problem again. See, God's solutions end the problem totally. So seeing the good works is walking outside. Are y'all here?

Yes.

So I gotta walk by Simon. Watch it. So what everybody solves a problem, let me give you what it looks like. Bankers solve money problems in natural sense. Bankers can solve a money problem, so you shouldn't talk to people about money that can't solve money problems. Why would you be talking to somebody just as broke, got the same problems? They can't tell you nothing about how to fix that because they're in the same situation as you. Okay, let me go further. Doctors solve medical problems. Isn't that true? I have 3 earned degrees. None of them are in medicine. My PhD is in theology— is dual— and psychology. But if you come to me and you got an ankle your ankle hurting, you got a headache, I can't help you. Because most people, they'll see a doctor in my name.

What kind of doctor?

You're not that kind. You're gonna be worse off than you was. You start talking to me about your medical issue because I'm not qualified. Y'all get it?

Yeah.

To solve the problem. In the same sense, in the kingdom, there is a specific problem that your gifts, your talents, your abilities are assigned to solve. And this ultimately is your witness to the world. Ruggie better have a gift to somebody, because assignment says somebody needs you. It says somebody is waiting for you to show up so their problem and their issue can be fixed. Oh God. So in every assignment— and we're going to get into today— every assignment, number one, there's people.

Say people.

God is a people-oriented God, so he never gives an assignment that doesn't involve people changing, people transforming, people— watch this— glorifying him. So the assignment is always to people. You got to know the people you assigned to. Are y'all hearing me? I always tell God, I planted—

this is church number 8 that I planted, and all of them started like this.

Watch this.

I always have stood my ground and waited on the people that are assigned to me.

The success or failure of a church hinges on the leader understanding who has been set to follow him or her.

Amen.

Some preachers just want numbers.

Okay, all right, they just want a corporate congregation. But when you got—

the Bible says, and God has set the members in the church. That's Corinthians 14. So there are people already assigned to my voice. There are people assigned to my spiritual DNA, and you can build a healthier situation when you are patient enough to wait on those who are assigned.

That's right.

Are y'all hearing this? And not look for those who are not assigned to be engaged.

Are y'all here?

Yeah.

So every assignment has people. There's some people that need you.

Say it again.

Say, somebody needs me. As a matter of fact, you are a life jacket to somebody drowning. I mean, they're going down for the count right now, and you didn't find them so that you employ your assignment in their life so they don't drown. Somebody's on their way to hell, and you have the assignment to stop them. I'm serious. They are on their way to hell right now, enjoying the trip, but the assignment is in your belly to stop that. So next time you see little brother acting up, smoking weed, drinking, cussing, all the stuff they do, they don't need complaining about that, right? Find the assignment in you to help that come to a cease. Are y'all here? So every assignment has people. So secondly, every assignment also has places, geographical locations, topography, please, that you have to find yourself in. One so that the assignment can be administered. Secondly, so you can receive what you need to be qualified to carry out the assignment. See, being in the right place deals with the idea— glory to God— that you're going to get the exact things you need to cultivate the assignment of God inside of you. Are y'all here? You have to manage the places effectively. You can't just be here anywhere. I was speaking in a place last night and I talked to people. I said, hey, the reality is we can't follow things and go to places and plant ourselves in cultures and situations where we were not assigned. Watch this, because that place doesn't carry the grace to pull out of you what needs to come out. And you'll sit there for 5, 6 years, 10 years frustrated because that place never had the grace to push you where you need to be. But we ascribe to it— this is what I told them last night— because it looks a certain way, because it's popular, because it has a million followers. Let me tell you something, just because there's a million followers— and I told them last night— popularity doesn't equal power. You can be popular with no power. I'd rather, glory to the name of God, be the most unpopular person in Georgia, in the kingdom, but be able to cast out the devil, to be able to lay hands on the sick and they recover. To have power with God is the most important entity of your assignment, but power is cultivated— watch this— in places. I'm gonna talk about that in a minute, but again, I'm just getting where I need to be. So every assignment, say, has people Say it has places. Thirdly, every assignment has particulars, specifics, a way of doing it. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 14:40, let all things be done decent and in order. So God has a pattern, a specificity. God has an algorithm. I preached this last Thursday, I think, and the message was God is my algorithm. Because people are following algorithms. Algorithm is a set way of doing things to achieve a certain result. But if I align with God's way of doing things, I'll receive kingdom and godly results. Oh boy, can I teach you here today? Listen, you need the particulars. Life gets hard when you don't have the particulars, we don't have the specifics.

So spend time with God.

So he can reveal the particulars. All right, so every assignment— say it— says people, say places, say particulars.

Watch this.

Thirdly, every assignment also has periods, seasons, and times. Periods, time frames. So watch this, you may be going through it in one season of your assignment But that ain't the end, because seasons change. You're gonna have seasons where you feel like you're on top of the world, but then there'll be seasons that'll show up where you feel like you're fighting an uphill battle, because God is training you in that season to qualify you for the next space. Watch it. That's why you should never curse your crisis. You should never curse what you're going through. Listen, and I just heard the Lord say, for those of you that's been going through periods of— and seasons where you have been experiencing dryness, whether you're in here, out there— I just heard God say, no more dry seasons. I just heard the Lord say that I'm about to end the seasons of dryness, the seasons of slackness, the seasons where you've had lack. God says The dry season's about to come to an end, and I'm about to bring you into seasons of consistent precipitation, persistent and consistent rain. I dare you shout, the rain is coming! And you know, whenever you read about rain in the Bible, it's prosperity, it's progress. Oh, y'all not here. It means fruit is on the way.

I dare you shout it again, the rain is coming! Oh God, I don't know about y'all, I can't testify for nobody else, but the plowing I've been doing with this Atlanta church, I— y'all ain't got to receive it, I receive that word for myself. I've been plowing and plowing in this region when I just felt it in my Holy Ghost, Noah, that the rain is coming, the season of harvest is coming, and the things that the enemy thought he could stop, I just heard God say, son, you're fighting for victory. And everything the enemy thought that he would destroy— there have been days I wanted to quit. I told my wife, I ain't got to pastor to be an apostle. I could just travel and talk to my sons and do what he's called me to do in other regions. But God said, no, stand your ground. And I just heard him today say, no more dry seasons. I dare you to open up your mouth and give God praise for the seasons of rain, the seasons of abundance that you are about to enter into. I'm telling you, it's on the way. Matter of fact, it's here right now if you'll receive it and pull it down in the spirit. Oh my God, it's already here! The sky is open, the heavens are open! Receive the rain!

I receive it now!

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I heard this—

I hear that song. Rain is for those who have seed in the ground. If you sowed in tears, God said you're about to reap in joy. You cried long enough. He said, I'm coming in the volume of the book, and I'm about to do what you thought could never be done. I'm about to do in your life what they told you would never happen. I'm about to open doors that they told you never would be open. I'm about to lift burdens that you thought you would have to carry. The of your life. No more dry seasons.

No more, no more, no more.

God says, I'm going to save your children, I'm going to save your families. You will plow, you will pray. No more dry seasons, cuz they going to see the good work, the fruitful work, the powerful work The powerful assignment that comes out of your life. My God, no more dry seasons.

Encourage. The tables are about to turn. I heard you, God. You might as well put your signal on, cuz you're getting ready to turn a corner. When you're driving, you turn, you put your signal on whether you're going left or right, indicating I'm getting ready to turn. I just heard the Holy Ghost say, put your signal on, cuz you're getting—

oh, shy. He said put your signal on cuz you're getting ready to change.

We give you the glory, God.

their people, their places, their particulars, their periods.

There's two things about seasons.

I'm going to get out of here.

One—

thank you, Father.

You can't start a season no matter how bad you want.

You can't start it.

Oh my God, you could want winter to come right now. You can go outside and rebuke the summer and the fall, but winter ain't coming into its time. Cuz you can't start a season, you can't make God move faster than he's moving.

Thank you, Jesus.

But he just made an announcement that the season has changed and he stepped us into something different.

Ross, he's put us in a new place, he's doing a new thing.

And we don't have to force the issue. You got a lot of people out there trying to force things to happen in their own time. But watch this, Ecclesiastes 3:11 said, and God makes all things beautiful in his time. So he's going— the word beautiful there is amar in Hebrew, and it means that he makes all things perfected and complete. But it's in his time, because you can't start a season.

Oh God, I love it.

Thank you.

Second thing about a season, it's one I love— can't stop a season. So when the season shifts, they can work witchcraft, they can fight against it, they can talk about you, they can scandalize your name. But there won't be nothing they can do to stop your season. They can sprinkle bones and write chain letters, pray against your progress, but I'm telling you, there's nothing the enemy can do to stop the coming season. When God changes your season.

Glory to God.

Last thing, every assignment not only has people, places, particulars, periods, but every assignment also has provision.

Say that with me. Say, every assignment, every assignment has provision. Come on, say it again. Say, every assignment has provision. Where God guides, he provides.

If it's his will, it's his bill.

If he told you to do it, okay. He got enough to take care of. The Hebrews called him Jireh. It not only means that he's the provider, it means he is enough. When you said Jireh, you said, Lord, you are enough. Thank you, Jesus.

I just—

somebody just said that, said, Jireh, you are enough.

You are enough.

Watch this, because there's no insufficiency in him. He is sufficient in every regard. The only people that lack is us. He's just waiting for us to believe him. Hear what he said, believe he said it. Because many times when God speaks something to you to do, it's going to be bigger than what you are doing right now.

Oh my God, I went on—

our lease is going to be up next year in September, and I've already started looking for new buildings. And I'm not looking based on the size of these—

the people we have here.

So I looked at the building, was like $3.7 million, and I never doubted. I never started adding up what we got in the bank as a church. I just said, Lord, this is what you have for us. I know you're gonna provide. And the Holy Spirit said, well, you keep looking because what you're looking at may even be too small for what I want to do. And then he spoke to me, he said, ain't enough people to provide for you what I told you to do anyway. I must be the source.

Are y'all hearing this?

He told me, he says, you— he said, I gotta be I'm gonna be the source for what I'm gonna do through you and the ministry. Yes, because he is provision. Jireh is enough. When he says it, he's God enough to take care of it. I got a call last week from the fire marshal who— so we have a building that's an assembly in Henry County. Um, we've been here a year in September and ain't nobody said nothing, but now they said, okay, well, we just realized you're assembly.

How?

It's on all the paperwork.

And I told him, I said, how you just realize that? It clearly says Roddell Church. What you thought it was? It's an assembly, right? He said, uh, well, y'all gonna have to get sprinklers, and we might have to not allow you to carry through with your occupational, uh, certificate because you don't have sprinklers and you're an assembly. I said, but again, I've been here one year next month.

How in the world are y'all just figure it out.

I said, well, we're renting anyway. So this me— I got a meeting Wednesday with the fire marshal and the owner of the building, because if anything need to be done, the owner's got to do it, right? But I already know she ain't gonna do it either. She gonna be like, why y'all waiting till now? But I just said to God, well, This will be a good way to get out this lease, and we can buy a building now. All right, and if that's what he wants to do, guess what?

He's already provided because he's enough.

So, so you, when things arise, you know he's enough. You don't worry about what it looks like. Cuz you in the throes of the assignment.

Let's run it, Billy.

Say, I'm assigned to shine.

I'm assigned to shine.

Yes.

So because you are assigned to shine, the enemy is going to bring warfare to you.

So this—

I just want to clearly this morning show you what this—

the madness of our enemy He knows your assignment.

He knows what you carry.

He knows who you are.

That's why he fights you so hard. I want you to go to, uh, yeah, go, go to Isaiah 14. Glory to God. See, what you've been fighting with and going through, it has nothing to do with you.

He's fighting you and attacking you because of your assignment.

The attacks—

watch this— from people is not even from that person. Stop getting mad at folk. It's the demon in them that— oh my God— that's using them to come against your assignment.

Me.

We be planning retaliation to folk when it ain't them. It's the devil trying to break your focus so you forget who you are.

That's right, that's right.

Isaiah 14, and let's look at verse number 12. Let's start right there.

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How art thou cut down to the ground, which thou did weaken the nations. Verse 13: For thou hast said in your heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God, I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation in the sides of the north. Verse 14: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds. Watch this, he says, I will be like the Most High. So here's a problem: he's a rebel. The fall of Lucifer, uh, what we just read is rebellion.

Say, he's a rebel.

So the reason the enemy keeps fighting you, because he's rebelling still against the assignment of God that's in you. But every time he rebels, I want you to understand that Isaiah— oh my God, right here in Isaiah 14, this applies to his rebellion. Every time he tries to ascend above what God has called you to do, he only has one destiny. Verse 15 says that he is cast down and fallen. So every time the enemy rebels against you, he's got to fall. So watch it, that means your assignment is unstoppable against your rebel. Say that with me, say, I cannot be stopped.

I cannot be stopped.

Say, the rebels, rebels can't stop me. Can't stop me. Come on, say it again, say, the rebels can't stop me.

Rebels can't stop me.

Because you're going to always have opposition. Any God-given assignment will be opposed, especially when you make up your mind you're going to go against the grain and do something nobody else is not doing and supposed to be doing, which is bringing people to Christ.

Amen. Amen.

When you decide we're going to be a light to the world, he is going to rebel. But here's the promise we have: he can't win. Verse 15, it said it right here in 14:15, yet thou shalt be brought down to hell, to the sides of the pit. Every time the enemy comes against you, he's got to go to hell. He's got to be put down. He's a rebel that can't win, fighting a useless rebellion.

Against anointed, assigned people in the kingdom who are operating under the banner of God's promise.

That's why you got to stay aligned with him.

Mhm.

Are y'all with me?

Amen.

Matter of fact, go to Ezekiel 28. Look at this, look at it right there.

I'm almost through, I just sound long. Glory to God. Somebody said No, you don't just— Ezekiel 28, let's look at 12.

He says, Son of man, take up a lamentation upon the king of Tyrus and say unto him, thus said the Lord God, thou sealest up the song full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

So watch this, King Osiris, full of wisdom perfect in beauty. He was a mighty king. He was complete, full of wisdom, smart. But watch this, verse 13.

He said, thou has been in Eden, the garden of God.

Every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, and the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold. And the workmanships of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day thou was created. He's talking about Satan, right? Verse 14, he said, thou art the anointed cherub that covereth, and I have set thee so.

Thou was upon the holy mountain of God, thou has walked up and down in the midst of stones of fire. Verse 15, thou was perfect in your ways from the day you were created till iniquity— here we go—

was found in thee. So Tyrus, full of wisdom, is an earthly person who the spirit of Lucifer got in.

And the word of the Lord came and began to speak to the spirit that was in him. I said, Lucifer, I see you.

This is who you were.

But watch this, whenever people operate out of their flesh When you try to stand up on your own, that's never of God. Now what do we do with those kind of people? The Bible said let the wheat and the tare grow together. He said I'll do the separating. The reason the wheat and the tare have to grow together, because in immaturity you cannot tell the difference between wheat and tare. They look exactly the same. Only when they reach full maturity you can tell the difference between wheat and tare. How do you tell the difference? Well, the wheat has seed in his head which causes it to bend over. So the wheat has a crook at his peak. The tire stands straight up because the seed is not in the head. You have to be careful of people who interact in your assignment that operate in pride and stand up on their own, right? Okay, okay, okay. God says what I want you to do is get to maturity where you can see pride. Because these things will again rebel against the assignment. But you need humble people who got seed in their head, who have destiny, the future in their head, and that destiny causes them to bow before God. And then watch this, when the separating happens, even the natural says— let me show you what this looks like. A guy who's coming to harvest the wheat comes out with a sickle. See, this is what happens to assigned people. He cuts the wheat down. So if you're really assigned, they're gonna be seasons you get cut down. All right, there's, there's a real fight. That we have to endure to be— oh my God— purified in a way that we can host the presence of God for real on Earth. See, don't listen to this stuff where people say you can do what you want to do and still host God's presence. God is holy, so you can't host him and you are holy.

That's right, come on now.

You can't do it.

That's the truth.

I mean, you operating then in a familiar spirit. I told him last night when I was talking, I said some of y'all have perfected church because you've been going to church rehearsal— not choir rehearsal, but church rehearsal— all your life. I mean, we've learned how to do church, and we think because we can manipulate a pattern religiously that we're in God.

Right, break it down.

But you can't come in here on Sunday and then as soon as you get out on the parking lot you cussing and lying and think you hosting God's presence.

Come on now, are y'all hearing this?

Yes, I was— it was in the building last night where we was at. We was out at the event, was at the Airport Marriott, and in the building, I mean, a church function, people just openly come to stuff. I mean, this was a flaming— I'm talking about not in the closet— flaming homosexual. They had a red carpet out for the event and had his man with him coming to the church event while worship going forward, just like everything's okay.

I, I wanted so bad to just deal with that, but it wasn't my place to do that.

But at the end of the day We gotta do better because guess what? The world's watching. All these workers in the hotels, at least the church in here, but look at the people in there. Are y'all hearing this? You have to— when you humble yourself before God, you're gonna be cut down. But here's what happens when the wheat gets cut down: that same man gathers the wheat. So even though you get cut down, God has a way of assembling you with other people who've been cut down, and he wraps a band around all the weak. So you need to be in places— there it is again— where people have the same mindset, who have the same DNA, who want the same thing. And so God will bind you together with those people. Wait a minute, this process is finished. He takes all the wheat, he bands up, puts it on the back of a truck, and then they go for a rough ride because they ride through sand and grass trying to get to the threshing floor. Because again, that's that season of roughness. You go through the rough season, but you're banded with other people. Oh, Shabaya! Because he that is strong bear the infirmities of the weak. So when I'm weak in the area and you're strong, you can— we ought to be able to be accountable enough to each other that we can bear one another up.

That's right.

Amen. Amen.

See, it—

even as a leader, we should be vulnerable enough to have people around us that we can say, hey— and it's a real mature leader that said, we've got to a point where I lead you past this place. I need y'all to pray so God will give me what to do in this next place instead of getting up there doing something in your flesh. Are y'all hearing this? Sometimes it's going to get rough.

Bouncy ride.

I'm, I'm, I'm wearing— I'm tell you, I'm feeling right here in this text. He gets to the threshing floor, takes the wheat off the truck, opens it up. Now he spreads out every piece of wheat individually. He comes into the threshing floor with a stick, big stick, and he begins to beat the wheat.

See, again, you've been going through it because God's trying to get that seed out your head.

So the assignment— because what he's doing when he's beating the wheat, he's separating the past from the future. He's separating the seed from the stalk so that that seed can be sown into the world. Because they take up all the seeds once they separate, put them in the wintering pan, and they resow them into the world. So God takes you through a process so you can be qualified to be sown.

Preach today, sir.

And you can't be qualified if you rebuke the process. Oh God, because guess what? You can rebuke it today, but the process is going to come back, and you're never going to maximize your potential until you yield and say, God, I accept. I'm gonna take this rough ride. I'm gonna let you beat this future out of me so you can sow me into the world so I'm qualified to give you what forgiven, but not rise up in arrogance like Lucifer. See, people who are assigned to shine, they operate in humility. The opposite of that is arrogance, pride. And we know what God does with that. The Bible said he rejects the pride. He, he has nothing— he, he exhausts the humble, rejects the pride. Pride has separated us from God.

Preach.

This is why you can go in a church and feel no presence, because arrogance is in the headship. Because guess what?

Arrogance—

and I'm closing with these— leads to aloneness.

Nobody wants to be around an arrogant, pompous know-it-all that you can't tell nothing. All of us can learn.

Are y'all hearing this?

You can learn something from a child. If you humble yourself, you can learn from anybody. Arrogant folk don't want to hear truth. They don't want to be corrected. They feel like their way is the only way. They don't want to be challenged. Most arrogant people are bipolar because at the end of the day, they— that person that's arrogant is always there. They can be operating in false humility, but you pushed the wrong button. You'll see that other friend come up. Are y'all hearing this?

Yeah.

Arrogance is a dangerous piece. This is why a lot of people end up divorced, because they're too arrogant to admit to their spouse they're wrong. Arrogance leads to aloneness, because again, nobody wants to be about—

be with you.

Nobody want to fool with that. I had a lady in my church in Jackson tell me one time, she said, my ex-husband used to tell me, you ain't nothing, you ain't nobody, you ain't been nowhere but church, home, and school, and you can't tell me nothing. And he was planting seeds the whole marriage for divorce. She tolerated it until she couldn't tolerate it no more, because you're not going to let somebody continue to talk you down. To make them feel better about themselves. Arrogance leads to aloneness. Watch this. You cannot fulfill purpose in isolation. You can't fulfill your assignment alone.

You need people, you need help.

Leader that's watching this, you need help. The people that connect to us are not stockholders and shareholders to keep the business functional. They're souls that God sends to carry vision. Are we here?

Amen.

Stop trying to perform and operate in the pleasure mode. See, performance comes from aloneness. You feel a need to perform because you're alone, because even God leaves the arrogant.

Okay, he said it himself.

I just quoted the scripture.

Do I need to quote it again?

He rejects the proud, he leaves the arrogant. He wants nothing to do with that. Matter of fact, one of the 6 deadly sins is pride. The Bible said pride cometh before a fall, a haughty spirit before destruction. Well, pride make you fall. Oh God, it makes you fall because God's not there. And that's what we're reading in this text right here about the angel that fell and the spirit of this angel that got in the king that failed because of his arrogance. He was carrying out his assignment in the way God anointed him until he got arrogant.

And then he had no support around him, and then God's hand lifted off of his life.

We got to be careful. Watch this, it goes back to places that we don't connect to, and people, people and places. We don't get in relationships with people and connect ourselves into things, businesses and ideas where the hand of God has been lifted off of it. Cuz if God's hand is not on it, it's going to make it hard. The way of a transgressor is hard. So you better make sure, and you better pray about it, that God said it.

That's right.

I don't never want to be where God was. Come on.

I want to be where God is.

That's right.

Amen.

Come on now. I'm telling you, if God ever leaves this church, I'm going with him.

Are y'all here? I'm—

I'm—

I, I can't stay if he ain't here. I'm not going to sit somewhere out of emotional attachment and God gone. Some people stay in relationships that God never had his hand on in the first place. I've been here 25 years, I don't know what I'm going to do if I leave now. You gonna keep living, you gonna be better than you was because you in something that you shouldn't have been in anyway. God been took his hand off it. Arrogance leads to aloneness.

But watch this, because you cannot fulfill purpose in isolation and assignment in isolation, you need people.

That aloneness leads to abortion. You abort the original assignment. Yeah, because you came to this planet carrying assignment that God had already handpicked the people to connect to the assignment so the assignment could come to pass. But in arrogance, you ran them away. Oh God. And then now, because you need people and can't fulfill assignment without the assigned people, you abort the original assignment. Happened. And now you say, well, maybe this ain't what God told me to do because I don't have the support. No, you don't have the support because you're arrogant. Maybe it's not— I'm not talking directly at me. I'm—

listen, I'm talking to a camera, so just don't take this personal.

But if the shoe fits, all right. I need you to understand, the reality is you can kill a destiny and abort a dream when you do not know how to react to trials and tribulations properly. And when you react to trials and tribulations in arrogance, because this is the root of it, and you decide, okay, I'm gonna fix this myself. I'm gonna get myself out of this. Listen, trials are designed to qualify you again for the assignment, right? So if that's the case, we have to learn how to extrapolate the nutrients out of trials. Instead of complaining about trials, we have to learn how to extract the nutrients out of the trial. Because the trial is supposed to make you more like Jesus. It's supposed to make— give you a spirit of endurance. Now, when you look around, a lot of people going through trials, but all of them are not coming out like Jesus. It's because they react to the trial improperly. When God sends a trial, tribulation into your life, you gotta humble yourself. And react to that trial. Good God, you got to react to that trial with praise, with worship, with faith, and say, God, I'm here for it. And whatever you got to take me through, God, I'm gonna go through it so I can be better. I'm gonna go through it, God, so that I can be fully qualified for what you're calling me to do. But if you react with complaining, you're never going to get the nutrients. Watch this. If you react properly though, it sets you up for blessing. It puts you in a position where you're provided for. It puts you in a position, glory to God, where doors that will normally be closed to you are now opened. Because you're operating from a qualified place to go through the door. Can I submit to you, some of the doors we do not get through has nothing to do with God not wanting us to get through it, but our character in trial. We flunk the test. God said, I need you to pass this test so I can trust you with this anointing, so I can trust you with this $1 billion, so I can trust you with this money. So I can trust you, glory to the name of God, with growth. So I can trust you with increase. Go through the test.

You know what kills us? It's excuses.

Most time we make excuses in trial. The reality is, when you're going through, that's the time to press. That's the time to gird up and say, I'mma press. Yeah, cuz I got to get through this and I got to get what God has for me. You don't just lay in the bed and say, you know what, I'm just going to give in. That's a punk move. God wants you to know who you rolling with.

That's right, that's right.

Do you realize you walking with a God that never lose? Come on, that's right, he always wins. So arrogance leads to aloneness.

Aloneness leads to abortion. Watch this, abortion— I'm closing—

leads to adventurism. See, when you abort the original assignment, you become an adventurist. You start taking risks that are not risk of obedience to God's plan.

You start doing all these things to feel fulfilled that wasn't the original intent for God creating you.

You ever seen somebody start 100 businesses? They don't have every kind of business, they've been in every multi-level marketing thing, and they never had no success, right? Because they un— they unplugged from the original plan. Oh God, you got to stay in line with what God says. That's right. Amen. Because this don't just work at church. I mean, this stuff works in life. That's where it's supposed to work, because you're the light of the world. So people can see you consistent and not adventurous all over the place. I mean, ever see somebody just can't keep a job? Get a good job, don't have the job for money. Look up 30 days. Sometimes I see folk get a job, I'll be looking at my wife.

Yeah, 45 days, they ain't gonna be that long.

Job to job to job to job because they're adventurous. They have no clarity concerning purpose. People who are whoremongers, watch this, they're adventurous. They can't be satisfied by one partner. So they're all over the place taking risk through arrogance.

But if you humble yourself, God will exalt you.

Through the exaltation, he's speaking to you. Remember the prophetic word through the interpretation of the woman of God, tongues.

If you hear it, you can see it.

Watch this.

If you hear it, you can handle it.

If God releases the promise, you can handle it.

Thank you, Jesus.

If you heard it and you know it was him, he said you got the capacity to handle it. Cuz let me, let me just be honest with total transparency. When I first started looking at churches, I went in there, I started putting in stuff like from $300,000 to $500,000. And the Lord said, what you doing? You trying to limit me to what you want to do, right? And what you can handle on your own if you had to. He said, you got to lean on me. He said, you got to think outside of the box and understand that what I've told you, you can have, you can handle. And he said, did you not hear me? Come on now, did you not hear what I told you I was going to do through and in you in this territory? As hard as it's been, don't you know I'm getting ready to turn this thing around for you? So I need you to think through me. So God tells you to go look for a house look for it on his budget. Are y'all hearing this?

Yes, yes.

I told my wife, we're nearing real close to paying this house off. I'm telling you, there's about to be a major breakthrough. We're gonna pay this house we're off in, and now we've talked— we've been talking about selling this house and buying another house because I love to play golf on the golf course. And this is the other thing, see, this is something I know I can do personally, but God said no. I'm gonna bless you with that for the testimony, and I'm gonna do it debt-free. You don't even need no mortgage. And most of the houses we've looked at on golf courses started $1.5 million and up. So God said, I'm gonna do that with no mortgage, with no bank.

I heard it.

So I know now He's going to handle it, I'm going to handle it. I'm going to live in every piece of that square foot.

Amen.

Are y'all hearing this?

Yes. Amen.

You have to come to a place where you trust him so much, yes, that you don't ever become an adventurer, that you walk by faith and not by sight.

Amen.

Adventurers walk by doubt and fear. Because they trying to find the next thing to secure themselves.

But I'm secure in him.

You're secure in him. Let's follow his voice.

You know what we have to get back to doing? We got to follow the cloud.

See, the Bible said Israel, every time the cloud moved, they moved.

Ludacris wrote a song, when I move, you move, just like that.

So when the cloud move, you move.

Are y'all hearing me?

Just like that. You shouldn't move until he move, right? But here's what we start doing.

Instead of following the cloud, we follow the crowd. I want to be where the cloud is. I want to hear what God is saying. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Here's the final point. So arrogance—

say, say, arrogance.

Arrogance leads to aloneness. Say aloneness leads to abortion. Say abortion leads to adventurism. It's the last one. Adventurism leads to adultery. Now watch this. Adultery is not just sexual unfaithfulness to a married person.

Matter of fact, God called Israel an adulterous nation. That had nothing to do with marriage, nothing to do with sex. Adultery, by definition, means to be satisfied by something that's not yours.

So many people in life get satisfied by assignments that's not theirs, satisfied in situations that they weren't called to, satisfied with a job that they're not supposed to be working. Satisfied with a spouse that they shouldn't marry. Adultery. Because you satisfied by something God didn't ordain. We'll settle for something because it looks good, it feels good, it strokes something in us that confirms something. Because oftentimes what God is saying appears to be hard.

It—

many times the revelation from God for your life is going to appear undueable in your flesh. But remember, you're rolling with him. He can't lose. Adulterers in the kingdom will never win souls because they'll think that they have an assignment outside of winning people to God. God doesn't tell you to do anything that doesn't connect with souls.

I don't care what it is, you'll be frying chicken, there's a soul connected to that chicken. Because every assignment solves a problem, and your assignment, Vicki, does have— she's in, in the heads, but she's in those heads to be a light to people who sit in a chair.

That's right.

Are y'all hearing this? Because she has opportunity to reach people that don't know God, that don't go to church. And when God puts you in situations, your light is there so they can see your good works.

See your assignment and glorify the Father. Y'all stand. I'm done. I pray y'all got something out of that today.

Come on, stand and just worship God and give God praise. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Lord. We thank you for your word. We thank you for your word. We thank you for your word.

Come on, just open your mouth and thank him for the word. Just a few moments.

Thank him for the word.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

We thank you for the word.

Say this with me. Say, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, say, I receive the word and I declare I'm here on assignment. Say, the world will be different because of my assignment. Say, I believe my light is to remove darkness. Say, when I show up in assignment Say, darkness must flee. Say, my assignment equals my good work. Say, in the name of Jesus, I declare today I will do good work. I will let my light shine and I will glorify you. Say, because of my life, many will be turned to righteousness. Many will be saved. Many will be set free. Say, in Jesus' name, I will walk in humility, and arrogance has no place in my life, in my gift, in my anointing. I am who I am because of you. In Jesus' name, say, I declare that my rebel Satan, he is defeated. Say, in Jesus' name, he cannot and will not stop my assignment.

So my season is here. Say, I will never, never, never, never have another dry season in my life. Say, I declare the abundance of rain takes me over right now in Jesus' name. It is so. If you believe it, I need you to shout about it. Come on, you shout with your mouth. Open your mouth and shout. Glory to God. Shout with your mouth. You dance with your feet, but you shout with your mouth. Come on, open your mouth and shout and shout, God, because your enemy, your rebel will never defeat you. You'll never be defeated. Come on, give him glory, 'cause you will never be defeated.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!

You'll never be defeated. You'll never be defeated. Every trauma, every pain, every struggle of your past. It will not stop your future, for you are root. I hear you, God. And God is going to sow you into the world, and the kingdom will reap a great harvest because of who you are. Open your mouth!

God said, I'm going to use every tear, I'm going to use every pain, I'm going to use every struggle, I'm going to use— ooh, the camera— I'm going to use every struggle.

Glory to God, glory to God, glory to God, glory to God. Come on, worship. Come on, give him glory. Come on, give him honor. Come on, bless his name. Come on, praise him for your future. I can see you— I hear you, God— in your future, and you look much better than you look right now. I'll say that again.

I can see you—

hallelujah— in your future, and you look much better than you look right now. I need you to praise God like you've already got it. Praise God like you've already got the money, like you've already like the door is already open, like breakthrough is already here. Come on, open your mouth. Oh Jesus, we get out. Somebody's breaking through. Don't you dare get tired. I dare you, shout unto him with the voice of triumph. Yes, shout unto the Lord like you've already won the victory, like the battle is already won. I heard you, God. Don't you wait till the battle is over. Shout now. Don't you wait till the money comes. Shout now. I'm praising him like a billionaire. I'm praising him like my businesses have a billion-dollar evaluation. I'm praising him because the door is open. I'm praising him because the way has already been made. Come on, open your mouth! Come on and bless him! Hallelujah!

I dare you, act like you already got it, act like it's already done. I'm telling you, I'm declaring your worst days are over.

I'm declaring the season has really changed and you stepped into the best days of your life. You left in impossibility, and you step into the season of im-avansaya, of impossibility being a thing of the past. You step into a day of possibility, and God says all things are possible to them who will believe. Is there anything too hard for God? Avansaya! No, it's not. I dare you, praise him like he's already moved on your behalf.

Come on, open your mouth.

Glory to your name, Jesus. Glory to your name, Jesus.

We give you praise, God.

We give you glory.

Oh God, we give you the honor. Hey, come on, worship her! Come on, worship her! The change has come. It is possible. It is possible. Your assignment is possible. It is possible. Yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord. We bless you, God.

We bless your name.

Bless your name, Jesus.

We worship you, God.

We worship you, Jesus.

We worship you, Jesus.

Bless your name, God. We bless We give you glory. We give you— receive our praise in the matchless name of Jesus. Would you clap your hands and bless the Lord in this place? Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. You may be seated, I pray. You've received from God today. Jesus, our great God. Jesus, our great King. We bless you. We honor his name. What a mighty God we serve. What a mighty God. Hey, God is so good. Mario, you put the ways to give on the screen for those online and in the building. We're gonna be a blessing unto the kingdom today. Last week the Lord worked a tremendous miracle. We said we were going to raise all the money that Nicole needed for her mission trip. We needed $1,500. And we raised like $1,491. So somebody ought to give God praise.

I just went on and put the— I put 5 on the top, then we'll put the other 9. So y'all give God praise for what he did.

God is good. But let me tell you something, even after we did that for her, see, giving works, man. Giving works. The very next day I got a call, and the call simply was, I was praying and God told me to write a check and put it in your hand. Gave the person a certain amount. I said, put it in Apostle Wood's hand. Wow. I went and met him, and the check check was for $1,000. So immediately, bam, so we sort of saw the seed start coming back, start coming back.

But he stopped there.

That's the whole week I just been getting people sewing.

Yeah, last night I was sitting down and somebody walked to me and handed me a check for $1,000. Are y'all hearing this? It just works. It's a principle that works.

Works.

Giving works.

So I want you to give your very best to God today.

As we know, this is God's exchange system between heaven and earth. Glory to God. The ways to give on the screen. Those of you online, please give. Uh, this is your week to tithe. Please tithe and give God what belongs to him. Amen. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We give God praise. Why you giving glory to God? Ross, come on, let me pray for you real quick. I prayed for you last week, but I'm gonna pray for you right now because this is what God gave me. Lift your hands up. Yeah, yeah. God, I thank you for the anointing that's on Ross's life. While I'm talking over these next 2 minutes, a fire is going to start burning in your belly. He said to tell you it's time for the prophet to speak.

It's not an accident that our paths have crossed because the prophetic in you—

God said the apostolic assignment that I have is to stir and pull that prophetic, not just for this local house house, but I see you going to different places speaking and sharing and teaching. I see prayer groups, intercession groups where you'll minister and prophesy to women that'll be around you and sit at your feet.

God said your retirement is going to be spent not working again. God says he's going to begin to position you financially because of your heart. Glory to the in the name of Jesus, that you can do ministry, and you're gonna do ministry sweatlessly. For God said, Michael, tell my daughter she indeed is a prophet of God. Not just one with gift of prophecy, word of wisdom, word of knowledge, discerning of spirit, but he said to tell you, you indeed are a prophet. He said to say to you, he said, the nations await your boys. I even see your feet treading foreign soil.

I'm looking at a meeting that God's going to open up in the next 3 years.

This thing is gonna happen so supernaturally, he's gonna put all the connections together. You're gonna take a group over to like Dubai. I see Dubai, and God says you're gonna prophesy in that nation. I always see— I also see like Australia. I see God opened up Europe to you and even regions in America. God says you're going to begin to prophesy, and lives are going to be enhanced and changed because your testimony that aligns with your prophetic voice is going to bring many to him. And God says, eyes haven't seen— I can't even see all of it—

and neither have ears heard The good things that have been prepared for you and your life will indeed glorify God, and we thank you.

We bless you, God.

We bless you, God.

We bless you, God.

Somebody say, it is so. Come on, declare it is so. We give you praise. Can I pray for you?

Just give me your hand.

Just thank you. God said to tell you, for much as you know, your labor has not been in vain. And he says he's not going to forget your labor of love. You've given yourself to people.

You're giving yourself to people's dreams, but God said now it's time for you.

God said even in your family you've given yourself, and many times it has not been reciprocated. And I'm looking at 3 daggers that's in your back where you loved and they stuck you in the back. But God told me today to move those daggers. And God said nothing in your past will hinder your future. He said this pain wasn't designed to kill you. He said the brokenness came to anoint you. He said he bound bothered you. Yes, God, to make you better. And pass our time on this first one, because you really, really love this person and they— and it just didn't turn out the way you expected.

But you got to lose God's daughter.

And I command now in the realm of the spirit, freedom from GPS locator triggers from this brokenness. I command them to be broken now in the name of Jesus. This dagger, this one right here, to trust.

When I pull it out, you will trust again. Every time you will open your heart because you're so loving and giving. God says you called to be a paymaster in the kingdom. You called to employ others. You called to advance and finance kingdom dreams. And God said, I need you to trust. I need you to trust. We give up.

And this last one, God said, Pansy, you're about to get the happiness you deserve. Cuz in the season you thought you was happiest, you got stabbed in the back. But God say you're about to move into a day of happiness and swole complete joy. And he said, I'm putting your heart all the way back together. For about 13 years, there's been a tear in your heart, just a tear. But God says this morning, I'm healing you and I'm making your heart whole and I'm giving you happiness. And you shall have good success in the Lord, and your life shall bring glory to me. You got your hands in something now. And God said, this business that you got your hands on, God says, I'm about to multiply it. And God says, I'm going to cause you to be a magnet And people are going to be drawn to your team. They'll be drawn to your downline, and it won't be because of the money. It'll be because of the favor that's on your life. And God said he's going to anoint your mind, and I impart entrepreneurship at the highest level, and I declare she'll break records. Come on, somebody, to worship Jesus. Jesus is here! Jesus is here! Oh, we give you glory, God!

And my precious ones, for I've sent to thee a whirlwind, a whirlwind that will transport you. Into heavenly places, places you have never seen, places you've never known.

I've sent a whirlwind that will cause you to surpass the coming turmoil and pain that's coming to this world. But I have put you in a whirlwind to protect you. But I shall take care of you, even the Lord says, by my covenant and by my word. Stand even in the integrity of the word, says the Lord, for my word cannot lie. For if I said it, so shall it be. For if I said it, so shall it come to pass. And that that I promised you, you shall see, and you shall know, and you shall handle with your own hands. But even under my voice today, said the Lord, for I have caused you to— ata shiku turamandia— to experience my favor in a greater way. But even now you shall know and have multiples of resources. I demand for even amongst you today, get a millionaires and multimillionaires, for you shall have a heart for the things of the kingdom, and I will protect you from the economic whirlwinds. For I have established a covenant with you. It is a beautiful covenant. It is a covenant that can that cannot be resisted, that cannot be changed. And I shall bring to pass all I have said and all I will do, says the Lord of hosts.

Yes, Lord, my soul says yes, my soul says yes. Glory to God. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.

Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. We love you, God.

We love you, God.

You've been so good.

You're so kind.

Yeah, that's why I praise you.

Yes, yes, yes.

I lift you up and I magnify your name. I praise you, I lift you up and I magnify your name. That's why my heart is filled with I praise you.

I lift you up and I magnify your name. That's why my heart is filled with praise.

I praise you.

Yes, yes, yes. I lift you up and I magnify your name.

Why, my heart is filled with praise.

I love you, I love you. I love you, Lord, today.

Yes, God, in such a special way.

That's why I, I lift you up and I magnify Everybody say, that's why my heart is filled with praise.

My heart, my mind.

Sing, my soul, my soul belongs to you.

Sing it to Jesus. You paid You paid the price for me way back on Calvary.

That's why I lift you up and I magnify your name. Everybody sing, that's why.

Clap your hands and love on him. Just love on him. Glory to God. Glory to God. What a mighty God we serve. Hallelujah. We're going. Just a few announcements. Glory to God. Father, bless every gift, every giver. Return it back a thousand times more, in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Few announcements. Remember, our fast day is Tuesday. We fast from midnight to 3:00 PM on Tuesdays. No food, water only until 3 PM. Make sure you join us at 5 AM for prayer this Tuesday. We're going to be praying specifically for our meeting this weekend. So make sure you're in prayer with us this coming Tuesday at 5. I'm believing God for souls. Somebody say souls.

Souls.

Glory to God. I want to see people saved this weekend. We will have no service on Thursday night. Our Soul Winners Weekend starts on Friday night, Friday night at 7. Saturday, 2 sessions, one starting at 10, 11. Then we'll have a lunch, then we'll break and come back at 6 PM Saturday night. Well, Apostle Tony Hill is going to preach. Please help me spread the word. I'm gonna charge everybody here— there are flyers on the back, take those flyers with you. Um, try to get 10 people that's not saved. I want to see this room full of people that need Jesus next weekend. Would y'all like to see that and see them give their life to God? I mean, just— I mean, if you got to get 10, you really got to talk to about 30. So take you at least 30, 40 of them flyers and pray this week. Pray over each one of them. I've already prayed them, but pray them again and ask God to lead you to the person to invite to this meeting. And it might not even be somebody you know, but let's get them in the building. Amen. We have some great sessions, um, You want to be here. We, we're talking about wise strategies to win souls, and we're going to be on the line of what we're talking about today— how to take your assignment for real and reap a harvest in the world. Amen. People need Jesus, man. And the church, we got— we got to get back to minding his business.

We have to.

So let's please oblige. Sunday morning, we'll have a session. We'll have our regular worship service, and then Sunday Even at 6, Apostle Sears, who is a great woman of God— you don't want to miss her. She is going to be preaching. Let's fill this building. Somebody said, 'That's 5 services.' I know it is. Y'all couldn't came up in church when I came up. I'm just telling you now, I was in church 7 days a week. Amen. So, but This weekend is important. It's probably one of the most important weekends that we've had this year because it's going to empower us to bring people in the kingdom. Do y'all believe people need to be saved? I already gave you the number: 7.2 million people in Atlanta. Only 7.8% of that 7.2 million is born again, Spirit-filled. That's so low. He added to to the church daily, such as would be saved. People in this city need God. Amen. This meeting is going to equip us to get Jesus to them effectively. Amen. So that's being— being placed. You don't want to miss Apostle Hill, sir, tonight. He is my brother, man. Me and him got affirmed as apostles in 2005 at the same time by our spiritual father. Great man of God. So It's gonna be good, it's gonna be good. Babe, you got anything? We had a long day yesterday and, um, it was a press this morning, but we, we got here.

Amen. See, and I'm so glad I pressed.

Amen. Glory to God. Y'all please keep Pastor Jeffrey in prayer. Glory to God. He woke up this morning, his shoulder was in pain, and he said he couldn't move with it also. But we went on without music, amen.

And God still moved.

I heard my wife said a lot of time we make music a crutch. It's true, but all you need is you and him. So we thank God for everything. Shariel broke through in prayer for us. Glory to God. And everything else was easy. Praise God.

Hallelujah.

We have a visitor today. God bless you.

Thank you so much for coming. Y'all give her a hand. Yeah, I'm going to assume that you came with Vicki because I saw you walk in the door.

So thank you, Vicki, for inviting her, and thank you for being here. I pray something happen today that bless you.

I'm from Texas, Dallas, over there, and, uh, I got to text you and my bishop together. Praise God.

You know what, people have been trying to connect me and Sherman Allen for years. I have, yeah, I mean, I've traveled a lot through Dallas. I preach for a lot of good friends. Bishop David Martin is my friend. I used to go preach with Bishop Cordell Booker there, um, and every time I would go, it was just something would always happen.

Yeah, yeah, we're in Fort Worth, but we always say, because everybody knows Dallas, awesome cowtown.

But anyway, I want that to happen, and I would— and because he's a great man of God, I would love to bring him here and let him bless us too. He's a great man of God.

Yeah, yeah.

So to make that happen, yeah, we'll do it. Praise God. So yeah, yes, for sure, I'm definitely open to that because people have been telling me for years.

I've been all—

I was just all through that region preaching. And yeah, I used to go to Dallas, Houston, Fort Worth, and done some meet— some meetings there with Mike Murdock. And yeah, so it's just been— yeah, so yeah, I would love to this. They are always open to it. Yes, always open to it. So thank you for coming. Yes, praise God, praise God. All right, family, we're going home.

Everybody stand.

Glory to Jesus. Father, we thank you for this service today. Thank you for everything that has happened, every prophetic every preached word, every taught word. Watch over your word to perform it and bring it to pass in our life, God. And God, we thank you that the days ahead will be filled with your precious promises. And as we leave this place, we never leave your presence. Let your spirit go before us and make our way smooth, successful, and prosperous. And we give you praise for it.

Now.

In Jesus' name, amen. Hug somebody, tell them you love them.

Amen. I love you. I love it.

God always connect. That's right.