Bulldog Faith, Pt 6: "Persistent Faith, 2" | Dr. Mike Woods Sr. | Day 9 of 21 Days of Fast + Prayer

and let's, glory to God, operate in this level of power and overflow that God has given us. I'm telling you, man, um, it's an amazing time. Praise. So y'all do me a favor, guys, if you're coming in now, please share this. Uh, it's just nice to be nice. Praise God. And so I'm asking you, if you would do me a favor, please, by all means, today I need you to share this, man. I believe that the blessing of God is going to be so amazing on us on this teaching today. So you need to bless somebody else with it. Don't keep it to yourself. Make sure that you bless someone else with this teaching today. I'm glad to see all of you. Please comment below. Let us know that you're here. Glory to the name of God. Hey, hey, Pastor Jeff, God bless you, man. Love you, sir. You guys, um, come in, please do me a favor, please share. I mean, the more you share, the more we bless others with what God wants to say, what he wants to do. So here we go, let's jump in here. So I want to say this really quickly before I get started now. We have had a long week, so I know we missed a 5 o'clock prayer this morning. So honestly, y'all pray for me. Uh, hey wife, I love you, lady. Thank you for checking in today. God bless you. Um, listen, we had a long week, long weekend, so I kind of slept in. I was tired. I, I preached on Saturday in Jackson, Mississippi. What a glorious Revival that we had in Jackson. It was absolutely amazing. So many healings, so many prophecies, so much restoration happening. The word was phenomenal. I'm gonna actually post that word later today so you can actually partake of what we experienced in Mississippi on Saturday night. But then we, we, we went to bed, got up about before day, hit the road so we can be in our service yesterday. Uh, got in the car, went right into service, uh, began to minister yesterday. Yesterday was phenomenal. We're going to post yesterday's word. We start talking about overflow of finances and what it takes to overflow in our finances, because that's one of the reasons we're fasting too, for overflow of finances. So, uh, what we're doing on Sundays, we're going to address teachings on overflow of finance, and then during the week we're going to talk about— continually talk about overflow of faith, because honestly You cannot connect or tap into the overflow of finances. Hear me, if you do not have faith in God, it's just not going to happen. So we're going to make sure we disseminate these lessons. You know, the Bible says in Romans 10:17 that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God. So the more you hear the word, that's why you got to be in on these 12 noon teachings. The more you hear the word, the more your faith explodes, the more it expands. The more— watch this— it becomes an external expression. So it explodes, it expands, and it becomes external. See, faith is internalized while you're believing, but when you hear the word and then you take action and make application of what you hear, it becomes external. Glory to God. And that's what we want. We want you to be excited about walking in faith and seeing the works of faith at work in your life. All right, let's get into this, man. We love you guys. Again, please— hey Bruce, God bless you, welcome today. Uh, we're gonna jump into this. I'm not gonna be long, but we're gonna be right back on track tomorrow morning, uh, for 5 AM prayer. So make sure, guys, you are joining us. I'm flying out this evening to Austin, Texas. Y'all pray for me. Glory to the name of God. But I will do 5 o'clock prayer from Austin and 12 noon Bible study from Austin on tomorrow. So make sure you tune in and share with us. I'm excited to teach, man. Glory to God. Let's jump in this. So today, Father, we thank you. Glory to God. Let's pray. And we give you praise. So excited. Let's pray first though. God, give us the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost. Father, do something unusual. Do something man cannot do. Saturate our hearts and minds today with faith. And God, even as we hear your word, according to Romans 10:17, faith come by hearing. So I decree and declare that every person under the sound of my voice, that faith would come alive in— oh God, that faith would come alive in them in the mighty name of Jesus. And I decree it, I declare it, I say it is so. Hallelujah, in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. God bless your hearts. Glory to God. Let's jump into this. So again, today we're talking about persistent faith again. Glory to the name of God. We're talking about— my God, we're loving— We're loving what God is doing, and we're loving uh, that we're getting testimonies already from people as, as they begin. One of the ladies, uh, one of the dear sisters from church yesterday was testifying how the fast is really being a blessing, uh, to her and some of the changes that are taking place. Listen, it's, it's happening because we're tuned in, where our eyes are opening up in a different level of clarity. So we talked before, and I— persistent faith is a huge piece to this Bulldog Faith because the bulldog is persistent. Uh, last time we looked, we went to Luke 18, uh, verses 1 through 8. Glory to God. And we talked about the persistent widow. She kept going to the unjust judge. And the reality is, we, we revealed a few traits— listen to me— that the unjust ruler had and that the persistent widow had. One, The unjust ruler was known— hear this— for not helping people. He was known for being unfair. He was known for putting people in jail that didn't deserve it. He was known, glory to God, for being prejudiced. Glory to God. But the widow, she would not take no for an answer. That's the, that's the first trait that we saw in her. Secondly, we saw that she was relentless. And insistent. We taught this already, not going to teach it again. She was relentless and insistent. Hear me. Also, we learned that she did not stop until she got what she wanted. Oh boy, she was persistent, man. You got to go back and watch part 1 of Persistent Faith. Again, Bulldog Faith. Glory to the name of God. The last message we talked— matter of fact, I was holding the phone in the car while Lady Felicia was driving. Glory to the name of God. Teaching the last message. But I want you to get this, man, today, because you gotta move in faith and put pressure on your faith and stay on it and don't let up. Hear me, until you get what you desire. I dare somebody type in the comments for me right now. Just go ahead and type it. Say, I will not let up until what I'm believing for manifest. Come on, type it. I will not let up until I see what I'm believing for. Yeah, that's a good way to put it. I will not let up until my eyes see what I'm believing for. You got to stay on it like the widow did. She refused to give up. That was number 4. And 5, we learned that she tenaciously, stubbornly, and persistently kept coming. She would not quit, man. I said that a lot of different ways, but all I was saying, she didn't quit. And can I tell you something? Hear this today, guys. The only way you're going to lose in this faith walk, in this faith battle, is that you stop going. You stop going after it. You stop believing. If you stop believing, I'm telling you right now, you're going to lose. Because there's some things— glory to the name of God— —there are only gonna happen—that are gonna happen through your faith. Glory to the name of God. And you gotta decide, praise the name of Jesus, that you're not gonna let up. So today we're gonna keep going and we're gonna look at some examples of persistence and we're gonna see how we need to continue until we see the results. Glory to God. So what is persistence? Let's get a working definition of persistence. Persistence. Now remember I told you also, before I say that, persistence is the antidote for resistance and existence. See, some people are merely existing, so they just have this existence that flows out of their carnality. They have this existence that flows out of their natural ability to do things. But persistence graduates you from just existing. Eh, eh, glory to God. You graduate from just existing. And then secondly, hear this. Rebi Kansa, Rebi Kose, bruska telamandolo lobosha tabababakia. Yes, God, I love you. I praise you. Thank you, Jesus. Persistence defeats resistance. Yes, God, I'm, I'm hearing God talking to me. I'm trying to teach, but there's a prophetic thing that's happening right now. I'm telling you, it's probably gonna break forth before this live is over, so y'all stay with me. Glory to the name of God. Yes, God. Yes, God. Persistence defeats resistance. So persistence defined is firm or obstinate, continuous in a course of action. Watch this, in spite of difficulty or opposition. I'll say that again. It is obstinate, continuous in a course of action. Glory to the name of God. Despite the situation, despite the difficulty, despite the opposition. Persistence watch this, applies nonstop, constant, continual, steady, relentless pressure to a situation. The word pressure is two words. It's press and uray. Uray is a word that means to extract, to extrapolate, to pull out of. Press means to push. Obviously it means to push upon. Hallelujah. It means to apply weight to. So what faith does, glory to God, it applies weight or it presses on the pressure or the resistance that is coming against you. And what it does, it extrapolates, hallelujah, what you're believing for. It pulls out what you have your faith on. Let me show you what this looks like. So let's say, Omadi Eskatai, let's say Glory to God that you are trusting God for a debt-free mortgage, right? And you got your faith on a debt-free mortgage in 2023. You're confessing, you're believing, but you keep coming up against resistance, negative thoughts, uh, lack of finances. Oh, watch this, you may even get laid off your job, okay? What you do, you don't let up because the difficulty showed up. You keep being persistent. You keep applying pressure to the pressure. I'm gonna say that again. You keep applying pressure to the pressure until you're ready, until out of the pressure is born that debt-free house. You don't allow circumstances, oh my God, to dictate to you, glory be to God, what the outcome of a situation is gonna be. Oh my God, today, glory to God, I gotta go, I gotta go, I go, let me, let me go, let me go. So persistence then does not give up or give in. Persistence doesn't let go, like that bulldog, man. Glory to God, glory to God, until all resistance is broken. So when you're moving in persistent faith You don't give up, you don't let go. Glory to God. Until all resistance is broken and the desired result is attained. Glory to God. So you got to keep applying the pressure. You know, the, the young people got a saying. Glory to God. If I'm gonna apply pressure, I understand the assignment, so I'm gonna apply pressure to this situation. They may be talking about their swag, how they're going to dress. They may be talking about how well they're going to achieve inside. I know my My son is an amazing football player. My youngest son, Alex, he's an amazing football player. He's an athlete. But he always said, "Dad, when I go out today, I'm gonna apply pressure. I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do this." Because at the end of the day, he wants to show up big. Can I tell you something? God wants to show up big for you, but you gotta keep applying pressure. Have you guys shared this experience yet? Please go ahead and share this. Glory to God. Share it because somebody needs it. Somebody needs it, I need you to go ahead and share this right now. Glory to God. I feel Jesus, man. Glory to God. I feel Jesus for real. Okay, so persistence doesn't quit. So let's give you some scripture examples of assistance, of persistence. It is assistance too. Glory to God. Because persistence, glory to God, thank you Jesus, it becomes the assistance that's necessary Hallelujah! To achieve the impossible. I'll say that again. Persistence becomes the assistance that's necessary to achieve the impossible. So we're always talking about doing the impossible, but you got to be persistent in faith until you see the manifestation of the impossible. Persistence becomes your teammate to achieve what the world, what people have deemed impossible. Oh my God, guess what? What's gonna make me a billionaire? That's why I stay persistent. It won't be getting a job. It won't be— glory to the name of God— getting more opportunities in my businesses. What's gonna make me a billionaire is my persistence and faith. Glory to God. To keep pressing in to the opportunities that God— oh my God— presents to me for my business, for my life, for my ministry. And then even, even, even in the investment opportunities, if I'm persistent to pursue, I got an assistant that helps me create a billion dollar valuation both personally and in my company. I'm excited, man. I'm just excited. Glory to God. Share this experience, please. Glory to Jesus. I told him yesterday, I don't know if it was either yesterday or Saturday, you know, I'm gonna be persistent. I'm gonna let y'all keep being spooky and broke, right? I'm gonna let y'all keep— oh my God— doing all this spooky stuff and call it deep and call it supernatural. Listen, the supernatural is more than you— glory to the name of God— laying in the flow. It's more than you talking in tongues. It's more than you prophesy. And I do all of that. I lay hands on people, they get slain in spirit. I'm not against that. I lay hand on a lady Saturday night, she lifted up off the floor. Glory to the name of God. About 3.5 feet off the floor and just flew backwards. Glory to God. And when she got up, she was all right because the Holy Ghost lifted her up in power. So I agree with all of that, but it ain't enough because those that are in darkness don't communicate with the things that happen in life. They need to see something else. They need to see how the glory rests in your business, how the glory rests in your finances, how the glory rests on your marriage, how the glory rests on your friendships, how the glory of God God can rest on your family life. Glory to the name of God. They need to see something more than what you're doing inside of the four walls of the building. I love the church, man, don't get me— I love it, but there's got to be a balance. Let's look at some examples. Glory, glory, glory to Jesus. Let's look at some examples real quick. Yes, God. Let's look at some examples of persistent faith. Luke 11. Oh, thank you, Holy Ghost, I love you. Verses 5 through 8, the Bible says this. Watch this, y'all. The scriptures declare, and he said to them, Amplified Version, which of you who has a friend will go to him at midnight and will say to him, friend, lend me 3 loaves of bread for a friend of mine who's on a journey and just— and, and has just come, and I have nothing to put before him?' And he from within will answer, 'Do not disturb me. The door is now closed, and my children are in the bed. I cannot get up and supply you with anything.' I tell you, although he will not get up and supply him anything because he is his friend, yet because of his shameless persistence and insistence— watch this— he will get up and give him as much as he needs. Now watch this. The man said, we are in the bed. Listen to this. We are in the bed. The kitchen is closed. If it was another time of day, I will help you. Well, the friend wouldn't take no for an answer like that widow. He kept being persistent. He kept knocking on the door. And the Bible declares this man got up out of his bed and supplied him with what he need. Here's the question: how bad do you want what you're believing for? How bad do you want to see the scriptures come alive and manifest in your life? How bad do you want to see your debt paid off? How bad, Michael Woods, do you want to be a billionaire? How bad— and I don't want to be a billionaire, glory to the name of God, for Michael Woods purposes. I want to be a billionaire for kingdom purposes so I can build hospitals, so I can build communities, so I can build centers for the homeless, so I can create transitional housing for women. So glory to— and men. Glory to the name of God. So I can, glory to the name of God, build churches all over this nation and plant churches all over the world. And help leaders and entrepreneurs be empowered to build business. That's why I want to be a billionaire, so that we can serve humanity. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I got to be persistent in my faith so that the billion shows up, and I got to make sure that every move I'm making, I'm not making a flesh move, but I'm making a faith move. And you know what, when you start making flesh moves and doing things to think you're gonna help God, God's got a way of interrupting that and say, okay, I didn't tell you to do that, so I'm gonna shut this down, right? And I want you to move in faith. Oh, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory, glory! Hallelujah, hallelujah! So you got to keep going. You got to be— you got to insist that the promise that God has over your life comes to pass. You got to be persistent and declare, hey, I'm like this bulldog, I'm gonna bite into this and I ain't gonna let go until I get the blessing. Glory to God. Let's look at another example. Go to Mark. Somebody write it on this, on the, on the comments. Go to Mark 10, verses 46 through 52. Let's read this. I'm reading from the New Living Translation. And this is Bartimaeus who is persisting until he gets healed. See, some of you pray one time, but you haven't persisted until you got the healing, until you got the deliverance, until you got the freedom, right? So let's read this. Mark 10:46. 1 through 42. Here we go. The Bible says, when Bartimaeus heard that Jesus of Nazareth was nearby, he began to shout, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me! And then watch that— watch how people are. This man crying out for help from God. Be quiet! Many of the people yelled at him, but he only shouted louder. Son of David, have mercy on me. Listen to this, man. You gotta learn to shout unto God and cry out to God in faith, not in misery, in sorrow. Faith carries a connotation of joy because you're speaking what God has already spoken. You're praying according to his will, and his will is his word. So you start shouting unto God to have mercy on you and fulfill the word that He's spoken over your life, and then you tell him what that word is you need, what that promise is you need to come to pass. Oh my God. And here's this, watch this. You're gonna always have onlookers that look at the level of faith you walk in, and they're gonna look at you and say, ain't no way in the world God is gonna do that for you. You need to stop believing. You need to do this, take some carnal way to get it done. I remember I first went full-time in ministry. I started telling people, you know what, I'm not working anymore. God told me to go full-time in ministry. I told them the scripture God gave me. God said, son, go into the vineyard and work, work, and what's right I'll pay. He didn't tell me to go in the vineyard and start trying to do revivals or develop product. He said, work. So I went into the vineyard and started working my ministry, even when I had nowhere to preach. I said, I— at that time I had a little studio apartment, didn't have much furniture. Matter of fact, I took an old mirror that was on a dresser from some stuff that was outside I flipped it over, set it on two milk crates, and made it my desk. I sat on the floor. Hallelujah. Hmm. I sat on the floor at that desk every day with, glory to the Lord, a typewriter, an old typewriter, and a regular telephone. And I worked my ministry. I built relationships. I, I typed up things about the ministry. I worked every day. I typed partner letters. I typed letters introducing myself and sending my bio to people, letting them know what I, I worked, man. And guess what God did? He started opening doors for me. So much fun. My ministry grew to a point on the road that I started traveling an average of 15,000 miles a month preaching out of the 52 weeks in a year. Glory to God. Oh boy, I was preaching 48 weeks every year on the road doing revivals. And I'm talking about, I was doing 7-day revivals, 5-day revivals, 3-night revivals. Sometimes I was doing revivals that would start out at 7 days and turn into 21-day revivals. Listen, because all— because I started in faith. And was persistent right there in that apartment. Glory to God, 34 years ago, 34 years ago, people, yeah, working, working in the vineyard and didn't know where meals were coming from. But when I tell you, God took care of my bills, God took care of my food, I had clothes on my body, I was healthy. But I stayed persistent even when it was difficult. But I had people telling me, thou art not called, go get a job. I have folk telling me that, man. I will get prophecy, thou art not called. Yea, thus saith the Lord, you are not called to full-time ministry, go get a job. I didn't listen, man. I didn't. Now listen, there are some people, they're not called to it and they do need to get a job for real. But when you know what you know— oh, glory to God! When you know what you know, praise God. Ishara Mandio, Brikanda Baba Soriati. When you know what you know, listen to me. You follow faith and you be persistent, because them same folks that gave me those prophecies, they still know me, they still watch my ministry 34 years later. How glory to God! And God's still taking care of us by faith, not by the works of Michael Woods' hands, but by the works of his own hands. Let me read verse 51. The Bible said, this is Mark 10:51. The Bible says, what do you want me to do for you? Jesus heard him. So you keep calling. See, there's a scream in faith that'll make Jesus scream. There's a holler that'll make Jesus holler back. You can holler in faith long enough where Jesus will holler back and say, what you want? What you want me to do? I love this faith. You got to learn to holler until Jesus hollers back. Glory to God. I'm getting too excited about this. Watch this. He said, what you want me to do for you? Jesus asked. My rabbi, the blind man said, I want to see. And Jesus said to him, go. Watch this. Your faith has healed you. Your confidence, your belief, your reliance, your trust in God Your pistis, your ability to believe what you can't see for what you can't see, has healed you. Watch this, instantly the man could see and he followed Jesus down the road. That's why we got to operate at a level of faith for miracles for people so that God can heal them. That's why we got to teach sick people faith so they could trust God for the healing because watch this, When an unbeliever gets healed, when the kingdom of God shows up and superimposes healing and deliverance on an unbeliever, oh my God, and they know it was God and the doctors gave up on them. Listen, listen, oh my God, they immediately want to follow God. They immediately, oh my God, want to be engaged with the kingdom because they know the result they have obtained was from a real God. I've seen it too many times, man. I've seen this scripture play out in my life so many times praying for people. Oh boy, yes, yes, yes. Listen, Bartimaeus was fed up. With being blind. So he decided to turn up his faith, to take his faith to another level, and said, look, I'm gonna get this billion, I'm gonna get this business prosperous, I'm gonna get to a place— glory to the name of God— where I'm a lender and not a borrower. You got to turn it up. Praise God. He got persistent in his faith because he was fed up. Question is, are you fed up with your situation? Are you comfortable and stable, or do you want more? One thing about it, I can't make you want more, but what I can do is tell you that more is available. Yeah, if you're in the kingdom, if you're a child of the King, listen to me, more is available. More is available, but you got to choose. To trust that. He was fed up. Are you fed up with the way your marriage was or is? Are you fed up with the way your household is? Are you fed up with what your bank account numbers say? Yeah. Are you fed up? I mean, really, seriously and truly, truly, truly, are you fed up? That was a question. Yeah. Are you fed up? He did like that widow. He got persistent. He wouldn't take no for an answer. He didn't care who was saying what. So you gotta block out what people are saying about your faith. You can't listen to folk that ain't got no faith talk to you about having faith. That don't make no sense. They don't have none. They don't, they don't know how to trust God for things. Matter of fact, everything they got is based in what they're able to provide for themselves. It's based in linear income. It's based, glory to God, is somebody exchanging time for money because they don't believe for nothing. For real, they're comfortable. They rent facilities because they're comfortable. But they won't put their faith on buying a facility. They won't put their faith on buying a car with no, oh my God, loan payment, buying a house with no mortgage because they think, okay, I can measure this, man, because you can measure your linear income. If I make X amount of dollars, that's what the loan company does. And they, they gonna see if you can service the debt you're about to get in with your money. Faith don't work like that. Faith has no limits. Question: are you fed up with having just enough or not enough? Living in underflow and no flow? We talked about overflow last month. You got to get fed up with those positions and say, hey man, hey, I want more. Glory be to God. Touch yourself and say, I want more. Ah, touch yourself and say, I want more. Glory to God. Type it in the comments, I want more. You got to get fed up though, and you got to get persistent in your faith. And watch what else he did. See, you can't have persistent faith unless you do like blind Bartimaeus, or seeing Bartimaeus now, and persistently Pursue Jesus! Oh boy, faith without Jesus is a fantasy. Ah ah what you got your faith in if it ain't in Jesus? He's the King that provides what you're looking for so you need to relentlessly pursue him. Pursue relationship. Ain't nothing like it, man. I had a, a great pleasure driving in from Atlanta to Mississippi, spending time with God. But the pleasure— I spent time like this with God a lot, but the pleasure this time was I got to spend almost 6 hours in prayer in the car, my wife and I, on our way to Mississippi. For the meeting we just did. We prayed and spent time. It's nothing like relentlessly pursuing Jesus, passionately being in love with him, where tears are drenching your eyes, where, glory to the name of God, you're overwhelmed by his love, his favor, his presence. It— oh, glory to Jesus. My God today, my God today. Oh Jesus, let me tell you something. You can't replace Jesus. I know, and I know you say, oh, I know, I know we can't. People try. Some people try and don't even know they're trying because they spend so much time trying to do things through themselves and of themselves. But when you relentlessly pursue him, you are convinced that he has your back. I'm almost done, man. I told you I've been here too long already. Ah, God bless you, Janelle. So good to see you in Jackson. Good to see you on this live today, man. Glory to God. Hallelujah. You be encouraged. I'm praying for your husband. I'm praying for your family. I'm praying for your ministry. I'm praying that you stay connected to my heart. Glory to the name of God, because God has something super for you. Glory to God. Matter of fact, I, I'm trying to, I'm trying to teach his word because it's really the prophet subject to the prophet. But, but Janelle, God said not only do you want more, but you are more. He told— he said to tell you, you are more. I told everybody to type that, and I'm saying to you, Janelle, you are more. Glory to God. You're going to be a living expression and epitome of what more looks like. And God says he's about to baptize your marriage, your family. And God says this thing is going to be done right, and he's going to separate you from everything that blocks or hinders your forward movement in God. Hear that, Janelle, Janelle, Janelle, Janelle. Hear that. Glory to God. Heshi andela boshai. More, more. Glory to God. More. Listen, he was not going to shut up. It's another attribute of Bartimaeus. He wasn't gonna shut up. He didn't care what people thought. See, some of y'all live for public opinion. You cannot worry about what people think. You gotta live for the audience of one. That's Jesus. And you can't be concerned about the opinions of your family. I mean, look at their life. Why are you gonna be worried about what your family think? Look at them. I mean, they— listen, if you take other people's advice who are not in faith and who are not trusting God, you take also their lifestyle. Oh, wait a minute, I'm about to run out of here. If you start listening to folk, hear me, who have nothing, who have no fruit in their life, who have no evidence of the supernatural working for them, you also adopt their lifestyle. Oh, shabba! Rikesemendi osiai. Brisca tabanda loboshe. You better hear this, and you better make up in your mind that you belong to him and that he has what belongs to you. And you better decide that you're going to refuse to quit. Listen, you gotta decide this, man. It's a decision. It's a decision. Listen, both Bartimaeus and this friend that went to his friend in these two texts, they both applied nonstop— I'm closing— constant, continual, relentless pressure on their covenant and on the devil. So that's, that's what you do. You're applying pressure to the covenant that God made for you in his word. With you in his word. I said it yesterday, I'm gonna put the teaching up for yesterday as well and put up with Jackson's teaching tonight, and tomorrow night we're gonna play Sunday's message because we start talking about overflow finance. Listen, you gotta put pressure on the covenant. This is what I said yesterday, you gotta decide that the Bible is true and believe it. And when you believe it, you find a promise in the Bible that covers what you need. It's real. It's a real simple formula. Find a promise that covers your need. I said it yesterday, mama said it now, because you gotta put pressure on the promise, the covenant. That's, that's, that's your right as a kingdom citizen. Find the promise in you. Some of you don't know what's available to you because you don't read the Bible. All you do is scroll timelines. Yeah, I know. All you do is go to church religiously on Sunday and then your pastor ain't talking about nothing. Glory to the name of God. Ain't giving you nothing, no food, no, no promises, nothing to live by. He giving you 3 points and a hoop, and you get excited and you have a praise break over what? Over how to keep your blood pressure down, over how to diet and eat right. Glory to God. Ma'am, sir, no. Oh, your pastor is a civil rights activist, and every message he preached, he's talking about civil rights. Listen, we— listen, listen, there are people who are called to operate in civil rights. I respect them, I appreciate them, but the pulpit— every time you mount the pulpit, it should be Kingdom University, and we should be talking about how to superimpose the kingdom, one, on the lives of the people who are listening. Look, Pastor, stop wasting these folk time. And you folks, you— it's your fault too because you keep following them. You know you ain't getting nothing and you keep following this dumb stuff. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Okay, you follow them online, you go to the church and follow them. Stop following that crap. And it's not teaching you really how to transform your life for real. I done told y'all, I don't care who get mad, I'm an apostle every day of the week. I'm apostle every single day of the week. Glory to God. My son in West Woodbridge just posted a comment that says apostle because he already know. I'm an apostle every day of the week, period. Stop listening to the crap. It's crap. It's crap. Yeah, matter of fact, do me a favor, type the crap emoji if you're bold enough and ain't scared of religion in the comments. It's crap. Type it's and the crap emoji. Glory to God. Oh, shaman de ko. It's crap. It's crap because it's not transforming you. And when you step in the pulpit I don't step in the pulpit to preach about civil rights. I want to empower your faith. I want to empower you to be a kingdom citizen. Glory to God, to change the world around you. Oh God, help us, help us. Abba Sikora. Y'all might be scared, glory to God, to type the crap emoji, but it's crap. It's not helping anyone. So you find a promise to cover your need. Let me get back to that. I went off on a tangent. Because that's your covenant. Then secondly, you ask God to do his promise. So once you find the promise, you ask God to do the promise, because the Bible said if you ask anything, 1 John 5:14, according to his will, he'll do it. Yeah, yeah. So you ask him to do the promise. His will is his word. You tell— ask him to do what you found. Watch this. Thirdly, real simple, believe when you pray. So when you're praying and then ask him to do the promise, believe it. Believe it like it's already yours. Own it, because God can't lie. It's a promise. Then watch this, number 4, rejoice before the physical results. So when you get through praying, you go to rejoice. You rejoice because what you just did was take claim and call to you something that belongs to you. And you keep repeating that process persistently until it shows up. Do not let go. Like this friend, like Barton Maaz, don't give up. Toda resistencia es rota. Until you experience what God declares is yours. Listen guys, I'm done. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, Thank you for this 12 noon teaching today. Thank you for every person that was online. Thank you for every person that'll watch this replay. I decree and declare today that persistent faith is the portion of every person under the sound of my voice. I decree and declare that they will begin to live lifestyles of faith, not lifestyles of carnality, not lifestyles born out of the flesh, not lifestyles born out of what they hope and desire or what they're wishing and praying for. Let them become clear about the will of God. And I decree and declare that your word will become manifest in their lives as they change their mindset, their mentality, and their methodologies on how they approach life. I thank you that there will be a manifestation of your promise and your power in their life. In Jesus' name, amen. And thanks be to God. Listen, I love you guys. I want to challenge you today. Please don't you jump off this live yet. Every person listening to me now. God put it into my spirit before I sat down to teach. He said every person that watches this live right here today, or by replay, every one of you— yeah, you too, this is for you, don't you flinch at this— you need to sow a seed today. I'm not going to tell you what to do, but God told me to tell you to make a sacrifice. Listen, many of you are missing the blessing of God because you don't get seed in the ground. You give into some dead situation and you're not sowing on good ground. But I need every person to make a sacrifice today. Listen, make a sacrifice. The ways to give are running across the bottom of the screen. I need you to make a sacrifice right now. I need you to give to the church. Glory to God, because God told me to tell you, as you sacrifice today, this seed is wrapped up in your Action faith, your ability to take action. As you sow, there's going to be a supernatural endowment that's going to be placed upon you to seek out faith with big action, and you're going to start taking action on things that you would have never took action on before. Get your seed in the ground again, rhodachurch.com/donate. Get the miracle of faith working in your life. Get a sacrifice in the ground right now. Go to, go to, or go to Rhoda Church Cash App. Rhoda Church is scrolling across the screen. Do it now, ladies and gentlemen, because I promise you God's gonna bless you. Listen, while you're getting your heart and your mind right to give, you need to do it. You need to do it. Nobody leave this live without making a sacrifice today. Do it in Jesus' name, and I commanded to come back to you a thousand times more. Listen, for those of you in the Atlanta area I want to invite you, glory to God, to worship with us every weekend at Rhoda Church at 3 o'clock PM. It's going to be phenomenal again next week. Make sure you're in the house, glory to God. Rhoda Church is located at 621 King Arnold Street in Hapeville, Georgia, or you can— we're on the corner of Hapeville and Dogwood Drive, so you can access the building also from 3418 Dogwood Drive, which brings you right into our sanctuary. So listen, Hapeville, Georgia. I want you to join us this weekend at Rhoda Church. It's going to be phenomenal. Keep these dates in mind: March 10th, 11th, and 12th. We're having a supernatural encounter weekend, and go— and we're just calling it Supernatural Encounters with my son Apostle Brandon Cornelius, who will be in the city. He'll be preaching Friday night And then on Saturday, we're gonna have a School of the Supernatural, a School of the Supernatural. So if you want to learn how to have supernatural encounters, how to operate in the supernatural in your life, Apostle and I both will be teaching this class at 12 noon on Saturday the 10th. And then Apostle is going to preach again on March 12th. You need to make plans to be in Atlanta, March 10th, 11th, and 12th. So you can get these goods, man. It's going to be phenomenal. Listen, you want to learn this stuff, you want it to be applied to your life. Registration is required for the Saturday class, but there is no cost. We want to register because we want to give you some food. We want to feed you when you come, and we also want to prepare materials for you. So we need to know how many people are going to be there. So that's why we want you to register. So simply We want you to— if you're not on our text list, this is how you do this. If you're not on our text list, simply text RODA Church to 877-638-7285. That's going to put you on our text list, and you're going to get information in this week coming about the meeting in March. Go ahead and reserve your seat. It's limited. We got limited seats available for real, so you've got to go ahead and get registered. I love y'all, man. Y'all be blessed. My time is going. I'll see y'all in the morning at 5. This has been 12 noon teaching of day 9 of 21 days of fast plus prayer. Y'all keep me in your prayers. Pray my strength, man. Glory to God. I fly out tonight to Austin. I'll be in Austin tonight and tomorrow. I'll be back. Matter of fact, when I'm done with my assignment tomorrow, I'll fly right back. Glory to God. Tomorrow. So you guys keep me in prayer. I love you with everything in me, man. Thank y'all for who you are. Y'all are some amazing people who engage these lives every day, who share them who sow into ministry. Thank you so much for what you do. You're amazing. Y'all be blessed. Heaven smile upon you is my prayer. Peace.