Defeating Jezebel, Part 4: "Arise and EAT!" | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr. | 17 May 2026

or just kind of kept unfolding stuff inside of this text. But 1 Kings 19, and I'm gonna begin the reading at verse number 1. If you got it, say amen. Amen. Okay, if you got it, say amen. All right, glory to God. That was 2. If you got it, say amen. Amen. All right, praise God. Hallelujah. Now the Bible says, now Ahab told Jezebel everything Elijah had done. And now he had killed all the prophets with the sword. So I think I got it back there. Can't let it go to the next slide. Glory to God, I think I got it. Yeah, glory to God. So Jezebel sent a messenger to Elijah to say, may the gods deal with me, be it ever so severely, if by this time tomorrow I do not make your life like that one of them. Verse 3, Elijah was afraid and ran for his life. When he had come to Beersheba in Judah, he left his servant there while he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness. He came to a broom bush, sat down under it, and prayed that he might die. I have had enough, Lord, he said. Take my life. I'm no better than my ancestors. Then he laid down under the bush and fell asleep. I don't know if I would have went to sleep after praying that. Yeah, God might have answered that prayer, man. Yeah, because sometimes pressure will make you feel like you want to die. Well, it really don't be what you want. Ain't really what you want. Then he laid down under the bush and fell asleep all at once. And the angel touched him and said, Arise, or get up, and eat. He looked around, glory to God, and there by his head was some bread baked over hot coals and a jar of water. Supernatural meal. Glory to God. He— well, no, no food there, for he went to sleep. He woke up, there was food. He ate and drank and then laid down again. The angel of the Lord came back a second time— say, a second time— and touched him and said, get up and eat, for the journey is too much for you. In other words, you got to eat so you have strength. Praise God. So he got up and ate again and drank. Strengthened by that food, he traveled 40 days and 40 nights until he reached Horeb, the mountain of God. There he went into a cave and spent the night. And I'm going to stop right there. I want to start with this tonight, um, again Just say that with me. Arise. Arise. And eat. And eat. Touch yourself. Say self. Self. Arise and eat. Arise and eat. Hallelujah. It's okay to talk to yourself and prophesy to yourself sometime. Amen. Glory to God. I believe that whenever God promotes you, elevates you and he desires to manifest vision in your life, one of the first things he does is change your diet. I'm gonna say that again. We're talking about eating, right? But we're not talking about physical food alone here tonight. When God gets ready to elevate you, promote you, he changes Your diet. Okay, let me use this example. There are some people— there are several preachers I used to love years ago to hear preach. I don't like to listen to them no more because I don't eat. Are y'all hearing this? Cause when you grow, your diet changes and you have a need for more. Are y'all with me? Especially prophetic types. Elijah was a prophet, and as God was promoting him, he shifted his diet from that, uh, depression, from that way of providing food for himself to eating supernaturally. Watch this, these 2 meals that Elijah ate was enough supernaturally to fuel him to walk 40 days. My Lord, they didn't have no car. Elijah didn't have no chariot. He was walking, and he walked for 40 days with enough energy from this supernatural meal to get to the next place of his assignment. So what am I saying to you? Many times there are people who God says, I'm requiring more, I need to give you more, but they'll sit in the same place consuming the same diet. Y'all with me? They know they not getting fed. Matter of fact, I've had them tell me, I don't get fed here, but they keep going. Are y'all hearing this? Out of loyalty. Why you gonna keep going somewhere where you're not being nourished, especially when your time is up? If your time is up and God is saying, get up and don't sit here and die. I told one yesterday who, who telling me, I'm just battling, I want to come and be a part of the church, but I'm so loyal to the past, I'm so loyal to history. The first thing I told them was, you cannot allow history to rob you of destiny. I said, the only reason I'm on the phone with you is because I want to remind you of what God told you. Because I ain't talked to this person in at least a month, because I don't want people to feel like I'm pressuring them to be somewhere that they don't want to be. But whether it's here or somebody else, the fact is you said you were not getting fed where you are. And because God is promoting you, he's changing your diet. Okay, because guess what? You can't— if you're grown, you know, you can't feed me Similac. I'm a grown man. My wife can bring me a bottle with cereal in it all she want. I'm gonna look at her like she crazy. You better take that to Maverick. 'Cause I'm not finna— are y'all hearing that? That's not gonna satisfy me. Same thing in the spirit. You gotta know when somebody's giving you a bottle and some cereal saying, okay, I'm gonna get a little cereal in this milk to hold you, to keep you coming back. Are y'all hearing this? But you ought to want to grow up and mature and eat something more. You need some filet mignon. Are y'all hearing this? You should be able to teach the word. You can't be a teacher if you can't digest meat. Are y'all hearing this? So we learned again that vision— because I'm gonna try to tie this in Vision is prophetic revelation that exposes God's optimal reality for your future. Say that with me again. Say, vision is God's optimal reality for my future. If y'all help me preach, we'll be done at 6:30. Y'all gotta help me now. If y'all don't say nothing, I'm gonna think you ain't getting it and I'm gonna preach for 4 hours. Please say something to me. Glory to God. Let me get, let me get this to you. It's it. So vision exposes what God desires for you in the future. And so when you tap into this prophetic revelation, you have not tapped into something out of your carnality, but something God really has planned for you. So if, if vision is prophetic revelation It takes prophetic power to fulfill vision. All right, touch yourself and say, I got prophetic power. I got prophetic power. Which means God has already put inside of your DNA the prophetic power to speak into the foresight of what you've seen. And what he has declared in his hindsight and bring it to you. Are y'all with me? You have— say it again. I got prophetic power. Stop accepting situations and circumstances as they are. Are y'all with me? You got prophetic power. Instead of accepting a situation, speak to it and say to it what God says. Instead of accepting your bank account is negative— somebody look at the bank account, say, oh my God, I'm overdrawn. And then you get depressed because you overdrawn. Well, instead of getting depressed, you need to speak to it with prophetic power and say what God says. It's, I lack no thing. All of my needs are met. I have the desires of my heart. I'm blessed in the city. Blessed, that's word. Start speaking prophetic power to your bank account. Your body hurting? Instead of saying, oh my God, I got a pain in my neck, pain in my back, pain in my hip, speak prophetic power. Say, with his stripes Yeah, you say it again. I got prophetic power. Okay, so the spirit of Jezebel, then remember, she hates prophets. This spirit hates the prophetic. So what it does, it attacks the prophetic and tries to control the prophetic voice. And we learned that Jezebel is not just a whore. She is one, but it ain't just a whore. It don't just deal with sexual promiscuity. Jezebel is a manipulator. She's a liar. She's a thief. She seeks to destroy the influence of prophetic people. The way she does that is that she alludes to situations Watch this, that she does what you should be doing. She'll look at a situation beyond your control and manipulate you on the dark side of it and say, you ain't never coming out of this. That spirit will bring it to your mind, you ain't gonna never get to that. It'll start telling you, you ain't enough, you ain't got enough people. But then you gotta use the prophetic power and speak to that spirit and say, not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, says the Lord. We got to stop listening to the voices that speak contrary to what God says. A matter of fact, just declare that in the atmosphere. I want to make this demon real mad. Just declaring, not by might nor by power 'But by my Spirit,' says the Lord. Give God some praise if you believe that. Hallelujah! You got to use your prophetic power. See, what God shows you to do, you're never going to be enough to do it without him. If it's really God, His vision is going to require his assistance. Hit the next slide, granddaughter. Go to the next one. Go to the next one. Go, go to the next one. All right, we're gonna get in this tonight. So 3 things all prophetic visions— and we read it in the text— will encounter. The first one— click over there, killer— is enemies. I need you to understand something. These enemies come in the form of influence from the Jezebel spirit. We saw in the text that Jezebel was an enemy to Elijah. Anytime somebody tell you, 'I'm gonna kill you,' they are not your friend, they're your enemy. So let's just be clear about this thing. Jezebel ain't coming to have fellowship with us. Jezebel shows up to kill us. And anytime— watch this— that spirit starts working, it's not the person that is using, it's the spirit manifesting through them. And the moment you start progressing toward what God is saying— see, this is how I know we're on the right track. One, I told y'all a few weeks ago about a dream I had, and I, I pointed out that the Jezebel spirit was in the room. Are y'all hearing this? And that that person was in my dream being used by that demon. I'm just telling— long before it started really manifesting, I never said who the person was. But if you got any ounce of discernment, you know, because you've seen it act up. But it's not them. That's the— that person is the best person, has a heart of gold, loves God, but doesn't realize the doors open in their life causes that spirit to enter in. Are y'all with me? And it starts trying to manipulate the process of God. I even told you in a dream how that thing killed me in the dream, and now God said you have to stand up against it. You have to confront it every time it manifests. So it cannot— because whenever you dream about death or murder, it deals with slander. And Jezebel will slander you. They'll make up a lie. So you have to be careful letting Jezebel in close. And then I'm in the book. The Bible also says when you see one carrying this spirit that comes to sow discord and bring division, the scriptures say mark them. Okay, I'm just gonna— you see, this one for Sunday morning, so we had, we had to— okay, but you got to understand, we have to make it clear because we got too much to do. We love you and we're gonna pray with you until you get through and get a breakthrough, but listen here, we're not gonna tolerate The spirit of Jezebel in no form, because there's an enemy. Don't you ever think— listen, if you ain't got nobody coming against what you're doing, I doubt if you're doing the right thing. It probably ain't God if everything's just going good, everything's just working. No, it probably ain't him, because the enemy Watch this. God allows the enemy to show up because you can't have a context for victory without an enemy. How you gonna say you got victory and you never fought? You never had a— so, because we be praying, God, move all the enemies. Because I ain't moving them because I need context that's going to bring me glory. Otherwise, guess what? We all just be automatically in heaven. There will be no sin. But sin gives good context. You gotta have an opposite. So God says, I'm gonna give you some enemies. Okay, maybe y'all don't believe it. Okay, let's go to Matthew 5 because he tell you what to do with your enemies. Go to the next slide, Kellen. Let's show them in Matthew 5:44. The Bible said, but I say unto you, love your enemies. In other words, you're gonna have some. Okay, notice he didn't say my enemy, he said yours. So everybody got their own set of enemies. There's an enemy against your purpose. There's an enemy against your vision. Don't get it twisted. Everybody don't want to see you blessed. Everybody that's smiling in your face don't want to see you make it. You have some enemies. They'll talk about you and smile and try to celebrate what you're doing face to face, and as soon as you out they presence, they're talking about their desire to see you fall. That's an enemy. Not only does the enemy give context to victory, but enemies also give context to allies. See, God will show you your enemies so you can know who's on your team. There are some people who every time— that's why you can't post everything. There's some people that will like your picture. Last night I did— I got through studying, I was sitting on my couch half asleep, one eye open, and just thinking about how much I love my wife. I post a picture of her and say, I love every second I get to spend with my wife. and I went to bed. Got up this morning, 2,500 people done like the picture. Don't you— do I believe all 2,500 of them folk is celebrating the fact that I'm happily married to my wife? Oh, y'all ain't got to say nothing. So some of them looked at the picture, clicked like, and said they ain't gonna make it, they gonna get a divorce. That's an enemy. Okay, so watch this. Flesh and blood didn't reveal that to me, research did. I just clicked on the likes. I said, oh, that ain't sincere, because I know history from things they've said in the past. Now all of a sudden you celebrate the fact that I'm in love with my wife, but before I married her, you was telling me she wasn't the one. You trying to tell me somebody else was the one. Okay, I'm just saying. But guess what I'm gonna do? Love them anyway. You, you gotta love your enemies. Wait a minute, he didn't stop there. He said, bless them that curse you. Now I'm saved, man, and I've been saved a long time, but you ain't gonna cuss me out too long. Uh-oh, uh-oh. But the mature thing to do— are y'all hearing this?— is to bless them that curse you. So as I grow, I've learned to bless those that curse me. I've had Thousands of people walk away from me because somebody decided they wanted to curse me. Are y'all hearing this? They wanted to take what I trusted them with. Are y'all hearing this? This is why you got to be careful who you trust information to. This was some years ago, but it happened to me. I mean, I was doing— I mean, I was doing real good, man. I was— God, at this point, stuff has started. I hadn't married Felicia yet, but I was, I was traveling about 15,000 miles a month. I was on all kind of flyers leading up to this about preaching everywhere. But I was dealing with something because I was a single man, right? And I had this crazy woman. Okay, I'm— can I just talk like— and I was trying to tell them, look, I need you to pray for me because I need to get away from this because it's not good for me. Okay, let me tell you this, everything good to you ain't good for you. I'm gonna say it one more time. Everything that can be good to you ain't good for you. There's a 40-year-old man that can be good to a 15-year-old girl, but he ain't good for her. Okay, that's for grown folks, but there's some crazy folk that think that's good. Matter of fact, they're lobbying now trying to pull back the age a woman can marry a man. And don't you know some of these old nasty fools are gonna be trying to marry 16-year-old girls? What you gonna do with your 45, 50-year-old self? Okay, let me keep moving. Anyway, so I'm telling this person, this is not, good for me. I said, listen, I— and they know my heart. I want to be married. I'm tired of being by myself. But this right here ain't good for me. Make a long story short, I ain't never told this publicly. I never talked about this because God never told me to say nothing. To you. But let me tell you, I'm— but just for example tonight, I'm gonna give it to you. This girl, when I decided I was gonna leave and when things were breaking apart, she decided she was gonna write an article about our relationship. But the article was laced with lies. First of all, this chick said in the article Michael Woods would use scripture to get her to sleep with me. First of all, I'm too scared of God. Secondly, I had too much game, shorty, to try to use the word to get you in a bed with me. Okay, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I'm just telling you, I'm just trying to use it for example. Ain't not one day I use the Bible. Didn't have to. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. Y'all don't like this kind of realness, do you? I'm just tell— I'm, I'm saved and delivered, but I was going through a struggle. So this chick mad cuz I'm breaking it up and things not going the way she wanted. Matter of fact, I guess what, because I was looking for a safe out. To me, she was saved. I thought I could influence her in a way that I couldn't influence someone more mature to follow me in the things of God. She wasn't really a church girl. She grew up in church, but she wasn't in the church at the time. She came back to church because of me. Are y'all hearing this? She wrote the article. 'all of my enemies.' When she posted it, don't nobody really know her, not in my world. But when she posted it and where she posted it, it started getting shared. I think that thing was shared over 1,800 times. Everybody I thought was my friend was saying negative stuff against me. Are y'all hearing this? I was on flyers, had upcoming dates. I was getting calls, preacher, we can't have you, we sorry, we gonna have to get something. Because of that article that was journalistically incorrect. Are y'all hearing this? Because if you would have asked me what was true, I told you But the reality is the whole thing was I was trying to get away from it, and I wanted to say something so bad, but I looked at it and God said, you be quiet and bless her. And that's all I did. I blessed them that was in the con— I had people who was in my congregation in the past who I paid their rent and helped them get out of stuff, coming in on stuff. Because trouble will reveal who's really with you. Trouble will reveal your enemies and your friends. Yeah, are y'all with me? Okay, I hope y'all still love me. I'm just telling you the The truth, man. That was, that was in the past. Somebody said, oh, I can't believe Apostle said that. Yeah, yeah, it was before Felicia. You got to worry about that now. My life is in danger. Don't worry about it. Just ain't got time. Glory to God. I want to live. Praise God. But you got to be able to bless them that curse you. Some of the same ones that were writing comments, I see them today and I love on them. Are y'all hearing this? If I see her, I'm gonna love on her and bless her. I never said anything bad about her. I never cursed her. I've always prayed that she do well. And because I kept praying for her, guess what? She's doing well. She produced a whole film with, uh, Gloria, with a major producer, about her daddy. Because I knew she wanted that project to come out, and I kept praying for it because that's something we used to talk about. I blessed her. Are y'all hearing this? When I could have got mad and been vindictive, but that— what that's gonna solve? Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you. What is Jesus telling you? You're gonna have some enemies, you're gonna have some folk that cuss you, you're gonna have some people that hate you. You don't have some enemies? And oh, here we go. And pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you. See, and people don't understand when they start calling themselves an apostle or a prophet, the hits you really have to take. See, you have to pass the test when you're prophetic and apostolic on dealing with your enemies, blessing people that curse you. That's why I have compassion on anybody who has publicly made a mistake. If they truly repent and own it— are y'all hearing this? God forgives them. People are slow. People keep putting you in hell and you done moved on. Charge it! Charge it! Yeah, because a credit card can give you access to money you really ain't got. Angels give you access to the promises of God. They bring the promises to you. The third dimension— if— list, when you get some more, let me know, I'll add them to my teaching. Glory to God. So they're enemy, they're angels. Here's a third one, is helpers. Go there with me, Kelly. Helpers. Help her. Somebody say helpers. A helper can be a deity. A person, a device, a thing, a function that provides assistance or support. It is supplementary power to finish a task. So you can't finish a God-given vision without the right help. Say, I need help. Come on, say it. Say, help. I lift my eyes unto the hills from which cometh my help. My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth. So here's helper number one. Helper number one is the Holy Ghost. Go to John 14. 16 and 17. I'm reading out of NIV. He said, I will ask the Father and he will give you another Comforter to help you and be with you forever. Verse 17, the Spirit of Truth. The world cannot accept him because it neither sees him or knows him, but you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you. Say help. God didn't leave us helpless. That's why he sent the Holy Ghost. He said, I'm going away, but I'm gonna send you another Comforter, uh, Apo Parakletos in Greek, one to do what I would do if I was here. So the Spirit of God's function in your life is exactly what Jesus's function is, as if he were on earth with you. So watch this. This is why you should spend time with the Holy Spirit every day. You shouldn't let a day go by where you don't spend time with Holy Spirit, where you don't spend time entertaining him, because he is God with you. We believe that Jesus Christ is Lord. Manifested in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost. So the Holy Ghost is the person of God with me. I'm gonna teach on this next week on Saturday. He's the most important person on earth. Oh God, Trump is not. Paula White is not. T.D. Jakes is not. Obama is not. Oprah is not. The most important person on earth is the Holy Ghost. He is a person and he lives in you. He's here to help. Say help. Help. He's a— no, he won't help you unless you allow him. Unless you open your life and let him in. I gotta go. The second helper you have in your life is prophetic voices. Notice in the text, the angel came and touched Elijah and said, 'Arise and eat so you'll have strength for the journey.' That was the angels. We saw Jezebel as the enemy, but now He had to be strengthened so he could be a prophetic voice to a nation. Can I tell you something? Inside of every one of you and those of you watching, there is something in your prophetic DNA that you have in you to power your future. Watch this. If the prophet never comes to town— see, some people waiting for Wunni Obinum to come. Are y'all hearing this? Or the Brian Carn to come. You're waiting for the prophet with a big name. The reality is you have prophetic power in your DNA. Even if you don't stand in the office of a prophet, you have prophetic power in you. Most people don't know how to activate that power because— we're going back to the beginning here— is because they don't understand that diet has shifted. You cannot walk in prophetic power if you're not in a prophetic community. Anytime you read about the prophets, there were companies of prophets. The Bible said they will come down out of a mountain, it will be hundreds of prophets, prophetic companies learning together how to move in prophetic activation. Can I tell you something? Somebody's waiting for you to show up because they may not get to Juanita, they may not get to Brian, but in you, they're waiting for you to show up and your very presence to shift and shake their world. Here's what happens when prophetic types show up in the world. There's an immediate shift of circumstance and culture. This is how I know the prophet has only showed up at church. I'm gonna say that again. The prophet to date, for the most part, has only showed up at the church because when I look at the world, the world still looks the same. So we need to train up, and because I don't care how prophetic your pastor is If you're not in a community where you're being trained, developed, so you can be deployed to show up in your sphere of influence in the world— y'all ain't got to say nothing to me here— so that culture, community, and covenant can shift immediately. Somebody shout shift! See, when you think about a shift First thing comes to my mind is on a keyboard, every computer keyboard, QWERTY keyboard, there is the word Shift. Are y'all hearing this? And if you don't understand a QWERTY keyboard and how it operates, you don't know what that button does. But if you push Shift, it has the ability to change the function of the other keys. A lowercase a, when you push Shift, becomes a capital A. Are y'all with me? You push Shift, the asterisk that's above the number 5 will appear on the screen and move the number 5 out of the way. This is why we gotta show up, because there are some people that need to be capitalized. There's some people that's been operating in an identity that's hidden behind a number. They're in a number, in a big place, in a huge place, but they're just a number. But you gotta show up and hit shift so that they can come for as the symbol God has called them to symbolize in the world. Somebody shout, Shiv! That's what a prophetic company does. This is why there are a lot of people who have STDs— spiritually transmitted deceptions and spirits. See where y'all mind go. STD, spiritually transmitted deceptions and spirits. There are a lot of people who are having unprotected service. Are y'all hearing this? The way you get an STD, the way y'all was thinking, you have unprotected sex. Are y'all not talking to me here? But there are people who are serving uncovered. Serving unprotected. Watch this. And just because you said somebody was your covering don't mean they covering you. Oh yeah, because a covering is going to tell you the truth. A covering is going to tell you stuff you don't want to hear. A covering is going to propel you into the next dimension of destiny. And some of you are deceived. You got STDs, spiritually transmitted deceptions and spirits 'Cause you're unprotected, you're uncovered. Okay, we going. Helper number 3, I'm gonna get off that, is community. Put it up there, Kelly. Hallelujah. Romans 15:1. Now let's read it. We that are strong are to bear the infirmities of the weak and not to please ourselves. This is what community looks like. We're not selfish. We want to give what we have. That's why we never charge registration fees for conferences, because freely we've received. Are y'all hearing this? And freely we give, because those of us who are strong, we're supposed to be bearing up the infirmities of the weak. And if God can't fund the conference, maybe we shouldn't have it. If people got to charge you $400 to sit in their presence in the church Are y'all hearing this? That's a problem, because if you that strong and I need you, what if I can't give you $4.97? Are y'all hearing this? Are you gonna let me in to receive what you— but these conferences have been modeled after the world, after secular systems, when we as a church, we ought to be representing strength. And people that are weak and have a deficit in their life, whatever we're giving, we should give it free. That's bearing infirmity. As an apostolic people who are carrying vision, we have to create a community that that bears the infirmities of others, not to please ourselves, not to line our pockets, not to make a profit off of God's work. Are y'all hearing this? If we're in profit, it's because God has blessed us to be in profit margin. If we're living in overflow, it's the blessing of the Lord that has made rich. So that we can give to others. All right, go to the next scripture. 1 Thessalonians 5:11. Wherefore comfort yourselves together and edify one another. This is community. Even as you also do. Now watch this. He says comfort yourself together. I'm tell you what that means. That means in a community where we're building corporate vision and personal vision— I said it this morning— if you're comfortable and your brother or sister in the community is uncomfortable— are y'all hearing me? Then we're not really being honestly community. 'Cause a lot of— and that's why people hide from real community. We throw the word around, but when you come into community for real, we have to be helpers one to another. We can't let anyone in our community be uncomfortable. Are y'all with me? We gotta help, we gotta bear the burdens. And watch this, we gotta edify one another. Even as we seek to build up ourselves. This is saying you ain't gonna really edify nobody else if you ain't trying to edify you. If you're not comfortable, you certainly ain't concerned about nobody else being comfortable. Are y'all hearing this? I'm done. Say enemies. Say angels. Say community. Go to Ezekiel really quick. I don't have it there, Kelly. I want to read it. Say prophecy. Come on, say it. Say prophecy is of God. I said it this morning, but let's say it again. Say prophecy and vision is foresight based on insight, built from hindsight. Now let's read this, and I'm closing with this. The hand of the Lord was on me, and he brought me out by the Spirit and set me in the middle of a valley. It was full of bones. So let me stop right there. The hand of the Lord should be on every prophetic vision. The prophetic vision cannot be driven by flesh. Are y'all with me? God has to sit you in the right place. Here Ezekiel was set in a valley of dry bones, which tells me when God releases prophetic vision Oftentimes it's not going to be comfortable. He's in a valley with dry bones. The Lord took him from where he was, which if you study the topography of the text, Ezekiel was translated by the hand of the Lord over 1,500 miles. He was 1,500 miles away from this valley, and the hand of the Lord— you talking about supernatural relationship— picked him up from where he was and set him in a valley filled with dry bones. It says to me, you cannot resist movement when God moves you. Prophetic people are open to the hand of God moving them. You are subject to Jezebel and the spirit of Jezebel when you reject the movement. You know God is shifting you and you keep sitting, you keep staying. I don't want to hurt nobody. But what you're doing, you're delaying the blessing, because the blessing God has for you, it cannot be released as long as you're on that same diet. In order to get this next blessing, you got to eat at this level. Are y'all hearing this? Okay, I'm gonna get out y'all way. Verse 2, he said, he led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. Verse 3, he asked me, Son of Man, can these bones live? You can never really get to the question without obedience. The dialogue with God didn't start until obeying, until him allowing God to lead him through the bones, to lead him even into the valley. Then God says, okay, can these bones live? Notice Ezekiel didn't get smart and intelligent as some people do. They pull on their God is talking to you and you still trying to rationalize with him. He said, no, no, only you know the answer to that, Lord. He said, I don't know. Some of us will be like, yeah, God, he can do it. Yeah, Ezekiel said, no, I've been prophesying for a long time. I've been walking with you a long time. I'm smart enough to know That when you're asking me something, it ain't because you don't know. You trying to see if I'm dumb enough to answer it. Are y'all hearing this? So you know. And then guess what God responds? Verse 4. Then the Lord said to me, prophesy. Somebody say prophesy. And say to them, dry bones— here we go— hear the word of the Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. I will attach tendons to you— whoo-wee— and make flesh come upon you and cover your skin. I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord. Ezekiel says, I obeyed, I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was a prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together bone to bone. I looked and the tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them. Watch this. Then he said to me, prophesy to the breath, or to— in the King James says to the wind. Prophesy, son of man, and say to it what is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come breath from the four winds and breathe into these slain that they may live. Verse 10: So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them, and they came to life and stood on their feet, a vast army. We are called to assemble things that are dry, that are dead, that are scattered, and that the world has said would never come together. We're in a world of dryness. The text is telling us the only key is to prophesy what God said. And the Bible said the bones came together, bone to bone. That means the neck bone connected to the collarbone, collarbone connected to the shoulder bone, shoulder bone to the elbow bone. Are y'all hearing me? All the vertebrae in the back start connecting, the ribs connected, the hip bones connected, the knee bones connected. They just came together, all of these bones. His key. He prophesied to the wind, and the wind gave them life. We have prophetic power, and this is why the spirit of Jezebel is mad. But we confront that spirit, and we say nothing will shut our prophetic mouth. We will say what God says. Everybody stand up. I hope you learned something tonight. Y'all stand on your feet, we're going home. Glory to God. Thank you, thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Father, we give you praise. Thank you for your word. Thank you for prophetic power. Stir it in us tonight. Let it come alive in us tonight. I, I release it over your people, God. I release angels at my charge to enforce the covenant of your word, even in Ezekiel 37, that we will move in the prophetic power to assemble things that have been disassembled, that are dead and dry. But we will speak with prophetic power supernaturally to our finances, to our family, to our children, in our churches. And we'll show up in the world, and our enemies will understand they don't stand a chance because of our obedience. We will love our enemies. We will bless those that curse us. Oh my God, we will pray for those that persecute us and speak all manner of evil against us. Father, we thank you that we'll be helpers one to another. We'll lean on the Holy Ghost for leadership, and we say, Holy Spirit, we are here tonight. Lead us and guide us to all truth. May we not be ignorant in any regard. Holy Spirit, we'll follow hard after you, and whatever you tell us to do, we'll do it. We'll move in obedience. We pray for those whose diet has changed but continue to reject the new diet, the new food, the new people, the new place, the new community. I pray now for the spirit of obedience, not to what I said, but to what you said. And we give you praise for it. We give you glory for it. In Jesus' name, amen. Come on, give God praise in this building. Hallelujah. We give you glory. Glory. We're gonna get out of here tonight very quickly. We're gonna give— put the ways to give up for me, kindly, really quick. If you're still online, you can use our Cash App. It's Radah Church, R-A-D-A-H-C-H-U-R-C-H. If you're online and you're part of this ministry, please put that in the comments, whether you're on YouTube or any of the Facebook pages we're streaming to. The ways to give on the screen. For those of us in the sanctuary, Father, we give you praise and we give you glory. Thank you, Jesus. Pastor, just do me a kind favor. I don't mind you playing, son, but change that song because every time you play it, I feel compelled to sing it, and I don't want to sing that. So just change that. Thank you, sir. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We praise his name, but not every week. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We bless his great name because I love that song and I'll sing it every time he play it. Glory to God. We give him glory, we give him honor, we bless his great name. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on, just pray about your giving tonight. Those of you online, pray about your giving. God, we thank you for sacrificial giving tonight. Thank you for wide open doors. Thank you that this church doesn't lack a thing, that this building at 3060 Boulder Crest Road, we declare, is already ours, that we'll close, we'll have our down payment, all the financing will be in place, and nothing will hinder our progress. Thank you for the givers you have caused to be preoccupied with this ministry, and that even those partners who have not connected yet, we call them in to connect with this vision. And we thank you, God, for the commitment, or at least a thousand partners that will connect with this vision as we walk it out from concept to manifestation. And we give you praise for it now. Bless every giver in this room. Give their money back a thousand times more, and we praise you for it in Jesus' name. Come on, clap your hands and bless him. Yeah, hallelujah. We bless his name. We bless his name. God is good. All right, family, we're going home. Y'all stand. Y'all stand. Thank y'all for your obedience and coming back tonight. That means a lot to me. Praise God. I know people have reasons why they can't get back. Glory to God. But I think if we purpose in my heart— our heart— it we want to be here, we can be here. Amen. I was telling my wife something about my own