Embracing FREEDOM! | DR. MIKE WOODS, SR. | 28 DECEMBER 2025

We lift you high, Yahweh, Yahweh. We lift you high, Yahweh, Yahweh.

We lift you high.

Come on, Yahweh, Yahweh. That's his name. We lift you high, Yahweh, Yahweh. You are our God. Yahweh, Yahweh, we lift you high. Yahweh, Yahweh, one more time, we lift you high. Yahweh, Yahweh, yes, you, you are God.

Yes, you are.

Yes, you are.

That's his name.

Say, yes, you are. Yes, you are. This is Holy Ground! Come on, let him talk. Let him talk to you. Come on, come on, let him work.

He's performing surgery.

Yeah, he's healing those things that have been broken, those deep things that you haven't talked about. He's performing surgery right now. The things you haven't told anybody about. Come on, let him work, let him work, let him work, let him work, let him work, let him work. Come on, let him work. Work, Lord Jesus, work. Holy Spirit. Oh God, work. Oh God, we give you permission to work. We give you permission to work. Let it right where you are. Let it work. Let it work on your heart. You deserve the highest praise. You deserve it. You are worthy. You are, you are, you are, you are the Great I Am. You control all things. You control all things. I surrender all, I surrender all to thee, my blessed Savior, my Savior. All to thee, my blessed Savior, I. Fire in my soul, I can't contain and I can't control. I want more of you, God. I want more of you, God. Set a fire in my soul, I can't contain, I can't control. I want more of you, God. I want more of you, God. Set a fire, set a fire in my soul that I can't contain, I can't control. I want more of you, God. Yeah, I want more. Set a fire, set a fire in my soul that I can't contain, I can't control. I want more of you, God. I want more. I want more! Come on now— I can't make it without you!

Huh?

I won't bore... I can't make it without you! I wanna know what do ya got for me?! Ohh! I want more of You God! I want more of you, God. I want more of you, God.

Hallelujah.

So God is here.

He deserves worship. He deserves honor. So if I ask you kindly If you got two feet that work, I want you to stand. You owe God that much. I don't know what y'all be doing when I be gone.

God deserves worship. He ain't that tired.

Only person that really ain't Michael can stand too.

He deserves honor, he deserves glory.

Now, if you got two hands, I want you to lift them. Hallelujah! Now I want you to begin to give him the fruit of your lips. Come on, open your mouth. We give you glory, God. We give you honor, Jesus. Come on, the worshipers are worshiping Honor your King, honor your God. He's here. Oh God, we give you glory. Lord, we adore you. Lord, we glorify you. We macrograph you. We supplement your great name. We declare your glory. In this place. Besides you, there is no other. Shalom. We give you glory, God.

We give you honor.

Jesus, we bless you. Come on, the worshipers are worshiping. Give him the fruit of your lips. Come on, give him the fruit of your lips. Shout! Some of y'all still ain't said nothing, but that's why you're bound. That's why you're struggling. That's why you got burdens. Because you don't know how to touch him. You thought you was the source. He's the source. That's why you're stuck, still sick, still broke, cuz you can't touch him. Open your mouth. Some of y'all act like God owe you something. Let's have— you owe him everything. You owe him everything. You owe him everything. Open your mouth. Oh, Rabbi, we give you the glory, God.

It's so amazing.

It's so amazing. It's so amazing, God. But I can't speak for no to nobody else, but you're amazing to me. You're a good, good Father, and I give you glory, and I give you the honor, and I give you the praise. Open your mouth, Zion, and bless his name.

If you touch Jesus, he'll touch you back.

If you touch Jesus, he'll touch you back. And the only guarantee of touching him is your worship.

Hallelujah.

We give you glory! Ashata—

we give you glory! We give you glory! We give you gloriy! We give you glory! We give you glory! Hey, we give You Glory to The Lamb! We give You glory!

Glory.

You receive the glory. Shatea, we give you glory. Yeah, we give you glory. Say, we give you honor. We give you honor. Yeah, we give you honor. We give you honor. Say, we give you glory. Hey! We give you glory! Shetea! We give you glory!

Ahh!

We give you glory! Ahh! We give you glory! Oh yeah, we'll sing it again— Glory to Jesus Christ of Nazareth!

We give him glory! We give you glory! Glory to God forevermore— we give you glory!

Hallelujah Lord Jesus Christ! —we give You glory! We give You glory!

Oh yes Lord! We give You glory! Yes Lord!

We give You glory! Yeah Jesus!

We give You glory! Amen. We give you honor! We give you honor! We give you honor! Honor! We give you— we give you honor! You all know how to do it? —we give you honor! Nishatayu!

We give you honor, we give you honor.

Come on, lift your voice, lift your voice. Fill this room with the voice that God gave you. God wants to hear the corporate man. Open your mouth. He wants to hear the corporate man. We honor your name, God. We honor your name, Jesus. We honor your name, God. We give you glory.

Oh God, you are God. We bless you, God. We bless you. We bless you.

Lift your hands again. This position is called yada. It means I surrender. I surrender and I'm thankful that you lead me, that you guide me, that you control me, that you're my king. We yield ourselves to you and we give you glory. Let him touch you today. We give you glory. Lift that one more time, babe. We give you glory. Come on, give it to him. Say, hey!

You receive the glory. It's still to you. It belongs to you.

We give you honor.

We give you honor. We give you honor. All of the honor belongs to you. It belongs to you.

And Father, we bless you. We honor you for your presence, God. Let your glory superimpose itself upon us, and may we never be the same because you have rested on us. Let our worship be a sweet-smelling savor in your nostrils.

Hey, glory! We bless your great name. Thank you for the move.

Thank you for the weight of your glory, the splendor of your presence. We bless you, Lord. We bless you. Thank you, Lord. Glory to God. Well, clap your hands, everybody. Give God praise.

Thank you, Jesus.

Worship really is not hard.

That's right, that's right.

When you really love God. Amen. Amen. It's only a duty if you're not a worshiper. I'm going say it again: worship is only a duty when you don't know him. But when you really know him, worship is easy. Glory to God. It don't take the songs, it don't take the right musician, just you and him.

Glory, hallelujah!

He's here, he's here. Really quick, I want to take an opportunity to welcome those that are watching us online. Y'all give God praise for those that are watching us. Come on, give God praise for our online audience. We love you. Welcome. I'm going to invite you at this moment to please ensure that you share share this live stream. If you're in this building, get out your phone and share it right now. Glory to the name of God. I believe God is doing something in here that will translate even through the camera and bless those who are watching out there. Glory to the name of God. I want to read a passage of scripture to you very quickly, and then we're going to move quickly into the service. Praise God. God is Hallelujah. If I didn't know for sure I needed to preach this word today, I would just get in the corner and we would just go in. Glory to God. Hallelujah. But I— this word must be preached today. Glory to God. But I want to read this really quickly, uh, Mark's Gospel, chapter number 11. Glory to God. And the Bible says this. I'm going to start at verse number 18. The Bible says, and the scribes and the chief priests heard it. Say they heard it. They heard it. They heard it. And sought how they might destroy him. I need you to understand something. And again, I'm not preaching this, but I need to read this now because this is what the Lord put in my heart to read. Whenever you're anointed— say, I'm anointed. I'm anointed. So I have assignment. I have a purpose on my life. Whenever you are anointed, there is a spirit of religion. There are demonic forces that wants to stop the manifestation of who you are. And watch this, there's chatter in the realm of the spirit about your anointing. Watch this, the Bible said they heard it. You may not think that people have heard of who you are, but in the dimension of the spirit there's chatter and there's always something designed to stop you. They are seeking to destroy what's on your life. Watch this. For they feared him. This is why they fear the manifestation of God's promises in your life. Watch this. Because all the people was astonished at his doctrine. So when people see the word manifested in your life, when they see the promises of God coming forth in your life because of how obedient you are. There's an astonishment, there's an amazement. And instead of coming up to where you are, people will try to destroy you. Amen. Watch this, they'll even create narratives about you to make themselves feel better about their lack of clarity about who they are. Are y'all hearing this? But touch yourself, say, the promise of God is on my life, and what God said, and what God said, he's gonna do, he's gonna do. And I need you to believe that. Amen. And the enemy wants to kill you for it. Verse 19, and when even— when the even was come, when it got nighttime, he went out to the city. Verse 20, and in the morning as they passed by, they saw a fig tree dried up. And Peter, calling to memory, said unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. The fig tree represents fruit. It represents fruitfulness. Watch this. Jesus said unto them, have faith in God. I need you to be clear about something. The days ahead are going to require faith, not in your systems, not in your way of doing things. It's going to require faith in God. And that's not just a euphemism, that's real. You're gonna have to trust God, and God will put you in positions where you have no choice but to trust. Amen. Are y'all hearing this? Amen. He'll take everything away to put demands on your faith. Are y'all hearing this? It's only because there's a measure of faith that's greater than where you are that he needs to trust you with. Yes, Lord. Oh my God. Verse 23, this last one, he said, but verily I say unto you that whosoever shall say to this mountain say to this mountain, be thou removed and cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart— faith— but shall believe what he said comes to pass, he shall have whatever he says. So part of your faith in God is how you talk. Instead of complaining about the mountain, speak to it. Amen. Are y'all hearing this? The mountain in your body, the mountain in your finances, the mountains in your life. Speak to them. You cannot complain about what you allow.

Thank you, Jesus.

Complainers are doubters, and you got to choose. You're going to trust God. And I want you to think about this as we prepare our hearts to give this Put the ways to give up, Mario. Those of you watching online, I want you to get seed in the ground. If you're part of this church, you owe God your tithe. The Bible said the tenth is holy unto God, and on top of your tithe, you owe him offering. Praise God. Amen. So I want to challenge you to be a blessing to the Lord this morning. The blessing of the Lord makes rich and adds no sorrow. That blessing is released when we begin to legislate and negotiate through our giving. Even as we give— this is a real prophetic moment— giving is an act of worship. Giving is an exchange system between heaven and earth. If you have physical money, you need to give that this morning. I'm gonna put the basket out here so you can give. Glory to God, we give God praise. Hallelujah. If you don't mind getting seed in the ground, this is your moment as well. This is an opportunity to be a blessing to the kingdom, to be a blessing to the Lord. Hallelujah! He loves a cheerful giver. He loves a cheerful giver. Glory to God! Hallelujah! Some of you have looked at your finances like that fig tree, and they withered up. But put your faith in God. Take what you have and turn it into what you need and watch God bless you. Glory to God. Glory to Jesus.

Isn't he good? Yes, he is. Amen. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah! We give you praise. We thank you for the givers, Lord. We thank you for the givers. We honor you, Jesus, in our giving.

Thank you, Lord. Wonderful Savior.

You owe God the first fruits of all your priest. Amen. 10th is holy to him. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. All right, Father, we bless you and we thank you for every gift and every giver. Give it back to them a thousand times more. And Father, we praise you for what's to come. We thank you financially. What's to come is better than what has been. Father, your word says you take no pleasure in those that draw back, but there is joy in those that operate in relentless selfishness. God, they are liberal to give with freedom, without coercion, without pressure, trusting you that you will do exactly what you promised. And we praise you for it now. Multiply the seed 1,000 times more in Jesus' name. I declare that there will be no broke person in this ministry. We rebuke poverty in the name of Jesus, and we decree and declare that wealth will flow through the people in this house. Thank you, Jesus. Those those that are here and those that are not here. We declare wealth and increase over their life here in the year to come. This is our last opportunity to give on a Sunday in 2025. And so, Father, we sacrifice and we trust you. Thank you, Jesus. In Jesus' name. Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Give God some praise. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. Is the— is the— that young lady still back there? Okay, well, let her know we, we ready.

Glory to God. Glory to God.

Thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. Y'all give God praise for Nia Jackson. She's going to bless us.

Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus! Hallelujah! I've got so much to Thank God for so many wonderful blessings and so many open doors. All right. That's why I praise you. Yeah. And for this, uh, Give you praise. Satisfy us. Satisfy us. Satisfy us. Satisfy us. Say satisfy, satisfy us. Satisfy us, satisfy us. Ah, satisfy us, satisfy us. We want the fire, satisfy us. Here I cry, my God, release your glory. Satisfy us. We don't want to leave here the same way we walked in. We want more, we want more, we want more. Pour out your, pour out your, pour out your testify of the battles you won. Yes, God. One more. How you were my portion when there wasn't enough. Yes, God. And I'll sing the song of the seas that we crossed. Yes, God. Yes, God. The waters you parted, the waves that I have walked, singing, oh, my God did not fail. Oh, that's the story I'll tell. Praise. Thank you, Jesus.

Hallelujah. We'll give God praise. Hallelujah. Glory to God. You all can do better than that. Glory Glory to God.

Give God praise. We give you glory, God.

Hallelujah, hallelujah. We thank you, Lord. How many of you got so much to thank him for? You realize this is the last Sunday in 2025? For real? Yes. Thank you, Jesus. When it started Somebody didn't think they were going to make it, but you're still here. Why don't you give God praise? You're still living.

Hallelujah!

Glory to God! Glory to God! Father, we bless you and we thank you for your anointing. That destroys yokes and removes burdens. Father, cast the devil out of the mind, break down every stubborn will. We surrender, we say yes, Lord. But even in the expression of worship and dance, we have so much to thank you for. We have so much to rejoice for. You have been good to us. In spite of what the enemy has tried, you have been good, you have been kind. And oh, thank you for liberty, God. Thank you for freedom. In the name of Jesus, you brought us this far, and we give you glory, and we give you honor, God. Thank you that what's to come is better than what has been.

Our days ahead are better than what we've experienced before.

We— thank you for where we're going. In the mighty name of Jesus, anoint this word, God. Let us experience the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Spirit. In Jesus' name. Amen. Would you clap your hands and praise God again? Hallelujah! Glory to God. God is so good. Michael, can you give me some more on this? Just a little more on this. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. That's too much.

Hallelujah.

All right, we good.

Thank you, Jesus.

I pray y'all had a good Christmas. Amen. Y'all give God praise if you did. Going to get into this. Glory to God. This morning I want to talk to you about embracing freedom. Amen. Say that with me. Say freedom. Freedom. Okay, now that's still too much. Come down. Hallelujah. That's, that's good right there. Say that with me. Say embracing freedom. Well, Diane, you had a good Christmas? Praise God. Good to see you. You look good. Hallelujah. God is good, isn't he?

Amen. Yes, yes, he is.

Sometimes we take freedom for granted. Yes. Amen. I need to submit to you that 80% of the human race is not free. Yes, I'm gonna say that again. If I took a poll in this room and I asked you, are you free? Probably 100% of the people that's born again will say I'm free. But this message is going to really challenge your answer, because most of the people that say they free, all right, are not really free. Freedom in many instances is less attractive than bondage. Man, you got to be crazy. I'm telling you the truth, because freedom carries a burden. It carries a responsibility. I'll submit to you that most of the church is delivered but not free. Yes, there's a difference in deliverance and freedom.

Deliverance removes shame.

Yes, freedom introduces and assigns responsibility. There's a responsibility that goes with freedom that causes many people not to embrace it. And on this last Sunday of 2025, as we get ready to turn the page on a new set of days, yes, the Lord began to speak to me and he said, son, This new year will be a year where freedom must be managed and it must be desired. Somebody said, yeah, Apostle, I desire freedom. Well, the Lord is saying we need to act like it. Are y'all here? Yeah. Okay, let's just walk it out. Many people look at that word and they will say freedom is, you know, the absence of restraints. If I'm walking around, I'm free. It's not true. We ain't slaves no more. We ain't got to pick cotton. Doesn't necessarily mean you're free. Freedom again is the assumption of responsibility. Deliverance brings you out of oppression. Freedom releases you, deploys you into supernatural purpose. When you're really free, you're aligned with what God says about your life. You're not free if you're still living according to the systems of man.

Okay, all right, come on now.

You're not free if you're still dependent upon WIC.

My God, y'all ain't got to talk to me. Preach, preach.

Governmental welfare. Yes, Jesus. Uh-huh. You're not free. You're not free if you're dependent on your job. Yes.

Oh boy.

All right, somebody said, where you going with this, you good? I'm gonna get to you, trust me. I just need to lay a backdrop to where I'm going for real, because You cannot claim freedom in God, and God is not actually your source.

Amen. That's right.

He's not actually the one that you look to for every single thing, because when it really hits the road, I want you to think about what do you depend on for survival. What do you depend on to make it? Okay, okay, let me help you. I'm back, right? I didn't even ask how she did. I already knew she preached good. Listen, I'm here today, okay? So y'all gotta talk to me. Y'all might not talk to other folks, but so talking to me— y'all should know this by now— makes me know you're receiving. And if I know you're receiving, that means I'm not going to be here for hours. 'Cause if you're not talking, I'm gonna keep talking 'cause I'm gonna think you ain't getting it. Are y'all hearing this? I'm gonna keep reiterating my point until you get it. So talk back to me, all right? Say that with me. Say, I'm free. I'm free in Jesus. In Jesus. Say, he's my source. He's my source.

And my resource. And my resource.

God. Amen. The framework— and I'm going to be teaching this through January, that I'm going to be teaching this— is when we look at the children of Israel, and we're going to look at some scripture in a moment, they were in bondage. You read Exodus, that's the story of their walk from bondage to freedom. Yes. But watch this, if you read the whole book What you'll discover is that they had a long walk to nowhere. Yes, sir. It was a long walk to nowhere. Yes, it's a long walk. 40 years of walking and wandering in the wilderness and never entered the promise. They were in Egypt with Pharaoh, under oppression. God told Moses, go now, tell Pharaoh, let my people go. God used Moses in a great way to get that job done. Pharaoh delivered the people to the hand of Moses, but watch this, he delivered them into wilderness. Right. So many times you come out of deliverance, you go into wilderness, which is a consistent process of mundane experiences where everything looks the same, everything cycles, repeat, clothes grow with you. Watch this, you depend on miracles. Are y'all hearing this? You depend on spooky stuff to feel like you're with God or you're saved. Can I tell you something? The Bible says an adulterous generation seeks out the sign. So, okay, it's quiet in this church today. I don't know what happened, but we, we gonna get it back, okay? Glory to the name of God. Listen, I need you to understand something. You looking for signs, but that's not for you. It's an adulterous, unfaithful generation that looks for a sign.

Yes. All right, okay, okay.

People that really walk with God know God. I don't need a sign for him to prove that he's God to me. Are y'all hearing me? It's people who are not in him that need to fleece him. Are y'all hearing this? That need to say, God, well, if you're really God, do this. That's just folk that said, well, You need your clothes to grow with you. You need manna from heaven and quail from heaven. Well, and those are great miracles, but it's because these people were adulterous. Yes, they were disobedient, which is why it took them 40 years to go 12 days.

My Lord, God said, I'm gonna bring you out of Egypt into a promised land. Yes, a land that flows with oil and with honey.

Honey. Yes. Are y'all with me? Yes. Now here's the key. So you go from bondage, oppression, to deliverance. Yes. But your life ought to evolve to freedom. Yes. Freedom is the promised land.

Freedom is the promised land.

Guess what? Ain't no quail in the promised land. Oh, right. Come on, Chef. Ain't no— ain't no manna in the promised land. Come on now. It's some cows over there, right? Right, right. It's some beehives with honey in it, which means you got a responsibility now. Yes, to get the honey out the hive.

Come on now. True. To milk those cows.

All right, to pick those grapes, to grow those crops. See, what we're raising up is a lazy generation. We don't understand that real freedom requires responsibility and work.

That's right, that's right.

Watch it, watch this. Israel, this Bible, was delivered in a moment. Yes, sir. The moment Pharaoh let them go, bam, they were free in wilderness. Uh-huh. But freedom required a mindset. Yeah, yeah, it required a vision. Yeah. Watch this, it took a whole nother generation to embrace it. Absolutely. Because the original Israelites didn't even go in the Promised Land. The Bible said Moses died in the wilderness. It's a lot of church folk who have died in the wilderness. They were saved. Yeah, they could preach, they could sing, they were gifted, they have praise, praise. But they died in wilderness. Leave me alone, cuz I want to teach this. Glory to God. All right, so, so let's— so, so, so that— this is the framework we're working with, and I'm going to be operating in this all through the month of January, cuz I want you to be be for real. Yes, sir. I want you to be free for real. I don't want this church to be called Ronald Church, which means dominion, and nobody in this church ever walk in dominion. Hallelujah. If that happens, we lived a lie. And in order for you to operate in deliverance, from deliverance to freedom, and take dominion, you got to be taught. That's right. Are y'all hearing this? So if y'all let me teach and receive, yes sir, and then apply what I say, I promise you, you on your way to freedom. So here's some quick facts about freedom. Go to the next slide. I want them to see it, Mario. Yeah, okay. Number 1, freedom is more difficult than slavery or bondage. Somebody said that is so oxymoronic, that can't be true.

It is true.

Yeah, because you have the responsibility to maintain freedom. That's it. In slavery, the master takes care of you. Yes, sir. In slavery, the master takes care of your children. Yeah, future slaves. Y'all ain't got to talk, y'all ain't got to say that. The master makes sure you have everything you need in And that's why— watch this— this is why people stay in sin so long, because the devil will make the pleasures of sin. Okay, first of all, let me, let me help somebody that thought God delivered you from a miserable life of sin. I grew up in church. The old mother, she said, thank God for Jesus, I'm saved, sanctified, with the Holy Ghost, with the mighty burning fire of God. Deliver me from a miserable life of sin. That was a lie. It was, cuz sin was not miserable. It was. I can tell you some sin that'll take your whole check. Y'all ain't got to talk. Okay, I'm in, I'm in the wrong church. I know some of y'all left heaven to come here today, but some of us have had some sin. Yeah, yeah, that we really enjoy.

There's some sin that'll keep you out all night. Uh-huh.

Yeah, that's the sin that make you pick up the phone and call your house and say, hey baby, put your mama on the phone and tell your wife I ain't never coming home again. Wow, good. I'm telling you, there's some sin. Are y'all hearing me? It's real. Freedom is difficult because you have to manage it through work and responsibility. Next, next point, Mario. Let go. I can't stay here. Bondage is more attractive than freedom. Yeah, because this is why many people are not free. Yeah. You sit down and talk to someone who has all this potential in them, gifts and entrepreneurship and business ideas, and you tell them, hey, you need to employ these gifts. Yeah, and you need to be deployed in the marketplace and work these gifts. And because bondage and working a job is more attractive, well, that's guaranteed money. If I give them 40 hours, they're gonna give me a check. Well, are y'all hearing this? And so people will lean to that system of bondage and put their dream on hold. I said I'm talking like this because I signed my own check. I've been signing my own check for 35 years. The reality is, even when it was hard, I refused to go in bondage because I knew what was me. All right, are y'all hearing this? Yeah. Some of y'all, because you've been trained in your mind that if you become a servant to a system that you can be comfortable, but you are not free. Because guess what? You're doing what everybody else do. That's right. Okay, next point. I'm losing to Mario. Number 3: decisions impact free All right, you are the sum total of choices and decisions you make every day. True. Most people are bound because of decisions they make. Well, Lord have mercy. Make decision, marry the wrong person. Oh God, y'all ain't got to say nothing. Make a decision to date the wrong person. Some people get sick in their body, make the decision to keep eating McDonald's every day.

What you you think going to happen.

McDonald's will kill you. You, you got to decide, I'm going to make good decisions that keep me free. A good decision is a decision with precision. It's an accurate decision. It's a prophetically aligned decision. Okay, it's a decision that's aligned— I don't like what this mic is doing— with God's will for your life. Are y'all here? We gotta stop making decisions based on pleasing people. Oh, y'all ain't got to say much. Based on likes and clicks. We got to make decisions with precision, accurate decisions where we don't miss it to the left or to the right. Okay, the steps of a good man are ordered by God. Amen. So when I allow God to order my steps, I don't miss it this way or that way because I'm following what he says. And every decision I make, I make it based on where I'm going. You don't roll with people who don't have a place in your destiny. Decision with precision makes incisions. Yes. Ah, watch this. When you are a person of destiny and you making destiny decisions, glory to the name of God, the people that don't belong will just get incised, incised out of your life. God will cut them away. You ain't even got to ask them to leave, they'll just leave. There's some folk that have left me in my past, and I was so hurt when they left because I wanted them to stay, right? But they left because I was making destiny decisions. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here because I wasn't obliged to their way of thinking. See, you walking around with a 16 by 20 idea and you got this 3 by 5 mind person trying to put your life and your dream in their little bitty mind. The devil is a liar. You got to make decisions with precision that's going to make incision and it'll cut off everything that don't belong.

Amen.

Are y'all here? Yes, sir. Then sit on your hands. Jesus, glory to God. Say decisions, decisions impact freedom. Watch this, a lot of the abundance you may see in your It's based on decisions you make.

Amen.

Guess what we do? We blame everybody else. We don't take responsibility. Somebody said, where the word at? What you just said? Listen, I'm going to get to the word. I'm in the word right now. Next one, Mario. It's not an entity, what you are or where you come from, that keeps you out. Yeah, it's what you think you're not. The Bible says, as a man thinks, so is he. So as you think in your heart, your leb in Hebrew, that's right, that's what you become. Your lab is not this physical organ that's 6 inches below the collarbone. The lab is the center of your intellectual capacity. It's how you decide. So you got to start thinking about you the way God thinks about you. If you thought about yourself the way God thinks about you, some decisions you wouldn't make. Amen. Some places you wouldn't go, some things you wouldn't do. Okay, because when you observe how he thinks of you, oh God, you'll make decisions based on his thinking. Jeremiah 29:11 said, for I know the thoughts that I think toward That's right. So this is how God thinks about you. First of all, his thoughts are toward you. The word toward is behakavash in Hebrew, and these are thoughts that I have propelled in your direction, okay? And they are big thoughts. So God is not thinking anything little about you. God's thoughts are huge. So watch this, if you gonna be thinking You might as well think big. Well, if your mind is stuck in little, yes sir, you're not thinking like God thinks.

Well, my Lord, Lord have mercy.

I told y'all a couple weeks ago, I'm not stuck in this space. Every time I come in here, I'm, I'm just here temporarily. 'Cause I think bigger. I'm thinking about those 33 acres plus 15, 48 acres around the corner from here where we're gonna build an entire campus. I'm already free from this. All right, that's why I'm not intimidated by the small groups. When we pack, we pack. When we small, as well. I ain't intimidated by none of that because my mind has already gone somewhere else. I'm already in the new space. It's trees over there now. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. Glory to the name of God. You can't even see where the building and the production studio and the homeless facility and the school and the Enterprise Center and all those things were gone. Now all you see is trees.

All right.

But I'm not bound to this.

Yes, because I'm already there. Are y'all here?

All right, you got to make up your mind. Where you are now is not the final result. Can I preach to somebody that wants to hear it? The way it is now is not the way it's gonna be. Alone, sir. Just high five somebody and tell them the way it is now is not the way it's going to be.

Come on now.

I'm telling you, things are changing. Even while I'm talking, things are changing. Even while I'm preaching to you right now, I'm telling you, there's stuff accumulating in the realm of the spirit to bring liberty, to bring breakthrough, to open doors, to make ways. I dare somebody shout, it's about to change!

It's about to change! Come on now! It's about to change!

So yeah, it's not the United States that keeps you bound. It's not the family you were born in that keeps you bound. It's not the neighborhood you grew up in that keeps you bound. It's what you think you're not, but you are what God says you are. Our next one: true freedom must be personally managed. How's it managed? I just managed through work and responsibility. So when you accept it, you got to manage it daily. Say daily. Daily. This is why you need apostolic ministry, because apostles teach you how to manage. This is why we go through so much hell. Yes, sir. I done been through so much stuff in my life, but I have resolved that everything I've gone through is for the people I've had to touch. Yeah, I look at my sons and daughters, I look at Brandon, look at Greta, look at all of them. I look at Apostle Asia, I look at everybody and say, hey, I went through this stuff for them. Yeah. I look at you, I'm gonna look at my wife, Eric, I'm looking at y'all. I've been through hell so I can teach you how to manage life. Are y'all hearing it? Amen. True freedom has to be managed through apostolic culture. This is why the church needs to wake up. Yeah, yeah, to embrace apostles. Oh God. There are pastors who believe this gift is not necessary, and they'll equate the impact of this gift based on the size of this room, right? An apostle's impact is felt in the realm of the spirit. A real apostle has a prayer life that impacts the region spiritually and shifts things so everybody else can function. Come on here. Yeah, yeah. There are about 2 scandals I know my intercession have stopped in Atlanta that should have happened in 2025. Y'all ain't got to say nothing. I won't call their name, but the one of the pastors is a big hoe. He got married, he's still a hoe. Glory to the name of God. He's still hoeing, but God is sparing him because I've been releasing angels around his home.

Okay, all right.

Y'all ain't got to say nothing. Say, Lord, please don't expose him because the burden that the body carries. We don't need another scandal.

All right, all right, all right.

And then there's another one on the direct opposite side of town. He's so in the closet with his— you would never know he was a closet homosexual, but he's one of the biggest homosexuals in this region. My wife prayed in the spirit. Don't call his name, please. I'm not going to call his name. But I'm telling you right now, he's a big homo. That's more sugar in his tank than Domino's. I'm telling you, he is bad, man. Yeah, and he deals not only with grown men but young men, teenagers. God showed it to me. And I said, God, deliver him, bring him out of this so that he can keep pastoring and don't get exposed. Yeah, are y'all hearing this? Yeah. But guess what? God showed me he gonna keep on and he gonna get exposed. Yeah, y'all hearing this? Yeah. God obsessed. Y'all gonna hear about it. 24/6, it's gonna come out. Because at the end of the day, he's not free. He hasn't been exposed to ministry that can bring him into freedom. Thousands of people bow. Say freedom.

Freedom.

You got to embrace it. Embrace it. This one, here's the first one, and we going. The road to freedom starts with understanding that if you're coming out of bondage, you got to deal with the spirit of procrastination. My God, yes, Lord. Next time, keep going. I already talked about that. Let's, let's, let's stop right here for a minute. Let's just start right here. Irresponsibility, which means to ignore responsibility, well, it's freedom's deadliest enemy. Let's talk about it just a moment. Okay, we can't talk about being irresponsible if we don't talk about being responsible. Okay, the word responsibility means to respond— two words— to the ability that's in you. Okay, so if I'm a man and I have the ability to take care of my bills at my house, all right, all right, if I don't respond to that ability, I am being irresponsible. Yes. And it puts a burden on my wife. Yes. Are y'all hearing this? You have to respond to the ability, the gift, the capacity the purpose that God has put in you. And you're irresponsible when you don't respond to those gifts. Matter of fact, you become a weapon in your own war for freedom. Yeah, because you got the gifts. And then you blaming the devil because you broke. You blaming the devil because you're sick. You mad cause 50 Cent and Diddy got wealth. Y'all ain't got to say nothing. Well, how they evil and got all that? Simply responded to ability. They're wicked, but they responded to ability. Yes. What more could you do with God if you responded to the ability, the gift he gave you?

Yeah. Yes. Come on now.

How in the world Trump get all that money? He crazy. How he become the president? He responded to ability. Well, Are y'all hearing this? What could you do if you responded to who God says you are? It's irresponsible when you ignore your gifting. Yes, sir. And I ain't just talking about the prophesying, speaking tongues, and the laying hands. That's all people want to do, right? Everybody wants this, but this don't matter if you don't show up out there. The abilities in you is to show up in the work. What gifts do you have to bring to the marketplace, to the mill where you can create products and services? It's irresponsible when you got all these gifts and don't try to do anything more than what you're doing. It's an enemy. Preach! Preach! To freedom. All right, let's go, Mar. Here's the first point: procrastination. It's a problem in the church. Big time. Procrastination is the failure to move forward after But God has made a way. First of all, you got to believe that God has already made a way. Here's the problem with most church folks, they don't like the way he made it. That's the part. So because then they don't like the way he made it, right, it's okay, I don't want to do that. But I thought you wanted to be free. I thought you wanted provision. I thought that you wanted a way out. Good. Let me point a case. Let me give an example. Thank you, Jesus.

When you delay to tithe, well, my goodness, God has made a way through your tithe. Uh-huh.

Uh-huh. He made a way through the tithe. In Malachi 3, bring ye all the tithe and offering to the storehouse. I don't care what Creflo say, That's a lie. We still need to obey the Bible and tithe. Yeah, we do. Okay, yeah, I called by name. I'm sorry. We just going to pray for— listen, he said you bring tithe off the stuff, if you mean my side, prove it out, I will pour you out a blessing. That you have room to receive. Now, how many folk in the church that time have actually received a blessing, amen, that they don't have room enough to receive? Amen.

God didn't lie.

Watch this. Somewhere, number one, you didn't believe. Okay. And number two, here we go, you gave it out of religious obligation. That part. Glory to God. Versus as an act of obedience. Yeah, and loyalty. And you had— and because you do it out of religious obligation, you do it when you want to. So you said, on time of this $400 a week, I'm gonna give God this 40. But you get that big check, $10,000. Oh, okay, now I'm gonna keep getting that 40. Cuz you really don't believe it. That's proof right there. How can God trust you with $100,000 a month? Amen. When you won't tithe off $1,000 of it? Be faithful over few, and I'll make you rule over many. Amen. So I can't trust I'm giving you $1,000, you want me to consistently bring me $100? That's procrastination. So you get increase, you should be quick, quick to give God 10%. Amen. Real quick. I don't even care if it's a gift. Yeah, some of you got money for Christmas, you owe God 10%. Absolutely. He said all the first fruits of your increase. So if that gift increased you financially, there it is. You owe God 10%. He already made the work. Yeah, he already made the work. Procrastination is, you know God's a healer, you know he's Rapha, all right, but instead of praying for healing You ordered home remedy books off the TV. You had the doctor. You made these your first choices. Are y'all hearing me? First choice. And your first choice should be he's Jehovah Rapha. He's the Lord my healer. And you should trust that he can heal you out here? Yes sir! In the grand scheme of things God has already made away— yeah, He's made way. Can I submit to you this morning it's already done. You ain't even got to really do nothing but believe and trust God for the manifestation of it. He's already made the way. Amen. You gotta stop Procrastinate.

Yes, sir.

Next slide, Mark. Exodus 14:15. Watch this. Yes, sir. Why do you cry to me? Tell the children of Israel to go forward. Now here it is, they're at this mountain crying out to God because they're going to come up against the inhabitants of Mount Seir. And God says to Moses, tell them stop praying. Stop all that hollering and praying and go forward. They were fearful of forward movement. And most of the time the church think if we pray longer, that's it, God will move the obstacle. But some obstacles are not designed to be moved. Oh God, some obstacles are gonna stay there because they are designed to make you— to build your faith. And you must walk in the authority that God has given you, move forward and defeat the obstacle. Okay, see, what we want is better. That's what wilderness people do. They don't want to defeat the enemy, okay? They don't want to take him down. No, God, you defeated him. Get it out of my way. Some things he's not gonna move. He's saying go forward.

Yeah, go forward.

When you— when we go into this new year, instead of complaining about the same old stuff, praying about the same old stuff, being in the prayer life of the same old thing every week, Go forward. Look, somebody say go forward. Go forward. Procrastination delays destiny. Yes. And these delays often lead to detours. Yes. The detours come from you being distracted by what's in front of you. And ultimately you end up in destruction. You destroy the purpose, you destroy the plan. Watch this. Slavery tells you what to do.

Yes, it does.

Freedom demands initiative. You gotta decide, I'm gonna take initiative, I'm gonna do what I gotta do to get where I'm going. Many times the delays in our life are connected to a lack of vision, connected to what God can do. See, you gotta know what he's able to do.

Yes, able to do.

Visionless people create delays in their freedom because freedom requires direction. You need a vision from God on how to get past this obstacle. Here it is: the person who cannot see the ultimate becomes a slave to the immediate. I'm gonna say it again: you cannot see the ultimate, you become a slave to the immediate. And there are a lot of people stuck in their way because they have gotten comfortable in the immediate. The immediate works for them. And God is saying, there is more, there is a deeper level, there is a higher dimension, there's a new realm, there's a new portal, there's a new place of joy I want to bring you to, but you can't get there because you you can't even see. I got this. Can you see yourself blessed? Can you see yourself wealthy? Can you see yourself without sickness in your body? Can you see yourself walking in power under the anointing with the oil of God flowing in your life?

Come on, man. Come on now. Can you see it?

Thank you, Lord. Tell somebody, say, I gotta see what's coming. Tell them what's to come, what's to come is better, is better than what has been, than what has been. Amen. Thank you, Lord. Stuff you dealing with right now Nothing in comparison. Thank you, Jesus, to the glory that shall be revealed in you. Paul put it like this in Romans. He said, the sufferings of this present time, they are not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall be revealed in us. Yeah. Watch this, here comes glory. God's about to show you something about you that you have never seen before. He's about to show you dreams and visions because he's about to free your mind in a way where you don't settle for less. You don't settle for what it was. You don't settle for the pain of yesterday. God says, I'm about to bring you into the ultimate reality of who I created you to be. Me. There's a greater reality. There's a greater future.

Open your mouth and praise God for where you're going.

I want to announce to you this morning, you're going somewhere. Shout it out, brother Church! You're going somewhere. Those of you watching us live You're going somewhere. You've been going through hell. You've had struggle after struggle, pain after pain, heartbreak after heartbreak, but God said you're going somewhere. Open your mouth and praise him for your future. I can see you in your future. And you look much better than you look right now. I can see you in your future, and you look much better than you do right now.

Give him glory! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! No more procrastination.

No more procrastination. Because watch this, when you procrastinate, hallelujah, and you create delays, procrastination always leads to incarceration.

Next slide, Mario. Thank you, Jesus. Next one.

Incarceration. Incarceration is remaining mentally and physically imprisoned even after physical release. Yes, some folk got saved, but they still mentally, spiritually, and physically imprisoned even after salvation. But God says, I want to liberate you. It's not his will for you to be incarcerated. It's his will for you to be free. Speaking in tongues during time, it's not God's will. Worshiping, doing time. Some of you ain't never been to jail, but you're doing time. You're doing time with no resources, doing time in a bad marriage, doing time with no purpose, no direction, doing time in the world system. God says, I want you free.

Yes, Lord.

Some of you are still traumatized by narratives from your past. I'm here to tell you that's jail, that's incarceration. Bring it down a little bit for me, baby, for a moment. Let me share something with y'all. Last Friday, I was on my way to Orlando with my family, driving in my car. We're on our way to have Christmas vacation, obeying the law, driving the speed limit. Blue lights got behind me. My Lord, my Lord, pull me over. First I was at peace, I'm like, okay, it's good. But then I felt the enemy, so I started interceding in the spirit. I started praying in my seat in the car in the spirit while the officer was back there with my license. My wife was looking for the insurance guard on the phone. Finally he comes back to the car, says, step out of the car, sir, I want to talk to you. Went to the back. He said, you know you have a warrant for your arrest? I said, no, I didn't know that. He said, yeah, there's a ticket in DeKalb County, a misdemeanor, that said you left the scene of the accident. I remember being in an accident back in May. Okay. My insurance company fixed the person's car. There was no tickets issued to me. Okay. Are y'all hearing this? All right. But I resolved after 2 minutes of talking to him, you're going to jail. He was nice. He said, I'm going to let you ride in the front. Okay, you really ain't doing me no favor. You still taking me to jail. Now mind you, it's Friday, right? I'm in Monroe County, Forsyth, Georgia, the whitest redneck state in Georgia.

My Lord, right, Friday.

And y'all, I prayed for my wife, sister, say it's going to be all right. Sent them on down the road, they took me to Monroe County Jail. So I spent Friday, Saturday, Sunday up there Monday and Tuesday all day, cuz I had to get transferred, cuz I ain't no charges anymore. I had to get transferred from Monroe to DeKalb. It took them to Tuesday, wow, to come get me. DeKalb County takes forever to release you. Yes, my Lord. It's the nastiest place you want to be. But watch this, I'm in there, I'm like, Lord, I'm, I'm delivered right through us. He says, I ain't ask you all that. He said, look around you, my Lord. He said, this is what you asked me for. He said, this is a harvest field. So I said, God, whatever you want to do. I said, God, I'll do it. And I broke down. Why? Because my family was gone. All the Alex being— all them was in Orlando. And I'm like, keeping my family because it said, use this moment to bring somebody to me. And I spent Monday and Tuesday ministering and witnessing, and I led so many men to God. I saw so many men delivered.

I saw the Lord liberate.

I set them free. And God said to me, he said, the difference in you and them is that they're incarcerated physically, but you're free in me. You're free in the spirit because you aligned with my purpose. The last man I led to God ex-University of Alabama football player, linebacker, huge dude, big man. I'm already in here looking around like— but this man came to me. I had got on the phone with my wife and I went to sit down. I was waiting for them to call my name to get released. It was taking forever. And the Lord said, there's one more. You gotta bring to me. I didn't know who it was. He came to me, he said, you're a pastor, you've been ministering in prayer. He said, I need to talk to you. So I went over in the area where he was and started talking to him. This big old 6'6", 275-pound joker broke down crying and was pouring his heart out to me, and I began to prophesy to him. I began to minister to him. I led him to Jesus, and after I led him to Jesus, I prayed to get filled with the Holy Ghost. The Spirit of God fell on him. He started speaking in other tongues. I said nothing to say. I didn't get into Florida until Christmas Eve. My Lord. But God, I was freed. I was behind bars, but free, but yet free, because I was operating in purpose. I was operating in God's plan.

You have to decide that wherever God sends you, whatever he asks of you, you're going to do what he says.

You got to dismiss familiar places. Thank you, Jesus. And operating freedom. Exodus 16:3. I got move. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. I knew I had to tell y'all that, but I didn't know how it was going to come out, but it came out the way he wanted. Exodus 16:3. Go to the next. Maybe it's not there. Let me read it. It says, if we had only died by the hand of no more than the land of Egypt. See, incarceration again is familiar, it's comfortable. The wilderness is uncomfortable. I was uncomfortable in that jail cell. It's the worst food on earth, and I didn't eat, I didn't sleep the whole time I was there. But the reality is there are people who have grown comfortable to those conditions. And those environments. And in life, there are people who've gotten comfortable settling for less. Come through. And they said, Lord, if I just— there are people that say, if I— when I was in sin, I had money. I've heard people say that foolishness. It'd be true, but now I'm broke. But you broke because you're not operating in freedom. Y'all hear?

Yes, sir.

Freedom multiplies your accountability. When you're free, you got to be accountable to God, and you got to be willing to do whatever he asks. That was a test, man. I have been preaching and making jokes in all the possible I've been to jail. And you know, early in my life I went to jail before I thought that was the one, but this was the apostolic visit. Cuz the other time I went, I was trying to get out as quick as I could. I couldn't because it was the weekend. On this one, I had to be at peace. Y'all don't judge Next point. So incarceration from procrastination leads to confrontation. See, in order to get free, you got to confront your old thinking, your stinking thinking, your ways of living, your ways of doing that are not aligned with God. See, confrontation is the clash between God's purpose and former systems, habits, and fears. I think that's up there, Mario. Go stay with me, son. Yeah, it's the clash between God's purpose, former systems, habits, and fears. Can I say this to you? If you face it, God will fix it. Some people are not willing to confront the thing that's hindering them, the thing that's slowing them down. Most people sweep it under the rug and act like it never happened. But you got to confront those fears, you got to confront those former behaviors, those former habits, and let them know you no longer have dominion over me. That's right, that's right. I have a new king, and his name is Jesus. Oh my God, I'm no longer afraid of what the world can do to me.

I have a new king.

If you face it, got to face it. If we face it, God will turn it around for us. Turn it around. We got to confront the thing that's been trying to destroy us, because greater is he that is in us than he that is after us. Good God Almighty, the one that's after you is not greater than the one that's with you. God said if you confront it, he'll be with you. Watch this. His purpose always wins.

His purpose always wins. My God, thank you. Thank you, Lord.

You— some of y'all need to confront narratives that were given to you. Listen to me closely. By other people about people you need. Come on.

Wow.

People will give you a narrative about somebody you need that's a false narrative to lead you to believe they're not important to your life.

Yes, yes, preach, preach, Pastor.

Because they know they're inadequate, they give you this narrative That's why we have to be careful even with children. You can give a child a narrative about one— the other parent. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. And they don't have an opportunity to experience that for themselves, right? And you've given them a broken narrative out of your brokenness. And you never give them the real side of the story. Y'all ain't got to talk to me. Okay, the problem is it doesn't change the fact that you need those people. So you got to confront what you've been told. Yes, that's right. Because sometimes you'll be dealing with them and then that narrative will come up where, you know, that what they said. Watch, watch God. God never looks at your past to determine your future. Amen. He'll never judge you by where you've been— watch this— or by how others have judged you. My Lord, God's purpose is consistent. God's purpose is consistent. He don't change his mind about you. It's us that change our mind about you. So you got to confront the thing that's been hindering you. Some people will go to a ministry and they'll come in the door with stuff they've heard and they won't release it, and so they can't receive. I ain't talking about particularly this church, I'm talking about any church. You going to a new place, you need to empty yourself so you can receive.

Glory to God.

Freedom requires confronting the flesh, the desires of the flesh. Your flesh wants what it wants. Can I submit to you you, your flesh ain't saved. All right, your flesh ain't saved. That's true. How many tongues you talking? Flesh ain't saved. Ain't saved. But you got to confront that flesh, cuz anything that's not going away, you got to control. Are y'all hearing this? Amen. Yeah, cuz temptation is not going away. Jesus was tempted and tried on all points, yet without sin. You know what temptation is? It means you want it, right? This the deep, this the deep group.

Okay, preach, preach. Temptation means you You want it.

So Jesus was tempted. Guess what? He was— Jesus and that man, part of him wanted it, but he would yet without sin. I said, did he just say that about Jesus? Yes, cuz he didn't sin. He did it for an example to show us you can overcome it, but you got to confront it.

Yeah, like it don't exist.

I got to get out of here. Jesus. Deuteronomy 8:2. The Bible says the Lord led you in the wilderness, so he delivered you to humble you, to test you. Here's the kicker: to know what was in your heart. See, you can hide stuff from people, but here there are two people you really can't hide from. All right, you can't hide from God, you can't hide from yourself. You can fool folk, but God will keep testing in you and keep humbling you until you come to grips. This is in the heart. God fix it. I want to change. I want to be different. But you gotta want that difference. You'll never get freedom. You'll be stuck in wilderness until you confront what's in your heart. Some of you are holding grudges against people that's dead and gone. They're gone. And you're still here in bondage. Let it go. Somebody touched you wrong, molested you, raped you, did something to you that they shouldn't. I've been through it. I was 14 years old, a 30-year-old woman came in my room and had sex with me. I was too young for that foolishness. Somebody said, well, You was— man, you enjoyed— no, my mind wasn't ready. Y'all ain't got to talk. And they took me on this crazy, crazy journey of trying to redefine myself. I couldn't even date girls my age. I'm 16, 17, trying to talk to a 35-year-old woman. Crazy. The reality is I had to let that go. Watch this. I had to let that person go. You know what? I see that person now. I handle them with love. I act like it never happened. God has even given me words for them, and I give them to them, and I love on them, even though they brought that trauma into my life. You got to get the stuff out of your heart. Amen. Bitterness is a spiritual cancer that keeps you bound. It eats away at your soul, your gifts, your abilities, and you stay in the wilderness. Last point: liberation. So we go from procrastination, incarceration, confrontation to liberation. Liberation is freedom aligned with divine assignment. It's freedom governed by the idea of God and is aimed at the fulfillment of purpose. You're not truly free If you're not walking out purpose— purpose is the key to fulfillment, is the key to life. It's why you are here. You're truly free when you're living the reason you were born.

Watch this.

When you discover purpose— because it's not your decision, it's your discovery. I'm gonna say that again. Purpose is not your decision, it's your discovery. God already decided. You have to discover it. Now, once you discover it, you got to work. That's freedom. You got to work on that purpose. Watch this. Work is not a curse. Labor is a curse. But work is not a curse, right? Are y'all here? Work is any effort exerted mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally that's a means to a permanent end. Labor is any effort exerted physically that's a means to a— notice how different those definitions are. Mentally, physically, spiritually, emotionally is real work. It brings a permanent Solution.

Labor is temporary.

40 hours, paycheck. 40 years, retired. 40% pension. 40, 40, 40. That's the 40/40 plan. That ain't what God has for you. Somebody say, there is more. There is more. You can't be afraid to work. The only place success and freedom comes before work is in the dictionary. Yes, you gotta work. Next slide. Are y'all done? This is so true. The best way to keep a people poor is to restrict their fruitfulness or productivity and make sure they can't duplicate what they produce. The enemy wants to rob your creativity. Because your creativity is freedom. He don't want you to be fruitful. He said, be fruitful and multiply, replenish the earth. So do it. Have dominion. You cannot take rada— dominion, rule, or management of the earth if you ain't free.

You got to get free.

2026 is the year of our liberation.

It's our Jubilee.

It's our freedom. We ain't going to just say it, we going to be it. We going to do what God has called us to do. Hallelujah. Galatians 5:13. Almost done. Thank you, God. The Bible says you've been called to liberty. So watch this, the word called there is kletos in Greek, and it means you have been personally invited into a personal freedom that comes from your identity. So kaleo means that God personally dealt with you to give you identity that's going to bring you freedom. I'm not Shannon. Shannon's not me. I'm not Tawanda. Tawanda's not me. We have an identity that gives us liberty. You really can't be free being a mimic. Oh yeah, trying to be somebody else. Y'all hear this? True freedom is born out of your unique capacity Yes, God. Almost done. Watch this. So we're— even though we're free, we're unique in identity. Through love, we serve one another. Yes, Lord. So my identity is created to serve you. Yes. Your identity is created to serve me. Yes. And what you can do, I can't. What I can do, you can't. And we make each other better. Yes. Somebody shout better. Better. The body is better when we're clear of who we are. When everybody is free, you know, there ain't no jealousy when everybody's free. You know, I, I can minister with anybody. I can, I can rejoice when somebody else is preaching because I'm clear about who I am. And you should be so clear about who you are that nothing intimidates you because you understand what God has for you is for you. Keep going. Let's go, Mario. Hold on a second. And here we go.

He who the Son sets free is free indeed.

So what does that say? It says, go— we can't reject freedom. No matter how great the responsibility, yes, how great the burden, if we're in God, we must be free. Amen. Otherwise, the Son maybe didn't make you free. When you're really free, yes, Lord, you'll run from the responsibility. You run to it. He said, God, whatever it takes. I'm afraid. That's why I can be in that jail cell. I said, I'm free indeed. I mean, I saw big old grown men and they're just mad because they couldn't get out. Matter of fact, it was one guy in there, he was schizophrenic. So I had to go to a bond hearing, right? So I'm in the court and I heard the DA say Well, this man here, we need to let him out. The DA said this, this other man, because he's schizophrenic, his charges are minimal. We're gonna give him a $25 cash bond. We need to let him out where he can get his medication. So immediately I start praying because I'm like, this dude is in the same place I'm at. I got to go back in here with this guy. He could snap at any moment. All right, I mean, listen, I, I was doing what God told me to do. But at the end of the day, I might have caught a charge for real. They all true. I'm just saying, they all true. So I'm, I'm checking this out, like, okay, yeah. So I get back up and I'm just praying and sitting around. Dude gets back and immediately starts undressing, cuz he said You got a $25 cash? Yeah. And this is interesting about me, I didn't even have no money. I had a whole signature, all, all they had to do is bring me to the front and let me sign. I could have went home and I sat there 5 days. But it shows you what God was doing. I found number grace, number empowerment. He had me there for a reason. Glory to God. But this guy had $25, he messed that up. Oh, okay. $25 cash bar, you know, took out all his clothes, running around the thing hollering, knocking on doors, tearing up his mattress, tearing up the jail property. Oh Lord, that's a charge. Tearing up the jail clothes, that's a charge. Such stuff. Praying for the brother. And they came in there, they got him, took him up, gave him his clothes, and he knocked on the door and asked him to come and say 'Can you please tell them I'm sorry and tell God I'm sorry?' I said, 'You gotta tell him yourself.' The reality is he was— he needed to be out of there because he was bound up in his mind. Yes. But I believe that when he asked for forgiveness from God that God set his life free. Amen. Because guess what? I didn't hear nothing from him the rest of the time I was there. He was quiet, he was at peace, because the Prince of Peace had came into his life. Thank you, Lord.

Thank you, Jesus. Oh my, my, my.

When God sets you free, you're free in all areas. I need y'all to receive that. You ain't just saved to speak in tongues and shout outside. Go to IHOP and eat. You're saved to be free financially. Amen. To be free physically. Amen. To be free in your familiar relationships. Heal the Son sets free. It's free indeed. I'm almost done. Watch this. Freedom Kingdom is not light, it's weighty. It's not easy, it's costly. It's not optional, it's mandatory. God didn't free you to wander in the wilderness. He freed you to fulfill purpose. Thank you, Jesus. Maximize potential. Thank you, Lord. And change the world. You can't be an example of freedom if you're not free. Everybody stand. I'm done. I believe there's liberty in this building. Here's what I want you to do. Get one person by both hands, please, very quickly. One person, both hands. I do this consistently because the Bible says break one for the other. Look that person in the face and tell them God's plan for you is freedom. Tell them freedom is not light, it's weighty. Tell them freedom is not easy, it's costly. Tell them freedom is not optional, freedom is not optional. It's about the Say, in the name of Jesus, I'm getting ready to pray, and I believe that God will bring you from deliverance to freedom. So you will, you will take the responsibility and do great things. Now I want you to squeeze that hand you're holding and tell begin to pick them up in the spirit. Come on, come on, come on, freedom! Come on, freedom! Come on, freedom! Free! Come on, we cry freedom! Free. Come on, praise! Shabba, to, to! Come on, yeah! Free, free, free!

I am free! Free!

I am free!

I am free. I am free. Come on, pray, pray, pray, pray. Free, free, free, free, free, free, free, free.

Free!

You are free, free, free, free, free, free.

Thank you for the liberty, God. Thank you for freedom, God. Come on, pray, pray, pray, pray. That's a real purpose. That's a real destiny.

We are free. We are free. We are free.

Oh, hallelujah, hallelujah! Come on, loose those hands and go for yourself. Come on, loose those hands and praise him like you're free. Come on, worship like you're free. Free, free, free. We thank you for praise.

Thank you for Purse.

May it come forth sweatlessly, sweatlessly.

Lord, free, free, free, free, free, free, free, free, free, God.

Freedom, God. Free the very birth. Destroy every yoke, God. Free Freedom! Freedom! Freedom! So be it, God. So be it, God. So be it, God. Thank Thank you Lord for freedom!

Thank you Lord for freedom! Thank you Lord for freedom! Thank you Lord—

For free. Thank you, Lord.

Free. For free.

I declare, God, it'll never be the same in his life as he turns this corner. Open wide doors, make ways out of no way, God. What the enemy meant for bad, turn it around for his good. Liberty to his craft, liberty in his finances, liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. Liboso to my life. In that soft touch, shout out in the name of Jesus.

There is freedom! There is freedom! Freedom! There is freedom!

There is freedom! There is free— there is fre— In the name of Jesus, liberty now! There is Oh, yes Lord, yes Lord, yes Lord. A new day, a new turn.

Free! Free! Free! Free! Free! Free the mind! Free the body! Free! Free! Free Shabbaaah!

Lift your hands, everybody. Lift your hands. And I heard the Lord say, yea, I say unto you, my little ones, I have brought you into a day of liberation. And as your Father, I say unto you, it is not my will for you ever to return to bondage again. And I declare to you, if you will take the step forward, as I said to Israel, I say to you, go forward in the— go forward and don't look back. For this day I have made you free. For this day I've done a new thing. For my little ones, I have prepared for you rulership, dominion, authority, and your purpose shall be made known. Your purpose shall be managed effectively. For I say unto I say to you, my darlings, soar in me. For I say to you today, if you'll yield to my voice, the world is yours.

The world is yours. The world is yours. The world is yours. The book is yours.

For this is why I freed you.

Praise the Lord, I'm free.

No longer bound. No chains holding me. No longer bound. No chains holding me no longer bound. No change holding me no longer bound. No long— no chain holding me no longer bound. Yes! Come on! No change holdin' me No longer bound, no chains holding me. No longer bound, no chains holding me.

I am free. Second Galatians. Praise the Lord, I'm free, I'm no longer bound, no more chains holding me. My soul is resting, is such a blessing. Praise the Lord, hallelujah! Yeah, I'm free. I am free. Praise the Lord, I'm free. No longer bound, there's no more chains holding me. My soul is resting Oh Lord, it's a blessing. Oh, praise the Lord. Hallelujah, I am free. I am free. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. I'm free. You want to declare one more No more chains holding me. No more chains holding me. My soul, my soul is resting. It's just a blessing. It's such a blessing. Oh, praise the Lord. Hallelujah. I'm free. Lift those hands to Jesus!

Lift them like you're free! We're free, we're free, we're free!

Thank you! Free—

Say this with me. Say, Heavenly Father, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, I thank you, I thank you for your word, for your word, and I decree and declare, and I decree and declare, I'm not delivered, I'm not delivered, I am free, I am free. Say, I accept, I accept the responsibility to manage my freedom. Say, I will align with purpose and do what you ask of me. Say, no longer will I operate in procrastination, and I will only be incarcerated to your will.

No one can bind me up.

Say in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. I will move in confrontation. I will confront every narrative, every word curse over my life, and I have the victory in Jesus' name. Say, in the name of Jesus, I receive liberation in Jesus' name. Say, I am free to soar. I am free to win. I am free to overcome in Jesus' name. If you believe it, give God glory.

Come on, shout about it.

Come on! Yes!

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Man of God, you and your wife come—

let me pray for y'all real quick. I'm going to go Y'all come, I want to pray for you. Thank you, Jesus. God is so wonderful. Stand right there. Grab your wife by the hand. Let it go. The Lord said to tell you the days ahead will be filled with amazement. Your word for 2026 will be amazing, amazing, because God said he's going to show you his amazing hand. He's going to take the gift not only in her, but the gift that's in you, and he's going to cause your lives to excel. You're going to be a great light to many. God told me to tell you the internet is about to be very good to you in this regard. He said, as you begin to post clips of your dancing and you begin to put word with those dance routines and those clips, I see thousands upon thousands and even multiple millions coming in the future. Future of people gravitating to your influence. But God said he's going to open wide doors for you. There's a gift of business and management in you, and God's going to use you to help manage her career. He's going to begin to anoint your mind to create a trajectory for her that's bigger than Broadway, bigger than Hollywood. But God said there should be an anointing that rests on your movement, that when you dance, bodies will be healed. When you dance, demons will be cast out. I see you ministering prophetically in dance in conferences. I see thousands of people watching you, but it's going to be so unique because as David danced, demons Dance came out of Solomon. God said, as you dance, a nation will be delivered. So God said, the things you've had to endure, the things you've been going through, he said that's a temporary setback, but there's about to be a mighty comeback. And God said to tell you both, he hasn't changed his mind about you from the beginning. There are people that fought this marriage There are people that told her not to marry you, and there are people that try to give you negative about her, but God said this marriage is a blessing. And he says, I'm gonna get the glory out of it. And with the challenges, you're gonna be able to even minister to other couples of how you overcome. So Father, I thank you. For the Jacksons. And from the crown of their head to the sole of their feet, let your glory be revealed through their life and ministry. I release the mantle of freedom, and I declare they will flow freely in the purpose that you've united them. And I thank you that not only is— as she's a part of a group at a school, but I've heard I'm speaking that there'll be schools that'll even be erected by her own hands, and she'll train up other dancers, and you're gonna open wide doors for her.

Hau sha to su pa sa ta sa ta. That's fire.

Pa sa do so. I stir it, I fan the flame, I fan the flame. Stir the gift in him, God. Get the glory out of his life. Do a new thing, God. Lift every burden. Make ways out of no way. We thank you for freedom.

Free, true, pop, stop. Yeah, free, free in the name of Jesus.

Freedom. So be it. So be it. And God says, even as I'm laying my hands on you, man of God, there's a level of security that he's about to build in you, cuz you are the priest, the provider, the protector, the king of your house. And there's a security he's about to lock walk in in you where you won't move in envy, you won't move in jealousy, but you will be the tool that will build her up. She loves you, man, 100%. And God has equipped you to cover her. And I praise We praise you for it now. In Jesus' name. We give you praise for it now. Do it. Do it, Lord. In Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. So be it. Thank the Lord. I'm free, free. I'm free. Thank you, Lord. Yeah, I'll do that, God. Clap your hands, everybody. Bless God. Y'all know I never do this. But I'm going to obey God. I want everybody that can— I don't know what you gave the first time, but the Lord told me to challenge every person again in this anointing. This is your last seed on a Sunday of 2025. Listen to me closely, don't play with this. This seed is a setup for what you need to be freed for you financially next year. So I'm just obeying God. Y'all ain't never seen me raise two offerings in this church. I'm obeying the Lord. Y'all ain't never seen it. This is me obeying God. Get your seed and sow it now. I'm not going to tell you what to do. There's going to be no line. I'm going to trust your integrity. Get your seat. You need God to do something. Don't play with this. Don't play with it. Don't play with it. Father, bless every person that's being obedient now. Bless them for their sacrifice as they sow seed in obedience. Your word says we believe the The word of the prophet will prosper. So as they believe the word and they sow today in this offering, as they do it quickly, God, release the financial blessings quickly in the mighty name of Jesus. So be it. Amen. Glory to God. Glory to God. We give you praise. I'm drunk off— we give you glory, Jesus. Oh, we bless your name. We bless Bless your name, we bless your name. Hallelujah! We're going home, y'all. We're going home. Have y'all received today? Amen. Glory to God. Hallelujah! Go to the announcement slide so we can get out of here. Go Glory to God. We're still going on our Dominion at Sea cruise. Yeah, if you have not secured your cabin, you still can do that. It's 2 people per cabin. Get you a cabin mate. It's only $100 per person to secure the cabin. It's going to be an amazing trip. You need to be on this ship September 7th through the 11th, 2026. Go ahead and secure you, Kevin. Now go to the next one, Mario. Uh, all right, so this Wednesday we're going to be in Mississippi with Apostle Brandon for what we're calling a year-end Apostolic Explosion. Uh, it starts at 9:00 PM. Listen, if you are going and you're staying overnight, I have blocked rooms. I got one person that sent me me the money for their room. I have to release those rooms tomorrow, so otherwise the rooms are going to charge my card and you ain't even there. So I need— if you're going, I need you to make sure you get that seed sent over for your room, which is $125 for the first night. If you got a roommate, it's going to be a lot cheaper. All All right, so get your monies over so I can lock it in your room because I'm going to release whatever rooms I don't have money for tomorrow. All right, so we're gonna have a good time. You might want to be there. Shannon, the Lord told me to bless you, so if you can get there, I'm gonna take care of your room. Okay, the Lord told me to bless you, so I'm gonna bless you. All right. Glory to God. I don't know why, but he told me to bless you, and I'm— I want to be blessed, so I'm gonna obey. Amen. Glory to God. So those of you that want to go, let's make sure you— we're leaving on Tuesday, so we wanted to get there on the Wednesday night. So we'll leave Tuesday, we'll be there all day Wednesday. Hopefully we'll get a chance to do some fellowship on Wednesday while we're there. and then we'll preach and minister on Wednesday night, and we'll come back on New Year's Day. Amen. All right, am I forgetting anything? Why? All right, okay, so we have some stuff. We want to be a blessing to the family that we said we were going to bless, so we have those things. If you brought something for them today, I want you to bring them down. Glory to God. And I got a check for y'all. Come on, Michael, you ready?

This for the family? Yeah, this for the family.

Okay, this for this family right here? Okay, this for the entire family. We got more stuff. Let's go to the car and give that information.

We got— hallelujah!

I'm telling you guys, as we go, and one of the things I learned from this experience I had over Christmas break, we got to become very active in being the hands and feet of Jesus. That's right. And next year I'm just totally dedicated to doing that in such a big way. So especially with men, our men need help. Yes. So God put it in my heart, we've been doing leadership training on Monday nights and it's going to start back in January, but we're going to move that to Tuesday nights because I'm gonna start doing something called Men's Monday every Monday night. I'm gonna probably do 2 at the church and 2 out somewhere just so I can reach men, because that is a strategy God gave me. Men need help. Amen. Are y'all— are y'all on that? Amen. Some of y'all single folks, all the single folks, come on, we need some men to get saved, right? Amen. Is it? It's another bag. Okay, okay, this more stuff. Okay, okay, this is cash for, for them.

I'm just waiting on Alex now.

Is the one that say— that's the one. Thank you, Jesus.

All right, all right, y'all, y'all can come.

So on behalf of the Rock Church family, we wanted to be a blessing to you guys. So this is things for the children. There's financial gifts also from the church. I have a check check for you guys that I forgot. It's sitting on my desk at the house, but I'll make sure— Tony, you work with them, right? So I'll make sure you can get the check. So she gonna bring the check, okay? Well, we love you guys, and this is just a small token of trying to show you that we want to be here to help any way we can. All right, so y'all be blessed and enjoy, and I pray y'all had a super Christmas. Y'all give God praise! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! All right, okay, we're going home. All right, all right, let's go. We going— y'all give dancer, Miss Jackson. I heard this— she, um, she was a part of the dance troupe that danced during our Christmas party. And when I was watching, there was something about her. There was a light coming off of her while she was dancing. And the Lord said, you need to have her come to the church because I got a word for her. So I pray you were blessed today as you blessed us. Yeah, and, uh, y'all make sure y'all come back again and see us again. Yeah, so glad y'all give my son Benjamin Woods a hand.

Give that son a hand.

I love my young brother. And my other son, the baby boy, Alexander Woods. Give him a hand. They bless my heart anytime they around. I'm grateful for them. Glory to God. God is good. Y'all ready to go? Can we stand? We going to go on. I'm going to ask my daughter Tawanda, Dr. Tawanda Carver, to come and say the final word to us and dismiss us. Come on, come on.

Lord God, bless the Lord. Hallelujah. I just have to take a second to first honor God. Today is a very, very special day to me. It would have been my mother's 71st birthday.

My tears are not sorrowful, they're gratitude.

Yes, because I I didn't have to have a mother who loved me the way she did. Hallelujah. So 68 years was a gift.

Yes, it was a gift.

And I know people always say, well, why— we, we, we going to miss you forever. I'm not going to miss her forever. I'm going to miss her until we reunite. Hallelujah. Amen. Amen. And so on this last Sunday, uh, What you leave in 2025— yes, God intends for you to leave in 2025. Yes, Lord. But the gifts and the lesson and the blessing that those things brought to you, take to 2024. Amen. Because those are the things that the people who— if there's people who love who have gone on. Those are the things they want you to keep. They don't care about you keeping they stuff. This my mama shirt, y'all. They care about you keeping the legacy of their love, the lessons that they taught you, the places where they walked you, the God that they served with you. Because they— you are the only thing that they can take to heaven with them. So leave all the other stuff because it's only meant to keep you anchored in 2025, and God has no intention of anchoring you anywhere but in him. Amen. Amen. Okay, and so Father God, we go forth and we bless your holy name. We give you praise, glory, and honor, and we lift your name on high. But we thank you in the places that you have allowed us to find contentment because there's been covering. We thank you in the places that there have been tears because there's been cleansing. We thank you in the places that there has been shout because there's been breaking. Father God, we thank Thank you for every place that you have walked with us to and through. We're okay with the times that you're silent because you've given us everything we need to pass the test. And so now as we elevate and walk higher in you, we walk with lifted hands and our hands off of your work and our trust in your word, and we follow We will follow you every step of the way. For it's in the name of your matchless, undefeated, undefeatable, majestic Son, who obeyed you unto death and laid his life down for us, that we say in unity as brothers and sisters in Christ and sons and daughters to you, amen.

Amen.