FEAR NOT! (DO IT AFRAID) | DR. MIKE WOODS SR | 5 OCT 2025

Jehovah is your name.

Come on, mighty warrior, mighty warrior, mighty warrior, great, great Jehovah.

Is your name. Hallelujah!

Jehovah is your name.

Declare it in this place. Jehovah is your name. Sing it to him and honor his name.

Sing it to Jesus.

Jehovah is your name.

Jehovah is your name.

Jehovah is your name.

Jehovah is your name. Bless his name.

Come on, for a few moments, worship the name of Jesus. Give him the glory. Worship is demonstrative. That means you have to do something. Give him the fruit of your lips today. Today, I'm sorry. Give him the fruit of your lips. Come on, open your mouth. It's demonstrative. You have to do something. Feel this room with your voice. Feel this room with your voice. Lord, we adore you. We love you. There is none like you nowhere. You're perfectly and absolutely wise. Elevación. Give you all the glory, give you all the praise. Nobody like you, Lord. Nobody but you, Jesus. Nobody but you, Jesus. Nobody but you. Nobody but you, Jesus! Nobody but you! Nobody but you, Jesus! Nobody but you, nobody but you! Nobody but you, Jesus! Ke sha yo to rabba daya—nobody but you, Jesus! Nobody but you, Jesus. Nobody but you. Nobody but you, Jesus. We're here to give you glory, God. We're here to give you honor.

We're here to extol your great name.

And we say there's nobody like you, God. And as they were singing earlier, you are welcome in this place. You're welcome here. You're welcome here. Come on, this is your moment with the King. Take it and worship. I'll say it again: if you worship, he will war. No need you leaving this service, going back to the same stuff and trying to fight it yourself when your weapon is worship.

If you worship him, he will scatter your enemies. You have no need to fight in this battle, said the Lord. For I will fight for you, and the enemies you see today, you shall see them no more. For I am the Lord your Warrior, and I am great in battle. We're nothing without you, Father. You are everything. It's in you we live, it's in you we move, it's in you we have our being, Lord.

Oh, I thank you, Lord. We rejoice in the name of Jesus. Jesus is his name.

Jesus is Your name. Your name. Sing it again. Jesus is. Jesus is.

Your name. Your name.

Declare it.

Jesus is. Jesus is. Your name. Your name.

Sing it once again.

Jesus is your name.

Jesus is your name.

Jesus is your name.

Jesus is your name. Mighty Warrior. Mighty Warrior.

Great in battle.

Jesus, Jesus is your name.

Come on, say it again. Mighty warrior, mighty warrior, mighty warrior.

Come on, great in battle, great in battle. Jesus, Jesus, the name.

We love you, God. We bless your name. Hallelujah.

We honor him. We exalt him. We extol him.

He alone is worthy.

To receive glory and honor. All the glory belongs to you. All the glory belongs to you, Jesus. If you worship, God said, I'll war.

Can I announce to you that the victory has already been won? I almost say that again. Victory is here. I know we ain't as packed as we was last week, but I like it like this. God is here. Come on, give God praise and glory for victory right now. Come on, praise him for the victory right now.

Hallelujah!

The victory is already won.

Hallelujah!

The battle has already been won. Glory to God. We bless his name. We honor him. Hallelujah! Glory to God. Shabat. We bless him. He's a mighty God. I just got to say it one more time. He's a mighty one.

Great is the Lord Jehovah. Is your name.

Come on, sing it again.

Mighty Warrior, Mighty Warrior, Mighty Warrior, great in battle, great in battle. Is your name.

Jehovah is your name.

Jehovah is your name.

Your name.

Come on, Jehovah is your name. That name means victory. Hallelujah! That name means we win.

Jehovah is your name. Jehovah is your name. We bless you, God.

Hallelujah!

He's a great God. He's an Awesome God. Jehovah is your name. Yeah, let's show it. Hallelujah. Great and mighty. Jehovah.

Hallelujah!

Give God praise, everybody!

Come on, clap your hands and love on him.

He's a good God.

Thank you, Jesus.

All right, bless the name of God. So glad to be in the house of the Lord again today. Amen. God is He's been faithful to us. I said us, not just me. You ought to praise God for his faithfulness. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. All right, glory to God. Let's get in this word this morning. We're continuing our series on confidence.

Say this with me. Say, confidence means I have the freedom to be myself. Say, confidence also means I am and I'm acceptable to do what God called me to do. Say, I can undertake any task set before me because I am confident.

I need you to receive that in the name of Jesus. So this morning we're going to talk about Fear Not. This is the fourth installment of this teaching, and before we dive into that, I want to give you a couple of things that I believe are important. Um, first of all, it's impossible— y'all, y'all ready for the word this morning?

I'm gonna jump right in. All right, glory to God. No, nothing else.

We're gonna get right into it because I feel the urgency to get this to to you, right? So the reality is most believers move in self-confidence and not godly confidence. Okay, your self-confidence should be surrendered to godly confidence.

I want you to hear this because the moment you start believing in yourself more than you believe God, you're never going to have kingdom success, right? You can actually obtain a modicum of worldly success on your own through your own companies. People do it every day. But if you talk to most people who've achieved success without God, Hear this. They'll tell you the journey was hard. They'll tell you all of the days where they struggled to get where they were. And even now, they'll tell you, even with all the money, all the fame, all the houses, all the cars, they yet have no peace. Because they built it in self-confidence. But you and I have an opportunity because we are children of God. To build, number one, sweatlessly. Everybody say that with me. Say, God wants to give me sweatless victory. That's good, man. That means where it takes the sweat out of it, takes the trauma, takes the pain out of it. And because you've walking with him and rolling with him, he gives you victory without all the mess and stuff that goes with it. So I ain't there yet, Mario.

I ain't there yet. We, we'll get there.

We ain't there yet.

Go back to the last slide.

I don't, I don't want them to jump ahead. I don't want to jump, I don't want to jump ahead so much because I'm, you know, I'm giving you something the Holy Spirit just gave me that ain't even in my notes, right? So first of all, let's grab this I want you to go real quick in your Bible.

My God, this morning, hallelujah. Um, go to— I don't know what I want. I want Romans 11. Romans 11, we're gonna read 16 through 18 real quick. Yeah, I want to show you something because this is important to what I'm gonna teach today. I gotta lay this backdrop, so, so stay with me. Y'all love the Bible? Amen. All right, good. And for those of you that feel like you got to get 100 million scriptures to be preached to, you'll get a few today, all right?

But you know how God can bless you out of one scripture.

You don't need 40 scriptures to feel like you don't learn the word. But sometimes the Holy Ghost does move that way and we don't get it, all right? So, all right, so let's go to what I say, Romans. Romans 11:16-18.

All right, the Bible says, for if the first fruit is holy—

somebody say holy. Now the word holy there is hagios in Greek, which means if the first fruit is set aside. Say set aside. Set aside and sanctified for God's usage.

Okay, he said the lump is also holy. All right, so if you set aside the first fruit to make it holy, you purify the rest of it as well. We're going somewhere with this, y'all with me? And if the root— say the root is holy. Also are the branches. So wait a minute, the fruit don't determine their essence, the root does. So if you want to change fruit, you have to change the root. So if you don't like what you're manifesting or what you're getting in your life, you got to change what you're doing. You don't like your paycheck at the end of the week, change what you do during the week. Are y'all here? You don't like the harvest you get, change the seeds you sow. All right, are y'all here? All right, if you're not getting enough love back in your life, maybe you're not sowing some. Are y'all here? So if you want love, you got to give some. Give and it shall be given unto you. So you give love, you get love back, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over. You want some joy? You ain't got no joy? Maybe you ought to give some.

Are y'all with me?

So let me keep reading. He says, and if some of the branches were broken off, okay, and you being a wild olive tree were grafted in among them, and with them became a partaker of the root and the fatness of the olive tree, he says, do not, verse 18, boast again against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root but the root supports you. So in other words, if you choose to break off and follow a branch that's not in God— are y'all here? Yeah. To follow a kingdom or a system that's not the kingdom of God, he said, now don't talk against the root you broke off from, which is God. Because that's the one that really made you anyway, but now you're choosing to follow another way and made it hard. Okay, are y'all hearing this? Amen. So what I wanted to get with this was, in order to actually operate in confidence without fear— and that's what we're going to talk about today— you got to be uprooted and replanted. Say that with me. Say uproot it and replant it. There's some systems in our thinking, okay? There's some systems in our mind that have to be uprooted, and then we got to be planted again in the right pot so we can take root in the right kingdom system, all right? So we can come up and become what God has called us to be. Old thinking will hinder you in new systems. You cannot bring a kingdom system— oh my God— into a worldly system and expect it to work, because the kingdom way is going to emerge every time. Same way you can't expect— oh my God— to be in the world and— oh God— and the kingdom to favor you because— and you chose the world. We scared of 1600 Pennsylvania. Okay, I'm just trying to help because we're getting ready to go into some hard times. It won't affect you if you plan it.

That's right. Come on now.

Are y'all hearing me?

Everything is about to go crazy. Real estate market about to go totally backwards.

The economy, everything's about to really be jacked up.

But with government shutting down, with recession coming— I'm telling you, it's upon us— if you're planted, it won't affect you.

Oh, y'all here?

Touch yourself, say, it won't affect me because I'm planted in a different kingdom, and my God my God shall supply all my needs according to his riches.

Now watch this. This first thing about this I want you to understand: when you got saved, you were planted in the world system. I'm sorry, when you were born, you were planted in the world system.

You were born in sin and shaping in iniquity. When you got saved, this is the right thing, you were translated out of the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of our dear Son, our brother, our Savior Jesus Christ. So we move from one kingdom to the next, but now just because we moved, it takes time now to cultivate the new kingdom system. You got to be taught it, right?

You say, I got to be taught.

So we get uprooted from the world system, transplanted in Christ into his kingdom. Now, if you're taking notes, write T on your paper.

I want you to do this because I want you to see this. We're going to get to this. No fear. Once I get there, I'm almost through. Write a T on your paper. On one side of that T, I want you to write world. It's two columns.

And on the other side, I want you to write Christ.

I'm going to show you what this looks like.

So on the world, number one, I want you to write acceptance based on performance. So in the world, we are accepted based on how we perform. I told you last week that most preachers, when they show up on Sunday, they are reapplying for their job every week because they perform to be accepted by the people that listen to them. And they want to make sure that they perform just how everybody wants so that the people keep coming back, right? The devil is a lie. That's way too much work. I'm not doing it. I'm trying to just— I'm gonna follow the leading of God every time I teach, every time I preach. I'm sorry, because in the kingdom my acceptance is based on my faith in God. So you— we try to perform in the world to be accepted, but in the kingdom all you got to do is honor and trust God and believe God. He accepts you. Amen. Are y'all hearing me? There's no works, it's faith. Number 2, write it on the world. In the world, you are rejected if you're not pleasing. If you don't please people in the world, they'll reject you because you don't dance to their music. In the kingdom, you're never rejected if you keep trusting God. Say that with me. Say, in the kingdom, I'm never rejected as long as I trust God. That's good stuff, man. Amen. Why would he reject the same person that he elected, selected, and protected to be a child of God?

All right.

You realize the very fact that you saved is by election? Yeah. You didn't just happen to get saved. He elected you before the foundation of the world to be saved. What a privilege, because you could have been elected to go the other way. You got elected to have eternity with God.

That's right, that's good stuff.

You got elected to have heaven on earth. How about— how great is that? Number 3, I ain't got time because I got to get to this, right? Number 3, you're loved if it's merited. So if you do the right things to get somebody to love you in the world system, they love you based on works, based on what you do. But that's not real love, right? Right. In the kingdom, you're loved for love alone. You ain't got to work to receive God's love. I need you— I'm trying to build your confidence. God loves you, so you ain't got to work for his attention. Some folk that say they love you, they should have said I need you, right? Because as soon as you stop doing what they need you to do, they go. Y'all ain't got to say— but love endures every storm. Love goes through the highs and the lows. Love will be with you when you're healthy and strong, and if you happen to catch all timers. Love will stay with you. Are y'all here? Love doesn't leave when things get bad, because love is a free gift.

He loves you for love alone.

Number 4: In the world— here we go— nothing is free. Y'all, we know that, right? Even if they tell you it's free, right? I want you to always know there's always something coming behind free. Somebody telling you, okay, this is free, come get it. It's something else. Read the small print, because nothing in the world is free, but in the kingdom everything is free. Glory to God. I heard one pastor say— I'm gonna start These folk won't give, I'm gonna start charging them at the door.

I'm gonna have to pay it out at the door.

They gonna have to give to get it. I said, they gonna go home. You're gonna do it. Ain't nobody gonna come in. That's stupid. Are y'all hearing this? Because everything in the kingdom is free. That doesn't make sense. He said, I don't care what you say, Woods, I'm still gonna do it.

And I said, like Paul said to Corinthians, if they be ignorant let them be ignorant.

I gave them our church address. I said, as soon as they decide they ain't coming in your door, tell them come to our church because we, we gonna let them in free. Are y'all hearing this? Yeah. You shouldn't have to pay $499 to go to a church conference.

Y'all ain't got to say nothing here.

I know registration, people want to bring in these speakers, but I think if you bring in people, the church should be spiritually and financially ready before you even invite them to bring them in. Glory to God. I had somebody text me last week, and it's my daughter, so I'm gonna do it, and I love her.

Her anniversary— the church, her church is giving her anniversary in Jackson, and she said, Apostle, we want you to come and be the speaker.

We ain't got no money for honorarium, but we want you to come. But first of all, she's taught better than that. So I'm like, you ain't got to have no money, you didn't even have to mention that, I'm coming, right? Okay, I'll be there. I'm going, I'm gonna preach, and I'm not charging her a dime. Now if she remembers her teacher— are y'all hearing this? Understanding who I am in her life and the fact that I've traveled 6 hours to do that for her, because the Bible said you should forsake the Levite that's in the gate or without the gate. So you don't forsake the preacher that's in the church.

Y'all go, boy, okay, here we go. People don't want to take care of the leader.

We'll take care of buildings, we'll buy schools, we'll pay all debt for the church, but forget about the man.

I'm not just saying that because I need something from y'all. I'm just saying that's what church folk do.

But the man is the one that make the whole thing work. You don't take care of him, what good is to have a debt-free building?

Are y'all here? Okay, all right, I'm, I'm keep moving, I'm— because that's— I hit a, a hard spot right there.

But the Bible say, if I communicate to you spiritual things, you should communicate to me natural things, right? Okay, so, but on the— so if that's the case, she'll remember, okay, I got to bless Apostle So I'm not even worried about it because I know at some point during that whole thing the teaching's gonna kick in. But I'm not so arrogant to say, well, I can't come because you said you ain't got no money for honorarium. I've had folk that make— send me demand lists, man. Pastor Jeffrey be dealing with this when we be inviting folk to come here and do something, whether it's preach and sing, I be like, look, I ain't got time for that right there. How you going to make demands and you ain't in demand? You can't make demands if you not in demand. I understand you, when your presence show up, we guarantee folk going to be lined up outside. You asking me for $2,000 for one day to sing a song.

Go ahead now.

Are y'all hearing this? I'm like, no, our praise team sings pretty good. We gonna let them do what they do.

Are y'all hearing this?

Because at the end of the day, that's ridiculous. You ain't made a record in 20 years. You made one 20 years ago. I'm trying to give you a chance to get back out here. Are y'all hearing this? And you want to charge me all this money? Okay, I'm just saying, that's, that's personal. But the reality, I'm trying to make a point here. In the kingdom, everything is free. God gave you the gift free. That's right. Oh boy, someone said, well, I'm an artist, this is how I make my living. No, freely you have been given. Are y'all hearing this? So freely give that gift.

The artist ain't gonna like me because they said gospel artists got to make money.

I understand, you sell the CD, but when it comes to coming to the church, do a concert and do tickets for that. Yeah, but don't do it at church, right? Rent a venue and sell tickets.

Understand, you got to pay for State Farm Arena.

So we're going to support you. But if it's in church, let's have a system where we can trust one another to bless each other. And see, what this artist didn't know, I would have gave them more than what they asked me for anyway. Y'all ain't got to say that because that's just how I roll. Because I'm not going to bring you in and not bless you, right?

Are y'all hearing me?

See, we gotta have a system where we know who we dealing with. I know some folks you got to probably protect yourself, either just because some folks will use you. And again, so I'm—

oh God, it's been way too long on that. Let me just move.

Say everything is free in the kingdom. Number 5, in the world— write it down— you got to work your way to the top. Some people in the world, you got to work your way to the top.

That's right.

Some folks do it all kind of way. They don't work their way, they work something else. They sleep their way. My Lord. You know, I've seen women and men climb the corporate ladder sleeping their way to the top.

That's a dangerous beast, man, because whoever puts you there can always take you down. In Christ, here we go, y'all ready? It's not by your work, it's by grace.

The grace you receive already puts you on top. Number 6: in the world, you compete with others to be first.

That's what everybody trying to do, get first chair, become the boss, be the manager. And most people are cutthroat, especially in corporate America.

They'll smile in your face and be talking to the people that promote behind your back. Better watch what you're doing. You be at work telling folk the little secrets you got to cut corners, they telling somebody because they watching you, because they want your position and they want to go higher than you. You have to be careful because everybody wants to be first.

But in Christ, here we go, I love this, the first will be last, the last will be first. So just because you come as a servant and humble yourself and say, I'm going to take this low place, God says, I'm going to exalt you. Go ahead, number 7, write it down. Then we're going to jump into the days, okay? I just want to give you this because I'm trying to keep some confidence. In the world, you're more valuable if you look right, do right, know the right people, and are talented, and etc., etc., etc. You look good, talk good, got the degrees, dressed the part, looked the part. That's the world. The world will— they looking for that. But in Christ, your value is in nothing outward.

Oh boy, watch this. No good thing comes out of the flesh. We're three parts, we're trichotomy: body, soul, spirit. Your spirit is Zoe life, which means that's God, that's the God kind of life.

He controls that life when he comes in.

Your soul is psuche life, psychological life, your will, your mind, your will, your emotion.

Your taste, your intellect, your senses, your ability to make decisions is in the soul.

So all of the things that flow out of your life really flow from the first two entities: your innermost man, which is your spirit, your inner man, which is your soul. Your body is just a conduit to manifest the invisible. So it ain't what you see on the outside. You got to learn to slip past packages and get into the heart of a thing. See, we'll be looking at the package and like, ooh, I want that.

You better—

I'm telling you, you can be single ladies, I'm Y'all got to be careful, especially in Atlanta. It can look like a man on the outside. Y'all ain't got to talk, but on the inside, he a bigger girl than you. Okay, I ain't got no help here, cuz nothing comes out of this outer case. You can look at a man that has biceps, triceps, six-pack, swole, just walking around like this.

I'm like, oh Lord.

But you better slip past them six-pack and make sure you got 66 books working in it.

Are y'all hearing this?

Make sure you got God working in you, 'cause he can go to bed—

so the older people going to know what I'm about to say—

he can go to bed looking like Billy Dee and wake up looking like E.T. You be want to say, E.T., phone home, go home, 'cause that dude, everything about him comes out 'Cause nothing good comes from now. You got to learn to seek the contents above the package, 'cause that's what God does. Man looks at the outer, but God discerns the heart. So you got to be like God when you're dealing with people. Slip past the outer casing of a thing. And get to the heart of what's going on. See, this is like I tell you all the time, when people come into this ministry, if they lack discernment, if they flow in what they visually see— oh, this is a little church, right? And don't slip past the little church and see really at the core who God has made us to be. People will start deducting and analyzing based on our— y'all ain't got a job— not realizing that the greatest blessing of what they can gain from this ministry is in the core. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. Of us being a praying church, being an apostolic church, being a prophetic house. But they'll stop— oh, it's too low for me. Yeah, we'll miss it every time doing that. Are y'all hearing it? And it's not just this place, that's any place, right? Sometimes you can go to a place, oh, this is too white for me, but what you might need is in that white place, right? Are y'all hearing this? So you got to always do and be where and what God wants you to do and be. Are y'all here? All right, let's get into this. Okay. All right, now, are y'all ready? We're talking about fear not this morning.

Glory to God. Yeah, God is good.

So fear is the arch enemy of confidence. Remember I told you confidence means that you're able and acceptable to undertake anything and everything God assigns. Fear will stop you from undertaking it. Are y'all here? Most people will stay stuck in their life because they have no confidence and they're afraid to do something they never did before. They're afraid to test the limits. Go ahead now. You can't— you'll never test the limits in fear. Fear— say it with me— is the enemy of confidence. Say it: fear is the enemy of confidence. I want you to think for a moment, for real. Have you ever been stopped by fear? And everything's the things you know you needed to do, you didn't do them because That was his fear. I mean, could be something as simple as learning to swim. Are y'all here? Uh-huh. I mean, seriously, has it ever stopped you from undertaking something you knew that you needed to do to better your life? Yeah. Let's go deeper. Have you ever disobeyed God because of fear? Some people won't. Oh my God, because they're— and me and my wife talks about this all the time.

People say, oh, I got church hurt, and I got hurt in the church, and I'm just traumatized by what the last church did to me. So they won't commit to a new church.

Are y'all here? Well, I'm just curious. Because church ain't the only place folk get hurt.

Folks get marriage hurt, they stay married.

They get hurt at the club, club hurt, go back to the club. I mean, are y'all hearing this? But get hurt at church, stop coming to church. First of all, God didn't hurt you. The church really didn't hurt you. It was somebody or some entity in the church that hurt you. Let's call it what it was. So you got hurt by another person in the church. Watch this, and this happens all the time. You get hurt by a human on your job. Job hurt, guess what? You're going to work because you want that check. So we got to make sure we don't allow fear to cause us to be disobedient, right? Watch this. You ever started something? I mean, you started doing it, then you backed down. No, because of fear. It's the enemy of confidence, because at that moment, fear robbed you of your confidence. Fear is infeasible. In other words, it causes things to not exist. It creates an infeasibility. It tells you that what you're trying to do can't happen. Fear will hamper your ability to do and be in life. Fear will wipe your hair and shatter your health. Most people that end up sick with cancer, they feared getting it. Y'all ain't got to talk. They sit around worrying because they see other people in their family getting it, and they start worrying whether they gonna get The word disease, break it down, dis-ease, which means you get worried, you get fearful, you lose confidence. And God says he's the God that heals you. So your confidence is, I ain't going to never get cancer. Your confidence should be, I'll never get dementia, I'll never get Alzheimer's disease, I'll never have a terminal illness. This. Someone say, oh Apostle, that's normal.

Not for me. Not for me. Not for me.

It's normal for folk that don't believe. The Bible said he Jehovah Rapha, the God our healer. He said he will not put none of these diseases upon you that he brought upon the Egyptians. He's the Lord God that heals you. So I declare in this this morning that my body is a cancer-free zone. Your body is a cancer-free zone. I declare in this place this morning that this building is a cancer-free zone. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. It's an Alzheimer's-free zone. It's a sickness and disease-free zone. And that means if you don't have it, you'll never get it. And it means if you got it, you're already healed. By his stripes and by his power. I wish I had somebody give God praise. Oh my God, eternal healing. It drops terminal illness all day. We ain't got to claim that. That's in another system. Amen. It ain't in our system. We claim cancer because everybody else getting it.

Right.

Me and my wife was looking at a house yesterday that used to be owned by oncologist. And walking through the house, praying about, you know, buying it, trying to see if this is what God wants me to do. And the Lord began to show me different things.

He was— the man has moved out of the house, gonna move to Miami.

But the Lord was showing me stuff about him and how passionate he was about making sure people became healthy from cancer.

And he believed in the system that taught him, but he kept hitting these blocks. He could never figure out certain things because he wasn't spiritual.

He was totally—

he was a good man, good heart, wanted to see people healed, but he didn't realize that the missing link was his connection with God that would have gave him insight about the body, about cancer, that he didn't have. And he could have brought healing in a deeper way than just with his— oh my God— earthly His earthly intellect, his Harvard education. Are y'all hearing this? We need a— which shows me we need more than what we think we need. We need everything the King has to offer.

Are y'all here? Yes. Glory to God.

Thank you, Jesus. I'm almost done.

Stay with me.

The word fear, let's just break it down.

Usually there are two words transliterated for fear.

The first one is dehilia. Say that word, say dehilia. Looks like Delilah when you write it down, but it's dehilia, D-E-H-I-L-A, dehilia. And this word means a cowardice from fright, which means something from frightens you and you become a coward. You lose courage. You back down. You tuck your tail. I say, I'm not fooling with this. Y'all here? It's a coward. Watch this. God didn't call any cowards. We are here to be bold, to be confident. And to defeat the enemy at every turn.

The other word is phobos in Greek.

It's what we get words like phobia. It's— oh my God, this means to take flight because you're terrified or have become a coward.

So this means to run away. So you can have the hylia which is a cowardice, for probably be afraid. But once you get that feeling, because you're human, it'll come upon you. Go ahead now. You got a choice now to forge forward in faith and go against what's causing the fear, or to do FOMO and take flight. Let me show you what that looks like. So let's look at the etymology and show you what it looks like. Etymology, study of words. So let's look at what it looks So there's a word called trichadecaphobia. That's the fear of the number 13. You got some crazy folk. Anytime they see 13, they go to rebuke it, go to squint their eyes. They, they afraid of the number 13 cuz they say the number 13 is bad luck. And guess what they do? Because they feel that cowardice They see 13, they react in a phobos way. They walk away, like, I gotta get away from that. Your birthday on the 13th, they ain't gonna be friends with you because you bring bad luck. But that's not really how God rolls, man. Let me give you another one. There's one called Oh my God, hydrophobia fear. Hydrophobia is a fear of water.

Now I'm working with my wife because I'm going to teach her to swim, right?

I done put it on her bucket list. It wasn't on it, I put it on it, and I'm going to teach her to swim. But we have to believe God now to break that fear of water. Now she ain't got as bad as some people because she do bathe, all right?

I can attest to that.

All right, but there's something that— if you want it so bad, they don't even bathe. There's some people that fear water, they won't get on a boat, a cruise ship. Said, no, it's too much water to drink, I ain't getting out there. The church is doing a cruise to meet you next year in September. You ought to go with us. Break the spirit of fear now. Yeah, that's right, cuz there's a blessing on that water. Matter of fact, the Bible said the Spirit of the Lord is upon the water. That's something that happens in the connection of water that don't happen nowhere else. I need you to hear me. God, when he visits Earth and just floats around, he does it in oceans. Y'all ain't got to say nothing. Glory to God. That's where he fellowships with the earth before he even encounters man. He spends time upon the water. All right, all right. Don't be afraid of it. I mean, it's a blessing. Water is a blessing. Even though I, I, I'm, you know, I'm kind of biased because I started swimming as a real little boy. I was a Navy officer, so I, I, I've been around water most of my life. Yeah. Here's what I want you to I understand my greatest blessings have come through my connection to water. God has spoke to me so clear when I'm walking along the beach by water. It's just something different that happens.

Yeah, yeah, by water.

I understand why— I don't even understand why Sheree and her sister decided to move to Georgia. All that water they were living by. Beautiful water in Miami.

Yeah, are y'all hearing this?

So I'm telling you now, you got to deal with your hydrophobia. People that have a fear, guess what? They don't get on the ship.

Yeah, now Apostle, y'all, I see y'all when y'all get back.

Y'all hearing this?

Okay, all right, let me give you more. So let me give you one, let me give you one more. Zoophobia fear, that's the fear of animals. Some of y'all are so afraid of animals. Dog can be this little, I'm talking about he this big, and you is jumping and hollering, won't go in the house. God didn't give you that. I said, I'm so all in, you know, I don't care what it is. It's a snake, I'm trying to figure out how to pick it up by the tail and kill it, or how to step on it. Some folks see it and run.

My wife, she'll look, told at the door, and she's like, get that. And she's just such a girly girl. Get that.

But, but here's reality: God don't give us the spirit of fear.

That's right.

You— so that's what I'm talking about this morning. You got to do it afraid. When, when you— because he didn't say you wouldn't feel the feeling. He said I ain't give you the feeling, but when you feel it, don't run. Go ahead now. Trust what he said.

I ain't telling nobody any else in here to be handling those snakes. Now, that's not what I'm saying, because somebody said, well, Pastor told us to handle snakes.

We don't have no snakes, we ain't got no faith. I didn't say that, because there's a group of folk out here that handle snakes, so I have to be careful. All right, so We understand. Say, fear is not for me. Fear is not for me. It's not of God.

It's not of God.

Now there's a type of fear that you need called reverential fear, which— this is not a cowardice from fright. It doesn't cause you to run, but it's a reverence that says, I honor you. It's a fear in honor. Are y'all hearing this? Yeah. It causes you to obey. That's right. It causes you to be careful in dealing with other people. I went to my cousin's, uh, I'm just a stickler for honor.

I know, you know, it didn't really mean nothing, but I went to my cousin's, uh, my auntie's husband's funeral this past week, and my daddy did the eulogy. My dad been preaching over 50 years.

So I looked at the program and they had him listed, and this is just me, I'm not telling y'all to be like this. I love the problem they have listed as Minister Freddie Woods. Now, for all practical intents and purposes, he is a minister, he's a servant, but these folk know he's a, he's a pastor, he's a prophet. Let's honor— because they family though, but let's honor the man in position he's held and proven that he is. So I— he was good.

I felt some kind of way. I hit my stepmom. What is this? She said, I know, that's all they know.

They don't understand. I said, yes, they know.

They know. I'm sitting there for about 5 minutes. I had to get myself together because they wasn't honoring like So again, here's what I'm saying. When you know people carry something, you honor them. So let me use Shannon. I know Shannon carries a prophetic mantle. I don't just casually greet her, and especially over the pulpit, and call her Shannon. I say prophet. I address her by what she is. That's honor, right? My wife can be talking to people, she don't call me Michael. When in reference to my office, she call me Apostle, cuz she understands honor. I'm not saying you got to call me nothing. I'm just saying you ain't going to call your mama by her first name, right? Right. Are y'all hearing this? That's reverential. Mama, I honor you. Yeah, even with the stuff my mama dealing with, if I call my mama Carol, she gonna grab her purse and something else. Y'all hear me? So who you talking to?

Right, right. Because it's honor, right?

Yeah. So we got to give honor, reverence to God. Now I think the church took it too far because this ain't even in the Bible.

Go ahead now.

When we start calling the preacher Reverend, well, Rev, it ain't in scripture. But if we want to honor him, let's call him by his title. If he's a fivefold ministry gift, let's honor him as a pastor. Are y'all hearing this? This Pastor such and such. If you got a pastor friend, don't, don't introduce me to your pastor friend. Hey, Apostle Mike, this is my buddy Robert. No, that's not how you introduce him, even though y'all live buddies.

Okay, I'm gonna keep moving. Go to Proverbs 14:26.

Go, come on, Mario, let's go.

Son, 14:26.

The Bible says, in the fear of the Lord one has strong confidence. That's good. So when you reverence God— here we go— he gives you strong confidence. Let me show you what this verse is saying. If you're not confident in some areas That means you have not honored God in that area as you should, because the Bible says here, in the fear of the Lord, you got strong confidence. You know why? Because you don't want to let him down. You don't want to displease him. You want to make him smile. You want to be found pleasing in his sight. I got to get out of here. So many times strong confidence, they know I can do it afraid. But wait a minute, he speaks to your legacy. He tells what confidence does to your legacy. And in your children, watch this, you will have a refuge. So your children are even safe because of your confidence. Even if some of your children not living like you think they ought to live right now, If they're not aligned the way you think they ought to be aligned, if you put confidence in God, God said your children will be safe. That's why, parents, the best thing you can do for your children is live for God. The best thing you can do with your children is display confidence in God before them. And when you do that, the Bible said your children will have a refuge. Children don't need some parent that's always down and always in fear. That's why I think, man, babies don't need to have babies, right? It happens, but it shouldn't. Okay, again, this is just me. It's my opinion. It's like a toothbrush, everybody got one.

Oh.

All right, but if you are immature and a child yourself, you don't need no children. You need to grow up so you can be a parent enough to show them confidence in God so that they can win in life. Yeah, but if all your children see— watch this— if your children see you with a halter top on with your stomach out and yoga pants. Halter top, yoga pants. Okay, y'all get the picture, right? Guess what your little girl gonna want to wear? She gonna put on the exact same stuff. Are y'all here? Because she gonna do what she see. You gotta decide.

You don't have confidence in the Lord and be an example.

And these young people that have these children, most of the time the grandparents end up doing more raising of the children. Y'all ain't got to talk. And teaching the children at the young age is what they need to know than the parent does. Because the parent is too caught up in themselves.

Okay, y'all quiet this morning.

Okay, I'm gonna take that as you're listening. Hallelujah.

You go next slide.

Look, somebody said, do it afraid.

I'm gonna say it again, say do it afraid. So when you feel fear, go forward. The moment you do that, the fear is going to lift.

True story, testimony of a woman. I want you to hear this, of Dona and Afraid.

This lady in conversation, just thing after thing, tied down her time, under her life, everything she went to do, she was stopped by fear. And intelligent, smart entrepreneur, could have easily been a multimillionaire in her 20s, but every time she went to do something, fear stopped her.

Here's the interesting thing: she was fearful about everything. And she began to tell me, 'Well, I have been robbed by fear at gunpoint all my life, and I wanted to stop.' I looked at her, this is 10 years ago, and I said, do it afraid, because everything you just told me, clearly you don't know how to handle fear when it shows up. And it's this fear of rejection and failure that keeps you from going forward.

I said, so one time I want you just to leave this office and do it afraid. The next thing that comes up, don't analyze before you believe, just do it afraid. And I told her, I promise you, you're gonna have the success. She did it.

3 years later, she had this idea to start this floral business. She did these arrangements, these soaps. She made soap from like scratch, some kind of way. Good stuff. And she made these beautiful baskets. So in Mississippi, there was nothing really like this that was a stationary place people can go and get this kind of customary stuff. She did it afraid. She got a place, start manufacturing her stuff, put it in the building. To date, so 2 years after she opened, Sears in Jackson, Mississippi was still open before they went out of business. They came to her and said, look, we want to feature these products in the store. Can we license certain products to be sold in our store and you don't sell them here?

They paid her a healthy amount of money, put the products in Sears. Today she still is in business because Sears went out of business. She got her license back. Now she's selling the stuff that everybody fell in love with through Sears. They would go to Sears to get it.

Are y'all here?

And, and they knew if they couldn't get nowhere else, they get it from Sears. But when Sears went out of business, they found her because she was the person that created it anyway. And now she can't keep the stuff in stock. So you got to do it afraid, right? If she would have let fear grip her again she wouldn't be in the position she is in now.

Are y'all here?

Oh my God, you gotta fear not. There's one theologian that says fear not is in the Bible 365 times.

That's right, Pastor, one for every day of the year.

So every day you got to decide, I ain't gonna fear nothing. Go to Joshua 1, starting verse number 3.

Glory to God.

Y'all ready? Yes, sir. Y'all getting anything out of it?

Yes, sir.

I mean, serious, you getting anything out of it? Yes, sir.

Yes, sir. I said, y'all quiet today, man. Joshua 1:3. Hallelujah! I feel God. Amen.

The Bible said every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon, I have given you, as I said to Moses. Watch this, God is not a respected person.

I'm gonna say it again, God's not a respected person. Amen.

So if he did it for Moses, then he said this to Joshua, guess what? This word also applies to me and you. Watch this. So everywhere your foot puts, everywhere you put your foot in, when you put your foot on it, he said it belongs to you. Amen. Oh, that— can I prophesy to you? I heard the Lord say, put your foot on it instead of standing on the outside looking at it. Put your foot on it. And God said, wherever you put your foot, he said, I'm already giving to you. It's already yours. You already have the victory. Stop thinking about it. Stop contemplating. Stop dreaming about it. And put your foot on it. Say to us, I gotta put my foot on it. That means you got to take action. You've been sitting up thinking about it, thinking about how your business can blossom, how your dreams can come to pass, how God can do new things in your finances. God said, yeah, I want to do all that, but I can't do it until you put your foot on it. See, you've been putting your foot in negativity, you've been putting your foot in the opinions of other people, but God said, put your foot on that business, put your foot on that stock, put your foot on that crypto. Put your foot in that real estate. Put your foot on it. I wish I had a church here. Just hit somebody and say, put your foot on it.

Put your foot on it.

Verse 4, he said, from the wilderness and this Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, All the land of the Hittites and the great sea toward the going down of the sun shall be your territory. In other words, Joshua, there's nowhere you set your feet that does not belong to you.

All right, watch this.

In your fear of dominion influence, there's nowhere you put your foot in that realm that's not yours. I wish somebody shout, it's already mine! Say, all I need to do is put my foot on it. Oh my God, glory to God. Verse 5, he said, no man— I love this— shall be able to stand before you all the days of your life. Lord, I love you. Hallelujah. As I was with Moses, so shall I be with you. So not only do you need to put your foot on it, but when you put your foot on it, you need to be confident. That there's no human, there's no entity, there's no weapon formed against you that will be able to stand before you all the days of your life. I'm trying to help somebody. You are going to win if you step out. Stop sulking, stop being depressed, dry the tears from your eyes and put your foot on it and know that when you put you put your foot on it, there won't be nothing that can stand before you. There won't be a witch, there won't be a warlock, it won't be a hater, it won't be a— oh my God— a friend, a family member that tries to stop the move of God in your life. No man can stand. That's why I'm here to tell you I'm gonna keep preaching in this little church because I put my foot on this region. And I decree and declare, while we're yet small, while we're yet in our small beginnings— and the Bible said, despise not the day of small beginnings— I put my foot on this region and I declare souls will be saved, men will be delivered, women will be set free, businesses will be born, new churches will be birthed. I put my foot on it. Demons will be cast out. You got to make up in your mind nothing will stop you from what God told you he'll do through you. Uh, just, just, just grab back and say, I'm unstoppable. I got to get out of here, y'all.

He says, he says I will not leave you nor forsake you.

Verse 6: Be strong and be of good courage, very courageous, for to this people you shall divide as an inheritance the land which I swore to their fathers to give them. Now all that is saying is you have legacy in your belly, and there are people that will come behind your anointing that will come behind your gift, that will come behind your abilities, that will come behind your identity, who will benefit from you putting your foot on it. See, if you don't put your foot on it, there are generations that will suffer because you— Revival God! Because you refuse to stand, because you refuse to go forth, because you refuse to operate in boldness. Put your foot on it!

Somebody needs you to do it afraid.

Somebody needs you to do it without fear. Oh my God. He says, verse 7, only be strong and very courageous. The that you may observe and do according to all the law which Moses my servant commanded you.

Do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left. Here we go. That you may prosper wherever you go. So God says, when you put your foot on it, you put your foot down and you stand on the word. He said, don't let this word go out of your mouth. Put your foot down and keep quoting the word. I'm the head and not the tail. I'm above and not beneath. I'm a lender and not a borrower. I'm going in blessed, I'm going out blessed. I am God's chosen. Just keep quoting the word. He would above all things that I prosper and be in health even as my Oh, keep the word in your mouth. Glory to God, cuz I'm more excited than y'all. But the reality is, I'm telling you, the word works. And you keep this word in your— he said, be strong and very courageous. In other words, there's some stuff that's going to come up against you. There's some people that's going to try to stop you. There's some words that'll be spoken about you, but God God says keep putting your foot down, keep opening your mouth and standing on the word, because God said you'll prosper in everything you do. You'll never lack. Oh, y'all need to hear that. You'll never lack. You'll never go without. I got somebody shouting, I'll never lack, I'll never go without. I need you to open your mouth and say, I'm blessed in the city. Say, I'm blessed when I come, when I go home. Say, I'm blessed in the field. Say, I'm a lender and not a borrower. Say, I'm above and not beneath. Say, I'm the head and not the tail. Now stomp your foot and put your foot on it and give God praise for I'm just trying to give you confidence. God can't lie. His word said it. So shall it be.

Thank you, Jesus.

Wherever you go You gonna prosper.

Yes, come on now.

Thank you, Jesus, because you put your foot on it. Yes, God.

And open your mouth and spoke the word.

This is his promise concerning you.

Thank you, baby.

Verse 8, the Bible says, this book of the law, the word, come on, shall not depart from your mouth. But you shall meditate in it both day and night and do according to all that is written in it. Wait a minute. For then you will make your way prosperous. So prosperity is in your hands. The wealth is in your hands. The riches is in your hands. You make your way by keeping this word in your mouth. Notice the word meditate there, though. He said, I'm gonna meditate on it day and night. Word meditate is hagi in Hebrew, which means you take the word, you chew it up, swallow it, regurgitate it, chew it some more. Someone says, that's nice, but no, I'm talking about the word. Pull that same word back up, keep chewing. Swapped because you're breaking it down until it's engrafted in you, until it replants you in what it is, and you decide there's no other way but this word. For you to regurgitate something and keep eating, you have determined this is the only thing I can eat, this is the only thing I need for survival. Oh, and God says, I want you to swallow this word and keep eating it over and over again until it becomes your way of life. Watch this, till you have no room to be negative. You have no room to doubt.

Make your way prosper. So wait a minute, stop complaining when you're in lack because it ain't nobody's fault but yours. I gotta go, we gotta take a minute, amen. God, he— listen, he says, have I not commanded you?

Verse 9, be strong and of good courage, do not be afraid.

No fear, no fear, fear not, fear not, or be dismayed, for the Lord God God is with you wherever you go. Say, fear not. Fear not. Say, the Lord is with me. The Lord is with me. Say, I can't lose.

I can't lose with him. With him.

I'mma borrow these— this quote from Reverend Ike.

Hallelujah. Reverend Ike, you say, you can't lose with the stuff I use. He was talking about something else, but I want to tell you, you can't lose with the stuff I use, which is the word with God. You can't lose with the Holy Ghost. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. You can't lose using the word.

You're gonna have good success because your confidence is in the book.

Yeah, same thing. I mean, another, another pastor— I'm gonna go there.

Jeremiah 1, you can read it later. But Jeremiah was struggling.

Jeremiah 1, he was struggling.

God had called him to be a prophet.

He was struggling to prophesy. God told him, look not at their faces.

He said, listen here, fear not, Jeremiah.

What seest thou? So what replaces fear and gives you new confidence is vision. Vision of God and his vision for your life. It'll make you step out on something you afraid. Jeremiah said, look Man, I don't want to talk to these folks. I'm just a little boy. How can I speak to these people? God said, fear not. Don't look at their faces. And then God began to reassure him in verse 5. Before I formed you in your mother's belly, Jeremiah, I knew you. Wait a minute, so he didn't say after you got there. But before you got there— so first of all, Jeremiah, you're not a mistake. There was no oops. You're supposed to be here. Can I tell you in this room, you're not a mistake? My mama was 15, my daddy was 17, and I tell them all the time, I don't care what y'all say, y'all wasn't trying to have me. But at the end of the day, I'm not a mistake. I'm supposed to be here. I needed what was in her DNA and his to be the person I am. And God formed me before— oh my God— I got formed in their belly. The Bible says he knew me. The Bible— the word knew is yada in Hebrew, which means he had intimate relationship with you. Not sex, but But God spent time with you before you got in your mother's belly. You and God was hanging out, and God was depositing dreams. God was depositing secrets. He was giving you vision. He was putting the destiny of your life inside of you before you ever got here. See, the next time you lack confidence, you didn't realize I'm supposed to be here and the Father hung out with me before I even got— which means you and him talked, you and him spent time. So instead of trying to get a prophecy, you need to tap into your Genesis place and go back to the before and say, God, what did we talk about? What did you say to me? What should I be doing? Everybody want a word from the man, but the man is only saying what God talked about when you and him talked before you got here. So you got to spend time with God so he can tell you what he said.

He knew you.

He was putting seed in you, cuz when you came to this earth You came packaged with potential, full of purpose, manufactured with a destiny that you're designed to complete. Matter of fact, you came to this planet pregnant, cuz God put a spermatic word in you, a spermatic destiny in your spirit, and you came to this world pregnant. And I want you to understand, you were pregnant, and God's the daddy. Oh my God. And God's not a deadbeat daddy. God takes care of his babies. He takes care of his dreams. He takes care of what he has decided. He already has a plan. I dare you, holler at somebody on the other side of the church. Say, hey, tell them I'm pregnant and God's the daddy.

Thank you, Jesus.

Some of y'all folk over 40, ain't that long.

Glory to God.

You talking about in the spirit, right?

He said, before I knew you, you were in danger. Sanctified you. You may not be a prophet like Jeremiah, but you were sanctified and ordained for something, and you are here to put your foot on it and get it done.

Philippians 1:28.

Yeah, so you can't be intimidated.

This text is telling us you can't be intimidated by your adversaries, by your enemies.

They're coming, but you can't let them intimidate you.

You can't let them make you feel bad about who you are. You know, when people don't have purpose and they lack revelation who they are, they'll immediately try to steal from you what you know about you.

They'll try to make you feel bad that you found out who you are.

And most of the time they'll become your enemy because you got clear revelation. I posted it yesterday and— well, not yesterday, I think it was day before yesterday. I posted it Saturday, maybe Friday. It was Friday. Day before yesterday. Yes, yesterday. We'll say it. I'm drunk, y'all, please help. This is just pray with me. But I posted a video and I was talking about when people have a revelation of you, they will ascribe to who you are because they clear what's in you can help them.

Oh, come on, that's good stuff right there.

But when they lack revelation, I want you to hear this. They will never fully ascribe to you. And you guess what? You got—

you got to be okay with that.

Yeah, I've been doing this 36 years. I've learned to be okay when people don't know who I am. But watch this: where there's no revelation, there's violation. Where you have not been revealed Now the people that see you, but they haven't— you haven't been revealed, now they're violating something in them that they need from you. So you have to take a posture of prayer and let God work on them, right? Because you can't make them subscribe. And guess what? You don't want them to subscribe if they can't see you, right? 'Cause guess what? If they do, they're gonna violate you. Because watch this, people can handle you from blindness. They're blind to who you really are. Yeah. So they don't ascribe to what you bring, not knowing if they fully ascribe, their life will be changed forever. Yeah. But if they don't, they're gonna stay where they are. And it's just true because there are some people you assigned to who will never see you and they'll never move because they didn't tap into the revelation, right? Watch this, and I'm gonna leave this alone. You gotta demand that people not just recognize you. Sometimes we tolerate people because they recognize— oh, I recognize them, I recognize what they're saying, I recognize what they're doing. But you've got to make sure you have been revealed. God can't even be recognized, right? He has to be revealed. You can recognize him through religion. This is what we do in church. This is how we pray.

This is how it should sound.

But you never really tap in because you didn't get a revelation. Of who he is. And it's just like that with people. You ought to demand that people pray about you, or pray— in other words, keep them at a distance. That's right. Until you've been revealed.

That's right. That's right.

Are y'all hearing this? I do it with everybody, family, friends. I have learned, cuz I'm not going to let you violate yourself, not me. Because where there's no revelation, there's violation. I can love you and not let you close.

Y'all hearing this?

Let me read verse 28. I got to go. He says, Philippians 1:28, and not in any way terrified by your adversities.

So when you move without fear your adversities, your adversaries, adversaries do not intimidate you.

They do not make you feel like you can't do what you're called to do. Watch this: which is to them proof of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that from God. So if you fear, it's proof to your adversary that you really ain't what you say you are.

Go ahead now.

It's okay, they ain't all they talking because they're giving in to what I'm doing. But if you stand your ground, put your foot on it, it's proof to you that you really got salvation. You really have salvation here. Soteria in Greek, which means you've been rescued by God. He's coming to get you. He's made things better. I'm done. Amen. I pray you got something out of this. Yeah, I'll be there, God. God told me to give— I'm going to ask your permission. Can I give you one more scripture? Exodus 14. See, I tried to close.

Holy Ghost, one more, one more. Glory to God.

We give you praise, Jesus. We give you all the glory. Start at verse 10.

The Bible says, and when Pharaoh drew near The children lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them.

Two important entities in this verse.

One, Pharaoh.

So Spirit of Pharaoh represents a principality that rules over bondage.

So now the people of God, when they sensed this principality drawing close. The Bible said they lifted up their eyes and they saw his— watch this— demonic troops, the Egyptians, those that actually enforced Pharaoh's orders. The Bible says they were very afraid, but watch this, they cried out to the Lord. So the reaction is, when you see something coming that can destroy you or take you down, first of all, your reaction should not be to flee. When we talk about in the beginning, to run, but you should cry out to God so you can move forward. Remember that, that's important to these verses. Verse 11, so say it with us: I gotta cry out to God when all hell breaks loose. That's basically what that verse is saying. When stuff is coming up against you and you can't handle it, cry out to God. Don't be a punk. Know that God is with you.

Are y'all here?

Yeah, somebody said the apostle just said— yeah, I did. Don't be a punk. Cry out to God. Amen. Verse 11: Then they said to Moses, because there were no graves in Egypt, have you taken us away to die in the wilderness? Why have you dealt so with us to bring us out of Egypt? And this is always the attitude of a person who wants to live in their fear. They're going to complain and they're going to try to blame somebody for what they chose to do. As a matter of fact, they did not have to follow Moses. If you read the text, you'll discover that there was some Israelites that stayed in Egypt. But the ones that follow Moses did it by choice. But it's amazing how people will make a choice and then blame somebody else for the choice they made, right? Listen, you, you got to understand, when you're in a situation where you got to trust God, instead of complaining, trying to find somebody to blame about why you there— blaming somebody ain't going to change the situation. It's not gonna change. So what you got to do now is trust God that he can change you and change the situation and give you the breakthrough you need. I love you. An example. So Pastor Jeffrey, bless his heart, I love him.

It's my son. I love him with the love of the Lord.

He moved from the DMV to Atlanta, Georgia. Packed up his family, sold his house. In the midst of that— listen, this is the only person I ever seen in my life buy a house online. I mean, a lot of stuff you buy online, but a house? Yeah, this guy, his faith— he bought a house, got a house online. I ain't seen nothing but the picture. So I told him one day, I said, you done put a tree on the house? Yeah, everything's in motion. I said, tell you what, man, let me just drive by this house, make sure everything in this house is— so I went by the house, said, okay, yes, congruent to the picture, so you should be safe. Make a long story short, he came here because God told him to. He was in the DC area working a great government job Going to work every day. When he got here, Trump took office, okay, cleared out the government. Yeah, are y'all hearing this? So he had to make a choice whether he's gonna try to stay on to see if he can just hang on to his job or take severance. He worked that out with the government. He ended up making his decision Long story short, he has trusted God to be here. Come on now, come on now. In hard times, if things go a way that he ain't expected, which I think some things have, he's maintained focus on God. Yeah, hallelujah. But he has a choice. Hallelujah. They said, well, Apostle Prophet, he could have saw me, what I'm going through, and told me to stay in DC. But I ain't had nail gun to his head.

I said nail gun to his head.

I prayed with him, I trusted God, I knew God wanted him to move, but I left it to him and his wife to make the decision on their own.

And now he's trusting God to navigate him through the rest of this way. And guess what?

God's gonna do it. Somebody stretch your hand toward Pastor Jeff and say, no fear. Say, you've already won. Say, you got the victory. Say, you're gonna be better than you were before. Come on, prophesy to him. Say, God is gonna give you a thousand times more than you had before. Said, ways are being made. Said, doors are open happening even as we speak. Shout, shout! A new thing is being done in your life, in your finances. So you won't lack a thing, neither will you have a care. Tell them God's got you in Jesus' name. If y'all believe that, praise God with Pastor Jeff. Come on, praise God for the trap.

Hallelujah!

Yes, Lord, so be it. Glory to God. But he could have been like these folk. He said, Apostle, how you going to bring me out here in this Atlanta wilderness to die? Are y'all hearing this? But he chose confidence. In what God has said. Lord have mercy. Verse 12: Is this not the word that we told you in Egypt? Leave us alone so we can serve the Egyptians. In other words, don't take us out here, we want to stay in bondage. Don't push me further, don't stretch me, don't push me into deeper dimensions of my purpose. Let us stay right here with them. I'm trying to push y'all in confidence this morning. Step out on who you are. Do not keep serving the systems of the world, the systems of Satan, but, ah God, the kingdom of darkness, the kingdom of man, and allow God to get the best out of your life. But guess what they said? It would have been better for us serve the Egyptians and that we should die, boy, in the wilderness.

And these Black folks, and that's what we do. We like to complain about what we permit.

I'm gonna say it again, you can't complain about what you allow. If you wanted to die in the wilderness, I mean, stay back there with Pharaoh, you should stay back there. But you saw us getting all this gold, purple, silk, and everything we were coming out with. He said, well, let me get on this bandwagon. I ain't got to make bricks out of straw no more. You saw something, but then when it got hard You got afraid, and instead of going forward, you went backwards.

Verse 14: And Moses said to the people, do not be afraid, fear not, stand still and see the salvation of the Lord. The rescue— there it is again, the Septuagint transliteration of the word Soteria, which means he rescues us. Salvation means he rescues us. He came and got you. He pulled you out of bondage. But the requirement for seeing that rescue is being still.

That means cease your activity. Cease trying to fix it yourself. Oh, come on. Cease trying to lean on your own understanding. But in all your ways acknowledge him, become acquiesce to his will, and he will direct your path.

And in that direction, your eyes going bam, you see the plan of action to rescue.

Can I tell you something? There is a plan to bring you out. There is a plan to turn your whole life not just to get you out of hell. Salvation ain't just an escape from hell, it's also an escape from hell on earth. God doesn't want you living in hell on earth, but you gotta stand still and trust his ways. Put your foot on it.

Bam! Your eyes are not gonna come open. And you can see the plan. And once you see the plan, confidence directs.

Okay, this is God. Amen.

God's gonna do this for me. God will even let you walk around in the plan and behold it in its fullness.

I'm telling you, I've been there, I've seen it in my life several times. God put me over in 3 different occasions in my life. He took me out of my body, out of my conscious mind, into his brain, and I was walking around in it, happily living it like I was doing it. And God said, this is you, this is who you are.

So don't be afraid when this happens, because this is going to come to pass. It's a plan for your rescue. That's a plan for change. That's verse 14. He says, for the enemies you see today, you will see again no more forever. Amen. Hallelujah. I'm gonna say it again. The enemies you see today, you will not see them again forever. So the last time you saw that enemy that was trying to stop you God said to tell you this is the last day you will see him. This is the last tear you'll shed about that. But God said you'll see that enemy no more, never again. But you got to choose to stand still and trust him. Verse 14: The Lord will fight for you. Amen. Hold your peace for the Lord. I don't even believe that song Jehovah Is His Name was in the repertoire this morning, was it? Please, y'all rehearsed that one this evening. Y'all planned it? I didn't know. But the prophetic word that came forth was that if you worship He'll war. So that's part of your posture of standing still, to worship. And while you worship, he fights for you.

Go ahead now.

He fights for me, and he brings you the victory. Listen, the victory actually has already been won. You just got to stand and still worship so you can see the victory.

Matter of fact, our fight is from victory. The biggest fight we have is against fear, which is the enemy of confidence, which is the fear of actually trusting God to bring us out.

I'm done. Everybody stand. I know that was a little long. That's why I jumped into Great in battle. Jehovah is your name. Come on, in this building, declare it.

Mighty Warrior, Mighty Warrior, Mighty Warrior. Sing great in battle.

Jehovah, Jehovah is your name. Come on, sing it again.

Mighty Warrior, Mighty Warrior, great and mighty.

Jehovah is your name. While we worship, come on, y'all sing it.

Mighty Warrior, Mighty Warrior, sing.

Great in battle, great in battle. Jehovah, Jehovah is your name, your name.

Stay right there, Pastor Jeff. But listen, guys, while we worship, I want you to get in the forefront of your mind and your spirit some things you know have been adversaries, some opposition you know you've had, some enemies that have come against your progress, some things that you now face that fear has tried to rob your confidence, some things you You know, you need to move forward afraid. You need to begin to take action even with the feeling of fear. You need to go forward. Remember, he's mighty in battle. He's Jehovah Gabbar. He's the mighty warrior that stands against our enemy.

So as we worship, I want you to begin to war with your worship.

Don't let this be a song, but I want you to go to battle. I want you to put your foot on what you desire and stand boldly that you're going to receive what God has promised. Come on, begin to worship him. Fill this room with your voice. If you got a prayer language, begin begin to pray in the spirit. Come on, he's going to break us true today. Our enemy will back up. Every financial demon, every family demon, every professional demon, every stronghold that draws near us, we declare he's a mighty warrior, he's mighty in battle, and great is his name.

Mighty Warrior, great in battle. Jehovah is your name.

Come on, say mighty warrior. Great, great.

Jehovah is your name.

Come on, mighty warrior, mighty warrior, great in battle.

Jehovah is is your name. Come on again, Mighty Warrior. Yeah, Mighty Warrior.

Sing it. Great in battle, great in battle. Jehovah, Jehovah is your name, your name. Come on, Mighty Mighty.

He's the mighty warrior, great in battle.

Great in battle.

Jehovah is your name. Father, we thank you this morning.

Matter of fact, I want you to do me a favor.

Grab one person by both hands real quickly, two by two. One person by both hands. I want you to look the person you're holding in the eye, squeeze their hands, and look them in the eyes and tell them, say, the Lord is fighting for you.

And tell them, we will not be defeated. Defeated. Tell them again. We'll never be defeated. Say, in the name of Jesus, Jehovah Gabor fights for us, and the enemy we see today, we'll see them no more. Say, I'm getting ready to pray with you, and We're going to experience victory right now in Jesus' name. Now I want you to squeeze those hands and begin to pray real quick. Come on, pick them up in the spirit. We're praying through to the victory that's already provided. Father, we give you glory, we give you honor. Your word says we should pray one for the other. And Father, in the name of Jesus, Here we are in the name of Jesus, Father, in this place today at 1410 Sandpate Trail in Ellenwood, Georgia. God, we're touching and agreeing. And Father, you said in your word, if any two of us, God, would touch and agree on any one thing, God, that we will be in the midst. And devil, you're a liar. We decree and declare we We have the victory in this place. Father, we're praying now that the spirit that makes us unstoppable, that it will manifest, that it will come forth, that the confidence not to fear would rise upon us even when feelings of fear arise. Father, we decree and declare we will fear not in the name of Jesus. We'll be like Joshua. Yeshua. We'll fear not. We'll be like Jeremiah. We will fear not. We'll be like the children of Israel. We will fear not. And we decree and declare, because we choose to trust you, we shall have the victory in the name of Jesus. And we say it is so, even now, in Jesus' name. Come on, loose those hands and give God praise in this place. Oh yeah, come on, he's great in battle, he's great in battle. Come on, give him glory, give him glory, give him glory. Great in battle. Jehovah, your name, your name. Come on, declare it.

Mighty Warrior, Mighty Warrior, you're great in battle, great in battle.

Jehovah, Jehovah, hallelujah. Hallelujah! Thank God!

Come on, to the top! Jehovah is your name, your name, your name.

Come on, sing it to him! Jehovah is your name, hallelujah!

Your name, your name.

Come on, Jehovah is your name, Jehovah Your name, Jehovah, is your name.

Jehovah is your name. You're the mighty warrior, mighty warrior, great in battle. Come on, you've already You've already won. You've already won. You've already won. He's the mighty warrior. Mighty warrior. Great in battle. Great in battle. Jehovah. Jehovah is— Your name. Your name. Last time! Jehovah Rapha'el's name— your holy— Your Name— to Holy Shaddai— To Holy— Your Name— Your Name— Jehova-ri-shammah— Jehovah-Ri-Shamma-h. Your name, Jehovah is your name. Jehovah is your name, your name.

Come on, worship for just a few moments. Feel this room with your voice. Come on, few moments. Feel this room with your voice. We love you, God. Come on, you already got the victory. Why don't you bless him for the victory? Why don't you praise him like it's already done?

We give you glory. Thank you, Jesus.

Give you glory, Jesus. We bless your name.

We bless your name.

We bless your name. We bless Mighty name of Jesus. Mighty Warrior, Mighty Warrior, Mighty Warrior, Mighty Warrior. You're the Mighty Warrior, Mighty Warrior. Hallelujah, hallelujah.

Blessed be your name.

You are worthy to be praised and adored, so we lift up holy hands in one accord, singing blessed be the name, blessed Blessed be the name, blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the name of the Lord. He is worthy to be praised. He is worthy to be praised. And adored.

And adored. So we lift up holy hands. So we lift up holy hands. In one accord. In one accord. Singing blessed.

Singing blessed be the name. Blessed be the name. Blessed be the name of the Lord.

Come on, one last time.

Blessed be the name, blessed be the name of the Lord.

He is worthy to be praised, he is worthy to be praised, and adored, and adored. So we lift up holy hands So we lift up holy hands.

In one accord.

In one accord. Singing blessed be.

Singing blessed be the name. Blessed be the name.

Blessed be the name of the Lord. Your name is so great. Your name is so wonderful. Thank you for the victory. Thank you that we have no fear. Say this with me. Say, in the name of Jesus. Say, I receive the word. I will fear not. Say, in Jesus' name, I am bold. I am confident. I am acceptable.

I am able to undertake the assignment and purpose that God has for me. Say, in Jesus' name, I'll put my foot on it, and everywhere I put that foot belongs to me. Say, wherever I go, I will prosper, and I am no fear. In Jesus' name. Say, Father, I believe I can do it afraid, and when I do, fear will retreat.

In Jesus' name.

Amen and amen. Give God praise and glory.

Hallelujah.

Singing bless Yeah, you can be seated. Blessed be the name, blessed be the name of the Lord.

Hallelujah. Father, even as we transition into our time of receiving Camellia, Father, your word says as often as we do this We do it in remembrance of you. And Father, you said you weren't— many are sick among us because they failed to examine themselves and did not properly discern the Lord's body. And so Father, in this moment we examine ourselves and we repent of our sins. Father, forgive us of every fault, deed, action, sin of omission and commission. That doesn't align up with your word. Make us worthy of this table. Make us worthy of this cup. And Father, we thank you for it now. Take these sacraments we're about to receive, transform them from a natural use to a spiritual use. May this wine be as your blood. May this bread be as your body. And we We give you praise and glory for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen. Give God praise.

Hallelujah. Glory to God.

Thank you. I want to read a couple of passages of scripture from 1 Corinthians 10. And then we're gonna serve you and take this cup. I'm gonna let you go home. Glory to God. The Bible says, well, verse 14, therefore, my beloved, flee from idolatry. He said, I speak to you as wise men. Judge for yourselves what I say. The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread of which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ? Verse 17: For we, though many, are one bread and one body, for we all partake of that one bread. Verse 18: Observe Israel after the flesh. Are not we those who eat of the sacrifices, partake of of the altar. What am I saying then? That an idol is anything, or what is offered to idols is anything? Rather, that the things which the Gentiles sacrifice to demons and not to God. He said, I do not want to have fellowship with demons. Here we go, verse 21. And you cannot drink the cup of the Lord and partake of demons. You cannot partake of the Lord's table and of the table of demons. Or do we provoke the the Lord to jealousy. Are we stronger than he? I want to— and maybe you want to serve today. You want to sit there and look beautiful? All right, so if you're going to receive today, stand on your feet if you want to partake of the Lord's Glory to God. And while Lady Woods is serving you, I just want to share with you the scripture. That was a group in Corinth who was opposing communion, and they were saying this is something the church shouldn't do. A lot of churches don't even do communion anymore, but the Bible says as often as we do this, we do it in remembrance. This is a sacred moment to help up— to remind us of what God has done for us. And we look at this as the Lord's body when we eat. It's a spiritual act. When we drink of this cup, we drink of his blood. We become one with him. And when we do it together, we become a one body. We partake together. Amen. You got to fast and pray sometime to get in these things. Thank the Lord for my help me. Has everybody been served the shirkhāshī? Where it reaches to the highest mountain. And it flows to the lowest valley. The blood that gives me strength from day to day.

From day to day. It will never It's hot. It's hot.

And in the night that he gathered the disciples together for the Last Supper, they sat. He took the bread and he broke it and he gave thanks, and he said, take ye, eat all of it. Eat it in the name of Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Thank you for your body, God. Thank you for your body that was broken for us. Thank you for the wounds you took for our healing and deliverance. It's because of those stripes— with your stripes we're healed— that we can declare that you were wounded by our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of your peace was upon us, and with your stripes we're healed. We can declare our bodies cancer-free zones, our bodies disease-free zones because of your stripes, and we receive it in the name of Jesus. In the same manner, he took the cup. When he had given thanks, he said, this is my blood that was shed for you for the remission of sin. He said, take ye and drink of it. Hallelujah! Thank you for your blood that saves. Thank you for your blood that liberates.

Somebody ought to say, thank God for the blood. Thank God for the blood.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! And it flows, flows Come on, sing it. The blood, the blood that gives me strength from day to day, day to day.

It will never, never fail.

It's mighty, it's mighty, for it reaches, for it reaches to the highest mouth, and it flows, and it flows to the lowest valley.

Lowest valley.

Oh, is the blood, the blood that gives me strength from day, from day to day. It's power. It's power.

Y'all clap your hands again and thank God for the blood. Hallelujah. You can be seated for a few moments. We're going home. Were y'all blessed today?

Yes. Hallelujah. God is so good.

We're going to take an opportunity to give. Mario, put the ways to give up on the screen. Hallelujah, we bless him. Thank God for the watchers this morning. Hallelujah, those that's still watching, don't leave, stay right here. We're streaming over 4 different platforms, 3 Facebook pages, and YouTube. Stay with us. Praise God. This is an opportunity for you to be a blessing. The ways to give on the screen. The Bible says more blessed to give than it is to receive. For those of us who are tithers, the Bible says bring ye all the tithe into the storehouse, and there may be meat in mine house. He said, prove me herewith, said the Lord, that I will not pour you I have a blessing you won't have room enough to receive. He said, yea, I'll rebuke the devourer for your sakes. See, tithers have this shield of protection where the devourer can't devour your resources. So if you're still with us, we're challenging you to give. The ways to give are on the screen. Glory to the name of God. We give God praise. We give God glory. Nicole, I see you there live. We miss you today. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Glory to the name of God. God is so good. Zion, I see you live. Pastor Jeff, make sure you take Lady Zion communion so she can have communion today. Glory to God. I see you. We missed you today, Lady Zion. So I'm coming to see you. Glory to God. We give you praise. We give you praise. Father, we thank you now for every gift and every giver. Thank you that every need around the church is met. We don't lack a thing, neither we have a care. Father, thank you that the people that are a part of this church and that connect with this ministry, that they don't lack, neither do they have a care. I thank you that the givers and the sowers, God, that your word is honored toward them as they give in their natural resources. You'll give it back to them, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall men give to their bosom.

And we thank you that they will not lack one thing.

I release debt cancellation over their lives. I declare in the name of Jesus that you eliminate debt on buildings, on homes, on cars.

I declare in Jesus' name freedom now from the lender, and we declare it to be so.

In Jesus' name. Thank you for open doors in the realm of the spirit. We give you praise for the giver. Prosper their way. Do things that have never been done before in their lives, in Jesus' name.

Amen. You receive it? Give God praise.

Glory to God. Hallelujah. Glory to God. If you have physical money, you can bring it. If you have a check, you can bring it.

Cash, bring it, bring it. Hallelujah!

Father, bless every gift, every gift. Give back to them a thousand times more even as they give it today, and we praise you for it in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Amen. Thank you for every person online, God, that have given. Give it back to them also a thousand times more. And Father, even as we've already confessed, we lack no thing. All of our needs are met because, God, you are our supplier, and we praise you for it now in Jesus' name. Amen. Clap your hands and praise God. All right, Mario, put the next slide up. Just a few announcements, we're going home. Glory to God. Y'all smile. I know we didn't get out as fast as we did last week. We got a good last week. Next slide, bro. Yeah, play that. Well, grace and peace, family. Dr. Mike Woods here. Listen, I am here for one purpose and one purpose only. I want to encourage you to go ahead and RSVP your seat for Warfare and Worship Weekend 2025, which is going to happen October 30th through November 2nd at Broadland Church. Listen, gang, get all the information you need and go ahead and lock in now. This one is going to fill up fast. Apostle Brandon Cornelius and myself. We're going to spend 4 days with you talking about the weapon of worship and how powerful we are as God's kingdom citizens to defeat the enemy on every turn. We have some amazing workshops.

We're going to talk about casting out demons.

We're going to talk about air traffic controllers in the spirit. We're going to have great discussions that will activate you and get you totally ready to do warfare against the enemy. So go ahead, get registered now, and I will look to see you in the building in October. Y'all be blessed. Peace. All right, family, I want you to take heed and go ahead and get registered for Warfare Weekend. Let's— God spoke something to me when I came to church this morning, um, and I want to share this with with you. Again, the country is shifting, right? Recession is imminent, okay? I don't know if you know, the government was shut down last week. It might still be shut down. Um, a lot of things are happening, a lot of things are accumulating in the heavens, but we got to be in place, right, so that God can take care of us. And when I came to church, God said to tell the people to make it a priority here to not miss one service this month. These services will be preparatory. I mean, if you can't come, you can't come, but I want you to make a priority for real. Not just because I want you here— I love it when y'all are here— but I want you to make a priority because you need to be in the house. You need that accountability to the community. Because that's helpful for where we're going. You also need the word that's going to be disseminated. So make sure you're in place. Don't miss none of these meetings. I'm talking about Thursday night, Sunday. We need to make it a habit of being in the building. So try— I mean, you can't, understood, but try, because there's something special going to be released this month. And at the end of the month, we'll close find out what this means with Apostle Brandon, you definitely want to be in the building all 3 days. Uh, when me and Apostle Brandon get together, something different happens. So it's going to be great. God's going to be here. I want you to be here. So get registered.

People are already registered.

I haven't— this week we're gonna start running sponsored ads, which are paid ads, but this just for me posting it, Apostle Brandon posting it. People are already registering. Make sure you got a seat, okay? Because we're gonna put as many chairs out as we can, but at the end of the day, we're gonna be packed. I declare it in the name of Jesus. Every night, every day session, it's gonna be good. You want that Warfare Trucking too. It's important to understand demons, how to deal with them. So you want to be in the building. This is free. We're going to give you the workshop series. We're going to feed you lunch like we all as we always do. We will have a panel. Me and Pastor Brandon gonna sit and talk, activate, answer questions. You're gonna be blessed. So make sure you're in the building. This month is, uh, a shifting, a change of season. Let's go into this time of harvest with an open mind, an open spirit to receive what God has for us. Because the world's gonna be saying something else. Yeah, I'm just telling you now, but you won't have that complaint. 'Cause the promises of God are going to flow out of your life. Amen. All right, one other announcement I want you to concentrate on before we go. This one is far off, but somebody say Dominia at Sea. So we are going on a cruise next year as a church, as a family. We're inviting everybody that wants to go to go. Listen, I want everybody there. It's going to be phenomenal. Uh, the dates are— what are the dates? September 7th through the 11th, 2026. I need you to go ahead and secure your cabin now. The cost starts at $963.19 per person. It only takes a $100 deposit. It's 2x2 in the cabin, y'all. All right, so find you a cabinmate and y'all get y'all $100 person, make the deposits, $100 per person, book your cabin. Go to rhodachurch.com/ATC, at hyphen C. All of the information is there, and get registered. Who's scared of water? Okay, so Don't play that, 'cause you going to swim in Jesus' name. Yeah, because you've been on many cruises. So I'm saying, who's afraid to cruise? Okay, come here, lady, in the name of Jesus. Come here, we going to get that off you now.

The boat won't take you to the beach.

Lift your hands up. Father, we thank you, cuz this thing spills over into every other area of your life. So Father, we break the spirit of fear, and Father, we release supernatural confidence.

And we declare confidence in Jesus' name, trust in God. In the mighty name of Jesus, we declare it to be so. I command you to go in the name of Jesus. I command every spirit of fear, I cast you out and I send you to dry places. Go in the name of Jesus. Go in the name of Jesus. I send you to dry places. And I break the spirit of addiction to even nicotine. I send you to dry places. See, the enemy wants the cigarettes to cause cancer, but you shall not be sick.

You shall be healed. You shall be whole.

I speak to your lungs and I command them to be whole. There's some things I'm looking at forming in your lungs, but I command them to back up and reverse. And I command you to be free. I command the taste and the desire to be taken from your mouth in the name of Jesus. When it declared to be so— in the name of Jesus.

Receive it in Jesus' name.

Somebody say, it is so. It is so. Yeah. Thank you, Jesus.

Just as an act of faith, take everyone you got and throw it away, cuz it's over.

It's over. It's over.

You got to free yourself, cuz that thing that's forming in your lungs is showing up to try to kill you.

But God said you shall not die but live, cuz you will trust him. And I know you do things to cause yourself to escape and all this stuff. God said he's got you. You got to trust him. Amen. He wants you to have a good life.

Somebody shout, a good life! That's what he desires and what he wants for you, a good life. Hallelujah! Y'all give God praise.

So again, We want everybody to cruise with us. Um, glory to God. I had confirmed and scheduled Pastor Lanfair to speak, uh, his wife on the cruise. But Pastor Lanfair called me, uh, Saturday, I think it was, and said his bishop invited him to Jamaica. Take him the same time. So even though I asked first, he said— but I understand. I felt some kind of weird at first, I'm just be honest with you, because I had already had him confirmed. I got his picture on our website. But I said, uh, it's okay, Pastor, understood. He said, I don't want to disappoint my bishop, so I'm gonna go with him. Sometimes We have to be led in what we do.

Sometimes you need an environment to get what you need.

So some invitations ain't just because you got something to say, it's because you need something also. Amen. Glory to God.

We just have to discern it.

I've got an invitation where I knew this ain't just about me speaking. I need something from this environment. So you just have to be humble enough to heal them. When you think you already know, you know.

So it's all good. I understand.

So he's gonna do that. But guess what? I'm working on Apostle Tony Hill and his wife. So Apostle Hill is great. Y'all just heard him in the Warfare Conference. So not in the Soul Winners Weekend. So We good.

God—

somebody can be removed and God can put somebody there that can do even better. Amen. Amen. So we thank God.

Give God praise. Amen. Glory to God.

That's all I'm going to bother y'all with today. Listen, we going home. Y'all ready to go? Let's be honest, I know you. Glory to God. We going to get out of here. Listen, Thursday night we're in the room. If you didn't get in the room, get in the room, man. If you didn't get Thursday night's message, Confidence in Prayer, go back online and watch it. Great word. So you can step into prayer with confidence. Amen. All right, Tuesdays we're fasting. Do y'all enjoy 5:00 prayer when we do it? Amen. Join us for 5 AM prayer. Invite others. Every Tuesday we're praying at 5 and we're fasting. We love you guys so much. Everybody stand. Prop— come on, say our final word and dismiss us today. Oh, before, let me say this. For those who have expressed desire to be a part of Rider Church, we're having our next new members orientation on this coming Saturday, October 11th. It will be live via Zoom. So if you're on the text list, you'll get a text that gives you all the Zoom information. If not, I need you to see Pastor Jeffrey. So I need to make sure I'm on the Zoom for Saturday at 10 AM. We're gonna probably go from 10 to 12 and we'll be done. So I need you to make sure that you're in place on Saturday. Glory to God. Amen.

That was a good word, wasn't it, Jerome? Um, you know, when you were speaking about, um, people not understanding who you are, um, I didn't— I spent time at a church for 2 years fighting to to defend who I was. And then God snatched me out of there, brought me to Apostle Brandon and Apostle Mike. And I didn't realize how much damage that had done until God put me in a place to show me who I was. So I was violated. Yeah, I was violated. And you know, another way that you can be is violated is you don't know who you are. Not even as fivefold or whatever, but as a child of God. Yes, you don't know who you are. So you accept things you don't have to because you don't know who you are. So that's the God. Oh, oh, and Pastor Jeffrey, um, as Apostle laid hands on you, I saw two ropes those two cables snap off your back. And the Lord says, yeah, it was him that brought you here, but he had to rearrange some things, remove some things, put things in place, and block some things that tried to follow you here. So he said the reason why— he was like, he was blinding and confusing the enemy. Because the enemy thought he knew the plan, but he was moving things around and rearranging. So he says, stand. And he says he's also showing you a new side of him, a new facet of him, and also who you are to him. And I just see in the spirit you standing strong and tall and your back straightening. And I also see the same for Zion, like relief coming to her because the rearranging is for her as well so that she can freely step into what he has called her. And for your son. Yes, Jesus. And they are safe for a son to come. In Jesus' name. So Father, we bless my brother, our pastor Jeffrey, and we thank you that your words shall come to pass unhindered in the name of Jesus. And Father, we thank you for the word that has gone forth. Lord, may it be sealed upon our hearts. May we be confident in the God in us. Thank you, Lord, that our foot— we're putting our foot down and we're claiming and we're moving forward. We're going forward and doing it afraid, wherever the fear we're doing it afraid, because the Bible tells us to resist the enemy and he shall flee. So we thank you, Lord, for new boldness, new courage, and for the new testimonies that are coming. We thank you, Lord, that we are blessed going into this week, that you go before us and destroy every plot, plan, and strategy of the enemy, and we arrive to our destination safely. Until we come together again, We bless your name. In Jesus' name, amen.