FULLY PERSUADED FAITH | DR. MIKE WOODS SR | 27 FEB 25

Well, grace and peace everyone. Good evening and happy Thursday. This is Dr. Mike Woods. For those of you who are uninitiated, I'm so glad to be here with you on tonight. I'm so excited about our opportunity to share the word of the living God. You know, the Bible says, oh my God, that the word of God is sharp and is quicker than any two-edged sword. Now here's the reality: when you receive the word, what's going to happen? It's going to begin to cut away and divide, according to that scripture, that which is you and that which is God. It— I think the Bible says it's something like this: it divides asunder that which is soul and that which is spirit. And really, it's only the word— hear me, guys— that gives you a distinction between what's you and what's God. And so I want to say thank you tonight for joining us and being here. I am super happy to be live with you. Uh, Felicia and I were out of town on a hiatus last week. We went to Las Vegas and just unplugged and got away. Matter of fact, 90% of the time we were in our hotel room just resting and sleeping and enjoying each other. The reality is, is the leader— it's okay to do that. Uh, if you work hard, you lead your family, you lead a church, you lead a business, you need to have opportunities where you unplug so you come back refreshed and fully charged and ready to go. Listen guys, as it is on the screen, I need you to do me a favor. The Bible says we are blessed to be a blessing. So as we're here to share I need you guys to share this teaching for me on tonight. So hit that share button, please. By all means, tag people below, uh, send out a text on your phone, let them know that we're live. We're streaming right now over 5 different platforms: 3 Facebook pages, Instagram, and YouTube. So wherever you're watching us from, we need you to do us a favor and make sure that you share this experience. Uh, as it is read on the screen, sharing is godly. Uh, and again, comment below, let us know you're here. Let's engage with the live stream tonight. Uh, I see some of our people on tonight. God bless you, Pastor Jasper. Uh, and he is tagging Darnese Williams, Julius Williams, Karen McPherson, Sharon McPherson. Uh, he's tagging, uh, Kim Maeve She Power Brown. That's a name for you. Uh, God bless our Pastor Worship. Tonya Anderson is on tonight. Good to see you. Um, Pastor Jeffrey is also tagging, uh, Kwamina Osman and Darlene Middleton. So follow suit, guys. Tag people in the comments. Uh, hit the share button, share it to people in Messenger. I see my beautiful wife on tonight. Good evening, wife. Welcome. Glory to the name of God. Uh, and again, you guys, if you're coming in, say hello just like the First Lady just did. Glory to God. It's so good. God bless you, Stephanie. Good to see you. Hallelujah. Hopefully we get to see your face in person really soon. Glory to God. She is consistent in getting the word online. Glory to God. And she's She stays connected to our ministry and we appreciate God for you, Stephanie. Welcome tonight, glory to God. So please guys, tag everybody you possibly can. I believe tonight is gonna be good. It's gonna be an absolute and category blessing to every person that joins us on tonight. Glory to the name of God. All right guys, let's jump into this. I'm gonna pray and then we're gonna jump right into this word tonight because again, the scripture says this, the Bible, is a two-edged sword. And what it does, it, those two edges are, which means it's sharp on both ends of the blade, but also even the handle cuts when you hold it. So whenever we receive the word, it ought to be cutting something away. And this series we've been teaching on faith, what it should be doing is cutting your doubts away. Oh boy, are y'all here tonight? It should be cutting your doubts away. Doubts all the way away. I want y'all to hear this. It should be cutting your doubts all the way away. Glory to God. So again, guys, please share, please tag people. Uh, the only way our audience can grow is we have to share. We have to let people know, uh, that we're live. And I think every time we take a break, our numbers take a dive. So last week we weren't on, so we need your help tonight for sure. To make sure this word gets out. All right, I'm going to jump in this again. We're going to pray, praise God, and we're going to jump right into this. Father, in Jesus' name, glory to your great name. God, we love you, we praise you, we magnify you, and we declare beside you there is no other. You rule and you super rule, God. Heaven is your throne and the earth is your footstool. The heavens declare your glory and the earth your handiwork, God. We thank you. Allow us to taste and see that you are good tonight. Your word tells us to taste and see that the Lord is good. So as we receive the word through our hunger and our appetite, God, let our palate have a desire to taste of you, not a man. So many people are impressed by popularity and man and what they see visually, God. But at the end of the day, our only impression, we want it to be you. To build a ministry and a life that exalts and extols Jesus. Oh my God, at the highest level. And so Father, we give you praise, we give you glory, we give you honor. Shabaya, mokura mandikisa talabaya, lebusu tutubokosha. And we thank you, we We thank you, God, that you will be glorified. The devil will be horrified. And because of this teaching, we will be edified. We thank you in advance for the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost. Have your way tonight. In Jesus' name, amen. Glory to God. Glory to God. Would you give God a hand of praise? Would you bless him? He is so worthy. He is so worthy to be glorified. He's so worthy to be exalted. Hallelujah. So God, we just take a few moments to say thank you for your goodness. Thank you for your kindness. Thank you for your love. Thank you for your grace and mercy that you've shown toward us. Oh my God, we give you the praise. Hallelujah. We give you the glory, God. We give you the honor. What a mighty God we serve. Hallelujah. Angels bow down. Bow before him, the song said, and heaven and earth, my God, do adore him. What a mighty God we serve, my God. Let's get into this tonight. Listen, I am super amped to teach this. This is— and of course, I'm sure there's so much more I have on this, but we're gonna kind of bridge out of this series because we're going to start something new for March on Sunday. But I wanted to kind of close this, uh, Faith That Takes series out tonight. You know, faith is one of the most important— hear me— things you could possess as a believer. Matter of fact, can I submit to you, you can't even really be saved without faith. All right, the Bible says it's by faith you're saved, not by your works. I know somebody taught you that is what you do and how you respond to God that makes you say. Reality It's faith that makes you born again. And then through that faith, you go from faith to faith and your faith grows. Hear me, family. Woo! Hear me, guys. You go from faith to faith, your faith grows. Glory to God. You become stronger. Your relationship with God deepens. And guess what starts happening? Your behavior, your ways, they start transforming because your faith now brings you close to God because you begin to realize says according to Hebrews 11:6, without faith, hear me, it's impossible to please God. So you can't even bring pleasure to him without faith. Are y'all hearing this? So tonight, guys, I want you to grab this. Glory to God. And I want you to receive this. Hey, Sharia, good to see you tonight. Glory to God. I want you to take good notes. Praise God. Because there's going to be a lot of things that are disseminated tonight, praise God, that I believe you need to share with others, and you're going to need to go back to, glory to God, and get the fullness of this. All right, so I just want to review just a little what we shared on Sunday. Please go back and watch that message and the others that you missed if you missed Sunday. Listen, Sunday, oh my God, was tremendous. We talked about the command of faith, or faith that commands, and we discovered that, that word command literally in the Greek meant to call things that are invisible— oh boy— into manifestation, or to speak what's not there and command it to appear. And we talked about how faith summons the promises of God. So you want to make sure you go back and watch this because you really, you don't understand it. Some of you but you have more authority than you know. So instead of complaining, instead of losing it when things happen, you got to walk out your faith and you got to start saying what you want. One of the things we brought out, and when we're going to jump into tonight, was is that faith has to be fed. Even as we transition out of this series, I need you to realize that faith has to be fed. Are y'all listening? Glory to God. Faith has to be fed. How do you feed it? You feed it the word of God. Faith come by hearing, hearing by the word of God. Watch this. How can you hear without a preacher? So when the word is preached, faith is built. Now it just can't be any old word. It's gotta be a word that actually motivates your faith. It can't be some old dry, dead stuff that you literally leave from listening to and you still don't have no more faith than you had before. So these teachings should ignite a fire. Are y'all here? Glory to Jesus. That causes you— my God, today, hallelujah— to walk out the promises of the word. So faith has to be fed. It must be fed. And we talked about this Sunday, or it will regress. It will get lazy. It will become slothful. It will not be operative. Faith without works is dead. So you feed it. You feed your spirit and the faith that is in your spirit so that you're nourished in faith. So then when it's time to act, which, watch this, which is all the time, because the just shall live by faith. Are y'all hearing this? Ah, so you ought not be just trying faith out every now and then, but you ought to be living by faith. Hi Zion, good, God bless you, daughter. Good to see you tonight. Glory to God. So glad that that's our, uh, director of social media. We thank God for Zion Jasper. Glory to God. All right, let's get into this. Let's get— so tonight Glory to God, we're talking about faith that's fully persuaded. Let's go to Romans chapter number 4. My God, tonight I want you to get this. Glory to God, Romans chapter 4. Praise Jesus. Hallelujah, hallelujah. I promise you, if, uh, I, I, the ones that are on, the number that is on, that's a good solid number across all platforms. Glory to God. I promise you that if indeed you share, the people connected to you, if they jump on, it will cause that number to triple. Glory to the name of God. So make sure you're sharing. Praise God. We give him praise, we give him glory, we give him the honor. He's a good God. He's a mighty God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. How I feel that, God. Yes, Shimon told Rabbi. Yes, God, we praise you, God. We praise you. We honor you. We macrograph your name. Y'all forgive me, I just had a pass from Jesus. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Oh, shabante kosiya lemisu roku shatapapapanse rumbuku shatalabahaia. We give you praise, God. And we give you glory, we give you honor, we bless you, we honor your great name. You're worthy. Glory to God of all the praise, of all the glory. Romans 4, let me jump into this, verses 16, because I'm about to go somewhere else. Romans 16, I want you to get this tonight. Glory to God. Listen, but I feel God in this live stream tonight. Let's talk about— just touch your belly and say, Lord, whatever you have for me I receive it tonight in the name of Jesus, and I decree and declare that no weapon formed against me, against my mind, against my comprehension, against my spirit, will be able to prosper. I receive now, God, whatever you want to do for me tonight, in Jesus' name. Glory to God. I want you to receive it tonight because something's gonna change as we receive this word. So 4:16, let me read, uh, 16 through 18 really quickly. It said, therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham. Now watch this, who is the father of us all. Verse 17, as it is written, I am made thee a father of many nations. Behold, before him whom he believed, even God, who quickened the dead and calleth those things which be not as though they were. Verse 18: And who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken— hear this— so shall thy seed be. So here's a few things here. One, the text is showing us that faith is generational. Uh, somebody type that in the comments. Glory to God. Type, faith is generational. So when we look at Abraham, he is the father of many nations. He's the father of faith. He's a great example of what it means to walk out faith in God. It's generational. It's passed down to us who believe from our father Abraham. Are y'all hearing this? All right, so with that said, family, hear me. You, when you begin to operate as a vessel of faith, hear me, glory to God, you pass faith on to your children. So that means now, as Abraham is our example, those that look to us in our households, in our families, and in the world, we should be examples of what faith looks like. Glory to God. God bless you, Darnese Williams. We love you too, all the way from Atlanta to Texas. Thank you for being on. So touch your belly and say this with me. Say, in the name of Jesus, I believe faith is generational. So you have an obligation— hear me— to leave a legacy of trusting God to your children. So at the end of the day, it's not enough for us just raise our children in the church, make them go to Sunday school, and you know, at the end of the day, we gotta example to them what a lifestyle of faith can bring. Faith is generational. Yes, it is. It's generational. So secondly, the text is showing us that those of us who believe— watch this— have the power through faith Faith. And this, this goes back to last week's Sunday's message, to call those things that are not as though they were. So faith gives you power. Hear me, it's a force, it's an ability. Glory to God. To call things that you don't see into existence. Woo! Tonight, I need y'all to hear me out tonight. Glory to God. So that means you gotta not be lazy. You gotta use faith that takes and open your mouth and begin to call what's yours forth. And then thirdly, which is where I wanna be, this shows us in verse 18 that Abraham wholeheartedly believed God. And you may say, "Apostle, I don't see that in that text." Well, it's there, okay? Let me teach you tonight that the Bible says according. The word according there is kēta in Greek. And this word literally means, watch this, alignment with and agreement with the whole heart. It also means to agree with and have no doubt for. And you may say, oh, Apostle, I believe God. Yeah, well, you know what? The tree is known by the fruit it bears, okay? So, you know, at the end of the day, we are all growing from faith to faith, all right? And you should be choosing to grow your faith. Otherwise, you're gonna stay stuck. The moment you believe you actually got this together, you're never gonna grow. You gotta really examine where you are and look at the areas closely. Hear me, where you're not wholeheartedly trusting God. Oh boy, oh boy. Maybe it's something concerning your finances or your family or your profession, but But listen, you gotta decide tonight that your faith is gonna be in agreement, heartily agree. All right? See, God is looking for now, hear me, I hear you, Holy Spirit. Just like he was looking for then with Abraham. See, he's looking for now people like you and I that will wholeheartedly agree with him. Are y'all with me? That will wholeheartedly align with what he says. Ooh, child. Le mandiku sia. So I want you for a moment to think about that. Do you wholeheartedly trust God? I was talking to someone last week and I shared with them that that when God gives you instructions, when you know what you should be doing, no matter how much you pray, you can't pray away the instructions. Your charge at that point is to obey, and you obey by faith. You don't analyze before you believe. See, people who wholeheartedly, like Abraham, agree with God do not analyze before they believe. Oh God, oh God. I have a friend in Africa. He says to me often, more than I would like to hear it, that Americans are spoiled. He said, Apostle Woods, Americans are spoiled. There's a man that pastors 18,000+ people in Botswana, and he tells me all the time, he said, you're spoiled. He— I said, what do you mean, sir? He says, because you analyze before you believe. And he says, it's the conveniences in your country that cause you to analyze before you believe. He said, let me give you an example. If our crops are not growing, if the fish are not biting, then we cannot just go to the local grocery grocery store and buy groceries. We can't pull up to a Burger King or McDonald's and get food. We have to pray for food, he says. And we cannot afford to analyze. We have to believe that God would provide the food, he says. So when there's an issue, glory to God, he said, we pray for food and the sky begins to rain fish. We pray that our crops begin to grow, and crops that would took months to grow instantly begin to bud because we do not analyze before we believe. See, some of us are so micro-dependent— hear me, guys— on, oh my God, our situation, how we produce income, how we create finances. We're dependent upon what people give to us. We're, we're dependent on a government that— watch this, it ain't about this administration. I'm gonna say this to all of you, whether you're Democrat or Republican, the government ain't really never cared about you. I'm gonna say it one more again. I'm gonna say it one more time. Okay, I say it one more again, but I'm gonna say it once again, right? The government ain't never cared about you and I. Watch this. You ain't from this government anyway. You are part of another kingdom. Your home country is heaven. Oh, shaya, moliki antoshian tatavandia. Your home country is heaven. Glory to God. And that's where you come from. And you have an opportunity to trust God by faith and believe in a whole nother government, which is the kingdom of God. Watch this, a government, by the way, that'll never fail. Oh, Shia, he never failed me yet. He never failed me yet. Jesus Christ never failed me yet. Everywhere I go, I want the world to know Jesus Christ never failed me yet. It's just the truth. He never failed me. And any failure I've had in my life, it was a faith failure first. It was a faith faith failure first. And every success I've had, it was a faith success first. Glory to God. You can take that how you want to, y'all. Glory to God. I'm just telling you, he won't fail us if we believe it. We wholeheartedly agree with what he says. Do you wholeheartedly agree with the word, or do you pick and choose what you want to Do you believe the word wholeheartedly like Abraham? Or if God speaks to you prophetically, do you wholeheartedly believe what the prophet says? Some people are— have prophetic words just hovering over their life because they didn't believe it when the prophet prophesied it. And a lot of times we'll try to say the prophet is a false prophet because this didn't come to pass. No, you didn't believe. It takes faith for you to believe the word of the Lord spoken over your life to come to God says. You gotta wholeheartedly agree with what God says. Are y'all here? Oh boy. Now granted, some prophets, yeah, some of the stuff, it may have been false. But when you have true prophets in your life that give you the proceeding word of God, you have to believe it and you have to act on it. And, and you can't afford to have any delays connected to that because delayed obedience— I talked about this a little Sunday— is disobedience. Let me move. Okay, so in spite of the impossibility of Abraham's situation, Abraham fully agreed God, whether it was with Sarah through the promise of Isaac, whether it was about him getting from his kindred and getting into a land he knew not of, on any occasion where Abraham had a word from the Lord, hear me, he trusted God so that he did exactly as God commanded, and he was blessed because of it. See, I want to submit to you tonight, no matter what it looks like, no matter what odds are against you, you got to choose that you're going to agree with God. See, Abraham did this, or Abraham, he did this, glory to God, and became the father of many nations. What if I told you your promotion, your increase Your next dimension is directly connected to your belief system in God and his word. Some of the stuff you waiting on ain't showed up because you don't believe that God can provide. You're thinking that you're supposed to do it. You're thinking that, oh my God, you're in it by yourself, and you're not. Matter of fact, this is how we develop a faith that takes. We have to wholeheartedly agree with what God said about whatever the situation is instead of analyzing in your mind what you feel about the situation, what your bank account says about the situation, what your mama say about the situation. Oh, y'all not talking. Glory to God. What your daddy say about it. You need to trust the word. And take what's already yours through the word of God. Oh, I got to get out of here, man. Oh my God. So you gotta heartily agree with whatever thing— oh my God— with everything God said about you in his word. Matter of fact, say this with me. Say, I heartily agree. Come on, say it. I heartily agree with everything God has said about me in his word. Are y'all hearing this? So wait a minute, if that's true, do you believe it, the word, or what the doctor says about you? Do you believe the word when it comes to your needs being met, or what your bank account say. Somebody said, well, that's just common sense. That is what it say. That's the problem. Common sense really ain't so common, and common sense has no play because common sense is carnal. It's not spiritual. It's you analyzing. Oh, oh, oh, oh. Because your common sense will tell you what the doctor said. You said So you're sick, but God said you're healed. So if you agree heartily, I'm talking about heartily agree, just like Abram, keta, according to what he had spoken about you, then you can say, I heartily agree when you get a sickness that I am healed. Are y'all hearing this? You can say, I heartily agree that I am prosperous. Us. Glory to God. When you're living in lack, you got to open your mouth and say, I heartily agree that I'm redeemed. I don't know how many— how so many people can get that last one so easily. I, I hardly agree I ain't going to hell because I got saved. I hardly agree I'm saved. But you can't hardly agree that the same book that said you needed faith to get saved, that inside of that plan was your prosperity. Inside of that plan, y'all ain't got to talk to me. I I know some of y'all don't like this kind of teaching, but that's why you're stuck, okay? But at the end of the day, you gotta agree with what God has said about your life. Are y'all here? You gotta heartily agree with what he said. I don't know, I don't care what your brain told you. I don't care what the circumstances are yelling at you with. What did the word of God say? You gotta learn how to look at it and say, I heartily agree with what God's word says about this situation. Stop letting situations get the best of you. Somebody type it in the comments again. I heartily agree with what the word says about me. I heartily agree that I am healed. I heartily agree that I am wealthy. I heartily agree that I am prosperous. I heartily agree, glory to God, with the word of God that I am saved, sanctified, filled with the Holy Ghost. I heartily agree that I don't lack a thing, that I do not have a care, that all of my needs are met. Do you agree with God? God. Oh, do you agree with his word? Do you agree with what he has to say concerning you? I do. I heartily agree. Glory to God. Well, let's look at verse 19, same Romans 4. Let me move, I'm almost done. I just sound long. I pray y'all getting something. Hallelujah. Y'all getting something out of this? Hit the like button, hit some hearts, whatever y'all do. Glory to God. Type, type it in the comments, some hands lifted up if you're receiving this tonight. Hallelujah. Yes, yeah. Oh, Mother in my church used to say, glory to God, it takes the word to save you and it takes the word of God to keep you. I believe it. It ain't in the Bible, but that's true. And if you feed your faith the word, glory to God, it'll give you every part of the salvation plan that's due you. God intended to be more than a fire escape for you. Everybody trying to escape hell. Glory. Shama. Listen, listen, that wasn't what it was just about. God wants to fill every part of the kingdom plan to you. He wants you to have good health. He wants you to have prosperity. He wants you to have wisdom. He wants you to have peace. Glory to God. And joyfully-yam. Joyfully-yam in the Holy Ghost. It's part of the plan, y'all. Glory to God. Hallelujah, hallelujah. God bless you, Apostle Peterson. Good to see you tonight, woman of God. So glad you're on. Thank you for being here. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. God is so good. Hallelujah. So you ought to receive tonight. So let's look at verse 19. Glory to God. And let's see what— let's keep looking at Abraham because I want you to see how— again, watch this— it's better to have than to have not. I'm gonna read this, but really, I want you to catch this tonight. You already have what God promised you. You just got to receive it. You got to command it to come forth, and you got to be fully persuaded it wholeheartedly in your faith. Hear me, guys, that you want what God promised, or, or, or maybe you don't, because ultimately it's up to you, right? How bad do you want it? It's already yours, and it's better to have than to have not. Somebody say, well, you going to always have people that have not. Yeah, it don't have to be you. God wants to bless you to be a blessing where you can make sure you can help people that have not. All right, so you got to make up in your mind of what you want, what you desire from God. I want everything in the book. I want everything, Pastor Jasper, that he promised. I want everything that he said I could have. Glory to God. My God, I'm not settling for less, and neither should you. Let's read verse 19. Watch this. And being not weak in faith— wait a minute, let's break that down. My God, my God. Being not weak in faith— astheneo in Greek. This word weak in faith means feeble, powerless, needy. Watch this. It means your faith is sick. And it needs a physician. The Bible says Abraham was not sick in his faith. And you know, I'm convinced that there's some people that's watching this even now, or live by replay, your faith is sick. Matter of fact, the body of Christ's faith in God and his system is in intensive care because y'all panicking and I've been teaching this before, way before this new administration came in. I've been teaching this, getting our mind right, and God has been prophetically proclaiming this through me, that this administration was going to put pressure on you to walk by faith and not by sight. Now, people freaking out because of what this administration doing, what the sitting authority in this country is doing? Why? When Jesus is your Lord. See, this— the body of Christ needs to now be on display that we don't care what's happening up there at 1600 Pennsylvania, not in this administration or any to come, because we are in another kingdom for real. Jesus Christ is Lord and he has authority in our life, so we're not freaking out about what the administration is doing. We gonna keep walking by faith and not by sight and watch our God take care of us. This, this is, this is the time, glory to God, to trust God. Glory to God. Hallelujah. The reality is, yeah, Pastor, there's many that's in intensive care. Their faith is in intensive care. it ain't just sick, it's intensive care. They believe God on Sunday when they're bucking and shouting, but they can't believe God for everyday life. They believe God that when they die they're going to heaven, but they can't believe that God will supply all their needs according to his riches and glory, not theirs. Yeah, am I— Rabanto sibe lebokuya. Yes, God, I give you the glory. I give you the glory. We gotta get this right, saints. We have to be an example to the world. The Bible says we are epistles written and read of men. We can't be acting like everybody else because of stuff that's happening. You know, and I get all the posts and all the pictures. People ain't gonna like me very much with this. Listen, if I feel led, I'm just gonna tell you now, if I gotta go to the store, whether it's Target, Target, Walmart, whatever tomorrow and buy something, I'm gonna go buy it. Because you know what, at the end of the day, we, we try to make these statements because we think we're protecting human rights. It's so many other issues going on in the world that only faith and Jesus can answer. Hear me, then you want me not to go to Walmart or Target. I'm sorry, or Best Buy or wherever because we don't like the new DEI, the diversity and inclusion and equity deals. Man, bye. The reality is you better get some faith because your one day of not shopping ain't gonna affect these Fortune 500 companies. I'm just here to tell you. Glory to God. So what you might ought to be trying to do— so if you don't want me to go to Walmart, Best Buy, okay, okay, give me another option. Use your faith to start your faith version of Walmart, Best Buy. Oh, okay, okay, well, like I said, we don't want to hear this, we don't want to hear this. Glory to God, cause if I need milk and bread tomorrow, I'm going to I don't care what you say about me. I'm not sharing none of that stuff. And people who have no— ayamansi antaya— people who, glory to God, have no stake— I run businesses, so I understand the economy. I understand what's going on. The reality is I'm walking by faith. I don't need to not buy something from Walmart Come on, man, to make a point? No, I understand my faith is what's gonna move this mountain. My prayer life is what's gonna move this mountain. Glory to God. Uraba sa lebeke amun ushia. God, we give you the glory. Hallelujah. We bless you, God. Yeah, I know black folk ain't gonna like me. Glory to God. It's okay. Hey, because like I said, the government ain't never cared about you and I. Martin Luther King and the civil rights movement, they worked really hard to get things opened up where we could be free in America to build, to grow, to do things that we wanted to do. And guess what? We got plenty opportunity no matter who's sitting in the chair, because we serve Jesus. He gives us a prophetic edge. Ah, I got to go. Oh man, see, I give you glory, God. He says, so he wasn't weak in faith like many are today. He considered not his own body now dead. Now, wait, now understand this story. God speaks to Abraham and says, I need you to give me a Abraham is an old man and his reproductive organs have dust in them. Are you hearing this? Nothing's working properly. He's an old man. Glory to the name of God. But God says— and then Sarah, her ovaries got dust on them too. But God speaks in the midst of an impossible situation. Oh my God, oh my God, God speaks to an impossible situation and he declares, I want a son that you can leave legacy to. Are y'all hearing this? He was 100 years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. So he didn't consider that Sarah's womb was dusty and dead. His reproductive organs were dusty and dead. Nothing worked. Hear me, hear me. But God had spoken a word, and watch what Abraham does. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief. How many times have you stagger at the promises of God in his word in the face of adversity, in the face of obstacles, in the face of things that appear to be— and Lord, I thank you for the ability to teach this word. I thank you for the boldness to teach it, Lord, in the name of Jesus. How many times have you staggered? Glory to God. Which means that you separate— you knew the promise. Watch this, because the word is diakrino in Greek. For staggered, diakrino, which means that you created a diastema, which is a gap. You knew the promise, created a gap between you and the promise because it was more comfortable to trust your common sense. It was more comfortable to trust what you thought was right. It was more comfortable for you to analyze before you believe. You separated yourself between you and what God said he can do. Oh wee, oh wee, oh wee. I'm almost done, y'all. I'm bringing it to a close. You got to make up in your mind, like, amen, you can't stagger at the promise. In other words, when something is hard, you're walking by faith, not by sight. The just shall live, live, not try it out every now and then by faith. So when there's something that presents itself, you run to the promise, not concede to what's comfortable. Oh Zion, oh Shia, oh my God. It's easy to trust in your comfort because that's what you used to, but you got to ask God to give you strength to walk by faith and not by sight. He's taken out of the promise of God, verse 20. Romans 4:20, through unbelief, but was strong in faith. Hallelujah! Giving glory to God. Oh, oh, my, she antatabandio. Fully persuaded faith. That's what he meant. His faith was strong and fully persuaded. It brings glory unto God. So what is these verses saying to us, Michael? It's saying that Abraham was focused on God's word. Why? Verse 19 showed us he refused to look at external circumstances. We see it right here in the text. He refused to look at external circumstances. Secondly, the text tells us he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, which means he didn't hesitate, he didn't doubt, he didn't separate hisself from the promise. He wasn't double-minded. oh, a double-minded man is unstable in all his ways. So either you gonna trust God fully persuaded, or you ain't. I want y'all to make a decision because you're gonna need it in the days to come. Those of us that are strong in faith, guess what we gonna do in this administration? We gonna bring glory to God with our life. Why everybody complaining? Why everybody just running off at the mouth complaining about what's happening? Watch this. I've heard one preacher, and I think this is just craziness, calling Black folks the N-word, call them spooks and jigaboos because they was at the White House with Trump. That is so racist for you to use your pulpit it. Oh yeah, to say that crap, that's crazy. Because if those people decide that's what they're doing, that's what they're doing. Ain't nothing you can't get mad. Here's the reality: we gonna bring glory to God because we're standing in faith, and God is not going to let us down. Whoa! Shaya! Hey, Pastor Montgomery, good to see you, friend. Lekisamonto to rabbi. We give you glory, we give you honor, we bless the mighty name of Jesus. I'm almost done. He was strong in faith, giving glory to God. Hallelujah. He was focused and single-minded on what God said. I got to get out of here. Listen, can y'all, can y'all receive what I'm about to say? I want you to receive this. Stop panicking because the first report is never the last report. I'm gonna say it again. The first report is never the last report. I don't care what CNN ABC News, Fox News, MSNBC says. Here's the reality: the first report is not the last report. Whose report will you believe? We shall believe the report of the Lord. Oh my God, la bención So the first— I don't care what the first report you got was, because that's how life is, is set up. You're gonna always be getting reports, but your report is the last report that comes from the Lord. First report is not the last report. Watch this. Nothing is ever as big as it first appears. Yeah, you gotta trust God, people. All right, let me read verse 21. Let me read. He said, and being fully persuaded— this is what we're talking about tonight— that what he had promised he was able also to perform. Can I prophesy you tonight? You gotta become fully persuaded that what God promised you he's able to perform. It. And when you do that, hear the prophecy, there will be a performance in your life. Hear me, guys, I'm prophesying to you this season, over the next 4 years and beyond, if you walk by faith, no matter what is happening around you God will always perform on your behalf. What do you mean? Paiō in Greek is perform, which means that he will produce, construct, form, align whatever you need in the time of need. That means if it ain't even in existence Performance here on God's behalf means that if you need it— Pai Io in Greek— he will create it, he will construct it, he'll form it, he'll build it, he'll cause it to appear. He just needs fully persuaded faith. Oh my God, I Okay, we win anyhow. Glory to God. Oh, shaya! Y'all receive that tonight. I'm almost done. Glory to God. We give God glory. So let me keep reading. You got to get fully persuaded so there will be a performance. Hear me. Verse 22: And therefore it was imputed to him— wait a minute— for righteousness. So that means if I'm doubting, the flip side of that is I'm operating in unrighteousness. Oh, so when I'm operating in fully persuaded faith believe, God looks at me and says, that's righteous right there. Ah, glory! See, you thought— hear me, hear me— that just because you kept a lot of legalistic rules, you were displaying righteousness. And yeah, you are, and you should live holy, but it don't make sense to be living holy and you ain't got no faith. What, what you doing it for? Because you really don't even believe in heaven. My God, you don't really believe in hell because you, you're not fully persuaded. But God said when your faith is fully persuaded, he'll count it as righteousness. Look at verse 23. He said, now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him. Verse 24, but for us, you and I, to whom it shall be imputed. For if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead, verse 25, who was delivered for our offenses and was raised again for our justification. Touch yourself and say, I'm fully persuaded. I'm telling you, if you believe that, if you build your faith and make up in your mind, you're going to be fully persuaded that every word of God is right. Every word of God is right and somebody's wrong. Are you hearing this? I promise you, you're going to see the blessing of the Lord that makes rich and adds no sorrow operate wholly and fully. Hear me, in your life. I need you to catch that. I need you to believe that because God— hear me, family— family. He is for you. You got to be fully persuaded. What does it mean to be fully persuaded? It means you're totally assured, you are completely confident, you are unquestionably certain. I'll say again: totally assured, completely confident, and unquestionably certain. So that means there's no ambiguity. You are clear on what side you on. Are y'all hearing this? Because you are fully persuaded. People who operate in fully persuaded faith, they believe God over their natural circumstances, over what the environment is dictating to them. Listen, This thing was written for us, y'all. Abraham went through the testimony so we could overcome. We overcome him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony. Whoa, we, you and I, can walk in the same strong faith, being fully persuaded and operating in of faith that takes. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for this word tonight. I thank you for your people that tuned in. I thank you for those that'll catch this replay. I ask you tonight, God, to give a hunger to us to continue to go from faith to faith, to continue to grow and increase in the things of faith. Father, I give you praise and I give you glory for fully persuaded faith that causes our businesses to prosper, that causes our families to prosper, that causes legacies to be left, that causes our ministries to grow and prosper. Thank you for fully persuaded faith, and we give you praise for it now in Jesus' name. Name. Amen and amen. Thank you so much, family, for joining us tonight. I pray that your faith has been filled and your faith has increased. Listen, scrolling at the bottom of the screen, I want you guys to put these dates in your calendar: March 28th, 29th, and 30th. Glory to God! We're hosting what is called Harvest Fire Revival at Rawler Church. My son Apostle Brandi Cornelius will be back in the city. And you know, apostles work two by two, uh, Matthew chapter 10 dictates that, dictates that, glory to God. And so the apostle will be back here and I'll be working in tandem once again. My son Ben will be in the house with us those 3 days. I'm super excited, glory to God, about this meeting simply because we're believing God for souls. As a matter of In fact, I want to invite you guys to fast with us starting, glory to the name of God, on March 17th through March 28th. We're going on a 12-day fast, and here's what our prayer focus is— simple, two things. One, we're fasting for the salvation of souls. We're believing God that during that weekend, people who are not will show up, receive miracles, receive prophetic words, experience the power of God, and get saved. We're believing God for that. That can't happen if you guys don't invite people who are not saved. So I need you guys to help us with that. Secondly, we're fasting for the, ooh God, the synergy of the saints. That means we're fasting that there will be a synergistic synergy, a unity, a harmony that will come amongst not just our church, but the saints of God everywhere. I think we gotta get on the same page so that we can be an example to the world and we can show up in the world and really take dominion. So if you wanna fast with us, guys, March 17th through March 28th, we'll be fasting, uh, starting at midnight on the 17th, uh, fasting every day, glory to the name of God, until 5 in the evening, glory to God. We're praying every day at 5 during that time. We'll be teaching every day at 12 noon also during that time. So listen, I want you guys to make sure you plug in. Again, that's another opportunity to build your faith. See, 12 days of teaching is going to be phenomenal for you to build your faith. So make sure you're in, in place and you get the word every single time it goes forth. If you miss that 12 noon, watch that replay. And if you need details about the fast, we're putting together right now even a fast and prayer focus that has all the scriptures, all of the instructions. Glory to God, we'll make sure you get that that if you want to fast with us. Listen, we love you all. You guys are tremendous. I want to say thank you again, um, for how you guys bless, uh, Lady Felicia and I on last— not just, not this past Sunday, but Sunday before last. Um, it's just a blessing. More blessed to give than it is to receive. And I never ask you guys for anything, but God told me, he said I was robbing you guys of the blessing that's connected to blessing the man of God. So you guys, man, y'all came through and we— I didn't have to pull out my card for nothing. It was a blessing. Well, it was my card because y'all gave the money to me, but I didn't have to go into any of my money. I used what you guys gave me and we had such a great time. We got a chance to relax. So thanks to everyone. Listen, the first of the month is imminent. It's upon us. Listen, I need you guys to give tonight. Get seed in the ground. The ways to give are scrolling at the bottom of the screen. Let's be a blessing to the house of God. Let's be a blessing to the church. Glory to the name of God tonight. Let's sow into the word. So Father, I thank you right now for every gift and every giver. Give it back to them a thousand times more. In Jesus' name, I love y'all tonight. Y'all be blessed. Heaven smiles upon you is my prayer. I'll see you on Sunday at 9:00 AM at Rhoda Church. It's going to be phenomenal. Y'all need to be in the building. It's going to be powerful. I'll see you there. Y'all be blessed.