Garden Living, Part 2: "Back to Eden" | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr. | Radah Church (Jackson)

Please, we gotta— we gonna keep plowing and doing what the Lord tells us to do, and increase is going to come. Amen. Say that with me. Say, increase is going to come. I want to, uh, for a few moments today, I want to continue series I started last Sunday in Atlanta church, and this will be message 2 of this series. So if you haven't watched message 1 make sure you go to YouTube or wherever you follow me or whatever and watch it, because I believe these messages are going to bless you. Amen. So today we're going to continue the series entitled Garden Living. Say Garden Living. Garden Living. G-A-R-D-E-N. Garden Living. Glory to God. And this, this message is centered around the mindset of the Garden of Eden being restored in our life. And so last week, just by way of review, uh, we talked about how the Garden of Eden and this Edenic mindset, it empowers us to prosper. Touch yourself, say, I'm empowered to prosper. I am empowered to And one of the things we learned last week from Proverbs 10:22 is that all of us have access to the blessing of the Lord. Touch yourself. Say, I got access to the blessing of the Lord. Now here's what we found out about that blessing. I want you to hear this. We found out that the blessing of the Lord makes rich. I'm gonna say it again. The blessing of the Lord makes rich. And I hear somebody say, wait a minute, Apostle, the Bible says the poor you have with you always. Well, if you're a believer, that's not you. And we learned clearly why that's not you, or it shouldn't be you. Because if you position your life correctly with the right mindset We discovered last week that you won't have to look for blessings, blessings will look for you. Oh boy, I'm telling you right now, money is looking for you. Glory! Property is looking for you. Healing is looking for you. Breakthrough is looking for you. I'm telling you, new opportunities are trying to find you. You just got to position yourself to receive them. I'm gonna be through quickly, but y'all gotta stay with me, all right? We discovered, and I'm just reviewing, that in the text, in the Hebrew, the word rich meant this: it meant to accumulate, to grow rich, and become wealthy. That's the Bible. I'm gonna say that again. It means to accumulate, grow rich, and become wealthy. So no longer can you really afford to live beneath the blessing. That's right. Watch this. If you're not rich, you're living beneath the blessing. Oh boy. That's right. It's tight, but it's right, because people say, oh, I'm blessed and highly favored, but where's the fruit? Where's the fruit to show that blessing is on your life? Touch yourself. Say, I will no longer, I will no longer live beneath the blessing. So God created me to accumulate, grow rich, and become wealthy. I'm well. You can't be scared of that. Nope. And you— so please go back and watch last week's message so you can get the totality of that, because we found out when we got blessed. Come on now. In Genesis 1:28, the Bible said, and God blessed them. Yes. All right, so watch it. The blessing of the Lord maketh rich. Amen. And he addeth no sorrow. That's, that's Proverbs 10:22. So wait a minute, the blessing is a person. Hallelujah! That's why you need a real relationship with God that's not rooted in religion, that's not rooted in emotion, that's right, that's not rooted in good feelings, but that's actually rooted in knowing him for real. Yes. Because the Bible said he's the one that causes you to accumulate, that's right, that's right, to grow rich and get wealthy. That's right. And I've learned the closer I get to him— y'all ain't got to talk— but the richer I get. Come on now, y'all ain't got to say nothing. The closer I get to him, yes, yes, the more wealthy I become. He expands my vision. He expands my place in him, and he always provides the resources to get done what he tells me to do. Are y'all here? Are y'all here? Why did he bless them? And I'm just revealing again, that's right. The Bible said, Genesis 1:20, he blessed them so they can be fruitful, multiply, subdue, replenish the earth, and have dominion. You can't have dominion over nothing If you're broke. The name of this church is Rada Church. The Hebrew word for dominion is rada, and it means to be in total control. Listen, this is the first message ever preached to humans. The first thing God said was have dominion. Y'all ain't got to say nothing. People talking about why you name the church that? Because it's the first thing God said. That's And this is God's Plan A for mankind. We can't rule the earth if we are not established in wealth. Just touch yourself again and say, God wants me to be wealthy. So before we get into this today, here's what I want you to do. I got— let me grab the one I want to grab because I want to make sure the money go the right way. Got 3 cards in my pocket, but here's what I want you to do. Get however you spend money or receive money out. We want it— we want your card, your wallet, your checkbook, whatever, to be out. I ain't gonna rob you. I'm not going to receive the offering. But the reason why I want it out, because I want this word to go out over it. And we, throughout this message, we're going to speak to this money, our banking system. Because I believe God wants to shift our mindset. So today I want to talk about restoring the Eden mindset. All right, I'm gonna start with this, and write this down, write it down: money is not currency, your mind is. I'm gonna say that one more time, right? For the people in the back— the back ain't that far. Yeah, amen. Money is not currency, your mind is. That's right. You are what you think. The Bible says, let this same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus. Amen. Well, we just found out the mind that Jesus had was one of dominion, because he was there when you were created. That's right. Are y'all hearing this? He was involved with who you are. So his mindset, his plan A for you, is to dominate in your fear of influence. So your mind is currency. Your bank account is a reflection of how you think. Oh, y'all hearing this? And you got to start thinking on an expanded level concerning your resources. I know we don't like talking about money in church, but— and somebody said, boss, it's just a few of us, why you talking about money? Because I will— I told y'all before, if we got 5 people and only y'all worth $10 million, we don't need nobody else. We can change the whole world, the whole city. I'm not concerned about people, I'm concerned about the ones that's here getting what I'm saying and changing this region. Glory, glory. Oh yeah, we can take 5 people that's worth $10 million, build hospitals. Y'all are talking to me here. Build facilities that transition women out of prison and men. We can do a whole lot of stuff. It takes the right people to get the right word. To apply it. So y'all hear me today? Say, my mind is currency. My mind is currency. So if you think broke, you're going to be broke. Wait a minute, here's another one. As a man thinketh, so is he. Amen. So y'all see I'm not making this up, right? It's all scripture. So here we go. Write this down: Dominion is not Plan B, it's still Plan A. Hallelujah. Just because people don't talk about it— because here's a real issue, guys. Most preachers don't talk about it because they don't understand it. And I get it, when you don't understand the thing, you're not going to discuss it. Amen. You're not going to teach it, you're not going to share it. So I get it. But Dominion is not Plan B, it's Plan A. Amen. We have to stop teaching our people to be second-class citizens. That's right. We gotta teach people their place. Amen. We're so— we're supposed to be in charge. Earth was intended to be an extension or a colony of heaven. So when God created the heavens and the earth, he created for a place where man could rule. But if you look through the earth, most of the people that are running the earth They're not connected to God in no way. I told y'all before, 97% of all Americans work for the other 3%. The 3% that are employed by the employer, the 97%— listen to me— 99% of them are heathens. Y'all ain't gotta talk. That's crazy, man, because that means out of 6 billion people in the planet— listen to me— 99% of the people that run the economy of the world don't know God. But we sit up in church, jump, shout, speak in tongues, spit, blow bubbles, sing in the choir, go through the motions, be religious, and broke as Joe's turkey. Amen. And that's not God's will. Yes, if Job even had a turkey. I don't know, I heard my grandmama said it and I just started saying it. Glory to God. I don't even know if the man had a turkey. Glory to God. But, but what I'm saying is we need to find our place. All right. And I've been telling y'all, 2024 won't be about the election. It'll be about the elected. It'll be a year where God will move into place those that will move into dominion. And God said the next 10 years from 2024 would be a decade of dominion. But in order for dominion to flow out of the people of God, they got to position themselves. And the first thing you got to do is change your mind. The next time the devil comes here and gets you to thinking low and depressed and poor and broke and needy, you need to tell him, no, you need to go somewhere else with that. I changed my mind. Listen, you're trying to talk to people who can't even phantom, what's in your head. And when you do that, hear me, only place left for you to go is where they are, because they don't have ability to come up to where you are. So here's the next thing I want you to write down. Say, in order to change my mind, I have to change my circles. Oh boy, which means you can't run with everybody. You can love them, but you can't let them have close proximity to who you are. You can love your family, go hang out with them for Thanksgiving and Christmas and all that stuff, but, but don't bring them in close proximity if they don't have the mindset you have. You got a 16 by 20 vision and they got a 3 by 5 mind. Your vision is not going to fit in their mind. And the moment you start trying to talk to a 3 by 5-er about your 16 by 20 dream, they gonna cast it down every time. You can't do that, you ain't got the money to do that, who you think you are? The reality is you have to learn to let— listen, I'm a master at it. I love people. I know how to love people in their place because I can't, I can't talk to you about everything I'm doing because some of the stuff I do, they won't understand. And some folks so ruthless, you start telling them a dream, they'll try to figure out a way to stop it. And sabotages. So you better be careful. So you gotta change your circles. You need people in close proximity. One, that you could trust. Two, watch this, that can see. Because if they can see, they got a revelation of who you are. If you don't see me, and if I have not been revealed to you, and if people around you have not been revealed to you, they're gonna violate you. That's why I don't get all bent out of shape when people violate me. When you can do things with people, you know, my thing is rejection is direction. So reject me early. Y'all ain't got— don't wait till we late in the game. Now reject me early so I can know who you are. Y'all ain't gotta say nothing. And I can keep going. And let you go about your business. Ain't no love, love, but reject me quick. And that's how you got to be when you got big dreams, because you could be carrying a joker that their only motive for being there is to see what they can get out of you. But you need people who purely have your best interests at heart. So I gotta change my mind. Here's the nice thing about that. Say, say, say, in order to change my mind, not only must I change my circles, but watch this, I must take the position of a learner. People who fear education and learning about what they're called to dominate will never dominate. If you're called to be a CEO, you need to learn from CEOs. I believe I'm called to be a billionaire, so I study billionaires. I learn from billionaires. My monthly reading is billionaire books. Because I need to know how they think. So you need to be reading the Bible. I read the Bible, but I'm gonna read that too because I need to take the position of a learner so I can learn how to produce a billion dollars. Are y'all hearing me? Amen. You earn what you learn. The word earn is inside of learn. L-E-A-R-N. Take the L off what you got. Earn. You learn what a lawyer knows, you'll earn what he earns. You learn what a doctor knows, you can earn what a doctor earns. I prophesied to one of your ladies down at the church, told her she was gonna be a doctor. I said— and then I said to her, it's not gonna fall out the sky, you got to go to school. Just because you got a word from the Lord, you still gotta learn how to be a doctor. Ain't nobody about to let you work on they body and you ain't learned how to be a medical doctor. Amen. So guess what she did? She enrolled in school so she can finish her undergrad, so she can take the MCATs, get her master's, and then go to medical school. That's the process. She has to take the position of a learner so she can earn what a neurosurgeon earns, because that's what she's gonna be. Amen. But if she don't learn it, ain't nobody gonna let her get inside their brain and operate. Now they're gonna take her up here to— what's this, Whitfield? They're gonna take her to the crazy west. Is that what it is? Okay, okay. See, in Georgia we got the 8th floor of Grady. That's where they take them kind of folks. Glory to God. But they'll take them out, take her out there. But if you want to really dominate in your fear, you gotta learn something. You need leaders— watch this— who are not just willing to entertain you. That's right. Amen. Some preachers, they teach and preach for entertainment. They come up with a good word because it's entertaining to those that's watching. They do it for likes on Facebook or for clicks on YouTube. The reality is we should do this so that people can learn to become what God has created them to become. My whole goal in life is to deploy humans into the world so that they really show up in the world. I'm not talking about you woke up, but show up. That's right. Amen. People wake up every day, but are you showing up? Are you making an impact with your life? I was talking last night before I went to bed that you should have some key performance indicators in your life. You should have some life metrics where you can look back year over year and see where you were last year in comparison to where you are now. And if you are not where you should be, you need to change and fix what you need to do so you can show up better. 'Cause it's not gonna happen just because your heart is beating and just because you alive. You gotta take the position of a learner so you can become better. Amen. Let's go back to Genesis 1:28, and we're gonna get all the way into this Garden of Eden thing. I'm just gonna read it for your hearing. It says, and God blessed them and said unto them— enough introduction, we're gonna get into this— be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, subdue it, And have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. This verse is the blessing, saying to us, dominate, take control. Touch yourself, say, I'm large and in charge. I'm large and in charge. Hallelujah. So again, I want you to hear this. This, the blessing, is these first recorded words heard by a human ear that were designed, honestly, family and those you watching, to set the course. Hear me, for how humans should exist on Earth, which should be an example on how every human should live. Every human should be fruitful. Every human should multiply. Every human should replenish the earth, subdue it, and have dominion. There's a space of dominion that you're supposed to rule in. There's a dominion purpose— hear me— on your life that you got to carry out. Our assignment is to be very productive. Touch yourself, say, God's called me. I don't hear y'all. Say, God has called me to be very productive and abound in everything. Watch this, say this: to increase and to enlarge, to refill and to restore. Watch this: and to put it back If it gets out of line, out of rule. Say, I'm called to reign and take command. That's why you're here. That's why you're on this earth. Your purpose is designed for you to rule. So you got to find out who you are, what area you should be ruling in. Now I want you to get that card or whatever you got out, just hold it up, rub it in the air. I want you to speak to it and say, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, I am empowered to prosper. I am empowered to prosper because of the blessing, because of the blessing, because I realize, because I realize I need to, I need to accumulate, accumulate, grow rich, grow rich, and get wealthy so I can dominate. So in the name of Jesus, I receive in my bank accounts, in my portfolio, unlimited resources to dominate. In Jesus' name, amen. Now if you believe that, yeah, that's good. Praise him. Glory to God. So the Garden of Eden then and we're gonna get into this, it demonstrates to us God's plan for this planet. When they was in Eden, the Bible says they were in paradise. That's right. Amen. So the blood of Jesus doesn't only restore us and save us and give us right standing with God. Matter of fact, the efficacious, vicarious, substitutionary, redemptive work of Jesus What it actually does is realign God's original plan. It brings his whole plan back into reach. Every promise that was lost through sin— yes God, that's right— salvation rescues us. Thank you, Jesus. So we ain't just saying the shout, that's right. I love have a good church, but we saved to take over, to rule, and to walk out the promises of God. Amen. And Adam's job, really, before he sinned in Eden, was to expand the garden throughout the world, to duplicate throughout the earth other— oh my God— remnants of the Garden of Eden. So in every space that really is now filled with continents, there have been Edenic experiences. Humans would have been created full grown. There would have been no babies. All humans would have came from the dust of the ground, and God would have breathed the Ruach into him, and they would have access to all the things that God created in the Garden of Eden. Adam had one job: build, eat, and duplicate it. That's right. Watch what he said: be fruitful, multiply. So let me just make another one. Do this again and keep— that's called the multiplicity of life. So we should be constantly multiplying who we are. I'm almost finished, y'all. I am. I don't want to worry your patience. Go to Genesis 2:8. Hallelujah. Watch this. The blessing has empowered us to expand paradise, this Edenic mindset worldwide. But we can't multiply until we get it. We got to get it and start operating like We're people of dominion. We're creatures of God that are on Earth to help him rule the seen world from the unseen world. That's right. Okay, Genesis 2:8, let me read it. And the Lord planted a garden eastward in Eden. Again, Eden means paradise. And there he put the man whom he formed. So the Hebrew word for Eden is paradise. It's pleasure, it's delight. It also represents a luxurious place. Me and my wife was on the phone, was talking to Pastor Jasper on the way down, and, uh, she was just talking to him about my taste in particular, how I like things. At the end of the day, I don't like nothing that's not where it need to be. I like nice stuff. I like luxurious stuff. It's because Eden is in me. Amen. Y'all ain't got to say nothing. I don't want nothing sloppy, nothing run down. I've got Eden in me. Jesus. I don't— therefore I should live in the best. I should drive the best. Y'all, and so should you because you got Eden in you. That's what it means. He planted a garden eastward in luxury, a luxurious place. It wasn't no rundown project area. No, it was not. I know sometimes you got to do what you got to do, right? But you ought to have a mindset that I'm gonna raise up out of here and that there is more, and that I, I have Eden inside of me, and God has called me to live a life of luxury. Oh my God, that's why my wife married me. She travels with me. I don't stay in rinky-dink hotels. Y'all ain't got to talk to me. Hey man, come on, we paying all that tonight for this room? Yeah, just don't worry about it because I'm not staying nowhere else because I got Eden in me. Y'all ain't got to talk, just rub your belly. I got luxury in me. Stop settling for less. Oh God, okay, all right, so let me keep reading. The Rhema Bible says, and the Lord had planted a paradise of pleasure. So watch this, God wants your life to be filled with pleasure, not hardship, not depression, not always being unhappy, or not problems all the time. You've been planted in pleasure, and when you got saved, you restored to that pleasure. You just got to open yourself up, appropriate your faith, and receive that pleasure. Somebody shout, I'm planted in pleasure! The Septuagint translation of the Hebrew word for Eden means it's a park of luxuries or the Garden of Plenty. So if I got an Edenic mindset, if I'm going back to Eden, moving into Eden, I'm moving into plenty. That's right. Oh God, I feel like running. Glory to God. Don't accept little stuff another day. He's the God of plenty. Thank you, Lord. So he says, I want you to live in the Garden of Plenty. I want you to have more than enough. Let's read verses 9 and 10. This is New Living Translation. The Lord made all sorts of trees to grow up from the ground, trees that were beautiful and produced delicious fruit. Hear this. In the middle of the garden, he placed a tree of life and a tree of knowledge of good and evil. A river flowed from the land of Eden, of pleasure and luxury, watering the garden and then dividing it into four branches. Let's keep reading. Verse 11, it says, the first branch is called Pison. Yes, it flows around the entire land of Havilah. Watch this, where gold is found. What God y'all serve? Come on now, we ought to have some gold, we ought to have some resources. He said the gold of that land is exceptionally pure. What means it's gonna carry the highest value. Arabic resin and onyx stone are also found there. Black diamonds. Are y'all hearing me? Oh my God, today look at verse 15. He said the Lord placed man in the Garden of Eden to tend and watch over it. Listen, notice these things. There's a few things I want. Back up to verse 9 and pull a few things out of here. First of all, he says he caused trees to grow from the ground and produce delicious fruit. Yes. So when you have an Edenic mindset, an Edenic mindset, and you're living the way God really wants you to live, you produce delicious fruit. Come on now, that others want to partake of. You better say that. Yeah, we gotta, uh, on our counter in the house, in the kitchen, we got a fruit bowl. And sometimes when the fruit is not being eaten fast enough, some of the apples or oranges will get old and they'll, you know, they don't look palatable. And so you just take that fruit out the bowl because we, we're not going to eat that. But when it's right Jesus. You keep— you, you want to keep going back to the bowl when it's ripe, and you want to eat it when it's manifested in its right season. I'm telling y'all, the process you're going through, whether you're here watching this, God is raising you up to be delicious fruit. Watch this, so that the people that you need to produce what God has called you to do in your assignment you will become irresistible to them. So you got to go through this process— oh my God— today, so that when you get to the point of manifestation, when people begin to eat of your fruit, they say, oh, I like this. They got to keep coming back to get more and more because you're Caesar. And cuz anything delicious, you want a lot of it. Yes. Come on now. Hallelujah. That's my problem right now. My wife cooks, she's a baker. She don't have, ain't no box cakes, box cookies, nothing. So I'm trying to do right, trying to get this belly out of my life. I'm really, I be praying, rebuking it and everything. On top of me trying to eat right, I come down this week, not 12 cookies, but she done baked a whole box of peanut butter cookies fresh out the stove. I just said that, hey, Six, I gotta talk. Before I knew it, so I'm like, but because it's delicious, you can't just eat one or have one. That's right. And I told him, I told him before, if we gonna do this weight stuff and being healthy, you just gotta stop cooking this stuff. Take all the stuff out the house. Don't buy it no more, because if you cook it, I'm gonna eat it. Are y'all hearing this? Hallelujah! Glory to God! Say, I'm good fruit. Say, I'm producing good fruit. Wait a minute, the Bible says also in the middle of the garden He placed life. That's right. So watch this, at the center of all God does for you, it becomes life-giving to others. That's right. You are blessed to be a blessing. God says he wants what you do to bless the world. That's right. And he puts it in the center of your life so that people don't get attracted to the stuff you're doing, but they get attracted to him Who is the one that produced what's happening in your life? Yes, yes, because he's the life giver. Yes, yes. So he blesses us so that through us others can find him. Yes. Are y'all getting this? Yes. Then he said a river flowed from the land of Eden. Oh boy, say a stream. A stream. A river is a stream that has the necessities for life inside of the stream. That's right. Native Americans lived off the river. They controlled the banks and they fished and they hunted even by the rivers because other animals would come to the river to eat, and that's where they could find their prey. Say river. It said the river is a stream. Oh, y'all didn't say it. Say it one more time. Say the river is a stream. So watch this. It says that there's a river that flowed from the land. Oh boy, here we go. Watering the Garden of Eden, then dividing it into four branches. What are you saying, God? So God took this source— he's the source, right? Amen. And it flowed into their life, but then he caused the river to be divided into 4 branches. Jesus. Watch this. If you want to dominate, you gotta have more than one river. You need a multiple stream of income, a multiple stream of increase coming into your life. You can't just be dependent on your one job. You ought to be thinking multiple streams. Don't be caught, for real, without multiple streams. Because here's the beauty of having multiple streams. When one thing ain't working, you can lean on another thing. Oh, y'all ain't got to talk to me. And you should have, according to this text, at least 4 strings. Touch this, touch— put your hand over your eyes and say, in the name of Jesus. So Lord, I ask you now, say, according to your word, Reveal to me the 4 streams of income and wealth that should flow out of my life. Say, I receive them now in Jesus' name. In Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. Receive them. Glory to God. Watch this. Glory to God. We drop down to verse 11 and 12. And the scripture says the name of the first stream— watch this— was Pisah. Say Pisah. And that means something, y'all. Guess what it means in Hebrew? Increase. Hallelujah. So, so your rivers— number one, we know that one of these rivers should be increasing your life consistently. Yes. My God. Let me say this to you: if something is not increasing you, it will ultimately decrease you. So if you have people around you that's not building you up, that's not making you better, they're ultimately going to decrease you. If the job you on seems dead end and it ain't increasing you, you ain't getting no promotions ultimately you're gonna hit a dead end and decrease is going to happen. That's why you need some other streams. Shout it, say streams. He says, that is it which compasses the whole land of Havilah, now where there is gold. So Havilah, or Shivalah, watch this, the word means circular, or which means it never stops. So what he's saying is your river or stream of increase, it never stops. Jesus, glory to God. Watch this. And it is a resource that is born outside of you. Wow. Jesus, you can't produce gold. Y'all ain't got to say nothing. You can go to work and ask them to pay you in gold, they ain't gonna do it. Ask them too much, they're gonna take you to Whitfield. What I'm saying, glory to Jesus, is that God wants you to have a river, a stream that never stops. I'm so glad I got one that ain't gonna never stop. Hallelujah! I'm so glad that God— watch this— has given me wisdom to create companies and businesses that the moment I push a button, they can activate and create increase. Say, circular. It keeps coming. Watch this. He said, okay, where there is gold, and the gold of that land is good, is profitable, banah in Hebrew, and is bdellium, which is, or bdalak, in Hebrew, which, which is that resin we read about, and the black onyx stone. So none of this stuff fades. So the onyx stone, the gold, the bdellium, all profitable, all continues to flow. God says it never runs out. Cuz to have dominion, to have rada, I can't be broke. I got to have resources to keep plowing, to keep building. Amen. Verse 13, in the name of the second river. Y'all ready? Amen. You said it was 4, right? It's Gahan. That's right. Oh boy, y'all ready for this? It means in Hebrew bursting forth. Oh boy, that— okay, let me give you an example what Geshem looks like. If you ever were a kid playing outside and somebody got hold to something where they can open up the fire hydrant and that water just went through out of the fire hydrant with great pressure. God said there has to be a stream that pays you quickly, that breaks into your life with great force. There has to be something that you can pick up when things are low, where if you go through that, it'll make up for some things you don't have. One of my streams in that area, I know, is my cameras. So if I'm, if I'm, if I need something to be made up somewhere, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm gonna pick up my camera and find somebody need me to shoot something. And that thing works real quick. I'm not talking about— I don't— because I don't shoot stuff that's $200, $300. Most of my shooting stuff is— I'm starting my price. My price is high because of how good I am. $5,000 and up. You want me to do your wedding, you ain't got $5,000, it ain't happening. Because it's gonna be like a whole movie production when I get through it. Are y'all hearing me? But that's a bursting forth stream. 'Cause so I ain't got to sit around and wait for tithes and offerings to pay me. Y'all, oh Lord have mercy, I've been doing this too long. I know how to learn. Glory to God. Tithes will come and go. You preachers sitting around worried about what people give? You better get you a bursting forth stream that you ain't got to ask nobody for nothing. Are y'all hearing me? Oh, glory to God. I'm working on purchasing Wall Street for my wife right now with her baking business. Amen. And I'm telling you, this thing's gonna be— we got a place in Atlanta called A Piece of Cake. Well, they have mastered the art of baking one cake, slicing it, and selling you one slice of cake for $10. They got locations all over the city, all over the state now. My wife's cake tastes better than theirs. So it's a matter of opening it up and making sure that whenever those doors open, there's a purse in the stream for her. That's right. Because at the end of the day, I don't need her just baking it for me, making it fat. Since you want to cook, just stop making me fat. Let's make these folk in Atlanta fat and make our bank account purse fat. Are y'all hearing this? Y'all don't like that kind of talk. I understand. Somebody shout, burst forth! Watch this, it says the second rib is gone, which is verse 4. The same as that compasseth— oh, I love this— the whole land of Ethiopia. That's heavy in a lot of ways. That word in Hebrew is Kush. It's black folk. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. See, there's a blessing that's— I'm telling you, and I'm not racist, I know God's going to bless the white folks they already got a lot. They put— they— most of the 99% is them that runs the rest of the world. But God's about to bless our people. I need you to hear this. Come on, white brothers and sisters, I still love y'all. You can still invite me back to preach, but this is the Bible. So God is about to burst forth a blessing. Are y'all hearing this? That's about to prosper black people in a way that people say, how them negroes here some of the places me and my wife come, people be looking at, how y'all get in here? They don't know we got a bursting full blessing. Are y'all hearing this? Because God is about to put you in places where you're not supposed to be. He's about to open doors. Oh my God, here where people said you're not supposed to be there. The same place. Oh my— oh God, I thank you. For open opportunities that will burst forth and send the Black man, the Black woman into spaces, oh my God, that they never thought they'd be able to operate. Y'all ain't got to say nothing. We saw an example of this. You see, y'all didn't catch it prophetically when Barack Obama was elected, but that was a bursting forth blessing to let us know, glory to God, that something is about to open in every area of dominion for any black person that wants to do anything. I'm telling you, you're unstoppable and you can't be stopped. Glory to God, man. Y'all, y'all look at— you go to Ethiopia, ain't nothing over there but us. That's right. Hallelujah. And I'm telling you right now, position yourself. Woo! Jesus, shift your mind. Something people tell you, you can't do something because you're a black woman, or those that are watching, because you're a black man in America. I'm telling you right now, they've raised up this campaign. Black— everything is prophetic, it's natural, they're spiritual. They was talking about Black Lives Matter. Yeah, they matter to God, and God says the last shall be first. And those of us that have been on the back burner— my father-in-law, before he died, that was his main scripture. Every— for 6 months I would go to his house, sit down, the first thing he said to me, son, the last shall be first. And he would go into his dissertation about why. And I'm gonna tell you something you need to understand. God has been setting this up for a long time because now there needs to be— we need to be more than rappers. We need to be more than ball players. Y'all ain't got to say nothing to me. We need to be more than good singers. God's about to raise up some Black CEOs. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. He's about to raise up some Black billionaires, not just those in entertainment, but God's gonna raise up some billionaires, glory to God, who have strong portfolios in their stock market. He's gonna raise up— oh my God, I said I wasn't gonna do this. Turn to somebody and say, it's my time. It's my time! Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus. I got to get out of here. Verse 14: And the name of the third river was Hiddekel. Yes, yes, Hiddekel. Look at Hiddekel. I love this. All this is indicative of the fact that this stuff is now. Jesus. So your third river needs to be a rapid river. Hiddekel means rapid. Accelerated, fast. Listen, we got a, uh, river in Atlanta called the Chattahoochee River. People get on this river and they do whitewater rafting. They be— they do a lot of kayaking and canoeing because it's a rapid river. It moves at a fast pace. Everything comes quickly. Oh God, just touch yourself. Say, it's coming quickly. You know, when you got streams, the stuff that used to be delayed, it ain't delayed no more. Thank you, Jesus. You be waiting around trying to figure out how you gonna buy a house, how you gonna get a car, how you gonna get stuff for your kids, how you gonna pay for school, how you gonna do XYZ. But when you got streams Everything's rapid. Just touch yourself. Say, I got to get some streams. I'm telling you, God's about to accelerate processes. So that stuff that would have took 6 years, my Lord, it's going to happen in 6 months. Mortgages that it would have took 30 years to pay off, he's going to pay them off in 12 months. Y'all ain't got to say nothing. Cars that they told you got to pay on 5 years. God said, no, I'm about to give you some rapid river that flows into your life, and you're gonna be able to pay off your debt where you owe no man nothing but to love him. Hallelujah. The Bible said this river goes toward the east of Assyria. Wait a minute, because location is everything. Yes, it is. Every assignment has places. So notice each one of these rivers went in a different direction. Now watch this word. The word, ooh, Ashur, or Assyria in Hebrew, means a step in the right direction. Jesus. I'mma say that again. So that means every time this river works in your life It's a step in the right direction. You're moving in accuracy. Jesus. One of my prayers daily is, God, I don't want to miss it to the left or to the right. I want to be in accuracy. I want to do exactly what you created me to do. Say accuracy. Say, Lord, Lord, I don't want to miss it to the left nor to the right. So I want to make steps in the right direction. Because you know what, you can do something, he says, that's the right thing, but you can do the right thing for the wrong reason and in the wrong season. Oh boy, you— it could be right in your head. But it's the wrong motive behind it and it's the wrong timing. And when the timing is out of line, watch this, the provision also is out of line. I just saw a flash while I was just teaching. I just saw a flash. I saw two things. So I saw it— the first flash, I saw this room right here. Full with people. But the crazy thing, I saw that wall down and I saw people in the street standing all across the street listening in, trying to hear, trying to hear what's being said in this room. I'm telling you right now, God has positioned this little church, and he is— it's a secret now. But God says he's getting ready to pull the walls down, and those that need to hear what's being said are about— oh my God— are about to hear it. I need you to give God praise for that. But then it flashed again, and I saw— which is crazy— I saw this wall down. She— but I saw a tsunami of cash. I'm talking about a tsunami of $100 bills, more than our eyes could see, just flooding into this place and blessing the occupants of this building, which is us. Y'all not talking to me here. And that's what God said to to say out loud, every person that comes to these doors, this will be a poverty-free zone. So he said, if poor people come in here, by the time they leave here and get what they need, they will never be poor again. He said, this will be a house where wealth will be manifested, where dreams will be realized. Where mighty doors will be open. Oh my God, where Dominion heirs and billionaires and millionaires will be raised up to do things that they never dreamed they were able to do. Oh my God, in other words, he's saying the money is coming. Glory to the name of God. Money is coming, money is coming, money is coming, money is— I need somebody to shout it. Money is coming. It is coming. You just got to make sure you're stepping in the right direction. You got to be where you're supposed to be. Jesus. Oh my God, today. All right. Glory to God. Thank you, God. Anytime I shall run out to your soil. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. I trust you, God. Yes, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. And the fourth river is Euphrates, which is Proph in Hebrew. Guess what it means? We already talked about this, but it means fruitfulness. Remember, everything about this is consistent and it never stops. Say consistent. Consistent. And it never stops. And it never stops. What am I saying? In your life, fruitfulness is about to begin. Yes, Lord. And it will never stop. Thank you, Father God, can I say that to you again? I don't care what you've been going through, the Spirit of the Living God says to you today that fruitfulness is about to begin and it will never stop. Thank you, God. Thank you, God. Thank you. This River Euphrates is still a river today that that exists. All these rivers still exist, but Euphrates is the longest and largest river in the Western Hemisphere. It provides 72% of the natural resources. Somebody said, 'Never stop, never stop.' In the natural, it's still providing resources. Yes, yes, yes. Ah, God is still taking care of thousands upon thousands of people, irrigating millions of acres of land. It never stopped. I'm telling you right now, the flow that God's about to release in your life, it will never stop. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Go to Isaiah 51. I'm closing with this. Yes, I just want to share with you in my closing that the days of the Garden of Eden are here again. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Say that with me. Say Garden of Eden days. Garden of Eden days are here again. Are here again. Glory! I love the word of God, man. Jesus. Isaiah 51, verse 3. Uh, the Bible says this: For the Lord shall comfort Zion, he will comfort all her waste places, and he will— wait a minute— he will make her wilderness like Eden. That's right. And her desert— wait a minute, come on— like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found therein, thanksgiving and the voice of melody. Not the girl Melody up the street. This word melody in Hebrew is zimrah. And it means that the angels, or heavenly hosts— hear me— will make sounds in heaven upon instruments and with their voice to celebrate the prosperity of humanity. As a matter of fact, they have been waiting to celebrate the prosperity of God's people. Because these are promises they are aware of, and they desire this for us. You know why? Because he gives us angels at our charge. That's right. So because they walk with us, they know what's available. Come on. That's right. And many times our angels are like, why are they not getting what God promised them? Yes. And why are they not employing me to help them get it? You realize the Bible says that angels hearken to the voice of the word. So when I pray the word, angels say, okay, I'm ready, and they obey and go bring that word to pass. Angels say, I want to rejoice with you because you— hallelujah. Oh, I've been comforted. He says, I'll comfort Zion. The comfort in Hebrew— the word comfort means— watch this— he says, I'm gonna have compassion on them and breathe on them. The indication in Hebrew actually is, I will breathe on them again. Jesus, because he breathed on you one time. The Father did when he created Adam. That's right. All humanity came out of that, that one ruach. But God says, I'm about to breathe on you again. And I just heard him say, the latter breath will be greater than the former breath, because last time I breathed on one Adam He said, but this time I'm about to breathe on millions of Adams. Tell them, align themselves with my promise and trust my word. He said, I'm about to breathe on you again. Because you know what? When the breath of God is with you and moving with you, you're always comforted. You don't have worries, you don't have fear. With the breath of God, the wind of God is blowing. Oh God, it's not like natural wind. Sometimes natural wind get a little high, you get a little concerned about But God says, my breath is about to bring it to your life, and it's going to bring peace, it's going to bring stability, it's going to bring happiness. He says, I'm about to breathe upon you, Zion. Who's Zion? That's you and I. We are Zion. And he says, I'm about to comfort you. I know you've been going through hell. God says, I've looked in and seen your struggles. I've looked in and seen the obstacles and challenges you have had to face, but God says, I'm gonna comfort you in your waste places. What does that mean? That means places where you wasted and made a mess. You wasted time. Are y'all hearing this? Thank you, Lord. But God says, even in your mistakes I'm gonna have mercy on you. Thank you, Lord. And I'm gonna make your wilderness— watch this— like Eden. Remember, Eden is a place of luxury. Yes, it is. It's a place of pleasure and delight. God says you've been used to wilderness living, but I'm about to do you like the Jeffersons. I'm about to move you on up. Are y'all hearing this? To the east side. Notice everything we read was in the east. All the rivers flow east because Jerusalem and Israel is east. Y'all ain't saying nothing to me. God says I'm about to move you on up into a heavenly place, a heavenly location, a heavenly existence. I dare you, touch yourself, say I'm moving on up. Thank you, God. You don't know what the Jeffersons is, do you? Okay, I thought you might have been too young. Glory to God. But I had to teach about the Jeffersons. Okay, all right, touch this up, kids. I'm moving on up. I'm moving on up. Wait a minute, he ain't through. He said, I'm going to make your desert like the Garden of the Lord. I'm telling you, the Garden of Eden days are here again. In other words, the deserts are dry, they're hot. Much as I love Las Vegas, the thing I hate about Las Vegas is too hot, is the air is dry. But I love it. It has beautiful golf courses, beautiful hotels, beautiful buildings. I don't go to gamble. I go because I love just the place. But it's too hot, man. Me and Felicia went out there in November one time. It was 100 degrees at night. In November? In November. Jesus. That was even something different there, but it was something that happened there. Just had a sandstorm and it got so hot nobody was walking outside. Nobody was at the pool. It was like if you got in the pool, you was getting in a hot bath. It was hot, but it's that kind of heat like you sitting in an oven. It's dry heat. God says, I'm about to remove your dry seasons. Hallelujah! Oh, you need to hear the word of the Lord today. He says the Garden of Eden days are here again and there will be no more dry seasons. You need to receive that today. I'm— I receive it. No more dry seasons. Come on, lift up that checkbook, that card, and say, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, say, I decree and declare, I decree and declare, no more dry seasons. No more dry seasons. Say, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, I declare today, I declare today, that my bank account, that my bank account overflows, overflows with plenty, with plenty. It is being filled now, even supernaturally, with everything I need to move in dominion. In Jesus' name. Come on, give God praise for that if you believe it. Shout, no more dry seasons! No more dry seasons! Woo! Thank you, Lord God. Ah, God, you need to receive that. Just think about it. If you were able to live every day without dry seasons, if you could live knowing that you will never have money issues again, well, let me tell you, God is ready to move you to the other side of money. Hallelujah! You know what that is? That's walking in a store and you don't look at price tags. Y'all gotta talk to me here. The other side of money is going on the car lot, writing a check for the whole car. When the credit manager come up to you and say, can I help you with financing? No, I got this. This car is going to be financed by heaven, and you just write the whole check for the whole car. No more dry season. You ain't worried about no note every month because the car is paid for. Hallelujah! Thank you, Lord. Glory to God! When you see the house you want, say, okay, that's the one right there. And you just sit down in the office with the owner and say, look, we don't need no lawyers, we ain't no closing attorneys, none of that. I got your money right here. This what we paying. Are y'all hearing that? That's the other side of money. Thank you, God. That's no dry seasons. I'm believing God. I was looking at property. Mississippi is so underdeveloped, so much land. I was telling my wife, we, we got to build a church in Mississippi. We going to build one in Georgia, but what we got to do in Georgia is different than what we got to build a church to the glory of God here. Hallelujah! I'm talking about a building that's worth looking at, even if it ain't nothing but 5 of us in there. We gonna buy the land. Y'all ain't gotta talk to me here. They gonna say, what's crazy over there with 5 people and that church can seat 10,000 people? But it's okay, glory to God, because at the end of the day, we're gonna do it to his glory and his honor. And I know when we build it, he's gonna fill it. But then watch how God's gonna do it. God's gonna empower us where testimony will be we bought the land debt-free, we built the building debt-free, we don't owe nobody nothing for none of this. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here because we have no dry seasons. Glory, hallelujah! We going to build a hospital. Thank you, Jesus. We going to build in Atlanta a 25,000 to 50,000 square foot— because every time I look at this thing, God is adding different things, but it's going to be between 25,000 50,000 square feet, almost bigger than a Walmart. Walmart is almost— that's it, that is bigger than Walmart. Walmart's probably 12,000 square feet, so that's bigger. So watch this, we're gonna build a studio, a production house. But what God told us to do while we're creating films and documentaries and hosting premieres for actors and actresses and stars. We're gonna use that same theater inside of there for our church. We're gonna use it on Sunday for church because at the end of the day, we want people to be able to come into that marketplace street and see what God has done. Are y'all hearing this? We gonna do it all debt-free because we declare we have no more dry seasons. Come on, say that again. No more dry season. Say, all of my bills are paid. Come on, wave that card around. That check. Say, I have the desires of my heart. Say, I have plenty of money to give away all the time and to supply my needs and my desires because my desires are aligned with the Lord, because I delight myself in him. So I declare now, I'm blessed in the city, I'm blessed in the field, I'm blessed when I come, I'm blessed when I go. Say, I'm ahead and not the tail. I am a lender and not a borrower. I am above and not beneath. I have what I want, and I'm a dominator in Jesus' name. Come on, give God praise for that. Glory, glory. Yeah, I hear that, God. Jesus, he says I'm going to remove the dry seasons. He said joy and gladness will be found in these seasons. Wait Let me tell you what that means, and I'm gonna quit, I promise you. The word joy is sasong. Sasong means cheerfulness because of profit. So it's not just to be cheerful, but you got something to be cheerful about. Yes. Sasong means you're cheerful because you're profitable. Ask a businessman to define profit. He's going to tell you what's left after the expenses have been paid and covered. That's profit. Because you could take profit and do what you like to do with it. God says he's about to give you a season of profitability where you operate in the profit margin year over year. Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus! Are y'all hearing this? Well, you're never in the red. Thank you. You're always in the black. He said joy will be there, gladness will be there. Seem like they should be the same thing. They're not. Shukkah in Hebrew, gladness means— watch this— that you have pleasure. Thank you, God. Watch this— in serving God for his kindness towards you. So the connotation of Hebrews was saying we're going to be so glad in this journey because God has shown his kindness to us. I don't care what nobody said. Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus. It's easier to praise and worship and do the work of the Lord when you experience his kindness. Yeah. Although we need to be mature enough to praise him when he doesn't. That's right, because he has a reason not to. But when we have his kindness, praise is so easy. And that's why he's going to do it, cuz he— that's what he loves more than anything, a glad people. You can't draw nobody to him and you all sad, amen, and he never done nothing for you. Hallelujah! Glory to God! I hear that. Just lift your hands real quick, close your eyes. I hear that, Lord. This message is being taken over by the prophetic. The Lord says, I'm the Lord of the Harvest. Yes, God. Oh, he said, you are the sower of seed, and together we work, and together we will see harvest like we never ever have before in the history of this planet. He says, I'm bringing the Garden of Eden back to you. And he's saying, you're going to see pleasure forevermore as you trust me by faith. He said, these days are here again, and my time for you is coming. He said, for I'm going to overtake you with the resources. That's the wealth needed to do my work so that people will see the glory upon you. For yes, I've even said to you that a dimension of my glory is wealth. So now I'm going to shift you into the place where people will see that, and they will know that I have done this thing for you. Says the Lord. In Jesus' name. Come on, give God—