Handle Your Mess, Part 3, "Above the Mess" | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr.

Pray. Father, in Jesus' name, we love you, we praise you, we give you glory, we give you honor. God, we thank you that you are, you are mighty, you are King, you are God, and besides you, Father, there is no other. You rule, yes God, and you super rule. Heaven is your throne. And the earth, yes God, is your footstool. The heavens declare your glory and the earth your handiwork. So Father, tonight in the name of Jesus, we thank you that as we teach your word, we will experience the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Spirit. I pray God that your people will be blessed by you and never impressed by me. You get the glory out of this, God. And we give you praise for it now. I pray, God, that even as your word goes forth, you said you sent your word and it healed them. So Father, as we preach and teach tonight, I decree and declare that healing and deliverance, which is the children's bread, which belongs to us, will occur even in this live teaching. I pray, God, that we won't be the same and we could take what we hear and we can apply it And you will get the glory out of our life. In Jesus' name, amen. And thanks be to God. Hallelujah. Glory to God. All right, guys, um, I want to talk tonight. This is our third installment on the series. You saw the intro video, Handle Your Mess. And as you see in the video, guys, listen, mess is not gonna just go away. We've learned this already. I'm not going to teach it again, but just by way of review, we, uh, we understand— we should understand by now a few things. And one, we should understand that mess does not just disappear because we want it to. As a matter of fact, family, mess is not going to disappear just because you're saved. You can get saved and live 30 years be saved and still not deal with the mess in your life, because you have to deliberately take action. Faith without works is dead. So you got to do something, you got to put something in play that's going to actually help you deal with the mess. So what I'm trying to do is give you some principles to deal with the mess. And for those of you that think you don't have mess, we've also learned that everybody has mess. And we've learned that instead of being critics of others' mess and beating ourselves up when we're in a mess, that we should become students of the mess and we should gain wisdom. And we know better, so guess what? We do better. Glory to God. So at the end of the day, I want you to get it: we all have mess. We've also learned that you cannot pray your way out of something that you behaved— hear me— your way into. I'm gonna say that again. You cannot pray your way out of something that you behaved your way into. While I believe God will get in your credit report, I believe he will help and favor you in areas, but I also believe that Bad credit is a behavior. So if your credit report is a mess, you got to change your behavior. Because guess what? Your credit, whether it's good or bad, is the result of a pattern, a behavior. You cannot pray yourself out of a behavior pattern. You got to change the behavior pattern. Like I said, God can work miracles and credit and give you favor, but if he does that and your behavior is still the same You're just going to end up with bad credit again. So you got to change your behavior. So no matter what kind of mess it is, we've learned you can have relationship mess, money mess, uh, people mess, friend mess, job mess, profession mess. But what we've learned is everybody has mess. And in the midst of that, we also learned that none of us are perfect. And we also discover by stating that nobody's perfect, meaning no human is perfect, it says that there is one that is perfect that we look to as an example. Oh my God. And we follow his ways and we live in a way that pleases him and allow him to work on us, through us, from the inside out. Matter of fact, we've discovered that our mess gives us a vantage point of God. It gives us common ground. Our mess is what brought God to the world in the first place. This is what we've learned. So tonight I want to talk about defeating the mess. Listen to me. Through— oh my God— becoming bigger than the mess. How do you become bigger than the mess? And that I want to address, that you got to enlarge your capacity in a way that you are bigger than the mess. See, once you get bigger than the mess, you won't allow the mess. So let me say this. Let me start right here. The reality is we allow mediocrity and petty things and petty people to enter into our world and our space and our culture and our lifestyle because we tolerate the mediocrity that they bring. And there's something in us that accepts it. Can I submit to you, when you become bigger than mess, When mess shows up at your door, there's something inside of you that automatically goes on a cleaning spree. Because if you want that person around, you got to make sure the mess is dealt with. Even in your own life, when mess shows up, you don't just tolerate it, sweep it under the rug. You deal with it, you become bigger with it, and you spend your life allowing God to do a work in you, to make you better, to make you stronger. Oh my God, to make you, uh, more powerful and more gracious than you are. So you got to handle your mess. So that's what we've learned. That's a recap. So tonight again, we're going to talk about becoming bigger, bigger than your mess. And I know there are people that say, I ain't got no mess. Yes, you too. And because here's what I know. What— let me say this first of all, and you might want to take a mental note, write this down, whatever. First of all, you cannot believe everything you see. Just because it doesn't look messy at the surface doesn't mean that brooding beneath the surface, there isn't some mess that's not visual to your eye. And the second thing about that, you got to be careful not to believe everything that's presented to you. Watch this, because salt and sugar, they look the same. They look exactly the same, but they are totally different. They flavor in totally different ways. And so you got to be very careful that your discernment is keen so that when mess shows up with authority, you know how to deal with it. Amen. Glory be to Jesus. Okay, I'mma get through y'all real quick and I'mma get out y'all way, but some of y'all been entertaining things that's messy. I know, and watch this, dismissing the red flags because honestly there's an element of mess in you that you haven't dealt with. So my challenge to you tonight is going to be become bigger than the mess. I'm going to show you how. How do you do it? There are 3 things I'm going to say, I'm going to give you that's going to help you become bigger than the mess. One, we're going to talk about fruitfulness. It makes you bigger than the mess. We're going to talk about faithfulness. It expands your capacity bigger than the mess. And we're going to talk about fearlessness. It expands your capacity bigger than the mess. So we're going to jump into this, right? So first of all, we have to have— and I'm going to put some script— I'm going to toss a lot of scripture in here as we go. But I'm going to give you some points first. So the first thing I want to— I want to give you tonight, I want you to hear this, right? The first thing we got to do, especially as we go toward the end of the year, cross over into this new decade of dominion, cross over into this year where God is going to begin to position the elected. Because again, it won't be about the election. It'll be about the elected. I keep saying that because that's something that's just been resident in my Prophetic Stream. People are going to have to become better at being human and loving each other. They're going to have to become better at showing up in the world and helping others, being a blessing to others, and stop worrying about their self and their own little pity parties. Because at the end of the day, where we're going, we got to be in place. And the substratum of that will be love. We gotta learn how to love one another. Hear me, we gotta love one another without dissimulation. We gotta be there for one another. Hear me, I need y'all to grab this tonight. So as we move toward this end, the first thing— you might want to write it down— there needs to be a paradigm shift. And watch this— what we believe is reality and what is normal. Somebody say, Apostle, what does God do with Helen the Mess? It got everything to do with it, because there needs to be a paradigm shift in your thinking and in how you do life that creates a line of demarcation between what is reality and what is actually normal. Somebody's saying, Apostle, reality and normality is the same thing. No, they're not. Your reality is not your normality. Many times we find ourselves in mess pools— not cesspools, mess pools— because we think just because a thing in our life is reality It is the designed normality. But God has designed a normality for you and I to live in, to tap into, that many of us have not tapped into yet. There's a greater life, there's a higher height, there's a deeper depth that we all ought to be walking out. And God is saying, you got to realize your normality is not your reality. Listen, it's normal that you be healed. I've been teaching on the Edenic mindset. It's normal that you be wealthy, that you be rich. See, because you've been taught, okay, it's my reality I'm broke, it's my reality I can't pay this, I can't do this, it's my reality I'm in this dead-end job. I want to tell you something. Oh, it's my reality I'm gonna struggle with sin, I'm gonna keep falling. And while I'm right there, it doesn't have to be your reality for you to always be in mess. See, I think in many times we've set a bad example for the world because we keep messing up and repenting, we keep messing up and repenting. That's not what God wants. Handling your— even though we all have mess, you handle it because the life of a kingdom citizen should be one that has defeated the mess and never has to go back to it and lives a life of joy and peace through God because we're working through relationship with our Father to make sure that we keep mess out of our life 'cause we wanna keep him in our life so we can experience the normalities that only come through relationship with God. Oh, oh my God. Oh my God, today. Okay, okay, I ain't gonna worry y'all with that because as I teach this, you're gonna understand how God wants to transition you out of things that you have viewed as reality and you've dismissed your supernatural normality. It's normal to be healed, it's normal to get a miracle. It ain't normal that you get cancer and die. It ain't— y'all ain't got to say nothing. It's not normal for you to— oh my God, have diabetes and high blood pressure just because the society says it's normal. Just because a doctor tells you you're going to have high blood pressure the rest of your life, you're going to take medicine the rest of your life. You shouldn't believe that as normal. It's a temporary reality. Until you adjust your faith and your faithfulness, your fruitfulness and your fearlessness to experience the normality that comes from heaven. Hallelujah. Secondly, as we move toward the end of this year, I'm just giving you some prophetic insight and cross into 2024. The second thing that's going to happen, we must enlarge in a way. We gotta— again, and again, we're talking about getting bigger than the mess. Just touch yourself, say, I'm bigger than the mess, which means you don't have to keep revisiting it. At some point, a baby stops messing themselves. Uh, I got, I got two, um, godchildren that are still in Pampers, Josiah and Christopher. The reality is they're going to get to a point where they're going to have to go to the bathroom. They're going to stop messing themselves. They're going to stop pooping on themselves, and Mom and Daddy won't have to change them no more. Are y'all hearing this? The mess will be over in that regard. So as mess occurs, you shouldn't be going through life trying to constantly fix mess and accepting this is just who I am. This is how it's going to always be. No, you got to get better. So how do you do that? You enlarge in a way— watch this— that is immeasurable on God's agenda. Oh boy. Which means the mess can't even measure you. It can't get up to you because you're enlarging in alignment with God's view and God's plan for your life. Oh, are y'all hearing me? So how do I become measured? I need a metron. I cannot be measured to enlarge if I don't have somebody that measures me. See, it's easy to follow somebody or to connect with mentors, coaches, leaders, fathers. Uh, I think we use a lot of these words loosely— coach, mentor, father. Uh, especially in the spiritual father aspect, because a lot of times we call people this and we don't even listen to their instructions. And then a lot of times, uh, if we— if the— if a father really starts fathering and it— and brings correction, a lot of times because people don't want to really be measured, they resist it and they move on because they really got measured and got told where they really are. But when you're mature— see, what, what God is interested in is making you more mature and more secure. Say that with me. Say, God wants to be more mature and more secure. More secure in who you are, more confident in who you are. And when you mature and grow up, by default you become secure in you. And by default, you become bigger than mess, and it's easy for you to accept correction because you start understanding the correction, the help, the measuring is what got me where I am. Oh boy, oh boy. Okay, it's gonna be a long one tonight, I see. Okay, okay, glory to God. I feel you. I can't hear you, but I feel you. Glory to God. So you gotta embrace real fathers or apostolic mothers even that will do 3 things. One, a real apostle or someone who is apostolic— and I think it, it, no one is exempt from this, including myself. That's why I have a father, I have an apostle. I, matter of fact, I have a spiritual father and apostle that's over me, and I have other men that I respect that constantly mature me and pour into me in a diversity of areas where I'm trying to grow and be better. Watch this, and avoid mess, and avoid the mess of my past, the mess of yesterday, the mistakes of yesterday, even the mess that may meet me in the future. What secures me from that is information. Is revelation, is— watch this— rebuke and correction. Glory to God. My natural father, who I trust and, and, and know is a prophet of God, still rebukes me when he feels like it. And you know what I do? I humbly receive it because I trust him as a man of God, and he's taught me a lot. He don't mean me getting grown thinking I can't hear. So what I'm saying, nobody's exempt. That includes you that's on this Zoom tonight. Everybody wants to be an apostle, everybody wants to be a prophet, everybody's jockeying for fivefold ministry. And really, some of you need to sit your tail down and get built up, get growed up. Yeah, I said it, because really, I want you to get in position for real. And what I don't want you to do is shipwreck. You don't have to like what I'm saying. You really don't have to like me, but I love you. And because I love you, I'm gonna tell you the truth, and I'm not gonna let you run ahead and miss it if you listen. Some of you need to sit your gluteus maximus down and learn what you need to learn so you can be measured. Some of you ain't sat still long enough to be measured. God, oh my God, I don't know why I'm here tonight. I don't know why I'm here. Oh my God, I don't know why I'm here, but I'm here. I'm here. Some of you jumped in a call and start trying to do it, and then you start chasing these dreams and you pick up— we talked about strangers when we were talking about the road. Glory to the name of God. Get the road of destiny a few weeks back. You're picking up strangers, you're riding with strangers, you're connecting to things that haven't been proven, and you stuck because you never been measured. Because once you get measured, the matriculation is this: you move into a phase where you can be managed, which means you can literally be led. How you gonna lead others and you can't be led? And part of being led is not someone always telling you what you want to hear. Part of being led is being corrected. The word is profitable for correction, edification, rebuke. So sometimes you got to be corrected. Oh boy, am I in the right place tonight! Glory to God! I believe I'm talking to people that's ready to move, that's ready to transition, that wants more. But you got to position yourself to receive that. You know, part of our problem, why we can't get the measurement and the leadership, the management piece we need, because we spend too much time operating in the realm of comparisonitis. You know why we, we stay stuck? Right there. You, and you get in a hurry to do things you're not ready to do because you start comparing yourself to other people. And the reason you do that, because you don't have a life. Your life is inside of your phone. You're too connected to everybody. So most of the people on here probably get up in the morning, the first thing you grab is your phone and go to Instagram or Facebook. And because you're so connected, you, you'll see maybe another person doing things in ministry and God is using them and you want to be them. So you start trying to accelerate what you're doing and you're not ready. Or you'll see someone getting married and you're not married, so you start rushing and dating the wrong person because you start being led by— oh my God— by being connected too much to people you can compare yourself to when you really need to be in a situation where you're being measured, managed, or led into your uniqueness. I'm gonna get where I need to be. I'm just laying a long backdrop tonight. I don't even really understand why the Holy Spirit's got me here, but I'm here. I'm here, and somebody gonna get some help today. If you stay with me, you get some help. Glory to God. No one is exempt. And, and again, there's something apostles can give you that bishops can't give you, that a local pastor can't give you. That's why even if you got a regular pastor and you're not a member of our church, your pastor needs to be connected to apostles, or they need to expose you to apostolic ministry, because there's a dimension of apostleship that imparts something to you that brings alive who you are. And pastors don't carry that grace. They are sheep herders. They herd the sheep. So what they do is they teach, they put out fires, they nurture, which is great. They're needed. But the apostle is needed too. And so the pastor should open his life up to make sure apostles are in place to give you exactly what you need. Oh my God. No sound. Can y'all not hear me? Y'all type in the chat. Can you hear me, sir? Huh? We can hear you, sir. Okay. All right, all right, all right. See, I got to be measured. I got to be managed. I know you don't like that, but also the reason the measuring plus managing or leadership or mentoring happens It's so you can be deployed. Notice the word is deployed or sent. So apostles are sent ones with sending anointings who are designed to send you— I'm trying to help you, please listen tonight, please— which are designed to send you into the world as a master. So apostles measure, they manage, they master. Oh my God, did they— I'm gonna say it again. They measure, they manage, they master, they help. So let me give you— so say I gotta enlarge. Say it above the mess. So enlargement means to expand your capacity, to increase in number. To become bigger or make room for more. See, when you enlarge beyond the mess, the mess is cleaned out and you're making room for more of your normality to take up residence in your life. Write this down, then we're gonna get into it. Glory to God. We'll get into what I told you— faithfulness, fruitfulness, and fearlessness. We'll get into that, and it's gonna be quick, but write this down. You cannot enlarge, and your progress breaks down when your external reach is greater than your internal capacity. I'll say that again. You cannot enlarge, and your progress begins to break down when your external reach is greater than your internal capacity. Oh my God, today, oh, that means you're reaching, trying to grab hold of something you cannot handle. You know why? Because you hadn't been measured. You hadn't been taught to manage your gifts, your anointings. You haven't been led. And you haven't been— oh my God, whoo— deployed as a master. And you start reaching for stuff because you're stuck in the comparisonitis mode. You want to be popular, you want everybody know who you are, you want to please men, you want everybody accept you. And you start reaching for stuff you can't handle. So that— watch this— people create messes like that because they'll go and buy a car they can't afford. Oh my God, they'll buy clothes and run up credit cards that they can't really afford because they want to be accepted. You will never enlarge like that. You got to slow down, be measured, be managed, so you can be a master. So whatever you reach for— y'all ready?— you can handle. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. You want to be able to handle it. This is why you have so many guys you know, false starts. You have people who start stuff, never finish it. You have people who, you know, have these— have big dreams and never fulfill them, because a lot of this stuff was born out of their flesh, out of the carnality. It wasn't born from the Spirit of God. It wasn't born from normality, spiritual normality. It was born from a surface level where it was aiming to please someone else. So, so, Les, tonight, if you want to expand above the mess, you gotta rise above through ceasing to reach for things you know you're not ready for. Like I said earlier, just sit down. It's okay. You know, there's a season in my life I had to slow down, step back, reevaluate everything, and sit my tail down so that I can retool, 'cause the tools I was carrying were not relevant in the season I was in for where God was trying to take me. So I had to get something else, I had to learn something else, I had to do something different. Oh boy, Lord, I— oh my God. Okay, next thing, write this down, write this down. You ready? Cannot enlarge and your progress breaks down. Watch this. When you focus more on what God said— hear me— versus what God is saying, you cannot enlarge, your progress break down. When you focus more on what he said more than you do what he is saying. See, some of the things God spoke to you and concerning you, honestly, some of the things you missed the season on— I'm not talking about what he said in his word, but I'm talking about things you get in prayer, things you get through prophecy, things that truly come from God. Ain't talking about false prophets. You got a lot of them out there. I ain't talking about that. I'm talking about real prophecy that comes from God. I'm talking about things that, you know, God spoke to you through your time with him. Some of you are harping on something that was said to you 10 years ago. You missed the faith, you missed the season, you missed the alignment, and God is trying to say something else and you're not enlarging. You're frustrated, you're not growing because you're stuck in something he said and not paying attention to what he's saying. Hmm. All right, number 3, write this down. I'm gonna get off there because I got a lot to cover. You cannot enlarge, your progress breaks down, you'll stay in a mess when your comfort zone is a place of consistency. Hear me. You cannot enlarge your progress, breaks down when you are consistently comfortable, when you're unwilling to take risk of obedience, risk of faith. All this gonna make sense in a minute. When you're unwilling to step out into obedience in a way that revolutionizes— watch this— your reality. See, when you do that, it will revolutionize, defeat your reality, and introduce you to what's normal. But you got to be willing to break the comfort zone and not always hold on. You know, I taught my children how to swim, so only one of my children can't swim is Ben, because Ben knows what I'm gonna do to him when he was little, so he run. But Alex took him, just threw him in the water. He starts swimming. And then from there I taught him fundamentals, technique. But at the end of the day, I had to get him over the fear of the water because before then he was just hanging on to the edge, kicking his feet, wouldn't move off the wall. Some of y'all like that in life. You just hanging around the 3 feet. I'm trying to throw you in the deep tonight. I'm trying to get you to swim and break that comfort zone. Watch this. There's some things you'll never know God can do until you jump out into nothing in faith, because some things will only be manifested when you move in faith. Some of the things he's holding, and then you ain't even received them yet because you won't move in faith. You're hanging on to the wall. Oh my God, I gotta, I gotta go. I gotta go. All right, last one. You cannot enlarge your progress, breaks down when you expend your energy— watch this— on fruitlessness. Fruitless people, fruitless ideas, fruitless opportunities, fruitless jobs, fruitless practices, things that are not working. Listen, if it's not working, it's not working. And one of the reasons you're not enlarging and your capacity is not expanding is because you're trying to raise the dead. I promise you, it's easier to have a new baby than to raise the dead. Y'all ain't got to talk to me. You trying to raise a dead dream, a dead vision, a dead idea. It's dead, baby. But what you can do is align yourself with what's normal. Accept what God is saying now. Plant a new seed and grow what God is telling you to do in fruitfulness now. Stop courting that dead dream. It's over. Oh my God, have mercy. All right, so let's get in there. So how do I expand? I expand through faithfulness, fruitfulness, and fearlessness. So let's look at faithfulness first. Faithfulness is faithfulness, which is the fullness of faith. And we know what faith is— pistos in Greek— which means absolute confidence, total reliance on God. Watch this. Hebrews 11:1 says, now faith— faith is now. It's not tomorrow, it's not next week, it's right now. So I got to have fullness of faith right now, all the time. It's going to keep me above mess, because the moment I start moving in doubt, moving in feelings, moving in fear, I'm not going to trust my faith walk. I'm not going to trust God. I'm going to trust what's comfortable. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. So, so here's the reality: faithfulness becomes loyalty to a thing that you cannot see. Watch this, by choice, which means you're choosing to be loyal to a principle, loyal to a God that you ain't never seen. Loyalty to a promise in his word. You keep speaking it, you keep saying it, you keep believing it, you keep trusting it because you're faithful. You don't give up because mess shows up. Faithfulness keeps you bigger. So when, when mess shows up, rather than buying into the mess— oh, I'm broke, I'm down, I'm sad— no, no, no, you You got to choose. By choice, you can choose to embrace the mess, or you could choose to be faithful to what God is saying. My God, today. Hallelujah. Watch this. Mess is always picking a fight with your faith, because sometimes mess can be so strong, mess can be so overwhelming that because it— watch this— it is a temporary reality. It can be seen, it's right there. The promise, I don't see it. But you gotta fight for your faith. How to do it? Jude 3. Let's go there. Let's go to Jude 3. We're gonna get in some words. Let's go to Jude 3. Jude 3. You write in the chat, type it, write it somewhere. So I gotta fight for my faith. The enemy don't want you to trust God. Jude 1:3, he says, watch this: Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and to exhort you that you should earnestly contend. Epegonizomai. Epe gan zai zomai, which literally means to fight, to go into battle. Oh my God, did they— Jesus Christ— for your faith. He said contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints, which— watch this— you and I as saints of God, as children of God, When we got saved, that was an act of faith. That was a huge act of faith to come to Jesus. You gave your life to him, but it should not stop there. Your faith should go from faith to faith, and you got to fight, contend for the growth of your faith, because that really— that's how you should live. The Bible said the just shall live by faith. Not you try it out every now and then. And faithfulness is choosing to not just try faith out every now and then, but to live by it. Oh my God. Oh my God. I'm almost done, y'all. I'm almost done. I promise you, I'm almost done because I said I feel you. I feel you. Listen, when you're faithful, It opens up areas in the anointing and in ministry that was previously out of reach to you. It opens up opportunities in life that are out of reach when you are not being faithful. You gotta be faithful to his word. You got to be faithful to a higher idea. Knowing that God is bigger than whatever the mess may be. Oh boy. All right, so I got to be faithful. Number 2, you got to be fearless. You gotta— if we're gonna get above the mess so we can handle the mess, you got to have a fearlessness. Fearlessness means to be bold. It means to be accurate. It means to be competent. Hear me. And it means to be hungry. Yeah, it means to be hungry. Oh my God. Bold, accurate, hmm, competent, and hungry. Wait a minute. Okay, let's, let's go through all of those. So if you're going to be fearless, you got to be bold. Anybody that's faithful is bold. They believe the promise and put the promise above anything else. So you got to have a boldness that puts God and his way above any other idea that comes to your mind. You got to put God above the trial, the pain, the tribulation that you're going through. And be bold enough to walk it out. You got to be bold enough to stand when everybody else is giving up. Boldness means I'm here and I ain't leaving. Boldness means I'm not afraid to say what I mean and mean what I say. Boldness means, glory to the name of God, that I got authority in what I believe. Let me tell you something, relationship with God makes you bold. Whenever your boldness start decreasing, you need to do a relationship check. Something is not tight in your relationship with God. It also means to be accurate. When you're fearless, you don't miss it to the left nor to the right. You're on point and accurate in all things. Oh wee! Anansi and the bossaia brings it to kuska tabaye. Rebanza, which means mess, becomes extremely out of reach of you when you move in accuracy. Oh God, it can't even get to you because mess is out of order. Oh God. But when a thing is in order and standards have been raised, mess tends to find its way to the messy. Messy only— oh my God— attaches itself to mess, and vice versa. Mess finds messy. But when you're accurate and in order and on point and following the word of God, following God, following the Holy Spirit, you're fearless. You're fearless because this third thing, you're confident. You're confident that every word that God spoke is true. You don't waver, you don't doubt. That makes you fearless. That may— that also makes you dangerous. That makes you dangerous to the enemy. Anything that's in your way is in trouble because you're confident. When you walk in this kind of fearlessness, when you open your eyes in the morning, hell says, uh-oh, she up! Uh-oh, he up! I need to go find somebody else to deal with because you're on point. The devil hates light. That's why when someone gets exposed, they're going to do one of two things. They're going to come clean if they love God, and they're going to be honest so they can be mature and grow from the exposure. Or they're going to keep lying and keep trying to cover it up, and they're going to be stuck and never grow. Because the enemy hates it when light shows up and creates confidence. Oh my God, I got, I got to go. I know, I know. Fearlessness also means you're hungry. A hungry person won't stop at nothing until they eat. Oh my God, they gonna keep going until they get food. Lord, I love you. I love you, Jesus. God have mercy. Oh God, oh God, let me do this so I, I won't pay attention to those numbers when people just get up. Man, y'all need this word, man. Glory to God. I don't, I don't know, maybe it's just me, maybe it's just me. Glory to God. I'm almost done though, for real. So let's go to Zephaniah 3:20. Let's go there. Zephaniah, Zephaniah, that's one of them books you have to fast and pray to find, okay? But it's right after Habakkuk, and Haggai is right after Zephaniah. But Zephaniah 3:20, glory to God. Hope I'm not boring you guys. I hope you're learning something. Glory to God. I hope you're getting something out of this. Praise Jesus. Hallelujah. The Bible says this: at that time, listen, will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you, for I will make you a name, whoo-wee, and a praise among all— listen to this— the people of the earth. When I turn back your captivity before your eyes, says the Lord. So God says right here, this is a reason to be fearless, because God says, when I bring you into where I'm taking you, when I enlarge you, when I create mastery in you, that is manifested mastery, he says, I'm gonna make you a name and a praise among all the people of the earth. That's a big call. Notice he didn't say all the people of the church. I want you to hear this. People want a name in the church. Our mission is to change the world. This whole thing started with the world. So God says, I'm going to make you a name and a praise. What do you mean a praise? Go, Rama, say Tobiah. The, the word praise there is tilia in Hebrew, to, or tahilia, which means laudation or applause. So God is saying that the people of the earth will applaud you. He said, I'm gonna make your, you a name and a praise. He didn't say the praise was going to go to him. Now, of course, we're going to give glory to God, but people, because they don't know no better, because of our fearlessness because we're bold, because we're accurate, because we're on point and confident. God says, I'm gonna make you a name and a praise because you're in alignment with me, because you become a master of what I sent you to the planet to do. It's going to bring glory to me because I'm going to turn your captivity because you got above the mess. I'm gonna move the mess. I'm gonna turn back your captivity. I'm gonna move the mess. Watch this right before your eyes. Can I tell you something? Your eyes are about to see your situation turn. I'm talking to people tonight, I believe, that's been going through things, has been challenged with things, but God says your eyes are about to see the situation turn around. The captivity is about to turn. Glory to God. Oh my God, tonight the captivity is about to turn and your life is never gonna be the same again. Glory to the name of God. God's gonna do a new fresh thing right before you're gonna see it. Oh God, I'm telling you. And I'm— let me prophesy to you, it's about to happen soon. It's about to happen right before your eyes. It's about to, rabba sorebeti, emerge right before your eyes and you gonna tangibly handle, I've been talking about this blessing, I don't wanna get into it, glory to God, but you're about to handle the blessing that we've been teaching about on Saturdays and Sundays, man. It's about to happen. And men who used to talk about you, men who said you were crazy for being saved, men who said you ain't gonna never get what you're talking about, they gonna have to say, the Lord did it. They gonna have to make your name a praise. They're gonna have to talk good of you and speak well of you. I got to get out of here, man. God have mercy. Oh boy. He says, I'm gonna give you honor and praise among all the people of the earth. This is what the New Living Translation says. It says, at that time I gather you, and at that time I will bring you home. I will give you honor and praise among all the peoples of the earth when I restore your fortunes. Right before your eyes. Listen, Yoda says too— I see that, Lord— that God is using the hunger of his people to increase the momentum of this hour, this season that we're in. That's why you got to get hungry for excellence. You got to get hungry for being above mess. You got to get hungry for having a mess-free life. That's why you got to handle your mess, get it right, fix it, do what you got to do, because God's going to use your hunger for excellence, your hunger to be a master of your skill set, your hunger to move as a dominionaire to walk in authority for real, not just talk about it. This church is called Radha Church, which means dominion in Hebrew. We're not here just to have a pretty name. We are here to really help people take dominion in their fear of influence. That's why you got to get this stuff, man. Handle your mess. Listen, this momentum Watch this, that this hunger is creating— I see this in this text, Lord— it's, it's going to bring about, listen to me, drastic changes in the pace of maturity and development. So that means as we get a hunger and get momentum for more, God does what he needs to do faster. But as long as you trying to do it faster and not let him accelerate it, it's going to take longer. You're going to create more delays. Listen, brand new believers, I watch a lot of people who get saved, the younger generation, they get on fire for the Lord. They ain't waiting around for somebody to tell them that something's possible. A lot of these young lions are— and lioness— they are going for it because they read the book and they know it's possible. So they're moving fearlessly to try to bring to pass what the book is saying. Oh my God, guess what? They know what the book says is legal. We can have the wealth we've been teaching about. We can have the dominion we've been talking about. We can be healed. We can be delivered. We can be set free. Oh my God, tonight it's possible. It's legal. This reality we've been celebrating though That's what's illegal. That's what shouldn't be a part of your life. Ooh wee! I gotta get outta here, man. I gotta get outta here. Watch this. This generation of millennials, people talk about them, but I watch them. With tattoos and earrings and body piercings and not dressing up for church like the old school people do. They have found something that prior generations actually called impossible, and they made up their mind— watch this— to settle for nothing less than the supernatural and guard normality showing up in their lives. We got to get this. We got to be fearless. I'm saying this because one of the ways to handle mess, instead of trying to put a muzzle on this new generation, maybe we should study them and take from their zeal and add it to our wisdom and work together as a unit Oh my God, to do something great in the world. I got to get out of here. Uh, go to 2 Timothy. I'm almost done. 2 Timothy, 2 Timothy, 2 Timothy. I'm moving right along, family. 2 Timothy. I got to go. 1, say I got to be fearless. Uh-huh. 6, he says, wherefore I put you in remembrance. So this is a father, an apostolic father, who has measured a son who has managed the son, led him, and now deploying him as a master. So we're being let in on a conversation in this text of a father and a son. And Paul says, the first thing I want to do is bring to your memory, to stir up the gift of God. In other words, Timothy, don't go out here and try to do this on your own. But the word stir in Greek is er. You are what means to turn on. Turn on. Oh my God, the gift. Turn it on. It's just like flipping a light switch and it comes on. Turn on the gift of God. Watch this, which is in you by the putting on of my hands. The indication here is not laying hands, right? The indication here is I want you to stir up what I imparted to you, what I taught you, what you learned from me when I grabbed hold of your life and handled you. Again, I told you earlier, you need apostolic fathers. You need someone to grab hold of you and mentor you and shape you into what you need to be. You cannot do it alone. He said, remember that. He says, for God has not given us the spirit of fear, but a power of love and of a sound mind. So if I'm gonna be fearless, I gotta operate in power. Power is in this text exousia— no, I'm sorry, it's dunamis actually here. And what it means is inherent ability, which means you have authority, ability that comes from another source, and you inherit it to do what you are assigned to do. So we've inherited the power of God. This is what makes us confident. This is what makes us bold. This is what makes us accurate. This is what makes us hungry for more, because we know that is available to us and it's unlimited to get done what we got to do. He said also love. That's agape, which means I love you for love alone. Agape, unconditional love. We get above mess when love becomes again the substratum of what we do, loving each other right, loving God right. How can you say you love God and you don't love one another that you see every day? How? How? For real. Yeah, I'm almost done, y'all. I'm almost done. I love y'all so much. I'm almost done. And the sound mind, sophronismos in Greek, which means a well-balanced intellectual mind. So God releases spiritual intelligence, supernatural intelligence that you did not have. None of us had at it. We— he— but when we move in the assignment, there's an intelligence that goes with the assignment that is not really learned in books. It is born— Sophranishmos— is born out of relationship. And God creates a well-balanced mind for you to function in the assignment and be effective in the assignment through spiritual intelligence, where you can take what you know marry it to what he knows, and produce results. Oh God. Oh boy, y'all still with me? So last one, if I'm gonna expand above the mess and handle my mess in this regard, I have to be fruitful. I have to have fruitfulness, which is freshness. It's the word ebb in Hebrew. Um, The prerequisite of fruit is planting. In Genesis, and I won't go there because I don't have time, for real, God gave Adam seed. He didn't give him oranges, apples, peaches. He gave him seed. He gave him every herb bearing seed as well. So everything was grown through planting. You can't be fruitful without planting. Dominion starts according to Genesis 1:28 with fruitfulness. Be fruitful, then multiply the fruitfulness. Replenish the earth. As you multiply the fruitfulness, you take the multiplication, the multiplicity of business, the multiplicity of ministry, and you sow it back into the world to replenish it so that you create others like you. And then you go and subdue it, you enslave the world to God's idea. Watch this, through lifestyle, not through control, which means they want— there's the praises of men again and the laudation of men. They want to be a part of what you're doing because you're doing it in excellence, you're doing it so well. Oh my God, when we do that, we can have dominion. All right, go to Amos 9:13 real quick. Amos 9 13. Another one you have to fast and pray to find, but it's in the Bible. Amos 9:13, you'll find these words. It says, behold, the days come, said the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed, and the mountain shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt. What is God saying? He's simply saying that those of us that sow our gifts, our talents, the— our, our life into an assignment. God said the season is going to come where those of us that are sowing and plowing, we're going to reap more than we've sown. Even as we behold others who are reaping, reaping, we— and it seems like they're being successful, but God said the days are here, they are now where we're going to reap great harvests, and the mountains even shall be subject to us. Watch this, the mountains of the world, the kingdoms of the world shall become the kingdoms of our God. We got to be fruitful, y'all, so, so we can have dominion. And I'm closing, right? Job 33. Let's go there. I'm closing. This is my last scripture, I promise you. Last scripture. Ooh wee. Y'all, this is the last scripture. Stay with me. Wake up, wake up, wake up. Come on, stay with me. Glory to God. Job 33:14. I pray y'all learning something tonight, really. I pray y'all learning something for real. And it is pronounced Job. Not job. Maybe Job needed a job when he got broke, but the actual pronunciation is Job. All right, glory to God. 33:14: For God speaketh once, yea twice, yet man perceiveth it not. Here we go. So in other words, God said, I don't say it this one time, he said, I even said it again, and humans still don't get it. I speak in a dream, I speak in a vision. This is verse 15. When deep sleep followed upon men and slumberings upon the bed, listen, then he opened his ears of men and sealeth their instruction. Now he said, I'm talking. God's saying, I'm talking, I'm talking, I'm talking, I'm talking. God says, I'm speaking, speaking in the morning, speaking today, speaking in church. I'm talking to you every time you turn around. But then somehow your ear will listen to mere mortals, of mere men, and you listen to instructions that are outside of the voice of God. God said, it's not my will. You got to listen to what I say. Listen, we've been getting— we've been given the capacity to dream. I'm almost done, guys. Listen to me. We've been given the capacity to dream, and more importantly, we have the capacity to dream with God. Listen to me. His language, as we dream with him, it continues to be unveiled. And as he unveils how he He talks, how he speaks. He's elevating us again above mediocrity. He imparts his heart. He shares with us— oh my God— the permission— watch this— to share his goodness with others. My God. We have created— we have, we have a creative ability. And I'm closing, I'm just trying to put this together how the Lord has given it to me, that elevates us to a place where we can superimpose upon the world a reality that they've never known, a normality that they need. But we got to walk in it. Listen, When we tap into this realm of enlargement and becoming bigger than mess, the people you envy, the people you compare yourself to, their ceiling becomes your floor. I say it again, the people you think are on top, the people in the world, millionaires, athletes, celebrities, Uh, doctors, businessmen, the people who are running the kingdoms of the earth. When you look at them and look at what they do as unattainable, you are living beneath your privilege. But when you tap into this normality and raise above mediocre living and set your eyes on things that are above their ceiling hear this prophetically— becomes your floor. I'm telling you tonight, the people around you who you've admired, even those in the world system, God is saying their ceiling will be your floor if you tap into— my God— his will for you. Sometimes, guys, we're in, in the world. That's why the Bible says it's high time to awake out of sleep. Everybody talking about get woke, be woke, all that stuff. Yeah, we got to wake up for real. The reality is, if I'm in my house and I got a house full of guests. It's extremely rude, disrespectful, lack— it's a lack of honor for me to go to bed while people are in my house and just go to sleep. Sleeping in a house full of guests, everybody up just enjoying your house, and you sleep. Just think about what that's like. Just think about Listen to me, what that entails, right? I want you to think about it because one, you should be hospitable to the people that are in your home, but two, you carry something they need. So if you're present, you're able to disseminate that because they're on your ground, they're They're in your territory. Now, we walking through the world every day, minding our own business, taking care of our stuff. It's the same thing. We're sleeping in our world. And what— guess what has happened? People who are strangers to dominion, strangers to the normality of God, They are taking over our world. Let's pray, y'all. Thank you, Jesus. I'm done. I'm done. Let's pray. Shabbatiku, Saya. Rebonsootabakiskata. Rebonsootamandiosaya. God, we give you glory. We give you honor. We thank you for this word tonight. Come on, pray with me for a moment tonight. Kuramandaya, I pray that you've heard the word of the Lord tonight. Brinsketa bomusya. Thank you, Jesus. Montus.