In this YouTube birthday tribute, speaker Michael Lyris Woods delivers a heartfelt, prophetic blessing to Apostle Brandon Cornelius on his 43rd birthday. He praises Brandon’s character as a husband, father, and minister, and introduces the Greek term “anamino,” meaning to wait earnestly and seize what is next, framing it as the theme for Brandon’s 43rd year. Woods declares that this year marks a season of maturity, completion, and a heightened anointing, citing Psalm 105:43 as a scriptural promise of entering the promised land. He proclaims specific blessings: the release of Brandon’s book, revival, entrepreneurial success, and supernatural breakthroughs such as healings and visions. A spiritual warfare declaration dismantles a demonic confederacy seeking to hinder Brandon. Woods outlines a future timeline—seven years from 43 to 50 leading to a permanent Jubilee—emphasizing that Brandon’s labor will be honored publicly and that the greatest days are ahead. The tone is celebratory, prophetic, and exhortative, with an enthusiastic, supportive sentiment throughout.
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Well, grace and peace be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Apostle, God bless you, sir, and happy birthday. I want you to know, sir, I love you and I am godly proud of what God is doing in your life, not only just in the realm of the spirit. Matter of fact, I believe my— because I never doubted that God would do the things through you and in you. That he promised he would. But I am so proud of the man that you are, uh, even as a human being to your family, your children, as a father, your wife Denise, as a husband. It makes me proud, man, to see how you champion, uh, just being a solid human being, man. I know a lot of preachers, you do too, And you know that everybody is not always who they say they are, and there are always shocking surprises that come with people. But man, you have maintained a consistency, uh, that is unwavering. And so I want to celebrate you, man, and I want to thank God for who you are. You make my heart glad, sir. Uh, let me share this And I'm gonna be done just really quickly, man. This 43rd year is very significant, it's very important. And I heard the word of the Lord come to me. He was magnifying this Greek word in my left ear, and it's anamino. The, the word anamino literally means to wait earnestly or expectantly expectantly for what's next to come. It also means to rise with the intent— watch this— to capture, to get a grip upon what's next. And that word is connected to this journey that you have to embark upon in this 43rd year. In this 43rd year, you must with great intent begin to go after the dreams in your heart, uh, like the release of your book, like the birthing of revival, and the things that you desire to do, uh, as an entrepreneur in business. You must rise with intent to bring these things to pass. For this 43rd year is a year of maturity and completion of a process where God will graduate you to another level of maturity. You're very mature, but there's a dimension of maturity that God will cause— watch this— you to walk in, where the anointing literally that Jesus displayed as God incarnate will be housed consistently with you. Wherever you show up, the authority, the love, and the power of God will also show up. I want to read a scripture that the Spirit gave to me just this morning, uh, Psalms 105 and verse number 43. It says, so he brought his chosen ones singing into the promised land. This is powerful because God says, as I'm completing this process, I'm bringing you into promise. So the things that God has promised, the things that he's placed in your DNA to accomplish, to do, this season is a season where God is bringing you into what he promised. Oh my God. And as he does this, he's caused this supernatural brightness to flutter over your head. Oh my God. And that brightness represents— I saw it very clearly over you, glory to God— it represents the joy of the Lord. And the Lord said, Michael say to Brandon that his joy in me indeed is his strength. Even in the midst of disappointments with people and things that you're challenged with, God says, say to him to maintain my joy, for this shall be his strength. Keep ministering with the joy that you minister with. Don't allow anything to steal that joy of doing what you do for God. For he said to say, Omansi atakasi anta. There is a confederacy that has emerged from hell. God said this confederacy has emerged because they want to distract you. They want to overthrow your focus. But the devil is a liar. I decree and declare today that the confederacy of demonic forces that will rise to try to stop you, to stop your momentum, to stop you from rising in power and authority and deliberately taking hold of what God has planned for you, I declare that confederacy is dismantled. And I decree and declare that this 43rd year shall be a season of victory. It shall be a season of breakthrough. It shall be a season, glory to God, where the Jesus anointing, glory to God, will rest heavy upon you. The dead shall be raised. Blinded eyes shall be opened. Deaf ears shall be unstopped. The lame shall continue to walk. As a matter of fact, Apostle, I just looked— oh man— at Heaven's shipping department, and there are packages that are marked sent, and they have your name on it. For this again is the year of completion. It's the year where God will move you into this place where the things that he has promised, he going to do. There are some promises and some prophetic words over your head. God said 43, 7 years from 50, 7 years from your permanent Jubilee. God says, he will begin the fulfillment of promise. So son, stay steadfast, stay unmovable. Always abounding in the work of the Lord. For as much as you know, hallelujah, your labor is not in vain. For this season, this year of your life, will be a year of fulfillment. You think from— oh my God— 33 to 43 was exciting. God said you ain't seen nothing yet. From 43— woo— to 50 is going to be the most joyous, victorious, more than conquering time of your life. So fasten your seatbelt, sir. You stepped into the greatest days of fulfillment that you'll ever see. And God said at the end of this 7-year season You're going to enter into this season of permanent Jubilee. Mark my words, where you'll look back over your shoulder and areas of concern that you had prior to 43, you'll no longer have those concerns again. But God said everything will be easy, everything will be sweatless, because You, my son, this is the Lord, says, have been faithful. And because you've been faithful, God said, I'm going to honor you publicly and my glory will be seen through you, says the Lord. I love you, Apostle Brandon Cornelius, and ain't nothing you could do about it, man. Be blessed, enjoy this ride. The greatest days are still in front of you. Be good, man.
