In this celebratory video, Apostle Mike Woods delivers a heartfelt prophetic birthday message to Apostle Brandon Cornelius on his 40th birthday. Woods recounts their 16‑year relationship, emphasizes that the age of 40 marks a divinely appointed season of probation and transition, and declares that the coming year (40 to 41) will be a period of "major" breakthroughs—spiritual, financial, and relational. He proclaims a strategic anointing of favor, debt elimination, new doors, and the need for Cornelius to write two apostolic books. Woods draws parallels with the 40‑day fasts of Jesus, Elijah, and Moses, asserting that Cornelius will now receive clarity about people’s motives, divine strategic instruction, and the ability to overcome any new temptations. The message concludes with a prayer for blessings, love, and divine favor.
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Well, grace and peace be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. For those of you who are uninitiated, my name is Apostle Mike Woods, and I am super elated to be able to say happy birthday, Apostle Brandon Cornelius, today. You know, I wish I could have been there. Uh, I was telling Lady Felicia that your celebration was today. We had a wedding, and when we was getting out of the car, she just said, you know, we just should have forfeited the wedding and went to Mississippi. I said, I think you're right. But I'm so grateful for technology that I still get to be a part of your celebration and share with you my heart, man. Listen, 24 years old, 16 years ago you came into my life and it has been a tremendous blessing to have you as a part. And man, I am totally blown away at what God is doing. And when I get the clarity and insight that God has shown me concerning your future, man, I am even the more blown away at what God's going to do through you. Man of God, listen, 40 is God's number of probation. It's God's number of actually introduction to the new. Listen, you have gone through a season of testing and trials and tribulations in your life and your ministry. And so now God has brought you into a place where through his divine authority, he has approved you because of this 40th year for the next phase of your life. From 40 to 41, hear me. I heard the Lord say it's going to be a year of major. If you don't hear anything else I say, I want you to understand 40 to 2021 is going to be a year of major, major breakthroughs, major victories, major purchases, major growth, major increase. It's going to be the year of major. Oshiataya, briske, tetebo, ushka, pa, posyandorobokotaya. It's going to be the year of major. Yes, God, I hear that. And God said, even as I'm talking now, He is opening up the heavens for you, and he's released a strategic anointing of favor in the earth on your behalf, that as you move from 40 to 41 this year, Brandon Cornelius, heard the Lord say, is gonna set you up for the rest of your life. Oh my God. And God says, I'm gonna do things that many thought could never done through you and in you, for it is going to be a year of major. It starts right now. It starts today. So God said, get ready for a major move of the Spirit, major fire, major increase in the anointing, major breakthrough in your finances. Oh my God, major debt elimination, major doors opening. Glory to God. Oh yeah. And major accomplishments. While I was talking, those those two books that you gotta write in this season, they just fell out of your belly. Oshia, bretosha, mando. And God said, take up the pen of an apostolic writer and write what he tells you, for the world needs to experience the anointing, oh my God, that he has trusted you with. Hallelujah, on the printed page. And God said, I have prepared for you tremendous favor. I've already paved the way and opened the door Eyes, son, have not seen. Ears have not heard. Neither has it been revealed in the heart of men. The good things, that I have prepared for you, says the Lord. It's your time, son. You have passed the test. Watch this. Jesus, Elijah, and Moses, all three of them, fasted for 40 days. They denied themselves. And man of God, I've watched your life. It has been a life where you've always put others before you. Your compassion has been as Jesus. You've denied yourself on so many occasions for other people. And the Lord said, this is the season where you now will receive increase for the seed of yourself that you have sown. And the Lord said this 40th year, just like Jesus fasted, the Bible declares he fasted and he was able to overcome the temptations of the enemy. I need you to know, son, as you go into this next phase of life, there will be nothing that the enemy will try to throw at you. And let me tell you something, it's necessary, this anointing you walk in now, because in this new season, there are going to be new temptations, new attempts to stifle the anointing, to stifle the destination, to frustrate the vision, to frustrate your passion. But God said, because you have survived— I'm not just talking about since you've been in ministry, but your 40 years of life, the things you've gone through from a baby to now. God said, because you have survived them, son, some people would not have been able to survive the things you've survived. But because you survived them, God said, I can trust you now, and there won't be a temptation, a test, test that the enemy will bring to you that you will not conquer and pass. Secondly, Elijah, he fasted. Oh my God, for insight on how to prophetically share with the children of Israel how they should move, how they should honor God. Can I tell you something? There will be an insight concerning people like you never had. God said Michael Woods say to Brandon Cornelius, I'm giving him a clarity concerning people that he's never had before. You'll now begin to see like never before the real motives of people. You'll know those who are just trying to platform themselves through you. You'll know those that are loyal. Oshanda dabakiaya. And listen, while I'm talking, look around. You got a few in there now that's there for the wrong motive. They're not there for the right reason. But God said, I'm gonna give you clarity. I'm gonna show you their heart, and you'll be able to see. And the Lord said, because of who you are in him and the compassion that you have, you will love them in spite of— but God said he is going to place around you people that love your heart, and you'll be able to know them without a shadow of a doubt, and you'll be able to trust. Thirdly, man of God, Moses, this apostolic type of the Old Testament— glory to God— he fasted, and the Bible declares after his fast He received the Ten Commandments from the Lord. He received written instruction. These days to come, man of God, God's going to give you significant, clear instructions concerning where you go next, what you do next, how to do it. You are going to receive strategy and structure concerning the spiritual ideas. Hear me, that God has placed in your heart. So, son, get ready for an amazing year. Eyes haven't seen and ears haven't heard the great things that God's gonna do for you in these next 12 months. Man, you know I love you and I thank God for you. May heaven smile on you is my prayer. You be blessed today, sir. Happy birthday. Peace.
