Holy Saturday Prayer with Apostle Mike Woods | 19 April 2025

Well, praise the Lord, and grace and peace be unto each of you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is Apostle Michael Lyris Woods, and welcome to our Holy Saturday virtual prayer. I'm super excited to be able to pray with you today, to come into agreement around some things that the Lord has led me to pray about today. And I really believe that when we're done, one, God will hear us. The Bible says that his ears are forever open to the prayers of the righteous. And listen, we have righteous covenant with him. Uh, our life is pure, our life is clean. And as we talk to God, we believe he's gonna hear. The Bible also says, hallelujah, he never sleeps nor slumbers. He, he will avenge his own elect that cry unto him both day and night. So listen guys, as we pray today, I want you to do me the kind favor, please share this video, uh, send out texts, share it on social media. Glory to the name of God. Comment below, uh, let us know that you are here, and we're gonna really, uh, look for God to give serious breakthrough today in our time of prayer. Today we're going to be praying about committing to a life of purity. This is, uh, what would be called, uh, in Hebraic customs, Holy Saturday. This is the Saturday, uh, the Sabbath before Jesus' resurrection on early Sunday morning. And this is a time, glory to God, that I believe even historically and even down through the ages where we can reflect on our behavior, we can reflect on the life that we actually give to God. You know, a lot of times purity has nothing to do with what you actually do. Here we go. Many times purity has to do with what you think. Glory to the name of God. Because you can have impure thoughts and never really act on them. The reality is somewhere you have to pull that stronghold down. You have to lock that thought up that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. And you have to really commit to a lifestyle. Say that with me, say a lifestyle of purity. So today, glory to God, please guys, do me the kind of favor and share. I believe somebody's going to be blessed today. I believe somebody's life is going to be changed. Glory to God. Hallelujah. So y'all know how we do. Glory to God. We're going to, uh, read some scripture because we, we believe in praying the word. And then as we read that scripture, we're going to actually pray that word. Glory to Jesus. Hallelujah. And, um, we're going to trust God because the Bible says if we ask anything according to his will, he will do it. So we're not going to be doing all— so a lot of time I think people equate noise to anointing. And they think if they're interceding and they're hollering and they're loud and, you know, and many times, watch this, trust me again, I believe in speaking in tongues. Glory to God. I've been speaking in tongues since I was a kid. Now, with that said, and I'm probably going to speak in some while we're on here because we speak as the Spirit gives utterance, right? But the reality is some people interpret that as breakthrough And oftentimes, you know, I've seen it so many times in the church world where tongues are manufactured and people speaking a whole bunch of tongues, they still don't get breakthroughs in their life. And really, it all goes back to your prayer life really being centered around the word of God. Again, the Bible said if you ask anything according to his will, he will do it. What is his will? His will is his word. So we're gonna pray his word, glory to God. And we're gonna ask, glory to the name of God. And after we ask, we're gonna expect him to do what we ask. And we're gonna rejoice, glory to God, that he's already performed. Praise, Shebaiah. Jesus, I love you. We're gonna believe that he is working in our favor, on our behalf. Glory be to Jesus. So please guys, share, invite a neighbor, invite a friend. We're streaming on, uh, 5 different platforms right now. We're streaming, glory to God, on Instagram. We're streaming on Facebook, glory to Jesus, 3 Facebook pages actually, glory to God. And we're streaming on YouTube. So 5 places, this is going out to the world. I need you to make sure, glory to God, that you're getting it out Glory to Jesus. Hallelujah. And letting people know that we are here and we're talking to God on their behalf on today. Praise God. God is so good. God is so good. Hey Bruce, God bless you, man. Welcome today. Glory to God. Welcome. Glory to Jesus. Like I said, family, do me a favor. Please, please kindly, please kindly share. Good afternoon, Pastor Jasper. God bless you. Thank you for being here. And I'm sure, uh, Lady Zion is somewhere around, so God bless you and your family. Glory to God. Welcome to everybody. Praise God. Hallelujah. Please tag, please share. Glory to God. I believe that today is going to be good, you know. And I know you may say, man, I'm already committed to a lifestyle of purity, but again, we want to reinforce that. We want to really be a, uh, very examining of our behavior and We took communion last night at the church during our service, and when Pastor Jasper was praying, he actually prayed the word that we should examine ourselves and that many are sick among us because we have taken the body unworthily. Let me tell you, watch this. That is— that even goes so farther than communion, the communion table. When we have partaken of the Lord's body. We are the body of Christ, come on. And we partake it of the Lord's body in the wrong way. We've handled people wrong that are in his body. Glory to Jesus. Oh, and we got to be careful. We got to be careful. Oh boy, we have approached his church and the whole sacred things of the church in a wrong way. The Bible said many are sick because We got stuff in our heart with people, and we've handled people who belong to him in the wrong way, and that's a dangerous piece. So one of the things we want to make sure we do today is we examine ourselves. We make sure that we're not handling people wrong, we're not thinking wrong thoughts about others. And you know, even when people are getting on our nerves— and listen, people will do that, I mean your spouse, your children, your best friend. People will get on your nerves, but you have to come to a place where you don't think ill of them and you don't mistreat them, but you still have the ability to move in a pure lifestyle toward them so that the power of God and the holiness of God can be made manifest in your very light, man. Last night we talked about how there's a psychology or pathology behind betrayal, and one of the things we brought out is that people can have proximity to you without purity. People can be in your space and they're not pure. But one thing about Judas being close to Jesus, he never mistreated Judas. He knew this man was going to turn him over to be killed and never one time Did Jesus mistreat Judas, the one he knew would betray him? He yet loved him. He sat with him. He ate with him. He gave him the same word. He gave him the same honor that he gave all the other disciples. So maybe if you struggle doing that, hear me, maybe if you— oh yeah, Moshe, maybe if you're vengeful and, and, you know, you just can't love in spite of, and you can't turn the other cheek when you're Boy, it is a tough one here today, I tell you. Glory to God. Maybe you need to make sure you tap into this prayer today. Examine yourself. Let's commit to pure thoughts. Let's commit to pure behavior. Let's commit to a purity on how we handle the people who are actually in proximity to us, but— and they actually serve a purpose in our life. Glory to God. Hallelujah! We love you, Jesus. We love you, Jesus. Let's go to Ephesians chapter number 2. Glory to God. Hallelujah! And we're going to read there. Glory to Jesus. God bless you, daughter Sharia. Good to see you today. We love you. God bless you, Mama D. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah! Welcome today. We give God praise. We give God honor. Oh, we give you praise, God. We give you glory. We thank you for your goodness. We thank you for your mercy. Oh my God, God is so good. Just take a moment to worship. Just take a moment to worship him. Hallelujah, we give him praise. We honor his great name. We lift him up. If you're just joining us, we're praying today. Glory to God. Hallelujah, this is Holy Saturday and we're coming together and we're interceding for a life of purity. We're committing ourselves to being pure men of God, to be pure women of God. And in this society where All kind of things are out there, not just sexual, but there, there are things that are tempting in all kind of arenas to try to cause you to be deceptive and, and do things that are not true and not be honest. Glory to God. But the Bible said that we should be thinking on those things which are honest, which are just, and which are true. Glory to the name of God. And the reality is, when you do that, you become that, because as a man thinketh in his heart, so is he. You are what you think. So I am just because I think just. I'm pure because I think pure thoughts. Glory to God. And that's where it starts. Let's go to Ephesians 2. Glory to God. We're going to get into this, um, we're going to begin reading at verse number 2. Glory to God. And we're going to read through and including verse number 6. The Bible says, where in time past you walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience. Now this is very clear. He says, in a past time, when you were of the world, before you got saved, before you came into the kingdom, you operated according to the prince of the power of the air, which is the devil. Glory to God. And this is the same spirit that works in the children of disobedience. What is the apostle saying to the Ephesians? He's saying, listen, now that you're in this new life, glory to God, you should not— hear me, family— be operating like those that operate under the spirit of the enemy, under the spirit of the prince of the power of the air. The things that are on air, glory to God, on television— just because you watch a movie doesn't give you justification to want to do what you see, especially if it doesn't line up with the word of God. So again, I grew up in the old church. The TV was the one-eyed devil. Glory to God. And while that was very legalistic, right? But at the end of the day, I understand the premise. If you don't watch it, you can't be influenced by it. But here's the challenge to mature where you can do what— be free, glory to God, and live and not allow everything that's in the air glory to God to influence you. Everything that's online shouldn't influence you. Everything you're scrolling past shouldn't influence you. Are you hearing me? So this is how the spirit of children of disobedience, those that don't align, those that don't walk with God, this is how they operate. They operate— hear me, glory to Jesus, glory, glory, glory, hallelujah, glory, thank you for— I feel the anointing, I feel breakthrough today. Shabba-baba toshia. I feel breakthrough, glory to God, because a lot of people operating in disobedience, even in the body of Christ, even in the church. And they don't even realize it, that they're still operating under the auspices and influence of the old man. I spent too much time on that. Verse number 3, let me read. He says, among whom we all had our conversation in the past, in the lust of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind. And we were by nature the children of wrath even as others. Verse 4: But God, but God, but God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us— glory to God— even when we were dead in sin, has quickened us together with Christ. By grace you are saved. And hath raised us up together— here we go— and made us sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. Let's pray that, because this is the first step, glory to God, in committing to a life of purity. Glory to God is understanding, my God, hallelujah, that we are saved by grace and we've been quickened to something new. And that, listen, he was rich in mercy. So no matter how big of an impure person you were. His mercy was so rich, no matter what you've done, it was able to impute righteousness through his love. Glory to God. And you know what? So now we don't commit to purity and a life of holiness out of obligation and legalistic religious obligation. We commit to this as a response to God's great mercy, God's great love, God's great authority that he's shown toward us. So let's pray that. Glory to God. So Father, we come before the throne of grace today, God. And at one time we walked habitually in sin, and at one time, God, we walked under the prince of the power of the air. We were children of disobedience, but Father, in the name of Jesus, I thank you that today we have received your rich mercy. Hallelujah. And we are no longer under the auspices of the devil. We've been quickened to a life in you. And so Father, I'm praying for myself and those under the sound of my voice, God, that will watch this live or by replay. I decree and declare God, that they will gravitate to behavior, lifestyles, thought processes that align itself with your holy way. That we will live joyously and not legalistically in fear as a response to you and live holy, God, and think holy, God, and bring our thoughts under control, operate in purity because of what you've done for us. Thank you for your rich mercy. Thank you for your grace, God. Thank you for laying down your life God on a bloody cross. Glory to the name of God and redeeming us back to you. We give you praise, God. We declare it right now. We are nothing without you, but it's in you we live, my God. Ha, Shammai. It's in you we move. It's in you we have our being, God. And we give you praise. There are times in past times, God, we were governed according to the flesh, and so we permitted and committed things that our flesh desired. But Father, that's not our story today. We have been quickened. We have been made alive. We are new creations in Christ Jesus. And because we are new creations in Christ Jesus for real, because we are alive in you for real, God, we do not follow our flesh. We follow the Holy Spirit. We follow the Spirit of God, and we do the things that he asks us to do for real. It is our joy to do it, God. Because of what you've done for us, in Jesus' name. Hallelujah! Would you praise God? Hallelujah! Right there. Hallelujah! Would you give God praise for new life? Glory to God! Would you give him praise for a new life? Glory to God! Let's go to Proverbs 15. Glory to Jesus! We're praying the word. Hallelujah! We're praying the word. Hallelujah! Proverbs 15. And verse number 16. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Holy Spirit. Let it be so. I declare that every person that scrolls by, if they stop in even for a moment, I declare that the anointing that's on this live stream will begin to penetrate through the lens of this camera and go into their lives now. It will touch— oh Jesus— it will touch their families, it will touch their children, it will bring healing to their body. It will bring shift in their finances. We— oh, shabandiko! Jesus, we love you. Jesus, we give you praise. We thank you that no person that taps in today, glory to God, will leave this time of prayer the same, but they will leave different in Jesus' mighty name. Proverbs, glory to God, Hallelujah. 15:16, the Bible says here, better is little with the fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith. Now, the wise man Solomon is not saying here that you shouldn't have a lot. What he's saying is, if you get a lot and you can't balance what you have and your life in God, if what you have still keeps you on a road of impure living and impure thoughts, he's saying it's better that you don't have that because your sin and your impurity separates you from God. I know we don't like to hear that kind of talk these days, but the reality is the Bible says it is because of your sin that you are separated from between you and your God. It gets no plainer. I know everybody wants to justify sin, everybody wants to teach grace in a way that is totally erroneous. My sister was at the church a couple of weeks ago, Apostle Asia Wheeler, and she taught a message on grace. I'm gonna replay that message. If you missed it, go back and watch the live stream, it's still up. Up, but I'm gonna post the whole message because she taught what grace looks like. Grace is not a license to do what you want to do. It empowers you toward righteousness. And so the, the writer here, Solomon, is saying it's better that you have a little and you fear God than you got a lot and you wild and, and you wilding out and buck wild and you can't control your life. Ooh, because guess what? When you do that, you're, you're saying to God, God, I really don't need you right here because I'm gonna just be impure. Because you're saying to a pure and holy God— and this is why religious people really don't know God, right? Because they think through religion and through what they do, hear me, that that is what brings God to them. But that is— that even— that's not even what this is about. This is about creating a reality that the blessing of God is connected to his purity, because whatever God gives is pure, is holy. So you got to make sure your mindset is pure. You're about people, about that person that hurt you. Maybe you're having vengeful thoughts. Hear me. And you got to weigh all that in the fear of the Lord, because sometimes delays in our are connected to our thoughts. Not sometimes, most of the time, because as you think, so are you, right? So he says, better is a little. So let's pray this. Let's pray this balance into our life. Let's pray that we can operate in a lot and still love God in purity and still have the proximity of God with purity in our life, because he's pure and we're pure. Watch this. To the pure, all things are pure, which means that you don't take something that's unholy and say it's pure. No, to the pure, you, you tap into pure processes, pure streams, pure flows. I don't know about you, people say, well, you know, I just want to get the word from the preacher. Listen, I— that ain't me. The vessel matters to me. Glory to God. Because at the end of the day, a person that's preaching a pure word should be pure in spirit, should be pure in mind, should be— oh boy— should be pure in thought. So that when they disseminate the word, it doesn't have mixture because they're trying to justify in some way what they're doing. As a matter of fact, when you're studying as a leader, as a minister, the word should hit you first, and you should become first partaker of that fruit, and it should bring change and purity in your life so you don't spit out mixture and toxicity to the people you're talking to. Let's pray this. Father, we give you praise. We thank you for Proverbs 15:16. We thank you for this word because it says it's better for us to reverence you and have little than to have a lot and be out of control. And Father, there are so many people who are out of control and they love it. There are so many people who name your name, but they Oh, glory to God, live lives that don't represent you. They think thoughts that don't represent you. The evil one, hallelujah, is even going out of control in the mental, in the mind of so many. But Satan, we rebuke you today. We rebuke every demonic thought. We rebuke every thought that exalts itself against the knowledge of God. And we declare we can move in balance. We can have much treasure. We can live in abundance as you promised us. We can live with the wealth wealth that you promised us. We can operate in our wealthy place and still be holy and still be righteous, God. And we give you praise for that, because many a times our character is defined by, oh my God, the wealth, by the amount of money we have. Because the more money we have, the more we can do what's inside of us. But God, I thank you for victory over the flesh. I thank you, uran, that every person under the sound of my voice has victory, God, in their life. And I give you praise for it in Jesus' name. Thank you for this balance. Amen. Why don't you give God praise for balance? Hallelujah. 2 Corinthians 5:17. Le damashe do boho. We give you praise, Jesus. We give you praise, Jesus. Hallelujah. Matter of fact, I'm gonna start at 16 because I think these two go together, right? So 16 says, 2 Corinthians 5:16-17, the Bible says, wherefore henceforth know we no man after the flesh. Yea, though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now henceforth we know him no more. So after Jesus died on Thursday, not Friday, and we corrected that theology last night, Um, and to be honest, I've been correcting it for years, but that, that's a reality. Glory to God, he died on Thursday. No way you get 3 days, 3 nights from Friday to Sunday. It's impossible. There's a weightiness in Jesus's words when he says, I'm gonna be as the Jonah and be in the grave 3 days, 3 nights, like Jonah was in the belly of the whale. Here's reality, guys, we don't know him after the flesh because he crucified his flesh on the cross. And Sunday came, he resurrected from the grave with all power in his hand. So watch this, if I don't know you after the flesh, I should be able to know you after your resurrected man, your new man. Glory to God. Watch verse 17, he says, therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away, behold, all things are become new. Just rub your belly, say new, new, new, new, new. You're new. See, when you come into him, all the old stuff, the impure things, are passed away, and you are now— listen, guys— become new. Oh boy, just touch yourself and say, I'm new in the name of Jesus. Glory to God. Say, say, I'm new in the name of Jesus. If any man interpenetrate, be in Christ, So watch this. To interpenetrate— so if you jump, if you have a blue wall and you jumped inside of that blue wall, to actually interpenetrate the wall, you become one with the wall and you can no longer represent yourself. You look like the wall. Someone looking at the wall wouldn't be able to tell you from the wall. Hear because you have interpenetrated. You have been— you're inside of the wall. Listen, when you interpenetrate Christ, when you get inside of him and his nature and his essence, there becomes no difference— watch this— between you and him. If any man be in Christ, he's given us parsonage, access to him. That's really what resurrection weekend is about. It's really what Holy Week is about. It's about reminding us of this great event that gives us access to heavenly places. Oh, oh, we read that in Ephesians. We got access to heavenly places. So let's pray this. We can't get in those heavenly places if we're not operating— hear me, family— in newness. Just touch your belly and say, I'm new. Amasiya. Say, I'm new in the name of Jesus. Glory to God. I'm new and I'm alive in the name of Jesus. Glory. Shabbatay. Rabbi, I'm telling— I'm prophesying to somebody right now. Your body— see, when you enter into Christ, now you tap into the benefits. See, religion keeps you on the outer corridors. It keeps you on— oh my God— the endo Donyx of Christ. You're on the endo, means to be around or to be deep in, or I'm sorry, endo is in, which is penetration. Perio is outside. So what happens is religion keeps you in the perio, perimeters, where you're outside, you're around the presence, you can feel it, but if you never interpenetrate it, you never get the benefits of what that presence That's the endo. You get in— endo, in a dental term, is endodontics. If your dentist told you, which is a very popular thing going around dental offices right now, because you may need— not even need a root canal, but they'll tell you you need one because insurance will pay for it and it's highly expensive. But the reality is they get inside of the root of the tooth and remove the nerve. They're inside of your actual tooth. That's indo, inside. Perio is outside. God wants us to get in. Glory to God. And watch this, remove our life, which is that nerve where we have no sensitivity to fleshly things, but we're one with him. So now even in your body where there's sickness, when you're one with God and you accept that on a daily basis, I refuse to be in pain, I refuse to be sick. Glory to God. I refuse. And this has to be the words that's coming out of your mouth because I am one with Christ. No longer are you on the circumference, but you are, oh my God, inside. You have interpenetrated the very essence of his being. You're one with him. So you have access to his riches, his wealth, his prosperity, his healing, his deliverance, because the Bible says healing and deliverance is the children's bread. I'm his child, so I have a right to what he carries in him. Let's stop living beneath our privilege. Let's operate as the new creation sons and daughters that we are. Let's operate as the family of God. Oh, Shaiyah, Ruhi Bessi Anta Tabaya, we give you glory, we give you glory. Arabandi sita babaya, koramandi siti biku sabai. We bless you, God. We honor you. So let's pray this. Let's pray it because I feel Jesus. I can just really lose it right here. I come out, I can get in the corner and just lose it. I can jump into all of those flowers behind me and just lose it. Glory to God. I need you to understand that God, hallelujah, wants you to come closer to him than you ever been He wants you to sit in heavenly places. He wants you to experience what you've never experienced before. Hear me, hear me, family, but you got to trust him. You gotta lean and depend upon him. Let's pray. Father, we give you praise. So Father, first of all, I ask that you help us to no more know one another after the flesh, even as once it was historical that you walked in flesh, but you have been resurrected it into your rightful place, and you sit at the right hand of the Father, and also you live inside of us through the Holy Spirit. And so, Father, we give you praise for that. We have access, we have a right to heavenly places. So we don't know one another after the flesh, so we practice slipping past the flesh and learning the spirit of each other and praying about each other so that we can be revealed. God, we thank you that no longer will we recognize one another, but we will man revelation, and we will seek for others to be revealed to us. And even you, God, God, continue to give us revelation upon revelation. Continue to expand the knowledge and the revelation of who you are. And we get— Omansi, letebaso, rongusha, babaya, brinkebeisa, babendikontikomunsa, bahaya. In the name of Jesus. We bless you. We are new creation sons. We are the family of God. We belong to you, God. We're your children. We are in you, and we declare it. We have interpenetrated your essence. So we thank you that with your stripes we are healed because we're one. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We have what you have, and healing is upon you. Deliverance is upon you. Prosperity is with you. Breakthrough and blessing is with you, and we receive Receive it, God, in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus, so be it. Thank you, God. I got to get through this. Glory to God. But I feel the anointing. Glory to Jesus. Go to Zephaniah 3 and verse number 9. Zephaniah 3 and verse number 9. Glory to God. We love you, Jesus. Hallelujah. We love you, God. The Bible says here, for then I will turn to the people of pure language, that they may call upon the name of the Lord, serve him with one consent. So basically here what is happening is, uh, there has— there was a language of tension, strife, and frustration that was going amongst the people, and they were becoming divided. And, and what the prophet is saying here, he's saying that God is saying, listen, Listen, I'm— God's gonna turn your language to purity. That pure language is a language of one consent. It's a language where we speak the same thing. We're saying the same things about Jesus. We're saying the same things about his word. We're saying the same things about his life. Again, we don't buy into the power of the air. While there are people who are changing the narrative, or through their word, through what they are saying. Glory to God. We can't do that. We got to remain of one consent. Jesus is Lord. Jesus is the King of Kings. Jesus is the only way. He is the truth. He is the light. No man comes to the Father except by him. We got to say the same thing. He is the King. We are his children and we live in his kingdom. We are a part right now of his heavenly kingdom. We got to be of one consent. We got to believe the word of God. If we are not of one consent, the people who are watching will be confused and they will not have a palate, an appetite to serve the God we serve because they'll say we can't even get on the same page. And so now, God, in the name of Jesus, as we pray this scripture in Zephaniah 3, verse number 9, I decree and declare that every spirit of dissent and division that comes through spoken word, that comes through conversation in the body of Christ, I decree and declare that it cease and desist right now in Jesus' name. I bind up false teachings. I bind up false words and false prophecies, false miracles and false apostles. I bind— false pastors, false evangelists. I bind up people who have— ooh God— have displayed the character of the sneaky five. They have snuck into the fivefold ministry. They have called themselves apostles, they've called themselves prophets, and they are not. They've called themselves evangelists, and they are not. They've called themselves pastors and teachers, and they are not. We bind them up in the name of Jesus because we— oh my God, we bind up bishops who have been illegitimately consecrated. Oh my of God. And not— And not just because they put on robes and put chains and rings on. We decree and declare that they have been improperly consecrated because impure hands were laid upon them. Impure doctrines were imputed into their ideology. Oh my God. And we decree and declare that they be bound, they be silenced, Hindam Omansi, in the name of Jesus, because it's dividing the body. It is becoming destructive to our witness. But God, I loose the spirit of one consent, and I decree and declare that we will stand on the word you gave us. We will not seek to change it. We will not seek to alter it, to accommodate impurity, to accommodate sin, to accommodate lifestyles that you You clearly, and oh my God, intimately said we should not embrace, and we loose truth. We bind up the doctrine of devils that's being taught from pulpits, for your word says many will, ha, depart from the faith, giving heed to doctrines of devils and seducing spirits. We bind up seducers. And I declare that the conducers are here. Usha babamandi ansa. Rebecca, I release the anointing of conducers, of conductors in the spirit that will pull people through ourselves to you, God. I release the anointing of the conducer and we bind seducers. Woo! Eba suma mama papansebo utababaya. We bind them up. Up in the name of Jesus. The word of God is true. We declare it to be true, and we declare we will serve God with one consent. Ah, we bind up the quest to create platforms that institute popularity, that only create a paradigm of personal gratification, but out in the name of Jesus. We declare that the platforms and the stages and the tables that we build and that you give us, they will not be for our glory, but they will be that you, God, might be glorified. We give you the glory, God. We give you, we give you the honor. We thank you. Go to 1 Peter 2. I'm getting through this. Glory to God. We're coming quickly to a close. 1 Peter 2. Stay with me. I feel like Jesus. Could you not pray with me for one hour? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Can you pray with me for one hour? Can you stay with me for one hour. Let them— yeah, so wake up, don't go to sleep, pay attention, stay tapped in. Glory to God. 1 Peter, hallelujah, 2, verse number 1. Thank you, Father. Thank you, Jesus. The Bible said, wherefore— here we go— laying aside all malice So just in case you don't know what this verse is saying, malice is ill will. It's a desire to injure. It comes from a Greek word, kakia, K-A-K-I-A, kakia. And, and this word means the desire to injure another, the desire to see another come down. That's malice. To see another not win. It's impossible for you to say you are a believer for real and you want to see people lose. Even if you got ill will or you feel like they've done something to you, you should be able to pray into a place where what they're doing to you doesn't matter. And you could lay aside— hear me— malice. Good God, good God. And you could trust God— hear me— regardless of what's happening. Boy, oh we— I know, but the Bible said you gotta lay it aside. Watch this. And all guile— guile is really close to that that. But guile is— this word dolos, D-O-L-O-S, means to deceive, to create, to create bait. It's like a dolo, uh, is, is a, a type of bait in hunting and fishing where you set up a trap for the fish, for the deer. So dolo and dolos is where we get that word. Glory to the name of God. And when you, you trap people, you're operating in guile. You trick people into liking you. You know you don't like them. You know you don't love them. You, you, you, you operating in guile. That's impure, man. My God, that's impure. Let's read. He said, and all hypocrisies— y'all know what hypocrisy is, I don't have time— and envy. Come on. And all evil talk, evil speaking. But the Bible says, as newborn babes, watch this, desire the sincere milk of the word that you may grow thereby. Now, there are a lot of preachers that have taken verse 2, and in their effort to appear deep, they have said that as you mature, you no longer need the milk. I strongly theologically disagree, ma'am, sir. I'm gonna tell you why. Because you should always come to God daily, because there's always something fresh. We never will monopolize the revelation of his word. So every time we open it up as a newborn babe, we should have a hunger. So much so that if you don't get it, you start crying. I think a few weeks ago I was telling y'all about my grandson, Marit. He got lungs, man. If you don't get that bottle, that milk, that food to him when he wants it, he'll He'll let those pipes be very active and you will know he ready to eat. Listen, you have to be like a newborn babe knowing that you can't really speak on the hunger, but you know you need it. That, see, and every day there ought to be something more that you're hungering for. And that's really what I pray for out of this text, God will give us our desire as newborn babes, that every day we won't get so big that we don't need more milk. I know we, we eat meat, glory to God, because when we come of age we eat meat, but, but there's always something fresh, there's always something new that God wants to give you, and you have to position yourself as a newborn babe to receive it. You have to take on the hunger of that newborn babe who has no ability to communicate. Watch this, what he needs But he cries out— here we go— oh, in an unknown tongue. And guess what Mama does? She interprets that tongue. Well, is he wet? Is he hungry? Does he want milk? Come on. So when you become as a newborn babe, I mean, there's really no conversations. There's praying in the spirit. God, pour out on me more. Glory to God. Show me revelation I have not seen. We gotta be as new born babes desiring the sincere milk. Watch this, so we can grow. Because that's how that baby grows. That's how that baby increases. That's how that baby survives. And you need this nourishment, I'm telling you. Every single day, even while you eat meat. You would still— the, the world's marketing campaign said milk does the body good. Can I submit to you, milk does the body of Christ good. See, here's the problem in the body of Christ. We're scrolling, we're reading posts, watching TikTok videos, watching reels and shorts, but we're not reading the word, we're not getting revelation from God. Our revelation are coming from sources that are other than our Father, our patriarch, that wants to feed us new revelation concerning what he's already said. Are you here? Oh, but you got a desire. Let's pray. Father, we give you praise, we give you glory, God, we give you honor. Father, I'm asking you today that you will help your people to lay aside malice, guile, jealousy, envy, strife. Glory to God. Oh, shiamande te debeso to. But that we will desire the sincere milk of the word, of your logos, your logic, your thought process, what you are thinking about every situation. We want to be in your mind and on your mind. Yeah, in your mind and on your mind. So we want to be inside of your mind so we can respect your thoughts. So bring us into your mindset, God, and we want you constantly thinking about us, God. For you said it in Jeremiah that you know the thoughts you think toward us, thoughts of peace and not of evil, that we may have an expected end. So we thank you for those thoughts and we give you praise for desire. I release hunger in this prayer, hunger and desire for you, God, not for flesh hunger and desire. In the mighty name of Jesus. Oh God, we love you. God, we glorify. Romans 12, verse number 2. I got to get through this. Hallelujah. We're coming quickly. Quickly to a close. Glory to God. Quickly to a close. Romans 12:2. I need you worshiping. Just worship, just worship. I feel Jesus. I feel breakthrough for people that'll stop into this live. I see— I feel victory for your family. I feel victory for your children. I feel victory in your finances. Come on. To lift your hands and worship. There's an anointing flowing through the lens of this camera, going through the internet into your home. Oh my God, through your phone, through your TV, however you're watching, there's something happening right now that's bringing breakthrough into your life. Oh, oh God, we love you and we thank you, God. And we give you praise. What a mighty God we serve. Iba ma satelaba ya. We bless you, God. Romans 12:2: And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing, the redoing of your mind, that you may prove what is good and acceptable and the perfect will of God. So our purpose here on earth is that we can prove So your life is here to be proof of what is good and what is the acceptable and perfect will of God. So when people look at you, they should see what the will of God looks like. Watch this. They should see what the manifested expression— again, his will is his word, thýeima in Greek— the manifest expression of his word in his life looks like. So when you get sick you shouldn't react like everybody else. You should react to your sickness through the word. When you have financial trouble, you should not react to your financial issues like everybody else. You should react to those issues through the word. Oh my God, because you're living to prove something. And many a times God takes you through seasons where he is establishing proof, testimony. Because in the court of law, that's what proof will be called— testimony. Glory to God. Hallelujah. That the person on trial did or did not, depending on what side of the courtroom they testified on, do what they're sitting there for. Your life should be an epistle written and read of men. Proof. But you can't have proof— you can't prove what's good. That word good means what's profitable, what's filled with prosperity and increase. That's what the word means in Greek. It's agathos. It's increase, it's pleasant, it's distinguished, that which is honorable, that which is palatable, that which is enjoyable. So when people look at your life and you talking about you and God, they should see you enjoying life. It's impure when people see otherwise, because he said don't be conformed to this world. Because when you're not living out what's good, what's acceptable, what's perfect, what your life looks like is confirmation to the world. It looks like you're conforming to the world system because you're reacting to every season of your life just like they react. Let's pray this. Father, in Jesus' name, we decree and declare we will not be conformed to the but we will be transformed by the renewing, the redoing of our mind. And so I pray for the renewing of the mind right now in the name of Jesus, and that every person under the sound of my voice will renew their mind and that they will operate in purity. They will operate in purity, God. They will operate in purity. They will operate in purity. I declare it in the name of Jesus. Their thoughts will be pure, so they will be, because as a man thinks in his heart, so is he. So God, we thank you for the transformation. I think— matter of fact, I feel it happening right now. I thank you that you're transforming the mindset that we will not— oh my God— respond to things we deal with, things we go through the way the world responds to them. But I decree and declare we will respond to things that happen in our life, in our family, in our children, in our finances, in our faith. No matter where we are in life, we will respond like we are your children, and we will prove— I declare it in the name of Jesus— what is good, what is profitable, what is distinguishable, what is honorable, what is enjoyable. So when people look at us, they will see those traits. We will prove what is acceptable. Glory to the name of God. And what is the perfect, the mature, telling us the will of God. People will see you working in our life. And when they see it, God, they will want what we have, and they will come to you. And we praise you for this now, on this Holy Saturday. In Jesus' name, amen and amen. Glory be to God. Hallelujah. I love you, Father. I love you, Jesus. We bless you. Come on, give God praise. We're gonna stop right there. We're out of time. I, I can go— I can keep going, but we're gonna stop. I, I just hear the Spirit saying stop. I believe we have said what we've needed to say. Glory to God. Because I got more scripture. Glory to God. But we're going to stop there because I believe that something is stirred in your spirit to be committed to a lifestyle of purity that starts in your thought process, to lay aside those things that don't look like God. On this Holy Saturday, I want you to continue reflecting on how you think, how you live. Even if, you know, it's not the most gruesome, sinful thought, if you're thinking in doubt, if you're thinking in fear, not knowing that God really can rescue you, he really can turn the situation you are in around, you gotta think. Because as a man thinks in his heart, So is he. You gotta think that his word is true. Pure, lovely, just. I'm telling you, God is going to turn it around for you. He's going to turn around for me, and our greatest days are yet in front of us. Listen, family, today I want to challenge you to get seed in the ground very quickly on this Holy Saturday. I'm going to, uh, put the ways to give up on the screen. Glory to God. And, uh, I want you to give. I want you to sow. I want you to be a blessing. Matter of fact, I heard it while I was praying this last prayer. I heard it. God said, challenge every person— that's you, every person listening, whether you're live or by replay— to get a seed of $21 in your hand. However you're going to do that, digitally do it. I'm going to put the ways to give up. I want you to move quickly, and I want you to do this quickly. I want to complete this assignment because I believe God said it. Amen. Amen. I believe God said it. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We give him praise, we give him glory, we give him honor. He's a good God, he's a mighty God. Would you bless him? Glory to God. Would you honor down in your giving. Glory to God. Pastor Joshua, just put the ways to give in the comments. Glory to God. Because for some reason my mouse is choosing— oh, there we go. I think we're good now. Let's see, let's see if we can put it up. Glory to God. There we go. Uh, nope, that's not it. Let's put it up there. There we go. Scrolling at the bottom of the screen, family. Every person on the sound of my voice, please be obedient. Father, we thank you for obedience. We thank you now, even as I'm praying, God, I thank you that no person will miss it to the left nor to the right, but they'll trust you. Your word says, we give and it shall be given unto us, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall men give to our bosom. We thank you that your people are moving in obedience now, and we thank you that as they sow, this seed is going to be returned back to them 1,000 times more than is. We thank you that this seed never leaves their life. It leaves their hand, it leaves their bank account, but it never leaves their life. It moves into their future, waiting for them to arrive. And when they find this seed again, it would have multiplied. It would have been fully bloomed into exactly what they need for that moment and that season. I declare it. I thank you for obedience. In Jesus' mighty name. Wherever you're watching, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, wherever you're watching, get your seed in the ground. The ways to give are on the screen. We love you guys. Listen, I want to invite every person listening. It's going down tomorrow. Listen, we had such an amazing, powerful service last night, uh, right out of the church. Someone came up to me and said, Apostle, my knee was in pain. After the word of God and after prayer I have no pain in my knee. God touched me. I have been made whole. Listen, I'm telling you, things are happening in our church. Uh, the young lady, uh, that was visiting with us last night, one of— she came up to me and my wife and she was just sharing her story about how she found out about the church. She, she saw an ad we was running for a Friday service. And you know, the reality is I was like, I don't even really need to run this ad because, you know, we got other things we could do. I'll just post this flyer. But God said, no, you run the ad and watch what needs to be done. And that ad was for her. She said it kept popping up every time she went on Facebook. She doesn't follow me, she wasn't my friend. She saw the ad and, um, she told her family, she said, I gotta go whether y'all go with me or not. She came, and the message I preached last night about betrayal and the psychology of betrayal. She said she was right in the middle of all of that. She was going through some things, and she said her life was tremendously changed. She received her deliverance, she received her healing. So this is what God does in our church. We let God be God. I want to invite you to join us tomorrow morning at 9 AM sharp. Please be on time, right? We're going to start at 9 AM We're going to worship God. We're going to celebrate his resurrection. Glory to God. And we're going to see the power of God meet us there once again. Uh, our praise team is going to sing and minister. We're going to have an opportunity on Easter, uh, Sunday morning to license some ministers. I'm super excited that we're going to be licensing these ministers under the covering of Rhoda Church, and it's going to be a tremendous blessing. So you need to be in the house. Glory to God. And share with us. It's going to be super good. I love y'all, man. I pray y'all have been obedient and got your seed— 21, 2-1— in the ground. That's what God said, nothing more, nothing less, that we told me for this prayer time. Get your Holy Saturday seed in the ground. I love y'all. Y'all be blessed. Heaven smile upon you is my prayer. Y'all have a super day. Peace.