How To Achieve Success in the Kingdom of God? | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr.

Well, praise the Lord, everybody. I pray you're well tonight. Uh, you guys come on in. Glory to God. And, um, we're going to get started here shortly, but I pray that everyone is well. This indeed is the day the Lord has made, and we shall rejoice and be glad in it. Glory to God. I'm super excited to be able to share with you on this evening. And if you guys are just joining us, thank you for being here. Uh, this is our Thursday Night Thirst. Glory to God. The Bible said them that hunger he that thirsteth after righteousness shall be filled. Glory to God. And so we're glad you're here tonight, and I believe that you're going to be blessed. Glory to the name of God. By the things that we'll share and the things that we'll disseminate. Again, do me a favor tonight. This is going to be a good one. I need you to go ahead and make sure you share this live stream. Please tag someone below. Please make sure you hit Glory to the name of God. 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The power of God was tangible, uh, the word was awesome, uh, the worship was phenomenal. My son Ben Woods took us up into, uh, portals of glory and I'm just excited about what God is doing in our church. And again, we cannot do any of that without your support, your participation. So thank you. Thanks to everyone that watched us live, everyone that didn't think it robbery to come out and share with us in person. Uh, we had a phenomenal meeting last week, and so I'm grateful. Glory to the name of God. So Yeah, thank you, thank you. So please guys, make sure you share this. We're going to talk about how to achieve kingdom success tonight. Uh, I think it's very important for this year. Um, and honestly, if you're scrolling past this and you really, uh, don't want to have kingdom success, I promise you tonight, uh, this really is not the live for you. Uh, glory to the name of God, because I'm gonna drive some principles tonight, and I'm probably gonna be discussing them the rest of the month that I believe are going to be very helpful to you having good success in the kingdom of God. Uh, it is his will that we succeed. It is his will that we have good success. And so at the end of the day, uh, we're going to talk about what success really is, not what success is, and I'm gonna give you some laws of success and some principles that I feel are necessary for you to live by. So please, uh, stay with us tonight. Uh, Don't Think It Robbery, glory to the name of God, is going to be a blessing. So let's pray. Glory to God, praise the name of Jesus. And then we're going to jump right into this tonight. I believe, man, that, you know, we really could get a lot of participation if the people that are joining us would just go ahead, my and share. Praise the name of Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Just please, guys, do me the kind favor and share. Glory to God. Please, please, please. Somebody needs it just like you need it. Somebody needs it. Glory to God. So please, guys, go ahead, make sure you share tonight, uh, so that we can be a blessing. And hit that like button. All right, glory to God. Hallelujah, we give God praise. We're streaming right now over, praise God, several platforms. I think we're streaming over 5 different platforms, 3 Facebook pages, Instagram, and YouTube. So wherever you're watching us tonight, glory to the name of God, uh, make sure you become a champion for this live stream and share it. Uh, so glad to see Um, those that are commenting, my daughters, God bless you. Tanya, good to see you tonight. Uh, God bless you. Sharia, good to see you. And Sharia is on a sharing frenzy. She's tagging people below. I see my wife. Glory to the name of God. God bless you, wife. Uh, I'm here in the studio. She's somewhere around here. Glory to the name of God. Um, but you guys need to— this is gonna be, uh, food for the soul. Glory to God. We give you praise and we give you glory. God bless you, Stephanie. We love you. We love you so much. So, oh, it was so good to see you the nights we saw you in the revival, and we're just looking for more opportunities. Glory to the name of God for you to be with us in person. We appreciate all that you do. Glory to God and your commitment to ministry. Uh, God bless you, Dr. Cargo. Good to see you tonight. Yeah, like I said, great to see my daughters tonight. I love all of you guys. Glory to the name of God. And do me a favor, guys, please, uh, share this live stream. Glory to the name of God. I promise you, uh, God will be pleased. Hallelujah! If you share, glory to God. Let's pray and then we're gonna jump right into this tonight. I don't want to prolong the time. Praise the name of God. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you for another opportunity to share your word. We thank you for these, your people, God. We thank you for all that you've done. We thank you for what you did for us last week. Even at the church, God. And we thank you that you brought us into this new year with great expectation. God, you gave us clarity of thought, and now you have released us into a place of freedom of expression to what we see and what we think. And God, we thank you tonight. Hallelujah. That without you, oh glory to the name of God, we can do no thing. But God, in you, all things are possible. So we thank you, God, that even as we open up your word tonight, God, we thank you that there are no impossibilities, there are no limits, God, and that you have ordained for us to have success in the kingdom of God. And we give you glory, honor, and praise for it now in Jesus' name. Let us experience the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost. And we praise you for it now, God, in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen. And amen. Wow, I love you guys tonight. Thank you for being here. I feel God. Glory to God. Yes, God, I feel Jesus tonight. Glory to God. And I believe he's gonna meet us in this. Oh, hey Shannon, I didn't see you just then. God bless you. God bless you. Thank you for being here, Prophet Shannon. Glory to God. Prophet Shannon got ordained on Sunday and that was such an exciting time. So we, we thank God. She's, she already been doing the work. So we, we looking forward now to just seeing her plow and watch what God will do in this next dimension of her ministry. Glory to the name of God. We love him. He's a good God, isn't he? Praise God. Hello Evelyn, God bless you. Welcome and thank you for sharing. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. Glad to welcome all of you that are here from all platforms. We love you and again, thank you for being here. I want to get right in the heart of this, man. Again tonight Uh, we're talking about, glory to the name of God, how to achieve success in the kingdom. Glory to God. And I believe, listen family, again, that God for real, for real, praise God, wants you to have good success in the kingdom of God. As a matter of fact, touch yourself and say, God wants me to have— hear me— good success. Oh boy, I love him. In the kingdom of God, I need you to grab that because it's, it's totally true. Glory to God. God wants you to have good success in the kingdom. Praise God. It's his will, it's his word, it's his desire. Praise God. So listen, hallelujah. I want you to embrace this teaching tonight. I want you to take good notes. Glory to the name of God. Because I believe that God has given me some principle that's going to help you. And this is going to be the kickoff to a series we're going to teach all month on kingdom success. For the rest of the month, this is what we're going to be talking about, because I believe that this year, if you have the principles to get it done, listen to me. Me. I believe you can actually honestly get it done. So what we're going to look at in, in a few ways tonight, I'm going to show you, uh, clearly what success is not. All right, I'm gonna also show you, glory to God, what success is. I'm going to give you some laws to success, and then I'm gonna give you some principles that I think will be very important to assist you as you leave here tonight. So tonight I'm trusting God that as you flow with me, that you're going to leave this live stream with something you could actually take out of here. Glory to God. And use. Praise God. Hallelujah. Matter of fact, type it in the comments. Say, Lord, I receive your word tonight. Glory to God. Just type it in the comments and say it out of your mouth. Lord, I receive your word tonight. I want you to open your spirit to receive this. Glory to the name of God. And this— ah, It's going to be good. Hallelujah. It's going to bless you. Glory to God. So you need to get everybody you possibly can on here tonight. Glory to God. So keep sharing, keep sending out that text. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Glory to God. We give you praise. We give you glory and we give you honor, Jesus. You're wonderful and mighty. You're good. So let's jump into this, guys. Let's jump. Let's jump into it. Praise Praise God. So what is success? Success, and you should see it on your screen, is God's optimal reality for your future. So God already planned and decided a future for you. As a matter of fact, I'm gonna put a scripture on the end that's going to validate everything I'm going to say tonight, which is the foundational scripture really of this series. But I want to share this with you really quick right here. The Bible says in Jeremiah 1:5, hear me guys, it says in Jeremiah 1:5, before I formed you in the belly, God says, I knew you. Glory to the name of God. So before you got in your mama's belly, before you were a living chromosome, which means you're not a mistake, you're supposed to be here, God says he knew you. Rub your belly and say, he knows me. Glory to God. And in fact, if you feel, if you feel good about it, type it in the comments and say, he knows me. Glory to the name of God. He knows me. I want you to grab these facts tonight. God knew you before you ever got here. Watch this. He knew you before people start defining you according to their definition of you. Oh boy, oh boy, glory to the name of God. Ah, shah lebasi. Rub your belly, say he knows me. He, he knew you before the word curses were spoken over your life. He knows you. That's something to get excited about. Glory to God that God actually knows you. Now here's the reality. While God knows us There are many— hear this— that do not know him. And this is a problem. I'm not talking about you got saved, but I'm talking about you fostered a relationship with your God after you got saved. See, it's important because you cannot really have success until you know him and learn what he actually knows about you. You. A lot of people are pursuing futures that are not on the mind of God. I need you to understand this. You should— you shouldn't marry anyone that's not in God's mind. You shouldn't sign a contract that wasn't on God's mind. You shouldn't start a ministry that wasn't on God's mind. You should start a business that wasn't on God's mind. You need to tap in to find out what he knows. So real success is the optimal reality of God. Hear me, guys, for your future. Are y'all getting this tonight? I, I, I'm telling you, stay with me. He knows you. He knows you. Yes, he knows you. Glory to the name of God. And real success is the discovery and the fulfillment of what he knows, that purpose that he has planned for your life. What an awesome thing, man. What an awesome reality. Touch yourself again and say, he knows me, God. Oh, I need you to hear this, man. He knows you for real. Glory to God. He knows you. He knows you. Thank you, Jesus. He knows you. Ha! He knows you, my God. Tonight, he knows you. He knows you better than you know yourself. Hallelujah. And the key again, and I want you to hear this, the substratum of all success is discovering what he knows. Hear me, guys, it's discovering what God knows about you. Hallelujah. Because that's his optimal reality, and that's what you ought to be experiencing in your life. That's what you should want to experience in your life— God's optimal reality for your future. Glory to God! That, that's what you ought to be seeking out. That's what you should be looking for. Glory to God! God's optimal desire, God's optimal reality for your future. What a mighty God we serve! What a great God we serve! Hallelujah! What an amazing God that we serve! He's awesome! He's wonderful and he's— glory to God. He cares, and he cares about us so much. So I need you to realize— I don't know what's happening, glory to God, with my slide that just disappeared, but we gonna keep going. Glory to God. Just touch yourself again and say, he knows me. Oh, there we go. And he wants me to be successful. Glory to the name of God. And I want you to grab this again. It's optimal reality for your future. Success is the fulfillment of purpose. So success is not— guys, I want you to hear me. So success is not— I want you to hear this. Is. I want to tell you what success is not really fast. So success, hear me, family, is not you getting popular on the internet. It's not you having a mega church. It's not you having 100,000 followers. Success is actually doing what God tells you to do. It's actually tapping into the reality that God has— ooh-wee— that God has for your tapping. That's, that's what it— that's what it becomes. So here's what I want you to grab, ladies and gentlemen. God wants you to realize that if— let me give you an example. If you have a church church, and let's say your church only reaches 100 members, and that's what God had in plan for you. Well, guess what? That's the ultimate reality. That's success. Now you can have as much impact as someone with 10,000, because all it takes is one Oprah, one Tyler Perry— y'all ain't got to talk to me here— to become preoccupied with your ministry. History. Glory to God. Oh, shi. So you matter of fact, you can have 10 people and have the right person preoccupied that will finance everything you're called to do. Woo. So success is not predicated upon the number of people that connect to the assignment, is predicated on what God thought, what God knows, and what you know about what he knows, and your obedience to that. Are y'all with me? Are y'all with me tonight? Glory, glory, glory, hallelujah. Ah, my God, tonight just rub your belly one more time. We're gonna get through it. Rub your belly one more time and say, he knows me. Shabbat. I need you to hear it. He knows you. He knows you. I, I'm move, but when I move, I want to make sure you got that part. He knows you. All right, so if you're gonna go after success, you gotta dare to dream big, and you gotta make up in your mind that you want to reach that optimal reality. You want to connect with what God knows, and you don't want to miss it. Hear me, family, to the left nor to the right. You want to grab it just like God says you're supposed to have it. All right, so let's get into this, guys. Let's, let's get into this tonight. Hallelujah. So I want to give you 10 laws of success, right? And, and inside of these laws are 10 questions that I need you to ask yourself. Glory to the name of God. When it comes down to you achieving kingdom success Listen, all of these laws are important. And listen, ladies and gentlemen, if you are not operating in these realms, you are hindering your success or you are slowing down— listen to me— your success. Y'all with me tonight? All right, so the law number 1 is prayer. And watch this, is prayer is your earthly license for heavenly interference. I'm gonna say that again. Prayer is your earthly license for heavenly interference. I'm gonna say it one more time. Prayer is your earthly license for heavenly interference. So when you pray, you're giving God God the authority to intervene or interject— remember that word, interjection— into your life. Because God cannot get involved with your life if you don't invite him. He is not just going to jump into your life— hear me, guys— because you think he should. You got to be a person of prayer, right? So the question you should be asking in prayer, because he's the one that knows your purpose, because remember, success is connected to purpose, is connected to your authentic reason for being alive. Glory to God. Oh, just touch yourself, say, I'm here for a purpose. Glory to God. So you got to ask yourself, am I walking according to a clearly defined purpose? Who defines that purpose? God defines it. You, you can't run around asking people who you are. You can't be trying to get answers from people. God is your manufacturer. So you got to spend time in prayer so you could get a clearly defined purpose. Number 2, second law of success is vision. And you should be proposing the question, Is my life guided by a clear vision for the future? There are so many people, family, that's just living. Hear me. And they do not have a clear vision for the future. Oh my God. Oh my God. I need you to hear me. I need you to hear me. I need you to hear me. There are so many people who are just waking up every day and literally have no idea— listen to me, family— where they are going. That's a whole problem. All right, so you need a clear vision of what the end looks like. Matter of fact, even God says he declares the end from the beginning. So watch this. The achievement of that vision is connected to purpose. Thus, that's truly success, which also, that means vision. Hear me, hear me. Oh boy, hear me, hear me. That means vision, family. Oh God. Is also God's optimal reality for your future. The word vision in Hebrew is harzan, which is where we get English words like horizon, which means you can stand from where you are and see vision coming up or over or going down even. 'Cause when the sun rises, that's considered a horizon. And if you catch it going down, that's also a horizon. So vision can be seen from afar off. When you're pursuing success, listen to me, family, you technically need— say this with me— telescopic vision and watch this, microscopic vision. Let me explain the difference. Telescopic vision, hear me, family, uh, takes something that is far and brings it close. Oh boy. So you can see it clearly and ooh-wee, And when God releases vision, he doesn't leave you guessing. He gives you clear vision of the future and where you're going. Microscopic vision has the ability to take something that is small, hear me family, and make it big. Oh, that is so good to me. Oh my God, that is so good to me. Glory to God. Because I'm often putting things concerning our church, concerning my ministry, concerning, oh my God, my business, is and under the spiritual microscope so that God can enlarge it and make it bigger so I can get clarity and directives on how to move into my future. Oh my God, are y'all here with me tonight? Glory to Jesus! Hallelujah! We love him and we give him praise and we give him glory and we give him honor. My God, tonight. So you, you gotta have telescopic and microscopic vision. All right, third law of success, and I'm running through these, I can teach these all night, is potential. You got to ask the question, am I maximizing my ability and my potential? So are you every day trying to get better? Are you hearing this? Because, and are you tapping the potential that God God has put in you. If you notice, in the word potential, the root of the word is potent. Glory to God. Oh, potent means power. So potential is latent power or ability. We call God omnipotent, which means he's all power. So he has deposited potency, power, ability, capacity in you. To fulfill your purpose and to be successful. Oh boy, rub your belly. So I have the potential to achieve good success, kingdom success. It's already there. Watch this. Would you believe me if I told you you already have everything in you you need to be who you are? Oh family, I need y'all to hear me tonight. I'm gonna say it again. You have everything in you you need my God, tonight, to be who you are. You already packed with potential. Matter of fact, you came to this planet packaged with potency, with ability, with a— with potential to perform at a level, glory to God, that's beyond your natural ability. See, this potential is supernatural ability, is Kratos power. It's the ability. Listen, watch this. If you, if it was connected to your purpose to pick up an 18-wheeler truck, glory to the name of God, that potency has already been supplied for you to do that. Y'all feel what I'm saying? And so you got to develop that potential every single day. But how do you do it? If you don't understand it, then you don't know it. So that's why I'm teaching this tonight. You have potential for good success. You have potential to win. All right. Number 4, 4th law of success is passion. So are you pursuing your life's vision with passion? You got to propose that question to yourself. Am I pursuing my life's vision with passion? Which means you got to put it in front of you. And passion is the driving force behind anything. Are y'all hearing this? I'm gonna say it one more time. Passion is the driving force behind anything. You take a husband and wife, you know, that husband and wife can kiss with passion, and that passion ends up becoming the driving force behind intimacy that will occur later. Are y'all hearing this? Passion is the driving force that brings into manifestation great actions. Glory to God. So you got to become passionate about your life's vision so you can be successful. Are y'all hearing me tonight? Oh boy, I got to keep going. Number 5, principles. Is your life guided by clearly defined principles? See, at the end of the day, and I'm gonna give you 7 principles at the end of this that are gonna be very helpful, but you need some clearly defined principles to move, glory to the name of God, toward success. Or are you just running in the blind? Or are you just trying to figure it out as you go? And I'm gonna show you, you know, some principles to help you not do that because at the end of the day, you'll never have success. You're gonna always have delays. You're gonna always have false starts. You're gonna always have seasons where, it appears like you're having good success. Hear me, but really you fizzle out because you don't have any clearly defined principles. Success responds to principles. Hear me. All right, number 6, planning. Am I developing and working according to a strategy to take me to my same future? Write the vision, make it name upon tables. So you need to start journaling, you need to start writing, you need to start— put— see, we like to fly at church and be deep and wonderful, but see, this is the action stuff we got to put in place. I love high services, I love like the revival we just came out of, but listen, none of that means anything if you don't have a plan of action a map, a massive plan of action. Hear me, where you can actually— hear me, guys, glory to the name of God— see success. Watch this, in seasons, because you follow the plan. Watch this, so you could celebrate your successes in phases because you have mapped out a plan, a map, M-A-P, a massive life action plan. Every believer that wants success, you need a map. And so this year, I want to challenge you guys not to run without a map, because if you do, you're running in vain. The Bible says where there is no vision, again, the people perish. The people— watch this— where perish in Hebrew means they slowly move toward poverty. It doesn't mean death, death to finance, death to abundance. Perishing, you slowly move toward poverty because you don't have a vision. Oh God, oh God. So you need a plan of action to follow. Glory to the name of God. So that you can get to the destination that God is trying to take you to. Oh, I need somebody just to shout it tonight. Say, I'm on my way somewhere. Hallelujah. Shout it. Say, I'm going somewhere. Hallelujah. You got to put that massive plan of action in play, ladies and gentlemen. All right. Are y'all ready? I'm almost done. Number 7, uh, on these laws of success is people. Are the people who influence your life influencing you towards success? Listen, let me tell you something. If people who enter your life, if they did not come to give, they came to take. And you better make sure that the people you are collaborating with, that they are making deposits in you, that you are growing, that you are increased. Watch this, if something is not increasing you, it will ultimately decrease you. I'm gonna say that one more time. If people around you are not increasing you, you keep hanging around, ultimately they're going to decrease you. So you got to make sure you're in cultures and around people that's influencing you toward success. Watch this. You got to make sure that you're connected to cultures, friends, partners— y'all not hearing me— who understand who you are through revelation, not through guessing. Are y'all hearing this? Not they trying to figure you out, but they have prayed and they understand through revelation, through authority, through power my God, who you are, and they want to contribute to your growth and your expansion. You know, one of the reasons, you know, I love my wife. She's a beautiful woman. She's a great one. One reason I married her, because she knows who I am. She pushes me towards success. She has always been in my corner even before we got parent, even before we were dating. She proved to me that she knew who I was and she saw what was in me and what would blossom. Are y'all hearing this? You don't want to invite anybody into your world that's a vision killer, that's a success killer. All right, numbers. Okay, all right, number 8: persistence. Are you committed to flow? Oh my God. Following an outline strategy to bring you success. So you got to get committed to your plan. If you don't have a plan, you don't have nothing to be persistent with. If you don't study the word and pray, you don't have a plan from heaven that tells you what you need to follow. You need to be committed no matter what happens to follow that plan against all odds. You need to keep pressing against all odds. No matter what comes against you, you gotta keep going. Which brings me to the next point, number 9. This is the next law, press of perseverance. Are you dedicated to your assignment despite your challenges and times you get discouraged? Watch this. I'm gonna tell you something on the road to success. Listen to me tonight. Listen, you— I can talk to you because I, I have experienced success in my life, and I'm continuing to grow to new levels and dimensions of success all the time, because there's levels to this thing. I need you to understand something: if you're in anything and you never wanted to quit, you ain't in much. I'm gonna say that right there, because there are going to be times times you want to just throw it all in and give up. Can I submit to you tonight? There have been times I threw in the towel. I'm gonna tell you right now, I threw it in. But every time I threw in the towel, God threw in the— ooh-wee! God threw that towel back. Glory to God. Every time I threw in the towel and said, I'm giving up and I'm quitting, God threw it back. I preached that message about 30 years I think there's a few people around here preaching it now. Glory to God, because they— and I know, I know who they are. Glory to God, they preaching it now. But listen, you got to decide that you're gonna let God throw the towel back at you. So there's somebody tonight, maybe you quit, but God wants to throw that towel back at you so you could keep going and persevere through the challenges and the discouragement. Oh my God, tonight Oh my God. And finally, prayer. This is a law of success. Do you have— and now, now watch this. You notice that prayer started the list and it ended the list, because none of the stuff in the middle of prayer matters if you don't pray. You can be persistent, you can have the right people, you could persevere You, you could, you can have a plan, you can have a vision, you can go through all of those processes, but if you're not a person of prayer, you don't have a spiritual reserve where you keep in touch with God, who is the giver of your purpose. Oh, glory to God. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We give God praise. You have to stay on your face if you want to be successful in the kingdom. You know why? Because you gotta have— hear me— relationship with the King. You gotta know the King. So that's why you got to stay on your face. You can't know him if you don't talk to him. You can't know him if you don't pray. You, you can't know him if you don't allow him— hear me— Hear me, guys, to get the glory out of your life. So you got to spend time with him so you can get the instructions on what it's going to take for him to get the glory out of your life, out of your world. All right, I'm moving quick, man. I'm moving. So, so let's go, let's go to this. Glory to God. I want to give you these 7 principles of success and we're gonna get out of here. I'm gonna put the scripture on the end and we're gonna get out of here. I just sound long, but I want you to grab this. I want you to be like a sponge. So I gave you the 10 laws. I want to give you 7 principles, and we're gonna be teaching this. This is just 7, and whatever the Holy Spirit gives me next time, we're gonna give you some more. Glory to God. Because I believe these things are necessary and they work. Glory to God. So here's principle number 1: whenever you are with successful people Listen to this. Don't use this as an opportunity to network. Don't use this as an opportunity to talk about yourself. As a matter of fact, you need to be asking questions. You don't spend time in the presence of people you admire or people who are successful, who are achieving kingdom success, and you talk about you. What to do. No, you need to be asking questions about how and when and where, glory to God, they went through their process and how they made it. Because if you have the privilege to be at the table, you need to either be quiet or ask questions, one or two. You need to be quiet, take notes, absorb, glory to God. And I would suggest You study to be quiet. That's scripture. Yeah. And if God gives you a question or a series of questions, you ask them, make them make sense, but absorb the knowledge that they are disseminating. Hear me. I've been around people who really should have been asking me questions, but they were running their mouth about themselves. And that is such a turnoff to people who are experiencing success. Yes, let me tell you a story, real quick story. That one of my favorite preachers of all time is Tim Storey. Tim Storey is amazing. And, um, he was teaching one night years ago, years ago, and, uh, probably about 20 years ago he told this story. And, um, he gave a testimony. He said, I was at Evangel Temple in Washington, DC teaching as a guest speaker for Don Mears. And, um, He said, I taught the word, uh, God moved by power, there were miracles, signs, and wonders. And, um, he said, when I got through teaching— and mind you, I witnessed this, okay, because I went to school in DC, I was living in DC at the time— and so I witnessed, I was actually— so it was longer really than 20 years, it's been probably 32, 33 years ago, man. Man. But he said, when I got through teaching, there was a guy— I was walking to the back— there was a guy who was pressing through the crowd trying to get to me. And I saw him in my peripheral, I just kept walking. My people were trying to stop him, and then finally the Holy Spirit said, let him through. So he let him through, and the guy said, listen, I don't mean to disturb you, but I need to ask you, how do you minister under the power like that? How do you get people to respond to you? How do you study? He started asking me all of these questions, and he said, okay. And he told him the answers, and then he asked the guys, and he said, man, you're so inquisitive. What is your name? The guy said, my name is T.D. Jakes. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. He said, my name is T.D. Jakes. And I know for a fact, you know, that this story is true. And the reality is, family, Bishop Jakes had enough sense to ask questions about where he wanted to go, where he believed God was taking him. So I'm saying, if that entity could ask questions, what's wrong with you starting to be quiet and asking All right. Okay. So whenever you with successful people, don't talk about yourself, ask questions. And this is what you honestly ought to be doing. Principle number 2 is taking the position of a learner. If you look at the word learn, you'll see in— or learner, you'll see the word earn is inside of it. Your earning is connected to your learning. If you learn what a lawyer knows, you'll earn what he earns. If you learn, glory to God, what a neurosurgeon knows, you'll earn what he earns, which is like $325,000 per surgery. So if you learn what that guy knows, you can earn what he earns. Well, if you learn what a mentor or what someone who's walking in what you desire to walk in knows, you can earn what they earn, even if that earning is not tangible money. The wisdom you can gain, which is better than money. Glory to God. But take— this is the most— the position of a learner, people, is the most powerful position you could ever take. Hear me good, family. Hear me good. Hear me good. You don't know everything. I don't know everything. I still have people I learn from. I still have people I listen to on on a daily basis because there are things I need to know about some of the things I'm trying to accomplish. Are y'all hearing me? I pray y'all getting something out of this message. I'm almost done. So take the position of a learner. Oh boy, here we go. Whoever masters a thing becomes successful. Watch this. So mastery starts with measuring. You'll never become a master unless you allow yourself to be measured. Hear me, family. Hear me, family. You'll never be, and you'll never be successful if you don't become a master. So you gotta first embrace measuring. And this is one of the reasons every person on the planet, I'll be so glad. I had a meeting today, glory to God, with, Hallelujah. My publisher, I'm so glad we're gonna release this Gift of Apostleship book because every person on the planet needs an apostle. Because apostles, sent ones, apostolos in Greek, they have gubernatorial authority. They operate in plenipotentiary status, which gives them a diversity of authorities and gifts. Matter of fact, they house inside of their gifting and their anointing the giftings and the abilities of Jesus Christ because he's chief of all apostles. Now, when an apostle shows up in your life— and every person, every pastor needs an apostle, every kingdom citizen needs the office of an apostle in their life— because apostles have a metron on their life to measure. Anytime I go anywhere, I walk in the room, my— those antennas come on apostolically, and I start measuring. I start measuring where the room is, where the people are, so I can hear God on how I am to release. All right, so you got a measuring mantle on the apostle. But secondly, apostles, which is a mantle that helps people discover who they really are. Many people don't really know who they are. They don't know their authentic purpose, so they're not successful. Because they haven't encountered real apostolic ministry that doesn't just hoop and holler, that doesn't just scream, go through the motion, that— watch this— that doesn't just lay hands, that doesn't just prophesy, that doesn't just work in miracles. But there's a measuring dimension. But see, here's the problem. Most immature people who think they've already arrived— watch this— they don't want to be measured. Oh God, because guess what? They think they're already there. But if you were already there, there'd be no need, because again, there are levels to this thing, there are dimensions to this thing. So you may reach one pinnacle of success, but even after you reach that pinnacle, there's other pinnacles and other heights that you need to go to as a successful person. Hear me, family. So you need an apostle to measure that, to help you discover. Say discover. Glory to God. Who you are. Discovery is important. Glory to God. And many of you have been blessed, many of you are here tonight, to have authentic apostles in your life to help you discover who you are. Second dimension of apostles is a— oh my God, is a managing dimension. So apostles super help you supernaturally manage your life, your purpose, your vision, your dreams. So watch this, I always say prophets prophesy and apostles bring it to pass. Apostles have a management dimension in them to hear a prophecy. Watch this, I do this all the time. That a person receives. Uh, there are some prophecies that went forth, glory to God, this past week. I'm already processing a lot of these words for others so that we can help them manage the prophecy and actually bring it to pass. Because what happens, God, through stratospheric authority and stratospheric sensitivity, the apostle receives strategy. And wisdom on how to bring the prophecy that is spoken from God to pass. And this is why a lot of prophecies are in stuck mode. Hear me, guys. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Because they have not encountered the dimension of managing. Ooh. To help bring to pass what's in your belly. So the dimension of measuring, the dimension of managing— watch this— which is development. So the apostle helps the person develop what's in them. Hear me, y'all with me? I'm gonna be through in a moment. Stay with me, stay with me, stay with me, stay with me. I— all you're gonna do is get off and eat, watch TV or something. Stay with me, you need this, I'm telling I'm halfway, I'm halfway to the end of these slides. I want you to get this. Ooh, shabaya, matiana. So you need this dimension of mastering. You need this dimension of measuring, which is the last dimension is mastering. So from measuring, managing, mastery, which is deployment. So essentially the apostle helps you discover, develop, deploy, Deploy. That's the motto of Rhoda Church and everything that's connected to my ministry. We want to help people discover, develop, deploy. See, you don't need to be deployed until you're a master, because we have enough novice in the world. So the apostle helps you master a thing so you could be successful. And then once you master a thing, you could step into the realm of true Rhoda, true Dominion, which means you're in control in your sphere of influence because you are a master in that area. Oh boy, just rub your belly and say, I'm a master. I dare you declare it in the name of Jesus. I declare over you, you are a master. Glory be to God. You are a master. You are a master. And no longer will you be considered a novice because God wants to deploy you so you can dominate in that fear of influence. Glory to God. I love him. He's a good God. He's a mighty God, and he's worthy to be praised. What a mighty God we serve. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Let me move on. Principle number 4, because I can stay right there. Watch this. Number 4: what you cannot multiply, you cannot succeed in. So as long what you have is one-dimensional and you have no ability to duplicate yourself in other people or duplicate a product so it can be released to the masses. Come on, you will not ever have success. So you— the people even around you, remember we talked about people as a law? You need to multiply successful mindset and thinking in those people. I mean, this whole year I'm going to be depositing mindset training in the people around me so they can have good success. Watch this. Because if they succeed, hear me, I succeed by default. The vision succeeds by default. Hear this. If you help other people get to the top, they will never forget you. A good leader— watch this— teaches people how to do what they do and even do it better. Glory to God. A good leader ultimately works themselves out of a position. Oh, watch this. Success— watch this— is a mindset. It's not the result of activity, it's the result of mindset. Mindset. See, people think about grind hard, I work hard, I'm gonna be successful. No, you got to first get the mindset that fuels that passion. Because watch this, money is not currency, your mind is. Even with money, the amount of money you have is connected to your mindset about money. If, if your mindset about money is, is check to check, month a month and you're afraid to invest, you're afraid to tithe, you're afraid to sow, you're afraid to do the things that you know you need to do to multiply your money— here we go, here we go— you're not going to have success in those areas. So what you cannot multiply, you cannot succeed in. You were called to multiply. Watch this. Jesus even said, these things I have done, but greater you shall do because I go to my Father. Oh, shatta mandiosia! Glory, glory! God said, greater you gonna do. You know how you do? You know, you know what Jesus was saying? I'm gonna reproduce myself in the 12, and the 12, I want you to reproduce yourself in the world. And it's the multiplicity of Kingdom work, the multiplicity of ministry, of service. Oh, I need you to hear me. So you got to decide, I'm not going to stay one-dimensional, that I'm going— watch this— no man's an island. You got— that's why you got to find the people who are supposed to walk with you and multiply what you're doing in them and expose them to what you're exposed to so they can bring to the table of your vision. Oh my God, I gotta go. Here's principle number 5, people. Glory to God, I love him, he's such a good God. You— this is a principle of success. You got to realize this, this is what your purpose says, this is what your authenticity says. You were born to solve a problem. Oh God, please somebody give some hearts, hit the like button. Glory to the name of God if you believe that. Throw your hands up in the comments. You were born to solve a problem. Your purpose and your assignment is the problem you were created to solve. Glory to the name of God. You gotta, you gotta accept that you're not just here to live a mundane life. You were born, my friend, for real to solve a problem. Oh my God, tonight. Oh my God. Oh boy, this is so good. I pray y'all getting this, man. I'm gonna be throwing them. I'm over my hour, but I'm, I'm gonna, I'm gonna give you these and I'm gonna go. All right, stay with me. You authentically were born to solve a problem, to make the world better. Watch this. Matter of fact, next principle, principle number 6: you are God's response— hear this— to a need he created. Wait a minute, I told you before he formed you, he knew you, right? So he already created the needs in the earth as well. And when he was creating man and knowing us in our pre-Adamic state, before we were human. Glory to God. He was putting inside of us— watch this— spermatically impregnating our spirit. Glory to God. With a response to an issue or a need that would exist in the world in our generation. Listen, for real, you are the answer to a question that God knew your generation would ask and that your purpose could answer. Your life has meaning. You are significant. You are here for a reason. Oh, glory to God. Last one. Let me go, 'cause I'm about to get happy. Last one. If you wanna be a success, do not seek success. What are you saying, Michael Woods? No, seek to become a person of value. Hear me, family, don't seek success. Seek to become a person of value. Glory to God. You got to make up your mind. Shebatol rabandi asa. That you're going to create the best version of you that people value. Glory to God! That people, hallelujah, will pay you to be yourself. It's real. If you become a person of value, people will pay you to be you. Money is what you receive when you help somebody do something they cannot do without you. Matter of fact, guess what you did when you went and got a job? You became a person of value at that job. The only difference is they have created a valuation system based on your learning, your training, and they pay you according to what they have defined as your value. Value. But if you become a person of value in the area of your purpose and you discover who you really are, the world— hallelujah— will pay you to be yourself. I see it with my wife. She's a cook, she's a baker. I see it with Tanya, she's a chef. Glory to the name of God. People pay. I see what my business is in production, and I'm a creator. Glory to the name of God. People will pay you to be you. And as you expand in value, people will pay you money for it. Are y'all here? Oh God, I'm, I'm finna go. I'm gonna put this scripture on the end and I'm gonna go. But don't seek success, seek to develop your value. A matter of fact, while I'm talking, somebody's stock just went up. Glory to God. I'm telling you right now, while I'm teaching, your stock just went, ooh, your stock just went, my God, my God, your stock. Let me, let me just, I had to come back cause I need to tell you this. Your stock just went up. See, the stock market fluctuates on revelation, on knowledge. So when people see value, they buy. When they see value in the company, they buy. Glory to God. And I'm telling you, when you discover who you are and you discover your value, glory to God, your stock increases. I've been saying this for years, and if you've been listening to me, you need to catch the revelation. Increase your value so your stock could go up, and watch this, people will pay you to be you. Glory to God. People will pay you to be you. Are y'all here? Please hear me tonight. Glory to God. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Glory to Jesus. Woo! Shama! I'm, I'm gonna go to the scripture. I'm pulling them up. Glory to God. Because I need you to understand, you can be successful. You just got to do the work. You gotta, you got to do the work and, and practice these laws. And these principles. So, watch this. If you start practicing these principles that I'm gonna release to you this month, success is gonna start looking for you. Glory to God. You gotta understand this. It's gonna start looking for you. Glory. Oh boy. But you gotta increase your value. Value. Let me move on, let me move on. Are y'all, are y'all here? Y'all, y'all, y'all loving this? Glory to God! Are y'all being blessed tonight? Praise God! All right, let's get in this word, and it ain't gonna take me long. Psalms 1 and verse number 1. Watch this, this, this just kind of is a substratum of this entire series. Glory to God! Hallelujah! I'm pulling up on my phone, pulling my iPad. Glory to God! All right, so the scripture says, blessed is the man. The NIV is on the screen. Watch this. That walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful. This entire verse hangs on the word blessed. Watch this, which is esher, E-S-H-E-R, which means, watch this, empowered to have success or empowered to prosper. Matter of fact, touch yourself, say, I am empowered to prosper. I am empowered to have good success. Glory to God. Come on, say it one more time. I am empowered to prosper. I am empowered to have good success. Listen, blessed is the one one who does not walk in the counsel of the ungodly or step with the wicked. So, okay, so ungodly, we see again, is interchanged for the word wicked. The reality is there are some wicked people, Rasha in Hebrew, some criminal people, some people who are wickedly against your success. Watch this, people who don't want to see you succeed, they are ungodly. Godly. There are some people that are un— okay, they are hostile against God. You shouldn't be walking with them. You shouldn't be listening to them. You should not be listening to people who have just made you a number, and, and you serve with them only to make their purpose come to pass, and they're not exchanging anything to help you push into what God has called you to do. So, and I'm telling you something, you'll never have success operating around ungodliness. The Bible says you cannot walk in the counsel, which means you cannot submit to what they're saying. I said this last week, I'll say it again, eagles don't run with chickens. I'm gonna say it one more time. If you wanna be an eagle with telescopic vision, who could take that which is far and bring it close and bring it to pass, then you need to run with eagles. But if you're running with chickens, you have to always condescend, come down to deal with chickens. Chicken mentality, chicken mindset. They're never gonna arise above where they are. All they're gonna do is keep talking a good game and keep going in circles. But what if you really wanna have success? You better find you some more eagles and run with them. Him. Boy, I got to get out of here. He says, so you blessed, you empowered to prosper, you're empowered to have success when you extrapolate ungodly counsel from your life. Secondly, he says, nor standeth in the way of sinners. Well, the only people I know that want to be around sinners and walk in their way is people that love to sin, people that's full of mixture, people that want to be on the fence. Glory to God. You want to serve God today and you want to be a sinner tomorrow. Well, So if you want to have success and you want God involved in that success, see, watch this. The way of a transgressor— this is Bible— is hard. So you're going to make things harder than they need to be because you're, you're in sin and you're transgressing. Oh boy, you better listen to me and remember I told you sin is not just the big sins— fornication, adultery, lying, cheating, drinking. No, sin, hermitsia in Greek, means to miss the mark. So when you're hanging out with people who are missing the mark, who are not going for success, who are not going after their dream, who think low, think down, talk down, low down— ah, sinners, they think down, they talk down, they're low down. They don't want anything more than what they have. And when you hang out with that kind of company, people that are coming short of their purpose, coming short of success. Can I tell you something? You will not have good success. You're going to make it hard. Watch this. Or sit in the seat of the scornful, of mockers, people that mock people of God, people that tell you you crazy for following God's patterns of success. Listen, I want them to keep mocking me, keep laughing. I'm gonna laugh all the way bank. I'm gonna keep growing until I'm a billionaire. I'm gonna keep growing until, glory to the name of God, I have legacy laid out for my children where, where I'm telling they walk into multi-millions in their inheritance. Can I tell you something? You got to make up in your mind that you're not gonna hang around and close your ears to that. Stop scrolling and listening to that trap. Okay, go to verse 2. We got to get out of here. So instead of those 3 classes— ungodly, sinners, scornful— he says, delight in the law of the Lord, the constitution of the kingdom, which is the Bible. Delight in the law of the Lord and meditate on this law day and night. The word meditate is hagi in Hebrew, which means to eat it, chew it up, swallow it, regurgitate it, consume it some more to break it down some more, swallow it to continue the process until what you consume, you become one with, and it becomes automatic in your pursuit of life. You do it because it's one with you. Instead of scrolling Facebook all day, meditate on his law day and night trying to see who liked your picture. Get in the word. Are y'all hearing this? Trying to see what somebody else is saying and being nosy about everybody else's life, see where they at. You watching everybody else's life, and God says if you will just get in the word, watch what happens. Verse 3, he said, first of all, you'll be like a tree planted by streams of water. Glory to God. So a tree that's planted by the water It's not gonna move. Glory to God, it's solid. Glory to the name of God. And it's gonna yield fruit. Fruit is success in season. And the leaf— hear me, family— of that tree is not gonna wilt, which means you're gonna be perpetually fruitful, which means you're gonna be fruitful all the time. You, you're never going to lose success once you gain retain it and watch the depth of it. Whatever you do will be successful, it will prosper. Let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus— I can go all night— thank you for this word, God. And I pray, dear Jesus, that it lands on the good ground of every heart and that they will reap it in due season if they faint not. I release good success Glory to God. I release good success. Glory to God. I release good success in the mighty name of Jesus. And I decree and declare that your people will be people of passion and purpose and prayer. And God, they will take these principles and use them, and you will get the glory out of their life. Father, I praise you for what's to come, and I declare what's to come is better than what has has been, and I praise you, Jesus. In Jesus' name, amen. Family, I thank you so much for listening to this word tonight. I thank you for staying with me. Listen, very quickly, I want to challenge your hearts to give. Let me tell you what I need tonight. I'm just going to tell you what I need. I have a closing meeting tomorrow on a very important deal for our ministry, and I need your help. Glory to God, we're going to have an opportunity to take total control of our media, and that means we'll have our own station on television called Radha TV, which means you'll be able to go to— glory to God— Roku TV, you'll be able to go to Fire TV, Apple TV, Prime TV, and you'll be able to actually watch us around the world 24/7. All these teachings will be there on demand, our live streams, our upcoming podcast, the things we produce. We're going to produce a Christian film, we're going to produce Christian-based documentaries. All these things will be streaming, plus we'll be able to host other ministries. Apostle Cornelius, we're going to bring him onto the network. Listen, we're going bring several of our apostolic people because, believe it or not, social media— Facebook, YouTube— they honestly don't favor the church. The people that are popular, you know, that has happened because in some arena they've been popular before they got on social media. Um, the reality is I believe we're saying something that the world needs to hear. So we have this closing meeting tomorrow Um, this whole project is right at about $10,000 to get it up and running. Listen, I am about $2,500 away. Uh, we're gonna close this tomorrow, but I want to give you an opportunity to invest in this. People are going to be saved. It's going to be— I mean, it's going to be an apostolic version of the Word Network, TBN, on steroids, because we're gonna have programming, we're gonna have news shows, podcasts, podcast. It's gonna be a dominion-level channel. I need your help to close this deal tomorrow. So it's— we're over 5 platforms. Is many of you watching on YouTube, Facebook? Glory to the name of God. Uh, some of you are watching on Instagram. I need your assistance. Again, I'm $2,500 away. We had a great meeting, you guys, that were giving. You were giving, you were helping. Glory to uh, uh, I appreciate it. I'm gonna put the ways to give up. Glory to God. And I want you to help. I want you to help. Father, bless the seed, every gift, every giver. Give it back to them 1,000 times more than they give it tonight. The ways to give are on the screen. And Father, I ask that these things will come back expedit— expeditiously and expeditious Seriously, you know, some of you can get us— I mean, we made a challenge, uh, for people to give $1,000, uh, in the meeting on Sunday. Uh, we had a couple that did that, but you know, I felt in my spirit that it was at least 7 people that could have did it that were either watching or in the building, and they did. Listen, maybe tonight you get a second chance to catch that up, but I want you to get a seed in the ground that you could feel that's tangible. You know, I'm not going to tell you what to do. I told you we need $2,500, and my meeting is tomorrow afternoon, and I need your assistance to help. So I want— and I want you to get seed in the ground in this particular venture because it's going to change so many lives. Again, the ways to give are on the screen. Glory to the name of God. Your support, praise God, means everything. Glory to God, it means everything. Hallelujah. They're also scrolling at the bottom of the screen, so however you choose to give tonight, get your seed in ground and be a help to ministry. Father, I thank you for those that are assisting us right now. I thank you that the spirit of selfishness doesn't rest on this live, and for our partners and friends that are live or by replay that sees this, that they will move to help us launch Rada TV, a real television platform that will be a blessing to many around the world, and that will control the narrative. We won't be controlled by Facebook, YouTube, but we'll have our own streaming, our own ability to get the message you've given us out to the world. So Father, I'm thanking you now that your people are responding, in the name of Jesus. Amen. I love you guys so much, man. Y'all just don't know. I love you so much, and I appreciate God for you. I thank you for your support. I'm thanking you in advance for helping us get this done. I believe, I believe God. I believe that tonight these seeds are going to come in and we're going to have exactly what we need when we go to our closing meeting tomorrow to start building out our channel so that no later than the end of March we'll be fully launched. We'll be— some things will be launched almost immediately, but we'll be fully launched again on all of those platforms where people can actually see us on their television. I need your help. I need you. I'm saying to you, I need you. I heard one preacher tell his folk, we don't need your money. I'm not saying that. I need your help. Get your seed in the ground. I love y'all. Thank y'all for joining us tonight. Y'all be blessed. I'm gonna leave the ways to give up for a moment, and I will see you on Sunday at Rhoda Church. Y'all be blessed. God bless you, Evelyn. Thanks for joining us. I appreciate you. Hallelujah! We give you glory, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Yeah, so it was really blessed tonight. God move. Good word. Thank you, Jesus.