If Any Two Agree | Dr. Mike Woods

Well, grace and peace everyone. Welcome. I pray you're well this evening. Uh, this indeed is the day the Lord has made, and yes, Jesus, we rejoice and we are glad in it. He's a good God. He's a mighty God. Listen, before we get started, I want to ask you to do something for me that I always do. I want to ask you to share this. Listen, uh, the scripture declares we are blessed to be a blessing. So please, tonight, guys, let's get this word out. Please share it. Uh, God knows you and I both need the word of the living God, and this is the very thing, uh, that gives us life. Glory to God. This is the very thing that keeps us alive, man. We can do nothing without the word. We're going to get started in just a moment, but I need you to go ahead, guys, and share this for me. Do me that kind favor and share this. Add someone at the bottom in a tag, share it in the inbox, share it on your timeline. Listen, if, if what you receive when you come on these live teachings or any of the videos or the posts that God allows us to make. None of the stuff is me, it's stuff that God gives me for those that would run into my page or people that deliberately follow us so that they can be encouraged, edified, empowered to show up in the world for real, man, and advance the kingdom and have the life that God has created you to have. So do me a kind favor, share, share, share. Y'all come in, please don't scroll if you're coming up and down the timeline, you're seeing me right now, you need to stay here. Do not scroll, stay with me. Glory to God. So why are you doing that? We're going to be back in just a moment and we're going to get started, but I need you to share. Glory to God. Share, share, share, share. Praise the name of Jesus. He's a good God. Beside him there is no other. He rules and he super rules. Glory to God. Heaven is his throne and the earth is his footstool. The heavens declare his glory. Hallelujah. And the earth his handiwork. We bless him tonight and we give him praise. Go ahead and share this, guys, and we'll be back to get started in just one moment. Thank you. Hallelujah! We bless you, Lord. All right guys, welcome everybody. Listen, we're going to go ahead and pray and we're going to jump right into the heart of this tonight. I, I feel like teaching this. I know it's going to be a blessing. Again, you see the message on the screen, right? If you have not shared this, do me a favor, do me a solid, all right? Share it. Someone needs to hear it just like you Uh, please, it only takes a few moments to hit that button and share it. Glory to the name. This, this just ought to be an automatic occurrence. Glory to God. When you show up on these teachings, I want to get this number up tonight. So guys, do me a favor and please go ahead and share. Praise the name of God. Share, share, share. Glory to Jesus. Share, share, share. Hallelujah! Glory to God. God is good, isn't he? He's a great God. He's been good to us. He's kind, he's wonderful, he's mighty. Oh my God! And we worship him tonight. Yes, we give him the glory, we give him the honor, we honor his name. Yes. We honor his— yeah, his great name, his mighty name, his powerful name. What a great God he is. So Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you tonight for another opportunity to share with these your people. And I pray, God, that you would superimpose yourself upon us. And Father, let my words be as your words. May the people that hear this teaching tonight be blessed by you and never ever impressed by me. Father, you get the glory, you get the honor, you get the praise. And Father, I'm asking you now that you would veto Cancel every diabolical scheme of the enemy. Satan, we serve notice on you. The Lord rebuke you, and the blood of Jesus Christ be against you. Cast the devil out of the mind, break down every stubborn will. We say yes, Lord. Yeah, God, yes to your will, yes to your plan, yes to your way. God, shete me kuso rataban sete me o. Reben se le e son toramandi. God, let your glory be revealed even tonight. And Father, even as we teach your word, bring healing, bring deliverance. That I pray a special prayer tonight for those that are sick. God, God, let healing and deliverance, which is the children's bread, occur tonight. I pray for Kiara, who's at the hospital sick. I decree and declare, God, that right now you're touching throat. I come against strep throat and infection and, and a high temperature and fever. I decree and declare even now, with your stripes, Kierra Morton is healed in the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Yes, God. I decree and declare, God, that— oh, she under the bus— that Pastor Zion and Pastor Jeffrey's mother who was admitted to the hospital and discharged today. I decree and declare that you're touching her body and making her whole now in the name of Jesus. I decree and declare, God, that Sharia, who was in an accident, that you're touching every part of her body and you're making her whole, God. You're moving all the pain, you're moving all the tension in her body in the mighty name of Jesus. And every person under the sound of my voice that's emotionally broken, that's physically broken, God, in the name of Jesus, we decree and declare healing and deliverance. Let it be our portion tonight. We thank you for your power. We thank you, God. Lekiska tataman soto robo. Oh, remiska ta bren sete bebo. So for your anointing that heals, heals wounded relationships. And we give you praise for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. Thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. We're trusting— we're trusting God for his goodness, for his mercy, for his grace, for his kindness. God is good. Hey, listen, you guys go ahead again and share this. We're gonna get started. My God, today— listen, guys, welcome to our Thursday night Kingdom Global Bible study. We're certainly grateful Uh, for each one of you, we're excited about what God wants to do and will do and can do through and in all of us. And tonight we're going to continue our teaching, glory to the name of God, on strife. Praise God. And, um, we have deemed that this is the year of action, and we thank you in advance, Father, for the light, the illumination and the intelligence of the Holy Spirit. And we've been teaching, glory to the name of God, uh, since the beginning of the year, um, on a call to action. And this part of this series, this is going to be our theme for the whole year. This is where God is taking us. Listen, gone are the days where you just attended church, uh, having a gift. Hear me, listen guys. And never taking action. Those days are over. Okay, so God wants you not just to be a hearer of the word, but you got to be a doer. And so God is calling us to action this year. Really, honestly, guys, some of the reason why your dreams, your desires, the things you've been trusting God for, some of the reason it's not coming to pass, you're not seeing a manifestation of that in your life is because you refuse to take action. So this series, uh, you know, we stopped, took a break on the, uh, 7th and 8th. Uh, Apostle Davis came in and he called us to action in the kingdom. And glory to God, what an amazing opportunity to be revived and refreshed. Glory to God to take action. Listen, if you're not taking action in what you're learning in the Bible You're just attending church. Listen, going to church doesn't make you a kingdom citizen. What makes you a kingdom citizen is when you align yourself in action to do the things that God has designed for you to do. All right, so tonight we want to jump in this, man. I want to very quickly, guys, Uh, I want to play for you the series trailer. Uh, we had opportunity to produce that today. Um, excuse some of the bad acting in this trailer, but at the end of the day, this is a great trailer. And, uh, listen, I'm— listen, I'm— I shoot straight from the hip with everybody, but, but appreciate every person that's in this video, and we're, we're grateful to God for the sincere scenes where— that we took from the worship service. So check out the trailer, share it, it's on my Facebook page, because we need people to take action against strife, man. And we're continuing that series tonight. Tonight we're talking about If Any Two Agree. So check out the trailer and then we're gonna jump right into the series tonight. God bless you. In a world filled with conflict and division, where strife threatens to tear us apart. We are called to a higher purpose, a greater destiny, to advance the kingdom of God and superimpose heaven on earth. Together, we explore the wisdom of God the wisdom of his word, and we discover a pathway to fulfillment, to peace, to harmony, and unity. Join us for our new teaching series, Taking Action Against Strife, as we seek to bring peace and understanding to our world and to our our lives. Together we can make a difference. All right, family, let's jump into this again tonight. Glory to God. Uh, we are— glory to the name of God— continuing this series on taking action against strife. Listen, again, if you have not shared this yet, I'm talking to you. Yeah, the one that haven't hit the share button. If you're here live or by replay, please guys, go right ahead and share this now. So we, we've covered some good stuff, man, and I pray you guys have been listening Uh, the first part of this, we were talking about really the exposition of strife, exposing it. Uh, we started off talking about how important it is to have unity, how important it is to have peace. Uh, not going to teach these again. The messages are on the timeline. Please go back and watch them. Um, we talked about the spirit of strife, we talked about the danger of strife, we talked about how strife destroys on Sunday. And, um, I want to start tonight with something that I believe is very important. Glory to the name of God. And because we're going to jump into this thing with both feet about the power of agreement. If any two agree— if I was putting a title on this tonight, I would call it If Any Two Agree. Glory to the name of God. And I want to talk about strife and how it is connected off the top to every evil work. When people are doing evil things, hear me, when evil things are happening to you, when evil is coming toward you, hear me, it's connected to strife. And I want to show you this, guys, because it's very important. So let's go first to Hebrews. Let's go to Hebrews. Praise God. Um, we're gonna look at— glory to the name of Jesus— uh, Hebrews 10. Nah, no, Hebrews 12. That's what I want. Glory to God. Hebrews 12. And, um, Hebrews 12. Now it came to pass in the— okay, I ain't asked Siri to read the scripture for me. Hebrews 12, guys. Hebrews 12, verses 14 and 15. Somebody write that in the chat. Glory to the name of God. Hebrews 12, uh, verses 14 and 15. And I don't know, I mean, I was— the devil was trying to attack my Bible. Glory to the name of God. Thank you, Lord. On Sunday, my Bible did some stuff it ain't never did before. But Hebrews 12 Glory to the name of God. And we want to go to verse number 14 again. I see. All right, we're here. Glory to God. Hebrews 12:14, the Bible says, and we've read this before, but I want to read it again. It says, follow peace with all men and holiness without, no man shall see the Lord. So two things here which cause us to see God. And a lot of times in the church, what we've done, we've harped on holiness. Holiness is important. I talked about that Sunday. How you live, how you behave is important. Holiness is right. I grew up under a very strict doctrine of holiness, a holy holiness regime that I appreciate because I learned the difference in right and wrong. I learned the things that God are pleased with and the things that God is not pleased with. And we got to get rid of this stuff, guys, that's in the world today where we're trying to make God— hear me— Listen to me, guys. We're trying to make God pleased with stuff that he, he's not buying into, all right? We want him to, oh my God, align and be embraced with things that he's never going to embrace. So we got to make sure that every day we wake up— and I'm gonna take you deeper in this in a moment— that we're practicing holiness. Glory to God. All right, but also it says, and follow peace with all men. Wait a minute, so I should be following after— I'm gonna pull in so you can see me— I should be following after a peaceful— oh my God, relationship and peaceful resolve. Watch this, with all men. Now I want you to hear this: in your pursuit of peace, there will be people that will not follow peace with you. And when that happens, you have to still choose to be peaceful. Listen, you don't get to choke people, kick people, slap people because they piss you off or because they're doing something you don't like. You don't get to snap. If you want to see God, you got to follow peace. And sometimes following peace is dismissing yourself— hear me— from the presence of that person that's bringing you drama. Oh wee, oh wee, oh wee. Sometimes you just got to walk away from the drama. Sometimes you got to block people, you got to unfriend people. Some things that disrupt your peace that you see on the internet, guess what? You don't have to look at it. Oh boy, oh boy, you, you, you, you don't have to look at it. You actually, guys, can keep scrolling and you can click on that person Unfriend them, block them. You don't have to receive inboxes from people who are bringing you strife. Block them, block them in your phone. Just go and block them. Don't change your name, none of that. Block them, delete their contact. That way you can stay at peace, because once someone is proven They come to disrupt your peace. I'm telling you right now, that's what they come to do. Are you hearing me? Oh boy. Okay, all right. So he says, follow peace with all men and holiness without no man can see God. So if I want to see the Lord, I got to move in peace, I got to move in holiness. Quite honestly, you can't be holy without being peaceful. Oh boy, I know you stopped having sex, that's good, keep on stopping. But you also need to stop going off on everybody. You need to also stop allowing strife to come into your life. I know you stopped cussing, some of y'all did, some of you didn't, uh, but at the end of the day continue on that line, continue your holy behavior, but I need you also to follow peace. All right, and we're going to deal with that tonight. It says, looking diligently— watch this— lest any man fall of the grace of God, lest any root— hear me, guys— of bitterness— listen Oh, we— y'all here? Oh God. Springing up trouble you, and thereby many be defiled. So he says you got to get this out of your life so you don't get bitter, and so that you don't start infecting other people worse than COVID. Someone said, no way, Apostle. Yeah, worse than COVID, because you're infecting people at their soul, and at the same time you're affecting your soul, which ultimately is going to make you miss God. It's going to ultimately make you miss the kingdom, having heaven on earth, and ultimately may miss you, cause you to miss heaven, period. Oh boy, oh boy. I tell you what, I tell you what, I'm gonna leave y'all alone. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, um, oh boy. Go to James 3, verses 13 and 18. I'm, I'm moving. I'm gonna move quickly tonight. I'm gonna move expeditiously. Glory to God. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Y'all don't scroll. I'm just trying to help you. The reason why most people are stuck in a cycle, whether it be financially, in your relationship, in your marriage Nothing will get right because you ain't got no peace. You got too much strife in your life. How can you serve the Prince of Peace and you don't walk in peace? With all the tongues you speak in, floating around the church, squinting your eyes, acting deep, can't hardly speak, talking soft because you so deep and wonderful. Oh my God. Oh boy, James 3:13 and 18. Oh boy, y'all don't like me tonight. That's okay, I love y'all though. The Bible said, who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? Let him show out of good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom. So again, we're being encouraged to pursue profitable conversations. Listen, I've learned not to enter into dialogue and conversations with people who are going to disrupt my peace. I pursue every conversation with humility and with wisdom. I watch what I say. I say what I mean. And I shorten conversations that are not moving in a peaceful duration. When you see it, you got to cut it off, you got to turn it loose. Are y'all hearing this? Glory to God. And I've learned, man, I'm a preacher for— I've been a full-time preacher for 34 years this year, man, going on 35 years this year. This year I said my 55, 35. It's going to be a very special birthday. I celebrate 55 years of life, um, 35 years of full-time ministry. And you know, here's the reality: preachers sometimes can be the worst carriers of strife and confusion. Because what I found, even in my own life early on, being frustrated not being able to— oh my God, listen— being able to figure out what God was actually trying to do or perform in my life. Sometimes that became very hard and many times an interesting, um, journey because So I, I became angry because I didn't— I wouldn't understand it. But the more I grew, the more mature, the greater my prayer life became. Hear me, the more I understood, glory to God, that I needed to get the strife out of my life and I needed to operate in a level of peace. But I find that, you know, even now I deal with people who are supposed to be mature prophets, mature apostles, mature, mature pastors, teachers. They operate in a whole lot of strife. They're angry, they're mad, and they have these buttons. Now, I have to walk away from that with me. Let me tell you where the wisdom is for me, and I'm gonna get into this tonight. The wisdom for me, I gotta walk away because I know me. Because what you're not gonna do is get me into the place where you start pushing my buttons Because don't let suits and intellect and me being me fool you. I grew up in the projects, and if you keep pushing my buttons, I don't want Project Mike to, uh, to raise up. I don't want that. So with meekness and wisdom, I'm gonna walk out my deliverance and not deal with you. Oh my God. Oh, I ain't forgot how to fight, none of that. I haven't, I really haven't. I just don't fight, and I know you haven't either. You just got to choose not to fight, not to argue, not to bicker, because it's slowing down the blessings from God and it's opening up a door for evil to work in your life. So when you argue and go back and forth and bicker and have heated debates with people over their immaturity, over their silliness— oh my God, oh my God, oh boy, I don't have time. I don't, I, I don't even have time for people who can't make up their mind about— watch this— because I'm too old, I've been doing this too long, man. But people who can't make up their mind about whether they want to be my friend, whether they want me in their life, whether they want me to lead them— listen, that's too much. I, I have to make— to protect my peace. You have to protect yours. So don't waste your time on people who have not— don't have a prayer life enough to decide who you are to them. Oh, good God from Zion. Let's keep reading, let's keep reading. It says in verse 14, I'm gonna read through 18, but if you have bitter envy and strife in your hearts, glory not and lie not against the truth. I left off with this Sunday, so that's why I'm reading it. So it's a good segue into where we're going. It said this wisdom descended not from above, but is earthly, is sensual, is devilish. Verse 16: For where envy and strife is— listen— there's confusion. So 9 times out of 10, if strife is there, envying is always there, because these spirits operate in tandem. They operate in conjunction with each other. So a person that's carrying strife and bringing strife to you, oftentimes they envy you as well. Somebody said, what is envy? And Apostle, I'm glad you asked. Zelos. I gave you this. If you would have— so I got to give this again because some of y'all weren't listening at church and some of y'all ain't went back and watched the message from Sunday. Yeah, put this stuff up here for you so you can watch it, right? So watch it, listen to it. So it can help you. Zealos means— watch this— excitement in the mind, or fervor, or zeal toward bringing offense and defending oneself. Which means you're excited about the opportunity to offend someone else because you're jealous of them, and to defend yourself against your foolishness. Foolishness. Because you've— you're deceived in your mind to believe it's right, so you're excited about it. Oh my God, today, good God. That's right, Dr. Tam, we got to protect our peace. For real, I mean for real though, you, you have to make up in your mind, I'm not going there with you. And, and you got to decide, I'm bigger, I'm better, I'm stronger, I'm wiser than what you bringing to me right now. I'm real good at shutting people down. You come at me wrong, I'm gonna shut you down really quick and I'm gonna be done with it because I don't have time for you to compromise my peace. And neither should you have time to allow others to compromise your peace. Oh boy, let's keep reading because y'all say, Apostle, okay, you're coming off a little strong now. Yeah, I am. I mean to. Verse 17: But the wisdom that is from above, the Bible says, is pure, and then it's peaceable, it's gentle, it's easy to be entreated, full of mercy, good fruits, and without partiality, and without hypocrisy. And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace. Of them that make peace. So watch this, peace will follow you if you follow it. You gotta sow peace if you want peace back. But you're going around because you're bitter, because you're angry at yourself, you're angry at other people, and you're sowing strife. You can't get along with others, you can't agree with people, and when there is no agreement, you cannot get things done. Watch this, I'm gonna help somebody tonight, even the people you would like to hate. There's such a great, authentic, anointed calling on your life, you don't get to hate them. If you're going to move like Jesus, you don't get to treat people bad, hate people. Glory to the name of God! You have to move in God's love. Oh my God. Yeah, I'll say that. I posted this today because it was in my heart. I'll say it again. See, some of you got saved, and the moment you got saved, you start trying to self-improve. Watch this. Being saved, following Christ, is not about self-improvement. Following Christ is about self-denial. The scripture really says, if any man follows me, watch this, let him first deny himself. Not improve yourself, not get it right, not get better. Hear me. Oh my God, you gotta deny yourself. So if you're gonna follow Jesus, just like, just like those of you that God delivered from drugs or alcohol or sex, and you deny your body— come on, man, you got to deny yourself strife, deny yourself that anger and that rage, deny yourself in the areas of wrath, deny what you want. When you're following Jesus, the only thing that matters concerning your life— watch this— is what he wants. That's why he says, so if you really want to follow him, you got to first deny yourself, renounce your agenda. That's what it means. Renounce your desires, your plans, what you want to do. And resolve. I'm following you effectively, God, and whatever you want of me, you can have. Whatever you want out of my life is yours. Oh, then he said, wait a minute, take up your cross, deny yourself, and then Take up your cross and follow me. I know you said, Apostle, salvation is free. No, that sounds like a price to me. Yeah, you don't have to pay any money, but it gonna cost you something. Yeah, you— if you really want to follow Jesus, it's going to cost. You have to take up your cross, kill yourself not suicide, but your desires, your flesh, your carnality, and follow. Here's what I know: if you really follow, you'll improve. You'll be better. You don't have to improve yourself when you follow him. He'll make you better. Oh God. Oh my God, are y'all here? Are y'all here? Y'all just quiet. Okay, we're streaming everywhere tonight. We're on Instagram, YouTube, two Facebook pages, and Twitter. Listen, wherever you're watching, I'm just a little preacher from Georgia trying to tell you the truth. I'm trying to get you to the point where your stuff that God has for you can be released. A lot of stuff is held up because you got too much in your heart that you got to get out. Because soon as you get it, you'll kill it, you'll lose it, because you got too much strife. Oh my God, oh my God. Okay, so we got to get along, we got to follow peace. So Matthew 18:19, let's go there, Matt, because I'm boring y'all. And I want you to stay with me. Glory to God. Matthew 18:19. Thank you, Jesus. Oh Lord, are y'all ready? Jesus said— this is Jesus talking— again I say unto you— it's, it's funny to me that this is not the first time Jesus says this. You know why? Because anytime you got two people or more, it's a threat to agreement, it's a threat to peace, it's a threat to unity, it's a threat to harmony. I'm gonna say that again. Anytime you get two or more humans together, it becomes a threat to unity, it becomes a threat to harmony, a threat to peace. So Jesus has to say this again. He says, again I say unto you, if two of you shall agree on earth— that's key, guys, I need you to agree on earth— as touching anything that they shall ask, it will be done of the Father which is in heaven. So Jesus is showing us right here how powerful agreement is. This is why you got to keep strife out and walk with Amos 3:3. How can two walk together except they be in agreement? And find people you agree with. Are y'all with me? Are y'all with me? If you, if you're with me, just type in the comments, no matter where you're watching, agreement, agreement, agreement. You got to align yourself with people that are in agreement with what you agree with. You can't walk with doubters if you're trying to trust God by faith. You can't walk with people who have a religious mindset if you believe in God to move in a kingdom relational mindset. You need agreement. Oh my God, you gotta have agreement. Glory to God. Stop trying to date people and be— and have people in your life that don't agree with what you believe. How you believe in Jesus and the person you're dating believes in Muhammad and says that Jesus is just a prophet. That's strong disagreement. You, you got to cut that off and you got to walk with— I don't know why I'm saying this tonight, but some of you are tied up in stuff, glory to God, with people who do not agree with you, who do not agree that holiness is right, who do not agree that sin is wrong. Who do not agree in the kingdom way of living and have a real tight relationship with God. You can't walk with them. Oh my God, you can love them, but you're setting yourself up for strife and failure when you start building close-knit relationships with people who are not in alignment, who are not in agreement. The Bible said if you get in agreement with the right people and y'all touch and agree. Listen, amansiata babakosi antaya. There's nothing you can summons heaven about that heaven agrees with that heaven won't perform. And watch this, everything in this book heaven agrees with. Oh, we, oh, we, oh, we, oh, we. I need you to hear me, heaven agrees with everything in this book. So if you get around some people that agree with what's in this book and y'all touch— oh boy— and agree, this is the power of agreement. And you're— Ashianda Takadense— Lord, I'm trying not to lose it in here. If you align in agreement, you can pull wealth out of the heavens. I refuse to enter into agreement with a doubter. I don't care what it costs. I will pull back. I will separate myself. I— y'all ain't got to say nothing. I'm— because I got to maintain my agreement with heaven. Y'all ain't got to talk to me. I believe the Bible, and it doesn't make sense for you to go to church, come home, go to church, come home, hear the preacher preach, scrolling, looking at scriptures, looking at lies, and you still don't believe what the words say. And some of you— listen, single ladies, let me tell y'all something— you've got these men trying to talk you out of your salvation, out of your faith. You dating a dude that won't set foot in the church, that don't pray, they don't spend no time with God, that don't read the Bible. That's a problem. And you're trying to go after God? You got a real issue. See, I learned— so I'm trying to control myself because I, I've discovered through the algorithm in my study of how our numbers work, when I start talking in tongues and talking about sin, our numbers are always low. I don't care though, for those that need it, listen, you need to hear this. Oh boy, God, just because somebody said it and they say they're a preacher doesn't mean it's right if the Bible says it's wrong. Oh boy, oh boy. Okay, okay. Okay, I'm gonna preach. Glory to God, I'm gonna preach, but I'm trying to help somebody. Ede ninskataye, robo so toraban tesi. I'm trying to help somebody because at the end of the day, you're gonna have to give account in the end for your bad agreements. And many of you are giving account in this life already. Because you're touching and agreeing with people who don't believe what you believe. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. Today, lebe sotamayi. Lord, I love you. Lord, I give you the praise. I give you the glory, God. Hallelujah. He said if you touch and agree on anything on earth, he said if you ask of the Father, he'll do it. That's the power of agreement. Why would you waste your time in strife? Why would you marry somebody that don't— I don't get it. I've had people come to me talking about, this is my husband. Okay, um, are they saved? Oh no, they're not. What? Okay, that's not your husband. Listen, there's not enough power below your waist, women, to bring him to God. I'm gonna just set that right there while y'all trying to figure out what that means, but I'm gonna tell you something. Your body wasn't designed to be a tool of evangelism? Oh, okay, okay, okay, Abasi Reba Nye Demin Sotobaimi. Okay, okay, okay, okay, all right, I'ma quit, I'mma quit, I'm gonna quit. You better find someone— go on business with someone you agree with. Listen, I was getting ready to do a deal with someone, and I began to pray about it. A lot of money, and the partnership, I thought in the natural, would be a great blessing. But, and, and in my mind, it's just business. We can get around the other stuff, but some stuff you can't get around, right? When you're dealing with a person up close and you, you're trying to build a partnership and they don't even believe in Jesus, no, you— why? I mean, it doesn't matter. Glory to God. My God, today. Listen, your connections, who you're touching, is important, man, in everything you do. Who you with, who's connected to you, it's important. I gotta move, I gotta move, y'all, I gotta move. Okay, so 1 Peter 3. Y'all ready? 1 Peter 3. I'm almost done. Yeah, I got a few more minutes. 1 Peter 3. I've been teaching too long. Y'all still with me? Are y'all learning anything? If you're learning something, just type in the comments, yes Lord, glory to God, hallelujah, thank you Jesus. The Bible says, watch this, for he that will love life— listen to this— for he that will love life— I'm— let me just start right there. There are people that sit around all day talking about, I hate my life, I wish my life was different. Listen, man, I love my life. I love my marriage. I love my children. I love the life that God has afforded me to live. Glory to the name of God. I love my business. I love what I do. There's a reason. Watch this, watch this. You run to my— I hate my life. That's the reason why you saying that. The Bible can tell you, for he that will love life and see good days, watch this, let him refrain his tongue from evil. Oh, we Oh wee, oh wee. So wait a minute, what you need to do if you want to love your life, stop speaking all that negativity out of your mouth. You know what, it's one thing to be a cuss and cussing and all that. You know you ain't supposed to do that because blessing and curse can't come out the same mouth, right? It's one thing to be a liar. You know you're not supposed to be lying. But those are not the only evil speeches. You're talking evil talk when you start speaking against the word of God, when you start speaking against what God said he'll do. Let me give you an example. God said, I would supply all your need according to my riches and glory by Christ Jesus the righteous. And when you start speaking poverty and lack glory, and complaining that everything you need ain't readily right there, and not believing what God said. You're speaking— that's evil, because you're speaking— because the word evil is a Septuagint transliteration of a Greek word, raw, which means injury, or to transgress against, or to oppose. So evil speaking is to oppose or to cause strife against the word. So you don't love your life because you speaking strife against the word of God. Come on, this year you got to take action against strife. And then every opportunity to speak negative, you, you got something going on in your body, instead of saying, oh, I'm so sick, I feel terrible, I'm gonna die, I don't know when I'm gonna get well, start saying, I'm strong. I'm— I am healed in the name of Jesus. Start speaking what God says and not what comes to your mind. You're creating strife against the word. But if you want to see good days and love your life, refrain your tongue from evil and your lips from those that speak nope. Oh my God. He said, refrain your tongue from evil and make sure your lips speak no guile. What is guile? Dolos in Greek. The word dolos, oh my God, means deceit. So make sure there's no deceit, there's no craftiness, there's no cunningness, there's, there's no cunning, being a con artist. Y'all got to talk to me here. Make sure that there's no guile. You ain't playing games, you ain't crafty, you ain't a whisperer. We talked about this Sunday. You ain't a demon whisperer, a demon gossiper. Oh my God, that's going behind the back to the very people you're talking nice to in their face. You got guile coming out of your mouth. You're plotting and planning but then smiling in the face of those you're talking about, you'll never have the strife. You'll never have heaven released. You'll never love your life. You hate your life right now. You don't like what you're going through. It's because your mouth is full of guile. It's full of deceit. Oh my God, it's full of strife. Oh, I love y'all. I love y'all. Oh my dude, that's why I'm telling you the truth. Most preachers won't tell you this. Keep the gal out of your mouth. My grandmother used to say something. I remember I was a little boy. Matter of fact, I was 5 years old when my grandmother passed, and I was in the bed with her when she died. I woke up trying to wake her up as I normally do, and she was gone to heaven. Broke my heart as a kid. Had a great relationship with my grandmama because my mother was 15 15 when I was born. So Grandma was like Mama in a lot of ways. And when I lost her, that was the first time I experienced a broken heart, when they had to tell me she's not gonna wake up again. I didn't know how to take that. But here's what I know. Grandma used to say this, she used to say, if you can't speak well of others, don't speak at all. It ain't Bible, but it's good wisdom. All Grandma was saying was, keep the guile out of your mouth. Are y'all hearing this? She was just saying, keep the guile out of your mouth. Listen, stop being so crafty. Stop trying to manipulate people and— watch this— paint a bad light of others. Hear me? Some— you're, you're stopping your own blessing. So just don't say nothing. Talk to God about it. Pray about it. Pray for them. Oh, oh boy. Okay, I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go. So he says— let me keep reading. Read verse 11. Want to see a good life? Want to love your life? Watch this. He said, let him eschew evil. So eschew— what is eschew? Eschew, ekleno in Greek. Ekleno means deviate, decline, reject it. Deviate from evil. So when you got an option to do something evil, deviate from it, right? Yeah, just, just decide, I'm not gonna have strife, I'm gonna have peace, I'm gonna move in agreement, and I'm gonna deviate from evil. I want to tell you a thing or two, in other words, but I'm not. I'm gonna hug you, I'm gonna love you, I'm gonna embrace you, I'ma deviate from evil action toward you. I want to knock you out and find scripture to justify. Bible said whatever you find your hands to do, do it with all your might. Joker, glory to God. No, that's not what that means. Deviate. Okay, decline it. Oh boy, ever had your card declined? You know how that feels? Because you can't receive what you're trying to get when you're— I've been there, man. Y'all may not be honest, I've been there, man, trying to swipe a credit card, hoping, be praying, Jesus, please let this thing go through. But I've been there in my life. Glory to God. Thank God for victory. But listen, that's not a good feeling. The one that's bringing you strife, when you decline, just about gracefully— that's, that's what I tell people when they come in with me with strife. I say, you know, I tell them I bow out gracefully. I don't have time to bicker with you. I don't have time to argue with you. I have to focus on the things of God. I may not say that personally, but I just bow out gracefully and I bid them Godspeed. And that's what you got to learn to do, ladies and gentlemen. You got to learn to bow out gracefully and keep your peace. God have mercy. He said, let him eschew evil, do good, and seek peace and ensue it. Seek zeteio in Greek, pursue hard after peace. In other words, make that your priority. I told y'all before, it bears repeating here, there is a space between stimulus and response. So the moment you're stimulated with something, you don't have to react immediately. What the Holy Spirit is designed for, to be your friend, to lead you, to guide you into all truth. So when you get stimulated with something that brings strife, instead of responding in your flesh, reject it, disapprove it, decline it, go to the space Talk to the Holy Spirit. He is a person. He's real. He lives in your life. Have a conversation, a dialogue with him, and allow him to respond through you. Oh my God, I feel like running, man. I feel like running. Glory to God. And listen, to whom much is given much is required. Oh my God, victory doesn't start with victory. Victory starts with denial. Back to where I started. Big Oma Shanda Babaaya. Victory starts with denying yourself. Many times your flesh will tell you that's a loss. That's okay, because I believe winning starts with losing. You never really effectively win until you lose first. Any champion that's won a Super Bowl, an NBA title, a Major League World Series will tell you they have lost many games before they got to that point. But they learned how to— in their loss, they learned something about working together as a team and in unison. I got to— oh my, that's right, Mia, it don't feel good, but it gets better. It gets better. Yes, it does. It— yes, it does. And when we do it, we grow every time. That dashiana. I love you, Jesus. I give you praise, God. Hallelujah. Sometimes you just got to get in that space with the Holy Ghost and cry, talk to him, and I promise you he'll talk through you. He'll give you peace to move on. I got to keep moving, guys. Somebody shout agreement! Somebody shout peace! So I'm not gonna get— be able to deal with all these tonight. Because I'm over time already. But there are 3 areas. Watch this, because peace is simply agreement. When the Bible says, if any of you agree, or touch and agree, saying if any of you touch and have peace with each other— watch this— peace is the presence of assistance. It's, uh, serene, or irene in Greek. Oh my God. And it means that I'm settled on the fact that I can assist. I'm settled on the fact that you're good for me, or we're good together. Oh, so the 3 areas you got to have peace, you got to be good, right? The first one, you got to have peace with yourself, and I'm gonna deal with that when I'll be done. Uh, secondly, you got to have peace with God. And thirdly, you got to have peace with others. I'll deal with the latter two on Sunday. Listen, I need you to understand something. If you don't have peace with you, it's going to be very hard for you to have peace with others. Oh my God, it's going to be very hard for you to be at peace with others if you have no peace with yourself. I need you to grab that. Type it in the comments. I must have peace with me. Matter of fact, to shorten that, just say peace with me and put some exclamation points behind it. Peace! If you listen to the podcast, however you listen to this, if you're on YouTube, if you're watching this by replay, write down somewhere, type it in the comments, peace with me. This is important. Listen, you can't expect everybody else— listen to me, guys— to be okay with you if you're not okay with you. Oh my God, today you got to have peace with who God made you and what God said about you. Listen, you got to be at peace with your height, your weight, your color. Glory to God, your gender. You got to be at peace with who God made you. Oh boy, listen, I don't need somebody running out of here saying, oh, I'm at peace with who I am, I'm gay. No, that's not— no, that's not what I'm talking about. When I say gender, I know how to correct that, because if you have— listen, if you have a womb, you are a woman. Your gender is woman. If you have— oh my God— male reproductive organs, you are a man. You are not a woman. All right, now what you feel like you're feeling inside, you need to work that out with God, because what you're feeling on the inside should match what you're walking with on the outside. God made you a man, he made you a woman, so you should act like what you are. You should act accordingly. As the old church mother would say, govern yourself accordingly. So I, I want about taking this, running with it, because guess what? In this damn time, folk can hear you and say, oh, it's just okay. No, it's not okay. Nope, it ain't okay for me to be a whore. I can't be a hoe out here screwing as many women as I want. I can't do that. So guess what? You that's feeling— man that's feeling like you're a little feminine— no, you can't be a girl. You need deliverance. You need breakthrough. You need prayer. That's what you need. You need the love of God first to draw you to him so you can get freedom. Somebody said, oh my God, Apostle, that's not love. Yes, it is love. I'm not being mean. I can't be a hoe. So why do you get to be homosexual? I can't have— I can't be a polygamist and have multiple wives. Not that I will want them. Y'all ain't hearing me. I know, I know. Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord. They gonna block me for real. Glory to God, because they sure don't like that kind of talk on these social platforms. Oh my God, today. Eremansiaya, eremesataiya, rebonsai. Listen, you need peace with yourself. You need to be satisfied with who God made you. You're unique, you're authentic, you're vintage, you're special. He loves you and he wants to get the glory out of your life. Good God from Zion. Oh God, listen, you gotta have peace with yourself. Go to Philippians 3:12. We're gonna get out of here, man. I'm almost done. Philippians 3:12. This Bible study, we working tonight. Philippians 3:12. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. Philippians 3:12. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, hallelujah! God is good. When you get there, hallelujah, I want you to type it in the comments. Philippians 3:12. Watch this. Paul says, not as though I had already attained. Watch this. Either we're already perfect, but I follow after— listen to this, y'all, excuse me, glory to God— but I follow after, if that I may apprehend, which means to get a grip on, that for which I am also gripped for, of Jesus Christ. So Paul says here, he acknowledges the fact I ain't perfect. I'm not— I don't have it all together. So here's what I want you to understand: you got to be at peace with the fact that— we talked about this back in December, handling your mess, right? That when your mess emerges, you got to be at peace with the fact that God is bigger than your mess. And if you take the mess to him He can handle it, but you got to be like Paul. Paul says, I'm not perfect. Can I submit to you? None of you are perfect. I am not perfect. The reality is we, we are honest about our imperfections. We get peace with God when we go to him about them, and we don't move in condemnation. See, some of you are condemning yourself over your imperfections. But you just got to be honest and admit it's an imperfection. And God, I need you to help me in this area of imperfection. That's how you handle your mess. You take the imperfection to God and you say, God, help me handle— oh boy— this imperfection. Hmm. Don't condemn yourself and don't do the work 'Cause now you'll create strife in yourself and you're gonna beat yourself up about something you need God to fix. Oh boy, oh boy. Paul was an apostle, wrote 75% of the New Testament. He said, I'm not perfect. So guess what? Neither are you. So you got to stop beating yourself up when you feel like you're coming short, when you're not Oh my God, meeting your own standard of legalism. Try— watch this— trying to self-improve versus self-denying. Try denying yourself of the imperfection so you can grow and follow Christ. Try mortifying the members of your flesh daily, but you got to admit that it's there so you could do it. Now, why it's so easy for you to judge others and condemn others Because maybe you think you're perfect. Maybe you think you're better than everybody else, and none of us are. Oh boy, oh boy. Oh Lord Jesus, Pastor Jeffrey said help us, Lord. Yeah, we might need him. Glory to God, he the one we need to call, Jesus the Christ. Can I submit to you? That the key to deliverance is honesty, it's integrity. I don't care where you're falling short, if you really want to be free, you got to be honest about that thing. And guess what? When you're honest about it, you'll find peace with yourself because you know God now can help you because you have talked. That's why the Bible said confess your faults. And if you confess your faults and your sins before the Father, 1 John 3, he said he's faithful and just to forgive. He's faithful to deliver. He's faithful to give breakthrough. Oh my God, I got to get out of here, y'all. Uh, peace with yourself. Romans 8 says, but there is no condemnation in Christ Jesus. Condemnation is strife. You condemning yourself and you won't do the work, you won't pursue God, you won't pray. You don't think you're good enough, but you are enough. Don't you go another day thinking you're not enough. You are enough. Guess what? God called you. God assigned you to that assignment. Jesus, I love you, Jesus. You got to make up your mind, y'all, that I'm gonna be truthful with God. Watch this. Jeremiah 1:5, my favorite scripture in the Bible. Y'all know that if you hear me teaching along any time. Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Yada. Knew you. I had intimacy with you. Intimacy is not sex. Into me see. The word intimacy is defined within itself. Into me see. God saw into us. He understood all of who we were. Can I let you in on a secret? There is nothing about you that surprises God. Even I was just talking about the homosexual, the lesbian, and the whore monger. Whoremonger. Guess what? You can be delivered. I'm a witness. You could be delivered from being a whoremonger. I was one. Yes, I don't— I'm not proud of it at all, but I was a whoremonger. But God delivered me. Are you hearing me? But it was God that set me free. So I could tell you, I'm a living witness that God can free you me from being a hoe. I never been a homosexual, but if he freed me from being a hoe, he could free you from being a homosexual. You don't have to sit around and say, oh, this is Pride, I got Pride. Listen, no, that's, that's, that's not it. You need freedom, and you don't have to be ashamed to admit to God that you need freedom, and he'll set you free. You don't even have to be at church to get free. You could talk to God honestly, and he will set you free. My God, today, whoo, Jesus the Christ. I'm talking, there are people on this live tonight that are ex-lesbians, ex-homosexuals. You're here tonight, Gloria, and God has set you free. Ex-whoremongers, ex-liers, God can deliver you when you honestly admit this is where I'm struggling. Stop trying to justify the crap. And make it right. My God, Jesus the Christ. Woo! Shabba yessir! I'm almost done. I gotta go, y'all. Ephesians 6. I'm just trying to get through these. I'm not going to make you go there. I'm not going to read them all, but write them down for reference. Ephesians 6, verses 11 through 18. And when you read it, I want you to read it in the Living Bible. Listen, the blessed breastplate of righteousness that's mentioned in this armor— are y'all hearing me? Come on, glory to God! Come on, thank you, Lord! Thank you, Lord! Listen, in the Living Bible it says we wear the breast plate of God's approval. So the breastplate of righteousness is not something you're earning, it's not something you're doing. That breastplate is what Jesus already did. His blood gives you righteousness, it gives you accuracy, rightness of life. You live holy because you love him. You're approved for the assignment. Hear me. So you put on the breastplate so no condemnation can get in when the enemy throws darts and trying to remind you of your failure, your shortcomings, your mistakes. Oh my God, today— whoo! Listen, Hebrews 12:6. I'm gonna go there. Because I want you to see this one. Good God. Hebrews 12:6. I hope y'all learning something tonight. I hope to God you're getting something. Watch this. The scripture says, for whom the Lord loveth— listen to this— he chastise. For whom the Lord loves, he chastise and scourgeth every son he received. So you say you received as a son, right? Mastigo is gorgeous in Greek, and it literally means— watch this— to cut off and cut away from. So God will chastise you about your shortcomings because he loves you. He'll expose them to you. He'll talk to you about them. He will put them on display to make you think about them, like what's happening tonight. And then if you receive his love, he'll scourge you, he'll scrub you away, he'll mastigo, cut you away from that imperfection. God have mercy. Oh boy, go to Revelation 3:19. I'm sorry, y'all, I'm trying to get through. Revelation 3:19. Good God Almighty. Revelation 3:19 says, as many as I love— watch this, oh boy, oh boy— as many as I love, he says, I rebuke, I correct, I chastise. So again, if God loves you, he will rebuke you, he will correct you. That's why I tell you people all the time, you sitting in a ministry, you never get corrected you never get reminded of where you come short. Whoo! It's not to condemn you, it's to help you get it together. It's the love of God so that you can be at peace with yourself. I rebuke and chasten. Be zealous therefore and repent, repent, repent. Listen, if you're hearing me tonight, if you're on this live, repent of your sin. Repent of your imperfections. Repent of your shortcomings. Repent. Glory to God. Repent. Hashiandai. Uh, metanoia in Greek, which means— glory to the name of God— to have a change of mind, a change of heart— watch this— and a change of action. So true repentance is when my mind about what I'm doing changes, right? When my heart, my spirit toward what I'm doing changes, and as a result, it changes my behavior. So I really have experienced metanoia, true repentance, when I stopped doing it. That's for grown folk. You're not really repenting when you keep doing the same thing over and over again and just going back to God saying, I'm sorry, God, I'm sorry, God. Listen, listen, listen, guys, you got to repent. Menor, you listen. Come to peace with— it's, it's you, you're that person. You're making that mistake, you're coming short. But you gotta exercise some peace. Glory to God. With you, and know that God can handle it, he can change it, but you got to be honest about it. Glory to God. I'm here. I love you. I, I just want to tell you the truth, man. Can I read these 3 scriptures and we're going? I want you to have peace with yourself, because if you're operating in guilt over shortcomings— again, the whole point in this whole teaching is to be at peace with God's ability to deliver, and that you're wearing a breastplate of righteousness, and not to browbeat, as my wife would say, and beat yourself up about your shortcomings or where you may not meet the mark. Repent, be at peace that God has forgiven you, because if not, I'm gonna show you these 3 scriptures. I'm just going to read them. It affects your prayer life, and you wonder why you're not getting any results in prayer. It's because you're under condemnation. You got strife against yourself. Oh boy, I gotta go, man. I gotta get out of here. Hallelujah. All right, here's the first one. Here's the first one. Here's the first one. Oh boy, man, this thing is going to get so good as we continue to teach this. So much freedom is going to come. Glory to God. I'm done. I'm just going to read 3 scriptures, right? And we're closing tonight. First one is 1 John 3:21. You ready? It says, and behold, if our conscience, our hearts, do not accuse us, if they do not make us feel guilty and condemn us We have confidence, complete assurance, and boldness before God. That's the Amplified Version of 1 John 3:21. Did you hear it though? You got to get that stuff out of your heart and stop feeling like you can't talk to God because you made a mistake, or because you're battling, you're trying to get free from something, and you maybe you're not there yet. You can talk to him about it. He can help you. You could talk to him about your assignment. You— he is your father. You can speak to him. Just watch it. Just like my spiritual children speak to me. One of my daughters texted me today and said— and I just laugh when they do it— hey Dad, are you busy? I am always busy. But at the end of the day, I love my spiritual children. So I text her back, say, yeah, I'm gonna be— I won't be free until after Bible study tonight. But then she texted me what was going on. So when I got in the car, I called her because I'm gonna make time for my spiritual children. Glory to God! Are y'all hearing me? I'm gonna— and just think, if I'm like that, what your Heavenly Father will do. Jesus, stop beating yourself up. You repented, God forgave you. Let's move on. Be at peace with yourself. All right, James 5:16. I said I wasn't gonna take long on that. LQ, my assistant, she just come in at Jesus. I hope that ain't cause I'm too long. Glory to God. Jesus Apostle Long. No, I'm kidding. I know that's not why she put that. Glory to God. Listen, 1 John 3:21. Pastor Jasper has it on the screen. Y'all remember these, uh, James 5:16. Let's read, and 17. The Bible said, confess to one another therefore your faults, your slips, your false steps, your offensive and your sins, and pray for one another. So this part is very important. Notice he said confess. There's, there's, there's a text where John tells us to confess with God, but watch this, you need someone you could trust. Ooh wee, ooh wee, ooh wee. You need someone you could trust because you can't trust everybody with your slip-ups, with your faults, with your sins. But you need to be able to talk to people who you could trust about where you messed up, that you know won't judge you. Watch this, that will pray for you. The Bible said when we do this, we pray for one another. Let me keep reading. That you may be healed and restored. So when I confess it to someone I can trust, we pray for each other, I can be healed, I can be restored, I can be at peace with myself. I don't have to keep beating myself up about something I did in the past because I confessed it, I got it out, I was honest about it. Watch this. And be careful of people who carry strife, who keep throwing stuff up in your face. And let them be in that strife by theyself because you already got it together. Don't let them disrupt your peace because they feel in some kind of way about something you did years ago. Oh my God, let me keep reading. The earnest, heartfelt, continual prayer of a righteous man makes tremendous power available, dynamic in his working. Elijah was a human being— listen— with a nature such as we have, with feelings, affections, and a constitution like ours. And he prayed earnestly for it not to rain, and no rain fell on earth for 3 years and 6 months. What is James saying? Elijah was anointed. Elijah had an assignment, but he didn't kick himself in the face because of his affections, because of his shortcomings, because of his mistakes. He understood the just mercy of God. Oh, have mercy. Hebrews 15:16. I gotta go. But we don't have a high priest who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and a liability— oh my God— to the assaults of temptations. So Jesus understands because he was a human, although he didn't give in to the temptation. Oh, that's big, Pastor Jeffrey. We're supposed to pray for, not pray. P-R-E-O-N. That's good, sir. Glory to God. Listen, I need you to understand something. Hear me, hear me. We got a Jesus that understands because he's walked in this earth. He's wore an earth suit. The difference in him and us, he was God incarnate. So while we're still in this earth suit, we, we— these things are going to come at us. Are y'all hearing me? But stop kicking yourself in the head because you had a thought, because you had a temptation. It's going to happen. You're not God. Let me keep reading. Let me keep reading. But one who has been tempted in every respect as we are. Wait a minute, so, so he can be an authority on temptation. He has been tempted in every aspect as us. Watch this, yet without sinning. So he, our big brother, our king, our God, the Lord Jesus Christ, was tempted on every hand yet without sin. Good God from Zion. To be an example that we can defeat it. But we got to first be honest, we got to first repent, and we got to stop beating ourselves up and trust God for the deliverance. He said, watch this, because of this, let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace. So you can boldly go before the throne of grace because you know that he understands your struggle and where you missed it. Stop choking yourself, man, over stuff that is a job for Jesus. Deny yourself, take up your cross, kill it, kill it, and just follow him. Every time it rises, kill it, go to war against it, but don't beat yourself up about it. Y'all hear me? I'm trying to help y'all, man. He said the throne of God's unmerited favor to us sinners, that we may receive mercy for our failures and find grace to help in the time for every need. Appropriate help, un— well-timed help coming when it's just needed. Listen, God is saying you got unlimited help. I'm done, I'm putting my iPad down. You got to trust God though. Listen to me, family. I'm glad you're still with me. I've been on here an hour and 30 minutes. I haven't been teaching out 30 minutes because we did a lot of stuff in the beginning tonight for some reason. But at the end of the day, I need you to understand you got to be at peace with yourself. You got to come into agreement with you, with God's plan for you, with God's grace for your life, with God's ability in you. And you got to stop beating yourself about stuff you have no control over. You can't control it. It's a job for Jesus. What I want to do tonight— it has— I want to pray. Stay with me, everybody. No one leaving. No one leaving. Let's pray. Glory to God. Let's pray tonight. I, I want to pray that you will have peace with yourself. And while I'm praying, I want every person on here to, to bow your heads, close your eyes, and just begin to repent. About the things, the areas you know you have shortcomings in, whether it's beating yourself up, condemning yourself, where there's doubt, whether it's fear, whether it's some sexual sin like we talked about tonight. Whatever it is, repent as we pray for deliverance, as we pray for breakthrough tonight. In the mighty name of Jesus, pray. So Father, we give you honor. We thank you for your kindness. We thank you for your hand. So Father, we repent tonight for everything in our life that is not like you, for every act, for every deed. Father, we're asking you to have mercy on us. We're asking you, God, to get the glory out of our life. So Father, where we've come short, where We've been imperfect, like the Apostle Paul. We confess we're not yet perfect, but this one thing we do: we forget what's behind, we reach to what's ahead, we press for the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. And Father, we decree and declare tonight, grip us and let us get a grip on that thing you gripped us for. We won't abandon, we won't abort the assignment, God. We trust you for our healing tonight. We trust you for breakthrough. We trust you for deliverance. We trust you, God, that you'll do a new thing in us. Lift burdens, destroy yokes, God, in the mighty name of Jesus. We give you glory and honor for that now. In Jesus' name, we bless you, we honor you, God. Make us free, make us whole. In Jesus' name, amen. Glory to God. Listen, I was telling one of my sons today that on Thursday nights, we, you know, we teach the word. We trust God to have full authority and full victory in what we're called to do as we teach and preach, man. And we really are trusting God that these Bible studies will grow, praise God, and that many will engage and get involved. Glory to God. Thank you, Lord. Listen, we, we love him and we thank God for what he's going to do. Let him do his job, amen. And you do your job. Listen, tonight I need you to give. I, I was telling him today, too many times when we challenge, uh, to give on Thursday, people take that lightly. But can I give you some scripture? The Bible says, if I sow unto you spiritual things— the scripture actually said you should sow unto me, me, not the church, natural things. I'm not taking up an offering for me, I'm taking up our offering for the church tonight. I told you guys, we are on a mission this year, you know, in addition to meeting our budget, doing our crusades in Jackson, doing our crusades in the DMV, uh, getting a building for our headquarters church in Atlanta. Listen, we're on a mission to get this done. We need your assistance. We need your help. I don't ask you guys for anything. Glory to the name of God. I always just want to see the ministry taken care of. So tonight, I need every person to get a seed in the ground that represents a sacrifice. Do you hear what I'm saying to you? I need you to make a sacrifice. I don't want you to give haphazardly tonight. I want you to make a sacrifice. Amen. I need you to do that now. I need you to do it quickly. I'm going to put the ways to give on the bottom of the screen. Glory to the name of God. No matter where you're watching, live or by replay, we want to challenge you to support ministry. Uh, ratachurch.com/donate, it's on the bottom of the screen. Our Cash App also is there. However you choose to give tonight, I need you to trust the Lord in your giving. Father, I pray for this seed now. I rebuke selfishness. And I decree and declare that the spirit of the tither, the spirit of the sower, be upon this people tonight, and that the spirit of the breaker be upon them as they sow, that every financial bondage will be broken in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. So I need you to trust God. We're trusting God. Uh, I, I believe that every person that's live right now. If you make a sacrifice, God would be pleased. A sacrifice is not something you can afford. I need you to trust God and give sacrificially tonight in Jesus' name. A lot of times we do this because our Sunday offering is low as well. So these two offerings during the week help us to meet our entire budget for the ministry, and it puts you in a position to be blessed. Give, and it shall be given unto you good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall men give to your bosom. Get your seed in the ground. I love you guys. A few announcements. I will be so grateful when Sunday comes so I can finish this message. I'll be at Rhoda Church Atlanta on Sunday at 3. Make sure you're in the house. Glory to God. Uh, we're working diligently For those of you that are in Jackson and DMV that need to be a part of the live stream, to make sure we can live stream those messages, the problem being is the Wi-Fi connection. That's why we gotta get our own space. It is absolutely terrible in that venue. Nevertheless, we're working diligently on some different options. Hopefully tomorrow one of the ones I've been working on will come through and we'll be able to use that as a viable source to make sure that we can livestream on Sunday so you guys can catch it. Uh, just for the record, our 21-day fast will start on January 30th. Listen, get your mind right. Glory to God! We're going to be fasting and praying for 21 days. We'll pray every day at 5 AM together. Uh, the prayer times will be 5 AM, 12 noon, glory to God, and 6 PM. I'm gonna trust that every day at 6 you will pray by yourself. Every day at noon you will pray, uh, and come on and watch the live stream if you can. If not, I'm going to challenge you to make sure you watch the replay on that day. Listen, we're calling this 21 Days of Deliberate Action, so we're going to be teaching about taking deliberate action every day. And listen, you need to be on those lives, you need to get that word So make sure you're a part. Uh, if you're a leader at Rhoda Church, we will have our executive staff meeting. That means if I met with you, you have a license, you have an appointed position, you are a leader, we will be having a team meeting on Tuesday, September 23rd at 9 o'clock PM. Watch this. Central Standard Time. Wait, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, not— I want to buy— get confused. 9 o'clock PM Eastern Standard Time, which means that'll be 8 o'clock PM Central Standard Time. I'm gonna be in Houston, Texas. That's why I got confused. I was trying to get my time right, but I just said it right. 9 PM Eastern, I'll be in Houston. Nevertheless, I'm going to have the meeting from Houston. So I need you guys to make sure you are plugged in, and, uh, we're going to talk about the thing, the events that are going on this year. We're going to talk about some very important things to your areas of work so that everybody can get started and we can get moving with the things God has called us to do. I love you guys. Thank you for spending this time with your leader tonight, man. Listen, it does me great pleasure to teach you and to share with you Listen, if you didn't share this tonight, share it. I pray that everyone has given. I pray that your seed is multiplied as we prayed, a thousand times more. Listen, just be obedient, just do it, man. God, uh, is worthy of all the glory, all the honor we can give him. Y'all be blessed. Heaven smile upon you is my prayer. And until next time, make sure you share this with a friend. And remember, your decisions will set you up for dominion. God bless you.