If you Don't; They Won't! | Apostle Stephen A. Davis | Live From Radah Church Atlanta | 1-8-24

I came up with this statement years ago: your understanding can wait, but your obedience cannot. Understanding can wait, but your obedience cannot. Many things I understand now, and this is 5 or 6 years later, some even 7 years later. I understand the why now. I didn't understand then, but I understand now. But I obeyed then, all right, so that I would reach a level of understanding. Because without your obedience, you will never see the moment to where you have understanding of why God sent you in a certain direction, or you've done a certain thing, or brought you into somebody's life, or removed you from somebody's life. And those things are very important. So I'm— I am grateful to be here, uh, this lovely ministry. Come on, let's lift it up for them. I wrote something down, uh, today when I woke up this morning. I was thinking and, uh, praying, and as I was praying, the Lord spoke to me and said, if you don't, they won't. If you don't, they won't. What, what that means is some people will not enter into their destiny if you don't walk fully into your destiny. There's some people, there's a sound in you, there's affirmation in you, there, there are things in you that bring confidence to people to step into what seems like the unknown. And he said, if you don't they want. And I believe a lot of people have been held up from all that God has for them because somebody wouldn't. Jesus, Jesus. I'll give you some scripture. Uh, Elijah was sitting under the juniper tree, the broom tree, ready to die. But then there was still at least 3 more people he was supposed to anoint king and successor. He He was supposed to anoint those people. If he didn't, they could not. That's all right. That's all right. That's right. So I understood exactly what he was saying when he said, if you don't, they won't. I want to, uh, end up with the scripture that I ended up with last night. I want to start with that particular scripture. I thank God for my lovely wife and my daughter being here. Uh, one of the fastest driver, so I wasn't looking at the highway as much, uh, because I was in the back. Because if I'm sitting in the front, I'm gonna drive through her. So I sat in the back. I still watched, but I sat in the back. I'm pretty sure we get places a whole lot faster when she's driving. So thank God for her driving. And my, my partner in, uh, my crime, but she's, uh, she's always hanging in there with me. She She doesn't understand it. And this is the thing most people don't understand about being married to apostles, and you make a lot of pivots that your wives just said, praise the Lord, hallelujah, help us God. So every single time I move, I know she's praying, Lord help us. And, uh, he has helped us, he has truly helped us. And I thank God for Apostle Corner, uh, his lovely wife. My brothers, and always is good to see them, and they don't have to come. Nothing's manipulated, they just choose to. And when people do things by choice, you know they really want to be in your presence. So thank you so much. Uh, on last night, uh, Bishop, uh, Uh, can't remember his name, went blank there. Pierre, uh, he was here last night, he and his wife. Hopefully not sitting in the back and I forgot his last name, but, but he was here on last night, so I thank God for him. And they're all part of Apostolic Global Impact. And, uh, yeah, Pierre Shepherd, Bishop Pierre Shepherd. And my son, he just, he just came and And he claimed me, and, uh, I said, okay, let's see what God has to say. Let's see what God wants to do. And I'm here because he reached out to me, and I said yes, uh, to what God was saying to me. And I want to see you win. I want to see you win. People have problems with others winning. I don't have that kind of problem. I feel like if you're in the body of Christ, I want you to win. If you win, I'm winning. I don't feel like I'm a loser if you win, and we're all a part of the same kingdom. And, uh, we have, uh, Bishop Gary who's here with his lovely wife, Lady Charlene. She celebrated her birthday yesterday and her, their youngest son's birthday John's birthday is today. So I'm going to jump into the word of the Lord, and I do have something, and I'm not, you know, I'm not just wondering. I know, um, Luke chapter 17. I'm going to read more, but I'll read that, I'll pray, and then we'll move forward. And this is one of those passages of scripture that I, I, uh, I read last night for my final scripture. And I, I've done it this way because I'm a structured— I'm a structured thinker. And I don't believe I should be so distant from what I said last night into this night, especially when I'm building, uh, my son and his wife's ministry and his people. So it shouldn't be confusing when I leave. That's right. Yeah. Uh, Luke 17, verse Now when he had asked— he was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them and said, the kingdom of God does not come with observation, nor will they say, seek here or seek there, for indeed the kingdom of God is within us. Father, we bless you, we honor you, we thank you for the you for these transforming moments. We thank you, Lord, that this, this place that we're in right now would become a reservoir of your kingdom, that your spirit will swell in this place. But not only in this place, let it swell on the inside of the individuals that have been decreed and declared the people of this season and this time. Father, I thank you for a mind that thinks like heaven thinks. I thank you for vocal cords that are fueled by the Holy Spirit. I thank you for a body that's in complete alignment with the will of God, so I'm able to do what I can't do without your presence. I know your presence lives within me. I know you've taken hold and taken over my very being. I give you glory. I give you honor. I give you praise in the matchless name of Jesus. Amen. Hallelujah. Go ahead and take your seats. Greg, it's good to see you here. She don't look the same when you're not around. Y'all's lovely daughter, just so smart. I don't know what university is going to get her, but they're going to get a very great vessel asset. That's going to change the whole faculty. That's the influence that she carries. I hope I'm able to come and see it happen, not just hear about it happening. I want to give you a title tonight: Kingdom Authority Within You. Kingdom Authority Within You. Much of the body of Christ has suffered during the pandemic, suffered during so many different things that have taken place in the world. So many of us have been put on the back burner. So many of us have been considered unwise. So many of us have been considered those who, you know, hoping and praying and nothing happening. But I can study my Bible and I can understand there were certain times and certain seasons that God will come and then empower his people for the next thing that he would want to do. So many times when they thought it was over for the people of God, it wasn't over. God was just doing this unique transformational thing that he does with his people from time to time. And if we're not careful while we're in a transforming moment, we'll find ourselves being discouraged about a moment that God has set in time, because it takes a moment to evolve out of religion and out of churchism into kingdom thinking. Yes, come on. I am not a church speaker. And I get on church folks' nerves. I'm glad I do, because if I didn't get on their nerves, I would be like them, and I don't want to be like them, because you do a lot and get no, no productivity from heaven. And God never rewards you for work or labor that he did not endorse. So I'm not, I'm not a church person. We have multiple locations, we have thousands, but I'm not a church I am one of those individuals, my thinking has been transformed. I stand in front of this man that I can pick up on the fact that you don't think like your average person thinks, simply because God is doing something very unique in your life. And if God wants to take the limits off of you, the only way he can take the limits off of you is transform your thinking. So I want to go to Psalms 145, Psalms 145, and I want to read there. I'm just going to take my time. Yes, sir. Hey, Apostle Good, how are you doing? Good to see you. It's another individual from Apostolic Global Impact, and he's from Rome, Georgia. And I just saw Apostle Steele come in as well. Uh, somebody's looking for something. So, uh, Psalms 145. I'll start reading in verse 11. My key verse is verse 13, but I'll start reading in verse 11. It says, they shall speak of the glory of your kingdom and talk of your power, to make known to the sons of men his mighty acts and the glorious majesty of his kingdom. Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures throughout all generations. Now, I could read that out of the Bible. Why would I think that things would end with me? All right, come on, come on. Why would I think at my lowest moments that I'm defeated. Many who sit around has not seen the glory of the kingdom of God like God is going to and has in the past, but going to demonstrate even more and more concerning those who have held on to a concept knowing that God is able to do anything but fail. They will talk of your power. It's what the scripture says. And it says, the sons of men, his mighty acts. Cancer is not a problem with God. Come on, sugar diabetes, it's not a problem with God. Lupus, it's not a problem with God. Arthritis, it's not a problem with God. Debt, it's not a problem with God. It's only a problem with you. It's not a problem with him. Suicidal spirits that have infiltrated the church are not a problem with God. None of those things that we're tolerating is a problem with God. The only reason they exist is you have increased your tolerance. Oh, come on, sir. Well, you making room for what God doesn't allow. Let me take my time. Matthew chapter 6. You notice that God didn't tolerate Satan in heaven. Why you— why you— why you're tolerating him in your house? We begin to move the bars and boundaries to give room for things that God says should not exist in those arenas. Matthew chapter 6, verse 9 and verse 10. This is a prayer that Jesus is teaching his disciples to pray. I don't know why we don't pray like this, but he's teaching his disciples to pray. I'm only going to use two verses here because these two verses are very important for me to build my stage for what I'm going to say tonight. In this manner, verse 9, in this manner therefore pray: Our Father in heaven, we know where you are, hallowed be your name. We, we reverence and show great respect and honor towards you. And then he said this, Jesus is teaching his disciples, verse 10: Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. So we find that anything that's illegal in heaven should not be legal under your jurisdiction on the earth. If it's illegal in heaven, how can you legalize it as a born-again believer in the earth? Talk right, sir. Yes, sir. It's only legal with you. Can I talk more? Yes, sir. Let's go to Matthew 11. I haven't been losing. All right, I've been winning because I have a concept. Doesn't mean I haven't been in a fight. I just didn't lose that fight. Come on. And if I'm in a fight and they think I lost, it's not over yet. Yes, sir. All right, all right. Yes, sir. Okay. Matthew 11, verse 12. And from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of heaven suffers violence but the violent take it by force. Since the days of John the Baptist, when John started preaching, all hell broke loose. Let me tell you why we don't stand and we don't preach and we don't speak— because we can't handle the hell that goes along with it. Come on, sir. Come on, come on, sir. I just made up my mind. I've been hurt all I'm gonna be hurt. I've been betrayed all I'm gonna be betrayed. I've already made my decision. If nobody walks with me, I'm gonna keep on walking anyway. So I'm not looking for friends. I told you I didn't have a best friend last night, and then you would have to qualify to be that in my life, because for what I stand for, I am not going to digress in what I believe just to have a friend that does not accommodate my future. Yes, sir. So I want to talk from these portions of scripture. God has placed something on the inside of us that I will never shy away from because it made me— it made me what I am, it made me who I am. And I got the understanding of it. And when I got the understanding of it, he took this took a little old black boy from a little country town called Bradford, Alabama, and started to raise him up when everybody was saying there is no way. Where there is a will, and I had a will, there is a way. I believe that if you take the concepts of God and begin to apply them to your life, God will put such levels of authority on the inside of you that no devil in hell wants to see you walk into a room. I came to make an announcement tonight as I shift the atmosphere, because a lot of people are afraid, and they are afraid because they don't have the authority of God to change the situations that they're facing. I chose to never be fearful, and I will never be a coward because I have the authority of the kingdom on the inside of me. Nothing scares me, nothing makes me digress, nothing makes me back up, because I understand if the kingdom has come, the will of God is going to be done. And I'm on God's side. If I'm on God's side, I can't lose with the stuff I use. You may be fluctuating on whose side that you're on, but I've already chosen to be on the kingdom side. And I, I don't side with people who don't know what side they're on. I've already made my decision, and I'm not going to digress. I'm not going to— I'm not going to cower down. I'm not going to become silent because I understand that God is working something in my life. And when I come into a room, I didn't come to say yes sir, no sir. I came to take over that particular room. I'm telling you now, what God put on the inside of us, he didn't put it on the inside of us to tolerate things. So you can keep your attitude, but it's not going to change anything, because I've been welcomed into this room, and I'm welcome into this room. I will decree, I will declare the kingdom of the Lord. I crossed over. Yes, sir, I crossed over. Sasha, at the beginning of the year, I left some things behind me. I went into a higher level of consecration. They still see this, but they don't know what I'm doing in secret anymore. I went into a higher level of consecration because of a kingdom that I was going to manifest, not just talk about. What has to happen is everything we preach has to manifest, because there are so many skeptics running around because they think it's not working. And I want to tell you something, that hell that's coming against people's life, intellectualism will not hold up, because I'm seeing a lot of people losing everywhere I go. But if they will manifest in the kingdom, any type of weaknesses of the conscious mind would not be an infiltration field for the enemy. That's where we become strong in the Lord and the power of his might. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Woo! Yes, sir! We accept every diagnosis. Come on, sir! We embrace it and we go and pick up every prescription. We're using the last of our money to fill these prescriptions. I'm not telling you don't take it. I'm telling you, won't you believe God? Why are you taking it? Why are you on your way to it? Why don't you believe that you are already healed? You're not about to be healed. You're gonna put everything back. God has created a kingdom, and if he put the devil out of the kingdom, he can put— he can put cancer out of your body. I, uh, I have been catering for a while to the understanding of elementary people that don't understand the power of God. You think he's the creator of the entire world and you think he can't fix your finances? He said the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. The problem is so much has been in the hands of that everything has become corrupt and weak. But when you start preaching the kingdom of God and get God back involved— somebody say back involved— when you get God back involved, God will liberate people, God will raise up people, God will heal people, God will deliver every single person that yields to the influence of his kingdom. Praying? If everything was right in the earth, why should we pray that his kingdom come? If everything was right with you, right, right, why would we pray that his kingdom come? I know some people have said his kingdom is when you laying up here on a— in a coffin and you have breathed your last breath, and now you get a chance to enter into the kingdom. Why would we pray that his kingdom come if we're gonna go to his kingdom through death on this earth. We want heaven down here because it is the solution to the problems that we have in the earth. We drive by poverty and drive over into nice neighborhoods. I do it every day. The solution to those neighborhoods is to infiltrate those neighborhoods with the kingdom of God. It's a concept that God is. Better raise a Black man up, a Latino man up, an Asian man up, and it doesn't have to be all white people that's on top. But if you start talking like that, you'd be like Dr. Martin Luther King. It wasn't just the white men that came against him, it was those who were just like him that came against him. Because this type of rhetoric, this kind of talk, this makes us— it makes us uneasy. Won't you be quiet so the man don't come against us? No, I came against the man. The message is against the man. Man has been in control, but God said, if I can find myself a believer, I will give him dominion. Gives us an answer. See here, see there. Listen, every one of you, when you walked into this room, if you have been born again, when you walk into this room, you brought the kingdom of God in this room. I got to get one of my points. I don't want to get ahead of myself. Come on. I illuminate with the presence of the Lord. Excuse my French, but nobody's going to pump me out. Everything around me transformed. That's why I don't run from any situation. The church has been putting people out because it doesn't have the power to transform them. You're saying to, to the neighborhood, I don't have enough enough resources of the kingdom to transform the issues that you have. God has sent his kingdom to reside on the inside of us. Most of us, when we say those terms, most people are thinking about a church service. That is not a church service. I'm a bad boy Monday, Tuesday, Thursday. I'm a bad boy. I don't think churchy. I'm Building something. So if you think you're gonna come up on the first hour, I'm praying. After that, I'm busy, baby. I'm making some moves. I'm doing some things that's gonna advance some things. I'm right now— they made me the chaplain of the fire department. You want to know why? They want to hear from me every day. So they carved out me a little area so I can post every day because the firefighters need kingdom thinkers. They know in Birmingham, if you want to get a hold of the kingdom, you need to go track down Bishop Stephen Davis, because if you find him, you going to find the kingdom. And I came to tell you, the same anointing there is the same anointing here. If you don't, they won't. How many major entrepreneurs are waiting on you to become a kingdom thinker? How many people are waiting on you to step outside the box so they realize they're not captured by the box? I was thinking about Sidney Poitier. He used to be on the movies and on the screens, and he was the only African-American man that you were seeing. And he said, now you're watching television and it's black and white, and then you see black and the rest white. But it took somebody that thought differently to open up a door for other people. And if you don't step through door, you gotta be different in your thinking. They may not like me, but I'm coming in anyway, because God's gonna put something in me. And you gotta stop being afraid of stepping over into another arena with a kingdom way of thinking and do something that opens up doors for other people. If you stay silent, they will stay bound. Yes, sir. Hallelujah. My God, I started to think about Babe Ruth. Yes, sir. I started to think about other people who opened up opportunity to show it is possible. Yes, it is possible. Yes, yes. What you've done is you surrounded yourself with quitters. You want to quit? I'm not the person to be with. That's why I can tell you, if you want to quit, you, you don't want to hang out with me, cuz every single day I'mma think of a way to win. Every single day I wake up, I wake up smiling, laughing, enjoying, singing, because I'm about to conquer something that nobody else would touch. How many of our people are in bondage right now because we have not manifested the kingdom of God? So we talk about a because we don't have enough of God's kingdom presence to deliver them. And the arena I operate in, you don't bring a problem without bringing a solution. All the church does is brings problems, but in upper arenas, if you are not going to bring a solution, then don't talk about the problem. Right, right. God has sent his kingdom to reside on the inside of us. You leaving it laying to the side. You leaving all of your stuff laying to the side because somebody didn't like the way you wear it. So now you're putting everything to the side. You know it don't take all of that. Come on, sir. Well, I'm free in my mind. I preached two sermons yesterday. I'm preaching one today. I got sinus problems, but it's no problem. I'm gonna get my job done. How many have not gotten their job done because of some physical issue that the kingdom will overrule if you allow yourself to him? So if you're looking for excuses, I don't make those. Any person who receives Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior has the seed of God's kingdom inwardly. When you got born again, the seed of the kingdom of God was placed on the inside of you. Yes, something that goes beyond the culture and the household that you were raised in was placed on the inside of you. What you do with it is totally up to you, because if you don't water it, you're not going to get the results of it. I am the results. I want to tell you, I came from a place of really low self-esteem, low self-worth. My mom had a trailer that didn't have any warm water in it, and that's how I was raised. I didn't want the school bus to drop me off at my house because I was embarrassed about the house. Now I'd love for you to drive by my house now. Our house is But I realized on the inside of me, the way I was raised is not where God wanted me to stay. There was— when I received Jesus Christ, it wasn't just to keep me out of hell, it was to birth something in me where I saw more than what I could see. Some of you are stuck in what you saw. Well, can you see further than where you came from? Because if you can see be further than where you came from. You'll go to places that others won't go. My humility, my humility is because of where I came from. My boldness is because of who I am. I was this when I was a little boy, afraid to let the school bus stop by my house. I'm that This, this was in me while we were warming water on the stove. Now I pick what room I may want to take a shower in. And if I don't want to swim in my pool, I'll go swim in my lake. But it was all about a shift in in my thinking. Because if we can shift your thinking, there's some land, there's some lakes, there's some food, there's some magic that's waiting on you to come to your senses. It's not all the time. It was not all the time. But until my mind changed, I drove by it around Christmas season and looked at the lights. Let me help some of you. If you got interest of going by looking at the decorations, just maybe something in that neighborhood belongs to you. The house we used to drive by to look at the decorations we live in. Come on, come on, come on, come on. The kingdom come, your will be done. Kingdom come, your will be done. That's your will. You want to keep me in a trailer? No. Or you want to, you want to put me in a place that feels like an oasis when I come home? It may be hell all the way until I pull in my driveway. I love going home. I love going home. I love walking in my house because the devil can't trespass. Can we go just a little bit further? Yes, sir. It's not all about stuff and assets. That's right. It's about how you feel about yourself inside. Yes. I found that people with low self-worth cause you more problems than people who have identity. You can't, you can't even correct a person for promotion's sake if they got low self-worth. They, they think a change in their position is a demotion. I tried to increase people's position and they were so, uh, stuck to where they were, I couldn't release them to where I felt like they could go because they attached their feelings and who they were to the thing that they were doing. Jesus came to try to get them away from religion, and they wrapped their arms around it tighter. So much so, when their Savior came, they crucified him. We should pray that God's kingdom manifests through us. Through us, through us, through us. I learned this— I'm not finished with that. I've learned this: I've been in rooms where we pray. I've been in rooms where people come in and the atmosphere increases. I've been in rooms where people come in and the atmosphere decreases. It should seem like it would increase when certain people come into the room, but if they're not bringing kingdom agreement, the Holy Spirit will leave the room. And some of y'all need to learn how to clean the room, because if you clean the room, the Holy Spirit will fill the room. I learned this, this is about my second year of pastoral ministry, pushing about 27 years now. This is my second year, and we're there praying in the presence of God. It's so thick in there, we can just feel God everywhere. And then this relate group comes in, and now I'm looking around, God, where did you go? It was that obvious that the Holy Spirit left. They didn't say anything, but they brought so much disagreement to the room. Instead of the Holy Spirit killing them, he removed himself. We allow— we want numbers, not knowing that these people in their mind don't think kingdom. They think if they come around you, they can get what they want done. They're not coming with the right agenda. They're coming to take you in a direction that you don't want to go, so they clash. And then they, they would leave early. They came late, they would leave early. When they left, the Holy Spirit showed up. This is my second year of pastoring argument. I can read a room, baby. I'm telling you now, I can read a room because I'm very skilled in that. And I can tell when somebody's in agreement with the room or in disagreement in the room, because the Holy Spirit will not be as fervent when you got somebody that's got another agenda in the room. Can two walk together unless they be agreed? Amen. Somebody didn't agree something and they came into the room. And when they came into the room, the Holy Spirit is filled with grace because if you've done that in the Old Testament, you would die. But in the New Testament, because of grace, because of the kingdom expansion, God said, "I'm gonna back up until they get themselves together." I want to announce, as the kingdom manifests itself, some people are not going to be healed. Cuz God's doing something now, and what God's doing now, he wants to expand his kingdom, and God is not going to allow disagreement to hinder his purpose. Glory to Jesus. Thank you, Father. Ananias and Sapphira, they didn't realize the kingdom influence was back. They didn't realize the kingdom has come. The will of God is now being done. I came to tell y'all I only exist to usher everybody that I have influence with into a season where God is really working for those who really believe. My God, it's in me, it's in you. Like spiritual father Bishop Eddie O'Lawrence, he said, he said, Davis, when you come around You bring so much energy to me because every time I came around, I brought the kingdom. Hallelujah! You never knew when I was in distress because I knew how to shift into the kingdom where my distress was no longer relevant for the time that I was spending with you. That's good. I don't know about you, but I love happy people. I love happy people. You don't have to do anything to make me happy. I woke up, I was happy. I just love happy people. I've been around enough depressed people. I just— in the kingdom, there is no depression. So come on now, if you tapping in and you know what's on the inside of you, why are you allowing that rule to rule? Go ahead and take your medication till they take you off of it. But why are we allowing that to rule? Why are we making exceptions towards that? That the kingdom is coming in the will of God? You think that is the will of God for you to suffer like that? You think that's the will of God for you to go through like that? You think that's the will of God for your thoughts to be distorted like that? You think that's the— what? That is not the will of God for your life. And if it's not the will of God for your life, The only way that it can exist is that you give room for it. Once you make a desire— make a decision that you're going to give it an eviction notice tonight so it never comes back, so you never spoil somebody's party. We're over here tonight to have a party. I didn't come over here just to complain. I came to have a party. I came to lift my brother. I came to pray for you. And say, why is Tonight, tonight, everything that was trespassing, everything that was illegal, everything that was trying to hold you, you ain't got to shout, it's going to break anyway. You ain't got to move. It's illegal in the room right now. And if it's illegal in the room, as long as I have this mic, I release the kingdom of God for every illegal spirit. God tried to claim you, appointed as believer. You got to let that joyfully-yam. Oh God, this woman who is a daughter of Abraham, who has been bowed over for 18 years, be loosed from her infirmity on the Lord's Day. All the atmosphere is favorable for great deliverance. It's when the atmosphere is right, everybody can be healed. It's when the kingdom of God manifests itself, everybody can get deliverance. I know you got a problem with confidence. If you wanted a lack of confidence, you should you should have met me years ago. But I ain't ever going back there. Days before I go home to be with the Lord, I'm gonna be just like this. I'm gonna be giving orders. I'm gonna give commands. I said, this is what I want. I'm about to go, but this is what I want, and make sure you do it. I'm gonna come back and I'm gonna hunt you in your dreams. I want this, this, and this, because God God has created us like that. Don't look at us funny because we got authority. There's kingdom authority on the inside of us. You just have to be in your right jurisdiction. If you come to my house and you start talking like that, you're out of line. But if I come to some house that, that God has allowed me to come into, then I must function in all the kingdom authority so that resources come in, so that people coming. Let me tell you what used to happen when my father would come to Birmingham. I didn't have problems out of a lot of leaders when my father was alive. No, they knew better than that. I have little stuff go on now because I don't have him present. I used to bring him in 3 times a year. I told him, anytime you think you want to come, you can come. You're my father. So 3 times a year he would come to the church. So I had no problems like what I have now. I had no uprisings like I have now. I have some of that stuff now because you don't have enough kingdom thinkers. They want a position, but they don't want kingdom mindset. So every time he came He backed off the spirit of darkness. He backed off religion. It's like he took 93,000 square feet of building, picked it up, turned it around several times, put it back down, and everybody fell in their right seat. Every single time that I come to your house, or when I come to your house, I came to pick this place up. I came to turn it around. You call me back. I'm going to make sure everybody's in their right seat by the time that I drive back down. I pray nothing missing, nothing broken. I look at every location, I've been evaluating every location. I've been quiet, but I'm not going to be quiet anymore. Everything that's out of line, that's in trouble right now. Everything that's out of line is in trouble right now. People want to come into an environment that's wholesome, that's filled with God, and they don't have to struggle for it. Children. They don't have to struggle for a breakthrough. In fact, when they open up the doors of their cars in the parking lot, they'll start getting breakthroughs. Ain't got to be no shouting, they're going to get that breakthrough anyway. If they go run, they're going to get a breakthrough anyway. While anybody else is teaching, they're going to get a breakthrough. It's not going to have to take a certain teacher for them to get a breakthrough. When the kingdom of God is manifested, it doesn't take a certain person for it to manifest. Teaching on finance and a woman gets healed of cancer. Yeah, when the kingdom of God is there, you can be teaching on entrepreneurship and somebody gets healed because none of those things that are afflicted can stay when the kingdom of God is in the atmosphere. I was thinking earlier today, I'm like that fullback. When you want a first down, I don't have to be in the game the whole time, but when you're in a critical time, I'm the one you need to call because I'm gonna push you to that place to give you another opportunity to be better than anybody else in your family. Has ever done. And everybody under the sound of my voice— and I'm not thinking it, I know it— everybody under the sound of my voice, you about to get an upgrade. You going to get such an upgrade that people going to be looking at you funny, and it's probably going to be your family, cuz that's the first one that's going to interact with you. You going to get an upgrade in your life because I'm moving you into Kingdom thinking. You're not a loser, you're a winner. You're more than a conqueror. You, you Practical truth you live on the wall. Stop waiting on everybody to understand you. It's not that they don't I'm telling you, they just don't like you. You represent something they don't like. And you say, if I take them out to eat, maybe it'll be okay. You can feed them all year long and it's not going to rectify that. You carry something on the inside of you that irritates the hell out of the devil. Yes, Jesus! Come on now! Thank you, my God! Yes, yes! There was one of my daughters, she posted, uh, on social media that she got engaged for, for Christmas, and, uh I know she was expecting all of her sister friends to be happy. The only one that's happy is myself, Lady Davis, and God. All right, all right, because every one of your single homegirls who doesn't think kingdom got a problem with you having a baby. I just— can I just tell you? Tell it. You have to get into an arena where people are not jealous of your advancement, and you have to start feeding off of that because that other place has no oxygen. Which means nothing can live for a long time in that environment. They want to take my breath, but you can't change my mind. You can't take my breath. Amen. We should pray that God's kingdom manifest through us so we can dominate the earth for his glory. Dominate the earth for his glory. You want to know when God's glorified? When you're in control. God is glorified when that which he has placed— his concept, his king, his, his kingdom, his influence The more you take over, the more God is glorified. Now I know in the day it was all about a healing, but they don't respond to healing. You can post somebody got healed, they can see the leg grow back, and it doesn't impress, and you don't get that many likes. And everything has changed. You got to know everything has changed. But when you got— when you start influencing a whole block in a community. When you really, when you really start taking over— I've already stepped out way outside of the box because I'm going in your territory and I'm gonna take it for God. I know, I know that they cool with me being in my church, but God is glorified when you go in and you influence everything. I played at the fire department, uh, every day. The fire department, the firemen have— they have to hear a 15-second clip from me every day. Every day. Every day. Every day. I'm here in Atlanta, but I'm at the fire department too. Let me tell y'all something. You have something to offer. Yeah. And when you know the kingdom of God is in you, you have something to offer. Don't let anybody— some of y'all are too talented, you are too wise, you're too smart to be in some silo somewhere. I came to get you out. I came tonight. You may not preach like I preach, and I don't expect you to. You may not be as bold as I am, and I don't expect it, but when you open up your mouth, authority ought to come from you. Authority ought to come off of your lips. You know, you can say a whisper and the devil ought to start running. You can just speak lightly and things ought to shift in the atmosphere. Yes, yes, yes, sir. We tend in church trying to make executive leaders, turn them into church people. That is not kingdom empower them in the place that they reside in and let them go do what they do. Let them bring all those people into the church house so we can train them to be kingdom seekers so that they can take over. They don't know. Come on, they don't know. Okay, you, you're gonna allow me to become the champion. But you don't know that myself and Sasha are talking about, well, we might as well set it up where we are the mayor over the area too. I'm not begging off everybody else because if I want the city to be better, it has to have my influence. And I understand this. I'm a kingdom thinker. I don't have to do all the work. I just set up my administration. Administration and let it flow. I just set up my administration and let it flow, and the whole community gets cleaned up. Y'all got to open up your minds now. You got to open up your minds. You are not— you have been in that silo too long, and God wants to give you the land, but you're not thinking kingdom-wise, and you're trying to get a better band and trying to get a better singer Well, what are you going to do outside the church? You got all that inside the church. Glory to God. My God. Yeah, you watch, you might— you watch me. I may want to have some of Beyoncé band members. I may have some of her background singers. You want to know why the world has him? Because of the way we think. We're not kingdom-thinking people, and if we're not kingdom-thinking people, we will not attract some of the most prominent gifts in the earth. They belong to God before they belong to Beyoncé. I already prepared myself. Yeah, I said it openly. Fantasia's coming to see me. And I don't know what to tell her because she gonna have a problem that's not a church problem. And if I start talking to her in church lingo, that's the reason she left the church, because she couldn't see what God wanted her to see, because we We have to think kingdom so that those people can have a career. I'm messing up everything tonight. It is my intention to blow the walls out of this place. Watching Motown. I'm planning to get the Aretha Franklins back. All right, all right. See, you, you think I'm trying to figure out how to put another good sermon together. Sermons come so easy. What's my strategy that when these people come knocking at my door? To release them from the bondage of the enemy. The reason I seem a little bit strange is because I can see Fantasia after a great concert laying in her bed depressed and weeping. And if I don't become become who I need to become. You may read about her in some of the highest days of her life taking her life. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. I don't have time for church fights. I don't. They won't. God's kingdom and you may suffer attack, but it is a— listen to this— an everlasting kingdom, so it will survive and it will thrive. Bible says since the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom of God suffered violence. When you already know hell's gonna come for what you do and you still got enough courage to do it, it's because you have something that others don't have. You think I didn't do a proper evaluation. You think I didn't know that hell was going to come against me? It comes against the kingdom. Yes, some of y'all are crying over what validates you. Come on, come on. If it wasn't no attack, I would have no valid— no validation. But since the attack came and my heart's right and I'm only promoting Jesus everywhere I go, Then let the attack come, let the waters come, let the winds blow. But this house is built on a rock, and if it's built on the rock, you're going to survive it. You're going to survive the accusation, you're going to survive the criticism, you're going to survive every attack on your life. In fact, you're going to get better through the attack than you were before the attack. Attack is your notification of elevation. The attack is your notification of elevation. That's right. Thank you, Jesus. They really not fighting you, they fighting what's in you that you have to embrace. You want to embrace what's in you. What's in you is bigger than a church service. You want to embrace that. And every time you reach out for it, you get hit because you're reaching out for it. But I want to tell you, if you ever grab a hold of it, it's going to be worth it. It's going to be worth all the criticism. It's going to be worth all the accusation. It's going to be worth every negative thing that they speak speak against your life and come again, it's going to be worth it. Because when you look behind you and see all the people that didn't drown because God used you to be a savior— I'm kind of wondering why we keep saying, God, come to help us. And then God sent men just like us to help others. It's all a change in the thinking. Moses came to deliver the children of Israel. They weren't to their destination. Joshua led them to their destination. All these individuals in the Bible were sent by God. Jesus came to stir up 12 individuals— one was a devil— so that what God had for his people would not die when Jesus went back to be seated next to the Father. I don't know why what they look like and what we look like is so different. Wow. But they didn't just heal, there was no poor people left among them. So that tells me they had a strategy of how to relieve their entire group, which was thousands, of poverty. So God's kingdom and you may suffer attack. It's not that you're doing anything wrong, it's that you're doing something right. It's that you're doing something right. It's not that you're doing something— you're gonna always deal with these religious folks when you start doing something right. You got, you got to be able to hold up because their time is temporary. God has an eternal blessing on your life. Stuff's going to happen. The real apostles, they rejoiced when they were attacked. They said, we're worthy. They started singing the song, worthy, worthy, worthy. Why do we feel insulted when we get attacked? They said, we're worthy. See the difference. They started going through and they said, Lord, we're worthy to suffer for your sake. We on Facebook and Instagram want to know why y'all talking about me. Let me tell you why they talking about you. They realize you exist. You never existed before. Now that you exist, you're going to draw positive energy and negative energy. There are going to be people who love you, there are going to be people who hate you, and the haters are not going to be able to tell you why they hate you. Let me tell you why they hate you. It's the kingdom of God on the inside of you that they hate. They know you didn't come to take sides. Thank you, Lord. Hey, everybody, everybody knows when I come into a room, I didn't— unless it's my father, and if you give me the liberty, but when I come in, I'm gonna turn that atmosphere. Yeah, yeah, amen. Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. And I'm, I'm gonna help you to get the best out of what you do. That's my job. That's my job. So I, I didn't come for any other reason but to influence everything. That's strong talking. Yes, well, when you have the kind of father like what I had, the DNA standing back there in the corner, he didn't come to take sides. You are not a good representation of your mentor. If you allow things to continue to go on that you have the authority to stop. My Lord, my Lord, my Lord. All right, how much time I got? As long as you want. I don't like seeing my people suffer. I don't like seeing my friends suffer. Suffer. And I say I got the kingdom of God in me, and then everybody around me sick. Come on, come on. I couldn't get to Lady Tyree, but I could talk the kingdom into her husband to where she lived. Amen. He stopped falling apart when he heard my kingdom voice. I told him to put your focus and your energy and your faith towards wife. He listened to my kingdom voice. She coded twice, but she's sitting right here tonight. Let me help you. Death is only legal at a cemetery. I'll say it again. Death is only legal go at a cemetery. My God, somebody need to post that. You're not only going to survive because the kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. The scripture said it's an everlasting kingdom. How can you stop an everlasting kingdom? It is going to survive. It is going to survive, and not only will it survive, it is going to thrive. There's a season that rolls back around after everything has taken place and every season has come. Then there's another season that rolls around where that that survives is now thriving. That's good. If you survive it, I want to prophesy over you. Your thriving season has come. If you survived whatever it was, your thriving season has arrived. I am living now at the lowest level that I will be right now. All my cars paid off, working on paying off the house, could pay off one other house right now. I'm living at the lowest level right now. If where you are is not bad, you need to get ready for it to be really, really good. I dare you to shout about that. that all I can do is get science problems and still get my job done. When you go home— this is homework— when you go home, I want you I want you to walk through your house. I don't care if it's an apartment. Yes, Lord. And I want you to say these words: this is as low as I'm going to go. Just declare it. Open up your mouth with authority and watch things start shifting in your house. This is as low The concept of the kingdom of God has been passed on, so it will never end. The concept, it's not about the material stuff. It's a way of thinking. If you can transfer your kingdom thinking, what preserves you will preserve every generation after you. It says to all generations. Listen. Some cultures, the reason they do better each generation is because they pass a concept to their children. We pass concepts too. All of them are not good, but there's a concept, a way of thinking. I had to adopt a way of thinking. The way I thought when I was young, it wasn't good for where I was going. So the kingdom is about a concept, a way of thinking. I don't think their attack destroys me because my Bible said the more they afflicted them, the more they grew. So I see attack as expansion. So they want me to cry and I'm shouting. It's a concept. This revelation, understanding, anointing came because something bad happened, but I turned it into good. I take every negative situation in my life and I turn it into fuel. It's a concept that I received. I saw your father do it. I do the same thing. I always get this glimpse of this Back to the Future where they got this car. Back to the Future. What's this guy, Michael? Michael J. Fox. Yes. So at the end, this scientist shows up and he said, your children are in trouble in the future. Come on, come on. He said, but we need fuel. Come on. He goes to the trash can, gets some, some old, uh, banana peels, puts them in as fuel. I want to make an announcement to you. Go take every negative thing that happened to you, put it in your fuel tank, and I I promise you, all the hell you've been through will be the fuel to get you to the place that God wants to take you. It's not all the compliments that made me, it's all the lies that were told on me that made me. I used it for the fuel and I always went over into the future and sealed the future for my great-great-great-great-grandchildren. It's a COD. I got to go. It's a COD. Every now and then I get a glimpse of that, and I'll never know. You always think it's the expensive stuff that makes things happen. No, it's the trash. Trees don't grow in to you, Dongo. I won't give you the definition of Dongo, but it's when all that stuff happens around us that it doesn't make any sense. And the only reason it's being Dongo around you is because there's something in you that only stinking stuff can bring out of you. Woo! And everybody in this room got something that stinks going on. Everybody, everybody, everybody. And the reason it's there is because God wants his kingdom to manifest in your life to a greater degree. Everything. Everybody got some sticky stuff in their marriages. We look real cute in, uh, but there's some sticky stuff. You're not fooling nobody. We know y'all probably arguing all the way to church and then say praise the Lord. Come on, y'all. We know y'all are not in full agreement, but you find coming grounds, but all the sticky stuff is making you into what God wants you to be, cuz without the dung you wouldn't have the fruit. Thank you, God. Jesus. When I came from Birmingham to Atlanta. The reason I was so willing and came so strong is because they made me in Birmingham. They rejected me in Birmingham. Every time they reject me, I expand. Every single time. Every single time. And you can never You find a man that has a kingdom perspective, right? If you want to reject me, I'm going to expand. I'm going to reach somebody else because you reject me. Don't ever reject me and think that I'm gonna sit there and cry about it. I want to talk to every minister of the gospel. When they rejected you, they enlarge your territory. I want to talk to every person of authority. They rejected you, they enlarge your territory if you begin to look at things the proper way. Because it didn't really make any sense, because you're teaching them the same things that you already taught them. Why they got a problem with it now? They got a problem with it now because it's your advancement time. I promise you, when you move, their criticism will subside. They're only demon possessed to get you in the place that God wants you to go. That thing is going to lift off of them. That's the assignment of Satan. That thing is going to lift off of them when you move into the place that God wants you to move into. They irritated with you now because it's trying to push you into where you need to be. Send them a postcard, say thank you. Thank you for looking at me crazy. And don't wonder why you're not sitting in the seat with me, cuz I won't put you that close to me anymore when you rejected me like that. You can be in the building with me, but you can't have a seat of influence with me. Jesus, you want to know why you didn't get invited? Because you didn't fit. I finally resolved it with God. If you would have let me fit, then I would have stayed too long. I can't even tell you everything that felt like rejection, everything that, that felt like I just left out of all of them, wasn't working against you. You only find out who you are when you're in the wilderness 40 years by yourself. They left me alone for me to develop. They left me alone for my mind to change. I realized I didn't need them anyway. They can't threaten me anymore. If they tell me they're going to leave me, I say bye-bye. I teach my daughter, don't be be threatened by fickle people because the kingdom has come. And it was only when they walked away from Jesus they could be empowered by Jesus in Acts chapter 2. All of them except for John ran away. John was the only one at the cross. Everybody else ran. But they were the same ones that were empowered. God understands their weaknesses, but he also knows good-hearted people. Yes, he does. Amen. Hopefully I've done my assignment. Edward, I can't stay out of Atlanta because your dad marked me. Part of him and his heart for Atlanta is in me. So it doesn't matter what my haters think, I will take territory. Father, in the name of Jesus, these who belong to you, these who you've impregnated with your kingdom— your kingdom come, your will be done. Father, allow them to look at the tools that they have and the way they process and see where they fit. Is the tools that I that agree with the area of my anointing. It's how I think in my mind that makes me effective at what I do. And what stands out to me that identifies who I am is those things that catch my attention when I'm walking by. Those are the things that I'm connected to. Father, I thank you in this kingdom season that they will meet up with everything that represents the destiny that you have for them. They will meet people and it will seem as if they've known them all of their lives. Because they have been waiting and we have been waiting, and the time has come. The time is now. Bless Apostle Woods. Bless his wife. Ah, Jesus! Expansion, expansion, expansion. I don't know how many campuses they have, but God, don't stop expanding their campuses. God, give him the grace to keep doing what you called him to do. Refresh him in your spirit. I know you can, I know you will. Raise up those who to support his heart, support his vision, and love where he's taking them. I pray this prayer now in the name of our Lord and our Savior and our King, Jesus Christ. And let us all say amen. Amen. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.