It's in the Knowing | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr.

Well, praise the Lord, everybody. Grace and peace. Listen, guys, do me a favor. Uh, whether you're watching this live or replay tonight, I need you to do me a kind favor. I need you to share this. Um, I wanted to make sure that I dropped this word tonight. I was trying to hold it and, um, I just can't. So do me a favor, guys, we're gonna wait a few moments and give everyone an opportunity to come in. So please, by all means, I need you to share this wherever you're watching us from. Uh, please share, please share. Hey Bruce, God bless you, man. Good to see you, bro. Uh, do me a favor, guys, as you're coming in, I need you to share this. Good to see you, Bruce, man. You look good. I love that new profile You look great, look great. Glory to God. Hallelujah. You guys, come on in, come on in. I need you guys to share with me, uh, again. Hey, Tamara, God bless you. Good to see you, daughter. Hallelujah. You guys, come again. I need you guys to be very proactive and share this teaching. Already good night. I'm not gonna be long because I should be asleep because I got to get up early, very early. Still have the day, just a lot of things trying to catch up from our trip. And really, I was trying to hold this word, I promise you I was, but, uh, you know, I'm not my own, so I have to do what the Lord tells me to do. But you're welcome, Bruce. You're welcome, sir. You're welcome. You're welcome. I did. I want to share this, and I'm gonna drop it like it's absolutely categorically hot. So just a few moments, guys. Give me a few moments. Uh, we're gonna jump in and we're gonna share what goes on. All right, y'all, y'all hold tight. Uh, we will be back. A few moments in, coming in. Hey, God bless you, Shannon. God bless you, woman of God. Thanks again for that awesome word you preached, uh, last— past Sunday at the church. It was absolutely phenomenal. Thank you for allowing the Lord to use you. I'm so appreciative of you, from the bottom of my heart. Thank you so much. You guys hold tight, we'll be right back. Come on in, please share everybody. I need you to share, share, share, share. Hallelujah! We give you praise, Lord. We give— I'm just getting up out of here. We give you glory, we give you honor, we magnify you. Wonderful, glorious Lord, in you we live, It's in you we move, glory to God. It's in you we have our being. You're our strength. Yes, you are, God. You are our help. Father, you are everything, God. Besides you, there is no other. You rule and you super rule, God. Heaven is your throne and the earth is your footstool. The heavens declare your glory. Yes, Lord. And the earth your handiwork. We give you praise, God. We give you glory. You're wonderful and mighty. We bless you, we bless you, we bless you, we bless you. We give you praise, God. We give you glory, we give you glory. Thank you, everybody, for sharing. Please share. As I was trying to hold this, but the Holy Spirit said, sir, I need you to drop it. I was ready to go to sleep. I've been working since I got out of bed this morning. But, uh, I need to drop this and then we gotta jump on the road like really before day in the morning. So, uh, I wanna again drop this like it's hot. So please guys, do me a favor, share, share, share, share, share. It's a blessing to be a blessing. Bible says that, that's word. We're blessed to be a blessing. So y'all come in, please share. Those of you watching this by way. I need you to do me a kind favor, tag someone in the comments. I need you to also share. This word is very important. Uh, it's like part 14 of Kingdom Citizenship, and, uh, I really want to go ahead and just close the series out. Uh, so much on this, I'm, I'm gonna probably still be talking about it until the Holy Spirit leaves me alone about it. But at the end of the day, we're gonna bring a lot of coverage and closure to some of these things. Uh, I'm not gonna be long, okay? So again, you guys, you're popping in and popping out. What are you watching us on? I think we're streaming to like 5 different platforms right now. I'm on the church Facebook page, so there's several people watching over here. Uh, we're also on YouTube, we're on Twitter, We're on Dr. Mike Woods Sr.'s Facebook page, and we're on my personal Facebook page. So wherever you are, I need you guys to share there. Uh, there's a multitude of you jumping on everywhere, so I appreciate it. So I need you guys to share because I want to get things out. I'm trusting, um, that God will be be glorified in this. We will see something miraculous happen even before we get finished teaching his word. You know, the Bible says he sent his word. Yes, God. And he sent his word and it healed them. So we're believing God, we're trusting God for healing and deliverance. Bible says healing and deliverance is the children's prayer. Preschool. We give you praise, God. I'm just so convinced in this hour that God doesn't want us to stay the same. If there are things that are contradictory in our life to his word— listen to me, guys. God bless you, appreciate it. God bless you, daughter. Thank you for being here tonight. If there are things in our life, glory to God, that are contrary to the word of God, hear me, God is desiring total and absolute transformation, period. And we have to eliminate the excuses from there. I got a victory. So let me just rewind it. I'm gonna jump into this and we're gonna pray. I'm gonna share this testimony, I'm gonna pray, and then we'll get in the word in that order. And I'm not going to be long, but I got a call. Got a call, praise God, from Pastor Jasper, my son in the DMV. And, uh, so on Monday when we got in, you know, it's amazing that you go on vacation, you get home and you're tired from it. So we got home Monday and after being gone 10 days relaxing, had a great trip, but the traveling and we really enjoyed our vacation, so we maximized our opportunity for ourselves. So when we got home, we were tired, so I got up, slept in on Monday. Tuesday, I got an attack in my body, and I know a lot of times I get hit in my body, it's most of the time it's not about me. So I just begin to pray and intercede. I feel 100% better right now. Uh, it's about somebody else. So I start praying, interceding, then bam, I get a call from Pastor Jasper and his wife Zion, uh, was admitted to the hospital on Monday and, uh, she was having issues breathing. And, um, immediately when he began to talk, the Holy Spirit said, uh, one, they're not gonna find anything wrong with her. This is an attack from the enemy. It was a total diabolical attack. And just like I said, the Holy Spirit revealed to me it was a total attack from the enemy. The doctors could not find anything going on in her body. They ran tests for COVID, for pneumonia, for everything and couldn't find anything. So I began to pray. I was coming, um, actually when I got the call, I was coming from Gainesville on my way back home. I had to pick up some things for this weekend in Gainesville, so I was coming from Gainesville on my way home. So that drive was about an hour and 20, I think, from where I was. I prayed for about an hour and 10 from the time I left Gainesville, basically, to the time I got in my driveway and was still praying, binding up these enemies that were coming against her body and literally the attacks that were coming against my hearing. And, uh, the last thing I said, I said the doctors must release her, uh, by tomorrow, which So long story short, um, I, and I sent them some healing scriptures. I said, you know, pray these scriptures out loud, God's gonna move in the next 24 hours, she'll be home. Long story short, God brought her home today. I talked to her, she sounds like— her voice is so strong, sounds like she never was in the hospital. Trouble, never was under attack. Um, the enemy's hand was bound immediately as we prayed. And I'm saying that to say, guys, what we are called to do, and in particular those that are connected to me— again, I, I see people again on other platforms that are not in particular a part of our church but that are connected to me as a father, as an apostle. So however you're connected to my unbiblical card, listen, this is not a game, okay? I just need you to hear this. This is not a game. Uh, Apostolic movement, um, prophetic movement, hear me, it's not a game. Uh, this is real, and literally playing with this, hear me, can cost you your life if you're not in the right grace. And adequately connected, because the enemy doesn't play fair. And the Lord began to speak to me and say, son, it's in the knowing. There, there's some things you just gotta know. We know we gotta know God, but there's some things you got to be clear about yourself. You got to know who you are, where you belong, what you should be doing, so that you ain't out here. It's so many people people out here hear me. And I don't want anybody take offense to this again because there's people watching from different platforms, and some of these people, like on YouTube, I can't really see who they are. But listen, this thing is real, people. And I don't want to offend anybody, but some of y'all— and I'm— this is my spirit right now— you out here faking the funk, okay? You playing games. You're walking in titles that you don't have the grace to carry, and you're setting yourself up for failure. And I just want to— listen, warning comes before destruction. Listen, if, if I wasn't called to be an apostle, I wouldn't be one. If I weren't called to be a pastor, I wouldn't be one. And I'd be happy just being saved and knowing God. I would. So I'm— because I'm not lining up for this. I'm not lining up for attacks. I'm not lining up to be in bed, burn— carrying the burden of somebody else. Because that's what apostles do. We carry burdens. We pick up things from other people. We have to know who we know and know what we know. I just need y'all to hear, God wants us to get in the right place of grace. Do you hear me? Hear that tonight, the right place of grace. No matter what Facebook platform you're watching me on, I need you to write that. Or if you're on Twitter, retweet it and just write that somewhere. The right place of grace. You need to be in the right place of grace, the right place of charis in Greek— God's empowerment, God's ability to thrust us, cover us, and protect us while we're operating in obedience to his will. That grace is not there when you're doing your own thing. Wow. Grace is a gift that operates under the auspices of obedience. Whole nother teaching for another day. The right place of grace. And when you're misaligned, it's a dangerous piece, man. So we got to make sure we're not Picking the phone, playing games. Let's pray. Father, tonight, in the name of Jesus, I give you praise, I give you glory. I thank you, God, for the opportunity to teach and share your word. I thank you for every person that's listening to the sound of my voice now, whether live or by replay, whether on Facebook YouTube, whether on Twitter, no matter where they're watching, I'm asking you, God, that my voice will be as your voice tonight, and that they will emphatically, seriously open their mind and their ears and their spirit to receive what you're about to say to us. I receive it, God, and I want to operate at the maximized, optimal place you created me to opt— oh my God— to operate in. I don't want to miss it to the left nor to the right, and neither do I want them to miss it to the left or to the right. I'm praying that your blood would cover every person under my voice from judgment. And that areas that need repentance, oh my God, that repentance would be made, and that we will renew and reconcile the covenant that you have covered us. And we'll give you praise and glory for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Guys, I love I love you. Hallelujah. I praise God for you. So tonight, again, I'm gonna divulge into this very quickly. Glory to God. I want to talk about kingdom citizenship, and, and we've been covering this for quite some time throughout the month of August, throughout July, we've been talking about citizenship, showing up in the world as kingdom citizens, advancing the kingdom in the spaces that God has created us to advance the kingdom in, in our sphere of influence, showing up there, maximizing our purpose, being clear about who we are, moving in obedience and representing God the right way. Tonight I want to talk about, glory to God, that is in the knowing. It's in the knowing. Somebody type that in the comments. It's in the knowing. It's in the knowing. And I, I need you to grab this tonight, guys. It's in the knowing. And our main thought is going to come from Daniel 11:32. Uh, you could type, handa basura. God bless you, Tanya. Good to see you, daughter. Good to see you. Daughter Cuz, good to see you. Praise God. Thank you so much too for doing such an excellent job on this past Sunday with worship. I appreciate God for you, and I'm praying God for supernatural release. Glory. In your, your business, so that you won't have to man that business on Sundays. I'm trusting God for structure facilities, real estate in your favor. Matter of fact, I decree and declare it right now, and I release real estate and favor into your life, that your business— I declare that even in the next year it will reach a 7-figure valuation. God will give you trusted employees. And I decree and declare for you, Tanya, even tonight, that atansa, I declare— yeah, see, they're so clear. That in the next 12 months it will be a stream of manifestations concerning your business. Glory to God. And I thank you that, oh, Tamar, Father, that you're going to provide for her brisca, freedom, atamande, to grow in her ministry, to cultivate the prophet in her, to cultivate the prophetic minstrel that's in her, and to see her soar in the things that you called her to be while you make her a millionaire in her business. And I declare these things even now in Jesus' name. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. Listen, I'm telling you, Lord, listen, there's a stream open over me right now that's, that's, that's crazy. So I'm gonna do it all at one time as it come to me. If God give it to me for you, I'm gonna give it to you. You need to share this. Glory to the name of God. There's a presence on this live tonight, but we're gonna, we're gonna work through teaching this word. Glory to God. So again, type it in the comments: it's in the knowing. It's in the knowing. Let's, let's read Daniel 11:32 really quick. The Bible says, and such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries. Listen to this: but the people, the people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits. Hallelujah! Glory to God! Because it's just all right to read the Bible. The scripture says, and such— hear this— as do wickedly against the Covenant. And I'm gonna break this down before I get off, off of here tonight. And such as do wickedly against the Covenant, the Bible says he shall corrupt by flatteries. I'm talking about who that he is. I think you might already know. But the people that do know their God hear this— shall be strong. Hallelujah. And shall do exploits. Glory to God. Hallelujah. So I'm gonna— and this, I'm gonna get straight to the point and share this tonight. Briscoe toba ataye. Reki kanta labas sova ki. Reti tabanso. Rakiska ataye. So here we go. So basically, I'm gonna give you tonight 3 things that knowing God will produce. Here's what I want you to understand: when you really know God, it is going to produce fruit in your life. I need you to hear this. Listen to Michael Woods tonight, okay? I want you to hear me. When you know God, there's going to be fruit in your life. And I'm going to talk about 3 areas of fruit that are very important, that encompass a whole lot of other things. But I just need you to know there's a whole lot of people out here saying they're praying, saying they're receiving impartations, they're receiving prophecy, they're getting hands laid on, they're falling on the floor, they're dancing, they're making noise, you know, because it don't even matter which way you do it, right? Let me help you. Whether you're praising God in the dance, which is a way to praise God, so we got to be careful knocking that, right? Uh, because you got a group out here that likes to knock that, uh, because I don't know, but it's scriptural, right? So just because you don't praise God that way doesn't mean you should knock people who do praise God that way, or you should knock people who quiet when they praise God. You have a right to express yourself in praise and worship however you choose. The main thing is is that you do it out of relationship and not religious obligation. There are a lot of people that's praying. They're praying soft, they're praying loud, they're praying with tongues, they're reading their Bible, they preach well, they— or their teacher, or they're an evangelist, or they're prophets. Glory to God. I need you to hear me. It doesn't matter how you do it. If what you're doing— come on now, God bless you, daughter Yolanda, good to see you— if what you're doing, hear me, is not done out of relationship with the Lord, you, it, you need to know him. The worst thing in the world is to be deceptive, and we just read a little about that, and to be deceived. By flattery, and you think you know him because you spooky or you weird— come on, man— and you, you're not relatable, and you, you can't show up, you don't show up in the world. Come on. Hey Tiffany, God bless you, miss you. You got to come see us at church, girl. We miss you since the last time you were there. Listen, you gotta know him. And when you know him, you have a balanced understanding that your world— watch this— ain't the only world. And the way you do it, the way I do it, ain't the only way it's done. The world is so much bigger than you, it's so much bigger than me. And when you know God and start seeing things through his perspective and his way of doing things and his mode of operation— oh my God, you'll understand, glory to God, that this has little to do with your understanding of how things are done. So I'm telling you, it's in the knowing, man. And you, you walk in love, you'll treat people better. Hear me, you, you'll be more susceptible especially if you're a prophet and you're apostolic. Listen, you can't tell me you're an apostle or you're a prophet and you can't go into certain arenas where they do different things or they worship a different way, and you not in love and in peace be able to introduce them to ways of doing things that are born out of relationship without being offended and trying to tear down what they're doing. It's a dangerous piece, people. And a lot of times we won't be received in places we need to be received because we're operating from limited knowledge of God. And I'm telling you, that ain't cool, people. It ain't cool at all. So let's jump in here real quick, right? So 3 things knowing God will produce. All right, here we go. The first thing, number 1, knowing God produces prophetic power. Ha! I need you to touch yourself and say, I have prophetic power. Glory to God. And I want to say to you tonight you have prophetic power. Listen, whether you are a prophet or not, if the Holy Spirit, the person of God— that's who the Holy Spirit is. He is a person. He's not gifts. He is not wind. He is not fire. He's a person, and he actually lives in those who have been filled with his presence. And when you have received the baptism of the Holy Ghost— glory to God— I want you to understand something: you have prophetic power. I need you to write in the comments, 'I have prophetic power.' Now, before we go any farther, let's define what it means to be prophetic. I didn't say you have pathetic power, I said you have prophetic power. Glory to God. God bless you, Yovanda and Maya. Good to see you guys on here tonight. Touch yourself and say, I have prophetic power. Glory to God. Prophetic power. So the word prophetic All right, so it's two words in English actually. It's pro, which means for, like pro-life, pro-choice, for. All right, so that means that you, you are for life or for choice. In this instance, it means you are for the fetiche. Yeah, the fetiche. Or the prioteisi in Greek. Uh, are you ready? You are for what God says. That's what it means to be prophetic, means that you stand for— come on— what God says. It is that which pertains to what God says. Not a man, not a prophet. It's that which pertains to what God says. The man, the woman, the prophet is merely— hear me, hear me good— is merely, glory to God, a vessel that God uses to voice what's on his mind. So when you are prophetic, you have the ability to voice what's on God's mind, and you are for— you're never against what he says. You're for what he says. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. Just touch yourself against— I got prophetic power. You're for what God says. You, you are for what God says. Now here's a major issue. You have people— listen, I'm trying to teach you guys something tonight and I'm already on my time— who call— and so I'm almost through, believe it or not— who call themselves prophetic. Hear me. And they are for what God says. Watch this. Until it's what he says about them. You can't be a prophet and be for what God says for other people, and then when it comes to him saying it about you, you ain't for it. Well, you said, wait a minute, Apostle, I am for it. Well, I can't tell if you ain't living out what he says is for you. Oh, or if you're not aligned in the way he's created you to be aligned. How in the world can you be prophetic for everybody else and prophesy cars and houses to money and to everybody else and prophesy deliverance and victory to everybody else, but you don't believe that he said you supposed to have a car, you supposed to have a house, You're supposed to have money. Wait a minute, you're supposed to be delivered. You could prophesy healing to everybody else. Oh my God, hell, but you don't believe you supposed to be healed. When you get sick, you lose it. Oh, the problem is It's a root. The root of it is we really don't know him, because it's in the knowing. It's not in the gifting, it's in the knowing. You can move in a gift, uh-oh, and not know God. Wait a minute, y'all don't believe it? Jesus said it. He said, in that day many will come to me saying, Lord, Lord, Lord, Did not I prophesy? Did not I cast out demons? Did not I heal the sick? Did not I? Did not I? The Lord said, I'm going to say to them in that day, depart from me. Oh my God, I never knew you. Oh, it's an annoying— I never knew you. I never knew you. Oh boy. Two words for known, usually translated in Greek. Let's— let me give you this and I'm gonna move, because I can stay right there. I can stay on this point and preach the whole message on this point, but I got to give you other two points. God have mercy. We gotta know him, people. We gotta know him. So two ways are found in this— these two definitions. The first Greek word for know that you usually find in the New Testament transliterated for the word know is the word gnōskō. The word gnōskō is knowledge that is gained through a process— watch this— by relationship, through trial and experience. So God takes you through situations Uh-oh. To give you a revelation of who he is. Oh my God, he takes you through situations to give you a revelation. So don't curse the situation. And a lot of times your situation may seem harder than everybody else. Because of the depth of revelation that is going to take for you to walk out your purpose. So the quicker you stop cursing your situation— hear me— and let God give you a revelation. Ota man so rakiska tabaya briska tababo so rabaya. Tomorrow Yeah, I heard the Lord say this. He said this season that you're in, he said the reason why the crisis seems intensified, he said first to tell you, daughter, he said to say to you that what you're dealing with, it's not as big as it seems. He says it is masked as a huge issue because— I'm telling you, because the situation is there. Because for where I'm taking you, said the Lord, for the depth of your teaching ministry and the depth of the prophetic mantle that'll flow out of your life, he says this season is designed to give you a greater revelation of his ability. A lot of things that you think are going to be solved in traditional means of— hallelujah— bringing you out, God says, I'm going to give you revelation and give you a supernatural solution. Liski tababon soroku. On how to take your finances to the next level, take your career and ministry to the next level. He says, but you must soak in the situation in prayer and worship until you got a clear revelation of his ability as Jehovah Jireh to move you to this next blaze. He said it's not many days from now that he will begin to unfold. I see that, I see him unfolding, unfolding like a fold. I see these revelations, I see 12 revelations before 2023 will end that's gonna be born out of your situation that's gonna set you up not as an employee, but a deployee, as an entrepreneur. He's going to set you up. Briska taban sorakus kadaya, otaseku ramansotoboye, rebe soto rabaya, for stability. And God said, I gotta prosper you, briska taban deku, in this dimension so that your ministry can be done sweatless. Says the Lord. Glory to God! Just shout, somebody, I got prophetic power! I give you glory, God. I give you honor. I give you praise. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. So back to my point again. I'm doing it all at one time. As it comes, I'm gonna release it. Praise God. Hallelujah, hallelujah. So God brings you through situations to give you revelation so you can know him. Because, because watch this, you don't want your prophetic ability to be in iniquity, to be lawless, to be without fruit. Oh, Rabbi, yes God, we give you praise, we give you glory, God, we lift you up. We exalt you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. So let's read Jeremiah 29:11. I gotta move, I gotta move. The Bible said, but you shall receive power after the Holy Ghost is come upon you. So let me, let me stop right here. You gotta look at this word very closely. He said, now you— in another verse he tells us that when the day of Pentecost is fully come, ye shall receive power. All right, so he's talking about the person of God, the Holy Ghost. You call him Holy Spirit, Holy Ghost, whatever you want to call it, but he's holy and he's God that lives in us. Here's, here's what I want to bring out. When you are filled with the Holy Ghost, that is an inward encounter. He fills you on the inside. He fills your human spirit with him. Now watch this. Now he's operating inside of you, but power comes when he comes upon you. So it's one thing to have him inside of me, which is where a lot of religious people— they get saved, they receive the Holy Ghost, and they do not activate him, and he never operate— shows up upon them. So they don't show up in the world in power. So your prophetic power— hear this— cannot work— watch this— without the baptism of the Holy Ghost, the person of God coming upon you, which means he gets— starts working through your soul, through your senses, through your body. He gets in your hands. That's why when you— that's why your body, when you know, when you get slain in the spirit. Glory to the name of God. It gets overtaken by the Holy Ghost. This is why a lot of times I'm praying for people who are sick, I start feeling fire in my hands, and I lay my hands on them, and they can feel the warmth, and the Holy Spirit will go through their body like liquid fire because he comes upon us. Watch this, it ain't our power. See, when you know him, you know it's his. So you got prophetic power to open your mouth and agree with heaven and what God says and declare and decree that the power of the Holy Ghost come upon you. Hallelujah! Watch this, the Holy Ghost comes upon you so you can be witnesses. Wait a minute, this word witnesses in Greek is martus, in Greek, which is where we get English words like martyr. Watch this, here we go, here we go, y'all ready? Which means to die for what God says. Which means, watch these guys, you're willing You're willing to lay down your flesh, to lay down your desires, to lay down your dreams. I hear that, God. Uh, daughter Yovanda, I don't know if you're still here, but I just heard the Lord say this. He said to tell you that that job that you're in right now He said to say this to you. He said that that job is totally temporary. Yeah, he said it's temporary. He says, I'm about to open a wide door for you. He said, because you are faithful in your giving, you're faithful to the things that pertain to God, he says, I'm about to trust you. Woo! With more than you have thought you desire. The Lord said to tell you tonight to get the biggest number in your mind that you want to earn in 2024. Lord, I hear you. Glory to God. He said get the biggest number you want to earn in your mind, and God says he's going to do that and he's going to multiply it 50 times more than what you bring in your head. He said because he's about to trust you in a way where to your generation— yeah, I hear you, God— you can be an example and an ensample to what God can do for millennials, and your testimony will draw many to him. —because you chose to trust him and walk with him, said the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. So he says you get power, you get the Holy Ghost that comes upon you to be a martyr, to die to your flesh, your way of doing things, your desire for stuff that really ain't God. So when you show up in the world, in Jerusalem, in Judea, Samaria, othermost parts of the earth, wherever you show up in the world, guess what? They don't see you, they see his power. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Wherever you show up They see his exousia at work. They see his ability at work. Oh my God, today. So you got prophetic authority, prophetic power. So stop complaining about your situation. Prophesy to it. Say what God says about your situation and watch him change it. And then when— and then show up in the world as a witness. When they ask you, how did you do that? How you— how you get that salary? God did it. How you get that house debt-free? God did it. How you pay off them cars? God did it. How your body get healed? God did it. Oh, I gotta go, y'all. I gotta go. I gotta get out of there. Oh, okay, okay, okay. Let's look at Jeremiah. Let's look at Jeremiah 29:11. Watch this. Somebody say, it's in the knowing. Just shout it, it's in the knowing. He said, for I know the thoughts— it's in the knowing, y'all— I think toward you. It's not about what you know. This is prophetic power. This is prophetic standing on what God thinks. I don't care what nobody else thinks about me, and neither should you. Because when you know him and you know what's on his mind concerning you, you're not gonna waste your time worrying about what somebody else thinking about you. How they sizing up you and, and oh my God, and judging you. Glory to God. So he said, knowing you, you got to tap in to what God is thinking. Touch yourself and then I want you to type it in the comments and say, he's thinking about me. Oh, see, see, we be worrying about whether somebody— yes, God, we got to tap into his mind. What is he thinking? You worrying about what somebody else thinking, but he's thinking about you. He's thinking about you. He's thinking about you. I need you to hear it. You're on his mind. Who cares if nobody else is thinking about you? Oh my God, God is thinking about you. Watch this. He said, I'm thinking thoughts toward you. That's very powerful word, toward you. Mahakavash in Hebrew, which means the thoughts he's thinking, not only are they in his mind, but mahakavash means that they are heavy thoughts and he has lifted them and thrown them in— oh, and thrown what he's thinking in your direction. Wait a minute, you're telling me that what God's thinking has already been released and thrown at me? All I got to do— first of all, when you know what he's thinking— wait a minute, you know what to look for you know what to expect. See, if you don't know it before you see it— watch this— when it manifests, you won't recognize it. Wait a minute, somebody type that in the comments, retweet it, something. Thank you, Holy Ghost. If you don't know it before you see it, when it manifests, you won't recognize it. So you gotta know what he's thinking before you get it. Some of us have missed blessings and seasons because we have been misplaced. We miss blessings and seasons because we have been misplaced. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh, you got to know it. You gotta know it. He said these are thoughts of peace. Shalom. First of all, these are thoughts of peace. Shalom, which means the presence of assistance, not the absence of confusion. So he's thinking thoughts toward you that are thoughts aligning with him, assisting you. They are not of evil. Evil in Hebrew is ra. Ra. R-A. Ra sounds evil, don't it? Ra. It literally means to injure or hurt. Are you hearing me? Rekita la Maya. God never will send you anything that's designed to bring you injury. It's not his game, that's not his plan, that's not his M.O. If it's hurting, oh God, that came out of the flesh. It wasn't God's plan. God's will is never to break you. To hurt you, to injure you. He says, I want to give you thoughts of peace. I want to help you. I want you to overcome. I want you to win. I'm HaKadosh. I've thrown you some big thoughts. You should be expecting them, because again, if you don't know it before you see it, when it manifests, you will not recognize it. I gotta move, and I'm almost done. Ah, so that's the first thing: you have prophetic power when you know God. Number 2: when you know God— hear me, I'm not gonna— I could spend all night on this, right? You can't have a spiritual father like Dr. Miles Monroe for 25 years— he was my spiritual father— and not be able to teach this all night. So I could teach this all night. I'm not. But when you know God, you have clarity of purpose. Let's, let's go, let's go to Proverbs 19:11. Proverbs 19:11. It says, many other plans in a person's heart That's the NIV. But it's the Lord's purpose that prevails. So there are a lot of things you got in your head you might feel like you can do. There's a lot of things that you dream about you want to do. There are a lot of things you may feel like you're qualified to do. But listen, it's in the knowing. You need to know and be clear about what God's purpose for your life is, so that you don't run off— hear me— and do something crazy. This is why you end up in cycles, because you keep trying things that wasn't his purpose. Propose in Latin, what he proposed for your life before you were ever born. Are you hearing me? Clarity of purpose says, listen, that what I'm going to do is align in understanding with God's heart for me and not my heart for me. Oh, and you gotta apply this to every aspect of your life— your career, your relationships, your marriage. You— oh boy. Oh, I was just talking to somebody this week that was— I was counseling with them about their marriage, and they were saying they felt like, you know, they missed God. So at the end of the day, my thing was, you there now, you cut a covenant. So there has to be purpose in it now. You got to find the purpose in it now, and you got to trust that because if you feel like you missed it I don't think they missed it, and that's what I told them. I feel like the whole situation is a test to birth out God's plan in the other person. And so this is going to be a great testimony, and that's what's going to be the prevailing purpose. Because if the marriage wouldn't never happen, the deliverance of the other spouse never would occur. Ah God, come on. Oh my God, oh my God. So, so a lot of times We be purposed for something, and we may want something for ourselves, but God had a whole nother plan. So you— somebody shout, it's in the knowing! You gotta know God enough so you can tap into that which is going to prevail, that which is going to last forever. Sometimes God will plant you in a situation Oh, Shandaya! Where your light is designed, praise God. Oh God, to bring every other person in that situation to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. Sometimes he puts you in a situation with people that know less than you so that they can learn what you know. And that's not just in marriage, it's in friendship, that's in professional cultures. God may put you in a place where you could be the light that lends people— hallelujah— lends their attention— here it is— toward God. You, you want prevailing purpose. You want purpose that lasts forever. Purpose is going to keep you holy, happy, and healthy. Purpose that God is engaged in. Look at that, that's a great testimony. I remember, I remember Tiffany, I'm grateful for what God has done in your marriage. Absolutely, that's good stuff, that's a great testimony. You gotta stand in purpose, y'all. Number 3, I gotta go. When you know God, he gives you perfect peace. Oh, the word perfect in Greek is teleios. It means complete, it means mature. So we just, we just can't— and so, all right, so let's just go to the text. Let's go to the text. Let's go to the text. I think what I want is, uh, Isaiah 26. Let's go there. Isaiah 26, I think that's what we're going— Isaiah 26, that's right. So he says, thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee. Because he trusted in thee. So mature peace— watch this— matured presence of his assistance. So this scripture is talking about you're, you're mature enough to trust that you're not alone no matter what you're going through, and that God is present to assist you no matter what the circumstance looks like. So when you know God, you got perfect peace. You ain't freaking out. Over circumstances. You could watch this. Nothing— I said, I think I was prophesying to someone when I said this, but I'll say it again, it bears repeating— nothing is ever big as it first seems. Stop freaking out over stuff. Stop, oh, going to the extreme. When people always got drama and never got peace, it's a sign they're immature. And don't know God like they say they know God. People who know God are operating in perfect peace. They're mature. They're not always— oh my God— stirring up mess, argumentative, gossiping, lying, causing division, causing strife, always seeing a problem in something. Oh my God. God is with you. So that's the sign of maturity, not how well you speak in tongues, not how accurate you could prophesy. Again, gifts and callings come without repentance. They're irrevocable, which means they're irrevocable. God won't take gifts back. And you could be excellent at operating in gifts but very poor in operating in the peace of God. And the peace of God comes when you know it. And as I said in the beginning, you can operate in gifts and have no idea really who God is. It's in the knowing, y'all. It's in the knowing. God wants you to have perfect peace. This means you got financial peace. It doesn't matter what your bank account says. You got financial peace. Glory to God. Because you know Jehovah Jireh is present to assist you when you mature. What am I saying? What is Apostle Woods saying? I'm saying grow up. I'm saying mature. I'm saying concentrate on developing your relationship in him. You have perfect peace in your marriage. Mature peace when you know God. You have perfect peace with your friends when you know God. Perfect peace in your career, in your profession, when you know God. He said, why is this? Because your mind is stayed— here we go— on thee, on him. The word stayed, this is a powerful Hebrew word, man. It's crazy. You've seen the, um, term Lebron in, uh, that's where LeBron James gets his name. It's a biblical name, Lebron. But Leb is the heart, run, R-O-N, literally means movement towards. What we get the English word run, R-U-N, it means to move swiftly towards. And watch this, and plant there. So when you have mature peace, you run quickly toward God's way of doing things. You move in. Okay, you know, I'm gonna give you some Ebonics to help you. If you spend the night with somebody, I stayed with them, or I stayed at their house. All right, so God is saying You need to move into his way of doing things and stay. Some of y'all visit his mind. Can I help you? I'm done, I'm done. My bad. I'mma just— I'mma cue the music, right? So you'll know I'm done for real. I'm done, I'm done. I really am. I'mma cue the music. You got to move in to his way of His way of doing things and actually staying there. You can't be lukewarm. Revelation says that you can't be lukewarm. You got to be either hot or cold. He said them that are lukewarm, he'll spew you out of his mouth. God bless you, Apostle Michelle. Good to see you on here. Woman of God. Hear me, you gotta move in. Mature people move in and stay. They don't waver when the enemy throws darts at them. Stop taking visits to God's way of doing things. Just visit his mind and then go back to doing what you want to do. But you know, I learned something about knowledge. Even in the natural, once your mind matures and expands, it never goes back. I'll say that again. Once your mind matures and expands, it never goes back. It never returns. It can never accept things on a lower level anymore. So here's the question, because guess what? There's certain things I've learned about business and finance, investing money, ministry and spirituality. I can't go back to stuff God brought me out of once your mind expands. So I'm telling you, grow up, man. Move in and stay there. I won't go back. I refuse to go back to what the enemy had me bound with in the past. We give you glory. Let's pray, y'all. I gotta quit. My time is— I'm way over my time. My desire was 30 minutes tonight. I've gone an hour and five. We gotta pray. Father, in Jesus' I thank you for every person that watched this live, or every person that will watch the replay. I pray simply, God, that you would bring your people— not just these listening live or by replay— but your body to a place of actual knowing. Knowing their place in the body, knowing that you are the head of the body, having real relationship with you so they could move in prophetic power, so they can have clarity of purpose. And Lord, yes, Lord, thank you. Grow your people up in peace. May we move move in and never move out. Let your mind, your way of doing things, your will be our permanent residence in every setting, in every situation. I declare it, and I say it is so, in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen. And thanks be to God. Listen, I love you guys. I love you so much. Thank you, thank you, thank you so much for joining me tonight. I had to get that word out. It was on me. My heart was trying to— I'm going now. I love y'all. Listen, one thing, we're making history we prayed, we preached, we prophesied, we've trusted God. And so we're officially birthing this baby starting tomorrow night at 7:30. I need you to help me. You're in Mississippi, help me pack the church out tomorrow night. I don't tell you what's to pack out of the church in Mississippi. Help us pack it out tonight, tomorrow night. And we're trusting God that the entire weekend is going to be filled with the blessing of the Lord. I feel revival. God would not allow me to— to get another sleep. I want to— I'm preaching every day, 7:30, 7:30 to 10:00. For leaders only, guys, every morning at 10:00. You call called, somebody told you you was called, paid to be called, wanna be called, ain't got no business calling. I want you in there on Saturday morning. Listen, leaders get up early to get what they need. I'm probably gonna hold you only about an hour. So come 10 AM, share with us. I promise you, uh, it's going to be a blessing. So please be in the place. Listen, I'm going to be talking about becoming an agent of dominion. Oh, every leader needs it. Something God uniquely gave to me. I want to show you how to show up in the world and be in charge and lead, not just in the church, but to lead in every aspect of your life. So I'm going to take my time and talk to you about how it's important to become an agent of Dominion. Please come be a part of that service, 7:30 Saturday night. I'm preaching, we're ordaining, uh, some people. It's going to be phenomenal. Looking forward to that. My daughters, I'm excited we get to lay hands on them. Some of them I've laid hands on before we get to ordain them again. And so I'm excited about this and what God is doing into their lives and we're about to speak with them. All right, then on Sunday at 12 noon, Oldsmar, Atlanta. We will be in Jackson this Sunday. No service at Rudder, Atlanta. I am so sorry. We'll be back on Sunday, September 10th at 3 o'clock here in Atlanta, Georgia. So we love you all, man. Y'all be blessed. Listen, meet me tomorrow night, for real. Share the flyer on the church page. It's on my page too. I shared it to my page. Um, text it out to people. Share the text you got. Let's pack that church out. Follow your text and your sharing over the phone calls. Let's get people in here. I love you guys. Tomorrow. Love you, bless you, praise you, thank you, Jesus.