IT'S IN THE KNOWING PART 2: I WILL OVERTURN IT | DR MIKE WOODS SR | RADAH NOW | 1-5-2022

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Well, praise the Lord, and grace and peace be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. My name is Apostle Mike Woods, for those of you who are uninitiated, and welcome Welcome to today's edition of Rhoda Now. The word rhoda means dominion. I'm super excited to jump into the word and teach you again today. Listen, I want you to share this video really quickly because the things that I'm about to disseminate from the auspices of heaven is going to be absolutely life-changing. And listen, there'll be things that you can use right now to change the trajectory of your year this year, if you want to really have a better season than you had last season, you got to make significant changes. And I'm telling you now, these teachings that the Lord has given me concerning knowing him and the results of knowing him are going to be absolutely phenomenal. So I'm excited to get into this. Do me a favor, go ahead and share this right now. Comment below, say hello, let us know you're here. And I'm so glad that you have a desire. Listen, if you listen to me seriously, if you watch my content and my lives, you really ought to pat yourself on the back because that means you have an apt to grow. You have a desire to do more because at the end of the day, there's no hype, there's no pomp, there's no circumstance. I'm coming straight from the hip. Many a time, some of the things I'll say are actually going to challenge you and make you uncomfortable. But if you apply these truths, I promise you they will change your life forever. So go ahead and share with a friend, be a blessing to somebody. I promise you, you'll be so glad that you did. So today, I started on Sunday, I shared a message entitled It's in the Knowing, and I want to continue along those lines again today. So this is going to be part 2 of It's in the Knowing. I'm to call this message I Will Overturn, Overturn, Overturn It. And you're going to understand what that means in the moment. You might say, Woods, what are you talking about? I will overturn, overturn, overturn it. Well, many of you listening to me right now, over the last 5 years, 10 years, and some over the last 3 years, maybe you've had some obstacles that seemingly you haven't been able to remove. And most of the time you haven't been able to remove them because you've been trying to remove them yourself. And I want to say something to you very emphatically today. There's some things in your life that's just a job for Jesus. Now, you don't know that if you don't know him, so I don't fault you. So this whole journey is about introducing you to him, right? So We're going to take a context in Ezekiel, the book of Ezekiel, the prophet Ezekiel, chapter number 21 and verse number 26. You'll find these words. It says, hear me, thus saith the Lord, listen, remove the diadem and take off the crown. This shall be no more, or this shall not be the same. He says, I will exalt him that is low and abase him that is high. Verse 27 says, I will overturn— hear me— overturn, overturn it, and it shall be no more. Hear me. Oh my God. Until he come whose right it is, and I will give it— hallelujah— to him. I'm gonna read verse 27 again because it's just all right to read the Bible. He says, I will I will overturn, overturn, overturn it, and it shall not be anymore. I'm telling you right now, God's about to overturn some things in such a fashion that he's gonna totally annihilate them, and you will never ever in your life Neither will your children, their children, in any generation that's connected to you. God is going to totally annihilate these issues. Come on. And they will not have to be dealt with again. So we're going to, we're going to talk about this at the end of the message, but I want to give you a little review first of what we talked last time so you can be caught up. And then secondly, I'm gonna give you some points to introduce where we're going with this. I'm not gonna be long, I just sound like it, but stay with me. Please share, guys, please share. If you listen to the podcast, share it with someone. I promise you it'll bless their life. If you're watching us on YouTube, please share the link. Glory to God. If you're on Facebook, IG, Periscope, wherever you're watching, hit the share button and do us a kind favor and share with someone. So let's review part 1. So there, there are 4 things I gave you in part 1, really 3 things, and I'm gonna give you a 4th one today that's connected to this message that knowing God produced. Number 1, I told you that knowing God produced prophetic power. You ought to type that in the notes, prophetic power. Write it down, write it in the notes. Now I'm not going to teach it again, but if you want to understand the significance of prophetic power You need to make sure you go back and watch message number 1. Secondly, I told you that knowing God produces a clarity of purpose, a clarity of purpose. There's so many people who are alive who have no idea what their purpose is. I made it very clear what purpose was in the last teaching. It's not who you are, it's why you are. So again, if you want to get some, uh, clarity about purpose, you need to go back and listen to that teaching from last time. Thirdly, listen to me. I said knowing God releases perfect peace. So again, go back and listen so you can understand what that meant. When you really know God— not religious, not you go to church, not you read your Bible— not you squint your eyes and frown all the time like you've been drinking lime juice. No, I'm talking about knowing God for real and having an open spirit and an open mind to see the different vantage points of God and understand just how big he is. Let me tell you something, religious people spend a lot of time trying to make God religious. And a lot of times when you do that, you lack peace because you're trying to make God tie into a personality trait that you want him to have because you're religious. You're stuck in a mode that's not matriculating, not evolving. Oh my God, not expanding, not growing. And so you're trying to get God to align himself with that. And I'm going to tell you something. God is so much bigger than that. He's not going to align with that. And so fourthly, today our message, our teaching today about overturning is, is really about restored position. Now nothing can really be restored, hear me, if it hasn't been in a place before. So let me tell you something, in Genesis 1:28 God gave you a power, and the scripture says that he says, be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, subdue the earth, and have dominion in the earth. The word dominion again in the Hebrew is rada. That's the whole basis substratum of the ministry God has given us. Rada. Some of you see that and say, what the heck is that? But it's, it's really the main mandate that God gave mankind. Each of you listening to me has a Rada, or a dominion mandate over your life, to rule in authority in your sphere of influence. And that's why you got to be clear about purpose, because once you're clear about purpose, God moves you into purpose only to raise you up. Hear me. To be dominant in that field where you were called to dominate. My God, here. Oh my God, are y'all hearing this? So I want you to grab this today, that God has created you to be a Radonite. Hallelujah! That's your tribe. You're called to have dominion. You're called to rule. You're called to be in charge. Listen, yes, you're all that and a bag of chips and a Coke. Listen, you're everything, and God uniquely created you. And it's so amazing that every human has a place that they can dominate in if they tap into it. Here's what I'm clear of: God knew there'll be some humans who would never get it. So for those of us that will open our mind to the limitless power of God. Man, those you watching me right now, please type that in the comments. Say this: God's power, God's mind is limitless. There are no limitations in God. And so what God wants you to do is restore you and I completely to a realm of living, a culture of thinking where we are absolutely limitless in what we do, so that we're constantly having cross-pollination between heaven and earth, so that the mantle that we carry— yes, she— whoa, my God, here is a mantle. Listen to me, that is utter heavenly, and that when people encounter us, they don't encounter our limited ability as a human, but they encounter our limitless ability as a supernatural being who's been given dominion. And listen, this is what God wants to restore. Oh my God, I dare you to type that on the screen. Hallelujah! In the comments, say When God restores my position, I am limitless in him. In other words, there's nothing you cannot do with God on your side when it is in the arena of purpose and in the arena, hear me, of what God has planned for— woo! Your life. My God, here, Happy New Year! This is 2022, and I'm telling you, in 2022, you got to know God so you can be restored to your proper position of limitless living, so you can operate in his unlimited power, so you can release his unlimited ability and potential through you and move in the dominion mandate and rule where you're supposed rule. Let's get some word. Uh, go to Philippians 3:10. The Bible says in Philippians 3:10, it says, that I may know him. Well, let's look at that word know. Philippians— it should be on the screen— Philippians 3:10. If you listen to my podcast, glory to God. Listen, I want you to understand something. Philippians 3:10 says this: that I may know him and the power of his resurrection. So let's, let's, let's deal with this. Let's deal with this. The word know in this text is a Greek word. The etymology is important because I want you to be very clear. There are few words translated for know in scripture. One is gnōskō. Gnōskō is knowledge that is gained through a process through relationship and experience. Another one is Orda, which is perfect and absolute knowledge. So let me give an example of Orda. Orda, or Arda, literally deals with the idea of 1 1 being 2. You can't change that. That's absolute. 100 years from now, 1 1 will still be 2. Come on, 2 times 2 will still be 4. It is unchangeable. It is perfect and absolute. So what relationship with God should be, it should be a— watch this— a gnosko encounter daily where we go through processes and experiences and encounters with God daily through relationship. That lead us to absolute knowledge that cannot be changed no matter what anybody is preaching, no matter what anybody else is doing, no matter what religion says. I'm talking about knowing God for real. Listen, uh, a Black nationalist, a Hebrew light, a Black Hebrew light, uh, y'all don't talk to me here. None of these movements, Islam Jehovah's Witness, and whatever you choose to do, that's on you. Religion is something man chooses to do. I'm not saying— I'm not talking you down, but let me tell you something about me. There's nothing anyone in these faiths could ever say to me. An angel could come from heaven and preach another gospel outside of what I have learned through gnosis, through relationship and experience with God. It will not convert me because I know God in a orda way, in an absolute way. So the writer says, that I may know him, God, Jesus Christ, and hear this, the power of his resurrection. Watch this, the word power there is exousia. Now watch this, exousia is authority. The, the writer is talking about restored position. He says, I need to know God in a way that I understand as a human the power that raised— oh my God— Jesus Christ from the dead, his resurrection. I need to understand that his resurrection is real for real, not just because I read because— but because I know him and he's resurrected in my life. See, religion serves a dead God that's really not real. They serve a God that's really not real to them. They go to church, and many again have been in the church for the large majorities of their lives, and tragically— hear me— they do not know God. They know how to be churchy, they know how to sing the right songs, they know how to go into a good bump Lord, if I see another bump, another shout, another praise break that is not connected to— oh my God— real relationship, I probably literally am going to puke. Because at the end of the day, it leads nowhere. It is bodily exercise, according to the prophet, that profits little. Listen, I grew up in Pentecostalism. We have exuberant church. I love to dance, I love the organ, I love the drums, but I love worship more because worship takes me to a place behind the veil. Glory to God. Hallelujah. That puts me into real relationship with God. Come on, hallelujah. Where it ain't just a bump, that when I leave, I know him. Most of y'all go to church and all you're looking for is a bump. You're looking to dance, and your relationship is shallow because you have no clear direction. You have no clarity of purpose. You have no prophetic power. And watch this— your position, your authority, your exousia has not been restored. And so you, you're serving a God that's dead in you. But God wants to be alive in every area of your life, in your finance, in your marriage. Come on, he wants to be alive in your relationships, your friendships. He wants to be alive in your career. He wants you to move in the authority that the relationship brings. Hallelujah. So Paul says that I may know him or die, have perfect and absolute knowledge about him, a mature absolute knowledge that's a real knowing, and the exousia, the authority of his resurrection Watch this. You ought to be walking in so much dominion, power, and authority that when you show up somewhere— hear me, hear me— that when you show up somewhere, dead stuff starts getting up. Hallelujah! Things that wanted to die starts living. COVID backs up, cancer backs up. Y'all not helping me. Listen, I know y'all don't believe this stuff anymore, and a lot of people never believed it because you are a Facebook, IG generation. Who are listening to dead preachers who have literally never experienced or seen the power of God. Listen, I've seen everything in my ministry, from cancer stage 4, blinded eyes open, deaf ears unstopped. Y'all are talking COVID. I've seen it all. I've seen lame people walk. I've seen the dead raised because I know the abilities of God. I know the power of his resurrection. Listen, you got it. This is what God wants you— I've seen God move in my finances. I've seen it taking me from broke to rich. I— God does that because I know the power of his resurrection. Have mercy, Jesus. I wouldn't serve a dead God, and the God we serve is alive. How do you know he's alive, Michael? He lives in me, not just on Easter, not just on Resurrection Sunday. He's in me, resurrected and alive every single day. And not only do I know he's there, I use the power available to me. Hallelujah. And that's why I ain't got time for people— I don't care who you are, mama, daddy, auntie, uncle, best friend— I don't fool with folk on intimate levels who are dead on the inside and refuse to open their mind up to real life. I don't have time. I really don't, y'all. I don't have time. Listen, at the end of the day, my goal— glory to God— is to take everything that's mine and walk in my restored position. Let me finish reading this scripture. Lord have mercy, I'm talking too long on that I may know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings. Oh my God, fellowship, koinonia in Greek. Hallelujah, the communion, becoming one, the intimacy, become intimate with his sufferings. Watch this, his sufferings, pathema in Greek. Pathema is a course or a set-aside road a pain that is established, a set-aside road of pain that God establishes to produce revelation of him. So let me tell you something, every one of you, if you really want to know him, you gotta go down the path, the panthenai, the course that he set up. You can't avoid pain. Pain is designed to crush you enough to get you in the face of God. See, some of you cursing your crisis, and I want to tell you something: you can't curse your crisis. You gotta take the pain that's been issued because God— there's no shortcuts to this, man. And this is the problem, we got a generation of people who are trying to take shortcuts. And I'm telling you right now, there is no shortcuts. No shortcuts, people. I'm gonna say it one more time, there is no shortcuts. None. So what you gotta do, hear me, you gotta choose. Hear me good, y'all. To endure hardness as a good soldier and go through the process so you could take your restored position. So you're conformable unto death, because watch this, there's no resurrection without death. Something has to die. Your desires, religion, all the demonic habits, all of the things you know you do and say negative talk, lack of faith. You have to kill that stuff. You got to kill doubt. You got to kill fear. You got to kill all of those habits. Oh my God, those undisciplined ways that keep you from having a real resurrection in relationship. Let me move. Let me move. So, Michael Wood, what are The ingredients, and I gotta give you these first because I can't even get into the overturning until we get this, because this has to happen before we overturn. All right, I'm wearing the sweatshirt, okay? I'm wearing the sweatshirt, uh, my man Killer Mike. I get my haircut at his shop, Swag Shop, every week. He didn't tell me to plug that. It's just the truth. Uh, I got a great barber, uh, Jock, my barber down there at Swag Shop in Edgewood downtown. Listen though, hear me guys. Killer Mike said something last year. I heard him on the news when George Floyd died. There was an uprising in downtown Atlanta. He made a powerful speech. A lot of people didn't understand it. And in that speech, he said something that was powerful, so much so he put the quote on— this is Killer Mike's brand, this is his apparel. I bought it from the shop, so you want to get it, go get you one. But sometimes we hear words, we see words, and we really don't understand what it means. This thing resonated with me, right? So, and I gotta give Mike the credit for these words, but I want to take you deeper into them because I believe we really have to do this. And not just as Black people, but as a citizenship of people who are of heaven. Come on now, Black people got to do it, white people got to do it. If you are a child of God and you're going to be in restored position, we got to do this. He gave 5 terms in his speech that were absolutely powerful. He quoted, he said, it's time like never before that we plot, that we plan, that we strategize, that we organize, and that we mobilize. I want to go deeper into these 5 things, and I want to tell you what each one of them means really quick. I'm not going to take a lot of time because this could be a whole teaching itself. But before I get into where I'm going, I gotta deal with this. So first thing he says, you gotta plot. So when you hear the word plot, it always deals with something that's done in secret. As a matter of fact, the word means to secretly invent, form, or create in an artistic or ingenious manner. So when you, when you look at this sweatshirt, when you hear the words of Killer Mike, or you hear me teaching this now, I want you to understand that there is a secret place in God. This is why every human needs the Holy Spirit active in their life, and they need a relationship with the Holy Spirit to help them plot. Listen, one of the prayers I pray every day is one of my daily declaration. I've been doing this for years now, and I owe anything that I create to this declaration because I know this is why I'm able to do it, because I'm not that smart. I— every day out of my mouth, I decree, I am creative because the Holy Spirit Lives in me. Again, to plot is to secretly invent, to form or create. Create means to bring something forth that did not exist. An invention is something unique. So in secret, we gotta form, invent, and create something that— oh my God— in an artistic, strategic way in an ingenious manner that can restore our position of authority in the world, and we could take our rightful place. Now, where is this secret place, Michael Woods? I'm glad you asked. Psalm 91 says this, it says, he that dwells in the secret place of the Most High God shall abide in the shadow of the Almighty. Wait a minute, that sounds like knowing him to me. I told y'all, 2022 is the year of knowing anything you do great is going to be born out of your relationship with God that produces a restored position in the earth. And watch this, in the secret place, the Bible says, watch this, if you're dwelling in the secret place of the Most High God The Holy Spirit is our conduit. It's God in us. This is going to seem strange to some of you, but you got to worship in a way— listen— that opens up a portal and heaven comes down. The Bible says we shall sit in heavenly places. Oh my God. So when we worship, which is— worship is a guarantee that God comes. I'm not just talking about singing great songs. Songs can be a part of it, but I'm talking about when you proskynatos. Proskynatos is the Greek word for worship, which means to literally lay down your total self in sacrifice to him, and you focus totally on him, and you divulge into his way, and you seek his culture, and you open up your eye gate, your mouth gate, your ear gate for heavenly things to enter. The scripture says, lift up your head, oh ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is the King of Glory? The Lord. So when I open my eye gate and start searching in a deeper dimension, open my ear gate and start listening for a deeper dimension in my time of meditation and isolation, when I open my mouth my mouth gate and speak things that will bring heaven to me. I can open up portals. I've done it too many times, y'all. It works. It's real. You're doubting if God is real because you don't know him. You live the way you live because you don't know God. You don't have a plot. Because you haven't been to the secret place. Oh God, oh my God, you gotta go to the secret place so you can plot, you can invent. Because he that dwells in the secret place— Psalm 91 again— of the Most High shall abide in the shadow of the Almighty. So what does that mean? So if I dwell in worship and prayer in the secret place. He said, I abide— I live on earth, I abide on earth in the shadow. So while I'm living in the Almighty, the shadow— I'm living according to— see, a shadow, watch this, is a reflection of light. So whenever light is so strong on an object, it reflects a shadow. I'm in the studio under lights, and if I look at my iPad, I see shadows in my iPad. I see shadows some shadows in the walls. Listen, it's because the light is reflecting off of me. It's silhouettes of me. Listen, God says you abide, you live in his shadow on earth, in his authority, in his power. Hallelujah. And his create— creatorial ability. When you dwell in the secret place, when you know him for real. Hallelujah. So you gotta plot. You gotta plot. What are we gonna plot in the secret place? What are we going to come out of? We can't just have good church. I hear people all the time, oh, we had good church, my service was fire, the power fell, we were drunk, God moved. Yeah, I know, but what you did after you leave church? And what are those people that you blew on and then laid in the floor the whole service, what are they doing after they left church is the question. Are they really taking action? Did they leave with the creatorial ability to plot something? Yeah, I know, I know the answer, but I need all of you to correct that because it's not about just having good church. Oh, the apostle is speaking. Oh my God. Okay, secondly, kill the mic. In his speech, he said, we got a plan. Now, seemingly, if you look at the words on the surface, it seems like plan and plot, same thing. It's not. A plan is an orderly arrangement of parts that exists in the overall design or objective. So the objective is restored position. Full authority. Hallelujah. Operating in the highest level of influence possible according to God's plan, God's purpose for our life. We need an orderly arrangement. Watch this. Plans breed confidence. I'm gonna tell you something, planning time is never wasted time. So once you get a plot You get an invention, you gotta now come up with a plan on how that invention is going to impact every person that needs to be affected by it. See, there are a lot of people that plotted, got an idea, but don't have a plan of execution. So what is your orderly arrangement? Do you have timelines? Have you set goals? Again, plans birth— hallelujah— confidence to go out and do it. When you got a plan, it's solid. So, I mean, I can do this because I see it. Write the vision, plan it, make it plain upon tables. I said plans also give birth to clarity. It makes it clear because now you got some order to how you want to bring it forth. That's why in my 50s. I'm 52. I'll be 53 this year. I have learned the power of moving slow. Yeah, I learned the power of moving slow with people, slow on projects. Oh my God, I learned the power of praying through about things and not reacting in my flesh, not reacting in anger, not reacting in frustration, not reacting in competition. I have learned the power of slow, because when you got a plan, it almost guarantees, when executed properly, success. And you cannot execute a plan properly if you're not moving at the pace that God has designed for the plan. Again, it's an orderly arrangement of parts of an overall design or objective. It is orderly, it is arranged. Each part has significance. Hear me, hear me. So we got a plot, we got a plan. Killer Mike also said— I gotta give him credit for these words, man— you gotta strategize. Oh my God, to strategize means to devise a course of action. See, you can have all the plot and plan you want, but if you don't have a strategy, a course of action to bring the plan to life, it's not gonna work. Everybody listening to me, listen to me, and some of you that's been listening to me over the years, you've heard me say this before. But I'm gonna say it again right here because it fits. You need, and you need to start implementing it. Not a better time to implement it, it's the top of the year. You need a MAP, a M-A-P, a massive plan, oh my God, of action, or a massive action plan. A MAP, a M-A-P, a massive plan, oh my God, I'm saying it wrong again, a massive Action Plan. Told y'all I'm getting old. You know, man, a Massive Action Plan. What is this plan? That's your strategy. That's your strategy to take massive action. If you really want to see change in your life, in any area where you're trying to have influence or make an impact, you gotta take massive action. Nothing is going to happen with you just sitting around wishing, hoping, and praying that it happen. You have to take— hear me— massive action. But you don't want to take massive action without a proper plan of action. Oh my God. Huh. That's the strategy. You got to strategize. And then next Killer Mike said it, you gotta organize. Ah, organize says that we form a coherent unity and begin to function as a whole. In other words, we integrate. It's integration, it's interdependence. Organize— when we organize around the plot, around the plan, around the strategy, We become a coherent unit that functions as a whole piece, as one. Let me give you a good example of organization. It's, oh my God, so clearly seen in a symphony. The Greek word for symphony is symphaneo. It's where we get words like assembly or unity. All right. In a symphony, you got various types of instruments. You got brass, you got percussions, you got strings, you got woodwinds, various types, right? But they all come together in difference and they form coherent unity. The conductor says, play this piece in C. The brass plays in C. The strings play in C, the percussion play in C, everybody— the woodwinds play in C. Every piece of music is playing in the same key regardless to its difference. And if you separate each piece, it sounds totally different, but when they come together in unity, it makes a beautiful sound when they integrate. What are you saying, Michael Woods? We have to— if we're going to overturn the obstacles that are in front of us, we gotta learn how to celebrate the strengths of each other. I know as a gifted person, gifts can be very intimidating to insecure people. I know as a fairly intelligent individual that intelligence can be intimidating to— oh my God— people who are not confident in their intelligence, or people that have no intelligence because they choose to have none. I know that the anointing— as an anointed individual— can be intimidating to people who don't walk in the anointing of God. However, we got to get past that. I celebrate people who are smarter than me. I sit at their feet and learn. You know what I have a problem with? It's people who who don't really have nothing to say or cannot really, uh, position them, or won't— let me say, or won't. They can, they just won't really position themselves in knowledge to actually teach. They're the ones always talking. They want you to hear them. Something's wrong with that. You got to take the position of a learner where you— we can effectively organize around strengths. You gotta know your place. I must know my place. We come together in the kingdom on the same keyring. Watch this. Organization, hear me, is synonymous with assembly. See, when you assemble, you're actually organizing. There's a difference— listen to this— in a gathering and an assembly. Assembly. There's a difference. There's a difference in a gathering and assembly. I'm telling you, I bought my son— my oldest son Michael was 25, so y'all know how long ago this has been— a bicycle when he was about 4. And this is when I got this revelation. On the outside of the box it said, assembly is required. I dumped the pieces on the floor in the middle of my living room and the pieces were just gathered there. There was nothing you could do with the seat, nothing you can do with the tire, nothing you could do with the handlebars, nothing you could do with the chain in that condition. Let me tell you something, as humanity, as Kingdom citizens, we are so unorganized and we are so unassembled and everybody is out doing their own thing. But as a people, as a culture, oh my God, we must organize, we must assemble. Let me tell you something, as I started assembling that bike with my little wrench and my little know-how, the more I assembled, the more the bike made sense. And the more the pieces that were just gathered there had purpose. Now the tires had a position on the bike that were useful. The seat had a position on the bike that was useful. The handlebars had a position that was in and of itself. Neither of these entities were effective. What am I saying? We gotta organize so that every gift, every talent, every anointing, every intelligentsia, every ounce of potential available to us can be used to overthrow the enemy that's trying to take us out of position. And watch this, keep us out of our rightful place. There's more, man. There's more than just having a mega church. There's more than having a million followers on Instagram. Question is, you got a million, what you doing with it? Who you really impacting? Who— whose life is really being empowered to change because all them people following you? Oh, that's a whole nother conversation. All right, so we gotta assemble, right? Integrate so that we can be restored completely into our position and function as a unit, as that moving bicycle. Hallelujah. And take pride in our position on the bike, because guess what? What? Every part is important. If the tire goes flat, the bike is in trouble. If the handlebars bend, the bike is in trouble. If the seat comes off, very uncomfortable to ride. Every part is important. Y'all hear me? Y'all hear what I'm saying? Every part to this bicycle is extremely very important, but we gotta organize so every person can function together with— oh my God— the culture, the people that they are designed to function together with. Ah, I gotta go, I gotta go. Killer Mike said finally— thank you for these, Killer Mike— you gotta mobilize. You gotta mobilize. To mobilize means to assemble and make ready for war or duty. So it's not just enough to assemble and organize, but we assemble to make us ready for war or duty. We educate after we integrate. See, the reality is we got a whole lot of people out here trying to war, trying to do the duty, and they have not been prepared. They have been not made ready. Listen, it is impossible to take effective action and win a war war without proper knowledge and preparation. No soldier goes to battle without first being trained. Come on, man, how am I gonna send you out with a rifle and I ain't never taught you how to shoot it? How am I going to send you into the battlefield and I haven't taught you how to survive in the trenches? You gotta learn how to move as a unit. Oh my God. And so to grab this— I'm almost done, man— it takes, hear me, faith, right? The Bible says in James 2:26, because you can't plot You can't even grab a lot of stuff I just said, and I'm not going to finish this segment. I'm going to have to finish this another time. Listen, you cannot grab all of this without faith. You can't plot, you can't plan, you can't strategize, you can't organize, and you'll never mobilize without faith. So James 2:26 says, faith without works is dead. So I can have all— I can have stupendous faith, my faith can be huge, I can have faith off the Richter chain, but if I don't take the action, do the works that it requires to know God, my faith is dead. It has no power. Faith without works, faith without corresponding action, that's all they're saying. So yes, I believe, but I gotta correspond with mobilization. Listen, a plot, a plan, a strategy, information, revelation without mobilization or application is constipation. So I gotta have the faith to apply what I've been praying about, to implement the strategy, to mobilize. So that I can take my restored position. My God, here, listen, I'm gonna— yeah, I ain't got time, Jesus. I'm gonna have to finish this later. Knowing God, hear me, is an act of faith. God wants you to know it. It's an act of faith, ladies and gentlemen. Your faith faith, hear me, will not fail while God sustains it. People fail in faith because their faith is not rooted in relationship, is rooted in feelings, which you got to learn how to click, click, click from feelings to faith. You gotta learn how to click, click, click and move from feelings to faith. See, some of you got to get out of your feelings and get in I need you to grab this because you think knowing God is about feeling him. Can I tell you something? If somebody knows God, there are some days you're not gonna feel it. You just gotta know through relationship and experience that even when you can't hear him, can't feel him, can't see him moving, he's there. And you gotta click from feelings— click, click, click, click, click, click— to faith. Oh God, you gotta learn how to turn the faith on when your feelings overwhelm you. When you want to feel bad about your sickness, when you want to feel bad about what's in your bank account, you just gotta go click, click, click and go from feelings to faith. Get out of your flesh and make up in your mind, I'm gonna trust God right here even though I don't see him. Listen, you've been driving Listen, God gave me this revelation years ago. I didn't— it just popped in my head. I want to share with you. You ever been driving, see those orange signs that say men working? And the crazy thing, you see those signs that say men working and you don't see men nowhere. But here's reality, they could not post that sign if they wasn't really working. So just because you didn't see them don't mean they ain't working. I'm telling you right now, for those of you that are listening, I see a sign sitting in your head that says God is working. You may not see him, but I'm telling you right now, he's working. And you know the crazy thing about it? If you keep driving that same path where it says men working, even though you don't see him, eventually you'll drive that same route The sun will be gone, and what they were working on, they would have completed it. Can I tell you something? God is working, and what he has been working on in your life, if you keep going, if you don't quit, if you don't give up, hallelujah, it's not gonna fail. He's gonna finish the assignment that he started. Somebody ought to shout in here, God is working! Hallelujah! He's working, he's working, he's working in your marriage, he's working in your body, he's working in your money, he's working in your dream, he's working in your dominion place. But you gotta have the faith and know that when you can't see him, he's still working. Ah, listen, I want you to know something. I'm closing with this. You are not strong enough to fail or fall away or give up while God has made a resolution to hold you. You ain't got enough strength to fall if you know through relationship that you're in the hands of God, that you won't let sickness kill you when you know you in the hands of Jehovah Rapha, the Lord your healer. You won't let— oh my God— confusion and depression, hallelujah, get you down when you know you're in the hands of Jehovah Shalom, the Lord your peace, and that he's holding you. Let me tell you something, you gotta have the faith that God's got you. And I want to tell you something, if you walk through this year like this, you will never lose and you will always win. Can we pray? Father, in Jesus' name, hallelujah, I thank you for this word today. And I pray, God, that you will bless every listener, every hearer, God. And I pray, God, that this word will come alive in their life. I pray most of Oh God, that you would give them the tenacity to plot, to plan, to strategize, to organize and mobilize according to their purpose. And God, I pray that you will give them clarity concerning that purpose and their position of dominion in you. I thank you for it now, and I give you praise and glory in Jesus' name. Amen. And thank God. Hallelujah! God bless your hearts. Thank you for listening, whether you watched us by YouTube, Facebook, IG, or our podcast. I'm so grateful for you. You know, each of you is— you guys motivate me to make sure I get this done, because I know many of you, you wrote me, you've said it, hey Doc, I depend on that word, I'm getting the spiritual food. Keep feeding, keep feeding. Thank you so much, thank you so much for letting me know that, hey, you're being blessed by it. And on that note, I want anybody that's being blessed by this ministry, just take the time, go to our website, rhodachurch.com/contact, and say, hey, Dr. Woods, I'm being blessed by the ministry you're disseminating online. Please keep it coming. That's encouraging to me. I want to communicate with you. I want to share with you. Even if you have a prayer request, send it to me. It'll get directly to me, and I will pray over your needs. Listen, I love you, and I want to be helpful to you in any way I can. Listen, be a blessing to ministry if you feel led to support this ministry. There's no pressure. We're not twisting your arm. Plant a seed into ministry. The to give on the screen right now. You can give at our website at rodderchurch.com/donate, or you can give via Cash App, simply Roder Church. Listen, whatever you do, whatever you give, it is greatly appreciated. Listen, my time is gone. I love you guys with the love of the Lord. And remember this: share the word with a friend, and your decisions will position you for dominion. God bless you.