IT'S IN THE KNOWING, PART 3 - I WILL OVERTURN IT, PART B | DR. MIKE WOODS | RADAH CHURCH | 1-9-2022

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Well, praise the Lord, and grace and peace be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is Apostle Michael Lyris Woods, and welcome to today's edition of Rhoda Now. I'm super excited, as always, to share the word of the Lord with you. You know, I am really amped about this year because, as God has clearly defined to us that this will be the year of knowing God. And listen, I'm telling you, this is so important because reality, there's so many people that don't know him. And I am super excited that those of us that's been in the faith and those of us that's not in the faith, we are going to have supreme opportunity to know God like never before. So I'm super excited. I'm super excited to be able to teach the word of God as he gives it to me around this idea, because religion has dumbed down this and has lured people into the desires of man, to man's persona, to man's way of doing things. And the result is people are just going, wow, and they're doing what they want to do saying what they want to say, living how they want to live. And for the most part, you got a bunch of quote-unquote spiritual or religious people who— they're not really experiencing the abundance of heaven. And I'm not talking about just money and material, I'm talking about the abundance of all heaven has to offer. And I experienced this, so I'm super excited about this season, man, because we got an opportunity to go deeper in our relationship. And matter of In fact, the way God gave it to me is that he wants to give us a deep anointing and a heavy consecration. So here's what I want you to do right now, whether you're listening by YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, however you are listening today, I need you to do me the kind favor and share this live teaching. Can I tell you something? Listen, you are blessed to be a blessing. So I need you to go ahead and do that now. Some of you listening, y'all stop in here. Sometimes, you know, in my, my lives, they fluctuate. Some days we may have 1,000+ on, some days we may have 10. But at the end of the day, whoever is here, I need you guys to share it and let somebody know that we're here tonight and that they need this word from the Lord. Listen, let's pray because I want to jump right into the heart of this. I believe that this is going to be a blessing. Matter of fact, all I'm doing tonight, or today, or whenever you're listening, is I am going to finish the message I started, uh, New Year's Eve. And we started talking about It's in the Knowing. At part 1, we dealt with the subject, I will overturn, overturn it. And we never got to the meat. We opened up and gave you some things, and I'll give you some review in the moment. But I want to finish this up because it's so important that we get this, because it is indeed— hear me, in the knowing, and knowing God is going to release some great things for us on this year. So let's pray, and I want you to share this and be a blessing to somebody else. Glory to God! And we're gonna watch God do some amazing things tonight. Hallelujah! So let's pray. Father, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we thank you for another opportunity to teach and preach and share your word. God, thank you for these people that are watching. Thank you for the generosity of their heart, God, that they are blessed to be a blessing and that they are sowing this word into the life of someone else. Now, Father, I ask you for it. Matter of fact, I pray that you will cause these teachings to go viral and that the people— ha— that— omashi brisco roshke tabaye— the people that listen and the people that open their heart to receive God, they'll fall deeper in love with you, and they will have great encounters that will feel their joy. Hallelujah! And make them— hallelujah! So clear that you, God, are real. We bind the spirit of religion that has had people bound for so long, and we thank you, God. Hallelujah! Glory be to God! For liberty in the spirit today, and we bless you in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Hallelujah. Listen, again, welcome. And again, for those of you who are uninitiated, I'm Dr. Michael Lyris Woods. Welcome to Rhoda Now. We're gonna jump right in this. We're talking tonight part 2 of the message I Will Overturn Overturn, overturn it. The text was found in Ezekiel 21:26 and 27. We'll read that in a moment. But listen, I want to go over just a few things we talked about in part 1. Not going to teach them again, but just by way of review, I want to share with you what we discussed in part 1. First of all, we gave you a few things that knowing God will release. Number 1, knowing God releases prophetic power. Hallelujah! Prophetic power. Someone watching me right now, please type that in the screen: prophetic power. Knowing God releases, number 1, prophetic power. Not as a pathetic power, I said prophetic power. And you got to go back and look at the teaching to get what I'm talking about. Number 2, knowing God produces— hear me— clarity of purpose. Oh my God, clarity of purpose. Again, I'm not going to teach these again. I'm not going to touch it because I can be there all night. Number 3, knowing God produces perfect peace. And one of the things I want you to be clear about on that hear me, is that peace is not the absence of confusion, but peace is the presence of assistance. And again, you got to go back to look at last week's message to get a clear understanding, or listen to last week's podcast, because I promise you, you need this stuff to navigate through this year. And then number 4, we share that knowing God releases restored position. So basically what I'm saying is, if you really know God, you're going to have a restored position, you have perfect peace, you're going to have clarity of purpose, and my God, you're going to have prophetic power. And I need you to go back and watch the messages so you can understand what those things are. Now I also gave you last week 5 ingredients, and I'm going to teach these again, that I was blessed to receive when Killer Mike gave this speech. This, this stuck with me since Killer Mike gave this speech. So Killer Mike, if you're watching, thank you for these words, man. Uh, they're good preaching, and I hope that the people who are listening will take these words and apply them. For those of you deep and wonderful people who don't know who Killer Mike is. Killer Mike is a rapper from Atlanta. Glory to God. So I took these 5 words he gave when he gave his speech when the mayor called upon him during the George Floyd riots here in Atlanta, and he said, it's time like never before for us to plot, for us to plan, for us to strategize for us to organize and for us to mobilize. Again, I'm not gonna get into them, but I broke that down, and I need you to go back and listen so you can understand where we're coming from. Amen. So tonight we're going to jump in the text. So glory to God, Ezekiel 21:26, you'll find these words. Again, this is part 2 of the teaching, I Will Overturn overturn, overturn. Now here's the key, number 4 coming alive really, about restored position. Some things that are restored back to us— hear me— in the sense of dominion, listen, they won't be able to be ascertained by natural intelligence. By physical ability. Watch this, by monetary influence. I'll say that again. Some of the things— yeah, I'll say it again, it's tweetable. Glory to God. Some of the things that will be restored to us in terms of our dominion standing, because in Genesis 1:28, God gave man a mandate to have dominion. Some of the things will not happen by intelligentsia. It will not happen by physical force. It will not happen by financial resources. I need you to grab that some of the restoration that will happen. Let me calm down because I'm getting happy. Glory to God. I feel the anointing, y'all. I'm talking about, I really feel the anointing of God right now. Whoa, thank you, Jesus. Listen, some of the things that will be restored will have to happen by divine intervention and by God's help and strength. Jeremiah said, tell the wise man not to glory in his wisdom. Tell the mighty man not to glory in his might. Tell the rich man not to glory in his riches, but him that glory Let him glory in this, that he understands and that he knows me. He says, so if you gonna glory in anything, so I don't care how much money you have, I don't care how wise you are, I don't care how much, how many followers you have on social media, how much manpower you have in your megachurch or in your corporation. Listen, the Bible says if you're gonna glory in anything, glory in the fact— because this is all that matters, this is the thing that matters— that you understand and that you know God. So we need his divine intervention to take our rightful place, ha, and move in the things that he has for us. See, what is happening, ladies and gentlemen, and I got to, I got to bring this out right Thank you, Holy Ghost. You know, this really is a little rabbit trail. I'm gonna get back to Ezekiel 21:26, I promise you. But what is happening, guys, because we are out of place— hear this— what is happening is what I like to term generational genocide, okay? Kingdoms— when you think about the idea of kingdoms, hear me— all kingdoms are generational in nature, and the enemies of kingdoms— watch this— are generational too. So because a kingdom is designed to last throughout eternity and never die— come on— as any kingdom in the natural or the kingdom of God, whether it's the kingdom of man, the kingdom of Satan— and Satan does have a kingdom which is the kingdom of darkness, or the kingdom of God. Wherever the kingdom is, there is a generational desire of the king or those in authority for— oh my God— longevity and eternal generational influence. I dare you touch yourself and say, God, is setting me up for generational influence. That's powerful. In other words, he wants you not to only influence while you alive, but you should emerge as the kingdom leader— oh my God— God has called you to be. And you should emerge, hallelujah, in such a way that you leave a legacy to those that come behind you, that they continue in your authority even after you're gone. So that, that means there needs to be a succession plan. Why? Because the enemies of the kingdom are generational too. So they couldn't stop it in the 18th century, they're going to try to stop it in the 21st century, and they're going to come up with new ways to stop the move of God. And I'm telling you, we're up against so much right now. Um, with new philosophies and new thinking patterns regarding church and God, mainly from people that don't know him, who want to start their own agenda. They have literally become an enemy against the process. So because of this, hear me, guys, the plan of the adversary is to commit generational genocide. Uh, homicide is the death of a Homo sapiens or a human. Genocide is the death of a generation, of a culture, of a way of living, of a way of functioning. And I'm telling you something, the enemy has launched an attack attack against the kingdom of God to try to lock us into religious ways of operating. Hear me, where the church has no power, the church doesn't move in the anointing, there are no demons being cast out, there's no sickness being healed. Though the church got scared of COVID like the world, which is crazy, and we have power. We serve Jehovah Rapha, the Lord our healer. I don't get it. I don't, I don't understand it. Come on, man. And again, yeah, we were wise and we do things with wisdom, but listen, if somebody gets COVID, they don't need you panicking, talking about we getting ready to die. No, that's not the King I serve. How is it if I'm gonna see in my lifetime God open the eyes of somebody that's blind, unstop deaf ears? I've seen countless miracles, man. Heal AIDS, heal cancer, heal high blood pressure, heal diabetes. Peace, and then I don't believe him to heal COVID. He's the same God. Come on, church. I, I— okay, all right. So the enemy, the adversary— I gotta, I gotta give you this— he wants to destroy the spiritual lineage of kingdom dynasty or God-given dynasty. See, every one of you got a dynasty in you through your purpose. That's why you got to have clarity of that purpose so you can create dynasty. When you really look up the word genocide— let me give this to— let me just give it to you. Can I give it to you? And then we're gonna jump into this text and I'll be through. All right, genocide is the deliberate— listen— and the systematic destruction of a racial, political, cultural— watch this— or spiritual group. Again, it's the deliberate and systematic destruction of a racial, political, cultural, or spiritual group. Here's a problem. In— if a spiritual dynasty is systematically under attack and there's deliberate weapons being formed and coming against that dynasty, and the kingdom entity refuses to trust God and instead aligns with the tactics of the enemy, the devil. Hear me, Satan and his kingdom that deliberately is trying to destroy that dynasty because he knows if you stay in the earth, if your purpose lives, he's in trouble. So any spiritual dynasty that's interrupted by a deliberate or systematic attack from Satan is in trouble. I'm gonna say that again: the interruption of any spiritual dynasty is a critical situation. Listen, when the future is threatened Hear this, the destinies of many people hangs in the balance. That's why you gotta be clear about your purpose because connected to your purpose is people. 'Cause God is a people person. So there are people who are connected to your purpose. There are people who need you to be you. Right? Yeah, I know there are people that need you to be you, to need you to be clear about who you are and not out here duplicating and trying to be someone else. Oh, hear me good, saints. Hear me good, friends. Hear me good, enemies. Inside of your belly is something powerful that will bring— oh my God— this world into a light of who God really is because of what you present. Because the only way you really could bring it forth is God. Listen, the source Hear me, hear me. Of any attack against a spiritual dynasty— hear me, y'all— is satanic in nature. And there's, there's a number of ways that this demonic technology can happen. Often it's not easily recognized, and many a times the characteristics of human Behavior— listen to me, I'm going somewhere, don't you go to sleep, I'm going somewhere— and circumstances, they mask the true design of the attack. And so you can align with circumstances and things that make you comfortable and won't move in faith, and you get stuck in religion. And religion is one of the biggest enemies to Kingdom Dynasty because religion rejects the kingdom. Oh God, religion hates kingdom work. Religion hates kingdom assignment. Religion hates kingdom people. Ah, so how— let me just give you a few reasons and I gotta get out of here. All right. And a few ways this generational genocide can occur. All right, let me just give you a few ways. First of all, number one, and you can type this in the comments, those of you that are watching, this genocide Satan can use, number one, non-productive leaders. I'll say that again. Non-productive leaders. Listen, I'm trying to do better this year with, uh, just calling names and not being compassionate like I ought to be, and I'm not going to do it, right? However, I gotta tell the truth. There are a lot of non-productive leaders who believe they are productive because they are popular. They believe they are productive because everybody likes their post or they're on television or they have big buildings or they have million-dollar corporations. Because these leaders are not just in the church, but nonproductive leaders. Watch this. First of all, here's a few character traits. Number one, they are indecisive. Because instead of sticking with the plan of God, no matter what happens against all odds, they're so indecisive that they flow with every wind and doctrine and the slight of men, as the scripture says. Glory to God. And they end up adjusting often because of their indecisiveness about God, and they end up off the path of building something. Matter of fact, most of these leaders started out right with good motive, good heart, but they start following something that wasn't God, that wasn't in the plan of the Father. Oh God, I'm teaching good tonight. Let me move. Secondly, they're unfocused. They're unfocused, y'all. Yeah, they are unfocused. They're incisive, unfocused individuals who are not fully committed to the assignment of God. They're committed to themselves. They're committed to pleasing people. Hallelujah! They're committed to making money. Y'all ain't saying nothing to me. They're committed to being famous, and they have forgotten what God assigned. Can I tell you something? Don't sell your soul. Don't sell your ministry. Oh my God, don't sell your anointing. Don't lose your deep consecration and compromise your relationship with God trying to appease the flesh, trying to please people. You need to be focused. Listen, most of these leaders, they're often gripped by pride and arrogance. They don't know what to do. I'm going somewhere, y'all. I promise you this ties into the text. Stay with me. They're arrogant. They're too bound by religion and self-will to ask for help. They don't understand when help is present because they think they know everything. Oh, watch this. And the old paradigm processes often remain their way of working, their way of doing things, and they're stuck usually in a time warp. Oh my God, listen, most leaders of this type, they have a lot of great things that they've done in the flesh most of the time that you're going to credit to them. Oh God. Ah, but most of their works are entrenched and entangled by religion. And because of this, many spiritual generations die before they can evolve into multi-generational dynasties because the leader is non-productive and got caught up in himself. And got caught up. Oh my God, I'm trying not to call this man's name. God, no, I'm not gonna do it. But listen, because I, I just got leaders flashing before me who I know have got caught in this trap. But watch this, had great potential to build multi-generational dynasty, but they let the enemy cause genocide, systematically destroying them with their own way of thinking, with their own intelligence, pulling them out of the gospel, pulling them out of the faith. So much so they're teaching inclusion, they're saying all kind of crazy things about doctrine they know in their heart is correct because they can't resist it. They still teach it, still open the same Bible and try to change it. Okay, let me keep moving, let me moving. So nonproductive leaders can cause generational genocide. Number 2, I gotta move. Inconsistent covenants. Listen, when unhealthy covenants exist and occur between leaders and followers, hear me, it is only a matter of time before what I call spiritual gangrene sets into the lamb. Of the ministry's branches. Hallelujah. Whenever a limb in the human body does not receive proper circulation or blood flow, it causes gangrene. And in a lot of ministries and a lot of churches, because the leader is disconnected from his covenant with God or her covenant with God, there is not a healthy flow of heavenly things out of the leader into the branches. Oh my God, oh my God. And spiritual gangrene sets in. And if that happens, you got to cut that limb off or it's going to cause the rest of the body to die. From a natural perspective, gangrene is a decaying condition that requires amputation. Oh my God, that's why Jesus said if your hand offend you, cut it off, okay? Because there's no flow. Oh my God, but this starts with the head, man. We got to be connected to our leader, our King, and we got to do what he says. I gotta move. So, oh my God, this is so good. Nonproductive leaders, inconsistent covenants. Hear me. And thirdly, failure to clearly identify— hear me— mandates and missions. See, when a leader fails to make mandates and missions of the ministry clear to people It gives the followers opportunity to drift off, and a lot of people are drifting off. So they drift off into their own thing, into areas where they're now distracted, which ultimately again causes a problem in the dynasty. Because it takes people to build anything. So you need people who are connected. And my prayer daily is, God, connect people to what you mean and the assignment that have really been called to it. Corinthians 14 says God sets in the church its members. So God literally has ordained who should be with you and who should not be with you. You. So I really don't want people that shouldn't be with me. I love everybody, but you can't build a dynasty with everybody. You can't leave spiritual lineage with everybody. And I need those in my inner circle, in my core group, hallelujah, to be connected in a way— oh God— that we build effectively and we leave dynasties. Legacy. We're not just trying to build something to say we got a big church, to say we got all these followers. Listen, we need legacy that's going to expand to generations, generations. And we need to bind up— rather, right now, in Jesus' name, I bind up generational genocide. And finally, watch this, and I gotta move, I gotta get into the text. Dynasties are interrupted not only through nonproductive leaders, inconsistent companies, failure to clearly identify mandates, but fourthly, through sabotage. Believe it or not, sabotage almost 98% of the time never occurs from an outside source. It is usually one of the offspring of the ministry or the business that forms this wicked attack. And I want to say to somebody listening to me tonight, beware of the spirit of Absalom. I want to— let's— oh God, this ain't, this ain't even in where I'm trying to go, but I'm— this rabbit trail is important, I promise you, because we got to leave a legacy, a dynasty, a kingdom, legitimate dynasty that's legally, hallelujah, existent in the earth to carry on and carry on and carry on and carry on. 2 Samuel, real quick, 15, 15, verses 4 through 6, and then I'm gonna read verse number 11. Watch this, it says this: And Absalom, David's son, said moreover, oh, that I were made judge in the land, that every man which have any suit or cause may come unto me, and I would do him justice. And it was so, that when any man came nigh to him to do him obsequies, he put forth his hand and took him and kissed him. And on this manner did Absalom, did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment. Watch this. For Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel. And with Absalom went 200 men out of Jerusalem that were called, and they went in their simplicity, and they knew not anything. Listen, Absalom took advantage of a system that appeared to be a present and better technology than the one that was in effect, and he sabotaged— instead of going to his dad, oh my God, his daddy said, okay, this system will work for the kingdom, Dad. Yeah, let's put this in play. Let's carry this out together. No, this son, this spirit attacks daddy's process because he knew that his father— hear me, hear me— he knew that his father King David could not receive all the people in a timely manner. So he intercepted the people and deceived them into believing he would care about them and get their cases solved and resolved faster than the king could. Listen, the people just wanted their needs met, so they went for it hook, line, and sinker. And usually In a case like this, it's a battle of technologies, of who's more efficient. But when sons have the right father that they could trust, they should be able to go to him and say, Dad, this is a better way. And Dad should trust the revelation of his son and listen. Ah, see, fathers don't want to hear that. Because why do you teach your sons to pray? And then when they come to you with wisdom, you don't listen, you reject them. You move in arrogance and push them away. So we gotta deal with the generational genocide because as we move into God overturning things for us, hear me. Whew, I gotta go, y'all. I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go. But I'm almost done, believe it or not. We have to have this dealt with because God is restoring position, not for us to get back out of position by having an Absalom or a non-productive leader or a lack of clarity or a disconnection of blood flow to the people that serve with us. He wants to restore the position permanently. Authority. So we move in authority. And this is whether you're a business person, a CEO, a pastor, an apostle, an evangelist, a prophet, a teacher, a pastor. If you got people and you got legacy in you, which we all do, you need to listen to what I'm saying, because God is not going to put you there. He doesn't— I mean, listen, you put yourself there, and then you can deal with all these things and keep going through cycles, right? I listen, I've been there, done that. I'd have made a ton of mistakes with people. I've been in ministry a long time, right? I didn't just start doing this, uh, no, I didn't. So the reality is I've seen it. Everything I'm teaching you now, I've seen it. I've experienced the sabotage. I've experienced being non-productive. Listen, I'm not teaching you something I don't know. I've been a, I've been a leader that had good success at my fingertips. I was growing, had a fast-growing church in, in several regions where I planted. But because of selfish ambition— oh my God. And the only thing that saved me— I told my spiritual son Apostle Cornelius this a few months, about a month ago, back in November when I was with him. I said, son, listen, back then God needed me to fail because He did not want my ambition to get in the way of what he really wanted to do in me, which is what I'm doing now. Oh my God, because if I'd have kept on that course, I would have built something around Michael Woods instead of something around God. So I've been there. I've been there where, glory to God, because my connection wasn't as solid as it needed to be. The blood flow wasn't getting to people like it should. Listen, I done lived this stuff so I can teach it to you, and if you listen, you won't commit generational genocide. You won't become subject to this. I've had the sabotage. I've lived it. I've gone through it. Have mercy. So Ezekiel 21:26, let's go, let's deal with this text, because again, knowing God— now the fourth point was restores position. So God says, Ezekiel 21:26, thus saith the Lord. Let's stop right there. So when you know God, he restores position. Your ear is sensitive sensitive to my voice. Not Michael Woods' voice, God's voice. That's what God is saying. So when you know me, the Lord is saying you're sensitive to my voice. You know when I'm speaking. You have the right to speak with God personally when you know him. First natural, then spiritual. If you really know me, watch this, you ain't got to contact me on social media through an inbox, through a DM. Listen, listen, listen, listen, if you really know me, you got my phone number and you can contact me by phone. Hear me good. You got permission to dial my number. And if you really know me, you got my house number because you have permission to speak to me. Now, spiritual, if you really know God, you have permission to converse with him. And if you call me, guess what I'm gonna do? I'm going to answer the phone. If I don't answer, I'm going to call you back. And we're going to converse. We're going to communicate. Yes, Lord, because you got access to me. So you know God, you have access to communication with him, and that communication is not one-sided. So here the Bible says, thus said the Lord God. God said this. He said, remove the diadem and take off the crown. So he's talking to the priest, the high priest who wears a diadem, and the king who wears a crown. He said, okay, I mean you to understand that when I'm speaking, no matter what your position is. So the diadem is the Miznefesh in Hebrew, the Miznefesh in Hebrew, and it literally means the turban of the high priest. It is where zuccheros— come on— come from. And for those of you that are, uh, against, uh, Episcopal garments. The high priest in the Old Testament wore a turban. He wore an official diadem, a mitre, if you will. This was more akin— I'm sorry, I said zacchetto. Zacchetto was actually the skull cap that went under the mitre. Come on. And the mitre was the official turban of the high priest. So when you see a Apostle who with this Episcopal rites, or a bishop with Episcopal rites, with this hat on that looks like triangle— that's a mitre, that's a diadem. It's a symbol of his headship. It was a symbol of his authority because people need— because humans needed to see, hear me, that this was a man connected to God and he was to be respected. It. Hear me, hear me. So God says, I'm talking now. Take that thing off your head. Hear me. He says to the king, take off your crown. Because whenever the king is crowned— oh my God, have mercy— by his atara— so what we get, words like tiara, which is a wreath that the king wore on his head that represented his authority. His wealth, his ability, his hand of rule. And when he had the crown on, it was very clear he's the one in charge. God says, I'm talking now and I need everybody's attention. Take off the diadem, take off the crown. He says, I'm getting ready to say something. And the Bible says, God says, this shall not be the same. Listen, can I tell you something? Your relationship with God is about to produce something different. Woo! Woo! I'm gonna say it again. Your relationship with God is about to produce something different in your life in this year 2022. I'm saying it to you now. This shall not be the same. The way it was is not the way it's gonna be. Whether it be in your family, in your finances— oh my God, it shall not be the same. Whether it be in your marriage, whether it be with your children, whether it be in your profession, whether it be with clarity, whether it be in your prayer life, whether it be with spiritual power— God says this won't be the same. Listen, you— ah, God, God says something different is about to happen. He said there's about to be a change that's about to occur. Listen, God is saying to us today, he's about to restore our position of authority, not just in the church but in the world. It won't be the same. Listen, the church needs to be in so much authority that when the world has an economic crisis, we got so much wealth Come on, that the world is not concerned about their deficit. They can come to the church and we can give them $20 billion, $20 trillion to bail them out. Y'all, y'all like that kind of talk, but I'm telling you right now, this shall not be the same. Struggling from paycheck to paycheck, struggling, can't buy a building, can't buy a house, can't pay off your car. Listen, I'm telling you right now, this shall not be the same. All this debt you're living under, all this relationship distress you're living under, God said this shall not be the same. Listen, why? He says because I'm going to exalt him that is low. Oh my God, you may say, oh, I'm high, preacher, I'm high, preacher. Oh my God, that's— this is, this is This is the problem. Shafel here in Hebrew, shafel, which means them that is humble, them that are lowly. Oh my God, he says, I'm gonna exalt them that move in humility. The way up is down, the way higher is low. Not acting arrogant. And belligerent and like you're better than everybody. God says this will not be the same. But those of you who have suffered at the hands of arrogant, non-productive, indecisive— oh my God— unspiritual, unanointed leadership, God said, I'm getting ready to exalt you that are low. Those of you that have been considered the outcast in your family, the black sheep. Oh my God, the one that never gets included in anything. God said, I'm getting ready to exalt you that have been low. I'll tell you, stay humble. We're in the season. Develop your relationship with God in humility. And God said by his mighty hand, he's going to exalt him that is low. Watch this, he says, I'm gonna obey him that is high, him that is high, him that is high, him that moves in pride. That word high is gaboa in Hebrew, and what it literally means, guys, them that have become haughty and exalted themselves, them that turn up their nose at others. The Bible says, oh my God, a haughty spirit and a proud look God hates. The Bible said he rejects the proud and he exalts the Can I tell you something? Those of you with your high position who arrogantly look down on others, I'm telling you right now, you better be careful. You better find a quick way to humble yourself. Ha! Glory to the name of God. I don't care how much money you have. Thank God for the blessings. I thank God for the blessings he's blessed me with. I thank God for them. But never will a car, a house, a, a stock portfolio, glory to the name of God, or a portfolio of businesses I'm investing in, cause me to move in arrogance. Y'all not talking to me here. Listen, you have to humble yourself, and oh my God, so God can continue to exalt you. Because for those of you that are proud, are moving in pride and arrogance, and oh my God, think you're better than everybody else because you've accumulated some things A Bentley is just a car. And guess what? Once you get it and realize, oh my God, this oil change costs $2,000, do I really want this? I mean, that's— I mean, reality, man. It's gonna take you this— a Bentley, okay, I drive my Infiniti every day. It takes me the same place Bentley does. So come on, man. The reality is the car is gonna drive. Praise the name of God. So don't get bent out of shape about that. And a car, I don't care Bentley, hear me, or Tesla, or a Camry. The moment you drive it off the lot, it loses value. So very, oh, very, very unintellectual investment unless you're paying cash for it. I'm not impressed if you got a Bentley and got a note. I ain't impressed by that. But if you're a collector and you buy cars, uh, impress me and show me the title. Okay, listen, ain't no need— and now what I'm saying is, listen, ain't no need getting arrogant about stuff. Ain't no need getting arrogant about red bottoms, Louboutin. Oh, I got several pairs in my closet, but it's just a pair of shoes. I— but I got Chuck Taylors in my closet too. Glory to God. You can't be arrogant over stuff. God says, because it's nothing. You listen, because I remember a time I had one pair of shoes. Come on. And I preached in that one pair of shoes for a year and a half. I preached in them until holes were in the bottom of the shoes. Oh my God. I preached in them until they hurt my feet. And I would get to a point in preaching, I'd be hooping and climbing on benches and stuff, and I would have to kick my shoes off off. And the mothers be like, oh my God, he's going to holy ground, he took his shoes off, he's now he's on holy ground like Moses. I just say, no, my feet just hurting, ain't got nothing to do with that. So I don't apologize for what God has blessed me with now, but I'll never be arrogant because I know where I come from. I'll never be arrogant that I got custom-made suits in my closet and shirts and ties and, and the things that God is— I don't care about because in a moment it can all be gone. Listen, you can't get caught up in that stuff. That's— that doesn't matter because at the end of the day, at the end of the day, what matters is knowing him. And God says, I'm gonna unbase them that are proud. Arrogance leads to aloneness. Nobody wants to be around a person that thinks they know everything. Listen, I'm telling what I know. I've been married before, and most of the, the reality is I ended up divorced because of arrogance. My, my last marriage probably could have been saved, but in my arrogance, I ended up divorced, and I was the one wrong. It's because arrogance leads to aloneness. Come on, church, come on! It leaves you by yourself. Watch this. Not only do humans leave, God leaves because he rejects the proud. He hates a proud look and a haughty spirit. Pride come before fall. Arrogance leads to aloneness. Well, watch this. Aloneness leads to abortion because once you're by yourself, you abort your authentic— your authentic— I'm sorry, you abort your authentic— this thing is good to me. And y'all know I love words and I can't even pronounce my words right. Listen, this thing is good to me. You abort your authentic purpose, your vintage reason for being alive. You abort it because you know why? Arrogance leads to aloneness, aloneness to abortion, because purpose cannot be fulfilled in isolation. Oh, purpose cannot be fulfilled in isolation. Have mercy, God. You need people, you need help. You need a connection. Glory to the name of God. We just talked about that. You need a connection. You need a consistent covenant with God and a consistent covenant with people to bring purpose and vision alive. But when you arrogant, people disconnect from that. Oh boy. See, some of you You know, there's some— there's a lot of reasons why people don't grow, but some of you, your business won't grow, your church won't grow, your ministry never expands because you're arrogant. Listen, you're disconnected from people. People don't view you as someone approachable. Okay, I gotta move. Arrogance leads to aloneness. Aloneness leads to abortion. Watch this. Abortion leads to adventurism. You start taking risks with your life, everybody else's life, and you become this event— adventurist that's all over the place trying everything because nothing you do now really works because you don't abort the authentic purpose. I gotta move, I gotta move. I gotta move. Yeah, I gotta move. I gotta move. I can stay right there, but I gotta move. Adventurism ultimately leads to adultery. So arrogance, aloneness. Aloneness, adventurism. Oh my God, I'm sorry. Aloneness, abortion. Abortion, adventurism. Adventurism, adultery. Adultery has nothing to do with sexual unfaithfulness to a married person. Alone. That's a part of it, but it's a very small piece because adultery— hear me— means to be satisfied by something that doesn't belong to you. Okay, it means to be satisfied by something that doesn't belong to you. Wait a minute, God called Israel an adulterous nation. Had nothing to do with sex. It had everything to do with they were being satisfied by other gods and means other than God. Some of you listening to me because you don't know God and you're satisfied with your flesh and following and obeying your own will. You're living in adultery. You never cheated on your wife, but you're an adulterer. You never cheated on your husband, but you, ma'am, are an adulterer because you're being satisfied by what your flesh wants. You're following your own plans and you refuse to follow the ways of God. Oh God, God said, I'm gonna abase them that are high. Verse 27, I gotta go. He says, I will overturn overturn, overturn it. Oh my God, I, I— listen, God said it 3 times so you'll know. I will overturn, overturn, overturn, overturn it. Are y'all hearing this? That word overturn is ava, ava, and it means distortion. Or ruin it. I'll distort it and I will ruin it. I will— it will not be effective anymore and I'm gonna ruin it. Let me tell you something: don't let your pride and your flow in the flesh and your lack of knowing God get God involved in your ruin. Because listen, I'd rather fall in the hands of an angry person any day than in the hands of an angry God. Listen, let me tell you something. God loves us, but if he takes his hands off you, you're ruined. Only thing you'll ever be satisfied with is, is what you produce. But God is saying, I'm going to bat for the underdog this year, them that know me, and I'm gonna overturn this thing. I'm gonna take those off the throne that shouldn't be there. I'm of all the kingdoms of the world where there are rulers who are wicked. I'm going to remove these people because they arrogantly reject me, and I'm gonna put my people in place. Oh my God. But you got to be in place. You got to know. I'm not talking about being religious. You got to know it. Listen, and even in this pandemic, you guys got lazy. You stopped coming to church, start watching church in your pajamas. Yeah. Some of you watching me now, grown man with pajamas. I'm looking at the devil. Take that off. With a onesie on, with feet in it. Take that crap off, man. Listen, you got lazy. You get up, you watch an hour teaching, go about your day, but you're really not pursuing relationship. You're getting the revelation, you're getting the information, but you're not making application. And God is saying, I want to overturn some stuff for you, and I want to make sure that this is not the same. He said, until he come whose right it is. Well, listen, there's some things and some position that the enemy is holding. This is restored position, guys, that rightfully is yours, but you can't get it until you show up. He said, I ain't gonna give it to you until you show up, until he come. Now, some theologians have taken this prophetic word from Ezekiel and said this was the messianic prophecy. It concerning Jesus Christ. I partially agree because Jesus comes, he becomes the King of the Earth, right? He's the Messiah, he's God incarnate, but he only comes to die and be resurrected so he can pass on the dynasty. Oh my God, whoa! To those of us who will tap into his flow so that we can have right rights to walk in dominion in the kingdom of man. Oh my God, we should be in charge politically. Come on, man, we need a saved, Holy Ghost-filled mayor. Glory to God. We need saved, Holy Ghost-filled senators and congressmen and aldermen. We need saved people in office who are full of the Holy Ghost, who have relationship with God, so they can take their rightful Some of the people that should be running for these offices trying to preach. And these days should be focused on this. We need saved CEOs. We need saved stockbrokers. We need saved teachers. Y'all are talking to me here, they're walking authority. Saved principals, saved administrators. Oh my God. We need saved doctors, saved dentists. And hear this, we'll never reap a harvest in these fields if we don't sow in these fields. You'll never reap a harvest in a field where you have not sown. So as people of God, kingdom citizens, we got to get in place, and it starts with relationship with the King so that when we show up, he can give it to us. See, the positioning is not released or affirmed or conferred upon unless we're in good relationship with him. I ain't talking about being religious. You went to church, read your Bible, sitting up there in your onesie watching me teach. Dude, come on, man, take that onesie off. I asked you to take it off already. Take it off, put on some, some shorts or something. Listen, let me tell you something. God says, I want to give it to whose right it is. It's you and I's right to be in charge. He wants to restore our position, and '22 is the year it starts. It begins with knowing him. He says, I'm gonna wait until he comes whose right it is, and I'm gonna give it to him. I'm not gonna charge you. I'm not gonna require anything. Except you come, except you be in relationship with me. Listen, I love y'all. Let's pray. I gotta go. Father, in Jesus' name, thank you for this word, God. Thank you, Father. Oh, to know you better, Lord. We want to know you. And God, I now Rebuke the arrogance of every person that will listen. Let this word get in the airways that believes they know you and they don't. They say they know you with their lips and their heart and their life is far from you, Jesus. I pray for knowing God. Hallelujah. Help us to know you deeper, God. That when we show up, what's rightfully ours— we won't have to seek anything that's not ours, that's outside of our potential, that's outside of our purpose, that's outside of your assignment for our life. But we can take what's rightfully ours. And relationship gives us clarity. Those that are unclear about purpose, they're unclear, God, because they don't know you, because you manufactured us, and everything we are, we are in you. So Father, I thank you and I praise you for this word. In Jesus' name, amen. Listen, thank you guys for listening tonight. I love you. Now if you're listening to the podcast, please share it. It's simple to share a podcast through Apple, Anchor, however you listen to your Spotify. Share it to someone's phone via text so they can get this word in their Spirit. Listen, if you're watching Facebook, YouTube, share the link with someone. I promise you, they'll— they will thank you for blessing their life with this teaching. I challenge you to know him. Maybe you're watching me and you haven't even taken the first step to knowing him, which is receiving him as your Lord and Savior. Listen, you never can know God if you don't take this step. Step first. This is not the only step to take to knowing him, which is what religion has taught many people, but you got to work on the relationship daily. But if you're listening to me today, you're not born again, you've never publicly repented of your sin before God, you never privately repented of your sin before God and acknowledged Jesus Christ as your Savior, I want to pray with you today. Or maybe you have and you left and you want to come Either way, I want to pray that God will come into your life, forgive your sin. If you know— don't you dare scroll past me now— that if you died today you would not go to heaven, you need to stay right here and pray with me now. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for those that want to receive you now. Father, I ask you to save them. Heal them. Give them new life, God, in the mighty name— thank you, Lord— of Jesus. Even as they confess with their mouth according to your word, I pray, God, and as they believe in their heart, I pray that you will save them. In Jesus' name. Would you repeat after me? Say this with me. Say, Heavenly Father, I repent of my sin. I accept you as my Lord and Savior. Say, Jesus, I believe that you died and rose again. Come into my heart. Live in me. In Jesus' name, I'm saved. Amen. Well, if you repeated that prayer with me and you prayed with us today, I want you to know you're born again. Listen, I want to help you on your journey. I want to help you— glory to God— get closer and closer to him. Listen, there's an email address on the screen. Email me directly at info@roddachurch.com. Well, bless the Lord! I wanted to break it here for a minute. I pray that, that message blessed you on today. Listen, if you gave your life to the Lord, or if you need further prayer for anything, please by all means send us an email and let us know. And I want to connect with you personally and make sure that you're moving in the right direction that the Lord will have you to move in on this year. Listen, I wanted to take this moment to seriously challenge you in your giving today. First of all, if you're connected to our church, if you're a partner of this ministry, it's very important that you be a tither. The scripture declares that you should bring your tithe and offering to the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house. The Lord says, prove me now herewith, that I will not pour you a blessing you will not have room enough to receive. You know, the Bible is so clear on what we should be doing when it comes to giving. So listen, every person connected to this church, I need to make— I need you to be very sure that you're tithing. It's so important. You cannot expect to have a prosperous year if you do not give the Lord what belongs to him. So I want to challenge you to do And now every person that indulges this word on a day-to-day basis, or even if you just watched us today, I want to challenge you to give today. Listen, I need every single person, and even those that are tithing, up and above your tithe, to get a seed. This is a great opportunity to get seed in the ground for this year. And you know what, I'm not going to even tell you what to do. The Lord just impressed upon my heart to tell I want to tell you to get a sacrificial seed, whatever that denomination is. If it's a sacrifice, which means it's something you can't afford, but I want you to get that seed in the ground and trust God for a supernatural harvest from your giving. You know, your seed is what God gives you to create your future, and if you want a strong, stable financial future for 2022, you've got to make sure you're sowing seed in good ground. So I want to challenge you to get that sacrifice in the ground to help us do the things that the Lord has called us to do, literally all around the world. So I want to pray with you right now. The ways to give are on the screen. And then after we're done praying, I want you to immediately leave this stream and get your tithe Get your seed, get your offering in the ground, and we're going to trust God for great and mighty things. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you today for the word. We thank you for the opportunity to sit at your feet, God. And we pray, God, that even as we've heard the word today, that we will apply that which we've heard. And I pray, God, God, in the name of Jesus, that we will see all of the manifestations that come from knowing you. And now, Lord, in this very strategic and important moment of giving, I pray in the name of Jesus— thank you, Lord— that you would prick the heart of every person under the sound of my voice to move in obedience now. Now and cause them to make sacrifices into your kingdom. And as they do that, God, I'm asking you to give them a harvest of 1,000 times more than their seed today. And I praise you for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen and thank God. Listen, I'm trusting God that the anointing of a thousand times more is being released on your seed right now. So listen, as we leave this stream today, get your seed in the ground. The ways to give, again, on the screen is very simple. Online, rhodachurch.com/donate, or you can go to our Cash App for the church, which is Rada Church. However you do it, we're trusting God for immediate multiplication and that it will be a part of the harvest that you'll experience in 2022. Listen, I love you guys. My time is gone, but I want to share with you, as I do each and every week, share the word with a friend and remember, your decisions will set you up for dominion. God bless you.