IT'S TIME TO COME OUT OF THE CLOSET | DR. MIKE WOODS SR. | 9-4-2022

Welcome to the Apostle's Table, where lions roar and lives are changed. The Apostle's Table is a part of the worldwide outreach ministry of Dr. Mike Wood Sr. You will encounter supernatural wisdom and revelation that will help you discern God's purpose for your life develop your potential, and deploy your gift effectively into the earth. We decree your life will never be the same again. Thanks for joining us and welcome to the Apostle's— Grace and peace everyone from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is Apostle Mike Woods and welcome to the Apostle's Table. I'm so glad you're here today and it gives me great joy And it is a great honor to share the word of the Lord with you. And listen, I want you to do me a favor. Please share this with someone else. I promise you their life will not be the same because you choose to share this with them. You know, the Bible says we are blessed to be a blessing. So I want to challenge you today to be a blessing to someone and share this word with them. Listen, I don't want to keep you long. I want to jump right into the heart of this because I want to pray with you at the end. And listen, I want you to really receive this. I want to disseminate some things today that I believe you could take from this teaching and begin to apply them to your life immediately. I believe God has a plan for every person that's listening to me. I believe if you're coming in, whether live or by replay right now, that this is not an accident. Matter of fact, I want to jump out on a limb to say you are supposed to be here. I'm going to say that one more time. You are supposed to be here. This is not a mistake. This is not a game. This is— hallelujah— supernatural destiny. And I believe that as we teach the word of the Lord, Even many of you that will come in with brokenness in your heart and in your emotions and in your mental state, brokenness spiritually, hurt from walks of life, even physically sick in your body. I believe as we share the word of the Lord and as you appropriate faith tonight, you're going to be healed. I believe that reconciliation to God will happen even as we teach the word on today. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for another opportunity to share the word of God with your people. I pray, dear God, that you would move by your spirit in this teaching. And God, I decree and declare, God, that as your word says, you sent your word and it healed them. So I decree right now, in the name of Jesus, God, that as we share the word of the Lord, God, that many will be healed, many will be delivered, and many will be set free. And I give you praise and glory for it now. I thank you that the families of those that are watching will be blessed. I thank you that their finances will be blessed. I thank you that they'll be whole in their body. I thank you that you will heal broken hearts, God. I thank you, God, that you would do something in their life Dear God, that man just cannot do. And I give you praise and glory for that. Now it is in Jesus' name, amen, and thanks be to God. Well, hallelujah! I am again so grateful to the Father that you are here, and I am super excited that I get an opportunity today to speak into your life. Let's get into this message, man. Again, if you're just joining us, I need you to do me a favor. Please, ma'am, please, sir, I need you to share this teaching. It's going to be absolutely, categorically phenomenal. Praise God. All right, so I want us to look really quick at Romans, the 8th chapter. And, uh, if you're watching, glory to God, I want you to write the text in the comments. Glory to God. Uh, the Romans 8, and we're going to read verses 17, 18, and 19, and then I'm gonna give you a few thoughts surrounding the contextual idea here, and we're just going to let the Lord kind of have his way. All right, so the Bible says in Romans 8, verses 17, 18, and 19, you'll find these words. The Bible says, and if children, hear this, then heirs heirs of God, listen, and joint heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified. Listen to this, together. So if we're children, so if you're a child of God, let me just kind of pull some things out of this as I go, then we're going to give you a few points, right? And we'll, we'll, we'll relate to this text as we share the thought process of the Holy Spirit today. He says, if you're children— and everybody says, oh, I'm a child of God, and people are quick, especially in religion, to declare, I'm a child of God— but the Bible says, if you're children of God, then you're an heir. You are an heir of God, and you are joint heirs. Hear this. With Jesus Christ, my God today. Then verse 18 says, for I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. For the earnest expectation of the creature waited for the manifestation of the sons of God. I want you to focus in on verse number 19. It says, for the earnest expectation of the creature, or creation, waits. They wait. They're waiting in earnest expectancy. The word earnest expectation is a compound Greek word that— listen to this— that means Matter of fact, the word is apokaradokia. And apokaradokia says, oh my God, that I am with an outstretched neck, with my mouth open like a little bird waiting to be fed food. So it is the earnest expectation of creatures, the world, humans, They have an outstretched neck, an outstretched spirit. They are open wide, waiting. Watch this, for the manifestation. Oh my God, the apocalypsical or apocalypsic or apocalypsis, uh, for the manifestation. Hear this, of the sons of God. Apocalypse is made for our very end, our very maturity to arise. Watch this, for us to come, because when you talk about apocalyptic or apocalypse You're talking about things pertaining to an end. But so when you start talking about it in terms of manifestation, they're waiting for the sons of God, you and I, to reach full maturity. Hear this. And that we have a public display. This is what manifestation is, a public display of our purpose and our power. Because let me tell you something, what the world has been seeing, even among itself and even in the church, sadly to say, it seemingly has not been working. And there has not been any real in— oh my God— counters with God for real and God's people for real that will lead people to believe, oh my God, I need to be a part of this. And so we got a lot of work to do when it comes down to public displays— watch this— of purpose and power. You cannot have public displays of purpose and power if the only place you operate in purpose and power is behind the four walls of the church. So I want to call this today, It's Time to come out of the closet. I'll say it again, this— the subject of this teaching, we're still in our series on Apostolic Intelligence, and this thought today is, it's time to come out of the closet. Why do I need to come out the closet? I'm glad you asked, because the truth of the matter is, hear me, listen to me good, The truth of the matter is, is that everybody else is out of the closet, and the world actually have destroyed the closet and said there is no closet. Everything's accepted, anything goes. Listen, the LBGTQ is out. They are out of the closet, and they care nothing about how anybody feels about them being out of the closet. And listen, they have set a match to the closet and said we ain't going back in. Listen, the whores are out of the closet. People are doing what they want to do. The polygamists are out, the witches are out, mediums are out, mystics are out, warlocks are out. And none of these entities— hear me— none of these entities have any intention of going back in. Listen to me. The closet. Hear me, they don't have no intention. And so we need the true church— listen now— to stand up and have public displays— watch this— of purpose and power so that the true and living God— hear me— cannot be denied. Because right now, all we see as far as the church is concerned— I'm sorry to say it— for the most part is a whole lot of flesh on parade and a whole lot of people operating and walking in things that they should not be walking in. So I want to drop this apostolic intelligence about manifestation and how the church should be manifesting itself and how we should really have real— I'm not talking about all the charitable things we do because we can do things for charity. Well, listen, we can send water to Mississippi. We can send money for people in Africa. And all of those things are wonderful. But at the end of the day, if we— those are humanitarian efforts. If outside of those humanitarian efforts, there is no power and there's no display of the realness of God, people will eat your food, drink your water, and go back to living the way they've been living. I'm just telling you what I know. I've seen it happen too many times. So we gotta have public displays of anointing, of power, where we literally see yokes being destroyed, burdens being removed, demons being cast out, witches coming to God, mediums coming to God and saying, what must I do to be saved so I can appropriate my psychic gift in the right realm? Oh boy, we got to see displays in public of God being real. People really getting up out of wheelchairs walking, cancers drying up, up, people being raised from the dead, finances being propagated for businesses being birthed out of people who are kingdom people, kingdom citizens, millionaires and billionaires being raised up in the kingdom. We got to have public displays of purpose and power so that people will know that our God is real. And we got to stop taking credit. Uh-oh. Uh-oh for what God is doing. Oh boy. So everybody is out of the closet and seemingly— listen to me— the only group that's still in the closet and bound is the church. Oh my goodness. We got to come out the closet, people, and we got to make a difference. We got to come out the closet and be better. We got to come out the closet and grow up. Let me just teach this, man, because we cannot impact the world system just by teaching it from the church that we need to. The Bible says don't just be hearers only, but also be doers of the word. So it's important— listen to me— that not only do we hear good preaching, good teaching, but we have to, as my— one of my favorite preachers of all time and mentors of all time, Bishop Wiley Jackson Jr., always used to say, put the word in action. We need people of action. We got a bunch of people out here that's getting full on the word. Hear me, getting fat on the word. And all we're doing, watch this, is using the word to promote— oh boy— our own agendas. Good God from Zion, we're using the word to try to show one another how much we know the word and to compete. My God, how ignorant is that? With each other. And that's never been the agenda, hear me, nor the plan of God. It has always been God's will. My God, today for us, for you and I. Woo! Shataneh biskur rabbaiah. For us to walk out his word in a way that the earth can benefit from it and we can progress humanity toward God. And watch this, and we can ultimately ourselves progress in a greater way toward God. Humanity needs to experience the culture of heaven. Humanity needs something from God they've never received, and the only way they're gonna get it— we, God's people, hear me— we have to give it to them ourselves. Don't scroll, please stay right here because you want the privilege of being a kingdom citizen. You want the privilege of being a prophet, an apostle, an evangelist, a pastor, a teacher operating in gifts, but you don't want the responsibility that goes along with being a kingdom citizen. Honestly, every one of you listening to me You want to see this book come alive. Every single one of you, you want to see the Bible come alive. Here's the problem: you don't want to line up with the responsibility and the discipline that's going to be required in your life. Your life, yes. In order for you to see the manifestation of God's power and God's promise in your life? I mean, really, seriously, do you really want it? Because the other side of privilege is responsibility. A lot of you want a husband, but you don't want the responsibilities that go along with being a wife. A lot of you men want a wife, but you don't want the responsibility that goes along with being a husband. Because the other side of privilege, hear me, is responsibility. You want the privilege of being able to have sex with your wife, but you don't want the responsibility that goes with taking care of her or making her happy. Y'all ain't gotta talk to me. Come on, church. Come on, come on. And if we gotta see power and anarchy for real, we gotta line up and be responsible. So I wanna give you some pieces really quick here. That speaks to your responsibility as a believer and what you need to be doing to cause the kingdom to advance, to impact the world and progress the world toward heavenly culture. So as a child of God, the Bible— we read it, the scripture said you were an heir of God. So, uh, let's just deal with that really quick. Uh, heir is an individual that has legal right to whatever a deceased person has left. Let me tell you something, Jesus died, and he died so that you and I can be translated into the kingdom of his dear Son. Wow, wow! He died so you and I can be translated into the kingdom of his dear Son, out of darkness into the kingdom of his marvelous light, where the king is Jesus. And watch this, if his light is there and his illumination is there and his intelligence is there and I'm his servant, I'm in his family, I've been translated into his kingdom, then that means I have access— hui— to whatever he has. Oh boy, as king. Wow, wow. I got access to everything. There's nothing I don't have access to. I'm an heir of God, so whatever God has And then I'm joint heirs with Jesus Christ, so I got access to heaven, period. Hallelujah! Because I have heaven on earth inside of me, because the King lives in me, and where the King dwells, his kingdom is also. Oh boy, oh boy. So point number 1, let's move, I don't want to bore you. Here today. Point number 1, watch this: you cannot impact the world as an heir of God or a child of God, and your progress ultimately breaks down in your own life because you're not progressing people toward God if you are not clear on your identity in Christ. That was a great segue into this point. Your identity is that you are a child of God, and if you are a child of God, you're also an heir of God. I said it again: if you're a child of God, you're also an heir of God. Now watch this. The only requirement to receive your inheritance is faith. The Bible says without faith it is impossible to please God. So the only requirement to receive your kingdom inheritance is faith in God. Oh boy, oh boy. And this is where we miss it, because we put faith in a system that's not a kingdom system. I mean, we'll go to church and act like we're in the kingdom system. We'll talk about it. Preachers will even have the audacity to preach about it and never experience the kingdom in their real life. They'll read a book about the kingdom and preach about it, but never really experience the kingdom in their life, in their finances, in their marriage, in their family. Oh my God, in their business, in their ministries, everything. Because everything is born out of their kingdom and not the kingdom of God. See, we gotta stop, ladies and gentlemen, building kingdoms to ourselves. That never was the design, to have multiple kingdoms on earth and build kingdoms to yourself. As a man, the only place I should be a king is in my home. But when it comes down to building a universal kingdom, the kingdom of God is the only kingdom I should be building. And anything I'm building, it had to connect to God's purpose and his plan. As King of my life. Because you know when a king declares something, it's law. So you can't impact the world and your progress breaks down when you don't know who you are, when you don't understand your identity as a child of God. And watch this, your role and your position as a child. First of all, children— listen to me, children should obey their parents. Not all of them do. And watch this, a lot of children are selective in the parent they choose to obey. Some people say, I'm gonna listen to what my mama say, but I ain't gonna listen to my daddy say. And they'll act like it. And most time you don't even realize it, the answer you need is in the parent you're refusing to listen to. Because you missed the whole reality that you need both of them. So, and your identity— watch this— because Mama didn't make you by herself and neither did Daddy make you by himself, but your identity is actually wrapped up in the DNA that was housed in your mom and daddy. It mixed to create you. You came to this planet with DNA to fulfill destiny. I'll say that again. You came to this planet with DNA to fulfill destiny, but you cannot fulfill destiny if you don't make correct decisions, because your decisions— hear me— determine your destiny. And if— oh boy— if you make the right decisions, your decisions ultimately will catapult you into destiny. But you have to make decisions based on identity. The body of Christ suffers right here from a major— hear me— identity crisis. Oh my God, oh my God, man. Oh my God, I'm preaching better than y'all saying amen. But the reality is most people don't know who they are, so they label themselves things for approval. I can run off 10 apostles in my head right now that have labeled themselves apostle. They're not apostles. They really are not. A lot of times you have to respect what people call themselves, right? Right. And you don't want to offend people by saying, eh, you're really not that, this is more of who you are. And I just wish the body would get to a point where, where apostolic measuring shows up. You don't want the apostle just to teach the word, preach the word, perform miracles in your life and shift the government in your life, but you also want them to bring correction in measuring so you don't operate in the wrong identity. We have tons of people out here who are operating under false identity. They are not who they say they are. And many of them— watch this— are saying their things they're not. And watch this, they really have been deceived to believe they are that because nobody has been bold enough to correct it. Oh, but we gotta learn to speak the truth in love, apostles. And share with people where their unmeasuring anointing really lies. Everybody's not a prophet. I don't have time to teach about this stuff today, but I just want you to understand, you got to get your identity straight so you can really impact the world. See, when we aren't clear— watch this— of our identity in Christ, listen to this, we open the door. I want you to hear this. For the spirit of extinction. Extinction— here it is— not of the human race, but extinction from distinction. Listen, you are very unique, you are very distinct, you're very authentic. This is how God created you. Hear me, there's nobody else like you. You're unique. Wonderfully and fearfully made is what the scripture says. Fearfully and wonderfully made. I have you in order. Well, the Bible says you're fearfully and wonderfully made, which means God took the time. Hear me, man. He took the time and fearfully and wonderfully made you. Are y'all hearing this? You're unique. You are his workmanship. You're his masterpiece. You are distinctive. Not like you, not like you, nowhere. Hallelujah. Very unique in who God has made you. What you don't want to do again is suffer— watch this— from the extinction of distinction, because when this happens We as a kingdom people, we become a faceless and a formless generic generation that has no power— hear me— to impact the world because we're not clear about true identity and we're living falsehoods. We're living our lives operating in realms and dimensions that we are not supposed to be moving in. We're doing things that literally are illegal when it comes to the realm of the spirit because we're operating— oh boy— in the name of God, saying things are God. And watch this, it's a form of deception because if you're operating under the banner of apostleship and you're really not an apostle That's deceiving because you're telling people that you are an apostle. And so now when your life doesn't show up in a way that's apostolic— hear me— that's actually changing the lives— oh boy— of the people that you're supposed to be an apostle to then it makes the office look bad because you don't live up to the definition. Wait a minute, you saying you're a prophet, formless and faceless, generic generation, because you really don't know your title, you don't know your spiritual brand, so you're generic and you try everything, oh boy, to see what people respond to. But you gotta authentically be you and stop being this faceless, formless, powerless person. Because true power is rooted in your identity. Your true ability to impact the world will be rooted in your identity as an heir of God, joint heirs with Jesus. Why is this? You're joint heirs with Jesus because Jesus was able to receive the inheritance of his purpose to be the Savior of the world, to be the Messiah that will carry our sins to the cross. Oh my God, we don't want to be this faceless and formless generation. Yeah, you said you was a child of God, right? You said it. You said you was a child of God. If then a child, also an heir, joint heirs with Jesus Christ. You got a right to be clear about your identity. Why settle for an identity you created? Oh, why settle for an identity that you stole? God— Ashia, briska, talaman, dikunskete. God created a unique ID just for you, and power is rooted in it. Oh boy, listen, number 2. I gotta move, man. Number 2, let me move. Now I can stay on that all day. You gotta know who you are, man. Number 2, you cannot impact the world as a child of God, and your progress breaks down— watch this— If you are not clear, hear me, of the power of suffering. We read it, right? We read it in verse 18. He said, for I reckon, listen to me, that the sufferings, listen, of this present time, hear me, The pathēma in Greek, the sufferings. Watch this. Planned pressure. That's what pathēma is. Planned pressure. So anything you go through, I want you to grab this. It didn't just show up by happenstance. A lot of the pressure you deal with in life was planned by God. Hear me. God bothers you to make you better. Planned pressure. Oh my— to take you through things to— watch this— first of all, qualify you. The process qualifies you to keep the product. The reason you've been going through what you've been going through is because God has been qualifying you to keep the product. Most people jump over the process because they move in false identity. They never really progress forward, so they— again, they can't impact anyone else because they don't have the goods, because the process qualifies you with the wisdom and the anointing, the grace even to carry out your authentic assignment. But when you don't embrace the process and go through planned pressure— now again, get it, there's some things you bring on yourself, some things are not God, some things are not the devil. But as it relates to your destiny, there is a beat-out path— Lord have mercy, Jesus— of planned pressure Listen to me, that God planned for your life. Oh boy, oh God, here I'm talking about real planned pressure that God planned out for your life. Real stuff, real stuff that you gotta go through that— watch this— he already knew when he planned it in the before. Watch this, come here, Jeremiah 1:5. Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Wait a minute, wait a minute. I knew you, Jeremiah. I knew you, Michael Wilkes. I knew you, every person that's watching. Yada, or yada, Y-A-D-A in Hebrew. It means I was intimate with you. I was up close and personal with you. I became one with you. Watch this. And I established plans for you. Oh my God. And part of the plans, part of the plans was pressure. The word pressure, two words, press and ure. Ure means to extract or extrapolate from. Press means to push. Put it together. God brings planned pressure to press on you to extrapolate that business, that multi-billion dollar business, to extrapolate— glory to the name of God— that revelation knowledge, to extrapolate the power that he wants you to walk in. He puts the pressure there because there's something he's trying to get out of you. Glory to the name of Jesus. I dare you rub your belly and say, pull it out of me, God, pull it out of me. And see, some of you, oh my God, you never have actually walked in what has been planned because every time pressure shows up, instead of allowing pressure to make you, what you've tried to do, hear me, hear me, is reject the pressure, rebuke the pressure, get yourself out of the pressure. When it's God-ordained pressure, let me tell you something, you gotta keep going through it until you get it right if God's gonna be the one that extrapolates the blessing. Hear me, you gotta endure with him, you gotta walk with him. Glory to God. Listen to this, he said, I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared. Listen, so what you going through, the planned pressure that God takes you through, the pathema, glory to God, that he allows to enter your life it's not worthy to be compared. Hear me, listen to this, man. It's not worthy to be compared. Listen to me. With the glory. Hallelujah. With the glory which shall be revealed in us. With the doxa. Glory to God. The express presence of God. Hallelujah. That shall be revealed in us. So, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. So, so adversity, adversity, listen, teaches us what we really believe. Wow, man. Look at the word adversity. Adverse. That's a hard word, right? That means there's trouble, agitation, problematic situations, or adverse. But look at the root of the word adverse. It's ad. A-D. Uh, ad— watch this— is a marketing tool used to promote or expose a business or idea. Wait a minute, so if I endure adversity, seasons of trouble that God plans for my life, seasons of pressure, God then uses my adversity— watch this— he adverts the adversity which means he redirects the adversity, whoa, and turns it into an ad to advertise his glory. So he ultimately takes you through it to prove to others what he's able to do. And you know what, he plans it because he knows you, he knows you can handle it. So he took you through it because he knew you would be able to survive it. You will be able to survive the rape, the molestation, the rejection as a child. You will be able to survive the divorce, the pain, whatever adversity showed up in your life. That man that broke your heart, he knew you could survive it, so he took you through it so he could— but as long as you keep trying to build the ladders yourself and work things out yourself and run from adversity when God sends it, you'll never be positioned in your faith for God to advertise his glory. Lord have mercy, Jesus. Lord have mercy, Jesus. Are y'all with me? He wants to advertise his glory, people. He wants to advertise his glory. He wants, he wants to be seen through your adversity. Don't, oh my God, don't curse your crisis. Don't curse your crisis. Go through it. Go through it and let God be God over your life. I'm almost done, man. Point number 3. I gotta go, I gotta go. Oh, what this— I'm having fun, man. You cannot impact the world as a child of God. Listen, and your progress breaks down when you don't understand the power— watch this— of revelation. There are two areas it's vital you have a revelation of. The third area is optional, because if you have a revelation of the first two areas, I'm inclined to believe the third area really ain't necessary. Hallelujah. But two areas you need to have revelation in. Revelation, photizo in Greek, means to pull back a curtain to show something that was already there that was previously seen by another but yet to be revealed to you. That's revelation. It was hidden the whole time. Watch this. If you go to a Broadway show, the cast is behind the curtain when you sit in your seat waiting for the show to begin. My son Ben is a stage actor. He's into theater. He's— matter of fact, he's, uh, at SMU in Dallas in his senior year finishing up his degree in music and theater. That's his thing. I mean, he sings and acts. That's what he does. He's anointed to do it. I've gone to several of his shows, and whenever we go to the show, the curtain is closed, and when the first act begins, they pull back the curtain and reveal the set and the cast. Can I tell you something? They were already there. We just saw them. They were already experiencing what we were about to saw. Matter of fact, Oh, they already rehearsed it. So true revelation is beholding something that God already seen. So watch this. You need a revelation. Photizo, where we get words like photography, photograph. Again, previously seen. A photographer who's taking a picture, he has to look at the subject to take the photo. Listen, I don't care how digital the camera becomes. You need to look at the photo before the photo is taken because it's going to affect the outcome, the shot. Oh boy. So watch this. God has all— has some photography, some fotizo, some revelation that he's already snapped photos of about your life. And you need revelation number one of yourself. You need a clear revelation of you. We talked about that with identity, but now we're talking about actually doing the work, the discipline, to get that you. So, because you can't come out the closet without this— listen, it's too many people— let me say this— a lot of people trying to come out the closet, but they, they're getting beat down by the devil. They're being defeated when they come out because they're not clear about themselves. You need to go back in until you get clarity about— because where there's no revelation, there's always violation. If you're not clear of who you are and what you're supposed to be doing, you're going to violate your life. You're going to violate yourself, you're going to violate God, and ultimately you're going to violate others because you're not clear about who you are. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. You need a revelation. True. Revelation! Hallelujah! Oh yeah, we give you praise God! True revelation of who God is in your life— that's what you need ladies and gentlemen. You need revelation of yourself and you need revelation of him. Third one, if you ain't quite clear on who you are and who God is, you also need a revelation of the enemy and his plot for your life. But if you clear on you and clear on God— because if you clear on God, you know he gonna take care of the enemy for you. See, we gotta learn to do warfare God's way. And when you walk in a revelation of God, you don't spend time fighting the devil that God's defeating on your behalf, or watch this, has already defeated on your behalf. Oh boy, you got to have revelation. You got— watch this— the Bible said the glory that shall be revealed in us. That's the glory, is the authentic assignment. The glory is the authentic plan. The glory— oh my God— is God's manifesting himself through us so that we're impacting and changing the world. Let's go into the world with a glory that they've never seen. When you speak, something should happen. When you walk in a room, because you carry glory, something should shift. When you walk in a hospital, before you open your mouth, because the glory is with you, healing should take place. I'll never forget, there was a pastor friend of mine who was on his sick bed. He had been unconscious. He could not talk. He was not responsive. They called and said, can you come pray? I went down to the hospital to pray. I was going to pray. Everybody— I asked for everybody just leave me with him. And for a brief moment, they left me with him. And as they left me with him, glory to God, I walked in the room. As soon as I walked in, he started moving. He started moving his head. He started responding to the presence of God that was on me. And I prayed. I called the family back in, and they saw how responsive this man had become. And he had been this way for days because the power— and not me— the glory of God was being manifested through me. Listen, we got to come out the closet so that we're baffling doctors. We're, we're, we're— watch this— we're saving pain that families would otherwise go through because we have the power to bring a person back to life and give them more life and more time. Because ultimately, a lot of times when people die of sickness— hear this, we gotta stop saying this at funerals— oh, the Lord took them, it was just their time. Not necessarily true. Sometimes we lose loved ones because of disobedience. We lose loved ones because of lack of discipline. And they are murdered because sickness and disease murders them because how they handle their body while they were on earth. Oh my God, oh my God. And we have to be able to have enough power to come in between that and give them another chance. Glory to God. Oh, Shabaya! And rebuke the spirit of murder. You know what I'm teaching right now? I rebuke the spirit of murder. Somebody's killing themselves even while I'm talking in your eating habits. But I rebuke the spirit of murder right now. You destroy yourself with food, you destroy yourself with alcohol and strong drink. I decree and declare you be transformed even now in the name of Jesus. Number 4, I gotta move, man. I'm almost done. We cannot impact the world as children of God. Hear me, we cannot impact the world as children of God. And we— our personal progress breaks down. Watch this. When we do not sow seed— great segue to this point— into the world. You cannot reap a harvest— hear this— in the field where you've never sown. If we want doctors in the medical field, we got to sow doctors in that field. Listen, all of you are not going to preach. Part of coming out of the closet again is finding your true identity. Listen, finding your true identity and doing that, being that, and sowing that gift into the world so we can reap a harvest from that field. We can't reap a harvest in science if we don't sow scientists into the science field. We can't reap a harvest in entertainment, economics, government, politics if we don't sow these gifts into these fields. Listen, there's something in you that's great. There's a seed in you. The Bible, we read it, the world waited for the manifestation of the sons of God. They're outstretched, they're looking for you to bring what God sent you to this planet with. Listen, can I tell you something? And I'm closing. You are God's delivery system in the earth. Let me look right at this camera right here. You are God's delivery system in the earth. You came packaged with potential. Full of his purpose, manufactured with destiny to— watch this— help someone live a purposed life. That's why you're here, to get someone else on track. Oh my God. Oh my God, man, we So much to do, people. We can't reap a harvest in fields where we don't sow. If the only time you see miracles— hear me— is at the church— and listen, I'm not knocking that because it's so many— I'm— thank God I am leader of a church where miracles happen. I, I am responsible for other leaders who run churches that miracles happen in. I thank God that God used me to teach them the right way to do things so that that can happen. But let me tell you something, it don't stop there. That's really, hallelujah, just normality in a heavenly service. That should happen. But if you're sitting in heavenly places, if heaven is with you all the time, Dude, these miracles should be happening everywhere. Breakthroughs should be happening everywhere. In Walmart, at the gas station, at football games, at basketball games. The harvest is great, people, but listen to me, the laborers are indeed few. Listen, I gotta quit. I appreciate you guys. My time is gone, man. I'm gonna keep teaching this, but I pray, I really pray that you have received something out of this word today. I pray that the power of the living God has opened your eyes to the fact that the world needs you. Listen, church, we got to come out of the closet. Kwafle. In the story. We gotta come out of the closet. Let's pray. I want to pray, one, that you will see your true identity. I want to pray that, two, you will understand the power of suffering. I want to pray that you understand the power of revelation. And then, fourthly, I want to pray for you right now. Glory to God. That you will come into a place in your life. Glory to Jesus. That you understand you cannot reap a harvest in places you don't sow. That your gift needs to be sown back into the world so that we can reap a harvest. And all of the things you've gone through, you've gone through them, hear me, so that you can bring a harvest to Jesus Christ. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you now for this word, and I pray first of all, God, that you will cause those that heard it to understand with clarity their identity. I pray, God, that even as your word says, we are children, and if children, we're heirs of God, and if we're heirs of God, we're also joint heirs with Jesus Christ. I pray that as I pray, the identity of assignment. And God, I pray that this generation will not be a generic, faceless, formless generation, but clarity of identity will begin to emerge even as I pray. Secondly, God, I pray that this generation will understand the power of suffering and process. And God, that they will not despise the process, that they will endure it, go through it, trust it, walk it out, walk in it, God, in the name of Jesus. That the planned pressure that is applied to their life, that they won't reject it. They will not curse their crisis. They won't reject, glory to the name of God, righteous processing, God, because you're taking them through to make them better. So I give you praise, God, that they will be clear about the power of suffering. I pray for the spirit of revelation right now, that you will reveal to every person under the sound of my voice with clarity themselves and give them a revelation of you for real, not based in religiosity, but they will have a clear revelation of who you are that is born out of relationship with you. And I praise you for that now. And I pray, God, that out of that revelation of themself and you God, you will give birth to a manifestation, Lord, a coming out of the closet, that there will be a manifestation of purpose and power on public display at all times, because heaven is with us at all times. And I give you praise for that now, in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Listen, thank you so much for joining us today, whether you were watching us live on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, whether you were listening to our podcast, however you watched us. Listen, from the bottom of my heart, thank you. You don't have to take the time. I pray that what you've heard was a blessing to you, and if indeed it was a blessing, I need you to help me get these messages out by sharing it. Listen, it's the best best gift you'll ever give. Give this word to somebody, won't cost them a dime, and tell them to listen to it so they can come out of the closet and walk in the fullness of their identity, in the fullness of who they are. I believe right now, even as I'm talking, somebody is coming into their self, they're coming into their own. You're becoming clear even as I speak right now about who you are and what God God is doing in your life. Listen, I want to challenge every person listening to me to plant a seed in the ground right now. Listen, I don't care what it is, but listen, if you're listening to me live or by replay, I want you to be a blessing to ministry. The ways to give are on the screen. You can give via Cash App, Rana Church. That's simply our Cash App. You can give online at our website at and you can sow your seed there. But whatever your gift, large or small, we thank you and we appreciate you giving and sharing who you are with us. Listen, we listen, we love you. And until next time, share the word with a friend. And remember, your decisions will set you up for dominion. God bless you. Peace.