Kingdom Heirs, PT 7: "Heirs According to the Promise" | Day 13 of 40 Days | Dr. Mike Woods Sr

Well, praise the Lord, everybody! God bless you guys. Welcome to our midday teaching. This is day 13, man, of 40 Days of Infallible Proof. I am super happy that you are here with me today, uh, whether you're watching us live or by replay. Do me a favor, guys, uh, there's a word from the Lord and we're going to pray in a moment, but I need you to do me a favor and share this experience right now. Uh, you know, at the end of the day, man, we are blessed to be a blessing, right? And that's the word of God. So whenever something is blessing you, uh, it would behoove you to share it, because when you do that, uh, you put yourself in a position to receive more and more blessings from the Lord. So please, guys, do me a favor and share this experience right now. Glory to God. I promise you, uh, you'll be glad you did. I'm super happy again that everyone is here. I pray, glory to God, that you had a super weekend, and I'm praying even more that you have an amazing week. You know, you got a new fresh set of days ahead of you. You got to decide right now, what are you going to do with this week to make this week even more significant than last week was? So let's pray. And I love everybody. Y'all come in. Glory to the name of God. And share this. We're going to pray and we're going to get right into the heart of the teaching today. I am grateful to God for his goodness, his kindness, his mercy, and his favor toward us. You know, as I look back over my life, simply, man, God God has been good to me even in my down seasons. He's been good in the up seasons. He's consistent. And I understand that every trial, every test, it comes to make me stronger. It comes to cultivate— I'm sorry, cultivate, not cultivate— cultivate my faith at a whole new level, man. And I'm super excited about where I'm going. Because as we learned yesterday at Rhoda Church— and if you ain't— if you didn't get that message, make sure you watch it. Uh, something happened and the live just cut off, but we're going to post the entire video later. But make sure you watch Kingdom Faith, man, it was amazing. God wants to take your faith from faith to faith. Your faith must mature, and he uses oftentimes tests to grow our faith. And you can't operate in none of this kingdom stuff we're talking about without Faith. So make sure you watch this message. Let's pray. Glory to God. I love everybody. When you come in, speak, say hello, let us know you're here. Glory to God. And please, by all means, I need you to share this. Let's pray. Father, we love you today on this Monday. Glory to God. On this 13th day of 40 days, hallelujah, of infallible proof. Your word declares in Acts 1 and 3 that after your passion, you showed yourself alive with infallible proof for 40 days, and you consisted in teaching the things that pertain to the kingdom. In congruency with that, God, we are here today in day 13, and we're continuing to teach the things that pertain to the kingdom. God, we've been diligent, we've been faithful, and we're going to see this through to the end. We're expecting infallible proof that you are alive, that you are real in our life. God, I'm trusting you, God, that you're going to move in the faith— oh my God— of those that are connected to these 40 days, God, and you would expand their faith, and that in these next these 27 days that we got left, God, that they will go from faith to faith and that their kingdom faith will be manifested in the mighty name of Jesus. Yes, God, I hear that. I give you glory and honor right now. I— Yes, God. We give you glory. Hallelujah. We give you the honor. We give you the praise. Thank you, God, that we're moving from faith to faith, and we'll see a great manifestation of infallible proof in our lives. And God, today give us the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Spirit as we disseminate your word, God. And I pray today that this word would land on the good ground of every heart. And I praise you for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Oh my God, welcome everybody! God bless your hearts, I'm glad you're here. Listen, while I was praying, I heard the Lord say to share with you a part of a prophetic word that came forth yesterday in our service when I was done preaching. The spirit of prophecy, of course, is heavy in our house, so we're already flowing in that stream really heavily. And so we just kind of jumped in with our whole body after I got through preaching, and the Lord said to tell the people— and I want to say it to you that he's getting ready— come on, receive this now— to give you a kingdom lift. And I'm not talking about Lyft, the car service. Glory to God. God's about to give you a kingdom lift to assist you in accomplishing his kingdom purpose for your life. And whatever that means financially manpower, resources, open doors. God says, I am about to give you a kingdom lift. Now understand, oh my God, that the end of the word lift is I-F-T, IFT. And the Lord said, I'm going to give you a kingdom lift, oh my God, but first there must be a shift. And if you focus in on the last 3 letters of the word shift, they are also if. So the Holy Spirit says you cannot have a kingdom lift until there's a kingdom shift. I'll say it again. You cannot have a kingdom lift until there is a kingdom shift. And the Holy Spirit says, I am going to shift. Omansi, brikey. Boska taba, you into another place of maturity. I'm going to shift your faith to a maximized and optimal level as you yield yourself and receive it. I'm going to shift your finances. I'm going to shift your environment. And if you think about shift, if you're typing on a keyboard, there's a shift key on the keyboard. Keyboard. If you press that button and then you press the letter A, the letter S, the letter F, the letter D, anything on the keyboard that is pressed simultaneously with Shift, it changes. It is capitalized. And the Lord says, I'm about to capitalize your dreams. Capital is a financial word. So God says, I'm about to give you the capitalization that you need to bring Yes, Father, your dreams to pass. For there cannot be, saith God, a kingdom live without a kingdom shift. But secondly, the Lord said there cannot be a kingdom live without a kingdom sift. Sift, S-I-F-T. Yes, Lord. The end of the word sift is I-F-T, just like live, just like shift. The Lord says there must be a sifting. God said to Peter, Satan desires to have you that he may sift you as wheat. Listen, I want to tell you, God's about to do a sifting in your life. And sifting means to separate that which is fine and necessary from that which is Watch this. Bulky, contaminated, and unnecessary. So God says, I'm getting ready to separate the contaminated pieces in your life, the broken places in you that have been stagnant and hindering you from moving forward. I'm getting ready to separate your past, ooh, from your future, and I'm getting ready to move you into a new dimension, for there cannot be a kingdom lift without a kingdom shift, nor a kingdom sift. I'm sifting you. Glory to God. And thirdly, I hear God, he said to remind you, as we spoke it prophetically in the service on yesterday, there cannot be a kingdom lift without a kingdom shift, without a kingdom sift. But watch this, without it being swift. If you look at the last 3 letters of swift, it's I-F-T. And God said, what I'm about to do, I'm going to do it swiftly. I'm going to accelerate the promise toward you. And that, that you've been praying for, glory to God, that, that you've been expecting, the Spirit of the Living God says, I am about to do it. I am about to bring it to pass, says the Lord. A kingdom lift is coming, but there shall first be a kingdom shift in your mindset, a paradigm shift in your mind. You'll shift— a paradigm shift in your thinking concerning God. There'll be a sifting. God's going to remove the unnecessary and contaminated and broken things out of your life. And God's gonna do it all swiftly. Receive, hallelujah, the word of the Lord. Glory to God. Father, we thank you again for this word. Let us teach with simplicity, and I pray, God, that your people, in all they're getting, they will get an understanding, God. Praise you for it now, in Jesus' mighty name. All right guys, we're gonna get into this. I'm so happy again, even to share the word of the Lord with you on today. Please do me a favor, guys, I need you to share this. I don't have a lot of time, so I'm gonna jump right in it and I'm gonna disseminate this as quickly as possible, and I want you to grab it. Amen. I want you to share it. I want you to bless somebody else. Glory to God. So let's get— let's just give a quick review of last week. Last week I shared with you again, glory to God, that you and I, when we became born again— hear me— we became heir to a fortune. Hallelujah. Just touch yourself and say, I'm heir to a fortune. And again, we're talking about kingdom heirs. And when we gave our life to Jesus and received the baptism in the Holy Holy Ghost, we became heirs to a fortune. We were born again. No matter how you were born the first time, but you were born again into a royal family. As a matter of fact, you were born again into the richest family ever known. Here it is, man. You were born again into the richest family ever known. Ha! And we've shared this. You're born into the royal family that actually runs, operates, controls the universe. So you are heir to a throne. Glory to God. I want you to get that and believe. That's why your faith's got to grow and mature so you can receive this and see it manifested in your life, man. Oh my God. So, and we also last week made it very clear to why we're studying this. Why, Michael Woods, are you teaching this, uh, Kingdom Heirs? Why are you talking about an inheritance? Well, the first reason is I want to renew our minds and help us see ourselves as heirs of God. That's my primary purpose, is to renew our minds and to help us see ourselves as heirs of God. And then secondly, we want to discover what's included in our inheritance. And thirdly, we want to learn how to take our inheritance. And starting tomorrow, we're going to start discovering what's really included in our inheritance. This is going to be kind of the last segment on the renewal of the mind. This is part 7, so you can go back and watch all 7 teachings so you can get your mind— because we started out talking about the characteristics of a king, and then we got into being heirs of God, heirs of Jesus Christ, and we talked about heirs of everything. And so today We gonna jump in this with both feet and discuss heirs according to the promise. Heirs according to the promise, right? So we, so we've, we've, we've covered these things in much detail, y'all. So I want y'all to make sure you go back and watch the messages you missed because you need all of this faith Faith comes by hearing. My God, hearing by the word of God, the consistent hearing of the word. So make sure you go back and take this faith medicine to build and expand your faith so you can walk in your inheritance. All right, let's look at Galatians 3, and we're going to look at verse number 29. We're going to get in this, man. Galatians 3:29, y'all ready? Let's go. The Bible says this: and if ye be Christ— come on, let's go, man, we're gonna get into this today— Galatians 3:29: and if ye be Christ, then you are Abraham's seed. I want you to grab this. So if you're in Christ, if you're born again, if you're saved, listen to me, guys, you are also Abraham's seed, which means you are a part of the DNA, mm, of Abraham. You are in Abraham's family line supernaturally because through the efficacious, vicarious, substitutionary work of Calvary, you and the blood of Jesus Christ running through your spiritual lineage, You are also Abraham's seed. Hear this. Oh my God, man. You're also Abraham's seed and heirs. Watch this. According to the promise. The word according is synpheneo in Greek, and it means to be in alignment, though different, You're in alignment. So according to the promise to Abraham, you have the same right to what Abraham has been promised. Why? Because you're in Jesus Christ. And if you're not in Jesus Christ, you need to get in Jesus Christ today. Oh my God. Let me read that. Oh yeah, out of the Message Bible. It says also, Galatians 3:29, since you are Christ's family, then you are Abraham's famous descendant, heirs according to the covenant promises. Did you know you were famous, man? You are Amos— you are Abraham's famous descendant. Why are you so famous? Because you got adopted into the family through the blood of Jesus Christ, which makes you family because you are of a supernatural nature. And again, you have a right to the covenant promises that are bequipped to Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and you and I. Oh my God. Let's read it out of Amplified. And if— Galatians 3:29— you belong to Christ— oh my God— you are in him— whoo— who is Abraham's seed, then you are Abraham's offspring and spiritual heirs according to the promise. Touch yourself and say, I am an heir according to the promise. Oh Lord, have mercy. So I'm Abraham's offspring, and I'm an heir according to what has been promised Abraham. I'm just reading these so you can get an understanding, and I'm going— I'm gonna fly in a minute, but I want you to know believer, as a kingdom citizen, you should choose to no longer live beneath your kingdom privilege. That's why you gotta soar in the things that pertain to the realm of the spirit. Oh my God, man. Oh my God. Are y'all hearing me? Are y'all with me? Glory to God. You gotta soar according to the things that pertain to the spirit. It so that you could tap into this promise. And again, you have to mature your faith. And oh God, you got to listen to yesterday's message because you got to put this thing in practice. You got to start practicing walking by faith so that you can start seeing the manifestation of the promises that have been bequeathed to you through your inheritance through being a kingdom heir. Oh God, let's touch yourself and say, I'm a kingdom heir, I'm a kingdom heir. Wow. The New Living Translation, listen to this. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and God's promise to Abraham belongs to you. So as a kingdom citizen, hear me, you are, I am, I need you to get this, this is basic stuff, man. You should have learned this a long time ago. This is the pediatrics of receiving your inheritance. You and I are the seed of Abraham. What does that mean? That means that everything that God promised Abraham it also belongs to you. Oh my God. And it has been passed down to you and I through Jesus Christ. This is why we cannot reduce Jesus as just a prophet, as just a— oh my God— wise teacher or instructor. Jesus is the king, and he is God that died for his people. And through the shedding of blood, we were bought back into the family. Oh my God, our sins were remitted, paid for, and it gave us a right now to this inheritance. Listen, Abraham's blessing is your inheritance. It's your inheritance. It's my inheritance. It's your inheritance. I'll say it again: Abraham's blessing is your inheritance. So anytime you read in the Bible where it says God is going to do something for Abraham, you should insert in that verse, me too. Yeah, I didn't just type on the screen, me too. Simple basic teaching you should have learned a long time ago, but I need you to get it. So that's why I have to backtrack, man, because we're going to get into some very lofty things when we start talking about how to activate these drivers that produce, yeah, the promise of God in your life, the inheritance in your life. But we gotta base— we gotta deal with the fact that is a fact, a historical fact, by will, by constitution, by decree of the king, that what belongs to Abraham also belongs to me. So whenever you read anything in the will, remember I told you, uh, if you ever go to an attorney's office for the reading of a will, glory to the name of God, they're going to read what the person who is deceased left to you because you are an heir to the family's fortune. So they leave whatever is read in the will. Well, when Jesus Christ died, he left a will, a old will and a new will. You go to the lawyer's office, they tell you, we're going to read the last will and testament. So the Bible is packed with things in the will. So today what I want to do is read the wheel a little, all right, and look in the Bible and find out how God treated Abraham. And everywhere we read, I want you to plug in, me too. Oh my God, because if God treated Abraham that way, then he's also going to treat you that way. And you keep jumping. And listen, again, I'm classical Pentecostal. I'm gonna be Pentecostal to the day I die. I grew up Pentecostal. It's in my blood. All right, but you can keep praise breaking and going through the bodily exercise and never tap into this, right? And, and just miss all that's for you because you're living beneath your privilege. But I promise you, you better dig into the will and find out what is available to you, because prophetically, the days to come in the— even in the economic system of the world, it's going to get way worse before it gets better. The stock market is going to get worse before it gets better. That's why you need to know what's in your will so you know how to invest. That's why you got to have access to the mind of God so he can guide your hand in your investing so you won't lose your shirt. Are you hearing me? Ah yeah, I gotta go, I gotta go. So let's read this, and everywhere we read, I want you to plug in me too. So this is the first thing, Genesis 12. Let's start right there, Genesis 12, verses 2 and 3. The Bible says this, he says, and I will make you a great nation. Somebody say me too. Oh yeah, he's talking to Abraham. He's talking to Abraham and us. And I will bless you with— oh my God— with an abundant increase of favors. Say me too. And make your name famous and distinguished. Me too. Yeah. And you will be a blessing dispensing good to others. Say me too. And I will bless those who bless you. Me too. Glory to God. You ought to type that on the screen. Me too. Glory to God. Who confer prosperity or happiness upon you. Watch this. Me too. And curse those who curse or use insolent language toward you. Me too. In you will all families and kindred of the earth be blessed, and by you they will bless themselves. Somebody say, me too. So to fully grasp what God is saying here, listen, you gotta realize— yeah, you gotta realize that when God blesses someone, he's not just saying, hear me, have a good day, right? He's conferring on them the power to prosper and increase in every aspect of life. I'll say that again. When God blesses someone, he's not just saying, like you said, bless you, have a good day. He's not just saying have a good day. He's actually releasing power upon you. Good God Almighty. To increase and prosper in every area of your life. Oh boy, wow, this is crazy, man. So in fact, when I was studying this, according to W.E. Vine, the true definition of bless means to empower or to make one prosper. My God, to make one happy, to bestow favor upon, to consecrate to holy purposes. Woo! To make one successful, to make one prosperous in temporal concerns pertaining to this life, to guard and preserve. So when the blessing of God comes on you and the blessing of the covenant right of Abraham comes on our life, It comes with a consecration to holy assignments. Oh my God, it comes with happiness. It comes with favor. It— oh my God, it comes with success. And it comes with being peaceful and at peace with the temporal concerns that you have to deal with in this life. Are y'all grabbing this? I hope y'all sharing this, man. Please share it because somebody needs this. This, even if you don't think it's blessing you, share it so somebody else can get it, please. Lord, have mercy. Have mercy, Jesus. Oh God, I thank you. My God, today God says, I've conferred upon you the power to be happy, the power to walk in favor, the power to prosper, the power to overcome obstacles that challenge you in this life. Because that's what happens as an heir. And anything less than that— I know the preacher will tell you, oh, Woods is just telling you something that— no, listen, I'm telling you right now, you better listen to me. I know I've lived this, man. I've lived in and outside of this, and I know what it means to trust God by faith and watch him work in my life in every aspect. But I also know what it means to live carnally to live like a heathen and not trust God, trust in myself and my own way of being, and be walking around here trying to figure it out. Listen, you got something available to you. Walk in the blessing. Lord have mercy. The actual blessing of God made Abraham rich. Do you realize that Abraham was a rich man? That, that's in the Bible. We just read it in Genesis 12. But then as we keep reading, we'll see that Abraham was extremely wealthy. 12, 13, 14, 15 in Genesis, extremely wealthy. It was the blessing of God, uh-oh, that made him rich. See, a lot of people don't want this kind of teaching because it calls— it introduces privilege, but it also introduces responsibility. Because the other side of responsibility is privilege, and the other side of privilege is responsibility. You can't escape one from the other. Once you're granted the blessing and privilege, you have to now be responsible. And you have to have responsible Christianity and practical holiness, which is not just living pure, but it's also practicing the things in kingdom faith that maintain the blessing in your life. And people don't want that responsibility because they want the sky to open and something to fall out, and they just live in it, but then they not be responsible for the blessing when they get it. Oh my goodness, help! I'm trying to help you. I'm working on you today because you need to live in your inheritance and you need to stop living, yeah, beneath your privilege because there's so much available. Oh Lord, have mercy. Let me show you Genesis 1:28. Watch this. And God blessed them. Good God. And God blessed them. And God said to them. So all right, okay, so here we go. Blessed. Makarios. It's the Septuagint transliteration of the Greek word makarios. And the Hebrew word actually deals with the idea that God conferred upon them the power to have a good life because of the indwelt quality of his person in them. So blessing is the indwelt quality of God living in you. This is why you need the baptism in the Holy Ghost. I'm talking about for real. You need the fire of the Holy Spirit moving in your life, and you need a personal relationship with the Holy Ghost because He is God in you, and he affirms the blessing that was placed on Adam when he comes into your life. He's not just there for speaking in tongues, although it's a good thing to speak in tongues. He's not there for you to just quicken. He is there to be a governor to your kingdom life and to ensure that your life is a reflection of the things in heaven. See, a governor governs on behalf of the king. Oh yeah, so watch this. So you got the governor of the state of Georgia, he should be operating in cahoots with the president or his particular party in the institution of the presidency. Yeah, politics is crazy, but in the end of the day, for an example, the governor receives instruction or proposals from the institution of the presidency, and it is his job to carry those out in the state so that it reflects the desire of the president. In a kingdom, a king appoints governors to do exactly what he says regardless how they feel about it. So we're in the kingdom. The kingdom of God on earth is operated through us under the auspices of the governor, which is the Holy Ghost. So you need the Holy Ghost. And if you don't have him, listen, I want to help you get him. And if you're not born again, I want to help you receive the kingdom. I want to help you receive the baptism in the Holy Ghost. The Bible said when the apostles laid hands on them, they received the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues. I've seen it happen so many times in my ministry. Just show up at church this week. You want to get that man working in you and speaking in other tongues. Let— I want to lay my hands on you until you speak, glory to God, in that heavenly language so that you will have the governor and you have that inward witness of heaven always walking with you. So God blessed them, and then he said— now remember, whenever a king decrees a thing, it's law. So whenever a king says something, it's law. It's law. I'm gonna say that one more time. Whenever a king says something, it's law. I gotta close, man. My time is coming to a close. Oh my God, I had to pick this up tomorrow. But listen to me, I want— let me— one more scripture. Let me keep reading this and then I'm gonna read one more after it. God, I got to get out of here. He says to them, the king decreed it, it's law. When the king says something, that's what it is. So here's what it is. God blessed them and said, be fruitful. Not I'm giving you fruit, but I want you to be fruitful. Oh my God, I want you to be fruitful. In other words, I'm gonna give you seed and I need you to go into the world, plant that seed, and become fruitful. I'm not just talking about sowing seed in the church, although you should give in the church, but he's talking about taking your dominion gifts and talents, going into the world, planting your gifting, your heavenly kingdom gifting into the world so that it can produce para fruit. Watch this. Para is manifested seed that is designed to be eaten or partaken of. So once para comes forth in your life, in your business, others can partake of it and live. Oh my God. He said, be fruitful, multiply, that replenish the earth, subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea, the fowl of the air, and every living thing that moveth. So in your sphere of influence, dominion is rada, right, in Hebrew, control, authority, leadership. So in your sphere of influence, you should be ruling. but you can't do that if you don't start out being fruitful. And you'll never reap a harvest— hear this— in a field where you have not sown. So if you're listening to me and you're having you the gift to be a doctor, you need to sow that kingdom gift into the medical field so that in the medical field we can reap the harvest of your fruit and see kingdom dominion in that field because you sowed there. Instead of walking around trying to do something else, and you're supposed to be a doctor, or if you're supposed to be a lawyer or entrepreneur, whatever your kingdom gift is, you got to sow it. Whether it's in economics, whether it is in crypto or the stock market, whether it's in real estate, whatever your kingdom— oh my God— seed is, you got to sow it in that ground. So you can reap a harvest that others can partake of. And watch this, God can get the glory and the blessing of God can be released on your life. Let's go to Proverbs real quick. Proverbs 10:22, real quick, and I gotta go, I gotta go, man, I gotta go, I got a meeting. God have mercy, I gotta go. Proverbs 10:22 says this: The blessing of the Lord I gotta be on a very important Zoom meeting in 4 minutes. The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich. I promise y'all I'll come back because I gotta finish this. This is day 7, I gotta finish it. I'll come back this evening and I'll finish this up, all right? This evening, about 9 at night, I'll finish this up. And the blessing of the Lord— watch this— it maketh rich. Not your smarts, not the works of your hands. I told you, God made Abraham rich. God can make you rich. You got to yield to the principles of faith that push you into this place of being fat rich. You got to yield to the principles of purity and sacrifice and discipline so God can use the gifts that are in you to bring about rich. But it's the blessing that empowers that. Watch this. And adds no sorrow with it. I gotta close my iPad, y'all, cause I gotta go. Oh my God. Oh my God, y'all. Oh Jesus. Listen, listen, I need you to understand that God has something in store for you that he wants to do. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, I release the blessing on those lives that are listening live or by replay, and I pray, God, in Jesus' name, that they will understand that they are heirs according to the promise. We just scratched the surface of this today. I pray, God, that they will take what they have heard, marinate on it, and even as we come back later tonight at 9 that they will get the rest of this food and walk in the promise according to the promises of Abraham through the blood of Jesus Christ. And we receive it, and we just declare today, me too, us too, in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Hallelujah. God bless your hearts. I love you. Thank you for joining us today. I'm coming back tonight at 9, so I'll see you there. God bless you. Peace. Man, I wanted to finish that. Jesus.