"KINGDOM IMBALANCE" | DR. MIKE WOODS SR | RADAH CHURCH | 16 APRIL 2026

Glory to your name, Jesus. Come on tonight, open your mouth and give him the fruit of your lips. Father, we love you, we bless you. I don't know about you, but I thank God for answered prayer. I believe our praying is not in vain. I believe his ear is forever open to the prayers of the righteous. Hallelujah! I know he heard me. I know he heard us tonight. I need somebody to bless the Lord for his hearing ear and his responding hand. Yeah, he's got a hearing ear, but he don't stop there. He's got a responding hand. He heard us, but he's stretching his hand to respond. I wonder, would you praise him in advance for what's already done? I wonder, would you open your mouth for what's already done? Come on! We give you the glory, God. We give— come on, come on. We give you the glory, God. We give you the glory. Come on, come on. Thank God for his responding hand. You've been praying, but he said, I'm stretching forth my long arm and my strong hand to pull you through, to pull you out, to answer your cry. That's why prayer is so important. The Bible say you have not because you ask not. We have asked tonight, and I know he heard us. Oh, I wish I had a few folk that believe he heard you. Pastor Jeffrey gave you some instruction you to shout in here. I promise you, you ought to obey and open your mouth. Y'all whispering in this place. What y'all are, God whisperers or something? Open your mouth and shout unto the Lord. There's volume on shouting. Open your mouth. Sheba katatabaya, rebaban tatataya, ekata shiantaya. Thank you for your long arm and your strong hand, your listening ear and your responding hand. We say thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Shut that devil, you're a liar. We say thank you, Lord. Shatta manti rebe so beke sai. Lumbesa tatata baya. Shatta banta tatay. Oh God, we give you glory. We give you honor. We say thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Hey, glory. Hey, glory. You've been so good to us. We bless you. Shaka tatamandi ansaya. Can't thank you enough, God. You've been good. Shabba, we give you praise, God. 10,000 shall fall at our right and our left, but it shall not come nigh thee, says the Lord. Oh, glory to God, we receive it in Jesus' name. You know what that mean? They can drop a nuclear bomb right next to your house, but it won't touch you, it won't affect you, it affect your family because the blood is that powerful. It covers you. Shabaka tataya. It's more powerful than nuclear weapons and bombs. It's more powerful than natural warfare. For the weapons of our warfare, they are not carnal, but they're mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Hold. Yeah, we give you the glory, we give you the glory. How bad do you want it? I dare you, thank him in advance for what you've been praying for. The man of God tonight prayed. Some of y'all weren't here, but he prayed for your businesses, your homes, your finances. He prayed that the blessing of the Lord would be accelerated in your life. I need you to open your mouth and give God glory for what he's about to perform. Yeah, I hear you, God. There's about to be a torments. God's about to blow your mind. And the last thing is the greatest pressure, but God said, I'm about to blow your natural mind. Would you give me glory? Would you honor me? Because my credit is good. Praise me now for what I'm about to do. Open your mouth. We bless your name. Thank you for the fire of heaven that consumes doubt. That consumes fear. Shatta man tatapaya. Thank you for the fire of heaven that consumes sickness and disease. Thank you for the fire of heaven that consumes death, that consumes attacks of the enemy. Thank you for the fire of heaven I'm telling you, the fire of God is burning now. Why don't you let it burn up your doubt? Let it burn up your fear. Let it burn up— hey God, every idiosyncratic behavior that causes you to come short, burn it up, God. Burn it up, God. Let your fire burn. Let your fire Burn, burn, burn, burn until we feel better. Burn till deliverance come. Burn, God, until we're whole. Burn until we have the faith to believe we can be millionaires and dominionaires and billionaires. Burn up the doubt and burn up the fear. Burn till our children are delivered. Burn until our family are saved. Hungry for you, God. We're hungry for fire. Let it burn, God. We give you the glory. We give you glory, God. Thank you for your presence in this place tonight, God. Now anoint our ears to hear, God, what you will say to us tonight. Open our spirits to receive what you will say. We bind up every closed spirit and we loose the spirit to be open to receive the living word of God. May we be transformed, shifted into new dimensions of glory and Power. May we take our rightful place, that our very presence on Earth will shift systems, structures, societal norms. We will become the standard for culture and not the other way around. We give you glory for it now, in Jesus' name. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord, for ways made, open doors. Thank you, Jesus. For new territory. And we bless your name. Hallelujah, hallelujah, glory to your name, God. Thank you, Jesus. We bless you, Father. Hallelujah. Just worship him a few moments. We give you glory, Lord Jesus. We magnify your great name, Jesus. We supplement you, we extol you, we lift your name on high, we macrograph you. We say you're the only wise God. It's in you we live, it's in you we move, Father. It's in you we have our being, and we bless your great name tonight in Jesus' name. Come on, clap your hands again, bless the Lord. Hallelujah, glory! Come on, y'all can do better than that. Hallelujah, hallelujah! Glory to God. Wonderful Savior. We give you the glory, God. We bless your name, God. Rebebebe satai. Worthy is the Lamb slain. He's the only wise God. He's perfectly and absolutely wise. It's in him we live and move, have life in him. We give you glory, we give you honor. Come on, lift your voice a few more moments. He's worthy of that. You high and lifted up, Lord. You high and lifted up. Shanto tabantai. Rebe santataba. Somebody in this room is getting free right now. Somebody's children is getting free right now. Your generation is being blessed right now. Le tababanta tatatabaya. The legacy in your belly is being stirred up right now that you'll leave to your children's children. The blessing you are called to be to your family is being stirred right now. I declare if you Open your mouth and believe on him. As the scripture has said, out of your belly shall flow rivers. I declare you shall not die but live and declare the works of the Lord. I was on the couch with my grandson last night and I was holding him and I said, my God, he's 18 months. I love this boy so much. I want to see him become 10. I want to see him be 20 and 30 and 40. And God said, long life, I have satisfied you. If you just trust me, I'll give you a long life. I'll give you continuity. So we rebuke death, we cast death out of the mind. And wah shaka, oh God, and we declare you shall not die. But live, saith the Lord. Iban sa tabai, ikun ta tabaya. You won't get cancer and die. You won't get heart disease and die. Le tamaman ta tabaya. Somebody in here and watching, God said you won't get heart disease and die. You won't get cancer and die. Infirmity will not murder you, but God said with long life If you will serve me, if you will live for me, if you will walk out my purpose, I'll keep you here as long as you keep fulfilling purpose. Oh yeah, Jesus! I don't know about nobody else, but I receive it, God. I receive it in the name of Jesus. We bless your name, God. We bless your name. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Ha! Shemantata! Thank you, Jesus. So good. You're so kind. You're so wonderful. Handadaba satan. Yeah, God is here. God is here. We bless his name. We bless your name, God. Hallelujah. We give you the glory. We give you the honor. Shantete, Bessatai. Oh, Rabba Bande de Debesiai. Glorious King. Ke la manda de dabasatai. Abato koshiai. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Hallelujah. Stu, you can take down channel 12 and 13 for me. Take down that channel with the music. Thank you, Jesus. Clap your hands again and give Give God praise. Hallelujah. Glory to God. He's good. He's good. We love you, Father, and we bless your name. You're the joy and the strength of our life. You remove all pain, misery, and strife. You promise to keep us and never to leave us. You never go back on your word. Yes, God. Yes, God. Yes, God. You are. So we'll worship and pray, and we'll live holy for you every day. You, God, are our all and all. Yes, you are. Thank you, Jesus. Wonderful Jesus. God is so good. Hallelujah. Yes, child. Thank God for Thursday night. Thank you, Jesus. Tonight, glory to God, I'm going to tempt to teach this. And I'm sitting down because I just really want to have a fireside chat with you tonight out of this word. So I'm sitting with you. I'm not sick. I'm sitting with you. A lot of times people think people sit down and preach, something wrong with them. No, I'm good. I'm in good health. Thank you, Jesus. But tonight we're continuing our teaching on balanced. Say balanced. Come on, somebody got it. Say it again. Well, I know y'all a little drunk, okay? Say it with your drunk voice. Say balanced. I know y'all drunk, it's okay. Glory to God, I feel you. Praise God. We read, and, and we won't start here tonight, uh, but I'm going to just quote it for you, that a false balance is an abomination to the Lord. A just weight, Proverbs 11:1, is his delight. So a just balance, or a proper balance, is what he takes joy but a false balance is an abomination. I found it interesting that he puts balance in the class with other things that he calls an abomination. He says abomination for a man to lie with another man, it's abomination for a woman to lie with another woman, it's abomination for man to lie with animals. It's abomination for men who are alive, living, to have intercourse with dead things. It's called necrophilia. It's in the Bible. It's an abomination. It's an abomination to sow discord among the brethren. And it's abomination to be out of balance. All in the same category. And we will never for real, family, take dominion if our life is out of balance and we're operating in abomination. Because if something is abominable, it's detestable, it has been denounced by God. Watch this. When, when God calls something abominable, it says to him that you are ignoring his power because you continue in the abomination. You have chosen— it becomes abominable because you've chosen that that way of life is going to be your way of life. So while we're quick to judge people that lay with animals and people of the same sex. We got to be careful because when it comes to how God looks at us, we're in the same category. All of it is wrong, but what we don't want is abomination to keep us outside of the will of God. So tonight I want to talk about kingdom imbalance, and I want to talk about the things that bring kingdom imbalance, um, and that is self-preservation. Somebody said, nah, I got to preserve myself. But I'm gonna show you tonight where that's not the kingdom way. Matter of fact, that's a counter-course that creates imbalance. When you live in the realm of self-preservation, that's a countercourse that goes against God, and that's a dangerous place. Let me start by saying this: everybody, all of us in this room, we have a purpose, we have an assignment, We have a destiny that God has preordained for our life, right? Everybody uniquely has a place. There's a unique set of things that all of us go through. One, to be qualified to fulfill that destiny, purpose, assignment. But two, to be introduced to the God of our purpose. Purpose. See, you can learn and discover your purpose and never get to know him, and that's a dangerous place too, because you can learn what you're supposed to be doing through education, through observance, and you can create a culture of what you're supposed to be doing because you watch somebody else do it. But when the rubber hits the road Do you really know God? Because the assignment, the purpose, the destiny— I, I don't feel like I need to define those three things because I teach about them so much. But the assignment, the purpose, the destiny, they all are part of God's plan for advancing his kingdom. Notice I said the kingdom and not the church. Your purpose, your assignment, your destiny is not about in here. See, most of the time everybody wants this, right? Most people come to church and they're sitting in the pews wondering when they get their chance to get this. If I can never touch this again and be obedient? I wouldn't. I'm just telling you, I would rather just show up in the world, but I have to obey God. And so every day God renews my joy for my assignment because I do it out of obedience to him, but not after— out of some lofty desire to feel like just because I got the mic and I'm up front, then I'm promoted different than other people. The kingdom is about showing up out there. I don't care how well we do what we do in here. We can't show up out there, we have missed God's plan. And I don't want us to do that as a church. I've determined if, if three folk follow me, I'm gonna teach the truth. What I'm about to share with you tonight, most leaders won't teach you. Some of them know it, they won't share it because it's not in their best interest for you to understand that you need to put the kingdom before them and the church. Are y'all hearing this? So they ain't gonna tell you what I'm about to tell Most of the time, those of us who are called to purpose, assignment, and destiny— here's what happened. I'm going somewhere. I'm just building this slow tonight. That's why I sat down, because I want you to get it. When it comes to these things, most humans— that's you and I— most people never do this because we choose to believe that there's a better way than God's way. And we've tapped into systems because we're born into sin and shaping iniquity. Now, you weren't born doing the big sins. You weren't born committing adultery, fornicating, lying, cheating, all this stuff that they call big sin. But you were born missing the mark. You were born coming short. Are y'all hear me? Because we're shaping in this iniquitous life, we start choosing systems that really are missing the mark and not really the way God wants us to live. When I was growing up, my mama and my daddy told me when I was in school, make good grades. I can get with that, that's important. But they wanted me to make good grades so I can go to college. One, they wanted me to be a great student so they didn't have to pay for college. Are y'all hearing this? Because in their mind, because of the system they have been taught, college was the way I was going to have a stable life. You go to college, get your degree, you're going to get a good job, boy. I never really worked in the fields in which I was trained, except my master's and my doctorate, which is in theology. I've never worked in the dental field really, in— except when I was in the military. The reality is we have to follow what God says, because his way is the right way. Because you can have education and still be very ineffective in life. I know a lot of people with PhDs that don't even have jobs. They trying to find jobs in their field and can't because— not because they're not qualified. I think it's because, especially for the ones I know, God's trying to take their gifting and shift it into a kingdom way of living. Instead of leaning to that comfortable system. Okay, let me tell you why most people think there's a way better than God's way, like a job, like putting everything else in life before God because it's comfortable and it's going to make a way for me. Most time it's harsh conditions. First. People going through. So when stuff is hard, either they gonna find a job so they can make some money, or they gonna get a Glock and rob somebody with some money. Well, at least where I come from, that's what they would do. We can't be found guilty of either one of those. Watch this. You robbing yourself of the joy of serving in the kingdom and the provision that the kingdom releases when you settle for the secular way of doing it. Because the secular way of doing it is against God. To be secular means against God. Look up the word. That's what it means, to be against God. So harsh conditions make us revert to things that God really ain't ordained for us. Here's another one: impatience. Because we don't have an ability to wait on God, we start getting impatient. We want it now. We want— we want to stack that cheese now. We want that bank account to grow now. Are y'all with me? But God says, I need you to learn to wait on me. They that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength and shall mount up with wings like eagles, run and not be weary, walk and never faint. So once God shows up, that's permanent, and you never faint, you never lose, you never go backwards. Okay, let me keep moving. Lack of faith, that's another reason people turn to what's comfortable, what's convenient, because they don't really believe God. Faith is really pistis in Greek, is confidence, persuasion, and reliance on what you cannot see. Is to leave what you can see for what you can't see. You can see that job. I'm gonna mess with you tonight, I'm telling you. Those of you live in here, you can see what that, that you do every day is going to produce at the end of 80 hours, at the end of 40 hours. You see it. But what if you— because I want to shift your thinking a little bit tonight— what if you put them same 8 hours in your own business? Or the kingdom dream that God gave you? How would that produce for you if you believe by faith? I'm telling you, I do it every day. I've been living like this for 36 years. God has been taking care of me. But you know what I do? I clock in every day with the Lord, and I work for him as long as I gotta work, because he told me if I go in the vineyard and work what's right, he'll pay. Now you can't say I'm going to go full-time in my kingdom purpose for God and then you still sleeping all day. That ain't the vaca— that's— it's not a vacation. No, you got to just shift the work ethic somewhere else so God can honor that. But if you say, okay, well, I'm full-time now, I'm gonna sleep to 11. I'm gonna sleep to 1. No, you need to get up at 5. That's like you were going to direct— you gave the man that. Are y'all hearing this? Because you weren't gonna miss that time to clock in. Are y'all here? You put that as pro— matter of fact, you, if you were running late, you wouldn't even pray. You just take your bath, brush your teeth, jump in the car. You'll say a little prayer in the car. Lord Jesus, bless me. That fly-by prayer on the way to work. God says, you got to have enough faith to trust me with my plan. Now here's the final thing why people lean— I'm gonna give you some scripture, just hold on. Someone said, where the Bible at? Where the Bible? It's coming, just hold on. This thing, after harsh conditions, impatience, lack of faith, it also emerges out of a lack of the knowledge of God's plan. See, when you don't know what the plan is, you start making decisions to live in a lower economy, a lower system, a lower structure. First of all, do you agree that the kingdom system is higher than any other kingdom on earth? So we, we can agree on that. Then you ought to be able to agree that that system can also provide for you better than any other kingdom on earth. Are y'all here? Okay, I'm gonna get where I need to be. So when we got these things in the backdrop— harsh conditions, lack of faith, we got impatience, we don't know what the plan of God is, we deviate from the plan. We deviate from the way God really wants us to live, and we start exercising self-preservation. Listen, I'm gonna give you this nugget right here. You gotta always take into consideration that God is aware of everything you face. Okay, I'm trying not to— I gotta sit because this is so heavy. If I stand up, I won't get through it. I need to get through this because I'm gonna just lose it if I stand up and start really talking to you. So let me just give it to you like a teacher and like we having a talk. Amen. Can y'all do that tonight? Just receive. Take notes if you need to. But listen, God already knows what you're gonna face. He's omniscient, which means he knows every single thing. He don't miss nothing. Let me give it— and so I've just been dealing with— I've been really busy this week and I was out of town and got back yesterday, and I was praying about what God is doing with us, this building, right? And Myrna's been texting me and I didn't text her back. It's probably why she came to church tonight. I'm just playing with you. It's just I've been busy. And, and the very thing she was texting me about, I was appropriating this thing in prayer. Then when I got here tonight, Pastor Jeffrey began to pray about it just to put confirmation on what we already know we need to do. And God said, first of all, I want y'all to remember this because it's important to what I'm teaching tonight and why you got to be balanced. We're going to finance this building, but in 12 months, we— somebody say we— are going to pay it off, not Michael Woods. Because what I was contemplating while I was gone, I was like, okay, well, if I go with this company and I end up having to pay it off, it's going to help me better if I just do it this way. Lord said, I ain't told you to do that, negro. I told you that we are going— I'm just talking to y'all how God talked to me, okay? He speaks to me in my That's how he talks to me. I mean, he don't be like, oh son, thou art mine. No, he don't talk to me like that. He said, nigga, you're off and you need to do what I told you because if you go that route, you're gonna rob the people of the blessing I need to release to them so they can have a hand And because if I go that route, I don't even care what y'all do. I, I'll be like, okay, whether they do it or not, it's getting done. But the reality is that's not God's plan. He wants to prosper everybody connected. I'm telling you, you're gonna start getting calls and contracts. You're gonna check your account. Glory to God. Once you make up in your heart, man, I'll give 10 grand to the vision, I'll give 100 grand to the vision, I— once you start thinking like that, the contracts and the things that you need to go forth are gonna just show up without you even praying about it. Because guess what? He already know what you gonna face. So you got a purpose in your heart. Watch this, cause all money has purpose. All money that comes out of God's hand has a purpose. Let me say it like that, cause some money is evil when it gets in the wrong hands. It gets evil. But when God releases a blessing— are y'all here? He has a purpose for that money. So you got a purpose in your heart. God, I'm gonna get on board with what you want to do. So if God's going to use 20 people to pay off a million— are y'all hearing this? Now watch this, I ain't even counting the fact that when we move to Boulder Crest, we going to grow. We going to be busting out of the seams. We going to have 2 services on Sunday morning and then still one at night. That's how much we going to grow. Are y'all hearing this? But the reality is We ain't gonna even be depending on the new people that come. God said the folk that's here— and y'all ain't got to say much— in 12 months we're gonna pay that building off, and then 12 months later we're gonna pay off 33 Acres. Oh, somebody need to give God praise for that. That means that something supernaturally is going to happen for you. Ooh, but you got to shift your balance to trust God in some ways you haven't before, cuz God is always aware. Say, God is aware of everything that I face. Watch this, throughout my life. So that's not a time, even if you don't know what you about to hit that he don't know what you're about to go through. He knows. Why? Because nothing is hidden from him. And when he's getting ready to make provision, he's taken into account already what your kingdom responsibility will be. You think God is just concerned about you paying your bills? He's not. He's more concerned about you advancing the kingdom with the wealth he gives you. As a matter of fact, all of us should be so blessed that every bill we have is on autopay. And you don't even think about it, and the money just coming out every month. And all you're doing is handling kingdom business. All you're doing is blessing other people and blessing the kingdom of God and advancing God's vision. Your bills, you ain't never stressed out about that. You can't do that if you're still operating in the same old system. Because when we're doing that, we're deviating from God's design for provision. It's for the kingdom. And we bring ourselves— and here we go, and I'm about to get into this— into what I call the counter course. It is counterintuitive. It goes against the knowledge of God, the intuition of God, and it is counterproductive. It's a course that causes your life to be out of balance because here you are pursuing the spiritual things and going after God in the realm of God, but yet the other parts of your life are out of balance, is because you have not surrendered that part of your life to kingdom principles. Say the Counter Course. This Counter Course, it causes us to develop really a counterculture culture, because we— culture is your behaviors, right? It's the behaviors that were communicated to you. If you embrace any culture that is against the culture of the kingdom, it's going to create delays, it's going to create— watch this— a closed door. You cannot cross-contaminate— oh my God, contaminate. I'm about to say contaminate, because you cannot cross-contaminate kingdom culture with worldly culture. What fellowship does light have with darkness? See, again, the old preacher took all these scriptures and made it about sin. Yeah, what fellowship the light had with darkness? You're living in sin, stop fornicating. And that's all they knew. I just believe everybody here mature enough not to fornicate, or if you end up falling that way, you know how to get yourself right with God. Yeah, I don't have to come here and preach you off that— out the bed, out the wrong bed. I want you to understand that being broke is darkness. Okay, all right, he got real quiet. Um, it's darkness. It's not God's plan. It's not God's will. And, and again, I'm— I, I love y'all enough that I want to make sure we know what we need to know so we can eliminate that as a part of our testimony. Say that with me. Say, I'll never be broke another day in my life. Come on now, this time I want you to say it like you mean it. Say, I'll never be broke Another day in my life. Now this time, say it like you believe the word. Death and life is in the power of your tongue. Say, I'll never be broke another day in my life. I made that confession 30 years ago, and I can testify I ain't never been broke since then. I say it almost every day, and the kingdom stays open to me. Amen. You got to decide that's going to be your story. Why would you accept anything less than that? And your daddy rich. My natural daddy got plenty money, but I can't do nothing about it. I don't care how much faith I have in him, he ain't releasing nothing. Glory to God. That man ain't going to give you nothing. I love him with the love of the Lord, though. That man ain't going to give me a dime. Listen, I need you to understand, I'm trying to stay sitting down, y'all. I really am. Sound there. Be broke another day in my life. So watch this. When you— I got to stand for a minute. When you, when you resist this— I tried. When you resist God's kingdom way of living, and you start deviating from his plan and tap into this counter course, you open yourself up to a spirit called the spirit of chaos. Now y'all remember when I started teaching about dominion, I told you that chaos is the default setting for all humans. All humans tend to gravitate toward chaos before they gravitate toward order. Most do. That's why we have dysfunctions in our body, because your body is responding to Because see, watch this, sickness is a result of something else. It's a result of dis-ease, disease, dis-ease, a distraction that's got you uneasy about what God's able to do. So you get distracted and then your body responds because it now leans toward chaos. Chaos is the confused, organized state of existing before the creation of distinction. Say, I'm distinct. Say, I'm unique. You cannot have dominion operating in chaos at the same time. When God began to create everything, or recreate Genesis chapter 1 is a recreation. Genesis chapter 1 is not the creation, it's a recreation. Ezekiel 14 happened— he had already created a perfect earth which was designed to be a colony of heaven, an extension of the kingdom. Earth was supposed to be an extension of the heavenly kingdom. Ezekiel 14, pride rolls in. Here we go. And he said, I will exalt myself. See, this is why I want to stand up. This ain't no— I got to give you what's in these notes. He said, I will exalt myself above the Most High. And God said, no, we can't have that. He start leaning toward his personal system. Are y'all hearing this? God said, okay, we're gonna cast you out and everybody want to go with you. Cast him out of heaven, he hit the earth. Genesis chapter 1, verse 2, and the earth was without form. Satan is without form. He comes as an angel of light. He comes as a roaring lion. He's without form. He's void. Are y'all hearing me? He's empty. He'll never have relationship with God. He has no purpose. He has no significance. He's void. Watch this. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. He hit the earth, and the earth now is out of whack. So God comes on the scene, and the Spirit of the Lord moved upon the water. So first thing that has to happen in chaos is the Spirit of God needs to show up, and he declares, let there be light. And the rest of what God does is creating a distinction. Between what is God and what is the enemy. And when he created us, he said, let them have dominion, not be chaotic. But because we come out of chaos, if we're not careful, we'll always revert back to chaos and we'll operate as the church— and this is dangerous— in the spirit of chaos. Chaos is a state of confusion, because if you really sit down and thought about it, you serve a God that heals, you serve a God that delivers, you serve a God that sets free, you serve a God that owns everything last time I checked. It can become confusing if you start thinking about that. My God heals. 'But I'm sick.' 'My God provides, but I got lack.' Are y'all hearing this? 'My God can deliver and set free, but there are generational curses running through my family.' What's the problem? It's imbalance, and we're operating in a chaotic state because we have not allowed the distinct form to settle in our life. The chaotic state has to be brought under the authority of the word. Are y'all hearing this? It's the word that brings it into order. If you are not cognizant, cognizant of God's word, you're subjective and susceptible to erratic disorder every day of your life. The word— say that one. Say the word brings order. See, people find themselves doing strange things to meet their needs when they— oh my God— when they're not susceptible to the word. I just told you, they got a Glock, they'll rob somebody with some money, but they're not susceptible to the word. I know I, I hear these ladies used to be talking about do something strange for a little change. That's crazy. That's because they're not susceptible to the word of God. Are y'all hearing this? Don't do it, okay? No matter how much pressure you get under, don't run up in Bank of America. They're gonna catch you. You're gonna get caught. I'm telling you, I'm prophesying, you'll get caught. So don't do it. Trust God. I mean, I had one of my family members call me one time and was in tears, and bro was like, man, I'm tired of life. I can't get ahead. Nothing ain't working. I'm about to run up in Bank of America. I got my gun. I'm sitting out here right now. I'm about to go in. So first of all, if he really was going to do it, he wouldn't have called me. He really didn't want to do it because that's the first thing I said. I said, Negro, you do not want to rob this bank because if you want to rob, you'd already robbed it. I said, put your car in reverse, drive out of that parking lot and go home. 'Cause you're about to go to jail, 'cause you're gonna get caught. First of all, you in tears, you nervous, you ain't even playing this robbery, but all in chaos 'cause life had him under pressure. Now that's extreme, but just think about the little things in life where you've been under pressure. You might have known somebody was selling their food stamps and you bought them. Okay, okay, y'all pray. She, she green, she don't know. There's a time food stamps wasn't on the card and they gave you the, the paper, and it always was somebody in the hood selling their food stamps. For the low-low. Y'all ain't got to talk to me, okay? I'm guilty. In the past, I done bought some because I was under erratic disorder. Are y'all hearing me? And when you operating like that, you, you will do things out of pressure, man. There were years ago, people were writing faith checks. That's erratic disorder. Don't you write no check you ain't got the money in the bank. They will put you under the jail for that. It's a felony. It's— if it's over a certain amount, it's a felony and you going to jail. But pressure make folk do that kind of stuff. Say that with me. Say it ain't God. Say it's God's will to preserve me. You shouldn't be operating in illegal things. Self-preservation rises up in you when you do that thing. And illegal, again, ain't just that that's illegal according to the law of the land. There are some things illegal according to the Bible. Okay, should I hit that? Yeah, I think I will. Okay, um, Tithing is a kingdom law. You just can't decide on a certain month and you need God to provide. Well, I need God's money. You operating in chaos. It's quiet now. Okay, but that's the truth. The tent is holy unto God. He— you owe it to him. It's his. Holy there means hagios, which means it's separated unto him. So before you get it, it's his. God be counting your 10% before you get your money, because he God, he can do that. Are y'all here? It's just a pinch of what you made. I tell people all the time, they say, I can't afford to tithe, I need this, I need this $200 to go toward my rent. Honestly, you need that because you ain't been paying your tithe. Are y'all hearing this? Because a tither who lives off 90%, I promise you, lives better than a non-tither with their whole check. I'm just— every day of the week. I'm just saying, because it's illegal for you to steal from God. Will a man rob God? We were laughing about Bank of America, but it's just as— it's worse because you go to jail robbing Bank of America, but you cursed with a curse robbing God. Oh God. Okay, so it's like an animal passion. That pushes you to chaos. That human part of you is trying to survive. You have been to a store— let me say this right here— and someone's on sale. You're in one of them low, low, low stores, and there— and it's just people know everything on sale, and everybody shows up, and they going through the stuff Wow, because everybody trying to get the best stuff. There are people done got black— oh, they don't even have much Black Friday no more, but there's a time on Black Friday people don't got hurt trying to get a TV for $100 from Walmart, trampled over folk, and they ain't got but 2 TVs in there for that price. Once them 2 gone, they're gonna sell you the other one for a higher price. That's that animalistic thing that gets you operating in chaos. Go to 2 Peter 1. Let's go, let's go. All right, so I know you've heard it said that self-preservation— I think I got that one there, Stu. Glory to God. It's the first law of nature. Y'all heard that before? Well, that's an old philosophical statement that has been stated for years But it's not true because that nature was defeated by Christ when he overruled sin and death through his death, his burial, and resurrection. You don't have to depend on your flesh no more. You can depend on him. So this is how we're gonna get out of the state of chaos. Let's do it. Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God. I started out with this. You got to know God. You can't just say, I'm walking in grace and peace with God, or the multiplication of it, and you don't know him. The word knowledge here is ginosko, which is perfect or absolute knowledge. Oh God. It's knowledge that is gained through a process by relationship and experiences. So when I'm going through something, I need to learn about God. Well, I'm trying not to stand up, so I gotta know him. We don't just need to know church, we need to know God. That's why I say a lot of preachers won't teach you about really knowing God, because it lessens your dependency on them if you got your own prayer life. Are y'all here? If you got your own study life, your own worship life, you need to know God for yourself. Watch it. So grace and peace can be multiplied. See, I'm not talking about that beginning grace where you got saved. By grace you're saved. That's good, but we want that multiplied throughout our salvation. The word grace is charis in Greek, which means it is a free gift that empowers you to fulfill purpose. So I need that multiplied in my life daily. It doesn't multiply if I don't know God. Are y'all here? I gotta know him. So I behoove you, pray daily, study your word daily. It's hard for people to get up on 5— at 5 on Tuesday, pray, because they don't get up at 5 every day. Okay, all right, because they do that fly-by-ride prayer to work. Lord, bless my day. You be in your car, Jesus, come in and bless my day. That time that your commute is your prayer time. It shouldn't be. You are— he always deserves more than that. When you were dating and you, you were going out on a date, you prepared for that date. Some of y'all went and got new outfits for the date. You knew how to get— you got your hair done for the date, and you were there on time. You were attentive during the date. Why do we just throw anything up at God? Kind of remind me of the little boy who his mama told him, you need to say your prayers before you go to bed. So she taught him how to pray. She got on knees, start praying with him. She taught him, now I lay me down to sleep, pray the Lord my soul to keep me, but that's before I wake, pray the Lord my soul. Taught him that prayer. He started praying, but he got tired of getting down on his knees, so he got in bed one night and just went to sleep. Mama came in and woke him up, said, you didn't pray before you went to bed. I didn't hear you praying. Said, Mama, I didn't have to. I wrote it down. There it is right there. And paste it on the top of his bunk bed above him. So there it is right there. And so now I just get in bed, say, Lord, there it is, and go to sleep. That's not fostering relationship. Are y'all hearing this? You gotta build a relationship with God. Okay, I'm gonna keep reading. According as his divine power have given us all things that pertain to life and godliness. Now this is so heavy here, so stay with me because there's a whole lot of people in church who don't have all things that pertain to life and godliness. They go to church, but they don't have all things that pertain to life and godliness. Some of them might get half of it, they might get the godliness thing, but life they don't get because of imbalance. See, the 'and' there says there needs to be a balance. Not we swing all over out here, deep, wonderful, spiritual, floating, squinting our eyes, but then we come back to this side, we have nothing. He said according to his power. See, knowledge of God gives you an encounter with his power. And once you— that word power is exousia in Greek. Once you encounter his power, he gives you the authority and the trust to walk out all things that pertain to life and godliness. Are y'all here? Shaka tabandi asaya. We give you the glory, God. I want y'all to really think about this for a moment. You should have both sides of the pill. Again, most people want to just get deep. I, I thank God for the deep. Let's launch out. Let's keep getting deep. Let's soar in the spirit. Let's prophesy. Let's see what God sees. But when we come back to this side, let's be balanced in our life. Okay, they pertain to life and godliness through the knowledge of him. There's a knowledge again that has called us to glory. I love this part. And virtue. So the word called is klētos in Greek. Watch this. Klētos is an RSVP individual summons. It's not kaleo, which is a— which is another Greek word for called, which means he outcalls everybody. Klētos means he individually has authenticated every person for assignment, purpose, destiny. Through that assignment, purpose, and destiny, glory— doxa in Greek— and virtue, which is good. So you show up in the world, doxa flows out of you. The world experiences God's glory through what— notice the word glory is lowercase. They experience doxa through you. Not the glory that make them fall out neither. This is glory to make them interested in God. Oh God, because your life looks a certain way, they're interested in serving the God you serve. So let me just give you an example. All the prophetic types in here, most everybody here is a prophetic type. So if you had an opportunity to minister to Oprah, and you and Oprah, you sit down with her, one-on-one, across from her, and you have the opportunity to minister. Will you be more effective with life glory preceding you, or talking about God but not God manifesting in your life? I'm gonna tell you right now, people like that, they'll listen and they'll be nice, but they don't receive. Because in the back of their head, Oprah is saying, you're telling me what God can do and what he's gonna do, but why ain't he did it for you? I'm just— that's just real talk. And you can say, oh, she's arrogant, she sure— no, she's rich. And that's what money do to people if you don't have God. So we're gonna reach people like that. Oh my God, we gotta get some glory. Are y'all hearing this? And I ain't talking about you coming up, she ain't gonna know nothing about what that is. She probably gonna look at you like, what's wrong with you? Can you speak to me in English? Oh, y'all, y'all here. I'm just saying, that's the imbalance we gotta adjust because we gotta reach those kind of people. God promised me that athletes, celebrities, politicians would be connected to this church. You know what makes them connect? See, they need the power of God. And a lot of them will go to a church that's a thousand times the size of ours. Are y'all hearing this? But don't carry what we carry because they don't see the manifestation in the natural, which is why we have to build Rada City. Oh, y'all ain't got to say nothing. We have to present glory in the natural realm as well. Okay, I didn't think this was going to get a lot, but when God was giving it to me, I was like, okay God, yeah, yeah, okay. Whereby are given unto us exceeding and great and precious promises. Somebody say exceeding. Say great and precious. That's so, that's so big. So he said, I want to exceed, number one, whatever you thought I could do. I want to go beyond that. I want to exceed the great and precious promises. In other words, the great and precious promises are available to you, but if you get to know me, operating in my power and my knowledge He says, I'm gonna give you exceeding great and precious promises. Precious promises. Oh my God, I'm gonna exceed the promises that blow people's mind and they wonder how you got that. Some people want to be a wonder because they operate in things of the spirit, but you, you ought to also want to be a wonder in the natural, where people look at your house and wonder, how did you get that 10,000 square foot mansion? Oh, y'all ain't got to talk to me. I want people to ride by Rhoda City and say, how did they build a Dominion Dome? How did they put up a prayer tower? When we was in Vegas, it's so crazy how God confirmed what he was going to do, man. I was staying in a hotel right across from the Stratosphere. Had no idea that our prayer tower looks just like it. I'm looking at one of this thing, I said, architects done looked at this thing and said this is what the prayer tower gonna look like. And God was just confirming. He said, I'm gonna build it. He said, in Ellenwood, people gonna ride by that tower and it's gonna reach to the heavens for God. They gonna wonder How they do that out of that little place? We got balanced. We got to know God for real. God have mercy. I wish I can teach this for like— I feel it tonight, but I'm under instructions to sit down. I've already disobeyed one time. Lord, forgive me. Okay, I'm trying to do what's right because I don't want to keep y'all here all night. He said that by these ye might My God, this is so good. Be partakers of the divine nature. Touch yourself, say, I'm a partaker of divine nature. My God. So, so now you don't have to live out a chaotic nature. You are a partaker of God's divine nature. Mr. Tony, do me a favor, because I'm, I'm just concerned. I'm not worried, but I want you to go out there and call my wife because I don't know why I don't see her, because she was coming. But call and just make sure she good. Say that. Say, I'm a partaker of the divine nature. Glory to God. Do you understand the nature of God? It's all-knowing. All-powerful, all-providing. He is a king. His nature is royalty. He says, I want you to be a partaker of this nature through your relationship with me. Not robbing Peter to pay Paul, not having more month than money. Are y'all hearing this? You shouldn't every month have more month than money and you saved. It's not his will for us. It's a state of chaos when we live in like that. Why? Watch, he tells at the end, because we have escaped the corruption that is in this world through lust. Because watch this, we don't lust after money, we don't lust after wealth. As people of God, we don't lust— sheba kalamandi ansaya— after prosperity and popularity and to be— have our name in lights. No, we go after God and he gets the glory for everything. But the corruption of the world's wealth is all about them. But listen, God wants us to be wealthy. So he can get the glory out of our life. Are y'all with me? Hallelujah. So this text that I just read, the Apostle Paul is sharing us in our minds, because it's a mindset. Say the one who said money, wealth is not currency. Say, my mind is. Let this same mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. Are y'all with me? You gotta embrace the mind of Christ. Thank you, Jesus. He's letting us know that we got to regenerate our mind. And when you regenerate our mind Going back to defeating chaos, it gives us a distinct form. See, we get the distinction by operating out of his mindset. When we operate out of the wrong mindset, that's chaos. We can escape the corruption, we can be restored to divine order. Go to Psalm 4. I'm almost done. Because I want to show you a couple of options outside of the countercourse. I skipped a whole lot, but I got to get through. So I got options. Say, I don't have to go against God. Say, I can live for God and in God. Maybe I don't have this one. Proverbs 4:10. Let me just read it, and you can go to it if you got it. He's— there it is right there, 4:10. He says, hear, O my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of thy life shall be many. So wait a minute, selecting the right option also connects to how long you live. The continuity of your life. He said if you receive what he's saying, he said the years of your life will be many. Because again, I said earlier, God, as long as you are doing purpose, you're necessary. Listen to this, the reason your heart is beating, because purpose, destiny, and assignment that's going to come out of you, the glory that's going to come out of you, it's necessary. Touch yourself and say, I'm necessary. Oh, time out. You necessary. Every morning you wake up and you feel that pulse, I want you to remember the necessity of your life. And if you walk out purpose, you'll live. Anything that kills you before you finish your course because you're on a counter course— anything that kills you before time is murder. You can get a counter course living on the stress, eating all the wrong stuff and food. Will kill you. Are y'all hearing this? Because you're on the counter course and you're stressed out, so your eating habits are bad. God says, no, I want you on course. I want you to live a long time. So we got to get on the kingdom course. He says, I've taught thee in the way of wisdom. I've led thee in the right paths. That's good. That means I gotta constantly also take the position of a learner. I gotta constantly listen to wisdom. When I'm teaching you stuff, one or two things are occurring. I'm teaching under the auspices of the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, or I'm teaching wisdom that I've learned, that he has led me to teach. Either way, you need to sit under people who are not afraid to transparently give you wisdom. Are y'all hearing this? Wisdom is the proper use of knowledge. Hakmah in Hebrew, it means I take where I've been, give it to you, so when you come up against something that looks like that You use my wisdom so you don't have to go through what I went through. I tell preachers this all the time. God is— it's so many preachers I minister to. God, if I could fill up the church with pastors and leaders I talk to, we really wouldn't have room to put people for real. But the reality is, I talk to people all the time about their struggles in their flesh. And I'd use transparent wisdom because I've been there before. Are y'all hearing me? Okay, y'all looking at me funny. I, I've been there before. Thank God for deliverance. A person that commits adultery is a person who gets married and never was delivered from fornication. I was him. I thought monogamy would cure— y'all ain't got to talk— the need to keep having sex with different people. It didn't. Now, I ain't— I, this marriage, that hasn't happened, okay? Because my wife crazy and I'm scared of God. So I'm scared of two people. I'm not doing it. Glory to God. I don't care how tempting it is, cuz even today, cuz your old friend can show up. You just— you ain't got to embrace them. Are y'all hearing this? I mean, people slide in my DM. That what they call it? And I blocked them immediately, because if you come wrong in my DM, you, you're following me for the wrong reason. Just recently, some— this little young girl, I think she's about 36-ish. First of all, I'm 20 years older than you. 20, whole 20. Okay, but she attends the church I did revivals for in the past, and she's watching my TikTok videos and liking all this stuff. And I knew of something wrong with all that she was doing, so I kept ignoring this chick. I'm like, okay, I'm not gonna say nothing. She was sending me little messages in the TikTok Messenger. I ain't say nothing until one day she said, okay, I'm gonna make this negro say something to to me. She sent a picture with her with nothing but the items they sell at Victoria's Secret on. Y'all know what those are? Bra and panties. And under the caption it said, 'All you see, you can have.' I looked at it, I said, 'The devil is a liar.' I blocked her immediately. I didn't even say nothing there. I said, you still ain't gonna make me say nothing, because what I'm not gonna do is entertain this, because I— it ain't her, it's the devil. But I declare I'll never go back to what God delivered me from. Are y'all hearing this? I can't. Same way with being broke. I can't go back. I've been delivered from broke. Oh yeah, y'all ain't got to talk to me. I've been delivered from not having enough. I cannot go back. Are y'all with me tonight? So I was saying, I talked to a lot of preachers and I transparently talked to them about wisdom on how I made mistakes. So y'all don't do that. Stop counseling these women in the office by yourself. Stop going to these women's houses because they tell you they need prayer at night. Don't go. I done fell for every trick. Oh God, I need prayer. I'm hurting. I'm about to take this whole bottle of pills. Send a picture with the pill pulled out on the bed. I'm about to take these pills. I'm stupid. Okay, show up at the house, no pills nowhere, but I see that lingerie. It was a trap the whole time. And this was way back then. Now don't say that ain't now, that ain't happening now, because you're gonna get rebuked. You send me a picture with a negligee. I'm just telling you right now, that's, that's not happening. But, but it's just, it's crazy because God will take me through so I can help other people from falling in that regard. And after this Apostolic book, I got another book coming right behind it, calling them, called The Mystery of Dominion. We've been teaching on that, but that third book It's going to be called The Chronicles of a Cheater. So all the wisdom about how I was in that life is in that book. And for those of you that trapped me, your name in the book too, because a lot of times people blame the man, even though I should have been strong enough. But women— okay, that's all. Okay, I'm sitting down and still going off. Let me keep going. You got to be careful, man. So he said, I taught you in a way of wisdom, I've led you in the right paths. And I'm a witness, he'll do that. And when thou goest, whether it's in moral issues or financial issues, he said, when you go, thy steps shall be straightened. Oh, say, my step shall be straightened. That's why I can block them, them, that chick on TikTok, because my steps are straight. Glory to God. Ain't nothing worth me going to hell. There's a time I couldn't say this, man, but you could put me right now, right now, and I'm saying this in the church before God and y'all, you don't put me in the room with Beyoncé, man. And every grown man know Beyoncé is fine. I don't care if you say it or not, she is fine, period, right? Okay, do you not? Okay, all right, okay, man. Pastor Jaffrey Stu, yeah, yeah, come on, thank you. I know Zion is over there, but she fine, dog. And here's reality, God knows We see that, but at the end of the day, I can't lust after that. And you can put me in a room with her and I'm gonna walk out. I'm just telling somebody, said, Woods, you lying, man. You can— but I'm just telling you right now, I'm walking out because I need God. And it's not because I really just might want to walk out. Okay, because first of all, the Bible said any man drawn away is drawn away of his own lust. So if I end up there, it's because something drew me anyway. But it says sin comes forth when it's full grown. So when that lust grows, you end up in sin. And sin, when it's full grown, it brings forth death. So I will walk out before the sin kills my connection with God. God has been too good to me to let him down in that regard. That's why I can't see how all these preachers stand the news about stuff they got going on. It tells me they really don't know God. That goes back to it, because the Bible says impossible for you to have tasted him and been enlightened by him and fall away. If you really taste him, you ain't gonna do nothing to hurt him. You, you gonna work hard not to break his heart because your feet are straightened by the taste. Glory to God. Oh boy. See, the desire to sin means that sin it's still tasteful to you. You got an appetite for it. Father, in the name of Jesus, I declare tonight that the taste of sin be removed from our lives. And Father, I pray that every person watching or in person, those that have not tasted you and have not been enlightened by you Enlighten them, God, and may they have a taste of you. Your word says, oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. There it is in the same form. Taste him and see. Be enlightened. May their eyes be enlightened by who you are. David said, thy word have I hid in my heart. You're looking at somebody that knew the word, that knows the word. Even when I was in sin, knew, know the word better than most, but it wasn't hid in my heart. Oh God, have mercy. And if we want to correct the imbalance, the chaos, we got to bring that crap under the subjection of the word. He said, when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble. Take fast hold of instruction. Again, there's that position of a learner. Again, let her not go, keep her, for she is your life. Enter not into the path of the wicked, go not into the way of evil men. Stay away from folk that's doing the stuff you want to do. Watch this, stay away from folk that's compromising the kingdom. Again, this sin piece is not just about sinning in the big sins. It's missing the mark. Stop entertaining folk that's poor-mouthing. All they do is speak low, talk down, live down, low down. God said you got to separate yourself from them folk. Listen, folk are talking negative, I distance myself immediately because I don't want that going in my ear gate. Are y'all with me? I'm almost done. He says, go not the way of evil men, avoid it, pass it not by, turn from it and pass away. He said, in other words, live your life till death, pass away, avoiding evil. Avoiding wickedness, avoiding imbalance. So that's, that's one scenario. All right, here's the other one. Proverbs 21:2: Every way of a man is right in his own eyes. Oh God, but the Lord pondereth the hearts. Proverbs 21:2, there it is. So everybody think they right in their own eye, but what does the Lord see when he looks at you? 'Cause watch this, even our friends and those close to us can often tell us what we want to hear, but your ear should be to God's mouth. What does he say when he looks at us? Oh, we're imbalanced. See, we live for everybody else. And watch this, many times self-preservation, we live for ourselves. Everything is right in your eyes. That's a countercourse because now you're trying to please your flesh. But we should live for the audience of one. God and him alone. Who cares what somebody else thinks about you? I— when I got home from out of town yesterday, I was, I was tired. And you know, me and my wife, we work on our marriage because marriage is work. If you get married, it's work. I don't care who you are. You can be the Pope. The Pope get married, he going to work because it's a two-person company. You have to work on it every day. So when I got in, she wasn't there. I got in and just kind of start adjusting, wait for her to get there. She came in with my grandbabies and she said, something's— it's hot upstairs, something's going on with the air. And then she can meant to tell me who she called to see about the air. So instead of me trying to just listen through to what she was saying— are y'all hearing this? I said, oh, why you call them about the air and you could just call me? It was her trying to be independent and helpful. It wasn't so much that she was doing that, it was who she called. Are y'all hearing this? Now I have a problem with my brother-in-law. He does heating and air. He came to the house today and fixed it. She called him second after she found out what the problem was. That was her way of making sure she told him less. And I really still should have been okay, but because I was tired and I, I was like, okay, I don't know how to receive this because this person's gonna be thinking I'm calling them about something in my house. She called her ex-husband. Who is a heating and air person. Are y'all hearing this? And I was like, uh-uh, I don't want this dude thinking I don't know how to run my house. But the motive of it was she was just trying to be helpful. So I just kind of let it go. I was fussing all the way up the steps and said You know, I'm done, it's over. Okay, whatever. But I had to repent to God. Are y'all hearing me? Because she was just being helpful. She ain't thinking about this dude. She trying to make sure I'm not hot. Are y'all hearing this? He had the knowledge, but me in the mood trying to be insecure. You know, because— and then I thought about it, like, why are you even mad about that? The air fixed. But listen, I was for a minute right in my own eyes Are y'all hearing this? Because I'm the man of this— I didn't say that because if you got to declare you the man of a house, you really ain't. But I'm saying to myself, I should have got the first call. But she was just trying to be a helpmate to make sure I wasn't hot. Yeah, yeah, so I throw myself on the bus for y'all. You, you gotta learn to own your stuff. Are y'all hearing this? Let's go to Matthew 16:24-27. Let's look at some more of it. I'm almost done, I really am. What time is it? Quarter to 9. I'm going way too long. But I've been here since 6, so some of y'all didn't get here to 7, so I've been here. Praise God. Matthew 16, let's read. He said, then Jesus said unto his disciples, if any man will come after me— here we go— let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it. I think I read this Sunday too. For what is a man profit if he shall gain the whole world and lose his soul? That's powerful. I'm gonna come back to it. Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? For the Son of Man shall come in the glory of his Father— I love this— with his angels, and then he shall reward every man according to his works. So Jesus is making it clear to everybody that reads this scripture. First of all, you gotta deny yourself, take up a cross. Following him is not easy. Are y'all hearing this? I'm talking about following him for real. There's a cross you have to bear every day. He said, take my yoke upon you, learn of me, for the yoke is easy. Easy. The lessons are easy that he's going to teach, but actual discipleship is hard. Are y'all hearing this? Okay. He says if you save your life, you're gonna lose it, so give it up. Stop trying to pave your own way. He's making it clear, very clear, that it does not pay. Go to the next slide. I think I got that. To pave your own way. That's what he's saying in that verse. We can't build your own steps, set your own networks, open your own doors. Follow him and let him open them. I'm a witness, he will. Glory to God. So the plan is we seek him. Trust him. Hallelujah. And he does the rest. That's all it is. Having faith with works is what we should have. Faith without works is dead, right? So we got to apply what we learn. That's what he's saying in text— what we learn from him, not your own work. Works. Y'all getting this? Are y'all learning something tonight? I hope so. So we got to make application of the instruction. Information, revelation without application is constipation. I don't care how deep the revelation is, how profound the revelation is, if you don't apply it. It doesn't matter. Are y'all here? Yes, sir. There's a distinct difference between the spirit of continuity, which is what we've been talking about— continuing your life in purpose and balance— and the spirit of self-preservation. Spirit of continuity perpetrates the righteous principles of the kingdom. The spirit of self-preservation desires only to reproduce what your selfish ideology wants to produce. You got to decide you want to produce what he wants. You can't be giving birth to stuff just because you put your name on it and it's going to preserve your name. It's just like a man that adopts the ideology, well, I'm gonna get as many women pregnant as I can. Just so I can leave my name in the earth. How stupid is that? Because first of all, those children are not going to get the benefit of continuity. First of all, he's not going to be able to be in all of their lives. They're going to have different mothers teaching them different things, which is going to affect the family line. So you got to make sure you're birthing what God sent. Oh my God, quality of life of those children are compromised because of that reproductive technology. So we got to watch what we're reproducing. It's my job to sow spermatic word in you through the taught word so that you can reproduce dominion in your sphere of influence. That's what I'm here for. If you don't apply it, let the seed grow, it'll never get done. See, the man produced a quantity of children with his name, but he did not produce a quality of life for those children because he brought— you got 10 different baby mamas and you can't hardly take care of yourself, the quality of life for those children are going to be rough. It's going to be rough. And then you leave a poor heritage. You leave no inheritance. The way you leave an inheritance for your children's children, you got to be doing the right thing. See, because when you pursue a counter course outside of God it introduces a curse. I think I got that, dude, so they can see it. Well, just, just stay right there. Thus saith the Lord, cursed be the man that trusteth in man. So you can't trust in your own way, you can't trust in other men, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departs from the Lord. He said cursed. If you put an O in front of the C, it's coursed or course. You take the O out, it's cursed. So the curse is the counter-course. So when you, when you get on a counter-course, you remove that O, you remove God, you remove his, his foundation, you renew his omniscience, his omnipotence, his omnipresence. From being in control of your life, and now you start operating under a curse. Y'all see that? And it makes things hard because your heart is pursuing what's in the flesh. The word cursed is arah, A-R-A-R, and it means— watch this— to denounce as detestable. Detestable, same thing as abomination. So if there's a curse on you, it's abomination. I'm just trying to close this correctly. God says we have to align ourselves with what he desires. Say that word. I gotta align myself with what he desires. Let me just, let me just read it like the Lord gave to— this implies that a man who does such things has a poor quality of character in the eyes of others. I told you the glory has to show up. So when people look at you, they need to see God's glory on your life. They, they need to see that you're serving God for real and that his promises are being manifested in your life. You endanger your heritage when you don't do this. Last scripture, go to Psalms 49, verses 6 through 13. He said that he should still live forever and not see corruption. Oh boy, says God's will for me not to see corruption. For he that— oh my God— wise— oh my— he, he that's— for he that seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish and leave their wealth to others. So when you live under this curse, you don't leave inheritance again to no one else. Their inward thought is that their houses should continue forever. That's the wrong scripture. That's got to be the wrong scripture. It might be, it might be a different translation I'm reading. I'm reading NIV. That's probably King James. Let me read that one. He said none of them can by any means redeem his brother nor give a ransom for him. Glory to God. So you can't help nobody if you ain't blessed. If you're out of balance, you can't bless nobody else. Are y'all with me? He said, well, the redemption of their soul is precious and ceaseth forever. That he should still live forever and not see corruption. For he that seeth wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish and leave their wealth to others. In other words, what you build should go to your family line, to your lineage. Their inward thought is that their houses should continue forever and their dwelling places to all generations. They call their lands their own names. Oh boy. Nevertheless, being man, being in honor, abideth not. He is like the beasts that perish. This their way is folly, yet their posterity approved their sayings. Posterity is their posture, so they're taking credit for everything that God's doing. Oh boy. So that means we can't take credit for what God wants to do. It's out of balance to think that you're doing this alone. This scripture says even if you build it by yourself, you can't leave it to anyone effectively because God's name is not on it. Because watch this, the first heaven and the first earth is gonna pass away. And anything erected that's not in the name of God is going to pass away with it. Go to the next slide, Stu. I'm almost done. 1 Corinthians 15:33: Be not deceived, evil communication corrupt good manners. Let me just tell you what communication means. It's from the Greek word homilia. And it means companionship, intercourse, associations, or company. So most people succumb to what the crowd is doing. We're following the crowd, and it may not be good company. The crowd may not be aligned with God. Evil communications, evil company corrupt good manners. You can't hang around everybody. You got to follow the cloud, not the crowd. Every time the cloud moves, you should move. Are y'all hearing this? Next slide, Stu. I'm almost done. Keep going. There's a definition. Y'all want to take a picture? There it is. I didn't even have to get my iPad, I had it in the notes. Next slide. Here we go, this is the last one. If we become the type of people who— whose ambitions outweigh our anointing to accomplish things for God, we will truly become imbalanced. What does that mean, Michael Woods? That means your external reach is greater than your internal capacity. You're reaching for something you're not anointed to handle. Ambition will cause you to try to do something you ain't anointed to do. And one thing before I start talking, when God starts showing me Raleigh City and moving out of this place, one thing I want to make sure is I had the anointing, the grace to finish it. So I spent time with God. I said, God, you know I ain't got no ambition for this, but I need to make sure I have the anointing. To finish this assignment. He made it clear, son, you can finish it. So you got to make sure the things you're going after, you have the grace inside of you to finish them. Y'all stand. I'm done. I pray y'all got something out of this tonight. Hallelujah. We're gonna pray. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Just close your eyes for a moment, and I want you to think about the areas— just be honest with yourself, just based on this teaching. Where you could be better balanced. The areas where you know you need the glory, the, the doxa, the wealth, the splendor, the illumination, the intelligence of God to shine through your life in the world. God wants us to be balanced so we can advance his kingdom. I want you to be honest with yourself about the countercourse that you may have been on. Thank you, Jesus. Just think about it a moment. Thank you, Jesus. God wants to bring us into balance so he can trust us with more. The little fox is spoiled the vine. It may be a little thing. God wants to make an adjustment in that thing in your life tonight. So Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you, we give you glory, we give you honor, even as we're bringing those things that are out of balance to the forefront of our mind. Whether it's slothfulness, lackadaisical thought processes, negative thinking, doubt, fear, mismanagement of money, whatever it is, God, that has us out of balance. Gossip, behavior, moral behavior issues. God, I pray tonight that you will eradicate that chaos. Give us a distinct form in you. Give us clarity of forward movement so we can see and not see, hear and not hear. So that we can show up in the world and the world will be different because we showed up. Thank you for the influence that you're going to cause us to bring. Thank you that those watching and those he— here in person, God, you're raising us up to be people of dominion for real. It's not just verbiage, it's not just a euphemism, God, it's reality as we apply what you're Saying to us, we will take dominion for real, and we give you glory for that now. Thank you that the days ahead will be filled with balance, and no weapon formed against our life will prosper. We break every curse tonight that has opened up in our life because we got off course. We start trusting in a cursed system, a cursed way of living, a cursed way of doing. But God, you have redeemed us as royal children, and we'll walk out your plan, your purpose, your destiny for our life. In Jesus' name, amen. And thanks be to God. Come on, give God praise. Come on. Come on, give God praise. Come on, I need you to give him glory. Give him glory. Come on, thank God for balance tonight. Come on, open up your mouth for a few moments. God, we thank you for balanced living. Hallelujah. We don't want to be detestable. We don't want to live in abominable ways, Lord, for you said a false balance is an abomination. But we want to have balance in the church, balance in our finance, balance in our church, balance in our home, balance everywhere we go. In the name of Jesus, we declare it to be so. Amen. Clap your hands again and bless him. We're going home. I want to give really quick. Let's give tonight. Um, one of the reasons I ain't answer murders because I wanted to make sure again we are participating in the process of this building. She sent me a text about the survey and what else was it, the survey and appraisals and appraisal that we have to get done. So tonight I want you to make your very best sacrifice. Please do not use PayPal. Our PayPal is malfunctioning, and since Elon Musk took over PayPal. They're charging way too many fees, so we had to take that off. We got another way and we're gonna replace it with another way, so we'll still have 5. Glory to God. But get your best seed. I need you to make a sacrifice tonight. I want you to pray about it. I don't want you to give haphazardly. Even those of you online, if you're watching online, write the ways of to give in the comments. So the people online can give. And so we're going to move in this building at 3060 Boulder Crest Road, and I'm telling you, we're going to pay it off in 12 months once this loan is closed, and God's going to get the glory. Oh, there's— thank you, glory to God! Somebody tell the Lord thank you for that. Hallelujah! It's going to be an amazing thing. It starts now. The sowing that we're doing now is setting us up for the harvest God's going to begin to give us throughout this process. I'm telling you, some of you about to see money you ain't never seen before. I, yeah, I need you to receive it for real, man. It's about to happen. And I'm telling you, it's not for you to squander and take a trip to Dubai and Hawaii is for you to advance the kingdom. You gonna be able to do those things too, but God's gonna bless you. You just got a purpose in your heart. God, I want to give $100,000 to the vision. If you purpose that, God will give you a million so you can tithe that $100,000. But you got to get in your heart for real. So Father, bless every gift tonight, and every giver, give it back to them a thousand times times more, and we praise you for it. Thank you that we shall not lack a thing. We decree and declare that Rother Church has everything it needs. Thank you that every bill is paid. Thank you, God, that that building is already secured, is already ours. The money we'll need for a down payment is already in place. We decree and declare your prospering the way of your people. Oh God, and we give you glory, and provision is already being made in the mighty name of Jesus. We thank you for it, in Jesus' name, amen. Glory to God. Y'all stand, we're going. Bless, bless us, God. Indeed, enlarge our territory. Go to the next slide. I think I got something there. I, I put it in. Yeah, listen, you could pre-order your copy of this book. I feel comfortable letting you do that now. We almost there. Talk to the printers last— matter of fact, talk to them again today, actually. So we're, we're almost there. So if you want to pre-order, scan the QR code on the screen. We'll leave it up as you're going out. But this book book. It's going to be life-changing. Again, the apostolic dimension is the keys to unlocking the blueprint for dominion. Then after that, we're going to talk about the mystery of dominion in the next book. So these two dominion pieces are going to be a blessing to your life. So go ahead and pre-order your copy now. Uh, everybody that pre-orders is going to get a hardback copy. When the hardback comes out with the paper bag. The hardback is going to be slightly higher, uh, than the price is being offered at now. But get your book ordered. Amen. All right, Father, we give you praise, we give you glory, we thank you. This is the day that you have made, and we rejoice and we're glad in it. As we go from this place, may your spirit go before us, make our way smooth, successful, and prosperous. Thank you for this people. Thank you for this word. May it land on the good ground of our heart, that we may reap it in due season if we faint not. Thank you that what's to come is better than what has been. In Jesus' name, amen and amen. Listen, see y'all Sunday. Bring somebody to church with you. Glory to God.