Kingdom Masterpieces: God's Magnum Opus | DR. Mike Woods, Sr. | 15 MAY 2025

Well, praise God, everyone. Grace and peace be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I pray you're well tonight. Uh, welcome to Thursday night. We're super excited to be here as usual, always excited to teach the word of God, and in particular, always excited to share with, uh, people who are hungry to receive the word. You know, one of the, one of the facts about social media, uh, how you scroll, how you interact, how you engage, what you watch, what you listen to, says a whole lot about what you're trying to accomplish when you have your device you're in front of your TV, whether you're engaging in any kind of way with social media, what you're doing actually is the indicator of what you're looking for when you actually come onto these platforms. So tonight I'm grateful for hungry people, uh, that are joining us from all over the world. Glory to God. We're streaming from 3 different platforms. We're streaming from Facebook, 3 times. We're streaming from YouTube and we're also streaming from Instagram. So however you're joining us, I need you guys to do me a favor and share. Let's get the word out tonight. This is going to be a phenomenal word. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. I want you to hear this. It's going to be a phenomenal teaching, and I believe that after we are done tonight, you're going to be empowered to really maximize your potential to operate at a high level of kingdom advancement. So please guys, get this word out. Uh, on the screen, uh, you should see a link. Glory to the name of God. If you will click that link down in the comments, you should see it on Facebook, Instagram, you should see it on YouTube as well. Wherever you're watching, you can click that link. And what we've done, uh, in advance tonight, the study notes for tonight's teaching have been uploaded to our website. Click that link and you can immediately have access. Just as soon as you click it, you're going to see the notes. You can download them so that you can go back later and study, so that you can follow along tonight, however you want to use that material. Glory to the name of God. Outside of going out and plagiarizing it and writing a book from it or something, it's, it's yours. Glory to the name of God. To edify, to grow, and to increase. Glory to God. Man, I love you guys. Welcome tonight. Uh, so glad that every single one of you are here. Uh, God bless you, Pastor Jasper. Uh, good to see you. Good evening to you and your family. Glory to the name of God. God bless you, Minister Tanya, our worship leader. Good to see you tonight. Glory to the name of God. God bless you, Stephanie. I believe if we had an awards banquet for the— glory to the name of God— uh, most attended live, I think Stephanie at this point would be the person that is the front runner. She's on every live teaching, and most of you are. But I'm telling you, whether it's noon, uh, she sees that text and she jumps in and she engages. So thank you, uh, Stephanie, for being here. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. Do like Pastor Jasper, guys. Please share. Let's get this word out. Glory to God. Glory to God. Hallelujah. God bless you, Apostle Michelle. Good to see you. So glad you're here tonight. Praise God. As, as usual, always good to fellowship with you. Glory to the name of God. Uh, God bless you, Bruce. Good to see you, sir. Uh, God bless you, Lakita. Good to see you. Welcome everybody. That's another person from Vicksburg, Mississippi. So we love all of you. Please do me a favor, family, share this message. Again, I'm telling you, it's gonna— it's very intentional how the Holy Spirit gave this to me. And again, it's going to be very deliberate. It's going to throw some, some value at you tonight. And I pray that as you receive this you'll have a mind to run out and really, for real, guys, do the things that you hear. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. Let's pray tonight. Father, we love you, we give you glory, we give you honor, we give you praise. God, you're good, you're kind, you're wonderful, you're mighty. God, beside you there is no other. It's in you we live, it's in you we move, it's in you we have our being. You're the joy and lifter of our head. You're the strength of our life. You're our provision. You're our way our way over. And God, we bless you. We thank you for your goodness. We thank you for your mercy. We thank you for your grace. God, you said in your word, you sent your word and it healed them. So we thank you that the word has enough power to heal. So even as we teach tonight, in the name of Jesus, Father, we decree and declare that healing and deliverance will occur, breakthrough will occur, victory will occur in the lives of your people. And we give you praise and glory for it now. Now, in the mighty and holy and matchless name of Jesus, we pray. Amen and amen. Oh my God, I feel Jesus. Glory to God. Again, family, do me the kind favor, uh, whether you're on Instagram, whether you're on Facebook— we're on 3 Facebook pages— whether you're watching us on YouTube, that's a total of 5 platforms we're streaming to. However you're watching, glory to the name of God, uh, Please be nice, share this teaching, because it's— listen, it's just nice. Glory to God to be nice. Glory to the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We love him. He's a good God. He's a mighty God. Why don't you take a moment, just give him some glory, give him some praise. We bless him, we honor him, we thank him for his goodness. We thank him. Come on, Zion, just begin to thank him for his grace. We praise him for all that he is. God, you're good. God, you're mighty, and we extol you. We makrograph you. We supplement you. We give you glory tonight in the name of Jesus, and we thank you for your miraculous power. We thank you for your anointings that destroys yokes and removes burdens. Cast the devil out of every mind and break down every stubborn will. And we declare tonight that even as your people come in, they will have a mind to receive, God, and they will have a mind to not only hear but to do what they hear and we give you praise for that in advance in the mighty name of the Lord Jesus Christ. God, you're worthy. Hey, glory to God. God, you're mighty and you're, oh, your ways are far past finding out. Glory to God. We bless you and we honor you. We bless your name. Glory to God. Woo, I feel Jesus, man. I'm telling you, anytime he's around, he's worthy. To be praised. He's worthy to get the glory. He's worthy, hallelujah, to receive the honor. He's worthy to be exalted. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We bless you. We honor you, God. God is so good. He's a mighty God. Hallelujah. All right, tonight let's jump into this. Glory to God. Tonight we're talking about Kingdom Masterpieces, and we're still in this series Well, we're talking about after Jesus's passion. A few weeks ago, we celebrated the passion of Jesus Christ, uh, his death, his burial, his resurrection. That's his passion. Glory to God. He was passionate about fulfilling that purpose. Now, the Bible says that after his passion, he showed himself alive for 40 days with infallible proof. Teaching the things of the kingdom of God. So in that same spirit, because I believe that after the resurrection, after we experience and encounter Jesus in our lives for real, I believe, family, that there is something we ought to be doing with this resurrection power. It's not enough to just have good church. It's not enough to have meetings as usual, but we ought to be showing up in the world And the world literally ought to be shifting and transforming because we are there, and we ought to be taking our rightful place in dominion as Kingdom citizens. We ought to be the proof. Glory to God. That's why Jesus said he showed himself 40 days. 40 is a number of supernatural probation. It's a number of checking in and inspection. So I want you to really understand that what we've been doing over the— since the resurrection. All of these teachings are designed— hear me— all these teachings I've been doing, again, you got to love the word to listen to me. You cannot listen to me and not love the word of God, because at the end of the day, I'm going to challenge you toward application, because this thing should be real. So really, I want us to really literally become for real walking encounters walking proof in the world that Jesus actually lives, which means we should be taking our rightful place of authority and dominion. And glory to God, lives should be changed, breakthrough should be happening. Listen, people should be getting, uh, delivered from systems and structures and ways of living that God did not ordain. Amen. So tonight In that spirit of kingdom teaching, glory to God, we're talking about kingdom masterpieces. And I just really want to remind you or introduce you to the fact that you are God's magnum opus, which means you are God's masterpiece. Magnum opus, masterpiece. You are his best work. Glory to God. His best work wasn't creating the heavens and the earth. No, glory to God. His best work was when he created man, when he created you and I, when he sent us to this planet. And I need you to understand, from the beginning, you are a finished work. Glory to God. Uh, he's not glory, trying to finish you up. You just got to tap in by revelation and relationship with him to who you really are. But God is already finished with you. You know, people say, be patient with me, God ain't through with me yet. That's not a true sentiment. I know it sounds good, it's convenient, glory to God, to say Well, I need you to understand something. God is through with you. Matter of fact, he— before the foundation of the world, he finished his work in you. Glory to God. He— the Bible said before you were formed in your mother's belly, he knew you. And the Bible said to whom he foreknew, he did also predestinate. Romans 8. So he not only foreknew you, but he pre— before you got here. Pre means before. He called— he destined where you're going. He, he created it in— he— oh my God, he knows where you are, he knows where you're going. The key is we got to catch up to what God has already finished. Matter of fact, tonight I need you to rub your belly. Glory to Jesus. And say, I'm already finished. Glory to God. See, again You got people, oh, please be patient with me. It even got little children singing, please be patient with me, God is not through with me yet. Listen, let's stop the children from saying that. That ain't true. God is finished. We just have to catch up to his eternal work because we're born in sin, shaping in iniquity. Glory to God. So we operate a lot in iniquitous systems and structures and constructs that influence and guide our lives. And so we feel like the perfected, completed, mature work of Christ is not already done, but it is. You just got to align with it. So I want to submit to you tonight, you are God's— oh my God— magnum opus. Let's go to Ephesians 2:10. Let's lay the foundation for this thing, man. Hallelujah! Glory to God! The Bible says, for we— and I'm reading out of the New King James Version— it says, for we are his workmanship. Stay with me, family. Created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God— watch this— prepared beforehand that we should walk in him. Now I just told you, you got to catch up with what he's already done, right? So before you were ever born, God prepared these good works. Good good means profitable in this text. So your life should not be a life that's in the red, that you're always coming up short, you're always in the negative. Glory to the name of God. You never quite get it. You know, like back in the day, you know, they had that Jheri curl. Glory to God. And there are some people that had Jheri curl, you know, they had strings, not curls. Them curls just wouldn't quite flip all the way over. Glory to God. And there are some saints in the church that can't quite get it. Glory to God. They, they go through the motions, right? But God wants you to be intact in every aspect of your life, every aspect of your existence, okay? So you are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to live completely, to have a profitable, effective Watch this. Presence and principle-driven life. So your life should be driven by the presence of God and the principles of the Bible. Glory to the name of God. So you're his workmanship, created for good works. Workmanship— the word workmanship in the text is the Greek word poema. Poema is where we get words like poetry. So you are literally poetry in motion. Mm-hmm. You are his— watch this— best work. You are his best literary piece. You are his best work of art. That's what Poemas deals with, just the idea that you were fearfully and wonderfully made. You are his best work. I need you to say that out loud. Say, I am his best work. So the next time someone speaks a word curse over your life, the next time someone tells you you're not good enough, you're not adequate, you— oh man, yeah. The next time somebody tells you you're not enough, just begin to declare, I am God's best work. Glory to God, you are poetry in motion. Glory to God. And when people see you, they should see the very best of God flowing out of your life. Listen, stop settling for less. Glory to God. Stop living beneath your privilege. Stop accepting man's interpretation of who you you are and know that you are God's best work. Matter of fact, somebody tonight type that in the comments. Glory to God. Yeah, like Lakita, I am his best work. Glory to God. You are his best work. Glory to God. You are his best work. I don't care how many people bullied you, rejected you, how many failed relationships you have had, how many times you got talked down to in your home, at school. Listen, I'm telling you right now, I come tonight to increase your personal revelation of yourself. You are God's best work, and it is time for you to show up in the world and do the work that God has created you to do. You are his best work. Listen, you are not a mistake. I need you to hear this. You're not a mistake. You're not a mistake. Watch this. You're not mass-produced. Ooh, which means God just didn't put us on an assembly line and mass produce us and make us all alike. Oh, you're not a mistake, you're no junk. Jeremiah 1:5 says again, before he formed you in your mother's belly, he knew you. So that means you're supposed to be here. You're God's plan, you're God's delivery system. You, you were designed with precision. So everything in you is accurately there. Glory to the name of God. So that you can fulfill the plan and the purpose that God has for your life. So you're designed with precision, you're designed with purpose, you're designed with power. You already have the authority. Glory to the name of God. To do what God has created you to do. Yeah, you are God's masterpiece. You are not mass-produced. We— yeah, Pastor Jeffrey, we are all different, we're all unique, and that's why We should celebrate the differences. We shouldn't be running around here trying to be somebody else. Listen, glory to the name of God. You got to accept that you are God's masterpiece. Accept that you are God's unique design. Glory to God. Accept, glory to God, that there's nobody else like you. Again, you wasn't a mistake. Listen, my mama was 15 when I was born. My daddy was 17. They, they weren't trying to have me, but God knew they needed to have me. Are y'all hearing this? Because what's in my daddy's DNA and what's in my mama's DNA needed to amalgamate to create who I am so I could deliver the package, glory to God, that is inside of me to release in the earth. Can I tell you something? You're not a mistake. You're not junk. You're not a flop. You're supposed to be here. You're not mass-produced. Glory to God. So accept it, embrace that, walk in that. And tonight, this teaching, glory to God, is simply to give you a revelation of what that looks like and how to walk that out and who you really are, man. Glory to God. I got to get through this, man. I got to get through this. God is so good. God is so kind. God is so amazing. Glory to God. You're his best work. That's right, Stephanie. Yes, you are. You're his best work. You're his best work. Glory to God. We are his best work. Hallelujah. We love him. So let's, let's look at this. So first of all, it's impossible to talk about a masterpiece without talking about the master artist. Or the master creator. Because you cannot have a masterpiece without the root of that word masterpiece— a master. Glory to God! Masters produce masterpieces. And this is why you must get a revelation of yourself that you indeed are a master, so that you could begin to produce the masterpieces in your purpose that the earth needs that are housed inside of you. You cannot produce masterpieces unless you become a master. So how do you become a master, Michael Woods? I'm glad you asked. The first thing you gotta do, you gotta get in a position where you can be measured. All right? So you can't really be a master if you don't submit yourself to the proper authority that has the ability to measure you. Now here's the problem, man. You got so many people in the body of Christ who are gifted, and let me submit to you, you could be gifted and not be a master at that gift. Oh my God. And the only way you become a master, again, you have to be measured. So you have to get in a place where you can sit and submit, and you got to make up your mind about that so that you can be adequately measured. And let me tell you something, if someone is always floating your boat and telling you how good you are and you never are challenged and truly measured, oh my God. And you got to be mature enough to take the measurement. See, the body of Christ is full of people who bounce around, won't commit to a ministry, won't commit to leadership. You got pastors who don't have apostles, you got prophets who don't have apostles in their life, which is is totally a setup for failure. Glory to the name of God. Because the church is built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, with Jesus Christ being the chief cornerstone. So the reality is you need to be submitted to someone that can measure you. And if they're always telling you how great you are, then that measurement may not be accurate, because none of us are great all the time, and all of us have room where we can grow to maximize our measurement and become even more masterful in our areas of expertise. So the first thing you need is measuring. And watch this, apostles measure. I ain't talking about someone that woke up one morning and slapped— and you know, I, I saw this clip floating around. Well, uh, the popular preacher 2819 Philip Mitchell, whatever his name is, he, he's, uh, talking about people who have titles and talk about apostles, um, and he's talking about how— yeah, and I've been saying for 30 years, okay? The reality is, I want you to understand something. A lot of these guys, even like him, don't even understand the necessity for fatherhood, the necessity for him even having a pastor or someone spiritual enough to measure him. Even though, yeah, you have all these people, but listen, are you being measured spiritually? Joyfully-yam, glory to the name of God. Or it— or are you just— people like him because he's bold and good, great, we're glad about that. But why you ain't as oily as you need to be? Yeah, let's talk about that. Because at the end of the day, when I look around the body of Christ, a myriad of popular preachers who have no oil. And the reason they have no oil The reason, reason they have no anointing resident and flowing out of their life upon their teaching— they're popular because they know how to present themselves, market themselves well, and they— and the people that they already had have taken them to a level of great marketability. And at the end of the day, somewhere between creating a reel and posting and taking a selfie, I need you to get on your face and pray. That's what I need you to do. I need you to spend some time with God, okay? Because if you are that visual, people don't need to be introduced to you first. When people encounter what you're doing, they need to encounter Jesus first. Are y'all hearing this? And that comes from lack of measurement. Oh my God, oh my God, tonight I wish I had some church. Glory to God. Hallelujah! I wish I had somebody to help me tonight. The reality is you got to take the measurement, you got to accept the measurement, because that's what's going to make you better. Because the measurement piece— once you get settled in being measured, now the leader you're connected to, that authority in your life, can manage you and teach you how to manage your life. Oh, somebody said, oh my God, I don't want to be managed. And then I'm talking about— I'm not talking about micromanaged, I'm talking about teaching you the tools of management and how to manage your purpose, uh, accurately. And I talked about that word a few moments ago, with precision, being able to make right decisions in your life. Precisions, precise decisions that make incisions. See, when you have precise decisions and efforts, they make incisions. They cut things away that don't belong, because in order to move into mastership, the stuff that cannot go needs to be cut away. I'm gonna say that one more time. The stuff that cannot go needs to be cut away. The people that cannot move into mastership with you, they have to be cut away. So you have to determine the people you got to teach and the people that's got to walk with you. There's some people that can't walk in close proximity with you, and so you have to make an incision to keep them out of that space, because really you'll injure them and you'll injure your purpose in their life by letting them be too close. That's another message for another day, but I need you to recognize tonight, family, that you are God's masterpiece and you got to become a master. So So apostles measure, apostles help you manage, and apostles deploy you as masters. So that's— they help you discover, help you develop, and help you deploy. That— so that's why you need apostolic leaders around you, or an apostolic leader that can pour into your life. And you got to submit to that idea. You're running around going to a church that you're attending because it's comfortable for you, because it— okay, here we go. 'cause it's close by, it's around the corner from your house. No, a church alive— I've been saying this for 40 years too— is worth the drive. So you got to find a place you could consistently plant yourself so you could grow. I'm gonna tell you something: if you're a prophet and you're not in a church where you can grow, if you're just going to have something to do to say you did it, no ma'am, no sir, you're religious, but you need to be be able to be measured, managed, so you could become a master. You got too many people out here teaching things they have not mastered, you know. You got people teaching classes on being a millionaire and being wealthy. How you teaching that and you ain't well? Come on, I'm just gonna help you. And, and, and if you one of them people that's on here listening to me right now, you doing that, I need you to measure yourself. You can't teach somebody how to make a million dollars if you ain't never hate it. I'm just saying, you can't teach somebody how to have an 800 credit score if yours is 500. Come on, you, you can't do it. You can't teach somebody how to own a house if you rent. You, you might know it, but you really can't teach that effectively because that principle has not worked in your life. Oh boy, who, who is quiet in this live or by replay, but it's okay because I want to help you, man. I want to help you be a master of this, and you start out by being a student that's able to be measured. Let's look at— let's look at this, man. Let's look at the master. Let's look at the master who makes the masterpieces, which is Jesus Christ. First, to do that, I want to quote something that Michelangelo said, who created a lot of masterpieces, and I and I quote, 'In every block of marble I see a statue. I only have to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition.' I'm gonna read that again. That's what Michelangelo said, and I quote, he says, 'In every block of marble I see a statue. I only have to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition, end quote. Michelangelo actually said that, and he made a lot of beautiful art, a lot of beautiful sculptures. Watch this. Jesus, just as Michelangelo would see his statue in a big hunk of stone, God saw you and I in everything he knew we would go through in life as a masterpiece. I got to get out of here. Glory to God. He saw everything we go through. Every time we fail, he saw every time we would yield to our humanity, every time we would get in the flesh and just do things out of the flesh and not really follow him He saw you. Watch this, he still sees you. Oh my God. And inside of the rough materials of your past, of your pain, and of your imperfections— watch this— God chips away at all of that and he reveals the real you to the world, the real masterpiece to the world. Glory to God. Go to John 8:28— I'm sorry, Romans 8:28. Let's go to Romans 8:29. I'm sorry, 8:29. I hope y'all learning something. Glory to God. If you're getting something out of this tonight, type some uplifting hands. Glory to God. In the comments or something. Praise God. Let me know you're learning something. Glory to God. Romans, Romans 8:28. Glory to God. 829, that's what we want. 828 is possible, but we want 829. Glory to God. Wonderful Jesus. I love y'all tonight. Hallelujah. I just want to see you make it, man. I want to see you win. I want to see you win for real. And that ain't a euphemism, that's the truth. Watch this. I quoted this earlier, but I'm gonna read it now. He said, for whom he did foreknow progenosko in Greek, foreknow, which means he had knowledge about you beforehand. He interacted with you beforehand, same as what he did in Jeremiah 1:5. Before he formed you, he knew you. So here's the New Testament confirmation of the prophet's words. He foreknew you before you got in human flesh. He predestinated you, hallelujah, to be conformed. Well, let's, let's break that down too. I already gave you the definition. I'm gonna give it to you again. And that word is not, uh, progenosko, it's actually, uh, progerizo, which this word actually means he predetermined who you would be. He decided where you would go. He decided where you would end up. Are y'all here? So I need you to know you have no right to decide where you're going or what you're gonna do. He's already decided. I've taught this last week, I think. Your purpose is not your decision, it's your discovery. Discovery. Ah, because he already decided it. You don't get to decide it and create a— no, a whole plan for your life that has nothing to do with what God planned. You are designed to discover his plan, what he foreknew, what he predestined. And you know what? Predestination is the perfect will of God. Hallelujah! That's finding out actually what he end. And you know, you have people talking about the perfect will, the permissive will. Now, the will of God is what he predestined. Uh, everything he does is good and perfect. Permissive is something people made up to be comfortable. Find that in the Bible, then we could talk. But God is a God of predestination, which means he declares the end from the beginning. He didn't declare your end when you got in your mama's belly. He declared your end before you even took on flesh. You, oh God, he— there's a pre-Adamic you that he foreknew and predestined. God, I don't have time to teach this tonight. There's a person that God knew, glory to God, in the realm of glory before you even got to this planet. It, and he's already ordained it for you to be prosperous. He's already ordained it for you to be debt-free. He's already ordained it— glory to God— for you to be a dominator and be an influencer in the world so that people can see him through you. I'm just trying to show you a picture of the master. See, watch this. He predestined you so you can be conformed to the image of his son. So that in the earth, when you show up in the world, you look like him. I ain't talking about you got your dress down to your ankles, no makeup, no earrings. I ain't talking about that. I'm talking about you show up in leadership, in domination, in authority, in power. You show up with supreme purpose, and what you're doing every single day is living your life out out. Glory to God. On purpose, deliberately. Glory to God. Are y'all here? So that you can be the firstborn among many brethren. So that means, glory to God, every believer doesn't get a pass. Every one of us should be living, glory to God, to show up in the world hear me as sons of God. Glory to Jesus! Are we here, man? Good God, I gotta get through this. So Jesus, according to that, is both sculptor and he is also the image to which we are being shaped. See, what makes you a masterpiece is not how well you do thing is how God gets the glory out of what you're doing. Are y'all here tonight? So, so really, we, uh, boy, I'm telling y'all ought to hit that share button. Somebody needs this. Somebody is lost in the system of their own Kool-Aid. They're all there and drunk their own Kool-Aid, and they believe they're okay, and they have created a system that may be working even, but it ain't the will of God. Because if God is not getting the glory, and if God is not being presented through you as you being his masterpiece, quite possibly you're in the wrong space. Quite possibly you're doing it wrong. Glory to God. So Jesus sculpting us, breaking through all that crap and presenting us to the world. Hear me, family. Me, as his very own. Let me get out of here, man. So, so our master is sculpting us so that we can go into the world, have the multiplicity of ministry, hear me, and give birth to others. Glory to God, glory to God, hallelujah! That's right, Bruce, that's the right prayer. Glory to God, hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus. We give God praise. We give you praise. We give God glory for this teaching, Bruce. It's all him. Praise God. Hallelujah. We thank God for Jesus. So let me give you 5 distinctive marks of a kingdom masterpiece, and I'm gonna be done. All right, 5 distinctive marks, and I'm gonna be out here. Number 1, write it down: you are rare. So a masterpiece is rare, which— this is the mark of exclusivity. So you are exclusive, you are rare, you are one of a kind, you are not a replica. Matter of fact, Psalm 139:14, you'll find this intelligence. The psalmist says, I will praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. So watch this, God didn't make you, you know, a cowardice from fright or a demonic fear, but because he was putting his purpose in you when he was making you, he was building you in his image. And anytime he sees himself He doesn't only tell us to worship him. Hallelujah. He worships himself inside of us. Lord, I wish you could see this. Glory to God. He's building you and he sees you operating as him and carrying out his unique, authentic plan for your life, whether that's beautician, whether that's entrepreneur, whether that's— glory to God, hallelujah— pastor, preacher, apostle, whatever your unique purpose is, whether it's dancer, singer, whatever you're created to do, he is— he wants to see himself in it. That's why when you get a glimpse of who you are and you start doing it— God help me to teach this tonight— that's why it is important that you never get beside yourself. Hear me, family, and start— oh, and start trying to operate on your own. Boom! Are y'all here, man? And that's how Lucifer got kicked out of heaven. He was the anointed cherub and said, "I will exalt myself above the Most High. I will become as the Most High." He really got caught up in himself. Be very careful when you tap into God's ability in your life. It's not you, it's his super on your natural. Glory to God. It's his ability working through you. And you gotta learn to stop and give him all the glory for what he is doing and what he wants to do in your life. Can I get through this? Let me go. So you're a true masterpiece. You're fearfully and wonderfully made. Hallelujah. That, that means— watch this— you're accurately made. You're made with precise precision. Watch this. No one has your exact fingerprint, your exact voice. Oh, your exact voice print nor your exact purpose print. So your fingerprint is unique, your voice print is unique, and your purpose print is unique. That's why you got to stop faking the funk and trying to be everybody else. Glory to God, you are rare. Glory to God, you are a mark of exclusivity. There's no one else like you. And listen, for you people that realize you rare, here's something I want to share something with you. Stop trying to get people to be like you because it's only one of you. Stop trying to make people be you. You got people that want people to be just like them. No, let people flow in their own fire. Let them flow in their own exclusivity and let them be able to operate in the power of the fact that heaven does not mass-produce. You're rare. Touch your belly and say, I am rare. I need you to grab this tonight. I am rare. Glory to Jesus. I am rare. Listen, I'm so glad I'm me. I don't want to be Bishop Jakes. I don't want to be Creflo Dollar. I don't want to be Dale Brunner. I want to be Michael Woods. I'm so satisfied with the man that God has made, Michael Woods. Glory to the name of God. And you ought to be satisfied accepting of the person that God has made you. Are y'all hearing this? Woo! Glory to God. Hallelujah. Say this with me. Touch your belly and say, I'm divinely distinguished. There is no one like me. I need you to praise God for that. I need you to give him glory right now for that. Glory to God. You are divinely distinguished. There is no one like you. You. Glory to God. So that's the first characteristic. You are rare. That's the mark of exclusivity. You are exclusive. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We give God praise. We bless his name. What a mighty God we serve. All right, number 2, write it down. Not only are you rare, you are royal. You are part of a kingdom. And you, my friends, my family tonight, whether you're watching this video live or by replay, I stopped in here tonight to make you aware of your royalty. This is the mark of a special selection. You've been elected, selected, and protected to be royal, to walk out royalty in your life. Let's read 1 Peter 2:9, the a clause. Watch this. Matter of fact, just rub your belly and say, I am royalty. Glory to God, I am royalty. Watch this. He says, but you are a chosen generation. Ah, see, anytime something is chosen, it's deliberate. It ain't voted. It's, you know, you just choose it because you want you don't choose something you don't want. I have, I have never heard of an unwanted free will choice. You know, there are people, you know, and God forbid you're never in this situation, that have a gun to their head and make a choice. We're not talking about that. I'm talking about when you choose something, 99% of the time it's very deliberate, it's very direct. Watch this. God says He has chosen us. Oh, I want you to grab this. Knowing everything he knows about us, he still chose us, and he called us a royal priesthood, a royal nation of intercessors. That's what the priesthood is. It's not what you think. It's not priests walking around with collars in the Catholic Church. The priesthood— the word priest priest actually transliterated simply means intercessor. A priest would go into the Holy of Holies to intercede on behalf of the people and atone for their sin. We are a royal priest, so we are a royal kingdom of intercessors who are called to intercede on behalf of the Earth, which by the way belongs to God, so that the people of the earth can recognize our King as God. And they do that through us operating in our precise, accurate purpose. Are y'all here? Are y'all for real? Y'all here tonight? Because the reality is you, you got to be a citizen of this thing for real, and you got to know who your King is. And, and when you know that, you become an ambassador, and you operate as a royal nation of priests. Watch this: a royal priesthood, a holy nation. So wait a minute, here we go. So if we're gonna be royalty, we cannot disdain— somebody say, okay, here you go, here Apostle, go, here you go. And somebody say, I know it was coming. Yeah, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming. Yeah, it's time, right? Right now. He— so how is it that you could tell me you're this fiery intercessor, you operate in great power and glory, but in the same sentence here God defines this elected generation, this deliberately chosen generation, as also holy? Can I submit to you tonight that holiness is still right? And you can't be running around here talking about you're in a kingdom and you're a child of the King and you live like the devil every chance you get. You're evil, you're wicked, you're mean as a rattlesnake, you're always waking up in somebody else's bed, bed beside your own, or you always got somebody in your bed that don't belong there. Come on, are you going to bed with a man and you a man? Going to bed with a woman and you a woman? Listen, no ma'am, no sir, you cannot tell me you are part of this royal priesthood that God has chosen when he clearly says that we're a holy nation. Watch this. And the word hagios in Greek here, it doesn't just mean that holiness that comes through the cleansed blood of Jesus. So Jesus does cleanse us and make us holy, but then hagios deals with the idea that I also become an expression of his work. So my life reflects— hallelujah— not in legalism, but in homage and honor honor. So I honor God through holy living. Oh my God, oh my God, Jesus, tonight. People don't want to hear this, Daughter Zion. They don't want to hear it, they don't want to hear it. Glory to God, but it's the truth. We got to live right. The old song said, if you live right, heaven belongs to you. If you live right— so we won't sing— we don't even want to sing those songs no more because we don't want to hear that. Glory to God. But the reality is, that's the truth. He's coming back looking for a church without spot or blemish, a holy nation. You cannot be a masterpiece representing the Holy King— I lost somebody, somebody jumped out the line. Quick. It's okay, it's okay, because, because, I mean, listen, you, you cannot be a, a gay bishop with a first gentleman talking about you in the kingdom and you operating in a holy nation. No, sir, you are a sinner that needs to be delivered and needs to be saved. Oh my, she learned it. Somebody say, Apostle, you was doing good. Yeah, I know, but I got to teach the Bible You are special selection and you need deliverance. And I'm telling you, God does love you and he has included you in the salvation plan, but you need deliverance. Because if you keep being married to a man and you're really not married, you're just living in lust because you've tried to redefine marriage. Marriage is a sacred union between a male and a female. Male, not a man and a man or a woman and a woman. I don't care what this government says, girl. I don't care what the Constitution hasn't been amended to say, because it didn't used to say that. Oh boy, I got to get out of here. I know, I know, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna go, cause they gonna block me on all these social media platforms for preaching the truth. Glory to God. They gonna— no, I'm gonna keep my because at the end of the day, family, I need you to understand holiness is still right. And I ain't talking— again, I ain't talking about how you look. It's some folk walking around with long dresses, no makeup, no earrings, don't comb their hair, got a wrap on their head, and they unholy in their heart because they ain't been delivered. It just take that woman, the long dress, a little longer to pull hers up and do what she got to do. You got to get free. You got to get delivered from lying, from cheating, from stealing. Glory to God. You gotta practice living holy if you really love God. Jesus said this: keep my commandments. Okay, yeah, all right. So watch this. A masterpiece, a royal masterpiece. I'm moving. It's, uh, it's set apart. For admiration and distinction. So it's the way I live, the way— if I live under the regime of royalty. If you go to England, you know who the royals are by how they live, how they drive, the essence that flows from their life. As children of the King in the kingdom of God, there ought to be a powerful beautiful essence that flows from us that people admire, that sets us apart with distinction, that people want to be a part of. Let me tell you something, man. You know, I'm not against nothing nobody do, but I got a problem when you start trying to judge what I do because I don't do it like you. Listen, let me tell you something. You people that go to church on Sunday, and it was— and you, you go to church on Sunday, you go, glory to the name of God, to meetings, and you just show up any kind of way. You show up at the church like you about to steal something. You don't take no pride in how you look as a royal. And I'm not saying this is about how you dress, but what I am saying, at least look like you got some Look like you are a part of something. Now, if you ain't got it, fine, get the teaching, walk by faith until you can. But you ought to be distinctive. You ought to be something to be admired. Are y'all hearing this? But you got these people now, they wear the— preachers wear their pants so tight you can see their thigh print in the pants. They wear their shirt so tight you can see all their muscle The devil is a liar, man. God ain't called us to that. Come on, come on, come on. The reality is we gotta act like royalty, behave like royalty. We are called to be distinctive. I saw a lady preaching on Instagram with yoga pants on. Ain't no way, ain't no way. I mean, listen, the reality is, man, I can't— I don't even want Only take the time to try to listen to that. You, you, everything you got is showing in them pants and you bouncing around the pulpit. Come on, you ought to dress in modest apparel. Come on, hallelujah. I gotta go. You're— because it's the mark of a special selection. Royals look different. Royals are admired. People want to be a part of what royalty looks like. Glory to God. People call it religious because somebody puts on a suit. No, you just don't— you lazy. You don't want to put on a suit. And it tells me the kind of tables you sit at because you don't have to dress up. I sit at tables daily where I have to have on clothes. Y'all ain't got to talk to me. That's why I invest in my clothes. I, I have clothes in my closet I've had for 20 years that stand the test of time. Custom suits that stand the test of time. Because I understand the tables I have built and the tables I have to sit at. I ain't going to sit at them tables and expect to be respected looking like I'm just hanging out in the street. Come on, man, that ain't the will of God. Let me move, let me move. Say I'm a royal. Glory to God. Say I'm not common. Rub your belly. Say I'm not common. Common. Say, I have been consecrated for greatness. I need you to believe that. Glory to God, you're consecrated for greatness. Glory to God. Hallelujah. You were chosen, not overlooked. It's just like an adoption. There's no such thing as an unwanted adoption. When you adopt, you have to choose that child. The Bible said we are adopted into his royal family. Glory to God. Translated out of the kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of his dear Son. I never heard of an unwanted adoption. I heard of unwanted pregnancy. Oh yeah, but no unwanted adoption. Are y'all hearing this? You were chosen deliberately. Let's show honor for that choice. You were handpicked. Hear me, family, for Kingdom impact. My time is gone, I got to get out of here. Number 3, this is the third third characteristic or distinctive mark of a kingdom masterpiece, or God's opus magnum, or God's magnum opus. Let's go, uh, 1 Corinthians 6:20. Let's read it. The Bible says, you were bought with a price. I'm almost done, stay with me, don't go, stay with me. I pray y'all getting something out of this. Glory to God. You are bought with a price. Glory to God. So here's number 3: you are rich in value, and this is the mark of inestimatable worth, which means God purchased you with his own blood. And there is no calculator— glory to God— there is no mathematical equation that can put value on what God did for you. It can't— there's no one that can estimate how valuable you're rich in value. Your worth is high. Matter of fact, while I'm talking, if you receive this, your stock is going up right now because you were bought with a price. I need you to grab this and realize that, see, the value of a masterpiece is often determined by by the price paid and the person who paid for it. So if, if a multi-billionaire pays $10 million for a painting, that painting actually now becomes worth more because the multi-billionaire purchased it and the value that the seller placed on it, because it's in the possession of someone that's already valuable. The price of that piece goes up. That's, that's what happens with anything that appreciates in value. The person who buys it, their value is what adds to the value. Oh my God, not the other way around. So the fact that Jesus bought you with a price, male, female, glory to the name of God, doesn't matter where you come from. You can come from the projects or from Buckhead or from the most luxurious area of of your city. No matter where you come from, you have great value. You are rich in value. Listen, Jesus's blood was the highest bid ever placed, and guess what? It was placed on you. He bought you with his own life. He bought you with his own blood. Now I just need you to act like it. I need you to respond to that with honor. I need you to become the masterpiece that he bought you to become. He didn't buy you so you could be dormant. He didn't buy you where you could live beneath your privilege. He did not buy you where you could be broke, busted, and disgusted all the days of your life. No, he bought you back so you could increase in value, impact the world, and change lives of others that are around you. That's why he bought you with a You're rich in value. Touch your belly, say this, say, my value is not based on what I've done. Come on, rub your belly and say it. Glory to God. But on who crafted me and who paid for me. Glory to God. So your value is based in him. So every Kingdom masterpiece is rare. Every kingdom masterpiece is royal. Every kingdom masterpiece is rich in value. Number 4, I got to go. Every kingdom masterpiece is renamed. Are we here? Good God from Zion. Woo! Oh, we love you. We love you, Jesus. Jesus, we give you praise, we give you glory. Oh, say, I'm renamed. That's my— rename means the— that's the mark of purposeful identity. So when you came to God, he changed your name, he changed your identity, he changed all the labels that were put on you. Let me give you an example. When I was in school, that was a guy in elementary school. I'm not going to call his name because you may know him, but I'm going to call him Richie. All right, in 7th grade, Richie peed in his pants. All right, Richie peed in his pants, y'all. Of course, as kids, everybody laughed. Of course, as children, they mocked him. But ultimately what everyone did was put a label on Richie. We went to high school and was in 10th grade, and people would often say, there goes Richie that peed in his pants. Richie had become an academic scholar, a great athlete, but they still were saying, that's Richie that peed in his pants. Richie went off to college, graduated from college summa cum laude, and they're still saying— people that know him from 7th grade— that's Richie that peed in his pants. Richie graduates college, gets a great job as an engineer. People are still saying, that's Richie that peed in his pants. We show up at the class reunion, glory to God, 20 years later, it's floating around the room, man. Richard that peed in his pants done did good for himself. He got a nice car, got a great wife. He doing good. I'm following him on Facebook, man. People still kept that label on him because that's what people would do. But can I submit to you, no matter what people have called you— oh God, I got to get out of here— no matter what people have to you, no matter how they've talked to you. Glory to God, you are renamed. Glory to God, no matter how they've judged where you would go and what you would be, God has renamed you. Let me give you proof. Revelation 2:17 says, I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name. Glory to God. So So like Michelangelo, every work that he creates— glory to God— when he saw that hunk of stone and carved out the Statue of David, he called it Michelangelo's David. He— oh my God, no longer was it a heaping pile of stone, it was now Michelangelo's David. Can I tell you something? That work of that artist always reflects, hallelujah, the message and the meaning coming out of that art. Just like you, God gives you a new name that reflects the message of his kingdom, that you are God's masterpiece and what your meaning and purpose is in life. I'm telling you, God— and if you operate in God's purpose, it'll remove all them labels. People won't be able to see nothing but the purpose of God on your life. Lord, I love you. Listen, in the scripture, God renamed Abram, he renamed Jacob, he renamed Simon, he renamed Saul. And watch this, he names you to align with your divine assignment. Can I tell you something? Your name is prophetic. Glory to God. Which means you have you have a— whoo— you have a future. It means you are answer to purpose. Can I— at least I don't care what your mama named you, your name is prophetic. And because you're in the kingdom, there's a, there's a prophetic utterance over your life that declares you are answer to somebody's problem in the future. I— listen, it's not about— for real, Philip Mitchell said it, for real, it ain't about titles. It's about the prophetic meaning and the prophetic purpose over your life. Even before I saw that post, I was talking to my dad, and we was talking about that, how people just slap titles on their name, and, and how they— glory to the name of God— if they don't have that title, they feel like they don't have value. And I was telling my dad, man, you never got to call me Apostle. Call me Mike. Call me up. Call me Michael. Glory to God. At the end of the day, I know who I I know who God has created me to be. My name is prophetic. Glory to the name of God. My name means I have a future. My name says I'm going somewhere. Matter of fact, say that with me. Say, my name is prophetic. Say, I am an answer to purpose. Glory to God. I'm telling you, somebody's waiting on you because somebody needs you. They need your spice. They need your life. They need your anointing. Glory to the name of God. They need what you bring to the table. It's time for you to show up in the world. So every kingdom masterpiece is rare, the mark of exclusivity. Every kingdom masterpiece is royal, the mark of a special selection. Every kingdom masterpiece is rich in value, the mark of inestimatable worth. You are renamed, the mark of purposeful identity. And here's the last one, and I'm getting out of here. You are recognized. That's the mark— oh boy— of divine ownership. Ownership. Every master— glory to God— that creates a masterpiece, whether it's Michelangelo or any other artist, inclusive of God, who is the greatest artist, they sign their masterpiece. They seal it to their name, and they recognize that I own them. What a great thing. See, most of you won't become masters because you want to own your life, but you gotta give it up. I heard that, Father. I heard that. Let me prophesy to you. I heard the Lord say, if you give it up, you can have it all. Oh, if you give it up, you can have it all. Oh my God, tonight, if you let it go, the blessing of the kingdom will be released into your life. And accept the fact that you are not your own. You know how— first of all, he bought you with a price. We already read that, right? Let's read 2 Timothy 2:19. You'll find this intelligence. I'm done. This is my last, last point. The firm foundation of God stands— watch this— having this seal. The Lord knows those who are his. Are we here tonight? He knows those he owns. This is what seals a firm foundation in God, is being able to be recognized as one one he owns. Now I'm gonna tell you something, you out here running rebel, glory to God, doing your own thing, out of alignment, out of whack, being disobedient. There may not be no ownership connected to God in you except the basic ownership that the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof. But you don't have no rights to the kingdom because you ain't operating as a citizen. But the Bible said God knows. He has relationship. Ah, gnosis in Greek— knowledge by process of relationship. So he has relationship with those that are his. So you ought to be cultivating relationship with God, not religion, not going through the motions where you go to church and just buck like wild horses, worship and cry, fall out in the floor, you ought to be cultivating relationship. Come on, man, you should be spending time in prayer, you should be spending time in worship. Some of you are emotionally driven, and when your emotions are aroused, you feel like you've encountered God. Eh, no. Relationship means I communicate and I am committed. So I communicate with God, I'm committed to God. He talks to me because of my commitment to worship, my commitment to study the word, my commitment to pray. He's involved in my life. He knows me because I spend time with him. Some of y'all just met God, you don't know him. You met him when you came and repented of your sins, but you get to know him when you spend time with him. And guess what happens? He also gets to know you. Why? He says, I stand at the door and knock. If any man open the door, he says, I'll come in and sup with him and he with me. People took this to be a salvation scripture. No, that's a fellowship scripture. This is— he's knocking after you get saved. He's trying to get into your life because he's not going to bombard his way in. You got to open up and receive him, become acquiescent. Yes to his desire to be in your life. And to sup means to fellowship. It means to break bread together. So you got to sit down and have— and I ain't talking about how people eat together today, family sitting down at the table, everybody pick up their phone. I'm not talking about that. Nobody's in tune to anybody. What I am speaking of is being able to fellowship with God for real, where he actually knows you and you actually him. I got to get out of here, man. Glory to God. Hallelujah. I got to get out of here. A masterpiece carries the signature of the master. So if you're really God's masterpiece, when people look at you, they don't see you first. They see that you were created by him and you're operating under the auspices of him because he gets the glory out of what you do. Listen, people should be able to see the God touch on your life. People should be able to say, there go God's Tanya, there go God's Felicia, there go God's Sharia, there go God's Michael, there go God's Jeffrey, there go God's Darnese, there go God's Bruce, there go God's Michelle. Hell because your name, remember? But they should see him and not you. Ooh, and not me. Say this with me. Say, in the name of Jesus, I am not anonymous. I am not hidden. Say, I am recognized. I am owned. I am acknowledged. And I am anointed by heaven. Listen, you gotta make up your mind tonight to become— hear me, family— a completed work. Are y'all here? You got to become a completed work. You got to become a completed work. Philippians 1:6 says, being confident of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will complete it. I told you, glory to the name of God, when God created you, he finished it. The word complete here, when he says complete it, mature it, or mature in it, grow into what's already done. So if he, if he designed you and started it before you got here and finished it in the heavens, now you got to grow into it through proper measuring, proper managing, or proper discovery, proper development, so you can become the master God has created you to be. Listen, tonight there may be someone— and I'm done— that feels unfinished, cracked, chipped. And you have said that many times, hmm, you don't know how you're going to make it to the next place or the next dimension. I need you to understand God has already finished working on you. You may feel incomplete, you may feel like there's more, but God is still— hear me, family— working on you in the way that he's trying to get you to grow up in him. His grace is his chisel, his word is the polish. And his Spirit is the spotlight. Let him chisel away on all that rough stuff so that what he's already finished can come to the forefront. Listen, you're not just saved to sit. You have been sculptured to serve. Let's pray. You've been fashioned for good works. Father, we thank you for this word tonight. I pray in the name of Jesus that this word would land on the good ground of every heart and that your people will reap it in due season if they faint not. Let them know that they are kingdom masterpieces created, curated, and designed by you, and we praise you for that now in the mighty name name of Jesus. Hallelujah! God bless you. Thank y'all for joining us tonight. I pray you've been blessed by this teaching. Glory to God. Before you go, I want you to do two things. One, I want you to share this because I believe this word was profound. It wasn't just for you, it was somebody connected to you. If you're here right now, I want you to please be obedient and I want you to share this. I want you to bless somebody with this word. Just share it. Hit that share button below, or share it in their inbox, share it on your page. Glory to God. Copy the link if you need to and send out texts to people. Say, hey, you need to be reminded of how valuable you are, that you are masterpiece. Watch this message. I promise you it's going to bless their life. Secondly, I want to invite you guys, glory to God, uh, to be a giver. Glory to the name of God, uh, to sow seed into the ministry. Glory to God. It's more blessed to give than it is to receive. The ways to give— if you— if this ministry blesses you, I want you to plant seed, get seed in the ground. Glory to the name of God. God says it's more blessed to give than it is to receive. It's the Bible. Whatsoever man soweth, that shall he reap. I need you to hear me. Uh, God spoke to me on Tuesday and, and had me challenge the people that were on to give a seed of $21. I'm right back there tonight. I want you to please be obedient. Get that seed of $21 in the ground tonight. Hallelujah! Because I'm believing God for a 21-day miracle in your life over the next 21 days. Hallelujah! I'm going to be praying with you and over your seed. I'm trusting God for a powerful manifestation. Get that seed in the ground tonight. Again, the ways to give are on the screen. Uh, Pastor Jeffrey, uh, may possibly be posting the ways to give in the comments as well. However Whatever you're choosing to give tonight, be obedient. Father, we thank you for the gift. We thank you for the giver. And Father, we thank you that you're going to multiply this seed a thousand times more and even more in the name of Jesus. We thank you that there will be 21 days of harvest that will come through the obedience of your people, and we praise you for it now in Jesus' name. Amen. And wow, this has been a great night. I'm dead. This has been a great teaching. I pray— and not just because I taught it. This message is one for the books. You better take it, apply it. Uh, earlier I put on the screen— I'll put it up again. Glory to God. Well, I don't know if I can go back to that. Let me see if I can go back to the comment that was on the screen. Uh, in the beginning we shared— glory to God. Yes, there's a link right there in the comments. Glory to God. If you need the notes to this teaching, and you know, the Holy Spirit led me to do that tonight. As I got the notes together, I put together a study guide for you, a handout. Click the link in the comments, download it, restudy this, re-listen to it. Let this get in your Spirit, so you actually can become God's masterpiece. Thank you so much for those of you that are giving. Thank you so much for joining us. We love you. I want to invite you to join us this Sunday morning at 9 AM in the sanctuary of Rhoda Church in here in Ellenwood, Georgia. Man, God's going to meet us. He met us last week. I know he's going to meet us again this week. You need to be in the building. The blessing of the Lord will be there. I promise you, if you come, you're going to be blessed. Our church is located at 410— glory to the name of God— Santa Fe Trail, right here in Ellenwood, Georgia. Visit ronachurch.com, uh, for more information about our church. We love y'all, man. Y'all be blessed. Heaven smile upon you is our prayer. Have a good night.