MANIFESTED VISION PART 7, "VISION NECESSITIES" | DR. MIKE WOODS SR. | 12-8-2022

Well, grace and peace be multiplied to every one of you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is Apostle Mike Woods, and welcome to tonight's edition of Raw Dawn Now. I'm always excited, man, to teach the word of the Lord to you guys, you know, because the word of God really is being taken for granted in so many ways in this day and time. And you got people out here, man, that's taking the word of God and trying to make adjustments to it to satisfy their own sinful lust, their own simple desires, their own ways of doing things. You got a guy out here now, one of the largest churches in the country, teaching that it's okay to grow a weed farm and that this is a tool that God is using him to reach the lost. Man, that— this is— it's ridiculous, right? Uh, and he'll probably say that, you know, people just don't understand, it's new. But you know, there's nothing new under the sun. And the reality is, you cannot— if you're going to do stuff like that, don't put God in it, all right? It is you. And then you got people out here talking about they want to rewrite the canon to— oh God— adjust to their way of living. And their sexuality and the things that they feel are right. The reality is the Bible is right. And if you wanna do those things, listen to me, do 'em. But at the end of the day, don't try to justify it with the word of God. Because at the end of the day, the Bible says the word never changes. God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. He doesn't change and neither does his word. He says that heaven and earth will pass away before one jot or tittle fails from the word of the Lord. The word of God is constant, is true. Listen to me, it cannot be changed. So I'm glad every time I get an opportunity to open up my Bible and defend the gospel, because at the end of the day, it is the truth. It's alive, man. This book is alive. The Bible say it divides asunder the soul and the spirit. The word of God is alive, sharper than any two-edged sword, dividing asunder that which is soul, hear me, and that which is spirit. Listen, this book, man, it divides asunder soul, your mind, your will, your emotion, your psuche life, your psychological existence. So the things that you come up with, the things you, oh my God, think are okay, when you really dive into the word and let the spirit of the word give light. The latter killing, a lot of people are very skilled in teaching the latter, and it's okay, but I want you to move over into balance, and I want you to allow the spirit to bring it alive so it actually can get into the hearts of people and separate their way of living, their way of doing things from the way of God. And once the word of God becomes a part of you, let me tell you something, the sky is the limit on the things you can accomplish and do in him. We don't need no help from the enemy, and we don't need to change something that has worked for years. It's working. It's only not working for religious people, people who don't let it come alive. Listen, I didn't get on tonight to rant and rave about that. Look, I love y'all, man. We got to teach tonight part 7, glory to the name of God, of manifested vision. And tonight we're going to be talking about vision necessities. Yes, these are going to be some vital tools I'm going to give you that if you listen and receive them again, you'll be able to leave this live with some word that you can apply to your life right now and start seeing the vision of God for your life come to pass. So I want to get into this tonight, and I want to just really divulge into it in a way that will bring great understanding. So stay with me, don't scroll. Please do me a favor, ladies and gentlemen, I need you to share this, right? I need you to share it, please. I need you to share it because somebody else needs to hear this word from the Lord on today. So before we get into the word, I want you to watch this video. It's the introduction to this series we've been teaching since November. We're going to be teaching it through the end of the year, and I want you to check out the video. And as the video plays, take in what it's saying and open your mind to receive the word when we come back. I love you guys. Check this out, and I'll be right back. One of the most tragic things in the world is to have sight but no vision. As a matter of fact, it's quite pathetic because, you see, the greatest gift God ever gave to mankind, it's not the gift of sight but the gift of vision. Sight is a function of the eyes. Vision is a function of the heart. And because so many people look at life through their eyes and not real vision that comes from the Spirit of God, they're frustrated in their marriage. They're They're frustrated in their businesses. They're frustrated in their life. They have no hope. They're depressed. They can't see their way out. But the reality is those that have good success are those who live from the realm of vision, prophetic perception. And I just want you to be clear this month and next month even, that as we move into this new year, Vision will begin to be manifested in our lives, and we gotta get ready now. I promise you, vision is God's optimal reality for your future, and he wants to see it manifested. Well, praise God! And yes, for sure, God wants to manifest vision in your life. So tonight, again, we're divulging into part 7 of this series. And I promise you, you don't want to miss this. So do me a favor, guys. It's a blessing to be a blessing. I need you to share this. I need you to share it because every human being on this planet came to this planet with vision in them. The problem Most humans don't know how to bring this vision to life. As a matter of fact, when it comes to the manifestation of vision, there are a few things really that are non-negotiable. These are, again, necessities, and we're gonna talk about those tonight. And these things are actually vital to be a part of your life if you're going to encounter God's vision. Now you can create a vision, dismiss some of these things, and live it and experience it. Uh, but the best thing for your life really is God's vision, and because that's his original plan, anything outside of that is perversion. I'm not going to talk about perversion tonight, but it really is. So there's so many people because of them not engaging with these necessities, or maybe they never really was taught how to tap into God's vision and embrace the tools needed to bring forth his vision for their life. Many people have died, hear me, and unfortunately they never got a chance to experience the true vision of God for their life while they were on earth. As a matter of fact, all they have experienced is something they created, something they came up with, which is not a good look. It's not a good deal, y'all. So let's get into this and, uh, let's see what God is saying. So I want to just give a little review. Um, we've taught 7 messages on this subject, so I want to just bring a few things to the forefront that I feel are important to this teaching tonight. So number 1, we define the word vision, and I gave you a Hebrew word for vision called chazon. And chazon literally means a prophetic revelation, a prophetic dream, meaning it comes from God. If it's prophetic, it comes from God. God gives it, and it is his optimal reality for your future. It's, it's a vision, dream, or oracle, or voice that comes from God that gives you insight to something that's coming, that gives you insight to the future. I'm gonna say that again. Vision, charzon in Hebrew, prophetic revelation. Come on, prophetic hope, a prophetic dream, a prophetic oracle. That gives you insight to a future— watch this— already prepared. So that says to me, and, and I'm already teaching, you cannot create vision yourself and then decide you're going to put God's name on a vision that he did not orchestrate before you were born for your life. It's called predestination. Pre, before, destination, the end. So when you come to this planet, you come to this planet with that predestination built inside of you. Lord have mercy. And so we've talked about how vision is his reality. Glory to God. It's his optimal reality. Vision is also akin to a word, optimus, where we get words like optics. It is something that can be clearly seen. So God wants you really to clearly see his reality. Oh my God. For your future. That's why you should never live in your past successes. Matter of fact, the greatest enemy to your progress and to the fulfillment of vision is your last success. You get so caught up in the success and in the history that you don't continue to evolve in his story. See, God has a story, a picture, a movie, a picture book, glory to God, that he's already created for— my God, today— your life. So I wanted to review that. We've already talked about this stuff, but I want to bring that out because you gotta grab that this is God's optimal reality. It's his optics, is what he sees for you, and it's what he sent you to this planet with. He wants it to come to pass. So if this is optimal reality for your future, here's a few things we've discussed. One, God created vision. You cannot create vision. Again, God is the creator. He's the progenitor of all divine, all supernatural vision. Again, you can come up with a vision that is born out of your soul, born out of your flesh. And when you really have a life in the spirit and you spend time in the realm of the supernatural, and you're not just gifted and talented to do church work, but you really have a tight relationship with God, you start discerning and understanding some things that are not just a part of his nature. And that ain't a part of God's nature, and that's not something God wants to do. So you can, you can bring forth something out of your flesh And if you got the resources, you could do it, but doesn't necessarily mean it came from God because you put God's name on it. So the reality is we learned this already too, and I'm just reviewing. I'mma get into this, man. Y'all pray for me. Y'all pray for me for real, 'cause that thing's got me troubled because it's something that's happening in my region. And as I continue to pray about it as a gatekeeper in this region, Listen, I'm gonna— let me just make this statement really quick. I'm in the region called Georgia. I don't care who built what, who doing what, who call theyself what. I'm very clear of my role in this state, and my role is to be— and it may be other apostolic gatekeepers, but I'm clear that I am an apostolic gatekeeper in this region. One, because of the amount of time I spend on my face and my sensitivity to hear the voice of God concerning this region. So a lot of pastors, a lot of leaders in this region, they don't even realize it. A lot of things that they do and even have success doing is because we've already dealt with the principalities on their behalf, because that's our job as an air traffic controller, as a gatekeeper in the region. I don't have to be popular. I don't have to have the biggest church. My impact as an apostle is felt in the spirit realm greater than the natural realm. Some things I do will never be seen, and I don't care because I understand it's not about me. It's about the people that are being impacted by my time on my face and my time with the Father and the warfare I do in the Oshkita baye, briske taboske, in the realm of the spirit. That's why certain things get under my skin. When, when I see something and I go to pray about it and it starts troubling me. I mean, I want to speak on it, but I want to be, you know, I want to be nice and be in love. But at the same time, the Bible said God chastised those who he loved. So at the end of the day, you know, that's where a lot of this come from. So y'all pray for me, right? So when we understand vision, let's move, let's, let's just digress, let's segue out of Ah, let's, let's progress forward, please. All right, so we understand this, y'all. I love y'all, I love y'all. Please share this, this is going to be good tonight. We understand this, we've learned that we are God's— watch this— delivery system in the earth. You came to this planet, listen, packaged with potential. You came to this planet manufactured with a very authentic and unique purpose. And you came to this planet filled with vision so that you, through you, watch this, through you, I dare you touch yourself and say, through me, glory to God. God could superimpose himself, watch this, on the planet. So he sent you here, one, again, manufactured with a very unique, authentic, distinctive purpose. You're different. There are things you can do no one else can. There's assignment on your life that is, oh my God, unique to your purpose. And you came here with that in your DNA. You also came here packaged with the potential, the ability to bring that purpose to life. And then God filled you up with vision. So vision is already in you once again. Ah, I'm gonna say this 100 different times tonight, but this is what I'm gonna say. You're filled with vision, but you need the elements that God has provided, the tools. So what I'm really gonna do tonight, is retool you. If you listen to this podcast, if you're watching on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, wherever you're watching, please share it. Please, for the love of God, share it, because somebody needs this retooling as you race toward the end of the year to actually bring forth what God has to— oh my God— work in your life. It's, it's a powerful thing, man, that God wants to work, that God wants to bring alive. The question becomes, will you position yourself in the right posture so that God can give you what you need? Stay with me. So you got all this vision in you, just like a, uh, apple seed. You can't see the apple, but the apple is in there. The apple is in that seed, man. You can't see it. Some of you don't realize that you're in seed form. Your vision is in seed form. You can't see it, but it's there. And that's why you need these tools I'm about to give you to help you see what's inside of the seed. You look at apple seed, it's all black, ugly seed, but it becomes a beautiful red apple. It grows a huge tree, man. God help us. And that's what I'm here to do. People ask me all the time, Michael, what is your purpose in the body? Well, I am a spiritual lax— I am a spiritual laxative because the body of Christ, hear me, is constipated. They're straining, they're stuck, they are not really moving at the pace that God would have for them to move. They're stuck, man. And listen, that's a whole problem all by itself. Y'all hear me? That's a whole problem all by itself. Just stuck, straining, everything's hard. It shouldn't be that way for you if you're a believer that's not transgressing, because the way of a transgressor is hard. So I'm a laxative, and when you listen to, listen to me, when you, when you come to my services, when you listen to me live on social media, you, you buy some material that I've written, or you buy a tape or CD series, or, or download an MP3 series, or you listen to the podcast I— you're not just getting those materials or wasting time. You're engaging yourself with fertilizer. I'm fertilizer. I'm fertilizing that seed that's in you so it can grow into that vision that God sent you to this planet to manifest. Oh boy, oh boy. So let's read some scripture. Habakkuk 2:3. Let's go, man. Let's go. The Bible says, for the vision is yet for an appointed time. Listen, but at the end it shall speak and not lie. Though it tarry, listen to me, wait for it because it will surely come. It will not tarry. And this is the foundation of this series. Listen, you want to go back and listen to 1 through 7, but I just want to bring out a point. The vision It's for an appointed time. It's going to happen if you're in alignment, if you show up— watch this— for the appointment. An appointment is a prearranged meeting. Again, pre— in advance. It's a meeting that's set up in advance. So God has already prearranged the meaning, the vision for your life in advance. Now you could go out here and try to create something and make it hard for yourself, or you could just align yourself with God, show up for the appointment, follow his process, and this thing now— watch this— becomes easy because his burden is easy, his yoke is light. I gotta move, man. So Let's jump into these 3 necessities. 3 necessities I'm gonna give you tonight, and it may— and I'm— and there are more, but I just pulled out 3 that I feel are vital. And trust me, if you got some I don't give tonight, please feel free to slide in my DM and share those with me. Next time I teach this, I'll be glad to use them. Glory to God. So, but I'm gonna give you 3. Glory to God. That the Lord has given me to give you today. Stay with me, this is gonna be good. These things are necessary. And quite honestly, the reason why some of you have not fulfilled the dream and vision that's over your life is because either A, you have not been introduced to these points, or B, you've been introduced and you took them lightly and you just refused to adhere. So let's go. Number one, let's go. Let's go, let's go. If you're going to manifest vision, it is necessary, number one, that you have a mentor. You need mentorship. Hear me in your life. Let's read the Bible. Proverbs 27:17 says this, it says, iron iron sharpens iron. Watch this. The vision that's in your life, it is ironclad. It is solid. The thing that God put in you cannot waver. Listen, when it comes forth, it will be eternal and it will last forever. It will leave a legacy and your children's children's children will experience the benefit and blessing of your vision. There'll be people, if you— glory to the name of God— align yourself correctly, that will experience— glory to the name of God— the blessing of your vision even after you die. Help us today, God. Help us today, God. Iron sharpens iron, so you need someone that is iron to come into your life and sharpen you so you can move into measure. The scripture continues by saying, so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend. So a mentor is someone that makes the sacrifice as a friend does to disseminate to you information you need to be successful at the fulfillment of vision, at the fulfillment of purpose, at the unleashing of your potential. Ooh-wee. So mentorship, glory to God, is the activity of giving a less experienced experienced person. Advice. Watch this. Over a period of time. So that means you never get to the point in your walk that you don't need mentorship. Paul, who was an apostle who wrote 75% of the New Testament, The Bible says he sat at the feet of Galileo and was mentored. The Bible says in Saint John's Gospel 13:1 that Jesus mentored the disciples. A key revelation to discipleship— people always talking about discipleship— but one of the key revelations to actually discipling others is mentoring them. It's not leading them from afar where you're untouchable, where you're closed. But a mentor is often transparent and opens up his life and gives himself entirely to those he's serving. Watch this, man. So that they can have the essential qualities and character and skills and wisdom necessary to— watch this— even excel beyond them in their assignment. I'm grateful for the people I have an opportunity to mentor. Anybody that's connected to my Unbiblical Card that I mentor will tell you I'm totally transparent. I expose everything. I expose my weaknesses. I expose my failures, because these are the very things that make me who I am. And this wisdom helps them not make the mistakes I made. So I open my life up transparently and say, hey, I did that before, this was the result, let's try it this way, and I believe you'll have better success. See, mentors have an astute ability to learn from their failure, to learn from where they came short and be able to turn it into ministry that serves the mentees that God would bring into their life. Listen, I've been doing this over 3 decades and I still have mentors. Let me tell you something, man. I always say it, and my wife and I are, we stay in agreement on this. The reality is my confession of faith and my work ethic is lined up with this confession, is that I am going to be a billionaire. I'm on a billion-dollar run right now. Somebody sent me an inbox trying to recruit me for some kind of business, and I just kind of laugh at stuff sometimes saying, "Oh, you can make a million dollars in a year." I'm like, Okay, I'm not interested in that. I'm on a billion-dollar run. I understand how to do that already. I— so what I do is, because I don't know how to make a billion dollars, I have a pretty good idea because I've spent time with billionaires and I listen to billionaires, I read billionaires, And I allow myself to be mentored by people who've already made a billion. You cannot learn how to be a billionaire from somebody who's never done it. You cannot learn how to be a millionaire from somebody who's never done it. You cannot learn how to walk through life in ministry, take failure, take hits, go through marriage problems, lose everything, regain it again. If you don't have somebody that's been there and already survived the worst so that they can help you avoid the worst. And I tell my sons and daughters all the time, I survived the worst so I can help you avoid the worst. And if you listen to me, you won't have to go down that road. So a mentor is dedicated to transparency. It's dedicated to openness. Watch this. A mentor has a trust in the mentee that they're open to receive. It's hard to mentor people that you don't trust is receptive. That becomes a challenge. So there have been people in my life I had to pray about how to approach them. 'Cause especially when you got people, watch this, that feel like, hear me, they need to prove something to you. Uh-oh, uh-oh, uh-oh. And in the midst of trying to help them, they're competing with you, trying to show you how smart they are. So there's a way to deal with those kind of people. There are a whole lot of people I know I can help and they going through hardness right now Some of them that are definitely called to my, my bosom for me to help and for me to nourish and mentor so God can superimpose himself and his wisdom on them through me. But because they want to elevate themselves to the same space I'm in, and not that I'm better, I just been through more. More. Yeah, and I've lived more. Glory to God. And probably failed more and learned how to take that failure and use it to bring glory to God. So a mentor, they do, they do basically 3 things. One, first, mentors measure. When mentors show up in your life, like apostles who have a metron on their life, they show up and they measure where you are. Most people despise mentors because real mentors are not gonna give you a pacifier and a bottle and a titty. Come on. A real mentor is gonna measure you and tell you exactly where you are because this mentor realizes Hear me, you cannot get where you're trying to go if you do not first access where you are. I tell the story all the time, been telling it, glory to God, for 30 years. I was in a mall one day, I was looking for a store. This is a simple analogy. I didn't know where the store was, had never been in the mall before. I knew where I wanted to go, I knew the store was in the mall. Like many of you. You never gone to where you're trying to go. You never gone to where God wants to show you. You know you want to go. You know you need to be there. You know you need to finish your course, but you have no idea where it is. This is how it was when I walked in this mall. Had no idea where this store was. It was a store called H. Stockton. H. Stockton is an Atlanta-based store, and H. Stockton is a store that had been around for years as a men's haberdashery, fine menswear. I bought a lot of stuff from them. Listen, I couldn't find H. Stockton. Walked in the mall where it was located at the time, looked at the directory. The first thing the directory did was become a mentor, and there was a big arrow on the side that said You are here. That's what mentors do when they show up in your life. A real mentor, the first thing they're gonna say is not celebrate your successes, is not celebrate your gift, is not tell you how wonderful you are, but they're gonna really be honest with you and say, you are here. And if you're really interested in getting where you need to go, You'll listen. 'Cause watch this, you shouldn't have a mentor that you don't trust has your best interest at heart. And listen, if you got a mentor that's telling you how good you are all the time, then you might wanna question whether that's a true, oh boy, whether that's a true mentor or not. Because a real mentor is gonna measure you. And say, hey, you are here, and take and help you take a real introspective and assessment of where you are and what it's going to take to get— listen to me— where you're trying to go. Lord have mercy. Emancipate. You got to allow yourself to— nobody wants to be measured. But you got to allow that. And once I measured that, I can measure the distance between where I was, where the store was, the steps I needed to take, the directions I needed to follow. Listen, there's a road to finishing your vision. And listen, I want to, I want to challenge you to understand something. Even though your mentor's vision might be different than yours, most of the same situations in the process will come up in your vision that they've already overcome. And that's why you got to be willing to listen and apply what your mentor is saying, because mentors measure. Oh my God. Secondly, mentors manage. So management is the process of getting something done over or helping a team or individual or an organization achieve certain goals and visions. So whenever a company wants to achieve a certain vision, the best thing on their team, on that owner's team, is a good manager who understands how to get to the end and how to rally those people together so that the people have everything they need to achieve the vision. Watch this. You got to have a mentor that you're willing to allow to help you manage your gifts, your skills, and your abilities in the best way to get you where you're trying to go. But if you're one of these people that say, oh, I know everything, and you never listen to nobody, your process is going to be slow, your process is going to be hard. And if by some chance, some osmosis, you end up where you're trying to go, you're going to be tired, worn out, broken, bitter by the time you get there, because you would have gone through a lot of things that you could have avoided or a lot of things that you could have had help with, provided you had a mentor. Every visionary needs a mentor. I need you to grab this. You need one. And I'm not teaching this because I'm trying to take the position of a mentor in your life. I promise you, I am not interested in mentoring anybody that's not called to my leadership. Now, if you're called to it and you're not in place, I suggest you get in place because you're missing a lifetime of experience that I carry in my belly, that's for you. I went through the hell for you. I'll never forget one time, true story, I had a guy come up to me. I was pre— this is back when I was traveling as a prophet and evangelist a lot, man. I was doing 40, 50 revivals a year before there was social media. There was no MySpace even yet. I just had an itinerant schedule. God was blessing me, God was opening doors, and I'm grateful for for that. Watch this. I was preaching revival one, one night, got finished. God comes up to me after church and says, hey, uh, Evangelist Woods, I want you to pray with me because I want to have the same anointing that you have on your life. I said, son, lift your hands. I lay my hands on him. I said, Father, in the name of Jesus, let him lose his family. First of all, let him go through a very hard childhood where he has a large portion without his mother. He grows up in an abusive home, an abusive culture. Let him go through hell and high water. Let him go to jail. Let him get talked about. He said, wait a minute, I didn't ask for that. I said, you— I said, wait a minute, I'm sorry. You said you wanted the same anointing I have. The anointing on my life was born out of trouble. Listen, and only way to avoid some of the trouble, because you got to have your own set of stuff you got to go through. You got to have a mentor that you allow to manage and that you could talk to to help you manage tribulation, to help you manage situations. That come up in your life. Ooh, somebody shout mentorship. You need it. Mentors measure, mentors manage. And watch this, mentors help you become a master. So when you got a mentor in your life and you go through the process with that mentor, you're now deployed as a master So you can also now mentor others because you've endured the process and you become also a master of your destiny, a master of your time, a master of vision. And because you have gone through the process of submitting to mentorship, we got too many novice who are calling themselves life coaches and mentors. How can you coach someone else and you're not being coached? You life coaches out there that got your life coaching certificate online and you've never been coached by anybody, but you trying to coach everybody, that's a problem, my friends. Or, hey, hey, Apostle, hey, Pastor, hey, Teacher, hey, Prophet and Evangelist, how can you lead people in the Body of Christ and you're not being led yourself? You're not submissive to authority, but you want to lead others. I don't get it. The reality is you can't. You can't. So everybody with a vision, every visionary, number one, needs a mentor. Glory to the name of God. Number two, every visionary— let's go, here we go— needs a map. The Bible says in Habakkuk again, write the vision and make it plain upon tables. So you need a map, you need some general direction to where you're going. I created an acronym for the word map, M-A-P, massive action plan. That's what this vision plan is. So you'll never be able to fulfill vision without a map. If you plan on encountering the God vision for your life, you must have a map. What does that mean, Michael Woods? That means you got to get up out of the bed every day and you got to deliberately take massive action to achieve your vision. See, many of you will never— one, you're lazy and you think you're just going to manifest vision because you close your eyes and say, I'm manifesting this, I'm manifesting this house, I'm manifesting this car. And then you want to write on social media, I manifested this car. I don't even have time. Listen, listen, in order for this to happen, you're going to have to take some deliberate, massive action. Stop looking for handouts. Stop looking for somebody to help you just because you going through it. You got to figure this thing out. You got to take massive action, which means you every day. I'm taking massive action. Hear me? You better believe it. My wife had to come here last night in my office, in the studio. I say, you still in here working? And she just had this look on her face. I wish you'd quit and go to bed. You know, I did. She didn't even have to say it. She breathed really hard, had a look on her face, because I've been in here since 5 o'clock yesterday morning. It was almost midnight working. Glory to God. Now I knew I need to take a break. She came in in her own way. She didn't tell me to stop because I don't think she would ever just say, stop working. But no woman wants to tell you that reality, but She, out of concern as my wife, said, man, if you don't go to bed— that was the look on her face— and get you some rest, you still in here. That was her word to me. So I got— I turned my computers off, got up, went to the bedroom, got into bed because I knew I needed to stop. But what I was getting ready to say I deliberately take action every day toward this billionaire run. I know I'm not just gonna close my eyes and say I'm a billionaire, I'm a billionaire. No, I have to put the work in. I have to make the right investments. I have to align the right partnerships. I have to keep my mind fresh enough and open enough to receive what mentorship is saying to me. And even when mentorship measure me and says, you need to do this, you need to pull back off this, you need to focus on this. I need to be very attentive and applicable to that wisdom. I need to apply it. You gotta take massive action, man. You, you, you're not gonna achieve anything without action. Oh boy. Oh boy. It will not happen. It will not happen unless you take action. You need a map, a massive Action plan. What is your plan every day? Do, do you have a plan to achieve your vision daily? Are you just waking up and just start doing something? Most of you wake up and just jump online and that's a problem. I don't have time. I don't have time. Yeah. You, you, before you go to bed at night, last thing you do, you online trying to check social media. Come on, man. I need you to put in some work. Glory to God. You need to put some action. You need a plan and you need to work the plan. Listen, people will doubt what you say. I promise you, people doubt what I say every day. But watch this, they'll believe what you do. I'm gonna say that one more time. People will doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do. So watch this, instead of trying to say it all the time Do it. I see people posting stuff all the time. Listen, so I'm a supernatural guy, right? And I love the supernatural. I've been moving in supernatural works all my ministry. I've been prophesying. Lord has used me to heal almost every kind of disease you can think of. I thank God that through my hands I've seen blinded eyes open, deaf ears unstopped. I've seen it. And I believe— and we're going to continue to see those kind of miracles. However, I also know God wants me to balance the devil casting out, the healings, the prophecy, with what I'm manifesting also in the earth realm to superimpose his light and his ability on people who don't believe. Yeah, miracles are one way people believe, but watch this. When God— when people see the miracle of your life how you were broke and had nothing, but God raised you up to millionaire status, billionaire status, and you could testify about that, and then you could turn around and teach them principle on how to do what you did, you're bringing glory to God. That's supernatural, my friend. And you, you know, you could talk about a big God that owns everything and you have nothing. I'm— listen, I'm struggling right there because— and I'm not coming down on you if this is you, But here's what I want you to understand. That ain't God's will for you. And what you gotta stop doing is making excuses. Come on, man. Come on, come on. Stop making excuses for what you're not achieving. Stop making excuses for your bank account not being where it needs to be. Get up, take massive action. You don't like your paycheck at the end of the week? Listen, take massive action get your plan, change what you do during the week, and then you could testify, man, I was making $19,000 a year, but God, now I'm making $340,000 a year. $340,000. Listen, you have those kind of testimonies. I'm just saying you got to create a balance, and that starts with taking massive action. And all you can't pray all day. And then get up and don't do nothing. Come on, man. Come on, come on, come on. I'm sorry. Let me get out of here. I gotta go. I gotta go. I really do. I need y'all to hear me, man. Hear me good. Let me calm down. Let me calm down. Let me calm down. You need a MAP. You need a massive action plan. Do you realize that every great achievement in history started with one act of action? Some of you think about what you want to do all the time. You have great ideas, you have great innovation that comes to you, but you never take the first step. Every— Tiger Woods, hallelujah, one of the greatest golfers that ever played the game. You know what it started with? It started with his first swing. As a baby Tiger Woods, it was the first swing. That he took as a 2-year-old toddler that led him to the road to becoming the greatest golfer to ever play the game. Arguably, people will argue that, but I believe he is. Some people say Jack, some people say Arnold, I say Tiger. Just depends on how you look at it. It started with the first swing. Come on, man. You can walk now. Most of you listening to me can actually walk. You have your legs. You started walking as a toddler. You had to take the first step. Those of you that have a vision to swim, the way you learn to swim, you gotta get in the water. You gotta take the first step. Any history-making event started with the first step. And that's a part of the plan, part of the map, part of the massive action plan is defining your first step. And some of you have these big dreams, these big visions, but you don't even know the first step you're going to take to get there. And what you keep doing is living in this mundane circle where you keep doing the same thing over and over again, Sunday after Sunday, teaching the same folk, doing the same thing, going through the same motions. And you never really work in a real plan that's getting you to a real reality, a real optimal reality for your future. Isaiah 9:6, God declares the end from the beginning. So he goes to the end of your life, decides this is where you're going, and then he backs up, brings you to the earth, and say, now start, take a step and work toward what I already created. But you can't do that if you don't even know what the end is. If you don't have a plan based on what God has shown you. I gotta go, man. You need a map. Oh, oh, oh yeah. Before I move to the next point, massive action plans are always determined. They're always deliberate. Watch this, and they're always dangerous to your enemy. Let's back up, let's unpack that. So when you got a massive action plan, it's determined that against all odds, I'm gonna continue to work while it's yet day, for the night coming when no man could work, and I'm gonna continue to keep going. I'm determined that no matter what comes against me this plan is going to work. Why? Because it came from God. Many other plans in a man's heart, but it's the Lord's purpose that prevails. I told you in the beginning, glory to the name of God, that the word of God divides that which is soul and spirit. See, there are many plans that come out of your soul, but when you allow the word to lead you and your relationship with God to lead and what you're supposed to produce in this life. It divides that and it releases the purpose of God, the counsel of God that's gonna stand. And then you're determined or disciplined even to finish the plan because you know where it came from. And then watch this, you know you ain't in the plan by yourself. Massive action plans are also deliberate. They're determined and they're deliberate. Which means nobody's gonna make you do it. You gotta get up every day and deliberately work on your vision. You gotta stop being a procrastinator. The enemy to deliverance is procrastination. The greatest enemy to being deliberate is procrastination. And I don't know who I'm talking to, but I'm, I wanna help somebody today. And I mean this in the meekest, humblest way in love. Some of you waste too much time, and I want to submit to you, you got to stop procrastinating because some of you are procrastinating just on stuff that ain't necessary. You sweating stuff that ain't necessary. You're allowing fear— watch this— to keep you from following a plan that you should be determined to finish, so you procrastinate. And you're not being deliberate to do what you got to do because you're afraid. You should never allow fear to stop you. Come on, man, to take massive action, you got to be deliberate. Listen, listen to this, because when you do this, you're dangerous. The enemy is afraid of you when you're deliberate and determined. You're dangerous, man. And he's like, okay, every time you wake up, the enemy say, oh, we better watch out, they got up. Because you're always doing something that's a threat to his plan for humanity and his plan for you. I'll say that again. You gotta make sure that every day you open your eyes, you are deliberately doing something that is a threat to the enemy's plan for humanity, and the enemy's plan for your life. And that means you need a massive action plan that's going to undergird deliberate actions every single day. Listen, some of you waiting and delaying till you get certain things in place, you get certain money. Listen, you don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. I'll say that one more time too. You don't have to be great to start, but you gotta start to be great. So I want to challenge you, man. You gotta start. Some of you got all this in you. You've seen it, you feel it, you want it, but you're afraid to start because you feel like you're inadequate. And really, honestly, your biggest fear is not that you're inadequate. Your biggest fear is that you really might succeed, and it may break the normancy that you're comfortable in. Ooh, Lord, help us today. Some people won't be deliberate, they won't start, they won't take action. God, because they fear breaking their comfort zone. But you will never progress, you will never enlarge, you will never fulfill vision as long as your comfort zone is consistent. You gotta take massive action. Let's look at the Bible. James 2:26, part B, says, faith without works is dead. For you deep and wonderful folk, who got tons of faith. You speak in tongues all the time. You listen, I'm a tongue talker, man. I speak in tongues so much, so I'm not against it, all right? But I am against imbalance, because at the end of the day, you got to balance it. You pray all the time, you study all the time, and you have faith in the word, but you don't have any works to go with it. Faith without corresponding action is dead. So if you're believing, doing all the spiritual stuff, moving in faith, but you don't have any action that aligns with your belief, corresponding to your faith, it's dead. It doesn't even matter that you have faith because you're not doing anything with it. Watch this. Revelation without application, uh-oh, it's constipation, which means you're stuck, you're straining, it's hard to get it out. That's why I said in the beginning, I am a laxative to help you get that moving. And when you watch these lives, it's to help to get you moving. I'm fiber in the spirit. Glory to God. Listen, I need you to understand, you need a mentor if you're going to fulfill vision. You need a map if you're going to fulfill vision. And wait a minute, this is the last thing and I'm gonna be done. Most people don't want to talk about this, but it's the truth, man. Like I said, there are several things I could have put here, but this is the one the Holy Spirit told me to talk about today. If you're going to manifest vision and you want to fulfill vision, and that dream we talked about on Sunday that you're daring to dream You must have money. You could start without it and do it broke, but some point in the vision, you're gonna need some resources. You're gonna need money. And I want you to understand something. Hear this. This is a reality. Nothing can be established without wealth. God set it up that way so you will lean on him, and he made the vision bigger than you, bigger than your bank account, bigger than your resources, so that you would— watch this— develop enough faith with corresponding action that money— watch this— will compensate your corresponding action to faith. So you got to learn how to go after the vision. And watch this, the Kingdom Law of Compensation kicks in and money starts looking for you because you're moving in faith and action to get— not you sitting there waiting for it to drop out the sky, but you see the vision You're being very deliberate in massive action. You're listening to your mentors. So now you start taking steps without money. So money stands up and says, okay, let me compensate them and give them what they need to finish this vision. Why does that happen? I'm glad you asked. Let's look at the scripture. The Bible says in Ecclesiastes 10:19, 10:19, I'm sorry. Ecclesiastes 10:19. The scripture declares that money answereth all things. It answers things. So whatever you need in the material world to finish your spiritual vision, you need money to do it, to answer it. Come on, come on. Oh we, oh we, I know we don't like to talk about money. I know in the church especially Y'all don't want to talk about two things: sex, and you don't want to talk about money. But here's the problem with that: you want some of both of them. Matter of fact, most of y'all, most of us, yeah, we want a whole lot of both of them. So in order to do that correctly, we need to discuss it. So don't get offended if I'm talking about money with you today. I need you to realize you need money to fulfill this vision because it's gonna answer the things you need. But when you correspond to faith with action, money is looking for you. I wanna submit to you right now that money is looking for you. Glory to the name of God. Wealth is looking for you. I dare you type it in the comments right now. Money is looking for me. Glory to God. Money is looking for me so I can fulfill my vision. Money is looking for me so I can fulfill my dream. Type it, money is looking for me. I'm telling you right now, money is looking for you. You just gotta keep moving in faith and stay aligned. Don't give into the temptation to take shortcuts. Money's looking for you. Oh my God. Listen, facts, 100, 100. If you have a vision, money will come. If you have a vision from God, he always is going to give provision, because God is for the vision, because the vision is what he uses— watch this— to establish his covenant. Deuteronomy 8:18. Let me give you some scripture. The Bible says, but you shall remember with profound respect. Wait a minute, God says, I'm gonna bring something back to your, your memory and you're going to have profound respect for it, the Lord your God. So first of all, in this role division, your mind has two functions: memory and imagination. Your memory replays the past. Your imagination preplays the future. So your imagination is vitally important in the process, yeah, of fulfilling vision, right? So your image nation, your nation of images. So what vision is, Nations of images. It's the superimposing, hear me, of God's optimal reality in picture form in your mind. So that's your imagination. So your imagination should be fueled by God's reality. You should not be having imagination that's fueled in fantasy, that's not real. God's imagination should become your imagination for your life. So it preplays what's coming. So once you get that, you're constantly preplaying it in light of your massive action plan, in light of how your mentors are telling you to fulfill this. Oh boy. Woo-wee! Hallelujah, Jesus. I love it, man. I love the Lord so much. He's so wonderful. Glory to God. Wow, man. So yeah, so you, you pre-playing this and you're planning it out every day, how you gonna bring the plans, what you're pre-planning. But every now and then you need to replay something that reminds you— watch this— of what God can do. So the Bible says you shall remember with profound respect the Lord your God. Can I tell you something? His has done, ooh, is just as powerful as his will do. If God did it before, he'll do it again. And you gotta remember what— how dare you forget what God has done? How dare you when you get up against something tough that you forget how his hand moved before? I don't know who I'm talking to, but somebody has forgotten what God has done. And again, his has done is just as powerful as his will do. I'm telling you, he will do it, and you gotta trust. Glory to God. He said, for it is he, the same God that did it for you before, who has given you power to make wealth so that he may confirm his covenant, which he swore solemnly promised to your fathers, as it is this day. Can I tell you something? God has promised you something that he promised our forefathers a long time ago. This is his covenant with us, that our barns would be filled with plenty, that all the land that you see He gonna give it to you and your seed, seed forever. You got to see the vision and you got to trust God that he's going to give you the provision, the money. You know what money is? And I'm closing with this. Money is what you receive. When you give somebody something they cannot receive me without you. Yeah, that's how the exchange of money works. So twofold meaning to that. One, when you discover what your purpose is as it is connected to your vision and start giving that to people, they will exchange what you give for money. That's good stuff because they need— just like, watch this, you need gas to drive in your car if you're— or if you drive an electric vehicle, you need electricity. Either way, somebody's paying for that fuel or that electricity, and the companies that provide it know it. You can't do it without them. Are you hearing this? So they get money whenever we go to the gas station. No different than the vision on your life. It attracts money when you start doing what you're supposed to do. You don't have to beg for it. It comes. It looks for you. Second fold of that though, again, money is what you receive when you give somebody something they cannot receive without you. Can I tell you, you're so unique to God, and when you perfectly align with his plan and his vision for your life, he stretches forth his hand of provision as Jehovah Jireh, and he provides what you need to get the job done. Let's pray. My time is gone, man. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you that every visionary needs a mentor. They need management and they need money. And I pray for the visionaries under the sound of my voice right now. Father, would you please send them mentorship, send them management, and God, give them money, provision for the vision. May they lack no thing, neither shall they have a care. I decree and declare that whatever they need, you're providing it for them right now, in Jesus' name. Amen. Glory to God. Well, perhaps you were watching this really quickly and maybe you're not born again. You know, all this talk about vision aligning with God, it starts with him. And when I say born again, that means you have not repented of your sin. And accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. I know it's not popular today. I know people, you know, they'd rather do all kind of other things than lead you to Christ. You know, there are people that are so caught up in discipling people. Well, you can't disciple people if you don't win them first. You got to win them first. And so we jump from winning a soul to trying to disciple people that's already saved, and then we got a world dying. But maybe you're listening today and you're not born again, right? You don't know Jesus and the free pardon of your sin. He died on a bloody cross for real. It's reality. He had a vision for you that you could live a good life on Earth if you receive him, and that you can really get to know him for real, personally. Listen, I know Jesus for real. It's not a figment of my imagination. He's real to me. Ask me how I know he's real. He lives in my heart. He walks with me. He talks with me for real. And I just want to introduce you to this man that I know. Listen, if you're not— if you're not born again, I want you to pray this prayer with me. Just say, Heavenly Father, in Jesus' name, I repent of my sin. Say, I believe you died and rose again. So I open my heart and I ask you, God, come in my heart and live in me. Say, Father, fill me with the Holy Spirit that I may serve you in the fullness thereof. In Jesus' name, amen, and thank Thanks be to God. Listen, if you said that prayer, I want you to know you're saved. Listen, go to our website, rhodachurch.com/contact, and say— and send me a note and say, hey Apostle Woods, I prayed with you today on Rhoda Now, I gave my life to the Lord. We have so many that do that We want to stay in touch with you. So make sure you go and do as others have done so we can send you out— praise the name of the Lord— the necessary tools to continue your walk with God. I love you guys, man. Listen, if you desire to give into the ministry, the ways to give are on the screen. There's no pressure, you know, but the Bible says to give seed to the sower, bread to the eater, and whatsoever you sow, that shall you reap. I ask that you be liberal tonight and be a blessing to ministry so we can continue to take the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world. I love you guys so much. Thanks again for watching, and I want to challenge you as I do each and every week: share the word with a friend. And remember, your decisions will set you up for dominion. God bless you.