Narrow Minded People with Little Bitty Minds // Dr. Mike Woods, Sr.
The recording captures a worship service led by Apostle Mike Woods (Dr. Mike Woods, Sr.) at Rock Church Atlanta, continuing a series on defeating legalism and narrow‑minded thinking. The session opens with a collective prayer of surrender, followed by extended praise and spontaneous hallelujahs. Apostle Mike delivers a multi‑layered teaching that urges listeners to think like God by suspending natural time, accessing the spirit realm, and breaking out of comfort zones. He emphasizes that life reflects thought, contrasting a narrow, legalistic mindset with a God‑aligned, abundant perspective. The sermon introduces a seven‑dimensional water metaphor (mist, dew, rain, wells, rivers, atmospheric water, deep water) to illustrate how God pours out blessings. A vivid narrative about a witch coven in Africa illustrates spiritual warfare and deliverance. The latter part stresses abundance, the law of multiplicity versus a scarcity mindset, and includes prophetic declarations that listeners will “live to see it happen,” that blessings will be “speeded up,” and that material prosperity is forthcoming. The pastor also gives practical instructions: a call to give sacrificially through multiple digital channels, a reminder of the church’s Tuesday fasting schedule, and an evangelism challenge to write down the names of unsaved people, pray for them, and reach out. The overall tone is highly enthusiastic, prophetic, and exhortative, aiming to shift listeners’ mindset from legalism to a expansive, God‑centered worldview.
Chapters
Lord, we just lay all our concerns, anything that would weigh us down, we lay them down now, Lord. We place them at your feet, Father. We just thank you. We just surrender everything to you so that we can receive all the glory to God.
Yes, Lord.
How we trust you, we love you, we honor you, we glorify you, we thank you, Lord, that even though things may look one way in the natural, we know that in the spirit you are working fiercely on our behalf. You are working mightily on our behalf. While we're sleeping, you're still working. While we're wondering how things are going to work out, you're still working. While we're trying to figure out and put two and two together, you like, I already got that figured out, keep going.
Yes, Jesus.
So we thank you, Father, that you are our strong tower.
Yes, yes.
We thank you, Lord, that your word still stands no matter what things look like.
Hallelujah.
We thank you that you are the same yesterday, today, and forever. We thank you, Lord, that you did not change your mind about us and you will not change your mind about us. We thank you, Lord, for sending your angels I thank you, Father, for the angels assigned to Rahla Church, that they are standing guard and that nothing and no one will stop, hinder, or block anything that's meant for Rahla Church. We thank you, Lord, that you are removing any and every single hindrance now in the name of Jesus. And I thank you, Father, for filling this place with your peace, your presence, Lord. The Great Exchange. Let's keep hearing Great Exchange. So we exchange, Lord, our worries for your peace. Our worries for your peace. Drop it down, he says. Drop it down. Every care, every concern, drop it down. The weight of yesterday, drop it down. Don't start worrying about what's going to happen this week. Drop it down. Drop it down. Spend time with me. This is my time. Give this time to me, he said.
This is my time.
Drop it down, for I am the one who orders your steps. I am the one who goes before you, behind, and on both sides. I escort you. I escort you, my child. So we thank you, Holy Spirit. Come have your way in this place this say, do whatever it is you want to do, whether it's convict, or confirm, affirm. Do whatever it is you want to do, Father. We are your surrendered, willing vessels, Father, and we only want what you have, God. We only seek to please you. He wants to equip us. He wants to equip us. I'm hearing equip. He wants to equip so that we can be deployed. Equipped to be deployed. So Father, we thank you as we come before you, open to receive whatever it is you want to equip us with this day. I speak and pray blessings over Miss Felicia and Apostle Mike as they go forth in worship and in your word. Even over Messiah God, that you would place your hands on his hands as he plays for you. Holy Spirit, we invite you to take over this service. Have your way, Lord.
Have your way, God.
Just have a feeling that he really wants to do something today. Have your way, Holy Spirit.
Hallelujah, we praise your name, God.
Thank you, Father. Hallelujah, hallelujah, Jesus.
Shannon prayed, hallelujah, but we give God the fruit of our lips.
So I want you to open your mouth and give God hallelujah.
Hallelujah, you worthy God, you worthy God, you worthy God.
Hallelujah, praise your holy name, God.
We worship you, Jesus. Lord, you're glorious, you're marvelous, and we praise your name, God.
Hallelujah.
Yes, God, thank you, Jesus, for life today.
Hallelujah.
For strength today, God, we praise you.
For our mind, God, we praise you.
For the activities of our limbs, Lord, we praise you. For our mouth to speak, Lord, we praise you. For ears to hear, God, we praise you. For eyes to see, Lord, we praise Two good legs that we walk in, we praise you. Our feet, we praise you. Two hands that we can clap, we praise your name, Jesus.
We honor you today, God.
We honor you today, God. We honor you today, God. You're worthy, God. You're worthy of all the glory. You're worthy of all the praise. And we praise your name. We praise your name. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Don't mind loud noise. Hallelujah! Glory to God! Come on, give God a shout back up in here! Hallelujah! Come on, open your mouth and praise him! Hallelujah! Glory, glory, glory, glory, glory! Hallelujah! Glory to God! If he's done anything for you, hallelujah! It ought to be a praise on the inside. Hallelujah! It ought to be a hallelujah on the inside.
Hallelujah! Hallelujah!
Glory to God! Hallelujah! We worship you, Jesus! We praise you, God! Hallelujah! For being so good! Glory to God! Hallelujah! Glory to God! We can't forget your promises, God! Hallelujah! You said to enter into your gates with thanksgiving and into your courts with praise. So God, we praise you! Lord, we worship you! Put your hands together! Come on, saints!
Glory to God!
Hallelujah!
Glory to God! Hallelujah! He's worthy of every hand clap, of every— Hallelujah! Glory to God! Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus! Sometimes you want to hear some noise. Glory to God! Hallelujah! Like I said, he ain't nervous. Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!
With your voice, your loud voice, let your voice, my Lord! Hallelujah! Come on, come on, come on, come on!
Glory!
Hallelujah!
Glory! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Lord, I praise you! Hallelujah! Lord, I worship you! Lord, I give you glory! Lord, I give you honor! You're worthy, God! You're worthy, God! You do miracles, God! You're a great God! You're a great God! You're a great God! Hallelujah! Glory to God! Thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. Hallelujah, hallelujah.
Thank you, Jesus.
Glory to God. You feel your belly, sometimes you have to yell. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. So if you got new rivers of living water on the inside, that means it moves. Hallelujah. It don't sit still. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah! We gotta praise him like the water is moving. We gotta praise him like it's moving. It's not just standing still.
Hallelujah!
But a river of living water, hallelujah, should be flowing through our bodies.
Hallelujah!
And Lord, I thank you today just for that reason. Hallelujah for your living water. Hallelujah! Welcome, hallelujah, to Rock Church Atlanta. Glory to God, we had a wonderful time in Mississippi on yesterday. So we just bringing it right on back home to Atlanta. Hallelujah! Because God is omnipresent. Everywhere we go, we take him with us. Hallelujah! Glory to God! We practice that. Glory to God! Hallelujah! Wherever we are, you should be— you should have a praise on the inside.
Hallelujah!
That's well enough. Hallelujah! And you gotta get it out. You should have a praise on the inside and you gotta get it out. Hallelujah! Glory to God! Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!
Glory to God! Hallelujah! Glory to God! Worship is wonderful. Hallelujah! But sometimes we got to do a little yelling, do a little loud. He hear you. Hallelujah! He makes a box. Hallelujah! As well, that's a loud noise. Glory to God! So we're thankful. Hallelujah! Lord, his promises. We're thankful for his mighty acts. Hallelujah! Thank you for his love and his kindness. Hallelujah! That surrounds us day by day. Hallelujah! Glory to God that wakes us up early in the morning. Hallelujah! When the clock didn't even go off, we get up.
Hallelujah!
Because of his grace and because of his mercy. And I'm so thankful today because I know he lives.
I know he lives.
Hallelujah! Glory to God! Hallelujah! He conquered death. Hallelujah! And the grave. 3 days he got up. Glory to God. With all power in his hands.
I know he lives. Hallelujah.
Ask me how I know he lives. Because he lives inside of me. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Don't take much. Hallelujah. To praise him. Hallelujah. You just think back on how good he's been. Just think of some things you know that couldn't nobody do but Jesus. Hallelujah. You couldn't did it on your own. Hallelujah. But he made a way out of no way. Hallelujah! Glory to God! He provided out of nowhere. He opened up the river out of no way. Hallelujah! Glory to God! We go back, whether it's the road— hallelujah! Didn't know which way to go, which way to turn. He made a way. Glory to God! So how can we not praise him? How can we not lift him up? How can we not give him praise? How can we not reverence who he is? Glory to God! He's wonderful! He's marvelous. Hallelujah. Everything about him is wonderful, and we worship him here. We honor him.
Hallelujah.
He's welcome in this place to rest, rule, and abide. Hallelujah. In this place, we welcome him in here. Hallelujah. Glory to God. He came in with me, but I'm letting you know, you're welcome, God. Hallelujah. Sit on every shoulder in here.
Hallelujah.
Glory to God. God, you do what you do best. Hallelujah! Move self out of the way.
Hallelujah!
Because it ain't about me, ain't about Apostle, but it's all about him. He gets all the glory, he gets all the honor. Hallelujah! To that I am grateful.
Hallelujah!
I love you, Lord, and I lift my voice to worship you. Oh, my soul, rejoice, take joy, my King, in what you hear, and let it be a sweet, sweet sound. To glory. I love you, Lord. I lift my voice to worship you, oh my soul. Change your mind, King. What you hear, what you hear, and let it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ears. To the word, I love you, Lord. How many of you love it? And you lift your voice to worship you. Oh my soul, rejoice, take joy, take joyfully-yam in what you hear. And let it be as sweet, as sweet, as sweet sound in your ears. We adore thee, we adore thee, we adore thee, hey! Oh Lord, he is holy, he is holy, he is holy Lord. Oh Lord. We adore thee. Happy exaltation. We adore thee. We adore thee, O Lord. We adore thee. We exalt thee, we exalt thee, oh Lord. Open your mouth.
Hallelujah.
With the fruit of your lips. Hallelujah. We exalt you, Jesus. We worship you, God. We worship you, God. We worship you, Jesus. Oh Lord, I love you, Lord, and I lift my voice to worship you. So my soul rejoice, take joyfully-yam. What you hear. And let it be a sweet, a sweet, a sweet sound. Let it be a sweet, a sweet, sweet sound. Let it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ears. Come on, let's be exalted. We love you! We love you! Oh Lord— we adore thee! We adore thee! We adore you, we adore you, Lord. Oh Lord, we exalt thee. Oh Lord, we exalt thee, Lord. We worship you, Jesus. Oh Lord, we give you all the glory, God. We adore thee. Oh Lord, you deserve all the glory. We adore thee.
Oh Lord. Hallelujah, hallelujah.
Put your hands together. Hallelujah, we adore you, Lord.
Glory!
Hallelujah! We exalt you, all your mighty acts. Hallelujah! We give you all the glory, we give you all the honor. Hallelujah!
Thank you, Jesus.
You deserve the glory and the honor. We lift our hands in worship. And we magnify your name. You deserve the glory and the honor. We lift our hands in worship and we magnify your name. You deserve the glory And the honor, Lord. We lift our hands in worship and we magnify your name. You deserve all the glory, God, and all the honor. Lord, I lift my hands and I worship and I magnify your name, 'cause you are great. You do miracles so great. There is no one else like you. There is no one else like you. You are great. You do miracles so great. There is no one else like you. There is no one else, no one else like you. You deserve the glory. Hallelujah. And all of the honor. Lord, I lift my hand and I thank you, Jesus, and I worship you, and I magnify you, Lord. You deserve the glory, all the glory. And beyond earth. Lord, I lift my hands in worship and I magnify your name, for you are great. You do miracles so great. There is no one else like you. There is no one else like you. You are great. You do miracles so great. There is no one else like you. There is no one else, no one else. No one else like you, Lord. You're great, you're great, God. Hallelujah! You're a great God, you're a great God. Lord, you do miracles so great.
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! God, you open blinded eyes. You're great, God. You do miracles so great. Hallelujah! We praise you, God. Lord, we worship you. Hallelujah! When the fruit of our lips— we praise you, Lord, for your miracle-working power, for your omnipresence in our life. We praise you, God. You do miracles so great, you do miracles so great. There's no one else, there is no one else. There is no one else. There is no one else. There is no one else but you. Hallelujah! Come on, in the name of Jesus, please, please pray. Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! Come on, just stand on your feet for a few more moments, please. There is no one like Jesus. Come on, I need you worship him right here. Come on, worship him, worship him.
Fill this room with your voice.
Glory to God. Fill this room with your voice. There is no Come on, I just need you to worship him.
Come on, just open your mouth for a few moments this hour with no music. Come on, I need you just to fill this room with your voice. Come on, he's worthy of it.
There is none like him.
There is none like him. Come on, if you believe that, I just need you to open your mouth. Remember, worship is demonstrative. It means you got to do something. Come on, come on, come on. The worshipers are worshiping. Come on, those of us that are watching my live online right now, Come on, right where you are, just open your mouth. Come on, worship guarantees that he is where you are. Y'all didn't hear that? Worship, it's the only guarantee that God will show up where you are. The scripture says he lives in our worship, he lives in our praise. I need somebody that believes that. I don't want you to do it because I asked you. I want you to do it because he's worthy. He's kept us alive. Glory to God. He sustained our life, and there's none like him. He blocked stuff that should have killed us, that should have bound us up, that should have broke us down, that should have had us in jail. Oh my God! Oh, shantai, shantai! There's none like him. Come on, cry out to him. opens until glory rushes upon us. Oh, there's none like Jesus! There's none like Jesus! I heard that God, God said to tell you there are many prophecies and promises from the word that are over your head. And there are things that he has promised you. And the Lord said, as the enemy has tried to discourage you that the things that God has said will never happen, the Holy Spirit says to tell you today, you're going to live to see it happen. Yeah, I'll say it again, somebody missed it. You're going to to see it happen. You're going to live to see it happen. You won't die, you won't faint, you won't give up, you won't quit. You will see the glory in your life. You'll see the manifestation of God's power in your life. You're going to live, you're going to live to see it happen. You're going to live to see it happen. Live, live, live, live, live.
By it! You're going to live to see it happen!
Re—
you're going to live to see it happen! Re— Nancy, you're gonna live to see it happen!
You're gonna live to see it happen! Holy Spirit said live, live, live, Lift.
He's singing over you this morning.
You going to live to see it happen.
Just lift your hands and receive it. The promise is not over, it's just been delayed.
But God said today he's eliminating the delay and you're going to live, see it happen.
Live, live, live, live, live.
You're going to live, see it happen.
Just touch yourself and declare it.
I'm going to live. The Lord said live. He said you shall live and not die.
And every diabolical scheme of the enemy and his demons that have tried to discourage God's plan and deplete your energy and sap your joy, God said that enemy today is renounced and destroyed. And I speak life over you. I speak the blessing of the Lord over you. I speak new energy, new dimensions of faith. So be revived again in your spirit. Be revived again in your soul. You're gonna live, you're gonna live, you're gonna live. Live, live, live, live, live. Live!
Live live— Live!
Live life! Live!
Live!
Oh God, I guess somebody receive it in your spirit. You can't quit, you can't stop, because you're going to live, you're going to live to see heaven. You're going to see joy, you're going to see happiness. You're gonna see redemption. I don't care what your past said. I heard you, Lord. The Lord said to tell y'all, I never look at your past to determine your future. I've already settled where you're going. I've already settled who you are, and I'll never regard your— oh my God— your past circumstance. Your past or your present situation to determine the outcome of my destiny concerning you. I, the Lord, say to you today, all I need you to do is receive the promise and live. The Holy Spirit says, live. I command you to live, said the Lord.
You're gonna live. See it happen.
Live, live, live, live, live. Michael, you're gonna live.
See it happen! Live live live live— Come to give you life, and I come to give you life more abundantly. The just shall live by faith, for I will show you the path of life. For in my presence there is fullness of joy, and at my right hand there are pleasures forevermore.
Behold, I do a new thing in your midst, and it shall spring up among you, and your eyes shall behold it, and your eyes shall see it.
You better live.
Oh, live, live, live, live. I choose life. I choose to keep going. I choose to keep it moving.
Yes, Lord, I can see you in your future. And you look much better than you look right now.
Holy Spirit is singing over you. I can see you in your future. Yes, Lord. And you look much better Can you look right now?
Somebody watching us live, I can see you in your future, and you look much better than you look right now.
Run, church! I can see you. Yes, Lord, in your future. Yes, Lord, and you look much fuller.
Yes, Lord, and you look right now.
One time, sing over this church. Holy Spirit, I can see you. Yes, Lord, church, in your future. Yes, Lord Jesus, and you look much fuller than you look right now. I guess somebody help me sing to these chairs. I kind of see you in your future. Come on, my baby, and you look much fuller. I can see you, Kassai, in your future. Yes, Lord!
And you look much better than you look right now.
Oh, I can see I can, I can see you in your future.
And you look much better than you look right now.
Michael Jr., my first boy, I can see you in your future. Hey, God! And you look much better. Here I can see you, a double soul in your future, and you look much better than you look right now. Mother Morgan, I can see you, a God in your future. And you look—
that you look right now.
Dr. Tomorrow Morning, I can see you in your future. And you Thank you, I can see you in your future. Thank you, and you look much better than you look now. I can see you In your future, and you look much better than you look right now. My sister to the right, I can see you. I told you, I said in your future Come on, we need to see the future for the glory, for the authority, for the power, for the blessing. Open your mouth and just give God some glory.
Come on, just give him glory.
Come on, there's a cloud in here.
Thank you for the future, Lord, and thank you that you'll never look at our past and decide our future. You've already planned.
See, what you've been going through, even some of you as soon as this past weekend, what you've been challenged with, it's not about where you are. It's about where you're going. It's about where you're going.
It's about the future.
That's why the devil's mad. That's why he doesn't like you. That's why he fights you. That's why he sends schemes and attacks and temptations, cuz he fears your future. You're going somewhere. The car has already started, the gears have already been shifted, and the Lord says you're going somewhere. You're going somewhere, you're going somewhere. The car is moving, the vehicle is rolling. Come on, say hallelujah!
Hallelujah, Lord!
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah!
The rain— oh, should I hear that? God said it. You will reign.
Oh, you will reign.
Oh.
Yes, you. Yes, you. Yes, you.
Will rain.
That's the only plan for you.
Will rain.
Glory will be As you reign, my glory will be seen.
As you reign, there's no other plan but for you to rule.
It's not Plan B. My glory shall be seen as you reign.
For you— yes, you will reign. For you We'll pray. Hallelujah, Father, we love you. We thank you for your presence that fills this room today. Thank you for your glory. We honor your name. We honor your name. We lift up our hands, Lord, and honor your name. We honor your name.
We honor your name.
We lift up our heads, Lord, and honor your name. Father, we thank you. You deserve the glory, s—
and the honor as we lift We lift our hands in worship and we bless your holy name. You deserve the glory and the honor and all of the honor. Yes, Lord, we lift our hands in worship and we bless Your holy name.
You are great. You are great. You do miracles.
You do miracles. So great. There is no one else like you.
There is no one else like you, Jesus.
There is no one else like you. You are great.
You There's no one else like you. Father, let us experience the light, illumination, and the intelligence of your spirit today as we teach your word. Open our hearts, our mind, our spirit. We thank you that you're already doing the unusual, something man cannot do. So Father, even through your word, continue to manifest the unusual thing, and we bless you for it. Now may these people be blessed by you and never impressed by me, and we give you all the glory. And all the honor shall be mine. In Jesus' name, amen. And thanks be to God. Would you clap your hands again and give God glory? He's so good to us. Glory to God. I'm going to jump right into the heart of our message today. Glory to God. God is good.
Amen.
There's none like him nowhere. He's perfect in the path that he provides. Thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. Wonderful Savior. Hallelujah. Glory to God. I want to continue today. I'm going to attempt to teach this, glory to God, without passing out. Praise God. Wonderful Savior, because I'm real drunk right now. Glory to God.
Jesus.
We're going to continue our series, glory to God, on defeating legalism And religion. This is actually part 7 of this, and I pray it's been a blessing to you. Glory to God. Um, I believe God's trying to shift us into a place where we can receive the maximum blessing that he's provided and prepared for us already. Glory to God. Say this with me. Say, we serve a big and abundant God. Come on, say it again. Say, we serve a big and abundant God. And so what we have been talking about for the last 4 times is narrow-minded people with little bitty lives. And we've been discovering that your life is a direct reflection of how you think. I'll say that again: your life is a reflection of how you think. Those commercials growing up, they used to say— I used to watch cartoons and, uh, the commercial used to always say, you are what you eat. And I believe that your body is basically, basically regulated in health by what you put in. Amen. But the manifestations from the realm of the spirit that we see in our life, they come from how we think.
So I want to take it much deeper than that dimension of your body. You're not, you're not just what you eat, but you are what you think. Jesus says, as a man thinketh, so is he. So we want to finish up this narrow-minded piece.
I, I spoke on it yesterday. For those of you watching us live, for those of you here that, that didn't get it, it's online. Go back and watch it.
Glory to God. God wants to change how we think.
Amen.
And I think we need a perspective of God. So today I want to try to shift our Revelation of God. Here's some things I want you to write down.
I'll give you 3 things I want you to write down before I even get into this.
First of all, God is not man, right? He's not man.
He's different. He is God.
Watch this, he's real. The Bible said God is not a man. That he should lie, neither the Son of Man that he should repent. If he said it, so shall it be. Y'all agree with that? That's Bible, right? So God is not a man, so God is faithful to what he says.
Man will tell you one thing and do another. Are y'all hearing this?
Man will let us down all the time, but God is faithful. I believe I'm talking to some people in here today and possibly online that understand, praise God, that God has been faithful, that you can look back over your shoulder and see how good God has been. I have testimony to the fact that God is not a man. And that he's been more faithful to me than man could ever be. God has been with me when man has walked away and left me. Yeah, it is. I'm sure you can attest to that. When people walked out, God was still there. Are y'all hearing this? God is not man, so you can't approach him with these past preconceived notions and deal with him based on how others have treated you, right? He's not a man, he's a supernatural God. He's so God, we couldn't even find a big— you know, we couldn't even find a big word to call him. We just took God, G-O-D, and based on his deity and his power and his authority, we declare he's the God of God. There are not enough seminaries, there are not enough lexicons and dictionaries to define him. He's just God. Matter of fact, the Bible says he declares that he is God all by himself. This is one of the things that distinguishes him from man. He's God by himself. So if man chooses not to serve him, guess what? He's still gonna be God. If man chooses not to trust him, he's still God. If this world continues to live in sin and be wicked and evil, guess what? It doesn't change the fact that God is God. As a matter of fact, the scripture says that God is the God of gods, which means there's some little g-dots that will proclaim that they are just as powerful as our God. But I'm going to serve notice on you, they're not. And the scripture has declared he's the God of gods. So for you Muslims watching, I don't deny that Muhammad is a god, but the God I serve is the God of gods.
Glory to God.
I don't deny that Sun Wukong is a god, but the God I serve is the God of God. For you Buddhists that decided to tune in, I want to declare to you that I don't deny that Buddha is a god, but this Jesus I serve, he's the God of God. He created heaven and earth.
He's the first, the last, the beginning, the end.
The scripture says he's Alpha, he's Omega. Hallelujah!
He's a comforter.
Matter of fact, he's omnipresent. He's everywhere at the same time. If you search out Buddha's grave, Buddha's still there. You go looking for Muhammad, Muhammad's still there. The thing that distinguishes Jesus from other gods— one, he got up. Hallelujah. And in other religions, we find men dying for their God. You travel to a Muslim country, a man with a bomb strapped to him might walk up to you and say they're dying in the name of Allah because they feel like they owe him homage. Those crazy men that flew those planes into the World Trade Center, they, they thought they were dying for their God. Are you hearing this? But only in this faith does our God die for us.
So he's not a man.
Secondly, I want you to write this down: God doesn't think like you. The scripture says his thoughts are not our thoughts. His ways are not our ways. As far as the east is from the west, as far as night is from day, the scripture declares we are that different. So here's what I have to do as a human: I got to align myself with his way of thinking, because I wasn't shaped in thinking like God. Matter of fact, the scripture says we were born in sin, shaping in iniquity. So we were shaping to think like the world and to rely on their system. I know I've been saying this since Friday, but it's reality. Systems are very real. But here's the issue. Systems are not alive. They're not living organisms. So we'll tie into a system and become legalistic in a system and think that because we're in a system that appears to work or has been working, that it still works. And I'm telling you, there are systems even in the church that God is no longer a part of. I need you to hear that. There's some things that God has just— he put up his finger, he took a note from the folk that like do this when they get up and walk out of church. He did this. I don't know what that means. But God said, okay, I'm out of here, because God can't be bound to a box, because his thought— oh my God, his thought posture is always light years ahead of ours. So in order to keep up with God, watch this, we have to be in the spirit. 'Cause when we get in the spirit, it suspends time. 'Cause watch this, we're moving in an eternal realm when we get in the realm of the spirit. And the only way to climb up into the thoughts of God and think like him, you got to be walking in the spirit. You got to suspend time because he's eternal and we're in chronos, which means chronological time, which goes by calendars and clocks. God doesn't operate like that. So we have to move in his— oh my God— realm in a way that whenever he moves, we move. Ludacris would say, just like that. Okay, so God says, I need you to suspend time because you tap into the spirit. Say this with me. Say, the spirit realm suspends natural time. Say this, and it allows me to think like God, because God thinks from an eternal perspective. Watch this. You have tapped into this so many times and didn't know it. Because watch this, everything God has already thought is finished. Let me tell you what prophecy really becomes. A prophet has an ability through his gift of discernment, because he's so keen to tap into an eternal time And what a prophet is really doing, reading an eternal time.
Something—
watch this— prophecy is to come for us, it's already done for God. He already completed. So when you tap in, you're just reading what he already did. Some of you have been here and didn't know it. You get somewhere, you say, man, I've been here before. The world calls it déjà vu. You just had an eternal moment. You just tapped into something that already happened, and watch this, you caught up with it in chronological time. See, in the spirit, we gotta learn how to read eternal timeline so we can think like God.
Touch yourself and say, God wants me to think like him. Oh boy. Number 3, and then we're gonna get into it. All right, God wants to break your comfort zone.
You will never enlarge. You will never tap into the things that God has prepared for you if you stay in your comfort zone. You have to break out of that comfort and make up in your mind there's more for me. Than this comfortable space. You got to break out of that box and say, Lord, I'm willing to step into the unknown. Comfort is easy. That's why we often revert back to it. But God said, in order to get you where I'm trying to take you and really to defeat legalism because legalism ain't just about church, it's about how our life evolved. Again, you could be going through a life of comfort where you just lean on that comfort. I lean on my job, I lean on my bank account, I lean on my friends. And watch this, when that system breaks down, what are you gonna do then? So you have to automatically decide my confidence and my comfort will only be enough, and where he leaves, I'll follow.
Listen to this, I don't ever want to be where God was, I want to be where he is. If God leaves, I'm out. I'm just—
if I'm in something and God's in it, but he said I ain't in this no more, dude, I'm out. Because at the end of the day, I can't afford to be egotistically attached to anything, any assignment, any entity. Watch this, any person that God did not ordain for me to be attached to. There are some covenants that God makes eternal. Well, then there's some things that are temporary, and when it's over, it's over. Some people have a problem accepting that because their ego and their pride is on the line. I was talking to one of my daughters—
well, the woman that says she's my daughter, but when you're a daughter, you listen, right? Brothers, listen to that. You could say that and then you watch me, I'm talking about you.
Listen, I told her, glory to God, I said, okay, your time is up in this setting you're in, in this church you're trying to leave. You've been at this for 5 years and the only people showing up still is your family. I told her, I said, and it ain't really about that if this is what God wants you to do. I said to her, You're telling me God is telling you to stay, but you're struggling to keep it. God finances what he tells you to do, number one. You're straining to keep it. You're discouraged because every time you're going on new people. So what you need to do is obey God and let it go. But just because you said you was a pastor, you said you have a church, your ego keeps going, wants to keep it open, but God's not there anymore. It's comfortable to stroke your ego, but if you're gonna move with God, it requires egotistical sacrifices. And I told her, I said, you need to close the door. And I told her, I said, it might— it doesn't mean you won't come back to this, but this season God has something else. And the Holy Spirit began to clearly define what the something else was. Many of the things she was already doing, and God was saying, maximize this. This is where your greatest blessing will come from, and that will be easy in the future.
But you're carrying a burden because of ego that God didn't call you to carry. What am I saying to you? I'm saying, you guys, you have to make up in your mind that my comfort is not more important than God's plan.
Because can I introduce you to something? God's plan is going to make you uncomfortable. You're not— listen, if it's something you can do on your own, if it's something you're comfortable with, just all satisfied with, 9 times out of 10, that's not God. God sets you up for things that only he can help you perform.
Oh Lord, have mercy.
He wants to take the ability you have been given, enhance that ability, hallelujah, so that he can get the glory out of your life. So here's where I want to get—
those are important to this.
Your mind has to expand.
So you can think like God because God is a big God with big ideas. Say that with me.
Say, God is a big God with big ideas. You can't receive his big ideas if you got a narrow mind. What do you mean? Let me show you some examples. First, the scripture tells us he pours out blessing. Don't say he sprinkling.
He don't just take a little water.
Okay, I got you. No, the Bible said Malachi 3, he pours out blessing. That means he turns it over. And pours it on you until it overflows. And watch this, if you ever run out, he comes back and pours more.
Yeah, y'all, let's read because it's in the Bible, right?
Malachi 3:10, he says, I will pour out a blessing. Notice it didn't say blessings. It said a blessing. So when God pours, this blessing should saturate us so that we don't even need a blessing in that area anymore, that this is taken care of completely. I think I said this last week, God wants to get you to a place where you're on the other side of certain things, other side of money, other side of needing prayer or healing all the time. Other side of praying for your own personal needs, you got to get to a point where you can talk to God about other people because your stuff has—
oh my God—
has had a pour. It's already been taken care of. See, we can minister more effectively. I'm telling you, he's got a big mind. He wants to eliminate need. Philippians 4 tells that he will supply all your needs. Which means supply means that if it ain't there, he'll make it. And number 2, when he gives you the supply, he doesn't have to supply that again.
Y'all hear me?
So God says, I'm going to supply this once and for all. Well, we ain't got to waste time in prayer talking about what you need. When you come in my presence, we could just have a good time in worship. We can fellowship. We can talk about your assignment. I can give you instructions, and we ain't got to do all this stuff you doing about what you need. Let me hear you say, pour it out. Pour it out.
Come on, say, pour it out.
Pour it out.
He said, I will pour out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it. It's going to be too much for you to even receive. That means it's going to have to expand your capacity to get it.
Okay, all right, maybe, maybe that one wasn't the right one. Go to Acts 2:7. Talk loud. All right. Hallelujah!
Glory to God! I'm just trying to get you to think like God thinks, because he wants to complete that thing so you can get to work. 2:17, watch this. And it can— it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God. Let me just stop right there. Whenever you read, and it shall come to pass, or it came to pass in the Bible, That represents history. That means it happened. Hallelujah. So what God is— again, he's ultimately interested in making history. Well, there are certain things you're not praying about anymore. That's history. That's a testimony. Not praying about my mortgage anymore is history. Not praying about car notes anymore, that's history.
Y'all hear that?
Not praying for healing, I walk in the word and the word is healing, so I'm always healed. That's history. So people say, why you ain't never sick?
You just answer, it came to pass.
Why are all your bills paid?
Oh, it came to pass.
Why you don't have no credit card debt?
Oh, I don't got any.
He came to pay it. How did you get a husband? It ain't got one yet.
It came to pass. It's history.
How did you become a doctor?
Oh, it came to pass.
That's what he's working on, is historical events, so you have something to point to and say, hey, that's what God did. So you can tell people, if he did it for me, he'll do it for you. So the Bible says, it shall come to pass, said the Lord—
here we go, here we go—
I will pour, not sprinkle, not dash it.
You ever went to somebody's house to eat and you took the first bite and it was like either they poured the whole jar of salt on the food and it's too salty, or they just sprinkle it and it ain't enough. God says, I'm gonna make sure you like that piece of chicken that's too salty.
He said, I'm gonna pour out of my spirit. Watch what it says. People misquote this. They said he says he'll pour out his spirit. It doesn't say that. Doesn't say he's pouring out his spirit, he's gonna pour out of his spirit upon all flesh.
How does he do that? The spirit is in us, so the pour— when I'm walking in the spirit, comes through us.
So when I'm in the presence of flesh, carnal people, temporal people, ought to be able to release a pour out of me that they experience God and not me.
Are you hearing this?
He said, I'm gonna pour out of my spirit. So his spirit is in us. If I believe on him, John 7:38, as the scripture has said, out of my belly shall flow or pour rivers of living water. So rivers should be pouring out of me into other people. He can't do that if I'm still trying to get a pour. Oh my God, I should be under the spout, staying in his presence, getting a pour.
You got to have a pour.
He said, I'm going pour out of you upon all flesh. Stop complaining about your family members not saved. Pour Pour some of this Spirit that's in you on them. Let's stop complaining about the people in our world. Let's show up and let some power come through us so they'll be transformed. Watch what happens. He says, and your sons and daughters will prophesy. This is literally your children will be able to prophesy. Your children can't prophesy if they ain't around the poor. You have to keep your children in the midst of the poor.
Oh my God.
He said young men shall see visions. That's why young men don't have no visions, because there's no poor.
Lord have mercy.
Your old men shall dream dreams. All old men trying to chase a young woman. How do they call an old woman that mess with a young man a cougar? What in the world is an old man that want a young woman?
I don't know what that is.
Nasty.
That's what it is.
Glory to God.
But God, watch what happens though. Watch what changes when there's a pore constantly coming through you into Earth. People start getting visions. The men, the masculine factors in our society, start dreaming God-type dreams. Our society will be totally different if there was a pour in places outside of the church. We come to church, we get poured out, roll in the floor, go through all that up. And then we go in the world and where that same poor—
when you get in that restaurant with that waitress that needs a pour, or on your job with them coworkers that need a pour, where's that poor at, man? Because poor again means that he's emptying it out all the way until it overflows.
He don't dribble out these blessings, he pours them out. Tell them again, say, pour it out, pour it out, say it to the Lord. Say, Lord, pour it out, pour it out. So he pours out. Secondly, watch this, to prove we serve a big God with an abundant mind and abundant ideas, he gives to us abundance.
That's how you choose to do it.
John 10:10, he says, I came that you might have life and have it more abundantly. You should be the most abundant among your peers, oh, because you're God's child. Somebody said, would you preach prosperity?
Pretty much, yeah, but at the end of the day, it's in the Bible.
The reality is God did not call us to be second-class citizens. I just want to shift your mind. We serve a big God. The way he thinks about us is abundance. You got to change the rules. As you know, I'm getting ready to show up in the world just like my God. I'm not gonna think low, I'm not gonna live low. I'm gonna have some big dreams, some big ideas. Is I'm going to walk under the port every day, not just on Saturday, not just on Sunday, not just when I go to a special conference, but I'm going to live this every day so that not only I live in abundance but those around me can also experience.
Y'all change the room. I'mma show you how to do it. See, go to Genesis 1:22, 1:20 through 22. Genesis, first book in the Bible.
Hallelujah!
Glory to God!
And God said— here it is, this is how God does things. He said, let the waters bring forth abundantly.
Say abundantly.
That word abundantly is sharach in Hebrew. It means let it swarm and overtake. So God says he wants to release something in our life that will swarm and overtake us.
Oh God, let me take a refuge.
Just say this with me. Say, in the name of Jesus, say, God, I need you to swarm and overtake me.
Overtake me.
Come on, say it again. Say, swarm and overtake me with abundance of resources. Of peace, of power, of love, of joy, joyfully-yam in Jesus' name.
Now watch this.
I want to write this on your paper.
If you write 7 dimensions of water, don't— he said he, he told the waters to swarm. I want to give you these dimensions right quick. This, this one even in my notes, but I want to give them to you.
Glory to God.
We give you praise, God. We give you praise.
The first one is mist.
Write it down. Mist. Mist. Mist is what you see when you wake up in the morning and there's a fog that's wet.
That's war. But it says to you, the night has passed. Here's what I want you to understand: God wants to swarm you with a faith that every time you wake up, you feel a mist, an abundant mist that says, my pain is over, my struggle is over. You ought to wake up, this is the day the Lord has made. And I will rejoice and be glad in it.
And I won't be stopping because I feel the midst of being sworn with this dimension of love.
You need to have that faith and trust that the night is over for real when you get up every day. Not just you just slept 8 hours and it's morning time, but you need to see it in the realm of the spirit. Again, not in chronos but kairos, that God has caused the night seasons in your life to end.
It's misty. You got to receive that mist.
That's a dimensional war. The next one is dew. Dew is when the grass and the ground is wet. People think the dew comes from the sky, and you—
it cannot have rain and your grass can still have mist on your grass can still be wet.
It's because the mist comes from the ground up. It doesn't come out of the sky. Mist, that moisture comes out of dirt.
Hallelujah.
So what God is saying, I'm going to prove to you through this dimension of water that out of dirty situations out of situations that appear like you wouldn't make it out of. I'm going to show you that I'm still with you, because the water represents the Spirit of God, and it starts at the bottom and just comes up and overtakes you.
Glory to God!
It emerges out of bad situations. So don't curse the crisis.
Glory.
Go through the crisis and let the mist swarm.
You gotta have faith to believe that out of this crisis something good is coming.
Romans 8:28 says all things work together for good. So you got to know that no matter what you're going through, I can't curse this crisis because this thing is going to work out for me. Third dimension is rain. Anytime you read about rain in scripture, it represents prosperity, it represents fruitfulness. That's why God told the Israelites, pray for rain while there is yet rain. And watch this, he told them, go up one time a year and worship me. He said that when you worship me, I'll send rain. But if you don't worship me, there'll be no rain, which means you won't have no tangible agriculture, no tangible fruit to eat, because you refuse to worship. So watch this. The way we keep rain flowing in our life is worship. The rain of God that comes from his resources, it comes from heaven. The way we keep it in our life, we got to have a worship life every single day. Say, I got to worship every day. Watch this. No worship, no rain.
No worship, no rain.
But if you get a real worship life where every day you rise up broken in worship and go before God, hallelujah, and I ain't waiting Sunday, I'm going every day because I need some rain. See, people— the song said people, glory to the name of God, that want rain got seed in the ground. So when you have sown a seed of your life serving God and trying to work out a plan with God, you need some rain to water that seed so you can see a manifestation of the seed come forth in your life. So you better worship so you can get some rest. Some people got dreams that are broken and have become nightmares because they don't worship to release rain. Lord, this one in my notes, but I'm trying to tell you, you want abundance, you got— you need to embrace these dimensions.
The fourth dimension is wells. You cannot have wells of water unless you dig. Wells must be dug.
How do I dig wells like Woods? You dig wells in prayer. You dig wells in fasting. Every time you pray, every time you spend time with God and pray the word and pray his will, you're digging away. Because you know what? God has to respond to his word. 1 John 5 says, if you ask anything according to his will— his will is his word. So if you ask anything according to his will, the Bible said he'll do it.
Oh my God, Jesus.
But that means you need to be praying the word, asking him according to what his word say.
Let me give you a quick Basic Bible study on praying the word.
One, get your Bible, find a promise that cover your need. It's— that Bible is filled with prophetic promises that cover what you need. Number two, ask him to do his promise. In other words, you need healing. Well, God, your word says with your stripes I am him. You ask him according to his will. God is not moved by our emotions. I know a lot of times we think we, we go and start crying and whining and then God got something.
I'm waiting for some faith.
I'm waiting to hear my word. Come on, get out of that. Get that out.
and bring a word.
Babies cry when they want something. When that baby want a bottle, she going to holler.
You better not take too long, 'cause she coming. She going to show you just how strong her lungs is, because that's what babies do, 'cause they can't communicate their will.
But when you mature and you grow in the things of God, you go boldly to the throne of grace and you communicate the will. Watch this. You ask him to do what his will says. Then watch this, number 3: you believe when you pray. Not after you get through praying. Believe while you pray. The scripture said, believe that when you pray, you shall receive that which you ask for. So while you praying, you need to believe that God's going to perform what you're asking him to do.
Y'all hear? Then number 4, rejoice before the results.
So you get up, you need proof that you believe, and just start rejoicing what you already that.
Uh, this is— I got to learn to dig wells in prayer.
And when I pray, I must pray his will. I must rejoice that his will is done in earth as it is in heaven. So I rejoice before the result.
Come on, give God praise! Hallelujah! Let's keep reading this. He says, let the waters bring forth abundantly. I'm going to give you the sand and the rivers of water. Hallelujah. I gave you this, I gave you rain, I gave you this, new rain wells. Number 5 is rivers. Believe on me. That's the word again. Believe, believe, believe, believe. Postuo in Greek, which means you're totally and absolutely relying and confident in him.
Say, I believe.
I believe.
So it says, believe on him as the scripture has said, out of your belly will flow Rivers. So you need abundant rivers flowing out of you. Y'all hearing this?
Yes, sir.
Oh, watch this. Number 6 are the waters of the atmosphere. So in the clouds, so much moisture, even as clear as it is today. It just had not been the right cross-pollination of elements to create rain, but water is there. Moisture is in those clouds because the clouds are part of the atmosphere. Even in the invisible atmosphere, there's water that we cannot see with the natural eye. It's atmospheric waters. Let me explain this to you. You can be in prayer in the spirit, and I've experienced this several times.
No nothing, no leaks in my house, the roof is fixed. Nothing, none of that.
But I'm praying and all of a sudden water starts coming upon me like it's raining outside.
But God, all what he was doing was pushing the atmospheric waters, because watch this, you could fill a glass half full of water, but it's half full of water and half full of something else. You just can't see what else it's full of, like a lot of people. We don't talk about what they full of, but there's people that's— anyway, what God did, he took in the molecules and atoms of the air to make those molecules and atoms exist, and God created like this to make them have life. So we tap into the spirit, we tap into these invisible realms. Many times we pass through it and don't even know it. That if you ever have an out-of-body experience, you will— you pass through these realms. There are times I came out of the realm of the spirit, I bring out my body, I can see my body, and I will soar in the spirit to other places. But when I come back, my physical body will be soaking wet. I don't be tired, I wasn't sweating, but it's the atmospheric water. That's, that's called—
whoa, here we go, let me give you a word—
that's called being baptized in spirit. Because that being baptized in spirit means that your spirit literally gets baptized. Baptism happens with water. I know, not just in the first natural, then spiritual. So if I got to go down in natural water, then the water is upholding 70% of the universe and keeping our body alive. You got to know it's significant in the whole process of God. Because it cleanses. They couldn't even enter into the Holy of Holies without washing themselves in the brazen lamp. What I'm speaking to you about is when you enter into the Holy of Holies, that new dimension, God is cleansing your spirit because he'll have to kill you if there's something not like him When you get in this place, okay, somebody say, number 7 are the waters of the deep and the underworld.
Hell is a real place. The underworld is a real place. Darkness is a real realm. There are waters that flow in that land that have been intact. I watch this often, and this is why a lot of times the dark realms operate in a pseudo-power that brings destruction to many people who say they ain't got because they understand how to move in land. So they tap into the underworld and they receive nourishment from these contaminated waters that have been contaminated through sacrifices.
I got a friend, Harold Jackson, that he's an evangelist that travels to Africa that's his whole ministry.
He travels out like 15 times a year.
He's really called to Africa.
That's some of the stuff he told me.
He said, you know, I'm not going to that place with you. I know, I know what I'm supposed to do. I ain't going that place. And I'm going to take you to one of the places to explain how these Uh, this nourishment from the underworld works.
There's a village that he was interceding for in Africa, for all of these women in the village to be delivered and be saved.
Well, all the women in the village were witches. So the witches, what they would do in the night They dressed up like these voluptuous— they were transformed into these voluptuous women, beautiful. Most people said they're the most beautiful women you would ever want to lay your eyes on. And they will lure men to them into the village. They would take the men into the village, have sex with them, and then kill them, take their heart out, drink the blood from their heart, which— that was their covenant with the underworld, with the devil, that if they kill the malefactor, they would live on earth.
Earth as long as they desire.
They, they look real old in the daytime, and Harry said they're probably several hundred years old because they're so strong because of their attachment to the underworld.
But watch this. So let me show you how The realm of God abundantly overtakes Israel. He had a crusade right outside that church because God wouldn't allow him to go in, because even in his physicality, the Holy Spirit told him he would not be able to take being in their environment and the temptation from the women. That's how strong So he didn't go in, but the Lord said, set up camp here. So they put up a tent, had a crusade so they could hear.
Thousands of people were coming to this crusade on this property when they were doing this. One night, the head witch came to the meeting. He was preaching, she said, in the back. He stopped his message and he said, 'I've been waiting on you.
Come to the altar.' He said, 'You thought you were coming because you were just curious.' He said, 'You're coming because God is about to set you and every one of the persons in your convent free.' So the witch came up and said to him, if you really have power, if you really have the glory of God in your life, I will be free. But if you don't, we'll continue to reign in this region.
She told him, many preachers have come and failed.
He said to her, lift up your hands to Jesus. She did it arrogantly because she, she figured he was like the others.
He laid his hands upon her and he said, renounce that spirit.
The thing broke. She got delivered. She gave her life to God. That coven doesn't exist today. All those women got saved, and watch this, within a year they all died. Because it's a curse to stay in the earth too long, because they were suffering as old women going to death.
They only had that power.
The underworld is real, but it comes through nourishment and covenant. That's cut with contaminated waters.
Okay, all right, y'all got it?
Okay, let me go.
Glory to God.
Let me keep reading this.
It says, let the waters bring forth abundantly. So watch this, the waters of heaven are about to release abundance, about to swarm us. Say it with me, say swarm us, God. Watch this, bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, the fowl that may fly, above the earth and in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales and every living thing and every creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly.
So everything in the sea was birthed out of the dimension of water in abundance. You know how many species are in the sea and the ocean? There are species that oceanologists or what is the proper word for people that study water?
They have not even discovered some species, but God brought forth this abundance of species just through water. Water birthed them out. This is how—
I got another friend in Africa, when they need food, he says to me, you smart old woods, Because when you need food, you can go to the grocery store, you go to a restaurant. We need food, we have to pray for it.
And he said there was a time we needed food, it was a famine, we couldn't grow nothing. We prayed and it began to rain fish. They were birthed out of the rain. He prayed the word. They brought forth fish abundantly here out of water.
That can happen again.
The waters gave birth to the fish. There were no male and female fish. The water gave birth to an abundance of fish and sea fish.
So God supplies.
And he expects us— watch this— to take what he gives us—
I'm almost done— and multiply it. Be fruitful, multiply.
So when he gives you what you got, you need to multiply it. That's the law of multiplicity. The legalistic mind says, all I have is all I got, and that's all I'm gonna ever have. But the expanded God mind says, I am going to multiply this so that all nations of the earth can be blessed through me multiplying what God has given me.
Most people think about therefore and no more. That's how they pray, for therefore and no more.
Go to Psalm 70:27.
Watch this.
In his days, the psalmist is talking about Christ, shall the righteous flourish.
Oh boy, touch yourself.
Say, I'm getting ready to flourish. I'm trying to prophesy to you this morning. Glory to God, you're getting ready to flourish, and I'm telling you, it's about to happen in this day. But that's why I gave you greetings at the front. You got to start thinking like God. You got to get a godlike perspective because God says in Christ's day, and we are living in the day of Christ. 'Cause Christ lives in us. In Christ's days, the righteous— are you the righteous? He said the righteous shall flourish.
Watch this.
And have peace in abundance. So how is it we don't want to love? But God says, it's my will for you to have peace in I, I was telling the people yesterday, two things we don't want to talk about in church: sex and money.
But you want some of both of them, and most people want a whole lot of both of them.
So we need to talk about it, right? We need to have conversations about it. People shut down when you start talking about abundance. But listen, I'm telling you, God wants to do this so we can advance the kingdom, not for personal gain so we can be seen. Amen. He wants to give us abundance so we can advance the kingdom, because money answers all things. And the more I have it in abundance, the more things I can answer. He said he wants me to flourish in peace and abundance. Some people don't know how to take receiving more. You got to be at peace when you get more. Some folk ain't happy until they unhappy. Some people can get blessed and they gonna find a way to make things bad. And most miserable people want you miserable too.
Oh boy. I'm telling you, misery love company for real.
You find most people who are struggling, they want you to struggle, and they all right as long as you struggle. They your friend, they tight with you, they want to roll with you. But let you start getting blessed and get peace getting blessed They gonna start doing everything they can to shut down your happiness. That's why you got to watch who you let in on what God's doing in your life. You can't tell everybody about your dream. You can't tell everybody about the blessings that God is working in your life because everybody ain't gonna be happy for you. And reality, everybody can't go Where you going? You can't take everybody. I know you want them to go, but you can't take everybody. Some family members, you cannot take them.
Glory to God.
Folks, you had best friends in high school. That was high school. It's over.
You can't take Listen, can I tell you something?
Don't get satisfied with just a little bit of peace. I need you to go for all of it. Go for everything that belongs to you. I just know you're gonna say, I gotta go for all of it. Oh yeah, I'm telling you, there's some stuff you ain't even seen yet that God's going to reveal to you that you got to go for.
I got to use some preaching in the church.
I almost did this.
Let me tell you something, here's reality.
God will only release to you what you're comfortable receiving, and he knows what you're comfortable receiving. I'm comfortable with a bill. Y'all ain't got to say that. If God came to me today and said them 6 Powerball numbers—
10, 30, 72, 38, 27, 45— it's okay.
I'm going to 7-Eleven. I don't care what you say, call me a sinner, say I'm gambling. I'm going because I'm comfortable getting the blessing however he want to get it to me. Got religious folks about, nah, I ain't doing that, ain't going to fill out no form. If God gonna bless— no, he tell me, son, I need to do this real quick. The wealth of the wicked laid up for the just. This how I'm gonna get it to you. These are are the numbers. Go down there today and write them down. Tomorrow you're going to be a billionaire. I'm going to take my little happy self on down to the store. I don't care who see me. Who? I saw Apostle playing a lot. Yes, you did, because tomorrow you going to see me going to the bank, cuz I'm going to get my big— how they want to give to— you want bigger checks? How I want to get? Cuz I'm going to the bank. Glory to God. Because I got things to do for the kingdom. You got to open up your willingness and expand your volume, expand your capacity. I said, Lord, however you choose to bless me, I'm open to receive it.
Hallelujah, hallelujah. Some religious people watching this got a real man. He's talking about The lottery.
You heard me. So if you want to give it to me in a dream, you want to talk to me personally, I'm open, sir.
Glory to God. Hallelujah. The old mother used to say, any way you bless me, Lord, I'll be satisfied. Glory to God.
Hallelujah. Go to Philippians 3:12.
We closing with this.
Rekita. Father, we give you praise, we give you glory. I feel something stirring. Glory to God. I feel a release coming from heaven. Matter of fact, while I was saying that, I saw something accumulating in the heavens, and God's about to speed up the blessing. I was talking yesterday about speeding it up. Glory to God. I'm telling you right now, the blessing is about to be sped up. I guess somebody say speed up, speed up! Glory to the name of God! I dare you, prophesy to the atmosphere, say speed up, speed up! I receive it in abundance, I receive it in its fullness, I receive the blessing of the Lord that makes rich and adds no sorrow! Shout it! Speed up, speed up, speed up, miracle! Speed up, Breakthrough! Speed it up, speed it up, speed it up, speed it up, speed it up! I come to tell you it is coming, it is coming! Heaven has heard you, heaven has heard you! Your future is coming, it is coming, it is coming, it is coming, it is coming! It's com— it's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's It is coming! I need to hit somebody up, slap them for real and tell them it is coming. Snap out of it! Your breakthrough is coming, your deliverance is coming, your miracle is coming, your million is coming, your billion is coming. It is coming! It's coming, it's coming, it's coming! Your debt-free car, it's coming! Your debt- Your new house, it's coming. Your new job, your degree, your husband, it is coming, it is coming, it is coming. I'm sorry, I went from zero to a thousand.
Y'all forgive me, please.
Thank you, God. We receive it. We standing ready.
This.
God, we stand in expectation. Well, I heard that God, he said there will be no more dry seasons. God says, I'm about to tap you in to the dimension of water that flows from the heavens, and I'm about to release it in abundance. It is coming. The rain is coming. The rain is coming. The rain is coming. I'm not talking about outside, but in your life, in your bank account, in your purpose, in your dream, for your children, for your house, for your family. It is coming. Yes.
All right, all right. Come now. Jesus, Jesus. It is coming.
he says, not as though I already attained.
The word attained means I ain't got a grip on it, I haven't received it, it hasn't showed up yet.
And many of us are in the balance where we're waiting on a promise. And the Apostle Paul said it ain't— I ain't already got it. He said, either am I already perfect—
watch this, the word perfect is teleios in Greek. He says, I'm not already at full maturity.
I haven't reached the place that I really ought to be.
This the Apostle Paul talking.
He said, but I follow after Watch this word, follow. This word is powerful. It means to imitate a pattern. So he says, I imitate a pattern that will cause me to apprehend, to get a grip on that for which—
listen to this—
I am also apprehended.
Of Christ.
God has gripped us for something.
And what God is saying as I close, that we need to get a grip on what he's gripped us for.
He said get a grip on it. Shanta, not the illegal thing, not lusting after things that are not a part of who you are, but get a grip on what I gripped you for. Stop grappling with the blessing of God. Mature your mind. I gripped you for more. I didn't grip you to go through pain and hardship. The way of a transgressor is hard. He said, all reasons are because You ain't got grip. You trying to apprehend things that ain't me.
I see you the grip, cuz I gripped you for greatness. Oh, stand up. I gripped you for expansion. I gripped you for growth.
I gripped you for increase. I gripped you for wealth. I've gripped you for a kingdom purpose, assignment, and a destiny that the enemy cannot stop. I've gripped you for greater works. Lift those hands and close your eyes really quick and begin to fill this room with your voice. Come on, worship the one that has apprehended you. He's placed you under rest. You become a prisoner of Christ. Prisoners have to wear the same thing, they have to eat at the same time, they have to be in unity with the warden system. God said, today I placed you under arrest and I brought you into a heavenly place, into a heavenly assignment. And God said, you'll eat how I eat, you'll live how I live, and your survival will be provided out of the supernatural. Father Lord say to you, you are a prisoner of the Kingdom of Heaven. This is not like any correctional institution. In the kingdom of man, but I made you a prisoner where you shall abide in mansions and palaces. You shall live in the best, wear the best, drive the best. You shall live in the abundance of the spirit realm, and you shall overflow, because as my prisoner, said the Lord, I'm pouring out my person on you. God said, today I'm making you like me. I know you didn't like the pain, you didn't like the brokenness, you don't like the challenges I'm taking you through, but I'm breaking you to make you better. I'm disrupting your life so I can get the best out of it. Come on, worship him, worship him. Because God says, I brought you into this season where you will not experience another day of dryness. You will either walk in the mist, the dew, the rain, or rivers or wells. You will have atmospheric water. God, but I'm releasing waters from heaven this morning. Come on, I dare you, open your spirit in worship and let these waters flood your soul. Spirit of the Living God, flood us today. Flood our soul, God. Flood our soul, Jesus. Flood our person. Flood our life. Release abundance of water. Let the rivers flow. Let the rivers flow in abundance. Overtake our mind, God. Wash away every doubt. Wash away every fear. Flow, flow, flow.
Oh God, flow. Saturate us with who you are. And we receive you in your fullness.
We receive everything you have. So we open ourselves up. God, let the rivers flow.
Flow, flow, flow.
Let the rivers flow to us.
Flow to us.
Flow to us.
Flow to us. Hallelujah, God, flow to us. Let the rivers flow. Come on, worshiper, fill this room with your voice. There is something happening in the realm of the spirit. God has showed up for us today. Because with something, there's a tsunami coming from the realm of the spirit, and it's going to wipe out all doubt and fear. He's about to remove every problem and lift every burden and every hurdle that you haven't been able to jump over on your own. The water is about to just carry you over the Oh, flow, flow, Lord, let your rivers flow.
Yes, Lord.
Yes, Lord.
Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.
Yes, Lord.
Yes, Father. We open our— come on, open up your spirit.
Open your spirit.
Flow until we change. Yes, thank you, Lord. Flow until there's nothing left, Lord, that's unlike you. Lord, flow, flow into fears, God. Flow. Until we have the courage to walk by faith and not by sight.
Glory, glory, glory.
Come on, the worshipers are worshiping. Jesus is here. Jesus is here. The heavens are open over us, and the waters of heaven— it's raining, it's raining in here. It's raining, it's raining, it's raining. He's pouring out these showers of blessing, showers of blessing. Shower of blessing, like glass that's broken open now, and they all flowing at your feet. Pour it out, pour it out, pour it out, pour it out. Pour it out! Pour it out! Please say pour it out! Thank you Jesus! Pour it out! Pour it out! Pour it out! Pour it out! Pour it out! Pour it out! Let us see you pour it out!
Pour it out! Pour it out! Abba Isa! Shout about Messiah!
You're going to tell the Lord to pour it out? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Pour it out!
And like the tears that are streaming from Archie, pour it out, pour it out, pour it out, pour it out, pour it out, pour it out.
Oh God, we need you to pour it out.
Receive it today, saints. Say this with me. Say, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, I receive the word. I decree and My mind thinks like your mind. I declare today that the same mind is in me that was in Christ Jesus.
So Lord, I receive your word.
I believe you are a big God with big ideas.
That pours out blessing abundantly. So I open myself to receive abundant life. I will not allow legalism, old systems, old wineskins to bind me. To yesterday, but I put on today new wineskins, and I ask you, God, to pour out new wine. I receive it in abundance in Jesus' name. And I declare that the systems of heaven rule my life.
In Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God.
Listen, if you believe what you just said, I need you to clap your hands and shout about it in this church. If you're still watching us live and you believe what you just said, right where you are, shout about it. Come on, receive you're going to block this. Oh, I command your mind to expand in the name of Jesus.
We bless you, Father. We thank you for this word today. Let it land in the good ground of our hearts. Janice, stand up. Let me say this to you real quick. I just saw something just flash before I saw some prison doors and you behind them, not in the physical sense, but I saw them opening. Prison doors, said the Lord, are open. He said to tell you, as a prisoner who served time, he said your day of release has come. He said you can choose to leave the jail or stay. He said, but the door has been open. Oh Lord, he said, I give you today the courage to leave when it's easier to stay.
I give you the courage to stand your ground and trust me.
For God said, you have to propose the question, am I willing to wait the time, Yahweh, it will take for me to fix this? I can fix it. But it's going to take time, says the Lord, because I will need their will. But I've opened the door and it's up to you. The Lord said, I place this hard thing on you because to whom much is given, much is required.
And the places he's taking you in your ministry are beyond what you know.
Matter of fact, I hear that more.
He says, eyes have not seen.
He says, he reminds you, ears have not even heard this. So I can't even tell you the extent of it because I can't hear it, I can't see it. No prophet can. He said it has not been revealed in the heart of any man the profitable expanse that I have prepared for you.
He said, but your challenges and the obstacles that have been in your way, they will constantly present your legs.
He said, I can give you a miracle, but there would need to be much sacrifice even on on your behalf to fix this. God says, I can restore it, I can make it whole, but it's going to take time, it's going to take sacrifice. He said, so I set before you today a choice. I've opened the door. He said your wings spread, ready to soar. And the things that have hindered you and kept you grounded, he's removing them. How bad do you want it? What's better? I hear you, Jesus. I hear you. He said to propose this question: what's better, or what's easier, to keep bearing the nagging pain or the brief pain, the sharp pain, it will cause to make the break.
How can you be so strong, said the Lord, to keep bearing the pain, but too weak to make the break?
You can't hold on to it for the wrong reason. The assignment on your life is real. This is your glory, God. It's your daughter. So as my hands touch you, let my hands be as your hands. And from the crown of her head to the sole of her feet, I'm asking, number one, that she will feel your love, to feel your attendance to her cry, your attendance to her issue.
Her attendance to her challenge. And Father, I pray for the peace of God, the strength, and whatever choice she makes, that you will be present to assist her.
I pray that the grace of God that's upon her, grace for her ministry, the grace she has as a wife, the grace she has as a mother. I declare, God, that that grace will be stronger than ever, and she'll make wise decisions. I thank you for the liberty. Yes, he's healing now. He's healing you now.
You don't even have a chance to be hurt, God, because I'm—
I'm— I'm Rafa. I'm with you. In the presence of the Lord. In the presence of the Lord. I hear your spirit crying out, speak to me, Lord. I hear the spirit saying this, I want to hear from you. He says, I'm speaking. Speak to me, Lord, I don't know what to do. I need your direction. Let's go, Michael. I need Every day, if you just speak to me. I hear Spirit saying, Lord, I will always obey. Yes, Lord. Yes, come on, clap your hands and give him glory. Hallelujah! Yes, thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah! I pray you got something out of today. Clap your hands again and say, I receive it, Lord.
I receive it, Lord.
Hallelujah!
Hallelujah! And we're going to take this time to receive our offering. Even though you watching us live today, we want you to participate in our giving. Glory to the name of God. Somebody that's watching live that's a part of the church, wherever you from, please type the ways to give in the comments. Two ways you can give digitally, or really three, uh, you can text word give to the phone number 877-638-7285, or you can go online and just go to rodderchurch.com/donate, or you can use the church's Cash App and give that way. However you choose to give, we want you to be liberal in your giving today. The Bible says bring ye all your tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house. He said, prove me now in will. I will open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing you will not have room enough to receive. So I want you to be obedient to the word. Bring the tithe, bring your offering, and give sacrificially today. Glory to God. So Father, we thank you in advance for every gift and every Giver, we give you praise, God, that we won't lack a thing. We won't miss this that we're sowing today. We thank you, God, for blessing your people to trust the 90% over the 100%, that they'll divorce themselves from the tent.
When you said in your word the tent is holy to you, which means it belongs to you. So, Father, I pray for the spirit of obedience regarding the tent.
I think God, I also thank you that as we sow, we will give to give according to your word. We will give and it shall be given unto us, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will men give to our bosom. So we thank you for sacrificial liberty and giving today, and we praise you for it now in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Get your seat in the ground. In the building and online, please take this opportunity. Just a few announcements while we're giving.
Glory to God.
Make sure you meet us in prayer on Tuesday. Praise God. Uh, at 5:00 AM. And remember, guys, Tuesdays— God bless you, returning a thousand times more, God, in Jesus' name. Remember, Tuesdays are our fast day. Glory to God, glory to God. And so we fast from midnight to 3 in the afternoon on Tuesday, and we go with no food or nothing.
So even if I don't say it, Tuesday is our fasting day.
So we're fasting, God, and we're trusting God. Remember, we're believing God this month for souls. So I want you to really be diligent this month in reaching out to people and inviting them out to church.
Get them on the Bible study on Thursday. Glory to God.
And then if you're in Jackson, get them to church on Saturday at our Jackson campus. If you're in Atlanta, let's get some people who don't know God into this church on Sunday afternoons.
I promise you, if you set your heart to do it, it can happen.
You just gotta want to do it. Amen. Amen. And talk to someone that's not born again. Glory to God. There's somebody been waiting for you to ask them to come to church with you. Glory to God.
Just be a witness, be a light.
God is already preparing their heart to receive you. And here's what I want you to do as you leave this place today, uh, for this month: go on and make you a list of people you know that ain't saved. Amen. How many of those people that's not saved? Amen. All right, we believe we're gonna harvest this month. So I want you to write them on that list, everyone, as many as you can. Go through your phone, make your list. You got to make the notes in your phone.
The reason I want to write the name down, because I want you to remember, and then I want you to pray for them.
Call their name out. Trust God's gonna touch their heart. To receive you when you reach out to them. Then reach out to them and minister to them, whatever the Lord tells you. And I promise you, they're going to be receptive, they're going to be open, and get them in the house of God. Amen. I promise you, God wants to give us a harvest, but this is one of the ways you can do it. We need to get them in, get them in the church so that we preach and teach. We can— after we preach, we can open up this altar for people to be saved. So let's get some people who are not born again here. Amen. Amen. Sometimes, you know, like, that's what I was saying today, we got to get flooded in our life in abundance in a way that we ain't always concerned about our own stuff, that we can really reach out and minister to somebody else. Amen. Amen. Amen. Sometimes we get so consumed with us You don't even think nothing like that, but our whole mission is to reach the lost. And you know what, I found out something. If you go in the vineyard and work what's right, you'll pay. Some of the blessings is tied up into your works.
Some of the breakthroughs is tied up into your activity in the kingdom.
So you got to get out there and do it. Glory to God. I said last week, this is going to be a season God was going to expose our church.
I believe that.
I believe that part of that happening is you talking to people who are not born again. Amen. Amen.
They already ready.
They waiting on you. You talk to them. In fact, you are a life changer for somebody that's about to die. Go out there and find them. Write their name down and save them from Hallelujah! They need some fire insurance. Glory to God. Only fire insurance they can get is the blood of Jesus, because they died in their condition. They're going to hell, and we don't want that to happen to them. And we have the right resource to give them, and that's Jesus Christ, so that they can experience all that you experience in the kingdom. Just think about how you were and somebody told you about it, amen, how better your life is because you're saved. Just think if you was dealing with some of the stuff you deal with now, you weren't saved, how you would react. You probably doing all kind of stuff. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Thank God for Jesus.
Amen.
Y'all be shooting, fighting, scratching, kicking, cussing, stealing. Glory to God. Somebody else needs that grace, that peace that you live in. So let's be evangelists this week. Let's walk in that. Glory to God. So don't forget Tuesday prayer. Matter of fact, have your list written by Tuesday. We going to pray for your list too. I ain't going to call their name, but I'm going to pray for every list. That's a list, all right.
Glory to God.
So get that list together. Then Thursday, our Bible study will in Jackson be on Saturday, and we're here on Sunday. Y'all continue to pray for me and my wife as we travel. Glory to God. It's a lot. Amen. But continue to pray for us that we stay focused and encouraged.
Glory to God.
Y'all say We're going. Glory to God. Click that button and stop the live stream for me. Glory to God. Hallelujah. You got something?
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