New Years Fire Night 1 | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr. | 2 JAN 25

You have to invite Him in. I challenge you, invite Him in right now. Invite Him into your heart today. Invite Him in your heart. We invite you, Lord. We invite you. We invite you, Holy Spirit. We invite you. We want you, Lord. We say yes. We say yes. We say yes. We say yes! You say? We say yes!

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we say yes! I say yes! Haha— you said it?! Yes! Ha ha... Say "yes" again! We say yes!

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we say yes! Haha— we say yes! Haha— we say yes! Haha— I say yes! I say yes! Ha ha—

I say yes!

Ha ha— I say yes! Ha ha— I say yes! Lord! I see this! I see us! As he has loved me! Ohhh! Come on, worship Him, worship Him, worship Him. Come on, all across this room, just worship Him. Lift up a song unto the Lord. The Bible declares, sing unto Him a new song. Come on, open your mouth, worship Him, worship Him. This is between you and Him. See, worship is a personal experience. I can lead you all day, I can sing all day, but this is between you and Him. Come on, open your mouth, open your mouth, use the fruit of your lips. Worship the King of Glory, worship the King of Glory. Glory? Who is this King of Glory? The Lord God strong and mighty, the Lord God mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, oh ye gates, and be lifted up, you everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. Come in, Lord, come in, Lord. Oh, here comes the glory of the Lord. Here comes the glory of the Lord! Here comes the glory of the Lord! Here comes the glory of the Lord! Here comes the gloria— here comes the glory of the Lord sweeping in the room open the eyes of my heart to see it's true my heart, Lord. Open the eyes of my heart. I want to see you. I want to see you. Say, open the eyes of my heart. Come on, sing to him. Open the eyes of my heart. I want to see you. I want to see you. Say, silence the noise in my mind, Lord, and open the eyes of my heart. I want to see you. I want to see you. Silence the noise. Silence the noise in my mind, Lord. And open the eyes of my heart. I want to see you. I want to see you. To see you high and lifted up, shining in the light of your glory. Pour out, pour out your power and love as we sing holy, holy, holy. Holy, holy, holy. Lift it up, shining in the light of your glory. Pour out, pour out your power and love as we sing holy, holy, holy. We say holy, holy, holy. We sing holy! Holy! He's— he's holy! Holy! Holy! He is holy! Holy! Holy! He is holy!

Holy!

Holy! My God is holy! Ho-ly-holy! Hallelujah! Holy, holy, holy. We join the angels and say holy, holy, holy. We join heaven and say he is holy, holy, holy. One more time, say holy, holy, holy. I want to see. Say I want to see. You. I want to see you. I want to see you. Do you want to see him today? Come on, say it. Say, I want to see you. Reveal yourself, Lord. I want to see you. Say, I want to see you. I want I want to see you! I want to see you! I want to see— come on, say it! Say, "I wanna see you!" I want to see you! We need to see you, Lord! I want to see you! I need to see your face! I want to see you! Oh! Say, "I need to see you!" I need to see. There's a need there. This is a necessity. I need to see you. I'm desperate, Lord. I need to see you. I need to see you, Lord. Oh, namansa. Reveal yourself. Reveal yourself. Reveal yourself, Lord. Give us the revelation. Give us the revelation. See, the Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Truth. It's the Holy Spirit that reveals things to us. Put on the Holy Spirit. Reveal yourself, Lord Jesus. Somebody's been stuck. Somebody's been confused. It's because you've been trying to figure it out on your own. You've been trying to figure it out in your own mind, in your own carnal way of thinking. But God said, just yield to me. Yield to my Holy Spirit. Reveal yourself. Reveal yourself. Hey, reveal yourself, Lord Jesus. Reveal yourself. We need the revelation. We need the revelation. We need the revelation. Show me your face, Lord. Show me your face. Come on, let's flow. Show me your face. Come on, you need to ask Him. Show me Your face. Come on, we're tapping into new levels of worship. Come on, show me Your face. Show me Your face. As you become more intimate with Him, He reveals Himself. Show me Your face. And in that revelation, when you see what He is, when you see who He is, you begin to see who you are. So begin to call on Him. Show me your face. We need the revelation. Say, show me your face. Show me your face, Lord. Show me your face. Show me your face, Lord. I need the revelation. Show me your face. I need the revelation. Show me your face. I need the revelation. Show me your face. My own Lord, show me, show me your face, Lord. Show me your face. So Father, we thank you for this visitation. God, I pray right now that you continue to Break open things. Break open the seals, God, in the name of Jesus. For your word declares that you are the only one worthy to break the seals of the seven-sealed scroll. Break the seals today. Break the cocoons. May we break out like never before. May we break out in boldness. May we break out in worship. New fire. New fire in this place. May it burn on the inside of us. Fire! New fire! New fire! Give us new fire! Send your fire, Lord! Send your fire! Fire! I want to burn! I need to burn, Lord! I want to burn for you! I want to burn! We give glory to you. Send your fire. Glory to you. Send your fire. Whoo! We need his fire in this room.

Come on.

Send your fire. Come on, this is prophetic worship. Send your fire. Send your fire.

Edeba.

Send your fire. Your consuming fire. It burns anything that's not like you. Send Your fire! Send Your fire! Send Your fire! Come on, call on the fire! Call on the fire!

Hey!

Send Your fire!

Hey!

Send Your fire! Send Your fire, Lord!

Oh!

Send Your fire!

Come on, come on, come on.

There's a peace in this place. There's a peace. Receive the peace of God. Receive the peace. Receive the peace. He's in this room. He's in this room. I don't know what you're dealing with. I don't know what you're struggling with, but receive it. Receive it right now. Receive him. Receive him. All he needs is a willing heart. All he needs is a willing heart. Come on, receive him. Receive him. Receive the peace of God. This is the healing that you needed. Come on, come on, receive it. Come on, it's in the worship, it's in the worship. Receive it. He's breaking open things right now. You've had walls set up. He's breaking down those walls. He's breaking down those barriers. Come on, allow Him to come in like never before. Oh, we worship your name. Oh, we worship your name. We worship your name! We worship your name! And we worship your name— and we worship you now. Ooh, ooh. King of glory, fill this place. Just want to be with you. Just wanna be with you. Kingdom glory fill this place. Just wanna be with you. Just wanna be with you. Come on, say King of Glory, King of Glory. King of glory, King of glory, fill this place. I just want to be with you. I just want to be with you. Say, King of glory, King of glory, King of glory. Feel this, feel this. I just wanna be with you. Just wanna be with you. I just wanna be with you. Come on, lift that up. King of glory, King of glory, King of glory. Feel this glory. Feel this glory. I just wanna be, I just wanna be with you. I just want, I just want to be with you. Come on, one more time, declare it. King of glory, King of glory, fill this place. I just want to be with you. Oh, I just want to be with you. I just want you— I just want you! Just one? I just want you oh, I just want you oh, I just want you Lord yes sir, I just want you so much more yeah, I'm sorry about that man I just want you— oh! I just want your love—

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I just want Your love— Ahhh! I just want You to touch me again— Oh God! Just one more time— Ooh-hoo! One last night of passion for my Lord Jesus Christ—

ooh-ooh-ahh!

Hallelujah! Thank y'all so much! Blessings on all our hearts today. Amen?

Let's give it up right there for Brother Jameson Brown Jr.!

Come here real quick if we can get some pictures together too while he comes down this way. We'll take them out over at that table outside when they come back around from their break but let us welcome him now.

Hey brother, how ya doing man?! How're things going good by Ya'Kamaa?

Yay! Good morning everyone! My name is Ja'Kamaa Johnson-Brown III and thank you very much for having me tonight! It was Oh! I just want you Lord— Just want You Lord... Oh! I just want yout love to keep on keeping me whole. Keep going Jesus Christ of Nazareth! Come down Holy Spirit come down now! Shakin' it up King God Almighty! Hallelujah!

Yes we do yes we do hallelujah yeah ohh hey-hey-ho ho ho haaayyeeehhh!

Thank you Father for your that Your spirit was here not only this morning but all week long amen?

Amen?!

Praise be unto our Savior Yeshua HaMashiach Yahushuwa Hamashiah who came from heaven himself to earth so He could die upon my behalf he died at Calvary's cross when they nailed him there; his body hung naked hanging dead like an animal carcass over His head. And then one day after 3 days being buried deep inside the grave suddenly out comes Him alive again raised back into life by power from above. The tomb couldn't hold Him anymore because death had been defeated through faith in Messiah Yeshua HaMashiach. Let us praise Him tonight let us lift up praises before Him may every heart sing along say "I Want To Worship." So can you worship right there wherever you're sitting or standing if you would raise those hands high towards Heaven open them wide spread King of glory, feel this place. I just want to be with you. Yeah, I just want to be with you. Come on, let's sing it again. King of glory, King of glory, King of glory, feel this place. I just wanna be with you. I just wanna be with you. I just wanna be with you. Come on, tell them. I just wanna be with you. Come on, this is a cry. Tell them. I just wanna be with you. Because in your presence there's peace. I just want to be with you. In your presence there's clarity. I just want to be with you. There is deliverance there. I just want to be with you. Healing lives in that place. I just want to be with you. Take me to that secret place, Lord. I just want to be with you. We want to go in the holy of holies. Holy is your soul. I just wanna be with you. Take us to that place, Lord. I just wanna be with you. Take us behind the veil. I just wanna be with you. Take us behind the veil. I just wanna be with you. We wanna sup with you. I just wanna be with you. Just to dwell in your presence, Lord. I just wanna be with you. I just wanna be with you. I just wanna be with you. I just want to be with you. Just want to be with you, Lord. Just want to be with you.

Hallelujah! Come on, lift your hands in this building.

Just want to be with you.

And just say that one more time, Ben. King of Glory.

King of Glory. Feel Feel this place. I just want to be with you.

Come on, I just want to be with you.

I just want to be with you.

Come on, sing to him, King of Glory.

King of Glory, feel this place.

I just want to be with you.

I just wanna be with you!

Yes God!

I just want to be with you!

Glory to your name Jesus Christ of Nazareth! I just want— I just want— I just want you! I just want— I just want— I just want you!

I just want— I just want— Just one more thing? No! Nobody else. Nobody else.

Come on, sing.

I just want, just want, just want. Oh, I just want, I just want you, God.

It's you we want, God. It's you we need, it's you we desire.

Nobody else will, nobody else will. Come on, say, oh, I I just want— I just want you! Just one! Nobody said nobody else would do it.

Say it again.

I just want you! I just want you!

I just want you! I just want you! I just want you!

I just want you!

Oh yes!

I just want you!

I just want—

No man can stop me now! You!

Nobody can hold me back! I just want you!

Lord Jesus Christ! I just want you! I just want— Just want—

I just want you!

I just want you! Sing it out loud! I just want you! I just want you! Ooh ooh ooh!

Ora Mansaya. Nobody else. Say, last time, King of Glory, of Glory, fill this place, fill this place.

I just want to be with you. I just want to be with you.

Now, right at this moment, I just need every person in this building to fill this room with your voice. Those of you that are joining us online, open your mouth and begin to worship our King. Indeed, he is the King of Glory. The Bible says, lift up your heads, O ye gates, and be ye lifted up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is the King of Glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. Come on, lift up your hands, lift up your head. Come on, worship the King, worship the King, worship the King. Come on, open up your mouth. Oh, we worship you, Jesus. You are the King of Glory. You're mighty in battle. You're perfectly and absolutely wise. It's in you we live. It's in you we move. It's in you we have our being. God, you are the King of Glory. Let your glory reside in this place tonight. Let it move inside. Oh God, inside of our hearts and our minds. Come on, worshiper. Lebasata yatosi. The Spirit and the bride say come.

Lebasata yatosi.

The door is open. Let him in. Why don't you walk through? Let him into a new place, a new dimension. Come on, Zion is calling us to a higher place of worship. Come on, Zion is calling us to a high place of worship. Rebe soto rabakaya. Zion is calling us. Zion is calling us. Zion is calling us. Zion is calling us to a higher place. Hey! Oh God! Zion is calling us. Zion is calling us. Zion is calling us. Zion is calling us. Zion is calling us to a higher place of Praise Zion is calling us to a higher place of worship.

Zion is calling us to new levels and new dimensions. Zion is calling us. Zion is calling us. Zion is calling us. Zion is calling us. Zion is calling us to a higher place to higher place! Zion calling us— it's calling us, he's calling on you guys to come up here into this house of God today because we're going to be praying for our nation right now. He's called me out there by my name when I was 15 years old at church one day. You got to keep moving forward until your destiny comes forth from under that mountain rock behind those walls. And so let's pray together. Father Jesus Christ, thank you Lord for what you've done through these lives tonight. Thank you Lord for how much more time they have left before their assignment has been accomplished. We just ask Holy Spirit if any person watching online or live stream can receive an impartation upon them too.

Let him know something about his purpose.

That prayer faith within themselves completely. So father, may everyone who watches this video understand why David prayed like that over Goliath? Why did King Saul say do whatever thou wilt unto thy servant and delivereth Israel from thine enemies' Get up high! He's calling you to get from your low place— he's called me out of my loaded bar— come about a loaded bar— here's who he's called you to be— say Zion is calling us, Zion is calling us, Zion is calling us Zion calling us— Zion's Calling Us!

Zion's Calling Us—

Zion's Calling Us! Zion's Calling Us to higher place of worship. Zion Is Calling Us to deeper places prayer. Zion Is Calling Us for new waves intercession! Zion!

Zion— He's calling us higher!

Zion is calling us!

He's calling us higher!

Zion is calling us to rise up from our graves! Yes! Oh Lord God Almighty! Yeah! Hallelujah! He's calling us Higher! He's calling us higher! Calling us higher! Get up here! Come up here! Zion is calling us! Zion is calling us! Zion Zion calling us!

Zion's calling us!

Zion is calling us—

Zion just calling us—

Zion is calling us— Oohh...

He's calling us to higher place of praise! Come on, worship. Come on, fill this room with your voice. Come on, worship. Glory to your name.

Glory to your name, Jesus.

Yes, God, we give you glory, God. We honor your great name. Yes, Lord, you're wonderful and mighty God. Yes, Lord. Oh, if I were you, I'd get my healing now. I'd get my deliverance now. I snatch my prosperity now. The king is here. Zion calling us! Yes—

Zion's calling us... Zion is calling us... Zion is calling us... Zion is calling us... Zion is calling us... Zion is calling us... Zion is calling us...

Oh He's called you to come home today!

Hallelujah! Glory be unto God forevermore! Amen? Let me hear your voice of praise this morning for Jesus Christ who has saved our souls from death into eternal life Zion calling us! Zion's callin'— Zayon? Is zaying yun? —is caaallllling uusss?! Zion... Izzzyeeyoonnneeeeeeen nuzzz?? Zionist Calling Us!! "I'm on my way." Zion is calling us.

Hallelujah, hallelujah. He's calling us to a higher place. A worship, a higher place of praise. Glory to God. Father, we bless you. Yes. And we honor you tonight. Yes, Lord. Thank you for your presence. Thank you for your anointing that removes burdens and destroys yokes. Father, we glorify you for what you're going to do over these next 4 days, from now to Sunday. We thank you for the encounter we shall have with you. Thank you, God, that as my son Brandon travels, that your anointing will rest on him in a great way. And we give you glory, God, and that you will cover him and keep him safe. Bless every person that will attend this meeting. I pray, God, that you will bring people from the north, the south, the east, and the west to experience the glory that rests in this little building. And we bless you for it now, in Jesus' name. Father, as we open your word tonight, may we experience the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost. Do something man cannot do, and we'll bless you for it. Thank you for Shekinah glory. Let it be revealed in this place, in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. Clap your hands and bless Jesus, everybody. Come on, bless him.

Hallelujah!

Glory to God. You can be Be seated. Praise God in the presence of Jesus. Thank you, son. Glory to God. Thank you, Lord. I utter the words of the Apostle Peter: it's good for us to be here.

Yes, it is.

Can you say amen? Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. I want to welcome those that's watching us live tonight. Welcome. Please hit that like button. Please share it. Glory to God. And perhaps if you're scrolling and you see this, stop. Because you need to be here. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And we bless the Lord for every person that is here tonight. Thank God for you. Glory to God. I'm going to get right into this.

Glory to God.

I feel Jesus in this place. Hallelujah. Glory to God. I can just get in a corner and keep worshiping, but I have an assignment that I gotta fulfill tonight. Glory to God. Tonight on this second day of 2025. Have a great year. Glory to God. Amen. How many want your year to be better this year than it was last year? Oh yeah, some— somebody ought to be excited about that. Listen, I know I do, and I'm trusting God that This will be my best year ever. Are y'all hearing this? And I want it to be your best year ever too. But I understand it won't be that just because it's a new year. There's some things you have to do. Glory to the name of God. If you don't change some things, you going to have the exact same year you had in 2024. And 2023 and 2022, because the reality is you hold the keys to what's ahead by aligning with what God has planned. God spoke to me personally, and I'm going to share it with you, and you can grab hold to this if you want to. What he said to me, he said, son, this is going to be a year of execution for you. And enlargement. Say that with me. Say execution and enlargement. To execute means to put something in play, to make it solid, to make it confirmed. When you execute a contract, when everybody signs, that contract is executed. And it means now that every person who signed has to carry out the tenets of the contract. 'Cause the contract is now— say it— executed. Watch this. God made a contract with you. Hear this. And you got to execute what he said in his word this year like never before. You got to do it. Faith without works is dead. Are y'all hearing this? You can read it, you can know it, you can go to church every Sunday, you could be religious. But if you do not apply the word— I talked to this about this Tuesday night— you're never going to see restoration and manifestation. So to execute again means to put it in play, to make it valid. I'm telling you, we live in a time where people need to see the power of God working through us. It's not enough for us just to have good church. People need to experience God when they come in contact with with you. You are a walking encounter, but people can't encounter God if you don't operate at high levels of execution. Glory to God. Watch this, that's twofold. Even execution also deals with to put to death. If someone's on death row, they are in line to be executed or put to death. So also this year, there's some things you're going to have to put to death. There's some thought processes, there's some patterns and some habits. And so that's why you got to spend a lot of time examining yourself, so the things that are in you that need to die can die. Watch this. I hate the old me, so anytime I see any traces of the old Michael trying to raise up I set up an execution. Y'all ain't got to talk. And I spent time in prayer to put that thing to death. The Bible says mortify the members of your flesh. You got to put your flesh to death because your flesh want what it want. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. As a matter of fact, there are thoughts that constantly will try to exalt itself against the mind of God. But you got to execute them. Because you cannot execute properly if— watch this— you like where you are. I'm going somewhere. But some people will never get beyond where they are because they've fallen in love with that condition. They've fallen in love with the way things look. It's comfortable, but I'm telling you, this year you have to execute God's plans at a high level so that you can see things in your life you've never seen, and namely so you can enlarge. Somebody say enlarge. I'm telling you right now, God wants you to enlarge. He, he has increase and enlargement on his mind. And guess what? Because he's thinking about it, you should be thinking about it. If God is thinking about enlargement, you should be thinking about enlargement. We shouldn't settle for small. I'm telling you, this year I'm going for broke. I'm going for everything that God told me I can have. I've been walking around here confessing and praying and decreeing that God's gonna make me a billionaire. All the ideas are there. I'm gonna execute so I can enlarge into that space. I'm gonna change some associations. Oh, y'all ain't gotta talk to me here. So I can move into that space. I can't hang around people that don't have a billionaire mindset. If you talking poor, I can't, I can't roll with you. 'Cause that ain't the God I serve. Okay, all right, so let's move. Okay, so let's, let's get into this. I'm gonna put the scripture on the end, is that okay? I know traditionally the preacher reads the scripture first, that's called homiletics. This is called Holy Ghost-letics. We gonna put it on the end. All right, glory to God. So I want to give you some points and I want you to write them down for me, okay? About enlargement. Say this with me first. Say, God wants me to enlarge. He don't want you to stay in the same space. He wants you to expand. So the first thing I want to do is give you some enemies of enlargement. Here's the first enemy of enlargement. It's called entitlement. Oh boy, when you feel entitled like God owes you something, you'll never enlarge, and you'll never do the things and the disciplines and the practices to enlarge because you think you deserve it anyway. So you won't pray because you take it for granted. You won't worship. You won't study your Bible. Watch this, you won't live holy because someone has dealt the grace card to you so many times you think, oh, I'll just keep doing this and I operate in grace. Well, you can do that, but what's going to happen? You're never going to have heaven on earth because God is holy and his resources are holy. Oh boy, we don't like that kind of talk. God is looking for purity and chastity, and he— and in order for him to get involved, there's got to be purity. You got to execute that stuff, glory to God, that makes you feel like you entitled anyhow. Well, Jesus' blood covered that. It seems like to me, if you really know God, you will want to change. Oh boy, it's quiet. You will want to live differently. Maybe this is for the people watching. You will want to clean your life up because he's real to you, and not try to do everything you can get away with through grace. Oh boy, grace is charis in Greek. It means that it empowers you toward righteousness. It's not just to forgive your sin, it's to empower you toward a better way of living. So entitlement will make you miss God every time. I was telling my oldest son, I said, son, you got to get rid of the spirit of entitlement, because just because I'm your daddy doesn't mean you have access to everything I own. Or you have access to my money? That's my money. You ain't work for it. Y'all ain't got to talk to me. Children will do that. You better watch your children when they get grown. They'll start operating entitlement. And some of us do that. If I would— listen, when I got 18, it wasn't nothing I could ask my daddy for. It was always no because he was teaching me. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. How to grow up and be a man. Oh, okay, okay. I need you to hear that entitlement. But watch this. I learned that if I learned to do things myself and he saw it, he would give to me. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here because he saw my efforts in trying to become a man. Are y'all hearing this? God is owner of everything, but you're not entitled to it just because you're saved. Hallelujah! You can get it if you operate in faith, if you follow his principles. So entitlement is an enemy because it makes you feel loose, like you can do what you want to do. That's the problem. Bishop Jakes loose too many people. Man die loose, woman die loose, and folks just loose. Loose, doing what they want to do. And the reality is we get hyped up on stuff and we never really experience the promises of God because we feel like God owes us something. Well, God, I had a rough childhood. You saw what they did to me. They rejected me. They talked about me. You ought to be blessing me. He said, well, you ought to be believing me, and you ought to be walking by faith and not by sight. Okay, maybe this ain't working. Listen, so entitlement is an enemy to enlargement. Second enemy is ego. Pride— ego is pride, is arrogance. It separates you from God. Oh boy, it separates you. The Bible said pride come before a fall, a haughty spirit before destruction. So arrogance and ego— because some people too proud to even ask for more. I know people like that, that they so satisfied with— and they think it's humility, it's actually false humility. That you got a daddy that owns everything and you don't know how to talk to him to get some of what he got. You get settled in your comfort. That's arrogance. That's false humility. Because you should be able to tap into what your father has in resources. That God, if you got it, it's mine. Y'all hear me? But ego can rob you of the blessing of God if you're not careful. So many people edge God out. Ego. They edge him out. Ego. And they live life on their own until they get in trouble. Then they call on God. But you better call him before you get in trouble because you need relationship with him. Say ego. Ego is the strongest pride ego Arrogance, the strongest spirit inside of religion. The religious spirit is very arrogant, very egotistical. That's why they don't embrace things like tongues. They don't embrace things like prophecy and gifts of the Spirit because ego tells them it's not necessary. They don't embrace prophets and apostles because ego says, no, that ain't necessary. All the prophets dead, all the apostles dead. But the devil is a liar. That's a prideful spirit that robs you of enlargement. That's why there are a lot of egotistical churches and people who are stuck, because their religious attitude keeps away the things they actually need. So entitlement, ego. Here's another enemy: emotions. Emotion— some of you, some people are emotionally attached to things they need to let go of. Oh boy, that's a dangerous thing. You'll be emotionally attached to family, and family can become a hindrance to your enlargement. Oh boy, watch this. Jesus said, who is my mother? Who is my father? I know this is tough. Who is my sister? Who is my brother? Them that do the will of God. So if you're not aligning with my purpose and where I'm going and you trying to hold me back, I got to, I got to throw up the deuces and keep it moving. Are y'all hearing this? Because, because people, when they don't have what you have, they'll say, okay, well, let me— because I don't understand it or I don't have a revelation of them, let me try to figure out how to keep them right here. That's emotion. And watch this, it's witchcraft when people play with your emotions to try to keep you in a place where God is moving you from. That's the spirit of witchcraft. Well, you try to hold people somewhere and they can't grow, ain't growing. Oh, that's dangerous. Here we go. So entitlements— the entitlement— say ego, say emotions. Said those are enemies of enlargement. Now let's get in this. Here's some principles of enlargement, then we're going to put the scripture on the back. The first thing You cannot enlarge and your progress breaks down when your external reach is greater— listen to this— than your internal capacity. So you cannot expand and enlarge. And this year you won't get bigger if you're reaching for stuff that in internally you're not qualified to handle. When your external reach is greater than your internal capacity, it slows you down because you're never going to really get what you're reaching for until you're actually ready in capacity on the inside. There are a lot of people who are trying to get titles. I want to be a prophet, I want to be an evangelist, I want to be a pastor, want to be a teacher. They want to move in this level of flowing, but their capacity on the inside has not expanded enough for them to handle it. Your internal capacity needs to match your external reach. If you're— watch this, I'm gonna just use something in the natural. If you're trying to work somewhere in the natural that requires a PhD but you got a diploma Well, outside of the favor of God, you probably won't get hired. You can fill out the application, you send your resume, you can go to the interview, but you better believe once they find out you don't have a PhD, all they're saying is your internal capacity doesn't match what you're reaching for. And so this is going to have to be a year of preparation. Well, we spend time learning and growing and increasing our capacity so when we reach, we're qualified. A lot of times delays happen in our life because we're reaching for stuff we're not qualified for. So I have— for, for me, I have spent the last 4 years of my life in my business outside of what I do in ministry learning how to be great at what I do. Are y'all hearing this? Now I can reach for things that I'm qualified to handle. Watch this. When I first started, I thought I can handle it, and I messed up a whole lot of times. Had the wrong cameras, wrong equipment, couldn't edit the right way, none of the stuff. But God put me in a position where I can learn from the best. And expand my capacity and get better. Now when I reach for something, I can handle it. In the realm of the spirit, I spent years in prayer. I ain't just start doing this. Don't let the size of this room fool you. Glory to God. I've been doing this 35 years, planting churches, traveling this country. And God— I've seen miracle upon miracle. I've seen breakthrough upon breakthrough. God has done some great things in my life. The reality is it took time to get the faith to even plant a church and do something with no people. Oh, y'all ain't got to talk to me here. Glory to God, it takes a lot of faith to show up when you're trying to build something new and grow something from the ground. I have had the opportunity and the privilege and the grace, glory to God, to birth out some amazing sons and daughters. Apostle Brandon is one of them. He gonna be here tomorrow. Apostle Brandon, when he came to the church, he didn't want to even touch the microphone. This dude was scared to talk. Now you can't shut him up. I literally— he has church for 6 hours, but don't let that keep you away from here this week. Glory to God. Hallelujah. But I'm— what I'm saying is his capacity expanded. So now he, he reaches for the stars, man. Whenever it comes to the things of God, you got to expand what's on the inside of you. Stop prematurely trying to grab the stuff you're not ready for. It's okay to sit down and learn. It's okay to take your time. As a matter of fact, too, that not only is preparation needed, because preparation time is never wasted time, But also inside of that principle is pace. Say that with me, say pace. Oh God, pace means to be in sync or to synchronize yourself with the timing of one in authority. So pace is set by someone in authority. Glory to God. So God sets the pace for our life. And we got to synchronize ourselves with the pace he has established. But when we get out of step, again, we cause delays. See, when you get out of step from pace and out of sync with God, that's called a distraction. Distraction. There's a movie when I was younger that came out called Fatal Attraction. Y'all probably never seen that if you younger than me, but, uh, it was about a lady that starts sleeping with this married man, and she was crazy. It was fatal. She was killing, killing and doing all kind of stuff. It was a fatal attraction. And that means, so you have to be careful what you do. My son told me something funny on the way over here about somebody that said something to him. It's fatal. You get involved with people, they'll say, I'm gonna kill you, I'll take you out. You better know what you're doing. Are y'all hearing this? This lady was crazy. But watch this— distractions can be fatal. You can have some fatal distractions, some things that will destroy your destiny, some things that will destroy your purpose, some things that will thwart God's plan because you decide to follow it. Watch this. Distractions lead to delays. When you get distracted, stuff gets delayed. That's why stuff takes so long, because you're distracted. You gotta get back in focus. Watch this. Delays lead to detours. You start trying to take shortcuts and get there before time. And really, we only want to get there when God says it's time for us to get there. And if you stay delayed and detoured too long, ultimately that causes destruction. It destroys the plan, and you start settling for something that God didn't ordain. You'll settle into a life that wasn't God's plan, an income that wasn't God's plan. You'll marry somebody that wasn't God's plan because you got distracted. That's why you got to be careful about being distracted by six-packs. Your purpose might have a one-pack. Y'all ain't got to talk to me. Gloria, the man of your purpose— she said, no, I ain't seen no one-packs. The devil is a liar. Listen, let me tell you something. You better— you have to learn to slip past the package. And inspect the contents. Listen, when I married my wife, glory to the name, I had— I slipped past— even though she's beautiful, I slipped past her beauty and inspected the contents of her heart. Because you can be fine with hips and tips and fingertips and all that stuff and, and have hell in your heart. So you have to learn to discern the intent of the heart so you don't get distracted. Because watch this, you get distracted by that stuff, end up married 5 years and then you're divorced. Guess what you just did? Wasted 5 years because you got distracted from the wrong thing. And you know, the crazy thing about— I've had people counseling, I'm sitting in my office crying over a person who left them, but 6 months prior to that, they was in the office talking about how much they hate them and how much they want them to get out of their life. But 6 months later, after they actually gone, then they're hollering, you can't shut them up. Ah, I'm like, wait a minute, you was just in here talking about you want them to go. But you know what that was? They bought into the comfort of the distraction. They really did want them gone, but after they left, they realized, I like this dysfunction. Most people who look for somebody— and I'm gonna move on— they're reaching for what's not in them. They're searching out of dysfunction. And anytime you're searching out of dysfunction, all you're gonna find is somebody else that's dysfunctional. Ah, God have mercy. That's why you got to get you together. Expand your capacity. And then you get married, you can't fry bologna. You gotta feed that man. Expand your capacity. Are y'all hearing it? You can't boil a hot dog good. All it take, put water. I can boil a hot dog and I can't cook nothing. Glory to God. The reality is you get a cookbook or something. Because listen, let me tell you something. Before I met my wife, you'd be dating some of these women They'll put the fake and bake on you. The fake and bake. You go by the house, they got all this food out, look good, glory to God. Cake on the table, you eat it, it's wonderful. I said, boy, you had— sure they cook a good meal. Yeah, thank you so much, it was great. I'm on the way home, the Holy Spirit said they didn't cook that. They went and bought that and set it up for you. So next time I say, I'll say, so cook dinner for me again, but this time I want to watch you. Oh no, you can't do it. I'm like, so that just confirmed to me right there that I will be faked and baked. So you better be— I'm telling you, be careful. You better have some lengthy conversation with these women and you have some limited conversation with these men. 'Cause you don't know what you getting. I mean, he could be dressed up, look good, smell good, go to bed looking like Billy Dee, and wake— y'all see, some of the people in here, woman of God back there, they don't even know who Billy Dee is. You know Billy? Okay, all right. Billy Dee was an actor back— he was the Denzel back in the day. All right, okay. He go to bed looking like Billy Dee, and wake up looking like E.T. and you want to say, E.T., phone home, go home, do something, get out of here. And he's not the same person because you judged him based on outward perception. You better talk to him. You better get to the detail. Matter of fact, you ought to say, look, okay, because a woman's number one emotional need is security. Are y'all hearing this? So you need to talk to him. Okay, how much you made last year? He tell you, okay, let me see your W-2. If he got a business, let me see your 1099, or let me see your tax returns for the last 3 years, 'cause you need to verify that he can take care of you. Yeah, yeah, okay, all right, don't do it. What's your credit score? Joker sitting up there with a 400. You better ask, well, let me see. Pull up Credit Karma. I need to see all three. Y'all hearing this? Because at the end of the day, you don't want to get something that you stretched for that you ain't ready to handle. On the flip side, equal time, men need to talk to these women because we'll— again, we can get faked out with the food and definitely the appearance. I'm telling you, because these days— and I'm all for self-help, help yourself, do what you got to do, I'm all for it, I'm all for it— but you get in the honeymoon room and the honeymoon spirit, glory to Jesus, and they go to pulling out hair, pull off eyelashes, pull out eyes. And you better be careful, better check lips too, because they can get them blowed up. Are y'all hearing this? They pull out the backside. Y'all ain't got— well, now they ain't even— they don't— they'll go get a new backside they can't pull out. Y'all gotta talk to me here. You better have some conversation. So, all right, that's the first person. Say, my external reach— say that with me— my external reach has to match my internal capacity. Next point. I'm not gonna be long, I just sound like it. Secondly, you cannot enlarge, and your progress breaks down when your comfort zone is a place of consistency. So if you always comfortable, you never take a risk. You only stay in your environment. You always lean on what's easy. You're not going to enlarge. You got to break your comfort zone. Part of breaking your comfort zone is spending time with extraordinary people. Can I share with you? It's comfortable to hang out with the people you used to. But when you spend time with extraordinary people, your best gifts and talents will surface when you're in their presence. Your best comes out when you're around people that do what you do better, because they'll challenge the gift in you to emerge to the next level. But if you hang around— watch this— if you're the smartest person in every room you go in, you're in the wrong room. You better find you some rooms where you can learn, and out of you can emerge good things. But you got to find some extra— extraordinary friends. Are y'all hearing this? Thirdly, number 3, you cannot enlarge, and your comfort zone and your capacity literally gets stuck and collapsed when watch this— you expend your energy on fruitlessness when you spend time with unfruitful people. Fruitlessness. You need to get around some people that's bearing fruit, that's actually winning. If you look to your left and look to your right and everybody losing You need— all you got for them really is ministry and to help them win, but that ain't your group. That's not your tribe. You need some people that's winning, that's fruitful, that want to win. But you can't waste your time in fruitless environments. Watch this, cause fruitlessness is contagious. You got to change your position. If you want to change the condition in your life, you got to change the position. Some people are stuck because they stay in the same position. They never move and get where they need to be. I said it to tonight, every assignment has a place. You gotta— this year you got to make sure you're in the right places to get what you need, because it's not all about, again, emotion. It's not even all about sometimes how things look. God has sent me to some places I did not want to be, but after I obeyed and stayed in that place, I learned things I needed to learn about me, about God, and about my assignment. But if I would have rejected it because, oh, there's no one to be here— but you got to make up in your mind, I need something from God. But hanging in the midst of fruitlessness, because it's contagious, you end up just like that fruitless environment. Because guess what? At some point you give out, and you're the only one giving, because fruitless people can't give because they have no seed. Okay, if you're fruitless, because fruit is a result of a seed, You ain't got nothing to give. Are y'all hearing that? So there are people that literally have nothing to pour into your destiny, into your life, and you got to catch that quick. I don't need lingering. Okay, I ain't getting nothing out of this, let me just figure out what I need to do. Because at the end of the day, the, the resolve is If there's no seed coming into the ground, you can't bear fruit from that relationship. So you, you just got this year, start looking at what's around you, and just maybe the fruitlessness you experienced in 2024 is a result of being in the wrong culture. I listen every day, every day to billionaires. You know why? Because I need that seed in my soil. I need to think like they think, because I need to be a billionaire not to be flashy. I need to be it so I can push ministry. There's so many things I want to do. I need billions to do it, and I got a short time to get it done. So I'm shifting my mindset, listening to people who make a deposit in where I'm trying to go. I don't need me sitting around listening to somebody ain't got no money. I honestly, I can't waste that time because what you gonna tell me about where I'm trying to go in fruit? I mean, we could talk about anything else. Let's talk about the thing you are SME in, your subject matter expert area. We can discuss that, but if you ain't got no money, that ain't the conversation we need to be having because you ain't qualified to solve the problem I have with trying to become a billionaire. Are y'all hearing this? Folks be scrolling for preachers and, and, and good. No, I'm looking for billionaires. Them the podcast that's in my ear. I talk to God to get what I need from him. See, we have to be careful of what we celebrate. Is— if what you're celebrating is not causing you to be fruitful, is it really what you should be plugged into? Okay, last one. So you cannot enlarge when your external reach is greater than your internal capacity. Your capacity. You cannot enlarge when your comfort zone is a place of consistency. You cannot enlarge— glory to God, I just said it— when you expend your energy on fruitlessness. Last one, you cannot enlarge when you're more pre— oh my God, here we go— preoccupied with what God said versus what God is saying. Let me tell you something. You can get lost in what he said and miss what he's saying. There are some seasons where God said that are over, and if you didn't align with the principle of what he said then and you miss the principle You can't bring that back to life until the season comes back, if God wants it to come back. But now you need to yield to what he's saying. Just because you did something some way in 1974, God is saying something different now. Oh, y'all ain't got to talk to me here. Some of us are so preoccupied with history that we miss destiny. You can live in a historical move of God where God actually was there at one time, or God actually resided in the way you did things at that time. But I never want to be where God was. I want to be where he is. I'm not going to waste my time being committed to something where God has decided I'm out. And if God's out, I'm out too. And some people will keep doing the same thing religiously over and over again, expecting God to anoint their foolishness. Well, God says simply open your ears and hear what I'm saying. There are people chasing prophecies they got 20 years ago. You ain't aligned with the principle. Quite honestly, you might have missed it. Let's open our ears to what he's saying. What is God saying for 2024? Normally this time of year I would have posted a recap of 2024 and things that happened last year to, you know, just, just to show my year. I didn't do that this year because my mindset is I'm not concerned with history. I'm forgetting what's behind, I'm reaching to what's ahead, and I'm pressing toward the mark of the prize of the high calling of God which is in Christ Jesus. I'm leaving 24 24, 23, 22, 96, 98. Y'all ain't got— I'm leaving it all behind. Watch this. The word forgetting is epilothomai in Greek. It means to extrapolate it from your life, to live as if it never happened. So I have decided to live like my past— glory to the name of God— never happened. And here's what I do in that regard. I make sure that anybody that steps to me and they come trying to treat me like my history, immediately I'm— y'all ain't talking— I make an exit. I ain't got time. I go the other way. Because if you— the only thing you see is who I used to be, you have missed God, and all you're gonna do is violate me. Because where there's no revelation, there's always violation. When I have not been revealed to you, you are going to violate me. So I made up my mind, I ain't going there with you. You can remember me that way, but I am something new, because if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Oh, glory to God! Clap your hands and give God praise. Hallelujah, hallelujah! Y'all said thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Luke chapter 5. I told you I'm gonna put the scripture on the end. Luke chapter 5. Just, just, just say this with me. Say, I can never be recognized. Say, I must be revealed. Come on, say it again. You can't recognize me. Say, you gotta get a revelation of me. Stop settling for people recognizing you. Oh, that's just Michael. Oh, that's just Felicia. Oh, Oh, that's just Sharia. Oh, the devil is a liar. Oh, that's just Brianna. The devil is a liar. Glory— that's your name. Glory to the name of God, that the devil is a whole lie and ain't no truth in him. Glory to God. I'm telling you, you cannot just recognize God's people. There's greatness in me. There's power in me. There's breakthrough in me. There's vision in me. There's dreams in me. And y'all, God, you just can't recognize me. I must be revealed. Oh God, I'm telling you, I ain't got time. Listen, I'm 55, be 56 this year if God bless me. Glory to God. And give me what he's promised, man, I'll be here to 70. And that means I got 14 more years to live out the maximum of my purpose, the maximum of my potential. I refuse to settle. I refuse to stay small. I refuse to stay down. But I'm going somewhere that's greater than what I have conceived, that's greater than what people have seen. Eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither has it been revealed in the heart of me the good things he has prepared for you and I. If you believe there's some good ahead, open your mouth and give God praise. Oh God, oh, shut up. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. We about to get out of here. Glory to God. Shatta Mantika. See. Leba ba ba ba sa ya. Leba sata la ba ba ma manti. Le ta ma ma ma ta ya. I challenge you to press into your future. Press into what's coming. I'm telling you, the promises of God, they cannot lie. The promises of God are yay and amen. Glory to God. Press into what's next. Don't worry about what was. Glory to the name of God. It's over. There's something new on the horizon. There's something you've never seen. I wish I had a worshiper in here or online that will worship God for what's coming. I'm telling you, there's something your eyes have never beheld. God is about to do what you thought could never be done. Give him praise. Oh, Shabbaiah, let me read this so we can go. I feel Jesus. I dare somebody cry out, there is more! Come on, cry more, more, more! Hushabaya! Oh, there's more. There's more. Don't let nobody keep you where they want you. There is more. I know you've cried and they watch you cry. They watch you struggle. They watch you go through. They watch you get defeated. They watch people talk about you. They rejected you. They despised you. You were wounded and hurt, but with the same eyes that they watch you struggle, with the same eyes that they watch you cry, with the same eyes that they watch you get rejected and talked about, God said to tell you, They're going to have to watch you come out. They're going to watch you get blessed. They're going to watch you get healed. They're going to watch you get delivered. They're going to watch you go higher. They're going to watch God turn it around. Watch me, watch me, watch me. Ataba sata. Watch me. Oh God. Oh God, oh God. I'm going to tell you something. Enemy was talking crazy to me. He said, you know, it don't need you keep trying to do that church in Georgia. He said, the prophet is without honor in his own country. He was quoting the Bible to me. And the Lord said, you tell him, first of all, you ain't just a prophet. He said, tell him you're an apostle, and I've given you authority in the region. Glory to the name of God. And then the Lord said, he encouraged me. He said, son, if you never see 10,000 people He said, your impact is gubernatorial in nature. You are a stratospheric warrior. He says, son, your impact in the spirit opens up the realm of glory where pastors can pastor. Oh my God, where scandals can be blocked. The Lord said, Michael, you are air traffic controller. So press into your future. He said, if you just got 10, I'm going to bless you like you got 10,000. He said, keep praying, keep interceding. I said that to tell somebody, it may look like it's not going to work. It may look like you're beating a dead horse. It may look like your resources are dry, but God said, keep being obedient, keep enlarging yourself. Your greatest days are still in front of you. Somebody ought to shout in here. Give God glory. Yes, God. Yes, God. We give you glory, God. We give you honor. Let me read this, y'all, so I can let you go, because I want you back tomorrow. Pastor Nunez will be here tomorrow. He called and said he couldn't make it tonight. He has some unforeseen circumstances, but he'll be here. I want you to be here for him tomorrow. The Bible says, Luke 5, verse 1, and it came to pass. I really could stop right there and we can go home. And it came to pass. Whenever you read, and it came to pass in the Bible, that means it's history. That means it happened. I'm telling you right now, God is working on some stuff where people gonna look at you and say, how did you do that? You gonna say, "It came to pass." How did you get that house? How did you get that car? How did you get that husband? How did your business grow? It came to pass. I'm telling you, no longer will prophecies be stuck above your head. You're about to move into a stage where you will be able to look at it and say, "It came to pass." Some of you have received words and you've been expecting, you've been waiting, but God said the season has come. Where you shall say, "And it came to pass." I'm telling you right now, what God has spoken, it will happen. It shall happen. And it came to pass. Oh, taba'a, oh, shema'a. God, I give you the glory. God, I give you the glory. Watch this. He said that the people pressed upon him to hear the word of God. He stood by the lake of Gennesaret. Watch this, we're entering into a season where as God enlarges our capacity, there are a hungry people in this earth. There are people who are literally looking for more. And God said they're going to begin to press upon us, not for hype, not for entertainment, but to hear the word of God. Come on, this word, word in Greek is logiskos or logos. Logos is the logic of God. So God is looking for vessels, men and women of God, who will speak think what's on God's mind. And when we say what God is saying, people will press in to hear. And I'm telling you, we better get ready. Oh, we've already prophesied over this building. We knew when we took this building that it was going to be too small real quick. But I'm telling you, people are going to begin to press to hear what thus saith the Lord, not Michael Woods. They won't come looking for iconolistic man. They're going to come looking for God because God will be here. Watch this. The Bible says in verse 2, and he saw two ships standing by the lake, but the fishermen were gone out of them and were washing their nets. I need you to understand something. There's never a time or season where Jesus doesn't see you. He knows where you are. He knows where you're going. These men were quitting, and Jesus was attracted to that because they were giving up. And Jesus said, okay, we can't let them give up. I'm telling you, God is saying to us tonight, you can't quit. You can't stop. The only way you lose is if you quit. You're guaranteed to L if you stop now. I don't know who this is for, but somebody is real close. Jesus. And you, you about to throw in the towel, but I'm telling you, God sees where you are and he's already earmarked your future for something great. He said these men were washing their nets. They were fishermen. They were tired. And they were saying, enough is enough. Look at verse 3. Jesus entered into one of the ships which was Simon's and prayed him that he would thrust out a little from the land. Remember I told you, if you change your position, it'll change your condition. Jesus got on the ship and said, let's get out of this environment. See, you got to open up your ship. Come on. So Jesus can get on the ship, and when he gives instructions to move, you got to move. He said, let's get a little from land. You've been in the wrong place. You gave up too soon. He thrust out a little from the land. Watch this. And Jesus entered into the ship. Ship, and he taught the people from the ship. There's always a revelation, there's always a message in the midst of trials. This was a hard time for these fishermen because they weren't used to not catching fish. But Jesus said, give me your boat. He sat down on the boat and he started teaching. The word teach there, or taught there, is didaktos in Greek. It means that he had a revelation for their situation, the position they was in. This word was tailor-made for where they were. Can I tell you, God has a word that's tailor-made for your current condition, that's tailor-made for where you are. You've got to open your ears so you so you can hear him teach, so you can hear him share. Are y'all hearing this? He's saying, I want, I want to be close to you where I can tell you what you've never heard. He can't do it unless you let him in the ship. Whatever the ship is, let him in the friendship, let him in the relationship. Let him in the ship. Let him get on board of your life and follow his plan. I'm almost done. And Simon answered, saying to him, Master, we have toiled all night. His name ain't changed to Peter yet, and he's already— this is who he is, he's always combative. He says, listen, Master, I know they say you Jesus, you're doing all these miracles and stuff around here, but we are fishermen. We've been fishing all night and we have caught nothing. And literally they were fishing all night long. Here's a revelation: these men— number one, God will cause you to fail at what you do best to show you you could do nothing without him. Because a lot of times when we good at something, we get comfortable in it and we don't consult him anymore because I got this, I can preach, I can sing, I can do what I do. The devil is a liar. We cannot do anything in life without him, and especially if you're gonna walk with him in calling. He had to show them, you need me to survive. Touch yourself and say, I need God to survive. God to survive. The Bible says, as you keep reading, he told them, he said, throw us out from the land. He said, I want you to go and launch your nets into the deep. Yeah. Which means you can't stay in this shallow place anymore. Jesus. Shallow revelation, shallow praise, shallow worship, shallow study time. God said, no, you got to go deep. You got to dig into dimensions that you've never tapped into. And that takes sacrifice, it takes obedience. Because watch what Peter says. He says, we've been fishing all night, but nevertheless, at your word. Come on, we fishermen, but we gonna— we We know more about this, we think, than you do, but we're going to let down our nets for a drought on your word. Whenever you read nevertheless in the Bible, it is signifying that God's option is never less than yours. What he says is always greater. So if he said it, we need to obey it, execute so we can enlarge. Long story short, they did what Jesus said, and the Bible said they brought a multitude of fish in, so much so they had to beckon for their partners to help them bring in the harvest. Here's the second part of the revelation: why couldn't they catch fish before? Because Jesus is supernaturally connected to nature and he's able to speak to the fish. These are master fishermen. So Jesus, just like he spoke to the whale for Jonah, he spoke to the fish and said, I need y'all to go to the deepest part of this lake. So that when their nets come down, you won't get trapped. He strategically planned for these men to fail, and when it was time for the fish to be caught, Jesus said, okay, now y'all can get in the net. That's the miracle, that Jesus has communication with wildlife and he can use whatever he choose chooses to bless us. From this day forward, watch this, these apostles were enlarged. They— their capacity was expanded. Now they expected the miraculous, they expected the supernatural. Watch this, supernatural things now became the norm. Jesus said, now drop your nets, follow me, I'm gonna make you fishers of men. It's so important to realize it was the miracle that they beheld that caused them to leave their business and follow Jesus. Y'all stand, I'm done. Glory to God. I hope y'all got some out of that tonight. Just begin to open your mouth and worship him right now. Come on, worship him right now. Come on.