Radah Church VIRTUAL WORD | KINGDOM APOSTOLIC INDUSTRY | APOSTLE MIKE WOODS | 9 MAY 21

Well, grace and peace be multiplied to each one of you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is Apostle Michael Lyris Woods, and welcome into our virtual service for Raleigh Church. I am super excited to share with you on today. Let me first begin by saying Happy Mother's Day to all All the mothers that are out there, listen, you are so valuable to the lives of your children and those you influence. Listen, make this the best day you possibly can on purpose. You know, I'm excited today to share the word with you. Listen, we're going to go into the service really quickly here because we're finishing up praise and worship, and I want to welcome you to our live stream this morning. But listen, Listen, this word I'm teaching this morning is phenomenal. We're talking about Kingdom Apostolic Industry. And I want you to understand something, that God wants his people to be very deliberate in being governmental, in creating industry, in establishing foundations and parameters. Watch this, where we don't lean on the world system, but actually the world begins to lean on the kingdom systems that God has put in place. So let's go into this service again. We're finishing up praise and worship, and I promise you, your life is going to be phenomenally blessed. Do me a favor, please, right now. One, I don't want you to scroll. Two, I want you to share this. Please share this video. I promise you, it's going to be a blessing to somebody. And then 3, I want you to engage with us today. I want you to type in the comments your notes, your amens, your hallelujahs. Get involved with this message. I promise you, don't scroll. You need this word that's about to be disseminated. So again, we get ready to go into the service, already happening. We're finishing up praise and worship, and we're talking today about Kingdom Apostolic industry. Let's go into today's message, and then I'll be back and I'm going to pray with you, and I'm going to share with you some very important announcements. Again, here we go. Kingdom Apostolic Industry.

Me now, my savior, my savior. I, I come to you. I come to thee. I need thee, oh Lord. I need thee. Yes, God. Every hour, Lord, I need thee. Oh, let, oh, let, let me now, my My savior, my savior. Yes, God. I, I come to you. I come to thee. Yes. Hallelujah.

Yes.

Oh yeah, hallelujah! Yes, my soul says yes! In the morning is yes, in the noonday is yes, in the midnight hour is yes! Oh yeah, my soul says yes to your will. It say yes, my soul says yes. Hallelujah! Put your hands together right there if it's a yes. Hallelujah! Whatever you need, it's a yes. Whatever you desire, it's a yes. Hallelujah! You You woke up this morning telling yes, hallelujah, yes to your will and yes to your way. Hallelujah, it's a yes. Hallelujah, glory to God. Hallelujah, bless your name, God. Hallelujah, yes, God. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, glory to God. Hallelujah.

Come on, clap your hands again and tell him yes, Lord. Come on, y'all ain't doing it. Clap your hands and say yes, Lord. Come on, clap your hands, open up your mouth. And say, yes, Lord. Come on, somebody clap your hands and tell him yes. Clap your hands and tell him I need you. We need you, Jesus. Come on, clap your hands and tell him yes. Yes, yes. We give you the glory, God. We give you the glory. We bless your name. You're everything to us. You're everything to us. I wish I had a praiser that believed he was everything to you. He's everything. Ah, God.

Everything!

I'm trying not to go there, but he's everything! He's everything! He's everything! Hallelujah!

Glory to God! Thank you, God. We love you, Jesus. Hallelujah! Beside you there's no other. You're perfectly and absolutely wise. You're wonderful and mighty.

St. John 9.

I'm going to read one verse and My wife and I got home from dinner, and we was out to dinner last night with Harry and Chelsea. And, uh, I planned on preaching something else today, but when I got home, I laid in the bed, I had my iPad, the Lord started talking to me, and this is where I ended up. So I'm going to give you what the Lord said, okay? Saint John 9, verse 4. 4. This is what it says. It says, I must work the works of him that sent me.

Hallelujah.

While it is yet day, the night cometh when no man can work. I'm gonna read that again because it's just all right to read the Bible. Amen.

I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day.

The night cometh when no man can work. Let me just read verse 5, cuz Jesus says, as long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

Hallelujah!

Glory to God!

And just from that one passage, I know I'm not going to get through with this.

God started talking to me and I just started writing last night in the bed. And you may say, how in the world does that connect? But I'm gonna show you before I get through. I want to talk about apostolic industry. I believe there's a need for people to understand really what it means to be apostolic and what the drive of apostolic people are. Because I think there's a huge misconception, and you had a hope—

I said it, uh, Thursday—

that the church ought to be in a position kingdom-wise that the government turns to us.

Amen.

Praise for what they need. Right, right.

Are y'all here?

That's, that's big.

That's big.

Glory to God.

Because at the end of the day, we need enough resources. That's why we ought to be in business.

We ought to be generating wealth.

Yes.

Hallelujah.

Because we ought to be creating economy and industry so that when the world needs us—

are you hearing this? They can turn to us, and instead of being on welfare fair.

Right.

We put them on God fair.

All right, y'all hear what I'm saying?

We become the bailout system. Do you realize that this nation is several trillion dollars in debt? Yes, sir.

And I believe the church can be in a position, if we did things right, where we can bail our own government out of debt. Yeah.

Because we should be the light of the world. We should be the driving force.

Amen.

Okay, but then the substratum of this starts at the foundation with understanding what it means to be apostolic.

Yes.

And I just really believe that there's a powerful and sovereign— that those of you watching me, please stay with me before you scroll.

I promise you You need to stay in, especially people connected to this church. You need to hear.

Some of y'all sitting at home in your pajamas eating cereal, watching me teach every week, sending your tithes in. Listen, you need to come to church because you're scared of coronavirus. We got the vaccine, it's called the blood of Jesus. Are you hearing me?

Glory to God. So listen, I believe again that there's a sovereign rule, a sovereign state of mind that the New Testament church has to embrace.

No longer can we live in this space where we're second class.

Yes, we gotta emerge into our proper place.

Yes, hallelujah!

And be the church.

I believe that God didn't bring coronavirus, but he allowed this stuff to position us in a posture of prayer. Yes, whereby we will get a revelation of what we do next.

Amen.

Hey, I see pastors saying that coronavirus changed the church forever and church would never be the same. The devil is a liar.

Yeah, it won't be the same, we're going to another place, but no way God will allow pestilence and disease to stop the assembly of his people.

That's not his plan.

I'm telling you right now, it ain't his plan. So this state of mind starts with industry. Somebody say industry.

And I'm gonna share with you what that is in a moment.

I believe that during this season that we're in— and hear this prophetically, this is a very prophetic word—

I don't tell you—

I laid down and my wife was over there snoring in another world, glory to God. And I'm getting the word from the Lord Jesus.

I said, Lord, I want to be doing what she doing. I done sat there and ate like I couldn't eat no—

like it was my last time eating. And I'm like, Lord, I'm ready to go to sleep.

The Lord said, no, you need this word, brother.

So you stay on up and get it.

So here's what he said to me. He said, during this season, the world is going to begin to see supernatural moves and manifestation of the hand of God in a whole lot of areas.

I mean, we're going to see it in systematic racism, we're going to see it with cancer, we're going to see it with poverty.

Amen.

Once we take our place, we can start changing things.

Amen.

See, watch this. We pray to God and then God partners with us. To do the work. Touch yourself, say, I'm a partner with God. So I believe what's going to happen, they're going to be great waves of conversion.

This is what God showed me last night. He said, son, I'm gonna show—

I'm gonna show the world great waves of conversion during this season where people who choose not to serve God—

you're gonna see some of the strangest people give their life to God. I mean, you're gonna say, Lord, I thought they was a real heathen, and they're gonna get saved.

Amen.

Because it's gonna take the supernatural to turn this thing around. We're going to need the supernatural intelligence of God and the supernatural intent of God. The supernatural intent is God deliberately aligning with us, said, I want to work with you, co-labor with you. Yes, to get this done. Amen.

I'm telling you right now, y'all, and God showed it to me last night, something major—

oh my God, somebody said major—

major is about to happen.

I've been saved since I was a teenager. I've been preaching since I was a teenager.

And I'm telling you, what we're about to see will be like nothing we've ever seen.

That's why we got to get in position. That's why God weeds out people. He cuts people away who are not serious.

Amen.

Are y'all hearing me?

Amen.

And he puts in place those that are serious about this major thing happening.

Not only will it happen for the church, but it's going to happen for Yes, hallelujah.

Touch yourself and say, something major, something major is about to happen for me. Those who watch me, type it on the screen. Say, something major is about to happen for me. Now find somebody else and tell them, hey, did you hear what I just said? Tell them, something major is about to happen for you.

Yeah, yeah. Glory to God. So what— so it starts with understanding first what it means to be apostolic.

It's not just a title.

And so many people run for this title, man.

That's true, that's true. I saw someone last—

I saw a guy. First of all, the guy, I looked at him, I was like, he ain't got no business affirming nobody.

'Cause he ain't apostolic. And I looked at the—

he had about 40 people he was affirming. I'm like, Lord help us.

Wow. 85% of the folk on the flyer were not apostolic.

Wow.

No government, no apostolic ability or fruit in their life.

I was doing apostolic work before I took the title. Yes. Matter of fact, who you are will manifest before you get labeled.

Yeah, right.

Matter of fact, my spiritual father had to force this on me.

I'm like, man, I don't want to do that.

I'm a pastor. That's why I used to tell him.

He said, nah, you know, Paul, you know, planted 4 churches.

How you just a pastor? I said, no, I'm just a pastor, and I'm gonna grow this church in Jackson, Mississippi.

We gonna be The World Changers, the Potter's House of Jackson, Mississippi. I'm gonna be a pastor, I'm gonna stay right here. He said, no, sir, you are an apostle. And so I had to yield to it and accept it, but the fruit was there long before the title. So let's get this, look at this. What does it mean to be apostolic? First of all, and I'm just gonna, I'm gonna talk to y'all a little bit about this because I think the world needs to understand this. 'Cause they missing it. Apostolic, first of all, is not a denomination. I grew up in the church, Pentecostal and Jesus Only Apostolic, baptized in Jesus' name. They called themselves apostolics. But in the truest sense of the word, to be apostolic deals with that which pertains— watch this—

to the work of apostles.

Say, work of apostles. So you can't really understand what it means to be apostolic if you don't understand what an apostle is. Most of these people who call themselves apostles, they have no idea what it is. Oh God, okay, so the word apostle first comes from the Greek word apostolos.

And in its simplest form it means a sent one.

What?

So first of all, an apostle is a consideration of heaven.

God sends the gift into the earth. Ephesians 1:11 said he gave some apostles, some he sent, some to stand in his place.

But how did he them.

Watch this. So, so the apostle is a sent one.

Yes, by God. You can't—

watch this—

you can't elect an apostle. There is no such thing as an apostle-elect. Ain't no such thing as it. God selects apostles.

Now bishops can be bishop-elect because apostles elect bishops.

To be—

because the bishop, episkopos in Greek, is an overseer who has oversight. You can put a bishop over a piece of paper and say you're the bishop over this paper, because that's what it means to have oversight. Most of us don't know that in Catholicism bishops don't even have a church.

That's why bishops are forbidden to have a flock, because they have oversight over the diocese. Yes. Okay, so you can be a bishop elect, but I just want to bring some clarity because a lot of people don't understand.

You cannot have an apostle elect.

Apostles are designated by God before we're born. You're called to be an apostle. Are you hearing this?

Man has nothing to do with it.

When we do services for apostles, we simply affirm —yes— what God said in heaven. Are you hearing me? So an apostle is sent— let me break this down— with, first of all, gubernatorial authority. We just witnessed a gubernatorial race, a governmental election where man-elected authority. But what God does, he puts gubernatorial authority, governmental authority inside of the apostle. Yeah, so every apostle should have a government on his shoulder to be able to govern not just other gifts in the church that are spiritual, but apostles have a gubernatorial authority to control fears outside of the church, even in business, even in government. An apostle should be present on every mountain of the earth. Yeah, in every kingdom of the earth, the apostle should be present. Watch this, there's 7 kingdoms, 7 kingdoms. Then there's number 1, in the kingdom of God there's 7 kingdoms.

So the first area is what we call the religious Religious kingdom is what we find in church.

Now, most of the time in this kingdom, man has took control of this kingdom and does things his way. But when apostles emerge, they bring the order of God into that kingdom. That's right. Secondly, we have education kingdom, okay?

This is where our children are trained. This is where we go to universities and schools.

We got—

we get educated in that kingdom. We need apostles to help govern that kingdom.

We need saved teachers. Are y'all hearing me?

We need people who love Jesus in the kingdom of education teaching our children.

Yes.

Thirdly, we have— watch this— economic kingdom. This is where the money flows.

This is banking systems.

Yes, the apostolic nature should affect that system. Are y'all hearing this?

That's why you have various types of apostles.

You got— watch this— the military kingdom, you got the media kingdom, you got the political kingdom, and you got the entertainment kingdom.

And we definitely need apostolic authority in entertainment kingdom where we don't just have people like Tyler Perry and T.D. Jakes makes a few movies, but we need to have control. These guys have emerged to a certain place where they don't have no control.

That's a huge kingdom. But we need to have some control where we can control programming, we can control praise the name of the Lord—

a balanced diet that comes through entertainment.

Yeah, but because we just stay in the church, we don't touch those kingdoms.

Now watch this.

Jesus said the kingdoms of this world will become the kingdoms of our Lord and Christ.

So if the kingdoms of this world is going to become his, then we got to start working in those kingdoms.

Because let me let you know a secret: Jesus is not coming back to set up a kingdom. He's coming— listen to me— to sit on the throne of a kingdom that's already established. So we need to already be in these kingdoms working so he comes back, he can take control as king.

Yeah.

Oh God. So apostles have gubernatorial authority. They also have plenipotentiary status. Amen. Praise God.

Pleiopatetaria means they have a diversity of gifts.

There are 5 ministries: the apostle, the prophet, the evangelist, the pastor, the teacher. Well, if you give every one of them a part of the finger, the pinky finger would be the teacher because the teacher brings balance to the body. The ring finger would be the pastor because the pastor is married to the church.

Amen.

This finger right here, I don't know what you call it, it's the middle finger. Glory to God. Would be, praise the name of the Lord, the evangelist, because it's the longest, it extends into the world.

This pointer finger is the prophet, because the prophet foretells and foretells.

The thumb— watch this— is the apostle. You know why? Because he can touch every finger. He's plenipotentiary.

An apostle should be able to move in and out all of these gifts. Yes. If you— if there's a— if you see an apostle that cannot teach, that you need first to question that apostleship.

Amen. Praise God. Because apostles just don't yell. They are educators. They make sure the body is equipped. Watch this, that plenipotentiary status causes them to be spearheads.

There's a spearhead technology that moves inside of apostles.

So if you look at a spearhead on a spear, if you shoot— throw that spear or shoot it in a The spear penetrates before any part of the apparatus. It goes through first. So the apostle is always the one that opens up the door. Say spearhead technology.

Watch this, because we are the—

we should be the first, not just as an apostolic man in the office, but watch this, apostolic people. Because those that connect to apostles The authority of the apostle moves through the culture.

And so in your area of purpose, you carry that government.

Oh God.

And you can penetrate barriers and open up new doors of opportunity because—

oh my God— because watch this, when we penetrate barriers and initiate truth about the kingdom in heaven, we're now laying a foundation that the world could come and build on and stand upon. Watch this. Apostolic people, us, we initiate things that others could not. Amen. I don't want to just call myself an apostle and I'm not creating waves that others are not— have done.

I want to do things that other people have not done.

Yes, I want to tap unknown mysteries that have not been unlocked.

See, apostles have— they're stratospheric warriors that carry keys to access the heavens.

That's right. They can unlock things, open up things. Watch this, they can close things. That's the authority. That's why there's a lot of hell apostles go Watch this. Apostles also establish lineage in the earth, which means we leave an inheritance for other people to come and build upon. Was talking last night about my son in Mississippi. Yeah, I paved the way with the grace on my life, established the church, built him up, and now he's an apostle and the gatekeeper of that reach. Yeah, are you hearing me? That's because I was able to break a barrier there in Mississippi that nobody else was willing to go after. Everybody was in their religious state of mind. I went against the grain, started moving in gifts, started operating in power, and now there's a lineage. I mean, we had some 42 ministers in that church alone that left and was deployed—

not just left, but deployed by the ministry into their own stuff.

That's powerful.

But they carried the lineage, the culture of the house.

Oh God, what's the lineage? The lineage— break the word down— is a line age. You create a line, a pattern for the ages that follow. You create a line for everybody to walk after. Listen, that's so important because a lot of times our predecessors— yes— did not leave good lines. For us. They didn't leave good models for us to imitate. So now we got to make sure we got good models in place for people to imitate.

So let's look at this text. I told you I'm almost through.

Watch this. John 9:4. He said, I must work. Nothing happens without work.

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

I'll say it again. The only place success comes before work is in Webster's.

If you're going to be successful at anything, we must work. Say, I must work.

I must work. Now what I love about that particular word work, it's a pop word, ergonzomai. Now watch this, it's saying I must commit to doing business.

So not just any old work, but he said I must transact business. Ergonzomai, I must do an exchange between heaven and earth, get the instructions, and do the business that heaven tells me to do in the earth. That's, that's good stuff, because that means that I can't just do what I want to do. There is a work that God has for everybody in this room.

Amen.

There is an assignment that you can do that I can't do. Watch this.

Your assignment is the problem you were created to Everybody in here was created to solve a problem.

Chelsea has a travel business, she solves travel problems.

She trolls airline tickets, hotel resorts, she solves vacation problems.

You wanna go on vacation, she understands the industry, she, that's part of her assignment. Watch this, her and Lady Woods and Harry saw worship problems. Problems. Glory to the name of God. Every assignment solves a problem. Amen. Pastors solve spiritual problems. Are y'all hearing me? Yes. Bakers solve money problems. Yes. Are y'all hearing this? Teachers solve education problems. Y'all get it? Everybody here has a problem they were created to solve. That's right. Here's the catch: you got to discover that. Yes, you do. Your assignment is never your decision. It's always your discovery.

Yes. Hallelujah.

It's never your decision. God already decided. You just got to discover what he decided.

That's right. Have mercy, Jesus. Uh-huh. Which means we control nothing. That's it.

So everybody in here is authentic vintage. You have an assignment to do to do that's going to make a difference in the earth, that's going to help create apostolic industry. Watch this, I'm gonna show you. It says, I must work the works—

uh-oh— of him. Uh-oh, that sent me. Yes. Hold on, I just said the apostles' office is a sending anointing. Did y'all just see that in the text? He said, I gotta work the one that sent me.

So every one of us have to tap into apostolic ministry and do the works we are sent to do.

Oh God, watch this.

So works is different than work.

Works actually is the root of that first word, is ergon. Yes, now I love this word ergon. Watch this, it means— let me just read It means to undertake enterprise, to create a product, to accomplish by hand, or— watch this— or industry.

So the works create an industry.

This is— I want to show you something.

The Bible says that God has put basically here, sent every one of us to this planet it with industry in us.

I'm taking it deeper. The Wright brothers came to this earth with aeronautics in them. Yes, these dudes never took an aeronautical engineering course, but they were supernaturally endowed with the assignment to create the aeronautic industry. That's right.

They laid a foundation that every other airplane is built on.

Yes, that's right.

I don't care how fancy the airplanes become, they started the industry.

Yes, they did. Watch this, they revolutionized the industry. Yes, they did. That's major, man. Yes, it is. Can I tell you something? There's something major on the inside of every one of us.

Hallelujah, praise God. Touch your belly and say, I'm creative. I'm creative. Because the Holy Spirit lives in me. Say, there's something major that I must produce. Say, I must innovate. I must create something that's never been created. Say, I am an ambassador sent by God to do something great. I dare you give God praise if you believe that. He said, I must work the works of him that sent me. My God.

Yes, Lord. While it's day. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

While your eyes still can see good. Hallelujah. Y'all not talking to me here.

While it's still light outside.

Yes. Praise God.

He says, I don't want you to wait till everything gets bad, till everything in your life stops working before you decide to pick up your assignment again. Watch this. Your assignment is the problem you created to solve, right?

So that means You should never talk to anybody about your problem that's not qualified to solve it. My God.

Oh, y'all ain't helping me here. Ain't no way I'm going to a broke person to talk about money issues. If I need $10 million for a project, I can't talk to somebody that never made a million. That's why y'all not talking to me here. If you ain't never made $10 million, you can't talk to me about how to get $10 million for a project. I wish I had some help here. You gotta go to the person that's got the anointing to solve that problem. And everybody's got an anointing on them to solve a problem. Give me about 10 minutes, Aaron, I promise you I'm gonna be with you.

Give me about 10 minutes.

He said, "I must work the works of him that sent me while it's day." Yes. Watch this, every assignment, and this is why it's gotta be day, because you gotta recognize the details of the assignment. Every apostolic assignment that's connected to industry has basically 5 things.

Every assignment, number 1, has people. You cannot have a God-type assignment and it does not involve people. Hallelujah!

God is a people God. Yes, he is.

So whatever he gives you is going to be a blessing to people. Yeah. That's right.

And you know, I believe a lot of the creations in this world— cameras, computers, y'all not talking to me here, keyboards, cars, airplanes— God gave it to people.

Telephone. Yes. You know you had to be on something. If you sitting in the room saying, Lord, I wish I can talk to somebody in here. You talk about creative, right?

You talk about thinking. I mean, just think about it.

There were no phones nowhere. Alexander Graham Bell is sitting in a room and said, hmm, I wish I could talk to somebody in here. But that's how creators think. Yes, right.

They think out of the box. And he probably went to somebody else and said, you know what, I'm thinking about an idea where I can talk to somebody that's 20 miles away and still be in my house. They probably said, man, you crazy. I said that to say that when you start thinking out of the box, when you start thinking like an industry leader and saying, I'm going to lead industry, I'm going to take charge, people are not going to understand you.

No, they're not. People don't understand me when I make statements like, I'm gonna be a billionaire. They don't understand it.

They don't understand statements like, I'm on a grind, on a run to a billion. My stepmom asked me, "So, so why you work so much? You never go to sleep. You never do this. You always focus." I said, "Yeah, 'cause I can't stop until I get a billion. I gotta get that billion-dollar idea, that billion-dollar product, and I gotta keep working until it happens." That's right.

Are y'all hearing me?

I'm telling you, people will think you crazy when you start talking like that. But don't worry about it, talk like it anyway. Because while there's people that will talk down on what you're trying to do, I'm here to tell you this morning, there's some folk that will celebrate it. And there's some folk that's looking forward to you rising. Everybody don't want to see you die. Everybody don't want to see you fail. There's some people that want to see your success. I dare you, hit somebody and tell them, I'm gonna succeed. Whether you like it or not. I'm gonna be industrious. Good God Almighty, I got to get out of here. Good God, he says, I need you to understand every assignment has people. Say people. People.

You have people for you and you have people against you. You have people who need what's in you. That's right. See, your assignment is like a life jacket to a drowning person. Yeah, you just got to find out who the people that's drowning. Right. Hallelujah.

And throw your life jacket out and they're gonna grab it.

Yes. Hallelujah. Yeah, people, every assignment—

watch this— because with people come problems.

Yes. And every assignment has problems, but that's a good thing because your assignment again does what? Solve problems. Right. Hallelujah.

I don't even pray to God about my problems. When I talk to God, I say, God, just send me the solution. I don't even want to talk. I don't want to have a conversation.

We know it's a problem.

God, let's get a solution to this. No need wasting time with dialogue.

Let's solve it. Where's the person to solve it? And sometimes you got to call that thing forth in the spirit and bring that person forth.

Yes, hallelujah.

I got to get out of here, y'all.

I promise you, I'm already over time. Listen, every assignment has people, problems. Oh, she's— thirdly, every assignment has places.

Yeah, I love that, because where you are is just as important as who you are.

You could be the most gifted person in the world in the wrong place.

That's right.

You could have the most astute mind and be in the wrong place where people don't understand it and won't appreciate it.

That's right, that's true.

You got to make sure you're in the right place.

Like the Kirby, sometimes you got to move. Yeah, from Vegas to Georgia to be in the right place. Yes. Are y'all hearing me?

All right, sometimes like the Kings, you got to move from Tifton to Atlanta to be in the right place.

Like Sharia, you got to move from Miami to Atlanta to be in the right place, because the grace that you need to do it in excellence is in the right place. Ah, God. See, when you're out of place, you're struggling.

It's hard. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

There's tension mounting every day, and because you don't have the resources around to make happen what you're trying to make happen. Every assignment has places. Yeah, watch this. Every assignment also has periods. Lord have mercy. Periods, time frames, and seasons. Periods. They're gonna be some good days in the assignment, but they're gonna be some bad days too. The bad days come to make you stronger. Yes, they do. The bad days come to make you more powerful. Mhm. Oh my God, the bad days come— oh Jesus—

to build character in you.

You know what, I didn't like my bad days when I was going through. Oh, nobody does.

But when I look back over my shoulder, I'm thankful.

Yes, my God, because it's the seasons of failure. Yes. Hallelujah. That prepared me for success. Yes.

That helped me appreciate the man I have become. Yes.

Oh, y'all not talking to me here. Oh yes.

So you don't have some good days. And here's what I love about a season.

Number one, you can't start a season.

There were times in my bad days I wanted to get out, Erica. I wanted it over, but I couldn't get out no matter how bad I wanted out.

Because God says you got to stay here until I get through processing you.

Yes, you got to go through this season because failure is always a prelude to success.

All right, my Lord, that's good.

Oh God, anybody great had some bad days first.

Well, praise the Lord, I know that message was a blessing to you as it was to us. Listen, you need to understand you have a special place in the kingdom of God, and there's an innate assignment that God wants to bring forth so that his light can shine through you and that men can see your good works and glorify the Father in heaven, ultimately bringing men to him. Listen, I want to pray with you today. Glory to God. If perhaps You're unclear about your kingdom assignment. You don't know the people you're called to. You don't know the places you're supposed to be in. You don't understand the particulars and you don't understand the periods of the timing. I want to pray that today God would give you clarity concerning your kingdom assignment. On this Mother's Day, I want to pray that you would gain absolute supernatural clarity. Concerning your life's assignment. Can we pray today? Glory to God. So, Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for every person under the sound of my voice, and I ask you, God, that you would cause clarity and understanding to superimpose yourself upon every person. Oh my God, that desires to be clear about their assignment. Them. But God, you gave every person an authentic assignment, an authentic and vintage purpose. So I'm asking, God, that you would make them clear of the people they're called to, the places they're to go, the particulars that surround their assignment, and the periods that are connected to their assignment. I thank you for it now, and I give you praise and glory that as your people emerge as kingdom industrious people who move with a sense of apostolic government. They will begin to superimpose your power, your glory, your authority, and your anointing in the earth. And I give you praise for it, God, in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Glory be to God. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Listen, you ought to praise God for a heaven assignment. Glory to God! You ought to praise God from whom all blessings flow, that your assignment— glory to the name of God— is true. Your assignment is real. Praise God! And that you are authentic and unique and different from everyone else. Listen, again, I thank you guys for joining us today. My time is gone, but I want to challenge you before we go. Every person under the sound of my voice, please don't leave. I want to challenge you to give into ministry. Listen, God has blessed us. We've moved into a brand new place. Uh, it's about 10 times the size of our former location, and we're super grateful, and we're looking for God to do some phenomenal things. There are some outreaches we plan for the community that's around us, and we need your support to help us reach the lost. We're believing God God in the month of May for 100 souls. We're believing God in the month of June for 100 souls to be saved and added to the church. That's 200 souls over the next 2 months. We're trusting God that he would do it. I want to challenge every person to sow a seed into souls today, whatever the Lord will lay on your heart. Those of you connected to this ministry, you need to tithe. The ways to give are on the screen. Glory to the name of God. You can give on our website at rhodachurch.com, or you can give via Cash App using the hashtag or the Cash App tag Rhoda Church. Listen, they're on the screen. I want you to give right now. And Father, in Jesus' name, as your people give, I pray that you will multiply their seed sown a thousand times more in the matchless name In the name of Jesus, I declare it to be done. I declare it to be so. Somebody is gonna get a supernatural breakthrough even this week for your obedience in giving. Something's gonna break for you financially. Some door that you didn't expect to open is going to open. But I need you to trust God with your giving. Those connected to Rhoda Church, you have to bring your tithe. Give to God what belongs to him. And secondly, I need every person who is listening to me now— glory to God— who you may not be connected to this church, to get a generous seed faith offering in your hand and give unto the Lord. Listen guys, my time is gone. I love you. I want to extend a personal invitation to you to worship with us us in person at Rhoda Church. Listen, our new church in McDonough, our new space is amazing, and we want you to come and share with us. The address to the church is on the screen. Glory to God. And you can visit our website at rhodachurch.com/contact to get more information and directions.

Listen, I love you. Y'all be blessed.

Heaven smile upon you. Is my prayer. And remember this: your decision set you up for dominion. God bless you.