Radah Church Virtual Worship- The Aligned Life (62120)

Welcome! To the Apostle's Table, where lions roar and lives are changed. The Apostle's Table is a part of the worldwide outreach ministry of Dr. Mike Wood Sr. You will encounter supernatural wisdom and revelation that will help you discern God's purpose for your life, develop your potential, and deploy your gifts effectively into the earth. We decree your life will never be the same again. Thanks for joining us and welcome to The Apostles' Table. Well, praise the Lord and grace and peace be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And yes, welcome to our Sunday edition of The Apostles' Table. This is our virtual worship experience for Roddell Church, the church I am privileged to pastor. And for those of you who are uninitiated, my name is Dr. Mike Woods and I am the senior pastor and founder of Roddell Church. I'm grateful to be here. I'm grateful to be alive, man. You know, the enemy's trying to take me out several times. I'm glad I'm still alive. I'm glad that I have breath running in my body and can share the word of the Lord with you. What a privilege to be alive. Well, I'm not gonna belabor any longer. I'm gonna jump right into this service today. I appreciate each of you for being here and worshiping with us. Welcome to Rhoda Church. Praise the name of God. And we're going to begin our service this morning, praise God, with the word of God. You know, the Bible says, in the beginning was the word And the Word was God. So our scripture reading this morning is coming from the book of Romans, chapter number 1, verses 16 and 17. And here beginneth the reading of the Word of the Lord. The Bible says, for I am not ashamed of the gospel because it is the power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, first to the Jew and also to the Greek. Verse 17: For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith, just as it is written, the righteous will live by faith. And that's just the bottom line. If you are in covenant with God, it is his desire for you not to live in fear, but for you, my friends, to live by faith. And I'm so grateful today that as we move through this service, that's just gonna be our mindset— from faith to faith. And another passage of scripture says from glory to glory. So again, welcome to our service. We're so grateful you're here. And what I'm gonna do today, I'm gonna get a lot of our preliminaries off the, off the agenda so we can just move straight into going from faith to faith, so we don't interrupt nothing to talk about announcements or anything else. So the first thing I want to do is challenge your hearts, praise the name of God, to sow into ministry. You know, the Bible declares that we should bring our whole tithe and offering into the storehouse, that there may be meat in thine house. He said, prove me now herewith, and I will open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing you won't have room enough to receive. So I want to challenge you today to give into ministry. The Lord is doing some great things at Rhoda Church, and And I want to challenge you to be a part and support us. All of the ways to give are going to flash on the screen. First, you can give via Cash App. The church's Cash App is simply Radha Church. Go to your Cash App and give your tithe and sow your offering today. Secondly, if you want to give online, you could go to our website radhachurch.com/donate and you could sow your seed there. And finally, you can give via text. Simply text the word RADA GIVE— it's on the screen— to the phone number 319-996 and give your offering through your telephone. However you choose to give, your giving is greatly appreciated. I want to take an opportunity, as you're preparing your offering, as you're considering what you'll give into ministry on today. And if you're connected to Rhoda Church, it is so important that you tithe. 10% of your offering goes to God. Listen, I'm not doing this to raise money for me. This money is for ministry, is for the church. Everything you give us goes right into church ministry. And that, my friends, we're extremely excited, excited to be able to say. Praise the name of God. So I'm grateful for that. So plant your seed, give into the kingdom, and watch what God is going to do for you according to his word. Let's pray, and I'm gonna trust God that as we bless your seed and bless this service today, glory to the name of God, that he will multiply your giving a thousand times more, just like he said he would do in the scripture. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, We thank you for another opportunity to worship. And Father, I thank you for every person under the sound of my voice. I thank you that at the top of this service we have an opportunity to give. We trust you at your word. And Father, we thank you for Rhoda Church. You have designed this house to be an apostolic and prophetic house that will mobilize men and women to be a change in their immediate world. So God, we thank you for what you've called us to do. We thank you for the facilities you've given us, and we praise you now in advance that every chair we need, every sound— piece of sound equipment, everything we need to open up our house in excellence, God, as we emerge from this pandemic and begin to worship again, we thank you that everything Everything is already supplied in Jesus' name. And furthermore, those that are giving, I ask you, God, to multiply their seed a thousand times more in Jesus' name. Amen and thank God. Hallelujah. So bless you for your giving. Bless you for your seed. Just a few announcements while you're doing your offering. Glory to the name of God. I want to share a few things with you. Praise God. And, you know, at the end of the day, man, there are some exciting opportunities that every person has to really expand, to grow, and to increase. So there's a few things I want to share with you. Number one, I want to share with you, praise the name of God, that we are getting ready to launch something so very powerful. For those of you that are prophetic and you feel like there is a prophetic nature that operates in your life, and I want you to be clear, even if you're not called to be a prophet, but if you're filled with the Holy Spirit and you want to understand the gift of prophecy, because every believer has an opportunity to experience the gift of prophecy. So if you want to understand the gift of prophecy, then this is for you. I want to invite you. This is free of charge. Every beginning the fourth Saturday in June, the 27th, and then every second and fourth Saturday morning. See, leaders make sacrifices. So every second and fourth Saturday, glory to God. And I've already spoken to those connected to us, this is something you must attend. Now, for those of you that are not a part of us, we're inviting you in to be a part of these Prophetic Classes. And listen, we're just going to give some instructions on understanding the prophetic, and I'm telling you, your life will never be the same and you'll be able to tap into that innate gift. So the information is on the screen that you can use. Y'all excuse my bubbling language. Glory to God. The information is on the screen. Praise God. Because I got so much in my head and I'm really ready to preach this word. Glory to God. Listen, the information is on the screen. And go to that website, write it down, and get registered for those prophetic classes. Okay. Secondly, praise the Name of God. I want to share with you that every day, Monday through Friday at 12 noon, we stream the Apostles' Table for about 30 minutes of your day. We ask you to take out that time and sit and receive the Word of the Lord. Take your lunchtime with me. If you don't do it at 12 noon, Please make sure, guys, that you at least go back and watch the replay at some point during your day. This is daily word that will be a blessing to your life. We've been teaching a series called Anointed for the Now, and we're still in it. You don't want to miss next week. It's going to be phenomenal. Okay, so make sure you sit at the Apostle's Table. It streams on YouTube. So if you're not following us on YouTube, follow us on YouTube. It streams on Facebook. Glory to the name of God. And it streams on our website. So make sure you sign up to get notifications every time we go live. As a matter of fact, all you have to do is text the word raw.tv to 319-996. And every time I go live, you're going to get a text message for the Apostles' Table. All right. And then thirdly and finally, something I'm extremely excited about. On the first Sunday in August, August 2nd. Hear me, August 2nd, we're going to relaunch and reopen church post-COVID. And I'm excited. We've prayed and we've waited on the Lord for a date. You know, I was looking at the 27th at first, and the only reason we're not doing it 27th because we just got a new facility and we got to make sure we build out everything in excellence. And that the sanctuary is ready for us to go into. So August 2nd gives us enough time, and I want to challenge every person watching to make sure you're in the building Sunday morning, August 2nd at 9 AM, and then again Sunday evening at 6 o'clock PM. Two powerful services to bless your soul. And here we're gonna follow what the CDC is suggesting. They're saying we can have gatherings of 50 people, but we're going to take it a little bit further to make sure everybody is safe. Before everybody enters the building, we're going to have you do two things. One, there's a website on the screen, matter of fact, roddochurch.com/churchservice. You're going to be able to go to that site, register, all right, register for the service because we're only going to allow 50 people in at a time to begin. Now, as you register for the services, you're going to be asked a few questions about COVID-19 and things of that nature. We want you to answer those questions honestly. We're not afraid of it, even if you have it, because we have decreed that our sanctuary is a COVID-19-free zone. All right, so you'll be able to come in and we're going to take your temperature, and if you have a fever, we're going to pray for you, and then we're going to take your temperature again and watch God miraculously heal you on the spot. We're going to give everybody a mask with the church logo on it, so we're going to stay safe, but we're going to come together and corporately worship our King. So listen again, that's Sunday, August 2nd, 9 AM and 6 PM, two great services. The power and the glory of God is gonna meet us there. If you're out of town, make plans right now. To be in these services. They're gonna be life-changing. Okay, so I'm getting ready to get into the word. We're gonna go right into worship. I pray that you got all that information. I wanted to get that out the way so we don't have to come back to this. The rest of this will be ministry. It'll be worship unto God. Hallelujah! And since today is Father's Day, you know, I want to say happy Father's Day to every father But on the other side, my son, glory to the name of God, Benjamin Emmanuel Woods. What a singer, what a worshiper, what an anointing on this 18-year-old's life. And I thought it apropos, since today is Father's Day, to have my son again lead us in praise and worship. So my son Benjamin Emmanuel Woods, he's a psalmist, he's a recording artist, He's a man of God. He's going to come and bless us right now in praise and worship. And then right after Ben, I'll be back to begin the word of God and to minister to you. So don't scroll, stay with us. God's got something with your name on it, and it's just for you today. God bless you.

Come on, people of God, draw your minds in right now.

And let God move in the spirit right now in your house, in your living room. He's worthy to be praised today. He's worthy to be praised in the midst of everything we're going through. He's still worthy.

Hallelujah.

The song says bow down.

Bow down and worship him. Worship Love you. Oh, worship him. Bow down and worship him. Worship him. Oh, worship Him. Come on, draw your minds right now. Bow down and worship Him. Enter in. We want to enter in Your presence, God. Oh, enter in. Oh, bow down and worship him. He's a real golden tree. Come to me, Father. Fire, sweet perfume. His awesome presence fills this room. This is holy ground. This is holy ground, so come and bow, bow down, Lord. Hey God, we bow before you, Lord. Oh, we bow before you, God. We bow before you. Come on, draw your minds. Bow down and worship him. Worship This is holy ground! This is holy ground! This is holy ground! This is holy— Crown. So come and bow. Oh God, we thank you. Bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down. Bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down, Lord.

Oh, we bow before you in your presence, God.

We humbly ask you to come in this place like never before. Oh God, move in the atmosphere, move in the atmosphere. Come sup with us, come sup with us. Hey, bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down. Oh, we want more of you. We bow before you, Lord. We want to bless you. We want to bless you. We praise you, Lord. Yes, we do. Yes, we do. Bow down, bow down. Bow down, bow down. Bow down. Oh, we are standing We're standing in your presence, Lord. We want more of you. We want more. We want more. We want more. We want more. We want more. More of your power. More of your glory, Lord. Oh, bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down, bow down. Oh, oh. Oh, we thank you, God. We thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for your presence.

Come on, right where you are. Benjamin has set an atmosphere for us. Come on, just begin to worship him. Hallelujah! We stand in awe of the Father. We stand in awe of the Father. We stand in awe of you, Father. Come on, right where you are, right where you are, worship the King. Worship the King. He's glorious, he's wonderful, he's mighty. Oh God, he's an awesome God, and we stand, we stand, hallelujah, in awe of him. I stand in awe of you. I stand, I stand in awe of you, Holy God, to whom All praise is due. I stand in awe of you. I stand in awe of you. Can you tell him, I stand in awe of you? Come on, everybody. I stand in awe of you. Come on, right where you are, in your home, in your living room, in your car, wherever you may be, just declare to the King. He's the holy God. To whom all praise, all praise is due. I stand stand in awe of you. I stand in awe of you. He's an awesome God. He's a mighty God. Come on, just worship. Touch yourself on your heart and say, you're awesome in this place, in this place. Abba Father, you are worthy of, you are worthy of all praise. To you our lives we raise. You are awesome in this place, mighty God. Come on everybody, you are awesome. Come on, mighty God.

Hallelujah.

Come on, Tell him, you are awesome in this place. Abba Father, you are worthy, you are worthy of all praise. To you, to you, our lives we raise. Come on, tell him, you are awesome, you are awesome in this place, mighty God. Come on, right where you are, lift up your worship. Come on, lift up your worship to Jesus. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Just worship him right there. Glory to God. Father, we stand in awe of you. Come on, right where you are.

Heart.

Come on, just for a few moments, lift up worship to our King. Come on, tell him how much you love him. Bree-sha-ba-bam-bo-ro-bo-koo-ska-ta-ba. Come on, we stand in awe of Jesus. Oh God, we stand in awe, we stand in awe. Come on, lift up your voice. Oh God, we glorify you. Oh God, we magnify you. Oh God, we lift you up. We We thank you, Lord. We stand in awe and we bow down and lift our hands and worship you, God. Come on, saints. Come on, Zion, right where you are. I need you to take up a worship. Oh, Rabaka, let him sit in your living room. Briké babo subade. We give you the glory, God. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. We bless your holy name. We stand in awe of you. We stand in awe of you. You've been good to us, God. Come on, every one of us that's here, come on, lift up those hands. He's been good to you. He's been good. Come on, worshiper. The worshipers are worshiping. Come on, the worshipers are worshiping. The worshipers are worshiping. Oh, shabandete bekoskataba. Eh, mambarabo kukuman siete. We give you glory, God. Hey, the worshipers are worshiping. Come on, worship until he sits on you like he sat on them on the day of Pentecost. God, as we worship today, God, sit on us. God, sit till we're healed. Sit on us until we're delivered. Sit on us until we're free. Sit on until doors open. Eba uraba sa. Sit on us, God, until ways are made. We bless you and we honor your name. Brikalaba sandalala bosoto kuska taba. Brikorabababa sandalala bokusaa. Come on, worship the King. Come on, worship the King. Ikikaba We bless you, God, and we thank you. So Father, bless your word today. Let it go out in power. Let your glory be revealed. Do something unusual. Do something man cannot do. Saturate the— let this— let Let this live stream be saturated with your anointing. And Father, we give you glory. And Father, we give you honor. And Father, we give you praise. In Jesus' name, amen. Oh my God, and thanks be to God. Y'all excuse the phone ringing. I was using my phone as a counter and I forgot to cut the ringer off, but the glory of God is Hallelujah! Come on, just touch yourself in your chest and say, with his stripes I am healed. Say, with his stripes I am whole. Somebody listening to me right now, you got sickness in your body. You have gotten a bad report from the doctor, but even as I'm worshiping now, the Lord is healing, the Lord is delivering. The Lord is making free. Come on, just touch yourself. He's— oh my God, he's touching your cardiovascular system now. Yes God, I heard that. Somebody with cardiovascular heart issues, heart disease, cholesterol issues, otababakalamasi. God is healing you now in the name of Jesus. Somebody put it in your lower stomach area. God is healing your pancreas right now in the name In the name of Jesus, pancreas, be made whole. And God said your pancreas will begin to pump out insulin properly. Come on, you need to receive this healing. Don't accept diabetes. Don't accept the need for insulin. Oh my God, God is breaking you free right now. Put your hand on your head. Somebody has constant migraines, but God said, somebody watching me right now, you have constant migraines, but God said, Be it. Yes, God. I am healing you of migraine headaches and everything associated with it. It is being cursed at the root right now in Jesus' name. So be it, Lord. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. Well, let's go to the Word of God. I feel Jesus. Glory to the name of God. I can prophesy and operate in word of knowledge all day. But the Bible says prophesy will cease, but my word will stand forever. And see, you need some word if you're gonna survive. So I'm— welcome again this Sunday morning. If you just joined us, my name is Mike Woods. If you're uninitiated, I'm the senior pastor and founder of Rhoda Church, and this is our virtual worship experience. Listen, welcome! We're so glad you are here. Glory to God. Let's go into the word. Praise God. I'm telling you right now, I am so— I just saw God. I just saw, I just saw God, huh, erasing, erasing. Listen, the spirit of the eraser— oh God have mercy— is on this live right Oh my God, throughout this life, stay with me prophetically. Oh my God, stay with me prophetically because I just saw an eraser. God was erasing. He's erasing debt. He's erasing sickness. He's erasing disease. God says, I'm giving you a clean bill of health. I'm giving— oh my, I receive it, God. I thank you for erasing every ounce of debt that I have, everything I owe to any entity, any individual, I decree and declare it is erased. I dare you declare the eraser. Oh my God is working in our lives. God's about to give you provision to pay back what you owe. I don't know about you, but you ought to lift your hands and say, Lord, I receive it. I'm telling you, I see the Lord erasing mortgage payments, car payments, Hallelujah. Notes owed to people. Come on, just lift your hands and say, Lord, I receive. Lord, we receive it in Jesus' name. Oh my God. Oh my God.

Woo!

God is erasing the pain in somebody's heart. Hallelujah. You've been going through some pain in your relationship, in your marriage, and you've been fighting to trust again. You know you've been done injustice, but God— God says, I'm erasing the pain and I'm restoring trust, and I'm rebuking divorce. I'm a reconcile love, said God, in the name of Jesus. I gotta go, y'all. Oh my God, I got to go. I got— let's get in this word because, listen, so the word of the Lord, Psalm 16. If you got a Bible, go to the 16th division of Psalm. Glory to the name of God. Psalm is a powerful, powerful 5 books. Matter of fact, there 5 different books in Psalms. So the 16th Psalm actually be found in Book 1, Division number 16. Glory to God. And these are poetic writings, uh, musical writings of various authors. Even many people think David is the only person who wrote the Psalms, but there are some Psalms that were written by Moses. Abraham even has some Psalms. The sons of Korah has songs. Psalms. Glory to the name of God. This particular Psalm is called a misham of David. A misham is a— glory— it is an imprecatory Psalm that actually has poetic poise to it. Glory to the name of God. It is written out of the heart of the writer, and it is— glory to the name of God— imprecatory in that it is written— imprecation means that it's written straight to God. So that God will respond and move— oh my God— and move towards your enemies on your behalf and work things out on your behalf. Here, when David was writing this, actually Saul was trying to kill him. Glory to God. And so this is a psalm of imprecat— imprecation against Saul. Glory to the name of God. And so that David will be protected from the will of the enemy. And even as we teach this, I'm telling you prophetically, God is erasing things, number one. And secondly, He is protecting you from the diabolical schemes of the enemy. You know, people will, will move in a very dark place and try to war against you because maybe, maybe something went sour in, in your dealings with them and they don't even realize, glory to the Name of God, that there's a reason why things happen that way. And glory to the name of God. And instead of trying to bring destruction to somebody and fight them, listen, that's a dangerous thing, especially if they are anointed. Yes, dangerous place. Glory to God. Especially when you don't have full understanding and you're reacting in your flesh because the person you're coming against could be like David. Glory to the name of God. And they could be praying prayers of impreca— imprecation to protect them. And what you don't want to do is be on the end where, glory to the name of God, God is responding to your attack when they're not. Oh boy, that— so at the end of the day, I want to tell every believer under the sound of my voice, you don't have to respond to everything. Just implicate God to respond on your behalf. So that's what's happening in Psalm 16. We're gonna read verses 1 and 2, and then we're gonna drop down and read verse number 11, and then we're gonna jump into this, okay? The Bible says, a mikam of David. It says, verse 1, protect me, O God. Hallelujah. For I take refuge in you. Verse 2 says, I said to the Lord, you are my God. Hallelujah! I have nothing good beside you. Oh, Rabba Sande Kusi! Drop down to verse 11. He said, you reveal the path of life to me. In your presence is abundant joy. And at your right hand are eternal pleasures. What I want to talk about today is the aligned life. David said in verse 11, for you will show me— the King James says the path of life— for in thy presence is fullness of joy, and at thy right hand are pleasures forevermore. So what I want to do on the top, I'm gonna give you a few points, and then we're gonna deal with the scripture a little on the end, okay? So the first thing I want to share with you— watch this— is that God has a desire for you— yeah, you— to live a life that is aligned with him. I'm gonna say that again: God has a desire for you to live a life that is aligned with him. He wants you to be in alignment with his plans, with his desires, with his purpose, with his thoughts for you. See, every time we begin to live out of alignment or in disalignment with God, what happens is we begin to react to life and life situations in the flesh. And it never was God's will for you to react to life's situations in your flesh. God wants you to react to him— oh my God— out of your spirit. Thank you, Jesus. And the only way you really could do that is you got to be in alignment with him. So you got to be a spiritual person to do that. So once we get into the text and start unpacking the text, what I'm going to do, guys, I'm going to show you— listen to me— how to align with him. So that's the first point I want you to keep in your head. You're taking notes. God wants you to live in total alignment with him. Number 2, Watch this, watch this. Number 2, a life out of alignment— oh boy— always produces failure. I'll say that again. A life out of alignment with God always produces failure. Watch this. Even if you appear successful, but if you didn't do it with God, You're still unsuccessful. That's why you have people with tons of money, tons of members, tons of clients in their business, tons of followers on Facebook, tons of likes, but internally they're frustrated. In internally, when the camera's off, they're mad. They're not enjoying the good life. Because they're doing everything they do out of their flesh and out of alignment with God. So a life that is unaligned with God always produces failure. I need you to grab it. Number 3, and we're going to see all of these in the text: a life out of alignment with God— hear me— always leaves you vulnerable to the enemy's attack. And number 4, a life in alignment with God will always cause your best gifts and talents to surface. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Touch yourself and say, I call forth my best gifts and my best talents to come forth now. Come on, say it again. Say, I call forth my best gifts and my best talents to surface now. Glory to God. So let's look at the text. I told you this was a Psalm of David, a mecham of David. Glory to God. And it really lends itself to what it means to be confident in God and to be aligned with God. So let's, let's read the text. Let's, let's go back through it. I'm not going to teach long. I promise you, I just sound a little long, but I'm going to be low. The first thing he says is, preserve me in the King James, O God, or protect me, God, for I take my refuge in you. The whole idea of this verse comes out of a Hebrew word, shamar. Shamar, which means to protect, to keep, to preserve, to guard, to cover. Shamar in Hebrew, again, S-H-A-M-A-R, protect, cover, keep, guard. So first of all, if I'm going to be in alignment with God, I must deliberately put my trust in him for refuge. I have to graduate from the immaturity that says I have to preserve myself, because there's an immature person that says self-preservation is the first law of nature and I'm going to preserve myself. Listen, that's not the will of God, saints. That's not the will of God for you. He doesn't want you preserving yourself. Glory to God. He wants to protect you. And so you— that's why David said, in thee I put my trust. So I deliberately put it in God's hand. So you got to deliberately say, God, here go— here, here's my life. I'm baptizing my whole life in your desires for me. So this is how we get in alignment. This is the first step. You got to totally sell everything out. You can't just put your toes in. You got to jump in full body. You got to jump in full body and say, God, all of me. And you got to decide, I don't want to do nothing without God because he's my keeper, he's my protector. Listen, you're looking at somebody, man. I've been, I've been walking with God 36 years. Glory to God. And at the end of the day, 37 years I've been saved, sanctified, filled with the Holy Ghost. 36 of those years I've been preaching the gospel. 30 of those years I've been doing it full-time. But let me tell you something. Let me, let me just share something with you. Glory to God. I have made the mistakes. I'm teaching you out of wisdom this morning. I have made the mistake of going after things in my flesh. And I've said this before, and I say it again, every failure I ever had was a prayer failure first. I'm gonna say it again. Every failure I ever had was a prayer failure first. Every success I've had was a prayer success first. So the stuff that didn't quite work, investments I made, businesses I started that didn't work the way they were planned, most of those were born out of flesh. But everything I've done, whether it been being in a marriage, no matter what it is, everything I've done that was in alignment with God It stood. Glory to God. Hallelujah. And everybody, and it never failed. I'm telling you right now, you got to make a choice to put your whole life in him so you can line up. David said, in thee I put my trust. Indeed, I put my trust. Hallelujah. In thee I put my trust. Poetically, if he was singing it to the Lord, I can hear the melody in my head. I'm not going to sing it, but I can hear it in my head. He said— he was saying, God, in thee I put my trust, in thee I put my trust, in thee I put my trust. I deliberately put everything in your hands. Don't you sign another contract except it's aligned with God's mind. Don't you marry another person except it's aligned with God's mind. Oh, y'all not hearing me. Don't you work another job that's not aligned with God's mind. Glory. You make sure that you're where God wants you to be, because guess what? I don't ever want to be where God was. I want to always be where he is. I'm jumping ahead of myself. Well, look at verse number 2. He said, I said to the Lord, you are my Lord, and I have nothing good besides you. So that proves my point, that if you're out of alignment with God and you ain't all the way in, I don't care if you can look at it and say, oh my God, that's good. If God didn't give it to you, it's bad. I'm gonna say that again. If God didn't give it to you, it is bad. Hear me on that. If God didn't give it to you, my friends, it is bad. Oh, he said, I have nothing good apart from you. Are y'all hearing that? You have nothing good apart from God. All good things come from above, from the Father that made heaven and earth. See, here's what you got to understand: when I align with him, I get access to his goodness. You know, the word good there is the Septuagint transliteration of a Greek word actually that means prophet. Shey'ah, or b'nah, B-I-N-E-H in Hebrew, literally means prophet. P-R-O-F-I-T. Ask a businessman to define profit. He's going to tell you what's left over after the expenses of the business have been paid and covered. Oh my God. Oh my goodness. Somebody shout paid and covered. Oh, that's a babakura. But he had the basura bakasa paid and covered. So when you, when you've gone through all of the trials, you paid and covered. What you got now is good that is extrapolated from the relationship that was built out of pressure and pain. We have nothing good outside of God. If, if God didn't give it, I don't care how good it is to you, it's bad. I can think of few things that can be good to you but not good for you. Y'all not talking. Y'all quiet right about now. Okay, let me help you. There's a 48-year-old man that can be good to your 15-year-old daughter, but he ain't good for her. Y'all not talking to me here. Since y'all want to act like you don't understand what I'm saying, let me make it clear. Everything is good too ain't good for you. Well, I can think a lot of things have been good to me Weren't good for me though. I wish I never would have touched it. I, I didn't, I didn't touch some stuff that I never should have put my hands on. Y'all not talking to me here. There's some people I align myself because at the time I was out of sync with God. Oh my goodness. Oh my God. Because at the time I was out of sync with God, I put my hands on it. And while I thought it was good to me and for me, it turned out just being good to me. It ended up being very bad for me. Let me tell you something. Take your hands off every person, everything that did not come from God. Oh, I feel like running. I'm about to get up and run. Oh, tababa sikura. I got to get out of here. My time is almost gone, y'all. Lord, help us, help us. So he says, I gotta tap into alignment with him so I can experience his goodness, so I can say that whatever's in my life, when I point at it, it's good. That person is good. These people are good for me. This business is good for me. Glory to God. I'm in the right ministry because it's good for me because it came from God. I don't care what it feels like, what it looks like. If God didn't give it, it's not good. I don't care what the theologians say. I don't care what the— those that are going for social justice. Don't you get involved with everything just because you— it looks like it's a good thing to do. Don't do it unless the anointing is on you to do it. And so you could play the role that you're supposed to play in it effectively. Just because people are going to Africa to preach, you may not be called to go to Africa and preach. Listen, this is a true story. There was a preacher, glory to the name of God, that traveled to Africa, said God called him to Africa. Great preacher, one of the greatest evangelists in my opinion that I had ever heard preach. This man was anointed, had never been to Africa, but he was anointed for the States. Went to Africa, preaching services in Africa, decided he wanted to have a baptismal service. The baptismal service was not aligned with what God was telling him to do. Going to Africa was outside of his assignment. So watch this, the head of protection that he needed was not there. Y'all ain't got to like this, but I'm telling you the truth. We got to obey God, period. And we got to be where God wants us to be. The man of God got in the baptism pool, not in the ocean where they were, and started baptizing. Little did he know he was in a region that was strong with piranha fish. As he was baptizing in the pool, piranhas began to snap on his legs and bite him and bite him and bite him and bite him. And to the point, praise the name of God, that blood— he got out of the pool with bloody legs. He came home from Africa. He got back to the States. Within a month, he was dead. Y'all not talking. Within a month, this preacher was dead because that species of piranha was poisonous. Good thing preaching the gospel but it wasn't in alignment, so it wasn't good for him. I'm telling you right now, everything good to ain't good for. Glory to God! Are you hearing this today? I'm almost done. I gotta go, I gotta go. 1611 said, you will show me the path of life. The word show in Hebrew is yada, which means you will reveal, give me revelation, which means it's already there. Something that is revealed, it may be new to you. Yada means that he pulls back a curtain, opens a door, and allows you insight to something you could not see previously. It doesn't mean it's new. It doesn't mean, glory to the name of God, that it did not exist. It means you just saw it. So when revelation comes, it means God just opens up something for your eyes to see that you've never seen before. So in this case, he says, I'm gonna show you the path. Watch this. The orach is the word for path, Hebrew. O-R-A-C-H. Orach means— watch this— is what we get words like architecture. It means the design of my life. God says, I'm gonna show you the design of your life. Glory to God! Every one of us has an architectural design for their life. Now watch this, watch this. Every one of you, hear me, hear me good. There's a plan that God already designed for you to align with. And the architect, when they design a building, when they design a house They design everything to completion on paper. It's designed to completion. And then you have to take those plans down to a city official. The city official stamps on those plans, approved, finished, which means you cannot alter those plans. You cannot change those plans. You have to build that building or that house just like the architect designed it. Can I tell you something? Before you were born, before the foundation of the world, God designed a life for you. He designed a life that's not to be altered. He designed a life that you shouldn't be trying to change. Oh my God. You— when you get those plans from the architect, you can just add a room, take a room out, put a bathroom. You can't do that. You got to build according to the plans. It's illegal to change the plans. Some of you listening to me, you illegally changed God's plans. But I got good news. He's got the master plan. Glory to God. He has a way— I'm a witness— of getting you back on course. He has a way of stripping you of everything so you can reflect back on the real plan and get right back on course. Get up, dust yourself off, and say, God, now I'm gonna read the plans and I'm gonna live by the plan. See, when you got the plans in your hands You'll marry the wrong person. I don't care how fine they are, I don't care how articulate they are, I don't care how good they look, I don't care how much money they got. When you got the plans, you don't marry the wrong person because you look at the plan and say, oh, that one right there ain't on the plan. I like her, she fine, she's smart, hallelujah, she brings something to the table, but in the day she ain't in the plan. So just because it's good too it ain't good for, because it's not good for, because it's not in the plan. Okay, some of you never took a look at the plan with your deep and wonderful self. You just, you just started doing something because you felt like that's what you were supposed to be doing. But here, let me serve notice on you a minute. You need to take a trip back to the architect and let the architect know, hey, glory to God. Let the architect know, hey, I'm ready and I'm willing to do whatever you tell me to do because I'm gonna build according to plan. Yada, thou will show me. There's another Greek word for show, photizo, is where we get words like photograph, photography. A photographer sees the image first and then it duplicates it. Oh my God, that's what God wants you to do. He wants you to see the pictures of the plans that he's already prepared for you. He's already written the whole movie and produced it. You just need to go inside of God's heavenly theater, take a seat, grab you some spiritual popcorn. Glory to God. And watch the movie. My question to you, have you watched the movie? If we was in church, I'd tell you slap your neighbor upside the head and ask them, have you watched the movie? Glory to God, you, you've been participating in roles and scripts that you ain't even supposed to be involved in. Glory to God. Oh my God. Oh God, this word is good for somebody. Somebody ought to grab it. Touch yourself and say, Lord, cast me in my own movie. And I'm not talking about Hollywood, but I'm talking about the heavenly movie that was written for you to align your life with. You need to get in sync with God. I told you, I'll never want to be where God was. I want to be where God is. See, if you know God has left from that place, he's left from that geography, he's left See, if you struggling to get it done, you— but you know, that's how I tell you, you better believe God done lifted off that. Because God, where he guides, he provides. And if it's in the movie and it's something that he has to do with it, he's going to take care of it. Oh my goodness, Lord, I love you. Thank you for clarity. Thank you that I got it finally. I'm trying to help y'all get Don't live your life in the wrong movie. Glory to God. You don't show up to the wrong set. Hallelujah. You're not even cast in the film you've been living out. You've been building the wrong life, and that's not God's plan. He said, thou will show me the path of life. Where are you going to show it to me? He says, in your presence. Okay, let me break this down for somebody. Because in your presence doesn't mean what I feel when I'm in the church worshiping and I get goosebumps and I speak in tongues, or I feel some surreal feeling, or I fall on the floor.

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That's not what this means. I need y'all to study your Bible. The word presence— first of all, let's break the etymology down in several ways. Let's look at it first of all in the Anglo-Saxon breakdown. Pre, which means before. Come on, it's two words. Pre, before. Sense, which means intelligence or intelligentsia. Oh boy. Okay, so that you put that together, it's intelligence known before. So in his foreknowledge— for watch this, Romans 8 said, for whom he did foreknow progenosco, foreknowledge or presence. For his intelligence, he intel— he fearfully and wonderfully made you, put together a plan for your life. Progenosco, presence, intelligence in the before. See, some of you been listening to the intelligence of man and you built your life around what man has said to you, and you've defined yourself by what man has defined you as. But you need to get in the intelligence of God. You thought you was in the presence when you went to church. Yeah, worship opens it up, but you got to go a little bit further. When you get into worship, it ain't just for you to cry and fall on the floor, and you down there on the floor, you have no experience. Listen, don't fall on the floor if you're not going to have an experience while you're down there. I'm going to say that one more time: do not get slain in the spirit if you're not looking for an experience when you go down. Don't just fall because you feel like the preacher wants you to fall. I need you to fall because you're getting ready to go into the presence. Uh-oh. And you're getting ready to experience something in the mind of God where you come out with some intelligence. I've seen some of the craziest people on this planet get up off the floor and never move in the intelligence of God. There's something wrong with that. Oh my God, there's something wrong with that picture. Oh my God, there's something wrong, totally crazy about that. If you, if you go get in the spirit, have all that good church, listen, all the worship we do, all the prophesying we do, all the preaching and teaching we do, it should culminate with an experience that comes from God. Oh my God, I gotta quit, y'all. My time go. So in his presence, what are you gonna find? One is fullness of joy, and at thy right hand are pleasures forevermore. This is what you're gonna find. Basically, those two things— and I gotta quit— they, they culminate with this idea. First of all, in his intelligence you're going to find a plan that lends itself to a supernatural assignment. Say supernatural assignment. Not an assignment you, you try to do because you're qualified to do it. Not an assignment because you feel like you got the mental aptitude naturally to do it. But a supernatural assignment often is going to challenge you beyond your natural resources, financial and otherwise. So you— when you tap into the presence for real— oh my God, I gotta go, my time is gone— you're going to tap into an assignment that comes from God. It was planned before you got here. In that assignment, you're going to find, number one, people. He's going to talk to you about who are the people you're supposed to connect with. He's going to talk to you about the demographics that need what's in you. I know my assignment clearly is to help people obtain what God has called them to do, is to push them into a dimension that they've never been in before. And any demographic, any culture that's trying to achieve vision, my voice can help them. I understand that clearly. Oh my God, you got to know the people that you're supposed to create culture with. He's going to show you that when you get into his intelligence. He's also going to show you the places, the geographical locations where you got to go to. Some of you listen to me now, you live in a place where you got to move to get what you got. What you need ain't in that town. You've been following that preacher who says he got it, but he never had an encounter. You need to go somewhere where you can get what you need. Uh-oh, boy. I'm getting out here too far. So in, in, in the presence, in the intelligence, inside of the plan are people, places, particulars. Inside of the plan are the specifics on how to do it. Listen, that's why I question some people when they say they heard from God. Listen, when God speaks to you, the how-to is going to emerge shortly after he He speaks. Are you hearing what I'm saying? Shortly after God speaks, the how-to is going to emerge. Glory to God, it's going to emerge. You better believe that it's going to emerge. Ha! Glory to God, it's going to emerge. Boy, I feel like preaching, but I can't. I'm telling you, the how-to is getting ready to emerge. Atabakuskiya. Just touch your mind and say, God, hallelujah, is about to cause the how-to to emerge. Ekabababoso tababakiaya otabasi. I dare you to touch your belly and say, come forth, how-to. See, no longer do you need to be in the dark on how to do this, because inside of the design Plan is the how-to. And then fourthly and finally, I got to go inside of the design, inside of the plan of a— a line— line is provision. Two words: pro-vision. He's for the vision. So if God shows you the vision, he already has the Pacific provisions in place to take care of it. I gotta quit, y'all. Glory to God. I'm finished. Hallelujah. Because I found myself getting a little too happy. I'm finished. I'm closing my Bible. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, thank you for your word today. Thank you for this Sunday virtual encounter. God, I pray that this word has landed on the good ground of every heart that has received it, and may they reap it in due season if they they faint not. I decree and declare, Aba Kuku basanda di di di di di ata bruska tabako, roba ba basanda di di di di andolo wokuska taba. I decree and declare, God, that no weapon formed against them can prosper. Endebebe surabaka. And I thank you, God, that their assignment and the divine plan for their life is being stirred in their spirit even now. I thank you, Lord, that no good thing will happen to them except you do it. I thank you that they will redefine good. Hallelujah! I thank you that this word will grow into an experience and they will walk it out. In Jesus' name, amen. And thank God. Listen, if you need further prayer just email me, glory to God, at the email address on the screen. Just go right there to rhodochurch.contact and say, Apostle, I watched the virtual live today and I need prayer. If you're sick, if you— listen, if you feel like, glory to the name of God, you don't have any direction, just email me the prayer request. I'm going to personally open it, I'm going to pray for you, and I'm going to reach out to you and say, hey, this is what thus said the Lord. And if you want to be be born again, write me at that same address. If you say, hey, I don't know Jesus, if you want to know how to give your life to the Lord, I'm going to talk to you about that as well. I'm gonna send you all the materials because guess what? You cannot align with God if you don't know him. The first step is knowing him. Listen guys, my time is gone, but just, I want to challenge you, praise God, hallelujah, to follow us on social media. Listen, We stream daily on Facebook. The Facebook that you need to follow is on the screen. Follow Rhoda Church and follow Dr. Mike Woods on Facebook to catch our daily live streams. Also, I want you to follow us and subscribe. 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