REPLAY: Radah Church _ 9_6_2020 _ Birthing Dreams and Visions Pt 3 _ Dr Mike Woods

Well, praise the Lord and grace and peace be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. My name is Dr. Mike Woods. I am the senior pastor of Rhoda Church and welcome to our virtual worship experience. I'm super excited to be with you today. Don't go anywhere, I got an exciting word from the Lord just for you. You know, have you ever just thought about all of the things that you really want to do, the the dreams you have, the places you want to go, the money you want to make, and even your spiritual dreams, the things you want to do in God. Listen, there's a process to that birth, and today I want to share with you some more powerful tools on how we're going to get that done. But before we do, let's go right into our scripture reading for today, which is coming from Psalm 67. Glory to God. And if you have a Bible, you can read along with me. Praise the name of the Lord. If not, glory to God, just listen and Hitzley. This is a powerful Psalm, Psalm 67. Praise God. The Bible says, may God be gracious to us and bless us. Thank you, Father. May he make his face shine upon us. Selah. So that your way may be known on earth, your salvation among all nations. Let the people praise you, God. Let all the people praise you. Let the nations rejoice and shout for joy, for you judge the people with fairness and you lead the nations on earth. Selah. Let the people praise you, God. Let all the people praise you. The earth has produced its harvest. God our God blesses us. God will bless us, and all the ends of the earth— hallelujah— will fear him. Praise the name of God. And so God is just simply saying we ought to just begin to offer praise to him. His credit is good with us, and we ought to praise him in advance for what he's gonna do. Matter of fact, the scripture is just simply saying we should rejoice before the results. Glory to the name of God. And many of you been praying about some things, but I dare you to go ahead right where you are and begin to rejoice God, because this text has promised us that God will bless us. Hallelujah! And he commands us, let all the people praise him. So right where you are, I dare you as we pray this morning to begin to worship and praise God. He's worthy of glory. Hallelujah! He's worthy of honor. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for this Sunday. I thank you for this service today. I pray in the name of Jesus that by your power, by your authority, and by your anointing today. God, that you will— oh my God— remove burdens and destroy yokes. God, that you will bless their people and expand their capacity, open up their insight. God, do something unusual in their life, something man cannot do. And Father, we thank you for what you're gonna do. We thank you for people listening to us from the north, the south, the east, and the west. And Father, we give you glory, God, that as we praise you in advance, as we rejoice before the results, people Someone has been praying about their marriage. Somebody's been praying about their children. Someone's been praying about sickness and disease and finances. But God, whatever we have been speaking to you concerning, God, we take a moment now to rejoice before the results. And God, we decree and declare, God, that you have heard our cry and you have heard our voice. And we thank you now, God, for what you're getting ready to do, and we give you praise and glory, God. Thank you, God, that what's to come is better than what has been. In Jesus' name, amen, and thanks be to God. Hallelujah. Well, right where you are, saints, I need you to give God a glorious praise. I need you to lift him up and exalt him. He's worthy. Hallelujah. You know, praise is the only guarantee that God is present with you. I'm going to say that again. It's the only guarantee. The Bible declares that God inhabits, he takes up residence, he lives in praise. Praise is the validation that God has moved into our situation. I dare you, if you got breath in your body, let everything that hath breath praise ye the Lord. You praise him. Come on, open your mouth and clap your hands and tell the Lord, thank you. Come on, for the next 60 seconds, I dare you give God glory. I dare you clap your hands and honor him. I go to— you know the word zamar in Hebrew? It means to clap. It means to clap. But the Hebrews, when they clap, they clap with purpose. They would praise God to indicate, one, that everything within them— I bless the Lord at all times and with all that is within me, his praise shall continually be in my mouth. Listen, as they will begin to praise God from the depths of their soul, they will put their hands together indicating as a prophetic symbol that God is pulling together things in their life. I'm telling— While you clap right now, Oh, shibaba ndorobo kuko ramasa. God is pulling it together. He's pulling it together for your children. He's pulling it together for your finances. He's pulling it together for your body, your physical body. He's otobokuska. He's pulling it together. Come on, clap your hands and give God glory. He's putting it together while you prophetically declare through the clap And watch this, secondly, they would clap as an indication that from the, oh my God, east to the west, God's hands were coming into the center of our being and crushing our enemy. So as they clap, they will visualize the hand of God, eba, crushing the enemy. Come on, clap your hands and crush the enemy today in the mighty name of Jesus Christ. My God, God is so good, and he's worthy, he's worthy, my God, to be praised. Thank you, Jesus. Angels bow before him, heaven and earth adore him. What a mighty God we serve. He's worthy, he's worthy, he worthy to be praised. Glory be to God. Well, I'm super excited. Glory to God. I can stay right there all day Hallelujah! Because I just love to praise God. But you know what? I'm super excited, y'all, that next week this time I'll be in the church at Rhoda Church. We're going back to church, y'all, and we will be in the house of God praising the name of Jesus. And listen, I need every per— yeah, you too, you, you I need every one of you listening to me to prepare your heart to be with us next weekend. Matter of fact, it's going to be a historical weekend, a historical moment, and I'm telling you right now, eba, surabekunte kashika babahaya, ikunda babababa sande. It's going to be so powerful. I'm— I sense so many great things are going to happen starting Friday, September 11th through Sunday, September 13th. Listen, check out this announcement, and then when we come back, I'll be able to pray and get started with this word. But check this out and make plans to join us next week for Emergence. Well, grace and peace be multiplied to you, everyone, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is Dr. Mike Woods, and listen, I want to personally invite you to Emergence: Bounce Back Better. It's happening here in Atlanta, Georgia, September 11th through the 13th, 2022. 2020. Listen, we're super amped about going back to the house of God, and let me tell you something, we're excited about what God's gonna do. We've created a space for 5 powerful and dynamic services with great apostles and great worship leaders. It's going to be phenomenal. Listen, our special guests are supernaturally charged with the anointing They have the kingdom inside of them, and they're going to superimpose something on us that's going to be absolutely awesome. Here's a little taste of what we're going to get. The kingdom comes with demonstration. It comes with power. It does not come with entertainment. It does not come with self-aggrandizement. It comes with power. And it will not be open in silence. It will not be open if you don't open up your mouth. Your mouth like the keys. Yes, God! Open up the doors. So, guys, you know you're putting your intellect and your heart and your mindset in the wrong place when you start talking to somebody that can't relate to your dreams. 'Cause you can't put a 16x20 idea in a 3x5 mind. You are amazing, God. You are amazing, God. You are amazing, God. You are— Well, it all happens Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 11th through the 13th, 2020, right here in Atlanta, Georgia at Rhoda Church. Yes, Rhoda Church is located at 5300 Frontage Road, Suite A, in Forest Park, Georgia 30297. Log on to rhodachurch.com/emergence for more information. Listen, it's time, church, for us to bounce back better. Don't you be afraid, don't you be fearful. Meet us at this service. It's going to be the bomb. And listen, according to the scriptures, we have declared by faith that Rodder Church is a COVID-19 free zone. The Bible says we can decree a thing and it will be established. We declare now that if you come with COVID you'll leave healed. Get ready for an encounter with God. We're not playing no games. We're excited about superimposing heaven upon the earth through these services. Looking forward to seeing you at Emergence. It's time to bounce back better. Well, praise the name of Jesus. Glory to God. I'm super excited. About going back to church, y'all. So listen, make sure you go to roddochurch.com today, forward slash emergence, and register for next weekend. Listen, seating is limited as we will honor social distancing inside of our building. Every person that shows up, when you register online, you'll be emailed a COVID-19 questionnaire that will pre-screen all of the attendees. When you get to the church, we're going to take your temperature. If you go to rhodachurch.com/emergence, you will see all of the protocols that we're exercising to make sure everybody's safe. But you know the greatest thing about this? In the house of God, we are safe. It's the safest place we could be. There's refuge in the house of God. Hallelujah! So listen, we're going back to church, and I'm super excited, man. The, the renovations of the building are coming on phenomenally. I mean, we are, glory to God, doing so many awesome things. We got new carpet, new chairs, uh, we have installed digital systems that's going to help us reach the world in a bit. Even though we think we do pretty good with technology now, man, we have taken the sanctuary to another level. So how we stream the, the visual things that happen and how we duplicate the anointing inside as it goes out to the world. It's going to be phenomenal. Listen, meet us, secure your seat now, rhodachurch.com/emergence. I promise you, it's going to be one of the most historical and powerful meetings of the year. Glory to the name of God. All right guys, we're going into our message today. So Father, bless your word, sanctify it, Let us experience the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Spirit. And we thank you and we give you glory now in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Well, guys, I love you guys so much. Amen. And I want to help you understand and be very clear that part of God's plan for us is that the dreams that he packaged inside of us before we got here, the visions that he's given each human being on this planet before you ever got to Earth, let me tell you something, they are still necessary and God still wants to use you. Touch yourself and say, God still wants to use me. And a lot of time the prognosticators and the things we see on television, glory to the name of God, the things CNN, the spirit of the Antichrist is disseminating to us. Praise the name of God. We're being led to believe, my God, that the things that we were believing for, that everything has changed and we won't be able to do things the same way. This— I'm telling you right now, we're gonna do things in a greater way. This was only a temporary inconvenience to create a better solution on a long-term and permanent basis. This. So today I'm going to continue our series, glory to God, on birthing your dreams and visions. On the last time, I talked to you about a few things. I shared with you, number one, that everybody have dreams and visions inside of them. I'm not going to teach this again, but please go back and watch the message prior to this one on birthing dreams and visions. I promise you, glory to the name of God, Watch message 1, message 2, because on message 2, uh, we talked about how, glory to the name of God, it is part of the family's purpose to bring forth dreams and visions. As the family of God, we need to be an example that we still can be productive and produce in the midst of trouble and problems. Glory to the name of God. So I talked about conception, and I, I gave you the principle: you cannot birth until you conceive. Uh, we talked about how you had to be creative. You couldn't be passive. You had to be very deliberate and, and very disciplined in seeking the dream and vision that's in your life. I also dealt with the application that when you conceive it, you have to apply what you can see by first believing it. And I talked about how conception and information or revelation without application is constipation. You're stuck. Nothing's moving. Because you've conceived something and it becomes a nightmare versus a dream or a vision because you never move on it. You never put the things in place to get it done. So I want to jump in this again. Thank you, Lord. And I want to look— start today at 1 Samuel 10 and verse number 6. I think I left off there last time, but I want to go back and revisit this. 1 Samuel 10, and let's go to the Bible. Glory to the name of God. Y'all excited today? Y'all glad to be alive? Amen. Press a heart or a like or something on this video. Just let me know you're glad to be alive. Glory to God. I don't know about you, but I'm glad to be serving Jesus. Uh, we're going to 1 Samuel 10 and 6. Praise God. And, um, I'm excited, y'all. Hallelujah. Glory be to God. 1 Samuel, let's go. Glory to the name of God. 10 and 6, let's pull it up here. Glory to the name of God. All right, the Bible says, and the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and thou shalt be turned into another man. So here's an important element of birthing dreams and visions and making application to what you have conceived. And again, let me establish this truth, and I've established it in previous messages. Everybody listening to me, I say again, has a dream and vision inside of them. The important piece is to connect with culture, to connect with people, to connect with individuals that are also moving in the dream dimension. Oh my God. And they made up their mind, glory to the name of God, that they're going to bring their dream to pass. This ignites something in you where you begin to prophetically move in your dream with them, just like the Bible speaks of Samuel here. And you will be turned— are y'all hearing this? Into another person. Oh my God, oh my God. See, when the Holy Spirit comes upon you and begins to align itself with you in the fulfillment of your dream, what you got to realize is you are changed into someone else with new capabilities. See, maybe you have observed yourself as somebody that was incapable of handling or bringing to pass the things that have come to your mind. But the moment you take that introspective and you visit inside of you and you begin to inventory what God has placed in you and given you, and the Holy Spirit stamps his approval on it, you become a new person. And then your best capabilities begin to surface in the presence of extraordinary individuals or inside of extraordinary culture where people are pursuing their dreams. But if you're hanging around people who are not going after what God has ordained for their life and you're following the doom and gloom, you're following the insights of CNN. But I mean, it's just crazy talking about all the doom and gloom that's coming. Glory to the name of God. When God really and truly wants us to bounce back better, I'm sorry, the prophecy can never go against scripture. And there's too many things that we have to fulfill volitionally, evangelistically, prophetically, and apostolically before any of the stuff that this man is discussing can happen. We have work to do. Glory to the name of God. And we need to be positioned adequately and properly to do that work. I'm saying this because the whole premise of doom and gloom is not what God is saying. The earth is not about to open up and start swallowing people up. God is not pouring out rain of coronavirus from heaven. There is not getting ready to be a civil war in this nation. I'm telling you right now, the prayers of the righteous will avail much. Oh my God, glory to the name of God. Uh, go to Luke 1:38. Let me get off that. Go to Luke 1:38. I want to show you something. Luke 1:38. Glory to God. Because again, In order to bring what you've conceived to pass, you got to get in agreement with God. Just touch your belly and say, God, hallelujah, I agree with you. Come on, touch your belly again and say, God, I agree with what you've planned. Say, Lord, I agree with what you're doing. Hallelujah. Say, Lord, I agree with where you're taking me. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. And the Bible says in 1:28, and the angel came in unto her and said, hail, thou that art highly favored, the Lord is with thee, blessed art thou among women. Now Mary had conceived of the Holy Ghost, something that was impossible to the mentality of man, she had conceived Jesus Christ, who was a vision of the prophets of old, that the Messiah would come born of a virgin. So she conceived this prophetic dream, this prophetic utterance that came years before she conceived it. Come on, y'all. But her— what she had to do Even though it seemed impossible, she had to agree with God. Our part, glory to God, is to agree with God. Listen, you gotta stop looking at yourself when it comes to God's dreams and visions. Stop looking at your bank account. Stop looking at your natural capabilities. Stop looking at the things that you have only been able to observe because you've been looking at your life, one, through the definitive eyes of other people, and two, you've been looking at your life, glory to God, through your own personal evaluation of yourself. But can I say something to you today? It is not the will of God for you to downplay who you are and what God has called you to do. You gotta look at God. Matter of fact, Jeremiah 1:5, Jeremiah was looking at the faces of men and God had to remind him, before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you and ordained you a prophet to the nation. I already planned this dream and vision out that I'm gonna carry out in your life, Jeremiah. So don't worry about the faces of men. Matter of fact, let's pray that right now. Say, Father, in the name of Jesus, say, like Jeremiah, glory to God, I trust that before I was formed in my mother's belly, say this, say, you knew me. You ordained me, you sanctified me. I said, because of this, I am not afraid of the faces of men. Quite honestly, some of you listening to me, you have not done what God has called you to do because you're afraid. Of the faces of men. And let me tell you something, that's not the will of the Father, for you to be afraid of the faces of men. It's not his desire, it's not his plan. Come on, man, you, you have to look at God and not yourself. Can I say something to you? God— yeah, I hear that in my ear— he needs your availability, not your ability. Let that marinate. See, you think God needs your ability, your intellectual capacity, your cognizant reality. He don't need that. He just needs you to be available for him to use. So you all lift your hands now and say, Lord, I surrender. Lord, I'm here. Whatever you need. Hallelujah. God, I'll do it. Whatever you desire, God, I will bring it forth. Hallelujah, Jesus. Woo! Are y'all here? Glory to God. Are you listening to me? Praise the name of Jesus. I need you to understand that God doesn't need your ability, your capacity. He needs your availability. Hallelujah. So with all that said, Let me bridge out of that piece. Glory to God on conception and application. But let me share with you, okay, that— here we go— you gotta keep a burning desire. If you don't bring forth what's in you, you gotta have a passion. Passion is the burning desire or driving force behind anything. Lord have mercy. Glory to God. You got to keep yourself stirred up. See, it's got to be like Ezekiel. It's got to be like a fire shit up in your bones, and you got to be passionate, people, about the things of God. And let me tell you something, many of you, you've lost your energy, you've lost your spiritual testosterone, it's low. Glory to God. And you, you don't have a drive or a passion to move in the things of God like you used to. Let me— I'm prophesying to somebody. God has not called you to retire, he's called you to refire. Oh, glory to God. I'm gonna say that one more time. You're not here to retire, you need to refire. See, God puts desire in us. Praise the name of God. He puts desire in us. Glory to God. And he puts the desire in us so that we can move forward in the things of the spirit. Oh, shabba, brekedebo oskoriki. Are you hearing me? Let's go to Philippians 2:13. Listen to me. Glory to God. Philippians 2:13. And verse number 13, praise God. Hallelujah. Philippians 2:13. Touch your belly and say, burn in me. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Come on, say it again. Say, fire, burn in me. You got to stay passionate about this thing because the moment you, you lose that fire, that passion You know, I went through a season in my ministry. I've been in full-time ministry this year, 31 years, and glory to the name of God. Listen, I went through a, a very challenging season, y'all, where I had lost my drive for ministry. And really, when I was— I wanted to just build multi-million dollar corporations. I wanted to make all this money. And I was doing it in the name of advancing the kingdom, but there was a part of me that was really trying to transition to a work ethic that had me totally engulfed in doing business things only. And, you know, I just said, you know, I've been preaching 20, 25 years and You know, I'm, I'm just, I'm burnt out. I'm tired. I had lost the passion, and I had to say to God, please give this passion back to me. Glory to the name of God. Because I lost it. And when you— I want to say something to you, and I'm thankful to God today that God answers prayer. He gave me my passion, my drive back, because, you know, there was a season in my life, and I'm glad I'm back at this place where if I wasn't preaching, I was dying. But then I mean, I literally woke up in the morning every day to preach. There was a time in my ministry I was traveling 15,000 miles a month on the road doing nothing but preaching every day. There were seasons I was doing 16 services in 7 days or in 3 days doing 9 services in 3 days, things like that. I loved what I did, but I lost the drive. And I'm glad I had sense enough to ask God to give it back. He put it in you. Let's look at Philippians 2:13. I'm sorry. Ha! Glory to God. But it is God— hear me— which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. Wait a minute. So you can't even please God. You can't even do the good pleasure of God unless you recognize that it is God that puts the desire in you to do it in the first place. Oh my God, everything— the burning passion you need to bring forth your dreams and visions, even in the midst of what they call a pandemic. Even in the midst of what they call economic crisis, you have to know that if you desire to do good, to bring forth your dreams, to bring forth your visions, the only way it happens is that God works in you. That word worketh is a powerful word in the Greek, y'all. It's energo in Greek. It means God is active, he is efficient, he is effectual, he is mighty, and cooperative. Woo-wee! Which means, glory to God, you're not bringing the vision to pass by yourself. God is operating with you. Woo! Lord have mercy. Glory to the name of God. Let me say that again. Enerjo, which is where we get words like energy. God gives you the strength. God gives you the energy. God gives you the operative ability. He does not need your ability. He just wants your availability. And here's the problem with so many people. They refuse to make themselves available to God. Hallelujah! Glory to the name of God! And this is why so many people have bought into this online worship stuff, because they, they feel like, okay, if I just show up for an hour and listen to an online sermon, sing a song, that I have made myself available. No, ma'am. No, sir. God needs you available to do the work of the kingdom, and part of that is corporately coming together and making a statement of what we believe. Oh Lord, let me get off that. So listen, God works in you. He's working with you. Energy. He's the energy to bring it past. He's the source of your strength. There's a worship song that says, you are my strength, strength like no other, strength like no other. Reaches to me. Listen, that's the truth. You are my strength, strength like no other, strength like no other. It reaches to me. Listen, I'm telling you, you don't try to do a God thing alone. It won't work. Ah, ah, ah, God help us. Listen, I'm not talking that I don't know. I'm not talking anything I've read. I'm telling you what I've lived. There have been seasons in my life where I went on a tangent and started doing things that God was not a part of, and I was doing them in the name of God. But it made it very hard because God does not sign up for what he did not put in you, according to Philippians 2:13. Watch this, he wants you to do his will and to do his good pleasure, what pleases him, not you. And most of the time, what God asks you to do initially, it doesn't appease your flesh. It ain't really something you want to do because you got another agenda, you got another way you want to do it. But what we ought to be doing is tapping into how he wants us to do it. Lord, I'm preaching better than y'all saying amen. I know y'all ain't saying nothing. Glory to God. Hallelujah. But that's why I need to get y'all back in church so I can look you in the face and tell you this stuff. And so you'll be motivated through the corporate anointing to run out of the church and go apply it to your life. Touch your belly and say, I got a dream in me. Hey, shibabakosia. Say, I got a vision in me that came from God. You got to have a burning desire. Let's look at Psalm 42:1. Oh God, somebody ought to give the Lord praise. Yes Lord. Psalm 42:1. The Bible says, as the hart, or the deer, panted. Let me start right there. Panted. Arog in Hebrew. A-R-A-G. Arog. It means as the deer longs for, cries for the water brook, so my soul panted. Arog. Cries for, longs for thee, O God. Listen, there ought to be something down on the inside of you. Listen to me, that longs for God. The deer, when he pants for it, he understands that I gotta get to the water brook, and if I do not get to the water brook, oh my God, I will die. The deer is saying, I gotta find the water brook, and at all costs, even in the In the face of danger, the deer strategizes to get to the waters. This is how we ought to be in God. We ought to long for God's help, long for his assistance, long for him to intertwine and be a part of our life and be a part of our existence. Oh my God, glory! Shiba, brishke, tete bakasha, robohosaya. Do you long for him? Do you pant for him? You know, when I get out the bed in the morning, when I hit the floor, my heart and my soul is on automatic. It starts going after God because I understand he's my life source. Throughout my day, I'm talking to him because as the deer— as the deer pathet for the waters, so my soul longeth thereto. Oh my God, you alone are my heart's desire, and I long to worship thee. That's— that ought to be your heart's desire. You know, I love my wife. I love her. I desire her. Glory to the name of God. But let me tell you something, the Lord is my heart's desire because I, I don't know how to love her without him. I don't know how to be a good husband without him. I don't know how to be— I love my children, but I don't know how to be a good father without him because God is love. He is the ultimate epitome of a father. So my first priority is to go after him. Woo! As the deer panteth for the water, so my soul longeth after thee. You alone are my heart's desire, and I long to worship you. And I long to worship you. Oh, glory! And I long to worship you. Glory to God! See, and I got a bridge out of this. My time is gone. God Oh Jesus! Lift your hands right where you are. I hear the Lord saying worship. I'll finish this next week. Come on, right where you are, pour out your heart. Pour out your Spirit. And I long to worship thee, O Lord, and I long to worship thee. Make him your heart's desire right now. Come on, pant for him, long for him. He is— you can bring your dreams to pass when you co-labor with Him. Pull Him where you are right now in the name of Jesus. And I long, whoo, to work Shabu. Glory to God. There's something special in you. There's something amazing about you. Even when it feels like the world doesn't see it and the world doesn't value you, even God looks back at you now and he sings to you, and I long to love you. Let the Lord sing over you today. And I long, oh, Maxianda, to love you. He loves you. Just touch yourself and say, he loves me. Even when it feels like nobody understands you, he loves you. I want you to know, in the eyes of God, you have high value. I don't know who I'm preaching to on this Sunday night, but you have high value. Brikata babasa. And God wants me to prophesy to you and let you know that your value is great. Brikata bababoso rabba. Woman, your value is great. Man, your value is great. I don't know who this is for, but God told me to tell somebody the last 34 days, glory to God, you can go count them back on the calendar, have been filled with indecision. They have been filled with imbalance and up and down. But the Lord told me to tell you, He longs to love you. And He took you through it to get you to this day. And this day, on the 34th day of your pain, God told me to tell you, you are graduating. You're moving to another level. You're moving to another dimension. God says, I bothered you to make you better. Hoorabassanda. Just worship him. Come on, just long for him. Long. He ought to be your heart's desire. Hallelujah. So, oh yeah, I hear that, God. Someone else, I see you. I see you. Glory to the name of God. I see you in a state of depression. I see you about to break all the way doubt. But I heard the Lord say, I've invested too much in you to allow depression to take control of you, to allow depression to stagnate you. Oh, Shabaka, to allow the burdens that you're challenged with on a day-to-day basis to keep you stagnated. But God said, I moved you into a season now of fluency. There'll be no more latency, but I move you from latency to fluency, which means you will no longer be lagging and slow. Glory to God. God says, I'm giving you energy and I'm making you fluid. And as you flow in the things that pertain to your dreams, many will be blessed by your pain, said God. Oh God, I see that person too. The Lord said to tell you he's closing the door on your yesterday. Hallelujah. And God says he'll never look at your past to determine your future. He saw where you messed up. He saw where people abused you. He saw where people did you wrong. He saw where you were violated. But God said, I do not look at where you come from to determine where you're going. Your dream is still alive. And I long to worship you. Thank you, Lord. And I long You are Shabu. Halabasura bakia. We bless your holy name, God. You're worthy of the praise, God. Oh, you're so worthy. We give you glory, God. Father, we thank you for your word today. Bless every person that have adhered and listened to what has been spoken. God, I pray for every dream under the sound of my voice. I pray for the passion and the discipline to pursue that dream. I pray for the passion and the discipline to pursue you, the author and finisher of our faith, the designer and You're the manufacturer of our visions and dreams, and I thank you now that they are coming to pass. In Jesus' name, amen. Listen, perhaps you're watching me and you're not born again, and you say, Michael Woods, all of this stuff about dreams and visions, I want to long for God. I want the relationship with God that he has for me. And, or maybe you're religious and you just never had the opportunity to intertwine with him in a great way. Maybe you know your business is not straight with God, you got sin in your life. I don't care if you're in the church or outside of the church, but if you got sin in your life, you need to get your business straight with the Lord today. How do I do that? It starts with repentance. Would you pray this simple simple prayer with me. I just want you to repeat after me, and I promise you, as you open your heart and in faith repeat after me, God will correct your sin issue and he will get you on a road where you can have relationship with him and fulfill your dreams and visions. Would you pray with me? Say this with me: Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, I repent of my sin. Say, Father, I open my heart and I invite you in. Say, come into me, Lord, and live in me. Say, Lord, I believe that you died and rose again. Father, I thank you for your blood that saves. Say, thank you, Lord, I'm saved in Jesus' name. Amen. Listen, if you said those words, I want you to know you're born again. I want you simply to write me at info@bronnerchurch.com. I want to give you the tools to take your salvation walk to the next next level. Well, my time is gone, y'all, but I would be remiss if we did not receive our Sunday morning— our Sunday evening offering. Glory to the name of God. You know, the Bible says, bring ye all the tithe into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house. The Bible said, prove me now herewith, that I will open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing. You will not have room room to receive. But a couple of verses above those is Malachi 3:8 that says, will a man rob God? Yes, you have robbed me in tithe and in offering. Listen, don't let it be named among you that you are a robber and a thief of that which belongs to God. The scriptures declare the is holy to God. The first fruits of all your increase. So everything you earn, everything you're given, you owe God 10% off the top. And if you do not give him that, you are robbing God. Listen, let's not be that person. So I challenge everyone today Give your tithe, and if you have to pay back tithes, pay your back tithes. Get the curse off of you, because the Bible said when you don't tithe, you're cursed with a curse. Get God's money out of your hands, give it to him, it's his, and let God be glorified with your giving. Listen, we, we have spent close to $27,000 $100,000 to renovate our church, to make it the best digital model of a church it could possibly be. If we're going to be able to reach the world, we got the best cameras, we got the best sound equipment, we got the best digital software. We, we are prepared to globally take this planet by storm with the word that the Lord has given us. We need you to invest in this work. Praise the name of God. So give your tithe, give your offering, and be a blessing to what God has called us to do. The ways to give is on the screen. You can give via Cash App, simply Rother Church is our Cash App. You can also give online at rotherchurch.com/donate. And if you'd like to give directly from your phone Text the words raw.church, all one word, to the shortcode 31996, and a link will come to your phone via text. Click that link and give your offering. Either way, we appreciate your giving. Let me pray while you're preparing your offerings. Glory to God. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for every gift and every giver. Give it back to them a thousand times more. More as they give into the kingdom now. In Jesus' name, amen and amen. Listen, they used to sing a song when I was growing up in the church, you can't beat God-given no matter how you try. I'm just letting you know right now, you can't do it. You just really can't. So give, share with the Lord what's his. It's just really not yours. The tenth is his. And then give him your offering. In addition to that 10th. Glory to God. Again, the ways to give on the screen. While you're giving, we're going to close the service today. I'm so full right now. I want to challenge you guys, as we said earlier, don't miss Emergence. Emergence is happening this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at Roddell Church. Roddell Church is located at 5300 Frontage Road, Suite A in Forest Park, Georgia. Listen, we're putting the finishing touches on our house of God, uh, this week, and we're so happy and excited. Come help us break the new house in. It's going to be awesome. Got some great speakers. You've seen them. Apostle Jerry Howard, which I'm going to be speaking to this week live one-on-one. He and I are going to do an interview. Apostle Brandon Cornelius— I'll be sitting down with Apostle Cornelius talking some things this week as well. I'll be sitting down with our worship leader, LaChelsey King, and her husband Harry King. So you don't want to miss those at the Apostle Table this week. We got a great week planned, great weekend. You've got to be there. So make sure you go to rhodachurch.com/emergence and get registered. Registration is free, but it is required. So we need you to register. People are registering. The seating will will be limited, so you want to go ahead and get registered so we can have a place for you. Listen, we love you. Heaven smile upon you is our prayer. Peace. Glory to God.