Satans Assignment Has Been Cancelled | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr.

Come on, say it again.

Say, Satan's assignment, Satan's assignment in my life, in my life has been canceled, has been canceled.

I need you to believe that. The Bible said for this purpose the Son of God was manifested, uh-huh, so that he can destroy. That's right.

Or cancel, uh-huh.

The assignment of the enemy. Let me begin by saying this: the devil does not play fair.

That's right.

The devil is real.

That's right.

So there's two things right there I just told you. One, he do not play fair.

That's right. Amen.

The enemy hates people of purpose.

Right, right. Amen. Right.

That's right. Glory to God.

Just touch yourself and say, I'm a personal purpose.

I'm a personal purpose.

And because of that, and because of that, say this, say, the enemy, the enemy hates me, hates me. He cannot stand the fact that you are called of God, anointed of God, anointed that you are saved.

That's it. That's right.

Because first of all, the devil is a dumb devil.

He started out as Lucifer. He's already in heaven.

That's right.

That's right. He's already there.

That's right.

That's Lucifer, right? How are you so stupid that you get kicked out of heaven. Because we, we live every day— watch this— not trying to get to heaven, but to bring heaven to us.

All right, y'all missed it.

See, the religious person is living as an escape artist trying to leave Earth. One of the problems with the body of Christ, you got your bags packed out, looking out the window waiting for the rapture. And most people got saved because they think it's a fire escape. They're trying to miss hell. You ought to be saved, one, because there's a real God, and two, you can actually have heaven on earth. Okay, again, hard crowd. You can have heaven on earth for real if y'all don't believe it, right? So the only difference in heaven on Earth—

watch this— is God.

But you got, you got gold. Hear this, in heaven we got gold on Earth, and if you get enough gold, you can make some streets of gold right here. You ain't got to go there to get on streets of gold. They got rivers in heaven, we got rivers on Earth. They got trees and Pearly gates. We can get you enough money, build you some gates of pearl. You ain't got to go to heaven to get a mansion. Get you enough money and buy you a big house. The only difference in heaven and earth is God. So if I got God and I can bring the Spirit of God into my prayer closet, into my time of worship, into my services that I have I can have heaven on earth.

So you ought to be living to experience heaven here. You're going to be saved to experience heaven here. And so what the enemy does— oh God— he launches attacks against our life because he doesn't want you to know God for real.

That's right.

That's the whole goal.

He wants to get your focus off reality.

That's right.

God is a greater reality than what you call reality. He's real for real. I'm gonna give you a few things and I'm gonna break this text down about the enemy. First of all, the devil, he distracts.

That's right.

That's what he does first. He comes to get you distracted.

Say distractions. Distractions can be fake.

Yeah, there's some young people here, so maybe y'all ain't seen this movie, but there's a movie called Fatal Attraction. How many seen it? Okay, so chick was crazy, right? Said you got to watch how you get distracted. But watch this, your distractions can be fatal to your destiny, to your purpose, to your life if you get distracted by the wrong thing.

Amen.

So you got to decide, I'm going to stay focused and I'm going to keep looking to Jesus Who's the author and finisher of my faith. Let me tell you what the devil does. The first thing he'll do to distract you is start telling you what you're unable to do because of where you come from, because you're watching, because of your skin color, because of your gender.

So you get distracted paying attention to these voices that ain't even nothing but a fairy tale, because he cannot tell the truth. Or he'll get you distracted thinking, you know what, I gotta sin, I, I gotta—

I'm human, so I, I'm always make a mistake.

That's a distraction.

'Cause you ain't got to.

That's right.

It's a choice. You can stay focused. Y'all ain't got to say nothing.

You can stay focused, but you get distracted because you look too long.

Y'all ain't got to say nothing. See something? See, this is what you do all day, your phone.

And you stay on Instagram too long, you're gonna run across some stuff.

That's right.

Y'all ain't got to talk, then it gets you distracted.

That is true.

Oh, okay, all right, whatever.

That is the truth.

Some of you have been distracted so long, Jesus, it has created a huge delay, Jesus, because distractions lead to delays. So now what you trusting God for seems like it's taking forever. Because you've been focusing on the distraction. Matter of fact, can I submit to you, most of the people in the body of Christ are behind schedule. Things that they've been praying for and hoping for, they should have already had, but they haven't received them. They've been delayed because they're distracted. God says, I've been wanting to give you this money, I've been wanting to give you a husband, I've been wanting to pay off your debt, but I can't I do it— because if I do it for you now, you'll get distracted and start worshiping the man, worshiping the money.

That's why you got to stay focused.

That's right, that's right.

Some of you should have already been living in happiness and full of joy, that's right, but you got distracted focusing on the problem.

That's right.

So the enemy comes, that's what he does, he gets you off focus of God, starts poking on the issue, and you get distracted, then you get delayed. But watch this, while you're delayed, you end up— here we go—

taking detours.

You start taking shortcuts. You start trying to make yourself a prophet. Make yourself any— you're set. It's a terrible self-appointed spirit in the body of Christ. You start trying to be things you're not to make up for the delays. But can I tell you something? In the kingdom, there are no shortcuts. That's right, you got to go through the process.

Watch this. The process, every step of the process qualifies you to keep what you're going for.

See, when you start overstepping things and doing stuff prematurely, you create delays and setbacks because you're trying to make a name for yourself.

That's right.

You're trying to create a platform. You're trying to have a stage.

And you're not ready for that.

Go through the process and get qualified. Him who he calls, he also qualifies. So the qualification is not gonna always be what you like. So you kind of make up in your mind, I'm not going to take these shortcuts and try to build my own ladder.

And get ahead of God.

I said a lot to a lot of these young preachers. They run so fast, right?

And then they get there, but then they don't have the grace to be sustained there because you outran the grace.

And you got to keep going through the cycle until you get qualified.

Let me keep moving because I'm bored, y'all. You get distracted, you get delayed, you start taking detours. And watch this, once you start taking these detours, trying to get there in your own volition, oh God, come on, come on, come on, you're setting yourself up for failure. Matter of fact, a detour suggests you're in your own way. That's why I started laughing, because we— this stuff we can't blame the devil for. All he did was distract you. You bought in, got delayed, started taking detours, and then ultimately you self-destruct. You have an implosion in your destiny.

Not an explosion. The explosion happens from the outside. To implode—

Lord have mercy—

means that this thing broke down internally. It wasn't the devil, it was you. You, you are in your own way, and, and you don't understand why the things you're praying for ain't happening. God says, I need you to move.

So I can bless you. So the devil distracts. Say, the devil distracts.

The second thing he does—

and I'm gonna be where I need to be once I get to the text, I'm done. Hallelujah. He defames. He uses defamation to slow you down.

I always say your gift will open doors and get you in places that your character will remove you from.

I can say that.

I've been there. I've lived that. I've been preaching 35 years full-time. I planted 8 churches.

I have a collaborative of sons and daughters who are connected to me.

At the end of the day, I made mistakes in my process so I can talk about this. The devil will use your weaknesses to expose your bad character.

Oh, y'all ain't got to say nothing.

And then he'll turn around, and here you go again in the way, and use the character you refuse to fix to defame you. Watch this, we talked about this this morning, and take away your credibility. See, if you don't have credibility, no one's gonna listen to you, no one's gonna want to deal with you because you destroyed your credibility.

We'll get where we need to be. All this is in this text, I'm telling you.

He defames you because you open that door because you just love doing the things that displease God.

And you keep playing the grace card like it's a spade. Okay, yeah, I can do that. Then you play the grace card, you hurt yourself. So say, the devil defames. Watch this, some things, because he can't tell the truth.

Right.

So when he says something about you, all he can say is what's really real.

That's right, that's right, that's right, that's right.

Oh yeah, he distracts, he defames. Number 3, I'm almost done, he depresses. We got all this talk about mental health, and I'm a champion for mental health. I believe people ought to be helping your mind. I believe that some things ain't demons.

That's right.

Some things are real psychological debilitating issues that need real attention and healing. Well, here's the catch. If you tarry in a psychological issue, it's called idleness.

And the Bible says the idle mind is the devil's workshop.

So if you keep tarrying in it, the enemy comes in.

Watch this. And then what he immediately does to the depression, he brings with him suppression. Which means he supplies pressure to make you feel comfortable and normal in a mindset that's not normal.

When you get to that point where you want to stay in the bed, put the covers over your head, keep all the windows closed, don't answer your phone, you've entered into suppression. You're suppressing an issue that you need to face. The enemy hates to be confronted, right?

Can I—

oh, I hear that, God.

Can I submit to you tonight? If you face it, God will fix it.

Amen.

You ain't even got to fix it. Just get bold enough to face it.

You just—

you don't want to bathe, and you're going through all that, then you're suppressing this thing.

And that suppression—

here we go— turns into possession. Now the demon is in control. So you got to stop it when you get depressed and decide this ain't me. You got to shake yourself and decide, I'm gonna move forward. There's nothing in your past that God will ever use to determine your future.

Oh God, God will never look at your history to decide your destiny.

He's never going to start checking your history and decide, okay, well, I ain't gonna let you go where you want, but the devil will make you feel like Because I did this, I can't have that.

He's a liar, man.

This a tough crowd tonight. This Saturday Night Special, my God.

Woo!

Saturday Night— can I tell you something? Your depression— watch this— it means that you decide. D is a decision. Watch this. To push against a planned outcome.

God already planned the outcome for you.

Okay. Jeremiah 1:5 says, before I formed you, The word form is yetseb in Hebrew, which means before you became a living chromosome, before you knew anything neurology, anything respiratory, anything cardiovascular, you were a spiritual being that God knew. The word knew is yada in Hebrew.

It means that he was intimate with you.

Intimacy is not sex.

The word intimacy means into me see. So he opened your life up and started making deposits and plans before you ever born. He said, I knew you, which means basically yada in the biblical sense means to be impregnated. So he didn't have sex with you, but he impregnated you with purpose.

That's right, that's right.

He impregnated you with destiny. That's why you're not a mistake. You're not junk. You're not a flop.

You—

wait a minute—

you're supposed to be here. My mama was 14 when she got pregnant with me. My daddy was 17. My mama tried 9 times to abort me. I'll be looking at her crazy. I'm like, Mama, what really was on your mind? Dog, after twice, you should just help me.

I'm just going to keep this baby.

But you real— I felt, I felt some kind of way for a long time. Glory to God. But God knew. He had already made a deposit in me. So every time she tried to abort me, even the abortion doctor could could not get rid of me because down in my soul was destiny. Oh, y'all ain't got to say nothing here. You're supposed to be here. I'll tell you right now, some of you don't even know you pregnant right now because of what God knew before you got here. I dare you, slap somebody and tell them, I'm pregnant and I know who the daddy is.

I know who the daddy is. Y'all didn't say that.

Y'all didn't say it. Just holler and say, Come on the other side, cuz that first person ignored you. Say, hey, did you hear what I said?

Tell them I'm pregnant and I know who the daddy is.

I'm telling you right now, you're carrying a purpose, you're carrying a dream, you're carrying a destiny, you're carrying an anointing, and God is the daddy of your baby. Clap your hands and thank God for what you can.

Thank you for being here, my brother.

We do have good sense, okay?

Thank you.

We don't want to scare people away.

Just rub your belly and say, I'm pregnant.

I'm pregnant. And God's the dad. Next time you feel like giving up and get depressed, you just rub your belly. Sometimes I'm sorry, I feel the baby kick. Sometimes I'm sorry, there are days I don't want to go to church. I don't want to build another church. I don't want to preach again, but I'll just hear that baby kicking in the spirit, and I gotta go and do what God called me to do. I'm telling you right now, there's something in you That's what the devil's mad at.

Oh God, yes, yes, glory, glory to God. Yes, my God, them depressors. Thank you.

He wants to possess you so you won't give birth to what God knew before you were ever born. He said, before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. Then he went a little further and says, I sanctified you. Sanctification is not a long dress, no makeup, no earrings. I grew up in that church. I learned real fast, man, it was just as much hell on the long dress as it was a short dress.

It just took that one with the long dress a little longer. You got to talk to me here, cuz if you ain't changing your heart— to be sanctified means to be set apart for an assignment from heaven. Watch this, say, I'm set aside.

I'm set aside.

So I don't have no time. I don't have no time to be depressed.

To be depressed.

I've been set aside. I've been set aside for something special.

For something special.

See, an assignment is the problem.

Hear this, you were created to solve.

Yes, that's right.

So when God knew you, he created you to solve a problem.

Yes, everybody in this room, that's right, was created to solve a problem. That's right.

Doctors solve medical problems, preachers solve spiritual problems.

That's right, that's right.

But they should Bankers solve money problems. You should never talk to anybody about your problem that's not qualified to solve it.

That's right, that's right.

The only thing that qualifies them to solve it is that God gave them the sanctification to solve your If you broke, why you sitting up talking to somebody else broke about your money problem? If I'm wrong, tell me the last time you talked to a broke person, got off the phone and had some solutions to the money problem. You need to talk to somebody that knows how to teach you about investing, about real estate, about going into business, about expanding your money and building generational wealth. You need to talk to somebody that can solve that issue.

That's right, that's right.

Here's the thing, you got to find a problem you were created to solve. Can I submit to you tonight, you are a life jacket to somebody drowning.

That's right, that's right.

You need to find them.

Them, cuz they waiting on you to pull them out.

All right, all right, all right.

Be sanctified. Jesus, he said, I sanctify, then I ordain. He said Jeremiah, a prophet. You may not be a prophet, but there's an ordination, an order, a structure, that's right, a system that's already designed for your life to That's right. So instead of trying to get to the next meeting to get a word from the prophet, what you need to do is get on your face and take a trip back to your Genesis and ask God to show you the assignment, to show you the ordination, to show you what he knows about you.

That's right, that's right.

Your life goal should be to see yourself the way God sees you.

That's right, that's right.

Let's, let's say that. Say, I want to see myself, I want to see myself the way God sees me, the way God sees me. So many times we define ourselves by what other people say about us. My wife said it when she got up. You have to choose to live for the audience of one. He's the only one that truly knows you, and you shouldn't plug into anyone that don't know what he knows about you. That's dangerous, because when you start fooling with people that don't have a revelation of you based on God's view of you. They gonna create their own perception of you, and ultimately they're going to violate you, because where there's no revelation, there's always violation. So that's why I stay clear of people to whom I have not been revealed. Can I tell you something? You're so awesome, you're so special that you can never be recognized. You have to be revealed. Oh, glory to God. I dare you tell somebody, you can't recognize me, homie. I have to be revealed. Stop trying to size me up. You better talk to God about me. Glory to God. Because people will come with their own perception, and that's how we mess up. They end up violating us, hurting us, breaking us, because we let people in our world Jesus!

So the devil distracts, devil defames, the devil depresses. Let's move. Last one. The devil shows up for only one purpose, come on, and that's to destroy.

Come on now.

His ultimate goal is to destroy you. John 10:10 says the thief— the Hebrew translation for thief there, because you got all kinds of thieves, you got robbers. A robber has no resolve. He ain't gonna hide. He gonna be right in your face with the gun, says, just give me your wallet, that's all I want. His mentality is, I ain't got nobody on the roster, I'm about to win somebody. That's what a robber does. That's not what he's talking about here. You have embezzlers. God knows the people I've had work for me that have stolen. There's nothing on somebody's resume that tells you, or in an interview, that's telling you they're gonna steal from you. You, they look perfect in that interview.

Y'all ain't sick enough.

Look up equipment missing, money missing, because they, they were embezzlers, people that steal from their employer. You have bandits. A bandit is like a burglar. He gonna case out your house. He's a punk. He ain't gonna rob you like the robber. He's strategizing when you leave, watching your moves. He the dude that's gonna come through a window and sneak in. That's what this thief in the text is.

He's sneaky.

He needs idleness. He needs a door. The thief comes to steal So he starts stealing through that process, and then ultimately through the defamation, through the distractions, through the depression, he ends up killing your passion. The worst thing in the world is to lose your passion for what you know God is telling you to do. If the devil can take that from and make you settle.

Oh, that part.

You're supposed to be an entrepreneur, but you still clocking in.

Yes, Jesus.

Because you lost your passion.

That's right.

Because you went through a few processes where you failed a few times and the business didn't work. You tried and you just—

you know what, this just ain't for me. But you know what you gotta learn to do when the devil seize you down, and you know you just got to get up, dust yourself off, and say, look, I failed that time, but I'm gonna keep going.

Can I submit to you tonight, for real?

The only way you gonna lose is if you quit. The only way you lose is if you stop. But if you keep going, Jesus, you're gonna bounce back eventually and you're gonna win.

Just touch yourself and say, I'm a winner.

Say, the thief won't steal nor kill me. Because if you give in to what he kills, if he kills your dream, kills your passion, kills your desire, He ultimately destroys you. There's so many people that die and never fulfill their dream, never move in the purpose that God has for them, have a lot of good church and go to the grave never fulfilled.

That's right.

I don't want that because I'm here for a reason. And I want to fulfill every ounce of what I'm here to do. Matter of fact, when I go to the grave, I want to go empty.

I don't want to take nothing with me. I want to leave everything on this planet.

Just elbow somebody, say, die empty. I told the leaders, we were teaching this morning, I said to them, I said, listen, You are here to finish something.

That's right.

And watch this, to dominate in a way that you feel fulfilled, that you can—

you ready to go after you've done it. But if you don't have purpose, that's when you die.

That's right.

Your heart stops beating when you lose purpose. Matter of fact, the only reason your heart beating tonight because you got an assignment, you got purpose. That's why you look around and COVID killed so many people and you still here. Y'all ain't got to talk.

That's something to rejoice in because any one of us could have died of COVID That's right, because I don't know how many times I got it. Every time I got it, I just started rebuking it and praying and kept it moving. 'Cause I just refuse to accept—

that's right—

oh, y'all ain't got to talk— that my purpose was over.

That's right.

I realize I can't die. There's still too much in me.

That's right.

Let me tell you something. I was on a plane one time, and the engine to my right— I looked at the window— it was straight on fire. And they were trying to keep it on the down low. They knew what was going on. The pilot was bringing in— finally somebody else saw, and these people start freaking out. You know what I did?

I said, Lord, I know it ain't my time.

I got too much to do. I told the guy next to me, I said, this plane ain't going down because I got too much purpose. I said, you got on the right plane today. Oh, you haven't got to talk to me. And when we landed The pilot said, I don't know how we had such a safe and smooth landing with one engine. I said, I know how, because I got on this plane because I got some stuff I got to finish. Can I tell you something? Nothing is ever as big as it first seems. Stop freaking out and panicking when trouble shows up. You better learn how to rejoice. You better learn how to be thankful to God when you cannot see the outcome. And you gotta know that no matter what it looks like, God has your back. I dare you to touch somebody and say, "God's got me, baby. You can't kill me because God's got me." Hallelujah!

Please be seated.

We have this. We come to marry. Glory to God. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.

Your heart's beating.

Because you still got reason.

You die before you finish, that's murder. You die before you complete the assignment, you were murdered.

Whether it's by gun, by food, whatever, you murdered yourself before you That's why you got to be cognizant of the fact I got something to do.

So he wants to destroy. Let's talk about this assignment being— say it's canceled. Say the devil can't destroy me because his assignment is canceled.

I read it in the beginning.

The Bible said he that committed sin is of the devil.

Yes, right.

Okay, this word committed there is a Greek word, koio, and this Greek word means that you prepare in advance to do a thing.

This means that you decide— not you messed up, but you woke up and said, I'm gonna sin today.

You made the plans, you got the room.

Y'all ain't got to talk to me. You prepared to do something you knew was against God.

These some of my Atlanta members right here on this row. Let me stand right here. We are in Mississippi on Saturday.

Glory to God. Listen, you got to make up in your mind that every day you wake up, you going to work as hard as you can to not sin. You know why? The scripture said it. Because he who commits sin, who prepares sin in advance which means you know your flesh on fire.

You know, you, you feel like you gotta have it and you go get it. That's too real for y'all.

I'm just telling you, I'm just telling you, you're opening the door for the devil to show up.

Can I tell you something? The devil is a hitman. And you're on his hit list. He doesn't want the assignment to come out of you, and you got to decide, I am not going. I know it makes you feel good. Sin is pleasurable.

The Bible said that you enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season, but you need to work hard to mortify the members of your flesh.

Because the Bible said he that committed sin—

let's stop at sin. The word sin is hermētia in Greek. Hermētia is not just the big sins that you think, adultery, fornication, lying, cheating, all that.

Hermētia is sin, period.

That's right.

And it literally means to miss the mark.

Yeah, that's right.

So even if you ain't in the bed with somebody, that's right, and you're not fulfilling your purpose, walking in your assignment, oh, you are committing sin.

You're missing the mark. And watch this, the Bible said— I didn't say it, don't, don't shoot me, all right? Please, please don't wait for me outside with stones in your purses and start throwing them.

The Bible said that when you miss the mark, it categorized us.

It says you are the devil.

When I was falling and making mistakes, this is the scripture that broke me because I didn't want to be categorized as one who was of the devil.

That's right.

Preaching. But God said, if you sin and miss the mark, you're the devil. Prophesying, casting out devils. Y'all ain't got to talk.

But still of the devil. It's a word, I didn't make it up.

But someone said, how do you do that? The Bible said in that day many will come saying, Lord, Lord, Lord, did I not cast out a devil?

Did I not prophesy?

He's going to say, depart from me. That word again, I never knew you, cuz you didn't align with what I knew before you were born.

Your work was of iniquity. Me.

In other words, it was without boundaries. It was lawless. Watch this, it didn't bring me pleasure. In other words, I used you and then refused you. God, cold, man. He, he said, I'll use you because I need people to get help, and then I'll turn around at the end and say, uh-uh, I don't even know you. Are y'all hearing this?

That's why the Bible said mortify the members of your flesh. Every morning you need to get up and put— mortify means kill it.

Whatever your issue is, doubt, fear, kill it. You may not be doing what the other person doing, but You need to examine yourself and make sure you have not been categorized with the devil. The devil, the D-Evil.

Evil means injury.

So whenever you move into sin, you're injuring not just your purpose, but watch this, you're injuring every other person that's connected to you.

Lord have mercy.

He said, for the devil sins from the beginning.

He missed the mark from the beginning.

But here we go. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested. Say manifested.

Manifested.

Foreign. In Greek, and it means he was made visible, he was made alive so he could destroy the works of the devil.

I'm closing.

A lot of times when I travel, sometimes the flight is delayed, and you go to the board looking for your flight and say flight number 1792 has been delayed. But then if you keep looking down, there are some flights that are on time. But you look some more, you'll see some flights that have been canceled, which means nothing's going out and nothing's coming in. I'm telling you right now, the fact that you embrace Jesus, right, as your King, as your Savior, it's his desire to cancel the assignment of the enemy. But you got to choose to stop agreeing with him and yielding to his temptation. That's why when Jesus was teaching the apostles to pray, he taught them one of the stanzas was, lead us not into temptation.

Because guess what? Temptation is coming, but temptation is not easy. The word temptation is nasa.

It means to test with what you desire.

The Bible said Jesus was tempted and tried on all points, yet without sin.

Which means Jesus wanted it, but he didn't take it. You can't be tempted with something you don't want. Listen, you can bring in here some Hennessy, some weed, some cognac, some vodka.

You put all that in front of me.

And I'm looking like, man, bye, because that doesn't tempt me.

I don't want that anyway.

I ain't never wanted that.

I told y'all my wife got a gun, but I'm gonna say this anyway.

I might get shot later.

But you put Beyoncé—

I'm sorry, Jay-Z—

you put Beyoncé in front of me. See, look how y'all looking, like you just left heaven to come to church tonight, and your chariot outside waiting to carry you back to glory. Every man in here know that Beyoncé, even in her old age— she ain't young as she used to be, but she's still fine. The reality is You got to be strong enough to look at it and say no, because temptation is something you want. Oh yeah, see, see, that's why you can't get delivered, because the enemy's gonna keep working with that lie. You act— because he's, he's a liar, so he's gonna work with that deception. You act like you floating and all holy. Listen, glory to God.

Me and my wife could be watching a movie and, you know, first of all, this dude ain't even that young no more.

Morris Chestnut can come out with his shirt off. I'm like, dude fat now, what you talking about a fan for? I'm like, I am sitting right here. Can I tell you something? If you want to be free, you got to tell the truth. The Bible say you shall know the truth and the truth will set you free. You got to deal with your issues head on and say, you know what, I'm human and this thing is tempting me. God, deliver me. You got to make up in your mind, yeah, I see it, but I don't want it. And you got to decide, I'm I'm not going back to what God delivered me from. Oh, y'all ain't got to say nothing. You got— I don't care how fine it is. I told the devil a long time ago, I refuse to go back to what God delivered me from. I refuse to return. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. To a place where I'm falling and messing up and repenting and crying. I love purity. I love watching God use me in chastity. I'm not giving the devil no opportunity. Listen, he uses the deception. Let me tell you the other thing he uses.

He uses fear.

Fear. That's right. Yes, you got to talk about it.

Some of you afraid to give some stuff up.

Yes.

And you keep committing that sin because it's comfortable to you. It helps you.

Oh, y'all ain't talking to me.

Yeah, you know that married man you talking to, he married. I don't care what bills he paying for you, y'all. I'm up in here right now. Don't make me ask you to stand up, but I'm in here. He married. He ain't yours. And but because you use excuse, oh, I deserve this, that's somebody's husband. And the reason you can't get your own, because you playing with somebody else's.

That's right, that's the truth. Come on now, come on.

You're afraid to let it go because it provides some level of release for you.

That's right.

But God said you got to release it. You got to be free so he can maximize his potential in you.

Thank you. Watch this.

The scripture said God has not given you the spirit of fear. Stop being afraid. The word fear is to heal you in grief. It's a cowardice from fright. You being a coward And so you won't walk away because you feel like if I let this go, what I'm going to have?

Right.

That's right.

Jesus. Jesus.

That's right. Somebody say, Apostle, you don't know how my daddy treated me, how my mama treated me. I deserve this. This the only person that really love me.

If he really loved you, he'd wait.

Come on.

God has not given you the spirit of fear.

That's right.

He didn't say you didn't have it. He said he didn't give it to you.

That's right.

He said he gave you power. His gift to you is power, exousia, authority over what the enemy brings to you.

He gave you love.

That's right.

You, you holding on to some guy, oh, he gonna buy me a car, he gonna get me a house.

I know what God gonna buy you a car.

I know what God gonna get you a house.

And some of you listening to them promises and you ain't got the house yet. At some point you need to say, bro, where the keys? How you going to buy you a car?

He ain't got one.

He driving your car.

Y'all hear me? He live with his mama.

Because you, you want to feel love, right? But if he love you— because a real man is going to be 4 things to a woman.

One, he gonna be priest, so he has the ability to intercede for her.

He has the ability to take his woman to God.

And lift the burdens of her life in prayer.

But he ain't being no priest to you if his very presence in your life is a burden.

You going to work every day, he at home, sit on the couch with the remote.

All day watching TV, playing PlayStation. Yeah, you say you want love, but soon as his bipolar narcissistic self gets angry, he yells at you, says abusive words to you because your beauty Your presence, your security intimidates him, but you're afraid to let go.

The devil's a psychopath. Canceling it tonight.

You don't have to accept that. That's it, right?

I give you power, give you love. God says he loves you for love alone. That love there is agape, unconditional. That means you ain't got to do nothing. He just love you.

Isn't that some good love? You ain't got to put out, you ain't got to buy nothing, you ain't got— you ain't got to do nothing but just show up. That's—

and the Bible said a man should love his wife like Christ loved the church and gave himself for it. Ain't nothing that woman back there ask me for I don't get her.

Amen.

Because I love her like Christ loved the church. That's right.

Y'all ain't saying nothing.

That's how you supposed to love.

That's right.

And if you got somebody in your life, they ain't practicing that in dating, they ain't the one. Moment you ask you for a ride, that's a red flag.

Be his friend. That's it.

Come on, man.

I know people go through and you help people through. I get it. But after 5 years, 3 years, you should have been in a car or apartment or something by now.

Okay, I'm done.

Because I gave you power, gave you love. I didn't give you fear. I gave you a sound mind. That word sound mind, sophronismos in Greek, it means a well-balanced, intelligent mind. Yeah, so when you're well— so you're not— you don't have to be crazy because you were born again. You have to be weird because you're saved. You can have balance. You can enjoy your life. You can't live in church. I'm telling you right now, you cannot live at church. You got to leave here. You got to go home. So you might as well be balanced and enjoy life.

That's what me and my wife do.

We enjoy life.

Amen.

It makes us effective in what we do. Because we spend time outside of our everyday. You got to have that well-balanced mind. You got intelligence to create and innovate and do things on a huge scale. Stop being afraid. Satan's assignment is canceled. Y'all stand. I'm done. Lays off the man of God, please. Do me a favor tonight, grab one person And let's do this quickly, and we're going to get ready to get out of here. Grab one person by both hands. One person by both hands. Two by two. Two by two. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. One person by both hands. I want you to look them in the face and say to them, say, the devil's assignment in your life has been canceled. Say, tonight I'm getting ready to pray for you, that you will overcome his deception, his distractions, His defamation, his depression. Tell them you're more than a conqueror, and tell them you're getting ready to win on a very high level. I want you to squeeze the hands you're holding. Come on, squeeze the hands you're holding.

And I want you to begin to pray right now. The Bible said we to pray one for the other. Come on, Zion! You got a prayer language, begin to pray in the spirit and with understanding tonight. Come on, I want you to pray for that purpose, pray for that destiny. Father, we love you. I thank you for strength. I thank you for breakthrough, God. I thank you for a new day. Father, I thank you, Lord, that the worst is over. I thank you that these are the great greatest days of our life. And so, Father, tonight as we're praying, we're praying one for the other. And God, we decree and declare that Satan's assignment against our purpose, against our destiny—