Seeing YOURSELF, THE WAY GOD SEES YOU! | DR. MIKE WOODS | 12 OCTOBER 2025

He's looking for the one that can worship in truth, that know the hand of God is on their life, to know that God has caused them to survive, to know that God has opened doors and made ways.

Ah, that's hungry for more of him.

I wish I had just 3 hungry people. The Bible say you got 2 or 3 in agreement, he'll be in the midst. All I need is 3. Reverend. Jesus, we lift up, worship God, we lift up your name.

Koramandiasaya.

Kemaso.

Return the answer. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Holy is the Lord, holy is the Lord. Holy is the Lord! Holy is the Lord! You will send your spirit. Let the fire fall and let the wind blow. We declare in this room there are no limits in the realm of the spirit when we worship. God, take the limits off, take the limits off, take the limits off. Move every physical limitation. Fatigue, of physical illness, pain in the body. Move every limitation that will limit our worship. God, take the limits off. Remove every burden.

Remove every desire. Ah, God, that's not like you. Move every sinful habit. Take the limits off.

More God, come on, I wish you cry more. Come on, cry more and cry it like you mean it. We cry out more, more, more, more, more, more, more. Let give us more, God. Give us more God! Give us more! Give us more! Our soul longs for more!

More! More! More!

We cry out for more! We cry out for more. Saturate us.

Take the cap off, God.

Remove the lid. Remove the lid and fill us up again. Remove the lid. Remove the lid.

Some of y'all stuck in religion. Remove the lid. You're stuck in an old pattern. You're stuck in an old way, and God says remove the lid so I can pour my spirit into you.

Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Lord God.

Take the lid off. Sometimes we're on our own way. We can't receive the more that he wants to release because we're our own worst enemy. I heard the Holy Ghost say, get out of your own way. Let's talk about—

get out of your own way.

I want to feel you again.

I want to revive you again.

I want to strengthen you again. I want to renew your mind.

Get out of your own way.

Yes, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

We cry out for more. We cry out for more. We cry out for more. We say more, more, more, more, more. More God, more God. Cry out for more. More, more, more, more. More, God.

Oh, Ashoka. More, more, more. Give us more of you.

Shh. More, more, more. Give us more of you. We need more, more, more, more of you. Give us more, more, more, more of you. We want more, more, more. Give us more of you. Give us more, more, more, more. Of you. Take the limits off. Take the limits off. Take the limits off until we have more of you. Take the limits off, Lord. Take the limits off, Lord. Take the limits off until we have more of you. More, more, more, more of you.

More, more, more.

We want more of you. So give me you. Everything else can wait. Give me you. I hope I'm not too late.

Lord, give me you. Lord, give me you. Lord, give me you.

Lord, give me you.

So give me you.

Everything else can wait. Give me you. I hope I'm not too late.

Lord, give me you. Lord, give me you. Lord, give me you.

Lord, give me you.

More, more, more. Give me more of you.

Give me more, more, more.

I want more of you.

I just worship him.

Just worship.

Just worship. The Lord is in his holy temple. The presence of Jesus is here to heal. The presence is here to deliver. He's here to make us better.

Thank you, Lord.

We bless you for more. So take the limits off. Take the limits off, Lord. Take the limits off so we'll receive more of you. I'm telling you to remove every limitation that hinders you from receiving him more and let him be God of your life.

Hallelujah!

Let him rule and reign in your thought life. God, we love you, we give you praise. Let him rule and reign in your physical body. Give him control so there'll be no limits in your life. Hallelujah! We bless him. We honor his name.

We honor his name.

Father, bless us as we open your word. Speak to us, God. Do something unusual. Do something man cannot do. Saturate the walls of this place. Let your Shekinah glory be revealed. Bless us so, God, that the weak would leave saying I'm strong, that the poor would leave saying I'm rich, that the discouraged will leave encouraged, that doubters will leave filled with faith.

That those that don't believe will believe that you are Lord. Father, you said whatever we loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. So we loose your power in this place. We loose your love in this place. We loose a sound mind in this place. We loose healing and deliverance in this place. We loose breakthrough and miracles in this place. We loose prosperity in this place. We loose wealth and riches in this place. We loose increase and growth in this place. Oh God, in the mighty name of Jesus. And we declare it to be so.

And we thank you for the light and the illumination and the intelligence of the Holy Spirit. Now, Lord, let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight. God, lift every burden and destroy every yoke because of your anointing.

And we bless you now.

Yes, Lord.

In Jesus' name.

In Jesus' name.

If you believe that the Lord is here, I want you to clap your hands and give God praise and glory. Come on, clap your hands and tell God thank you. Come on, clap your hands, open your mouth and say thank you, Lord. Come on, clap your hands and say thank you, Lord. Come on, do it. Clap, clap, clap. Come on, clap your hands and open your mouth. The Bible said clap your hands, oh ye people, and shout to the Lord with a voice of triumph. If you have victory this morning, clap your hands and open your mouth like you're triumphant and like you'll never be defeated. Come on, open your mouth.

Oh God, we'll never be defeated. We'll never be defeated. We'll never be defeated. Come hell or high water, we'll never be defeated. The enemy can send attacks but we will never be defeated. He can come against our mind, come against our family, try to divide us, but we declare we will never be defeated. I wish I had half a church to open your mouth and declare we got victory in Jesus' name.

Is we trying to find it ourselves. Come on, clap those hands a few little bit longer. I heard there's something in your clap this morning.

There's a prophetic sound coming out of your hands. There's a sound coming from your hands that's scattering your enemy. Doing now is scattering the assignment of hell. We bind up every warlock, we bind up every witch. Y'all think that when, when Sharia or anybody's up here praying and they start binding up witches and witchcraft, don't you get it twisted. There have been witches assigned to stop this work. There have been warlocks assigned to stop this work, but the devil is a liar. No weapon formed against us will prosper. Yeah, we plead the blood and we scatter you. We release warring angels angels to go against you. And the word of God says that God suffers not a witch to live. We command every witch to die. We sentence you to death in the name of Jesus. We scatter the enemy that comes against your finance, that comes against your health, that came against your mind, that's coming against your children. We scatter the enemy, we scatter the enemy, we scatter the enemy. Wow! We scatter the enemy! Satan, the blood is against you.

The blood is against you. It reaches to the highest mountain.

It flows to the lowest valley. The blood that gives me strength from day to day, it will never lose its power. Shabat Yisrael.

We bless you, God.

Thank you for your blood, Lord. Thank you that we are triumphant. Thank you that we have the victory. We bless your name, God. We come against every stronghold of principality that's in this region. Because while you were clapping too, not only were you scattering the enemy and taking down strongholds and weapons of, of the dark world, but I heard God say you were releasing angels, hallelujah, to loose what your clapping was pulling together.

While you were clapping, you were pulling things together. You were hooking stuff up in the realm of the spirit. You were pulling up— oh my God, your money is coming together, your children's coming together. What— there was a prophetic sound coming out of your hands that was pulling your career together, pulling your business together, pulling your life together. Oh I dare somebody— I dare you clap your hands and pull it together! Pull it together!

Pull it! Jesus!

We give you the glory, God.

We give you the glory. It's coming together. It's coming together. It's coming together. Don't, don't, don't, don't look at what it looks like. I'm telling you, the spirit is coming together. Don't, don't look at how you feel. It's coming together. Ketanamadia.

Don't look at what they talked about it, what they said about you, and what they did to you. It's coming together. Don't look at your bank account balance. It's coming together. You've been focused on the wrong thing. Pull that thing together in the realm of the spirit. The devil can't have your stuff. Devil, I command you to get Give me my money and I want it now. Give me my money and I want it now. Give me my health and I want it now. Give me my billions and I want it now.

We bless your name.

We bless your name.

Hallelujah, God! It's coming together.

It's coming together.

It's coming together. Receive it in the name of Jesus.

It's coming together.

God bless you.

We honor your name.

Thank you, Jesus.

We honor your name.

Turn it around, Lord God.

Hallelujah.

Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. So we say, thank you, Jesus.

Give us more. Give us more of you. What a mighty God he is. What a great God he is. Ain't nobody God but God.

Hallelujah.

And the old mother said, can't nobody do you like Jesus.

He's my friend.

Glory to God. Hallelujah. That's a good thing to have friendship with God. Hallelujah. He loves us. You got to believe he love us. Glory to God.

Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus.

All right, we going to get in this word this morning. I thought I was through with confidence last week on Thursday, but the Lord has given us more. Glory to God. So we go— this is part 7.

Actually, glory to God. So this morning I'm drunk off. I got to stop drinking so I can preach.

And I'm not drunk as you suppose, cuz somebody take that one little clip right there Said the preacher say he got to stop drinking. No, not with that kind of wine. But this morning, y'all, I want to— I'm going to be as extemporaneous as I possibly can.

Yes, thank you, Jesus. We honor you, we honor you, we honor you, Lord.

We love you, we sing unto you, we bless you. And it's amazing how when we sing unto the Lord, if we tap into him, the role will reverse, and he'll start singing over us.

Hallelujah!

And I'm telling you, he's singing over us this morning. And then Shannon was laughing in the spirit, the joy of the Lord. Your joy is increasing. He's putting laughter back in your soul. Glory to God. When you can laugh in the face of adversity and you can have joy when things just don't seem like they're coming together.

Glory to God. Go to 2 Corinthians.

I'm trying, y'all, I'm trying.

Lord, might not get through this. We love you, Jesus.

Come, let us sing. Let us rejoice. Come let us sing. Let us rejoice. Come let us sing. Let us rejoice. He put laughter into my soul. Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha. Hahaha. Hahaha. Hahaha. Hahaha. He put laughter into my soul.

Hallelujah.

Come, let us sing. Let us rejoice. Come let us sing! Let us rejoice! Come let us sing! Let us rejoice! He put laughter into my soul— come on, laugh! Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha! Hahaha. Hahaha. Hahaha. Hahaha. He put laughter into my soul. Thank you, Lord.

Hallelujah.

Glory to God. We give you praise, Jesus. We honor your great name. Oh, my santo. We glorify you, God. You're so good. You're so wonderful. You're so mighty. Glory to God.

2 Corinthians.

I'm going to try. I'm going to try. I'm going to try.

We going to run, run.

Glory to God.

7 Corinthians 3:18.

Y'all got it?

The Bible says, but we all—

say we all.

We all.

With unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory, just as by the Spirit of the Lord. This is interesting because you really can't see glory until you take off the veil.

Amen.

And when you take off the veil and you see the glory of the Lord, he says like you're looking in the mirror, which means you are an expression of his glory.

Yeah.

So you look at yourself You should see God.

Are y'all hearing this?

This morning, the 7th installment of this confidence message, we're going to talk about seeing yourself the way God sees you. You got to see yourself through the lens of God. Yeah, so many times our self-esteem is low. We limit ourselves because we see ourselves through the lens of other people. We define ourselves by what other people have said we are. And then we don't do that, we spend a lot of time defining ourselves by who we think we are. But when you look at yourself, you should really see the glory of God. You should see God when you look at you. Someone said, wait, but the Bible says you are made in his image. Come in Genesis. Let us make man in our image and our likeness. So when God made us, everything else he made—

watch this, guys—

he spoke to the thing that had the potential to produce it, and he gave it to him. He wanted birds, he spoke to the firmament of the sky. Yeah, I said give me birds. And watch this, now the environment that birds live in is the sky. Yeah, so they came out their ideal environment. He wanted fish, he told the waters to bring forth fish. Fish— watch this— have been in water so long they don't even know they're in water. You know you're in water when you get in it because it's not your natural habitat.

Y'all hear me?

A fish has no idea that water is water. That's just where they live. Y'all ain't got to talk to me. I'm going somewhere with this. Glory to God. So he wanted plants and herbs out of the ground. He spoke to the ground, gave an herb-bearing seed. And watch this, whenever any of those things die, they go back to where they came.

Are y'all hearing this?

But when he got ready to make us, he spoke to him and said, let us make man.

Yeah, that's good, right?

Amen.

So you, you just like the fish, your life should really be in God's soul. That there are no other alternatives to life except God, then it becomes so natural to pray, it becomes so natural to fast. Watch this, holiness is not a legalistic rule. You're so in God, you have no choice but to be Godly.

Are y'all hearing this?

Guess what happens? You take the fish out of water, he's going to die. If he comes out of water, he going to flap, flap, flap till it's over, cuz that water is his life.

Yes.

When you get baptized in God, God should become your life.

Yes, yes, yes, sir.

And when this happens, you can see yourself the way he sees you.

Yes, man.

Cuz can I submit to you, when God looks at you He wants to see him. He don't want to see you, he wants to see him. Glory to God. He said, watch this, we are being transformed, see, clause, into the same image from glory to glory. So wait a minute, this is a process now, but if you don't work on this process, you'll never get there. You should go from glory to glory, from doxa to doxa, which means there's a measure on all of us to grow in glory. Say that with me. Say, there's a measure on me to grow in glory. So there are different dimensions of glory you can grow into. Doxa means the express manifestation of God. It's the splendor, it's the wealth, it's the resources, it's the power of God.

Amen.

Watch this, there are people that'll tell you I've been in the glory. Yeah, but really, if you in the glory Something's going to happen.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Something different is going to occur. Yeah, you're not going to be the same after encountering glory. Say it again. Say, I got a grace, I got a grace, and a measure, and a measure to grow in glory.

Glory.

Say, I'm being transformed. Into the image of God. So when I look in the mirror, all I see is him. Watch this, he says, by the Spirit of the Lord, which means you can't control this. You got to spend time with the Spirit of God with Holy Ghost so he can grow you in glory.

Yeah.

All right, so here's the point. You got to get a mental picture of yourself that looks just like what God sees.

Y'all remember in the old days, people carry wallets, or, or, you know, a man wallet or a woman wallet, but they had a section in there, they had pictures. You know, we ain't got that no more. I met a guy about 3 weeks ago, he had one. He said, hey, let me show you my burner.

I'm like, dude, I need you to get a phone. We got to go through all this, you trying to find a picture.

No, bro, get you a phone.

And yeah, okay, anyway, he was older and that's just the way he did things.

Things.

Okay, but listen, you had— those were images of people. But you watch this, you need a wallowing in the spirit that has a self-image of you.

Hallelujah.

Then when something comes to challenge that self-image, are y'all here? You revert back to that picture. I said, this is who I am, no matter what you're saying to me right now, devil. No matter if it's just something that's coming to you that— and nobody's around— if it's coming from an actual person, you always revert back to the image of God that you have of yourself. And that's what we're gonna work on this morning, so we can shift the lens we're looking Amen.

I'm telling you, that will birth confidence if you learn to see yourself in Christ.

Are y'all here?

Yeah.

When you got a positive self-image— watch this— whether it's good, whether it's in the flesh, hear me, or in the spirit, there are people that don't know God but feel good about their themselves. Watch this. And most of those people are ahead in the race of life because they confident in themselves.

Are y'all hearing me?

What more you could you do if you saw yourself through the lens of God?

How could we get out front in life and in the world if we look through God's lens, saw ourselves the way he sees us?

Are y'all here?

Yeah, let's go. So let's jump in this.

Go to Psalm 27. I'm going to help you, cuz when you know who you are in God, first thing it's going to do, it's going to eliminate boasting.

Amen.

People that boast, ain't no way they saw theyself through the eyes of Because when you see yourself through the eyes of God, first of all, he makes it clear you could do nothing without him, right? So it eliminates boasting.

Yeah.

So if somebody's a boaster, you already know, okay, they're in the flesh.

Are y'all hearing this?

Psalm 27:10, uh, the psalmist said, though my father and mother forsake me, The Lord will lift me up. Or another word for lift me up is the Lord will adopt me.

Are y'all hearing this?

So first of all, this is a good self-image builder to see how God sees you. I've never heard of an unwanted adoption. You hear this? If you adopt— I've heard some unwanted pregnancies. All right, glory to God. But an unwanted adoption— God chooses you.

Are y'all hearing this?

Yeah, on purpose. Guess what? He chose you knowing everything about you. There's nothing about you that surprises God. He knew you because he made you. Yeah, he just wants to get the glory out of your personality. This ought to be helping your confidence already. Yes, sir, because you are adopted for real. Do you know what children go through who are looking to be adopted? Yeah, if they're in a home or something and they're looking for permanent placement, that's a struggle. To be without parents. They go through all kind of traumas, and then to see— watch this— somebody else getting picked and they don't.

Yeah.

Are y'all hearing this? I'm here to tell you, you are chosen by God on purpose.

Amen.

Go to Ephesians 1:4.

Let's look in further. Let's go.

Stay with me. Hallelujah.

1 and 4.

The Bible said, just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy without blame in love. Watch this. So you were chosen before you were born. So I was chosen before I was born.

I was chosen before I was born.

Say, I'm elected, selected, and projected.

I'm elected, selected, and projected.

Yeah, you are. Before the foundation, before the world was made, he chose you. Which means, watch this, you were part of his plan for the world. He said, I got to choose the people that's going to run the world first.

Yeah.

I got to put purpose in them. I got to put destiny in them. I got to put my authority in them so that they can take dominion and control in the earth.

Are y'all here?

Yeah, it feels good to be chosen, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Now, growing up, I used to play a lot of sports.

So in the neighborhood, I'll play basketball in the neighborhood. We would play basketball behind my daddy's house, behind other people's house.

But I was always good, so I usually was picking the team.

But because I had a lot of compassion, I would always pick the person I knew wasn't gonna get picked.

Y'all gotta hear it. I would pick the person because they were sorry. I'm like, you know, I'll pick this person because I feel like my skills It's gonna make up for what they don't do. Now we're gonna limit ball distribution to them anyway, so at the end of the day we're gonna pick them. But, but the person felt good that they got chosen. Yeah, because any other time they'd be waiting around, somebody pick the last person, then they just sad because they never get picked. But just think about this, you never was left out.

Amen.

You are elected by God to be saved. First of all, there are some people that weren't chosen to get saved. Watch this. If that's not the case, there's no need for hell, right? Hell was created for those that will reject God. He already knew there would be some people that weren't gonna get saved anyway, so he didn't choose Are y'all hearing me? Okay, all right. Say, I'm chosen. I'm chosen. Say, I got to see myself the way God sees me. All right, go, go to Galatians 4. Glory to God.

And then we gonna get into this. I'm just laying a backdrop for where we about to go. We'll start in verse 4.

Y'all there?

All right.

The Bible said, but when the fullness of time had come, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law, to redeem those who are under the law.

Watch this.

So redeem means to buy back.

Hallelujah.

Because guess what? You were chosen, and then you were born in sin, shaped in iniquity, so he had to buy you back. So when Jesus got on the cross, he bought you back.

Oh boy, thank God we've been redeemed, right? Let me say it like this to help somebody understand. There's a season in my life I was so broke I couldn't spell all the letters. I didn't have all the letters to spell broke. I was broke, broken in the Ten Commandments. I'm broke, and I was going through a horrible season, but I had stuff, right?

So I would take things of value to the pawn shop, but when you give it to them, they give you a ticket called a redemption ticket.

Yes, they do.

Now they're gonna never give you what your stuff worth, and then they're gonna charge you a million dollars worth of interest. 'Cause they really banking you don't come back.

That's right.

The pawn shop business is built on people not picking their stuff up.

Oh, right.

Absolutely. So you— so let's say you pawn a TV that you paid $1,000 for. They say, oh, we'll give you $200 for it, but you going to pay $600 to get it back.

Are y'all here?

Yeah. But I was always happy when I got that money to go get my TV, not thinking I'm getting robbed. I might as well just sell the TV and do something else and wait till I can get another one. But when you're under pressure, you be thinking backwards. Maybe this is me, right? But in the day, that redemption ticket says that that television belongs to you. And if you got that ticket, bring the money, they're gonna give that TV back to you. They're only giving you back what's yours, right? Jesus' blood redeemed you back to him. He took his property back from the devil. Amen. So all the time you were living in sin, you were just in pawn. Are y'all hearing this? Under the devil's control. And guess what he's hoping? You decide you don't want to get bought back and get saved. He's hoping you never repent so he can keep hell in business.

Are y'all here?

Okay, so let's keep reading. The Bible says—

glory to God, my Bible just switched on me—

okay, under the law, he said, that we might receive the adoption of sons. Say it again. Say, I'm adopted. Watch this. Say, I'm a son of God. Now this takes on a whole nother meaning. The word son is sperma in Greek. It's one of your words like sperm. Now watch this. It means to set life in motion. You are the life force of God in the earth. You are a prophetic, spermatic indication that God is real. There's an embryo that your life as a son should connect to. Once it connects to that embryo, it fertilizes that embryo, and that embryo begins to give birth to something. See, there's an embryo waiting for you to be planted so that your purpose can come forth. This is why you have to be careful where you plant your life, cuz you are a prophetic seed. Are y'all here? You got to be careful of where you sow, because that becomes wasted seed.

Okay, let me just give you a simple term for it.

It's spiritual masturbation.

Come on, sir.

Which is wasted seed. Y'all ain't got to talk to me.

Come on, sir.

Now I'm just trying to show you, when you sow in the wrong places all the time, you put your gift in the hands of the wrong people. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. When you get in the wrong relationships and you're spermatically sowing your life and time into somebody that's not the right embryo.

Come on, preach to me, son.

And a lot of times you give birth to bastard things, things that were not born out of covenant. I'm telling you, there's an embryo for your life. You got— which means you got it. I've been saying this for 6 weeks, you got to be in the right place. Where you are is just as important as who you are. So you can't put your life anywhere. Say, I'm a seed, I'm a son. Sons produce for the kingdom. Sons multiply. They are fruitful multipliers. They replenish the earth. They subdue the earth.

They have dominion.

Say yes, I'm a son. Some ladies can't say it, but yeah, this is not a gender word. All of us are sons of God.

Somebody said, "No, I'm a daughter." He was under your breath, "Sundar." Really?

No, you're a son. You're sperm. You are a prophetic expression of the life of God in the earth. That's why you can't start the wrong business, because you're gonna give birth to something that won't last, or that you'll end up aborting. Can't marry the wrong person, it ends up in divorce. Are y'all here? Okay, I'm gonna keep moving. I ain't got time, I gotta go. All right, so let me keep reading. He says, and because you are sons, verse 6, God has sent forth his Son into your heart Crying out, Abba, Father.

I love it.

Abba means our Father, our progenitor, our provider, our waymaker, our power source. When you say our Abba, you're saying, God, I lack nothing because you're here.

Yes, God.

Jesus.

This, this what I'm saying. As a church, we got to get to a point we understand that our lack has been eradicated because the Father is in our life.

Yes.

Oh God.

All right.

You ain't got to fear what's happening in the economy. You ain't got to fear recession. You just need to cry, Abba Father.

Hallelujah.

Oh my God, he's going to take care of his children. I'm inclined to believe that most of the people who live in the realm of lack, whether it's financial, whether it's spiritual, whether it's emotional, they have not took the time to ask the Father to supply what they need.

Amen.

Because he will supply. Watch this, he's always 100% in when it comes to you and I. He wants to bless you.

Are y'all hearing this?

He wants to heal you.

He wants to deliver you.

The question is, are you all the way in? Because that's where the discrepancy comes. When something's not working or clicking the way it needs to click, you need to check you.

Yes, ma'am.

Because the Father says, I got you. Well, now, these conditions I need you to meet.

You need to be a child of God.

You need to be a son. Act like you in my family.

Are y'all hearing this?

If you're still following the flesh, okay, and following the definition of what people say you are, Taking the mindset of the systems of the world, saying because you're Black, because you're a woman, you won't be able to do certain things. The devil is a liar. Your Father owns the world. The earth is the Lord's. Oh God, somebody read their Bible.

I'm telling you the truth.

He owns everything. A cattle on a thousand hills belong to him.

Yes, sir. He didn't—

he don't need them cattle. Those cattle for us.

Y'all hear this?

What God going to do with some cattle? They're for his children.

Say, I got to see myself the way God sees you.

I'm going to throw this in, and once I get to where I'm going, I'm going to be done.

Here's the thing that will stop you.

There's an enemy to seeing yourself. It's almost like putting a blindfold on. This is a blindfold in the realm of the spirit where you'll never see yourself the way God sees you if you don't deal with this.

What is it, Apostle?

It's religion and religious thinking.

Religion is man's idea of God's expectations.

Are y'all here?

Religion says, I think God wants me to do this.

I think God likes it this way.

Religious people are very assuming.

Are y'all here?

Yeah, they assume something is the will of God and they keep following patterns trying to get to God, never finding him. Yes, right, because religion doesn't empower you toward God. Religion is more about empowering what we think God should do or how God should react to a thing. Religion asks a question, what does God expect? And then decides on their own what they think he expects.

But guess what? God expects everything.

He wants everything. Religious people are still looking for God. They found him. They go to church every Sunday, they go through the motions, do the—

have the sound, do the stuff, but never really engage in real relationship. Because I'm telling you, real for real, y'all, he talks.

Religion tries to change things to fit what they want to do.

Reality is God changes not.

Amen.

He's the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. He's waiting on you to pursue him.

Yes.

So he can relate to you. Oh yeah. Religion says I gotta give God so much in order to get something from him. But the reality is, God says, all I want is your heart. If I get your heart, the rest will follow, because out of the abundance of the heart flow the issues of life.

Are y'all with me?

So everything God created— watch this— he created it for his purpose. He created out of nothing.

Yeah, there doesn't need to be these set of rules to make God be God. God is God by himself. Yeah. All right, let's get in this. Go to Ephesians 2:10.

I guess this is the day where folk coming in and going out. Glory to God, glory to Jesus. Thank the Lord for those of you that are here. I know people have to go, praise God, and do what they got to do. But I, I think I said last week, and I meant it, that, because God spoke to me to put every person to hear what I was saying this month. You don't want to miss any of these services because something unique is happening in these services. This word is being taught, the glory that's going to be sent on us. You need it. You just— people just have to learn how to prioritize the house of God. Just like you prioritize everything else.

You can't live without the word.

Amen.

You can't live without worship. You could try, but you can't live very effectively. Okay, so, you know, we have to be committed to dismissing excuses and saying, I ain't gonna let nothing stop me from getting what I need from the Lord. Amen. That was just a break for our station identification.

We're going to keep going.

Glory to God.

So Ephesians 2:10.

We'll get out of here. I just sound long, I promise you. I'm almost done for real.

The Bible said, for we are his workmanship. Yeah, again, I'm trying to show you how to see God through his eyes.

Yeah, to see yourself the way he sees you.

So this, this text says we are his workmanship, poema in Greek. It says created in Christ Jesus for good works. The word good here is profitable works. So your life should be profitable. You should be living in profit mode. You should— we should be seeing the fruit of our labor coming forth. Poema means I am his— watch this— masterpiece. God took time to poetically craft me. There's another word called architecton in Greek, which means that God built us by design, and he created boundaries. Watch this. Between your enemy— glory to God— and yourself, so that nothing that comes against you can stop you because of who you are. You ever wonder why some of the stuff that should have took you out, some of the stuff that should have made you crazy, couldn't? Some of the stuff that was meant to take you down, but you're still alive, you didn't lose your mind, you You didn't go crazy. You're not locked up in a cell. God kept you because even though you did it, he had a boundary up that couldn't stop his purpose.

You're his workmanship.

You still got your right frame of mind because he was protecting you.

Yes.

Kirk Carr wrote it like this.

He said, God blocked it.

He wouldn't let it be so. I need you to understand something. There's stuff that was meant to take you out, to take you down, to destroy you, but the reason you're still standing is because God blocked it. He wouldn't let it be so. Say, I'm his workmanship. Say, I'm his masterpiece. So you are not a mistake. You are not mass-produced. Good God Almighty. So God wasn't just rolling out humans on a conveyor belt and an assembly line in heaven, saying, we just got to get as many of these humans out as we can. You know what I mean? Just got babies rolling on there. That's not what that— that's not what it was like. God fearfully and wonderfully made you. Are y'all hearing this? He took the time— I told y'all last week— to spend time with you and create you and craft you with destiny and purpose. Yeah, say it with me. Say, I'm not mass-produced. I'm not a mistake. I don't care what your mama said. You ain't a mistake. You're supposed to be here. Okay, I gotta go, I gotta go. Listen, so because you're God's masterpiece, you're designed with precision.

God has an accuracy that your life has to bring forth.

You're designed with purpose. You're designed with power. So here's what I need you to do. You need to accept that, embrace that, walk in that. Say that was— I got purpose. I am precise, which means I'm accurate. So I won't miss it to the left nor to the right. I'm accurate, I'm precise.

Say, and I have power.

With God. So I accept it, I embrace it, and I will walk in it.

You got to choose that.

This is how God sees you.

Listen, Michelangelo, and I quote, said this. He said, in every block of marble, I see a statue. He said, I have only to hew away the rough walls that imprison the lovely apparition, end quote. Watch this.

Just as Michael Angelo saw a big block of stone as a masterpiece, because when he starts making a statue, it's just a big block of stone, but he looks at that big block of stone and sees a David. Oh my God, it sees these great masterpieces that he has made. Watch this, because God declares the end from the beginning. All right, when God has a vision for the life, he declares the end. This is the end. He declares an end from the beginning, and you have to be able to see the end.

Yeah.

And get to what he's planned. You got to see the finished work.

Yeah.

You got to see God's optimal reality for your future.

Yeah.

That's the end. That's what he wants to manifest in your life. And watch this, what he does is when he shows you the end, when you get vision, when you understand who you are and you get a vision of how he sees you and how he sees your life, he tells you now back up and start with nothing.

Are y'all hearing this?

He showed me the end of where Ronald Church is going. He said, okay, this is what I'm going to do. In this region called Georgia. This is the end. I'm going to cause this church to birth out 7 other churches from it. I'mma cause this church to become 5,000 people strong. I'mma cause this church to buy property and build schools. I'mma cause this church to build a building for the homeless, and I'mma cause this church to end homelessness in Georgia. He said this This is the end. But then he says, back up and start at 1410 Santa Fe Trail with 5.

Yes, God.

Start in a little small 2,300-square-foot building with 5. Yes. And now walk through the end, through all the ups and downs, through people coming, people going, through people glory to them that not understanding, through people not having a revelation, through people rejecting, through warfare and witches. Just keep walking through, keep fighting the demons, confident knowing that this is where you're going. Because guess what happens? This process right here is what qualifies you to keep this when you get it. See, if you jump over the process from here and you get to your end, you will not be able to keep this. I want y'all to listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, listen, please, because you will miss God trying to avoid the process, right? I need y'all to get this. So many people die right here. They die right here. Maybe they see it, they want it, and they jump over it, and then they get here and lose everything because they're not qualified to keep it.

But you got to endure the process.

You gotta decide, yes, this is who God— I'm gonna be confident in the trials, I'm gonna be confident in what I go through, that God ain't changed his mind. That's why it's important at the beginning to know who you are, to have a clear revelation that though you might be a lump of stone and not fully developed I'm going somewhere.

It's tough right now, but I'm going somewhere.

You got to be able to say, this is hard, I don't want to be in this space, but I'm going to keep going because I'm on my way somewhere because God showed me.

It's got to be your attitude. Are y'all here? You got to see yourself successful. See yourself manifesting that masterpiece that's in your belly.

But if you get stuck on the dumb stuff, man, and you, you start freaking out over the crisis— don't curse your crisis. You got to decide that Jesus is a sculptor. And he's sculpting you into who he wants you to be. Say that one. Say, Jesus is a sculptor. He sculpted me into what he wants me to be. Romans 8:29 says, well, oh my God, let me just go there.

Let me just go there. I'm gonna go there because I want to read the whole verse. I got half the verse in my notes. Let me just go there. Glory to God.

Y'all getting something out of this?

Yes, sir.

I pray you are.

Romans 8:29.

Yeah, it says, for whom he foreknew. So we back, we back there again. He knew you before, right? The word there is progenosko, which means He had intimacy with you.

Not again, not sex.

He spent time with you and put gnosko, knowledge, in you. He equipped you for the journey. Before you got in your mama's belly, he predestined you. Predestination.

Pre is before, destination is the end. I just gave you an example what that looks like.

So he already has a destiny that you gotta fulfill. Say that with me. Say, God already has a destiny that must be fulfilled. He said you are predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many, many brethren. So again, your destiny is connected to you coming into that image of God so that people can see God's image through your life, your purpose, your power.

Are y'all here?

Yeah.

So inside of your pain, inside of your past, inside of all—

see, watch this. You can't let people hold where you've been against you. Listen, I'm so slow to welcome people from my past into my life.

Y'all, I gotta talk because I need to pray real hard because I want to know why— what you showing up now for? When I really needed you, where was you? You walked off when I was going through.

Right?

Are y'all hearing this? So why are you showing up now? Because most of the time, not all the time, but most of the time Folks that exited your life wrong, if they come back, right, because they exited wrong, they're going to try to enter wrong as well. Yeah, not that you don't love them. I love you, but you stay over there, right? And I'm gonna stay over here. So that I can stay saved. Are y'all hearing this? That part, because I ain't forgot how to fight. Because you get out of line, I mean, listen, because some stuff you just— the Bible said mark them that sow discord, that cause division. So at the end of the day, if you coming wrong and you ain't repenting and you know you were wrong when you left Watch this. You show up knowing you was a part of the problem in the past. I'm watching you the whole time. I might even let you hang around a while, but I'm gonna watch you. And the moment your heart starts turning in that wrong motive Watch this, because God has boundaries and he's not going to let nothing destroy you. He'll either fix it or he'll move it. What do you know? You might think it's good for you. Watch this, but everything that could be good to you is not good for you. Y'all ain't got to say nothing. There's a 50-year-old man that that can be good to a 21-year-old woman, but it doesn't mean he's good for her.

Are y'all hearing this?

So everything that looks like it'd be good to you, and most of the time stuff in your past, leave it there. Paul said, forgetting those things which are behind, because watch this, they take your eye off your new identity. Because you start focusing so much on what you was when they was around. Yeah, are y'all hearing this? Granted, some people have the grace to be in your presence from your past because they come back right, they reconcile correctly. But those that got motives, I'm telling you, they ain't gonna apologize, they're just gonna show up. Yeah, and you need to start asking questions. So you here for? I'm going to help you. Why you calling my phone? Are y'all hearing this? I mean, when you, when you got ex-lovers, ex-wives, ex-husbands— that may not be for somebody here, but that word ex means they exited.

They are ex for a reason.

Absolutely. You could co-parent with somebody and still not have close interaction with that person.

Yeah, come on now.

Listen, I do it with my children. I— listen, that— when my children get of age, I don't even talk to their mama.

For what?

I mean, real, what we got to talk about? And I heard some brother say, man, you got to have a relationship with their mother. No, no, I don't. They grown. That part is over. Why do I need a relationship with their mom? I don't need to mess with none of the doors that were open in the past. And if the truth be told, I really don't want a relationship with them anyway. Because at the end of the day, I, I've been there.

Yeah.

And when I don't see signs of obvious change in your life, you still the same person. Well, I've been signed this check again. No, I'm done. I don't have time. If you listen, so all I'm saying is know who can go and know who has to go.

Are y'all hearing me?

Cuz everybody can't tie into the masterpiece you have become, cuz they'll pull you down. God have mercy. They'll pull you down before they build you up. If you're an eagle, you can't run with chickens. Eagles have to condescend to hang with chickens cuz chickens can't fly that high. Be a masterpiece.

Be around people that know your value.

So here's what you look like in the lens of God. First of all, as a masterpiece, here's a mark. This is what you look like. First of all, number one, write it down: you are rare. Say I'm rare. That's the mark of exclusivity. You're exclusive, you're unique, you're vintage. Say I'm exclusive. Psalm 139:14 says, I will praise you, David here. He says, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Again, because God took the time— watch this— fearfully means he reverenced what he was making. Because God can't be anywhere and not be worshiped. So when he was making you, he saw himself. So he began to worship what he was making because he saw himself in you, because worship is always in honor. He wasn't afraid of you, he reverenced the purpose. He didn't worship you per se, he worshiped himself in you.

Oh my God.

And he made you as if he were creating himself. Watch this, then he said, I wonderfully made you, you're rare.

Watch this. God has made you a wonder.

You got to walk in it. Say, I'm a wonder.

Glory to God. Church I grew up in, they sing a song, he's a wonder in my soul.

My soul loves Jesus because he's a wonder in my soul. I'm telling God to make you a wonder. Wonder means that he'll cause others to be in awe of who you are.

He—

watch this— he'll make people wonder why you still alive. I had somebody inbox me and said, man, I thought you were dead.

I said, see, Lord, and God said, I told you I'll make you a wonder.

But wonder why you still living? They'll wonder why the sickness didn't kill you. They'll wonder why the trial didn't take you out.

They'll wonder why you still got your right frame of mind.

They'll wonder why you're so blessed.

How you get that house? How, how did you get that car? He'll make a wonder. How did they come out of that?

Say, I'm a wonder. Listen, and you ain't got to be a 4-day wonder. It's a process. See, some people make themselves a wonder, but God has already made you wonderful. He's already made you amazing because he's in you, and people will be in awe of how God uses your life I got to get out of here. Say, I'm a wonder. Say, I'm divinely distinguished. Good God Almighty, say, there's no one like me. Come on, say it again. Say, I'm divinely distinguished. Say it, there's no one like me nowhere. Well, give God praise if you believe that. Y'all ain't got too much enthusiasm.

Glory to God.

But you got to know you're unique You're authentic. That's not like, you know, where you're wonder— let that wonder flow and don't be ashamed because that's how God sees you. Yeah, so you got to see yourself the way God sees you. So the first thing, he sees you as rare.

You're unique.

There's no thumbprint, no fingerprint, no voiceprint, no purpose print like you.

You're unique.

You're one of a kind.

You're not a replica. So you ain't got to be nobody else. Oh boy, oh boy, you ain't got to be nobody else. Guess what? Because you're original. You are authentic, 100% authentic. Ain't no fake stuff. Glory to God. You know, there's a difference in synthetic hair and authentic hair.

Y'all hearing this?

Glory to God.

Am I right, Vicki? There's some people that can come in and get a weave.

You have choices, right?

Right. I mean, you buying the hair, you might as well buy the right hair. You can get a synthetic wig or authentic wig. That's a big difference. You don't— you're gonna probably have to buy another wig in about 2 weeks. You buy the synthetic, you get the authentic, it's gonna last you.

Are y'all hearing this?

You could treat that authentic like it's your regular hat.

Are y'all hearing this?

I just want to tell you, don't be synthetic. I was in the, in the store at the beauty supply store getting some stuff for my head. Of course, not no wig, but I just was curious because there was some wigs that was on the low shelf and then there was some up high. I saw people coming in and he was getting the stick to get them down, and I said, sir, just explain to me, I'm curious. What's the difference? Why you got to go all the way up there, get that wig, and you got these down here? He said, oh sir, that's synthetic.

Those are authentic.

I said, okay. I said, now they cost more. He didn't want nobody to put it on their head and walk out of here with it. You're authentic. You're not synthetic. You're not some cheap copy of something else. And there's no limits on your life. Authentic people are confident in the fact that they cannot be stopped. Say, I'm confident. Say, I'm able and acceptable to undertake my assignment from heaven. Number 2, write this down. So number 1, you're rare.

Say I'm rare.

Number 2, you are royal. This is how God sees you. God sees you as royalty.

Did you know when you got born again, you got born into a royal family?

Yeah, you got born into the richest family ever. When you got born again, you got born, you You got born into a family that is richer than the Rockefellers, richer than the Jobs, richer than the Gates.

Are y'all hearing this?

Yeah, listen, all I've seen in my family, for the most part, nobody ever left a will.

Wow.

Most of our family leave bills. All right.

I'm changing that, right? Because at the end of the day, that's, that's not how we should live in the kingdom.

We already got a whole wheel that's been bequeathed to us.

Yes, come on, sir.

Old wheel, new wheel.

Yeah, are y'all here?

Yeah, you're in a great family.

Yeah, you're royal. Let's look at Glory to God.

1 Peter 2:9.

You—

there it is again. You're chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation.

I need you to understand something. A royal— watch this— priesthood. It's important. Anytime you see priest, I want you to think in the Bible intercessor. Priest was an intercessor, basically all he was. A priest would intercede on behalf of the people on the Day of Atonement and atone for their sins. We are royal intercessors who are called to be in the world to intercede on behalf of the earth and bombard heaven for our We're royalty to show them an example that there's another king. Yeah, watch this.

We serve the King of Kings. We serve the Lord of Lords.

So we got to intercede until the kingdom invades Earth. But when the kingdom is not present on Earth, it means the royal priests are not praying. All right, the royal priests have gotten lazy.

Yes, we've gotten liberated by church. Yeah.

And we really don't understand that this is only designed for us to make a difference. This is my life message, y'all, out there.

Yeah.

To operate in dominion out there.

We can do all the stuff we're doing here, but it ain't— doesn't matter if it doesn't culminate with change out there. If we don't begin to introduce the who are elected to royalty, to their royal status. There's a lot of people walking around here today that have royal rights and don't know it.

Yeah, are y'all hearing it?

Yeah, they have rights to the kingdom, but they don't even know it because we haven't prayed them into that revelation. A few months back, we had a Soul Winners Conference, but I think to effectively win souls, there There must be effective intercession.

Come on.

That's why, again, we pray like we pray. That's why we spend time with God, so that we can produce royalty.

Say, I'm called.

I'm called.

To produce royalty.

To produce royalty.

Say, I'm royal.

I'm royal.

Say, I'm rare.

I'm rare.

Anything that's royal is set aside for distinction. Do you think about the royal family?

They are distinct.

Yeah, they ain't saved, but they royal. Y'all hearing this?

Well, and they distinct.

You, you could tell them from other citizens, their house, how they get around, how they dress. Because they're royal.

Now I need us to do better and stop accepting just mediocrity as the norm.

I'm talking about the church as a whole.

There's nothing wrong with you having a nice house. Yeah, there's nothing wrong with you having a good car.

Yeah, are y'all hearing this?

Well, the church— all the poor— you have it. We, we We have created this doctrine that's so erroneous. Yes, that God don't want you to have nothing.

Amen.

That's the devil.

That's a trick of the enemy.

It is.

You ought to be distinct.

Yes, Lord.

Watch this. I told you, you look in the mirror, you see him.

Yes.

Watch this.

You see that in the spirit, but in the natural, what are the— what does the world say? Do you look like a representative of God? Are y'all here? Somebody said, well, possibly it's in my heart. I know it's in your heart, but people that are not spiritual can't see your heart. Well, I see you, but they can't see it. But what they can see is how your God has blessed you.

A lady gave testimony, she said And I was thinking about it when she was test— giving this testimony. She said, I was at the bus stop and I was witnessing the people at the bus stop and everybody was getting saved and the power of God was moving at the bus stop. She's right there with the bus stop people, everybody getting saved, right? Rolls-Royce pulls up by the bus stop. Has his windows down. He's clearly a street pharmacist.

He's clearly that, right?

So the lady says, oh, I need to witness to him. Oh, I need to get him saved. So she says, sir, can I tell you about my God? He told her, yeah, when you driving, when I'm driving, I listen to you.

Wow.

And he drove off.

Now you may say that's arrogant, he going to hell because he didn't listen. Probably so. But here's the fact, right? She couldn't reach him because in his mind, I'm riding like this. And you're gonna catch the bus. That's what he saw in his carnality.

But the bus stop people falling out, revival was happening for them.

Are y'all hearing this? I'm just saying, I'm just trying to show y'all perception. So you got to see yourself. Who do you want to reach?

That's right.

Now, if bus is your thing, because he didn't want to— so why? And I mean, you even talking to the man in the rose, and then they say, yeah, if you want to monitor every week, get— talk to the monitor, have your revival with the monitor. Because that's not wise to try to reach somebody unless God just leads you and their heart is ready. But apparently that brother was like, uh, Cuz here is his, his understanding: perception and image is an act of the eyes. Yeah, see, spirituality manifests through your spirit and through your heart. Vision is a matter of the heart.

So that person don't have vision, they not going to hear what you got to say if they feel like they doing better than you?

Why I need God?

This is the thing that's in there.

This is the society we live in, right? Are y'all hearing this? So we got to know who we are.

Say, I'm royal. I'm royal.

There's nothing wrong with you having two commas in your income. There's nothing wrong with you, if that's what you want, having a 10,000 square foot house. I'm just trying to help you see yourself the way God— you're royal. That's right.

Be where God wants you to be.

Amen.

Amen.

I'm almost done. Somebody said, Pastor, you said that 10 minutes ago.

Say, I'm not common.

Say, I'm consecrated for greatness.

Number 3.

So number 1, you are rare.

Number 2, you're royal. Number 3, You are rich in value.

Thank you.

This is the mark of inestimable worth. You cannot be estimated. Nobody can put a price on who you are except God.

1 Corinthians 6:20 says you are bought with a price.

Watch this. The value of a masterpiece in the natural It's often determined by the price paid for it or the prices on it.

Somebody died for us, so that ought to give you high value.

Are y'all hearing me?

Yes.

That ought to say, man, I'm worth something, that God will come off his throne, become a man become God incarnate and die for me.

Yeah, are y'all here?

That's big.

Yes, almost done.

Say, I'm rich in value.

So that's— you can't let nobody devalue because people are trying.

Yeah, they'll try it.

That's why you gotta demand that you be revealed.

You watch this. Even in the stock market, values increase and decrease based on revelation. So the stocks go down when people are not buying, when people are not shopping.

It's revelation. So the stock market can crash when people are not participating in the market.

Now you have to raise your value so high that you don't let people deal with you from the flesh, from the surface. You got to slip past my flesh and see who I am in the spirit.

So many times we let people judge us by the package.

Yeah, but it's not the package, it's the contents.

You're valuable.

Say I'm I'm a masterpiece.

I'm a masterpiece.

All right, all right, don't fall.

Keep moving. Say this with me first.

Say, my value, my value is not based on what I've done, not based on what I've done, but on who made me, but on who made me, and paid for me, and paid for me. Hallelujah.

That's good.

Amen.

So you're rare, you're royal, rich in value. Number 4, you're renamed.

So no matter what was on your name in the past, if any man be in Christ, 2 Corinthians 5:17, he is a new creature. Old things are passed away, behold, all things are come new. Watch this, Revelation 2:17 said, I'll give him a white stone, and on the stone I'll give him a new name. Say that with us. I got a new name. Like Michelangelo, he named his work to reflect the meaning of it. All names have meaning. And even if your mama named you the wrong name—

are y'all hearing this?

God says he's giving you a new name that aligns with your purpose. You carry the name your mama gave you, but I'm saying you don't have to be bound to to the identity of the name. Because if your name Bumquifa—

are y'all hearing this?

We don't even know what that means. Come on. But at the end of the day, God can give you a new name. I'm glad my mom had enough sense to give me a good name.

Y'all hear this?

Amen. The reality is all names have meaning.

Yeah, they do.

But God has given you a name that represents him in the spirit, in purpose.

Yeah.

Don't let nobody call you what you used to be.

Amen.

Because people will put labels on them.

I'll never forget, in high school we had a guy in 11th grade and something happened. You know, I don't know what happened to this to this day. But his name was Joe.

But in 11th grade, Joe peed in his pants. 11th grade, Joe peed his pants. He's embarrassed. He did it in the seat during class, had to get up, pants where they were. So everybody's picking at him, everybody's laughing, you know. Everybody's like, what really happened to this guy? Because he was a really cool guy, you know. But after that incident, yeah, everybody recognized him not as the Cool Joe, but as Joe that peed his pants. 40 years later at the reunion. I'm standing next to somebody, he walks in the door, that's Joe that peed his pants. This was in 11th grade. This is what people will do. Even in scripture, Rahab wasn't a whore no more, right? They call her Rahab the harlot. She has stopped whoring. And they still recognize her as Rahab the harlot.

Yes, sir.

Are y'all hearing this? But you can't allow people to define you by your mistakes.

You renamed because you're a masterpiece.

Yes, you did it. Yes, I did it. But at the end of the day, God has given us a new name.

Y'all here? Thank you.

So my name is new.

Say my name is prophetic. Say my name is purpose.

So I don't answer to any name that's not aligned with my purpose. I need you to grab that. So stop answering the stuff that ain't aligned to where you going. And watch this, when people deal with you out of your past, that's an indicator they ain't clear who I am. So we need to kind of distance ourselves from this and not be so consistent with this relationship. Okay, I'm almost done.

I'm almost—

last one, number 5.

Say I'm rare. Say I'm royal. Say I'm rich in value. Say I'm renamed. Watch this, here's a good thing: you are recognized.

That's the mark of divine ownership. God recognizes you as his own.

2 Timothy 2:19 says this, it says the firm foundation of God stands having the seal The Lord knows those who are his.

Say, I'm recognized by God.

This, this is very important in this day and time.

Amen.

Because everybody wants recognition, and most people will do anything to get it. Yeah, therefore, as far as posting a lie, I mean, they'll post that somebody dead that's still breathing. Yeah, just to get recognized. They'll put Denzel Washington dead, Donnie McClurkin dead. They'll post crazy stuff just to be recognized. But we don't have to do that because God recognizes. Amen. He knows your name, he knows who you are, and he wants to do great things through you.

Oh boy, say that one.

Say, God wants to do great things great things through me. Through me.

I want you to understand that he sees you. You ain't got to worry about who likes your picture, who don't like your picture.

You can get some sleep now. That last picture you posted today, you all through the night can't even sleep trying to see who liked that picture. Can I get some notifications? Jesus, look, listen, the devil is a liar. God knows who you are. Most people watch this, they dress certain ways so they can be recognized. I mean, I personally have been a dresser all my life.

My mama did it to me. She— I was little, she had me. I got old pictures of me, just kept me dressed. So that's in my DNA, but I don't do it for people.

I do it because I like to dress. Cuz I can come out in a t-shirt and some jeans and be, be still okay.

But there are some people that do it cause, man, I'm going to put this on, I'm going to kill them today.

I mean, they be looking at theyself saying stuff like that. This going to kill, this going to hit hard right here. I was shopping with somebody one time, they walk past the— Woo, boy, I can't wait to wear this. This going to get me a prayer line right Yeah, cuz somebody— he was saying somebody going to come and want to see the shoes. That's why they would come from— like, dude, I'm just saying, you recognize.

Wow. Are y'all hearing this?

There's some folk go broke to be recognized.

They have all the clothes on their back, be Louis from head to toe, they got no money in the bank, behind on every bill.

Y'all hear this? I'm not saying nothing is wrong with any of those things, just make sure you can afford it, right? And if not, buy what you can until you can. Because you can take something really nice and make it look good. Are y'all hearing this? Watch this, y'all ain't gonna believe this, it's the truth from heaven. There was a time I shopped at the Goodwill. Yeah, you would never know it.

Yeah, because I'll be right in that Goodwill.

I make it— I'm telling— I'm taking— get it clean, get the ties clean, get the shirts clean. Listen, when I first started playing golf, I said, I'm not— golf clothes Express. Yeah, I said, I'm not gonna— I can't hit the ball straight. I said, I'm not buying one shirt until I can hit the ball straight. Are y'all hearing this? I ain't trying to look good, I'm trying to learn how to play the game. Because what good don't do I'm out there looking fly And Bob is going to hit Folk House and wonder— no, I want to be recognized for being able to play the game. Y'all hear me? God recognizes us. We ain't got to do all that extra, cuz guess what you ought to be doing? Living for the audience of one. Yeah, hallelujah, cuz you When you look at yourself through his eyes, you don't live to please people.

You don't care what people thinks.

You live for him, cuz people going to always have an opinion of you, and many times it's not going to be favorable.

Glory to God. Say, I'm recognized. I'm recognized. See, every masterpiece carries the signature of its master. And because the value is so recognized, most masterpieces are stored in highly secure locations. Are y'all hearing this? They are protected that you can't get to them.

You try to steal the Mona Lisa, you want to— yeah, that's all on TV, all the movies, everybody stealing the Mona Lisa, because it's—

you can never do it because of where it is. They have claimed to find the Ark of the Covenant and put it in deep security. I can only imagine where they have placed this artifact.

Yeah, because they're—

they are saying they don't even want to put it in sight where people can see it, right?

Because at the end of the day, it's that bad.

That's the Ark of the Covenant.

Are y'all hearing this? You're that valuable too.

And God protects you, he secures you, he keeps you. Don't you ever say no value. Watch this, say I'm not anonymous. Say God recognizes me. Yes, some folk try to put you on the back burner, how to place, make you play second fiddle. Watch this, for my single ladies watching or my married ladies watching, that feel like you want to be a— it's just crazy if you married and you cheat on your husband with a married man. Why would you do that? Or if you're single and, you know, and cheating with a married man, why would you want to be second to anybody?

Yeah, because guess what?

You say it.

Yeah.

And most of the time, the side piece never wins.

That's right.

Are y'all hearing this?

That's right. You choose to be a side piece, you're never gonna get that man.

Amen.

Reality is, in his mind, he is thinking, if she doing this to me— are y'all hearing this? If I leave my wife for her, She gonna— I'm gonna reap what I sow in the morning because this thing's still in her. So you got more valuable just because you want a man's attention than to hold on to a married joker. Yeah, they keep lying. I'm gonna leave, but he ain't gonna leave.

Ain't going nowhere.

And as long as you keep doing what you're doing Yes, sir.

You going to keep coming back?

Yes. Are y'all hearing it?

Yeah, that was for somebody online, I guess.

Glory to God. Thank you. Come to the Lord.

People should be able to see God's touch on your life. They should be able to see his hand on you. When you walk by, they should say, there go God's Jeffrey.

You know how they identify the David?

Michelangelo's David. His name always precedes. When they see, there go God's Shannon. There go God's Carol. People should recognize you as his. Good God. They go, God's Vicki, God's Tiffany, God's Tanya, God's Nicole, God's Shariel, God's Felicia, God's Mario, God's Amanda. We're his masterpiece. I pray y'all got somebody.

Yeah.

Say, I'm not anonymous. I'm anointed and acknowledged by heaven.

Hallelujah.

Everybody stand up.

Pause.

You can play something, man. You're not saved to just live this mundane existence. You're rare, you're royal, you're rich in value, you're renamed, you're recognized.

Thank you, Jesus.

Philippians 1:6 says this, it says, being confident Say covenant. Covenant of this very thing, that he who has begun a good work in you will complete it. It's the last thing I'm going to tell you. God's going to finish what he started. He started something in you, he's going finishing. Lift your hands and close your eyes, everybody. I'll be true, Lord Jesus. I'll be true.

I'll be true, Lord Jesus. I'll be true. For there's a race to be run. There are victories to be won.

Every hour, by thy power, I'll be true. I'll say yes, Lord, yes, to your will and to your way.

I'll say yes, Lord, yes, I will trust you and obey. When the Spirit speaks to me, with my whole heart I'll agree.

And my answer will be yes, Lord, yes. Can y'all help me say, I'll say yes, Lord, yes, to your will and to your way. I'll say yes, Lord, yes. I will trust you. I don't When the Spirit speaks to me, with my whole heart I'll agree, and my answer will be yes, Lord, yes. Father, I give you praise for this word. Father, even as we speak this out of our mouth this morning, I decree and declare that we will know that we are rare, we are royal, we are rich, we are recognized, and we are renamed in the mighty name of Jesus. Help us to see ourselves the way you see us.

Father, we break every word curse spoken over our life today in the name of Jesus. We command those words to fall to the ground and die. And Father, I speak life over your people now in the mighty name of Jesus. And I declare we will become what you have decided. We will see ourselves through your vantage point, through your perspective, and your plans will be made manifest in our lives. And we give you praise for it now. Say this with me. Say, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, say, I receive the word and I believe that I've created for such a time as this. Say, I believe the world needs my anointing, my purpose, my power, and the glory that rests in me. Say, Lord, when I look in the mirror, I see you. Say, in the name of Jesus, I declare I am moving from glory to glory. Say, my greatest days are still ahead. Say, in Jesus' name, I am rare. I'm unique. I'm authentic. There's no one like me. Say, I'm royal. Say, I'm peculiar. Say, I'm a priest that intercedes for the world. Say, I'm distinctive. So the world will notice that I belong to you. Say, I'm rich in value. So no matter what has been said, no matter what I've done, say, your blood gives me value. Your blood brings increase to my life in Jesus' name. Say, I am renamed. Say, God, I thank you for my new name. If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. All things are passed away, all things have become new. Say, I receive my new name. Say, in Jesus' name, my name is new in every area, in my credit, in my finances, in my life. My name is new. Say, in Jesus' name, I'm recognized.

So, Lord, I thank you for recognizing me.

You see me when others don't. You love me when others don't. You embrace me when others reject me. Say in Jesus' name, I am recognized. Say, I'm not anonymous, I'm anointed, I'm assigned, I'm blessed, and I will say yes to my purpose, to God's plan for my life. In Jesus' name, I declare it to be so. Amen. And thanks to God. If you believe what you just said, give God praise. Come on, clap your hands and pull it together. Remember, there's a prophetic sound coming out of your hands. Come on, open those hands up and put them together.

Put those brown hands together and give God glory, give God honor, give God praise.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah!

We bless your name, God. We bless your name, God. We bless your name, God. We pull it together and we declare it is so, in Jesus' name.

Hallelujah.

When the Spirit speaks to me with my Oh, heart, I'll agree, and my answer will be yes, Lord, yes. Stay with me, joyfully-yam. I will say yes, Lord, yes, to your will and to your way. Come on, sing it.

I'll say yes.

Ah. Say yes, Lord.

Yes, I'll trust you when the Spirit speaks to me with my whole heart, and my answer, and my answer will be yes.

Lord, I hear that, God. Here's what I want you to do real quick, just real quick. Clap your hands right now. You pulling it together.

Come on, everybody got two hands.

Clap them.

I want you to clap your hands and say yes, Lord. Come on, clap your hands, open your mouth. Come on, by the clapping of our hands, we say yes, Lord. We clap our hands and say yes, Lord. Yes to your image. Come on. Yeah, I heard that. Yes to the image. Yes, yes. We rebuke every image that's not of God. We see ourselves the way God sees us. Yes to the image of God in our life. Come on, we rebuke every negative image, every negative thought. Come on, yes to the image of God. Come on, open up your mouth. We clap our hands and say yes, Lord. Come on, open your mouth. Come on, clap those hands and say yes. Come on, yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord. Come on.

Yes, Lord.

Yes, yes, Lord. Yes.

Come on, come on, don't you get tired. Clap your hands and say, yes, Lord. Yes, Lord, what do you want from me? Yes, Lord, what do you want me to do? Yes, Lord.

Come on, open up your mouth. Come on, even you online, clap your hands and say, yes, Lord, I will obey. I will surrender. Come on, we clap our hands and say yes. I heard that, God. There's a yes to be blessed. Yes, I'll go all in. Yes, I'll make the sacrifice.

Yes, I'll make the investment.

Yes, I'll go where you tell me to go. Yes, I'll do what you tell me to do, no matter what it costs. Whatever it takes to obey God, my Your soul says yes. I know you said yes last week, I know you said it yesterday, but find another yes, find another yes, find another yes. Clap your hands, open your mouth and say yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes. Lord, yes to your plan. Yes to your desire. Yes to what you want from me. I pour myself out as a drink offering. My soul says yes, yes, yes. Come on, open your mouth. It's an anthem of the soul. And come on outside, there's a Yes, to be blessed. There's a yes to be blessed. There's a yes to go higher. There's a yes to move into new identity. Yes to the image. Yes to the image. Yes to the image. Whatever you say, God, that's who I am. We say yes, Lord! We say yes, Lord! Yes! Yes, I'm trying to push you somewhere. I tell you, open up your mouth. Yes. Ah, God, no to my way, no to my plans, no to my desires, but yes to your will, yes to your plans, yes to your desires. God, yes to way. Come on, yes Lord, yes Lord, I'll stand on your word. Yes Lord, I'll trust you when others quit. Yes Lord, I'll stand in faith. Yes Lord, I'll walk in love.

Yes!

So, so, so, says yes.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

Make the vow, make the commitment to him to say yes in everything.

Decide that you won't miss it to the left or to the right, but it's always yes, completely yes. My soul says yes. Hallelujah, hallelujah. From the bottom of my heart to the depths of my soul, I say yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Completely yes.

My soul!

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, my answer.

Will be. Yes, Lord. Yeah, I say yes, Lord. Yes, you will. To your will and to your way, I Say yes, Lord, yes, I will trust you and obey. When the Spirit speaks to me, my whole heart, I will, I will agree.

We love you.

We thank you for your word. We say yes, God. Yes to the process. So important to say yes to that image. You are his masterpiece. Say yes to being rare. Say yes to being royal. Say yes to being recognized, renamed. Say yes to being rich.

Yes! Stop rejecting it. Say yes!

Yes! With my whole heart. Yeah! And my— I give you praise, God. The weight of his glory is in this place.

Jesus.

Lord today because he cares for me in such a special way. That's why I, I lift you up and I magnify Go, everybody sing. That's why, that's why my heart is filled with praise.

My heart, sing.

My mind, mind, sing.

My My soul belongs to you.

You paid the price for me way back on Calvary.

Come on, that's why I praise you. I lift you up.

And I magnify, I magnify your name. That's why, that's why my heart is here. Hallelujah!

Clap your hands if you love God.

Hallelujah! Yes, you are.

Thank God for his anointing. Thank God for his anointing, because yes, yes. I lift you up!

I lift you up! And I magnify your name!

Oh ho ho ho ho! Let my heart speak praise to thee!

I always pray for you guys. I'mma ask you to do something for me today. I lost my friend this week.

It's been a tough week, man.

It was tough to get up this morning. It was tough, just tough all week. I still can't believe he gone. I just want you to pray with me. And what I want you to do, I want every person that's in the right spirit— if your spirit ain't right, don't come up here because I don't want you touching me for sure. But if your spirit is right and you really want to touch heaven and come into agreement for me, I just want every person to come. And put your hands on me. And Felicia, get a mic and just lead in this prayer, family prayer. Shabbat Yosua. We bless you, God.

Thank you Jesus! Thank you Jesus! Thank you Jesus!

Hallelujah! Thank you Jesus! Glory glory glory hallelujah Lord we thank You— oh we thank You Lord we thank Thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. In the name of Jesus, Lord, we thank you right now, Father God. In the mighty name of Jesus, Lord, we know that you know all things, God, and nothing is left unturned, Father God. In the name of Jesus, Lord, I bring Apostle to you right now. In the mighty name of Jesus, Lord, I ask you right now in the name of Jesus. Lord, that you restore, God, in the name of Jesus. Lord, everything that's been taken, God, I thank you right now for restoration, God. Lord, I pray right now in the name of Jesus for his health, for his strength, oh God. Lord, I ask you where he's feeling down, God, I know that you're able, God, to be a healer, to be a deliverer, God. Bring peace right now in that In this ordeal, God, we thank you right now because we know nothing is lost in Christ. So God, I thank you right now. Lift him up, God, in his spirit, God. Let him know that you know all things. There's nothing that you do not know, God. And whatever you say, it is so, in the mighty name of Jesus. Strengthen him right now, God. Touch his heart, God, in the name of Jesus. Touch his heart right now in the name of Jesus. Lord, give him peace, God. Comfort him right now, God, where he may be weak, God. Comfort right now in the mighty name of Jesus. Lord, I thank you for his strength, God. I thank you for his strength, God. Even when he think he's weak, God, we thank you for the strength, God. We thank you for the blessing, God, that will continue to flow, God, from his life. Thank you, God, in the name of Jesus. Lord, I pray, God, that every step that he take, every move that he make, God, every yes, God, will be yes. Everything is done in your will, God, not our will. But Lord, we thank you right now. We pray for it right now. We thank you for it right now. God, we bless your holy name. We bombard heaven We should walk here today, God. We thank you, Father God.

Hallelujah.

We thank you for knowledge, God. Hallelujah. Glory to God. I thank you right now, God. Yes, Lord, I thank you. Hallelujah. For what you're going to do, Lord, I thank you.

Hallelujah.

For what you've already done, Lord, I thank you, Father. Yes, I thank you, Father. Yes, God. Hallelujah. Oh God, I thank you, Father. Yes, God, give him strength to keep moving, God, to keep plowing, God, to your people. Lord, bring everything that he needs, God, to him right now in the name of Jesus. Touch his hands, God. Touch his feet, God. His mind, God, in the mighty name of Jesus. Give him strength, God, that he didn't know he had. God, I thank you. I loose everything, God, that is for him, God, in the mighty In the mighty name of Jesus, I bind anything that come against you, God. Any witch, any warlock, I bind them. Lord, I bind anything that's not like you. In the mighty name of Jesus, I send it back to dry places. I command the devil to lose whatever hold that he think he may have. I bind it up in the mighty name of Jesus. I loose healing in this marriage. I lose understanding, I lose wisdom, Lord, I lose help right now in the name of Jesus. For you said the joy of the Lord is your strength. So Lord, I plow, God. I call on you now for joy. I call on you now for peace. I call on you now for what he needs, God. You said you would supply all of his needs according to your riches in glory. God, you said there's nothing lost in Christ. I thank you right now, God, for joy. God, I thank you for peace. For the joy of the Lord is our strength, because we know it is in you that we live, it is in you that we move, and it is in you that we have his being. So I thank you, Father, for what you're going to do. I thank you, Father, for what you've already it's already done, and we call it so. We call it so in the mighty name of Jesus. In the mighty name of Jesus. And we thank you for it, God. We thank you in advance, God. We're not waiting till the battle is over. Lord, we shout now. We thank you, Father, for what we can't see. But Lord, we know, hallelujah, that you said that your eyes upon us, oh God. So we thank you, Father, and we praise you, Father. We thank you for strength right now, for the joy of the Lord is his strength. The joy of the Lord is his strength. Lord, you said you would be a comforter. Comfort right now, God, in the mighty name of Jesus. Heal the heart, God, in the name of Jesus. God, speak peace in the mighty name of Jesus. And we thank you and we praise you for it now. And it is so. We declare it right now and it is so. We bind up anything, God, that came against it. But Lord, we loose prosperity. Lord, we loose healing. We loose deliverance. We loose joy in the mighty name of Jesus. And we pray this, God, in prayer. We pray this prayer believing that you are the God that healing. God, you are the God that heals, and we thank you for it now in the mighty name of Jesus. And let every heart say amen. Hallelujah. Glory to God. And it is so, and it is so, and it is so. Hallelujah. In the name of Jesus.

Hallelujah.

We thank you for it.

We thank you for it, God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Glory to God!

Hallelujah!

Glory to God! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

I feel better already.

Thank you, thank you, Jesus.

Oh, hallelujah!

Hallelujah!

Bless your name.

Clap your hands and thank the Lord. God is so good. So good. Hallelujah.

Glory to God. We going to get ready to get out of here. Thank you so much. Thank you so much. God's presence is here. Glory to God, we bless him, we honor him. He's such a good God. Thank you, thank you so much for praying. Glory to God, I feel it, I receive it in the name of Jesus.

Glory to God, we bless you, Lord, we bless you.

And I say unto you, my precious ones, that eyes have not seen, neither have ears heard the great and awesome things I have prepared for you. But even as I have reminded you today of how I view you, know that my image of you is as I see myself. And know that I'm going to perform for you, for I say unto you today, there shall there shall be a performance. You shall see the works of my hands in your life. You shall know that your prayers were not a miss and your prayers were not in vain. The things you've asked me of, there shall be a performance. You will know that I am God. And the visible things that men will see upon your life will be the miraculous and the supernatural manifestations of my glory in your life. But be bold and be strong, even as you've been reminded to be confident in me.

For I say unto you, you can have confidence without conceit. I, the Lord, say to you, you can have confidence without arrogance.

Be bold, be strong. For you are the lifeline to the world. Indeed, you are rare. Indeed, you are my royal priesthood, my holy nation, my holy army. You are recognized, you are renamed, and I love you. Stand. If you stand, I will show you my hand. If you stand, I will show you my hand. For I've told you, even the youth shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall, for they did wait on the Lord, I shall renew their strength.

Thank you, Lord.

Thank you.

They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run and not be weary. They will walk and not faint.

Wait and stand in me, says the Lord. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah, hallelujah.

Well, bless him, bless him, bless him.

We honor him. Thank God for your word. Thank you, God, for your word. We bless you.

Bless you, Pastor Walker. So my soul pants for thee, oh God. Hallelujah. We're going, we're going. Where am I?

Okay, Jesus.

We're going to take an opportunity to give really quickly. Father, we thank you for every gift and every giver, even those online that will participate in this offering. I release the spirit of sacrifice. I release the spirit of sacrifice in this room, knowing that as we make sacrifices for your kingdom, they leave our hands but not our life. The sacrifice moves into our future, waiting for our arrival. There are individuals under the sound of my voice in this room, live or or by replay that need something from you financially. They need a breakthrough. And Father, we know whatever we sow, that shall we reap. So Father, this morning we're going to take what we have, we're going to sow, and we're going to turn it into what we need, because you cannot lie. We trust you today, in Jesus' name.

Amen. Amen.

Get your tithes and your giving together. The ways to give are on the screen. You have physical money, you can bring it over to God. But however you choose to do it, if you— you can never beat God. Give you praise. Thank you, Jesus. I expecting great things.

Yes, Lord. Expecting great things. Sing it, I. I expecting great things. Great things.

Come on, sing it again.

I, I'm expecting great things. I'm, I'm expecting great things.

Oh, I'm expecting great things, great things. One more time.

Sing it out. I'm expecting great things. I'm expecting great things.

Yes, Lord.

I'm expecting great things. Sing it. Great things.

Father, bless every giver. Give it back to them a thousand times more, in Jesus' name. If you participated in giving today, say this with me. Say, Heavenly Father, in Jesus' name, say, I give as an act of faith, as an act of obedience.

Say, I trust your word, and I believe my seed, my tithe, shall come back to me good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall men give to my bosom. So I don't lack anything, I don't have a care. Say this: I have plenty of money to give away all the time. Say, in Jesus' name, Rhonda Church lacks no thing. Say, in Jesus' name, we shall purchase purchase land debt-free. We shall build a new building debt-free, and we declare it in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Give God praise. Hallelujah.

God loves a cheerful giver. We're going home, y'all. Uh, just a few announcements. you got some information?

Okay.

All right, just a few announcements. Remember, at the end of the month, uh, we are hosting our Worship and Warfare weekend. Make sure you can be in the building if you can. It's going to be phenomenal. People are already registering. Um, if you haven't registered, get registered. Go to rhonachurch.com/ww3. There's buttons all over that page that say RSVP now. Uh, just go ahead and get registered because it's going to be a great weekend. Apostle Brandon and myself are going to be preaching together. These workshops on Saturday are going to be great, and you don't want to miss these. We're going to talk about casting out demons. I think every believer believer needs to understand that, needs to know how to do it.

And you—

furthermore, every believer needs to understand that a Christian can have a demon, because there are some people that don't believe Christians can have a demon. Yes, you with your Christian self can have a demon and need deliverance.

Amen.

And we're going to talk about it, we're going to go through scripture, and, um, we're going to activate some things. Uh, we're going to do a workshop entitled Air Traffic Controllers in the Spirit. You don't want to miss that one, it's going to be phenomenal. Um, we're going to serve lunch that day as well, so it's going to be a great weekend. You need to be here. Uh, God's going to move, it's going to be a blessing. Um, this week we got to resume leadership training. This week, uh, it's just been a tough week for me, y'all. It's been a tough one. Um, losing Apostle Jeffrey, you know, I kind of was strong in the beginning because I was there the night before he died, and I kind of knew, you know. But I'm believing God all the way to the end.

Amen.

Trusting that God's going to give a miracle, because that's all I know is to believe the word. But I guess God was preparing me. I still was rejecting. No, I'm standing on your word, God. But he passed the next morning, and I did— I've been strong, but I think when Pam called me the day before yesterday, his wife, and I was talking to her, it really hit me. When she asked me to officiate the service, I'm like— and then she started talking about how she was feeling. And I just kind of realized he gone for real. 30 years, that's a long time to know somebody. So, but we're gonna get back to business this week. So Monday night, tomorrow night, leadership training. Um, Tuesday we're fasting, we're praying at 5 AM. I didn't even— I mean, I— if y'all got up at 5 5 o'clock prayer. That was a replay. Glory to God. Y'all thought I was there.

Okay, that was a replay.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, I, I set it up the night before because I just knew I didn't go to bed until like 3:30.

Just—

yeah.

But anyway, um, I appreciate y'all. I'll be there this Tuesday. Amen. It'll be me. Glory to God. It was me again, but it just was written. And then we'll be here on Thursday night for our Thursday night Bible study, um, right back here on Sunday. Now I'm going to give this announcement. Some of y'all gonna say thank you, Jesus, but I meant to do this last week, but I'm gonna share with you this week. So going forward for the fall and winter We're gonna shift our service time. Put the flyer up this week. We'll shift the service time to 10 instead of 9. Got a whole hour.

Somebody been praying for that, right?

Don't get too comfortable, we're going right back in the summer because we got to make room. I'm telling you, this church is going to grow.

It's already growing.

People just out, it's growing.

Amen.

And We gotta have 9 because we're gonna have to have a service at 11:30 or something to accommodate growth. So, um, we're gonna go back to 9 or something, but he's— when it falls, so somebody don't thank Jesus for that. I said, what do you mean? I was like, no, they need to come in now. The Lord said no. So 10 AM going forward. For the fall and winter, and we'll ship back in the spring, not the summer, in the spring. All right, y'all got it. All right, uh, don't forget, if you're going on the cruise Dominion at Sea, you need to go ahead and reserve your cabin. We are cruising September 7th through the 11th of 2026. I have confirmed our new speaker, which is Apostle Tony Hill. Do it, and I'm super happy he'll get to share with me on the boat. And, uh, it's gonna be good. So y'all need to be on the boat September.

You got a whole year to pay for it. Just go ahead and pay your $100 deposit and get your cabin locked in.

Go to rodderchurch.com/act-c and follow the instruction on the page. Or if you have any questions, talk I was different myself. Amen. All right, are you sure you ain't got nothing before I— okay, all right, y'all stay and we're going home. I feel like I need to announce one other thing. Christmas, our Christmas party. What is it, December?

Make sure it's that Sunday, right?

Yeah, so that's Sunday, December 14th, at 6:00. We're having our Christmas gathering. We want everybody to be there. It's going to be at Eagles Landing Country Club, so start picking out your outfits now, cuz we're going to dress up and have a good time.

Amen.

It's going to be a great evening. Good dinner, good worship. It's going— we going to have a great time, so make sure you're in place.

All right, all right, go ahead.

The, uh, yeah, yes you do, cuz it's going in there.

You need to talk it, uh, the Christmas part.

We, we are planning to exchange gifts So, um, I guess some people like to start early, early, but we did put a cap on it. It is $50. So anything, a gift anywhere from $25, $20, but we're not going over $50. Um, so if you want to do that, we'll exchange there, but we're going to have to, of course, pull names here. So I just got to see how I'm going to go about about doing that. I don't know if—

well, there's an app that we can use.

Okay, because we— a lot of people like me, I'm proactive. Yeah, so I need to know my person so I can pray about them.

Hallelujah. Amen.

Or what I'm gonna give them. But it just makes it easy if you're going to get it out the way. So Nicole, that'll work if you— and we can go ahead and try and get that. People We can start pulling names, and then you just bring your gifts to the party, to the party, um, in December. And like he said, we are dressing up, ladies, gentlemen, so pull out your good stuff. We don't get to wear good stuff much, but you get to wear it out there. So bring your go-go's and let's have a good time.

All right, all hearts and minds that's clear we're going. Father, we thank you again for this service. Thank you for what you've accomplished today. Thank you for the lens that you see us through. I say again, we're rare, we're royal, we're rich, we're recognized, we're renamed. And so, Father, as we go from this place today, may we view ourselves as you view us. May we see our life through your point. We rebuke mediocrity, and we thank you for quality of life, and that your people will enjoy life and have an abundant life. And we praise you for it now, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen and amen. All right.