SUPERNATURAL PROVISION_ PART 1 _ DR MIKE WOODS _ RADAH CHURCH _ 12_26_21

Peace be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Yes, this is Dr. Michael Lyris Woods, and I'm super amped about sharing with you today. One of the reasons I have been on this hiatus and I've been taking a break and I'm super excited to be back in the studio to be able to share with you on a day-to-day basis. I've been spending a lot of time with the Lord as we prepare to move into the year 2022. You know, I just don't want to be that guy or that lady because we got ladies out here doing it too, that is just saying something because they can. I believe like never before, it is uniquely important that we have an ear for God's voice, we know him for real, and that we're actually saying what he wants us to say. And so I'm so happy that I've come out of a season of prayer, a season of isolation, where the Lord has just spoke some tremendous things to me about the year to come, and I'm super excited to share those things. And tonight We're going to start teaching a series that's going to go through the month of January, and you don't want to miss one day of it as we're going to come in as often as possible, not just on Sundays but every day if we can, to share this word with you. So I'm glad you're here. Do me the kind favor, everybody, share this message now and let your family, your friends, even your enemies know that Apostle Woods is on And that is a word from the Lord. Indeed it is. Tonight we're going to start talking about supernatural provision. I'm going to give you some keys that the Lord gave me to help you unlock the dimension, the realm of superabundance. There's a place where God superimposes— watch this— all that he has on us so that we can advance his agenda in the earth and that he can be glorified. Glorified in our life. And there's a key to unlocking this door. So many people up in here, and I just don't want to be doing something. I regarded to someone on last evening, if I have to just be a brother in the church with no title, no position— again, I've been doing what I've been doing for 30-plus years— but if I have to resign to the point where I'm doing nothing until God speaks, that's where I am. I don't want to just be doing something to be doing it. I never want to be where God was. I always want to be where God is. So we're going to start talking about unlocking this realm of super abundance where God superimposes everything he owns, which is everything, on us and gives us access, unlimited access, so that we can move in this dimension and bring change on the planet that we live in. So we're going to go into this teaching in a moment, but before we do I recorded a few weeks back. I was in prayer, got out of prayer, the Lord spoke to me and gave me a word for the year of 2022. So right here, we're going to go right into that prophetic word that I spoke. And as we talk about 2022 being the year of knowing, this is going to set us up for where we're going in the message. I want you to listen with a prophetic ear. I want you to open your spirit to hear what thus saith the Lord. And then right after that word, I'm gonna come back and we're going to begin to teach the word of the Living God. Again, welcome tonight. Like this, comment below, let us know you're here. Please, by all means, share it. Know that I love you. Welcome, guys. This is Rhoda Now. God bless you. I give you glory. Hello everyone, God bless you. This is Apostle Michael Lyris Woods. Today is December 9th. And it is 2021, and I wanted to just jump in here really quick today. And stay with me, don't scroll. Glory to God. And, um, just thinking and pondering over the last several weeks and praying, spending time with the Lord regarding what is God saying for 2022. What is the word of the Lord for 2022. And he began to speak to me, and the Lord began to show me that he is raising up men and women of God for end-time revival. I want you to be very clear, we're coming to a culmination of things in the realm of man. Watch this, where The way man has done things, uh, it's literally coming to an end. Man has infiltrated— listen to me— the ways of God, the things of God, the supernatural ways of living and doing things with his way and his carnality. And God said, son, I'm going to raise up in the year to come men and women who will be the spearheads for revival and what's to come. Um, they will be those— hear me— who will not bow nor submit to the agenda of the world or the plans of the adversary. Hear me good. The world's way is tempting. And those that God will use in this end time will be those that will not bow, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Uh, Nebuchadnezzar had a way of doing things, and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego refused to bow. That refusal to bow, that rejection Watch this. And Nebuchadnezzar's way of doing things was popular because he was the king. Everybody bought into it. So hear me good. It won't be that which is popular that brings us into this next move, this next dimension. It will be those, ah, Shiba, urebe, simande dekusi, that refuse to bow to the— that which what is popular, that which is done just to gain attention. We must follow the ways of God. As I began to look into the realm of the spirit today and dive deep into what God was saying, I saw 5 streams flowing out of the heavens. 5 streams flowing out of the heavens for 2022. And they're flowing into one. And this represented a collaboration, an integration, an interdependence— hear me— in fivefold ministry, where the— hold on— where the apostle, the prophet, the evangelist, the pastor, and the teacher begin to integrate into one. Hear me. And there was no discord in this integration. I see it in 22. If we are to forge forward and do what God has called us to do. There could be no discord, there could be no division, there could be no competition. But each gifting, each stream— hallelujah— must do what the Lord has ordained specifically for them to do, without jealousy, without competition. Oh my God, without a race for who is best or who better. Shiba, nus koto, ruba, bri, tsune, buska taba. I saw, watch this, also a powerful rip of currents bringing people, watch this, into a deeper place. So out of the stream where one river is being created by the fivefold, by the apostle, by the prophet, by the evangelist, by the pastor, by the teacher. And let me say something to you, many of you Pastors who have gifts to gather— oh my God, you missed the mark. There are many pastors in the body. Your church in 2022 is going to go through turmoil. It won't be because of the devil. God will send disruption into that ministry because, hear me, you shouldn't have been pastoring anyway. Your gift to gather, your gift to magnetically draw draw people to your voice. And your anointing was to be an evangelist. An evangelist gathers and brings people to the King, outside of the kingdom and in the kingdom. They bring a focus on the King— watch this— that was not previously resident. And we have very few. There is a— oh my God— endangerment of evangelists in the body Christ. But God says There will be a new emerging in 2022 of evangelists. Oh my God. That will rise and gather the saints and gather sinners toward the King. Yes, Lord, I thank you. There will be powerful rip currents. Yes, God, that will cause people to move into a deeper place in God. And in the natural, a rip current would not— watch this— pull a current into a position so strongly where it brings a person underwater. Actually, what it does, it carries them out into deeper waters. So if you're ever in the water and a current came, it won't pull you under. Actually, that current is going to push you into the deep. And so what God is saying in 2022, as the apostle, the prophet, the evangelist, the pastor, the teacher emerge together, it will bring the people of God into a deeper knowing. For hear me, 2022 shall be the year of knowing. It's in the knowing. It's not who you know in the natural, it's who you know in the realm of the spirit. It's your ability to summon angels to minister alongside of you. It's your ability to understand these entities are real. It's your ability to have real relationship with God that's not born out of book service, head knowledge, blogs, YouTube, but that's born out of real prayer and time with God. It's in the knowing. 2022 will be a year of knowing God deeper. It will be— hallelujah— disseminated from these 5 streams that flow into one: the apostle, the prophet, the evangelist, the pastor, the teacher. Our sole purpose will be able to amalgamate at one, to have our interdependence on each other that brings people to a deeper knowing. Knowing. 2022 will be the year of knowing, not religion. There's so many people who have been religified and the church has messed them up. And let me tell you something, the pastor's design again, is to shepherd, to sheep herd the sheep, to guard them and to nurture them. Hear me, in a way that they lead them not to their iconolistic abilities, their abilities to be an icon and to be popular or be a mogul. Oh man, you're leading people to you. Oh my God, and that's not pleasing in the sight of God. Let me tell you something: you cannot afford in this year to come to glory in yourself. I hear the words of the prophet: If a man glory, let him glory in this, that he understands and knows me. I heard him say, tell the wise man not to glory in his wisdom. Tell the mighty man not to glory in his might. Tell the rich man not to glory in his riches, but him that glory— my God, let him glory in this, that he understands and that he knows me. For the word of the Lord for 2022, this is in the knowing. It will be the year of knowing. And as we know him, revival will break out everywhere we go. In Walmart, in— oh my God, hallelujah! In Macy's, in Saks, glory to God! It'll break out in restaurants, it'll break out in parking lots, it'll break out in ballgames, because we will carry a fire and there will be a shadow, heh, shibai, lebaman, that reflects off of our a person from the deep knowing that we will be carried into that will draw men to God. God is calling his people in 2022 to know him. The question becomes, my friends, do you know him? Get in this riptide that's going to carry you deeper. There's a deeper place and a heavy anointing and a perfect consecration that draws men to him. I love you. And hear ye the word of the Lord. Yes indeed. Listen to me. This year that we're about to enter into in a few days, indeed it will be the year of knowing. Listen, I was speaking with my wife this morning and we were just dialoguing about the church and about religious mindsets and how so many people in the body of Christ literally do not know God for real. It's a sad occasion because when you really know him— and people, you know, people say, I'm spiritual, I got my relationship with God, I don't go to church, and all of this stuff— but let me tell you something, man, when you really have a relationship with God, just like a relationship with anyone. There's something about that relationship that affects your well-being, that affects how you move. And so we really can't fake the funk anymore. I'm telling you, you got to know him for real, man. And we was talking, and I shared with her, I said, you know, when you really know God, even if issues and struggles or things you're dealing with, at the end of the day, you know what pleases God. You know he's real. You know what he has to offer. And you know that your life, if you really love him in that relationship, should be pleasing unto him. You can't tell me that God is just pleased with everything we do. He's not. And when you know him, you know that. You spend time trying to please the one you love. I love my wife, so I spend time trying to please her in every single area. The reality is, when you love someone, you want to bring pleasure to them, not pain. And let me tell you something about God. His greatest pleasure is to be known and to be trusted. His greatest hurt and disappointment is to be doubted and unknown. And the reality is There are so many people that doubt him, so many people that don't know him, and we find ourselves with God operating in a place where he's not pleased. Because without faith, it is impossible. Hear me, there is no way possible to please the Lord. And when you really have faith and you move in relationship and you know him, you can really be empowered to bring about change in the world. So today We're going to start talking about supernatural provision, and I'm not just talking about money or material good, but God literally— hear me— wants to provide for us in every single area of our life. Grab this today, because when you know him and you're up close and personal with him, uh, he is imminent, which means that God gets involved in your world. He's imminent and he's transcendent. So he's imminent to the point that he reaches out his hand and involves himself in the things that pertain to you because you welcome him in. He's transcendent also because he's transparently open to you experiencing his culture. As a matter of fact, he wants you to live His culture out. Anything beneath the culture of heaven, literally, watch this, is defiance toward God and is you living beneath your privilege. And can I tell you something? It ain't never been the will of God for you to live beneath your privilege. So I want you to make this confession with me because, uh, this is going to be the substratum of how, how we're teaching this. Glory to God. Over the next month. And I really want you to get this in your spirit. And this is something we're going to rehearse together every time I share this, because what you say shapes the world you live in. Your words, hear me, literally shape the world that you live in. I'm gonna say that one more time. Whatever you're experiencing in life is a result of the words you've spoken. Your words shape the world you live in. So I want you to say this with me. Say, I am thriving. I am thriving. Come on, say it with me. Okay, so here's what I want you to say this with me. Say, I am thriving, not just surviving. I am flourishing and not failing. Say, I believe I receive supernatural provision and unlimited overwhelming supply that comes from above. Say this with me. Say, provision is coming to me. Glory to God. From a higher place, in a higher way. From God's riches in glory. Say this, say, I'm not limited to this natural world. Say, I expect God to provide, and I believe all things are possible. Glory to God. Say this, say, my mind is being renewed daily. Hallelujah. Say this: to his supernatural provision. Woo! Hallelujah. Because he is my supernatural provider, in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Listen, if you need to replay that and say that out loud, because I want you to get that in your spirit, mainly that Jesus is your supernatural provider. I want you to get that deep down in the corridors of your heart, because at the end of the day, in every aspect and in every way, listen to me, God wants to provide. Hallelujah! You ought to praise God right there, because God Oshimaya! He wants to provide. And I know you're smart, I know you're rich, I know, hallelujah, you got all the answers, praise God. But you can't outdo God on any day. And any intelligence, anything you have, anything you've accumulated, it comes from heaven. I'm so excited about this month. And so So we cannot really talk about this because remember, we understand that our expectation according to the confession is for God to provide. Now you are not going to expect that if you do not have relationship with him. First of all, you must know him. And that's the prophetic word. Forth. Come on, God. I feel God here. Listen, as the prophetic word went forth, as God began to speak to us about 2022 being the year of knowing for real, it's in the knowing. Say that with me. Say it's in the knowing. It's in the knowing. I'm not talking about knowing your favorite influencer on social media. Or your favorite actor or your favorite person. Listen, honey, you need to know God, period, point blank, end of story. I'm not talking about going to church. I'm not talking about shaking your preacher's hand or your pastor is the most popular preacher on earth. Listen, if you know like I know, if you see what I see, you better get to know God for yourself. You're going to need more than popularity. You're going to need more than followers. Oh, y'all are helping me. Oh my God. You're going to need more than all eyes on you. You're going to need to be rooted in relationship with God. And in order to experiencing the flourishing parts of God's life, many of you in 2021, 2020, you went through seasons of failure, frustration, and you were literally freaking out and wanting to give up. But God said, even as we confessed it, that we are going to flourish. The flourishing is going to flow out of relationship with him. Go with me really quick, guys. Yes, Lord, I thank you. I, I'm telling you, the anointing is here. To Jeremiah 1:5. That wasn't even in my notes, but we're gonna go here. We're gonna start here. Glory be to God. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Wonderful Savior. God, I love you. There's nobody like you nowhere. You're wonderful and mighty. Oh, and I give you the glory, God. Watch this now. Jeremiah 1 and verse number 5, it says this. It says, before I formed you— hear this— before I formed you in the belly. Hallelujah. He says, I knew you. So wait a minute now, even before we came to the planet, it was God's innate desire and it was his deliberate activity to know us. He said before you even got in your mama's belly. In other words, that word in Hebrew, before I formed, is yatsar in Hebrew, and it literally means before I squeezed you into shape as a potter shapes a vase. Hear me. Oh my God. Before I gave you form, fashion, frame, human activity. Before I gave you lungs, a liver, a heart. Oh, y'all not helping me. Oh my God. Before I gave you your 9 systems that make your bios life work, he says, I knew you, which means there's a state of you and I that existed. Lord, let me slow down and teach this before we all got here. I'm so excited because I've been on hiatus, I've been on a break. I'm so excited to be back and share with you. Listen, because this stuff has been boiling over in me. There's there's a place of knowing that occurred before you got in your natural body. Now watch this. He said, before I formed you, yet sar, shaped you, gave you lungs, liver, heart, ears, eyes, nose, your physical attributes. Because understand, I know you know this, I know you're very smart, but let me teach you again just in case you missed it. You are 3 parts. You are a tripartite being. You are body, soul, yes Lord, and you are spirit. Hear me. So you're three parts. So the Bible said before you had a body, hallelujah, by Yos life, he knew you in the soul realm, watch this, and in the spiritual realm. Before you became three-dimensional trichotomy, you were a dichotomy, you were two parts. You are just soul and spirit. Oh my God, oh my God. Genesis proves it. Genesis said God formed man from the dust of the ground. Hallelujah. And man, when he received the breath of God, which is the ruach, the spirit, God breathed the breath of life in him, spirit, and man became a living nephesh, or living soul, which is psukei life. Your psychological existence, your mind, your will, your emotions. He says, listen, before you got this body, I knew you. Now watch this. He says, I knew. That word knew in Hebrew is yada. The word yada means I was intimate with you. I was up close with you. We hung out. We talked. Glory to God. I examined you. Watch this. I shaped you with purpose. I imparted to you destiny. Glory to God. I established legacy. Watch this. I made you aware— this is what YAHWEH is— of your real home. Hallelujah. So your real culture was deposited in you way before the day of Pentecost, way before there was a church. God said, I knew you before you got here. Now, I'm not— this is not for babies. Listen, before you got in your mama's belly, God says, I had a plan and a purpose for your life. Watch this. He says, I knew you, and before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you, power word kadosh, which means I prepared you. I put you aside, and while you was in the womb, I was preparing you, woo-wee, for what you would become. I was purifying you, I was sanctifying you, I was setting you apart, I was consecrating you for the purpose, for the assignment, for the destiny that we talked about before you even got in the belly. Then he says, I ordained you. Now he's talking to the prophet Jeremiah. He's a prophet to the nation. But can I tell you something? Like Jeremiah, every one of you listening to me, there is an ordination, not necessarily to a pulpit. Oh, glory to God. Not necessarily to fivefold ministry, apostle, prophet, evangelist, pastor, teacher. Everybody wants to do that and everybody is running after that. Even those that are not called to those things. Watch this, but God says there is an ordination, a nathan, N-A-T-H-A-N, like the name Nathan. Glory to God. There is an assignment. Come on, for every human being. Touch yourself and say, I have an assignment. Oh, oh, oh, glory to God. Touch yourself again and say, I have an assignment from God. Say, I'm not here by accident. God knew me before I got in my mama's belly, and I have an assignment. Here's the problem: you got people chasing assignments that's not authentic to Yada, that's not authentic to the two-dimensional them. They are trying to bring forth assignments that are curated out of the three-dimensional them, mainly by the body, the flesh. And the scripture said no good thing— come on, y'all— comes forth out of the flesh. Listen, nothing's good is coming out of this flesh. That's why you got to know him. And so my word to you tonight is you gotta get back to your Genesis. You gotta crucify your flesh. Crucify that flesh. So you can get back to your two-dimensional self where your spirit man is ruled by God and not evil demonic spirits. And that spirit man influences your soul, your psuche, your psychological life, your— oh my God, your ability to see is in your soul, not your eyes, but sight is in your soul, is invisible. Your eyes is only the apparatus that sight comes through. It's the body part used to house sight. Really, you cannot see sight with your natural eye. Watch this, your voice, your sound, ooh, it's not your mouth, it's not your larynx. Sound is technically cannot be seen with the natural eye. It is invisible. Y'all not helping me here. Glory to God. So you gotta get back to the invisible things. Glory to God. That you have to trust faith to bring forth. And that's my friends where supernatural provision comes from. Ooh. See, you've been operating in the first dimension. Out of your body, out of carnal thinking and not spiritual thinking. But you need to operate out of the third dimension, the spirit man, where the Spirit of the Living God influences everything that comes out of your body. But it— you gotta seek to know him, not to have a praise break, not to worship and cry and feel goosebumps and chills. Oh, listen, I love to praise God, I love to worship, I love to pray, but none of that matters if it doesn't culminate with relationship. See, in your church services, pastors, preachers, internet influencers, if all your bucking and shouting, oh, and running singing and praise breaks and tuning up and preaching. Glory to God. If what you do in the service of the Lord, in church or out of church, if it doesn't culminate with relationship, you should stop doing it, or you should ensure that the destination of your process is God and God alone. I'm convinced that more people are going to church and watching church online to be entertained than anything else. It's— the church has become no different than the movies or Showtime at the Apollo, because most churches— thank God we don't have that problem— have no power. Couldn't heal a flea with a headache, couldn't cast out a devil. Glory to the name of God, out of their toenail. But because they have no power— fear, COVID— because they have no power. Listen, power trumps anything the enemy can bring to us. But you can't move in power if you're operating in the flesh. Another message, another day. But the reality is, hear me, and I gotta go, I gotta go, my time is going short. The reality is, if you're going to experience supernatural dimension, super— the supernatural dimension of God's super abundance and experience— oh my God, hallelujah— supernatural provision, you must know him. You gotta know the same God that knew you before he formed you in the belly. He's real. He existed before you got here. He's imminent and he's transcendent. Let me move because I could stay on that all day. Another message, another day. Here's what I know, guys. God wants us to unlock the realm of super abundance. Thank you, Lord. And so today I want to just drop a few things about the faith necessary. Hear me for supernatural provision. Yahweh God, Spirit of the Lord says rejoice. If you listen to me, rejoice. Go back to joy, said the Lord, and renew your faith. Hear me. Hear what the Lord is saying in the supernatural. See, some of you have been in religions so long you've never even heard talk like this, but the Holy Spirit said to tell you, rejoice now, and you need to renew your faith in the supernatural. Hallelujah. And if you have not known the supernatural, I hear the Holy Ghost saying you need to tap into the supernatural through your relationship with the Father. For it is time, said the Lord. Hear me, for the words and faith, oh my God, and the preaching that have gone before us. The Lord said it's time for the words that we've heard to come to pass. Oh Jesus, oh Jesus. Listen, and God says, as we see them come to pass, and as they come to full maturity, the world will look on us and see the glory of God. And we'll stand and say to every creature, surely the glory of God has come down. And they'll look upon us not in mockery because Ooh, shabba-mandia! And say, yes, God is real. And yes, the glory of the Lord is with God and his people. And they will begin to question, what must I do to be a part of the glory you feel? Wow. Oh God, just give God praise. Father, we worship you. We adore you, we honor you. Oh, Shia, brekoro moshianda da basai. Yes, God. Listen, I'm gonna stop momentarily right here. Don't go anywhere. Listen, but I'm gonna pause, ah, because I feel this. I feel the Holy Ghost saying just stop. And as you worship, what I want to do, I want to give you a clip of a throwback. I've been doing this a long time, from 2000 2004, where I was ministering prophetically in a service to— as a matter of fact, this was such an amazing revival. We had so many revivals over the years like this. Thank God for this footage. Listen, I want to take you into a throwback clip where I'm prophesying and ministering. The power of God is there, and this is what God is saying. We got to restore our faith in what's real and what's supernatural, and I just want to give you a glimpse right here. Now this is a good place to interject this of how God moves so greatly and how he's wanting to move even greater than we've ever seen before. Let's go into this, then I'm gonna be back to finish this teaching. Listen, do not go anywhere. I'll be back right after this. Finished what God gave you last night. Lift your hands up. And God said, now, because I do this, because I set property in your lap, because I begin to move you in the arena of real estate, I'm closing the gap. He He says, I'm closing the gap between you and the one you love. He said, because so many times your heart is empty and you miss. But God said, I'm closing the gap. And God said, money for you will never be an issue. He has ordained you to prosper. That's his will. Concerning you. So move in it, said God. Come on, lift your hands. This is what God— both of you lift your hands. Matter of fact, First Lady, grab hands with that girl. Shia, and lift your hands up and just open your spirit and get ready to receive this. Because what God showed me for people who had the name Carol or Carolyn, he said, Michael, I need you to tell them that the door has already swung open, and this is a season now where you just have to begin to move your feet. And as you you move your feet, God said he's going to meet you in your steps. And he said the blessing is already provided. And everywhere you've been blocked before, he said, I've already pulled the wall down. He said, and now there's free course to move forward. This is what he said. He said, Michael, tell Carolyn, whoever they are, that the runway is now clear. You been sitting on the runway, but now you are clear to take off. You're clear to rise. You're clear to move to the next level. There it is right there. Well, praise God! I pray, hallelujah, that you were blessed by that. Listen, God wants us to go back to our trust in supernatural things, words of prophecy, supernatural natural healing, supernatural deliverance. He wants to provide through the realm of the supernatural. This is why prophets are necessary, apostles are necessary. We cannot, uh, extradite and extrapolate apostles and prophets out of the church when they are the very elements that actual— watch this— church should be built on. Anytime you find a setting, I'm gonna tell you time, then, where the apostle and the prophet is not present, that foundation in that particular ministry is questionable. Where there is no authentic apostolic force, the foundation of what is being done, everything that ministry is about, is questionable. Why? Because the Bible said the church is built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets being— oh my God— with Jesus being the chief cornerstone. But watch this, wait a minute, it doesn't even actually say the church, it says, and built upon. Well, thank you, Lord. So architekton in Greek, apostles and prophets are the architects, the designers that actually shape the structure of God's God's order in the world and the church. So again, I'm gonna go deeper. Any setting where the apostolic— whether it's a business, a house, oh my God, school— no matter what the setting is, if God is not at the foundation, if the prophet and the apostle in their foundational flow and in their authenticistic— oh my God, they're authentic ability to move in their area of influence. 'Cause you got apostles in the church, you got apostles in marketplace, you got apostles, glory to the name of God, that are totally designed to move in ministry, that are totally designed to move in municipalities. So whatever the grace that's upon the apostles and prophets, they need to be in those areas. Hear me. So that we can reap a harvest of kingdom in those areas. Areas. Because again, we're the architects, the architecton, the designers. So how do I, Michael Lyris Woods, tap into this supernatural provision? Well, you need faith to tap into the supernatural provision. But before I get into that, I want to just get a working definition of supernatural, because I want you to understand what it is. The word supernatural is actually two words. It's super and natural. The word super means above, over, beyond, higher, surpassing. Watch this: outside the natural realm. I'll say that again. Super means above, it means over, it means beyond, it means higher, it means surpassing, it means outside of the natural realm. So again, if it's super, it cannot function— hallelujah— in the realm of the natural without— oh my God, watch this— God being involved. Because watch this: God is above, God is over, God is beyond, God is higher, God is surpassing, God is outside of the natural realm. One of my favorite superheroes is Superman. And let me tell you something, Superman, uh, in his— in the comic, in the very— oh my God, uh, comical sense, he is above, beyond, he is outside, extraordinary in strength, in speed, in power. He was a man that could fly, okay? God is saying I want to give you ability to do super things in the natural realm if you will embrace my supernatural provision. So natural— watch this— means lower, below. Watch this— limited to the earthly realm. So you operate only in the natural, only in the flesh, you have limitations. Watch this— you actually conform hear this, to the ordinary course of nature. Watch this, you actually become deduced by human reason alone rather than divine revelation and divine relationships. So you flow when you're operating totally in the natural, you're flowing outside of the parameters or the boundaries of God and his abilities. So if you put the word together, supernatural, you get something that takes place outside of the natural world, something that is above, higher, and beyond an ordinary course of nature. And that's why God says, I want to do something for you in the area of provision that's above. Hallelujah! That's beyond, that's outside of the ordinary course of nature. So supernatural provision then, if you put all that together, is an unlimited— somebody say unlimited— overwhelming supply. Woo! That comes from above. See, you, you've been dependent on what you can do with your hands, and you're wearing yourself out, wearing your body out, wearing— hallelujah— your life out, wasting time trusting in your natural ability because that's what you were taught, buddy. And you're limited. You're limited. Oh my God. Oh my God. You're limited. You— I don't care if you're Jeff Bezos You're limited. I don't care if you're Elon Musk, if you do not have God, you're limited. They just had the ability to tap something in the natural, glory to the name of God, that was beyond them and implemented through natural work ethic. But you're still limited if you don't have God's hand pushing you forward. Oh my God, to do what you should be doing. Lord, I gotta get out of here, man. My time is going quick. James 1:17, let's go there. Because again, supernatural provision is an unlimited, overwhelming supply that comes from above. I want you to grab this today. We're gonna be on this all month because God says as you move into this year of knowing, the year of knowing, the year of knowing, he's going to increase your knowledge him and your knowledge of things concerning your purpose and how to bring forth what he's assigned you to do. Oh my God, oh my goodness, Lord have mercy. James 1:17, let's go. Amplified Bible says, every good gift and every perfect, free, large, full gift love— here we go— is from above. So we just celebrated Christmas yesterday. Wow. And I'm sure everybody got amazing gifts. I know I did. My wife really blessed me with some amazing gifts this year, and, uh, I'm so grateful when I receive anything. Glory to God. Hallelujah. So I'm thankful to have somebody in my life that actually gives gifts to me because I'm always the one usually giving gifts. But I'm, I'm appreciative. I got great gifts Watch this. The Bible says every good gift and perfect, free, large, full gift is from above. God says the most profitable— that word good is in Greek is profitable. So every profitable gift and every mature, free, large, and full gift— watch this— every gift that never leaves you empty, that that completely satisfies you, that cause you never to lack anything. He said that is from above. It's super, it's above, it's super. Glory to God. It comes out of a realm— watch this— even in having people in your life that you love, God sends you love from above. You know it's from above because you couldn't have did it on your own, and you probably wouldn't have did it on your own. But God will uniquely send you people that love you for love alone, and that comes from above. And you're never lacking, you're always satisfied, you, you're never broken in that area because inside of them is the fullness you need. Hallelujah! It comes from above, it's super. That's why you listen to me, you ought to be asking God for a super your spouse and stop looking in the flesh. I'm telling you right now, it ain't in the hips, the tips, the— oh my God— and the face and all the hair and all the little ways. And then you know that all the time. I mean, that's fine if that's what you want, but you better make sure inside of that there is something super that leaves you constantly full. And never wanting or desiring anything— oh my God— outside of that. I heard somebody say, well, one woman can't satisfy one man. I beg to differ. If God gives you the Superwoman, the one— if he provides the woman out of the families, and you don't provide it out of your flesh. Hallelujah! Because you don't know what you want anyway. Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord! If he provides it, that woman will satisfy you all the days of your life. I mean, I get it, you know. I know, I know you want that to be right, what you're saying, that, you know, God just wants us to be able to be full and we got to get down with other people. No, at the end of the day, that's not necessarily the truth if you trust God for the super. Oh, if you be patient, hallelujah, and wait for God to give you the super. Oh boy, watch this. It says this gift is from above. It comes down from the Father of all that gives life. So these, the good gifts that come from above, the super gifts come from God, and you cannot get these supernatural gifts if you do not have relationship with God, if you do not know him. Help me, Jesus. Oh, my time is almost gone, y'all. Let me run. The Message Bible of James 1:17 says, every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. So God says every gift that benefits you and that is desired— watch this— not out of your flesh, out of your spirit. Your spirit knows what you want when your flesh thinks you want something else. Oh, oh, I'm gonna leave that alone because I'm telling— I'm gonna live a witness, glory to God, that this is the truth, man. God will give you just what you need. Because he— and if you're in tune with your spirit and flow out of the spirit and not your flesh, you'll have good things all the time that benefits you. Glory to God. See, you got to understand, these good things that come from above— hear me— they come— watch Watch this, y'all. They come when the situation, when the paycheck, when the economy, when the job market, the stock market, and others are saying there's no way to meet this need, it is humanly impossible. God says, I'm gonna show up, hallelujah, and give you a super unlimited gift. Watch this, that there is no end to it and no way of rationing it. Oh, but this is huge, man. So when the world's resources are not enough, when your job resources are not enough, come on, when your paycheck and the economy says we can't do this, we can't buy this building, we can't buy this hospital, we can't start this, oh my God, massive center to clean up homelessness in our city, when the enemy starts telling you you don't have what it takes to do that, you got to look him in the face and say, my God does, and he has unlimited supply. But you got to know him. It can't— again, that can't even be out of your flesh. The dreams that you dream must be connected to the Jeremiah 1:5 conversation. Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you. The Yada conversation that you and God hung out and had. Glory to God. Before you here because you came to this planet packaged with potential, manufactured according to a purpose— watch this— and filled with a destiny that will ultimately leave a legacy. The reality is— we— that was good. I don't even know, I just said— listen, you— I'm gonna have to go back and listen to this myself. You gotta understand, you were packaged with potential. You got the ability to do everything you and God talked about in the, in the yada moment. Then he manufactured you according to the purpose. He designed you and assembled you fearfully and wonderfully, made you according to his plan and his assignment. Oh my God, for your life. Oh, oh my Lord, help us, Jesus. And then he brought you here with a destiny. Destiny. He, he, um, you were manifested and produced with a destiny, a destination that you must arrive at so you can ultimately leave legacy. See, legacy in its maximized terms of unlimited resources that's left to your children's children and their children's children, glory to God, is produced when you're on the assignment and you go to the right destination. People that die and leave bills instead of a will— oh my God— and don't have legacy, it's because they never pursued the right destination. Somebody lift your hands and say, Lord, help me to pursue the right destination. I'm almost done. There's no into it. You can't rationalize Here's this: God— hear me, and I'm moving— has unusual ways. Hallelujah. And unlimited avenues that supersede our natural limitations. God— there's no end, again, to the ways God can provide because he's transcendent, because he's imminent, He can involve himself and— oh my God— and plug himself into your culture, your situation, and release a level of provision that supersedes your ability. See, I see y'all out there, y'all rejoicing at what you do, and it's great. I mean, you ought to be happy about what you're able to accomplish. What more could you do if you really trusted in and hence unlimited provision. It's unlimited. As you go into this next year, I want you to go in with the idea— forget COVID, forget all the stuff everybody's saying— God's provision for healing is unlimited. Now, you ain't got to believe it, but it is. His provision for riches and wealth is unlimited, and his ways to get them to us is unlimited. but it starts with relationship. I want you to go into this year thinking about this. I'm almost done, y'all. Listen, faith— hear me— faith— and I'm getting out of here— is the thing that gives us access to the supernatural. Oh, glory to God. Let's go to Hebrews. I, I didn't plan this. Let's go to Hebrews. But I want to just give you a working definition of faith because I don't want to miss a turn on this, and I want you to get all of it. Hebrews. Glory to God. Notice it said Hebrews and not Shebrews. Yeah, so that means women, y'all stop making coffee. Yeah, Hebrews. No, I'm just kidding, I'm just kidding. That's just a joke. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Listen, watch this. Faith gets me into the supernatural. So watch this. What is faith, Michael Lyris Woods? Hebrews 11:1. Here's a working definition from the word. Now faith. So first of all, faith is always right now. So it's not tomorrow, it's not in the next second, it's now. Faith is now. Faith is from the Greek word pistos. Woo! And it means a conviction of the truth. Hallelujah. A total reliance in that conviction, a total dependence in that conviction. All right, now, all right, now it's a dependency on divine things. It's a— oh my God— openness to what the eyes cannot see. That's what pistis is. So let's break it down. Total reliance which means I— if I really got faith, I choose to totally rely on God. And you know, God has a way of putting us in position where we have no choice but to believe. If you start believing in your job more than you believe in God, and you stop making your confessions and trusting your job, and you making all this money at work work and you think that, you know, your, your career path is so sound about what you're gonna get at that job, God says, I got news for you, I'll take the job because I want you to know how powerful my unlimited resources are. And if he doesn't take it, what you do is you stagnate yourself inside of limitations because your trust is more in the job and what it provides than what God can provide. But faith is pistos in Greek, total reliance on God. Lord have mercy, man. Now faith is— now it's total reliance on God, is total dependence, is total trust in what the eyes cannot see. Faith literally is leaving what you can see to trust what you cannot see. Ah, Michael Woods, say it one more time, they didn't get it. It's leaving what your eyes can physically behold for what you cannot see. I, I, I, I remember a woman at Archie Dennis Church years ago. Archie Dennis is in Pittsburgh, and she testified, glory to God, about a man she had met. This man She got up and said this, she said, I had— I met a man in college. He was 6'5", 248 pounds of proportioned protoplasm, which means he was a good-looking man to her. Glory to God. She said that he was an excellent athlete and he got a contract, a $10 million contract with the Pittsburgh Pirates. And when they was in college, they they were in love. They spent a lot of time together. They would go shopping and they would window shop and dream together. And the relationship came to an end because this brother did not want to be saved. Well, once that happened, they parted ways, but he kept this woman in his heart. And when he got his $10 million contract, he called her on the phone and said, hey baby, Yes, I just signed a $10 million contract with the Pittsburgh Patriots. My God. Woo! And listen, I want all of our dreams to become a reality. First thing I did, I just opened the account in your name and I deposited $1 million. She said, oh really? He said, I know that you wanted that candy apple red Mercedes-Benz 500 SEL. I went out and I bought it cash for you, and I have the keys waiting. And I bought you a marble and glass condominium that overlooks Three Rivers Stadium so you can watch me play baseball from the balcony when I play home games. And I went out and I bought you that $10,000 sable mink coat that you used to dream about. And all I want is you to be in my life and for us to be together forever. She said, you know what, I always loved you and it was never about what you could give me. She said, I got one question for you. I, I'm appreciative that You did these things and you still love me. But can I ask you a question? Have you decided— come on, let's see— to follow Jesus? The baseball player said, listen, I ain't saying nothing about Jesus. I said I wanted you. And she told him, she said, hey, I still love you too, but if you can't follow Jesus, you cannot have me. And I said to myself, hearing that testimony, she left what she couldn't see. She left a car that she couldn't drive. My God, whoa! She left 6-foot— oh my God— 4, 248 pounds of proportioned protoplasm that she could hold in the midnight hour. She walked away from $1 million in her account. She walked away from a $10,000 sable mink coat that she could see. Oh my God, she walked away, glory to God, from a marble and glass condominium that overlooked Three Rivers Stadium for her to live in, glory to the name of God, and never worry about anything another day in her life. She walked away from all of that. A man she could see, a car she could drive, a coat she could wear, a house she could live in, money she could in for a God she ain't never seen. Oh God, for heaven she ain't never walked on. And I said to myself when I heard it, that's faith. And can I tell you something? You got some of that. Some of you listening to me today, you walked away from things that you wanted because you love God. You chose a life to follow him. Some of you walked away from men that you wanted money that you wanted, lifestyles that you could have had because you wanted to do it God's way. And God says your faith will be honored and it will unlock the realm of the supernatural. God, I got to go. My time is gone. Listen, I got to finish tomorrow. But now faith is the substance of things hoped for. Uh, hupostasis is the Greek word for substance. It literally means just the stuff. It's the stuff that things is made of. It's the material that the things you want is made of. You got to get out of the— oh my God— the realm of now and trust God in the realm of faith. He says the substance of things hoped for and the evidence that— oh my God— the evidence, the elenchos in Greek, this word evidence— oh my God— is proof It is proof that something is real. It is proof that it exists. So faith is the proof of what you don't see. You may not have it. I do a lot of traveling, and whenever I go somewhere, I book hotels in advance or Airbnb in advance, or wherever I'm going, I gotta stay somewhere, I book it in advance. And you know what they give me? They give me a confirmation number. And you know what, that confirmation number, even though I ain't seen the room yet, I ain't showed up in that city yet, it's proof that I got a room in that hotel. And there have been times— watch this— I got the hotel and they said, well, Mr. Woods, we oversold and we ain't got nowhere to put you. I'd say to them, listen, I don't know what you gotta do, build a room, move somebody out of the room, but there's a room for me in this hotel, and I suggest somebody find it quickly because I got proof. Hallelujah! I got proof, I got proof that I, I can stay here. Hallelujah! This is my proof, this confirmation number, it's my receipt, it's my deed. Faith is— it's already mine. So faith taps me into me into supernatural provision. It taps me into what I do not see. Listen, I'm closing right here, but let me tell you something. Hear this. If you put things off in time, hear this, and are looking through the natural progression of time, hear me, you cannot operate in the supernatural. If you live according to the realm of time and what you can see and chronology, you cannot tap into the supernatural and see the miracle that the supernatural brings. See, the supernatural only operates by faith, and faith is a higher law Then time— God wants to give you supernatural provision in this year to come. He wants you to have it. Listen, join me tomorrow and we're going to start talking about unlocking the realm or the dimension of super abundance. I love y'all. Listen, I tell you, I want to pray with you. Glory to God, my time's gone. I want to pray with you tonight, but before I do, I want to challenge every person listening to me. We're getting to cross over into 2022. Listen, I want every person that can— listen, I don't pull on you guys probably enough, but many of you listening to me tonight, you've been blessed by what we do over the last several years, many years. Some 30-year partners we have. I want every person listening to me to get a sacrificial seed. Some of you need to get a seed of $22. $222. But whatever your increment, I want you— $122, I want you to put a 22 in it. Listen, if all you got is $2.22, this is an opportunity to get seed in the ground before this year turns. I want you to set yourself up by faith. See, the Bible said he gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater. So I want you to sow. Matter of fact, there are 20 people listening to me right now that need to sow a seed of $222. And can I tell you something? That $222 is going to set you up for next year, for your future. That's going to be a supernatural release— watch this— of what's matriculating and accumulating in the heavens. I'll say it again, there's going to be a supernatural release of what's matriculating, accumulating in the heavens even now for you. Okay, so listen, get that seed in the ground. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Father, I thank you for every gift and every giver. Now give it back to every person a thousand times more. Let them know that sowing into the kingdom is the best investment they could ever make, and we praise you for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen and thank God. Oh yeah, I love y'all. Y'all so Wonderful. You're so amazing. Listen, the ways to give are on the screen. Plant your seed today. Listen, do it. Don't delay. Go and do it, whether it's by Cash App, online at our website, however you choose to do it. Get your seed in the ground. I love you guys with the love of the Lord. I want you to be praying for us as we have so many things on the table for our church, uh, for our international ministry. You know, there's some things that we, we pulled back from that we were doing in the past, and God has said, I need you to relaunch in these things and begin to focus on the harvest that is great. So we're going to begin to be deliberately apostolic, and we're going to begin to build in regions and see people born again and saved. We're going We're going to help pastors push for what God has called them to do. So be praying for us as we have these things in motion. Listen, we love you, man. My time is gone, but join me— I'm gonna finish this up tomorrow, actually. So make sure you join me again tomorrow night, and we're gonna keep plowing in supernatural provision. This revelation is rich, it's necessary. Is needed. Y'all be blessed, and remember, share the word with a friend. And remember this: Rada means dominion. I love you. Peace.