SUPERNATURAL PROVISION, PART 4: "THE CIRCLE OF PROVISION" | DR. MIKE WOODS, SR. | 02.05.2022

Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! Hey! ¡Gracias! Well, praise the Lord, and grace and peace be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. My name is Dr. Michael Lyris Woods, and welcome to today's edition of Rada. Now, I'm certainly grateful to God that you have taken the time out of your schedule and your day to share with us. I promise you, you won't be disappointed. Please, by all means, do not scroll, do not run away. There is something here for you. If by chance you stumbled up on this and you're watching right now, I want you to understand something. You did not do it by accident. As a matter of fact, we prayed for you and that you would be here with us on today. So please, by all means, do not leave us. As a matter of fact, I promise you, if you share this with someone else, you're going to be a tremendous blessing for their life. Listen, before we go any further, let's pray, and then we're going to jump right into today's teaching. I promise you again You won't be disappointed. Praise God. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you. This is the day, Lord. Hallelujah, that you have made. And dear God, we will rejoice and we will be glad in it. We thank you for an opportunity, dear God, to share your word. And we thank you, God, for revelation and truth. And Father, we ask you today that the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Spirit would be released over this stream or over this television program. However people are watching, I decree and declare, Lord, that they will be blessed by you and never impressed by me, that the light and illumination and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost would come forth even now and superimpose itself upon every person that's watching. Provision, and we give you praise for it now in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Hallelujah. Listen, thank you. Glory to God for joining us again. Listen, please share this if you haven't done it already. 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So every time, glory to the name of God, that you get a notification, you get an opportunity to increase your faith and to cause the things that we're sharing actually to become a reality in your life. Amen. So today I'm going to continue in the series Supernatural Provision, and this is part 4. And what we're going to talk about today is the the circle of supernatural provision. You know, a lot of people are not experiencing these principles I've been teaching about, and they're operating in a place of toil and labor, man. And life is really hard, you know. They're— but many of you are believers, you go to church, you pray, glory to God, and you're still not seeing results. And Part of the reason is, ladies and gentlemen, hear me, is that you're not in the circle. And you know, if you are in the circle of anything, ultimately the benefits of being in that circle should manifest, should come alive, right? Um, people who are connected to me in my circle, in my inner circle in particular— now I have a few different circles. Glory to God. And the benefits of each circle is different. I'm gonna tell you why. I have a circle that involves just my wife and I, and of course in that particular circle, the benefits my wife gets from being in that circle are different than anybody else. Glory to God. She gets things from me naturally, physically, and spiritually that no one else gets because she is in close proximity to me. All right. And vice versa. Me being in her circle alone, I get things from her that no one else gets. Right. And then there's a circle that we have that involves she and I, my children, which means Michael Jr., Peyton, Tyler, Benjamin, Kenley, and Alex, these are our children, and Kenley is our grandchild. There are benefits that they get from being in the circle that nobody else can get because they are in close proximity. There's another circle that includes Felicia and I, our children, and our ministry partners, our church members. There are benefits that those individuals get that others don't get. Now here's what I want you to understand. When you're in the circle of supernatural provision with God, there are benefits you're going to receive that people who are not in the circle will never get. Hear me. They will never have an opportunity to have because they're not in the circle. You cannot be in this circle, listen to me, if you don't know God. So listen, we're going to get into this teaching and it's going to be great today. Go ahead and share it. Hallelujah. And I'm telling you, I'm going to come back right after this video I'm about to play and I'm gonna jump all the way in this with both feet, with both feet. And I promise you, you're gonna be blessed. So go ahead and share it, watch the video that's about to play. It's gonna take a couple of minutes, but as you behold this video, and it just kind of introduced where we're going about the circle of supernatural provision and what it means to be in the circle, then I'm gonna be back to share this word from the Lord on today. And I promise you You're gonna be blessed. Peace. The lack of financial literacy has literally encaged a myriad of people around the world to be in what I call a poverty trap. Here's some facts. Many are experiencing poverty both spiritually and naturally naturally. That natural experience of poverty is often financial, and what it does, it causes many people to become discontent, to become discouraged, and it causes a lot of debt many times. A lot of times these frustrations lead to divorce and even death. The reality is God has an answer. It's called supernatural provision. Supernatural provision is the literal transition out of the realm of dependency on human ability, human intellect to provide for you what you need, and it is the transition into the realm of God's super abundance. And once you get in this realm, this place of abiding of God's super abundance, it begins to speak to a few things. One, it says, I am no longer merely surviving, but I am thriving. When I move into the realm of God's super abundance, it says I am flourishing and not failing. When I move into God's realm of super abundance, I have a faith that believes that supernatural provision consistently belongs to me. I understand that supernatural provision in this realm is an unlimited an overwhelming supply that comes from heaven. I realize when I move in this culture, in this realm, that provision is coming to me from a higher place. It's not limited to what I can produce. It's not limited to what man can give me. It comes from a higher way. As a matter of fact, in the the realm of God's super abundance. That, that I need is born from God's riches in glory. This realm of God's super abundance says I am not limited to this natural world. It says that I have a right to expect God to provide, and I in a position where I now believe that all things are possible in the realm of God's super abundance. My mind is being renewed to his supernatural abilities to provide, because I understand in this realm of God's super abundance that God is my supernatural Provider. Well, praise God! And yes, I pray, dear God, that you have a clear understanding or something really is ignited in you right now that you really want to experience The Supernatural Provision of God. And I want to reiterate, guys, listen, please do not miss any of these teachings this month. They're going to be absolutely and categorically phenomenal. So you want to make sure you're getting this word every time it pops up so that you can really begin to live in the realm of manifestation. So many times we live in the realm of concept. We hear it taught, we read it, we see it happening for others, and we grasp that it's a concept. But the reality is, most of the time, we never see the real manifestation of these promises in our life. So I'm grateful. Let's jump right into this. We've already prayed, and again, please share this if you have not already shared it. But today we're talking about the circle of supernatural provision, or the circle of supernatural abundance. And I'm telling you, when you're in this circle, supernatural provision is perpetual, it is constant, it is consistent, it is always concise, it is never late. Glory to God. It's always on time. So just to reiterate a few things that I've shared already in the past, we discussed, uh, starting in December, we started talking about 2022 being the year of knowing God better. And so I start teaching this series entitled It's in the Knowing. If you're on YouTube, go and watch it. On Facebook, go and watch it, because those messages are important because I brought out in that teaching that there were basically 5 things that should manifest in your life when you really know God. One was prophetic power. And we talked about how when you really get up close and personal with God and you have an intimate dichotomy with him where you literally are rubbing up against him in close proximity daily and in everything you do, prophetic power begins to emerge in your life and you begin to speak to situations and things, even to your future. And not only is it words, but the prophetic power becomes a living manifestation of what you say. So you got to go back and watch that teaching about knowing him, because in the coming months I'm actually going to do a series on prophetic power. Secondly, I told you that clarity of purpose is born out of knowing God. I started just a little bit on that last Sunday because I was preaching somewhere else and God had me actually begin to deal with the clarity of purpose and what it meant to live a life by design. We're going to revisit that in a separate series. But if you want to go back and watch that message from last week, it's on my timeline. Please go watch it because I promise you it'll give you a great idea of what it means to live life according to a supernatural schematic. All right. And then thirdly, we talked about how, you know, God is going to give you perfect peace. Yeah, it's going to give you perfect peace. And then number 4, we talked about how knowing God restores your dominion position. And again, we're going to go back and teach a whole series on perfect peace. We're going to teach a whole series on restored position because we want to make sure this year that we gain the benefits of really knowing God, not just being religious, right? And then number 5, I told you that knowing God God brings forth supernatural provision. So before— when we— as we get started today, I want to begin this deliberation tonight because this is where we're at, supernatural provision. And what I want to talk to you about again is the circle of supernatural provision, how to get in that circle and how to keep provision constantly flowing into your life. Somebody say constantly it flowing into my life. So as we get started today, I want to read really a word from the Lord that was uttered in the year of 1978 from Charles Capps. And Charles Capps is an apostolic general of the faith, a very anointed man of God who literally saw miracles, signs, and wonders in his life and ministry, basically his whole life. Right. If you want to know Charles Capps, just Google him. But he was a general in the faith and certainly an apostle of faith. Glory to God. And I'm going to put this word up on the screen. And as we do, I want you to look at it. I'm going to read it, listen to the word, and then we're going to just begin to kind of unpack this prophetic teaching today so it can be helpful to you. So let's, let's read this word from the Lord. Praise God. Hallelujah. So Charles Capps said these words. He said, financial inversion shall increase in these days, for you see, it is my desire to move in the realm of your financial prosperity. But release me, said the Lord. Hear this. Release me that I may come in your behalf and move in your behalf. My God, as men walk in my word, so shall they walk in the ways of the Lord. Oh yes, there will be some who say yes, but God's ways are higher, surely higher than our ways, and we can't walk in those ways It's true that the ways of God are higher. They are higher than your ways, as the heavens are above the earth. But I will teach you my ways, said the Lord. I never did say you couldn't walk in my ways. Now learn to walk in it. Whoo! Learn to give. So shall the inversion of the financial system revert. And so shall it be that the gospel of the kingdom shall be preached to all the world, and there shall be no lack in the kingdom. Those who give shall walk in the ways of the supernatural Says the Lord. And this was a word from the Lord again, from the mouth— oh my God— of Charles Capps in the year of 1978. And how true is this today? Glory to God that we find ourselves needing supernatural provision, supernatural abundance that comes from Heaven. So the circle of supernatural provision literally is what's going to engage us in that financial inversion. And the first thing we really have to do is understand the Heavenly exchange system. How do we literally experience and encounter God's riches in glory? Again, the scripture teaches us that God would supply our need according to his riches in glory. How do we actually get those riches, that wealth, that glory into our life? And many of you probably saying, Michael Lyris Woods, does it really exist? I want to tell you, yes. It does exist. I'm a living witness of how that supernatural provision can literally and actually provide for your life. But you got to believe it, man. You got to believe it and you got to trust that it's real. And you got to trust that there is an exchange system that exists between heaven and earth that brings his riches in glory through Christ Jesus into your life. The first piece is you gotta have Christ in your life, and you gotta believe that Jesus Christ is Lord, and you gotta believe that what Jesus has— hear me— you have. What Jesus has also belongs to you. And if you believe anything other than that, you're not gonna grasp what I'm teaching. You're never gonna receive this, and you're gonna always connect your financial growth or your financial increase to toil, to the curse of the law, to labor that comes through the sweat of your brow. And I'm not disdaining work. We, we gotta work. That's a part of success. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. The reality is, are you actually working or laboring? Because work comes through operating in the realm of purpose, doing what God tells us to do. Work is by faith, and you do what God tells you to do, and he releases the resources because you put in the work of faith, not labor, to produce supernatural results. So let's talk about this circle of supernatural provision and actually how we get inside of it, okay? First of all, we have to understand that there is a realm inside of this, y'all, that's connected to giving. Now I'm about to drop something that none of y'all like to talk about. There are two things that people hate to discuss. One is sex and the other is money. They're taboo subjects, and people don't want to discuss them. The reality is, although you may not want to discuss them, it doesn't mean that it doesn't need to be talked about. Because reality, most of you, while you don't want to discuss it, you want a whole lot of both of them. You want a lot of sex and a lot of money. The only way you're going to have a great sex life in your marriage is you have discussions about how to make that sex life great, right? The only way you're going to have a great financial— oh my God, bottom line— and live in wealth, live in riches, you got to take the position of a learner. You got to have discussions like we're having today about money, about giving. So the reality is, to get in the system, you got to accept that giving is a part of it. And the richest person on the planet, whether they give to the church or not— watch this— have tapped into the reality, the principle of giving that has positioned them to continually experience wealth, because the principle works. When you give, it comes back to you. Let's look at the scripture, glory to God, as it is found in Galatians 6, verses 7 and 8. Glory to God. The Bible says, for whatsoever man sows, that only will he reap. Whatever a man sows, that— and I'm reading out of the Amplified Bible— and that only shall he reap. For he who sows to his own flesh, lower nature, sensuality will from the flesh reap decay and ruin and destruction. But he who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life. My God, here I'm gonna say this again because it's all right to read the Bible. For whatever a man sows— let's stop right there. The word sows, the Greek word, it's sperma, sperma. Or sperme, is where we get the English word sperm. It literally means a release that sets life in motion. The moment the seed is released from the hand or the body of the sower, life is set in motion. It has to make connection. Watch this. With the proper soil, the proper ground. He says, for whatever a man sows, whatever you choose to release, that and only that will you reap. Okay, so if you sow an apple seed into fertile ground, hear me, you're not going to reap oranges. You're going to reap apples. Amen. Yeah. If you sow orange seed into fertile soil, corn seed into fertile soil, you're gonna reap oranges from the orange seed and corn from the corn seed. You sow watermelon seed, you're only gonna get watermelons back, right? The Bible says if you sow, release life, life, come on now, from your flesh, your lower nature, you're only going to release decay and destruction. Wait a minute, but when you sow to the spirit, so the spirit is inside of the circle of supernatural provision, come on. From the spirit, you're going to reap eternal life. So the harvest that comes from you sowing to the spirit— hear me, oh my God, oh my God— and giving to God, it is eternal, it is consistent, it's perpetual. Oh my God, it never stops because it's supernatural. So you got to make sure that you are on the same page with the spirit realm in your giving. You should not be sowing things into bad ground, into bad people, into bad situations. You should not be giving in places where God did not tell you to give. Oh boy. So let's start right there. So if you are a believer or not, I want you to understand first off today that tithing is a supernatural act, and it is the most important piece. It is the substratum of how we give in the heavenly system of exchange. Change. It is what God is asking of us so that we can keep the supernatural provision going. Now, there are so many people out here that are gonna disagree with this because they don't want to tithe. But listen, I'm telling you right now, the tithe is a supernatural act and it produces super— natural results. I'm talking to you as a tither. And listen, if you don't tithe, the Bible says you're cursed. And I've seen it too many times, people living under the curse asking for a blessing, knowing what— there's a difference if you don't know this, but if you know it and not do it, you're being disobedient. And when you know better you should do better. But if you're operating under the curse and transgressing against God's way of doing things, it's going to be hard because the Bible says the way of a transgressor is hard. Oh boy, don't scroll please, because if you're connected in the kingdom, your tithe is your kingdom tax. Hear me, you— many of you are employed by employer, and before you get your in— oh my God, your income, the IRS taxes that income, which is called income tax. They tax it off of your gross earnings, and usually what you bring home is your net. So I would think that if you're going to give God tithe, you should give him his kingdom tax before anybody gets it, because the scripture says that you should bring the first fruits of your increase to God, right? So you should give it to him off the gross. So let's read Malachi 3:10 through 12. Glory to God. All right, the Bible says, bring all the tithe, the whole tenth of your income, into the storehouse that there may be food in my house. And prove me now by it, saith the Lord, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour you out a blessing. That there shall not be room enough to receive it. And I will rebuke the redevourer, insects and plagues. Oh my God. For your sakes. And he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground, neither shall your vine drop its fruit before the time in the field, said the Lord. Oh my God. Of hosts, and all nations shall call you happy and blessed, for you shall be a land of delight, says the Lord of hosts. Wait a minute. So the Bible says bring all the tithes, the whole 10th of your income. So 10% of what you make belongs to God. So if you make $100,000 of the year annually, You righteously, you only make $90,000 because $10,000 of that $100,000 belongs to God. If you believe in the system of giving and receiving, if you believe in heaven's system of exchange between heaven and earth. So if you want to be in the circle of supernatural provision, you got to bring God the whole 10th. Right, come on church, come on man. I'm telling you, God can bless you more than you can ever bless him. I'm gonna say that again, God can bless you more than you can ever bless him. He wants the whole tenth, right? Okay, so if you're listening to me today and you remember Rhoda Church or any local church That whole tent belongs to God and you administer it or you disseminate it through God's storehouse, which is his local church. So, oh my God, you— so if you're out here on social media listening to podcasts or following preachers online and you're sowing money, you're partnering with ministries, but you're not tithing to a local storehouse, you have broken the circle. Oh my God. Oh my God. Because what you sow outside of your tithe really can't be blessed unless the tithe is in place in first priority in the circle. Because tithing again is a supernatural act. He said, I want you to take care of my storehouse so there can be food in my house, so that the leader in the house can eat, and so that the house itself can survive. The priests in the— oh my God— in God's house lived from the tithe. Y'all don't like to hear that, but at the end of the day, That's how it should be set up. So glad I have enough sense to understand I can't live off what people give me, although I should be able to. At the end of the day, thank God for our understanding of investments, understanding of creating wealth for myself outside of the church, because I can't live off what people do because people won't grab the system them. Some people can. I can't. So at the end of the day, I'm glad I understand that. And one part of my life, I live solely off what people did, and I didn't have the life I have now. Glory to God. And so y'all pray for me and pray for those that will be connected to what I'm called to do, that they'll grab this. Glory to God. But I'm gonna constantly create other streams because that's a part of who I am as an apostle. I'm an apostle of wealth, so I have to create other entrepreneurial streams so I can teach others how to do that as well. Now, but here's what I want you to understand. The substratum of the circle of supernatural provision is tithing, because tithing is a supernatural act. Hear me good. I'm almost done, y'all. I promise you. He says, I want you to do this so there'll be food in my house. He said, prove me with it, said the Lord of Hosts. He said, because if you be obedient in this, I'm gonna open the windows of heaven for you and pour you out a blessing. Not a whole bunch of blessings, but a blessing. In other words, God is saying, once I open the windows of heaven, like, and, and what I visualize in this, like bank teller windows. Glory to God! That gives you access to the storehouse of God, and God pours out a blessing that's more than enough. Hallelujah! To take care of everything you need. He said you're not gonna have room to receive it. You— in other words, your present state doesn't have enough capacity to receive what God wants to to pour out over you if you'll get in the circle and be consistent in your tithing. He said, I'm going to rebuke the devourer for your sake. Wait a minute, we just read it. The devourer, the one that will— the insects that can devour your crop, to eat up your fruit, to eat up your harvest. Ever seen, as soon as you get some money, as soon as it comes in, it's gone? Hear me good, man. Hear me good. Soon as it come in, it's gone because you didn't tithe. Because you don't understand that tithing is a supernatural act of giving. How many really tithe off your PPP checks and tithe off all of the increase that came into you? And soon as you got the money, gone because you did not exercise faith in God and tithe into his system, into his circle. Soon as you got a lump sum of money in your hand, it's gone, it's devoured. But God says, I'll rebuke that. And instead of you being devoured and your harvest being eaten up— wait a minute— by insects and plagues, by COVID affecting your business affecting your life. Come on. If you're in the circle of provision, plagues and disease can't affect your harvest. I see people saying they're prospering in the pandemic. I wonder if they really are. They just something to say. But at the end of the day, you should have been prospering in a pandemic. You should have continued to increase and grow in a pandemic. A lot of— no, my wife and I, we kept prospering. We got cars, we've been to Hawaii, we've kept traveling, we kept getting blessed with money because we're obedient to the circle of supernatural provision. Are you hearing me? God have mercy. If you keep doing what God tells you to do and stop making excuses God will bless you continually in the circle of supernatural provision. He said, I rebuke the devil for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruit of your ground, neither shall your vine drop its fruit before time in the field. In other words, you won't manifest things prematurely, but the things that you're carrying will come forth in the right season at the right time, and they will yield a profit for you. This scripture is about you living in a profitable state. See, a lot of people talk about digital currency, uh, the stock market, forex, and I'm invested in all of those things. Well, listen, let me tell you something. The greatest investment I have is in my portfolio, is my ability to be a tither, is to consistently keep giving to God the place I'm sitting in right now in my life, I can sit here and honestly trust that God is taking care of me because of what I have in the ground, because I understand I'm in the circle and I cannot live in lack at all. Oh my God. Matter of fact, somebody ought to say that right now. Say this. Say, I'll never be broke another day in my life. Say, all of my needs, they are met supernaturally, beyond, above my ability, and I have whatsoever I say. Say, I live in the circle of supernatural provision. I need you to believe that right now and give God some praise for it. In Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Yeah, I release the blessing of the Lord on your life today that makes rich and adds no sorrow. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Because God says, I want you profitable. I want you happy. I want you blessed. This text says he wants you living in a space, glory to God, that all nations— hear this— will call you blessed and happy, for you shall be a land of delight. God wants to prosper you so that when others see you, they call you blessed. Not for your arrogance and pride, but so that God can get the glory out of your life. Not so you can feel good about who liked your picture or who's following you. No, he wants to get the glory out of your life so people can be led to him, so people can see him as a good, good father. Yes, he is. He's a good, good father. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The earth is the Lord's, the fullness thereof, them and they that dwell therein. He's a good, good father, and he wants you in the circle. Let me show you how tithing is a supernatural act. Let's look at another passage of scripture, Genesis 14:20, and I'm gonna read a portion of Genesis 15:1. Watch this. The Bible says, after he tithed, talking about Abram, The word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision. Hear this, saying, fear not, Abram, I am your shield, your abundant compensation, and your reward shall be exceedingly great. Wait a minute, not before he tithed. The scripture says, and after he tithed. Let me show you the first thing that happened after he tithed. So it's not just about money, it's about the relationship as well. See, people don't understand this, that the word of the Lord, hallelujah, is always connected to sacrifice at some level, even if you're just sacrificing your time in prayer. But right here it's talking about actually Abraham moving in— oh, Abram moving in obedience releasing his tithe, his tenth, which is holy unto God, which belongs to God anyway. It's just simply really giving somebody something that's already theirs. After he did it, the Bible said the word of the Lord came to Abram. What happened? Supernatural. God spoke. You never heard God speak? You never engaged him, get in the circle. You never had a— I'm not talking about you made up something and said it was God, but I'm talking about, you know, for real, that God spoke to you. He spoke to you. You heard his voice. You know his voice because you're his sheep, and a stranger you will not follow. Oh my God, you You know God spoke to your spirit and the Holy Spirit communes with you daily. But the Bible said he did this after his act of obedience in tithing. The word of the Lord came to Abraham in a vision. Hallelujah. So the word came in a vision. Harzan in Hebrew is that word vision. Woo! And it means, it's where we get words like horizon. A horizon is— oh my God, it's the moment between sun, sunset. Hallelujah. The sun is still up and still down. It's actually— it's going down. It's the edge. It's the separation of night and day. Glory to God. It's the end of a thing. And so the word of the Lord came to show Abram a clarity, an end. It's a prophetic end. It's a prophetic utterance that says this is where you're going. If you're cloudy, if you're foggy, and you have not had a vision of the end— God declares the end from the beginning— maybe it's because you're not a tither, you're not in the circle. God speaks to those who in the circle of supernatural provision. And he promises them, hear me, that one, he says, I am your shield. So tithing released a word of assurance that God would protect Abram. Maybe you're fearful of life, of your economic condition, of your relationship status, of— oh my God— of how you will be taken care of. Maybe you're fearful right there because you're not a tither. Ooh, ooh. Because if you were in the circle, God would assure you that he is your shield. He is the one that's going to protect you. He's the one that's going to cover you. And you trust that and you believe it. Not in your job, no, not in humans. You trust that God will protect you because you're moving in obedience to what he told you to do concerning tithing. Oh, some of you are afraid that you're gonna die die of COVID because you don't die. That's why, because you don't have a covenant connection. You're not in the circle. And this ain't just about money. You don't believe God can provide healing. You believe you're gonna die cancer. And then, oh, some of us, we all of us got to go this way. We're gonna get sick and die. Some gonna kill you, honey. Diabetes, high blood pressure, you're gonna die of something. No. Maybe. How about die when it's time for you to die and God be the one that actually takes your life? Watch this. Everybody that's dead, hear me, God did not kill them. I'mma let that marinate. Don't you get up at another funeral and say, oh, it was just their time. And they got their wings and they're just flying with the Lord now. Now, some of these people that's gone, it wasn't their time. Some folk that's dead died because food killed them. They had no discipline. They died— oh my God— because they refused to change their diet and exercise even after the doctor told them. Oh my God, help us! That's murder by food. Some of them died because they took too many drugs. Some died because they drank too much alcohol. God didn't do that. Ah, shaman de osi. Some things God just didn't do. Some things we— oh my God— did to ourselves. Some people that died at the hand of a gunman didn't die— hear me— because it was their time. It was— they died because of the ignorance and the evil of that person pointing the gun. If you die before you finish your purpose, that's murder. That's not— that's a premature death. But God says if you be in the circle I'll provide life for you. Hallelujah. I'll be your shield. I'll protect you from things. Hear me, that's trying to take you out before you inherit the promise of God for your life. He says, I'm your shield. Watch this, I'm your abundant compensation. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. He said, I'm your abundant compensation. Wait a minute, what do you go to work for? To get what? Compensated. You get up in the morning, you go work a job so you can get compensation. You want compensation so you can enjoy life, right? God says if you tithe— after Abram tithed, the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision saying— so the word was in a vision and it said, fear not, don't be afraid, I'm your shield. Don't be afraid of someone killing you or death. Don't be afraid of going broke. Because I'm gonna be your abundant compensation. Why? Because you're in the circle. Again, I said in the beginning, there are some things that happen in certain circles connected to me that don't happen in other circles because people are not connected properly. Oh my God, there are people in my circle that I take and give them favor in certain areas. Just something as simple as sharing my seats at the Hawks game. I never take someone to the game with me and charge them for the ticket, and my seats are 7 rows off the floor. It don't matter whether it's a playoff game, whether it's a regular game, my seats have a certain level of expense to them. But I never charge people in my circle to go to basketball games with me. I've had people ask, well, what's the cost of the ticket, Dr. Woods? No, that's a part of being in my circle. Listen, if you're in God's circle, you get to experience abundant compensation. Wow. Then he said, and your reward shall be exceedingly great. Wow. So God says, not only am I going to take away your fear and give you a faith in me because you are a tither consistently because you're in the circle, because you're hearing from me. You know I'm real because you're in the circle. You're not guessing, you know, right? And when you really know God, you're gonna tithe, you're gonna do what's right because you know he real, you know he's not playing games. You don't listen to the crap where people out here making excuses, creating websites that go against tithing and telling you that tithing is a lie. That's foolishness. Man. And most of those people are broke and struggling, right? So you got to understand, tithing is a supernatural act. It produces protection, abundant compensation. God can compensate you greater than any other source on the planet. It produces an exceedingly great reward. Which means it's going to be a reward that's greater than anything in the earth realm can award you. Let me give you an example of something, of how tithing really is a supernatural act, right? I'm gonna give you two examples. One is an example of someone I know, and I said to them, I said, you need to begin to be a consistent tither. You need to get in the circle. I say every time we talk and we go through counseling about financial issues that you're dealing with, it points back to your inconsistency— inconsistency, sorry— in tithing. I said if you start tithing consistently over the next 3 months, God is going to supernaturally begin to eliminate the debt in your life. Well, this person obeyed. Watch this, and I'm gonna show you something. It's crazy how this works because tithing works. The person started tithing consistently, did not miss one opportunity to tithe into good ground down every single pay period. Did it like clockwork, trusted God in obedience, right? Two major student loans that was lingering on this person's credit report. They had been paying small payments on it, trying to knock it down, trying to knock down, just couldn't seem to get it paid off. But then, bam, after 90 days of consistent tithing, the student loans were wiped out totally and gone forever from the person's credit report. Now that balance is totally zero because God— hear me— provided. Let me give you another example. God spoke to me, and you know, I, I tried to be— because I want Roddell Church, which is the baby church of all the churches I've ever planted in my life. Roddell Church is a very baby church in Atlanta, Georgia, and I'm excited to be the pastor. All right, so, but I tried to make it a church that has faith testimony. So as much as possible, I try not to put my hand in bailing it out of projects financially. So God tells us to do something, I want to have the testimony, not that I showed up with my money and did it. I want God to get all the glory for what he does and manifests and reveals in our ministry, right? So God spoke to me some specific instructions, and he said, son, I want to expose the church. All right. I want you to do some things you have not done for this baby church because I want people to know where you are. I want to add to the church daily, such as would be saved. I want to empower saints that have not engaged who you are on another level. And this is how I want you to do it. One, I want you to buy some TV time. On a major television network. Two, I want you to do some outside advertising that includes billboards, that includes posters inside of malls, and I want you to do this project immediately. And I said, okay, as usual, I prepare to just pay for it, you know, because again, I wasn't going to church, touch the money in the church's account to do it. I said, I'm I'm just gonna— let's just do it, let's just get it done. The Lord said, no, you're not gonna do it, and I'm gonna make sure you don't do it. I want to do this supernaturally for the church. He said, all I want you to do is tithe this amount on this particular stream, and when you do it, I'm going to release a supernatural blessing for the church that's going to take care exactly what you need. What we needed to do was going to cost us initially about $20,000 to get done. Let me tell you something. We've signed the contract for the billboards. We've signed the contract for the mall signs. Hallelujah. We've signed the contract for opening our DeKalb County campus. We have signed the contract, glory to God, for television Vision. And I'm telling you right now, the $20,000 that we needed was provided supernaturally. Ah, it wasn't any sweat in it. God did it because we participated in the circle and obeyed a supernatural back. See, many of you are struggling in ministry. Some of y'all struggling because you shouldn't be pastoring or doing that what you trying to do anyway. That's why it's hard, and you spending most of your money doing— y'all like to hear that, but you know, just do what you're supposed to do. See, the way of a transgressor is hard. It's hard because you ain't supposed to be doing that. Now, now, I love you, I really do, but you got to be where you because where God guides, he provides, right? So you got to get in the circle so God can provide what needs to be provided because you're obedient and following instructions, man. Hallelujah! Glory be to God! God will give you more than enough to take care of what you need to do, but you gotta participate in the supernatural act of tithing. I'm getting very close. Second thing in the circle: sowing is a supernatural act. Again, these are two key elements inside of the circle, or the supernatural heavenly exchange system. So as you're sowing as you're tithing, money, provision is accumulating for you to always have access to. See, the supernatural supply in Christ Jesus comes through our salvation and our obedience to the righteous plan that Christ has set up. Up so we have access to the supply. And I know some people say, well, God want to bless everybody. He does, but you got to do your part. It doesn't change what you should do. And whether you got a little bit or a lot, if you make $100 a week, you need to be giving God $10 a week, period. It's a supernatural act. And believe in God that you're a part of the circle. It's not, oh my God, oh my God. It's an equal sacrifice on behalf of everybody in the circle. You may not have— you may not make $1,000 a week to tithe off $1,000, but if you make $100, you can tithe all that. Come on, man. It's the exchange system, and God will bless you equally because you move in obedience. So when it comes to sowing, it's another piece to the circle, to the supernatural paradigm of releasing supernatural provision. God wants to bless you. Hear me, guys, hear me good. Let's go to 2 Corinthians 9 and 6. Ah, God. The Bible says this, and I'm reading from the Amplified Bible. Remember this: he who sows sparingly and grudgingly will also reap sparingly and grudgingly. And he who sows generously, that blessings may come to someone, will also reap generously with blessings. Wait a minute. First of all, he says, remember this, keep this in your mind, don't forget it, remember it. Your mind has two functions: memory and imagination. Your memory replays the events of the past or replays what has been learned. Your imagination preplays the future. All right. All right, so he says, I want you to put in your memory bank, remember, replay this learning, that who sows sparingly and grudgingly will also reap sparingly and grudgingly. So if you sow sparingly you're gonna get back in proportion to how you sow. Your harvest is always proportionate to your seed. When he's talking about sowing, he's talking about your seed, whether that be love sparingly, joy sparingly, peace sparingly and grudgingly, whether it be money sparingly and grudgingly He said that's how it's coming back. But if you sow generously, bountifully, hallelujah, that others can be blessed through your giving, which you— when you sow, you should sow with attitude that you want somebody to be blessed with the seeds you're giving them. And you should do your very best sacrifice every single time. Come on, man, because this is how the blessing flows in the circle. Some of you only get sparing blessings back because that's how you give. I love my wife. My wife, man, from the day I met her, before we got married, before I even knew she was my wife, she actually was a member of our church. I never dated her as a member of our church, never. Never. She'll tell you that. That's the honest God truth. There never was any flesh. There never was any, uh, any malice, any things that shouldn't have been going on going on in that relationship, because she was a member and she was a faithful member. But here's the, here's the catch: she was a giver. She always gave. She always was obedient. Watch this, not just to the church But I have literally seen her give things to people by Christmas for people who are in need. Take care of other folks' children, take people into her house because this is who this woman is. Now, listen to me. Because she's that kind of person, the season of harvest that is now upon her It's phenomenal. God, God released a word to us just this week and said, and we're blessed, trust me, that 2022 was going to be a year of supernatural riches for us like we've never seen it. And that the things that he's about to overtake us with is going, oh my God, to be the greatest harvest we've ever seen in our lives. Trust me, I believe that with my whole heart. Oh my, Simandi Sukalabaya. But I know it's because of the level of giver she is and the level of giver I am. She'll tell you I'm always giving somebody something, but at the end of the day, we sow bountifully so we can reap bountifully. I'm telling you right now, no matter what, and no matter what level of finances you are at, you need to learn how to make sacrifices so you can keep accumulation in the circle available to you so that when you need something, it's automatically supplied. You're not waiting around for the supply. The supply is there because you've got seed in the ground. Watch this, your seed leaves leaves your hand, but it never leaves your life. I'll say that again. Your seed leaves your hand, but it never leaves your life. It leaves your hand, goes into your future, and watch this, parks in the circle waiting for your arrival, so that when you need the harvest, the multiplication of that seed is there. Oh my God. That's 2 Corinthians 9:6. If you sow sparingly, you reap sparingly. But if you sow generously, bountifully, that blessings may come to someone else, you will reap generously and with blessings. This is just the key, man. Sowing is a supernatural act. Watch this, verse 7. 7 of the same chapter, 2 Corinthians 9:7. It says, let each one give as he has made up his own mind and purpose in his heart. So in other words, the Bible says here, make up your mind and in your heart to give generously. Oh my God. And bountifully so that others can be blessed. Come on. He says not reluctantly, come on, or sorrowfully, or under composure. In other words, you should never feel pressured to give a certain way. Listen, don't— I'm telling you right now, I know, you know, many times we've been in church, and I have raised many offerings in my life and challenged people to give and challenge their faith. And, you know, I just believe that God will give us opportunity to push people into new realms. But here's what I want you to understand: you should never give under pressure because you don't want to hinder the circle. You should give by faith and purpose in your heart that I know is right for me to give $1,000. I know it's right for me to sow a $5,000 seed or $800 seed or whatever God is is saying— watch this. Oh boy, tough group. Y'all ain't even in here with me, but I know it's tough. I know y'all, I know y'all drawing up because you don't like to give, but you want money, you want to be blessed. Oh my God. He said, but don't do it under pressure. Do it because you purpose in your heart that it's right to sow big seeds and that there's a blessing that comes from Watch this. For God loves, he takes pleasure in, he prizes above other things and is unwilling to abandon or to do without a cheerful, joyous, prompt-to-do-it giver whose heart is in his giving. Did y'all hear that? I'm— let me read it again. He said God loves, he takes pleasure in— this is Amplified, 2 Corinthians 9:7. Prizes above other things and is unwilling to abandon or to do without a cheerful, joyous, prompt-to-do-it giver whose heart is in his giving. God says, wait a minute, first of all, I love, I take pleasure in, I prize above all other things a hilarious Hilarious in Greek is where we get words like hilarious. Hilarious. Oh my God, a giver. Hallelujah. That is excited and prompt to do it. That doesn't need to be pressured. I'm trying to teach you how to stay in the circle. No one should— you know why God will speak to a prophet that there are 20 people in a room that need to give? $100 or $500? Because there are people that never did it and never really thought on that level. It's to get them thinking and to get their heart aligned with how God wants them to give. But even in that, you should be joyous in doing it. But watch this, if you, you don't want lines, and as people say, and people don't like this, but it's all scripture. If you read through the Old Testament, God God would ask people to bring purple, gold, silk, linen, and he would, he would divide people in doing it based on economy. I could teach a whole lesson on that, but people, because they don't want to give that way, they don't like that way of offerings. But at the end of the day, that's a whole nother thing. This really never has to happen. God— now I knew I got some people gonna do it anyway because, you know, they just want to do it that way, and that's not necessary. I'm not going to ask anybody for anything if God don't tell me what to say. But I would rather not— I would rather everybody be mature enough to purpose in their heart to be a hilarious giver, to understand that this is the circle of supernatural provision. And you already got in your heart, I'm bringing a thousand to the Lord. You know, you know, my my goal in life is every time I'm in any service that my normal seed is $10,000 every time I walk in the door, whether I'm at a conference, whether I'm in a regular church service. Hear me? That's my minimum goal, to make sure that I I can give that at least every single time. Now, if God calls for $25,000, if he calls for a million-dollar seed, I've already purposed in my heart that I'm gonna do what he says, and I'm gonna do it cheerfully and not growl. I'm gonna be like, oh my God, I just gave a million. No, no ma'am, no sir. I know the advantage of putting that kind of seed in the ground and the accumulation in the circle waiting to provide for me. Now, I'm not going to give it to somebody that's undeserving. I'm not going to plant it in bad ground. I'm going to plant it where God tells me, and I'm going to do it with great joy. Hoo-wee! Boy, I tell you, I got to get out of here. He says, I'm unwilling to abide abandon or do without this person. God says these kind of believers are necessary to keep the circle strong, to be examples to each other, to sharpen one another in the things of God. Lord, I got to go, but let me read verse 8, please. Oh my God. Let me read verse 8 and 9. My God. I'm just gonna read verse 8. And God is able to make all grace, hear this, every favor and earthly blessing come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be, self-sufficient. Possessing enough to require no aid, no support, and furnished not in— not sparingly, but in abundance for every good work and charitable donation. So God says, look here, I got the— God's ability, God's resources is not in question. It's our obedience that's in question. God's ability to supernaturally provide— supernaturally provide— is not in question. It's our obedience to trust him to do it. He says, I'm able to make all grace, every favor and earthly blessing, come to you in abundance. He said, I want to do that. It's in the circle. He says, so that you may always, and under all circumstances, and whatever the need be, self-sufficient. You require no help You require no support. You ain't begging. You ain't got your hands out. You're always furnished in abundance for every good work. Watch this, and charitable donation. God says, I want to give you money to invest in good companies. I want to give you money to sow into good churches, good ministry. I want to give you money, glory to the name of God, to help the homeless, to feed the homeless. To help those that are without, to help end AIDS, to help research with cancer. I want you to sow into good works. He says, I'm able to make my grace come to you for that, but you gotta find yourself in the circle. The Bible says in the Old Testament that Isaac— oh my God— planted crops in that land, and the same year reaped a hundredfold. A hundredfold, hear me, is 10,000%. So he sold and reaped 10,000%. What bank you know paying 10,000%? What stock, what cryptocurrency, what Bitcoin is paying out 10,000%? I'm gonna tell you, none of them. And I got a good portfolio. Folio. None of them paying out that. But if you get in this circle of God's kingdom economy— glory, shemaiah! Glory to God! He said, I, I'm gonna give you 10,000%. Watch this, because I bless you. Abraham said Isaac planted crops in the land, and that same year reaped a hundredfold because the Lord God blessed him. The man became rich, and his wealth continued to grow until he became very wealthy. Listen, I don't know about you, but I'm gonna keep investing in the kingdom. I'm gonna keep giving. I'm gonna keep trusting God with my tithe. I'm gonna keep giving God what belongs to him until I become very wealthy. Wealthy. I'm telling you, God wants to make you rich, and he wants to keep growing it until you become very wealthy. But you gotta tap into the system. Some of y'all so scared the preacher gonna get something, you're so scared the preacher gonna get a car. Listen, it ain't even about all that. I buy my own cars, I buy my own clothes. Glory to the name. I take my own trips with my own money. Let me tell you something, You need to invest in the kingdom of God. The bottom line of this whole teaching today is that supernatural sowing, supernatural tithing produces supernatural provision. And you need to get on the man wagon and start Sowing. Listen, I'm closing, I'm done, but I want you to know something today. Listen to me, that you heard this message either by podcast, YouTube, Facebook, because you need to get seed in the ground. Listen, don't do this if you ain't tithing to your church. The first thing I want you to do is tithe to your church. Give the church. And if you ain't a church member nowhere, I want you to tithe the Rhoda Church. Take 10% of your income and tithe right now. The ways to give is on the screen. If you're a member of this church, you need to tithe right now. And I don't want you to do it because the preacher is asking. I want you to do it because it's a supernatural act. Secondly, I want you to sow seed today into ministry. I want every person that has heard this message to get a seed of $222 if you can. If you can't do $222, I want you to make a— if $222 is a sacrifice, I want you to sacrifice it. If you don't have $222 to sacrifice, I want the next tier, I want you to sacrifice $22. Now if $22 is it's not a sacrifice, don't do that. I want you to be honest because I want you to do it as a supernatural act. The ways to give are on the screen: rhodachurch.com/donateonline or Cash App, simply Rhoda Church. This money goes straight to our church. Hallelujah! It helps us do what God has called us to do. We're returning to in-person worship the first Sunday in March. In our Lithonia location, 2224 Panola Road. Glory to the name of God in Lithonia, Georgia. You want to be in the house. God is going to bless us tremendously. We're going to start that service at 4 PM in the afternoon. You can visit our website, rhodachurch.com/worship, and you'll be able to see all the information about our return to worship on Sunday, March 6th. Listen, get your seed in the ground now. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, thank you for this word. Thank you for the circle of supernatural provision. I thank you that there are many listening to me now who are repenting. Father, I pray for the spirit of repentance for not tithing. I ask you to break the curse, God. They haven't been tithing. They haven't been doing it faithfully, God. But I pray today that they will tithe that 10th off of their income, off of their income tax, off of what you bless them with, so that they can be in the supernatural circle of provision. And I thank you for it now. I pray, God, that they will be obedient in their sowing, right now, and that you will multiply it 100-fold, even as you did for Isaac, 10,000%, and they'll continue to grow and become rich, and that as they continue to stay in the circle of supernatural provision, that they will become very wealthy. Your word said if you did it for Isaac, you could do it for us. We're part of the Abrahamic covenant, and we declare it belongs to us as well. In Jesus' name. Amen. Listen, thank you so much today for watching and being a part of this stream. I pray that the blessing of the Lord that makes rich and adds no sorrow will be with you forever. My time is gone. I love you all. Get the seed in the ground. Get in the circle of supernatural provision. Y'all be blessed, and remember, share the word with a friend, and your decisions, they do determine your dominion. God bless you.