Supernatural Provision, Part 5, Part B- "A Child-Like Spirit" | Dr. Mike Woods Sr. | #drmikewoods

Hey! Hey! Hey! Well, grace and peace be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. My name is Dr. Michael Lyris Woods, and welcome to Rhoda Now. Super excited as always to share the Word of the Lord with you. And let me tell you something, today is going to be intense. And listen, I want to really get right into it. So let's get all of the top stuff out of the way. Glory to God. Let's get all these preliminaries out of the way so we can get into this word because it's time to eat today. And listen, the word Rada again is translated from the Hebrew word that means dominion. It is the word in Hebrew for dominion, which means control, authority, oversight. Influence. And I'm telling you right now, you know, it's God's will for you to be at the top. Oh my God, in your area of purpose, you should be influencing. Glory to God. And so the things that we teach on this program are really designed for you to grab information like right now and take it and apply it to your life. I always say information without application is constipation. So please take this word seriously. Quickly, get out your pen and paper, take some good notes today. And do me a favor, bless somebody else. Please share this word with your family, share with your friends. Somebody other than you needs to hear it. Listen, many of you tell me all the time via inbox, uh, you may even send me a text if you got my phone number, and you talk about how these messages bless you. Where they're blessing you, I don't understand why you just won't go ahead and bless somebody else. The scripture does say we're blessed to be a blessing. And so as you sow this into the life of someone else, I promise you it's going to bless you as well. So let's pray. Please again, like, comment, share. If you care, share. Glory to God. Let's pray, and then we're going to jump right into the heart of this today. I'm not going to prolong the time, but I really want to give you what thus saith the Lord, and I promise you, you're going to be blessed on today. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, we bless you and we honor you. We thank you for another opportunity to share your word. I pray that your anointing, dear God, would superimpose itself upon every listener today, whether they're watching live or by replay, whether they're listening to an audio file or watching a video on YouTube. However they're viewing this today, I decree and declare that their life will never be the same. I thank you, Lord, that their strength, hallelujah, will be made perfect even in their weakness. I thank you that the words that we disseminate, even in this moment, that they will make immediate application to their life and see the results right now. I come against sickness and disease, cast the devil out of the mind. God, every warring attack against our body, against our future, against our progress, every lazy and lackadaisical spirit, we bind it up now and we thank you for the victory. In Jesus' name, amen. And amen. Listen, I'm telling you right now, that lazy demon is bound. Somebody that doesn't have energy or the strength to get up and work and do the things you're supposed to do. Listen, the only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. Hear me? So you need to make up your mind that nothing's coming easy, and whatever you're going to accomplish is going to be accomplished because you make a choice. To work. Amen. So listen, the Bible said, 'A man who don't work, he ought not eat.' So I rebuke that lazy demon now, and I speak power to prosper over your life and the energy to grind it out until you see the vision and dream that's in your heart come forward, in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Listen, I'm gonna get into this. Listen, we're talking about today day. Again, we're still in the series Supernatural Provision, and we're going to finish this up throughout the rest of this month. So stay with us. Make sure you go back and watch the other messages if you have not. Listen, you have to avail yourself of these messages on YouTube, especially messages 1 through 4. I think message 5 is still on my page Facebook for some reason. I don't know why They put some kind of copyright in everything I use, whether it's music, whatever I use is licensed. So I've been arguing back and forth with them, but nevertheless, you can watch these teachings on YouTube at Radha TV. Make sure you go to YouTube, hit the subscribe button, and watch all of this series because listen, if you're not experiencing supernatural provision, you need to understand how So let's jump into today. Last week, glory to God, we talked about unlocking the supernatural, and I started teaching on how to really unlock the supernatural. I start giving you keys on what it would take to unlock the supernatural, and we found out that— just my world review real quick— that to unlock something, okay, it meant to undo that which is locked, basically using a key, a password, or another form of authentication. Hear me, that will get you into that which is locked or what you are blocked out of. In this case, we're talking about the supernatural, and the supernatural is the manifestation or an event that is attributed to a force beyond natural comprehension, natural intelligence, or natural physical ability. So what God wants us to understand, in order to unlock supernatural provision, we need to have the keys. We got to have the password. We got to have the proper authentication to tap into this realm so we can Unlock the supernatural, praise God. And I gave you some examples. Go back and watch, glory to God, part 5, part 1. This is part 5, part 2 today. And you'll hear those Old Testament examples I gave you of the creation, of Moses, of Joshua, oh my God, Job. I went through a big list of showing you how the supernatural actually operated. I gave you some personal testimonies in that last teaching. And then we talked about key number 1. Which was the key of a renewed mind. Glory to God. Please go back, because none of this makes sense if you don't understand why you need your mind renewed, right? Um, a renewed mind— and I gave you a few things. One, it sees things— hear me— as God sees them. Ah, it sees things— life, finances, health, come on, family, marriage— it sees everything the way God sees. So when your mind is renewed, it sees things the way God sees them. I love that, man. That, that's a powerful piece. Listen to me, it sees things the way God sees them. Listen to me. Secondly, it thinks about things the way God thinks about them. The most tragic thing I think in the world, man, it's a tragedy, okay, for you to be saved, a born-again believer filled with the Holy Ghost, and your mind's not renewed, and your thought process is still governed by the old man, you don't stop lying, you don't stop fornicating, you don't stop doing all the big sins, right? But your mind still is not renewed, and so now you're still living in sin because you're coming short. Sin is the Greek word harmesia, which means to come short. Which means to miss the mark, which means to— watch this— move in unrighteousness. And it is unrighteous to allow your carnal mind to govern your life. Watch this, the scripture says the carnal mind is enmity against God. Listen to me good, it's enmity against God. It's an enemy against God. So your carnal mind is a fortified enemy against God. And let me give you an example. And when your mind is not renewed, you think about things. Let's look at social media for an example. You will be scrolling, you'll see somebody maybe doing a conference, or you'll see somebody post something and they got a lot of likes. The first thing your unrenewed mind wants to do is figure out a way you can compete with them and get as much notoriety as they have, not knowing what this person has gone through or endured to be able to do the things that they're doing now. See, there's always a story behind glory, and a renewed mind understands the full circle process of people who have actually gone through things. It also understands those that created stairs or a ladder in the spirit for themselves and trying to climb themselves up. But a renewed mind decides, okay, I'm just gonna stay with God and think about my life, my purpose, his plans, the way he thinks about me, right? I'm not gonna try to compete with this person because I don't understand their process. I wasn't there when they had nothing. I wasn't there when they was going through being scandalized, being lied on, being talked about. See, people don't see that stuff. They see what you're doing now. But the reality is there's always a story behind the glory, behind the renewal of a mind. There's a process, right? So Renew My Seez sees things the way God sees things. Thinks about things the way God thinks about them. And watch this, the renewed mind— and I taught this last time, I'm not going to teach this again— lives from heaven, hear me, to earth, not the other way around. Doesn't live from earth to heaven, doesn't have an escapism mentality, constantly trying to get to heaven, wanna— got your bags packed, looking out the window saying, oh Lord Jesus, when you coming back? Listen, Listen, listen, you got to get rid of that escapism mentality where you want to get out of Earth. You, you got too much work that you have not done, right? And so you want to die empty and get all of your potential, all of your purpose out of you before you die, before you try to escape this life and do something— hallelujah— that really you should not be living for. You should be living in the earth realm to produce heaven on earth so you can fulfill your purpose and let heaven come when it comes, when it's your time to go. Are you hearing me? So we're going to talk today about the second key, which is a childlike spirit. Glory to God! A childlike spirit. Glory be to Jesus! Let's go to Luke 18, and I'm gonna read verses 15 through 17. Glory to God. The Bible says this: Then they also brought infants to him so that he might touch them. But when the disciples saw it, they rebuked them. So just like a person with an unrenewed mind— watch this— that's not spiritual Jesus is— glory to God— praying for infants. But when the disciples saw him praying for infants, they rebuked the people that brought the infants to him. Listen, because they didn't understand a spiritual thing was happening here, and that Jesus comes for everybody. Infants, are you hearing me? Adolescents, teenagers, and adults. So he has no respect of person when it comes down to who he came to this planet to take care of, right? Verse 16: But Jesus called them to him and said, let the little children come to me and do not forbid them, for of such is the kingdom of God. Verse 17: He said, assuredly I say to you. Whosoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will by no means enter it. So now wait a minute, so you wonder why you don't experience supernatural provision and the provisions of the kingdom in your life is because you don't understand that to come before God, first of all, you have to come before him with a childlike spirit. Yes, and I believe that there's a fresh wind being released out of the heavens even now. Hear me, where all believers will be ushered into the— watch this— fullness of your God-given identity, and you will understand clearly what it means to be a son son or daughter of God. God wants to give you clarity about who you really are in him and in the kingdom, but that clarity will not come without you taking on a childlike spirit. I know you're grown, and that's part of your problem. You're too grown. You know everything and nobody can tell you nothing, including And this is why your stinking thinking, every time God comes to interrupt it, it cannot be interrupted. It cannot be— oh my God— used as a vessel because you're constantly fighting, trying to hold on to thought processes that are antiquated and outdated and religious. Oh my God. And listen, I know people say that all the time, you being religious, not spiritual. And most of the time, most of the people that's saying it, sometimes it makes me want to puke because they're more religious than others. But the reality is, I want you to understand something. You got to get rid of religious thinking for real. That inadated, antiquated, outdated religious idea that arrogantly makes you believe that that you're better than other people. You gotta have a childlike disposition. Hear me good, you gotta have it, man. Listen, arrogance— you heard me say this before, if you listen to me any length of time, but it bears repeating right here— pride and arrogance and being lofty in your spirit and demeanor. Arrogance always leads to Aloneness is a dangerous place. Hear me, it's a dangerous place to be. I'm gonna say it one more time, it's a dangerous place to be. It's a dangerous position to find yourself in. Arrogance leads to aloneness because when you're alone— this is why it's dangerous, guys— it's hard to fulfill your kingdom purpose or complete your kingdom assignment, because purpose can't be fulfilled in isolation or aloneness. You gotta have help, you gotta have people. This is why you can't be so crazy that you think you're the only one anointed, that you think you don't need others' help. A wise man employs the efforts of other people to help him get done what he's trying to accomplish. The moment you believe you're a one-man band— I want you to think about that for a moment. Think about a one-man band and how silly that looks. Think about a guy that has a guitar around his waist a piano around his neck, a drum hanging off his arm. Y'all talking here, a horn hung on the side of his ear, and he's trying to play horns, percussion, piano, all these things, strings, by himself. That looks silly and is very non-productive and non-effective. How many one-man bands have won Grammys? Zero. Okay, because you need all the pieces of the specialties and the specialists who maximize the potential of those specialties to make good music. So it's no different in any other symphony of life. And when you're trying to fulfill a dream, you need other people, you need help. You cannot afford to be arrogant and end up by yourself, and you got to to do everything alone. Listen, if you mess up, you do something wrong, apologize, right? Listen, I had an issue with someone in the past, and clearly we had a misunderstanding in communication, right? This person was a person that was very valuable to my ministry and what I was called to do. They were important piece their gift was very necessary to everything I was doing in that season. It made my life really easy. And as we begin to grow and matriculate into some other areas, um, we end up losing this person over bad communication, right? And the Lord said, I need them on your team. So You got to humble yourself and call them and apologize. And I didn't think twice about it because I said, okay, you're right, this person is valuable. You sent them to us. They were a necessary commodity to what we were doing. And as we move into this new season where everything around us is expanding with our partners, with our outreach Oh my God, with the church, with everything expanding in business, they are still necessary. So I picked up the phone and I said, hey man, I am sorry for what happened, XYZ, would you please forgive me? He said, Apostle, you know what, you already actually apologized to me and I let that go a long time ago. And here my crazy self think because of the communication difference that they still was holding something. But thank God for the Holy Ghost, and we talked, we laughed, and I said, okay, here's the proposal, here's what I need, here's what we could do for you. Bam! God gave me favor. He's back on the team. I love it. Glory to God. And we're going to do some great things together in this season of our local church because of the gift this man has. And listen to me, he ain't easy to get neither, but I already had favor with him, and God restored the favor. He— because there was a covenant where he brought something, I brought something. And I'm telling you, God is so amazing when you can humble yourself. Go. So you can't be arrogant and end up alone. And if you do end up alone, you gotta— some relationships you gotta let them go. Some need to be restored. You know, some things are dead, and I just want you to understand what's dead and what needs to live. So you got to have some discernment to know who needs to stay gone, because there are some folk that need to stay gone, and you don't need to do no work with them. You need to love them, say hi to be nice, but they don't need to be inside of your purpose. They proved to be toxic in the past, and guess what? They're still toxic, probably. But I'm saying those people that you got disconnected from over misunderstandings, and they had real purpose in your life and ministry, you need to make those things right and re— oh my God— repurpose them into where you're trying to go. Praise God. So arrogance leads to aloneness. Watch this. If you remain alone, that aloneness, it leads to adventurism because you don't have the support system. Glory to God. That you need to bring your vision to pass. Now you're out here taking risk, uncalculated risk with your life and other people's life because, oh my God, you're not capable of accomplishing what you're trying to accomplish. So every time you get frustrated, you birthed out something different to create another strand of your chaos. Oh God, another strand of confusion because you weren't able to finish one thing because you— oh my God, you ran off everybody that was supposed to help you. So now you create another strand of confusion and you get another group of confused people. Oh my God, oh my God, who are only now going to become victims of the poison that you're going to inject into them because you still ain't fixed the stuff that's got to do with your arrogance. And this thing was born out of the wrong spirit anyway, so it can't really be successful. And some of you asking God to give you supernatural provision on something that was born out of sin that you ain't fixed. Oh my God, that was born out of— oh, that was born out of hatred and hurt and pain. Oh my God. That was born out of your lack of development or attention from your leader. And so you create a new strand of something that you ain't even supposed to birth. So now you become this adventurous, running from this project to that project, this business to that business. This minute, one minute you got a healing ministry, next minute you're a prophet, next minute you're evangelist, you're all over the place. Next minute you're a bishop, next minute you're an apostle. That's when you got your own own fellowship, and you're the prelate of this, and you don't know what you really want to do. You got a weight loss business, you got a, a vacation business. Oh my God, you, you got a cryptocurrency business. You don't know who you are because you're an adventurer, because your arrogance is leading you to do things that you're not equipped to do because you won't humble yourself and just fix things and, and be who you are. Oh, it's the way of a transgressor is hard. So you got to be who you are and be where you are, right? Yeah, yeah, man. You gotta be who you are and you got to be where you are at all times, because otherwise nothing you're trying to accomplish is ever going to work. So arrogance leads to aloneness. Aloneness needs to adventurism— watch this— that adventurism now leads to adultery. What is adultery, Michael Woods? Adultery means to be satisfied by something that doesn't belong to you. It's not necessarily sexual unfaithfulness to a married person alone. That is adultery because you're being satisfied by a woman that doesn't belong to you. And namely, you're being satisfied— actually, adultery is being satisfied by a— oh my God— a married woman that doesn't belong to you. The reality is you, you, you, you, you are taking a risk because of arrogance when you are in adultery to be satisfied by a job. God didn't call you to work. Be sad— oh my God— to be satisfied running a business you ain't supposed to be running, to be satisfied taking classes, going to school, doing things you ain't supposed to be doing. You get satisfied because you done took so many risks, you don't really know who you are anymore. Watch this. God called Israel an adulterous nation. They had nothing to do with cheating on a husband or a wife. That has everything to do with them being satisfied by gods and habits and behaviors that God didn't ordain. See, when you start becoming satisfied by something that doesn't rightfully belong to you, my friend, you are an adulterer. Getting satisfied by a woman that ain't yours, a man that ain't yours— listen, you are an adulterer. Getting satisfied by, again, a business that you're not supposed to be a part of— you are an adulterer. Classes that is not a part of your authentic purpose— you are an adulterer. This is why you gotta get the authentication, the password— hear me— the keys to unlock the supernatural so you can gain clarity clarity about your purpose, man. Make sure you run this, this page right here, this YouTube, this podcast in the month of March, because we're going to be talking about clarity of purpose and living life by design. Because again, this is the year of knowing God, and we're teaching the— oh my God— the things that come from knowing God for real. So we've been talking this month about supernatural provision. It is a of knowing God for real. Clarity of purpose is a result of knowing God for real. If you're confused about purpose, I question whether you really know God. You may be saved, you may go to church religiously, you may even really read your Bible. Dance and praise break every time one happens. Listen, but I doubt if you really know God if you're confused about purpose. Yeah, or you just made up something in your head. That's purpose. So we're gonna get deep into that next month. Don't miss it. My God, that's a shameless plug, but don't, don't miss it. It's gonna be good. I gotta get out of here, man. So you got to have a childlike spirit because Jesus said, assuredly, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will not enter it. And so we need to have access to kingdom now on earth. Thy kingdom come on earth as it is in heaven. We need access to kingdom right now. We don't just need access to kingdom when we die. We need access to kingdom right now. Hear me, I'll say it again. We need We need access to kingdom right now. Yes, yes we do. So in order to get it, one of the things I must do in addition to renewing my mind, I gotta humble myself as a child because this wind that I talked about before Oh my God, that's going to bring you into the fullness of your identity. It's also going to awaken this childlike spirit. And this childlike spirit, what it's going to do, it's going to cause mysteries to become irresistible to us. We're going to start seeking a— oh my God— a thing that we never experienced before in the spirit. There's going to be a curiosity about kingdom things that's going to be aroused when this childlike spirit gets upon you. Woo! And you're going to— just like children, they're curious. They want to know the mysterion of things. When you in the kingdom, you want to unlock things. You don't settle for same old mundane dead man religion happening all the time. You want things the way God presents them. You want everything he has available. And as a child, you start seeking them. Listen, this stuff is going to be irresistibly attractive to you. And guess what? This childlike spirit it is going to make those things that seem illogical possible. The things that you can't phantom your mind around, like God really doing a miracle where somebody has legs that's been amputated growing again because he's capable. Yes. Or blinded eyes— I've seen it in my ministry. Yes, Lord. Opening deaf ears, unstopping. I've seen it. Cancer being healed. I've seen I've seen it. AIDS being healed. I've seen it. Oh my God, I'm telling you, soaring beyond the portals of the earth realm and oh my God, seeing the heavenly host and hallelujah, using angels at your disposal to enforce the covenant of God's word. These things have become logical and normal. You won't be surprised when you see a miracle. Because you know this is normality for the things of God. This is the way of the kingdom. This is our culture. This is our way of living. Watch this, supernatural provision makes sense. Living debt-free makes sense. Multi-millions of dollars, billion with a B, makes sense because you understand God has the supply you need to do the purpose he's called you into. Into. Oh my God, I'm almost done, y'all. Good God Almighty, listen, this fresh wind is going to remind us that God, that he is known for showing up in unexpected places. And moving in unexpected ways. Hear me, guys. See, when this wind of childlike spirit blows upon you and you receive it and you humble yourself, you're going to have a consistent thought process that God will show up where people don't expect him to, and that He'll move in ways that you don't expect him to move. Can I tell you right now? I hear it in my spirit. That that was impossible for you, God is now making it possible. Where you heard no before, Ushgadaya, God said he's about to unlock a yes. He's about to eliminate debt for you. That what you thought was impossible, God's about to make it possible. He's about to move in unexpected places and expected ways. It's gonna blow our mind, but you gotta humble yourself. Yeah, it's gonna blow our mind. Oh, shabaya! Thank you, Jesus. I feel like running. Good God Almighty. Because guess what? This humility, when induced or superimposed impose on our life. It will change— oh my God— it would change our thought process, and it trains us actually— oh my God— to— oh my God— have an expectancy. Hear me— for God to do the supernatural in and through us all the time. We become literally inducted into this culture of the supernatural in such a huge way that we never expect anything less than the supernatural power of God moving in our life. But you gotta become childlike. Ah, that— this is key number 2. I'm done, really, man. You gotta humble yourself so God can be exalted. Can we pray? I want to pray, glory to God, that humility would superimpose itself on you today. Don't scroll, don't leave, stay with me to the end. God wants you to Humble yourself before the mighty hand of God so that in due season he may exalt you. The scripture declares he resists the proud and exalts the humble. He said assuredly in the text we read today that if you do not come to the kingdom as a little child, in no way will you inherit it. I want you to experience the Kingdom in your life for real. I want you to have thy Kingdom come on Earth as it is in Heaven in your life for real. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name. Asi. I pray for the spirit of humility. Cause it today to superimpose itself upon every person under the sound of my voice. And I pray, God, that they will have kingdom encounters every day of their life. God, that they will expect you to move in unexpected ways and in unexpected places, and God, they will see things they have never seen before. They will encounter realms of glory that they've never encountered before, and I praise you for it now. Thank you for supernatural manifestations becoming a natural occurrence as this, your people renew their mind and become childlike, and I thank you for it now. In Jesus' name. Amen. Oh my God. Listen, I want you to run into your day today and the rest of your life. Listen, today is the first day of the rest of your life. Literally run into it expecting supernatural results. Listen, I love you guys. I got to challenge you to give. We've been challenging you We've been challenging everybody all month long to just sow a seed of $22 into ministry. Glory to God! To help us to continue to do the things that God has called us to do and to release a blessing on your life. Would you get that seed in your hand right now and plant it into the kingdom? Let me tell you something. Attached to that seed is a key. Listen, nothing leaves Heaven Heaven until something leaves Earth. Some of you hear the word, but if, if the word has been communicated to you, you should communicate to Heaven in your giving. That's the word of God. So I challenge you today, get that $22 seed in the ground. God wants to prosper your way. I love you guys with the love of the Lord. The ways to give are on the My time is gone, but I want to challenge you as I do each and every week. Share the word with a friend and remember, your decisions will set you up for dominion. God bless you.