Supernatural Provision, Part 7, “PROOF” | DR. MIKE WOODS, SR. | 02.27.2022

Hey! Bang! Hey! Well, grace and peace be multiplied to you today from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. My name is Dr. Mike Woods, for those of you who are uninitiated, and welcome to Rhoda Now. I'm certainly grateful that you decided to tune in and join us today. Listen, it does my heart good to teach the word of the Lord, and you know what, there's something so profound about teaching a group of people who want to learn. And I believe those of you that follow me, those of you that watch our videos, I believe that you're eager. You have to be, you know, to sit through an hour of teaching and to divulge the things that are being shared and then be bold enough, be bold enough to actually go into the world and try to make the stuff work. You know, it's one thing to hear a whole lot of truth, but then it's another thing, glory to God, to actually go out and apply the word that you're being taught. And so I am super grateful to the Lord for an audience that is eager to make application. Y'all hear me say all the time, information or revelation without application is constipation. Honestly, it makes things harder. It just frustrates the heck out of you when you know something or you see something working for somebody else and it's not working for you because you don't apply it. So I want to challenge you again today. Get out your pen, your paper, or however you take notes. Take great notes today. And please do me a favor, share this teaching today. It's going to be an absolute blessing. Listen, I'm going to pray and then we're going to jump right into the heart of this. Glory to the name of God on today. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for another opportunity to teach and share your word with these, your people. I pray in the name of Jesus that your word would go out with power. It will go out boldly with authority. And I pray, God, that you will set the captive free. I decree and declare today that he who the Son sets free is free indeed. And God, I even pray right now before we minister with all that's going on in the Ukraine, I continue to decree and declare peace in that land. I pray, God, you turn the heart of the king in the right direction. God, the, the leaders of Russia, I decree and declare that their hearts are being made pliable to your plans and your will even now. And we give you praise and glory for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen. And thank God. Well, you ought to rejoice and give God great praise. Hallelujah! Because I'm telling you right now, I believe that God is moving on your behalf. I believe that he's working in the earth. Listen, and while all that's going on around us, I still believe that God is going to move you and I into the greatest season that we have ever seen in our life. That's enough to run and thank God for right now. Glory to God! I'm super amped and super excited about that. Listen, before we get into today's teaching, we're gonna be talking about supernatural proof. We've been teaching this series on supernatural provision, so I want to end this message up over these last few messages, and we're gonna discuss proof that supernatural provision is real. And what I'm going to do in these teachings, before I start each teaching, I'm going to give you a personal testimony, a proof where God proved hisself, Father God, to me and provided supernaturally on my behalf. And then I'm going to give you principle out of the word and then more testimony, maybe about me or others where God proved this to be real. So it's not something we're just reading. I want to show you that when adequately applied, these things actually work. Listen, there's a whole lot of people out here today teaching the word and they're not applying it. And so it doesn't work. So I'm going to let you go into this video really quick. It's a very special announcement concerning our church, Rhoda Church. And as we go into this video, So don't leave, watch the video, it's not even 2 minutes long, and then I'm gonna come back and get right in the word of God today. Check this video out and then I'll be back. Grace and peace be multiplied to you guys from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is Apostle Mike Woods, and listen, I want to personally invite you to worship with us at Rhoda Church. I am super excited about these series of services we have launched called Sunday Encounters. Listen, every Sunday at 4:00 PM, starting Sunday, March 6th, you can join us for Sunday Encounters. And I'm telling you, the Word will be rich. Oh my God, the ministry of the Spirit will be powerful. The worship will be intense. You don't want to miss this opportunity. Listen, the Bible declares in Psalms 84:1, 1, it says, how amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord. The word amiable is defined as worthy of love. So the text would say, how worthy of love are thy tabernacles. And the tabernacle is a place of assembly and exchange. So we just don't assemble, but when we come, we exchange. So when we come into the tabernacle, we exchange with each other, but But most of all, we exchange with heaven. I want to invite you, glory to God, to join us in the house of God as we love on each other, love on God, and watch God superimpose his ability, his grace, his power, his authority on our lives. Listen, you don't want to miss it. Sunday, March 6th is the day at 4 o'clock PM. Let's go back to church and let's watch God do an amazing thing. It all happens at Rhoda Church, 2244 Panola Road. Road in Lithonia, Georgia. Don't you miss it, it's gonna be the bomb. Well, praise God, and yes, listen, you are definitely invited to join us on Sunday, March 6, 2022, for our Sunday Encounter. And listen, I'm super excited about these services. I'm telling you, God's gonna be there. And listen, you don't want to miss it, so make sure you're in the building. Glory to God. Uh, listen, dust yourself off and get in the building. You know, I attend basketball games and it's 20,000 to 25,000 people in the arena and nobody's afraid of catching COVID Listen, stop using that as an excuse not to go to church Listen, get out your pajamas, get yourself together, and get in the house of God. Can I tell you something? We're starting these services at 4 o'clock, so you got time all day to do whatever you need to do and get to the house of God at 4 PM. And we're gonna have some good church, and the Lord is gonna meet us there. Let's get into this today. Glory to God! We're talking about supernatural proof. I challenge you to go back and watch Supernatural Provision, uh, messages 1 through 6. This is part 7 today. Glory to God. And I'm— again, I'm challenging you to go watch all of those so you can stay caught up. And so part 7 today, we're talking about supernatural proof. Glory to the name of God. And as I said, I want to start this today by giving you a personal testimony of proof where God has proved himself, uh, strong, uh, to me. And he's— I have so many stories, glory to the name of God, of the goodness of God and the grace of God. So there's one in particular. I was a young evangelist. Um, matter of fact, I had just went full-time in ministry maybe 4 months prior to this incident, and I was married to my first wife, uh, Michael Jr.'s mother. And, um, of course she wasn't too happy about me being full-time in ministry, um, because there were no guarantees. It was all by faith. Um, I was trusting God that what he had told me He would do. And so I went into the vineyard and worked every day and believed that what's right, He would pay. Right. And so this particular instance, and again, I've been in full-time ministry for 33 years this year, and it was hard, man. It was— there are a lot of hard days. You know, there are days I had one suit. And I would be doing revivals, had one suit, black suit, polyester, and one tie, a couple of shirts, and having to do— and back then we were doing 3-night revivals, 5-night revivals. Some places I was preaching, I was doing 7-day revivals. There was no Facebook or no, no MySpace even to advertise a meeting or to make connections. It was all by faith. Faith, man. And, uh, it was hard, okay? So this particular instance, again, there's no real income coming in the house, just enough money most of the time to take care of basic necessities. And sometimes didn't even have that, man. You know, it was tough. But this particular instance, we had no food in the house. Um, no food. A couple cans in the cupboard and You know, my young wife is there. I'm a man, need to be, provide for her, right? And I'm obeying God. And I say, God, okay, I need your help. So I cried out to God, cried out to God. And God says, son, get up, go to the grocery store. I'm going to feed you today. I said, well, thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. And I said, well, wait, Lord, I don't have any money. Can't go to jail. Can't steal the food. He said, I didn't say that to you. Go to the store and follow my instructions. I'm going to feed you. I left the house. I told my young wife, I said, hey, I'm going to the grocery store to get groceries. She said, how are you going to get groceries? We have no money. I said, look, the Lord said he's going to feed us today. That's all I know. That's all I know. So I went to the store, praise God. And listen, this, this thing does something to me every time I tell this story, uh, because it literally was supernatural provision, and you're going to see in a moment. So I went to the store Got a buggy, begin to follow the Lord's instruction. The Lord said, I want you to go through this store and I want you to shop like your bank account is full. I want you to fill up your cart to the brim. So I started shopping, man. I started throwing things in the cart and just everything I thought we could need to stock us up for food. And I got to aisle 9. It's very significant. 9 is a spiritual number. It's 9 gifts of the Spirit, 9 fruit of the Spirit. Glory to God. 9 is a number of birthing. So it wasn't strange, I think, that this happened on aisle 9. So I got to aisle 9 and the Lord said, son, praise me. I said, huh? He said, praise me. So I said, okay. So I start saying, "Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Lord, I love you." He said, "I didn't say that. I said praise me like you would if you was in church." So I start saying, "Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Glory to God." Start jumping up and down, dancing with the buggy. And I realized before I know it, sir, you're in the grocery store, right? And I looked around and there was this little woman. She was looking at me. Praise God. So I got kind of embarrassed. He said, "I didn't say let up. Keep praising me." So I kept praising. And as I continued to praise God, the glory really overtook me. So I'm crying. I'm worshiping. And I calm down and I continue to shop. So as I go through this store, I'm continuing to shop. And I'm worshiping God, I'm singing. I get to aisle 12. Now, my mind, my buggy is full. You ever been in grocery store like on the first of the month where everybody's just shopping? Glory to God, they just got paid or they got food stamps or whatever, and buggy's like so high they can't even see. Listen, that's how my buggy was looking by now. But I got to aisle 12. Hallelujah. Which was a produce aisle, because I remember eggs, milk, cheese, all of these things. So I'm there making selections like I got some money. Come on, I'm into this thing now. Don't know how still my grocery is going to be paid for. Well, I get to aisle 12 and here comes this white white woman up to me, and she says, "Hey, what was that you were over there doing on aisle 9?" I looked at her. I said, "Ma'am, I'm a Christian. I was praising God." She said, "Do you realize you're an embarrassment? You're in public. You don't do that." in public? I said, ma'am, I was just doing as the Lord told me to do. And then the Lord said, son, prophesy to her. I said, Lord, I ain't got no word for this woman. This woman already thinks I'm crazy. He said, I said prophesy to her. So I looked at her and I opened my mouth and the Lord said, tell her her husband is at home eating a tuna fish sandwich. I said, wait a minute, God, are you serious right now? He said, tell her what I said, sir. I said, ma'am, the Spirit of the Lord said to tell you that your husband is at home right now eating a tuna fish sandwich. And she stepped back and looked at me and said, "Look, sit here. I knew something was wrong with you. There's no way my husband is at home eating a tuna fish sandwich. My husband is at home under the care of hospice nurses. He has tubes running in and out of his body." He has not been able to digest solid foods for over 4 months. I knew something was wrong with you, and I'm going to call the police. The Lord said, tell her, don't call the police. Call your husband. Well, back then you had to be real rich to have a cell phone. Oh, this was back when cell phones was in a bag and the phone looked like a brick, right? Okay, so you had to have a lot of money to have one of them phones because the airtime would break you. Thank God for progression. Praise God. Listen, I'll never complain about my cell phone bill because I understand what it cost back then. Listen, I said 'Call your husband, ma'am.' She said, 'Why?' I said, 'I'm just telling you what the Lord said.' So she thinks I'm crazy, but guess what she does? She said, 'I tell you what, I'm gonna call my husband, and if he doesn't answer the phone or if he can't speak to me, I'm calling the police.' I said, 'Sure.' So I pushed all my groceries up toward the front. She went outside to the payphone. I could see her through the window of grocery store. Yeah, they had payphones back then, right? She picks up the phone, puts her money in the phone, dials the number. Phone rings. And guess what I see? She drops the phone. I see the phone swinging by the cart and she's holding her face like this, screaming. And she reaches to grab the phone and she begins to speak. She talks for about 10 minutes, comes back in the store with tears in her eyes, and she looks at me and says, son— or sir, she didn't call me son— she said, sir, I don't know who you are, she said, but my husband answered the phone when I called. And you told me to ask him what he was doing. And when I asked him, he told me he was sitting at the table eating a tuna fish sandwich. He said about 30 minutes ago, and mind you, oh shi, about 30 minutes, I feel like running out of the studio, about 30 minutes prior to this, I was on aisle 9, hahaha, praising God. Glory to God. I was on aisle 9 giving God glory. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. She said about 30 minutes ago, he felt a liquid fire flow from the top of his head to the bottom of his feet. And all of a sudden he felt healthy again. He said he snatched the— oh my God— tubes from his veins, from his nose. And he had a craving for a tuna fish sandwich. And he said, I'm sitting at the table with the nurses and I'm eating a tuna fish sandwich and we're just crying because we don't know what happened. And she looked me in the eye and she said, sir, I don't know who you are, but everything in your bug it, I'm gonna pay for it. Oh my God, today that's supernatural provision. Lord, I feel like running today. Glory to God. So that's what we're talking about today, is proof that supernatural provision— whoo, God is real. We're talking about proof that if you do the principles and put the work in and make application to the wisdom, it'll work for you too. So let's go to the Bible. Glory to God. So the first thing I want to show you— and as I show you these today, we're going to just look at Old Testament scripture. And I know I'm not going to get through all of them, so the next time we'll look at some more Old Testament scripture. And then after that, we'll look at some New Testament accounts. Listen to me, where supernatural provision occurred. But today, as I give you these, I want you in the comments to categorize which one of these my testimony was. So the first thing we're going to look at is supernatural return, and I want you to go to Genesis 26. And we're going to look at verses, glory to God, 12 through 14. Genesis 26. Hallelujah! Boy, I feel like running for Jesus. 26. Glory to God. Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus. And let's look at verse number 12. Glory. The Bible says, then Isaac sowed in that land. Now watch this. So again, there has to be some act put forth toward God that releases supernatural provision. Now I want to submit to you that when you— we start talking about sowing, we're not just talking about money. The word sold in this text is actually zara, which means that he planted or scattered. Watch this, producing or yielding seed. The idea of seedtime and harvest, hear this, relates to you releasing something in a field of some kind and a return coming back because you released it. Now watch this. Long before I went to the grocery store, I was sowing my time because although I was full-time in ministry, even when I didn't have a revival or I had nowhere to preach that would bring in offerings, or I had no partners, or I sold no cassette tapes or VHSs, you know, I was selling those back then. Glory to God. That wasn't even CDs when I first started, right? If there was 8-tracks, I probably would have sold that too. But listen, because I was trying to win, I was trying to make it. Oh my God. But I was getting up every day at 5 AM praying. After prayer, I would go into— oh my God— a little room in the studio apartment. And so it's a studio. So I had made this little section in our little living room, my office. I didn't have a desk. Thank God I got studio desk, office, everything now. God is good. But back then I didn't even have a desk. I had found— watch this— someone had gotten evicted from their apartment. So I found a mirror. That was on the street, and I found these crates that were sturdy enough to hold the mirror. I didn't even have a chair to sit in. Oh my God, Jesus, Jesus. I didn't even have a chair to sit in to do my work. Oh God, God, I thank you today for bringing me out. I thank you for supernaturally providing for me. I thank you for giving me a testimony today that I can help somebody else make it. Oh my God, I had 2 milk crates. I set that— turned that mirror over on its mirror side and wood was on the other side. Set that— oh, you're talking about innovation. Glory to God. Set that mirror up. Hear me. And I set my computer that was given to me that was so out of date, outdated at that time. Glory to God. And I would work. I had my phone there and I would make calls and I would do things that needed to be done to create an effective evangelistic ministry, to abide by the mission and vision that God had given me. I was sowing time. He said, going to the vineyard and working what's right, I'll pay you. I got plenty of stories of how he paid me, y'all. Oh my God, but I worked. I put the time in. Oh Jesus, I love you today, God. So I would work. So I was sowing. I was going to work in my own house house doing what God told me to do. But watch this, Isaac sowed in that land. Watch this, and received the same year a hundredfold. A hundredfold is 10,000%. And the Lord blessed him. Uh, who blessed him? That's supernatural. If it can't— wait a minute, man didn't do Uh, he didn't get his income tax. Come on, he didn't get a COVID check, he didn't get a, uh, workers' comp, he didn't get none of that. He sowed in the land, in his field. Come on, and you got to sow in your— not just money, and money is a part of it. You got to sow, you got to pay your tithe, and you got to sow seed, but you also need to be sowing talent and gift into your field of dominion purpose. You got to spend time sowing that into that land, that field, so it can pay you. You can't get a hundredfold harvest on your gift because you ain't putting nothing out there. Listen, I'm in the studio right now. I work like a Hebrew slave. I operate on 2.5 hours of sleep basically every night because I'm sowing in the field. Oh my God, hallelujah, 'cause I cannot quit until the heavens open all the way up and I'm walking through the sky vaults of heaven and I don't need one thing ever again. Woo, God have mercy. To do the assignment that God has called me to do. So I gotta keep sowing in the land until that release happens. Watch this, Isaac sowed in that land and received that same year. Not in the following year of harvest, First of all, he sold in the land in the offseason and got a hundredfold return in the same year. And the Lord blessed him. The word— oh boy, here we go— the word blessed is barak in Hebrew, barak, which means to kneel, to rock back and forth, or watch this, to bless oneself. So watch this, when Isaac received the fruit of the harvest. Listen. Ooh! Hallelujah. He was now walking in the promise of God. So God blesses himself because he's inside of the plan. So when God supernaturally provides for you, although you're receiving it, is for him because he gets the glory out of it. Ah, because you can't take credit for what happened. Same year the Lord blessed him. Verse 13: And the man waxed great and went forward and grew until he became very great. He waxed old. Old. Glory to God. And became very old. Blessed, supernatural provision. Verse 14, for he had possession of flocks and possession of herds and great store of servants, and the Philistines envied him. Wait a minute, Michael Woods, what are you talking about, son? Isaac reaped in a famine. Oh. I want to look at another scripture real quick, Psalm 37, to back this up, verse 18 through 19. Touch yourself and say, I'm a child of God. Come on, say it again. Say, I'm innocent. Say, the blood of Jesus makes me innocent. Say, the blood of Jesus cleanses me. Say, the blood of Jesus makes me innocent. Woo-hoo-hoo! Oh my God. So watch this. The New Living Translation of Psalm 37, verses 18 and 19 says this. It says, day by day, woo-wee! Er day, er day. Ha ha ha ha ha! Day by day, the Lord, hear this, takes care of the innocent. Wait a minute. Day by day, the Lord takes care of the innocent. Touch yourself again and say, I'm innocent. Say, the blood of Jesus has washed me whiter than snow, and I am innocent. Whew! Ooh, watch this. And they will receive, watch this, the innocent, you and I, who washed in the blood, an inheritance that lasts forever. So wait a minute, the Lord said, I'm gonna take care of you every day supernaturally because you're innocent, you're washed in the blood, you're operating under the realm of the principles of superabundance. So you're doing what you're supposed to do. So the Lord said, I'm going to take care of you day by day, just like he took care of me in that grocery store. Come on. He says, they will not be disgraced. Hear me. In hard times, even in famine, they will have more than enough. Oh my God. This is so real, y'all. Listen, the hundredfold return is never affected by the government or by the times that we live in. Let me tell you how I know. The stock market has been a sea of red. I looked at my phone 3 days ago, check my stocks, everything red. So everything's down. I mean, even though the stock, when you holding, it balances out because you done made more money most of the time than you're losing if you got good stocks in your portfolio. But I don't want to lose nothing, so I'm looking at it and I start praying over the red. And I say, in the name of Jesus, I command this Red Sea that I'm seeing in this stock market to be parted and release the green. Because whenever the stock tickers turn green, that means you're up. Well, after I prayed, picked up my phone the very next day, in a red time, everything was green. I don't think that's coincidental. I think that has everything to do with the fact that I pray over my portfolio, and because I'm blessed, everybody else that was holding the same stuff I'm holding, they got blessed too. Supernatural provision. You're not affected by the economy. Layoffs. God takes care of you day by day. Listen, for Isaac, this really was a supernatural harvest, right? Because in the most fertile regions of Israel, according to topography and agricultural studies— listen, in the most fertile regions of Israel the average harvest was no greater than 25 to 50 fold. It was unheard of to receive a 100-fold return on your seed, 10,000% on what you put in the ground. It was unheard of. But in the off-season, come on, and he reaped in the same year. It was supernatural, man. God got in that seed and said, I'm gonna bless you because you You are my servant. You're innocent. I got covenant with you. I got an obligation, homie, to take care of you. Isaac, I told your pops Abraham that I would take care of you always. Lord have mercy. Whoo! Y'all can tell I feel real good today, right? Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh. So we read Genesis 26:12-14. Since I'm in the New Living Translation, let me read verse 13 in this same New Living Translation. Watch this. It says, he became a very rich man and his wealth continued to grow. So the King James said he became very great, which denotes just old. But of course, if he grew, his money grew with him. But the New Living Translation gives us an up-close personal look of the transliteration of the words. He became very rich, and his wealth continued to grow. So wait a minute, if Isaac became very rich rich? Why you can't become very rich? You're a child of God too. You under the covenant of Abraham too. You're supposed to be walking under this same blessing. And he continued to grow in wealth. I keep saying it every day. I decree it out of my mouth. I am a billionaire. Glory to God. I decree and declare that I have the work work ethic to become a billionaire. I have the innovation and the investments to become a billionaire. Ah, I have witty ideas and inventions to become a billionaire. I have favor on my life with God and man to become a billionaire. Because you know what? I am a part of the Abrahamic covenant through the blood of Jesus Christ, and nothing that Abraham or Isaac have, I can have, 'cause I'm Abraham's seed. Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah. God has no respect of person. Let's look at Genesis 26. Let's drop down to verses 28 and 29. I wanna read these. Again, say supernatural return. Say, in the name of Jesus, I decree and declare that I receive supernatural return. Listen, I pronounce the blessing of the Lord over you now, that for you and your family, you are receiving supernatural return even now. I thank you, Lord, that my wife and I are receiving supernatural return. God knows we are givers. We give to the church. We give to people. All our lives we've been giving to people, and I decree and declare that there shall be a supernatural return even now in Jesus' name. Eh, shibaria, bruskebandi, uskataia. Eh, shebandolo loboshi kiando, enjima uskabaya ishkatow. Yes, God, I bless you. Unananani anso. Yes, Jesus, I bless your name. Woo! Thank you for the return, God. Woo! Thank you for the return. Thank you for the return. Eh, shabandolo loboshi kiando. You ought to type in the comments right now, thank you for the return. Thank you for the return. Thank you for the return. Glory be to God. Listen, verse 28, Genesis 26. Lord, I'm getting too happy. And they said, we saw certainly that the Lord was with thee. And we said, let there be now an oath between us, even betwixt us and thee, and let us make covenant with thee. Verse 29, that thou will do us no hurt, as we have not touched thee. As we have done unto thee nothing but good and have sent thee away in peace, thou art now the blessed of the Lord. Hear this, man. Listen, the men saw that the blessing was on Isaac. And you know what? When they saw it, they had to admit it, and they wanted to cut covenant with him because the blessing was on him. Can I tell you something? It's about to be seen if you will yield to this teaching, man, and take it seriously. And not just some guy on the internet trying to find this. I've been doing this for 33 years. It's real stuff. It's substance behind this. I've seen this with my own eyes. I'm not just talking because I don't have anything else to do. By God, I should be asleep. I have to to bury— oh my God— my sister on my stepfather's side on tomorrow. But this was in my heart, and I needed to teach this word. Glory to God, because somebody's going to need this today. Listen, God wants to bless you, and he wants people to see it because he wants you to be the proof. So then when you start talking about what God can do, you can say, I'm the proof, baby. God paid off my car. God paid off my house. Oh, shabai! I'm the proof, baby. God dropped a million dollars in my stock portfolio in returns in a down season. I am the proof. Oh, shanayashi! I dare you, type in the comments, it will be seen. It will be seen. It will be seen. Come on, type it. It will be seen. It will be seen. Type, I am the proof. Oh, I am the proof that supernatural provision works. Wow. Listen, if you're doing it right, the blessing will be seen. If you're doing it right, if you putting your time in the ground, in the land, because you will never reap a harvest in a field where you have not sown. If you're obedient in your tithing and your giving, if you're doing it right, if you're putting the work in, it'll be seen. You'll tangibly handle the promise. You'll see it manifested in your life. Some of the things you're desiring materially are Nothing to God. He just wants to get you where you need to be spiritually so that you won't get the big head when you get it. Come on, man. So that's supernatural return. Proof. Hallelujah. When the return come, it's proof, right? All right, let's go to Exodus 16:11. Let's go to the next point. Exodus 16:11. We got to get out of here. As the old preacher would say, I'm getting ready to close. Not quite yet, not quite yet. I'm getting there though, I'm getting there. Exodus 16, verse 11, let's read. And the Lord spake to Moses, saying, I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel. Speak unto them, saying, Even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread. And ye shall know that I am the Lord your God. Hallelujah. And it came to pass that even the quails came up and covered the camp. And in the morning, the dew lay round about the host. Listen, quail ain't nothing but some chicken, right? Glory to God. You know, these were church folk, and you— that's why church folk love chicken so much. And I'm just kidding, but think about this. Israelites, supernatural provision of quails. First meal they got is chicken. Good God from Zion. Quails came up, covered the camp, and in the morning the dew lay round about the host. And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing. And the children of Israel saw it, and they said one to another, it is manna, for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, this is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. My God. So again, we see the first area of proof is supernatural return. The second area is supernatural supply in the wilderness. Hear me, God supernaturally supplied for the children of Israel. He provided manna, which was their bread, and chicken, quail. He— watch this— they didn't even have to go buy no clothes. Their clothes and their shoes grew as they grew. You're talking about supernatural supply. They didn't have no Saks Fifth Avenue. Come on, man, they didn't have a Macy's. They didn't have Walmart. They were in the wilderness and they had no choice but to trust God. Glory to God. I told y'all before about my African colleague, Jackson Sanyanga. Jackson Sanyanga claims that Americans are spoiled, and in a lot of ways he's right. He testified that we're spoiled because we can go to Kroger when we want to. We can go to Walmart, Winn-Dixie, Piggly Wiggly, McDonald's, Burger King. When we get hungry, we find some food, right? We got government that gives out food stamps for people that don't have jobs. But he said to me, he said, look, we can't do that when there's a famine. We have to believe God for the supply. He said there have been many instances where we needed to eat and we went on— oh my God— into prayer and begin to speak to God, and the heavens open and God began to rain down fish out of the sky to feed us for a month. Because we had to believe God. We had no choice. See, that's serious business, guys. Listen, these Israelites were in the wilderness and God had to prove them, and they kept complaining no matter what he did supernatural. They kept complaining like most church folk do. Let's look at another scripture. Let's look at Psalm 78. 8, verses 23 through 29, New Living Translation, right? Let's look at it. The Bible says, but he commanded the skies to open. He opened the doors of heaven. He rained down manna for them to eat. He gave them bread from heaven. They ate food of angels. Ah, so God says, okay, y'all my children, I'm your father. You have no food. So how about I give you some of what the angels are partaking of up here in heaven? Let me give you some food of the angels. Glory to God. He said God gave them all they can hold. He released the east wind in the heavens and guided the south wind by his mighty power. He rained down meat as thick thick as dust, birds as plentiful as the sand on the seashore. So wait a minute. So what Jackson Younger said about fish coming out of the sky, it's actually possible for that to be factual because it is scriptural, and all scriptural connotation and indictments are factual. So if God says it, it's true. Whatever God says is true. I don't care what Crusader, what idiotic, crazy person tries to denounce the word of God. The word of God is true. Now, with that said, God rained down meat Oh my God, as thick as dust, and birds as plentiful as the sand on the seashore. He caused the birds to fall within their camp and around their tents. The people ate their fill. Watch this, he gave them what they craved. Supernatural supply. Proof. Okay, let's go to Deuteronomy 29 and verse number 5. I'm reading out of the Amplified Bible. The Bible says, I have led you 40 years in the wilderness. Your clothes have not worn out and your sandals have not worn off your feet. So in case when I just said that you thought I was making that up, Remember, whatever God says is true. Whatever is scriptural is indeed factual. See, in order to grasp this supernatural supply and the supernatural provision and super abundance teaching, you got to have a growth mindset. You can't have a fixed mindset that's fixed on a fixed income, that's fixed on cultural thinking and religious bondage. You got to have a growth mindset that opens you up to realms of possibilities that you've never experienced before. So what you're saying, Michael Woods, is it's possible for me, it's plausible for me to get food without Kroger, without Walmart. Yes, I'm saying it is. If you were in a predicament where you had no money, you had no way to the grocery store, according to scripture, it is possible. I'm full, y'all, but according to scripture It is possible to get food without a grocery store. Watch this, to get food without a farm. So listen, you don't know what's going to happen in this world, really for real. So you better be operating in the supernatural, provided something happens and the farmers can't farm. Or the food is so jacked up you can't eat it. You can't even find organic at Whole Foods. You better be able to trust God to open the heavens all the way up and give you some manna. Woo! Let's go to Proverbs 8, man. Proverbs 8. I gotta go. I gotta go. Good God, I gotta go. Proverbs 8. I want to back this up with something else. Proverbs 8, verse number 17. I'm having too much fun. I'm having a lot of fun, y'all. I love my job. Glory to God. I'm having a lot of fun. Watch this. Proverbs 17. The Bible says, I love them that love me. Say this with me. Say, I love the Lord. Hallelujah! I love them that love me. Come on, say it again. Say, I love the Lord for real. All right, so God says, I love them that love me. Watch this. And those that seek me early shall find me. Wait a minute, wait a minute. Those that seek me early, those that seek me early. Shakar in Hebrew, early. Hallelujah. This word Shakar is not what you think it is, all right? It's not denoting time or chronology, because God is eternal, right? So he's not governed by time like we are. Shakar, it really It says, those that shakar me shall find me. And that he's saying, those that earnestly— watch this— honestly and diligently look for me will find me. So you need to be daily seeking the Lord diligently Honestly, with all— and earnestly, with all integrity, deciding, say, hey, I'm going to work these principles in my life. Every time you're tempted to go back to religious ways of operating toward God, rebuke it and choose to apply principles of faith, principles of the Word. Because God says if you do this earnestly, if you practice it, Practice makes perfect. Practice makes perfect. Practice makes perfect. If you practice it, you'll find it. Watch this, verse 18. Riches, wait a minute, and honor are with me. Yay, woo-wee, I love that. Durable riches. Good God Almighty. That word durable is athach, athach in Hebrew. Athach is where we get words like antique. Yeah. Antique is valuable through time. Yeah. So this word athach is riches that are handed forward. An enduring, valuable, imminent, or surpassing your ability to produce. Let me say it again. Athak means it's handed forward, which means God passes it on to you. It is advanced to you, and it is enduring, is valuable, is imminent. It comes comes from royalty, the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, and it surpasses what you're able to produce with your own hands. Oh, oh my. Not saying work is bad, work is great, but we have learned there's not enough labor in the world to out-bless God when it comes to your life? God can do more than you on any day. And what happens when you're not able to do it anymore? Glory to God. You must start practicing this stuff. God said, I want to give you durable riches, man. Durable riches and righteousness. Wait a minute. Let's just break this all the way down to shaddok. Tzedek in Hebrew, righteousness. Tzedek means justice. Oh, oh, oh, tzedek is justice. Justice, not just us, but justice. In other words, God says, I'm on justice, means I'm gonna make sure that things are done right concerning that you don't get the bad end of the stick because you are in my family. It's only just that you partake of my wealth, my riches, my power, my anointing, my joy. Justice. I'm telling you right now, y'all don't hear this prophetically. Justice is about to be served for many of us. Glory to the name of God. And it's going to be so supernatural, it won't be nothing you did yourself. All you did was do it right. You sowed in the fields that you were supposed to sow in, not just money, but you sold your time, your talent. Glory to God. You, you were operating from a place of gratitude, helping others. And you gave your tithing offering, God's about to do justice toward you. Lord, I'm about to pass out under the anointing here today. Glory to God. Let's look, let's look at Deuteronomy chapter number 2 and verse number 7. Watch this. The scripture says, for the Lord your God God has blessed you in everything you have done. He has watched your every step through this great wilderness. During these 40 years, the Lord has been with you. Listen, and you have lacked nothing. This was a group of people that came from being slaves. From bondage, God delivered them into the wilderness to teach them his ways and to show him his ability to provide for them. See, this process has 3 phases: bondage, deliverance, and freedom. See, everybody that's delivered is not free. Freedom is the promised land. Hear me. Freedom. See, and here's the— is a big problem with all that God did. The original family of the Israelites did not inherit the promise. They actually died in the wilderness. It was the children of the original ones that that eventually became free because they got a different mindset. They got a growth mindset. They learned the ways of God. The Bible says in one place that Israel knew the acts of God, but Moses knew the ways. See what God's— he's going to keep you in deliverance in the wilderness, going in circles, never quite crossing over. So many people die and never cross over because they're living in perpetual deliverance. They're going in circles. Same old stuff, same old money problems, same old issues. Listen, I command the circle of the wilderness to be broken in your life today. And I command the blessing of the Lord that makes rich and adds no sorrow to break break forth in your life even now. And I command you to cross over into the promise and live in freedom. Whoo! See, and there's a responsibility with freedom that's different than wilderness. See, the supernatural supply is to show you what God can do with your freedom. See, the freedom was a land flowing with milk and honey. There were grapes, there was agriculture there. Somebody had milked those cows. So with freedom is a responsibility to work, of bringing the harvest in, again, sowing in the field to keep the continuity of freedom. It gives the supernatural context because now God doesn't just pour it out from heaven. He gives you the strength, the innovation, the ideas to make application to produce supernatural things. I gotta move, man. They lacked nothing. Whoa. All right, so we have supernatural supply, supernatural return. Thirdly, and we're going, we got super Supernatural harvest. Let's go back to Leviticus 26. Leviticus 26. Come on, church. Leviticus 26. Where we going? Where we going? Where we going? Leviticus 26. I think I want verse for y'all. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Let's read 4 and 5 and 9 and 10. Bible says, then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield her fruit, and your threshing shall reach unto the the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land safely. Verses 9 and 10: For I will have respect unto you and make you fruitful and multiply you and establish my covenant with you. Verse 10: And ye shall eat old store and bring forth old because of the My God, here you talking about supernatural harvest. So, but let's look at verse 9, which is what I just read in the Amplified Bible. Leviticus 26:9 and 10. I'm gonna read 9 in the amp, and yeah, verse 10 in the Message. Watch this. He said, for I will be leaning toward you with favor and regard regard for you, rendering you fruitful, multiplying you, and establishing and ratifying my covenant with you. So God says, because you have been faithful to me and you've trusted me, I'm gonna first lean toward you with favor and regard. I'mma pay attention to you and I'mma favor you all you set your hands to do. I want you to think about this. Having the Lord's favor with you in every single thing you do. That's huge. So the next time you want to go against him or do it your way, think about the fact that you're forfeiting an opportunity for favor. He says, I'm going to render you fruitful. Parah in Hebrew, which means I'm going to cause you to bear fruit, tangible fruit that can be used, eaten, partaken of, right? He says, I'm going to multiply you. Not only am I going to make you fruitful where you can partake of what you bring forth and exist and live from it, but I'm also going to multiply it where you can share it with others and you can be blessed to be a blessing. Listen, he said, I'm going to consistently establish you. Oh my God. And ratify the covenant. I hope y'all hearing this teaching. God says, I am ratifying the covenant with you even now. Ratifying means I am solidifying it. I am bringing what has been said alive. I am causing the terms of our agreement to be experienced. God says, I'm ratifying the covenant for you. Yes, you that's listening to me right now. God says, I am ratifying my covenant for you, and it won't just be words anymore. Just like when I was in that grocery store, you're gonna see my mighty hand, said the Lord. Trust him and obey his principles. Glory to God. Verse 10, I'm reading out of The Message Bible, verse 10, Leviticus 26:10. He said, you'll be eating from last year's harvest when you have to clean out the barns to make room for new crops. God says, I'm about to bless you so that you're gonna be able to survive on what you made last year. You ain't gonna even have to worry about what you make this year. Do you know how many people in the world have to look forward to the salary they make annually? It's tax season. Do you know how many people are looking forward to their income tax so they can get something? Listen, I'm getting ready to do something in our house. We're getting ready to tear out the whole floor downstairs and put new furniture and remodel stuff. I'm trusting God I ain't gonna have to pull out nothing that I have, and he gonna supernaturally supply every dime for every piece that I need to redo this house. I declare it's already done because he's ratifying the covenant. Glory to God. Listen, you just gotta trust God because he wants you to be eating off last year's stuff. You don't even need what come in now. Hallelujah! He gonna sustain you with what came in last year. So what you get into— so I want you to think like this, it's February 2022 at the taping of this. So what you receive this year, I want you to start thinking in terms that in 2023 you're gonna be able to live off what you receive this year. God's gonna give you some compound interest you can live off. Hallelujah, hallelujah! He's gonna— whoa— he gonna supernaturally supply some compound interest in your portfolios, in your crypto portfolio, in your stock portfolios. He's gonna bless your socks off, and you won't even have to touch what you you make in 2023, because he's going to extend what he blesses you with in 2022. I love it. I got one more scripture for supernatural harvest, y'all. Amos 9:13. I'm gonna read it in the Message Bible and the New Living Translation. Let me read New Living Translation The time will come, said the Lord, when the grain and the grapes will grow faster than they can be harvested. Somebody say acceleration. So God's about to accelerate the harvest you're going to receive. Now listen again, you cannot receive a harvest if you don't put anything in the ground. Don't get this twisted. Not just talking about money. Again, time, talent, and treasure. You gotta put all three of those things in the ground so you can reap this accelerator. God said, God said the harvest is going to come faster than you can get it. You, you'll get blessed. Bam, look around. Bam, there go another blessing. I receive it in the name of Jesus. I dare you, type in the comments, I receive I receive my accelerated harvest now. And say it out your mouth while you're typing it. I receive my accelerated harvest now. I receive mine in Jesus' name. Whoo, and I declare now it will come at supernatural speed. Whoo, record-breaking speed. And the blessings will come faster than I can reap them. You are declaring out your mouth, it's the Word of God. He says, then the terraced vineyards on the hills of Israel will drip with sweet wine. The Message Bible says, yes indeed, it won't be long now. God's decree, things are going to happen so so fast, whoo, your head will swim. Ah, somebody ought to praise God right now. I'm telling you, things are about to happen at such supernatural accelerated speed, it's going to make your head swim. He said one thing fast on the heels of the You won't be able to keep up. Somebody hear this word. Everything will be happening at once. And everywhere you look, blessings and blessings and blessings. Blessings like wine pouring out of the mountains of the hills. I want you to picture a tall mountain and hills surrounding it. And I want you to picture streams of wine flowing out of the mountain at, oh my God, hurricane-type speed. God said, this is how your blessings is about to overtake you. It's gonna happen so fast, your head is going to swim. Whew, God, Lord have mercy. So we got supernatural harvest, supernatural supply, supernatural return, and here we go again, supernatural meals. I know all of them sound the same, but I just want to give you scriptural context for each thing because all that boils down to it's harvest. And really, I told you I wanted y'all to type in the comments in the beginning what my testimony at the top was in these categories. I want to tell you, it's this one. It was a supernatural meal. I want to show you how Elijah was fed by the ravens. Let's go to 1 Kings 17 real quick. 1 Kings 17. Hi, Lord. Yeah, Lord Jesus. Bye, Lord. The old preacher would say, I'm getting ready to close. Gee, yeah, I ain't gonna do it, ain't gonna do it. Hallelujah. 1 Kings 17, verse number 1, the Bible says, and Elijah the Tishbite, who was of the inhabitants— God, I don't have time to break this down— of Gilead, said unto Ahab, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, before whom I stand, there shall not be dew nor rain these years, but according to my word. Hallelujah. So there's going to be a famine. Verse 2, and the word of the Lord came to him saying, get thee hence and turn eastward and hide thyself by the brook Cherith. Hallelujah. That is before Jordan. It's a setup, right? It's going to be a famine. The Lord— that's why it pays to have a relationship with God. God. So when something's coming, you know when to make a move because God told you what's coming and he tells you the move to make. Watch this again. Obedience brings forth manifestation of supernatural provision. Oh boy, Elijah obeyed. And the Bible says, verse 4, and it shall be that thou shalt drink of the brook, and I commanded the ravens to feed thee there. Wait a minute, there's a famine coming, but you my prophet, you my man, you work for me. I don't want you hungry, I don't want you starving. So listen, while they are going through this because of their disobedience, I'm gonna get you by the brook and you're gonna drink from the brook. And ravens, them little black birds, them dirty birds, hallelujah, they're gonna come and feed you by the brook. Glory to God. That's a revelation, them little black birds reaching Not eagles. Listen, little black ravens. He said, gonna feed you by the brook. Look, that's another sermon for another day. I'll get into that, I'll be all day. Listen, he said, but the ravens are going to feed you there. So he went and did according to the word of the Lord, and he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan. And the ravens brought him bread and flesh in the morning— oh my God— and bread and flesh in the evening. And he drank from the brook, just like the Lord said. The birds fed him him, he was full in the midst of a famine. Watch this. And it came to pass after a while, the brook dried up because there had been no rain in the land. Watch this, verse 8. And the word of the Lord came to him saying, arise and go to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there. And behold, I commanded a widow woman to sustain thee. Wait a minute. So God was making sure this man was fed, God's going to make sure you're fed at all times. You just got to trust him and obey. Praise God. Hallelujah. Wonderful Savior. Watch this, watch this. Matthew 10:29. This is in collaboration with them little black birds. Verse 4, he said, I commanded the ravens to feed you. But Matthew 10:29 says, are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall fall on the ground without your father. Listen, the word fall, uh, in the Good News Translation, it says they shall not land without your father's permission. Wait a minute, so He's not saying they flying and fall out the sky. He's saying they're flying and land, but they had to have permission. The Father gave the birds— see, the miracle here, the supernatural thing here is, is that God has the ability to communicate to his creation, not just man, but he's speaking to birds. And the birds are obeying the voice of the Father, the Creator. And watch this, you have the Creator in you. Uh-oh. You have dominion over the fish of the sea and the fowl of the air. Oh boy, we're about to go somewhere. Oh boy, oh boy. Listen, these provisions— come on— for Elijah were already prepared. Listen, they were already ready. Everything was already in place. God had already had a conversation with these ravens. He'd already had— he already had the brook flowing in purity so that the prophet could drink from it. Listen, God has already set I set up your meal. Go eat. Hallelujah. Obey God and eat. Hallelujah. It's your season to eat. Hallelujah. And God wants to feed you well. He wants to feed you supernaturally. Listen, true story. Um, there was a preacher who was preaching actually this text, 1 Corinthians 17:1. And he began to share— true story, true story, can't make this up— he began to share how he would speak to birds to bring him money based on 1 Kings 17. And watch this, he testifies that he began finding money around his house after he went outside and hollered at the birds. Money that was just showing up supernaturally. Now, there was a 15-year-old kid in the church that heard this preacher saying this. This 15-year-old kid took up faith. It's okay, if this is working for the preacher, I need $10 to give to missions. I don't want to get it from my dad. I don't want to get it from my mom. I want to give this $10 myself, and I want God to provide it supernaturally. If that preacher is telling the truth, I want God to do it for me just like he did it for him. Childlike faith, man. Hallelujah! Childlike faith unlocks the supernatural. We just got through teaching that. Watch this. This 15-year-old was So impressed, he tried it. He went outside, spoke to the birds, and commanded them to put money in a tree in his backyard. Oh my God, let me tell you something. Over the next 2 months, this 15-year-old boy collected $440 out of that tree in his backyard for missions. I'm here to tell you, if he did it for the preacher, if he did it for a little boy, he could do it for you. I think I'm gonna go speak to some birds tomorrow. I never did it. I heard the story, I heard the testimony, the little boy never did it, but I'm gonna try it. Glory to God! Because I believe if God did did it for Elijah, he'll do it for me. If he did it for this preacher, if he did it for this 15-year-old boy— somebody said, Woods, you're crazy, you're out of your mind, you need a couch, sir. No, I'm just saved. I'm just full of faith. I ain't crazy. Hallelujah! Glory to God. Last one. So we got supernatural return, supernatural supply, supernatural harvest, supernatural meals, and finally supernatural provision. Same prophet, 1 Kings 17, verses 8 through 16. You know the story. He had continual supply of flour and oil be released through his words to the life of the widow that gave her— him his last meal. Again, Nothing leaves heaven until something leaves earth. Her last meal for her and her son left earth, went to heaven. Heaven's exchange was that she had an eternal supply of flour and oil. Let's look at verse 13 because I have time to read all of it. 1 Kings 17, verse 13. The prophet says, make me a cake first. And bring it to me. In other words, he don't even know this woman. He said, make me a cake, woman. And then not only make— I ain't gonna get up and fix my own plate, bring it to me. My God, you know what Elijah did? He activated her faith. Faith without works is dead. He had her— oh my God— bring him a tithe of the cake. So he could bless it. And in verse 15, she and he and her house did eat, watch this, a full year of that one act of giving, that one act of sowing, that one act of obedience. They ate a full year. And then it continued. It repeated itself, just like the scripture said. They start living off it the following year. God is good. Verse 16, New Living Translation says this. It says, no matter how much they use, there was always enough left in the containers, just as the Lord promised through Elijah. For the jar of flour was not used up, and the jar Joab, all did not run dry in keeping with the word of the Lord. Good God Almighty. I'm telling somebody today, and I'm done. If you operate under the principles of superabundance, supernatural provision, God will show you it's real. He will give give you proof. I want to pray right now for somebody that wants God to show them proof. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you for your word. I pray, God, that someone listening today, you will give them supernatural supply, give them a supernatural harvest. Oh my God, give them supernatural meals. Give them supernatural provision. Father, give them supernatural returns as they move in obedience. I pray for the discipline to trust you and the discipline to do what you say. I ask these things in Jesus' name. Maybe someone's not born again. Save them today in Jesus' name. Amen. You may say, Michael Woods, I don't understand all this. I'm not even in the church. Well, if you're not, this is a good day for you. You can be saved right now. Just say this with me. Say, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, I repent of my sin. Forgive me. I want to be saved. Say, come into my heart and live in in me. So I believe that you died and you rose again, and I declare today I am saved. Listen, if you repeated that after me, your sins have been forgiven. You're on the first step to operating in the realm of superabundance. His grace is sufficient for you. He has no respect of person. If he does it for me, if he does it for Jackson Sinyonga, if he does it for any other preacher, he'll do it for you. If he did it for Abraham and Elijah and Moses, he'll do it for you. Would you trust God? God is good. Listen, before we go, don't scroll. I want to challenge your hearts to give. The ways to give are on the screen. Listen, we're not here to take up offerings offerings, and glory to the name of God, peddle for money. But it is— it would be beyond me to not challenge your faith to give into this message. We've simply been asking every person as they hear these words to plant $22 into the realm of the spirit and activate the word you have received. So first and foremost, if you're not a member of Rhoda Church, you definitely need to tithe it to your local church. Members of Rhoda Church know that the blessing comes through tithing, period. You know that. So you start there, give God your kingdom taxes. And then secondly, plant your seed of $22 in this word today. I appreciate you. Father, bless every gift, every giver. Give it back to them 1,000 times more than it is, and we praise you for it. Right now in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Listen, I declare that because of your obedience in giving, even in this moment, God's going to give you supernatural proof. Listen, my time is gone, y'all. I love y'all. Thank y'all for watching today. And remember this: share the word with a friend. Your decisions, they do set you up Dominion. God bless you.