The Apostles Table- Anointed For the Now, Part 5, 5 Levels of the Anointing

Welcome to the Apostle's Table, where lions roar and lives are changed. The Apostle's Table is a part of the worldwide outreach ministry of Dr. Mike Wood Sr. You will encounter supernatural wisdom and revelation that will help you discern God's purpose for your life, develop your potential, and deploy your gifts effectively into the earth. We decree your life will never be the same again. Thanks for joining us and welcome to the Apostle's Table. Well, praise the Lord, and grace and peace be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Welcome to the Apostle's Table. My name is Mike Woods, for those of you who are uninitiated, and it is always my pleasure to sit at this table and share the word of God with you. Well, today I'm not going to waste any time. You know, for the last couple of days, I really been trying hard to share this word. I want to finish teaching this series on Anointed for the Now because we gotta move on to something else. There's so many things God has planned for us that's going to help empower us through the rest of this year. Sitting at this table, we got some great interviews we're going to do. Matter of fact, we got planned, uh, apostolic roundtable. We're going to bring some other apostles together and we're going to just share the word of the Lord on how to move forward Glory to the name of God. Post-coronavirus, post-George Floyd, we gotta figure out how to go on and how to flow in the things of God. And I believe that God has placed his secrets into— in the house, in the hearts and the minds of his prophets and his apostles. Glory to the name of God. So we're going to pull the men and women of God together and we're going to dialogue. So we just got other things we got to do, but the last couple of days, man, the Holy Ghost has placed us under arrest on this this past Friday and on yesterday, uh, we just, we prophesied on yesterday. This prophetic stream is over us right now where with a lot of significance and accuracy, God is causing us to minister personal words of prophecy to those that need it. And so when we came on live yesterday and Friday, you know, names that were scrolling up on the screen that people were jumping on, and their name would jump out at me and the Lord would begin to minister to me word concerning them. And, you know, I'm, I'm grateful for the prophetic gifts, but I also know there has to be a balance. So I want to invite all of you that watch the videos of the prophecy— most people get mesmerized by prophecy, especially on the, on the spot when people are confirming that it's true. That's great, it's supposed to be. And I want you to walk it out and live it. But guess what you need? You got to have a word balance to take what you've heard and apply because revelation— watch this— without application is constipation. So even when prophetic words are revealed to you, you got to make application and follow the principles so they can come to pass in your life. So what I want to do today, I want to go ahead and pray, and I want to jump into the heart of this message. I want you guys that are joining us, please say hello, let us know you're here. Glory to the name of God! We're glad you've joined us today. We're here every day at 12 noon, and we're glad that you took the time to join us for this live teaching on today. Listen, I want you to share it with somebody and be a blessing to them. You know, I believe the word of God. It says that he sent his word and it healed them. So I believe that even as we teach the word of God today, it's going to go out with such authority and power that those that hear— glory to the name of God— they're going to receive and they're going to be blessed and their life is never going to be the same. If they got sickness in their body, they got a broken heart, they got broken finances, as this word goes out, it's going to bring healing and reconciliation to the lives of those that hear. Praise the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Isn't God good? Hallelujah! He's a great and mighty God. He's an awesome God, and beside him there is no other. So let's pray. Father, we love you today. Hallelujah! And we thank you for another opportunity to come into hallelujah, this studio and share the word of the Lord with your people all around the world. And so, Father, we decree and declare even before we get started that this word will go out to the masses, not to make Michael Woods popular, but God, that people will be liberated and their mindsets shifted because they have sat in the presence of apostolic authority. And God, I don't boast in that heavily, for this office, this anointing has come with a great price of ridicule and failure and pressure and pain and processes that you've taken me through, God, to cause what you placed upon my life to be resident. So, Father, I thank you for that now. But I'm asking you, dear God, that you would hide me behind the cross, cover me in the blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, and allow only you to be seen, God. For your word declares, if you are lifted up, Lord Jesus, that you would draw all men unto you. So Father, as we teach tonight, we thank you that men are being drawn to you, and we praise you for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen. And thank God. Well, God bless your hearts. Hallelujah. I'm telling you, the Lord is here with us today. And we're going to get into this word. We've been teaching a series entitled Anointed for the Now. Glory to God! I dare you touch yourself and say, I am anointed. Hallelujah! For right now. And God knows, with all of the things that are happening in our world today, what we need is the anointing. Praise the name of God! We We watched through social media and the news media a gentleman die, a Black man die in the streets at the knee of a police officer. Challenging situation in our world. And one would believe that our response to these type activities, and listen, this is not the first time this type of violence has happened, even though we've seen Over the last 7 years, the media have given us highlights of different ones. But I want you to know, in between each one of those people, there were other incidents that were happening. They just didn't get the media attention. So the response to this is not violence to violence, an eye for an eye. The response has to be an anointing that's gonna destroy the yoke and curse racism at the root. Are you hearing me? And curse hatred at the root. And understanding that the officer that kneeled on the neck of George Floyd, I want you to hear me, he is not a representation of all Caucasians in America. I need you to know that. You know, every, person of color, or whether they're Caucasian and Asian or Hispanic, every person has something beyond the outer casing. As a matter of fact, we are tripartite beings. We are trichotomies. We're made up of three parts: body, soul, and spirit. And the way we— the body is just a case for who we really are. And if we will ever learn how to slip past the polkertude of humanity and get into the depths and the cores of the human spirit, especially— oh, glory to the name of God— understanding that the human spirit cannot thrive unless it has been— hallelujah— amalgamated or amalgamated with the Spirit of the living God. Because when that happens, the human spirit, which literally cannot live without the resurrected power of God resurrects everything about the God person that's in the human. And we can really appreciate one another when we do that. And one of the ways we're going to see that happen, we need an anointing that will penetrate flesh, that will penetrate the, the intellectual mind in a way that we can create a marriage between anointing and intellect. We can create a marriage between our humanity and the anointing, and we'll be better people because of it. And so what I've shared so far, and I'm just going to review this really quickly. Hallelujah. Oh my God, I feel you today, God, and I feel the anointing on this word. Stay with me. Hallelujah. Stay with me. Glory to God. So in the first lesson, I taught you, praise the name of God, that Jesus— hear me— he brought his kingdom with him when he came to this planet. He brought his kingdom with him. He did not show up to blend in or to adhere to the kingdom of this world. He came into the world as a king And he brought his kingdom with him that he was carrying on the inside of him. And he came to live in a way as a kingdom citizen of heaven on earth to become an example to us. Are you hearing me? Oh my God. Of how we're supposed to live on planet Earth as kingdom citizens. And he showed us how we could conquer All of the science that the earth, even gravity, glory to God, even raising men from the dead, healing sicknesses that were deemed incurable. Watch this, even healing and bringing peace to religious crisis. Oh my God. And even racial crisis. Watch that, it's all in the scripture and it all manifested in Jesus' lifetime. Oh, hallelujah! But I want you to see something here, that if the kingdom was in Jesus— when I taught you in the first lesson, according to 1 John 2:27, that each one of us have inherited that same kingdom through the power and resurrection of Jesus Christ. So if the Anointed One, who is the Messiah, or Messiah, the Anointed One, was Jesus Christ, which he was, hallelujah, and the anointed one lives in me, then I have a, a right to access the kingdom of God. So I'm not going to teach that again, but please go back to lesson 1 and grab that. So jumping to today's lesson, last time I start talking about what is the anointing, and I pretty much share with you in the onset of that lesson what the anointing was not. First of all, the anointing is not gifts. It's not a title. It's not a position. It's not going to church. Are you hearing me? Glory to God. It's not any of those things. The anointing is not gifts because you can go to church and not be anointed. You can read the Bible and not be anointed. Hear me. You can worship and cry and not be anointed. Oh boy, watch this. You can speak in tongues. And not be anointed, because the anointing is the express personality of the Lord Jesus Christ that removes burdens and destroys yokes. See, when the anointing really shows up, a real evident change, a tangible change occurs upon the lives of those that experience the anointing. See, if you're listening to me teach today The teaching that I'm teaching is anointed not because I'm some special person, but it's because I have chosen to sacrifice my life and pay the price, whatever it has been, for the anointing the rest of my life. Not for me, but for people. And if you yield your vessel to what you're hearing right now— that's why if you're just coming into this live, I need you to share this. I don't want you to scroll past this, because really what is happening in our society right now, you got a ton of people even in the church and the world, who are living without the auspices of the anointing present in their life to remove burdens and destroy yokes. Because that's what the Bible says. The scripture says, because of the anointing, the yoke is destroyed and the burden is removed. So when the anointing shows up, I want you to understand something: burdens are going to be removed. See, if you tell me you've been sitting on the anointing and you leave somewhere and you still more burdened than you was before you went in that place, listen, that's a real problem. Oh my God, that's a, that's a serious issue. Because if you really been under the anointing, your burdens are going to be lifted. Listen, if you really have sat under the anointing and opened your heart to receive it, your— the yokes in your life are going to be destroyed. And that's what God really wants you to experience. So I start teaching that last time I got a chance to teach before the Holy Ghost arrested us. Glory to God. And we begin to minister to many of you. Listen, I want you to understand something, that there are levels to the anointing. So I start diving into that, and the first level I gave you as we read Ezekiel 47, verses 1 through 10, I want you to make sure you go and read that because I'm not going to read it today for the sake of time. But I read it before, and Ezekiel 47:1-10 gave us— and we'll go through this as I teach— the 5 levels of the anointing. And I got to the first 2. The first one was a watching level. It is where you move as a spectator and you watch those who are anointed and you never get involved. Not going to teach it again. Please go back and watch the message from last Thursday. Praise God. I think it's anointed for the now part 3 or part 4 maybe. Listen, but watch that because I talk about the Watcher, and then I also talk about those who are just ankle deep, and those who are ankle deep and only thing is wet in their life with the anointing is their feet and their ankles. These are the shallow Christians. Who never really— and religious Christians who do just enough to get by, just enough studying, just enough going to church, just enough praying to get by, not really going the extra mile to see what they can really experience in the realm of the spirit. I want to tell you this, listen to me today, there's more to your walk with God than what you've been experiencing. It's more than watching a Facebook Live and seeing someone else flow in the anointing, like maybe watching, uh, the Lord use me to flow in prophecy. There's something God has for you. Or watching Benny Hinn blow on folk and everybody fall out. Listen, there's something greater that he wants to do in you that you can experience beyond watching, beyond just getting your feet wet. And some of you just got to make up in your mind you're going to be bold enough to get your feet wet. Hallelujah. To, to go beyond getting your feet wet and get all the way in the water. So as we read this, glory to God, in Ezekiel 47, uh, I'm just going to read some of it and we're going to go through tonight as much as we can, okay? And we're talking about there are 5 levels in this text, and I defined what the anointing was, the meshach. It means to smear on, to paint on, to superimpose the personality or the very essence of God. That's what meshach is, to superimpose the personality or very essence of God. Watch this. And that's what happens when the anointing comes upon you. The very personality, power, and essence of God exudes from your life. And you can't get that just being a watcher. You can't, because it's not for you. It's for someone else. It's for My God is for everybody else that he's assigned to your hands. So let's read this Ezekiel 47, verses 1 through 10, and I'm gonna go as far as I can. Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house, and behold, the waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward, for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from the right side of the house at the south side of the altars. Then he brought me out of the way of the gate northward And led me way without unto the utter gate. Are you hearing this? By the way that looketh eastward. And behold, there ran out waters on the right side. And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured 1,000 cubits, and he brought me through the waters, and the waters were to the ankles. Now again, first he was watching. And now the water comes to the ankles. Watch this, but here's another level. Again, he measured a thousand and brought me through the waters, and the waters were to the knees. Oh my God. So here's the third level. The third level is to be knee-deep in the anointing. This is another level, knee-deep. So again, and we talked about those measurements, those metrons. So you can never exude to the next measure because that, that, that man that had the key represents the apostolic anointing. The apostles, real apostles. I'm not talking about some little guy running around hollering and shouting all the time. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about an apostle that carries the government of the kingdom on their shoulder. They carry keys to unlock stuff in your life. A real apostle. Has the ability to go down to the depths of your spirit and begin to measure where you really are and start unlocking stuff. And what he does is he wisely unlocks the next door when you're ready to go to the next place. And see, you'll never understand how to properly navigate from ankle deep to knee deep through these or through any of these 5 levels without apostolic culture, being in the presence of apostolic and prophetic people to unlock the depths and help you broker those gifts to the next level. Wow, wow, wow! Oh my God, oh my goodness, oh my goodness! Whether you're watching me YouTube, Facebook, Periscope, wherever you're watching today, I need you to understand something. You need to find somebody with some keys. And listen, I don't care if you are an apostle, how anointed you think you are, you'll never be able to move to the next place if you don't take the time— watch this— to sit your hind parts down somewhere and be measured. See, when a real apostle shows up, he may not say much initially and just kind of let you kind of go through the motion, let you talk. Glory to God. And even confirm who you are. But a real apostle is measuring you the whole time. And then as he measures, he unlocks something, lets you step into it. And then the apostle now manages that help. He manages that anointing and helps you manage it. And the management state is a development stage that— watch this— that happens when you're knee-deep Oh God, oh God. So here again in the text, it shows us the neat deep level of the anointing. And really, it's not much greater if you look at your knees to your ankles. It's really not much distance. Glory to God. It don't matter how tall or short you are, at the end of the day, your knee to your ankle ain't that far away. You could be 7 feet, you could be Shaq, But Shaq knees to his ankle is not that far. I'm just telling you right now, most people get knee deep and think they have arrived. Oh my God. So it's not that far, but it does indicate, according to this, that you have been measured. Another level has been unlocked and you can move into something more. The knee deep level represents— watch this— and this is where a whole lot of apostles and intercessors miss it. They think they have arrived because— oh my God, oh, here we go, here we go, here we go— they think they have arrived because they, they pray a lot or they spend a lot of time in intercession. Listen, I love talking to God, but I— listen, oh boy, here we go— if the only time you can pray And you could— I see people doing early morning prayer live. Great, I'm glad you praying. My question to you, early morning prayer and the apostle or the prophet that has a prayer line, my question to you: what kind of time you spending with God when you're not in front of the camera? Or do you need an audience? Oh my God, oh my God, do you need an audience to pray? See, knee-deep people have fallen in love with prayer, which is great. Prayer is great. It's, it's, it— listen, we do it to get to know God. We, we don't do it to flaunt and boast about how much we pray. That's not why we do it. We do it that when we come out of prayer, we could take action in following the instructions that God gave us while we were praying. Oh boy, y'all, y'all ain't hearing that issue. Y'all don't want to hear that, really. I know y'all don't want to hear that because nobody wants to be told that they ain't deep because they praying a lot. I, I get it, you pray a lot. I do. But here it is, you ain't deep as you think you are if you don't understand how to unlock the mystery and walk in it when you get off your knees. Or if you need an audience to pray, if you can't do 5 o'clock by yourself, 5 o'clock prayer by yourself, you don't need to be on the prayer line at 5 o'clock praying for nobody. If you got to have an audience for people to hear you crying and crying out to God, hallelujah, something's wrong with your relationship. You just knee deep. Glory to God. You just knee deep when you don't. And secondly, you don't— again, when you don't know how to take action when you come out of your prayer closet, all you do is pray and ain't no tangible fruit in your life that you've been with God. That's a problem. So the knee-deep Christian, according— it represents a loyalty to prayer, a loyalty to the things of God. But at the same time, these knee-deep people, they're not going to go deeper into the things of God or into unknown realm of what God has for them because they're not comfortable there. I, I've, I've had the opportunity to be a father to many sons and daughters in my last, my past 30 years of ministry, full-time ministry. And I'm grateful for those I've had to mentor, those I've trained. And you know what I've seen so much of? I, you know, I was talking to one of my daughters today You know, as we are preparing to relaunch and emerge Rother Church after COVID here in the city, God blessed us with our own facility. We're really excited about moving in that building, man. And God told me, he said, I want you to erect this in a way that you've never done this thing before. And I just started listening to the stress. I was talking to one of my daughters, I said, look, We had such an apostolic and prophetic collaborative when I was in Mississippi, and you worked with us when we birthed the church in Jackson, Mississippi. I told her— she's living somewhere else now. She moved from Mississippi somewhere else. I said, you need to come to Atlanta. I said, because of what is in you has already been cultivated through my apostolic DNA. And one of the things I used to see about her, she's a powerful prophet. Powerful woman of God. I put her up against anybody in this nation. Juanita Bynum, Cindy Trim, it don't matter. You bring them all out. She has something special. And what I saw on her when we were in the church in Mississippi, I used to have to push her to do certain things. Glory to God, because she was so powerful in prayer at home. And but when she, she would try to push out of comfort zone to preach or to— oh my gosh, she used to fight me so much when I tell her it's her time to preach or I tell her she had to exhort and, and, and, and be over the service. Or if I was going out of town, she was in charge. She fought me on those things, but she became a beautiful woman of God eventually because she had to get beyond being knee deep She, she didn't want to venture out into those areas where she was uncomfortable. Oh my God, hallelujah! And to testify about her moving to Atlanta, just show you how we're on the same page. She said, Apostle, wow. She said, I was just praying about either moving to Atlanta or Houston. And I said, now daughter, you got your answer. It's time for you to come home. It's time for you to be— because I, I told her too, I said I wasn't even mature enough to finish maturing you then. I gave you what I had. I said, but you still gotta get some more of what God is giving me now. Oh my God, so I'm telling you, listen to me. You gotta get beyond being knee deep. Well, let's keep reading this scripture, glory to God. And so again, he measured, he measured, He measured, said, let me see where you at. Let me see if you're ready to be promoted. And he brought me through the waters that were to the loins. Now here we go, waist deep. This is at a level of the anointing where now you're moving waist deep at the loins. This often refers to, according to this text— now I want you to hear this prophetically— to influence. So this type of believer in this text is active in the things of God, okay? They're influential, they interact with others around them. Watch this, they have active roles in the local church, they love the Lord, and they're involved in ministry. They're waist deep. I mean, they're in, they're saying, hey, I love God, I love people. They're leaders, they're influencers, they're waist deep. And here's the problem, however, this doesn't indicate, 'cause when you waist deep, it doesn't indicate a willingness to do everything. My oldest son, I love him. Michael Larris Woods Jr. I love him. Such a mandate on his life. He don't even realize how anointed he is, how— what God has in store. He don't realize the legacy that has been prepared for him. He really don't have a total understanding of— he's 24 years old now, but, but he's a, he's a, he's a lion. Glory to God. And I love, I love my son, but I, I remember when he was a little boy and I taught him to swim. Now, true story. I was in the shallow water with Michael, waist deep, floating him, trying to get him to kick and do all this stuff. He's a little boy, about 8 years old, I guess, maybe 7. Trying to float him and get him to swim, and he just wouldn't get it. Scared of the water, whole 9 yards, because he was unwilling to commit his whole body to the water so he could progress and move. So I said, you know what, but later, for all of this, I took him out of the water against his will, took him to the deep end, and tossed him in. Hallelujah! Glory to God! And watch this— everything I had taught him in the shallow water came back to memory, and he began to swim because he needed to survive. Listen, let me tell you something. Some of you need to stop playing with this. You're leading at the surface. You love people, you love ministry. Glory to God. And some of you are doing it religiously, but you need to get all the way in the water so you could be effective in the kingdom of God. Listen, you gotta fully surrender. That's what this means. You cannot have a half-hearted approach to ministry. You can't be in ministry and don't really even like people. You can't be in ministry and really don't want to be there. When you're in ministry, glory to God, and you want to see the full anointing flow through you, you got to get all the way in. Listen, the text tells us there's a point where you have to choose basically whether you're going to be either lukewarm or you're going to be hot or you're going to be cold. Why? See, the Bible said when you're lukewarm, God spews you out of his mouth. Revelation 3:16, he said, when you lukewarm, I'll spew you out of my mouth. Wow, wow. And there's a lot of people who can't flow in the things of God because they operate lukewarm. They only do it for show. They only perform for the camera. They don't perform— watch this— most pastors are reapplying for their job every Sunday. You know, at the end of the day, I'm so glad— I love Pastor Jamal Bryant. I love him. Great preacher, great leader. All right. And I'm so glad he's gotten comfortable in his skin at Newburgh, because every time I would see him or pass by something he was doing, or even if it was a sermon, I would stop and listen to some of it. He was trying— and all of the works he was even doing, just trying to make sure he's reapplying for that job every week. And he may probably tell me, man, I wasn't doing that. But at the end of the day, that's what it— that's what it really appeared to be. And most pastors in America do that. They show up And they stage everything they do in the ministry waist deep to make sure their job is secure. That's why I promise you I could never pastor a church that is ruled by deacons. Listen, I'd rather pastor a demon-possessed church than a deacon-possessed church. I'm gonna say again, I'd rather pastor a demon-possessed church than a deacon-possessed church because listen, I can cast the devil out, I got power. Glory to God, to cast the devil out. The Bible gives it to me as a believer. But guess what? Them deacons ain't going nowhere. Glory to God. So, and most people spend their life in mainline denomination, and I'm not saying nothing's wrong with this. If you can get on the same page with leadership and everybody works together, it's a beautiful situation. That's why I'm glad Jamal has settled into his fire and he's doing great work here in Atlanta. And I'm excited about him being here. But I'm saying you got to make up in your mind that at some point you're going to get all the way in this thing and you're not going to be— look, you're going to be either be hot or cold. You're going to be you or you're going to be somebody else. And I'm glad Jamal understands. And I know I'm no one with him, but I'm glad he understands. I don't have to be Eddie L. Long because that's not who he's called to be. He has his own flavor, his own spice, his own life. He has his own way that the fire flows out of him when he flows in his own fire. Glory to God. And so what am I saying to you? You can't get out here mimicking everybody. Come on, hallelujah, glory to God. You can't get out here trying to be somebody else and you spend the seasons in your life— watch this— watching everybody else do it well. Now I get it, all of us We like— who are in ministry and leadership, we like watching people do it well. Uh-huh, we do. And for most of our lives, if we're not careful, we'll spend our ministry being like that person we admire and we'll never move into our own fire. Oh my, oh my, oh my. Watch this. Great people are important, but— and they help shape us in our formative years. But there ought to be a point of maturity where you move into your own identity and fire, and you become extremely influential. I hear a lot of singers today, it blows me away. Some of the gospel singers today. I hear a lot of them, they all do the same runs. A lot of them sound just alike, and I can't tell who I'm listening to sometimes. Glory to God. Unless I look at the screen and see who name on there. Because at the end of the day, that's a waist deep, but there's a depth to you in the anointing that brings out your uniqueness, that makes you hot all the time, that makes you on fire all the time because you've— listen, I don't care. I can't be nobody but me. I don't know nothing else. Glory to God. I really don't. And you know, granted, because I have been mentored, I have fathers, there's certain things I did pick up from them. It's in my DNA. And I'm not talking about those things. My— I have sons and daughters who flow just like I do. Which is great. That's the culture they were raised in. I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about when you deliberately watching Creflo Dollar. And when I, you know, I turn on a video, you got on a suit like Creflo, you, you leaning on the pulpit like Creflo, you sound exactly like Creflo. Something's wrong. Or vice versa. You, you, you, you sound just like Kenneth Copeland. Come on, you at some point, you should flow in your own uniqueness, your own individuality. Oh my God, help us, help us. I done got out here deep now, y'all. I'm out here, I'm out here now. So listen, we got to get beyond being waist deep and being lukewarm, man. Listen, we gotta make a choice. According to this, if we're going to move to the next level, we got to make a choice. Glory to God. To move from this half body length and submit everything to God or everything to the world. What is going to be? Matter of fact, let's go to Matthew 6:24. Let's go there. I'm going to close with that. I want to— I want you to see this. Either we're going to submit everything to God or everything to the world. Matthew 6:24. Praise the name of God. It says something like this. It said either you love the one or hate the other, for no man can serve two masters. So to graduate from being waist deep, you got to decide that it's not about your flesh. See, most of the time— and I, and I get it, because most of the time we feel most confident when we are doing something the way somebody popular is doing it. Because seemingly they're getting results. But I want you to know something. When you're— there's a uniqueness inside of you. Yes, you. That when God comes looking for you, all he's gonna need is you. Listen, he don't want to find a duplication of somebody else and he's going to pass on. So when he comes looking for you, make sure you're standing there. In your uniqueness, in your authenticity, and say to the Lord, here I am, use me just as I am. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Praise God. My time is gone, y'all. I gotta stop. I gotta stop right there. Listen, make sure y'all tune in tomorrow. Glory to God. And hear the word of the Lord here at the Apostle's Table. Listen, I want to pray for you before I go. I believe that God has something rich for every— matter of fact, right where you are, I hear you, God. I hear you, Lord. Right, I'm gonna shut my iPad now and I'm gonna close it. I'm done. Glory to God. But right where you are, praise the Lord, I want you to lift up your hands. Glory to Jesus. Thank you, Father. Father, I love you, I praise you, I magnify you, I give you glory, I give you honor. Come on, just worship him. And yea, I heard the Lord say even now, he said, say to my little ones— yes, Lord— that I have brought them to a place where I am perfecting peace. Meaning, I hear you, God. Yes, Lord. I'm perfecting my skill set and my assistance in their life. For I have come, saith God, to mande bokus katabaya, to bring them to a higher place in me, that their skill set will be applied on a daily basis. Give them to know, my son, that I, the Lord— thank you, Jesus— have given each of them that listen to you even now a very unique and special gift. Rub your belly right now. I heard you, God. And even as they put their hand in their belly now, give them to understand that I'm igniting fire in their belly. And begin now to declare fire in the belly. Hobah, fire in the belly. Brusketabah, breka, fire in the belly. And God, erebosura bakiskata, and give them to know I am their Father. And the fire I have ignited in their belly shall burn not only in their belly, but it shall burn upon their lives and every place they go, for I am God, a consuming fire. They will begin to consume the ills of the world with their purpose, with their talent, with their gifting, because today I have ignited them with a fresh anointing. I have anointed them today with fresh oil in the name of Jesus. So be it, and thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Glory be to God. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, shabba-ba, bri-kolo-bu, kush-ka, bande-de-de-de-de, ando-bo-so. I pray you receive the fire of God right now. Fire in your relationships. I'm looking at somebody right now in your marriage. Glory to God. I heard the Lord say, I'm putting the fire back. Hallelujah. I just heard the Lord say, I'm getting ready to give you and your marriage a romantic fire. Romantic revival for sexual survival. Oh God. Iba, uska, briko, rabansa, bande, kusketa. Hey, my God. He said, I'm getting ready to give you a romantic revival in your house for sexual survival. I see you, husband. You've been about to cheat, but the Lord said, don't do it. Glory to God. I'm about to re-spark the fire flame in your marriage. Glory to God. And your marriage covenant is going to stay strong in the name of Jesus. Somebody's watching me now, you're struggling with homosexuality and lesbianism too. Homo— a male that's struggling with homosexuality and a woman that's struggling with lesbianism. I heard the Lord say, if you allow the fire to consume it. Glory to God. You just gotta want it, and you gotta let the flame be greater than your flesh. God said, I'm gonna restore you to your original state. I'm gonna restore your innocence in the name of Jesus. Oh God, I bless you. Adabasu. Yeah, I see that, God. I'm looking at somebody who has been Traumatized through this pandemic. You've lost your business, you lost money. Glory to God. It seemed like nothing is working, nothing is clicking. Hear me good. The Lord said, I'm restoring for you right now. The Lord said the next 21 days will be days of restoration. So start opening up your spirit and confessing by faith. I want you to begin Yeah, I heard that. I just heard the words of Leroy Thompson in my left ear. The Lord told me to tell you to start shouting for the next 21 days, money, come to me now. I dare you do it. I dare you say money, come to me now. Anybody? Oh, bah, see, yeah. Any of you, glory to the name of God, that's in the midst of a financial battle God said for the next 21 days, begin to shout. I heard my God, I heard Leroy Thompson's voice. That's crazy. Hallelujah. Glory to God. He says, shall money come to me now in the name of Jesus. And I'm telling you, God's gonna surprise you, and he's— there will be a performance. He's going to work a miracle in your life. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. I'm going. Perhaps you're watching and you're not born again. Listen, if you don't know Jesus and the free pardon of your sin, the Bible says you simply have to repent of your sins. Hallelujah. Be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and be filled with the Holy Ghost. The Bible says you shall be saved. The Bible says in Romans, you confess with your mouth, believe in your heart the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved. Listen, I want to take you through these— this, this first initial step. It's called repentance. You can repent right now and Jesus Christ will come into your life. You can receive the gift of the Holy Ghost right now, and the Holy Spirit will overtake you with the evidence of speaking in tongues. You just got to receive it. So if that's you and you're not born again, I want to pray with you right now. Hallelujah. And if you are born again, just pray with those that may not be. And let's be in agreement that as we pray this prayer, someone who is not saved will find this video and give their life to God. Can we pray? I want you to repeat after me. Say, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, say, I repent of my sin. I confess I am a sinner. I need to be saved. Say, Lord, I open my heart and I invite you in to make me new. Say, I believe your word: if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. Say, I declare today, as my sins are forgiven, I am a new creature in Jesus' name. Say, Lord, fill me with the Holy Ghost. Say, I receive it now in Jesus' name. Amen. Listen, if you, if you repented of your sins and prayed that prayer, I want to tell you Jesus came into your heart. And I want to invite you, glory to God, to get the information you need to take the next steps. All you got to do is go to rhodachurch.com/contact and say, Apostle Woods, I prayed with you today, and please give me the next steps. And I want to— I'm going to give you those steps on how to get to the next place and how to receive everything you need so you can walk with God in the fullness. And most of all, I want to help you find a good church in your area so you can grow in the things of God. Listen, I love you guys. I want to challenge everyone. Hallelujah! Be praying for us, praise God, as we prepare to move in our new facility at Rhoda Church. I am so— and Rhoda, for those of you that's wondering, I mean, it's the Hebrew word for dominion. That's what our ministry is based upon, has been for the last 30 years, teaching men how to be deployed into their dominion. Union purpose. Every one of you have a sphere of influence that you're to be released into, and you're to dominate in that area. And we, we're trying to help as many people as we can do it. And Rhoda Church, our new facility, is going to be an apostolic center in this region that's going to be doing just that. I need your help, glory to God, to help us do what we need to do. We've already signed the contract. We got to do remodeling in the building. We got to put new chairs in, we got to put all our AV equipment and everything in. It's going to be a center where we will minister to the world from that place, and we're going to gather people in our local church that will be saved and healed and delivered. Listen, we want you to help us do it. There's a couple of ways you could give. One, you could do it by Cash App. The Cash App is on the screen. Send your Cash Apps directly to 'Rhoda Church,' and it's going to go straight into the church's account, and we're going to use it for the upbuilding of the kingdom. Secondly, you could give online. Just go to rhodachurch.com/donate. You should see that on the screen. Glory to God! And give your offering that way. I want to challenge every person that watched this live today, whether live or by play. The sow seed of $51. That's what I heard in my spirit. I haven't been throwing numbers out because God ain't been giving none to me. And I appreciate all of you that's been given, but this is a special seed to help the house of God, to help ministry. I dare you to sow this seed into your next 51 days and watch what God does. I need at least— glory to God— 51 of you to plant a seed of $51 in the church ministry and watch what God will do for you. Listen, I'm done. I pray that today's Apostle's Table has been a blessing to you. Listen, go in peace and may God forever bless you. And remember, you're always welcome at the Apostle's Table. God bless you.