The Apostles Table | Birthing Dreams Visions Part 2: The Family Tree | 9.1.20 | Dr Mike Woods Sr

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Well, praise the Lord, and grace and peace be multiplied to each one of you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is Apostle Michael Lyris Woods, for those of you who are uninitiated. And listen, it does me great pleasure every opportunity I get to share with you the word of the Lord. Listen, I don't have a lot of time today, but welcome to the Apostle's Table. And today we're going to continue a teaching we started on Sunday entitled Birthing Your Dreams and Visions. I began to lay a backdrop and talked about conception a little on Sunday, and I feel like I laid enough background to bridge out into what I want to share on today. Praise God. And you know, I'm really interested in ensuring, praise the name of Jesus, that we as human beings manifest everything that's in us that we're on this planet to manifest. And inside of every person listening to me is a huge dream, a huge vision. You know, when you begin to realize your dreams and your visions, the resources that are connected to those dreams and visions, the heavens begin to cause resources to actually search for you, look for you, because praise the name of God, my God, hallelujah, glory be to Jesus, hallelujah, because the heavens understand that you need its assistance to bring to pass any heavenly dream, any heavenly vision. So you guys, as you're coming in this afternoon, do me the kind favor, I need you to share this video and It's gonna be a blessing to somebody. Glory to God. Like it, share it. Praise the name of God. And I'm not gonna be with you long today, but I wanna be with you just enough to drop this so you'll come back tomorrow, praise God, and get the rest of it. So today, let's pray first so we can get into this. Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you for your goodness, your mercy, your grace, your kindness, your favor, God. We decree and declare today, God, that there is none like you nowhere. It's in you we live, it's in you we move, it's in you, dear God, that we have our being. So Father, I pray in the name of Jesus for every person under the sound of my voice, and I decree and declare, dear God, that this word will go out with light, illumination, and intelligence that comes from heaven. And I thank you that your people will be blessed by you and never impressed by me. Be glorified. God, in the name of Jesus we do pray. Amen and thanks be to God. God bless your hearts. Again, I'm grateful, hallelujah, to be here with you. So I'm going to share today, you know, I truly believe that as I bridge into this, I want to give you some insight Because again, once you realize your dreams and visions, you know, when they really are the dreams and visions that come from God, the resources start looking for you. As a matter of fact, let me prophesy to somebody right now. Money is looking for you. Hashiba, property is looking for you. There's somebody that has come in direct contact with your dream, with your purpose, with God's plans for your life. And God is saying to you today, property is looking for you. Money is looking for you. Manpower and people to bring it to pass are looking for you because you've tapped into what you really are supposed to be doing. Somebody stop and praise God right there. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Because you have had an encounter for real now And I'm speaking to someone who's wasted years, glory to God, chasing the wrong dream, chasing the wrong vision, and now you have come in contact with it for real. And God said to share with you the resources, the people, the money are now looking for you. So stay in the vein, don't be frustrated, don't give up. Glory to God. Let's get into this. Praise God. So in order for us to birth dreams and visions, I want to first, uh, make us clear that we are, we are a part of God's family, all right? And we have in our DNA the DNA of Jesus Christ. Who came to this planet with distinct purpose and who was absolutely clear, had a clear vision about what he was supposed to be doing while he was here. Now, here's what I want you to realize. So many humans, specifically in the house of God, in church, in kingdom culture, come into Christendom, become a part of ministry, join a church, join a ministry at the church, and never really understanding why they are here and the vision and dream that they're really supposed to be following. And I'm telling you something, when you really get on the right path, You're talking to somebody that chased the wrong dream before in their life many times, and many times because I was smart enough to make things work, it worked, but it didn't last because it wasn't the mandate that was on my life. And thank God that he's so committed to us that he'll let us keep falling until we get it right, until we really have an encounter with his dream. See, the family business is the building of dreams. The family business is the manifestation of heaven on earth. How do we do that? We manifest what God has conceptualized or conceived on the inside of us by causing that to come forth and allowing people to experience it through our lives. So I want you to say that with me. Say, the family business is the bringing forth of dreams and visions. And every one of you have a part in this business if you're listening to me today. And God is the head of the family, and he put the legacy of the kingdom in all of us that are still breathing. Watch this. If your heart is beating right now, It is an indicator that your dream and your vision is still a necessity. I don't care what the pronosticators are saying, my friend, you're still necessary. So let's go to Ezekiel 19. Let's go here first. Yeah, Ezekiel the prophet, Ezekiel 19. I'm gonna mark Isaiah 44, because that's really where I'm gonna start. But I want to lay a backdrop in Ezekiel 19 real fast. Can I do that? 19. Let me turn over here in my Bible. Glory to God. 19 and verse number 10 and 11. Watch this. The Bible says, your mother was like a vine in your vineyard. Planted by water, it was fruitful and full of branches because of the abundant water. It had strong branches fit for the scepters of rulers. Its height towered among the clouds, so it was conspicuous for its height as well— listen to this— as its many branches. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, bless this word. Let your people again experience the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of heaven. And we give you praise for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen. I want to make sure you understand what I'm about to share is from God. So today we're going to talk about the family business, and the family business is making it your duty to birth dreams and visions. Oh my God. So the text in Ezekiel 19 talks about the vine in your blood or the vine in your mother. I was reading this, glory to God, out of the Christian Standard Bible, but the King James says the vine in your blood. And this represents the DNA molecule which is found— hear me— in the hereditary chain or the bloodline of the family lineage. I'm going somewhere, but I need to lay this backdrop. So we come from the Father, we are successors of Jesus Christ, we are saved through his bloodline. And when you study the scientific illustration of DNA, the pattern is usually shown in what is called a helix or a vine. Hear me. So the text, the Revelation, here's the text, is talking about DNA. And this is the technology, the supernatural divine technology that God uses to identify relationships between family members. If I have my— I have Woods DNA. When I look at myself, I see my uncles, I see my daddy, I see my granddaddy. I see Woods DNA because I have the helix inside of me. I'm crossed in that pattern. And so as we begin to pursue bringing forth the family business, We must pursue it with the idea that in our bloodline is the bloodline of a champion. Woo! Is the bloodline of a finisher. Is the bloodline of one that never quits or never stops. Glory to God. Oh Jesus, he, he is my God, all running through our veins and our spiritual DNA. So the tree, the family tree, is fruitful according to Ezekiel 19 and full of branches, and this represents its ability to bring forth offspring. So in other words, if I can fulfill my dreams and visions and I'm in the family, God is saying He has no respect of person. You also can fulfill your dreams and visions because you also are in the family. Oh my God. Are y'all catching this today? Oh Jesus. Listen, I dare you to touch yourself and say, I'm in the family. Glory to God. Say, I'm in the bloodline of a champion. Say, I'm in the bloodline of a God. See, some of you tripping about your regular family DNA. Well, let me tell you something, glory to God, while you should celebrate where you come from, whether it's good or bad, because ultimately God is using that to make you who you are, and he purifies wherever you come from with his blood and brings you into his family. I dare you touch yourself and say, I got royalty in my blood. Hallelujah! I got royalty in my blood. Whoo-wee! So watch this, we have the ability again, according to this, it say we're fruitful, full of branches. Again, this represents our ability to bear offspring and to have an extended, watch this, lineage that is successful. So everything that comes out of us should have success as well. So that means if I'm a leader, the people that connect to my spiritual lineage, not only should I experience success, but those people should also experience success because I should have an openness as a father to share with them what it takes to obtain and ascertain success inside of the family lineage. And that's why I'm teaching this. You are a part of a strong family tree and a powerful family business. Good God Almighty. So we also read in the text that the waters— watch this— which, or the streams This says to us that it provides many different sources of provision. So the tree gets its health from the waters. Watch this, this is the spiritual aspect of God fueling us to do what we call— let's go to Psalms, Psalm 1:3. Let's go there. Let's go to Psalm 1:3. If y'all don't believe what I'm saying, let's go to Psalms 1:3, the first division of Psalm, verse number 3. Let's go there. Glory to God. Psalm number 3— Psalm number 1, verse 3. Let's go. Here we go. Psalm 1:3. The Bible says— watch this. Hallelujah. He is like a tree. Touch yourself and say, I'm in the family tree. Hallelujah. Planted beside flowing streams, that it bears fruit in its season, and whose leaf does not wither. Watch this. And whatever he does prospers. Now, this is in the Bible. It says whatever he does prospers. Oh my God. Which means if I'm in the family business, on the family tree, I should not be failing. Oh my God. I'm not gonna get to half of this today. I didn't even plan to go Psalm 1 and 3. But you need to understand, in the family business, on the family tree, we're planted by rivers of waters, and we have a multiplicity of streams, that come into the tree that keep us both spiritually healthy and financially healthy so that we could prosper and advance the kingdom. See, the only reason we need prosperity is to advance the kingdom. You cannot establish a kingdom on earth without wealth, without prosperity. So you need streams flowing into that tree that give us, oh, the viability to, to build cities. Are you hearing me? To build nations. Because let me, let me explain something to you. When Jesus returns, he's not coming to set up a kingdom. The Bible says he's coming down and he's going to sit on the throne of a kingdom already established. Who do you think is responsible for establishing that kingdom? You and I, the family. This is why God puts dreams and visions in us to bring forth, so that we can bring forth the family business, so that the king can come back and sit on the throne. Oh God, I hope y'all hearing me. Uh, listen, by the way, this, this live stream right here, it contains truth, and if you listen to it, the truth will set you free. This is my disclaimer: everything I'm teaching is out of the book. It's true. And, and some of you won't like it because you want to remain— you want to remain mundane, mundane. You want to remain small, you want to remain lackadaisical and lazy, and you want to remain bound by the systems of the world. But those of you that really want to break out and see more and experience more You'll adhere to the truth. The Bible said we like trees planted by the rivers of water. Also, we read in Ezekiel— let's go back over here, hallelujah, hallelujah— that there were strong rods on the tree which were scepters. These are the branches, are symbols on the tree that we read about in Ezekiel 19:10 and 11. The branches are symbols of government authority. Watch this. This is why we got to have wealth. This is why we got to have power, because we got their governments that we have to overthrow. There are models that we have to tear down and erect new models so that we will be heard and listened to by the world. So we got to establish branches all over the world of models that can be duplicated. Oh my God, here. And then he says, watch this, he says, these are government authority, and from them that bear rule, them that are in charge. And he said the statue, or the Hebrew word qamar, which represents the ability to rise and continue and endure and remain and perform, to make good, to succeed, to strengthen, to establish. God says I need some people that will make good on the promises of heaven, even in a pandemic. Lord have mercy. He said, I need some people in the earth that in the midst of racial tension and a bad economy, when the stock market is down, that will now rise up as a light and make good on the promises of heaven. Oh my God, I'm telling you right now, we need to bring forth our dreams and visions and make good on the promises of heaven so that the world will have something else to look at. Y'all ought to be sharing this. Glory to God, somebody needs to hear this. Glory. You've been listening to a dead preacher with a dead message. Glory to the name of God. That's not speaking life to your future and speaking to the kingdom that's inside of you. Imbababa. We— and listen, my tolerance is low. My apostolic ability and authority has risen to another place because I have a low tolerance for mediocrity. I have a low tolerance in my spirit right now for lack of study, for lack of prayer. And when I see people out here that do things and say things just to entertain you and make you feel good It does something to my spirit because they're not helping you. But I want to challenge you not to be mediocre, but to rise up and live as one that can make good and succeed and establish and strengthen. Oh my God, the promises of God in the earth. You know, I deal with people every day who, you know, in business, in the world, just dealing with people who have no revelation of kingdom, who have no idea who I am in the realm of the spirit. They have no idea of the authority I walk in because they cannot see it with their physical carnal eyes. But the more I pray— watch this— God opens up opportunity. Hallelujah. And I'm praying for a couple right now, even in my family. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. My, my immediate family, uh, glory to my, my siblings, my, my family. I love my family, but I want them to be clear who I am for real. And I'm— even my wife's family, I pray constantly because I need people to understand the authority and power that God has vested in me to bring forth things in the life of people that's been dormant. And I've seen it all my life, people that have encountered me who have become literally successful. I got to move, I got to move. So the Bible said in Ezekiel that the tree is exalted. Come on, church, hallelujah! Or it is pronounced more than the other trees by comparison. So this family tree, when compared to other family trees in the world, is exalted because the height and branches in the tree, because they're so profound and strong and so powerful, it makes it stand out above others. This is the divine pattern for every family lineage in the earth that represents heaven. We should stand out above the Rockefellers. We should stand out above the Trumps. Y'all not helping me preach. Lord have mercy, Jesus. We, we should stand out. Glory to God. Against, uh, oh my God, actors and actresses and activists. We should stand out because we're children of the King. Oh, it's right there in the book, in Ezekiel 19. I just broke the whole scripture down for you. So what we need to do this, to move in the family— so I had to lay a backdrop about the family tree because that's where we get our substance from, that's where we get our nourishment from to run and operate the family business. Are you hearing me? I got about 6 minutes and I got to leave y'all. Come back tomorrow, I'm going to finish. I'm going to be on this all week. Listen, the family business has to have an authority in place that helps people recognize, number one, what's down in them. All for— I have been walking in the apostolic really all of my ministry. It was publicly affirmed in the men in the earth by men about 15 years ago. And what I've seen in 15 years is my encounters with men. I look at the men that I encountered in my ministry and how many of them are apostles now and how they flow in authority. Oh my God. Two men coming to Emergence next week. Glory to God. At our church, by the way, if you have not registered, you need to register for Emergence. You need to get to Atlanta, Georgia. So you can get the impartation from the apostles that you need. But anyway, I look at these guys, Apostle Jerry Howard, Apostle Brandon Kynan, two individuals who I met in their formative years of ministry. I had the opportunity to lay my hands upon them, stir the gifts that are in them. And listen, I look at the DNA they have. Glory to God, they carry so much of who God is. They're part of the family tree. And here's what I understand. Not just them, but so many others around the country and the world, man. Listen, apostles are necessary. They are metrons who measure where you are. When apostles show up, the first thing they do is measure. The word apostle is apostolos in Greek. It is a sent one, a special messenger who comes into your life with plenipotentiary status, gubernatorial authority, stratospheric ability to overcome the enemies of heaven, the enemies of earth, because of their authority in the realm of the spirit. Apostles are like Jesus, carpenters by trade. Oh boy, I ain't got much time. I ain't gonna be able to get into this deep, but being a carpenter— I want to talk to my apostles right now, and I want to talk to you that don't understand what apostles do. Being an apostle is like a carpenter, and being carpenters is our— literally our family business. Oh my God. And I want to say to Apostles, we are a company of carpenters. Glory to God. I'm gonna say it again. We are a company of carpenters. Oh God. And we are here to help skillfully produce through the metron, through the government on our life. Oh my God. Kingdom people who move in excellence and authority in everything they put their hands on. Lord have mercy.