The Apostles Table | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr. | 6-29-2020 | The God of Plenty, Part 2

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, grace and peace be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And yes, welcome to the Apostle's Table. I'm always glad to be here, and moreover, it does my heart good to be able to share the word of the Lord with you. You know, many times when I sit down at this table, I'm really just sharing with you, you know, a conversation that God and I have been having about something, and he just allows me to let you in on the conversation. So these are not sermons. These are messages that come from Heaven. Most of the time in this same room, I'm praying, I'm spending time with God, and God is downloading things in me that he wants me to share with the world. So I want you guys to grab it. I want you to receive it. And I want you to know that every word that God speaks, glory to the name of God, he wants to bring it to pass in your life. Let's pray. Glory to God. I'm going to pray for two things. Today. I'm going to pray for the spirit of wisdom. Wisdom is— the Hebrew transliteration of the word wisdom is the word hakma, and it is the proper use— use the knowledge that we receive today adequately. And then secondly, I'm going to pray for the spirit of revelation, that the knowledge we receive won't just be from study, it will come from downloads from the Spirit, where God will open up a curtain and show us something that we've never ever seen before. So let us pray. Glory to God. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for another opportunity to teach your word. And I pray, Father, today that as we teach your word, that we would experience the light, the illumination, and the revelation that comes from the Holy Ghost. Thank you for supernatural intelligence to speak that which heaven is saying. And I decree and declare today that as we speak revelation, I decree and declare that not only revelation will flow through me, but as we're speaking to your people, that your word will be revealed to them and they will see things that they never seen before. And beyond revelation, God, I'm praying for the spirit of wisdom. Dear God, give them the wisdom to apply what they hear. We don't want to just be a religious group of Bible-toting Christians who never get results. And the only way we get results, God, is that you give us wisdom. And your word says, if any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God that gives it without selfishness. So I thank you for liberal giving of wisdom today to every person under the sound of my voice. God, I'm praying right now and asking you that someone who is not born again would hear this message and they will receive Jesus because of the words we disseminate today. And we praise you for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Hallelujah. Well, I feel the Lord in here today, so we're going to jump right into this. I started a series yesterday again, and we're going to be teaching this all month long, uh, all through July. I'm excited about this, man. God downloaded this stuff into me, and I'm gonna give it to you. Uh, we started teaching a word called the God of Plenty. You know, this is, uh, extrapolated from another whole series of messages that God has put in my belly to teach on the personality of God. And this is one of God's personality traits. He is a God— hear me— of Plenty. He's not a God of empty. He's the God of plenty. And we saw that so clearly in scripture on yesterday as we began to go through the word of God. If you did not watch part 1, please go back and watch it. So we've been known to call God a God of love. You know, we call him a God of salvation, a God of power, a supernatural God. We say he's omniscient, he's omnipresent, he's omnipotent. We, we describe him in so many ways But many times we fail to address how plenteous God is and how loaded. Ain't nothing empty about that. God is fully loaded with power. He's fully loaded with resources. He's fully loaded with love. And he's fully loaded with kingdom treasures that he wants to share with his citizens. And his family. Listen, you and I are the family of God. So yesterday we started just kind of talking about the God of plenty, and we gave you some prophetic words. We broke down what it meant to be plenteous in Hebrew, which meant to exceed, to have excess, to have more than enough. We talked about how the word plenty itself means to have more than an adequate supply. We, we talked about how in Deuteronomy 28:11, it shared with us that the Lord would make you, you and I, plenteous in goods, which means he will cause us to exceed, to have access, to have prosperity, to have wealth, to have benefits, to have good things. That's what that word goods means in Hebrew. I know y'all want to make it something else, and there's two things church folk don't like to talk about. They don't like to talk about sex, and they hate discussing money. But listen, here's the reality: everybody listening to me likes sex, and you want some, and most of you want a whole lot of it. Glory to God! And then secondly, most of you love money, and you want a whole lot of it. So we might as well talk about getting plenteous and appropriating the blessing of God according to his plan and his purpose. So we talked about that. We talked about how the Lord will make us have a surplus of goods. Oh boy! Which means we have stuff stored up where we never run out of what we need to advance the kingdom and do the will of God and live a good, abundant life. Now let me say this to you. Let me say this to you very emphatically. If you're going to live a plenteous life, and if you're going to live an abundant life, it will not be the result of your physical efforts. I'm gonna tell you something, most people been trying that all their life and it does not work. Glory to God. At the end of the day, your abundance will come through your alignment with God's plan and God's purpose for your life. Uh, last week and last month we were talking about being anointed for right now. You know, when the anointing comes on your life, it brings the personality traits of God into your being as a part of your existence. And you really need the anointing to understand your purpose. See, what money does, it supplies you with the resources to fulfill your kingdom purpose. And see, when your money has a purpose, it starts to look for you. My friend Sean Sanders, she always says that money has purpose, and whenever you assign purpose to money, the money begins to search for you. Can I tell you something prophetically today? Is you— as you begin to align your motives, oh my God, toward money and what you gonna do with money in the proper way I'm telling you right now, money is going to start to look for you. Woo! God have mercy. Matter of fact, I heard that, God. Matter of fact, somebody listening to me now, whether live or by replay, I heard the Lord say that property is looking for you. Woo! So you need to position yourself. A business is looking for somebody. A house is looking for somebody. A million dollars is looking for somebody. But you need to position yourself in the right position position so that the money can find you. I dare you shout by faith your address and your phone number. Just shout it out right where you are because money is looking for you. Property is looking for you. Oh my God, oh my God, that house, that business is looking for you. A promotion for somebody, you're being sought out, is looking for your geography. I dare you open your mouth and as you open your mouth and shout by faith phone number, your address. Let me tell you what's happening. Your faith is shifting. Oh my God. Oh my God. As you begin to speak by faith, you're positioning your mindset to receive something. Glory to God. That's totally supernatural. My God, you got to give your money Purpose. Listen, let me tell you something. God has blessed me, and I call this a blessing. He's blessed me to lose everything twice in my life. Listen, I mean, I've been in position— I've had more things and more money than most men, okay? I've been blessed. And at the end of the day, because I started getting out of position and the mindset became Well, I need to create more wealth. I need to do this. I need to do that. And I start trying to take what I have and put it here and do that and do that. And made a lot of mistakes, guys, and lost everything. Oh my God. And through it, got sick, almost lost my life. But can I tell you something? When I began to realign purpose— see, God, he'll take everything from you and strip you down to nothing and say, I don't need your help. I just need you to yield yourself and obey and align yourself with purpose, and I will do what you need to have done. I'll give you the resources that you need. And as I begin to realign myself, God began to restore. God began to restore. He still restored. He still restored. He's still putting things back together again because your money has to have the right motive and the right purpose. Are you hearing me? Are you hearing me? There's some people that's listening to me. God has called you to be wealthy. Matter of fact, as there's a supernatural wealth transfer taking place, there's something accumulating in the heavens in the midst of everything. That's, that's why I'm the person that's going to tell you, in the midst of this, stand your ground. Keep moving by faith in the midst of a pandemic, in the midst of racism and hatred. Glory to God. Listen, don't get so caught up in things that you break your focus and lose faith, because I'm telling you right now, there's some— because the thing that's going to change things is God's going to cause a wealth transfer to come into our hands, and we're going to begin to rule on the thrones that we're supposed to rule on in the kingdoms of the world. Yeah, I saw thrones yesterday, and God says, I'm getting ready to position my people on those thrones. Hear this prophetically: I'm getting ready to position my people on their rightful throne. What does that mean? So the kingdoms of this world mostly now are being ruled by men or women who are not in the kingdom of God. But God says there has to come a point in history where the kingdoms of this world become the kingdoms of our God. So if that's going to happen, we need men and women to begin to take their place on the throne in their fear of influence, in the fear of the special authentic purpose that God placed them on the planet to perform. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. We need to be— whoo, whoo, whoo. Listen, y'all not— oh my God, y'all not with me. I need you to grab this today. God says, I need you to get on the throne. And when we do, he starts releasing wealth. There, there are several types of manifestations of this wealth transfer because it's accumulating. God is accumulating the wealth in the heavenlies. Oh my God. So that he can transfer it into the kingdom of men so that it could be in the hands of the kings and the priests. Oh my God. That he placed in the earth to rule in those kingdoms. Every one of you listening to me, there's a purpose and there's a strength that God built in you, even if you don't know it yet, that you gotta tap into. And you gotta tap into it quickly so that when the transfer of wealth starts, you're in position. There's going to be generals of wealth. I believe that's one of the areas God has called me in to be a general of wealth. A general of wealth is a leader in wealth movements who has a global picture of what God wants to do in creating a global economy for the kingdom. And he has the ability to mobilize others who are walking in it and lead them into the right paths on how to produce and reciprocate wealth from generation to generation. So God's going to raise up generals of wealth. Secondly, he's going to raise up producers of wealth. These are the people that have wise insight on how to bring the wealth forth through production, through manufacturing. Watch this. We hear a lot of talk about the marketplace, but at the end of the day, the marketplace is just the place where goods are sold. They're bought and sold in the marketplace. But what if we're really going to obtain wealth? We need to go to another step and not just be in the marketplace with a business selling. We need to be manufacturers and have a mill. So to have wealth and, and tons of money that flows in for the kingdom, we got to have a mill, a manufacturing plant. Oh my God, where we're producing products and innovations that we send to the marketplace that are bought and sold in the marketplace. See, you're at another level of wealth when your clients are not consumers but businesses. So when you got a mill and a manufacturer, your clients are not consumers, your clients are businesses. And so that's what— that's the mindset that we have to start thinking in if we're going to move in massive wealth and massive kingdom industry that begins to to, watch this, occupy the thrones that God wants us to sit in. So let's get into this today, God. Oh my God. So in order to shift into this, we gotta have generals, producers of wealth. We gotta have managers of the wealth. Glory to God. We gotta have distributors of the wealth. We gotta have those that are wise enough to see somebody that needs an investment, that have prophetic and apostolic inclination to see a business owner and say, okay, That's gonna succeed. Let's dump $10 million in that. Or to— watch this— we need distributors of wealth to open up banks and credit unions. For real, a lot of the mega churches over the last two decades that said they had a bank, they really didn't have a bank. Uh, they were partnering with credit unions. Y'all not hearing me. Glory to God. To— and they said they had a bank, they really did not have a bank. Come on. But they were partnering with credit unions to get members to join, and the church was making commissions off of people joining. But that's not what God is saying. God wants us to have our own banking systems. Distributors of wealth have the insight and wisdom on how to set up banking systems in the kingdom. Lord, I'm going too far out here. So that we can distribute, glory to God. But that's why we have to understand that we serve, hmm, let me slow down. The God of Plenty. Woo! Hallelujah! Again, he wants us to be plenteous in goods according to Deuteronomy 28:11, which means to exceed, again, to have excess, to have more than enough. I want you to remember that he wants us, glory to God, to have more than an adequate supply. So let's read Deuteronomy 28:8. From the New King James Version. All right, Deuteronomy 28:8 says, the Lord will command the blessing on you in your storehouses and in all to which you set your hand. Wait a minute, am I dyslexic or is this really in the Bible? It's in the Bible. The scripture says that the Lord will command the blessing on you, in your storehouses, and in all to which you set your hands. It's a few, few points in here that I gotta get out. First of all, let me read it in— glory to God— the Christian— glory to God— Standard Bible. I love this, this edition because I want to break it down for you. 28:8, watch this, it says The Lord will grant you a blessing on your barns and on everything you do. Somebody shout, everything I do, the Lord's gonna bless it. Everything I put my hands to, he's gonna bless it. Now, he doesn't want you putting your hands— the operative word here is that he's going to command the blessing on your barn, on your storehouse, which means you can't be trying to build something that's not authentically assigned to you for you to build. Hmm. You can't be out here doing that because at the end of the day, you forfeit the provision of God. So this is why it's important to be attached to the biblical cord of the Father. Eee! Glory to God. And he's downloading you the parameters and the specifics. God is a God of specificity. So he's downloading the specifics you need to complete your assignment. But if you are building something you ain't heard from God to build, or you're not spiritual enough to have a— you're religious and don't have a relationship with God, or you're a mimicker and you watch YouTube or Facebook and you mimic what other people do, or you watch TV trying to mimic somebody else's dream. Listen, you need a connection with the Father so that you can have the Father's assistance. Things become harder when we move without the Father. Every failure I've had in my life, it was a prayer failure first. And every success I've had, it was a prayer success First, so listen, Shawty, you gotta connect to, come on, come on, you gotta connect to the umbilical cord of the Father. And let him feed you from heaven the right specifics on what you're supposed to be doing so you can qualify for your barns to be filled with the blessing that God has commanded. Can I tell you something? He's already commanded this blessing. Oh, let me tell you what it is. Let me tell you really what this blessing is. This word blessing, because you notice what he says, the Lord will grant you a blessing. He didn't say blessings, he said a blessing. So as you transliterate the word blessing, it literally means the government or the governance of God. Hallelujah! In your doings. Wow. So watch this. The Holy Spirit is the blessing. I need you to hear this. The blessing is nothing— it's not material. See, the Holy Spirit is the governor, and the Bible says he'll teach you all things. The Holy Spirit is the governor of the kingdom. You know what a governor does? Like in our nation, we got 50 states. All right. Every state has a governor. That's how our nation is set up. The governor's next line of authority is the president. So the governors represent the state as the head of the state, and the president is the head of all states. Well, what the governors are supposed to do is enforce the laws that the president, the Constitution, and the House of Representatives bring down in every state. And then they lobby or they debate about ones they don't agree, but the reality is the goal is to make a, a United States. And that's the governor's purpose, is to cast the vision of Washington to every state and unite the states around the laws that are passed from the president, the House of Representatives, and the Congress. Listen, if let's say the, the, the English or those that are from Europe, the, the, all of the places that they started around the world where they took over places that they had no business taking in a lot of, uh, a lot of scenarios. Glory to God. Let's, let's talk about the Caribbean for a minute. The Caribbean was under the colon— it was a colony of England at one time. Well, to make sure that the king's efforts were being carried out in the Bahamas or in Jamaica, governors were sent who had the heart of the king, who carried out the king's desires in those lands in his absence. So what the Holy Ghost does— I got to go, y'all— what the Holy Spirit does, it carries out the blessing of the Lord. It governs the earth around the blessing of God. Oh my God. And it makes sure that earth is here to make sure that earth looks like heaven, that his will is done on earth as it is in heaven. See, earth was never intended to be separate from heaven. Oh God. It was always intended to be an extension of heaven and a colony of heaven. And the Holy Spirit, the first thing You see in Genesis, and the Spirit of the Lord moved upon the waters to bring government and order. The reason you got the Holy Spirit— I got to go, man. Oh, I'm trying to get through this, man. The reason you have the Holy Ghost is so he's the blessing, so he can govern heaven's desire for your life. So he'll command the blessing on you in your storehouses. He put the blessing in your house, on your surplus. Where you got stuff stored up in your barns. Not even the stuff you— he's got everything in order so that it can be distributed through generations. That's what he wants to order in your life. And he says the Holy Spirit is gonna be there to bless all you set your hand to do. Now watch this, with that revelation, it brings new meaning to the blessing of the Lord. Will make rich and add no sorrow. Oh my God. So we quote that a lot, but we really don't know. We think it's God giving us a blessing that makes us rich. No, he gave us the blessing, the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit makes us fat, rich, rich in wholeness, rich physically, rich mentally, rich spiritually. Oh God, help us. So you thought the Holy Spirit just was in your life for you to jump, shout, speak in tongues, blow bubbles, roll on the floor, cast out demons. Listen, I do all of that, but listen, I also know that that blessing is in my life to make me fat rich. Just touch yourself and say, Holy Ghost, you are the blessing in my life. Say, and you make rich. And add no sorrow. Lord, I don't have time to get into the rest of this. Glory. Maybe I got time for one scripture. No, I don't have time. I don't have time. I'm gonna have to pick this up tomorrow. Guys, I love you. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, thank you for your word today. Thank you for the blessing of the Lord that makes rich and adds no sorrow. Thank you for revelation knowledge. And I pray that today this word has landed on the good ground of the heart of your people. And I decree and declare that no weapon formed against them can prosper. I thank you that their worst days are over. And I thank you that they'll begin to gain revelation of the God of plenty and give them to know today that they are filled with plenty. And we praise you for it, Lord. In Jesus' name, amen. And thanks be to God. Listen, guys, thank you for joining me today. Listen, I want to challenge your hearts. Sow into ministry. Praise God. This offering is not for me. We're currently in the midst of remodeling our new facility and we need your help. Glory to God. We're emerging from COVID-19 and we're going to go back to having our corporate worship services. Of course, in wisdom, we're following— I'm on the phone with the CDC. Glory to God. Every morning at 7 o'clock, I have a clear understanding of what's happening with this disease. In particular in our state. And we have been— hallelujah— given the green light by God to go into our worship facility starting the first Sunday in August. Listen, if you're in Atlanta area, I want to challenge you to meet us there. Glory to God. Listen, I need every person that's watching this live right now to get a seed offering of $21. That's what I just heard in my left ear. And sow that seed into ministry today. And I promise you, 3 ways to give. You can give via Cash App, you can text the word RADA give— glory to God— to 31996, or you can also give online at radachurch.com/donate. Get your $21 seed if you're watching this and position yourself for the plenty. Just plan it. Don't think about it, just do it. It's not for me, it's for the church ministry. I love you guys. Perhaps you're watching and you're not born again. Glory to God. Hallelujah. I'm gonna take the final thought for my special ones who have been watching today who do not know Jesus, and you stayed to the end of this. Listen, you can have the blessing too. The Holy Spirit can come into your life. He can fill you with his power, with his love, and with plenty. Let's pray together. The Bible says if you want to be saved, you repent, every one of you, hallelujah, of your sins. He said be baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and be filled with the Holy Ghost. He said if you believe in your heart and confess the Lord Jesus Christ with your mouth, that Jesus died and rose again, you would be saved. Let's pray. Glory to God. Let's take the first step and pray and repent. Glory to God. And open your heart and receive Jesus now. Will you pray with me? Praise the name of the Lord. Say this. Say, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, I repent of my sins because I am a sinner. Say, Lord, save me. I want to be saved. Say, I open my heart and I believe that you died and rose again. Say, Lord, forgive my sin. Say, fill me, Father, with the Holy Spirit. I receive you now and I declare my sins are forgiven and I I am saved. Hallelujah. Well, if you prayed that prayer, glory to God, I want you to be very clear: you are saved. Hallelujah. You are born again. Oh, praise the name of the Lord. Listen, I want you to write me using the website address on the screen. Just contact me at our church's website and say, hey, Dr. Woods, I prayed with you and I gave my life to Jesus. And listen, I'm gonna take it from there. I'm gonna send you audio teachings, I'm gonna send you some printed material, and I'm gonna help you find a good church home. Glory to God! Because you need to be somewhere where you can grow in the things of God. I'm gonna send you the audio teachings to show you the next steps you need to take in your walk with the Lord Jesus Christ. Life. Well guys, my time is gone, and I say to you as I do each and every day: share the word with a friend, and remember, your decisions determine your destiny. God bless you. Peace.