THE FORCES OF THE GENTILES | DR. MIKE WOODS, SR.

Well, grace and peace this evening, everyone, and welcome to our Sunday session. I am Apostle Michael Lyris Woods, and I am excited to be here. I hope you are too. Listen, guys, I need you to do me a favor tonight, uh, if you never done it before in your life. Glory to God! I need you to make sure you are sharing this experience. Praise God! I need you to go ahead right now and share this encounter. Somebody needs it. The Bible says we are blessed to be a blessing. And you know what I know, glory to God, and I've said this to you so many times, that a blessing really is not a blessing until you give it away. So tonight, guys, Uh, welcome everybody. I see Pastor Jasper is here. He's tagging people below. Uh, God bless you, sir. Thank you. Uh, I need everybody to mirror, uh, Pastor Jasper's activity. Uh, tag your family and friends below. Listen, I mean it for real. The Bible says a blessing is not a blessing until you give it away. So please, guys, tonight, uh, let's share this. Let's get the word out. Uh, there's a couple of reasons we do this. One, we want the gospel to get to every ear that we possibly can get it to. And the way we do that, number two, is when we share, when we comment, and when we like the video. What happens is it sends an alert into— inside of this algorithm that is ran by the social media companies that people are actually involved, engaged, and actually watching this video. So when you do that, you're helping the video be seen. You know, we have almost close to 75,000 people that follow us over all platforms. We are streaming actually tonight to 6 different platforms, which is 3 Facebook pages, uh, YouTube, Twitch if you're into that. Uh, that's something new. Somebody told me I needed to stream to Twitch. So we're streaming the Twitch tonight live, glory to God, and Instagram. So however you're watching us, guys, I need you to ensure that you're getting this video in front of the eyes of somebody you know needs it. Glory to God. And so I'm grateful to every one of you. I'm thankful, man, that you are a part of my life. Glory to God. And we're just looking forward to what God is going to say and do tonight. I'm ready to teach this. I want to, um, just kind of share a video with you, glory to God, to introduce this series. Um, we're in the vein of supernatural provision. I had some things in my head planned, uh, and in my spirit that I was going to start teaching today, but God kind of took it this direction. We're still in Supernatural Provision, but we're calling this The Forces of the Gentiles. I think it's very important. So let's watch this video, guys, and then we're going to come back. I'm going to pray, we're going to jump right into the heart of this tonight. It's going to be very good, so stay with us, don't go anywhere. Check this video out, guys. Arise, shine, for your light has come and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you. In a time when the world seems dark, Isaiah 60 speaks of a divine shift. Shift where the light of God's glory not only rises upon his people, but also draws the wealth, the influence, and the forces of the Nations to those who walk in his covenant. But what exactly are these forces? They're not just material wealth. They're the resources, creativity, and influence of the nations being transferred for the advancement of God's kingdom on earth. Join me, Dr. Michael Lyris Woods, in this powerful new series, The Forces forces of the Gentiles. Discover how God's prophetic word is being fulfilled today and how you can align yourself with his divine plan to receive the forces of the nations. This series is an extension of our 10 Days of Supernatural Provision. We trust God, our supernatural provider, to provide all we Follow us on social media and connect to this powerful prophetic journey. Well, praise God! Listen, I am excited to teach this tonight. Again, whether you're joining us on YouTube, Instagram, Twitch, and over 3 different Facebook pages, welcome! We love you, we're glad you're here. Again, please do us a favor, guys. Go ahead. Yes, Lord. And share, praise God, uh, this experience right now so that we can get this word out tonight live to as many people as we can. And if perhaps you're joining us by replay tonight or tomorrow or anytime in the future, you're listening to the podcast, please also do us same courtesy and share this teaching. Glory to God. All right, family, let's pray, and we're going to jump into this tonight. Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you, God, for the opportunity to teach, to preach, to share your word. And I pray, God, tonight that your word will go out with light, illumination, intelligence, Supernatural Innovation. And I pray it will go out in a way that it will liberate, for your word declares, we shall know the truth and the truth shall set us free. So, Father, as the word goes forth tonight, may it bring freedom, may it bring breakthrough, may it bring deliverance, may it elevate us and edify us and empower us. May it do something in us that has never ever been done before. Yes, God, in the mighty name of Jesus. And we give you praise for that. We give you glory. We give you honor. We thank you, God, that our worst days are over. And God, we decree and declare that these are the best days of our life. And Father, I thank you for the forces of the Gentiles. You are our supernatural provider. Greater. And we praise you for that now, in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. Oh my God, tonight I am grateful to God. Hallelujah! Did I get an opportunity again, guys, to share with you? Uh, I feel the anointing of God, and I want to release this word in, in a very, uh, um, calm way if possible, because I want you to get this tonight. Um, the reality is, uh, this teaching is necessary because so many times we hear teaching and because we don't understand how to apply it, or we really don't even understand why it's being taught, because we just hear something and Unfortunately, guys, there are a myriad of preachers who preach, uh, for several reasons on Sunday. They preach because they're reapplying for their job, they want to keep their job, so it's important that they preach what they want the people to hear and what they think the people like. Then on top of that, they're preaching for likes and clicks. And, uh, you know, I, I just refuse to do that, man. I have Uh, I love God too much, and I have an assignment over these last 35 years of full-time ministry, almost 40 years of ministry total, to really just be a champion for truth. The truth sets you free. So it's not my job to excite you. I'm not going to try to excite you tonight. I want to, because If you look at the root of the word excite, it's ex, which means it's external. So excitement is always in the external realm. I think what we need more of is when we hear the word of God is to be incited versus excited. Incite, I-N-C-I-T-E, which whenever you hear that word, many times it's in reference to things like inciting a riot. Or inciting competition. And I believe the word should incite a riot in your spirit every time you hear the word, so that it upsets everything that is contradictory to the word of God. Hear me? So that externally you can actually have real excitement, because I believe a lot of the excitement we experience is false because it's not born out of a insight, a, a destruction of things that aggressively go against God's truth to stop you from seeing the manifestation of this in your life. So again, glory to God. We thank God for who he is and what he's doing for us and through us. Uh, God bless you, Alicia. Welcome tonight, and welcome to your friend Jessica. Welcome. God bless you. Glory to God. Jessica, welcome. Thank you for being here. Thank the Lord. Glory to God. God is so good. He's so kind. He's so wonderful. So let's go. Glory to God. Let's go. Glory to God. We love him. He is so mighty. Glory to God. And he is so wonderful. So tonight we're talking about the forces of the Gentiles. House. That's what we're discussing. So let's read tonight, um, I want to read Isaiah, uh, chapter 60, verses 1. I'm going to read verses 1 through 7. Now I'm going to tell you tonight, we're not going to get to these, but this, this text— hear me, guys— is the foundation, substratum to this teaching we're going to be sharing all month. Um, but I need to read this and kind of grab some context, and then I'm gonna lay a backdrop, and we're possibly gonna get back to verse 1 tonight. That's the plan. Um, the Holy Spirit may have another plan, but that's the plan. Okay, so let's read this, uh, Isaiah, uh, chapter 60, verses 1 through 7. You'll find this intelligence. The Bible says, arise, shine, for thy light is come. I'm gonna try not to mess with none of this, man, cause I feel it already. And the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. Verse 2, it says, for behold, the darkness shall cover the earth and the gross darkness the people, but the Lord shall arise upon thee. And his glory will be seen upon thee. And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. Lift up thine eyes round about and see, listen to this, all they gather themselves together, they come to thee, thy sons shall come from afar, and their daughters, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. Stay with me. Then thou shalt see— somebody say, see, see, see— and flow together, and thine heart shall fear. Listen to this. And be enlarged, because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee. Listen to this. The forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. The multitude of camels shall cover thee, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah, all they from Sheba shall come. They shall bring gold and incense, and they shall show forth the praises of the Lord. Verse 7: All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, The rams of Nebaoth shall minister to thee. They shall come up with acceptance on mine altars, and I will glorify— hear this— the house. Oh my God, tonight, of my glory. Now let's just quickly get a working definition. Again, I don't have time to tarry on this tonight because it's not going to make make a whole lot of, uh, sense, or— because I want you to be able to practically put this into play, all right— if we do not get some clarity here, this, on what the forces of the Gentiles are. So let's look at verse 5. He says the Forces of the Gentiles shall come to thee. Forces here is shayil in Hebrew, and shayil is the strength, the might, the efficiency— watch this— the wealth, and the protection. Oh my God. So that's what the forces are. It's the strength, the might, the efficiency, the wealth, and the protection, and specifically military protection. So, oh my God, God is saying— and this is a, a type of supernatural provision because these forces are going to be released from the Gentiles. And I'm gonna put all this in prophetic perspective as we go through this series. But the Gentiles, typically the word in Hebrew literally means goy, which literally means that they are outside of the covenant or do not have covenant with God. They are not descendants of Abraham. They are not descendants of Jesus. These are wicked people who do not serve God but have— watch this— wealth. Come on. But have strength, but have might, but have ability and efficiency that have the ability to bring protection. And God is saying that we have access Hey Bruce, God bless you. And a right— listen to me tonight, guys— to the forces of the Gentiles. Now I need to lay a backdrop, family, because I can jump right in this, but I, I want you to really understand this shift and the way the Lord is having me do this tonight. He released a prophetic word in my spirit, man. Matter of fact, right before I got on here. And because honestly, my plans today was to pre-record this and just stream it live tonight. So I'm actually live right now as I usually am. Glory to God. But today I was going to pre-record it and stream it as live. Glory to God. And it would have been live for the first time, but I just wouldn't have been actually live at that time, at this time. But I'm here because right when I was getting ready to do that, God started speaking this to me, and I had to write it down. All right. And, uh, he said, in order for us to get positioned, the first thing he said, he says, son, I want you to tell my people they got to understand that I want them to see me work in their life for real. And in order for that to happen— listen, guys, I hear you, God— he says that they must shift their faith to a new dimension, and they must position themselves to receive what I have promised. And then he went on to say, he said, you got to help them understand the apostle's role. Watch this, man. Oh my God. In ensuring that the body of Christ is in position, prepared and ready to receive the release that God is about to release for his people. Say this with me, say preparation time. Say it please. Is never wasted time. I— this is so strong on me right now. I need you to get this, guys. And the apostle's job is to prepare people for what's coming. And I'm not talking about these guys out here that have just slapped this title in front of their name. Okay, and they are so-called apostles. Ha! Matter of fact, it's, it's, it's, it's a shame and a scandal because they're not really apostles. They're impostors. Because real apostles have the ability and the efficiency— watch this— the wealth. Oh my God, real apostles hear this have the might, have the ability to push people into a place where they can receive what God has planned for them. Watch this. Prophets prophesy. God uses apostles to bring it to pass. I'm gonna say that again. Glory to God. Hayah, simanto rabba. Prophets prophesy. We got a lot of people prophesying. Half of the crap that people are saying didn't come from God. It's not from the heart of God, it's from their lips. But the reality is, lebasu rankisata, I feel you, God. Rabba Torah, the real apostles have the ability to hear a real prophetic word and God enables them with the ability and the resources to bring that word to pass. Oh my God. So this is why when I'm telling you, you hear me talk, some of you be listening to that saying, Apostle crazy, tell me you're gonna be a billionaire. No, I have to be one because I have to be in position to empower your dreams. I have to be in position to help you create strategy. Glory to God! To push you where you need to go, and others in the world. Are you hearing this? Because that's the nature of apostolic authority. So God began to say, he said, first of all, son, explain to them again so that everybody is clear. My God, today, what an apostle is. Because if we do not allow apostolic leadership to influence us into position, to influence us into the authority— oh my God— and into the threshold— wow— into that threshold where We have a continuity of blessing and provision that's continuing to flow because we find ourselves in this supernatural threshold where the blessing never stops. There's no in-between blessing. The blessing continues because we've learned the principle. This is why— hear me, guys, hear me, guys. I don't listen to broke preachers, and I don't listen to people who can't teach me what they have not already done. So I listen to— so in order for me to learn principles about becoming a billionaire, I read books billionaires have written. I listen to podcasts that billionaires produce so that I can learn principles. I listen to apostles who are ranked in the spirit who can literally push me into the threshold of where God needs to take me to consistently be efficient. So what is an Apostle Michael Woods? Glory to God. See, I don't listen to broke preachers. I mean, I'm sorry, no offense to nobody. Glory to God. But I don't listen to broke preachers. What, what a broke preacher going to tell me about what God can do and the stuff is not working for them. Y'all ain't got to talk. Matter of fact, again, if you don't want to see the supernatural in your life and you want to stay stuck, this live right here is not the live for you. You need to find the live with, you know, some of these infeminate guys that, you know, not, not clear who they are sexually and who just preaching for likes and clicks. Go listen to them. Because what I'm going to do is give you the truth. I'm on— see, and what I am going to do is tell you what thus sayeth the Lord. Are you with me tonight? Glory to God. So tonight again, we're talking about the forces of the Gentiles. So say that with me again. Say, the forces the Gentiles belong to me. Come on, say it again. Say, the forces of the Gentiles belong to me. Glory to God. I'm telling you right now, they are yours, they belong to you if you will receive them. So what is an apostle? I'm glad you asked. Glory to God. You probably said, Lord, I don't want to hear this tonight. Yeah, you need it. Glory to God. The word apostle— and God said, this is how he gave it to me— he said, to make you clear on what apostles do and how the apostolic anointing— glory to God— connects to provision in your life. Glory to God. Glory to God. Ha! Shabbat to Rebekah. And you got to position yourself as a learner so you can receive it, so you can see a manifestation of this stuff that we're talking about. So the word apostle comes from the Greek word apostolos, and the word apostolos means a sent one, a special messenger who has been sent by God— listen to this— into the earth with number one, gubernatorial authority. So the apostle has governmental authority, governmental ability, just like the Bible said the government was on the shoulder of Jesus. Well, Jesus is the chiefest of all apostles. Hear me. So he carries the government of the world, the government of the church, on his shoulder. He's the King of Kings. Well, he releases that same government, hear me, into the life of real apostles. We carry a government inside of us, gubernatorial authority to infiltrate, watch this, governments we are assigned to. Which, a government is a ruling system. So an apostle's job is to annihilate ruling systems. Oh God, that are resident in the life of people. One of the systems I am called to annihilate in your life— hear me guys, as you relate to me as an apostle— is poverty, is debt. Glory to God. Is sin. Oh my God. Is familiarity. Oh, glory to God. My job is to eliminate the systems of the world and replace them with kingdom systems and structures. Hear me, that you can actually walk out and walk in. Hear me tonight, family. Get this, I'm coming, I'm coming fully loaded tonight. I want you to receive this. Oh my God, oh my God, here we go, here we go. Secondly, the apostle has plēnē potentiāri status, which means the potential or the ability inside of an apostle has the same abilities— hear me— that Jesus had in him. And watch this, he has the ability through his plenipotentiary status to release that through apostolic hegemony to all of those who are connected to his apostleship. So hegemony means a connection, a hedge where a culture of people are connected around a certain cause. So apostolically The apostle superimposes his authority, his government, his ability, the ability of Jesus on those that's connected. Watch this. At Calvary, Jesus dumped inside of all of us himself, his kingdom, and we gotta put it to work so we see it come to pass. The reason we're not seeing some of the stuff we're praying for, some of the stuff we read in the Bible, the miraculous, the supernatural wealth, is because we don't even realize what's in us. And we gotta again get inside it, destroy those things in us that's warring against. And that's what apostles do, they help you kill it so you can get this stuff into manifestation. I gotta go. So we have gubernatorial authority, plenipotentiary status, which means we can move in and out of all the gifts of the Spirit. We can operate as an apostle, a prophet, a pastor, a teacher, an evangelist, because we have plenipotentiary ability. So our abilities are not limited to one office. We can be influential not just in ministry but also the world. I'm gonna get to that. It's in this prophecy. We're also stratospheric warriors. So the apostolic anointing, and many a times, guys, is applied to regions. Hear me, it's applied to regions. And the regions that God gives you, glory to God, to be a stratospheric warrior or a regional apostle or gatekeeper in, the reality is what happens, you become an air traffic controller. Everything in that region works because of your prayer life, because of your anointing, because of the power God has trusted you to war on behalf of that region. A lot of pastors that in our region have a good success, and in other regions too, they really don't even understand it. But because I'm in their life and the level and the dimension of prayer and relationship and the rank in the spirit God has given me, They're a— they have— and most of these pastors have far more members than me, but that doesn't— see, because my plane as an apostle is felt in the realm of the spirit more so than in the natural. So what I do is, is fight off strongholds that will prevent the work of the kingdom, not just in my local church but in anybody's ministry. Or in business, we fight those demons off that will try to stop the kingdom from advancing where it needs to advance. Oh my God. Oh my God. So basically, the apostles carry— someone say, what does that— it has a lot to do with it, I'm telling you, because you got to understand why I'm teaching this as an apostle in the Lord's church. Glory to God. And I've been an apostle affirmed in the Lord's church since 2005. Glory to God. So yeah, so at the end of the day, and was doing the work before I got a piece of paper. But the reality is you, you gotta understand why you must receive this, why you must walk this out. Glory to God. So the apostles carry a spearhead anointing that leads the way in all things. And the Spirit of the Lord spoke to me, he said, son, tell the people that the present and emerging apostles of our time must now begin to prepare the people for a day that has not yet come. He said, tell them that they must realize that the most important task they have— hear me, guys, and if you know an apostle, tag them in this video, because really in this time, this is what we should be doing. God said this to me. He says they got to realize apostolically that their most important task is to bring opportunities and proper patterns into the view of people so that the path to the future is clearly marked for their sons and daughters. So my job is to create with clarity a clear path, you know. And I see our numbers is not— no, again, we're streaming over 6 networks tonight. We're nowhere near where we normally would be. When we're teaching about provision and prosperity, I mean, people jump on, jump on, listen. They listen to the replays. By the end of the thing, we have at least 200, 225 that has been on, on Facebook and and I don't even know the numbers on the other channels. But the reality is, when you start talking about principle to really bring this stuff into play, it gets boring to people. I just want to talk to the hungry people. I really do. I really do. I really do. Um, glory to God. So the apostle's job in this present day, and those that are coming up, should be creating a pattern and a clear view on— listen to this— how to get to a level in life for real that they never attained. See, it's a whole bunch of church folk out there that's reading scriptures, that know the word, they've been in church all their life, but there's no real manifestation of the authority of God operating in their life. Glory to God. And so I need you to hear me. The apostle also— here, listen to this— is to initiate lineages in the earth. So lineage is legacy, is what we leave behind. So real— so this is why I'm teaching you these principles, because it's about lineage. Glory to God. And this not— this doesn't only include— this is how the Lord gave it to me— people, but it also includes a lineage of methods, a lineage of methods on how to bring to pass and into tangible manifestation the stuff that we are teaching. Are y'all hearing this? Glory to God, glory to God. I need you to hear me. The, the reality is the lines that exist— a lineage or a line age is the lines that exist between spiritual families, their leader, watch this, or the patriarch, and the technologies necessary to bring to pass the promises of God. We can't afford another generation who doesn't see the promises of God in their life. See, I'm not— again, I'm not interested in just exciting you and shouting you and making you happy over a revelation or you falling on the floor. No, I want you to go— shia, mantola, bokosia. Thank you, Jesus. I want you to have the technology necessary to put the word in a place in your life that it always works. Are y'all hearing this? That the word never fails you. Glory to God. See, I want to give you something to shout about. I want to give you something to dance about. So my job as an apostle— oh my God— is to expose you. Hear this, this is how God told me to give it to you: to expose you to a continuing stream or lineage of activity— oh my God— wherever I have been assigned. So to share with you the patterns, the combinations, or how to unlock things that I've unlocked, to tap into dimensions that I've tapped into. Usha! Manso Rabati! Oh my God. But some people want to stay stuck. Some people want to be lazy. Some people want to be in the same place. Oh my God, no more of that. So, so basically what I just said, here's the explanation. So basically two ways we release lineage is either through relational lineage, so that's the connection of spiritual families through tribalism, which means, glory to God, a tribe believes, thinks, and then conditioned the same way. So that's relational. We create covenant relationships so that we can share and release knowledge and information that changes the next generation. God knows I'm 55 years old. I have more time, glory to God, behind me than I do in front of me. And I know in this last half of my life I expect— I say more time because I expect to live another 50 years. Glory to God. So I got, I got 5, 5 more years more behind me than I got in front. But the reality— and I expect to live in good health. Glory to God. Listen, I expect to live it under the spout of the supernatural. I expect to live it in the threshold of God's blessing and anointing and power and authority. Glory to God. Ha! Shy! Mantolabaya! But listen, I do understand I must maximize time. And in this season of my life, it's important to me that I train the people that want it on how to leave legacy. So it's got to be relational lineage or functional lineage. And this is where we become transparent and open up these technologies, open up experiences, open up encounters. So I see this, and literally this is a type of the force of the Gentiles, because every leader once was a Gentile. You once was a Gentile. So the experiences that you've had, glory to God, they amalgamate with your new creation walk, and your testimony is enhanced. And you begin to share with people how God brought you through. Hallelujah, hallelujah! How you're functioning, glory to God, in the capacity you function in. And you do that in a transparent way. And we live in a time now, guys, where people don't want to tell you how they did it. Because everybody is only thinking about therefore and no more. I got to get out of here, man. But in either case, whether it's relational or whether it's functional, here it is: we must clearly establish streams of activity that flow from the leader into the sons and daughters of God. Hear me, guys. And we got to value those times and those opportunities. Phew. Because there be a— there's coming a day when that leader won't be there. And so you have to carry it into the next place. You know, I'm gathering over the week of Thanksgiving every week, every year doing Thanksgiving on Christmas. My family, we get away and do something a little different. This year, the week of Thanksgiving, I'm getting my sons, my natural sons and my daughter. I'm getting my spiritual sons and daughters, some of them together in one place. So, and so that we can have opportunities to collaborate around lineage and technology and what the future looks like. And when I say technology, I'm not talking about the internet or a phone. Or AI. I'm talking about apostolic intelligence. I'm talking about the intelligence that flows from heaven that pushes us into the future. See, understanding this is going to make the forces of the Gentiles teaching make sense and why it has to come to you, because there's something we got to leave. There's more than what we have, and it's got to be produced supernaturally. Are y'all with me tonight? Proverbs 13:22 says this, it says, a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. Did y'all hear that? The good man— but not in Hebrew, the profitable man— leaves an inheritance to his children's children. So one of the prerequisites to leaving an inheritance to your children's children, you as a good man first got to become profitable. Oh, and that's why I said I don't listen to broke people trying to tell me something about inheritance. Now, if they got something to say and they say God told them, I'm gonna listen and I'm gonna weigh it, because if the stuff ain't working for you How you gonna tell me something about how it can work for me? I'm just saying, you, you— I, I'm just— I'm confidently sure that if you can tell me the word, you should be able to put the word into application and it works for you. So you got to become profitable in the word, profitable in spiritual things, profitable in wealth. Profitable in strength, profitable in might, so you can leave an inheritance to your children's children. And the wealth of the sinner, the forces of the Gentiles, laid up for the just. Y'all see how this ties in? So what's in me as a leader, what's in other emerging leaders, what's in you has to emerge, has to come out, so you can leave it behind. To your children's children, to those that will need it from you. This is how it continues. Oh my God. So understand this, guys, that the office of an apostle is necessary for your life. It's not a promotion, it's a position. It's not something you get promoted to. We say, oh, I was a prophet for this long, so well, I guess I'm gonna be an apostle now. No, no, no. It's a position that's established before you're born. Apostolic DNA is placed in you before you're formed in your mother's belly. Oh boy, oh boy. You, you are an apostle, or whoever you are, before you get here. Jeremiah 1:5. Come on, hear me, family. Glory to Jesus. Whoosh! I feel God here. So it's a position rather than a promotion, and this position directly affects how a heritage and the benefits of that heritage are imparted to generations behind. The family heritage— watch this— is a matter of reputation as well as— watch this— the accumulation of wealth and goods. So we have to stop dismissing this conversation. We can't dismiss the forces of the Gentiles. We can't dismiss supernatural provision, supernatural prosperity. We can't dismiss saints of God being raised up to be millionaires and billionaires and accumulating land and houses and being influential in the world and in business. We can't dismiss that because the family matter is we got to leave this behind. Because I'm telling you, left to our own devices, left to human leadership and human guidance, we're only going to self-destruct. Following— putting your confidence in a Kamala, putting your confidence in a Donald Trump is only going to lead you to self-destruction. You better put your confidence in the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And we got to begin to put this thing that God has given us on display. So that the world can look to us and see the power of the living God flowing out of us, in us, and through us. Are y'all hearing me? Oh my God. So if this is the case, if the accumulation or the family heritage is connected to the accumulation of wealth and goods, it means that the person who's in the position to pass the heritage. Watch this. He's the father of the tribe, and he's also known as that good man we just talked about. And that term good again is bana, atob, it's both, which means bountiful or full of wealth. So I want you to grab this. It's impossible to release something that you don't have. So you got to position yourself to receive what God has for you so you can release what God wants you to release at a higher level. Glory be to God. Lord, I love you. All right, let's go to— let's go to Isaiah 60. I just needed to lay that backdrop and I spent 40 minutes doing it, so we're not going to be here long. So this is why we teaching this all month. But I just need you to understand how apostles play an important role in this shift. This is why we need real apostles that's going to help us shift this thing into real manifestation. And I want to say this to you tonight. That the— oh my God— proclamation of your faith is about to be— I hear that, God— is about to be obeyed. I'm gonna say that again. The proclamation of your faith is about to be obeyed. So what you say out of your mouth in faith, glory to God, the elements— oh my God— the heavens and the earth are about to obey the words that are coming out of your mouth, 'cause they align with the word of God, and they're spoken with supernatural authority that's disseminated from heaven and in faith. God says, what you're saying out of your mouth is about to yield results, because your words are about to be obeyed. Oh. Oh my God, oh my God. Adiansa labakosia. Lord, I thank you. I give you praise, God. I give you glory. I need somebody to type it in the comments. Type it in the comments. Say, the proclamation of my faith is about to be obeyed. Glory to God. And I'm telling you, labasianda labakosia. And that's why you got to open your mouth and begin to speak your breakthrough. And begin to speak your deliverance. Listen, I told y'all before, the hardest thing you could do is try to get God to do something he's already done. He's already provided healing, he's already provided deliverance, he's already provided wealth, he's already provided— glory to God— oh God, empowerment. And you just got to begin to speak it according to the word. Because the proclamation of your faith, my God, tonight is about to be obeyed. It's about to be obeyed. Oh, Rabba sandala bakaya. It's about to be obeyed. Glory to God. See, wherever you are and whatever you're going through, you're there because you have not been declaring by faith what you need to be declaring out of your mouth. Glory to God. Wait a minute, I'll say that and then we're gonna go to Isaiah 61. That's all we're gonna have time for tonight. I'll say that, I'll say it just like that. Yeah, listen to me, family, you need to stop asking God and begging God to do stuff that he's already done. You just need to start thanking him for what he's done. Oh, glory to God! He's already put the resources in you, and you need to just start saying, thank you, Jesus. The late Mother Elsie Shaw used to get up and tell the people of God, clap your hands and say Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. And then she would say, if you clap your hands, the Lord would meet you in a thank you. Glory to God. And I've seen people just by clapping their hands and saying thank you get healed. Glory to God. Get delivered, get breakthroughs. And I wanna challenge you tonight to just begin to thank God. Oh my God, for what he's already done. Glory to God. Thank him for the provision. Thank him for the healing. Glory to God. Thank him for— oh my God— manifesting his promise in your life. So Isaiah 60, let's, let's get in here, man. I ain't got much time. Oh, Shia, I hope y'all getting something out of this tonight. Glory to God. We got all month. This, this sermon is going on the whole month of September. So we got all month. I just needed to lay that backdrop so y'all understand why me as a father, as an apostle, is teaching this. And matter of fact, I didn't share the whole prophecy. I'll share the rest of it next time. The reality is I have a mandate to leave an inheritance to my children's children, naturally and spiritually, to leave technologies and systems in place that you can follow and your children can follow that will advance the kingdom of God. Isaiah 60. Isaiah 60. Here we go, here we go. 60, 60 and 1. Let's go. Thank you, daughter, for putting that scripture up. I appreciate Glory to God. Labasi ando. We bless him, we bless him. Isaiah 60:1, it says this, it says, arise, hear this, shine, for thy light is come. Let's stop right there. So let's, let's break down this word arise. Are y'all ready? Let's break it down. This word arise is from the word qum or qulum. Oh God, it's where we get words like illumination. Are y'all hearing this? Ah, here we go. So all these words are connected to light in some kind of way, but this word qum means to rise arise, to stand, to stand up. Watch this: to be established, to maintain oneself. Listen to these parts of this definition. This: to become valid. Okay, let me use this example real quick. My son Alex, he just got his permit. He's 15. His birthday, uh, is in November, all right? And he'll be able to— at 16, he should be able to get a license. Well, in the state, it requires him to have that permit for a year before he can actually take the driver's test. It's messed up. That wasn't how it was when I got mine. Now, he really don't care about that 'cause he wants to drive. My conversation to him is, as long as you have a permit, the only way you are a valid driver is if a licensed driver is in the vehicle with you when you're driving. You cannot drive by yourself with that permit, you're not valid. Valid means you're legit. Are y'all hearing this? See, see, this backdrop's starting to make sense. Valid means that you have a right to be doing what you say you're doing. Valid means you're authentic to the cause. To validate something means that it has been confirmed. That you are qualified and you are who you say you are. Watch this. Your ID is not even valid if it's expired. If your license expired, that ID will not be accepted because it is invalid. Take it to the bank you want to, take it to the airport you want to, they're going to send you down to the DMV to get another license because you're not valid. Here's what I know. The word of the Lord is coming to us tonight. Hallelujah. Saying to us, we need some Christians, some kingdom citizens to rise up who are valid. We got too many invalid, illegitimate bastard children who are out here disconnected from the plan of God. They don't have fathers, they don't have leaders. Are y'all not saying much? Glory to God. They're winging it, doing things on their own. Glory to Jesus. And God says, I'm looking for some valid people. Oh, glory to God. And remember, all this has to happen before the forces come. You got to get valid. Get valid in your faith so that when you talking about this thing, you can point to something and say, hey, I know this works because look what God did here. I'm debt-free, my cars are debt-free, I'm a millionaire, I'm a billionaire. You get valid. I was sick and God healed me. I need you to get valid. It's not enough to be a Bible-tongued Christian who ain't valid. Oh boy, somebody just type in the comments, get valid, get valid, get valid. Yeah, get valid. Huh, because this word also, kum, also means when it says arise, it means that you are proven. You're proven. Glory to God. You, you, you've been through the storm and the rain. but you've made it. Glory to God! You had heartaches and pain, but you made it. Glory to God! You survived storms, you fought battles in faith, and you won. Glory to God! You, you have proof. Glory to God! You can look back over your shoulder and your testimony is sure because you got proof. Glory to God! Because we don't need no people to arise that ain't got no real proof. Oh boy, oh boy, we need some folk with real proof. Yeah, to rise. And we need everybody that ain't valid to sit down. Sit your tail down until you get valid. Oh boy, because watch this, it also means to be fulfilled. See, when, when you arise, you're fulfilled. You don't need another option. Hear me, hear me. What God says is what you want. You don't look for excuses and reasons not to trust God. What God says is what you want and what you desire. Oh boy, oh boy. Somebody said, I gotta get valid, I gotta get valid. I got to get valid. I got to get valid. Glory to God. I got to get valid. I got to persist. I got to be set. I got to be fixed. Hallelujah. Watch this. When you arise, this word kum also means you ratify or you confirm and you impose that what has been said about what you stand for is true, which means you live proof that God is real. That God will cancel your debt, that God will supernaturally provide. You're living proof that God will give you power over sickness and disease and over death. You're living proof, glory to God, that God will deliver you and bring you out. Glory to God. Oh, I love him tonight. I love him tonight. Glory to God. Somebody say rise up. He said arise. I gotta go, y'all. He says, shine. Lord have mercy. This word shine is or, O-W-R, or. It means to become, break forth as glorious. It means to become light. It means to be illuminated, to be intelligent, and then give that light. Wait a minute. So he says, arise and shine. This piggybacks on Jesus saying to us, Ye are the lights of the world, a city or situation that sits on a hill that cannot be hid. The church has been hidden way too long, and I'm telling you right now, church, it's time. We're gonna learn this a lot about this, this month. This is just day one. It's time to come out of the closet. It. Hear me, hear me. Yes, we, we got to become the light of the world, the illumination, the intelligence. We got to be the one that emerge with the plans. Too much darkness has been ruling and covering the Earth, like verse 2 says. But we got to rise and we got to shine. When you hit your light switch The act that the light is performing is shining. Turn it off, it stops shining. I got two things to say to you. It's time to come out the closet. I'm closing. I'm telling everybody else out, we might as well come out. The gang's out, lesbians out, polygamists out, hoes out. It's time for the church— hear me, to come out the closet and put on display the promises of God. Stop hiding. Let your light shine so that the glory of the Lord can rise upon thee, and people can come to God because of what they see on you. I mean, you know, there are times in some people's life when they hit the light switch and the lights don't come on. You know why? Because they hadn't paid their bill. Can I say to you, church, pay your light bill. Pay your light bill so you can shine. How do you do that? How do I do that? You got to rise. You got to become valid. You got to become a person of prayer. You got to come, come, become a person that's committed to God's will and his way. Hear me, guys, of doing things. I got to get out of here, y'all. I got to go. I got to go. But I need you to understand, God needs you to shine. He says, for the light has come. You're there. The bulb has been screwed in. Turn it on. Turn it on. Let your situation be seen so God can be glorified. But we got to rise and shine. That's the first key. To getting the forces of the Gentiles to us is arising and shining. You can't do that if you don't take the position of a learner and learn how to get in position. If all you want to do is dance and shout, spit, blow bubbles, and speak in tongues all day, come on, man, you got to come out of that and shine. You got to rise and influence the world because that's who we are, saints. That's what God has called us to. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for this word. I thank you for the anointing of apostleship, and I pray, God, that the gift that is in me, that it will be released to those that will receive it, God, and you will superimpose yourself upon them. And I pray, God, that everything that is in us, you would take it from concept and— oh my God— from read word and heard word to manifestation. And I thank you that we will be lights, we will arise, we'll become valid. I declare that every person under the sound of my voice is established, is valid, and they're ready to rise. And they will move in faith and they will trust you. And I thank you that their light will shine in every dark fame will be driven out, and our situation will be mirrored of heaven. And when the world sees it, you will get the glory. You told us to let our light shine before men, that men might see our good works and glorify the Father which is in heaven. So we thank you, God, for a place of arising so we can begin to position ourselves Yes, God, for the forces, the wealth, the strength, the efficiency, the might, the intelligence of the Gentiles. We thank you for the supernatural provision, for you are our supernatural provider, and we give you praise for it now in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. Oh my God, guys, I went over time tonight, but I pray, my God, I pray to God that you have received tonight. Glory to God. I, I saw somebody said they need prayer. Somebody go through the comments and see who that was, said they need prayer. And one of our leaders, try to reach out to that person, see if you can pray with them. Listen, I believe God, not only for me but for you, for your family. And I believe, God, that greater days are ahead. Well, one of our leaders that's on here— somebody please, uh, reach out to Alicia and pray for her tonight. I see it. Glory to God. God is good. We believe God with you, Alicia. We trust whatever the need is that God has already provided, and the heavens are open over you now. In Jesus' name. Amen. Glory to God. Glory to God. God is good. Listen, I need you to give. The ways to give are on the screen. Get your seed in the ground tonight. Position yourself. Remember, you got to stay in the circle of supernatural provision. And the Bible says, if you hear spiritual things disseminated from the man of God you should also communicate your natural things. So that, that response should happen every time you hear the word. You should always want to sow something, not just into the ministry, but also into the life of the man and the woman of God, whoever's feeding your soul. And if you've received and you feel like the Lord has spoke to you and communicated to you tonight through his word, You need to get seed in the ground. Not that you're paying for it, but you're responding in faith. Glory to God. And you're trusting God in obedience in what he's able to do. The ways to give are scrolling at the bottom of the screen, and also Pastor Jasper has put them on the screen there, uh, for you in the comments. Listen, you guys, get seed in the ground tonight. Um, We got some things we need to do this week. We have acquired, and we are grateful, and we want to do everything we got to do debt-free. We need to get this stuff done this week. I'm believing God for you, and as you sow, I'm believing God for supernatural resources to bombard your life. Glory to God, because you have a heart to support the work of God. And every person by replay, help us continue in this debt-free Free Journey. We got to build a sound booth, we got to do some painting, we got to put carpet down, we got to move our equipment in. Just several things we got to do. Help us finish this debt-free journey. I believe God can do it. He has no respect of person. I watched one ministry that needed— I think it was like $85,000 they needed, and, and they were just starting this church. Church. And the man got online, started talking about what they needed, and within a week they had every dime they needed. I don't believe God loves him any more than he does us. So I'm saying to you, get your seed in the ground and help us do what God has called us to do. And we want to do it without debt. So we have a testimony of supernatural provision. Are y'all with me? Glory to God. I love y'all. Y'all be blessed. Heaven smile on you is my prayer. Glory to God. And I'm trusting that your greatest days will be upon you so quickly, and that you will have all your needs met, and you will have the desires of your heart. Y'all be blessed tonight. I love y'all. Peace.