The Glory Dimension of Clouds, Part 2 | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr.

Well, grace and peace everyone from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Welcome tonight, it's Thursday. I'm super excited, man, to teach the word of the Lord on tonight. And prom— I promise you, I promise you with everything in me There's a word from the Lord. So do me a favor, family, go ahead and share this, uh, like you know how to do. Glory to God. I believe— thank you, Jesus— that God's going to meet us here and that change is going to occur in our midst. We're going to be healed, we're going to be delivered, we're going to be free. We're going to get information tonight that's going to tap us into new realms and new dimensions. Uh, it's an exciting time to be alive, and it's an exciting time to be saved in the midst of all that's going on in the world. I want you to understand something. It's an ex— ah, my God, I feel the anointing of Jesus tonight. It's a wonderful time to be saved. It's a wonderful time to be born again. And I want to tell you something. Listen, God's not finished with you until his glory can be seen. I need somebody to hear that tonight. God's not finished with you until his glory can be seen. And some of the things you're dealing with right now, some of the problems and challenges that you're facing that maybe seem insurmountable. It may seem like you're not going to overcome. But the reality is, at the end of everything, hear me, is the greatest pressure. God, I hear you in the name of Jesus. I can't even begin to tell you some of the— I know that there's some shifts happening in some things for me and just some of the things that's been coming at me all week. Glory to the name. Just, just little stuff. Glory to God. To kind of distract me, shake my faith. But I'm gonna tell you right now, I am so clear, and I'm gonna serve notice on the devil. Glory to God. I've already won. And I want to tell you, you've already won. And there is no good thing that God is gonna uphold from you because you walk upright. I'm telling you, you're at the end. That's why the— ah! Sibu kura kasata labaye. That's why the pressure is so hard. That's why the pressure seems insurmountable, because you, my friends, yeah, you're at the end. You're at the end. Halaba sorangi. I dare you just type in the comments really quickly, I'm at the end. Glory to God, I'm at the end. At the end of everything is the greatest pressure, and I'm telling you What you have been expecting, what you have been trusting, what you have been believing God for, ebe, sulen kisa talakan sete debe, is at your fingertips. Hallelujah! It's closer than you think. Leteba sandala boko ye. I dare you to just prophetically begin to do your fingers like this. Ah, yeah! Yeah, it's at your fingertips. Bron se leki, wushia tatabaya. It's closer than you think. Hallelujah, hallelujah. And again, at the end is the greatest pressure. Kloshabataya, bron se leki, sita babababa. So don't you quit. Only way you're gonna lose is you quit, you give up, you faint. Hallelujah! The Bible said the youth, they faint and they grow weary, and young men, they fall. But they that wait upon the Lord— so waiting and trusting God is a sign of maturity. The Bible says he will renew their strength, haha, and they will mount up with wings like an eagle. I declare over your life tonight that your strength is being renewed. I decree and declare over your life tonight that God is doing a new thing. Hallelujah! That this is a season of breakthrough, and you're about to walk into a season of major blessing. Major, major. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Don't you accept what your circumstances have dealt to you. You just stepped into the season of major. Oh my God, I am so glad to be here tonight. Listen guys, I need you to do me a favor really quickly. I need you to share this. Glory to God. Hallelujah. I need you to share this. Praise God. Share this quickly tonight. Glory to God. The Bible says we are blessed to be a blessing. So what I need you to do is tag someone below, share this in someone's inbox, share it to your timeline. Send out a text. Let someone that's on your heart know that our Bible study is live and that God has something to say directly to them. I promise you, if you move in obedience, that person you text is going to be blessed. Matter of fact, right now, before you send out that text, before you share it, before you hit that share button, hear me, I want to pray. For the person that you're sharing with, that you're texting, for the people on your timeline. I just want to pray for them, that if perhaps they join this live tonight, I want to pray that they will experience major breakthrough. Woo! Woo! Because they showed up here tonight. Listen, I know you want to get back to the Olympics or whatever you watching. Put it on pause. God has something to say to you. Oh, Shia, rebasi. Let's pray for that person you're texting. Let's pray for that timeline, your Facebook family. Let's pray for your Twitter family. We're streaming over 3 Facebook pages, IG, glory to God, Twitter, and YouTube. So let's pray for those connected to you that they will receive a supernatural breakthrough tonight. Because they— oh, shai— because they tap into this live. So Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for every person that'll stop in, and I pray, God, as they come in, they'll stay. And I pray that your word will go out in such a way that the weak would leave strong, the poor will leave rich, discouraged will leave encouraged, doubters with faith. God, I thank you that those that are down in their spirit will be uplifted through your word. For you sent your word and it healed them. So Father, we thank you tonight. And as your people move in obedience to text and to share— glory to God— and tag— God, we thank you that as those people they share with, we thank you that their lives will never be the same because they connect with this word tonight. In the mighty name of Jesus, we declare to be so. Amen and amen. Hallelujah, man, I feel the fire of the Holy Ghost. Glory to God. Please, please hit that share button, hit that share button while you guys are gathering, coming in. Let's get this word out. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah! We give you praise, God. We give you glory. La shabatoshim. We thank you for your goodness. We thank you for your mercy. We thank you for your grace. We thank you for your kindness. Glory to God. Hallelujah! Thanks everyone. And throughout this teaching tonight, I'm going to ask you to stay in the spirit of sharing. Glory to God. And make sure you share this stream tonight. It's going to be a tremendous blessing. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Welcome everyone, God bless you. I see a few people here tonight that have commented. Thank you for saying hello. If you're here and you haven't said hello, please say hello. Uh, God bless you, Alicia. I think you were the first one on tonight. God bless your heart. I'm believing God for breakthrough in your life. Glory to God. I, I remember, glory to the name of God, when we were I think you're the same Alicia Jones when we were in Cairo recently this year. Uh, God gave you a tremendous miracle in your body, and I'm just believing God that everything he's promised you, he will finish in your life. Glory to God. And that wide doors will begin to open for you, Alicia, and that no weapon formed against your life will be able to prosper. Glory to God. And that you will have victory in every area of your life. Thank you for being so faithful and connecting. Glory to the name of God, to what God has called us to do. Praise God. God bless you, Pastor Jasper. God bless you, Lady Zion. Welcome tonight. Thank God for you guys. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Thank God for the conversation we had today. Pastor Jasper, always a pleasure when we get to dialogue. Glory to the name of God. So I appreciate God for you being here tonight. Thank God for my godson Glory to God. That picture you sent me, sir, it made my day, of him eating your sandwich. That was so phenomenal. Thank you so much for that. Um, God bless you so much, Sharia, daughter. I love you. Thank you for being here tonight. Praise God. God bless you, wife. Glory to the name of God. Thank you for always being here and being a part of what God has called us to do. Glory to God. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. You. Glory to God. God bless you, Tanya. Glory to God. That's our worship pastor. Thank God for her. Glory to God. Thank you for being here tonight. Hallelujah. Glory to God. We give God praise for his goodness and mercy. Listen, if you're here, please say hello. Glory to God. In the comments, and please share. Let's pray over this message and we're gonna jump right into it. Glory to God. Father, in Jesus' mighty name, We thank you tonight for this word. Father, we decree and declare that this word will go out with power, it will go out with authority, and that it will bring strength to our mind, our body, our soul. Thank you for the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost, and we receive it. God, you're not finished blessing us. You're not finished until your glory can be seen upon us and through us. And Father, not only are you filling us with glory and purifying us that we can be glory carriers, but God, we are becoming a part of the glory. We're being deposited into your glorious nature, and everywhere we go that glory becomes— oh my God— the very greeting post for every person we come in contact with. And we thank you that our life will no longer be about us, but it'll be about you getting the glory out of our life. And we praise you for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. Glory to God, glory to God. Welcome, Kish Osias. God bless you. Thank you for being here. Praise God. God is so good. We're going to jump right— I mean, I feel God. We're going to jump right into this teaching, man. I'm— I am, I am so grateful. Yeah, I give you praise, God. You're good. And am I You're mighty, you're wonderful. Hallelujah. Beside you there is no other. We're going back to 2 Chronicles, and what I want to do is read the foundation scripture of this series. Glory to God. And then we're going to continue, uh, where we left off on Sunday. Glory to God. So 2 Chronicles chapter 5, we're talking tonight again family about the glory dimension. Praise God! The glory dimension of clouds. Glory to God! Part 2, the glory dimension of clouds, part 2. So I really want you to stay with me. I want you to take good notes because not only am I going to share with you— hear me— information about the glory. You know, I've been teaching about the glory for 35 years and operating from the dimension of glory for just as long. But the reality is there is a deficit, a deficiency. That's the word I was looking for, a deficiency of glorious encounters among the believers. And it's not because they don't desire it, because there's a built-in innate nature of God that desires more of him. But it's simply because many have not been taught how to actually activate this authority, this glorious presence in us, and actually walk out the dimensions of glory. So we've been talking about the dimension of fire, we've talked about the dimensions of mountains, and now we're talking about the dimensions of clouds. So let's read 2 Chronicles 5, and we're going to commence reading here at verse number 12. Stay with me. And also the Levites, which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren. God, I really want to touch this, but I'm not, because if I start messing with this, we won't get where we need to be. And I really need you to tap in glory to the name of God, to the process of actually achieving glory. Hear me, he says, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren— listen to this— being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries of harps— God is so much here— stood at the east end of the altar, and with them 100 and 20 priests, listen, sounding with trumpets. Oh my God. It came even to pass, verse number 13, listen, that as the trumpeters and singers were as one, say one, to make one sound, say one sound, to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord. Labashia. God have mercy. When they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the Lord, saying, for he is good, for his mercy endureth forever. That then the house— hear me— was filled with a cloud. And I will remind you, just by way of review, for reference, that the word cloud in Hebrew is anan, and it is a cloudy mass. Uh, it is a theophanic cloud that, uh, an actual anan is. Theophanic means it's a dwelling place for theos, or a dwelling place for God. So it's where God takes up residence to communicate a message. Oh my God, to empower a people from the standpoint and dimension of a cloud, because he cannot show you in his full manifestation his glorious presence because it would kill you. So he has to get in a cloudy mass to show you himself. I'm not gonna— I'm not gonna fool with this. The house was filled with cloud, even the house of the Lord. Verse 14, so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord— hear this— had filled the house of the Lord. If you're just joining us tonight, glory to God, we're talking about the glory dimension of clouds, part number 2. Listen, if you're just joining us, please say hello, please hit that like button, and please, by all means, I need you guys to share whether you're watching us over— we're streaming on 3 Facebook pages, we're streaming to YouTube, Instagram, and Twitter. Wherever you're watching, please do me a favor, people, share this. I will love you, hallelujah, if you do, and I'm gonna love you if you don't. But I'm telling you, you got my heart if you bless somebody else with what you're receiving on tonight. All right, so let's go back to chapter 1, because honestly, as I told you last week, we really cannot encounter glory at its maximum level. Hear me, without going to chapter 1, 2, 3, and 4 first, there are some principles we have to embrace so that we could tap into this encounter where God fills our spaces with clouds. And he inhabits the clouds with his glory. And watch this again, he empowers us and disseminates instruction and messages from that standpoint. I need you to hear me tonight, all right? So stay with me, kind friends. Glory to God. Last week we dealt with verse number 1. We couldn't get past it. Because there were, there were, there was a few things in here that we needed to understand. Just by way of review, I'm going to share them. I'm just going to read through and share what they were. And Solomon, 2 Chronicles chapter 1, the son of David, verse 1, was strengthened in his kingdom. The first thing to operate from a standpoint of glorious encounters, there has to be a dissemination and release of supernatural strength. We found out last week that supernatural strength was chazak in Hebrew, and it meant to grow strong, to be hardened, to be secure and firm, to be planted in a thing, never to be moved. So in order to be trusted with glorious encounters, you have to be planted in the mindset that this is going to be my way of life. Watch this, for the rest of my life. So we've talked about that last week. Secondly, the Lord was with him. So after God strengthens us, we, we, in order— hear this, because let me tell you something. Right here, because you might say, oh my, yeah, the Lord is with me, I'm saved, I love God. But there are a lot of people, hear me, who are saved, hear me good, who are born again, and guess what? I need you to hear me. Guess what? The Lord ain't with them, okay? Because their lifestyle doesn't invite God to be with them or to strive with them. So when there's impurity, when there's impurity of a motive, impurity of behavior, even consistent impurities in thought that there's no deliverance or breakthrough from, it separates you from God because these things are sinful. Watch this, where there's no real purpose, where you're just kind of living without a purpose and you're not really tapped into what God has for you. You know, God, God, he saved you, and, and that could get you in heaven. But what we're really having a discussion about is heaven on earth. And what invites heaven on earth is holy spaces. You can't expect God to occupy— here we go— unholy spaces. Oh, I know in this hour everybody's saying God— I mean, you can have a whole gay church with a gay pastor and the first gentleman, and they'll tell you God is with them. That's deception at its highest level. Another message for another day. But the reality is the Bible says God cannot dwell in an unclean temple. So if there are impurities in your heart, in your mind, in your motive, God can't dwell there. So, okay, I'm not teaching that again. God was with him. So we're going to encounter glory. You need God with you. And then God magnified him. Not you magnified yourself. Not you built the letter and you created your own network and you built yourself up. No, if you're going to really encounter glory, you have to humble yourself before the mighty hand of God. We talked about humility last week too, so you can be magnified exceedingly. Watch this, to be magnified exceedingly is to be magnified beyond what others thought would happen for you. Some of you really are already experiencing that in your life. All your life. I know for most of my life I was a black sheep. I was told I wasn't gonna be nothing, I wasn't gonna be successful, I was never gonna make it, I was gonna be a jailbird. I— all kind of crap word curses was spoken over my life. But look at God. Matter of fact, I started outlining the new book. I got to release these other 7 that's in my laptop, but Holy Spirit started downloading this new book to me called From Zero to a Billion. how I went from zero to a billionaire mindset, and how I went from all these negative word curses to a mindset that there's nothing I can't achieve. Are y'all hearing this? Oh my God, tonight. So you got to understand, God will magnify you beyond the expectation of what people— people have spoken negatively over you, but I don't want you to feel bound Oh my God, I don't want you to feel, uh, confined or imprisoned by any word that's been spoken over your life that wasn't from God. You're free. God says, I want to magnify you exceedingly. Now watch this, I want to drop down to verse number 7 because I want to give you what the, the key that chapter 1 gives us for tapping into glory. So I want to start at verse 7 for a reason, okay? The Bible says this, uh, so 2 Chronicles chapter 1, verse 7. Praise God. The Bible says this, it says, in that night— I need you to hear me— did God appear to Solomon and said to him Ask what I shall give thee. Now here's what intrigues me about this verse, and we're going to read more in a moment. That God appeared to Solomon. All right, so he appeared. So that word ra'ah means that he calls Solomon to have a vision of him, to perceive him. Solomon, he perceives, he saw God with his eyes. Hallelujah! As God appeared in a vision. Hear this, let me ask you a question for those of you that are listening. When was the last time— all right, I want you to answer, you ain't got to type in the chat, none of that— but when was the last time God appeared to you, whether in the night or in the day. Would you believe me if I told you we should have consistent rawah experiences? Again, visions of God where he appears to us and says something. Oh, so again, question: when was the last time— I'm not talking about you had a praise break and you said God was there. I'm talking about, oh my God, you had a great high service and you said— but I'm talking about your private time and you spending time with God. When was the last time God appeared to you because there are things that's going to happen to you and your life. Hear me. Oh, we all— when God appears, when God shows up, he illuminates you with his intelligence, with his authority. He inspires you to move forward. So I'm telling you, and I sense this in my spirit, there are people listening to me tonight There are people that will listen to this by replay. You need an appearance from God. Oh my God, you need God to show up to you and talk to you for real, where there's no question beyond a shadow of a doubt that it was God speaking to you. Oh, Oh, mama, God, I love you, I love you, I love you. Glory to God. Watch this. He appeared to Solomon and said to him, ask what I say, I'll give thee. This is powerful. Not only did he appear, he directly said to Solomon, what do you want? Me to give you. There's a reason why God says this. Something happened in verses 2 through 6 that got God to visit. Let's read. So let's back up and see what happened that got God to appear. You know, let me tell you something, it's easier to get God to appear than it is some of these celebrity preachers and celebrity singers that has these long lists and riders and honorariums and, and things they need before they come and do what they need to do for you. And I'm not saying we don't need to honor people and take care of them, but I am saying it's easier to get God to appear. Glory to God. Because at the end of the day, they want a lot. And some of these people— and this is just— I'm just— this is free. I'm gonna throw this in. Glory to God. Some of these people are not even in demand. You can't make demands if you're not in demand. I'm gonna say that one more time. I'm gonna say it for the people in the back. You cannot make demands if you're not in demand. I, I have invited people over the years that wasn't in demand, and they send me these lists of stuff that they want, and don't nobody know them. And I would tell them, why you— how you think you're gonna get all this stuff? Don't nobody know you. I'm gonna take care of you, I'm gonna bless you, I'm gonna fly you in, I'm gonna put you a good hotel, I'm gonna feed you, but don't send me no list because at the end of the day you're not in demand. But watch this, God can make demands because he's in demand. Ah God, and you need him, glory to God, more than you need anybody or anything else. Oh God, help us, help us. So let's find out verses 2 through 6 what happened. I'm just going to kind of browse through it and we're going to peel out the, the nuggets on what happened to get God to appear so we can practice this because it ain't broke. We just got to practice it so that God would appear to us, because he has no respect of person. Somebody said, oh no, he don't deal with us like that. I beg to differ with you. I believe God will visit us as he visited Moses, as he visited Solomon. I believe God will visit us as he visited Paul, but we gotta meet the prerequisites that get us to that type of visitation. Again, this is not a fairy tale book. This book is real. This book is alive. This book is truth. So let's read verse 2 through 6. Come on. Then Solomon spake to all of Israel, to the captains, the thousands of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every governor in Israel, and to the chief of the fathers. Verse 3, and there's a nugget there. I'm gonna come back to it. So Solomon and all the congregation with him Here we go. Went to the high place. So verse 2 gives us the first— watch this, here we go— nugget on getting a visitation. The man who in verse 1 who was strengthened, who God was with, who God magnified exceedingly, the Bible said this same man in verse 2 spoke to the whole nation, to the— to all of the leaders, to all the judges, all the governors, all of the chiefs of the fathers. He got the leaders together. Watch this. In addition to the people. So the same man that's been favored by God, now hear this, He takes the favor that's on him and he blesses those connected to him. Verse 2 is about bringing order. Verse 3 is about following the leader. He says, all the congregation went with him to the high place which was at Gibeon. Now watch this, Gibeon means a hilly city in Hebrew. Or a high city. So this denotes that we must ascend. I need somebody to type in the comments, we must ascend. See, we cannot expect visitations from God if we don't ascend in worship. Oh God, if we don't ascend in prayer, if we just do the same old religious traditional stuff over and over again and never ascend to the hilly place I'm telling you, God's trying to shift not only the worship and the prayer life that you have and, and cause revival to flow through you and out of you, but he's also wanting your mindset to ascend. There needs to be a paradigm— that's the word I'm looking for— shift in your mind that causes your mind to shift to a hilly place where you don't think in mediocrity but you think higher than your circumstances. You think higher than what you're going through. You think higher than the challenges that are on your plate right now. And you ascend to a place where, oh my God, all those things that challenge you are beneath your feet. Oh, somebody type in the comments, we must ascend. How about Yebasianda Labasiya? We must go higher. Remakia. We cannot stay in these lowly places. Glory to God. There is more. God, God wants to tap you into places where you can walk with him, talk with him, but you've got to make the choice to ascend, to get in. Watch this. For there was a tabernacle of the congregation of the Lord which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had made in the wilderness. Watch, watch this key. Say this with me, guys. Success leaves clues. I want you to remember this. Anybody that's successful, there's a, there's a trail of clues that they left behind them on how they got successful. If you follow the clues and take the actions they took, you could tap into what they tapped into. Now watch this. Moses is a living testimony that God will appear to you, that God will talk to you. That— and so Solomon says, okay, we need to go where the Tabernacle of Moses is. Oh wait, oh my God, so we're gonna see— ah, Shabbataya, we need to go to where the Tabernacle of Moses is so we can ascend and so we can experience God. They didn't try to recreate something. They followed the pattern. Listen, we need to understand the Holy Spirit has already placed a design inside of us. Watch this, that is a pattern. I don't have time tonight, this is another teaching for another day right here. But the pattern of the things in heaven— watch this— when God breathed the ruach, then into our nephesh, our soul, and we became a nephesh, a living soul. The word living, glory to God, the Septuagint translation of that word means that there is a blueprint or a pattern of heaven or of God that was breathed in us. Oh my God, just rub your belly right where you are and say, there is a pattern of things in heaven inside. Oh, it's— oh God, have mercy— inside of me. But you got to make up your mind. I want to ascend. Hey, well, you can't ascend that all you do is attend dead services, go through religious motions, and try to get praise breaks and holler and scream, and you think that's the ascension? No, you got to follow the pattern. You got to go to the high place. And watch this, Moses made this tabernacle in the wilderness. He, he met the tabernacle where God visited Moses, was born in obscurity. It was born in unsure circumstances. It was born when the odds was against him. Maybe God has set up what you're going through and the challenge— ah, the challenge— I feel like running, Jesus— the challenges that you're facing. Oh my God, so that you will ascend and create a tabernacle and rebuild your altars and create new experiences in God. Good God from Zion, Lord, help us tonight. Lord, help us. Help us. Who shall help us to ascend, Father? Help us to ascend. Verse 4, watch this, watch this. But the Ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath-Jearim to the place which David had prepared it, for he pitched the tent for it at Jerusalem. Watch this. So right here, here again, the Ark— what we know about the Ark of Covenant, another message for another day. But the reality is Again, David, you gotta understand, he brought it up from Kirjath-Jearim. Watch this, this word, or Kirjath in Hebrew, it is a city of forest. It is a city where vision and sight is obscured. So David had to bring the Ark up out of a place where vision was obscured. Sometimes you got to come up out of dead, dry, crusty situations where you got a forest in front of you and you can't see God because you're looking at things through the forest. You better bring that altar up out of that forest. Matter of fact, Kerjajarim actually is a city of forest. Ain't nothing but trees there. Oh my God. I got to get out of here, man. Ooh, I got to go. I got to get out of here. Glory to— I got about 17 minutes, y'all pray for me. Glory to God. Moreover, the brazen altar that Belzeel the son of Uriah the son of Hur had made, he put before the tabernacle of the Lord. And Solomon, the congregation sought unto it. And Solomon went up— there's that word again, up. Somebody shouted, we must ascend, we must ascend thither to the brazen altar before the Lord was the tabernacle of the congregation and offered— watch this— 1,000 burnt offerings upon it. Wait a minute, wait, wait, wait. Okay, okay, wait. Okay, just wait for it. I'm, I'm about— don't let your mind run ahead of what I'm about to say because I need to go back to this brazen altar. Ah, God. Yeah, yeah, we must have seen— I keep— that thing is ringing in my belly. Libis, I want you to get off this live tonight and I want you to think ascension. Oh, we must go up. And I want to prophesy to you tonight right here, we're going up from here. Oh God, no more low living. Glory to God, no more sight-giving. No more living in mediocrity. We're going up from here. No more mundane, stale prayer life. No more mundane and stale worship sessions. No praying on the fly on your way to work. God is getting ready to show up in your prime time. Let me show you how to ascend. You need some prime time with God, which means you need to find a place in your house where you meet God at the same time every day and let that build your altar. Glory. I'm telling you. And, and get low so God can ascend. Go into worship, go into prayer. Get up in enough time where you got enough time to spend an hour or two with God before you start your day. Oh my God. Rub your belly and say, we must ascend. I'm telling you, most of the things we're battling right now some of the things God is holding up. I'm telling you, I believe that there are multimillion-dollar contracts that God wants to release even for me. But there's a deeper level of ascension that he's calling me to. And let me tell you something, I sin every day. But God is saying, there is more, son. I need to call you into this deep well that you never— oh God— that you've never cried in before. That you never laid in before, that you never experienced before. I'm telling you, I release new experiences upon you inside of your ascension. But listen, you got to let go of the lust of the flesh. You got to let go the lust of the eye. You got to let go of the lust of the body. You got to let go. Oh, Shia, tell about the pride of life. And God said, when you— oh, when you let go of those things, he said, I've caused you to ascend. I've caused you to experience things, my God, that you never experienced before. I got to get out of here, man. But watch this. So verse 5, the brazen altar that Bazil— Bazil— this, this— oh my God, his name means a person in the shadows. I like this. Haggad, the son of Uri, which is that David's daddy, the son of Hur, David's granddaddy, had made. He put before the Tabernacle of the Lord. And, and watch this, the congregation went up a little higher. They ascended more to get here, but this brazen altar wasn't the stopping place. Watch this, they were getting to the Tabernacle of Congregation. Watch this, to a place where not only would the leaders and the heads and the worship, worshipers, the Levites, Asaph, Jeduthun, but that every person that came in contact with this group would experience the glory of God. The Bible says when they got into this place So you think about everything differently when you ascend. And I don't want somebody in your mind, your, your, your, your, your, your small perception— please don't turn this into a teaching about an offering, because that's not what I'm doing. What I am showing you is that glory requires sacrifice. The Bible says he offered 1,000 burnt offerings on this altar. He released a— and those were, you know, the burnt offering was doves and sheep, things they brought to burn. And so they were material goods, so it was equivalent to money. Watch this, we got to learn that one-of-a-kind sacrifice produces one-of-a-kind encounters. Watch what happens when he seals— hear me, guys— these experiences of ascending with a seed. Verse 7 says, in that night God appeared See, we've been taught to look for monetary blessing after we sow. Uh-uh. You know, I've even taught that in the past. I believe you reap what you sow, so I believe that part of the principle will release what you sow, but the ultimate harvest is a real encounter with God where God actually appears to you. Somebody said, Michael Woods, you're crazy, God can't appear to me. Yes, he can. I have had this encounter on several occasions. I had it this week. I'm telling you, God can appear. The question is, are you positioning yourself for this appearance, or are you just still doing the same doing the same old thing over and over again expecting different results. Not only did God appear, he asked this man, what do you want? He said, you done ascended, you seeking after me. So, so God just said, okay, you're looking for me, now I'm looking for you. Oh my God. See, that's the exchange. When I make the sacrifice to ascend and go after God with a new passion, with a new fire, and at a deeper level. Glory to God. God just says, okay, this one ain't gonna stop until they get me. So he just decided, you chasing me, I'm gonna start coming after you. And he just shows up saying, now what you want? That's basically the attitude God had. Look, I'm here. You don't went up higher, you don't went to where the ark is, you don't want to tabernacle congregation, you don't gave me a thousand sacrifices. What do you want, Solomon? I don't know about you. Now, I've had God appear, I've had God speak, I've had God give me instructions in his appearing, but never has he asked me what I want. Anytime we've had discussions about what I want, it's always what he's already promised. The reality is this conversation is pristine to the ones that are sinning. And I'm telling you, I declare over your life tonight, we are ascending people. And I declare and I decree that we are going up from here. There is no way but up. You can't go no lower. So God, we're going up from here. We are about to ascend. Glory to God. Yes, God. I'll say that. I got, I got a call today from one of my daughters from the past, actually, who was raised in the same church Apostle Brandon was. And, um, she reached out to me because God had gave her a word for me several months go, and she just had not been able to reach me and give me the word. So today I was on the phone with her and she said, look, I got to tell you what God said. She said, God showed me a vision and I saw your church and I saw you in this building and it was full of the cloud of God. It was full of the glory of God. And people were outside of this building because the building wasn't a huge, huge building, but people were lined up outside of this building as far as you could see. And they were having encounters with the glory because the glory that was in the house was extending outside of the house and inebriating these people. They were getting saved. They were getting delivered. They were getting healed. She said, God, is about to do a massive move of glory in your life, not just in the church. He said what that was indicative of was not only what he's doing inside of the church for you, but you and everybody connected to you is about to show up in the world. Woo-wee! And I've been teaching this. You don't know this. Show up in the world hallelujah, with glory all over you, and you inside of the glory. And each one of you are gonna— oh my God— bring glorious encounters to every person you connect to. He said this— she said this is going to happen everywhere you go and everything you touch, and every person connected to you, they're going to have these experiences, and it'll come in every dimension. Of glory possible. And you all know we've been teaching about the glory being the illumination, the light, the intelligence, the wealth, the authority, the influence of God. I received that word because there's so much confirmation to what God is ready to do. And God— listen, let me tell you something. This is what I'm telling you right now tonight, guys. You got to purify yourself. Laba sandalo boshiaya. So you can ascend because God doesn't come to impure places. Purify your heart, purify your motives, purify your mind, purify your actions so God can fill you up with what he wants to do in and through you. Huh. Let me, let me, let me give this last part of this verse. Verse 8: And Solomon said to God, Thou show great mercy unto David my father, has made me to reign in his stead. Listen to the conversation that Solomon is having with God. Yeah, God asked some of us, what you want? Oh well, God, I want a house, I want a car, I want 10 million. Notice how wise Solomon is. This is the key to glory. Watch this. Solomon said to God, Thou has showed great mercy unto David my father, and thou has made me to reign in his stead. Listen now, O Lord. Verse 9, God, let thy promise unto David my father be established. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. First of all, this is selfless. This— he exercised a very humble and selfless act here. And says, I want what my daddy was dreaming of and what you said you were going to do through my father to come to pass. Basically, this can't be about you. It has to be about who you can help. It has to be about God getting the glory out of using you and coming through you. Watch this. He says, for thou has made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude. In other words, Solomon said, look, you done made me king of all these people. I only— I can't see half of them. I don't know, the kingdom is so huge. He says, verse 10, I don't want no money. He said, give me wisdom and knowledge that I may go out and come before this people. For who can judge this thy people that is so great? He says, I cannot do what you have assigned and anointed me to do. Without wisdom, which y'all, we done talked about that, which is hakma in Hebrew. Go back and watch the other teachings. And knowledge, which is a madah in Hebrew. We've talked about these. So in which, basically, if you put those, hakma and knowledge— hakma is the proper use of intelligence, divine intelligence, divine insight. He says, I want to think like you, God. I want to approach every situation as you do. Not one time did Solomon ask for something material. So in order to get to chapter 5, the first thing we need is wisdom and knowledge. Because for what God's gonna do through us in the glory, you need divine intelligence, supernatural revelation. So knowledge is, again, supernatural insight, revelation. Wisdom is the ability to apply, use that revelation properly. So God says, I got to give you that because this glory— because you don't want to become a clown after you experience the glory. Okay, all right, so watch this, verse 11, and I'm done. And God said to Solomon, because this was in your heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of thine enemies— oh my God— neither hast thou asked long life. You, he didn't even ask to live long. But you asked me for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, that you can judge my people Oh my God, over whom I made you king. Verse 12: Wisdom and knowledge is granted to you. This is God talking. And I will give you riches, wealth, and honor such as none of these kings have had before, neither shall any after have like thee. This caused Solomon to become the richest king ever to date. To date in history of Israel. Hear me when I tell you, hear me when I tell you, you better get in your prayer closet, build your altar, and ascend and ask God for wisdom and knowledge. We need to pray through to glory until he shows up. And speaks to us. And if he asks you what you want, don't you dare say— and I'm closing— money, long life, riches, wealth. Solomon just gave you the wisdom on that. What you gonna do? What you gonna do? Let's pray. I'm done, man. I'm done. I can go all night, so That's the first key. Sunday we're going to jump in chapter 2. What I'm going to try to do Sunday is take you through 2, 3, and 4 quickly so we can get to the text. Let's pray. Father, I give you praise. I give you glory, God. Thank you for this message tonight. Thank you for this, your people. Thank you for the glory. And I ask you tonight, God, that you would cause the glory of God to superimpose upon every person under the sound of my voice. Give them cloud experiences. Hallelujah. Appear to us, God. Help us to rebuild our altars. Father, we're asking tonight for wisdom and knowledge that we could serve your purpose, that we could serve your plan. Give us wisdom that we can live out the rest of our lives properly, God, that we won't miss it to the left nor to the right. But dear God, in all things, hallelujah, We will be new, we will be pure, we will think on those things which are pure, those things which are lovely and just, those things that are a good report. We thank you that the same mind that was in Christ Jesus is in us, and give us the wisdom to operate in the mind of Christ, that we may have glory encounters, not every now and then, but consistently and constantly. Somebody under the sound of my voice needs healing in their body. Father, touch them now in the name of Jesus. Let the glory go through this camera into their living room, into their car, wherever they are, whatever state, whatever part of the world they're in. Let them have a glory encounter right where they are. And may their life never be the same. In the name of Jesus, we do pray. Amen. And thanks be to God. Oh my God, hallelujah! I feel Jesus. Why don't you worship him for a few moments? We're closing, but just lift your hands right where you are. And Father, we bless you. Father, we honor you. We extol your great and mighty name. We declare that there's none like you nowhere. God, I release supernatural authority and power in the life of your people now. And I thank you, God, that no weapon formed against them shall prosper. I declare you are Jehovah Jireh. Yes, God, you are our provider. You are our Jehovah Rapha. You're the Lord our healer. God, we thank you. You are Jehovah. Oh my God, Rohi, the Lord our shepherd. And because of that, we shall not want. We worship you and we give you glory. Hallelujah. And we give you honor. Yes, God. Thank you, Jesus. Listen, family, I'm done. I gotta jump on a meeting. With my leaders, uh, on Zoom, so I gotta run. But guys, I need you to get seed in the ground. Glory to God. Get seed in the ground. The ways to give are on this— on the screen. Remember, Solomon sold 1,000 burnt offerings when he ascended. See, when we give on low levels, we give on low levels because we really haven't ascended our mindset. Yeah, but God says there's so much more. And that seed set Solomon up and everyone that will come behind him for the rest of their lives. Trust God tonight. The ways to give are on the screen. I love you guys. Just a few announcements. We have a few things coming up I want to share with you, something the Lord put in my spirit on yesterday. Listen, the verbiage and all of the registration information for this will be live on the website tomorrow at drmikewoods.com/10days. Listen, we're coming into a season in this country where we're going to need to understand the provision of God. We're going to need to understand how to tap into supernatural provision. Provision. Some of us have been struggling for so long to break through to supernatural provision because we choose to do things our way. But God told me to do something called 10 Days of Supernatural Provision. We're going to start this Monday, August 12th, at 8:00 every single night. I'm going to teach you every night for 10 days about supernatural provision. It's free. There is no charge. You have to register though. It's going to stream exclusively on YouTube. No Facebook, no Twitter, no Instagram, exclusively on YouTube. And you have to register to get the link. The reason you need to register: one, we want to have a controlled space for this teaching. Two, we want to make sure you get the notes for the teaching. So when you register, we'll have your email address We can give you the notes so you can go back and have them in your repertoire. You're going to need them. Listen, this country is about to go through some major shifts and you're going to need to be protected by supernatural provision. Trust me. All right. And God gave me this and he says, I need you to instruct my people on how to walk in this dimension. So watch my pages tomorrow when you see this post and you see the link, click it and get registered. We only have room for 100 people, so I'm telling you, it's gonna fill up. You need to make sure you lock in. And this is for hungry people. Listen, you can't take 10 days of teaching in the word if you ain't hungry for more. But if you hungry for more and you passionate about the word, glory to God, and you want to see this stuff because I'm not just doing this because I ain't got nothing else to do. I'm doing it out of obedience. Trust me, I got a lot more stuff I could be doing, but I'm doing it because I'm being obedient to God. Okay, um, so make sure you tap in. Also, glory to the name of God, on August 26th, if you're in the Atlanta area, we're having Rada Nights. This is a networking event and an interest meeting actually for our Church. So if you know people that's looking for a church home, listen, this is the place they need to be. Uh, we're gonna host it at the business office of Rada Films, which is our film and production company, an event company that we are so blessed to have. And so we're gonna— it's gonna be downtown Atlanta, 1105 Howell Mill, uh, 8th floor, Atlanta, Georgia. You have to register to get in. Um, the information is on the screen. Listen, anybody you're bringing, they need to register. Glory to God, because we're going to have food, we got a special guest, we're going to do a lot of fun things that night. Uh, we will stream it live, but this event is for getting people out, okay? So we want you to come out. Matter of fact, our office on the 8th floor has an amazing balcony. We're going to have the event out there. It overlooks the skyline of the Atlanta— of the city of Atlanta. I mean, it's going to be an amazing event. You need to be there. I mean, that skyline in the picture is what you see standing actually on our balcony at the office. So we're going to have it outside there. It's going to be a blessed event. I want you in the building. And finally, if you're in the Mississippi region, glory to God, I'm going to be at Glory Revival Center August 24th and 25th. Listen, you need to be in the house. Apostle Brandon Cornelius and myself, my son in the ministry, I was talking to him today. We've been praying over this meeting. Uh, God is speaking. There's going to be some great things that happen. Listen, if you can get to Mississippi, we're going to be doing this supernatural intensive, and I'm telling you, you need to be a part of this. We're going to talk about the supernatural dimension how to tap in. We're going to teach. It's going to be absolutely wonderful and blessed. So make sure you're there. Listen, guys, I'm done for tonight. I love y'all with the love of the Lord. Y'all be blessed. Thank you so much for all you do, your support, your time. You know, it means a lot. You could be doing anything. Leaders, I love y'all. We're about to jump on this Zoom call, so I promise you I'm gonna hold y'all about 15 minutes. I love you. Y'all be blessed. Peace.