THE GLORY DIMENSION OF CLOUDS, PART: 3 | DR. MIKE WOODS, SR. | 11 AUG 24

Well, grace and peace everyone, this is Dr. Mike Woods and welcome to Sunday night. I am super excited as always to share the word of God with you. Listen, do me a kind favor guys, if you're here live right now or if you're watching this by replay, I need you to do me the simple favor of sharing this teaching. Listen, tonight is going to be phenomenal. Uh, it's very deliberate, very strategic, and I believe it's going to be very beneficial to you as you move into the next phase of your life. Actually, I believe this teaching tonight in this series is a catalyst that's really going to help you operate in glory dimensions, uh, in the world for real. And I, I just need you to share this. I need you to lock in because I believe tonight we're going to be tremendously blessed. So please, by all means, go ahead and share this, tag someone. If you're coming in, please speak below, whether you're live or by replay. You know, we get a lot of people who watch our lives who never say anything, but we see you, we know you're watching. Glory to God. So please Just say hello. Glory to God. Unless you have some bad motive, then you probably shouldn't be here anyway. You probably need to scroll and find something else that's going to benefit you. But if you have a bad motive for being on this stream, then you should put up your finger as they do in the church and just dismiss yourself right now. In the name of Jesus, because you're not doing yourself any favors because you're not going to receive anything. But if you're here and your heart is good, you will— you would share this. The Bible said we're blessed to be a blessing, and you will like it and you will comment below. We ask you to do that not because we want likes and clicks, but we really want the algorithm to recognize that people are engaged with what we're doing so they will show our stream to other people. And if this is benefiting you, like it, share it, comment. It says to the algorithm, okay, the people who follow this man, they like what he's saying, they're engaged, they're involved. Let's show it to more people. That's all I'm simply asking, guys, because we believe this message of the kingdom needs to get out. So I'm not going to prolong the time. I'm gonna jump right in this. We're going to pray, we're going to jump right in the heart of this. And I promise you, you're gonna be blessed tonight. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' mighty name, I thank you for another opportunity to teach your word. I thank you, God, that it's in you I live, it's in you I move, it's in you I have my being. So Father, tonight I yield myself to your superimposition. I yield myself to your authority, to your voice, to your will. To your way. Take control of my very person right now, God. And Father, articulate the words that need to be said to the people that are watching us now. And I thank you, God. that no ear that engages with these words tonight will be the same, God, that there will be transformation in their spirit, transformation in their very lives. God, I thank you for the manifestation of your promises for them. In Jesus' name, amen and amen. Yeah, God, I thank you, God, for light, illumination, and intelligence. That comes from the Holy Spirit tonight. God bless us. Somebody needs to worship him now. Yes, God, I feel something shifting. Glory to God. As you're coming in, y'all come in. Rabba sandala baku, rebekela shema, runku she tete, boshima, branse tete kusha. Glory. Ba sikandala bo shikaya, rambabababa so rabaka. Yeah, I hear that, God. Branshelebekoshyanta. I thank you for healing, God. I heard that God is stitching things back up that need to be fixed. Hallelujah. There is a— yeah, this is how I see it. There's a surgery happening in the spirit. Rambasalabaka. And I heard the Lord say, I'm stitching things up. I'm reconciling what has been broken. Yeah, I'm healing under my son gaps, and I'm pulling things together that Hoshikatalababa. That through carnality and through the flesh and through the hands of man have been separated and broken. But God said, if you will yield yourself to his word, for he says, I sent my word and it healed them. Rapha in Hebrew, healed. It did surgery. It stitched them back up. It reconciled things into proper order. I hear it. God says, I'm reconciling sons and fathers. I'm reconciling mothers and sons. I'm reconciling daughters and mothers. I'm reconciling siblings, sisters and brothers. God says, I'm stitching things. I'm putting churches and business and teams back together that were broken by the hand of the enemy. God says, if you yield to my word, atababa so rabbaia, and not allow pride, hear me, Mansu, Lushi kantaya lebe osuta labaki kele. To not allow pride to keep you in that place of bitterness, resentment, and unforgiveness. God says, my word will heal, my word will restore, my word— yes, God— will reconcile, says the Lord. Oh my God, tonight, I hear it. He comes to repair the breach. He comes— yeah, I hear you, Father. He comes to fix what has been broken in your life, in our nation. Oh my God, God says we must yield to his word. We cannot try to change his word. I hear you, God. He said we must yield to what he says. Lebekusha tanti riba bronsorokusha tababaha. Yes, God, I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you. For I heard the Lord say, I am going to overturn. Yeah, Ezekiel, I hear you. I hear you. Overturn, overturn it, and it shall be no more. God says, submit to that word. I'm gonna overturn the unforgiveness. I'm gonna overturn the hurt. I'm gonna overturn the brokenness. And God said, it shall be no more in your life. And those relationships, yes God, that are purposed by God, whoo, shaya, lebe ashuku tunrebo kikanda de biansa, those covenants that were born out of the purity of God's plan. God says, I'm going to fix it. I'm going to do surgery and bring it together again, says the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. So I want all to just worship him right now. Listen, if you're with me, just throw your hands up in the comments and say, I receive it in Jesus' name. You need to let God reconcile you to purpose. Glory to God. You need to let him stitch up what's broken in your heart, in in your family, in your mind. Ah, oh God, we give you the glory. Yes, God, we glorify. We lift you up. Oh my God, tonight I am excited. Oh, glory to God. I'm gonna try to teach this, glory to God, to share the word of God. We're continuing our series, glory to God, on fire, mountains, clouds, and water, the glory dimensions of God. And listen, I have been blessed tremendously teaching these messages. We've already covered, glory to God, Fire Mountain. Tonight we're talking about clouds. Glory to God. I want you to get this. Praise God. I want you to receive this because I believe it's going to bless you. This is the third installment of clouds. We're going to try to finish clouds tonight, so stay with me as we walk through this. Glory to God. So let's go to 2 Chronicles chapter 5. Welcome again and again. If you're just joining us, do me the kind favor, family, please share this. I promise you, glory to the name of God, you will be blessed for being a blessing. Glory to God. Sow the seed of this word into the life of someone else, to your followers, to your friends on social media. Uh, if you're listening to this podcast, please share it with someone so they can get the benefit of receiving of this word from God. Amen. All right, let's jump in here. Glory to God. La shiba talabo. I'm trying, guys. Gurashi tabaya. Bronze. 2 Chronicles 5. This is our foundation for this teaching. We're reading, uh, we're starting in verse number 12. Glory to God. The Bible says, also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them 120 priests sounding with trumpets. And it came to pass that as the trumpeters and singers were as one— Lord, I'm not gonna mess with it yet, but we're gonna get here today. Hallelujah. To make one sound, to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord. And when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals of instruments of music and praised the Lord, saying, for he is good, for his mercy endureth forever, that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord. Verse number 14, so that the priests could not stand to minister. Hallelujah! By reason of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord had filled the house of God. Now what I want to do, I want to read 2 Chronicles 6 and verse number 1 as well. Then Solomon said, the Lord has said that he would dwell in the thick darkness But I have built the house of habitation for thee, a place of dwelling forever. So far the scripture. So let's go back to chapter 2 of 2 Chronicles, because remember I told you in the first 2 installments of the Glory Dimension of Clouds, I share with you that it is impossible to achieve 2 Chronicles 5, glory, and have these encounters inside the house or outside the house of God where you are a glory carrier, glory to God, and God is moving, praise God, in your life and in your ministry and in your business, in your family, and every place you put your hands or your feet. We got to go back and implement some principle from chapters 1 through 4. These are prerequisites to these encounters. They have to be present in our life. And I'm telling you, this is why the church, particularly religious-minded people, never really experienced the glory of God for real and never experienced the dimension of clouds where God shows up in his express presence his Shekinah presence, where he is actually there with us— hear me— speaking, guiding, leading, healing, delivering, prospering, opening doors, because we have not mastered chapters 1 through 4, and we have not gone through the prerequisites that are even mentioned in chapter 5. So let's go back and remember chapter 1. I told you that number 1 David, Solomon, the son of David, was strengthened. So we talked about you got to be strengthened. Not teaching that again, but go back and, and look at it. We talked about the Lord has to be with you. Hear me. We talked about God has to magnify you exceedingly. I'm not teaching it again, I promise you. Oh glory! We, we talked about, praise God, hallelujah, that when God appears, you need to ask him for wisdom and knowledge, which indicated that in order for me to experience glory at a high level, consistency, and have continuity walking, living, breathing in the glory, I need wisdom and I need knowledge. Not gonna touch it again. Please go back and watch. Today we, we're going to look at 2, 3, and 4 really quickly because I think I spent too much time on chapter 1, because I want you to see just the, the basic principles that you need to adhere to in order to experience, encounter glory at a high level. So 2 Chronicles chapter 2, verse number 1, you'll find these words The Bible says, and Solomon determined to build a house for the name of the Lord and a house for his kingdom. Listen to this, family. I'm gonna say this again. And Solomon determined to build a house for the name of the Lord and a house for his kingdom. Listen to this. So the main point I want to bring out here, and Solomon determined to build a house The word build here, watch this, is amar, A-M-A-R in Hebrew, and this word means he prepared. Oh my God, he prepared, he prepared, he prepared, because preparation time, watch this, is never wasted time. I'm gonna say that again for the people in the back. Preparation time is never wasted time. So part of his preparation was he began to speak out loud and decree the plan of God for building this house. And if you read chapter 2, you'll see that Solomon begins to prepare through speaking out loud what God has put in his heart to do and to build and how this house is to be built. He starts speaking the plans out of his mouth. Watch this. So preparation for manifestation of glory involves speaking what you desire to see and experience in glory out of your mouth. Oh my God. I've been teaching y'all forever that you shape the world you live in with your mouth. So if you really want to see glory and you want to see the manifestation of God in your life, you want to see the cloud of God fill your room, fill your church— glory to God— you gotta begin to open your mouth mouth and say what you want. Listen, can I submit to you tonight? How you call it is how it will be. I'm gonna say that again. How you call it is how it will be. So your preparation— the word preparation is two words, pre- and paration. Uh, pre-, which means in advance or before, paration, paré, details. A paring knife or a paré knife cuts to details. So preparation means to speak the details in advance. Oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my, oh my. Yeah, you, you got to begin to speak the details that you want to see in glory in advance. You got to start saying while you're driving a Pinto, hallelujah, that I want to see God's glory in my life. Praise God. Are y'all hearing me? Through manifestations of his wealth and riches. So while you driving that small car, glory to God, you need to be saying, in the name of Jesus, God's going to get the glory out of my life and I'll be able to drive what I want. And, and you need to be able to be specific. You need to be able to say, I'm, I'm going to experience the glory of God in a way that when I go into grocery stores— glory to God— when I go into Walmart, when I go into department stores, uh, the glory will be with me, and I can discern who needs prayer, who needs victory. Prophetic words will follow me, and people will get free and delivered even in public places. Because I'm operating in a preparation that has built up an encounter for my life. Watch this. So the preparation, even though you don't see it, and it often requires sacrifice— oh yeah, yeah, preparation often requires sacrifice. Hear me, even though you don't see the results of your preparation immediately Preparation will cause sacrifices to leave your life, to leave your space. I'll say that, not your life. They, they leave your space but never your life. They leave your— oh my God, they leave your mouth and go into your future. That's how I want to see it. Yeah, so preparation leaves your mouth, moves into your future, and waits for your arrival. See, when you start speaking out of your mouth, because death and life— I told you how you call it. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. How you call it is how it will be. Somebody type that in the comments. How you call it— oh my God, today is how it will be. My God, my God, today. Jesus, I love you. Jesus, I— oh, Shabba. Oshaban diosa. So while you speaking it, preparation leaves your mouth, hallelujah, but not your life. It goes into your future, whether that future is one day or one minute from now, and starts building what you said. Oh my God, somebody ought to shout preparation! Yes, God! Is a builder. Good God from Zion, good God from Zion, I need you to hear it. Preparation is a builder. Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus. Preparation is a builder. So Solomon, watch this, begin to design and build the house as an architect before it was actually physically built. So hear me, what you handle tangibly, good God Almighty, is a result of what you say in the spirit. Let me ask you a question. Have you ever found yourself— listen to me— in a predicament where you were snared by some problem that was very persistent, very consistent, and you were stuck in this really stubborn spot? I'm talking about stubborn, would not move. Hear me? Good God. And it just seems like you couldn't fix it. And you did everything you know to do. You called folk, you prayed, you, you focused on it, you thought about it, you scratched your head over it. But watch this, you still can't figure out what's behind it. You know, you don't know why it's like this. Why do I keep going in the circle? Why do I keep showing up at this, uh, point in my life? Hallelujah! Glory to God! I need you to understand, the more you keep talking about it, because you'll call people and you'll complain out of your mouth— watch this— because on both sides, preparation can build negatively or positively. So if you're talking about how bad it is, how broke you are, how sick you are, how bad your marriage is, how bad your family is, and all you're doing is talking about how bad, how bad. Guess what? How you call it is how it's going to be. But what you got to learn how to do is begin to call it how you want to be. Speak those things that are not— woo— as though they were. Matthew 12:34-37 says, out of the abundance of the heart does a man speak. He says a good man, out of the treasure of his heart, bring forth good things. And an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things. But I say unto you, every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give an account thereof in the day of judgment. For by the words, oh my God, whoo, that come out of your mouth shall you be justified, and by thy words you shall be condemned. So listen, you got to prepare with your mouth. I'm staying on that too long. So preparation time is never wasted time. You got to prepare. Glory to God. Uh, let's go to 2 Chronicles chapter number 3. Are y'all ready? So you got to prepare, you got to prepare. The Bible says 3:1, then Solomon began to build the house. Wait a minute. At Jerusalem, in Mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared before David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshing floor of Ornan the Jebusite. Now watch this. Solomon began to build the house. So this is the second point, and then I'm gonna unpack this a little. Solomon began to build the house. Hear me. Hear me. So he prepared, he has wisdom and knowledge. So you need wisdom to get this glory. You got to have preparation that comes out of your mouth. You got to create with your mouth this glory experience, this glory encounter. Then you build it. Chapter 3, you got to start building. But building is a process. Let's, let's start right there. The word build is banah, B-A-N-A-H, and this word means He established, or watch this, or he caused it to continue, or for a simpler way of saying it, he rebuilt it. Oh, wait a minute, what did he rebuild? What did he cause to continue? Well, there it is. He went to the place, he went to Legacy. Why God— where the Lord of Jerusalem in Mount Moriah, where he appeared to David, and where David prepared the threshing floor of Ornan. Ornan, who is an apostolic type in the Old Testament. Ornan's name, glory to God, means light is perpetrated. Oh my God. Or light is released. So in the place where light, illumination, intelligence, revelation is released Oh my God, he begins to build. He doesn't build in a place where, hallelujah, encounters have not been had before. Listen, you are going to work yourself raggedy trying to build with people glory encounters. Here we go. That have never had them. Oh my God. So you gotta have a group of pliable people. You gotta be in a culture of people who want more, who are open to grow. But if you're in a culture that's stuck— hear me— if you're in a culture that doesn't want to build glory encounters, Okay, people wanna build a gym, people wanna build a baseball field, people wanna build a library, people wanna build a church. Listen, I just wanna build a glory culture. Glory to God. I wanna build a glory culture. And I wanna do that with people, glory to God, that want consistent encounters with God so they could show up in the world with the weight, the splendor, the intelligence, glory to God, ah, the authority and the wealth of God. And literally we take dominion out of that culture. So I'll let people build the church, build the baseball field, do your thing. I want to see God. Oh my God, that's what I need. That's what I desire. Rebeccah ndalabashiku talabaya. Rebeccah eshiyandalaba. Not you said it was God because you went through a religious process. I want to see him for real, man. I want to continue to see his manifestation. I want to continue to see blinded eyes open. Glory to God. I want to continue to see deaf ears unstopped. I thank God for every moment in the glory I've had in my ministry where I've seen crippled people walk. Glory to God. I've seen— glory to the name of God— cancer patients heal, heart patients heal. Glory to God. I've seen God move in mighty ways in transforming people from poverty to wealth Can I tell you something? It's because of the glory of God. Let's build it! But you can't build that with people that don't want it. Some people will choose to be stuck. Glory to God. They'll choose to stay where they are, and if that's their choice, you can't get mad. But David Hallelujah. Had a threshing floor where light and intelligence was. The Lord appeared there, and Solomon said, ain't no need in us building this on no other foundation but where glory has already been. So you want to see glory, you got to build. Remember, remember this: build is banah in Hebrew, all right? It means to continue. To continue. Listen, listen, I said it last time, success leaves clues even in the glory. Hear me, it leaves clues on how there's a pattern, there's a combination. I remember, uh, telling one of our worship leaders years ago, glory to God, and, uh I told him, um, very eager young man who I believe loves God to date, all right? And I believe that, uh, his pursuit of God was genuine. But I told him, I said, the key is not in the expressions on your face, the way your voice sounds. The key is finding the combination. Oh God, finding the combination on how to get in the realm where he abides. Once you find the combination, you come to church and take the stage. You follow the combination you discovered in private, and you lead the people into the realm as a general. See, worship leaders are generals. So I told him, I said, you march the people into God's presence and you leave them there. Oh God, yeah, you— because you spend the time in the combination, see, and every person can learn it, but as a worship leader, I told him, you gotta— you definitely need to learn this combination, because we don't want just normal church. You need to have a prayer life yourself, time with God yourself, so that you can take the combination and the people that are listening, not based on how your voice sounds, but based on the combination and the sincerity of your heart. The glory realm opens And now we can't stand the minutes because we, we're, we're building a culture where everybody now is tapping into their combination to get into the realm. So he built the house. Let me keep, let me keep moving. Just, just somebody shouted, that thing is still in my spirit. I, I, trust me, I just ain't messed with it because we won't get finished with this today, but that thing is in my spirit. It. How you call it is how it would be. Glory to God. I'm gonna say it one more time. How you call it is how it's gonna be. Oh, shiata shibutalamandi. Y'all, yeah. Oh God, because some of y'all are paddling upstream. I'm going to chapter 3, but you're paddling upstream. I'm going to chapter 4. I'm Lord. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Y'all paddling upstream. Praise God. You're fighting against yourself with your words. See, you're not seeing the superimposition, or the glory is not superimposing itself, or the kingdom is not superimposing itself upon your life and your situation because so much negative comes out of your mouth. Keep that negative out of your— can I tell you Your miracle is right under your nose. I said I won't go touch it. It's right under your nose. How you call it is how it would be. You better start opening your mouth and speaking what God says, speaking what his word says, and stop paddling upstream. You got to go with the flow. See, the word— the word of God is already flowing toward your life. What makes the word flow is when you open your mouth and begin to build through preparation. Glory to God! What you want to experience— Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy. Okay, okay, chapter 4, chapter 4. You ready? Because you can't overlook this if you want glory. There could be no glory glory without prayer. The Bible says, chapter 4, verse 1, moreover he made an altar of brass, 20 cubits the length thereof, and 20 cubits the breadth thereof, and 10 cubits the height thereof. There could be no glory— hear me— without prayer. I'm gonna say it again, there could be no glory without prayer. Listen, you got to rebuild your altars. You got to be very deliberate to rise up early. Glory to God. In enough time that you could spend some quality time with God. Listen, if you're not experiencing glory, it's because you probably do not have a prayer life, or your prayer life is hit and miss. It's inconsistent. There's no continuity in your prayer life. You you pray when you're in trouble, or you, you pray religiously. But I'm telling you right now, you, you need to rise up early, spend at least an hour with God, then let that hour get bumped up to 2 hours, let that hour get bumped up to 3 hours, because at the end of the day, it has to become the most important part of your life. You got to build an altar. Glory to God. And in Lushaba, Rabbi, you got to build an altar of earth. You got to literally become the altar and lay down in the presence of God and spend some time with him. And yes, and God, when you call his name and put his name on that altar, according to Exodus, the Bible said he will visit you. He said, oh my God, when you call his name and record his name on the altar of earth, you're the altar of earth, he will visit. I don't have time to go there. But if you want to see glory, you need an altar. You're the altar, the altar of earth. You got to sacrifice yourself, your carnal— that's why I'm telling you, these people that— I'm— listen, I'm not— listen, I'm not against nobody, but I, I love the word of God. And even in my own frailty, hear me, and my own idiosyncratic ways that have emerged themselves into my life. And when I have made mistakes, can I tell you something? I've always found myself in a place of repentance. I've always found myself in a place of godly sorrow. Oh my God, trying to be restored in mind, behavior, action, in spirit, because I understand sin separates me from God. You can't tell me if you're living perpetually in sin And if you're out here trying to find a way to justify sin because your flesh on fire— oh my God, today, hush ya talabansi. And I'm not just talking about sex because some of you got big sexual sin problems, whether you are heterosexual, homosexual, lesbian, whatever you call yourself, whatever your pronouns are. Listen, if you're in sin— oh my God, y'all ain't got to— y'all ain't got to like me. Sin. And this is— so I know that you got your people out here with, with, with your crazy self. Oh God, have mercy. Gonna say I'm being mean? No, I'm not being mean. I'm telling the truth, and somebody's got to tell the truth. See, we got manufactured moves of God, and people are saying it's a move of God, but the vessels are not pure. I need you to help me understand. I'm, I'm willing to sit down with anybody on anybody podcast and talk to you about this. And, and maybe I'm— maybe if you can show me where I'm wrong, I'm gonna sit down with you. But I don't think you are because I believe the Bible. Because of your sin, you separated from God. But if— so if you're living in sin, which means if you're a married person and you got a chick on the side consistently that you're involved with, you are living in sin. You have not repented. It. Come on, even though you, you might have told God forgive you after you did it. Can I help somebody? You didn't repent. The word repent— let me help you, let me help you— is metanoia in Greek. Metanoia means to return to the top. Metanoia is a change of mind. A change of heart. Are you ready for the third part? And a change of behavior. So if you, you married, got a chick on the side, and you're, you're sleeping with this person consistently, going back home to your wife, you got a relationship with this person, you're living in sin. You cannot have glory separate from God. And you cannot tell me you have built an altar and God is visiting you at that altar because when he shows up, he's going to talk to you about your sin. He's going to breathe conviction. He's going to bring change. He's going to bring deliverance. Y'all don't like this kind of teaching, I know it, I know it. Don't scroll, stay with me. Somebody said you was talking good, Apostle. Yeah, yeah. So, so that can't work, or you can't be a man married to a man. Okay, so, so I'm not just talking about the gays. I talked about the heterosexuals first. Okay, so, so the— so you gays won't say I'm picking on you because I'm not. I'm talking about sin. Sin is sin, period, point blank, end of story. Y'all ain't got to like me. I don't care. I'm, I'm rich, I'm wealthy, God has blessed me. I don't have to come to none of your dead assemblies You're at big conferences to preach. I ain't got to come there. I experience the glory in my little church. I experience the glory in my studios. Notice I said studios. I'm blessed because I've tapped into purity. Ain't always been here, but I'm here. Glory to God. I need you to catch up. Oh, Shia, so we can get a move of God. So you can't be a man married to a man Hear me. And, and you call yourself a pastor, and you say you over there in your church speaking in tongues, bucking and shouting, going through the motions, and saying you got a move of God. You're deceiving the people, and you deceive yourself, because what you're experiencing is not a move of God, period. Let me go deeper. You can't be a woman married to a woman or sleeping with a woman, or a man sleeping with a man, or, oh my God, a single man or single woman sleeping with another single man or single woman. Listen, no matter where you find yourself in your sexuality, or sin, period— sin, hormisia in Greek, coming short, missing the mark— it separates You cannot experience glory. This is why you need an altar, so you can keep your— oh my God— your body in check. Listen, I, I'm the first person to tell you, I used to be a big hoe. Oh my God, thank God for deliverance. I used to be a hoe because I, I was struggling— glory to the name of God— with things that happened to me. Glory to the name of God. And I never been touched by a man, none of that. Glory to God, I had issue coming up where a grown woman, glory to God, had intercourse with me. But that's a whole nother story for another day. God delivered me, but I was struggling, so it spilled over. But I got delivered, man. And I was a ho. I was in the church, I was preaching, but a ho. So I'm not talking about you. I've been there, done that, got the t-shirt. But I'm delivered. I'm— and I got an altar. I build my altar every day. I'm continuing to build encounters in the glory through purity. Somebody say, well, grace is sufficient. It is. If you sin, you have an advocate with the Father. I believe the Bible, but that's a, that's an if. So that means every day you should wake up trying to do right, and if in the midst of doing right you sin, you have an advocate. But there's no justification for willful sin. Okay, that's another message for another day. All right, so I thought y'all wanted the glory. Okay, I thought y'all wanted glory. You can't have glory living in sin. I know you say you moving in the glory, ah, ah, but, but the glory operates in purity. Oh my God, it operates from a pure place, and you have to be purified to flow in glory. I'm so glad I can sit here and honestly announce to the world and ain't got to not post pictures of my wife and because I'm trying to make, make sure nobody else I'm with, I don't feel bad because they see how much I love her. Listen, I love my wife and I'm so glad she's the only woman on the planet that I have intercourse with. Y'all ain't got to say nothing to me now. Listen, I'm telling you right now, again, I ain't always had that testimony. I have messed up in my life. But I am so grateful that I'm holy. And I'm telling you, if I can do it, you can. Chapter 5, let me get out of here. Chapter 5, verse 12. Wait a minute, chapter 5, verse 1. Let's start it up. So Solomon, watch this, he built an altar. He furnished the temple in chapter 4 with an altar and things that will give homage and worship to God. So let's, let's recap. So in order to get glory, number one, in chapter 1, I have to have wisdom and knowledge. I gotta have God strengthen me. I gotta have him magnify me exceedingly. We've talked about that. Number two, I gotta prepare to build the house. Number three, then I build the house, and then I furnish it with the altar. Here's the problem we have in today's time. We have people who are— oh boy— furnishing the house before they build it. Oh boy, they're trying to operate in the gifts, they're trying to tap into popularity, they're trying to be the greatest thing since sliced bread. They're promoting themselves, they love themselves more than God, and they ain't built nothing. Powerless bubblegum church. Yeah, I said it. Oh my God, the kingdom is in demonstration and power. Yeah. Uba shikalaba haya. Uba shikalaba haya. Okay, so 2 Chronicles chapter 5. Let me go, let me go. I got to get out of here, guys. The Bible said, thus all the work that Solomon made for the house of the Lord was finished, and Solomon brought in all things that David his father had dedicated. And the silver and the gold and the instruments, and he put the treasures in the house of God. Treasures, atzwar. I like this. Watch this. Treasures, uh, this literally means he created a place of supply, a treasure house, a treasury. Oh my God, a magazine of weapons. So It's suggested that when, after the preparation, after the wisdom and knowledge, after the building, after the altar and the work on the house was finished, now watch this. Order is here. The means to survive through the house— watch this— is in the house. See, when you build an altar and God provides, this is an indicator that through glory and glorious living and pure living, you can actually survive and live through it and live well. Because there was silver, gold, instrument. And I ain't talking about just the preacher, but I'm talking about building a house of glory in your own house where you never lack nothing. Okay, let's move, let's move. Let's drop down to verse 14. I ain't got time. I mean 12. So if we want to get glory, the Bible said all of the Levites— hey God, all of the Levites, they were— oh my God, Levi or Levite, which means joined to God. The name Levi means those who are joined to God. So this now, verse 12 starts introducing the culture of glory. So if you want glory in your life— and when I say glory, don't think I'm just— because y'all, if you've been watching these teachings, you know I'm not just talking about what happens in church. I'm talking about the influence, the intelligence, the authority, the wealth, the illumination. Are y'all hearing me? The mindset of God operating in your life, the splendor of God with you everywhere you go. If you want to see glory, you got to create a culture where you are joined to those who are joined to God. I ain't say they were joined to the church with the most popular preacher, cuz I'm gonna tell you something right now, just because the preacher are popular don't mean the glory is in his church or his meeting. I'm gonna tell you right now, probably in 90% of popular preachers, there is no glory. Oh, y'all ain't got to like me. I'm sorry, I told you I don't care. I told you, I really— I'm an apostle for real. My job is to measure, and part of that measurement means calling a spade a spade. I told y'all when I turned 55, I was going back 20 years because when I first Oh my God, start walking in this apostolic anointing. I didn't, I didn't hold back nothing. I was my, my, I was sharp. Somewhere I got soft, glory to God. But let me tell you something, I'm back, glory to God. I don't need— I'm telling you, I don't need to preach for you. I don't, because at the end of the day, I, I, I'm going to tell the truth. But if you understand what you need, you would invite me. But you don't have to because I, I'm— I got a plan, glory to the name of God, just to come to your regions and help you anyway. Glory to God. And how apostolic meetings that we need to have to bring the body where it needs to be. Listen, anyway, you need to be around people, churches, entities that are joined to God. Every singer, because they're popular and can sing, doesn't mean they're joined to God. They just got a gift. And you know what? God will use you and refuse you. We got so many people in this hour that are so caught up in gifts, so caught up in how well someone preaches, how well someone sing it. Oh my God. And they ain't living nothing. It's a problem. It's a problem, and it's from the devil. Oh my God. I'm telling you, there's going to be a whole lot of people that stand before God according to Jesus in that day that will say, Lord, Lord, Lord, did not I cast out devils in your name? Did not I heal the sick? Did not I raise the dead? Did not I sing and worship and entertain very well? The Lord's going to say, depart from me, I never knew you. See, I, I just like to know what the people who are choosing to live in sin are doing with scriptures like that, with your grace card playing self. People play the grace card like it's a spade in a spade game. And every time they do something, they try to cut it, but you renigging, shout it. Glory to the name of God, because there's some other cards in your hand you need to play. One of them is called holiness. Oh my God, I got to go, I gotta go, I gotta go, I gotta go, because I feel like flying. Glory to— yes God, today Again, thank God for grace, but it ain't just a card we play when we got other cards in our hand because we want— because again, let me just give you an example. I'm a spade player, and listen, when I play spades, my son Michael Jr. is my main partner, and we loud, we slap the cards, we do all that, right? And it's hard to beat us. Yeah, any spade players out there want to get this smoke, you can't. But anyway, you can't— if it's 3 hearts on the table and you got a heart, you can't just choose to throw out a spade and think you're gonna win the book. You're not, because you have reneged. Because you have to play what has been played if you have it. Can I tell you something? God has spread on the table holiness, and y'all are playing the grace card, trying to live in sin. Ah, I got to go. God have mercy. You need to be in a culture of people that's joined to God. Watch this. Of Asaph. Asaph's name means to collect or assemble. See, y'all like gatherings. Oh, but God is telling me to tell you, if you want to operate in a dimension of glory that you've never seen and have encounters you've never had, you must embrace assembly. Listen, I am so excited that we're getting ready to secure a new worship facility, and I'm so excited that there's nothing about our church that says we gather. It's assembly. There's a difference. Let me tell you what it is. I bought my son Michael Jr. Michael will be 28 in— glory to the name of God— uh, September, he'll be 28 years old. But years ago, I bought him his first bike, and on the outside of the box it said assembly is required. Okay, now I could have took the box from the store, right, and took it to a person who is skilled at putting bikes together and let them do it. But I decided I was going to assemble the bike myself. So what I did was I got the bike home, I opened the box, turned the box upside down, dumped the pieces out on the floor, and guess what? All of the pieces were gathered there. I looked at it and bam, the Holy Ghost said, now what can you do with that? It's just gathered. And the Holy Spirit said, this is why assembly is required. And that's what the church looks like. He said, son, the church is just gathered. You got pieces just laying around, no accountability, no purpose, no structure, because no one has assembled them. Oh my God. Assembly happens when you get out your wrench, get out your screwdriver, and start putting those pieces together. Here's what I learned as I begin to put that bike together. Father, I thank you. Woo-wee! As I begin to put that bike together, glory to God, every part that was gathered there now had significance and now had purpose. Because now that the tires are on the frame, their purpose is alive and they can roll and move the bike. Now that the handlebars are in place, they can offer direction. The seat is in place. Now my son can get on the bike and sit down and ride. The chain becomes the apparatus that controls the whole movement of this unit called the bike. But everything had to be assembled. See, leaders have to be able to look at the people connected to them who have been assembled, pull them together, and help them discover why they are not just at the church, but why they're on earth, so that their life can move. See, if you want to see glory, you need assembly and not just gatherings, not just these big meetings where you just gather and Then after you leave, your life still is gathered. Oh my God, oh my God. Listen, I've been to so many conferences in my life. I'm— I am so over it because not only do people not get assembled, most of these conference, nobody never gets saved. Okay, that's a whole— oh, that's a whole nother message for another day. And they don't get saved because people have not been assembled. So they have not been mobilized to go into the world to bring the people that ain't saved to the meet so they can get saved. Okay, another message, another day. So of Asaph, of He-Man— oh my God, He-Man, I used to watch that cartoon when I was little— but He-Man's name, oh my God, means faithfulness. So if you want to see glory, you got to be faithful, you got to be loyal, you got to be committed. It. You got to have accountability to God— watch this— and leadership. It— oh boy, I'm gonna say it, I'm gonna say it, I'm gonna say it. I said in the earlier message, you cannot expect honor without humility. A lot of people want to be honored, but they don't know how to humble themselves. And in order to be accountable, you got to have humility. You got to humble yourself under the hand of God first. And then if you're under the hand of God, it becomes easy for you to be accountable to the leader that God has placed in your life to lead you. Oh boy, oh boy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got to be faithful. You got to be faithful even when you don't feel like it. You got to be committed. You got to be bought in even when it seems hard, even when it requires a sacrifice that's bigger than what you may personally think you could do. You need to be faithful because you know that's where God put you. All right, so of Levi, of Asaph, of Heman, or Jeduthun— oh my God, watch this— Jeduthun means the sacrifice of praise. It's where we get Judah from. He's out of the tribe of Judah. The reality is your worship has to be sacrificial. It cannot be convenient. I'm gonna say it again: your worship and your praise must be sacrificial and not convenient. I'm almost through. You got to praise him when you don't feel like it. You got to worship him when things are not going the way you think they ought to go. He's worthy regardless to what it looks like in your life. You want to see glory? Watch this. With their sons and their brethren being arrayed in white linen. Now notice that the worshipers, the priests, they had their sons with them and their brothers. Notice how men are in place. I want to say this right here really quickly. It's important that men Lord, I got to go. Learn to be men and that men take their rightful place, especially in the worship experience. Most of the time you go to church and it's top-heavy with women because the ego of men becomes very hard to break and surrender one, to male leadership, and definitely to God. But I want to challenge every man under the sound of my voice. Glory to God. Watch this. Be arrayed in white linen. That's purity, see? And that becomes part of the reason. Get yourself clean and pure. Hallelujah. And become a worshiper. Listen, there is no way the women should should out-pray us, out-worship us, but they do it because they have broken— they have been broken before God. Listen, I'm gonna tell you, I ain't letting no woman out-pray or worship me. I, I'm, I'm sorry. I'm, I'm gonna do my part and be a leader. I'm, I'm gonna take my place, man. I'm asking you, do it. You'd be surprised what will happen with your children, your family, your finance, This is when you become a worshiper, when you operate in purity. Listen, let— listen, if you're married and you got a wife, let that chick on the side go. Or that man on the side, if you're on the download, please let him go. Do you realize— because let me tell you the same thing to you, brother— do you realize that 70% of all new AIDS cases are among heterosexual African American women. So these are women who say they only sleep with men. They are the ones that are getting AIDS more than anyone else. Why do you think that is? It's because these down-low brothers who are husbands and boyfriends are bringing this crap to our women. The devil The devil is a liar. I don't care how many— you know what? And the devil done made it easy for you to be stupid. Listen, all these commercials where you could take this pill and not pass AIDS to someone else, that's still no excuse for living, hallelujah, that way and cheating on your wife and endangering her. Oh my, these are our mothers, our sisters. Come on, let's operate in purity, man. I got to get out of here, man. I got to get out of here. The Bible says they stood the east end of the altar, and with them 120 priests sounded with trumpets. So the men, the leadership, are worshiping and releasing a sound. Hallelujah! I could see this, man. I'm telling you, God is looking for men that'll make a sound with their life. And guess what happened? And it came to pass as the trumpeters and singers were as one to make one sound, to be heard in praising and thanking the Lord. 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— so when you celebrate the goodness of God, the exchange— when you celebrate the goodness of God in unity, let me make sure I say that— the exchange is glory. See, that's what we assemble for. To celebrate his goodness and unity. We show up in the world and we should show up making one sound. When we're in the world, we should be saying the same thing. We shouldn't have biased opinions about something that's a truth. God is God and there's no God like him. I'm done, man. I'm done. The Bible said when they did this and they declared it was good, and his mercy is eternal. You know what mercy is? Mercy is not what you think. It's, uh, sheesh, C-H-E-C-E-D, sheesh is how it's pronounced. This word means his kindness, his faithfulness to us. Watch this, his justice to us. See, we've taken diversity, justice, and inclusion and equity to a different dimension. We have approached it from the flesh, but I need you to understand, God wants to bless all humans, and he wants to share his equity with all humans. He wants to include us in his nature. Are y'all hearing this? Not we doing what we want to do and then we just get included in his plan. That's not how it works. That's never how it has worked. Inclusion deals with the idea that I'm included in God's nature. That's mercy. I'm included in his nature because— watch this— I've met the qualifications, not because I'm just here. No, no, no, no, no, no. Impurity without real grace that comes from real repentance is exempt from being included in the nature, because his divine nature is for those that have been translated from darkness into his marvelous light. I got to go, man. The Bible says when we were in this space, in this place, when they were one sound to be heard and praising— listen, I want you to be heard. Be heard not just in the church, but be heard in the world. Be heard. Glory to God. So people— this is the glory dimension of clouds— so people can know who God is through you on your job, in your business, Oh my God, you be heard. Let your life be a praise unto God. I ain't talking about you go to work, thank you Jesus. No, that's not what I'm saying. I'm saying let it show up in your work. Let it show up in your actions. Let it show up in your integrity. Let it show up in your kind deeds toward other people. Oh God, he said that the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the Lord. Again, anan, a cloud mass. an actual theophanic cloud that is designed to house the glory of God. This type cloud first shows up in Genesis chapter 9. The glory of God is in this cloud. The rainbow comes out of this cloud, which says to us that there is a covenant between God and man. That rainbow has nothing to do with pride and what they are making. They say— tried to take the rainbow, but they can't have it. Y'all ain't got to say nothing. They can't have it. It's, it's our sign, glory to God, that we have covenant with God. Oh boy, the Bible said this cloud was so massive, it was so thick that the priest could not stand to minister. Oh boy, this is powerful. Ahmaad, they couldn't stand, they couldn't remain on their feet, they couldn't serve in their capacity. This cloud came in with such thick mass, it came in and it pressed them down to the floor, so much so they couldn't get up. It was a weight on them. That was the glory of the Lord inside of the cloud, and they had to abide there until it lifted. I, I could go somewhere with that, but I'm not. For the glory of the Lord had filled the house. Malé in Hebrew, which means the oxygen, male, the life source, male, male in Hebrew, the life source was no longer oxygen, the molecules and atoms in the air. The male, the life source, now was glory. They began to breathe glory and exhale glory. Because that's an eternal value. Every time you walk into the glory, you experience eternity. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for the glory dimension of clouds. Father, I pray now that we will come under the authority of Levi, the Levi, and that we will Oh my God, be joined to those that are joined to you. We will come under the authority, glory to God, of Asaph, that we won't just gather, but we will find ourselves in places where we can assemble and our purpose can be realized and we can operate how you created us to operate. Father, we come under the authority, glory to God, of He-Man, of faithfulness, accountability, and honor. So we'll humble ourselves so we can be accountable. And Father, we come under the authority of Jethro, the sacrifice of praise. We decree and declare that we will sacrifice praise to your name. Hallelujah. And worship God. And Father, we thank you that as we make one sound and praising and thanking the Lord wherever we go and whatever we do in the house of God and out of the house of God, that our Our life will be filled with a cloud and the glory of God will be our life source. And we will live through you. It will be in you we live and move and have our being. You will literally, for real, be the strength of our life. You will for real be Jehovah Jireh, our provider. In Jesus' name, amen, and thanks be to God. Hallelujah! Glory to God! I love you guys, man. Y'all are— y'all are so wonderful. You're such, such, such, such good people. Thank you for remaining with us. Listen, very quickly, don't leave. I want to invite you to give, okay? I need you to sow into ministry. We're trying to meet our goal debt-free for this new facility. We're supposed to sit down at the table and sign on August 19th. We need to be able to do everything without debt, and we need your help and your assistance to do it. So get your seed, glory to the name of God, and let's get it in the ground. The ways to give are on the screen, glory to Jesus. Listen, I want you to make a sacrifice. Father, bless your your people as they make sacrifices today. I pray that you will give that gift back to them a thousand times more. In Jesus' name, I declare it is so. It is so. Remember, how you call it is how it will be. So you reap what you sow. Hallelujah. It's, it's a reciprocity based on the seed. It's measured. You can't sow apples and get orange oranges. So what do you want back? Get it in the ground and let's watch God do something great in your life. Just a few announcements. We got a few things coming up I want to share with you really, really quickly. Glory to God. First of all, August 12th through the 22nd, God has instructed me to take you on a journey of 10 days of supernatural provision. Vision. What does that mean? Every day starting tomorrow, uh, this message is going to stream every evening about 8 o'clock, and so you can watch it, get— digest that word. Amen. So that you can get this in your spirit. This is why you need it. We're moving into a season and an hour— hear me— where it's going to be important that you know where you stand with God and you have the principles necessary to operate in supernatural provision. You're not gonna be able to trust the White House. You won't be able to trust your mayor, your governor, democracy. You're gonna have to be in line with the things of God, and the Word is gonna have to be the thing you stand on. So I'm believing God for miracles after these 10 days. And during these 10 days, I want you to tap in with us. The first 3 days of the 10 days were fasting. So starting tonight at midnight, or 11:59, right before midnight tonight, listen, we are starting a fast. We're gonna fast through Wednesday. Listen, if you want the details of the fast, please click the link in this description somewhere, glory to God, and download the fast guide. Glory to Jesus. Watch the video there, download the fast guide, and join us for 3 days of fasting and prayer. I'll be back here in the morning at 5 AM for 5 AM prayer. Listen, I'm looking for God to meet us, and we're going to get a breakthrough with everything we need through this fast and through these 10 days of supernatural provision. Listen, guys, I love you, man. Y'all so good, y'all are great, and you're amazing. Listen, I'm telling you, God has a lot of awesome things in store for you. And if I were you, I wouldn't miss it for the world. So listen, I, I love you. Heaven smile upon you is my prayer. Y'all be blessed today. Peace.