The Kingdom Experience | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr. | The Apostle's Table (Replay)

Welcome to the Apostle's Table, where lions roar and lives are changed. The Apostle's Table is a part of the worldwide outreach ministry of Dr. Mike Wood Sr. You will encounter supernatural wisdom and revelation that will help you discern God's purpose for your life, develop your potential, and deploy your gifts effectively into the earth. We decree your life will never be the same again. Thanks for joining us and And welcome to the Apostle's Table. Well, grace and peace be multiplied to all of you. This is Apostle Mike Woods, for those of you who are uninitiated, and welcome to tonight's edition of the Apostle's Table. So I want to invite each of you to come in, gather your family around, glory to God, get your pencil, get your paper out. Tonight is going to be phenomenal. Listen, I am continuing our series on the Kingdom Experience. You know, The Kingdom is meant to be experienced. I'll say it again. The Kingdom is meant to not just be talked about, but the Kingdom, it's meant to be experienced. So I am super grateful tonight to be able to speak to you regarding the Kingdom of the Living God. It's going to be phenomenal. So stay with me. It's going to be a blessing. So please like, comment, and share. I need you to hit that like button below and share this video. Tonight we're talking about part 2 of the series, The Kingdom Experience, and we're going to be discussing kingdom faith. Faith is the culture and literally the currency of the kingdom of God. You cannot believe in an invisible kingdom without faith. And so we're going to talk about kingdom faith and what that means and what that looks like. And I promise you, you're going to be blessed tonight. And you know, I wept so much in service on Sunday, just all the time, just overflowing joy and appreciation that God would allow someone like me who has needed so much grace and mercy in his life to experience his presence in such a tangible and real way. And if you're listening to me, listen, I'm gonna tell you something. No matter what you've done, no matter what mistakes you may have made, listen, somebody needs to hear this. You need to recognize that God loves you and his grace is sufficient for you and He will always, ha, my God, make room. For you. So just open your heart, receive him, and repent, and let God take full control of your life and your situation. So let's pray, and then we're gonna get into this word, right? So let's pray. Father, we give you praise. We thank you for the opportunity to teach, to preach, and to share the word of the Lord with your people. So I ask you, God, tonight that you would move by your power And that your glory will be revealed, and that the people that listen tonight will never be the same again. And we praise you for it. In Jesus' name, amen. And thanks be to God. So we're grateful, yes. And we gonna jump into this. It's going to be phenomenal. Glory to God. So tonight again, we're continuing our series, praise God, on Kingdom experience. The Kingdom experience. Again, and I'll reiterate this probably 100 times throughout this series because it's so important to remember, the Kingdom needs to be experienced, not just talked about, not to be a cliché-ish thing that we discuss, read about because it sounds good. But the invisible Kingdom of God needs to be experienced. And I want to tell you something. Matter of fact, let's go to that. I want to show you really quickly that this kingdom that we discussed, the basileia in Greek, which is the impact, the influence, the authority, the rule of the king, the king's dome, the king's dominion, the king's domain, right? So when we start talking about the kingdom, we're talking about the domain, the dominion of God and all that it implies as it relates to the king. So, watch this, that same kingdom, when we receive the King into our life, and receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit, watch this, that same kingdom is given to us. And we talked about this on Sunday, how God takes pleasure, yeah, in giving us the kingdom. If you didn't watch part 1, make sure you go to YouTube and watch part 1, or you make sure you tune in on Saturday to our program program at 10 PM on YLC-TV because we're going to replay Sunday, actually, that message, because we want to make sure you get the foundation of this teaching, right? So here we go. Let's, let's look at this. I want to show you just a characteristic of the kingdom, and then we're going to get into this tonight. Tonight we're going to talk about kingdom faith, because again, this kingdom, this invisible kingdom You have to have faith and you have to have Kingdom faith to actually believe in it and see it work and operate in your life. See, most people do not experience it because they don't have the faith, the Kingdom faith, the right kind of faith to actually experience it. So let's look at this really quick because, again, I want to give you a characteristic off the top here about the Kingdom. The first thing I want to tell you is that the kingdom of God is unshakable. Hallelujah! It's unshakable. Matter of fact, type that in the comments: the kingdom of God is unshakable. While other kingdoms will perish, the kingdom of the living God is indeed unshakable. Let's go to Hebrews 12:28, right? And I'm reading out of the New International Version, Hebrews 12:28. And again, this is a characteristic of the kingdom that I want you to remember, because when you come up against a choice where you gotta choose the kingdom of the world, or a kingdom in the world, or a system of operation in the world's way of doing things versus the kingdom of God, I want you to always lean toward choosing God's kingdom, Because according to scripture, the kingdom of God is unshakable. Watch this again. Hebrews 12:28, the Bible says, therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, he says, let us be thankful and so worship God with reverence and with awe. So again, when you come up against a choice whereby you have to make a choice between the systems of the world or the way the world operates and does things, you gotta understand that the kingdom of the living God is unshakable. It cannot be moved. It's eternal. Why? Because again, the root of that word kingdom, basileia in Greek, suggests that it's the authority and influence of the king. And of course, God is the King of all things. So, I wanted to start here and give you a characteristic of the Kingdom of God, right? So, it cannot be shaken. And this is what we have literally received. Again, and this is why we're talking about in this series, the Kingdom must be experienced. Uh, it cannot just be talked about, preached about, taught about, and we go through a religious process in approaching it. It. And watch this, it's not just something we experience when we die. The reality is the Kingdom of God is unshakable and it wants to superimpose itself upon you in the here and in the now. So you gotta recognize that you have a choice. And I wanna show you tonight how we tap in one of the keys, right? So tonight we're talking about Kingdom Faith. Kingdom faith. Kingdom faith. All right, I want you to hear me. So the first thing I need you to understand is that your faith has to always stand trial, right? Your faith has to always stand trial. And the Bible says the trying or the testing of your faith, it works— literally works patience. The trying of your faith works patience. Matter of fact, let's go to it. I don't want you to think I'm making this up. Glory to God. The trying of your faith worketh patience. Uh, let's go to the scripture. Let's pull it up. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. Y'all stay with me, we're gonna get through this tonight. Trying of your faith. So James 1:3, let's go there. It says, knowing this. So let's start with that word knowing, uh, gnōskō in Greek. Good. Knowing this. Again, we're at James 1:3. Type it on the screen in the comments. It says, knowing this. So that word knowing is gnōskō po in Greek, and it is knowledge that is gained by a process, through relationship, by experience. Okay, hear me, hear me, hear me. So in other words, what we're— what James is about to say, this is something you learn through experience, through process. Oh my God, through testing. Listen, he says, knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. Hypomone, which is patience there, uh, fastness, endurance. It teaches you how to stand still and see the salvation of God. Every time you overcome a test, whenever a new test comes, you have the strength and the durability to face it in faith, knowing that no matter what it looks like, I'm gonna get through this because I've gotten through things far worse before, right? So when your faith is tried, and every time you pass a test Come on, you have, you have a heart and a desire to keep moving and pass the test even more. Lord, I love it. Okay, so the trying of your faith worketh patience. So what are you saying, Mike? I'm saying you should never— listen to me— trust anyone. Listen to me. Who? Oh my God, never trust anyone who has not been tested. Whew! Because if their faith and if their life has not endured testing and you enter into covenant or relationship or marriage with them, you know, no matter what the level of the relationship, and you begin to trust them and they never walked by faith, they never trusted and endured cured anything with, and they don't have a story or testimony where they can actually say, I know God did this, you need to— oh my God, you need to make sure, listen to me, that you do not— hear me— that you do not trust them. Because the moment your faith is tried and you got wherewithal to stand through and trust God, they're gonna panic, they're gonna doubt, and they're gonna put toxins in your spirit that keep you from trusting and moving forward in the things of the Lord. So you got to make up in your mind that you're gonna trust God by faith, and you're gonna only connect in covenant with those. You can't build long-lasting relationships with people who never been tested. Come on, you— because at the end of the day, they have no, uh, point of reference or track record or history with God that says, if I come up against something that's impossible for my intellectual capacity or my physical capacity. God is able to handle it. They have no ability to stand through that. And so you need people around you who— we— that can stand with you through every single part, every single era in your life. Lord, help us. God, help us. So never trust Anyone who has not been tested, and I'm telling you, testing is not a bad thing. Trials are not a bad thing. Going through tribulation is not a bad thing. You know, some people have said, oh, you don't have no faith if you're going through. The devil is a liar because I can show you my faith by what I have survived, not by what I have avoided. Oh my God, because I can show you history of places in my life where God actually showed up because I trusted him. Yeah, by faith. So it takes now a kingdom-type faith for God to trust us with the measure of the kingdom. Every man is given a measure of faith, and we grow from faith to faith. Kingdom faith is an uncommon faith that gives us the ability to trust God— watch this— for our earthly authority. And I want to give you a few principles because our destiny overall as human beings, the entire value of our human capital, is wrapped up in land, territory. See, you cannot have a kingdom without land. Anybody proclaiming to be a king without property, you have to question their throne. Okay? So, this is why God is the King of all kings because of the stuff he owns. The Bible said, "The earth is the Lord's, the fullness thereof, them and they that dwell therein." Now watch this. In the beginning, God turned over the earthly realm to man. All right? He gave the authority to man. Matter of fact, let me give you 5 principles surrounding our earthly authority. Touch yourself and say, "I have authority on earth." Come on, say it again. Say, "I have authority on earth." Ah! So, the first thing, number 1, 5 principles. I'm gonna give you real quick, and then we're gonna jump into this kingdom faith thing because you got to believe this. The first thing God gave man was territory. Oh, he did not give him religion. He did not give him a church. He didn't give him rules to follow. He gave him land. Oh boy, before man could be the king that God created him to be, he had to have a territory to rule over. So he gave us the earth. Watch this. The Bible said, "Let them have dominion." Whew! So that's the first thing he gave. Number 2, watch this. The earth was created to give man legitimacy as a king. Watch this. The scripture says that he is the King of Kings. So if he's the King of Kings, watch this, guys. Oh my God, watch this. Whose are the kings? It's us. Revelation 1:6 says, 1 and 3, I'm sorry, says he has made us kings and priests unto the Lord Jesus Christ. So we're, he puts us in a kingly royal position. Oh God. He put us in a kingly royal position. I need you to hear me. That, oh, we could have control and authority and we can be legitimate. So he gave us the earth according to Genesis so that our kingship would be legal. Listen, he made Adam a king, he made Eve a queen that was equal to Adam in every way. And listen, the rulership of the earth belongs to both men Watch this, and women. So there's no sexism here. Eve was an extension of Adam. She was his helpmate. She wasn't created from a vertebrae in his back. She was created from a prime rib closest to his heart on his side. She came out of the side. So that was her position, to be side by side, equal with him in rulership. Oh, come on, church. So the dominion of the earth, number 3, is mankind's legal right, power, and authority of rulership. So when God said, "Let them have dominion," he transferred the legal rights of earth to us. I dare you, touch yourself right where you are right now and say, "I'm supposed to be in charge." That's why I'm constantly at advocating, uh, that you should be a deployee versus an employee. You should be pursuing business. You should be pursuing your dreams. You should be pursuing your ideas because you were created to rule. You were created to be a paymaster. You created to be in charge. Oh, touch yourself and say, I was created to be in charge. And that's a real deal. You were created to be in charge. Oh boy, this is so— the reality is when he says let us have dominion, he, he, he, he gave it to us. He didn't say let us like he said let us make man. He included no divinity in that. He gave it to mankind. He didn't say let us have dominion. He said let them have dominion. That's what's in the text, all right? He says, "I'mma rule heaven and let them rule earth, my children, my family." Because you gotta understand that the original creation of the earth, it never was intended to be separate from heaven. Earth actually was created to be a colony of heaven. Oh my God, an extension of the kingdom of God. the things that happen in Heaven, that's— oh, that's a whole nother teaching we're going to talk about down the line. But at the end of the day, you got to realize God needed kings, and he needed a governor, which is the Spirit of God. That's another teaching too, to make sure that the culture of Heaven is communicated in the Earth. So, we've gone so far away from being an extension of what happens in Heaven because, watch this, most people are so untouched with the realm of the Spirit, they're out of God touch. They never tapped into another dimension. They never lived beyond the earth realm. They never seen beyond the clouds and went through portals and experienced the glory of God in a very real way where they understand that there is a real kingdom beyond this world. That, watch this, wah, that is God's will to rule the scene seen world from the unseen world. I'll say that again. It's his will and his desire to rule the seen world from the unseen world. How does he do that? He uses you and I as we take our kingly authority to take up rulership and leadership on earth. We should be in control. I'm talking too long on that. Number 4, Number 4, I'm just giving you 5 principles about our earthly authority because you gotta grasp it. This is why we need the faith so we can move into, oh my God, uncommon leadership, kingdom authority. Number 4, he said, "Let them." Again, these are the key words in the text that really transfer the authority from God to man. He said, "Let them." He, bam, when he said that, he transferred authority he had over Earth as Creator to mankind. He said, let them— God delegated this authority to us. Watch this, because he wants us and the citizens of this planet to experience his rulership. Oh boy. So man's kingship, number 5 then, is by privilege, not by creative right. God controls the domain because he created you and I to work with him. He rules it by creative rights. We rule because of privilege. God said, let them— now we have the privilege, we have the honor to rule by privilege. Privilege. Again, number 5, man's kingship is by privilege. God's authority is because he has creative rights, so he has the authority to delegate to us rulership. Oh boy. So here's the point: God gave us rulership, not ownership. He still The earth is the Lord's, but he passed on, delegated the authority to rule to you and I. Y'all get it? That's where we are. That's what's happening, okay? So we gotta have an unorthodox kingdom bulldog type tenacious faith that causes us to move into our authority, that causes us to take our rightful place watch this, and access the resources of heaven that's available to us so we can do it. Okay, so let's look at this faith, man. Ah, God, let's look at this faith. I wish y'all, I wish y'all go with me. Just, just go with me a moment, please, would you? Would you? So let's look at this kingdom faith. All right, so we understand then that if we're going to move, make a transition into this Kingdom authority that has been passed down to us, it's going to be extremely important, ladies and gentlemen, that we develop uncommon Kingdom faith. So what I want to do really quick today is give you 5 amazing steps that's going to give you the Kingdom faith needed so that you can move into your kingdom authority. So I'm giving you 5 steps to developing kingdom uncommon faith, uncommon kingdom faith, 5 steps to developing uncommon kingdom faith. So let's start. So we gotta take some very unorthodox moves, unorthodox steps, because we got to go against the grain of a lot of things that believe before. So let's start. First of all, step 1, let's go to Hebrews 12, verses 1 and 2. Let's go there. Hebrews 12, verses 1 and 2. Stay with me, stay with me. The Bible says, wherefore, seeing we also are compassed about with so great cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, who is for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God. Throne is a kingdom word. Watch this. So So here's the reality. If step one, if we're going to develop uncommon faith, we must receive Jesus Christ as our righteous example and the developer of our faith. You got to do that. You cannot try to develop this from another model. You got to receive him as the example and developer of your faith. I'm going to say it again. You got to receive him as the developer and example of your faith. The Bible said he endured the cross by faith, believing that he was going to get up. Watch this. He, at the end of the day, knew that there was a throne waiting on him after death. So you got to be willing to go the distance and let God develop your faith, the Lord Jesus Christ, until you finish the task. And watch this, cross all the way over into your kingdom authority. But you got to let him do it. So how do we do that? So you got to first receive, to accept that as fact. You can't do it on your own. You need somebody who has mastered kingdom faith, and Jesus did it. He came came to the earth, fulfilled his kingdom assignment, moved in the greatest level of authority ever displayed in history, went to a bloody cross, died. Come on. And was rolled— and went to a cross, died, and was resurrected again. For real. And now he sits at the— on the right hand of the throne of God. He is in his rightful place. It took kingdom faith to do that. So we got to study him. We got to have relationship with him so he can help us develop our faith. So that's step 1, receive Jesus as the developer of your faith. And that was Hebrews 12:2. Step number 2, how do we develop this uncommon kingdom faith? I'm glad you asked. Uh, let's go to Proverbs 4:20-22. Watch this, Proverbs 4. Here we go, uh, Proverbs 4. Stay with me, y'all, stay with me. Don't scroll. Please share, please share, please share. Somebody needs this. We got too many religious people who are not walking in their kingdom assignment. We got too many people who are not living out the plan of God in their life because they do not have the faith to— watch this— ascertain or move into or make the transition. They trust in only what religion has disseminated to them, which is a dangerous place, man. I'm telling— when I tell you it's dangerous, it's dangerous. Because religion never empowers you to something greater. It always keeps you bondage. It always keeps you searching. Religion always keeps you asking questions. Because you never experienced the reality. And the only way to experience the reality is to operate in the realm of the Kingdom, is to live life from a Kingdom vantage point. Oh boy, I'm teaching better than y'all saying amen. Proverbs 4, let's look at verse number 20. Here we go. My son, attend to my words. Incline your ear to my sayings. Let them not depart from your eyes. Keep them in the midst of your heart, for they are life to those that find them and health to all their flesh. So what is number 2, Michael Woods? I'm glad you asked. Glory to God. You see it right there in the verse. You see it. You see it. You see it. Okay. So, boy, here's what we know. Here's what we know. Here's what we know. Glory be to God. Are y'all with me? My God, today. You gotta give the Word. Here's number 2 to developing uncommon kingdom faith according to Proverbs 4:20-22. You gotta give the Word first place in your life. Are you hearing? What I'm saying. I'm gonna say it again: you got to give the word first place in your life. Oh my God, you got to give the word first place in your life, which means you have to learn to trust the word of God. The word of God is the kingdom constitution. So the word of God ought to be your final resolve on any situation, on any move forward, on any decision. The word ought to be the substratum and foundation whereby you make the decision. But if you get in the habit of making decisions about things in life based on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, based on your favorite philosopher or professor. Listen, our final authority for living life is the Word of God, period. Listen, your life can depend on what you do in faith and trusting the Word of God. Watch this. The Constitution of the United States of America sets the law forth for the nation. There have been a lot of amendments since that initial law was written, because again, it was built on the— oh my gosh— standards of the Bible. But now it is shifted from the standards of the Bible to the styles of Paris and the standards of Hollywood. And America has just created its own set of rules and creating things that are totally outside of the Constitution. Listen, if it's not constitutional according to the Word. It has to be first place. You can't have 5 wives because the Word says you can't. Come on, man. It is just not plausible for you to do because the Word of God says you can't. Lord, help me, Jesus. Are y'all hearing me today? I need you to hear me. So you got to give the Word first place in your life. Yes. And you got to decide mind that I'm gonna follow the word, and whatever the word say do, that's what I'm gonna do. Glory be to God. Hallelujah. It's the final authority. I dare you type in the comments, the word of God is the final authority. Come on, say it again. The word of God is the final authority. And you got to make up in your mind that I'm gonna do exactly exactly, precisely, categorically, and absolutely what the word tells me to do. Point blank, end of story. I'm following what the word says, period. Right? So number 3, how are we going to get this uncommon kingdom faith? Point 3, here we go. Step 3, Matthew 4:4. So after I I realized that I got to accept the word. Glory to God. Whoo! That's the final authority. It's the Constitution. It's my go-to. Glory to God. Matthew 4:4 tells us that we got to continue in the word. So here's the reality. Now, according to Matthew 4:4, you got to continue to feed on the word of God, which means you got to learn what's in the Constitution. You got to read the book and let it become engrafted in your spirit so that it is never second nature. It is always the first nature of every decision you make because you've allowed this word to be engrafted in your hearts. Wow, man. And step 4, my God, according to Joshua Joshua 1:8, it says, "Meditate on the Word both day and night." Joshua 1:8. So, step 4 is meditate on the Word. If you're going— Oh, God. If you're going to have uncommon Kingdom faith where you adhere to the Law of God and you see the full manifestation of God's authority in your life, you got to meditate meditate on it. Come on, you got to meditate. You know, I know so many believers that don't even understand what meditation is. Uh, the word hagiad in Hebrew is what this word is from this text in Joshua 1:8, and it means to take it in, literally chew it up, swallow it, regurgitate it, chew it up again, swallow it, regurgitate. You continue to exercise it, continue to process it so that you can digest it, so that it becomes one again with your life, and it becomes the only way you live. But you got to meditate. You got to sit and think about it. You got to go, oh, play it over and over again, say it out of your mouth over and over again. That's meditation. And sometimes meditation requires Quietness, peace, being still, being isolated. You gotta meditate. All right, so step 5, step 5, James 1:22. The Bible says, be ye doers of the word and not hearers only, deceiving your own self. So here's step 5, you gotta act on the word. See, exercising your faith, it builds up your faith muscles. It gives you, glory to God, the proclivity to move in faith. Oh my God. Just like drinking water, just like going to bed, just like eating food, it becomes again an active part of how you do things. You got to act on faith if you're going to have uncommon Kingdom faith. It has to be again your lifestyle. Oh my God. Listen, you got to expect Jesus to move anytime you put faith on the line. Anytime you act and choose to step out in faith, you can't be doubting. You got to believe it because his word said it. If he said he supply your need according to his riches and glory, then you better believe that. Put faith on the line. You ain't got nothing nothing else, trust him. God help us. Yeah. James 2:26, he said, for the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead. Listen, faith without works is dead. Faith without corresponding action, which means you have to do something. Oh boy, hear me good, man. You got to do something. You got to do something. You got to have some corresponding action to what you say you believe. You got to jump out there and try. What? Let me give you an example. Heal people, should act healed. So you pray and ask God to heal you, stop acting sick. Come on, get up, walk around, do something. Get out the bed. Act like you're healed. But how you praying you're healed and you still acting sick? Come on. You got to believe when you pray. Rich people should act rich. Glory to God. You confessing riches and wealth. Glory to God. And breakthrough and freedom. You need to act like you're free. Faith without works is dead. Even when you have no money in the bank, And God gives you an instruction to do something, go do it by faith and watch him provide. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I moved in faith on things and God showed up every single time because I moved with action. Listen, faith without action is dead. Faith without action is dead. Corresponding action. And you need a map in your life. You need a massive action plan if you're gonna move in Kingdom authority. You need a map that leads you to that destination. You need an action plan that every step— when it's— listen— that you take, whether it's small or big, you take it by faith, knowing that God's gonna provide for you every step of the way. Somebody ought to shout glory! I'm almost done, I'm almost done. So everything depends on how you follow through. You follow through with action. Oh boy, the Bible said, let the redeemed of the Lord say so, whether you feel like saying it or not. So if you're prosperous, you need to say, I'm prosperous, I'm rich, I'm wealthy, I'm a millionaire, I'm a billionaire. I'm a millionaire. Say it. Glory to God. Because you got to speak action and say those things that are not as though they were. My bills are paid. Glory to God. My needs are met. I have a prosperous business. Oh my God. All the needs for my church is met. We're debt-free in Jesus' name. My house is debt-free. My cars are debt-free. This is the kingdom authority, and it's the currency. It's what moves the resources of the King into our life because we're taking action knowing that this is what he wants us to have. Oh my God. See, here's what you got to know. Every single time the devil's gonna challenge kingdom faith. Because he don't want you to take your rightful place. Every single time you start stepping out, he's going to challenge you. Matter of fact, let's go to Mark 5:35-36. I'm reading out of Amplified. Listen, the Bible says, "While he was still speaking, there came some from the ruler's house who said to Jairus, 'Your daughter has died. Why bother and distress the teacher any further?'" Overhearing but ignoring what they said, Jesus said to the ruler of the synagogue, "Do not be seized with alarm and struck with fear. Only keep on believing." Keep on believing. See, the enemy will send distractions to your belief. You're trying to trust God. He'll send a negative person. He'll send another bill. He'll send something else unexpected financially. You know what you need to do? Keep trusting. Keep believing. Keep taking action in faith. Don't let it discourage you because your faith is going to prove to be right because God can't lie. The Constitution is true. If he said it, you could take it to the bank. But you gotta take action. Watch this. In Mark 2, verses 1 through 5, there was a paralyzed man. Glory to God. Action. Watch this. He had 4 friends. They were not gonna give up. Jesus was teaching. It was crowded. It was packed out. These men were so diligent, they went through the roof. Glory to God. And and drop that man down, hear me, so he can get his healing. Whew! Glory to God! Action! They could have kept saying, "Okay, well, we're going to believe God for your healing," but they knew we need to get him to Jesus so Jesus can heal him. So they did whatever it took, even breaking that roof. Now, somebody had to fix that roof, glory to God, but at the end of the day— Yeah, somebody's got to fix that roof, but the reality is they got him to Jesus. Action. That's the key to having kingdom, phew, uncommon faith. Wow. You got to act as though the word is already true. One last step. Step 6, you got to pray. In the Holy Ghost. Glory to God. Ah, Jude 20, it says, but you, beloved, build yourself up, edify yourself. Hallelujah. Be founded upon your most holy faith. Make progress. Rise like an edifice higher and higher by praying in the Holy Ghost. Oh boy. So praying in the Spirit, this is why you need the Holy Ghost. Because again, the Holy Spirit, and I'm going to teach on this later, is the governor of the Kingdom. Yeah, he's the governor. He makes sure that the culture of the Kingdom is being communicated. And when you pray in the Spirit, you're praying in your native language. The language of your home country is tongues. And that's why the more you pray in the Spirit, you grow in your— I could tell where you are spiritually by your prayer language. Glory to God. Some people spoke in tongues when they got filled with the Holy Ghost, and then you don't hear them speak in tongues no more. That— listen, come on now. You're building up your faith. You're building up your faith. You're growing in the Holy Ghost as you learn to pray in the Spirit and with understanding, because the Holy Spirit is praying things you don't even know. My God. The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 14:4, he that speaketh in an unknown tongue, watch this, edifieth himself. The old preacher took that as something bad. That's crazy. That's good. So when I speak into an unknown tongue, I'm building myself up. I'm making myself stronger. And I'm growing higher and higher through my prayers in the Spirit. See, the most tragic thing in the world is to be connected to leadership that tells you speaking in tongues is wrong, that tells you it's not necessary that you do that daily. You should be speaking in tongues every time the Spirit gives utterance. And if the Governor is living in you, I'm telling you, when you pray, something is going to shift in your spirit and he's going to take over and begin to pray things you don't know, certain to search out things you cannot see. God, my time is gone. Listen, I need you to understand that God wants you to move in your kingly authority. Glory to God. He wants you to move in the power that he has ordained for you to move in. Can we pray? Father, in Jesus' name, I pray that your that people will trust Your Word and that they will make it the final authority. And God, that they will not lean to their own understanding, but in all their ways they will trust You and You will move them into their kingly authority on earth. And I praise You for it now. And I give You all the glory. I give You all the honor. I give You all the praise. In Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Listen, I love you guys. Thank y'all for joining us. Listen, please be a blessing to ministry tonight. Glory to God. Plant your seed. Get something in the ground. You know, the Bible said we reap what we sow. He gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater. Would you be a blessing to ministry tonight? Listen, as you leave this, broadcast. Walk the kingdom out, experience it, seek to experience it by faith. I love y'all. Y'all be blessed, and remember to share this word with a friend. And your decisions set you up for dominion. God bless you.