THE SEASON OF HARVEST | DR. MIKE WOODS, SR. | 5 MAY 24

Well, praise the Lord, family, and grace and peace be multiplied to you today from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is Dr. Mike Woods. For those of you who are uninitiated, and welcome to our teaching today. Listen, I hope you're having a great Sunday, and I hope that your mind is open to new possibilities for this week. Listen, matter of fact, what I feel in Spirit. I believe that this week is going to bring new opportunities, is going to bring new doors that are going to open for you. But you have to position your mind in expectation. Instead of going into this week, guys, expecting the worst, I want to challenge you right here in this moment to go into this week expecting God's very best. I don't know about you, but I'm expecting God's best for my life, for my family, for my business, for my ministry. I need you to do the exact same thing. I know the enemy has thrown some things at you, but I need you to decide right now that this week is gonna be a supernatural week with supernatural opportunities. Glory to God! Supernatural financial breakthroughs, supernatural physical breakthroughs in your body and money, your health. Listen, it's all waiting for you. You must get an attitude of expectation. I'm telling you, you've entered into a season of harvest where God wants to break some things open for you. Receive it, walk in it, expect it. Glory to God. Listen, I'm glad to be here. If you're here with me right now, you're just joining us live or by replay, do me a favor, guys, share this. Uh, someone needs to to hear this word today. I'm not going to be with you long, but I'm going to drop what God has given me for you on this Sunday. Listen, I need you to get out your pen and paper. I have no interest, no interest, none whatsoever, in entertaining you. All my desire is, is to empower you and to educate you in the things that pertain to the kingdom and your posture of dominion. Listen, the reality is you created to dominate. And what causes reigning is training. So to reign, not rain with water, but reign, to rule, to have authority, radah, dominion, it comes through training. You got to be taught it, you got to learn it. And so today I'm super excited to get right back into our series on When God— when I believe that accepting the Timing of God is a real key in moving in purpose, moving in dominion. God's ways are not our ways. We've learned that his timing really ain't our time. And so today I'm excited to get right into part number 11. And man, listen, we're gonna talk about my times are in his hands. We want to, we want to be so clear after this teaching that we have absolutely absolutely no control over our time, but he is the master and the author of our time. And when we master time with him, essentially we master life. So let's pray, and we're going to jump right into this today. Father, we give you praise, we give you glory, we give you honor. We thank you for your goodness, we thank you for your mercy, We thank you, God, for your grace. We got— we declare today that besides you there is no other. It's in you we live, it's in you we move, it's in you we have our being. You're our strength, you're our help, you're our King, you're our God. And so, Father, I'm praying today that the people under the sound of my voice will understand this very important key of timing. And that we will learn to accept your timing and the times that you have planned for our life. And we give you praise for it, and that in the process of that time, the space that you created for us to fulfill purpose, that we actually will maximize our potential, take dominion, and fulfill purpose. I give you praise for that now, in Jesus' name. Amen and amen. And God, we thank you for the light. Glory to God, the illumination and the intelligence. Glory to God of the Holy Ghost. He's a good God. Uh, let's jump into this, man. So we ended up on Thursday in part 10, we were talking about the weeding process and the waiting process and We've been talking about these 4 seasons of our life when it comes down to accepting God's timing through these seasons. So today, family, I want to— I honestly— hear me— I honestly want to just give you a few points about this harvest season and jump right into the fact that our times— hear me, guys— are in His hands. Matter of fact, say this to God with me. Say, my times are in your hands. You got to accept that. I know, listen, I can only speak for myself. There are so many times in my life I wanted to control timing. Um, I looked at gift, I looked at anointing, I looked at intellect and abilities to do certain things, and I even looked at other people that were doing things Uh, quite honestly, in my mind, uh, just to be totally transparent with you, uh, didn't have the knowledge, the anointing, the gifting, the savvy that I had, but they were doing something that I wanted to do. And I'm like, they're not saying half of what I'm saying, they're not anointed like I'm anointed, but look at all that's been trusted with them. And I've learned over time, glory to God, to rejoice with others who rejoice. And even if I have an opinion about it, keep that opinion to myself. Hear me. And trust the timing of the Lord for what he wants to do in my life. And so many times God has reminded me, your plot, what I have for you, is not the way I have prepared it for them. And so at the end of the day I've learned to trust what God is doing, and every time I trust him, he works in my favor. And I'm telling you, if you do it, he'll work for you as well. But every time you try to run ahead of God and do more— hear me— than you ought to be doing, listen, you're going to miss God every time. Glory to God. So let's jump into this, guys. I'm telling you, I'm, I'm hyped to teach this. So again, let's look at this harvest season really quick, and we're going to close it out and jump right into My Times Are in His Hands. Matter of fact, say it again. Say, my times are in your hands. Oh my God, come on, say it to God again. My times are in your hands. Good God from Zion. So in harvest season, a few things happen, and I want you to remember these, uh, and again, I'm not interested in entertaining you. I want to teach you. I want to empower you to the next dimension. I have been virtual for several weeks now, haven't been back in the physical sanctuary since I had a physical attack in my body. And at the instruction of the Lord, we went vertical— we went virtual, I'm sorry, and vertical. Yeah. Oh, glory to God. But this is a test of our ability to absorb truth without entertainment, uh, without— glory to the name of God— feeling that we're religiously obligated to doing things a certain way. So I want you to get a hunger for the word through this season we're in. Absorb it, receive it. No hype, no entertainment. Eat this word because it's going to bless you. So let's look into this harvest season. So what is the harvest season? I just want to give you a few things are that happen in the harvest season. Okay, number 1, in harvest, the desires of your heart manifest. Oh, who doesn't want to see that, man? I, I need you to open your mouth and say, Lord, send the harvest! Glory to God! Hallelujah! Because if you've gone through plowing, yeah, if you've gone through sowing, glory to the name of God, if, if you've gone through the seasons of waiting and weeding, glory to God, You're ready for harvest. I dare you to say it again, Lord, send the harvest. And I believe that many of us have sown seed with our lives. We've served him, we've given him everything. Glory to the name of God. We've sold out, we haven't compromised. You know, some people who you see doing things you want to do, they got there because they compromised. They have no, uh, study life, no prayer life, they have no real relationship, they haven't gone through trials that have produced a testimony that really gives them the rank and authority to stand in certain places. But people like you and I, we've suffered with him, and I'm telling you, the harvest is here, and we're getting ready to reign here. Amen. Say yes, God! We're getting ready to reign with him. Glory to Jesus. Yes, God, today, if you suffer with him— y'all excuse my tongues, listen, I can't apologize to the Holy Spirit. For those of you that may be offended by that, I don't understand it. I need you to understand something: harvest time has come. God have mercy. When harvest comes, the desires of your heart manifest. So I just need you to take an evaluation. If you have— oh my God— been plowing— hear me, guys— if you've been plowing through that plowing season, you've been through that seed time season, you've been through that waiting and weeding season, I'm telling you, you're in perfect position for harvest. Okay, here's another thing. In harvest season— are you ready? Prosperity manifests. So watch this. In the season of harvest, the money thing in your life is fixed. Many times the difference between a dream and a nightmare which is a nightmare, which is caused by the lack of manifestation of some of your dreaming. Many times the difference between a dream and the manifestation of that dream is prosperity, is resources, is money. And many of you've been dreaming while you've been plowing, why— oh, while you've been sowing, while you've been waiting and weeding. And God says prosperity, the resource you need You're at the end. At the end of everything is the greatest pressure, man. If you would have told me at the beginning of 2024 I was going to have a heart attack, oh my God. I mean, that it wasn't even the beginning, it was a few weeks ago. If you told me 3 weeks ago I'd been hospitalized because I had a heart attack, I would have told you you were blind, crippled, and crazy. That's not going to happen to me. But at the end of everything is the greatest test. The greatest pressure is the greatest test of our faith. In that moment when I was being told I was having a heart attack, I had to trust God for my life, for my health, for my strength. Oh my God, are you here today? Jesus the Christ, Son of the Living God. But I'm telling you right now, some of you don't understand why you are where you are, but it's because at the end of everything is the greatest pressure. At the end of a baseball game, oh my God, in the night 9th inning. Glory to God, the score is tied 1-1. Your, your best hitter is at the plate getting ready to bat at the bottom of the 9th inning. Can I tell you something? The greatest pressure is on that batter at that time than any other time in the game. He's the best hitter. He could have hit a home run early in the game, but the greatest pressure for him to get a hit now It's on him. And guess what? If he hits it out of the park and wins the game for his team— hear me, oh my God— not only will he have overcome the greatest pressure, but now he'll have the greatest glory. Because watch this, that home run in the 9th inning, bottom of the 9th, score tied 1-1. Will carry a more loftier weight than a home run hit in the first inning with no one on base. Are y'all hearing this? Glory to God! Because that home run won the game. So I want to tell you something: you're at the plate. Keep your eye on the ball. Stay focused. Don't give up, because prosperity is about to manifest. Oh my God, are you ready for this? In harvest season, not only does the desires of your heart manifest and prosperity manifest, but number 3, favor, promotion, and honor manifest. Oh boy, oh boy, no longer being at the bottom. I heard the Spirit of the Living God say, you are about to rise to the top. I hear you, Holy Spirit. I'm gonna flow in this. Glory to God. You know, I was gonna go right into my times are in his hand, but the Holy Spirit's taking this over. So we gotta just flow with this because somebody needs to know it's harvest season. Listen, I just need you to shout that out of your mouth. It's harvest season. You gotta stop accepting defeat. You gotta ex— You gotta stop accepting Oh my God, what the enemy is throwing at you, and you got to make up in your mind in this very moment that I'm about to walk out harvest season where the desires of my heart are gonna be manifested, where prosperity and riches and wealth is gonna be manifested, and favor and promotion and increase, glory to God, and honor. I'm telling you, your seasons of dishonor are over, glory to God. Where people have kicked you to the curb, treated you like the back sheep, rejected you, not opened doors for you, not accepted you. I'm telling you, you're about to receive honor because you've plowed. My God, today, because you plowed. Oh my God, because you plowed, because you've sown. Glory to God, because you waited, you waited, the harvest is upon you. Oh boy, somebody else shout favor! Glory to God, shout honor! Glory to God. Shout promotion! I'm telling you, they're coming your way. Matter of fact, I just took a look at heaven's shipping department. Honor, promotion, oh my God, and favor are on their way to you. I saw packages with your name on it and they're stamped shipped. I'm telling you right now, favor, promotion, and honor is on its way to your life. Glory to God. Oh, Shabaya! Mankura nti ke sikuto rabatiai. God, I give you glory. I give you honor. I got to get through. I got to get through. Glory number 4. Glory to God. Number 4. In harvest season, he makes your enemies— I'm just prophetically plowing today. This is where the Holy Spirit is in control, not me. If I was in control, I'd be talking about my times is in his hands right now. We'll deal with that on Thursday. But listen to me, number 4: when harvest season comes— and it's here for some of you— he makes your enemies— oh God— to be at peace. I read Isaiah 54:17 last time, said no weapon formed against you shall prosper. I'm telling you, every weapon that your enemy has formed, it will not work. But listen to this: God's going to cause your enemies to be at peace with you. You know what that means? He's going to give you justice. Watch this, for pass injustice. So where you have believed that you were dealt an injustice in the past, I heard the Lord say, huh, God says I'm about to give you justice. Glory to God for the injustices you suffered in the past. I know they did you wrong. I know they didn't treat you right. I know they walked out on you. Glory to God. You did everything for them, they did nothing for you. But God said, I'm about to fix the injustice. And he says, I'm about to give you justice. And justice simply means I'm about to make my word alive in your life. People gonna look at you and see the justice and equality of my word flowing through your life. Glory to the name of God. People running around now talking about diversity, justice, and inclusion and equity. Listen, God was talking about diversity, equity, and justice in scripture long before people came up with this. Listen, you and I as believers, we are included in the prosperity of God, the blessing of God that makes rich and adds no sorrow. We are included in his love. We are— oh my God, we are included in his grace. Glory to the name of God. We have equity, which means we have— we are shareholders with heaven in the kingdom of God. Woo! God, I got to get out of here. In harvest season, I got to move. You enjoy Peace. Peace is not the absence of confusion. Peace is the presence of assistance. I'll say that again. Peace is not the absence of confusion. Peace is the presence of assistance. And here's what God says today. He— I— he— unsuitable. He says, I'm about to give you perfect peace. Oh God, let's read that. Let's just read that. Hallelujah. Oh my God, perfect peace whose mind— hallelujah. Hallelujah. Ah God, I love you, Jesus. We give you praise. Matter of fact, let's go to 2 Corinthians 13:11. I like that one better. Watch this. He says, finally, brethren. Oh Lord, finally, brethren, be perfect. Yeah, okay, let's break it down. Be perfect. The word perfect is katarizo. Katarizo. Katarizo. Katarizo. And this literally means be repaired, be complete, be sound. So be repaired, restored to completeness and soundness of mind. It's not teleios, where we see perfect a lot in the Greek. It's actually— oh my God, again— korthizo, korthizo, korthizo, which means to render fit, sound, complete. Watch this, usable. So, oh my God, so God says, I need you to be usable. I need you to mend the confusion in your life. I need you to be repaired. Hear me, I need you to be repaired to usefulness. Oh my God, so you can be equipped, so you can be outfitted with what you need to get the job done. Oh Lord, today So he says, be perfect. These are some final, uh, instructions Paul is giving the Corinthians. Glory to God. In his— this letter, glory to God, he said, finally, but farewell. I'm getting ready to leave, but I need you to be perfect. I need you to be of good comfort. Watch this. Comfort. All this lends into peace in the harvest. Parakaleo in Greek. Good comfort, which means I want you to surround yourself, call to your side. Parakaleo, summons one to your side that will align with your plans, your purpose. In other words, don't keep people in the mix that bring confusion. Are y'all hearing this? That are discombobulated about themselves. And they're going to bring that same discombobulation to your life, your purpose. Keep all that drama away, but call close— parakaleo— call close to you people who are at peace with their purpose, with God's plans, with where God has taken them, with what they need from the Lord. Oh, good God Almighty. Good God Almighty, my God today, my God today. Woo! Shatta yamanto! Bring them to your side. Be a good comfort. You know, don't have no bad comfort around you. Don't have bad things around you that bring drama. And oh my God, always got something going on. You don't need that in your life. He says, I want you to be perfect. Remember again, perfect. Remember again, it's not telios, it's katartizo. Katartizo. Katartizo. That's how you pronounce it. K-A-R-T-A-R-T-I-Z-O. Katartizo. And I want you to be repaired completely and be thoroughly equipped to do what you're supposed to do. That's going to give you peace. Information brings confidence. Information and knowledge brings peace. That's why you got to embrace teaching. Glory to God. That's why you got to embrace education. That's why you got to take classes. Glory to the name of God. Some classes you're going to have to pay for. Are you hearing this? Glory to God. They're not going to be free, but you got to buy wisdom so you can know what you need to know, so you're thoroughly equipped. Be of good comfort. Watch this. And be of one mind. That simply means surround yourself with people you can unify with that have your spiritual DNA. And I need you to understand something: everybody that has your natural DNA doesn't have your spiritual DNA. I need you to understand that. Listen, glory to God, there are— there's family of culture, that's the family you were cultivated in, you were born in. And then there is family of choice. And I need you to understand, not all family culture is bad. I love my family, and I'm, I'm grateful that in my family I have the DNA— glory to God— of my family spiritually as well. We love God, and now that's a good thing. But I want you to understand, everybody doesn't have the same mind as you do. And so you can love people, but you cannot align completely with everybody. Because your mindset is at another level. Can I tell you something? You cannot fit a 16 by 20 idea in a 3 by 5 mind. I'm gonna say that one more time, one more time, one more time. You cannot fit a 16 by 20 idea in a 3 by 5 mind. So if you're gonna be a one mind, you need to align yourself with people that have 16 by 20 minds. You're going to hurt yourself. You will blow a gasket. You will raise your blood pressure trying to convince someone or a group of people with 3x5 mindsets of your 16x20 ideas, of your 16x20 dreams, of your 16x20 faith. You must align yourself with people who think at the level you do. You can love people with 3x 5 minds, but you cannot invite them in to where you're trying to go because they can't think at that level and they ain't even trying. Oh my God. He said, be perfect, be of good comfort, be of one mind. Here's the harvest, because watch this— becoming perfect, being of good comfort, and being of one mind. Listen to this. It requires— here we go— plowing. Yeah, you got to break up some fallow ground so you can see, oh my God, what you need to fix. That's plowing. Be of good comfort. Okay, you gotta sow seed so you can reap a harvest in fields where you sow. So you gotta sow seed in good relationships yourself because you cannot reap a harvest in a field where you have not sown. So you got to sow yourself into the type of relationships you want. You got to invest your time, yourself, your resources into that connection so you can get the harvest out of that connection that you need. And then thirdly, you got to be on one mind. That's waiting and weeding. That's— it takes patience to wait and weed out people that don't fit in your mindset, because sometimes it takes time for a joker to reveal just where their mindset is. I know I said joker Yoker. And I'm not talking about yokes, but sometimes it takes, glory to God, time for a person to reveal who they really are. And then here's the harvest though: you live in peace. That's the first part of it. So what is peace? Again, here in the Greek is erenuo, and it means that you cultivate harmony. Watch this, because of the second part: and the God of love and peace peace shall be with you. So because you cultivated harmony in your life, you've moved in perfection, you are of good comfort, you're one mind— the Bible says the God of peace, the presence of his assistance, shall be with you. It's not the absence of confusion, this is the presence of assistance. So that means if I'm living in and the peace of God is with me. The justice and equity of God is with me. That means I have assistance in what he— I feel like preaching, but I'm not. Oh God, I have his help in whatever he's asked me to do. You ain't in it by yourself. He's with you, and he'll never leave you. Hear me. Oh my God. Nor forsake you. I gotta get through this, man. So all right, when harvest season come, number 1, the desires of your heart manifest. Number 2, prosperity manifests. Number 3, favor, promotion— oh my God— and honor manifest. Number 4, your enemies are at peace. Number 5, you enjoy peace. Are you ready for number 6? In harvest season, you are free from guilt and condemnation. Can I tell you something? Glory to God! You don't have to walk around guilty of something you've already Oh my God, repented of. Y'all hearing this? I need you to hear me. You've repented, let it be. Stop allowing yourself to be controlled by a mistake you made. Yeah, you did it. And don't allow others to control. If you've repented It's now in the sea of forgetfulness, and God remembers it no more. People have a tendency to remember your failure, and many people, because they try to remember your failure, the mistakes you made, they have forfeited the benefit of receiving who you are now. Listen, that's not your fault, and you cannot live in that condemnation. The moment you repent Glory to God. God forgives you. Are you hearing this? I'm just saying, I'm just saying, I'm just saying, the moment you repent, the condemnation is over. Okay, let's go to Romans 8:1. Y'all don't believe me, have to show y'all the Bible. The scripture says there is therefore now no condemnation. No condemnation. No condemnation. Touch yourself, say, I'm not condemned. I am not guilty. Yes, you may have done it, but the blood of Jesus washes you and makes you white as snow. Now, Michael Woods, what is condemnation? I'm glad you asked. Katakrima in Greek. Katakrima, which means that it's a damnatory criminal sentence. That's why it's kada krima. Krima, this Greek word for criminal or crime. Kada means to damn or cause negative words to be pronounced over. So you can't allow the words of people to condemn you or criminalize you because of your past, because the Bible says there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus. That's the first catch. So if you're in Christ Jesus, what, how, what does that mean? This means that— and again, I'm a wordsmith— so in, en in Greek, this word literally means to interpenetrate, interpenetrate, to become one with. Watch this. So if I jumped in, so there are some, uh, off-white color wall around me. Glory to the name of God in this studio. And if I jumped into the wall, to be in the wall would mean that you could no longer recognize or distinguish a difference between me and the wall. Oh boy. So I have not really been in Christ until I interpenetrate him in a way that you can no longer tell the difference between me and him. Now watch this. What creates the vantage point is the blood of Jesus. The blood of Jesus washes me of sin. It cleanses me of unrighteousness according to the scripture, right? So if that be the case, when I come to Jesus and receive the efficacious, vicarious, substitutionary, redemptive work of the cross, into my life, into my heart. Now when God— and this is the only thing that matters, I just need you to hear this— looks at me, he no longer sees my sin. He sees the sacrificial blood of Jesus, the sacrificial lamb that was slain before the foundation of the world. He doesn't see me. So instead of me beating myself up about my idiosyncrasies or my failure, I repent and allow the blood to cover me. So when God looks at it, I don't have condemnation. Now, people, on the other hand, if they see it, they will work to condemn you. But what you have to do is stay under the blood. I'll stay under the blood. Oh, Mother, my church I grew up in used to sing this: I'll stay under the blood. While sin may come like a flood, I will stay under the blood. That, that's where you got to be. Glory to God. You stay under the blood. Don't allow people to pull you back into your old nature because they're pronouncing criminal sentences over you that the blood has covered. Oh God, say I'm free, praise the Lord, I'm free, no longer bound. Oh God, no more chains holding me. My soul is resting, it's just a blessing. Praise the Lord, hallelujah, I'm free. You, you gotta know that. And when harvest season comes, it's freedom from condemnation. So now therefore there is no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus. But watch this, who walk not after the flesh So that means my priority of living is not in obedience to my flesh, my sarks, my carnal way, carnal systems, carnal desires, but my walk, my desire, my, my traveling through the journey of life is after the Spirit, which means I pattern myself after the Holy Spirit. It's one thing to receive the baptism of the Holy Spirit, it's another thing to follow his matter. To build relationship with him, you know, it's one thing to— whether you call him the Holy Ghost, the Holy Spirit, or as these New Age people are now calling him, Holy Spirit. And I'm sure they have some justification for that in terms of pronunciation or personality. The reality is, no matter what you call him, you have to follow him. I, I've seen people call him Holy Spirit and they ain't followed him up the Oh, Holy Spirit does this. Follow him. I mean, okay, if you believe that's the right name you need to call him, let's follow him. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. I got saved, I got filled with the Holy Ghost. I know he is God in me. He's a person. I spend time with him. Glory to God. Hallelujah. I was on the altar calling Jesus till I spoke in tongues. I got so filled. Glory to God. I remember that night, Friday night on Linecrest Drive at New Creation Church on a Friday night. Glory to God. Uh, my pastor was the late Anella Maddox. Glory to God. And we used to have tarrying service on Friday night, and I remember her personally getting over me, praying me through to the Holy Ghost, the God in me. I spoke in tongues so much, I was speaking in tongues tongues when I got in the car, speaking in tongues when I got home. I got filled. Can I tell you something? It makes no difference your experience if you don't follow him and build relationship with him. So it's got to be after the spirit. That lifts condemnation, because women, he's never going to lead you into condemning situations. And if you get into something that ends up condemning you, it's because you or me or you and I did not follow his weeding. Harvest season, that's what we're talking about. So, so, ah, yeah, number 8, glory to God. Number 7, I'm sorry. When harvest season comes, here we go, your anointing is released to bless others. After you've plowed, after you've sown in prayer sown in tears. Glory to God. Sown with your life through struggle and brokenness. After you've gone through waiting and weeding, you get the harvest of your anointing being released to bless others. Oh my God. Oh my God. It is because of the anointing that the yoke is destroyed. Hallelujah! And the burden is removed. Thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. Matter of fact, go with me really quick, real quick, real quick. Go to 1 John 2:27 real quick. The Bible says, but the anointing which you have received of him abides in you. So the anointing is in us, and you need not any man— listen to this— to teach you how to operate under the anointing, because it's a spiritual thing. But as the same anointing teaches you all things and is truth and is no lie, even as it taught you, you shall abide in him. What are you saying? So through plowing, through waiting, through weeding, glory to God, through sowing in prayer and relationship with God, the anointing— you abide in the anointing under his teaching. Now in harvest season, because you've sat at the feet of the Holy Spirit, your anointing is released to help others, because so as you have learned you're now able to bless others. Oh God. All right, let me keep moving. Number 8: In harvest season, joy is your normal mood. See, you ain't in harvest if you moody all the time. I'm telling you, I've been there, done it, and I realize operating in that realm says I'm not in harvest, and I don't want to miss any part of harvest that God has for me. But when you're in this bad mood and you moody, you edgy all the time, that you're not in harvest. But joy, which is a calm delight— you're calm, you're delighted in God, glory to God— that's your normal mood. No matter what's going on, you learn to perfect your joy walk because you understand the scripture says that the joy of the Lord is your strength. Death. And a lot of the strength you need, a lot of the strength you desire, it comes from— oh my God— joy. And the strength that is lacking is a lack of joy. So I need you to tap into a delight. Psalm 37 says, if you delight yourself— I think it's 11— in the Lord, also delight thyself also in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart. So what you desire in your heart, which again, that's harvest, that was number one, the desires of your heart manifest. So when you are calmly delighted in the Lord, oh my God, as your common mood, your desires of your heart are consistently manifesting all the time. Here's a question: is God your all in all? Are you sold out? Are you totally delighted in him? Glory be to God. Oh my God, today. All right, number 9, number 9 in harvest season is very important: you hear from God. So let me just apostolically challenge something. So many people say, God said, God said, but when I look at the season of their life, it doesn't align or is not congruent with harvest. God speaks to us when we're in a season of harvest. He speaks clearly to us. We can hear God clearly. Say. Not just he hear you, but you can hear him for real. In harvest season, you have an ear to hear. You're the sheep that knows his voice, and a stranger you won't follow. It happens in harvest, and we know harvest comes after plowing, after sowing. Sowing in prayer, sowing in worship, sowing yourself in obedience, plowing, working things out of your life that makes you worthy of this space. God, I gotta go. You hear from God. Yeah, you hear from God. You hear from God. I'm almost done. Number 10, you enjoy his manifest presence. You know, you can sense that he's with you all the time when you're in harvest. You ain't got to call him up, you ain't got to hit your favorite song to pull him in. But in your most quiet moment, when you're in harvest season— I'm just— touch yourself and say, Lord, bring the harvest, bring the harvest, bring the harvest. When you're in harvest season, there's a sense of presence all the time. You know that you're not alone. You feel his overwhelming love. His overwhelming peace and power is constantly flowing through you and with you when you're living in harvest. Woo! Say, Lord, send the harvest. Come on, say it. Say, Lord, send the harvest, Jesus. My God, today. Good God. Woo! I love Jesus, man. I love this God. Ese tabansu rabakaya. We give you praise. We give you praise. E tabansianda bababababa saya. Ah, God, I love you. Thank you for your presence. Number 12. I love this one. Prayer and Harvesting. Becomes like breathing. Oh, it's no longer an effort. Oh my God, you ain't got to make yourself pray because you don't know if God really hear you, or you got some bitterness because you feel like he didn't hear you in the past. But prayer becomes an extension of who you are. You always pray. Bible says men should always pray and not This is a part of who you are. I wonder what would happen if we prayed as much as we talked, if we prayed as much as we post. Ah, ah, oh my God, we did reels and lives. I wonder what would happen if we allow prayer to be like breathing. And harvest, you understand that prayer is your earthly license for heavenly interference. Oh my God, I'll say that again. When prayer becomes like breathing, you, you got a real revelation that prayer is your earthly license for heavenly interference, because heaven's not going to interfere unless Heaven is invited. Ask and it shall be given. So prayer becomes my license to bring God into my world. So if I understand I need air in my lungs to breathe, you know, one of the challenges with having a heart attack is shortness of breath. And, uh, a few spells while I was going through the attack, I was having that. But again, I was praying it the whole time. I believe God just literally became breath for me. Glory to God. I believe that prayer became the very life source that literally kept me alive and kept this thing from being worse than it could have. Oh my God. Oh my God. Yeah. Oh boy. Oh boy. Prayer has become like breathing. It's not an effort. If you got to— if it's an effort for you to spend an hour with God It's a problem, but it's easy for you to watch an hour of TV. How about some people binge watch 10, 12 hours of TV and can't pray an hour? Prayer has to become like breathing. My God, today, Lord, I love you. Lord, I love you. Lord, I love Number 12. This is number 12, actually. That was 11. Number 12: you're able to adapt and adjust yourself to others. In other words, you can be in the midst of anybody, and instead of letting people who normally would get you bent out of shape and you don't want to be around them, you could adjust to being in their presence. Because you're living in harvest and nothing they do or say affects you. Glory to God. Number 13, I gotta go. Well, this is a good one. You're able to submit to authority. You cannot experience harvest if you cannot submit to authority, if you cannot, uh, be subject to those who are rulership over you. That's not just in church. Okay, that's in the law of the land too. So we have to obey the laws. All right, man, we have to obey what the laws say. Glory to the name of God. If, if you know it's wrong, I mean, how broke you are to take a gun into the bank and rob them, don't do it. Are you hearing this? I mean, that's extreme But I went there because from the lowest to the highest, from robbing a bank to just speeding, you need to practice being subject to authority. And a sign you're in harvest season is when being subject to authority is easy. Now, you should be subject to the authority of your leaders in the church. Even you leaders, even you apostles, who are self-proclaimed, self-appointed, who have no leader. Something is wrong with that. Let me just go on record as saying, if you're a self-appointed apostle, if you are self-appointed bishop, a self-appointed pastor, evangelist, or prophet, ma'am or sir, you are out of order. First of all, you need a call from God, and then secondly, you need some authority. You need some leadership in your that's going to bring you into balance. Oh my God. And create really a checks and balances system for you. Listen, be subject to those in higher authority. Romans, let every soul be subject to higher powers. Romans 13, I think it is. You need to learn how to be subjective. You don't know everything. You need somebody. You need a leader. All these rebel apostles and rebel prophets who have no church, rebel evangelists who have no church, who have no leader, who have no governing authority. Something is wrong with that. I am a man of authority, but also a man under authority, and not just the authority of God. I have a leader. I have an apostle. His name is Apostle Stephen A. Davis. David. So let me tell you something, at the end of the day, you need some authority in your life. Glory to God. Hallelujah, hallelujah. If you go walk in harvest, it's going to be congruent with submission to authority. Don't tell me you're in harvest season and ain't no authority in your life. I don't care how many physical things you may have accumulated, because you can accumulate things on your own that didn't necessarily come from God, and you toiled for them, you lied for them, you labor for them. But when you really are under harvest season, things come easy. I'm almost done, man. I gotta go for real. I really gotta go. I'm over my time. Oh God, God. Number 14: you're no longer insecure. When you're harvest season, your insecurities disappear. You are— you understand your value. You're secure in who you are. You don't let others intimidate you. You operate in your purpose without needing approval from your fan club, from your booty-kissing club. Yeah, yeah, a lot of you out here got butt-kissing clubs. That's what a lot of the clicks and likes are. You want butt-kissing clubs. I can care less, man. While we want you to engage and comment and like so that in the algorithm, you know, other people can hear the message, they'll see it. Because just because you post something on social media or go live like I am now doesn't mean people see it. Facebook controls it. YouTube controls who sees it. IG controls who sees it. X controls who sees it. And just because you have 5,000, 10,000, 15,000 followers doesn't mean everybody sees it. They control the traffic and they have their own way of doing that. And one of the ways in the algorithm is engagement. We want people to hear the message, but listen, we don't do it for that. Some people do it because they need their butt kissed and they're insecure. Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy. Let's keep moving, let's keep moving, let's keep moving, man. Yeah, number 14. When you're in harvest season, you can be open with your family, with your friends. Watch this, without fear of rejection. See, people who are in harvest season can be open, they can be transparent, they can be honest, and they don't fear rejection that will come because they open up, because they are honest, because they're living in a season of harvest, because they've plowed, because they've sown. Own because they waited and weeded. And so they don't fear rejection because they know God's got them. Oh boy, last one. When you're harvest season, your past is no longer something that haunts you. Listen, you're blessed, and I'm done, because you endured plowing, you endured seed time, you endured waiting and weeding Can I tell you something? It's harvest time. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for this word today. I pray that someone heard it. I pray that someone's blessed. I pray that someone will be healed, delivered, set free. I pray for breakthrough in their life. I pray for deliverance in their life. I pray for ways made in their life. I pray for open doors in their life, and I decree and declare, God, that no weapon formed against them can prosper. I thank you that every tongue that rises up against them in judgment, you will show to be in the wrong. Father, may we be blessed by you in our movement, and I release harvest on every person under the sound of my voice, and I declare it now in Jesus' name. Amen. Listen guys, I love you so much. Thank you for joining us today, man. Listen, I want to encourage you, uh, this coming week on Tuesday morning at 5 AM, join me for 5 o'clock prayer. We're going to get back to our 5 AM prayer this Tuesday. Listen, don't you dare miss it. Uh, if you're on our text list, look for the text so you can join us for prayer. Glory to the name of God. And please don't miss this coming Thursday night. We're going to be talking about my times are in your hands. Listen, I was going there today, but the Holy Spirit took this teaching over. I pray that you've been blessed. Listen, I want to challenge you today to get seed in the ground. Listen, be a support to this ministry. We need you. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah! We need your help. Glory to God. We need your help. We're actually at Rhoda Church believing God for a facility for our Atlanta church. We do not want to rent another day. It is our goal to buy a building cash, debt-free. Every time you sow, every time you give, you're helping us toward that effort. The ways to give are on the screen. Make sure you get your seed in the ground today. Matter of fact, let me pray. Father, bless that seed now a thousand times more, and may it come back good good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall men give to their bosom because they have trusted you. In Jesus' name, amen and amen. Listen guys, I love you so much. Again, y'all be good. I'll see you Tuesday, uh, for 5 AM prayer. Y'all be blessed. Peace.