Three Most Important Things for 2024 | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr.

Well, praise the Lord everybody, and welcome to our Thursday night Kingdom Global Bible study. Listen, I want you guys to do me a favor, uh, before we get started. I'm not going to be long at all tonight. Uh, some of you know, some of you may not, but I had wisdom teeth extracted, uh, 2 days ago. Uh, so I'm thankful to God that I'm even able to come on and speak to you tonight. But I would not be defeated. God is so good. I need you guys to do me a favor. This stream tonight Uh, is very important, uh, probably one of the most important of the year. Uh, we've been reaching some record numbers of the last couple of weeks.

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It's going to be phenomenal tonight. I'm going to give you some things that I believe, man.

I've been teaching really, you know, honestly, and we're gonna get started in a moment for real because like I said, I had some wisdom teeth extracted this week, uh, but we have been teaching. Listen, Um, probably since the end of September, really, I have been deliberately teaching every time I go live, every time I get in the pulpit, trying to get people ready not only for 2024 but this entire decade. I believe, uh, that 2024 be the introduction to a decade of dominion. We have to graduate. Uh, the number 4 is prophetically indicator for commencement and graduation. You go to college 4 years, you graduate. Go to high school 9 through 12, 4 years, you graduate. I believe that in this 4th year where we have to move from infancy, from being novice, to actually graduating and being better in every way we possibly can. So I want to drop some more of that on you tonight, and tonight What I'm about to share with you is what I believe to be the 3 most important things that you need to focus on in 2024 so that you can maximize your potential, so that you can fulfill purpose, so you could be effective in everything you created and born to do.

Amen. So guys, again, please, uh, good evening to LQ.

God bless you. Good to see you. Uh, you over there on YouTube, uh, God bless you. Latonya Williams, thank you for being here tonight, everyone.

Uh, again, do me a favor, I need you guys to say hello, let us know you're here, and please share. Glory to God. And I'm going to share with a few people and, uh, we're gonna get started. Glory to God. So I'm not asking you to do something I'm not doing, right? We're gonna get this in. Praise God.

God is a good God. Hallelujah. He's amazing. He's worthy to be praised, and we glorify him, we magnify him, we lift him up.

God bless you, um, Lakita. Thank you for being here.

Uh, so glad you're a part of our stream tonight. Praise God. Um, Lakita Brown, thank you for being on with us. God bless you. You're all so welcome and so, so wonderful people, uh, for taking time out of your Thursday night Uh, you could have been out shopping or online shopping or however you do it, uh, but you chose to come in and listen to some word tonight that I believe is going to empower you, that's going to bless you, that's going to take you into places— glory to the name of God—

that you actually should be in. I want to empower you tonight, really for real, to be better. Amen. All right guys, let's, let's do this.

Glory to God.

We're gonna again wait a few moments.

I've shared it, um, we're, we're live on Facebook, uh, we did something different tonight. We're actually streaming live also, uh, on Instagram. Praise God. And, uh, so I pray that, uh, that, that's a new thing, so I pray it's working. Glory to God. Um, So we are going to, however, jump right into the heart of this tonight.

I'm going to pray and I'm going to believe God that, you know, everyone that needs this word will get it.

Um, the word has to become important to you.

Uh, at the end of the day, no one can get this for you.

You have to get it for yourself.

And then after you get the revelation, the information, you have to apply it. Glory to God.

Because revelation, information without application—

hear me, guys—

is constipation.

And indeed, that is not what you want.

You definitely don't want constipation, right?

So let's jump in this. Let's pray. Father, we give you praise. Yes, God, we give you glory.

I thank you for every person that is here.

And Father, I pray that you would be with us tonight.

Superimpose yourself upon us. Let your glory be revealed. Do something unusual for us tonight, something man cannot do. Father, I pray that even those that will watch this by replay, that this word will be appointed to their situation. It will be pointed toward their future, and they will be able to use it and be empowered to move forward. And I give you praise and glory for it now. Thank you for precision and accuracy.

Thank you, God, that deliverance and healing will take place even as we teach, for your word declares that healing and deliverance is the children's bread. So Father, we thank you tonight for healing and deliverance. We thank you for the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Spirit. Have your own way, God. You take control in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Listen guys, again, if you're just joining us, please share. Glory to God. Um, please comment below. Tag someone below, share it with them in their inbox. I promise you, uh, this message, this word is going to be a blessing for you. Glory to God. Um, the text tonight is going to, uh, find itself really centered around one verse. I'm probably going to look at a few other verses, but this particular text will be the foundation, and I'm going to read it. Glory to God. And, uh, I want you to stay with me, okay? Uh, Proverbs 16 and verse number 11, you'll find these words. The Bible says, thou will show me. Touch your belly and say, show me. Glory to God. Touch it. Put your hand over your eyes and say, show me. So the psalmist is praying here. He says, God, you will show me— listen to this— the path of life. In thy presence— here we go— is fullness of joy. At thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore.

I'm going to read that again because it's just all right to read the Bible again.

Psalm 16:11 is where we're going tonight, and I promise you, uh, this, this word is going to be Life Changes. Again, we're streaming to, uh, 2— no, 3 different Facebook pages, YouTube, uh, Instagram, and Twitter tonight.

So wherever you're watching, I want you to get this. I want you to share.

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All right, so it says, thou will show me, show me, show me, Lord. Show us, Lord, even as we teach tonight. Open our eyes. Let us see what we've never seen. Let us behold God in revelation, what we've never beheld. May it become real to us. May it become, oh my God, tangible to us in the name of Jesus. And we give you glory for that now in Jesus' name. Show us the path of life, for in the presence—

yes, God—

there is fullness.

Oh my God, here we go.

Of joy and at Thy right hand—

glory to God—

are pleasures evermore. These pleasures are eternal. So I'm going to talk really quickly about what I believe are the 3 most important things that you're going to have to focus on.

Hear me, in 2024 And because I believe—

and before I give you these, I believe that God— here it is— has called each one of us. Touch yourself, say, that's me. Matter of fact, in the comments, just type it wherever you're watching: I am one of them. You're going to understand what that means in a moment, but you're one of them that God has called. Watch this. To have a successful work, which means whatever your assignment, whatever your purpose is in the earth, you were created to have a successful work. Say that with me, type it in the comments. A successful work.

A successful work.

Can I submit to you that God is not interested in you failing? When you do fail, it is only his desire— hear me, guys— to use your failure, hear me, as a springboard, a stepping stone, as a tool to produce wisdom in your life, to take you to new dimensions of success. God wants you to have a successful work, and if you're going to have better success, hear me, in 2024 and in this decade of dominion than you've had in the last 10 years, than you had this year, there's some things you're going to have to do, guys. Um, and you're going to have to realize that the success of your life, the operation of your life, the numbers is based on how you connect, how you align, the culture you're in. It's, it's based on what you open yourself up to, the people who are around you. It's based on what you listen to, what you hear. Some people will never have good success because their ear is to the wrong mouth, or they're so deceived that They believe they're in the right place, but they're really in the wrong place. And the reality is you gotta find out the voice. You gotta find out the connection that should be connected to you. See, what proper connection does is create what I call succession. Succession is born out of success. So when you're connected to something or someone that pushes you into success, it sets you up to have succession where you could leave inheritance. Oh my God, to the people you love, to the people that come behind you. Inheritance, hear me, to your children. Oh my God, inheritance to the people you care about and are concerned about.

Hear me good tonight, guys.

I need you to understand something. God is interested in pushing you where you've never gone. He's interested in you doing what you've never done. He's— watch this— he's interested in you accomplishing— wait a minute— what you think is impossible.

Oh my God, today I need you to hear me.

He wants you to accomplish what you have deemed to be impossible. I'm telling you right now, it is possible for you to have a successful work, and it's not really successful until you can have succession. So this thing is all about not what I do while I'm here, it's really about What happens when I leave? In my life particularly, I'm at a point, and I've been at this point really for about 20 years, okay? I live from the standpoint of 3 things, really. I live from the standpoint of purpose, which means I live from the, uh, ideology or the vantage point that everything I do, all of my time I invest, is going to be invested in things that's connected to God's purpose for my life. I'm not going to waste time with people. I'm not going to waste time in cultures. I'm not going to waste time on deals. I'm not going to waste time in ventures that are not connected to my purpose. Oh, oh, oh. Secondly, I live according to— are y'all ready? I live according to destiny, which means I stand at the place I'm in and I look to the end. I see a vision of a destination, a plan that was existed before I was born that comes out of the mind of God. And every day I'm looking to fulfill that plan in my life. That's my destiny. All of us have that. And watch this, what you cannot do is die with destiny in you and think you were successful. You only have a successful life, a successful work, is when you go to the grave empty and you empty out your destiny, your destination on earth. I gotta move, guys. I'm telling you, I'm gonna get where I need to be. Thirdly, I live according to legacy. And that's really what we're talking about tonight. What I will leave behind. What will be the legacy for my family, for my natural children, for my spiritual children?

What legacy will I really leave, right? Y'all pray for me. Glory to God, because I want to get this out. I told you I had wisdom tooth, uh, extracted this week, and a matter of fact, 2 days ago, and I probably shouldn't be talking this much, but I won't be stopped, okay?

I gotta get out what the Lord has given me to say to you.

Glory to God. Hallelujah. So here's what I know, here's what I know.

What you got to do is set yourself up for succession so that Legacy happens when you leave. Let's read 1 Corinthians 3, verses 10, and I'm gonna jump— drop down to verse number 14. Are you ready? The Bible says this, it says, by the grace of God I laid a foundation as a wise builder, and someone else is building on it, but each one should build with care. If what has been built survives— watch this— the builder has a good reward. So Paul is saying, I'm, I'm a wise— the word wise in Greek is sophia, which means I'm skilled, I'm knowledgeable, I have all the right information to build correctly. So here we go. Listen, I need you guys to stop the madness, right? Stop trying to build things and you don't have the knowledge, you don't have the skill, you have the insight to build it correctly. You just out here doing something and you really don't have the information. Again, that's why education is important. That's why listening to teaching instead of just scrolling, listening to foolishness. You could find so much knowledge on the internet, hear me, that you could pick up for your purpose, for your life's reason. And you got to find out how to build what you're building so you can build it correctly, you can build it effectively. One, so you can get a good reward.

That's what successful works looks like.

God says, I want you to get a reward from this. And the reward really won't be you going to heaven or what you experience when you die. It'll be what the— the reward will be what you leave. The great reward will be in the earth for those that come behind you to continue in what you've established. And the scripture says here, when you're building something for God, you should build with care. Hear me, which means you got to be very careful. You got to handle it like it's fragile.

You got to protect it because this is legacy.

So the question to you tonight, guys, what will you leave behind?

What are you doing?

I mean, every day of your life next year, you should think make it count because you're, you're sowing into something that will come behind you.

I wish I had some help here.

Glory to God. Just type in the comments, somebody. Glory to God. Just type it in the comments: I'm called, I'm created to leave legacy. You are here to leave something behind. Question is, what will we leave behind?

Glory to God. Let me keep moving. Thank you, Lord.

So let me give you a breakdown of what this scripture showed us.

There's a few things.

It said, one, by the grace of God. So here's what a successful work looks like. One, it contains grace. These are the ingredients of a successful work. I'm gonna get into these three most important things.

I'm gonna put them on the end, but I gotta lay this backdrop.

So if you want to do a successful work, hear me, hear me, guys, you need grace. Grace is supernatural endowment to fulfill purpose. It is empowerment to manifest what God planned for you.

It's—

that's what grace is. It's a gift from God to perform something supernatural in your natural state. Your purpose, your assignment, it is supernatural. So you need grace from heaven to perform it. I know you thought grace was just about being forgiven of sin. Listen, it's so much bigger than that. And that's why you got to stop using grace as an excuse to sin, to Mr. Mark. Because that's what sin is. You're missing the mark. Oh my God, you're coming short of the glory of God. You're coming short of the reward. And you should be using grace to be empowered to fulfill purpose. Oh my God, watch this.

Grace also means the ability to do what has not been done in the past. Are y'all hearing this? Oh, please listen. I mean, you have something in you that you're able to do things that nobody has ever done before.

You—

the grace is already there. That's why Paul said, by the grace, hallelujah, by the grace that God has given me, just like he gave the Apostle grace, he's given you grace to accomplish— oh my God— more than you could ever, ever imagine.

Oh my God, today, Jesus, wait a minute, there's something else in here in this text. He also says, by the grace of God, I've laid the foundation. And so what? So wisdom is there. So again, I'm laying a backdrop for where I'm going. You'll never have good success without wisdom, without godly wisdom that God will give to you. Watch this, through others. Wisdom is the divine plan and understanding of the future. So when God gives you a plan, you need wise ears who will support you and give you an understanding of that plan. I have my sons and daughters call me all the time and ask me things about plans for their life. I welcome that because as an apostle— listen to me— it's important, hear me, that I be able to stir clarity about what God is telling them to do. See, the governmental mantle that's on my life is not just about preaching, prophesying, laying hands. It's about empowering individuals. Oh my God, to pursue purpose. Watch this, and win at purpose. Somebody say, win at purpose. Glory to God. Say, I gotta pursue purpose. And I gotta win at purpose. And you realize when you understand that you need wisdom in your life to help you bring that clarity that's necessary, because guess what? None of us know everything.

I have an apostle in my life. I have a couple. My spiritual father, and I have apostolic mentors because in a multitude of counsel there's safety, that speak into who I am.

Because there are certain gambits in my assignment I don't understand. Even I have governmental gifts in entrepreneurship who have achieved the things that God has set before me to achieve in business. I constantly have my ear to their mouth trying to get wisdom And watch this, the prophetic sequencing of events that come from God, how he wants this thing to unfold. Listen, God's timing, hear me, is everything. And as long as you're trying to do it without God, hear me, hear me, guys, it's going to be hard, it's going to be tough. But you got to tap into the mind of God. I wish I had somebody here tonight that understood this. When you don't have clarity, things are hard. You're scuffling, trying to get it done because you really don't know. So you need the information, you need the knowledge. I always say the difference between failure and success— watch this—

is information.

Oh boy, I'll say that again. The difference between failure and success is information, because information breeds confidence and confidence breeds action. When you're confident in things, you'll take action and do it. But as long as you lack confidence, you'll sit still and you won't get it done. I gotta go, I gotta go, I got a lot to cover. Glory to Jesus, I'm gonna get out of here. Glory to God, I promise you. Number 3, in this text we saw foundation. I just want to show you what a successful work looks like. A foundation is a legitimate relationship with the Holy Spirit and leaders who are tapped into the Holy Spirit. Watch this, it's also understanding of the corporate vision of the kingdom.

Because it's not all about you.

The corporate vision of the kingdom of God—

hear me— is to take over. Oh boy, it's to take over. Okay, I don't care where you're watching us from— YouTube, Instagram, Twitter, uh, the 3 Facebook pages we're streaming live to right now— if you are a kingdom citizen, if you've been born again You are not born again just to attend church, just to prophesy, spit, blow bubbles, roll on the floor, have praise breaks. Listen, if that's the limitations of your salvation, you are missing it. You were created for dominion. You were created to take over. And when you became born again, the purpose of God came alive in you.

So that you can go into the world, show up, and take over.

But you got to have a foundation that's rooted in that so you can have good success.

Hallelujah! Oh boy, some of y'all don't think you're at church until you're having beat 3 strikes on the organ or the drums go to beating loud. Listen, I'm a Pentecostal boy.

I grew up in church.

I love having church.

But I'm—

I got enough wisdom to know that life really happens in the kingdom when I leave the building. The church is just designed to empower me to take over and dominate in my sphere of influence. So the areas where I have influence in the world, I should be dominating in these areas. I should be taking over. I should be taking control.

Are y'all with me?

Oh my God, oh my God, tonight. Okay, we also see your building skills. He said, I'm a wise master builder. So this is the ability to properly construct things using kingdom principles. I'm gonna talk a little bit about this tonight once I get to those 3 most important things for 2024. I'm telling you, you're going to take this and you're going to apply it and you're gonna have the best year of your life the best decade of your life, and your life is never going to be the same. So you got to become—

you got to be able to construct things according to the principles of the kingdom of God.

See, as long as you're trying to do a God thing in your humanism without his help— he's real, so he's present to help if you lean on him, if you align yourself with his plan. All right, here we go. Number 5, in this text we see continuity. Continuity deals with the attitude to focus on the finished work. See, we, we get upset by little stuff, man. We get upset about you can't pay a bill. We get frustrated about, you know, stuff ain't going right in your life, or you ain't— you can't get somebody something for Christmas, or you, you going through major convulsions over the wrong stuff when your focus should be locked and loaded on what you're going to finish?

That's my question. That's my question to you tonight. What will you leave behind? What will be your finished work? What will be your successful work?

You got to be— have continuity toward that, and you got to continue in that no matter how hard it gets. You don't get to quit because it's hard. You don't get to quit because you're tired. You have to keep going and have continuity against all odds.

Hear me?

Oh my God, oh my God, I wish I had some help here tonight. God, y'all type in the comments, say I gotta keep going.

Just type it in the comments, I must keep going.

You must continue. I don't know who this is for, but somebody has felt like quitting this week, but you have to keep going. You have— you cannot throw in the towel. You got to keep going in spite of what it looks like.

Glory to God.

Sometimes you have to reset and restructure how things look, but you got to keep going. I've had to do that with our Jackson church. We just hit the reset. We're restructuring how that looks as we go through 2024.

Mainly so I don't, I don't not, I don't end up in the hospital somewhere, right? Because I'm doing so much.

But at the end of the day, the reality is I can't stop. You can't stop. You got to keep going because you've been given all the equipment to do it and get it done. Are y'all with me? I love y'all so much. Glory to God. Hallelujah. I love y'all. Glory to God. You got to keep going. You can't stop. Glory to God. You, you have to hold to God with everything you got.

Glory to Jesus.

The reality is many of you somewhere along the line have interrupted your continuity because you've been challenged in areas that— watch this— seemingly, hear me, are insurmountable. So you stop going after the purpose, you stop going after the plan, you stop going after your dream. So you interrupt continuity. But I'm telling you, you got to keep going. Again, no matter where you're watching— Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, Instagram—

No matter where you're watching me, I need you to understand you got to keep going.

Here's the fifth thing that you'll find inside of a successful work, and it is this: it is rewards. That's the harvest. We read it in 1 Corinthians 3:10. That's the harvest for staying faithful. Hear me, you got to stay faithful. You got to keep going. You cannot stop. So here we go. The 3 most important things for 2024. I'm almost done, stay with me. All right, we read it in Psalm 16:11. All of them are there. The psalmist said first, watch this, is thou will show me the path of life. So here's what you need first. Are you ready? You need a revelation of God's design, God's plan for your life. The word show there is yada, which means to see it as God sees it. Or watch this, the Hebrew word deals with this idea, to know it as God knows it. So God says here, thou will cause me to know what he knows. So the psalmist is praying, You're gonna cause me to know what you know, God. And watch this, I know you think you know what he knows about your life, most people do. But I'm telling you something, there's something God knows about you concerning you that you have not discovered yet. There's a dimension of your life's work, of your destiny that has not been deployed, that has not been discovered. Now somebody says, Michael Woods, how do I discover that? Well, this is the first most important thing you need in 2024. You need to figure out a way to embrace— here we go— apostolic architecture. Apostles, real authentic apostles, carry inside of them a schematic, a design that unlocks clarity and understanding and the mysterion of the mysteries of who you are. And so you need to connect with real apostolic anointings that— watch this— prophets prophesy, apostles have inside of them a government to bring to pass The prophetic sequences that prophets utter, oh my God, out of their mouth. This is why we don't have time for makeshift apostles, people who call themselves apostles and really are not. Hear me? We need real authentic apostolic generals to come forth who carry the architecture of the people they're called to inside of them. Every son around this country, around this world that's connected to me, every daughter connected to me, inside of me, oh my God, is a blueprint, a plan to help bring to pass the, oh my God, the prophetic and even the psychological sequences that God brings to their mind for their life. Watch this.

When apostles show up, when an authentic apostle shows up, hear me, they do 3 things. One, they measure you.

Oh boy, this is why people don't like real apostolic. Man, I'm not talking about old school religious traditional apostolic ministry.

I'm talking about that that pertains to an authentic apostle. That's apostolic ministry. Real apostles will wake up the dream in you.

It'll have you trying to do things you never thought you could do. It'll have you moving in gifts that you didn't even know were there.

They measure where you are and activate you. Nobody wants to be measured. Nobody wants to be told that they're not really where they think they are. Trust me, I know. We got two decades operating in this grace, and I've seen so many come and go. Because the moment you start measuring the mantle that's on people, oh boy, they fold up and they run for comfort. But if you're gonna be empowered toward greatness, you need connectivity to not just a preacher who can discern the text well, who can pontificate and intellectualize and have great hermeneutical adjustments of the text. All those things are wonderful, but what you need— hear me, hear me— what you need, guys, is an apostle that's gonna say to you sometime what you don't want to hear. Oh my God, today, Lord, I wish I had some help in this sanctified live stream tonight. Glory to God. Are you, are you here? Glory to Jesus. I love you, I love you so much.

So nobody wants to be measured.

Secondly, when apostles show up— let me, let me continue, I'm gonna get through.

Apostles manage.

So now they become a leader, a manager, and they teach you management skills concerning individual leadership so you can manage that gift. Uh, management is also a teaching, uh, mode where you're in the position of a learner. You're learning the plans, you're learning how to walk them out. And then thirdly, after the Apostle through measurement helps you discover who you are, through management develops who you are, now he deploys you as a master of who you are. And now we don't have a lot of novice walking around trying to do things that they don't have the ability to do because they have not learned it. They don't have the wisdom. Were just laying that backdrop because they didn't sit at the feet of the wisdom to get it. There's some things really you could avoid if you take the position of a learner. There's so many things that you could get from a leader that's already been there if you take the position of a learner. So many people are going to bump their head, hear me, and they're going to make huge mistakes because they refuse, hear me, to take the position of a learner. God gives you your leader so you can— watch this— you earn what you learn. So if you learn how to operate as a master in your gift and in the skill set that God has created you to move in, your earning will be astronomical from moving in that realm. Oh my God, today, listen, you don't know everything. I don't know everything, so we must learn. Okay, say architecture, most important. So you gotta— because you can't build without an architect, because the architect designs. Someone said, how you get that out of that text in 1611? I'm glad you asked. Thou will show me the path. The word path in Hebrew is orach. Watch this. Orach is where we get words like ark or architecture. Orach means the design, the plan which you have orated or spoken concerning my life. Do you realize that there's a plan, a design that God has orached, orated talked, spoken over your life before you were born. Glory to God. One of my favorite people on the planet, uh, Bishop Mark Filkey in California, he wrote a book and I love the book so much that probably weeks after I read it, because I— when I got the book, I read it Then we— a couple of weeks after, I started preaching a message called I'm Pregnant and I Know Who the Daddy Is. He wrote a book that is entitled that, but God just gave me so much revelation on that tough subject because you guess what? You're pregnant with destiny, you're pregnant with purpose, you're pregnant with authority that needs to be deployed, but you gotta learn Let me move, let me move.

So that's the first most—

say apostolic architecture. You need it, you need to embrace it. Don't run from apostles when they correct you. Don't run from apostles when they measure you. Listen, receive it, take inventory, discover who you are, and be developed. Number 2. Second most important thing you're gonna need in 2024 is apostolic alignment. Somebody says, Michael Ray, how do you get that out of there? He said, thou will show me—

watch this—

the path of life, and in thy presence— listen to this— is fullness of joy. In thy precepts, in thy intelligence, Not that thing that we think is the presence, but the presence here deals with intelligence. It deals with the mind of God. So inside of God's mind is fullness, completeness of joy. Joy is shey'ah in Hebrew, which means profit. P-R-O-F-I-T. Ask a businessman to define profit, he's going to tell you what's left over after the expenses of the business I've been paid and covered. Here's the reality: when you align yourself with the intelligence of God, you're always moving in profit mode. Watch this— in thy presence. So what does this mean? We have to align with the intelligence and the intent of the Holy Spirit. As you go into this new year, again, I've been getting y'all ready since end of September. Y'all ought to be ready. Glory to God. You need to go in and embrace the intelligence of God. Watch this. Through your personal relationship with the Holy Spirit, and then through governmental authority that God places in your life— apostles, that— watch this again— carry the mantle of the Holy Spirit in the dimension of government to help you maximize purpose. So you need alignment with the Holy Spirit, and you need leadership that's going to lead you correctly. We— that's going to talk to you about life. It's not just going to knock you out on the floor and not be concerned about what you do after you get up. I'm gonna pray for you and the power of God's gonna hit you, but when you get up, I want to be able to pour into you alignment with the Holy Spirit so daily you're following him. Here's the other thing for any apostles that watch this. If you are an apostle, you have to be an example of this alignment. How can you be governmental and help others—

hear me—

oh boy, oh boy, and you ain't doing the stuff yourself? Oh boy, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. So you got to be an example what it means to be aligned with the Holy Ghost and obeying the commands of the Holy Spirit. I mean, you can't be a leader and your life is raggedy and expect other people to do what you're not doing, because eventually they're going to see it. So this is a season where alignment is necessary, not just for those who follow, but those who lead.

And in this season, it is so important because God is getting ready to emerge a vantage point— watch this—

from the follower, where they'll have a perspective and vantage point and be able to see things in real time.

Um, in other words, they're going to be obstacles and challenges that leaders will be challenged to handle.

Watch this, oh my God.

And people are gonna watch how you handle it, how you deal with crisis, how you deal with situations. Watch this. Or how you've been an example of it in the past.

They're gonna need that wisdom. Can I tell you something? The Holy Spirit is the most important person inside of your kingdom assignment. I'm gonna say that again. He is the most important person inside of your assignment. See, when you align with right leadership, when you align with the Holy Spirit and you allow him to be your leader, your best friend, to be the most important person in your life He introduces you to your heavenly assignment. Your assignment— hear me— is the problem you created to solve.

Everybody listening to me, you were created—

hear me— to solve a problem. I'm gonna say that one more time. Everyone listening to me tonight, again, YouTube, these 3 Facebook pages, Instagram, Twitter, wherever you're watching. We're streaming to all 5 of those platforms, 5 platforms tonight. I need you to understand, you are important and you need to tap into your heavenly assignment because you— yes ma'am, you— yes ma'am, you— yes sir, you— yes sir, you were created to solve a problem. One of the biggest things that can slow you down when you waste time— hear me— trying to solve problems that you weren't created to solve. Oh my God.

Trying to solve issues that you were not designed to solve. Listen, one of the things that's going to keep you from living without regrets— next year I'm going to talk about this Sunday. I'm going to talk about living without regrets. I'm going to revisit that. I spoke on it earlier this year, but God gave me some new information. But one of the things I'm going to bring out Sunday, to live life without regrets, you're going to have to stay in your lane. We got too many people getting out of their lane, getting out of their position, trying to do stuff that they wasn't born to do, trying to do stuff they ain't skilled to do, don't have the knowledge to do, ain't ready to do. Stay in your lane, because if you don't, you're going to have a lot of regrets. You're going to have a lot of delays, a lot of setbacks. But there is a problem Yes, you, you, you, that you were created to solve.

How about solve it? Find the problem you created to solve and solve it. You'll be remembered for one of two things: the problems you create or the problems you solve. And you got to decide that you're going to be a problem Solve her. Because inside of you is the answer to somebody's problem. Listen, and I want to suggest to you, never talk to anyone about your problem that's not qualified to solve it. And you got to recognize the problems you were qualified to solve and the people that have the qualification to solve the issues you have. But you need to get in place because somebody needs you. The Holy Spirit represents somebody leading you. Your assignment represents somebody needs you. In every assignment, there are people. There are people you are called to find them. They're looking for you.

They need you.

They're waiting on you to get back in your lane and help them. Okay, cleaning alignment right here. You need architecture.

Lastly, the third thing you're gonna need, you need apostolic advancement.

You need to be aligned with ministry and leadership that has government.

Apostles— see, to be apostolic means—

the Greek word for apostle is apostolos, which means a sent one who is sent with plenipotentiary status, gubernatorial authority. Oh my God, a stratospheric warrior who is designed to thrust— that's a powerful word— those he is sent to into their assignment. So watch this, advancement will be tough without this alignment. This is why he gave some apostles— apostles are necessary. I posted something today, and I meant it, on my Facebook page. Let's make sure, those of you who call yourself apostles, let's make sure— hear me— that what you are producing aligns itself with what you call yourself. Make sure the title matches the fruit. Because here's what I know: if you're really an apostle, apostolic things are going to work through you before you ever call yourself one. I don't care if people ever call me that. I'ma just keep doing what I was called to do out of obedience. That's who I am. The reality is There are people who wake up in the morning and slap this on their name. It's not their assignment. It's not. And the reality is you got to be careful that you're not plugged into something that's not advancing you where you need to go. Watch this.

We read in the text, it said, at thy right hand—

here we go—

there are pleasures forevermore. Here we go.

God's right hand is his hand of authority. It's the king's hand of rule. Oh God, help us.

I'm almost done.

I got 4 minutes. I'm almost done. Stay with me, stay with me.

Glory to God. Listen, stay with me.

We're live or by replay, stay with this. Hear me.

The hand of God—

listen, it's so powerful, so authoritative, that once it lays upon you and that authority is transferred into your life, something happens in your DNA. Watch this.

Where you have no desire to ever go back to how you were, because there's a pleasure that comes with it that not only pleases him, but there's an eternal pleasure to do what he's asked you to do. My God, that abides with you at all times. People who backslide, in my opinion—

don't kill the messenger, but this is what I believe— they never experienced the pleasure of God.

They never became pleased totally with him and who he is for real.

They maybe were pleased with a system, a religious way of doing things, But when the hand of God's authority really touches you, there is nothing on this planet that can turn you back from him, from—

oh my God— from doing what he asks you to do.

You take pleasure in obedience. Watch this. You no longer operate in the performance mode, you operate in the pleasure the mold of God.

I gotta go, y'all. I gotta pick Ben up at the airport.

Glory to God, he's flying in for holidays. Listen, my middle son, he's on—

he's in there.

He's probably getting ready to land in a few moments. Listen, I gotta go for real. But you, you ought to want to please God.

Some of us operate in the performance mode and not the pleasure mode.

Watch this. When the Father spoke in authority, this is indicative of his right-hand authority over Jesus after John baptized him. He said, this is my Son in whom I am well pleased.

Oh boy, oh boy. Oh, past tense. He's—

I'm already pleased with him because I know what he's going to do. When God looks at you, does he say, this is my daughter, this is my son in whom I'm well pleased? Or are there a series of disappointments that come to him when it comes to your assignment? He said, at your right hand there are pleasures. Watch this, the word pleasure also deals with God providing the pleasures of life to you so you can advance the kingdom and dominate. Hear me, hear me good, and I'm closing with this. Nothing nothing can be advanced without wealth. I'm gonna say this one more time: nothing can be advanced without wealth. Part of my mantle is to push people into dimensions of wealthy living, not so they can flaunt it, but so that we can take over. I wrote something today, I think in a comment, somebody commented on my post that as an apostle, my job literally is to be a living expression of the blessing of the Lord makes rich and adds no sorrow. So I'm to model that, and I'm to impart that to others and teach them how to obtain that, because you cannot have dominion without wealth in this earth. You must establish wealth.

Wait a minute, Deuteronomy 8:18, you can read it later, it says, but remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth. So wait a minute, so the ability—

I lost a few people when I started talking about that. It's okay, stay broke. But those of you that want to increase and take over and fulfill your dreams, you're going to need wealth to do it.

Stay with me. Glory to God.

Yeah, keep scrolling if you don't want to hear this, but the reality is, if you want to move in the realm of dominion, wealth is a part of that.

And more part of my job is to help you advance into that mindset. The Lord says, I give you power to get wealth, to produce it.

And this is according to the covenant that he made with those that were before us. God says that same blessing is on you. That same ability to produce wealth is in you.

Rub your belly, say, it's in me, I'm one of them. To produce wealth. Type it in the comments. I am one of them. I am one of them.

You have the power to produce wealth.

You have the ability to produce wealth.

I'm almost finished, man. See, the future that we need to create is going to leave legacy, as I was talking in the beginning, and I'm almost done. It's going to require wealth. Wealth cannot happen— watch this— and we cannot advance— here we go— without seed.

We cannot reap a harvest in a field where we have not sown.

So we want to reap a harvest in the medical field, we got to sow doctors in that field.

One of my doc— one of my daughters is going to medical school.

She received a prophetic sequence that she's gonna be a doctor.

So she's enrolled in school, she's trying to do what she has to do. Never thought her life would be placed on this trajectory at this season, but she's one of those seeds we have to plant in the medical field so we could take over that field. We got to take over the kingdoms of man. We cannot reap a harvest in a field where we have not sown. If we want to reap harvest in the media kingdom, we got to sow entrepreneurs in the media kingdom. And we want to reap harvest in the political kingdom, we got to sow politicians who are saved, sanctified, filled with the Holy Ghost. Whichever man soweth, that shall he reap. We cannot reap a harvest in a field where we haven't sown. Oh boy, if we want wealth financially, we got to sow. We got to have a sense of gratitude where we give. Some people take this part of the gospel lightly, but we have to become big-time sowers. We— and we have to make that a priority in 2024 if we're going to advance our money. We got to give.

Oh boy, how about this?

People have been running around all month getting ready to give on Monday, which is Christmas Day. People have taken out loans so they can give on Christmas Day. And listen, Christmas is one of my favorite times of year. You know, there are people who have—

you know, I know all of the theology and things about trees and all that stuff. Listen, just just don't bother me.

Glory to God, I love Christmas, I love Jesus.

I'm not worshiping a tree.

Glory to God. Here's what I hate about the holiday— it's so commercialized where people forget that the principle of giving should carry over beyond December 25th. We should be giving all year. And not just when we feel like it. And some of you are stuck financially because you, you, you are a thermometer when it comes to giving. You gotta feel it. You gotta get tricked and gotta have some kind of gimmick. It ought to be in your DNA because you know nothing can be established without wealth, and you know you got to get seed in the ground so you could produce wealth. Are you hearing me? Oh boy, I know we don't like to talk about money and sex at church, but I'm sorry, we gotta talk about it because the brokest demographic on Earth is church folk.

And our God owns everything— that, that don't even look right, y'all.

I'm telling you, that's a real— that's real empirical data. People who attend church, particularly African Americans— hear me, don't scroll, please stay with me, I'm measuring you. Yeah, this is measurement, glory to God, this measurement right here. Hear me, hear me when I tell you, African American churchgoers are the— among the poorest individuals in the world, not just in the US, in the world.

Because we jump and shout, speak in tongues, but we don't invest in what we believe in. And I'm not talking about the church, I'm talking about God. Because every time you give, you give to him. And the moment you minimize this to a person You've missed it.

You've missed it.

Oh my God, you have missed it. His reality, guys, and I'm done. Give and it shall be given to you, good measure, pressed down, running over, shall men—

good to good person.

Hear this, and you don't have to believe me. I just put my iPad down. I'm done. You create your future financially with your seed. Hear me, guys. The future you desire is created with your seed. Somebody say, Apostle, it's talking about money again. I'm gonna be talking about money until Jesus come back because I want you to have some. And listen, I told you just day before yesterday, I got wisdom tooth extracted. I probably shouldn't be talking this much, but I needed to share this with you because again, the 3 most important things for 2024: apostolic architecture, apostolic alignment, apostolic advancement. Architecture— I'm going to see the design, the plan for my life. Oh God. Alignment— I'm going to align myself with the Holy Spirit to follow him and to do what he says. To connect with the right leadership, to align with an advancement. I'm going to advance into a position of authority and wealth because under his right hand I have the pleasures of life. I'll have— I'll please him with my life. But you got to get seed in the ground, guys. You got to sow yourself, your gifts, your talents, your anointings. And you, if you want to reap money, you got to sow money.

You want love?

You sow love, you get love back. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over shall men give to your bosom.

You want peace?

Sow peace to somebody else, you get peace back. But you want some money, you have to give money. Let me let you, let you know a secret. In 2022, the Ku Klux Klan— hear me, a hate organization— raised $24 million. $1 million plus for their organization. Terrible organization, but the people in it believe in it and they gave to it. Craziness. The reality is, if the people of God from churches all over the country, people who love Jesus, would give and sow seeds The things we could do— have our own banks, develop our own communities, employ people, empower entrepreneurs. We could create a trillion-dollar economy inside of the kingdom. We can bail the world out, bail the government out with all the people who say they love God if we simply did what we were supposed to do. I'm done, y'all. I love y'all so much. Father, bless your people. May this word land on the good ground of their heart, and may they reap it in due season if they faint not. In Jesus' name, amen. And thanks be to God. Listen, I love you guys so much.

I want you to give tonight.

Get your seed in the ground. Amen. I'm gonna put the ways to give on the screen. They're running on the bottom of the screen. Listen, I'm not going to tell you what to do, but I command your seed in this very moment to be multiplied a thousand times more. Can I be very honest and transparent with you? Many times, on many occasions, when I challenge people to give online, we— even when we have, like last week, we had over 1,800 people watch us on Facebook Live, right at about a thousand on YouTube. Week before that, 3,200 on YouTube, 2,000 on Facebook. Numbers were low tonight for whatever reason. It's okay. But even in that, we have a very small number of people that actually support. Listen, I'm so blessed. I don't need your money personally. I really don't. But what you do is position yourself to receive because you're sowing in good ground. Glory to God. And you help us to continue to do what God has called us to do. You become a partner with us in getting that done. So if every person tonight that's watching us, I just want you to change— I listen, we were getting excited. That's saying them numbers don't mean nothing if people don't engage and get involved and connect to what you're doing.

They're taking.

At any time you come to something and you didn't come to give, you came to take.

So I—

tonight, listen, I need you guys that are still with me, every one of you, if you hear me right now, don't cut it off because you heard that. I need you to give. The ways to give are at the bottom of the screen. Get your miracle faith offering in the ground now, whatever that is, whatever increment that is. You can go to Cash App, Rodder Church, or rodderchurch.com/donate. If you'd like to do it through Zelle, uh, get your seed in the ground.

Glory to God.

You can do it at info@rodderchurch.com. However you choose to do it, glory to God, your gifts are very, very, very appreciated. And I command it again to multiply even now as you're giving, a thousand times more. I love you guys. Listen, here's a few announcements. Y'all pray for us. Glory to God. Again, I got to go get Ben from the airport.

Praise God.

Uh, y'all pray for us. Uh, this weekend, uh, I have to, uh, drive to Mississippi tomorrow, um, and then we'll be back home on Saturday. We will be in service on Christmas Eve. Listen, guys, 3 PM Christmas Eve. Be in the house at Rhoda Church. It's going to be absolutely, categorically phenomenal. You need to be in the place on Sunday. We're going to be talking again about living without regrets next year. I'm going to give you some powerful principles that I believe will help you walk through next year without regrets. Glory to the name of God. So join us on Sunday. Then on New Year's Eve at not 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock PM at Rhoda Church, we will have our New Year's Eve celebration. Please join us. I want to get you in and out, but I'm going to be casting vision for 2024 and encouraging you. And God is— he's empowered my gifts, glory to God, to minister and prophesy to as many as you as he will lead me on that Sunday to give you a word for 2024. So make sure you, my friends, are in the house. Put this in your calendar: January 7th and 8th, my spiritual father Apostle Stephen A. Davis from Birmingham, Alabama will be in the house. Two powerful services on Sunday at 6, on Monday at 6, 6:30, I'm sorry, 6:30 PM, you need to be in the house. Uh, if you are in Fivefold Ministry, we will be hosting a VIP reception after the service on each night. In order to get in the reception, you need to RSVP. You cannot be in the reception if you have not RSVP'd. So do me a favor, guys, RSVP by texting the words RSVP— the letters RSVP to 877-638-7285. That's 877-638-7285, and you will be on the list. Many are already RSVPing. We're gonna have to cut it off at a certain number, so go ahead and reserve your spot now for January 7th, 8th. I love you guys. I expect to see all of our Rada family there. Uh, my spiritual father is going to be there, and you need to sit under this anointing. I promise you, you're going to be blessed. I love you guys. Y'all be blessed. Have a super night. God bless you.