VIRTUAL WORSHIP _ 8_23_2020 _ RADAH CHURCH _ PROCREATING IN HIS PRESENCE _ DR MIKE WOODS SR

Praise God and God bless you. Grace and peace be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. My name is Apostle Michael Woods. For those of you who are uninitiated, it is my great pleasure, glory to God, to be with you today. And I want to welcome you to Rhoda Church's virtual worship experience. Listen, don't scroll, don't move away from this. You are here right now because you're supposed to be here. Let's pray and ask God's blessing upon our time together, and we're gonna get right into everything we have to do on today. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you. Glory to God, and we give you glory and we praise you. Psalm 146:1, it begins by saying, "Praise ye the Lord." Hallelujah. It concludes by saying, "Praise ye the Lord." Psalm 147—1 begins by saying praise ye Lord! It concludes my sayin' Praise Ye Thee Lordeh? Psalm 148-1 beginns bae saiyn Praaaze Yee thee Lordeeh?! I concludez bei seiym Prayze yeee tee lordeehehh??? Psalms chapter 149 starts off bi sayn', "Praize ye de Lorree!" And it concluzed bey saynin,' 'praise you lord.' So one fifty-an-one beegin's bui sain'. Praise ye de Lorey!! You concluds buy saiyng... Praise ye the Lord. Let everything that hath breath praise God. And that's what we're here for today, God, to give you glory. We're going to praise you through the word. We're going to praise you through worship. And we thank you for this opportunity. May your power be with us today, in Jesus' name. Amen. And thank God. Listen, right where you are, praise ye the Lord. Those last 5 verses in Psalm 1 46 through Psalm 150. Those last 5 divisions, they starting in with the command, praise ye the Lord. Listen, if you got breath in your body right now, right there in your home, in your car, in your living room, I want you to give God the best praise you possibly can right now. Glory be to God, he's worthy. Handa basi, bris kantolo bokosia, of the glory, honor, and praise. Glory to Well, our scripture reading for today's service, glory to God, is coming from Matthew's Gospel, uh, chapter number 9. Praise God. And I'm reading out of NIV. Glory to God. It says this, verse number 1: Jesus stepped into a boat, crossed over, and came to his own town. Some men brought to him a paralyzed man lying on a mat. Then Jesus saw their faith. He said to the man, take heart, son, your sins are forgiven. At this, some of the teachers of the law said to themselves, this fellow is blaspheming. Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, why do you entertain evil thoughts in your heart? Which is easier to say, your sins are forgiven, or to say, get up and walk? But I want you to know that the Son of Man— hear this— has authority on earth to forgive sin. So he said to the paralyzed man, get up, take up your mat, and go home. Listen, the authority of Jesus Christ has the ability to override religious ideas, religious thoughts, the world systems and ways of doing things. Here was a man that was paralyzed from birth. Jesus said to him, First of all, I'm gonna get rid of the cause of your situation, the curse, which is sin. And then I want you to rise up and take up your bed and walk. Listen, we live in a system in the world that's paralyzed. And Jesus is saying to us today, arise, take up our bed and walk. Our sins are forgiven. We need to go ahead and move forward and do the things that God has called us to do. So far, the scripture, that was Matthew's Gospel, chapter 9, verses 1 through 6. Glory to God. So I'm super excited today, and I'm— listen, this is the day the Lord has made. It's Sunday, and we will rejoice. Hallelujah! And be glad in it. I got a word tonight, and I want to share with you, but before I do, praise God, just want to share a few things with you. Praise the name of Jesus. Number 1, we need your support. Glory to the name of God. Rather Church, glory to the name of God, is a blessed church. God has blessed Lady Felicia and I, and we have the ability to carry the things that God has told us to do, and we're grateful for that. But those of you that listen, praise God, and support us in your presence through watching these videos, those of you that are part of the church, you know, giving and receiving is a part of your own economic stability. And as an apostle today in the Lord's church, I speak economic stability to you right now. The Bible says he gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater. He says, bring all of your tithe and offering to the storehouse, that there may be meat in my house. He said, prove me with it, and I'll open the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing you won't have room enough to receive. Listen, if you're hearing me now, I want to challenge you to shift your economy. I decree and declare through the government that's on my life as an apostle, that your economic situation is shifting now. Listen, if you can tithe off your $30,000 a year job, if you could tithe off your $18,000, $100,000 a year job, God can trust you with more. I want to challenge you to give your tithe this morning, to bring your offering. Some of you have financial dilemmas in your life. In your businesses. And this seed is for you. You need to plant this seed. Give your tithe this morning. Right now you need to sow. It's not an option, ladies and gentlemen. Giving is a part of your economic release. Some of you yet struggle economically because you've handled the tithe. You've handled your offering improperly. So there are 3 ways to give at Rhoda Church. One, you could text the word Rhoda Give to 31996, and you'll get a link. Click that link and give your offering. Just that simple. You can give online at rhodachurch.com/donate. And finally, you can give via Cash App. Simply, the Cash App for Rhoda Church is Rhoda Church. Those 3 ways are on the screen. I want to challenge you right now to give your offering and watch the Lord bless you. Father, I pray for those that are getting ready to give now, and I thank you, dear God, that their seed will not fall to the ground. And according to your word, I thank you that you will take what they give and they will reap a harvest according to their seed, for that's what your word declared. And I thank you that increase come to every house under the sound of my voice. I decree that poverty is broken in the name of Jesus. I declare now that no weapon formed against our economies, our finances, is able to prosper. But I declare that with your stripes we're healed, even financially, even in the midst of a terrible economy. I thank you that you're taking what we have and you're turning it into what we need and what we desire. I declare every person under the sound of my voice has plenty of money money to give away all the time, in the name of Jesus. Amen and thank God. Go ahead, utilize the ways on the screen and give your offering. Praise God. While you're preparing your offering, I want to share a very important announcement with you. Glory to God. Coming up September 11th through the 13th. Yes, the 11th through the 13th. We're going to have a weekend that is going to make history. Lives are going to be changed. Souls are going to be saved. And you need to be a part of it. I want to challenge you to join me at Rhoda Church for Emergence Bounce Back Better. I'm coming. We're coming back and we're going to be better. Than ever. Hallelujah! Glory to God! Check out this announcement, and then I'll be back. Glory to God with the word of the living God. God bless you. I was glad when they said unto me. I was glad when they said unto me. Oh, I was glad when they said unto me. Oh, let us go into the house of the Lord. Listen, I'm super excited about the opportunity to return to God's house. And listen, it's time. The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, son, it's time. And so we're moving in strict obedience and we're trusting God. Glory to the name of God, that the people of God will understand just how important the church is. I want to take an opportunity to personally invite you to meet me at Rhoda Church as we return to the house of God. We're going to spend 3 days, September 11th, 12th, and 13th, in a weekend called Emergence: Bounce Back Better. Listen, I want you to make plans to join us for 5 dynamic services. I have some great speakers Apostle Brandon Cornelius. God wants to open doors. I see 4 specific doors that God wants to open for you in this territory. God wants to open for you in this region, but it will not be open in silence. It will not be open if you don't open up your mouth. Your mouth has the keys. Yes, God! Apostle Jerry Howard. So if you have the King on the inside of you resident, then you have the kingdom on the inside of you. The kingdom, it's not external, it's not far off, it is right here within us and among us. And of course, myself will be speaking, and then our anointed praise and worship leaders for the weekend, Harry and LaChelsie King. Listen, I am super excited about what's going to happen. Again, the dates to save are September 11th, 12th, and 13th. You don't want to miss this meeting. It's going to be supernatural. Oh, hallelujah! You're all we need. Ikanda la la la la la. You're all, you're all we need. Oh, come let us Adore him. Oh, come, let us adore him. Oh, come, let us adore him. Christ the Lord. Father, your presence is simply all we need. Come on, right there, just worship him just a few seconds. Your presence is all that we need. Glory! Your presence is all that we need. Father, we praise you. Let your anointing rest through this word, God. May the people be blessed by you and never impressed by me. In Jesus' name, amen and thank God. Oh, I feel the presence of God in here today. Hallelujah! Glory be to the Lamb of God, Jesus our King, our Lord, and our God. Hallelujah! We bless you, God, and we honor your great and high name. You're wonderful and mighty. You're glorious and awesome. Thank you, God. Well, today, glory to God, we're going to Psalm 16. This will be the foundation about teaching. We'll look at several passages today, but the Lord, uh, has given me this word and I want to share it. We're basically, uh, transitioning through our series How Lovely Is This Church. And you know, what happens corporately cannot happen singularly. It cannot happen when you're in a singular position. uh, where it's just you and God. There's something that happens when we come together. There's something that happens when we assemble. And the more I look at what our world is going through right now, this pandemic, this crisis that the earth has been in, uh, one of the things I'm clear about— God did not cause it, but I am clear that he allowed it. He allowed it for a season of isolation that will produce intimacy with him. And each other. And he wanted us to re-examine our ways of doing things. And I need you to be clear today that that season, my God, has come to an end. Uh, we have to now emerge, and we have to emerge better than we've been. And we have to enter into his presence with thanksgiving, into his courts with praise. Uh, not into your living room, not into, uh, your bedroom. Not— some of you watching me right now in your pajamas— not into, praise God, my God, uh, your dining room. But he said, enter his courts. Uh, this is— and you can make this what you want it to be, but literally, the literal interpretation of that particular text in Psalm was about the pilgrimage that the children of Israel were making to the house of God. And when they got to the house of God, the declaration was, we enter with thanksgiving. We enter his courts where he dwells, where he lives, where his kingship and his majesty sits with praise. And it's a trick of the enemy to keep us out of church. And so we have to make a supernatural decision in faith to trust God in this season to go into the house of God. Now granted, some people have prematurely entered into this idea and they didn't move with wisdom or all the instructions, but I have waited on God and we're moving forward with all the instructions as we go back into the house of God. So today We're going to read the foundation of this teaching and then we're going to get into it. All right. Psalm 16, verses 11, verse 11. It says, you make known to me the path of life. You will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at thy right hand. King James says, thou, oh my God, thou will show me the path of life, for in thy presence is fullness, my God, of joy, and at thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore. So there are a few things the text suggests. One, that God will open our eyes and show us the path. The word path in Hebrew is orach. Which is where we get words like architecture, ark or ark, architecture in English. And it is the design or the pattern preplanned or created. Watch this in advance. Now, God says, I'll show you, I will procreate. I will cause your eyes to see something you've never seen before. And I'll show you what your— the design of your life looks like. Every life listening to me has a design. Touch yourself and say, my life has a design. Glory to God. I want you to know your life has a design that God, as an architect, designed, procreated. He's for creation, procreation. He procreated in that man. He wants to show you that. He says, in thy presence, thy pre-sense, in advance again, pre-sense, thy intelligence, what you thought through, your logical reasoning for creating me, is fullness of joy. Inside of God's plan inside of God's purpose, inside— glory to the name of God— of God's idea. We give you praise. Hallelujah. We give you glory. There is fullness of joy. Somebody say fullness of joy. Hallelujah. Fullness of joy. My God. So, and then he says, at his right hand, in that same presence, in his hand of authority or place of authority, there are pleasures forevermore. Watch this. Pleasures, two words: please and yore. Yore means to extract, extrapolate. So now the word please means to satisfy with good things or something good. So God says in his right hand, he extrapolates satisfaction of good things out of our life. So today I want to talk about procreating through his presence. Procreating through his presence. First of all, let's get a working definition of procreation. The term Procreation means to reproduce, to breed, to generate, or propagate. And in this message today, I want to explore how the seed of God's presence— hear me— how the seed of God's presence is passed on from generation to generation through supernatural revelation knowledge. I'll say that again. In the message today, we're going to explore how my God, God's presence, his power, his plans, his purpose is passed on through generations through supernatural revelation knowledge. Are y'all hearing this? So again, we're talking about procreating through his presence. So we're going to look at the technology of light. Jesus says, I am the way, the truth, and the life, not light. But watch this. He says, thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light Oh my God, unto thy path. He says of the church, you are a city that sits on a hill which cannot be hidden. In other words, we are light sitting on a hill that offers direction for the rest of the world. That's how it should be, not the other way around. The world shouldn't be directing us. We should be setting a standard of what it looks like to follow God in a pandemic, what it looks like— oh my God— what it looks like to follow God in economic crisis, what it looks like to follow God when racial tension arises, and not take our cues from the media. Oh my God. And not take our cues— glory to God— from those who are not even saved. See, we're sitting up listening to CNN, getting inebriated and drunk of the Antichrist's spirit to drive us into fear and division when that is not how God is thinking. Let me go, let me move, let me move. So revelation, knowledge, and light are synonymous. Illumination. Let's go to Psalm 84 real quick. Let me show you something. Psalm 84. I told you we're going to look at a few passages. Psalm 84. And verse number 11. Watch this. For the Lord God is a sun. The sun induces massive light, but the Lord God is a sun. He is illumination. He's light. So watch this. He gives us revelation. He opens, he removes the darkness from how we view things. Glory to God. He helps us to see things through his eyes. He brightens our eyes. So we got a sun, S-U-N, worldview. So we view the world in light and not darkness. See, many of you been viewing the world. Oh my God. Oh God. You've been viewing the world through a lens that was handed to you by the world. But I want you to know, part of the benefit package of being saved and your relationship with God is viewing your life— oh my God— is viewing, praise the name of God, the world and the current events of the world through the eyes of God. He's a sun. He illuminates things and makes us see things differently. Ha! My God, in here today. Whoa, by Jesus! He's a sun and he's a shield. He protects us, he covers us, he's got you. Glory! Just touch yourself and say, the Lord guides me. He's a shield. Now if you believe that, you gotta believe that now. That means you're protected from coronavirus. You're protected from onslaught from the enemy. You're protected from cancer. Come on, church. You're protected from diabetes, high blood pressure. He's a shield. He protects us from the will of the enemy, from curses, from— and every bad thing is under the curse. The Bible says he's redeemed us from the curse of the law. Every bad thing is under the curse. Sickness, poverty. He protects us. He's the shield that covers us from those things. And if we're walking in those things, somehow you just need to examine yourself. You have eased out from under the hand of protection. Oh, have mercy. Oh my God. He says the Lord bestows favor and honor. He gives us favor with him favor with man, and he gives us honor. Hallelujah! That we're honored by the world. There's a system that should be in place, man. Well, those of us that say we believe, the world should honor and have a certain amount of respect for us because of the power that we walk in. And oh my God, and not that we're bigger and better than them, it's only to make them desire what we have. Oh my God, oh my God, I'll say that again. It's only to make them desire what we have. Let me keep reading. He will hold no good thing from them who walk upright before him. So the Lord God is light and shield. He's light and protection. He's illumination and protection. Now watch this. God, if he's light and illumination, his knowledge is light and illumination as well. So God and his knowledge cannot be separated. Hear me, I said it again, God and his knowledge cannot be separated. He is completely made of what he knows, and he completely knows what he is made of. I'm gonna say that again. God is completely made of what he knows. I'll say it one more time. God knows completely, and he is completely made of what he knows. In other words, oh my God, the highest expression of God's plans His nature and his will is found in the fact of what he knows. Watch this. It's found in what he knows about us and what he knows about himself. What makes God so powerful is not the fact that he sits on his throne and he's God all by himself. What makes him powerful is that he knows what he put in you and I, and he's very clear that if you and I ever emerge— whoo!— to be everything that he created us to be— good God from Zion— oh my God, if we ever emerge to walk in that light— let me get these monitors out my ear— if we ever emerge to walk in that light Praise God. In the light of what he made us, in the light of who we are in him— good God Almighty— the world will begin to structure itself around the knowledge of God. See, the world is limited in knowing what God knows because most of us who say we know God don't know what he know. Because we have not tapped into the light that's found in his presence. We have not tapped into what he has structured, the path of life, the procreation that he's embedded in us. Listen, the release of God's knowledge has the ability to develop and multiply his children on the earth. It's going to bring people to him. It's going to bring people in the kingdom. And listen, these children that come to God, they will possess all of the Father's traits, all of his character, all of his power. They'll have access to his resources. But we got to unlock the mind of God, climb up in his mind and extrapolate out of his mind what he knows, not what you've been taught. Not what you read in a book, not what you mimicked somebody else doing, but I'm talking about really in reality climbing up into the mind of God, tapping into a dimension in prayer that is beyond your religious experience and extrapolating out of God's thought processes, his character, his nature, his will, his power, his resources, his economy, so that we can change the world. Listen, if we're gonna go back to having church like we was before— no, we don't need to go back. I'm gonna say that again. If we're going back to church like we left it, oh my God, if we're going back like we left it, just stay at home. Keep— Pastor, just keep your doors closed. Just keep talking on Zoom. Keep talking on Facebook. If you're going back the way you was before you left, don't go back. I don't care who you are— big church, little church, medium-sized church— glory to God. If you ain't got no power, shut up. If you just got expressive words, swelling words, and you got just a large massive following that follows you for popularity but you have no power, shut up and stay at home. Glory to— I said it— glory to God, because God wants us to bounce back better and he wants us to emerge better. That's why this crap was allowed in the first place, because we had too many lazy people who God had to get the attention of, who was just doing stuff out of their carnality, out of their flesh, going to church Sunday after Sunday, mounting the pulpit because it was good business, with no power, no oil, no anointing, no authority. Shut up in the name of Jesus until you get it together, until you mature in the things of God, until you really know how to climb up, not into your hermeneutical ability, not into your ability to pontificate and intellectualize and adjust the text so that the hearers can be mesmerized by your way of speech. No, I'm talking about climbing up in the mind of God, So you open up God's mind and his thoughts, and then when you speak, you speak from the perspective of his light. Okay, calm down, Michael. Glory to God, we got to get it together, we got to get it together. Glory to God. So as we tap into the mind of God, what we tend to do, saints, is we begin to develop and release and create generations who walk in this same process and protocol of leaning on God for real, for everything they do. As each generation develops and multiplies, it passes on the genes. The root of the word generation is genes. Generation. The genes— watch this— for a greater level of functionality in the kingdom and for greater spiritual fitness. Oh, oh, greater spiritual fitness where you're in shape spiritually so that every generation now has a model that they can imitate that's growing and maturing into greater dimensions and levels. See, without the genes of God's revelation and truth— hear me— each generation is going to simply be a duplicate of its predecessor without ever evolving into the nature of God's desire and plans. And God knows we don't need to fall into the pattern of any predecessor. We need to always be progressive because God is so vast and his movement is so vast that we have to constantly be progressing with the things of the spirit and how they are progressing. Come on here, we got to progress with God. We got to move with God. Are y'all hearing me? God have mercy. I got to get through this. So procreating through the presence— remember again, to reproduce, to breed, to generate, or propagate. You cannot procreate without a seed. And the power, the presence, and the knowledge of the living God exists in seed form watch this just like anything else living. If we can agree that God is alive, and I'm here to tell you, yeah, by— oh Jesus, he's alive for real. I gotta go back to church, y'all. I can't wait to September 11th. Glory to God. Listen, listen. I can't hear— I can't wait to hear the sound of the cymbals and the high-sounding cymbals and the drums, and the string instruments and the organ and piano. I can't wait. O tabasikiaia, to go back into the house. Listen, you got to understand, if we can agree that God is alive— let me stay on track here, I ain't got much time left. If we can agree that God is alive, then in order for what he produces to live, it has to start as a seed. That was his pattern for doing things. All life begins with a seed. Matter of fact, the word seed in Greek is sperma, which means to set life in motion. So everything procreated is procreated because of a seed. Hallelujah, Jesus! Urabassa mamango siati bre kalamandolo bokushkaya. I need you to hear me. The seed of all living things, again, is the substratum of the genesis of his life. And so this seed is the impartation of knowledge and light, this seed of knowledge and light is the impartation of the I Am experience that spiritual patriarchs, fathers— hear this— give to their sons and daughters. So this is why you need relationship with your spiritual patriarch and/or matriarch, because at the end of the day, it is through what is in them that they impart the deeper experiences into you. Well, you can't get those experiences imparted to you if you're not around the leaders, if you're not corporately around where you can receive what is coming out of the— how can you hear without a preacher? How could he preach except he be sent? It's one of the reasons we assemble. So that what's in the spiritual parent— and let me tell you something, the limitations of what you get is based on the level of maturity that is found in the man of God that's standing in front of you, or the woman of God that's standing in front of you. Now you can take that to the bank. You may get emotional, you may jump up and down, you may be all mesmerized because the church is so huge. Oh my God, the choir is so big. There ain't no power in there. Come on now. And at the end of the day, the preacher is carnal. He has no life in the spirit that's taking you where you— that's why many of you are sitting up in churches now and you're despondent. Oh my God, that's why people— yeah, I, I, I really don't care. Glory to God, I really don't care because I got to do what the Lord told me to do. And like it or lump it, this is the truth. And many of you can bear witness to it. You sitting up in churches where you're not growing. Well, most of y'all ain't sitting up nowhere now. And now you following the folk that everybody else sitting up in their church just because they popular online, and you're watching their services and you still ain't growing. You feel good, you embrace another religious habit, but you're not being challenged to go deeper. I'm telling you right now, there's more. There's an experience, and I call it the I Am experience again, that you experience God at a level where everything God is, it begins to get passed on to you. And whatever he says he is, that, that's what you are. And not— you don't just say that, but you become that. Oh my God. Naturally, hear me, I'm moving. And spiritually, when a seed is planted, here it is, according to scriptures, it produces after its own kind, and eventually it brings forth more seeds of its kind. The desire of a seed, the purpose of a seed is to keep producing over and over and over again. That's why if you get a harvest of watermelons, about 300 watermelons maybe is going to come in that harvest. But inside of each watermelon may be 50, 60 seeds. So let's, let's just say so we've got a good number. This may not be accurate. Let's say you got 50 seeds in one watermelon and you got a harvest of 300. You go 50 times 300, you do the math. Come on, church, 15,000 seeds to sow again, way more than the harvest, so that you can keep producing more and more and more watermelons. Well, that's how it is in the realm of the spirit. Spiritually, we have to keep sowing and plowing so that we can continually reproduce others who are growing and expanding in God. See, thank you, Father. Through this process, there will always be increase. As long as there's a seed, there's an opportunity for life, and there's an opportunity for growth and continued life. Uh, let's go to the text. Glory to God. Let's go to Psalm 22, verse 30. Psalm 22:30. Watch this. Let me say this before I read it. This generation we live in has a potential to reach far into the future, even into those that have not been born yet. Let me show you, let me show you. Psalm 22. The Bible says a seed shall serve him. Oh, it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation. They shall come, declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that hath he done— that— watch this— that he hath done this. So, oh my God, so Let's look at this in the natural first. So a patriarch, or a paternal architect— patriarch, paternal architect— they begin the lineage of a tribe by planting what? A biological seed. God is no different. Since he is the paternal architect of all creation, The book of Genesis shows us the master pattern of how all living things come to exist. God— watch this— spoke everything into existence with his word. His word became the seed, y'all. And watch this, the word is the seed of his presence. So every time God spoke, he got what he spoke. Let us make man. Bam! Man's made, formed from the dust of the ground. Breathe in him breath of life, man becomes a living soul. He speaks to ground, ground gives him living creeping things. Speaks to water, gives him fish. Speaks to air, gives him birds. Everything made, the seed of his word made it. He's the paternal architect of all creation. So that means everything that we make now and innovate and create, we ought to be putting the word on it first. Oh my God, we ought to be saying it until we see it. Glory, glory to God. We ought to be saying it until we see it. Listen, I'm getting ahead of myself. Let's go, let's go. So God's the patriarch and father of all creation, right? He's the paternal architect. Just like if you're a man, you're the paternal architect of your family. You sow a biological seed. Your son, if you have a son, will sow another biological seed to keep your family legacy going. We, we gotta keep sowing the word and procreating in the presence of God. Let's go to Genesis 8:22. It teaches us this: while the earth remains Oh boy, while the earth remains, seedtime, seedtime, and harvest. 3 things there: seedtime and harvest. As long as the earth is here, let's deal with the middle matter. We'll be bound by time. Glory to God. We, we have been given a construct of time, a matrix of time, if you will. We've been given this matrix of time, glory to God, for the envelopment of seed. Esh katabaya. Glory to God. Listen, you got to understand something. God says as long as we're here We ought to be sowing the seed of his word, sowing the seed of his presence, sowing the seed of his power, sowing the seed of his knowledge. Oh my God. So that we can keep harvesting. As long as the earth here, we can keep harvesting. See, when the seed of God's presence is planted in a spiritual leader, hear this, it is passed on to the sons and daughters of that leader, and the harvest will come forth in the form of a highly empowered, powerful, rich, wealthy, supernatural generation. That's why we keep sowing. That's why we keep giving. What's in us. Listen, they proclaim as leaders the might and dominion of Almighty God, and the nature of this Almighty God is transferred from generation to generation, just as in the natural family traits are passed from generation to generation. We gotta establish generations that move into the future. Listen, let me, let me, let me— I gotta go, my time is gone. We gotta plant the seed of his word. See, when the word is being planted consistently and constantly throughout the earth and throughout the world My God. And when believers are moving in the power of God and, and people are living a tangible reality of what they're learning, now when you encounter people, they will not just encounter you, they will encounter the I AM. Oh my God. Because the I AM of God will be present in the bloodline of the entire generation. See, in a spiritual lineage, when seed is sown, hallelujah, into those that we connect with, and that seed continues to multiply and duplicate, and it continues to increase and increase, there is a succession that takes place. There is a— my God— plumb line that's established, a standard, if you will, that says this is the standard of the kingdom. Not— oh my God— the standard of the kingdom ought to be based in what God said. It not ought to be based in what CNN says. God said with his stripes I'm healed. God said— oh my God— he would that I prosper and be in health. Listen, we have to set the standard that is in our bloodline and not just in what we say. See, when the I Am of God is in the presence of the bloodline— I got to go because I feel like preaching. Glory to God. It causes people to desire the things that are important to God. Lord, help me. Oh, shatabansi. And in every generation, I want you to understand, when we walk like this, there will be an increased hunger for God. I believe right now, more than ever in the world, my God, there is a hunger for God where people don't have to be enticed or enforced to, or pushed, or bullied to desire him. Because I believe that there's a group of people that's got God in their genes. Oh my God, whoa! They ain't got to be made to go to the church. They ain't got to be made to take the position of a learner. They don't have to be made to study their Bible. They don't have to be made to worship or pray. But God is in their genes. Do I have anybody that's listening to me now? God is in your genes. I dare you, type it on the screen. Type, God is in my genes. I dare you, shout, it's in the bloodline. Glory to God. See, he procreated you. He, he caused you. When he breathed breath into your structure, glory to God, you became a living nephesh, a living soul. He is with you. I got to get out of here, man. I got to bridge out of this. Go to Ephesians 1:17. Let's go. I have to finish this next week. Listen, each generation that arises— I'm closing my Bible— will be stronger than the previous generation because God passes the seed along. And as the seed grows from generation to generation as it gets stronger and stronger and stronger. Jesus started it. He said, these things I've done, and but I'ma sow a seed right here, greater things you shall do because I go to my Father. When you die, leader, the people that you have led and poured into, they ought to do greater than you did. Your children should do greater than you have done. Oh my God, because of the seed you planted them, because of what you pour into their lives. I got to get out of here. Glory to God. See, God not only enhances the generation with the traits, but there is a distinctive, tangible fruit of enlightenment, of knowledge that's on the life of that one that follows God. Lord, help me here. I got to go, man. Somebody say that. Say, the fruit of enlightenment. Let's read Ephesians 1:17-18, and I'm going. The scripture says, I pray that the Lord God of the that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him, that the eyes of your understanding being enlightened— there it is, enlightened— that you may know what is the hope of his calling and what are the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints. Listen, in this text, enlightenment directly relates to inheritance of the saints. Glory to God. Let's look at one more. Colossians 1:12, it says, giving thanks to the Father which has made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light. The inheritance of the saints only works in its full potential when we are in Light. Oh God, God wants to procreate with his presence. He wants his light— glory to God— his revelation knowledge to be superimposed upon all of us. Listen, this is needed to ensure the continued development and continuity of mature sons in the kingdom of God. We gotta plant the seed. We gotta procreate in his presence, in his intelligence. I said a lot, it was a little tired. I'll finish this next week. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for your word today. I pray that it has landed on the good ground of every heart. And that your people may reap it in due season if they faint not. I decree and declare today that no weapon formed against them will be able to prosper. I thank you that they are victorious over the enemy and the world can't do them no harm. We give you glory for it now. Thank you for the light, the illumination, and the intelligence and protection of the Holy Ghost. I hear you, God. In Jesus' name, amen. Listen, I just heard this in my spirit. I need you to obey God. I don't do this often, but whenever the Lord tells me— Psalm 84:11, we read it— the Lord your God is a sun, illumination, revelation. You don't need a million dollar you need a revelation. You need innovation. You need to see things the way God sees them. He's a shield. He's protection. He's your protection in all this crap that's going on. He gives favor and honor and grace. He'll withhold no good thing from those that walk upright. That was Psalm 84:11. Here's what I heard God say right now, right where you are. I need you to sow to sow a seed of $84.11 into that text so that the illumination, the light of God, can begin to shine upon you like never before. I need you to seal this word with a seed. Set life in motion. I just talked about it with anything, even with your money. Every time you release it, it comes out of your hand, it moves into your future, waiting for you to get there to give you a Harvest. I need you to sow it now. $84.11. Sow your special seed. You can do it by Cash App at Rhoda Church, or you can go online, rhodachurch.com/give. I need you to do it now. Regardless of what you've already done, I need you to trust God with $84.11. That is the seed in this moment right now. Do it. Don't be selfish. Don't miss what God has for you. So many people are so disobedient when it comes to sowing, and you think you can do it on your own. But the Bible says, glory to the name of God, is more blessed to give than it is to receive. Would you trust God with that seed now, in Jesus' name? Hallelujah. My time is up, y'all, but perhaps you're watching me today and you're not saved, and you said Michael Woods, I want to be born again. I want the presence of God to flow in my life. Just repeat after me. This is how it happens. You confess with your mouth, you believe in your heart, you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior. The Bible says you're saved. I want you to repent right now. Say this with me. Say, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, say, I repent of my sin. Say, thank you, Lord, for coming into my life. Life. So I open my heart and I receive you. Say, I confess that you are Lord. Say, I confess that I am a sinner. Say, Lord, I believe that you died and rose again. Say, live in me, save me, in Jesus' name. Amen. Listen, if you prayed that prayer, your sins are forgiven. I want you to write me at the information on the screen and say, Apostle Woods, I want to know all about salvation. I want to know what my next step is. I want to share that with you. Write me at the email address on the screen and I'll be glad to help you. Listen, don't forget, September 11th through the 13th, Emergence is happening. I'll see you guys then. See you next week. Remember, share this word with a friend. And remember, your decisions determine your destiny. God bless you. Peace.