Virtual Worship | 8-30-2020 | Radah Church | BIRTHING YOUR DREAMS AND VISIONS | DR MIKE WOODS SR.

Well, praise the Lord and grace and peace be multiplied to each one of you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. For those of you who are uninitiated, my name is Apostle Michael Lyris Woods and I'm super excited to welcome you to our virtual worship experience today. I'm super amped about the word of the Lord that we have an opportunity to share today. It's going to be phenomenal. We're going to discuss— hallelujah! So stay with me. Birthing Your Dreams and Visions. We're going to talk about birthing dreams and visions. But before we go into the service today, I want to take an opportunity to read our scripture. Praise the name of the Lord. The Bible says, in the beginning was the Word, and the Word was God. Hallelujah. And the Word was with God, and the Word became flesh. Hallelujah. And dwelt among them. So today's scripture is coming from 2 Chronicles. We're gonna begin reading at verse number 12, and we'll read through and including, praise the Lord, verse number 16. Here beginneth the reading of the word, praise the Lord, of the Lord. The Bible says, then the Lord appeared to Solomon at night and said to him, I have heard your prayer and chosen this place for myself myself as a temple of sacrifice. If I shut the sky so there is no rain, or if I command the grasshopper to consume the land, or if I send pestilence on my people, and if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves, pray and seek my face, and turn from their evil ways then I will hear from heaven, forgive their sin, and heal their land. My eyes will now be open. Y'all hear this? And my ears attentive to prayer from this place. And I have now chosen— listen— and consecrated this temple so that my name may be there forever. Forever, and my eyes and my heart will be there. Oh my God, at all times. Now, this text doesn't say— now, while God hears us when we pray, wherever we pray, okay, but specifically, he's consecrated his temple, his house, his church, to be a house of prayer for all nations, for all people. And he said, no matter what comes on the land— famine, disease, pestilence, stress, pressure— no matter what comes, God said, when my people assemble together and call on my name, because my name is written on the house, because I'm gonna be there forever. Glory to God. No matter what happening outside of the house, God says the safest place according to this is the house of God. So I want to tell you guys right now, stop fearing going into the church. Stop buying into the lie that the spirit of the Antichrist and the media is feeding you about not going to church. Listen, God is going to keep us and cover us. He promised he will if we call on his name. Now again, I said this last week, if you're going to church doing the same old stuff You're not touching heaven. Heaven is not superimposing itself upon your environment. You might ought to stay at home. You might ought to continue to do Zooms and Facebook Lives for your worship service. But I'm telling you right now, I got two more Sundays— this Sunday and next Sunday of this— and I'm gonna be doing it from the church because it's time, saints, to go back into the house of God. The Bible said, if my people who are called call on me by my name, humble themselves, pray, seek my face, turn from their wicked ways, he said, I'll hear from heaven and I'll heal the land. Listen, there's nothing we can't talk to God about. We can talk to him about coronavirus, we can talk to him about cancer, we can talk to him, glory to God, about AIDS, we can talk to him about racial tensions, we can talk to him about political issues. He said his ear and his heart would be attentive to us. When we call on his name. I don't care what you're going through right now, let's pray that God would intervene in your life and that he would intervene in our world and that God would do a new thing for all of us. Praise the name of God. Let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you today and we give you glory, Father, for your goodness, your mercy, and your grace. And we decree and declare that beside you there is no other. It's in you we live, it's in you we move and have our being. Your word declared that we just read, God, that your eyes and your ears will be open to us and attentive to us even when there's pestilence and violence and stress in our land. You said, if my people that are called by my name would humble themselves. So God, we come humbly and we call on your name today, the great name of Jesus, our King. Oh my God, and we give you praise that every one of your redemptive names in the Old Testament is fulfilled in the name of Jesus. That indeed, when we call on the name of Jesus, we call on the name of Jehovah Jireh, our provider. When we call on the name of Jesus, we indeed call on the name also of Jehovah Nissi, the Lord our banner. And so God, we uphold today a bloodstained banner. Oh my God, and we thank you that we're covered in the blood. Hallelujah! We call on the name of Jehovah Makkaddish when we call on the name of Jesus, the Lord our righteousness. We thank you, God, that we're made righteous and cleansed through the blood of Jesus. We call— Obanse, brike labakosia. We call on the name of Jehovah Tsidkenu when we call on the name of Jesus, the Lord our sanctifier. You set us apart for a particular task and a specific work. And so, God, we give you the glory. Omansi. We thank you, God, that we're now sanctified, set apart, isolated, and covered for a particular assignment and task in the world today. We call on the name of Jesus, our King and our God, and we thank you for the victory. Father, we rebuke coronavirus. We rebuke tuberculosis. We rebuke high blood pressure. We rebuke cancer. We rebuke lupus. We rebuke it now in the name of Jesus. We rebuke mental and psychological debilitation and depression. We thank you that we have the victory now in the name of Jesus. Bless this time today, God, and bless your people, and we give you praise for it now in In Jesus' name, amen, and thanks be to God. Hallelujah! Well, right where you are, you ought to clap your hands and give God a praise. Whether you're at home, in your car, no matter where you are right now, I dare you give glory to God, for he has heard our prayer and he has come— oh my God— to deliver us. Well, listen, I'm really excited about today's service, and I really want to teach the word But before I do, I want to challenge you guys. Set aside in your calendar, praise the name of God, September 11th, 12th, and 13th for Emergence. We're getting ready to bounce back better. We're going back into the house of God. There's going to be miracles, signs, and wonders. Listen, well, let me not talk about it. Check this ad out, this promo for Emergence out, and watch this. Glory to God. And make plans now. To be with us on one of the greatest weekends of the year. Check it out. God bless you. Well, grace and peace be multiplied to you, everyone, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is Dr. Mike Woods, and listen, I want to personally invite you to Emergence: Bounce Back Better. It's happening here in Atlanta, Georgia, September 11th through the 13th, 2020. Listen, we're super amped about going back to the house of God God. And let me tell you something, we're excited about what God's going to do. We created a space for 5 powerful and dynamic services with great apostles and great worship leaders. It's going to be phenomenal. Listen, our special guests are supernaturally charged with the anointing. They have the kingdom inside of them. And they're gonna superimpose something on us that's gonna be absolutely awesome. Here's a little taste of what we're gonna get. The kingdom comes with demonstration. It comes with power. It does not come with entertainment. It does not come with self-aggrandizement. It comes with power, and it— and, uh, but it will not be open in silence. It will not be open if you don't open up your mouth. Yes, God! You know you're putting your intellect and your heart and your mindset in the wrong place when you start talking to somebody that can't relate to your dreams. What you say? Seriously? Because you can't put a 16x20 idea in a 3x5 mind. You are amazing, God. You are amazing, God. You are amazing, God. Well, it all happens Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, September 11th through the 13th, 2020, right here in Atlanta, Georgia at Rhoda Church. Yes, Rhoda Church is located at 5300 Frontage Road, Suite A, in Forest Park, Georgia, 30297 Log on to rodderchurch.com/emergence for more information. Listen, it's time, church, for us to bounce back better. Don't you be afraid, don't you be fearful. Meet us at this service, it's going to be the bomb. And listen, according to the scriptures, we have declared by faith that Roder Church is a COVID-19-free zone. The Bible says we can decree a thing and it will be established. We declare now that if you come with COVID you'll leave healed. Get ready for an encounter with God. We're not playing no games. We're excited about superimposing heaven upon the earth through these services. Looking forward to seeing you at Emergence. It's time to bounce back. Better. Well, hallelujah! Praise God! Listen, again, I'm excited about Emergence. Listen, you need to be in the house. Uh, my good friends Apostle Brandon D. Cornelius and Apostle Jerry Howard and Harry and LaChelsie King are going to be with us, and we're going to have fun. Glory to God. Listen, you do have to register. It is absolutely free, but it is required. It's required because we want to ensure that we're able to pre-screen people for COVID. We want— we're not going to stop you from coming, but we're going to pray for you. Glory to God. And we want to make sure that we honor the CDC guidelines with attendance policies and social distancing. So you need to register. Make sure your name is on the list. Go to rhodochurch.com/emergence right now and register. Praise God for Emergence. It's going to be awesome. Well, I'm excited, glory to God, to teach this word. Father, I love you. I give you glory. Hallelujah. I give you honor. I give you praise, God. I love you. I love you. I love you. I love you, I love you, I love you, God. Handabo kosi ata. Just lift your hands for a few minutes and just begin to worship him. Oh God, we love you. God, let this word go out in love and power and anointing. Jesus, we love you, God. I'm in love. I'm in love. I'm in love. Yes, God, I'm in love. I'm in love. I'm in love. Omansi kura baki. Yes, God. Sweet Holy Spirit, you're the sweet Holy Spirit. You're so sweet Holy Spirit. I'm in love. Come on, lift those hands and worship Jesus. I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love. I'm in love, I'm in love, I'm in love. Sweet Holy Spirit, you're so sweet. Holy Spirit, you're the sweet Holy Spirit. I'm in Love. Why don't you help me say, I love you. I love you. I love you, Lord, today. Come on, sing it. Because you cared for me. Right there in your home in such a special way. In such a special way. That's why I praise you. I lift you up. And I magnify your name. That's why my heart is filled with praise. I'm so sorry, y'all, I just love him. Glory to God, he's so worthy to be loved on. Glory to God, he's a good God. Come on, lift your hands right where you are in your home and receive the anointing of Jesus. Oh, the anointing of God is with us right now. Come on, receive the anointing of Jesus. Glory to God. Father, bless your word and let us experience today the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Spirit. And Father, we'll give your name the praise. We'll give you all the glory. Father, may your people be blessed by you and never impressed by me. God, I thank you that as we declare the truth of your word, that the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart will be acceptable in thy sight. Lord, today be my strength, and I thank you that you are my redeemer. In Jesus' name, amen and amen. Every glad heart, just give God another hand of praise right where you are. He's a wonderful God. Hallelujah! And he's worthy to be praised. Thank you, Lord Jesus. Well, we're going to jump right into God's word on today. I am— listen, I am super excited to teach this word, praise God. And I know I'm not going to get finished today, so I'll probably be teaching this all week, praise God, on the Apostle's Table. So make sure you tune in at noon every day. God gave this to me this morning. He said, I want you to ride this horse. It's something I've taught in the past, in the distant past, actually. And he said, I want you to ride this old horse today because it is relevant for this hour. And what I want to discuss is birthing your dreams and visions. Every person under the sound of my voice, there is deeply embedded in you, if you have not, even if you have not been entertaining it, a dream and a vision that God placed in you before you got to this planet. The Bible declares in Jeremiah 1:5, you can go there, he says, before I formed you in your mother's belly, I knew you. I knew you. That word knew in Hebrew is yada, which means that he became intimate. He got up close and personal with you. He said, and I ordained you a prophet. Glory to God. Hallelujah, hallelujah. So he says, before I formed you, I knew you. I ordained you. I ordered, structured your steps. Glory to the name of God. I put something on the inside of you that was greater than anything that you could ever put inside of your own head. Glory to God. A lot of times we start dreaming amiss and outside of alignment with what God has dreamed for us. The fact that God says, I knew you, means he was intimate with you. And, and before you were a human being, you conceived something. He put something down in you. There was conception, and you came to this planet carrying something that God wants you to deliver to the earth. Watch this. And it is so authentic to you that only you can deliver the pacifics that God has ordained your life to deliver. And no matter how old you are, it's not too late for you to go into labor and give birth to the dream and vision that God put inside of you. See, everything starts with a seed, ladies and gentlemen. The word seed is sperma in Greek, and it literally means to set life in motion. When a seed is released, life is set in motion. A whole forest of trees started with one true seed. You and I, we started with a seed. Glory to the name of God. Everything starts with a seed. You cannot have a harvest of anything without a seed. And whenever God starts talking to you about seed, And whenever God starts dealing with the seeds that he's placed in you, his focus is always the future. And anytime God starts talking about seed, that means he has a future on his mind. Oh my God. Oh my God. Listen, listen. And I'm telling you, your future has already been planned and ordered through conception. Matter of fact, let me go to Jeremiah 1:5. I just want to read it since we, since we quoted it. Let me just read it. Glory to God. Jeremiah 1:5. Let me go to the Bible. Thank you, Jesus. Handa basi. Oh God, touch yourself and say, there's a dream in me. Say, there's a vision in me. Hallelujah. That's yet to be born. Come on now. And I took— now speak to your seed and say, I command you in the name of Jesus. Oh my God, to come forth now. In Jesus' name. Hallelujah. Glory be to God. God is a good God, y'all. So Jeremiah 1, verse 5, because I want to read it. He says, before— out of the King James— I formed thee, yet, say it in Hebrew, in the belly, before I structured you as a human being. He says, I knew you, yada, and before you came forth out of the womb, I sanctified you, I set you aside. And I ordained you a prophet to the nations. So God gave you an— even though you may not be a prophet, but God says, I gave you an assignment. I've ordered a specific assignment for your life. I sanctified you. I isolated you for something only you can do. That word sanctified there is kadosh in Hebrew, and it literally means, glory to God, that I consecrated you, and I also prepared you and dedicated you, my God, for what you are supposed to be doing. Even before you got here, you were prepared to do it. You just gotta manifest the divine preparation. Now that takes this to a whole other level. Because that means once you tap into the realm of the spirit and unpack the mind of God concerning you, now you have the ability, glory to God, to move forth in what he's called you to do, and you don't need man to validate it. Oh my God, all you need man to do is further reinforce the preparation that God— oh my God, pre-pare— that in advance he's already given you the detailed structure to perform. Oh my God, this is so gonna be so good today. You better stay with me. Glory to God. I want you to get rid of all distractions. So your dreams, your visions, your ideas, your hopes, they're all seeds with ability. I'll say it again, they're all seeds with ability. Your dreams, your hopes, your ideas, your innovations, the things you think about doing and accomplishing, these are all seeds with ability. There's nothing that God will bring to your mind that he's incapable of performing or assisting you in bringing forth. See, there are a lot of people that got dreams, visions, ideas, innovations. They got a lot of wishbone. Yeah, but no backbone. Oh my God. See, you can have a dream and have a lot of wishes and wishing and wishing and hoping but you don't have the backbone to go forth and do what you got to do. There are a lot of people, glory to God, that are just idle and bored. See, when you get idle and bored with life, it's because you stopped dreaming. You stopped leaning on your inward desire to do more. And so now you've gotten bored with your mundane cycle. Because you refuse to tap into the realm of the spirit. That's why another reason it's so important to be in the house of God, so you can assemble with other dreamers who reinforce it's okay to dream, it's okay to want to soar. Because if you listen to the Antichrist and the media, the media will tell you it's not okay to dream. The media would tell you it's not okay, glory to God, to trust in the name of Jesus and to pursue anything because 'Cause they'll tell you, you ain't gonna be able to do it anyway 'cause you can't go outside or you gotta wear a mask, all of this stuff. But listen, you got a right to dream. I'm telling you, the fact that your heart is still beating and you're not dead and you're alive this afternoon, this morning, tonight, whenever you're watching this, listen, the fact that your heart is beating is an indicator that your vision, the dream that God gave you, is still a necessity on this planet. I dare you to touch yourself in the forehead and say, I'm still necessary. Oh God, lay your hands on yourself and say, I'm still necessary. Stop listening to the spirit of the Antichrist. Oh my God, telling you that you cannot excel beyond where you are and listening to the news about our economy. Listen, God is our King, and he's in control of our life, and we, my friends, gotta trust him with the dream that he's embedded inside of us. Listen, seeds are like little sparks. They have the ability and the possibility inside of them to produce great things. See, see, and when you discover the seed that has been sown in you by God, see, your life is a big field to fulfill. And before God made you, as we just read, he planted a seed. He knew you, and he planted a seed packed with all that you are into your lifespan. And then he measured out a space of time for you to fulfill the purpose and to bring forth that seed. And if you die before you finish, before the seed fully blooms, That's murder. Oh my God. See, some people— we need to stop saying it was their time. Some people died before their time. It wasn't God, it was murder. They murdered themselves. Glory to the name of God. By, by participating in unhealthy habits, maybe they murdered themselves. Glory to God. By being around the wrong people, by participating in the wrong kind of lifestyles. But God has measured out time and space for his seed to emerge. Oh my God, and come forth. Oh, glory to God. Every time God plants a seed in a newborn baby or in you and I of a dream or vision, he spit— Satan spends his time trying to abort that seed. This is why many of you have gone through so much hell and you've had so many problems in your life. And you've had your share of ups and downs and ins and outs. Your life's been like a roller coaster. Glory to God. Hallelujah. And you've had up, down, fast, slow, in, out. Glory to God. Because the devil always tries to throw a monkey wrench in you finishing what God has created you to do. But can I tell you, my friends, ebansay, Lord have mercy. I'm trying not to preach. I want to teach this, but I'm excited. Glory to God, because I'm talking to people right now that's full of dreams, that's full of vision. Oh God, hallelujah, that God's gonna use in this end time. I dare you, lift your hand and say, Lord, use me. Here am I, use me, God. Hallelujah. See, all things that God have planted in you are indeed possible. But here's a reality: everything God planted in you is not positively gonna happen. I'll say it again, there's so much greatness that died with people in the grave, which proves my point. So every one of you listening to me, you have great things in you that can potentially spark into something huge. But it's not positive, it's not going to happen. Number one, if you allow Satan to get you so distracted that you get off course and you lose focus and you lose sight of what you're supposed to be doing anyway. God, I'm almost through. Hallelujah. Listen, God plants impossible things in our spirit, in our heart. Hallelujah. And when man— those impossible things are impossible. But with God, according to scripture, all things are possible. See, here's the reality: you and I can mess up what God planted. And so many times in our life, God has given us grace and mercy and chances because he says you can start over and you can begin again. I'm telling you, I'm, I'm— let me prophesy to somebody right now that believes that failure is final. I'm telling you right now, failure is not final. And you can start over and you can begin again. You're looking at somebody, I raise up both of my hands and my feet, glory to God, that have failed countless times. And I've understood that the remedy, even when I didn't want to get back up and dust myself off and keep moving, but the remedy for winning was to keep going. The only way, Omansi, you're going to lose in this fight is that you quit, is that you give up, is that you Stop. Lord have mercy. See, man can mess up a good thing by following his own agenda, by creating his own truths, by doing what he feels is correct, by following an example that is untrue and has no power and has no anointing. Watch this, by buying into the spirit of the Antichrist. Ooh, help us, Holy Spirit. Let me give you some examples of what dreams and visions could look like. The word, the word dream, arum, which means, glory to the name of God, hallelujah, to— watch this— it is the prophetic future that is established in the dream dimension. Dreams are created by God and dumped into a space in the spiritual realm called the dream dimension. You cannot tap the heavenly dream dimension if you do not have a prayer life. So when you pray, part of your goal ought to be is not to just feel good and cry and feel like you just broke through to something spooky, but you ought to want to break through to the dream dimension and tap into what God is saying. Glory to God. So that you can live out the prophetic future because now you got a glimpse of it. So there's a dream dimension that we got to tap into. Vision, different than harum, glory to the name of God, is— oh my God, it is— this word is harzon or horizon, which again, it is a prophetic revelation of God's optimal reality for the future. So when you got a vision, you get a prophetic revelation of what God optimally desires for you in your life. That way you can't— you don't get caught up in the doom and gloom that everybody brings to you, because now you got a prophetic anointing that comes through vision that validates that the future is totally contradictory to what the prognosticators say. All right. So let me give you some examples of what dreams and visions— some of you have a dream or vision to lose weight, to be more healthy. Some of you have a dream to own your own home or business. Some of you have a dream to be promoted. Some have a dream to get out of debt. Some have a dream to get out of bondage. There's some of you want to have a dream to see changes in your family life. Glory to God. Not just your immediate family, but your whole family. You want to see your family saved. You want to see them living out their dreams and visions. Some of you have a dream to pastor a church. There are many of you that listening to me, you have a dream to go to the nations. Many of you have a dream to win the lost. There are some people that want to own a bookstore. Oh my God, own a Fortune 500 company. There are many of you listening that want to be a billionaire, want to be a millionaire. There are many of you that want to be on the radio or TV or the internet preaching the gospel. And etc., and etc., and etc. Dreams, all dreams. Some— somebody's dreaming about a Bentley right now. Glory to God. And I want to tell you something: it's okay to dream. And so, and just tap into the dream dimension and dream— hear me— with God. Oh boy. And dream with God. So let's start on this. Let's work on this. I ain't got much time left. So you cannot give birth to your dreams and visions until you conceive. And this is what I mean by dreaming with God, okay? So you gotta conceive in order to give birth. Every one of us that are walking around breathing We would not be here except our parents went through the process to cause conception. I said, unless your daddy got with your mama, that's how you live. A man got with a woman and conceived you. I'm not going to even get into that today. I don't have time. Glory to God. I could just open up a whole nother can right there. I'm not But a man and a woman conceived. Are you hearing me? Are you hearing me? And a seed was sown from the man. The woman received it and incubated that seed, and after 9 months brought forth that seed. And thus you and I are here. Let's go to Hebrews 11. Glory to God. And let's start this. Let's walk through the word a little bit. Hallelujah, Jesus! Thank you, Lord. Hebrews 11:11, the Bible says this: through faith— the Greek word for faith is pistis, P-I-S-T-I-S, pistis— and it means to be absolutely, totally reliant and confident in God. On another side, it means to leave what you can see but what you cannot see. So through faith also Sarah herself received strength to conceive seed. Come on now, katabole, conceive, which is a disposition, a— glory to the name of God— a throwing or laying down of seed, an injection or a deposit of seed. So she opened herself up with strength. Sarah was an old woman, but God said, you're gonna have a baby. And her name means laughter because she laughed at God because she didn't believe. And many of you, the dream God is setting out before you, some of you, and you internally, you either laughing or you crying because it's been a dream so long and you have not known how to give birth to it. That's why I'm going to teach this series. Because I'm talking to people who listen to me and follow me, glory to God, who are carrying around these dreams that are overdue. They must come forth in this hour. Your dream is needed for the world. So no longer can you walk around pregnant. You got to get this thing out of you. So Sarah, glory to God, she had to open herself up to receive the strip to conceive. And was delivered, watch this, of a child when she was past age, because she was judged him faithful who had promised. Now, why did God trust Sarah with this seed? He trusted her with it because he judged her faithful. Let's start right there. Have you, or are you, faithful enough to God? Faith, pastuo, not pistus, faithful, to be full of faith, to be full faithful. Break it up. Faithful, to be full of faith. Postuo, which means, glory to the name of God, you're filled with confidence and reliance on God, and you don't believe nothing but what God says. You live according to this book. Are y'all here? Glory to God, my God, glory. So this is the first problem: when you're dreaming out of alignment and you're dreaming things that God didn't give you, you're dreaming because you see someone else do it, they make it look easy, and you feel like, okay, I'm gonna dream about that, I'm gonna do that. No, there's a specific— let me get this today. If you don't get nothing else on today's teaching, there's a dream just for you. Oh my God. Let's get a working definition of conceive. I told you the Greek word, but let's get it from the definition. It means to become— from the dictionary— to become pregnant with, to form in the mind, to think or imagine. So you can get pregnant physically, like male, female, you can conceive, but you can also conceive, conceptualize, a dream, an idea, an innovation in your mind, in your spirit. You can think about it. You can imagine it. You can see yourself in it. As a matter of fact, when you move into the dream dimension, you have to— in order to see it come forth, you literally— hear this— have to own it before you occupy it. Ownership precedes occupancy. Whoo! So I gotta get in the dream dimension, walk through it, feel it, handle what God already handled. Glory to God. I thank God for the dream dimension 'cause I got so much stuff in front of me that I physically handle. And I know for a fact it's gonna come to pass 'cause I've handled it. I'm living my dream in a lot of ways now. And I handled this stuff long before now, so I ain't telling you something that I don't know. And there's some more stuff that God's got on his agenda for me. And guess what? He's got it on his agenda for you too. Glory to God! Hallelujah! I got to get out of here, y'all. My time is— my time is way gone. My time is gone. But listen, I'm gonna get through this first part. Glory to God! Y'all help me. So God says ownership precedes occupancy. Watch this. Once you— and I'll teach, I'll unpack this in another message— ownership precedes occupancy. So you own it in the dream dimension, but then you cannot occupy it without opposition. See, you own it, glory to God, before you occupy, but now opposition comes. To stop you from, oh my God, occupying. And again, this is why Satan comes to, oh my God, oppose you, because he's afraid of the dream. If you and I ever walk fully in what God has for us, the devil and all his plans and his grandmother are in trouble. Glory to God. I got to go. So here we go. God gives dreams and visions in its purest form. Dreams and visions come from God. There's a perverted aspect of dreams and visions that ultimately causes division from God. And the perverted part of a dream is a nightmare because it literally manifests as a nightmare in your life. One, because if you're dreaming about something that didn't come from God, it torments you because you never really gain the ability to bring it to pass, and you never get divine assistance in bringing it to pass because it's not from God. So it becomes a nightmare, and you just want to get out of that nightmare. But when you dream with God, he takes up responsibility to help you bring the dream to pass. Glory to God! Oh, are y'all hearing me today? So you can have dreams and visions. Let's go to Joel 2. 28. Hallelujah. Joel 2:28. Let's look at it. Glory be to God. Come on, church. Joel 2:28. The Bible says this: And it shall come to pass afterward that I will pour out my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons and daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, and and your young men shall see visions. In other words, here again, God is saying, I have instituted through my spirit— I want you to grab this— through the dimension of the spirit, through the outpouring of the spirit, where sons and daughters will one prophesy. In other words, they'll be able to foretell and forthtell. They'll be able to speak to the dreams of God in the lives of others and to our world. Oh my God. Listen, you can discover the spirit of prophecy or entertain the prophetic culture and edge that's inside of you if you're divided from prophetic culture. Uh-oh. You can't be— oh my God— cultivated in prophetic culture if all you do is stay home. Oh boy. I'm gonna say that again. You can't cultivate prophetic culture if all you do is stay home and watch Zoom and Facebook Live. That's why we got to go back to church. We, we cultivate culture when we assemble. When you're around prophets and apostles and other prophetic people, it stirs the prophetic in you to see your life, your family's life, and those that are around you life. Oh my God. Okay, so you got to be around prophecy to move in this dimension. Touch yourself and say, I'm a dreamer. Hallelujah. I have dreams. And now there's an element of obedience that comes when— oh my God— we are— if we're going to see the manifestation of God's dreams and visions in our life, We got to obey and do exactly what he says so we can see the miraculous manifestation of God's dreams and visions in our life. Go to John 2, Saint John's Gospel, chapter 2. I'm just walking through the word because I'm trying to get through. Glory to God. John chapter number 2. Ah my, glory to God. Saint John's Gospel, chapter 2. Let's get in it. Are y'all getting anything out of this? I hope so. I'm so ready to go back to church. I'm just telling you right now. Chapter 2, verse 1. The Bible says, and the third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee. There's something powerful about the third day, the third dimension. Glory to the name of God. I won't teach about the third dimension today, but Father, Son, Holy Ghost. Holy Ghost is in the third dimension. Outer court, inner court, Holy of Holies. Holy of Holies in the third dimension. Faith, hope, love. Love is the greatest of those three. It's in the third dimension. Glory to the name of God. We're tripartite beings— body, soul, spirit. Spirit is in the third dimension. So in the third dimension, the place where we're closest to God, there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee, and the mother of Jesus was there. And both Jesus was called and his disciples to the marriage. And when they— so Jesus gets the invitation to an event him and the disciples are at the wedding chilling, and when they wanted wine— hallelujah! Now let me help y'all. Glory to the name of God. This wine in this text ain't the stuff that you drink when you go to a restaurant, saying that it's okay for me to drink all this wine and get drunk. Listen, the metaphor here is the fiery wine of God's power and authority. Watch this. That the Greek word for wine in this text is onos, and it is that that is crushed from grapes, that is fermented from grapes, aged grapes. Glory to the name of God. And it is not— doesn't have an additive of alcohol like the wine you buy. This is real wine fermented from grapes. Come on, church. All right, so I just don't want anybody to hear this and think, oh, let me go get me a glass of wine and get drunk tonight and relax. No. That's not what this is saying. Now, I ain't knocking nothing you do, that's between you and God. I'm just telling you what the truth of the gospel is. The Bible said, be not drunk with wine. And if you drink wine and you relax and you get intoxicated, you're drunk. Glory to the name of God. If it alters your state, you're drunk. Glory to the name of God. But it says, but be filled with the Spirit. I'd rather be drunk in the Spirit. Oh my God, like I kind of am right now. And the Bible said, these men are not drunk as you suppose, but they've been filled with the Holy Ghost. Well, let's hold on a minute. Let me go, let me go, cuz my time is about gone. Glory to God. And, and when they wanted wine, the mother of Jesus said unto him, they have no wine. Jesus said unto her, woman, what have I to do with this? Mine hour has not yet come. His mother said unto his servants, whatsoever he said unto you, do it. And there were set 6 water pots of stone After the manner of the purifying of the Jews, containing 2 or 3 furkins apiece, Jesus said unto the waterpots— he said unto the men, I'm sorry— fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them to the brim. Obedience. And he said unto them, draw out now and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bear— watch this— he honored order. He said, don't none of y'all drink this first, but here's what I want you to do. Fill it with water, and out of obedience, take these water pots to the governor, the person in charge. Let him drink first. And verse 9 says, when the ruler of the feast tasted the water, it was made wine, and he knew not what it was. But the servants withdrew the water, knew the governor of the feast Jesus had called the bridegroom, and every man began to drink this wine. Glory to the name of God. Can I tell you something? The miraculous birthing of your dreams is born out of obedience. So here it is, instead of doing what you want to do, running after your own dreams, running after your own imagination and something you made up, let's tap into the mind of God. He's real. He's not just a religious figment of our imagination. He's not just some person we read about in this book. He's really real, and he's created a dimension of dreams. And he said, if you pray to me, I'll usher you. I'll, I'll use my angels to minister to you in the dream dimension. Glory to God. So you got to conceive. You gotta conceive. How do you conceive? You gotta position yourself to receive by faith. See, you gotta grasp that there's really a dream dimension by faith, and you gotta go after it and find out what God says about you in this dimension. I'm almost done. Here's another way you're going to conceive. You cannot be passive. You cannot be weak-minded. You cannot let people just walk all over you. You gotta have some backbone. You gotta stand up for what you believe. You cannot agree with everything someone tells you you are. You gotta trust God for who you are and obey his word and do exactly what he tells you to do. Listen, you gotta be creative. And you gotta operate in a realm of faith until God gives you a specific, clear dream. You gotta be goal-oriented. You gotta have purpose. And you gotta make sure you're not vague when you ask God about who you are. Be direct. Say, God, I wanna do this. Is this for me? If this is not for me, show me what is for me. You cannot be vague. Let's go to Ephesians 5. Ephesians 5. I'm preaching better than y'all saying amen. I could tell y'all not saying that. Glory to God. Hallelujah. That's why I need y'all in church so I can hear your feedback. Ephesians 5. Oh, glory be to God. Ephesians 5. Let's look at verse 15, and we're gonna read 15, 16, 17. The Bible says, seeing then— here it is, and I'm gonna close with with this because I don't have time. That you walk— let's stop right there. That you walk, peripatheo in Greek, walk. Watch this. That you tread, that you live or deport yourself or detach yourself from something. So he says, see then that you peripatheo, that you detach yourself circumspectly. Oh my God. So you detach yourself from the world, your way of doing things, your way of thinking. Ak-rabos in Greek, circumspectly. Watch this, accurately. Oh my God. So you detach yourself from the world, from your own ideas, from the influences of your flesh And you begin now to be accurate and diligent. Akribos in your life. That's the Greek word akribos. And you live perfectly and exactly like God ordained for you to live. Watch this. Not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time. Oh my God, redeeming the time. Are y'all here? Redeeming the time. Exagorizo in Greek, redeeming. This word, this is a powerful word which means to pay the price, to recover from the power of wasting time. See, when you, when you wasted time and you procrastinated, God says you got to make the sacrifice to buy back time. With focus, which means you got to avoid procrastinators. You got to avoid people who do not align with where you're going. You got to detach yourself from people that fuel the things that are not God's will for your life. Oh God, you gotta— oh my God, you gotta rescue your time because it's been lost. Because guess what? It takes time to birth your dream. It takes time to bring it forth. So you got to become now, if you're going to birth your dreams and visions, disciplined. Oh my God. In guarding your time, avoid time wasters. Time, my friends, is one of those commodities that once you lose it, it's gone forever. So you got to make sure you're not wasting your time on people and the wrong things. Ooh, God! And ransom your life. Even though you may want to do this, you may want to be around this person, you may want to go over there, but if it does not align, if it has no purpose, God says redeem the time. Don't waste time on it. He said because the days are evil— y'all know they're evil. We're living in hard times. Glory to God. We're living in times now where the spirit of the Antichrist has flooded the media and is ministering daily about racism, political injustice, coronavirus, and social media is feeding us evil. But you got to redeem the time, glory to God, and you got to bring forth what God told you to bring forth so that the world can better. Can I submit to you today that the world is better because your heart is beating and the world is waiting on you to rise up in light. Oh my God, and eradicate the evil that's in the world. We need to give the world something else to look at. Let's give them something in power to look at. Let's give them something in glory to look at. Let's give them something under the anointing to look at. Glory to God. I got to go, y'all. I'm done. He said, wherefore be not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is. Understand what the, the ilma in Greek, the will, the determination, the dream, the inclination, the volition, the wishes of God for your life. He says, I need you to understand what my will is. Not my will, but thy will be done. Somebody ought to shout right now, God, let your will be done in my life on this earth as it is in heaven. Glory to God. I'm done. I'm getting too excited. Listen, God wants you to birth your dreams and visions, but you can't be vague. You got to be accurate. You got to be circumspect. You got to do just like he said. I don't have much time. I'll finish this next week. I love y'all to life. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for every person under the sound of my voice. I pray, dear God, that your anointing that destroys yokes would move now, and every yoke of time wasting that's been on their life, break it in the name of Jesus. Every Spirit of procrastination that's been on their life, break it in the name of Jesus. And God, I release the faith to trust you. I bind up fear, cast the devil out of the mind, break down every stubborn will, and we say yes, Lord. God, help us that don't have the strength to conceive, to conceive the dreams and visions. Give us the strength to open up and receive all you have for us. And we give you praise for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen and thank God. Hallelujah! God bless your hearts. Listen, my time is gone, but we must receive our offering. Listen, don't you scroll, stay with me. I already know some of you gonna do what you want to do way. Amen. And at the end of the day, it's okay. But I need those of you that love God and love this ministry— listen, we're excited about going into— we have, glory to the name of God, spent tons of money to get our sanctuary ready. I got the call before I started going live today that they had finished laying the carpet, that they had finished building a wall and putting a door in, in the foyer. The progress is there. All the equipment we need, glory to God, we bought new cameras, we bought new sound equipment, everything we need to not only minister to those in the sanctuary but to turn our sanctuary into a studio that will reach every person we need to reach around the world. We need your support so that we can go forth in the gospel the way God has called us to. I need every person listening to me— if you're connected to Rhoda Church, you owe him your tithe. Your tithe is the 10th. The Bible said the 10th is holy unto God. I want to challenge you to give your tithe today. And if you don't have a tithe, I want every person to sow a special offering. I need you to make a sacrifice so that we— we have some big dreams. On how we're going to reach souls and reach the world, but it's going to take finances to do it, and we need your help. We need your support. Thank God for the blessing of the Lord that's on our life, that we're able to do things for the ministry, my wife and I. But we also need your help. So if you're listening to me, if you are receiving this word and it's blessing you, I need you to give today. The ways to give us simple. You can give 3 ways at Rhoda Church. One, you can give online by going to rhodachurch.com/donate, and you can give that way. You can also give via Cash App. The Cash App for Rhoda Church is simply Rhoda Church. You can also give via text. All you have to do is simply text the words glory to the name of God, hallelujah, Rhoda Give, all one word, to 319 996, and the link will come to your phone and you can give right from your cell phone. However you choose to do it, we need your help, we need your assistance. Show your love to God and his house today. Glory to the name of God, and watch what God will do for you. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for every gift and every giver. Give it back to them a thousand times more according according to your word. And every tither, open the windows of heaven and pour them out a blessing that they will not have room to receive it. Thank you for proving yourself and how you prove yourself to me over and over again through the tithe, Lord. And I give you praise and glory for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Hallelujah! Well, I'm appreciative. I know you're going to obey. Again, the ways to give are simple. They're on the screen. Follow the instructions, guys. Help be a blessing to ministry. Before I go, if you're watching and you're not born again, listen, you, you can tap into the dream dimension and you can cross over into what God has prepared for your life, just like I've taught walk today. It's simple. You just have to repent of your sin, open your heart, and receive Jesus as your personal Savior. The Bible says if you confess with your mouth, believe in your heart that Jesus died and he rose again, you shall be saved. Why won't you pray for— I'm sorry, would you pray with me now? Glory to the name of God. Father, in Jesus' Jesus' name. I pray for those that are listening that are not born again. Save them now in Jesus' name. Would you repeat after me, friend? Say, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, I repent of my sin. Say, Lord, I believe you died and rose again. Say, Father, Come into my heart and live in me. I receive you now in Jesus' name. Amen and thank God. God bless your hearts, people. I love you so much. And if you prayed with me, glory to God, please write me at info@roddochurch.com. I want to give you all of the plan of salvation. I want to show show you how to get started moving forward and living your dream. Thank you guys for joining us this week. Don't forget to join me Monday through Friday this week for The Apostle's Table. We're going to finish this teaching, birthing your visions and dreams. It's going to be phenomenal. I love you guys. Y'all be blessed. Heaven smile upon you is my prayer. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Can't wait to see y'all in a couple of weeks. Peace.