Vision Power: Part 2, "Arise and Eat" | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr. | 16 May 2026 | Radah Church

We bless your name, we bless your name. You know, you can worship your way in it and you can worship your way through it. So no matter where you are, I just tell you to lift your voice and worship. He'll show up where you are. Hallelujah! Leke son tokor, bransebe tokor dai, metosia. You're worthy of glory, you're worthy of honor. Ke la tamaman, we know that the quality of our experience is not determined by the quantity of people that are in this room. But it's determined by your presence and your presence alone. So we worship you and give you glory, God. Hallelujah.

You're worthy of it all.

I'll sing it. You're worthy of it all.

You worthy of it all.

For from you are all things.

And to you, and to you, you deserve glory.

Come on, y'all, sing it again.

You're worthy of it all.

Sing to him, you're worthy of it all.

For from you are all things. And to you, you deserve the glory.

One last time, you're worthy of it all.

You're worthy of it all.

Y'all sing to Jesus. You're worthy of it all.

You're worthy of it all.

For from you are all things.

And from you And to you, you deserve, you deserve the glory.

Father, we love you and we thank you for your goodness. Thank you for assembling us in this place this morning. Thank you for a mind to worship you. A mind to serve you, a mind to give you glory, a mind to honor your name. It could have been the other way, but God, we thank you that we got a mind to serve you, a mind to live for you, a mind to walk upright. Father, anoint our ears to hear this morning. What the Spirit would say to the church: do something unusual in this place, something man cannot do. Saturate the walls, charge the atmosphere.

Let your Shekinah glory be revealed. Let your word go out in such a way that the weak would leave saying, I'm strong. The poor would leave saying, I'm rich. Discourage— encourage doubters with faith. And Father, we thank you that no weapon formed against us will be able to prosper, and we declare victory over the enemy in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Come on, clap your hands and bless God in this room. Hallelujah! Glory to God! He's a mighty God. You could be seated this morning.

Thank you, Lord. You're worthy of it all. You're worthy of it all.

Yeah, Jesus.

And from you are all things And to you are all things. You deserve glory.

Hallelujah! We bless your name, Jesus.

Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is Within me, bless his holy name.

Y'all hear me sing it one time. Bless the Lord, bless the Lord. Come on, I will bless the Lord.

And I will bless the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul.

Come on, sing it and all that is within me. Bless his holy name. Sing it, Nate! Come on, sing it again!

I will bless the Lord and I will bless Bless the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, and all, and all that is within me, bless him, oh.

Amen.

One time, for he has done great things. Come on, declare it.

For he He has done great things. Great things. Come on, let hell know he has done great things.

Great things.

He has done, he has done great things. Bless, bless the Lord.

Come on, last time.

I will bless the Lord, I will bless, I will bless the Lord, oh my soul, oh my soul, and all, and all that is within me, bless, bless him, oh.

Holy man, for he has done great things. He has He has done great things. He has done great things. Bless his holy name.

Bless his holy name. Come on, bless, bless. That name is worthy.

Bless his holy name. Last time, y'all.

Bless his holy— bless his holy name.

Name.

Come on, clap your hands everybody and bless the name of Jesus. Come on, bless the name of Jesus. Glory, hallelujah! I wish I had about 2 people that came to bless that wonderful name of Jesus. It's the sweetest name I know.

Hallelujah!

Glory, sh—

Oh, he's holy, he's holy, he's holy.

Bless his holy name.

Bless his Oh, I call that 7.

Bless his heart. Bless his home. Bless his home.

Hallelujah, Jesus!

We bless the name of Jesus.

Holy is your name. Holy is your name. Holy is your name.

Holy is your name. Holy is your name. And bless his home. Bleed.

Thank you, Jesus.

He's a mighty God. He's a glorious God. None like him nowhere.

He rules in all the earth.

He reigns, he reigns, he reigns. He reigns, he reigns, he reigns.

Holy, holy, holy. Lord God Almighty, early in the morning, our song will rise to thee.

Help me say holy, holy, holy, holy, holy, merciful, merciful, and mighty, and mighty.

God, God.

God in three persons. Blessed, blessed Trinity.

It's God in three Blessed, blessed Trinity.

Say that again.

God, oh God, live forever. Blessed. Blessed. Hallelujah.

Glory to God. Again, bless your word, Lord. Thank you for the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost. Holy Ghost, have your way in this place. You are holy. You are righteous. Come, Lord, abide with us. Your presence is all we need. Hearts are fixed upon your face. Our thankful lips are filled with praise. Your presence is all we need. And we bless you, God. You're so holy, you're so amazing, and we bless you, Lord, in Jesus' name. I'm going to attempt to teach this. I tried when I first got the mic to just get in here, but this didn't work out that way. Glory to God. Y'all all right this morning? Come on, give God a hand of praise. So glad to see you all in the house of the Lord today. Yeah, glory to God. We were packed last week, but we, we packed again this week because really what makes a service— I want us to learn this— is God here. If it's just 3 of us in here and he here, we packed. Him. Hallelujah.

Cuz that's what matters.

Cuz we can have 500 people and know him, and that's a problem, and the service is empty. Glory to God, my Lord. So glad to be in the house this morning. I was glad when they said unto me, you know, when it's time to go to church, I don't be fighting it and trying to figure it out. I'll be glad.

Amen. Glory to God.

All right, this morning we're going back into our teaching we started last week on vision, and this morning we want to talk about the source of vision.

Say that with me. Say, the source of vision.

Y'all know who that is, right?

Hallelujah.

So we're going to talk about him and what that means. A lot of times We hear statements like, where there is vision, there's provision. And we hear it, but we really don't understand how that works, the science, the theology behind it, how to bring that to pass. So what I want to do this morning, I want to give you the knowledge on how to really see provision from God be manifested for vision in your life and corporately in our lives.

Say that with me. Say, God is my source. Say, as a matter of fact, there is no other source for my vision but God. Say, all kingdom vision is built by God for him to provide. Say, there can be no provision without the provider. Say, God is the source and provider of all I need for my vision, in Jesus' name. Come on, give God praise if you believe that. Hallelujah. So let's, let's just review a little bit what we talked about last week.

Um, and I, I started working on something God was giving me. I thought I was going to preach that this morning, And I was downstairs working on it, and God said, no, that's for tonight, because we're going to talk about how Jezebel comes to block vision.

But we need to understand the source, and that helps us understand why she wants to stop it, why that spirit wants to stop vision from coming forth.

All right, so let's review.

Give me, give me the next slide.

So what is vision?

We learned That vision was from the Hebrew word hazon, which is what we get words like horizon. It is a prophetic revelation, perception, dream, or oracle— something God speaks so that we can perceive it, or watch this, align with it. God never shows vision because he has nothing else to do. He shows vision to give life purpose and meaning. We learned that last week. He shows vision because he wants the vision to be fulfilled. He's not showing you a vision because he's just having fun showing you pictures of things that may happen. He shows you vision because this is something he has already foreknew. This is something he's already thought about. So if vision then is from God, then he has to become the source of it. Go to the next slide for me, Stu. We learned this last week, that sight is a matter of the eyes and vision is a matter of the heart. I share with you that the most pathetic person on earth It's a person that has sight and no vision. It's tragic to be able to use your eyes but not be able to see what God has shown you in your heart. All right, next slide. I'm not going to tear this— it's—

watch the message from last week, it's all there.

Keep going. I just said that. All right, now we're going to start. So I want to give you first off, and we're going to hit this really hard tonight, 2 enemies of progress and vision, because vision is always progressive. So you're always moving a step toward it. And a lot of times, the more you progress, the more the enemy fights you because he knows you're getting closer. Touch yourself, say, I'm getting closer. Say it's about to happen. Do y'all realize God can't lie? And if he said it, it shall surely come to pass. Are y'all with me? So the first enemy of vision is carnality. And carnality is simply the act of being carnal. It is dependence upon your flesh. Carnality is the opposite of spirituality. You can't dwell in the same places. Either you're carnal or you're spiritual.

Okay, I'm gonna say that again.

Can't be both at the same time. Watch this. You can't be— because you got a whole lot of this going around in doctrine now. You can't be a kingdom citizen and a sinner. All right, you can't be a Christian and anything else. You have to choose a side. And if you choose kingdom citizen, you can't walk out a kingdom assignment or vision being carnal. You can't analyze it with your carnal mind. You have to tap into the dimension of the spirit and allow God to put his eyesight on your eyes so you view life through his perception. Most of the time we view life through a perception that we learned in iniquity. Born in sin, shaping in iniquity. But you got to decide what you want to be— carnal. Because watch this, you can be saved and carnal, but you can't be a kingdom citizen pursuing vision and carnal. Because you can be a saved person stuck and not spiritual. There are a lot of Christians who live in escapism. They're living to go to heaven. We're not here just to get to heaven. We're here to have heaven on earth. Getting saved wasn't a fire escape. It was an opportunity to have a relationship with God, to fulfill his plan, to do what we are born to do. We are here to pursue a higher level of living versus being carnal. Let me show you some results of carnality. Let's go to Romans 8. We're going to start at verse 5, and I'm reading out the Message Bible here. Should be on the screen. He said, those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. So in other words, people who believe in themselves, all they do is figure out how they can keep the rules, how they can follow instructions. And really, God never intended for our life in him to be miserable so that we are just waking up to obey rules. Are y'all with me? We should be living. Holiness becomes automatic when you get in him for real. Oh boy, because you can't have a relationship with God and not want to please him. But if you need somebody to always tell you stop hoeing, stop being a homosexual, stop being a lesbian, If you need somebody always telling you that, okay, I'm just saying that's a miserable life. That all you're doing every day is getting— as my wife say, getting browbeat, which means somebody's got a bomb just beating you in your brow with it. So all you see is the word coming at you all day. But when you fall in love with God, you don't need that. Oh my God, here you don't need nobody policing you. I'm telling you right now, I'll be talking to my pastor friend, talking about they riding by their members' house and see who over there. Like, man, something's wrong with you. I wish I would get out of my bed at 2 AM and ride by your house and see whose car parked there. I'm not the Holy Ghost police. And some of them had an unmitigated gall to say they confront them about who at they house. What you need to do is teach them how to love God. I have a peace that y'all reverence God enough and y'all love him enough that I ain't got to follow you around town. I ain't got to follow you on your vacation and be stalking your Facebook to see what you're doing. The devil is a liar. I ain't got time. But some people are obsessed with legalism. Matter of fact, some people really don't feel like they saved unless you tell them don't take a bath, don't brush your teeth, take off your makeup, take off your earrings, don't wear this, don't wear that. So they feel like if I can obey this— no, that's carnal. It's legalism. Fall in love with God. Stop measuring your moral muscle based on what you can do. Watch this. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them, living and breathing God. So you gotta trust that he's there. Rub your belly and say, God, I know you're there. Hallelujah. See, when you know he's there, you'll pay close attention to how you live, how you move. They said that the Holy Spirit in the Bible often is equated to a dove. So watch this, if he's equated to a dove, I want you to think about this: you should live like a dove is on your shoulder.

Shoulder.

If you had a real dove on your shoulder, one wrong move, he's gonna fly away. So if the Holy Spirit is a dove, live like he's on your shoulder to make sure you can keep him with you. Amen. Are y'all hearing this? That way you're saying, God, I trust you, I reverence your presence, 'in my life, and I don't want to disappoint you.' I don't care how good it looks, how bad you want it. Are y'all hearing this? Because watch this, there's no temptation that has come towards you that's not common to man. Everybody's tempted with something.

Okay, y'all don't believe it?

Jesus was tempted and tried on all points. Yet without sin. So he, he went through every temptation to show you you can overcome it, and also to explain you're going to be tempted and your carnality is going to want to engage it. Let me, let me let you know something about temptation. Temptation is not something you don't want. It's something you desire. You know what you desire. Guess what the enemy does too, right? And he knows how to talk to you. And you have to make sure your relationship with God is tight, because temptation itself is not sin. I'm helping somebody, maybe live today. Temptation is not sin. But yielding to the temptation is sin. So the temptation is going to come, but you got to walk in the Spirit so you don't fulfill the lust of the flesh. Let's keep reading. Verse 9, glory to God. The Bible says, but if God himself has taken up residence— I think I got verse 9 still. Put it up there for him. Yeah, taking up residence in your life. Oh boy, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. So he's— the word is saying it's impossible for you to think more about you than God when he really live in you. It's impossible to be selfish if God really lives in you.

Okay, let's deal with that for a moment. Somebody needs that.

Maybe not in here, but out there. Okay, selfishness is the source of all sin. Let's just start right there. It's the source of all sin because when you're sinning You're pleasing you and not God. Watch this. Nobody sins by force. Every person that sins chooses.

Oh boy.

And it's out of carnality. Again, I'm going somewhere with this. That we choose sin. Let me keep reading. He said, anyone of course who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't even know what we're talking about. So what we're talking about right now is foreign for those that don't know he's there for real and have welcomed him in their life. Are y'all with me? He says this, he says the— oh, he said the Spirit of Christ are for those that welcome him, in whom he dwells. Even though you still experience the limitation of sins, you yourself experience life on God's terms. This is good. Sin is— comes into your life, you're missing the mark. You're born in it. But when you welcome him in, what he's saying here, you remove all limitations. I gotta teach this because anytime God gives you vision, it's gonna be bigger than you, and you're going to have to be clear. That there are no limitations. Are you hearing this? Not because of what your carnality deserves, but you got to be clear that there's no limitations because of the God you serve and his ability to be without limits. Say that with me. Say, God is without limits. Matter of fact, put your hand over your head. Just do it like this for a minute. Come on, come on. This is just some of y'all, this, this getting some movement in. You just move. Just say the word and say, ain't nothing above my head. I can go as high as I want to. I want you to let that sink in. As long as God is in you, there's no limitations in how high you can go. And what you can perform. No limits. Are y'all with me?

Okay.

He says you experience life on God's terms. He says, stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive and present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves you into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself?

That's a question.

If he did it for Jesus, he'll do it for you.

Because people love to use the excuse, I ain't Jesus. Ever heard people say that?

Every— I ain't perfect. But if Jesus lived without limits and everything in the natural realm obeyed him, he could step on the water and start walking. Because he didn't live from the realm of carnality. As soon as he stepped on the water, gravity recognized the word that put it in place and said, I gotta surrender to the voice and the presence that put me in place. Gravity is invisible. It's not what makes you sink, is gravitational pull. Are y'all hearing this? But you can do what Jesus did. I can do what Jesus did if I don't buy into my limitations. So I have to defeat fear. I'm telling you, I'm praying about it because as good as I can swim, one day I, I believe I can walk on the water because he in me. Are y'all hearing this? Every time I'm around a pool, I get— I just— but you know why? My mind has bought into the limitation.

Okay, uh, me and my wife was in Vegas a few years back, not this last time I went, but a few years back. We saw this guy out there who was a musician. We saw this guy get on a swimming pool at a hotel Of course, he's full of demons and familiar spirits, but he walks across the pool. We saw that. There was nothing.

You can look in the water, there was nothing there but him and water.

Are y'all hearing this?

For every real, there's a phony, and God will show you that people in the demonic realm can perform things in familiar spirits, and he'll show you if they are doing this, faking it. Are y'all hearing this? Operating in the spirit that's not me. What could you do if you yielded to me?

Are y'all hearing this?

Okay.

There are no limits, people. If you— if there's an— and I believe there's gonna be a purpose for me walking on water. I believe one day y'all gonna turn on CNN, they're gonna say, 'A preacher out here in the Atlantic Ocean standing in the middle of the ocean preaching.' Are y'all hearing this? You know how many people get saved? You ain't got to say nothing if, if you can walk on water and preach a message in the ocean.

Okay, that's too much. Okay, let me keep going.

Somebody—

Apostle, I knew you was crazy. Let's start. It's too much.

But I'm telling you now, I'm just trying to just raise the bar for you. There ain't no limits. I believe one day I'm gonna not just raise the dead in the hospital room or at somebody's house. I'm gonna show up at a funeral. You only got to say nothing to me, because every funeral I go to, my hand is on the casket. I'm speaking to the body saying, get up in the name of Jesus, because one day it's gonna happen. But you know what? People have to be ready for that, because you might lose 3, 4 more folks. Somebody get up. Are you hearing this? So, but I believe in the right timing. God's gonna cause it to happen and everybody's gonna get saved. Are y'all hearing this? Because Jesus raised the dead, we just read it, right? He'll do the same thing for you when God lives and breathes in you. And I'm almost done with this. And he does, as surely as he did in Jesus. You are delivered from the dead life with his Spirit living in you. You are as alive as Christ. In other words, you just— you like him. You can do what he did. So the church ought to be doing what he did. What blocks the manifestation of supernatural things is carnality.

We're wired to believe what carnal thinking has taught us.

Write this down: carnality is an enemy to God. I don't have it up there, but if you read Romans 8:1, it said to be carnal-minded is death.

Death.

But to be spiritually minded is life and peace. Are y'all with me? The carnal mind is enmity, or an enemy against God. So if it's an enemy against God, it's an enemy against anything God puts in your life. It's an enemy to vision. Is an enemy to your gift, your anointing. Is an enemy to your family. So you have to approach everything in life through spiritual lens. Watch this. Carnality— you can write this down, you may need it later— will cause you to build a cemetery in your life.

Oh God, he will go.

Well, you ultimately bury your own vision when you're carnal. You'll create a cemetery in your life where you bury all of the stuff God tells you that seems hard. Hoo-wee! How many times have we buried good dreams that came from God because we didn't have the resources or the manpower, or we didn't see how we were worthy to do it? So what we do, we take it right onto that cemetery. 'Cause we analyzed it carnally. All right, I'm gonna teach this morning. Second enemy is this. I'm gonna get off carnality because some of y'all don't like that. Second enemy is— watch this, writing down to your vision is your last success. Greatest enemy to progress and vision— it's not the devil, it's not haters, it's not your lack of money or resources—

it's your last success.

I don't have it up there, but Philippians 3:10. Says, now therefore forgetting those things which are behind. Are y'all here? That's past failures and past successes. He said, forgetting those things which are behind. You could be so preoccupied with your last success that you miss the ability to move into your future. Past success can keep you locked in to history and you end up missing destiny. Say that with me: I can't be so locked in to history that I miss destiny. There are a lot of people stuck in what God did in '88. Are y'all hearing this?

Or 62?

Well, you know, in 62, this is my testimony in the Lord. Okay, yeah, okay. Well, what are you doing in 26? Are y'all hearing this? The Bible said every morning he gives you new mercies. He always wanted to do something different. He's progressive. Amen. Can I submit this to you? On the good side and the bad side, God will never look at your past to determine your future. Amen. People will look at your past and try to keep you out of your future. But thank God for the blood. Are y'all hearing this? Thank God that you ain't what you used to be. Well, let me talk about me. Thank God I ain't what I used to be. Glory to God. And when I see folk from my past, I start thinking twice and four times and five times, do I really want to engage this? Because are they coming because of who I am, or are they coming because they think I'm still who I was? Oh my, y'all ain't got to talk to me here. You got to size up contact with your history and decide. I'm talking to the camera. 'Cause some of y'all think you ain't got no past, but you got one. The devil is a liar. You got to make sure people don't size you up by what you did, 'cause God will never look at what you did to determine where you're going. I'm telling you right now, the blood works. Glory to God. Ooh-wee. The Bible said if you repent of your sin, he'll take your sin and cast it in the sea of forgetfulness to remember it no more. You know what some people do? They got a problem. They got a real problem. They dive in the sea of forgetfulness. I think they got some scuba diving gear that works in the sea of forgetfulness. Swim past they sin. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. And then they'll pick up your sin and try to throw it in your face. But thank God, the blood will cover me. The blood will keep me. And you gotta decide, I don't care what you think. About what I did last year, last month, 20 years ago. The blood works. Okay, so you—

it also works on your last success, amen, cuz you weren't meant to be stuck there.

It was only a building post for the next success. He wants to move you from glory to glory, from faith to faith. Every dimension of glory and faith requires— watch this— a new level you conquer. Listen, you need to understand, if we come in here, worship, praise God, God comes in, we live for God every day. Listen, it should be illegal for after all the encounters and experiences you have with God, that you don't conquer something every day. What we do in church should culminate with conquering, not staying in our last success. God's the source of Vision comes from purpose.

Vision comes from God's plan to do something different in the world.

Go to Ecclesiastes 3.

Touch it, touch your heart and say, God has placed purpose in my heart.

Ecclesiastes 3:11 says he made everything beautiful in its time. See, we have to be careful trying to beautify things before it's time, cause trials sometimes can get ugly. Pain can be hard. The things we go through can be rough, but God says, I make it beautiful in its time. Everything has a time for beauty. What does he say? It won't be this way always. God has already seen you better than you are right now. He's already seen me better than I am right now. I just want to announce to you really quick, your time is coming. Your time of beauty is about to be manifest. And I'm not talking about your external beautiful, beautiful. Most all of you are beautiful in your own right. The reality— and physically beautiful— but the reality is there's a beauty in your purpose, beauty in your life that's going to manifest. Because sometimes it seemed like the stuff God said he was going to do is taking a long time.

Okay, here we go.

So sometimes it seems like God is an old man.

He give you a promise and then he just starts moving like this, just moving slow, just slow.

But he's coming, and I'm telling you, you're closer than you think.

Matter of fact, matter of fact, say it's coming.

Say I'm closer. Than I think.

Y'all can say it. Say, I'm closer than I think. I'm telling you, it's right around the corner. Just, just touch yourself.

Say, it's coming.

Hallelujah.

Yeah, because you've been praying and it's coming.

Thank you, Jesus. I'm—

listen, a matter of fact, go to Isaiah. I think that's where it is. I want to show this to you because I don't want you just to believe me. Glory to God. Romans 10:8, let's go there first.

The Bible said the Word is near you. Say, it's near me. It's coming. Say, it's coming. It is in your mouth and in your heart. So wait a minute, you got to watch what you say. 'Cause the beauty of the word is close. It's in your mouth, it's in your heart. So you got to make sure when it gets hard, when it gets tough, you don't start speaking negative. All right, even if you want to cuss them out, don't cuss them. God's about to change it. Are y'all hearing this? Keep his word in your mouth. Speak those things that are not as though they were, because beauty is coming. Just do this. Say, it's at my fingertips. I'm telling you, it's that close. The prophetic utterance over your life is at your fingertips. The rest of it says he has also set eternity in your heart. So there's an eternal purpose in your heart. Say that word. Say, there's eternal purpose in my heart. Yet no one can phantom what God has done from beginning to end. That's interesting. He puts it there, then he makes it mysterious. Let me say, there's always drama around prophetic vision.

Now I ain't talking about the drama that your cousin gonna do at the family reunion.

I'm not talking about— I'm not talking about that kind of drama. My son Ben has a master's in music and theater. Whenever they do performances, there's a drama that goes into whatever they're depicting. There's a whole production that leads you to believe, if they're good, that what they're doing is real.

Are y'all hearing this?

God produces the vision before you see it.

Are y'all with me?

Before you see a production from a Broadway performing group, they've already produced it in rehearsal. They've done it time and time again. They didn't just come out on that stage and perfect. They've been like Ben, he just came out of one show and now they're rehearsing for a new show he just got a role in. The show don't open, I think, until October. They rehearsing now. So then when you show up at the theater, they've already seen it. How you gonna see it? Somebody say drama. See, this ain't Uncle Junior drama here. This is— God has already rehearsed What's gonna happen in your life before it manifests. So that means you gotta see it before you see it, because if you don't see it before you see it, when it manifests, you won't recognize it. See, that's why they rehearse, so we can recognize what the producer's vision was. You got to see this thing in advance. Sometimes visions show up and you don't recognize it because you ain't spent time in the spirit to get a glimpse of the production that was done from beginning to end.

Are y'all hearing this? In your life, there's a, a responsible urge. Say responsibility. That, that responsibility to respond to your ability. So God has already given you all the ability to fulfill vision, and there's a responsible urge that the Holy Spirit gives you to walk in purpose and to manifest through your life what God has already seen. It's already complete, family. You just got to see it. Go to Isaiah 46:10. Maybe, maybe this will help you. I'm almost done, for real.

He says, I make known the end From the beginning. So the end of your life, the drama that's going to manifest, the movie that's going to manifest—

this light here is the end. God says the end is already settled.

But I decided this not when you got saved, not when you came out of your mama's belly. I decided this in the beginning, before you even got in your mama's belly. Are y'all hearing this? I decided what your end would be. And then when you're born, you tap into the prophetic revelation. When you're born again and God introduces you to the end, he says, this is where you're going.

You're going to be a millionaire. You're going to have a successful business.

You're going to be happily married.

You're going to have children.

All of that was decided over there. Everything you go through from here to there, in this middle, is process. God is qualifying you. He's rehearsing you for where you're going. So I just didn't— let me just bring close to us— I just didn't come up with Rother City. God saw Rother City and built it before I was born and says, Michael Woods, you're gonna lead a people to manifest this city. It's going to be built on 38 acres. It's going to have houses, soundstage, a Dominion Dome that seats 1,500. It's going to have a school, it's going to have restaurants, it's going to have parks. It's going to be a city within a city. It's going to have a prayer tower. He said, that's the end. But then he says back up to the beginning and start at 1410 Santa Fe Trail with about 16 people who are really connected and work toward the end.

Are y'all here?

He declared the end from the Beginning.

The process is qualifying your heart.

Here's what happened. Many people die in this and never get there because they can't endure the process. Because watch this, they don't realize the process is for there. Some people even settle here and say, you know what, that's too much. I don't want that marriage, I don't want that business, I don't want them children, so I'm gonna settle right here. Are y'all hearing this? Some people sell it here because of what I just said. They don't see it before they see it, so they don't even recognize this is for them. You can't die in the process.

The process gives you the qualification to keep that when you get it.

He said, from ancient times, what is still to come I say my purpose will stand and I will do all that I please. So here's the points I want you to write down.

I'm almost done.

Write it down. God completed you before he created you. Touch yourself, say I'm finished. Say I'm complete. All you got to do now is begin to live the life he created for you.

All right.

I was talking to someone once. I said, how you doing? I'm just trying to make it. You have no authority to do that. That's what I said to him.

You have no authority.

You should be living the life God made for you. We got to stop again that binding to carnality. Listen, that person heard somebody else say that, and that's a response to when things are hard. So they say it because they heard it. So you got— again, you got to change your language because the end is in your mouth. You already created. And every day you ought to be saying, I am what God says I am. And then you ought to get some clarity about what that is and start saying that. You, you need to get comfortable saying, I'm a multi-millionaire. You didn't get comfortable saying, I'm a billionaire. Get comfortable saying, I walk in power, I walk in the anointing, I am full of purpose, I will complete my assignment on earth. You got to start saying it.

So that you can live it.

Write this down. Here we go. The fact that you were created, the fact that you are here, is proof that you're already complete. Because somebody might say, how— well, Apostle, how do you know I'm complete? Well, your heartbeat, ain't it? The fact you have life is proof that you're already finished. And guess what? If you die in the process, if something— if you quit and you die before you get there, that's murder.

It doesn't even have to happen with a gun.

You can kill yourself with food, kill yourself—

oh boy—

kill yourself with the wrong relationships. It's suicide to not expose yourself to life-giving things that will help the vision come to pass. Many people have died prematurely with all this vision in them that never came to fruition because they were murdered. Their life was cut off too early. We got to stop saying, well, God took them. Some people were murdered. 'Cause God has a lifespan already planned. Watch this, your time, your life, your birth certificate is your time clock that clocks you into life. And in this space, God created for you to do your time in eternity. And fulfill purpose.

And then when you die, you should be finished.

Touch yourself.

Say, I can't die until I'm finished. Yeah. Which brings to the next point.

Write it down.

You were designed to perfectly accomplish your purpose.

You ain't got to change for nobody. Are y'all hearing this? You meet folk to go try and change you.

I met a guy and all he did was complain about how much weight his wife was gaining.

Man, she need to go to the gym. She didn't stop eating this.

She didn't stop doing this.

And I just got tired of it.

And y'all know me, I'm just gonna tell the truth. I said, dude, maybe if you went with her, she might go. 'Cause truth be told, you bigger than her.

How you gonna be complaining about her weight and you wobbling around here? Are y'all hearing this? Come on, man, listen. The reality is that lady was miserable because all he did was complain. She eventually left him. Was complaining, and she happy. She want to be now Cuz she living with somebody that is complaining about who she is. That's how God made her. Her bones is big, that's how God made her. And you, you cannot— if you little bone to big bone, celebrate that. I told a skinny woman one time, I said, you can't do nothing for me but show me somebody that's bigger than you. Y'all hearing this? I'm just saying, that was way back when, okay? But I'm trying to tell you, just be you, cuz some people like a Coca-Cola bottle and some people like a 2-liter. And you ain't got to change for nobody. Are y'all with me? If you are losing weight, do it for yourself. I don't even know how I got on that. Y'all know where I was at. You're perfectly designed for who you are. Don't change how you dress, how you look, if they can't take you how you are. They not the one for you.

Glory to God.

That's why, you know, I'm, I'm never gonna try to blend into society.

Every Sunday I come in here looking like a cool youth pastor because I'm dressed with jeans.

I'm not gonna do that all the time. I'm 60. I'm almost 60 years old. I'm gonna dress like I'm 60. I've been dressing like this all my life. And y'all can dress how you want. But I'm not gonna change cause y'all don't dress up. Are y'all hearing this? I'm gonna be me and I'm not gonna be mad at you if you wear your jeans and t-shirt. But don't be tripping cause you see me with a suit on every now and then, all right?

Because some of you got issues, I'm just gonna tell you.

But you can't even hear the word cause Apostle dressed up.

What?

You should be. Listen, be— I'm— all I'm saying is be you. There's only one you, and when God comes looking to use you, he going to be looking for you, not the counterfeit you created to please people.

Glory to God.

I, I don't know how to do nothing but be me, so you gotta like it or lump it. I'm just saying, because being fake is, is not only is it exhausting and hard work, it's actually ungodly. it's inauthentic. Are y'all hearing this?

Oh God, okay.

Say, I'm perfect for who God needs me to be. Say this, say, I have everything I need to be who I am. You know what that means? You ain't got to borrow nobody anointing, you ain't got to copycat, you ain't got to be out here trying to act like Jake's talking about, get ready, get ready. You ain't got to do none of that. You got everything you need. Almost done. Write this down. When you know and understand what you were born to accomplish— write it down—

when you know and understand what you were born to accomplish, watch this, that vision, that's Purpose. When you can perceive it in your mind by faith that this really belongs to me, that's purpose. I'm gonna cover this part of it tonight, but I'm gonna hit it here. Ownership precedes occupancy.

You gotta own it in the vision realm.

Before you occupy it in the physical realm.

I'm gonna say that one more time. Ownership precedes occupancy. You gotta own it in the dimension of the spirit, and there's a dimension in the spirit called the vision dimension. You gotta tap into the place where God has already produced this thing.

Own it as yours and you will occupy it in the now. But watch this, and I'm gonna cover this tonight.

There could be no occupancy without opposition. The moment you see it for real, you're going to be opposed.

I know we, we say, I signed up for this life where I have blessing, blessing, blessing. No, now I want to fight.

I want to have a warfare.

Yeah, it's coming because you can see the enemy is threatened.

All right, write this down. Vision— here we go— is foresight with insight based on hindsight. Vision is foresight with insight based on hindsight. Let's break that down. So vision is foresight. It's what's in the future. It's the prophetic revelation that you can see that belongs to you, right? But it is also insight. As you see it afar off, you gotta marry it, and you gotta look at it every day and allow it to live in you. And it's based on hindsight, what God already saw. Are y'all hearing this?

Y'all got it?

Write this down. Vision— here we go— isn't about us. It's about God and his purpose. Touch yourself. Say, it ain't about me. Come on, say it. Say, it's not about me, it's about God. This is how you release God's hand, the source. He's the source of provision when you realize it ain't about you. Many a time the source steps back and says, okay, if you want it to be about you, I'm gonna let you provide for it. But if you yield, I said, God, it's all you, he'll provide.

He'll release what belongs inside of the vision.

Write this down. You already know your vision. It is as close as your most persistent thoughts and deepest desires. Because you may be saying, 'Lord, what's my purpose?

What is my vision?' What are your most persistent thoughts? What are your deepest desires?

What placates you? What stimulates you? What do you want to change? When you look at the world, what gets you all wound up that you want to shift and make a difference in? Many times that's an indication to your purpose and your vision.

I know I'm called to leaders, I'm called to entrepreneurs, I'm called to help people become better at who they were called to do.

And I understand clearly that everything in my vision has to tie into that.

What do you see?

Write it down. To have vision is more than an interest in something, is to have a real desire and passion for it. Passion is the driving force behind anything. So you can't just be interested in doing it. You got to have a desire and passion to do it. That way, when it gets hard, you won't quit. Are y'all here? Because there'll be days you're gonna want to quit.

Okay, let me just talk about me. There are days I want to quit. Are y'all hearing this? Because I'm human. Are y'all with me? But it's the vision and the passion in my heart for it, out of obedience, that keeps me going.

It's my love for what God says and the people he's connected to, what he said, that regardless of what's going on, I keep going. Are y'all hearing this? So it's not just to be— I'm not just interested in teaching and preaching. I have a passion for helping people.

That's why I keep going.

Are y'all here? Write it down. Vision persists no matter what the odds.

Good God.

So no matter how hard it gets, the vision don't lie. Matter of fact, Habakkuk 2 said, though it tarry, wait, for it shall speak and not lie. So the vision's coming as long as you stand. So you can't let the odds make you not want to do it. Are y'all hearing this? You better believe every day there are things that come up that make me feel like, okay, well, maybe we shouldn't try to build this Rada City, maybe we shouldn't try to buy this building. But the vision is going to stand against the odds if I align with it and stand Are y'all hearing this? Vision— write it down— is unselfish.

It's again, it never regards itself or the visionary.

It's about the vision because the vision is from God. Write this down. Vision is the only thing that brings true fulfillment. You can try so many other things outside of vision, and they may satisfy you temporarily, but the only thing that's really going to bring fulfillment in your life is vision from God. That's why some of you working on these jobs, you be mad all day because it ain't God's vision for your life. You just doing it as a temporary means to get a paycheck. Are y'all hearing this? But you got to find God and walk out his vision because he's a source of vision. And if you start walking in vision, he will provide. I'm not just saying that, I'm a witness.

Out of the 8 churches I planted, I've only had one that really grew really big, big.

But out of all them churches, God's always provided. He's always took care of me because he made me a promise. If I take care of his business his, he gonna take care of mine. That's what I stand on. He said if you go in the vineyard and work what's right, I pay. So I get up and work every day like I'm leading a church with 10,000 people.

That's how I work. That's my ethic.

I work every day like I'm operating a ministry that has leaders connected to me from all over the world in the multiple thousands when there are only a few hundred. You know why? Because I believe in vision. I believe if I work the vision, the pro will come. You can't sleep till 12 talking about you're a visionary. Sleep is for punks when you're trying to build vision. Are y'all hearing this? When you're trying to build something— my wife has to fuss me into bed most of the time. She complains a lot about me not going to bed. She'd be like, well, if you just close your eyes. But the reality is visionaries are always working. Are y'all hearing this? Because we're gonna work until we see it.

Are y'all with me? And you're right, rest is important, but I'll be asking God supernaturally, give me rest, Jesus.

Because if he talking to me, I need to listen. And if he choose to talk at 2 AM Are y'all hearing this? I need to listen at 2 AM.

Are y'all with me?

Write it down. Vision requires a vital connection with God. So here's where a lot of people miss the fulfillment, because they don't spend time with the Lord. And he's the source. Are y'all hearing this? We'll get a vision and start trying to understand it in the carnality that we've been given. Let me tell you something, God is better than YouTube.

He real, for real.

He's better than Facebook posts. He's better than you scrolling trying to get answers.

Watch this.

God was here before Google. He, he was here before AI. He knows more about his vision than AI will ever know. Are y'all hearing this? But you need a vital connection with him.

I'm almost done. Write it down.

Personal vision is often discovered—

are you ready for this one?— within a larger corporate vision. Many a time people think they can be an island to fulfill vision. and you cannot. We need each other. And when vision comes forth in the kingdom, we should all be working together to help each other bring vision to pass.

I'm not even just talking about in this room, because we do know the kingdom is larger than this room, but the kingdom is divided. Because there are a lot of people who get personal visions and they don't equate it to the corporate vision of the kingdom. I look at it like this: if God gives you a grace— and I, I'll reference this again— to do $40 million a week, you should, as a ministry, as a kingdom ministry— and there's a ministry in this city that does $40 million a week publicly. It's public information. There's $160 million a month. There ought to be some burden to create an ecosystem that helps other people in the kingdom fulfill vision. Question becomes, why you need two jets? Why you need 4 Bentleys? I'm just saying, you can't drive but one. Because the personal vision becomes a kingdom to themselves. God gives that grace so we can share it. I told God, give me $40 million a week. I'm one week out of the month Every month of the year for 12 months, I'm gonna give away $40 million.

I'm gonna bless 40 entrepreneurs slash ministries to help them do what they're called to do.

Are y'all hearing this? Because we ought to be being fruitful and multiplying.

Okay, another message for another day.

Are y'all with me? Y'all getting something out of this? Write it down, I'm almost done. Those who are in the same corporate vision must work harmoniously to bring it to pass. So those of us that find ourselves in the same kingdom with vision from God We should all work in unity and harmony to bring God's vision to pass.

Almost done, y'all.

The leader of a corporate vision— write it down— should draw out— here we go— the personal visions of the group by assisting them in activating their gifts, their dreams, and their passions. I said again, the leader of a corporate vision should pull out, draw out the passions, the dreams, the skills, the abilities of the people in the group and help them activate that. You should not— if you got a vision, you don't need to be in a church that don't have no vision, and you definitely don't need to be hanging around friends that don't have vision. Are y'all hearing this? Because you, you need to be connected to things that's stirring up where you trying to go. You shouldn't waste your money or time going to conferences that will not speak directly to your vision. That's why I take my time and I try to teach y'all because I really want to see you fulfill vision.

Last one, and we're gonna go home.

Vision generates vision.

I'm gonna say it again.

Vision generates vision. Ever notice if you get around some other creative folk who have vision, who want something, and y'all start talking about what God is doing in your life, something in you gets stirred up? That's why I don't hang out with people who are negative. I don't spend— listen, the moment I see that thing going left I— it was great seeing you, good talking to you, I'm out. But y'all ain't got to say nothing because I— my vision needs gas. Oh, shabandi asa. Just rub your belly, say, my vision needs gas. I need somebody to speak into me, telling me, man, you can do this. I don't need to hear, you can't do it, you, you ain't got enough people, you ain't got enough money, ain't no way, God said that. No, I need to say, hear people say, God is able, and what God said he's gonna do, he's gonna do. Because vision generates vision. Watch this, your best gifts, abilities, and talents are gonna surface in the presence of extraordinary people. I'm gonna say that one more time. Your best gifts and talents are gonna surface in the presence of extraordinary people. I'm done. You need to hang out with extraordinary folk. You need to find you some people that's got 16 by 20 ideas like you. 'Cause you can't fit a 16x20 idea in a 3x5 mind. You sitting trying to put your 16x20 vision in their 3x5 mind, it ain't gonna fit. You gonna always be frustrated trying to tell this person what God is telling you to do. You need to find you some other visionaries because vision produces vision.

You can play softly, Pastor. I'm done.

Everybody stand.

Y'all stand. Glory to God. I pray you learned something today.

Y'all learn something.

Hallelujah.

We're going to say something some of this out loud because you can have what you say. Thank you, Lord. I'm gonna let you go and get you out of here because I want you to come back tonight. Glory to God.

Say this with me. Say, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, say, I receive the word and I renounce carnal thinking. I decree and declare that the carnal mind, according to your word, is an enemy— no music, Pastor— against God. Say, in the name of Jesus, I decree and declare that your word rests heavy in me, saying I'm a spiritual person. I walk in the Spirit, that I will not fulfill the lust of the flesh. Say, I decree and declare that my mind is in you because your word said, let the same mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus. Say, I decree and declare I have the mind of Christ, and because of this, I have no limits. Say, nothing is above my head. I can go as high as I want to. Say, my vision was decided before I was born. Say, thank you, Jesus. That you've declared the end from the beginning, and I'm in the process. I receive the process. Say, thank you, Lord, for qualifying me for where you're taking me. Say, I decree and declare your vision, your purpose, your plans Your dreams for my life are closer than I think. Say, I declare now that is at my fingertips. Say, my worst days are over. Say, I have stepped into the best days of my life. Say, in Jesus' name. I decree and declare, Lord, I feel you here, that your power and your resources are working through me, and my vision shall not lack. Say, in the name of Jesus, I have everything I need. I have everything I desire. What you said in my life will come to pass. Say, Lord, open my eyes so I can see the drama, so I can see the production that you're creating with my life. And I declare your vision will manifest And the world will see your hand on my life. In Jesus' name, it is so. If you believe it, clap your hands and thank God for vision. Come on, shout in this place! I need the visionaries to shout in this place! The 16x20 folk to open your mouth. Your vision is not dead. Your vision is alive, and God is the source and the provider of what he has declared. Hallelujah! Glory to God! Hallelujah! Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Jesus! Thank you, Jesus! Come on, say this one. I'm saying, furthermore, thank you, Lord. I decree and declare every resource, every piece of money that I need to bring my dream my vision to pass. I have it now in Jesus' name. And I speak to the wind, I speak to the atmosphere, and I command money to come to me now for the fulfillment of dreams and visions. I say in Jesus' name. I have the provision in my hand, in my bank account. I don't lack a thing, neither do I have a care. Every need is met right now in my life. Say, in Jesus' name, I'm a partner with the vision of Rudder Church. And I declare I will prosper so I can give at new dimensions and new levels of giving. Say, I declare I'm a millionaire, I'm a billionaire, and God, I decree no weapon formed against my money will be able to prosper. I bind the devil that comes against my finances, and I declare I'm rich, I'm wealthy in my wealthy place, in Jesus' name. Come on, if you believe it, give him glory. Come on, shout about it. Hallelujah! Come on, shout about it! I need you to praise him like you already got a billion. Praise him like every need is already met. Praise him like every bill is already paid. Praise him like the door is already open. Come on, come on! God said, I'm about to release ridiculous blessings, ridiculous blessings. He says, I'm about to bless you in a ridiculous way. I'mma bless you, you ain't going to even understand how this thing happen. But a ridiculous blessing requires a ridiculous praise. Open your mouth! Come on, how bad do you need it? How bad do you want it? God said the vision has been tarrying, but it shall not lie. It is coming, it is coming, it is coming, it is coming, and you gonna see it with your own eyes. Hallelujah, hallelujah! Glory to God, we give you praise, God, we give you glory. Yes, Amanda, it's coming, it's coming. Don't you give up, don't you quit. It is coming. Death is not the answer. Quitting is not the answer. God said it is coming. We bless your name, God. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. You said, you told us in your word, if you're in us, we can be like Christ. And there are no limits in our life. We take the limits off. Ke tabasatai. And we give you the glory, God, in the name of Jesus. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

Glory to God.

God, we receive it, God. Yes, Lord, in the name of Jesus.

Thank you, Lord. Hear our prayers, receive our praise, God. We receive it in Jesus' name.

Hallelujah.

Before you sit down, hug somebody.

Get you a vision mate, a dream mate, and just hug them and tell them, don't you give up, the vision shall come to pass in your life. Come on, hug them, encourage them to keep going.

Hallelujah. Yes, God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah, Jesus. We bless your name. We give you the glory, God. We honor your name. We honor your name. Thank you, Jesus. Wonderful Jesus. God, it shall be. Hallelujah! It shall come to pass. Hallelujah! Glory to God.

Wonderful Jesus, wonderful. Yes, Lord, you're wonderful. Yes, Lord Jesus, wonderful. In my life, you are Lord, wonderful.

Yes, you are, God.

You're wonderful. You're wonderful. Wonderful in my life. You are wonderful. You're wonderful. Oh yes, you are wonderful in my life. You are wonderful.

Singing marvelous.

Y'all sing marvelous. Marvelous in my life. You are Oh, marvelous.

Come on, sing glorious.

Oh yes, you are glorious in my life.

Glory Yeah, come on, one last time.

Wonderful, wonderful.

Everybody sing wonderful.

Wonderful.

Come on, yes you are, Jesus.

Wonderful in my life. You are, Lord, wonderful.

Clap your hands, everybody, and bless him. Just bless the Lord for his goodness. Boy, that was real.

Woo-wee!

Y'all clap your hands and give God some praise, please. Jesus, he's a wonder in our soul.

In my life, you are Lord.

Hallelujah! Glory to God! We're gonna prepare our hearts really quickly to give this morning. Glory to God! I'm just loving our new giving slide. Glory to God! God is so good. Ways to give on the screen. I want you to pray over your giving this morning. Let's not do this haphazardly. Um, I will tell you, the last couple of weeks, sometimes when we have the biggest crowds, we have the lowest offering. We can have a few people and raise our biggest offering of the month. So I want you guys to pray as you give this morning. We want to make sure we meet all of our needs. Again, remember, we got contract on a building. And we're trying to go to closing the next 45 days, and we want to make sure that that happens. And I declare it shall be. I'm in agreement with you. Let's pray and do our part. So whatever the Lord leads you to sacrifice— somebody say sacrifice— I need you to give a sacrificial offering this morning, up and above your tithe. Father, we thank you for the gifts and the givers and the sacrificers. Thank you, Lord, that as they give their money, you're going to give it back to them. Not 50, not 60, not 70, not 80, not 90, but 100-fold. We thank you that these gifts are going to go back to them. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall men give to their bosom, and we bless you for it now in the mighty name of Jesus. Thank you that we don't lack a thing, neither do we have a care.

Thank you that everything we need for our finances, for our down payment, for whatever we need to do for this building at 3060 Boulder Crest Road— thank you that the need is met. We release supernatural provision for the vision.

We don't fear and we're not afraid, and we trust you, God, to meet every need we have. In Jesus' name, amen. Glory to God. So get your gifts and let's bless the Lord. If you have physical money, you're welcome to bring it and put it in the basket. Glory to the name of God.

Oh, we sing wonderful Oh yes, you are. You're wonderful in my life. You are Lord. Come on everybody, declare marvelous. Oh yes, you are. You're wonderful, wonderful in my life. Oh Lord, wonderful.

Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. We bless his name. Glory to God. What a mighty God we serve. He's a good God.

Wonderful in my life, you are Lord. Wonderful.

Yes, Lord. Father, we thank you for every gift and every giver returning you will pay it back to them 1,000 times more than they have sown it today. And we give you praise, God, again for provision for the vision, not just in the life of this corporate vision, but in the life of every vision in this room. Thank you, because we exchange on the altars of giving and receiving that vision shall come to pass in our life. And we bless you for it now, in Jesus' name.

Amen.

Glory to God. Clap your hands again and give God praise. Hallelujah. Wonderful Savior. We bless him. He's a good God. All right, we're gonna get ready to get out of here. Thank you, Jesus. Just a few announcements. Okay, why is this doing that? I think somebody's mic is still on. Yeah, thank you, Lord.

Thank you, thank you.

Glory to God, wonderful Savior. All right, few announcements. Um, on Thursday nights we're here. Glory to God. Thursday night. First, uh, on this Thursday night, uh, we're going to be virtual only, only because we're going into Pentecost weekend, which starts on Saturday. Um, I'm going to share with you some of the things that are going to happen on Saturday. I would that you would be in place. Glory to God. So no Thursday in person this Thursday, uh, we will be virtual only. So I want to challenge you to make sure you are here, uh, Thursday night virtually.

Amen.

Amen.

Glory to God. All right, Saturday, uh, we ain't got—

that's—

that slide should be in there. Maybe it didn't cross over. Let me see if I can put it up for him from here. See what this technology doing. Glory to God.

Wonderful Savior.

If I wasn't looking for it, it would be here. There it is.

Okay.

All right, so it ain't let me cast it to the screen for some reason, but I'm gonna tell you, I'm gonna turn it this way. Can y'all see? Y'all see? Just barely. Almost done. This, uh, Tony Kirby strikes again. That is good, good. She know what she doing. Amen. Um, but Holy Ghost and Fire is happening starting on Saturday. What we're going to do on Saturday, beginning at 10 AM till 12, we're going to have some teaching on the Holy Ghost. I think people need to understand who he is.

Amen.

Amen. So we're going to talk about him being the most important person on Earth, how to align with him, how to walk with him. You want to be here for those teachings, uh, and And then at 12 noon we're gonna have lunch and we're gonna have a vision casting session from like 12 noon to 2 o'clock. I'm gonna let you out of here and, um, you get your food. We're gonna sit down, we're gonna eat, we're gonna talk, and we're gonna share with you about the vision, the campaign that we're releasing for Rother Church. So we want you to be in the building.

Amen.

Amen. Amen. Amen.

All right, so, and invite somebody, bring somebody with you. It's important that, you know, you be in the building and learn what's going on. So 2 o'clock, and then on Sunday— somebody say Sunday. Sunday. Two services on Sunday for Pentecost: Sunday morning at 10 AM and Sunday night at 6. So I'm believing God that some people will get filled with the Holy Spirit.

Y'all believe that can happen? Amen.

We saw a couple get filled last week right over here. Amen. I believe that many can be filled with the gift of the Holy Ghost.

Amen.

The Bible said the apostles lay hands on them and they receive. They can't do it if y'all don't bring them though, so you got to bring them.

How many know some people need the baptism of the Holy Spirit?

That's not a trick question. I mean, no, that's not true. Everybody knows some people, right? Let's get them in the building. Glory to God. Um, there are flyers back there in the back, not particularly for this meeting, but the same service times are on them. Take those flyers with you. We got thousands of them in the back, so you, you can take as many as you want and, and give them to say, look, I want you to come to church with me next Sunday. And we're going to believe God that he will save and baptize people in the Holy Spirit.

Amen. Amen. Do y'all want that? Amen. I know I do.

I want to see people change, and I know he's the one that can do it. So, um, and this is so beautiful. I wish I could get it up there.

I put it in the deck.

It must just The cloud didn't bring it over y'all, that's what it was. We're gonna blame it on that.

But at the end of the day, get some people here, all right?

Um, all right, go to the next one. June 12th, 13th, 14th, I'll be in Mississippi with Apostle Brandon. Um, please, if you want to go to Mississippi, uh, there is a registration link on my page. Click that and register. I'll be ministering on Saturday the 13th. I'll be back here on the 14th. So we're going to go down, be in service with them on Friday night. I'll minister on 13th, and then sometime that day I'll be back so we can be here on Sunday.

Amen.

Amen.

All right, next slide. Oh, this is the flyer for my dad's anniversary. Okay, 40th anniversary. Y'all give God praise for Glory to God. I will be speaking on Sunday, June 7th at 3 o'clock. I'm gonna ask— we won't have night service that day, we'll have service on Sunday morning. And I'm gonna ask everybody to go with me on that Sunday afternoon. Let's celebrate 40 years. To do anything for 40 years is worthy of a celebration. Celebration.

Amen.

Amen. That's a long time, and I was there from day one.

Day one.

I remember my daddy started that church in our living room, so you were going to church whether you wanted to or not. My bedroom was right next to the living room. I couldn't be late.

Amen.

Yeah, because yeah, that was a whole problem if I wasn't But we thank God for them 40 years. And I'm thanking God that, you know, my daddy in his 70s, he's still determined to do what God has called him to do. So let's go and encourage them. Amen.

Amen.

They're going to have something every Sunday at 3, uh, they got some different speakers coming, but I'm there June 7th at 3.

Amen.

Amen. So I want to ask you guys to go with me and let's really be be a blessing to them. All right, Stu, anything else?

Let's see.

Yeah, well, there's that. Um, if you haven't pre-ordered your copy of my book, The Apostolic Dimension: Unlocking God's Blueprint for Dominion, scan that code. Uh, I'll make sure it's left up after service so, so you can get your book.

Amen.

It's going to be a great book. It's coming out the end of June. I think it's going to be a blessing to the body of Christ.

Amen.

Glory to God. All right, next slide. That's it. Glory to God. Also, the Women's Conference— I don't know how that one— some see everything, then come over. If you're going to the Women's Conference, uh, what's the dates? The 25th through the 27th in Charlotte, North Carolina. Make sure you see Minister Vicki. So so she can give you instructions on that. As I said, I'm encouraging the women to go because it would be a great opportunity for the women to fellowship together.

Amen.

So if you want to attend that, please see them. All right, if all hearts and minds is clear, let's stand. Amen. Glory to God. I'm gonna ask Apostle Asia to come this morning and dismiss us. And I'll see y'all tonight. Y'all bring somebody with y'all, please.

Get—

please, please, I'm asking, please, y'all come back and please bring somebody with you. Pray for Sharia and her family, they are on the road. Pray for Mother Diane. She texted this morning, uh, she was experiencing— well, this was her text: I'm staying home today, Apostle, because I'm believing God to manifest healing in my body. That was the verbiage. Glory to God. She didn't say I was sick or I'm hurting. She says I'm believing God. So we're gonna believe with her.

Amen.

So y'all pray for her.

Pray for Nicole.

Nicole is also traveling. She texted me on Thursday, said she was traveling on Thursday to her cousin's funeral and she wouldn't be back till tomorrow. So let's pray for them while they're on the road.

Amen.

And trying to get back to Georgia. Y'all give Apostle a hand as she comes.

Praise the Lord, everybody!

Hallelujah!

Praise the Lord! God is so good. That was an awesome word today, wasn't it? Oh my God, I'm just blessed to be in the house of the Lord. It's nothing— it's good to watch it on online, but it's different when you're in the house. Amen. It's different when you're here and fellowship with one another. Amen. I am just so grateful. Apostle, as he was preaching today, my God, that word was for me. Apostle, that word was for me, um, because the enemy just had been fighting. And, and, uh, just the weekend, and the devil was just like, just quit. What, what you keep fighting for? Just throwing a towel. My God. And so I don't know about y'all, but that word lit fire up under me today. Amen. That I'm still here and God still has more for all of us. Amen. That no matter what the fight is, no matter what it looked like, God is preparing us. Hey, that was a word today.

God is preparing us for where we're getting ready to go. Amen.

And so I am excited about where we're going. Amen. And I told the devil this week that tried me. If you offer me this, what do God have to offer? That's what I got to keep telling him.

Amen.

Let's go home. Father, we thank you. We thank you for this man of God and his beautiful wife. We thank you, Father God, that she'll protect them. You know their heart desires, my Lord, and we touch and agree today that you are doing it right now.

Father, open up the heavens. Let the portals be open over their head that they walk under and live under, oh God, an open heaven. Father, thank you for raining down upon this ministry, raining down in their personal life, on every business. God, blow mashaya, your breath upon them, Father, in the mighty name of Jesus, my Lord. And we thank you, we praise you, we bless you in advance. Bless our man of God. Bless is going in and it's coming out, oh God. Father, we pray for divine favor upon upon their lives. Do it, Lord God. Atamano, Messiah, that the world will marvel at your beautiful blessings, my God, upon their life. Thank you for open doors. Thank you for ways being made. Thank you for this contract being signed, sealed, and delivered. Thank you for the new building. Thank you, Lord God, for the souls that's coming in. Thank you, my Lord, that we will be the light. And Messiah, in the midst of darkness. Thank you, Father God, that with this ministry, Roderick will be blessed to be a blessing, Lord God, that we can feed the hungry. Those that need gas, we can give the gas. Father, my Lord, thank you for this hub. And thank you for blessing these your people. Every financial blessing that's been held up, we decree and declare now released Eta, mansoko ta, mansaya. Release in the name of Jesus that what belongs to us, that everything the enemy have stolen, taken, we decree and declare today restoration.

Restoration now in Jesus' mighty name.

We thank you as we depart from this place, Lord God, but never from your presence. We give you praise, we give you glory.

And we give you honor. In Jesus Christ's name we pray.

Amen. Amen.