Where Are My Lovers? | Dr. Mike Woods Sr | 18 May 2025

is my desire. Just to be close to you. Nobody but you, Lord. Just to be close to you. Nobody but you, Lord. Just to be close to you, Lord, is my desire. Just to be Just to be close to you. Close, close, God, close. Just to be close to you. We sing unto your wonderful name. Come and sing unto the Lord with that voice full of praise. Just to be close to you. Just to be close to you. Just to be close to you. We sing unto the Lord. Is my desire. One more time, let's sing unto the Lord. Just to be close to you. Oh, just to be in your presence, Lord. Just to be close to you. To be in your presence, Lord. Just to be close to you. Hallelujah, Lord.

Is my desire.

My desire just to be close to you, just to be close to you, just to be close to you. My desire is my desire.

We desire you, we desire you, Father. We desire you, God.

We desire you more than anything, Father.

We desire you more than anything, God. We love you, Jesus. Yes, God, you are Alpha, you're Omega. God, you're worthy. God, we give you glory. God, we give you glory. We give you glory, God. We give you glory. Hallelujah.

and oh, we worship you, our Lord. You are worthy to be praised. You are Alpha and Omega.

We worship you, our Lord.

You are worthy to be praised. Oh, you're so good, God.

You're so good.

So we give you all the glory.

We worship you.

We worship you, our Lord.

You are worthy.

You are worthy to be praised.

We give you our glory.

We worship you, our Lord. You are worthy to be praised. You are Alpha Lord.

You are Alpha and Omega.

We worship you. We worship you, oh Lord.

You're worthy.

You are worthy to be praised. You are Alpha, Lord. You are Alpha. And Omega. We worship you. We worship You are Lord, you are worthy to be praised. You are Alpha, Lord, you are Alpha and Omega. We worship you, we worship you. We worship you, man. You are worthy to be praised. We give you all, we give you all the glory. We worship you, we worship you, our Lord. You are worthy to be praised. We give you all, we give you all the glory, all the glory, Lord. Ah, Lord, as we worship you, we worship your wonderful name, Jesus. We worship your holy Oh! You're worthy of it all. You're worthy of it all. We give you all glory Lord. Hallelujah to your wonderful name Jesus. Hallelujah to your wonderful name. Glory be to your wonderful name. We worship God's holy name Jesus. You're worthy. You're worthy. You're worthy. You're worthy of all the praise. You're worthy of all the glory, Lord. Thank you, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, Lord. You're worthy of it all. You're worthy of it all. Let's lift him up, let's lift him up today. You're worthy, Jesus. You're worthy, Lord. We give you all the glory, Lord. We give you all the glory, Lord. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah!

Hallelujah! You're worthy of our praise. You're worthy of an awesome praise. Hallelujah!

You are worthy.

We give you all the glory, Lord. Hallelujah, Lord. We give you all the glory, Lord. We lift our hands to you. Hallelujah! We— as we worship you, we worship you, our Lord. You are worthy to be praised. Hallelujah! To worship you, I To worship you, I live, I live to worship you. Yes, yes, to worship you, I live, to worship you, I live, I live to worship you. Oh, we sing unto the Lord to worship you, to worship you. I live to worship you, Lord. To worship you, I live, I live to worship you. Nobody but you, Lord. I worship your name. To worship you Lord to worship I—

me!

To Worship You Lord only live alive to worship you oh we sing unto the Lord to worship you to worship you Lord worship by need your word I live, I live to worship you. Nobody but you, Lord. Nobody but you, Lord. I worship your name. I worship you. I worship your name. I worship you. I live, I live to worship you. Oh! We sing unto you Lord— ohh...

Oh!

We sing on to you Lord— ohhh... Oh! We sing onto your name— ohh... Oh, we sing. Oh, yes, yes, Lord. Oh, yes, to worship you, Lord. To worship you, I live. To worship you, I live. I live to worship you. Nobody but you, Lord. Nobody but you, Lord. I worship your name. I worship your name, Jesus. Nobody but you, Lord. I live, I live to worship you. Oh, to worship you, I do, Lord. Just to worship your name. To worship you, I do. I live to worship your name, Jesus. I live to worship you. Oh, Most High, we worship your holy name, Lord. To worship you Yes. Oh, we see to you, baby. Oh.

God, we love you. We love you, Jesus. Oh God.

To worship you, I live. To worship you, I live. I To worship his love, his goodness. To worship you, I live. To worship you, I live, I live. To worship you. To worship you, I live. To worship you, I live.

I live to worship you.

Yes, we sing with the music. Yes, to worship you, Lord. To worship you, I live. To worship I live, I live to worship you. Yes, yes, Lord, yes. We say yes, yes, yes, Lord, yes. And we We say yes, yes, yes, Lord, yes. We say yes, yes, yes, Lord, yes. We say yes, yes, yes, Lord Jesus. Yes, yes, yes, yes, Lord Jesus. We say Yes, yes, yes, Lord, yes, to worship you. I live to worship you. I live, I live to worship you. Yes, yes, to worship you, to worship you. I live. Come on, do that, do that. So open your mouths and give him To worship you, come on, that's Heaven's song.

Sing it to Jesus. To worship you, I live. To worship you, I live. To worship you, I need y'all to sing it out of your spirit.

To worship you, I live.

I live to Worship you. Come on, the worshiper is worshiping. Come on, if he wants to worship you, I live to worship you.

I need to worship you.

I need worship you.

I need—

I live to worship you. Come on, tell them again, to worship you I live, in you I live, in you I move. To worship you I live, to worship you I live, to worship you I live. Come on, Zion, worship, worship, worship out of your spirit. To worship you, worship you.

I need, yes God, to worship you.

I need, I need to worship you. Come on, I need you to sing to Jesus. Oh God, this is heaven's song. Sing it again.

To worship you, worship you. I need—

this is the reason we breathe. Worship you. This is the reason we Have a mouth to worship him. Yes, God. Yes, God. To worship you, I live. I live to worship you, God. Come on again to worship you, to worship you. Oh God, it's you, it's you, it's you we worship. It's you we give glory, God. We recognize you're the source of our survival. You're the very strength of our life, God. It's in you we live, it's in you we move, it's in you we have our being. Ah, yeah, God, to worship you. I live, I live, I live to worship you. There are 264 of you watching us right now. Listen, I want you to lift your hands where you are. The glory is in this place. Lift your hands in your living room, lift your hands in your car, at your job. You live to worship him.

I got to worship To worship, to worship you, to worship you. Oh, you might feel something in your heart, in your life.

Glory to God. Oh, to worship you.

Yeah, hey, hey, hey, that's God.

Come on, y'all sing it!

Oh, come on, out of your spirit, sing!

Yes, God! We standing all of him. Come on, last time. To worship you, I live.

To worship you, I live. To worship you, I live. I live to worship you. To worship you, I To worship you, God. To worship you.

One last time. To worship you, I live. To worship you, I live.

To worship you, I live.

I live to Worship you. Come on, I want you to give him the fruit of your lips. I want you to give him the fruit of your lips. Come on, open your mouth, open your mouth. The Bible says out of the mouths of babes and sucklings God has ordained perfect praise. Come on, open up your mouth. This is the day the Lord has made, and we rejoice and we are glad in it. We are alive, we're breathing. Glory to God. It could have been the other way. The devil should have killed you when he had a chance. Ah, but he messed up and let you get up again so you can worship, so you can praise. Come on, open up your mouth in this room. He said Hallelujah! It don't take a whole lot of people to get the glory to come in. I don't know about you, but I just need him. Open up your mouth. Come on, worshiper! Come on, worshiper! Come on, we worship, we worship, we worship, we glorify you, God, we magnify your name. There's none like you, Jesus. None like you, Jesus. None like you, Jesus. None like you, Jesus.

Oh, you got it.

Forever you're my king. Forever you're my king. I love you forever, God. Forever you're my king. You're holy, you're righteous, God. Come, Lord, and abide with us. Your presence is all we need, God. Fill this house with your glory until nothing that's not like you remains God, fill us up again. Come on, worship where he's pushing you. I'm telling you, I want to worship until Mama can get up out of that chair and run. I want to see the glory. Glory to God. Every ailment in your body has to leave, it has to exit. I want to see the glory that people that ain't even in here that has cancer in their body, somebody online, that the glory would translate through these limbs and touch their body and they be made Come on, worship her! Open your mouth!

All of you. In all of you, holy God, holy God, all praise is to— all praise is to— I stand, I stand in all of you.

Would you sing to Jesus? I stand in all of you.

I I stand, I stand in awe of you. In awe of you. I stand in awe of you, God. I stand, I stand in awe of you. In awe of you.

Holy God.

Holy God.

All praises due.

All praises due. I stand. I stand.

In awe.

In awe. Of you. Of you.

I feel this too, baby. I stand.

I stand. In awe of you, I stand.

I stand in awe of you. Holy God. Sing it. Holy God, to whom all praise is due.

All praise I stand in awe of you.

Help me say, I love you, I love you, I love you. Sing it to Jesus.

I love you, I love you, Lord. I love you, Lord, today.

Come on, sing.

Because you cared for me, Because you care for me.

Sing it to the Lord in such a special way, in such a special way. Sing, that's why I praise you.

Come on, sing, I lift you up, I lift you up, and I magnify, magnify your name.

Come on, sing, that's why, that's why my heart is We pray. Come on, I want you to sing it again to Jesus.

I love you, I love you, I really do, I love you.

Oh yes, I do, I love you, Lord, my God, because you cared for Michael. Yes, God, in such a special way, such a special way. That's That's why I, I lift you up and I magnify. Glory to your name, God.

Oh, that's why, that's why my heart is filled with praise.

Come on, everybody sing.

My heart, my mind, my soul, my heart, my mind, my Sing my soul, my soul, you paid the price for me way back on Calvary, back on Calvary. Good God, and that's why I praise you, I lift you up, I lift you up, and I magnify I praise you, I praise you, I lift you up, I lift you up, and I magnify, magnify.

Come on, sing it again.

I praise you, praise you, I lift you up, lift you up, and I magnify, magnify.

Come on again.

I praise I praise you, I praise you, I lift you up and I magnify your name. That's why my heart is filled with praise.

Come on, everybody, sing to him.

Oh, that's why, that's why my heart—

God, you've been You've been better to me than I could be to myself.

Oh, that's why, that's why my heart is filled with praise.

You're amazing, you're wonderful, you're mighty.

Oh, that's why, that's why my heart is filled with praise. So my heart, so my heart Oh, that's why, that's why my heart is filled with praise.

All the worshipers, all worshipers, come on, the worshipers, all worshipers, give him the fruit of your lips. Come on, feel the this room with your voice. Heaven wants to hear the corporate band. Lift your voice, lift your voice. There's no fluff, there's no entertainment, there's no hype, there's no religion. Worship is about relationship. And when you really tap in, you never get tired of this. I can tell when you're playing, but Oh, you really tap in. You can stay here all day. You know why? Because he's in this place called worship. He sits on his throne and he invites us where he is. Open up your mouth and worship him. Come on, worthy is the Lamb slain. Worthy is the Lamb slain. Mighty is our God, mighty is our God. Holy is the Lamb's slain, holy is the Lamb's slain, holy is the Lamb slain. Holy, holy, it's holy, Jesus. Everlasting God, your name is above all names. Your name is above all names. Your name carries great weight and carries great power. Come on, worshipers! Your name is the highest. Your name is the greatest. Your name stands above them all. All power and dominion. It all belongs to you, God. We worship you, God, and we give you glory. We adore you, God. We bless you, Father. Come on, the worshipers are worshiping. Oh, come, let us adore. Oh, come. Come on, I need you to sing it out to Jesus. Oh, come.

Glory to God.

We love and adore you, God.

We exalt your great name.

Adore me. Praise the Lord.

For he alone is worthy. He is worthy. For he alone. For he alone is worthy.

Come on, y'all, sing it.

He alone.

It ain't the Christmas son. It's the truth. He alone is worthy. Yes, God. No other God like our God.

Come on, one last time.

Oh, come, let us adore him.

Oh, come, let Adore him.

Jesus, I love you.

Jesus, I adore you.

Oh God.

He is Christ.

The Lord.

The Lord.

Come on, sing him Christ. Him Christ.

Christ. He is the Lord.

The Lord. He is the Lord. Christ. Come on, one more time, declare Christ the Lord, Christ the Lord!

Christ the Lord! Hallelujah!

If you believe it, open your mouth. Come on, open Open your mouth. Worship is demonstrative, which means you have to do something. You can't worship God and be a statue. You got to move, you got to lift your hands, you got to open your mouth. We give you the Come on, worship him. We give you glory, God. We honor you. We— I'm trying to get us somewhere. We almost there. We just crossed through the door. We just stepped into another realm. How bad do you you want God to intervene. Worship is your license on earth that pulls God into the earth realm to intervene into your affairs. Come on, open your mouth. How bad do you need it?

You're welcome.

God says you're welcome. The Lord says you're welcome. You're welcome in his house, not this building. You're welcome in his house. Yeah, you're welcome in in his house. He said, come on in, the table is spread, you're welcome in my house. The table is spread, you're welcome in my house. Oh God, you're welcome in my We say you're holy, God. We say you're righteous. We say you're amazing. We say you're glorious. Receive our worship. Accept our praise. And let it be a sweet, sweet sound in your ears.

And may it be a sweet sound in your ear.

Again.

And may it be a sweet, sweet sound in your A sweet, a sweet sound in your ears.

That's very unique.

Oh, and let it be a sweet, a sweet, a sweet sound in your ears. Let it be sweet sound! Let it be a sweet, sweet sound! Let it be— let it be a sweet, sweet sound! Let it be a sweet, sweet sound! In your presence I will sing.

Oh Lord, we exalt thee.

We exalt thee.

We exalt you, Jesus.

We exalt thee.

We exalt you, God. We exalt Oh, come on everybody! We exalt thee!

We exalt thee, Jesus! We exalt you, Lord! We exalt thee!

We exalt thee, Jesus!

We exalt you, oh Lord, oh Lord. We exalt you, we exalt you. We exalt your holy name. We exalt We exalt you, Lord. Oh Lord. One more time.

We exalt thee.

We exalt thee, oh Lord. We exalt thee, oh.

We exalt Oh, what a mighty God we serve. What a mighty God we serve. Angels bow before him. Heaven and earth adore him. What a mighty God we serve. Something— what a mighty God.

We serve.

Take your time with it. What a mighty God.

What a mighty God we serve.

Let it ring in the earth. Angels bow.

Angels bow.

Heaven and earth.

Heaven and earth.

In— what a mighty God we serve! He's a mighty king, he's a mighty king, he's a glorious king. And Father, we bless you for your might, we bless you for your strength. Indeed, it is in you we live and move and have our being. You're mighty in our lives, and we can do nothing without you. We're helpless, we're hopeless without you. So Father, we thank you for superimposing your kingship, your royalty on us, and we We live because of you, and we bless you, God, and we honor you. Now, Lord, as we open your word today, let us experience the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost. Do something in this room that man cannot do. You're already doing it. I believe that as we worship, miracles are happening around us. I believe that diabetes is backing up. High blood pressure is being healed. I believe that if any person came in here without cancer, they'll never get it because this room is a cancer-free zone. Because you are a mighty God, I thank you that lupus is being made whole. I declare it in the name of Jesus that autism cannot live in this room. I declare it in the name of Jesus. I declare that depression cannot live in this building. We take authority over every sickness and disease in Jesus' name. Heart disease cannot live here. This is an infirmity-free zone because Jehovah Rapha is here, and where there is Rapha Ah, there is healing, there is health when we receive in the name of Jesus. And matter of fact, while we're at it, poverty can't live here because Jehovah Jireh is here. You are our supernatural provider. Thank you for the abundance you've trusted us with. Thank you for what's coming for the kingdom, even the more. And we bless your name, God. Yes, God, you are— what a mighty God. We serve Jesus' name. Clap your hands, everybody. Bless the Lord always. Glory be to God. God is here. God is here. Hallelujah. See you in the presence of the Lord. I want to welcome those that are watching us online. 267 people. I don't know, we're streaming over 5 different platforms right now— Instagram, Facebook, YouTube— so that may be a combination of everywhere. But thank God. Y'all give God praise for our online viewers. God knows what he's doing. Put them right there, right? So we thank God and we give him praise for his goodness. So I'm glad to see my daughter. Prophetess. Glory to God. God bless you, Prophetess. Brother, so good to see you. That's my daughter. Glory to God. She, you know, we birthed out the Jackson Church way back when. Glory to God.

She—

her mama was one of my first members. Her mama brought her, and, uh, we thank God. We did some great work in the city in spite of what the devil track. Amen. Glory to God. We win. Glory to the Lord. So good to see you, and welcome, sir. Thank you for being here today. Welcome to all of you coming out on this Monday day. I gotta give you a blessing of the Lord this morning, and I pray that it will be a blessing to you. Now, I've been teaching since after the resurrection on this line of Jesus showing himself alive. Say he's alive. He's alive. The Bible said he showed himself alive for 40 days with infallible proof. So it's, it's not just what he did with his passion. He died so that we can keep showing up. The Bible say he taught the kingdom and had proof that the kingdom was real. So I've been teaching these messages trying to encourage the people of God to show up in the world. It's not so much what we doing here, right? We come to worship, we come to be trained, we come to be deployed, ultimately show up for him in the world. People need to experience God for real. And in this damn time, I'm telling you, it is so important that people see Jesus in your life. And I'm not talking about some religious thing, I'm talking about for real, man. People need to see the Lord. Say that with me. Say, people need to see the Lord. People need to see the Lord. You ought to be in your doctor's appointment praying for folk. Just because you there, they ought to get healed because you walked in the room, because you got resurrection power working on the inside of you. So today, I want you to go to Lamentations. I know many of you may have a fasting face right now, but Lamentations 1:19. Glory to God. Praise his great name. I'm going to read it, then we're going to come back to it on the end. Is that okay? Glory to God.

We give God praise.

We give him glory. Give him honor. Praise his— somebody already start reading. Glory to God. Praise God. This, this text is powerful. Lamentations 1:19. The Bible says this, he says, I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. It says, my priests and my elders gave up the ghost in the city. While they sought meat to relieve their own soul. I'm gonna read it again, or say it again, because I was in Durant a couple weeks ago. I started digging in this, and I knew God was gonna bring it back to me because this word is so apropos for this time, because there are a lot of people again show up in church buildings. There's a lot of packed churches all over the city right now. There's a lot of people online watching, saying they in God, but the real essence of their life, they're seeking meat to relieve their own soul. They're seeking to satisfy their own appetites. And we're talking about people in the church. Church. The Bible said in the last day there'll be a great falling away, there'll be a great departing from the faith. Many will give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. Watch this, the doctrines of devils ain't being taught in satanic worship churches, it's being taught from pulpits. Okay, yeah, cuz pastor teaching people how to play the grace card, how to live how they want to live, and just play the grace card. Are y'all here? People don't embrace holiness. They don't embrace purity. And I'm telling you, if we're going to see heaven on earth, we're going to see power. And you— and listen, you better be in God with all the stuff that's going on in the world, because you need it. But you can't summon his assistance if you're not pure. Purity attracts God. Okay, it's going to be a rough one already. It attracts God because at the end of the day, he's holy. So even if you ain't doing it, you might have thought it. So you need to work on every area of impurity in your life. Listen, I, I could teach this because I've had seasons of impurity in my life. I've had times I come to church and see God move and bless people, and he wouldn't move for me because I was not pure, I was not clean. Are y'all hearing this?

Yes, sir.

And I'm trying to help to church. I'm trying to help the world for real understand that if we're to get God involved, we got to sacrifice our life for him, just like he did for us. Y'all don't believe that? Present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. So let's jump into We going, we going to just put that scripture as a staple. I'm going put it on the back of you, all right? Because we can't talk about being a lover if we don't talk about love. Are y'all hearing this? Love, first of all, you write this down and, or remember it, love is a verb. I'm going to say it Love is an action word. So next time someone starts telling you they love you, the next thing you need to start doing is watching what they do, because their behavior should display acts of love. So love is a verb. That's how I am. You know, people tell me they love me, I was okay, I heard you, but let's see what you do. Let's see how you act. Let's see how you treat me. Let's see how you handle me even when I'm not pleasing to you. All right, all right. Are y'all hearing it? Because it's easy to love when you got all the best stuff. Are y'all hearing this? But when that other part shows up, that I'm still crucified— are y'all hearing me? The other part there to grab you by your ankles and drag you up the street if you push him wrong. Can you still roll with him? I'm just kidding. I've got— somebody got a visual in their mind when I said that, of me dragging somebody. No, I won't do that. I know. I mean, I I'm delivered, but Jesus Christ, it disappears. You mess with my children, my grandchildren, I might have to drag. Well, yeah, you mess with my wife, I might have to drag. All right, y'all here? Yes. So, so love is— said again, say love is a verb. Love is a verb. When love is not expressed or when love is missing, relationships You cannot have a real relationship without love. So when you get into a relationship, even in the natural, with somebody, the first thing you ought to be checking for is if they have the capacity to love you. I'm not talking about how they love somebody else. Okay, but do they have the capacity to love you? Because what you'll find yourself doing in a marriage, trying to make somebody give you something that they don't have the capacity to give you. They love you how they can, and you got to choose the right capacity.

Capacity.

And you got to do that in the spirit because they cannot express the proverbial sense of love if they don't have the capacity to give you what you need. And you're gonna be frustrated the whole time. Watch this, there's nothing about that because love is a verb. I have a right to have expectations from love. Okay, so there could be no love without expectations. So if you say you love me, I'm, I got— I'm expecting you to express that. If I say I love you, you have expectation that I'm going to express my love. Are y'all hearing this? It may help— let me do that. Yeah, it may help to define these words that pertain to love. So first of all, the very substratum of love is a three-word call A'gape. And it's unconditional heavenly love. It's the love God carries. Watch this, it ought to be the love every believer carries. A'gape loves for love alone. It doesn't love based on what you do. It loves based on love. And it has no condition. That's how Jesus loved us. No conditions. He loved us just the way we are. And let me say this for the record: stop trying to change for people, because if somebody loves you, they're not going to make you change who you are. Are y'all hearing this? For them. Real love gives the ability of freedom to be yourself. If you're struggling to be with you and you with somebody, let me tell you something, you might be in the wrong place. If you got to fake it and you're on eggshells with this person and you live with them and it's somebody you with— are y'all talking? Are y'all here? No, you don't need that. The reality is you need someone that will love you without condition. Why would I take a vow to love my wife for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to death do us part? She's gonna expect me to do that, but then if she gets sick, I stop doing it. If she gets in her worst state, I stop loving. That's not— that's not love. The vow says I don't have a condition. Matter of fact, it says for better or for worse, which means it can get as worse as it can get. That's right. And it doesn't tell you what the worst is. Because when you got married, you signed up to stand for better or for worse. Yes, sir. People like the better, but if you keep living, worse is coming. Yeah. And that's how God loves us. He loves us for better, for worse. That's agape. It has no condition. But then there's another word called eros. Eros is erotic love, right? It's need love. So a lot of people have erotic love and don't have agape, right? Because what they do is they love you as long as you're meeting their need, right? So instead of saying I love you, they should have said I need you. Just gotta be honest at the front. I really don't love you, I just need you. And when you get through meeting this need, I'm going. Just going to be honest, because that ain't love. And then if somebody is that honest with you, you know what you got to do. You got to put on your running shoes because you don't want to sign up for that. Because there are a lot of people, they— we use that word loosely, but when the need has been exhausted. Oh boy, people know how to abandon you, man. I'm telling you, they'll love you on Sunday and abandon you on Monday. That's right. They ain't waiting Wednesday. Sunday in the car, we home, right? Because because people are need-driven, and love is never selfish. We'll get that later. It's never about you. There's another word called philios, which is brotherly love or family love. These are folk that you love because you have to, born in the same family with you. You don't necessarily like them. But you gotta love them, right? Because they got the same— look, okay, maybe y'all ain't honest enough. There's some folk in my family I just do not like, and if y'all watching this, y'all know I don't like y'all, but I love you. I'm just saying, I'm just telling the truth. I love them. This my children I love them. I do not like my children. Y'all listen, because I'm talking right, I tell them what to do and they still do the opposite. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. You can act like you like what your children doing all you want. I'm gonna be truthful and I'm gonna be free. Glory to God, I don't like the jokes. They gotta get back in good graces so they can get liked. Y'all ain't got to talk I love you. I don't like you. That's filios. I love you because I birth you, and because I love you, I do anything for you, but I ain't got to like how you living. All right, I ain't got to like what you're doing. Are y'all hearing this? So, so y'all, that's filios. Y'all looking at me like y'all ain't got no family members that's questionable. Oh, they question. You limit your time. Yeah, you don't go to every function, especially if you know that one in particular gonna be there. All right, and listen, equal time. I know some of them don't like me. Okay, good. Y'all hear this?

I love you.

You ain't got to like me. I ain't got to like you. We ain't got to hang out. We ain't got to have a good time. Okay, let me keep moving. Let me keep moving. Let me keep moving. Y'all looking at me funny, huh? I'm just telling the truth. Thank you, Father. Because love is a verb. So again, I'm going to do what I'm supposed to do towards you, but I ain't got to run with you because I don't agree with your behavior. All right, are y'all hearing this? Okay, what was that? Eros. See, I got tied up in that filios. I got— okay, here's another one, is storge. Storge is affection. It's hugging. It's being affectionate. And a lot of times you have to be careful with storge, because if storge is not rooted in agape and doesn't have ulterior motives, it becomes lust. Are y'all hearing this? You, you, you can't give affection to everybody. Oh, y'all ain't got to say nothing, 'cause you'll end up in the wrong bed. Well, I got Hearing that, because everybody's not designed to receive your affection the way somebody— I had one lady tell one time, oh, I was sitting in the game actually, and she was sitting next to me just touching. Now my wife didn't go to this game, she just hit me. Oh, did you see that? I said, ma'am, two things I want to warn you of. One, my wife is licensed to shoot people, so I want you to stop touching me. Or we get flashed on TV and you touching me, exactly. And, and then I'm going to be in trouble, cuz she going to think I'm here with you and you just— no, you just bought the seat and you sitting in her seat, cuz you bought that seat online. I don't even know who you are, okay? So stop touching me. But she said, oh, I'm just a touchy-feely guy. Well, just touchy-feely on the person on the other side of you. Cuz secondly, I don't want you touching because I don't need you to even try to open a door in my life that's closed. Are y'all hearing it? See, you got to know when doors are closed and when you free from stuff. But if you get idle, your old friend will come right back. Cuz first thing the devil will I'm just saying, she easy. You can take her home. See, I'm just trying to help the church. Listen, I'm telling you right now, you can't be affectionate with everybody. That's why you don't get no church hugs.

Y'all hear it?

Cuz at the end of the day, you can't have people pulling you all close. Okay, all right. People have erased agape, and they're chasing eros. They're chasing need love. And that's what we saw in that text. They're trying to fulfill their own needs, but all that does is leave you empty. But real love keeps you full. Let's get through this. I stayed on that too long. Secondly, right now. So not only love is a verb, but love has a personality. Say that with me. Say, love has a personality. Again, we're talking about where, where are my lovers? But you cannot be a lover of God if you don't understand the personality of God. And then, and if you don't understand that God personality should be coming through you. Say that with me. Say, love has a personality. In 1 Corinthians 13, this isn't a wedding poem. Most people get that and they write it in the card. 1 Corinthians 13: Love is kind, love is— maybe it's important. These are personality traits. This is how we ought to be acting. He says love is patient. So love is not pushy. So if you really love somebody, you ain't pushy, you ain't aggressive. come on, when they ain't moving fast as you want them to move. Love is patient. Oh, glory to God. Are y'all here? Yes, sir. If somebody really love you, they'll wait till you ready. Yes, sir. Y'all hearing this? I had a lady one time tell me, this guy keeps proposing to me, I keep telling him no, cuz I'm telling him I'm not ready. I, I never I said, he really don't love you because he's being pushy and he's getting an attitude because you ain't ready, because you waiting to make sure he's the right one. Are y'all hearing this? So love ain't pushy, it's patient. Somebody said, well, I ain't got all that time, but the reality is it's patient. What is this? Kind, not control. Somebody tell you they love you, they ain't trying to control you. You got your own mind, you got your own vision, you got your own life that ties into who they are. Are y'all hearing this? I don't try to control my wife. She's a baker, she loves what she do. Sometimes I tell her, I be going to tell her, you doing way too much. You need to sit down somewhere. But I see the joy she has when she's doing what she does. So I try to step back and not control it, but I try to be a leader so that it is an assessment. Because there's a difference in leadership and control. All right, leadership is influence. People follow you because they want to. Are y'all here? And when you influence people, they'll follow you because they make a choice to. You ain't got to control people into submission or beat them into submission. That's crazy. Look, that ain't love. You got some women say, oh, he love me, that's why he hit me. The devil is a liar. Hit and love don't go together. I'm telling you right now, it doesn't go together. My mama used to whoop me, tell me, I'm whooping you because I love you. I'm like, I used to be 6 years old. Now you ain't.

How?

You beat my brains out. And let me tell you, that was a different kind of woman. She's like, go get your own switch. Don't mess with your psyche. So I'm like, okay, I'm gonna go out and get a little switch. You don't want me? I'm getting a little stick. Come back with that little stick you want to. She send you right back out. And then I say, okay, I'm gonna stay out here as long as I can before I come in with the long. I'm gonna make sure she good and tired, man. I come in with that long switch and she beat my brains out. Tell me I'm doing it because I love you.

How?

But yes, she's sparing the rod. So she wouldn't spoil the child. Are y'all hearing this? Amen. But that don't translate into marriage. That don't translate into relationships. Love is not controlling. It's not abusive. It's kind. When you see couples arguing all the time— I'm talking about all the time—

that ain't love.

We got some friends, they argue all the time. We better than them, they argue. We're in the car on the way back, arguing. I'm like, are y'all really in love? Because that's too much. And I'm not saying that I ain't told them, I'm like, what's going on here? What do y'all need to shut up? Because y'all get on my nerve. That spirit is in my car. I need y'all to get that spirit out of here. Somebody need to submit. Are y'all hearing this? There's a big C word in every marriage, it's called compromise. See, you, you can't do that, you don't need to get married. That's right. I'mma get out of here. Wait a minute. Paul also says that love is not envy.

Envy.

It doesn't envy. It's not jealous. Love elevates. So when you love somebody, you don't envy them. You keep pushing them to be the very best at who they are. Love never tears down. It's always elevating. Are y'all here? This is the personality of love. So if you're gonna be the love that's a verb, You need to be being patient. You need to be kind. You need to elevate people and not be jealous. Watch this. Love doesn't boast, it builds. Are y'all here? I've seen people trying to make their partner feel bad, or their spouse feel bad, and talk down to them because of their own personal insecurity. Love don't do that. Love is building up the person it's loving. And again, if that person doesn't have the capacity to build you up, then you have to let them go. Are y'all hearing this? So with that said, God's never going to tell you that. Amen. God is always trying to elevate you. Glory to God.

God—

watch this, y'all should know— God is patient. As many times we bumped our head and he still is here. He still loves us. He still gives us grace. He still gives us mercy. He's patient. And watch this, he's kind. He ain't this mean, angry God sitting on the throne trying to throw everybody in hell. He wants you to get it right. Touch yourself, say, God wants me to get it right. God wants me to get it right. Watch this. If the love you carry is quick to anger, quick to cut— listen, there was a time in my life where I got delivered, I walked around already I wanted somebody to say something or do something to violate me, and I would— I just wanted to go off. Part of it was trauma from my childhood, and another part of it— and this is why you have to be careful when you step into offices and anointings. So when, when God introduced me to apostleship, I, man, I became an apostle back in 2004. Glory to God. 2005. And when I became an apostle, that apostolic aggression that goes with this office, the authority that operates inside of this office, you have to learn how to balance it, because if not, you won't speak truth in love. Some of the things I needed to say, I just wasn't saying them right. Are y'all hearing this? I offended a lot of people in the genesis of my apostleship in the name of authority. Did they need rebuking? Did they need demons cast out of them? Yes, but there's a way to do that. A homosexual didn't make it at all. Homosexual. Homosexual could come in the door, I can be preaching on something else, I'm changing what I'm talking about because I'm going right in his throat. Are y'all hearing this? That's how I ordered it. I could not control the aggression in my immaturity as an apostle. God taught me wisdom on how to reach that demographic. They'll never receive you tearing them down.

Time.

Are y'all hearing this? They will cut you off every time. The Bible said, with love and kindness have I drawn thee. So if love and kindness draw you, how don't you think it's going to be love and kindness to draw another? Say yeah, but your love has to mature to the point where you draw people to God and not our own desire to make people feel bad because they ain't doing what we Okay, again, I'm just talking. Love doesn't just feel right. Say, say, love don't just feel right. Love don't just feel right. Cuz see, people be looking for a feeling in love, but love actually has to act right. It's got to react right. It's got to interact right. So that means everything you do pretty much should be led in love. I'm going where I need to go. Thirdly, love never fails. In 1 Corinthians 13:8, the Bible said love never fails. Say the word, say love never fails. I'm telling you, it's got a good track record. If love is really there, it's going to stay there. Love won't walk out on you. Love won't leave. If, if a marriage fails, people say, my marriage failed, that means that the love left, because love never fails. Love endures hardness. Love endures pain. Are y'all here? Love has a process, just like natural relationships. So the first thing you do if you want to marry somebody, you court them. Are y'all hearing me? Where you are, you got folk now say, well, God told me you my wife, you my husband, and go straight to the altar. I'm not against it, I just don't think it's wise, cuz you need to get to know people.

Yes, sir.

Okay, God said it, and, and the Bible said in all your getting, get an understanding. Now I need you to get an understanding of what God said and who you about to marry. Yeah, so you will have wisdom going in the door. Are y'all here? So, oh my God, if love starts with courtship, a course that leads to the altar, that means dating. Watch this. Oh my God. Okay, I don't think mature believers ought to be in the dating game. You should get to a point where you don't want to date. I'm talking to somebody behind this camera for real. Were you hopping from person to person? The devil is a lie. You need to hide. The Bible says he that finds a wife finds a good thing. And obtains favor with the Lord. Are y'all here? So if indeed you find a wife, she had to be hidden for you to find. You can't find nothing that ain't hiding. Are y'all hearing this? She's got to be hiding in purpose, hiding in God's plan, hiding in God's way for her not praising out here looking for, man. And then, you know, I was talking to one of my friends the other day. I said, man, these people— Apostle Glenn— I said, these people just don't put on clothes. He said, man, they don't. These women today come out any kind of way. If it ain't for sale, take the sign off it. Hide. I'm bored now. Are y'all here? Well, okay, maybe I'm in the wrong church today. Y'all act like this gospel got business. Don't you got a for sale sign? Well, God ain't legalistic. Yeah, but it really ain't about that. You, you are invoking lust. Are y'all hearing Somebody needs to be able to slip past your package and get into your heart. But if all you showing them is the package, you all on Instagram butt naked almost. That's crazy. And talk about you want a husband. You don't want a husband, you want a booty call. That's what you want. Okay, all right, that's what you want. I'm just telling you the truth. Glory to God. Let me go, let me go, let me go. We'll get to this text, man, cuz y'all playing. Say courtship. Courtship is intentional pursuit. So if I'm courting somebody, I'm going to intentionally pursue them. The proof of desire is pursuit. When I realized my wife was going to be my wife, after God told me she was the one, I I started pursuing her. I started courting her. Listen, everything in your life is a result of pursuit. If you got a car, you desire that car and you pursued it, right? Look, if you really desire God, that's why we worship so hard and we was like today. But if you understand, if you really got a heart for God, you're going to pursue him. Beyond this building, you're gonna have time with him. You have prime time with him. If you can binge-watch shows on Netflix, surely you can go into worship for 3 or 4 hours and spend some time with your daddy. And once you have really tasted your prophet, we understand this, you want this all the time. This ain't nothing— glory to the name of God— you do haphazard. You don't find time to spend time with God. No, that's the top priority because you understand he is your life source. Matter of fact, say this, say he's my life source. He's my life source. The proof of— so you gotta court him. Glory to God. You gotta intentionally spend some time with him.

Amen.

You want to have prime time, a place and a time you meet God every day and you spend time with him. Adam did. Adam met with God in the cool of the day. God will come down and fellowship with him. When do you spend time with him? Proof of desire is pursuit. Do you really want me? Pursuit reveals priority. So if I'm going after it, it means I want it. You ain't gonna pursue nothing you don't want. Some folks might just because they crazy, but at the end of the day, people with their right mind, uh-huh, it's not going to pursue something they don't desire. Watch this, you can't even be tempted by something you don't want. All right. You tempted by it because you want it. Are y'all here? Yeah, the Bible said Jesus was tempted and tried on every point, yet without sin. So that means whatever Jesus was tempted with, his flesh wanted it. See, that's too much. Oh, not Jesus. Yes, Jesus too, but he was yet without sin. Yeah, that's the difference. And we have that example that when we're tempted, we can resist. But again, desire— your sensual perception shows you what you like. Okay, this is another process, communication. So it's courtship. So if I'm courting now, I gotta have some communication. Watch this, other than text. Are y'all hearing this? Texting is a form of communication, but it is not the ultimate form of communication as many have made it. Some of y'all just need to get a phone with text on it because you never call nobody. Are y'all here? Because I mean, that was the best thing that happened to some people because they don't like talking. I'm gonna just write you a note and hope you write me back. But at the end of the day, communication means that we have common union. It's hard to have common union when I'm looking at the screen typing letters. Yeah, common union means I need to share your space. Come on, I need to look into your eyes. I can text you anything. And often text is misinterpreted. Yes, y'all ain't got to talk to me here. You can mean the best intentions and somebody could be reading it because they having a bad day. Oh no, they didn't say that. But you wasn't even trying to get out of line with them. But when you're really communicating with someone you love, you need to share space with them. You can't text God. Y'all ain't talking to me here. You got to share space with him. Oh my God. And that's why prayer— you got to give yourself to prayer. When your life is under attack, you can't just throw up some little text to God, say, God, you see what I'm going through, help me, please. No, you need to get on your face and spend some time. You need communication. It always has a receiver and a sender. And then in the entire communication, everybody is sending, everybody's receiving. You ain't the only one talking. Are y'all hearing me? It ain't communication if you don't let the other person talk, or if you standing there, ain't even really listening to what they saying. But just pat your feet like, you ain't heard nothing they say. That's not communication. Communication means I'm open to share space, I'm open to share dialogue, I'm open to be transparent. So when you talk to God, you need to talk to him in transparency, because guess what? He already knows you got jacked up stuff anyway. He already knows where you are. Are y'all here? You got to make him a priority. You got to communicate. You got, you got to talk. You got to listen. You got to lean in. So watch this. God's communication style is prayer, is worship. Watch this. It's obedience. It's obedience. See, the church needs a crash course in this. 'Cause we good as long as we in the building. Are y'all hearing this? But when God gives you an assignment, a task outside of this building, can you obey? That's communication. Say, God, I'm here, I'm with you. Which takes me to my next point. So watch this. When you can effectively court, effectively communicate, you can move to that next level and commit. All love has commitment. Say commitment. Commitment. You can't tell me you love me, you, you, and you've been dating me and courting me for 5 years and you can't make a, a commitment? Are y'all here? Listen, and then I hear you, oh, the delay is not the denial. It's like, no, yes it is. You denied 5 whole years Y'all hear? Y'all hear? Commitment says, I'm here always, I'll never leave you nor forsake you. Commitment says, when it's hard, I'm going to day. When things get dry, I'm gonna fight. Commitment says I'm gonna show up for you daily. Can I tell you something? God shows up for us daily if we show up. Y'all heard that, right? He'll show up if you show up. He says, if you draw nigh to me, I'll draw nigh to you. We want God to show up, but we ain't drawing out of him. You got to be committed to get close to him. That's the first song, the worship team song, this one: Just to be close to you, that's my desire. And I'm telling you, every day it ought to be your desire just to be close, just to be in proximity to him and to draw nigh to him. Because I don't know about you, but I need God. Everything in my life, every blessing that God has given me, I thank him for it. But you know what I've understood over the years, Prophet? Every failure in my life, it was a prayer failure first. Every victory and success in my life was a prayer success first. So whenever I sing the goodness of God, it's because I was committed to showing up for him. But when things fell apart, it's because I wasn't as committed as I needed to be. Are y'all here? You got to decide that you're going to commit yourself. Listen, I don't care who come. The angels could come and preach another gospel to me and tell me that Jesus is not real. I'm going to tell that angel, you a liar, and ain't no truth truth in you. I've experienced him for myself. I don't care what it is— Hebrew Israelites thinking they can twist the scripture, Jehovah's Witnesses— I'm telling y'all, lying, because I got experience. Y'all not talking to me here. I've had an encounter. Glory to the name of God. I don't care what your letter says. The letter kill it, but the spirit, it makes alive. Glory to the name of God. And I'm minute to see the life of the Spirit continue to come alive in my life. I ain't got time for no games. If this thing wasn't real, I'd have been quit, Prophet. If this thing was not real, I would have been gave it up. But it's real, and God is real. I got to get out of here, y'all. I'mma close for real. Say commitment. Commitment. Say communication. Communication. Say courtship. Courtship. Listen, love doesn't go through a process to become a pattern of pain, but it commits to a process to produce power. Do you realize when you go through with God and you worship him and you praise him and you're obedient to him, he releases power through your life? Somebody say power. Power. Glory to God. This is what I love about God's commitment. Jeremiah 3:14, he says, I'm married to the backslider. Even though, glory to God, they have decided I'm gonna stray away, I ain't gonna do it. God says, I'm committed. And he's sitting there waiting for you to come back. Somebody watching me, maybe you've left God. Maybe you decided, glory to God, and you're using COVID as an excuse. So you won't come back in church. I'm telling you, in a backslidden state, because the Bible said forsake not the assembly of yourself together as the manner of some is. But God says he's committed to you, and God says he wants to bless you, and he wants to give you what belongs to you, but he needs you to meet him where he is. Say I'm committed to God. Say he's committed to me. He's committed to me. So I love him with all my heart. I love him with all my heart. See, I am not like Israel. I am not like Israel. I don't want pleasure without process. Without process. I don't want benefits without behavior. Without behavior. I don't want favor without faithfulness.

Faithful—

faithful— I mean, can you really commit to that? Did you realize what you just said? You said you don't want benefits without being bound to him, basically without serving him with your whole heart. But most of the church, they want the benefits of God, absolutely, but they don't want to display their faith. Here. They don't want the commitment, cuz it takes a lot. This walk takes a lot. And I've been walking with God a long time. My wife always said, this ain't your first rodeo. I've been walking with God a long time, man. And here's what I know: he loves good behavior, and he It grieves the Holy Spirit when the behavior is not solid and aligned with his desire. Oh God, I repent for the times— and I've done this so many times in my life— for the times I've grieved you. The Bible said, 'Grieve not the Holy Spirit.' And so many times we're living daily, he's grieved. He can't bless you if he's angry. You got to deal with that. You got to repent. And repentance means stop. The word repentance is metanoia in Greek, which is a change of heart, change of mind, change of behavior. So you ain't really repented if your behavior is still the same. Thank God he didn't kill us. When we thought we was repenting, we kept doing it. Jesus, cuz he could have killed you in a half. Are y'all hearing this? And guess what? You in hell, we would have lifted up our eyes. Thank God for mercy. I mean, mercy is that stuff you get that you don't even know you get, cuz you think you're right and you dead wrong, and God said I want to extend mercy because I see where you're going, because I really understand what I'm trying to do in you. So I'm going to give you mercy right here. Glory! I got to get— no pleasure without process, no favor without faithfulness. People be hollering, 'Favor ain't that,' but they unfaithful. Don't go to church, don't live right, don't give, don't pay tithes. Come on, something's wrong with that. Are y'all here? They still will. We still got 267.

They hanging on.

We lost a couple. It's good. Somebody needs this because reality is the church lacks commitment. This is why we see very little glory, and people think, oh, I was in the service, the glory was there, people were falling out, you got breathed on and hit the back door, and the glory was there. You really been in the glory? There's some things about you that's going to change that when you leave the tilted. One, you're gonna have a hunger for that glory continuously because you tasted it. There's some things I've eaten in my life, and I probably don't need to eat them, but they taste so good, and I constantly crave them. Are y'all hearing this? Because they taste good. But in the realm of the Spirit, God is that way. I've tasted and seen his goodness. So I wake up in the morning looking for it. I'm going through my day looking for this encounter because I know it's beyond what I do in here. They have to be committed. Yeah. All right, let's go back to Lamentations 1:19, and we're going to close this. Say, Lord, I'm here. I'm your lover. Say, I'm here in virtue. I'm gonna live right. Say, I'm here in vow. What I say to you, I will do. Say, Lord, I am here in verb. Say, my life is a living expression of your love. In Jesus' name. If you believe that, clap your hands and praise God. Come on, y'all can do better than that. Clap your hands and praise God. Come on, if you know you're a recipient of the love of God, we going to close. Hallelujah! You know God has loved you through some stuff. Come on, praise God for what he's brought you through. If you can look back over your shoulder. Glory to the name of God. And see what God has brought you out of. Some of you should be dead. Some of you— maybe somebody watching— some of you should be crazy. Some of you should have lost your mind, but God has kept you. Come on, give God praise that you're still alive, that you— you should be in jail. You should have threw in the towel. You should have backslid, but you're still here. Searching for God, got a mind for God, got a passion for God. Give God praise that you're still alive. Give God praise that you survived the worst. I don't know about nobody else, God, but I thank you that you brought me through hell and high water. The devil tried to kill me. The devil tried to take my voice, take my ministry, take my influence, but I'm still alive. I'm still here. And God, I give you praise. I give you thanks because you've been good to me. You've been better to me than I've been to myself. Open your mouth! The car accident didn't kill you. The abortion couldn't kill me. Glory to God, I'm still alive. A heart attack couldn't kill me. I I'm still here. Somebody ought to give God praise for what he's brought you through. Hallelujah! Glory to God! Glory to God! He's kept us. He's kept us. I need you to understand that you've lived through through stuff that other folk died in. Man, God, you lived through stuff that other folk died in, and you're still here to testify. You're still here to give God glory. You're still here to lift him up. And God says, I'm not finished with you until my glory can be seen on your life. God said the days ahead be filled with glorious power and glorious manifestation. And what the enemy meant for bad, God said, I'm working it right now even as I speak for your good. My eyes have not seen, ears have not heard, neither has it been revealed in the heart of man the good things God said I prepared for you. For God said many they try to write you off, but they shall see my hand, they shall see my power, they shall see my anointing flow out of your life. I've heard your cry. Come on, I need somebody to praise him, I need somebody to bless him. Come on, bless him for what's coming. I'm telling you, the Breakthrough is coming. Your miracle is coming. It's coming. It's coming. You've been praying and it's coming. You've been seeking and it's coming. It is coming. It is coming. It is coming. It's coming. It's coming. It is coming.

Open your mouth.

And he's coming, it's coming, it's coming, it's coming. He's committed to you, he's committed to you. I came to tell you God hasn't changed his mind about what he said. He said it and he meant it. It's coming to pass in your life. It is coming. Glory to God. And God said to tell you, this thing you've been doing, these people with finances and wealth, God said because you've launched out to sow a seed and to plant knowledge in others, God says he's getting ready to usher you into a season where that which you teach will become reality for you. God said the testimony is about to flow out of your mouth. Multi-millionaire, multi-millions. And God said, as you teach it, you'll teach it by example, and you'll be able to tell them, look at me. And God said, keep plowing by faith, keep speaking what you're speaking. I see thousands upon thousands logging into your class, getting on bored with what you're doing. But God said, I called you to be a leading lady. And a leading lady in the kingdom is a woman with wealth, a woman that carries great money and influence. God said you shall give one-of-a-kind offerings like Sheba. And his glory will rest on your wealth and Many will come to God because of the anointing of wealth. That's all your life got to— come on, blessed people! Come on, open your mouth! Come on, open your mouth for glory of God! Is in this room. Come on, open your mouth. God, we give you praise, we give you praise, we give you praise. I heard the Lord say the season of greater has come. Le for so many years of your life, you gave you to other people. You served, you've worked, and you've gone through trial, but you remained a person of prayer. And God said, son, tell my daughter that the season Greta has come. Tell her that her name has come to the forefront of my lips. And he said, now when people say Greta, it will mean something different. For your ministry has been on the back burner too long. For God said, now the world must know who you are. They're gonna know your story of prayer. They're gonna know your story of survival. And God said your feet are gonna touch, before you leave this planet, every state in this country for the cause of the gospel. And I see you raising up intercessors us from around the world. I see you traveling into 4 continents. Yeah, I hear you, God. God is just reminding me this is the word I've given you probably 25 years ago, but God said now's the time because every broken place, every hurt that you've endured, God said I'm using it because you are a glory carrier. Many people say they are, but I haven't given them that. He said, but I gave it to you. He said, you carry my glory. He said, and many will be turned to me, many bodies will be healed, many lives will be transformed. The day of— that's coming. Season of weather has arrived. But God said, I've heard you cry, Gloria. I've seen the rejection, I've seen the endurance. The season of— you won't have to worry about nothing. Your finances, I'm going to overwhelm you to make ministry easy. I'mma bless your business. So ministry will be easy. And God said, don't you feel bad about cutting off the past. He said, but them that do the will of God, them that align with where you're going, that's who you carry. He said, you can't carry those who don't know who you are, for you are a giant in the realm of the spirit. The day of greater— it has come. Come on, bless him!

Bless him!

We sing praises to your name, oh Lord. Praises to your name. We sing praises to your name.

Sing praises to your name.

Everybody sing.

Oh Lord, oh Lord, praise is to your name.

Come on, sing it.

Oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, for your name, for your name is great and greatly to, and greatly to be praised.

Come on, lift it! We give glory to your name.

We give glory to your name.

Come on, sing, oh Lord, glory to, glory to your name.

Oh Lord, oh Lord, for your name, for your name is Great and greatly to be praised. We sing praise, we sing praises to your name.

Sing, oh Lord, oh Lord, praises to, praises to your name.

Sing, oh Lord, oh Oh Lord, for your name, for your name is great and greatly to be praised. For your name, your name, for your name is great and greatly to be Worthy to be praised. Your name, your name, oh, your name, oh, your name is great and greatly to be praised.

Sing it again.

For your name, your name, your name For your name is great and greatly to be praised.

Come on, lift your voice, worship with your voice, with your voice. Praise you, Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, our King, our God, Jesus, our Lord, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. We bless you, Jesus. We honor Your name. We honor your name. We lift up our heads, Lord, and honor your name. We honor your name. We honor your name. We lift up our hands, Lord, and honor your name. Yes, God. Father, I thank you. The season of saturation and power and promises. I heard it just like this: saturation, power, and promises. So God says, one, I'm getting ready to saturate you, which means all over again I'm about to dunk you into the realm of the spirit and completely inebriate you with all that I am, saith the Lord. God says I'm gonna saturate your being from the inside out and through this saturation. One, God says in your body he's gonna make you whole, because there's no way you can worship like you worship and experience the challenges that you have sometimes in your body. God says, I'm making you whole even as I speak, making you holy in the name of Jesus. Saturation, soaking. He's going to soak you in his presence. You're going to be dripping with power. And as you minister, glory to God, in song and in word, God says the power of God will flow over your vessel. And there will be great passion that you will ignite in others toward God, because they will see the display of your passionate worship and the soaking anointing that rests on your life. When you sing, bodies will be healed. When you sing, demons will be cast out. When you sing, the heavens will open and the glory will be revealed. For God said this new dimension of a salt song— yeah, I hear you, woman of God. God says your song is about to even be salt. For a lot of the songs that you're singing, God says There have been others, but God says he's about to disrupt your sleep, and you're going to get up and you're going to begin to worship, and you're going to begin to write, and there'll be original songs that'll be soaked in the anointing that'll come out of your belly that'll be released in this sanctuary. You'll pick up the phone and you'll call Pastor Jeffrey or call musicians and say, hey, help me with this, I need to put this together. And you'll have the melody, you'll have the tune, soon, but it will be soaked with anointing, and yokes will be destroyed and burdens will be removed. And God said, because you take care of my business, I'm gonna take care of yours. God says, I'll take care of your business because you take care of mine. As long as you take care of his, he said he'll take care of yours. And God said, everything tastes, this wants to do. He said, don't limit your faith to your bank account, to your resources. God said, trust him with the place, with the space, with the employees, with your clients. God said, this time when you emerge, it won't be the same. It'll be a building, it'll be a restaurant, in a house. Your customers and house your catering business. God said this emergence will be great and it will usher you quickly into millionaire status personally. The business will be a multi-million dollar business, but because I even see your sauces in stores on shelves People will buy them and use them to cook their own barbecue at home, and they'll be distributed nationwide— Walmart, Kroger's, Publix, everywhere groceries are sold, your sauce will be. The only requirement is, is you take care of my business and I'll take care of yours, says the Lord. Somebody straight— come here, Prophetess Greta, I want you to put your hand in her belly. I just begin to pray in the spirit. We seal it, God. We seal it, God. We Yes, God, we thank you for the victory. We thank you for the open door. Soak her, God. Soak her, God. Soak her. Soak Soak, soak, soak, soak, soak, soak with your anointing. In the name of Jesus, so be it, so be it. It's raining all around me, I can't Feel it, it's the latter rain. Ride on, Jesus, send more rain until we are wet, until we are soaked in the latter rain. It's raining all around me. I can feel it. It's still like joyfully-yamfully-yam. Right on, Jesus. Please send more rain. the lips. It's the latter rain. Ride on, Jesus. Please send more rain until we are wet, until we are soaked in the latter rain. Until we are wet, until we are soaked in the latter rain. Until we are wet, until we are soaked in the latter rain. Woo! Father, I thank you. From the crown of my wife's head to the sole of her feet, I decree the healing. God, you started a great thing in her body, but we want you to finish it, Lord, please. For he that hath begun a great work is faithful to finish. So Father, we thank you for the finished work now. In the name of Jesus, we speak to this left side of her body and we command it to line up with your word. We decree and declare in the name of Jesus that her nervous system lines up with your word, and every nerve in her body is aligned with your healing plan, God. For healing and deliverance is the children's bread. It belongs to her. This is her daughter, God. You said in your word, God, I can lay hands on the sick and they recover. And so, Father, I thank you for her Recovery now. I decree and declare now in the name of Jesus that you're making her whole in Jesus' name. You're making her whole now. No more pain. Holy— we rebuke every infirm spirit. We send you to dry places. We cast you out.

Shh.

Woman, be made whole in the name of Jesus. He made whole. He's the God that heals you. Yes, he is. He's the God that heals all your diseases. He's the God that makes you whole. Your body is his temple, and sickness cannot dwell here. Muscle problems cannot dwell here until we allow it. Until we are soaked in the latter rain. Until we are wet. Till we are soaked in the latter rain. Rain, rain, rain, rain. Let it rain until we are wet, till we are soaked. Let it rain.

Woo!

God, do this, and I thank you. We receive it now. Somebody say it is so. It is so. Say it is done.

It is done.

In the name of Jesus. In the name of Jesus. Clap your hands, praise him. Thank We are wet till we are soaked in the rain. Clap your hands for rain! Come on, clap your hands for rain! Hallelujah! Me. Lift your hands up. It's a sign of surrender. That's why I ask you to do that, not to me but to God. I asked you earlier to smile because you got a lot to smile about. God is giving you a beautiful smile. And all the stuff you've gone through in your life at such a young age, you— this season you in now is the season to make all of that make sense. You went through it so you can help someone else. All the things you went through in your home and the home you're in now, it may seem hard But it's designed to push you into your destiny. And God knew what he was doing. Can I tell you something? Look at me. You're going to be a great woman. As a matter of fact, you're going to be the woman that turns everything around in your family. The women in your family are going to see God's glory through you. They're going to see what success looks like through you. So God told me to tell you, focus, stay obedient, take the position of a learner, and as you do that, nothing will be able to stop you. You're filled with his grace. He kept doing all that you was doing. He's protecting you from stuff that really should have took you out, but you're going to be able to tell that story. So many going to be blessed by you. That's why you're here. That's why you're with Sharia, so that you could get ushered into that next place. You have a beautiful smile, so smile and live, cuz it's This is your time to live. Father, we give you praise from the crown of her head to the sole of her feet. First, I pray for the trauma. I pray for the hurt, the pain she's endured, God. And Father, I decree and declare today in the name of Jesus that you will heal her. The things she have taken in from people that supposed to love her and protect her, but they did the opposite. So Father, we pray for this baby, this daughter that's yours. Cover in the blood and cleanse her heart. Let her feel real love today. Let the love of the Father go from the crown of her head to the sole of her feet. While Daddy really never has been there. But let the Father's love— even as I'm touching her now, God, let her feel that unconditional love. Let her know you're committed to her. You will court her. You will communicate with her. You will protect her, God. You won't do like other authority figures have done, but God, you will cover her and keep her. Father, I praise you. That's the love of God. Yes, that's that love flowing through her body. Come on, worship him. We give God glory. The Father loves you, baby, and I do too. Gloria, you're You're saved! You're saved! You're saved!

You're saved! Hallelujah!

Jesus loves you. Yes, he does. He loves you. He loves you. He loves you. Would And your Mama Sharia loves you. That's why she's holding you where she is. The love of God feel you today. The grace of— fill her with the latter rain, fill her with the latter rain, fill her with the latter rain. I heard that, uh, the Lord said, with my whole heart— is this there right now, Jeffrey? I love you with my whole heart. I'll protect you. God says, I'll never leave you alone. Never alone, never alone, never alone, never alone. I'll never leave you, never leave you.

Alone.

Just receive it in the name of Jesus. God says, I'll never leave you, never leave you alone. I'll never leave you, I won't forsake you, I'll never leave you alone. I'll never leave you, I won't forsake I'll never leave you alone. Oh no, I won't, I won't. God says I'll never leave you. I won't forsake you.

I won't forsake you. I'll never leave you alone.

I'll never leave you.

I won't forsake you. I'll never leave you.

I'll never leave you.

I'll never leave you.

He's a friend to the end.

I won't forsake He's a friend to you. I'll never leave you. I'll never leave you alone.

I'll never leave you.

I won't forsake you. I'll never leave you alone.

Yes, God! Clap your hands, everybody! Praise, praise, praise! Jesus is here! Glory to God! Father, I thank you for my son, from the crown of his head to the sole of his feet. The days ahead, Pastor Jeffrey, are days of destiny. It's not ironic that God would say that to you today. And Greta is here. She was a part of my church called the Destiny Place. And God says to tell you today that you have stepped into a destiny place, a destiny season. While things may seem in disarray, God says you're in perfect order. Because the next thing will be the best thing. And God said it will be the fulfillment of his promise in your life. But God said he's seen your dedication, he's seen your loyalty and your commitment to him over the years. You've always been loyal, even when you've been overlooked. I heard God say you remained faithful. And God said this This is the season where you shall have recognition because you won't take the glory, you'll give it to him. And God said the works of your hands are not in vain. And so, Father, I thank you for my son. I thank you that even in the midst of his frustrations and the challenges that the enemy throws at him, I thank you that you're moving because he is a priest in his house, he is a provider in his house. He is a prophet for his family. And so, Father, I decree and declare that everything in his home is coming into order. I declare as he speaks it, everything that's not like you will surrender, even in his entire family unit on his side and his wife's side. I declare that there will be submission to his prophetic direction. Father, stir the prophetic prophetic gift that's in him. We know he's a pastor, but we thank you for the prophetic anointing that rests on his life. And so, Father, in the name of Jesus, I decree and declare— I stir up the prophet. I command you to prophesy. I command the prophet to emerge, and I command the entrepreneur to soar. I thank you that every effort of Jasper by Jasper and every effort of his music company. I declare prosperity, I declare increase. And I even say to you, sir, you are a multimillionaire. Think it not strange that God would connect you to me, not just for spiritual, but that you can receive. And I activate the millionaire anointed, and even the billionaire's anointed on your life.

Stir!

And the faith to receive, the expectancy to believe that was to come. It's better than what has been. Sh— and we bless you. You be blessed in Jesus' name. Come on, the worshipers are worshiping. Eyes haven't seen, neither have ears heard, neither has it been revealed in the heart of men the good things that God has prepared for you and I. Would you give God praise for what's coming? Yeah, I can see you in your future. And you look much better than you look right now. I can see you in your future, look much better than you look right now. Oh God, it's God. Prophecy to these chairs around you. I can see you in your future and you look much fuller than you look right now. Come on, believe that. Give God praise. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Put your hands on yourself and say, I can see you in your future and you look much better than you look right now. Find somebody around you and tell them, prophesy to them, say, I see you in your future and you look much better than you look right now. If you believe the word of the Lord, give God praise and glory for what's coming in your future.

Glory to God!

And you look much better than you look right now. We dropped to 7, so 200— we got— we lost about 260. That's, that's how I want mine, just like that. Maybe happen while I was talking, but it ended there. Thank God. Y'all give God praise for this service. It don't take a whole lot of people. Glory to God. We going to prepare our hearts to give. Mar, you can put the ways to give on the screen.

Glory to God.

Wonderful. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Father, we thank you right now for every giver that's going to bless this ministry, that's going to support this ministry. And we thank you, God, that we're going to meet every need we have this month. We're not going to lack a thing as we go into June, God. We're going to— in fact, I declare today I pray that even as we're giving today, that we're going to meet the need for Jim's bills today. I decree and declare in the name of Jesus that we won't miss a beat and we'll have everything we need. And your people that give, I declare that their seed and their gift will go back to them a thousand times more. In Jesus' name, amen. So get your offering, whatever it is, the ways to give on the screen. 5 ways, 5 whole ways to give to God. If you can't see it, just come up close. We probably need to make that bigger. Glory to God. Hallelujah. But rodderchurch.com/donate is our online portal. Uh, PayPal, if you have that, rodderchurch1. Cash App is rodderchurch, just just like it's written there. Um, Zelle is info@rhodachurch.com. You can text to give, however you want to do it. The ways to give are there. We appreciate your giving. It's more blessed to give than it is to receive. Amen. One thing I learned, I invest in a lot of stuff, but the kingdom is my greatest investment. Amen. I get a return every every time I give to God and praise God. Listen, if you— so let me just give an example. So I'm going to use Tesla. Tesla is a good stock. I might not like the guy that owns Tesla, but you know, they might make some money from investing in stock. Okay, but Tesla during the pandemic dropped to like $20 a share, and it dropped again like $60 a share. I said, I need to get some. So I got some. It got up to like $1,000 a share, it went down to $800. Somebody said, you still got your Tesla? I said, yeah, I got it at $60. It ain't going back down to 60. Y'all hear me? So if it dropped to 600, I'm still winning, right? Right, right. Investing in God is better than that. That's good investment. You got 1,000 shares of Tesla at $60 a share and you still got it, you doing pretty good. You made somebody sleep last night. All y'all hear me? 'Cause it ain't going nowhere. You just have to know what you're doing. But so anyway, anyway, this is the best investment. He always pays. Whichever you sow, that shall you reap. What you seed in the ground. Amen.

Amen.

Glory to God. Wonderful Jesus.

We love him.

All right, we're going— listen, this Thursday night, somebody Say Thursday.

Thursday.

I need y'all to help me. Did— today really was just a precursor of what's going to happen Thursday night. So Thursday night, glory to God, we're going to have in-person Thursday night. Thursday. Say Thursday. Thursday. So we're going to be in this room Thursday. I won't be in the studio live. We going to be here, we're going to teach the word, we're going to preach. We're gonna pray for the sick. We're gonna prophesy. Whatever the Lord leads us to do, we're going to do it. Yeah, if you're not giving digitally, yeah, take your time. You have cash, please feel free. Or check, please. Thank you, sir. Feel free to bring it. Glory to God. Thank you so much. Father, bless the seed. Give it back a thousand times more. Bless the seed. Give it back a thousand times more in Jesus' mighty name. Hallelujah. So please guys, do me a favor. That flyer is going to go up today for Thursday. When you see that flyer on my Facebook page, please share it, uh, share it on Instagram, share with your friends. Let's get in here Thursday night. We're going to pray, uh, start praying at 7 with intercessory prayer. We'll go into worship, get in the word. I believe in God for breakthrough Thursday night. Somebody say breakthrough. Breakthrough. Again, say that with me. Say, we're gonna be in this building Thursday night. Thursday night. I'm trying to get us back in church, man, because the pandemic and that camera has hurt a lot of people. They don't— they miss it. They stand at home. So we're gonna be in this building Thursday night, all right? So please, y'all help me. Look, I don't want to be here alone, so help me get people here, all right? Glory to God. All right, we gonna go home. Before we do, babe, you got anything? I love you. I appreciate you, my wife. Thank God for her. We got a couple things coming up with joyfully-yam. She's a blessing to me. Best thing ever happened to me in this realm. Glory to God. And I'm appreciative to love you. Thank you so much. Because it takes a grace to be married to me. It does. You got to have grace to be married to me. It takes some grace to be married to you too, don't get it twisted. Right. See, y'all be looking like that because somebody else would have left me a long time ago, but she got the grace. Not that I've done anything wrong, she got the grace to deal with all of me. Are y'all hearing this? Amen. And it takes grace to to do that, to want to get the revelation of a person, to walk with them. So thank you, babe. I love you. Amen. All right, Prophetess Greta, I want you to come. I'm glad you're here. Let's have the last word. Say whatever God will put on your heart. Introduce your guests. Glory to God. We thank y'all for being here. But this is my daughter.

Glory to God.

We want to pray And God used us to do some great things in Mississippi.

Amen.

Amen. Thank you, Dad.

I still feel like, man, I love you so much, and I love your wife. I've met her like, what, how many years ago? But we had to come. But I love you, woman of God. Oh, I'm so happy for both of you and what God is doing in your life. Oh my God, we were so blessed today. Oh my God, I feel home, and we are home. I just moved to Atlanta. Yeah, and we were so blessed. I want to introduce to you my husband. I know you get tired of me talking about you. I say, I would love for you to sit under my spiritual father with me. I say, pray about it, baby, and just see what God's saying to us. And he was willing to come with me, and I'm so happy. Yes, and he loves Apostle. He was like, oh my God, I love him. So I I just thank God that, you know, by God's Spirit, you know, it is peace, you're one accord. Like he said, no arguing, no fussing, fighting, on one accord. Want to come to the house of the Lord with me? When, you know, I asked him to pray about it, he got this okay from God, because I want us to be together on it. I don't want us to be fighting and talking about no church, you know. So he came with me today, and I just thank God for that. Thank God baby, but we enjoyed— oh my Lord, like I say, I'm at home, I'm at home. So I just thank him and, uh, thank him for the ministry. So continue to pray for us.

Amen.

Amen.

Let me tell you how that works, um, about 4 years ago, she came to town for a conference we were doing, and God told me to make sure she was there just so I could put my eyes on her. And that's because she's always going to be my daughter, and I needed to put my eyes on her. She has so much greatness in her, and I, and I just saw it. I just been in town with her. I just saw it. And the Lord The Lord said, she— he told me that thing, he said she'll be back and she's coming back. And that day has happened today. Glory to God. You talk about an ancestor, a woman of God. I had the pleasure