I want to share with you the fishers of men. Say the fishers of men. I want to share with you the mind of God for fishermen. Amen. Okay, so let's look at Matthew. I want to start with Matthew. Father, we thank you for this word. We thank you for the celebration of this man of God, who to his core is an evangelist. To his core, he's a winner of souls. Everywhere we go, Father God, he's making opportunity to talk to everybody. The people in the kitchen, the people that's working as the maids, the people who are just coming by and saying hi. God, I've seen him I've reached and ministered to the people that are serving us food from the people that are the cleaners people, the people who are the garbage can people, the people that brings the mail. Father, I thank you for a man of God who has your heart to win souls. And today we honor him at the best we can by helping him to understand that you see his labor of love and to raise up a house of people that would also be fisher of men. Father, not only do he love fishing in the natural, he loves fishing for souls. So, we thank you for the call that's upon his life and upon this message. Matthew 4:18 I want to start there real quick. And it says Matthew 4:18, it says on the day as Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon also called Peter and Andrew throwing a net into the water, for they fished for a living. And Jesus called out to them and he said, "Come follow me and I will show you how to fish for people." Come on. Come on. He said, "Follow me and I'm going to show you how to fish for people." That's an exchange right there. He just enlarged them and increased them. Amen. And he's And they The Bible says in the 20th verse, it says that and they left their nets at once and followed him. So, the first disciples Jesus chose chose were fishermen. The first disciples that Jesus ever chose to do any work for him were fishermen. Say fishermen. One, two. One, two. I'm on to run. Okay. Turn me up, Jerod. Okay. So, the first thing we see in the scriptures, we saw that he began to go out on a mission and he went to find some fishermen. He said, "I want some fishermen to be a part of my ministry." And the first people or men he chose to take on a mission for him, he says, "I like them." I like them. They're busy doing something. They're They're understanding something that God needs and he's saying, "I need people that have the tenacity like fishermen." He saw the fishermen character. He says, "These are the people that I need. I need people who know how to fish for fish, but know how to recover souls." Because God's saying, "I need people to be willing and people who can be diligent and people who can be committed to be able to cast their net out in the earth, cast their net out in their city, in their community, in their family and pull in the harvest for Christ." And he says, "That's why I went after" He went after fishermen first because he was gathering up people back to the Father. And so, he needed fishermen. Say fishermen. He understood that fishermen had a humble disposition. When Jesus thought about who he could go to bring back who would bring back those from exile, he looked for his disciples who were fishermen. He said, "People have been scattered. People have lost their way." Because when you're going fishing, you got to learn how to sit out there. Come on, you need discipline. You got to know how to navigate that water. You got to know where the fish is, right? You got to know how to cast and where to cast. Fishermen know the place. They know the timing. They know what time they supposed to get on the boat. They know when the fish are going to show up. They can feel the temperature of the water and know it ain't going to be ready. They understand how to sit and have patience to wait for the fish to gather and then they cast the net because they know that they're going to be strategic in gathering in a great harvest. Amen. Fishermen in the natural, they did this because this was a part of how their livelihood worked. They had to go out and they had to fish because they had to be able to take fish to the market and that was a part of their their economy, not agriculture. But it was a part of their economy, how they were able to grow. And one of the things I see in the word of God, a lot of times God talks about find a soul, find a a hurt and heal it, find a need and fill it and you'll never be broke. When you have in your heart to find people that have a need and you have something in you to help fill it. When you find in yourself you have prayer that people are in need of and you have the ability to give them prayer. He says, "If you pray for them, you're recovering them. That soul has in it treasure." The treasure that is in earthen vessels has been laid there and it's been given to you to bring you now what you need because you went out of your way to bring somebody back into Christ. Amen. That's why when they were fishing, he told Paul, I think it was the coins the coin that was in the fish in the fish's mouth. He says, "Go take the coin the coin out of the fish's mouth and go pay your taxes." So, if he's talking about fishermen and he's giving us Did you know it's it's a parallel to understanding what God is talking about with people? If he's talking about helping us get a fisherman mentality, he's saying you don't even know it's treasure in people all around you. He's saying, "But if you take a moment and you pray for somebody. If you take a moment, come on, and you just ask them about salvation. If you take a moment and say, 'Do you believe?'" You know, we were at the store yesterday and um um I was getting a few things and a young man was at the register waiting on us and we do it all the time, you know. People would always say to me, "Ooh, you smell so good." You can witness off of everything. Off of everything. I used to tell people all the time and sometimes I still tell them. They say, "What is that you're wearing?" I say, "Sweet smelling savor savior." They say, "Sweet smelling savior, where you get that?" I say, "You got to get it out of the kingdom." Do you believe in Jesus? See, it's a door right there open for you to be able to witness to people. You know, sometimes we have on shirts. We just stuff on it. And sometimes people can read your shirt and it may deter them because sometimes they may think, "Oh, that's just a fanatic out of your way. You just got to show up. Being who you are, carrying what it you have in your belly to begin to minister to people and he can use your shoes, your shirt. Come on. He'll use just your smile. He'll use use your people watching how you hug each other and how you care. They'll watch how you pray at the table over your food. And we just stop praying because now we're so embarrassed to take the gospel of Jesus Christ out into the street, out into the places of where we go every day. We will tuck it in and we'll stay in the car and we give God praise and when we get out of the car, we don't have a praise in us no way else. We'll stay at home and we will pray and when we finish praying, we'll stay in that place in the closet and we'll celebrate Jesus and say, "Well, I got a prayer life." Well, what you do? I stay in the closet praying. I fast in the closet praying. And if somebody ask me to say something to them, I say something. But what about every day you have an opportunity to win souls? People are looking at your life. They're looking at your life. They're saying, "Oh my God, make me want to serve this Jesus." He said, "Provoke them into jealousy." That they look at you and say, "Ooh, you're living like this. Who is that you're serving?" What are you doing? Where you bank? Come on, they start asking questions. Where you bank? Where you I knew you was a believer. Where you go to church? So, as we were standing there yesterday, the young man um the young man I began to talk to him and I said to him, I said I said, "Do you go to church?" Right, Ruth? I said, "Do you go to church?" And he said um He said, "No, as a matter of fact, I'm looking for a church." Do you know how many people are looking for a house of worship? I know we're in the time of a great falling away, but we're in the time of a huge harvest at the same time. We're seeing the best of times and the worst of times. Sometimes you got to be careful cuz you'll look around your immediate circle of people around you sometime and you say, "Well, Brenda ain't going to church no more and and child, Reggie stopped going and you know, they stopped and they ain't doing nothing." And if you're not careful, you'll follow people who are not following Jesus and they'll lead you astray and lead you straight from what God tells us to do because he says, "Don't forsake coming together." Why? Because he knows as fishermen you need to come together to keep growing in skill. You got to come together, keep growing in character development. You got to come together. Y'all We got to come together so we can keep empowering and encouraging each other to say, "No, you can do this. No, you don't even know that sometimes when you come to church and people sit next to you, you're fishing for souls right in here even today." There's some people on the edge of saying, "I don't want to never come to church again." Are y'all hearing me? There's some people that's getting ready to turn in the towel and say, "I don't think this how you greet people coming into the parking lot, just how people see that you interact with each other, they say, "Hey, this Jesus thing is kind of all right. You know what? I feel love in here. I feel connection in here. I feel people that can uplift each other." And you know what? You are still winning souls. There are people that go to church, but they may not be in Christ. You are winning souls back to the Father because you always A fisherman always have his rod. I said a fisherman always have his rod. Just in case he's riding and he sees something jump out of the water. He'll go get his bucket and say, "Oh, come on, fishermen. COME ON." THEY ALWAYS HAVE THEIR ROD. THEY DON'T CARE WHAT SIZE the water is. If there's something in it, they're going to catch it. Amen. And that's how we have to start thinking in life that sometimes we have different bait. Amen. Sometimes God give us different bait because of what he's assigned us to catch. And so, when Jesus was looking at the disciples, one of the things he saw that they had a humble disposition. When Jesus thought about them, he said, "I want some disciples." Disciples have a humble disposition. They They understand the apostolic mission, y'all, to catch souls for the kingdom. It's an apostolic mission. I know we all have titles and we say different things we are, but the apostolic mission of Jesus Christ for the kingdom was to catch souls. He says, "Now, if you want to do it, you're going to need the blueprint of a fisherman." In order to be effective in winning souls, you got to be what? Dependable. Fishermen are dependable. You got to have endurance. Fishermen going to stay there. How long? They're going to fan the flies. They're going to hit the mosquitoes. They're putting on everything they can to keep them in the place where they got to sit by that water and cast that rod or cast that net because they're not leaving till they get a catch. And sometimes we are not we don't have the endurance or patient enough to be able to continue. You You you was winning souls. He said, "You was doing well. What beset you? Well, honey, I should be the first one out there witnessing to people. I I was the first one on the street. I You was I was on the street team. You know, I served. I was over this and I did that. Then what beset you? What beset you from this assignment of apostolic discipleship where God calls us on missions to go out and he says, I want you to go out in this mission and I want to give you this great commission that you go win souls. I know you saved, but are you winning souls? I know you saved, but are you adding to the body of Christ? I I know you saved and I know you love the Lord and you believe in God to do a lot of things for you, but what are you doing that he asked of you to do as a one who's a disciple to go and follow the great commission that he had given. Amen. Mhm. So, he did this. He said to them, he says, the government is upon his shoulders. So, everything Jesus has, he begin to give it to us that we can partake of it. In other words, God is saying, I've given you authority. I've given you rulership. I've given you justice. I've given you wisdom. Everything you need to be effective in winning souls, you got it out of the kingdom. He said, it's all wrapped into the kingdom. So, you got to come to the place in your life where you're willing to step in and put on the assignment that is given to you to win souls. He said, those that win souls are what? He said, they're wise. It is the wisdom of Christ that gives you the ability to do the work of here spiritually and he says, when you take it on, you are now acting and operating out of the wisdom of heaven, not the wisdom of earth. People in the earth don't want to be bothered with people. You don't have a lot of you can't deal with them because people are something. And church people, they say, are really something, right? So, you have to be able to go and say, I'mma cast this net because guess what? It's so much bigger than what we see. There's people all over the globe. I'mma cast this net cuz I'mma win some souls for Jesus. And that's what fishermen do. They cast their net to be able to win souls for Jesus. And so, when we're on this mission to win souls for Jesus, going on the missions field, being able to minister to people I We There's a group of young people. I know um Crystal, wave your hand. Crystal is one. Crystal, where you going next? She's going to Columbia. Any other people that do missions in here? There's a mission. Come on, missionaries. They're going out. Crystal is one. This man of God one. We got somebody back here. We're seeing young people Joshua Josh. He's not here today, but we're seeing young people now that is getting fired back up for evangelism. They're getting fired back up to go and win souls. They reach out and they need support. She needs support for her to go on her missions over there in Columbia. And you know, I'm supporting you, Crystal, because we need a next generation to catch on fire to want to go win some souls again and I'm excited about soul winners. Come on. We are in one of the greatest time periods. God is talking to us prophetically and if you can hear prophetically, we're in one of the greatest time periods of soul winnings. He's saying as we come into 2026, there was a great falling away, a great apostasy, but at the same time God is saying, but the harvest fields are ripe and I need some people who are willing to go into the harvest and get some souls. Amen. And get say, I'm going to get some souls. And get back on the missions field. I had a young lady testifying tell me the other day. She's on the missions field too, Crystal, and she was telling me the other day, another young lady that reached out for some support. She was telling me, she said, you know, when we go into these other countries, the thing that she loves about it is that there are people here who have never heard Jesus. Now, sometimes you see people every day, they have heard Jesus so much that they're not even moved by Jesus no more. They're not even moved sometimes in America. We have more atheists in this nation than we've ever seen in history, especially a younger generation who's been given choice to decide where they want to go to church, who they want to serve. People are choosing a whole lot of other deities. But then there are those God's raising up and anointing with a heart prophetically to go into the missions field and their heart is that I want to win souls. Are y'all hearing me? I want to go after people who don't know Jesus. And she said, Apostle Cynthia, there's people that we've gone to places in missions that don't have a clue about Jesus. Like they don't know who Jesus is. Are y'all hearing me? And so, they came on these missions fields to go out there and win people who have never heard the name. Can you imagine? He says, this gospel is going to be preached to the whole world. And then what? Then the end shall come. And so, what he's encouraging us in now is that we're getting ready for 2026. I believe 2026 is going to be one of the greatest season and years of soul winning. I believe we're getting ready to see revival fires break out across the nations. I believe we're getting ready to see people get excited again for winning souls, for going after people who are lost, for people who have lost their way, for people who don't know Christ that we can interrupt ourselves for a few moments and say, hey, I remember the days that we used to My husband and I, everywhere we went, we was catching just ministering to people, ministering to people. You can get sometimes so busy in the work of ministry. Right? We can get busy in serving. We can get busy cuz we have a lot of work in the household of faith to do. We can get so busy in the work of ministry when we walk outside to go places, we don't even want to talk to people cuz we're so tired of ministering to people. Am I telling the truth? Y'all pastors, preachers, evangelistics. So So, sometimes you'll get so where you're so tired that it's like, "Oh my God, I'mma let somebody else go get that, you know, go out into the harvest field and preach and witness to somebody." And he says, but I brought it straight to your feet. And it is so easy for you, Cynthia, to just turn around and tell somebody, "Do you believe in Jesus? Do you know the Lord? Have you ever considered Christ?" And those things are things that God gives us to do. I believe the whole church has to be evangelized again. One of the offices in the fivefold ministry that we are missing the most is evangelism. We're saying, where are the evangelists? Where are those Any evangelists in here? Yes, see that. See that. See that. We got some evangelists in here. People who are soul winners. People who want to see souls come to Christ, right? We have some evangelists in here. So, Jesus is saying, he's trying to make us into fishermen that we come back to the great commission, that we return to soul winning, that we return to go ye into the world, not just to build your company. I know we believe kingdom and yes, all of that is a part of kingdom. But God is saying, while you're building your business, make sure you put it there to be light so people around your company can come to Jesus. They come to your salon and get prayer. They come to your barber shop and get delivered. Come on. Cuz I'm not just here to cut hair, I'm here to deliver souls. You'll be an undercover agent in the places God has assigned you. I know I'm a nurse and a doctor. I'm here in the hospital, but you don't even know that I'm here undercoverly. You have to sometimes go by the beds of people and say, I just want to tell you Jesus love you and you better keep breathing and you better get your lungs. See, we need people in those industries. We need people out there in the hospital. We need lawyers who can rise up and overturn cases and know how to pray in the heavenlies. And they're looking at their stuff. I don't need no negative report. I need you to tell me that God's going to bring me through this. Encourage me. I know it looks horrible, but do we have some praying people in these different types of world systems that can speak the word of God and bring God's mind back into the industry? I was set here and plan here for such a thing. Are y'all hearing me? You are in the doctor's office. You work IN THE LAWYERS. YOU WORK AT THE LAWYERS' OFFICE. You are working in the courts. Come on. You are working with school and education because children need rescuing. People need somebody to stand and intercede in the courts. Come on. We need people who can go into the juvenile system and help our children. We got to have a voice to speak. So, we got to pray and that's how we're going to win the whole family. We're going to win the family because people going to see that you showed up and care. They're going to see that you went out of your way to rescue somebody. You didn't have to do that. And they'll say, "You didn't have to do that, but you did it for us. Amen." My daughter's life was changed. My son got delivered. My whole family want to come to church now. You will hear and see that God will use you. I'm telling y'all right now. When you least expect it, you say, "Can I just pray?" I watch people pray even with kids sometimes we're out Prophet Courtney and I out and doing some work and I seen her walking the store. You know how kids be running around? And they're not listening to their parents. Sometimes you need back up. You need another mother to show up and say, they catch them over there by the aisle number two. And you go over there by the aisle number two and say, "Come here. Come here. Come here. You You listen to your mother, okay? You hear your mother calling you? Don't run and hide from her under the clothes. Because somebody can snatch you. We want you to go over there and go sit with You need aunties all over the globe. You need uncles. You need other mothers. You need a village. It takes a village. It's going to take us as a family of Christ to come back to a place and being concerned. I know not just for your your four and no more, but being concerned for the people on your street. You know what I'm saying? You got to see them through the eyes of God. You got to look at them and say, "That's my neighbor. They need Jesus." The ones that don't even speak to you. Sometimes I ride down the street and I'm saying, "How they don't even wave?" You just shout out, "Abba Kourama Seka Denaya." You just send the word. Say, "Abba Kourama Seka." I thank God for the angels on my street. How many of y'all know what I'm talking about? I'll be like, "Souls going to get saved all on this street." They don't even know it. When the hurricane comes and we have disasters, I go with the oil, y'all. I anoint the whole street, the whole I go down Negro Road. I anoint their doors cuz if it's a connected to me on my street, it may come to my house. So, I have to net the whole street. I do. When they say something is coming, we get the oil. I say, "Uh-uh." We get the oil and we put it all around our street and whatever comes, come on. We are protected. We are shielded. And those neighbors who may not even know Christ, may not be interested, when they see the power of God works like that, when they see the power of God shows up like that in your life, they begin to respect. Come on. The God of Tracy. The God of Billy. The God Come on. The God of Lorraine. They begin to respect it. YOU MAY NOT LIKE ME, BUT YOU'RE GOING TO RESPECT my God. Cuz my God is a God of power. My God is a God of authority. My God is a God of rule. You're going TO RESPECT THE GOD IN MY life because you're going to see the manifestation of who he is and what he does out of my life work in your life. Are y'all hearing me? So, we got to go back to winning souls. People got to see us hungry again. They got to see us wearing our salvation on our chest with excitement saying, "Honey, I'm saved. You know Jesus?" I pray the juice of the joy of the Lord get back in your salvation, that you get so excited again for your life and what God called you to do and who you are, that you begin to go into the the stores this holiday. That you begin to go and let your light shine and be a witness for other people to see. Amen? You got a mission field right here. America is one of the greatest mission fields. We have a lot of people turning away from Christ. We have a lot of people that's not in the household of faith. We have a lot of people that's no longer serving God. But it's a mission field right here in America that if you put on your fishing hat and get your fishing rod and your net, you say, "I'm going to the mall today. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to just walk through here. I'm going to walk through here and look like I'm looking and go over to the rack and just look at people and say, "Ooh, this is so nice. I bet this is You go to church. This is nice for church." I mean, there's so many ways, right? That you can witness Christ in the mission field that God has called us to. And so, he wants us to be reminded on this day as we celebrate this fest the fisherman in our house that we be reminded today that God has given us a great man of God and he's a great fisherman and he loves winning souls and there's things that we want to continue to do to win souls. Amen? God wants fisherman. He wants you to develop your skill of waiting. You need to develop your skill of waiting. We're in a technological era where everything is microwave. And so, sometimes, how many of y'all know, we can't wait no more. We've been programmed to hurry up. And he's saying, "But in the spirit of God, sometimes you got to wait with the Holy Ghost. He has equipped you for a mission. Sometimes you don't have everything you need. You don't know everything you need to know. He'll say, 'Sit still. I'm going to give you what you need to take this mission.'" And sometimes you got to just wait because how many of y'all know, soon as we think it's not going to happen in the next second, it's going to happen. Are y'all with me? So, we have Acts 1 and 4. Let's read it here. It says here, "Once when he was eating with them, he commanded them, 'Do not leave Jerusalem until the Father sends you the gift he promised, as he told them before.'" How many of you know in 5 it says to be baptized with water, not just with water, but in a few days he says you're going to be baptized with the Holy Spirit. And what I keep saying is people got to wait to get weight. They needed weight on their bait. Are y'all hearing me? I say they needed weight on their bait. He told those disciples, he said, "I chose y'all y'all fisherman. The reason why I chose y'all because I knew you have endurance to wait." Now, I can't give this to everybody, but the disciples, I hear me disciples, disciples know how to sit as students to hear from the Holy Spirit that's their teacher to give them what they need on their voice friend and in their lives to go out and witness to souls. The Bible says the Holy Spirit is the one that draws. Like Cynthia is not doing it. My personality can't do it. But what happens is that if I don't put him in me and let him cultivate out of me what he wants me to say or do, people just going to be following me. I'm very limited where I can take you. Cuz I don't even like to drive. And I don't have an airplane. I don't even like to get on them that much. Are y'all hearing me? So, I'm very limited in my natural ability of what I can do to take you somewhere. But if we get in the spirit, we can go to nations. If we get in the spirit, you can go to China, Russia, wherever you want to go. And from your house, you can pray and ask God for nations to send souls. You can ask for souls from out of Mexico. Souls, come on. You can get souls all over the globe. You can stand in your house, get a map and say, "Father, we ask for nations." And we can get the flags and start crying out and praying, praying for our nation, praying for this America, praying for God to move in our nation. Prayer will still works, guys. And God is wanting us to get back to the mindset to begin to win souls again. Okay? They needed weight on their bait. Is it not true that fisherman, hear me fisherman, I know y'all got some fisherman in here. Is it not true that sometimes, depending on what you're going to fish into the ocean, you have to put some little weight on your on your rod? Is it not true? If you going deep, come on up in here. Come on up in here. What kind of fish you catching? If you go Don't come out here with me cuz some of us scuba dive. >> >> You got to be You got to put some weight on this thing. You got to sit in the glory and get some weight on your bait. I just got bait. That little fish, ain't nobody biting. The kind of ocean you want to go in Now, it may work in the lake, but it ain't going to work in the ocean. That's why your witness have to keep being developed, right? You can't stay in those small little tongues. You got to keep praying till you get some weight and wait on God. WHY? CUZ YOUR VISION BOARD IS TOO BIG FOR WHAT YOU CATCHING. ARE Y'ALL HEARING ME? There are people that God will send you to and when you find them and when minister the word to them, they'll be the ones that you don't EVEN KNOW, THE BUTTRESS to your destiny. They are right off your dream. They was waiting for somebody to tell THEM ABOUT CHRIST. THEY WAS WAITING FOR YOU TO SHOW UP TO PRAY FOR THEM AND GET a miracle. And they say, "Oh my God, whatever you need." Come on, you don't even know who what they have, who they are. God said, "I'll use men." And when you are concerned about people, sometimes you got to sit and wait. There's a different type of bait. There's those that's in the pond. Pond Some pond folks don't have you know, buzzards and stuff hang around the pond. Y'all know what I'm saying? Flies, frogs, creepy things. They don't need a lot of movement. They like the mucky waters. But you got to sometimes go in there cuz some people like catfish. Don't be acting like y'all don't like catfish now. Some people like muddy fish. Some people say muddy fish is good. Come on, muddy fish is good with some grits. And it's nothing wrong cuz at every level Yeah, see them fisherman over there? At every level God is qualifying you to be able to catch what's next. When you get a hang of this and you start catching so many of these fish out of the muddy water, you start saying, "Now, I'm going to the I got to go to the lake now. I ain't going to I don't want to hang around the pond no more." When you go to the lake, you get a different type of fish. Sometimes those fish are called saltwater fish. Uh-huh. Not in the lake where the saltwater. Okay, what's that in the lake? Okay, freshwater. See, give me help me out. Okay, the freshwater fish is in the lake. And y'all know there's freshwater fish that sometimes when you go to the store, you said I want freshwater fish. They're a little bit more quality. The quality just shifted. They came to be a little bit more quality. They're not the ones that's in the pond. Come on, they're not just eating the all the mucky stuff that's in the pond. They have come to a different water and it's called uh um freshwater. And so, we have freshwater fish. You need a different kind of bait every time you shift. The worms won't work over here. So, your your your your your tongue's got to change. That testimony you gave over there ain't going to work over here. Are y'all hearing me? You got to KEEP GROWING IN GRACE. YOU GOT TO KEEP GROWING in power. YOU GOT TO SHOW UP at the freshwater showing them something different cuz they don't eat worms. They're not even coming to your your rod. You need some live. You need live bait, right? That means you got to be active, potent. THE POWER OF GOD GOT TO BE ALIVE. WE DON'T WANT NO STALE GOSPEL. We don't want no stale testimony. We don't want NO STALE COME ON, Y'ALL HEAR ME? WHEN YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO THE LAKE, WE DON'T WANT NOTHING STALE. WE DON'T WANT TO KNOW ABOUT THAT'S STALE. WE WANT SOME FRESH STUFF. YOU'RE GOING IN THE FRESH WATERS. WE NEED A FRESH TESTIMONY. Come on, A FRESH WITNESS, A FRESH ANOINT OH, WHO CAN HEAR ME? A FRESH ANOINTING. IF YOU'RE GOING TO CATCH SOME FRESH FISH, YOU NEED A FRESH ANOINTING. >> >> And so, God has sent THINGS TO KEEP YOUR ANOINTING FRESH because he has signed SOME OF Y'ALL TO FRESHWATER. ARE Y'ALL HEARING ME? SO, some of us are assigned there. But then when God elevates your life, when you come into the ocean. >> >> Between the pond and the lake. Between the pond and the lake, you got to wait. >> >> You got to wait to get the weight of glory on you. Because people who are deep divers, people who go into the deep water, as a matter of fact, when you fish there, right, honey? You got to cut off the head sometimes of A WHOLE FISH AND PUT THEM Your rod change. Your equipment change. Are y'all hearing me? THE WEIGHT OF EVERYTHING CHANGE. You can't even just walk out there. You need a boat to take So, God begin to change your vehicle. ANYBODY NEED A UPGRADE CUZ I'M GOING TO THE OCEAN. >> >> When you start going to the ocean, GOD CHANGE YOUR VEHICLE. GOD CHANGE YOUR CLOTHES. ARE Y'ALL HEARING ME? WE PUT ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT TYPE OF FISHING GEAR. WE BECOME READY. WE GOING on the yacht. COME ON. WE GOING OUT HERE ON THE YACHT, MELISSA. WE GOING TO CATCH US SOME BIG FISH. AND when you going to the deep WATERS TO CATCH BIG FISH, YOUR CLOTHES CHANGE. YOUR MENTALITY CHANGE. BECAUSE YOUR LIGHT LEVEL HAS to change. WHY? BECAUSE PEOPLE WHO ARE ALREADY on big fish, on big boats, and they got big fish they understand to catch, you don't attract them. So, you need another level. And so, he's saying you're going to need another light. How many of y'all know when you go out deep, you need some different type of light? The waters get deep. It gets darker. Amen? And if you're going to go down deep, you're going TO NEED A DIFFERENT TYPE OF LIGHT to be able to see in the depths of the water that are dark. And the only light that can see at that level is called the glory. And he says, "What you're going to need on your life because it's time for y'all to reel in some PEOPLE THAT DON'T KNOW JESUS that's sitting in high level corporations. It's time for you to get some people out of the sports industry. It's time for you to go get some people out of the industry of Hollywood. It's time for you to go get COME ON, WE GOT ALL LEVELS. We need them at all levels. We need the ones sitting by the pond. We need the ones that are at THE LAKE. THAT'S WHY GOD KEEP BRINGING US TO ALL LEVELS. WHY? BECAUSE WE GOT TO CATCH THE WHOLE WORLD FOR JESUS. And wherever PEOPLE ARE IN LIFE, GOD WILL GIVE YOU WHAT YOU NEED to meet these people. And I believe today God is raising up some fishermen. And I got to end my message RIGHT ABOUT HERE. >> >> SOMEBODY SAY I'M A FISHERMAN. I'M ON A mission to win souls. We going to win souls this year as we go into 2026. We prophesy God ignites you again with evangelism. That God begins to give your heart again the passion and the excitement for just seeing people come into the the harvest. To just see people come into Christ. To just see people get delivered out of situations they're in. And I believe we're in one of those greatest seasons right now where God is actively potently activating you. And here today stand to your feet. I want to pray over you as I close this out and bring this into now next. As God has made a fisherman lead in this house who has loved fishing and love winning souls. My prayer today is that we're activated out of this mantle. His actual birthday is tomorrow, December 1st. I don't believe that there was an accident of the day he was born. The number God gave him in playing sports, 55. Double grace, double favor. It has been on his life all his career. He's won championship at every level. He's winning as a champion for the Lord now. He goes deep fishing. They go way out there to they go to um um where is that Key West? Way out there. They get on sometimes for three that's his partner right there. They get out there for days. And they go out you got to have patience. You got to have endurance y'all. You going to have to weather this thing out. And the wind get crazy on the boat. Because the enemy wants to detour us from our mission. Jesus said on that boat Apostle Melissa he said I I I'm not bothered. The disciples was frightened the winds was blowing everything look chaotic. They wanted to turn back but Jesus had a mission. He said I'm going to show you who you are in the midst of the storm. When you on a mission for Jesus and he's giving you an assignment to win souls he equip you for the storm. He tells you how to navigate the boat. You know how to ride the wave. You know which way to turn and what to do. And it's going to be so important in this season as we come weathering some hard things on the boats of life that we're on and the souls that we still need to win. That you're going to have to get like those disciples when they was talking to Jesus. Come on disciples somebody say I'm a disciple. Say I'm a fisher of men. He told those disciples he said oh if you had just this faith. You know you can speak to the wind. You know you you know we won't be disturbed by the things out here on the ocean. He says because what I put in you and entrusted in you you can find souls. You'll be able to catch and you'll be able to recover on this apostolic mission no matter where people are. And that's what I believe God is speaking loud to us today. That we have been set and seasoned in a new time period in 2026 one of the greatest years for harvest. One of the greatest years we're walking into for souls. One of the greatest year we're walking into recover people back to Christ. What a mission we have. And I believe today JPP everybody that's visiting with us connecting with us today everybody online that is watching I believe that God is now activating you for winning souls. I believe God's putting a tool in your hand right now. That everything you had he told Moses what do you have in your hand? He said I got a rod. He said use it and part the sea. I believe God's putting your hands what you need to part things so you can walk across on dry land that you can be able to continue in your faith that you can reach people no matter what. No matter the circumstances the situation sometimes they was in jail Silas them and Paul they was in jail. And they saw in a jail situation an opportunity to sing songs and still witness Jesus. What do we see in the opportunities there opportunities I I know sometimes our life gets kind of crazy but in the midst of it there's an opportunity if you can see it from the glass half full and not half empty. Why did he allow this? It's an opportunity for me to take a moment and win somebody. I got to navigate this storm right. I know it's ugly but I got to navigate it right cuz souls are in the balance. Who to say that I'm going to win my brother or sister back to Christ just because I had the right attitude in a bad situation. That's what God gives disciples. He gives disciples the ability to get weight as they wait to get glory on your sound. He changes your language in the upper room encounter. He puts fire on you to separate you from everybody else. He purifies your life. And when you open your mouth to speak they say these are not just mere men. These are holy men. Holy women. They got a different sound on them. I want to follow that sound. And so Father I pray today that as they are listening as they are standing as they hear this message Father I pray today that even in the sound they're being recovered to a new place in you. They're being seasoned and set apart to win souls like never before. The harvest fields are ripe. I activate laborers in here today. Be activated. Be activated. Get your tools. Be activated. Get your eyes and ears sharpened. Be activated. Get your discernment up to know where God is sending you. Where you can smell fish when you walk in the room. I smell it. I feel a harvest as I came through this party. There's a harvest on my job. I smell it. And God give each one of us in this place and those that are listening the tools that we need to eloquently Father God with love and discernment to know how to cast a net to every place you find a sin Father that we'll recover somebody. If it's just one each one can reach one. So Father we pray the soul winning anointing over their lives today. We decree it to be so in Jesus name. Somebody say I'm a soul winner. Lord I thank you for helping me to win souls. Thank you for saving me so I can save others in Jesus name. Now put your hands together. Give God some praise. Amen.