I want to share with you the fishes of men. Say the fishes 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 re um reach and minister 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 and they the Bible says in the 20th verse it says that and they left their nets at once and follow 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. >> Is it on? >> One, two, one, two. I'm on. Okay. Turn me up. Okay. So the first 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 fisherman 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 and their community and 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 a 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 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 gonna be ready. They understand how to sit and have patience to wait for the fish to gather. And then they cast a 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 ag their economy, not agriculture, but it was a part of their economy how they were able to grow. 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 feel 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 earn 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 cones the coin that was in the fish in the fish mouth. He says, "Go take the coin the coin out of the fish mouth and go pay your taxes." >> So if he's talking about fishermanmen and he's giving us, 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 treasuring 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 him 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, "Oh, 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 wearing? I say sweet smelling savior 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 with 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 Christian." But sometimes you don't even have to go 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 you. 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'll tuck it in and we'll stay in the car and we give God praise when we get out of the car. We don't have a praise in us nowhere else. >> We'll stay at home and we'll 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 asks me to say something to them, I say something. But what about every day? Here you have an opportunity to win souls. People are looking at your light. >> 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, "Oh, you living like this. Who is that you 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 was 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 a time of a great falling away, but we're in a 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 because 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 stop going and you know they stop and they ain't doing nothing." And if you're not careful, you'll follow people who 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 Jesus thing work for me." But the way you showed up this morning, just in waving your hand, just in saying good morning, just 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 riding and he see something jump out of the water. He go get his bucket and say, "Oh, come on, fisherman. Come on." THEY ALWAYS HAVE THEIR ROD. THEY DON'T CARE WHAT size the water is. If it's something in it, they 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, 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 gonna stay there. How long? They gonna fl the flies. They gonna hit the mosquitoes. They 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 know, you was winning souls. He said you was doing well. What beset you? >> Well, honey, I used to be the first one out there witnessing to people. I I was the first one on the street. you was I was on the street team, you know, I serve I was over this and I did that. Then what beset you? What besets you from this assignment of apostolic disciplehip 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're saved, but are you winning souls? >> I know you're saved, but are you adding to the body of Christ? I know you save 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 asks of you to do as a one who's a disciple to go and follow the great commission that he had given? Amen. >> So he did this. He said to them, he says the government is upon his shoulders. So everything Jesus has, he be 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? >> Wise. >> He said they're wise. It is the wisdom of Christ that gives you the ability to do the work of he 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. 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 because 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 there's a group of young people I know. Um um St. Crystal, wave your hand. Crystal is one. Crystal, where you going next? She's going to Colombia. 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 Colombia. 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 testify and tell me the other day, she's on the mission 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 that who have never heard Jesus. >> Now, sometimes you see people every day, they don't heard Jesus so much that they are 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 an anointing with a heart prophetically to go into the mission 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 and 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 um 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 in years of soulwinning. I believe we're getting ready to see revival fires break out across 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 uh 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 because 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 because we so tired of ministering to people. Am I telling the truth? y'all pastors, preachers, evangelist. 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 five-fold ministry that we are missing the most is evangelism. >> We're saying, "Where are the evangelists? Where are those? Any evangelists in here?" >> Yeah. 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 soulwinning. 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, hey, I'm here to deliver souls. You be an undercover agent in the places God 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 loved 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 looking at your 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 planned 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 lawyer's 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 ju um 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 in 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. Uh sometimes we're out. Prophet Courtney and I are out and doing some work and I seen her walk in the store. You know, kids be running around and they not listen to their parents. >> Sometimes you need backup. >> 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 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 auntes 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 for 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 wait. >> You just you just send the word. I thank God for the angels on my street. How many of y'all know what I'm talking about? I feel like souls gonna 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 they throw. 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 connect 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 a shield. 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 Drain, they begin to respect it. YOU MAY NOT LIKE ME, BUT YOU 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 gonna do? I'm gonna just walk through here. I'mma walk through here and look like I'm looking and go over to the rack and just look at people and say, "Oh, 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 special 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 fishermen. He wants you to develop your skill of waiting. >> That's good. >> 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 to equip 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 and4. 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 you know in five 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 told y'all y'all fishermen." The reason why I told 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. as their teacher to give them what they need on their voice print 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 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 fishermen, hear me, fishermanmen, I know y'all got some fishermanmen 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 because 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 four 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. Come on. >> Are y'all hearing me? >> THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT GOD will send you to and when you find them and minister the word to them, they'll be the ones that you don't even know, the butlers 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 they have, who they are." God said, "I'll use men." >> And when you are concerned about people, sometimes you got to sin and wait. There's different type of bait. There's those that's in the pond. >> Pond some pond folks don't have uh you know buzzards and stuff hanging 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 because at every level. >> Yeah. See them fishing men 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, "No, I'm going to the I got to go to the lake now. I ain't 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. >> Uhhuh. >> Not in the lake. Where the for salt water? >> Okay. What's that in the lake? >> Okay. Fresh water. >> Come on now. >> 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 a little bit more quality. The quality just shifted. >> They came to be a little bit more quality. They not the ones that's in the pond. Come on. They not just eating the all the mookie stuff that's in the pond. They'll come to a different water and it's called uh um um fresh water. >> And so we have freshwater fish. You need a different kind of bait every time you share. The worms won't work over here. >> So 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 fresh water showing them something different cuz they don't eat worms. >> They not even coming to your your rod. You need some live. 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 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 AN OH, WHO CAN HEAR ME? A FRESH ANOINTING. IF YOU GOING TO CATCH SOME FRESH FISH, YOU need a fresh anointing. >> >> And so God has sent things to keep your anointing fresh because he assigned SOME OF Y'ALL TO FRESH WATER. >> 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 changed. You can't even just walk out there. YOU NEED A BOAT TO TAKE YOU OUT. Come on. Your transportation changed. >> So God begin to change your vehicle. ANYBODY NEED TO 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 go into 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. >> That's right. >> So, you need another level. >> That's right. >> 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. >> That's right. >> The waters get deep. >> It gets darker. Amen. >> And if you going TO GO DOWN DEEP, YOU 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's saying, "What you 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 highlevel 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 pan and the excitement for just seeing people come into the um the harvest to just see people coming to 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 uh where is that? Key West. Way out there. They get on the boat 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 stayed on that boat. Apostle Melissa, he said, "I I'm not bothered." The disciples was frightened. The winds was blowing. Everything looked 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're on a mission for Jesus and he's given you an assignment to win souls. He equipped you for the storm. >> He told 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." >> I'm a fisher. >> 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 won't be disturbed by the things out here on the ocean. >> He says, "Because what I put in you and entrusted in you Yes, >> 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 in to 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 put in 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 of 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 are 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 because souls are in the balance. >> Who to say that I'm gonna 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 right. I activate laborers in here today. Be activated. Be activated. Get your tools. Be activated. Get your eyes and ears shopping. 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 to 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 us in, 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." >> I'm a soul winner. >> Lord, I thank you. for helping me >> for helping me >> to win souls >> to win souls. >> Thank you. >> Thank you >> for saving me >> for saving me. >> So I >> can save others >> in Jesus name. Now put your hands together. Give God some praise. Amen.