5 AM PRAYER | 7 DAYS OF PRAYER + FASTING - DAY 1 | 2 FEB 2026 #DRMIKEWOODS #PRAYER

Well, pleasant good morning everyone. This is the day the Lord has made and we shall rejoice and be glad in it. Uh, welcome to day 1 of 7 days of fasting and prayer. And, uh, I'm super excited, uh, to get to touch and agree with you this morning. Uh, do me a favor, family, share this live stream now. Um, if perhaps, uh, you see someone that is not here that should be here, uh, also do me the kind favor and share. Uh, we're gonna trust God that this time of prayer will be beneficial to everyone that will tap in. Glory to the name of God. I'm super, uh, amped on top of being super excited because at the end of the day, we get to get closer to Jesus this week. Uh, the scripture declares this kind comes forth only by fasting and prayer, and there are certain things that will only move in your life through this process. So we're super excited, uh, to watch what God's going to do through our dedication, uh, to prayer, uh, through our 12 noon sessions. I'm just excited about all of it. Praise the name of God. And that by next Sunday, we're going to see a supernatural manifestation of dominion and power and authority in our life. Glory to the name of God. So again, welcome everyone. I see many of you coming in. Praise the name of God. And so thank you for being here today. Again, this is the day the Lord has made, and we shall rejoice and be glad in it. Praise God. So let's, let's draw our minds in. Praise God. And let's get what God has for us today. So y'all know how we do. So we, we pray the word around here. And so what we're going to do, same process this week, uh, we're going to read a series of scriptures and we're going to pray those scriptures. And, um, our prayer focus for this morning, family, is renewing the mind. Uh, the reality is we could never— so our prayer focus for the entire fast is dominion, uh, manifesting dominion in our life. There's no way we could do it if our mind is not renewed. If your mind, uh, is still the same, you'll never embrace the, the large capacity of dominion. So you got to be pulled and expand. Um, today, make sure you own it, 12 noon, uh, the teaching the Lord gave me for today. I'm going to talk about how to expand, multiply, and increase. We're going to just, just dive into those 3 words, uh, for about 30, 40 minutes today at 12 noon, because the reality is it's going to require expansion in your thought process, expansion in your personal capacity, uh, you getting a vantage point— hear this— that you can actually do more than you've been doing. You know, a lot of times we don't do more because we don't think we can. Ah yeah, a lot of times we don't, um, press the gas on things because we feel limited. But there's a science, a spiritual science, to, uh, expanding, multiplying, and increasing. So it starts really with this here that we're praying about this morning. It starts with renewing the mind. So let's first look at 3 John, uh, 1 John, 2 John, 3 John, uh, 2. All right, let's read that and let's, let's dive in this, man. The Bible says— here we go, we, we, we coming out the gate swinging with the scripture, right? So the Bible says, beloved, that's you and I, I wish above all things that thou mayest prosper and be in health 'Even as,' oh my God, 'your soul prospers.' My God, my God. So first of all, it is the intrinsic desire of God, hear me, that you and I prosper, all right? That you and I be in health. And he said, 'I would above all things.' And we talked pretty extensively yesterday about superabundance, super prosperity, super harvest, how God wants to manifest these things in our life. And it's not just talk, ladies and gentlemen, it's real, and it's the desire of God. But you can't gravitate to that, you'll never really receive that. Uh, I mean, you'll hear it and it'll get you excited, and you'll even have a level of expectancy towards it. But if your mind doesn't renew, you'll never really manifest it or tangibly, uh, deal with it or actually step into it because it's not really engrafted. It's not an engrafted word that you actually have embraced that can happen because your mind is not renewed. So what I want to pray, because as your soul prospers, right? So this super abundance, super harvest Super abundant, super harvest, super prosperity. These things manifest in our life from the supernatural realm as our soul prospers. So as we're fasting this week, right, our soul is prospering. Our soul, our psuche in Greek, our mind, our will, our emotions, just the basic terms of soul. So your mind, it has to expand, it has to multiply, it has to increase. So our soul has to prosper. And so we gotta be very deliberate about being in prayer this week, all right? So I know it's tough 'cause, you know, people don't do this often, but at the end of the day, let's make the sacrifices and let's get in prayer this week. So let's pray 3 John 2, glory to God. And we're gonna move to our next scripture. Father, I thank you for the individuals under the sound of my voice. And I decree and declare, that even as I'm praying, your word declares that we should speak those things that are not as though they were. Your word declares, Father, thank you, Jesus. Oh, oh, oh, Jesus, we love you. We love you, God. We love you, God. Your word declares, God, that angels hearken to the voice of thy word. So, Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you this morning. That every person under the sound of my voice, glory to God, that even as I pray now, they're stepping into a dimension of soul prosperity, God. Their mind, hallelujah, their thought process, the systems, hallelujah, of their thinking are being renewed even now. I decree and declare their will, and God, I'm asking you this morning to break down every stubborn will, everything that goes against the grain of who you are. O basatakaya niya, sutu rabaka. Everything, every place in our will that doubts that the things you say to us in your word is really true. Agatabosyan tatabayah. And Father, we thank you that our emotions, hallelujah, are being abandoned, that we don't operate in emotionalism as it relates to your word, but we take what you say as facts. And we declare that our emotions are under subjection. Glory to the name of God. And we receive receive soul prosperity now in the name of Jesus. Renew our mind that we may expand, multiply, and increase in the mighty name of Jesus. We declare it to be so in Jesus' name. Hallelujah. God, we pray. Oh, Shabbat. Mm. God, give us, give us what we ask for, God. You said if we ask, it shall be given. So Father, I thank you right now that the mind is being renewed in Jesus' name. Next scripture, Romans 12. Glory to God. In verse number 2, praise the name of God. We give you praise, God. The Bible says this, here, here, hear me, family. The Bible says, be not, be not conformed, my God, to this world. But be transformed by the renewing, osha bababande koshia, of your mind, that you may prove, oh, here we go, what is good and acceptable and perfect will of God. So here we go. You can never tap into dominion and unravel the mystery of dominion and see the mandate of dominion show up in your life in full force. Somebody say full force, because that's what we want. We want to dominate in every aspect, every area, every way. We want dominion to show up. Ishabba lekoshotot rabba kititabasi. In full force. It cannot happen, it never will happen if you are conformed to the system of this world. The word conformed, uh, is two words, con and formed. So now here we go. You are shapened or formed or aligned with a con. A con, pros and cons. Pros are for, cons are against. Hear me right. So if pros are for, cons are against. To be conformed, oh my God, means to go against the authentic form, right? So you are formed to something that is against, this can also be called secularism. Yeah, to be secular means to be against God. That's what, that's literally the basic definition of being secular. It means to be against God. So when you're operating in a form or a way of thinking, a way of moving that's against the principles, the desires, the plans of God, Lord have mercy, help us this morning. Jesus, you'll never take dominion because you're leaning in on a system, right, that never was designed to sustain you, my God. But you were created for dominion. I, I taught it yesterday. The supernatural DNA of dominion is to be fruitful, multiply, replenish, subdue the earth. If you do those four things, dominion will manifest. You'll never do those things effectively if you conform to the ways of the world. Oh boy. So he gives you the ultimate option. He says, be transformed, metamorphoo in Greek, which by the renewing of your mind. So metamorphoo is where we get words like metamorphosis, which is the process that a caterpillar goes through to become a butterfly. And notice I said become a butterfly. So once a caterpillar becomes a butterfly, it's no longer a caterpillar. Oh, I'll say it again, it's no longer caterpillar, right? It's a butterfly. It's not even called a caterpillar anymore. But, but understand this, at one time in its existence, it was a caterpillar. This is how the transformation and the renewing of your mind should look. You shouldn't think like the world anymore when your mind is actually renewed. You cannot be in church on Sunday— hear me— and just think like a kingdom citizen, a Christian, while you're hearing the word, while you're going through the motions of church. Hear me, family. Your mind needs to be renewed, metamorpho. It needs to become a different thing. It needs to become a kingdom mind totally, and it needs to be renewed every day of your life so that you can really, again, experience dominion. Because if you, if you, watch this, really renew your mind Once your mind is renewed from stinking thinking, from being conformed to the ways of the world, the system of the world, when you'll know when it's renewed, because guess what? You'll never want to go back to that way of thinking anymore. Man, I'm so glad that God allowed me to get this revelation to renew my mind. I'm trying to give it to you this morning again. Religion doesn't empower you toward mind renewal. What religion does, it gives you— whoo-wee— it gives you just enough to appease your appetite for more. And what you do is you keep coming back to a place of religion and going through religious processes, which is a way of being conformed to the world. Because the world has a religious system, right? And at the end— and that has nothing to do with church— is looking for God in things. And it's a blank search because they're looking out of trying to duplicate certain patterns because they feel those patterns will produce God. The reality is they will not, people. Family, I'm telling you right now, they will not. You, you have to expand your mind, and once you expand your mind, it never can go back to where it came from because now it's renewed. Why does, why do you, why does your mind need to be renewed? So you could prove what is good. So your mind needs to be renewed so when you look at your life, your life is proving what's good. What's good? The bana in Greek, which is profit, P-R-O-F-I-T. Ask a businessman to define profit. Y'all probably heard me say this a thousand times. I'm gonna keep saying it until we get It's what's left over after the expenses of the business have been paid and covered, right? So if you're really operating in kingdom profit, you're operating, glory to God, in a margin that's more than enough, where your needs are already met, where super abundance, super prosperity— here we go— super harvest is a perpetual, consistent thing in your life. Are y'all with me this morning? My God, my God. Okay, so he says renew your mind so you can prove what's good, what's acceptable. Watch this, what's eritos in Greek, acceptable. The, the word acceptable deals with the idea that these are the things that God will accept. And guess what? God wants you to be a dominion heir. He wants you to be a person of dominion, one that really is fulfilling your dominion purpose. And I want to submit something really deep to you, man. His grace is sufficient to us, right? But you got to set the bar. You see, when your mind is renewed, you set a bar. This is what I've done in my life. I'm trying to help you. When you set a bar that anything less than dominion is unacceptable— but if you keep making excuses and say, I'm gonna just lean on grace, You'll go through life, you'll die, and you'll never achieve dominion on earth like so many people do. They leave this planet, never achieve dominion because they keep playing the grace card and they do things that come short. All right, I'm gonna leave that alone. It's too early, right? Yeah. Okay, I'm gonna leave it alone. I think you got it. And perfect will of God. So I'm— I want to prove what's good, what's acceptable, and what's the perfect— what's the perfect will of God. Oh my God, perfect. Teleos in Greek, this word means what is the complete, mature will of God. Okay, let's go back to Genesis. The dominion mandate is the perfect will of God. To be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, subdue the earth, have dominion over it, right? Okay. Whew, that's the perfect will of God. That's the mandate. That's not a suggestion. That's a mandate that's built in our DNA because we serve a God who's a dominion-minded God, and he wants his people to have dominion and take authority in every aspect. Lord, have mercy of their lives. So I want you to— I'm just trying to raise the bar in your thinking now. Anything less than dominion is unacceptable, okay? I'm telling you, this is not just something else good to preach or teach. I've been teaching this the majority of my life. I'm 56 years old. I started preaching, glory to the name of God, uh, at 17, uh, glory to God. And the reality is hear me, hear me, hear me, family. I've been teaching this, man, at least since I was 20 years old. And my— I was telling my wife, we was— she was just going through some videos from the past that I— of things I've taught, and everything is laced with this message. And so I'm disseminating to you my life's message, because this is where God wants the body to go. This is for your children's children. This is the— this is how we leave legacy. So let's pray this. Glory to God. Because I don't want to get too heavy in teaching and we don't pray. Let's pray. So Father, in Jesus' name, you said in Romans 12 that we should be transformed by the renewing of our mind. So Father, I pray for the transformation of the mind and that there will be total mind renewal right now in the name of Jesus. God, I decree and declare that the mind, even as I'm praying, will expand, multiply, increase. I'm declaring in the name of Jesus, God, that like the caterpillar becomes a butterfly, Father, that your power was— Yes, God, that your power, God, would superimpose itself upon our minds this morning. And God, that we will be something different. We will turn into another man, another woman. We will think different. Oh God, our mind will be renewed toward dominion. And Father, I declare that every person under the sound of my voice will prove with their life. I pray over them now, God, that we all will prove what is good, what is profitable. Yes, God, that people will see the glory of God on our life, and they'll see a life of profit, not a life of lack, not a life— glory to God— of struggle, not a life of depression, not a life of sickness and disease, not a life of poverty. But God, they will see a life of super harvest, super abundance, and super prosperity, because we will renew our mind. Oh my God, to as dominion people who will take authority in our sphere of influence. We declare it. We will prove what is acceptable. We set our mind, God, that according to your word, that there's nothing acceptable less than dominion in our sphere of influence. So Father, even as I'm praying, I release the discipline, the discipline, Yes, God, to move in dominion. Yes, to walk in your ways, to do that which is pleasing. Thank you, Jesus, in your sight. In Jesus' name. Oh my God, in Jesus' name. I pray, I pray, I pray this morning Glory to God that we get this. Glory to God. I pray that we receive. Hallelujah. Glory to God. I feel something so strong in my spirit this morning, Zion. Listen, we gotta grab this. We gotta get this. We cannot afford not to get this. Glory to God. This is where we are. The world needs people of dominion. It starts with renewing your mind. Let's go to 1 Corinthians, man. 1 Corinthians, we give you praise, we give you praise. Glory to God, we give you praise. Oh God. 1 Corinthians, hallelujah, uh, 2, uh, and 16. The Bible says this, it says, for who have known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ. So watch this. This scripture is simply saying, one, that none of us know the mind of God enough, hear me, where we can teach him or tell him how things ought to be done. When we have the mind of Christ, hear me, it's a renewed mind. That's constantly receiving teaching. Oh my God, from Holy Ghost on a daily basis. You're in class. Not when you feel like spending time with Holy Spirit, right? Not when you tap into the Holy Ghost when, you know, you're just feeling spiritual. But, you know, the reality is Daily, you should allow God, the mind of Christ, to set up class, and you should literally learn something every day. Watch this: accepting the fact that you don't know enough to teach him, but he is available in your life to teach you. So let's pray that right now. Father, I thank you for 2 Corinthians 2:16. Thank you that we're not masters of your mind, but God, you are masters of our mind. You know exactly where we are. You know exactly where we're going. You know exactly what we've been created to do. Oh God. You know where we're going. You know where we are. But Father, you are the master of our mind. And so Father, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we decree and declare this morning that we will be students of your mind, for you even said, "Let this same mind be in you that was also in Christ Jesus." So Father, even as I pray this morning, we receive the mind of Christ according to, oh my God, 2 Corinthians 2:16. We receive the mind of Christ this morning, and we decree and declare, God, that we take think as you think concerning ourself, concerning your will for us, concerning dominion. So Father, we thank you that your mind is a mind of dominion, mm, mm, which makes the only acceptable thing in our life, glory to God, is to manifest what's on your mind. So Father, help us this morning to dismiss every thought of pauperhood, Every thought where that comes from a lesser god, that comes from flesh, that comes from Satan, God, we, we, we dismiss the spirit of the pauper and we bind it in the name of Jesus. But we are royal citizens in the kingdom of God, and we give you praise that we will think like our King, and we will listen to your law, we will listen to your decree, and we will be accept— Glory to God. We give God praise. He's a good God. He's a mighty God. Thank you, Lord. We bless you, Lord. We bless you, Jesus. And you're mighty, you're glorious, and you're awesome. We thank you, Lord. You're good. You're good. Hallelujah. You're good, and besides you there is no other. Praise your name, Jesus. Praise your great name. What a mighty God we serve. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Let's go to Joshua 1:8. Glory to God, we're going to renew our mind today. Glory to God, we're going to renew our mind. Glory to God, hallelujah. Joshua 1:8, we're going to get rid of the stinking thinking so we can operate in dominion. You can't do it if you're thinking is stinking. All right, you— we got to get rid of the stinking thinking. Glory to God. The Bible says— watch this— Joshua 1:8: This book— hear me, hear me— shall not depart out of your mouth. Wait a minute, so the words that are in the Bible— okay, y'all hear me— shall not depart out of your mouth. Woo-wee. So good, family. This, okay, this right here means you need to be speaking what God says daily. Every conversation you engage should be laced with Word. Watch this, even if you ain't directly quoting chapter and verse, hear me, your whole language system, your whole linguistics quality, should be based in word. Glory to God. 'Cause you can't live without this word. The Bible says, watch this, you meditate in it day and night. Where meditate, hagia in Hebrew, this word means to receive it, put it in your mouth, to consume it. Watch this. So watch this, the concept of it not departing out of my mouth is twofold. Hear this. One, I'm speaking it at all times. And then secondly, I'm eating it because I'm putting it in my mouth, chewing it up, hagi ai, at all times. As a matter of fact, hagi ai means to chew it up real good, break it all the way down, swallow it. Watch this. It suggests to regurgitate it, chew it again, because it's continually in your mouth. It never departs. Because watch this, you're trying to become one with the supernatural power of the word that you are ingesting. Oh my God, this morning. So that's what he wants. He said, why? So you can observe to do, hallelujah, according to all that is written. For then Watch this. You shall make your way prosperous. I know y'all, we don't— me, people don't want to hear that word at church, but you can have it. You just got to do the work, man. Glory to God. You got to keep eating the word. You got to keep the word in your mouth, right? And then you can make your way prosperous. As long as you're trying to do this conform to the world system without a renewed mind through the word, you're not gonna experience that super harvest. I'm sorry, you're not gonna experience the super prosperity. It's just gonna be a moment of excitement, but you gotta chew this word. And many of you, this fast is gonna help you get back to study and get back to prayer, get back to real time with God. As we develop habits over the next 7 days of prayer and study, watch this. It's going to begin to discipline you to meditate on the word day and night so you can make your way prosperous, so you can have dominion. Glory to God. So you can observe, oh my God, what the word says, do what the word says, have dominion, have prosperity. Watch this, and it says good success. You know what good success is? Good, there's that word again, profitable success, which means that that you— success is the completion of the will of God. It is successful if you are moving in obedience to what God said. So let's, without being specific to your call, your dominion purpose, let's just say in general, success is the achievement of dominion. Remember, I just said anything less is unacceptable. Anything less is unacceptable, even if it appears successful to the world, even if it appears successful to you, anything less than dominion in your dominion purpose is not success. Your bank account might say you're successful in your own eyes, but success is domination in your fear of influence. Oh boy, let's pray that. Father, we thank you for the word. Oh my God, I just pray for a hunger for the word, that it was not depart out of our mouths, that we'll constantly be heaten word, God, that we will long for teaching. We'll long for spending time with you where you're giving us word. We'll long for prophetic words. Thank you for a prophetic community where you could prophesy to us and through us, and it— and a prophetic community where prophecy doesn't just operate in the leadership, but it operates inside of the body. So we give God— you praise God for a prophetic community that's constantly releasing word. And so, Father, we thank you that as we receive word, as we ingest word in our mouth, that the words that we receive through your scripture, through teaching, through prophecy, through personal time with you, through you verbalizing your word to us, God, we will not dismiss that word from our mouths. We will ingest it and we will keep the word in our mouth. We'll keep saying it over and over again. We'll keep chewing it up over and over again. Why? So, God, we can observe to do what is right so we can align ourselves with good success, so our way can be prosperous, God, and we can exercise dominion in our sphere of influence. And we give you praise for that, God, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. I pray you're catching this flow this morning. Glory to God. I pray you're catching it. Proverbs 3. Oh, shabbat lekum, Shanta. I'm telling you, day 1 of this time of prayer is starting off great. I'm, you know, listen, and apostolically, we're going to plow through the word in prayer this morning. I mean, I'm not yelling and being emotional, you know, at the end of the day, we are tapping in. Glory to the name of God. And we're chewing that word even as we're praying this morning. So stay with me. Glory to the name of God. There's something more that's going to happen throughout this prayer. So let's, let's keep moving through Proverbs 3, uh, verses 5 and 6. Glory to God. You'll find these words: Trust the Lord with all your heart and lean not to your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct your path. So if you are going to have dominion, it starts with trusting the Lord with all your heart and not leaning to your own understanding. Again, this goes back to teaching, it goes back with time with God, it goes back to the scripture we read in Corinthians where we're not as smart as God. We, we cannot teach his mind, but his mind superimposes itself on our mind and he teaches us. So we trust him and we don't lean to our own understanding. We, we, we stand under his tutelage and we learn from him. That's understanding, to stand under. So we get under his teaching and he makes deposits in us Watch this. And the Bible says, he shall direct our path. And we acknowledge him. Acknowledge, two words. Ack means to become acquiesce, to open up. The word ack, the actual root word means to open yourself up to knowledge. So to acknowledge means you open yourself up. So this whole, these two verses of, literally talking about learning. You won't renew your mind if you don't learn the things you need to learn. Hear me, so you could take dominion, you gotta, you gotta become a student of your fear of influence. Trust in the Lord that this is who you are, not leaning to your own understanding, and in everything you do, acknowledging him so you don't miss it to the left or the right, so he can direct your path. let's pray that. Father, we thank you for Proverbs 3. Dear God, this is a scripture that's quoted by so many but not really exercised by many. So Father, I'm praying today that this morning that those of us that are here in agreement with us this morning, live or by replay, I'm asking you, Father, that you will release a trust in you that's greater than any trust we've ever had, that, that no longer will we lean to our own understanding, but we'll trust what your word says. If your word says you'll supply our need according to your riches and glory, we trust you. If your word says the steps of a good man are ordered by God, we trust you. If your word says with your stripes we are healed, we We trust you. We don't lean to our own understanding of a thing, but we trust you. And we believe because we trust you, you will direct our— whoo, God— our path, man. Jesus, Jesus. And we lean not to our own understanding, God. We're not wise in our own eyes. We acknowledge you. We open ourselves up, and whatever you tell us to We're gonna do it in Jesus' name. Glory to God. Let's keep moving. Praise God. God is so good. Go to Proverbs 21:5. Yes, Lord, we thank you. We thank you, Lord. The Bible said the thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness. Wait a minute, wait a minute. But everyone that is hasty only to want. So There's a difference in being diligent and hasty, right? So the thoughts of the diligent are in— cleaned into plenteousness. So when you're diligent, the Bible said the diligent soul shall be made fat in Deuteronomy. Here's reality: your mindset Ooh, it's locked into plenty because you understand it's gonna take plenty, hear me, to achieve dominion. You— I— we taught it yesterday, plenty and plenteousness is necessary, right? But we can be hasty trying to do things without purpose, without maturity, right? And we end up in lack. So lack, I said yesterday, is a result— oh my God— of no glory in areas. Because part of glory is plenty, part of glory is wealth, part of glory is prosperity, because it's required and necessary to achieve dominion. But if you're operating in areas of lack, that means there's no glory in that area of your life. And so while you can have glory over here and then none over here, that ain't God. That's not the will of God. So if you want to really, uh, tap into doxa or kabod, which is glory, the weight of God, then the full spectrum of glory manifested in your life is not waves of glory that shows up in a service, but real glory, because you are a glory carrier. Okay, here we go. It goes with you everywhere you go, and you don't lack. You're not missing anything. Nothing's broken in any area. Oh my God, let's pray this. Father, I pray for the thoughts of your people this morning. I pray that our thoughts will be diligent at all because our thoughts lead us to plenteousness. And we need plenty, not for selfish gain and selfish will, but we need plenty, one, that we can establish dominion, two, so we can leave inheritance to our children's children, so that the third generations that's connected to us will be blessed and they will prosper. They will move in a dabaso rabakasiyantay, legacy. And we give you praise and glory. And we thank you that as long as the earth remains, there'll be seed time sowing and harvest. So even as we're diligent, God, our plenty, it creates super harvest. Glory to God. For the generations that follow us so they can maintain dominion. Ooh-wee, we give you praise. So renew our mind. And Father, dismiss hastiness. I rebuke the spirit of being in a hurry, of being hasty, of wanting to do things before it's time. I decree and declare that that spirit is broken in your people. And I declare in the name of Jesus that the spirit of lack because of being hasty— because another word for hasty, Father, I thank you for that, thank you, Holy Spirit— is to be stubborn. Is, is when things are not going your way, you make haste, glory to God, to do something else because your flesh, oh my God, is not pleased. Because most, most people come into the kingdom looking for the kingdom to satisfy flesh, but I heard the Holy Ghost say that the kingdom and a real kingdom ministry, watch this, a real kingdom assignment is never going to be appeasing to your fleshly appetite. You gonna always feel uncomfortable. You gonna always wanna run. You gonna always wanna make haste. But I, ah, God, I thank you. You got two choices. You could take dominion in the situation or you can depart. Hasty people choose departure. Oh my God. And then they end up always in a perpetual state of lack. Most of you are dealing with lack in your life, whether you're live or by replay, because you don't have any stability that lends or leans into diligence. Okay, I'm gonna leave that alone. All right. Thank you, Jesus. So Father, we praise you and we give you glory. We give you honor. We give you praise. We give you honor. Yes, God, that what's coming is better than what has been, and that we will move in diligence, and that diligence will produce plenteousness. Somebody ought to say plenteousness. Ooh, that ought to be a word you're acquainted with. Glory to God. Plenty. Glory to God. Because it's going to take that to exercise dominion. Let's, let's go to Hebrews 4:12. We're almost done. Hallelujah. Thank you for praying with me one hour. Glory to God. We're almost done. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Stay with me, don't go to sleep. Glory to God. Stay with me. For the word of God is quick, powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword. Word. Hmm. Piercing even to the dividing of sunder— here we go— of soul and spirit, of joints and marrow, and it is a discerner— here we go— of the thoughts and intents of the heart. And so this is taking us back here again to the word. We were in it in Joshua 1:8, and now He's telling us the word of God is quick, energes in Greek, which means it's full of life. It's a life-giving book. I read a lot of books in my time, but the Bible, the word, is the only book I read where I quicken when I'm reading. I feel fire burning in my belly when I read it. Glory to God, because it's alive, because my spirit connects with the spirit that's on the word. That's why you can't— an angel can't come and preach to me and tell me the word of God is wrong, because there's a witness in my spirit that the word is alive and the word is real. It's quick. I've seen the power of the word. It has power, and it's sharper than any two-edged sword. Now here's the catch: that word is sharper than any two-edged sword. So it's got full of power, full of life, but here's a catch, it's a sword as well. So when you really divulge into what God is saying, it's gonna do two things. First of all, the two-edged sword is designed to cut you and to cut the enemy against you, or the elements or the thoughts or the processes that come against you. But listen, when the word starts cutting you, instead of running, let it cut you, okay? Just, just let it cut you, man. Just let it cut you because you know you're out of order. And a lot of times we can be so religious, glory to God, and we'll think we're in God because we're praying, because we're studying, but you ain't doing nothing it tell you. You studying, you praying, but you still not making application of what you read and pray. You go through religious activity and not receiving the manifestation of this word in your life. Hear me? Okay, for those of you connected to me and I'm your pastor, I want y'all to always remember, when you hear me talk, I'm never trying to beat you up. Your pastor just is an apostle. This is an apostolic church. Sometimes you don't get cut, man. And sometimes you get cut, it's not for you to go somewhere in a corner and start licking your wounds. It's to look at yourself, take an introspective, and do better. Are y'all hearing me? Okay, all right. So it divides the joints and the marrow. It divides us on the soul and spirit. Because your spirit, when your spirit is regenerated, God is there. But many times there are still things in your soul, here we go, soul prosperity again, that, oh my God, want to lead when the spirit should be the influence. You're a trapper type being— your body, your soul, your spirit. So the spirit should be in control, in authority. It should influence your mind, your will, your emotions, your soul. Oh boy. And what happens in your soul from the influence of the spirit should manifest in your physical life through your body, through your mouth, through your behavior. Many a times we allow the soul to make decisions for us because the soul is comfortable, because the heart is desperately wicked. Woo! Shabbat do koshia. But you have to allow the Spirit of God to take control because some of the things in your life, they're not going away. But the spirit has to control them, and you have to yield to your spirit so it can control them. How do I do that? I gotta stay in the word so it can cut away the stuff that don't belong, that's hindering us from dominion. Let's pray that. So Father, we thank you for Hebrews 4:12, and we decree and declare that your word is quick, it is powerful, glory to God, and it is sharper than any two-edged sword. It divides the joints and the It divide— it keeps our body healthy at home, for you sent your word and it healed them. Glory to God. It keeps our body mobile, joints and marrow. It— oh my God, it keeps our bones healthy so our body stays together so that it can carry the assignment of dominion and purpose. God, we thank you that it divides asunder soul and spirit, and I declare now that our soul man has no authority— glory to God— to rule our life. Glory to God. But we thank you that our our soul is prospering. Thank you for bringing this prayer full circle this morning through your word, because we allow the word to be full of life and to be powerful and to cut and divide soul and spirit. And so, Father, we listen to what spirit says to us, the Holy Spirit of God. We thank you for living in us, God, and we listen to you. Glory to Jesus. And we allow you to be the leader in our life. Life. Teach us, God. Woo! For you said in your word the Holy Spirit would teach us all things. So we become students of Holy Ghost, and we receive your teaching. In the mighty name of Jesus, we declare it to be so. Oh my God, oh my God, thank you for staying with me one hour. We're almost done. Glory to God. Ah, oh, I feel Jesus. I'm trying to behave, y'all. Glory to God. Philippians 4, Philippians 4:6-8. Shabba lo kushkan didikishita tabai. The Bible says, be careful for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. Hallelujah. Verse 7, and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, shall keep your hearts, here it is, and minds through Christ Jesus. So watch this. So don't be anxious, don't be careful about nothing. Glory to the name of God. You have to, hallelujah, put everything on the altar, make supplication before God, and be thankful, hallelujah, that God hears your voice as you pray. So he says, let your request be made known to God. When you do this, the peace of God will arrest every place of confusion. So when you, when you feel like you want to take matters in your own hands, the Bible is just simply saying here. Don't be anxious about stuff. Stop worrying. Pray about it. Release your faith and trust that God's going to bring to pass— hear me— his word in your life, because you're praying his word, and his word can't lie. Glory to God. And he's gonna give you a peace even in situations where others would say you shouldn't have peace. He'll give you a peace that surpasses all understanding. He'll keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. I'm gonna read the rest of the text and then we're going to close out. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Y'all got that though? 2 Corinthians 10:4. Let this— oh, here we go, here we go. 2 Corinthians 10:4: For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds. Oh, this is good. God is bringing us to a strong close here. Proverbs 16:3: Here we go. Proverbs 16:3 says this: Commit your works to the Lord and your thoughts shall be established. Commit your works to the Lord and your thoughts— God, I ain't gonna touch it, we're just gonna pray here. Glory to God. But some— commit your works to the Lord and your thoughts will be— in other words, when you, when you commit to do only what God says Your thoughts are established. They guide you. Glory to the name of God. Your thoughts become like God's because he begins to supply you with the thought process necessary to bring to pass the work you're committed to for him. Okay, another message for another day, man. Uh, 2 Corinthians 10:5. Glory to God. And I'm reading this last because I know we just read 10:4, but we're gonna read 10:5 because watch this. Now he says, after after, after all that, he says, cast down imaginations and every high and lofty thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God, bringing into captivity— woo-wee— every thought to the obedience of Christ. And this is where we are, saints. Glory to God, this is where we In order to have dominion, you really have to commit the work to the Lord. Bring every thought into obedience to Christ, man, and make sure your thoughts are constantly being renewed and you're operating in total obedience to God in everything you do. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for this time of prayer this morning. We love talking to you. We love learning your word. Oh God, we, we love the word, and we don't get in a hurry. We're not hasty when the word is being taught, when the word is being prayed. Oh God, we thank you that when we worship, when we study, we don't grow tired or get weary. Well, God, we decree and declare we love the word because we're bringing every thought into your mind and we receive the obedience of Christ. So Father, in the name of Jesus, every thought right now, I command it to come under the obedience of Christ. Every place of worry, depression, hurt, pain, disappointment, we bring those thoughts right now in the name of Jesus. And Father, even this morning we thank you. I, I thank you, Holy Spirit. We pray this morning for our dear sister Vern, Vern Former, who's a member of our church. And we thank you, God, that even though she— whoo— she has experienced loss in her life, she lost her daughter Chastity this weekend. But God, in the name of Jesus, I pray that you will cause the peace of God that surpasseth all understanding. God, even as we come into agreement now, we cause the— we release the peace of God that surpasseth all understanding upon Vern's life, upon her husband's life, upon her rest of her family's life. And we declare, God, that while we don't understand, God, we thank you that you understand and you know why these things have occurred. But Father, we pray you will give us clarity of thought and freedom of expression. We thank you that through this, all things will work together for good because Vern loves the Lord and she is the called according to your purpose. We decree and declare that no weapon formed against her can prosper. Her family can prosper. We thank you for it. And we thank you that every thought in our lives are under your control. We allow you, God, in your word to control our mind. Yes, God. We'll do what you say. Say, and we'll yield to your plans. We bless you now. Thank you for this fast, God, and we thank you that at the end of this fast we'll see results. And we declare we'll see super harvest, super abundance, super prosperity, super victory will show up in our life. We thank you that next Sunday will be phenomenal and your will will be accomplished in Jesus' Amen. God bless your hearts, people. I love y'all so much. Thank you for joining us this morning. Listen, I want to challenge you, make sure you're on with us, uh, today at 12 noon for our 12 noon teaching. Every day for the next 7 days, uh, we'll be teaching at 12 noon and praying at 5. I mean, purpose in your mind now that you're gonna lock in, uh, today's gonna be good, and I'll see you then. Enjoy your Monday. Y'all have a supernatural day. I'll speak to you soon. Peace.