BULLDOG FAITH, PART 4: "AGGRESSIVE FAITH" | DAY 4 OF 21 DAY FAST + PRAYER | DR MIKE WOODS

Well, grace and peace everyone, be multiplied to you from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Listen, welcome to day number 4 of 21 Days of Fasting Plus Prayer. I am I'm super excited as always to share the word of the Lord with you. And listen, I need you to get just as excited and share this word with someone else. You know, the Bible declares we're blessed to be a blessing. So please, right now, uh, take the opportunity to be kind and share this word. I promise you, if you do, glory to God, the blessing that follows that will be major. Amen. Did you hear what I said? I said major. The blessing that follows that will be major. So make glory to God that you share this. And we're going to get right into this word, man. I believe that God's going to really supernaturally do something special for us today. Uh, we've been talking about Bulldog Faith. This is part 4 in this installment, and I believe today that as we get deeper into what Bulldog Faith looks like and start breaking down some of the things we've given in the working definition or what Bulldog Faith is, I think it's really going to push our faith to even another place. You know, in reality, man, my faith was already on 1000. I mean, I believe God for anything. There's nothing that I don't trust God for. The reality is there are so many other dimensions in the realm of the spirit, in the realm of glory that we all can explore. And I'm telling you, just in the 4th day of this fast, my faith has just literally leaped to another dimension, and I'm just believing God to do the miraculous and the supernatural in my life. So let's teach this today, man. I'm— again, I'm excited to teach it. I'm glad you're here. Let's jump into it, right? Let's jump into it. It's gonna be good. Uh, I want to make sure today, right, that we get some clarity. So we're going to just walk through. We've talked about how our bulldog faith is the victory that overcomes the world. Glory to the name of God. I want to go really quick first. Let's go to 1 Peter, uh, no, I'm sorry, 2 Peter. Let's look at 2 Peter. Glory to God, y'all stay with me today. Glory to Jesus. 2 Peter 1. Praise God. And I'm gonna start reading at verse number 1, right? The Bible says, Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Savior Jesus Christ. I want to stop right there for a moment. He says, because today we're talking about aggressive faith. That's one of the tenets of bulldog faith. You can't say you got bulldog faith if you're not aggressive, because guess what? A bulldog is aggressive. Glory to God. So, so let's, let's look at this precious faith here. This word in this text is isotimos. Isotimos. This word is— means that it's equally precious, is equally honored, or esteemed as equal. So watch this. So when it's like precious, like precious. It's honorable, um, and it's esteemed as equal to the faith of another that you may admire. So let me tell you something, if you see other people believing things, uh, that they're going to receive by faith, and they're really just expanding their faith, and God is moving in their life because of their faith, listen, you have a right to that same precious faith. And the apostles are saying Listen, the same faith we got, you got an opportunity to have that same faith. And I want to tell you, even personally, if you're watching this, if you're connected to me in any way, the faith that I move in, glory to the name of God, you have the same opportunity to obtain that like precious faith. He said obtained it, obtained it. Lashono or lashono is what we get words like launch, glory to God, uh, or allot. So lashono means to give a divine allotment. Oh my God. And to determine, glory to the name of God, that something is yours. So you got to be able to determine today. And as in the beginning of this, I want you to determine that bulldog faith is yours. I want you to determine, glory to God, that God has given you like and precious faith as the biggest faith general you could think about. Glory to God. There's no, no respect of person in the Lord. Let me keep reading. Grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power— listen to this— has given unto us— hear me— all things that pertain unto life and godliness through the knowledge of him who has called us to glory and virtue. I need you to touch yourself right there really quick and say, I'm called to glory and virtue. Matter of fact, type it in the comments. Say, I'm called to glory and virtue. This is going to connect heavily to aggressive faith today because this is your calling, and you got to be aggressive to achieve the call that you are designed to walk in, and that's glory and virtue. Whether you're an apostle, a prophet, a pastor, a teacher, an evangelist, whether you got all these gifts of the Spirit, whether you can speak in tongues better than the next person. You're calling. Glory to God. You're calling. You're kaleo, the outcall to every believer. The kaleo in Greek is the outcall to every believer, not a kletos, which is individual calls, but a kaleo is an outcall to every believer. Hear me, to hear and adhere to what the Lord is saying and to do it. So we're all called to glory, which is doxa in Greek. Hallelujah. Which is, hallelujah, an estimated value. Glory to God. So God has estimated our value based on his perception of us. Oh God, that's what glory is. It's, it's God's splendor and brightness, his value on our life as he sees us. You may not see yourself in doxa, in glory, in splendor, in brightness, in magnificence, in excellence, in preeminence, in dignity, in grace, in majesty. Watch this, in sharing in the things that belong to God. God said he's called us. Y'all hear that? To estimate it. So, so watch this. So you can't achieve this unless it's estimated. You can achieve it whenever something is estimated. It means it's possible that this can happen. So it's been estimated that this can happen if your faith is aggressive, because we've all been called to glory, doxa, to magnificence, to splendor, to brightness, to excellence, to preeminence, to grace, to majesty, to something that, oh my God, is congruent to God, to a kingly majesty, to the things, watch this, that belong to Christ. That's what doxa is. Oh boy, and we are all called to it. Listen, I'm overwhelmed, I'm overflowing right now. 'Cause we are called to glory and, wait a minute, virtue. We're called to glory and virtue. Virtue, which is, glory to God, arete, arete, which is A-R-E-T-E, arete. That's how it's pronounced in Greek. And it literally means, watch this, excellence, an attribute of purity. Ooh. So once again, it's an outcall. You may not obey this call, but you can. You can move in a place of purity, whereas we were praying this morning, glory to God, you don't operate as a— glory to the name of God— person that has a form of godliness and denies the power. See, you can have a form, a religious form that goes through the motions where you talk in tongues, you jump, you spit, you blow bubbles, you lay in the fallout on the floor, but you have no virtue. You really don't have any power. Glory to the name of God. You may even operate in these things. Glory to God. But when you lack virtue and purity, there's a limitation on the power you walk in because God is holy. Glory to the name of God. And he aligns himself with holy things. So let me keep reading. Let me keep reading. I didn't mean to exegete those. I'm sorry. Wherever whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises, that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in this world through lust. So we've obtained great and precious promises. So the question is, how do we obtain the promises and the things we need? How do we possess them? That's what obtain means. How do we possess them? How do we get the promises in our hand? I mean, and that's because we could preach around this and never really teach how to get it. I mean, we could throw the scriptures out there and hoop and, and tune up and take people into an oblivious hype where they start shouting and dancing over the promises. And after they get through shouting, they're still broke, they're still sick. Oh my God, they're still depressed. Oh my God, they still are not bearing fruit in their life because they just shouted over promises that they never received. Because it's incumbent upon that lazy preacher that is comfortable in his vein just teaching you how to jump, shout, speak in tongues, and then you shout over the promises. And listen, I'm a classical Pentecostal. I'll outdance any of you. Joyfully-yam. Glory to the name of God. But the reality is it makes no sense for me to dance over promises I never receive. See, promises made— watch this— from God are promises kept. But the only way he could keep them is that we be aggressive in our faith and we learn how to obtain these promises. So first of all, You need to know what the promises are. How can you obtain great and precious promises and you don't even know what the promises of God are? Oh boy, you'll never know what God has really promised you, 'cause one, the preacher ain't taught it and you ain't studied it. Secondly, you need to know they are yours right now. So you need to know what the promises are, and you need to know that those promises belong to you. Oh yeah, God, I feel you, Jesus. They belong to you right now. Not tomorrow, not next week, right now. Faith, we taught it yesterday, and you got to aggressively take that. A billion dollars is mine right now for the kingdom. Glory to God. Those buildings we got our faith on for 2023, for our Atlanta church, for our Jackson, Mississippi Church, for our Woodbridge, Virginia church. Those buildings are mine right now in the name of Jesus. You keep paying your mortgage, sir, ma'am. I'll pray for you that you can, but I pray that you raise your faith to burn that mortgage. Oh, shatabaki andele, boche, and own that real estate for the kingdom, because that's the will of God concerning you and I. Glory to God. Ha! Sheba! It's yours now. You need to know what they are. You need to know they're yours now. That's how you obtain them. You can't obtain something you don't know, and you can't obtain something that you don't realize is actually yours. Oh God, listen, I'm sitting in my studio, and there's a lot of stuff in here. It's like expensive cameras, equipment, computers. There's a lot of stuff in here, right? Uh, lights. There's a lot of expensive things in this studio. If somebody came in here and took one of my cameras, I know it belongs to me. And if I know who has it, glory to God, I'm not gonna stop until I get it back. Cause while it may not be in my physical possession because they took it, the reality is the camera is mine's right now. If you take it to your house, it's still my camera right now, and I'm coming to your house to get what's mine. You got to be that diligent and relentless about obtaining and achieving the promises of God for your life. Ooh-wee! Yeah, God, you need to use faith watch this, and take what's yours. To take those promises that the scripture, oh, has made to us that belongs to us, man. Let's talk about aggressive faith. You got to be aggressive. Bulldog faith is aggressive. Now wait, we read yesterday— I want to go back to that. Let's read Hebrews 11:32-34. Let's read that. Glory to God. Let's read that today. Because I want to make sure— hear me— that we don't miss anything. So let's read Hebrews 11:32 today again. Let's read it. The Bible says through 34, and what shall I more say? Listen, for the time would fail me of Gideon and of Barak and of Samson and of Jephthah and of David also and of Samuel and of the prophets. Who through faith, listen, I just told you, you gotta take the promises by faith, right? Subdue kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises. Hear this, stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned the flight of the armies of the aliens. Here's the, here's the catch. Faith cannot work without action. Faith without works is dead. Faith without corresponding action. And that's where all those men I just read in this text did. They took action. They believed that God was with them. You got to believe he's with— because bulldog faith is aggressive. That's what we're discussing today. Aggressive bulldog type. Glory to God. Faith. Glory to Jesus. Let's get in this, man. It's aggressive. It's— say it with me. Say it's aggressive. Come on, say it. Say it's aggressive. So here's what I want from you today. I'm going to ask a favor of you. Can you do this for me, please? I love y'all, man. I need each one of you listening to me live or by replay. To get more aggressive about your faith. I'm gonna say that again. I need you to get more aggressive about your faith. I'm gonna say it one more time. I need you to get more aggressive about your faith. Let's go to 1 Peter 5. Glory to God. 1 Peter 5. Let's see what that looks like. 1 Peter 5. Glory to God. Thank you, Jesus. 1 Peter 5, verses 6 through 9. Let's read it. The Bible says Humble yourself therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time. Verse 7, casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you. Be sober, be vigilant, because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour. Oh my God. Verse 9, whom resist steadfast in the faith. Knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. So here's two things I want to bring out in that verse. I don't have time to exegete that whole text because we got a lot to cover today, but two things I want you to really see. One, the devil is looking for weak people to devour. He's looking for people who are weak in their faith. He's seeking people weak in their faith that he can devour. So let's look at that word devour really close. I want to look at it really close. Watch this. The word devour in Greek— watch this— is katapino. Katapino is— I love it, man. I love it. Katapino. It means— watch this— to drink down like you're drinking a drink, to swallow a drink. Or for those of you that drink alcohol, like you throwing back a shot, to, to swallow you all the way up. Watch this, and then step back and watch the effects of digesting you. So he wants to eat up your life. He's looking for people who is weak in faith, where he could tear up your marriage, where he could tear up your finances, where he could tear up your relationship with your children, where he could tear up your business and your profession, where he could destroy your ministry history. And watch this, or just simply keep you stuck, keep you stuck in the same old cycle where you're broke, busted, disgusted, can't be trusted. He wants to keep you right there, stuck in that same holding pattern. He wants to drink you up. Oh, he, he looking for— you know who he drinks up? Weak people who are weak in faith, who are not aggressive. Listen, by faith, the Bible told us here, we resist and stand strong against his ability to pour a drink with our life. Y'all letting the devil sit back and get intoxicated and drunk on your poverty, on your sickness and disease, on your depression, on your brokenness. He's sitting back throwing back shots. Oh, the devil is throwing back shots with your life. I don't even know what that's like because I never drank another day, another day in my life. I never have. I can't tell you how alcohol tastes. I can't. I'm not saying I'm better than you. I'm just saying I never did it. But for those of you that have, you know the effects of that. It alters your state. And so the devil, he deepens his own deception about the authority. That's why he keeps— this— he's so dumb. He's a dumb devil, number one, because he left heaven. Who goes to the heaven and leaves? Who's in heaven and leaves the presence of God? Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, right? So it's dumb. You in the presence and you leave it. That's dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb. Listen, that's what the devil does. He's dumb. He'll make a dummy out of you if you're not Careful. Glory to God. Listen, he's sitting back deepening his deception about the authority and power of kingdom believers because it's so many weak believers that he pouring drinks with. So he thinks everybody's that weak. He's deceived because there's some people out here, man, that's walking by faith. There's some people by out here that's moving from faith to faith and glory to glory and trusting God for everything. You better stop being a bartender in the realm of the spirit for the devil and letting him pour drinks with your— ooh— with your life. You gotta, by faith, resist him. He'll flee. Resist him. Glory to God. And stand strong. He will flee. Glory be to God. So you gotta be aggressive. Michael Woods, what does it mean to be aggressive? Well, first of all, to be aggressive means that you put forth forth an all-out effort to win. Write that down. You're going to need that later because you, because you're going to come up against an obstacle that's going to require you to be aggressive in faith. And you got to put out an all-out effort to win, which means, oh boy, you gotta press on the word. You got to keep fuel in the tank. Faith come by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. When you get challenged with something that seems bigger than you, Oh my God, I got my faith on something today. I'm trusting God to break through something major today for me. Listen, and at the end of the day, I'm aggressive in my faith. I'm not going to let this thing go until I see the manifestation of what my faith tells me already is mine. It's an all-out effort to win. You don't half-step with this. You put all in faith and say, I trust God. I know what it looks like, but I trust God. I know what the doctor said, but I trust God. I know what my bank account says, but I trust the word. I know the foreclosure notice says that, but I trust God is going to bring me through. So you got some options. You can worry, you could fear, or you could put the pressure on the problem with faith and be aggressive. And watch this, God responds to aggressive faith. To be aggressive also means to be boldly and relentlessly assertive. You gotta be boldly and relentlessly assertive. What does it mean, Michael, is to be assertive? Well, I'm glad you asked. It means to— glory to the name of God— insert yourself in the situation as a— to assert means you present yourself as an asset. So you boldly get involved with the ordeal or the problem as an asset through faith, and you start ministering to God through faith. Glory to Jesus. And you be bold about it. Glory to God. You boldly speak what God says, and you keep relentlessly speaking it until you see it. Third, to be aggressive means to be forward, to be pushy, to be, uh, to be militant, to be Verse 4. Fourthly, aggressive also means to be ready to fight, to be tough, to be violent. Let's look at some scripture on this. Let's go to Matthew 11 and verse 12, New King James. The Bible said, from the days of John the Baptist until now, the kingdom— listen to me— of heaven suffers violence, and the violent take it by force. The word force there is harpazo. In the Greek is where we get words like harpoon. In order for a harpoon or spear to be effective when thrown, it has to be thrown with brute force. Glory to God. And accuracy. So we take with brute force and accuracy. We, we use our faith to take what is forcibly advancing against us by storm and conquer it. Again, the devil is deceived. He thinks he could take us, so he violently comes against us because he's constantly intoxicating himself on weak spaghetti bag Christians who are empowered by the spirit of the ventriloquist. I— oh my God, that came forth in prayer today. This is so powerful. And we rebuke that spirit of ventriloquist, the other ventriloquist, on the life of God's people because That's, that's a dummy sitting in the lap of religion saying what the— oh my God, what the ventriloquist is telling, having the dummy to say, mimicking what the dummy says. And watch this, perceiving it as real. Listen, the devil is deceiving. He's got a lot of Christians deceived that, that the life they're living is the way it should be. And the Bible speaks totally against how you choose to live sick, how you choosing to live broke. I told y'all, I'm an apostle every day, every day. I'm an apostle every day, every single day. I don't miss a day because that's what I'm called to do. So I'm trying to help you. I'm trying to put this government on you, this apostolic government of faith. Oh yeah! Yeah God, I give You glory. Hallelujah. Because I want you to take what's yours violently. You got to get violent against the enemy, and you got to use the word to do warfare against him. And not all that waving your hands, walking around people hollering, speaking in tongues. That, that's, that, that has its place, but warfare God's way is fought in the word. Because the devil can't do nothing with the word of God because it's truth, it's light. He's in darkness and he's a lie. So it exposes him every time and it rids him of authority. Oh boy. Let's read that same text in the NIV. It says, the kingdom of heaven has been forcefully advancing, and forceful men lay hold of it. So if we want to experience the kingdom and forcefully advance in the kingdom, we got to be forceful. We got to be forceful in our faith. Let me read it in the Amplified. It says, and from the days of John the Baptist until the present time, the kingdom of heaven has endured violent assault, and violent men seize it by force as a precious prize. A share in the heavenly kingdom is sought with most ardent zeal and intense exertion. See, the enemy wants a part of what we're doing, and he wants to weaken you so you never reach your full potential as a kingdom citizen, as a— watch this— as one who operates under the auspices of a king and has access to the resources of that same king. He never wants you to get that, so he forcefully comes against you so you'll feel defeated, so you'll leave God and start living life your own way. But you got to be forceful in your faith. You got to believe what the book says. You got to dismiss all these teachings out here that's talking about we need a new Bible. How stupid and dumb. And you know what the crazy thing about that is? Some of the most intelligent people in the world that have natural intelligence, they're super— I'm super intelligent in the natural, so much so that in the past A couple of these people, I have admired their intelligence, but now they become spiritually stupid because they've allowed their intelligence— yes, stupid, dumb, glory to God, ignorant. And the Bible said, if they be ignorant, let them be ignorant. So you let them be ignorant by themselves because they're sitting there telling you we need a new canon, we need a new Bible, we need to revisit the Bible and start trying to break down the historicity of the living word. Listen, I don't care what you say, this Bible has worked for me. And only people that the book ain't worked for will buy into that stupidity and that garbage. I told you, I'm an apostle every day, all day. Please tag Carlton Pearson in this. Again, he one of the people that I have admired his intelligence, but he's spiritually stupid because at the end of the day, you're sitting there telling me because you want to help people feel loved about lifestyles Man, this is so much bigger than that. It's so much bigger than gay, straight, lesbian, hoe. It's so much bigger than sin. It's about a constitution that God created in faith between heaven and earth. And when we adhere to it— oh, please tag him, please, because I'm not scared on no day. And if you hear this, Carlton, you know I love you, man. But the dialogue we've had before in the past and in and even in recent future in inbox, and even in the past in person. You know I love you, but stupidity is stupidity, man. And at the end of the day, somebody's got to draw the line, and we got to make up in our mind that we're going to stand on the true and living word and be forceful in our faith. The word has worked for me. No way in God's green earth Will I back up off of it? Will I stop trusting? I've seen it heal. I've seen the word provide. I've seen the word work miracles for real, not some of this stage stuff. Glory to God. I've seen blinded eyes open for real. I've seen deaf ears unstopped for real through the word. Glory to God. I've seen cancers dry up for real through the power of faith in God's word. Word. And don't you let anyone tell you that we need a new canon, we need a new book. No, we don't. We need to learn how to walk out the current book and the current constitution. And you know what? If this book is wrong, I don't want to be right. I'm telling you right now, if this Bible is wrong, I don't want to be right. And listen, I'm absolutely— mean no disrespect to the man, I love him, but what he's saying and doing is stupidity. It's— and you, and you're just as stupid if you sit there and listen to it because you want to validate your lifestyle. Don't do it, man. I got to go. I got to go. 1 Timothy 6:12. And this is what I'm doing today. This is what I'm doing today. My dukes is up. 1 Timothy 6:12 says, fight the good fight of faith. The word good is bonan Greek, which means profitable fight. You know, me breaking down this etymology, me going to school to learn about Greek and Hebrew, all my studying, you know, it was inspired by that guy, the one I just mentioned, Carlton Pearson. Back in my formative years, I used to listen to him teach. Great teacher, man. And I learned a love for the Bible from this man. And how dare you stand up with the same Bible and try to twist the words? I got boxes of tapes somewhere, cassette tapes, that I have of Carlton Pearson teaching. I wish I could put you a collection of those. I'm gonna try to find those tapes, transpose them to digital form, and just put together teachings and just put them out there. Because guess what? He had some sense at one time in the word. Okay, let me get off that. Fight the good fight of faith. And no, we're not editing it. Glory to God. We're going to make sure this gets out, because people don't need to be bamboozled. Ah, but now, profitable fight, which means we got to win. It's got to be a good fight. Hallelujah. Of faith. Hallelujah. We got to fight the good fight of faith. We got to be aggressive. Listen, this describes fierce combat with an adversary. The enemy is after your faith. He's after your ability to trust the word of God. He's after your ability to believe what God says. Oh boy. But faith, watch this, it pushes its way through existence and resistance. See, some of you are fighting for existence and some of you are going through seasons of resistance where you're being resisted. It. But the victory over— watch this— existence and resistance is persistence in the word of God. I'll say that again. The victory over mere existence and the resistance that comes against your existence is persistence in the word of God. Go to Mark 11:24. I'm getting through this, man. It says, therefore I say unto you, whatsoever things you desire when you pray, believe you receive them, and you shall have them. Watch this. The word receive in Greek here means to— hallelujah— take with much force. Oh, it's not like I'm bringing you a Christmas gift and you say, oh, that's such a nice gift, Apostle, and you start opening it and, oh no, I— that's That's a different type of receiving. This word in the Greek is a very violent word that means to take with much force, which means you're receiving back what's already yours. Yeah, it means to seize with a grip that can't be shaken off. Stoudazo, a semen grip that cannot be removed. Hallelujah, Jesus! You gotta lay hold on this thing and grip it like that bulldog. Listen, weak faith— hear me— it's not going to produce. It's not. You gotta grip this thing with the word and put your teeth in it and don't let go. Because when you don't let go Faith is still operating. Glory to God. Just like when that bulldog puts his teeth in his prey or his victim, it's going to hold until blood is shed, until the result is achieved. It bites in until the result is achieved. You got to bite into what the word tells you it can perform for you until you see it. Listen, faith has to be aggressive. Let's go to 1 Samuel 17. Um, I'm just going to— for context, I want you to read later verses 41 through 48. For the sake of time, I'm just going to read verse number 48. The Bible says, and it came to pass when the Philistine arose, talking about the fight between David and Goliath, right? And came and drew nigh to meet David. David hastened— watch this— and ran toward the army to meet the Philistine. So the Philistine just chilling, taking a stroll toward David because he's confident he gonna win. David said, nah, I'm aggressive. This giant is bigger than me. He's 13 feet 1 inch tall. David, little short joker, not even 6 feet, little lad, runs toward this 13-foot giant in aggression. Watch this. The Hebrew word for he ran toward to meet him, or he drew near to the Philistine, means that he hastened. He suddenly went headlong with his head down with great speed. He didn't waste no time. He said, "Oh, he coming at me? I'm coming at him." Listen, so when something in your life arise, don't waste no time. Don't waste a thought on negativity. Don't waste a word on negative speech. Immediately run full speed aggressively at it with faith. Oh God, I'm going too long. I'm going too long. Listen, he was not afraid at all. That the very idea that this, this guy, this lad, this little boy dropped his head and ran full speed toward a 13-foot, 1-inch giant says he had no fear, because you cannot move in faith when you're afraid. So waste no time fearing. Glory to God. David knew the covenant he had with God, and he ran— glory to God— aggressively toward his enemy. Can I tell you something? The whole time he was speaking faith. He was saying, yeah, I will defeat this Philistine. Glory to God, I will take him down. He was testifying to his ability. The same God that helped me slay the lion and the bear is going to help me take— he was speaking it before the battle. And watch this, because his words were spermatic. They were spermatic. They were seeds coming out of his mouth, planting a seed in the realm of the spirit to reap a harvest of victory when he went into battle. And watch this, the angels heard the words. Hear this, hear this, y'all. The Bible said, angels hearken to the voice of thy word. So when we're speaking the word, or what God says, or testimony, 'cause we overcome him by the blood of the Lamb and the word of our testimony, angels hearken, pow, pow, and they get behind the word to work with you. So this is how David was confident, number one, but this was also how David was able to defeat Goliath because he had his shepherd's bag and in the bag were 5 smooth stones. Stones that had been purified. Oh, glory to the name of God. In the river, in the dirt, they were smooth, they were, they were hard, they were ready. But guess what? It didn't matter because he was up against a 13-foot-1-inch giant. There's no way in natural resources and circumstance he's going to defeat this giant. But David knows God is with him regardless to what his arsenal, his weaponry is. So he reaches in the bag on the confession of the covenant and the confession of his faith, and he throws this rock. Glory to God. And watch this. Oshki tabanse, briska tabanse, ro kushki. Angel gets behind the rock. Yeah, man. Gets behind the rock. God gave me revelation of this years ago. And he pushed— the angel pushes the rock in the center of the forehead of Goliath. Guess what? Fight is over. David only throws the rock as hard as a lad can, but because of faith, the force of faith that produced angelic involvement got behind the rock. And pushed it in Goliath's head. Aggressive faith is relentless. I'm almost done. Hebrews 10:23 says this, it says, let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering, for he is faithful that promise. Glory to God. We gotta be constant, we gotta be relentless, and we gotta put this constant, relentless faith on every situation we're in. We gotta be relentless, unyielding, having steady persistence with faith in the word. Steady persistence. We got to be— oh my God— relentless in attitude. We got to always keep a good attitude like David had. We got to always be relentless with our words, with our thoughts, with our actions, to make sure that our words, our thoughts, our actions, our behaviors are in faith. Because I told you yesterday If you didn't watch yesterday's teaching, that the warfare of the enemy are his thoughts, ideas, and suggestions that come from the demonic realm to throw you off. Oh my God, man, we cannot allow the situation to put constant pressure on us. We keep constant pressure on it. We keep constant pressure on the devil. James 4:7 says, resist the devil. Devil. Put pressure on him and he'll flee. He can't, he can't stay around when you resist him with the word, when you resist him with faith. He will run from you. Glory to the name of God. Ah, as if like you were swimming away from a shark or trying to get away from a shark that was going to eat you up in the water, man. That's how fast he's going to get away from you. You got to stand firm against You got to take aggressive action so you can get aggressive results. I'm almost done. Stay with me. Listen, I want you to say this with me. Say, I will not let go until I see the results. Say, I have aggressive faith. Say, I will keep confessing what is mine. Say, in the name of Jesus, I will I will not let up spiritual pressure. Say, in the name of Jesus, I will not let up faith pressure. Glory to God. Say, in Jesus' name, I will keep pressing with my entire being. Say this, say, in Jesus' name, the resistance against me, the existence I am in will not get the best of me. Me. Say, in Jesus' name, I will defeat resistance and merely existing with persistence. In Jesus' name. Say, in the name of Jesus, Numbers 13:30 says— come on, say it— say, Numbers 13:30 says that Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, said, let us go up at once and possess, for we are able to conquer this land. Watch this. Can I tell you something? No matter what it looks like, Joshua and Caleb were up against some giants, man. But the Bible said because Caleb had another spirit— glory to God— he had a spirit of faith, he had a spirit of trust in God. They, they, they begin to confess in Numbers 13:30, we stop all this complaining, let's speak negative because we're going to take this land because it belongs to us. When an attack comes, I need you to hear this and I'm done. You got to get in gear and go into faith mode. I told you yesterday, you got to click from feelings to faith. Click, click, click. When the attack comes, okay, click, click, I'm in faith. I'm not, I'm not entertaining negativity in any way. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you for this word today. I pray that your people would move in aggressive faith, and I declare it to be so now in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Listen, I love you guys with the love of the Lord. Pray Perhaps you're not fasting with us. Listen, I'm telling you right now, it is not too late. You can jump in now and get in where you fit in. We're just on day 4. Tomorrow we'll start day 5. Glory to God. Just go ahead right now and send a text to 877-638-7285. Glory to God. And you'll be on our text list and you'll get texts every day for prayer, for 12:00 teaching. You're going to get a copy of our prayer and fast guide. Or if you don't want to be on text list, text list, I'm sorry, just go to the website, rhodachurch.com. 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