CREATING A DESIRE FOR DOMINION | DR MIKE WOODS SR | 15 FEBRUARY 2026

He reigns, he reigns. Oh, my God, he's an awesome God. He reigns from heaven, oh, heaven above. With wisdom, power, and love, our God He's an awesome God. How many know he's awesome? Oh, he reigns. Oh, he reigns forever and ever, forever and ever, forever and ever. Forever and ever. Forever and ever. Whatever you need, he's in the room. He's in the room. He's in the room. Just reach up and grab him. Just reach up and grab him. Whatever you need, he's in the room. Hallelujah. Oh, he's in the room. Lord, let it rain. Lord, let it rain. Oh, he reigns, he reigns. Yes, God, he reigns. He reigns. Oh, forever and ever. Forever and ever. He's the beginning and he reigns.

Oh, he reigns.

He reigns. Oh, he reigns. He reigns. Oh yes, he reigns. Forever and ever, bow down and worship him. Yes, I worship him. Oh, worship him.

Hallelujah.

BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP HIM. Hallelujah! Enter in. Oh, enter in. Come on, bow down, bow down, bow down. And worship. He's so worthy of our worship. He's so worthy of our praise. We got to worship him. Hallelujah! Oh, worship him. Oh, worship him. Oh, worship him. Bow down, bow down, bow down and worship in the know how. God, Lord, I worship you, God, for being just so good to us. God, we thank you. Hallelujah. Lord, we praise your holy and righteous name. God, oh, we bow down. God, we bow down. You are the King of Kings, you the Lord of Lords. God, we give you reverence today. God, hallelujah. Lord, I worship you, I worship you, I worship you, God. Oh, worship him. Bow down, bow down, get down and worship him. Worship him. Oh, victory! It's his holy crown. Hallelujah! It's his holy crown. Oh, this is victory. Holy crown. Whatever you Knee is in the building today. Yes, God is in his holy ground. Oh, so come, so come and bow, bow down. Hallelujah! Come on, open the mouth again and worship. Hallelujah! He's so worthy of all our praise. He's so worthy of all our praise. Hallelujah! Somebody didn't get up this morning. The clock went off, but they didn't get up. Hallelujah! I'm so glad we got the activities of our limbs. We're able to live, we're able to move. Lord, I thank you. Lord, I praise you, Father God. Thank you, Jesus, for being omnipotent God, I thank you for being a healer, deliverer. God, I thank you. I thank you for being peace, God, in the midst of confusion. Lord, I thank you for the rain, God. I thank you for the rain, God. I thank you for the rain, God. I thank you for the rain, God. Rain on us, Father. Rain on us, God. Hallelujah. Saturate us, God. Saturate us, God. Hallelujah, Lord! Let your presence flow! Let your rain flow, God! Hallelujah! We praise you, God! We worship you, God! Come into the atmosphere, God! Rest on us, Father God! Hallelujah, Lord! We thank you, Lord! We thank you, Lord! We thank you! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Yes, God! Hallelujah!

Bow down and worship the King. Yes, God, worship Him. He's the one and only God. Oh, worship Him. Bow down, bow down, bow down and worship Chopin.

Interim.

Oh, interim. I will bow down and worship him. Oh, bow Bow down, bow down, bow down and worship him. He's so worthy. Bow down, bow down and worship him. Interprete— Oh!

Lift your hands in this room please. Just lift your hands and fill this room with your voice. Hallelujah! We love you Jesus. We give you glory. We worship and adore you. Come on, the worshipers are worshiping. Come on, give him the fruit of your lips. Give him the— come on, give him the fruit of your lips. Come on, worship Jesus. He's worthy to be glorified.

He's worthy to be lifted up.

He's the solution to every problem.

And the only guarantees that he show up is when we worship. The Bible said he takes up residence. He lives in our worship. He lives in our praise. Come on, come on, come on. We give you a man— the Lord our banner. And we uphold this morning a bloodstained banner. You redeemed us, you saved us, you died for us so many times.

We forget your efficacious, vicarious work of Calvary.

And so, Father, we thank you that you laid down your very life. Come on, worshiper! I need you to remember how good he's been to you. So many times we focus on the bad, we focus on where we are, but he snatched you out.

Shout! And gave you a mind to serve him and gave you a mind to live for him and gave you a mind to walk with him. Come on, open up your mouth! I know it's raining outside, but God wants you to pour in here.

The Bible says when it's rain, pray for more rain.

So Father, we pray right now for more rain. May it rain in our life, God. May it water the seed that we are and that we may become Oh, you created us to be— come on, worshiper.

God, we give you the glory, we give you the honor. I'm gonna teach in a moment, but he longs to hear your voice. He longs to love on you.

The Spirit and the bride say come. The Spirit and the bride say come. Somebody scrolling past this live, the Spirit and the bride say come on, open your mouth.

We bless your name, God. Come on, Zion. The Bible say he makes intercession for us with moanings and groanings that cannot be uttered. Oh God. Oh God. I tell you, let a groaning come out of your spirit like a woman in labor.

Oh God, push your way into dominion, push your way into influence, put your way into authority, push your way into power, put your way into glory.

Oh.

Oh God, somebody ought to take up a wailing. With no music and no props, something ought to come out of your belly. The Bible said, if you believe on me, as the scripture has said, out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. Come on, I feel a groaning in my spirit. I feel I hear the wailing in my spirit. Something's about to break in this region. Something's about to break in your life.

Come on! I don't know, somebody said this too much for a Sunday morning.

No, it ain't. This what we need. We need God. Your flesh ain't worked. The props ain't worked. Your plans have not worked. You need God, and you need to take up a wailing. It comes out of a desperation. How bad do you want him? Oh God. Somebody ought to take up a wailing. Something happens when you can wail out of your Spirit. Something happens when you can allow the Holy Ghost to groan out of you. Come on, it's time to give birth to dominion. It's time to give birth to authority and power. The church has sat back too long and took a back seat, but God said it is our time, and we got to go into labor. Maybe the pain you've been experiencing for the last 9 years, last 9 months, the last 9 days, it's labor pain. You're moving from the waiting room into the delivery room, and you are about to give birth to the blessing of dominion. Somebody ought to Take up. Oh God, the church I grew up in, the mother would begin to cry out, oh God, and folk would get healed, folk would get delivered. Demons would come out without coercion. I dare you, cry out to God. He's all we need. We give you the glory. The pressures of this world were designed to push you into labor. Your financial pressure was designed to push you into labor. Your family pressure was designed to push you into labor. This baby is overdue. It's time for God's church, his ecclesia, It's time for his church to arise, and the Holy Ghost says rise from obscurity, rise from the low place, rise from mediocrity, rise from laziness, rise Then be my people.

For I have great things planned for you, and the days ahead will be filled with dominion, filled with authority, filled with power. For you shall literally experience what eyes have not seen and what ears have not heard.

You shall see it with your own eyes.

You shall tangibly behold my promise. But on this, I called you with a holy calling. And a heavy consecration and a supernatural anointing to give birth to influence, to give birth to the blessing of the kingdom called Dominion. And through your stance, the world will know that I am God, we thank you, Lord. We thank you, Lord. We thank you, Lord. We thank you, Lord. We say thank you, Lord. You didn't have to trust us with this, but you did. You could have left Adam and Eve as a failure in the garden. But you sent the second Adam so we can reclaim our rights. Whoa, so we can reclaim our authority. The latter rain has come, and know this, saith God, the latter shall be greater than the past. Shabatonti di bosso. Don't allow your history to cause you to miss destiny, for I have left the past behind. And I have buried it in the sea of forgetfulness to remember it no more.

And while others wallow in yesterday, I'm putting you into a new future, something you've never seen.

I'll use you in ways that you did not expect. I'll work through your life the work of salvation. And because you stand in me, many will know who I am. You will be strong. You will do exploits. You will do heroic deeds and mighty acts. For I shall cause you, said God, to be modern-day heroes, for you shall rescue the world from themselves, and they'll see my light in you. Well, you're my daughters, you're my sons, you are my family, and I'm depending on you. Stand in your rightful place.

Says the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Yeah, somebody just clap your hands, open your mouth and say, thank you, Lord. Come on, we clap our hands and say, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord, thank you, Lord. Come on, act like you receive influence. Thank him like you receive authority and power.

Clap.

Oh, shabba, clap like you receive the future.

It's raining all around me.

Thank you, God. I can feel the latter rain.

Ride on, Jesus.

Please send more rain until we are wet, until we are soaked.

And the latter rain, it's raining all around me.

I can feel it's— yes, God, it's the latter rain. Ride on, Jesus.

Please send more rain until we are wet, until we are soaked in the latter rain.

It's raining. Oh, love, round me. Yes, God, I can feel it. Yeah, Jesus, it's the latter rain.

Ride on, Jesus, and send more rain until we are wet, until we are soaked. Until we are wet, until we are soaked, until we are wet, until we are soaked in the latter rain. Lift your hands and just thank God for latter rain. Come on, the worshipers are worshiping. It's raining all around us. That latter rain is dominion. It's the harvest of dominion that will spring forth in the midst of us. It's the latter rain. The latter shall be greater than the past. You will be blessed more than you can ask. Hallelujah! Just lift your hands and worship him for what's coming and what's here.

Yes, the latter rain has come! The latter rain has come! Come on, just worship him. You watching online, worship him for the latter rain.

In the latter rain. Hallelujah! Come on, the worshipers are worshiping. Worship him for rain. It's so true. I think it was William McDowell I heard say, rain only matters to those who have seed in the ground. It don't matter to you if you ain't sown in tears, if you haven't gone through the pain of life and sown your life into God.

But for those of us that have put a life in the ground, it's raining all around you. I can feel it.

It's the latter rain. Ride on, Jesus. Send more rain until we are wet, until we are soaked. In the latter rain. Father, we thank you for the latter rain. We thank you that it is here now, and we thank you that what is here is better than what was, and the way things were is not the way they are. We thank you that we stepped into the realm, the day of better.

Father, we thank you that the harvest of our seed, of our sacrifice, of our life to you, God, where we have presented our body a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto you, which has been our reasonable service. We take pleasure in giving up everything for you. So Father, today let the harvest of dominion, harvest of influence, the harvest of blessing, so that our life will be beneficial to others.

Let it come through us even now.

In Jesus' name, saturate us with rain, soak us down.

God with the latter rain until we are soaked, until we are wet, wet, wet. Soaked, soaked, soaked. Wet, wet, wet. Thank God.

Soaked, soaked, soaked.

Wet.

Wet, wet, wet.

Soaked, soaked, soaked. Until we are wet. Until we are soaked in the latter rain. Lift those hands, please. Jesus is here. And just worship him. You say, Jesus. Jesus, I promise you I'm trying to teach. Jesus, there is something. Y'all sing it about that name.

Master, master, savior, savior.

I'll sing it.

Jesus, like the fragrance after the rain.

Come on, sing it again.

Jesus, sing Jesus, Jesus. And earth proclaim, and the earth proclaim, that kings and kingdoms, they shall all pass away. But there's something about that name. In a world where no one wants to claim this name, sing it again.

Jesus.

Jesus.

Sing Jesus. Jesus.

Jesus.

a fragrance of me. About that name, that name.

Sing Master, Master.

Sing Savior, Jesus, Jesus. Like a fragrance After the rain, after the rain, the rain. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. There is something about that name.

But there's something about—

come on, but there's something about—

come on now, stop right there.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. Now before we say that last one, I just need everybody that can to shout Jesus in this place. If there's something about that name, come on, open your mouth and shout Jesus in this place. Come on, I'm talking about if he's really been good to you, if he's real— come on, if he's really saved you and delivered you, he's really made you whole and turned you from a life of sin, I tell you, open your mouth and say But there's something about that name. Come on, clap those hands in this building and give God praise, please. Come on, pray on your own. That's weak. Come on, praise the name of Jesus. Come on, praise the name of Jesus.

Hallelujah.

Hallelujah! Shabat, Father, we thank you for that great name.

No other name given among men whereby we can be saved. Thank you for the name of Jesus.

Every knee shall bow in your name, God. And every tongue shall confess. Father, as we open your word, you are the living word. Speak to us today. Do something man cannot do. Saturate the walls of this place. Charge this atmosphere. Let the Shekinah glory be revealed.

Let rain Soak us until we're no more ourselves, until we're exactly like you.

Thank you today for the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost. That this word gone away, that the weak will leave saying I'm strong, the poor will leave rich, the discouraged will leave encourage doubters with lead with faith. And we bless you for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Clap your hands please one more time.

Hallelujah.

We're going to try that again. Clap your hands.

Glory to God.

And that's not a suggestion from the Bible. He deserves that laudation. We clap for everything else, but would you give God a clap? Glory to God, sincerely from your heart.

Glory to God, and we honor his name. Beside him there is no other.

Glory to God.

So glad to see y'all in church this morning in spite of the weather. Glory to God, we are here. Praise God. Are y'all with me? Glory to Jesus. All right, so we're going to continue our series this morning. Um, we're talking about Mystery of Dominion.

Glory to God.

Somebody say, what's in the mystery? The mystery of dominion. And this today, this is part— glory to God—

9.

We've been talking a while about this, right? Must be important because the Holy Spirit keeps giving this to us. And this morning we're going to talk about creating a desire I have a desire for dominion. I want you to pin that in your spirit, okay?

Because you'll never achieve dominion if you really don't have a desire for it.

I'm gonna say that one more time: you'll never achieve it if you don't want to.

There's not a dominion police that floats around heaven to make you do it.

Are y'all hearing this? You gotta wanna do it. Say, I gotta wanna do it. You can pull out some of that headshot all day.

Okay, thank you.

Say, I gotta wanna do it.

You gotta desire it. It's not gonna just happen.

You gotta want it. So let's review, um, just some of the things we've talked about last week in part 8. Glory to God, we, we talked about watching your mouth because many of our lives is a result of how we speak.

Amen. Some of the things that manifest in your life, they manifest because of how you talk. Amen.

So a few points we gave you last week, and I wanted to just kind of go through these again really query.

One, you got to develop kingdom thinking. That means you got to think like the King.

Amen.

The operative word in, in the whole thing is you got to develop kingdom thinking.

Are y'all with me?

So it doesn't just— again, it don't just happen. You got to develop it. In order to develop something, you got to study.

You got to take the position position of a learner. It's not going to just jump in your brain.

You got to position yourself to learn what you need to learn. Are y'all with me?

Or you can just go back to the slides if you want to, man, so they can see the notes. Glory to God.

Secondly, we talked about you got to understand your ambassadorial assignment. Say that with me. Say, I'm here on assignment. An ambassador is one that's sent from another place to act with full authority of the place that sent him. So if the United States government sent you as an ambassador to, let's say, Africa, when you get to Africa with your ambassadorial rights You will have all the authority of the United States government backing you.

Are y'all hearing this?

Guess what? You came to Earth with an assignment. You have all the authority of heaven backing you.

Oh God.

So there'll not be any excuse. We're not doing what we're supposed to do other than we haven't developed kingdom thinking. Oh God, because the King has sent us here on assignment. We're here, we're breathing. Lord, one of the hardest things I've ever done in ministry, I did it yesterday.

I buried a 35-year-old young lady.

So hard. Because her life ended so abruptly.

Are y'all hearing this?

And my whole goal yesterday was to get people to understand, wow, she's finished, you got to keep going, because we are here to do something, not just to have a good church. So say I'm an ambassador. See, I got the full rights of heaven backing me.

Oh God, this is so good.

Hallelujah. And so I taught it last week, but I'm just reviewing it because it's gonna make sense in a minute. Secondly, you gotta— thirdly, you gotta establish your allegiance to God in matters of the spirit. So you can't lean to your own understanding. This says that my reliability in pursuing dominion is on God and not me. Y'all got that? Because this is an impossible feat without God, but with God It is possible. So I gotta establish my allegiance to him, which means I can't walk in the flesh. I gotta spend time in prayer, man. I gotta spend time in worship, because left to my own devices, I'm gonna mess this thing up, right?

Are y'all hearing this?

Amen.

Like so many others have done. So we gotta stay Now, y'all, please, God, I'm just, I'm just revealing.

Amen.

All right, you got to develop a right position with the government, or spiritual ICE—

y'all ain't talking—

going to come and deport you. That's good, cuz, you know, we complain about these folk getting put out, but some of them don't supposed to be here. They're here illegally. Okay, okay, that's another message for another day. I'm not trying to be political, but some of them are illegal. They stuck in, and some of the stuff true, they bringing drugs in, they doing all kind of stuff. So you got to make sure you a legal citizen of the kingdom, okay? You got to get saved for real, for real, and establish your right position. Have clarity about your Purpose, knowing who you are.

All right.

And then finally, we said you got to know the Constitution so you can speak the language of the kingdom.

So let's get into this.

So Mario, just go all the way out of the live and use the slides because I think that's gonna work better for them. The people online, uh, they can stay with us. Hallelujah.

Glory to God.

All right, so let's get this started. I'm gonna start this question. This question is deep, and I want you to think about it.

If you had a button that you could push to reset your life, would you push it? Yes. Some people just holler yes.

Quick.

Everybody has different reasons why they will push that button, right? Cuz you want to see a different outcome. Cuz if you knew then what you know now, yes Lord, you will make different decisions, correct? So most of us, if God said, here's a button, if you push it you can reset your life. Most of us in this room gonna push it because most of us have done things that we regret. We have made decisions we regret. But what if I told you the moment you got born again, you had the button? Okay, okay. 2 Corinthians 5. Put the scripture up there, Mario. Therefore, from now on, verse 16, we regard no one according to the flesh. So wait a minute, so what you used to be, when you come to God, people don't get to regard you according to your fleshly decision. You just got to get out the flesh. So they'll start viewing you in the flesh. You're still acting like who you used to be, living like who you used to be, talking like you used to be. Then people are going to deal with you according to flesh. Okay, but here's the standard from now on. When I come to God We should not regard anyone according to the flesh. So when I come in contact with anybody, I should be able to slip past their outer casing and get into their heart. You know what, we're package-driven people. What does that mean? That means when we meet people, we judge them on their packages. On what they display on the outside, and we start sizing them up when really the Bible says we should know no one according to the flesh. So you know what I do? This is good practice. When I meet people for the first time, the first thing I'm doing, even if they don't see it internally, I'm praying in the spirit so I can slip past their flesh. So watch this, so that any proclivity in me to size them up by what's on the outside will be dismissed. And secondly, so that anything they're trying to convey that's not really them, I'm already past it. Are y'all hearing me? So when we— even in the ministry and in kingdom, when we work together, we should know each other after the spirit. So instead of trying to judge somebody by how they pray, how they preach, how they sing, you should pray about a person. Are y'all hearing this? So you can know who they are. I just gonna say, even though we knew Christ according to the flesh— so we studied about all the works Christ did in his flesh, how he conquered life and how he fulfilled his purpose, right? But the Bible said we now know him that way no more, because we have to know him in the spirit of who he is. Because first of all, you weren't there when he was turning water into wine, right? Okay, you read about it, you believe it. You weren't there when he raised Lazarus. Are y'all hearing this? I know you might feel that old, but you weren't there. You want that, but you got to know him for real through relationship in the spirit. Then he says, watch this, therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.

Button.

Yeah, here it is. So you come to Jesus, bam, the button is pushed. Everything that you were is passed away, and your life is reset. Oh God, this scripture been in the Bible for a long time, and people just have not been taught that when you come to God, you don't become religious, you reset your life. Oh God, you don't start following a pattern of what religious people do, but you reset your life. And all things are passed away, which means they're gone.

Passed away means it's dead. Are y'all hearing this? All things have become new.

Say, I'm new.

I'm new.

And because I'm new, say, there's nothing I cannot conquer. Say, there's nothing I cannot accomplish because I'm new in him. Said, my life at this moment is reset. I want you to let that absorb, because whatever you were thinking yesterday about how you couldn't do something, about your inabilities, your lack of capacity, your lack of resources—

God just hit the reset button this morning. I need somebody to catch that.

And, and the stuff in the past Because God will never look at your past to determine your future. While people don't forget, God forgets. The Bible said he cast your sin in the sea of forgetfulness to remember it no more. You got to stop being concerned about what people remember and what people think about you. A lot of times we never achieve dominion, we never walk in authority because we feel inadequate, because we're entertaining the thoughts and the opinions and the validations of people. But man, you got to decide, I don't care what nobody else thinks. The only thing that matters is what God thinks about me.

Later for what people may think about you.

So, so, so, so, you got to cultivate now, because of this new thinking, a desire for dominion.

So let me give you 3 elements, and we're gonna be out here. Ain't gonna preach long today at all.

I'm not gonna preach long.

Holy Ghost, take over.

You didn't have a conversation with him.

So let's look at these keys.

Key number 1, put it up there, Mario. First key is you must accept the truth that there is something better than what you have experienced. Most people cannot walk in who they really are because they have not accepted the truth that there is more, that there is something better than what I've been experiencing. Say that with me. Say, there is more.

There is more.

Watch this, because many times we settle in what we've been dealt, right? And we're looking at the cards in our lives. Okay, this is just my life. This is just the way it's going to be. But I want to announce to you today there's something better.

Y'all hear me?

It's called dominion.

It's called the love of God operating fully in your life. Do you realize God really loves you? He loves you enough to give you an assignment. Go to 1 Corinthians 12.

Verse 31, I'm reading out of Amplified.

He said, but earnestly desire and strive for the greater gifts, if acquiring them is going— as if acquiring them is going to be your goal. So he says here, make it your business to go after the best gifts.

Y'all hear this?

All right, he's talking this whole chapter about gifts of the Spirit. He talks about the apostle, he talks about the teacher, he talks about administration, he talks about the prophet, he talks about gifts in the church, government, miracles. He says, 'Covet these gifts.' These things are great for you to have. So I want to say to a group of gifted people and the gifted people watching me, it is important for you to pursue gifts. They come with Holy Ghost. You need gifts to establish dominion.

Are you hearing this?

But he goes on to say, while you're doing this, yet I will show you still a more excellent way.

Somebody say, there's something better.

See, I've been, I've been in Pentecostalism and charismatic churches all my life.

I've seen gifts all my life.

And watch this, we, we think— and a lot of times I've seen the charismatic circles, and I've seen classical Pentecostals look down on other people because they did not have gifts. Something's wrong with that, because that's never why God gives us gifts— for us to judge others. He says, even though you gifted, there's still something more excellent.

There's a more excellent way. It's the way of unselfish agape love.

And God wants you to understand, he loves you enough to validate your ambassador position, to give you the equipment you need to fulfill your purpose. Cuz you can be a tongue talker that prophesies and speaks in tongues and mean as a rattlesnake. I met a few.

Y'all ain't got to say nothing.

Which says to me their tongues were rehearsed, their tongues were learned. Because how in the world can you speak in tongues and not love me? And not— oh, y'all ain't gonna talk to me here— speak in tongues and prophesy and then lie on me?

Me.

Y'all ain't got to talk to me.

And cuss me out.

I've seen some church folk cuss you faster. Y'all ain't got to talk to me.

Then worldly folk. Something's wrong with that. It's a more excellent way because our life should exhibit the fact that we are in love with God.

Yeah.

So that means I gotta treat people like I love God. I gotta show up in the world like I love God. Because when you love God, you'll do what he say, right?

Right.

Not just come to church and on Sunday you play the role of a Christian.

Are y'all hearing this? Because there are people who play the role of saints on Sunday. Well, they fornicating, lying, cheating, hoeing. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. They doing everything they possibly can when they leave on Sunday and then holler, "Grace got me." Now the real grace is you not being selfish. Are y'all hearing this? And appeasing your flesh.

All right.

I'm gonna help you have dominion for real. There's something better. You ain't got to play both sides of the fence. Maybe that's not for people in here.

Let me talk to the folk out there.

You ain't got to be on both sides of the fence. You need to live right. Live like you love God. Stop settling for less.

There's a more excellent way so the world can see his excellency come through.

Y'all with me?

Touch yourself.

There's a more excellent way.

Key number 2. I'm moving on, I told you. You must choose Dominion Technologies over your default setting.

Okay, here we go.

Are y'all staying with me this whole time I'm teaching this part, right? Because this may get a little personal, because at the end of the day, 98% of the church operates in their default setting. And not in Dominion Technologies. Your default setting, one, is a lower technology, and it's never designed for you to take authority and control. So you got to learn Dominion Technologies so you can show up in the world knowing what you know about Dominion. So what— okay, here we go. Is your default setting.

Let's just talk a little bit about default settings.

When you got your phone, it came with default settings, but when you start messing with it, downloading apps, changing the screen, putting pictures everywhere— are y'all hearing this? Yeah, you shifted the default settings. You made it your own, right? You made the technology your own. I can have the same phone as somebody else and you can put it side by side and open it up. Our phones will be totally different because of the way we've set it up.

The settings have changed.

Are y'all hearing this?

But if you ever really want to go back to the default setting All you have to do is go back to the default settings and reset your phone, and it'll return back to its original state.

Y'all hearing this?

As humans, we have a tendency to constantly go back to our default setting, even though we're new creatures in Christ who have been customized according to his plan, his purpose, his dominion technology for our life. But so many times, because it gets uncomfortable, we go back to default.

Woo!

Okay, okay, okay.

So what is your default setting? I'm glad you asked. Put it up there, Michael, where they can see it. Chaos is your default setting.

Somebody said, 'I ain't chaotic.' It's your default setting. I promise you, it's your default setting.

I'm gonna show you in a moment. You came here in chaos.

The whole world, hallelujah, as we know it was recreated out of chaos.

I ain't gonna ask y'all to say that because you might not say it, but I'm gonna prove it to you, and I'm actually later to say it because I want you to recognize it's not ever God's will for you to go back to your default setting.

All right, he doesn't want your life chaotic and out of control.

Okay, here we go.

Psalm 51, verse 5. Behold, I was shaping iniquity. Hebrew word there, ethar. I was shaping in chaos. Okay, so it is a whole chaotic situation happening when a sperm penetrates an embryo. You didn't come out like this. You didn't start out like this, right? There was a whole chaotic issue happening. God took an egg and a seed, created— bam— chaos. God have mercy. I start shaping you in chaos. You can't even go back into the womb if you wanted to. Go talk to your mama right now and say, can I come back up in there? She said, man, you'll get out of my face. Hard enough getting you out. I'm serious. I'm just thinking about my mama reaction if I said that to her. My mama, my cousin, she'd be upset. But the reality, I'm just I just know my mama. Listen, you can't go back. You were shaping in that iniquity. First natural, then spiritual. You shouldn't want to go back to the iniquity you were shaping. Watch this. And in sin did my mother conceive me. Born in sin. This is not talking about your mama was in sin, because your mom could have been married and and you still will conceive in sin. It's not saying your mom was sinning when she conceived you. It's saying that the very nature of new natural birth is sin. So every one of us in this room was born sinful. So the people out there teaching you ain't got to get saved, that's deception. Because where did this scripture come from? If I'm born in sin, why did Christ die? So I can be saved, right? And I gotta confess him, I gotta receive him. But there are these inclusionists out there saying everybody already saved, everybody's already included, that the work of the cross is complete. Lie.

It's a lie.

It's deception. It's strong delusion. They say that because they want to keep living in sin. They want to keep reverting to the default setting. But when Jesus shows up, he hits the reset button and he removes sin. Remember, sin, hermitsia in Greek, means to miss the mark, to come short. Because we are so sin-conscious, all we think of is behavioral issues. When we think about sin. All right, but sin is more than how you behave. It's a mindset of coming short of God's desire, God's plan for your life. So again, key number 2: you gotta release the default setting. Trying to show you chaos is your default state. Someone say, I need a little more than impossible.

Okay.

Genesis 1:2.

Genesis 1:2. The earth was without form.

I'm just trying to find y'all this morning.

Gloria. The earth was without form.

Chaos. And void. Chaos.

And darkness was upon the the face of the deep. And the Spirit of the Lord was hovering over the face of the water. So without form, void, darkness, chaos. Now here's something to understand: chaos is always born out of a source that introduces chaos to an environment. Chaos. Go to the next slide so they can see this. Mario is complete disorder and confusion. Tell everyone, say chaos is complete disorder and confusion. So let me introduce something to you: a life without God. Is complete disorder and confusion. I said Satan is the author of confusion. So if you're confused about your identity, confused about your purpose, confused about your assignment, confused about the fact that you're actually supposed to have dominion and be in charge Chaos.

Now here, yeah, complete disorder.

So you're living life out of order, out of sync with the plan, when you're not operating in dominion. Let's look at this. The first thing about this, when we read Genesis 1 and 2, we see without form, void, and darkness. It is a result of Lucifer's fall from heaven. He introduced chaos to the world. God kicks him out, he hits the earth. Now the earth is without form, void, and darkness.

Guess what?

Because he's without form, he comes as an angel of light, he comes as a roaring lion. He's without form, he's void, he's empty. He has no God in him. He's dark, so he introduces chaos to the world. Can I submit to you, anytime chaos is in your life, Satan has something to do with it. Okay, anytime you go back to default, you are resulting back to a demonic system. A being without form. When you behave like you don't know who you are—

are y'all hearing this?

When you think like you don't know who you are, you resort back to a demonic technology, a default setting of chaos. When you feel empty and void, that's never the will of God. I talk to people all the time. I just feel empty.

I don't feel like my life has meaning.

Listen, that's because you're not connected to God, because when he shows up, he fills you up. He—

watch this—

he takes your life and every empty space, he puts purpose and assignment in it.

You just gotta choose to receive that. All right.

All right, next one, Mario. Everything in life then leans toward chaos. I told you, you were born in sin, shaped in iniquity. So now it's your natural gravitational pull to bring chaos into your life. Oh God, that's why you got to walk with God. So that the people who are chaotic can stay out of your life. I was wondering at one point in my life, why in the world did everybody show up in my life come carrying hell? And every time they show up, they always create a problem. And the Lord said, because everything, son, leans to chaos. There's an element of chaos in you that ain't dead, okay? So you keep attracting chaos. Ever wonder why you date somebody and they— first, at first they are so different than the last person?

Are y'all my hands?

And then just give it a little time.

That same person show up and you like, where you come from?

Because what's in you is going to keep attracting the same thing.

Yeah, got to get that stuff out of you, cuz everything leans to chaos, and you got to keep following God so you don't go back to your default.

All right, next one, Mario.

Look at that. I think I covered this pretty good.

Chaos is the default position of all humans. I want you to hear this, because you're born in sin, you're born in darkness, you're born empty.

So you got to defeat that default position every day, because guess what? Every day you wake up, there's a temptation to go back to default. Okay, maybe I'll talk about me. It comes to me every day because some days I feel I'll be better off if I did things my way. So y'all too deep.

Y'all just left heaven to come to church. You'll never have them kind of thoughts.

But that's that spirit of chaos, that spirit of Nimrod that comes to cause you to rebel against God. Nimrod is a rebellious spirit. And it wants you to go back to comfort. It wants you to go back to what brings you pleasure.

Are y'all hearing this?

Because there are days I'm like, God, why in the world am I here? Why am I going through this at this stage in my life? Why am I— do I have to deal with this kind of issue? Maybe if I just go back and do it my way.

Okay.

And God says, um, still making you. You're not anywhere near. So for those of you that think you've arrived, God has recently told me you ain't nowhere near where I'm about to take you. And the temptation is to run from that because where I'm going, I'm like God knows I'd rather have this chaos. Y'all been talking to me because this chaos is comfortable. I know this chaos. That's why you can live in dysfunction so long that your dysfunction starts looking functional. That's why you should never search for a mate out of dysfunction. Oh, I don't know why I'm here today because of your dysfunction. Oh God, you're gonna meet somebody that's dysfunctional and think they're functional. Oh my God, because all you see is dysfunction.

That's right.

But we haven't arrived, so we gotta constantly, daily fight chaos. That's that thorn in the flesh Paul talked about that buttons us.

I'm just trying to help you out for me.

All right, putting this one there: chaos is often comfortable and familiar.

I think I just hit that because we're familiar with that where we were, right?

It feels good and we can predict because oftentimes the purpose of God, the assignment of God, is unpredictable. The process of dominion, you can't predict it.

Are y'all hearing this?

You got to walk by faith. I was telling a preacher yesterday, I was telling him, look, man, you, you can't expect the resources to just show up. You got to step out in God. And if God gave you this dream, you got to step out and do it, and God's going to give you what you need to to provide for it. But you want to go back to comfortable and let God work through your comfort. That's not how that works. You got to take risks that are bigger than what's familiar to you. Amen.

Amen.

Watch this. It's called the sin of familiarity.

Again, sin is missing the mark, right?

See, again, y'all thought the only sin was the adultery, fornication, lying, cheating, stealing, cussing, drinking, smoking.

No, familiarity is a sin, cuz you, you go to a loyal—

lore technology and you start trusting it. And that ain't God's will for you to go in chaos and just be familiar. Some people can't be consistent in anything in their life, because the moment it gets uncomfortable, they gravitate to departure theology instead of dominion theology.

They run from what's hard.

Mhm.

Keep moving.

This thing—

his next thing you got to understand about chaos, because anything left to itself will not randomly come into order. Okay, so I got a 1-year-old grandson who was mobile like he too, and he's into every single thing he can get in. You tell him to stop, this little boy don't got smart, he just hit himself. He'll stop hitting himself and then go get into something else.

But what I understand is I can't leave him to himself, right? So whenever he's with me, my eyes is on him the whole time because he'll pick up something, put it in his mouth.

He—

because he's one, he's exploring. He's not gonna randomly embrace order. You and I don't randomly embrace order. Matter of fact, most people, when they see order, they run from it. I've had people tell me that have visited this church since we've been in existence and said, hey, Apostle, I love your teaching, I love your ministry, but I can't deal with that order. I just need to get the word to be able to, you know, but there's too much order.

Are y'all hearing this?

Because some people will say order is religious, but the Bible said let all things be done decent and in order. And where there's no order, there's chaos. Okay, you don't believe it? Go up to a bathroom and you got to use it real bad, and there's a sign on it that say out of order. Chaos waiting to happen, right? Some of y'all catch that on 20.

Okay.

That's a chaotic situation, especially the older you get. It was almost chaos at that funeral yesterday. They were playing that video, um, presentation, and all of a sudden my body said, you got to go to the bathroom, brother.

I looked at the bishop, I said, where's the Where's the bathroom? He says, way back there in the back. I said, oh my God.

So I just prayed. I said, Lord, just remove this from me before I get up, because it was right time for me to get up. It would have been chaos. And guess what?

That would have been so out of order, right?

Because bathrooms are made to use.

Anything left to itself will not regulate for his order. You got to decide, I don't want chaos, I want more.

That's right.

Whenever you see order— last one— it's because force has been exercised over chaos. So if you see something coming in order, there's a force of God that either comes through an individual or he does it himself, that exercises power and authority over the chaos.

So watch this.

When you see the force—

I'm going to heaven whether y'all make me go to hell in this church every Sunday or not. Can y'all please cut that air off? That heat.

Let's make it balanced for everybody because I'm up here working.

I know hell hot, but Jesus the Christ, praise God, we're gonna get through.

Somebody say force. What's this? The kingdom of God suffereth violence. So there's a violent advance against God's kingdom. The enemy is violent. He's chaotic. He wants to wreak chaos in the kingdom. He wants to divide the mind of kingdom people. He wants kingdom people to believe you are not what God has ordered for this day. So he says a violent attack against your mind. Against your resources, against your family, against your assignment, against your purpose.

Watch this.

He said the kingdom of God, but the violent—

which means there has to be a response of violence to violence.

Yeah, take it by force.

The word force is harpazo in Greek, and it's where we originally have home. A spearhead. So a harpoon has a point on the front, and harpazo gives the idea that we employ—

listen to this— spearhead technology, which means we need to align things correctly from top to bottom, with God being the head of the church, and we as his people, we use force and throw a harpoon at anything that comes against us, and he penetrates it first.

Okay, maybe it's too much on Sunday.

Okay, I'm gonna keep going. Chaos is rooted in the spirit of Nimrod. Let me just break this down. Spirit of Nimrod is the spirit that causes rebellion. Say rebellion.

What's this? That causes rejection and denies Watch this—

recompense.

So Nimrod's spirit causes rebellion.

Rebellion is as witchcraft.

So if you're rebelling against God, you're working in witchcraft against yourself because you're trying to control your life. The psalmist picked it up and said, if I was in control of my life, I would have worked things out different. But my times are in his hand.

And we just asked that question again: if you had the button, would you reset?

Well, God has already reset it, and God says he wants you now just to begin to choose not to rebel against God.

Do what he asks. It's a tall order, man.

It's a big assignment.

Watch this, it causes you to reject God.

Okay, I've been there too. I've been in seasons of immaturity in my life.

I'm like, God, I don't want to prophesy to nobody else.

I don't want to preach no more. I don't want to do none of this no more. It's an immature space. Early in my ministry, I was like, this is too hard.

He says, hard because you're rejecting my assistance.

You're trying to do it in your default setting. Are y'all hearing this? Yeah, that's Nimrod that got you rejecting the assignment. Oh, watch this, and then it blocks recompense. Recompense is justice. It's God compensating you for the process.

Nimrod don't want to see you compensated. Okay, go in the vineyard and work. What's right, I'll pay, right? So if you go out and take the million, God said, I'll give you what's right. Well, if you sit around and never do it, guess what? There's no wages except the wages of sin. Which is death. And watch this, those wages don't just pay when you die. If you're living beneath your privilege, your money will die here, your health will die here.

Oh God.

But as long as you're doing what you're called to do— let me give you just a very simple example, and my wife would say I don't know what hit me after I left that funeral, but my whole head was just like pounding and sneezing and coughing.

And I'm like, Jesus, this got to go.

I went to bed. God, I'm still feeling that way. I got in here, start worshiping, start doing what I'm called to do. I don't feel none of that now. Amen.

Are y'all hearing this?

Because if you accept the justice of God And as long as you're doing what you're supposed to do, God's going to provide to you what you need to do it effectively. All right, I know that was real simple, but the reality is I know it was God because I know how I felt when I walked in the door.

All right, amen.

Okay, key number 3. I'm almost done. It's the last one, as the old preacher would He said, you must align with God's heart for your life.

You'll never have a desire for dominion. Remember, that's what we're talking about. If number one— what was number one?

Did y'all write it down?

Accept truth, right? Number 2, you got to stop resorting to your default position and embrace Dominion Technology. Number 3, you gotta align with God's heart for your life. Watch this. No matter how much you may want something else— oh boy, there are times in my life I wanted something else.

Can you believe this? There was a time in my life I wanted to be a dentist.

I really did.

I was a very good student.

I had very good scores on the MCAT. I got accepted into different dental schools, but God never would let that happen. Every time I saw my little self trying to go to dental school, he will open the door for me to preach, or he would call me to do something else and constantly remind me, this ain't— you ain't gonna never do no root canal, sir.

Are y'all hearing this?

I know you want to, but you're not. But you know what I was thinking in my mouth?

Man, I can preach in my sleep.

That's what I was thinking. I don't need no training, no school for that, but I'm gonna fix these teeth to pay the bill.

Okay, are y'all hearing this?

But that wasn't God's heart. I had to give up my dream. I'm talking from a little boy. They will ask you, Michael, what do you want to be when you grow up? My daddy tell the story different. When I was with him, when I moved with him, I was 14, and by then I was saying I want to be a preacher, but Before then, Michael, what do you want to be when you grow up? I want to be a dentist. That was my thing. I want to fix teeth.

And I started pursuing that, even so much so I got an undergrad with all of the coursework for pre-dental.

I could go to dental school right now if I want to because I got all the courses. I even tried to do that later in life. I said, Negro, what are you doing? Because I, in my mind, I'm saying, okay God, I know you got something for me in ministry, I'm gonna do that, but let me set this up. Okay, Lord said, dude, I don't need your help.

Come on now, are y'all hearing it?

Can I submit to you this morning? God doesn't need your help. He needs your heart, and he needs you to align with what he wants. I would never own the Ronald Group if I would have went to dental school. I'd probably been somewhere right now getting ready to go to work tomorrow to do some root canals. Y'all hear this? I would never be doing what I'm doing right now in ministry if I would have yielded to That's how I got in line with God's heart.

Because all the time, what he wants for our life is not necessarily what we want, but that's why he's God. He sees what you don't see. He knows what you don't know. I'm almost done, y'all. Go to Psalm 37, verses 1 and 2. So how do I align with the heart of God? How do I get this desire for dominion for real?

Well, the first thing he says, do not fret because of evildoers. So here's what we tend to do: we start worrying about our position in life because we're looking at people who ain't even in God and what they're doing and how prosperous They are. We said, oh my God, Lord, you got— if I meet another man, oh God, over 30 that tell me they want to have a rap career, because I'm just— that's a problem, man. Listen, everybody ain't no rapper, but they make it look like they are, right? Like everybody can do it because there's some Black men doing it. You gotta be looking at Diddy, said, Lord, if Diddy, he's, he sleep with, he have freak-offs and sleep with everybody, I know you can do it for me. You worry about the wrong thing. You're comparing yourself to an evildoer, to someone that operates under the system of the world. God says that ain't the way I'm gonna bless you.

What I'm up—

oh, I hear that, God.

I heard— can I lift your hands and receive this word? I just heard this in my spirit. It just hit me like a ton of bricks. God said to tell you he's about to usher you into a season of unusual things. It's not going to happen, said the Lord, like you think it's going to happen. The door ain't going to open like you think it's is going to open. But God said the day has come where what you shall experience will be a season of unusual things that will be born— yes God, I hear you— that will be born out of uncommon favor, that will be born out of uncommon faith, that will be born out of uncommon power.

Glory to God. God says to tell you, step into this new season of unusual things. People will behold you and say, how did she do that? How did he do that at age 40, at age 50, at age 60? How is he still building? How is he still growing? And the Lord will say, it will be because of the season of unusual things. I'm about to do what you least expect. And I'm gonna do it even now, says the Lord.

I wish I had somebody to praise God.

So he said, don't worry about evildoers.

Thank you, Jesus. Pray not—

pray, meaning worry—

about them that are in the system of the world. And them who are chaotic.

Are y'all hearing this?

He said, don't be envious— here we go— of the workers of iniquity. So you see someone who is living a chaotic life and you know it, God said, ain't no need you being jealous of that.

He says, I'm about to tap you into the seeds of unusual things. And I'm gonna do for you what has never been done before. I'm gonna bring you into a season of possibilities where things have been impossible.

God says, I'm gonna turn your nos into yes. Yes, Father, I hear you. God said, don't you be envious of any person living, working— oh my God— in iniquity and chaos. God said, if you tend yourself toward order and you allow me to things decent and in order in your life. God said there'll be no thing I'll withhold from you because you're my children.

Thank you, Jesus.

Watch what he says. He said, but soon they will be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb. Those that are outside of God, while we are envying them, say, if I had their houses, if I had their money, if I had their cars, All right, God said they going to be cut down, and when God cuts them down, the wealth that's in their hands is transferred into your hands. The wealth of the wicked is laid up for them.

Right.

Verse 3 and 4, put up in— so fret not, don't be envious. So if I want the desire of Dominion. I want to desire it. I got to trust in the Lord. This is a big one because trust here in Hebrew means to be totally dependent upon.

Y'all got this? You graduated from depending on yourself. Dominion people cannot depend on themselves. They are totally dependent on God. Not your job—

God.

I'm not telling you you shouldn't work, because work is an attribute of dominion people. But in all you do, trust the Lord.

Are y'all hearing me?

Yeah.

Proverbs 3:5 said, trust in the Lord with all your heart. All your heart.

That word is lev in Hebrew, not this device that's 6 inches below my collarbone, but lev.

The heart is the center of my passions, my intellect, my abilities, my capacity, my talent.

I have to trust God with all of them.

No matter how good you are at a thing, because sometimes you get so good at something you stop trusting God for the outcome. I believe there's some preachers that can preach so well, they study, put it together, and never pray. Let me let y'all in on a secret.

I'm still nervous after 36 years of full-time ministry, 40 years of ministry, whenever I'm holding on, because this assignment ain't me.

Are y'all hearing this?

I don't care how talented you are, the whole point here, you need God. Nerves, butterflies, because I want to say what he's saying.

He said, trust him with all your heart, all your ability, all your capacity, and lean not to your own intellect.

Your own clarity, your own understanding.

So I gotta trust God if I'm gonna have dominion. So I cannot worry about evildoers if I'm gonna have dominion.

So I cannot be envious if I'm gonna have dominion. Next thing he says, do good.

Oh boy, here we go.

The word good there is B-I-N-A-H, which is banah in Hebrew, and it means do things that are profitable. Don't waste time on stuff that won't turn a profit, that keeps you bound up in the black.

in the red—

that keeps you suffering, that keeps you toiling to get it done. Sow the seed that's going to bring back a harvest. And remember, your seed ain't just connected to money. The church is messed up right there. Your seed is the seedbed of gifts, talents, and anointing that's in you. Sow that so it brings back harvest. Let's stop doing stuff that doesn't bring a permanent return, all right, that only brings a temporary satisfaction for the moment. People, most of their week, they spend 80% of their day creating finances because they've allowed a job of some kind to define their value. You know how they defined your value? Glory to God, because they told you what they was going to pay you. And said your time is only worth $25 an hour, $30 an hour. I'm telling you, there's more in you than the value they put on you. If you are going to truly do good, you got to sow that gift into the world. I said it yesterday, I said it all the time, I'll say it here because it matters here. We'll never reap a harvest in a field where we have not sown. We got too many church folk that know church and not really doing good.

That's real talk, y'all.

There's a lot of people in church today not doing good.

They're not doing good in their health, they're not doing good in their family, they're not doing good in their finances. May not be doing good in life.

That's not God's plan.

We are his children, but you got a desire to take the action.

So I trust in the Lord, do good. Then he said, dwell in the land. Now if you look at that word dwell in Hebrew, it ain't just to move in and get a house and settle.

Word literally means own the land, lead in the land.

Watch this, be known in the land. Not just in the church, in the world you should be known. I've asked y'all this several times, how do you show up in the land? How do you show up in the world? What do the world say when they interact with you? He says, if I'm gonna have dominion and have this desire, I gotta feed on his faithfulness.

How many times have we said at the table of our own ability to provide for ourselves?

How many times have we looked at the food we eat, the clothes we wear, And we have taken credit because we did it ourselves. We're breathing this morning because he's been faithful. You got dressed this morning on your own accord because he's been faithful.

You ate last night, you ate breakfast this morning because of his faithfulness. I don't want you to ever dismiss that. He's been faithful to you. Watch this. God is— faithfulness means that he's always 100% invested in your well-being. He's going to be faithful many times when you're not. Are y'all hearing this? Because that's how he roll. But you gotta choose that you're going to eat at the table of faithfulness every day. Because maybe life ain't working out the way you thought it ought to, like my journey to trying to be a dentist.

Are y'all hearing this? All right. Something I wish I was fixing tea other than preaching.

Y'all ain't got to talk to me because I would have been witnessing to people in the church. 'Cause I was saved. They would have got a root canal and Jesus. Y'all hear this? But I have learned to feed on his favor.

All right.

There have been times in my life where I didn't know where my next meal was coming from, but every time he provided.

Are y'all hearing me? Yeah.

Said feed on his faithfulness, delight yourself.

So you—

okay, you really want to have the desire for dominion, you got to get delighted about what the Lord wants.

We so happy about our own stuff, man, our own dreams. But you got to decide this morning, you going to ball them dreams up that didn't come from God and throw them in in the trash.

Because that's really what delight means.

It means all I want is what you want. Watch this, all I want is you.

If I'm truly delighted in my wife, I'm not going to sleep with another woman, right?

I heard a man say one time, he said, well, you can sleep with somebody else and not love the person you sleep with.

You still know your wife and not love the other person.

And you know Okay, maybe, because men got black hearts, right?

So they just do anything.

But if you're really delighted in the person you're married to—

are you hearing me?

You're going to be faithful to them.

Are y'all hearing this?

For better or for worse, rich or poor, sickness and health, to death do you part. That's how I'm going to be with God.

We're his bride.

We should delight in only what he wants.

It's quiet in this church.

I pray you get it, because my goal is not to make you shout, it's to make you think. Because if you really want to desire dominion, you've got to get serious about his desire.

Now here's the whole catch.

This is the whole thing.

If you trust in the Lord, do good, take over the land, feed on his faithfulness, delight in the Lord, he said, I'm going to give you— you ain't even got to ask for the desires of your heart.

Hallelujah!

He said, I'm going just give them to you.

You know what happens if you really trust the Lord, do good, dwell in the land, feed on his faithfulness? Is delighting the Lord.

The desires of your heart actually change to his desires.

When you're doing all that, what's in your heart changes the way you are.

I'm done, y'all. Everybody say, I'm done.

I pray y'all got that.

I can go on, but I'mma stop.

Y'all learn anything today? Hallelujah. I want you to do me a favor this morning. I want every person in this room, everybody, just get around this altar.

We got to pray together, cuz I believe God wants to stir the desire for dominion. He wants to cultivate that culture in you. When you come up here, hold hands and touch and agree. About 2 minutes, a fire is going to start flowing through this. Stir the dominion in the bellies of your people, God. Create a culture of dominion in every person. Come on, grab hands. Leave nobody untouched. Y'all stretch that circle around here and put it on Pastor Jeffrey's shoulder. Glory to God. Leave nobody untouched. I'm believing God this morning that even without me laying my hands on you, that the power of God is going to touch you. And you'll accept the truth about God's plan for your life, that you will cultivate inside of you Dominion Technologies, that chaos will be eradicated this morning, and then every desire to go back to your default setting will be rebuked and defeated.

And finally, I'm thanking you, God, for complete alignment in your people, that as we pray, they'll align with what you want.

They'll trust you. They'll do good. They'll fret not because of evil doers.

They'll dwell in the land. They'll feed off of your faithfulness. Come on, begin to open your mouth right now and just worship God because something's it's going to happen in about 40 more seconds. Come on, open your mouth. The presence of the Lord is here. Come on. Come on, if you got a prayer language, pray in it. And the person next to you, that prayer language is going to begin to catch on fire. We're going to believe God in chunks on their tongue. We are a Dominion people. Father, we worship you and adore you. We thank you for the word, God.

Cultivate the desire.

Never again, God, will we accept mediocrity as our portion. But God, we thank you now that there is a more excellent way. There is something better. So Father, in the name of Jesus, I'm asking you this morning to release the more excellent way.

God, even though we're gifted, even though we're anointed, even though we're talented, God, let us fall in love with influencing the world, with using our gifts for good. Even as the opening video told us to let you use us, God, we are here at this altar and we say, God, you can use us. We're not rejecting you, we're not denying you. God, use us. Get the glory. Get the glory. Get the glory out of every life.

Come on, open your mouth, open your mouth. Yield to his presence, yield to his His presence.

Yield to the excellent way. No more low thinking, no more low living. God's given you big dreams, he's given you a big mind. Come on, yield, yield, yield. There's more, there's more in store.

Stir the desire, stir And Father, secondly, I release Dominion Technologies.

God, may they forever and eternally long to take the position of a learner, to learn how to dominate. May it be their desire to receive the the structures, the technologies, the plans to dominate in their purpose, in our sphere of influence. Father, I thank you that every person under the sound of my voice is unique. There's nobody like them. So God, let the technology of domain Dominion flow through their uniqueness, flow through their authentic nature. God, I declare that disorder and chaos be rebuked now in the name of Jesus. We rebuke the sin of familiarity. We rebuke the sin and desire of comfort. But God, we know That our goal and our aim, God, is to please you. Let dominion take rule. Let dominion take authority. Let dominion show up in our house, show up in our family, show up in the world. Show up in our money, show up in our business, show up in our vision.

We declare that we are necessary. We are necessary commodity. The world needs each one of us. And finally, God, I pray for heart alignment, for your word declares we should guard our heart. For out of it flows the issues of life. So Father, I put a hedge of protection around the limb, around our heart, around the center of our passion, the center of our intellect, the center of our desire. And tabanza katatabai.

God, may we align with you. Not our will, but thy will be done. Even when we're tempted to lean toward chaos, God, we bind it up now. We will not yield to temptation, for yielding is sin. We thank you, God, that we'll trust you with all our heart. We'll do good.

We'll sow the gifts and talents you've given us into the world. We'll dwell in the land. We'll take ownership in our sphere of influence.

Hallelujah.

And we will feed off of your faithfulness. God, your faithfulness never failed. You've never failed us yet. So we'll sit at the table of your faithfulness and we'll feed and we'll trust and we'll delight ourselves also in the Lord. And when we do this, you'll give us a desire of our heart.

And the true desire of our heart is that we have dominion, because that's your desire for us, that we may have dominion on earth as it is in heaven. And we give you praise for it now, in Jesus' name. I wish I had some delighted folk to loose your hands and open up your mouth and just begin to give God praise.

Come on!

You begin to give him praise. Give him the fruit of your lips. God, we thank you. Come on, thank him right here for dominion. Thank him for the future. Thank him for what's to come. Thank him for what's here.

Thank him for the desire to rule, the desire to influence.

In the name of Jesus. I release you into dominion. Walk in this mystery. Live out this mystery. Be who God called you to be in the name of Jesus. You can return to your seats praising God. Come on, come on, praise God as you go back to your seat for victory. Come on, praise God if you received it.

You don't need my hands on you this morning, but the Holy Ghost has superimposed itself in your spirit. Come on, open your mouth.

Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.

Because this next wave of the Spirit that God is now releasing, it will not need the crutch of man to be made manifest. God said, what I'm doing in your life, I'm going to do it with you and through you if you would just trust said.

Thank you, Jesus.

I'm expanding your borders.

Yes, I'm making you bigger.

Thank you, Jesus.

Bigger. Thank you, Jesus.

This thing I'm doing, said God, is massive.

Yes.

And it is major. Receive it in the name of Jesus.

Come on, clap those hands again and bless the Lord. Come on, bless the Lord in this room. Come on, bless Jesus! Hallelujah! Hallelujah!

Yes, Lord!

Message today wasn't to appease your emotions, was to make you think about where you're going.

Just touch yourself.

Say, I'm going somewhere. Say, I'm alive to dominate, and I have the desire to take dominion in my realm of influence.

Say, I'm an ambassador with a unique assignment to dominate and influence.

In the world. In Jesus' name.

Come on, praise God again if you believe that.

We're going to go, we're going to go, prepare our hearts to give.

Glory to God. Put the ways to give up.

Y'all blessed today?

Awesome. Glory to God.

We sing praises to your name.

Oh Lord, praises to you. Sing, oh Lord, oh Lord, for your name is great.

Y'all sing it again.

We sing praise to your name.

Come on, everybody sing.

Oh Lord, oh Lord. Come on, praises to—

oh Lord, oh Lord.

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

Get your gifts together. The ways to give on the screen. The Bible says it's more blessed to give than it is to receive. So I'm going to ask you to be a blessing to ministry today. Those of you online, be a blessing to ministry. If you owe God your tithe, the Bible says the 10th is holy unto God, so make sure you get your tithe in the ground. You know, a real Dominion technology is learning how to make a slave on the altars of giving and, and really get into position where you are operating in the exchange system between heaven and earth. Glory to God. You can live better off the 90% than you will the 10%. So give God what belongs to him. Get your tithe and your seed in the ground today. We got a meeting coming up, uh, next week. We want to make sure we meet the budget even before we start. Amen.

Say amen, somebody.

We got speakers coming in from out of town, and we're going to make sure that we meet that budget before they get there. So we starting today, so get your sacrifice in the ground. And ready to be— come on, those of you online, give! We sing, everybody sing!

Oh Lord, praise is due. Sing, oh Lord, oh Lord, for your name is great.

And greatly to be praised. Clap your hands, everybody.

Bless Jesus. Hallelujah.

Father, bless every gift, those given online, those given in the building. Give it back to them a thousand times more. We thank you that we lack no thing. We thank you that according to your word, we are filled to the overflow. Thank you, God, that money is never an issue because you You own everything. The earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof.

And when we surrender in obedience, you will take care of us.

And so we trust you. We sit at the table of your faithfulness.

As we are faithful in our giving, we know you'll be faithful to return it.

And we give you praise for it.

We pray in advance for Abundance 2026. God anoint every speaker. Bind them to your word, and may they release to us exactly what we need to annihilate the thief and abide in abundance. We give you praise, God, that that meeting will be supernaturally charged and blessed, and that we'll leave with principles, we'll leave transformed, and we'll leave walking in abundance, and our life will be filled with overflow. Thank you that we won't lack a thing. We'll have everything we need to meet the budget, over and above. And thank you, God, that many will come from the north, south, east, and west to be in those services, and we'll never be the same. Thank you for taking care of Brother Church. Thank you for our new building. Thank you for the resources to buy the building cash. God, we thank you for a supernatural miracle that will offer $770,000 for that building and will pay cash $770,000 for that building. We walked through in McDonough on Thursday. We declare it in the name of Jesus. Thank you that will pay $3 million cash for our 33 acres around the corner. Hallelujah! And every building that we erect on Rudder City will owe no man nothing but to love him, because you will bless us supernaturally.

We receive it in the mighty name of Jesus.

Somebody shout, so be it! And I decree over your house that your debt will be eliminated. I decree that this will be a year where you will get deeds, glory to God, and titles, and you will owe no man nothing. I declare your credit card balances will go to zero.

I declare your credit score will go above 800. I decree and declare the supernatural breakthrough.

It's happening in your finance, in Jesus' name.

And abundance will be your portion, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen.

Clap your hands and praise God if you receive that. Hallelujah!

Yeah, glory to God! Glory to God.

Hallelujah!

All right, we're going, we're going.

God is so good, he's so kind, he's a mighty God. Hallelujah! We love him and we adore him.

Just a few of As I was just talking about, not this Friday but Friday after this one, we're going to be hosting what we're calling Abundance Weekend 2026. We have meetings all the time because this is an apostolic hub, so we got to have these meetings so that people from the outside can come and experience the culture of apostolic people.

Amen.

And that we might glorify God. So beginning on Friday, September 27th through Sunday, March 1st, uh, we're going to be hosting some great people. Uh, Apostle LaVaris Richardson is going to be preaching on Friday night. I need everybody here Friday night. Apostle is coming from Meridian, Mississippi, and we're not going to depend on people that know him to be here. We want to make sure that we're in the building.

Amen.

And Apostle is a multimillionaire in Mississippi. He's done some great things in ministry and business. He's going to bless our life. So it's not often we get to be in a room with this many people who have moved to come in their income in the kingdom. So we need to learn this stuff.

Amen.

Amen.

Ben Tankard, glory to God, his net worth— I think Ben told us last time his net worth is right about 30 million. He's gonna be right with us again. It's just a blessing to be in the midst of this kind of wealth and anointing. And, uh, it's something they did that we need to know.

Amen.

So he's going to be with us on Saturday evening, and I'm going to be teaching on Sunday morning. Uh, Pastor Anna Noel will be doing worship on Sunday night. I'll be preaching again on Sunday night. Uh, make plans to be in the building, man. Let's bring people here with us. We have several videos. Have y'all seen the videos that's out?

Yes.

Okay, get the videos and share them. I took time, made a very cinematic video. Uh, took me a long time to make that video. Please share it. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Please share that video so that people can come in and be a part of what God is doing. If you have not texted abundance to 470-777-8279, make sure you do it so you get all the updates about this meeting. Amen. All right, next slide, Mario. Let's, let's get out of here. See, y'all thought I was playing, huh?

Glory to God.

Now there's been some changes with the cruise. I told y'all this was gonna happen, right? It's important that we have meeting space on on the boat. Okay, say meeting space. We told them that, did we not, Pastor Jeffrey, when we initially booked this cruise? They just reached back out to us and said there is no meeting space. So we have changed ships. All right, you're going to get your deposit back if you paid it. All right, if you paid a deposit They told us deposit come back, what, 7 to 14 days? So I would start looking for it this week sometime to come back into your account. We're going to release the new information. Uh, we got a travel agent that's working with us on this. We've already made sure that there are rooms on the ship, glory to God, for us to do our meetings.

So that part is done.

So the new ship is booked.

We just got to get all the details so we can give you—

what I do know, the cruise is significantly cheaper. All right, y'all hearing this? So that's going to be a blessing in and of itself. So all things work together for good. Not only is it cheaper, but you get— you don't even get an extra day. This was—

you got the details?

Okay, let me just tell you.

So y'all know, cuz the devil is a liar.

We going on this cruise.

Glory to God.

What's the thing? I don't see the name. So it, it will shift from being just a 5-day, 4-night cruise to actually being a 7-day cruise, and it's October 5th—

September 5th, so right after Labor Day through the 11th.

So it just shifts a little bit, right? So we got 2 more days added in there. Are y'all hearing this?

That's good.

And you going to Nassau, you going to the private island of the ship too. You're going to Amber Cove, Grand Turks and Caicos.

So this is the whole—

because this was just going to Bahamas, so now you get some more ports of call. And it's going to be about $200 cheaper than that, I think $300 cheaper than that. $547 for interior. So everything will be changed on the website this week. So once you get your deposit back, don't go spend it on somewhere else. Just shift it, okay? All right, just shift it. And because we're going on this boat, amen, amen. And we're gonna have a good time and we're gonna have dominion at sea. So I want to share that with y'all.

Glory to God.

Um, don't forget, on Tuesday is our fast day, Saints. We are fasting every Tuesday from midnight to 3. So meet me at 5 o'clock in prayer or on this coming Tuesday. Don't forget our Thursday Night First on Thursday night, uh, this Thursday. Glory to the name of God. We're planning to be back in the building in person. For those of you that can make it out, please come out. We definitely be streaming online, but Thursday Night First is back in the building on Thursday nights starting this week. I want to thank everybody who went out to the funeral on yesterday. Thank y'all for supporting. Yeah, give yourself a hand. That's good. It was a necessary need for support because it was a lot of warfare happening in that room, and I appreciate y'all coming out.

Amen.

And us being there for Vern, she was happy, and I spoke to her her before I left yesterday, and the Lord is with her. You know, losing her daughter at 35 years old, you know, just to see how she was holding up, you know, she has embraced the joy of the Lord as a strength, and we're going to believe that continues to be a portion.

Amen.

I want to thank you guys for coming out last week to the building, those that were there, those that were watching on the phone.

We, we got to move out of here in September, all right?

So that's why we're looking at buildings. Glory to God. And I refuse to pay another dime in rent. Somebody say amen. Rent is a waste of money. It's not the way of Dominion people.

It's not the way.

We gotta own, all right? All right. So we're going to put an offer on that building we looked at this week, and so y'all be praying. Because we're going to believe God that he'll give us favor.

Amen.

Glory to God. All right, anything else? All hearts and minds clear? Come, Miss Mar, let me pray for you before you go. Thank you, Jesus. Come here, Felicia, I want you to just throw your arms around her while I pray.

Lift your hands up. Thank you, Jesus. Peace.

It's the presence of God's assistance. So God said he is with you to assist you, to help you. He has your best interest at heart.

He told me, Tim, you're not supposed to leave us.

You left one time, the Lord let you come back. And God said he wants to give you the desire of your heart right this community, right in this culture, because he has so much planned for you. And your heart is so pure. God let me look into your heart. It's so pure. And he has so many big plans for you that you don't even understand how big it is. For the enemy to move you out of the way will move you out of the culture that will push you into it. And I want you to be at peace with not knowing, because God said everything you desire is already here.

He loves you, we love you, and whatever we got to do to guard your heart and to protect you and take care of you, we will do it.

So throw your arms around, please. Father, I thank you for Savaria. Thank you for our dreams. Thank you Thank you for her destiny. Thank you for who you've made her to be. All the things she's gone through in life, the trauma— thank you that you healed that trauma and you've made her whole. Thank you, God, that she will not resort back to the default position, but she'll continue to go forward. She'll see your hand in her life.

And Father, thank you that that even as my wife embraces her and as I put my hands upon her, thank you for the favor that you put on our life to cover her life, to protect her, to lead her into our future, and even to help provide for her. And so, Father, we give you praise that what's to come—

shall be better than what has been, and great things will come out of her life.

The works of her hands will be blessed. And we thank you that even when the world sees her, they will call her blessed, and they'll wonder how.

But God, we thank you, we know how. It is you. This all has been a setup for destiny and for the future, and we praise you for it now.

In Jesus' name, amen. Hallelujah! We're going home.

Glory to Jesus. Everybody stand. We're going. So glad to see all y'all in church today. We got one person, the visitor, he came up to me and said he— this is his first time. Y'all give him a hand.

Thank you for being here today. Glory to God.

Father, we thank you for today. We thank you for every word spoken. Thank you, God, for the desire to dominate. May it be cultivated in us like never before. May the words we heard land on the good ground of our heart, that we may reap it in due season. And we thank God. May we be people that show up in the world with influence, and may the light of the kingdom shine through us.

And God, we didn't come to take sides, we came to take over.

We're here, God, that you may get the glory out of our And we thank you for it.

Now bless every step this week.

Let no person miss it to the left or to the right.

I release the spirit of accuracy this week. May we be in total alignment with you, not with naysayers and negative words, but God, may we align with your voice. And align with your heart and do what you've called us to do.

And we praise you for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God.

Hug somebody, tell them you love them.

Glory to God.