FULLY PERSUADED FAITH | DAY 13 OF 21 DAYS OF F + P | 10 FEB 23 | DR MIKE WOODS SR

Grace and peace, everyone, from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This is Apostle Mike Woods. For those of you who are uninitiated, and welcome to day 13 of our 21 Days of Fasting Plus Prayer. And I'm telling you, these 13 days have been absolutely, categorically phenomenal. Those of you that are fasting with us, you know that's just not a euphemistic term. You know for a fact that if you've been keeping this fast, you've been seeing change in your life. Clarity has been opening up in your spirit. It's just been a great and mighty journey. So we're super excited about all that God is doing and all that he continues to do in our life. And moreover, I am grateful that you have decided to connect with us on this journey. Look, it's, it's not an easy thing, man, uh, to lay aside the things that you, you know you want to do, and lay before God and seek the face of God in— listen— and in earnest, faithful expectation of some real results. And I'm telling you, we're going to see overflow. God's going to honor this gift that we're giving to him. And I want to challenge you, stick with it. Don't give up. Don't let up. Stick with this fast. Uh, you're going to be so glad that you did. So today we're jumping right back in our teaching on Bulldog Faith, and this mess— this series, man, has been absolutely, uh, this series has been absolutely phenomenal, right? Uh, and I'm telling you, my faith— I said it before, I said it again— has always been huge. Matter of fact, one of the gifts I have— glory to the name of God— It's the gift of faith. You know, that's one of my prevalent gifts. I have an innate ability God has given me as an apostle to move in and out of all of these gifts succinctly and fluently as the Holy Spirit leads. And I'm available to all the gifts. But one of my dominant gifts in the realm of the spirit is the gift of faith. It doesn't matter how large the thing is, I'm, I'm going to believe God to do it, to provide, to take care. And I don't care what the odds are against me. And you know, he's proven to me over and over again what he's able to do through faith. And so I want to challenge you, man. Don't just take these words as some— I don't have nothing else to do. I want you to take this, let your faith develop, let it be nourished, let it grow, let it matriculate into a dimension where your life in faith is maximized at a level— watch this— where there won't be anything that comes before you that you cannot believe and trust the Lord for. So we, we've talked about some great things in this Bulldog Faith series. We first— the first message we talked about the birth of bulldog faith, how it emerges, where it comes from. So make sure you go back if you haven't watched message 1, watch message 1. Message 2, we talked about the nature of faith so we can understand what faith looks like, right? Message 3, we talked about aggressive faith because bulldog faith is aggressive. Message 4, we talked about persistent faith. Message 5, we talked about persistent faith again because faith— bulldog faith has to be persistent. You got to get on it, stay on it, right? We talked about determined faith yesterday, focused faith. And today, man, I'm super excited about today. Glory to Jesus. We're going to be discussing— oh boy— fully persuaded faith. Fully persuaded faith. Somebody said, wait a minute, how do I— does my faith need to be fully persuaded? Well, I'm telling you right now, it needs to be because at the end of the day, you have to be convinced that what you're believing for, although you don't tangibly see it is yours right now. Remember I said it's not faith if it's not now, and if you're not doing it by faith, you're doing it wrong. Which is why a lot of things that we want to see now manifested in our life is not manifesting because we're really not doing it by faith. You know, we're not living by faith. We may hit at faith, but the just shall live by faith, not Try faith out. You got to live by it, right? So today we're talking about fully persuaded faith. I want to get right in this. We're going to pray, but I want to say this before I pray. Listen, it's better to have than to have not. Yeah, I know many of you— I, I don't watch this stuff, but there's a show out that's very popular. I hear people talking about it called The Haves and haves-nots. Okay, whatever. Those are two categories of people in life, right? I want to say something to you. I've lived on both sides. I've been a person that had not— didn't have enough of anything. I lived in the underflow. I lived in no flow. But I'm telling you, it's better to have than to have not, and it's better to live in the overflow. And the key to having what you need provided or supplied, the key to walking in overflow, is moving in a bulldog-type faith that is persuaded that it is God's will— hear me— for you to experience overflow at every juncture of your life. Yes, thank you, Jesus. Touch yourself and say, it is God's will for me to experience overflow and to have what he promised in my life. Now say this, say, it's God's will that what he said really happens for me. And I want you to understand something. The only way what you just said is going to occur, you've got to be fully persuaded in your faith. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you for another opportunity to teach your word. Thank you for 13 days of fasting, 13 days of sacrifice, 13 days of setting our plate aside. Thank you for victory over the enemy, even as the enemy has tried to raise his head during this fast. God, we thank you, Lord, that we have victory over the enemy. Even our faith, this is our victory that overcomes, that conquers the world. So we thank you today for this victory. And Father, we pray that as we teach this word, I pray that your people will become fully persuaded in their faith, in the mighty name of Jesus. Amen and thanks be to God. Well, hallelujah, fully persuaded faith. Let's go to Romans 4. God is with us today, man, I'm telling you right now. Romans 4, let's go there. Romans 4, praise the name of God. Romans 4, hallelujah. And I want to start, I guess, at verse number 18. That's what we want to do. Romans 4 4:18. Yes, Lord, I love God. How about you? Glory to God. Matter of fact, just type in the comments, I love Jesus. Glory to God. I love Jesus. Glory to God. Hallelujah. I love Jesus. Hallelujah. And type, my faith is persuaded. Glory to God. My faith is persuaded. Praise the name of God. Romans 4:18. No, I'm sorry, let's start at 16. Let's start at 16. The Bible says, therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace. Okay, so there are two words there. Faith again is pistos. It is persuaded. Hallelujah. Absolutely persuaded, confident, and reliant upon— watch this— what you cannot see. To leave what you can see and become persuaded that what you can't see is real. And then to turn around after you persuaded is real, to put confidence in, to totally rely upon what you do not see as truth, and that it's really going to happen, although you don't have the physical evidence. You have a receipt through your persuasion that is yours. So the Bible says it's through pistis, faith, that it might be by, watch this, grace, which is charis in Greek. Charis is where we get words like charisma. Yeah, it means to gratify, to benefit, to bring joy, pleasure, delight. Watch this, to bring goodwill, to bring kindness, to bring favor, to empower, watch this, toward what is right. So grace is not just a gift that pardons sin, but moreover, grace is a gift that empowers us toward what is right. So instead of playing the grace card when we walk in doubt, when we come short, when we miss the mark, and always looking for forgiveness, let's, let's, let's lean on grace to empower us toward doing right, to empower us— glory to the name of God— to receive the benefit, the favor, the kindness. Oh my God, hallelujah! The influence, the strength. Glory to God. The kindling. Grace is a kindling to do what's right, to fulfill your purpose, to walk out your assignment. And oh my God, and not to justify Oh God, your immorality justify your unrighteousness because you feel like, okay, oh, the grace of God is going to forgive me. And listen, grace does forgive, but there is a passage of scripture in Romans that said, what shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin? Watch this, that grace may abound. What does that mean, Michael? So what shall we say when we get to the point where God is looking at our life, saying, okay, by now you should have learned how to use grace to be empowered toward rightness. So what are you going to say then? Are you going to continue in sin and continue to abuse the grace of God? The Bible says no, God forbids it. So you should get to a point of maturity where you don't need forgiveness for the same stuff. God help us to be holy. Help us to be right. Help us to do the things, to say the things that please you, God, and not throw out this grace card. You know, I'm totally interested that you would understand that grace can abound, that you keep— oh my God— abusing grace and making it abound toward the same thing over and over again. The Bible says, God forbid. Are you going to continue in sin? Harmisia in Greek. Are you going to continue to miss the mark, to come short and make excuses? Oh, God created me like this. No. When you get saved, the Bible— I just believe the Bible— if any man be in Christ, he's a new creature. All things are passed away. So when you get in Christ You become brand new. So the things you used to do, the old— Mother used to testify, I don't do no more. Glory to God. The places I used to go, oh my God. She used to say, I don't go no more. Glory to God. She said, I looked at my hands and they look new. I looked at my feet and they look new. Glory to God. Because at the end of the day, there's a real change that occurs, a real transformation when you get born again, but you got to receive that. Oh, I'm just human. Yeah, we all just human, but in the end of the day, your quest should be righteousness, and you can use grace, hallelujah, to move in faith. Glory to the name of God. That will produce the righteous covenant of God in your life. Watch this: to the end, the promise might be sure Oh my God, that to all the seed, not to that only which is of the law, but that also which is of the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all. Wait a minute. So God says, I made a promise to Abraham and his seed. We are Abraham's seed, and we have inheritance with Abraham through Jesus Christ the righteous. And so what he says here I don't want you to just understand that grace empowers you just to live a holy life against laws and legalistic things. Come on. He said no, grace comes to empower you to receive the inheritance as well, to experience the riches of God's glory. Mm-mm. In your life. Wow, man. Wow, wow, wow, wow. Oh my God. Verse 17, let me read. As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations. Before whom he believed, even God, who quickened the dead and called those things which be not as though they were. That's what faith does. It calls those things that are not as though they were. And that's why we pray the word and we speak Glory to the name of God. Those things that we don't see as they already are. Verse number 18: Who against hope believed in hope, that he might become the father of many nations, according to that which was spoken, so shall thy seed be. Wait a minute. So God spoke to Abraham, said, so shall your seed be. And Abraham says, okay, I'm gonna believe. It doesn't even— this circumstance, this situation doesn't even look like what God is saying could happen at all. But because he said it, I'm gonna believe against hope. I'm gonna believe in hope against hope, because hope, hope is against me right now because of the physical circumstances. But I'm gonna believe, I'm gonna trust, pastuo, I'm gonna trust God to the end because I'm persuaded that what he said can happen. Verse 19: And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead When he was about 100 years old, neither yet the deadness of Sarah's womb. So you know the command, you know the story. God told Abraham and Sarah they were going to have a son, and we know that son was Isaac, that Isaac actually was born. But Abraham was old, nothing was working no more. Sarah's womb was dead, but the word of the Lord is stronger than death. I'm gonna say that again. It's, it's stronger than death to your organs. It's stronger than death, glory to the name of God, even in the physical. When you— your physical body totally dies, the word of God is stronger than death, because that same word, if you die in Christ, raises you up from the dead, glory to the name of God, in a glorified body and reunites you with the Father. I love this, man. The Bible said in verse 20, he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith. Watch this, giving glory to God. Verse 21, and being fully persuaded, fully persuaded, fully persuaded. That's what we're talking about today, fully persuaded faith. Plerophoreo in Greek, plero for real in Greek, which, which is fully persuaded, which means to carry out fully. To be completely assured that what I'm doing is going to accomplish the result I'm seeking. Oh boy, I'm convinced, in other words, that what I'm doing is gonna come forth in the fullness. Fully persuaded means that I'm gonna cause this thing to be seen, hallelujah, or to be shown in every part. It means to fulfill the assignment, to fulfill ministry in every part. You're fully persuaded. You're carrying through to the end. You're not letting up. You're not giving up. Sound like that bulldog, grrr, that Bulldog Faith. Not giving up, not letting up, going through all the way, hear this, to the end. Ooh-wee! Oh boy, I tell you, the Lord is good. The Lord is so wonderful. Don't give up, man. Be fully persuaded. Watch this. That you be certain that what he had promised, he was able also to perform, and therefore it was imputed to him for righteousness. Oh boy, wait a minute, wait a minute. Moving in faith, diasyne in Greek, righteousness in a broad sense. It was imputed to him, acceptable. This is what God accepted. Watch this. Oh my God. Present your body a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. See, everything is not acceptable to God. And, and really, without faith is impossible to please God or to get acceptance. A lot of doubt is not pleasing to God. So, so we want to move in faith and it will be imputed to us as righteousness. So let's go back through this. Let's put verse 18 again. Who against hope believed in hope that he might become the father of many nations according— according— the word according is kēta in Greek, and it literally means to heartily agree. So he wholeheartedly agreed with God in verse 18. See, God was looking for all-out hearty agreement with what he said. God doesn't want you to half believe. You can't believe a little bit— come on— and doubt a little bit. Either you have faith or you don't. It's like, it's just like being a little bit pregnant. Even you, either you're pregnant or you're not. Are you hearing? God is looking for a hearty, all-out agreement with what he says. You, you got to choose to all-out agree with the word of God. Glory to Jesus. And in spite of the impossibility of this human situation Abraham was in The Bible says he fully agreed with God that he would become the father of many nations. Oh my God, he agreed with it. His body said, no, you're not. His, his wife's body said, no, you're not. But because God said it, he said, yes, I shall. He said, I'm going to trust God. And listen, you got to develop a fully persuaded bulldog faith that says If God said it, I'm convinced it's the truth, and I'm convinced it's mine. That's the power, man, of God's word. Ooh-wee! Lord, I love you, Jesus. Matter of fact, say this with me, say this with me, because God is looking for you to heartily agree with his word. Listen, say this with me. Say, I heartily agree. Hallelujah, hallelujah. With everything God has said about me in his word. Come on, say that again. Say, I heartily agree with everything God has said about me in his word. Say this. Say, I heartily agree I heartily agree with God's word that I am healed. Say, I heartily agree with God's word that I'm rich and I am prosperous. Say, I heartily agree, glory to God, with God's word that I am redeemed, I am saved, I am filled with the Holy Ghost. You got to agree with what God says. You got to heartily agree and be fully persuaded. That's how you get it. You got to heartily agree. You got to get this thing in your heart and say, I agree with it. Ain't no wavering, ain't no doubting. I agree with it. See, in the text, Abraham was focused on God's word. He was focused on the word of God. Oh my God, uh, in verses 4— in Romans 4:19-20, it shows us that. Verse 19, He refused to look to the external circumstances. He— the Bible says here he was not weak in faith, and he could— did not consider his own dead body or his wife's dead body. He didn't look to the external circumstances. He didn't consider it. He refused to look at that. See, it's tempting to look at the external circumstances and what things look like in your life But you got to choose to focus on the word. The word, the word, the word. Say it again. Say, I heartily agree with what the word says about my life. In the name of Jesus, it is so. Amen. Glory to God. You got to heartily agree with what God says about your life, period. You, you gotta refuse to look at the external circumstances. And that's why the devil has got all these idiots out here talking about we need a new canon and that the Bible ain't for us now. Oh, this is just crazy doctrine. The Bible says in the last day many will give heed to seducing spirits. A seducer pulls you in. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Rick Hawkins, glory to God, bless his heart, one of my favorite preachers, preached at my church, uh, many years ago, and he talked about a seducer and a conducer. A con— seducer pulls you in, a conducer pulls you through. The word is our conducer that pulls us through certain external circumstances. A seducer pulls you into themselves. Oh, you got to be careful of the seducers, the people that go against the word. And they're telling— and the Bible said many will give heed to these seducing spirits and doctrines of devils. The doctrine of devils is not being taught outside the church, it's being taught in the church to the people in the church, because the preachers want to compromise the word because they have lifestyles that they can't control and they want to make excuses for. Yes, yes, yeah, you too, sir. You too, ma'am. My spiritual son sent me something, a female apostle with her first lady, and they running a church. Glory to the name of God. Got people following them. Listen, we got it in Georgia. We got male pastors with first gentlemen here. Right here in Atlanta, several of them. Listen, that's a doctrine of devils if it ever was one. No more than I can be a male pastor with 2 wives, 3 wives, 4 wives, you can't be a homosexual or lesbian pastor with a spouse of the same sex, ma'am, sir. If, if the book has to work for me It has to work for you. Yeah. And then got the bulldog tenacity, bold man, to open up the same book and preach out of it. Hypocrisy, doctrines of devils, presenting this and parading this before people. Hashikandala the Boshatabaya. But the devil is a liar. When I saw that, when my son said it to me, the Lord just said, keep plowing, keep speaking the truth, because there's coming a day, glory to God, where the people are going to run from house to house looking for the glory, looking for the fire, looking for faith, looking for the true word of God. My God, today And somebody said, oh, that's mean-spirited. No, that's right, man. I'm saying this in love. That's wrong. And what I'm saying is the word of God, which is correct. And we got to be— we can't give heed to these seducing spirits and these doctrines of devils. Hallelujah. We can't consider external circumstances. This word is what we got to focus on, like Abraham. And that's the whole ploy of the enemy, to get you off the word, to get you believing in yourself, to get you trusting in your situation more than you trust God's word, to get you trusting in your way of doing things, your carnal way of doing things, over trusting how God says do them in the book. That, that's his plan, people. And you need to make up in your mind you're not going to adhere to that foolishness. Oh my God, today. All right, verse 20. He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. Listen, strong faith gives glory to God. Glory to God. When you got strong faith that's producing powerful results, when you've got strong faith that's getting people healed and delivered, when you got strong faith where blinded eyes are opening. When you got strong faith where people are getting out of— getting out of wheelchairs. When you got strong faith where cancer is backing up, COVID is backing up. When you got strong faith where riches and wealth are flowing into your life, it doesn't bring glory to you, it brings glory to God. Ah God, that's why my faith is set like a flint. My faith is solid. My faith— I'm not gonna waver. I told you we got our faith on some things this year. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We got our faith, glory to God, on 3 buildings. Not 1, not 2, but 3 building purchases. Not with a bank, but debt-free. That's too easy. We are— yaman so rabbi kisgataba— but we're trusting God by faith to buy 3 worship facilities to house our ministry in Atlanta, to house our ministry in Jackson, Mississippi, to house, glory to God, our ministry in Woodbridge, Virginia. We're trusting God by faith that we're taking 50 couples at the end of the year on a leadership cruise. 50 couples, glory Glory to the name of God. On the cruise, my wife and I are going to pour into those couples about ministry, about life, about marriage. Glory to the name of God. We're going to take them on that cruise. Guess what? And they're not going to have to pay a dime for the cruise. Glory to the name of God. We're trusting God by faith. Glory to God. We're trusting God for 365 souls being added to the church daily, such as would be saved in 2023, to Atlanta, Jackson, and Woodbridge. We're trusting God for massive revival everywhere we go and in everything we touch. Glory to the name of God, that real transformation is taking place. We got our faith on some stuff, and I'm fully persuaded I'm not gonna let go. Glory to God, because it's better to have than to have not. And I'm gonna trust God by faith until I see it tangibly, because it's already mine. Glory to Jesus. And then guess what? When that strong— with my strong faith comes full circle, it's going to give glory to God and it's going to cause others to believe. Gloria, I got strong faith that I'm going to be a billionaire. You ain't got to believe it. Hallelujah. I don't need your faith. I don't need you to believe that with me. Glory to God. Matter of fact, you can keep doubting if you want to, but I'm telling you what God says. If you put your faith on something— I need a billion for the kingdom. Kingdom, so I can empower entrepreneurs, so I can empower pastors. I don't just want to be an apostle to pastors and not be able to empower them in the work that they're called to do. And I need to be able to do that efficiently and effectively with everyone that's connected to me. Uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. Glory to God. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He was focused on the word. We got to stay focused on the word. Glory to God. And we can't stagger the promise of God through unbelief. So what does that mean? That means he didn't waver, he didn't doubt. Two, it means he wasn't double-minded. It means, three, he was single-minded and focused. We talked about that yesterday. You got to have focused faith that's single-minded. You can't waver, you can't dither, you can't doubt. You got to stay on the word and take this word as true. Listen, that same verse, glory to the name of God, verse 20 in the WES translation, the Woo's translation, the Bible says this, listen to it. It says, in view of the promise of God, he did not vacillate in the fear of unbelief between two mutually exclusive expectations, but was strengthened with respect to his faith, having given glory to God. So he didn't vacillate in the fear of unbelief. He didn't, he didn't even play with that. He stayed in faith. He, he didn't go, glory to the name of God, from one expectation to another. Well, okay, well, I'mma believe God, but my flesh, common sense, tell me I need to— no. You need to trust God and stay with the word. That's the problem with most of you. Your common sense got you messed up. It's got you broke. It's got you sick. It's got you in doubt. You better get some, some ridiculous faith and not be vacillating between two expectations, because you'll never move heaven like that. Faith is fully persuaded. The JP B translation— I love these Bibles, glory to God— says, with undoubted faith, he looked at the facts, his age and Sarah's barrenness. So he didn't ignore the fact that he was old. He didn't know— ignore the fact that Sarah was old and her body was beyond reproduction. But yet the Bible says he refused to allow any distrust, even after looking at the facts. Of a definite pronouncement of God to make him waver. He didn't distrust what God pronounced. So he looked at the facts and he looked at what God pronounced, and he chose what God pronounced over— oh boy— over the facts. So when you look at the facts of your life, are you freaking out over the facts? Most people are. Let's read it in the Amplified Bible. No unbelief or distrust made him waver, doubtingly question concerning the promise of God, but he drew strong— he grew strong and was empowered by faith as he gave praise and glory to God. So no unbelief or no distrust caused him to waver. He, he did not allow the spirit of unbelief, the spirit of distrust, to cause him to question God in doubt, because he knew if God promised something, God was able to perform it. And watch this, he would perform Man, I'm almost done, man. I'm almost done. Stay with me. You know what these— this verse, verse 20, tells me? He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, but was strong in faith, giving glory to God. It tells me that the first report is not the last report. I'm going to say that again. The first report is not the last report. The doctor may give you a report on what he saw. Well, the doctor is still practicing medicine anyway, so yeah, we're not gonna really believe that. So whose report will you believe? The scripture says we shall believe the report of the Lord. The Lord's report, God's word, is the last report. I don't care what the doctor says. I don't care what your bank account says. I don't care what your circumstances is saying, or like Abraham, your body is saying, if God promised it, he can, he will bring it to pass. Oh God. So Abraham became, through this process, fully persuaded in his faith according to verses 21 through 25. Let's look at verse 21 again. It says, and being fully persuaded that what he had promised he was also able to perform. So fully persuaded, again, is that— that word in Greek means to be totally assured. It means to be completely confident and without question certain, unquestionably certain, which means you will not doubt under any circumstance because you're totally assured, you're completely confident, and you're without question Oh my God, certain that what God says is going to come to pass. Fully persuaded faith, ladies and gentlemen— and almost, I'm almost finished, man— it dares to believe the Lord in spite of the natural circumstances. I'm going to say that again: fully persuaded faith dares to believe God in spite of the natural circumstances. I need you to type in the comments, I believe God. And while you typing it, say it. Say, I believe God. I don't care what it looks like, you got to choose to believe God. Type it, I believe God. Glory to God. Not in you, And that's why most people live fear-based lives, and they trust natural circumstances. They trust natural reports over the report of the Lord. How you gonna know what the report of the Lord is if you never read the report, if you never studied the report? The report is in the word. It's his will. His will is his word. You got to read the report and find out what promises are available to you This is why— listen, here's what I know. The closer you get to the word and your faith is on the word, let me tell you what happens. Even in the realm of the prophetic, the prophet now doesn't foretell and forthtell what you don't know. Oh, so the prophet becomes the vehicle to edify you in faith and reveal to you strategy. Glory to the name of God, on how to walk out your faith and confirm what you already been trusting God for in the promise. Some of you trying to go to the prophet for answers because you're not connected to the word properly. I'm going to say that again. Some of you running behind the prop— and listen, I'm a prophet, I've been prophesying for over 30 years, but let me tell you something. Prophets are not psychics. It's not a 900 number you can dial to get a word. God wants you to be diligent and get in the word and study so that when the prophet do prophesy, he's only giving you a second witness of what you standing in faith on and giving you strategy through his dialogue with God on how to bring to pass what you're trusting God for. Okay, okay, I'm gonna leave that alone. Verse 21 says again in the New Living Translation, he was fully convinced that God is able to do whatever he promised. Are you convinced? Are you persuaded that God can do it? Type it, I believe God. Glory to God. Verse 23 and 24, hey, I love these verses, man. Now it was not written for his sake alone that it was imputed to him. That's telling us that this wasn't written just for Abraham. Wait a minute, verse 23— verse 24, I'm sorry— says, it was written for us also, to whom it shall be imputed if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead. Wait a minute, so it wasn't just written for Abraham. This thing, my God, was written for us too. I dare you, type, type it, type it, type it. Say, it's for me too, it's for me too, it's for me too. I'm telling you, you're not excluded from the promise. And if Abraham has the promise over his life that his seed and his seed's seed will be blessed and it will multiply beyond the stars of heaven and beyond the dust of the ground. Listen, that includes you and I. Here's what I want to invite you to do: don't you live beneath your privilege another day. I saw one of my dear sisters make a comment yesterday, and, and I love this dear sister, she's an amazing young lady, listen, out in LA. She commented about how people tell her all the time, she too spiritual and she shouldn't, you know, be believing and doing this and doing that and that everything ain't God. Listen, everything is God. And don't let them, woman of God, make you let up on your faith. Keep trusting God. Keep believing God. Let them call you too deep and spiritual, but when they— when the manifestation of the promise come forth in your life Glory to God. They going to wonder how you got it, but you going to be able to say faith did it, God did it, because God is in all and is all. This book, man, was written for you and I. It's for us. And listen, God wants to do his will for us every single time. You know, all he wants is fully persuaded faith. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for this word today. I thank you for your people, God. I thank you for the ability to speak and share, to teach, God, to impart. I pray, Lord, in the name of Jesus, that this word would go into their spirit and they will become persuaded like never before to walk by faith and not the circumstances. When they look at the facts, may they promote faith over the facts and defeat the facts every time. And may you get glory out of strong faith that is seen in the eyes of men in our lives. And we praise you for it now. In Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Listen, thank you again today for listening. Listen, remember, when— oh God— you receive communication of spiritual things, you should communicate your natural things. This is Friday. I want to challenge every person listening to this live today to get a seed in the ground. Don't, don't ignore what I'm saying right now. Get a seed in the ground. Listen, this is part of God's system, and this is part of being fully persuaded. So there's a great exchange between heaven and earth. I'm not going to tell you what to give, but sow unto God. Where's your faith? Glory to God. The Bible clearly says, give and it shall be given unto you, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, shall men give to your bosom. Do you want good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over blessing? Well, you got to give. And when someone— when a man or woman of God communicates to you spiritual things, you communicate your natural things. And of course, the— you— this is your opportunity to participate in our faith journey for these 3 facilities we gonna buy debt-free. So get seed in the ground and be a blessing to ministry. The ways to give are on the screen. I trust that you have been blessed today. We love you. With the love of Jesus Christ. It ain't nothing you could do about it. Keep going forth, enjoying day 13. Glory to God of this— whoo, Jesus! Hallelujah! 21 days of fasting plus prayer. This is tomorrow, Saturday. I know many of you don't want to get out of bed on Saturday, but listen, we're going to be right back in prayer at 5 o'clock in the morning, and then I want you to connect with that 12 noon teaching tomorrow again. And then on Sunday, glory to God, meet us at Rhoda Church if you're in the Atlanta area for another powerful service. We're talking about overflow of finances again on Sunday. Last Sunday was amazing. I still got to get that message posted because it was absolutely phenomenal. Matter of fact, I'm gonna make sure last Sunday's message is 12 noon Bible study for tomorrow. How about that? We're going to just post that. Glory to the Praise the name of God for 12 Noon Bible Study tomorrow. You want to get it because we talked about the first key in overflow finances, which was occupying until he comes. Listen, you got to understand what it means to occupy. That was a powerful word. And then meet us Sunday, we're going to continue in those lines. It's going to be great. Y'all be blessed, man. I love y'all. Y'all be blessed. Peace. Genesis 1:28 says that we should be fruitful, multiply, subdue, replenish, and have dominion. This is the Dominion Mandate. The word Rada means dominion and authority. Rada Church is an apostolic and prophetic ministry designed to assist kingdom citizens, believers, to deliberately help them really to shift their life into supernatural overflow, because you really can't have dominion and moving your dominion purpose without supernatural overflow. So Rhoda Church exists to help you discover your dominion purpose, because your purpose is never your decision, it's always your discovery. And once you discover it, we're here to help you develop that self-same purpose. And the reality is, it's no good if that purpose is not deployed. So we're here to help you deploy that purpose into the earth so you could be effective. So you owe it to yourself, man, to visit Rhoda Church and experience this place. It's absolutely amazing. Go to rhodachurch.com right now and set yourself up for dominion purpose. Peace.