Radah Church | Saturday Word & Worship | PRINCIPLES OF ENLARGEMENT | Dr. Mike Woods with Ben Woods

Well, praise the Lord!

This is Apostle Michael Woods, and I want to welcome you guys to our Thursday night worship and word service. I'm super excited to share with you tonight. Matter of fact, before we go any further, let us pray and let's invite the Lord into our time together tonight. I really believe that there is something good that's going to happen for you and I. Praise the name of the Lord. Listen, don't scroll, stay right where you are. Hallelujah! Please don't scroll, stay right where you are, and please, by all means, I need you to share Praise the Lord. This stream is going to be a blessing to someone.

Let's pray.

Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you for another opportunity, God, to come into your house and to give your name the praise. Father, we thank you for all of those that are watching us live on tonight. And Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that your people will be blessed by you and never impressed by me. I pray, God, that the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost would superimpose itself upon us tonight. I decree and declare, God, that you would do something that man cannot do. Come in this place like a bully. Throw your weight around. Let us know that you are the boss. Let us know that you're still in control. Kick some dust in the devil's face.

Let him know you still rule and reign in the affairs of men. And Father, we won't fail to give you praise and we give you glory.

I pray, God, that as your word go out, somebody will be healed, for your word declares, You sent your word and it healed them. And even as we worship tonight, God, we're asking you, Father, to let your glory fill this live, let it fill this sanctuary. And we give you glory and honor for it now. We thank you that the weak will leave saying, "I'm strong." That the poor will leave saying, "I'm rich." That the discouraged will leave encouraged. That doubters would leave with faith. Faith, God. And those that need to be saved, God, that they will be saved, sanctified, and filled with your spirit. And we bless you for it now. In the matchless name of Jesus, we do pray. Amen. And thanks be to God. Well, I'm super excited again to share the word tonight, but before we do On this Thursday night, we got a super treat. Glory to the name of God! My middle son, uh, Benjamin Emmanuel Woods, is in the city. Glory to the name of God! And so he's here with us, and I promise you, you don't want to scroll. You want to tap in right in your living room, wherever you're watching, and just begin to worship the Lord with us. So without any further ado, the next voice you're going to hear is Ben Woods. and then after that I'll be back to share the word of the Lord with you.

Can we just worship today? Can we just enter in his, his courts with thanksgiving and praise? Can we just worship him? Can we just worship him? This song says we cry holy, we declare you're a holy God, you're a holy God. We love you, God, we love you. We ask you come in this place like never before. Touch the lives of your people, God. Touch the lives of your people right now, God. Everyone that's watching this video, God, let them worship your name.

Hallelujah.

Jesus, we cry holy, holy are you. We cry, holy, holy are you. We cry, holy, holy are you. We cry, Holy, Holy are you. Hearts are burning, burning for you. Hearts are burning Burning for you. Hearts are burning, burning for you, Lord. Hearts are burning, burning for you.

You're holy, God.

We cry holy, holy are you. We declare you're holy, God. You're holy. We cry holy, holy are you. You are holy, God, we cry holy, holy are you. You're holy, God, we cry holy, holy are you. We cry holy, holy are you. We declare it, Lord. We cry holy, holy are you. Come on, say we cry holy God. We We cry holy, holy are you. We cry holy, we cry holy, holy are you. We cry holy.

Oh God, we thank you.

Holy are you.

Oh God, we thank you for your presence in this place.

We cry holy.

You're so holy, God.

We cry holy, holy.

Holy are you.

One more time.

We cry holy, holy are you.

Oh God, just worship him, just worship him, just worship him. This is your chance. This is your moment. Come on, just worship him. Worship him. We worship you.

We give you praise. We lift you up. We lift you up, God. We lift you up on high, Lord. We worship you in this place.

We worship you, God, and we thank you for everything that you're doing and everything that you're about to do. Oh God, we'll give you the glory always. In Jesus' name, amen.

Holy are you, Lord. Holy are you, Father.

You're so holy.

Holy are you, Lord. We praise you, God. Holy are you, Father. You're so holy. You're so righteous, Jesus. Come dwell with us now, Jesus. Dwell with us now, Jesus. Your presence is all we need. Your presence is all we need. Oh God, we give you the glory, Jesus. You're all we we need. Your presence is all we need. Just continue to worship him. Glory to God. He's a holy, he's a righteous God, and beside him there is no other. Go right where you are, just for a few moments. I just want you to lift your voice and say, he's all I need. He's all I need. Come on, he's holy and he's all you need. You're holy, Father. You're righteous.

Come, Lord, and abide with us.

Your presence is all we need, Lord. Your presence is all we need. Yes, God.

Yes, God. You're holy.

Thank you, Lord. We bless your holy name, Jesus. Wonderful and mighty God. You're wonderful and mighty God. Oh, you're so wonderful and mighty.

Jesus, we bless your name, God.

Hallelujah, hallelujah. Well, again, glory to God. The power of God is here.

Healing is here tonight.

Deliverance is here tonight. Whatever you need from the Lord, there's breakthrough here tonight.

So don't scroll past this, and by all means, do me a kind favor and I need you to share this.

Glory to God.

Hallelujah. His presence is all you need.

Somebody listening tonight, oh, matter of fact, Somebody listening now, or live, or by replay.

Sh—

You're sitting there, glory to God, I thank you, Father, with cancer in your body, and you scroll past this live, but the word of the living God says he sent his word Hallelujah! And it healed them. I dare you, put your hands in your belly right now. And I decree and declare now, according to the word of the living God, with his stripes you're healed even now. In Jesus' name. So tonight I want to talk about, just really quickly, praise God, and I'm not going to hold you long, so please stay with us and by all means share this.

There is a word from the Lord. Praise the name of God. I want to talk about enlargement, all right? And because I believe that where God is taking us the church, his people, it is highly important that we understand that our capacity, it must increase in order for us to even be able to hold or contain what God is about to pour into us as his children so that we can adequately minister to the world. And so as we go toward finishing up 2020, and 2020 has been a very interesting year, glory to God, I want you to start setting your mind on enlarging your capacity.

And so as I talk tonight, I want you to go with me. I'm gonna give you several scriptures. I want you to write them down.

Please type them on the screen as you hear them, because honestly, you have to enlarge, you have to get bigger, you have to increase your capacity.

That's what enlargement is.

It is the act of increasing your Capacity. Capacity is the ability to receive.

Some of the things God is wanting to give us, and I'm not just talking about material, but I'm talking about spiritual, I'm talking about emotional, volitional, some things that God wants to pour into us, some of us cannot handle them because we've been stuck in this time warp.

And we've been stuck in areas in terms of our knowledge concerning the things of the spirit that we will not expand.

Many have spent years, hear me, doing things the same way.

Glory to the name of God. Going through the same motions and accepting those things as reality. But I want you to understand something.

First of all, let me say this to you.

Let me just start this deliberation tonight by saying this: don't believe— watch this—

everything you see.

I'm gonna say that again.

Don't believe things you see.

Because sugar and salt looks just alike. I'm saying one more time, sugar and salt look just alike.

So do not believe everything you see.

And there are some people, instead of being the salt of the earth, the seasoning—

and I've been talking over the last few weeks about how God needs a church that's not so much big in number but big in resources. That we're able to—

because there are a lot of ministries that are big in resource, in, in people, in number, but they will not use the resources to outsource them or distribute them to the people that need them in the world.

God has us in a place— hear me—

where we must indeed enlarge our capacity so that we can really be the salt of the earth, the seasoning of the earth.

So that when the world needs something, they don't turn to the government.

They don't care who the president is.

They turn to the church and his king because they know we have everything they need to be who they are.

So let's get into this again. Don't believe everything you see.

And I'm gonna be teaching around this premise tonight because salt and sugar looks just alike. There's some people just Sugar.

They sugarcoat everything.

They won't talk about truth.

They won't speak things that are right.

And listen, they will kind of just go along with whatever's happening in society just to keep business going.

And I say that because a lot of people now, instead of looking at the church as souls and humans as resources to carry the light of God into the world, what most people have begun to do They look at the people around them as stockholders and shareholders to keep the business of ministry going. And that's a dangerous thing because that is not what God has called us to do.

So let's look at this.

So first of all, as we get ready to cross over to 2021, there's gotta be a paradigm shift in our thinking. We have, we have to raise our God consciousness in a way that we graduate from what we view as reality and normal and begin to accept what God sees as reality and normal as really normal. Because see, our definition of reality and God's definition of reality in many instances is different. Because if you're walking carnally, if you're walking in your flesh, if you're following after your own will, My God, you, you will have no clue as to what God views as reality.

So I need you tonight to really listen, because at the end of the day, this generation, God is depending on us, those of us that are still alive.

Watch this.

If you were not supposed to be a part of God's plan for the future, you'd already be dead.

But the very fact that your heart is beating, it is an indicator, it is a suggestion that you are vital to God's plan and he wants to include you. But you gotta shift your mind. You gotta raise your God consciousness. You cannot look at him through religious lenses anymore. You gotta get a relationship.

You gotta know him for real.

And you gotta enlarge, you gotta progress in the things of God. So how do we do that? How do we—

I'm gonna give you a few points and then we're just gonna jump into scriptures tonight.

So how do we enlarge?

How do we enlarge our capacity? How do we cause our progress to continue and not get stuck?

Because I'm telling you right now, y'all, there's a lot of people stuck.

Whole lot of people are stuck.

They're in a time war, and they need to catch up with where God is going and what he's doing. So how do we expand our capacity?

How do we enlarge in a way that God is pleased? Hallelujah!

And that we become resourceful to receive what he's pouring down.

I'll tell you right now, before I start teaching this, just touch your yourself and say, pour it out, Lord. Hallelujah. Pour out. Say this, say, I open myself up to receive everything you have for me. Pour it out in Jesus' name.

Glory to God.

Y'all, let him pour out everything he wants to give you. So how do we enlarge? How do we afford our—

the first thing, and you might want to write this down because you might need it.

If you're watching me live, type it on the screen. If you're watching by replay, type this on the screen. Point number 1 that I want to give you: you cannot enlarge and your progress breaks down when, when your external capacity or your external reach is greater than your internal capacity.

That's how I want to say it.

Yeah, when your external reach is greater than what's on the inside. See, I always tell people, even when it comes to money, you'll never outgrow— your money will never outgrow you. In other words, you'll never have more money than you are able to handle. You have to grow into a realm where you can handle what's coming. But sometimes we can reach for things that internally we're not ready for. And I'm gonna tell you something, your progress is going to stop, you're going to get delayed every time if you start reaching for things that you're ill prepared for. Your external reach is greater than your internal capacity. Your internal capacity must at all times be bigger than what you're reaching for. You need to have God on the inside, and he needs to be dwelling in there real big, and you need to have relationship with him so that you're listening to him every step of the way, so that whatever you're reaching for that once you get your hands on it, first of all, it don't make you crazy. Hallelujah.

And walk away from God.

There are some people that serve God as long as they didn't have nothing, and they called on him and they prayed to him. The moment he blessed them, they walked away. They— because they had nothing on the inside, really. It was all outer. It was all— it was all a show. But you gotta reach for things that are bigger than you, but you gotta make sure that inside you're growing and you can handle what you're going after.

I'll say that one more time. When your external reach is greater than your internal capacity, your progress always breaks down. You cannot enlarge. Your capacity will never grow because you're going to constantly be trying to fulfill what you're reaching for in your flesh through your own abilities. When, guess what, to do a kingdom assignment, to do anything for God, you need God to get it done. All right, number 2, you cannot enlarge and your progress breaks down when you're more concerned about what God said versus what God is saying. I say that one more time.

Yeah, when you're more concerned about what God said versus what God is saying— I'm sorry to tell some of you, you got a prophecy 10 years ago, you missed the season because you didn't align with the principle that goes with that prophecy. So that prophecy may never come to pass, and you're still chasing that prophecy. Hear me good, y'all. And God is saying, you need to move on and hear something fresh, something I'm saying right now, because you're concerned about what I said, and what I said is what I said. You missed it, and I need you to put your ear to my mouth, is what God is saying. And hear what I'm saying right now. The Bible says every morning God anoints us with new mercies, and your relationship with God ought to be so strong and tight that you hear him in a real way every single day. Lord, help us. And there's so many people that are chasing what he said when he's saying something right now that you need to pay attention to. Hallelujah. You're chasing things in your past. You're so concerned about history that you're gonna mess around and miss destiny. Asha, bre shaku, recha mansa. You're looking at— oh my God, you're looking at what happened in the past. Can I tell you something? Let me let you in on a little secret. God will never look at your past to determine your future. He don't decide where you're going based on where you've been. The Bible says, if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. All things are passed away, and behold, all things are new. So you got to let the past be the past. Some of you are spiritual necrophiliacs.

Oh my God, that is the nastiest thing.

A necrophiliac is a person that sleeps with dead bodies. They get sexually excited about the dead. They go back into the dead, and they're in their sick, perverted activity. They sleep with the dead. Ah, that's terrible. But in the spirit, it's just as nasty, because if you're going back into your past and basing where you're going on where you've been Come on now, listen, God never counts that against you. When you truly repent, put it under the blood, listen, God will forget it. He said, "I cast it." See, people are quick. People are real quick to remember your sin.

Matter of fact, what they'll do in their religious attitude, they'll dive in the sea of forgetfulness with some kind of scuba diving gear on, and they'll swim past their sin, and they'll pick up yours.

There's in the same sea and they swim right past your— theirs. Are y'all hearing this? So you got to stop worrying about where you failed, where you messed up. God, I lift up both of my feet in my hands. I have failed, I've blundered, I've made mistakes in my past, but thanks be to God for his grace and his mercy. Lord have mercy.

Bless the Lord, he's a good God. There's no God like our God.

So I'll say that again.

Number 2, you cannot enlarge and your progress breaks down when you're more concerned about what God said versus what God is saying.

Number 3, you cannot enlarge and your progress breaks down when you expend your energy on fruitlessness. When you waste your energy, your time, your gift, your anointing— oh my God— your insight, your innovations, your intelligence on fruitless people. People that have no ability to process what you're talking about. You're trying to tell somebody about a billion-dollar dream that's got a $10,000 mentality, it's never gonna work. Let me tell you something, you cannot fit a 16 by 20 idea in a 3 by 5 mind. It's never gonna fit there. You try and talk to somebody with a 3 by 5 mind and you got a 16 by 20 dream, they'll never process it because their mind cannot evolve to where you're going. And it's only frustrating. I have spent time in my past trying to convince somebody of what God was showing me, and they just never could get it. They kept reverting back to their own system of thinking, and I realized then they just can't think at that level. And God told me, he said, you gotta talk to people who think like you, who— watch this— and I've been saying this for 30 years, glory to God. You gotta talk—

watch this.

When you condescend and you're an eagle, you're in the air flying, you condescend to deal with chickens because they can't fly at the altitude you fly at. So you got to fellowship with chickens, you got to come down. An eagle even makes love in the air. They only come down to make love to a bird that's lesser than them. I'll tell you something, you, you shouldn't spend your time on fruitless things and fruitless relationships. We're called— and we'll talk about that in a minute— to bear fruit.

Oh my God, oh my God. Finally, number 4. But let me say that again so you get it. I'll make sure y'all got it. You cannot enlarge and your progress breaks down.

Hallelujah.

When you expend your energy on fruitlessness. Are y'all here?

Glory to God.

I gotta get out of here. I gotta get out of here. So listen to me, number 4. I still want to keep talking about fruitlessness, but I can't because I don't got time.

Number 4. Glory to God. Number 4. You cannot enlarge, and your progress breaks down when your comfort zone—

my God— is a place of consistency. You are here, Lord, tonight. When your comfort zone is always consistent, when you never take risk of obedience, risk of faith, when you never step out and trust God for something bigger than what your bank account says you can handle. When you just try to stay in the realm of comfort, glory to God, you'll never enlarge to receive more because your capacity is in your comfort zone.

People always say, get out the box. I don't say get out the box, I said kill the box, destroy it, blow it up. You shouldn't even have a box. There should be no parameters that limit you from excelling in God, from enlarging. Matter of fact, right where you are, put your hand over your head and rub it over your head like this and say, there's nothing above my head. I can go high as I want to.

There is nothing stopping you from going as high as you want to go except your own comfort. Here's the reality: you got to get out of your own way. Most people are comfortable in their comfortable zone because of fear.

Fear is the biggest dream killer. People blame other people for not being able to fulfill their dreams, but the reality is fear of getting out there, doing it, making it happen, is really the biggest dream killer.

Now you got to overcome that.

I'm gonna talk about that in a few moments too. So I'm gonna give you 3 keys, and I pray you got those introductory ones.

That was just introduction, so let's get in the scripture. I'm gonna give you 3 keys to enlarging your capacity. I'm gonna give them to you real fast. The first one is, praise God, oh boy, faithfulness. Faithfulness, pistuo in Greek. Pistuo means to be full of reliance, full of dependence, full of loyalty. Toward God and his plan. Faithfulness. Fullness of faith.

So it means you're so full that there's no room for you to be disloyal to God's way of doing things, for you to be unfaithful to what God has planned, because you work hard to fill yourself up with loyalty toward him. You know how hard people work to be loyalty to people in their life? And if you know, I've seen some people that are really loyal to humans. I mean, so loyal, a human could say jump, they say how high.

They say what, what do you like, whatever you like.

That, that's, that's, that's how loyal they are. Glory to God.

At the end of the day, you ought to have your own mind when it comes to humans. But if we could work that hard to be that faithful to God, to be without Hallelujah! Ambiguity when it comes to God's plan. We so loyal that if God said it, we got faith in it and we gonna move on it. See, here's the problem. Let's, let's go to, uh, Hebrews 11, verse 1, because I want to get a working definition of faith, and the best way to get it is in the scripture.

The scripture says, now faith— I'm reading out of NIV— is confidence and what we hope for, and assurance in what we do not see. So faithfulness requires being confident and assured that somebody you don't see is telling the truth about who you are and what you can have. See, this is the problem, and I said this last week. I think it's Sunday, that among people in America, the poorest demographic are those that are saved. The people that own the less businesses are the people that are saved. And that— the reason for that is because people really don't have confidence in who they say God is. They say it They look the part. I told you, don't believe everything you see. Sugar and salt look just alike. And you got some people that be in church every day of their life but will never excel beyond what their life looks like right now because they're not loyal to anything but a religious system that they've created in their mind.

And they—

on what they think God looks like and what God wants from them. But God wants so much more than what we think. So we got to be confident and assured that, hey, this man know what he doing, so I got to be faithful to his word and to what he said. Praise God.

So faithfulness then becomes loyalty by choice.

I'm not— watch this—

faithfulness doesn't happen by striving. It's not hard.

You surrender. Faithfulness happens when you surrender to God and say, whatever I am is because of you, so I'm listening. And whatever you say do, God, I'm gonna do it.

Whoo!

Because I'm gonna be loyal by choice. Because guess what? He'll never make you. Because every person on this planet has a free will. God doesn't wanna be served. He doesn't want you to be faithful to him against your will. You gotta choose to follow after him. Here's the tragedy though.

So many people have really chose to be saved, but they didn't choose to be loyal. They didn't choose to be faithful, which is the reason why so many are struggling and they got strained because they chose to be saved, to go through the process, to look the part, to be sugar and not salt.

Hallelujah.

And at the end of the day, they miss some things that could— man, let me tell you something. When I look back over my life, I'm glad I got the revelation because there were some seasons in my life where I was saved, I was preaching, I was prophesying, casting out devil, doing all kind of stuff.

Going through the system.

But there was a part of me that wasn't loyal, that wasn't bought all the way in, because I was trying to survive.

And instead of me leaning on God to survive, I was trying to keep my right mind because all the stuff I had been through. And at the end of the day, all I had to do is lean on God. All I really— it was that easy to bow all the way in. And now the byproduct of that is fruit. Glory to God.

Let me, let me keep moving, let me keep moving, let me keep moving.

Uh, go to Jude 3. Jude 3. Jude 3.

Jude is that little book right before Revelation that nobody ever reads.

Jude 3, it says, dear friends, although I was very eager to write to you about the salvation we share, I felt compelled to write an I urge you, watch this, to contend for the faith that was once for all entrusted to God's holy people. See, this faith that he's talking about, you gotta fight for it. It's not just, again, coming to Jesus, getting saved. That's a measure of faith. But you should go from faith to faith according to scripture. But there's a level of faith where you're absolutely indulged in God, faithful, loyal, Well, you gotta fight for it, because you know what?

The enemy doesn't want you to have it.

He don't want you to be sold out to the fact that God got you, because he knows if you ever get to that point, he is in trouble and he cannot touch your life in any way because you sold out to him. Hallelujah. So you got to contend for it. Watch this. Contending, according to this text, it really makes us capable. It brings an ability that we didn't have before because that's the reward of winning the fight.

It makes you capable of carrying something that you never carried before because you fought for it.

It gives you the ability. It wasn't given to you.

You fought for it.

You say, look, I'm— you fought your mindset. You fought the condition you're in and say, hey, I'm not going to live like this. There is more. So I'm gonna fight for this level of thinking, this level of loyalty, this level of faith, and I'm gonna win.

And watch this, then God says, I can trust you with more because you elevated your mind, because you went to another level. My God, hallelujah, glory to God.

So all right, number—

I'm going to number 2. So say faithfulness, write it on the screen. Faithfulness, faithfulness, hallelujah. Has to be contended for. All right, here's number 2. Told you I was going to talk about this. If you're going to enlarge, you got to have fearlessness. Fearlessness. Oh, that means you have no fear. Nothing rattles you. And somebody said, well, you're gonna be scared of something.

Not true. You don't have to be. As a matter of fact, the scripture says in 2 Timothy 1:6 and 7 that God has not given you the spirit of fear. So wait a minute, God said, I didn't give you that spirit. He said you ain't have it, he's saying, give it to you, all right? Because a whole lot of people got it. But God says, I didn't give you the spirit of fear. What'd he give you? He said, I gave you power. That word power in Greek in this text is dunamis. It's where we get words like dynamo. A tornado is a dynamo. A tornado gains its strength the more debris it picks up.

It gets stronger.

The wind gets more deadly by the stuff it picks up and gets in it. God says, I made you a dynamo. The more you spend time with him, the stronger you get, the more powerful you become. Dunamis is inherent power. It's power that you can't buy. It's power that has to be given to you from another source. And God says, I gave you power. Acts 2 says, after the Holy Ghost comes upon you, you shall receive power. Dunamis. God says, when you really got the Holy Ghost, you're gonna do more than talking in tongues, but you're gonna move in some authority, some power, inherent Watch this, ability to rule.

That's what dunamis is. I love it. I love it. So it's not just the power we display in church to lay hands on the sick and they recover. God knows I thank God for all the miracles I've seen in my ministry. I've seen everything. I've seen people in wheelchairs get up and walk. I've seen people who were born blind, now they can see. I've seen people born deaf, now they can hear. I've seen AIDS, I've seen cancer, I've seen COVID. I've seen miracle after miracle happen, but power is not just for that.

That's a gift, just like power is.

Gifts of healing is a gift that any believer can walk in.

However, God says, I want to give you inherent power—

watch this— to rule.

That's dunamis, inherent power to rule with authority.

Rule, that's the operative word in that definition. We should be in charge.

So in your sphere of influence, you should be in charge, my friends. You should have to be the authority figure in your area.

I always say this, you can never reap a harvest in a field where you have not sown. I'm gonna say that one more time.

We as the church, I'll say it this way, will never reap a harvest in feels what we don't sow. Everybody in the church want to preach. Everybody in the church want to be an apostle. Everybody— God knows, please, all apostles who are not apostles, sit down. Stop it in the name of Jesus.

Please, I'm asking you nicely. Please, please, very much nicer than I have in the past. Please sit down.

Stop calling yourself that because some of you are not that.

Stop saying it.

Stop saying you're a prophet if you're not a prophet. Stop saying you're an evangelist.

You're not an evangelist, a pastor or teacher, if that's not who you are.

But let me let you in on a secret. There, there's something called administrations. He said, first in the church, apostles. Secondarily, prophets.

This is 1 Corinthians 14. Thirdly, oh my God, miracles.

Fourthly, helps. Fifthly, administrations. Administrations are the branches that come out of the church and go into the world and have power and authority in the kingdoms of the world. So you might ought to go back and pray again. God might want you to have authority in the entertainment kingdom where you can become a saved, sanctified actor or actress. He may want you to have authority in the media kingdom where you can run your own newspaper, run your own magazine, run your own social media site. He may want you to have authority in the government kingdom. He may want you to be a governor, a mayor, a senator, a congressman, a president that's full of the Holy Ghost. We need administrative branches that go out of the church and rule in the world. Boy, am I teaching that? Listen, that we churchy, that's all we want to do. Jump, shout, speak in tongues, spit, roll on the floor, blow bubbles, go eat at IHOP. Glory to God, that's what the church want to do. But glory to God, after every service, aha, glory to God, there's no other restaurant but IHOP. Glory to God. If you say aha, or churches, they named the chicken place after y'all, churches, because y'all eat so much chicken. Praise God. Let me tell you something, let me, let me tell you something seriously. We need some administrative branches that's going to go into the kingdom of the world and take dominion. But you got to be fearless. You got to be bold. Fearlessness is bold, accurate, and hungry—

watch this— movement that lacks fear. I'll say that again.

Fearlessness is bold and hungry movement that lacks fear. In other words—

oh my God. Lord, I feel like running.

We need some people that are hungry, that are bold. Hallelujah. That have no fear and say, you know what, I'm gonna move into the area I was born to move in, and I'm gonna do it big, and I ain't gonna stop until I see results. I'm not gonna stop until I'm in charge. That ought to be your testimony instead of trying to get a mic. Yeah, everybody wants to come to church to get the mic. Come on, man.

We need some administrative branches who are fearless. Hallelujah.

I gotta go. Go to Zephaniah 3:20.

I love it.

The Bible says, at that time, I will gather you. I will bring you home. I will give you honor. And praise among the people of the earth when I restore, uh-oh, your fortune right before your very eyes. Can I let you know a secret? Fearless people, hallelujah, they yield themselves so in faithfulness that God, just like Zephaniah was prophesying, he says, I'll bring you to a season where I'll bring you home. Fearless people are not afraid to go home. I didn't say go to church. I didn't say go to your house. I said go home. Our original residence, uh-oh, is heaven. That's home. I ain't talking about die and get your wings.

Please don't say that at another funeral. Let me, let me just say this, please don't say that at another funeral.

That is not scripture. When people die, they do not get wings.

She got her wings. Yeah, glory to God, she got her wings and she's flying around here.

No, the devil is a liar. Your grandmama ain't flying around heaven. I'm sorry to tell you, she's not. She may be in heaven with God, but she ain't flying. Glory to God, she ain't got no wings, so stop saying that. And I'm not— this is not the home I'm referring to. What I'm referring to is being able to have heaven on earth. Sitting in heavenly places with Jesus, where heaven literally superimposes itself upon you, and you're not afraid to fellowship with God in the realm of glory so you can get the instructions you need to live a successful life. God, I feel the anointing.

Ben, you brought something in here.

Glory to God. So I can live a successful life right here on the earth. Glory to God.

Listen, he says, I want to bring you home.

And when I do that, he says, I'm gonna give you honor and I'm gonna give you praise among all the people of the earth. Wait a minute, the church. He says, I want to bring you into my glory, into my home. I'm gonna let you chill with me, and while we do that, I'm gonna give you praise in the earth. I'm gonna honor— God said he gonna honor you.

That means I don't have to lift myself up. I don't have to make ways for myself, build steps for myself, put myself in the limelight, try to be known, try to be seen. God says you just come home, let me talk for you. And then here's the part I like. He said if you, if you eliminate that fear and come on home, moving around you never moved in before, He said, I'm gonna enlarge your capacity, so I'm gonna restore your fortune right before your eyes.

Somebody said, wait a minute, I ain't never had no fortune.

How you gonna give me something back?

I know, see, you don't realize you already got a fortune at your disposal. The sky vaults of heaven are open. God says he just want us to be at home with him, make sure we got the right mind.

He said, there's nothing I won't give you And you're gonna see it right before your eyes. Fortunes. I love it.

Oh, somebody shout, no fear!

Glory to God.

Woo!

God's gonna use your hunger for him to bring you home.

All right, I gotta go to my last point. I'm closing. So faithfulness, fearlessness, these things expand our capacity. It enlarge us. And finally, fruitfulness. Fruitfulness. Oh boy. All right, let's look at this. The Hebrew is eeb for fruit, eeb, eeb, and it means freshness. It means newness. Hallelujah.

To be fruitful means, glory to the name of God, that you're so fresh that you're palatable, that others want a part. Of what you carry. In other words, God is saying he wants your life to be so fruitful that people will look at you and say, I want what he got, I want what she got, I want a part of that. Oh, that's why he said in Genesis—

let's look at it, let's look at it, let's look at Genesis 1:28.

He said, God blessed them. Let me stop right there. God blessed them. He's talking about Adam and Eve. He blessed them. The word blessed, makarios, and that word means he stamped them with a divine quality in their soul. Watch this, he marked them blessed for increase. So if he did it for Adam and Eve, that means every human being on the planet, he's marked all of us for increase. He's marked us Hallelujah! To be, ah, vessels, instruments that bring glory to his name, that when the world see us, they see him. Makarios means we are marked on the inside with a divine quality that— watch this— puts us in the family of God. See, to be blessed ain't to get a Bentley. To be blessed is to be in the family of God. I know a whole lot of people with Bentleys, them jokers ain't blessed. Glory to God, they got Bentleys, but They ain't blessed because they ain't know God nowhere. They don't even— they ain't thinking about it. But at the end of the day, it's, it's okay.

I'm not saying it's wrong to have those things, but we, we need to, we need to really recognize what blessing is. The blessing is him. He's the reward. Glory to God.

He says it came into us from the time of Adam and Eve. It started right there. And when the devil saw it, So he came and tried to take it from them. And God says, that's okay, they fail. I got another plan. I'm gonna send the second man, Adam.

His name is Jesus.

He's gonna die and redeem and reconcile man back to me. And guess what? When we came in through Jesus, the blessing came with us. Hallelujah. Don't you do that. Glory be to God.

Woo!

Shabandi! Glory to God. Let's touch yourself and say, I am blessed. Glory to God. Just write it on the screen, say, I am blessed. And he said to them, so watch this, after the blessing always comes law. Whenever God speaks, what he says becomes law. Ah, whenever God speaks, what he says becomes law. So when God said, ah, glory be to God, when God speaks a word It's a law written in heaven, written in earth, that cannot be changed. So when God speaks something concerning us, that's his desire. So the Bible declares, and God blessed them and said to them, be fruitful. Ah, here it is, fruitful. Eb, I want you to be fresh. Glory to God. I want you to, I want you to represent me in a way that somebody wants to partake of what you're carrying. All right, he said, be fruitful. I don't have time, but I can talk about this all night. And increase in number, fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over— watch this— rule, have dominion over the fish of the sea and the birds in the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground.

Watch, I told you that, hallelujah, we can move into a realm where we operate in rulership and authority. It's from the plan. That's the word dominion. That's rada in Hebrew. That means we ought to be in control.

We ought to be in—

that's why this church is called Rada Church, because our whole plan is to discern, develop, and deploy, push people out of the door as administrative branches into their destiny, into their purpose. That's what we're here for.

Whether they're here physically, or those of you that partner with me around the world, those of you that watch these videos, listen, my goal, my reason for being in your life is to discern what's on you, help you understand that, give you clarity about it, then help you develop it, and then deploy you, push you out into the world so you can do it. I don't need you sitting around here. Glory to God. You need to go out there and get it done.

He said, I want you to rule.

Hey, let me, let me, let me just, let me just say this.

Dominion, Rada, is not Plan B.