"The Birth of Bulldog Faith" | Day 1 of 21 Day Fasting + Prayer | 12 Noon Teaching | 30 JAN 2023

In this live 12‑minute teaching, the speaker (Michael Lyris Woods) launches a 21‑day fasting and prayer series aimed at producing an “overflow” in three areas: faith, finances, and spiritual power. He introduces the concept of “bulldog faith” – an aggressive, tenacious trust in God that refuses the devil’s attempts to “sift” believers like wheat. Using Luke 22:31‑32 and several other scriptures (Hebrews 10:38‑39, Hebrews 11:6, 1 John 5:4), he explains how the enemy seeks to discourage and retreat believers, and why believers must respond with persistence, aggression, and a willingness to “buy” large‑scale ministry projects. He calls listeners to actively share the live stream, comment scripture, sow a “miracle seed” of $21, and support the purchase of three debt‑free church facilities in Atlanta, Jackson (MS), and Woodbridge (VA). The teaching mixes personal testimony, exhortation, and logistical details, ending with a prayer for the audience’s persistence against resistance and the birth of bulldog faith.
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Hallelujah! Hallelujah, God. Well, welcome everyone to our 12:00 teaching. We was having a little technical difficulty, but the devil is a liar. You know what, I, I always expect atmosphere disturbance. We're on to something really great spiritual, so we win. We have the victory. Technology won't stop us. Glory to the name of God. We win. Glory to God. We win. I want to welcome everyone again to our 12-minute teaching. Do me a favor, guys, we're gonna jump right into this. We're not gonna tarry long. Uh, we got 21 days of this and we're gonna get our faith overflowing. We're gonna get our finances overflowing. Glory to God. We're gonna get— glory to God. Hallelujah. Our power overflowing, and we're going to see God do some great things in our lives, in our businesses, in our families, in our ministries, in our relationships. We just trust God. Hallelujah! That great things are going to be born out of this fast. We're fasting for the overflow in 3 areas again: in our faith, in our finances, and in spiritual power. And we're going to teach the word every day for 21 days. Glory to the name of God. Uh, at 12 noon every day except Sunday when we'll stream our service where we'll teach the message live then. Listen, I need you to understand something. God has so much more in store. Oh, I feel the anointing! Glory to God! I feel the anointing of Jesus. Do me a favor, guys, if you're here, say hello. Glory to God! And, uh, engage in the comments please as we teach. If you hear scripture, type it in the comments. Glory to God! So when people passed by this. They could see the scriptures, they could see your comments, they could see your engagement. We want people to get this word, not just those of us that are fasting. We want people around us to get this. You know, I got a problem, I really do, for real. And I believe God does too, because the scripture says we're blessed to be a blessing. For you to show up on these lives and never share them, I, I have a real issue with that. I'm praying for you, really, because If the messages are blessing you, then you should share them. You're blessed to be a blessing. You know, I— and yeah, preachers are the worst. You know, they'll show up and they'll listen, listen, and turn around, you hear them saying the same stuff. Share this stuff, man. It's not my message, it comes from the Holy Ghost. If you want to preach it, preach it, but share it. Glory to the name of God. So someone else could hear. Glory to the name of God. Please share it. Uh, we want people to be blessed. You are blessed to be a blessing. That's scripture. So if it's blessing you, please by all means make sure you bless somebody else. Glory to God. Hi, Belinda, welcome. God bless you. I'm glad to see you. Glad you're here. Glory to the name of God. We missed you in service on Sunday. Sunday was really fire. It was powerful, woman of God. Wish you were in the house. Glory to God. We're glad to see you here today. Listen, we're going to jump right into this again. Please share. Please share. Glory to God. I promise you, you'll be glad you did. Let's pray, and then we're gonna jump right into this. Oh my God, Father, I give you praise. I give you glory, God. I give you honor. I thank you for who you are. I thank you for what you're doing. I thank you, God, that beside you there is no other. It's in you we live, it's in you we move, It's in you we have our being. You're our life, you're our health, you're our strength. God, I thank you for every person that is engaging in this 21-day consecration of fasting plus prayer with us. And I pray, God, as we have already said it this morning, that they will be committed. And dear God, in the name of Jesus, I decree and declare that even beyond their commitment— glory to God— Hallelujah, God, that they will experience overflow because they display loyalty, because they sacrifice. Hallelujah. During this time, in their body, in their soul, and in their spirit, and they focus on the things that pertain to you. And God, I give you glory. I thank you for the overflow of finances, the overflow of faith, the overflow of power that will be made manifest in our lives. And I give you praise and glory for it now. Now, Lord, as we get into your word, let us experience the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Spirit. And we'll forever give your name the praise, and the glory and honor shall be thine. In Jesus' name, amen and thank God. Listen, do me a favor, guys, please go ahead right now and share this experience. Please, please share this experience again in the comments. Do me a favor. God bless you, Belinda. We're going to be looking forward to seeing you next week. Hey, daughter Prudence, God bless you. Mississippi in the house, I love it. Glory to God. You guys, come on in. Praise God. Please share this teaching. It's going to be phenomenal, man. I'm telling you, let me tell y'all something. When you sow into somebody else's life the word, you reap the harvest of that same word that you sow. Glory to God. So if you give somebody a CD, share a YouTube video, or share a live stream or a scripture, when you sow the word, the Bible said you reap eternal reward. Listen, man, sell this thing to somebody else so they can get exactly what you're getting today. So share this experience. Now I'm gonna go ahead and get in it, man. I'm excited. I'm probably— I'm probably too excited, y'all. Glory to God. I'm probably too excited. Glory to God. Let's get into this. So today we're starting our first tier. Remember, the fast is in 3 tiers, man. I'm super excited. I'm happy. Amen. See, when you— when you're in Jesus, you're full of joy. I got Jesus joy. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah! And I'm sitting here now, glory to God, just full of, um, so much that I want to give you. I can't give it all to you right now, but I'm telling you, over 21 days, when you pack this word in, you're going to learn, you're going to grow, your faith is going to increase, and things you've been believing God for, you're actually going to begin to see them. Hear me, in your life, for real, you'll begin to see them in your life. So let's get into this, man. Today We're starting our first tier of the Overflow of Faith. You know, I got— I'm just really inclined to believe that this is probably going to go over into the Overflow of Finances, but that's okay because it takes— it takes faith to produce extraordinary finances. So today we're going to start to— I believe that your faith cannot overflow unless you have bulldog faith. And so probably for the next 7 days, I'm gonna try to pack it in 7 days, but already in my spirit I don't think I'm gonna be able to. But we're going to talk today about the birth of Bulldog Faith. How does Bulldog-type faith emerge? How does Bulldog-type faith come alive? Glory to God. Hallelujah. So we're gonna, we're gonna talk about this, we're going to discuss it. Praise God. And I promise you If you stay with me, you're gonna be blessed. So let's go to Luke's Gospel, chapter number 22, and we're going to read verses 31 and 32. Saint Luke, hallelujah. We're talking about the birth of Bulldog Faith. Saint Luke's Gospel, uh, chapter 22, verses 31 and 32. Here beginneth the reading of the word of the Lord. The Bible says, and the Lord said— glory to the name of God— Simon, Simon, behold Satan has desired to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. But I have prayed for thee, Ashiandala Bokoshe, that thy faith— listen to this— fail not. And when thou art converted, strengthen the brethren. So what I want to talk about really quick right here in this text So we're talking about the birth of bulldog faith. But the devil— here it is— according to the text, has a plan to discourage your faith, to remove you from faith, to stop— hear this— your faith from growing. And it's sad to say, man, one of the biggest tools that the devil used to stop— oh boy, here we go, here we go, it's going to be apostolic all month, I'm telling you. It's going to be a lot of government, a lot of correction. So Just gird yourself, grit your teeth, whatever you got to do. Share it with your pastor because he might need it. Glory to the name of God. She might need it. Ah, Shamanda! So, bless you, Shamanda! Glory to God. Listen, I'm telling you now, it's going to be a lot of this. Listen, listen, the biggest problem with people of God with no faith— watch this— is leaders with no faith. It's leaders that really don't believe what they preach. You can look at their life, you can look at the fruit of their life, their lifestyle. You look at their relationships, you can look at their marriages, you can look at how they deal with their children. You can look at their life and see that their faith is not moving from faith to faith, which says they really don't believe what they preach. They have no power, they're not anointed, they don't move in gifts, all of which requires— oh boy— faith. Okay, yeah, it's gonna be a lot of this, it's gonna be a lot of this. I'm sorry, it's gonna be a lot of this. Glory to God. Because at the end of the day, we gotta get corrected, we gotta get aligned, and we're missing— hear me— the blessing of God because we're malaligned, we're misaligned, we're not aligned with God in the way we need to be in faith. Oh, hallelujah! So the Bible said here that the devil desires to have you, that he may sift you as wheat. The word sift there, uh, means to separate, break in pieces, shake, shatter, or discourage. That's the Greek definition. Again, it means to separate, break into pieces. It means to— glory to God— shake, shatter, or discourage. So the devil desires to separate you, to break into pieces, to shake you, to shatter you, to discourage you in your faith. Yeah, but you, you got to make up your mind that you ain't gonna allow him to do that. Glory to God. You're not gonna allow him to shake up your faith. And I'm telling you, we— you gotta— and we talked about this a little on yesterday in church. If you didn't see the message yesterday, we, we talked Faith That Overflows. You go back and watch that one because that's a part of this too. Because at the end of the day, we got, we got a lot of people not moving in faith because they're not in faith culture. Oh my God, they're not in faith cultures. They're not in cultures that advocate moving and living by faith. Oh my God, oh my God. Today Good God from Zion. Are y'all here? Are y'all here? Listen, you got to get in the faith culture. You got to get around some people who really— let me get close to this camera— who really and truly believe God. You got to get around some people that really and truly believe God. Hear me. I'm sorry I'm getting so close to your face, but I want to get up to your face because if you hang around doubters all the time— look at me, look at my face real good. I know my eyes are tired. Glory to God, because I don't sleep, because I'm always up building kingdom. But I need to go to bed for real. I get fussed at often about not going to bed. But listen, listen to me. You need to get around some faith-cultured people who want more. You gotta dismiss the doubters. Hear me, out of your culture. Oh, watch this, uh, watch this. The devil will inwardly agitate you to try your faith, to verge— watch this, uh, oh my God— uh, overthrow. He wants to overthrow your faith so he can prevent overflow. So he comes to overthrow your faith, your belief system, your ability to trust God, so he can prevent overflow. So the overthrow is to prevent overflow. Oh boy. See, see, and that's why you constantly go back and forth in your mind with doubt. You'll believe one day. Matter of fact, you got— we got so many bipolar saints in the spirit who believe on Sunday, and then Monday through Saturday they have no faith. Their faith gets stirred up on Sunday when they hear a message. Their faith gets stirred up for a few moments when they're trying to trust with something, but the moment the enemy throws a circumstance that he would call reality— watch this— or common sense. Mm-hmm. Yeah, because there's no common sense to faith. It doesn't make sense. It doesn't make sense at all. It's to believe in what you can't see. So it's— that don't make sense. It's because it's supernatural, because it's spiritual. No, it doesn't make any sense. Glory to God. Omansa ye bande kosia. It makes no sense at all, but you got to figure out a way to trust what you can't see. You know, I listen to people, I watch people sometimes, especially people connected to me. I try to, you know, kind of just get a feel for the culture, and I look at their life. They, they can be online with a major presence, speaking, preaching, praying, And then I look at their life, I look at their, their home, their finances, I look at just the fruit, man. And I'm like, okay, if you just listen to what I'm trying to tell you and balance this, man, you're going to be the greatest leader on this planet because you already got the gifts and the goods, but you have no faith to matriculate them and take them to the next level. So the devil's plan— hear me— is to drain you. To weaken you, to wear you down, and to— oh my God— put your faith in a place that you are continually doubting God because he's continually putting pressure, disappointments, and discouraging things in your way. And you just gotta choose to dismiss that and decide, listen, I don't care how much pressure you apply, devil, I'm gonna walk by faith against all odds. I dare you, type it in the comments: I'm gonna walk by faith against all odds. Come on, say it: I'm gonna walk by faith against all odds. Glory to God. You gotta just— you gotta declare that. Glory to Jesus. You gotta declare that in spite of what it looks like, against all odds, no matter what the enemy throws at you, you're gonna keep going. Let me tell you something, I'm a living example of pressure, of how the devil will throw stuff in you, just at you, to stop you from believing. My whole life, my whole ministry, God has tried— allowed the enemy to try me in that area so I can teach this. I'm not just teaching this because somebody told me this or I studied it. I'm teaching this because I've lived it. I've been in situations in my life where I was under so much pressure, I was so discouraged, I was so disappointed in myself. Even mistakes I made, even failures I had in my life and ministry The enemy tried to use those things to keep me from believing, but you know what I decided to do? I got up, dust myself off, and decided that God's grace was sufficient for me, that God loved me in spite of my error. Oh my God, that God loved me in spite of what people were thinking or saying, that his view and revelation of me never changed. And I decided, I'm gonna trust you by faith. And you know what it did? It encouraged me to more to live for God. It encouraged me the more to give everything I am to him. Oh God, listen, the devil wants you to live in a constant state of retreat where you're running away from big things. So we're talking about the birth of Bulldog Faith. If we cannot talk about the birth of Bulldog Faith without mentioning the fact that the enemy tries to give you an abortion of this faith before you even get started. He don't want you to really believe God for real. He wants you to go to church, jump and shout, speak in tongues, and you see no tangible transformation in your life. Your body's still sick, your finances still messed up, your children still rebellious. He wants you to be in that state, jumping and shouting around all that mess. But God wants to make an adjustment, and he wants to bring about supernatural change in your life. I'm not gonna be long. I just sound like it, but the enemy wants you in constant retreat. And I told you, I was in that condition, man. I, I lived— there are so many things and visions and dreams that God had given me. And in that particular season I was going through, man, I was constantly retreating, trusting God for them, because I thought that the things that were happening in my life, man, the things I was going through, the places I was missing the mark, even the places where I was committing sin. Come on. Yeah, yeah. But God is good. Oh, you know, his grace is good, man. And at the end of the day, he gives you the ability to bounce back. And I can say today, I'm holy. Glory to God. I could say, glory to God, that I'm totally restored. Glory to the name of God. Because I got up and chose to trust God, man. You, you can't, you can't retreat. You got to break those cycles and conditions that keeps you in doubt. Listen, there is no truth in anything the devil says. I'm gonna say that again. There is no truth in anything the devil, Omansaye, says. When the devil begins to talk to you, I need you to be very clear right now that everything he says is a lie. Let me say it again, there's no truth. The devil cannot tell the truth. The Bible calls him the father of lies. He cannot tell truth. And watch this, how you know the devil is talking to you? When he starts telling you things that goes against your faith in the word. When he starts telling you things that you can't do. How do you defeat it though? When the devil starts resisting you, glory to God, and telling you, glory to the name of God, that you can't do this, you can't accomplish that. Listen, we got some— I said it yesterday, please go, go watch yesterday's message. But in case you missed it, I'm gonna give this to you right here. Our church— and I gave in my businesses, in my personal ministry, Apostle Michael Woods Ministries, and in, glory to the name of God, our church, Radha Family of Churches. So Simultaneously, we're building and planning— we're building Atlanta and we're planning Jackson, Mississippi again. Glory to God. And we're planning Woodbridge, Virginia. Now watch this. The Lord told me to set my faith on something. And watch this, it's going to be a faith testimony this year. Y'all keep watching, keep watching. Glory to the name of God. We're going to purchase 3 facilities, one for Atlanta debt-free, one for Jackson, Mississippi debt-free, one for Woodbridge, Virginia, debt-free. They're going to be fully furnished, fully equipped with all of the latest technology we need to run those ministries effectively. That's going to happen in 2023. Our faith is big on that. We're trusting God for major revival. Our faith is big on it, man, in Jackson, Atlanta, and Woodbridge, of miracles, signs, and wonders for real. Listen, that every time we cross the threshold of any one of these regions, we'll see major Revival take place because the wind of God, I'm telling you, is blowing on our faith and something major is about to happen for God's people. And so we're positioning our faith to do it. That was just one of the things I said. But the enemy will easily say to a doubter, how in the world is he going to do that? Let me tell you how. Because I believe God is my daddy for real. My Father is able to do exceeding abundantly and above all I think to say to ask. I was able to think about that because God gave it to me. But I'm telling you, he's able to do even much more than you can think about. Oh God, we give you glory, God. We give you honor. Somebody say, against all odds, I'm gonna walk by faith. Now watch this, watch this. So in order to go against the— oh my God— resistance that the enemy is offering toward our faith, toward our desire— hear me, man, let me get up close again— to please God, toward our mindset to move in faith— hear me, let me get up close again, let me get close again, listen. You gotta offer persistence against resistance. Oh, you got— so when the devil resists your faith, you got to become more persistent in faith, and you got to become aggressive in your faith. Ah, if I was in church, I'll tell you to hit somebody and tell them, get more aggressive about your faith. Matter of fact, touch yourself and say, I gotta get more aggressive aggressive about my faith. I just told you my faith is aggressive, man. I got my foot on something. We're gonna buy 3 this year, this year, 3 in 2023. We're gonna buy 3 worship facilities. We're not intimidated by cost. We're not intimidated. We're gonna buy the buildings that God tell us to buy in those 3 cities: Atlanta, Jackson— we're not renting nothing, we buying. Glory to God. Hallelujah. And Woodbridge, Virginia. It's going to happen, people. You got to get aggressive and start putting your faith on something that you can't personally do. And this, and this year, and during this fast, I want you to start exploring the will of God and put your faith on something that's bigger than you. Oh, we, man. Oh my God. Oh my God. You got to be persistent in fact. You can't be— you can't try it out every now and then. The scripture said the just shall live by faith, which means you got to do this thing every day. Glory to God. Listen, laid-back faith is slow. It's slow, man. It, it's slow because you try to rev yourself up to believe what God say. But aggressive faith, bulldog faith, it changes things. It changes people and it changes circumstances. Ah, ah, if you want to change things, you got to get aggressive like a bulldog. Listen, glory to God, I need you to understand something. You got dismissed thinking, thinking, doubtful thinking, and you gotta dismiss that bad attitude because I'm telling you, God, this is what I'm doing right now. I'm, I'm like your coach. I'm your faith coach today, and we're in a locker room because we're trying to get overflowing faith at halftime. And when you're losing the game at halftime, you know, my wife and I are season ticket holders for the Atlanta Hawks. And so whenever we go to games and the team is down, she always says, well, they finna get a yelling at in the locker room because At the end of the day, they played terribly sorry and their attitude was bad. Well, you know what? Most of the time when she says that, the team comes out, plays better because coaches tend to give motivational speeches and/or tongue lashings in the locker room when the team is playing bad. So I want you to take this in love. God wants you to deal with your sorry attitude about faith. Listen, he wants you to, after this live, get back in the game. Some of you turned your faith down. See, what else we were talking about yesterday? Turn that faith up, man. Turn it up. Be aggressive. Turn that faith up. You got to turn it up. The young people be talking about they about to turn up. They be talking about drinking, smoking weed. Y'all keep doing that. I'm about to turn up my faith. Hear me. And do some things that has never been accomplished before in the kingdom. All glory to the name of God. In my fear of influence. And, and you ought to make up in your mind that you're gonna get back in the game and you're gonna do the same. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. You gotta stop letting the devil beat you up out there. See, some of you going through what you're dealing with in life right now because you letting the devil beat you up because you're not trusting God. This is my halftime talk to you. Get your attitude together. You were born to win. You were born to move in victory. You were born to have authority over your circumstances, not the other way around. You were born to be rich. Glory to God. You were born to live healed. Someone said, oh no, I wasn't. The poor you have with you always. He wasn't talking about you when Jesus said that. He was talking about people who were not in covenant with him. How in the world you gonna have a rich daddy and be broke? Glory to the name of God. There's no way you can have a rich daddy and be broke unless your daddy's selfish. Glory to the name of God. I want you to understand something: our Father is rich. So you were born again so you could be— the Bible said in Corinthians, glory to the name of God, that he became poor. Corinthians 11, that through his poverty you might be rich. Just in case somebody's still struggling with that, you were born to be healed. With his stripes you're healed already, past tense. So, so you got to start employing your faith. You were born to have joy. And be happy. Stop letting the devil beat you up in life and put your faith to work. Get aggressive. Glory to God in your faith. Thank you. Shamande de kisura bayi. Get a hold of yourself, man, and get this straight. Snap out of it. See, you're moving in your feelings too much. Oh my God. See, when you operate in feelings and emotions, it's the direct opposite of moving in faith, because faith is not emotional. It's a spiritual strategy that is deliberately employed to bring forth a better life. You don't react to life with emotions. You react to life— whoo, whoo, oh my God— you react to life with faith. Oh God. Oh, get a hold of yourself, man. Click. You gotta learn how to click from feelings to faith. The next time— oh God— the next time you rise up in your feelings and want to react to something in feeling, just go click, click, click, click, click, and go from feelings to faith. Just go. Just say— just, just stop where you're at. When you shake yourself, go click, click, click. It's just that easy to click from what you feel and to trust God for a difficult— click, click, click, click, click, click. From feeling— are you right where you are? You'll just go click, click, click, click, click. Because when you tempted to react in your flesh I need you to react in faith toward God. Oh boy, oh boy. So the question becomes, are you maintaining in life or are you really pursuing aggressively like a bulldog? Listen, uh, my nephew through marriage, Marquez, he has a bulldog at his house, okay? So let me tell you, I don't fear nothing, but I do operate in carefulness. Glory to the name of God. So anytime I come I'm checking his position. Watch this. And his attitude, because at the end of the day, I ain't got time to have no encounter with a bulldog. Glory to the name of God. Because bulldogs are aggressive. We're going to talk about that. But let me tell you something, bulldogs will pursue. Glory to the name of God. Are you just getting by or are you pursuing? Are you dry docked or are you launching out into the deep? Have you lost so much faith that you just got on the dock and said, oh, I ain't stepping out in that, I'm not doing that, I'm afraid to do that? Listen, what are you going to do? Faith says I'm going to launch out into the deep. Bulldog faith says I'm gonna jump in with all my whole body and trust God when I get in the water. Oh, are you holding the fort or are you taking new ground? Are you just trying to protect what you got? Or are you trying to strategically, through faith, take new ground? Are you settled with business as usual into the status quo? Hear me. Or are you reaching to the next dimension? Not the next level, the next dimension. Are you trying to get to a place that has never been manifested in your life and maybe in somebody else's life? Faith can take you where you want to go, but it has to be aggressive. Are y'all with me? Oh my God. Are you throwing in the towel or are you getting yourself ready for the next round? See, some of you've been beat so bad, but you gotta get ready for the next round. Fix that cut, fix that cut. Boxing, one of my favorite sports. Fix that cut. I like real boxing, but I also like boxing movies, one of my favorite type movies. I like Rocky movies, I like Creed. These movies, uh, they show the ability to come back when you get beat down. You got to make up in your mind, man, that I'm bouncing back in faith. I've been hit, I had a blow. Let me get close to you again. Let me get close to you again. You got to make up your mind. I'm bouncing back in faith. Okay, just touch yourself. Type it in the comments. Say, I'm bouncing back in faith. You got to make everybody— you're gonna get back in this fight, man, and bounce back in Faith, man. Oh, we— are you passive? This is my locker room talk to you, man. I mean, really. Or are you pressing? Are you just passive? It's too many passive Christians that just let things go. But we got faith, man, that we can move mountains. We got faith that we can call forth the reserves of heaven into our life. We got to be aggressive. Listen, Maya Angelou put it like this: are you surviving or are you thriving? Glory to God. You got to decide you're just not going to merely survive, but you're gonna thrive as well. I'm almost done, y'all. Y'all stay with me, man. I'm almost done. Are you circling the wagons, as the old people would say, or are you staying ahead of the curve? Are you leading the change? Are you behind the 8-ball, or are you out there saying, I'm gonna get this done because God gave me this vision, God gave me this purpose? These are some questions. Are you protecting what little you have, or are you aggressively, aggressively possessing— oh my God— all that is rightfully yours? Listen well. What is it? Either you're aggressive in faith or you're passive-aggressive. You're passive-aggressive. You talk like you got faith, but when it comes down to putting it in action, uh-oh, you don't. Oh, le mansé de bébé Kossiandabaye. Oh, glory to God. You got to make up in your mind you're not going to be passive-aggressive. Oh, we Glory to Jesus. And you got to make up in your mind that you're going to be really aggressive for real, and by faith go after what you see, what God has shown you. Oh, listen, are you gonna get back up? I challenge you, get up in your bulldog faith and win. Let's get more aggressive about our faith and let's take what's ours in Christ. Let's go to Hebrews 10:38-39. I'm wrapping this up, man. I'm wrapping it up. I'm wrapping it up. I'm wrapping it up. Glory to God. You got to get passionate, tenacious, aggressive like a bulldog. Woo! And you got to take your persistence and go against the resistance that's coming in your life. Hebrews 10:38. I gotta go. I gotta go now. Watch this. The just shall live by faith. Watch this again. Let me start right there. You, you live by it. It's how you breathe, it's how you move. That word live there is zio in Greek. It literally means that it is your life support, your life source that comes from another realm. So your life support is not just your breath that runs through your lungs when you wake up every day. The reality is there is life being given to you from another realm, from the heavenly realm, from the supernatural realm of God. Ah, oh boy, oh boy. Let me— let's go, let's go. You got to live by this. You, every day, you got to deliberately choose to live by faith. Faith, pisteuo in Greek, which means to be absolutely, totally confident, completely reliant upon. Oh, so when I live by faith, I am totally confident absolutely reliant, totally dependent upon God for everything I need. So I live by that creed. Listen, God is only limited to your job if you limit him to that job. So you've limited your income to what you exchange your time for, but you got to expand your faith, man, and know that God Listen, I talked earlier about the aggressive faith we're putting on purchasing 3 debt-free buildings. We're gonna do it, man, by faith, and we're gonna rejoice. Glory to God. And we're gonna testify to the world what God did. Listen, that's aggressive. And I'm not looking at the amount of people in the seats at my services. God, if I did that, ain't no way we could do it. But it's gonna happen supernaturally. Woo! Through the power of God, through him breathing life through another dimension. Because we live— because we're absolutely confident, totally reliant upon a real God that does exist. And our Daddy is rich, so there's no limits to him. You can't put a strain on God. Ah, you can't do it. Who got— I'm almost through, I'm almost through. He said, but if any man draw back— draw back, watch this— my soul shall have no pleasure in him. Oh boy. So God says if you're passive-aggressive and you draw back in your faith, God said that the core of his will— this is God talking through the apostle— he said the core of his will, there's no pleasure. He tastes not pleased with that. Then in Hebrews 11:6, he come back and say, without faith it's impossible to please God. So God says, I take no pleasure in them that will draw back in their faith. Yeah, listen, you got to be aggressive, man. If you want God to be pleased, you want God to respond, get out there, start believing God for some ridiculous big things. I'm talking about for the kingdom. I'm not talking about going out here saying, God, give me a Bentley. What you want it for, right? I'm talking about really going, putting your faith on something for your business, for your family. Put the faith on your mortgage. Declare that you're gonna pay your house off in the name of Jesus. Jesus. Listen, I'm telling you right now, I've been saying this, glory to the name of God, and I'm telling you right now, God has called us to owe no man anything, and he's about to eliminate debt for real in our lives. You gotta listen, you gotta set your faith on that. You got a right to. Don't stay at the dock, don't get in the comfort zone. Trust God that he's going to take care of it all. Watch this, he said, my soul has no pleasure in him, but we are not of them who draw back unto perdition. Watch this, perdition is sin and evil works, it's being under the curse. So we're not people who are under a curse. When we got saved, we came under the blessing, and everything good is under the blessing. Everything bad is under the curse. So why— if it— if you had enough faith to believe God to save you, you need to take that same faith and grow it and believe your Father to take care of you. Because when he saved you, he didn't— he didn't just save you from perdition. Oh my God, he saved you. Brisca tabamando shiataia. We give you praise, God. He saved you. Oh God, we love you, Jesus. He saved you to be free from poverty, sickness, disease. He wants you to have joy. He wants you to live an abundant life and enjoy your life. That's why you're saved. Don't go back to what's under the curse. Oh God. But of them that believe to the saving of the soul— watch this. So we walk like people whose souls— our mind, our will, emotions, our soul. We're tripartite beings. We're body, we're soul, we're spirit. We're three parts. So your spirit, glory be to God, hallelujah, is where God lives. If you're saved, God moves in when he fills you with the Holy Ghost in your spirit. Spirit, and he becomes the command of your entire center. He controls your soul, your mind, your will, your emotions, your intellect, your ability to feel, your ability to taste, your ability to hear. All of these things are functions of your soulical man. Your ability to make decisions are in your soul. So when the spirit man influences the soul, he's influencing the soul to make faithless decisions— watch this— that manifest out of your bios, your body, your biology. So your psuche life, your psychological life, your soulical man is influenced by your zoe man, the Spirit of God. He superimposes itself on the soul. It's up to you now to make a decision to take this word, to take what he says to you and apply it by faith. Glory to God. Woo-wee! 1 John 5:4. Listen. The Bible says our faith, or our bulldog faith, our aggressive faith, is the victory that overcomes the world. Are y'all here today? Glory to God. Oh my God, listen, listen. God wants to release his promises in your life in a real way. But you got to get aggressive in your faith. God bless you, Janelle Carter Hoover, and Walking by Faith Ministries. God bless you, God bless you. Hallelujah! Glory to God, glory to God. Listen, I need you to understand something. God— and I'm done, I really am, I really am, I, I'm over my time really. Glory to God. But I want you to understand something. God is trying to increase your faith to the point where nothing is impossible if you believe. That's in the Bible, y'all know that, right? It's really in the scripture. So nothing shall be impossible to you if you believe. So as long as it aligns with the word and God's plan for your life, God said there's no impossibilities. You got to trust him. Glory to the name of God. Let's get— let's pray, man. Let's pray. Glory to God. Let's pray. Hey, my Thank you, Jesus. Oh, don't go anywhere. I want you to pray with me. I mean, I wanted to share some things with you that are very important. I'm not going to be long praying, but I want you to pray with me because I want to pray, one, for your persistence against the resistance, the plan of the enemy to stop your aggressive faith. I want to pray that you will move from the waiting room into the delivery room and give birth to Bulldog Faith. We're going to be talking about this for the next 7, 8 days, I promise you, because we're going to get an overflow in our faith. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, I thank you for every person that has watched this live, live or by replay. I decree and declare today, God, that they have the authority and the power to operate in a persistence against the resistance to their faith. I thank you for an aggressive move of God in their life because they begin to aggregate their faith toward things that are bigger than what they can provide for themselves. Oh my God. And we thank you that as we do this, we will move from the waiting room and go into the labor and delivery every room and give birth. I pray, oh my, shataba, even as I'm talking, somebody under the sound of my voice, I hear that, God, your water just broke. Yeah, yeah, your water just broke and you're about to give birth to bulldog faith. No more low living, no more sight giving, no more— glory to the name of God— living beneath your privilege, living in poverty, living in sickness and disease, living depressed and— oh my God— and despondent. God said today your water just broke and you're about to give birth. Glory to God. Amen. You're about to give birth. Glory to God. To bulldog faith. Not just saying you got faith. Glory to God. And nothing in your life. It really— you know, that's a bad testimony. Yeah, I hear you, God. God said to tell you that's a bad testimony to the world when you say you believe in the true and living God that owns everything and your life doesn't look anything like that. But God said today, if you would get out of the waiting room into the labor and delivery room and give birth— some of you already got it, you got it through this teaching. Stretch that faith and enlarge your tents. And we give you praise for overflow of faith, in Jesus' name. Amen. Glory to God. Listen, hold on, stay with me. Glory to God. I appreciate you guys that are here. Please share this. If this word blessed you, don't you get off of Facebook, YouTube, YouTube, Twitter, wherever you're watching, IG, without sharing this stream. This thing is streaming to all of those platforms I just named. Share it, please. There are several hundred of people watching this right now from different platforms, 3 different Facebook pages, IG, and Twitter, and Twitch. Share it, please, wherever you're watching from. Listen, I need every every person on this live. Listen, I don't want you to flinch at this, but I'm, I'm hearing God. Glory to God. There's a miracle seed that you need to get in the ground. The ways to give are scrolling at the bottom of this screen. Listen, there's something I need you to set your faith today with this seed. See, sowing is a part of God's exchange system in the earth, and anytime— hear me— the word of God has communicated to you from a man of God, the Bible says, or a woman of God, you should communicate your natural things. So I want you to respond to this word in faith. Don't you leave this live without responding to this word in faith. I need every person watching to get a seed of $21, a miracle seed. That's what he told me to tell you. Get it now, do it, trust God, and watch God begin to multiply your giving and receiving. Father, I pray right now for every person that will move in obedience and sow this seed of $21 into this 21-day fast and this word. I decree and declare, God, that this seed will come up again for them a thousand times more. And as we're teaching about faith, I thank you that they will have an overflow of faith that will produce an overflow of finances because because of their obedience to your word. Not a man, but to your word. God, in the name of Jesus, you said that we should give and it will be given to us, good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will men give to our bosom. I thank you that as they sow today, men shall give to their bosom, in Jesus' name. Get the seed in the ground. The ways to give are on the screen. Cash App or waterchurch.com/donate. Whatever you choose to do, that money goes right to the church. Put the money into ministry. Watch this: when you sow into the spirit, you reap of the spirit eternal things. So I dare you to get in the ground. Hallelujah! Get it in the ground and watch God move for you. Listen, if you're not fasting with us and perhaps you're on live, wherever you are— YouTube, Facebook, Time 3, Twitter— wherever you're watching from, I encourage you to fast with us. Listen, if you want to be a part of the fast, it's simple. Just go to radachurch.com, R-A-D-A-H dot com. Glory to the name of God. And click the link on the website that says Fast 23, and click the button that says download the fast strategy Listen, you want to stay with us, we'll be right back here in the morning at 5 praying. I pray you do this with us. Read your scriptures every day. We're going to build our faith, we're going to build our finances, we're going to build our spiritual power in these next 21 days to overflow. Listen, I love you with the love of the Lord. Y'all have a supernatural day, and I'll see you in the morning at 5. God bless you. Hallelujah. Glory We give you the glory, God. We give you the honor. Thank you for all the comments. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. And God bless you, Bruce. God bless you again, Belinda, my wife. Glory to God, I love you. God bless you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Bacon Champion. Glory to the name of God, bless you. Thank you for being on. Glory to God. Thank you, Demona Jackson. Glory to God for being on. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lori Adams. God bless you, woman of God. Thank you for being on. Thank you, Lord. Listen, guys, I want to say this real quick for y'all still here. For those of you in Jackson, Mississippi, this Saturday You want to be in Jackson, glory to God, and meet us at the Venue by Roseburg, 420 Meadowbrook Road in Jackson, Mississippi at 5 o'clock. It's gonna be off the chain, man. I love y'all. Y'all be blessed. I'm out, I'm out. I gotta go. I'm out. Oh.
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