The Dominion Way of Life, Part E | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr. | 6 February 2026

Well, a pleasant good afternoon to everyone. I pray you are well on this Friday. Happy Friday, man. Pray y'all are doing good today, and I am excited as usual to be in your presence and to take an opportunity to share the word of the Lord. I feel Jesus, man. I pray you guys that are fasting with us, uh, the Holy Spirit gave us a break this morning for 5. I was sitting on the couch and he said to give you a break, and it was about 11 o'clock, and I just went into our tech system and sent out a blast. And I pray you rested well this morning, uh, but we'll be right back in prayer in the morning at 5 AM. Uh, I kind of missed it, uh, but I know that, you know Some of you might have needed that break to sleep in a little longer, and I pray you enjoyed it. Praise God. We are here today. Do me a favor, family. As the lower third says on the screen, please share. So let's get in here and let's do our due diligence, and let's like, let's share, let's comment, and let's let the world know that we're eating the word today. And glory to God. What we're receiving is a blessing to us, and we believe that it— as it blesses us, is going to bless them also. So please, guys, make sure you're sharing this, uh, right now. So glad to see— hey, Tanya Kirby, good to see you, uh, this afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Shannon. Good afternoon, Prophet. Good to see you. Uh, good afternoon, Pastor Jeffrey. Good to see you, sir. Um, just welcome everybody that's here. Uh, we're gonna just take a few moments to give, uh, people opportunity to share and people opportunity to get on. Glory to the name of God. So please share. Um, we got an exciting word today. Uh, we're going right back into this teaching on the mystery of dominion. Glory to the name of God. And I believe it's going to be powerful. It's going to be fire. Uh, good afternoon, Sharia. Minister Burns, love your daughter. Good to see you on here. Glory to God. Uh, You again, you guys come in, please share, please share. Glory to God, uh, it's important. Hey, Lady Zion, God bless you, love you, good to see you on here as well. Praise God. Thank you all for sharing, glory to God, and tagging people. Glory to God. God bless you, Nicole, good to see you. I pray you're feeling better, uh, young lady. I pray that the Lord is touching your body. Glory to the name of God. Uh, God bless you, Stephanie, good to see you this afternoon. Uh, yeah, good to see everybody. Glory to the name of God. I know Lately I've been getting in here just kind of pressing the gas and teaching, but, uh, it's always good to interact. Glory to the name of God. Glory to God, man. Shariel just tagged somebody named Sister Big Bone. Glory to God. We definitely want her to get on so we can kind of get her Facebook name changed. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. Yes, please share. Glory to God. Please like. We love Jesus. Glory to God. Hallelujah! Y'all can laugh at that. Glory to God. It's just, it's just, it's just, it's okay to have fun. Praise God. Hallelujah! Glory to God. You don't have to be saved on a sourpuss. Glory to God. Hallelujah! God is so good. He's such a good God. Hallelujah! So please tag, share, praise the name of God. Somebody said hashtag name change. Hallelujah! Glory to God. God is good. God bless you, Prophet Myrtle. It's good to see you today. Uh, just everybody, glad to see you in the room. Glory to God. We're gonna here. Uh, man, I'm— this, this teaching, I, I pray y'all been being blessed about this Dominion revelation, man. Yeah, I've been teaching this a long time, but I'm gonna have to be honest with you, you know, this week God has unlocked a lot of new dimensions of this for me. Uh, some I've shared, some I have not. Uh, and I'm telling you, man, this, this message is good for the masses, it's good for the soul, it's where the body of Christ glory to the name of God, uh, needs to be. Praise the name of God. God is so good, he's so kind. Let's pray, family, and then we're gonna jump into this today. So Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you for your goodness, your mercy, your grace. We thank you for your kindness, your favor. And Father, we thank you that beside you there is no other. You're a good God, you're mighty, you're awesome, you're good all the time. It's in you we live, it's in you we move, it's in you we have our being. And Father, we thank you for this called dominion. It is the mandate of mankind. And so, Father, I thank you that you have given us an opportunity to have authority and rulership in our sphere of influence and literally take our place as gods of this world, to displace and replace Satan. Glory to the name of God. And take our place, our rightful place, as the gods of this world, because you are the God of gods, you are the King of Kings. And I thank you that I'm talking to royalty royalty today. Glory to God. I'm talking to peculiar people. I'm speaking to a holy nation, God. God, a royal priesthood that you desire to use. Your word says you have made us kings and priests unto God the Father through the Lord Jesus Christ for your glory and for your honor. So I thank you, God, that as we receive the word today, God, that we will begin to take the things we are receiving and we'll take them out into the world. Glory to the name of God. And we'll apply them and we'll see great change. Thank you in advance for the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost. Have your way today in Jesus' name. Amen. Glory to God. My God, God is so good. He's so wonderful. He's so kind. Glory to the name of God. Welcome everyone. God bless you, uh, Prophet Cornelius. Good to see you, man of God. Welcome everybody. Glory to the name of God. He's so good. And, uh, we're going to jump into this, man, and we're going to see God move, uh, in a great way on today. Glory to God. So let's, let's read our foundational scripture, uh, this afternoon. Glory to God. Hallelujah. God bless you, Teresa. Good to see you. Praise the name of God. Uh, let's read our foundation scripture in Proverbs 30. Glory to the name of God. So let's go there. Proverbs 30, glory to the name of Jesus, and 18. And we're going to read, glory to God, Proverbs 30— I'm sorry, and 18, not 18 and 30. Proverbs 30 and 18, praise God. And we're going to read our foundational scripture. Here we go. The Bible says, there are, there are 3 things which are too wonderful for me, yes, 4 I do not understand. The way of an eagle in the air, the way of a serpent on the rock, the way of the ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid. Or the Hebrew transliteration for maid is virgin. Okay, so he's saying now, these are things that I just am in awe of. They are wonderful. I don't understand them, but thank God the mystery is being unlocked and we're understanding how dominion connects to these things because these four metaphors is what we're learning. They are prophetically, uh, weaved into the tapestry of our personal dominion mandate. If we don't understand how prophetically the eagle soars, how prophetically the— who, again, the eagle soars through life, uh, he rides life, uh, he never allows life to ride him. He rides life, rides above life, through life. The serpent one's life. Glory to God. The, the eagle represents supernatural systems. Glory to the name of God. The, the serpent on the rock, uh, represents supernatural wisdom. Glory to God. And today we're going to talk about this ship in the sea that represents a supernatural strategy. Glory to the name of God. So we gotta understand that prophetically and volitionally, hear this, volitionally by meaning there's a vocation, a calling, an assignment connected to the prophetic revelation of who you are that you should be fulfilling. Thank you, Jesus. And that you should actually be walking out. So not only prophetically, 'cause we'll hear things prophetically and we won't know how to actually indict it, how to actually engage it or bring it to pass. And watch this, that happens through encounters with authentic apostolic ministry, not just me, but any apostolic type that is authentic has the ability to take what is prophetic over your life. Watch this, release the key that unlocks the mystery and the government so you can volitionally function in what God has called you to do. My God, you ought to clip that. Glory to the name of God. So, so again, technically, clip it, that a prophet will prophesy and release a prophetic spermatic word for your future over your life concerning your identity. But then apostles carry the strategy in them to bring that word to pass. So you have the prophetic, but then you need the apostolic to push you volitionally into action so that what is prophesied is actually realized. And so that's why we've been fasting, all right? That's why we've been praying, glory to God, because we wanna make sure that we're continually equipping you, glory to the name of God, to sha lebi koshian tatabayah, rambunkush katatabay, reba, to bring the past, the prophetic, utterances that are over your life. Glory to the name of God. And listen, by the way, guys, please pray for our First Lady. Um, I don't never like to see her not feeling well, so she's not feeling well. This— whatever this bug that's been going around has jumped on her, and, uh, so she's been resting and trying to, you know, kick it, and yet still trying to be that strong rock of a woman she is and do stuff. So, you know, I'd be trying to make her just stop and sit down and take care of herself. Glory to the name of God. Instead of trying to take care of everybody else. So please, uh, keep Lady Woods in prayer. Glory to the name of God, that her recovery will be speedy. Glory to the name of God. All right, let's get into this, man. So today we're talking about this ship in the sea. Glory to God. And the ship in the sea, again, when we were unpacking the metaphor, we talked about this represents the church or kingdom citizens in the world, the ocean being the world. The ship being the kingdom citizen that glides on top of the world, dominating the ocean, right? Again, domination, when we talk about dominion, is not controlling individuals. It's having influence in a way that people voluntarily follow because they understand they need the influence and the light that's on your life so they can function and actually take dominion in their sphere of influence. So I don't want anybody to get this twisted when we're teaching about domination. Domination is not about— glory to the name of Jesus— oh, it's not about dominating, manipulating people. It's about, glory to God, dominating in our fear of purpose, our fear of influence, and people gravitating to that. And they actually become empowered to become dominators themselves because the essence of being fruitful and multiplying is actually multiplying the fruitfulness you produce. Okay, so, ah, yeah, yeah. So I feel like teaching this morning. Glory to this, this afternoon. Glory to God. Ha, shiba ndolobo kushia. So we're not, we don't dominate and manipulate people. And you got a lot of people out here, man, especially prophetic and apostolic types who will try to manipulate and dominate people through their gift. But I just need y'all to have a little more discernment, okay? And, you know, and I need you to kind of sense when you're being manipulated. Glory to the name of God. Because the reality is, family, that's not what we're called to. You know, I said this last week, I'll say it again. You know, I— and even before I saw this big blowup about this in California, I posted this before. You can look at it on my timeline. And I think it was a little over 2,300 people that engaged this post. But when you see prophets who are calling out names, addresses, and all of this stuff, uh, most of the time that lends to a level of manipulation to try to manipulate somebody to believe in the prophetic. They've gone on social media, looked at all your information, call out your birthday. They know who your relatives are. They know your name. The reality is, family, you already know that stuff. But so many times we won't be discerning and we'll get excited in the moment And it's all a manipulative trick, and that's not what God has called us to. God has called us— glory to the name of God— to really embrace one another in a way— watch this— that we know those that labor among us, so that who you are complements me and who I am complements you, and together we advance the body of Christ. Never having to manipulate somebody into belief. Because God is God enough that he can do miracles for real. He can reveal things for real without us having to be manipulative. Oh my God. And try to make someone follow God. And that's, that never is what God wants, right? So when we think about the ship, man, the ship again is the kingdom citizen in the world, dominating the world, glorifying God. This massive vessel constantly— watch this— moving forward, constantly moving forward. Glory to God. And leaving waves behind him that ultimately disappear, which is an indication when you're flowing as a ship in the world, as an apostolic vessel who has been deployed by God. Glory to God. You're, you're gonna leave waves behind you, right? It is not in the navigational plan for you to look behind you— hear me— and try to manage those waves. Those waves, watch this, ultimately disappear on their own, and they leave no trace to locate your direction. So watch this. Let's, let's say for instance, and let me just give you this example. This is a true story. When I was in the Navy, one of my high school friends, which was a very good friend of mine, we played baseball together on the baseball team. I played basketball and baseball. He was on the baseball team with us. And I love this brother, man. He was a good brother, good heart. Uh, he had basketball goal in his backyard. Matter of fact, he had the best basketball goal in the neighborhood. So we would love to go there because he had so much concrete and space. We would love to hoop in his yard, right? And, um, just a great genuine brother. Uh, and we had such a knit when we both went to the Navy. He wanted to go to the Navy because I was going. And, you know, for a long time I battled with what happened to him because I kind of— I took a different path than the Navy because my plot was different, uh, because I started working, uh, in the dental field. I was working on, uh, several degrees simultaneously, uh, but he ended up going as enlisted and got placed on a ship. And while Marlon was on this ship, man, there was some harsh player of some kind. I don't know the full story of what was going on happening on the back of the ship, and he actually fell overboard. In the aft part, the rear part of the ship. That rudder is so strong. Watch this. It's a small rudder and motor in the back of this huge vessel, aircraft carrier, aircraft carrier ship that powers the ship forward. The motors sucked him in and it took his life, man. Here's the thing, they didn't realize he was gone. And the ship is moving so fast forward as they go to try to search, they have no trace of where he could have went in and how. Oh boy. Because the waves have disappeared. And, you know, every time I think about that, you know, it does something to me because at the end of the day, you know, I hate that happened for him. Such a good guy, man. You know, but the reality is You're not supposed to be looking behind you trying to fix your history. You can be so caught up in history that you will miss destiny. Glory to God. And you gotta make up in your mind that you're not gonna chase history. And, you know, and at that point, even with Marlon, man, that rotor, once they discover what really happened, you know, that revealed just how powerful and the vacuum this rotor is, that soon as he hit the water, it just kind of vacuumed him in. And here's what I'm going— and I know that's— that I see people coming and it's sad, and it is, glory to God. But listen, the reality is the Holy Spirit is the engine, the propeller that's pushing us forward. And oh my God, if you start chasing history, it'll destroy destiny. You cannot be so preoccupied with history once again that you miss destiny. Oh my God. And so many times we'll chase hurt in the past, we'll chase exes and people that left your life. If your ex left your life, let me tell you something. Stop trying to go back and be with your ex. They are your ex for a reason. They are ex. So you need to let that go and think about all the reasons that you actually are not in that situation again. And sometimes we'll do those things for familiarity. We'll do those things because it's a familiar thing that we've had, and it appears safe at the time, but it's dangerous because there's so much ahead of you in the future. So you got to be like that vessel that's on the sea, that's pursuing, elaban sakai, the future and what's forward and keep dominating. Glory to God. So let's start right here. And I wanna drop this on you, man. You cannot operate in dominion as a ship on the ocean or a kingdom citizen in the world, here it is, if you are not clear, watch this, that the word of God, that what God says, his word, whether it be through the scripture, what he has literally inspired and written through men, what he speaks prophetically, what he speaks, glory to the, verbally, what he speaks through a dream or a vision, you gotta be sure that what God says is absolutely— hear this— and categorically unchangeable. Because a lot of times, as a ship on the ocean, you can only— unlike the eagle who's up in the air and can see the whole perspective— there's sometimes the ship— glory to God— vision is completely impaired. And the ship has to depend on the navigational instruments. Here it is, I'm a nautical guy, I'm a Navy guy, so I'm telling you, I know what I'm talking about. Have to depend on the nautical instruments to guide them through when they cannot see. What am I saying? As a kingdom citizen, person in the world who is pursuing dominion in your fear of influence, you must have your ear trained to know the voice of God and know that when God speaks, glory to God, what he says is true and it will never be altered. And because when a king speaks a thing, it's law. You gotta know you can trust God's voice when he speaks. Otherwise, fear and other things will grip you, and you'll start trying to alter your course and even go back because you can't see your way forward. There'll be times in the pursuit of dominion you're not going to be able to see your way forward, and you got to have vision in the dark. That depends hear me, on the voice of God. Now let me show you how powerful the word is. So if we go back to Genesis, and I'm gonna just touch this, we see that God began to recreate the world in— after verse 2, because it was in chaos. Chaos is the default setting for everything before it encounters God, because you're born in sin and shaped in iniquity. So you're born in chaos, right? So entropy suggests that chaos is the default setting. And most of the time when we don't understand things, we go back to chaos. But watch how God began to create with his word. And I just want to use one example on how he eliminated chaos. The Bible says he created the stars and the sun and the stars and the moon. I'm sorry, to be a light by night. So he created and spoke to the stars and moon and told it to be a light by night. He spoke to the sun and told it to be a light by day. Here's the power of the word. When God speaks something, it's law, right? So I'm just trying to show you how you gotta trust this, and then we're gonna get to the end of this. So if he speaks to sun and tells it, your job is to shine in the day, The stars, your job is to shine at night, moon at night. Now let me show you how powerful that is. While mankind has tried to interpret stars, they measured heat in stars, they measured distance from stars and sun to Earth, they got, they got technical things that they have discovered about the universe. But here's what they don't know, they really don't understand how these masses of light light stay in place, how these masses of light were actually created. They do not understand why the sun— watch this— never shines at night. They really don't under— they've come up with a theory for that which is still— it still doesn't speak to the mystery, right? They do not understand why the stars don't shine in They don't because God told them when to shine. I never seen the sun come out when it's not supposed to be out at night. Never seen the stars shining in the daytime because they obey the word of God. Watch this. God created something called gravity that they don't understand. Gravity keeps the Earth circular, man. I was watching this thing with Will Smith from Pole to Pole where he's going around the Earth, and he was in Antarctica, uh, near the South Pole, right? The South Pole is at the bottom of the Earth. They're still walking around, and if you cut the Earth in half, we will see the bottom of people's feet. This is how that would really look. The Earth really is circular. Them, but they don't fall off. And the perspective looks as if they're right side up because the law of gravity, whoo, keeps them on Earth. The oceans at the bottom of the Earth are still there. Why? Because gravity is obeying the word of God. Whoa, shai, etaba mande kosia. Are y'all hearing this? So whatever God speaks You could take it to the bank. You have to depend on it and trust it and not trust in what you say because you as a ship in the world is very important and you cannot falter. It's very important that you finish your course and you do what God tells you to do. I'm telling y'all, think about that, man. Cut the earth in half, you gonna see the bottom of people's feet, but they gonna still be walking around. And if they look at you, they gonna see the bottom of your feet. But watch this, we never float up into the sky. But here's the power of that law. Watch this, the law of gravity works for, watch this, saint and sinner, 'cause God put it in place for the occupants of the world. Huh. So watch this, if you jump off of a 70-story building and a sinner who's not saved jump off the 70-story building, watch what's gonna happen. You both are going to fall because the law has to work because the king spoke it. So you might ought to be wise and not be jumping off no buildings, right? Glory to the name. So that means you got to use wisdom while you're floating through life, while you're dominating the world and trying to be that big massive ship, that massive vessel that God has called you to be. My God, we love you. My God, we praise you. So let's look at this now. So let's look at this. Let's go to Proverbs. Hallelujah. I can go further, but let me— let's— I want to bring— I want to give you this part, right? Because a ship in the midst of the sea is always— and we're talking about a massive vessel now carrying cargo of some type. If it's an entertainment ship like a cruise ship, the cargo is passengers, human beings. If it's an import-export ship, it's carrying— glory to the name of God— cargo that has to go from one place to another to be sold in the marketplace, to be designed or created in a mill. Are y'all hearing this? To be distributed to the world. So I want to tell you 3 things today, and I want you to write them down. That ships carry and that you carry as a ship, as a kingdom citizen in the midst of the world, as a dominion citizen who is here to rule, to have authority in your sphere of influence. There are 3 things that you're carrying that are unique to you. Are y'all hearing this? And your purpose, your design, your destiny that you need to know you're carrying. Number 1, Write it down. Ships carry products. So can I tell you today, and we're going to read, we're going to go to Proverbs 31:14, but can I tell you today, inside of you is a Jesus product, right? Glory to God. Is a King's product that you came to this planet after being manufactured with deliberate purpose, packaged with all the potential necessary to carry out that purpose. With a very unique destiny. You were born to deliver a package. You are here because there is a Holy Ghost Jesus product that you gotta release and deliver into the earth. Oh my God. I dare you to rub your, woo, shabba bandilo, bo kush shabba, to rub your belly, Jesus, and say, I'm carrying products. How? Glory to God, that I must release. Praise God. Say, I'm carrying a product that the earth needs. And you know what? I was praying yesterday and God reminded me. He said, son, I honored you. I told you that I would give you, glory to God, extended life to fulfill your purpose. 'Cause I was, man, I was like, man, all this stuff I gotta finish and do. And the Lord said, he reminded me of, I was in a funeral one time and I said, God, give me 51 more years. I was 51 at the time. And I believe as I'm talking to you today, that God's gonna give me 51 more years. 51 more years. Glory to the name of God, to be— to finish the course. Glory to God that he has given me to finish. Praise the name of God. Hallelujah. And I'll have health in the right frame of mind. I have decreed I'll never have Alzheimer's, I'll never have dementia, I'll never have cancer, but I'll be able to fulfill what God has called me to do. And if he did it for the men in the Old Testament who had tapped into the products they were carrying And the things they need to release, he can do it through you and I. He can give us life to finish. I need somebody to shout that, life to finish. Glory to God. So you got products in your belly. Oh, shababa tokosia, that the world needs. And you're carrying them. Let's read Proverbs 31:14. The Bible says, she is like the merchant ships. She brings her food from afar. Watch this. So we are ships, watch this, they have come from afar. Woo! Glory to God. We are ships that have come, 'cause watch, this is not where we're from. Heaven is our home country. We're just ambassadors here on assignment, sent here by God as a ship. Glory to God. To dominate this earth. Glory to God. Watch this, to bring nourishment and food and prayer product to this earth. Glory to God, that they need from heaven. So, oh God, so that, oh my God, they can have heavenly encounters so that they can know that God is God. Watch this, so that they will have an opportunity to make a real solid decision that God is God. Because most of the time the world looks at religion and the church and they say, oh no, I don't want that because it, it doesn't look like what it should. And that's why there's not. So they stay doing what they're doing. Go watch this, going back to how gravity works. Just every other law works that way. That's why God says, I reign on the just as well as the unjust. So if a person who's not saved, watch this, operates in the principles of dominion, and oh my God, watch this— and builds their business. They may be a sinner, but they start— and it's proved because 97% of all Americans work for the other 3%, and of the 3%, 0.637 is saved, Spirit-filled people that actually hire and pay people. Are y'all with me? The reality is they're running these spaces because they're operating in the principle. It's time for us to take our place are y'all hearing this? And replace and de-place the enemy's ambassadors who are falsely and illegally occupying what was designed for you and I to control. Oh God, but you gotta discover that you are a ship that comes from afar. Glory to God. You are a vessel that God sent to this planet from heaven out of his bosom Glory to God, to bring the earth food. You are a merchant ship. Ha! That's why you— I asked you yesterday, how do you show up in the world? How do you show up as a merchant in the marketplace? How do you show up? Do you know what money is? Money is what you get when you give somebody something they cannot receive without you. I'm gonna sit there right there. I'm just— okay. Sit right there for a minute, okay? Money is what you receive when you give the world something it cannot receive without you. You got to discover what kind of ship you is— you are. Oh God, what kind of ship you are. You gotta discover that, man. Glory to God. So that you can show up and make the exchange. The wealth of the wicked laid up for the just, right? You can't get the wicked wealth if you're not making the exchange. So the wicked will exchange their wealth. It never said the wealth of the wicked is going to be given to you. It said it's laid up. So how do I remove it from being laid up? I got to position myself as a ship carrying cargo that they will pay me for. Oh my God, that they will give me their wicked money and exchange. So that means I can't lock myself up in the church and not show up in the marketplace. I can't get so caught up— oh my God, clip this or clip that, glory to God— I can't get caught up in good church and great church services that I don't show up as a merchant ship. Oh, Oh God, what kind of ship are you? And make the exchange. So, so I got to show up. So I ask you again, how do you show up in the world? And I don't want you to answer that so quick. I want you to take introspective. I want you to pray about it. What kind of ship are you? And a lot of times your lack of money is totally connected to your lack of revelation of the kind of ship you are. Clip that. See, when you don't know what kind of ship you are, hear me, you lack money, you lack resources. But when you discover the kind of ship you are, whoa, glory to God, good God. Listen, I'm, I'm trusting God because I know supernaturally it's in the that he's gonna reveal to me or Felicia how she can distribute those cakes. She's— because they're so good, but she gonna be able to bake those cakes and extrapolate all of that sugar that's bad for you out of it and replace it. It's something supernatural that has never been revealed, I'm telling you. And she gonna have the world's first sugar-free cake for real that tastes just like the red velvet she baked now, that tastes just like the pound cake she bakes now, because the resource to do it is in the We just gotta unlock the mystery. Where is it? We gotta pray through until we see it. Watch this. So we can make the exchange of cakes in the marketplace at a level nobody's doing. Even though her cakes is right here the way they are now, just thinking we got a sugar-free cake that tastes the same way. That's how she shows up in the world. She's skilled outside of her ministry calling and anointing. She is skilled to be a baker 'cause she bakes with love. It's not even so much, you know, the skill set naturally, it's the emotion and the passion that comes from a purpose that's put in it that makes that cake taste so good. Oh my God, glory to God. That's why we were somewhere, somebody was eating the cake and everybody else just falling out over the cake, it was so good. One guy just said, "Nah, the cake ain't that good anyway." way. I had to— I really just really correct him, like, bro, what are you eating? You, you ain't even got the right cake in your mouth, sir. Because this cake is good because of the purpose is on her life to bake and curate at that level. You got to discover what kind of ship you are. Oh my God, my God, my God, we, we need Jesus. Glory to God. Hallelujah. We, we need him Glory to God, to show us what we've never seen. Glory to God. Are y'all with me? Y'all learning something today? Glory to God, I pray you are. So you carry unique products. Are y'all ready for number 2? Number 2, are y'all ready for this? Ships carry revelation. Good God Almighty. Okay, let's, let's go to Ezekiel 30:9. Let me show you what that looks like. So not only do you carry product as a ship, but you also carry revelation. First of all, you cannot have revelation, which is photizo in Greek. The Greek word for revelation is photizo, which— and it's where we get words like photograph or photography. Clip that. Glory to God. And a photo is always seen in advance before it is produced, whether it's digital or through film. The photographer has to put the subject in frame and snap the picture. They have to see the photo before it is seen. Watch this. As a ship, you have to see it before you see it. Otherwise, when it manifests, you will not recognize it. Oh my God, clip that, please. Clip that. Uh, listen. You gotta see it before you see it. If you don't, when it manifests, you will not know what it is. So God has to give you a revelation, good God, of where you're going, what you're called to do. Glory to God. He has to give you a prophetic vision. Watch this, in a revelation, fotizo always also deals with the idea that a curtain is being pulled back to unmask or reveal what was already in place. You just didn't see it. Revelation is not new. Just like this substance in the earth that can sweeten these cakes, oh my God, without sugar that is harmful. Oh my God, it's there. We just gotta pull back the curtain and see the revelation and carry that revelation into the world. Oh God, oh God. Mama sia, tobo kosia. Oh God, I love him. Ibo sia. Thank you for revelation today, God. We give you praise. So you should be carrying revelation. Let's Ezekiel 39, let's read it. On that day, watch this. Ezekiel 39, glory to God. Woo! Ezekiel 39. The Bible says this, on that day messengers shall go forth from me in what? Ships. To make the careless Ethiopians afraid. So watch this, two things in this text. The messengers, or the prophets, or the people who carry revelation from God. This is the messenger. You and I, not just in church with a mic in our hand, we are on earth to send a message. Not just through our preaching and our teaching and our singing and our praying, but we are alive to send a message that God is Lord and in charge. Oh my God, that God is large and in charge. Are y'all with me? Glory to the name of God. Uba shatabaki. So we are here not just to send a message with praise breaks. Mm, glory. Not to send a message with just people being slain in the spirit, but that God is large and in charge. So now we need to be carrying the message through our dominion purpose that you can rise to your place of authority and leadership and influence in the world if you're in alignment with God, and that God will make your victory sweatless if you trust him. We're here to carry a message. Oh my God. And the people in the world need the message that's in our belly as ships. Okay, maybe that's that. No, no, no, watch this, because there are people who are careless. Like these Ethiopians were being careless, and they need to fear the Lord. They need to have a reverence of the Lord. So we carry the message of what God can do to the world so they can see God using his people, not just inside of the church building. So again, I ask you, clip this: how do you show up in the world? Oh my God, how do you show up? Because your life carries a message. Wait a minute, the Apostle Paul you are epistles written and read of men. So what letter— that's an epistle, is a letter— what message is your letter conveying that the world is writing about you as a person who's connected to Christ? So when a worldly person looks into your life and looks into your affairs and sees how you function How are they reading you? What are they writing about you? You know, and when we look at social media today and we look at journalism today, a lot of times we see what people are writing about us, family. Oh my God, man. Oh my God. I hope y'all getting this. It's negative. It's not powerful. You know, I was watching a clip a while back of T.I. was on a podcast, I think with Kurt Franklin. and he was just talking about how he don't trust the church and he don't trust, you know, that religion is real. He think it's fake. And, and that's because he's— he has been reading epistles. Watch this. And T.I., if you're watching this, glory to God, and I know I've seen you from time to time pop up on these lives, man. Listen, if you're watching me today or if you catching this replay, I want you to know you need to keep engaging real epistles and not settle for religion. Glory to the name of God. You need to study real epistles that are operating in dominion purpose, who are operating in the real things of God. Okay, yeah, okay. So how— again, what story is being written about you when the world looks at you? I mean, this is soul food, man. We We eating, glory to God. I mean, I'm for real. I mean, we don't want to just be known for praise breaks because you see reels and I mean, people, I mean, you got bishops and pastors just shouting out through the church and I get it. We need to praise God. We got clips with people laying hands, just falling. We post a lot of that stuff, but can we post some of our successes in the world? Are y'all hearing this? Can we talk about, my God, what God is doing for us when we show up in the world and how lives are being impacted by that? Because we really ain't answered that question, man. How do we show up in the world? What, what does it look like to the world? What is their vantage point? What, what is their perspective of us when they see us? Okay, I'm gonna let I'm gonna sit that right there too. Okay, let's read Luke 5. Uh, y'all know this text, but watch this. So, so it was as the multitude pressed about him to hear the word of God. So there was a multitude of people out here at, at this lake called Gennesaret, and they pressed in to hear the word of God because Jesus is teaching, right? The Bible says he stood by the lake of Gennesaret and saw two boats standing by the But the fishermen had gone from their boats and were washing their nets. And then he got into one of the ships, which was Simon's, and asked him to put himself a little from the land. And he sat down and taught the multitudes from the ship. And when he had stopped speaking, he said to Simon, launch out into the deep, let down your nets for the draw. But Simon answered and said, Master, we have toiled all night, caught nothing. Nevertheless, here's the power of the word, right? Right, at your word, we're going to let down the net. And when they had done this, they caught a great number of fish, and their net was breaking. So they signaled their partners in the other ship to come help them, because their ship began to sink, because all the boats were filled based on the word of God. So when we obey the word of the Lord, man, I am. So that's Jesus, first of all, in this ship that belongs to Peter, right? People are around to hear the word. In order to have domination, first of all, you got to let Jesus on your ship, on your boat, and you got to not be like Peter's initial response and say, look, I know what I'm doing. I've told the night, I've been trying to make this happen in my life all this time, and it still ain't work, you got to get a nevertheless in your spirit because his next response was, nevertheless, at thy word, I'm gonna let down the net. So nevertheless means God's option is never less than yours. I'm gonna say that again. God's option— clip this— is never less than yours. So whatever God says is truth. Watch this. Even when your flesh might think he's wrong, even when your mind may say he's wrong. And you know, even in scripture, like Peter, he thought Jesus was just wrong, man. Hey, we've been out here all night long, we are professional fishermen, and you come over here talking about let down our nets? We've been doing this all night and still ain't caught nothing. But they didn't understand that Jesus was supernaturally in control of the positioning of the fish so he can teach them a lesson that You can do nothing without me. This is the whole moral of those 7 verses. You can do nothing, nothing without God. So you got to get that nevertheless in your spirit and say, his option is greater than mine. Yeah, I, I may know something about this, I may have been going through this, but the option that he's presenting is greater than my option. Are y'all with me? Glory to God. My God today. My God today. Listen, these disciples were professionals, so he made them fail at what they were good at. So in their role to being people of dominion, men of dominion, so that they can do greater works after he was gone and operating in their sphere of influence as the original 12 apostles souls, glory to God, and establish the church, he had to make them clear, you can do nothing without me. No matter how good you are at this, you can't do it without me. Can I submit to you this afternoon, no matter how good you are at a thing, you cannot do it without God. Good God Almighty. See, when you carry a revelation you're actually doing what Jesus said when he told them to launch into the deep. You're actually carrying revelation that's too deep. Watch this. Whew. And the reward is also too big. So it's too deep for you to naturally comprehend. And the reward of that is too big for you to handle alone. So this is why he's begging for his friends, his partners. So this is how dominion works. When you launch out into the deep, 'cause dominion is deep, man. Once you discover it and launch out into it and start flowing in it and know you can't do it without him, you need to realize you gotta pull on the people in your circle to help you get it done. You need partners to help haul in the harvest and the reward that comes through your dominion effort. That's why you need community. Listen, Jesus was saying, because I use your ship, I'm going to reward you with the benefits of allowing me to use your ship. That's what he was saying by bringing all them fish into there for them. So when you give your life to God, I want you to understand, when you truly start pursuing dominion and your purpose— glory to the name of God— and operating where you belong long, he's going to reward you. He's going to overwhelm you. It's going to be so much that's going to come as a resource for you to keep having dominion and for you to leave legacy and inheritance to your children's children. You're not going to be able to handle it. You're going to have to be blessed to be a blessing. Are y'all hearing me? Okay, I gotta go, I gotta go. My time— I could teach this all Hallelujah. Watch this. The benefits— and I'm gonna move to this last one— of being a ship that carries revelation means that the revelation you carry will benefit everybody connected to you, because revelation is multipliable. It has to be a multiplicity of revelation because this revelation is a fruit. You can— you're being fruitful when you're, when you're a revelator, when you can see what God is saying. That's fruit, right? So you got to multiply the fruit of revelation so that everybody around you walks in the realm and under the oil and the authority of revelation. Hallelujah! Glory to God, glory to God. All right, y'all got that point? Let's go. Number 3, we're almost done. So not only do all ships carry products, all ships carry revelation, but thirdly, all ships carry an assignment. No ship leaves the dock without knowing where it's going unless somebody done got on the boat and stole it. But there's always a navigational plan. Again, I'm a nautical guy, I'm a Navy guy. There's always a navigational plan before a ship leaves the port. Every stop has already been planned, every turn turn. Every nautical mile has already been measured. All of the meteorological elements have already been measured and planned for. Uh, last year, Felicia and I was on a cruise— maybe a year before last— we was on a cruise, uh, that left out of Long Beach. Yeah, year before last, uh, 7-day cruise out of Long Beach. It was scheduled to go to Cabo, Cozumel, uh, just some different Mexican places. Oh, and that was in the plan when the ship left. Watch this. When we got out at sea, they had to change the itinerary. I had brought my golf clubs and everything, set up tee time to play golf in Cabo. They said we cannot go to Cabo because we anticipated this may happen. We had to go to our secondary plan. And avoid Cabo because there's a hurricane that's going that way. So they took us away from the storm. But watch this, it was already in the plan because they saw that it could possibly occur. So they were already ready. The readiness was there for whatever would happen. You're carrying an assignment, and every assignment— and y'all heard me teach it before, but really quick, I'm gonna run through to them. Every assignment, there are problems, because your assignment is the problem you're created to solve. I'm gonna say this for people who've never heard me teach this, because somebody may watch this live or by replay. Your pro— your assignment is the problem you created to solve. So your ship that was created to solve a problem in the world— watch this— that leads you to dominion. Your assignment, when you're solving these problems, again, people will pay you to solve them. People will show up for you to help them solve. It's the problem you created to solve. Secondly, every assignment has people, because God is a people-oriented God. He wants your assignment to benefit people. He would that none would perish, but that all would come to repentance. It's his desire. He wants people to be saved. He wants people to be the people they were born to be and exercise dominion on earth, right? So every assignment has problems, every assignment has people, every assignment has places, geographical locations that you have to go to to fulfill your assignment, geographical locations you have to go to to learn to be better at your assignment. Every assignment has particulars. So, uh, people, places— are y'all hearing this? Problems, particulars. God is a God of specificity. When God tells you to do something, he gives you assignment, he gives you the specifics. So as a ship, God wants you to have the particulars, the decent and in order particulars. Let all things be done decent and in order of your assignment. So you're doing it the right way. Again, we talked about partnership earlier this week. You're not by yourself in this dominion journey. He wants to do it with you. Oh boy, I gotta get outta here, man. Woo, glory, glory. So every assignment has problems, people, places, particulars. But thirdly, it has Bible, it has provision. So again, if it's God's will, it's his bill. Where God guides, he provides. If he ordained it, you can obtain it because he's the provider for the assignment. So the ship is provided for, right? The fuel is there. Everything you need to move the ship of your life is available to you. Matter of fact, say this, say I have everything I need to be who I am. Say it again. Say, I have everything I need to be who I am. Yes, it's the truth. You have everything you need to be who you are. Oh my God. And then finally, every assignment has periods, time frames, and dispensations, seasons and times, good days, bad days, periods, right? So So in the life of your dominion assignment, there's gonna be some times where you feel challenged. There's gonna be some times where you feel like quitting. Watch this. I tell people all the time, especially leaders, if you never wanted to quit, you might wanna question what you're doing, 'cause it ain't much anyway. Because the challenge to quit is gonna rise because the enemy doesn't want you to finish. Yeah, that's— The temptation to quit is going to show up if it's worth anything. And watch this, you gotta know that these periods are temporary and you cannot abort the assignment. Are y'all listening? Glory to the name of God. Acts 21:2, let's, let's read this and we're going. The Bible says, and finding a ship sailing over to Phoenicia, we went abroad and set So I like the terminology in the scripture, right? Because many times in reading this text, I would assume that Paul was by himself. But I— but Luke is telling us, who's the writer of Acts, with the word we, that— watch this— that he went with Paul. Paul was a prisoner. Watch this. He was not. Glory to God. Paul was the only prisoner on the apostolic team, but the scripture says we went abroad because the team— watch this— understood the assignment. Oh, that's so heavy. They knew the Apostle Paul had assignment in him. He was in prison, he was locked up, locked down, doing time. Are y'all hearing this? For the cause of the gospel. For the cause of his apostleship. His team did not abandon him, write a post about him. His team did not spread gossip and tea about him. They got on the boat and went with him, got on the same boat that he was going to Phoenicia on as passengers, because they did not want to depart from the assignment. Oh my God, whoo! You got to stay connected to the ship ships in your fleet, and you got to stay connected to the assignment so that no matter what it looks like, you got to know again that God has spoken. Man, I gotta go, man. Listen, no matter what you carrying on your ship— and I'm gonna go to Luke 8:23, Matthew 8:23— listen, you got to take control of your environment so you can get to the destination. Because again, storms come on the water like that hurricane when me and Felicia were out there. Glory to God. You got to have control and you got to have a plan, and you got to know that you're on assignment and that nobody connected to your vessel can perish. Jesus was so clear. Watch this, in Matthew 8:23-27, I'm just reading and we're gonna get out of here. Because I'm 6 minutes over. Glory, y'all stay with me. He said, now when he got into the ship, his disciples followed him. Again, you got disciples, apostles connected to Jesus, following him on the ship. So this indicates to me wherever Jesus go, I must go, I should go. I don't never want to be where God was, I want to be where he is. I'm gonna say that one more time. I never want to be where God was. I want to be where he is. If Jesus is gone, I'm gone. Clip that, clip that for real. I, I don't want to be involved in an assignment that Jesus is not a part of. Listen, don't get it twisted, man. I get inboxes, I get emails, um, and I'm about to shift and turn this over since I now have I have an EA, a new EA in this season that's gonna help me with some of these bookings and people trying to invite me. But I tell more people no than I do yes, because I only wanna go where I'm assigned. The reality is there was a time in my life where I just, I needed to go. The scripture said, if I don't go, if I don't go, the Comforter will not come. Jesus was talking about the Holy Ghost. For me, there was a season in my life where I had to go. Go because my bills need to be paid. But I thank God, glory to the name of God, I ain't in that season. Glory to the name of God. And God, he has long took me out of that, and I can go where I'm assigned. You shouldn't just show up places where you have not been assigned. Are y'all with me? Glory to the name of God. Uh, so you may not see me posting flyers and I'm all over the place, don't mean I ain't getting invited. I'm talking about I get invitations almost every other day. Glory to the name of God, wonderful Savior, because people gravitate to the teaching or whatever. But I'm not going just because somebody called me. I'm going where I'm assigned. All right, praise God. All right, all right, all right, all right. So he got into the ship, and suddenly a great tempest arose on the sea, so that boat was covered with waves. But he was asleep. Glory to God. Now here's the important thing: when you're on the right ship— I like this— when you're going where you're assigned, you don't worry about what could happen to you. You don't worry about storms. You don't worry about being killed. Are y'all hearing this? Um, I've been getting invited. I got, I got a couple of sons that I've had for 20 years that are under my ministry in Pakistan. I've helped them, I've supported them, I've done things live for them in conferences, but I ain't never been. And they constantly asking me to come. I believe I'm in the season where I gotta go now. But that was a season where I just wasn't going because one, my spiritual father gave me a prophecy years ago. Apostle Graham, he came to our church in Jackson and said, he didn't even know these guys were trying to get me to come to the Middle East. He said, you gonna go to the Middle East and you gonna get shot at. He said, you gonna make it out in the Middle East, but you gonna get shot at while you over there. So just because I got that promise, I'm like, okay, I ain't going. I ain't going until I know, because I don't even want to get shot at. Are y'all hearing this? So I'm like, God, I'm not going until I get a green light. Now I believe that God has given me that green light. And now I can go, whatever happens, I don't have to fear. I've been on planes, man, with turbulence. I've been on a plane where an engine wasn't functioning correctly and, you know, headed to an assignment. Everybody else was freaking out. I'm at peace, man, because there's no danger where you are assigned. If I'm going to the projects to minister, if I'm talking to a drug dealer on the corner, I'm not fearing that because I'm on assignment from God. Are y'all with me? Jesus is asleep on this boat, man. Glory to the name of God. And then disciples came to him and says, wake up, Lord, save us, we are perishing. But he said to them, why are you so fearful? Oh, you of little faith. Then he arose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was great calm. So the men marveled, saying, who can this be that even the winds and the sea obey him? This is very important. They were with Jesus all this time, and they yet did not know who he was. Here's what I want to leave you with. You got to get a revelation. Not only you got to get individual revelation of yourself, who you are and your ship, but you also need revelation of the other ships in your community. This is called subjective Revelation. You need to know who's around you. You didn't know who's carrying what and how they can assist you in fulfilling your dominion purpose. You're a ship, man. You're a kingdom citizen in the midst of the world. You're carrying Revelation. You're carrying Revelation. You're carrying Jesus. The Bible said Jesus is the spirit— I've closed my iPad. The Bible says that Jesus is the spirit of prophecy, right? So you're carrying him on your boat. Hallelujah. So you shouldn't be afraid. You should use the power he's given you to dominate every storm that arise and know that he'll never leave you nor forsake you. Let's pray this afternoon. Father, I thank you for this word. I pray that this word, as it has been disseminated, that it landed on the good ground of every heart that has heard it live or by replay, God. And I decree and declare that this word they will reap in due season if they faint not. I thank you, Lord, that we will walk out the life of a ship, that we will be kingdom citizens on the ocean of the world, and we will dominate the ocean in our fear of dominion purpose. And we'll carry the products, the— because we are here from afar, We are here from heaven, and that the products that are housed in our belly, that we'll carry them to the world, and they'll be beneficial to the world, and you will get glory for that. Father, we thank you that we carry revelation. We carry the spirit of prophecy, the spirit of Jesus, and God, through our life that we live, we send a message that you are God. And so God, may we be messengers of honor and not of shame, and may people see us us as massive vessels that they desire to board. And, and when they board, may we create a multiplicity so that they can become the vessels they are called to be in the earth. And then thirdly, we thank you that as vessels— glory to the name of God— as ships on the sea— glory to God— we carry an assignment. Ah, they were going on to the other side on assignment, God. God, when Jesus was on this boat with the disciples, Jesus said, we must go to the other side, because he was going to fulfill an assignment. God, I pray for every person under the sound of my voice, live or by replay, for clarity concerning assignments, clarity concerning people, places, problems, particulars, periods, provision in their life. I declare that they will have clarity concerning the problem they were created to all. And I thank you for that now, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen and amen. Oh my God, the Lord bless you. Hallelujah! Glory to God today. Thank you all for being here. I'm gonna let you go. Listen, I'm always grateful for revelation and how God visited— visits us, visits us, I'm sorry, through the taught word. Glory to God. Uh, if you have seed to sow, the ways to give are scrolling into the bottom of the screen. No pressure, but if this ministry is blessing you, be a blessing to ministry. I'm so grateful, uh, for what God is doing. Uh, every time I think about what God is doing with Rhoda City, uh, and how he's moving us forward and how he's accelerating this process, um, you know, God's got some great things in store for us, family. And, and as we sow we're a part of what God is doing. I love you guys, man. Y'all be blessed. Uh, heaven smile upon you is my deepest prayer, and I will see you in the morning at 5 AM. Glory to the name of God. We'll be praying tomorrow at 5 AM, and, uh, we'll have our 12 noon teaching also again on tomorrow. Listen, I pray you're growing this week. I pray that you're getting closer to God. I pray that this kind that comes by fasting in prayer, uh, is being manifested for you, and you're getting clarity on how you can actually dominate, man. Um, yeah, that's real talk. I want the best for all of you. I love y'all. Y'all be blessed. I'll talk to y'all soon. Have a good evening.