"The Faith That Takes" | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr. | 15 FEB 2023

Well, praise the Lord, everyone! This is the day, glory to God, that the Lord has made, and we shall rejoice and be glad in it. Listen, this is another day of our fast. Wow, man, day number 17! Glory to God, we're quickly approaching day number 21 on Sunday. I am super excited. I mean, listen, about all of the things that have been occurring during this fast, it's been absolutely wonderful. In particular, you know what I'm really excited about? I'm excited about what we've been learning and the exploration we have had in faith. And I pray, I pray to God, man, that you take the word and you apply it. I was speaking to one of my sons last night, and it was just so refreshing to hear his testimony as to how the teachings are not only blessing him, but it's blessing his family, uh, his, his wife, his mother-in-law, how the entire household is being blessed and faith is being increased and taken to a whole nother level. Listen, this thing has been supernaturally Wonderful, wonderful. I'm going to ask you to help me, uh, by sharing this right now. Glory to God. Do me a favor, guys, if you're joining us and you're in with us right now, please do me a favor and share. Praise the name of God. It is just nice to be nice, right? So I need you guys to come in really quick and share this. I, I believe that if you oblige me, glory to God, God will bless you. Because the Bible declares, glory to God, that we are blessed to be a blessing. So please do me a favor, guys, as you're coming in, share this teaching. Day 16, glory to God. Hallelujah. Day 16. We're grateful, man. We're grateful to what God has been doing. Listen, please, by all means I need you to go ahead and share this now. Glory to God. This teaching is going to be phenomenal today, so I need you again to make sure that you share this encounter. Glory to God. We're gonna get started in just a few moments. We're gonna pray. I'm not gonna be long, but I love the Lord, man. I love the Lord. Get my iPad open here. Glory to Jesus. And, uh, we're gonna, we're gonna jump into this with both feet. Um, we're trusting that God is going to literally have his way in the midst of us today. Um, you know, I'm telling you, if you take the word and apply it, it'll work for you. The word will work if you take it and if you apply it. I'm going to share this with a few people as well, and I want you to do the same. I'm gonna just go on Facebook Glory to God. Really quick and share. We want to get this word out. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. We love you, Lord, and we bless your holy name. You're wonderful and mighty. You're glorious and awesome. Uh, beside you there is no other. You're perfectly and absolutely wise, God. It's in you we live, it's in you we move. Glory to God. It's in you we have our being. We love you, God. And we praise you, we magnify you, we exalt you, we extol you, Jesus. We lift your name on high. Hallelujah. We love you with everything in us, God. Beside you there is none other. Hallelujah. We bless you, God. We bless you, we bless you. David said, I bless the Lord at all times and his praise would continually be in my mouth. Father, we bless you and we give you praise, we give you glory, we give you honor. We, we are excited. Hallelujah. To lift up your name. Listen, if you're coming in now, please comment below, let us know you're here, and please by all means share it. Again, I'm going to share this with a few people. I want people to get this today. Glory to God. I want them to receive it. I want them to be blessed. I want their life to change. Glory to God. By way of this teaching. Glory to God. So please help me get the word out. Glory to God. And, um, I promise you Um, the Bible again is right. It says you're blessed to be a blessing. So help us get this word out today. We're talking about the faith that takes— glory to God— the faith that takes. And I'm telling you, faith really can take some things for you. And if you move in aggressive bulldog faith that commands and that's determined— we've been teaching about all that. I'm just sharing, guys. I'm just sharing. So y'all come on in. Praise God and stay with me. Glory to Jesus. Hallelujah. Stay with us. This teaching is going to be powerful today. Glory to God. Y'all, come on in, come on in, come on in. Glory to God. And share, please, please, please. Glory to Jesus. Please share, please share. We're trusting you. Glory to God. To bless somebody else, to bless somebody else, to bless someone else. Glory to God. We love you, Father. We love you and we give you glory. We love you and we give you honor. Hallelujah. There's none like you nowhere. Praise God. You're wonderful. You're perfectly and absolutely wise. Glory to God. Glory to God. All right, I done shared it with quite a few people. I'm gonna go ahead, praise God, and I'm gonna get started. We're talking today about the faith that takes. I pray that everyone had a super love day with your, uh, lover, with the person that's in your life, man. My wife tremendously, uh, blessed me. I never get surprised, but she— I'm telling you, she surprised me on yesterday, and I'm telling you, man, uh, it was a blessing to me. My heart is still overwhelmed, and I'm overflowing for that. Listen, we've been fasting for overflow, man, so I'm getting overflow in all areas, overflow in my overflow in my finances, overflow in my faith. Glory to God. Overflow in ministry and power. Glory to the name of God. Listen, share the encounter. You come— this, this, this thing is going to be good today. Let me get this because I'll get off on that and we won't get nowhere today. Glory to God. But we're talking today about the faith that takes. Yesterday we talked about the faith that commands, and today we're discussing the faith that takes. Let's pray. Father, in Jesus' name, We thank you for another opportunity to disseminate and teach your word, God. Dear God, we love you, we thank you, we glorify you. And Father, there is none like you nowhere. It's in you we live, it's in you we move, it's in you we have our being, God. You're our help, you're our strength, you're everything. Father, as we teach the word today, let us experience the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Spirit. Father, do something unusual, do something man cannot do. Father, your word says you sent your word and it healed them. Even as we're teaching today, let this word go out and bring healing, deliverance, and breakthrough in the life of your people. And we give you praise and we give you glory for it now, in Jesus' mighty name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Listen, welcome everyone. Please, if you're in here, say hello. And do me a favor. God bless you, Apostle. We love you, woman of God. Listen, say hello, and please guys, share this. We're talking about the faith that takes. Listen, listen, I want to start by saying this: if you're not doing life in the kingdom by faith— let me— hear me— you're doing it wrong. I'm gonna say that one more time. If you're not doing it by faith, you're doing it wrong. And we've been teaching— this is part 11 of this series, actually— but we've been teaching this whole fast about faith. We've been praying this whole fast about faith, because the Bible says without faith, Hebrews 11:6, it is impossible to please God. And if you want to bring pleasure to God and you want to see your life— glory to the name of God— move to new levels and new dimensions You gotta learn, glory to the name of God, to take life by faith. Hi, Deborah Williams, God bless you, welcome. Glory to the name of God, we love you guys. You guys come on in and do me a favor and share this. So if you're not living by faith, you're doing it wrong. Matter of fact, I want to submit to you, if you're not doing life by faith, you're making things a lot harder than they need to be. I'm gonna say that again. If you're not doing it by faith, you're making things a lot harder than they really need to be. Glory to God, because his yoke is easy and his burden is light. So if you're carrying burdens and the things are hard, you're transgressing literally against faith. Oh my God, the Bible says the way of a transgressor is hard. So if things are hard, it's because you're transgressing against the promise. Transgression means just literally to go against, aggressively go against another thing, to aggressively go against a promise, to aggressively go against the word. And anytime you're moving in yourself and not moving in faith, glory to God, you're aggressively going against the word of God. And so I need you guys today to understand, if you're not doing it by faith you're doing it wrong. And one thing about bulldog-type faith we've learned is that it takes— it's aggressive, it's determined, it commands, it never lets up, it's relentless, it holds on until it achieves the result. See, some of you give up too soon. There's a danger in giving up too soon, and you got to make up in your mind, I'm not going to give up until I see what I'm trusting God for. So let's go, man. Let's, let's walk this out. We're talking about the faith that takes. Let's go to Mark 11, uh, we're going to read verses 22 through 24. You know this passage, very familiar, but hopefully we can bring something out of this today, uh, that will be a blessing to you. Praise God. Uh, Mark 11:22-24. The Bible says this, and Jesus answered and said unto them, have faith. Again, the word faith in Greek— I want to recap a few things as we teach today— is pistis, P-I-S-T-I-S, in Greek. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. It's pistis, and it literally means to be persuaded. It is a conviction that is, hallelujah, born out of relationship with God and his truth. Pista says, I am totally reliant and absolutely dependent on God for what I desire or for what I need. So when you, when you say I'm moving in faith, and when Jesus says have faith in God, he's saying be totally confident, persuaded, reliant upon God, not yourself. Not the streams of income you create that are outside the will of God, not your job, not other people doing things for you. But he says, have faith in God. Watch this. For verily I say unto you— that word verily is amen. This is where we get words like amen. It means seriously and in congruency with truth. So of a serious truth, in agreement with My word I say to you, that whosoever shall say to this mountain, listen, be thou removed and be cast into the sea, and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he says shall come to pass, he shall have whatsoever he saith. There are two key words in this verse. One, glory to God, is doubt. And the other one is believe. Now the word doubt is a Greek word, diakrino. Oh, I love this word. Diakrino means, glory to the name of God, that you make a distinction or you discriminate against— or watch this— you practice discrimination through learning. So many of you don't even realize it, but through learning, you've learned to discriminate against God's way of doing things and his way of operating, and you've learned to discriminate against faith. And watch this, the other word in the text is doubt. Because you discriminate against faith, you doubt— which, oh my God, again, which is diakrino— you don't believe, which is pisteuo, which is the act of being persuaded, which means you start acting like you're persuaded that what you believe in God for —hear me—is true. I don't know about you, but I'm persuaded that what God said is truth. Matter of fact, do me a favor, guys. Type that in the comments and say it out loud. Say, "Mm." Ooh-wee. Say, "I am persuaded that what God says is truth." Whatever Jesus says, whatever the Word says, is truth. Anything else is a lie. I need you to understand that. I don't care if it's a thought that comes to your mind, if it goes against what God says, hear me, it is a lie. Oh my God, hear me, hear me, hear me. Verse 24: Therefore I say unto you, what things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them. Labano in Greek, receive. Watch this, that you tangibly handle them, that you take them in your hand. Yeah, that they— the faith that takes, the faith that receives, that's what we're talking about today. So when you pray, believe that is already in your hand. Listen, I'm telling you, yes, I promise you, the last couple of days I have been believing God for something that I drastically need it for my production company. And I didn't want to buy it the traditional way. I didn't want to take out of my own resources to buy it. I wanted God to just work a miracle in an area where we could acquire this, uh, piece of equipment that is extremely expensive. Well, I found out this morning— it was confirmed yesterday, but I found out this morning that it was double confirmed— that the equipment I was believing God for is on its way to me. Are y'all hearing me? I put my faith on that thing and I started acting like I already had it. I started setting up my studio different, just start making plans in my head on how I was going to rearrange things to make room for this equipment that I was believing God to miraculously provide by faith. And listen, he did it. I'm telling— I'm just giving you— I'm just testifying, man. And the way it works, glory The way it works, glory to God, is that if it's working— glory to God, wonderful Savior— for me, it'll work for you because God has no respect of person. Thank you, Lord. We give God praise. We give you glory, Lord. Hallelujah. We honor your name. So you just got to choose— hear me— to believe God. You got to choose to trust God because Faith takes. Glory to God. It receives it as if it's already yours. He said, watch this, he said, believe that you already got it, that it's yours, you've already taken it by faith, and you shall have it. I've seen this happen so many times in my life. It works. Faith works, but you got to walk by it. So Jesus says have faith in God. So I'm not just telling you to have faith, I'm— I've been teaching you how to actually have faith. Glory to God. Because a lot of people just don't know. They think they know, which is why their results are limited. They really think they got faith, but they never see results. But you got to stay on it. You got to aggressively move in your belief into what you believe in God for, man. Actually manifests itself and shows up in your life. Glory to God. Just touch yourself again. Say, I'm persuaded. Hallelujah. That what God says is true. So again, faith is an aggressive force. There's nothing— hear me— passive. Listen to this about faith. There's nothing passive. Y'all, y'all hear what I'm saying? There's nothing passive about faith. There's nothing passive. I want you to get that in your spirit about faith. Faith is aggressive. It's not weak, it's not wimpy, it's not, oh, it may happen. No, faith says it is going to happen and I'm taking it. When? Now. Because faith is always now. Faith is an aggressive force. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Say to him, say, faith is an aggressive force. I need you to grab this. Glory to God. Oh, it's an aggressive force and it takes exactly what it wants. Oh, we— oh, we— it's— watch. What do you mean by that, Michael? When something is aggressive, it's always moving forward. So faith is aggressive, it's always moving forward, and it's not going back. It's not retreating back to doubt and wavering back and forth. Well, just in case God don't. Oh my God, oh my God. Faith is an aggressive force, is constantly moving. Hele men sikura bandia. Toward the target, is constantly receiving and taking what belongs to it. When you and I move in faith, We cannot be denied what God has promised. Some people are living in lack and they ain't got to. I mean, I'm talking about believers that's living with holy hands, empty pockets. Holy hands can't pay their bills. Holy hands can't travel. Holy hands can't pay the car note. Holy hands can't get out of debt because their faith is not aggressive. But faith takes— hear me— it takes what it needs. Glory to God. It takes what it desires. My God, today it's an aggressive force. Faith never retreats backwards. Faith is not passive. Listen, verse 24, we read it. It said, believe that you receive them and you shall have them. So whatever you're asking for that God has promised to supply He said, 'Pastor, be confident that you already have taken it with much force.' So the word 'take,' that Greek word, means to take with much force. Believe, that's what it means. Receive, take with much force. So I got to keep putting pressure on the word of God. I got to keep putting pressure not on God but on my faith to believe that he's going to give it to me. So I know I got it, so I don't doubt, so I don't waver. Listen, another thing that that word 'pistuo' means, means to seize it— watch this— with a grip that cannot be shaken off. Sound like bulldog faith to me. Her bulldog faith bites into what he wants and it doesn't let go until blood is shed, until life leaves the prey. You got to put your teeth in what you're desiring by faith and don't let up. Let me move into this camera close. And don't let up until you seize in your hand tangibly what you believe in God for. Lord Jesus, help us. Lord Jesus, help us today. Oh, Mansaiah, I love the Lord. Glory to Jesus. I love him. So you got to bite down on the word like a bulldog. Glory to God. And don't let go until it's yours. Bite in that word and don't let go of your grip until what you're trusting for comes to pass in your life. Listen, here's the promise: what God has given us so wonderfully by grace, we take forcefully by faith. I'll say it again: what God has given us so wonderfully in grace, we take it, we receive it forcefully. Because the moment you decide you're gonna forcefully advance against your doubts, your doubts are going to continue to try to war with you. So you got to use force. The kingdom suffereth violent, the violent takes. By force. My God, today let's go to John 18. Glory to God. Saint John's Gospel 18. I'm moving. I hope y'all learning something today, man. 18, verses 1, 2, and 3. Let's read. The Bible said, when Jesus has spoken these words, he went forth with his disciples over the brook Cedron. I love this, I love this. Kedron, no, Cedron. This word, watch this. The word is a topological place, the topography of Kedron or Cedron. The Greek idea was it was a wintry place, ice and snow. Watch this, and the people that lived in this region were often tormented, it was so cold here. Glory to God. But the Bible says that Jesus took his disciples over the winter, over the torment. Listen, when your doubts start tormenting you— Lord have mercy— your faith will take you over the cold, over the winter, over your doubts, over the thing that's tormenting you and warring against your mind. Oh my God, have mercy today. Oh God, are y'all here? Listen, God says, I want you to use faith. You sitting in the winter freezing, you sitting there with doubts in your mind, worried about what's gonna happen with this and what's gonna happen with that. Well, God says, just get on faith and faith is gonna carry you over this tormenting thought, this tormenting winter. And so you ain't got to be out shivering, wondering how you gonna make it. Oh my God. Well, okay, where was the garden? Into which entered he and his disciples. And Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place. Okay, oh, here we go, here we go. So anytime you start moving in faith— oh my Jesus— there's always a betrayer. Betrayal is lurking in your soulacle man and in your carnal mind to war against your aggressive movement of taking what you need by faith. Yeah, it's not betrayal from the outside. This is you in your own way, the spirit of Judas, betraying your faith in God. Oh, and Judas also, which betrayed him, knew the place where Jesus ofttimes resorted thither with his disciples. Judas then, having received the band of men, officers and chief priests and Pharisees, coming thither with lanterns and torches and weapons. Are we here? Glory to God. Now you gotta understand that the weapons will be formed against your faith. The weapons are gonna be formed. Listen to me, against your journey. The weapons are gonna be formed. Hee hee hee hee hee. Oh God, hallelujah. Against your destiny, against your purpose. Woo, shabbandidi ansor rabba. But you gotta choose to go over Cedron. Hallelujah. Let's go to Joshua real quick. Let's— same, same chapter and verse. Joshua, let's look at this because we gotta take something here. So let's go to Joshua, same chapter, verse Joshua 18. I love scripture, man. Oh my God, I love the Holy Ghost. 18, verses 1, 2, and 3. Joshua's 18, verses 1, 2, and 3. Glory to God. We love Jesus. How about you? Glory to God. He's a wonderful God. Watch this. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel assembled together at Shiloh and set up the tabernacle of the congregation there, and the land was subdued before them. So wait a minute, I, I, I'm just pulling all these nuggets out of these verses real quick. So, and the whole congregation of children of Israel— so these are the people of God, everybody got together. Somebody say everybody. So there's a point where corporately we have to learn as a kingdom of people, as citizens of the kingdom to unite our faith to take what God has promised. It's one thing for me to have faith alone, but when we can hook up— oh man, when we can hook up and move in faith— oh God, when we can move in faith together, glory to Jesus. And take by force what God has promised. One could chase a thousand, two could put 10,000 to flight. What if you got three? What if you got 3,000? What if you got 20,000 believers that sold out to faith and said, we're gonna take what's promised, man? We could create a multi-trillion dollar economy in the kingdom. So that we could supply entrepreneurs and pastors and leaders and apostles and prophets with what they needed to do what they're called to do. Watch this, because they set up the tabernacle, the place of prayer, and the land was subdued before them. So when they united in faith, they subdued— what does subdue mean, Michael? Kibosh. Kabosh. Kabosh means they made the land subservient. They enslaved the land to their way of thinking. See, when we unite in faith, we will make the world system subservient or enslaved to the kingdom way. See, so for too long, the church has been looking to the world to fund them, to finance them, to help them. Hallelujah. And we— watch this— the church looks so much like the world now. It's sick. Now, and I'm not just talking about the outer appearance, I'm talking about in business, in dealings. We don't understand that we have a real government, a real kingdom that's supposed to superimpose itself upon the earth and subdue it. Do you realize that God wants us so blessed that the economy of the United States should be able to come to the church and say, hey, we're a trillion dollars in debt, can you help us? Or we need to build this, we need to do this, can you help us? It moves— you see, that's a whole— that's for grown folks. I mean, that's not for children right there. But at the end of the day, it moves your mindset from welfare to God-fare. See, America has always been about the welfare of its citizens. So if this nation is concerned about the welfare of its citizens, what more would the kingdom of God be concerned about, about the citizens of the kingdom? We should be in charge, period, point blank in the story. This is not Plan B, it's still Plan A, it's still in the book. Let's move, man, let's move. Let's— Anan Sekoshiata. Verse 2: And there remained among the children of Israel 7 tribes which had not yet received their inheritance. Wait a minute, wait a minute. So in Israel there was 7 tribes out of 12, which means— oh, here we go, here we go, here we go— which means 5, the number of grace, operated in the grace of faith, they got their inheritance. God has no respect of person, but you got to move again by force in the grace that's been provided so you could take what's yours. Oh, I'm teaching better than y'all saying amen. Glory to God, glory to God. So, so, so, so, so there was 7, which is the number of maturity or completion that had not received their inheritance. Wait a minute, there's so many in the body of Christ right now that have not received their inheritance, and others in the body of Christ who are taking hold to faith and moving into the ways of living and the culture of kingdom living that God has provided. They're walking out the inheritance. So wait a minute, what's the command? Verse 3, and Joshua said unto the children of Israel, how long are you gonna slack to go and possess and take the land which the Lord your fathers have given you? Here's the question, here's the question. How long are you, yeah, you, I'm talking, yeah, I'm talking to you. You behind this camera? How long are you listening to this podcast? How long are you going to slack before you go and possess— wait a minute, let— what God has already given you? And they say, well, he's going to give you. It says what's already yours. So if it's already mine, that means I got a right to take it, but I gotta move in a faith that takes. Wait a minute, let me break this down. How long are you gonna slack? Let's look at that word slack. Rapha, R-A-P-H-A-H, but it's pronounced Rapha. Rapha, it literally means how long are you gonna relax and keep sinking to the bottom? How long are you going to relax in your faith and be lazy in faith and continue to sink? Oh my God, to the bottom. Lord have mercy. Hello, this is a quest— that's a question, that's a question that you should be proposing to yourself. Because many of the things you're dealing with, it ain't the devil, it ain't other people, it ain't how you were raised, it's not your past. It's you, because you refuse to use the tools that are at your disposal to make your life better. Oui, oui, oui, oui. Oh my God, oh my God. How long are you gonna slack? How long will you slack? Let's get it together, saints. Let's take what's ours. How long will you be sluggish and lazy and waste time, postpone, procrastinate? Listen, aggressive bulldog faith. Doesn't wait time. When that bulldog sets his eyes on the target, he doesn't slow down until he latches on. He's not lazy. He's gonna come with everything in him to latch on to that leg or the old throat, whatever he trying to get to, because at the end of the day, he's aggressive, he's determined. So you got to make up in your mind that you're not gonna sit around on your hands That's how the Message Bible actually reads this verse. How long will you go— are you gonna sit on your hands, putting off taking possession of the land that God, the God of your ancestors, has given you? Listen, it's already yours. Type in the comments, it's already mine. Say it out loud if you listen to podcast, it's already mine. Say it out loud, it's already mine. It's already mine. It's already yours. Oh God, whoo! It already belongs to you. Thank you, Jesus. How long are you gonna sit on your hands though? Whatever we need— hear this— belongs to us now. Touch yourself and say this, please. I'm sorry, I'm getting too excited. Say, whatever I need already belongs to me now. I need you to believe that because the scripture said it, not Michael Woods. The scripture said it. You need to believe it now. Hallelujah. Ephesians 1:3, I'm reading out a New International Version. It says, praise be to God— watch this— and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ. Wait, so if we're in Christ, the Bible says, blessed be God. So the next time you come up against something that seems impossible to handle, speak to it, lay your hands on it, take it and say, blessed be God. Lay hands on that bill, say, blessed be God. Speak to that debt and say, blessed be God. Watch this. Who has blessed us with— not blessing us or going to bless us— has blessed us in the heavenly realms with all spiritual blessings. Glory to God. Come on, man, let's go to 2 Peter 1. Verses 3 and 4. His divine power has given us, again, not going to give us, but has given us. Are y'all hearing that? Not going to give us, but has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises. Listen, every one of these promises belong to us now. He has given to us what we need, what we desire. Now we gotta take it, we gotta claim it and receive it by faith. Let me ask you a question. Let me ask you a question, real talk. When you prayed— come on now— when you prayed about that thing you wanted, that thing you needed, did you take it by faith, or did you just talk about it? Yeah, I'm gonna ask that again. When you prayed, did you take it by faith? Or did you just talk about it? So I'm give you an example of something that I refuse to let just be a conversation. So my wife has this amazing way of just knowing, and I don't even think she realizes it sometimes, what I need, what I need to hear. And I was doing something else. Matter of fact, I was on my computer doing something for her this morning. She got out her phone and she started listening to prophetic words that were being ministered to me, one from my daughter Apostle Sharika Spells and another one from my son Apostle Brandon Cornelius. So see, I don't just prophesy to people I received words too. Both of them very profound, poignant, pointed words, very confirming words. Apostle Cornelius said in his prophecy to me that he saw me standing on all the mountains of the earth as a leader, as a ruler. He saw me becoming a multi-billionaire, multi-billion-dollar streams of income flowing out of my life into the kingdom. That's the first thing. Secondly, he said he saw books, manuals. He saw teachings that are going to help people expand in their kingdom walk, in their businesses, their ministries. And he saw a jet that was coming to me, and he said the mantle on my life would be even greater than that. I will go further, is what he said, than Miles Monroe did. But the mantle of Miles would fall on me and I would go further. Now, that word in its entirety, I received the exact same word from my spiritual father, Apostle Donald Graham, approximately 20 years ago. Crazy, right? Crazy. So Apostle said the same thing about the jet, about Miles, about the mantle, all that stuff. Brandon said he said it 20 years ago. So I'm like, okay. So I grabbed my wife, I just immediately start weeping, grab my wife's hand and start praying over that word. Because what I cannot do is just talk about being a billionaire, talk about having a jet, talking about ruling on all the mountains of the earth. I must actually position myself, glory to God, to walk that out. My God. So I'm not just talking about it. So, so make sure when you're praying, you're not just talking about what you want to God. Make sure you're putting pressure on the word and on the angels to bring the word to pass. And like I talked about yesterday, calling what's yours to you. Put pressure on that thing. I'm almost done, y'all. I know I've been talking a minute. So answer that question though. When you pray Did you take it when you left prayer? Did you know it was yours, or did you have a— just have a conversation about it? Yeah, listen, claim what's yours right now. The Hebrew word for possess, we read it in the text, means to claim. He said, how long you be lazy, sit on your hands and not claim what's yours? The word claim, according to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, means to take as the rightful owner. Wait a minute, that means somebody else been playing around in your stuff, driving your car, living in your house, spending your money, stuff that belongs to you. Or watch this, or it's just held up in the heavenlies because you ain't claimed it. Wait a minute, I just saw that. Oh, I just saw in the realm of the spirit unclaimed money, unclaimed property, unclaimed opportunities that the believers— I'm talking about countless multi-millions of dollars unclaimed. You better claim what's yours. Land and property unclaimed because you hadn't possessed it. Oh, listen, I hear that. God, the Lord says, for all that you take, hallelujah, will indeed be yours. For the Lord will say to you today, for all of you, listen, for all of you, glory to God, who would take my word and stand on it, says the Lord. Listen, the Lord says the kingdom is for you. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the angels are for you, the word is for you, the promises are for you, and all of heaven's reserves and resources are at your call. Open your mouth and claim it, says the Lord. Oh God. How to claim what you need. How do you do it, Michael? How do I take as the rightful owner? First of all, I gotta claim it. I gotta claim what I need. I gotta say, Satan, take your hands off my money. Claim it. Glory to God. I dare you, open your mouth right where you are and say, devil, in the name of Jesus, take your hands off my money. Glory to God. Say it. Say, in the name of Jesus, I want my property, I want my money, and I want it right now. Ho! In Jesus' name. Oh God, say this. Say, in the name of Jesus, angels, go and cause my money, my property, my opportunities, my resources to come in the name of Jesus. Say it again. Say, go angels and cause my money, my property, my opportunities to come in Jesus' name. Woo! I got to get out of here. Listen, I need you to say this with me. I'm done, I'm really done, I'm done, I'm done, right? I'm done. Say this with me. Say, Heavenly Father, come on. Heavenly Father, I thank you for your word. Hallelujah. Say, I give it first place in my life and it is the final authority. Say, in the name of Jesus, I am walking, glory to God, in bulldog faith more and more every day. Say, in the name of Jesus, the devil will not stop me, glory to God, from walking in the fullness of the blessing in walking in the fullness of the word. Hallelujah. Say this, say, I refuse to quit. Come on, say it. Say, I refuse to let go. Say, I refuse to give up. Say this with me, say, my faith is aggressive. My faith is persistent. Say, in the name of Jesus, my faith is determined. Say, in Jesus' name, my faith is fully focused. Say, my faith is fully persuaded. Glory to God. Say, what God has promised, he is able to perform. Say, I take it, I possess it, I claim it in the name of Jesus. Say, in Jesus' name, This is the victory that overcomes the world. Say, "Even my faith." Come on, I dare you clap your hands and praise God for bulldog faith. Praise God for the victory that overcomes the world. Hallelujah, in Jesus' name. Thank you, God. Glory to God! I'm done, I'm done, I'm done. My time is way gone. I pray you have gotten some out of this teaching, out of this series. Glory to God! Thank you all for that, joined us, that stayed through the whole thing. Listen, I love you all with the love of the Lord. My time is way gone, man. Listen, want to challenge every person listening, if this word bless you today, please by all means get seed in the ground. The ways to give are scrolling across the bottom of the screen. Listen, be a blessing to ministry. I say, and I say again, the Bible says that if a man or woman of God communicates to you spiritual things, you should communicate to them your natural things. I'm not per se asking you to communicate anything to me, but what I am asking you to communicate your seed to the church so that we can continue to do the things that God has called us to do all over the world. I'm super excited about what God is doing right here in Atlanta, Georgia through Rhoda Church, what he's doing in Jackson, Mississippi, what we're planning in Woodbridge, Virginia. It is an awesome task, man, and we need your help, your support to get this done. So please be a blessing to ministry. Whatever God lays on your heart to give, be liberal. Allow the Lord to use you and be sacrificial in your giving. Listen, the Bible declares whatsoever you sow, that shall you reap. So pray about your seed so that your harvest will be proportionate to that that you get in the ground. Listen, I love you all. Y'all be blessed. Heaven smile upon you is my prayer. Peace.