The Mystery Of Dominion, Part 16 | “Dominion & Gates” | Dr. Mike Woods | 15 March 2026

Jesus.

Worship the name of Jesus, pure and holy in thought, indeed in action.

Try, try and true, and with thanksgiving I'll be, I'll be Sanctuary.

Sanctuary for you.

For you.

Hallelujah.

Prepare me to be, to be your sanctuary. Pure and holy, pure and holy, tried and true, tried and true.

Sing it, Zion!

With thanksgiving, I'll be a living, I'll be a living sanctuary. Thank you, Mary.

For you.

For you.

We surrender all to you, Jesus. All to you. We surrender all to you. We yield our body, our mind, our soul. Use us and get the glory out of our life. in the Adashian tatavaya. I dare you, just lift your hands and tell him, use me, Lord.

Here am I. Here am I.

Use me, God. Wherever you say go, I'll go. Whatever you tell me to do, I'll do.

I'll be a sanctuary and I won't complain. I'll do it with thanksgiving in my heart. I'll serve you in righteousness and holiness and practical living before you, God. Without complaint.

So long, prepare me to be a saint forever.

Pure and holy.

Pure and holy.

Tried and true.

Tried and With thanksgiving, I'll be a living sanctuary, sanctuary for, for you.

Yes, Father, bless us today.

Thank you, Jesus.

Let us experience the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Spirit. Speak and send your word. Do something unusual. Do something man cannot do.

God, we thank you for the manifestation of the impossible.

We thank you for the acceleration, and we thank you for redeeming the time.

We rebuke death in the name of Jesus, for you beautify the meek with salvation. And so, Father, we declare today that we shall not die but live to declare the works of the Lord. We declare, God, that we have more days in front of us than we do behind us. As many confess the opposite, but we confess that there are more days ahead of us than there are behind us, and we declare that our best days are still ahead. And Father, we thank you that no weapon formed against our vision, no weapon formed against our dreams, no weapon formed against our faith, no weapon formed against our joy and our worship— we thank you, God, it will not work.

In the mighty name of Jesus. And we glorify you and we magnify your great name. We surrender to you, to you, God. I know our ears to hear what the Spirit will say to the church today.

May your people be blessed by you and never impressed by me.

We thank you, Lord, in Jesus' name.

Would you clap your hands and give God praise in this room? Oh, that's about half of y'all. Can you clap and give God praise?

Can you clap and give God praise? Hallelujah!

Give me a little more on 7.

Clap and give God praise.

Hallelujah! Come on, clap and give God praise in this room.

Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Your gate shall be called Praise.

Come on!

Yes, Lord!

Hallelujah!

We give him the glory, we give him the honor.

We bless his name. He's worthy.

Hallelujah.

He's a good God. Well, welcome to church this morning. Glory to God. We bless him and we honor him. To those of us that— those that are watching us live, make sure you guys have gone live. Push that go live button. Glory to God. Um, we welcome you into our sanctuary this morning. Glory to the name of God.

God is here. Y'all glad to be in church?

You know, the Bible says, I was glad— David said that— when they said unto me, which means somebody said, right, let us go to the house of the Lord, even if it's at 10 or at 6, right?

Yeah, still got to be glad, right?

Praise God. God is so good.

Well, this morning I'm not gonna tarry, I'm gonna just jump right into this.

We're going to talk about Dominion and Gates. This is part 16 of the mystery of dominion. I want y'all to really believe this: God is committed to us taking dominion for real.

Say that with me. Say, God is committed to me taking dominion in my sphere of influence for real. Come on, say it again. Say, God is committed to me taking dominion in my sphere of influence for real. It's not something we just gotta talk about. We gotta do it. Amen. We can't just talk about it, we gotta be about it. Say that, say that, women. Say, we gotta be about it.

Hallelujah.

All right, so I'm gonna read a few scriptures off the top here.

Glory to God.

None.

That's it.

All right, we gonna— no slides today. We gonna do this the old way today, okay?

All right, Psalm 100:4. The Bible says this, enter in.

And my wife didn't know what I was preaching, but she got up here talking about gates.

Enter into his gates with thanksgiving and into his courts with praise. Be thankful unto him. And bless his name.

Hallelujah!

Hopefully we'll get there today. If not, definitely tonight. All right, Isaiah 60, verse 18. Violence shall no longer be heard in your land.

That's a good thing.

Neither waste nor destruction in your borders, but you shall call your walls salvation. I love this. And your gates praise. All right, Matthew 16:18 and 19. The Bible says, and I say also to you, that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Hallelujah. And we're going to walk through to start this morning some scriptures in Nehemiah 3.

So just hold your, your hand there because we'll end up there, uh, directly. Glory to God.

But I want to talk about again dominion and gates. Say gates. Let me start by saying this, that dominion— I think I sent a text to this effect last night— is an uncommon gift from God that requires uncommon sacrifices. Many people never enter into dominion because they don't want to make the sacrifices necessary to bring it forth.

Are y'all with me?

We want to look the part, talk the part, but not really live the part of being a dominator. Matter of fact, it's hard to be a dominator when you've adopted a theology that says that your failure is okay. Are y'all hearing this? That says that mediocrity is okay, sickness is okay. Because guess what? People will make statements like, God will teach you something, that's why he makes you sick. The devil is a liar. Sickness is not his will. God doesn't need to make you sick to teach you something. He has pastors, teachers, prophets, and they can do better than cancer any day. Are y'all hearing this? So we, we have accepted a theology that aligns with making us comfortable in mediocrity instead of dominating. We got comfortable with our financial position. Are y'all hearing this? But there is more. So you got to decide that you're going to make the sacrifices. And I talked about this a couple of weeks ago, weeks ago, in your ego. Ego is pride, because sometimes pride ain't just being haughty, arrogant, and rude and condescending. Sometimes pride is staying in your way, saying, I'm never gonna change. And you got an opportunity to change. Are y'all hearing this? Some of our ego too big to get out of comfort and take a risk in places we've never taken risk before. Are y'all with me? Yes, sir. So here's a reality then that many people fail to embrace. If I'm going to go to the next dimension of influence, dominion, leadership, then I must humble myself to the next dimension of humility.

All right, are y'all here?

Are y'all with me? Because a lot of people are trying to get there and they won't go down to go up. So dominion then, and then this is why we keep teaching this, because one, the Holy Spirit said, no, you can't teach that because I want—

I got a whole nother series I want to teach. And the Lord's like, no, we're going to stay right here until we get through.

So we might be here all year the way it's looking. I'm serious, because God wants us to be dominators for real. Cause some— sometimes we'll pick this up, we'll talk about it once or twice and just leave it alone because we think it's not achievable. But Thursday night I told you dominion is achievable. Say that with me, say dominion is achievable. Say we got this. Say we gonna do this. All right, so the reality then is is that dominion— I want y'all to hear this clearly. You might want to write this one down. Again, I have no slides today, I didn't have time, so no slides today.

Glory to God.

So dominion is 80% spiritual and 20% mechanics. See, most time we hear a word like dominion, we think we got to do a whole lot of stuff. But really, if you get the 80% down, if you get the spiritual part down, the mechanics are easy. The doing dominion will be simple. So we got to lean to the 80%, which means we got to take the position of a learner. And learn. That's why God's got us here, 16 messages. That's— I'm really a long preacher, for real. Who preaches one sermon for 16 parts? But God is saying, I need you to get the meat of how to do this. The 20% is easy when you got the tools. Are y'all hearing this? When we put these banners up I'm gonna be totally honest with you. Before I called somebody, I was trying to figure out how I could put them up. Didn't work out too well. One, because I didn't have the right tools. I had a drill. I could drill a hole, but there was other things he was doing when he got here. He had a level, he had, uh, electronic screwdrivers, he had measuring tapes to measure the distances the right way. I didn't have none of that, just a drill, which seems to be an easy job. Are y'all hearing this? To hang this up top and bottom and to make it look straight and nice. I got one up and it was like, you know, it just wasn't working. So I looked at it, I picked up the phone immediately. Let me call somebody with the tools. That man came over here and in 30 minutes he had all those banners up. Cause the right tools makes the job easy. That's what God has given us. The tools. So what I need us to do is use them. Are y'all hearing this? So let's get into this. So the principle of gates. So when we start talking about gates, first of all, gates not only are entrances but they are also exits. The same way you come in a gate is the same way you go out of it.

Are y'all hearing this?

Gates represent— first of all, you might want to write this down. Yeah, no slides today. Governmental authority. In ancient cities, especially in scripture, gates represented judgment, government, influence, and authority. And certain gates you could not enter into except you were invited.

Are y'all hearing this?

You couldn't just walk up to somebody's gate and go in because it was a gate. Even because— watch this— back then they didn't even have locks. It was a gate there that said you gotta have a legal right to access what's behind this gate. Can I submit to you, when it comes to dominion, there are spaces in the world of influence that God has already established that you have a legal right to assess. Here's the problem: many people are trying to go in other folk gate. We're trying to step into gates we're not qualified for. Watch this, because it looks easy. And quite honestly, the person who has accessed that gate, they have the grace to make it look easy. But there's really nothing about building what's behind the gate that's easy. Are y'all hearing this? So you can't enter a gate because you like the title, how it sound— Apostle.

Prophet, evangelist, teacher.

Are y'all hearing this? Entrepreneur. Sounds great, and you want to be all of those things. Doctor. Listen, if you ain't got the grace for science, no matter how much you want that degree, you're not going to be a medical doctor. Y'all ain't got to say much because you got to be a good person at science. I know the doctor make it easy when they just come in there with that thing on their ear and check your heart. I mean, I, I went to a follow-up appointment last week. It got— came in there for 10 minutes, check my heart, check my blood pressure, ask me a few questions. Well, I'll see you in 6 months, Mr. Woods. Everything look good. 7 minutes. But he spent all that time in school and residency so it can make his job easy. It looks easy to me. Oh, I can do that. But what am I listening for? I don't even know. You understand what I'm saying? You have somebody dead trying to be a doctor. Because you think it look easy. Are y'all with me this morning? I'm gonna get past this, I promise you. But you, you got to make sure you're assessing the right gates for you. They're unique to assignment, unique to purpose. Watch this.

Why?

Because inside of the governmental gate that's on your line, number 2, decisions are made at the gate. Say that with me. Say, decisions are made at the gate. So you can come up to some gates and the owner of the gate has already made a decision about whether you belong there or not.

Are y'all hearing this?

You can ride up to some of these houses that's got gates and a camera.

You want to—

you don't have an appointment, which is a pre-arranged meeting, you're not going to get in the gate. And the decision is made at the gate whether you enter or not. Now you can force your way in. But there are consequences and repercussions. Are y'all hearing this? For forcing your way into a gate you do not belong. I said that to say, when you force your way into an office, a business, a dream that God didn't call you to, there are consequences that go with that. Because he's already made the decision whether you should be in that gate or not. Oh Lord, you— I was talking about last week about Apostle Brandon writing 5 books. He, in, in one setting, in 2 years, he'd written 5 books. He makes that— he's got a grace to put out books. He's got access to do that with acceleration. He's in the gate. I don't need you trying to write 5 books in 2 years. Ain't nobody gonna read it because it ain't gonna be worth nothing because you don't have the grace. Are y'all hearing this? I don't need you trying to get in the gate because it's called comparisonitis. I see them doing it, so I'm gonna do it. In the world, they have what is called gatekeepers. Are y'all hearing this? There's certain gates the world won't let you in if you don't have access to that arena. That's why we got to take dominion so we can control the gates and eliminate the gatekeepers, and everybody that needs access can have access. I'm in an industry outside of the church, in media and entertainment and cinematography, and and marketing, the things I do, there are a lot of gatekeepers.

Yes, sir.

And I was told, you ain't gonna never be able to make it in this industry 'cause you gotta go by them, this one and that one and that one. And if you don't know them, they gonna shut you down and you'll never have success. The devil is a liar. All I need to know is Jesus. Amen. Are y'all with me? And every step of the way, Jesus has been the providing hand. You just gotta be where you're supposed to be. Here's the point: always be where you are. Let's stop showing up at the wrong gate. Okay, praise God. Write this down. So number— decisions are made at the gate. Number 3: elders rule, or ruled in ancient cities, at the gates. So if you study ancient cities, the elders were always positioned at the gate, and they ruled and they made decisions at the gate. Who would get in to see the king? The high priest. Number 4, write it down: commerce flows through the gate. That's economy. Sometimes our money dries up because we're at the wrong gate. I ain't gonna stay that long, okay? I'm gonna keep moving. When you're in the wrong gate, your money just slows down. It's a great indicator you're in the wrong place when your money is stagnant. Watch this. When your fixed income never change— I said this a few weeks ago— God will unfix a fixed income. But you got to be at the right gate. And I told those of you that got a job that don't think your income fixed, it's fixed too. It ain't just the folk that get a check. If you work and you got a salary, they told you coming in the door what you make. Y'all ain't got to say that. They measured your time and value to say you were $60,000 a year and that's what we gonna give you. And most of the time they're not going to give you a dime more unless you work overtime, which is also negotiated on the front end. So you already know they've measured your worth, but God, when you get in the right gate, will unfix your fixed income.

Okay. I'm gonna keep moving because this is too much at the top, I guess.

Uh, all right, number 5: protection was established at the gate. So the gates have security, right? Most of the gates you go to— you go to the White House in DC, it's protection at the gate soon as you get to the gate. Are y'all hearing this? Makes you clear that what's behind here is protected. Guess what? When you step into your gate and the right place, God will protect it. He'll keep the enemy from tearing it up. He'll keep the enemy from destroying it.

But you got to get inside of the right gate.

All right, here we go, write it down. Number 6: whoever controls the gate controls the region. Ah, so it's not the people who are operating in the 20% that have the control. It's those that have tapped into the dimension of the spirit and understand gates in the spirit. See, I'm going somewhere with this, that actually control the region. Every apostle worth his or her salt in some regard is called to be a gatekeeper, not for people to stay out of stuff, but for demonic activity to be removed from regions and territories so that people can function in dominion purpose. Listen, let me tell y'all something about me. I, uh, that's why I'm not intimidated about the size of our church. I understand who I am. Are y'all hearing this? I am called to be a gatekeeper in the spirit in this region. Watch this, so the other fivefold ministries can function. The reason there are not a lot of scandals that probably should have already happened— because I'm in the spirit praying that these pastors don't get exposed, because the church can't handle those scandals. We don't need that right now. Are y'all hearing this? So I don't have to have a church the size of a Del Bronner, but as long as I'm on post making sure Del Bronner can keep pastoring— that's another message for another day. I don't have to have a church the size of New Birth, but as long as I keep my post, Jamal Bryan, you could keep pastoring.

I'm clear who I am.

Are y'all hearing this? I, I don't have to have a church the size of 2819, but as long as I hold my post, Philip Mitchell can keep being a pastor in the Sheepgate. Oh, y'all ain't got to talk to me here because I understand who I am. Now there's going to come a time as this church grows, it will increase in number, but I'll be doing less pastoring because God has put pastors around me. Are y'all hearing this? Oh boy. So what am I saying? I said all those things. Say dominion is impossible without gates. We cannot have it if we don't have an understanding of gates, and if gates don't exist, they exist in the realm of the spirit and they exist in the physical realm. So gates determine a few things. One, gates determines what enters— I said this in the beginning—

and what leaves.

A gate regulates influence. A gate regulates culture. Gates— oh my God, they regulate movement, they regulate expansion. So when people are in their gates properly and you have a spiritual people who are air traffic controllers in the realm of the spirit monitoring the activity of the demonic realm to stop the manifestation of kingdom leaders, kingdom entrepreneurs who try— these demons try to limit your expansion. Oh God, these things are real, and they want to limit your ability to ascend into new dimensions of influence. This is why we must get in place not only with the physical manifestation of it but with the spiritual authority. To help those in our sphere of influence continue to flow in who they are.

That's what apostolic people do.

Because if the gates are broken, the region becomes vulnerable.

Are y'all with me?

If the gates are broken, people lose authority and influence. If the gates are broken, the culture— and we see this— becomes corrupted. You see corruption in every sect of society because the people who should be manning the gates are out of place.

Are y'all getting something out of this?

We got to get in place. Listen, we're going to look at Nehemiah.

In Nehemiah, we see that Nehemiah rebuilt walls, but he also, when you study the text, rebuilt gates.

He just put the walls up.

He put gates up to represent the protection and the administration behind the wall, because dominion requires both protection and administration.

We got to protect those assigned to dominion, and we got to have proper positioning of the administration of the principles that lead us to this kind of authority. Are y'all here?

We can only do that with gates, the gates that belong to him. We read it in Psalm 100, we'll enter his gates.

So I want y'all to understand this: all gates belong to God. Every gate on earth is his. The problem is we have too less people who are in his family that control gates.

So as kingdom people, we must rebuild the gates just like Nehemiah.

So in Nehemiah, we see there are 12 governmental gates. Go to Nehemiah 3 when we see the first gate.

Let's read Nehemiah 3, verse 1.

The Bible says this: Then Elishib— sorry, we ain't got it on the screen today, y'all.

Glory to God.

The high priest rose up with his brethren the priests and built up the Sheep Gate.

Sometimes you got to go old school and go to your Bible.

Amen.

Technology don't spoil a lot of people anyway, so we just go open your Bible.

Glory to God. Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests and he built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and hung its doors. They built as far as the Tower of the Hundred and consecrated it, and as far as the Tower of Haniel. All of this is significant. So watch this. This Sheep Gate represents the priority of the people of God. Are y'all hearing this? Say this, say, I am a priority on earth. The world is better because my heart beats. You got to know that you are important. God says now— and this is why as leaders we got to build up the people of God.

God never called us to tear the people of God down.

Are y'all hearing this?

To destroy them, to hurt them, to tear them apart from his plan for their life. We are here to show the people of God value. And I want to say to every person under the sound of my voice, you are valued. You are a necessity to how this world operates. And if you were not necessary, you will already be dead. Are y'all hearing this?

The reason your heart is still pumping blood is because the earth needs who you are.

Are y'all hearing this?

And I decree and declare this morning, you will see your value and you will allow the Lord to build you up. Because you can't do it. Edification is building up. Every time you go to the gym and pump iron, you're edifying your body.

Some gym is tongues to some of y'all.

Okay, every time you go into a place where there's exercise equipment— I'm just saying, first natural, then spiritual. How you gonna be around here long enough to build up dominion And you ain't taking care of your physical money. You gotta check for what you putting in it.

Now come on now and take care of your heart.

Okay, I'll get another message for another day. Say, the Sheep Gate is important because I am important. So watch this. The church in the early day didn't grow because of good marketing and branding and likes and clicks and popular preachers and icons. It— y'all ain't got to talk to me here. It grew through relationship and edification. The apostles took time to create relationship and community among the people who were called to serve God, and the church grew. Watch this, because people saw how unified the church was. Peter wasn't even the best preacher on the day of Pentecost. I'm just saying, he— if, if it was this day and time, y'all wouldn't have chose Peter to preach that message. And now we don't want him.

He, he denied Christ 3 times.

Y'all wouldn't put him up. But the Bible said when he preached, 5,000 people got saved in one message.

Thank you.

Because the people saw the unity on the day of beginning, how those 120 from different nations came together in one place. Oh, I want to be a part of that. They saw the relationship. So watch this, that's why we got to develop relationship with each other. And then we got to choose not only to leave edification up to leadership, but you have to choose to edify one another, which means, hear me, you have to be open to receive when somebody comes to build you up. Watch this, you can't receive what needs to come in your gate if you already always got your gate closed and nobody can tell you anything. Are y'all hearing this? Somebody's trying to tell you what, how you can be better, how you can flow in this with influence and authority, and you shut down and close the gate. Okay, all right, so, so we got to be open to receive from each other. Let's look at Acts 6 and 7. Go there real quick and watch how— watch how this increase happens. Watch how the church grows and multiplies. Acts 6 and 7 says the word of God increased and the number of disciples multiplied. Not church members. The number of disciples multiplied. Good God Almighty. Disciplined followers, people who are sold out to their purpose and their assignment, and say nothing's gonna move me. That's a disciple. A person that has paid the cost of discipleship. See, the church has taught that discipleship is you going through some classes, and when you get through these classes, you've been discipled. Okay, that could very well be a small part of it, but real discipleship has the cost of sacrifice. The disciples that follow Christ laid down their careers. Y'all ain't got to talk to me here. He would show up to Luke, who's a doctor, and say, stop seeing patients, I'm going to make you a healer of men.

Come follow me.

That's discipleship, when you're willing to give up you to follow God.

I'm, I'm thankful for your little class and keep teaching the little class, but what really makes you a disciple, glory to God, when you can say, Lord, I'm going to lay down my excuses, I'm going to lay down what I want to do, my agenda, my dream, my vision, so I can follow you.

Yeah.

So we don't need more church members, we need disciples who say, Lord, I'm sold out, and come hell or high water, I shall not be moved.

We need people that'll say, I'm just like a tree that's planted by the rivers of water and I shall not be moved. Let the wind blow, let the storm come, but I'm planted in God, and whatever God tells me to do, I'm going to do it.

Okay.

Ah, shaman de kosia. So, so notice the order in Acts 6:7. It was edification before multiplication.

God, the word of God increased.

For some of y'all that's saying, well, Lord, I don't, I don't know why Apostle got to have us coming back here two times on Sunday. One time he, he preached long enough on Sunday. It's because the word of God needs to increase. You can't have dominion doing the same stuff you've been doing. Now, now, and again, watch this, ain't no pressure for you to come back, but this is for those that want dominion. And I say to you emphatically and boldly, if you want it, you'll be in place, because the word has to increase in your life. That little Sunday and Wednesday and Sunday and Thursday, that stuff ain't gonna cut it. You need the word to increase in your life daily. Watch this. The Bible even said that they continued in the word daily, breaking bread from house to house. At least I only told you to come back to on Sunday night. What if I just really got in the word and said, we here every day breaking bread?

Y'all ain't got to talk to me here, cuz the word needs to increase.

Because you cannot take dominion on rations. This is why we got very few dominionaires, because the church has adopted this pattern of comfort.

Oh, we—

yeah, that's how we used to do in the old church. We went to church Sunday morning. Listen, y'all want to survive? When I was growing up, when I was in church, man, my daddy would have us in church Sunday morning, Sunday night. Monday night prayer meeting, Tuesday night Bible band, Wednesday night Bible study, Thursday night choir rehearsal, Friday night deliverance service, Saturday prayer meeting, back in church Sunday school on Sunday, Sunday morning service. Then after Sunday morning service, we have YPWW. Then after YPWW, we have Sunday night service. Oh y'all, that, that's the whole weekend. Somebody said, well, I got a life, Apostle, I got stuff to do. Yeah, your life ought to be in God.

Guess what?

Back then we were saved, we loved God. I mean, people knew— glory to the name of God— had a sense of God in everything they did. But this church today, this bubblegum church, doesn't want nothing but quick drive-through, 75-minute church. Are y'all hearing this? Get me in and out. Wash me down, blow dry me, and I'll see you next week. Okay, I'm gonna move. Another message another day. But the word's got to increase, man. Glory to God. Watch this. A church that multiplies without edification, and the word increasing swells like an infection.

Let me tell you what that means. If you grow without substance, if you— Christopher can no longer drink Similac, breast milk.

Look quite strange if he latched on to Ziah and try to get some milk. Boy too big.

Are y'all hearing this?

I was watching a movie one time, boy was on his mama breast getting milk.

Somebody said, well, how old is he? Because he was so big.

Mom said, oh, he's just 6. What? Oh, he just likes my milk. No, something else wrong with that. That's a problem. What am I saying? You cannot grow on baby food. As we grow into a mindset of dominion We need to have the right nutrients in the spirit to sustain this activity. But we keep getting the same thing over and over, swelling. Because guess what? If I had— I, I know how to build a contemporary church, 75-minute church, 15-minute praise and worship, hire the right worship leaders, hire the right musicians. We could do all that. That's not what we call to do. We call to take over. So that means it requires more. To whom much is given, much is required. And then the stuff in you— because we're cleansed in the word— when you don't have meat to eat and the right nutrients and stuff is growing, it's really infection. Because the same habits, the same issues, the same behaviors, the same faith is swelling and never maturing.

Are y'all with me? Okay, I'm gonna let y'all go, I promise you. So we gotta build— say we gotta build a sheep.

So dominion requires—

watch this—

strong relationships, healthy disciples, spiritual maturity that causes the sheep to be built through those relationships, through other healthy disciples, through you maturing in God, then we can have healthy multiplication.

Because guess what?

The edification is being fruitful. Remember, be fruitful, multiply, replenish subdue, have dominion. So we got, we gotta, we gotta embrace that order.

We can't be fruitful if the seed of the word is not consistently being planted.

Are y'all with me? All right, next game, go to Nehemiah 3:3.

I'm almost done.

Also the sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and hung its doors with its bolts and bars. Oh boy, the Fish Gate represents two things: apostolic and evangelistic expansion.

And when you start talking about being apostolic, it's that pertains to the work of apostles.

The apostle's work is not limited to—

listen to this— a church building.

Y'all hear me? The apostle has to position him or herself in ministry, which is church for God's people, but also in the marketplace to increase government in the marketplace where goods are sold in exchange for money, because there's an economy inside of apostles and apostolic people that should produce an economic system that sustains the vision that comes from God. I'm not truly being apostolic if I'm not stirring your desires to build business, your desire to show up in the marketplace place, your desire to take your gifts and talents and sow them into the world. All right, so now we got to take control of the fish gauge through deploying people into not just ministry. Most apostles raise up good preachers, but that's very one-dimensional for the apostolic office. We should be raising up entrepreneurs. It's a business in everybody in here. I'm gonna say it again, there's a business in every person in here. My job is to help you discover that and help you deploy that so it creates economy for your life, for your children's children, and for the kingdom. I just said it. God will unfix a fixed income. The way he does it is creating streams that flow out of you. He gave you these gifts when you were born, but you can't operate in fear and be afraid to pursue who God made you to be. Somebody say no fear. Say, I'm not afraid to show up at the gate. Say, I am designed to be in charge. Say, I'm all that and a bag of chips. Say, in the name of Jesus, I'm going to take my place at the fish gate, cuz that's where exchanges happen.

Hallelujah.

Somebody's looking for you. That's what happens when you go fishing. You're looking for a catch. Are y'all hearing this? You, you don't go to the lake and fish just start swimming up to you. You gotta throw your rod and your bait in the ocean and that fish comes up and bites. Well, there are some people who showed up at the gate looking for you. But if you ain't in the ocean— are y'all hearing this? If you're not available, they're gonna take the worldly heathen and use them because they need what they need. That's why the world business owners prosper, because we out of place. Are y'all hearing this?

I thought I was gonna get through at least 5. There are 12 of these. I thought I was gonna get through 6. It's not gonna happen. Glory to God.

Say the fish gate. Say I gotta show up. Because you're, you're apostolic people. So being apostolic is that which pertains to the work of apostles. Say, I gotta show up at the fish gate. So not only ministry marketplace, but also watch this, you got to show up in the mill. Say the mill. The mill is the place where products are created and manufactured. So inside of some of you is creatorial ability. Not just to start a business that somebody else has done before, but some of you got products in you that you got to create that will create income. And not just income, but a whole economy. Economies happen when you are mass-producing something that others can't live without, and they buy into it. I talked about this last week— Walmart, the system of Walmart, the family of the Walls. Are y'all hearing this? They created a personal economy on a grocery store that started in Bentonville, Arkansas, because they wanted to have in one place— it was a little place At first, little building, probably 3,000 square feet, but they had everything in it. But their vision was, was to duplicate that all over the world.

Guess what?

They've done it, and they created an economy for their family. And guess why you go to Walmart? Because they got everything in there you need. Listen, you can go to Walmart to get some deodorant, $3 bottle of deodorant, and you get to the register, you're gonna spend $90. You know, how in the world you— I'll be coming home sometimes, how did I end up with— I went for one thing. They knew you were going to do that. But what if I told you, just like they had that dream, there's something in you that the world needs and can't live without?

Thank you.

And it started small. Walmart's one of the biggest there is now. Matter of fact, they started that little 3,000 square foot store, then they went to smaller versions of what you see now. Now you get TV, get your oil changed, everything right at Walmart.

I'm saying that to say there's something in you.

I guess what, you ain't have to be real smart to come up with the Walmart concept. Nothing in Walmart they make. They buy from distributors and wholesalers. Are y'all hearing this? So you just gotta take an introspective and find out what's in you so you can show up at the fish cage. Because the church, what we want to jump, shout, speak in tongue, spit, blow bubbles, cast out demons, fly in the spirit— we want to do all the glorious things in the church. And again, I'm not against any of it. If God let me fly through here, I'm gonna fly. If he give me a word, I'm gonna prophesy. If I gotta pray for your sickness for you to be healed, I'm gonna pray for you. But at the end of the day, I know it doesn't stop there. My apostolic authority should push you into the earth.

So you show up at the fish gate. So I got to show up.

So somebody needs me. Watch this. The evangelistic piece— Jesus said it like this. He said, follow me. How many of you following Christ?

Okay, very good.

Most of the room is following Christ. So he says, follow me. Now the next step after following him— and the word follow in Greek means to Imitate me, do what I do. Jesus came to fulfill purpose, and in the simplest terms, we should be fulfilling purpose. He came on assignment. He didn't say, do what I do because I'm raising the dead, I want you to do it. That's not necessarily your call. Are y'all hearing this? If you come across a dead person that God wants you to get up, you should have the power to get them up if that's the will of God, right? Because the Bible says that we can raise the dead. But your life's quest is a purpose in the earth, because these things come into manifestation while you serve in purpose. While you're in the game. He said, follow me and imitate me, and I will make you fishers of men.

Very important point here, because if you are—

just look at somebody, say, when the last time you went fishing? I'm not talking about worm and hook. But when was the last time you went fishing for men? See, your life should have a light on it that draws people to him. Are y'all hearing this? So I was, I was playing golf yesterday with some guys, 4 guys.

One of the guys flew in to meet me because he wanted to do business with me for his company. Young guy, 32, 33 years old, made his first multi-million— made about $9 million last year.

So he gets in the car— well, he was riding with somebody else and I was riding by myself—

and he says, I want to ride with Dr. Woods. He takes the bag off, put it on my cart, starts talking to me about how, you know, he feels stuck and he wants me to help him scale and understand the next steps in taking his money to another dimension. I understood then in that moment that my purpose is not just—

it became really clear to empower people from a pulpit.

Watch this.

I knew then in that moment it was a fishing moment. Are y'all hearing this? So I immediately started talking to him about how God taught me how to deal with money. I talked, even gave my testimony how I've lost so much money because I was dumb, because I was young as him and didn't know how to handle all the money that was coming in my life. Are y'all hearing this? And that whole conversation— and I'm end up doing business with him, thank God— but the whole conversation began to stir him He did, to the point he said, man, you're gonna make— he lives in Nashville— you're gonna make me move to Georgia because I need this kind of teaching all the time. So this is what I'm saying, you have— your life has to be a light in a way that people want to glean from you what you carry. A person that made a million dollars ain't gonna talk to you if you don't at least look like you done made them me. Okay, all right. Yeah, so, and some— and again, if that ain't the people you got to talk to, fine. But I understand how I need to fish, because part of fishing, you need bait. And the greatest bait is your life. Your— if your life looks raggedy, nobody's gonna bite your hook. Oh, y'all, y'all not hearing me. So you gotta check yourself. That's why— somebody in— when last time you went fishing? Who will follow you?

Are y'all with me? Glory to God.

There's all kind of fishing. I ain't got time. Deep sea fishing, you can fish on a bank, you can go to a lake that's already stocked with fish.

That's easy because there's plenty of fish everywhere.

But wherever God send you, the goal is, is to take dominion in that atmosphere. You do that by your expertise. You got to learn to take your talents and abilities, your expertise, and give them to the world in a way that people want to talk to you about how you did it. Are y'all hearing this? That's the prime opportunity. I say, God did it. I get on the airplane and somebody sits next to me. I don't even have to say nothing first. I pull out something, start reading it. They see the title of the book, or they look, they being nosy, look on my iPad, see what I'm reading, or look on my laptop, see what I'm working on. Oh, I see you're doing this.

What do you do?

And I start talking to them and I tell them what I do. And watch this, eventually I end up telling them who I do it for. Cuz that's showing up at the fish gate. Cuz at the fish gate, you're always a fisherman. Glory to God. Say, I got to go fishing. So that why you got to get your life right, man. You can't go—

you can't go fishing, some man watching me, and you got an anointing. You, you called to do what you do, but people see you in restaurants with a woman that's not your wife and y'all ain't talking about nothing but the wrong stuff.

Are y'all hearing this? Okay, that one for nobody in there, but that was for somebody watching. Because at the end of the day, we gotta get our stuff right. We can't be a light to the world and we look like the world, we act like the world, we're doing what the world does.

Okay, so what does the fish gate teach us? I'm almost done. I'm just— I'm gonna end with this one.

First of all, it teaches us to launch out into the deep. Say, launch out into the deep, because the best fish are caught in deep water.

Oh, I felt that right there, Lord. The Lord said tell you he's about to release on you a big fish anointing.

Oh, shaka tabansi toba. Uh, I feel that in my spirit. There's about to be a big fish anointing that's about to come upon your life, your purpose, your dreams, your vision. You're about to come in contact with people that you thought you would never meet. You're about to come in contact with big fish that will believe in your dream. Lord, I feel the anointing that will believe in the anointing on your life. That'll say, man, I see what you're trying to build. Y'all ain't got it yet, let me get it. I'm see what you're trying to build with Rada City. I see the school, I see the community, I see the office park, I see the soundstage.

And God's going to send a big fish.

That's why we ain't got to have 25, 30 people to build a $300 million project on 33 acres of land.

Y'all ain't got to talk to me here, God, cuz God's going to send a big fish. I feel the big fish anointing in this building. Lord have mercy. I'm telling you, the big fish is coming. You thought your dreams were dried up, but God told me to tell you, I'm about to send a big fish that's going to see what you're thinking and say, man, I can get with that. I want to invest in that. I want to pour in that. I dare somebody shout, big fish are coming! Big fish are coming. I'm talking about investors. I'm talking about millionaires and billionaires that see what you see and want to see the vision of God come to pass. Somebody ought to shout, big fish!

Oh God, oh my God, I feel that, man. You better catch that. You, you trying to catch some crappy. God says a big fish anointing is coming. A marlin anointing. Glory to God, glory to Jesus, where he's about to overtake your life.

Hallelujah!

With all of the resources you need. Listen, as a child of God, if you live in the fish gate, you shouldn't be struggling, you shouldn't be trying to do it, you should be doing it. And I'm thanking God in advance that I'm talking this morning to fish gate people. Glory to God, that will live in the fish gate and they will never lack resources.

They will always have what they need. I wish y'all get happy in that, cuz I'm talking to you. God says you'll never lack again if you embrace the Fishgate anointing, if you follow his dominion dream, if you follow his dominion purpose. He said, I'mma open the windows, I'mma open the doors, and I'mma cause the big fish to swim where you are. Let me preach this somebody in this camera, huh? Because I don't know if they want it, but God told me to tell somebody, the big fish anointing is about to come your way. God says, I'm about to do what you thought could never be done. Stop looking at your money, stop looking at the amount of people, and my God shall supply. All your needs according to his riches. Not your bank account, not what Chase says, but God says, I'm gonna do it according to what I own, according to what I have in heaven and in earth. Somebody say yes, Lord. I receive the big fish anointing. It don't take a whole lot of people. It takes one Oprah, one Tyler. Y'all ain't got to talk. One Barack, one Michelle. It only takes one Bill Gates, one Warren Buffett to believe in your dream. I wish I had somebody that realize your days of lack have come to an end. No more dry seasons. This is the season of abundance. This is the season of prosperity. Rebekah, like the old preacher, and say yes.

Yeah, yeah.

Clap your hands in this building and give God praise for the Big Fish Anointing. Give God praise for what's coming. I stopped by this church to tell somebody what's to come is better than what has been. You've been struggling, you've been going through, but what's to come is about to be better. It's gonna be better because the gates are about to swing open. I dare you, high-five somebody and tell them your gates are about to swing open. Your gates are about to come open. God's about to blow your mind. God's about to do a new thing. Yeah, yeah, oh, oh yeah!

Everybody stand, I'm done.

You better learn how to praise him for open doors. You better learn how to thank him for what he's getting ready to do. You better learn how to bless him for what's coming. I don't know if y'all believe it, but I'm telling you, the gates are about to swing open, and what you've been waiting on, it ain't coming, it's now here. Elbow somebody and tell them it's here now. Here now. It's here now. Your breakthrough is here now. Your deliverance is here now. Your way out is here now. Shout glory!

Yeah!

I got to get out of here. But God says, I want to give you dominion, but it starts at the gate. It starts at the gates. And God says, I control the gates. The gates are mine, and I designed the gates for you to take over, for you to control. So get off your seat of do nothing. I heard the Lord say, Rise up to new dimensions and new heights and new places. Take the gate, take the gate. Stop knocking on the gate. The Lord said, take it, it's yours.

Father, I love you. I love you, Jesus.

We always win. We always win because he's in control, and you've already won this battle. Your worst has come to an end, and the way it was and the way it is now It's not the way it's gonna be.

These are your best days yet. Lift your hands up, lift your hands up.

We always win, we always win, no matter what we're going through, we always win. We always win. We always win. No matter what we're going through, we always win. We always win. We always win.

No matter what we're going through, we always win.

We always win. We always win.

No matter what we're going through, we always win.

Lift those hands, everybody in this church, please.

God called you to dominate in the gates.

We read it in Matthew 16:18, said, upon this rock I'll build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

What he was saying to Peter, upon this revelation you have of me Yeah, yeah, upon the rock of how you view me, your revelation of me, of Jesus. He says, I'm going to build my church upon that, and hell's gates will not prevail, but the gates of the kingdom will prevail.

You are his church, you are his sanctuary.

And you will prevail over the enemy. Lift your hands and receive. I don't know if y'all, if y'all understanding this this morning. God has called you to more. He's called us to more.

We give you the glory. Come on, open your mouth and begin to give him the fruit of your lips for one moment. Pastor, with no music, I just want—

I just heard the Lord say pure worship.

Come on, with no props, just for a few moments, open your mouth.

Come on, open your mouth. Come on, the worshipers are worshiping. Opening— open your mouth, open your mouth. Come, it's not so much how you sound, it's what's coming out of your heart. Come on, let it come out of your heart. It's not how you sound, it's what comes out of your heart.

Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.

Some of y'all think you got to sound a certain way to worship. That's noise. Come on, let it come out of your heart.

Let it come out of your heart.

Come on, come on, fill this room with your voice. Forget about who you rode with, forget about where you got to go later, but right in this moment, come on, open your mouth. Forget about the fact that there's no music playing right now, but this is you and God.

You ain't got a Pastor Jeffrey at your house, so worship.

Ha, let it mirror what you would do at home when you're going for broke.

How bad do you need God? How bad do you need him this morning? Come on, open your mouth. How much do you need him to show up in your life, for your family, for your children, for your finances, for your dreams? Come on, dominion. People of dominion are worshipers. People of dominion are praisers. Come on, come on, come on, come on! Open your mouth, fill this room with your voice.

Come on, son, come on! How bad do you want it? How bad do you want it? No keys, no praise team, no strings, just you and God.

No drums, just you and the Father. Come on!

Come on, let him know you need him.

Forget about who's sitting next to you. Your praise and your worship, it's a trading place in glory. Come on, open your mouth. If you believe on him as the scripture has said out of your belly shall flow rivers of living water. Come on, open your mouth, Zion, and give God glory in this house. Don't worry about what nobody else is doing. God says he's listening for your voice. He's listening for your worship. We read it in the beginning. Your gates shall be called praise. In the namanda, no matter what gate you call to That gate should bring glory to God. Come on, open your mouth. Come on, worship. Come on, open your mouth.

We love you, Jesus. It is to you, God, we give you the glory.

It is to you we give you the praise. You have done so much for us and we bless your holy name. It is to you, Holy Father, no one else will do. And we will bless your name.

We'll bless your name.

Come on, bless his name.

Some of y'all tired already, but it's going to take this level of worship and sacrifice to be a person who dominates at the gates, who acts in influence at the gates. One of the best ways to build yourself up. One, you build your most holy faith according to Jude by praying in the Holy Ghost.

Secondly, you build it up through worship and praise. Come on, open up your mouth. Come on, open up your mouth in this room. Oh God, come on, edify yourself. You are important.

You are the sheep gate.

Let's talk. Come on, edify yourself. Make yourself strong so your next move is powerful, your next move is creative, your next move cannot be matched. Your next move will not fail when you build yourself up. Your next move will be aligned with God when you build yourself up. Come on, build your— oh God, build yourself up! Somebody's getting it. Come on, press! A little bit further. It's your worship, it's your praise that's going to break up the fallow ground. Open your mouth.

Shaka tatamaya, ketatama mantaya. You dominate atmospheres with your worship.

Dominate that atmosphere in your life, in your house, in your bank account, in your business dealing. You dominate it with worship.

Oh, Shabba Batai. Yes, Lord. We give you the glory, God. We give you the glory. We give you the—

it's to you. It's to you. Yes, Lord.

Woo!

We're breaking through to dominion.

I'm telling you right now, this is not just another message preached.

This is a life to be lived. It's the lifestyle of God's people. We were created to have dominion. Let them have dominion. Let them have dominion. It's yours, it's yours.

Position yourself. Oh, Shakataia.

It is to you I give you glory.

It is to you I give you praise. For you have done so much for me, and I will bless your name. It is to you, Holy Father. No one else will do. And I will bless your name. Bless your name. And I will bless your name forevermore. It is to you I give you glory. It is to you I give you praise. You have done so much for me, and I will bless your holy name. It is to you, Holy Father. No one else will do. And I will bless your name. Bless your name. And I will bless your name forevermore. It is to you I give you glory. It is to you I give you praise, for you have done so much for me, and I will bless your holy name. It is to you, Holy Father. No one else will do. And I will bless your name. Bless your name. And I will bless your name. Forevermore. It is to you I give you glory. It is to you I give you praise, for you have done so much for me, and I will bless your holy name. It is to you, Holy Father, No one else will do. And I will bless your name, and I will bless your name, and I will bless your name forevermore.

Just worship him alone. He alone is worthy.

And I will bless your name. Bless your name. And I will bless your name forevermore. And I will bless your name.

Eshanan.

Bless your name, and I will bless your name forevermore. It is to you I give you glory. It is to you I give you praise, for you have done So much for me, and I will bless your holy name. It is to you, Holy Father, Holy Father.

No one else will do, no one else will do.

And I will bless your name. Bless your name. Your name, and I will bless your name forevermore.

One more time.

It is to you, it is to you, I give you glory, I give you glory. It is to you, it is to you, I give you praise, I give you praise. For you have done so much for me, and I will bless your holy name.

It is to you, Holy Father.

No one else will do.

No one else will do.

And I will bless your name!

Bless your name!

And I will bless Your Name—

and I will bless... bless Youuur Naaamee!

And I'll bless it at Thy Will!

Yes!

Yooour Naaamee!

Bless His Name!

Bless your name, and I will bless your name forevermore.

Just lift your voice and bless him a few more moments. Bless him a few more moments.

Your name. Bless your name! And I will bless Your Name! And I will bless Your Name! I will bless Your Name!

Hebraic] And I will bless Your Name!

Hebrew] And I will bless your name forevermore.

Hallelujah, Jesus!

Your name. Bless your name. And I will bless Your name forevermore.

Hallelujah! We give you the glory, God. We give you the glory. Come on, worship her just a few moments. Just a few moments. Just a few more moments. He's pushing us into Dominion. It's an uncommon gift, an uncommon manifestation that requires uncommon faith, uncommon behaviors, and uncommon sacrifices to operate at this level. We cannot be like everybody else. Dominionaires and people of dominion create their own lane. They They don't have to sit at other people's table. They create their own tables. They're not concerned about the gatekeepers. They open their own gates. Notice what the Lord says. He says, narrow is the way and straight is the gate, and there'll be few that find it. We are the chosen few. Don't get discouraged when it's just a few of us in here. Only few find this gate. We are privileged to— to walk in this dimension. To be trusted with where we go next. The testimonies will leave, the legacies will leave, the resources we will wield for others. Well, I say unto you this morning that I have blessed you to be a blessing. I have positioned you with gates inside of you. Now go in the world and control the gates.

Do not deny my ability to provide.

I'm your Father and I'm your King, and I gave you the gates, and I'll give you what you need to bring the gates to life. For every gate now that I've entrusted you with. Now's the time to erect it, to build it, to open it, that the world would experience it. For I say unto you, my church, that the gates have been closed for too long.

But there are gates in the political arena that you must open.

There are gates in the economic kingdom you must open. There are gates in the media kingdom you must open. There are gates in the entrepreneurial kingdom you must open. In the mill, you must open. There are gates inside of religious systems you must open to new dimensions of glory. Thank you, Jesus.

For I've called you to be the gatekeepers.

Lebakhoshe Adonai.

And you will keep the gates with compassion. For freely I have given to you, and freely you shall give.

Kelabashon todabaya. Kurongiska todabadea.

For I've called you to gates you haven't even thought of.

In places you didn't dream of, in spaces you disqualified yourself from. But it shall be your gate that stabilizes the industries and brings balance to the world. For many of you, this shall be a new thing, a new activity, new levels of behavior.

But you are akin to newness, for I have made you new.

For I told you, if any man be in me, I'll make him a new creature, and old things will be passed away and all things will be new.

So I say to you today, the way you've done business shall be new. The way you show up in the world shall be new.

The way you represent me shall be new, and people shall see a model of dominion that emerges out of your life. For I say to you, you are people of dominion, and you are people who rule the gates, says the Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Come on, give God praise and glory. Hallelujah. Yeah, hallelujah. And Satan, we declare in the name of Jesus that every illegal gate you possess We declare now that you will be displaced and replaced, and that we will storm the gates, and we will take our rightful place, and we will not serve you, you will serve us, and we will bring peace and balance to the world because we take our place in the name of Jesus.

Say this with me.

Say, Heavenly Father, Heavenly Father, in the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, I decree and declare, I decree and declare, every gate, every gate not of God, not of God, must bow, must bow to my fear, to my fear of influence, of influence, to my dominion, to my dominion mandate, mandate.

Say, I am called, I am called to storm gates, storm gates, to build new gates, to build In the name of Jesus. Say, I thank you, Lord, for the fish gate. Say, I will show up in the stream where you call me to, for I realize that fish swim in streams. So thank you for the streams that will flow out of me to change the world. Say, in the name of Jesus, in the name of— thank you for the sheep gate.

Thank you for the sheep gate.

Say, I declare this morning, I declare this morning, I am important.

I am important.

I am necessary.

I am necessary.

My heartbeat, my heartbeat indicates this, indicates this. Say, the world needs me.

The world needs me.

Say, I thank you, Lord. I thank you, Lord, that what you put in me, that what you put in me will be edified, will be edified. It will emerge.

It will emerge.

It will advance. It will And many will be glorified because I show up in the gates in the name of Jesus. Say, I decree and declare that no weapon formed against my plans, formed against your assignment, will be able to prosper. But I'm on top and going higher in the name of Jesus. I declare it to be so. If you believe what you just said, just shout about it in this place. Come on, open your mouth up and shout! Shout with your mouth and dance with your feet.

Come on, shout about it!

We bless his name.

You can be seated.

Glory to God. I pray you got something out of this today. Glory to God. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Lord.

And I will bless your name. We'll bless your— and we'll bless your name forevermore.

We give him the glory. Hallelujah. We're going to prepare our hearts to give real quick. I'm going to let y'all go.

Glory to And I will bless your name, and I will bless your name forevermore.

Somebody that's on the live, do me a kind favor and type in the comments the ways to give. Please do not use PayPal. Something is wrong with our PayPal. We need to take that down. And besides, PayPal charge way too much fees anyway. So it's God, all things work together for good. So we're going to take it down. We just made it available for people that may want to use it. We have some partners out there that use it, but please do not use PayPal. But you can go to our website, roddachurch.com/donate, get your seed in the ground. Use our Cash App, which is Rodda Church. Use our Zelle, which is our preferred way. It goes straight into the church's account, info@rodderchurch.com. Or you can text to give at 855-624-0949. However you choose to do it, let's be liberal in our giving. I will say this, this is tax season. I need you to remind you that you owe God the first fruits of all your increase. So if you get your taxes back, you you owe him 10% of your income tax. Oh, it's quiet in this building, but I'm just going to tell you, it's the truth. It's the truth. Some of y'all don't claim children that ain't yours, and you might want to make that money right, okay?

Are y'all hearing this? You owe him a tenth.

A tenth is holy unto God.

Amen.

So let's give him what belongs to him. Glory to God. Let's give like we mean it. Let's give like we're expecting something in return from our seed, man. Remember we've been talking about them farmers buying seed to get a harvest, going in debt to get a harvest, man. If we ever learn the secret to sacrificing ourselves to get back what we need from God, so just Let's get it in the ground. Glory to God. I was, uh, when I was on a golf cart with this guy yesterday, the Lord spoke to me. He said, he says, see, because I've been having these weeks where I've been adding these huge contracts to my business, and the Lord said, I am positioning you to continue to be the biggest financier of Rother City.

I'm telling you right now, because God knows I'm gonna build it. Glory to God.

And he does it because I'm gonna give— somebody text me this morning, a text, because I don't align with no word real fast. I don't, you know, it don't matter who you is. So they texted and said, blessings, it'll all line up in time. I thought about that. I said, I don't know if I want to come into agreement with that immediately, because first of all, he said— no, he said, in time and in due season. And I thought about it, I prayed, and the Lord said, text him back. So I said, blessings, just like, you know, y'all do. I said, blessings back. And I said First of all, I don't know if you're trying to prophesy or encourage me, and the effort is appreciated. I said, however I need to serve notice on this word that's in the atmosphere, I'm already blessed and I've been operating in due season for quite some time.

That wasn't arrogant, that was the truth.

If I would have came to agreement that something's coming, I would have denied that I'm already in it. I said, I'm already in it.

I said, because I'm a sower and a giver, I'm gonna stay in it.

I told him, I said, harvest is perpetual for me because I'm already in my due season. I said, so the last thing on my mind is something lining up in due season. I said, because sir, I've been here for a while. He put one of the red love hearts on the text. I gave him back and text back one, one word: indeed. Because it ended.

I can't lie. You got to watch what you line yourself up with, because I couldn't line myself up with what— something's coming, more is coming. But I ain't waiting for stuff to come together. God's already with us. Amen. Amen.

So every time you give, that seed leaves your hand but not your life.

Yeah, I'll say it again.

It leaves your hand but not your life, and it goes into your future waiting for you to get there.

And when you find it, it's going to be multiplied.

Hallelujah. So keep giving, keep sowing.

So Father, we thank you right now for every gift and every giver.

Give it back to them a thousand times more than they're sowing it.

I announce the blessing of the Lord over every tither.

It's an act of obedience, God. So I decree and declare that every tither will receive the promise of Malachi 3, that you will open the window of heaven and pour them out a blessing they will not have room enough to receive.

And we thank you that the windows are coming open now. Your sky vaults are open now. And you're pouring out overwhelming dominionaire-type blessings that we don't have room to receive.

And we bless you for it now, in Jesus' name.

Amen.

And thanks be to God.

Give God a hand of praise. Amen.

Glory to God. Wonderful Savior. Yeah, you got cash bringer. Glory to God. Thank you, thank you. Bless these children, Lord.

How bless your name, how bless your name, and I will bless your name, and I will bless your name, and I will bless your name forevermore.

Hallelujah! You know, some things are interesting to me, how God will flip the script on us, man. And he'll show us the things we think we need to do something for him we really don't need. Guess what? All we need is him. If he didn't provide it, you shouldn't want it anyway.

Are y'all hearing this?

Amen.

Somebody asked me if a, if a drug dealer came and sold a million dollars in the offering, would you receive it?

I said, if God sent him, because the wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just, the million dollars will no longer be wicked when he put it in the hands of God, because it'll be used for good. Are y'all hearing this?

So yes, if God sent him, I would receive it. If God sent Oprah to plant a million, I'm going to receive it.

If he sent Tyler Perry to plant a million, I'm going to receive it.

Amen.

I— somebody said Jake shouldn't have did that. I, I wouldn't let him lay hands on me.

Said, man, you get that offering, but you—

I'm good right there.

Are y'all hearing this?

Yeah, I don't need that impartation.

That's another message for another day.

Y'all love Jesus.

Hallelujah.

Did y'all enjoy the Lord today? Amen. We about to get out of here. Few announcements.

Go to the next slide, Mario. Resurrection weekend, uh, little, little of this has changed. So Good Friday service will be at 7:00 on Friday night, uh, Passover Saturday we will have birthday celebration for our First Lady. Y'all give God praise for that.

Amen.

She's looking 18, and we thank God for her. Glory to God. So we want to celebrate her both Saturday and Sunday, so let's be in the building.

Amen.

Amen.

Glory to God. Um, Saturday we'll be at the Marriott Marquis. You should be receiving communication about that. Please go ahead and secure your spot. Let's celebrate the First Lady. We want us to be there and support her. We know she's going to invite her family and different ones, so— but we want you guys to be in the building because she's our First Lady.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen.

Amen. She my only lady.

Y'all First Lady, because there's some second, third, fourth ladies in here, right? All right, so Resurrection Sunday, uh, instead of two services, guys We're gonna have one service Sunday morning at 10 o'clock. All right, I'm gonna preach Friday night, so I ain't got to just preach, right? So Sunday morning, uh, my daughter be here from Las Vegas, Apostle Nerissa O'Neal, and she is going to preach the word Sunday morning for Easter Sunday and for our First Lady's birthday. So I need y'all to be in church on Sunday morning.

Amen.

Amen. Amen. I need y'all to be here again. You won't have to come back this day.

One day, all right? We're gonna be here Sunday morning, 10:00. Okay, so let's, let's pack it out. Let's bring people. I mentioned something to First Lady yesterday. I didn't know how this would work, but I think we're going to Vegas on Monday So what I was gonna do is have a photographer here on Resurrection Sunday so that after church, everybody that comes and visits with their family, we can do free family portraits for your family. So you dress up, bring your family, and the photographer, professional photographer, be here to take those photos. I mentioned First Lady, but I want to ask y'all, would y'all want to do that? All right, okay, it's quiet in this whole sanctified church.

Okay, all right, would y'all want to do that? Y'all don't have to pay no money for the pictures.

The photographer will be here.

Amen.

And immediately after service, we're going to set up right here, and your family will come up, and he'll take shots with you and your family. So you know what I mean?

Get your whole family here. So we taking pictures Sunday. Are y'all hearing this? So we taking family photos Sunday at the church.

So let's get them in the church so you can have your family photos done. All right, next slide, Mario. Let's go. I think I got some up there. Okay. All right, Demina, see, some of you should have already been getting your money back. If you have not gotten your cruise deposit back, or several of you told me you have, please call Royal Caribbean. Um, at this point you need to make them aware that others have gotten their money, you haven't got yours, and you want your coins.

Amen.

Run me my money. Glory to God.

Here's what I want to say about this cruise.

This is a leadership cruise because this is an apostolic house. Everybody in here is a leader. I want everybody to go. I'm not having this cruise because I just want to go on a cruise. I've been before many times. I'm going because I want to fellowship with you on the cruise. So that means you need to make your deposit. If you're getting texts now, because we're down to the wire for your deposit, get your deposit in by March 23rd.

It's only $100.

To book your cabin.

Call Beverly, she waiting for your call, and book your cabin.

If you waiting for somebody else to go with you, just call in faith and go on and pay theirs.

Are you—

are y'all hearing me? I'm just saying, we want to fill this boat up. September 5th through the 11th, we're gonna have some great sessions.

Uh, we're planning some great sessions for you. Some sessions for men, some sessions for women, some sessions for couples, sessions for the whole church. It's going to be good. So please get on the cruise. We going to Orlando, we going to Nassau, Grand Turk and Caicos, and Amber Cove, Dominican Republic. Three great stops.

Amen.

Amen.

So let's go.

It's only $554 for the interior.

Or $580 for them?

$550 for them.

Listen, that's cheap. It's $400 less than the first one we had.

So let's get on the boat, y'all. Please don't let me get on that boat and I don't see y'all. I'm gonna dive off and swim back to shore. Come, come look at me.

We gonna have a lot of fun.

And we're gonna do a lot of good training and ministry, and you're gonna be blessed. Glory to God.

Amen. Amen.

All right, and if you, you want— you got the flyer, it's on Facebook. Share it with people in your family and say, hey, I want you to go on a cruise with me.

Bring them.

You'll have some folk go on this cruise with you that won't come to church with you.

Are y'all hearing this?

All right, all right, so let's get it done. I think that's it. Um, I'll see y'all tonight. Y'all stand, we're going home. Glory to God, we're going home.

Come on, Roz.

No, Apostle Tawanda is here.

Come on, say the final word and give and take us home. We ain't seen you in a while, so come on. I was gonna give it to Roz, but then I looked over at you.

Bless the Lord.

Hallelujah.

Oh, bless the Lord. Come on, if the Lord did something for you today, bless the name of the Lord. If you're expecting something from the Lord today, bless the name of the Lord. Come on here now. I know everybody in here is going through something. You've been through something. If you ain't going through something right now, something coming. And so you got to be prayed and praised up. Amen. First, I want to give honor to my Apostle, my spiritual father, and I want to first of all honor God. Let me say that. Honor God first and then the angel of this house, and to his only lady, our First Lady Felicia. It's really good to be back in the house of God, but as we leave on today, remember that in all things God is is good.

Amen.

Everything that you're going through, all the attacks that are coming against your life, they're not— everything that's happening in your life is not always because you're under attack. Sometimes it's because you're under construction. All right. And this is a season of being under construction. And you're under construction because God has to build a new thing to put the new thing he has for you in to be able to pour out into the earth. Amen. Amen. So as we leave this place, but never the presence of God— Father God, we lift our hands before you. We praise your name because there's nobody like you in the heavens or the earth. We lift your name high on the earth, Father God. We count you to be a strong tower. We count you to be our refuge, and it is in you that we place our trust, for you are faithful in all things, and you walk with us through all things. And there is nothing that comes that you cannot handle. There is nothing that has shown up that's caught you by surprise. There is no pain that heaven cannot heal. No grief, no heartache, no anger, no frustration, no fear, no doubt. There's nothing that heaven cannot handle. And so, God, we place all at your feet. And we lift our hands at your throne and we bow down before you and we say thank you in advance for us, but in already done for you, because we know it is a finished work and we know that in it finished we win. And so we thank you, Father God. And as we go forward from this place, we ask that you would keep us safe from all hurt, harm, and danger. We ask that when we arrive to our places of destination where we abide, that we will find things at the very least in the condition in which we left them. We thank you for open doors. We thank you for the open portal of heaven. We thank you for the closed doors to the past. We thank you for the lack of access to the enemy, Father God, and we send confusion to the enemy's camp, that there be nothing missing, nothing broken, and nothing lacking, and that we go forward in this day. A new creature, a new power, a new— for your glory, Father God. For it's in the matchless, unadulterated, majestic, and undefeatable name of Jesus the Christ we pray and give you thanks, glory, and honor. And we say amen.

Amen.

Thank you.