The Mystery of DOMINION, PART 2, "THE POWER OF STRATEGIC THINKING" | DR. MIKE WOODS | 31 JAN 2026

We were made to praise. No matter who you are or what season of life you find yourself in, you have a reason to give God praise. Not because you have to or because you've been commanded to. Nah, because he is worthy to be praised. We praise a God who is with us on the mountaintops, who walks with us in seasons of prosperity, and we praise a God who's with us in the valleys, who hears our cries and literally carries us in seasons of distress. Friends, let me remind you, Jesus is real. His love for you is beyond comprehension. His mercy towards you are new every morning. His ways are just and true, and he's so worthy that he said if we don't praise him, even the rocks will cry out. That is why today, no matter how you're feeling, no matter where you are or how many you're gathered with, we will give praise to the one who is worthy to be praised. We will give Praise to the one whose love endures forever. Shout his name, declare his glory, because he is faithful today, tomorrow, and forever. Praise him because he's defeated the grave. Praise him because he rose again. Praise him because he's coming back for you and for me. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord. So as long as we have breath in our lungs, we have a reason To praise.

Well, praise the Lord everybody and welcome to our 12 noon session. Um, it's not bad as we thought it was going to be out here today, but we are virtual. Felicia and I drove over here to the church It was some, uh, winter mix of snow and ice coming down just a little, uh, but thanks be to God. God is good. We're here, um, and for those of you that are here right now, I need you to do me a kind favor, family, uh, please share this. We are virtual this morning, so please let everybody know, uh, that we are live. Glory to the name of God. Uh, we're on YouTube, uh, 3 different Facebook Facebook pages this morning. So wherever you're watching us, do us the kind favor and share. Uh, we wanted to make sure that everyone was safe. Glory to God. We want to make sure everyone was safe. Glory to God. And, um, we thank God, praise his name, for his goodness, his mercy his grace toward us. We're going to pray in a moment, but I'm going to give you an opportunity just to share this really quick, uh, and then we're going to drop this information, man. Last night was extremely phenomenal. I mean, it was a great service, great teaching, uh, God met us here in a phenomenal way, and so we are just grateful to him, um, and we're going to share what thus sayeth the Lord today. I pray y'all are good. I pray you slept well. Again, I pray you're warm.

Glory to God.

So we wanted to make sure, uh, because it was talking about it would feel like 10 degrees outside. Well, I always say, like I, I've said before and I'll continue to say, uh, whether people are prognosticators. Uh, they do not, uh, have the full truth. They just make predictions, uh, based on facts and information that they have gathered.

Praise God. So we're grateful.

Praise the name of God tonight, uh, today, not tonight, for the opportunity, praise God, to, uh, share with you, to, um, allow God to glory out of this time.

Praise God.

And I want to make sure that again we're really getting the information we need. Somebody says they can't hear. Can you guys still not hear? Okay, I'm talking. Stand by.

You can hear, but it's low.

Okay, let's figure out what's going on. Stay with me, stay with me. Can you hear me now? Can y'all hear me now? All right, I just need to know if y'all can hear, cuz it makes no sense to do this and y'all can't. Somebody said they can hear now. They can hear now. All right, see Mother Diane saying she can hear now. I'mma trust that as a reliable source.

Amen.

That you guys can actually hear. Somebody says it's low. Okay, maybe— okay, all right.

Can y'all hear me clearly?

Is it too low? Does it need to be turned up?

All right, all right.

Y'all track with me a moment. Just track with me.

All right, family, we should be very good now. All right, should be very good now. Can y'all hear? Glory to God. I pray everybody can hear good. And, uh, somebody said that's better, much better. Okay, all right, well, we pray so. Praise God.

All right, let's pray.

Glory to God.

We're going to jump, uh, right into this.

Uh, we give God praise again for last night. The teaching last night was phenomenal. God was here, uh, in every part of the service. Praise God. And, um, I'm just grateful for how he met us. Hallelujah. Glory to God. All right, praise the name of Jesus. Jesus, we give you glory, God. All right, so I pray y'all can hear clear. Praise God. Uh, and on your end, you probably could, because I think we got everything the way it needs to be here. Um, glory to God. Turn the volume up. Yeah, that's very good. If you need to now as well. Praise God.

All right, let's pray. Let's get into this, man. God is good, and, uh, this word word won't be hindered.

That's why I wanted to make sure, uh, that we had everything the way it needed to be.

So let's pray.

Father, in Jesus' name, we thank you, uh, this afternoon for your goodness, your mercy, your grace. We thank you for the spirit of dominion. We thank you for the ability to operate in authority and influence in every aspect of our life. We thank you, God, that what's to come in our lives will be better than what has been. We thank you that through the application of revelation, we will see the manifestation of dominion in every aspect, every regard of our lives.

And Father, we give you praise. Glory to the name of God, that we will discover our dominion purpose, God, that we won't be listless, we won't be confused, but we'll have clarity of thought and freedom of expression regarding our dominion purpose. Thank you for every person that's joining us on this Saturday afternoon, uh, via YouTube, via Facebook, glory to God, via Instagram, wherever they're watching this video. We thank you that the word of the Lord that shall be disseminated will superimpose itself upon them in a very real way, and we decree and declare they will never be the same. In the mighty name of Jesus, so be it.

Glory to God and thank God.

Hallelujah. I wish you would just give God some praise right there.

Praise God.

Uh, worship him, lift him up. He's such a good God.

He's such a mighty God, and beside him there is no other.

Hallelujah.

We give God praise.

All right, family.

All right, again, if you have not shared this experience, I need you to do me a favor and share. Glory to the name of God. It's so important. It's nice, uh, just to be nice. So let's, uh, we had over 1,000 people streaming with us on last night on YouTube. We're grateful for that.

It's a new day.

Thank God for the people that are dedicated to sharing. Um, you know, you just got to want to make sure people get the same things you're getting, right? So, uh, this afternoon, this message is going to be so important. It's going to be a springboard into, uh, where we're going. Praise the name of God.

So I'm grateful.

Uh, we're talking about the mystery, praise God, of dominion. And, um, we're talking today about the power of strategic thinking. I'm gonna say that again, the power of strategic thinking. Strategic thinking. Glory to the name of God.

And I want you to recognize something here, is that you cannot—

praise the name of God— uh, expect God— hear me— to really allow you to move in dominion in the thing that he promised you if you don't do your part. So what I want to do is just review a few things that we discussed last night. So number one, um, we talked about in this mystery that has been hidden for such a time as this.

There are others that have taught it and been saying different things about it, but I believe this is the time of application. Say that when we say application. This is a season where the child of God has to actually apply the principles that will cause this mandate, this assignment from heaven, to actually flow and come to pass in our lives. So we got to make sure, praise the name of God, that we are operating, uh, in a place of expectancy so that we can align our behavior with what we expect. If we expect dominion, we got to really act like we expect it. Okay, so last night the first thing we said was, is that dominion— one of the first things, uh, is not Plan B.

It's still God's Plan A.

Dominion is God's big idea for his people. As a matter of fact, again, I want you guys, even though we're online tonight, uh, wherever you're watching us from, I want you to still take notes, okay? I want you to take notes because here it is, I said it last night, when you take notes you retain 68% of what you hear, all right? Because you're writing, you're engaged in the conversation that's going in your ears. When you don't take notes, you only retain about 34% of what you hear. So again, I'm not in business to, uh, just talk because I can. Uh, my— I'm at a point in my life where my whole life's purpose is this, is designed to make sure that the people who respond to the voice that God has given me, that they're actually able hear me, family, to apply these principles and see them work in their life. So please take notes. So last night, once again, we said dominion is not Plan B, it's still Plan A. I, I need somebody to even type that in the comments. It's still Plan A. God has not changed his mind about dominion.

Glory to God.

He spoke it in Genesis 1:28. And I'm inclined to believe, family, that's exactly what he meant. Secondly, we, we read 3 scriptures. I'm not going to read them now, but I'm going to challenge you to go back and read them because they are the foundation of this very teaching. One, we read, uh, from Colossians 1:26, uh, that which was the scripture about mysteries. So God has given us the mystery of the kingdom. He's unlocking something He's freeing our mind so that we can think from a different perspective, a different vantage point about how we approach life, about how we do things, about how— watch this— we operate. Okay, so it's still Plan A. Glory to God. We also on last night read from Genesis 1:28.

Praise God.

Where we discussed that we could be fruitful, multiply, replenish the earth, subdue the earth, and have dominion in the earth, right? We found out two things out of that verse, a few things out of that verse, right? But one of the main things, two of the main things, one is dominion is from the Hebrew word rada. Uh, if you're connected to this ministry, every time you walk to the door you see that word. Uh, if you're connected to us online, if you're any of our partners from around the world Uh, you know that Dominion, Rada, has been my life message. Now here is what the word means. The word Rada means influence, authority. It means— watch this— full leadership management. It means the capacity to influence, or watch this, enslave one to an idea where they don't choose another. I didn't bring that out last night, but the reality— because that's what subdue is. The word subdue in Hebrew means to literally enslave the mindset to principles that it will not alter. See, when you're— when you're— when a person is a slave, and if you understand slavery, there were masters. That was wrong in every way. But the word of God should become a master It should have total control over your thinking, and every time you make a choice, that choice should be in alignment. Oh my God, ubishkatay, rebokoshiantay, with the word of the living God. So we understand that rad again means that God has given us a mandate to be in charge, to lead, to manage, to have authority in our fear of influence. I, I wish you would say that with me today. In your fear of influence. I was created to lead, to have authority. I'm telling you now, you got to embrace that.

You got to grab that.

Secondly, we discovered in order to be fruitful and actually have dominion, you must first understand that your gifts and talents lead to service.

Okay, we discovered—

y'all remember that from last night? Service leads to credibility. Credibility sustained creates an atmosphere. An atmosphere sustained creates a climate. A climate sustained creates a seed. A seed sown creates fruit. And fruit creates dominion. So the reality is we cannot really start on the journey of being people of dominion— I introduced a word to you last night called dominionaires— being dominionaires, glory to God, without first being fruitful. Glory be to God. Hallelujah. It was good, Prophet Shannon.

It was so great.

Glory to God. It was good to me.

Praise God.

So, so, so now Praise the name of God. Today I want to jump into this because I want to talk about the power of strategic thinking. So let's get, glory to God, a working definition of strategic thinking, right? So it should be on your screen. Strategic thinking is understanding the desire and ability to manage and steward resources over time and to effectively apply them in carrying out a task. Glory to God. I'm gonna say that again: to effectively apply them in carrying out a task. That's God's desire, right? That's God's plan. That's God's will. And I want you to understand that in order for you to actually become a person that thinks strategically, you got to realize that doesn't just happen. Say that with me. Say it: don't just happen. You have to train your mind.

Hear me.

To think strategically by taking the position of a learner. I'm gonna say that one more time. You gotta train your mind to think strategically. Hear me, family. Glory to God. By taking the position of a learner. If you think you know everything, hear me, uh, you watch. The Bible even says we'll be ever learning at coming into the knowledge of truth. So you can't get this understanding, family. I want you to hear me, please hear me. I love y'all so much, please hear me. If you don't consistently learn at new dimensions, at new levels, and you got to grab this, this premise, all right? So the reality is When we understand this, I want you to stop a moment and think about something, okay? This is why I wanted you to take notes. This one, you're at home in the comfort of your home, so you could do this little quick assignment I'm gonna give you in the middle of this teaching, all right? So based on the definitions, right? So remember, strategic thinking is understanding the desire and ability to manage and steward resources over time so you can effectively apply those resources to carry out a major task, right? So we talked about this last month, how you have to become a great manager and steward over what God has given you. When you mismanage a thing— we talked about this last month God will take away—

hear me—

what he gave you according to scripture and give it to someone that will manage it properly. So watch this, based on these definitions, and because it also means to recreate a thing or phenomenon over and over again, it is to multiply the creative idea of God Consistently. Hey, glory to God. So based on these definitions, solely on these definitions, would you say you are a strategic thinker? Take a moment. The question should be on the screen, but please take a moment to think about that. Write it down. You ain't got to tell nobody. If yes, why do you believe you're a strategic, strategic thinker? If no, why not? And I want you to be very honest and specific. Take a few moments, glory to the name of God, and think about this. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Uh, Dr. Cargill says she remembers this, uh, word about strategic thinking from years ago. It's still in her notes.

It—

this is my life message. Glory to the name of God. It'll probably come out different different. Praise God. Today, uh, the millionaire is going to come out different today. But listen, the reality is, hallelujah, this is my life message. Glory to God. So watch this. So if you are— if you want to write in the comments, you can. If not, but these are your private— hear me— notes, right? So I want you to grab this And I want you to embrace this because you cannot move forward into a deeper dimension of strategic thinking if you don't understand— watch this— even if you are one, what level you are in the strategic strategy of thinking, or if you don't think strategically, you need to understand why you don't. All right. And so because we're going to challenge some things today All right, so let's jump in this, man. Let's, let's, let's get it. Let's get in it. Let's get it. So how in the world— so we, we went to, um, the review from last night in the beginning, right? And I told you, glory to God, your gifts and talents last night produce service, right? So step 1, watch this. Step 1, family, to Being a strategic thinker is specializing— watch this— in your gifts and your anointing.

I feel Jesus.

Uh, First Lady suggested we come to the church and do this, and I knew when I came here there was going to be a residue from last night, so I'm trying to behave so I can get you off here as quickly as possible. But the reality is you gotta know who you are, all right? So let's go to Ephesians 4 and verse number 7, because we want to show you the two steps that are required to become a master of strategic thinking, okay? So let's go to the scripture. The first one, again, again, specialize in your gift and anointing. That's step one. Now here's the scripture: but unto every one of us— say everyone— so that means none of us are left out, right? You're not left out, I'm not left out. There's no, uh, there's no— watch this— big I's and little u's. Watch this. There's no one in the kingdom more important than the other. We are all equally important in our area of expertise, purpose, assignment and anointing. I'm gonna say that again. We are all equally important in our area of expertise, assignment, and anointing. Oh my God. Oh, I need you to remember that the next time you don't feel valued. I need you to remember that the next time— glory to the name of God— you, you feel rejected, the next time you don't feel like you are enough. I'm telling you, the reality is we are all equally— we're all equally congruently necessary to the process of dominion. He said, so to every one of us is given grace. Watch this, the word grace is charisma in Greek, or charis, is where we get the word charisma, which is gift. So everyone is given gifts. According to the measure of the gift of Christ. Wait a minute, that, that means according to the metron of Christ, he gives everybody a gift. So Christ's gift, the metron on Christ, was to die and redeem the world back to him, right? His metron also is to have the government on his shoulder. We learned that last night. His Metron is also to be an example of how we can dominate on earth through operating in kingdom principles and through operating in the supernatural. Oh boy, I know some of you think you already got it, but some people are religious at best. You read every day, you pray every day, but you don't have clarity. Hear me concerning who you are You don't have clarity concerning where you belong. Glory to the name of God. You don't have clarity concerning your dominion purpose, which is why you're not actually taking dominion, because you're operating in a measure— oh, that's not the measure of Christ. You have actually measured yourself— oh my God—

by yourself.

And Paul said in Corinthians that if we are to enlarge, we should never measure ourselves by ourselves. So he says the measure of the gift of Christ, it literally means we should finish the unique authentic assignment. Oh my God, that God has given us, we should finish before we leave Earth. Hear me, the purpose, the plan, the destiny that God has assigned for each life under the sound of my voice. Again, wherever you're watching me, YouTube, Facebook, where the, the 3 Facebook pages or YouTube, or glory to the Lord, if you're watching this replay, if you're listening to this on my podcast, the reality is, hear me, before you leave this planet It should be your desire to finish. Oh my God, the assignment you've been sent to this planet to finish. Because Jesus, guess what he did? He finished. Even though it got hard in Gethsemane, to the point he asked the Father, take this cup from me. Then the Bible said he prayed a little more. Glory. And oh boy. He prayed a little more, praise God, and then he said, nevertheless, glory to the name of God, not my will but your will be done. So now, many of you listening to me this morning, I want to challenge you. You must pray through to a nevertheless, that you're gonna do what God told you to do. Regardless— hear me— to the circumstance, regardless— good God Almighty— to what comes against you. Are y'all with me? So watch this. Stop measuring yourself by yourself. Measure yourself according to the gift of God, right? Measure yourself according to the grace of God and the assignment of God and the purpose of God.

That's on your life, man.

So when you think about this, again, you're uniquely valued in the kingdom.

You've heard people say across different industries, even outside of the church, that you should play your strengths. I'm gonna say that again: play your strengths.

This is why you gotta specialize in your gift and anointing. This is step one. You got to know where you're strong at. It makes no sense to be doing things you're not purposed to do, or you're not gifted or anointed to do. Watch this. The essence of, of this first step is playing your strengths, discovering your uniqueness. Now watch this. You've heard me teach this over and over again. Your assignment, your purpose is never your decision. Oh boy, but it's your discovery. I'm gonna say that one more time. Your assignment is never your decision, it's your discovery.

Oh, Shabaya, my God.

See, what many people are doing are trying to make a decision about where they think they fit and what they should be doing, but your assignment is never your decision, it's your discovery. Oh my God, today, whoa, glory to God! And you gotta discover who you are so you can measure yourself by how he's measured you. I said something really strong last night. Me and my wife had a— my wife and I had a discussion this morning about it. You know, I made the statement, you need to know or ask God, when will I die? So strong. So, and I said last night, I even said you have to be mature to even want to do that. Why? Because you got to realize death has no victory. And watch this, you got to also realize you never die anyway. And the Bible says David asked of God, he said, teach us to number our days. In other words, when will I die, right? Glory to God. Why do you need— why is that important? Because it will adjust your behavior. It would adjust how you eat. It would adjust how you approach life, how you deal with people. When you know— oh, glory to God— it'll give a new level of discipline when you understand the time you have. Oh, to finish purpose. You'll do things differently. Glory to God. Hallelujah. I'm gonna leave that alone, but the reality is you gotta specialize in this gifting and anointing And that means you got to be around people and in communities that's going to help you specialize in the anointing. Uh, don't let the devil trick you from— watch this— being in a community. Some of you are— oh my God— in communities that you need to be in. Some of your communities you don't need to be in. The reality is you need to be where God has ordained for you to be. So your gift, your anointing, your assignment, so it can be cultivated, people. Cultivated. So, oh, Shai, oh God, I give you the glory. I give you the glory. Because you're going to have the wrong measure if you're not in the community where the metron is properly valued and properly measured. So you gotta now develop your skills in the right community, become a specialist. Watch this, in, in a lot of professional circles they call a specialist, uh, SME, uh, subject matter expert.

Good God.

Wow. So will you know what your gifts and anointings are you desire to be the very best in that regard. Listen, the worst thing for me, because I know, you know, my chief anointing is ministry, is apostleship. I sit in this office to help other people better. I do it every day. I do it with leaders, I do it entrepreneurs all over this world, right?

The reality is, family, hear me, la sheba ko rabata.

Oh God, I give you the glory.

I have to make sure that—

so here's what I do, let me tell you, to make sure I'm always on top of who God has called me to be and becoming a specialist in this area. One, I spend time with God. That's the first piece. I keep my relationship with him tight so he's constantly educating me in the realm of the spirit. On how to operate as myself, how to be uniquely me. Now, I don't watch— do like most people. Most people will see a popular person or someone they like, and they will study them, extrapolate their information— oh, y'all ain't saying much— and try to build who they are around an identity that they visualize Watch this— never become a specialist because all they're literally doing in that moment is mimicking someone else. But what I've learned to do, whether I'm studying a billionaire entrepreneur, whether they're my spiritual fathers or people who have mentored me, like in the past Dr. Miles Monroe— so I never stopped with Dr. Monroe. I stopped— I started studying him, and, and he always was a great leader and teacher to me. But what I would do, I would study who he studies. God have mercy. Then I would study who he studies studies. Glory to God. While maintaining my relationship with God, I would learn in deeper dimensions. Glory to God. So that I can be a subject matter expert. Oh yeah. Oh my God. Oh my God. So what you got to do— so, so it's not my, my, my job to walk around and talk like Jakes and preach like Jakes. Are y'all hearing this? Or preach like Creflo. You know, you got a lot of clones of these people, man, and it's, it's silly. You know, they, they, they, they stand like T.D. Jakes, talk like Creflo. That's— something's wrong with that. You can't be those men. They are uniquely who God made them to be. So you got to find your own fire. Now I, I get it, like in any family, when you truly have been fathered, you're gonna pick up attributes of your father. I get that. But inside of that, you still should find your own fire so you can become a specialist, because you'll never have dominion if you don't become a subject matter expert. Whether you're— well, again, whether you're in media, whether you're entertainment whether you're education, whether you're in government, whatever kingdom of the world you've been assigned to dominate. Hear me, because all— because we're supposed to be in every kingdom of the world dominating. This is why we're here. I saw somebody post, uh, something last week and said that because there's another— there's a teaching out there that's been around for a long time. As a matter of fact, Lance Wallnau probably introduced this teaching, uh, 20 years ago, 25, 30 years ago, not 20, 30 years ago, right? I'm 56, so yeah, 30 years ago, first time I probably heard Lance Wallnau teach about the Seven Mountain Mandate. Since then, other people have taught it and they jump on it. Lance still talks about it, but the reality is that's a revelation, revelation really, of the kingdoms of the world. The Bible said the kingdoms of the world have become the kingdoms of our God. So how can we really rule in the kingdoms of the world and they become the kingdoms of our God if we don't take dominion in those kingdoms and if we don't become specialists in those different areas? Someone posted and I saw it, I'm like, this guy is, you know, sometimes you could be so smart you're dumb, right? And, and I'm like, okay, Eve, you've gone too far because he rewrote the Seven Mountain Mandate. Hear me. He said the Seven Mountain Mandate is not of God, it's sacrilegious. And, and I'm like, how dumb is that? Because it is of God. We have to dominate on all of those mountains. Glory to God. Because this is how we set up the kingdom in the world. Glory to God. We're not to be employees, we should be de-ployees. You should have people working for you. Oh, glory to God, glory to God. You, you should be a kingdom paymaster. Are y'all, are y'all with me today? Glory to God. See, see, this is why, glory to the name of God, we gotta become specialists. So in the process now of this discovery of your gifts, your anointings, and becoming a specialist in this area, you got to avoid the temptation.

Hear me, oh God, hear me.

You got to avoid the temptation.

I'm gonna put it up: to divert, to dilute, and to diffuse.

Because at the end of the day, this is the enemy's plan. He wants to use these three things to promote confusion in your life. And I love my wife because she, she never wants to be confused. She'll say, look, I want to operate on confusion. I want to understand clearly, you know, what this means so that I can follow after the right thing and have no ambiguity. And I respect that in her, because at the end of the day, if you start ascribing to different ideas, you'll get diverted from what the big idea is. See, the reason many people don't walk in dominion— oh my God— because they have gotten diverted. Rebukushka tatapaya. God, I give you the glory. They've gotten diverted and they're going after something. Hallelujah. Glorious.

Shannon, I could put that back up.

Glory to God. Because at the end of the day, you got to decide that you're not going to operate in diversions. See, what happens is these things promote confusion. They undermine your faith. And watch this, when you operate in diversion, delusion, diffusion, it also perpetrates cycles of disorder. Oh, I, I can't— I, this— I'm gonna talk a lot about chaos tomorrow, tomorrow morning in our service. Listen, but chaos is the enemy to dominion. And I started dealing with a little last night and the Holy Ghost got me off it, but tomorrow we're going full speed ahead, understanding what chaos does to the dominion process. And most people are living in a condition that's chaotic. So we're going to expose that spirit tomorrow of disorder. But the root of it many times is diversion, delusion, and diffusion. Let's, let's break this down. So what does it mean to divert?

Glory to God.

So first of all, to divert is to turn from a course or purpose—

hear me—

and to give pleasure.

Woo!

Oh my God, to what you are distracted by. So you have been diverted when you turn from the authentic purpose and you start receiving pleasure From what diverted you? Okay, let me use an example. A man that cheats on his wife, okay, somewhere he got diverted. Yeah, the attention of another woman. Oh my God. Good God Almighty. And what happens? He starts receiving pleasure from something that was not purposed.

Diversion.

Watch this. The root of diversion is perversion. Oh, so diversion is two different versions, but perversion is— watch this— is to receive the pleasure from something other than the authentic. So perversion, which means you create another version of what was authentic. Oh my God, oh my God. Oshia rabaka labohoshia. See, that's, that's what happens in lesbianism. Two women are creating another version, receiving pleasure from what's authentic. That's what happens in homosexual— you know, I was blocked for about a week on Facebook, uh, by Facebook, because I was talking about something to this extent in one of my messages. So they said I was violating community standards on Facebook and TikTok. The devil is a lie. I ain't gonna stop preaching the truth. I just was talking about adultery and y'all was all right. Some folk are not all right now that I'm talking about lesbians and homosexuals. All of it is sin, all right? All of— if you're an adulterer that's cheating on your wife, hear me, you're perverted because you're creating another version from your diversion of the authentic. Oh God, oh God, oh God. Two men creating another version is perversion because they were diverted by something. They weren't born like that. Don't let the devil fool you. No more than a fornicator was born a whoremonger. A homosexual or lesbian ain't born a homosexual or lesbian. Something diverted that behavior. Molestation, rape, or something. Somebody said, Apostle, you're supposed to love them. I love everybody, but I'm like God. I hate the sin. I hate adultery. I hate lying. I, and I hate homosexuality. I hate lesbianism. These are sins that have people perverted in their mind, and it creates a diversion— watch this— that causes them— because I don't care how loud they scream Oh, how much bucking and shouting they do, how many praise breaks they have. They'll never specialize in dominion. Remember I told you last night, I'm not interested in raising up a group of dancers, but my job is to raise up dominators. Glory to God, dominionaires. Wutaba, that will go into the world and take control and take authority. I pray you're on this live today. If you're watching this by replay, don't turn because God has a solution for your diversion. Do you realize your diversion is a distraction that causes a delay? The reason you got all these delays in your life, things that should have happened and have not happened is because you're diverted, you're distracted. So now you're delayed. And many times when you get delayed, watch this, you take detours, you start trying to take shortcuts to get to what God promised because you cannot adhere to the authentic promise Oh my God, because you're diverted, you can't hear. Remember last night I told you how to circumcise your face? You can't hear, you can't see, you can't sense God, you can't speak what's God because of diversion.

Oh my God, help us today, Jesus.

I hope y'all listening, I hope y'all listening. Glory to God, because God wants us to deal with the diversion and become strategic thinkers. In order to do that, we got to specialize strategically in our gifts and anointing. Stop trying to do stuff you ain't gifted to do. I know you want to do it, but if you're not gifted and anointed to do it— because you need the anointing to deal with the devil, you need the anointing to deal with principalities, you need the anointing to deal with strongholds and demons. So you need to be anointed and not just talented in an area. So you need gifts, talent, and anointing. Are y'all hearing this? And you got to become a specialist in this area. See, when I was thinking about— think about Rother City and this move we're about to make, uh, when our lease is up here, again, we're already looking at buildings and property We already got the pre-approval letter. Glory to the name of God. God is already moving on our behalf, right?

The reality is, family, that move—

the land we're buying around the corner, the 33 acres, the new building we're buying 5 miles from here— that's not just about another building. It's about strategic thinking to leave legacy. To— oh my God— to leave a generational blessing. Glory to God. I even said it last night, some of the things I'll build, I won't even experience— glory to the name of God— the maximization of what those properties will do. Oh my God. Therefore, generations to come— oh my God. See, strategic thinking ain't about us building that building or buying that property or making Rada City a reality.

It's about being salty. Uh, we're the salt of the earth, right? It's about having influence in the entire region. It's about having dominion authority in the kingdoms of the world. And we're doing this strategically So we can—

we thank God for this place. We thank God for opening the door. We thank God for the woman of God next door that allowed us to be here and rented this space to us. We're grateful for that, but we knew coming in it was temporary.

We—

oh my God, we knew coming in that God had something more, and we already were thinking strategically. Oh God, I got to get out of here, man. So if you're gonna achieve specialization in your anointing, you got to avoid diversions.

You got to stay on course with God's plan because this is crucial to becoming or achieving the position or the title of specialist. You'll never become a specialist if you're all over the place. Are y'all— oh, baba, if you have no stability, every time something gets hard, you want to run.

When it ain't working the way you think it ought to work with your crazy self, you think you want to run.

Come on, man.

I said it, I said it yesterday. Either you're going to dominate or depart. You gotta— you gotta decide that you're gonna choose domination and not departure, that you're not gonna run from the hard stuff but you're gonna dominate it when it arises. I'm just trying to find y'all this morning. Y'all ain't here, but I'm trying to find you in the spirit because I want you to grab this. Glory to God. Don't allow your gift Watch this, to overwhelm you in this fear-based mindset.

Watch this, that causes you to do nothing or do what's easier.

See, a lot of times you'll look at your gift and you'll say, man, I'm really gifted in this area.

Hallelujah!

I can do this well. But some people, because they are fearful of stepping out in faith, trusting God to use their gift, they allow their gift to dominate them and keep them stuck, and they do nothing, or they'll do what's easy.

It's easy to think small. Hear me, glory to God.

It's easy to think little, but can I tell you something? If you're gonna be thinking, you might as well think big. Glory to God. And if you're gonna think with God, I'm telling you, Dominion is God's big idea. Oh, you ought to say that out loud. Dominion is God's big idea.

So let me ask you a question. How are you focused on your God-given anointing, right? Seriously, how are you focused on your God-given anointing? Think about that. Or are you not focused?

Are you diverted? Are you distracted? And how long did it take you, if you are focused, focus, to return to purpose the last time you diverted.

Because I'm telling you something, anything worth obtaining, your focus will be challenged. You will be challenged to break your focus and divert to something else, but Listen, I want you to study the impacts of broken focus.

Look at your life and look at the times you got off course.

This soul food, y'all. This is not about me making you happy and shout. This is about me apostolically releasing revelation to you to help you become a dominionaire.

What was the cost of your diversion? Question: do you want to pay that cost again? I'm not teaching what I read, I'm teaching what I've lived. I've had so many things. I'm— listen, this is the first time I've been blessed the way God has blessed me now and is blessing me. I don't— been a season in my life I lost everything, man, down to nothing. And watch God restore and rebuild it.

Glory to God.

But the diversions and the broken focus cost me greatly.

Listen, you gotta decide. Glory to God. Firstly, Felicia, pull that camera in on me real close because I want them to see my face. I want— just pull it to my face because I want them to see this. I want you to see my eyes because I love you dearly, and what I desire for you is for you to dominate in your area of influence. So there's a cost for being diverted. You gotta decide you ain't gonna pay that cost, right? Okay, let me move on. Here's the second piece. Here's the second piece. Good God, this specializing in your gifts and anointings, and not just using it haphazardly. Go to church, never pray. Preach, don't pray. Prophesy, don't pray. Don't spend time as a learner to get better at what you're doing. Wanted to work just because you got the gift. Oh, you can become better at it. You and I can be better at what we do. We just have to work on being better and stop being diverted. All right, glory to God. I'm almost done, man. I'm gonna get out y'all here. Here's the second piece. So remember I told you that diversions, delusion, and diffusion are enemies to specializing in your gifts and anointings, and they create disorder cycles. They preempt cycles of disorder in your life. So let's look closely at dilutions.

Jesus.

To dilute something, watch this, means to lessen the consistency. Omanshai leto bokoshianaya. By mixing it with something else. Can I submit to you, never dilute the anointing that God has given you. Don't mix it with outside things. Don't mix it with the world. Don't mix it with secularism.

Don't mix it with religion.

Oh God, watch this. One of the key elements to mixing your anointing. This is why people do this and never really have dominion. See, you'll never have dominion in your fear of influence when you operate in dilutions.

When you dilute your assignment, dilute your anointing, and many people do this, is, is a reason because they are intimidated and they place an overemphasis— watch this— or how others operate. Oh, so intimidation and overemphasis—

listen, family, listen—

it will cause you to dilute your anointing. You'll mix what you got with something else. Let me give you an example. These prophets out here, and I wrote something about this. I didn't even know this big huge scandal was getting ready to come out, but prophetically God had me post this a few weeks ago about prophets— watch this— that do research on Facebook and then they come to church and call your name, your birthday, your address. You lying wonder. And I posted something about that because the reality is, if you really pray, God will give you a word. And you really ain't edifying someone through prophecy by telling them their birthday and their name.

They know that. That.

They already know where they live. They know their name. They know their birthday. You just wanted to be sensational, and so now you mixed— Shabba to Sabaya Manto— you diluted the prophetic anointing because you wanted to be sensational and outdo another prophet. Well, watch this. You paid a witch for prophecy. Huh, glory to God. You, you went to a witch, paid the witch for the prophecy, and turn around and prophesy what the witch prognosticated to you. Oh, oh, okay, that you're diluting the anointing. Oh my God, and there's so many out there that do it and have done it, still doing it. Black church and white church. And I posted this, I mean, several weeks ago, and then bam, big scandal hit from the West Coast. The reality is, I need you to understand something. People been diluting the anointing like this for years, even back when they was having meetings and, and they would put stuff in the ear. Of the preacher and, and tell the preacher what the people in the audience had, because they'll fill out a card before they came in the healing meeting. And they were high actors who were not crippled to get up out of wheelchairs. Let me tell you something, you ain't got to dilute the anointing of God. He is powerful enough to heal without your help. The anointing destroys yokes for real. Oh boy, oh boy, I know this ain't popular. Glory to God, glory to God. The anointing destroys yokes for real. He don't need our theatrics.

Oh God, so let's stop diluting the anointing because we want to be somebody else or outdo someone else.

Let's not— oh boy, here we go— push people on the floor because we want them on the floor. Are y'all hearing this? That's delusion. Because if the anointing wants to slay them in the spirit, they're going to be slayed in the spirit. You ain't got to push them down because some people only feel like they got a result unless the person's fall. That's not scripture. That's not biblical. God doesn't need to slay them for them to be healed. I prayed for a lady that was blind for 34 years. My wife was in that service. I'm saying that one because she was there. This lady blind 34 years, had not seen her baby girl since she was 3 years old. I laid my hands on her, asked God in about 60 seconds to open her eyes. In 60 seconds, her eyes open. She seen her daughter for the first time in 33 years. 34 years. When— yeah, she saw her 31 years was the first time she seen her. She didn't fall out, she saw. Okay, I'm gonna leave that for another day, right? Okay, I'm gonna leave that for another day. Glory to God. You know, stop pushing folk now, you don't get a lawsuit. These folks take you to court. They be watching them commercials, one call, that's all. And folk looking to get a case. Are you hearing me? You need some anointing. Stop diluting God's anointing.

Glory to God. All this mixture with sin, all this mixture—

oh my God—

with flesh and self, it's not the will of God.

You know what the end result of this is?

It's identity confusion. Because when people are looking at this The people who ain't saved, they got a whole nother thought process behind this. When they see you doing this, it makes them not want to trust God, and that blood is on your hands. Listen, you don't have to be a chameleon and dilute your anointing. It's too many chameleons in the body of Christ trying to be other people. You don't have to be a chameleon. I rebuke the spirit of the chameleon even now in the mighty name of Jesus, because chameleons will never dominate because they have not accepted who God made them.

They have not accepted their own identity. So I rebuke the spirit of chameleon now in the name of Jesus, and I decree and declare you will rise up as your authentic self and you will be—

yes, Lord— who God called you to be.

My God, watch this.

In a way, watch this, delusions can become diversions.

Oh yeah, cause you could be so diluted now you already totally distracted.

And watch this, you'll go to the diluted version of you before you embrace the full strength version. Ah, oh my God. You know, the reality is that there are some— what? Go glory to God— cleaning products that are either full strength out the bottle or they can be diluted, glory to God, and still get the job done with water.

Don't accept the watered-down version of yourself.

Glory to God. Be who God called you to be. Let me ask you a question. I want you to think about it. Have you— listen, have you— yeah, you, yeah, you— have you ever mixed other things with what God's anointing wanted to do through you? Have you ever mixed other things with what God anointed you to do? Have you ever tried to put your purpose inside of God's plan and thought it would work?

That's my next question: how did that work out for you? Yeah.

How did that right there, my God, work out for you? Are y'all with me? Glory to God. How did that work out for you, that mixture? Glory to God. How did that mixture pan out, right? His question too around these dilutions: do you know your pure anointing? What is your pure anointing? What is the purpose, the dominion purpose that God has you breathing to fulfill?

What's the dominion purpose God has you breathing to come alive?

Have in and through your life. Think about that. I'm almost done, I'm almost done. I've been teaching a minute, man. Let's go to 1 Peter real quick. Glory to God. 1:10, he said, wherefore rather— the rather— brethren— adolphos in Greek is brethren— give diligence to make your calling and election sure.

For it—

wait a minute— for if you do these things, you will not fail ever.

You will not ever fail. So I just want to put the scripture on the end of what I was just telling you about delusions, because The reason many of us dilute, because we're not sure of who we are. The word sure is akin to a word studazo.

Studazo means that you are cemented in clarity concerning a thing, which means you're so clear you'll never move, you'll never miss it to the left or the right, but you will stand in that thing in solidarity. Glory to God.

Elect—

make your election sure. Make it your calling and election. There's a thing that you've been called to. There's a thing you've been elected for. There's a thing you're to be semen it in, to grow in and become better in.

God says if you do this, according to 1st—

2 Peter 1:10, he says you will never fail. My God. So here's what I want you to do before we move to this next point. I want you to write this down, and you can do it later. Identify the things that lured you to dilute your anointing so you'll never trap yourself again. So I want you to really identify this, because somebody said, I ain't never did that. But you ain't been honest with yourself.

I've done it, all right? I've diluted some things I knew God told me to do, and I tried to make it easier by doing it a way— helping God in a way he didn't want my help.

Are y'all here?

Okay, okay, I, I see how y'all act. I'm trying to find you. Yeah, I'm trying to find you because this is the reason you can't have dominion, because you won't be real honest. And I'm trying to make you identify those things. What lured you to actually dilute it, to water it down. Oh God, that's too hard, so I'm gonna do it this way. God never told you to do an alternate version of his assignment. God told me what to do with Rider City. He gave me all the buildings he get that we're gonna build. He gave me the property to buy. There's no diluted version of that. There's no watered-down version of that. It's gonna cost multi-millions of dollars to build that.

That.

There's no watered-down version. I have to depend on what he said. There's no dilution. I could easily say, well, you know, we just need to do this and make it easier and, and feel like I'm doing the right thing because it's easier for me. But identify it, man.

I promise you, you'll be better if you do. All right, so, so again, there are diversions, delusions, and the last thing that perpetuates cycles of disorder is diffusions.

So you'll never specialize in your gift and talent when you diffuse. Watch this. To diffuse means to—

which is D-I-F-F-U-S-I-O-N-S. Diffusion.

Hear me. A diffusion. Hear me, family. Glory to God.

I'm almost done, I'm almost done. Stay with me, stay with me.

A diffusion, family, is to pour out or spread widely. Listen, we limit ourselves a lot of times from specializing in our anointing. Oh my God, because we spread ourselves too thin.

We're trying to do too much.

You're trying to be a jack of all trades and master of none.

That ain't biblical, and that ain't the will of God for you to be a jack of all trades and master of none.

God wants you to master your purpose. Jesus was a master. That's why many called him master. He wants you to become a master in your area of kingdom dominion. You can't be trying to be all things to all people. You got to be who you are, and you got to be able to serve in the capacity that God has anointed you to serve. You can't let people make you stuff you're not. Oh boy, oh boy. And you start spreading yourself up too thin. Watch this.

Seeing a need is not a call.

It may be a call for someone, but it's not a call for everyone.

You're called to fulfill a need, but not every need.

And just because you see a need doesn't mean you're called to it. Listen, I get so many invitations. I think I've mentioned this before.

To go to Africa and preach and do things like that, man, I ain't going nowhere.

And I've been getting them for years until God say, I want you to go there. I'm not intimidated by the ones that do it, the ones that go, the experiences they have.

I'm very glad that they go.

But here's what I know. I know I got a great assignment right here in this country. Charity starts at home, then spreads abroad. So I got to keep doing what I'm called to do in the United States. And when God decides, okay, you need to take these invitations you're getting— I'm not gonna go just because I'm being invited. Oh boy, no. I'm gonna go because it's assigned. Because you can, you can be out of grace and it could cost you greatly because you moved into a position or accepted something you were not graced to do because you were diffused.

Whether you're married or single, watch this: kingdom ministry and anointings and gifts should be geared toward the God-given grace for ministry. I gotta go, I've been talking a long time, man. Listen, trying to do everything and be everything it's not where God has you. I'm gonna close my iPad, man. I'm done. I'm gonna quit.

I ain't through.

I'm gonna just quit. I'll start off with this tomorrow and we'll go into chaos because I didn't even give you step 2. But man, listen, listen, I'm gonna close with this. I want you to think about this. Identify the areas in your life. Look closely at you. Take an introspective. And the things that you know you really not graced to do, I want you to pray about them and then consider stopping them and walk out your assignment. My God, I love you, Jesus. Let's pray. Father, I give you praise. I thank you, God, this afternoon Father, I think they have received. I think that as we have disseminated what you influenced us to disseminate this morning, I pray that they will be strategic thinkers, that they will start with specializing in their gift and their anointing. They will become better versions of who you made us to be.

I will become a better version of who you made me to be because we will consistently take the position of a learner.

So Father, in Jesus' name, I ask you now to anoint the mind, the actions, the behaviors of every person under the sound of my voice to walk in dominion, to be a dominionaire.

And may it start with strategic thinking. May they do the things you created us to do.

And we give you praise and glory for it now in Jesus' name.

Would you give God some praise. Hallelujah! Would you give God some glory? Glory to God for this teaching today. Praise God! Would you bless him? Hallelujah! He's worthy to be praised. He's worthy to be magnified. He's worthy to be glorified. Come on, just thank him. Throw up some hands in the comments right there. Glory to the name of God. We thank you, God, for strategic thinking. Come on, bless his name. Bless his name. We thank you, Jesus. We thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah! For thinking outside of the box. Glory to God for thinking. Glory to the name of God in the dimension of dominion. And we praise you for it now in the mighty name of Jesus.

Hallelujah, hallelujah. God bless you all. Ho shabbat, Rebekah. We give you glory.

Listen, we're going to take a moment to give unto the Lord.

Praise God. God, we thank God.

Hallelujah.

We thank God that what's to come is better than what has been. Glory to God. Let's bless the Lord in our giving today. Listen, there are 5 ways you can sow, uh, here at Rhoda Church, uh, get your seed in the ground.

Praise God. Hallelujah.

Get your seed in the ground.

Oh, hallelujah.

Dominion sacrifices. You got to sow like a dominionaire. You got to sow where you want to go. Uh, the ways to give are on the screen.

There are 5 ways to give. Uh, you can go to our website, which is ratachurch.com/donate. You can give that way.

Uh, we do have PayPal for those of you who use PayPal, uh, as a wallet. Uh, you use the hashtag Rata Church 1 on PayPal. Uh, you can give via Cash App, uh, by using Rata Church. Uh, Zelle is info@ratachurch.com. And of course, you can text to give to 855-624-0949.

But whatever you do, Zion, get your seed in the ground.

Listen, you can't afford not to give.

Uh, there are people that'll say, I can't afford to give.

Listen, you can't afford not to. Make the sacrifice.

Sow into this word.

The Bible says if we communicate to you spiritual things we should reap of your natural things. That's the scripture.

So as you have been communicated spiritual things today, sow into the kingdom. I told you last night, we got a lot of great things happening.

Uh, we, we're going to purchase a building this year, we're going to purchase land this year, and we're excited about what God is doing. And every time you sow, you're sowing into not only our present budget, but you're sowing into our efforts to expand our borders. Glory to God, and become bigger and greater and stronger in the kingdom of God. So get your seed, praise God, in the ground. Glory to God. God is so good, he's so kind.

Listen, we're going to close.

Uh, this— the light snow and ice is coming down. Uh, they're saying the temperature may drop up.

So please stay tuned.

If you're on our text list, glory to God, uh, we're going to send out mass texts. Of course, Pastor Jeffrey will text our team, um, as Felicia and I, uh, deliberate and talk about tomorrow. Uh, but we're believing God that everything will be okay and we can assemble on tomorrow. Uh, if not, uh, we will be back virtual again, but we want you Glory to the name of God, to pray for the assembly.

Something happens when we come together that don't happen like this.

Glory to God.

I love y'all, man. Y'all be blessed. Listen, if you have not, uh, if you're on here for the first time and you're a visitor, I want you to text VISITOR to 470-333-4919. Glory to God.

And, uh, go ahead and text that so you can be on our text list. Praise God.

And you can stay up to date with all the things that are happening in and around Rudder Church. If you've already texted keyword before, there's no need to do this.

This is for first-time engagers, first-time visitors who have never sent a text to us. So text VISITOR to 470-333-4919. Praise the name of God. Also, just by way of announcements, we are still, uh, have openings on the ship.

We are going on a cruise, saints. We're calling it Dominion at Sea. Glory to God.

Uh, this is our leadership cruise.

We believe every leader, uh, every person has a leader in them.

So this cruise is for everybody.

We're going to speak to the leader in you. We're going to speak to the dominion mandate in you, the freedom in you. Glory to God. I'm telling you, you need to be on this boat. Stop playing games, make the phone call and get on the boat.

Praise God.

Hallelujah.

It only takes $200 to hold a cabin, and that's 2 people in the cabin. So if you team up with someone— hear me, team up with someone—

it's $100 per person. Lock your cabin down today. Glory to the name of God.

We're going to have a good time in the Lord. I expect you to be on this boat. Glory to God. I'm looking to see you.

Even those of you that are watching us that are not a part of the church, you are invited to cruise with us.

We're going to Nassau.

I love Nassau, Bahamas.

Bahamas.

Uh, if you haven't been to the Bahamas, it's going to be a great opportunity to experience Nassau.

One of my favorite places on Nassau is the Atlantis. So many great things to do at the Atlantis. Uh, we'll get a chance to experience all of that.

Uh, we're leaving out of Orlando, so that'll be a good opportunity to visit Orlando while you're there.

Uh, CocoCay is the private island of the cruise line, so you want to make sure you get on this boat, man. It's gonna be great.

All right, I love you guys to life, man. Y'all be blessed. Uh, we're starting our fast on tomorrow night, so don't forget that. Let's keep our ears open for the text.

Uh, we gonna get in the house, uh, before this snow snows in over in the church and we being a shut-in that God didn't call.

All right, I love y'all. Y'all be blessed.

Heaven smile upon you. Glory to God is my prayer. Y'all have a good Saturday. Peace. Stay warm.