The Mystery of Dominion Part 20: "Dominion & Gates, Part D" | Dr. Mike Woods, Sr. | 26 March 2026

Magnify your name, God. We give you glory, we give you honor, we worship and adore you. Jesus, we glorify you. Jesus, we magnify you. Oh, we bless your name, God. We bless your name. Mighty is your name. Mighty is your name. We give you all the glory. You're Alpha, you're Omega. We worship you, God. You're worthy to be praised. You're worthy to be glorified. You're worthy to be exalted. You're worthy to be lifted up. Beside you there is no other. It's in you we live, it's in you we move and have our being. God, we bless your holy name. Oh God, we glorify you, we lift you up, we honor you. Beside you there is not another. You're perfectly and absolutely wise. You're the glory and the lifter of our head. You're the crown jewel of heaven. Hallelujah. From everlasting to everlasting, you are God. Hallelujah. Your ways are past finding out, God, and we just give you the glory. We thank you that you know all things. You're omniscient. You see and you know all things. You don't miss a thing. The only time we miss it is when we're not in you. We give you the glory, God. Amen. Oh God, we glorify you. Oh God, we lift you up. We love on you tonight, God. We declare there's none like you, nowhere. God is in you, God, that we are alive, God. We breathe because of you, our heartbeat because of you, God. We're nothing without you, Jesus. And so, Father, we acknowledge you tonight. And God, your word declares in all our ways, if we acknowledge you, that You will navigate our path, God. And so, God, as we give you priority, as we put you first, God, we thank you for supernatural direction. And we thank you because we follow you, we will not miss it to the left nor to the right, God, but we will be accurate in all things. We will align with what you see, God. We bind up the flesh, God. We bind up the desires of the flesh. We bind up movement in the flesh. We bind up carnal discoveries and discernment that didn't come from you. But God, we bind up things that are born out of our emotions. But we follow the leading of the Spirit. For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God. And God, we thank you that you've called us sons. Sons. You've called us family because we're led of you, God. We don't follow after how we feel, we don't follow our emotions, we don't follow circumstance, but we follow your Spirit, God. Where you lead, we'll follow, God. What you say, do, God, we will do. We're not bound to nothing. That you didn't bind us to. We're not tied to anything, God, that you didn't tie us to. We want to be found where you are. We want to be found in what you have ordained. We want to be found in what you have said. And God, in the name of Jesus, we bind up everything not like you. Every weight. We bind up every distraction. We bind up every excuse, every illusion and delusion that the enemy has fed the mind. We bind it up in the name of Jesus, and we declare shaban and no power in our life. God, we bind up every witch and every warlock. We summon the blood, and we decree and declare that the blood be against you. We're not waiting for you to apologize. We're not waiting for you to repent. You've been a witch long enough. You've been a warlock long enough. We're not waiting for you. We decree and declare, because you choose to stay a witch, because you choose to stay a warlock, we sentence you to death. And we command your heart to stop, your lungs to shut down, your vital organs to cease work, for you have come against a blessed thing. False entity, every false deceptive voice. We bind you up, every manipulative, intimidating, controlling demon and spirit. We bind you up in the name of Jesus, and we— and we declare you have no power. And we decree and declare that if you don't tap onside, choose the space that God gives you to repent, that you should get your affairs in order. For we declare that death shall be your portion. In the mighty name of Jesus. We give you the glory and we give you the honor, God. And we bind up the spirit of slothfulness and laziness. Father, we declare that this will be a people that will be about your business. That will be diligent in your business. In the mighty name of Jesus. And that weight that slows them down, God, we thank you that you didn't say that you would remove the weight. You told them to lay aside the weight. And the sin. So Father, I decree and declare that you will give them a diligence to lay aside every weight and the sin that will beset them from the kingdom of God, that they can run the race with patience and pace and purpose. I declare in the name of Jesus, we will not be stopped. Everything you plan for us, oh God, And I speak to the finances of every household connected to this ministry. God, some of them are in this state simply because of disobedience. But Father, I command obedience in the life of your children. In the name of Mansa Taka Tatabaya. Some of them are where they are because they refuse to obey what you've spoken into their life. They refuse to obey the prophetic summons to stretch beyond where they are and trust you by faith. But God, in the name of Jesus, I declare that rebellion be bound, that disobedience be bound, and I loose the spirit of obedience in this house and in this place, among this leadership. I decree and declare an obedient people that will not rebel against progress, that will not not rebel against your plans. Obedience, God. You said if we're willing and obedient— they're willing, God, they just don't obey. But God, I release the spirit of obedience in this camp. In the name of Jesus, I declare Rhoda Church will be an example of what it means to obey God. What it means to obey prophetic summons, what it— oh my God— means to obey apostolic declarations and kingly and royal decrees. We will obey what you say, God. We will not flinch. We will not look away. We will not back down. But whatever you tell us to do, God, we will do. Obedience is better than sacrifice. Sacrificing what? Sacrificing your pleasure for the will of God. Doing what you want to do versus what he says. God, we thank you for obedience that will stop the sacrifice to be comfortable, the sacrifice to feel good, the sacrifice to relent. We release obedience. So much obedience that every Thursday this place will be filled at 6, that people will make prayer a priority, that people will make Bible study a priority, that they'll make Sunday morning, Sunday night a priority, because God, if we do one thing one way, we do everything that way. Let us make you first in everything that we do. Kilamanda, every melancholy and lackadaisical spirit. We bind the strong hand of melancholy, the strong man of melancholy that keeps us in a recess, in a playful mode. We bind up that strong man, cause us to become serious about those things that pertain to you. And we'll give you glory, God. We'll give you honor. We thank you that what's to come— yeah, Lord Jesus— is better than what has been. Thank you, God, that the way it is now is not the way it's gonna be. Thank you, God, that we stand in better days. On this 26th day of the 3rd month of 2026, we decree and declare, as we enter into this Holy Week, we decree and declare that no weapon formed against us will prosper. And just like you laid down your life for us, we're going to lay down our life for And God, we're going to declare, for you we'll live and for you we'll die. And you can trust us, oh God, with what you have planned for us. And we bless you, God. In the mighty name of Jesus, we give you the glory. Come on, in this building, clap your hands and tell the Lord thank you. Come on, clap your hands, open your mouth and tell him thank you, Jesus. Come on, thank you, Jesus. Come on, I dare you. The Bible says in all things give thanks. I don't care what you're going through tonight. Come on, open your mouth, clap your hands, and tell the Lord thank you. We thank you for your goodness, God. We thank you for your mercy. We thank you for your grace. We thank you for favor. We thank you for protection. Come on, open your mouth. We thank you that death didn't find us last tonight, and it won't find us tonight. We thank you in advance that we shall not die but live. Come on, clap your hands and tell him thank you. We thank you, God, that poverty doesn't live with us. Come on, no matter what it looks like, I need you to thank him in advance. Thank him for dominion, that you will dominate and not depart. Thank him for the mentality of a dominionaire, that you'll rule and you'll take authority authority. Come on, clap your hands. Come on, even those watching us live right now, clap. That sound is scattering the enemy in your life. Every demon that set up camp against you, as you clap, the demons are being scattered and they're returning back to We say thank you, Lord. We say thank you, Lord. We clap our hands and we open our mouth. Come on, by the clapping of our hands. We clap our hands and say thank you. We clap our hands and say thank you. Come on Zion! We clap our hands and thank you for the healing. We thank you for the deliverance. We thank you for the breakthrough. Come on, come on! We clap our hands and say thank you, and say thank you. By the clapping of our hands We laudate you, God. By the clapping of our hands, we pull together everything you planned. By the clapping of our hands, we thank you in advance for what you're getting ready to do. God, tonight our clapping signifies that your credit is good with us. And God, that whatever you said, you do. God, we clap our hands and we, uh, And we say thank you, God, that it's already done. Come on, clap those brown hands. Act like a demon is between your hands and clap your hands like you're going to clap them off and give God the glory. I'm telling you right now, the devil is defeated. You ought to clap your hands and say thank you. I don't care what he brought against you, he's already defeated. Thank him, it's already done. We give you the glory and we say thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Shikata tamamandi asaya. Ketamamandi ansa. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Could have been dead, but I'm still here. Thank you, God. Should be crazy. Oh God, but I got my right mind. Thank you, Jesus. Oh God, you've been good to us in spite of us. Thank you. Shukuta mande tabaya. Shukuta mamande dede ansa. And we say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you. Glory to your great name. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Hallelujah! You're wonderful and mighty. You're glorious and awesome, and we say thank you. We say thank you, Lord. Yes, Lord. Bless the mighty name of Jesus. What a mighty God we serve. Angels bow before him. Heaven and earth adore him. He's a mighty God. And we say thank you. Akademi ansaya. How great is our God. Katata mamama andi ansaya. He's a great God and He rules and He super rules. Heaven is His throne and the earth is His footstool. The heavens declare His glory and the earth is His handiwork. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. The Lord is the light of my salvation. Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even my foes, came to eat upon my flesh, they stumbled and they fail. Though an host should encamp against me, in this will I be comforted. One thing I desire of the Lord, and that will I seek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold his glory, to behold his power, to behold his favor. The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble. The name of the God of Jacob defend thee. Some trust in chariots and some trust in horses, but we shall remember the name of the Lord our God. We stand upright and we are his people. And the sheep of his pasture. We come before his presence with singing, we enter his courts with praise, and we say, this is the day that the Lord has made, and we shall rejoice and be glad in it. We give you the glory, God. We give you the honor. Hallelujah, hallelujah. How great is our God. Sing with me. How great is our God. Oh, sing how great How great is our God. How great is our God. Sing with me, how great is our God. And all will see how great How great is our God. How great is our God. Sing with me, how great is our God. And oh, sing how great How great is our God. Let's lift those hands and worship the great God. Come on, just worship him. Just a few moments, give him the fruit of your lips. He's a great God. You're the name above all names. You are worthy of all praise, and our hearts will sing. How great is our God, name above all names. Come on, y'all, sing it. You're worthy of all praise. And our hearts will sing. And our hearts will sing. How great, how great is our God. Come on, sing that again. Name above all names. Come on, lift the name above all names. Come on, y'all sing. You are worthy of— you are worthy of our praise. Everybody sing and our hearts will sing. Our hearts will sing. How great is our God. One more time. Name above all names. I wish y'all declare that in this building tonight, for you are worthy of all praise. And our hearts will sing, and our hearts will sing how great is our God. Come on, one last time, sing a name above all names, name above all names. Come on, worship Jesus. He's worthy, he's worthy. And our hearts will sing. How great is our God. Come on, back to the top one time. Just say, how great. Come on, sing it everybody. How great is our God. Come on everybody, sing with me. How great is our God. And always sing. All will see how great, how great, how great is our God. Lift those hands, everybody. Come on, give him the fruit of your lips. Come on, in this room, worship him. He wants to hear the corporate man. Come on, right here at this moment, just lift your voice and worship his His great name. Come on, worship His great name. Come on, open your mouth, worship His great name. Pastor Jeffrey has prayed us in. Come on, just give Him some worship, give Him some worship. We thank you that our prayers are answered tonight. Come on, just worship that great name. There's nothing that God brings to your mind that He can cannot do. Come on, worship him. He's a great God. With God, all things are impossible. Dominion is not an impossible task. Come on, just worship him as you begin to recognize that you're not operating in this realm of dominion alone, but you operate with the God who gave you the mandate, and he's interested in seeing you be the great man, the great woman that he's called you to be. Come on, lift your voice and worship the great God. Even you at home that's watching this video, lift your hands where you are and just begin to worship Jesus. Hey, come on, fill this room with your voice. Fill this room with your voice. Lift that, Pastor Jeffrey. Lift that. Yeah, just lift it. Lift it. Eka baman tabaya. Come on, lift your hands and just worship the Holy God. Lift your hands and worship. You're holy, God. You're holy. You're holy. You're holy. You're holy. You're holy. You're holy, you're holy, you're God. Yes, you are God. You're holy, you're holy, you're holy. Oh God, come on, lift your voice. Holy. You're holy, you're holy. Oh God, you're holy, you're holy. Oh God! You're holy— you are holy— oh God! You are holy— you are holy— Oh Lord Jesus Christ of Nazareth... Holy? I don't know what that means. That's not something we say over here at Hillsong Church anyway so let me just keep going. And it says this about him: He was without sin from his birth until now; he has never sinned or done evil against us.' So there's no word for 'sin' on your screen but if you have an old Bible like mine then maybe yours does too because they used to write things down by hand back when people were writing books out longhand which meant sometimes words would be written backwards around them. It doesn't matter though, okay?! We'll get through all right today! Okay guys, um, see how much longer do we got left? 5 minutes more than normal time limit. Let's go ahead Holy, oh God, you are holy, you are holy, you are holy, oh God, you are holy, you are You are holy, oh God. Yes, you're worthy, you're worthy, you are worthy, oh God, you're worthy. Worthy, so worthy, so worthy, Jesus. Oh God, oh God, oh, you are worthy, you are so worthy, you are worthy, oh Hallelujah! We love you, Jesus. You are holy, you are worthy, you are glorious, you are mighty. You alone are God. You're holy, you are worthy, you are holy. Holy, oh God, you are holy, you are worthy. You are holy, oh God, you are holy, you are worthy. You are holy, oh God. You are holy, you are worthy. You are holy, oh God. Yeah, you are holy. You are worthy. You are holy, oh God. You are holy. You are worthy. You are holy, oh God. Oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God, oh God. You are holy, you are worthy, you are holy. Oh God, oh God, you're holy, you're worthy. You're worthy. You're holy. You are holy. Oh God, you are holy. You are worthy. You are holy. Oh God, oh God. Just lift your hands. He's a holy God. He's a worthy God. He's a mighty King. Hallelujah. Otabankatasia. We bless you, God. We honor your great name. You're the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. You're Alpha and Omega. You're the first and the last. You're the beginning and the end. You're a bridge over troubled waters. You are delivering God, and we give you praise. You're our healer, you're our deliverer. You're so faithful. You are faithful, you are faithful. You are faithful, oh God. Sing it, you're faithful, faithful, faithful, faithful, oh God, you are faithful. You are faithful, you are faithful, oh God. You are faithful, you are faithful, you are faithful, oh God. Hallelujah. Father, give us the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Spirit tonight as we open your word. God, may your people be blessed by you and never impressed by me. Let your glory fill their hearts and their minds. Show yourself faithful. Show yourself strong in the mighty name of Jesus. Thank you. You are so worthy. You are so worthy, God. Eh, shakata tabandi o shaya. God, instead of complaining, we'll declare your worthiness. You're worthy to be worshiped, and we bless you, God. Thank you for what you're going to do in our lives, in our church, in Jesus' name. Come on, clap your hands and give God praise. Hallelujah! Wonderful Jesus. My God, your name. You are faithful, you are faithful, faithful. Oh God, you are fa— You are faithful. Oh God, one more time. Holy, holy, you are holy, God. Come on again. Holy, you are holy. Yes, God. Father, I decree and declare that not many days from now Your worth will be proven like never before. Every day you prove to us who you are, but thank you that it will manifest in such a tangible way in our lives that we will have no choice but to trust you in all regards. Thank you for the manifestation of your value your— many of us have not seen a revelation of your value to the fullest. So God, open the eyes of your people so we can see them. We can see the values and the attributes that we have never seen of our King. There are things about you we don't know. So I decree and declare, God, that our King and his worth, in all of his splendor and all of his wonder, will be revealed in our lives not many days from now. In Jesus' name. Somebody open your mouth and say, I receive that. I receive. That's big. That's big. Seeing him for all he is. I know a lot of times we think we got a monopoly and we think we really— but there's so much to him we haven't seen. There's so much we don't know. And there's about to be a supernatural manifestation and explosion of his very person in your lives. You're gonna see the wonder of God. As Israel saw his wonders, you shall see the wonder of God. I receive your wonder. I believe in the next 7 days, if you'll hear your heart— I see it— that God is going to show you his wonder like, like you've never seen it before. Just worship him for wonder. Oh God, the wonder, you just got to receive it and walk it out. Yeah, Jesus, we bless you, God. My God, today, wonderful Jesus. Thank you, Lord. For you are worthy. Worthy. You are worthy. Oh God, you are worthy. You are worthy, oh God, oh God. Hallelujah. Well, I'm gonna attempt to teach, but I really wanted to get over there in that corner and just lay out. Otabasataya. Glory to God. Tonight we're continuing our series on the mystery of dominion, and this is part 20. Long sermon, long teaching. Teaching. Glory to God. Say this one before we get started. Say, in the name of Jesus, say, I am a person of dominion. Said, departure is not a part of my life. Say, whatever I face, I will dominate. Said, nothing according to the word can stand before me all the days of my life, in Jesus' name, because I'm a dominator. Come on, give God praise if you believe that. Hallelujah. All right, so I'm going to read our foundational text and then we're going to get back into 2, uh, Nehemiah 3 again. And this is the 4th installment of Dominion and Gates. Nicole, can you help me please so my beautiful wife can be a cinematographer tonight? Glory to God. She the first person I taught how to run a camera, and she knows how to do it well. She's been on jobs with me and held cameras So she knows what she's doing. Thank God for her. Amen. Amen. Baby, you weren't here, but Pastor Jeffrey was praying heaven down for our marriage today. Because, you know, we know this— the enemy is mad and he hates us. But it's good to know other people can tap into that and pray for it. And I thank God for you, Pastor. We receive it. Glory to the name of God. Hallelujah. Psalm 100 and verse 4. Glory to God. The Bible says, just enter his gates with thanksgiving, go into his courts with praise, give thanks unto him and praise his name. So any gate you go in, you should go in it with what? Thanksgiving. You should be thankful for any gate God allows you to enter. Are y'all hearing this? This— these, these are not there, uh, Nicole. So just, yeah, just keep us on the title page and then we'll go to— yeah, glory to God. So say that once: I gotta enter every gate with thanksgiving. So if God opens the gate and allows you in, first order of business is thanksgiving. Watch this. And the word thanksgiving here is yadah, Y-A-D-A-H, like Rada with a Y. But the Hebrew word means to lift your hands and surrender to God's will. So when I come through the gate, I should surrender to what God's will is for me inside of that gate. Not get in the gate trying to change the wheel or trying to change the assignment. No, be thankful you in the gate and fulfill your assignment. Are y'all hearing this? All right, let's move on. Uh, next one is Isaiah 60:18. I don't have one for this one neither, Nicole. These are just our foundational scriptures. I want to read them so we can understand because we're going to finish up gates tonight. Say violence would— watch this— violence would disappear from your land. The desolation and the destruction of war will end. Hear this, salvation will surround you like city walls. I love that. So salvation here, the Hebrew word means rescue. It's Yeshua. That's what the word actually is in Hebrew. Hebrew, and it means to rescue you from oneself or one's environment. So he's saying your walls, or you should live inside of rescue. So there should be never a time as a child of God you don't feel rescued. Thank you. Yeshua means that you're always saved, not just you came to God and got saved, but in every situation you safe. Can I say this right here? Nothing is ever as big as it first seems. Amen. So when they're talking about war on the news and what could possibly happen, the thing that should register in your mind is not how you gonna build the fallout shelter in your house. What should register in your mind is that you already safe. Are y'all hearing this? Matter of fact, God's the umpire and he's already called you What did he call you? I played baseball, and anytime you would slide in there, he was going to go, 'You out' or 'Safe.' In God, we're always— are y'all hearing this? So when stuff arises, if you can't find words to say, just— because you're safe. You, you should be living inside of safety. I'm so crazy and full of faith that if they launch the bomb toward America— are y'all hearing this? I live inside of safety. I believe it will not come nigh me, amen, or those that's connected to me. Are y'all hearing this? Because I live in safety. I'm so— you can have a full behind buttons. Are y'all hearing this? But God is in control and he's gonna take care of his own. So we— I'm not concerned about that because I live in salvation, not just something I— I don't play saved on Sunday. It's not a role I play on Sunday. I'm saved every day. Amen. Are y'all hearing that? Yes, sir. He says, and praise will be on the lips of all who enter it. So salvation will be your walls and your gates will be called praise. So again, watch this. So if you're living in salvation and safety, every time you go in and out of your day-to-day life, whatever gate you're going through, again, it's reinforcing praise ought to be the order of priority instead of complaining. Because you— when stuff rise, you got an option. You can complain or praise God, and you just got to decide what you're going to do. Are y'all hearing me? Okay, Matthew 16, verses 18 and 19. We preached this real good Sunday Sunday, I hope. He said, now I say unto you that you are Peter, which means rock. Matthew— I'm sorry, 17— I'm sorry, 18 and 19. And upon this rock I'll build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give you keys to the kingdom of heaven, that whatsoever you forbid on earth earth will be forbidden in heaven, and whatever you permit on earth will be permitted in heaven. And I read that out of NLT, but you know it says whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. So I wanted to read those. Now let's jump into this tonight. We've already covered a few gates. We covered the Sheep Gate, the Fish Gate, the Old Gate, The Valley Gate, the Dung Gate. Y'all remember that one? And then Sunday we talked about the gates of hell. These are— and these 12 governmental gates in Nehemiah are important because these are gates that are a part of our lives, and we should always be passing through gates. Somebody say gates. Another word for gates, and then we're going to teach this, could be hubs. Airports have what is called hubs. Airlines have hubs. The Delta hub is Atlanta. So if you didn't live in Atlanta, live somewhere else, if you fly Delta, 9 times out of 10 you coming through Atlanta, because Atlanta's the hub. So a hub is designed as a gate to get you from one place to another place, and you can't get to that next place without going through that hub. In the kingdom, we need hubs. We need these gates whenever we need to validate the sheep gate. We need to know when to go through the right gates to get where we're trying to go. American, their hub is Dallas. So if you're flying through Dallas on American, most of the time you're going to get off, get on another plane, go to another gate. Are y'all hearing this? So you can get where you're going. What am I saying? In the kingdom, we have gates, we have hubs. The local church— watch this— is a gate, it's a hub. Our church is an apostolic hub. There are people that have come to this church and they'll never join it. Are y'all hearing this? I'm okay with that because as a hub like Delta, we are here to help them come through to get where they're going. Are y'all hearing this? Okay, y'all got what I'm saying? Because I don't want us to get the mindset that we're just a regular local church, because that's not who we are. And so whatever we do, we, we're not looking at the number of people to get it done. The assignment to be a hub hub says no matter who's here, God is King, and we gonna do what we need to do anyway. And the people that he's assigned— watch this— he's already equipped them as a part of the hub to help bring to pass what he promised. We are— you can't have a house mentality Because there are different kind of churches. You got house churches, you got— watch this— storefront churches. That's not— even though we're in a storefront building right now, that ain't who we are, right? We can't think that this is where we stop. You got neighborhood churches, people who just called to the neighborhood, that's called to pass out food. Not saying that we ain't gonna do some of that, but listen, that's not our she purpose. Our purpose again is to be a hub. Watch this, let me give you an example. Because in religion— I don't even know why I got into this because now it's going to take away from— but okay, thank you Lord. But religion operates through intimidation, manipulation, and control. So most religious entities are trying to control people to keep them in in place to keep them apart of what they are trying to accomplish. And what you'll learn about being on the flip side in a kingdom church, specifically an apostolic hub, there is no control. Because in an apostolic church or apostolic hub, it operates through rank. Hear this, order. And assignment. Rank, order, assignment. So the people that connect— watch this— understand rank, okay? The Bible says in Corinthians he gave first apostles. That's rank. So anybody that walks in apostolic grace is first in the order of gifting. That's rank. Also, order. When you understand order, you understand how you fit in the process of what's being accomplished. This is how the kingdom works and the hub works. So when people come in, they have to find out, one, what's the rank? They have to get to understand rank. Y'all hearing this? Then they got to understand, how do I fit in the order? And then thirdly, what is my assignment? What am I supposed to be doing in the process of fulfilling God's purpose? Are y'all hearing this? Because we got a lot of people— and when you got an apostolic rank, see, an apostolic rank will tell you— and Shannon, she knows this— it'll tell you okay, well, that may not be the area God has for you. Are y'all hearing this? And this may not be the season for that, and you need to step back off of that and go through this process first. Are y'all hearing this? The reality is, when you have revelation of rank, you don't mind receiving that. You don't try to do things you're not designed to do. When rank says, okay, I'm telling you this in love, you need to pace yourself right here. Are y'all hearing this? You need to slow down here. Someone came to me last week, and I could appreciate this because this just don't happen in the church. They came to me and said, okay, Apostle, I know you want me to do this, and you saw that I'm supposed to be, but I'm not ready. They said it to me. Are y'all hearing this? That's real honesty. That's real transparency. So I'm just not there, and I don't want to mess up along the way. And some people would have been like, okay, I'm gonna just throw you out anyway. You know, no, if a person tells you they're not ready, you listen to them. Bad. But the mature part of it is knowing you're not. Are y'all hearing this? So when you're in a hub, a hub helps you get ready so you can get to the next destination, help you get to that next gate so you can get on that next plane and take off. Are y'all hearing this? Yeah, remember that rank, order, assignment. Look at it like this. Billy Graham is probably the greatest evangelist to ever live. But if you— and if you read Billy Graham's books, you'll see that Billy Graham, number one, was not the greatest preacher. He wasn't. He's, he's even said that. But he's preached to more people face-to-face than any preacher that ever walked this earth, because he abided in what he was good at. Are y'all hearing this? He went out here trying to be an apostle and break up territory. Are y'all listening to me? He wasn't trying to prophesy. Never was Billy Graham prophesying. He wasn't a prophet. He wasn't even— he was an evangelist and knew he was. Pastors trusted him when he came to the city, would allow their people to volunteer for his meetings so they can get people saved, because they knew he was never going to come back to that region and start a church. Billy Graham never pastored. He stayed in his lane. Are y'all hearing this? He wasn't trying to prove that he was super deep, because if you listen to Billy Graham preach, you ain't gonna learn about nothing nothing deep. But I bet you he could open his mouth on the wrong side of the bed and somebody would get saved, because that's what his grace was. Are y'all hearing this? He wasn't the greatest orator, but he had a grace to bring people to Jesus. I said that to show you the power of staying in your lane. He became super great. His organization is one of the largest ministry organizations to date. His children's children are running it. The reality is you don't build that kind of legacy being all over the place. You gotta understand, he dominated that space. He's a great example of dominion. He dominated in the fear of evangelism. Guess what is happening now? We have very few evangelists because everybody wants to be a prophet, everybody wants to be an apostle, a pastor. Most people are going after trying to be a pastor because they think they can be a pastor because they could preach or prophesy. If you're a pastor pastor, really, you're gonna do less prophesying. If you got a house and you are called to the pastor's grace, your job is to sheepherd those people, is to feed and nurture them, not to have revival every Sunday. Are y'all hearing this? So we have to know who we we are. This is why on any given Sunday, anything can happen in here, because I ain't no regular pastor. This is an apostolic hub for people designed to go through here, because remember, part of our vision is to deploy, right? So it's not to keep people sitting in the seats, it's to deploy people into dominion purpose. Y'all got it? Yes, sir. Now, and I have to say that because what I'm about to say now, because I want you to be clear that no matter how we expand, God's got us, and he has ordained all of us to carry what he's doing. So I've been telling y'all about this building on Boulder Crest, right, that that's under— that we, we was putting the contract on it. We really was waiting for them to sign the contract, cuz if— you know, I'm speaking it by faith, but it's not official until they sign it. Well, I got the actual contract back today. Yeah, that's something to shout about. We are actually officially under contract. We are in our due diligence period. We can get appraisals, we can start working on financing, everything we need to do to go to close. This is what God spoke to me today. He said, I want you to tell people that securing that contract, that they step through a gate. We talked about the fish gate. They stepped through the fish gate, which represents provision, because God's going to use every one of us that believe by faith to get the finances necessary. If we need to put money down, it ain't going to depend on me to do it. He's going to use all of us to do it. Are y'all hearing this? You ought to be happy about that because the bill is on contract. That means something's about to change in your money. Okay, well, maybe I'm in the wrong place tonight. Glory to God. Something's about to change in your bank account because he has positioned you inside of the hub to make sure we keep flying. Amen. Are y'all hearing this? He wouldn't have— and let me teach this. Here's the big part of testimony. The reason it took them so long to sign, because they had 9 other offers— watch this— that were greater in money than ours. The highest offer was $1.3 million, and when they bought out to it. Myrtle told me, she said the agent told me, they said to her, it's just something about these people and this man. We want them to have the building. Are y'all hearing this? They turned down $1.3 million and accepted our $1 million offer. And I prayed, I said, God, what, what, what the offer? Because I know what it prays for. It prays for way more than what we offer them. So at the end of the day, I'm like, what do we offer, Lord? Lord said, a million. I'm gonna give you the building, just offer me. And not knowing there was other offers on the table that were more than ours, and they turned down a max of $300,000 or more. I mean, they walked away from $300,000. To give us favor. So God said to tell you, you have stepped through the gate, the fish gate. Well, provision is going to be made for the building and you. Are y'all receiving that tonight? If you're watching me, are you receiving that? Because where God guides, he provides. Thank you. Oh God, it's an indication if you ever had one that your money is changing, cuz you in the hub. God, okay, all right, let's move. All right, and, and which brings me to this next gate. Go to Nehemiah 3:15. The Bible says, and the Fountain Gate repaired Shalon. Say Shalon. I love that, the son of Kohath, the river of the district of Mizpah. Say Mizpah. He built it and covered it and set up the doors thereof, the bolts thereof, the bars thereof, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, even unto the stairs that go down from the City of David. Say the Fountain Gate. Now here's something I want you to understand about this gate. First of all, it represents the source of spiritual life. So this gate should always be open in our life with the understanding that God is the source of our spiritual life. So that means you shouldn't go on not a day without going through the fountain Fountain Gate, because the rivers of heaven are flowing out of the Fountain Gate. Let's look at something. Matter of fact, go to John 7:38 real quick. Well, now let's, let's stay right there for a moment. Let's stay with him. Let me, let me— let's look at these names real quick. I, I, I got to do this. I was going to omit it, but I got to do it. Glory to God, because these names are, are important. First of all, he said shalom. Say it again. Say shalom. Oh, y'all didn't say it right. Say it again. Say shalom. Y'all got it that time, or did y'all say the same thing? Sounded different. Nehemiah 3, let's, let's— and where am I? Is that 16? Okay, so shalom, this name— that can't be 3:16, that's 3:15, that's 3:15. I got 3:16 on the slide. Shalom, this name means It's a masculine name. Watch this, that means retribution. Say that word, say retribution. So when you step through the Fountain Gate, God allows the things that are owed to you to flow into your life. I don't know who's hearing this tonight, but somebody, you got money owed to you. You got money held up in cases. You got money held up in inheritance. And God God says you're about to cross in— oh my God— into the Fountain Gate so retribution can happen. That, that things that you went through, you helped others, you sold seed, and you haven't seen the harvest yet. But God said you're about to step into the season of retribution. Glory to God! I wish I had somebody to catch that. You paid for folk. You may not even have given them money, but you sold seed in prayer. You gave them your time. You counseled them. You gave up stuff so that they can be helped. God said you're about to have retribution. It means he's about to catch you up. What has been behind, he's about to catch you up. What's been lagging is about to come due. God said that invoice has been hanging in the heavens long enough. He said that invoice is about to be paid. I just saw it in the spirit. I saw a red stamp on the invoice say paid. God says I'm about to give you retribution where you owe no man nothing but to love him because you stepped into the Fountain Gate. Oh God, I wish y'all catch this. And notice Shallum repaired the gate, huh? And he was the son of a man named Kohazaz. Now this is another masculine— watch this— word. So which is— this is his father, but Kohazaz Hos— kol, Hebrew, which means all or encompasses the ability to have everything. Hoseas means to see. So he is all-seeing. So we're children of God who sees everything. Are y'all hearing this? So God sees where you are. But watch this, it also encompasses— not only does he know where you are, but he knows where you're going. Oh boy, touch yourself and say, God knows where I am, but he also knows where I'm going. So you ain't stuck where you are, because the enemy sometimes to make you believe that things are never gonna change. But the mantle of kol hazeh, the ability to see like God sees— oh my God, you're about to see your future. You're about to see where you're going just like God see. Matter of fact, prophesy to somebody, find Find somebody and prophesy to them. Tell them the Lord said to tell you tonight, I can see you in your future and you look much better than you look right now. Tell them, I can see you in your future and you look much richer than you look right now. You ought to give God praise for what's coming. For what's coming. Lord have mercy, I shouldn't be preaching like this on Thursday. Listen, watch this. He was the ruler— this is interesting— of the district of Mizpah. Say Mizpah. Now Mizpah was a district where they had built up these watchtowers. Towers. So men, they didn't sit in the watchtowers to be prophetic. Mishpah meant they sat in the watchtower to uncover the secrets of the people. So the king would sit them in these towers to watch people's life, and anybody that was going against what was going on in the kingdom, he would go back and say, well, such and such doing this, they they were watchers. Here's what this gate does, because the ruler of the district of Mitzpah has been spying on your life. And every spy spirit and spy demon, God says when you enter into the Fountain Gate, the spies, ha shakotabaya, that's been looking into your creating portals in demonic familiar realms, monitoring you. Father, tonight through the found gate, we bind up every monitoring spirit that's been watching our family, watching our children, watching our lives, watching our money, and we decree and declare they will no longer monitor us. Because we dwell in the Fountain Gate and we tear down the towers of Mizpah. Hallelujah! In the mighty name of Jesus. Glory to God. He said he's covered it, set up the doors thereof and the bolts thereof and the bars there on the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, even unto the stairs that go down from the City of David. So this gate is connected strongly— watch this— to the presence of God and how God flows into our life, the places where God meets us. Go to, go to John, it's up there. Go to John 7:38— 6:38, I'm sorry. It says, he that believeth on me, as the scripture has said, out of his belly, from within him, shall flow rivers of living water. Can I tell you something? There's a fountain in you. There are rivers in you. And God says, I need them rivers to flow out of you into others. There are people that are walking around here dead. The only way they're going to live is that you turn your fountain on. But you got to believe on Jesus, not like the church said, like the scripture said. 'Cause the church has a depiction of Jesus sometimes that ain't necessarily what the scriptures say. Are y'all hearing this? Jesus, first of all, he's not still on the cross. Religious folk walk around with chains with Jesus dead on it. Every time I see somebody with it on, I just tell them nice, like, you know, he ain't on there no more. He got up for real. You go to, you go to some sects of religion, they got statues of Jesus on the cross. We, we thank God for his vicarious, efficacious, redemptive work of Calvary, but he got up. And so we don't have to buy into death. This life is about life. God wants you to live so you can give life to somebody else. So the main thing, you got to believe that the scripture says that he's alive. He's a living God and he's here for us and he wants to interact with us. Amen. All right, let's go to this next gate. We're gonna Get out of here. Glory to God. So, so, okay, let me just give you these. So the fountain— write it down, write it down, because I don't want to get ahead of myself. I want you to get all of it. The fountain represents, number one, refreshing. Secondly, I already gave you— there was a retribution. That's why you got to keep that fountain flowing. When somebody's broke, I already You know, the fountain dried up somewhere. They done lost faith and lost belief somewhere. Are y'all hearing this? Because out of your belly should be flowing rivers of living water. Are y'all with me? I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's hard, but it's right, man. Spiritual vitality is indicative of fountains, which means you have life You're vibrant, you're exciting. You're not, oh, just down and always— when you are in God, there ought to be some oomph about you. There ought to be some get up and go about you. You shouldn't always be dragging, 'Well, I'm just trying to make it.' Well, I'm here. That's not the way God wants you to live. Matter of fact, he never told you to try to make it anyway. Well, you should be living the life that he made for you. Who gave you authority to try to make it? He already made a life. If you believe on him, the life will flow out of you. Are y'all here? I know, I'm gonna go, I'm gonna move. Somebody said just stop. Okay, I'm gonna move. Lastly, the fountain represents renewal and revival. So when fountains start flowing, revival takes place, because revival is not just about the renewed mind and people getting saved. Revival should bring your whole life from the dead, which means your body should awaken. Are y'all hearing this? Your money should awaken. I'm telling you, revival is, is here for us, and we've stepped into the fountain gate. And you better receive this prophetically and make sure you are aligned in every way so that this manifestation of the river can wake up in you because we got stuff to do. Are y'all hearing this? Oh my God. And I was wondering why God kept taking me off these last 6 gates, because it was— he was waiting for that contract to come, because this ties into the prophetic moment we're in. Okay, let's just go to the next one if y'all don't believe it, because what produces a fountain— you got to discern where the fountain comes from— is God. You got to discern he's the one that produces the fountain. He's the one that brings the flow. Now here's another question. After you answer who produces it, we know it's God. What blocks the flow? When stuff ain't flowing, what's happening that's blocking it? God just spoke that earlier. It's disobedience. It's misalignment with the word. And when something is not producing and is operating in a disobedient space, it has to either be aligned or removed. Are y'all hearing this? You need to either remove it out your life or it needs to come in line with what you're trying to accomplish. Everything can't go. Everybody don't see what you see. Are y'all hearing Y'all hearing this? Stagnation kills dominion every time. You start trying to drag a bunch of stagnated folk toward dominion, you ain't gonna never get there. That's why I'm gonna keep kicking y'all in tail until we get it. Are y'all hearing this? I did that physically, but I'm doing it in the spirit. I would never— That— well, I'm not like— there's a preacher in Texas, he line his folk up on the altar and have a paddle and then he gonna whoop it into him, which is crazy. That's ridiculous. And he think that's God. I'm like, and be using scripture, "Smite a rod, spoil a child." First of all, them really ain't your children. Not to be— that ain't what that text was talking about, to be whooping folk like this. So no, I'm going kick you in the spirit. Glory to God. And keep it moving, and it's gonna be God's foot, not mine. Are y'all hearing me? All right, here's this next gate. Go to Nehemiah 3:26. The Bible said, now Nethinim— oh, here we go— dwelt in Ophel, unto the place over against the Water Gate toward the east, and the tower that stands out. Let me just tell you right here, the Watergate represents the word of God. Say, the Watergate represents the word of God. So let's deal with this. So now the Nathanael— sound like a man or something, don't it? It means servants. Nethinims were servants who dwelt in Ophel, and servants in the sense of the word of slaves, that they had no choice but to do what the master said. Are y'all with me? Okay, we cannot compromise what the word says. We must become slaves to what God says. We must choose his word over everything else. Now that's if we want to have dominion. I told y'all before, dominion is an uncommon gift that requires uncommon sacrifice. So you have to be willing to make the sacrifice of yourself to totally serve what the word says. That means you don't want to miss it to the left nor to the right. If the word said it, you're going to follow it. You're not going to buy into the— because we become so inclusive. And I'm not talking about just the inclusion doctrine that Carlton Pearson developed before he died, which by the way was labeled as a heretical doctrine by the fathers of the church. So it ain't true. Truth, right? They ruled it out because it didn't align with the word. But we become inclusive in that we try to be like everybody else, going back to not celebrating the difference as a hub, or the difference in who we are in the kingdom. I'm telling you, how we do this won't— oh my God, it will not mirror how anybody else has done it before. How we buy building, how we build buildings, it will not mirror it in no way. Because what God's going to do is create a model that show— and a testimony that shows how he could take a few people to do a huge thing. But in order to do it, we have to become servants of the word, not of opinion. But the word. I commented on something. I don't hardly ever comment on stuff, but someone sent me a post. I hate when people do that because I don't, you know, just copy and paste the post. If I didn't see it, I didn't want to see it, so don't. But this person copy and pasted the post and sent it to me. I'm saying, okay. I need to comment on that. And that's— I went and did it. So I wrote this comment, and this prophet is again not understanding rank order assignment. Got on there and said, well, first of all, we ain't under the Old Testament no more, we under the whole Bible, right? Right. I didn't come in back because I wasn't gonna waste my time with that. But she was like, we— yeah, we, we in the New Testament now and we under grace. No, old will, new will, last will and testament. The whole counsel of the Bible applies. Watch this. Jesus said the law is fulfilled through him, so you should be able to walk out any part of the law if necessary. Just some things were eradicated because of grace. But you're telling me if I ain't on the Old Testament, it's okay to kill, it's okay to commit adultery? It just show you how unlearned people are. But this person is calling herself a prophet. First of all, if you're a prophet, you need to be in the word. That's the first order of business. If you're a prophet, you need to know the word. Which explains why we got a bunch of dumb prophets out here who are not in the book. Are y'all hearing this? Yes, sir. Okay, okay. Well, I'm not scared of none of y'all, so at the end of the day, the reality— I'm just saying, we need to get in the word, man. I don't care how well you can see. If you're seeing wrong and it don't line up with the word, it didn't come from God, because if a prophet, so-called prophet, prophesies to Pastor Jeffrey and tells him to leave his wife and marry Shannon, and because Shannon needs to leave her husband and marry him, that's a bunch of mess and confusion, and it ain't in the word. And that's extreme, but you realize there's some folk out here doing that kind of stupidity. Repented. Yeah, it was a prophet in Jackson. He dead now. I hope he went to heaven. I hope he repented, but he dead now. But I hope he went to heaven, I really do. Uh, if he made it in, it was slim, I'm telling you. But this dude, this dude, he told— he had a couple in his church. He, he— first of all, he moved in with the couple because he didn't have nowhere. He was their pastor. He had nowhere to stay. He prophesied to the man. Are y'all hearing this? I told the man, God said stop sleeping with your wife, and start giving her all this other explanation Why this idiot man stops sleeping with his wife, starts sleeping in another room in the house. Well, that was the ploy to separate him from his wife. The prophet with his gay self goes into the bed with the husband and starts sleeping with him. Later they end up forced. That's ridiculous. That one God— no. And that blood for that marriage was on his hands. That's how— I ain't the judge, but at the end of the day, if he got in, it was slippery, because that kind of stuff damages lives. It damaged the whole church because everybody found out about it because the wife started talking. Are y'all hearing this? That's how everybody know what the prophet said. Are y'all hearing this? So I'm telling you, we got to stay in the word. Get out all that familiar crap. Okay, I'm doing some crazy stuff out here, man. But these servants dwelt in Ophel. Now watch this. Ophel in Hebrew means the hill of the Lord, or the hill where word is released. East. So anytime you read about prophets come— coming down out of the hill, one time you'll see there was a company of prophets coming out of a hill. They were coming out of Ophel, and they had been up to the hill and been with the hill of the Lord and heard from the Lord the word. So again, this is dwelling in the word, serving the word, onto the place over against the Watergate where the word constantly is flowing in and out of your life, and it should be the thing that stands out more than anything else. Okay, for the prophetess that was online, y'all might need some New Testament, so let me just go, uh, Ephesians 5:26. The Bible says, to make her holy and clean, washed by the cleansing of the Word. So the Word will clean you up if you want to be clean. Are y'all hearing this? If you get in the Word, it'll clean you. I grew up in the church. A mother would break out in a song. We had a mother at church, she was saying this song almost every Sunday. She said, get in the Word and stay there, be ready when Jesus come. Get in the Word and stay there. And we say, be ready when Jesus get in the word and stay there, be ready when Jesus come. Get in the word and stay there, be ready when Jesus come. Be washed in the word and stay there, be ready when Jesus come. And we— I mean, we will be— but she was saying something. She's like, get in that word, stay there, get clean. Because if you get off the word word, you are subject to anything. I mean, one time, and this is a true story, I had to be— I think Junior was 2 years old, and I was birthing a church actually in Carrollton, Georgia. This is long ago. Me and his mama and him was the only people there, and I was in this community center type thing preaching, right? right? And I'm just preaching. I'm preaching like it's full, right? Little boy rolled in on a Big Wheel, and I was preaching, man, and he was getting— he was looking, he was getting with it, man. I let up off the word a little bit, he rolled on out on the Big Wheel because I got out the word. I mean, I'm telling you, I was in that word. When I let up on the word, I saw it. God said, he left because you stopped preaching the word. You start accommodating the room. Are y'all hearing this? You got to stay in that book, man. Stay in what God said. It's so easy to become an assumptive accommodator that use your gift to satisfy people, right? When you get in the word, people are not going to like you. They are not going to want to receive it. You know why? Because water is symbolic of what? It cleanses, it nourishes, it sustains life. This is why, especially male children, when they get of a certain age The hardest thing in the world is to get them to bathe. I tell my son, why in the ham sandwich you want to stink? I mean, for real, dude, nobody wants to be around you. I smelt you before you turn the corner. Don't you smell it? Bae, sir, the remedy to that is bath. Y'all hearing this? It's water with soap and deodorant. Are y'all hearing me? When you get in the word, people that don't want to be clean, they going to turn it off. That's why a real word church, it don't grow fast, right? Are y'all hearing this? A compromising word, church. So we have to become authorized dealers of the word. Say that with me. Say, I'm an authorized dealer of the word of God. Hallelujah. Whoa, your life has to deal the word in how it looks to the world. Stay in the word, man. All right, watch this. So when, when you don't have the word, first of all, revelation dries up, prophecy dries up— real prophecy. The other thing that happens is faith weakens. But how can you hear without a preacher? Faith come by hearing, hearing the word of God. So the reason we don't want my faith, because we're not listening to the word. So this word on Dominion, that's why I'd be challenging y'all, man, be here to hear it, because you really can't trust yourself to go back and watch it if you're not here. Because if you ain't in love with the word like that— are y'all hearing this? You're probably gonna find some time when you feel like it's time, but the reality is videos. You don't need to miss it. If you miss it, you need to go back and watch some videos. We 20 messages in on the— we unraveling the mystery of dominion. How we gonna get it? We don't know how to do it. Are y'all hearing this? So we gotta— hearing and hearing the word, that's where faith comes from. You have faith, you can conquer and have dominion. You keep hearing his word on it. The word, not the preacher who's delivering it, but the word itself is what keeps a kingdom culture, an apostolic hub alive. Are y'all here? Without the word, we die. There are people say, oh my God, worship gets so high. Sometimes you ain't even got to preach. A lie. Sometimes I believe God can come in, but the word is important. Some people who lazy and don't want to preach or teach make that excuse, but the reality of God— records in worship— and we gonna worship long, we gonna still preach the word because the word needs to be taught. Are y'all hearing this? It don't take worship to save you. It takes the word to save you. Worship is your privilege and honor to pay homage to God, and God responds to that. Great. But then he responds to it so you can get taught on how to live out your experience. Okay. All right, let's go to this next gate. Nehemiah 3:28. The Bible said above the Horse Gate gate, repair the priests, everyone against his own house. This is so important. Notice the horse gate was against his own house. And notice, to repair the horse gate, the priests, the intercessor— a priest is an intercessor. A priest is one that goes to God on behalf of others. Watch this. We have to be be a community of intercessors. While one of Apostle Asia's chief gifts is prayer and intercession, the whole community— we can't be apostolic people and we're not priests, because what the Horse Gate represents is strength and endurance. If we don't pray, we're gonna get up. If we don't pray, we're gonna faint. We won't have strength to do what we're called to do. Y'all with me? And watch this, you need to pray— here we go— for the house, even at your house. See, okay, Pastor was praying for me and I appreciate that. But the reality is, even outside of this building, we need to be praying not just for leadership but for the house, but for the vision, that the thing that God has spoken, that it come to pass. Say, Horse Gate. So notice he said, ah, God, that it's against the house. This lets me know that my house is not even sustained by finances alone. Are y'all hearing this? It's not sustained by the presence of my wife alone, by my presence alone. The house is sustained by prayer. Are y'all hearing this? So, so it's impossible to be a person of prayer in the church for real, and you're not a person of prayer at home. If, if I came to your house and interviewed your family and asked them how often you pray, what would they say? You ask my wife, she'll tell you I pray way too much, all the time. The reality is, because the house is sustained gained by time with God. I'm a better husband because I'm in his face. Are y'all, are y'all understanding me? If you want strength and endurance, your house need to be a house of prayer. Because guess what? If your house a house of prayer, it's easy to be a person of prayer, meaning the God's community, and connected to it. Prayer gives you the power and authority to take control of your environment. See, prayer will give you dominion in any environment. You go to praying, it's going to change the atmosphere. You letting folk around you control the temperature? No, it shouldn't be that way. You're a priest, so you should take the atmosphere before God and intercede for that atmosphere. And then give them one warning. You know, they making noise, you live in a one-bedroom, the people upstairs making noise, stomping on your head. Just give them one warning and tell them, look, I'm an ambassador, I got to sleep. And if not, the angels will put them out and they got to go somewhere else. Are y'all, are y'all hearing me? Prayer will move things. Instead of complaining about what's happening in our community with our children, let's pray for them. Oh God, you know, my oldest son Michael, who has a tremendous call on his life— Michael preached his first sermon when he was 7 years old at our church in Jackson. Always loved the word, but the enemy worked really hard to pull him away from God. While I was teaching him principles of God, he would come to my house for summer, for Father's Day, for weekends. I'm teaching him God. He go home and see a whole nother culture. He get home and it was watered down, what I was telling him. So now he's in a fight and he, and he really feels like, Dad, I have to get myself all the way together before I get back in church. But you can't get yourself together. And God told me to stop praying, stop fussing at him, and just pray. Because every time I would talk to him, I'd be on him, body slamming. He's like, Dad. And, and I knew that's what's making him feel like, I got to get right before I go around this dude. Are y'all hearing this? And so I've been loving on him lately, and so I see things turning with him because scripture says, with love and kindness have I drawn home then. But I'm telling— I wasn't none caring about it because that's my firstborn. I'm like, dude, you are operating on the auspices of the devil and I need you to get out of that mess. I'm watching his YouTube. He got an amazing YouTube channel with all these people who follow him. He get all these views. He get more views than me. And I'm— but he— and all this influence, and all he talking about is Nothing. I mean, just really talking about rappers and they beef, talking about everything that's going on, and folks just watching this stuff. I said, Junior, don't you know you're wasting what God gave you on this folly? And maybe God is setting it up so that when he convert, all them people that follow him on YouTube, now he can talk to them about God. Yeah, because, because it's there. So, you know, and so you got us pray in this horse gate so you can endure. Because there have been times, I'm telling you, well, my strength grew weak. I was going to go out there to his house, grab him by both of his ankles, drag him in the car, drag him to the church, put him on the altar, cast some demons out. That's not the way to do it. Are y'all hearing this? Cause, cause you got— when you're a parent and you know what you put in your child, and to see where they was and to see where they are, that's rough, man. But the Horse Gate says— you ever see horses? They always keep unity. If horses are together, they eat together, they run together. If they out, they stay together. So in the horse gate, we got to keep culture, keep community, keep connection. Are y'all hearing this? So horse gate teaches us this— write it down— that there's shared responsibility, there's corporate vision. Watch this, there's long-term commitment. Horses live a long wrong time. Horses carry the load together. You know that someone that has horses usually has multiple horses, and if they're using them to move things, they divide it among the weight that a horse can carry. So we got to say, we got to do it together. We got to do it together. Say we're better together. We're better together. All right, go to 29. Nehemiah 3:29. I'm almost done. The Bible says— Nehemiah 3:29, it says this. You ain't got it? Oh no, we got— okay, I'm gonna just read it. The Bible said, next Zadok son of Immer also built the wall across his own own house. And behind him was Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the gatekeeper of the East Gate. Say the East Gate. Oh, it's so prophetic, man. So the East Gate represents, first of all, the dawning of a new day. It represents that yesterday is gone and I've stepped into a It's, it's morning. Are y'all hearing this? Y'all remember that song? Y'all ain't— that's saying, well, y'all don't know this song neither. But the ladies, she would say, it's morning, now it's time for us to say goodbye. Yes, you're the murder. See? Let me tell you something. It's morning. It's time for you to say goodbye to how things were yesterday. Amen. It's a new day. Oh God, we've tapped into the East Gate. Say the East Gate. It's time to understand that— watch this— the sun rises in the east. Yeah, so the East Gate, you see new things on the horizon. I'm telling the signing of this contract and the— this, this entering of this contract for the church represents a new day for us. Fresh vision, fresh revelation, new dimensions of glory. I'm telling, we've stepped into new seasons of light. And can I tell you something? Every healthy church needs an Eastgate. Every healthy believer needs an Eastgate, otherwise you'll get weary in well-doing. Are you hearing this? You need a place that can breathe out hope to you, that can show you the future and to show you what's coming. Are y'all hearing this? Revelation has to continue to rise. Prophetic utterance has to continue to point us to what God said. All right, 331, let's go. That's the East Gate, the Gate of Miphkad. It tells us, because Miphkad means— oh, here we go— hem miphkad. This word means accountability and assignment. It also means inspection. So here's what it is. After him, Melchizedek, one of the goldsmiths unto the house of— there's Nethem again, the servants— and of the merchants over against the gate of Hamakad and to the ascent of the corner. I love this. So real ascension happens Here we go, saints. Not in worship. Real ascent happens in obedience to appointment and assignment. See, we think we are ascending because we go up in worship, but that's— again, that's your worship experience. That's you going after God. You having new dimensions and new experience with him. But it does no good if that doesn't culminate with obedience to his assignment. That good worship needs to culminate with some obedience, with some accountability to what he wants out of you. Y'all with me? Dominion I love this— requires obedience to the mandate in Genesis 1:26. That's a mandate, that's not a suggestion. Let them have dominion is a mandate. Have dominion, official, to see the fowl of the air and every moving creature, living thing upon the earth. That's a mandate from God, and we got to stop treating it like it's some Plan B or some maybe if. We got to be accountable to what he asked us to do. It's called responsibility. Mifkad says that I am responsible. Responsibility is to respond to the ability that's in you. So there's a gift in you that you got to respond to. I'm teaching way too long. I'm almost done. Can I tell you me something. Nothing in the kingdom— I'm, I'm really done— is random. It's intentional. Everything in you has a purpose. Every encounter you have, there's a reason for it, not just for you to feel good. Every word you hear, you got to be accountable to it. Are Y'all with me? Because every believer has a mandate, a place, a responsibility. Alignment in assignment— watch this— releases anointing. God anoints you for assignment. He doesn't give you anointing just to be giving it to you. The anointing is to do something so that yokes can be destroyed and burdens can be removed. That's what the anointing is. It destroys yokes, it removes burdens. Are y'all hearing this? So your assignment is supposed to destroy yokes and remove burdens. So when you align, that's when anointing comes. We think just because we pray in the spirit, or we again have great worship experiences, but if that don't culminate with alignment, with assignment, we've missed it. We haven't gone through the gate of Mifkad when we don't— obedience. Say obedience. Hallelujah. Last one. No, matter of fact, y'all stand. I'm done because I'll spend too much time with them. I'll just work with them later. Hallelujah. Y'all stand. I'm gonna let y'all go. Did y'all learn anything tonight? Amen. Did y'all get anything out of it? Praise God. It is to you, 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 like you. 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 like you, and I will bless your name. Bless your name, and I will bless your name forevermore. Father, in the name of Jesus, we bless your name today. Name. It is to you we give you glory. Thank you for this season of the Fountain Gate. Thank you for this season of the Horse Gate. God, thank you that you're moving us into the season of this Water Gate, God, where the blessings of the kingdom flow into our life and give us strength and endurance. Yes, God, I pray for the strength of your people, that we will endure and we will be like running horses. Matter of fact, tonight I hear the hordes of heaven. I hear the hordes of heaven, the hoofs of the heavenly horses galloping into our world, into our life. To give us strength, to give us fortitude. Thank you for the spirit of intercession. I declare that the spirit of prayer and intercession will rest on this church, that we will not take it for granted when we come together at 5:00 AM on Tuesdays. We won't take it for granted when we come together on Thursdays at 6 PM. But God, we will make it a priority even in our homes to be people of intercession, so we'll have the endurance to receive what you prepared in the found gate. And Father, right there, I thank you for retribution. I thank you that everything that is old is being released to us right I declare it in the name of Jesus, and I declare we won't lack a thing, neither will we have a care. Thank you that the monies we'll need for our down payment, that at the time of closing we'll have it in the bank. I decree and declare that the people under the sound of my voice and the people connected to this vision, that you will begin to work miracles in their lives financially. Financially, that they will freely give thousands of dollars into the ministry. Not one thousand, but multiple thousands, so that we can advance what you've called us to do. Thank you that you'll continue to prosper Felicia and I so we can continue to be a blessing to this work. Thank you that nothing will be withheld We receive the retribution in the mighty name of Jesus. I declare that bank accounts are filling up, contracts are coming through. I declare that doors are opening for your people and ways are being made. Thank you, God, that you're going to cause people that are not even connected to this house to become preoccupied with what the what we're doing, and they'll sow and they'll give, and we'll have more than enough to do what you called us to do. And I declare the anointing of Retribution will produce more than enough for this people, that these people will walk in abundance and overflow, and everything they put their hand to. And we declare it to be so, and we say it is done in Jesus' name. Would you clap your hands and praise God for his word tonight? Come on, we thank you for your word, God. We thank you for your word, and we receive retribution. Come on, I dare you, give him in the next 60 seconds your best praise for retribution. I dare you, praise him him like you're already a millionaire. Praise him like your income has already increased. Come on, y'all ain't doing it. I need you to praise him like you just moved some commas in your income. You move some commas to the left in your income and your figures are increasing. Why you praising There's multiplication happening in the spirit. We give you glory, we give you glory. We receive the accumulation and the multiplication in Jesus' name. Amen. And thanks be to God. Would you praise him one more time? Ah, glory to God. What a mighty God we We're going to give tonight very quickly. Get your very best seed. Glory to God. Give like you already blessed. Glory to God. Sow into the kingdom. Glory to Jesus. And be a blessing to God. We love him. If you have physical money, you can bring and put it there. Hallelujah. I love you, I love you, I love you, Lord, today because you cared for me in such a special way. That's why I praise you. I I lift you up. I magnify your name. Thank you, God. That's why my heart is filled with praise. Oh, oh, my heart, my mind My soul belongs to you. You paid the price for me. Way back on Calvary. That's why I praise you. I lift you up and I magnify your name. That's why my heart is filled with praise. Father, bless every gift online or in person tonight. Multiply it a thousand times more. We don't lack a thing, neither do we have a care. We declare that all of our needs are met. And we have the desires of our heart. I decree and declare over this people that we are blessed in the city, blessed in the field, blessed when we come, and blessed when we go home. And we thank you for it now, in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, we're going home. Glory to God. I want you guys to help us Uh, fill this place up for Good Friday and for our Easter Sunday service, man. Listen, God's going to meet us here on Good Friday. I'm believing God for healing and deliverance. If you know people who are sick, we're going to spend time Friday night praying for the sick, praying for healing. We're believing God for miracles on that Good Friday evening. Let's fill this house. The glory is going to fill this house. There are flyers out there in the lobby. Please take some before you leave and invite somebody to church. Amen. On Sunday, uh, we're only having one service at 10 AM. We're going to be celebrating the birthday of our First Lady, and I'm super excited about that. Apostle Narissa O'Neal is going to be in the house from Las Vegas. Vegas, and, uh, we're going to be blessed all weekend. So let's make sure that we come out and support those services. If you have not given a number, you need to make plans to be at First Lady's birthday breakfast. I'm hoping that everybody's there. Please reach out to Pastor Jeffrey and let him know that you are coming. Again, flyers are on the table with all of the information. Let's make sure we support these things that are coming up. I did get word from our travel agent, if you have not reserved for the cruise, good news. The last day was supposed to be March 23rd. Now you have to April the 8th to get your cabin locked in. So please, guys, if you're going on this cruise with us, let's lock in and do it. Uh, so many of you have responded. I'm looking forward to it. Uh, those of you online that haven't locked your cruise in. Go to Dominion— I'm sorry, raddachurch.com/@-c to get all the information and get registered for the cruise. Amen. All hearts and minds clear. Good to see you tonight, sis. She called herself an honorary member of this church. I call her a member. Y'all give God praise for her. I don't know what the honorary— yeah, glory to I just call a member. You are part of this family. Glory to God, and thank you for being here tonight. Glory to God. So, and I appreciate all of you for coming out, sacrificing your Thursday evening to be in church. I appreciate your obedience. It means a lot. Let's stand and go home. Glory to God. But you can