THE MYSTERY OF DOMINION, PART 5: "THE WAY OF DOMINION LIFE" | DR. MIKE WOODS | 3 FEB 2025

Well, praise God, everybody! I pray you're well. Welcome to our 12 noon teaching. I'm super excited as usual to be here and teach you, uh, the word of the living God, as the Holy Spirit honestly, uh, is always teaching me. You know, the best teacher, glory to God, are the ones who can spend time with Holy Spirit, glory to God, Holy Ghost, whatever you call him. I like to call him Holy Ghost, glory to God. That's uh, what we were calling him, glory to God, and that's what the Bible calls him as well in some places, as well as Holy Spirit when I was coming up. But, you know, time with Holy Ghost, uh, it— he will teach you all things. The scripture says that he will teach you all things, and the best teacher is the ones that can spend time with him, not that could speak out of familiarity, uh, or to train or develop out of familiarity, but to spend time with him so we can know exactly what he's saying for right now, for this hour. So welcome to 12 Noon Teaching. 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Glory to the name of God. So here, here we go. I want you to grab this today, okay? I want you to get it with everything in your heart, and I want you to share. Praise God. I want you to share, share, share. I don't know if my mic is doing what I need to do. Can y'all hear me? Glory to the name of God. I want to make sure, uh, you can hear me. Praise God, praise God. You should be able to hear me. Glory to Jesus. Uh, if you can hear, just type Apostle, I can hear. Glory to God in the comments. That way we know we're on the same page. Praise God. And, and please hit the like button. Some of y'all, some of y'all say I ain't, I ain't decided whether I, I'm gonna like it yet, but listen, you might as well go ahead and like it. Praise God. Just, just only like it. Let me make sure we're good. Can y'all hear me? Check, one, two. I don't know if you can. Let's make sure. All right, family, stay with me. I pray y'all can hear. I know y'all can hear, but it's not the quality of audio I want. So stay with me, stay with me. I don't know, the enemy— I'm telling you, this is gonna be good because if it wasn't, this stuff works, man. I just prayed with this this morning at 5. All right. All right, so I think we're gonna be good right here. Let's, let's, let's, we just had to change that one out. It wants to be different. All right, okay, so let's, uh, jump into this. We're gonna pray. Glory to God. Yeah, there it is. I see it jumping now. Glory to God. So we're gonna pray, we're gonna get into this again. Guys, please share. This is going to be phenomenal today. The power of God's going to meet us. We were blessed yesterday. We're going to continue in our teaching. Glory to God. On the mystery of dominion. And we're talking about the dominion ways of life, right? Because there are ways of living that even those of us who are born again and saved, watch this, have adopted that are not necessarily the ways of living that God would have for us. And once again, I'm not just talking about you not living in sin. I'm talking about how you live your everyday life when it comes to your family, when it comes to your finances, when it comes to how you walk by faith, right? So we need to adjust those ways of living. And we looked at some things yesterday, some metaphors in Proverbs that I think are very helpful to adjusting those ways of living, if we would align ourselves with how these four entities actually live. So let's pray and we gonna get into this today. Let's get in it. So Father, we give you praise. We thank you again for the opportunity to teach your word. And I yield myself to your anointing, God. Hide Michael Woods behind the cross, allow no flesh to be seen. And dear God, in the name of Jesus, I'm asking you to take control of this teaching. Take control of this teaching. Yes, Lord. Yes, yes. Take control of this teaching, God. And I pray that as your word is disseminated, as your word is released, may it be a spermatic word that breaks the embryo of our spirit. And may we be supernaturally impregnated with the dominion purpose that you gave us before we even got to this planet, according to Jeremiah 1:5. And pray, I pray God, that even prophetically, as you spoke to us yesterday, that our water has broken, that we will move immediately from the waiting room to the delivery room, put our feet up in the stirrups, begin to push out this assignment, this blessing of dominion purpose that you have put inside of each one of us that is so unique, so authentic, And we give you praise and glory for it now. Thank you for the light, the illumination, and the intelligence of the Holy Ghost. Have your way today in Jesus' name. Amen. Glory to God. God is so good. So we read yesterday as a foundation to this part of this teaching, Proverbs 30:18-19. I'm gonna read them again from the Amplified, and then we're just gonna quickly review what we taught yesterday, and we're gonna get into the meat of today, okay? So Proverbs 30:18-19. Verses 18 and 19, you'll find these words. The Bible says, there are three things which are too wonderful for me, yes, four which I do not understand. The way of the eagle in the air, the way of the serpent upon a rock, the way of a ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid. Ah, that is so good. So again, four things I do not understand. The way of the eagle in the air, the way of the serpent upon the rock, the way of the ship in the midst of the sea, and the way of a man with a maid. And we began to unlock these metaphors on yesterday to kind of give some metaphoric translation of what Solomon was talking about when he wrote this. And we were understanding that these metaphors are really broad, right? We also dealt with the idea that when we work with scriptural translation, which is what I tried to convey in my teaching yesterday, that we are to go line upon line and precept upon precept. So in doing that, we're working with what we call the law of first mention. I told you that yesterday, which means, hear me, that if something is mentioned in scripture, when it is mentioned the first time, all right, prophetically and metaphorically. Watch this, because all scriptural metaphors are prophetic in nature. So the law of first mention deals with the idea, uh, in a very theological sense. And then theology is simply— for those of you that are against theology, theology, if you look up the word, uh, theos and ology, which is the study of God, okay? So the reality is we don't need to be against theology. The reality, we need to really study God, so we'll understand his desires, his heart, how he wants us to move in the earth, right? So scripture is the best way to study the mind of God because the scripture is inspired by God. Are y'all hearing me? Glory to the name of God. So we begin to talk about on yesterday, line upon line, uh, the eagle in the air. And we, and we said yesterday that the eagle in the air is the child of God, the saint of God, the kingdom citizen, operating in victory and dominion. I want y'all to remember that the child of God, the saint of God, is operating in victory and dominion. That is indicative of the eagle in the air. So once you actually take flight in your eagle mindset, this means you have had victory over every area of life where you're supposed to dominate. All right? So this is where God is taking us, that we are soaring like the eagle in the air. We're gonna talk about the process to what that looks like in a moment, okay? Secondly, oh God, I hear you, I hear you already. Glory to Jesus. We dealt with the serpent on the rock. And again, this is a metaphor. And a lot of times when people think serpent, read serpent, they don't feel like anything good can come outta that because nobody likes serpents, right? We're here to defeat them. But Solomon, who is wise, chose to use the serpent serpent in a prophetic analogy. Glory to the name of God. To signify to us that we have triumphed over Satan. Glory to the name of God. And watch this, it also indicates that any serpent-like thing, any demonic thing that you encounter, watch this, through your dominion, you can convert it. Woo-hoo, God. Okay, we gonna deal with this. We gonna teach these things all week, right? The reality is, if something's in darkness, there is the potential, because God said, I would that none would perish, but that all would come to repentance. So watch this, it is indicative of the idea that Christ can triumph over darkness, convert someone in darkness. And oh my God, you could be saying, oh my God, they so deep in sin, they'll never come out. The reality is There's no one who can't, oh, Shabbat, ketamanda, who cannot be loved by God. Oh my, and he can bring them in and they can sit on the rock like everybody else. So Christ has victory over Satan, that's the serpent on the rock. Thirdly, we talked about the ship in the midst of the sea, and we identified that as the church in the world. You showing up in the world, passing through the world, continually to go forward, continuing to drive into Dominion purpose, leaving the past things that you conquered behind you, not being over-celebratory over what is behind you. You go through it and you keep going and you keep conquering. Glory to the name of God in the world. And I always tell you, we cannot reap a harvest. Oh my God. In a field where we have not sown. So this ship in the world, the, oh my God, the ocean represents the world, right? It's the place where we sow. We are the ship. We sow our gifts and talents into the world. So if you have the gifts and talents in you of an entrepreneur, oh my God, of an accountant, of a lawyer, of a doctor, 'cause we gotta sow lawyers in the legal field so we can take over as kingdom people in legal. Y'all hear me? In the legal field. We gotta sow doctors. Y'all getting that? Politicians, everybody shouldn't be running for the microphone to preach because everybody's not called to preach. But we are reduced success in ministry to how well we handle a mic. And the reality is, we— success in life and in the kingdom, not measured by how well you can articulate behind the mic, because there are people who are articulating behind the mic and they're not conquering anything in the earth. The reality is it ought to be illegal for us to have worship and tap into God in church, fall out on the floor, preach good messages, scream, holler, run, and go through all of the motions of a great church experience, and we never conquer anything. Ooh wee! So you got all of the religious attributes. You can sing, man. Woo! You got a great voice. You can preach. Oh my God, you could preach the paint off the walls. And if you're just in church, you can worship until the atmosphere change because you're worshiping and you're engaged. You could fall on the floor and have a good time. But listen, it ought to be illegal if you don't leave the building and conquer something because you've been in the presence of the one that makes you more than a conqueror. It ought to be illegal for that, for you to go through all of that and then you don't do nothing when you leave. Okay, I'm already teaching, right? So I'm just reviewing, but I'm already in it. So you, you gotta decide that you're gonna be a conqueror, right? That you're going to be one that operates at high levels of dominion and not complacency and not neglect of your God-given assignment. Are y'all hearing this? Not neglect of who God has called you to be. Because so many people are neglecting, are y'all hearing this, who God has really called them to be. And we have settled for good church. And listen, and I'm not knocking good church. I'm a church boy. Glory to God. I love to have church. I mean, I grew up in the church. Church is my DNA, okay? But I understand I gotta balance that out when I get through having good church and be a ship in the midst of the sea and conquer in my area of influence. I challenge you to do the same. Glory to God. I'm working on you. Stay with me. Those of you just joining us, don't scroll. Matter of fact, stay and hit the share button. You need what God is saying right now. Glory. Oba Sikita Bamandeansa. And then fourthly, we discussed the man with the maid, which is Christ with his bride. And we talked about how each one of these metaphors have something in common. Each one has disappearances. I'm not gonna teach it again. Go back. Each one has paths and each one has relationships, right? So the reality is you have to understand that God wants to strategize dominion through you. And you gotta find yourself manifesting in the area of these metaphors so you can actually dominate. So let's start unpacking these, right? These 4 ways of life. So let's look first at the eagle, right? So the scripture says, and let's just go there, let's just go there. Let's just go to the Bible. Let's go to the Bible. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Y'all with me so far? If you're with me, just lift up your hands and say, thank you, Lord. As a matter of fact, just lift those hands up in the comments type, thank you, Jesus. Glory to God. See, y'all, you ought to be rejoicing. We're eating. Glory to God. I know y'all said, God, I can't wait till 6 o'clock, but this is food right here, man. And if you really eat this, you'll find yourself not being hungry at all, wanting natural food, because you'll be trying to digest this and trying to figure out how you can activate and make this word actually come alive in your life. Okay. All right. All right. All right. So let's go to scripture. Let's go to scripture. Let's go. Oba Shikiondaya. Let's go to Exodus 19:4. The Bible's Exodus 19:4. Somebody type it in the comments. The Bible says, "You have seen what I did unto the Egyptians and how I bear you on eagle's wings and brought you unto myself." So this is a prophecy, glory to God, that, listen to me, family, is coming to Moses. And he said, now I want you to say unto the house of Jacob and tell the children of Israel, remind my people this. All right, so this morning as you're hearing this, I'm about to remind you, glory to God, that one, all of your enemies, hear this, you— are y'all ready— don't have to fight. He is referencing what happened in Exodus 14. Glory to God. Where he drowned Pharaoh's army in the Red Sea. Y'all remember that, right? And they went through on dry land. Watch this. When you take up life like an eagle in the kingdom of God, you do not have to worry anymore. Uh-oh. About your enemies. See, all this stuff we be calling warfare because we got doors open in the spirit because we're idle. The idle mind is the devil's workshop. But if you soar, I told you yesterday, if you soar like an eagle, hear me, hear me, if you ride life, see, an eagle rides life. He's constantly soaring through life. He's riding life. If you ride life like an eagle, and you emerge to the heights of an eagle, here's the first piece, you will not need to fight your enemies anymore. The reason why you're always fighting, because you're living on the ground. God, I hope I'm helping somebody today. Atabassura kisgatatabai. Oh God, oh God, you gotta soar. You gotta rise up and soar. And I'm gonna show you in a minute, The process to soaring. Matter of fact, this was— ooh, shabat en kiyam, tabosya. This revelation is so powerful because it's saying that God wants you to focus on your dominion purpose so he'll fight for you. Matter of fact, in Exodus 14, he told them, "You have no need to fight in this battle." See, and the reason he had to come back in 19 and remind them, 'cause they were still complaining, still trying to fight stuff themselves, fearing to confront the inhabitants of Mount Seir, the Amorites, the Jebusites. Are y'all hearing this? They still were afraid, and God had all showed them what he can do. Here's a question: are you still fearing your enemy and God has showed you what he's able to do? Are you still doubting and worrying? We prayed about that this morning. And, and watch this: and you've seen his hand work in your life before? Hear me, his has done is just as powerful as his will do. I'm gonna say it again. His has done is just as powerful as his will do. If God did it in the past for you, he can do it in the present. He can do it again in the future. What you need to do is soar and let him focus on fighting. Watch this. You don't even, if you study the eagle, you never read about the eagle in warfare for his life. The eagle is an endangered species, not because other animals, okay, here we go. Mm, mm, mm. Not because other animals have devoured them and eating them, but because mankind sees the value they decide to shoot them. That's the first reason they're endangered species. Secondly, eagles are endangered species, watch this, is because they're so focused, here we go, on purpose and taking care of what's at hand, they do not take the time to reproduce. So they're not having sex all the time, reproducing baby eagles, they're focused. What am I saying to you? I'm not saying not for you not to be fruitful, but what I'm saying to you is that you need to stay focused and not enjoy pleasure so much that you don't do what you were born to do. Oh, that was for grown folks, man, because you can get caught up in pleasure, not just sex, but pleasure, what pleases you, and you lose focus. On what you're really supposed to be doing. Do I have some help in this studio, on this live stream? I'm trying to find y'all this afternoon. For real, I'm looking for you. Glory to God. Etababa satabakiaya. So He hates this teaching. The devil hates this teaching, guys. Y'all stay with me. He's— this stuff works well all the time. Glory to God. I'm telling you, the devil hates this teaching. He hates it. But we gonna get it. I'm telling you, this crazy. I mean, this, this is— I know it's crazy because everything in here is state of the art. Glory to God. I mean, the best that you can buy in every category is in this room. And while I'm teaching, atmospheric disturbance. I need y'all praying because the enemy doesn't want this teaching to get out. But the devil is a liar, man. Ha, shabakul rabba ki andatabai. Somebody just type it in the comments, the devil is a liar. Shabakando toboho shabba. Come on, type it in the comments, the devil is a liar. Hallelujah, come on, type it in the comments 'cause we gonna get through this this afternoon. He's a big liar and ain't no truth in him. Praise God. Praise God. He's a big liar and ain't no truth in him. We give you praise. And Satan, the Lord rebuke you. The blood of Jesus be against you. We thank you and we bind up all atmospheric disturbance right now in the— In the mighty name of Jesus, we declare victory. And we thank you that this teaching will go forth without hindrance, without hindrance, in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name. Glory to God. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you, God. All right, so, so, so again, here we go. So let me pick this back up, right? So the reality again is, watch this family, if you soar and are focused on, watch this, purpose instead of pleasure, ah, your warfare, hear me, will be zero because God will fight for you because you're focusing on the things that pleases him. Oh, just think about this. A life without a fight. Mm. A life without warfare. I know people want to, you know, do warfare because for some people it makes them feel strong. It makes them feel deep. It makes them feel like, you know, you know, I enjoy jacking the devil up, casting demons out of people, but I enjoy more teaching people how to operate in purpose, where they ain't got to deal with demons, right? Glory to God. Where they ain't got to be purging all the time and getting free of some demonic force. I know it's necessary, it has its place, but we should be majoring on soaring and allowing God to war for us. It comes with maturity, people. So he says now, he says, say to them, you see what I did to the Egyptians? All of that for the first part of this verse, man. He says, see what I did to the Egyptians. Now I want you to notice something just in verse 3 before I go to the other half of this, because this is important. It says in verse 3, and Moses went up unto God. So he ascended. This is ascent. So it tells me again, connected to ego mentality, I have to have a paradigm shift in my mind. Where I ascend, oh my God, to heights. Whoo! Sha, lukush katatama. Where I go higher and ascend and not descend. So wherever Moses went to meet God, he ascends. And listen, in Exodus, there are like 8 different accounts where you can read Moses ascended. And I'm not gonna read 'em, but in Exodus 19, he ascended 3 times. In Exodus 20, he ascended. Exodus 24, he ascended. Glory to God. Exodus 32, he ascended. Exodus 34, he ascended twice in Exodus 34. And when he made the tabernacle, he ascended in Exodus 35. So it tells me that everything we do in God is done from a place of ascension. And this is what the eagle do. Oh God. Oh God. Can I teach this today? I'm trying to track y'all. Are y'all with me or y'all thinking about about food. Y'all better eat this food, man. Good God Almighty, you, you gotta ascend. You got to decide, I'm not going to deal in low levels. And that means part of that is cutting off people who are low thinking, low living, who desire nothing more than what they have. Watch this. You cannot fit a 16 by 20 dream vision in a 3 by 5 mind. You're trying to force somebody with a 3 by 5 mind to see what you see. They're they're never gonna see it. Okay, they're never gonna see it. Glory to the name of God. The capacity of their mind has not expanded. You need to deal with some people who live from the level of a set. Now watch what happens. He says, you see what I did to the Egyptians and how I bear you on eagle's wings and brought you unto myself. This is so good. So you see what I did to Egyptians. I lifted you up on eagle's wings. Okay. And I brought you to myself. So we've dealt with the part of dealing with the Egyptians. So when I'm in an ego mentality, operating in purpose, running after God's dominion plan for my life, he now will bear me up with wings. In other words, he'll give me wings of an eagle so I can soar. Okay. Whew. Have you received really your wings? Have you accepted that you are eagle? Again, 'cause when you accept that, you start eliminating things that can't fly with you. Watch this. You cannot hang out with chickens when you are an eagle. I've been saying this for 28 years, 30 years. You can't do it, right? Glory to God. You cannot run with chickens and you are eagle. Why? Why? Because to hang with a chicken, you're soaring, the chicken's down here. To hang with the chicken, you gotta do this. You gotta descend. To hang with a chicken, you gotta descend. That's not the plan of God. You need to stay in flight. You need to ride life and not come down to entertain chickens. The only reason you come to a chicken is to grab him up and pull him up. But can I tell you something? Can I really submit something to you? A chicken is born a chicken. A chicken will always be a chicken. And a chicken will never be an eagle. See, there are some people who just have a chicken mentality. They think they know everything. They refuse to be taught. They refuse to adjust. They'll sit and watch a legacy die. They'll sit and watch the legacy of a business, of a church die. Because they think they know everything, and they— and because of their chicken mentality, and they want to sin to get eagle help so that the legacy can live. Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God. I said that before I knew it, and then I started thinking about people who are actually doing that. That's crazy. You can watch your children's children suffer because you didn't preserve the legacy, because you wouldn't sit at the feet of eagles. You kept playing around with chickens and you use your chicken mind to try to maintain what, ah, watch this, the progenitor, the father of the business, the father of the ministry built. Oh my God. And you, instead of ascending to the mentality of the father, oh my God. God forbid anything happens to me, but I pray that every person connected to me will ascend to my level of thinking and dreaming. If something ever happens to me and God brings me to heaven, I pray that every leader connected to Rhoda Church, connected to Rhoda Alliance, every leader that calls me Father, that calls me Apostle, calls me Pastor, the reality is you need to immediately begin to elevate your mind. And watch this, that really starts now. It starts now. Glory to God. Oh, Shabba, lebo kush, uh, shibunku tian, tatabasata tabaka. Yeah, God. See, it takes ego mentality to preserve legacy, so you gotta ascend. You can't keep condescending, fooling with chickens. A chicken can never ascend to get where you are, so you gotta condescend to foster that relationship. 'Cause that chicken can't fly where you at. You know what you need? You need to stay linked up with eagles. You need to link up with people who have an eagle mentality, who have a mind to soar. So God says, I'll put you on eagle's wing. So when you on eagle's wings, watch this, you have the vision also of an eagle. Here we go, here we go, here we go. You have the vision of, oh boy, so that means you're riding through life, looking at life like eagles. This is why eagles can navigate through tough environments and storms. It's not so much how their body is built, and some have said it's his wingspan, but really it's not his wingspan, it's his vision. Because I told you yesterday, an eagle has one microscopic vision, so he could take what is small, and his eyes are so powerful it looks big to him. Mm. So when he's flying through a storm with clouds and rain and sleet and snow, while you and I couldn't see a small opening, the eagle eye can see the openings in the storm and whoo, he swifts. Mm, God, do y'all see this? He moves quickly through the openings, which causes him to survive the storm. Mm. Maybe storms destroy you, man. I'm trying to behave. I'm trying to behave, y'all, for real. I'm trying to behave. But maybe the storms that you've endured have gotten the best of you because you're not operating with microscopic vision, with the vision of an eagle. You can't see your way through it. See, the— ooh! That eagle can see his way through it because he's got microscopic vision. And watch this, maybe the vision for your life, the dominion purpose for your life, you can't see it actually happening, huh? Because all you can see is how small everything is now. But if you get microscopic vision, you can see that thing that is small, that business that is small, that dream that is small, and you can see it big. Listen, man, I've already walked through Rada City. Glory to God. I've already walked through the state-of-the-art auditorium that's gonna host shows. And I'm speaking this by faith. Glory to God. That auditorium is gonna be so nice and beautiful and royal. It's gonna be envied by the industry in the marketplace. In media entertainment. They gonna wanna host BET Awards, VH1 Awards. They gonna wanna host the Grammys, the Oscars. They're gonna wanna have all kind of top-notch red carpet movie premieres at this. I've already walked through it, man. I've already walked through the 5-star soul food restaurant. I've already walked through the bakery, Lil Taste of Butter, that'll be ran by my wife. I've already walked through our school, the K through 12, the Rudder University. I've already walked through our office building that will house entrepreneurs and business is, glory to God, I've walked through our 1,500-seat sanctuary that has a youth building, and oh my God, it has a library that has so many amazing things that are gonna minister to the community, a food bank. I've already been up in the prayer tower praying, glory to God, that's on the property. We gonna have a, we gonna build a 24/7 prayer tower on that property that you'll be able to see from at least 10 miles away. If you're driving, you'll see the peak of it sticking up out of the property, because it just has a symbol that we're touching heaven on this property. I've already seen the football fields, the soccer fields, the park for walking. I've seen the whole vision. Ah, I've seen the soundstage for Rada Films. Glory to God, they will build a 25,000 square foot soundstage. I've seen the 50 luxury houses that exist on that property, residential houses. I've already walked through I know it because I'm seeing it with microscopic vision. I'm not blinded by our 2,500 square foot church now. I've already walked through and seen us occupying the new church we're gonna go in while we're building Rother City. So we've already walked through it physically, but in vision, I've already transformed that property in my mind. You gotta have of microscopic vision. Watch this, the eagle, he also has telescopic vision. Y'all with me? Yeah, he could take what's far and he sees it close up. I know you think your dream is far off, but I heard the Holy Spirit say it's closer than you think. It's at your fingertips. You got to get the vision of an eagle and you gotta get some telescopic. Matter of fact, touch your eyes right now. Say, in the name of Jesus, I receive telescopic vision. Say, I thank you, Lord, that where there's no vision, the people perish. So I declare in Jesus' name, I have microscopic and telescopic vision in Jesus' name. I need you to praise God and receive that right there. Receive believe it because you gotta start looking at your life different. And you might say, Apostle, how can I see that? Because God already saw it. Matter of fact, the Bible says he declares the end from the beginning. Whew. Oh my God. So he already have gone to the end of your life and declared where you're going. And now he says, I wanna show it to you, predestination. From the beginning, I wanna show you the destination, pre, beginning, destination, end. And I want you to see it like the eagle, bring it close, and walk through life going through the processes that's gonna get you to that end. So vision then takes on a different perspective, right? So if I'm looking through the eyes of God, the ultimate eagle, glory to God, I can see the future, I can understand the process, I can navigate through storms. But also I understand that this vision is actually for real, God's maximized reality for my future. See, when you get up to the right altitude, 'cause watch the next part of the verse. He said, I brought you to me. So I dealt with your, I killed your enemies so you have no hindrance, right? I gave you wings of eagle where you could soar through life. And see life through my eyes, okay? And then I brought you to me, all right? I covered you and made you my own. See, this right here, man, is, is bigger again than us just having good church. It's bigger than us just having a good Bible study and going through motions. This thing is really about knowing that the Father is your daddy, all right? And that there's nothing in life or in this world that you cannot ascertain that he has ordained. If he ordained it, you can ascertain it. Oh my God, it can be yours. If he ordained it, you can attain it. I'm gonna say it one more time. If he ordained it, you can attain it. I think I'll say it again. If he ordained it, you can attain it. It was meant for you to attain. So let's stop accepting life Are y'all hearing this? At the low levels. Glory to God. And let's accept what he ordained. Jeremiah 1:5, "Before I formed you in the belly, I knew you, sanctified you, ordained you." Hmm, yeah. And then not just for a prophet, he ordained you to do something to take dominion. That was speaking of, like I said, law of first mention, it was speaking of Jeremiah, but also that transliterates to you could be ordained a mogul in business. You can be ordained, glory to God, as a CEO of a Fortune 500 company. You could be ordained as an educator, a politician. Glory to the name of God. Because God needs you to take your place in the world and in dominion. Yeah, kind of like that ignorant post I mentioned last week. Somebody wrote, said the Seven Mountain Mandate or the Seven Kingdom Mandate is sacrilegious. It's not godly. Really? It's heresy? That's foolishness. Then you're saying dominion is heresy. We're supposed to take authority over every sphere of influence in the world. We were made to be the head, for real, not just in quoting it, for real, and not the tail. Above only, never beneath. Come on, Eagle. Above only, never beneath. Are y'all with me? Oh my God. So we gotta ride life, man. Man, and listen, you got to learn that when environments get tough, right? Yeah, I see that, Father. You got to learn to go high above it, and, and that's often what the eagles do. So they'll see that opening and then they'll ascend more so they're above the storm. Y'all hearing me? And they move with great speed. And there's a jet that was built called the Concorde. Yeah, this Concorde jet, man, it could reach a maximum speed that was twice the speed of sound. That's fast, man. Uh, it made history when it broke the sound barrier when they was testing it over the Atlantic Ocean. Uh, it flew high in, I mean, 60,000 feet. Most commercial airplanes go 30,000. It can climb to 60,000 feet in a matter of seconds. Breaks the sound barrier, but it goes high so it can go further faster so that there are no impediments. That's just like an eagle. You gotta go high so you can go further faster. Watch this. There's a satellite in the sky called the International Space Center, okay? The International Space Center goes around the Earth 92.69 minutes. It goes around the Earth in 92.69 minutes. That's powerful. Traveling at 17,100 miles an hour. So it goes around the whole world. Here it is. This is why I want— that's why I'm making this point. Go around the whole world in an hour and a half. Powerful. What am I saying to you? When you start soaring at the speed of glory, there it is again. When you start operating in the spirit of acceleration that comes from our Father, who breaks time barriers. See, watch this. The glory of God suspends the rule of time. So no matter how old you are listening to me, you may feel like I'm too old to take dominion. I've gotten too far in life. I might as well just, I'm on the downhill now. You be making statements like, I got more days behind me than in front of me. Stop saying that stuff. Glory to God. And start declaring that your life is operating under the speed of glory. Oh God, hallelujah. And start declaring you got more days in front of you than you do behind you. I declare it right now. I got more days in front of me than I do behind me. Glory to God. 'Cause I got too much to do. And I declare the things that God has promised me are gonna come at the speed of glory. 'Cause I'm not gonna come down and hang with chicken. I'm not gonna do it, man. People may say you acting funny. They may say, glory to God, he think he better than everybody, she thinks she's better than everybody. No, you just understand you gotta roll with people that think like you. Otabakansiantaya. I am currently pastoring my church in a 2,500 square feet building, but that is not indicative of who I am. And I know that, glory to God. And my life suggests that, glory to the name of God. But watch this, that was part of the process for the church part of my vision, that I be able to start small so that people can see the glory that God's gonna bring out, not to a man, but to him. Okay, all right. And watch this, it's gonna happen quick, man. And the things God wants to do in your life, they need to happen quickly. Because this, what God is saying to you today, your vision is his optimal maximized reality for your future. It's real. He wants you to have dominion. Lord have mercy. Lord have mercy. I hope y'all getting something out of this, man. I gotta go. I'm almost done. I'm almost done. I got 12 minutes. I'm almost it was done, right? So that's the, so the vision is for an appointed time, Habakkuk 2:2, right? And that means we need the eagle to help us soar through the process that's qualifying us to keep the vision when it manifests. And can I tell you something? Because it's for an appointed time, the Bible says, write the vision, make it plain, so them that read it can run, Right, so as I'm flying, I'm following after the pattern, the plan that God wrote in heaven that he calls me to write in earth. And we follow that plan step by step, day by day, and we trust that God is going to bring it to pass. I got to get out of here, man. I got to get out of here. So, so I want to go, mm-hmm, I want to go real quick to Isaiah 40. Y'all know this one, 31. The Bible says, watch this, but they that wait upon the Lord, hear this, man. They that wait upon the Lord. Glory to God. They that wait upon the Lord. They that wait upon the Lord. This is not sitting around doing nothing. This word literally means they that serve the Lord, ah, humbly and productively. So waiting on the Lord is like a waitress or a waiter who is serving food. Yeah, so you are waiting. Hallelujah. Serving God, waiting, serving God. Hallelujah. And this is what God says. He said you— he will renew your strength. So watch this. You may feel weary, you may feel tired. I don't know who I'm reading this for, but I want you to hear me this afternoon. God God is renewing your strength right now in the name of Jesus. Matter of fact, I decree and declare that all traces of weakness in your body, in your mentality, in your spirit, I command them to go now in the name of Jesus. And I decree and declare that as you serve the Lord, as you operate in purpose, hear me, as you begin to pursue the dominion person you are, that God is giving you a second wind. I breathe on your purpose. Oh, shabaka. I blow the winds of God into your purpose. I blow it upon you even now in the, oh God. And I declare you shall not faint and be weary. Glory to God. But I thank you that, you're not gonna utterly fall, but because you wait on the Lord, he's going to renew your strength. My God. And watch this, his second part. He says, you're gonna mount up with wings like an eagle. So the promise of eagle living is upon us. It's been prophesied for us, but we gotta find ourselves serving the purpose. 'Cause this is the key to this whole teaching. Serve the dominion purpose. Discover it. Listen, if you don't know what it is, ask him. If you wanna know your dominion purpose, ask God. Simply, he knows. He made you. He created you. There's no need for you walking around confused. If you sincerely wanna know what you are supposed to be doing so you're not diffusing, Y'all remember that teaching? So you're not diffusing, you're not all over the place trying to figure it out along the way. No, he knows exactly the area you should be waiting in, the area you should be serving in. He knows. Discover that. Watch this, you're gonna find fulfillment, you're gonna find strength, and then what God's gonna do is mount you above all the trouble. Trouble, with wings like an eagle, and you're gonna start soaring through life. Let me close with this. Sometimes God will set— S-E-T— set you on the left. I prophesied this to someone, uh, this past week. I think it was on Friday night during our Freedom Fest meeting. Glory to God. Sometime— and, and it's just come back to me to give to everyone, but it was specific to her situation. But this is for all of us. Sometimes God will set you on the left. Watch this, he'll set you on the left, but he sets you in left experiences because he's trying to get you to become an eagle. Those left experiences are to process you, to get you ready. Glory to the name of God. To build your your faith, to strengthen your focus. I always say sometimes you got to get left to get right, right? Glory to the name of God. Sometimes you need people to walk away so you can get on the right side. So watch this: don't curse your crisis, don't curse your left experiences. God put you there for a reason. So he'll set you on the left— watch this— so he can season you. This, this is how the prophecy came to— I think it was Dr. Payne I was prophesying to on Friday. He'll set you on the so he can season you. So many of you've been going through seasons of seasoning where God is enhancing your flavor. Oh my God. He is enhancing your gift. He's developing your talents and your anointings so you can serve in your dominion purpose in excellence. And then he seasons you. After he seasons you, he settles you. The settling is to mature you and make you a person of excellence. Settling makes you a purpose. People who are settled are focused. They're stable. Glory to the name of God. They know where they are and they know where they're going. So the left experience is to settle you, season you, watch this, so you could soar. Yeah, so you could soar like an eagle. See, you can't soar like an eagle if you ain't been seasoned. 'Cause soon as you see the storm, you know, instead of ascending, you're not gonna use microscopic, telescopic vision to strategically get through the storm and ascend. You're gonna descend. Instead of dominating the storm, you're gonna depart from the storm. Wow, man. This is all coming full circle, right? My question to you on this Tuesday afternoon, have you allowed God to season you, to settle you so you can soar like an eagle. Stop rejecting the training. Stop rejecting the stretch. Stop running your mouth complaining so much about things that are designed to stretch you and make you better. Are y'all hearing this? But humble yourself under the mighty hand of God so you can more. Glory to God. Can we pray this afternoon? Father, we give you praise. First of all, I thank you for these people that have stayed with me this hour and took their lunch, took their time today to eat of this spiritual food. I pray, God, that they will be like the eagle in Proverbs 30, that I will be like the eagles in, in Proverbs 30, and that the air will be my domain. It will be their domain. The air will be the atmosphere where we I thank you, God, that there will be no more low living, sight living. Oba Shiku Tutaba. But we will rise up and soar. Thank you, God, for where we're going. I release an anointing to see like you see. I release microscopic vision to take what's small and see it large. I release the anointing for telescopic vision to take what's far and see it close. And I declare it shall be so in Jesus' name. Amen. Man, I love y'all to life, man. Thank y'all for staying with me. The devil thought he was going to destroy this live. I don't know, just atmospheric disturbance, but we win, right? Listen, no pressure. Someone from the church, uh, Pastor Jeffrey, anyone, uh, Pastor Felicia, anyone, please put the ways to give in the comments Listen, if you desire to give, there's no pressure, man. Get seed in the ground. Y'all know what we're doing. We're trying to secure this building. We're trying to secure our land so we can move forward with this vision. Every time you give, you're strengthening that effort. Glory to God. And on top of that, we yet still continue to have our month-to-month thing. So when you sow, this money is not going to naught. It's not being wasted. It's being used to advance vision. And every time you sow, you're buying into what God is doing. You become a part of it. You become a partner with what God is getting ready to do in our region. So please, no pressure, but get seed in the ground. We love y'all, man. Y'all be blessed. Heaven smile upon you is our prayer. I'll see y'all in the morning at 5. Remember, we come off fast at 6 o'clock today. We fast every day from midnight to 6. Push yourself, man. Drink your water, read your word, pray, focus on your work. The temptation to give up, the temptation to break the fast and do things that are not a part of the fast will be there. But I challenge you, rise above it. Be an eagle, fly through it. This is a good opportunity to exercise eagle mentality. When you get tempted to eat, shoo, shoo, soar through. Glory to God. I love y'all. Y'all be blessed. See y'all tomorrow morning at 5. Peace.