Podcast Summary: “Proving Your Faith – Ownership Mentality”
Podcast: Bill Winston Podcast – Audio
Host: Bill Winston Ministries
Episode Air Date: April 6, 2025
Episode Overview
This episode focuses on the concept of developing an “ownership mentality” as an essential aspect of the believer's faith walk. Dr. Bill Winston, along with co-teachers/guest ministers, explores how faith not only grants believers access to God’s promises but positions them as rightful owners of the blessings and resources God has provided. Through scriptural teaching, practical examples, and powerful exhortation, the episode urges listeners to grow spiritually, claim their divine inheritance, and exercise dominion through faith.
Key Discussion Points & Insights
1. Moving from 3D to 4D Faith
- Dr. Bill Winston opens by describing a spiritual “upgrade” from being bound by time, space, and matter (3D) to operating in a higher, supernatural dimension (4D).
- “If you can go up to 4D, you can dominate time, space and matter. Where things normally take a year, you can make them take an hour.” (00:07)
- Emphasizes that believers are called to do the impossible by rising above their circumstances through faith—a theme central to the episode.
2. Faith as Ownership: Biblical Foundation
- Ownership is a faith position, not just a mind-set. Using the prodigal son as a foundation (Luke 15), the teachers contrast the difference between living as a servant versus a son.
- “A servant has to work for everything he gets, a son gets by inheritance.” (05:45)
- Key message: God does not want His people to continually ask for what already belongs to them as His heirs.
3. The Importance of Spiritual Vision
- Visualization and revelation are crucial for receiving God’s promises.
- “The clearer the picture, the faster the acceleration towards your known goal.” (01:56)
- “Your feet will never take you where your mind has never been.” (02:30)
- Reference to Abraham: As far as you can “see,” you can possess.
4. Taking Ownership: Practical and Spiritual Implications
- Ownership means more than material possession; it's about recognizing and exercising rights as a child of God.
- Believers are urged to cover their businesses, families, and lives “by faith” to keep the enemy out.
- “Satan cannot invade what is covered by faith. Cover your business by faith. Get that title. The devil can’t come in.” (01:26, 17:22)
5. Responsibility & Spiritual Warfare
- Call to mobilization: The lack of spiritual ownership by believers allows the enemy to establish “pockets of poverty” and ungodly systems.
- “Enough is enough. It’s time for us to mobilize. … The people are not the problem. The problem is the evil one. He’s running them and they don’t even know it.” (07:18, 07:59)
- Emphasizes binding the “strong man” as a scriptural strategy (ref. Mark 3:27).
6. Inheritance: Limits and Growth
- Spiritual maturity is required to receive one’s inheritance.
- “There is an inheritance for you that cannot be delivered to you beyond your level of growth.” (10:30)
- Comparison to Galatians 4: the heir, as long as they are a child, is “no different from a servant.”
7. The Power of Ownership by Faith
- Faith described as “title deed”:
- “Faith is the assurance, the confirmation, the title deed of things we hope for, being the proof of things we do not see.” (16:11)
- “For God to evict Satan, he needs to see your title.” (16:21)
- Legal/spiritual principle: If believers don’t claim ownership, others (the enemy) will.
8. Illustrative Stories:
The Piranha Parable
- Parable about a piranha unable to attack after being restrained by a divider. Even when the barrier was removed, his mind still limited him.
- “Jesus removed the divider out of your life and the provisions are swimming all around you.” (12:32)
- “People are not poor because they don’t have money. They’re poor because they don’t have knowledge.” (13:04)
The Oil Miracle in Chicago
- Testimony: A woman seeks help to reclaim her block from drug dealers. Bill Winston instructs her to pour blessed oil on the street, leading to the dealers’ sudden departure.
- “God is telling me… I'm gonna bless this bottle. You take it and pour it down the middle of your street.” (21:32)
- “They came out the next day for one hour and never came back.” (22:08)
9. Faith Doesn’t Always “Make Sense”
- Faith actions often defy logic:
- “Sense knowledge preaching makes no faith. But faith preaching makes no sense.” (22:30)
- Biblical example: Mary receiving the word to carry Jesus. Miracle requires acceptance, not analysis.
- “She said, well, be it unto me.” (22:58)
10. Maturity, Decreeing, and Dominion
- God cannot deliver the fullness of our inheritance beyond our level of spiritual growth.
- “Get off of milk, stop whining … you’re a king. You can decree a thing and it shall be established.” (24:00 – 24:30)
Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments
- “Your feet will never take you where your mind has never been.”
– Pastor/Teacher, (02:30) - “You can’t work for anything that comes out of heaven. You’ve got to receive it.”
– Pastor/Teacher, (05:55) - “If you don’t take ownership, there is somebody that will... and he’s been making ungodly laws.”
– Co-Teacher/Minister, (07:07) - “You probably come across an opportunity to make a million dollars, probably once a day.”
– Pastor/Teacher, (13:05) - “Faith is the assurance, the confirmation, the title deed of things we hope for.”
– Pastor/Teacher, (16:11) - “For God to evict Satan, he needs to see your title.”
– Co-Teacher/Minister, (16:21) - “God intends for you… your days of toiling are over.”
– Co-Teacher/Minister, (19:27) - “Sense knowledge preaching makes no faith. But faith preaching makes no sense.”
– Pastor/Teacher, (22:30) - “You’re a king. You can decree a thing and it shall be established.”
– Dr. Bill Winston, (24:30)
Important Timestamps
- 00:07 — Dr. Bill Winston: Introduction; “Moving up to 4D.”
- 01:26 — Ownership and faith as a spiritual shield.
- 01:56 — Importance of clarity of vision in faith.
- 05:55 — The difference between servants and sons (inheritance vs. effort).
- 07:07 — Warning against abdication of spiritual ownership.
- 10:30 — Teaching from Galatians 4: Inheritance tied to spiritual maturity.
- 12:32 — The piranha parable on mental barriers.
- 16:11 — Faith as title deed, assurance of what is hoped for.
- 21:32 — Chicago testimony: spiritual solution to real-world crisis.
- 22:30 — The nature of “faith preaching” vs. sense-based reasoning.
- 24:00–24:30 — Call to spiritual maturity and exercising dominion.
Conclusion
Takeaway:
This episode of the Bill Winston Podcast challenges believers to renew their minds, claim their divine inheritance, and live with an ownership mentality anchored in faith. Listeners are reminded that faith is not just belief, but a legal claim—a “title deed”—to everything God has promised. The episode imparts both inspiration and practical guidance for stepping up and manifesting God’s promises on earth through mature, determined faith.
Action Steps for Listeners:
- Meditate on the promises of God; develop spiritual vision.
- Cover your life and endeavors with faith—exercise spiritual “ownership.”
- Grow in spiritual maturity to receive a greater measure of God’s inheritance.
- Act on God’s direction in faith, even when it defies worldly logic.
Closing Words (Dr. Winston):
“You’re a king. You can decree a thing and it shall be established. Hallelujah. … This earth has been turned over to us. We got full supervision. We have full rights to own it and make decisions for it and so forth. Now that’s ours. God passed that on to us. Now take ownership. Praise God.” (24:00–24:30)
For further details and the full teaching, series information is available at Bill Winston Ministries.