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Once you see it, your faith is locked. Once you see it, you become bold as a six shooter. You'll speak it, you'll walk it. Believing is seeing, and you're not designed to go where you can't see folks. When you can see something other folk can't see, you can go somewhere other folks who can't go. Watch this. You can have something other people can't have. Watch this. You can do something other people can't do. This church is powerful. I mean, it is the most powerful institution in the world ever. The Bible says when we leave here, he said, there's nothing that was like the church before we came. And after we leave, there'll be nothing like, is that powerful. It is. You know, they talk about separation of church and state. Well, the truth is, if there was no church, there wouldn't be any state. The church is just that powerful. I mean, when God created Adam, I mean, Satan stepped back and said, what is that? Because this man that he created was so powerful. And, well, let's get into this thing here. Praise God. So he says, the heavens, even the heavens of the Lord, but the earth has he given to the children of men. So let's go back to Genesis, chapter one in verse 26. And God said, let us make men in our image after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth. And every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth are like what brother Capps said, we have dominion over creeps. Praise God. I like that because I know some. Okay, now, in this, in this now, let me stay holy now. All right. Praise the Lord. But he says, and God said, let us make men in the image after likeness. And let them have dominion. Let them have dominion. Let them, them have. Let them have dominion. Let them have dominion. Let them have dominion. Let them have dominion. Now, as I look at this, let me demonstrate this. Sir, if you would come for just a moment, please. Yes, sir. I'm just playing now. Okay. All right, now you hear from God. Yeah, Right, right, right. I'll hear from God. Yeah, get my watch back. But he. In this. I've got a watch belongs to me. Okay, suppose I give it. Let them. All right, now, who has locked the door? So he has it. But who has the watch? He does. Who does not have the watch? I do not. I Gave it to him. Now, next week I'm going to a dinner. This is all play like and going to a dinner. So now going to that dinner, I'd like to use that watch. I like to wear that watch. What am I going to have to do? I'm going to have to go to him and what, Ask his permission, and he has to agree to it. And then I can have the watch. Am I right about it? Thank you, sir. I really appreciate it. Can you can't get it out, Shonda. Okay, now. Now you see why he said in Matthew, chapter nine, said, the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Pray ye, therefore, the Lord of the harvest, that he would send laborers into his harvest. Well, if God's running it, why doesn't he send laborers the way he wants to, anytime he wants to? Because he can't because of the rules that he set up. Let them have dominion. So I'm only saying that to say that for God to get in the earth to do what God has already done or planned to do, then he needs saints. He needs the people of God to give him permission. Can you say amen? Now, the reason why I want to show you that, because that is basically where I'm coming from here. We're going to talk about some things, but you got to keep that in mind. That's a kingdom perspective. We know God is the ruler of everything, but God is not running the world. The church should be running the world, and God is running the church. Say amen to that. And a lot of times what we're doing is we waiting on God to move. And when you have a prayer session, not many people be there. When you have a bless me session, everybody's there. My point to you is you need to come to the prayer session so you can get blessed. I'm saying God has got us here with dominion. Say amen to that. All right, let's keep rolling. All right. Then he says in verse 28, he said, and God blessed them and said to them, be fruitful and multiply and replenish the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the fowl of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. All right, let's just look at this. Now. What does dominion mean? It means rulership. It means lordship. Okay, Rulership. He says in Psalm chapter 103, 19. His kingdom rules over all lordship, having to do with authority. I give you authority to tread on Serpents and scorpions and power. The enemy. It means caretakership. Or another word would be stewardship. You've been faithful over a few things. Don't make you rule over much. But the last one I'd like to acquaint you with is the idea of ownership. Now, when I went into the dictionary, that's Webster's dictionary and that's Webster's 1828 dictionary. Trusted you're acquainted with it. He said he gives the word and then he gives a scripture where that word is used. He said he defined it like this. Sovereign or supreme authority. This is dominion. Now, power to govern or to control. It also means power to direct, control, use, or dispose of at pleasure. The word dominion, now, it means ownership. Now, if it means ownership of which it does, let's understand what owner means to own. I got this out of the Webster 1828 Dictionary. Have legal or rightful title to. To have legal or rightful title to. All right, so I go somewhere and I start preaching and I ask a question of the congregation. I say, how many of you own your own homes? Don't put your hand up. I'm just saying what I do. All these hands go up. How many of you own your own cars? All these hands go up. All right, let me read the definition of own again. To have legal or rightful title to. Got it. Now, when the mortgage crisis hit back in 2010, all of a sudden we saw who owned and who didn't. It's amazing how many houses went back to the bank, how many houses went back to the mortgage company, the finance companies, even cars, why didn't own it? Now that's just like the devil. Come on, now. Because I've seen stores, they said, hey, it's a loan store. And it said, bring me a title and you can get a loan. Seems like the devil wants ownership. Well, I got news for you. Jesus didn't die for payments. He died for ownership. Now, I'm saying we know that he's a redeemer and so forth, and he died to bring our lives back to God, back to the Father. But I'm just letting you know I'm not. We're not talking against mortgage payment, but I'm telling you that there's an ownership here that God wants you to have that the enemy may not want you to have. Say amen. When you have a mentality of ownership, you think different. The enemy knows it. When I say enemy, I mean the devil. He knows you think different. When I. When you own an apartment building, let's say you own an apartment building with eight units in it, and it's close to a university, and some students are renting, some of them. Now, nothing against students, but how many of you know you got to go check on your property every now and then? Why? Cause they don't own it. Is it the right bunch I'm talking to now? So what am I saying? I'm saying I remember when I was young, boy, about second grade. Remember when I was about to go out to class that morning, put on my pants, little jeans. My mama was looking at me. She said, no, no, no, no, baby. Pull those jeans off. Take those underwear off. Let Mama give you some more underwear. I said, why, Mama? She said, because those have a hole in it, baby. I said, oh, Mama, that's all right. And pull my little jean up. Get those jeans off. Let me give you some more underwear notice. So I took the jeans off, put some more underwear on, pulled my jeans up. I'm pouting about it, you know, I want my own way. And I said, mama, why did I have to change my underwear? I have my jeans on. Nobody can see it. She said, yeah, baby, but something might happen to you out there today. I'm not saying something was going to happen, but something might happen to you out there today. And then, because I was brought up in a small town in Tuskegee, Alabama. And she said they'd take you and take you over to Johnny Andrew Hospital, which is the only hospital in town we go to, and they'd pull your pants down and see the holes in your underwear and say, oh, my lord, this is Ms. Winston's child. Now, I want you to. I know we're laughing about this. I want you to get this. She was taking ownership over her child. She was taking ownership over her reputation. Say Amen to this. You see, when there's no ownership, there's no outrage. I'm going to show you where you own this earth. And I'm going to show you when you know you own it. The devil can't come in and make ungodly laws in it. You won't stand for it. But when you're just passing through, trying to make heaven my home, when we all get to hell, God, I don't know whether you know it or not, but you're as much in heaven now as you are on Earth. You are seated together with him in heavenly places. This is what the kingdom will do. It'll give you a revelation so that you can have a revolution. And I'm not talking about hurting anybody or anything like that I'm talking about taking back what belongs to you. No, no, no, nothing. Just can't go on because I own it. Let me give you another example. How about time? Somebody's going to get a rental car, take this rental car and drive it for about three or four days. Now they're going to take it back, but the gas needle is just about on E. And take it back, and they see the gas needle, say, well, let me fill it up. Because when I get there, if they fill it up, they're going to add some charges onto it, you know. So they stop by the gas station, the filling station, to fill it up, and they open up the receptacle thing, and it says, please put pressure. Premium gas only. Lord have mercy. And the difference between premium and regular is $1.10. Now, I know this is nobody in this bunch. I know there's nobody in this bunch. But what people do, they'll squeeze off regularly in there because they don't own it. When you don't own stuff, the enemy can tell it. He can tell it, because ownership brings an outrage that you will not let the devil run over your stuff. Say Amen, somebody. So what am I saying? Adam, you have dominion. What happened? Chapter two. He gave of Genesis. He gave him a prohibition. He said, don't eat of that tree. Chapter three. Eve checks the tree out, looks at it good for food to make one wise. She eats of it and gave it to Adam, who was with her. He wasn't down there at Kmart. He was with her. And he ate. And notice what happened? Everything fell. Everything fell. They didn't even know their father anymore because now they had switched fathers. It was a royal mess. The Bible says the power that was flowing through him now got perverted. And now it's no longer. It's the curse. And that curse is spreading out everywhere. And even I heard Brother Copeland preach, and I said it before, even when Jesus died, he had to take the blood and cleanse the heavenly utensils. That's how much authority this one man had. That's why the Bible says in Psalm chapter eight, what is man? That thou art mindful of him, of the Son of man, that thou visitest him. Thou has made him a little lower than angels, than God. So the message translation in that, by the way, says, man barely missed being God, or something like that, A little lower than God. He made him in his own image. He duplicated himself and then blessed him, gave him the power to run this earth. So what am I saying? I'm saying Because Adam failed to take title, Satan took it. So here's the devil now. He's got jurisdiction over this thing. Over in Ecclesiastes, chapter 4. It says it, I'm paraphrasing now. It was better not to be born during that time. Why? Because the power was on the wrong side. He was on the side of the devil. He was running this, folks. He was setting up kingdoms all over the place. All right. Thank God for a redeemer. Praise God. Amen. All right, so. So let's look here in getting this thing back, because we are to reclaim everything that Jesus redeemed. Let's go back to Genesis in chapter 13, please. Genesis, chapter 13. As you know, God chose a man named Abraham. His name was Abram at that time. Okay? And so God is now going to take this man. He's blessing him, and now he's going to have it so that this man will be the beginning of a new line of wealth. And that as he is taking this man, God himself. Let me bless you and make your name great. You'll be a blessing. And I'll bless those that bless you, curse those that curse you. And these shall all families of the earth be blessed. So notice what God is doing now. He's trying to get the blessing back to everybody again, just like Adam was supposed to do. Now let's go to Genesis, chapter 13. And in verse 14, and the Lord said unto Abram, after Lot was separated from him, lift up now your eyes and look from the place where you are, northward, southward, eastward and westward. For all the land which you see, to thee will I give it and to thy seed forever. All right, couple of things here. Number one, until you can see it, you're not entitled to possess it. Until you can see it, you're not entitled to possess it. I understand people were living on that. Now, I'm not talking about stealing. I'm talking about repossession. Because it doesn't belong to Satan or his family. It belongs to God and his family. Say Amen to that. Revelation or Seeing is the greatest asset to the school of faith. Revelation is you're designed to believe what you see. Now here's the key. You don't see with your eyes. You see through them. You see with your mind. Your eyes are windows. The image comes in, goes on your mind. You can see the same thing I see and say something different. And the reason why is because how your mind interpreted it. So Satan doesn't come to blind your eyes. He comes to blind your mind. Because he knows that once you see it, your faith is locked. Once you see it, you become bold as a six shooter. You'll speak it, you'll walk it. Believing is seeing. Yep. Oh, when you believe something, it affects your whole attitude. It affects your, your behavior. When you believe it. Did you see it? And you're not designed to go where you can't see, folks. When you can see something other folk can't see, you can go somewhere other folk can't go. Watch this. You can have something other people can't have. Watch it. You can do something other people can't do. Well, praise the Lord. I trust that you enjoyed that teaching. Now, that's called ownership mentality. Now, it's an interesting thing about ownership. You know, when you own something, you own it. You know what I mean? First Corinthians, chapter 3:21 says, all things are yours. Jesus said you're a joint heir with him. So actually this dominion that God gave Adam, he said, I've given you dominion over the fish, of the sea, the fowl, of the air, the cattle, and over all the earth. That includes ownership. So as believers, we are to take ownership over the earth. And when you're having ownership, if something goes wrong or people are doing something they shouldn't be doing, you have some outrage, say, wait a minute, you can't be doing that. I own this. You see what I'm saying? Praise God. You own this earth. Take ownership. Hallelujah. Well, that's all we have for the day. We're going to see you next time. This is Bill Winston saying, until then, keep walking by faith.