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Thoughts On Dominion | Pastor Craig Field | Wed. Feb. 18, 2026
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I'm just going to talk about some things that are on my heart tonight that I've been meditating on. Pastor Nancy always told me. She said, pastor Craig, if you don't know what to preach. And I said, well, that's usually the case. She said, if you don't know what to preach, just look into your spirit. What has God been dealing with you about? And whatever he's been dealing with you about, you tell that to the congregation if you're not sure. If he hasn't told you in advance what to preach. And he normally does tell me in advance, but tonight he didn't. I left my notes. The devil is against us with the snow, but we made it. We're not having a snow night. So I'm just going to talk about what he's been dealing with me about lately, if that's okay, and I hope it will be a blessing to you. I hear more and more weakness in the body of Christ. Most people, of course, don't know nothing about nothing because they don't go to a church that teaches them anything, for example. And I'm just talking from my heart tonight. There's no judgment against anybody. And I don't even know the details. My wife just mentioned something to me and I saw 30 seconds on the news and. But for example, that lady who had kidnapped. I don't even know her name. Do you know who I'm talking about? Guthrie or Guthrie or what? Gunter what? Guthrie? I don't even know. Her daughter is on the news, but she's a Christian and she talks about Jesus quite openly. And my wife had been listening to more of the details and her talking about this kidnapping and everything. And I just said to Jenny, I said, it's so sad to me how born again believers can not know who they are in Christ. Because even though your heart's good and you talk about Jesus with great love and great passion, just because you love Jesus doesn't mean you know who you are in Christ. Do you understand? You can love Jesus and you can love Jesus like the bluebirds, dad Hagin would say. But if you don't know who you are in Christ, the devil's going to rob you. You're not safe just because you're safe from hell, but you're not safe from hell on earth just because you're born again. And of that precious lady, and she's so precious. Don't get me wrong, I'm not judging. I'm just. I feel for her. My heart went out to her when I saw her and the desperation and the pleading and please, we'll pay anything. Just don't hurt my mother. And I thought to myself, well, there's a higher way to live than that. And I'm not against anybody. But I'll tell you something, dad Hagin made a statement. Remember, Greg, that story of that girl that the mother thought she was staying in their home? The mother thought she had been kidnapped and she had just got. And he prayed and he said to her, very rarely will I be in a place. Now this is the prophet's office. He said, very rarely will I be in a place tragedy happen and God not reveal it to me ahead of time so that I can turn it. Meaning, listen to what that means. If I'm in a place because I know who I am in Christ, I will know what's going to happen before it happens, and I'll turn it so it doesn't happen. Now extrapolate that. That means if you know who you are in Christ, tragedy will not happen. It's a serious thing. And yet that poor precious lady, even though she loves Jesus so much. If you're not taught how to be led by the Holy Ghost, because that can save your life, if you're not taught about the blood, if you're not taught about angels, if you're not taught about your dominion that no evil things shall touch you and you are delivered from every evil work, if you don't know that, then you can love God and be on your way to heaven and tragedy happen in your life all around you. You can have kidnappings, vandalism, people can break into your home, you can be assaulted, you can be sexually assaulted, your children can be attacked or kidnapped. And people go through this all the time. I'm just told you. Maybe you wish I hadn't. I had bought my notes, but since I don't have them, I'm just talking to you because I've been meditating on this and I've been thinking how many. How many situations? And I watch people. I listen to people. I don't just mean you guys. I'm talking about on the road, traveling, listening to other ministers speak. I don't mean in the pulpit. I mean in the back room. Because sometimes stuff comes out in the back room. They'd never say in the pulpit. And I just listen sometimes. And. And I'm really shocked at the pathetic state that most Christians are in. Even ministers, in their revelation of who they are in Christ, in their revelation of what they're going to permit or not permit in their Lives and things happen in people's lives. And you don't want to be judgmental, you don't want to be harsh, but you do want. You do shake your head and you say, if you'd only learned, if you'd only been around somebody to teach you and you had a heart to receive it, then apply it. Remember, it's the. It's the. What did I. What did that quote say? It's the proper application of overwhelming force. If you don't apply it, it doesn't matter that you know it. So the first thing is you've got to be in a place that teaches you. The second thing is you've got to listen. Because I still have people that have been sitting here for 15 years that don't understand some basics about who they are in Christ. So they were. They're here, they're in the right place to receive it, but they're not listening. Do you understand? So you gotta really listen. It's gotta become revelation to you. Not just to me, it's gotta become revelation to you. Then once it's revelation to you, you're not done yet. Now you have to give proper application. You actually have to do something about it. You have to speak, you have to believe. Amen. And if you'll do that, you'll see demons won't have authority. They don't have authority, but they'll take stolen authority in your life if you allow them to. Sickness and all these problems and all this stuff that people go through. And it's so sad because Jesus raised us up so that we wouldn't have to go through those things. You remember that Jenny was in that university, well, really that college, and she was with her friend and they were studying at night. We weren't married yet, actually wasn't even in the night. It was in the daytime because I was at. I was at the bank. I worked at TD as a teller. And so I would count everybody else's wealth and realize that I didn't have any. But that's fine. It was a job. And I was standing there just minding my own business, and I heard the Holy Ghost speak to me just as loud as I'm talking to you. He said, go and pray for Jennifer right now. Now the kind of prayer could not be muffled under my breath. Sometimes you can just deal with things in front of people because you just can whisper it. Other times you have to dismiss yourself. You need to learn the difference between that. So I said to the boss, now whether I needed to go to the Bathroom or not, I'm not lying because I'm following the instruction of the Lord. But if I say God just told me to go and pray, I wouldn't have a job the next day. So you have to learn wisdom of what you tell the sinner. So I just said, I need to go to the bathroom. No problem. I went into the. There was only one bathroom for the men and one for the woman. So it was an individual locked door because it was, you know, banks don't have, you know, huge bathrooms. And so I had privacy. And I didn't yell or anything, but I just started praying in tongues. I don't know what to pray for, Joey, when you don't know what you should pray as you ought pray in the Holy Ghost. So I. And most times you don't know. If God just says pray, you don't know what it's about, so don't assume. So I just started praying. And right away the Lord said, said, take authority over that. That evil spirit that is going to try to assault her and apply the blood to her to protect her. So I took authority over that thing and I applied the blood. And then that sense of urgency, you know, lifted off. But I was so curious why? What is going on? I couldn't. This is before the time of cell phones, okay? This is in the 90s. So I didn't. I couldn't really call anybody without using an office line, which they'll watch you and then they'll ask you what you're doing. Now we have so much freedom. You know, you can text, you can do all these things. So I didn't say anything. But then later on on my break, which was just 15 minutes later, I called Verley on my break and I said, verley. And before I even got it out, she said, I've been praying for Jennifer. Is everything okay? I said, the Lord told me to pray for her. Do you know what's going on? She said, I don't know what's going on. So, okay. She doesn't have a cell phone, so we have to wait for her to be able to contact us. But a little bit later on that day, she did. And she was there in the classroom studying, even though the classes had been dismissed. It was in the late afternoon. There weren't very many people around, and her and another lady were in the classroom studying together. Kind of like, you know, you can hang out there after class kind of thing. And two men walked past them in the hallway and looked in at them and. And Jenny, at that time, she still like it, but she's not as aggressive. But back then, she was very like, you look at me, you got a problem. Kind of like Mary Chris, but on steroids. You know what I'm saying? Mary Chris on Red Bull. Because Mary Chris is a natural fighter. I mean, she did not gonna put up with my wife was the same way. That's good, but that can also get you in big trouble. You gotta be led by the spirit, not just be, you know, macho. And girls can be macho too, not just men. So she needed to go to the bathroom. She goes to the bathroom, and she sees in her peripheral that they're watching her. And they saw her go into the bathroom. And she is thinking to herself, well, I'm sure everything's fine, just like you would. She hears the Lord speak to her. Now, this is what I'm saying. Because of my prayers, God was able to intervene. Now, I'm not saying God wouldn't have spoken to her without my prayers, because he would have. But if you'll pray when God tells you to pray, he. He can make it very, very so that that person cannot miss it. Sometimes if you don't do your part, God will still do his part, but they may miss it. So that's why it's important we do our part. Do you understand? And I had prayed, Verli had prayed. And she walked in the bathroom and the Lord said, you need to get out. You need to get out. And she responded because of her personality. She said, I'll take care of him. Like, they can't touch me. Kind of like, I don't care what they do or what they try, you know, I can handle myself. And she was in the stall, whatever, she, you know, doing her thing. And she said. The Lord yelled at her and he said, get out of here now. I don't know if those are the exact words, but it was something similar to that. Get out of here now. And she got. And I mean, it shocked her. She realized that her attitude of I'm fine was not sufficient in that scenario. Okay? I don't care how tough you think you are, when there's two big guys and you're a normal woman, they can overpower you in the natural. Now you say, well, why wouldn't God just give her supernatural strength? Well, because God told her to get out. Why wouldn't God cause them to freeze like on the India platform? Because he told her to get out. It doesn't matter what God's done for somebody else. It matters what he's telling you in that moment, well, my authority will work. Yes, but what is God saying? Because there's no point standing there and saying, I bind you if he told you to get out. That's why the leading of the spirit trumps even all the doctrines that we know. Do you understand? It trumps everything because that's what you need in that moment. And he said it loud to her and she got. And as she was coming out, he was walking into the ladies bathroom and his friend was there kind of on lookout and he was coming in. And I can't prove it, but she knew it in her spirit that he was coming in to rape her. And they found out. She heard later, I mean, the next day or the day after that somebody had been raped in the after hours, exactly the time she was there. And that there was two individuals and they were asking the student body if you've seen, if you've heard. You know, they didn't have cameras back then, but I mean, it came out publicly that there are two molesters, rapists on the campus that are raping women. And at first they kept it quiet and then they made it public because if they know that's happening and they don't tell the student body, they can be liable to be sued. But sometimes they'll keep it quiet at first because they don't want panic and they hope they're going to catch the person. So we found out later that there's two rapists that were the two rapists and they were coming in to rape her. And something like that can affect your whole life. I mean, it shouldn't. I mean, we can get healing, we can get over it. But God doesn't want you to have to get over it. He wants you not to have to have it to begin with. And all of that came down to the leading of the Spirit, of me knowing to pray and her obeying what God said in that moment and not arguing. You see, I'm giving you different examples and different perspectives that we have because of our position. We are not subject to devastation. If you've had devastation, it simply meant you didn't follow. You either didn't use your authority or you weren't led by the spirit. Because if you do those two things, you will always be, you'll always get out of devastation. Devastation, in other words, won't happen. That doesn't mean you should take it as a negative because a lot of people don't know. A lot of people have devastation happen to them, traumatic situations before they were even saved. Before you're saved, you don't know anything. And many have, even when they are saved, because they don't apply what. They either don't know what the Bible offers or they won't apply it. And I'm just warning you, I'm telling you that you need to apply it. Dad Hagin was. Had a sensation of being thrown out of a car. He didn't do anything about it. And was it his niece or something got thrown out of a car exactly the way he sensed it, without a seatbelt, and she was killed. And he said, lord, what happened? And the Lord said, I was trying to get it over to you that somebody is going to get thrown out of a car. But you didn't take long enough to stop and to pray and to say, lord, what is this? Why do I keep having this sensation? This is abnormal. This is unusual. Maybe you're trying to show me. And that lack of waiting cost his niece her life. I'm not saying that if the niece knew things, which she didn't, and if she was operating in the leading of the spirit, which she wasn't, she could have still been preserved. But sometimes God knows the person is not doing what they need to do. But if we'll do something, we can save their life, because that, see, that's another aspect of we are not subject to devastation. And I'm hearing more and more in other people's lives about devastation. And it's bothering me because I'm realizing, where is the message of faith? Where is the message of who we are in Christ? Why are people letting this go? There is a very real devil, and it's very serious. And I want to talk about it much because it's not really something I like to talk about. But the occurrences in society today of people with haunted houses is absolutely through the roof. It used to be rare. They used to make movies about it because it was a rarity. Now it is so common with demons coming into homes, tormenting people, poltergeist moving things, hurting people. And I'm telling you, it's one thing for the world to go through that. That's their portion, because their father is the devil and they don't know. But if you hear of somebody going through something like that as God's person, as God's man, God's woman, it's your responsibility to help them. If you hear people like that, talk like that at your work, oh, my child's got nightmares all the time. I don't know what it is. Don't stay quiet. You're the one with the answer. You're the one with the light. They're the one in darkness. If they don't want it, let them reject you. But you should say politely, kindly, not weird, but just in an appropriate way. I can help you with that. What are you talking about? I remember I did that with a girl. There was a demon that would walk in her room at 3 o' clock every morning, 3:07 every morning and would torment her and she would feel its presence. She'd see it and she was just petrified and, and she's talking at work about it. And I heard her, this is when I was at customs and I said, I can help you with that. And she said what are you talking about? How can you help me with that? I said because I know something about the spiritual realm that you don't know. And I said now let me first help you and tell you you're doing something to invite that. So we talked about it and it turned out she was watching horror movies. And I said now that now I have the Holy Ghost. So I'm not guessing because he bore witness with me. And I said, you need to stop that. I said if you keep doing that, that thing will keep coming back. Now I said I'm going to pray with you right now, right there on the customs floor. So you got to realize that some things are more important than what your job is at that moment. And if you're going to get in trouble then wait for your lunch hour, but use wisdom. But I'm saying it takes boldness to help people. It takes boldness to live that who I am in Christ, not just for me, but to help somebody else. Because there's a lot of people that are looking for help and, and they don't even know where to look. And I said now we're going to pray. I said if you're too embarrassed to pray then you're too embarrassed to get help. She said I'm not too embarrassed. You pray, you pray. And I said now I'm going to pray and it's going to stop, but I can't guarantee you that it's not going to continue because the Bible says that those things will try to come back. And the only way that you're going to long term resist this is if you get born again. She didn't want to get born again. So I said, well why would you say no to Jesus? But you know, she was of a Hindu religion and some of them are very adamant. And so I prayed and it stopped I don't know how long it stopped for. I didn't want to ask that question because I know that those things will try to come back. And unless you know who you are, you can be a brand new Christian and still know who you are. Clarita was a brand new Christian in Bilibid prison. And when Dr. Sumral and they tried to come back and she said, no, you don't. And they didn't touch her. So don't tell me you have to be in church and know all the doctrines to be able to operate in, in your authority. You just have to know and you have to be born again. And so it's. But it did stop. You see, my authority praying in that scenario caused that thing to stop. Now, another time, the demon was raping the person every night. And this was, that was in your basement. I forget who it was. It was somebody, one of our worship team's cousin or something, I can't remember the name, but they had brought them to church. It was in Lorraine's basement before we moved in this building. And I don't want to get vulgar, but I'm just saying there are demons that do very vile things. And I said, I can get that to stop. But you see, now I'm talking about how to be led by the spirit. I knew by the Holy Ghost, unlike the other one, that it was coming just to scare her. Because of horror movies, I knew this one. If she didn't get saved, it wouldn't stop. But you don't always know that unless by the Holy Ghost, because this was a severe case. This is a severe case and you can't just have my authority hold that off you. You have to get born again. My authority can hold it off you, but you have to get born again. So when it comes back, you say, no, you don't touch me. You have no right to touch me. And I pleaded, Jenny pleaded and I pleaded with her to get born again. We were sitting right in Lorraine's basement, I remember where we were sitting, and we sat there and we pleaded with her for 20 minutes to get born again. And I said, if you don't get saved, there is no help for you. I can't hold something like this off alone. You, you've got to get saved and understand who you are. And then you work with me and we'll push this back because I can do it, but it will come back and then it's gonna be worse. Remember, the Bible says it will be worse. It's actually better not to take authority because if I do and it comes back because she's not saved, it will be worse for her. So you have to think about that. And she said, no, I can't, I'm a Hindu. I said, I'm pleading with her. I'm saying, listen to me, listen to me. I'm not telling you that you have to reject your family, that you can even go to temple if you want. Cause I know once Jesus comes in and he'll push all of that other stuff out. I'm just trying to get Jesus to come in. I'm not trying to get her to walk away from Hinduism at the moment. Because if it's a true salvation, it will push all that out. I'm just trying to get her to say yes. And she is being abused every single night. And she said, I can't. The Hindu religion is my religion and it's my parents religion and my grandparents religion and I cannot leave that religion. And I said, you want to continue this abuse? She says, well, if that's the price of being a Hindu, then I guess that's the price of being a Hindu. This is how messed up people in their minds are. It is so sad because we have answers and yet sometimes you can't help them, but many times you can't. Are you with me? So I've just been. The Lord's been dealing with me just privately a lot about don't. And I think Dr. Andre was very happy with it because he actually said something. I don't know what he meant, but he kind of was hinting something. And he said to me, he said a lot of people, and he meant, even on his broadcasts, he said, people just don't teach raw faith anymore. He said, they don't teach your authority anymore. There's all this other fluff, but they don't really teach real raw faith. And faith means your authority. And he said, I'm so happy that people like you. And there's not that many, so obviously. And he knows hundreds of ministers because he has a huge television thing. And then he knows other people that have other television things and they all kind of have this little community, you know what I'm saying? And for him to say that to me, there's not very many teaching raw faith and authority anymore. That to me is shocking because in the world in which we live, if you don't teach this, if you don't know who you are, you are subject to whatever thing the devil throws at you and you will live in tragedy. It's a guarantee at some Point in time, there's going to be tragedy. But we are delivered from every evil work if we know who we are. So I've just been meditating on this privately, more about my dominion and my authority. And to be aware, not just to keep things in my life free of tragedy as much as I can with my congregation, but also to be aware that there are people everywhere who are going through tragedy. And we don't really. I don't think we think about that as much as we should. Because if you're not going through tragedy, you're just living your life and life is good and everything seems great. But you could be working with somebody whose child is in some kind of psychotic episode or having nightmares or on heavy, serious drugs, which can mess children up for years, or their marriage could be on the rocks, or their husband could be doing cheating on them. I'm telling you, everywhere you look there's problems. And you are the light. I am the light of the world. To not but into lives, but to be available if God puts them across my path and allows me to hear what's happening, to offer them a hand of help and say, I can help you. Not only is it a witnessing tool, it's to get them saved. But it is more than that. It is just because of who I am and the dominion I walk in. If you cross my life. I don't mean to sound narcissistic, but if you cross my life, you're blessed because I'm talking about sinners, because you don't know what I know. And if you cross my life and you'll let me help you, I can. I can turn. I can at least start to turn things for you. And then some things is going to be based on if they get saved. But I can help. We can help people. People that just kind of rose up in my heart recently a lot. Be aware. Look open. Jesus said, lift up your eyes and look, for the fields are white unto harvest. Look up, look up. In other words, people are looking at their own life and all their needs. And he says, look up. Because there's things going on all around you and you are the answer. You are the hero. You are the believer that has dominion over demons, over sickness, over all these awful things. And you can help people if you just lift up your eyes and be willing to engage them a little bit. And if you hear them talking, not in a belligerent way, but in a gentle, kind way, to interrupt them and say, listen, I don't mean to interrupt you, but I heard what you were saying my heart goes out to you. My heart. Anybody that hears your heart's going out to them. They're not going to be rude to you because they're looking for help. They want people to listen. Why do you think they go to psychiatrists? They want people to listen to them. I heard what you said. I just want you to know my heart went out to you. I can help you. What are you talking about? I can help you because I know something that you don't know about the spiritual realm. And I'm telling you. That's a good line because if you say Jesus, sometimes they'll back away. But everybody knows more or less that there's a spiritual realm. And they don't understand it and. And they don't know what's going on in that realm. But if they're going through something, they're more alert and aware that there is. And especially if they're of another religion. Hindus know very clearly that there's a spiritual realm. Sikhs know that there's a spiritual realm. They even have their own names for demons. Muslims know that there's a spiritual realm. It's really just the local kind of atheistic type of Presbyterians or atheists or. Which are almost the same thing nowadays, you know what I'm saying? It's these kind of groups that kind of deny sometimes the reality. But you talk to most people of other religions or from other parts of the world, they've seen this. They know about the witch doctors, they know about curses, they know about demons. They probably know more about it than you do in terms of having witnessed it. I know in Malaysia, everybody. Greg told me when he lived there, everybody to say that there wasn't demons and a spiritual realm. They'd laugh at you. It was such common knowledge. It's part of their culture. They face it every day. Now, we don't hear, but many cultures do, and we have the answer. I don't know. I'm not trying to just exhort you tonight, but I'm just telling you the Lord's been dealing with me a lot lately about. Son, I expect you to operate in dominion in every arena of your life. Don't put up with things, don't ignore things. I expect you to walk in dominion every day and in every arena of. Of your life and ensure that there is no tragedy, that there is no trauma that occurs in your sphere, because your dominion will stop that. No accidents. Remember Jesus told Pastor Nancy. He said no. He told Pastor Hagin, dad Hagin. And he put it in his book, and Pastor Nancy was preaching it, that I never remember the hospital visitor, that vision. He said, my children should never be sick. My children should never have accidents. My children should never have surgeries. Now, that doesn't mean you can't have a surgery. It just means it's God's best that you use your dominion and your faith so that you don't have to have the surgery. Do you understand? But sometimes the Holy Spirit, because he knows where you're at, will lead you to have a surgery, even though that's not his best. But he knows it's better that you do that than have some other problem that's going to now happen because you didn't have the surgery. So God is not in a vacuum where just because it's his best, he'll always tell you no, he's going to tell you based on your measure of faith where you are in that scenario. But the goal is he doesn't want us sick. He doesn't want us having accidents. He doesn't want us having surgeries. Why? Because of our place where we are. We're raised and seated and we've been given a name and we've been given dominion. And let me tell you, brother and sister, if you don't meditate on that dominion when you need it, it won't work for you. Are you listening to what I just said? Because sometimes we're meditating more on scriptures, on love, and that's right, because dad Hagin said I work more on my love walk than my faith walk. Sometimes we're meditating more about finances. Sometimes we're talking more about prayer or about this or about the nation or about the church or about your marriage or about whatever. And I'm not saying that you shouldn't, but I'm saying a regular, a regular deal on a daily basis, I'm telling you, you've got to keep the word about dominion and who you are in Christ. You've got to keep it right close, right close to you. And you've got to meditate on that whether you feel you need it or not. Because in a moment, things could happen. In a moment you could be driving and you need to use dominion so that you don't get in an accident. And if you mass time you meditated on who you are in Christ from a dominion and authority perspective was three weeks ago. You know it up here, but it won't come up out of you as quickly unless it's a regular meditation of who I am in Christ. And listen, we're in a dark world and there's. I don't. I don't walk in fear, but I walk aware. Do you understand? I walk aware. And sometimes, you know, people, different scenarios, they'll, you know, you can tell something's wrong with them. And sometimes I've had occasions where they've come and they've. They've wanted to interact with me and I know something's wrong with them and it's. Sometimes they're more of a threat than other times. Sometimes they're just an annoyance. But sometimes they can be a threat. And I have to know who I am in Christ. I have to have that close to me all the time because I never know what could happen and how bad that could get and how fast it can get bad in a situation. Do you understand? And I know everybody talks. And I'm not negative. I'm not against self defense, okay? Because, you know, it's okay to do the Crane kick once in a while. It's okay to do that. I'm not against Karate Kid, Kung Fu Kid, or Crane Kick Kid. I'm not against any of that. Or Jiu Jitsu or Bad Jitsu or Good Jitsu or Jiu Jitsu. We have a little shirt we got in Israel with a Jew doing this, and it says Jew J E W Jitsu. Anyway, I'm not against any of that. I'm just saying, okay, most people, you're not that good. And if you think you're going to get out of a serious situation because of your Jiu Jitsu, I'm just saying do the Jiu Jitsu if you want. Carry the gun if you want. All my American friends are packing heat every time I'm with them. Usually one there, one in the ankle. I'm the only loser that doesn't have a gun. But I say I'm Canadian, I'm not allowed a gun. But I'm just saying it's very easy to get into the natural arena of, well, I know how to defend myself or I have a weapon or I have this, or I'm a fast runner, you know what I'm saying? And I'm just saying you don't know. You can't count on those things. You're not Stephen Seagal, okay? You can't count on those things. But you can always count on, on the Authority and the Dominion and your words. You can always count on that. And I'm telling you, whether you know a good move or not, okay? When you speak, God will honor your words if you believe. Mark 11:23. Say to this mountain be thou removed and cast into the sea. Say to that person. No, you don't. In Jesus name. But you've got to believe in your heart that what you say will come to pass. In other words, you've got to believe that whatever you're speaking to is going to obey you. And if you truly believe, you'll have whatever you say. And so you can stop a whole host of problems, a whole host of threats just by your words, without going to karate class three times a week. Ephesians, chapter one. I told you I should have bought my notes, but sometimes I don't bring my notes. Hallelujah. Verse 19. That the what is the exceeding greatness? Ephesians 1. Of his power to us. Would who believe according to the working of his mighty power which he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead. So the exceeding greatness of the power toward me who believes is this resurrection power. Because it's what he wrought in Christ when he raised him from the dead. And set him now watch now set him at his own right hand. Now, if I'm the body and he's the head, I have to be set at his own right hand. In the heavenly places. That means I'm far above all principality and power and might and dominion and every name. I'm far above every name that is named. If it's got a name, I'm above it. Not only in this world, but also in that which is to come. Meaning not only in this physical world, but in the spiritual world. I'm far above everything. If it has a name, Craig is above it. But you see, I meditate on that. If you don't meditate on that, it won't be real to you. And then when a name shows up, whether that's cancer, the flu, somebody wanting to assault you, something unfair happening at work, that's also a name. Racism. That's also a name. If you haven't meditated on this, if it's got a name, I'm above it. In Christ. Without Christ, I'm nothing but in Christ. If it's got a name, I'm above it. Then it's real on the inside of you. Then when the name shows up, you speak and you believe. Because meditating on the Word produces the faith. You believe that it will obey you. Then when I say, no, you don't. It has to obey me. Problem is, a lot of people are saying the right words. No, you don't. Nothing changes. Why? Because you don't believe. If you don't believe. It will not listen to you. Demons know if you believe or not. That's why they said to the seven sons of Sceva, paul, we know, Jesus, we know. Who are you? Beat that boy, those seven boys up, tore their clothes off, sent them out naked and bleeding. In other words, demons know if you believe. That's why when I tried to cast that devil out, the suicide devil came out, but the other devil didn't. And I said, lord, why did that not come out of that person? And he said, you don't believe. He took me back to the boy, lunatic boy. And they said, why did it not work? And he said, because of your unbelief, meaning you don't believe. And I said, lord, what do I do? I'm expecting a deep revelation. And he said, believe more. I said, how do I do that? Like, I don't know. But I sometimes we can be stupid and we forget. I said, how do I do that? He said, how do you believe more? You're asking me how you believe more? He said, get into my word and meditate on it until it's real to you. Because the meditation turns it from logos to rhema. It turns it from head knowledge to spirit. Gets down in your spirit. Rhema really means to pour or to quicken, to make alive. It actually technically means to utter, to speak. So when God speaks the written word to your heart, it becomes alive to you. That's where faith comes from. Faith comes from hearing and hearing by the rhema of God, not by the logos of God. So you can read, but that doesn't mean you've got faith. When it becomes alive to you, that's when faith comes. And so I meditated and I meditated and I remember I went to the airplane hangar one day and just spent the whole day meditating. And see, because I know already who I am, brother. But things can slip away. You can get tired. Your faith is coming out all the time for different things and you need to build it back up. And I got to that place where I believe. I know that. I know it will obey me. And I went and it did obey me, praise God. But it shocked me that the devil didn't obey me on the first time. Well, one of them did, but the other didn't. Because in the back of my mind I had a little bit of doubt and the devil knew that I'm not going to come out because you tell me to come out. Not when you don't believe, I won't. Do you understand? It's the same when somebody's trying to hurt you or take advantage of you in any kind of any one of a hundred different arenas, sometimes it's people, but many times it's demons influencing those people. And if there's demons influencing them, they know if you believe or not. Sickness knows if you believe or not. Do you understand? That's why you can pray and say the right words and then nothing happened. And somebody else can pray saying the exact same words. And it listens because that person got in the Word and built it up till they believe that it's going to obey me. Are you listening? And this can't be once a year. This can't be once a month. This can't even be once a week. This is a daily or every other, at the very least a regular life style of meditation of who I am in Christ and getting those scriptures memorize them so that you can just think about them and speak them instead of always having to open your Bible. It's got to be a living reality because you don't know what's going to happen, when it's going to happen. And I'm not saying that to keep make you afraid. I don't want you afraid. But I'm just saying I don't want people in our church going through what people in other church go through because you know it or you think you know it. But unless you meditate on it and you believe it won't work for you. Just because it works for me does not mean it will work for you. Just because it works for Pastor Nancy does not mean it's going to work for me. Just because I sat on the front row and said Amen and got genuine revelation knowledge of what she preached. If I don't apply that to my life and keep it before my eyes, it will slip away. So important you're listening to me tonight because a lot of people are under a delusion because I come to this church. Things are going to work for me. No, it's because you come to this church, you have an opportunity to learn. But until you learn it by revelation, not by head knowledge, and then apply it, the proper application of, of overwhelming force, you'll just live like everybody else. You'll live like all the other denominations that don't even know this. In fact, it can get so bad you can live like the world, you're going to heaven. But the covenant promises won't work for you because you don't meditate on who you are. And you've got to constantly meditate on who you are. Do you understand? Then you can walk free of fear. If I see somebody afraid, I know they don't know who they are. Do you understand? That includes going to the doctor. If you're afraid to go to the doctor, you don't know who you are. Because it doesn't really matter what they say. It doesn't matter what they say if you know who you are. What they say is temporary. They're telling you a fact. The truth that you know will overwhelm that fact. But see, if you're afraid, it means you don't know who you are. If you're afraid to drive, you don't know who you are. I'm talking about fear. I'm not talking because you have an eye problem or, you know, you don't have money for a car. I'm talking about a fear. Fear. Some people have a fear of driving. You don't know who you are. Some people have a fear of flying. You don't know who you are. Now, I don't like certain bugs, but I'm not afraid of them. Some people are afraid of things. Animals, dogs, whatever you chose. You don't know who you are. Because the Bible says that there'll be a fear and a dread that is put by God in the heart of every animal so that they're afraid of you. They. But if you don't ever meditate on that. Are you listening? I'm just messing with you a little bit tonight. You got to know who you are. And just because I know who I am doesn't mean that you know who you are. And I'm. And I'm. I'm working at it, too. I don't. I'm far from perfect, but I'm. I'm developing. Hallelujah. But everything, everything, everything is about being led by the spirit. Because you can use your authority against sickness but have violated the law and worked your body too hard. Sickness will come and will not listen to you even though you know who you are. Are you listening? And at one point, because I got a little sick there. I don't know why, because I never get sick ever. It was very unusual. And, you know, I said, lord, you know, And I'm starting to go at it. And I heard the Holy Ghost say. He said, this is not the time to rebuke. This is the time to sleep. You see, you got to learn the Holy Ghost, because I'm taking authority over this attack. But. And it is an attack. But how did. Why did the attack happen? Because I didn't rest Enough. So I opened the door to the attack. Now I'm trying to stop something that I opened the door to by rebuking and using my dominion. Don't work that way. It's time to sleep. I slept 15 hours straight because my body was totally exhausted. And if you keep doing that, your body will break down. Hallelujah. Then I had a bit of a mild heat stroke on that first night of preaching. It was so hot. Oh, my God, up on that platform with all those lights, and already it's 80 plus degrees in that place because they don't have air conditioning and it's the middle of their summer. And I mean, I'm sweat through everything. I mean, my shirt is soaked. Everything is soaked. Not my jacket. But you know. You know when. You know what I'm saying? You know when you and I. And I started at the end there, I started. I felt like I was slurring my speech. Now I asked happy afterward, was I slurring? And he said, no, you weren't. But it felt to me like I was slurring my speech because I was so exhausted at the end of that sermon. I felt like I was going to pass out. Like I was so tired. I was. And the heat was just overwhelming to me. And my legs started going numb. Now when your legs are numb and you're preaching, there's a problem. And I got back into the green room and the whole room started spinning and I started to fight like this, and I went against the wall. And I didn't want Dr. Andre to see because I didn't want him to see that. And happy is so sweet because he knows how to protect me. And he just kind of came up gently. Are you okay? And I said, I'm going to. I feel like I'm going to pass out. I need to get and sit on the toilet there. I said, I don't want them to see me. And so I did. He closed the door and what's my first. What's my. What do you think my first action is? Talk to God. I said, lord, what's going on? I said, I just preached and was under your anointing. Now I'm going to pass out. I said, what's going on? He said, you're not resting enough. You're preaching in extreme heat, and your body is not where it needs to be. You know what I'm saying? I mean, I'm losing weight, but I'm not fit where I need to be to be able to handle that kind of rigor. Do you understand? And so he spoke to me. He said, you're not resting enough. And he said, you're not drinking water enough. See, God is so practical. When you're expending that kind of sweating and heat and you're. And you're not drinking and you're not resting enough, no wonder you're going to pass out. And at that point, dominion is not going to fix that because I open the door. Do you understand? So that's why I spent more time just resting. And resting does not just mean sleep, because God is a spirit and he rested on the seventh day, but it says he neither slumbers nor sleeps. So God doesn't sleep. So rest is not just sleep. Rest is a spiritual act. Rest is resting your mind from issues and dealing with problems. Rest is, yes, resting your physical body, and that includes sleep. But rest is more about communion with God than it is about anything else. And so when Pastor Nancy rebuked me again that week and said, you're not resting enough, she knew it by the Holy Ghost, and she didn't even know about those things that happened. I'm too afraid to tell her because then she'll be even more mad at me because she got it by the spirit. She texted me. She said, you're not resting enough. If you don't rest enough, you're not going to make this thing great. Especially with the rigors of travel and time zones and heat and different kinds of food and demons and witchcraft and all this stuff. If you don't rest enough. So I'm. You understand what I'm trying to say? So I'm. It's about dominion, but it's also about being led by the spirit as much as it is about the dominion. Because my dominion won't work in that scenario if I violate certain things. So I have to learn now because my lifestyle is different now. It wasn't used to be like this, but there is a lot of pressure on my body, which is why I know I joke when I say that, but for me, £52 is a big. It's a big thing. Maybe for you it's easy, but for me, it hasn't been easy. But I'm aggressively trying to follow the spirit in natural things. Eating more healthy, resting more exercise, drinking the right stuff instead of the wrong stuff. Do you understand? So that my physical frame is stronger, because then those things won't even happen. And if something else does happen, then my dominion kicks in. I'm trying to show you the balance because you can talk about dominion, but if you don't talk about being led by the Spirit. Dominion is not in a vacuum. Are you with me? And don't feel bad for me and don't email me and don't tell me to rest because I know what I'm doing and I am following God. Okay? And of course, if something bad happens, we'll just blame Happy. I mean, it's easy. We just blame Happy. I mean, it's Happy's fault. But this is very important for all of us. Do you understand? So every mind, dominion, and every name that is named not only in this world, but that which is to come. Verse 22. And. And has put all things under his feet and gave him to be the head over all things to the Church. That means he's the head and the Church is his. Look at verse 23. Which is his body, the fullness of him that fills all in all. So he's the head, I'm the body. Now, Chapter two, verse five. Even when we were dead in sins, he has quickened us together with Christ. By grace ye are saved. Verse 6. And hath raised us up together and made us to sit together. Together. Together. Look how many times it says together in heavenly places, in Christ. In heavenly places, in Christ. That means I in Christ, as the body, he the head, I'm the body. I'm filling the world on his behalf. He fills the world into the world through me. Everywhere I go, Christ goes. And I'm in Him, and he's in me. And I'm the body and he's the head. And I'm sitting together with him in heavenly places, far above every name. You need to meditate on this. I'm above every name. I'm above every name. When weakness comes, I'm above that. But am I resting? Am I eating properly? Am I exercising properly? Because a violation of that which the Holy Ghost will lead you into. Which means you're not just violating natural law, you're violating the leading of the Spirit. You can't overcome with dominion things that you're violating. It's like a coin. Both sides have to be equal. You have to be obeying God and the leading. But then you have to be using your dominion and realizing, I'm above every name. I'm above every name. If you don't meditate on it, it's not going to be real to you. You okay? Praise the Lord. Now have a look here with me, please. In Matthew 16. Can you go over to Matthew 16? These are just thoughts on dominion, okay? And I'm just encouraging you to keep it as a regular daily habit. A daily habit. You need to meditate daily on who you are in Christ. And there's so many scriptures, you know. Pastor Nancy on her website has a free download called In Him. Dad Hagin has a little book called in him and it lists all the scriptures. So you have no excuse to say, well I don't know where the scriptures are. Just go on her website and download it for free. Or order one of his many books and put it in your pocket or in your car or in your Bible. But meditate. There's so many. I'm just giving you one or two. But there's so many scriptures. Meditate upon these In Him Scriptures because those scriptures remind you and tell you you are in Christ. You are hidden in Christ. You are high above these things. You don't have to have tragedy. You don't have to have break ins, you don't have to have vandalism. You don't have to have accidents. You don't have to be afraid of anything. What a freedom that I can live my life completely unafraid of anything. If I was in the ocean and there were sharks, I would be unafraid. Because the fear of thee and the dread of thee will be put into the heart of every creature on the planet. You see? But if you don't know that verse exists and you haven't meditated on it, you might be shark food. I'm serious. Well, I'm afraid of dogs. They're very those mean ones. No, no, no. Because of who I am. I know who I am. You can't touch me. And if I say in Jesus name you stop, that angel will smite that dog. But you see, if you don't believe this, it won't work for you. And then you come to church bandaged up. What happened to you? I got bitten by a dog. Well, there's nothing wrong. Don't make somebody feel bad if they get bitten by a dog. But it's like, okay, you don't know enough yet. I lost my house. You don't know enough yet. I'm ravaged with sickness. You don't know enough yet because we've been raised, I've been raised to be seated in heavenly places far above, far. And they didn't just say above, far above. Every name. If it's got a name, I'm above it. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Glory, glory. And again I say glory. Now a little bit. Matthew 16. Matthew 16. I took happy there to the gates of hell. We went to hell and back, brother, we went to hell and back. You were there too, weren't you, Gagi? And we saw what Jesus was talking about. And when Jesus came to the coast of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying, who do men say that I, the Son of man am? And they said unto him, some say you're John the Baptist, some Elijah, some Jeremiah, or one of the prophets. Who do you say that I am? Simon Peter answered verse 16 and said, you are the Christ, that's the anointed One and his anointing, the Son of the living God. And Jesus answered and said unto him, blessed are you, Simon bar Jonah. That means Simon of Jonah. That's his Father's name. Last name for flesh and blood has not revealed this unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven. So watch number one. He had revelation knowledge. And I say unto you that thou art Peter. Remember, he changed him from Simon to Peter. Pebble to stone or rock. I say unto thee, thou art Peter, and upon this rock will I build my church. Well, the Catholics messed that all up pretty big. Because as Peter is not the special guy here, the revelation of what Peter said is the special thing. And he's not talking about Peter being upon. Peter is not the rock here, even though his name means rock. He's saying upon this rock of revelation, this strong revelation that you've said by revelation on that, that I am the son of the living God, will I build my church? Why? Because you can't get into the church without being born again. You can't be born again without believing he's the son of the living God. Can you see that? And now watch. What's the first thing he didn't teach him about the Love Walk. He didn't teach him about tithing. He didn't teach him about prosperity. He didn't teach him about casting out devils, necessarily. What's the very first thing that he said after this revelation of I am the Christ, the Son of the living God, which makes you born again, which gets you into the church. The very first thing he said when you're in the church is this statement. We should pay attention because this is a foundational statement. And the gates of Hell shall not prevail against the gates. Meaning the powers, the forces, the scary parts of Hell. The gates of hell, the violence, the perversion. Now, in that place, I won't get into it, but in that place there was a lot of violence. There was human sacrifices of little children until the Pan God was satiated. There was orgies of sex happening in the temple there was vile dancing. It was the most evil place known at the time of Jesus. If you wanted to go to the worst place on earth, you went to Caesarea Philippi. It was the worst place, it was the most vile. What Jesus was saying was, you see here that you're surrounded by vileness. Well, if you're going to live in the world, you're going to be surrounded by vileness. But just because it surrounds you doesn't mean it can touch you. And just all of this vileness and demonic stuff and evil, wicked, awful things that you're witnessing in this place called Caesarea Philippi, it the gates of hell that represents the gates of hell, it cannot touch you, it cannot prevail. In other words, you're going to be around it, but you're not going to be in it. To be in it means you're vile to be around it, means it's happening around you. People are like that around you. But all of this gates, this power, this perversion, this wickedness, this evil, this, this murder, all of this hell, literally, that's why he called it the gates of Hell cannot prevail, cannot touch you. You're around, it can't touch you. Accidents can't touch you. Sickness can't touch you. Demonized people can't touch you. Unfair things at work can't touch you. Everything that you can think that would be dark, it's going to be around you. They were right there. It's going to be around you. Guys. I bought you all the way. 80km. They walked for four days to go on a field trip. It's the very northernmost point in Israel. It's in the current Golden Heights, right on the border of Lebanon. He went all the way from Galilee, 80km, walked up there for four days on a field trip simply to give them a living example. He could have said it in Galilee, but he wanted them to see. Not that Jesus wants us to see bad things, but he wanted them to see. You see the orgies, you see the human sacrifice, you see the vileness, you see the darkness. This is the gates of hell, boys. This is as bad as it gets. But because of Revelation, because you're born again. They're going to be. They're not then, but they're going to be. Because you're going to be born again because you're in the church. First time church is mentioned as a scripture. Because you're in the church. All of this, you're around it, you can see it and feel it, can't touch You. Why? Because at that point they didn't understand. But later on, Paul explains. We're seated and raised above all of this nonsense. But the first thing he talked to them about after being born again, the first thing wasn't the love walk, wasn't tithing. The first thing he said, when you're born again and in the church. Dominion, gates of hell, sin, perversion, murder, danger. Hell cannot touch you. Why? Why now? Don't just end it there. Because if you ended there, you haven't seen the full picture. He didn't finish speaking with just saying, it won't, it won't. It won't prevail against the church. What else did he say? Verse 19. And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. The keys gives you entrance. And whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound. And whatsoever you loose in earth shall be loosed. So he says, it can't touch you. But then he says, I give you the keys. If you want entrance into this life of the gates of hell, not touching you, you've got to speak. Are you with me? Listen closely. If you want entrance into this life of the gates of Hell, can't touch me, you've got to bind and loose because I give it to you. I'm not dealing with it anymore. You're dealing with it. And if you don't deal with it, it will not be dealt with. And the gates of hell will prevail against you. Cancer is part of the gates of Hell. Any form of darkness is part of the gates of Hell. And the first thing he said, when you come into the church and you're born again, can't touch you, but you've got to speak. Bind. Loose. So don't tell me. Scripturally, the very first thing we should teach a believer as soon as they get born again, other than the baptism of the Holy Spirit, the very first thing is not tithing or the love walk or forgiveness or anything. The first thing is you've got dominion. Your dominion are in your words. Hell can't touch you. Sickness can't touch you. Fear can't touch you. Salt can't touch you. Nothing in this dark, hellish world has the right to touch you. If you use your keys, if you want entrance into this life of dominion, it's all going to come by your words. And you've got to learn to bind and you've got to learn to loose. Binding simply means. A lot of people get this mixed up. It simply means to declare something unlawful or forbidden. Do you understand now, Loosing means to declare something lawful or allowed. But it means more than that. Can I just take you before we go home? It's 9:03. Just give me two more minutes. Have a look at first John. Can you go there first John 3:8. One of my favorite scriptures, maybe one of yours, but I want you to read. Does everybody. Okay, I guess you all have iPads. That's why I don't hear pages turning. Look like you were all in disobedience and rebellion for a second. First John, chapter three. He that committeth sin is of the devil. For the devil sins from the beginning. For this purpose, the Son of God was manifested that he might destroy the works the devil. Do you see that? For this purpose was the Son of God made manifest that he might destroy the works of the devil. Now, that's the reason Jesus showed up, was to destroy the devil's works, primarily sin, so that we can be born again, but including sickness and poverty and all those other things. So now I want you to. I want to read you the Greek definition of the word destroy. For this purpose, O son of God may manifest that he might destroy. That word is the Greek word loo, L, o, O, o. But it's pronounced luo, and it means to loosen, to break up, to dissolve, to melt, to put off, or to destroy. Okay, he's come. The purpose that he came is to melt, loose, dissolve, break up. What the devil's doing in people's lives. Okay, now if you go back to Matthew, chapter 16. Matthew, chapter 16. I'm doing this on my digital because it shows me the Greek Matthew 16:19, and it says whatever you bound in heaven will be bound. Whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Do you see that the word loosed is the exact same Greek word luo. Do you understand? The word loosed is the same word. Whatever you loose is the same word as he'll destroy. So it could say destroy. It could say whatever you bound will be bound. Whatever you destroy will be destroyed. Because the luo in the first John was translated in English, destroyed. But the translators translated it loosed Matthew. But really it's the exact same Greek word. So you could interchange destroyed with loosed, and you'd be absolutely accurate to do that. What is God saying? Bound. This is very simple. Bound is talking about the devil. What it means is you're saying you're stopping the devil's works. You're saying the subject matter is the devil or the sickness or the demon or whatever the darkness is. You say I bind you what that means is I stop you, I limit you, I forbid you to operate. But the subject is the enemy or the sickness or whatever. But it's just think whatever is the enemy. That's what you're talking. But now when you say loose, a lot of people say this about angels, not about angels at all. Angels have got nothing to do with this. You don't loose angels, you command them, charge them. But. But you don't loose them from this scripture. That's not what this scripture is. What this scripture is is what once you've told the devil. No you don't in your life or the life of somebody else. Now you follow that up with a loosing or a destroying meaning. I now have told you to stop, but I now use my dominion to take this person, myself or somebody else that is under this problem that is facing this darkness. I've spoken to the devil to tell him he stopped. But now the subject matter is the person. Do you understand? The loose subject matter is an individual. It's not the devil. Are you following me? So when you speak to binding, you're dealing with the thing, the enemy, the darkness, the demon, the sickness, whatever it is. That's you're saying you are forbidden. But now when you loose, you're not dealing with the devil anymore. You're dealing with a person. When you're dealing, it could be you Goggin, or it could be my own life, or it could be my child. But I'm not dealing with the enemy. The word loose is talking about. I am using my dominion to set a person free from the assault of the enemy. So I'm saying enemy you're bound. But I'm not talking to you, I'm talking to the enemy. And I'm saying now I loose you, I set you free from the attacks of the enemy, from these things that are affecting you, from the enemy. And then healing power flows, delivering power flows. Whatever power is needed to help that individual person. That's what it means to lose. And you need to have dominion over the enemy. But you also need to have dominion in that name to say now I set you free. Remember when Jesus said woman thou art loosed? I mean that wasn't from TD Jakes. He stole it from the Bible. Okay, when it says woman thou art loosed, he was setting her free from that demon that was oppressing her. But he was doing First John 3, 8 and he was doing Luo and he was doing Matthew 16:19. It's all the same thing. You deal with the devil, but now you're dealing with the person to set them free of those effects of the devil. So when you pray for somebody, you're losing them, you're loosing them from the enemy. Now you can speak to the cancer, that's binding. But when you speak to the person that's loosing, I set you free. The healing power of God is flowing into you right now and you are being totally set free from this attack of the enemy. Loosing is the person, binding is the enemy. Do you understand? Loosing is not an angel, loosing is a person. Sometimes you'll hear me, I'll say I command you to leave this person or I bind this thing. And then I'll say I switch in my mind, I'm talking to the devil, I'm talking to the sickness, now I'm talking to the person. I say I loose you in Jesus name. I am loosing them from that problem. By the anointing, by my dominion, because I'm high above, I have a right to set them free because Jesus told me to do it. Amen. But both of those is your dominion, you got to understand that. So just think, when you're binding, you're talking about the enemy. When you're loosing, you're helping a person. Hallelujah. That'll help you as you're ministering to people, as you're praying for people. And you don't have to say now listen, buy the water cooler. Now listen, I'm going to talk to the devil for a few minutes now, but then I'm going to talk to you. And they're thinking what kind of a freak is this? Let me out of here. And they're going to run away. You don't have to explain yourself, you just say now. And you don't have to say devil or Satan or demon or come up with a Beelzebub acronym or something just if they're in fear, if their child, let's say, is struggling with nightmares, what do you think that is? That's fear. There's a spirit there. You just say father, in the name of Jesus, I take authority over. You could say I take authority. You could say I bind. You could say I forbid. They're all the same thing. You're dealing with the enemy. I take authority over that fear, over that evil spirit that is attacking their child. I command you to stop what you've done. You just bound. Now put your hand on their hand or on their shoulder. Father, I thank you for the power of God that goes in to set them free. From that torment, you've just loosed them. You're dealing with the person, you should be dealing with this. If you're ministering to people, you should be binding and loosing and understand what that means on a regular basis. And it works for your life, not just for somebody else's life. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. There's a bloodline around your home. Nothing can cross it. No thief, no. No abuser, no home invader. This is happening more and more people are having home invasions. Not on my property. Because of my dominion. My dominion keeps those devils out. I mean devils and devils and people keeps them both out. My angels. That's why when we talk about the overwhelming power that I talked about all those eight categories, you've got to meditate on this. This has got to be real to you. If you do, you will just rise above and you'll just. You'll just be flying high over all this mess and nonsense happening in other people's lives. You'll just be cruising at altitude with Jesus. Why does nothing ever bad happen to you? Because I know more than you. Not to be arrogant, but I know God. You don't. Well, can I know God? Yes. Come to promise of life. Do I have to give? What I want is your money. No, don't give. Please don't give. We don't want your money. Keep your money. If you ever give, it's because God chose you to give. It's not because we're pressuring you to give. Make sure you say that to people. Because people got this weird notion that pastors only want money. Do you understand? But now let's take the offering. Because I want your money. I don't want it. Jesus wants it. Hallelujah Father. Bless them. Thank you for. Thank you for helping me forget my notes. Thank you for helping them. Just talking from my heart, Lord. Not an official sermon, not an organized delivery, just thoughts from my heart. But Lord, if I could say one thing you've been dealing with me about is son, you better meditate more. You better get this so secure on the inside of you. Because I expect, I expect you to walk high and above every one of these situations that these other poor folk are having to endure. Because of my dominion and because of my being led by the Spirit, I can live the good life. I thank you Father. Let this resonate in them. In Jesus name. Let them have more opportunities. If they want it, Father. If they want it. Let them have the thrill of more opportunities to pray for people that are being bound of the devil. And to bind and forbid that devil or that attack, whatever form it shows up in, and to set that person free from those effects and let that healing and delivering power flow from their hands into that individual. There are so many hurting people out there. And we have the answer. Lord, let us work this. In Jesus precious name, I pray and I thank you. Amen.