Cuffed to Comfort // Cuffing Season (Part 2) // Michael Todd

well welcome

to week two

of a series we’re calling cuffing season

let’s give god some praise right there

yo i’m excited for today’s message

because this series

is about the things that we love

that don’t love us back

and the truth of the matter is this

series takes a lot of self-awareness

as well

as a lot of humility

and the reason i’m gonna be doing this

series for probably the next eight to

ten weeks

is because it’s gonna be about week four

before some of y’all even think this

series is for you

the truth of the matter is many of you

come to church and you’ll be thinking

about how this applies to everybody in

your life except you but on this

mother’s day i need everybody to take

inventory of your own life

what are the things that you love

that do not love you back

last week we looked at a bunch of things

in the life of samson

where he laid his life in the lap of

something that did not love him back

and that decision

ended up taking his not just vision but

it ended up costing him his everybody

say life

and the thing i like about this series

is it’s a disguise deliverance series

see some of y’all don’t know that word

is too it’s too old and churchy for you

but but but god does desires to deliver

you out of everything that has had you

cuffed

he desires it’s his mo all through the

word like he goes on and goes in and

finds people who are chained broken lost

slaves and he tries to free them into

something that is greater than anything

they ever experienced before god wants

to deliver you i don’t know if you

haven’t heard it because people want you

to feel good in 2022 but deliverance is

still right

god loves you too much

to leave you

but he loves you too much

to leave you the same

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and that’s why it’s a conundrum to me

that after 15 years

of walking with god

you still act the same

how you had a decade with god

and nothing has changed except your

waist size

okay

you used to be little mike now you big

mike but all i’m saying to you

is maybe

the reason why the change hasn’t fully

happened is because we’re cuffed to

things

that keep us in the same pattern

and i want to let you know that god

wants you to be delivered

no no no let me tell you something about

deliverance because this is one of those

things that a lot of churches and a lot

of people think differently on but the

bible is very clear on this whole thing

and i want to let you know that um

deliverance starts with a decision

most people want a pastor or somebody to

pray for them and like oh i’ve been

delivered no no okay hold on wait

deliverance

starts with your decision to repent

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so if i’m going this way it’s not

working for me it’s not doing the thing

the pattern i’ve been in the principles

i’ve been watching the things that i’ve

been doing is not working when i repent

that is the first step

of

deliverance

and most people want to be forced

to do

what they have to choose

to do

this is why you should stop

working

praying

and toiling with people who have not

decided

you are going to work yourself into a

frustration

and take away the oil that god has given

you wasting it on somebody who still

hasn’t decided

some of y’all you’ve been dating him for

nine years

nine years of day

baby

you’re not his decision

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why why are you still going into

business with the people who won’t put

up none of their money

they have not decided

delivering i’m coming for everybody this

morning y’all just buckle up

let me say it in a point deliverance is

god’s desire but our decision

god always wants to deliver

he always wants to set you free he

always wants to pull you to another

level of faith he always wants to take

you out of that situation but

he is bound

to our

decision that’s why salvation

is a choice

he wants you to everybody say decide

ask the children of israel

it was god’s plan to deliver them out of

slavery to egypt talks to moses moses

says come and let my people go they

start moving and god’s literally telling

them the whole time the reason i’m

taking you from this place is to take

you to a promise the whole reason i sent

the frogs and the blood in the water and

the plague on the suns is to get you to

the promise

i want to take you from prison

to the promise

i want to deliver you from the pain to

the promise i want to take you from the

perversion to

the promise

so it was god’s

desire but this is the one thing i want

everybody to understand god’s plan

is always the promise

but our patterns delay deliverance

i’m gonna say it again

god’s plan his plan was to take an 11

day journey with the children of

israel out of their pain

their perversion

their their their their a prison and

bring them to a promise but it was their

patterns in the wilderness

that delayed their deliverance

this is why i’m talking to you about

what are you cuffed to

because everything the children of

israel did in the wilderness it didn’t

start there

they did it when they were in bondage

and when god took them out of bondage

they had a pattern

of how they did things

so it kept them out of the promise

and i know this is a bible story but i

can’t help but think that this looks

like so many of our lives

that god has a plan for us

and the problem is we’re being prevented

because of our everybody say patterns

god wants you to be set free from the

addiction

god wants you to be set free from all of

the past the pain he wants to deliver

you that’s what first timothy chapter 2

verse 4 says it says this is

good and pleasing in the sight of god

our savior who wants

everyone to be saved

and to come to the knowledge of the

truth or be delivered the truth is

you’re healed the truth is you’re whole

the truth is you’re healthy the truth in

god is he wants you to be helping he

wants you to be serving others but the

truth of the matter is that our patterns

have kept us in a place where we have

not reached the problem promise so watch

this write this point down i’m just

setting you up this is all framework to

get to where we’re going

deliverance

isn’t just walking out of something it’s

walking into something else

it wasn’t enough

for the children of israel to come out

of egypt

they were not delivered until they got

into the promised land

okay

it’s not enough

for you

to just not be greedy

you have to get into

being generous

it’s not enough for you to get out of

perversion

you have to be into purity

and i find that so much of the body of

christ is in this in between place

they’re cuffed to things that they used

to do back here but they’re not fully in

it like they used to be so they in this

kind of middle place

this decision play i might act like my

family but not today but when i get back

around him i’ll cut up with him but then

i’ll go you’re in this middle place and

god’s saying deliverance is not true

deliverance not just when you walk out

of something

but you got to be fully in

to what i’ve wanted for you to be in the

promise

and the reason that i keep saying this

is because when somebody is in a desert

a wilderness

a place that they don’t have a home

they’re not settled yet you know what

people are called that don’t have a home

nomads

and the reason i’m preaching this series

to you today is because i’m finding

there’s a problem it’s problematic to be

spiritually nomadic

if you haven’t found your home yet in

the promise

there’s a problem

and what i found is that this area

is literally the thing that’s killing so

many people you walked out of comparison

but you have you you you don’t compare

yourself no more to them but you still

don’t celebrate them either

how did you walk out of this thing

but you can’t fully walk into this thing

and y’all know y’all be doing it

y’all be ghosting people on instagram

and facebook

they had another baby you didn’t even

say congratulations thank you didn’t say

nothing

but you you didn’t compare like you used

to

but you haven’t walked in the

celebration yet

i’m trying to confront this whole series

i’ve amen myself 1700 times this whole

week because i don’t need your amen this

week i’m gonna keep telling you the

truth until something on the inside of

you unlocks you walked out of narcissism

but didn’t walk into humility

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and god says i want to deliver you i

don’t want to just do half of the

process

i don’t want half-baked believers

you ever put something in the oven

and then you stuck your finger in there

and it it was warm and bubbling on the

top

but it was cold and soggy in the middle

that’s what a lot of christians are

looking like today

hot on the top

cold in the core

and i’m coming to help somebody uncuff

from the things that have kept the

patterns going

that have kept you out of the promise

this literally is the definition of

being lukewarm

this is stuff people don’t talk about no

more because they don’t want to offend

nobody i want to help you transform

and the truth is the only thing that

transforms you okay so so so everybody

knows john 3 16 what’s john 3 16 y’all

for god so loved the world that he gave

his only son that whosoever believeth in

him shall not perish but have whatever

left

that’s the most famous scripture

but the second scripture that should be

the most famous is revelations 3 16.

anybody know that one

okay okay

let’s start at verse 15.

i know your deeds

you are neither cold nor hot

how i wish you were one

or the other

i wish you would completely wild out or

completely sell out to the vision i have

for you

i would rather you not walk with me so i

can have a assault of paul conversion

with you on the road of damascus or

serve me fully

because you lukewarm

you are nomadic spiritually

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you want a club over here and then

christ over here and then be faithful on

this thing but be freaky because

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because you’re lukewarm

neither hot nor cold

i’m about to vomit you out my mouth

oh my gosh y’all thought spit hits the

fan with something

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no demonstration coming for that okay

you only throw up things that are not

pleasing

if god’s going to throw something up he

said i would rather i could much more

take yeah yeah

you being fully away from me

but this

little hmm

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no today is sunday um

so i hate that crap

go somewhere with that

get out of my face with that

like i’m just trying to put it in like

regular terms like

take all that facade

and take it some i would rather you come

to me whole

and messed up

and smelling like everything

and saying i can’t do this on my own

i’d rather you go have a pig’s pen

experience prodigal son

and realize how good you have it in my

grace

but this staying in the middle

and now you got people thinking this is

how i am

all these people claiming christ

lukewarm

got people thinking well what’s the

reason

why should i even they do everything i

do they there’s no difference

and today i’m coming to confront it

and the reason i have to confront it is

because i hear uh elijah in first kings

18 21 i’m just giving y’all a lot of

bibles so we can get to where we’re

going

he literally says how much longer will

you waver

hobbling between two different opinions

if the lord be god follow him

get cuffed to him

but if baal an idol something that

culture made up this idea this american

dream if that’s what you want to be

talked to go on do it

follow that

but this little lukewarm stuff

get that out of my face

and look at the people’s response

they were completely silent

i don’t i don’t know

they didn’t have a made up mind

they didn’t have a conviction

they were actually debating

maybe i want to live for god

maybe i want to do everything my flesh

does

and some of y’all have been in this

debate

for a decade

serving on the praise team the whole

time

giving

me you feel like it

going off do you bet not touch me

i’ll beat you

turn the other cheek girl you really

should be nicer to them

how is this coming out of this

i love you but i got to tell you the

truth because at the end of the day

it’s becoming your pattern

and the reason i’m so scared for you

is because when people say practice

makes perfect

that’s not what practice makes

practice makes permanent

and some of you have been practicing the

same pattern

to where the more you keep doing it the

harder it’s going to be

to reverse that thing

that’s why people start saying stuff you

can’t teach a old dog

new trick that’s a lie

that’s that’s a lie

it’s just that they don’t want to do the

work

to change the pattern

and until you listen to god’s principles

you’re cuffed

to something that god doesn’t want for

your calling

so for you to reach the promise

today i have to confront what you are

cuffed to

and today

i’m not even going to tell you what

we’re going to confront let me just give

you the definition of cuffing season

y’all i’m about to explode

cuffing season a season where because of

loneliness and desperation you settle

for a relationship that is way beneath

your standards and that’s why god tells

us hey how you’re going to get a

different pattern is by doing romans 12

2. he says do not conform to the

patterns of this world this culture but

be transformed by the renewing of your

mind then you will be able to test and

approve what god’s will is his good

pleasing and perfect will your mind is

renewed by god’s principle i’m going to

say it every week because i need you to

know how we break the pattern the

pattern is broken by god’s principles if

you have a bad pattern go to the word of

god and i promise you there is a

principle that can break bad patterns i

don’t care how bad your parents were i

don’t care how bad that your upbringing

was god’s principles

can break bad patterns

the truth of the matter is

you will not ask

for the word of god’s opinion

on something you have not confronted

so so god’s principles always come with

parameters

he’s trying to give us

hey do this don’t do this

and then i want you to hear this god’s

parameters are made for your calling not

your comfort

are we going to talk about it

this message um

this message is really uh

it is close to

home because for the past three decades

i’ve been trying to cater my christian

life

to one word

comfort

and today

i’m coming for your comfort

you might want to turn it off

if you want to stay comfortable

because as i have gone

through the different places

moments

leadership positions of my life

what i’m fighting for is not my calling

many times why i’m doing what i’m doing

why i’m trying to climb the ladder why

i’m trying to make more money while i

want more people to see me why all the

things all the secret motivation behind

all of that

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is one word

comfort

and the problem

with me

and many of you i ain’t going to really

put you out there but i’m going to put

myself out there i have been cuffed

to comfort

and today

i gotta expose

this thing that has been coming after

the calling of god on your life

you have the ability

the availability you have the anointing

but you are too

comfortable

so let’s go

let’s be honest we’re a humble open and

transparent church how many people

love being comfortable come on hands

lifted hands lifted

okay like we want our car to be

comfortable we want our clothes to be

comfortable we want come on what else do

we want to be comfortable put it in the

temperature oh jesus if you marry you

know that’s a problem i want to

comfortable what is the most comfortable

temperature to keep at your house what

is it 71 73

68

77 70 what in the hell literally

that is hell 77

you sleeping 77 degrees

oh my gosh see

that is hell

pastor natalie

i don’t know when it happened

but she loves the temperature on

antarctica

it literally doesn’t have a number

anymore it literally just has an iceberg

but that for her

is

and the truth of the matter is none of

us want to live work

eat sleep

in anything that’s on comfortable

so we’ll go into buildings

and walk two steps in

what happened i thought we was gone it

made me

uncomfortable

you’ll join a church

and they’ll ask you to serve

but i got to be there at what time

i just worked the whole

i liked the church the pastor was good

but their requirements made me

uncomfortable

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comfort

is killing our callings

what if i told you

that comfort is not christian

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now i don’t know where you picked it up

at

i don’t know if it came from your family

or it was a trauma response that

everything was so out of control and

uncomfortable you said i’ma take control

and everything i do i’ma make it

comfortable

but when you gave your life to christ

i need to tell you something

that that idea of comfort

is not christian

when i look through the scriptures

and just a few just perusing

i see words like sacrifice die daily

carry your cross deny your flesh lay

down your life turning cheeks no that

didn’t sound right oh jesus

turning the other cheek

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bearing one another’s burdens casting

your crowns

these are

we

do you all know that the symbol of our

faith

is a crucifixion

how comfortable

do you think the cross was for jesus

yet somewhere along the way we developed

this idea

and convinced ourselves

that being christ-like

should somewhere

really transform into being completely

comfortable

that’s why you don’t share your faith

you don’t share your faith because it

makes you

uncomfortable

literally when the great

commission

to everybody whether you in the white

house or you in the trap house is to go

into all the world

and make disciples

teaching them

and you won’t even share with the person

you’ve been neighbors with for 14 years

that you believe in jesus christ because

you don’t want to make them

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the truth of the matter is comfort is

killing our callings

and if i don’t come and talk to you

about how we are all cuffed to comfort

then we will stay there thinking that we

are doing something that god has asked

us to do and comfort is not christian

when it comes to your comfort

you only have two options write this

down cause we bout to go deep and we

bout to go deep fast when it comes to

comfort you can either confront it or

cater to it

two options

either i’m gonna confront this crap that

has me comfortable and wanting to be so

cozy and comfy and have and have it how

i want it or i’m going to actually cater

to it

and set up things to make sure i stay

like that

and make sure my whole friend group

only does things that make us

comfortable

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my question is which are you doing

currently

are you confronting your comfort or are

you catering to it

silence

to cater to comfort

you got to work

and you got to work to confront it

choose your heart

the same work it takes

to drink water

and stay in the bed

is the same work

it takes

for you to get out of your bed at

midnight

with a bonnet on

in your pajamas

wearing a jacket so nobody sees if you

get cold or not

to go up to the convenience store

and to buy a pine and ice cream

chips

m m’s

and snickers bars

somebody said you ain’t my business

it took work

it robbed you of sleep

it

it took away the goal that you were

trying to set that you told everybody on

facebook that you was working for

and now it makes you be incongruent with

yourself cause the worst person not to

trust is you

and some of you can’t keep your

commitment to others

because you can’t keep your commitment

to yourself

and it’s not because you don’t want to

it’s because you’re cuffed

to comfort

it’s going to be a rough one today

and see the crazy thing about comfort is

comfort shows up every day

it don’t matter what you did yesterday

you get the option to choose to confront

your areas of comfort every single day

let me put it in a point yester

yesterday’s accomplishment doesn’t count

for today’s commitment

so because we’re cuffed to comfort

sometimes like forget this

i’m gonna do it

today i’m gonna freaking work out today

i’m gonna do it and you go in there and

you give it your good hour and a half

and you feel good about yourself and you

make it happen and you walked you did

all that other stuff and be like yes

see you tomorrow jim see you tomorrow

see you tomorrow see you tomorrow

i see you tomorrow

you walk out of there

and you pass the first fast food

restaurant

oh come on y’all

the second fast food restaurant not

today popeyes

pass the third one and just before you

hit a right to the house

the christian chicken

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that chick-fil-a i’m just gonna get a

salad

and you get that salad that cobb salad

with the chicken in it

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two packets

of avocado lime ranch i’m in your

business

not a large lemonade i get the medium

and i’m just you know i’m just saying

because it’s not bad i’m not eating

bread so i’m gonna get a medium fry

and somehow on the way home

you’ve convinced yourself because you

worked out

you deserve

oh y’all know y’all we living the same

life you deserve

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because i’m definitely going back

tomorrow

i mean this ain’t nothing if i’m gonna

just put it back in

tomorrow comes

and it go why because now when i wake up

the next morning

i’m sore

oh my god

i got a wipe but i can’t

you ain’t never really worked out if

wiping ain’t an issue

joy if you ain’t if you ain’t ever had

trouble wiping you ain’t never worked

out

if getting up don’t feel like an

exercise you ain’t never worked out

can i get some help in here come on

if you ain’t never done like oh oh oh

oh oh

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you ain’t never worked out with you

[Applause]

but what i accomplished yesterday

does not count

for today’s commitment

and many times after we do our

commitment once we then cater to our

comfort

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okay

so today i had to find somebody in the

bible

a mighty man of god

who had consistently up into this point

confronted his comfort

but then he took a season off

and he got real comfortable

and i don’t know who i’m talking to but

there’s some saints that have taken a

season off

you used to really pray

you used to really be concerned you used

to really do what you said now it’s just

all lip service there’s nothing behind

it there’s nothing in the core and god’s

saying i’m calling my church back

to live comfortably uncomfortable

i’m calling my church back

to do something even when it doesn’t

advance you

okay let me stop

second samuel chapter 11

verse 1-27 i can’t go through all of it

but i’m going to try to walk through it

because today we’re talking about david

yes shepherd boy david killing the

guitar david

david that was marked david that

defeated the bear lion and goliath see

everybody stops at his story right there

but i’m talking about the david who had

tons of victories i’m talking about the

david that went from the the pasture to

the palace and king

david i found this story in second

samuel 11

that showed me

where david after all god had done in

his life

had a season where he catered to his

comfort it says in the spring of the

year that’s a season

when kings

normally

regularly

usually

go

out

to war

david sent joab and the israelite army

to fight the ammonites they destroyed

the ammonite army they won and laid

siege to the whole city

however

david

stayed

behind

in jerusalem however

david

stayed

comfortable

however

david didn’t want to do what it took no

more

to go out and do what would win the

victory

he felt like yesterday’s accomplishments

could roll over

okay y’all remember roll over minutes

some of y’all too young for rollover

minutes

but but there used to be this thing that

you didn’t get unlimited everything and

so so so so so you have a certain amount

of limit of minutes but but if you

didn’t use them all they would roll over

to the next month and some of y’all

never talk to anybody y’all bragging i

got 5 000 minutes nobody likes you but

at the end of the day

ain’t got nothing to do with my message

here we go um

isn’t it funny that they won the war i

won the battle but david lost the war

because he catered to his com comfort

everything outside that had his name on

it was victorious

that means you can show something you’re

not actually living

late one afternoon watch this

at his midday

rest

where he should be confronting somebody

he’s resting

david got out of bed and was just

walking the rooftop

of the palace

and he looked out

over the city that god had given him and

he noticed a woman

of unusual beauty

but naked

taking a bath split splash

she was taken about

he said once someone i

arrive

do you see what thou lordest

has created

the hills and the valleys

go find out who that is

she’s bathsheba

the daughter of alien

and the wife of uriah the hittite the

conversation

should have been over

the crazy thing about being cuffed to

something is we entertain conversations

even after

there is

there was parameters already

this is her daddy this is her husband

hands off

she

beautiful god bless that brother

that’s nice for them

but god told me i can’t

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whoa

if i had an opportunity but i’m supposed

to be serving here

like if the story

should have been over

at this

moment

but he found out she was married

and this is where casual turns into

catering

remember what he was doing

it’s beautiful

he was being casual

it’s not that you’re always looking for

something

i’m not always just

but you can’t whistle you start

like

wow

seeing it wasn’t the problem

noticing it wasn’t the problem

it was a casual yeah yeah

it was catering to it

that’s like how did he cater to it look

at verse four

then david sent a messenger to get her

that’s it

i hear

all you talking about with the

parameters

but that

is going to make me comfortable

let me make provision for that

let me cater

no matter

how much i want

to do something with bathsheba

if she’s over there

and i’m over here

there is no way

that anything can actually happen

but to get her over here i gotta cater

to my comfort

she comes to the palace

and he slept with her

watch this

comfort is never casual it’s catered to

comfort is something that you love

that doesn’t love you back

i i’m tired of standing and preaching to

y’all this is exhausting

i would rather be more comfortable

preaching could somebody bring me

a chair

so that i can be comfortable as i give

the people of god the word of god

this whole standing thing who made this

up anyway

well i got a standard y’all get to see

it

my mouth is not affected by

what i’m

where my legs are

let me be more comfortable and deliver

this word to y’all

yeah

i’ll read the bible still

yeah the holy bible the paper bag huh

makes me more holy

yes god

yes

you’re a good god

this feels a little unnecessary

i know enough scripture

i’ve been studying the word for a long

time

i i know enough these young kids out

here getting platforms and doing all

this other stuff i know god

know how to pray

matter of fact let me relax more in my

faith

god said that he’s going to give us rest

thank you jesus for your comfort

there’s nobody like jehovah

yeah turn the lights back up they can’t

see me i want them to see me still

yeah i want them to see me be

comfortable

i want them to think

that serving jesus

the higher you get the less you have to

do

the man of god

don’t you ever say that to the man of

god

i have books

i have accomplishments

people know who i am

so today i want you to know

go after god

[Music]

sacrifice it all for him

give

make sure you give

because it’ll help me be

comfortable

this is what many pastors are doing all

over the u.s

they’re they’re preaching revelation

reclined

haven’t invited nobody to church

haven’t saved nobody outside the pulpit

and what that makes you start doing when

i should be going to war

when i should be confronting my pride

when i should be doing the things uh

carter

carter

carter um i need you to help me cater to

my comfort

go get me a tv and something i can

control

because if if if i can’t be in an

environment where they recognize who i

am

and what i’ve been given

i’m gonna just go to enviro i’m gonna

make up environments where i’m in

control

yeah

yeah i’m gonna make up environments

where i’m in i am in control here matter

of fact i got to control them

and this is the thing that we’re cuffed

to

like like like a lot of our issue is

that we’re trying to have control of

something and if we’re not in control

we’re not comfortable

so we will only do things that ensure

we are in control so that we can be

comfortable

and and some of us this keeps us

paralyzed i got to talk to my fellows

today

this controller is killing your calling

[Music]

[Applause]

you have more hours logged

your wife sitting there begging for you

to see her

no no no no my guys are on call of duty

they don’t want to see me in madden

and your kids don’t know you in real

life

this is comfortable

this is how you escaped when you were

12.

see it all goes back to our trauma

this is what you were good at when you

weren’t good at school

so you said i’ma put all my effort and

energy and now you’re 40 years old

and you will stay up and lose sleep

over playing a tournament on a game with

people over the internet that you can’t

see

and won’t play in a date night

[Music]

cuffed to your comfort

carter bring me some bring me some

comfortable clothes

take my shoes off

blessed are the feet

of those who provide the gospel put the

fear of god on my feet please

glory i feel more anointed even right

now

yes throw the

i don’t yeah just put it behind me i

don’t actually want it on me kind of

like a james brown vibe yeah so i can

throw it out whenever i want to

hey carter go get cake for me go get me

some cake

and bring me my foot yes thank you thank

you ah thank you carter

carter i’m glad you brought your friend

see because when i start catering

to myself and my issues

i can’t just have one person cater to me

carter’s not enough

i need cameron to cater to me too

cameron and carter

catering to me

this is cozy

this is yeah this is no this is why i’m

not going to do what they asked me to do

because i’m comfortable right now and

matter of fact

uh

what is this

is that my is that ice cream yes

wow

and yeah doritos and chips and

you know you know carter i’ve been

thinking

i i wanted to do a fast just put that

i wanted to do a fast

[Music]

but fasting

let’s carter stop moving

get on my face

[Music]

your character starts changing

[Music]

when you get too comfortable

thought about fasting

but the truth of the matter is

this is

this is good cake

who would waste

a perfectly good cake that says cuffing

season on it

been working out

and

some of y’all are thinking about this

like it’s food

there’s only there’s not just one type

of cake

the reason y’all been working so hard at

that job

is because you’re trying to get money or

cake

carter bring me money

yeah not that crap

bring me money

it starts off as a bite

oh and you bought me a little gambling

situation too okay cool

tithing

no

i’ll give my tithe to the casino

because they have a better chance

oh let me

stop this

is our christian experience

reclined

catered to

comfortable

and some of y’all don’t want the cake

but you do want the cookie

i’ma let your mind go everywhere it

wants to

what makes you comfortable

is being at somebody’s house in a bed

and then you go find somebody else and

give them yo

[Music]

and then you find somebody else in their

vulnerable moment and you take their

jesus

jesus

you can’t hear me

and the truth of the matter is

you’re now in a pattern

you don’t even want them

you bite it and spit it out

but you’re just used to

having

pieces of people

comfort

i’m just using a bunch of analogies

to ask you to confront

what have you been catering to

what have you been dibbling and dabbling

in

i don’t want people to see my real face

oh shoot

i got a little bit on me

well i might as well

i might as well

it don’t matter no more nobody sees me

it doesn’t matter

matter of fact

all this stuff is getting whack

i need some

real comfort

can you bring me something else to come

for me

what used to come from me doesn’t work

anymore

some condoms

some lotion

where’s my laptop oh here it is

now i know some christians are

uncomfortable right now

but spiritually this is what you look

like

nobody will see and these are the same

holy hands we’re going to lift tomorrow

and these the same ones we’re going to

pray for people with

and

[Music]

obama make sure and you know what now

the the the pain of being

incongruent and catering to my comfort

has me wanting to escape charles

somebody bring me something to dream

because i can’t

i can’t

actually be in this situation

and be in my right mind

so i need to make sure i got something

strong

to pop off when it gets wrong

wine never hurt anybody

jesus first miracle

he turned water into help me

it’s spiritual

not when you’re doing it for comfort

[Applause]

don’t tell me the scientific benefits

this ain’t been scientific since you

started it

it was relational

you felt bad because somebody left you

and now you’re going after something

okay i’m getting too real

here god’s saying i i have a huge

calling for you

i want you to do something that changes

the world

but you’re gonna have to get up out of

the seat of comfort

carter bring me

more

comfort

and this is what the american western

church looks like

bring me more

comfort

the scale

some weights

what the hell that’s not comfortable

[Music]

i’ma look at something that i’m that

would make me have to confront

everything

this one thing

would make me have to confront

everything i would have to get up

i would have to leave this behind

i would have to change my outfit

i would have to i would have to decide

to do something different

and many of us are sitting here with

different options available

but we ignore it because of our

comfort

why am i going so slow in this why why

am i taking all of this time why am i

sitting here messed up my mother’s day

suit

because it actually doesn’t matter

what you’re being comforted by

i want you to know it’s killing your

calling

the whole time that i’m sitting here

the whole thing that i’m losing

is the opportunity to actually be

impactful on what god asked me to do

and i let myself be susceptible to

things that can literally take my life

away

ask david

at the time when he should have been out

confronting things

he was sitting in the recliner of the

revelation that he already had

saying

i’ll be fine and that’s when he found

delilah

now let me let me teach

y’all stay right here

i mean uh delilah but she but that’s

what he found

let me stay right here

and now i got to come up here and preach

to y’all

and now i need to try to cover up what

i’ve been through

hopefully hopefully they can’t see

hopefully

let me get back in my spot

glory to god

second samuel chapter 11 verse four

she had completed her

purification rights after having her

menstrual period then uh

she returned home

later when bathsheba discovered that she

was pregnant

we only did it once

we only catered to the comfort one one

time

hold on

when i cater to my comfort one time we

can conceive

this wasn’t supposed to

i didn’t want no consequence i just

wanted to be comfortable

yeah

but my comfort has now made me conceive

something

that i have responsibility for it

literally says oh my gosh

when bathsheba discovered that she was

pregnant she sent

david

a text message in my mind

david what’s up girl how you like it

i’m pregnant

by who

like you wasn’t there

like you didn’t cater to this

right at the point catering to comfort

always comes with consequences

if i stay there

brother delano for the next 30 days

and preach and eat

and eat and preach

and

and eat and preach and be in control and

do this i am going to blow

up

no amount of prayer

can take away what is the consequence of

my pattern

i cannot pray away what i’ve already

decided is my pattern

so if your pattern is blowing up and get

angry

nobody can pray that away

if you’ve already decided don’t push me

to this limit

i’m gonna ex like nobody

and god is saying to all of us

that when you conceive something out of

your comfort

then you start the great cover-up

goes all the way back to the garden

what was the first thing adam and eve

did

after they gave in to their comfort

they became designers

fashion first fashion designers adam and

eve

oh shoot

let me cover up why would you cover up

to a god who saw it anyway

accept the guilt and the shame

that comes from catering to your comfort

do you know the fact is that adam and

eve weren’t hungry

they had food to eat

this would have been a completely

different situation if they were

starving and the only thing to eat

was on the tree

of the knowledge of good and evil they

had an entire forest of fruit

but they wanted to cater to their

comfort

and this is where this story goes

downhill quick second samuel 11 6 then

david

sent word to joab send me uriah the

hittite that’s that’s about she is

bathsheba’s husband because he’s trying

to cover it up now so joab sent him to

david he comes back in woo yeah yeah

yeah oh king i honor you i serve you i

love you not knowing

that the king’s comfort

had already violated his covenant

[Applause]

he’s serving something

that wasn’t even set up to protect him

okay let me stop

when your writer arrived david asked him

how’s everything going out there are we

doing good verse eight then he told you

alright man

go home and get comfortable

go home and

relax

do what i’ve been doing

you were out at war

but i called you back in

so you could do what i was doing go

relax

david even sent him a care package

after he left the palace point comfort

always wants company

so his cover-up

was to get uriah to come back quickly

and sleep

with bathsheba so when the baby comes

it will be able to be covered up because

of the time period that it happened in

watch this

verse 9 but uriah didn’t go home

he was called

he slept that night at the palace

entrance with the king’s palace guard

when david heard that uriah had not gone

home he summoned him and asked hey bro

what’s the matter your wife is at home

she beautiful i know by experience why

didn’t you go home last night after

being away so long uriah replied the ark

and the armies of israel

and judah are living in 10th

and joab and my master’s men are camping

on the battlefield they actually out

there doing the work

they confronting stuff how could i go

home

to whine and dine and sleep with my wife

i’m called

how am i gonna cater to my comfort yeah

with this great of a calling on my life

there’s a mission at hand

and i’m about to just sit here and do

what i my flesh wants

i’m too cold

and i’m too committed

to cater to my comfort

uh i feel this

i swear that i would never do such a

thing

being committed to your calling makes

you deny your comfort

the reason

that many of us

will never deny what’s comfortable the

reason why you won’t go to the gym the

reason why you won’t go into that bible

study class the reason why you will not

submit yourself to authority let

somebody know what’s going on the reason

why you won’t go to counseling is

because you have not fully committed to

your calling

when you when you realize it’s above me

now

there’s certain stuff can i tell you

about my my fitness journey for the past

year i’ve been on a journey to to get in

shape and get healthy

and what ended up happening was god told

me in a time of prayer he said michael

i’m only going to bless transformation

church to the level your body can take

it

so you want to sit up all night and eat

french fries and wing stop and do all

the different things that you love

that’s comfortable

there is nothing more comfortable to me

than after a great sunday

and god moved and people powerful and

all this other stuff that me going home

me and my wife connecting in our

covenant

me getting some cookies and cream ice

cream

and eating some wings stopping watching

the game and falling asleep with some

ranch

dribbling

there’s there’s no

i haven’t done that in over a year in

that sequence now watch

it’s not because i didn’t want to

it’s because the calling i’m connected

to

is so much greater

than my comfort

and if you’ve been stuck in a

comfortable situation i have a question

what calling are you connected to

what has god called you to do now it’s

not just making money

it’s not just being successful

and i’m asking you because everybody

sitting in here conviction is falling on

your heart right now

because there is something that is

comfortable to you that you know is not

god’s best for your calling

and the truth of the matter is being

committed

to your calling makes you deny it

the reason why i haven’t had cookies and

cream ice cream is not because i don’t

want it i want it every

day daily i want it

but daily i deny it

the church has been

been in a place where we almost try to

just tell you like the desire is bad

the desire is not bad

the decision after the desire

this is where i’m coming to help uncuff

you

there will not be a day

that i don’t desire things that go

against my calling

i know nobody’s going to tell you this

there will never be a day

that i won’t be interested in what

pornography could look like

i’m a human being

and if i

am curious about something

that i don’t deny myself access to i

will cater to that comfort

and it will forfeit my calling

you want to hear about jesus i don’t

care if you’ve been married 40 years

there’s no way that could happen to me

i don’t care how much money you make

money don’t make me i make the money

all these mantras

don’t change your patterns

if you don’t submit the thing to the

calling of god that’s why the safest

place you could be successful is in

community

in the house of god

serving other people making sure you’re

not catering to your comfort some of

y’all money would be the worst thing

that ever happened to you

because if you could do everything you

want to do when you want to do it

you wouldn’t even serve god

let me stop

second samuel verse 11.

he says well stay here today david told

him he’s talking to uriah and tomorrow

you may return to the army because

you’re really called to this i guess i

guess you’re really going to live a

christian life i guess you’re really

going to live in integrity

so uriah stayed in jerusalem that day

and the next then david invited him to

dinner

and tried to get him drunk

but even then he couldn’t get uriah to

go home to his wife

again he slept at the palace entrance

with the king’s palace guard

this story

begins to really break my heart because

this is the same david

it’s

it honestly sobers me

because this is the same david that

stood in front of the whole

army of israel and said today

i’m gonna have your head

and god’s gonna give it to me

it’s the same one that on major

platforms was used by god

and now he’s planning somebody else’s

assassination

didn’t know

so since he was going back to the front

lines you can read it

he calls the captain and says go ahead

and put uriah on the front line

so that we can

assure that he gets killed

it happens

he causes pain to the thing that brings

him comfort

wait a minute

he was so selfish

in his comfortability

that bathsheba the thing that brought

him comfort

he’s going to cause her to suffer

so that he doesn’t suffer the

consequences of what he decided to cater

to

do you know how many people are getting

hurt

not because something happened to them

but because somebody else is trying to

cater to their comfort

and you’re hurting other people

by the way

verse 26 when uriah’s wife

heard that her husband was dead

she mourned for him

when the period of mourning was over

david don’t do it

david no

you sent for her

right after she mourned

david sent for her and brought her to

the palace

and she became one of one one of the

things that comforted him

not the thing that comforted him

one of the many things

that comforted him

then she gave birth to a son

this is the scariest part of this whole

thing

but the lord

was displeased

with david with what david had done

catering to your comfort kills things

that were supposed to live

uriah was never supposed to die

but but because david catered to his

comfort

instead of confronting his comfort

uriah dies

nobody talks about this

but bathsheba becomes a side chick

she had somebody’s full attention

[Music]

godly

she had somebody’s it’s kind of like

when y’all

be on these dating apps

and in people’s dms

and i got to see who’s out here can you

put somebody on the screen for me

because i want to be comforted

put one of these girls on the screen so

i can

relax in my religion

danny

27 miami florida

long walks on the beach

and i’m looking for

what you looking for danny

let me play with danny for a while

let me make her insecure

let me make her question her calling let

me act like i’m gonna marry her because

it makes me feel better about myself

but then let me actually be

talking to somebody else go to the next

person please swipe

i said swipe iphone

lilly oh she cute

paris france i like them internationals

currently getting the nba abroad we

could travel together oh this is good

cause i can because i can’t see her

in person

so we can start this long distance thing

and i’m going to make people

become my comfort go to the next one

though because i’m kind of bored with

that right now i want to go yes sarah

i like sarah she down for whatever

tokyo japan i love netflix and chill so

do i

one of the many

i’m just putting it this plain cause

some of y’all like i’m in a relationship

i’m married i’m it don’t have to be

girls

it don’t have to be food

i’m just asking you

what

are you catering to right now

that is going to kill your calling

i’ve had to confront this in my own life

for the past five years to a point where

it’s almost one of those things where

god doesn’t let me be comfortable too

long

because if i get in that pattern

i’m a recline on the thing that god’s

called me to do

and i’m just telling you right now some

of y’all not gonna come back for the

rest of the series but a bunch more

y’all are gonna actually get free

because today

[Applause]

i i literally didn’t even get through

half my notes because it’s going to take

two weeks i’m coming back next week

charlie and i got to finish this

because i got to tell you and teach you

how to confront it

this week i need you to call it out

that’s it

this week i don’t care how saved you

think you are

many of you are participating in a

ritual but you’re not spiritual

oh that’s

nasty

it’s a ritual of this stuff

but you’ve been up here this whole time

while i’ve been speaking you’ve been

judging everything that i’m saying

and god use god’s saying right now

you’re so comfortable that you think you

sit in the seat of judgment

your comfort

is killing your calling

this week i need you to

evaluate what have you been eating on

what have you been devouring

what have you been allowing to cover you

what have you been entertaining

and what have you been entertained by

that is only

for comfort

god is asking you to sacrifice it

pastor mike what i mean why

because until

you sacrifice

everything

that has made you comfortable in this

season

you will never be able to walk fully

into the promise that god has for you in

the next season

david

literally compromises everything that

god wants to do with him

but i love the story of david because at

the end of his life god literally calls

him a man

after

his own heart how in the world could i

be in this level of comfort but then at

the end of my life be known

for being a man or a woman after god’s

own heart this is encouragement for all

of us

though no matter how comfortable you’ve

been in the things that have been

killing your calling it’s not too late

for deliverance

what did i say the first step of

deliverance was repenting

turning

and david would come to god and say god

i’m sorry

i messed this thing all the way up

forgive me give me another opportunity

see what i found is comfort

it sounds good

and it sells good

i ask you in the front how many people

love being comfortable

and everybody raise their hand the truth

of the matter is i’ve lost 50 pounds

and not one amen thank you and not one

day of working out

was comfortable

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not one there was not one

chicken

and green bean meal

that was more appetizing

dirty chinese food

i love me some dirty chinese food the

egg rolls wontons the whole not one time

it never was better

to me

but it was better

for me

see comfort

last point

is a counterfeit

and it appears cheap

but it cost everything

[Music]

your comfort seems so easy

but that thing is costing you

everything

mom come here real quick somebody help

my mom up here hey can you bring me out

uh that little little box i got real

quick yeah help her up come with the

come with the quickness god bless you

thank you oh

thank you so much carter the thing about

carter

is he he caters to whatever i

concentrate on

so so so when i concentrate on moving

into a level of generosity

carter helped me do that

the people around you the things around

you should help cater to

the things that are clearly

like christ

today’s mother’s day

and i wanted to give you something okay

now i’ve never been able to give you one

of these now the truth of the matter

i’ve had this box before

and inside of a box that looked just

like this

was something that was a counterfeit

now i don’t know about you some of y’all

carrying them today is okay no shame in

the

game but the thing about something like

this is it can be cheaply replicated

and it’s not until you open the contents

that you see what could be cheaply

replicated

is actually something that cost me

everything

today i want to give you your mother’s

day gift and i want you to open up here

because i don’t want too many haters but

what i’m telling you

is what was in here i could have cheaply

[Music]

i could have settled for the comfortable

version

of this and it would have been like it’s

the thought that counts

[Music]

today god’s saying i want your calling

to cost you something

i want i want

i want you to have to work for this

thing that

i don’t want i don’t want you to i don’t

want you to come cheaply

to what i’ve asked for you to do

i want your calling to cost you

something when i give my mama this gift

it it cost me

it cost me something

but do you know how worth it it is

to stand up and call my mama blessed

and to honor you for all the years and

the service and the prayers and

everything you’ve done for me and my

brothers and my family and all of the

things that you have sacrificed

[Applause]

so happy mother’s day

you can go in there you know i love you

thank you

see when i release this

it’s me walking in my calling

cause it cost me my comfort

today

i’m asking you

what are you standing by that cost you

if there’s nothing in your life that

cost you anything

maybe you’re too stuck in your comfort

and today if anybody is stuck in their

comfort i want to pray for you there’s a

way out

that’s what i’m going to ask right now

if you’re stuck in your comfort in any

area of your life

i want you to be bold and i want you to

get comfortably

uncomfortable and i need you to stand up

right now all over i don’t care if

you’re watching this on rebroadcast i

don’t care if you’re watching this there

are people all over the world standing

up in your living room in the cubicle

some of y’all gonna pull over the car

right now and you’re gonna get out and

you’re gonna stand up this is a sign of

being comfortably uncomfortable as a

believer we’re going to have to live

comfortably uncomfortable

i’m gonna pray for you today oh i feel

the presence of god

our comfort has been killing us

but today we’re coming uncuffed from

this thing i feel the presence of god i

know this was a lot but i needed to

paint a picture for you to see that no

longer

will we be lulled to sleep

by the things that comfort uh see okay

the thing about this position that i was

in in this recliner

it’s the easiest position to go to sleep

in

when i’m active

it’s hard for me i don’t know how many

people can go to sleep standing up

or fighting but it’s hard to go to sleep

like that

but when you’re in those positions of

comfortability

it’s very easy to go to sleep and i’m

just saying that

in a lot of areas in this world our

church is asleep

and i’m just saying i think maybe the

reason is because we’ve been cuffed to

comfort

wake up

and see that your calling

is worth the sacrifice

[Music]

first corinthians 9 24 says so don’t you

realize that in a race everyone runs

but one person gets the prize so run to

win

all athletes are disciplined in their

training they’re all uncomfortable when

they’re training

they do it

for a reason to win the prize that will

fade away but we do this we live

uncomfortable we become disciplined ones

or disciples for an internal

prize

so i run

with purpose in every step

i’m not just shadow boxing this ain’t no

game

i discipline my body i stay

uncomfortable in these situations like

an athlete training it to do what it

should

otherwise

i fear that after preaching to others

i myself

might be disqualified

hands lifted today here we are god

and we’re gonna choose

not to cater to our comfort another week

but we’re choosing to confront it and

god we’re coming humbly and saying we

need your help come on right now if

anybody needs this help i need you to

say god i need your help i need your

help to be able to talk different i need

your help to be able to say no to things

that taste good to me but are bad for me

god i need your help father god to walk

out of relationships father god that i

know are killing my calling i need your

help father god somebody right now i i

don’t know what it is for you but i need

you to pray god i need your help i need

your help to stay disciplined i need

your help father to live pure i need

your help father god to forgive i need

your help father god i need your help

and the parts of me father that wants to

rest

when i should be at war

god i thank you that you would reignite

stir up the gifts on the inside of me

stir up the gifts on the inside of your

children

father this week bring to our mind the

areas that we have not actually been

active in realizing we just gotten too

comfortable

father god forgive us whether we’ve used

money or success or our age or our

accomplishments to recline on the

amazing calling that you’ve given us

today we come uncuffed from comfort

god today we commit and submit to you

and we ask you to do a work in us new

and afresh

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that’s our desire god

make us live

teach us how to live teach us how to

love comfortably uncomfortable something

is happening right now somebody’s mind

is changing it’s changing your

perspective of being comfortable is

changing father let

our love for comfort

that hasn’t been loving us back

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let it die today

and let us get a new desire god

and let it be you

you are our desire god

who i feel the presence of god right now

god is doing something right now

yeah

comfort no longer is the goal our

calling is the goal whatever i got to do

to reach my calling whatever i have to

do to actually be who you’ve created me

to be god

because you are my

desire somebody say oh

oh

oh

i said you were mighty come on this is

why we’re worshiping just take a moment

and ask the holy spirit what he’s saying

to you

god we want to do

and be

cuffed only to you god

we’re uncuffing from comfort god

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you are mine

come on just take a moment lift your

hands and just talk to god

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because i want what you want for my life

god

don’t want comfortability to kill my

calling another day god

i want i want your desires to be my

desires god

so you are my desire today god

not

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everybody says

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god’s

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i want to be

everything

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many of us have desired comfort

but we’re changing that today

we’re gonna desire our calling

not just walking out

of

one lifestyle we’re gonna walk into the

promise that god has for our life

does anybody believe that i’m not just

walking out of something i’m gonna walk

fully into what god has for me

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so i say oh

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not comfort anymore just somebody say

say yo

but i want the calling that you have for

my life oh my god

we’re going to lift this thing out

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all right cool

so this week we’re leaving with the

practical application we’re ending

service a little differently

i need you to physically write down

six areas that you have gotten

comfortable

and you know it’s killing your calling

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and all week

we’re gonna pray every day

that god

would uncuff us

from that area of comfort

now the truth of the matter is

statistics say

only three out of ten of y’all are gonna

do this

and that’s fine with me

but it might cost you

your calling

if we don’t take time and make margin

to deal

with the things that have

come to actually hinder us

that’s why i said this series really

should be called therapy and theology

like we’re doing both of those this week

you gotta you gotta go back and do this

work

i can i can present it to you

but now you and the holy spirit

got to go to work

he’s the comforter

wow

hold on

never thought about it before

that out of everything

that the holy spirit could be called

he’s called

the

the comforter

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so it’s not that i can’t be cuffed to

comfort

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i have to be cut to the comforter oh my

god

when i am tough to the comforter

whatever he gives me is real peace

whatever he gives me is real joy you

know the fruits of the spirit love joy

peace pace everything i’m trying to be

comforted by is a counterfeit version of

what the comforter actually gives

if you’re tired of getting the cheap

replica

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don’t settle for comfort

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cuff yourself to the comforter

and he’s gonna help

lead you and guide you into all

everybody say truth

this week six things

six things that you have

been comforted by that you know are

killing your calling

food

people write their names down

do wayne is a person of comfort

i don’t all know the way but

like like

write it down

close

shopping

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arguing fighting

i don’t know what it is for you

oh being perfect

never making a mistake

i’m just giving you just a couple of

things some of y’all not gonna have six

you’re gonna have 60.

but how good resheena for us to start

digging up

the things that the enemy thought were

going to stay on the inside of us

forever and we were going to repeat the

pattern but i declare there’s a

generational curse-breaking anointing in

this series for deliverance it’s not

gonna hit my kids it’s not gonna keep

going down i’m gonna deal with

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so i’m uncuffing

from comfort and next week you cannot

miss it because i’m actually going to

give you the practical tools that god

has made for us to confront it and

actually have victory and i’m telling

you this message without next week’s

message it’s incomplete because you’re

just gonna be in the in the limbo again

i’m gonna give you the tools but god

cannot heal what you won’t reveal

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so i need at least how many

okay

for some of you

you’re saying pastor mike

i’ve been so distracted

today by the stains on your shirt

i just really cannot move past

the stains

and you’re just ministering and just

acting like you don’t see

the stains

and those stains are actually the thing

that

i notice most about you see the crazy

thing

is that these stains

is actually a representation

of what my soul and my spirit look like

when i came to this earth and all the

experience that i had all of those

experiences in the chair those were real

life experience for me i was raggedy

stained up

but god

sent his son jesus

to even when it looks like i have a

stain on me

he don’t see me

he sees his son because by faith

everybody shout at me by faith

i’ve received his son jesus

the spotless land

the one who has literally erased the

sins of the world

but you don’t get seen like that you

everybody sees this until you accept

them

and today i don’t know i just feel like

some people

they look like spiritually what i look

like publicly

like you’re walking around trying to

cover up

you don’t wanna how you doing i’m good

everything’s fine just want to make sure

you don’t see that i’m really struggling

i’m really hurt

i really have pain

and god’s saying would you not just

expose it just

take off like don’t even like

just just actually like highlight it

point at it

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i’m a liar

i like having sex with people unmarried

it makes the void of my heart of not

having a father feel better

like let’s

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let’s just put it

this thing came because i was molested

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i

i hurt people because i’m really hurting

jesus says

i want that

i want to clean that

i want to heal that

and if you’re listening i feel the

prayer i need the church to begin to

pray i feel the presence of god right

now

somebody is literally sitting here

trying to hide what god wants to heal

and today

you have an opportunity to give your

life to the only one who can clean you

up

and i even feel this there are some

people in ministry

i see i feel this so strong right now

there are pastors leaders youth leaders

praise and worship like it would almost

be

uncomfortable

to admit that you’re struggling with

these things

but god is saying to you today could you

just come clean

so that i can clean

if you want to accept jesus christ as

your personal lord and savior or

recommit your life

to jesus today on the count of three i’m

gonna ask you to raise your hand and i

want you to do it i want you to be a

little uncomfortable i want somebody to

look at you because this is what the

christian life is going to be

comfortably uncomfortable we are

unashamed of the gospel of jesus christ

because it is the power of salvation

it doesn’t matter

what nobody else thinks as long as i

know what he thinks about me

so today

if you want to take your stains

and you want to give them to the master

on the count of three just say pastor

include me in that prayer and i believe

there’s hundreds if not thousands of

people who are about to make this

decision

to walk into a new relationship with god

one you’re making the greatest decision

of your life two i’m proud of you but

more than that god is going to write

your name in the lamb’s book of life for

all of eternity three shoot your hand up

all over the world i see you

i see you i see you can we give god

praise right now glory to god

glory to

god you can put your hands down so i

know in a lot of churches they want you

to come to the front and confess

everything that you did we ain’t got

time for all that cause you ratchet

we don’t have time for all that

but the bible does say

that you got to find somebody

to to to confess to pray and then

there’s healing that comes

but that thing only can happen when

you’ve accepted jesus everybody say

jesus that’s the reason why we’re here

that’s the that’s the god that we serve

and today

he wants to come in and help you

uncuff from comfort

uncuff from control

uncuff from all of those things that

have made you critical

he wants to be cuffed to you cuffed to

christ

now transformation church nobody prays

alone here we all pray together for the

benefit of those coming to christ and

they are making the greatest decision

ever so with faith can we all say this

together together god

thank you

for sending jesus

for all my stains

today

i’m deciding

to live a whole life

you can have all of me

i believe you lived you died

and you rose again

with all power

just for me

and i give you my life

take over

change me

clean me

renew me transform me

i’m yours

in jesus name

amen hey can we give god oh y’all better

come on for all of those who are coming

to a loving relationship with jesus

christ hallelujah

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man i’m so proud of you

so proud of you and i want to let you

know we want to walk with you

if you just gave your life to christ i

feel the presence of god in this place

you just gave your life to christ i want

you to text the number on the screen

and we’re going to send you some

resources and we’re going to help you we

have a team that’s going to help you and

walk with you and connect with you and

i’m just asking you everybody that’s

watching

go back and watch last week’s message

and then watch this message twice this

week

what i found out about counseling

is that the depth of counseling is not

in new realities

it’s in going over the things slower

that you’ve already gone through

and i found that it speak to me

different it hit a little different how

the young people say

it hit different

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when you just take your time through

this week let god reveal

write down your sixth thing some of

y’all gonna write your six things down

it’s gonna be like you know what i need

to do something

i got nine

team

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and all i’m saying is

i just wanna walk through this series

osb i wanna walk through it with margin

let’s give god space

to change us from the inside out is that

all right i said is that all right

thank you

god thank you god thank you god thank

you god thank you god

thank you for being evident

in every one of our services

there are a lot of people that gathered

today and you weren’t there

but god i thank you that every time we

meet here with humble hearts

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you meet us here

thank you for doing it again

bless all the mothers and their families

god thank you just for

just a lot of great memories father god

and i thank you that this week

we would confront our comfort oh god

that means i got to go to the gym on

tuesday

my god my calling is worth so much more

so god i’m committed somebody say i’m

committed

come on say one more time i’m committed

god we give you glory honor and praise

in jesus name

until next week i want you to go out

and live

a transformed life happy mother’s day

everybody i love you

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