Are you fit to finish what God has called you to do? In Week 4 of the Start Sharp Series, Pastor Mike preached a word that is 7 years in the making. As he shared his fitness journey, he made the connection of how it was truly a journey of spiritual growth as well. God has a plan and purpose for each one of us, and we will only be able to fulfill it to the level our body can take it. God wants us to have a healthy heart – spiritually and physically. We pray this message causes you to get your heart aligned with God’s will for you in every aspect. Stay tuned for our upcoming walking challenge – a practical step towards staying sharp all year long! Scripture References: 1 Samuel 16:7 NIV Romans 12:1 NIV Romans 12:2 NIV 1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NIV Hebrews 12:11 NLT 1 Corinthians 9:24-27 NIV Join Transformation Church for our live Sunday experience. Plug into community, engage in live worship with Transformation Worship, & hear a powerful word from God. #StartSharp #FitToFinish #fitness 00:00 – Intro 09:11 – Are you fit to finish what God has called you to do? 13:25 – This is not about superficial desire. This is about supernatural discipline 20:11 – 1 Samuel chapter 16 verse 7 NIV 23:20 – Health is all about your heart 35:45 – People should be able to look at every area of your life and see God 36:49 – Romans chapter 12 verse 1 NIV 38:51 – God will never ask you to do something He hasn’t equipped you to do 38:59 – Romans chapter 12 verse 2 NIV 39:29 – Your body is borrowed 39:52 – 1 Corinthians chapter 6 verses 19 & 20 NIV 49:05 – God is way more concerned with your body than a building 51:44 – It takes time to change your temple 51:51 – Hebrews chapter 12 verse 11 NLT 55:51 – Fitness is an act of faith 56:07 – 1 Corinthians chapter 9 verses 24 through 27 NIV ABOUT US We Exist to REPRESENT God to the lost & found for Transformation in Christ. This is the vision of Transformation Church, led by Pastor Michael Todd and based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. NEXT STEPS Have you made the decision to follow Jesus? Fill out the form below so we can help you on your journey toward Transformation in Christ: http://transformchurch.us/saved
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hi my name is Amberly and I have the
privilege of serving as one of our
executive pastors here at Transformation
Church we just want to say thank you so
much for tuning in from wherever you are
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be sure to like And subscribe we believe
that God has a word for you so let’s
jump into this amazing message I have a
word today um that I believe is going to
change the trajectory of our church and
I say that all the time but I believe it
all the time yeah I don’t be up here
just saying stuff to to like help people
like feel better about themselves I want
us to actually live something there are
tons of churches that are going to tell
you what you want to hear today and
today I’m not going to do that I’m going
to tell you what God told me to tell you
and what he already told
me there is nothing that I can preach to
you that the Holy Spirit has not already
worked in me it is a Val it is a value
violation great for me to come up here
and act like I got something together
that the Holy Spirit has not actually
done a work in me I’m not saying I’m
going to stand up here and be perfect at
anything but I am saying that I have I
will have started the process of
actually walking this thing out and
today the Holy Spirit literally shut my
mouth for over seven years on the topic
I’m about to preach a whole message
about seven years he said shut
up you have no Authority to talk about
that because I’m looking at your
life now I know every Pastor acts like
they are the grand da da of every
subject and they act like they have a
PhD in every subject no no no no no no
no no knowing information and living
that thing out are two completely
different
things and um today I want to bring us
into this message with a little
illustration that I I thought about does
anybody remember or have little babies
where they had the shapes that they had
to get something to fit
into and and so you know when I was a
child um this game was actually very
exciting for me because um everything
has been a competition since I was 6
months
old and um and so when I saw this I
would always try to figure out how I
could do it the fastest now that I have
children it’s not about fast it’s just
about getting it in there and when your
when your children are are still
developing their cognitive skills to be
able to figure out what to do it’s
frustration frustrating sometimes as a
parent to sit and watch them try to put
the triangle in the star
yeah no no baby uh-uh no no no no uh-uh
it’s the other one the other one the
other
one and and many times if you’ve ever
been a parent depending on how your
where your kids are on the learning
level it takes a
while for them he said you ain’t never
lie
it takes a while sometimes for them to
figure it out but once they get it it’s
a beautiful picture well well I feel
like sometimes in in our life with Jesus
we have something that’s we think is
supposed to go in here but everywhere
that we try to put it it
doesn’t it doesn’t what it doesn’t
fit and it doesn’t matter how much I oh
it’s a circle and it’s the same color so
it
must it
doesn’t why hold on maybe I’ll turn
it and for some reason it
doesn’t I said it doesn’t okay that
makes sense to us and what most of us
would do if we bought this toy from
tar y’all know that’s the that’s the
bougie version of
Target if we bought this from tar what
we would simply
do put this right back in here
get our
receipt and and take it right back to
that low
counter cuz it
didn’t we would tell them I’m so sorry
something must be defective with this it
does not
fit in the same way where’s my man Zion
come here buddy I I need you to come up
here in the same way um Zion he’s one of
my best friends in prayer he he he will
y’all give it up for my man Zion he’s
been here every tonight come here buddy
he’s been joining me in prayer and I
decided I was going to upgrade upgrade
his clothing today and so I brought some
clothing from my closet that I wanted Z
come on put this on Big Daddy he said
I’m ready for the
miracle now this jacket is
expensive this jacket was was made by a
Craftsman but if you were to see Zion
walking around in this you would say it
doesn’t now now it it’s
expensive it looks fresh come on baby
put on these Gucci shoes
baby yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah get you
some Gucci come here come on oh no
you’re falling because you’re in
something that doesn’t okay all
right come on get that foot in
there I can’t fit it what’ you say I
can’t fit it you can’t fit
it I mean it it feels like it should fit
you but it
doesn’t fit and it doesn’t matter how
much I
try this will become
uncomfortable because it doesn’t fit do
some jumping jacks Big
Daddy come on yeah yeah yeah can you do
a push-up you know how to do a push-up o
oh there it is there it is there it is
oh he creasing my shoes come here come
here he is creasing my
shoes stand right oh God In The Name of
Jesus we believe you for a
miracle no matter what happens this will
eventually become
uncomfortable because it
doesn’t come here let me just put you
down here get all my stuff from him okay
here you go take him God bless
[Applause]
you what
if what if God desires to use someone
for 25
years but he looks at the purpose and
the
person and their body
doesn’t
fit
what if our body doesn’t fit our
purpose talking about starting sharp and
staying
sharp we’re talking about praying for
miracles we’re talking about God
changing things around in our
life and what
if we are not fit to
finish matter of fact that’s the title
of my message
today
fit to finish now I need everybody to
take a deep breath say Yahweh
[Laughter]
again cuz today I’m coming to you
pastorally
lovingly and I’m asking you not to pray
for anything you won’t prepare
for some of us at the end of this 21
days of prayer and fasting and you’re
like oh man it’s been so good like I
don’t have headaches and and and and I
just feel feel better and I’m waking up
part of it is
spiritual but the other part of it is
just you haven’t been eating
trash come
[Applause]
on and your body for 21 days has been
regulating to not have as much
sugar it’s been I’ve already amen myself
so I I don’t need nobody’s amens today
if it ain’t real cuz I came on
assignment to get your life back
you missed
it many of our prayers are praying for
miracles that could be
prevented if we actually
took our
lives
seriously my question to you is will you
be fit to
finish great great I can’t answer the
question for you I don’t eat with
you I don’t stay with you and this is
going to bother some people because you
think that it’s a vanity message this is
not a vanity message this is about your
actual
value okay let’s just keep
going are you fit to finish what God has
called you to
do let me give you the
personal revelation that happened for
me 7 years ago the Holy Spirit told me
in a time of prayer he said
Michael I only can bless the ministry to
the level your body can take
it and my response to my heavenly father
was that’s not
fair yeah that’s not why I thought it
was to the level that my spirit man
could take it thought it was to the
level that that that my marriage could
take it he said yeah all of those are
true but I’m not going to bless the
ministry past what your body can
do
and I ignored the word of God your
pastor for four
years got up here yelling crazy
Faith sweating in my back
rolls okay I I’m going be humble open
and transparent today I’m about to
expose myself to hope that one person
makes a
delineation between what you’ve been
living and what God desires for you to
live okay he said I only can bless you
to the level that your body can take it
and I’m not saying that this Revelation
needs to be your Revelation but could I
submit to you could this be true for you
too Lord is God actually looking at what
you do with the
temple and using that as a part of him
factoring in can they do what I’ve
called them to
do and I Challen every person under the
sound of my voice cuz I feel everybody’s
booty tight right now everybody take a
deep breath in let it out okay I
challenge you not to deflect or defend
for 45
minutes cuz some of y’all are you don’t
know my story you don’t know what
thyroid issue I got you don’t know what
okay stop hold on wait my family big
boned
okay okay I I
know but I challenge you not to deflect
or defend because this message is about
your
destiny this is not about anybody else
today and I hear some of y’all saying I
know tons of people who are fat and
overweight and
successful and I want to agree with
you yes tons of people my my question is
not are there people doing
it my question is what version of them
are we
getting that’s good and and my second
question is if they were healthy how
many more
years could they do what God has asked
them to do okay okay okay so so I want
you to write this down this is a point
okay cuz cuz I I I want you to
understand we’re talking about being
healthy and
holy not just
holy I said
healthy and holy we talk about the
spirit man being
purified
wash my mind
Lord and never talk about cleaning our
Cupboard come
on guys I’m coming to humbly submit to
you that we may be cutting off our
influence our purpose and God’s desire
and design for us because of how we take
care of our
body this is not fat or
skinny crackheads are
skinny okay I can’t be real cuz y’all
got offended by that unhealthy snorting
every shooting up right take ask ask him
to take off the show I have
seen people who are abusing
drugs cuz some of y’all think fat SK no
no no no no
healthy this is not about super offcial
desire this is about supernatural
discipline
great this message is not about how you
look and getting six packs and making
sure you got an hour I don’t care
nothing about that I care is diabetes
going to take you out like it took out
your mother and her
mother I care about is is hypertension
going to take you
out like it took out your uncle it
doesn’t matter how much money you have
in the bank when your heart
stops it does not matter how many homes
you have if you have to live in a
nursing
home and just so we can even up the
playing field for everybody that’s still
watching I’m about to expose myself so
that you can know I’m not talking to you
I’m talking to
me I’m going to show you me at my
heaviest put it on the
screen
200 and 75
lbs he took his shirt off in
church no no no no I want to show you
what this really looked like I want to
show you the man who was yelling crazy
faith and believing for new buildings
and talking about relationship goals
number one New York time bestseller and
insecure and
overweight and emotionally eating and
drowning my sorrows in cookies and cream
Blue Bell ice
cream with Dr Pepper and gummy bears on
the side with whipped cream and vanilla
Oreos too what in the world was I doing
every Sunday
night trying to manage
stress trying to figure out why did that
family leave and go up the street and
all that never
mind come on
man I know pastors don’t want you to see
this good but the way I overcome is by
the blood of the Lamb that’s what Jesus
did and the words of my own test this is
my
testimony wearing 4X
shirts my children could sleep in my
clothes without
blankets don’t laugh that hard
mom y it be your own people it be your
own
people but my my literally my children
could put on my shirts or a jacket not
need a blanket just be on the couch
knocked
out I couldn’t I couldn’t I couldn’t
walk how I wanted to I couldn’t play
with them how I wanted to right but I
was a man of
God I was being used every Sunday nobody
ever came up to me and said pastor that
message was great but it looks like
you’re unhealthy in your in your
life come on not One
Mentor not one spiritual covering it was
like almost that people felt that they
could not say
anything while they saw me killing
myself if I put a knife to my wrist or a
gun to my head I would have tons of
people say no no no no don’t do that but
when I put a fork in my hand and a knife
in my hand nobody said matter of fact
they took me to do it
they paid for it get whatever you want
get two of
them take something to go
what
okay and it’s so crazy that I had so
many hurdles to my health not just
physical I’m talking about entire like
if you look at yourself being a whole
person part of my testimony is I had to
jump the hurdle of
pornography I beat that hurdle I had to
jump the hurdle of lying I jump that
hurdle I had to jump the hurdle of being
a manipulator and all the things that I
talk about but the one hurdle that I
wouldn’t even talk
about was the hurdle of my actual
physical health and nutrition yes and
some of y’all are getting caught up to
like Pastor Mike I just don’t understand
I just don’t think that you should be in
here talking about my body like that
because this is my body it’s the body
that God gave me and I’m just going to
be body a a and I’m going to do what God
God has told me to do no matter what
body I
[Applause]
got and all I’m saying is I I don’t want
you to be this is not an Instagram type
of comparison thing I want you to be fit
everybody say the word fit fit let me
give you the definition a suitable
quality standard or type to meet a
required
purpose I just want you to be able to
meet the required purpose God places on
your
life so if he tells you to go to a
remote Village in Africa to minister to
kids can your
body great take it sir some of y’all God
will call you there and you will be
cussing the whole
way not because of any other reason
except your your heart your your your
desire is there your kns
aren’t oh my God
[Applause]
you won’t even go swimming with your
kids cuz you don’t like the way you look
in a bathing suit so you’re robbing your
kids of an opportunity to connect with
you because you don’t like or will work
on stay to my
notes what I’m saying to you is Being
Fit is not about a size it’s about a
standard does everybody hear what I’m
saying I don’t care what size you are
zero anorexia is unhealthy too right do
y’all hear what I’m saying there’s so
many people trying
to you think just drinking water in Red
Bulls okay it’s
healthy we we don’t want the aesthetic
we want to actually be every everybody
say the word to me fifth F so I said
holy spirit you going to have to give me
some real Revelation on this because I
feel like either we going to gain a lot
of people in the church getting healthy
after this message or everybody going to
flip me off and go eat a
burger so I need some Revelation and I’m
telling you on Tuesday night at 3:50 in
the morning the Holy Spirit woke me up
with 1st Samuel
16:7 and this is where Saul was the king
but he disobeyed God and Samuel had to
find
another and God told him to go to
Jesse’s house and he was going to be
able to pick the next king of Israel and
he tells Samuel but the Lord said to
Samuel do not consider his appearance or
his height for I have rejected him the
Lord does not look at the things people
look at people look at the outward
appearance you know this next part but
the Lord looks at the heart
and I said God that’s
powerful oh my God you look at the heart
oh you look at the inside oh you look at
the motive oh you look at the character
oh you look at the integrity and all my
life in church that’s all I’ve
heard is that God does not look at the
outside thank you Jesus he knows our
heart even when people mess up I’ve even
said it it was like man I messed up but
God know my
heart he know I love him I don’t obey
him but I love him he know my
heart and I said holy spirit where’s the
Revelation he said read it
again he said people look at the outward
appearance but when God goes to choose
somebody for
purpose he looks at
the I said holy spirit you got to help
me he said read it again and no I wasn’t
just talking about looking at it
spiritually I look at it physically
too and I said people look at the
outward appearance but the Lord looks at
the heart are you telling me that when
God is calling people for purpose he
looks at their their Central thinking
system which is the heart of man but he
also considers can your actual
cardiovascular
heart take the mission he’s asking you
to go
to and I said holy spirit do not be this
cold he said I was being
figurative spiritual and
literal cuz no good father would send
their kid come on to
die without considering their actual
abilities great now think about it what
is David about to go do right y David
after he becomes anointed as the king of
Israel the next time we see a big story
about David he’s
killing the giant yeah that nobody in
the whole Army wanted to
face so he was looking at the man’s
Integrity but he was also looking at
his my question to you is can your heart
handle
it yes
because health is all about your
heart so then I was like okay okay Holy
Spirit okay some people are going to say
oh he just took that out of he took that
out of I said okay Holy Spirit I I I
want to I want to make sure that I give
people practical handles to be able to
look at this and look I cannot make this
stuff up this is what the holy spirit
said to me he said look up the number
one cause of death in
America I just did a small Google
search and the number one one cause of
death in America in all ages all genders
all Races is heart
disease I said what he said the enemy
has taken out more people with lack of
discipline with their fork and their
health than anything
else that’s true he said there are many
things I want to get done on this Earth
that I can’t cuz I haven’t found anybody
with the heart come
on and can I talk to my brown and black
people real quick I got to talk to y’all
because nobody says this cuz we’ve been
ham hacking it and mac and cheesing it
and sweet potato pie and and upside down
cake and seven Up cake and red velvet
and Crispy Cream dut Daylight
Donuts look at y’all look y ain’t said
that much all service I just start
mentioning stuff and your spirit just
starts but the American Heart
associating Association found that
people were more likely to experience
cardiovascular disease if they lived in
neighborhoods with limited access to
healthy foods spaces to be physically
active or health health care
facilities and I know a lot of the
problems that we face in today are
systemic but this one is not the man
it’s your
meal nobody said it to
me some of y’all are hearing the message
I’m preaching right now and you’re
planning to tear down your temple after
this fast in a way that is
epic you’ve been planning this meal for
21
days as soon as we went on the fast she
was like when I break this fast I’mma
tear the club
like but what if part of God’s picking
process has to do with your heart being
right and your heart
rate okay God’s looking at David I just
want you to go with me he’s looking at
David and he was like um David doesn’t
just have to be spiritually ready to
face Goliath he has to be physically
ready
to face go life now I know we never
thought about it like this because most
pastors stay out of your personal
business but David had to walk from the
palace back to Jesse’s house all the
time he had to
literally just think about it with me
y’all remember when we talk about and
David faced the bear and David faced the
lion have you ever fought a
bear no no no we say it so
casually yeah he was just fighting a
lion no that’s not
regular do you know what type of
strength on and
endurance and intentionality you have to
have to actually Spar and it be practice
with a
bear on and if the bear wasn’t good
enough then you do it with the lion
too come on and we call that preparation
for a giant
y’all a lot of people talking about God
knows my heart we’re not called to reach
God he’s already reached
us we’re called to reach
people and most of us are not fit to
actually do what God’s asked ask us to
do when it comes to your health this is
a question I had to ask myself three
years ago do people have a reason to
follow
me
great when it comes to your health could
we copy and paste how you take care of
yourself and would you want to place
that on the people you
love eat what I eat work out how I work
out what would the people what would
your children look
like what would my children look like if
they copied my
habits great see every area of my life
needs to be something worth
following as a Believer when it says
follow me as I follow
Christ in your health great are you
worth following I didn’t say in your
prayer so cuz I know you can pray right
I didn’t say in your worship leading cuz
I know you can lead
worship but in your health are you worth
following I started this journey over
three years ago and it was the most
embarrassing humbling thing I’ve ever
done I will post videos this week of me
telling my trainer I cannot
run
cannot the only thing that motivates me
is competition
so we cannot just go
running we can’t just go jump rope right
we can’t just lift weights I got to
trick my
mind so can we play
basketball and I just need to start
moving this
jelly oh it was BL
blug you know when you go this way but
your I was like it was doing something
different I go it went back I was like
what is happen happening okay some of
y’all don’t have these problem but I’m
talking real
problems and for 30
minutes I paid
him to come play basketball with
me I’m a grown man yeah with kids and a
job I should be able to do this my you
should be able to do that I
couldn’t I believed so many lies about
where I was
that I needed somebody to come play a
game with me to make me accountable to
start doing something what I’m telling
you is it does not matter where you
start cuz I know there’s some people
here that are saying Pastor Mike that’s
just too much I’m 68 years
old you want five more
years or 15 more
years do you want to live to see what
you’ve been praying
for do you want to see your grandkid be
able to do the things that you never
were able to do but because of your
faithfulness you planted the seeds into
them and now they can walk into a space
in a place that you were never able to
but it is retribution cuz you see them
do
it or are they talking to your
Tombstone nana I did it I
graduated cuz you wouldn’t go
walk come
on great see when I started this fitness
journey the Holy Spirit told me to shut
up he said this is an area you cannot
encourage anybody
in cuz you have not been
consistent and and me I like sharing
stuff if I’m just two steps ahead I’m be
like y’all come on that’s how I’ve
always lived and the Holy Spirit not in
this area he said I need the work to go
deep and I need it to be
forever cuz when I allow you to share it
it’s going to transform the
world and I said God why are you put
putting all of this on me he said cuz
I’ve tried to do it with several
people and nobody would answer the call
publicly
wow and when I started working out
people around me started working out
Pastor Charles is 145 PBS soaking
wet any day he got abs like every day
it’s just cuz he’s skinny nobody cares
I’m just funny he’s like don’t play me
boy
stop but any day every since I known him
but when I started working out Char said
I need to start work my leader yeah is
starting to work out for his health I
don’t have what he has but I need to be
healthy for all these kids that me and
Abby is
having and he started working out
another person in here a year ago
brother will
heckenbach now some of
y’all some of y’all don’t know but when
I when I met will
will was going through a transition he
had been in prison he he tells his story
God drastically changed his life he
starts serving and and and God brings
him here and he does the internship and
he just keeps going to level to level
but as he was going up up up he was
going up up up in his weight
too and I was watching him I was talking
to him will you good he’s like I’m
great but he got up to 350 lbs put him
on the screen
this is my dog full of the spirit you
going to show his belly hair like that
yes because I want you to see the real
testimony when I started working out it
was a year and a half ago as see and
this is what I wish I could do with
everybody but will has shown me that he
can take actual
leadership and and so so the Bible says
it like this better a cut from a
friend than kisses from an enemy I came
to will and I said hey bro you got to
get your health in order and he said I
received that Pastor I’ve been trying I
said I’m going to pay for your first
month of
training and he was like pastor and I
looked him in his face I said I have
four kids do not waste my
money am I telling you that I said do
not waste my
money that’s all he
needed will come here keep the screen
up
140 lbs
down oh y’all can celebrate with us come
on so proud of you
bro now only bad thing about this my man
be in my closet now get out of
here
shout out to my man Trevor that helped
him and and and Tanner at Tulsa training
they really focused in on them like
Pastor Mike why you sh shouting out
training facilities cuz that might be
your answer
prayer do you see what Will’s testimony
just
did no no no no will didn’t say a
word come on
great church people talk so
much cuz your fruit is not
[Applause]
evident great people write this down we
almost done I know everybody’s like when
is this going to be
ever I’m talking to you with a
passionate heart today because I was
right where you were
at people should be able to look at
every area of your life
and see
God and I want you to hear me say this
and I’ve been saying this I think this
subconsciously was a phrase that came
out of my own insecurities that God
purified and used but when when I was
when I was in the place where I couldn’t
even see myself healthy the Holy Spirit
just said progression not
Perfection just progress take a step do
something you wasn’t doing yesterday
progression not
Perfection and I just want to let
everybody know who’s who’s struggling
right now we are not on this journey of
Health from for
acceptance we are on this journey from
acceptance Jesus has already accepted
you he just wants to use you in such a
way that it means we got to change the
way we
live
okay so don’t wait till it’s perfect let
me give you a couple scriptures Romans
121
therefore I urge you brothers and
sisters in view of God’s mercy to offer
your bodies as living
sacrifices holy and pleasing to God this
is your true and
proper it’s a what it’s
worship now I need everybody to hear me
say this worship is not the songs we
sing it’s the way we
live and I want you to see how many
times you comes up in this therefore I
urge you nobody can do this for you
right in view of all that God’s done for
you his Mercy to offer your body that
means nobody else can offer
this this is your offer God at the
beginning of 2024 I am offering my body
as a
Living Sacrifice now I would be cool
with this if it just said as a
sacrifice cuz a sacrifice is one
time think about it I’m going to the
altar I’m sacrificing this one time but
why did you add the darn word
living great cuz that means it don’t
fully die wow good so I got to keep
offering it as a
sacrifice every
day so I want you to offer your body as
a Living Sacrifice every single day holy
and acceptable and then he says this
that’s just
reasonable great great
what this this is like the least of what
you could be doing in view of what God
has done for you great keep your house
clean keep your temple
Ted Lord this is
hard well this is the thing I want you
to hear me God will never ask you to do
something he hasn’t equipped you to
do Romans 121 and2 I’m going run through
these it says do not conform to the
patterns of this world well just love
your body just no we’re going to love
our body and we’re going to progress too
great you can do both that’s you can do
both you can be right here and love it
and you can say but this is not where I
want to
stay it says don’t copy the patterns of
this world be transformed by the renew
of your mind then you will be able to
test and approve what God’s will is his
good pleasing and perfect will I want to
submit to you watch this your body is
borrowed some of y’all still tight but
it’s
right you have a borrowed body 1
Corinthians 6:19 do you not know I love
how this starts cuz it just assumes that
we’re ignorant to
it um do you not know that your bodies
are
temples of the Holy
Spirit who is in you whom you’ve
received as a gift from God you are not
your own you’re borrowed you were bought
with the price therefore honor God with
your now I heard this as a youth for for
for everybody trying to not not burn
with lustful desires
but we keep talking about purity but
this actually is a self-discipline
scripture
great how do you treat something that’s
borrowed if somebody let you borrowed
their luxury
car how would you treat
it you usually treat it watch this
better than you treat your own
stuff water bottles in your car
Chick-fil-A rappers in your car come on
y’all let’s be honest dirty clothes I
got to go to the gym I okay I’ll get
them every time you walk in that car
you’re like oh my God what is that SM oh
that’s
me but in somebody else’s car
yeah if this ain’t your temple it’s the
Temple of the Holy
Spirit how you treating
it y’all remember last week I told y’all
that we had three settings we needed to
be in a setting of Faith a setting of
friends and a setting of spiritual
formation I brought the setting of uh
Faith back up here because this is the
house of God so so this is a temple okay
I’m move this out the way cuz we don’t
need these clothes no more I need
everybody to see this yeah if this is
the temple the house of
God I’m just going to start acting how
we be acting with our
bodies in the
house
my favorite is Chinese food and
ketchup Why you so
bothered who going to clean
it yeah this is just the house of
God it’s just a house just a
house just a
house who
cares I lift my hands in the
sanctuary I lift my hands to give you
the
glory I lift my hands to give
praise and we will praise
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you don’t care so
much it’s just a
temple sir all over the
communion don’t care so much over the
Bible
too y’all stop acting like you care
about this let me stop acting like this
matters to
you picture on the picture I need to do
some artwork on the
picture see uh oh come on come on come
on oh come on
oh
woo when I got into the mess it affected
the way I walk outside of
it this a Subway s a foot
long dang I hope I didn’t hit a band
member it’s just a
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temple
stop acting
bothered you don’t care you don’t
care we don’t care about
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this what’ you say we get it no you
don’t it’s been 40
years
it’s been 50
years it’s been 15
years of not caring about our Temple why
do you care about these eight
chairs and these symbols of
Christianity when it’s not even the
place where the holy spirit is
dwelling I am the
Temple of the Holy
Spirit
it’s still on me there’s a little bit on
me huh I ain’t even see it until I
looked in the mirror ain’t no napkins up
here but I love pizza and egg
rolls couple
sausages anybody love Ninja
Turtles Ninja Turtles made me thing have
y’all ever found a Ninja Turtle pizza
cuz I never like with the
cheese
somebody said let me get a
slice you’ve had
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plenty it’s
healthy
why y’all keep saying oh y’all know what
I’m about to
do y’ every time I do this you act like
it’s a new
revelation yeah yet they told us we eat
three meals a
day and every time we do this nobody
says
nothing
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we get
it now I need eight
volunteers to come sit in
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this come
on yeah I need eight
volunteers come here big dog all right I
got eight all right y’all sit
down all right y’all sit down what’s
your name bro angel angel yes Mo sir
what’s your name on hold on just stay
right here what’s your name Kendrick
Kendrick come on come on sister what’s
your name Kelsey Kelsey so nice to meet
you y’all come here come on just stand
right here y’all stand what’s your name
Ariana Ariana and what’s your name
brandy brandy and what’s your name Shere
shereé and what’s your name everybody
just stand just stand so I can still see
this okay and now right there right
there right there that’s
good
it would be inhumane of
me to make these
people who actually got up and washed
their face brushed their teeth and look
cute to go sit in that
mess yet every single
day we make the Holy
Spirit inhabit a
place that we do not care about making
making sure it’s
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clean the fact that these people even
came up
here is a
testimony to how hard it would be cuz I
said I need eight I need eight people to
help me everybody was like ah you
thought you was getting
something and I said I need you to come
sit in this and everybody like
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oh thank you for being the eight out of
Millions
who would be willing to be a
Living
Sacrifice and this is this is now now
now here here what I’m saying is they
they could be up here just cuz they want
to be on TV okay
so I don’t
know but I just wanted to make a picture
there’s a lot less people
willing to sit in the mess yet the Holy
Spirit sits with us every
day thank you you guys will y’all give
it up for them I’m not going to make
y’all sit in it that woman said Thank
You Lord oh my God I just bought this
sweater and it’s
cute we done great great
great what I’m trying to say is God is
all
always God is always more concerned
about your body than any
building great if somebody did this to
your church if y’all saw somebody in the
lobby doing this
y’all would physically fight them like I
already know y’all but why would you be
more concerned about trash they put in a
building and the trash you put in your
body do you know the one time God was
really mad about how people were
treating the temple y’all remember where
he picked up the Whip and
started why did he do that it’s because
people were doing things in the temple
that weren weren’t supposed to be
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there this message is not about body
image it’s about God’s
image the scripture says you can’t love
your
neighbor until you evaluate how you love
yourself and the truth of the matter is
some of us if we take off our clothes
and we are bare in front of the the
mirror we do not like what we
see we are insecure we don’t and then we
project that on other people and what
I’m saying is this is not something we
need a miracle for this something we
need to
decide if we’re honest some of us hate
ourselves and the crazy thing about it
we’ve been talking about damag but not
destroyed but this is the thing I want
everybody to know what’s not
transformed wow and now you trying to
make your kids not
eat or you trying to give them what you
didn’t
have you can do both spectrums and God
saying could you please be an example if
nobody else follows you could you live
in a way that at least the ones I told
you to train up in the way they should
go could follow you last thing I want to
say to you is if you were going to
embark on this journey of Health hear me
when I say this the biggest thing that
hindered me is I wanted to transform my
temple in 30
days and it took three
years I need you to hear me say this
today where I am in my health what I
feel like I can do I can I can run
through troops and leap over walls now
like that’s how I feel I feel like I
feel youthful I feel younger I feel
ready to do whatever God’s called me to
do but it didn’t come in 30 days it came
on out of consistency for three years
and this is what I want you to write
down it takes time to transform your
temple Hebrews 12 11 no discipline is
enjoyable while it’s
happening it’s
painful but afterwards there will be a
peaceful Harvest man do y’all know that
Harvest is not a peaceful time if
anybody’s ever had a crop and they have
to pull it Harvest is stressful Harvest
is work but God says if you would train
yourself in discipline you would have a
peaceful Harvest of right living for
those who are trained in this way great
great the real reason that I started
working out y’all is because of a little
boy that has my
name
MJ and um my son as most of you guys
know is special needs he currently has
autism and we’re believing God for a
miracle in his
life but I
don’t I don’t deny
facts to be able to live in in the
future I apply my faith now so that the
future can be different and so one of
the only ways that I could connect with
my son is he loves playing go
tickle and it’s where I chase him around
and then I catch him and then I throw
him up in the air and I tickle him and
MJ can do this for
hours no no no no this is not an
exaggeration it’s when he’ll look me in
my eye when he I mean I just see my son
and he’s having so much fun and he’s
laughing and go tickle Daddy go tickle
he uses his word one two three go go
tickle go tickle and MJ has been wanting
to play Go tickle for six
years and MJ would say Daddy Daddy go
tickle and I would come home from work
come home from Ministry come home from
and he would go I could go one or two
times and I didn’t have the energy wow
and I saw the disappointment on my son’s
face that he could not articulate with
his words
that my Daddy doesn’t want to play Go
tickle with
me it’s not that I didn’t want to I
didn’t have the heart for
it all because of what I was eating and
because I wouldn’t take time to do the
things that were hard I couldn’t do the
things that would make him
happy and he started wanting me to pick
him up and he kept growing and I didn’t
have any muscle to do it it it went from
like throwing them up in the air and
then there was no
air
like you
know trying to give sound effects to act
like we
like no
air on but I made a
decision that if the only way I could
connect with my son is being physically
strong enough to be able to play with
him and throw him up in the air Daddy
was going to do the hard things to make
him happy and I couldn’t think about him
as five and six I had to think about him
as 18 yeah see people don’t know why you
going so hard is because I might be
having to throw a 18 year
old I might have to wrestle a
bear great great great but I promise you
one thing is that I’ll have the heart
to be able to do
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it I know depending on where you’re at
right now this may be a tough pill to
swallow but I swallowed it and I’m
swallowing it every day I have not
reached Perfection but I was released by
God to share this message because I
wanted I believe God wanted people to
know that this is this takes Faith too
yeah
faith is Fitness is an act of
faith and I don’t care where you are and
what lie you’ve believe I think that God
has a huge plan for your life and you
have to have Fitness to actually finish
the plan 1 Corinthians 9:24 last
scripture and we’re out of here do you
not know that in a race all the runners
run but only one gets the prize run in
such a way as to get the prize everyone
who competes in the games goes into
strict training they do it to get a
crown that will not last but we do it
somebody say we do it say it with faith
we do it we do it to get a crown that
will last forever therefore I do not run
like someone running
aimlessly I do not fight like a boxer
beating the air no I strike a blow to my
body yeah to to make it my
slave so that after I have preached to
others I myself will not be disqualified
for the
prize I will be fit for the Finish will
you stand all over this building
please this is what I’m going to I’m
going to pray for
you and then I’m going to challenge
you the prayer is going to be the
genuine prayer that that I had to
pray God I thank you that you will give
me the
desire and the power to do what pleases
you this is scripture and I prayed that
every almost
day but then I’m going to challenge you
don’t leave yet hold on hold on wait a
minute you don’t I know you’re mad but
just hold
on and then I’m challenging us for a
28-day walking
challenge
I didn’t say Lift bench press that I
said because we walk by and we going to
walk by steps
too and I’m challenging everybody to at
least I don’t care what Fitness level
you on I want you to do this on top of
whatever you do I want you to at least
walk for 30 minutes every day for 28
days now listen listen listen some of
you this is going to be easy for you and
then the holy spirit’s going to tell you
to take it up to something else for
others you already in something and
going this going to take discipline to
just submit and
listen I’ll do push-ups I do and you
don’t
listen you do everything everybody tells
you not to do but just slow down for a
season and
listen but we’re going to walk as a
church and I believe that one day this
church WIll own a gym it will become I’m
I’m prophesying to
us it will become a central Hub of
Outreach and inreach imagine a place
where you can come every day you come to
the gym when you’re actually serious
about it more than you go to a church
and imagine the music and the atmosphere
being charged with faith imagine you
walking in and people are greeting you
with love sir imagine you seeing a glass
room with people meeting in small groups
all over imagine your kids over there
having volleyball practice and
basketball practice and three or four
nights a week I’m just painting a
picture and they’re recording it cuz
it’s going to happen somebody say it’s
going to happen it’s going to happen
imagine you inviting your friends to it
and it being a place where they meet
people that believe like you before they
ever have to come into this
Arena imagine along with thousands saved
in our yearend metrics we have pounds
lost what is that doing Pastor Mike it’s
adding years onto our life so that we
can go into all the world and make
what which means a disciplined
one hands lifted father I thank you for
our church for my family for people that
are just like
me who father you’ve done a lot of
miracles in different areas of my life
but
Health was a hurdle that I needed your
help
in and God I’m asking you father that
people would not hear any Venom in this
message that they would see that they’re
actually valued
yes god father show them how you showed
me that this was a conversation of love
yes that really said you had so much
more in me than I thought I had in
myself God I thank you that you would
give us both the
desire and the power to do what pleases
you because we are the Temple of the
Holy Spirit I come against doubt
confusion past patterns and even the
fear of
failure and I thank you Father God by
this time next
year everybody under the sound of my
voice and everybody they send this to
will have a testimony of progression not
to be compared with anybody but to give
you glory father God we will be fit to
finish the purpose you have called us to
and father you’ve placed us in a house
called
transformation let us live that
out with another
level of
decisiveness God we want to honor you
with our bodies cuz it’s our reasonable
worship now whatever the next step is
God you can tell us and you can show us
and we will be careful to obey in Jesus
name somebody say we agree we agree we
accept we accept we expect we expect
amen Hey listen real quick real quick
real quick I believe in
you no look at me look at me look at
me I believe in
you and this next step is going to be
more spiritual than you’ve ever imagined
cuz the holy spirit’s going to help you
every single day if you believe it let’s
give God one shout of Praise In This
Place oh come on come on for where we’re
going y’all we are going to be fit to
finish
listen next week we are celebrating
50 years of Bishop and Pastor Debbie 25
years of our church and listen I’m
releasing the word of the Year okay I
couldn’t do it until I taught this
message I need you to send this to 50
people and I need you to bring 50 next
week we’re going to turn up and have a
party listen to me if you’ve never
accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and
Savior today is your opportunity I know
there are people moving cuz they so
excited to get to the parking lot but
for
you
the Holy Spirit has been knocking on
your heart this whole message and today
is the day of salvation if you want to
accept Jesus Christ as your personal
Lord and Savior right now I want to give
you the opportunity to make the greatest
decision of your life don’t do this life
without him it took me from being a liar
a manipulator somebody who was addicted
to pornography and I was carrying around
a bunch of
weight not just physical but spiritual
too and the Holy Spirit said give me
your heart and I’ll help you change your
habits if that’s you in this room on the
count of three and if you’re watching
online or watching on rebroadcast I want
you to lift your hands and we’re going
to pray the Prayer of Salvation and I’m
telling you your whole life is going to
turn around one you’re making the
greatest decision ever two I’m proud of
you but more than that your name is
going to be written in the Lamb’s Book
of Life three shoot your hand up all
over this building I see you right there
all online I see you I see you a whole
family right there come on
Transformation Church I see you my
brother I see you my brother come on
Transformation Church let’s
celebrate glory to
God I see you but more than that sister
God sees you and at Transformation
Church we’re family nobody prayers alone
can we lift our hands one last time and
say God God thank you for sending Jesus
sending Jesus just for me just for me
today today I admit I ad that I have
messed up I have and I need a savior and
I need a I Repent I repent and I Turn to
You and I Turn to You change me change
renew me R transform me I’m yours I’m in
Jesus name in Jesus name amen can we
celebrate every oh y’all y’all better
turn up in this place glory to
God
transformation Hey listen if you made
that decision hit the QR code on the
screen and we’re going to give you some
things to help you walk this out if
y’all need prayer for anything man I
want to let you know don’t leave this
church without getting get in prayer the
altar workers are going to come up to
the front people going to start talking
and leaving but God wants to meet with
you if you want to come back to Monday
night prayer tomorrow we going to be
here
praying I I just want to let you know
this 21 days is over but our spiritual
connection is just getting
started I love you I believe in you
don’t leave here without prayer until
next week go out and live a transformed
life I love you sing Yahweh one time
say thank you so much for watching this
message we pray that it encouraged you
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