Here I Am // Here Is Holy (Part 1) // Michael Todd

We all have wanted to get “there”. We’ve all wanted to escape our present circumstances and move on to what we think is better. But what if “here” is right where God wants us to be? In our new series Here Is Holy, Pastor Mike shows us how to ignore “there”, and focus on the here and now.

00:00 – Intro

07:06 – Here: in this place, locally, as opposed to there

08:10 – Holy: set apart, other than, declared sacred

08:56 – Here Is Holy definition

17:48 – James chapter 1 verses 2 through 4

20:35 – Sanctification is the action of making or declaring something holy

23:35 – Matthew chapter 6 verses 31 through 34

27:42 – I can love it here, because I’m loved here

31:19 – Romans chapter 8 verses 35 through 39

38:13 – Exodus chapter 3 verse 1

39:29 – God specializes in making regular spectacular

42:09 – God will use a common situation to invite YOU into an extraordinary calling

44:23 – God will test your willingness in the wilderness

49:00 – Exodus chapter 3 verse 2

52:42 – The place that is on fire in your life is a meeting place with God

56:38 – Exodus chapter 3 verse 3

58:23 – Confusing situations are many times God confronting you with your calling

01:00:37 – Stay curious even when you are confused

01:02:11 – Exodus chapter 3 verse 4

01:03:17 – When you step, God speaks

01:04:47 – Exodus chapter 3 verse 4

01:05:06 – Don’t doubt your calling here

01:09:10 – Here I am is the proper response when God calls you

01:10:58 – Exodus chapter 3 verse 5

01:20:20 – What kept you back there is not allowed here

welcome to week one

of a series we are calling here is holy

if you’re excited let’s give god some

praise right there

hallelujah

all right

so i’m about to walk you through

how we got to this phrase of the year

that god is allowing us to gather our

faith around if you’re new around here

we want to say welcome we want to say

we’ve prayed for you this week we want

to say that we don’t care what you were

doing yesterday last night or what

you’re planning to do tomorrow we

believe that this has been a divine

interruption of your life to give you

divine revelation you are not too bad

you have not gone too far to get outside

of the grace and the love of god and the

one speaking to you has jacked up and

messed up thousands of times but somehow

god has seen in his love to continue to

use me over and over and over and over

again and today i’m letting you know

that i’m living proof that you are not

too damaged for god to use what’s left

i need to let you know somebody’s

tugging on me this is not even where i

was going to go but god told me to tell

you that you feel like damaged goods

right now but the value is still inside

of you and god is going to do something

so strategic and unusual with your life

if you would just give him a big yes

today my prayer is that for whoever you

are and for all of us who are playing

church

and being religious and lukewarm

that we would give god a complete shout

at me yes

um i feel like what my assignment is

today

is going to be more um

of a diagnosis of where we are

so that we can actually get the right

prescription next week

and we can actually start a process of

healing after that

the problem with the church is a lot of

time we heal what’s not broken

we’re prescribing medicine

that doesn’t actually touch the

pain and i believe that god has has like

a doctor a physician shown me where we

are and show me what we need to do for

the rest of 2022 so that we can

understand the purpose that god has

called us to and that means that we have

to recognize some things everybody say

here

that’s going to prepare us for there

so let me just run this thing all the

way back to december 11 2020.

i didn’t think that this was going to be

uh uh an amazing day or anything i just

woke up thinking it was going to be

another day that god’s faithfulness is

good and

we gathered in an airbnb right here in

tulsa with some of our worship team and

staff

and god told me he said this is the

season when i want you to begin to write

songs that the world will sing but i

want you to write them for your church

and i want you to write songs for your

church that speak to where the church is

don’t think about any charts don’t think

about any any other worship bands don’t

think i just want you to write what i

give you

so we got in that room and we begin to

pray

and literally the first song that came

was here is holy

the song you just heard was the first

song that god gave us and i’m not really

thinking much about it because that was

one of ten songs that we wrote and i’m

talking about good songs we wrote ten

songs in two days and anybody that’s

heard it already know is fire

transformation nation wait on us

because here is holy

and so i didn’t think anything of it but

what it was was a seed that god knew i

would need

he gave me something in a season that i

was not even paying attention

that i would need 408 days later

we are 408 days

from when god first said here is holy to

and i was like okay but every year i go

on a sabbatical and i begin to ask god

what are you saying for the church for

the next year because you know this

church is built on strong vision because

where there is no vision the people

perish the cast offers strength and

we’re going to be focused on the vision

that god has called us to do so i said

what are you saying this year and if you

don’t know anything about us every year

god gives us a word and we center all of

our faith all of our giving all of our

instructions around that word and god

begins to speak and for seven years it

has been spot on

and literally god said i i’m giving you

um what i already gave you

and i was like god i don’t want no

warmed up word i don’t want no

microwavable leftover word he said no no

he said you’ve never eaten this one

before

he said i showed you what it was but you

haven’t you haven’t digested this

he said the word for this year is here

is holy i said god there’s a problem

with that

it ain’t a word

that’s a phrase

that’s more than one word and god

honestly for what you’re doing is some

out of the norm because you see the

other words have been really able to

work good for promotion and they’ve been

able to work good for for the branding

you know i’m saying release and beyond

and he said do you want

my words

or do you want your word

so i’m okay okay i got you i’m gonna

take your words and he said here

holy

i tried to ignore it

tried to hope that god would give me

something else sexier to brand

because you know everybody like what

y’all talking about here is holy uh

what

people don’t even have concept

and god said i’m about to make an

example out of people’s lives who get

the words that i speak

it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t work

branding wise

it works for transformation

not the church

your life

and i said okay god here is holy in

september he confirmed it

i was in a hotel

fasting and praying

and god said this is how strong it was

to me y’all he said if you ask me again

what the word of the year is

and i’ve already told you

it’s not going to be good

i called brie at that moment i said the

word of the year

has just been upgraded to a phrase

here is holy and she said oh yeah and

she acted like she knew what it meant

but she didn’t

cause i didn’t

the thing i want to let you know is that

god is not committed to you

understanding he’s committed to your

obedience

and somebody needs to hear that very

clearly right now at the top he will

reveal understanding

if you will be

obedient

it was getting on it was getting printed

on shirts

for staff advance

before i had full revelation

of what god wanted to do through this

and then he started walking me through

this and i need you to write down these

definitions y’all we’re going to class

today and i promise you if you take good

copious notes today you’re going to get

a fast pass in heaven that’s what pastor

charles says and and you’re going to be

able to understand and come back to the

instructions that god gives at the

beginning for the rest of your year

here the definition of here check this

out

in this place

locally

my favorite definition right here watch

this

opposed

to there

here

is the enemy of there

if i’m focused on here

i don’t give any attention

to there

it is the opponent the opposite the

antithesis of their you cannot be fully

committed to hear when you’re giving

your attention to there

somebody shot at me here

oh i’m about to preach this thing

and then he said is holy

okay holy

it means set apart

completely other than

declared

sacred

like like if something is holy

it is set apart you cannot be liked by

everybody and be holy

uh-oh

you cannot get committee agreement

for all of your

ideas

situations

assignments

and be completely set apart

he said i’m declaring this year

everybody shouted me holy

so so let me give you the working

definition for here is holy for this

series you need we’re going to come back

to this every week here is holy

it’s the awareness

that your current situation is sacred

and being intentionally used by god

to prepare you for your purpose

it’s opposed to there

here

holy

i’m aware that no matter what my current

situation is

god

is using this situation

sacredly

intentionally

to prepare me

for the purpose he called me for that i

don’t know about yet

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you will not

know your purpose before you’re prepared

for it

the training comes before the reining

we’re looking to have a position and we

have a lack of preparation

and what god is saying is i want you to

consecrate all of 2022

separate it

declare it sacred

move yourself and remove yourself from

thinking about there and focus on

here

because if you do not focus on here

you will not be ready

for there

and the truth of the matter is i’m

coming to prophetically tell you that

many of you are praying for what you

will never be prepared for

you’re believing for what your character

does not have the ability and foundation

to be able to hold up i’m telling you

right now that god is so good that he is

trying to give us a pause

can i say it how i feel it

god wants to take the hustle out of his

house

this thing that’s always trying to

hustle because my my next thing and my

next thing and when i get here and i

when i when i get there and then when i

got that and all and god says i have

never ever

been in a hurry to do anything

i have always been strategic

about my movements

and i’ve always thought about every step

because the steps of a good man a good

woman are ordered by the lord he says

step here

and then step

here he’s not worried about bear because

if you take care of here you’ll end up

there

somebody shouted me here is holy

and see i have a problem honestly with

this in the natural i’m talking about as

pastor michael right now but michael

can’t stand here

can i be honest with you

my whole life i’ve hated here

am i the only one

that that when you get in a situation

it’s good for 30 seconds and it’s like

all right

come on listen to the left to the left

like i’m trying to like give me

something else give me a new goal give

me something else to attain let me go to

the next level

and the problem is i hate it here

and the truth is most of us

hate it here

if you look at your real situation all

the stuff you’re trying to do right now

is to get you there

but you tolerate here

you’re you’re not you’re not excited

about here you’re not you’re not you’re

not joyful about here you tolerate my

whole life

i’ve just tolerated here

i want to go to the next i want to

upgrade how many people like upgrades

come on come on listen

yeah how many people how many people

okay when you were young how many people

wanted to be adults because they thought

they could make their own decisions and

do what they want to do and

now that i’m here

adulting sucks

but how much did we miss

some of us were open too early

let me

some of us were exposed and

violated and

indoctrinated

because we were trying to get there

and now we’re working through problems

and issues and generational cycles

that were built up because we went there

too early

we went we went there because they went

there

we went there because it looked like the

cool thing to do and god said i’m trying

to do a work on you

here

see

ah let me just go ahead and say it the

problem is the church has done a bad job

at indoctrinating all of us

with the theology of there

my situation turned around today

god is about to turn it

right now

what if we said what he really about to

god’s gonna turn this in seven months

would you still shout

would you steal praise

see the problem is we’re so worried

about getting out

that we do not consider what god is

trying to bring out of us

here

this is for the big boy table

this the meat

this year we’re gonna mature

when i get there

how much money i’ll have there

what house

will i be living in there

what my network will look like there

these are the relationships that i’m

gonna have there

i can’t wait till i get married because

this is what we gonna do

there

and god says

michael

i need you to stop

escapism evangelism

[Music]

what we’re trying to teach people

is to escape here

and we’re evangelizing people

no no no no no no we’re not even going

to act like it’s a problem

you don’t need counseling

you need deliverance

come here

you’re healed

that may have been the seed of my

healing

that’s really real

but it took me 35 years

to walk in this level of dysfunction

it may take me a little time

to walk up out of it

and the problem is

if we do not stop

evangelism of escapism

we never will sit

and let god do the work

here

what if you had to go in for major

surgery

and you slayed on the table

and at the moment it got

uncomfortable

you had a section of people saying you

ain’t got to stay there

claim

your

victory

run up out of this place

stand up and walk

begin the ship

you would literally

kill yourself

trying to escape

what is meant watch this to heal you

[Music]

the adversity is meant

to heal you

the pain is meant to heal you i know you

don’t hear preacher like this all the

time but i’m in a whole new place right

now

right where you are and you hate it

may be the very operating table

that god is using

to heal you of pride

to heal you of comparison

to heal you

of insecurities

but you gotta stay

here

james 1

verse 2

dear brothers and sisters when troubles

of any kind

any kind any kind

come your way consider it

an opportunity for what the

i thought i needed to consider this an

opportunity to go off on somebody

but you said in your word considering an

opportunity

for great joy

for you know that when your faith is

tested

your endurance has a chance to grow

this the part i don’t like

so let it grow

stay here

and let it grow many of us are potted

plant christians

god would love for us to stay somewhere

long enough to actually get roots

look at your neighbor and say let it

grow

type it in the chat let it grow

you can’t grow it on the move

you can’t grow it

i was in this church for six months then

they didn’t do with me right so i was in

this sir you ain’t been around nobody

long enough to see you

you get to represent yourself

every time you go to a new group of

people because nobody knows the last

struggles you went through stay there

long enough

[Applause]

to grow

and many of us

are in a season in a place right now

where it’s uncomfortable to stay planted

you are trying to get out of that job

with all your might

and god says the reason no doors is open

for you

is because that place

is holy

no no no no no it’s not lucrative

it’s holy

it’s not comfortable

it’s holy

you’re going to look back at this moment

and say that’s where god made me

that’s where he did the work that would

never be undone

that’s where god changed my name

and this is why i’m telling everybody

listen to me here

is a prerequisite for

there

you gotta go through here

to get there

here is preparation for

there

here is a qualification

for

that you will not be qualified for there

if you do not let god do the work

everybody shout at me here

okay

here this the one i really want you to

get this the one he’d been working on me

all week here

is sanctification

for there now this is a word we don’t

use in church that much anymore but it

actually means something very very

powerful to your life sanctification is

the action of making or declaring

something holy i do not become holy

unless

i go through whatever god has for me to

go through here

if i ignore marriage counseling

my relationship does not get there where

i want it to be because i don’t know how

to communicate

so for us to get there

god said

every week

come

here

can i watch a video

take an elixir

is there a mix that i can get can i

all of all of society today especially

is trying to find a shortcut

[Applause]

but

here

sanctifies me for there and the truth of

the matter is the problem with their i

know i’m setting this whole thing up and

it’s going to make sense to you in just

a second the whole problem with there

everybody shout at me there

the whole problem is there devalues here

if i focus on there it makes me think

this is trash

if i focus on there

i i i don’t value what god is doing here

there

distracts from here

god wants me to do something powerful

right here but if i’m always focused on

there i’m distracted they’re

discourages here

i’m trying to show you why there is not

where we want to be focused in the

season especially when god is saying

here is where i’m at here is where i

want to change you here is where i want

to develop you here is holy so there

diminishes here

their dilutes here

their diverts you from here

y’all are so

excited about opportunities

that’ll make you

go there and god said i don’t care about

opportunities i want you on assignment

don’t divert from here

there watch this

when i become a better leader when i get

this when i have this when i’m when oh i

got a one when i weigh this much

when my body

you better love

what god has given you

he i’m not singing

i’m not saying

devalue

the temple that god has given me but

some of y’all are being robbed of life

because you will not accept

where you are

right

here

matthew 6 31 34. so don’t worry about

these things saying what will we eat

there

what will we drink there

what will we wear there these things

dominate watch this the thoughts of

unbelievers

unbelievers focus on there

because they gotta escape here

i gotta pop a pill so i can go there

i gotta drink that alcohol so i do not

have to be here

i gotta go to pornography cause i can’t

deal with my lust here i can’t go back

to that home so i get a mistress so i

don’t gotta be

here

i serve my church more than i serve my

family

because i can’t deal with failing

here

unbelievers

allow

what dare

looks like

to dominate

their thinking

but your heavenly father already knows

what you need there

he knows what you need up there so seek

first

the kingdom of god

here you cannot sink the kingdom from

there

the only way you can see god

is from where you’re at

as broken as you are

as busted as you are

the liar that you are

the proud person that you are god said

just see me from there

like like

here is holy

i’m not asking you to become a future

version of yourself to then start to

seek me

you only can seek me from shout out me

here

and he says

above all else

and live righteously here

and he will give you everything you need

hold on

there is taken care of

if i live righteously not perfectly

here

so don’t worry about tomorrow which is

there for tomorrow there will bring its

own worries today trouble is enough for

you right here

dealing with them kids right here

working that job right here is enough

you can’t even deal with tomorrow

stop even thinking about there

because you don’t have it in you to deal

with there you have to be focused on

here

okay

so if you want to walk in crazy faith i

want you to say this statement with me

and it’s going to be a crazy faith

statement because some of y’all this is

not how you feel but this is how i pray

that you will feel by the end of this

series we probably got four five six

weeks in this i don’t know we gonna go

until this is so deep in us that we can

look at any situation that looks busted

and disgusted unfavorable or

uncomfortable and be able to declare

this statement right here i love it here

say it like you mean it i love it here

some of y’all lied

but i love it here

is a statement of faith in god

i love it here

it’s uncomfortable here

but i love it here because you allowed

me to get here do you know how many

people didn’t get here uh-oh

do you know how many people did not make

it here

do you know how many that wish they

could have had another day to do

something here

but i love it here

this is a hard statement to say

can i be

for me that was a hard statement to say

all week

and y’all know i can’t i can’t preach

nothing that god’s not walking me

through it’s been the same since there

was 300 people here god was walking me

through

i was in a place with some of my friends

and they was like how do you feel and

god said declare you love it here

i said i really have it

he said mike say it like you mean

so i love you here

i was like i love you here why do you

say i love it here and this is what god

whispered to my heart

he said you can say i love it here

because you are loved here

i need everybody to hear me say this i

know this is not probably what you were

thinking

but the reason i can stay here is holy

because i know the one who sent me here

allowed me to come here and sustaining

me here and then walk me out of here

i can say i love it here

because i am loved

right

here

and somebody needs to hear me say that

because you’ve been trying to

polish yourself up and get yourself in a

place to be presentable to god and

others and all this and god says stop

all of that

you wearing yourself out

he said even though your situation is

unfavorable you are my favor

i’m looking at you dead in your eye with

the baby out of wedlock

with the miscarriage

with the third failed business

and you can literally say on your way to

bankruptcy court

i love it here

because i’m loved here

this is the humans greatest need

to know that wherever they are

they are actually

loved

and i came if you turn this segment off

and you never watch again the one thing

i hope that you get is that you

are

loved you are loved by god

he loved you so much that he made a plan

to reconcile you back to the father and

give you eternal life with all of your

flaws with all of your mess-ups with all

of the broken pieces in your life you

are

loved i love it here

even though it hurts

even though it’s frustrating

even though it’s not true

i love it here because you put me here

and i’m loved

right here somebody say that i’m loved

here

say it like you mean it i’m loved right

here

just one more time faith is coming to

somebody somebody say i’m loved right

here

see i’m loved right here that’s why i

love it here because i’m learning here

and

i’m

and i’m living here and i’m losing

everything that can’t go with me

y’all missed it

see the reason i got to stay here is

because i am losing here

i’m losing everything here

that cannot go with me

into the promised land you know that’s

why the children of israel had to go

into the wilderness

is because they had to lose

everybody talking about that’s that

escapism thing that’s the evangelism of

escaping we always win no no no no no

the bible tells us

that we’re gonna have to lose some

things

to possess the promise

they don’t like this

you gotta lose your attitude

to be able to actually deal with the

people over there

you gotta lose your pride

to be able to actually ask for help over

there some of y’all be running out of

gas won’t even ask your brother or

sister for gas money walking all the way

home cause your pride

my question to you today is what do you

need to lose here

well this just me

that’s you here

but you’ll stay here

until you lose it

because you can’t take that over there

okay

romans

chapter 8 verse 35 can anything separate

us from christ’s love

does it mean he no longer loves us

if we have trouble calamity or are

persecuted or hungry or destitute or in

danger or threatened with death go to

verse 37 no

despite all these things

overwhelming victory is ours through

christ who loved us our victory is in

his love

now i know you want the victory to be in

your works

but the victory that you’re gonna have

the way you never lose is find yourself

lost in his love

if i succeed i’m loved

if i fail i’m loved

if i mess up i’m loved and if i’m on a

mountaintop i am love verse 38 and i’m

convinced that nothing can ever separate

us from the love of god neither death

nor life neither angels nor demons

neither our fears for today

nor our word worries about

tomorrow there

not even the powers of hell

can separate us from god’s love no power

in the sky above or in the earth below

indeed nothing and all creation will

ever be able to separate us from the

love of god that is revealed in christ

jesus our lord

you have to see yourself

here loved here

the reason i’m telling you this is

because the training and the preparation

will make you think you’re not loved

the trick of the enemy

all the way back to the garden

was to trick adam and eve that god was

keeping something from them

he was keeping them for something he was

making them holy

but they were convinced by the enemy

that this place ah

i’m not loved here if he really loved me

he would let me eat from this tree

if he really loved me i would be able i

wouldn’t go through this

i remember being in basketball

and um

when we played basketball the first few

um weeks of basketball

they called hell weeks

and i didn’t really understand it until

i started participating in it because

what happens in hail week is you don’t

really play basketball

week has nothing to do with basketball

we honestly never even touched the

basketball

hell week was about conditioning us

and preparing us

for when we had to endure and actually

play basketball

when we went through the training of

suicide i hate suicides

and burpees burpees are from the pits

of hell y’all know what a burpee is like

the

height

show us no

not today

i already worked out this morning i’m

already sore up here

but but

i questioned my coach’s love for me

because of how he prepared me

could it be

that our preparation

the season of training

the uncomfortable places and spaces

are

are uncomfortable on purpose because the

coach god

knows what’s up ahead

and if we look at how we feel

while we’re being trained

we could be lied to that somehow god

doesn’t love us

because this training sucks

god doesn’t love me because i lost the

family member

or i want to come to real stuff

god doesn’t love me why did he even let

me get pregnant

why would he even let us have a son

if he was going to be diagnosed with

autism

and we would have to daily go through

therapies

and teach him how to do things

why

this is the question of humanity

why

why am i here

why am i 36 single

why am i here

why why did i give my life for that

church

and i’m not even seen as somebody who’s

valuable why am i here

why why in the world would you have me

go and apologize to my father

and not even respond to me

i was hurt as a child and you’re gonna

allow me to be here again

why am i here

this

can only be solved here

it doesn’t change when you get there

the only thing you take with you

everywhere

is you

so if you’re broken here

you’ll be broken there

if you’re frustrated here

you’re gonna be frustrated there is no

amount of money

that takes away the anxiety of here

you got to let god

and therapy

and community

and the word wash over you got to do it

here because at some moment

there turns into here

i know i’m over i’m in the matrix right

now i know somebody else like what is

heaven there they’re here here or there

they’re here and everywhere like i know

i know that’s what you’re thinking right

now but but at some moment the

revelation is going to click to you

because any time i come from here i take

all of me with me

and whatever i was trying to get to

turns into here

[Music]

so why don’t we just deal with it

right

here

why don’t we get whole right here why

don’t we walk in purity right here why

don’t we become generous right why

don’t we start loving people

right

here

not when they apologize

[Music]

we go love them

right

here

this is personified in our text exodus

chapter 3 verse 1 through a man named

moses

moses um is about to have a

life-changing experience

this is why we titled the whole thing

here is holy because moses has one of

these moments which i’m believing every

one of us is going to have as we open

our hearts in this series it says in

verse 1 um one day everybody say one day

say it again one day

one day moses was tending the flock of

his father-in-law jethro the priest of

midian he led the flock far into the

wilderness oh don’t like that word and

came to sinai the mountain of god

everybody say one day

this is wasn’t a spectacular day

this wasn’t a day where something

amazing it wasn’t a festival it wasn’t

anything that happened it was just

one day

like i like that it said one day

because

you never know when god’s about to move

in your life

it could be today tomorrow the next day

but it’s just

one day it’s not on your birthday it’s

not on new year’s eve i know that we

always talk about 2022 god’s gonna come

through

it could be literally

june 22nd

everybody say one day

oh the reason this is important for you

because god specializes in making

regular spectacular

he can take a regular day

and turn it into the thing that’s going

to be the catalyst for every miracle

that you’re remembered for

one day

i’m prophesying over you that your one

day is coming

that there is something that’s about to

happen in your life

everybody’s not gonna be around moses is

in the wilderness right here this is not

something on instagram this is not

something on a platform this is on the

back side of the mountain and one day

god turns the regular

into the spectacular and how do we know

it’s a regular day it says because he

was just tending to the sheep

he was doing what he normally he was

just taking his kids to school

i want to bring it to real situations he

was just checking his emails

like one day

he was just

going to pick up dinner

and god takes a common situation watch

this

to invite him into an extraordinary

calling

what god’s trying to do this year you

have not seen anything yet with your

life uh i just need somebody to hear me

say this your greatest win

looks like nothing compared to what god

has planned for your life somebody needs

to receive this by faith

this man grew up in a palace and god

said you ain’t seen royalty yet i’m

about to do something in your life and i

know it seems like a far cry from what

you’ve been through and many of us have

been trying to live in the glory days

because there is not just forward there

is back too

[Music]

god said i need you to focus on here

because there was not the good old days

dare was not the pinnacle of your

ministry dare was not the greatest song

you ever wrote there is not where god

was really using you

here

is holy you have to divorce yourself

from there in the future and there in

the past how do i come in here and

minister with this much fervor

transformation church’s best days are

here they’re not oh god they’re not when

relationship goals went viral and

they’re not in the future with something

that god is gonna do it’s right

here

here is holy

my faith is that god is with me

here

and that’s why i write this down

god will you con god will use common

situations to invite you into

extraordinary callings

write it down

god will use

common situations

to invite you into extraordinary

callings you know how i became the

pastor of the church

a very common situation

i produced music for greenwood christian

center’s big idea conference

this is how he started inviting me

into this extraordinary calling

it wasn’t oh god oh

i see

myself on a platform

preaching to that

it was common

it was turn the mic up

y’all missing it

roll up the cables

make sure the drums are tuned

this was my invitation

into an extraordinary i didn’t see

when i would tony mason was telling me

to turn the reverb up

i didn’t see what god was doing

i didn’t see but he used a very common

situation

what could you be missing

that is god calling you into something

extraordinary

but you won’t stay here long enough to

even notice it

there’s relationships right around you

that are going to be pivotal to the next

decade of your life but you think

because of their title right now that

they have no value in your life you

better look around

you better look around and see who’s

around you because god may be putting

something very common in front of you

inviting you into an extraordinary

situation it says moses was tending to

the flock of his father-in-law jethro

the priest of midian he had the flock

he led the flock far into the wilderness

and came to sinai

hold on

a desert place

an isolated place

a wilderness

why in the world would god use a

wilderness

let me help you

god will test your willingness

in the wilderness

i’m i’m not telling you

from an idea

the fact that i’m standing here today

is god testing my willingness mike

he played back for me all the things i

said

mike you said you would serve me

no matter what

you said you were here to represent me

to the lost

and the found

for transformation in christ

you said that nothing will stop you

from ministering

to my people

you said you would do anything short of

sin

to reach

those who are far from god

you said last week you don’t care if

anybody comes back

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

so now i’m gonna test you

now i’m gonna test you

i’m gonna test your willingness

to be faithful

in the wilderness

i’m gonna strip you

of everything that insulated your eye

identity

i’ma say that again

i’mma strip you of everything that

insulated your identity

and now i want to see are you willing to

serve me

what’s in you

when they don’t see it

[Music]

see many times we think the wilderness

is a punishment

and it’s honestly a test for our

willingness

you cannot actually see

somebody told me it ain’t love

until it’s tested

everybody be talking about i love god

you don’t love god what’s wrong with you

like they always be talking about that

but you only know if you love god

when you go through a situation

where it’s like um

i don’t know i don’t know

no this ain’t fair

this ain’t right

but do you still love me

the rest of this year

your wildernesses

are not punishments

they’re tests

some of y’all gonna play this back every

week

because you’re gonna need to be reminded

that here is holy and god will take you

into a space to test you ask jesus

jesus our example

literally whole town comes out baptized

by his cousin john

the holy spirit literally ascends like a

dove they hear audibly this is my son

and who i’m wealthy he’s affirmed

confirmed verified all that and then the

bible says that he is led

into the wilderness

the holy spirit

not the devil

he was led by the holy spirit into the

wilderness to be tested

what if

this year

you’re going to be tested

by the holy spirit

the reason i’m smiling

is because some of you are about to

leave here right now

and god’s trying to give you instruction

here

and because you don’t like

what

it looks like here

you’re about to leave and and

there’s somebody that’s about to log off

i’m telling you right now

get this instruction

here

is where god’s gonna test you

because it’s gonna prepare you for there

do you know what moses goes on to do

moses goes on to confront culture

she goes to the highest

person

in the land pharaoh

and has to tell pharaoh what god said

the only way he could tell pharaoh what

god said there

is that he got confirmed in his calling

here

there was an angel of the lord verse two

that appeared to him in the blazing fire

from the middle of the bush the bible

tells us um as you study out scripture

and theologians agree that this was

jesus in the old testament he was the

angel of the lord and it says moses

stared in amazement

though the bush watch this was engulfed

in flames

it didn’t burn up put me a fire in a

bush up here

this is what a bunch of our situations

look like

on fire

families

finances

internally

but moses is watching

this bush burn and i need you to

understand this was common in the desert

there were brush fires all the time

the difference about this thing

is when it was burning

it still had full leaves

it still

had fruit

it still

was not

disintegrating it still was standing

even though it was on fire

hear me because this encouraged me when

i listened to this story

if god is in the fire that’s what it

tells us that god was in this fire if

god is in the fire you won’t look like

what you’ve been through

if if if this was another

situation

the leaves would have burnt up

everything would have been crumbling and

falling but because god was in it it was

sustaining

the thing that was supposed to be

burning i’m about to preach this thing

when it looked like it was supposed to

be gone and ashes god was sustaining it

and i don’t know who you are but i’m

preaching to you from my experience when

god is in the fire

you will not look like

what you’ve been engulfed by

asked shadrach meshach and abednego

when culture told them to bow

and they said we will not bow and what

did they do they took oh i loved they

stands they were so gangster they said

we know our god can deliver us but even

if he don’t do you know how gangster

that is

even if he don’t do it it says doesn’t

but they don’t

we won’t bow

they threw him in the fire

he said turn it up

turned it up so hot

that the people who threw him in dropped

dead come on

but when they stood there they said

check on him

what you see

the fire the fire is on yes the fire is

it’s really big we threw a couple extra

yeah yeah yeah

but i see

one

two

three four

ricardo how many people did we throw in

to the fire

it was three right three okay one

two

three

four

i see i see four people in the fire

and one looks like

god

because when god’s in the fire

oh y’all better help me when god’s in

the fire he will sustain what should be

burning he will keep preserved what

should be desecrated

god is in

the fire

[Applause]

what are you trying to say pastor mike

the place that is on fire in your life

is actually a meeting place with god

[Applause]

god uses every burning bush

to get your attention he’s trying to

show you something

i don’t fully know what god’s trying to

show me in the situation that’s happened

in the last week but i

am fully attentive

that this burning bush

is a meeting place for me and god

passed my break that down to me

practically you know in the bible when

it says and jesus withdrew often

what i did as soon

as as soon as the spit hit the fan

and it started going everywhere

i told my wife we were in a hotel last

week on sunday afterwards just to rest

without the kids i talked to some people

in my community and they said let’s go

let’s get out of here

turn your social media off and let’s go

get with god

huh

see if you stayed

in this

place and listen to them

you’re gonna get distracted

of what god wants to do

here

so what you gonna do

is withdraw and meet with god

the whole thing burning and i’m praying

the whole thing

and i’m worshiping

the whole thing i don’t even know all

the news media outlets we was on i don’t

even know

and i don’t need to

let it play on all of them

but what i did

is i got

in a place

where the fire could consume me

see i’m looking at my situation on fire

and i need there to be a fire

that consumes me that consumes my pride

we sing the song all consuming fire

but what happens when you say god burn

it up in me anything that’s not like you

show me my error show me what you want

to do

burning me god

[Music]

and moses

sees this fire

and it was a meeting place

can i tell you

any area in your life that’s on fire

god’s trying to talk to you through it

relationships on fire he’s trying to

tell you something

your business is not working he’s trying

to tell you something

your family’s on fire you ain’t been

able to get along for years he’s trying

to tell you something

and the crazy thing is

that when god wants to talk to you he

doesn’t just want a transaction

he wants relationship

this is the hard part because especially

in our social media age everything is

transactional it’s not relational

back in the day you used to have to go

sit down and talk with somebody

like you used to have to go meet with

them and like make time now i could just

dm whoever i want to and see if they hit

me back see if they don’t and god’s

saying you can’t dm me

i i’m not i’m not i’m not trying to be

transactional god if you could just

bless my situation and then i’ll hit you

up when i accept the word word award

i’ll say all praises and glory to god he

said i’m not transactional

i’m relational

i want a relationship and the problem

with that is people want his provision

and not his person

see because i want to go there i just

need what i need real quick so i can get

there

i just need to move from here so i can

get there

they want its resources and not a

relationship

but god wants a relationship and god

wanted to meet with moses

and so what happened in verse three

moses said this is amazing

why isn’t this bush burning up

i must go see it moses went black

was not black um he might have been i

don’t know but he was

confused at this moment

because if i see a confusing situation

i’m not

let’s go through it like what

like i would have dipped out like and i

say this because uh we’re a multi-ethnic

church here and we have a lot of white

people a lot of hispanic people come to

church let me tell you something about

black people black people when we start

running

other black people don’t know have to

know why we’re running

we just were all hit or run

if somebody everybody like where we

going where we what what like

it don’t matter what it is somebody

screaming the right way

we are whoa whoa whoa whoa

this would have been the moment if it

was michael and not moses

i would have seen the bush burning

and not being consumed

oh i’ve been like hold up

[Laughter]

worthy is the lamb but um

but moses

shows us a pattern

that when you’re recognizing that god is

doing something

that you might need to take note of

see he was in a confusing situation why

is this not burning up why is this still

sitting here okay

write this point down

confusing situations

are many times

god confronting you with your calling

why is this happening

why did they leave

why did that get exposed

why is this situation burning up

but not being consuming

god used confusing situations

to start confronting your calling have

you ever been mad about something

in life and how people do things why

won’t they just

fix this and this and then it would be

fine

that confusion

that contradiction

that frustration is an indicator light

you’re called to that

you’re called to help that

you’re called to solve that

the things that bother you bother you on

purpose

[Music]

the things that get under your skin get

under your skin on purpose that is god

confronting you

with the great calling he’s put on the

inside of you i can’t stand when people

treat people bad like that and bully

people that

is the god nature on the inside of you

the reason why you watch that movie

about slavery or or or the um the

penitentiary system and you’re so

bothered it’s because it’s god

confronting you

with the piece of your calling

and the reason why most people never

ever get it

is because of the fear of here

they have the fear of here so what ends

up happening is

we like michael instead of like moses

michael

because i seen something confusing or

contradictory

i walk away

from here

i leave here

but moses does something very strange

and i believe it’s a sign to all of us

in this season where we’re going through

situations that are on fire where god

takes us to the wilderness where it

doesn’t look like everything we thought

it was going to look like watch this

stay curious even when you’re confused

stay curious

this week

i’ve been saying

okay god

since i’m here

what are you trying to teach me

leaning in

lean in

what are you trying to change in me

what are you trying to expose about me

what are you trying to show me i don’t

care what everybody else thinks i care

what you think

show me

show me me

most of us do not stay curious when

we’re confused

when we’re confused we try to solve it

when we’re confused we try to get out of

moses doesn’t bring water to the burning

bush

he doesn’t try to play god

because this ain’t his moment

he didn’t say you know what this poor

bush and start put

he said let me just get a little closer

and be curious about why

god called me to this church

and why

god stripped me from all of the things

that i was good at

to tell me to learn a new skill

why didn’t god use none of my degrees

i got more degrees than a thermometer

and he won’t let me you why did god

allow me to go through that situation

but still remember

and asked me to write a book

stay

curious

even though

you’re confused this is what moses does

right here it says and when the watch

this oh i love this

when it’s confusing

because you’re curious

look for confirmation

look for god to say something to you

watch this

when the lord saw moses

coming to take

a closer look

then he spoke

god’s not speaking

until you step

towards what

he’s already showing you

he literally burns up a situation and if

moses stands there god shuts up

but it literally says

when the lord saw moses coming his

curiosity what are you trying to teach

me here what are you trying to show me

when he went to take a closer look

that’s when god spoke write this point

down when you step god speaks

i’m trying to help you deal with right

here

step towards the thing that you don’t

understand step towards the people that

you don’t usually hang out with step

towards the the thing that makes you

uncomfortable but you know it’s the

thing that god’s called you to

i’m telling myself

meetings and business stuff

i’ve hated for a long time

i’m a creative

so so

when you start talking to me about

numbers and paragraph and if the whole

paper is black and you all got no

pictures no color

at the moment i stepped towards

but god why would you call me to be the

pastor of this church

and why would you call me to

lead

multiple million-dollar organizations

when i started stepping towards it

god starts speaking to me

he starts showing me i had a genius in

it he started revealing to me the

calling that he has given me to help

restore things in this city and in

others that have been broken down it

wasn’t until i stepped towards it

that he started speaking to me

what instructions are you missing

because you are not stepping in

curiosity towards what god is doing

okay i gotta get out of here

god called him

from the middle of the bush moses moses

say your name twice

i said say your name twice

yell it out

the reason why god called his name twice

is to confirm that it was him he was

talking to

what i’m telling you in in this place

where we’re going to be here

don’t doubt your calling

don’t doubt it somebody say i’m called

some of y’all didn’t believe that

somebody say i’m called

god called moses twice

and the reason he had to call him twice

is because moses had insecurities

he had

what some people would call deformities

he made

big mistakes

and usually when god calls most of us do

this michael

he must be

and god’s so good

that’ll say

no no no

michael

with all my stuff

i used to be addicted to pornography

i was a liar i was a manipulator

i don’t know if you heard last

uh last week i had a little incident

with saliva

you still have a call for

you still want to do something with

michael michael say your name twice

one more time

god is saying don’t doubt your calling

don’t doubt what i put on saturday you

didn’t make you you don’t even know

what’s in you

i have made you

don’t doubt your calling but look at

moses’s response

this is the title of my message today

here

the reason

why this is the most profound response

to what god invites moses into

is because many times god will call your

name specify it’s you and we still

do not surrender

to what god wants to do in our lives

this whole week

my whole confession has been

here i am

whatever you want to do

i’m available

i’m usable

they can walk on me if it’s for your

namesake

i said if you can use anything lord you

can use me i didn’t know it would feel

like this

here i am

this really feels unfair but

here i am

i haven’t cried in a long time

here i am

however you want to do it

whatever you want to do in me

if i’m a small piece

or a big piece

here i am

see this was not a statement of location

this was a statement of heart posture

you want to take me from making this

much a year to this much a year

here i am

people wanted to be me two weeks ago

now you don’t want to be seen with me

here i am

now this is this is

if you don’t

get that level

of availability in your heart

you will always

negate the power of here

here i am somebody say here i am

here i am is the proper response when

god calls you

and some of you god has been calling you

and you’ve been saying stuff like wait a

minute

god’s been calling you by name and

you’ve been saying just let me get a few

things together

let me have one more wild night

god’s calling you by name and you’re

saying give me till next year

he’s saying i want you right now and

you’re saying god

[Music]

i don’t want to be uncomfortable

but as for myself and transformation

nation

our response

this entire year will be what here i am

verse five

this is all my introduction to this

whole series so come back next week

because i’m going to

preach this story into the ground

but i had to set up why here is holy

god speaks now

when he okay thank you lord

in this year

you don’t respond

no no no excuse me in this year you

respond you don’t react

reaction is different than response

god says to him michael michael moses

moses he said he responds he doesn’t

react

he says here i am

and i just hear this for so many people

you have been reacting your whole life

and god said would you stay here long

enough

to respond to me

and this is how you respond when when

god gets you in this place you wait for

him to speak again and look what it says

do not come any closer the lord warned

him hold up this guy serious real quick

take off your sandals

for you are standing

on holy ground or in other words here

holy

see see the thing about this

that really bothered me

is that god

showed me so clearly he said michael

you got to take off your protection in

this season

see sandals or shoes were the thing

that protected them

as they walked on all different terrains

and so

the shoes would keep them

from experiencing thorns and sticks and

rocks and all different type of thing

and god says stop

take off

your protection

because i need you to feel this

what i got to take off my shoes

because there is something

in between you and the ground that’s got

you too high

so i need you to take that thing off

and i need you

to let me

touch your soul

you know what they call the bottom of

the shoe

the soul

s-o-l-e

but i believe spiritually god is saying

as we declare that here is holy

we’re going to begin to take off our

protection mechanisms

the people the places the things we’ve

run to

and we’re going

to begin

hold on

no i can’t do that

i can’t expose my vulnerable areas

see the thing that you don’t know about

my feet

they ugly

i mean they’re the only ones i got

they’re the only ones i got they served

me well

but i don’t want anybody else to see

the vulnerability

of this next season i’m walking

i don’t want you to judge me based on a

vulnerable area

that’s why i always got on good shoes

and cool shoes cause you know the feet

are there but you never see them

because i don’t want to get that

vulnerable

to be able to show you and god is saying

but here

it’s don’t come another step if you’re

not gonna be vulnerable

do not move

unless you’re gonna expose the areas

that you’ve been trying to protect for

the last 35 years

here

here is holy

damn

now the thing about my feet

i’m gonna go ahead and let everybody

know since i’m out here

so my feet um

they they’ve been through a lot

like um

my my my feet um

actually

um i’ve played drums since i was two

years old

and um

the way i was not professionally trained

until i was 12. so when i played drums

the front of my foot on the kick pedal

and

and the hi-hat pedal i would push

against

like my foot to kick and it literally

laid all my feet have this little like

bunion thing that is like

what you call it

hammer head toast

first time that made me feel bad

first time i ever heard that damn

[Music]

[Applause]

yikes

and um

which side okay y’all see that pinky

right there

that’s kind of cocked up in the air

i’m just being vulnerable you see this

one right here it’s this one right here

ain’t nothing ain’t never touch the

ground look at that

that mug don’t touch nothing

[Applause]

this

was another traumatic experience in my

life

where my mom told me to stop chasing my

brother around the living room

and um moment of prayer woman of faith

powerful prophetess

i hit the side of the chair

and my pinky went straight up

and it’s been like this

she laughing on the front row this ain’t

funny

cause when i went to her crown like mom

my foot my dad she said you shoulda

listened to me

and didn’t even pray for me

and i lost feeling in my toe obviously

and now put put it back on put it put it

back on people don’t know this unless i

show them

people would never see this

this toe

has been in the air

for over two decades

it’s a part of me now

[Music]

it didn’t have to happen and it

shouldn’t have happened

i could have got it corrected but now

it’s who

it’s who i am

i know me more with my toe in the air

then i do without it

this this this part of my toe is rubbed

off

because

due to the fact that my pinky’s up in

the air now

all my shoes

feel different

when they’re on this foot

and when they’re on this foot

this foot

hurts in certain shoes that this foot

feels comfortable

there are moments where there are areas

in our life where it feels comfortable

to do it this way

but this way because of the injury or

the trauma or the hurt

and god’s saying take your shoes off

this is where i want you

because here

it’s how this is the vulnerability i

want

this is where this is where i need to

touch i don’t bless who you pretend to

be in them shoes

i’ll bless who you really are

this is where i’m loved

pinky in the air

that’s how god sees me

and says that’s my child

that’s the one i love

and this is the thing i need you to

understand

when moses took off his shoes

i need you to understand what he was

saying

he was saying every step i took to get

here

doesn’t matter anymore

because where i’m at now

it feels different than every other

place i’ve stepped

see

if he stepped in donkey poo or sheep

poop or or or or in grass or or went

through dirt it was all on the soles of

his feet

or the soles of his sandals

but when he took them off

it was a new beginning

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it’s a representation of salvation

this is something new i’ve never been

this open before

i’ve never been this sensitive before

it’s actually scary to be out here

this vulnerable

but here

is help me

bring it out

i think i’m gonna preach the rest of

this sermon series

barefoot

when i was in those shoes i didn’t feel

the stage

there’s all kinds of crevices and nicks

and cuts and it’s actually making me

feel good because it’s colder

than being in my shoe i miss a lot when

i’m not vulnerable

i miss a lot here

i miss the reality of what i am actually

standing on

if i don’t get in a vulnerable

place

see because what kept you back there

is not allowed here

when god told me here is holy take off

your shoes he said everything you took

off

is not allowed here anybody got a house

where you got to take off shoes to come

yeah some of y’all know like

when you take off your shoes it’s

because this is a home this is the place

that’s sacred

and here i want you to feel

i got to talk to some people who’ve been

so calloused

by church by community

by christians

by people who are supposed to love you

that you have not been able to feel

and god says here is holy

take off

the offense

that’s on your soul

take off the offense that’s on your mind

will and emotions that’s what your soul

take off the unforgiveness on your soul

take off

the bitterness

that is tried to convince you that it’s

protecting you

get

in a vulnerable place

and declare

here

holy

hey brent charles come here real quick

charles take off your shoes here is holi

yeah yeah yeah take off your shoes

here’s holy

break keep your shoes on

um y’all y’all come here

to to the land of your life

see on the land of your life

there’s obstacles that will come

on the land of your life it may seem

like kitty things uh-huh

but that stuff that happened to you when

you were a kid

that stuff that they didn’t affirm in

confirming you

it creates things

that we try not to feel

so what ends up happening

when we start trying to move from here

to there

is brent

go ahead and walk from here to there as

fast as you can

it doesn’t matter

what happened

because

he’s still protected

but when god says charles

go from here to there

watch this now stop

he has to be so much more

intentional

and careful

and slow

because wherever he steps

could potentially

damage him

for life

are you saying oh it’s just kiddie

things go go go back charles come back

run back

see don’t get surprised

when people are running past you

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[Applause]

they’re so protected

that they don’t even feel the success

that’s why they keep running after every

other success

they don’t even feel the joy they have a

mansion as a house but they don’t have a

home because they can’t feel

oh but i put away the childish things

what are these

oh i like these

captain crunch

so now

when i’m walking

bring come across

see what you can’t hear is every step

he’s making is crunching wow

that means

that everything he’s doing is loud

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everything god may be trying to hide him

but he can’t hide

god may be trying to preserve him but he

can’t because he starts stepping with no

care for here

but when charles has to step

he has to watch every

movement and be intentional brent

run back

and make charles feel insecure about

where he’s at

because this is what we do on instagram

we see people running

and god’s saying charles right right

here is holy

the step that you made right here is

hold just stay right there because then

what we do

is we

we get the nasty stuff

syrup

yeah

and we get into lust and perversion

and delusion and confusion

oh yeah

this is what it looks like when we have

the seeds of unforgiveness and

bitterness

and they surround us because our family

was like that for our whole life

and it seems like something that has us

trapped hey brent

show everybody how you run through a

sticky situation when you’re not

vulnerable to god

now the bottom

of his shoes

bear the marks

of what he’s been through

but he still can’t feel it

so then he has kids

and says you wear the same size as me

and they put shoes on

children

because they never dealt with the soul

of the issue

and now you’re talking about

generational habits and generational

cycles and generation it’s because y’all

been wearing the same dirty shoes

and god is trying to get you to

understand if you’re going to get out of

these sticky situations you got to

acknowledge here take a step charles

without stepping in what’s been there

yeah don’t step in it

go over it oh my goodness now watch this

stay right there you have to be in in

in tuned

with every step

because if i if i carelessly start

stepping at any moment

i can potentially damage

ruin watch this not even where i’m at

right now

see the next season

[Applause]

is about you giving it away to somebody

and so now you’ve been in sticky

situation after sticky situation

and god calls you to lead people

lead a family lead a business hey brent

run across here

hey brent

it looks like

we can tell where you’ve been

because of what’s on you i wasn’t there

when it happened

but now you talk like it happened you

act like it happened you love like it

happen

[Applause]

and we can all see

where you’ve been

and see it’s not all fun things

sometimes it’s rocks and glass

stuff that cuts you

that looks like the kitty stuff that was

already there

see it’s hard to tell the difference

between this glass and rocks

and the captain crunch

but this stuff can get stuck in your

feet

this stuff can cause you to bleed the

words of people can cause you to bleed

the opinions of others

let me just say it real the opinions of

your family members

that father and mother

that abuser

that coach

and god’s saying

i need you to recognize every place you

step

because here

holy bring run across here

matter of fact back pedal

do a dance do do a dance like yeah

shimmy yeah

yeah

yeah okay

[Applause]

culture

thinks brent’s doing better

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[Applause]

culture

will tell you

that he’s up

he’s winning

we can see him winning we can see him

dancing while the only thing god is

pleased with he’s not even paying

attention

to what brennan’s doing because he

hasn’t even got vulnerable enough to

feel what’s here

god’s going to let brent continue

to run across here all 2022

until he gets vulnerable enough

to take off his shoes

and he was going to

before the incident

i can’t follow that pastor no more

he was helping me grow spiritually but

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he was about to take his shoes off

and get vulnerable with god

the culture started speaking

i can’t give there i can’t serve there

i’m gonna just go back and do my own

thing

and god’s saying hold on hold on hold on

don’t forfeit

me bringing you to this place where i

want to talk to you

because of others that don’t understand

the wilderness

i told you here

is holy say it with me here

is oh

can you bring this

cause now

it’s random stuff

situation circumstances i’m an adult and

people still acting like kids

obstacles

problems

situations

and god’s still saying

here

take two steps forward

and one step to the left

the steps of a good man

are ordered by the lord

stand on one foot

for ten seconds

nine

eight it’s uncomfortable

it’s not it’s not what i thought i’ve

been walking with two feet

but you’re gonna tell me three

two

one everybody might not have understand

it stood it

but that’s where god said now take that

foot don’t put it back down

and step forward

now rest there

rest here

because for the next six months

it’ll look like no movement

but what i’m doing is protecting you

i’m protecting you from the love of

money cause a lot of people are gonna

start throwing

money at you

and if you step into it

it’s gonna ruin what you prayed for

the money i told you seek first the

kingdom and right standing and all of

this is going to be added but i need you

to stay right there even though it’s

available

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even though you could go make a bunch

even though you could do what everybody

else

would do

i told you six months

and i’m gonna put the bucket in front of

you

don’t move

don’t take none well i’m bout to lose my

house

lose it

but obey me

this

is what it looks like to live a

christian life

this

is walking

in the ability

to be available to the voice of god

because what you don’t understand

is when the nails and screws of life

come to really ravage

and the crazy thing about it is the

thing that can hurt you most is seeing

the the least

i can’t see these

as much as i can see the money

i can’t see these

as much as i can see the toys

but these can damage me

way more

run across there

run back

it doesn’t even matter if he steps on

anything

may say it like this it doesn’t even

matter if he steps on anybody

he can’t feel

so you can go to the comments and talk

about anybody

because you don’t know what it feels

you can write people off

because you don’t truly know what it

feels like

but at the moment charles steps on

anything

in here

he will know what it feels like

this is why jesus

came

to earth

and downgraded himself

to humanity

because he wanted us to know

that he knew

what it feels like

he wanted us to serve a god

who knew what it actually felt like

to be despised

to be accused

to have them one day screaming hosanna

and the next day screaming crucify you

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hey charles

take two steps in the blank areas and

you may have to stay on your tippy toes

yeah yeah and get to the end

and avoid

the pitfalls

of your life

no no no no come here because i want to

use it as a testimony

so so so

he just went through it

and and and and i want you to step up

here real quick

there may be something on his feet go go

go to the camera and show them his feet

he does not look like

what he’s

been through i’m preaching to somebody

right here

that needs to understand that god is

telling you here is holy

[Music]

because he wants to take you into a

space for his glory

that when you look at what you’ve been

through

your vulnerability before god

your ability to feel

now has given you the connection point

with people who’ve never walked through

what you’ve walked through and with

people who have

moses is job

is to lead two million different people

he had to go through this wilderness

so he could relate

the wilderness wasn’t even for him

it was for who he would lead

when you stop worrying about your

wilderness affecting you

you’ve been qualified

for it to transform

others

here

hey brent

come here

just come stand up here

can you show them what you’ve been

through

go ahead put it on the screen

this is what many of us look like

as we come to serve god

praise god

give him our lives you can have

everything except

my vulnerability

i’ve been hurt too much i got to keep

protecting me

but do you know the crazy thing

about this situation

is that when you come into salvation

jesus gets in a low position

and he begins to untie you

from all of the situations things

patterns

everything you’ve been through

everything that’s tried to hurt you

everything that’s tried to make you

embarrassed

and he takes the shame

and he takes the guilt

and he says you know what you ain’t got

to deal with that no more

and he said you may be ashy because you

asked you

and your feet might stink

can somebody bring me some water please

but what god does

what god does

when the world would humiliate you

when the world would make you feel like

something

in the same

platform

that people tried to make you feel

embarrassed

when they spit on you

then god

will literally take you

and in front of everybody

lift up your feet

he will begin

to wash

he will identify i feel the presence of

god with your affirmative

[Music]

and he will

he will clean up

in a humble position

with the world

said it was humiliating

because here

[Applause]

here i am

come on lift your hands all over the

world

here i am god

if you tell me to take off my shoes

you tell me to get vulnerable

here i am

here i am god

i’m

broken i’m embarrassed

i don’t know what to do

here i am though

i hear you calling me

i’m not gonna keep on my protection

i’m not going to act like i didn’t feel

i felt it

and it hurt

but you said my steps are ordered by you

so if you told me to walk through this

crap

here i am god

when you say listen to me

when you say here i am everybody say it

here i am

it is a declaration of availability

my little daughter ava she don’t know

how to play hide and go seek yet

she loves it though

the reason why she don’t know how to

play is she don’t understand that the

point of the game is not to be found

so she’s little and she gets great

hiding spots

but if it’s taking too long for somebody

to find you or even if she hears you in

the vicinity

she jumps out and says here i am

and god says that’s how i want you to be

all here

when you feel me in the vicinity

don’t don’t make me find you

jump out and say

here i am

while i was trying to deal with your

pride you ain’t even got to come search

for me i was prideful here i am

[Music]

god i’m not going to hide yeah there was

wrong motivation in me doing that i

wanted to go on that vacation and take

them pictures to stun on people here i

change my motivation

here i am

help me love people

who hate me here i am

because i’ve never been disciplined in

my life but i’mma finish this 21 days of

prayer and fast and strong here i am

when you say here i am say it one more

time here

it’s a declaration of availability but

when oh you take off your protection

it is a sign of vulnerability

you could hurt me now

because my shoes are off

if i had to go through this

i would have to be very intentional on

every step

because

i can feel

you either protect yourself

or feel

[Music]

but that means you don’t just not feel

the lows you can’t feel the highs

and that’s where god is saying you don’t

get to live a full life if you can’t

feel

you don’t live a life faithful

if you do not feel i had to feel what i

felt this week

to know how good god has been to me

me feeling what i felt this week

let me know how faithful he’s been in

every season

because i’m vulnerable enough to feel

i live a faith full life

and the just

shall walk

faith

what good is faith if you can’t feel

so it’s

here i am

availability

take your protection off

check your soul

not just s-o-l-e but the s-o-u-l

your mind-willing emotions

feel

that’s vulnerability and the last one

listen to this

is when you become aware of his presence

when you become aware of his presence

this is what i told somebody the other

day

you don’t ever have to say again

god come field this place

he already there

it’s our awareness

of god being there

it’s our it’s our

availability

our vulnerability

and then is us being aware of what he is

doing it’s our awareness to his presence

here

is holy would you stand all over the

world

just put your hands out in a posture to

receive

what i want everybody to do where’s my

phone

that’s my phone what i want everybody to

is this week

it’s going to take some vulnerability

but i want you to uh take your

shoes off some of y’all can do it even

right now i want you to take your shoes

off

and i want you to take a picture

of where your feet stand

[Music]

and i want you to declare some of y’all

are going to go to your job because

that’s the place of your frustration

and you’re going to get in your mirror i

know this is unconventional this is

crazy faith if you want something else

you can go somewhere else but right now

we’re declaring for our soul mind

willing emotion to line up

your house has been a place of confusion

i want you to take a picture

and i want you to declare here

holy with all the dysfunctions put it

back on my feet real quick

with all of the look at that foot

never that toe in hd

i can put this phone under there and it

ain’t even touching

but that’s the only one i got

that’s the only pinky toe i got on that

left foot

i i don’t want to get rid of it

i don’t want to amputate it

i still need it

even though it may look dysfunctional

here

with all my flaws

it’s holy hands lifted everywhere holy

hands

sitting right here

[Music]

come on in this moment i want you to

declare right here

[Music]

come on out of your mouth

sit right here

[Music]

god i’m surrendered right here

[Music]

my words are weak

my words are weak your word is enough

somebody say your word is here

my faith is fading my faith

but i still feel your love

you are loved right here

i’m exchanging

my burden for yours

why so i can hear so i can’t hear god in

this moment you’re inviting me into a

major calling somebody sing the second

verse say

[Music]

this is

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in this

[Music]

right here this

[Music]

my is

in you

my anchor my foundation

i’ve built my life on it cause why

[Music]

god’s ministering to somebody right now

he’s showing you the places where you

need to get vulnerable stop waiting for

something else to happen in the service

right now god is saying i want to meet

with you right here hands lifted right

now three more minutes said why

show me me

i’m available i’m vulnerable god

right here you can do it you can do the

work right here

this is where i need everybody to get to

a place where they run to god

it the bible says he that dwells

in the secret place that’s a separate

place that’s a holy place

that’s not an instagramable place that’s

not a facebookable place that is a place

i had my friends tell me he said michael

you’re healing right now you don’t have

to teach people why you heal you you

don’t have to show everybody everything

while you heal this is a place where

god’s gonna reveal as he heals

that means i gotta call this place holy

so i’m asking you this week

[Music]

as you watch this message back two or

three times i’m i’m challenging

everybody there’s going to be new

revelation every time you watch it

new revelation as i’m snapping my

fingers that’s how the revelation is

going to come you’re going to see your

life full throttle you got to watch this

back at least two times this week

because god is going to begin to reveal

what he wants to do right

here

but it’s about getting in his presence

okay look he that dwells safe

[Music]

[Applause]

of the

[Music]

just a couple more times received

right here

[Music]

he’s speaking to you right now

earlier

[Music]

hands lifted everybody say holy holy

holy sake

[Music]

merciful

[Music]

come on somebody say bless it

[Music]

god

holy

holy oh

god we reference you right here god

[Music]

i’m giving you everything

[Music]

father son holy spirit

[Music]

thank god

[Music]

cause right here

[Music]

i can feel you god

[Music]

sent right

some of y’all got to leave but

this is a moment

encourage them destiny that their storm

will

[Music]

come on out worship team come on

[Music]

our foundation is sure

[Applause]

[Music]

hands lifted everywhere father here we

are

somebody say here i am

here i am

father i did what you asked me to do

today

now i’m thanking you

that this seed goes down into the hearts

of your people

and you will reveal what it means for

them

for their individual life

for their family

that they’ll be able to say i love it

here

because they’re loved here

that they’ll be able to acknowledge by

the end of this year

you know what that was the most set

apart

that was the most god ordained

that was the most strategic year of my

life because right here

here is holy

[Music]

god i thank you that transformation

nation would mature this year

and we will become the believers

to be modeled after

that people would follow us as we follow

you

but father that means we got to get

vulnerable

and we got to bring our feet

our situations our vulnerability our

availability

we have to bring it to you

and say right here

um just for every person

who um

has never accepted jesus as your

personal lord and savior

the reason i’m here today

is to introduce you to our anchor

to the one who is speaking through the

fire

the the one who is the alpha and the

omega the beginning and the end the one

who’s in the middle with you

man i’ve been through some crappy

situations in my life

god has been through every one of them

with me

it’s because i invited him in

and many of you are about to take this

journey on another year

of putting god as a condiment to your

life

i sprinkle them on when i need them

[Music]

when the thrills of life aren’t hitting

me right i just put a little bit on

god says

i want to be the main course of your

life

i want everything to fit around me

it was the greatest decision i ever made

it was a holy moment

a separating moment

when i invited jesus into my life not on

the play play not on the i need to do

this so i feel better about what i did

last night not that

i’m available

and now i’m vulnerable

you can take everything

you can change me

you can renew me you can transform it

you can take me from being a liar a

manipulator somebody who is addicted to

pornography a bad person had all kinds

of evil things in my heart had car

insurance fraud case against me all this

other stuff and you could take all of

that

and you can give me

a new life

and today i’m telling you as sure as i’m

standing here

walking through the fire

i would never ever

want to take one step

without jesus with me

today i want to give you the opportunity

to take your shoes off

to get real in your soul

your mind will and emotions

and invite jesus to be your personal

savior that’s the first thing but then

he wants to be your lord

and when he’s your lord that means he

takes on responsibility that means he’s

gonna speak you gotta obey you gotta

obey the steps but then he takes full

ownership and he transforms your life in

ways i can’t even imagine and tell you

about today i’m just living it

if you’re tired of walking alone

here is holy

this is your burning bush moment

this is the moment where god says

surrender

and your response not your reaction but

your response should be

here i am

somebody say here i am

if that’s you

on the count of three i want you to lift

your hands because we’re about to say a

prayer

for the benefit of those coming to

christ

and even rededicating their lives to

christ

because today i feel mama this is going

to be a demarcation for people

this will be a different like oh i

changed

everything in me changed

on this day

i feel that so strong this is going to

you’re going to mark this this is going

to be a marked date in your life what’s

today’s date

the 21st

23rd

january 23rd

2022

and this will be a

mark

of where you stopped and heard god’s

voice

and said here

it’s holy

whenever you watch this on rebroadcast

all through this week 10 months from now

this your moment

somebody say here is holy here we go if

you want to give your life to jesus

christ one i’m so proud of you two

heaven is turning up

over just one person that would give

their life to christ three lift your

hand up in the air right now

there are hundreds if not thousands of

people right now now listen let let me

tell you you’re in good company y’all

get ready to clap right here since

january 1st

there have been over 4

200 people oh y’all missed it

that declared here y’all better help me

in less than 23 days

over 4 000 people have said i’m giving

my life to jesus and here is holy

and we get to add

to heaven we rob into hell

[Applause]

right now in this moment

so if that’s you

let’s pray

and at tc we’re family nobody prays

alone so we all pray in this together

for the benefit of those who are coming

to christ everybody just say god

thank you

for seeing me

here

just like i am

and giving me

jesus

today

i believe

that he lived

he died

and he rose again

just for me

i’m vulnerable

so take me

change me

use me

transform me

i’m yours

in jesus name

amen can we thank god for the thousands

of people y’all better help me

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y’all better help me

let’s give god

grace cause here

holy

[Music]

transformation nation

don’t miss one week of this series

this is a life transforming

pivotal shift

in our minds our hearts and our

understanding

i told y’all last week

it was the ending of a volume

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and this is the start of something new

[Music]

2022

god’s intentionally limiting us

it’s the year of intentional

limitation

the limitations set this year will not

be opposed on you they will be set by

you

you’re gonna set time to spend with god

you’re gonna set time to exercise you’re

going to set time to foster those

relationships you’re going to set time

to just here

because here

holy

i love you

i’m praying for you

i believe that this is going to be the

best

week of your life as you stop and

declare

here is holy

we have seven more days of prayer and

fasting

and listen

i’m encouraging you every night this

week

at six o’clock

we’re gonna be right here

and the level of attack that’s been

coming

we’re not playing defense we playing

offense

we about to pray heaven down we’re about

to pray for the sick we’re about to pray

for our government we’re about to pray

for our leaders we’re about to pray for

the people who don’t like us we are

going to intercede

and we want you to join us we want you

every night tomorrow night i’m leading

prayer tonight i’mma come in here the

enemy thought he’s gonna shut me up i’m

about to pray heaven down i

like like

you messed up and chose the wrong one

you poked me i’m coming back at you the

enemy will pay for everything and we’re

not going to do it because it’s not

flesh and blood

we don’t wrestle against this

some other stuff happening

so we’re gonna pray

meet me here tomorrow night i want 10

000 people on on youtube tomorrow night

we’re going to stream this thing on

youtube if one can put a thousand to

flight

and two can put ten thousand angels to

move what type of multiplication happens

when we get ten thousand people

praying

that’s not multiplication that’s

compounding

we believe that we’re going to see god

move heaven and earth

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Here I Am // Here Is Holy (Part 1) // Michael Todd

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