God wants to take us from HERE to THERE. But we can’t do that if we fight to stay HERE. We don’t need to fight God this year. If God said it… here we go! Pastor Mike shows us how we can commit ourselves to our assignment HERE so we can be equipped to go THERE.
um this is the last week
of this series we’re calling here is
holy week six
but this is not the last um sermon
that is going to confront what god’s
doing in us and through us everybody say
right here
this is the phrase for the entire year
so in the next series
we’re going to be talking about what
god’s doing in our generosity and
stewardship right
here
and then when we go after that
and then we start talking about what god
wants to do and our relationships i
think i’m going to do i’m not sure right
now but i think i’m going to do a series
called cuffing season
after the finance series and after
easter because
what i’m finding is people are in
relationship
and cuffed to things that are taking
them in the wrong direction
and i i just find everybody know a
relationship goes this gonna be a little
different
i i really feel like you’re in
relationship with whatever you’re tied
to
and i just feel like we’re not going to
be talking about the future of our
relationship we’re going to be talking
about what you cuffed to right
here
and i don’t know what all the other
sermon series are i i have an inkling of
them
but i just feel like god all of 2022
he wants to do a work within us right
here
and um for for those of you just joining
this series
welcome
god’s doing something really really
special here at transformation church if
you’re excited to be a part of a church
that’s led by the holy spirit could you
just give god some prayer i just need to
know i love it here you understand i
love it here but do you love it here in
the chat in the comment in the room can
we give god some praise that he’s
actually doing this right now
amen
so write it down here is holy
this phrase is something that we have
coined um for what god is saying to us
in this season of life that needs to
apply to every area of your life
here is holy is the awareness that your
current situation everybody say where
i’m at
is sacred
uh oh
where i’m at
is sacred
it it’s not asking you do you like where
you’re at
it’s making a declarative statement over
where you’re at where i’m at is sacred
somebody just say that where i’m at
is sacred
and it’s being intentionally used by god
to prepare me
for my purpose
and it’s opposed to there
it means
that there is no longer the goal
i’m going to say this again because it’s
going to go against everything you wrote
in your vision planner
there
is no longer the goal
here is the gift of god
there
is not the goal
here
is the gift of god and until you divorce
the theology of there you will always be
frustrated about here
you will always devalue here
i i heard somebody say the other day
they have small children and and and we
have small children and we were talking
back and forth and they said i can’t
wait till they get older
but at the moment they get older you’re
going to be wishing
that they were little again any parents
in the house oh god they can talk and
talk back and they drive and i wish i ah
and you wish they could go back to the
place why and many times people have
more children because they didn’t value
the here they were in
uh-oh i’m going to real stuff
and so they keep having children trying
to get back a moment that they didn’t
value and maybe it’s not children but it
may be boyfriends
because you’re trying to find a feeling
that you had at one moment when it was
good and godly but you didn’t like the
package god sent them in
so you started talking to your
girlfriends and you let their opinion
divorce you from your
future
and it may not be a relationship but it
may be a business
and you didn’t value the time when
nobody knew you and you could actually
greet every customer
and actually go out to dinner with
people who wanted to invest now you’re
so busy you keep praying for god to take
away what you fasted for
and when you do not value everybody shot
at me here
dare
is never fulfilling
cause dare
turns into
here
you never get there and it stays there
every time you get there it turns into
here
and if you were not
content
with the here you were in you will not
be content
in the here you go to
they tell me
that the average satisfaction of
people’s life
does not go up drastically after you
make seventy five thousand dollars
did you all hear that and i know some
people like well test me like let me see
let me see what could happen
but they literally say
that your joy happiness and vigor for
life
increases very little
after you make seventy five thousand
dollars
so but when i get there when i make two
hundred thousand
when i make 250 when i make a million
and god said but you weren’t satisfied
at 35 000.
so you can put 3.5 in the books and
still be
frustrated
hurting
broken
and god is saying could i teach you a
principle that will allow you to enjoy
the rest of your life
valuing
here
and so
i want you to write it down in a point
obedience here
always takes you there
most people
are not obedient
immediately here
so they delay there
and that what makes them frustrated
about here because i thought god was
going to do it here
and god said you didn’t obey here
well i thought you was going to change
my situation i thought you was going to
listen
like what if god said what it really was
i thought you was gonna give me a
relationship i wanted a relationship
with you first
[Music]
i thought you were gonna make my church
known i see your church it is known
uh-oh
he’s literally saying would you please
obey me
here
because when you obey me here it always
takes you
there could you put here and there on
the screen
i want everybody to see this and i want
you to see it very clearly matter of
fact i’ma move this out the way because
i want you to see this i got this
revelation this week that literally
god can take you
on a journey from wherever you are if
you just obey god says step
my one obedience step
i didn’t have to run
the here took me there okay
give him the crazy faith offering well
god i don’t well
promotion
love on that person that doesn’t like
you
favor
stop
committing
to people who are not
committed to your purpose
[Applause]
whole new friend group
see a lot of us will not obey god for
the first step
so now we’re trying to work our way to
somewhere god would carry us to
i’m not using any energy except the
energy to step
but it’s because i’m obeying the step
everybody shot at me here
that when i do it
say yes to serving
and this is what many of y’all do
god i’ll say yes
but i don’t really like it
i don’t really um
that’s not my group of people
that i i i really thought you were going
to do it in a different way
god i i really thought you were going to
use them and not me god i actually do
not and god said if you don’t stop
fighting against the current
of the vision i have for your life then
you would actually be able to get what i
have for you
but you know what if you just stop even
if you turn the wrong way
if you would just stop
you could go with what god is trying to
do in and through you
he can take you from here to there
from broken
and deliver you to
whole
he can take you
from a poverty mindset
and allow you to live in wealth and
abundance
with generosity he can take you i’m just
trying to get somebody to see
hear always turns into there
if
if
you’re obedient everybody say here yeah
if if this whole year
we would just make the next obedient
step
you’ll end up
there
now the crazy thing about this is
sometimes this goes fast
and sometimes
it goes slow could you speed it up just
a little bit for me
see because
i’m expecting a certain tempo right now
but what ends up happening is as you
know
and flow with god
things that used to take a long time
it begins to take less time
because you have developed the muscle of
quick obedience
and i don’t know who needs to hear this
today but god is saying that you need to
stop thinking about there and you need
to live your life and what bishop calls
continual hears
because i’m no longer looking at from
going from here to there i’m looking at
going from here
to here
and then when he does that i go from
here
just here it doesn’t matter how long it
takes and it doesn’t matter if i look
dumb i’m not using my energy to make
this happen this is god uh oh
he paused me
stopped me
i was i was in a rhythm
in the last five years
every time we did something you just
took us from here to here
wasn’t expecting that one god
do you get off when you don’t expect it
wasn’t expecting that one god oh dang
and now it’s going way faster whoa hold
on lord
hold on i need to brace myself for some
of the transitions
you’re making in my life right now i
need to
i need to be able to get in position to
do everything you’ve called me to do it
does not matter what it looks like
it matters that i’m everybody shy to be
obedient
because when i follow the steps god
gives me everybody shout at me here
it always
takes me there
now can you do something cameraman
put it
to where you can’t see the treadmill but
you can see me
yeah yeah yeah right there right there
make it where you can’t see my feet
either
just come up a little bit
yeah just come on up when my feet get
right here yeah right there right there
right there
see
the crazy thing about it is
it doesn’t matter if others can see
what’s under you
making you move when you see me
all you see
is it looks like i’m gliding
through situations other people’s
stumbling
this
is what the church should look like when
you follow the power of the holy spirit
on your life when everybody else is
going down you follow the spirit and it
takes you
up it takes you from here
to here
and it don’t i’m gonna do this all
service
and it doesn’t matter
if they see
what’s powering it
because at some point
they’re gonna come through and ask
how
how did you lose your loved one
and i saw you when you got the call
but grief and shame didn’t stay
all long you were able to minister to me
at the cubicle the next day how
everybody say how
how were you able to go into that
situation that looked like you were at a
disadvantage
and walk in there with the favor of god
and be able to stand and declare what
god said
and see your family and others you don’t
even know blessed it’s because i have
something powering me
that is not of this world
this is how we go from here
to here
or if that’s too much from you for you
put the cross in front of here
and guess what it spells
there
so every time
i get here
before i see there i need to see the
cross
matthew 6 33
seek first
the kingdom
its agenda
its plan
and everything else
will be what i should be going towards
every time is the cross
every move i make
from my marriage
from my money from my mindset
i should be going towards the cross and
this is for everybody who’s not been
going towards the cross and you’ve been
this what you look like in your everyday
life
how you doing blessing holidays i’m
doing good girl
everything good how’s that relationship
you know we you know
we’re in a situation shift i mean but it
was just valentine’s day and he bought
me some good chances a little leon
saying
but does he commit to you know it’s only
been nine years but i just know that
god’s gonna the only thing you have to
do
is repent
do you know what repent means
turn
i’m preaching this treadmill right now
all i’m telling you
is that if you turn towards the cross
if you turn towards what god
wants for you
it takes you from here
to there
let’s keep that running
we’ll see what happens
you know what
i started to think about
how god doesn’t want us
to stay here
past our assignment
but most people don’t know the
expiration date to hear
and so at the moment they get there and
they don’t like it they try to run from
it
some stuff was only supposed to last 11
days
ask the children of israel
it had an expiration date of 11 days in
the wilderness but as soon as they
tasted manna for the first time and was
like what is it their heart
lengthened the time
let me come preach to y’all
if your heart posture
is not proper
when god’s trying to do something in you
here
you will make the clock
longer
because the whole reason for the
wilderness
the whole reason for here
is to work out of you what cannot go
into the promised land
and there are so many things that we
carry on the inside of us that we feel
will be permitted in the promised land
and god’s saying that will get your
access denied so i gotta take you the
long way
to work on your attitude to work on your
thoughts to work on your character to
work on your people skills i gotta do
that so that you do not disqualify
yourself when we get to the place that i
promised you he promised them i’ma take
you to a promised land
but their heart condition
lengthened an 11-day expiration date to
a 40-year death
no longer
do we need to be worried about
there i really believe they probably had
meetings about what it was going to be
like in the promised land
instead of focusing on what god told
them to do right here they were like yo
but when we get over there i
heard and i bet you know what and once i
and god was like man
if you always just focus on what i’m
trying to do and building you right
here
it would change everything
so last week
god invites moses into this amazing call
and moses
he had internal limitations
that would not allow him to fully obey
what god was asking him to do that’s why
i said if you make the first step and
obey god he’ll take you from here to
there he will feel your mouth he’ll give
you what to say he’ll educate you as you
go but most of us want to fight with god
instead of have faith in god
i’m going to say this again
most of us want to fight with god
instead of have faith in god
and so um
i’ve been enamored at moses’s story
reading it for this series
and seeing how much
he argued with god
about what god called him to do
and i know
none of y’all argue with god
as soon as he says it yes lord here i am
your humble servant i know
but for the few of us
that might have a little moses mentality
no no i know y’all heard of the mamba
mentality y’all know kobe bryant like
like he had this thing that they said on
the court that he would literally turn
on this instinct and have this mama
mentality a mama is a snake and it would
literally if any opponent was in front
of him he would strike fear and
insecurity into them
now most of us don’t have the the mamba
mentality
because it would have played out of your
life somehow
but a lot of us have the moses mentality
look what the moses mentality is moses
mentality fights the instructions of god
due to fear and insecurity
god says go to that place well god i
don’t know them
and who am i
and in there somebody and i got a
stutter and i got a lisp and i got this
and god’s like i
did not ask you for your moses mentality
he spends over two chapters
arguing with
god
god’s saying i want to use you i can’t
be used like that
i want people to be changed by you i
don’t know if i can change
i want to transform a nation which
nation i don’t even know nations
and i don’t i don’t know why
our insecurities and fears get so big at
the moment that god is saying i want to
use you
but we have to get this moses mentality
out of our head when god is saying here
is holy and i want to invite you into a
call and it’s going to be bigger than
anything else you’ve ever done and it’s
not going to look like your last season
moses spent 40 years in a desert place
with sheep
and then god comes out of the blue and
says now you’re going to culture
and i’m going to use you as my
mouthpiece to the entire nation of egypt
that don’t look like my last season god
says it doesn’t have to
because i’m
leading you and this is why i’m asking
everybody as we in this series
don’t fight with god this year
i just want to end this whole series
saying if god says here is holy and then
he starts giving you crazy instructions
do not fight him
what if
moses would have had the right attitude
the first time god said i want to use
you
what if it wasn’t two chapters of back
and forth
what if it wasn’t oh but i need a
hearing too
he literally put his purpose and destiny
we thank god that aaron came along and
helped but what if aaron
was reluctant
to do what god called him to do now my
purpose is waiting on somebody else to
say yes when god never even required
them to do it in the first place
you’re waiting on a committee of people
when god said there’s enough in you to
do this just with me and you
but your insecurities and fears are
saying but i need somebody else
and god said i’ll i’ll let you have
them if that’ll make you move
but you didn’t even need them
that was a request you asked for
but my plan for you
was for you to stand flat-footed
and do the purpose i called you for when
i let you live when they were killing
all babies
this is the attitude we should have
this year
my attitude will agree with the
anointing of god on my life
no that’s nasty
everybody say this year
my attitude
will agree
with the anointing of god
on my life
it doesn’t matter if it’s comfortable
i’m going to agree with what god is
saying about me
so i’m going to be a book writer
can’t really spell
but i agree no y’all don’t hear me
okay i’m gonna use real real examples
i failed ninth grade english
ap english
like like and my parents are looking at
each other confused on the front row
right now
i was a manipulator back then
they didn’t know
but but i failed
ninth grade english now watch
this is when natalie came into my life
and she it was really really sweet and
it hurt my feeling she said you’re
smarter than that don’t be dumb
and that’s all i needed
i needed her i was like hold on i am
smarter than that
and i went back and asked the teacher
could i take all the tests over again
i took all the tests over again and i
and i graduated with a c in english ap
english and then i was ap classes the
rest of the time in high school but i
needed that moment it never showed up on
my uh report card because i went back
and you know what i’m saying made it
happen
but the but the truth of the matter is
like the truth of everything that i’m
saying to you
is that there was an anointing on my
life
that i didn’t agree with yet
and it followed me even after 9th grade
because part of my hesitation to going
to college
i tell the start the part of it that is
like i wanted to do music and all that
other stuff but there was another
hesitation there
of the academic side of it
being too daunting for me
and god was like no you’re an academic
like you can get this stuff you can do
it but i hadn’t agreed
with the anointing all my god’s
literally telling me i can do it
and i’m telling them all the reasons why
i can’t do it
and it’s just like god
to allow me
to become an author
of books
not one book
but currently two and there’s more on
the way right now
[Applause]
and then he uses the foolish things to
confound the wise he said i’m not just
gonna let it be a book
that you wrote
i’ma let your first book just so you
know who’s god
i’ma let it go new york times bestseller
and i’m going to make it sell over a
million copies
in less than three years
i really should have agreed with you
earlier
if i would have known
what you could do
with all that i have
i would have agreed earlier uh-oh
i came to tell somebody you should agree
now
because it’s going to take you to the
place you’ll end up eventually if you
want to get there faster agree
now
or let me say it a different way agree
here
moses didn’t agree when god said it
after he took off his shoes and did all
this stuff god said i know the plans i
have for you you don’t
so why would when i say something to you
you start questioning me
this year
we’re not gonna fight god
my attitude will agree with the
anointing of god on my life why pastor
mike because obedience equips you for
your assignment
when you obey that’s how you get
equipped
it’s not let me get equipped and then
i’ll obey that’s being disobedient
but if you just obey god
he will equip you along the way to do
the assignment he’s called you to do so
i made a decision that all 2022 i have a
brand new attitude when god says
something about me says something about
this church says something about my
family when god wants me to go to
another level when god wants to take me
somewhere and i don’t even feel fully
secure and where we’re going i have a
new three-word phrase
here we go
yeah this needs to be the biggest faith
statement that you say all year god says
i’m gonna use you in this way i don’t
even get it but here we
go god you’re gonna do this from this
converted grocery store even after you
gave us the arena but you’re not
allowing us to be in there right now so
you got us right here well here we go
you’re gonna allow me to forgive people
that have used me in a wrong way and
bless them i don’t want to but
here we
i’m telling you
that these three words
are going to guide you all year because
what it’s doing is it’s aligning your
attitude
you don’t have to know everything to say
here we go
you just have to obey somebody shot at
me obey
shout at me real good here we go
that’s the title of my message today
here we go
and and this brings me back to several
moments in my relationship with my wife
natalie um
natalie um
tries to
um let me finish the statement but i’m
gonna say how i feel she tries to kill
me once a year
with some type of outlandish activity
that puts me and my body and my limbs in
a very um compromised state
let me explain
for my 26th birthday
she blindfolded me
drove me to the middle of the country in
somewhere oklahoma
and
said we fell in love
this many years ago
so today for your birthday let’s fall
from 10 000 feet
and go skydiving
what
i don’t i don’t even like at this moment
i’m paralyzed in fear
i start thinking about how much i weigh
[Music]
i start thinking about the last time i
used the bathroom because it would be
very devastating to pee in the air and
i start like every my life is flashing
before my eyes and she’s just sitting
over there like i was like what
possessed you like why
we get into the hangar
and the dudes are so excited because
it’s like their six thousandths jump
so you can tell they’re skipping through
stuff
i wish i was lying they’re like yeah
yeah you get it bro like don’t even
worry i was like no no no no this my
life
that’s my life
we get in a plane that literally is from
like it’s 10 feet like this plane is so
little
i’m crunched up in the front of the
plane with the pilot and the other
people out there natalie they talking
and laughing and all i can see
is jesus
i was like i’ma meet him today i said
three salvation prayers i ain’t even
gonna lie to you
[Music]
but there was a moment
that something
switched in my head
the pilot literally said look down at
the
at the
i don’t know why he said
look down
at the cars
he said how high you think we up
because we had to go to ten thousand
feet
i said i don’t know
nine thousand feet
he said you’re two thousand feet off the
ground
and then something changed in my mind
well if i’ma die today
here we go
now
somebody said person like why do you
cause at this point
i’m i’m in the air
at this point
i gotta trust
at this somebody say at this point i’m
about to
at this point
there’s no turning back
so i might as well agree
with the situation i found myself would
i have ever put myself in this situation
hell to the number
but since we
here
here we go
and i got outside that plane
and that man said on the count of three
we gonna jump
and i’m literally i’m just
i’m just shaking
my legs shaking my hand shaking
everything shaking
and he said one
two
three
and we did like this
and i froze
and he said bro
you’re too big not to go
said the next time we do this
you gotta go
and i had to remind myself
i said i was gonna do it
i don’t get it i understand
but here we go
one
two
and i’m telling you with everything in
me i jumped and literally it felt like
this
i didn’t move a lot
i didn’t put all my effort into it
but i just leaned in the direction uh-oh
i just leaned in the direction of
obedience i just leaned in the direction
of the favor i just leaned in the
direction and the momentum of my
obedience
[Applause]
somebody shot at me here we go
if you would take that attitude for
everything that god places in front of
you this year
you will find yourself having
experiences
and and moments
that will never be taken away from you i
will never go skydiving again
but can’t nobody take it from me
that i have had that experience
and what god is saying to many of us
right now is lean the direction
of obedience
you may not be fully
ready to hit a jump out of there i
didn’t he was like
like that’s why my guy was
me
i just everybody say lean
just lean right now just lean just lean
lean lean lean
if you do this with god all year
i’m gonna fight you
i’m not gonna work against you
but i am going to lean in the direction
of obedience and that’s why my new
phrase for the rest of this year is what
here we go
so so so let me say it to you like this
um
you don’t just say here we go it has to
be in your heart
a lot of people have lip service
but they don’t have obedience
it’s out of the abundance of the heart
that the mouth speaks and then the body
acts
like like like if you want to really
know it like you say it before you do it
and and we got to get it in our hearts
so i want you to write down here we go
heart is what i want like yeah yeah i
want to hear we go heart
like so when god says forgive them
your response is here we go
and that actually has to be in your
heart when god tells you to shut up and
stop complaining
and your mo is to talk about everything
invent and let people know your truth
when he tell when he muzzles you
your response is
here we go or maybe mm-hmm
like like when god asks you to serve in
a department
that you do not have
any expertise in but you would be a
savant in a different area but god calls
you to a place where you have to learn
again
instead of fighting like why why do i
need to be in this place
[Music]
we are agreeing with the assignment and
the anointing that god has placed on our
life at transformation church and so our
response is here we go
yeah yeah you need to write that
somewhere in your in your binder on your
mirror when you get up to go to that job
every day
and you know that you’re not functioning
at your highest level but god’s trying
to teach you something here you need to
say to yourself every day
here we go
you can use me
you can do whatever you want to do
through me you can change me you can
transform me everybody shout at me here
we go the reason i’m trying to say this
over and over and over and over again is
because when you get to hear we go heart
the only way you can say that is because
you actually trust god
see a lot of people get exposed in their
obedience because if god said it
we should trust him
but the truth of the matter is we don’t
so a lot of times when god says go here
and that’s going to be your next level
to what you’re going to when you get
there and you don’t like it there you
stop trusting god
and you blame other people but it really
is nobody told you to come here god did
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you couldn’t open them doors for
yourself god did that
god that you had them kids god allowed
you to do that and when we stop trusting
god
it shuts down our heart god i thought
you said we were going to be able to be
generous
and god said trust me
because if you trust me
i promise you it’s going to happen maybe
not when you wanted to
and maybe not even how you want it to
but i am a god who does not lie
and this is why isaiah 45 verses 3
through 6 really helped me out anytime
i’m like here we go but god are you sure
watch this it’s this is god and i will
give you treasures hidden in the
darkness
secret riches
i will do this so you may know that i am
the lord he says the god of israel the
one who calls you by name and why have i
called you this is what we want to know
why have i called you for this word why
did i call you by name when you did not
know me
it is for the sake of jacob my servant
israel my chosen one it’s the for the
sake of others i am the lord there is no
other god i have equipped you for battle
oh i love this part right here
god has equipped me for battle
though you don’t even know me
so all the world
from the east to the west will know
there is no other god why does god
choose us
because he knew he was weak
the only way he gets
the glory
and looks real strong
as he doesn’t pick the biggest
strongest
most qualified person
he usually finds the most broken person
and says if i do this through them
the whole world will know from the east
to the west
that i am god
what a great privilege it is
to be used by god
in my weakness
see people talk about paul saying in my
weakness he is
that’s god’s preference
to be strong
in somebody’s weakness
and your proclivity is to always act
strong and actually be weak
and god said would you please just admit
you not a good person at organizing
and stop acting like you you got every
app and still can’t be on time
can we just acknowledge
this is a struggle for me and god says
finally
now i can be strong
in the middle of your weakness but you
only can do that when you trust god
somebody say here we go
okay so how do we have a here we go
heart three points and we out of here
for the day god’s already met us matthew
28 18. oh i love the word of god matthew
28 18. this is jesus everybody say here
we go
say one more time here we go
um jesus came and told his disciples
i’ve been given all authority in heaven
and on earth therefore what is the next
word go say it loud go
hold on
jesus establishes his authority
then he gives us an instruction and the
instruction is go
go where jesus
and make disciples of all nations
baptizing them in the name of the father
and the son and the holy spirit teach
these new disciples to obey all of my
commands i’ve given you and be sure of
this i am with you always even to the
end of the age jesus’s last instructions
to his disciples
were to go
but do you know what happened right
before this
he says you’re gonna go
and i came to tell somebody right now
you mad because the word in the phrase
of years here is holy
i just came to tell you you’re gonna go
go is coming
because hear and go are always connected
so his last instruction was what go
okay
but before that
do you know what he told his disciples
to to do
he told them to stay here
pastor mike what are you talking about
go to acts chapter one
once when he was eating with his
disciples he commanded them do not leave
here
don’t leave jerusalem
until the father sends you the gift he
promised you
as i told you before john baptized you
with water but in just a few days
you will be baptized with the holy
spirit hold on
jesus
tells them
to go
but before he tells them to go he tells
them stay here
here
go
my here
is connected
to my assignment
to go
if i don’t wait
to be empowered
here
it will be pointless for me to go
there
if i don’t forgive
here
my heart will not be malleable for god
to use me
there
like like
hear
and go
are the tension
of true believers
thank you
those are my two executive team members
there’s like that’s good
why are they saying that because they
know that’s where i’m at
i can’t preach nothing to you that god’s
not
taking me through right now
god has told me all 2022 wait here
when i have so much go vision
i got so much go ability right now
i got so much gold resources
i got so many go connections
i could go through my phone right now
eight years ago i had to obey god
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i have nothing
i didn’t have no connections i didn’t
have and a lot of people like i’m just
waiting on god you ain’t got no other
choice
you don’t got no options you really
don’t know if it’s god
until you have the options not to obey
him
i got so much go ability i just made
that word up
i got go ability and god’s saying here
and what i’ve made a decision is
that hear and go
are exclusively tied together
what i do here qualifies me where i get
to go there
how i handle people here
determines what rooms i get to go into
up there
how i stood over my body here
gives me the stamina to go do y’all know
that most of y’all would be dead all my
musicians if you actually went on tour
if you actually had to sing every night
sign autographs
get on a plane
private
then you take your instagram picture you
won’t have a voice tomorrow
because you have not conditioned
yourself
here
you carrying 40 pounds of extra
mcdoubles
here
you love sonic’s new mcflurries
here
you can’t get enough of krispy kreme
donuts
and so what you’re praying for
god keeps delaying your goal
because you will not be
intentional and steward
over
hear and go
are connected
and until you do these three things
you’ll never get to see where god wants
to take you on the go
number one you need to value here
i’ve said it in every way i can know how
to say it throughout the series
value
here
why are you valuing here because here
equals position
if you’re in the right here
the right position it’ll take you there
remember my example earlier yo
all we have to do is be in the right
position
and it delivers me
to where god wants me to be
stop devaluing the place that god has
assigned to you imagine the disciples
telling
jesus
jerusalem
man i thought we was about to really
just i thought we was headed to caesarea
i got some i got some homies up in
session that i told that we was gonna
roll through
and i told him that and and and my mans
wanted to go to capernaum
and i thought we was gonna visit i
thought we was gonna visit uh uh corinth
you know what i’m saying
oh that
well i’m about to move to l.a
and they told me that there were better
opportunities in new york
this is the jargon and the language of
people who do not value
here
you think that your favor is in a
different city
wherever i go
the favor is on people
you’ll never hear a god about anointing
the land
he anointed the people and he said
whatever your footsteps
like like what i’m trying to get you to
understand is if you value here
god will take you there
but if you are not in position this year
you will delay your goal
god
somebody’s going to watch this back
and you’re going to be at 2023 like that
gummit
if i would have just gotten position and
sometimes the positions are not seeing
positions
sometimes the positions you can’t post
about
sometimes the positions they take
anonymity
you know what that is
that means that people can’t even know
that are around you what god’s doing in
you because the position requires a
level of just being here
and literally some of the work that
god’s doing in me right now
is frustrating
because
because i wish
people could at least see what god’s
doing
because it would give me encouragement
to keep doing it
and god said you’re gonna have to
encourage yourself
david said it like that
sometimes i got to encourage myself in
the lord
do you know what that’s doing in me it’s
building stamina
it’s building endurance
and i don’t know what’s ahead i don’t
know what there is i don’t know what
happens when we open our church back up
i don’t know but whatever god’s doing
here
i’m valuing it
if you don’t stop devaluing the position
you are in god can definitely take you
to a different one that you don’t like
even worse
how you say what are you saying pastor
mike god told me one time he said
michael
he said you better start enjoying
where you are
because this
can either be the last time we do this
or it can be
the thing that you learn to enjoy
because you need it for everything i’ve
called you to do
i’m trying to say it without saying it
can i say it
you don’t even know what you need up
there
and if you don’t let god do the work in
you right here
you will be not equipped
you won’t have the instruments or the
tools
so i’m asking you
for transformation church
value here everybody say here
but then there’s a we
and i like we
cuz cause
let me go back i forgot something here
is where you hear
the reason why you stay here
is it’s because where you hear god and
when you hear god then everything
changes i know i’m right in the middle
of where god wants me right here because
i’ve heard him clearly and that’s when
you hear him you better make sure you
have the right we
so you need the value here
and then you need to value the we
what are you saying the people
who are you around
and who’s around you
and are they the right we for here
they might have got you through the last
season
but are they the right people
for everybody say here
that’s why when i say here we go
it’s not here i go
it’s here we god always chooses to do
things in community
he never asks for a solo project
he wants a collaborative work
of people that are going the same way
with the same heart and the same mind
who’s your we
this is what you have to value in 2022
and some of you i’m gonna just say where
i feel like god has dropped the burden
for me today some of you do not have
friends because you’re not friendly
you’re mean
you make people prove to you that they
should have your time
like they should be grateful to be
breathing your air like if you text them
back or respond back to them somehow
they’ve been chosen in a lottery to be
able to speak to you today
the reason you don’t have encouragement
and down times is because you literally
repel
the people who are supposed to be a
resource to you
you are so insecure
in the areas of life that are deficient
to you in this season that you will
literally isolate yourself from the
people who are supposed to give you
courage that’s why they call it
encouragement
somebody’s supposed to be putting it in
and if you do not have community around
you
to encourage you
you may need to ask yourself who are you
encouraging
because you reap what you s
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you won’t friends be a friend
you hear about a problem somebody’s sick
do like do what you will want somebody
to do we talk about it in finance and we
talk about it in serving we don’t talk
about it in friendship i might have to
revisit this in cuffing season but what
i’m talking about if if you really want
best friends who are you a best friend
to
[Applause]
you don’t got to call me a best friend
for me to be your best friend
you can deny the title but you can’t
deny how i’m functioning in your life
[Music]
some people have weak wease
yo we is weak
i just i can’t take it no more and when
you fall
you hit
the ground
because you don’t have
no
wheeze around you or you it’s just your
weeds are weak
because you got them
they just don’t have the capacity to
hold you up
zoe come here kaylee come here uh
jennifer come here real fast
just real fast just
memes come here
okay yeah just come here i know y’all
wasn’t ready to be on platform today but
just come here okay just come here
uh i’ma fall
i’m gonna jump
i’m gonna jump
and fall
i don’t know where i’m gonna jump and
fall
but i don’t have enough in me to stay up
no more
so i’m about to yeah only one of them
was ready
[Applause]
kaylee looking at me like pastor mike i
just had a baby please just
the problem is i don’t feel secure near
the day
let me say it again i don’t feel secure
and neither do they
because they are not built for this
weight
even if we have great conversations and
we laugh at the same jokes and we watch
the same tv shows and we go to the same
they’re not my we will come here brinson
come here um scott come here uh will
heckenbock i mean uh will dale come here
like okay so what ends up happening
is very easily
there’s some security that comes to my
life
when the wrong we steps to the side
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and the right we
get now it’s not that i still won’t be
heavy
and it’s not that it might not actually
be difficult
but i know they’re built
you got to hear me they’re built to hold
me up
and even when i look like it and i’m not
prepared
they’re built to hold me up even in the
moments where it doesn’t look like
they’re built
todd
[Applause]
if i would have done that with these
babies
watch
they would have been hurt
and i would have been
if you don’t get the right group of
people around you hurt is inevitable
you’ve got to get a strong we a strong
community a strong church
[Applause]
[Music]
hey will
brent
scott
i thought i was done
see
i didn’t even tell them what i was doing
but the right community can hear my tone
they they can
they can hear
in my tongue
i can say i’m not good
i’m cool bro
i don’t need none man
i’m good i’m chilling but look what
they’re doing
they walking with me
they’re following me around because they
know at any moment
i might need
some support
and it’s the crazy thing
brent might be going through a situation
and we switched places and he might need
us to hold him up i don’t get him
and after brent gets held up we’ll may
need some you ready will i’m lying let’s
go
listen
see in my community
and when wheels done scott may need
something and when scott needs it
this is what our community looks like
[Music]
[Applause]
until we get the right we here
[Music]
pain
hurt
discipline that’s why most people leave
the church
because i was getting a divorce
and i was going to fall flat on my face
and nobody caught me
so now i’m dealing with the pain
of my mouth
and my face
and my heart
being broken because i didn’t have the
right we around me
people who were strong enough in prayer
when i didn’t have the words
people that were able to give me words
of encouragement it some some of these
people have vulnerable parts of me
i’m not worried where none of their
hands are right now
i’m just grateful i’m off
of the ground
and someone don’t touch that don’t do
this don’t do that no no no baby
when you get in community that’s humble
open and transparent
you don’t care what they see
you just care that they’re holding you
up i’m preaching right now
[Music]
somebody say we
if you don’t get the right we here
and this this all i’m saying to you in
this moment is
it may not even feel like you need them
now
but you have no idea
what is up
when me and natalie got the diagnosis
for mj
there was no there was no warning to
that
if i didn’t have the right wii around me
i wouldn’t be standing on this platform
today
when the spit hit the fan
if i couldn’t have called a couple of my
friends and said let’s go to napa
california actually i didn’t say it they
had already had a trip planned there and
i was like y’all just come with us i
looked at natalie i said i got to get up
out of here i need to disconnect from
social media i need to be around people
and we set every night on the balcony
overlooking some great fields of
vineyard
and we talked about the purpose of god
in the moment where i already felt watch
this
i already felt
like i was on the ground this is what a
good we will do they’ll come
get down in your situation
and when you don’t have the strength to
pick yourself up
they will be ones
that will pick you up
until and then i get a little strength
back and i start feeling it but i can’t
do it without them yet i set up but i’m
not ready to put my feet on the ground
yet i can listen during praise and
worship but i haven’t raised my hands in
a way and they’ll still stand there with
you and still believe with you and still
sin it and i’m like i got a little
stream but don’t leave me yet just put
me on the ground and they’ll stay with
me
and walk with me
oh can i say this
your we should look multi-ethnic
[Applause]
[Music]
i got a white brother on my on my left
side and a black brother who didn’t like
white people most of his life on my
right side one day you’ll get to hear
scott’s testimony i got will behind me i
wish i had an asian brother michael ty
where you at brother i need somebody
else here all i’m saying is
when you get it doesn’t matter at this
moment their background doesn’t matter
it’s their strength
and my time of need
this year
when god says here is holy
and we say here we go
make sure you have the right
we
so that you can do everything that god
has called you do somebody give god some
praise right here thank y’all
hey y’all turn around
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i just wanted to make sure all right
all right
[Music]
but look what happened
it was a situation
that they were able to catch me in that
they were unprepared for
that makes them stay closer
look at look at all of them put the
camera on
look at them don’t look at me look at
them
if your wii is not ready
and some of y’all have been committed to
people
you’re committed to a we
that resourced you in your last season
and you and you’re you’re expecting
that they’ll actually help you now
but they’re actually awake
i’m good for real this time
acts chapter 2 verse 1.
it says on the day of pentecost
all the believers that means a we a
group
we’re meeting together in everybody say
one place
this is where jesus told him to wait
he said get in position stay here
and don’t leave don’t go
until you’re in one place with the right
we
so so here is position
we equals people but watch this last one
okay
goal
equals power
the whole reason jesus said go
and wait here
is because i’ma give you the power of
the holy spirit
to actually go and be impactful look at
it acts chapter 1 verse 7 he replied the
father alone
has the authority to set those dates and
times and they are not for you to know
so that means there’s going to be a
level of confusion whenever we are
walking with god
but you will receive everybody shouting
me power
say it with your chest power
but you will receive power when the holy
spirit comes upon you and you will be my
witnesses telling people about me
everywhere in jerusalem throughout judea
samaria and to the ends
of the earth
value
the power
of the holy spirit
it makes no sense
for you to say here we go
and you’re in the right position
and you have the right people
but you have no power
the disciples had walked with jesus all
of this time
but he still tells them go to this
specific place that i’m not going to be
at with you
and wait till you hear god
in that place
and then everybody who’s in your we
is going to get the same power
to be able to go out and do what i asked
you to do in the first place go into all
the world but stay here
with the right people
until you get the power of the holy
spirit to go out there and actually be
effective what are you trying to say
pastor mike don’t go without power
why would you go through this year
without the holy spirit leading and
directing you why in the world would you
make a plan for a business and the holy
spirit’s on the sideline and you were
like yeah just wait just wait i’ll ask
for you in a minute like no no no put
him in the game right now
and ask him
give me power
to do what you’ve asked me to do
leaving here and going there without
power is pointless
god’s not sending you to culture to get
beat up and sent back to the church
he’s not sending you to be the first in
your family to break generational habits
and cycles
for them to
uh swallow you and spit you back out and
you’re like yeah i just i think my
ministry is to people who are broken
like me and you don’t go to the place
that god called you to go to
the sad fact is there are many pastors
without power
there are many politicians without the
power of the holy spirit
there are many people parenting
without the power of the holy spirit
your parents did the best they could
but many of them did not do it
a kingdom way
and if you’re just following patterns of
broken people
you should allow the holy spirit well i
beat my kids you so i beat them you
spare the rod you spoiled the chop
that that was your situation
but you’ve never even asked god
how to discipline this child
you literally took the pain you
experienced
turned it into punishment for them
and somehow now you think
that everything’s gonna be okay because
you be you didn’t even talk to them
afterwards
you literally hit your kids
sent them into their room took away the
things that they enjoy
and say you better eat dinner
that’s trauma if i’ve ever heard it
and you didn’t know that god gave you a
compassionate child a sensitive child a
child that you never would have to hit
him if you actually took time to talk to
them and if you would have done that
what you’re doing is creating a wedge
between you and the person who going to
take care of you 60 years from now
and the reason you’re going to end up in
a home that nobody cares for you is
because you didn’t care for them when
they were in your home
and the thing i don’t know who this is
for right now but what i’m saying to you
is don’t parent
without the power
of the holy spirit
[Music]
don’t don’t
don’t
don’t go
without power
it’s better that you stay here
and wait for god to give you a
revelation
than for you to go out there without
power
and try to do it in your own strengths
apply it to whatever you want to
copy and paste
but you trying to live single and pure
without the power of the holy spirit
in 2022
that is a losing battle
but why why would you go to the fashion
industry
and not go
with the power of the holy spirit
why would you go into the school system
why would you go into sports why would
you go into education why would you go
there ill-equipped
to actually impact
that’s why god said it’s better for you
to stay here
and wait on me when we sing the song
wait on lord
wait on the lord what’s the next part he
will renew
your
that’s the power so way
i
say
wait on the lord because he wants to
give you something if you wait on the
lord he’s telling you you need power he
will renew
your
so wait so
if we would actually do that
we would go into places that used to be
a battle
and there would be no fight
when certain power shows up
certain conflict goes down
there’s a certain level of bart that
people have when somebody weak is in the
room
but when somebody strong steps in
it chan
let’s not lead this church
lead our small groups lead our
businesses
without the power of the holy spirit
what are you saying pastor mike god’s
saying here is holy last point write it
down
the holy spirit isn’t optional here
here we go but not without the holy
spirit
here we go but not until he gives us
power
so what do i do in the weight
what do i do here
get healthy here
get whole here
change your heart
here
and whenever god
decides to give you a word from his holy
spirit
an understanding of what’s happening new
language
for what god’s calling you to do then
you go
me becoming the pastor of this church
i would have never done it
unless god visited me
in a best western hotel in baton rouge
louisiana
at 2 30 in the morning
god said i’m about to do something in
you
but you got to obey me here
there was no spirit bank event center
there were no people
there were there were no crazy faith
offerings there was no book
god said on this
floor
i need you to obey me here
well god i don’t know i don’t know how
this is all going to happen and i don’t
know he i didn’t ask you all that
i did not ask you all that
all i ask you is for a yes
here
and on the floor with my wife in the bed
i said god i’ll do it
and what my life has been since
i obeyed god in that moment of here
all i can explain is when i step
it takes me
to my next tier
and every time
i get confused
and i don’t know what to do god says do
what you did last time
just acknowledge that here is holy
and because god is here
you’re gonna be all right
obey me
first year of ministry
i don’t know if that ever is gonna
happen again
second year of ministry
wow
god keeps doing this
third year of ministry
wow it goes viral
sun diagnosed with autism
write the book crazy faith
god it doesn’t make
okay
fifth year of ministry
[Music]
wife going through depression because of
the things happening with your son
god begins to start forming miracles in
the situation
[Music]
staff members change
spit hits the fan
it just seems like if i would get in the
rhythm of agreeing with god
get in the rhythm of staying on pace
with him
i would have gone further
obeying god
than i ever would
trying to figure out
everything that was going to happen
there
here
is help me holy
i pray
that from now on
you get this internal here we go
on the inside of your heart
god you’re going to do something crazy
this year yep am i going to know what it
looks like nope here we go
[Music]
god i’ll wait on you
here is holy
i want to pray for you
this sermon series will be a marker
for many of our lives over and over
again
this ain’t a one-time sermon series
god will bring you back here several
times
because you’ll go from here to here
and then from here to here
and people think you went from here to
there but it’ll be a bunch of obedient
steps and then you’ll get to a place
like i was at the beginning of the year
god what do you want to do
he said just obey me here
and he’ll take you to your next year
i know for some of you it’s like i
pastor mike i just don’t i don’t get it
you will
i promise of you if you walk with god
long enough
you’ll have to look at a situation he
doesn’t allow to change immediately
and declare here is holy
today in front of my whole church
in front of everybody that’s here i’m
declaring that where we are as a church
it’s holy
it’s uncomfortable
i don’t like it i wish we were back in
the arena i wish we could have people
all the different things that like i
miss y’all
as soon as we open y’all we might have a
10-day party i don’t even know
what’s gonna happen i might just be
there every night at six by myself
who everyone’s like but
i can’t even tell you a date
like i can’t even i can’t even
hint at anything
we didn’t have so many
potential grand open re-grand grand
grand
your great grand we had so many open i
just told the staff just wait
for some reason god has prophetically
paused us
not pathetically paused us
nothing has gone down more salvation i
think there’s been five thousand seven
hundred salvations since the beginning
of the year like there’s like
that’s how you know it’s pathetic when
the things that god cares about start
going down
but my feelings he don’t care about that
he cares about his will being done and
for some reason
he got us in this place and he’s saying
here is
holy i want you to look at every
situation that may not be as favorable
as you like it to be
and stop and hear god here
could you close your eyes everywhere
god i’m praying over these people
the same prayer father god
that i’ve been praying over myself
father let us
see you here
give us revelation revealed truth
show us
enough
for us to be content here
god we acknowledge that you are the king
of kings and the lord of lords
and father god we would like a lot more
answers
but god we want to fulfill the
assignment
so today
let us not have the moses mentality
father let us surrender
and agree
with what you want to do
in our lives in our family in this
church
here we go
however you want to do it god
we’re saying yes we obey
everything you want to do this year
our attitude will agree with the
anointing you have placed on our lives
here we go god
if it’s staying in this building for the
rest of the year here we go god
god i just want to be right where you
want me
so we’re saying here is holy come on say
that out of your mouth here it’s holy
just sing that one more time
just just let god minister to you right
here hands lifted yeah
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in your house just turn this moment into
an altar
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come on this is our heart posture right
here
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just one more time just receive it
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god’s speaking to you right here
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all year
we’ll revisit this moment dj
all year
steve right here
it’s holy
i don’t know what god’s gonna do the
rest of this year for us
but i promise you
our goal is connected to what we do
right here
promise you
get healthy here take care of your body
here read your word here
get the right we here
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for anybody that
needs to understand the holy spirit or
be filled with the holy spirit
this week i’m challenging you to go back
and watch a series that we did called
the upgrade
and i literally explained because some
of y’all want an experience but other
people need understanding and i think
it’s good to get both of them and i
literally walk you through what
what the holy spirit offers us because
it’s a person it’s a he
and when you when you get this
revelation
it’ll change everything don’t go
without the power of the holy spirit
god we thank you
for what you’re doing in us and through
us
oh i feel the presence of god
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just do it one more time yo
jeez
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come on let her minister to you right
there in your home
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here we go god come on somebody just let
that get in your heart
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here it is
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for some of you this is your moment of
salvation the reason this is holy
is because this is the day you’re going
to give your life to christ
yeah yeah like around here there’s no
secrets
like
what we want everybody to do
if you don’t do nothing else
is surrender your life
to the love
and the lordship of jesus christ
that’s why we exist
so people can be transformed in christ
all the examples all the stuff that’s
great but all i’m trying to do is get
you to have a real experience
with the only person that can change you
it happened for me
like like when i was at my worst here
when i was a liar a manipulator addicted
to pornography
i had a felony case against me
there was all kinds of different things
that were going on in my life
and god said yeah if you would surrender
right here
i’ll use you
and i’m telling you it’s the greatest
decision i ever made it changed me and
transformed me forever and now i’m not a
perfect man but i am a man that is
progressing and being used by god and i
can have an attitude that says god i
don’t understand but here we go like
whatever you want to do with me however
you want to use me and i want you to
experience that same thing
because it’s the reason why you were
even born
for purpose
to have relationship with god
so today on the count of three i’m about
to say a prayer but if you want to be
included in that prayer
and
and and be like the other 5 700 people
this year that have committed their life
to christ
today i just want you to slip your hand
in the air wherever you are it doesn’t
matter if you’re in this room if you’re
on your couch if you’re driving in the
car if it’s live or rebroadcast the holy
spirit is right there with you the bible
tells us it’s the holy spirit that draws
people to jesus you are at your day of
salvation and don’t let anybody distract
you
don’t let what you did last night
distract you don’t let what you planning
to do tomorrow distract you let god have
your heart right
here
one
you’re making the greatest decision of
your life
two your name is gonna be written in the
lamb’s book of life but more than that
you are going to be god’s child out loud
in front of everybody
and three you are going to be a witness
for his glory lift your hands in the air
if that’s you
yeah there’s hundreds if not thousands
of hands going up right now
at transformation church you already
know the deal we’re a family here nobody
prays alone y’all ready to pray with
these people who are coming into
relationship with god
it’s a holy moment
everybody just lift your hands and say
god
thank you
for meeting me here
today
i surrender
have your way in my life
i believe you lived
you died
and you rose again
with all power
just for me
and today
i give you my life
change me
renew me
transform me
on yours
here we go
into a new life
in jesus name
amen hey transformation nation can we
give god some praise oh y’all got to do
better than that
there are thousands of people that just
said here we go
they’re walking with god they’re going
to be
everything that god’s called them to be
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everybody’s standing we’re going home
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um i make a commitment to everybody
i’m gonna live this transformation out
that god’s doing in my life in front of
all y’all
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i just
i can’t do it fake
this generation has seen
too much
inauthenticity from platforms
i don’t know what that means i don’t
know where it’s taking me and i’ve i
already told you i feel all kinds of
vulnerable and i feel all kinds of
but but this is what i promised to do
this entire year
every series
i’m gonna take off my protection
i’m gonna take off
the things that keep people from seeing
the real me i’m gonna share real stories
i’m gonna get vulnerable and i’m gonna
stand up here
i even got crap from my socks and just
all kind of it don’t even matter here it
is
if the church would ever
become this
transparent
i think we could see the world changed
so for the rest of this year
i don’t need everybody
but i need at least 10 000 of y’all
to come with the attitude that whatever
god’s doing with transformation church
here we go
and if we can do that do i got y’all
with me i said can i get ten thousand
put it in the chat right now everybody
yell at me here we go
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i thought god was gonna do a miracle and
put it back on there thought he’s gonna
do a miracle during this series his
pinky toe still not touching the ground
but here
is
oh
that’s my how your situation looks it
may not be fixed yet
people don’t look at you kind of crazy
but it don’t matter i’ll put these in
the easy slides you can look at them it
don’t matter but i declare wherever i
stand
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i love you all so much father i thank
you
that this will be the best week
of us hearing you here
bless their families
bless their businesses
bless their contentment
and god i thank you as you bring us here
next week
it would be another day of progression
for us
that we would transform and become
everything that you called us to be god
we will agree
with the anointing that you have placed
on our lives this year we’re not
fighting you and we’re declaring that
here
is
holy in jesus name we agree
somebody say we agree
we expect
amen let’s give god one more big shout
of praise y’all go out and live a
transformed life
you