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all right let’s do it get out your
smartphones get out your notepads get
out your Bibles cuz we are about to
start part 9 of a series we’re calling
help me MA
now I’m running out of fingers to be
able to say part T and that’s the last
one that’s the only one I can do because
that’s all the fingers I have we’ve been
in this series for a long time but I
think it’s intentional that we’ve been
talking to people who have been marked
by God but a lot of times our situation
in our circumstance does not line up
with what God has said about us and a
lot of times in our life our weeks do
not look like our days do not look like
the job we go to does not look like what
God has said about us Oh am I the only
one who does it
who doesn’t wake up every morning fill
in marked some mornings I wake up
feeling mad oh okay so some some
mornings there’s just things in life and
crap that just keeps happening and you
know God’s called you and he saved you
for a purpose and that didn’t take you
out for a reason but I don’t feel like
that every week and I came to encourage
somebody because this week I had a rough
week preparing for this message now I
know all y’all think that I wake up
every morning with the word that ain’t
true and you may think that every Sunday
I want to preach that ain’t you this is
something that I don’t always want to do
but I know I’m called to it I was worked
for it and so this week I had to press
cuz I’ve been having some dumb stuff
happened to me this week I don’t know
about you when them dumb weeks start
happening and then it makes you start
questioning like other stuff that really
doesn’t matter but but but it’s like a
little thing happens and then you leave
room for the enemy to start suggesting
things to you and I only know how to be
one way is real and so it was something
very small that happened to me I went to
Miami and right before I left to go to
Miami to preach I got a brand new cell
phone because of my
phone the Kettleman cracked on it and I
like taking pictures of everything and
so I have insurance so I called them
there’s like yes mr. Todd will send you
a new phone it’s gonna cost this much
but it’s way less than what the phone
I’m actually cost but this is your last
time I’m being able to use your
insurance because I’ve had some other
tribulations with my phone before judge
me if you want you ain’t dumb now it’s
like cool it comes in the day before I’m
about to get on the plane and I was like
bet I’m gonna take it with me so that I
can switch my stuff over while I’m on
the trip I never got around to it
but I had my phone the entire trip and
the day before we leave I can’t find my
phone now this usually wouldn’t be a
problem because you know on the iPhone
there’s the feature that says find my
phone
the only problem is I hadn’t put a sim
card in the new phone yet because I was
still using my other phone so this phone
max X + + to infinity and beyond is
somewhere and I don’t know where it is
and we’re about to get on a plane to
come back to Tulsa and I tried to go to
bed that night with faith you know how
you like I ain’t even gonna worry about
it it’s gonna pop up tomorrow the angels
are gonna deliver it to me before before
imma go to sleep and I woke up that
morning no phone got on the plane no
phone and I don’t know what happens to
you when you lose money
but I get a pain like right in this area
of my stomach I don’t want to eat I’m
frustrated that stuff that shouldn’t be
frustrating and and this was a little
thing but when I let my emotions in that
little thing just be open just a little
bit the enemy started whisper said maybe
you weren’t supposed to be in Miami
maybe you weren’t supposed to minister
here maybe you’re not hearing from God
anymore maybe you’re not supposed to
lead that church maybe you’re not even
supposed to be a pastor
it went from I lost my cell phone no I’m
trying to tell you to maybe you don’t
need to preach ever again and the reason
I’m saying it like this because this is
what’s happening in your life every day
it’s like these little things keep
coming at you and you know you’re marked
by God but if we leave room for the
enemy you go from maybe I don’t ever
ever want to have kids no more because
they didn’t eat they macaroni and cheese
like like how do we get from I’m ready
to cut my hair off because like but it’s
the suggestion of the enemy that comes
in to tell you that you’re not marked if
you if you were really marked you
wouldn’t be going through those troubles
if you really had the hand of God on
your life and it really were anointing
your family wouldn’t be as jacked up but
I came to encourage somebody cuz I made
it to this service and that was the
enemy’s worst nightmare – let me get up
here and share from my authenticity and
so I had to spend a lot of time with God
this week like I had to go deep and I
ended up reading a lot of the Bible this
week because I know the Bible is the
place where it’s not a book that I just
read but it reads me and it was
something that started getting on the
inside of me and where I was feeling
discouraged and I didn’t want to do it
anymore and things started happening
God said I’ve given you the answers to
everything you fill in in my word he
said matter of fact the series you’re in
marked I’ve done the same thing I want
you to read all of David’s story so I’ll
read all the first same your seconds him
you I read all this stuff and
after God worked on me he gave me a word
for you so I want you to go with me the
First Samuel chapter 17 verse 40 cuz God
told me and said Michael I know you
don’t feel like it right now but I’ve
given you everything you need right when
you need it to do what I’ve called you
to do
say God this don’t feel like I have
everything I need I’m losing I’ve lost
my iphone I don’t have the leadership
that I need to be able to run this
organization I don’t have the education
to do this that in the third I don’t
know how and I’m running down the list
of all the things that I don’t have and
God said to me again like I say to you
I’ve given you everything you need to do
everything that you need to do at the
time you need to do it and I just came
to tell some March people in here this
is what God did for David I got stuck on
this passage of Scripture and we’re
gonna be stuck to you for the next 30
minutes okay I want you to see this
First Samuel chapter 17 verse 40 it said
he picked up five smooth stones this is
David about to go fight a giant he’s
marked the entire army don’t want
nothing to do with it he had to convince
the king hey let me go fight him he was
like go ahead do it but let me give you
my armor and he put on my armor took a
couple of steps and said I don’t fit
this and so he said I gotta be
authentically who God’s created me to be
because my anointing is in my
authenticity and he walks up and goes to
a stream bends down picks up five smooth
stones from the stream and puts them
into his shoulder bag
then armed only with his shepherd’s
staff and swing he started across the
valley to fight the Philistine now
mostly I’ll be like okay where’s the
revelation in that Pastor Mike I’m bout
to show you I’ve been in many areas in
my life where I felt underprepared for
what was in front of me kind of how I
felt this week but what ended up
happening is David is about to go face
this giant but he’s going to face them
without the proper
Bin’s that need to be with him to be
able to take out a giant and as I begin
to look at David’s entire life God gave
him tools throughout his whole life that
would give him influence and the ability
to win battles see at the beginning of
David’s story his father gave him a
staff and this staff was the first tools
he had of leadership that he would stand
out in a field with a bunch of sheep
when parties were even going on and he
was safe ‘el to be who where he was
supposed to be with what he was supposed
to do with the tool God placed in his
hand and then in a different season in
his life he picked up a guitar or a harp
or stringed instrument and it was crazy
that right when he needed to be in that
place to write songs and develop his
craft then we read songs of Psalms like
um as the deer panteth for the water oh
my soul longeth after the David wrote
that stuff while he was in a different
season when nobody was looking and he
was using the tool that God placed in
his hand and then he comes up to Goliath
and he picks up another tool a slingshot
and now this looks like something that
would just be a hobby for him like why
in the world are you facing a giant with
the slingshot but obviously he knows
something that we don’t know he learned
some Steel’s when nobody was looking
that he knew that God could use in front
of everybody and because he used the
slingshot properly he didn’t became a
man of war and he got a new tool his
slingshot turned into a sword and the
Bible tells us that David led men’s
thousands of men into battle and they
won tons of victory for the nation and
this sword would ultimately turn into
this crown and he would be in his
purpose spot but most of us want this
crown without touching any of these
other tools
oh come on let’s be honest today if we
can just skip the process and put on the
crown but what I found out is that David
was told by God in the season he was in
for what he was about to face when he
comes up and he’s about to fight Goliath
he didn’t need the crown at that moment
the Bible says it says been armed now I
looked at the word armed and the armed
word means to be equipped with ready to
defend let me use a more urban term he
said he was strapped y’all know if
somebody comes in like bro what you want
to do I’m strapped bro what you like now
I was good with it until he told me what
David was armed with he said he was
armed with his shepherd’s staff and his
slingshot um quick quick sidebar god I’m
about to go against Goliath don’t you
feel like I need some other weapons to
be able to face this giant in front of
me no cuz I’ve armed you with where and
what I’ve been preparing you for this
entire time see what happened is when
you were a shepherd the reason it’s
built like this is because you’d be in
the pasture for a long time and what you
would do is you’d be standing a lot and
so they built this so you could be able
to lean your weight on this piece of
wood and as I begin to study this and I
begin to look at how David Wood would
have this shepherd’s staff and he was
standing on it obviously everybody that
was looking at him about to go against
Goliath thought he was crazy just think
about it what I bro I’m ready to take
you out yes you
what you own and the whole children of
art the Israel army it’s like what is
this dude he is on that good stuff
because he has lost his mic he doesn’t
even have what’s necessary to fight the
battle but the Bible says he was armed
what happens when what’s in your hand
may be the very thing that God’s going
to use to bring down the Giant let me
help you write this point down when
you’re marked what you have now is your
weapon yeah what you have now is your
weapon that’s not like I don’t got
nothing yeah you do there is something
that God has placed on the inside of
every person in this room but the
problem is you know you don’t have the
right perspective on it you think it’s
nothing you think it’s the thing I’ve
been doing since I was young and that
one thing I picked up a long time ago
and God say no no no no no you need to
look at it right that is your weapon
I armed you with that personality I
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armed you with that ability to organize
all your friends are saying oh she just
OCD no baby that’s my lightning you
better hear what I’m saying in this
place that there are many of you that
have been looking at what God has placed
in your hands and you’re discounting it
because everybody else is not
celebrating what is in your hand but God
is calling what is in your hand right
now he said that is your weapon and you
are armed write down the title of my
message I forgot to give it to you I’m
armed and dangerous somebody needs to
say I’m armed and dangerous
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see a lot of y’all y’all came in here is
like no that’s just uh you know I just I
just I just have the natural ability to
to write words on paper
I just journal and God said what why are
you acting like that ain’t none that’s
your weapon there there are things that
imma give you that you’re gonna be able
to articulate situations and stories and
things for the world to be able to read
and you’re looking past what I placed in
your hand right now and wishing you had
what they had and wishing you were where
they were and God says I need you to
step towards that giant knowing that you
are armed do you know how foolish David
look to everybody else but his
confidence was not in what he had in his
hands it’s it was his confidence in who
he was walking with and until you start
looking at what’s in your hands as worth
it you always be looking for the next
season so that you can get something
else – maybe I can do this maybe I’ll be
but that’s our perspective especially in
Western culture anyway because right now
how many people like shopping in their
room how many people come on just lift
your hands you like clothes and all that
other stuff all right Amy we’re a hot
church some of y’all was lying right
there it’s like you don’t even know I
got stuff in the trunk like okay the
crazy thing about it is every day you go
to your closet and you pass by things
that are amazing and the problem is you
stopped looking at it in the same way
you once with that it when you bought it
so I could go to your closet right now
take good stuff out of your closet take
it to the store and you would rebuy it
because when it’s been so close you lost
the value of it you stopped looking at
this is a gift this is something that’s
innate this is something that’s natural
in me and if it’s under shiny lights and
they charge me and tell me it’s on sale
I already offered it but I’ll pay again
for something that’s already in my hands
and David walked into confidence to know
that you know what what I have in my
head is able to take out any giant God
let’s come in front of me so today I I
want you to write your own um
scripture according to Samuel First
Samuel chapter 17 and and 40 because it
said then David armed with only blank
and blank started everybody say started
so many of marked people are frozen at
the starting line because they don’t
feel like they have what they need in
their hands to complete what God’s
placed in their heart and this I want
you to do this this is very practical
today but I need you to feel these
blanks in on the count of three I want
you to say your name cuz I need you to
know this is for you okay then one two
three say your name like you mean it
then whatever your name is I’m gonna put
my name in there Michael armed only with
a good personality in a big mouth oh
you’re laughing because you thought it
was worthless and in elementary school
yeah I got sent to the principal’s
office every day and my butt has it
marked but armed only with I don’t have
a Doctorate degree I don’t have nobody
cosign and everything I do
but Michael armed with only his
personality and a big mouth started a
movement of people that would follow God
and represent all y’all better hear me
in here you don’t have to have what you
think you need to do what God has placed
in front of you
David step towards Goliath armed with a
staff and a slingshot and my question to
you is what do you need to reevaluate in
your life that you’ve been saying that’s
not enough and God said that’s your
weapon
look look some of y’all need to write it
I was talking to my barber who’s in this
service
his name is AG and and I was like AG
this applies to you too because AG his
family came from a different country and
they struggled when he was younger and I
and but AG is marked by God and he cuts
my hair every Sunday and we have all
these type of conversations about how
good god is and where he came from and
how far I’ve come and I put his name in
here I said then AG armed only with the
work ethic and some clippers started a
small business that’s touching the
entire city of Tulsa right now no no now
the crazy thing about it is he might not
know this but every where I go people
ask me two questions
where’s pastor Natalie it’s the first
question asked me and the second
question they asked me is who cuts your
hair see what he started with what was
in his hands has now become something
that people are searching him out for
and some of us are waiting for somebody
to search us out and God saying no no no
no no you got a step towards it with
what is in your hand right now a girl
named Sarah armed only with the story in
a living room started a small group
that’s changing people’s lives a man
named Tyler armed only with a
minimum-wage job and a good personality
started inviting people to church and
people are getting saved there was a
woman in 1980 named candy Lightner armed
only with the grief from losing her
daughter when she got hit by a drunk
driver and the kitchen table she started
an organization called mad mother
against drunk driving and it has now
saved thousands of young people’s life
because she did not look at what was in
her hand as a disadvantage but she was
armed and there was a man named Gary
Macintosh who armed only with the vision
and a converted grocery store that you
sit in today started transformation like
like I want you to see that until you
can step towards giants with what God’s
already placed in your hands you will
always be living below what God has
called you to and this is why I’m trying
to let everybody know as we stand here
today that you don’t need a lot see the
problem is a lot of y’all don’t like
small things you want big things you
already see who you are and how God is
blowing you up but what you gotta know
is that God is attracted to small things
like like do y’all know what the Bible
says in Zechariah 4 and 10 he says do
not despise these small beginnings don’t
despise you sitting with your sketch pad
and having time right now don’t despise
you doing your friends hair and and and
and putting it on Instagram don’t
despise small beginning for the Lord
Himself rejoices to see the work what
begin like many of you are waiting on
God and God saying I just want you to
take what’s in your hands and start cuz
as soon as you pull up yo pull out your
laptop and write book with no title on
it
he starts me yes right but I do
they don’t even know who I have up the
street that’s gonna connect him with
everything that they need but I do and
he rejoices over the start that’s why
John the Baptist armed with only passion
and water started a movement that would
prepare the way for our Lord and Savior
all I need you to seriously do this week
is evaluate what’s in your hand right
now you don’t need a crown a guitar you
don’t need a sword to fight the Giants
that’s in front of you you have
everything that you need right now well
pass the mic if I had more money it
would be easier but then God wouldn’t
get the glory what he’s trying to do
right now is he’s trying to use the
insufficiencies of what’s in your hand
to show that he is sufficient so if you
will step in faith towards what God has
called you to everything you don’t have
he comes in and brings and feels in all
the gaps and you still win the victory
do y’all know how don’t be must the bid
for David to be standing there with his
staff like what you own Goliath like
what and then he picks up a smooth stone
in a slingshot knocks him straight in
the head and he falls but see David’s
confidence was not in what was in his
hand it was in the God that called them
to that spot in the first place let me
prove it to you let me prove it to you
because some of y’all still looking at
me okay first same in chapter 17 verse
46 because some of y’all are gonna get
faith today – well I’m not even out of
high school I don’t matter well I don’t
I didn’t even get accepted to the
college they don’t matter either what’s
in your hand right now
David started talking trash took a life
with not the right weapons and God is
saying when you start talking trash to
the mountains in front of you in faith
with not all the resources some of y’all
are in a marriage right now that looks
like it’s headed to divorce and you
gonna have to start speaking in faith
the thing that you do not see you’re
gonna have to speak it out of your mouth
see because when when you’re looking at
it this don’t look like I’m out to win
but what you know is that God’s called
you here and you gotta say things the
only way you really know it’s faith is
if you can say it out loud and truly
believe in so some of y’all need to go
back to your marriage and say this
marriage will live and not die and
we are going to be a testimony of God’s
goodness some of y’all need to walk into
your children’s bedroom who are living
any kind of way right now and you need
to say ask for me in my house we will
serve the Lord and my son or my daughter
are gonna know their Worth and walked in
purity and be an example of the glory of
God you gotta speak it before you see it
and that’s what David’s gonna do with
insufficient weapons his confidence was
in God and look what he said in verse 46
a Goliath yeah you fool you think I’ll
play with you you think I’ll play let me
tell you if you’re ever in a fight just
talk to yourself a little bit they’ll
think you’re a little crazier and I’ll
give you an Avenger he think I’ll play
with him the guy yelled
he said you today the Lord will conquer
you and I’m gonna kill you and I’m gonna
cut off your head now that seems very
foolish because he’s speaking this
before he make one move towards him and
he’s speaking what’s gonna happen
without the proper weapons that
everybody would have to defeat a giant
but I need you to understand this when
you speak in faith over your situation
you do not have to have everything that
you think you need to see the victory
pesum like you keep saying the same
thing because some people are paralyzed
right here and they’ve been waiting for
God to do something and he said I’m
giving you everything you need I’ve
given you and you’re saying well it’s
not special it don’t gotta be its
authentically what’s naturally you there
are things that you are gifted in there
are things that you notice before
anybody else there are things that you
walk into a room and you bring into that
room God says that’s all you need to
fight what’s in front of you right now
this is
the beautiful thing because I’m looking
at this picture you know I look at
everything in a movie
David’s talking trash and he tells him
I’m a Jew and he doesn’t have anything
to cut his head off with now what
happens when God tells you to speak
stuff out where you don’t even have like
he could have said I’m a hoot kill hated
or you know what I’m saying or I’m like
I’m gonna bop you on the head but like
he literally says uppercut yo and I know
his friends like bro
like take the last thing out bro you
don’t even have a right but look what
happens in verse 50 David kills him he
kills him with the slingshot and the
schmuck five smooth stones it says so
David triumphs over the Philistine with
only uh he was try only a triumphant
with only uh go back to our verse real
quick cuz it says then you armed with
only on see it’s the very thing that
you’re counting out that God’s counting
on it’s the it’s the very thing that you
like to say nothing I’ve been doing this
since I was young and now I’m always
doing that nobody’s ever paid me to do
that it’s that thing that God saying if
you would just look at that how I’ve
given it to you yeah that’s the thing
I’m counting on and look what he says in
verse 50 he said with only a sleighing
in a stone and it reiterates for he had
no sword he didn’t have what he needed
even at the moment that Goliath is dead
the Giants fallen the marriage looks
like it’s gonna succeed but God tells
you something else he still didn’t have
in his hands what he needed it said then
David ran over to his opposition Goliath
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and he pulled Goliath sword from his
sheath and David used what he won in the
battle he was in he used his own enemy’s
weapon to cut off his head I’m trying to
tell you that there are things that are
gonna happen
only when you stay faithful to fight the
battle that’s in front of you now and
you will speak life and you’ll say this
is gonna happen and at the moment you
that giant falls out of that battle
you’re gonna win something and it’ll be
the very weapon that you will need to
cut off your enemy’s head what are you
saying to me Pastor Mike when you are
marked right this point down
today’s warfare will produce tomorrow’s
weapons like if you would just fight
what’s in front of you stop worrying
about where the next weapon is coming
from when you beat this giant he’s gonna
drop his sword and then you gonna be
able to walk over and pick it up
victoriously and have the next thing you
need do y’all understand from this point
on David no longer uses a slingshot to
defeat enemies the Bible said at this
moment he becomes a man of war and salt
puts him as captain over thousands and
now he will carry the sword that he did
not make for himself
that was the trophy from the last battle
he fought God is saying to so many of
you you’re so worried where the next
things gonna come from and where the
next connections gonna come from and if
somebody’s gonna notice you’re gifting
your talent and if somebody and God said
if you would just do what I asked you to
do with what you got right where you are
when that giant falls I’m gonna present
you with a trophy it may be a connection
it may be a new house it may be more
money it may be a prophetic word it may
be a new gift and a talent but then that
will be the thing that you need to
defeat the next enemy you’ll come up
against
and there are too many people trying to
planning how they’re trying to plan how
they’re gonna get to their next weapon
instead of fighting what God has placed
in front of you today has some like why
are you so passionate about this because
without this he never gets to this but
without this he never gets to this and
without this he never gets to this and
without this he never gets to any of it
so maybe the season that you’re in right
now is more important maybe how you
treat what’s in your hand right now I’m
just watching kids they bad – I don’t
even but you don’t you don’t see what
God has for you down the road he may be
calling you to birth a world changer
that when you’re dead and gone will have
the cure for something that will change
our world but right now you don’t like
watching these bad kids but you know God
called you to be there and maybe if you
would look at what God’s placed in front
of you a little more serious and see
that if I handle this right it’ll
qualify me for the next things that God
has for me and I will eventually get to
the palace or the promise or my purpose
that God has called me to but too many
of us aren’t looking at what God’s
placed in our head and saying like David
I’m harmed somebody got about going to
work on Monday with a different sweater
got it pay me no more money but I’m are
some of y’all are gonna walk into your
next family reunion because you know
what lives on the inside of you and
instead of dreading it you’re gonna say
God’s gonna bring the right people in my
family to talk to
and I’ma share authentically from the
transformation that God’s doing in my
life
i’ma use this smile even though I got a
crooked tooth and I’m a unit oh come on
y’all and I’m gonna use what God’s done
I’m armed
until you think like that you’ll be
standing around comparing your situation
to other people talking about why
wouldn’t you do this for me God and he
said I’ve given you everything you need
but we got to look at it differently so
practically fast I’m like what does that
mean okay today’s I’m gonna get what I
need tomorrow if I just stay focus but
what does that look like well David
David’s fighting a practical real-life
ten-foot giant okay tomorrow when you
wake up you not gonna have Shaq at your
door trying to kill you okay nobody in
here but there are other types of Giants
that you will face like depression
comparison anxiety okay and so the Bible
tells us about this in Ephesians chapter
6 in a different translation it says we
wrestle not against flesh and blood
they’re nutrients and they don’t look
like Goliath but but they’re fighting
you and beating you up like him and I’m
gonna read it out of the message
versions because I want you to just see
what we’re supposed to do spiritually to
prepare ourselves to be able to take out
the Giants that are coming tomorrow
they’re coming but let me tell you you
have everything on the inside of you and
you have the greater one with you that
will allow you to defeat every giant and
every enemy that you’re facing right now
it says and this about wraps it up wraps
it up God is strong and he wants you to
be strong so take everything the master
has set out for you he’s made some well
made weapons remember we’re talking
about weapons right here they’re made of
the best materials and put them to use
so you will be able to stand up against
everything the devil throws your way
this is no afternoon athletic contest
that will walk away from and forget
about in a couple of hours this is for
keeps it’s a life-or-death fight to the
finish against the devil and all his
angels you thought you just work a job
you thought it was just you’re trying to
be a better person this is life and
death
and God wants you to win this war so it
says be prepared you you’re up again far
more than you can handle on your own so
take all the help you can get every
weapon
everybody say every weapon take every
weapon God has issued to you so that
when it’s all over
all of it but the shouting you’ll still
be on your feet standing ok that’s Mike
I wanna I wanna be on my feet standing I
wanna be able to fight these these these
things that are coming at me where my
weapons where the well made weapons well
when I was reading this it took me back
to a video game and I don’t know how
many people play video game and
something I’ll to religious to play
video games but I don’t play him that
much anymore but back in the day I used
to play this game called double-oh-seven
goldeneye on the Nintendo 64 and I know
some of y’all yeah thank you bro I felt
that I felt you’re a man right here bro
and some of y’all don’t know nothing
about this game but but but double
double-oh-seven would give you this
option to pick new weapons and like like
when you went into certain levels you
needed certain weapons because when you
had certain weapons you were able to
defend and and and be able to be
offensive against your enemy and so when
I read this it says these weapons it
says the first weapon you should put on
when you wake up every morning it’s true
I’m strapped with truth this morning and
the truth is that I was made by God and
no matter what anybody says outside of
my circle I am God’s masterpiece see
some of y’all you walk out in here not
armed with the truth so when people
speak things over you you have to debate
is it real or not but the truth is
you’re God’s workmanship you’re his
masterpiece created in Christ Jesus that
he has a plan for you before you were
formed in your mother’s womb he knew you
that’s why you got to remind yourself of
the truth he said take that weapon
everyday and then after you get that I
need you to pull this next weapon out I
need you to get righteousness and right
this is not something you can provide
for yourself right standing with God has
been provided through what Jesus Christ
did on the cross and what he’s saying is
if you don’t take this weapon every day
number one you’re gonna be judgmental
because you’re gonna think you got
yourself where you’re at today and you
won’t see other people who are
struggling in things the way that God
sees you so you need to know that the
grace you’ve received is the grace you
have to extend and you gotta know that
you were only made right with God there
should be more amens than that you were
only made right with God but through
what Jesus did he said every morning you
need to take that weapon coz your boss
is gonna make you mad this week oh she
said yes he will but when he makes you
mad are you got Christ’s representative
on the earth or did you forget to put on
the weapon of righteousness today that
reminds you of where you used to be and
he said but okay after you get truth and
righteousness I need you to be strapped
up with peace and it’s the peace that
passes all si si this ain’t the peace
that everything has to make sense it’s
the peace that I know that if a storm is
coming I have a God that sleeps through
storms walking with me like why am I
freaking out right now like every week
on drowned in Jesus like this should be
an eternal picture that when you walk
with Jesus and you put on the peace of
God it literally one of the translations
of his name he is the Prince of Peace
and this is why why are you saying this
PES might cuz I want you to know
practically your daily devotion life is
more important to your life than
anything you can do more than the money
you make more than the cars you drive
more than the education you’re getting
all of that stuff means nothing if you
are not connecting to God and getting
the whale made weapons
he’s already provided for you and after
you put on that piece it says you need
to you need to be strapped with faith
see see when you when you’re strapped
with faith you’re armed and dangerous
see because when you got faith to look
at stuff the
Bible says in a different translation
the enemy tries to throw fiery darts at
you and the only thing that protects you
is having the shield of faith and that’s
why people like I’m just telling you
like don’t go into your everyday fight
without your weapons how dumb do you
look running out to face all the crap
that’s waiting for you outside of your
bedroom sitting there with no armor on
no weapons and then you get mad and
blame God when you come back home god
why you let this happen to me you left
all your armor sitting right here you
left all your weapons right here today
well I’m a grown man I should be able to
handle this and now you’re missing a
limb emotionally because you will not
put on the full armor of God after you
get that faith he said I need you to
make sure you remember your salvation
and I know people all those time I’m
just trying to stay safe Pastor Mike I’m
just trying to stay safe like no that’s
not what we talking about cuz once you
put your faith in Jesus Christ you’re
your future is secure the problem is
most of us forget we forget what we were
saved from like you start living a
better life for a while and then you
forget what you used to do and who you
used to be and what you used to smell
like and who used to be in your DMS and
the emails you used to seeing and how
you used to judge people and how you and
so what happens is if you don’t remember
your salvation it allows you not to see
the people God’s placed around you to
reach they said I didn’t send you to
this war so that it can be a selfish war
sent you to this war of life so that you
could win people to the kingdom of God
and so I want you to come armed with
salvation and then he says my favorite
he’s but throughout this whole thing if
you want to take it to a whole nother
level one of the translations in this
thing says it’s an indispensible weapon
it’s called the Word of God now this
shocks me even to
I don’t know why so many Christians
people who called himself Christians do
not read their Bible like like it’s the
only book that you can read that will
read you and and I’m telling you just
opening your Facebook and reading your
one friend Jack’s scripture that you
know you know the scripture guy who
posts the scripture every day y’all know
if you don’t know what miss you but you
it’s the scripture God who posts the
spiritual there’s some butterflies in
the background or like a meadow
that’s not reading your word scripture
guy like that what that’s supposed to do
is remind you to make time and make room
because it says whatever you need this
is an indispensable power source the
another translation calls it the sword
of the Spirit like you can literally
read the word and it will charge you up
to be able one against enemies that
never you’ve never seen before and then
it gives you one more secret weapon
because cuz I’m trying to make you armed
and dangerous
it says prayer like the enemy loves for
you to be so mad that you won’t say
nothing he wants you to be so frustrated
flustered and stressed that you won’t
open his own weapon but the Bible says
when you start praying it says pray hard
and long pray past yourself pray for
your brothers and your sisters keep your
eyes open keep each other spirits up so
that you won’t fall behind and no one
will drop out it’s saying yo if you want
to be everything I’ve called you to be
and you use your practical tools what’s
in your hand and you use your spiritual
tools that God has already made for you
of truth and righteousness and peace and
faith and salvation and God’s Word and
prayer
you’ll be able to walk up to any giant
and talk to oh depressing what uh oh you
oh you thought you was gonna come back
here and you thought you was gone
this may be the lots of fun this may be
the love I’m armed and today I’m
encouraging some people don’t get stuck
at start cuz of what’s in your hand
right now and then I can encourage this
other group of people I know I should be
done right here but see the crazy thing
about it there are people in this room
who have reached this type of place in
your life it feels like you’ve gotten
some crowns it’s it feels like you’ve
reached purpose it feels like man I’m
successful in this area I’ve lived
enough life for my family is good and
what happens is when you get to this
place the temptation is to never put
this down to pick up another weapon when
God asks you to see the problem is that
a lot of people get here and they stop
listening in to God because they reached
whatever they prayed for I made it I got
money in the bank people know my name my
kids is out of the house good
and God said would you be faithful
enough if I called you back to use a
weapon that you haven’t used in a while
would you go back to it see david has an
impeccable track record until one moment
where he had made it he had used all of
these weapons and it got him to the
palace to his purpose and then look what
the Bible says in 2nd Samuel chapter 11
it said in the spring at the time where
people who are Kings should go off to
war so it was a season where David was
supposed to take off his crown and he
was supposed to pick up his sword he
decided to let somebody else go and
fight the battles for him that he was
supposed to be leading past him like why
are you saying this because out of
everything that David did this would be
the thing that left the blemish on his
purpose not because he wasn’t gifted not
because he wasn’t talented not because
of any other reason except when God was
telling him it’s time to pick up a new
weapon go back to the thing you used to
do go serve that youth group will only
speak on main stages go back and help
that that family member go back he
wouldn’t do it so right this point down
when you’re marked don’t let the weapon
you like keep you from the weapon you
need I’m telling you the crown is a lot
sexier no but uh you can say do that and
people do it and this is where a lot of
Christians hope that they get to a place
where they can just call shots but never
be in the action
and God said when you walk with me he
said let you get to the crown place but
you always got to be ready to pick up
the sword see because David didn’t do
this he was chilling and he looked out
his window and he saw a naked woman
named Bathsheba and he was like who is
dead
she’s beautifully and wonderfully me and
he became entangled with something he
was never supposed to even see some of
y’all are in relationships right now you
were never supposed to meet the person
but when God told you to go do something
you decided to keep with what was easy
and what was sexy and God said now I’m
going to have to take you through a
process to restore you and rejuvenate
you and heal you and you wouldn’t even
supposed to be around this I mean your
business at the time you were supposed
to be saving you wanted to buy a house
and God said there’s a time and a season
Ecclesiastes 3 there’s a time and a
season for everything under the Sun I’m
gonna let you do what I’ve placed in
your heart to do but you can’t do it on
your own time in season you gotta wait
on me if I’m asking you to pick up a
different weapon know that I know what’s
up ahead house like that sounds good but
ok no no I lived most of you don’t know
this but before I was a pastor all I did
was music and I didn’t have a wooden
staff in a shepherd field but I had two
wooden sticks called drum sticks and
from my whole life since I was 2 years
old I played the drums and it took me to
a place where I thought I was gonna be
successful in that I’ve been on world
tours I’ve made a lot of money I
produced music for people and all this
other stuff and then God came to me and
he said Michael I wanna give you another
weapon no that’ll make sense I’ve spent
my whole life perfecting this
25 is too late to switch weapons and I
know God was like but I didn’t see the
future all I saw is what I’d worked for
and God said it
I’m allow you to build the studio and
then you can’t do anything in it for
seven years now
that’s just torture and that’s what he
did he said put the drumsticks down put
them to me piano down put the studio
down and I want to give you a new weapon
I’m gonna teach you how to teach my word
that sucks cuz I’m not good at it
already it looks small right now
nobody’s listening I got this group of
young people I don’t even know if they
saved they’re not and you want me to
spend my life working on this thing that
I don’t even see a future in when I
started speaking I was still waiting for
God to give me okay you obey me for
three months go back to what’s
comfortable but he said no no you gotta
know that sometimes I’m gonna ask you to
leave what’s comfortable to come to
what’s not so I can give you a weapon
that changes everything in your life for
the past seven years I’ve been studying
the Bible ripping out sermons from
everybody reading book oh can I be
honest cuz it’s ugly when you’re out
here trying to do what God’s told you to
do I’m reading books where I can’t even
pronounce half the words I’m going to
sitting down on what people see God’s
not saying it’s gonna be easy he said
but if you would trust me God why are
you telling me to do that I can’t even
say these names in the Bible
my feathers Mephibosheth
but this but this last week I spoke on
probably the biggest platform in the
Christian Church right now and I stood
up there with only my personality and a
big mouth filled with the Word of God
trying to help somebody right now I used
what was in my hands I feel the presence
of God in this place if you would just
look at what God has placed in your
hands with your ability to cook and a
family that will support you to step out
in your dreams with your ability to
organize in a devoted spirit to do
whatever God says with your ability to
write and a group of friends that will
get around you and help you like don’t
despise the small beginnings cuz no
matter if you’re walking with the staff
that looks useless for the battle or a
sword David didn’t care which one he had
cuz no matter if it was this or this he
would look at his giant and say you
forgot who I was I’m armed and dangerous
well somebody he’s armed and dangerous
and has faith to believe God give God a
shout of praise in this building oh come
on let’s give God a shadow pray because
we will do everything God’s called us to
do because we are marked by him stand it
all over this building
some of y’all are going this week I need
you to take that that little fill in the
blank and I need you to make room for
God and I need you to pray start some
worship music and ask God show me my
gifts again the thing that I’ve been
counting out
show me what you’re counting on and I
want you to feel that thing and you need
to remind yourself that you’re armed and
dangerous you don’t need nothing else in
a different season it’ll come when you
need it but everything you need is
everything you have you just need to see
it differently I’m armed and father I
thank you come on lifted hands all over
this place I thank you that I I’ve
delivered this world in the best way I
knew how and I hope to inspire for other
God your people to move from the
starting line and take what you’ve given
them and they know it is enough got our
insufficiencies are just room for your
sufficiency so I thank you God that you
are moving people into a place of faith
that we will speak things that are not
that we will stand and declare with what
we have what you’ve said in our hearts
and I thank you that everybody that’s in
this woman listening that you are marked
by God and you will not be lied to
another day let us put on every
well-made weapon that God has provided
for us let us walk in truth and
righteousness and remember our salvation
and have peace father God and open the
word of tide and walk in prayer father
God let us do it every day so that we
can take out every giant that’s in front
of us we trust you we believe you and we
have a new confession of our lives we
are armed and dangerous if you believe
it give God a shout afraid Oh