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well good morning transformation charts
I am so excited that you are here this
morning I believe that God has an
amazing word just for you
I don’t know how you got here but
because you’re here I know God’s gonna
meet you here and I want to say welcome
to all of the people who are a part of
transformation nation watching from
Kenya and China and I mean people are
watching from all over the world and we
want to say hello thank you for sewing
and thank you for being a part can we
say hi to transformation nation we love
you guys
well we are in week two of a series that
we are calling planted not be read and
from the comments from what I’ve heard
from from how you guys are responding I
think God has us in a vein to let us
know something that all of us need to
really realize in whatever season of
life that we’re in that under does not
mean over like like there’s too many of
us that we get under pressure or under
attack we get undervalued and we think
that that’s the place where God’s saying
it’s time to quit it’s time to die
but we learned last week that the place
of burial is the same place that God
many times wants to cultivate and create
what he has on the inside of you and so
today we’re gonna take this thing a step
further because this series planted not
buried that’s a cool title and we could
shout and be a man with it but the
subtitle is what to do when you’re under
and and I really feel like from a lot of
the conversations this is how this
series really came to life in me is a
lot of the conversation I’ve been having
people don’t know what to do when
they’re under when when they’re under
attack and valued and all those things
that I just said and I want to teach you
that I want to teach you how to take
what God has given you in a dark season
in an isolated season in a season that
feels frustrating or stagnant and and
and what do I do
I can’t control what everybody else does
I cannot control what government does I
cannot control but I can
control my response and I can control
what God does in me somebody say what
God does in me see what God doesn’t you
is the thing that he’s really trying to
get in you and out of you period and so
many times the enemy comes to distract
us and get us focused on things that
don’t even really matter but today
anybody who is under I believe that your
faith is gonna be sparked that God is
coming in to give you another level of
hope for what he’s called you to so as I
begin to study this I want us to go to
the scripture because this comes out of
Psalms chapter one and we started last
week with verse number three and I
wonder and I want to read it because
this was a beautiful metaphor that David
gave of what a mature life what Christ
is supposed to look like it says and
they are like trees everybody say
planted along the riverbanks bearing
fruit and each season their leaves never
wither and they prosper in all they do
that is a good way to live that
everything you’re doing is prospering
and God’s blessing and all of these
different things but the reality of this
statement is that this is the end result
not the beginning start and many of us
read scriptures like that’s what God was
for me tomorrow or that’s what’s gonna
happen tomorrow and what you got to
realize is there is seed time and then
harvest and I don’t know where you’re at
in your relationships I don’t know where
you’re at in your family I don’t know
where you’re at in your business but you
gotta be able to identify minc time am I
in the time time or I’m in harvest time
you gotta understand that because then
your response and your preparation is
different when it’s time to just be
planted a seed is not trying to be busy
not trying to date everybody not trying
oh oh a seed is not trying to do
everything a seed knows that the best
thing I can do right now is just stay
planted did you understand and and in
that time phase it’s about how I wait
and many people wait really bad but it’s
not like waiting like oh god I’m just
gonna do it but it’s about how I wait at
your service God what do you want me to
do who do you want me to serve how do
you want me to give like that’s what you
do in the time and then harvest is
really the hard part cuz a lot of people
talk about is harvest time it’s harvest
time but have you ever met a farmer
yelling it’s harvest time the only
people yelling is harvest time is people
who never gotten dirty do you understand
what I’m saying because you have to get
down and do dirty work to see what God
is going all I’m saying to you is this
is a season where you need to know where
you are and why you were there and if we
are going to be planted and not buried
and I speak that over you today I speak
that over you you are not buried I need
to encourage somebody real quick because
somebody walked into this place and you
thought it was over and you were on your
last leg and you just barely made rent
payment and all this you’re not buried
you’re planted God is using all of the
circumstances that look dirty and even
are stinky around you to be able to make
something that’s gonna produce for your
life
somebody shout at me I’m planted not
buried i am hype already okay here we go
all i want you to understand is that as
we read this scripture
everybody wants a verse three everybody
wants verse three but I I would be a bad
leader and a bad shepherd if I didn’t
talk to you about verse one in to see
because what ends up happening many
times is in church we just get people
height on the results but we never talk
about the process and when you talk
about the seed time and harvest and us
becoming a tree you’ve never seen a tree
become a hundred foot tall and and span
on in a year never have happened it’s
because there’s a process and so I want
to still go and I want us to read verse
one of Psalms look this is how David
starts off the whole of
whole thing because the title of my
message and the question that I’m gonna
be asking around it is is is this little
phrase right here I’m prepared to plant
prepared to plant because many of us
want to be planted but the question is
have we prepared to be planted and in
verse 1 and 2 we’re gonna find out some
of the prerequisites to being planted
have you ever like showed up for
something and you weren’t prepared I
have somebody said all the time I’ve
done it a few times where I’ve showed up
for something and I wasn’t prepared
there’s been a couple of things that I
thought I was prepared for that the
situation described to me and show me
very quickly I wasn’t prepared for them
let me give you one example marriage I
went prepared see because they tell you
about the lovey-dovey stuff and they
tell you that you get to have sex all
the time and they tell you all of these
other but they don’t tell you that you
never get to finish your food ok yeah I
got a a man back there in the back they
did not tell you that there will be
times that you have to sacrifice and put
what you want on the altar and literally
do what you do not want to do for the
other person I wasn’t prepared and and
let me tell you something else I
wouldn’t prepare for kids um because
everything that that your wife can’t
teach you or your spouse can’t teach you
your kids will and and I’m telling you I
wasn’t prepared to be in a nice outfit
and and my child projectile poop on me
and and I have to be late and not blame
them you understand what I’m saying I
wasn’t I wasn’t prepared it’s because
many times people don’t talk about the
preparation that they show you the
family photo they show they celebrate 90
years of marriage that they celebrate
whatever but the preparation is not
talked about and so today as we got the
whole world chanting I’m planted not
buried it would be wrong of me to not
tell you where you need to be to be
prepared to be planted like and so I
want us to read this and we’re gonna
read it out of the amplified version
because it just amplifies it and I’m
want you to see this imagery it says
blessed fortunate prosperous and favored
by God is the man who now let’s stop
right there because at this phrase I
thought they were gonna tell me
something that I needed to do like
blessed is the man who loves his wife
blessed is the man who gives tithe
blessed is the man who I thought it was
gonna be something but David goes on to
say blessed is the man who doesn’t do
something and I begin to look at this
because many times the struggle of our
human nature is not the doing of
something it’s the not doing of
something it’s it’s it’s having the
ability to have self control and deny
our flesh and do what is not easy and
and God is saying to us right now
he said I’m about to give you the
prerequisites to being planted I’m about
to prepare you to be planted and it’s
not about what you do because that’s a
lot of times works that that’s like what
I can do and how many times but it’s
what you don’t do that prepares you for
being planted oh this is about to be
good it says blessed fortunate
prosperous and favored by God is the man
who does not walk in the counsel of the
wicked following their advice and
example my first point or my first
question to you is how are you walking
like like like I have a daughter who’s
11 months old her name is ava and she’s
trying to start walking right now and
it’s the cutest thing in the world
because she doesn’t know how to walk
she’s still discovering her limbs but
she’s trying to walk so hard because she
is getting counseled or she’s following
the example and the pattern of her
brother and sister she is with two
people who are walking all the time and
so because she is walking with people or
around people who are showing her away
she is more apt to try to do what they
are doing she hates being left behind
she hates being in her Walker and
everybody take off running and she got
across she hates it at 11 months old why
it’s because I
how you walk is is very strongly based
on who you’re around yeah yeah and and I
need everybody to see this very clearly
like the first thing that you have to do
cuz verse 3 tells us that they are like
trees planted like like that’s what we
all want we want to be planted trees but
how it starts is blessed are those who
do not walk in the counsel of the wicked
and so my first question just for you to
ask yourself this is not me judging you
this I want you to plant I want you to
be the tree I want you to be everything
God has shown you but I need to make
sure you’re prepared to be planted and
the first question that David puts out
there inspired by God is how are you
walking like like like like like and
when you see that how you’re walking
then it changes your perspective of what
you’re doing and why you’re doing it I
want you to see and and and and
understand that your walk determines so
much in your life when David starts this
often says blessed are those who do not
walk that means you have to take
inventory on everybody who is around you
and I know this is a thing that nobody
likes to do cuz everybody’s looking for
likes and everybody’s looking for they
phone to be blowing up and everybody’s
looking for community that just just
makes them feel good but I’m telling you
today today’s message is not to applaud
your attendance to church I’m trying to
help your ascent into maturity what
you’re gonna have to do is ask yourself
how am I really walking and you can’t
lie to you don’t lie to yourself in this
just because you post a scripture or
just because you’ve been in church for
50 years does not mean that you are
maturing and becoming who God has called
you to be and I need you to ask yourself
for real this question because God sees
what you do in midnight God sees the
thread God sees what you’re doing and
all I’m asking you is be real with you
how are you walking are you prideful
when you come off with false humility
and people like man he’s just so quiet
and you’re
frightful you know the thoughts that
you’re thinking in your head are you one
of those who are looking for people’s
faults all the time
and God says listen your walk is so
important but what may be more important
than your walk or the thing that
primarily influences your walk is who’s
counseling you and my question to you is
who’s counseling you
is it the news CC’ing you like
counseling like like like like sitting
on a couch like getting counseled maybe
but I’m talking about who are you
following the example of like like who
are you patterning yourself after
are you are you following the example or
are being affected by the news because
many times when you when you’re
counseled by the news when you wake up
in the morning and the first thing you
do is get the news from from a wicked
source and when I say that I’m not
talking about everybody in news is
wicked but we know that the devil is the
Prince of the air airwaves anything that
is being pumped into you it has a
negative Bend and and wicked just means
morally corrupt or evil and and why is
it that we have so many good things
going on but they report 70% of negative
news like like and I’m just using this
as an example because if that is who you
are getting counseled by no wonder you
walk in fear okay they’re like like no
wonder you walk in exactly anxiety
because it says blessed are those who do
not walk in the way in the counsel of
the wicked do you hear what I’m saying
are you being are you being counseled by
popular culture is that where you’re
getting all your perceptions from and
the thing you have to realize I’m not
coming against anything because
everybody doesn’t want to reach purpose
everybody doesn’t want to beat a tree
some people will settle for being a bush
like like and and and and if that’s what
you want cool like I’m not telling you
but if you want to be a verse 3 believer
the one who’s planted and it’s like a
tree that is bearing fruit in every seat
if that’s who you want to be you gotta
check your walk
and the only way you check your walk is
who’s walking with you
who’s counseling you it’s popular
culture and Instagram are they telling
you where your value system should come
from are they telling you it is loving
hip-hop giving you a playbook on
relationship please say it’s not just
I’m just all I’m all I’m saying is is
it’s Fox or seeing it are they giving
you the view of how you view other races
because if you allow wicked or evil or
perverted counsel to speak into your
life it will change how you walk so if
you want to be prepared to be planted
the first question is how are you
walking and I know this is this is this
is something that I had to really really
go and be real with myself I told
somebody the other day honesty is weak
because honesty is only telling the
truth when somebody asks you and there’s
tons of questions that nobody ever asked
me so I never told the truth come on
y’all like like come on if somebody asks
you then you would tell them but nobody
ever checked on me nobody ever said but
transparency that’s for them true G’s
transparency it’s the thing that like
it’s that remember we’re talking about
becoming a mature tree we’re talking
about coming on mature believer like
it’s the next level of this walk and all
I’m saying to you if you want to go to
that next level if you want to make sure
you’re prepared to be planted you’re
gonna have to come to a level of
transparency and that’s what I had to do
in my own life I had to I had to come
clean like yo my you’re dealing with
crap that don’t even nobody know you’re
jealous of people that don’t even know
you exist you’re you’re standing
and-and-and-and judging others based on
what you have in your life that you kept
sacred and when I value weighted how I
was walking it made me look at who I was
walking with who was speaking into my
life
who I allowed to counsel me and when I
started to shut out every other noise
and every other counselor I found Jesus
and when you start connecting your first
counselor your first what do you think
about this to the Word of God how do I
deal with relationships I need to go to
my counselor Jesus like like like am I
supposed to make this business decision
I need to talk to my counselor sheet
when I when I go to the counselor my
walk started changing I used to steal
because it was easy nothing changed in
the ability for me to be able to do it
but when I started walking with God I
just looked about like I don’t want to
do it my walk has changed because of my
association what I’m telling you is if
you want to be ready to be planted you
got to check how you’re walking and you
got to check whose counseling you and
just in case dr. Phil or Iyanla are not
available Isaiah sent a recommendation
in and he said that I got a counsellor
for you in Isaiah 9 verse 6 he said for
a child is born to us who us a son is
given to who us the government will rest
on his shoulders he’s a boss and he will
be called look at the first name
wonderful counselor and then it said he
but he’s better than that he’s a mighty
God he’s an everlasting father and he is
the Prince of Peace do you know what’s
funny about this passage is it ends with
peace but it starts with who’s
counseling you could I suggest to you
that your peace may be attached to who’s
counseling you uh-oh so if you’re
getting counseled from friends who all
they do is gossip and talk about people
you may not have the peace that God has
for you because he’s not the center of
your counsel
all I want us to do is check and see if
maybe the reason we haven’t been planted
how we want to be is because we haven’t
checked the way we walked and we haven’t
checked who’s counseling us let me give
you a couple because I just want to
prepare you these are questions for your
own time of reflection and your own time
with the Lord okay my second thing is
where are you standing where are you
standing because when I read Psalms 1
verses 1 through 3 says blessed
fortunate prosperous and favored by God
is the man or the woman who does not
walk in the counsel of the wicked okay
we got that he’s not following their
advice in their example nor stand in the
path of sinners now this one threw me
off for a second because I was like the
path of sinners like stand in the path
of sinners how do you stand in the path
of sinners so when I’m confused in what
I’m doing Bible study I start looking up
definitions of word I go back and take
it to like the Greek and all this other
stuff y’all this is crazy when I found
out
look what path means a path is a way or
a trap laid down for walking or made by
continual treading it’s a pattern so so
so what God is saying is he doesn’t want
you to stand in the way or the path of
sinners what I begin to think about this
in my own life
God said a path is made by a pattern you
only make a path if there is a continual
pattern of the same thing if it’s been
walking the way you’ve been walking oh I
don’t remember the first step we have to
check how we belong so if we’ve been
walking in a certain way and we continue
to walk in that certain way and it’s
been three years and it’s been five
years and it’s been six years what
happens is a path is created the
question is is it a path of a sinner see
for me the path was created by my
patterns of lying and I was standing in
path of a sinner and guess who made the
path me cuz I never thought the little
white lies were that bad
I never thought looking at the image was
that bad I never thought just taking a
little bit at a time was that but what I
was doing was I was creating a path of a
sinner because of my pattern that I did
over and over and over and over and over
and some of you are sitting here right
now and your pattern is so normal to you
that you don’t even know you’re on the
wrong path
you you you you’ve been holding
unforgiveness so long you think that’s
your right like you think that you’re
winning but it said since you were young
you’ve been creating the path of a
sinner and if you are going to be
prepared to be planted the second thing
it says is don’t stand in the path or
the pattern of a sinner this checked me
all up and down but because I I had to
come to grips with many of my own
difficulties were created by small
decisions that I made continually like
like and when my path is created by my
pattern it always affects me being
planted that’s why so many people start
off real good at the beginning of the
year in church and then bye-bye
the next week they fall off it’s because
they’ve been in a path or a pattern so
long that even when I want to get
planted I go back to what is normal I go
back to what is comfort but you know
what we said last week that comfort and
growth do not go together all I want to
do is challenge you today is maybe
there’s an area in your life that you
have discounted as just a little thing
that isn’t it’s not really that big that
God will forgive me for
or but maybe it’s bigger because it’s
keeping you from getting planted because
you’ve started a pattern and now you
have stood in the path of a sinner for
me it was lying but maybe for you the
pattern has been being promiscuous you
go from relationship to relationship in
I mean it’s not that bad and all this
other stuff and what you’re doing is
creating a path that you stand in of a
sinner and I know this is I know this is
direct I know this is straight but my
prayer as a pastor is that I wouldn’t
just give you the little milk that would
that help you feel good today I want you
to become the tree I want you to be able
to bear fruit and every season and some
of us cannot stay planted because of our
patterns please if you want to be
planted it’s time to ask where am i
standing am i standing in a path that
keeps me in the same pattern and my
patterns affecting me being planted
let’s keep moving cuz I know that’s it
right now it start the word is starting
to go down
you ever had medicine that has a tingle
in effect like I know like the word is
starting to go down and starting effects
effect something on the inside cuz this
is what it was doing to me as I was
preparing it was making me I wasn’t
shouting none when I was cuz usually
when I’m preparing I’m in the mode of
the message I’m like well that’s gonna
be good this whole time I was like oh oh
oh Lord and what I asked God to do is
check my patterns laziness is a pattern
like and it will produce um a lot of
things that will keep us from doing what
God’s called us to do can I just tell
you this is a little off the subject but
but I want somebody in here needs to
hear this
laziness sometimes my laziness is not a
sin we could debate that but let me just
help you like like when you’re not doing
what you’re supposed to be doing when
you’re when you’re when you’re moving
your responsibilities and the things
that you should be doing things you even
really want to do – another time another
date all of those different things what
ends up happening is you begin to make
excuses for the things that could happen
or could not happen
the thing about excuses is they bleed
over into every area of your life so
when you’re making excuses about things
that could happen or couldn’t happen if
you would or if you wouldn’t you start
making excuses about things that you
should do too and when you make excuses
about things you should do then you
leave yourself open to be idle to be
able to be affected by things that you
wouldn’t even be even knowing about if
you were doing what you were supposed to
be doing can I break it down oh girl
only comes around when you not doing
what you were supposed to be doing
like like like that opportunity only
presented itself because you wasn’t
where he was supposed to be do it like
and and what I’m saying to you is that
those are the district Ossa
remember I’m talking about it’s the
patterns some of us have had those
patterns since middle school cheating
off for everybody’s tests I’m guilty
patterns right like of just putting off
and what it does is it makes it hard for
us to get planting I’m telling you
because through the rest of this series
you’re gonna figure out what to do when
you’re under we’re not just gonna stay
here but a lot of people who are yelling
on planted last week aren’t because they
haven’t done the prerequisites of being
planted they haven’t evaluated how
they’re walking they haven’t taken a
survey of who’s counseling them they
have not looked and seen you know what
I’m walking in the path of the sinner
and the last thing look what it says it
says they don’t stand in the path of a
sinner nor do they sit down to rest in
the seat of scoffers or ridicule errs my
third question for you is when are you
sitting and I know I could have said
where are you sitting or something else
but but the question is when are you
sitting in the seat of the judge when
are you sitting in the seat of the
mocker when are you sitting in the seat
of the hater when are you sitting in the
seat of the critic because all
of us have done it what they’re saying
is like blessed is the person who does
not sit here on your own you’re prideful
thought process and judge other people’s
process and this disqualified me for a
long time from being planted if I can be
honest with you I would evaluate what
other people were doing and somehow make
myself feel better about the
insecurities that I was feeling by
watching and pointing out all the flaws
of somebody else and God said your
critical spirit your judgmental spirit
your scoffing spirit is keeping you from
getting planted and getting deep roots
and I’m knowing nobody going Amen right
now but but they’ll there’ll be a
hundred it’s one of the funniest things
like I’m watching um the the message on
YouTube and and you see like ten
thousand people like the message and
then you see fifty people who have the
thumbs down those 50 people who are you
why do you give me thumbs down like and
and I’m and I’m just thinking but
there’s certain areas in our life that
we’re giving people thumbs down and we
really don’t even have a reason like
like like when we give them the thumbs
down like why are you wearing that and
oh you started a new job and she ain’t
never gonna make it in you remember her
lasting and we’re sitting in the seat of
the judge was sitting in the seat I mean
I know people who go on dates just to
people-watch
aka be critical of people and when we do
that God saying will you mature like I
have this dream for you to be planted I
have this dream for you to be so strong
and big but you keep planning yourself
around weeds and your destiny is
squeezed out an infant stage because you
won’t evaluate how you walk and you
won’t evaluate how you’re getting
counseled and you won’t evaluate where
you’re standing and where you’re sitting
Church it’s time for us to mature
because God painted a picture of us
being planted a tall oak with everything
we’re doing
working and being blessed and being
blessed to be a blessing and changing a
city and raising up people and
transforming I mean that’s what God sees
for you but he said there’s three
prerequisites I need you to deal with
watch how you all get stopped making a
path or a pattern of sin and please stop
judging other people cuz if you could do
I can work with all the rest I’m not
trying to make you perfect but those
things are weeds that squeeze out the
seed I want to plant in your life
somebody say I am planted and not buried
but I’m prepared to plant that’s really
what I need you to be prepared to do I
need you to be prepared to plant and
this is gonna take you having some
reflective time you’re gonna have to go
home and sit with this don’t ask your
friend right now am I am I one of those
four yes you are if you have to ask them
are you one of those friends you
probably are all I’m saying to you is
maybe this is an evaluation time because
I believe as we get planted this week I
believe as God does this work on the
inside of us I believe that people are
about to start sprouting that God’s
gonna have roots that go deep but then
it’s gonna be something that people see
that all men will be able to eat the
fruit and this is the beautiful thing
about when you get fruit there are more
seeds inside of the fruit that you are
producing could it be that the reason
God is bringing this word at this time
for you is because there’s a forest
inside of you and you don’t even need
anybody else to bring the forest all you
need is a seed time forest it’s harvest
but for us you got the analogy and so
there’s some people in here that are
like okay Pastor Mike like how do I not
judge people because I feel like that’s
the normal that’s that’s what I grew up
with that’s how I’ve been that sir let’s
go to Matthew chapter 7 verse 1 it says
don’t judge others and you will not be
judged for you will be treated as you
treat others another translation says
the stand
that you use in judging is the standard
by which you will be all I’m telling you
is everything you put out to other
people it comes back when I read this
scripture and still and really
understood it I add the I had to rein in
all my thoughts I had aa no no no no no
no y’all come back yeah that is funny by
any angles ain’t none I ain’t even look
at because I realized that I might as
well be judging myself cuz that’s what’s
gonna happen look what it says it says
verse three and why worry about a speck
in your friends eye when you have a log
in your own eye
big two-by-four how can you think of
saying to your friend girl come here let
me help you with them issues you have in
your relation relationship the speck in
their eye when you can’t see that that
you have a log in your own eye hypocrite
first get rid of the log in your own eye
then you will see well enough to deal
with the speck in your friends I see
this is the beautiful thing God wants
you to help your friend God wants you to
help others with their issue but it’s
very hard to see it clearly when you
don’t deal with yours what happens if a
surgeon goes into surgery with tinted
glasses on please don’t work on me
because you can’t see clearly what you
are do that the same thing like like and
and for all of us judging has to be
something that we give back to God
because it keeps us from being planted
properly okay so after all of that it
goes through those things in verse 1
look at Psalms chapter one verse two
then it says but his delight is in the
law of the Lord and on his law his
precepts and teaching he habitually
meditates day and night God’s trying to
create a new habit a new pattern verse
three and they and he will be planted
like a tree firmly planted and fed by
streams of water which yields its fruit
in its season it’s leaf does not wither
and he
in whatever he does he prospers and
comes to maturity so verse three is the
promise is the outcome verse one is the
preparation so I don’t want us to leave
here and be confused why am i not a tree
planted because you haven’t prepared for
your seed to go deep okay
so passing like what I do cuz if I’m
honest I came to this service and
there’s some issues in my life that I’m
dealing with right now or I’ve been
saved all my life but I see something
differently I’m encouraged that this is
a place of hope and not a place of
condemnation we have to expose the issue
and expose the problem but then we can
be able to heal from it and so the Bible
is full of things that I call ifs and
then’s
so like it’ll say if my people who are
called by my name will humble themselves
and pray that’s our part then I will
hear and heal them okay
like it’s like it like like these ifs
and dins begin to create what is my part
what is God’s part like another one says
if we confess our sins then he is
faithful and just to forgive us of our
sins and to cleanse us of all
unrighteousness so everybody say if and
then okay this whole thing is a if and
then thing he’s saying yo if you check
how you walk-in if you stop getting
counsel from wicked and get counsel from
me if if you actually just stop judging
people like like just if you just stop
judging people if if you stop doing
these things then I’m gonna make you
like a tree planting bearing fruit in
every season everything you do work your
leaves never wither like that’s the then
part so I’m gonna give you three things
that go along with that better if and
then and the beautiful thing about if
you’re doing something wrong all you
have to do is repent like this is the
beautiful thing about what Jesus did for
all of us y’all
is he created away that no matter what
mess-up we make we can say sorry and he
will put us back in the place that we
need to be to grow and there’s a lot of
people who are saying yeah I’ve messed
up all you have to do is repent and
guess what reap it means so simple turn
like so if I was going this way
repent Father forgive me for what I’ve
been doing and how I’ve been using
people and how I’ve been scandalous in
these situations I am now turning and
when you turn you get to go to another
place of being planted so I just want to
help you this is practical application
if you are following the advice of the
wicked everybody say repent yeah yeah I
want you to repent right now and I want
you to follow the advice of the word I
mean I’m gonna be so practical for you
that you can go home and do this open
your Bible and see what God’s word has
to say about it and when you do that
guess what you get again planted because
there’s some people in here right now
that have been doing the same thing for
a long time and you go to E news before
you open up the Bible you go to
Instagram feed to figure out what’s
going on in the world and God says if
you would seek first the kingdom of God
and right standing with me everything
else in your life will be added so all I
want you to do is if you are following
the advice of the wicked another way
nobody gonna be like that’s me bastard
as me nobody’s gonna do that but you
know if those co-workers at work are the
people you’re counseling with they’re
giving you relationship advice about
things that are not rooted and founded
in the Word of God repent Father forgive
me for listening to voices that are not
high as yours Father forgive me for
listening to counsel who can’t teach me
how to walk father your word says that
you are not a way but the way
the truth and Allah the only path I can
get to the Father
it’s true you Father forgive me and I am
coming back I am turning from that and I
am planting back in the Word of God so
if that’s you you got an instruction the
second thing if you’re standing in the
path of sinners if you have a pattern of
sinning if you’ve made that thing by
trekking back and forth in the same
thing I want you to repent everybody say
repent that all that means it’s turn and
I want you to stand in the path of the
Savior like like what are you saying
staying in the path of the Savior I want
you to just understand that there can be
a new pattern made where you always ask
God direct me like I’m about to go in
here mess up direct me proverbs 3:5 says
acknowledged God in all your ways and he
will direct my what oh oh oh remember
we’ve been in the past of the sinners
but if we just acknowledge him God I
don’t know how to live without having
sex outside of marriage I just
acknowledged him I need your Holy Spirit
to empower me then he says oh you
invited me in I now can direct your hey
I want you to see that what God is
saying to you is if you have just repent
then I can do something different in you
and with the last one if you are judging
if you’re sitting in that seat of the
mocker if you’re sitting in the seat
come on guys I know it’s a daily battle
not to judge and be critical of
everything that everybody does and I’m
seeing lose weight that’s the best
photoshopping then I mean we just be
nasty to people like we don’t want like
everything we’re just so critical and
gods like I didn’t give you that spirit
that didn’t come for me that maybe come
from who you’ve been counseling with it
made me come from who you’ve been
walking it might come from where you’ve
been standing but I want you to sit in
the seat of being an encourage her
not somebody who who is judging so I
want you to hear this if you are judging
other people’s journey repent everybody
say repent
that means turn and join a journey the
best way to stop being critical of
something is get involved with it cuz
you ain’t critical of your stuff like my
girl ID look good then not like oh that
was me because because somehow when
you’re in it you understand the process
when you’re in debt you understand the
pain when you’re walking with somebody
and somebody says they just the hole
you’d be like nah it’s not really that
like you don’t know that they were
abused and you don’t know what they’ve
been walking through like you don’t
defend what you don’t know but once you
get in the fight with somebody once you
start understanding where people have
been and how it’s happened for them when
you join a journey it stops you from
judging so there’s solutions to this if
we would just prepare to plan if we
would say you know what I’ve been
walking with some wrong counsel I’ve
been making a path and some patterns
that have me in sin I’ve been judging
people if you just admit that and repent
think I can say thank you let me take
your life let me take your life let me
take your life and he will plant us in
the place that will cultivate our
destiny yeah we’ll still be under but
when we’re under we have a different
perspective now this is not the place of
death this is the place that God is
making me and he wants to develop roots
in me and practically with that last
step join a journey I want everybody in
this place to get into godly community I
want you to join a big room why are you
saying that Pastor Mike because when you
put yourself in a place to join a
journey and be joined to others journey
then it becomes something that we are
doing not something that you are doing
the the me turns into we are selfish
lifts our pride all
that stuff goes out the window when I
have to be concerned about somebody else
and the beautiful thing about God’s
words is he tells us where there are two
are three gathered together we get an
automatic God show up card and he comes
in and may I say that many of us have
been fighting alone because we wouldn’t
join somebody’s journey or allow
somebody to join ours today at every
every exit that you’re gonna go out of
in this place there’ll be people that’ll
say hey do you want to sign up for a
belong group some of you already signed
up some of you aren’t all I’m saying is
part of you being planted it is joining
into a journey I’m so excited for the
next few weeks of this series but I was
gonna go somewhere else but God told me
very clearly he said please don’t set
these people up to fail please don’t
have people getting tree tattoos and
talking about I’m playing it please
sooner please don’t have people doing
this without telling the the
prerequisite to being planted and today
my hope is that you would wrestle with
this until you can say strongly in your
heart god I’m prepared to be planted
today I want to pray for you every
person in this place because some of you
God reveals something to you in this
message some of you have been walking in
the counsel of culture and and and bad
news and family members and it’s
affected your walking you’ve been
getting their counsel today God’s
changing that up you’re gonna make a
decision others of you in this place you
have made a path or a pattern of sin and
God saying today you’re gonna repeat and
this is going to change and there’s
other people in here that you will sit
back you don’t say much but you’re
judging and it don’t even have to be out
loud but it’s been in your heart and in
your mind and God saying today instead
of judging journeys you’re gonna join a
journey I’m telling you today is a day
of everybody say maturity Oh somebody’s
going deeper cuz it’s gonna take
humility roots it’s gonna take you being
able to be transparent roots it’s gonna
take you taking a step that maybe a
child wouldn’t take but I read my Bible
and
when I was a child I thought like a
child I acted like a child I walk like a
child I talk like a child but at some
point these childish games got old and I
put them away and I started doing things
in maturity today may be the day you put
up the Legos the Legos of Lies come on
today may be the day that you stop
playing Ginga with your destiny trying
to see if it’ll stand up like trying to
see like today we’re not playing
Monopoly anymore we’re not just trying
to build fake hotels and and and fake
fake houses we want something that will
last forever and that is only found in
the truth of God’s Word and so I’m not
giving you milk today I’m giving you
meat but I hope it challenges you to
mature this is your message because I
believe God is preparing to plant you
all over this place come on if you want
to be planted if you really want to come
into this place in preparation I want to
pray for you father I thank you I thank
you father for every person that’s under
the sound of my voice who heard you
father this wasn’t an easy word to
deliver or to receive but God I thank
you this the truth of your word
and I thank you Father that you’re
preparing me for I stand here not
perfect but I stand here father’s and
plant me plant me God use me father go
deep in my life and God I’m thanking you
that for everybody that’s watching they
will understand that and they will walk
in it father and they will do everything
that’s necessary father to allow you to
do a deep work on the inside of them God
we repent today I repent today I turn
father from everything that goes against
your word because we want to be verse 3
believers we want to be like trees
planted by living water that is
producing in every season our leaves
never withering and everything we do
father is gonna prosper but that only
comes father if we’re prepared to be
planting for every person in this room
who needs to receive you God
Thank You Father that today they will
invite you in and allow you to be Lord
of their life look at me everybody just
for one second if you’re in this room
and you’ve never received Jesus Christ
as your personal Lord and Savior I’m
trying to tell you it is the greatest
decision I ever made
because it was a thing that take took me
from being buried and made me be planted
because at the moment I invited God in
the greater one came to live on the
inside of me and I know what you’re
saying Pastor Mike you don’t know what I
did God didn’t care about what you did
well Pastor Mike you don’t you don’t
know how I’m feeling God doesn’t care
how you’re feeling he’s saying let me
come in and help you with what you
couldn’t help yourself with and I know
there’s people everywhere that need to
experience the love of Jesus this is why
our church exists so if you’re in this
room right now and you need to accept
Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and
Savior I want you to say this prayer
with me and we’re all gonna say it
together for the benefit of those who
are coming to Christ but if that’s you I
want you to say this prayer say God I
need you come into my life and transform
me I believe you lived and you died just
for me come in and transform me in Jesus
name Amen
hey listen if you made that decision
come on let’s give God some praise we
believe in you and we thank God for it
in Jesus name