In Week 1 of the Damaged but Not Destroyed Series, Pastor Mike challenges a common cultural belief that discourages honesty, suggesting that those who speak the truth might suffer harm. Drawing on the childhood saying, “Snitches get stitches,” he encourages a different perspective. This message will cause you to reframe this idea, emphasizing that when we are honest and transparent about our shortcomings, it allows God to bring healing to the areas where we’ve fallen apart. He reminds us that God doesn’t bless who we pretend to be but who we really are. We pray this message gives you the courage you need to honestly share where you are so that Jesus can come and make you whole. Scripture References: John 8:36 NIV John 8:32 KJV James 5:16 NLT John 20:19-29 NLT John 20:26 NLT Hebrews 12:2 NIV Isaiah 53:5 KJV 1 Timothy 1:15 NKJV 00:00 – Intro 11:15 – Freedom is the goal. 11:30 – Truth is the path. 11:34 – Confession is the key. 11:38 – Healing is the result. 11:46 – John chapter 8 verse 36 NIV 12:22 – John chapter 8 verse 32 KJV 13:05 – James chapter 5 verse 6 NLT 14:04 – God doesn’t bless who you pretend to be. He blesses who you really are. 14:56 – John chapter 20 verses 19 through 29 NLT 25:05 – Discipleship doesn’t exclude you from damage 26:04 – To be honest, it’s going to take… 1. Faith 29:24 – To be honest, it’s going to take… 2. Friends 30:32 – John chapter 20 verse 26 NLT 33:44 – To be honest, it’s going to take… 3. Focus 34:39 – Hebrews chapter 12 verse 2 NIV 37:36 – To be honest, it’s going to take… 4. Fall Apart 43:03 – Jesus allowed His wounds to stay open so yours could be closed 44:21 – Isaiah chapter 53 verse 5 KJV 46:05 – The more honest I am, the more glory He gets Join Transformation Church for our live Sunday experience. Plug into community, engage in live worship with Transformation Worship, & hear a powerful word from God. ABOUT US We Exist to REPRESENT God to the lost & found for Transformation in Christ. This is the vision of Transformation Church, led by Pastor Michael Todd and based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. NEXT STEPS Have you made the decision to follow Jesus? Fill out the form below so we can help you on your journey toward Transformation in Christ: http://transformchurch.us/saved
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hi my name is Charles and I serve here
at transmission church as one of the
executive pastors and I want to take a
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today we are starting a brand new series
entitled damage but not destroyed
and every time God allows me to release
a book he tells me to do something very
specific
he says I want you to preach the book
without preaching the book
I say what he said do not use any of the
content I outlined in the book I want to
give you fresh manna
so that when they go to the book they’ll
see it was me that was talking to them
not you
so this book
it’s got content in it that God has
worked in me over the past five years
but this message is fresh off the press
the Holy Spirit has been bothering me
about you for two weeks
so if you’re ready to go on this journey
I’m telling you for the next
probably the rest of the year
so I want to lie to you we might be
dealing with our damage at Christmas
because what better gift
would it be than to actually be healed
this Christmas
not covering up with Louie and Gucci and
Jordan
but what if it wasn’t wasn’t presents
that were bought but it was your
presence
being healed we’re about to go on a
journey
and I gotta start right here
by telling you that this series is going
to be about watch this Theology and
therapy
like when we come in here I know in
church circles this doesn’t get used a
lot but but I want you to know we
believe fully in theology in in therapy
me and Pastor Natalie do it everybody on
the executive team does it this church
believes that the Catalyst happens at
the altar
but all the crap you’ve been dealing
with
needs to be talked about
and I’ve already amened myself a
thousand times before I got here
so I don’t need your amen today
because the truth of matter is everybody
wants to talk about seeing a victory
everybody wants to talk about the
Triumph nobody wants to talk about the
trauma
and the thing that disqualifies us more
than not from our destiny is the damage
that we’ve experienced and have not
addressed
so during this series
we’re going to address it all I want to
tell y’all a story
I want to tell you a story about the
time I got stitches
has anybody ever had stitches before
like you’ve had to get stitches okay
um mom and dad wanted me and my older
brother Gabe to learn how to swim and so
um they they took us to this place
called Big Splash in Tulsa now it has
another name but it will always be
called Big Splash to me
and um
I was kind of tall I was a little older
than all the other kids learning to swim
and uh that that’s part of my passion
here very soon we’re starting black
people can swim uh
classes
because I’m gonna have a pool because we
got to learn how to swim so I was just a
little older
than all the other little little baby
white kids that were in the class
and so they took us to the shop I’m
telling a real story
took us to the shallowing to learn how
to swim
and they told us to go under put our
heads under well when I went under to
put my head under I busted my chin
and literally it split right open
and all I remember is going to the the
instructions and be like a teacher
this hurts
and that woman’s face was mortified
and within an hour they had called my
parents and I was in the doctor and I
was getting stitches I have stitches
right here you can’t see it because of
the dye that’s on my beard but
if I take all this off it would be right
here
that was when I was maybe seven eight
the next time I’m gonna say I don’t
remember thanks Mom
the next time I heard about stitches I
was in the seventh grade
and I saw a kid do something that was
very wrong
and me being taught in school and by my
parents to tell the truth I I was like
I’m about to go tail and this kid got in
front of me is like oh
you ain’t gonna tell us like hold on bro
did you just not see the assault that
just happened in front of both of us he
was like snitches get stitches
I was like I thought hurt people get
stitches I
and then another guy came up and was
like yo bro we ain’t see nothing
and I’m I’m sitting here confused
because it’s like we all just saw that
what do you mean they were teaching me
something that culture
has embedded in the hearts and minds of
a generation
that people who snitch
get harmed so that they gonna need
stitches
and what they were trying to do
was put fear in me of telling the truth
and may I submit to you
that there are thousands of people under
the sound of my voice right now
that still subscribe to that demonic
idea that the truth is somehow more
harmful to you
than what you are holding in
and wouldn’t it be like the enemy
to make you feel like the one thing God
loves
he said I love the truth
even if it’s hard even if it sucks even
if it was unfair I love the truth
because in truth I can do something in
that
but it is made a whole generation afraid
to tell the truth
because we believe deep down even if
we’ve never seen said it out loud that
snitches
get stitches
today I’m about to dismantle
that demonic lie over your life
and I’m going to preach a message called
stitches nope snitches
get
stitches write it down
Pastor Mike why are you doing this
because
the first instance when I got hurt
the stitches were there to help and heal
the second time I heard about it in
seventh grade it was to harm and hide
and many of us are are doing things
right now
that are harmful to us and hiding the
truth
it’s been 37 years since you told
anybody what happened that night
it was a family member
who did what they did to you
nobody knows that it was you who
actually took the money
nobody knows that you’re really raising
your sister’s child
I’m talking about the real stuff that is
so deep down on the inside of us that we
even forget it happened to us
you’ve made so many lies about the
damage that has happened to you
that you have a hard time deciphering
what is the truth in none
the reason why this is important is
because your body is keeping the score
and a lot of the things that you think
is hurting you
it’s not that that’s hurting you it’s
the damage you won’t bring to God
our bodies were not meant to carry
what many of us have been carrying
I can see it in your eyes I can see it
in your tone I can see it on how you
love people and you can be 70 years old
in here faking everybody out the only
person you cannot finesse is you
you’ve been finessing everybody else
your job thinks you love it
and every day you walk out of that place
you feel miserable
reason why this is important and I feel
like it went from a book to a burden
I feel people right now y’all
it’s because God doesn’t want us to walk
into another year limping faking and
hiding
either we gonna get healed
or we gonna lead this God thing alone
he’s saying I would rather you be hot or
cold
but this lukewarm like act like you’re
healed and Hull and well praise God sing
another song
and then go home and trying to figure
out how to commit suicide
and you isolating from all the people
that you say you love
and you go from relationship to
relationship getting the same person
with different names
let’s actually heal
now church people say that and they give
you three notes and a poem and then they
send you on and be like hopefully you
healed
not me
we gonna walk this out to the end of the
year you can literally sit in this room
and not say nothing
just be in the therapy session
you can be mad you can be crying you can
be pissed you can be writing cuss words
in your Journal
no I’m talking about real healing
I’m talking about it’s got to come up
out of you ah
I’m talking about you’re not gonna be
able to hold it together
and I know this making some of y’all
inside Shake but God is interrupting
your life to heal you right now
and this is the pathway to that healing
why are you doing this series Pastor
Mike very easy freedom is the goal
everybody say freedom
Shout At Me Freedom
one more time with faith
freedom is the goal
truth is the path
confession is the key
healing is the result
freedom is the goal I’ll prove it to you
John 8 36 so if the son sets you free
you will be free
indeed that word means inaction
continually
I get real scared when somebody says I’m
Healed
I mean like done
finish like forever
we are healing
friends for me
becoming
so freedom is the goal
but truth is the path John 8 32 and ye
shall know the truth and the truth shall
make you
you cannot have freedom without truth
that’s why you still bound
freedom and Truth are connected
so you can sing the song but still be
bound
freedom is the goal
truth is the path watch this confession
is the key
well God knows my heart
he was there he know what happened
me and him talk to him it’s good it’s
good it’s good it’s good
let me introduce you to James chapter 5
verse 6.
confess your sins
to each other oh
god dog it
not not to Travis
because trap oh this is why I did a
whole series on Kingdom couples about
right partners
because part of what Partners do is not
just help you get the bag they help you
remove your bondage
oh my God y’all want people to help you
make money you need people to help you
get free
and it says confess your sins one to
another
pray for each other so that you may be
here
freedom is the goal
truth is the path confession is the key
healing is the result Pastor Mike what
are you trying to say I’m just trying to
do this introductory message to get us
ready for the hard work that God’s about
to take all of us through God doesn’t
bless who you pretend to be
He blesses who you really are
write it down
I’m coming back to this every week
because some people are so puffed up
right now that you think this message is
for your neighbor
you’ve been sitting here for the first
15 minutes like oh oh God it’s going to
be great when Demonte gets this
and God bout to visit you
he doesn’t bless who you pretend to be
He blesses who you really are
and so today I want to look at a man
who didn’t lie about where he really was
and I hope that somebody’s Faith would
be encouraged to be able to be honest
about where you are today
not tomorrow not where you hope to be
but where you are right now John chapter
20 verse 19. that Sunday
that Sunday evening the disciples were
meeting behind locked doors because they
were afraid of the Jewish leader
suddenly Jesus was standing there among
them
now I need everybody to see
and get context about what’s happening
Jesus has been taken crucified he
resurrected everybody’s like Jesus is
not here no more but where is he at and
for 40 days he comes back to visit the
Earth and then he just pop in the room
that’s scary
can we be honest we be getting scared by
people that’s sitting right next to us
and if Jesus just walked through the
wall and popped up
he said peace be with you calm down calm
down chill out it’s just your boy
he said he showed them the wounds in his
hand
and in his side
they were filled with joy when they saw
the Lord again he said chill out chill
out chill out it’s your boy peace be
with you
as the father has sent me so I am
sending you
then he breathed on them and said
receive the Holy Spirit
if you forgive anyone’s sins they are
forgiven if you do not forgive their
sins they are not forgiven once the
twelve one of the Twelve Disciples
Thomas
was not with the others when Jesus came
they told him bro
we have seen the Lord
but he replied I don’t care
I won’t believe it
unless I see the nails
and I see the things that he went
through I see the nail wounds in his
hand I put my hand in his side forget
this
I’m glad you had a great experience and
a great life
but I’m hurt right now that I wasn’t
here eight days later
the disciples were together again and
this time Thomas was with them
the doors were locked but suddenly
as before Jesus was like bow peace will
be with you
but he focused on one person
he said to Thomas
put your fingers here
look at my hands
put your hand into the wound in my side
don’t be faithless any longer
believe
my Lord and my God Thomas exclaimed then
Jesus told him you believed because you
have seen me
blessed are those
who believe without seeing me
everybody gives Thomas a bad rap
like
I mean before I even read this actual
scripture I was introduced to him as
doubting y’all knew that too
most people have never seen this story
but they literally don’t be a doubting
Thomas
I was like that’s disrespectful
this man had a moment but it became his
label
what if every moment we had
became our label
salary
that was
that was your bit
I’m just doing what we do to Thomas
lion Larry
stealing Stephen like
what if your moment defines your life
divisive Danny
toxic Tammy
okay I got so many going through my head
right now I I have to focus
but they called him doubting Thomas but
I honestly as I was reading this and
thinking about my own Journey he was
damaged Thomas
he had a moment where he missed
something and it felt like he lost
something has anybody ever had a moment
where you missed something and it felt
like you lost something
and instead of doing the churching thing
like most of us would have done the 12
disciples we saw the Lord really how was
it
oh my God I could feel the prisons right
now
he was honest
that sucks
I wasn’t here he couldn’t have waited
and
I’m I walked with him
he could have he’s so powerful he could
have met me on the place I was at and
then came and saw y’all
so forget it
I’m glad that all of y’all had an
experience with God I’m glad that all
y’all grew up with both of your parents
oh y’all want to be real
I’m glad that you got a scholarship to
that college
but all of us are not that fortunate
good for you
I’m glad that you weren’t abused by a
cousin
I’m no no no no no no no no I’m happy
for you
but it didn’t happen for me
so if you want me to have the same
enthusiasm that you have in this moment
about God I can’t cause I’m damaged
his doubt turned into damage
and this is the equation I need
everybody to see I’m going to walk you
through this damage of the moment brings
doubt
doubt brings disconnection
it wasn’t that Jesus was disconnected
from him but he was disconnected from
Jesus and I’m telling y’all this is what
happens in our life we get damaged we
start doubting we stop praying about
stuff and we get disconnected and the
disconnection makes you desperate
and people do dumb stuff when they’re
desperate
the damage ends in desperation
and when you go to anyone or anything
outside of the source it will lead to
destruction
why do many people end up at destruction
it didn’t start at destruction it
started off as just a little damage
and that damage grew
and what I’m telling everybody right now
is this is not ethereal this is real
you’ve seen it a thousand times that
somebody was damaged in a relationship
and so they think all relationships
can’t work
I don’t what is love anyway
I guess it’s not real and they let one
moment of damage
make them disconnected
and that disconnection makes them
desperate
so the same person telling them that
love ain’t really a thing is the same
person sneaking from hotel room to hotel
room
because the desperation wants to make
them feel something so bad
that they do something dumb
and it ends their life up in a vicious
cycle
that then they just try to hide from
everybody else use in one example but
you can put your example in there what
I’m telling you is there’s something you
can do before you end up at destruction
God is not mad at your damage he’s not
even mad that you disconnected we’re
humans
what he wants you to do is when you get
desperate everybody watch this I’m gonna
say a cuss word be honest
and when people get desperate they
usually start faking
you’ve had how many people have been
going through something that nobody knew
and somebody actually did ask you what
was going on but you did not feel safe
or comfortable to tell them what was
really going on let’s be honest hey I
need High hands
what did we do
we lied to him
let me use another word we hid
and God can never heal what we won’t
reveal
I like Thomas
because he does something the church
doesn’t talk about but I believe it’s
the very thing that saved him
instead of becoming somebody who faked
it when he got desperate he was honest
y’all can have that
believe in him but until I see the nail
Prince and until he lets me put my hand
in his side
forget it
Thomas
should not be doubting Thomas or just
damage Thomas he should be honest Thomas
can we give him a new name
honest he did what 95 percent of the
church would never do
he told the truth
this series is going to be uncomfortable
for some people people are going to get
up and walk out people’s booty cheeks is
gonna be tight because I’m coming
to your house
the reason I’m telling you this is
because most Church messages are to make
you feel happy about where you’re at
not agitate you out of complacency
I do not want you to stay the same
by faith I am moving you out of the
paralyzed place you’ve been in purpose
into a place that’s going to deal with
your damage and it’s going to push you
into your destiny I feel
but I can’t just cliche you to death
we gotta deal with some stuff
so when I looked at Thomas’s life I said
I’ll never call him doubting Thomas
again
I’ma call him honest Thomas
because I believe it was his honesty
that Drew Jesus back to him
okay I’ll be y’all not ready for that
yet write this down this tells us
something remember Thomas was a disciple
he wasn’t a fan of Jesus that was coming
around casually every six weeks
he walked and talked and ate with him
every day so this tells me something
that everybody in church needs to
understand discipleship does doesn’t
exclude you from damage
being a disciple does not exclude you
he’s coming to the just and the unjust
when damage hit my house I was the
pastor
when we found out that MJ was diagnosed
with autism that wasn’t that wasn’t like
oh that’s for the people who don’t serve
and don’t pray and don’t know
damage is going to visit everybody
but today all I’m asking you to do
is be honest about your damage
I gotta roll
to be honest
it’s going to take I’m gonna give you
four points because this is just a setup
to be honest about your damage it’s
going to take Faith
you have to have faith to believe that
God can deal with your damage
and most of y’all do not believe that
God can deal with it
you think that your mess up is too good
for the one who made you
but everything that my kids do to mess
up my house I’m the only one who can fix
it
the reason this is difficult for many
people is because there’s no guarantee
if I’m gonna be honest
I don’t know if people will look at me
the same
I don’t know if I’m going to actually be
able to have a reputation and a name can
I tell you it don’t matter
because what you’re suffering with right
now you were never meant to carry
many people aren’t this honest because
they feel like they won’t be accepted
covered and they won’t have value can I
tell you that in your worst state this
is why I serve Jesus
in my worst state I was accepted by God
and he sent people into my life to help
cover me in that season
and my value never changed oh my gosh I
need to let somebody know that even if
you’re dealing with the hardest thing in
your life the value that God placed in
you is still in you
but people think if I’m honest
they will only see me as my damage
this is why you haven’t told what
happened to you in sixth grade
this is why you won’t tell them the
website you go to and you delete the
history every night
oh y’all
this is why your spouse doesn’t know you
have a secret account
because you’re planning your exit all
the time
because nobody ever committed to you
when you were younger
and you said it could never be this this
good
and so you’ve been setting up you’ve
been preparing for it to all fall apart
for years
and nobody even knows
oh yeah yeah we know you quote scripture
but the only reason you quote scripture
is to make other people feel low so you
can feel better about yourself
you lured over everybody all of the
religious practices you do but you don’t
even have love in your heart for those
people
and it goes back to a wound
a damaged spot a messed up moment where
you started to doubt
and God said this next season is going
to take everybody shot at me Faith
don’t have crazy faith for a house and
not have crazy faith for your heart
y’all miss the whole thing
we got the key
the building
if the person in the building is broken
what God wants to do is make sure that
we heal what’s there so let’s stop just
yelling crazy faith for places we live
and let’s use our crazy faith
to rebuild the place that we can’t
escape
so if you’re going to be honest
it’s going to take everybody say faith
Thomas was honest
and the second thing Thomas had was
watch this if you’re going to be honest
you’re going to need these friends
now now some of y’all are thinking about
this the wrong way because you’re going
to need friends that can handle and deal
with you in the tension of your
transformation
my man
is with the disciples who just had seen
Jesus they’re throwing a praise party
and he comes in and it’s like f y’all
I don’t care
God is not good to me
if somebody came in here after our big
praise party and got on the mic and said
all of y’all are fake
we will usually kick those people out
Boo get them out of here they’re trash
Thomas had friends fortified
for his damage season
how do we know this because eight days
later
the disciples were together again
he was still with them after he was
honest
and my question is will you make space
for people to tell you what’s really
going on
and you don’t cancel them
no no I don’t oh she she’s going through
some things
I don’t really mess with I’m not saying
anything but
what I am saying is marriage ah
can God trust you
to hold the tension when you know your
friend says I don’t believe in God
well not only the word tells me to be
not I cannot be yoked with some
unequally yoked I gotta get out of here
but the disciples
still let Thomas hang around
when he was honest that I don’t believe
like y’all right now
this is going to challenge the church
because you want everybody to get saved
and be clean in the same day
you it took you 34 years to walk in that
level of delusion and crap and now I’m
supposed to be brand new
and exactly a two-hour worship
experience
I’ve been smoking weed for 10 years
the tape it’s not even I want to I the
taste of it
is a part of my everyday life
and you want me like there’s physical
things I have to detox from but I can’t
come
okay all right
the church wants to reach people until
we start reaching people
[Music]
and what I’m saying is for you to be
honest you got to have friends that have
mastered
the art
of being with people who are not perfect
can I say this to some other people
because some people have been damaged
and burned by a lot of people
and right now you’re saying like yeah I
hear you passing Mike but uh that ain’t
for me no more
try people try Church tried all this
community stuff okay the fact of being
damaged by people doesn’t exempt you
from trying again
that’s why I think about I’ve done a lot
of funerals in my day you know what
everybody wants to do at the end of
their life
they want to get all the stuff they
never said out of them
I mean I’ve literally seen people on
their deathbed and it’s like tell Susan
to come here tell my loved ones come
here tell them I really do love you
I just never said it
I really do I’m sorry I didn’t know how
to express they’re trying to get up out
of them what their body was never meant
to carry
I gotta keep moving to be honest it’s
going to take Faith
to be honest it’s going to take friends
and to be honest it’s going to take
watch this Focus
and I need to be very clear about this
because anything time we start dealing
with trauma and all that other stuff
many people glorify the trauma
they glorify the pain
that’s not what we’re doing in this
series watch this we’re going to
acknowledge the pain but focus on Jesus
oh that is way too good
where am I going to focus on Jesus
but I’m going to bring this pain to him
so this is not going to be a loathing
like this is what happened to me this is
why I can’t ever and this is why we are
going to everybody say Focus
we’re gonna focus on Jesus but that
means we have to acknowledge the pain
Hebrews 12 2.
fixing
our eyes
on Jesus
the Pioneer and perfector of our faith
for the joy that was set before him he
endured the cross he endured what it
would take
scorning its shame
and sat down at the right hand of the
Throne of God
during this series all I’m going to ask
you to do
is focus on Jesus
it’s going to be hard for some of us to
walk back to some of the places where
the hurt really happened
I’m being honest right now some of the
things we’re going to talk about is
going to be triggering
this is not going to be the season
where you just numb the pain
we’re gonna deal with it
if you don’t want to heal you may not
want to tune in for the next six months
no no I want to be very clear with you
nobody’s going to force you to do
anything but you’re going to be
compelled
the spirit of God is in this place
and he has anointed me to preach this
gospel to you
and it’s going to start doing something
on the inside of you that’s going to
make marriages change
legacies be restored things are going to
change but we cannot deal with the pain
focusing on the pain
when you focus is on the pain it makes
you want to get prescribed something
you want to no longer feel it we’re
going to acknowledge the pain I was
abused
I was forgotten
I was never chosen
I was the abuser
I was the one that took advantage of
them
I ruined all of those girls lives
I only dressed the way I dress
so that people can give me a compliment
I don’t believe I’m beautiful
I don’t see my value
I could never do that
because my father never affirmed me
I’m talking about real stuff
how do we go through this
keeping our eyes focused on Jesus
who affirms us if nobody else does
who calls us his who redeemed Us by his
blood while we we were yet sinners he
saved us he died for us and he still
calls us royalty
when we feel too damaged
to be honest
you’re going to need faith
you’re gonna need friends
you’re going to need focus and I’m gonna
give you the last one this is the kicker
to be honest
you’re going to need to fall apart
and I need to apologize on behalf of the
church
because we’ve been a
we’ve been a proponent of telling you to
keep it together
come to the altar we’re going to pray
for you ah it’s over
never again
you’re walking out
of the fire here don’t smell like what
y’all been through we do all of these
things
no I’m come on and I’m not saying that
there ain’t some power in that but like
it’s like hold on
I feel like I’ve been hit
you said I’m gonna look like I ain’t
been through nothing I look pretty hit
I look pretty jacked up
my marriage is hanging on by a thread
it’s a new season it feels kind of like
the old one to me pastor
come on if we could really say what we
want to say sometimes
we’re walking into Victory barely
walking
it’s really kind of crawled in here
matter of fact was lowered by four
friends
I didn’t get in here on my own strength
it was people who saw how damaged I was
that kept inviting me and kept sending
me the sermons and kept holding me up
and lowered me in front of Jesus
I don’t even want to be here
but I didn’t have enough strength to
fight
today
I want to give everybody that’s
viewing this message from God to you
I want to give you permission to fall
apart
it’s very difficult to heal while you’re
holding everything
this is why when you go into surgery
they don’t let you bring anything
if you’ve ever had a surgery
especially where they have to cut on you
they tell you to take
everything off
no matter if it’s your favorite ring
that your husband gave you in 1962 and
it has take it off
because anything that comes in this area
could potentially contaminate you
while we’re doing this type of surgery
what can I keep my clothes on but naked
there is no surgery you can go in
and have your sweats on and just pull
your sweat up and be like no just right
here just cut it out
vulnerable
exposed
because what’s about to happen
means that you can’t keep it together
I need you to fall apart
Thomas was able to get his healing
because he was allowed to fall apart
not doubting Thomas not just damage
Thomas what’s his name honest
he fell apart for eight days
and then the Bible says that Jesus makes
another stop on his tour
to come to the same place
and he literally said hey y’all it’s me
and he’s like oh shoot like
and he calls the honest man by his name
Thomas
I know the other disciples were ready
for a prophetic word
instructions
maybe a mandate to go do something
he was focused on Thomas
because Thomas was honest
this what you needed Thomas
your honesty has drawn me back to you
that’s what you need Thomas
no no put it right there
I believe in this series
and through the message of this book
damaged but not destroyed
I have learned
that the old adage is true
snitches
get stitches
because if you’re honest enough to
snitch on where you’re at right now
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the great physician Jesus
will be drawn to your infirmity
and he will
heal you
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Jesus allowed his wounds to stay open
so yours could be closed
hear what I just said
why would the resurrected savior
keep the body
with the holes and the open wounds
stealing it
why didn’t he come with this glorified
body to show us what we could have he
said I’m going to take the penalty
that the damage of this world put on you
I’ll stay open Thomas put your hand
right here
foreign
ly didn’t close it up
so that you could bring me all your
damage and yours would be healed
the question is will you be honest
God doesn’t bless who you pretend to be
he doesn’t bless who you post to be
he doesn’t bless who you project to be
God only blesses heals and stitches up
who you really are
Isaiah 53 5 says but he was wounded
for our transgressions
and he was bruised
for our iniquities
the chastisement for our peace
was put upon him
and by
his
stripes
we
are
healed
he left his wounds open
so that ours could close
today
I want to start a revolution of snitches
people that aren’t telling for the sake
of getting somebody else in trouble that
may happen because there are
consequences
but my goal is what I said at the
beginning of this whole thing remember
freedom
it’s the goal
truth
is the path
confession is the key and healing
is the result how many people really
want to be healed
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so there’s only one thing you have to do
got to be honest
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and I know there’s some people in here
it’s like Pastor Mike you don’t
understand what this means for my family
you don’t understand what this means for
my life you don’t understand what this
means for my children you don’t
understand I don’t but he does
but if you think about the grace of God
the more I honest I am
the more Glory he gives
because God’s still using the dude that
did the spit example
as a matter of fact I put it in my book
I’ll tell you the details because the
more honest
I am
the more Glory
he gets are you talking about the same
person that had car insurance fraud on
his thing yeah yeah imma show you my mug
shot with the edge up and my collar
shirt off
because the more honest I am
the more Glory
he gets
talking about the God who is addicted to
pornography
has six months of TCC education
has made mistakes over and over again
but gets up to still declare the glory
of God
oh I get it
his strength
is made perfect
in my we in my damage
just want to tell you you may feel
damaged
but you’re not destroyed
God can take you from trauma to Triumph
and the value that he put in you
is still in you
so the only question is
who’s going to be honest
today I’m praying for the faith to be
honest
it don’t have to happen today it don’t
have to like be like this week I’m no no
no no everybody calm down
the holy spirit’s about to guide us
beautifully
into the most transformative process of
Our Lives when you get this book I’m
going to help you I’m going to share
with you I’m gonna get but if you just
show up here every week I’m gonna be
your coach
and we gonna walk this thing out
systematically and let the Holy Spirit
do the heavy lifting
about a year and a half ago as I was
writing this book
I was taking a break and I was scrolling
through Instagram and I
I’m a musician at heart and I saw this
uh
little clip of this girl singing this
song that arrested my heart
and I was in the middle of like doing
deep work in the therapy and Theology
and
she begins to sing this song about
honesty that convicted me to a point
where I said I have to tell the whole
truth
and nothing but the truth
and today as an altar call I don’t want
anybody to move or leave or go anywhere
I just want you to reflect and ask the
Holy Spirit what are you saying to me
through this message
and I asked this young lady to come sing
this song
and I believe it’s going to minister to
you the same way it’s been ministering
to me I’ve listened to it a million
times and it just keeps reminding me if
I could bring my honesty
to the designer
he could use my damage for Destiny
let this song Minister to you
every time I walk out of the house put
on another face just to blend in with
the crawl so nobody sees me
you would never believe me
I tell you that I’m old I’m so healing
foreign
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I’m just
read someone past the hardest part here
comes another goal is just upon me to
the dark thought it was over
God let this be over
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I’m not being an artist
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hold me alone
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like
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I’m just
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can’t make it on my own
so I cried
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we accept that we can make it on our own
and so I cry Jesus
how I need you
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only you can heal the broken parts
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oh
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[Applause]
don’t pass me Don’t Pass Me By
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I believe in this season God is healing
every person that makes a decision today
to be honest if that’s you you’re saying
I’m gonna be honest about where I am and
I want God to meet me right there would
you stand all over this place
in your home
cause I believe God is visiting people
right now
and he’s going to tell you that
everything that held you down it’s about
to be gone
today
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are damaged to the designer
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I feel the presence of God in this
moment right now
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foreign
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blah
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Kendall just sing it one more time
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I’m sorry
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it’s being honest
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I’m just feeling
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thank you
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[Applause]
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Hallelujah
I
was was
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just one more time Amazing Grace
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like
inside
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was the lies
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in US
I’m just being honest
I’m just being honest it was his grace
and his Mercy was his grace and his
Mercy for me
it’s being honest
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yes
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[Applause]
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being on his
love you’re in this room I’ll watch it
online
our only job is to facilitate a moment
where you and the Holy Spirit
can have communication
God is here
and he’s asking will you be honest
I know we don’t have enough room in this
facility but I just feel like there
needs to be a faith step that happens
today
if you know there’s some things that you
have not fully been honest about and you
want God to see you make a step of faith
I need you to get down to this altar I
don’t care where you’re at we can feel
the aisles if you’re at home if you’re
sitting stand up if you’re in the bed
get on your knees like like this is a
moment of honesty right now don’t let
your pride and don’t let your position
and don’t let what people think keep
from being honest right now this is your
moment
come on up come on up come on up make
room
today we’re being honest
God we’re just being honest come on
somebody just lift that up by faith
we’re just being honest right here
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father do something with our honesty
take our broken pieces father we’re just
fears
foreign
people are still coming just lift your
hands
don’t leave this moment that could
change the legacy of your family come on
say
ing
Holy Spirit move Holy Spirit change Holy
Spirit delivers
thank you
for everybody that came here or even at
your seat because of fear
but you want this moment just lift your
hands right now at home lift your hands
I feel breakthrough in this house right
now not in some churchy Revival way I’m
talking about real change I’m talking
about families being delivered healed
and set free
hands lifted all over this place father
right now
here we are
we’re bringing our marriage our baggage
our Brokenness our hurts our anger our
rage there’s even a few people I just
can’t move there’s some people that
still need to make a face step you like
God’s saying I need you to admit even in
this moment that you need me to come see
you I’m we’re gonna wait on you there’s
no shame
take over God whoa I feel the presence
of God In This Place bro he’s healing
you he’s delivering he’s changing right
now
we will no longer hide behind the fear
of Truth
take over God
father deal with our damage oh my God
Holy Spirit I can pray a prayer but
you’re moving on Hearts right now father
you’re killing the inner child father
God you’re doing work on the on the
person father God not that we see today
but the person who is damaged do it only
you can do God
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everyone to do
Reign over
and take over somebody say whatever you
want to do
oh I love you God
you take me just as I am
but you love me too much to leave me
that way
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father I pray for your people
God you told me not to act like a savior
Point them to one
so today Father God I’m just as damaged
here I am father God in the position
you’ve asked me to be in
and I want to lead your people to your
feet God
today Father we’re coming with all of
our baggage all of our Brokenness and
all of our pieces for the things that we
have kept hidden for years things father
that have been dwelling on the inside of
us habits father that even our closest
loved ones don’t know we have today
Father we’re bringing them to you the
designer the Creator the God of Peace
the one that is the Healer and God today
we’re asking you to start a journey
of healing on the inside of us
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our Moon’s God
after today as we pray
I thank you that there will be a
supernatural infusion of peace that
passes all understanding
father as we begin to think well what’s
going to happen and how are we going to
do this father thank you that you are
the Prince of Peace
and that every step of this process
you’re going to lead and guide us into
truth
families are being mended by the
decisions that are making right now
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pain that has ailed people for decades
father is subsiding as they are
literally release it
father I thank you for the courage that
it’s gonna take for us as a church
to get really healed
but I thank you
that father you are not disgusted by our
damage
is the thing that draws
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you to us
take over
and Reign Over
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take over God
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we can’t do this without you
father for everybody whose doubt has
turned into disconnection at this moment
God I am praying that today will be the
first time that their faith is being
reignited to a place of belief
thank you Lord if you’re in here
you are like Thomas you stopped
believing or you never believed
and today you want to give your life to
Jesus this is why our church exists
that you would be transforming Christ I
don’t care where you’re at right now
what alternate lifestyle you’re living
in I don’t care what they said I don’t
care what drink you have I don’t care
what you did last night all I care is
that you accept the free gift of
Salvation as you accept Jesus
and there’s people in this room
that have been disconnected from them
you’ve been playing church but God wants
a real relationship with you
you used to be white hot and now it’s
been super cold God says can we connect
so I can walk you through this healing
process
if you watch it online on the count of
three or in the room
I just want you to identify yourself we
all damage
we all at this altar we’re all here
why not today with no guilt and no
condemnation and no shame
why don’t we give our lives over to the
one
who can do
so much more that we can
if you want to give your life to Christ
just lift your hand on one you’re making
the greatest decision of your life
two hands already going up your name is
gonna be written in the Lamb’s Book of
Life three if you want Jesus to be your
lord and savior I see you my brother I
see you I see you my oh Transformation
Church I see you but more than that God
sees you
come on all the way in the balcony I see
you I see you Hallelujah
Transformation Church we’re family
nobody prays alone
let’s pray this together say God
I’m damaged
I need you
today
would you be my Lord and Savior
I believe you lived
you died
and he rose again
just for me
changed me
renew me
Transform Me
I’m Yours
in Jesus name
amen can we give God the biggest Praise
of freedom
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oh come on right now faith has started
to erupt can we give God the biggest
Praise of freedom in this room you may
be damaged but you are not destroyed
foreign
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I feel the presence of God In This Place
y’all
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as we leave this place
altar workers are going to come up here
and people like oh I got to get out I
get out do not rush your healing
don’t jump off the table too quick
what I’m asking you to do after a
surgery happens and the pain and the
hurt of
it all goes away they give you a
prescription and give you instructions
of what to do after
the healing just started everybody say
the healing just started
it’s going to take us another 10 weeks
to fully be healed
I need you to come back here every week
and I need you to bring more damage
people with you
no no no no well they are there no no
they might be too damaged for you to
help them
they not do damage for him to help them
and we’re gonna be honest you may need
to watch this message over two or three
times and send it to people
because there’s a revolution that’s
going to rise and we are going I’m
declaring by faith Grace and we are
going from trauma to Triumph does
anybody believe that wherever you are
right now you don’t got to be there by
the end of the year we are going from
trauma
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can we thank this beautiful soul Kindle
for coming and singing this
I was thinking about inviting her back
to conference and then maybe like
I’m just putting you on a spot but my
God I’m just being honest
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does anybody just right now with nothing
changed fully out there does anybody
feel better
like like something is beginning to well
up on there’s hope when there’s healing
he’ll take the pain
away I know
he’ll take the pain away
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if you need prayer for anything come to
the altar because he’ll take the pain
away I know
he’ll take the pain away
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I know we gotta go
but I believe
that your mother
here
and I believe
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you are wrong
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and I believe you’re my portion
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is
more than enough
for me
you’re dismissed you need prayer I just
feel the presence of God somebody is
about to get healed in this
transformation Nation I love you thank
you for going and getting the book this
Tuesday wherever books are sold we about
to heal I love you oh my god see you’re
more than enough
for me
Jesus you’re all I need Jesus
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the healer is here the healer is here he
wants to meet you
right at your seat you’re more than
enough
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hey I want to take a moment again before
we jump off and say thank you our church
is not built on one individual but on
the sacrifice of so many and you being a
part it means the world so thanks for
watching the message I also want to say
thank you to the thousands of people
around the world who are generous it
means the world and we are able to
represent we’re able to be generous to
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transformed life
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please