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hi my name is Bri and I have the
privilege of serving as Chief of Staff
here at Transformation Church at TC our
vision is to represent God to the lost
and found for transformation in Christ
and we just want to say thank you so
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that God has a word just for you so
let’s jump into today’s message well I
am so excited to share with you guys
today I’m G to talk fast I’m from New
Jersey so I’m able to do that
come on I’m able to do that and I want
to teach you some things today I love
the number of minutes they gave me thank
you thank you for not asking me to speak
in 25 minutes I don’t know why they do
that to people I can’t do it so thank
you so
much this is a very special moment for
me and because I know how God works if
it’s special for me then he has it
special for every single person he
ordained to be in the room today but I’m
going to be 50 years old on
Tuesday I’m so happy half a century and
all year long God has been sending me
prophetic messages in different ways
that he is
relaunching
me and he has done that and one of the
ways he has done that is to take me to
cities that have been significant in my
life and he did it on purpose so that
every time I noticed I was in the city I
didn’t realize I was coming to the city
I’d be so focused on the church itself
and making sure that I was bringing what
God had for that house so that house
could affect that City so I wasn’t
really thinking about the city and
yesterday when we hit the ground and got
in the car leaving the airport and I
realized I was in Tulsa
Oklahoma and this is the last City I
will minister in before my birthday on
Tuesday and 30 years
ago this semester I was a new student at
all Roberts
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University and this is my first time
being back in Tulsa since then this is
the second time this year God started it
in Greensboro North Carolina had not
been there in 30 years and ending it
here in Tulsa where I haven’t been in 30
years something prophetic is
happening and so God has been showing me
that he is bringing me back to the
beginning to launch
again so that none of the things that
define my life today existed 30 years
ago and God told me that none of the
things that will Define my life in 30
years are visible right now he told me
that about this year the book was one of
the first things to be birthed out into
this new generation so I want to share
that with you because it is prophetic
that I’m here I’m in labor I’m giving
birth to
something and so God wouldn’t bring me
here to be a spectacle for
you there is a significant time period
in your life that God is rewinding and
restarting for some of you it’s 5 years
for some of you it’s 10 I know this is
the 10th year of the conference for some
of you it’s 20 some of you it’s 15 but
ask God to show you where in your life
he is backing up
to and he’s pressing the restart button
there are things that were meant to be
released in your life that were
disrupted damaged not destroyed because
God the enemy wanted to do something but
God is saying one of the things that you
lost you will get
back and that this relaunch this restart
this rebirth that’s going to represent
you to the world that he has called you
to T I need you to hear
this because he wouldn’t bring me here
and only do that for me it’s too
significant it’s too significant I
walked at campus yesterday with tears
streaming down my face God birthed my
career there he prophetically spoke to
me he said major in social work I didn’t
even know what social work was I had to
look it
up and I said oh that looks good to me
and that started my path to becoming a
therapist I embrace my call to preach
the gospel while I was there and so from
here what I’m doing today was birthed
from this
city and so God brought me back here to
birth my next and he wants you to know
it’s your turn to birth your next too
can you receive that word and I haven’t
started preaching yet but I’m
prophesying
already we got to learn to hear God in
different ways it’s not always loud and
it’s not always flashy but it is always
true
true do you have a moment do you have
that moment in your
life hold on to it let’s go to Genesis I
spent a lot of time in Genesis Genesis
chapter 3 I’m not going to read all the
verses but for your notes because you’re
going to need to you’re going to need to
study this out later because we’re going
to look at a lot of scriptures but I
want you to look at Genesis chapter 3: 9
all the way through 19 now this is the
story of the
Fall we know how things started we know
that they’re going good we’ll go back to
that but then there was this man and
this woman and they made a bad decision
and they ate a fruit they weren’t
supposed to eat everybody’s familiar
with that story and so they were headed
towards the fall and they have done what
they shouldn’t have done they put on
some leaves they’re hiding out in the
garden I’m not going to read all the
verses but God comes looking for them
and the man says we were hiding because
we were naked God said well how you know
you was naked now this is like such a I
mean I don’t want to be discriminatory
but it’s I feel like it’s kind of a
black parent moment
cuz God’s just like and how you know you
was naked what you’ve been doing what
you say you already you you telling me
you’re hiding not because of what you
did wrong but because you know you’re
naked so you done told on yourself you
ever tried to get out of something with
your parents and you end up just telling
on yourself and they’re just like oh
really well how you know
that how you know where the present was
how you know where the cake was how you
know the door was unlock how do you know
that and so he said how do you know that
you’re naked why are you
aware of what you don’t have see there
was a reason why God made us nak because
there had been this other guy named
Lucifer and Lucifer had been created and
his entire body he was clothed with
jewels and pipes he had adorned him with
Splendor and he got caught up in
himself and thought that he could be
like God and so God threw him out we
know the
story and then he made us he thought
maybe if I don’t Adorn
them so
much maybe I will show Satan
that naked will still worship
me so he made us naked to give us a shot
to be a part of his story and we did
we’re in it and so he says I’m naked so
he we’re not supposed to know about
certain vulnerabilities but we do and so
then God said well how do you know he
said well the woman you gave me she gave
me the fruit and I ate it so then God
like that parent goes to the one and and
well and what you had to do with it cuz
now everybody in trouble you come stand
here you get a whooping you getting a
whooping you get whooping everybody come
on oh oh okay come on you not off the
hook but now you in it come on so he go
to the woman so what what was you doing
well well the serpent gave it to me okay
both y’all serpent you come stand over
here
too anybody ever been in that scenario
okay yeah so you come stand over here
too and so the serpent is in trouble so
but but what’s interesting in the scene
here is that God then he punishes the
serpent because the serpent did
something wrong he tells him he’s going
to crawl on his belly he punishes the
woman the sin curse was that child birth
would be Amplified and painful the sin
curse but we don’t live under law sin
and death anymore but that was the sin
curse that was the sin curse I had my
children naturally had one of them at
home never screamed once because I had
proclaimed I don’t live under the law of
sin and death anymore don’t let people
convince you that the law of sin and
death still Reigns over your life if you
know Jesus these were punishments not
purposes and some of us are walking like
the punishment is my purpose that’s a
separate message
and so and so he came in and said that’s
not your
purpose but you’re so busy focused on
the ways in which you are
naked and so then he punishes that and
then he punishes the man he punishes him
and then the ground gets in trouble now
this is the strange part if you look at
verse 11 he’s finishing off with the man
because you have listened to the voice
of your wife you have eaten of the tree
of which I commanded you you shall not
eat of it cursed is the ground because
of you cursed is the ground in pain
shall you eat of it all the days of your
life thorns and thistles it shall bring
forth to you three things now that is
different about the ground but the
ground didn’t do
anything the ground was not punished but
it was
changed and that is the ground from
which we were
formed and so that is why now generation
after generation we were changed we
weren’t being punished but we were
changed and so I need you to understand
that some of the painful things that go
on in your heart and your body it’s not
because of something you did wrong
you’re not being punished but but there
was a
change in the ground now how did the
ground start out well to know how the
ground started out we got to go back to
Genesis 1 because that’s where he
planted the original Garden we know that
God said on the first day let there be
light cuz everything was dark we needed
to have light and we know on the second
day God said let there be boundaries
that’s the need of Philips version he
said let there be
boundaries so he put some water above
the firmament some water below the
firmament the air and he made
boundaries because the Earth was chaotic
at the time and when there’s chaos in
your life you need boundaries so he made
boundaries and he made sure there was
water in the ground but there was also
water in the sky and this this light and
this air and this water is important
because of those are three things that
plants
need and so on the third day he sold the
seeds of his word onto the good ground
that he made and plants grew grass herb
bearing seed that’s those are crops like
wheat and fruit trees those things
represent relationship purpose and
Legacy you’re going to have to get the
book for that I don’t have time trust
me but three things grew grass crops
fruit
trees and that was what we were designed
to produce we’re supposed to produce
relationships purpose Legacy that is
what a meaningful whole well life looks
like through the lens of the Creator
because a lot of us need to understand
that because so many of us are concerned
with how we’re broken and I want you to
pay attention to that and so many of us
aren’t healing Journeys how many people
on some kind of healing Journey right
everybody so so many of us aren healing
Journeys but how do you know when you’re
done where are you
going because all all you know really is
that you’re trying to get out of pain
you’re trying to get out of pain and
you’re trying to stop acting a
fool if I can stop hurting like this
stop sleeping with them stop smoking
that stop cussing at them stop losing my
temper in Unholy ways stop backbiting
stop gossiping stop using social media
to distract me instead of going to God
you’re trying to stop stop
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stop and you think if you can do all of
that then maybe that’s where you’re at
but that will just mean that you’re out
of pain but are you growing are you
producing what you were designed to
produce are your relationships
healthy are you walking in purpose are
you leaving a
legacy now that’s Wellness what are you
cultivating God grew three things on
purpose but here’s the problem go back
now to the scene of the
Fall there was grass there was crops
there was fruit trees relationships
purpose Legacy but what happened
happened to the ground it went Barren no
more no more grass cursed is the ground
it stopped growing things and then it
says that out of his by the sweat of his
brow that the man Adam would produce he
would eat bread that means it’s going to
be hard to grow this wheat so that herb
bared those crops now it’s hard to grow
them and then it said
Thorns the Earth would give up Thorns
were not there on day
three and so now something new is
growing in the Garden we have
weeds all of a sudden this Garden has
weeds so this place where we were put to
have dominion we were meant to dress and
keep a garden that was growing purpose
relationships Legacy now all of a sudden
Dominion is in trouble it’s going to be
hard work to do what we need to do
because the grass has gone it’s Barren
it’s cursed the crops are down we’re
struggling to grow Legacy and feed
ourselves to be full of what God has for
us to be full up and we’re struggling to
leave a legacy because Thorns are
choking the
fruit that was supposed to be on that
tree now this is important
because we are
Gardens and In This Moment The Garden
was indeed
damaged but it wasn’t
destroyed because if you go to Matthew
Chapter 13 we find Jesus telling a story
called the parable of the sewer is
anybody familiar with the parable of the
sewer and in the parable of the sewer
God describes or Jesus describes three
types of soil that are causing problems
when we’re trying to grow something
there and in the first type of soil is
called Wayside the sea falls down it has
no interaction whatsoever with the
ground the bird comes and eats it
nothing happens that area is
Barren we went from grass relationships
to Cursed is the
ground that’s the Wayside soil and then
we see see a Stony ground that Stony
ground is described at first as having
joy in
it and so it received the seed of the
word of God with joy and the seed
started growing but then it got hot
outside and Jesus says the heart of the
person got
mad and anger killed
it that is your
crops that is your ground that is hard
to sew that is Adam sweating trying to
grow that
plant and then there’s a third kind of
ground thorny
ground the Thorns from
Genesis are growing in Matthew 13 in the
parable the sewer and they are choking
the
fruit remember that woman with the
multiplied sorrow they’re choking the
fruit of our Legacy the things were’re
supposed to birth and so you’ve been
reading your Bible a long time but you
may have never noticed that that Jesus
is telling the story of the parable of
the sewer at the scene of the
Fall he never left he never
left you don’t need you to catch that at
the place where their destruction came
to your life he never left he is
standing right there in the damaged
space he’s walking around in this dirty
Sandy mess that used to be grass and
used to be crops and used to be Orchards
and now this is all we have left and he
never
left you’ve been looking for him but
he’s been standing there the whole time
he was the seed that came out of God’s
mouth that fell on the soil on the third
day and grew the crops in the first
place and then when that man and that
woman made a decision that was not of
God he crawled
inside the Bible says he became the seed
of a woman so before they were put out
of the literal Garden he crawled inside
the bodily Garden of a
woman because his genetic
material that would become his body had
to flow down through a
woman I’m not going to get into whether
women can preach or not cuz I’m already
preaching but what I will
say
let me tell y’all I was raised by a
preaching woman and she told me this if
anybody ever tell you you can’t preach
you tell them what I tell them when they
tell me well make up another name for
what I’m doing baby because I am already
out here so
anyway he crawls inside the seed of a
woman now this is important
biologically because every female human
that that is born has in their ovaries
all the eggs they will ever have in
life we don’t make new eggs like men
make new seed we our eggs are all there
from the junk so that means when my
mother was born I was in
her because she already had me but that
means when my mother was in her mother
she I was in her in her mother while she
was in her mother while she was in her
mother and so Jesus’s genetic material
crowned into the seed of a woman and
from Eve to Rahab to T all the way down
Tamar all the way down to Mary the seed
traveled generation after generation in
the soil of the body of a
woman Jesus was not genetically related
to Joseph but he was genetically related
to
Mary yeah Jesus had a mama so
anyway so anyway
it is so critical for us to recognize
the thread of scripture because one of
the reasons that we underutilize the
power and the Dominion that the word
gives us is because we cherry-pick
verses that sound like what we want
today and we don’t eat the whole thing
my Bible says that we’re supposed to eat
the whole thing and so we going to go
from Genesis to Revelation today so that
you eat the whole thing so you realize
that Jesus never leaves you he won’t
leave you no matter how you fall no
matter what hurts you whether it was on
you like it was on the first man and
woman or wasn’t on you the ground didn’t
do anything wrong but the ground was
changed and many of you were born with
trauma in your body
already not because of anything you did
not because of anything that got done to
you directly but because trauma
changes the way that our DNA is
passed and so when we are born to
mothers particularly who haven’t
survived trauma there’s more
thorns in the soil of our lives so some
of you Havey you ain’t never you feel
like you ain’t never been
right and you tried to rebuke it and
it’s my imagination and the devil’s
lying but no it’s actually biologically
true that it’s always been hard for you
to sleep that you always seem to get
your feelings hurt the most easily that
it’s hard for you to recover from
certain kinds of pain and you’ve been
trying to figure out how this got into
your life but the ground the ground the
ground the ground was
changed and those Thorns is where I want
to focus
today because
when a weed shows
up it is an indicator of the condition
of the the
soil weeds only grow under certain
conditions the primary condition under
which weeds grow is in soil that lacks
the nutrient that it
needs and so when we have a weed we need
to check on what’s going on in the
ground now what is the
ground Jesus tells us in the parable the
sewer that the ground is our
heart he describes it as our emotional
space think about it Wayside soil no
description no emotion no contact with
the
seed Stony ground starts out joyful the
seed responds gets angry the plant dies
and then in the thorny ground it says
that the Thorns That Grew that they were
the cares of this world that word
translates to
anxiety the deceitfulness of riches
and in the Book of Luke when it tells
the parable so it adds the pleasures of
this life and so what would grow weeds
of anxiety what
emotion
fear fear see you’ve been struggling
with your mind when you should be
working on healing your heart because
the reason that the weeds are growing is
because the soil is in a condition that
is conducive for the thought that’s why
you can’t seem to get rid of the
thoughts you pull up the thought you try
and take a thought captive some of y’all
got so many thought captive you need a
wild thought Zoo you got so many of them
they just locked up everywhere but they
keep on proliferating like babay kids
they just keep coming and coming and
coming and you snatching them and
snatching them why are they growing back
because the heart is
fertile for the
weed
fear
fear is a real human
emotion I’m sorry to disappoint you if
you thought I was getting ready to tell
you how to rebuke the spirit of fear but
I’m
not fear is a real human
emotion it is not ever observed in the
heavenlies we don’t see it in Creation
in the first creation that’s good not
until the fall do the Thorns appear and
so sadness characterizes Wayside soil
read about that anger teaches us about
Stony soil and Stony soil teaches us
about anger but thorny soil is where I
want to focus because that’s where we
learn about fear now God Grieves so
sadness is not an Unholy emotion but as
humans who are Fallen we experience it
in intensities that are Beyond
healthy anger is not an Unholy emotion
God gets angry
and we saw Jesus get angry and so we are
allowed to be angry that’s why the Bible
said be angry but sin not it doesn’t say
don’t be angry so you won’t sin it says
be angry and said not so that that
emotion existed before the fall but we
do suffer it in ways that are broken
because of the Fall so sadness and anger
were not new but
fear was
new fear is a uniquely Human Experience
but it is an
emotion now we love to rebuke fear but
I’ve never heard anybody rebuke fear
when a bear was chasing
them I ain’t never heard has anybody
here stood in the face of a bear and
said I rebuke fear and you bear not a
one I’m going to go out on a
limb when you’re out going for that walk
by the lake and you got that stick with
you some of y’all know about the stick
what’s the stick for in case a dog you
don’t
know come in your direction you got that
stick now if you was really all about
the spirit of fear you wouldn’t have no
stick you be out there hey I have
dominion and if a dog come at me come on
dog come at me not one of you not one of
you not one we only start rebuking
fear in
relationships we start rebuking it when
God asks us to do something then we
scared to do
it then we start denying that fear is
real we start acting like we ain’t never
met fear before like it’s some kind of
demonic possession but it wasn’t a
demonic possession when the dog was
coming so I just I need you to be
real human beings experience the emotion
of fear it is part of our fallen
existence but it is a human
emotion Jesus experienced it I’ll mess
you up
now but my Bible says we have not a high
priest who cannot be touched by the
feelings of our infirmities that word
infirmities means human weakness so we
have not a high priest who cannot be
touched by the feelings of our human
weakness he was tempted every way yet
without sin so if Jesus never
experienced the emotion of fear as a
result of living in a human body then
Hebrews 4:15 is a lie and I say what let
every man be a liar but my God be true
and so it says that he experienced every
feeling then he experienced every
feeling now I’ll stop right there I
don’t need to argue with
you cuz my Bible is true but we need to
learn to adjust our vision of our savior
because he was fully Divine but he was
fully
human and he put on a body genetic
material from a human like us that’s why
he was able to be
murdered I don’t know anybody who knows
anybody in here follow Jesus okay
there’s some people do any of you expect
that you will never physically die
outside of the Rapture nobody so if you
don’t believe that accepting Jesus is
going to change your body immediately
from corruptible to Incorruptible and
that you will never experience death
outside the Rapture then why do you
think that you will never experience
emotional pain why do you think you’ll
never be sad why do you think that
you’ll never be afraid why do you think
you don’t think you’ll never catch a
cold
I can we be for real here because we are
wasting so much Faith energy trying not
to
feel when I never ever ever saw Jesus
one time try not to feel I never saw him
rebuke it and I never saw him
Repent Jesus cried outside lazarus’s
tomb in
public he cried in public a
man so yes my brothers in Christ I want
you to man up I want to see the tears
streaming down your face I want you to
tell me that you’re scared I want you to
tell tell me that you’re mad that you’re
hurt man up like Jesus I want to see it
you can give it to me I’ll take
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[Music]
it well the world will look at me and
say I’m weak well let them say what they
want to say know what you
know that you’re just being conformed to
the image of his son so he stood
there and he cried in public now some
say he was crying because uh his friend
was dead and some say he was crying
because he was foreseeing his own death
and it was looking rough whatever reason
we don’t know but they weren’t tears of
joy we know he was crying
sad but whether it was because Lazarus
was dead or because he was going to be
dead here’s the reality Jesus also knew
he was about to raise Lazarus from the
dead and he also knew that his father
was going to raise him from the dead
because it is written that if you
destroy the temple I will rebuild in
three days without our hands so he knew
both of those things were true so you
mean to tell me that Jesus knew the
outcome yet expressed the pain of the
process I’m just
saying I’m going to need some of you to
reduce your holier than thou stance that
just because I know there’s going to be
Victory then I don’t need to be sad cuz
I already know well Jesus knew it and he
still cried about
[Applause]
it so if you better than Jesus go ahead
I’m not I’m not B I’m not B but if you
better than
him you are allowed to express pain even
though you have faith for the
outcome you’re
allowed you’re allowed your pain makes
sense and you’re allowed to hurt and so
we see Jesus we see Jesus crying we see
Jesus pissed
off we see him at the temple acting a
whole
fool he was a man of color and there was
expression just brought it out you know
what I’m
saying I a say he was black I’m not here
to argue with you I just but I but he
definitely had a tent on him he as a
melanin and so he’s in the temple mad
he’s so mad because they are changing
money instead of changing lives that he
gets in there and starts flipping
tables because that’s his daddy’s house
now you can’t flip tables here this is
not your dad’s house it’s your dad’s
maybe house but you you don’t get but at
your house you can do
it but he did not apologize for being
angry he did not apologize for being
angry and then in GTH we see Jesus
terrified let’s get back to
fear we see Jesus in
Gethsemane experiencing Terror in his
body first of all why else would he not
want to be
crucified why didn’t Jesus just walk
into Gethsemane like let’s go baby my
purpose is n let’s get the nails I got
it myself either like why why wasn’t
Jesus in
there Jesus was was on the
ground in the book of Hebrews Paul wrote
that with strong crying and tears he
sought the one who could save him from
Death he didn’t want to do
it cuz it was going to hurt a
lot and his body was having a response
to that see here’s what you don’t
understand about emotion emotion is not
a thought
product emotion is a bodily experience
that arises from your autonomic nervous
system the word autonomic means
automatic that means you are feeling
before you’re thinking you’re feeling
before you’re doing your body was made
from the same soil that Jesus called the
heart in the parable the SE emotion and
body are inseparable your emotions are
bodily experiences if you’re aside from
science being able to prove it I can I
can give you all the science but we’re
in church so can we just trust the word
that if Jesus
felt these things and emotional pain was
the result of bad thinking then that
means Jesus had stinking
thinking if your painful emotions are
the result of the way you think then
that means Jesus didn’t think right all
the time so let this mind be in you
which is also in Christ Jesus starts
getting a little bit extra when we start
saying that Jesus wasn’t thinking
right but what Jesus did have in common
with
us was a
body emotion is a bodily experience now
for decades hundreds of years the
Assumption has been in the scientific
realm that thoughts produce
feelings and they have worked to argue
it but about 15 years ago there was a
revolution in neurobiology that
increased our technical capacity to
observe what’s happening on the inside
and they realized that they had been
wrong that actually emotions precede
thought and one of the things that
inspired this second look was that
through the theory of
evolution the mind is higher than
emotion it evolves after emotion so it’s
a higher state the problem is that when
something is not useful to a species
it’s supposed to be selected out so each
generation would have less of the thing
that is not useful But Here We Stand
fully emotional today as we were a
thousand years ago and so the fact that
emotion’s not being selected Out means
they had to go back to the drawing board
to figure out what it’s doing here
see you don’t even realize how much
you’re allowing the world to cause you
to interpret your
Bible because you were taught that
thought is higher than heart but my
Bible never said it my Bible never said
it so let me help you understand how
you’re actually made I’m going somewhere
I promise but we’re going to stay on
these
Thorns let me understand help you
understand how you’re actually made God
showed this to me some years ago and
this anxiety piece is huge because
anxiety is killing
us those anxious thoughts those
questions that are never fully
satisfied how am I going to pay the rent
how am I going to get the tuition am I
ever going to get married am I going to
get divorced will I be able to have
children will I be able to raise these
children will I know where to go is this
my next job am I called to Ministry what
does that look like how’s God going to
do what he says we just questions
questions questions questions questions
and we Google Google Google Google
Google Google I love internet but Google
is almost a tool of the devil in some
way because the capacity we have to be
anxious on
Google we going to rephrase the question
rephrase the question rephrase the
question and now you done clicked every
link already it’s blue now it’s not even
no purple links left just blue it says
you last visited this site 5 minutes ago
sit down but you just click click click
like it’s going to tell you something
new because you have these insatiable
weeds and you try to treat the weeds
instead instead of healing the
soil so you seek answers to questions
that are
watered by
this and so we need to understand
ourselves as Gardens in order to fix
this a little bit of a long time ago
almost 20 years when I was a PhD student
God had me take a neuroscience class I
didn’t have to take one but he told me
to take it as an elective so I was to I
took it and on one of the first sessions
of the class I saw a picture of a neuron
for the first time everybody know what a
neuron is a neuron is a is a nerve cell
it is the building block of those
thoughts that you love and every day our
neurons pass messages with each other
like telephone game to form the thought
and you have about 70,000 thoughts a day
and so one day I was learning this thing
in class I looked at this neuron and it
blew me away can you guys show us show
me that that slide so they can see it
let me just run this through you real
quick there it be
on the left is a
neuron on the right is a
seeding
neuron seedling now believe Romans 1:20
says that which may be known of God is
clearly seen being understood by the
things that he
made and so if my Bible is true and
every man be a liar then God had to have
been
intentional having made plants on the
third day and us on the sixth day either
got accidentally reused the mold he got
bored he got distracted or for some
reason he
chose for my neurons to look like
plants every single day of creation is
insight into how we are biologically
constructed every day and on the third
day he made plants which taught us about
our minds so not only did he plant a
garden for us he planted a garden within
us there’s billions of these plants all
over your
body and when I saw that I got so
excited because like all of you I wanted
some Revelation about the mind yes God
tell me you getting ready to show me
something about the mind and the Holy
Spirit says slow
down where is the plant
planted you so concerned with the plant
but where’s the plant planted it’s
called a plant like you can’t Define it
outside of planted like it’s dead
without where it’s
at and so that’s when God showed me in
the parable the sewer that Jesus Calls
the soil the
heart but then he showed me something
else in the body because we talk about
the heart as a metaphor and our emotions
but then he told me go look at the heart
can you show me that the next slide
there it is in Genesis chapter 2 we get
a little recap of creation and it says
that God created man he formed man in
Eden and then he planted him he put him
planted him put him in a garden planted
Eastward in Eden he formed him in Eden
then put him in the garden he wasn’t
formed in the
garden he was formed outside of the
garden so the Garden was in a perfect
perfect but the rest of the Lamb was
well this you know anyway he put them in
the garden so now everybody put your
left arm out that’s the east side of
your body now put your hand on your
heart and the Lord planted a garden
Eastward in Eden and then it says that a
river flowed into the garden to water it
and that when the river left the garden
it broke into one two three four
rivers
oh they can tell me what they want to in
Biology class they can tell me it don’t
have nothing to do with religion but my
God made me with his fingers he planted
the garden Eastward in Eden this is your
heart the holy of holies and the temple
that you are is your
heart this is where God walked with them
and talked with them and told them he
they were his
own and it’s in your body and so and so
oh it gets better and
so if a seed was planted by these rivers
of
water then next
Slide the roots would grow
down and the branches and the leaves
would grow up and on top of the tree
there would be a
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fruit I would like to introduce you to a
division of your autonomic nervous
system called the parasympathetic
nervous system this is the
parasympathetic nervous system it is a
tree of life in the center of the garden
that you
are and this nervous system this portion
of the nervous system activates to bring
us into a state of Peace for us to
experience love it slows down our heart
it slows down our breathing it helps us
sleep well it helps us digest our food
it helps us feel connected to other
people it gives us creative ideas it
causes peace and love to flow between me
and other people when this tree of life
is
thriving I am
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well there are studies showing that in
people who have chronic Suicidal
Thoughts that have been untreatable with
medication and therapy that electronic
stimulation of this tree reduces those
Suicidal Thoughts by more than
80% because when the Tree of Life Is
Well
death death is not there so so so we ate
the tree of the good of knowledge and
evil and that was death but every day in
your body God is showing you that you
still have the choice to choose
life spiritually emotionally mentally
and
biologically you are a
garden now here’s a challenge you can
take it down if you want here’s a
challenge when we are
afraid our body is
changed
there are a massive group of neurons in
your brain called pyramidal neurons and
they have lots and lots of tiny
branches
but
when the stress hormone cortisol is
flooded in as a result of a Fear
Experience those neurons Sprout
Thorns I didn’t make it up the
neuroscientists don’t call it something
else and I’m just calling it a thorn
they call them
thorns and when they activate they
disrupt the process of going from
thought to action I believe my Bible
says the Thorns sprung up choked the
fruit chok the
fruit so that no fruit was born to
Perfection and that’s why you keep
starting but not finishing trying but
not getting there and you’re
perfectionistic and you’re being choked
choked choke because Thorns are
springing up because fear is flowing in
the
soil
know that one of the most important
things I want you to leave here today
knowing is that your Bible is no
joke the entire biological fear process
is being described in the parable of the
SE so I want you to understand that this
is part of our fallen Human Experience
now some of us grow Thorns
extra some of us real
thorny one of the things that brings us
into that situation is
trauma when you are born to traumatized
mother or you experience trauma in your
own life you are more likely to
experience thorny patches here are five
things that cause that and these are all
good reasons to go to
therapy to go to
rehab don’t say no no
no go
abandonment abandonment drains love from
the soil and leaves fear in its place
fear is not the opposite of
Faith it’s the absence of
Love 1 John chapter 4 says those who are
afraid are not yet made perfect in love
because perfect love casts out all
fear so fear and faith are not opposites
beautiful because Jesus was experiencing
fear in his body in the Garden of
Gethsemane but does anybody think he
didn’t have
faith Jesus’s body was having a fear
response those neurons those Thorns were
bursting out before they ever put a
crown of on his
head before they ever put a crown of
thorns on his head the thorns on the
inside had blood
popping out of his own forehead oh he
wore that Coran of thorns inside before
they ever put it on the outside and it
pricked them and it pricked them and it
pricked them but oh my gosh just a side
note don’t go crazy because I still got
to teach you two more things
but did anybody ever notice that Jesus
had to shed his own blood on his own
body
first his blood was so powerful ful and
so pure that before he could shed it for
us he had to shed it on his own body
first that’s why when that blood hit his
forehead he stood up out of Gethsemane
and walked down from crying to saying I
am he and soldiers were knocked off
their feet five minutes ago he was
crying in fear but now when his blood
hit his own
body so I’m real smart and I got all of
degrees but the blood still works the
blood still
works the blood the blood still
works you better not get too smart to
plead the blood of
Jesus I was
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saying oh I was raised when coic and
Church of God in Christ we would spend
an hour the blood the blood the blood
the blood the blood the blood the blood
the blood the blood the blood the Bible
says that his love was shed abroad on
our hearts the only thing you’ll
describe as
shed is
blood and when his love hits the
soil fear has to
run and so when we are abandoned it
drains love from the
soil and weeds
grow abandonment is a trauma we talk
about the trauma as what happened it’s
not what happened it’s the wound that it
left the abandonment it may have
happened because your parent was
incarcerated and you didn’t see them
anymore and it was a sense of
Abandonment it could have been your
parents divorce it could have been a
love interest that left you it could
have been many things but the wound that
was left
behind abandonment drains love it makes
us hard it hard for us to give it purely
but it also makes it hard for us to
receive receive it soil is not giving
nutrients it’s receiving it you focus so
much on having Love by doing it but you
don’t take
it you don’t allow people to love you
you don’t receive the nourishment soil
doesn’t produce the water it gets
watered so does it produce the
fertilizer it gets fertilized and so
when I say you need love to chase out
fear you have to receive it not generate
it and because you’ve been trying to
generate it but you can’t so you’ve been
using your mind to get things done and
you may be accomplishing the things but
the soil is so stressed by the time that
you
do that you have achieved the goal but
you have no
joy you’re like that’s
it you walk across the stage you get the
law degree and you’re at home like
that’s
it you finally got married you finally
got to have sex without feeling bad and
then you wake up the next morning and
said that’s
it I’m
just I’m just saying
and because you got it but you didn’t
grow
it and so the soil is not
well and so we’re still depressed we’re
still Furious we’re still afraid because
we’re not taking care of the love that
we need to receive abandonment I’m
almost done I’m almost done
sir
loss
loss is a trauma if it overwhelms Your
Capacity to cope with it the number of
people alone that we lost from coid 19
to the coid
19 on average when someone passes away
there’s five people who will grieve an
extended period of time so if you think
of the million people
plus that were lost to co just in this
country and multiply that by five grief
is epidemic right now just on
that not to mention all the other losses
that we have suffered in the last five
years so loss can be traumatic as well
and it drains us and makes it harder for
us to receive
love because we’re afraid that if we
accept some love we’ll just lose it
again and so we’d rather not have it at
all than have it again and lose it
you’re so busy keeping your eye on the
pain trying to prevent the pain and
anticipate when the pain is coming that
you actually stay in
pain instead of saying well let me go
ahead and be enjoy for a while maybe it
will go away but at least I had it for a
month or a year but you’re so busy
trying to know when the pain is coming
that you stay in
pain and so we don’t receive love into
those faces and so fear
resides
abuse abuse is defined simply as power
that
injures
if you were injured by someone who misus
their
power that’s
abuse abuse and it’s not hurt it’s an
injury so if I stub my toe on this it’s
going to hurt I’ll feel the pain go
through my leg but it will dissipate I
won’t be limping tomorrow I was hurt but
if my toe gets
broken I’ve been injured so when we talk
about that kind of trauma were you
injured by by someone who had power that
could have been a parent that could have
been a friend that could have been a
romantic partner a teacher a
pastor if you were injured by someone
who had power over you
abuse rejection
o remember grass relationships was the
first thing we’re ordained to grow and
so rejection is just the base opposite
of that
experience when we’re rejected it’s like
someone pulling a big chunk of grass out
of the ground what does that do to the
soil and that’s what it does to
heart rejection maturing too
early maturing too early having to
handle things and be aware of things
that you don’t have the power to
affect is traumatic that’s why we have
to be careful sharing our traumas with
our children and the young people in our
community we’re trying we think we’re
protecting them but we’re giving them
too much information you can protect
people without traumatizing them never
give a young person more information
than they have the capacity to respond
to if they don’t have the power to
respond to the threat you’ve informed
them about then they are going to be
shaken and feel unsafe in the world and
that’s trauma so be careful I made this
mistake early on with one of my children
I was so worried about what could go
wrong with her that I stressed her out
in another way and I had to apologize
for that different message apologize to
your kids I’d apologize for that and go
sit in therapy with
her to get it
fixed the number one parenting fail is
pride and that’s the end of that sermon
okay
okay so stop being mad at your parents
for what they didn’t give you and get in
the mirror and ask while you’re not
doing it
okay the fifth thing that drains
love
shame these are the things that drain
love from the soil love is like night
nitrogen nitrogen is the most important
nutrient in soil when nitrogen is
drained weeds grow and those thorny
weeds in the parable the SE that we
first saw appear in Genesis that were
choking the fruit trees from Genesis 1
when we have fear because love is not in
the soil the weeds grow and they
choke so how do we solve the
problem I want you to receive love in
your
garden I want you to figure out how
to truly receive first of all the love
of
God because so many of us follow Jesus
but we have not
really let ourselves
feel how much he loves us we call it we
said well love is an action yeah it can
be an action it becomes a
fruit but first it’s in the
soil when I bite a fruit have you you
ever have two different fruits and one
tastes real good and one’s like eh
one’s more nutritious than the other
even though they look the same it’s not
the fruit itself it’s what’s in it see
if there’s no nitrogen in the soil there
won’t be nitrogen in the
fruit and you can’t get any nitrogen by
eating it if there’s no love in the soil
they won’t be loving the
fruit so we talk about the fruit of the
spirit it’s not like necessarily the
actual fruit but also the ingredients of
the
fruit and so you may be producing
fruit but if we’re not really allowing
ourselves to First
feel the
love then you will try to do the right
thing you will try to be obedient what’s
the Bible say if you love me you’ll keep
my Commandments it’s hard to do what
Jesus asked us to do when we aren’t
experiencing his
love it feels more like a demand and
then we confuse what it means to be
used by God because we’ve had carnal
experiences with use and that use has
taught us that you pour out till you
have nothing left and that’s what it
means to be used and so you think to be
used of God means that you’re going to
be tired all the time and stressed all
the time and empty all the time but God
used me he’s not a
user but that’s the only model you’ve
had but let him love on you
first the fact that God would somehow
get me to
Tulsa today not
November changed the date and I was like
ah I took off this week for my birthday
the holy spirit said
go and it wasn’t Tulsa it was
transformation I didn’t
know but man I felt
something so I said yes you’re trying so
hard not to feel that’s why it’s hard
for you to make a decision because
you’re not allowing your
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emotion when we experience
love a chemical called oxytocin is is
released in our bodies and O
oxytocin diminishes the thorns on those
neurons so chemically biologically
mentally emotionally and
spiritually you can’t be
transformed without being
loved and that isn’t just romantic
love we have limited our idea of
Love here are some of the things that
cause oxytocin to flow through our
bodies and quiet the fear thorns in our
brain here are some of the things
nonsexual
touch grab your neighbor’s
hand and just squeeze
it it’s hard to be
scared in that
position if you sit there long
enough you’ll feel anxiety start to go
down when we hug each other 20 seconds
of a good body hug Rel releases
oxytocin and quiets the Thorns you’re
trying to think your way out but you got
to feel your way
through and you weren’t created to do it
by
yourself the greatest most overlooked
form of self-care is letting someone
else care for
you so I need you to reject the world’s
view of individualism and get into this
body mindset that we were called
to one of the things that causes us to
feel loved and connected is singing
together and you guys did that so
beautifully earlier dancing together
laughing together and
finally look at that there you
go looking into the eyes of someone you
believe cares about
you I’m going to ask each of you as I
wrap
up to turn and look at somebody near you
it’s your sister or brother in Christ
you got to learn that it’s not only in
romantic erotic situations that we see
each other this is a loss and it’s
making us mentally
unhealthy I want you to look somebody
else in the eye I’m going to take 30
seconds and ask you to do it don’t blink
don’t laugh don’t say
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nothing hear me because this
moment I know it’s hard it’s
uncomfortable because we don’t do it
our connection with people is so
superficial we don’t see them and more
importantly we don’t let them see
us and so you’re being choked choked
choked but find those eyes right
now and I want you to try to see your
brother or sister in
Christ and I want you to let them see
you and while while you’re doing that
where’s that you’re at home
watching I see
you see me see
you when you look at me I want you to
see how much Jesus loves you and I love
you right now I love you I love
you I love
you if you don’t know
Jesus forget everything you
heard about what’s wrong with you and
where you sin just for a moment forget
all that and I just want you to know he
is deeply in love with
you Jesus is so desperate to be planted
in the soil of your heart he called
himself a seed that’s how much he’s in
love with
you and all you need to do to get this
kind of love is say
yes yes you can I want you to get to a
church and and they’ll and they’ll teach
you lots of things and go to find a good
church but right now in this moment it’s
not
complex
I remember where he was when he found me
and I want you to feel
that so just say
yes I know he loves
you does anybody in this room feel a
little different from looking at their
brother and sister in the eye did you
feel that love coming into your
life you are a precious
Garden it was damaged in the fall but it
was wasn’t
destroyed it is possible for Faith for
Hope but more importantly for love to
restore this
Garden spiritually mentally
biologically the garden can be restored
here on this Earth and then because we
know Jesus we will all meet again in a
garden
city where the tree of life is
planted the Garden of Eden again but
before we get there let it be restored
in here if you’re in this room and you
don’t know
Jesus and you want the soil of your
heart to be a safer
place you want Jesus cuz you want to
feel this not one of us accepted Jesus
in a non-emotional
decision it was an emotional
decision I felt him calling me I was
scared and I felt like there was
something over there that didn’t feel
like fear I was I was I was traumatized
I was addicted to alcohol I had a lot
and I something about is called I felt
like it would be better not one of us
accepted Jesus in a non-emotional
moment we try to act like emotion has
nothing to do with it but it’s
everything to do with it and so the
feeling you feel now that you don’t ever
want to have to feel alone again come
and come and meet Jesus the altar is
open to you if you want to come here you
just want to slip your hand but come and
meet
Jesus and then can I make one more call
Pastor some of you have known Jesus for
a long time and you’ve been confused
about why certain pain has persisted in
your life and now you’re like oh my gosh
I
understand first of all I’m a human
being so I’m allowed to have
emotions and God’s not mad at me for
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that I want to give some of you the
opportunity if you feel moved to do this
to come to Jesus’s presence
today
naked come with the emotions of fear
that you’re dealing with come with the
abandonment that you’re dealing with
come
naked I know you already know
him but many of us met him and then we
tried to hide ourselves
again we put on the Fig leaves of
churchy
faith
to say I don’t feel that because I
believe God you’ve been you’ve been
covered in fig leaves and those leaves
are attached to a Vine that’s choking
you I want you to come
naked and just this once and for all
experience what it’s like to be in his
presence with your pain with you and
with him with
you and to be loved in that
space too many of us try to get our
together you ever try to get yourself
together before you pray you’re like I
got to go to God in faith I can’t go to
God like this I got to show my no babe
Jesus was on his face in Gethsemane loud
crying tears snot I’m scared to do this
I don’t want to do this do you know I
when I you want to talk about scared the
things that God is telling
me to
do I want to do them but it shakes
me I want there to be a garden within
Counseling Center everywhere I want
God’s people to have mental health and
emotional health because when you
understand that the soil of your life is
your heart your emotional well-being
informs your spiritual power because if
the seeds of the spirit are swn into the
heart and your heart affects how things
grow your emotional well-being will not
affect how God shows up for you but it
does affect how you show up for him yes
yes but that’s not
condemnation emotional Wellness isn’t
being happy it’s being able to say I
might be in pain but it’s Well with My
Soul and the pain will pass and then
there will be joy and then there might
be more pain but Jesus is with me and
I’m well I don’t fear my
feelings because anxiety is just fear or
feeling the reason you’re anxious about
what might happen is because you don’t
want to feel the way you’ll feel if it
happen so you’re afraid to feel it so
once you’re delivered from the fear of
feeling and so today I speak new things
over
you allow the pain to flow through
you let your tears keep the soil from
flooding by releasing
them you’re allowed to be
angry anger says something something
valuable was treated less than valuably
and some of you are have been treated
less than the
value that is a sign to you it’s okay to
be
angry about the sex abuse it’s okay to
be
angry about the infidelity it’s okay to
be
angry about being financially taken
advantage it’s okay to be angry because
you’re
valuable and you were treated less than
valuably and it’s okay to be mad about
that God’s mad about it
too and can I tell you something
else he didn’t do
it so many of us have this false
Narrative of who God is we need so badly
to have a purpose for what we went
through that we lie on God and we say
well God meant it for God did it to make
for the God let me be sexually abused so
that I could grow up and help other
people
no God doesn’t sexually abuse children
God doesn’t suot teenagers in the street
because he needs a basketball player in
heaven God doesn’t who is this God my
Bible says that in him is light and
there’s no Darkness at all he doesn’t
have Darkness to give But First John 3
says that the devil does this stuff that
he sins from the beginning but for this
purpose was the son of God manifest to
destroy the works of the devil don’t
confuse the works of the
Devil with the works of
God he will force good out of it to
destroy it but but it was not his
work and some of you’ve been struggling
your relationship with God because you
want to serve him but you were told that
he did the
thing that happened to
you but it wasn’t my God who would love
you and treat you like
that you have an
adversary but for this purpose was the
son of God manifested to destroy it so
release the pain of believing that your
daddy in heaven was hurting you like
that
he always loved
you you have a
secret some secret
pain Jesus is touching you in that place
right
now but before this day is
over your freedom will be in telling it
tell somebody who you know loves you the
secret pain that you
have
okay sometimes we don’t want to tell we
think nobody wants to hear this we do I
want to people who love you want
to we want Jesus to just take it but I’m
telling you and this word is for some
other people you have to put it out of
your
mouth you want them to take it so you
don’t have
to be loved by
someone but you need to be loved and
when you release it then that love that
that person’s going to pour into you is
going to replace fear
let yourself be loved father God in the
name of
Jesus every person who came here
standing naked before you a garden that
was damaged but is about to be
restored the traumas being healed in
their nervous system in their
relationship with you in their
mind father God I thank you that they
are being transformed now in the name of
Jesus free each person from the lie that
is choking them the
most I rebuke every
weed and through my own words right now
holy ghost Let Your Love be shed abroad
on these
Hearts
here not Anita but your Jesus saying I
love you I love you I love love you I
love you I love
you those tears are good those cries are
good yeah it’s good I love you I love
you I love you I love you I love
you I have never not loved you I have
never not loved you I have never not
loved
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you I died for you before you were
born because I wanted you to be
loved receive that love
now it’s the beginning of your
next this is the start God order their
steps to the therapist that they need
God order their steps to the doctors
that they need order the steps to the
relationships that they need order their
steps to the friendships that they need
order their steps into the ministry
service fa that they’re called to where
they will receive love because they pour
out love order their
steps to the love that you have ordained
for
them and let them receive it in every
place in Jesus
name
amen Oh How He Loves Us oh how
He Loves Us Oh How He
Loves come on we can’t be transformed
until we receive his love say he loves
us
oh he loves us Oh How He Loves
Us we’re about to go but this is more
important than anything else I need to
say this these were the people bold
enough to
come but if you are sitting in your seat
and because of something in the fruit
part of your mind the pain the damage
the frustration not wanting to be seen
but you know that this message was for
you watching online watching it on
rebroadcast in this room I need
everybody that knows that they need God
to transform the garden of their heart I
need you to stand with your hands lifted
right now it’s not for everybody but you
well there’s not enough room at the
altar but there’s enough room right
there where you’re at right now we are
about to pray that what Dr Anita said
that we would be delivered from the fear
of
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feeling I’m believing that there is
going to be Faith to
feel that God is big enough to handle
the hurt hey I feel the presence of God
hands lifted all over this place father
I thank you that we’ve had crazy faith
for all kinds of things today we’re
having crazy faith that we would be able
to feel and that you would be the one to
direct us to the healing that we need
father heal our Gardens can we say it a
different way heal our hearts father God
From the Inside Out father we’ve been
giving our
relationships parts of us we’ve been
giving our business parts of us cuz we
haven’t been healed but father we call
upon you today to do the work that only
you can do help us re receive your love
right
now I pray for every person father God
who’s had one of those other
Hearts had a Stony heart or a heart
filled with thorns father God have have
really not even be filling feeling
anything father God I thank you
today that we become sensitive again to
what you’re trying to do in
us for those who have hearts have turned
into stone father God and been rocked
hard and even started hurting people out
of their own protection mechanism today
Father we
repent and we receive your love come on
everybody say I receive your
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love however you want to bring it to me
God if it’s through a message if it’s
through a person father if it’s through
me remembering what you’ve already done
father we receive your
love cuz you love
me oh oh how you love me make it
personal oh how you
love
oh you love you may have been abandoned
by your Earthly father but right now
your heavenly father he loves me he
oh
he let it
out this is a cleansing those tears man
it’s cleansing it’s been in there come
on just let it out just say he loves me
oh I feel the
he
y he with every mistake I
made he we’re messing it up over and
over
again he he still loves me without my
performance he loves
hey
oh
he before I
change How He Loves Me Oh How He
Loves and you
are
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all
with me for
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you be reminded for you this is God
talking
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ohe
for remind
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yourself
with me if you’re in this room and you
want to accept Jesus as your personal
Lord and Savior Dr Anita made a call at
Transformation Church we have a custom
nobody prays
alone if you’re making that decision
today whether you’re watching online
somebody sent you this video you’re in
the room right
now I just want you on the count of
three to slip your hand in the air and
we’re going to pray together because
this is the
day that everything changes and turns
around for you because you’re inviting
the god of the
universe back into the garden of your
heart it don’t matter if you used to
walk with him and then you walk no he’s
saying today put me back in the
sinner put me back and let me grow in
there and if that’s you on a count of
three just lift your hand one I’m so
proud of you two that’s the thing that
changed my life it took me from a liar
manipulator porn addict all this other
stuff and it it begin to grow something
in me but more than that your name is
about to be written in the Lamb’s Book
of Life and it’s not just about heaven
you get the power to live here on
Earth three just shoot your hand up in
the air if you want to accept Jesus we
see you we see you see you we see you
online you can put your hand on social
media you can yeah
hey you can put your hand down at this
moment you don’t have to confess all
your sins he already
knows at some point you’re going to have
to tell somebody what’s going on but we
believe that God he’s the only one that
if you give him your heart woo The
Garden of your heart he can change your
habits I’ve been saying that for years
but with the Revelation that we just God
if you give him your
heart he’ll help you change your habits
matter of fact it’s the only way it can
happen our
habits are a result of what’s happening
in our
heart so let’s put him in the garden
right now everybody just lift your hands
and say
God I give you I give you my life my
life today today I thank you I thank you
for
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Jesus I believe he
lived he died and rose again with all
power all just for me for so today to I
ask you I be the Lord Of My Life The
Lord Of My Life be the center of my
garden change me renew me
transform me I’m yours in Jesus name can
we give God some praise
amen oh is that how we celebrate
somebody going from life to
death and listen oh
I thank you
Lord Welcome To The
Kingdom this is the watch this
start it’s not the Finish it’s not the
this is the what start it’s the start of
the greatest life you’ve ever
lived and we want to help you with that
if you just gave your life to Christ
scan the QR code and we will be happy to
give you some information what I’m
asking everybody to do is
between uh I mean can one can we give
God praise for Dr Phillips coming oh
y’all better come
on
I I am
overwhelmed with how prophetic her
message was it just was it was you have
to watch that four times this week I
mean after the first 25 minutes I was
like okay all right
enough we need to send it to people we
need to digest this but the end of it if
you if you like that was I can’t
understand everything receive his
love this week spend time in his
presence put on your favorite worship
song get in the word and just God Holy
Spirit whatever you want to say to me
reveal your love to me that’s a real
player reveal it to
me as we leave this place uh Dr Anita is
being so gracious she wants to sign
books for you guys she’s going to be in
the lobby right after and and um if
you’re if you’re I am overwhelmed right
now if you are in the building you can
do that um what a week that God has
given us as a church can we give God
praise for what he’s
done so many ways and so many things
that I want to end our prayer team is
going to come up and there’s prayer in
the back don’t leave if you need prayer
even if you’re in the thing I’m gon have
the team come up we’re just gonna
worship for a second we’re going to end
the stream but I just feel there’s such
a sweet anointing in here that I don’t
want people to be ripped out of this
remember I told y’all every week gonna
be
surgery next week we’re GNA build on it
and the holy spirit’s doing the work
it’s not Pastor Mike it’s not Dr Anita
it’s not it’s the Holy Spirit he’s just
he he’s not using vessels he’s dwelling
in
vessels I got to change my whole
language
now but we’re transforming amen
father bless your
people let us not ignore and run from
what you’re trying to do you’re trying
to heal
us and I just thank you Father God that
you are with
us in the
valley and you’re with us on the
Mountaintop today we give you glory
honor and praise for all that you’re not
just done but what you’re doing in us
thank you that we can go from trauma to
Triumph thank you Father we can admit we
may be damaged but we are not
destroyed and our assurances in what you
have done and thank you for always being
with us we give you glory we give you
honor and we give you praise in Jesus
name we agree somebody say amen I want
y’all to go out and live a transformed
life if you need prayer just stay right
here we’re going to start praying and
we’re going to just believe that God is
going to do something special on the
inside of us amen
thank you so much for watching this
message we pray that it encouraged you
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life