Welcome to our summer series, FUN MONTH! This week we have a special guest, Chad Veach! Chad is the founder and lead pastor of ZOE Church in Los Angeles, California. He is an international speaker, author, and host of “Leadership Lean In.” Pastor Chad and his wife, Julia, reside in Los Angeles with their four children. Today, Pastor Chad showed us that not only is the world starting to open back up but, so are we. God is always trying to do something in and through you but, are you ready to receive it? Share this message with someone in your life that you know needs to hear it!
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what’s going on
transformation nation come on make some
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to be in church today
wherever you’re joining us from we just
want to say we are so thankful we are so
glad
that you are here with us today come on
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nation we coming you
to you from tulsa oklahoma today
and we are just honored we are so
honored for those of you that don’t know
me my name is chad veach
uh i live in los angeles california
that’s where mickey and minnie live
and uh and i pastor a church there
called zoe church
we started our church about five years
ago
and uh we just seen god do amazing
things in five years so if you ever make
your way to l.a
you got to come see us at zoe church
we’ll take you down to mickey and minnie
get you a churro get you all
sanctified and filled with the ghost
right there but um
i’m a married man uh come on shout out
to somebody in the back
that was more like of a faith like i
want to be mary shout
but i’m a married man my wife and i this
year we celebrate 12 years
of marriage we made it
she is a blessed woman come on man i’m
messing with you i’m messing around let
me show you a photo of my family this is
my amazing family right here
look at these look at this whole tribe
right here look at my whole squad
that’s my son right here that’s that’s
winston he’s he’s seven
that is my daughter right there georgia
she’s
nine years old let me tell you a story
real fast about my daughter georgia
when she was born for whatever reason
her brain did not form
she has what’s called smooth brain
and the doctor sat down with us and gave
a death sentence over my daughter
the doctor told us your daughter will
never walk she’ll never talk
she’ll never crawl she’ll never roll
over she’ll never live to this many
years
anybody thankful today that the doctor
never has the last say
anybody thankful today right there in
your house anybody thankful
that jesus the author and the finisher
of our faith
he always has the last say somebody give
god
a praise today if you’re grateful that
god’s not done yet
so that right there that is my living
miracle
that is my that is my proof that god
loves me
and he’s for me he’ll never leave me
he’ll never
abandon me he’s a promise giver he’s a
promise keeper today
that’s my georgia somebody dropped
georgia in the chat right there
that’s my gigi right there that’s my g
and that’s my five-year-old right there
his name is maverick
mavi boy and my last nugget right there
that is clock listen to his name that is
that is clive ellington beach
is that strong but my three-year-old’s
not saved y’all need to pray for my
three-year-old
my three-year-old needs jesus right now
somebody drop a prayer emoji in the chat
for my three-year-old
but we’re really grateful to be here i
got to tell you i adore
your pastors i just think the world
of pastor mike and natalie todd i think
you should clap and give god praise for
their life
for their leadership oh don’t don’t give
them a little church clap come on
go crazy right there in your living room
in your kitchen thank god for the life
and the leadership this is a true story
i was face time with pastor mike the
other day i was at a baseball park
my little seven-year-old was playing a
baseball game i was facetiming pastor
mike
me and pastor mike we loud people we
born loud so how being loud he’s being
loud
and i hang out with pastor mike and this
guy came by he’s like hey man
i just want to tell you um that’s pastor
mike wasn’t it
i was like yeah he’s like could you just
thank him you just thank him for his
life
and i thought man in that all the way in
l.a people are saying can you send your
pastor a message
thank god so come on let’s give praise
one more time and thank god for them
i adore them i love them i’m with them
and i just want to tell you it is an
honor and a privilege to be a part of
what god is doing
in and through this church
when you’re in the midst of a miracle
don’t ever take that lightly
when you’re in the midst of a miracle
most
people pray their whole life for a
miracle
don’t ever get common and don’t ever get
familiar
with a miracle i want to tell somebody
right now wherever you’re at god
is doing something far greater than the
gratitude you’re giving it
you’ve got to count your blessings one
by one and one of the blessings if this
is your church
you want to just thank god thank you i
found this place
i’m planted in this place come on give
them a praise today those that are
planted
in the house of the lord will
flourish somebody so i’m excited to be
here i’m going to jump into the text in
just a moment i want to let you know
i just released a brand new book this
last year
it’s called listen check out the check
out the title i like the title a lot
it’s called help
i work with people
and it’s it’s not like it can’t you
can’t say it like
help i work with people
it’s gotta be like you know god help me
because i work with people
god is in love with people and i i think
it’s always smart
whatever god loves i love
whatever god’s about i’m about so it’s
more like god help me to love people
well
because i’ve learned this you cannot do
life well if you’re doing people wrong
so you’re gonna learn how to work with
cousins
anybody got a cousin that needs jesus
come on drop in the chat everybody got a
cousin that needs jesus
but we got to learn how to work with our
family and our friends and our
co-workers
and everybody that comes to
transformation we want we need to say
god help so
i want to encourage you to check out the
book pick it up on amazon and uh you’ll
be blessed by it does that sound good
okay go in your bible to psalm 119 go to
psalm 119
go to verse 129 and we’re going to jump
into the text
today i’m going to get ready to preach
are you ready to receive the word today
just just give me the you know one of my
favorite emojis and all the emojis is
the guy or the girl with the hand up
just if you’re ready to receive the word
just drop drop drop this emoji right
here that’s one of my
when is this okay so i like that one
psalm 119
verse 129 watch this it says this it
says your marvelous words
are living miracles no wonder
i long to obey everything you say
break open your word within me
until revelation light shines out of me
i came to convince you today that what
god’s gonna do in your life
is gonna shine through your life he said
break
open your word see see i i love that
right now in america things are
opening back up i love in l.a we’ve been
shut down for a long time
but they’re opening back up i want to
tell somebody today
it’s not our country it’s not your city
that’s opening back up
praise god you’re opening back up and
you’re opening back up to the god
thought
you’re opening back up to the god plan
you’re opening back up to his word
and to his ways to his will and to his
plan
anybody thankful i’m not closed anymore
i’m open to what god has
say break open your word within me until
revelation light shines out of me
those who open their hearts are given
insight into your plans i
opened my mouth and inhale the word of
god
because i crave the revelation of your
commands i open my mouth
and i inhale the word of god i like this
anybody you grew up going to buffets
you know i love a buffet we grew up when
i was growing up we used to go to the
golden corral
y’all been to the golden crowd yeah see
these these are the sanctified believers
in the house today
you you go to the you go to the buffet
and you you get your tray
you you order with your eyes your eyes
are like i need this
i need that i need the other you go back
you eat about a half of what’s on your
plate
but but when you inhale the buffet god
is saying i want you to open your eyes
and open your mouth i want it jeremiah
he said when i found your word
i devoured it it became to me the
delight of my heart
anybody want to open your life to the
things of god and say yes
to what he has for you today
i want to preach a message today write
down the title of today’s message it’s
called
things are starting to open
back up things
are starting to open
back up and here’s the reality
you ever go to a store and you know
google told you that they were open
because that’s what google told you but
when you pull up
the sign does not read open
the sign says closed
he’s like hold on google
told me that she’d be open
see i i think god’s trying to come to
some people’s hearts today
he’s trying to show up in some homes
today to say see i need your heart to
turn open
i need your mouth and your eyes to be
open so you’re looking for me
see stop looking for evidence of his
absence you need to start looking for
evidence of his presence
open your eyes and open your mouth god’s
about to do something
if i were to whisper in your ear all
that god wanted to do in you
and through you you wouldn’t even
believe it today because the bible says
no eye has seen
no ear has heard no mind can conceive
the things that god
has in store for those who love him and
are called according to his purposes
give him a praise right there in your
house if you’re grateful i’m open
you see when i think when god starts
opening your heart and when he starts
opening your eyes one of the first
things that he does
is he opens you up to love god
and he opens you up to love people
he opens you up to be passionate about
jesus
and he opens you up to be passionate
about others
say i love this about god god wants you
to be bonded here
and god wants you to be bonded with
others he doesn’t just
you ever meet just a vertical christian
and let me say it this way you ever meet
a creepy christian
tell the truth and shame the devil you
ever meet one of these people you ask a
creepy crit you ask them a normal
question to give you kind of a weird
answer
you’re like fam how you doing today
they’re like blessed and highly favored
on the lauren
you’re like wait hold on we gotta slow
our roll here we’re not just vertical
we’re keeping it
horizontal we are loving god and we are
loving people god wants you to have a
bond
here and a bond there the bond of the
unity of the spirit here
and the bond of the unity and the spirit
there see there are some things coming
out of colvin
there’s some things coming out of the
last 16 months of your life
there’s some bonding that needs to
happen and there’s some breaking that
needs to take place
there’s some breaking off of toxic
relationships hello relationship goals
there’s some breaking off of some some
habits there’s some breaking off of some
bad
bad thinking patterns see we need to
break off in some areas
and we need to bond in others i bond
with my parents
i bond with my spouse i bond with my
church
i bond with the community god’s assigned
me to i bond with the relationships he’s
established in my life
see what i love about god is that god’s
got right people right place right time
i just love hearing the story of like
pastor and charles because you think
about pastor mike
coming together with pastor charles and
it’s a decision to bond
no no i’m gonna break off what i’m doing
on my own
and i’m choosing to be a part of
transformation and i’m breaking this
thing off because i’ve been called by
god
to bond here i wonder if there’s some
relationships you need to delete from
your phone
if there’s some breaking that you need
to do from your life in order to step
into the bond that god has see when i
open my life to god
and i get radical and passionate about
jesus
one of the first things that happens is
i start to love the lord
my god with all my heart soul mind and
strength
i want to just encourage you it’s okay
to be zealous for jesus
it’s okay to be radical for god it’s
okay to love him with everything you’ve
got
it’s okay to just say i’m sold out for
jesus he wants you to love god
and he wants you to love people he wants
you to say no no i want you to
understand
that there are some relationships in
your life that you need to
bond with now listen
my relationships with others are a
direct reflection of my relationship
with god
so when i am connected here it’s easy to
connect there
but i cannot love people until i first
love god
when i love god i got a shot at loving
others
but until i receive the love of jesus i
can see that’s what i love about jesus
jesus is love in fact i’m gonna give you
a few things to write down today write
down number one
jesus is love love’s not what he does
love is who he is love’s not something
he does on sundays
this is just his character this is just
his nature
this is who jesus he is the embodiment
of love
now i love going to weddings anybody
else
i’m a pastor’s kid shout out to all the
pastors kids that are still
in the faith we made it and my dad
he used to he used to do weddings on
saturdays so every saturday i got
drugged to a wedding because we were
getting a free lunch
so my dad would go and he would you know
do the he performed the ceremony he’d do
the wedding
and every any wedding you go to some
pastor’s gonna get up
and they’re gonna do first corinthians
13. first corinthians 13 is happening at
every wedding
some pastor’s going to get up and say
listen love is patient love is kind it
does not envy it does not boast
it is not rude it is not proud it is not
easily angered it is not self-seeking
love does not delight in evil it
rejoices in the truth
love always trusts always hopes always
pre always protects
love never fails some pastor is going to
get up there
and say this and some man of god is
going to stand right there and he
doesn’t hear a word that this preacher’s
saying
he’s just like yeah come on let’s go
some sweet girl standing there she had
no idea what she signed up for
but the pastor is standing up there with
first corinthians 13
love is patient love is kind it does not
envy it does not boast it is not rude it
is not proud
it is not easily angered love does not
delight in evil but rejoices
in the truth it always hopes it always
trusts it always protects
love never fails this is not the
standard
of the husband it is the love of jesus
the ultimate standard
god is in love with you god is obsessed
with you
god does not love you based upon your
behavior god loved you
long before you showed up at a church
long before you found a youtube channel
god was in love with you when you didn’t
even love him in fact when you were
rebellious
when you turned your back god said i
have sought after you
i love you with an unconditional love i
love you before you ever chose me i
chose you
and i’m the god that leaves 99 church
people to go find you in the club
to go find you in your brokenness to go
find you in your rebellion
this is not something he does this is
just who he
is how much does god love you god loves
you so much
look at isaiah oh i love this scripture
look at what god says in isaiah 49
see i have engraved you on the palm of
my hands
god says i’m so into you that i went out
and i
engraved you on the palm of my hands
that’s why i was tripping out when
people like christians shouldn’t get
tattoos
fam god’s got a tattoo and you
are his tattoo he said i engraved you on
the palm
of my hands just so that you can
recognize when you’re not doing good
when you’re not in church when you’re
not reading your bible and when you’re
not praying
i want to let you know i’m not a god
that changes my mind
i’m not a god that turns my back i’m not
a god that gets this
replaced no i love you i’m for you
i’m with you i’m thankful today that the
bible says neither height
nor depth nor power nor principality nor
angel nor demon nothing can separate you
from the love somebody give them a
praise today nothing can separate you
from the love that’s in christ jesus
see the problem is is that so so many
church folk
so many religious people you still are
convinced of he loves me
he loves me not he loves me
he loves me not he loves me
he loves me not no
he loves you even when you don’t love
yourself
jesus says i love you even when you feel
see the problem is that shame is a bully
and shame has convinced you that god
loves you when you love yourself
no god says i love you before you ever
chose me i chose you
you didn’t find me i found you and i
have sought after you and i have loved
you with an unconditional love
and i’ll tell you who’s patient i’ll
tell you who’s kind i’ll tell you who
always trusts and always hopes and
always protects
i’ll tell you what love will never fail
you it will not be the love of your
spouse it will not be the
love of your pastors or your parents it
will be the love of god i am thankful
today that there is no behavior
that will disqualify you from the love
of jesus somebody thank god today
he loves me he loves me he loves me
jesus
loves me this i know for the bible
tells me so for god
so loved you that he gave his one
and his only son that if anybody would
say yes listen listen
before you ever believe in jesus you
already belong to jesus
the god god said i knit you together
when you were in your mother’s womb
you’ve been fearfully and wonderfully
created by god
yeah you ever watched toy story
fam you you already saw i got 9753. we
watch a lot of toy story we watch toy
story one two three four all of them we
watch the little ones we got to clip
ones watch again we watch
all disney plus we watch all the toy
stories what did it say about andy
on all of his toys he put an inscription
of his toys said this is my toy god
wrote
on you this is my son this is my
daughter
you belong to me and i belong to you
somebody clapping thank god
you might feel ashamed today you might
be disappointed today
you might not feel good today you might
be in a bad place today but one thing
you can rest assure of
god loves me so the reason why i love
god because he first
loved me the reason why i’m
i’m listening to his word and i’m
involved in church and
the reason why i’m in encouraged today
is because of his behavior not mine
it’s not that i’m amazing he’s amazing
and so first thing is that jesus is love
and the second thing right down number
two
is you got to receive the work
of a believer is receiving
the work of a believer is receiving
see your work is not mission field your
work is not due goodison
your work is not sowing and giving and
loving and helping
no that’ll come but your first job as a
christian
is to receive you ought to wake up today
and say i receive your mercy
i receive your peace i receive your
grace
i receive your favor i receive what is
grace
grace is undeserved blessing and it’s
unmerited favor
you can’t make up the story of
transformation nation you can’t make up
the story of relationship goals
you can’t make up the story of mike and
natalie todd it is a receiving
god chooses it you just receive grace
you receive
love you receive faith you want crazy
faith receive crazy faith
you want to step into god’s plan receive
god’s plan
[Applause]
see i’m in baseball season right now i’m
a baseball dad i got you know i’m
i’m a baseball guy with my sons right
now we’re in little league shout out to
little league we’re having fun
the other day i came home my wife had
taken my
sons to dick sporting good my wife got
him the helmets the bats
the gloves the balls the whole outfits
and i was like julia
that’s a dad’s job you stole
my thunder so i tried to redeem the
moment
while they’re doing their little fashion
show and i took the boys outside and
said okay well then we’re gonna play
catch
since she stole my moment so we’re
outside my seven-year-old’s got his
glove
we got the ball i’m like i got
confidence in my guy right here
now my five-year-old he’s more of an
artist
so my seven-year-old we good
but my five-year-old he’s mad to save
he’s a little artist
so i’m like all right i’m a thought to
you you’re gonna throw it back
mavi boy i’m gonna throw it to you open
your mitt
and you’ll catch it and throw it back
you got it he’s like good dad okay all
right so i got the ball
throw it to my seven-year-old fires it
back i’m like this is my guy okay
all right now i’m prepping my my
five-year-old okay you ready cause i
don’t want him to get hurt i’m like you
ready he’s like i might open that thing
up
so i throw it to my five-year-old my
five-year-old’s good all the way
until the ball gets right there right
when the ball gets
right there he goes like this
picks it up fires it back i’m like all
right we’re
we’re 95 of the way there we’re 95
so i throw to my seven-year-old fire’s
back all right man boy you ready
okay here we go throw to my
five-year-old my fire race right he’s
good
all the way to get he’s really
i’m like all right i don’t wanna i don’t
wanna increase the spirit i want to
destroy spirit my
you got it fires it back my god has
everything
except for the receiving i wonder how
many of us
god’s been like i love you i’ve got
plans for you
i’ve got future i’ve got blessing and
you’re like no i’m not good enough
no i’m not from the right family no i’ve
been messing up
no i’ve got sin no i’ve got shame come
on somebody thank him today
he doesn’t throw you deserve blessing he
doesn’t throw you
earned grace come on somebody praise him
today
this is just who he is
[Music]
the hardest thing you’ll do today is you
wake up and say god i don’t deserve
your peace that surpasses all
understanding but i receive it in this
situation
i don’t receive i don’t deserve this
kind of faith that you’ve given me to
move mountains but i declare
in the name of jesus it’ll happen god i
don’t deserve this kind of favor
i don’t know why i’m getting promoted
and used and i don’t know why i’m
getting this opportunity but i receive
it
it is not by earn it is not my work
don’t you live by religious spirit
no this is all grace this is all god
what is transformation nation i keep
walking around this place
i keep walking through tulsa going look
at
god but we ought to also say
look at the ability of the staff and
your pastors
to receive
god i receive it i receive it
god speaks to jonah jonah says i don’t
know i don’t receive that
i don’t receive that i don’t receive
that
god shows up to moses moses we’re going
to use you no no i don’t i stutter i
don’t receive that
no no no not me god no no god shows up
at the
in a boat peter’s peter’s turned his
back on jesus three times
and jesus is i made you breakfast son
but he receives it he receives it
i wonder if you can today say i know i’m
not perfect
i know i don’t have all the answers but
he is love
and he loves me he loves me
this i know he loves me and so i receive
his grace
i pray today that for the first time in
many months
you’ll receive sleep and receive rest
for your weary soul
i pray that you receive forgiveness
because you’ve been beaten yourself up
over decisions that you’ve made
i pray that you just right now just
right in this moment you just receive
the anointing of the holy spirit to step
into new territory
just right there in your home just put
your hands like this god we just thank
you for every person
that’s streaming in right now we thank
you that we will receive
gifts of the holy spirit i thank you
that right now you’re giving gifts of
faith
gift of hospitality the gift of miracles
you’re giving the gift of words of
wisdom words of knowledge
the gift of prophecy god i thank you
just endow your people
drench them god right now let their cups
overflow
we thank you right now for who you are
let us receive it in jesus name
could you imagine if you’re like no
i’m i’m not good enough like i love
psalm 23
because because because of the
ramifications but i like that there’s
some
some golden corral in psalm 23. you
prepare
a banqueting table in the present could
you imagine
be like no no no no they deserve to sit
here but not me
that they can eat but not me who where
did your inferior complex come from
where did you believe that you’re not
good enough you’ve been seated
at the table of the lord you don’t just
get to sit here
you get to enjoy everything that’s here
you’re a son
and you’re a daughter the last time i
checked you got royalty
flowing through your veins you’re a
chosen generation you’re a royal
priesthood
you’re a marvelous light somebody clap
and thank god today
i’ve been seated at the table of the
lord
[Applause]
jesus said he said listen anybody that
drinks
of this water rivers of living water
will flow out of them
i’m praying that you just receive your
seat at this table
you just receive the grace that is in
christ jesus
none of us earned nobody’s looking
around the table being like
yeah for sure they should be here you
know they’re good enough
we’re all sitting around going like can
you believe that we got in here can you
believe that
if they only knew yeah
see we deal with a culture that has an
imposter syndrome but when you’re a
child of god you say no no no
what legitimizes me to be here is the
grace of jesus christ
so jesus is love he’s love he’s love his
banner over me is
his love he’s love this is this is just
who he is he has loved me with an
unconditional love he has engraved me in
the palm of his hands
he chose me before i chose him jesus is
love
and all i must do my work my work today
and my work tomorrow
is to receive don’t be the starving
baker
don’t be the one that gives everybody
else prayer and faith and you got faith
for the no no faith
faith people crazy faith people say if
god did it for them
god could do it for me if god did it way
back then
god could do it right now if god did it
over there
he could do it right here so i receive
it in jesus name
so number one jesus is love number two i
gotta receive
and then write down number three it
always starts with me but it never ends
with me
god god this way god always worked he
starts something
in me but it breaks right through me
listen understand this if god can get it
to you
he knows he can get it through you some
of you need to understand the great
thing god’s been speaking to you
the great thing during come on this
month of fun that god’s going to give
you rest and give you grace
and give you joy the great thing he does
in me is the great thing he does through
me
all the way back to abraham god says i’m
going to bless you
and you will be a blessing because it
starts with me but it does not
end with me so god gives me peace so i
can give peace
he comforts me so i can be a comfort
anybody want to be used by god
come on drop it in the chat right now
give me the the raise the hand emoji
again
if you want to be used by god
because it starts with me but it never
ends with me
because the more you love god the more
you understand it’s all about people
it’s about his people it’s about his
kingdom it’s about his church
it’s about it’s about the thing he wants
to do in me and the thing he wants to do
through me i’ll never forget i was 16
years old i was at a promise keepers
event
shout out to promise keepers we had the
best time promise keepers in seattle
washington
65 000 men worshipping god
so we’re we’re there i’m a pastor’s kid
300 level on a saturday afternoon
i’m on the back side of the stage
they’re singing to him
and all this listen i’m in every prayer
meeting camp meeting sunday morning
sunday night youth group
i’ve been to all of it 300 level i’m on
the back we start singing to him
and for the first time in my life i
receive
my calling i receive my future
now god had been speaking to me but it’s
the first time i received it
16 years old i went back to my to my
house and and i’m
in love with jesus now i’m a jesus guy
now i’m 16 i’m i’m ready i’m ready to
follow god so i wait for my whole family
to go to sleep at night
and i wait for them to all fall asleep
by 10 pm i’d break out my promise
keepers new testament bible
and we had a cassette tape of worship
y’all young people google cassette tapes
google it cassette tapes i had a
cassette worship tape i would kneel by
my bedside with my worship music
and the bible and i start to just read i
didn’t even know what it meant
i don’t even know what i was just
circling the oh the that’s good
the yeah good one god and
god god starts speaking to me god starts
raising me god i go to my friends at my
high school i said guys we i feel like
god wants to do something in our school
it’s like 2 500 kids in my school i said
let’s start let’s just start praying
every day at lunch
i said we’ll eat for 15 minutes and then
we’ll pray for 15 minutes are you in i
have two guys
are you in is it yeah so i go to my guys
come on let’s go 15 minutes in let’s go
pray we go to a classroom
two of us three of us we’re praying then
then after about a week i’m like to some
of our other friends you want to come
pray with us too
now we got like five guys now we’ve got
two weeks in there’s like 10 of us we
we’re eating for 15 minutes and then
we’re going to this classroom and
they’re praying for our school we’re
praying for
our teachers we’re praying for our
principal and then about a month in
there’s about 20 of us we’re going to
this school to this classroom we’re
praying we’re praying
about two months in now now we’ve got to
move out the classroom because now we’re
in a choir there’s about 40 of us 50 of
us
now a few months in now we got to move
out the choir we’re going to the gym
now we’re going to a gym about about
three months into this whole thing
i would stand up in the middle of my
lunch room 15 minutes in and i would
just go like this
and hundreds of kids would leave the
lunchroom we’d go to the gym people were
getting freed people again people are
getting saved at school
god’s starting to break out in a public
high school because god always does
something in me
but it starts with me it never ends with
me
i wonder if you understand yet that god
has something so much bigger for your
life
than just existing i wonder if you
understand yet you are made by greatness
for greatness that the whole thing god
wants you to be bonded here
and bonded to your destiny stop delaying
your destiny
stop messing around with god’s plan god
has something that is so greater
so much bigger so much better and he
does something in me
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because he’s about to do something
through me i look at pastor mike’s life
and i just see
all that god was doing in him raising
him developing him
training him shaping him oh it reminds
me of david it says in psalm 78 and he
chose david
his servant and he took him from the
sheepfolds from the
backside of the desert when he was
taking care of lambs
there was no podcast there were no
lights there was no body
and he says and he chose david his
servant and he brought him
from sheep all the way to shepherd jacob
his own inheritance
israel so in one day come on god has a
fast forward button he can use it
whenever he wants
he brought him from sheep to millions
it says when david got here he
shepherded them according to the
integrity of his heart
and the skillfulness of his hands see i
want to tell somebody today god is
preparing you
for the amazing thing that he’s doing in
you
and through you it’s not just that the
world is opening up
you are opening back up and you’re
opening up to something that’s like whoa
i know this business idea is crazy but i
feel like it’s god
i know this book i’ve never written a
book before but i feel like it’s
god i know i’ve never started a bible
study but i feel like i’m supposed to
start a bible study
i know i’ve never had meaningful
conversations and meaningful
relationships but i feel like i’m
supposed to be your friend
it always starts with me but it never
ends with me i wonder today if there’s
some people that are just going god’s
god’s been waking me up god’s been
messing with me god’s been doing
something i talked to somebody the other
day
and this guy was preaching he’s
preaching about god waking him up in the
middle of the night
this preacher is telling the story about
4am he’s been waking up to meet with god
4 a.m
god’s doing something big so he’s waking
up at 4 a.m and there’s one pastor i
know he told the lord he said
you want to wake me up at 4 a.m that’s
on you
you start praying prayers like that to
god god will mess with you
that very night that he said that 4 a.m
he’s in a hotel
the fire alarm goes off at 4 a.m
because god was saying i want to do
something in you
because i’m about to do something
through you and it’s not for
your glory it’s for my renown and i’m
going to love you so
unconditionally i’m going to love you so
overwhelmingly that you will not be
quiet about the amazing work i’m doing
in your life
anybody grateful that god never stops
working the day shift the night shift or
the midnight shift give them a praise
today
if you’re grateful for the grace of
jesus
last thing write down number four i love
this this is just the reality of today
you can you got a decision you can blame
or bond
you can build or break you choose
you can blame or you can bond you can
build or you can break but you choose
i love this about god we don’t serve the
god of goosebumps
we serve the god of wisdom we serve the
god of decisions
all throughout the scriptures god says
make your vows before the lord
but keep them i love in the old
testament god’s like all right guys this
i’m just going to make this practical
god is very practical god says okay i’ve
set before you life
and death blessing and cursing he just
goes choose wisely
so you’ve got a decision to make in your
life are you going to build
or are you going to blame are you going
to bond with people or are you going to
break relationships
no i’m not going to live my life filled
with all kinds of fallout
and all kinds of disappointment and all
kinds of heartbreak
i don’t want to end my life going i wish
i would have oh i should have all that
would have been awesome
i want to live my life every day saying
god i receive your grace so i can build
my legacy
so i can build my family so i can build
the church that you planted me in
so i can help the city that you called
me to be a light in
anybody thankful today that i’ve got the
choice i’ve got the decision
it’s not up to them stop blaming people
for where you’re at stop giving people
control
over the narrative of your life
i love joseph when his brothers show up
if you don’t know the story of joseph in
the bible
his brothers had betrayed him he went
through all these p’s he went through
pits and
potiphar’s house and pharaohs and
prisons and and when his brothers reveal
himself
when they reveal themselves joseph says
fam
you’re good you’re good
you did not do this to me
god did this to me this is the unique
way god chose to raise me
can you stop tolerating the way god
chose to raise you
and start celebrating the way god chose
to raise you
your unique path
that god in all of his sovereignty said
if i have to i’ll put you in a pit for a
while
and then i’ll put you in a potiphar’s
and then a prison and i’ll put you in
with pharaoh and you might be going i’m
bigger than this i’m better than this
there’s something greater than that
something bigger is in my heart be
patient on the lord
you make the choice i’ll refuse to blame
i re
i refuse to break i’m gonna i’m gonna
build and i’m gonna bond
and i’m gonna be who god has called me
to be for the glory
of his renown stop blaming people stop
breaking people
some people that were supposed to be
with you right now you bro you sabotage
that relationship
you need to go and make right you need
to ask for their forgiveness because
they are attached to your destiny
your alignment will determine your
assignment who you align yourself with
will determine the trajectory of your
life
could you imagine that pastor charles is
like no i’m not joined transformation
i’m building my own thing he would never
be where he is right now but he had the
humility to say i re
i’m going to bond i’m going to build and
i’m going to be who god
has called me to be
see we don’t know if you’re a christian
because you got a bumper sticker on your
car
we we don’t know if you’re christian
because you listen to jaira
jesus said you will be known for your
love
look look at this first john chapter
three oh i love this scripture dear
children
let’s not merely say that we love each
other let us show
the truth by our actions
let us show the truth by our deeds let
us show that
listen talk is cheap
and your actions speak louder than your
god is looking for a church that doesn’t
just have their hands raised
we have our hands out we say we’re
willing to be
his feet we are willing to be his hands
we are willing to be representatives and
whatever whatever city god has placed
you in
whatever city listen the big time is not
where you’re going the big time is where
you’re at
and you want to treat the season that
you’re in saying like you know what i
wouldn’t want to be anywhere else
god bless their life god bless all the
things they’re doing
but i’m thankful for my grace i’m
thankful for my family
i’m thankful for my future i’m thankful
for what god’s doing in me
he started a great work listen he who
has begun a good work
in you will be faithful to complete it
anybody grateful that god
is just getting started
he’s just getting started he’s just
starting a great work in your life
some of you have forfeited the great
thing that god wanted to do
in and through your life because you
quit too early
and god is saying no no no no i got
fresh mercy
things are starting to open back up and
if you’ll just be open
i’m the god of new beginnings see moses
said to god i started but god kept
working with him jonah’s like nah
i’m not doing that but god just he kept
working with him
you know so many times peter peter
messed up three times god’s like i’m
gonna keep working you ever noticed that
god just keeps on talking to you
keeps whispering in your ear keeps
showing up with grace and favor saying
no no i’m not done yet
i’m not finished faithful is he who has
called you you didn’t call your name god
called
god’s got something for you i’m trying
to convince somebody that’s like i’m not
good i’m messed up
i’m morally i compromise spiritually i’m
bankrupt
emotionally i’m out of control
physically i mean you don’t even want to
know covered 19 represents a few things
for me i’m just i’m not in a good place
so many people like you know what pastor
chad kova’s hard
i was i was isolated like fam we were
all isolated
but you don’t got to stay there you’re
not going to stay broken
you don’t got to stay that way you’ve
got access
to the throne room you’ve got access
to the king of kings and right now it’s
not that you’re praying to god
jesus is praying for you so you need to
bond
you need to build you need to be open oh
i open my mouth to inhale your word
i open my eyes to see the marvelous
thing let your word break in me
so we can break out of me what is god
about to do
listen if i was you i’d be sitting on my
couch smiling
like the proverbs 31 woman the bible
says the proverbs 31 woman
she looks to the future and she smiles
why she knows if god is for me
who can be against me somebody prays
praise god right now
right in your house somebody thank jesus
that he is a god
that can make a way he makes rivers in
the desert he makes roads in the
wilderness
he makes a way where there seems to be
no way somebody praise him right now
god’s about to break out in you so we
can break something through you
stop listening to yourself and start
talking to yourself
some of you keep listening i’m not good
enough i’ve been this i’ve been
stop start talking to yourself david
said why are you so downcast on my soul
why are you so dead put your hope in god
you keep listening to yourself are you
going to keep going down the road of
wilderness but if you talk to yourself
you encourage yourself
in the lord you got decisions to make i
would love
i would love it i would love it i would
love it if you don’t
if you didn’t have to make a decision
but the reality is you do
it’s what i love about going to a
restaurant with my wife i have no
decision to make
the waitress comes by sir what would you
like as if i had a choice
talk to her she will tell you what i’m
having
some of you need to understand keyboard
player you can start playing again
because there’s something you need to
understand
that you literally need to understand
god’s grace for your life
you have decisions to make
god is not a god of force
god is not a god of manipulation
he’s a god of wooing he’s a god of
beckoning
paul says i beseech you therefore
brethren in view of god’s mercy
that you present your lives a living
sacrifice
holy and pleasing to god this is your
reasonable act of worship
worship is not a melody worship is a
lifestyle
jesus says i don’t want your melody in
your song i want your life i want you
you got a decision to make yes what will
you choose today
if it wasn’t for covid it wasn’t for
them and my parents and my family and my
my ex and the divorce and my kids and
it’s their fault
it’s their bad and so i’m going to break
up they didn’t invite me they didn’t
help me no one was there for me in
colvin
my church didn’t reach out to me okay
fine you want to blame
or do you want to bond do you want to
build or do you want to break
but you have to choose you cannot stay
in this place any longer
god is calling you into future he is
saying forgetting those things which are
behind me
i am pressing on to the things that are
in front of me brothers and sisters
i just one thing i know i have not
apprehended all of it but one thing i do
is i’m pressing towards the goal of the
prize
in christ jesus oh i wish somebody would
get arrested by the holy spirit today
i wish somebody would get like jesus
jesus when he come back from the
presence of god
he said don’t worry about it we got to
keep going for this purpose i’ve come
see god wants to restore into you
purpose in his presence
but the enemy intended for harm the lord
himself can turn around
and use for the good yeah i know i know
it might be funny and i know i’m listen
i’m half
hispanic so i came out the womb loud
okay so if i’m young it’s because i’m
latin shout out to all the latins in
transformation nation
see that’s what i’m talking about
i’m yelling because i get excited
because i know the devil
will soon be crushed under your foot
because my bible says that
those that run into the name of the lord
it’s a strong tower my my bible says
he who abides under the shelter of the
almighty will rest under the shadow of
his
wing some of you been
exposed wandering
hurting depressed
filled with pain and animosity
life’s been cruel to you
if you think about it life’s been cruel
to all of us
but you know who’s been good god
god did not promise a safe journey he
only promised a safe arrival
and yea though i walk through the valley
of the shadow of
death i will fear no evil
for your rod and your staff they come
for me i’m praying over somebody today
you’ve got a decision to make because
you’ve been living a deviant life you’ve
been living a duplistic life
you’ve been living a life that doesn’t
please god and today you got to make a
decision
you got to make a decision but i’m
believing right now that as jesus said
to peter we’re praying for you
all of transformation nation we’re
praying for you and we believe in you
just like god does
we believe that god has a plan for your
life you don’t have to come up with a
plan because god already has a plan
and right now you’re making a decision
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to unite your life with jesus let me
read one last scripture to you this is
the last scripture i’m going to read
i wanna i wanna just this is let me give
you a visual of what’s happening to your
life right now
ecclesiastes watch this last scripture
today though one may be overpowered by
another
two can withstand him and a three-fold
cord is not quickly broken
now the three-fold cord we know and we
love this about god
is that we serve the god of the trinity
we serve a triune god the father the son
and the holy spirit
the three are in one they show up at the
baptism of jesus
jesus goes down to the water he comes up
all the instagram handles come out
people are getting ready to tag jesus
jesus comes out he’s baptized the dove
shows up on his shoulder
the father opens up to heaven the father
says this is my son with whom i am well
pleased we got the father
the son and the holy ghost this is the
trinity it’s a three full court it will
not quickly be broken
god is saying to you today that you need
some relationships in your life
it is jesus in the middle it is your
life and their life
and together when you build your life
and your relationships
on the cornerstone the stone that the
builders rejected
for us is the chief cornerstone when you
build your life
and your relationships this way you will
open your life to the god plan
you will open your life to the god
thought come on right there in your
house
thank god i’m choosing to say yes to
jesus father we thank you
we are so grateful that you’re not a god
of law and shame and
guilt and condemnation you’re a god of
love
it is your love it is your kindness that
leads us to repentance today
we say yes to your grace we say yes
to your plan we receive we receive we
receive we receive
we receive your mercy we receive your
promise
we receive right now light
for the dark path that we’re on we
receive your word
we receive right now eyes vision right
now i pray vision over people
we receive right now we thank you that
you’ll do something in us and do
something through us
we decide today that for us it’s the
jesus way
as for me and my house we will serve the
lord
we make the conscious decision to say no
to the enemy into a lifestyle of
compromise
we say yes to jesus right now we thank
you for it
right there in your house if you’ve
never said yes to jesus but today
for the first time you want to say yes
to grace jesus loves you so much
that he went to the cross and died a
brutal death
so that when you die you will not perish
but through belief in jesus
you will have everlasting life the bible
says all those that call upon the name
of the lord
they shall be saved if you want to get
saved today
say yep to jesus yep i’m in i’m going
gonna follow heart soul mind and
strength i’m a jesus follower
if that’s you right now just say yes
wherever you are just say yes
yes yes yes i believe it right now in
the power of the gospel people are
saying yes all over the world
all over the world right now people are
saying yes to the cross
and to the good news of jesus in jesus
name in jesus name
and everybody said together can we clap
right now for everybody that just got
saved
i need somebody to go crazy in the chat
right now because people just got
saved i i
i don’t think you get it i don’t think
you get it because you in your house
people in other houses just got shame
give god a praise join the angels right
now
i don’t know where you joined us from
but listen you just set
all of heaven into a frenzy like again
i’m mexican i’m a half mexican so i just
in my head the pinata just came out the
horchata just came out
they’re going crazy because one person
that was
lost just got found one person that was
blind
right now just got sight one person that
was dead
just came to life right there and so
there’s a number right there on the
screen we would love
to stay connected with you we would love
to tell you more about this journey but
we’re going crazy
because today is the first day of the
rest of your life
but just a heads up i want to just warn
you it’s the way god works
he’s going to do something in you
because he wants to do something through
you come on let’s clap one more time for
every person
that said yes to jesus we’re so thrilled
for you
i love you so much what an honor do me a
favor
take care of your pastor i know this is
fun month but while you’re having fun
with the pinatas pray for your pastors
pray for your pastors love them
serve them take care of them
for the bible says that it’s not good
for your soul if you’re not a blessing
to them
those that teach us the word were called
to be a blessing
pray for them imitate their faith and
imitate pastor mike smile
we love you so much i’ma toss it to the
post show check this out watch this post
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we love you so much we’ll see you next
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