Why Do I Feel So Out Of Control // Receipts: The Proof Is In The Fruit ( Part 10) // Michael Todd

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In Week 10 of the Receipts series, Pastor Michael taught a powerful message on self-control. True self-control is not self-empowered—it’s a fruit of the Spirit. The fight of our lives is between sin control and Spirit control. Every day, we’re in a battle between letting our flesh lead or letting Holy Spirit guide us. The choices we make either feed our faith or feed our fear. We pray this message causes you to cultivate the fruit of self-control. Scripture References: Galatians 5:22-23 NLT Proverbs 25:28 NLT 2 Timothy 1:7 NKJV Proverbs 16:32 NLT Galatians 5:17 NLT Galatians 5:25 NLT Join Transformation Church for our Sunday experience. Plug into community, engage in live worship with Transformation Worship, & hear a powerful word from God. ABOUT US We Exist to REPRESENT God to the lost & found for Transformation in Christ. This is the vision of Transformation Church, led by Pastor Michael Todd & based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. GIVE To support this ministry & help us continue to reach people all around the world: https://transformchurch.us/give/ STAY CONNECTED

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hey guys we hope this video finds you

doing well I am Abby and this is Charles

my husband and we get to serve as your

campus pastors here at the Tulsa campus

and we just want to let you know right

now something that’s happening at the

church absolutely it’s a super special

time of year and it is because it is our

endof year offering uh it’s had many

different names but this year it is our

crazy fruit offering it’s because that’s

our word of the year but this is a time

where we come together as a church

community and we pray and ask God what

would you have me give financially as we

end this year it’s a time where it’s

very easy to become focused on what we

get but we want to intentionally end the

year focusing on what we’re going to

give and I want to encourage you this is

not about a certain amount but simply

obeying what God ask you to do so we

want to invite you in this journey if

this ministry has blessed you or

impacted you in any way we want to

invite you as this is another part of

our spiritual journey of trusting God

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however you give it makes a difference

and I’m so excited to see what God does

through our generosity yeah we

appreciate each and every one of you and

we pray that this message blesses you

today today um I wanted to preach a

message and I simply want to give you

the title now I’m going to remind you of

it in just a second um I want to I want

to preach a message called why do I I

feel so out of

control and I know this is something

that we don’t talk about often but there

are areas of our life that we feel like

we just can’t get control

over okay we’re a hot Church Humble open

and transparent does anybody in here

have at least two areas in your life

it’s like why can’t I get that under

control okay all right all right thank

you Holy Spirit I’m in the right

place why do I

feel so out of

control and this year God told us this

is a year that we would maximize and

focus on the word

fruit and as we do that I was like all

right Lord how do we get fruit he said

you have to sew the right

seeds and I’m not just talking about

finances I want you to hear what I’m

saying you cannot get fruit in the area

of your marriage if you do not seow seed

in the area of marriage

you cannot get fruit in the area of

health and not so seed in the area of

Health you cannot become everything that

God has called you to be in a healthy

Manner and not so seed in that

area and I would just like to come up to

many Believers and ask them are you

nuts cuz you are believing for something

in an area that you have sown no seed

in many of us want

friends and we do not seow seeds of

normal you not

normal you won’t even say hello when

they say

hello you you won’t answer the text

message when the two people you was

trying to be friend text

you you busy and book like

that no but for some reason I’m just

giving a a a very frivolous um example

to let people know this is not the year

to believe for where you have not

sown yes God can supersede and step over

boundaries and do things that you didn’t

deserve that is not the common practice

that’s why he gives us principles in his

word he gives us principles cuz

sometimes he’ll pop out and do the

unexpected so you know he

can but he not about to pop out every

time and do the unexpected when you

won’t

Steward what he gives you all the time

okay so why do we feel out of control so

many times it’s because we have not

sown the right seed in the area that

will give us watch what we’re talking

about today

self

control

okay okay I need you to lock in I need

you to check in with me for the next 40

minutes cuz this one is going to scrape

against your

flesh cuz when anybody starts talking

about self-control

they’re actually coming at the parts of

us that Comfort us the

most the areas that Comfort us the most

are the places where we usually don’t

have

self-control where do you go when you’re

emotionally

outraged where do you go when you don’t

feel like anybody sees

you where do you where do you get a

snuggle when you lose

that is the place where usually we have

not figured out how to let the Holy

Spirit Empower us even when we have an

excuse to do it that we don’t do

it so today I just want to let you know

if something comes up in your mind like

that and you like start feeling that on

the

inside all of those faces you won’t make

but you feel yeah yeah all of those

things that make you want to click out

and go watch somebody else’s message

that’s going to speak to your

blessing what I’m saying to you is God

is blessing us in ways we can’t even

feel

it oh God because we won’t get

self-control we won’t let the spirit do

the work on the inside of us to actually

live and walk in self-control so today

I’m going to try to gently walk us

through what the Holy Spirit Prov

provides for us at Salvation Galatians

5:22 but the Holy Spirit produces this

kind of fruit in your life love joy

peace patience kindness goodness

faithfulness gentleness and self control

you didn’t even say it say it with me

self-control say it like you want it

self-control say it like you need it

self-control

why would the Holy Spirit produce

self-control I started to look at this

thing and I begin to be

confused cuz just by the mere word

self-control it feels a little

confusing it feels

like self-control should be initiated by

me so is it Spirit empowered or is it me

is it my self-control is it me just

saying I’m not g to do this no more I’m

not gonna do this no more Michael look

at me in the mirror I’m not going to do

this no

more cuz cuz

honestly I’ve done that

before okay how many people told

yourself you not doing it told other

people you not doing it wrote it on your

mirror put it on your refrigerator set

it Al

L and somehow

I’m in the right place

today so so self

control but the spirit produces

self-control so I went on a deep dive of

trying to think how could I

explain and how can I never let God’s

people be seduced by the LIE of the

enemy that God cares more about what our

s wants wants than what the spirit

wants and I really do believe I have

Clarity and I found it in the word of

God I’m going give you a couple of

scriptures that if you have this thing

in your back pocket at all times it’s

going to save you it’s going to be a way

of Escape for you let me give you one

that helped me and helps me to this day

Proverbs 25:28 the wisest man that ever

lived according to the Bible Solomon

wrote this and he says this hey person

without

self-control is like a city with broken

down

walls get a mental

image of a fortified City back in the

day which was the only means of

protection No cameras no ring doorbells

no no uh guard dog it was your city was

actually known by how strong its walls

were because there was always an enemy

trying to take your

land so if you did not have fortified

walls you were very vulnerable and could

actually be taken advantage of at any

moment because you did not have

everybody listen to this word

protection this scripture says having no

self-control is like being a city with

no

protection all your value vulnerable at

every

moment you ain’t got no self-control one

text message can set you back 10

years one cuz you have no self-control

what you doing nothing what you

doing 10

years of of mental emotional and

physical sometimes

abuse cuz there is no

self you’re at the doctor for diseases

that don’t even run in your

family asking God for a

miracle for something that happened

while you worked at the

mall and every day for three years you

ate at that food

court okay I’m talking too real right

now because you didn’t have self-control

to walk past Annie

ants she said oh my God oh my God you’ve

been following

me because you didn’t have self-control

not to get the sugar dip pretzels with

the sour

cream and a strawberry

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lemonade come on y’all you become V

watch it your vision becomes vulnerable

so God can have asked you to do

something but because you were

vulnerable you were like a city Without

Walls you had no self-control you

literally get pillaged plumaged and

stolen

from all the time not because you’re a

bad person not because you don’t hear

from God it’s because you have not

allowed the Holy Spirit to work the

fruit in you of self-control

and I want you to think about the area

of your greatest

robbery and ask yourself do I have

self-control around that

area where is God trying to build watch

this protection for you so when I read

this this is what came out write this

down as a point self-control is

safety if if if you would view

self-control of being able to actually

not do everything you feel like doing

not buying everything you feel like

buying not going every place you feel

like going if you actually could get

that practice in your life God says

you’ll be

protected you’re going to be

safe self-control is safety and the

reason I wrote it down like that is cuz

I’ve never thought about self-control

being a good

thing really because of the word

controlling

it can we be honest

anytime anybody talks about control

unless it’s j Jackson singing a song I

don’t want nothing to do with it you

want to control me you want to tell me

what to do you you don’t know what’s

best for me and now I bring a worldly

thought to a kingdom

principle God said one of the nine

receipts I want you to have is

selfcontrol he said he wants us to have

self-control and because we have been

controlled by people contr controll by

systems controlled by other things that

weren’t in our mind in our best interest

then we apply worldly experiences to

Kingdom

principles and so many of us shy away

from

self-control cuz I’m actually free to do

whatever I want to do and God said are

you really cuz if you have to

drink are you free

if you can’t deny the

sale no no no no but you understand Bath

and& Body Work candles are $10 right now

they’re

10 somebody was just convicted for real

you got 400

candles for an

apartment you have a candle for every

square foot of the place that you

live think about it

y’all then God asks you to do something

with

resources and you don’t have cash you

have

candles and you’re and you’re too

prideful to get on the side of the

apartment complex with a

table see they don’t know what real

obedience looks like God told you to to

do something and you sitting there

riching

candles paid in candles and mugs burn 20

days at a

time I’m just trying to paint the

picture of sometimes our obedience is

delayed because we have not been

protected by

self-control second Timothy 1:7 here’s a

revelation check this

we’ve we’ve said this scripture a lot of

times but we’ve not correlated to

self-control look at this God has not

given

us a spirit of what

fear but what kind of spirit did he give

us love power and a sound if you look

that word up in the original language

and you can even read it in the ESV

version it says God did not give us a

spirit of fear but power love and self

control why would God give us

self-control instead of

fear the opposite of fear I didn’t give

you fear I gave you

self-control because what fear is is

undisciplined

thoughts all fear is

is thoughts without

self-control so you walk into a dark

room somebody’s about to come off the

ceiling somebody’s about to kill me

there’s a sniper on me right now oh my

God I I’m dying right now I’m dying

right now none of it

happened none of it happened you just

walked into a dark room and all you need

to do is flip on the switch you had a

power to turn the light on I feel

this but without an undisciplined

thought

life you

automatically God did not give us the

spirit the spirit of fear so

self-control is a

spirit

empowered by the Holy Spirit like the

see the spirit of fear needs to be

replaced with the spirit of self-control

you’re afraid of the

future I need to train my thoughts

around what God says about the

future I’m afraid to get married because

what I saw happen to so many

others I need to train my

thoughts I need

self control this good already y’all

this feel real good okay so Proverbs

16:32 I’m just trying to give you a lot

of Bible it’s better to be patient than

powerful I could preach a whole message

on that just right there but check out

this second part but it’s better to have

self-control than conquer a

city a kingdom principle write this down

is self-control is better than

success hear what I just said to you cuz

some of us we can look at your Facebook

feed and see all you want to do is be

successful every other quote what a

millionaire would do

do with his

day

what starting a new podcast millionaire

mindset by me like

oo

okay you need to cash at me still you

need to pay me

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back I’m sorry y’all I feel good up

here I’m not I’m not trying to come

against anybody’s dreams what I’m saying

is God says success should not be more

important to you than

self-control cuz whatever the men of

this world and the women of this world

deem successful does not equate in

heaven money’s nothing in heaven oh

God houses are nothing in

heaven Bitcoin and Investments and 401ks

the Bible says it like this why would

you store up your

riches and all this Earth stuff you

can’t take this with you instead why

don’t you put it in the Kingdom why

wouldn’t you put it in something that

will last eternally I’m saying we all

need money to suc to to live and to

actually help people and all that other

stuff that’s not what I’m saying I’m

just saying is if it’s in priority over

God God said it would be better for you

to have self-control in your little

apartment than to run the whole city

this made me check my motives desires

and

wants sir cuz a lot of times I don’t be

asking God on my crazy crazy Faith card

for more

self-control if I go back to the

building and pull them cards off of

there I bet I’m going to see houses and

debts paid off and and and and be able

to bless my mama with a car and do all

the other things how many people put God

I want to be able to not talk

crazy God I want to be able to see

somebody that I knew did me wrong and

treat them with

kindness oh that’s something Money Can’t

by Holy Spirit I want to be able to walk

in a room and sense the needs of the

people and be led to the person you want

to speak to and give them accurate words

of

knowledge in not weird way but that will

encourage them to live and not

die I’ve seen people write

sonets on

things but not on

transformation

good and God’s saying it’s better for

you to have self-control over this than

to run the whole city okay why is this

important Pastor Mike because

self-control write this down is the only

thing that combats

compromise when you have

self-control you are

fortified and you do not get played by

the enemy when compromise tries to come

in oh God see most people don’t

understand what compromise is has any

okay has anybody ever gone to a game or

gone to a play or gone to something and

somebody will give you a comp

ticket like a comp ticket oh yeah yeah

yeah you want to come to the fair oh

yeah I’ll run the fear let me give you

some comp tickets like the what it means

is

free and then that word comp promise the

word in there is

promise when you experience compromise

what it means is you give the promise

away for

free you are

compromised so the reason God doesn’t

want you in that relationship with them

is because when you get with them your p

is

compromised you about to give away your

promise for free he won’t even take you

to Cheddars and he has you sneaking

through a back door of his frat

brother’s house he don’t even own a

house can’t come pick you up he sent you

$15 for Uber and he has you about to

give your promise

away

compromise got people in a church

manipulating people to stroke their ego

because they won’t actually do something

of value and they’re sending people in

cycles of depression and and and and

Allegiance and all these different

things don’t you

realize being a part of that got you

compromised the only thing that can

combat compromise is self-control

you know what I do respect you and I

believe that you are

fine not I believe I have

faith matter of fact I have seen with my

own

eyes come on you don’t got to be

ridiculous I would like to live in

harmony with you as Adam and Eve did in

the garden was nothing but leaves in

between

us come on y’all let’s be you don’t have

to

deny but every time I talk to

you something in me

weakens and the conviction I have

kept that this would only be for the

person I

married

becomes

very what were we talking about again

he what I’m

saying y’all acting like that don’t

happen some of y’all are the people that

I say you’re wear down people that the

first time you’ll know is super strong

but if they just ask you enough

times if they ask you watch this at the

right

time we we will give away the promise

for free how do we not comp romise we

get everybody say

self-control okay so again the sermon

title was why do I feel so out of

control let me tell you what control is

to have power over influence to direct

people’s behavior or the course of an

event my question to you is what is

controlling

you and I need you to answer that

question

honestly right now in in your life what

is controlling

you is it

food is it

finances is it people’s opinion is it an

image you made in your head when you

were

13 what’s controlling you is it social

media is it is

it is it a desire that

secret what is controlling you is it

fear to not ever live the life you came

from okay let’s be honest cuz sometimes

the thing that’s controlling us is not a

thing it’s an idea that we’ll never go

back

to and so we’ll run ourselves ragged

trying to be something that we’re not

and statistics tell us that what you

running from usually is what you

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become and I know there’s some people

ain’t nothing contr me I can do whatever

God tell me to do whenever I tell what

God tells me do it is your past

relationship still controlling you cuz

you’re married but you’re on Facebook

looking at your high school

sweethearts I wonder I wonder what

dwanda

doing oh she got three kids now oh look

at

him look at him little

I just know there’s an area that all of

us may need to be real about right now

that’s controlling more of our actions

than the spirit

is all I did all this talking to bring

you to the point to at least let you

know you may need some

self-control you may need to let the

Holy Spirit work in you at a whole

another level

so that he can fight for you in the

areas that you failed in over and over

again cuz some things let me be very

clear some things are a

decision some things are just you need

to decide I ain’t doing this no more

everything don’t need

prayer oh

God everything don’t need a prophetic

word if you have a propensity towards

something and you go to a place that

says that thing on the outside of it

on the

Marquee you don’t need to pray about

that but there are other things that are

more how can I say

this they’re

strongholds I don’t just see it in me I

saw it in my

dad it’s

generational and today I want to let you

know that there is a remedy for

that that has been given by the holy

spirit let me lighten it up right now

cuz some of y’all think that you’re

about to get exposed and you are but let

me just bring it up for just a

second how many people were alive when

the Atari Pong came out how many people

Atari like video games okay I need to

know okay some okay how many of y’all um

yeah cuz I wasn’t alive when that came

out either but but how many of y’all was

your game system when you were a kid

Nintendo how many people Nintendo come

on Super Nintendo okay okay all right

some of y’all weren’t here yet so

there’s some people in here that’s like

what are you talking about okay maybe

this will get you how many people knew

about a Sega Genesis yeah sonic all the

Rings okay yeah yeah how many people

knew about the Sony PlayStation I ain’t

talking about this new thing that stands

up I’m talking about the great one the

box with the circles y’all when you had

to take the CD out and lick on it and

then y’all don’t know nothing about that

okay y’all know what I’m

say and then how many of y’all know

about the Nintendo 64 when the 64 came

out okay and then we go Xbox and then we

go uh what’s the other ones

GameCube people who have a GameCube I

have questions about anyway and then we

and then okay we and then and now it’s

gone to like the

PSPs the personal

computers the switch the get yeah like

wow

PS5 you know what we can all agree that

no matter how much

the technology and the graphics have

upgraded from the Atari Pong all the way

to the PS5 every system still has a

controller what it means is it doesn’t

matter how much you

upgrade something

still will have control in your life

okay okay so this is what I’m going to

tell you write it down the fight of your

life

is versus Sin

control or Spirit

control this is what’s fighting every

day you wake up to control you and my

question is who is controlling you do a

serious evaluation on your life right

now when you wake up ding ding is a

battle who going to win today

my spirit controlling me or my sin

nature controlling me and some of us

have been living in one so long we

didn’t even know it was an

option we wake up and it’s like this

what I do uhoh HH that’s natural cuz we

were all born into our sin

nature okay how can I show y’all this

Galatians 5:17 listen to this the sinful

nature wants to do evil which is just

the opposite or the opponent of what the

spirit wants and the spirit gives us

desires that are the opposite of what

are sinful look at this word

nature that word means

natural our natural ideas will be

sinful our natural wants will be sinful

it’s become because of the world we were

born into after Adam and Eve disobeyed

god well I am a good person yes you are

a good person yet your nature is

sinful I need everybody to hear me say

this so clearly these two forces are

constantly fighting each other watch

this so you are not

free I just want to stop right there the

sin nature and the spirit nature are

fighting every

day so you’re not

free so you’re not free to carry out

your good intentions oh this is good

Bible intentions don’t matter if you

have the wrong

controller can you put my example on the

screen real quick I I I I need you to

see this because I was like how can I

depict to you what it looks like when

you are controlled by the spirit and

when you are controlled by the flesh I I

I need everybody to hear me say this

real quick your spirit man has to

actually get strong

enough to be able to defeat your flesh

Man

daily not at

church not once a week not once a year

every single day some of y’all need to

change your alarm to a boxing Bell ding

ding ding

y’all don’t hear me just to remind

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yourself it’s a fight I don’t hear some

of us wake up so

nonchalant like oh today’s going to be a

great day

depending on who you let

win this is what I

call the battle for my life

and every day that I wake up I got to

decide who’s going to win see the

problem

is we all start

here everybody starts being led by the

Flesh and this is the thing I came to

actually tell you is that when you get

saved your spirit man your your your

spirit Comes

Alive it doesn’t win

it’s the first time it

says but it’s a newborn

baby this is why we read the

word this is why we come to

church you’ve been led by your flesh for

32

years and you be like why do I still

struggle with these

Temptations It’s because your spirit man

comes alive but every day if you do not

feed it the right

things it gets beat the hell

up I need to say it just like

that cuz some of y’all come to prayer

but that 45 minutes of prayer has not

been leading your thoughts all day the

shade room

has so you know more about what rapper

is sleeping what what rapper

and what government official has cheated

on their M and you know more about all

of these different things that is

feeding a

nature

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gluttony it’s nasty

eting and it doesn’t have to be that

salacious it could be a text message

that says something like this did you

you hear about

them yeah hear about

them I’m over here trying to read

ssongs Siri text them tell me

more and at that

moment well I don’t know if it’s true

but or if somebody starts a sentence to

you like

this I don’t I I don’t really I don’t

really be gossiping

but if they tell you what it’s

not last night my daughter Gigi came to

me with white stuff all over her

hand and I was cleaning up something

else and I said Gigi what is that she

said Daddy it’s not paint

and that’s how many

times we look cuz I’m trying to hide

what I’m telling you it

is oh God and so when I wake up in the

morning I have good intentions but I may

be sin controlled watch this sin control

is making decisions based on what feels

natural to your

flesh so your sin nature wants to do

evil your sin nature gives your sin

nature gives Des desires and your sinful

nature is fighting for

control that’s where pride and

selfishness and gossip and throwing shad

and judgment comes from but Spirit

control is watch this write this down

it’s making decisions against

ourselves if you are Spirit controlled

you are making decisions against your

natural

inclination I want to cuss you out but

Pastor talked about kindness last week

and you better be glad I watch that

surface and guess who won in that

moment your spirit won my question is

how many battles do you

forfeit cuz you don’t even try to let

your spirit

fight you’ve already decided this is

just the way I am this is how my family

is and I came to tell you a person

without

self-control it’s like a city with their

walls torn

down it’s just a moment’s notice that

everything valuable in you can be

pillaged cuz you have not allowed the

Holy Spirit to develop self-control in

you I heard this poem said one time it

says two Natures beat within my breast

one is foul and one is

blessed one I love and one I hate the

one I fear will

dominate there’s certain movies I can’t

watch not because they’re not

creative and not

because I don’t like the trailer I

actually love the trailer that’s why I

want to watch the

movie I think sometimes Christians be

like denying

reality like that’s stupid like

that aroused My

Flesh I want to see if right when they

was about to take the thing off and then

it cut off and then somebody punch

somebody I want to see how that all ends

I want to see how that materializes in

real

life I want to actually

know can we be

honest you want to go see that nah bro

it’s all good man I no I don’t want to

see that let’s let’s go see Moana

oh this real do

y’all bro I’m not going out you a girl

man I’m not about to go see Mo with you

all right cool man I mean I can’t

go

why you don’t

understand I used to be controlled by my

sin

nature and my sin nature I don’t know

about yours it doesn’t need much to

eat to get very strong

oh my

God I only need a little

bit I I don’t need I don’t need I don’t

need a feast I just need a

taste and when I when I live on that

line when when I when I get that

close I become compromised or I’m in a

place where I can give away the promise

for

free all that God has done in my life

and one website could take away my

credibility to stand up here and

transform millions of people’s

lives the reason why everybody in my

circle got the codes to my phones can go

in my email not cuz I’m I’m a grown man

I’m the pastor I’m the leader Mo could

ruin me today I’m putting it on camera

just so y’all know if anything happens

to me Mo did it

I just call him

um but the I need to be Hest I live so

open with the people around

me and they can tell you because all my

flesh

needs is a little

secret all my flesh needs is a little

side

money I don’t I mean this ain’t wrong

other people do this all the time but

because of the call on your life many

can but you cannot

and without

self-control you mean I would throw away

my marriage for 15 years 24 years of

knowing

her to Satisfy My Flesh when I’m

angry I’mma throw away the model I’ve

been to my

daughters of how a man is supposed to

treat and protect his you mean I’mma

throw away what I’ve built for AA Bella

and and MJ for a moment at a

club but that’s where everybody’s that’s

where everybody’s connecting at I guess

I’m not supposed to connect with

them oh these are real decisions I’ve

made oh no the After parties at the club

can’t go there oh cuz you a pastor no

cuz I’m a man of God see this is a

difference there’s a difference between

my position and my person there’s a

difference between my convictions

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my

calling and without self-control I am

like a

city and my walls torn down and the

saddest part about most Believers is you

can see where the walls used to

be

God I can I can hear in your voice where

you used to have a

conviction I can hear in your voice

where you used to have a boundary

I can see in the way you live where you

used to draw a

line and all I see is

Rubble where there should be

Righteousness

Church

today I’m giving you an

opportunity to

choose what is what is the choice every

day you wake up you started neutral

this is why I start every day

praying because when I

pray it honestly becomes a

habit but habit can be a bad thing too

cuz every day I could get up and

scroll okay come on y’all if the first

thing that I do is see what everybody

else is doing and not ask God what I

should be

doing so maybe I don’t need a habit

that’s negative maybe I need

accountability maybe I need that little

bible app to be like ding

ding Jude

for and maybe before I I open up my

phone or maybe before I turn on the news

or maybe before I do this I just thank

God and I pray and I spend a little time

not because I’m trying to be

religious because I’m trying to be

protected oh my God I need everybody to

hear there’s a difference between no I

got to pray I got to pray I got God God

father

God you don’t care nothing about that

your heart was not in that at all but

just saying father today I’m

tired and I know I’m susceptible to

anger father I have been on

edge about the financial situation I’m

going

through so your word says that you’re a

prince of

peace and today I’m asking that you

would lead me to make decisions that

would rest in your

peace and God also I don’t feel good

about myself right now I got on a scale

yesterday and after the holidays it had

I don’t know if it’s broken or not

but no I’m talking about real prayers

like it had a few more um

numbers than I was expecting and that

actually has nothing to do about me

being healthy it has everything to do

with how I see

myself and since I was young I’ve always

had

self esteem issues based on the way I

look and today could you just remind me

that I’m

beautiful father I never had anybody

tell me that I was beautiful without

wanting something in

return so today God could you just

remind me in your word that I’m I’m

beautifully and wonderfully made

and last thing God today

uh Thomas is going to be at the

office and I hate

Thomas come on y’all see y’all don’t

want a real relationship with God God I

know we’re not supposed to hate but if

the line is strong dislike I really hate

Thomas and today God I I can feel it now

if he says one thing to

me out out the side of his

mouth but I I

desire to be like you and look like

you and so it is going to be difficult

for me to be kind to Thomas today I’m

not asking for the week Lord that would

be too

much that would

be that would be an

outrageous

request

but but today Lord come on

y’all but today

Lord Our

Father Who Art in

Heaven holy and Hallowed be your name

thy kingdom come your will be done here

on Earth as it is in heaven give me this

day

enough for

Thomas did you just see like I I

actually displayed for you what a life

led by the spirit looks like and I’m

just giving you an example but all I’m

saying is if you do not listen to the

spirit of

God it then leaves you vulnerable we’re

getting out of here if you get

accountable watch this your

accountability turns into

discipline and what you

do in a disciplined life I’m going have

to do a whole series on this I’m might

have to do a whole series on this thing

and bring this chart back every week cuz

I need to teach all of

these but what I’m just trying to get

you to see today is the

value there are certain things that have

happened on my health Journey that I

would not have been able to do without a

trainer

I had accountability watch this that

turned

into me being controlled by somebody

else for an hour and a half every day

there is nothing that Victor tells me to

do that I want to

do there has never been one time that he

was like all

right do the burpees and I was like

Yay that he was like all right 20 pounds

more and I was like amen

every time my flesh wants to rise up but

the accountability turned into

discipline so much so that last Sunday

me and Pastor will work out every Sunday

morning together and last Sunday morning

early in the morning my coach called me

and told me he wasn’t going to be able

to be there now this is like 3:00 in the

morning because we work out at 5: on

Sundays I almost called

will and told him Coach is sick

the gym at my house all the weight still

work but it was a

test had the accountability turned into

discipline and I said will I can train

us if you you down and I was praying

that he said you unqualified men of

God but he was like I’m down and for an

hour and a half at 5:00 a.m. with no

trainer

my discipline turned into my

desire so so this is this is where we go

on the last

one I don’t know when it

happens I’m not sure of the magical

moment that God says

oh the switch

flipped but if you are accountable long

enough in the things that the spirit

tells you to do it will become a

discipline long enough that at some

point

it becomes your

desire and everybody wants to know when

it becomes a desire I have no

clue I don’t know when you will

desire to actually be content in the

season God has for you to be in but if

God is telling you right now to be

accountable with a

budget and he’s saying uh that means

you’re going to have to be disciplined

with how many times you Uber eat this

week well God I don’t want to leave my

house you know what to do I don’t want

to and the truth of the matter is you’re

tired of being single but you don’t be

nowhere to meet nobody

either it’s all connected I just want

you to know maybe Wing Stop has

your I’m I’m trying to make light of a

very large subject but I’m saying maybe

God is trying to call you to something

to give you something

else and at some point

that discipline is going to turn into a

desire it works the other way too but I

feel like I’ve said what God wants me to

say today because I’m going to show you

one more scripture and this thing

blessed me to the point where it has

become a um a life scripture for

me let me just let me just show them the

two examples of the spirit empowered and

the self- Empower okay cuz somebody just

needs to get this y’all give me seven

minutes and then we’re going to move to

our crazy Faith offering and we going

get out of here okay is this helping

anybody can y’all just okay it’s it’s a

lot to unpack but I I feel I feel very

called to finish this okay so listen

self-control doeses everybody see it

self-control this is what I’m going to

say a self-control can be a spirit

empowered life of

faith when you are

self-controlled that is Spirit empower

life of Faith or you can have

self-control which put it up it would be

a sin

empowered life of the

flesh you

choose either every day I’m going to

wake up and do the things that let me

live a spirit empowered life of Faith so

the spirit controls me or I’m going live

a sin empowered life of Flesh and sin

controls me this is why it’s important

what you listen

to well I’m in the gym I got I mean I

got to turn up I got to put there are

certain stuff the reason why TC has

started making music and we just didn’t

do worship music is my plan is in the

next 5 years to give people so much good

content that does not lack excellence

and creativity but still can replace

some of the things that lead me to sin

there’s only so many times you can

listen to lay your body

down before you are no longer

vertical I don’t care and I’m using just

example there’s only so many times that

you can listen to certain Sonics with

words and you and and you’re putting

your spirit man in unnecessary

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fights you going through real stuff but

you like I’mma clear my head and what

you put in your

head what is it leading you

to why you so angry but you put on nuck

If You Buck

every why you ready to fight

everybody y’all hear what every time

what are you

feeding if you’re

depressed I understand

it I I have empathy for you I know it’s

a hole that you feel like you can’t get

out

of but if you continue to put in sad

songs if you continue to

stroke that just dis

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ease the reason I love this artist is

because they just they I identify with

them do you want to keep identified with

is this where you want to stay I mean I

get that it feels good to be known and

noticed

but and sometimes we’ll settle for

connection which turns into

compromise some of the things that

Comfort us are connections that end up

compromising us and God is telling you

it’s it’s time for you to get up it’s

time for you to be everything I’m

sending people in and every time you get

up just a little bit you bring

down cuz an artist has creatively

personified your

season I’m just asking

everybody I’m telling you there’s a

better

choice to live a spirit empowered life

of faith

that’s

self-control so break it down

practically Pastor Mike today when I’m

giving in this crazy Faith

offering this was not a decision that

was informed by my sin

nature matter of fact my sin nature been

trying to tell me

boy that’s the dumbest thing you could

do you know it’s Christmas time right

and you know what’s going to happen next

year and you do you know what go what

God said he was going to do the the last

time you gave have you seen all of

that

oh uh maybe he maybe maybe maybe I’m the

only

one that feels trepidation sometimes

when we step out in faith but I bet

Peter felt it

too when Jesus said come over come over

the edge of the boat and do what nobody

else is

doing if it’s

you I don’t know it’s ring now hearing

everything is that if it’s

you tell me to

come he didn’t say it’s

Jesus Son of

David the Bible records that Jesus gives

a one-word response without identifying

who he was while Peter was on a boat

with

others they all heard him ask the

question if it’s you tell me to

come all Jesus

says

come he didn’t say Peter

come he said come which leads me to

believe he was talking to everybody on

the

boat he wasn’t just talking to

Peter but Peter was the only one with

crazy

Faith y’all all

hurt and he didn’t go like guys then

y’all here Jesus asked us all to come

like what are y’all doing like get up

I’ll go if you

go probably

trembling I’ve watched somebody drown in

this stuff before

I would have tested

it

y’all

Jesus this is y’all this is really

working this is really working

this

this

this

this and Jesus

says why you stop looking at

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me I told you to step out in Crazy faith

and you started looking at your

situation I told you to step out in

Crazy Faith you start looking at your

account

I told you to step out in Crazy Faith

you start looking at other people and

what they were doing why did you stop

looking

at and he saved him he said when are you

going to get the faith that I know you

have this is what it looks like

practically to live a spirit empowered

life of

faith I might not have any evidence from

anybody

else but I still have to obey

God I believe that God is telling many

of us in this room and area that the

Holy Spirit needs to be

allowed to develop self-control on the

inside of us can you get that last

scripture on the screen so I don’t have

to run up there that says let the Holy

Spirit um I’m forgetting the address

right now um there’s one more script

because this is the key to the whole

thing and then we going to give and we

going to go home but I believe this is

going to transform people’s entire lives

cuz when I saw this scripture it changed

the way that I found out that I could

live a spirit empowered life Galatians

525 since we are living by the spirit

everybody say this next word with me

let say it with me

let one more time let

since we are living by the spirit say it

with me let that means somebody has to

allow

it since we are not living a life

controlled by our

sin and we’re going to live a spirit

empowered life of Faith since we living

by the spirit that’s what it is he said

let which means you have the

control and some of us have not allowed

ourselves to follow the spirit’s

leading since we are living by the

spirit everybody say let let us follow

the spirit’s leading oh in every part of

our lives I’m going to tell you

something that is very exposing to me

and the holy spirit’s

relationship I let the Holy Spirit dress

me

this outfit today was not the outfit I

wanted to

wear I had another one that was a

killer I it would

oh yeah I’m going be honest every time I

get on this platform I ask my wife and I

ask the Holy

Spirit what am I supposed to

wear cuz when I read that scripture put

it back on the screen and see some of

y’all think this is too deep but I I

just I want to be honest with you like

of how I actually live this out since we

are living by the spirit let us follow

the spirit’s

leading in every part of our

Lives I haven’t perfected

this I I don’t I don’t I forget

sometimes matter of fact sometimes I

wake up and I let my sinful

nature control

I’m angry I’m frustrated I’m all that

but what I’m saying is in every area I

can remember

to my bad Spirit what am I supposed to

do

here today I told my daughter Ava who’s

is she sleep and she I love you she she

was laying down she was like Oh Daddy

preacher okay hello it’s okay I love you

baby Ava she rocks with me almost every

Sunday morning from 5:00 a.m.

workout she get up she loves being with

her daddy on Sunday morning and she make

me hold her in praise and worship I only

got 30 more days of doing that cuz she

is getting heavy um but I love it so

today I uh told Ava I said today is our

crazy Faith offering and um we’re

believing God for crazy fruit and she

was like

okay Ava has been carrying around a box

of money she got from for her

birthday and she is very quick to tell

anybody how much money she has in cash

and how much money she has in Target

gift

cards and um today I said hey baby um

you know we give as a family every year

like I want you to pray this is the

first year you’ve had money when it’s

time to give to God and her eyes getting

big and I said AA I said I want you to

pray and ask the Holy Spirit what you’re

supposed to give in the offering okay

and she was like

okay so then she came to the

church I was getting dressed she came to

the bathroom she said she said Hey Dad I

said hey baby I said did you pray about

what God told you she was like

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$20 I said oh you prayed about it said

no that’s just kind of what

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I she was my daughter’s going to tell me

the truth she said that’s what I you

know she just kept going like

it and um I said okay if that’s what the

Holy Spirit told you to give I just want

you to be obedient she said

$50 I said what a $50 dad $50

and she said it with an attitude I said

I didn’t do it I’m being all gentle and

quiet and

software she just yelled at me

$50 I said baby this what I said to her

I said daddy just wants you to listen to

the Holy Spirit and

Obey and if he doesn’t tell you to give

anything don’t give anything and she got

surprised when I said

that cuz what I’m trying to teach my

daughter is that it is a

pleasure yeah

to be able to hear from The God Who

created the

Son and the fact that he would still

talk to his

son I’m

privileged that you would ask me for

anything Jesus when the very breath that

I breathe

in is the breath you gave

me and so I said baby just obey

God I’m going to tell you like I told my

natural

daughter from now until the end of the

year if God asks you to give something

over and beyond your

tithe to participate in this season

where we believe that God is doing a

work not just on the church and the

people on our

hearts in a season where everybody’s

thinking about what they going to

get we’ve decided to change the priority

of what we’re going to

give and if that means we got to

sacrifice something to obey God it’s

worth it maybe the key to all of this is

self-control maybe the spirit wants to

lead us in a way that has nothing to do

with an

amount but he’s like will they even

listen to

me last story and the reason I share

these things is cuz I’m really walking

this out with you this is not Pastor

Mike paid in a shade got a s million

contract to pass the transformation this

is not I do not have an NBA

contract this is me believing God every

day to do what he’s called us to do

there was one time when we first got in

this building that the Holy Spirit

challenged us to give the largest amount

that we had ever given and I remember

coming off this stage and coming right

over here and giv that amount I looked

at Natalie tears were in my eyes not

because I was hurting cuz I was

scared I’m not even playing like Lord

either you going to come through or we

going to be living at this

church sometimes you just got to be

honest with

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God Scott came and got me I don’t

remember if you remember this Scott came

and got me and said there’s this guy

that came from

Maryland that needs to put something in

your hand I said oh man God bless him

and you know people sometimes like God

told me to do this da d d da and he’s

like I didn’t know if I was going to get

to see you didn’t unassuming everything

it was literally 60

seconds from the time I put the money in

the

bucket to the time I met this

guy he said I don’t need anything I

don’t want a picture I don’t want

nothing I just God just told me to fly

up here and be

obedient I go to the

back it was to the

penny the

exact amount Mo am I telling the truth

the he deposited the check the

exact amount that I gave 60 seconds

earlier okay I don’t want you to clap

because I got the amount cuz it could

have been $3 you don’t know what I

gave you’re assuming it was large it was

large for

us it wasn’t the amount

it was because I was

obedient I realized that God had already

spoken he had already

spoken to my

answer while I was still

intrepidation about obeying him so much

so that that man had to buy a plane

ticket get off of work go to a bank in a

different uh State draw out the he had

spoken to the

solution while I still was deliberating

about my

problem and I dared to think what would

have happened if I would at the last

moment like n we can’t do

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this it wasn’t that the man wouldn’t

have gave me the money he probably still

would

have I would have missed an opportunity

to understand God’s

faithfulness what I know now can’t

nobody take from

me the way I give today the way I obey

God today is from

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experience so today if nobody’s ever

given you the opportunity to believe God

on this

level today’s the

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day

$600,000

$6

obedience is more valuable

than the value of the

currency would everybody stand all over

this

building today I want to pray for you

I’m going ask the worship team to come

up Hey listen we’re going to leave in

just a moment I don’t want anybody

moving right now to please not distract

anybody unless it’s an emergency we

understand emergencies but I just want

you to just take this moment I know

we’re a little over next next week we’ll

be right right on time but I just wanted

to let you know that this is a special

thing and I felt it was worth

communicating in this

way today I’m believing for every

family for

every for every

person for every

inmate for every addicted person for

every person that just gave their life

back to Christ for every person that’s

trying to figure out this journey today

I just want to let you know know that

our God is in the business of blessing

you

beyond what you think is

possible and today I just want to pray

one simple prayer everybody listen to me

I want to pray one simple prayer for you

is that in the area of

self-control when God ask you to do

something you would be one word

obedient some of you he’s going to ask

you you to stop going to that place and

you’re going to have to refigure out

your life because your life is centered

around this

place and you know it’s going to lead

you into sinful things and and and and

sinful things is not an everyday thing

it’s a

drift if you take an anchor off of a

boat you can come back in 45 minutes and

I promise you it won’t be in the same

location not because a huge wind came

came

in there just a

current that allows you to drift to the

wrong

place today we’re dropping an anchor on

our firm

foundation and if God tells you to do

anything I need to be specific right now

I’m not talking about the offering yet

if he ask you to do

anything if he ask you to give up that

fast food if he ask you to go on a

fast if he asked you to start the Bible

study if he asked you to submit

if he asks you to do

anything you need to make a decision to

obey and when it comes to this crazy

fruit

offering if he ask you to do

anything I just want you to do one word

what is it

oby when you obey

God the consequences of obedience with

God see everybody thinks consequences is

a bad word consequences are not a bad

word when you do the right

thing the consequences of obeying

God are so

amazing I’m a living testimony y’all he

don’t do all the things you want him to

do he never will that will make a us and

not

God but he does stuff that I don’t even

think I would even pray

for today I’m believing

that as we write down on these cards

watch this not just things put your

things on there I’m fine with that but

today I’m asking you would you add to

your crazy Faith card online and in the

room would you add the

things and the areas you need

self-control

in and see if by this time next

year by this time next year

God hasn’t given you more peace where

there was

grief God has not actually let your

words line up with the word instead of

your words line up with your

experience let’s use this moment to

mature can I pray for you would you lift

your hands all over this place father

for every person that is under the sound

of my voice in this room or

online watching on rebroadcast or from a

Penitentiary right

now I’m asking that your Holy Spirit

would invade that

place not just the room they’re in but

their heart and their mind and their

Spirit today God I’m asking that you

would be so evident with them not just

in a church service but you would be

evident in every area of their life and

today after hearing this

message we are deciding to

let we are deciding to let

you lead

us lead us in our marriages lead us in

our finances lead us on our jobs lead us

in our relationships lead us father on

what we watch and what we listen to and

what we wear lead us holy

spirit cuz when you lead us you lead us

from things to

things you are God that leads us from

sin God into

Freedom you’re a God that leads us

father from the pain father into the

promise you’re the god that brings us

from isolation into

family you are the god that can bring us

from a dry

place to a place with an abundance of

rain today lead

us holy spirit I’m asking for every

person that needs self-control

that what they really need is a spirit

empowered

life of Faith let them take journey in

their faith father that they will never

recover

from like this crazy Faith Journey

you’ve taken me on God I thank you for

strengthening me to believe

you today even as me and my family are

going to give God the only reason I have

faith that you can heal any other area

in my life is because I’ve seen you do

do it before yeah you are a God that has

moved

before and today God I thank you that I

do not have to wonder if you’re still

moving I got proof all around me

yeah seen you move mountains yeah and

today I believe you can do it again so

for anybody that is leaning into fear

right now you have not given us a spirit

of

fear but one of power love and

self-control make our mind

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sound today we trust you we believe you

and we thank you that you our Firm

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Foundation transform

us and father for anybody that wants to

receive you as Lord and Savior I feel

like I need to do it in this

moment if there’s anybody in here that

has been controlled by their sin

nature you didn’t even have the option

to choose Freedom you’ve just been

controlled by sin today God is coming to

set you

free no longer does that addiction or

that abuse or that mishap have to Define

your life today Jesus enters in because

of a sacrifice that was made and if you

just receive it your whole life can be

transformed I need the church to be

praying right now the war that has been

going on for your life the enemy thought

he had you but today Christ is

intervening

Hallelujah and today you will no longer

be controlled by the sin nature today

you’re making a decision to be

controlled by the flesh today if you

want to make a decision for Jesus I just

want everybody to pray this prayer with

me I want you to say God God thank you

thank you for sending jesuses to

interrupt interrupt the plan that was

set out for my

life today today I need you I as my Lord

and Savior as my Lord and I believe you

lived I believe you live you died and

you Rose again with all power with all

power and today I give you control I

give you control change me renew me

transform me I’m yours in Jesus name

amen man can we thank God for every

person that made that

decision glory to

God this is what freedom is about to

feel like for you listen to

me no longer will you be controlled by

your

flesh you will be controlled by the

spirit if you made that decision I want

you to text save to 82 8282 if you’re

watching online you’re in the

room and now we’re going to walk into

into a moment of

faith today we can give some of you like

man I wasn’t going to do it but this

week I’m actually going to go to the

bank tomorrow and I’mma actually do the

thing and I’mma actually okay all right

Lord I heard you dang you ain’t had to

be so loud we could have talked about

something else you know I

know Wednesday night we’re going to be

right here

giving next Sunday the boxes will be out

you can give but right now this is a

sacred moment for many and I want the

team to come and there’s boxes right

here there’s boxes in the sides there’s

boxes in the back and today what do you

got to do some of y’all God’s changing

the amount right now some of y’all are

watching online and you wrote the check

and you already went to the website and

typed it in the Holy Spirit been talking

to you the whole time obey God and

however you want to come this is going

to be the time where some of y’all are

just going to worship cuz God’s going to

give you Clarity for other things the

biggest thing about this moment is not

money it’s obedience

obey God some of you need to write down

what he been telling you to write down

that’s going to be more valuable and I’m

so proud of people that are taking the

opportunity to start tithing and be

consistent be

disciplined with what God has told you

to do whatever God’s telling you right

now it’s time to move father bless every

seed that will be sown and I thank you

Father God that you would do what your

word says what you open the windows of

heaven and pour out blessing I didn’t

say money I said

blessing that they would not have room

enough to receive prove that you

God and what you can do with a little

bit of

Faith would you be the miracle workking

God that takes mustard seeds and moves

mountains today we trust you and we

believe that crazy fruit can only come

from a crazy seed so today we s in Crazy

Faith have your way in Jesus name we

agree somebody say Amen from all over

this building as we worship let’s come

and let’s give I have Fai to

yes you have all that I

need mirales signs and wonders follow me

follow me come on we say

I have faith to put it all in your hands

you have all that

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believe it I have

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all that I needs

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faith you have

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will the days of my life I know it will

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know all of the days of my life all of

the days of my life all of the days of

my life all of the days of my life I

know you for me all of the days of my

life I

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the days of my life all of the days of

my I know you work it on of me all of

the days of my I know you give me

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of the days of my life all of the days

of my life all all of the days all of

the days of my life goodness shall

follow me all of the days of my life

Mercy shall follow me all of the days of

my life all of the days of my life all

of the days of my life oh may his favor

be upon you and a

thousand

generations for your family and your

children and your

children and the children may his

presence go before

you and behind you and beside all around

all around within you he is with he is

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way when there was no way and I

believe I see you do it again see you

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mountain I believe I believe oh yeah I

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faith yes I see

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is light in the dark God my God that is

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for those that I believe and trust he’s

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started

no he’s not done until it’s

good come on speak it over your let him

turn it let him turn it in your

face I’m going to watch him do it watch

him working for your good he’s not done

with what he

started

what he’s not done until it’s

good so we say hello to our fruit we say

hell peace hello Joy hello love

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hello strength hello

hope hor if you serve the Lord of the

Harvest lift it up come on say hello

peace hello Joy hello love hello Str

hell Str yeah yeah hell right before we

get out of here come on we lift it up in

faith we say this cuz here is not my

future you

are you are come on say sickness is not

sickness is not my story you are you are

you are heart breaks not my heart heart

breaks not my home yes I you are you are

you are everything not

me not I know you are last time count

you are you are here is not my here is

not my you are you are you are you are

sing this is done my story this is I

know you are you are you are you are

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morning God we thank you that you are

our future the Lord what we see here on

this Earth the situations we may find

oursel in is not the end of our story

but it is ultimately you and for that

we’re grateful I’m going to take a

moment we’re going to close our service

I know we’ve got a bunch of people who

are still watching online just want say

thank you for joining us for service

today and I want to encourage you um

Pastor Michael said it but this is just

the start of this season some of you God

is going to continue to speak to you

we’ll still have opportunities for you

to give you can go online and give and

uh I want to encourage you to just do

exactly what Pastor said be obedient in

what God would have you to give I’m

going to take a moment to pray for us as

we close out service God I thank you for

every gift that was given today and that

will be given I thank you that you see

the heart you see the sacrifice I thank

you Lord I pray against any remorse or

any guilt walking out of here any lies

that the enemy would try to send if you

shouldn’t have done that or or look what

went wrong no God I think you there will

be joy and peace as we walk out of here

I thank you Lord Jesus that the seed

that is swn today Lord God may we see a

return Lord in ways that we can’t even

imagine in peace in joy in contentment

in confidence God I thank you that what

happens today we will see the fruit of

in our life God I thank you for every

person who gave their life to Christ

today that it would be a fresh start

and I thank you Lord I pray over this

holiday season Lord that grief would not

be the portion but it would be Joy Lord

we give you all the praise all the glory

and all the honors in Jesus name we pray

and everybody said amen come on

everybody said amen Hey listen we love

you so much thank you for being here go

out and live a

transformed life we’ll see you guys hey

I want to take a moment again before we

jump off and say thank you our church is

not built on one individual but on the

sacrifice of so many you being a part it

means the world so thanks for watching

the message I also want to say thank you

to the thousands of people around the

world who are generous it means the

world and we are able to represent we’re

able to be generous to meet the needs of

people because of your giving if you

haven’t taken the step to give trust me

there is no pressure at all but if you

feel led you can text the word give to

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always say go out and live a transformed

life

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