# Don’t Hate The Player, Change The Game: God’s Starting 5 // Wicked: The Worship Of Wealth (Week 3) // Pastor Michael Todd

An episode of [Transformation Church](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1348831124), 31 Mar 2025, 1 h 37 min.

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God has given us the blueprint for living a life of faith, but sometimes we get caught up playing the wrong game. In Week 3 of WICKED: The Worship of Wealth, Pastor Michael Todd challenged us to stop hating the player and start changing the game by focusing on God’s Starting 5—Prayer, Bible Reading, Gathering, Fasting, and Giving. These practices keep us aligned with God’s purpose and equipped for spiritual battles. Pastor Michael reminded us that the game of life isn’t just warm-ups—it’s warfare. We can’t overcome without opposition, and each of these five spiritual practices faces resistance: independence, ignorance, isolation, idolatry, and immaturity. By fixing our eyes on Jesus and committing to God’s game plan, we can experience the joy and freedom that come from living a faith-filled life. Scripture References: Hebrews 12:1-2 NIV Proverbs 3:9-10 NIV James 5:16 KJV Philippian 4:6-7 NLT 2 Timothy 2:15 KJV Acts 2:42-44 NIV Matthew 7:24-27 ESV

## Transcript

[0:02] Speaker 1: Welcome to Transformation Church Podcast, where we represent God to
[0:06] Speaker 1: the lost and found for transformation in Christ. We're so
[0:09] Speaker 1: glad you're here and wherever you're listening from, we believe
[0:12] Speaker 1: God will transform your life to today's message.
[0:19] Speaker 2: Open your Bible see Hebrews chap To twelve, verse one.
[0:23] Speaker 2: Hebrews Chapter twelve, Verse one. Therefore, since we are surrounded
[0:27] Speaker 2: by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw
[0:30] Speaker 2: off every weight, everything that hinders, and especially the sin
[0:37] Speaker 2: that so easily entangles us. How many people know that
[0:41] Speaker 2: there's some weight and some sin that have been Let
[0:47] Speaker 2: me say it like this, that you've been dragging around
[0:52] Speaker 2: for a season of your life that needs to come
[0:57] Speaker 2: to an end. Weight or send hands? I need hot
[1:00] Speaker 2: people like it's either a weight or as sin. That's
[1:03] Speaker 2: everybody in this room. The Holy Spirit is admonishing us
[1:07] Speaker 2: to lay aside all of the weight, all of the sin,
[1:10] Speaker 2: and let us run with perseverance the race marked out
[1:13] Speaker 2: for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus. Somebody say focus
[1:16] Speaker 2: say it with faith, say focus focus on Jesus, who's
[1:19] Speaker 2: the pioneer and the perfector of our faith for the
[1:22] Speaker 2: joy that was set before him. He endured the cross,
[1:24] Speaker 2: scorning its shame and sat down at the right hand
[1:28] Speaker 2: of the throne of God.
[1:30] Speaker 3: Write this point down.
[1:31] Speaker 2: I've said it every week of every series we've done
[1:34] Speaker 2: this year. But fixing your eyes on Jesus gives you
[1:37] Speaker 2: the faith to focus. Most of you are so distracted
[1:42] Speaker 2: is because you're looking at the thing instead of the
[1:45] Speaker 2: one who controls the thing. People are waiting for the
[1:51] Speaker 2: universe to give them something, and we serve the God
[1:53] Speaker 2: of the universe. Fix your eyes on Jesus and when
[2:00] Speaker 2: it comes to focus, many people have to focus on
[2:06] Speaker 2: God so they know what to do with Watch this.
[2:09] Speaker 3: They money, And I'm just grateful that I've.
[2:14] Speaker 2: Been through this process of going from somebody who was
[2:19] Speaker 2: greedy in my heart.
[2:20] Speaker 3: I'm just telling my testimony.
[2:22] Speaker 2: Greedy in my heart, poverty minded, did not know how
[2:26] Speaker 2: to handle anything that God gave me, was living beyond
[2:31] Speaker 2: my means. I had a land Rover and I bought
[2:34] Speaker 2: this land Rover. And when your land rover, first off,
[2:37] Speaker 2: if you buy a luxury car and it's fifteen years old.
[2:45] Speaker 3: And it's your new car.
[2:48] Speaker 2: And I'm not saying anything but except I was trying
[2:54] Speaker 2: to live outside of my range I was trying to
[2:58] Speaker 2: stunt on people, and come to find out I wasn't
[3:00] Speaker 2: stunting on nobody because that muffs broke down all the time,
[3:05] Speaker 2: and the all change on a luxury car is different
[3:09] Speaker 2: than Loubi's.
[3:11] Speaker 3: Y'all got what I'm saying.
[3:13] Speaker 2: I went from wasting wealth to worshiping wealth to then
[3:19] Speaker 2: getting to the place where I believe all believers should
[3:21] Speaker 2: be having wisdom with wealth. The Bible tells us above
[3:28] Speaker 2: all other things. Get everybody saying with me, wisdom? Would
[3:35] Speaker 2: you say to somebody else that you are wise with wealth?
[3:39] Speaker 2: I know you're a good person, I know your swag
[3:42] Speaker 2: is phenomenal. I know you have a great personality and
[3:46] Speaker 2: nobody can mess with your makeup game. But are you
[3:52] Speaker 2: wise with your resources?
[3:55] Speaker 3: Only you can answer that question.
[3:57] Speaker 2: A lot of.
[3:58] Speaker 3: People lie about it.
[4:00] Speaker 2: There are husbands and wives right now that fight about it.
[4:02] Speaker 3: There are men in.
[4:03] Speaker 2: This room that are over the financials because I'm the
[4:05] Speaker 2: man and you can't add no. Come on now, in
[4:12] Speaker 2: my family, my daddy, come on now, she's your healthmate
[4:15] Speaker 2: for a reason.
[4:17] Speaker 3: But because of pride, we.
[4:21] Speaker 2: Will stay in a position. And then there's some ladies
[4:25] Speaker 2: who your degree and.
[4:26] Speaker 3: I got more degrees that I got him in there.
[4:27] Speaker 2: I don't. But you don't have.
[4:29] Speaker 3: Self control, so you hiding and stashing. He don't know
[4:38] Speaker 3: nothing about it. Baby. How the money, it's good.
[4:40] Speaker 2: It's good. It's good. Amazon at your house every day.
[4:43] Speaker 2: Hey John, Hey John, Hey John, Hey John? Hey John?
[4:47] Speaker 3: Am I telling him? I tell someoney?
[4:48] Speaker 2: Oops. I'm just saying, maybe it's time for the believers
[4:58] Speaker 2: who want our faith to be b to have our
[5:02] Speaker 2: stewardship to be bigger. You didn't hear what I just said.
[5:07] Speaker 2: For everything you're believing God for, you still have to
[5:10] Speaker 2: manage it. And so if you're praying big prayers, you need.
[5:16] Speaker 3: To pray for big management.
[5:19] Speaker 2: If you're praying for big dreams and big teens and
[5:23] Speaker 2: big staff and big cash, you need to pray for
[5:27] Speaker 2: big stewardship. Because the thing that kills believers more than
[5:33] Speaker 2: anything else is God gives you what you prayed for
[5:35] Speaker 2: and you wasn't ready for it. It's killed more marriages,
[5:39] Speaker 2: it's killed more ministries, it's killed more dreams because we
[5:45] Speaker 2: didn't pray or prepare for the level of stewardship that
[5:49] Speaker 2: we were believing God to pour out his blessing. God
[5:52] Speaker 2: don't need to open the windows of heaven for many
[5:54] Speaker 2: of us. He just needs to He needs to just
[5:57] Speaker 2: slip something through the keyhole for us.
[6:00] Speaker 3: Y'all know what I'm saying.
[6:01] Speaker 2: Because we're not ready to meet open the windows of
[6:03] Speaker 2: heaven port how big is a window in heaven? Pour
[6:08] Speaker 2: you out of blessing. You don't have room enough to
[6:09] Speaker 2: receive right now.
[6:13] Speaker 3: We need to pray for the management to match.
[6:18] Speaker 2: And what I want to tell Transformation Church is I'm
[6:21] Speaker 2: proud of you because we've been in this series for
[6:23] Speaker 2: two weeks. This is week three, and because I.
[6:28] Speaker 3: Believe that the hearts of the.
[6:29] Speaker 2: People at Transformation Church are moldable. None of us come
[6:34] Speaker 2: in here like nah, I know everything. The reason we
[6:36] Speaker 2: come here is because we don't know everything, and we
[6:37] Speaker 2: want God to show us the places where we're in
[6:39] Speaker 2: darkness and we want to us want Him to lead
[6:42] Speaker 2: us in the right direction. I got with our team
[6:45] Speaker 2: that collects all the stacks and the numbers.
[6:47] Speaker 3: Of things that are happening.
[6:48] Speaker 2: Because there's tens of thousands of us that are gathered
[6:51] Speaker 2: a part of Transformation Church, thousands in this rooms, and
[6:53] Speaker 2: tens of thousands that.
[6:54] Speaker 3: Are online a part of TC.
[6:56] Speaker 2: Nation, and let me just give y'all some praise reports
[6:58] Speaker 2: real quick. And the reason I say it's a praise
[7:00] Speaker 2: report is because it's proof that you're getting it. If
[7:05] Speaker 2: I asked you to do something, because God's word says it,
[7:09] Speaker 2: how do we know that we're actually obeying God? Because
[7:12] Speaker 2: there's proof that we're doing it. And so I just
[7:14] Speaker 2: want to let you know, in the last two weeks,
[7:17] Speaker 2: there has been six hundred and twenty five new givers
[7:20] Speaker 2: have never given before ever of y'all. That's huge, y'all.
[7:26] Speaker 2: Six hundred and twenty five people took the step of faith.
[7:33] Speaker 3: When I saw that.
[7:35] Speaker 2: Number, I said, six hundred and twenty five families have
[7:38] Speaker 2: the ability to now walk into another level of blessing
[7:42] Speaker 2: and stewardship. Six hundred and twenty five people have stepped
[7:46] Speaker 2: over the burier of fear and stepped into faith since, y'all,
[7:49] Speaker 2: I got too happy because I know what happened when
[7:51] Speaker 2: I did it. I told the team in the back,
[7:55] Speaker 2: I said, I'm so happy.
[7:56] Speaker 4: For all of these people because what.
[7:58] Speaker 2: They're saying is I'm no longer in control.
[8:00] Speaker 3: Oh God, it's above me now, lonely.
[8:02] Speaker 2: Stick, it's above me now.
[8:07] Speaker 3: I honored you, and you see what's going on. Do
[8:12] Speaker 3: your thing.
[8:14] Speaker 2: You're gonna have to come through your word, says test me.
[8:18] Speaker 2: And I am so proud of the people in this
[8:21] Speaker 2: room and online who have stepped over that line. Let
[8:23] Speaker 2: me tell you something that's even like doper and many
[8:26] Speaker 2: of you won't get it until you get it. But
[8:29] Speaker 2: there's three hundred and seven people who said, I'm not
[8:33] Speaker 2: gonna debate every time I get paid. They have set
[8:37] Speaker 2: their families up on reoccurring given. They said, take it
[8:41] Speaker 2: the government, take theirs. I know what I make. God,
[8:44] Speaker 2: I'm not putting you last. I'm putting you first. Y'all
[8:50] Speaker 2: don't understand what happens. And it's so simple, but it
[8:55] Speaker 2: does take faith. It's so simple, watches, but it's not easy.
[9:02] Speaker 2: Because of the faithfulness of the people in this room,
[9:05] Speaker 2: we are walking into another level of blessing. And it
[9:08] Speaker 2: reminds me of what I've been praying for you all week.
[9:11] Speaker 2: I've been praying for you what God did for the
[9:15] Speaker 2: church and the city and second chronicles, I'm praying it
[9:19] Speaker 2: over your life.
[9:20] Speaker 3: Let me tell you what He did for them.
[9:21] Speaker 2: Hezekiah was a king at the time, and he realized
[9:24] Speaker 2: that the entire nation was in famine and in recession,
[9:29] Speaker 2: and he was reading some old scriptures, and what ended
[9:31] Speaker 2: up happening is he realized that they were disobeying God
[9:36] Speaker 2: because they weren't bringing a tenth of everything that God
[9:39] Speaker 2: gave them to him. And so he puts out a decree. Hey, everybody,
[9:42] Speaker 2: I don't know how y'all gonna take this, but we
[9:44] Speaker 2: gotta start tithing, because y'all see it's already not going good.
[9:46] Speaker 2: But God said if he would do it, it would
[9:48] Speaker 2: be his bill and his deal. And so I want everybody.
[9:50] Speaker 2: This is a government official putting out to the whole world. Y'all,
[9:53] Speaker 2: we gotta tie our nations going down. Second Chronicles thirty one,
[9:59] Speaker 2: verse four. It said moreover, he commanded the people who
[10:02] Speaker 2: dwelt in Jerusalem to contribute support for the priests and
[10:05] Speaker 2: the Levites, that they might devote themselves to the law
[10:07] Speaker 2: of the Lord. As soon as the commandment was circulated,
[10:10] Speaker 2: as soon as the group texts went out, the children
[10:14] Speaker 2: of Israel obeyed and brought in abundance. The first fruits
[10:18] Speaker 2: are the tithe of the grain, and the wine, and
[10:20] Speaker 2: the oil and the honey. They brought the tenth of
[10:22] Speaker 2: their increase and all the produce of their field. And
[10:27] Speaker 2: they brought in abundantly the tide of everything. And the
[10:32] Speaker 2: children of Israel and Judah, who dwelt in the cities
[10:35] Speaker 2: of Judah, brought the tithe of oxen sheep, also the
[10:38] Speaker 2: tithe of holy Things, which were consecrated to the Lord
[10:41] Speaker 2: their god.
[10:42] Speaker 3: They laid it out in heaps.
[10:45] Speaker 2: In the third month they began laying them out in heaps,
[10:49] Speaker 2: and they finished in the seventh month.
[10:51] Speaker 3: And when Hezekiah and the.
[10:52] Speaker 2: Leaders came and saw the heaps, they blessed the Lord
[10:56] Speaker 2: and his people of Israel. Then Hezekiah questioned, a is
[11:00] Speaker 2: everybody okay? These heaps?
[11:03] Speaker 3: Is real really heaping?
[11:06] Speaker 2: This is a lot of heaps Verse ten, and Azariah said,
[11:11] Speaker 2: since the people began to bring the offerings into the
[11:15] Speaker 2: house of the Lord, we have had enough to eat
[11:19] Speaker 2: and have had plenty left for the Lord has blessed
[11:23] Speaker 2: his people, and what is left is the great abundance.
[11:27] Speaker 3: He said. This is just the heat, is just the tide.
[11:32] Speaker 3: He said.
[11:32] Speaker 2: The people doing fine. Matter of fact, they doing better
[11:37] Speaker 2: than fine, since they started doing it your way, God's way.
[11:43] Speaker 2: He said, this is the ten percent wait till you
[11:45] Speaker 2: see the ninety percent. I've been praying this blessing over
[11:50] Speaker 2: every person that God would allow you to step out
[11:54] Speaker 2: in faith, and you not even feel it. I'm telling
[11:58] Speaker 2: you what your pastor has been prayed ain't for you.
[12:01] Speaker 2: It's that your faith step. You'll be like, oh, shoot,
[12:04] Speaker 2: I have been obeying God consistently. I didn't even feel that.
[12:09] Speaker 3: Okay.
[12:12] Speaker 2: And I know when I'm talking about money, people's booties
[12:16] Speaker 2: get tight. Oh, I know your faces scroll up. You
[12:19] Speaker 2: don't laugh at stuff that's funny.
[12:20] Speaker 3: I see you. I'm looking at you.
[12:21] Speaker 2: Hello. Something of y'all looked like you were baptized in
[12:25] Speaker 2: pickle juice.
[12:26] Speaker 3: It just looks.
[12:26] Speaker 2: It really looks like why did I come? I should
[12:29] Speaker 2: have gone to another church today. But I think God
[12:31] Speaker 2: has a message for you, and and and I think
[12:36] Speaker 2: I think tithing is kind of a serious thing to God.
[12:40] Speaker 2: Grayson Charles, will will y'all stand up real quick? And
[12:43] Speaker 2: I just want to show you this easy example. Let's
[12:46] Speaker 2: say I'm going away on a trip, and let's say
[12:50] Speaker 2: you know I'm gonna provide for pastorality. She ain't gonna
[12:52] Speaker 2: have to worry about nothing, no ting, she don't have
[12:56] Speaker 2: to worry about no ting. I'm already providing for her,
[12:58] Speaker 2: but I want to funnel some extra fun through my guys,
[13:02] Speaker 2: and so I'm gonna give each one of y'all ten
[13:05] Speaker 2: thousand dollars a month. It's just an example, Grayson, Calm down.
[13:12] Speaker 2: I'm gonna give each of y'all ten thousand dollars a month.
[13:15] Speaker 2: But all I'm asking is you give one thousand to
[13:17] Speaker 2: Natalie every month.
[13:19] Speaker 3: It's easy.
[13:20] Speaker 2: So I'm gone for a few months, I don't know
[13:23] Speaker 2: what's cracking. Natalie's good. I call her back and say, hey, babe, Yeah,
[13:28] Speaker 2: how's everything going with the finances that was supposed to
[13:32] Speaker 2: be coming in from my guys?
[13:34] Speaker 3: She said, let's talk about it real quick. Will.
[13:38] Speaker 2: Will sends one thousand dollars every month, like clockwork, every time.
[13:44] Speaker 2: I mean, it's almost like the first in the fifteen,
[13:46] Speaker 2: five hundred and five hundred clockwork.
[13:48] Speaker 3: I said, that's good, all right, Will. What about Charles?
[13:50] Speaker 3: Charles he sends two thousand. I didn't ask him.
[13:55] Speaker 2: I didn't ask him to send two thousand, I know,
[13:57] Speaker 2: but every time he sends two thousand. Okay, So what
[14:04] Speaker 2: about Trader? I mean, Grayson, well, we need to talk
[14:09] Speaker 2: we need to talk about Grayson. The first month he
[14:14] Speaker 2: sent seven hundred, the second month he sent two fifty.
[14:22] Speaker 2: And this last month he didn't send anything. He ain't
[14:26] Speaker 2: said nothing. Yeah, he didn't send anything. Now, what would
[14:32] Speaker 2: be my response, as the one who provided the ten
[14:39] Speaker 2: thousand for them in the first place. I'm gonna somebody said,
[14:43] Speaker 2: finish him. No, I'm gonna I'm not gonna more to
[14:47] Speaker 2: combat than But what I am gonna do is I'm
[14:51] Speaker 2: gonna take what I was funneling through him and give
[14:56] Speaker 2: it to someone who is trustworthy. You don't think God
[14:58] Speaker 2: is gonna do that. Go back and watch last week
[15:00] Speaker 2: message when we talked about the talents. All I'm saying is,
[15:04] Speaker 2: doesn't this story sound familiar? Didn't Jesus tell us I'm
[15:07] Speaker 2: going away for a little bit, he said, And I
[15:11] Speaker 2: need the people that are a part of this thing
[15:15] Speaker 2: to take care of my bride. Isn't the church called
[15:18] Speaker 2: the bride of Christ?
[15:20] Speaker 3: Okay?
[15:22] Speaker 2: And he said, all I need you to do is
[15:24] Speaker 2: honor me with the ten percent to take care of
[15:29] Speaker 2: my bride. What I'm saying is tithing may be more
[15:33] Speaker 2: personal to Jesus than we think, say law pausing think
[15:49] Speaker 2: is this really want? Is this the heal we want
[15:52] Speaker 2: to fight God on?
[15:55] Speaker 5: No?
[15:55] Speaker 3: I know, like, what about the dinosaurs and what about this?
[15:57] Speaker 3: And what about?
[15:58] Speaker 2: But is giving really the thing that we were like,
[16:04] Speaker 2: show me, prove it to me, tell me that's the
[16:10] Speaker 2: one you want to do.
[16:13] Speaker 3: Today.
[16:15] Speaker 2: I thought it would be good for me to zoom out,
[16:20] Speaker 2: because I feel like sometimes when I start talking about
[16:22] Speaker 2: giving and stuff like that, I'm trying to convince somebody
[16:25] Speaker 2: of something that ain't even mine.
[16:27] Speaker 3: To convince you of.
[16:30] Speaker 2: This is what God set up, This is how he
[16:33] Speaker 2: wants his children to live. I'm just telling you about it.
[16:37] Speaker 2: I don't want you to be in ignorance.
[16:38] Speaker 3: I just want you to be informed by how you live.
[16:40] Speaker 3: That's on you me. I'm already over here blessed. Oh y'all.
[16:48] Speaker 2: I'm not blessed because I'm part of Transformation Church. I'm
[16:51] Speaker 2: blessed because I obey.
[16:52] Speaker 3: The principles that God.
[16:55] Speaker 2: What I'm telling you right now is your blessing is
[16:59] Speaker 2: in obedience.
[17:01] Speaker 3: And so I said, what would make somebody fight giving?
[17:07] Speaker 2: And I thought, it's because they just don't understand how
[17:09] Speaker 2: important it is in the grand scheme of God's plan.
[17:15] Speaker 3: So can we zoom out today for a second.
[17:16] Speaker 2: Everybody, just we're gonna We're gonna zoom out for a
[17:19] Speaker 2: second because Proverbs three nine ten says, honor the Lord
[17:23] Speaker 2: with your wealth, with the first fruits of all your crops.
[17:27] Speaker 2: Then your barns will be felled to overflowing, and your
[17:31] Speaker 2: vats will broom over with new wine.
[17:34] Speaker 3: I want that. I want the overflowing vats.
[17:39] Speaker 2: I don't know what a vat is completely, but I
[17:41] Speaker 2: want it, so then I probably should actually find out
[17:51] Speaker 2: why this is important.
[17:53] Speaker 3: And it brought me to watching basketball.
[17:57] Speaker 2: And you know, sports are just a universe, some analogy
[18:00] Speaker 2: that most people get. If you don't get it, I'll
[18:02] Speaker 2: walk slow today and I promise you you'll be okay.
[18:06] Speaker 2: March Madness is going on right now and there are
[18:11] Speaker 2: a few teams left. We're almost down to the final four.
[18:14] Speaker 2: And when I was watching basketball, I was talking to
[18:16] Speaker 2: one of my friends and I saw this clip that
[18:20] Speaker 2: happened November twenty twenty fifth, twenty seventeen. It was a
[18:25] Speaker 2: game against Alabama against Minnesota, and there was a moment
[18:33] Speaker 2: in this game where these two college teams are playing
[18:36] Speaker 2: and several members of the Alabama team foul out and
[18:40] Speaker 2: then one of them gets hurt and they get into
[18:43] Speaker 2: this situation where they're playing this game.
[18:45] Speaker 3: Three on five in a college D one game, three.
[18:52] Speaker 2: Players against how many players? Five players?
[18:57] Speaker 3: And this fascinated me.
[18:59] Speaker 2: Matter of fact, instead of me talking about it, let
[19:02] Speaker 2: me just show you a little clip of what happened
[19:04] Speaker 2: in this game. No good on the three and he's hurt.
[19:08] Speaker 6: Alabama's playing with four players and now down to three.
[19:13] Speaker 6: Sexton's going to try to make something happen.
[19:15] Speaker 2: Shoots it, Dad hits. It's up three. Kenny Sexton down six,
[19:24] Speaker 2: three on five.
[19:26] Speaker 7: This is off its adun He's single handedly kept Alabama
[19:32] Speaker 7: in this ball game.
[19:33] Speaker 3: He was getting oxygen on the bench. He was huffing
[19:36] Speaker 3: and puffing.
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[19:53] Speaker 3: Forty points.
[19:56] Speaker 2: Three players against five players, you could say they were
[20:02] Speaker 2: a man down. They were playing in a game with
[20:08] Speaker 2: opposition not fully manned. Did you see the moment where
[20:15] Speaker 2: he shot the free throw.
[20:17] Speaker 3: And then he walked over and gave high fives to
[20:20] Speaker 3: the air.
[20:22] Speaker 2: Y'all gotta go back and watch the clips again. He
[20:26] Speaker 2: was supposed to be unified with something.
[20:31] Speaker 3: That was not there.
[20:33] Speaker 2: And I begin to think about how this team lost.
[20:37] Speaker 3: Eighty nine to eighty four. All Most, yeah, all Most
[20:43] Speaker 3: won the game, but.
[20:46] Speaker 2: We will never know what that game could have been
[20:50] Speaker 2: if they would.
[20:51] Speaker 3: Have had all the players on the basketball court.
[20:55] Speaker 2: I started to think about most believers, that levers are
[21:00] Speaker 2: playing this life a man down. Most believers are putting
[21:06] Speaker 2: prayer in the game and church going in the game,
[21:09] Speaker 2: but they're leaving some of the best players that God
[21:13] Speaker 2: has intended to be a part of the process of.
[21:16] Speaker 3: The game of life and the life of faith.
[21:19] Speaker 2: We have been playing a man down.
[21:22] Speaker 3: And today I'm just coming to ask you don't hate
[21:28] Speaker 3: the player. Some of y'all hate the players.
[21:36] Speaker 2: You're hating on the players that God has chosen to
[21:40] Speaker 2: be the conduit to shape your faith and you getting run.
[21:46] Speaker 3: Off the court.
[21:47] Speaker 2: Yeh, everything is able to take you out because you
[21:51] Speaker 2: will not play all the players that are there for
[21:54] Speaker 2: you to play. In our faith, we have five things
[21:58] Speaker 2: that God says that every believer should be constantly working
[22:03] Speaker 2: their faith in that should be playing at all times
[22:06] Speaker 2: on the court. It's God starting five. But you hate
[22:10] Speaker 2: the player. You don't like the way this player comes in,
[22:14] Speaker 2: you don't like the way that they was forced onto
[22:16] Speaker 2: your team. I don't know.
[22:17] Speaker 3: I wouldn't even pick that player. You not the GM.
[22:23] Speaker 2: You don't get to make the roster. You just get
[22:25] Speaker 2: to coach the players. You're the one that can send
[22:29] Speaker 2: them into the game or take them out of the game.
[22:31] Speaker 2: But you don't get to choose if they have the jersey.
[22:35] Speaker 2: And God has chosen a starting five for every believer,
[22:40] Speaker 2: and most of y'all would rather run three on five
[22:44] Speaker 2: and get your butt kicked then play all the players
[22:51] Speaker 2: that God has called us to have. Matter of fact,
[22:54] Speaker 2: I need y'all to see this analogy even deeper. Let
[22:57] Speaker 2: me introduce to you God's starting line, lady.
[23:09] Speaker 3: And gentlemen.
[23:14] Speaker 7: From the foundation of time, God has desired his Kingdom
[23:19] Speaker 7: to be here on earth as it is in heaven.
[23:22] Speaker 7: So today I'm introducing to you the team that represents
[23:27] Speaker 7: the king It is the Kingdom Conquerors, starting.
[23:33] Speaker 2: At our first position. He is the one that was
[23:37] Speaker 2: there since the garden. Give it up for prayer, and.
[23:47] Speaker 7: Ladies and gentlemen, coming right after prayer, it is the thing,
[23:52] Speaker 7: the love letter he left for all of humanity. He's
[23:55] Speaker 7: at the number two spot. Will you give it up
[23:57] Speaker 7: for Bible reading? And at our third quisition? At our
[24:08] Speaker 7: third quisition, he tells us that it's not good for men.
[24:13] Speaker 2: To be alone.
[24:14] Speaker 5: So in God starting five, at number three, it is
[24:18] Speaker 5: gathering at.
[24:19] Speaker 7: Change, And at number four he's the man that makes
[24:29] Speaker 7: everything work. There are certain things that don't change unless
[24:33] Speaker 7: this person is a lockdown defender.
[24:36] Speaker 5: Will you give it up for fasting? Ladies and gentlemen,
[24:45] Speaker 5: will you get it up?
[24:47] Speaker 2: Fasting?
[24:48] Speaker 7: Try again, fasting, fasting, fasting, try again, get fasting, get up,
[24:52] Speaker 7: get get a layup?
[24:53] Speaker 3: Very very good?
[24:58] Speaker 2: Will we give it up for the chan gum t good?
[25:03] Speaker 3: All right, you can bring the lights up. That's a
[25:05] Speaker 3: great what'd you say? That's only four.
[25:20] Speaker 8: One.
[25:22] Speaker 2: We got prayer, we got Bible reading, we got gathering
[25:27] Speaker 2: in the church, we got fasting.
[25:32] Speaker 3: Okay, well, well, well.
[25:35] Speaker 2: Most of us like this. Let's let's be honest. Most
[25:44] Speaker 2: of us are okay with this. Most of us are good.
[25:50] Speaker 2: Matter of fact, the whole bench don't get to play
[25:53] Speaker 2: Coach Ray.
[25:54] Speaker 3: Could you come out here for me real quick?
[25:56] Speaker 2: See, because Coach Ray is gonna represent all of y'all,
[26:01] Speaker 2: and and yeah, coach Ray, Yeah.
[26:09] Speaker 3: Yeah, Coach Ray.
[26:12] Speaker 2: So so the thing about Coach Ray is Coach Ray
[26:16] Speaker 2: gets to dictate who actually plays the game. Before you
[26:22] Speaker 2: are saved, none of the players are on the court,
[26:27] Speaker 2: and as soon as you are born, the game starts.
[26:34] Speaker 3: So what I'm saying is it is important for us.
[26:37] Speaker 2: If you are not saved, if you've not given your
[26:39] Speaker 2: life to Jesus Christ, if you have not turned over control,
[26:42] Speaker 2: and today I want you to do that because there's
[26:45] Speaker 2: no players. You're not praying, you're not reading your Bible,
[26:48] Speaker 2: you're not.
[26:49] Speaker 3: You show ain't fasting. Come on now, it's not happening.
[26:55] Speaker 2: But most of us, the first thing that we can
[26:57] Speaker 2: do if we are in a dire situation, and Grandma
[27:00] Speaker 2: might have taught us how to do it, we do
[27:02] Speaker 2: it before we eat our food.
[27:06] Speaker 3: We invite up prayer.
[27:07] Speaker 2: Prayer, Come on, prayer, Come, come on, prayer.
[27:10] Speaker 3: How many people like to pray glory to God? Okay,
[27:15] Speaker 3: if you like to.
[27:16] Speaker 2: Pray, cool, Prayer is connection. Prayer is our player of
[27:21] Speaker 2: connection James five sixteen. It says, confess your faults one
[27:26] Speaker 2: to another and pray one for another.
[27:30] Speaker 3: That ye may be healed.
[27:32] Speaker 2: Because the effectual, fervent prayers of righteous people avail money.
[27:39] Speaker 2: We need prayer on our team. Prayer sometimes is the
[27:44] Speaker 2: only thing that we can get to. It's communication and
[27:48] Speaker 2: connection with God. Prayer was what Adam and Eve were
[27:52] Speaker 2: doing in the cool of the day. It was the
[27:54] Speaker 2: first thing the enemy was trying to interrupt their connection.
[27:58] Speaker 2: The reason he came in to lie to him because
[28:00] Speaker 2: he wanted to to Adam and Eve to not be
[28:03] Speaker 2: connected to their source. And the reason God fights so
[28:08] Speaker 2: hard to have a connection with you is because when
[28:10] Speaker 2: you talk to him, there's a transfer. You get heavenly
[28:15] Speaker 2: power to do earthly things when you're in connection with him.
[28:18] Speaker 2: But that's why distractions come to break the connection. Anger
[28:22] Speaker 2: comes to break the connection. Sin comes to break the connection.
[28:28] Speaker 2: Every believer should have prayer on their team, and not
[28:33] Speaker 2: just once in a while, every day, every hour, every minute,
[28:41] Speaker 2: for me.
[28:42] Speaker 3: Sometimes every moment.
[28:45] Speaker 2: That's why the Bible says to us and Philippians four
[28:47] Speaker 2: to six, don't worry about anything.
[28:50] Speaker 3: He gives us a trade.
[28:51] Speaker 2: Instead, do what pray, not gossip, not complain not. He said,
[28:58] Speaker 2: I'm giving you the antidote to worry. Put prayer on
[29:02] Speaker 2: the floor, and pray about everything. Pray about my edges,
[29:07] Speaker 2: going about, Pray about everything. Come on, y'all, pray about
[29:12] Speaker 2: growing a little taller, Pray about everything. Tell God what
[29:16] Speaker 2: you need, and thank him for all He's already done.
[29:19] Speaker 2: Then you will experience Watch this. This is the guarantee
[29:22] Speaker 2: of your prayer. It's not what you pray for. Hear
[29:27] Speaker 2: what I just said. The guarantee of your prayer is
[29:30] Speaker 2: not what you pray for. The guarantee of your prayer
[29:33] Speaker 2: is peace. God said. You can pray about stuff, bring.
[29:39] Speaker 3: It to me, Thank me for what I've already done, he.
[29:41] Speaker 2: Said, And then you will experience God's peace, which exceeds
[29:46] Speaker 2: anything you can even understand.
[29:48] Speaker 3: Right now.
[29:49] Speaker 2: His peace will guard your heart and minds as you
[29:52] Speaker 2: live in Christ Jesus. And so we put prayer on
[29:56] Speaker 2: the floor and then we like, you know what, prayer.
[29:58] Speaker 2: Come on down here, man, you're on the floor. I
[30:00] Speaker 2: appreciate you, brother, Thanks for the connection with God. Baby
[30:03] Speaker 2: and most of us. As long as we have prayer,
[30:08] Speaker 2: we think like God understands my heart.
[30:14] Speaker 3: He knows we talked.
[30:17] Speaker 2: The thing about prayer is if you talk to him,
[30:21] Speaker 2: he gonna talk back. To you, and many times when
[30:25] Speaker 2: he talks back to you, he'll say stuff like this,
[30:28] Speaker 2: go to that church. God, you know I don't do people.
[30:33] Speaker 2: Come on. These are some of the things we say. Now,
[30:36] Speaker 2: you know it's too big, you know it's too small.
[30:40] Speaker 2: You know they don't play the worship music I like.
[30:43] Speaker 2: And finally, somebody invites you that maybe you like, or
[30:46] Speaker 2: maybe as a friend, or maybe as a client, and
[30:48] Speaker 2: you going because you actually want to get a sell.
[30:53] Speaker 2: And God's not offended by none of that. He said,
[30:56] Speaker 2: I'll let you come in any way you can. And
[31:00] Speaker 2: then what a lot of believers do is they put
[31:03] Speaker 2: prayer on the floor, and then they put gathering in church.
[31:08] Speaker 3: Come on out here, gathering in church? Yeah, what's up?
[31:13] Speaker 2: Man? And see, gathering in churches is something God tells
[31:17] Speaker 2: us to do. It's gathering in community. It's Acts two
[31:22] Speaker 2: forty two. They devoted themselves to the apostles teaching and
[31:24] Speaker 2: to fellowship, to the breaking of bread, and to oh, prayer,
[31:28] Speaker 2: there it is again, prayer, there you go.
[31:31] Speaker 3: Everyone was filled with all and the.
[31:34] Speaker 2: Many wonders and signs were performed by the apostles.
[31:37] Speaker 3: All the believers were.
[31:38] Speaker 2: Somebody say together and they had everything in common going
[31:42] Speaker 2: to church. Gathering in church is something that God intends
[31:46] Speaker 2: for all of his children to do. I understand that
[31:49] Speaker 2: some of you are in situations where you may cannot
[31:51] Speaker 2: gather with a bunch of people consistently, but most of
[31:55] Speaker 2: you are. I understand the one off situation. But do
[32:00] Speaker 2: you know what Barnard, which is a company that does
[32:03] Speaker 2: a lot of church surveys, they say the average Christian
[32:07] Speaker 2: goes to church one time a month, once and more.
[32:13] Speaker 2: I can't even start my sermon series from last week
[32:17] Speaker 2: because you still own last month. How can we build?
[32:23] Speaker 2: How can we continue? How can I teach you something
[32:27] Speaker 2: and you go to one class a week. Yeah, but
[32:34] Speaker 2: most believers. I pray and I go to church ocasionally.
[32:41] Speaker 2: And do you know the sad thing about this is
[32:43] Speaker 2: this is where most people's Christian faith stops. Yeah, this
[32:53] Speaker 2: is what you're about to put on the floor every
[32:55] Speaker 2: day to fight the enemy who wants to take your
[32:59] Speaker 2: head off. I'm gonna pray about it and I'm gonna
[33:05] Speaker 2: go to church and when it get real bad. You
[33:07] Speaker 2: know how I felt something I was on the sail
[33:09] Speaker 2: that I felt something.
[33:09] Speaker 3: Man, God told me to go to church today.
[33:12] Speaker 2: And you know what. I went to church and it
[33:14] Speaker 2: was just what I need. It was my hit, it
[33:16] Speaker 2: was my drug, it was it was it was the
[33:19] Speaker 2: thing that made me feel better. For us, I'll be
[33:23] Speaker 2: good till next moment. And I'm not saying I get it.
[33:28] Speaker 2: I was there one time.
[33:29] Speaker 3: I'm just telling you this thing is more important than putting.
[33:34] Speaker 2: I'm not just putting two people on the floor when
[33:36] Speaker 2: my life and my children and my family are in
[33:38] Speaker 2: the balance. But when a believer gets to the next level,
[33:44] Speaker 2: what believers are supposed to do is they go and
[33:46] Speaker 2: put the Bible on the floor. Coach, put the Bible.
[33:49] Speaker 2: Put the Bible in, Put the Bible in. How many
[33:50] Speaker 2: people love reading the Word of God? I sound like
[34:01] Speaker 2: hatching dinosaurs, because the truth of the matter is most
[34:11] Speaker 2: of us have more dust on our Bible then scriptures
[34:17] Speaker 2: memorized from them. The Bible write this down is concrete.
[34:26] Speaker 2: It's the one thing we can't change. It's the thing
[34:28] Speaker 2: we're supposed to build our foundation on. Isaiah forty and eight.
[34:30] Speaker 2: It says the grass withers and the flower fades, but
[34:33] Speaker 2: the Word of God will stand forever Psalms one, nineteen
[34:40] Speaker 2: one oh five. The Word is a lamp unto my
[34:42] Speaker 2: feet and a light unto my path. If you are
[34:47] Speaker 2: a super Christian, this your team right here.
[34:54] Speaker 3: I read the Bible and I knows what it says. Ai.
[35:01] Speaker 3: I go to my church.
[35:02] Speaker 2: Don't nobody stop me from getting into the House of God.
[35:06] Speaker 3: And I got a seat. And if you're sit in
[35:09] Speaker 3: my seat.
[35:12] Speaker 2: And me and God, can't nobody still our connection.
[35:17] Speaker 3: Me and him? Watch this, Watch just.
[35:25] Speaker 2: Thirty years, forty years, fifty years, whole life of faith.
[35:31] Speaker 2: Three three people.
[35:39] Speaker 5: This is.
[35:41] Speaker 2: This is what everybody is clapping for. This is what
[35:47] Speaker 2: everybody is applauding for. Yet when the opposition comes, we
[35:57] Speaker 2: have no idea what to do with y'all back for
[36:00] Speaker 2: a second, because the truth of the matter is all
[36:03] Speaker 2: of us have not figured out that our opposition plays
[36:09] Speaker 2: all five players, full court, press.
[36:14] Speaker 3: All the time.
[36:19] Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, Let me introduce to you our opposition.
[36:25] Speaker 3: Ladies and gentlemen, give it up.
[36:27] Speaker 2: For the wicked with here they call.
[36:38] Speaker 9: The wicked Wethers, the wicked weather, the wacked wah.
[36:59] Speaker 3: The wacked all right, shut up, suit out.
[37:08] Speaker 2: Wickedness tries to intimidate you. It walks in pride, and
[37:14] Speaker 2: they play all of their players.
[37:17] Speaker 3: See most of us. I want you.
[37:20] Speaker 2: I want to paint this picture so vividly so you
[37:22] Speaker 2: never forget it. Okay, I want I want to give
[37:25] Speaker 2: you the opposition. See this is prayer, but the opposition
[37:30] Speaker 2: of prayer.
[37:31] Speaker 3: You know what it is.
[37:33] Speaker 2: It's independence. Independence. Come here, prayer and independence. Y'all stand
[37:40] Speaker 2: right there, face each other.
[37:45] Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, come on, prayer do it? Puts up for something?
[37:50] Speaker 2: No? No, no, what?
[37:52] Speaker 3: But I want to let you know.
[37:53] Speaker 2: If you don't put prayer in the game, you're saying
[37:58] Speaker 2: that I don't need God. There was a quote that
[38:04] Speaker 2: I once heard that said a day without prayer is
[38:07] Speaker 2: a boast against God. That every day you go without
[38:11] Speaker 2: prayer and you're saying, God, I don't need you. It's okay,
[38:15] Speaker 2: nah nah No, I don't need you. I'll be safe
[38:18] Speaker 2: without you. I run this anyway. And most of us
[38:24] Speaker 2: we have decided to only pray when we need something,
[38:30] Speaker 2: not pray because it's what we need.
[38:33] Speaker 3: You missed it.
[38:34] Speaker 2: We pray when we need instead of praying because it's.
[38:38] Speaker 3: What we need.
[38:42] Speaker 2: And all I'm saying to you right now is this
[38:46] Speaker 2: big old joker of independence is something we're gonna fight
[38:52] Speaker 2: every day. It is an opposition that every person, how
[38:56] Speaker 2: many of us like I forget.
[38:57] Speaker 3: It, I need you, I do need you, and I
[38:59] Speaker 3: so don't need you.
[39:00] Speaker 2: Jon, you know we all have. And that's when God says,
[39:06] Speaker 2: pray about everything. Bring that boss, bring that coworker, bring
[39:10] Speaker 2: that thing, because independence is gonna play.
[39:12] Speaker 3: Y'all go sit down, because.
[39:13] Speaker 2: The other thing is that when when if you don't
[39:16] Speaker 2: read the Bible, there's an opposition to not reading the Bible.
[39:21] Speaker 2: Do y'all know? Hold on, do you write this down?
[39:25] Speaker 2: The game of life is not just the warm up.
[39:28] Speaker 2: It's warfare, the Bible tells us. And if he's in
[39:35] Speaker 2: six twelve for we are not fighting against flesh and
[39:38] Speaker 2: blood enemies, but against.
[39:40] Speaker 3: Evil rulers and authorities of the unseen world.
[39:43] Speaker 2: Against mighty powers in the darkness the dark world, and
[39:46] Speaker 2: against evil spirits in the heavenly places. I'm not trying
[39:48] Speaker 2: to make this spooky. I'm trying to make it real.
[39:52] Speaker 2: When you don't pray, when you don't do what God says,
[39:55] Speaker 2: they come.
[39:55] Speaker 3: In after you.
[39:58] Speaker 10: The enemy wants to steal, kill, and destroy your life,
[40:04] Speaker 10: family legacy. He wants to steal your purpose and you
[40:09] Speaker 10: won't even put the players on the floor.
[40:12] Speaker 2: That God tells you that you can win with damn,
[40:20] Speaker 2: write this down. You can't overcome without opposition. I'm an overcomer.
[40:28] Speaker 2: What are you overcoming opposition? And most people think opposition
[40:33] Speaker 2: is a sign that God is not with them. What
[40:37] Speaker 2: you need to understand is opposition is necessary to show
[40:40] Speaker 2: God is with you. You cannot overcome if there's nothing
[40:44] Speaker 2: to go over. And so God is telling you put
[40:49] Speaker 2: all the players on the floor. Stop hating the player.
[40:51] Speaker 2: Stop hating the player that may be your mom or
[40:54] Speaker 2: your dad misrepresented. Stop hurting the player because one time
[41:00] Speaker 2: you were hurt in that area. You read the Bible
[41:03] Speaker 2: one time and you thought it was a right interpretation
[41:05] Speaker 2: and people made fun of you because you had it
[41:07] Speaker 2: wrong and you was just trying and because there was
[41:11] Speaker 2: hurt there. Now you you have you step back. Well,
[41:14] Speaker 2: I can't say this, but Mamphibio tasts but sit the past.
[41:17] Speaker 2: I don't like looking stupid. I ain't reading the word
[41:19] Speaker 2: no more. You're saying, that's a funny example. There's people
[41:22] Speaker 2: who will not read the Bible because they don't want
[41:25] Speaker 2: to look dumb. Let me tell you, just make it up.
[41:28] Speaker 2: That's what all preachers do.
[41:29] Speaker 3: We don't know what the words are on it.
[41:31] Speaker 2: Some of us study, but other ones I just be
[41:33] Speaker 2: like monanimous ski and and you know what, I.
[41:37] Speaker 3: Get the point.
[41:39] Speaker 2: Come on, y'all, monanimous ski obey God, thank you minimina
[41:43] Speaker 2: ski All.
[41:48] Speaker 3: I'm all I'm saying is.
[41:51] Speaker 2: Sometimes we can keep players off the floor because of hurt.
[41:56] Speaker 2: We were injured in an area. And what I'm telling
[42:00] Speaker 2: you right now, let's put all your players on the floor.
[42:05] Speaker 2: Because when God tells you to read the Bible daily
[42:07] Speaker 2: Bible reading, come up here. He tells you to read
[42:10] Speaker 2: the Bible. But the problem is if you don't read
[42:13] Speaker 2: the Bible. Guess what the opposition of not reading the
[42:16] Speaker 2: Bible is ignorance. Come on up here, ignorance.
[42:23] Speaker 3: And ignorance. Watch this. Ignorance is a menace.
[42:27] Speaker 2: Because ignorance doesn't look very powerful up against.
[42:30] Speaker 3: The word of God. But ignorance does stuff to annoy you.
[42:35] Speaker 2: Y'all ever played somebody that played defense and they just annoyed,
[42:38] Speaker 2: Get off me, just move like you can't.
[42:42] Speaker 3: That's what ignorance is.
[42:43] Speaker 2: It robs you in the light because you didn't study
[42:47] Speaker 2: in the dark. Hear what I just said to you.
[42:52] Speaker 2: Ignorance robs you in front of people because you didn't
[42:56] Speaker 2: do what you were supposed to do in the dark.
[42:57] Speaker 2: That's why the Bible says for us and and tewod Timothy,
[43:01] Speaker 2: it says, study to show yourself approved unto God, a
[43:05] Speaker 2: workman that needed not be ashamed, rightly being able to
[43:09] Speaker 2: divide the word of truth. That's why I'm asking everybody become.
[43:13] Speaker 3: Literate in the Bible.
[43:16] Speaker 2: Like study the Bible, get a topical study Bible, go
[43:19] Speaker 2: to Barns and Nobles, go to Amazon and order something
[43:23] Speaker 2: that breaks it down, Get a concordance, get something that
[43:26] Speaker 2: you don't just take it at face value. You like, man,
[43:28] Speaker 2: this is a book that was old, So maybe I'll
[43:30] Speaker 2: need to know what they meant when they were saying this.
[43:33] Speaker 2: Because when you get an understanding, you walk in somebody
[43:36] Speaker 2: say wisdom, okay, and some of y'all are walking in
[43:40] Speaker 2: ignorance quoting Bible scriptures.
[43:41] Speaker 4: That's why when everybody says I could do all my
[43:44] Speaker 4: favorite scripture, I could do all things through Christ who
[43:46] Speaker 4: strengthens me, you know, because that scripture is Paul talking.
[43:55] Speaker 2: And if you listen to what he said before it,
[43:59] Speaker 2: he's literally said, I've been flogged. I've been beaten, I've
[44:03] Speaker 2: been shit wrecked. I've had a lot, I've had a little.
[44:07] Speaker 3: I was killing Christians. Now I am a Christian.
[44:09] Speaker 2: He said, I've learned contentment in every season. So I
[44:14] Speaker 2: have concluded I can do all things, be broke or
[44:19] Speaker 2: be blessed. That is not saying you can dunk if
[44:23] Speaker 2: you're five to four.
[44:26] Speaker 3: Yet ignorance will put something in a place that makes
[44:35] Speaker 3: us think that.
[44:36] Speaker 2: God said he's gonna do something which creates resentment because
[44:42] Speaker 2: you had an unspoken expectation. You kept quoting I can
[44:45] Speaker 2: do all things through Christ, who strengthens me. And you've
[44:48] Speaker 2: been trying to do something that God didn't call you
[44:50] Speaker 2: to do, and so now you're feeling get hurt. And
[44:52] Speaker 2: now you've got to deconstruct your faith because at this
[44:55] Speaker 2: point you are frustrated by something you made up and
[44:57] Speaker 2: God never said, okay, let me walk back over here.
[45:02] Speaker 2: So that's why we got to read the Bible. Y'all,
[45:04] Speaker 2: go sit down right here here. Let me show you
[45:07] Speaker 2: the opposition of gathering in church because a lot of
[45:11] Speaker 2: people are fighting this one, because a lot of people
[45:14] Speaker 2: don't come to church consistently because you feel like it
[45:17] Speaker 2: doesn't matter that much. But this is what I'm gonna
[45:20] Speaker 2: tell you, specially in twenty twenty five, where gathering has
[45:23] Speaker 2: been the practice of the church since it started. Go
[45:26] Speaker 2: to Acts two forty two. You got it good because
[45:30] Speaker 2: they gathered every day.
[45:34] Speaker 3: You mad about once a week. Imagine seeing me every.
[45:38] Speaker 2: Day, Good morning, How you doing, hair? Look good? They
[45:44] Speaker 2: gathered every day around the apostles teachings, and they shared
[45:49] Speaker 2: everything that they had. But if you don't gather, come
[45:52] Speaker 2: here gathering, then something else comes, isolation. And more people
[45:59] Speaker 2: are being taking out by isolation because they will not
[46:06] Speaker 2: consistently gather in the House of God. And God is
[46:11] Speaker 2: telling you right now the thing you're praying against, God,
[46:14] Speaker 2: just let me have some friends.
[46:16] Speaker 3: They're at church. Lord, Please let me not feel lonely.
[46:19] Speaker 3: They're at church.
[46:20] Speaker 2: God, I don't want to get married. They gotta be
[46:22] Speaker 2: out church, Like, do you.
[46:24] Speaker 3: Understand what I'm saying?
[46:25] Speaker 2: Come on, Sis, put ever whatever you got down in
[46:27] Speaker 2: the name of Jesus. I'm gonna keep preaching. But we
[46:29] Speaker 2: think God that there's deliverance that is happening right here.
[46:32] Speaker 2: I think she heard the message from a few weeks
[46:34] Speaker 2: ago that said to lay aside every weight and she's got.
[46:38] Speaker 2: Y'all should be rejoicing right now. There's a wait being
[46:41] Speaker 2: laid aside right now. You don't know what it is,
[46:44] Speaker 2: you don't know where it is, but we believe that
[46:47] Speaker 2: God is doing a work. This is why we come
[46:50] Speaker 2: to church, because we're getting out of what God has
[46:55] Speaker 2: for us, what he planned for us. Everybody, listen to me,
[47:00] Speaker 2: and I need the church to be praying because.
[47:02] Speaker 3: This is what we do.
[47:04] Speaker 2: We invite the broken, We infight the hurting. We invite
[47:10] Speaker 2: those have been violated. We in fight those who have
[47:13] Speaker 2: been Okay, y'all, y'all so bothered by the way it
[47:17] Speaker 2: happened that you can't even celebrate what God's doing.
[47:20] Speaker 3: You don't know the desperation that was in that moment.
[47:23] Speaker 2: You don't know how much fear that had to be
[47:27] Speaker 2: overcome to get in that moment.
[47:28] Speaker 3: Listen, and some of you, well, maybe it was a soul.
[47:32] Speaker 3: She didn't have to do it at that moment.
[47:33] Speaker 2: Hey, listen, I've been at a place of desperation before
[47:38] Speaker 2: where it couldn't wait another minute.
[47:41] Speaker 3: Our team is ministering to her.
[47:43] Speaker 2: Right now, and you better get ready for more of
[47:45] Speaker 2: that if you want everything to be politically correct and
[47:48] Speaker 2: put in the right. If you come to the hospital
[47:51] Speaker 2: and you bleed, now they put you in surgery right then.
[47:54] Speaker 2: They don't wait for another moment. Why oh, I forgot
[48:00] Speaker 2: gathering at church is for you. Instead of it being
[48:06] Speaker 2: the hospital for humanity, it has become a club for
[48:13] Speaker 2: the holy And I'm just saying, man, if you perfect,
[48:25] Speaker 2: go start your own church, because everybody in.
[48:28] Speaker 3: Here has a story, a testimony.
[48:34] Speaker 2: And the only reason sometimes I feel better about what
[48:36] Speaker 2: God's doing in.
[48:37] Speaker 3: My life is I come to church and I see
[48:40] Speaker 3: other broken people lifting their hands, and I see.
[48:43] Speaker 2: Other struggling fathers crying, and I see other single mothers
[48:47] Speaker 2: trying to figure out how.
[48:48] Speaker 3: To make ends meet, and they're trying to.
[48:50] Speaker 2: Do what God's called them to do and worshiping at
[48:52] Speaker 2: the altar with their children because they daddy is nowhere
[48:55] Speaker 2: to be found. All I do is I see people saying, God,
[49:00] Speaker 2: if you can do anything, I'm coming to you. But
[49:04] Speaker 2: do you know how the enemy picks us off? Isolation?
[49:11] Speaker 2: And the truth of the matter is, even as I'm
[49:13] Speaker 2: talking to the screen right now, there are people at
[49:15] Speaker 2: home right now that you have the ability to be
[49:17] Speaker 2: in a house and I'm not scolding you because maybe
[49:21] Speaker 2: because of hurt and frustration and being treated wrong, something
[49:25] Speaker 2: has kept you away from gathering. What I'm saying is
[49:28] Speaker 2: you gotta try again, because the isolation and the lies.
[49:33] Speaker 3: Sometimes you just need a person to interrupt. That you
[49:35] Speaker 3: need a hug to interrupt, that you need a smile
[49:38] Speaker 3: to interrupt, that you need to be in the presence.
[49:41] Speaker 2: When we were singing earlier today, something changed on.
[49:44] Speaker 3: The inside of me. Hearing everybody singing here's my worst suthing.
[49:48] Speaker 3: I was like, what else do I have to give?
[49:50] Speaker 2: Something happens when we gather together, and today if you're
[49:54] Speaker 2: fighting isolation, God gave you a cure in his starting vibe.
[50:00] Speaker 2: Gather with other believers, get in an ecclesia. Okay, let
[50:04] Speaker 2: me keep going, y'all sit now, we're almost there, the
[50:07] Speaker 2: Bible says in Hebrews ten twenty five, in case anybody
[50:10] Speaker 2: needs Bible for that, And let us not neglect our
[50:12] Speaker 2: meeting together as some people do, but encourage one another,
[50:16] Speaker 2: especially now that the day of his return is drawing near. Okay,
[50:22] Speaker 2: here we go. The opposition of fasting, real quick fast
[50:24] Speaker 2: thing come up here. See the opposition of fasting watch this.
[50:28] Speaker 2: It's idolatry. If you never fast, you have idols. I
[50:37] Speaker 2: can guarantee there are other things in your life that
[50:40] Speaker 2: have a position God is supposed to feel. For many
[50:44] Speaker 2: of us, it's money. For some of us, it's success.
[50:46] Speaker 2: For others of us, it's women. Some of us it's men.
[50:49] Speaker 2: But there is an idol. If you don't kill your flesh,
[50:52] Speaker 2: your flesh will kill you. And that's why I tell people.
[50:57] Speaker 2: Everybody is like I do the Daniels fast. I do
[50:59] Speaker 2: the twenty one dan the day's fast. I do it
[51:01] Speaker 2: a fast with the church. You shouldn't just do a
[51:04] Speaker 2: fast with the church. You should live a fasted life.
[51:08] Speaker 2: Some of y'all, some of y'all should every Monday. What
[51:12] Speaker 2: you're doing none of your business, because I don't gotta.
[51:15] Speaker 2: I don't gotta tell everybody. Y'all, y'all out here fast
[51:19] Speaker 2: and look, look, look, y'all, look skinny, this is not
[51:23] Speaker 2: a diet. If you're gonna steal gossip. I saw that tweet.
[51:27] Speaker 2: If you're gonna steal gossip and lie, you might as
[51:29] Speaker 2: well eat.
[51:30] Speaker 3: Like, do you understand what I'm saying? You might as
[51:32] Speaker 3: well take him by the chicken. What God's trying to.
[51:34] Speaker 2: Do is He's trying to take layers off of your
[51:38] Speaker 2: heart and your life. But some things the Bible says
[51:43] Speaker 2: only get changed through prayer and fasting. The crazy thing is,
[51:54] Speaker 2: there's another piece of opposition that's right here and this
[51:58] Speaker 2: this guy's name is to be playing against giving. But
[52:03] Speaker 2: immaturity keeps you from giving, thinking that you got it
[52:11] Speaker 2: all together and God don't know what he's talking about.
[52:15] Speaker 2: Immaturity makes you not give. So the whole team is
[52:19] Speaker 2: on the floor. Coach, you represent the people you can
[52:25] Speaker 2: go to.
[52:25] Speaker 3: Now.
[52:26] Speaker 2: The whole team is for y'all got a ball? Whole
[52:28] Speaker 2: team is on for a Give the ball. You standing
[52:30] Speaker 2: right there, coach. Okay, y'all going this way. Coach, ask
[52:37] Speaker 2: the people who they should put on the floor. Who
[52:40] Speaker 2: y'all want to put on the floor to go against them? Everybody?
[52:45] Speaker 3: Yeah? Who duh?
[52:49] Speaker 2: But in your life, which player gets put on the floor?
[52:55] Speaker 3: First? Come on?
[52:56] Speaker 2: Talk to me?
[52:57] Speaker 7: What is it?
[52:59] Speaker 2: Pray?
[53:01] Speaker 3: Bible?
[53:01] Speaker 2: Everybody for Bible, Raise your hand, everybody for prayer.
[53:05] Speaker 3: Raise your hand. Who's up? Okay, prayers out here? Come
[53:07] Speaker 3: on out here, prayer, prayer. Put them on the floor. Coach,
[53:12] Speaker 3: All right, y'all go score.
[53:23] Speaker 2: Prayer.
[53:25] Speaker 3: Your prayer life is woe out. Look at prayer.
[53:32] Speaker 2: Come on, get him the prayer. Go ya no tell
[53:36] Speaker 2: yaaky YadA, up my seat, Yoda, no coach, yoh Joe
[53:39] Speaker 2: up on ski tell you la dayyy bay lay lay bay.
[53:44] Speaker 3: Your prayer life is woa.
[53:48] Speaker 2: Look at all the work prayer gotta.
[53:49] Speaker 3: Do by hisself.
[53:50] Speaker 2: I bond and rebuke, and I come against the lies,
[53:54] Speaker 2: and then what happens?
[53:56] Speaker 3: Independence dunking on you?
[53:58] Speaker 11: Okay, all right, all right, prayer he needs some help.
[54:09] Speaker 11: I see that mean he needs some milk?
[54:13] Speaker 2: Who else? Who were putting?
[54:15] Speaker 3: Who were putting in the game?
[54:18] Speaker 2: Who? Bible? Come on out here, Bible, y'all give it
[54:23] Speaker 2: up for the Bible on the kingdom conqueror.
[54:26] Speaker 3: All right, Bible in prayer five against two. Let's go
[54:31] Speaker 3: look at him.
[54:32] Speaker 2: Got a little more, got.
[54:33] Speaker 3: A little more, a little more? Oh shoot.
[54:39] Speaker 2: Easy, now hold on, stop stop, stops out. The only
[54:45] Speaker 2: thing Bible and prayer can do against this many people
[54:48] Speaker 2: is steph curryer from right there, Come on, just go
[54:53] Speaker 2: come on from right there.
[54:57] Speaker 8: So close, so close, so close to getting the transformation,
[55:07] Speaker 8: so close to my son or daughter coming back to God.
[55:12] Speaker 2: So close to walking free from that addiction, so close.
[55:18] Speaker 2: But many time we're throwing up shots, prayers, scriptures, and
[55:29] Speaker 2: we ain't got all our players on the floor.
[55:31] Speaker 3: We still got faster. Who y'all want to put in next?
[55:35] Speaker 2: We still got faster than going to church, gathering, coming
[55:39] Speaker 2: to church. I need some other believe come on coming
[55:42] Speaker 2: to church, get out here? Who all right, let's play,
[55:48] Speaker 2: here we go. Y'all got to score at least once,
[55:52] Speaker 2: Lord Jesus, Lord no blocking. All right, he did it?
[56:12] Speaker 3: Now watch now, watch, watch, watch watch. I had a
[56:19] Speaker 3: full shout.
[56:22] Speaker 2: Because, for once in my life, after twenty one days
[56:24] Speaker 2: of prayer and faster, I put Bible in, I put
[56:29] Speaker 2: prayer in, I put faster than it.
[56:33] Speaker 3: And God, Ah, he spoke.
[56:40] Speaker 2: And I got one point, scored well, two points, but
[56:46] Speaker 2: I scored one goal.
[56:51] Speaker 3: And then I get discouraged because it took all that
[56:58] Speaker 3: it took Ah.
[57:02] Speaker 2: To just get They're tired because they're incomplete. Your spiritual
[57:10] Speaker 2: life gets tired because you're.
[57:12] Speaker 3: Not using all the players. And I just want you
[57:19] Speaker 3: to see this right now. The opposition has not taken
[57:22] Speaker 3: a break.
[57:25] Speaker 2: Because their whole goal is to stop you from doing
[57:29] Speaker 2: what God has called you to do.
[57:31] Speaker 3: That goal represents your purpose.
[57:34] Speaker 2: That goal represents you being the man or the woman
[57:36] Speaker 2: of God that He's created you to be. That goal
[57:39] Speaker 2: represents you touching other people's lives, and the enemy wants
[57:46] Speaker 2: to twist all of your effort into something that Watch
[57:50] Speaker 2: this makes you so frustrated that you throw the ball
[57:53] Speaker 2: to the other team. Give it to them, and y'all
[57:56] Speaker 2: go sit down on the bench. Have you ever seen
[58:00] Speaker 2: a player check themselves out the game?
[58:05] Speaker 3: I dare say that many.
[58:06] Speaker 2: Believers have put all they people on the bench, and
[58:12] Speaker 2: gods like, hey, they're about to run up the score
[58:20] Speaker 2: and it's about to be not good if you don't
[58:24] Speaker 2: put somebody Okay, I guess I'll go to Easter. Come
[58:28] Speaker 2: on play, Oh, thank God for ransom, and then Easter's over.
[58:41] Speaker 2: Give them the ball because you ain't coming back. Come on,
[58:44] Speaker 2: go sit down, Come on, y'all. But what would happen?
[58:58] Speaker 2: What would happen if all of these players that are
[59:01] Speaker 2: currently on the bench actually found themselves on the floor, y'all,
[59:06] Speaker 2: come on out here, coach, get him in with, come on,
[59:08] Speaker 2: blow to with some coach, blow the whiss. Yeah, get
[59:12] Speaker 2: on the floor now listen. Oh now, we have a
[59:18] Speaker 2: match up that four out of the five players have
[59:24] Speaker 2: somebody that they can play one on one with. There
[59:29] Speaker 2: are things that enemies trying to wear you out with that.
[59:31] Speaker 2: God has a direct answer for it, a direct answer
[59:35] Speaker 2: for it. But you gotta put fasten on the floor.
[59:38] Speaker 2: You gotta put the gathering on the floor. You gotta
[59:41] Speaker 2: put Bible reading, you gotta put prayer.
[59:42] Speaker 3: On the floor.
[59:43] Speaker 2: Y'all score a basket, please, somebody score a basket now,
[59:47] Speaker 2: y'all keep them from trying to score a basket.
[59:49] Speaker 3: Huh huh. Okay, there's some fouls in there. There's some fouls,
[59:53] Speaker 3: but okay, but the wicked they played, they played dardy.
[59:57] Speaker 2: Come on, let's go. No what y'all doing.
[59:59] Speaker 3: The whole world is watching y'all. Y'all looking trash right now.
[1:00:04] Speaker 3: Whoa ho ho ho who ho oh oh oh, I
[1:00:14] Speaker 3: like you.
[1:00:14] Speaker 2: Come on, let's see what else after yo yo, yeah yeah,
[1:00:19] Speaker 2: let me get off the white out of bounds, out
[1:00:26] Speaker 2: of bounds on black's white ball.
[1:00:28] Speaker 3: Come on, come on out here, white ball.
[1:00:31] Speaker 2: You get is white ball? You want the ball?
[1:00:33] Speaker 3: Get it fasting? Here we go, come on, come on,
[1:00:38] Speaker 3: oh oh oh Jesus, oh lord, oh.
[1:00:45] Speaker 2: H oh sastic a. Right, we'll be here till four
[1:00:58] Speaker 2: o'clock and everybody like scout jerseys sold in the represented store.
[1:01:04] Speaker 3: Okay, I'm just all right.
[1:01:05] Speaker 2: Watch, we should do an all star game or something
[1:01:08] Speaker 2: here one Sunday.
[1:01:09] Speaker 3: We're gonna we should do that. Okay, we're gonna do that.
[1:01:14] Speaker 2: See all these you'll favorite shirt singers and pastors spraining ankles.
[1:01:21] Speaker 3: It's a much more formidable.
[1:01:25] Speaker 2: Game if all four of these players are on the floor.
[1:01:31] Speaker 2: But is it God starting for or is it God
[1:01:35] Speaker 2: starting hey? Giving? Could you come out on the floor please?
[1:01:43] Speaker 3: We all cheer as giving is coming to the floor.
[1:01:49] Speaker 2: Who my man over here? Said mana mana, mana mana.
[1:02:02] Speaker 3: Now when you put given, d ain't.
[1:02:04] Speaker 2: That brother's me? When you put give? Oh, look at him?
[1:02:10] Speaker 2: All right, Well, y'all got to play. Now, come on,
[1:02:12] Speaker 2: let's go. I'll be on him. H God, no, God, no,
[1:02:30] Speaker 2: let me see that. Let me well big well, okay,
[1:02:46] Speaker 2: Well the analogy is made. He gotta set on.
[1:02:55] Speaker 3: All right, all right, all right. When all five players
[1:03:02] Speaker 3: got on the floor. There was a shift of momentum.
[1:03:07] Speaker 3: When all five players got on the floor.
[1:03:10] Speaker 2: When we had prayer and Bible reading and church Gatherine
[1:03:13] Speaker 2: and fasting and given. You should have heard the Wicked Wizards.
[1:03:25] Speaker 2: They was like, man up, get him, get him. The
[1:03:28] Speaker 2: matchup is not even fair when you play the players
[1:03:33] Speaker 2: God has intended for our faith. I hope this analogy
[1:03:40] Speaker 2: never leaves your mind. Why did you go through all
[1:03:43] Speaker 2: of this? Because I want you to see that most
[1:03:47] Speaker 2: believers are a few good men down. But if you
[1:03:53] Speaker 2: the coach of the team will say, I'm making a
[1:03:55] Speaker 2: decision today, I'm putting prayer in every day, and I'm
[1:04:01] Speaker 2: putting word. I'm reading the Word all the time, and
[1:04:03] Speaker 2: I'm coming to church regularly. And whenever God puts it
[1:04:06] Speaker 2: on my heart to fast, I'm gonna push my plate away.
[1:04:08] Speaker 2: I'm gonna push netflix away. I'm gonna push all that.
[1:04:11] Speaker 2: And I ain't gonna tell everybody. If you don't hear
[1:04:14] Speaker 2: from me, it's because i'm fast there.
[1:04:16] Speaker 3: Please leave me.
[1:04:17] Speaker 2: Shut up. The Bible says you're not supposed to look
[1:04:21] Speaker 2: ash you around the mouth, so everybody can give you
[1:04:23] Speaker 2: a piece of food. Stop. You should actually be more vibrant.
[1:04:30] Speaker 2: But for many of you, I'm just coming to tell
[1:04:34] Speaker 2: you don't hate the player. Giving hasn't played in your
[1:04:42] Speaker 2: game yet, and God's coming to ask you, would you
[1:04:50] Speaker 2: make giving the foundation.
[1:04:55] Speaker 3: For God so loved the world. He I mean, you
[1:05:01] Speaker 3: can still see my giving.
[1:05:06] Speaker 2: All y'all missed it. I'm not that big, but my
[1:05:10] Speaker 2: giving when I walk around.
[1:05:15] Speaker 3: You don't even understand what God could do.
[1:05:30] Speaker 2: All I'm asking is today, would you trust God with
[1:05:39] Speaker 2: the with his starting five to be your starting five.
[1:05:47] Speaker 3: Today? Many of you got paid on Friday.
[1:05:51] Speaker 2: I'm not telling I don't got no access to none
[1:05:54] Speaker 2: of your phones. I ain't got no bank information. I'm
[1:05:57] Speaker 2: just saying, don't fail this test. God's requiring something of
[1:06:03] Speaker 2: you that takes you to take everybody off the bench
[1:06:09] Speaker 2: and put them in the game.
[1:06:10] Speaker 3: I'm gonna read one more scripture. Y'all can sit on
[1:06:12] Speaker 3: the bench real quick, both of y'all.
[1:06:18] Speaker 2: Matthew seven twenty four our last scripture, and we were
[1:06:20] Speaker 2: getting out of here. This is Jesus talking, He said, everyone, then,
[1:06:26] Speaker 2: who hears these words of Mine and does them, will
[1:06:31] Speaker 2: be like a wise man who builds his house on
[1:06:34] Speaker 2: the rock.
[1:06:35] Speaker 3: Passer, Mike, what are you saying?
[1:06:37] Speaker 2: Everybody that puts prayer in the game, that puts Bible reading,
[1:06:43] Speaker 2: gathering in church, fasting and giving everybody who does that,
[1:06:48] Speaker 2: they will be like a wise man or woman who
[1:06:52] Speaker 2: builds their house on the rock.
[1:06:54] Speaker 3: And then the rain fell, and then.
[1:06:56] Speaker 2: The floods came, and then the winds blew, and then
[1:06:59] Speaker 2: circumstances happened, and I lost some investments, and my house
[1:07:03] Speaker 2: caught on fire, and people stole from me.
[1:07:05] Speaker 3: It doesn't matter what the situation is, but it did
[1:07:09] Speaker 3: not fall.
[1:07:11] Speaker 2: Because it had been founded on the rock Verse twenty six.
[1:07:16] Speaker 2: And everyone who hears these words of mine and does
[1:07:21] Speaker 2: not do them will be like a foolish man who
[1:07:24] Speaker 2: built his house on the sand. And the rain fell,
[1:07:28] Speaker 2: and the floods came, and my baby daddy left me,
[1:07:31] Speaker 2: and I lost my job. Come on, I'm just trying
[1:07:33] Speaker 2: to make it real. And I wrecked my car on accident,
[1:07:39] Speaker 2: and the wind blew and beat against the house, and
[1:07:44] Speaker 2: it fell, and great was the fall of it. Today,
[1:07:50] Speaker 2: as your pastor, I feel like in this third week
[1:07:52] Speaker 2: of the series, my greatest desire is for everybody to
[1:07:57] Speaker 2: build their house on the rock.
[1:08:01] Speaker 3: This is what Jesus said, not what Pastor Mike or
[1:08:05] Speaker 3: Pastor said. It's what Jesus said. Don't hate the player.
[1:08:13] Speaker 3: Change the game right now.
[1:08:18] Speaker 2: If you decide to do it God's way, you will
[1:08:23] Speaker 2: change the game of your life, of your future, of
[1:08:27] Speaker 2: your family's future. And today we're not gonna worship wealth.
[1:08:32] Speaker 2: We're not gonna be wicked, and we're not gonna waste wealth.
[1:08:36] Speaker 2: We're not gonna be wicked. Don't put this jersey on. Yeah,
[1:08:40] Speaker 2: Today we're gonna walk in wisdom, be kingdom conquerors, and
[1:08:45] Speaker 2: see God do amazing things as we obey his word.
[1:08:49] Speaker 2: Would you stand all over this place, hey, before you
[1:08:53] Speaker 2: rush out of here, we can I pray for you.
[1:08:57] Speaker 2: Would you just lift your hands right now today, God,
[1:09:01] Speaker 2: I'm asking you come on, hands lifted. If you know
[1:09:04] Speaker 2: this word has convicted you and there's something in you
[1:09:08] Speaker 2: that you know you need to change, you need to
[1:09:11] Speaker 2: change the game today. Today, I just want you to
[1:09:13] Speaker 2: lift your hands. Father, I pray for every person under
[1:09:16] Speaker 2: the sound of my voice, those who are struggling, maybe
[1:09:20] Speaker 2: with one of the things that you've called us to,
[1:09:26] Speaker 2: maybe several of the things you've called us to. Father,
[1:09:30] Speaker 2: Today I'm asking you for a new revelation of what
[1:09:34] Speaker 2: it means to put all of the players that you've
[1:09:37] Speaker 2: given us in the game.
[1:09:39] Speaker 3: God, I thank you that this moment will be ingrained.
[1:09:42] Speaker 2: And I thank you, Father, God, that you are working
[1:09:45] Speaker 2: on the hearts of men and women right now to
[1:09:48] Speaker 2: believe you beyond what they've seen before. Today, I thank
[1:09:52] Speaker 2: you for transformation. I thank you, Father God, that somebody's
[1:09:56] Speaker 2: getting the faith and the courage.
[1:09:57] Speaker 3: To step over the line.
[1:09:58] Speaker 2: Father. I think that there's high school students in here
[1:10:00] Speaker 2: that are making decisions that are going to change their
[1:10:02] Speaker 2: family forever. I thank you Father that there are senior
[1:10:05] Speaker 2: citizens in here, Father God that has said I've done
[1:10:07] Speaker 2: it the wrong way my whole life, but today I'm
[1:10:10] Speaker 2: making a new commitment.
[1:10:14] Speaker 3: Thank God. I thank you.
[1:10:16] Speaker 2: The whole lines and legacies of people will be changed
[1:10:20] Speaker 2: because of practical wisdom.
[1:10:23] Speaker 3: And quick obedience. Father.
[1:10:26] Speaker 2: For every person that is taking the step over the
[1:10:28] Speaker 2: line today to tithe, I thank you that the prayer
[1:10:32] Speaker 2: I pray privately, I'll pray it publicly. Father, let your
[1:10:36] Speaker 2: windows of heaven be poured out so much, Father God,
[1:10:39] Speaker 2: expanding with so much fruit that they don't even feel it.
[1:10:43] Speaker 3: God, I thank you.
[1:10:46] Speaker 2: Today that Transformation Church will become collectively watch this and
[1:10:51] Speaker 2: individually the most generous church.
[1:10:56] Speaker 3: Because we obey as you increase changes from the inside out.
[1:11:04] Speaker 2: God, in Jesus name, everybody look at me real Quickly
[1:11:11] Speaker 2: I started to think about.
[1:11:14] Speaker 3: Giving, and I just put this little phrase with it.
[1:11:18] Speaker 2: When you get when you get your notes, or if
[1:11:20] Speaker 2: you're typing on your phone, if you're still there, I
[1:11:22] Speaker 2: want you to write this down.
[1:11:23] Speaker 3: Giving is our calling.
[1:11:26] Speaker 4: A lot of people, like passor Mike, I'm trying to figure.
[1:11:28] Speaker 2: Out my calling. I want to know what God's called
[1:11:31] Speaker 2: me to do. God's called every believer to give, not
[1:11:36] Speaker 2: just money, to give. How do you get saved? For
[1:11:41] Speaker 2: God's so love the world he gave. How do you
[1:11:44] Speaker 2: invite somebody else to get saved? You have to give
[1:11:47] Speaker 2: them an invitation. This whole Christian life is about giving.
[1:11:52] Speaker 2: And when I thought about the mark of our church,
[1:11:54] Speaker 2: we're a church of generosity.
[1:11:56] Speaker 3: We give just to give and not to get. We
[1:11:59] Speaker 3: don't give four We get from love. And God has
[1:12:03] Speaker 3: blessed us.
[1:12:04] Speaker 2: And I thought, I said, what would it look like
[1:12:07] Speaker 2: for on this day where God's doing surgery on our hearts,
[1:12:11] Speaker 2: for us to not pray for a blessing but be
[1:12:14] Speaker 2: a blessing to somebody else?
[1:12:17] Speaker 3: And so I began to think, like, hold on, this
[1:12:20] Speaker 3: is our calling as a church.
[1:12:22] Speaker 2: We've done it over and over because of the faithfulness
[1:12:26] Speaker 2: of the people in this room and all over the world. Today,
[1:12:31] Speaker 2: we're gonna exercise our calling one more time. Is it
[1:12:36] Speaker 2: okay if we exercise and walk in our calling? So
[1:12:42] Speaker 2: I heard about a church that just started about three
[1:12:46] Speaker 2: weeks ago in Austin, Texas. It's called House of Light Church,
[1:12:51] Speaker 2: Pastor will Wilson Junior. Would somebody call them and tell
[1:12:56] Speaker 2: them that a check for one hundred thousand dollars is
[1:12:58] Speaker 2: on the way. Oh, y'all better help me praise God
[1:13:02] Speaker 2: in this place they just started, and we're gonna bless
[1:13:06] Speaker 2: them to be able to touch the city of Houston.
[1:13:13] Speaker 3: Somebody say, don't.
[1:13:14] Speaker 2: Hate the player. Yeah, it's giving.
[1:13:18] Speaker 3: It's giving.
[1:13:21] Speaker 2: Nobody hates the player of giving when they're on the
[1:13:24] Speaker 2: receiving end. Nobody hates it when they're on the receiving end.
[1:13:32] Speaker 2: But do you know what the Bible says, it's more
[1:13:35] Speaker 2: blessed to than it is too.
[1:13:39] Speaker 3: I want to know what that feels like. So we
[1:13:43] Speaker 3: get in practice today.
[1:13:44] Speaker 2: So I heard about another church that's in Memphis, Tennessee,
[1:13:49] Speaker 2: doctor Kia that is at the Church of the Wale.
[1:13:53] Speaker 2: Will somebody send her this message right here and let
[1:13:56] Speaker 2: her know that church will at the Well Church. There's
[1:13:58] Speaker 2: one hundred thousand dollars on the way to you today
[1:14:01] Speaker 2: on behalf of God and transformation to Church. I dare
[1:14:04] Speaker 2: you to celebrate like it just happened to you. Your
[1:14:10] Speaker 2: heart is getting exposed. When you can celebrate what God
[1:14:15] Speaker 2: is doing, it means he's in the neighborhood and he's
[1:14:18] Speaker 2: trying to figure out who can steward over more. And
[1:14:24] Speaker 2: it's so crazy like to watch people's reaction when we
[1:14:26] Speaker 2: do this, because the enemy does one of two things.
[1:14:30] Speaker 2: He either makes you celebrate the enemy don't make you celebrate.
[1:14:36] Speaker 2: You either celebrate the enemy's army. Because you think about
[1:14:40] Speaker 2: the goodness of God, you think about being a church,
[1:14:43] Speaker 2: and you in church right now doing something, or at
[1:14:45] Speaker 2: a house and somebody God puts you on somebody else's mind,
[1:14:49] Speaker 2: and that means that God may be talking to somebody
[1:14:51] Speaker 2: else about my situation right now. It gets you hype,
[1:14:55] Speaker 2: you get excited, or you get jealous. Well, why wouldn't
[1:15:01] Speaker 2: God do that for me? Why hasn't He done it?
[1:15:05] Speaker 3: Y'all?
[1:15:06] Speaker 2: I'm trying to tell you that the heart of generosity,
[1:15:11] Speaker 2: it is what God is wanting to work into all
[1:15:12] Speaker 2: of us and FAC's Mike, why do we do this publicly?
[1:15:16] Speaker 2: It's our giving. I don't want to be behind the
[1:15:20] Speaker 2: scenes making decisions with this. This is I'm a man
[1:15:23] Speaker 2: of integrity. I'm not about to just we did this,
[1:15:29] Speaker 2: and so today I got one more church that the
[1:15:32] Speaker 2: Holy Spirit direct And let me just say that when
[1:15:35] Speaker 2: I'm giving as the lead servant of this church, the
[1:15:39] Speaker 2: team will tell you they've been asking me for three
[1:15:42] Speaker 2: weeks who were given too? And if the Lord don't speak,
[1:15:49] Speaker 2: I'm not about to fool with what God is commanding
[1:15:54] Speaker 2: us to do with earth. I don't know these people.
[1:15:57] Speaker 2: I don't got no connection with these people out like God.
[1:16:00] Speaker 3: Is doing this.
[1:16:03] Speaker 2: And I believe he's gonna do it even more. Y'all
[1:16:06] Speaker 2: didn't even hear me. Thank you, Jared, for one more
[1:16:09] Speaker 2: person to believe.
[1:16:11] Speaker 3: What if how many weeks are in a year?
[1:16:15] Speaker 2: What if we gave one hundred thousand dollars away every
[1:16:17] Speaker 2: week y'all don't y'all don't hear me passa tammy. What
[1:16:23] Speaker 2: if we could give to another church every time we gathered,
[1:16:27] Speaker 2: we gave one hundred thousand dollars to another ministry nonprofit
[1:16:31] Speaker 2: or church. You ain't even gotta give.
[1:16:32] Speaker 3: You can at least celebrate with me God, y'all one day.
[1:16:47] Speaker 2: Because eyes have not seen and ears have not I've
[1:16:51] Speaker 2: never heard of that before.
[1:16:53] Speaker 3: What's that?
[1:16:54] Speaker 2: My math is kind of that's five point two, right,
[1:16:57] Speaker 2: five point two one hundred thousand.
[1:16:59] Speaker 3: That is that, right, Carrie? Is the year at zero
[1:17:02] Speaker 3: minus ten?
[1:17:03] Speaker 2: Tammy's like, yes, yes, yes, yes, five point two.
[1:17:06] Speaker 3: We're gonna do it one day. Mark my words, mark my.
[1:17:10] Speaker 2: Words, because there it's that hazar kaya blessing. He said, no,
[1:17:18] Speaker 2: this is just a ten percent. God has blessed they businesses,
[1:17:21] Speaker 2: God has blessed their homes, God has blessed their lives. Okay,
[1:17:26] Speaker 2: so the last Church. God is doing something in this
[1:17:29] Speaker 2: church that is so special. I've gotten to see firsthand
[1:17:35] Speaker 2: what God is doing. And this pastor actually came to
[1:17:38] Speaker 2: Tulsa earlier this year to talk about their transition. Never
[1:17:41] Speaker 2: asked for anything, and I wasn't even thinking. In the
[1:17:44] Speaker 2: Holy Spirit put them on a heart through one of
[1:17:45] Speaker 2: our staff members. And so today I need somebody to
[1:17:49] Speaker 2: travel over to California, Orange County. I think it is
[1:17:52] Speaker 2: and I need you to tell Pastor Bianca and revered
[1:17:55] Speaker 2: Church that there's a check for three hundred thousand dollars.
[1:18:01] Speaker 2: I said, there's a check for three hundred thousand dollars
[1:18:04] Speaker 2: coming to you to help you do what God called
[1:18:07] Speaker 2: you to do in California. Will somebody give God some gread?
[1:18:10] Speaker 3: Yeah, it's our calling.
[1:18:23] Speaker 2: So it may not be three hundred thousand dollars to
[1:18:26] Speaker 2: an organization today, but it could be thirty dollars to that.
[1:18:29] Speaker 3: Mom behind you at Kava.
[1:18:35] Speaker 2: It could be three hundred at Target today you got
[1:18:39] Speaker 2: extra Chack's return here glory to God. And you was
[1:18:43] Speaker 2: about to buy a TV. I don't know why TVs
[1:18:47] Speaker 2: are the thing. And God may be saying, hey, listen
[1:18:53] Speaker 2: so I can tell you where to give.
[1:18:57] Speaker 3: Next week.
[1:18:58] Speaker 2: I have one more message that's going on on tear
[1:19:02] Speaker 2: the roof off. I believe it's going to change the
[1:19:06] Speaker 2: way we see giving forever. But it's hard to give
[1:19:10] Speaker 2: when you haven't received. So today, if you've never received
[1:19:14] Speaker 2: the greatest gift ever given, today, I want to give
[1:19:18] Speaker 2: you the opportunity to receive. Jesus see some of you.
[1:19:22] Speaker 2: This whole time, your heart has been being moved. That
[1:19:24] Speaker 2: was the Holy Spirit trying to move your heart watching this,
[1:19:27] Speaker 2: you laugh, you jump, You felt the spirit He's been
[1:19:31] Speaker 2: drawing you, because for your whole life, he's been there
[1:19:35] Speaker 2: watching and he wants a relationship. He wants a connection
[1:19:38] Speaker 2: with you. He wants to guide you, He wants to
[1:19:41] Speaker 2: take you from where you are to where He formed
[1:19:44] Speaker 2: you to be. So today, if you're in this room
[1:19:49] Speaker 2: or your online and today you want to make Jesus
[1:19:52] Speaker 2: Christ your personal Lord and savior, I want to let
[1:19:54] Speaker 2: you know today is the day of salvation, not Easter.
[1:19:58] Speaker 3: Not next time you come.
[1:19:59] Speaker 2: We're not geive guaranteed that somebody say today. If you're
[1:20:04] Speaker 2: watching this and you're just in the living room because
[1:20:08] Speaker 2: somebody put it on and you can't wait till this turns.
[1:20:11] Speaker 3: Off so you can watch the game peekaboo.
[1:20:18] Speaker 2: God sees you, and he loves you, and he knows you,
[1:20:24] Speaker 2: and he wants to take the pain away.
[1:20:29] Speaker 3: But that takes this one word, surrender.
[1:20:34] Speaker 2: And so today, if you're listening to my voice, whether
[1:20:38] Speaker 2: it's in a car, in this room, on a rebroadcast
[1:20:41] Speaker 2: on YouTube, today is the day that God's saying come home,
[1:20:47] Speaker 2: get out the streets. And some of y'all like I
[1:20:51] Speaker 2: am not for the streets. You can be in the
[1:20:53] Speaker 2: penthouse and still be in the streets spiritually.
[1:20:56] Speaker 3: Do you hear what I'm saying.
[1:20:59] Speaker 2: This is the one that took me from being a liar,
[1:21:02] Speaker 2: a manipulator, somebody who was addicted to pornography, had very
[1:21:06] Speaker 2: dark things in my heart, was on a road to
[1:21:09] Speaker 2: destruction and death. And God just said, hey, you can
[1:21:15] Speaker 2: make a u turn and repent, and you can go
[1:21:20] Speaker 2: to the place I designed for you. And I'm telling
[1:21:23] Speaker 2: you I hadn't arrived there. I'll be going this way
[1:21:27] Speaker 2: until the day I go to meet Him in heaven.
[1:21:30] Speaker 2: But I promise you the scenery going this way is
[1:21:32] Speaker 2: totally different than what I was experiencing going that way.
[1:21:37] Speaker 3: Today, I want to offer you Jesus.
[1:21:43] Speaker 2: On account three if you want to receive Jesus as
[1:21:45] Speaker 2: your personal order and savior. I just want you to
[1:21:47] Speaker 2: lift your hand, and I need the church to start
[1:21:48] Speaker 2: praying right now, because somebody's life is in the balance.
[1:21:52] Speaker 2: This is why this church exists, so that you can
[1:21:56] Speaker 2: be transformed in Christ.
[1:21:57] Speaker 8: One.
[1:21:57] Speaker 2: You're making the greatest decision of your life.
[1:22:00] Speaker 3: I'm proud of you.
[1:22:00] Speaker 2: But more than that, your name is about to be
[1:22:02] Speaker 2: written in the Lamb's Book of life.
[1:22:04] Speaker 3: If you want to make Jesus Christ your.
[1:22:06] Speaker 2: Lord and savior. Three, lift your hand up in this place.
[1:22:09] Speaker 2: I see you, sir, I see you. I see you,
[1:22:11] Speaker 2: my brother, So Friday, I see you, my brother. Come on,
[1:22:14] Speaker 2: bold hands, I see you.
[1:22:15] Speaker 3: I see you.
[1:22:16] Speaker 2: Oh, come on, church, I see you. Good morning. Now,
[1:22:20] Speaker 2: God sees you.
[1:22:21] Speaker 3: Don't lead a god. I feel the presence of God.
[1:22:24] Speaker 2: Let me tell you what happened right now in heaven.
[1:22:28] Speaker 2: If just one person gives their life to Christ, Heaven
[1:22:32] Speaker 2: turns up every angel, everybody like yo. Yeah, Hell, somebody
[1:22:37] Speaker 2: in Tulsa, somebody in California, somebody in Florida just decided
[1:22:42] Speaker 2: to give their life to Jesus. And so today a
[1:22:45] Speaker 2: transformation church. I want you to know where a family.
[1:22:48] Speaker 2: Nobody prays alone. So could you lift your hands and
[1:22:51] Speaker 2: say God, thank you for sending.
[1:22:54] Speaker 3: Jesus just for me. Today. I surrender my life. You
[1:23:00] Speaker 3: can use all of me.
[1:23:02] Speaker 2: I believe you lived, you died, and you rose again
[1:23:07] Speaker 2: with all power, so that I may live with your power.
[1:23:13] Speaker 3: Change me, renew me, transform me. I'm yours in Jesus' name.
[1:23:20] Speaker 2: Amen. Hey, can we turn up right now and thank
[1:23:24] Speaker 2: God for every person hallejjah. Hey, hey, if you just
[1:23:30] Speaker 2: made that decision, I want you to take saved to
[1:23:33] Speaker 2: eight two eight to eight to or take the QR
[1:23:36] Speaker 2: code on the screen, and don't forget this week to
[1:23:39] Speaker 2: put in all five of your players. Okay, don't hate
[1:23:44] Speaker 2: the player. If you would love prayer before you leave.
[1:23:50] Speaker 2: The church is a place of prayer. The team will
[1:23:53] Speaker 2: be here in the front and in the back, and
[1:23:56] Speaker 2: we want you to get prayer. The worship team is
[1:23:57] Speaker 2: about to sing and some of you just need to
[1:24:00] Speaker 2: inger around and let the spirit of God move with you.
[1:24:03] Speaker 2: He's working some things out Transformation Nation. Don't log GoF
[1:24:06] Speaker 2: I'm about to pray with you in the back. And
[1:24:08] Speaker 2: if you would love to meet our pastors, meet me.
[1:24:11] Speaker 2: I'm gonna be back there today. You can go across
[1:24:14] Speaker 2: the hall in the south ballroom and we have this
[1:24:16] Speaker 2: little thing called meet the Pastors. Grab your kids and
[1:24:18] Speaker 2: come over there, and I would love to hug you
[1:24:20] Speaker 2: and just thank God for all He's doing in your life.
[1:24:23] Speaker 3: So proud of you, Church, I'm so proud. I can't
[1:24:26] Speaker 3: wait to report back to you next week.
[1:24:28] Speaker 2: How many people, how many more people have taken a
[1:24:30] Speaker 2: step of faith to give and we're gonna see God
[1:24:33] Speaker 2: do something Until next week. I want you to go
[1:24:35] Speaker 2: out and live a transform life. Let's worship just for
[1:24:39] Speaker 2: a second. Glory to God's Christ is my friend found day.
[1:24:49] Speaker 12: Yes, the rock on with Goshnan with everything around me shake.
[1:25:02] Speaker 2: I've never been more glad. I put my faith in Jesus.
[1:25:12] Speaker 2: He's never letting me down. It's faithfull in every season.
[1:25:22] Speaker 3: So outward.
[1:25:24] Speaker 2: He fell now to get I'll say he won't never never, No,
[1:25:32] Speaker 2: he won't.
[1:25:34] Speaker 3: See this next person.
[1:25:36] Speaker 2: And I'm still con.
[1:25:37] Speaker 13: Joying Kaos, I've got peace. Stand makes no sense, and
[1:25:46] Speaker 13: I won't be calling on under I'm not held by
[1:25:54] Speaker 13: my because I built my life, my life long.
[1:25:59] Speaker 2: He's never let me down. No, no, no, Jess favor
[1:26:05] Speaker 2: the generations Father. He fell now, Transformation Nation. I am
[1:26:17] Speaker 2: so excited that you were here and a part of
[1:26:20] Speaker 2: this moment. I hope you enjoy service today. If you're
[1:26:23] Speaker 2: on a device that you can let us know where
[1:26:26] Speaker 2: you're watching from and where you're worshiping from, we would
[1:26:29] Speaker 2: love to know the team is monitoring it right now
[1:26:32] Speaker 2: in there, sending me who's out there and today, if
[1:26:36] Speaker 2: you just literally made that commitment to Jesus, I want
[1:26:40] Speaker 2: you to text save the A to A tw We
[1:26:42] Speaker 2: are so excited for what God is doing and this
[1:26:46] Speaker 2: this series is taking us to a whole other level.
[1:26:49] Speaker 2: We're putting in every one of the players God has
[1:26:52] Speaker 2: called us to, especially giving, and today I want to
[1:26:55] Speaker 2: celebrate some of the people that have made a commitment
[1:26:59] Speaker 2: to tithe. I want to tell you that this is
[1:27:02] Speaker 2: a big deal because I've seen it transform not just
[1:27:05] Speaker 2: my life, but so many others. And I know that
[1:27:08] Speaker 2: God wants us to celebrate the small things. The Bible
[1:27:11] Speaker 2: talks about God rejoicing over the beginning, the little thing,
[1:27:16] Speaker 2: the start, and some of us have made decisions, and
[1:27:18] Speaker 2: so today I want to celebrate Shade and Katrina and
[1:27:22] Speaker 2: Cassandra and all of the people, the over six hundred
[1:27:25] Speaker 2: people that have made a decision to give for the
[1:27:28] Speaker 2: first time, and the over three hundred people that have
[1:27:30] Speaker 2: started doing it reoccurring. Said I'm not even gonna think
[1:27:33] Speaker 2: about it. I'm gonna honor God first. Today. I want
[1:27:36] Speaker 2: to pray with you, if that's your prayer request, that
[1:27:39] Speaker 2: you want to be one that starts honoring God and
[1:27:42] Speaker 2: you want to be prayed for. I really want to
[1:27:45] Speaker 2: pray for you. I want you to put me it's me,
[1:27:47] Speaker 2: I will honor God. Put it in the chat, say
[1:27:50] Speaker 2: it out loud. I want to honor God because the
[1:27:53] Speaker 2: Bible tells us that God gives seed to the sowler.
[1:27:55] Speaker 2: You can make a up in your mind right now
[1:27:57] Speaker 2: that I'm gonna be one who sows and God God
[1:28:00] Speaker 2: will be the one to give see for that thing.
[1:28:02] Speaker 2: And today I know that there are more prayer requests
[1:28:06] Speaker 2: that are coming in from all over the world, and
[1:28:08] Speaker 2: I want to speak specifically to them.
[1:28:11] Speaker 3: And if you have another prayer request.
[1:28:12] Speaker 2: From healing, mental illness, transformation, moving cities, children issues, put
[1:28:19] Speaker 2: it in.
[1:28:19] Speaker 3: We want to pray today. It's my honor to go
[1:28:22] Speaker 3: to God with you, but for you.
[1:28:25] Speaker 2: Today we pray for John in Arizona and Father God
[1:28:28] Speaker 2: even as he needs healing and is kidney Father God,
[1:28:32] Speaker 2: as he's walking through kidney feller failure. God, I'm thanking
[1:28:35] Speaker 2: you for wisdom, I'm thanking you for hope, and I'm
[1:28:37] Speaker 2: thanking you for healing.
[1:28:38] Speaker 3: In the name of Jesus. Father, you are the God
[1:28:40] Speaker 3: that put his body together.
[1:28:42] Speaker 2: And any person that is struggling, Father God, with any
[1:28:45] Speaker 2: type of infirmity, we speak right now in the name
[1:28:48] Speaker 2: of Jesus.
[1:28:49] Speaker 3: To wisdom of what to do.
[1:28:52] Speaker 2: We thank you. If he needs a kidney transplant, I
[1:28:54] Speaker 2: thank you that the donor comes. Father God, I thank
[1:28:56] Speaker 2: you that the process is fed up. God, I thank
[1:28:59] Speaker 2: you that you would do more than what we can imagine.
[1:29:01] Speaker 2: We pray for Shay right now, whose daughter father is
[1:29:05] Speaker 2: in the process of recovering from drug addiction.
[1:29:07] Speaker 3: Father, as this is a hard situation.
[1:29:10] Speaker 2: I thank you, Father God, that you would literally be
[1:29:13] Speaker 2: the comforter, that you would come alongside of Shay and
[1:29:17] Speaker 2: you would help her. Father God, that everything that needs
[1:29:20] Speaker 2: to be washed out of her system. Father God, I
[1:29:22] Speaker 2: thank you that those cravings and those desires, Father God
[1:29:25] Speaker 2: would be gone. In the name of Jesus, supernaturally, Father,
[1:29:29] Speaker 2: do what the medicine cannot. Father, however long they're saying
[1:29:32] Speaker 2: it is going to take, I thank you that you
[1:29:34] Speaker 2: would do it quicker than that, because you are a
[1:29:36] Speaker 2: God that.
[1:29:36] Speaker 3: Intervenes on the behalf of your children.
[1:29:39] Speaker 2: So today, for any addiction, whether it be food addiction,
[1:29:42] Speaker 2: drug addiction, Father God, pornography, I thank you that there's
[1:29:45] Speaker 2: a breakthrough that's happening. I need you to believe right
[1:29:47] Speaker 2: now in the name of Jesus, any addiction that has
[1:29:50] Speaker 2: God's people in trap. I thank you, Father God that
[1:29:53] Speaker 2: right now there is a breaking in Jesus' name.
[1:29:56] Speaker 3: Father. We pray Father God for the River family.
[1:30:00] Speaker 2: And I thank you, Father God that even as Sharis's
[1:30:04] Speaker 2: husband is in the hospital right now, I thank you Father.
[1:30:07] Speaker 2: You are the God that hears and heals. You are
[1:30:10] Speaker 2: the God that hears and you healed. So Father God,
[1:30:13] Speaker 2: thank you for wisdom in the name of Jesus, and
[1:30:16] Speaker 2: Father for every person that needs financial provision, house provision.
[1:30:20] Speaker 2: Come on, if you need provision right now.
[1:30:22] Speaker 3: I want you to lift your hands. Father.
[1:30:23] Speaker 2: I thank you for Jada in Chicago. I thank you
[1:30:26] Speaker 2: that she won't be able to be free from debt
[1:30:30] Speaker 2: and literally be able to walk in financial freedom to
[1:30:33] Speaker 2: take care of her family. I declare Father that the
[1:30:36] Speaker 2: bondage is of poverty and wastefulness. Father God, it would
[1:30:40] Speaker 2: be broken off of her generational line. As she honors you, God,
[1:30:43] Speaker 2: I thank you that you would give her special revelation
[1:30:46] Speaker 2: on these principles that are being taught. And I thank
[1:30:48] Speaker 2: you Father for favor favor in the places she needs it.
[1:30:52] Speaker 2: Father God, let her have boldness to ask for what
[1:30:54] Speaker 2: she needs. Father God, we pray for Jack and Patricia,
[1:30:57] Speaker 2: who both need new jobs.
[1:30:59] Speaker 3: Come on, if you need a new job right now,
[1:31:01] Speaker 3: if you need a new career right now, if you
[1:31:02] Speaker 3: need to be directed.
[1:31:03] Speaker 2: We pray because our connection to God, the Bible tells
[1:31:07] Speaker 2: us that if we honor God in all our ways
[1:31:09] Speaker 2: or acknowledge.
[1:31:09] Speaker 3: Him, he would direct our path.
[1:31:11] Speaker 2: So, Father, direct Jack and Pradricia's path to the new
[1:31:15] Speaker 2: places of employment. Direct my brothers and sisters who have
[1:31:18] Speaker 2: been off of work or disabled, Father God, or looking
[1:31:22] Speaker 2: for what the next season is looking like. I thank
[1:31:24] Speaker 2: you God that you are directing us, because all of
[1:31:26] Speaker 2: our help comes from You God. Today, God, we pray
[1:31:30] Speaker 2: for every person that is dealing with relationship crisis issues,
[1:31:33] Speaker 2: Father God, or relationship adjustments. God. I pray for man
[1:31:37] Speaker 2: to be who You're restoring the relationship she has with
[1:31:43] Speaker 2: her kid's Father God. I thank you God that even
[1:31:46] Speaker 2: as we walk in blended families and even broken families,
[1:31:49] Speaker 2: Father God, and how delicate those situations can be. Today God,
[1:31:53] Speaker 2: we're asking you, Father God, that you would supernaturally provide
[1:31:57] Speaker 2: peace to every situation. Come on, I want you to
[1:31:59] Speaker 2: pray for every blended family. For every family Father that's
[1:32:02] Speaker 2: about to come into being restored, where a man and
[1:32:06] Speaker 2: a woman are about to get together. I think you
[1:32:07] Speaker 2: that the kids and the man, or the kids and
[1:32:09] Speaker 2: the woman, Father, that you would allow them to become
[1:32:11] Speaker 2: a family unit, and you would be the one father
[1:32:14] Speaker 2: to put.
[1:32:14] Speaker 3: Things together in place that don't just think.
[1:32:17] Speaker 2: About the husband and the wife, but think about the
[1:32:19] Speaker 2: whole family. God, we declare and believe that the family
[1:32:22] Speaker 2: is going to be put back together, fortified and will
[1:32:25] Speaker 2: be the beacon of light in our society. God, we
[1:32:28] Speaker 2: pray for Shanya, Father God, whose son has just.
[1:32:32] Speaker 3: Been released from prison.
[1:32:33] Speaker 2: We declare and thank you Father that his life will
[1:32:36] Speaker 2: not be snatched away from the old things. But we
[1:32:39] Speaker 2: thank you that whom the son sets free is free. Indeed, Father,
[1:32:42] Speaker 2: let him have an encounter with you. Let him, Father God,
[1:32:45] Speaker 2: walk in freedom. Let him in the right places and
[1:32:47] Speaker 2: the right people. Father God, I thank you, Father God,
[1:32:50] Speaker 2: that there will be redemption, and I think you that
[1:32:52] Speaker 2: their relationship will be restored in a brand new way.
[1:32:54] Speaker 3: Father.
[1:32:55] Speaker 2: We are believing for Philip and Father God, believing for
[1:32:58] Speaker 2: a wife. God, for every person who's believing for their mate. Father,
[1:33:02] Speaker 2: we declare and believe God that you do not let us,
[1:33:05] Speaker 2: Father God, stay in positions without being able to ask
[1:33:09] Speaker 2: you for our heart's desire. Father God, I thank you
[1:33:11] Speaker 2: that you would change our heart's desires if it's out
[1:33:14] Speaker 2: of align with you. And I thank you that we
[1:33:16] Speaker 2: will worship you while we wait. I thank you that
[1:33:18] Speaker 2: we will work while we wait. I thank you, Father God,
[1:33:21] Speaker 2: that we will have wisdom while we wait. Today, Father,
[1:33:24] Speaker 2: I thank you for divine unions and divine connections.
[1:33:27] Speaker 3: Do what only you can do.
[1:33:28] Speaker 8: God.
[1:33:28] Speaker 2: Today, God, we thank you that you have shown us
[1:33:33] Speaker 2: the big plan for every believer. That we're supposed to
[1:33:37] Speaker 2: be ones who have a connection with you through prayer.
[1:33:40] Speaker 2: That we are supposed to be ones who are consistent
[1:33:42] Speaker 2: in Bible reading. We are supposed to be ones Father
[1:33:45] Speaker 2: that gather with the church community. We are ones that
[1:33:47] Speaker 2: are supposed to whenever you say fast and Father God,
[1:33:50] Speaker 2: we are ones that are supposed to every time you
[1:33:52] Speaker 2: say it give Today. I thank you that we are
[1:33:55] Speaker 2: not leaving any of the players you have called to
[1:33:57] Speaker 2: the game of life out of our walk of faith.
[1:34:00] Speaker 2: We trust you, we believe you, and we thank you
[1:34:04] Speaker 2: for all you've said, all you've done, and all you're
[1:34:06] Speaker 2: about to do. We give you glory on her and
[1:34:08] Speaker 2: praise and Jesus' name. Somebody type amen, say amen, shout amen.
[1:34:14] Speaker 2: Love you so much, y'all, God is doing something so significant.
[1:34:19] Speaker 2: I'm gonna ask you many of you need to watch
[1:34:21] Speaker 2: this message again. You need to ask God to give
[1:34:26] Speaker 2: you revelation. Now you watched it, you saw it, but
[1:34:29] Speaker 2: now you need revelation.
[1:34:30] Speaker 3: How does this apply to my life? And I'm asking
[1:34:32] Speaker 3: some of.
[1:34:33] Speaker 2: You as soon as it comes up today at five,
[1:34:35] Speaker 2: I want you to go to YouTube, cook that little
[1:34:37] Speaker 2: share link and how did you send it to five people?
[1:34:40] Speaker 2: Transformation starts with an invitation and some people need to
[1:34:45] Speaker 2: hear this that aren't gonna look for it. But God
[1:34:47] Speaker 2: sent you here today that you could be the conduit
[1:34:50] Speaker 2: of their transformation. I can't tell you how many stories
[1:34:53] Speaker 2: that we hear that people's lives have completely been changed
[1:34:57] Speaker 2: because one person decided to share what God did here
[1:35:00] Speaker 2: with them. And I want you to be one of
[1:35:02] Speaker 2: those people. Hey, listen, couple of announcements Easter at TC.
[1:35:06] Speaker 2: It's happened in.
[1:35:06] Speaker 3: April eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth.
[1:35:09] Speaker 2: We are showing this here in Tulsa four times two
[1:35:14] Speaker 2: on Sunday. But if you want to come join us,
[1:35:17] Speaker 2: I'm telling you this early so you can get your
[1:35:19] Speaker 2: plane ticket, your train ticket.
[1:35:21] Speaker 3: You can start swimming.
[1:35:22] Speaker 2: Now, you can ride a bike, you can run, whatever
[1:35:25] Speaker 2: you want to do. We want you to be here
[1:35:28] Speaker 2: because Ransom this year is going to be next level, y'all.
[1:35:33] Speaker 2: I've been in some of the rehearsals listening to the
[1:35:35] Speaker 2: new music seeing.
[1:35:37] Speaker 3: It's just phenomenal.
[1:35:39] Speaker 2: And if you have a lost family member, somebody that
[1:35:42] Speaker 2: is far from God, you need to make a decision
[1:35:45] Speaker 2: to either get here or invite them over on Sunday morning,
[1:35:49] Speaker 2: April twentieth, as we will be showing Sunday's presentation, and
[1:35:55] Speaker 2: I want you to see what God would do if
[1:35:57] Speaker 2: you be a conduit. And for everybody that's in tall
[1:36:00] Speaker 2: and online, that's a part of our dig. We got
[1:36:03] Speaker 2: a new start time starting this Wednesday. We usually start
[1:36:05] Speaker 2: at six o'clock, but starting April second, we're starting so
[1:36:09] Speaker 2: not this Wednesday, the next one. We're starting at six
[1:36:12] Speaker 2: thirty pm CST.
[1:36:14] Speaker 3: So we want you to be a part of that. Hey, y'all,
[1:36:17] Speaker 3: I love you so much.
[1:36:19] Speaker 2: I believe that the best days of your life are
[1:36:22] Speaker 2: right in front of you as you walk in wisdom
[1:36:25] Speaker 2: with everything that God has given you.
[1:36:26] Speaker 3: Until next week, go out and live a transform life.
[1:36:30] Speaker 3: I love you.
[1:36:33] Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us today. If you said that
[1:36:35] Speaker 1: prayer and accept it Jesus into your heart, it's the
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