Worship is our love expressed to God as a response to His grace towards us. In the first week of our Worship on the Word series, Pastor Mike helps us understand that worship is more than a slow song; it’s about our hearts and how we live our life. As we worship, we may recognize that there are some holes in our hearts that have caused us to leak out the love that God has given us. Yet in His presence, He gives us a new heart so that we can operate out of the overflow of His love. This message helps us to understand why we worship, how it starts with love, and why we can run to worship in our vulnerability. Scripture References Proverbs 4:7 NKJV Matthew 22:37-38 NLT John 3:16 NIV Deuteronomy 30:6 NLT 2 Corinthians 5:17 NLT Philippians 1:9 NLT Ephesians 6:16 NLT 2 Thessalonians 3: 3 NLT Psalm 91:1-2 NLT 1 Corinthians 13:6-8 NIV Psalms 119:9 NIV Join us for service online every Sunday at 11am (CST), Monday’s for Monday Night Prayer at 6pm (CST), and Tuesday’s for Rebroadcast at 6:45 pm (CST). If you received Christ through this message, text SAVED to 82828. We would love to hear how God is touching your life through this ministry! Tell us your story by emailing [email protected]! If you would like to support TC financially you can give through the TC app, or online through our website by clicking here https://transformchurch.us/give/. You can also text “GIVE” to 828282 to give using your mobile device. If you need prayer, email [email protected]! For more information about Transformation Church, visit transformchurch.us or follow us on our social media platforms below. Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/wearetransf… Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/wearetransfo… 00:00 – Intro 06:39 – Proverbs chapter 4 verse 7 NKJV 07:10 – Knowledge definition 07:30 – Understanding definition 07:46 – Wisdom definition 08:26 – Knowledge + understanding = wisdom 10:42 – I will have the wisdom to worship 13:44 – Our worship is the only gift we can give God 22:26 – Worship is not just a song 24:17 – Worship is our love expressed to God as a response to His grace towards us 24:48 – Matthew chapter 22 verses 37 & 38 25:47 – Worship starts with God’s love for us, not our love for God 29:22 – John chapter 3 verse 16 NIV 31:03 – We don’t worship FOR love, we worship FROM love 32:28 – Worship starts with love 35:13 – There will be times you will have to worship when you are weary 36:40 – 1. Love is given 36:41 – Deuteronomy chapter 30 verse 6 NLT 39:12 – 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse 17 NLT 41:45 – 2. Love grows 43:19 – Philippians chapter 1 verse 9 NLT 46:44 – 3. Love leaks 46:54 – Ephesians chapter 6 verse 16 NLT 49:22 – 4. Love needs protections 50:11 – 2 Thessalonians chapter 3 verse 3 NLT 52:47 – Worship supernaturally changes your present because of His presence 56:00 – Psalm chapter 91 verses 1 & 2 NLT 56:41 – 5. Love never fails because God is love 57:17 – 2 Corinthians chapter 17 verses 6 through 8 NIV 57:35 – How do you worship with a hole in your heart? Hide yourself in Him.
hi my name is Bree and I have the
privilege of serving as Chief of Staff
here at Transformation Church at TC our
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let’s jump into today’s message
today
we are starting a series
called worship on the word and I need
every time I say that at the beginning
of the message this is just for me I
need everybody to say wow okay so like
okay okay okay okay today we’re starting
a brand new series called worship on the
word
y’all fake y’all didn’t even y’all
didn’t even do it over here we’re gonna
try it one more time
today we’re starting a brand new series
called worship on the word
there we go
it seems annoying right now
but by the end of this series you’re
going to be in awe of God
the only reason you say wow
in an authentic sense
is when something literally takes your
breath away
wow
I never seen anything like that
everybody say wow
I’ve never been to a place like this
somebody say wow
I’ve never felt this before
y’all gonna get it
I really do believe that worship is the
one area of our relationship with God
that no matter how you get into his
presence you can leave saying
I didn’t know that this amount of
frustration could turn into that much
faith
I wasn’t sure that my Brokenness and all
those pieces could turn into a
masterpiece but God somehow you do what
nobody else can do
and in this series I’m excited because
your boy is a worshiper
like like like if I don’t do nothing
else
I’m Gonna Worship God I’m a worship God
until you feel uncomfortable
like I’m the dude on your road that’s
gonna be like he’s doing a lot
uh
it comes out of me because I know where
I was at when I was broken
and I know how much God has done for me
and at the end of this series I believe
there is going to be an eruption of
expression around worship not just in
church services
the weakest Place To Worship
is here
oh God
the entire atmosphere is set we got
amazing musicians the smoke is in is
that the Holy Spirit no it’s Haze it’s
we they sell it it’s Haze it just makes
you be able to see the lights better
like
the people down the road where worship
gets authenticated
is when you walk into that job you don’t
like
worship gets authenticated when you are
in your home and your kids are driving
you crazy and your hands go up and say
God I thank you uh oh I thank you for
who you are what you’re doing and where
you got me right now worship is
authenticated in environments that seem
unlikely
and my question to you is when’s the
last time you Worship in a place that
was not conducive for it
this is why we have to worship god with
understanding and it is my burden in
this series because when I ask people
just basic questions about worship who
go to church love God are saved play on
the band on the platform serve a lot of
people don’t have an understanding of
worship when I ask people like what is
worship how do you worship what happens
because of worship why should we worship
when do I worship who’s qualified to
worship most people I am convinced do
not have a true understanding of worship
Charles get me uh
this the wrong one and I don’t need the
sermon to be able to do this it’s in my
heart so put the thing back up there
we don’t have a full understanding
actually worship God the that’s why we
think it’s the two slow songs at the
beginning of service
oh I can’t miss worship oh
some people think worship is just crying
we can do that
but what I’m saying to you right now is
worship is not what church has relegated
the 15 minutes at the beginning of
service where the lights go low and they
sing a slow song that is not worship
that is an expression of worship
but that is the smallest sliver of what
worship actually looks like in your
entire life and in this series I want us
to worship god with Revelation reveal
truth I don’t want you using some
borrowed version of somebody you saw who
you like the way they sing and you’re
using their version of worship to make
you feel like this is true worship half
the people that sing your favorite songs
is living found
okay
I get the calls
I’ve had to rescue some of them
I’ve had to bring like it’s not about
the singing Only
it’s about what’s in your heart
and how you live your life oh
see the problem is if worship was just a
song everybody would get an A
cause all of us got our favorite worship
song
but God said could I have your worship
life
and in this series I want you to have an
understanding go to Proverbs chapter 4
verse 7. we gonna know how to worship
god with our words with our song and
with our mind
oh my gosh proverbs 4 7 wisdom is the
principle thing
therefore get wisdom what are you
supposed to get
I said what are you supposed to get
and in all you’re getting getting under
standing there is a difference between
watch these three understanding
knowledge and wisdom
understanding initiates wisdom so a lot
of people understand
knowledge but they don’t understand
understanding
okay let me explain it to you knowledge
write this definition down our facts and
information
a lot of us have knowledge about random
dumb stuff
a lot of us know like okay let’s be
honest how many know like random facts
about stuff that does not matter in life
okay we got facts and information but
understanding watch this is to perceive
the intended meaning
so when I get actual understanding I’m
like oh those facts and information
actually make sense because I understand
what is actually happening and watch
this wisdom is applied knowledge
now a lot of people have knowledge and
understanding and do not apply it
so they do not walk in wisdom but they
know a lot you ever met somebody who
dumb smart
okay y’all know what I’m talking about
like
like you really smart
but you don’t know how to do this stuff
you would tell other people to do
some of y’all are like that in
relationships here we go
got advice for everybody
still there with clontavious getting
never let me stop let me I was about to
that was gonna be too personal
write this equation down
knowledge plus understanding equals
wisdom say it with me knowledge plus
understanding equals wisdom let me give
you an example everybody has the
knowledge that we’re not supposed to
text and drive
uh oh somebody got convicted right there
but everybody knows
text and drive
but if you get in a car accident
and wreck your car while texting and
driving now you have a understanding
what what you knew you weren’t supposed
to do now I get the I get it
I’m gonna have to be riding a bus for
the next eight months
I understand now I’m a grown person
calling people for it’s because now you
get it
but after you get knowledge and
understanding you should be walking in
until you start walking in wisdom the
word you read
means nothing
and still you until you start walking or
applying the knowledge you know
your time and devotion is worthless
it’s just an exercise
in religion
I hate religion you don’t do what you
read
it’s like practicing for basketball and
never playing a game
you do all that
and you never
it’s ritual
it’s routine
it’s religion and may I submit that most
of the church when it comes to worship
is not worshiping with wisdom
we’re worshiping out of ritual
we’re worshiping out of routine this is
the part where I okay this is where oh
this is the part where I okay this is
the part where I ah
and God’s saying I want your worship to
be real
somebody write this down by faith
somebody say I will
have the wisdom
to worship say it one more time I will
have the wisdom
to worship
see when you start walking in wisdom it
changes everything let me tell you a
story with this being Mother’s Day and
I’m Gonna Make It Real personal
um when I started walking in wisdom on a
situation and maybe this will help you
um 2014
um we had our beautiful baby
um uh Bella in 2013 and it was Mother’s
Day
and um at this particular time I was um
I mean I had the knowledge that Mother’s
Day was important and um I had the
understanding that moms like things on
Mother’s Day but I was still um in a
little ignorance because
um I thought you know you had to put
years in the game to really earn the
substance and find the value and the
meaning
of being a mother
um
this one this one’s not good
so me and Nat go to Target to get our
mother something for Mother’s Day Late
the night before Mother’s Day and that’s
just walking by and at Target Every
Woman points at something and says Oh I
like that I thought that was a cue that
that’s what she wanted for Mother’s Day
so she walked by and saw something that
was like eh and I was like oh yes I’m
gonna sneak off and get this for her for
Mother’s Day and tomorrow she’s gonna
look up and think I’m the greatest man
in the world well I gave her that gift
the next day she was devastated
tell us why pastor
she was devastated because there was not
much effort much energy much thought put
behind it and she carried my whole baby
for nine months and let that thing come
out of her and I was kind of treating it
hazardly that baby was so mad she didn’t
want to look at me she didn’t want to
talk to me it ruined the day it ruined
the week honestly you she looked at me
like I gave her a disease do you
understand what I’m saying
and that 2014 Mother’s Day I started
walking in wisdom
some of y’all thought that’s too much
for him to bring her up here that ain’t
about you
that’s about me living this week y’all
don’t hear me I walk in wisdom at your
expense Well that took too long not for
me
[Applause]
Mother’s Day to me is like her birthday
why
cause my knowledge had to move to
understanding
and then my understanding had to move to
apply the knowledge which is what with I
don’t ever want you to lift your hands
in a service again and not know why
ah I don’t ever want you to be in a
place where your tears start coming down
and you not know
why
we will worship in wisdom oh I feel this
thing okay
so so so so here’s why worshiping and
wisdom is so important write this down
this is so important because our worship
is the only gift we can give God
I need you to hear me say this
your worship is the only gift that you
can give God
let me help you this Changed My Worship
life my expression life to God when I
thought about this for real think about
it prayer
when we pray
that is not for God
when we pray
ER is to God
for us
so a lot of times like I spend time with
God I spend time praying
he don’t need the prayers
you need the prayers
you need to talk to him you need that
source of life you need to be refreshed
by what he speaks back to you but that’s
why I need everybody to understand
prayer ain’t for God
the end result of prayer is that our God
would speak to us and help us through
our current situation that we would
intercede for other people that we would
supplicate and we would be able to make
prayers and petitions and all those
other things but prayer is to God for us
everybody say to God
for us the Bible
the Bible is not for God
he is the word
he didn’t write it down through men so
that he could remember what he said what
did I say
the Bible is from God to
us
so when you read your Bible you’re not
giving God what he deserves
[Music]
oh God I need you to think about it
because many of us check off our prayer
and Bible reading like we did God of
favor
made it to your presence
I’m on a reading streak on my bible plan
God I prayed for seven minutes today
you happy with that like that
that’s not for God
it’s for us let me give you one more
giving
is I gave God what with his it was hard
but I want him to know where my treasure
is
My Heart is also you think God is up in
heaven like one two three four five
streets are paved with gold in heaven
you think your 37 dollars did something
for like
when we give we give
to God
but it’s for us
nothing makes us more like God than when
we give
when we step outside of our self and
we’re generous
I just want to let you know that worship
is the only gift that you can give God
because worship is for God
from us
every time I say I love you God
every time I wake up and I say thank you
for waking me up again
every time I say father God I hate this
pain but thank you that I can feel
every time
that I lift my hands when I clap when I
don’t like to when every time that’s the
only thing I can give God and this is
the crazy thing about it Angels don’t
have a choice
they were created
to worship him they sing in the same
song in heaven top one hit on
Billboard’s hearts in heaven forever
holy holy holy
is the Lord God Almighty they remix it
put a little reggaeton on it but it’s
the same
song
the reason human beings are different is
because God gave us a choice
because it cannot be loved
if it is not a choice
and so when we worship God let me tell
you something you have a choice
a lot of people you ain’t got no choice
you better worship God no I do have a
choice
and there’s many times I’ve chosen
if I’m honest to obey my feelings than
my father
I don’t feel like it and so I’ve allowed
my feelings to become my God
over
what the father
doesn’t require
watch the word
he requests
let me help you understand God not
standing in heaven like worship me
the worship of my people
is now powering me to do he’s not
no I need you to say because somebody
like we we act like God needs to power
up through our worship
he’s God no matter you worship him or
not the Bible says the trees will begin
to cry out the rocks will begin to Cloud
the ocean begins to worship Him He
but as a good father
he’s not requiring worship
he’s requesting it
and many of us because we don’t feel
like it will not listen to our father’s
request
okay
so so
I think about it because I am a father
of four kids
it would be like
Ava
coming up to me
and and being like Daddy she’s five
years old
what can I do for you
what can you do for me
everything you have is mine
let’s think about this the house you
have the clothes you have the stuff you
call yours is mine
get my iPad who’s not bad
I’m pulling up to my house whose house
like
I want Chick-fil-A who gonna get it for
you like
the only thing that my daughter Ava can
give me
is gratitude
she don’t have to say thank you
a lot of times parents we try to force
it what do you say
y’all doing it
kid’s mouth watering like and you’re
like ah what do you say
what
way to teach them
okay
now they don’t even care no more like
thank you I ain’t even doing it and they
just
but
but when it comes from our heart and my
daughters are so Daddy thank you
what is that warm fussing
that has landed in the middle of my
heart
Bella come up to me dad you’re the best
dad in the world
I just love that you’re my dad
it literally
takes my breath away
to think that everything that I’ve given
them
they can’t give me nothing they can’t
add to the bills I mean they do have to
the bills they can’t add to paying for
the pills
they they can’t actually do anything to
him but when they Express gratitude to
their father in response to what they
have seen me do
it’s the part of being a father that
make you be like what you want
no no why you acting like this oh this
is just out of your heart
this is just how you feel about me
if my little babies can do that on this
Earth
how much more
do you think that God feels when his
children
red and yellow black and white all
precious in His sight
begin to lift up their hands open up
their mouth make decisions
with their life
how much does that bless him it is the
only thing
worship is the only thing that we can
give to our God so I’m gonna give you a
spoiler alert I said it before but I’ma
just reiterate it so you can write it
down in your notes worship is not just
the song
and the church has done a bad job
at letting people think now we’re going
to worship
get on your feet
let’s worship
put your hands up
let’s
worship
and when something is defined wrong for
a long time
then you begin to think that’s what it
is
and so somebody’s like did you worship
this week I was at church
and some of us know the whole time we
just stood through it
thinking about the cares of life
what we gonna eat after this
why she keep looking at me like that she
know I’m fine
y’all already know y’all being searched
right
we’re gonna have to pray for scoliosis
Jesus
everywhere but focused on him
but many times
we have made it about a song and I love
worship songs
but God loves a worship life
more than he likes a worship song
you could never sing another song but
live the way he says to live and your
life would be more worshiped than having
everybody that you like on this platform
they ain’t like that one because I just
messed up your playlist what I’m trying
to give you is the Playbook to live your
life In Worship
okay
okay now we’re going to talk about
expressing through worship and through
song and through all type of different
ways but I just gotta break it right now
worship is not just a song
okay so what is worship Pastor Mike
write this definition down this is the
anchor definition of this entire eight
nine ten week series however long we’re
gonna do it here we go worship is our
love expressed to God as a response to
his grace towards us
worship is my response
to God
as a re is is worship is love expressed
to God as a response to his grace
towards us Matthew 22 verse 37.
Jesus replied you must love the Lord
your God with all your heart all your
soul and all your mind this is the first
and greatest commandment of all the
years I’ve been in church people say
that like it’s easy
that is not freaking easy
I barely could do anything with all my
heart all my mind all my soul
anything
but this
is supposed to be hard so you can’t do
it without God
anytime you feel overwhelmed like how
can you do this the answer is you’re not
supposed to alone
this Christian faith is a faith of
dependency on him God does not want you
to do anything without him
he wants you to be with him and so you
can read the scripture and be like dang
I can’t do that exactly see worship
starts watch this
with God’s love for us
not our love for God
okay let me break it down
if Worship Is Love expressed what is the
key ingredient to that we have to
express love
everybody say love
you cannot worship something without
loving it
you cannot worship something and a lot
of us worship other things than God
because we love them
uh oh
can you name or no don’t say it out loud
think of three things that you love
and I want you to honestly ask yourself
have I expressed my love to those things
more than God
this is a very convicting moment
because I had to be very honest
there have been times where I express my
love to Natalie more than I did to God
and what the Bible calls that is an idol
oh
I have made my children
idols
some of y’all your job
you express I love this job they pay me
more than anybody the benefits the
benefits the benefits
I’ll never lose this job I’ll be here
I’m gonna work my way up I’m gonna do
this I’m gonna forsake all others I’m
not gonna get married I’m not gonna do
anything
it’s become an idol
and God’s saying you love other things
more than me
cool
but I’m asking you to refocus on loving
me and expressing it so watch this if we
need to understand worship Worship Is
Love Express everybody say that worship
is love Express
so when you express your love to God you
gotta understand this you cannot express
what is not there so worship starts with
God’s love for us not our love for God
this is great news for me
because when I was jacked up I wasn’t
thinking about God
people don’t say this but when you’re in
the club like going uh doing it
I was about to act like we was real
friends
when you when you lit has anybody like
lived a wild life or the life that you
know you wasn’t supposed to be living
okay just I know there’s a lot of
perfect people in here but when you’re
doing it you’re not thinking of God
you’re thinking about who
will feel good
what I like
what like
and if I had to start worshiping
with the love I had for God
it wouldn’t be good
because I didn’t have enough
but worship starts with God’s love for
us
while we were yet sinners
he said I love him
so I’m gonna make an ultimate sacrifice
for them so if they ever look this
direction they’ll see that somebody has
paid more to have a relationship with
them than anybody they’ll ever come in
contact with I’m gonna do this on a
maybe
I’mma love them before they even know
they need to love me
[Music]
and that’s why
we can be confident John 3 16 for God so
love the world that he did what gave his
only son that whoever believes in him
shall not perish but have eternal life
the scripture says for God so loved the
world not for the world so love God
so I need everybody to get in your mind
if you don’t love God now it’s okay
if you don’t if you don’t feel it if you
wonder why are they doing
it’s okay
he already loves you
you don’t have to clean up
you don’t have to present yourself well
with the Black and Mild with the blunt
with the 40.
oh I’m in here with a few religious
people so they don’t even know what to
do right now in the alternate lifestyle
what you’re doing right now God already
loves you
there is nothing you can do to stop him
from loving you you may not receive it
yet you may not feel it yet but it’s
already done he has already proven his
love for you and if there’s anybody in
the room that knows that God loves him
despite what you do oh that God loves
you more than you could ever express why
don’t you give him one shout of praise
somebody just say this I am loved by God
say it like you believe it I am loved by
God
this makes me excited
so when Matthew 22 says live him with
all your heart your soul your mind
he says all right
that love starts with me so I’ma give it
to you first and then write this down we
don’t worship
for love we worship from Love
I don’t ever want you to lift your hands
say a word give anything ever again
trying to prove something to God
well God I’m here let me just get no no
no no no no you do not worship God for
love another day
you worship God from love you are
backstroking in the love of God right
now the fact that you are alive and you
have half of your mind and that you are
able to stand here and be able to think
you are loved
and it’s time for the church to stop
worshiping God for love
there are days that God would rather you
come to him honest and really be like
God I don’t got nothing
I don’t got nothing for you today
would you do what I can’t do right now
I’m doing what your word says because
this series is called worship on the
I’m listening to your word you said in
my weakness
but you would give me straight so my act
of worship to you is telling you the
truth today
do you know what would happen
if we would actually worship God from
love not ritual not rules it’s not a
down payment for our Salvation it’s not
a brownie point for heaven
it is a response to his love
so write this down worship starts with
love
worship starts with I’m saying the same
thing because I’m trying to reprogram
you
I’m trying to get you to understand that
there is nothing you can do
that disqualifies you from worshiping
God
a lot of people have not worshiped
because they have felt discouraged
can I be honest with you today I wanted
to take this message up
I told my people I was like let’s I’m
worship we’re about to tear the roof off
and the Holy Spirit says but you’ll
leave a lot of people
because most people have not figured out
how to this is the title of my message
worship
with holes in your heart
a lot of people have been discouraged
they have looked at
the layout of the land and how the
trials of Life have come to try to knock
them out
and so there’s like the worship series
that’s for everybody whose life is going
good
the worship series that’s for everybody
that got a reason to praise
the worship series
I can’t do that
I feel like God’s forsaken me
if if I if he was really good I hate
when they sing good good father
cause he don’t feel good to me
no can we be honest like
[Applause]
we’re singing here’s my worship all of
my worship where you been
where have you been for me
and so sometimes we come into moments
where God wants to meet us and it’s a
standoff
you want to get to me you know how to
get to me
I’m telling you what I know
you want me to worship make me
do something
you’ve got a miracles
change my heart
and I have watched people for years
stand
face to face face with the god of the
universe
and the only reason they won’t do what
they really desire to do
it’s because they’ve been hurt
and I have found out in this last season
of My Life
that there is something very significant
that happens
when you learn to worship even with a
hole in your heart
write this point down there will be
times
you will have to worship when you are
weary
there will be times where you will have
to worship God when you are weary
nobody told me that
everybody told me like you’re gonna
worship God cause you got the victory
[Music]
and we come into service and we love
having a victory but nobody tells you
about the valley
oh God
how do you Worship in the valley
I’m sick of walking through this
my money ain’t changed yet
why my kids don’t acknowledge what I did
for them why do they keep coming after
me why haven’t I got a promotion yet why
am I still alone
see the church has taught you how to
worship when you’re winning
but they have not taught you how to
worship when you are weary
and today
before we go off on this rocket ship of
worship I didn’t want to leave anybody
behind
I didn’t want us to go up and be
praising God and our brothers and
sisters down here like y’all y’all let
me know how it goes
y’all live a life of worship
five things I want you to know about
love
because Worship Is Love what expressed
okay
first thing love is given Deuteronomy
30. six I love this this changed my life
the Lord your God
will change your heart
oh I could stop there the Lord your God
will do what
change your heart
and not just you the hearts of your
descendants
so that you will do what love him
with all your heart and all your soul
you see how it’s tying back in God gives
you a requirement love me with all your
heart all your soul but he says and I’ll
change your heart
I’ll give you what you need to do what I
ask you to do
I’ll change your heart
see this is what people don’t understand
this is what your heart looks like
before salvation
this is your heart
used abused holes in it brittle jacked
up and what we usually try to do is ask
God to fix this heart
Fix My Heart Lord he said ain’t nothing
I can do with that
Deuteronomy 36 says he doesn’t fix your
heart
he gives you a new heart
today somebody needs to be encouraged
you’ve been holding on to this
when God’s trying to give you this
he said stop trying to patch up the
heart that does not have the ability to
hold my presence would you just allow me
to give you everybody say a new heart
[Applause]
this is why you have to understand when
we come into the presence of God when
your attitude begins to change and you
say stuff like that ain’t me duh
I’d never do that duh
he’s giving you a new heart so many
people deny God’s transformation in
their life because they’ve never been
like that before
but how can you change and stay the same
how can you ask God to take you to
another level but you won’t let him give
you what he needs you to have for the
next level
and what God is saying is if you need a
Heart full of love don’t try to patch up
your old one
let me give you a new one
somebody just say God
give me a new heart
this what happens at Salvation
but you can’t
hold all heart and claim the new one
so the thing you got to know is love is
given okay second Corinthians 5 17. this
means that anyone who belongs to Christ
has become a new person
the old life is gone
and a new life has begun what is the
source of life in a body
the heart
if he’s giving you a new life
it’s giving you a new heart
he’s gonna allow your heart to beat for
stuff you didn’t even care about before
you’re gonna get new feelings I’m
supposed to go serve with kids I don’t
even like kids
that’s not the old heart
many times we’ve declared stuff put
stuff on Facebook made declarations to
people I’ll never get married hold on
you to have a new heart
y’all better stop saying what you’ll
never do
you said that with your old heart I
ain’t never gonna be no Pastor Hold on
said that with my old heart look at me
in a pink suit on Easter
no it’s not Easter what is it Mother’s
Day all the holidays I don’t know
it’s a lot of them
be careful what you say with an old
heart oh that’s nasty
because God wants to give you everybody
say a new heart
okay so when you get Faith In Jesus you
get a new heart second thing you need to
know about love
because love
I love this
well let me just say it like this have
you ever been in a worship service or
around people who really love God and it
seems like they love God more than you
it’d just be like somebody say Jesus
they’ll be like oh
it’s like
dang
am I the only one It’s just sometimes
it’d just be like they’d be like lamb
and they was talking about like food and
it was like Lamb of God it’s just like
like dang
I used to ask people like why does it
feel like they relationship with God
feels like
so much
bigger I’m like what up dog made it to
another day
thanks like it was just
my mom coming oh yeah
hey hey
I’m just being honest
but when I found out
is that love is not just giving
when you get a new heart
love
grows
God will give you a heart and some of
y’all been at your
let me just say it honestly
some of you have been saved for decades
and you still have your adolescent heart
[Applause]
you just thought because you got a new
heart
you didn’t need to grow
okay we talking maturity right now and
then people start getting offended okay
what you mean in my relationship with
God I’m just me and God nobody should
judge me what is
all I’m saying is you 52 in God and
still acting five
your love should grow let me ask you a
question
for everybody that has children okay and
maybe you have teenage or adult children
is your love for your children
less
the same or greater than when you had
them
it’s greater you love them more you
might not like them more let’s be honest
but you love them more why because the
time spent
because of experience because of being
there what I’m telling everybody is God
gives you love but the more time
the more moments you spend the more
times you just get in his present your
love for God everybody say grows
oh this is important that’s why
Philippians 1 9 look at this it says I
pray oh my God the Bible is nasty I pray
that your love will overflow
when we’re singing that song overflow
I’m not just talking about that you
overflow with money and overflow the
more than all of that I want you to
overflow with the love of God
I pray that your love would overflow
more and more and that you would keep on
growing in the knowledge
and understanding because if you have
knowledge plus understanding it he grows
Bible is smacking us today
what I’m saying to you is
um what God desires for you
it’s for you to have a love
that when he begins
to pour into you
it would be something
that would fill up
nah
that’s just enough for them
so I can put that in environments
where it doesn’t really need protection
because they don’t plan on their love
being able to move Beyond them
it’s about me my four and no more
it’s about me and my family about my
church house
and God’s saying would you let me put
you on display
so that when I begin to pour off on you
that the love I have
could begin to do what
see everything that God wants to give
you in this new heart now listen
[Applause]
My Old Heart
could not even hold half of
what happens when I spend time with him
I can’t tell you how many times God Has
Changed Me In His presence because I was
just there
not cause I did something special he
said just get with me
just spend time with me and some of us
still have the audacity to be related
fill me up Lord
do a new thing in Me God
and the truth is we’re not in the place
of his presence so we’re doing it out
here
and the closer I get to these
Electronics
the whole Tech team is like Jesus
[Applause]
what I’m saying is if I pour out
excuse me
that wasn’t pouring out
I was leaking
the reason many people can’t worship is
because your love is leaking
you haven’t let him give you a new heart
so you’re trying to love people from a
leaky heart
and it’s now coming into a place where
it can damage things
and God’s saying would you please let me
let your love everybody shout at me
overflow
that’s what I’m praying for you by the
end of this series that you would
understand that the love that you need
to worship God Is Gonna Come From him
but you would not stop it at a little
bitty level that you would allow your
love to grow and it would overflow
I just said it third point you need to
know about love
his love leaks
Ephesians 6 16 tells us that the enemy
our adversary is storing fiery darts at
us
and I believe he’s trying to allow us to
be discouraged believe lies so that the
love we have for God leaks out
the enemy wants to do this
no anybody got a pen I can borrow you
got a pen let me borrow your pen real
fast that’s what just throw it up here
this is what the enemy will do to us
had a good worship experience didn’t you
she got bills tomorrow
and you spending Mother’s Day and your
kids didn’t call you
oh yeah you thought that you were your
friends but they’re actually trying to
steal
your reputation
how in the world is it Monday
and I just left this amazing worship
experience
and I feel like I don’t even have
the audacity
to worship God
it’s because even the love God gives
can leak out because of the life
we have to live on this Earth
and this is what nobody talks about like
you should praise Him command your soul
to praise I’m leaking
I’m discouraged
I’ve been battling trying to stop
smoking for seven months
and this week
fail
I don’t want
I don’t want to be fake with God
but the truth of the matter is if
Worship Is Love expressed
I don’t have no love in me
and what God is saying is you need to
come into His presence
and you need to have protection
you need to be able to set your heart in
a place of everybody say protection
see the thing about it is when the enemy
comes and I spend my life in his
presence
the same stabs
that would have came
[Applause]
okay y’all don’t believe me okay let me
go to the Bible okay here we go
write this down number four Your Love
needs protection
your heart leads for if I’m Gonna
Worship God and worship is love Express
I’ve got to protect the love
somebody say that I gotta protect the
love
and the enemy’s trying to steal your
love for God every day
he’s trying to sell you lies he’s
holding something from you he forgot
about you you’re always gonna be in this
situation your marriage will never be
this you can’t believe this shotgun the
hell up
that felt like the most appropriate time
to say it
shut all the lies from hell up
then I have to
worry God is saying and then I have to
put myself in an atmosphere to protect
my heart
okay
second Thessalonians 3 3 but the Lord is
faithful
he will strengthen you
and guard you from the evil one
how in the world can I get up and go
into situations that I know are set up
for me to fail in
and still come out loving everybody
how can I go to my family’s house today
on Mother’s day knowing my brothers and
sisters was talking about me before I
got in the room
oh y’all going y’all gonna be fake I’m
trying to teach you how to really
worship
and I leave there actually feeling a
burden to pray for them
how do I go to that job every day
it’s because you have to guard your
heart the Bible says guard your heart
Above All Else
because of out of that place it flows
the issues of I only can express out of
the place where my love is
okay
so protection watch this is found in his
presence
I’m going to teach you something that
that uh you need to adopt right now
if you ever are feeling vulnerable
Run To Worship
because worship attracts God
it
you can be in the key of Z flat
some of y’all singing it often but you
you can be in that key
that’s why the Bible says Make a Joyful
Noise unto the Lord
you didn’t say notes noise
what I’m telling
worship
the way I live my life
the way I love people the way that I
expressed him it attracts him and
because your love needs protection
whenever you are weary
whenever you are wondering
whenever you have even been watched this
one wrong
some of us have been dead wrong and we
knew it
okay how many people been doing the
wrong thing you knew it was what God did
not want you to do and you was well
aware
even when you’re wrong you can worship
oh my God
it’s the thing that will change your
mind
everybody’s telling people to get fixed
before they come to worship no
I gotta be close to God I need to be in
this presence I need to be around him so
I can change write this down worship
supernaturally changes your present
because of his presence
I can be in the same spot and worship
God and get a brand new perspective
I can’t tell you how many times in this
last year and a half even preparing as I
was writing this book damaged but not
destroyed and battling through the
tensions and my emotions and all this
other stuff and God would just stop me
and say worship me
I don’t feel like that
I feel like worshiping and he said I
don’t care what you feel like your
feelings will follow your faith
I said what worship me I can’t tell you
I begin to worship
express my love to God sometimes it was
just on the piano plan sometimes it was
singing sometimes it was just walking
around saying thank you thank you thank
you that’s a powerful worship praise
right there thank you Lord I’m Grateful
sometimes and I’m telling y’all
supernaturally it wouldn’t even take 10
15 20 minutes sometimes it’d be three
three minutes
and I’m telling you I was a different
person because you’re worship has the
ability to supernaturally change your
present because of his presence
what I’m telling you is Run To Worship
when you have a hole in your heart
when you’re disappointed Run To Worship
when you’re feeling low run the worship
when you’re feeling suicidal
run
to worship when you feel alone
Run To Worship how do I worship Pastor
Mike with a hole in my heart
you worship
all
the time
when you just get close
and some of you have needed to make a
step towards God
and that would be the biggest act of
worship that you would ever make
see everybody tries to make it super
deep
it’s about presence
it’s about just being okay
I know when my dad walks in the room
not because I see him
I can smell Tommy Todd before I see him
I can literally walk in the room and say
my father’s been here
it was his
presence
God is saying would you just come close
and get in my
presence
this series is not about explaining what
you’re feeling there will be tears every
service
there will be people that are crying
there’ll be Revelations that happen
they’ll be but it’s not going to be
because we’re trying to prove anything
to anybody it’s because now we’re going
to start worshiping with an
understanding worship is our love
expressed to God when I cry
God’s being worshiped
when I stand in Ark he’s being worshiped
when I go out and give to the person on
the street that God tells me to give to
I am worshiping God
and some of y’all have needed your love
your heart to be protected Psalms 91
verse 1 those who live in the shelter of
the most high
will find Rest In the Shadows of the
almighty this I declare about the Lord
he alone is my refuge
my place of safety he is my God and I
will trust him
I’m asking everybody who may have a hole
in your heart let God renew your heart
today
would you just stand all over the
building I feel the presence of God
last point I want you to hear me say the
reason
that we’re saying we’re gonna worship
and worship starts with love is because
Love Never Fails
because God is what love
this seems very Elementary guys
but if we don’t get it here
and start walking in the understanding
plus the knowledge we never can truly
worship God because what we’re trying to
do is prove ourselves no we don’t
worship for love we worship what from
Love
First Corinthians 13 it says love does
not Delight in evil
but rejoices with the truth it always
protects
always trust
always hosts always perseveres love
never
fail
Pastor Mike how do you worship with the
hole in your heart here’s the one answer
to the whole question hide yourself in
him
my mom used to tell me that Psalms 119
all the time how does a young man or a
young woman keep their way pure they
hide themselves
in the word of God
Pastor Mike if I have a hole in my heart
what do I do hide
hide behind the one who knows every fear
hide in the one who this is what I’m
saying to you
you can still have a hole in your heart
this oh let me just show you okay
with the hole in your heart
when your heart is in his presence
you can literally have the holes
and nothing leaks out
look look what it’s doing
it’s holding it up
oh no y’all missed it when you begin to
worship God it begins to carry you oh my
God it’s lifting up
how does it keep bouncing
[Music]
is this what it means for God
to renew our strength
In Worship
when I just get in his presence
with the holes
when I felt like I couldn’t even get up
no more it’s literally Lifting me up
instead of lifting instead of leaking
I’m being lifted
worship is the only place where he can
turn your leaking
into a lifting
[Music]
hands lifted all over this place oh I
feel the presence of God
if you’re in this room
and you know
that it’s been like gravity trying to
get you to express your gratitude
it’s been like gravity’s been holding
you down
it feels like I don’t I don’t even feel
worth
doing what I know God
requests of me if you’ve had a hole in
your heart and it’s been hard for you to
worship this is what I want you to do
I’m asking you
just to lift your hand right now I know
I just told everybody lift your hand but
if that’s you for real I just want you
to lift your hand if it’s been and I
need this to be a moment where you’re
saying I’m identifying this is the this
is an act of worship right here
okay anybody that feels comfortable
I want you to make your way to this
altar like move these stanchions back if
you’re online just put your anybody that
feels comfortable y’all I just believe
God’s about to do something we’re not
going to ask God to meet us
and then not make time for him to meet
us
I am no longer gonna let the holes that
have been plagued in my heart keep me
down I will worship
I’m not gonna be silent
I’m not going to stand in his presence
out of Face-Off no more
today I’m gonna surrender come on hands
lifted all over this building whoa I
feel the presence of God today God give
us a new heart oh
[Music]
give me a new heart
make my heart grow God
fill me in your presence this is this is
not everybody and I know some people are
struggling right now but one of the
biggest Faith steps you can make is
saying I’m no longer sitting here in
silence somebody needs to move now this
is the moment that breaks it over your
life
if you’re at home hands lifted take a
step towards your screen this is just an
Act of Faith
there’s two groups of people people who
have had holes in their heart
and people who haven’t had a heart
Exchange
if you’re in this room and you want to
be saved if you want to get a hard
exchange I’ma pray for you first
and then God’s about to do a renewal in
this room ah like I’m telling you I
don’t care how long you’ve served I
don’t care if you are a pastor In a
Different Light life I don’t care if if
you know all the things about God this
is time for you to stop being King numb
and allowing your heart to be callous
it’s been hard
cause you’ve been hit
it’s been trying because you’ve been
going through trials
it’s been frustrating
because you feel like God’s forsaken you
today
I feel the presence of God
getting a new heart
and you’re getting a renewed heart if
that’s you
and you want to make Jesus Christ your
personal Lord and Savior and exchange
your heart
for his on the count of three I want you
to lift your hands this is why our
church exists this is not for you to
clean up and get your stuff right God is
the only one that if you give him your
heart he’ll help you change your habits
if that’s you I want you to lift your
hands on the count of three one two
three that’s you you want to give God
guys look at the hands going up all over
this world
oh no y’all need to give God praise for
that online just put your head
so proud of you
today is a renewal and nobody at TC
prays alone I feel the presence of God
up here y’all something is about to
change we’re about to unlock something
that’s going to change our worship
forever oh my God I feel you
if that’s you we’re gonna all pray this
prayer for the benefit that of those who
are coming to Christ just lift your
hands and say God
thank you
for loving me
before I knew how to love you
today I give you my life
I Repent of the old
and I receive the new
I believe you lived
you died and you Rose again
for me to have everlasting life
and today
I give you my life
change my heart
change my mind
transform my life
I’m Yours in Jesus name amen now look at
me everybody we’re going to celebrate
everybody here in just a second this is
a holy moment this whole series we’re
gonna flow everybody say flow
God’s gonna speak and then we’re gonna
respond
I’m gonna say it again God’s gonna speak
and then we’re gonna do what respond
because worship is our response is our
love expressed as a response
to his grace towards us for everybody
it’s been hard to worship because you
felt like there’s been a hole every day
you wake up depression anxiety
frustration why God
is about to heal you right now hands
lifted if that’s you I feel the present
I need everybody to be praying
God you said in your word
that you would give us everything that
pertains to life and godliness
father your children have been hurting
and father our love has been leaking I
feel the presence
and for every person father God who has
not had enough
to even say thank you
today I thank you that you’re accepting
tears
today I thank you that you’re accepting
faith
God today I thank you that you’re
accepting our silence but our our heart
lean towards you
today we all stand here saying we need
you to fill us up again God come on you
just ask God fill me up God don’t just
patch me up fill me up God God fill me I
need you to protect me in your presence
father I’m running to the shadows of who
you are I’m running to you I’m running
to worship
forgive me from running away from my
father
today I’m running towards you
[Music]
today we’re running towards you
I pray that today is the last day that
we believe the lies of the enemy
father today I believe that you’re doing
heart surgery right now God’s given new
Hearts right now oh my gosh
don’t fight what God tries to do in this
place right now and he ain’t just doing
it right now he’s gonna be doing it all
week long
new marriages are coming out of this new
relationships with Fathers and Sons and
Daughters and mothers
[Music]
somebody’s getting their Joy back right
now some of y’all looking at me the holy
spirit is here the healer is here he’s
in your home he’s with you right now
just let him do the work
[Music]
Here’s My Worship
all of my words
receive my word
all of my work
come on just here’s my
it’s what I got to give God
[Music]
receive my
[Music]
all of my come on just 30 seconds close
your eyes lift your hands Express to God
here’s my here’s my God I’m gonna live a
life worth
[Music]
God
[Music]
only gift I can give you God
today I take off my callous heart and I
put on what you have for me God they
hurt me but they are not worth them
stealing the praise that I have for you
today I worship you with a hole in my
heart
and you’re the only one that can renew
me and restore me
and I will and die yeah
somebody’s getting their worship back
somebody’s getting their praise back
[Music]
come on just because I’m breathing
somebody say as long
[Music]
the healer is here
the great physician is here
we will worship on the word that you
have given us God that you’ll never
leave us you’ll never forsake us today
God we are getting our feeling back God
today we are allowing you to take
control
we will not withhold our worship
[Music]
[Music]
I am
always
worship
[Music]
I feel led
for us to close this service this is
going to be surgery for the next 10
weeks
we can’t miss one of these because what
God’s doing for many people right now
is he’s taken out what has been hard
some of y’all are going to begin to feel
your heart’s going to begin to beat
again
I can even see that you’re up here at
the altar like
this is the most
life transforming thing you could do is
say God give me a new heart
I don’t want to be angry anymore
this is a big one that I feel the Holy
Spirit I want Turtle oh thank you Lord I
want to forgive them
some of the pain has been because you
have been literally holding on to
unforgiveness
as your card to basically say well I can
be like this and God says your heart
can’t hold that anymore
it’s time to forgive them
the prayer team we’re going to end
service I want y’all to begin to move
throughout here and just begin to pray
for people y’all if you’re online put
your prayer requests in the chat I feel
like there’s some moments that you just
in there’s like go out and live a
transform life this is transplant today
God is doing transplants and so I don’t
wanna I don’t want to rush surgery I
don’t want you don’t want anybody
rushing heart surgery and if God’s gonna
do something in you he’s gonna do it all
week this is not past the right touching
you it’s just being in the presence of
God
and just saying here I am God come on
just somebody say here I am God
father I just thank you that even as you
continue to do the work and you teach us
how to Worship in understanding
knowledge and walk in worshiping and
wisdom
father I thank you today
that we’re realizing there’s no more
excuses for us not to give you worship
God
today I thank you God that you’re giving
us new hearts and we are going to
express our love to you every day this
week I come against every lie of the
enemy that says you’ve done too much you
can’t do that God I thank you that you
are accepting our worship today and
Father I thank you that there is healing
happening right now in this room God I
thank you that somebody is coming alive
again right now father I thank you that
the tears are signs of Life father God I
thank you Father even that it feels
painful it’s a sign that we’re still
here father God I declare and I believe
families are going to be made hold I
need y’all to pray with me I thank you
Father God that you are moving people
out of confusion in the right direction
of their purpose father I thank you that
they may be damaged but they are not
destroyed father I declare right now
that you would begin to move on each of
us let not religion or ritual keep us
from experiencing a brand new revelation
of worship
so today they’re in this service we just
declare here’s my worship somebody
here’s my word
lift it up
come on hands are sit everywhere
[Music]
not just on Sunday but every day God
the way that I lead the way that I love
Here’s My Worship
[Music]
please
[Music]
father I thank you that this will be one
of the best weeks we’ve ever had
not because everything changed it’s
because your presence is changing our
present
today God we will not let one day go by
and us not give you worship
we will express our worth
or how much you’re worth to us we will
express our love to you
God I thank you that you will give us a
deeper understanding a deeper Revelation
and bring us back here next week
not just to gather together but to
worship you father God
trust you and we believe you and we
declare that this week will be a
transformative week do in us what only
you can do
trust you we believe you and father for
every mother who has had a hole in their
heart
today Father I thank you that the
greatest Mother’s Day gift that they
could get is your restoration to them
right now we pray that you restore
mothers you will restore relationship
you would bring back hope again father
God
thank you for what you’ve done in this
place
if you were one of those people who gave
your life to Christ today
we want to give you resources
at whatever moment you feel released to
do that I want you to type saved to
828282
because we want to give you some
resources to help you this is not a
Sunday thing this is a Monday through
Saturday thing
we don’t want you just oh I’m for God
today we want you to live for him but we
want to help you do that so whenever you
get a chance after heart surgery
text that number and I want everybody to
meet me back here next week
because we’re going we’re going to teach
you how to express your love
to God in different way we don’t gotta
express it the same
we don’t got to do it the same way but
God is going to give us a confidence
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to express our love to him in a way that
he created us to
we’re going to walk in another level of
wisdom and worship amen
until next week go out and live a
transformed life let’s give God a shout
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thank you so much for watching this
message we pray that it encouraged you
we also want to say thank you to our
faithful partners and givers here at
Transformation Church it’s because of
your generosity that this Vision has
been made possible if you like to
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live a transformed life
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