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hey welcome to this week’s sermon I am

so glad that you were here no matter if

your usual or somebody sent you the link

I believe that God has a message just

right for your life at this time okay I

want to let you know that this is a

series that is going to help you win in

relationship and if you want to take

that to another level in resource I’m

gonna let you know relationshipgoals is

still out everywhere

the book as well as the study guide and

for everybody who’s already gotten it

thank you for being a part of changing

the world for everybody who has not

bought this from somebody else they need

this in their life and if you’ve never

heard of relationshipgoals this book is

written to help you win in relationships

I’m telling you that God cares about

every one of your relationships and we

want to help you win so this sermon is

about to give you revelation get ready

as we go into this week son I’m ready

let’s go all right all right all right

all right all right all right

I don’t know how long y’all got but

ain’t nothing else happening today and

so I’m gonna give you all of this

message okay I’m gonna give you

everything that I got if you got to go

and you got to do something just just go

and do that and hit it on the

rebroadcast but today I believe that I

have a word that is going to help you in

your relationship so today we are

starting week seven of a series we’re

calling relationshipgoals reloaded help

me okay now some of y’all was like

passing likewise this week seven well

well what you got to realize is that um

in the middle of this series we took a

necessary break to address racism and

inequality and equality and what this

looks like and I want you to know that

we will always be led by the spirit our

planet transformation church is plan B

if God wants us to address something to

be able to speak something we’re gonna

do that every single time and I believe

that all of those messages were very

necessary they’re needed and they’re

anointed to help transform and change

our world I still could not shake though

the burden the

God had given me to finish what he had

given me for relationshipgoals

and so for the next four weeks I’m going

to complete my assignment and see some

of us right now I’m preaching already

are so I’m thrown off by the things that

are going on in life that we think it’s

negated our assignment and God’s saying

that even though everything is termed

turmoil and stuff has changed

he said the assignment is still the same

everything can change but the assignment

is still the same and so we moved

everything for anybody who’s been a part

of transformation church for over a year

you know that every July is fun month

that transformation Church and we have

all kinds of themes stuff and we usually

have guest speakers because in July

myself and passing Natalie always take

that month off to recharge and

rejuvenate the original relationship

Gold Series came out of sabbatical the

crazy faith series came out of

sabbatical when I can rest and recharge

and get with the Lord and spend time

with my family that begins to give me

another burden and God is able to

download but I moved all of that back to

August because I’m gonna finish the

assignment so July these next four weeks

I’m telling everybody right now every

one of these is coming for all of us so

that we can be more like Christ and we

can win in relationship somebody said

I’m gonna win in relationships and a lot

of people they look at this relationship

Gold Series and they may have been

married for 50 years or they may not

want a relationship so they say this

series is not for me anybody that’s been

plugged in this is not just about

romantic relationships this is about

relationships you’re gonna have with

your kids and your grandkids

relationships that you’ll have with

business partners and and CEOs of

companies these are relationships you’re

gonna have with the clerk at your local

Kwik Trip or the the relationship you

have what people in church God wants you

to win in all of your relationships but

without revelation in our relationships

we end up resorting to what we know and

let’s just be honest most of us don’t

know a bunch about relationships when we

look at our parents and how they did

relationships the families seek

it’s the things that have happened to us

and hurt us in the past and even in the

present it’s time for us to go back to

God’s Word and see what it says about

relationship and so today I’m gonna go a

step further in this series and I

believe that this message is

strategically for every person that is

watching this right now you’re gonna

share this with somebody after this

because it’s something that everybody’s

dealing with and nobody’s talking about

see that’s my job today is to bring to

the church not to social media not to

Instagram not to a close group of people

that I trust I as a pastor have to stand

and I have to talk about things in the

church that are a little unclear but I

gotta talk about these things in the

church right now because if we don’t

talk about it then who gets to define

the narrative culture and they don’t

know about what they didn’t create they

only can assume about it and it leaves

all of us looking like the first three

letters of that word so what I’m telling

you today is that we’re gonna go to

God’s Word and um people keep telling me

they keep asking me like how so Mike

okay I hear you talk about relationships

and all that but how much does watch

this word attraction have to do with

relationships today I want to talk about

attraction I want to talk about this

word because a lot of people don’t

realize how much it’s controlling their

actions attraction is controlling so

many of our actions and reactions and

today I want us to get a better handle

on what is happening in this word

attraction let me tell you what

attraction means and I want you to write

this down attraction it’s the power of

evoking interest mmm I like that ooh

that’s nice mmm that would look good on

me

evoking interest pleasure or liking for

someone or something like I’ve been

talking to a lot of people counseling a

lot of people listening to the DMS in

the comments

and people have put this massive weight

and worth on attraction and I’m not

saying it’s bad I’m not saying that it’s

wrong I’m not saying that it’s not

important I wholeheartedly believe

attraction it’s important I do not think

that it may be as important as some of

us have been making it

oh now before you tune off and and and

hitting me and be like um I don’t know

what he talk about mommy has to be fine

because if I can’t look at him then I

ain’t gonna be looking at him whatever

you’re feeling right now

give me the next 30 to 40 minutes to

break down how much attraction is

sometimes controlling what we want to do

in what we don’t want to do

how much attraction how much value were

putting on this feeling that we have and

it’s putting us in places that are not

the goal see many of us have a goal we

put it out on our vision board we wrote

it down in our journal we do all this

stuff and then we get attracted to

things we get attracted to things that

we never knew was there let’s be honest

have you ever gone to a restaurant and

then you see something on the menu it’s

like I didn’t know they had triple dip

cheese fries wood onions and bacon and

like and you didn’t even know it was

there I didn’t even know this was an

option and that’s what the enemy’s plan

is for you it’s to present you with

options you didn’t even know what’s

there to put things in front of you that

you aren’t clear and didn’t even have a

desire for before and what happens is

because we don’t know how to deal with

attraction it usually ends up in

subtraction because we don’t know what

to do with this actual feeling that we

have this actual desire this actual

inclination we give into it so willingly

because we feel it and when you fast

forward through our life will be like

that was the moment that I did it but

this is what it took from me this was

the moment I was attracted to it and

this was the moment it subtracted from

me

today I need you to realize that God

wants you to know what to do with the

traction and do his word today I’m gonna

help you because what I found out in my

own life is everything I’m attracted to

it’s not good for me or good to me okay

it’s it’s it’s one of those things that

I’m finding out daily cuz you know your

pastors been very open I’m on this

healthy lifestyle trying to lose weight

and do all this other stuff journey that

I’ve been on and it sucks and it is up

and down and some days I feel great and

I drink my whole gallon of water and

then other days I drink a gallon of crap

okay so I just want to be very

transparent with you but do you know

there’s some things that are hindering

my goal of getting to where I want to be

in my health journey do you know one of

those things is little kids birthdays do

you know why I’m frustrated right now I

got a vent to y’all little kids

birthdays bother me because there’s free

pizza and my downfall

cake there’s this cake cake everywhere

vanilla cake chocolate cake it’s take

everywhere and always at the end of the

party they’re looking for somebody to

send the cake home with and I don’t know

why I’m always around when they’re like

do you want the cake and I’m like yes

but no yes I want to eat the cake

because I’m attracted to it the

sprinkles the width icing the the

strawberry am I the only one y’all gonna

leave me out here like this

there’s just cake and I have a goal but

I’m attracted to the cake now you may be

laughing at me because I’m talking about

cake and it may not be your exact

situation but there’s things that you’re

attracted to that are going against the

goal that you’ve set for your life and

it’s going against the goal that God has

already charted for your purpose and I

and I’m frustrated about it

you know something else that’s

distracting me from my goals

my wife madam coming for you uh my wife

me and her we we set up this plan to

save a certain amount of money to be

able to invest some things to do some

other things for the house and for the

kids and for the future and she’ll be

like hey can I go get and undoubtedly

every time we walk into the store now

natalie is a country girl she don’t she

don’t know name brands she don’t know

any of that stuff so literally when she

walks in she just picks what she likes

and for some reason everything she likes

it’s the most expensive version of

whatever it is yeah we can literally

walk into anywhere and it’s like I like

that one is like that’s seven million

dollars and and and the goal is to be

able to invest and save and this and

that but because of her attraction there

are things that are going against the

goal now I’m using fun analogies at this

current moment but I want to ask you

what are you attracted to and the second

question I want to ask you is why are

you attracted to it now these are things

that most people will never ever sit

down and actually ask themselves why am

i attracted to it and what what are

y’all doing what no no now you hear me

up here talking about my downfall cake

and you just gonna sit what I’m

attracted to in front of me you’re just

gonna bring up this beautiful sprinkle

infested I don’t even know what kind of

I got to cut into it to see what type of

flavor it is I need to invest

the gate more because there’s not enough

information here it’s taking me off

course of what I’m supposed to be doing

right now but it’s so attractive but no

no no no no no I got a I got a mission

I’m gonna finish my assignment you get

behind me Satan I’m in overcomer

okay okay I’m not gonna okay oh man

okay but I didn’t eat breakfast this

morning and I’ve been doing so well I’ve

been doing so well destiny all wait of

Destiny all week I’ve been eatin was not

attractive

I’ve been eating salad all week I feel

like just I mean I deserve I deserve to

indulge in this thing that will keep me

from the goal it’ll only be a moment

nobody would know if y’all wasn’t here

no no no no no I’m gonna stay focus

almost a focus I’m gonna stay focus imma

stay focused okay my attraction to take

is robbing me of my goal could you fill

in the blank there my attraction to

blank it’s robbing me from my

relationship goals now there’s a lot of

things we can put there and if you’re

honest yeah some of you it’s a person my

attraction to Jerome it’s robbing me

from my relationship dollar girl you

don’t understand he put it down I mean

he bought me something I mean he look

good for my Instagram photos your

attraction to Charon is robbing you of

your relationship goal your attraction

to money is robbing you of the goal your

relationship goal now you have all the

money in the world but your wife doesn’t

like you because you’re never there to

spend time with the family so your

attraction to being successful

is robbing you of the real relationship

go I’m preaching already and I know it’s

quiet around your house because you’re

sitting watching me on something that

you felt was more important to buy than

spend time with your family so your

attraction to toys and cars and people’s

approval is robbing you of your real

relationship go it’s the same thing with

the cake if my goal is to live healthy

and to walk right and to be here to last

I’m not saying that cake is bad I’m just

saying is I don’t need cake see what we

try to do is generalize everybody’s

journey what we try to do is make

everybody but like if I need y’all don’t

need to eat cake listen they might need

cake because they have some type of um

low blood sugar and might need that but

but my journeys not your journey and so

if God is telling me I can’t eat cake

it don’t matter if it’s a birthday party

for me it doesn’t matter if you bought

it in good intentions it doesn’t matter

if it used to be my favorite what you

need to recognize is that this no longer

is what I need but I’m still attracted

to it so what do I do

when it’s still attractive what there’s

legitimate attraction here what I found

right this point down attraction is

often a thief of full satisfaction what

I’m attracted to

will end up at some point stealing what

I really wanted and I’ve been watching

this cuz the enemy tries to sell you

this lie that there’s a straight line

from attraction to satisfaction

attraction I’m attracted to it so it’s

gonna satisfy me I’m attracted to that

woman so I’m gonna have sex with her

it’ll satisfy me I’m attracted to that

business or that success so I’m gonna

start this business we think it’s a

straight line this is the enemies

trickin I’m exposing him today

everything you’re attracted to and the

attraction does not lead to satisfaction

it may be a momentary something that I

like oh that was great but what it’s

doing is taking me from the real goal

what it’s doing is causing problems that

I might have to deal with later what

it’s doing is causing a bunch of crap

that’s gonna have to come out oh that’s

what some of our relationships are right

now that’s what we’re coming to the

altar every week to get prayer for it’s

things we were attracted to that we

indulged in and then we had to get rid

of it somehow and some of you are

constipated with all of your attractions

let me stop that’s that’s the enemy’s

greatest lie is that and that what he

thinks you want will actually satisfy

remember he tried to do it to Jesus

don’t act like if he if he tried it with

Jesus he’s not gonna do it with you

remember when he tempted him in the

garden and-and-and-and not in the garden

but he took him to the desert and he

tempted him and and he told him he said

hey if you do this I’ll give you what

will what no satisfied now y’all don’t

have to bring out the chocolate cake

blacklivesmatter and so does this

chocolate que oh and it’s got Reese’s on

top of it now I got I got what promises

satisfaction on one hand and what

promises satisfaction on the other hand

and what it’s doing to me at this

current moment is it’s distracting me

from my assignment and I don’t know

what’s going on in your life but it may

look like this picture right now that

there’s something that looks satisfying

on one hand and there’s something else

that’s looking satisfying and what it’s

currently doing to you is distracting

you from what is going to bring full

satisfaction doing what God’s called you

to do be in the middle of purpose living

a life that is not robbed by this idea

but living a life full of what Jesus has

called you to do and this is why I need

to give you my second point attraction

is often a distraction I know this seems

very elementary but what this is is your

life and what is happening at this

current moment is the distractions of

being friends with those people the

distractions of getting more connections

and being popular and having Instagram

followers those are all started as

attractions we saw it with somebody

we saw it somewhere the house you want

how do you even know the house is this

except you were attracted to it you saw

that maybe if I’m and maybe if they then

it’ll make me and God says many of our

attractions not all of them but many of

them we put so much weight on them that

they are now our distractions my

question to you is what are you doing

right now that you feel like is going to

satisfy and it’s disappointed at every

step of the way some of you are in

careers in relationships and marriages

just starting up blogs and businesses

you don’t even like that but somebody

showed you an image that you thought

would satisfy you you are jumping from

bed to bed with guy and guy and girl and

girl searching for something that will

never happen oh I gotta come to your

house because at the moment that many

people think is fine to just hook up

with everybody and see what it gets you

and what that’s doing probably what I’m

gonna talk about next week Bishop is

it’s creating an appetite see your

attraction if you indulge of them will

create an appetite that will never be

fulfilled and then you’ll get the thing

that could have fulfilled it but because

you tasted everything else now uh now

you have an appetite for something that

was never ever supposed to be there I

gotta stop cuz this ain’t my message

but what it’s doing is it’s making you

look at Instagram and Facebook and

Twitter and tic toc and your cousin and

your coworker and it’s distracting you

from what you’re supposed to be doing

okay okay

I’m not saying attraction is not real

I’m just saying it’s relative like

attraction is relative I’ve seen I’ve

seen people I don’t know if you’ve ever

seen people like this but like the same

people that are like save the animals

like save all the animals their favorite

and medium of clothing is leather

some of y’all didn’t get it but you

can’t make leather without killing the

animals so so what they do is they’re

attracted to the idea of saving the

animals but they also are attracted to

the leather jacket that’s why we can’t

listen to our attraction and make it the

truth because if our attraction becomes

the truth then we go with our feelings

and our feelings can contradict each

other that’s how you can be attracted to

the bad guy who beats you I’m not trying

to make light of this I’m trying to say

that we follow our attractions and we

will stay in something that is weekly

daily subtracting for us because we’re

listening well he can be good and he can

be better and he takes care of his kids

but he hits you and maybe he doesn’t

physically hit you but every time he

opens his mouth he verbally back slaps

you and he’s taken away your worth and

taken away your dreams and taking away

your purpose and he’s doing this and

your attraction has lied to you

and you’ve been eating the cake anime

for too long and performing on a stage

that you don’t even want to be on it’s

because you believe the lie that the

attraction would bring you satisfaction

okay how am I going how am I gonna help

these people okay right this point their

attraction is about impulse full

satisfaction is about input I’m gonna

say it again

attraction is about impulse oh they

brought the cake so I mean it’s here

like I need to eat it like a lady they

brought the blacklivesmatter takeout –

and I need to eat that one and I’m an

interracial pastor so I meet the white

and the brown it’s about the impulse of

it but if you really want full

satisfaction full satisfaction comes

from input that that that comes from

what you put in like it’s harder right

now to resist my attraction and and and

put input into my decision my attraction

can come but my decision needs to win

okay my attraction to the cake can be

here but my decision to eat healthy has

to win my attraction for another woman

can come in oh can I say something fast

I’ll never say every woman didn’t get

ugly when I marry Natalie let me be good

let me be clear that that every man did

not just become my duck drug like when I

married Natalie there’s some men that

I’d be seeing him like dang he is wow

that is nice like I wish I could one day

but that ain’t happening

so my attraction can be real and valid

but my decision to be faithful and to be

married and uh and my decision my

attraction to waste time can be real but

my decision to be devoted to read my

word to pray to be able to show love and

worship to take my vote away D vote it

has to win and the problem is many time

our attractions are winning over our

decisions

some of y’all are in cities right now

because you are attracted to the idea of

living in LA oh I’m coming for you Miami

New York that’s the city I just feel

alive in okay I’m sorry to tell you none

of your family members or your last

people didn’t tell you but the struggle

you’ve been experiencing in that place

wherever it is for you it’s because the

idea of that was attraction but it’s not

bringing you satisfaction because it

didn’t align with God’s purpose for your

life today it’s time for somebody to

make a decision somebody say I’m about

to make a decision oh gosh why do you

all keep doing this this has the little

um what are the little French cookies

what do they call what do they call them

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I want you macaroons

oh yeah macaroons he ate that omicron’s

mad I don’t know macaroons it’s like

everywhere I turn it’s like everywhere I

turn like there is something I’m

attracted to if God was good he wouldn’t

even allow there to be a temptation if

God is so good if he know my if he know

my downfalls why would he allow me to be

even in these situations

why why why is this happening you can

see many times our reactions when

there’s attraction it’s off of our

impulse it’s honestly because we’re

actually hungry and we run to things

that won’t satisfy us

let me just say hunger is real where you

go to fill up I said your hunger is real

yes you want to be loved and yes you

want to be significant and yes you want

to be in purpose the hunger is real

but the place of satisfaction is

temporary and that’s why you can keep

going to the alcohol and the peels and

you can keep going to the

people-pleasing and you can keep going

to everything but until you come to

Jesus there was a woman at a whale that

said hey I’m a thirsty and he said if

you drink of the right thing you will

never be thirsty again and I don’t know

who I’m talking to right now but some of

you have been thirsty some of you have

been hungry and you’ve been going to the

thing that looks good to satisfy you but

after I eat this whole cake just a

little bit from then I would still be

hungry attraction to satisfaction that’s

what i’ma call the message just just in

case anybody’s taking notes cuz I know

how you know takers of real impulsive

and control freaks it’s like what’s the

title attraction to satisfaction yeah

and I know some of y’all other people if

they haven’t tuned off by now they were

like but where’s the word where’s the

Bible I wanted to give you most of my

points and then I’m gonna show you in

the Bible in such a clear succinct way

how this one idea of Attraction

subtracted from somebody’s life who God

had used who had walked with God who had

done great and marvelous things so I

want you to know the self-righteous

people that are watching right now

you’re not exempt from this the people

who are like that’s for them that’s for

them that’s for them

this man had walked with God and done

great exploits for God and then came to

a season of attraction that ended up

subtracting from his life and so I want

you to learn this we talking about David

today now I know you not not not not not

some of y’all just got really excited

but I’m not talking about to slay

Goliath David I’m not talking about to

play the heart I’m not talking about the

mark the David in this season I want to

talk about the dark side of David

because in every story everybody’s David

I beat the Goliath I beat him don’t look

at me I’m the king I’m the queen I’m

this I’m that I’ve been on the run from

my enemies my boss and everybody hating

on me but I could have took him out but

I didn’t take him out and that’s one

cars to elevate me everybody’s that

dealt David but I want to talk about the

moment when David followed his

attraction there so good I love the

Bible second Samuel Chapter eleven it

said in the spring of the year when

Kings normally go out to war he’s a king

now all his boys are winning victories

he’s David they not just singing the

song they making albums about him now

he’s the king and it says in the spring

of the year when the Kings underlying

highlight normally when the Kings

normally go out to war what did David do

David sent somebody else Joab and the

Israelite army to fight the Emma

ammonites they destroyed the ammonites

army and they laid siege to the city of

ramp however what did David do he stayed

behind in Jerusalem it is about the

priests late one afternoon in the mid

day he woke up from a nap he had a good

nap and David got out of bed

go out to the courtyard and see was

Cragin Kenney walked up onto the rooftop

of the palace as he looked out over the

city look what God has done look at all

of the things that he has brought me

through look at how God has blessed us

with this marine

look how God has kept us as he looked

out over the city he noticed a woman of

unusual beauty taking a bath my god

today Oh Lord you are marvelous and

worthy and all your works there’s nobody

like you the mountainside

the valleys love God there’s nobody

likes you

hey y’all y’all boss she just get him

fix her I’m I’m a fool y’all anybody

watching don’t be afraid that’s that’s

just how my brain works he says um ah

you know guy you see that my god yes go

get her

he sent someone to find out who she was

and he was told she’s Bathsheba the

daughter of Eliam

and the wife of Uriah the Hittite then

David sent messengers to go get her and

when she came to the palace he skipped

dinner and he slept with her now if you

want to see somebody be attracted to

something here it is he was in a place

that he wasn’t supposed to be in because

he decided to stay when he was supposed

to go and he noticed something he was

never supposed to even notice and

because he was attracted to it his

attraction made him feel that that

attraction could lead to satisfaction

but let me help you write this point

down because we got to find out what oh

man oh man brought up the white

strawberry jump-off autumn hidden with

the little strawberry curlicues I don’t

even know what these are are these

edible Oh y’all such a multi-ethnic cake

bringer outers got the Browns and the

whys and the I don’t know it’s gonna be

hard to finish what I’ve been called to

do

if I keep looking at what I’m attracted

to it’s gonna be hard to finish what I

was called to do

if I keep paying attention to what I’m

attracted to right this point down cuz I

need to see what happened to David cuz

David walked with God he didn’t saying

worship songs he hadn’t done all this

other stuff how in the world does he

fall temptation to his attractions look

at it in the spring of the year

when Kings normally go to war so he had

a purpose he had something he was

supposed to be doing he decided to send

somebody else to fight and that’s what’s

happening to so many of us in the middle

of this pandemic I don’t feel like it I

did it in another season I don’t know if

it’s gonna work right now so I’m gonna

send somebody else to fight for my kids

I’m gonna send somebody else to fight

for my marriage I’m gonna send somebody

else to fight for my purity I’m gonna

send somebody else but God is saying

it’s time for you to arise and get back

in the fight it’s time for you not to be

sitting here saying well enough of the

victories maybe God’s trying to do

something else it’s time for you to

stand up and say I know I don’t feel

like it but I’m not paying attention to

my feelings I gotta stand up and fight

I’m a fight from our purpose I’m a fight

for my business I’m a fight for this

church I’m a fight for my relationship

goals somebody type in a chat I’m a

fight none of David’s attractions would

have even been able to be seen if he

would have fought the thing that I want

somebody to understand is what God’s

given you is worth fighting for the

marriage that he’s given you the kids

that he’s given you the purpose that

he’s giving you and no it hasn’t come to

pass and nobody’s seen again but it’s

worth fighting for and it’s in the

season well you’re not in action let me

just put it in a point cuz it said David

stay

my question to you is where are you

staying that you need to be leaving

where are you staying right now some of

y’all are literally staying with

somebody you need to leave from that

ain’t your husband that ain’t your wife

and you surround yourself and you sleep

with your attraction but it’s gonna be

subtraction and let me stop okay but

what where are you where are you staying

that you need to be leaving

David’s whole problem came because he

did not want to fight so he stayed

instead of leaving and that’s why

destruction is always an option of

inaction when you are not in action

distraction is always available that’s

why I keep telling people in this time

what should we be doing during

quarantine everything God said for you

to do start the business write the

business plan glove on your parents go

visit them every day

do whatever God’s told you to do because

not because I’m trying to be good and

get some award and check off this lift

and be super productive it’s because I

know that when I’m not in action

destruction is just there every time I

make foolish decision it was when I was

not doing fully what God told me to do

every time I cheated on pastor Natalie

before we got married every time I

looked at pornography every time I was

doing all these things it was a result

of inaction when I was supposed to be in

war doing something when I was supposed

to be praying for somebody else when I

was supposed to be a leader of a small

group when I was supposed to stand and

do the business I was in action talking

about my insecurities and what I didn’t

have and the team I didn’t have and what

I couldn’t do and what I didn’t have the

education for and at the moment that I

was in active distraction well I wish

somebody would have told me Michael stay

productive Michael stay in your word how

does a young man a young woman keep his

way pure pure Psalms 119 by hiding

himself being active and the Word of God

and all the distractions I was praying

God

deliver me from would have never

happened if I would have stayed

interactive with him I’m pre I’m

preaching to God I take this jacket off

somebody take that I got it whoa listen

to what I’m saying to you right now

verse 2 it says late one afternoon after

his midday rest

David got out of bed he was walking on

the rooftop he looked out over the city

and he underlined this noticed notice is

not an avert like demonstrative like

like aggressive word noticed is like Oh

like notice is casual noticed is passive

so so it’s not like I got a B on the

website it’s not like I got to be on the

website looking at images and things

that are not good for me I could be on

another website and notice an ad I can

be on an Instagram and notice somebody

thirst-trapping– their bathing suit

reading the Bible

watch who reads the Bible like that

y’all know I’m telling the truth so it

wasn’t like I got up this morning and

said imma be distracted today it wasn’t

like I got up this morning it’s like I’m

gonna emotionally cheat on my wife today

it wasn’t like I got up this morning and

said I’m gonna eat what cake you brought

another cake oh I wanna eat oh I’m gonna

hold you I want to spend time with you I

want to caress you

I’ll be back I didn’t I didn’t plan to

be in this situation but now everywhere

I look I’m noticing no you didn’t know

you didn’t bring the cookies and cream

you know the cookies and cream you know

god I won’t eat it

I’ll just get real close to it and smell

it god I promise you all on sleep with

him we’ll just dry-hump

God I promise I won’t steal from the

business I just won’t report all of the

money we made I’m gonna just try to get

close enough to it to where I can stay

faithful to you and give in to my flesh

God is there a way I can do this

Christian walk and stay faithful to you

and give in to my flesh y’all know

that’s what our whole culture is trying

to figure out right now can I still give

God his and get mine and that’s why the

Christian faith is so powerless right

now it’s because we got a lot of

lukewarm believers you’re walking out

here telling everybody for God I live

for God I die and then if you catch you

at the wrong moment you just cuss

everybody out and you just you just do

whatever feels right you pay attention

to what you’re attracted to instead of

who was attracted to you first see this

whole thing about Jesus and salvation

was not that we even looked attractive

it said while we were yet sinners while

we were yet ingredients not even put

together yet while we were yet he said

he was attracted to us

feel the presence of God and he loves

you so much in your dirt state in your

nasty state in your pieces state that he

said I see a masterpiece they see a lot

of broken pieces but I see something put

together and stirred up with me in the

middle of it and I see them reaching

purpose I see all of that but oh no

they’re attracted to other things so

what I have to do now is prove my love

to them by sending them to TC today to

let them know that yeah there’s other

things around that are attractive but

you need to notice God’s love for you

more than anything and I know that’s

easier said than done

cuz David knew God David had walked with

God he had he had written some of the

most beautiful songs to God in worship

in songs but what happened to David all

of us if we are not aware it can happen

to us in our family in our lives and I’m

gonna help you remember I said David

noticed everybody say noticed at the

moment you noticed many times you need

to say no it needs to be no at the

notice it needs to be when you saw the

little thing pop up leave the website no

like I can’t even I can’t even allow it

cuz what you try to do is get prideful

and be like that don’t even affect me

nothing but I don’t even affect me I’m

not even attracted to people who look

like that that much today at 5:00

but at the notice you need to say no

after notice we’re going to say see the

attraction is okay if you at the notice

say no the problem that David had and

the problem that we have many times is

that the notice we wanted to K in Oh W

we wanted to no we didn’t say no we said

let me know who that is send for her let

me see where this website leads us let

me look if they got any other pictures

like this let me see how far we can go

in business with these people and see if

I can still keep my integrity and God

says at the notice it needs to be no if

it have to notice its I want to know

your attraction could be leading you to

subtraction that’s what happened to

David because this is the key to all of

this and I’m gonna have to pick up part

two next week is it okay if we come back

next week and do some more of this okay

the reason is you have to understand

this is that David never talked to

Bathsheba before he wanted and sent for

her it wasn’t like he had a conversation

with her he saw her in his mind he was

attraction he was attracted he thought

it would bring him satisfaction and so

he wanted interaction I want you to know

what breaks the chain attraction is only

activated by attention the attraction is

natural it’s neutral but my attention is

a choice and this is where people act

like they don’t have control and you

have full control you act like why was

it just attracted to it and I just was

like led there and I just didn’t know

what heaven and they don’t just end it

up and then it just video and the only

reason that I know where to go is

because my attention is on it the only

reason I know which cake to go to

which thing I’m attracted to is because

I’m steady giving it attention my

question to you is what are you giving

your attention to that you know you’re

attracted to that’s going to end up

subtracting from your real relationship

goal at the end of the deck

I know it’s quiet in your house because

it was quiet in my house when God begin

to give this to me because attraction is

what I see what I think but look what

the Bible says because attraction I need

everybody to hear me say this

attractions not bad attraction is not

true but what you give your attention to

will determine what type of attraction

this will be it’s just like money you

give money to somebody who’s feeding

children in Africa and the money is

going to be used for good that same

money given to an illegal drug dealer

it’s going that same money the money’s

neutral it’s whatever you give the

attention to it’s going to produce the

results ok that’s why God says in

Matthew 6 22 this is Jesus he said your

eye is though is like a lamp that

provides light for your whole body when

your eye is healthy your whole body is

filled with life oh I love the Bible but

when your eye is unhealthy when you

notice things you’re not supposed to

notice and you want to know more about

them your whole body is filled with

darkness and if the light oh this is

gangster Jesus and if the light you

think you have is actually darkness how

deep that darkness is like some of us

walking around like I mean it’s not that

bad though

it’s just occasionally and God says when

you get into that occasionally notice

and you get into those things that

you’re trying to he says that’s a

darkness that nobody knows how deep it

goes

if I’m honest nobody knows how dark

these thoughts have gotten before nobody

knows how the images of pornography

warped how I saw all women they did

there was no there was no into that

depth until I got a savior until there

was a lifeline thrown down and said you

can make a decision to grab this and my

life line has a name in his name is

Jesus and when Jesus stood on that

lifeline I feel the presence of God he

said you’re not gonna be perfect but I

can help you progress now I can help you

I’ll send the Holy Spirit to help put

you on the things that your attention

needs to be on so that your attraction

to certain things become less because

once you see the results of your

attention being on me he said then maybe

you’ll be able to weather the storm of

attraction more and I know that many of

you want your relationship goals but

your attraction it’s taking all of your

attention and you’re saying God if you

would just if you just move the

distractions I’d be okay and God says if

you would just give me your attention

you’d be okay what it no they did now

there is nothing that I love more didn’t

cake and ice cream it was a nut I’ve

been up here for 40 minutes staying

focused on my assignment with all of

these attractions around but when you

bring both of these up here together I

don’t know how much more I can take

that’s vanilla chocolate and strawberry

that looks like equal-opportunity cake

with the sprinkles they decorated this

one I’m hungry I’m hungry what did these

little cookies call macro wrong make

wrong but I got wrong it’s just one time

it has all my intention I’ve been

attracted to it but it had no power

until I gave it attention I’ve been

attracted to it since I saw it but I’m

but now I want to be interactive with it

because it has my attention and it’s

just I mean and if I’m gonna do it I’m

gonna do it I don’t want a little bit in

this how the enemy tricks you if imma do

it if it’s just gonna be this one time I

might as well if I’m gonna miss the mark

if I’m gonna sin if I’m gonna hook up

with this person if I’m gonna cheat I

might as well go big Yolo

oh my dog oh my god that feels so good

in the moment I’m not even worried about

what’s gonna happen tomorrow and now

this appetite I didn’t I didn’t know

that it was gonna feel so good right now

now it’s making me I’ll keep coming back

to you but then I’ll try something else

too well I

hmm I like the darkness that make a room

I made room for the mecca room

matter of fact has my attention

I no longer care about what my

assignment was ain’t nobody gonna see

hallelujah come on drugstore trucks

let’s leave ha hey Lou yeah

come on let’s lift come on everybody at

your home let’s lift our hands and watch

of God like nobody can see what’s all

you we want to lead and pray for other

people and bring them in and then what

we do is we come to the altar Lord make

me over do a fresh thing in me do a new

work more of your spirit Lord let me

play my my best praise and worship

setlist

all week but you’re not accountable to

nobody and nobody even knew you were

struggling with that for real

they only saw the outcome of it but they

didn’t know the details of it and so

what do you do in a moment of Attraction

it’s got the Reese’s on it I’m not gonna

eat the cake this time yes the Reese’s

there’s a reason taste like that you

know what God has given me a word today

give me a word just for you he wants us

to clean up the mess in America he wants

us to be united charge we see you we see

that you don’t have anybody that’s on

your staff that’s ethnically diverse we

see that nobody comes to your kids

birthday parties that’s not white or

that’s not black we see the cake is on

your face

and it’s because you’ve given this idea

your attention and you’ve been attracted

to it and my question to you is are you

satisfied this is why the divorce rate

is at 50% whether you’re a believer are

a non-believer you can get married and

say In God We Trust and believe that and

still be divorced at the same rate as

people who curse God why is that it

doesn’t matter what you know if you

don’t use it and gods saying I’m ready

to clean house I’m ready to make your

attention we put on something that can

actually satisfy but the ice-cream

though this ice-cream man I don’t even

want to do it anymore it’s a habit now

though I don’t even want to call them

anymore I don’t even want to work in

that type of negative gossiping

environment but it’s a habit now every

time we get together we’re gonna talk

about them I left the job and I’m gonna

imma tell everybody that even inquires

why I left them and tell them how bad

they are

well now trifling they are and how they

wouldn’t be nothing without me there’s a

habit now and all the while it’s entire

time

I thought I already took goodbye to you

uh-huh

you remember that one time because you

start reminiscing when you’re down in

the moment you start thinking about what

you used to do that’s how the children

of Egypt the children of Israel after

they got delivered out of slavery were

begging to go back to slavery because

they were in a hard season in the moment

and they thought their hard season in

the moment was worse than their slavery

some of y’all used to be slaves sitting

and gods delivered you and now he’s

trying to change you but you’re sick of

the change you’re sick of the thing and

so you look at things that used to be

good at a different season that harmed

you as may be a better option so since

this gonna be my last time I got to get

this two-for-one in check is my mic on

oh snap what was used to amplify my

voice was taken away because of what I

was indulging in and I want to help some

people understand God’s not punishing

you

these are consequences of our attraction

i’ma have to talk about it next week

because David in this moment of

Attraction because he gave his

attraction attention it made him want to

have an interaction he brought Bathsheba

up they saw it together and then mushy

mushy behinds out nine months later oh

hey Dave you too daddy

maury povich all the way back in King

David’s time that’s why some of you need

to know this is an extra point a bonus

point especially when you’re talking

about your sexual purity and all that

other stuff attractions can cause

contractions his attraction at the top

birth something that was never supposed

to be here and many of us are dealing

with the effects that we never thought

it would birth something else we never

thought it would turn into this we never

thought it would look like us but have

somebody else’s DNA in it we never

thought that this would happen to us but

it all came from the scene of attraction

next week we’re gonna find out if his

attraction led to satisfaction

but today I want you to realize that

many of you look like me

you act like everything’s good but

spiritually emotionally even some of you

physically mentally you look a mess

and it’s not because this is even how

you wanted to be it’s because whatever

you are attracted to which is natural

which is neutral you gave too much

attention to and when you give too much

attention to what God has not called you

to it ends up taking from you today I

want us to come back and ask the only

one who can clean us up the only one

that can take our mess and turn it into

a message I want you to get satisfied by

him look at what the same man David

wrote in Psalms chapter 107 verse 9

we’re talking about satisfaction here

he wrote this so either he forgot it or

he learned it from this situation for he

God satisfies the longing of my soul and

the hungry soul he feels with good

things he knew that God was the only one

that could satisfy him but he still went

to what he was attracted to and I don’t

know who I’m talking to right now

but there are some people that are

watching this that your life is a mess

and the one thing that you have not

tried or you stopped trying a long time

ago is the only thing that can actually

satisfy him his name is Jesus

how did I go from tasting all the cakes

how did I in my own life go from doing

all of these things to try to satisfy

myself because I put my attention on

Jesus the only one who could satisfy

it’s not saying that I’m still not

attracted when a cake comes by I don’t

give it my attention at the moment I

noticed I say no because I’ve seen how

it hurt my wife I saw how it hurt others

I saw how it hurt me and robbed me of

time and destiny and purpose so no

longer will I put my attention and my

attractions

I will put my attention on Jesus if

that’s you right now all over this world

watching on rebroadcast if you want to

make a decision right now it’s not a

feeling you’re making a decision right

now to put your attention back on Jesus

or put your attention on Jesus for the

first time I want your hands lifted all

over this place come on all over the

room all over in your house wherever you

are about to pray for you father you see

us right here in every country and every

area code in every place that we are

right now god I’m asking you that by the

power of your Holy Spirit you would

allow us to first repent father that

means to turn God we turn away from our

attractions we turn away from the things

that have had us messy and we turn back

to you God I’m asking you right now by

the power of your Holy Spirit that you

would show us how to keep our eyes on

you you are the author in the finisher

of our faith

you are the anchor in the middle of this

storm you are our Savior so today father

for those who are in deep darkness who

are in despair who are casually noticing

things

send the Lifeline and I thank you Father

that you don’t have the Cindy cuz you

already sent it and it’s name was Jesus

today all we have to do is accept it God

today I thank you that all of us no

matter if we feel like we’re in a palace

and we’re the king down until we feel

like we’re the person that is being

looked over I gotta thank you that you

care you care so much about the details

of our life that you’re coming right now

and saying I’m the one that truly

satisfies

god I think you that all this week as we

noticed things that we’re attracted to

that there would be a know that raises

up in our spirit and our know would lead

to action or no would lead to us putting

putting blocks on certain things are

know would lead to us telling somebody

when we fall are know would lead to us

father God turning off cable altogether

are know would lead to us make making

that friendship null and void father

whatever is taking us from you we put

our attention back on you I pray for

every marriage right now who’s taken

their attention off of you father and

all types of corals and fights and I

pray for every boyfriend and girlfriend

engaged couple all the turmoil that’s

been happening in relationships I’m

declaring that even this week they’re

putting their attention back on you not

even on each other but on you father God

and as it flows from you it will flow to

their relationship flow to their kids

flow to everything for every single

person that’s watching every person

that’s been divorced has been either

wallowing father God in the in what they

don’t have father God or been so focused

on doing things that please their flesh

Lord let their attention be back on you

this week I’m thinking you Father that

you would transform us from the inside

today we surrender come on somebody all

over the world say I surrender

come on saying I surrender whatever you

want to do god I surrender I surrender

to how you want to change me wherever

you want to take me whatever you want to

do with me somebody say I surrender and

I put my attention back on you if you’re

watching this right now in that same

posture and you want to give your life

to Christ right now you want to receive

that lifeline right now you have the

opportunity to make the greatest

decision of your life today as I sit

here with cake off my face this is how

our soul looks so much other stuff that

were put on by people and ideas and

hurts and pains and we’re walking around

trying to act like it’s makeup but it

really is taking away from who we

a truly are called to beat and today I

want to give you the opportunity to

realize what God does he’s the great

cleanser he’s the only one that can take

what you have done and clean it up and

make it as white as snow the Bible says

today I don’t care what you did

yesterday how broken you have been what

has happened to you what you have

allowed to happen to you today the

savior of the universe wants to

intervene in your situation and all you

have to do is receive it if that’s you

on the count of three I want you to lift

your hands wherever you are it doesn’t

matter about your friends it doesn’t

matter if you’re in a public place you

can be in Walmart right now watching on

your iPhone and if that’s you in the

middle of that aisle I want you to lift

your hand one this is the greatest

decision you’ve ever made in your life

– I am so proud of you but more than

that God is proud of you and your name

is gonna be written in the Lamb’s Book

of Life 3 come on lift those hands up

all over this place lift those hands up

I see people that are making the

decision right now

according to Romans 10:9 guess what the

Bible tells us I feel the presence of

God

I feel like people’s lives are being

transformed I feel like people are

coming and stepping into a new day this

is the 5th of July the 5 means the

number of grace I believe there is grace

coming to your life right now according

to Romans 10:9 you don’t have to confess

all the sins that you’ve ever made he

already knows he already know he was

there

all he’s asking you to do at this moment

is believe and confess that Jesus is

Lord and he died on the cross just for

you so that’s what we’re gonna do and

that transformation Church we’re family

nobody prays alone here we’re one big

family so all over the world the over

29,000 people that are watching right

now and those who are watching on

rebroadcast I want you to say this for

the benefit of those who are coming to

Christ’s everybody say god I need you I

repent

from making a mess of my life and I’m

asking you to be my Lord and Savior I

believe you lived and you died from my

salvation and today I give you control

take my life change me renew me

transform me I’m yours in Jesus name

Amen can we give God some praise all oh

come on let’s give God praise right now

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