Deliverance is God’s desire for our lives, but it has to be our decision. He won’t make us choose to follow His calling. Do you want what God has for you? You may have to get uncomfortable. This week, Pastor Mike brought an incredible message on how we must leave our comforts and conveniences behind to get God’s best. Make sure you share this message with someone today!
well welcome
to week two
of a series we’re calling cuffing season
let’s give god some praise right there
yo i’m excited for today’s message
because this series
is about the things that we love
that don’t love us back
and the truth of the matter is this
series takes a lot of self-awareness
as well
as a lot of humility
and the reason i’m gonna be doing this
series for probably the next eight to
ten weeks
is because it’s gonna be about week four
before some of y’all even think this
series is for you
the truth of the matter is many of you
come to church and you’ll be thinking
about how this applies to everybody in
your life except you but on this
mother’s day i need everybody to take
inventory of your own life
what are the things that you love
that do not love you back
last week we looked at a bunch of things
in the life of samson
where he laid his life in the lap of
something that did not love him back
and that decision
ended up taking his not just vision but
it ended up costing him his everybody
say life
and the thing i like about this series
is it’s a disguise deliverance series
see some of y’all don’t know that word
is too it’s too old and churchy for you
but but but god does desires to deliver
you out of everything that has had you
cuffed
he desires it’s his mo all through the
word like he goes on and goes in and
finds people who are chained broken lost
slaves and he tries to free them into
something that is greater than anything
they ever experienced before god wants
to deliver you i don’t know if you
haven’t heard it because people want you
to feel good in 2022 but deliverance is
still right
god loves you too much
to leave you
but he loves you too much
to leave you the same
[Applause]
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and that’s why it’s a conundrum to me
that after 15 years
of walking with god
you still act the same
how you had a decade with god
and nothing has changed except your
waist size
okay
you used to be little mike now you big
mike but all i’m saying to you
is maybe
the reason why the change hasn’t fully
happened is because we’re cuffed to
things
that keep us in the same pattern
and i want to let you know that god
wants you to be delivered
no no no let me tell you something about
deliverance because this is one of those
things that a lot of churches and a lot
of people think differently on but the
bible is very clear on this whole thing
and i want to let you know that um
deliverance starts with a decision
most people want a pastor or somebody to
pray for them and like oh i’ve been
delivered no no okay hold on wait
deliverance
starts with your decision to repent
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so if i’m going this way it’s not
working for me it’s not doing the thing
the pattern i’ve been in the principles
i’ve been watching the things that i’ve
been doing is not working when i repent
that is the first step
of
deliverance
and most people want to be forced
to do
what they have to choose
to do
this is why you should stop
working
praying
and toiling with people who have not
decided
you are going to work yourself into a
frustration
and take away the oil that god has given
you wasting it on somebody who still
hasn’t decided
some of y’all you’ve been dating him for
nine years
nine years of day
baby
you’re not his decision
[Applause]
why why are you still going into
business with the people who won’t put
up none of their money
they have not decided
delivering i’m coming for everybody this
morning y’all just buckle up
let me say it in a point deliverance is
god’s desire but our decision
god always wants to deliver
he always wants to set you free he
always wants to pull you to another
level of faith he always wants to take
you out of that situation but
he is bound
to our
decision that’s why salvation
is a choice
he wants you to everybody say decide
ask the children of israel
it was god’s plan to deliver them out of
slavery to egypt talks to moses moses
says come and let my people go they
start moving and god’s literally telling
them the whole time the reason i’m
taking you from this place is to take
you to a promise the whole reason i sent
the frogs and the blood in the water and
the plague on the suns is to get you to
the promise
i want to take you from prison
to the promise
i want to deliver you from the pain to
the promise i want to take you from the
perversion to
the promise
so it was god’s
desire but this is the one thing i want
everybody to understand god’s plan
is always the promise
but our patterns delay deliverance
i’m gonna say it again
god’s plan his plan was to take an 11
day journey with the children of
israel out of their pain
their perversion
their their their their a prison and
bring them to a promise but it was their
patterns in the wilderness
that delayed their deliverance
this is why i’m talking to you about
what are you cuffed to
because everything the children of
israel did in the wilderness it didn’t
start there
they did it when they were in bondage
and when god took them out of bondage
they had a pattern
of how they did things
so it kept them out of the promise
and i know this is a bible story but i
can’t help but think that this looks
like so many of our lives
that god has a plan for us
and the problem is we’re being prevented
because of our everybody say patterns
god wants you to be set free from the
addiction
god wants you to be set free from all of
the past the pain he wants to deliver
you that’s what first timothy chapter 2
verse 4 says it says this is
good and pleasing in the sight of god
our savior who wants
everyone to be saved
and to come to the knowledge of the
truth or be delivered the truth is
you’re healed the truth is you’re whole
the truth is you’re healthy the truth in
god is he wants you to be helping he
wants you to be serving others but the
truth of the matter is that our patterns
have kept us in a place where we have
not reached the problem promise so watch
this write this point down i’m just
setting you up this is all framework to
get to where we’re going
deliverance
isn’t just walking out of something it’s
walking into something else
it wasn’t enough
for the children of israel to come out
of egypt
they were not delivered until they got
into the promised land
okay
it’s not enough
for you
to just not be greedy
you have to get into
being generous
it’s not enough for you to get out of
perversion
you have to be into purity
and i find that so much of the body of
christ is in this in between place
they’re cuffed to things that they used
to do back here but they’re not fully in
it like they used to be so they in this
kind of middle place
this decision play i might act like my
family but not today but when i get back
around him i’ll cut up with him but then
i’ll go you’re in this middle place and
god’s saying deliverance is not true
deliverance not just when you walk out
of something
but you got to be fully in
to what i’ve wanted for you to be in the
promise
and the reason that i keep saying this
is because when somebody is in a desert
a wilderness
a place that they don’t have a home
they’re not settled yet you know what
people are called that don’t have a home
nomads
and the reason i’m preaching this series
to you today is because i’m finding
there’s a problem it’s problematic to be
spiritually nomadic
if you haven’t found your home yet in
the promise
there’s a problem
and what i found is that this area
is literally the thing that’s killing so
many people you walked out of comparison
but you have you you you don’t compare
yourself no more to them but you still
don’t celebrate them either
how did you walk out of this thing
but you can’t fully walk into this thing
and y’all know y’all be doing it
y’all be ghosting people on instagram
and facebook
they had another baby you didn’t even
say congratulations thank you didn’t say
nothing
but you you didn’t compare like you used
to
but you haven’t walked in the
celebration yet
i’m trying to confront this whole series
i’ve amen myself 1700 times this whole
week because i don’t need your amen this
week i’m gonna keep telling you the
truth until something on the inside of
you unlocks you walked out of narcissism
but didn’t walk into humility
[Applause]
and god says i want to deliver you i
don’t want to just do half of the
process
i don’t want half-baked believers
you ever put something in the oven
and then you stuck your finger in there
and it it was warm and bubbling on the
top
but it was cold and soggy in the middle
that’s what a lot of christians are
looking like today
hot on the top
cold in the core
and i’m coming to help somebody uncuff
from the things that have kept the
patterns going
that have kept you out of the promise
this literally is the definition of
being lukewarm
this is stuff people don’t talk about no
more because they don’t want to offend
nobody i want to help you transform
and the truth is the only thing that
transforms you okay so so so everybody
knows john 3 16 what’s john 3 16 y’all
for god so loved the world that he gave
his only son that whosoever believeth in
him shall not perish but have whatever
left
that’s the most famous scripture
but the second scripture that should be
the most famous is revelations 3 16.
anybody know that one
okay okay
let’s start at verse 15.
i know your deeds
you are neither cold nor hot
how i wish you were one
or the other
i wish you would completely wild out or
completely sell out to the vision i have
for you
i would rather you not walk with me so i
can have a assault of paul conversion
with you on the road of damascus or
serve me fully
because you lukewarm
you are nomadic spiritually
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you want a club over here and then
christ over here and then be faithful on
this thing but be freaky because
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because you’re lukewarm
neither hot nor cold
i’m about to vomit you out my mouth
oh my gosh y’all thought spit hits the
fan with something
[Applause]
no demonstration coming for that okay
you only throw up things that are not
pleasing
if god’s going to throw something up he
said i would rather i could much more
take yeah yeah
you being fully away from me
but this
little hmm
[Music]
no today is sunday um
so i hate that crap
go somewhere with that
get out of my face with that
like i’m just trying to put it in like
regular terms like
take all that facade
and take it some i would rather you come
to me whole
and messed up
and smelling like everything
and saying i can’t do this on my own
i’d rather you go have a pig’s pen
experience prodigal son
and realize how good you have it in my
grace
but this staying in the middle
and now you got people thinking this is
how i am
all these people claiming christ
lukewarm
got people thinking well what’s the
reason
why should i even they do everything i
do they there’s no difference
and today i’m coming to confront it
and the reason i have to confront it is
because i hear uh elijah in first kings
18 21 i’m just giving y’all a lot of
bibles so we can get to where we’re
going
he literally says how much longer will
you waver
hobbling between two different opinions
if the lord be god follow him
get cuffed to him
but if baal an idol something that
culture made up this idea this american
dream if that’s what you want to be
talked to go on do it
follow that
but this little lukewarm stuff
get that out of my face
and look at the people’s response
they were completely silent
i don’t i don’t know
they didn’t have a made up mind
they didn’t have a conviction
they were actually debating
maybe i want to live for god
maybe i want to do everything my flesh
does
and some of y’all have been in this
debate
for a decade
serving on the praise team the whole
time
giving
me you feel like it
going off do you bet not touch me
i’ll beat you
turn the other cheek girl you really
should be nicer to them
how is this coming out of this
i love you but i got to tell you the
truth because at the end of the day
it’s becoming your pattern
and the reason i’m so scared for you
is because when people say practice
makes perfect
that’s not what practice makes
practice makes permanent
and some of you have been practicing the
same pattern
to where the more you keep doing it the
harder it’s going to be
to reverse that thing
that’s why people start saying stuff you
can’t teach a old dog
new trick that’s a lie
that’s that’s a lie
it’s just that they don’t want to do the
work
to change the pattern
and until you listen to god’s principles
you’re cuffed
to something that god doesn’t want for
your calling
so for you to reach the promise
today i have to confront what you are
cuffed to
and today
i’m not even going to tell you what
we’re going to confront let me just give
you the definition of cuffing season
y’all i’m about to explode
cuffing season a season where because of
loneliness and desperation you settle
for a relationship that is way beneath
your standards and that’s why god tells
us hey how you’re going to get a
different pattern is by doing romans 12
2. he says do not conform to the
patterns of this world this culture but
be transformed by the renewing of your
mind then you will be able to test and
approve what god’s will is his good
pleasing and perfect will your mind is
renewed by god’s principle i’m going to
say it every week because i need you to
know how we break the pattern the
pattern is broken by god’s principles if
you have a bad pattern go to the word of
god and i promise you there is a
principle that can break bad patterns i
don’t care how bad your parents were i
don’t care how bad that your upbringing
was god’s principles
can break bad patterns
the truth of the matter is
you will not ask
for the word of god’s opinion
on something you have not confronted
so so god’s principles always come with
parameters
he’s trying to give us
hey do this don’t do this
and then i want you to hear this god’s
parameters are made for your calling not
your comfort
are we going to talk about it
this message um
this message is really uh
it is close to
home because for the past three decades
i’ve been trying to cater my christian
life
to one word
comfort
and today
i’m coming for your comfort
you might want to turn it off
if you want to stay comfortable
because as i have gone
through the different places
moments
leadership positions of my life
what i’m fighting for is not my calling
many times why i’m doing what i’m doing
why i’m trying to climb the ladder why
i’m trying to make more money while i
want more people to see me why all the
things all the secret motivation behind
all of that
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is one word
comfort
and the problem
with me
and many of you i ain’t going to really
put you out there but i’m going to put
myself out there i have been cuffed
to comfort
and today
i gotta expose
this thing that has been coming after
the calling of god on your life
you have the ability
the availability you have the anointing
but you are too
comfortable
so let’s go
let’s be honest we’re a humble open and
transparent church how many people
love being comfortable come on hands
lifted hands lifted
okay like we want our car to be
comfortable we want our clothes to be
comfortable we want come on what else do
we want to be comfortable put it in the
temperature oh jesus if you marry you
know that’s a problem i want to
comfortable what is the most comfortable
temperature to keep at your house what
is it 71 73
68
77 70 what in the hell literally
that is hell 77
you sleeping 77 degrees
oh my gosh see
that is hell
pastor natalie
i don’t know when it happened
but she loves the temperature on
antarctica
it literally doesn’t have a number
anymore it literally just has an iceberg
but that for her
is
and the truth of the matter is none of
us want to live work
eat sleep
in anything that’s on comfortable
so we’ll go into buildings
and walk two steps in
what happened i thought we was gone it
made me
uncomfortable
you’ll join a church
and they’ll ask you to serve
but i got to be there at what time
i just worked the whole
i liked the church the pastor was good
but their requirements made me
uncomfortable
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comfort
is killing our callings
what if i told you
that comfort is not christian
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now i don’t know where you picked it up
at
i don’t know if it came from your family
or it was a trauma response that
everything was so out of control and
uncomfortable you said i’ma take control
and everything i do i’ma make it
comfortable
but when you gave your life to christ
i need to tell you something
that that idea of comfort
is not christian
when i look through the scriptures
and just a few just perusing
i see words like sacrifice die daily
carry your cross deny your flesh lay
down your life turning cheeks no that
didn’t sound right oh jesus
turning the other cheek
[Laughter]
bearing one another’s burdens casting
your crowns
these are
we
do you all know that the symbol of our
faith
is a crucifixion
how comfortable
do you think the cross was for jesus
yet somewhere along the way we developed
this idea
and convinced ourselves
that being christ-like
should somewhere
really transform into being completely
comfortable
that’s why you don’t share your faith
you don’t share your faith because it
makes you
uncomfortable
literally when the great
commission
to everybody whether you in the white
house or you in the trap house is to go
into all the world
and make disciples
teaching them
and you won’t even share with the person
you’ve been neighbors with for 14 years
that you believe in jesus christ because
you don’t want to make them
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the truth of the matter is comfort is
killing our callings
and if i don’t come and talk to you
about how we are all cuffed to comfort
then we will stay there thinking that we
are doing something that god has asked
us to do and comfort is not christian
when it comes to your comfort
you only have two options write this
down cause we bout to go deep and we
bout to go deep fast when it comes to
comfort you can either confront it or
cater to it
two options
either i’m gonna confront this crap that
has me comfortable and wanting to be so
cozy and comfy and have and have it how
i want it or i’m going to actually cater
to it
and set up things to make sure i stay
like that
and make sure my whole friend group
only does things that make us
comfortable
[Laughter]
my question is which are you doing
currently
are you confronting your comfort or are
you catering to it
silence
to cater to comfort
you got to work
and you got to work to confront it
choose your heart
the same work it takes
to drink water
and stay in the bed
is the same work
it takes
for you to get out of your bed at
midnight
with a bonnet on
in your pajamas
wearing a jacket so nobody sees if you
get cold or not
to go up to the convenience store
and to buy a pine and ice cream
chips
m m’s
and snickers bars
somebody said you ain’t my business
it took work
it robbed you of sleep
it
it took away the goal that you were
trying to set that you told everybody on
facebook that you was working for
and now it makes you be incongruent with
yourself cause the worst person not to
trust is you
and some of you can’t keep your
commitment to others
because you can’t keep your commitment
to yourself
and it’s not because you don’t want to
it’s because you’re cuffed
to comfort
it’s going to be a rough one today
and see the crazy thing about comfort is
comfort shows up every day
it don’t matter what you did yesterday
you get the option to choose to confront
your areas of comfort every single day
let me put it in a point yester
yesterday’s accomplishment doesn’t count
for today’s commitment
so because we’re cuffed to comfort
sometimes like forget this
i’m gonna do it
today i’m gonna freaking work out today
i’m gonna do it and you go in there and
you give it your good hour and a half
and you feel good about yourself and you
make it happen and you walked you did
all that other stuff and be like yes
see you tomorrow jim see you tomorrow
see you tomorrow see you tomorrow
i see you tomorrow
you walk out of there
and you pass the first fast food
restaurant
oh come on y’all
the second fast food restaurant not
today popeyes
pass the third one and just before you
hit a right to the house
the christian chicken
[Applause]
that chick-fil-a i’m just gonna get a
salad
and you get that salad that cobb salad
with the chicken in it
[Applause]
two packets
of avocado lime ranch i’m in your
business
not a large lemonade i get the medium
and i’m just you know i’m just saying
because it’s not bad i’m not eating
bread so i’m gonna get a medium fry
and somehow on the way home
you’ve convinced yourself because you
worked out
you deserve
oh y’all know y’all we living the same
life you deserve
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because i’m definitely going back
tomorrow
i mean this ain’t nothing if i’m gonna
just put it back in
tomorrow comes
and it go why because now when i wake up
the next morning
i’m sore
oh my god
i got a wipe but i can’t
you ain’t never really worked out if
wiping ain’t an issue
joy if you ain’t if you ain’t ever had
trouble wiping you ain’t never worked
out
if getting up don’t feel like an
exercise you ain’t never worked out
can i get some help in here come on
if you ain’t never done like oh oh oh
oh oh
[Applause]
[Music]
you ain’t never worked out with you
[Applause]
but what i accomplished yesterday
does not count
for today’s commitment
and many times after we do our
commitment once we then cater to our
comfort
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okay
so today i had to find somebody in the
bible
a mighty man of god
who had consistently up into this point
confronted his comfort
but then he took a season off
and he got real comfortable
and i don’t know who i’m talking to but
there’s some saints that have taken a
season off
you used to really pray
you used to really be concerned you used
to really do what you said now it’s just
all lip service there’s nothing behind
it there’s nothing in the core and god’s
saying i’m calling my church back
to live comfortably uncomfortable
i’m calling my church back
to do something even when it doesn’t
advance you
okay let me stop
second samuel chapter 11
verse 1-27 i can’t go through all of it
but i’m going to try to walk through it
because today we’re talking about david
yes shepherd boy david killing the
guitar david
david that was marked david that
defeated the bear lion and goliath see
everybody stops at his story right there
but i’m talking about the david who had
tons of victories i’m talking about the
david that went from the the pasture to
the palace and king
david i found this story in second
samuel 11
that showed me
where david after all god had done in
his life
had a season where he catered to his
comfort it says in the spring of the
year that’s a season
when kings
normally
regularly
usually
go
out
to war
david sent joab and the israelite army
to fight the ammonites they destroyed
the ammonite army they won and laid
siege to the whole city
however
david
stayed
behind
in jerusalem however
david
stayed
comfortable
however
david didn’t want to do what it took no
more
to go out and do what would win the
victory
he felt like yesterday’s accomplishments
could roll over
okay y’all remember roll over minutes
some of y’all too young for rollover
minutes
but but there used to be this thing that
you didn’t get unlimited everything and
so so so so so you have a certain amount
of limit of minutes but but if you
didn’t use them all they would roll over
to the next month and some of y’all
never talk to anybody y’all bragging i
got 5 000 minutes nobody likes you but
at the end of the day
ain’t got nothing to do with my message
here we go um
isn’t it funny that they won the war i
won the battle but david lost the war
because he catered to his com comfort
everything outside that had his name on
it was victorious
that means you can show something you’re
not actually living
late one afternoon watch this
at his midday
rest
where he should be confronting somebody
he’s resting
david got out of bed and was just
walking the rooftop
of the palace
and he looked out
over the city that god had given him and
he noticed a woman
of unusual beauty
but naked
taking a bath split splash
she was taken about
he said once someone i
arrive
do you see what thou lordest
has created
the hills and the valleys
go find out who that is
she’s bathsheba
the daughter of alien
and the wife of uriah the hittite the
conversation
should have been over
the crazy thing about being cuffed to
something is we entertain conversations
even after
there is
there was parameters already
this is her daddy this is her husband
hands off
she
beautiful god bless that brother
that’s nice for them
but god told me i can’t
[Applause]
[Music]
whoa
if i had an opportunity but i’m supposed
to be serving here
like if the story
should have been over
at this
moment
but he found out she was married
and this is where casual turns into
catering
remember what he was doing
it’s beautiful
he was being casual
it’s not that you’re always looking for
something
i’m not always just
but you can’t whistle you start
like
wow
seeing it wasn’t the problem
noticing it wasn’t the problem
it was a casual yeah yeah
it was catering to it
that’s like how did he cater to it look
at verse four
then david sent a messenger to get her
that’s it
i hear
all you talking about with the
parameters
but that
is going to make me comfortable
let me make provision for that
let me cater
no matter
how much i want
to do something with bathsheba
if she’s over there
and i’m over here
there is no way
that anything can actually happen
but to get her over here i gotta cater
to my comfort
she comes to the palace
and he slept with her
watch this
comfort is never casual it’s catered to
comfort is something that you love
that doesn’t love you back
i i’m tired of standing and preaching to
y’all this is exhausting
i would rather be more comfortable
preaching could somebody bring me
a chair
so that i can be comfortable as i give
the people of god the word of god
this whole standing thing who made this
up anyway
well i got a standard y’all get to see
it
my mouth is not affected by
what i’m
where my legs are
let me be more comfortable and deliver
this word to y’all
yeah
i’ll read the bible still
yeah the holy bible the paper bag huh
makes me more holy
yes god
yes
you’re a good god
this feels a little unnecessary
i know enough scripture
i’ve been studying the word for a long
time
i i know enough these young kids out
here getting platforms and doing all
this other stuff i know god
know how to pray
matter of fact let me relax more in my
faith
god said that he’s going to give us rest
thank you jesus for your comfort
there’s nobody like jehovah
yeah turn the lights back up they can’t
see me i want them to see me still
yeah i want them to see me be
comfortable
i want them to think
that serving jesus
the higher you get the less you have to
do
the man of god
don’t you ever say that to the man of
god
i have books
i have accomplishments
people know who i am
so today i want you to know
go after god
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sacrifice it all for him
give
make sure you give
because it’ll help me be
comfortable
this is what many pastors are doing all
over the u.s
they’re they’re preaching revelation
reclined
haven’t invited nobody to church
haven’t saved nobody outside the pulpit
and what that makes you start doing when
i should be going to war
when i should be confronting my pride
when i should be doing the things uh
carter
carter
carter um i need you to help me cater to
my comfort
go get me a tv and something i can
control
because if if if i can’t be in an
environment where they recognize who i
am
and what i’ve been given
i’m gonna just go to enviro i’m gonna
make up environments where i’m in
control
yeah
yeah i’m gonna make up environments
where i’m in i am in control here matter
of fact i got to control them
and this is the thing that we’re cuffed
to
like like like a lot of our issue is
that we’re trying to have control of
something and if we’re not in control
we’re not comfortable
so we will only do things that ensure
we are in control so that we can be
comfortable
and and some of us this keeps us
paralyzed i got to talk to my fellows
today
this controller is killing your calling
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[Applause]
you have more hours logged
your wife sitting there begging for you
to see her
no no no no my guys are on call of duty
they don’t want to see me in madden
and your kids don’t know you in real
life
this is comfortable
this is how you escaped when you were
12.
see it all goes back to our trauma
this is what you were good at when you
weren’t good at school
so you said i’ma put all my effort and
energy and now you’re 40 years old
and you will stay up and lose sleep
over playing a tournament on a game with
people over the internet that you can’t
see
and won’t play in a date night
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cuffed to your comfort
carter bring me some bring me some
comfortable clothes
take my shoes off
blessed are the feet
of those who provide the gospel put the
fear of god on my feet please
glory i feel more anointed even right
now
yes throw the
i don’t yeah just put it behind me i
don’t actually want it on me kind of
like a james brown vibe yeah so i can
throw it out whenever i want to
hey carter go get cake for me go get me
some cake
and bring me my foot yes thank you thank
you ah thank you carter
carter i’m glad you brought your friend
see because when i start catering
to myself and my issues
i can’t just have one person cater to me
carter’s not enough
i need cameron to cater to me too
cameron and carter
catering to me
this is cozy
this is yeah this is no this is why i’m
not going to do what they asked me to do
because i’m comfortable right now and
matter of fact
uh
what is this
is that my is that ice cream yes
wow
and yeah doritos and chips and
you know you know carter i’ve been
thinking
i i wanted to do a fast just put that
i wanted to do a fast
[Music]
but fasting
let’s carter stop moving
get on my face
[Music]
your character starts changing
[Music]
when you get too comfortable
thought about fasting
but the truth of the matter is
this is
this is good cake
who would waste
a perfectly good cake that says cuffing
season on it
been working out
and
some of y’all are thinking about this
like it’s food
there’s only there’s not just one type
of cake
the reason y’all been working so hard at
that job
is because you’re trying to get money or
cake
carter bring me money
yeah not that crap
bring me money
it starts off as a bite
oh and you bought me a little gambling
situation too okay cool
tithing
no
i’ll give my tithe to the casino
because they have a better chance
oh let me
stop this
is our christian experience
reclined
catered to
comfortable
and some of y’all don’t want the cake
but you do want the cookie
i’ma let your mind go everywhere it
wants to
what makes you comfortable
is being at somebody’s house in a bed
and then you go find somebody else and
give them yo
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and then you find somebody else in their
vulnerable moment and you take their
jesus
jesus
you can’t hear me
and the truth of the matter is
you’re now in a pattern
you don’t even want them
you bite it and spit it out
but you’re just used to
having
pieces of people
comfort
i’m just using a bunch of analogies
to ask you to confront
what have you been catering to
what have you been dibbling and dabbling
in
i don’t want people to see my real face
oh shoot
i got a little bit on me
well i might as well
i might as well
it don’t matter no more nobody sees me
it doesn’t matter
matter of fact
all this stuff is getting whack
i need some
real comfort
can you bring me something else to come
for me
what used to come from me doesn’t work
anymore
some condoms
some lotion
where’s my laptop oh here it is
now i know some christians are
uncomfortable right now
but spiritually this is what you look
like
nobody will see and these are the same
holy hands we’re going to lift tomorrow
and these the same ones we’re going to
pray for people with
and
[Music]
obama make sure and you know what now
the the the pain of being
incongruent and catering to my comfort
has me wanting to escape charles
somebody bring me something to dream
because i can’t
i can’t
actually be in this situation
and be in my right mind
so i need to make sure i got something
strong
to pop off when it gets wrong
wine never hurt anybody
jesus first miracle
he turned water into help me
it’s spiritual
not when you’re doing it for comfort
[Applause]
don’t tell me the scientific benefits
this ain’t been scientific since you
started it
it was relational
you felt bad because somebody left you
and now you’re going after something
okay i’m getting too real
here god’s saying i i have a huge
calling for you
i want you to do something that changes
the world
but you’re gonna have to get up out of
the seat of comfort
carter bring me
more
comfort
and this is what the american western
church looks like
bring me more
comfort
the scale
some weights
what the hell that’s not comfortable
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i’ma look at something that i’m that
would make me have to confront
everything
this one thing
would make me have to confront
everything i would have to get up
i would have to leave this behind
i would have to change my outfit
i would have to i would have to decide
to do something different
and many of us are sitting here with
different options available
but we ignore it because of our
comfort
why am i going so slow in this why why
am i taking all of this time why am i
sitting here messed up my mother’s day
suit
because it actually doesn’t matter
what you’re being comforted by
i want you to know it’s killing your
calling
the whole time that i’m sitting here
the whole thing that i’m losing
is the opportunity to actually be
impactful on what god asked me to do
and i let myself be susceptible to
things that can literally take my life
away
ask david
at the time when he should have been out
confronting things
he was sitting in the recliner of the
revelation that he already had
saying
i’ll be fine and that’s when he found
delilah
now let me let me teach
y’all stay right here
i mean uh delilah but she but that’s
what he found
let me stay right here
and now i got to come up here and preach
to y’all
and now i need to try to cover up what
i’ve been through
hopefully hopefully they can’t see
hopefully
let me get back in my spot
glory to god
second samuel chapter 11 verse four
she had completed her
purification rights after having her
menstrual period then uh
she returned home
later when bathsheba discovered that she
was pregnant
we only did it once
we only catered to the comfort one one
time
hold on
when i cater to my comfort one time we
can conceive
this wasn’t supposed to
i didn’t want no consequence i just
wanted to be comfortable
yeah
but my comfort has now made me conceive
something
that i have responsibility for it
literally says oh my gosh
when bathsheba discovered that she was
pregnant she sent
david
a text message in my mind
david what’s up girl how you like it
i’m pregnant
by who
like you wasn’t there
like you didn’t cater to this
right at the point catering to comfort
always comes with consequences
if i stay there
brother delano for the next 30 days
and preach and eat
and eat and preach
and
and eat and preach and be in control and
do this i am going to blow
up
no amount of prayer
can take away what is the consequence of
my pattern
i cannot pray away what i’ve already
decided is my pattern
so if your pattern is blowing up and get
angry
nobody can pray that away
if you’ve already decided don’t push me
to this limit
i’m gonna ex like nobody
and god is saying to all of us
that when you conceive something out of
your comfort
then you start the great cover-up
goes all the way back to the garden
what was the first thing adam and eve
did
after they gave in to their comfort
they became designers
fashion first fashion designers adam and
eve
oh shoot
let me cover up why would you cover up
to a god who saw it anyway
accept the guilt and the shame
that comes from catering to your comfort
do you know the fact is that adam and
eve weren’t hungry
they had food to eat
this would have been a completely
different situation if they were
starving and the only thing to eat
was on the tree
of the knowledge of good and evil they
had an entire forest of fruit
but they wanted to cater to their
comfort
and this is where this story goes
downhill quick second samuel 11 6 then
david
sent word to joab send me uriah the
hittite that’s that’s about she is
bathsheba’s husband because he’s trying
to cover it up now so joab sent him to
david he comes back in woo yeah yeah
yeah oh king i honor you i serve you i
love you not knowing
that the king’s comfort
had already violated his covenant
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he’s serving something
that wasn’t even set up to protect him
okay let me stop
when your writer arrived david asked him
how’s everything going out there are we
doing good verse eight then he told you
alright man
go home and get comfortable
go home and
relax
do what i’ve been doing
you were out at war
but i called you back in
so you could do what i was doing go
relax
david even sent him a care package
after he left the palace point comfort
always wants company
so his cover-up
was to get uriah to come back quickly
and sleep
with bathsheba so when the baby comes
it will be able to be covered up because
of the time period that it happened in
watch this
verse 9 but uriah didn’t go home
he was called
he slept that night at the palace
entrance with the king’s palace guard
when david heard that uriah had not gone
home he summoned him and asked hey bro
what’s the matter your wife is at home
she beautiful i know by experience why
didn’t you go home last night after
being away so long uriah replied the ark
and the armies of israel
and judah are living in 10th
and joab and my master’s men are camping
on the battlefield they actually out
there doing the work
they confronting stuff how could i go
home
to whine and dine and sleep with my wife
i’m called
how am i gonna cater to my comfort yeah
with this great of a calling on my life
there’s a mission at hand
and i’m about to just sit here and do
what i my flesh wants
i’m too cold
and i’m too committed
to cater to my comfort
uh i feel this
i swear that i would never do such a
thing
being committed to your calling makes
you deny your comfort
the reason
that many of us
will never deny what’s comfortable the
reason why you won’t go to the gym the
reason why you won’t go into that bible
study class the reason why you will not
submit yourself to authority let
somebody know what’s going on the reason
why you won’t go to counseling is
because you have not fully committed to
your calling
when you when you realize it’s above me
now
there’s certain stuff can i tell you
about my my fitness journey for the past
year i’ve been on a journey to to get in
shape and get healthy
and what ended up happening was god told
me in a time of prayer he said michael
i’m only going to bless transformation
church to the level your body can take
it
so you want to sit up all night and eat
french fries and wing stop and do all
the different things that you love
that’s comfortable
there is nothing more comfortable to me
than after a great sunday
and god moved and people powerful and
all this other stuff that me going home
me and my wife connecting in our
covenant
me getting some cookies and cream ice
cream
and eating some wings stopping watching
the game and falling asleep with some
ranch
dribbling
there’s there’s no
i haven’t done that in over a year in
that sequence now watch
it’s not because i didn’t want to
it’s because the calling i’m connected
to
is so much greater
than my comfort
and if you’ve been stuck in a
comfortable situation i have a question
what calling are you connected to
what has god called you to do now it’s
not just making money
it’s not just being successful
and i’m asking you because everybody
sitting in here conviction is falling on
your heart right now
because there is something that is
comfortable to you that you know is not
god’s best for your calling
and the truth of the matter is being
committed
to your calling makes you deny it
the reason why i haven’t had cookies and
cream ice cream is not because i don’t
want it i want it every
day daily i want it
but daily i deny it
the church has been
been in a place where we almost try to
just tell you like the desire is bad
the desire is not bad
the decision after the desire
this is where i’m coming to help uncuff
you
there will not be a day
that i don’t desire things that go
against my calling
i know nobody’s going to tell you this
there will never be a day
that i won’t be interested in what
pornography could look like
i’m a human being
and if i
am curious about something
that i don’t deny myself access to i
will cater to that comfort
and it will forfeit my calling
you want to hear about jesus i don’t
care if you’ve been married 40 years
there’s no way that could happen to me
i don’t care how much money you make
money don’t make me i make the money
all these mantras
don’t change your patterns
if you don’t submit the thing to the
calling of god that’s why the safest
place you could be successful is in
community
in the house of god
serving other people making sure you’re
not catering to your comfort some of
y’all money would be the worst thing
that ever happened to you
because if you could do everything you
want to do when you want to do it
you wouldn’t even serve god
let me stop
second samuel verse 11.
he says well stay here today david told
him he’s talking to uriah and tomorrow
you may return to the army because
you’re really called to this i guess i
guess you’re really going to live a
christian life i guess you’re really
going to live in integrity
so uriah stayed in jerusalem that day
and the next then david invited him to
dinner
and tried to get him drunk
but even then he couldn’t get uriah to
go home to his wife
again he slept at the palace entrance
with the king’s palace guard
this story
begins to really break my heart because
this is the same david
it’s
it honestly sobers me
because this is the same david that
stood in front of the whole
army of israel and said today
i’m gonna have your head
and god’s gonna give it to me
it’s the same one that on major
platforms was used by god
and now he’s planning somebody else’s
assassination
didn’t know
so since he was going back to the front
lines you can read it
he calls the captain and says go ahead
and put uriah on the front line
so that we can
assure that he gets killed
it happens
he causes pain to the thing that brings
him comfort
wait a minute
he was so selfish
in his comfortability
that bathsheba the thing that brought
him comfort
he’s going to cause her to suffer
so that he doesn’t suffer the
consequences of what he decided to cater
to
do you know how many people are getting
hurt
not because something happened to them
but because somebody else is trying to
cater to their comfort
and you’re hurting other people
by the way
verse 26 when uriah’s wife
heard that her husband was dead
she mourned for him
when the period of mourning was over
david don’t do it
david no
you sent for her
right after she mourned
david sent for her and brought her to
the palace
and she became one of one one of the
things that comforted him
not the thing that comforted him
one of the many things
that comforted him
then she gave birth to a son
this is the scariest part of this whole
thing
but the lord
was displeased
with david with what david had done
catering to your comfort kills things
that were supposed to live
uriah was never supposed to die
but but because david catered to his
comfort
instead of confronting his comfort
uriah dies
nobody talks about this
but bathsheba becomes a side chick
she had somebody’s full attention
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godly
she had somebody’s it’s kind of like
when y’all
be on these dating apps
and in people’s dms
and i got to see who’s out here can you
put somebody on the screen for me
because i want to be comforted
put one of these girls on the screen so
i can
relax in my religion
danny
27 miami florida
long walks on the beach
and i’m looking for
what you looking for danny
let me play with danny for a while
let me make her insecure
let me make her question her calling let
me act like i’m gonna marry her because
it makes me feel better about myself
but then let me actually be
talking to somebody else go to the next
person please swipe
i said swipe iphone
lilly oh she cute
paris france i like them internationals
currently getting the nba abroad we
could travel together oh this is good
cause i can because i can’t see her
in person
so we can start this long distance thing
and i’m going to make people
become my comfort go to the next one
though because i’m kind of bored with
that right now i want to go yes sarah
i like sarah she down for whatever
tokyo japan i love netflix and chill so
do i
one of the many
i’m just putting it this plain cause
some of y’all like i’m in a relationship
i’m married i’m it don’t have to be
girls
it don’t have to be food
i’m just asking you
what
are you catering to right now
that is going to kill your calling
i’ve had to confront this in my own life
for the past five years to a point where
it’s almost one of those things where
god doesn’t let me be comfortable too
long
because if i get in that pattern
i’m a recline on the thing that god’s
called me to do
and i’m just telling you right now some
of y’all not gonna come back for the
rest of the series but a bunch more
y’all are gonna actually get free
because today
[Applause]
i i literally didn’t even get through
half my notes because it’s going to take
two weeks i’m coming back next week
charlie and i got to finish this
because i got to tell you and teach you
how to confront it
this week i need you to call it out
that’s it
this week i don’t care how saved you
think you are
many of you are participating in a
ritual but you’re not spiritual
oh that’s
nasty
it’s a ritual of this stuff
but you’ve been up here this whole time
while i’ve been speaking you’ve been
judging everything that i’m saying
and god use god’s saying right now
you’re so comfortable that you think you
sit in the seat of judgment
your comfort
is killing your calling
this week i need you to
evaluate what have you been eating on
what have you been devouring
what have you been allowing to cover you
what have you been entertaining
and what have you been entertained by
that is only
for comfort
god is asking you to sacrifice it
pastor mike what i mean why
because until
you sacrifice
everything
that has made you comfortable in this
season
you will never be able to walk fully
into the promise that god has for you in
the next season
david
literally compromises everything that
god wants to do with him
but i love the story of david because at
the end of his life god literally calls
him a man
after
his own heart how in the world could i
be in this level of comfort but then at
the end of my life be known
for being a man or a woman after god’s
own heart this is encouragement for all
of us
though no matter how comfortable you’ve
been in the things that have been
killing your calling it’s not too late
for deliverance
what did i say the first step of
deliverance was repenting
turning
and david would come to god and say god
i’m sorry
i messed this thing all the way up
forgive me give me another opportunity
see what i found is comfort
it sounds good
and it sells good
i ask you in the front how many people
love being comfortable
and everybody raise their hand the truth
of the matter is i’ve lost 50 pounds
and not one amen thank you and not one
day of working out
was comfortable
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not one there was not one
chicken
and green bean meal
that was more appetizing
dirty chinese food
i love me some dirty chinese food the
egg rolls wontons the whole not one time
it never was better
to me
but it was better
for me
see comfort
last point
is a counterfeit
and it appears cheap
but it cost everything
[Music]
your comfort seems so easy
but that thing is costing you
everything
mom come here real quick somebody help
my mom up here hey can you bring me out
uh that little little box i got real
quick yeah help her up come with the
come with the quickness god bless you
thank you oh
thank you so much carter the thing about
carter
is he he caters to whatever i
concentrate on
so so so when i concentrate on moving
into a level of generosity
carter helped me do that
the people around you the things around
you should help cater to
the things that are clearly
like christ
today’s mother’s day
and i wanted to give you something okay
now i’ve never been able to give you one
of these now the truth of the matter
i’ve had this box before
and inside of a box that looked just
like this
was something that was a counterfeit
now i don’t know about you some of y’all
carrying them today is okay no shame in
the
game but the thing about something like
this is it can be cheaply replicated
and it’s not until you open the contents
that you see what could be cheaply
replicated
is actually something that cost me
everything
today i want to give you your mother’s
day gift and i want you to open up here
because i don’t want too many haters but
what i’m telling you
is what was in here i could have cheaply
[Music]
i could have settled for the comfortable
version
of this and it would have been like it’s
the thought that counts
[Music]
today god’s saying i want your calling
to cost you something
i want i want
i want you to have to work for this
thing that
i don’t want i don’t want you to i don’t
want you to come cheaply
to what i’ve asked for you to do
i want your calling to cost you
something when i give my mama this gift
it it cost me
it cost me something
but do you know how worth it it is
to stand up and call my mama blessed
and to honor you for all the years and
the service and the prayers and
everything you’ve done for me and my
brothers and my family and all of the
things that you have sacrificed
[Applause]
so happy mother’s day
you can go in there you know i love you
thank you
see when i release this
it’s me walking in my calling
cause it cost me my comfort
today
i’m asking you
what are you standing by that cost you
if there’s nothing in your life that
cost you anything
maybe you’re too stuck in your comfort
and today if anybody is stuck in their
comfort i want to pray for you there’s a
way out
that’s what i’m going to ask right now
if you’re stuck in your comfort in any
area of your life
i want you to be bold and i want you to
get comfortably
uncomfortable and i need you to stand up
right now all over i don’t care if
you’re watching this on rebroadcast i
don’t care if you’re watching this there
are people all over the world standing
up in your living room in the cubicle
some of y’all gonna pull over the car
right now and you’re gonna get out and
you’re gonna stand up this is a sign of
being comfortably uncomfortable as a
believer we’re going to have to live
comfortably uncomfortable
i’m gonna pray for you today oh i feel
the presence of god
our comfort has been killing us
but today we’re coming uncuffed from
this thing i feel the presence of god i
know this was a lot but i needed to
paint a picture for you to see that no
longer
will we be lulled to sleep
by the things that comfort uh see okay
the thing about this position that i was
in in this recliner
it’s the easiest position to go to sleep
in
when i’m active
it’s hard for me i don’t know how many
people can go to sleep standing up
or fighting but it’s hard to go to sleep
like that
but when you’re in those positions of
comfortability
it’s very easy to go to sleep and i’m
just saying that
in a lot of areas in this world our
church is asleep
and i’m just saying i think maybe the
reason is because we’ve been cuffed to
comfort
wake up
and see that your calling
is worth the sacrifice
[Music]
first corinthians 9 24 says so don’t you
realize that in a race everyone runs
but one person gets the prize so run to
win
all athletes are disciplined in their
training they’re all uncomfortable when
they’re training
they do it
for a reason to win the prize that will
fade away but we do this we live
uncomfortable we become disciplined ones
or disciples for an internal
prize
so i run
with purpose in every step
i’m not just shadow boxing this ain’t no
game
i discipline my body i stay
uncomfortable in these situations like
an athlete training it to do what it
should
otherwise
i fear that after preaching to others
i myself
might be disqualified
hands lifted today here we are god
and we’re gonna choose
not to cater to our comfort another week
but we’re choosing to confront it and
god we’re coming humbly and saying we
need your help come on right now if
anybody needs this help i need you to
say god i need your help i need your
help to be able to talk different i need
your help to be able to say no to things
that taste good to me but are bad for me
god i need your help father god to walk
out of relationships father god that i
know are killing my calling i need your
help father god somebody right now i i
don’t know what it is for you but i need
you to pray god i need your help i need
your help to stay disciplined i need
your help father to live pure i need
your help father god to forgive i need
your help father god i need your help
and the parts of me father that wants to
rest
when i should be at war
god i thank you that you would reignite
stir up the gifts on the inside of me
stir up the gifts on the inside of your
children
father this week bring to our mind the
areas that we have not actually been
active in realizing we just gotten too
comfortable
father god forgive us whether we’ve used
money or success or our age or our
accomplishments to recline on the
amazing calling that you’ve given us
today we come uncuffed from comfort
god today we commit and submit to you
and we ask you to do a work in us new
and afresh
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that’s our desire god
make us live
teach us how to live teach us how to
love comfortably uncomfortable something
is happening right now somebody’s mind
is changing it’s changing your
perspective of being comfortable is
changing father let
our love for comfort
that hasn’t been loving us back
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let it die today
and let us get a new desire god
and let it be you
you are our desire god
who i feel the presence of god right now
god is doing something right now
yeah
comfort no longer is the goal our
calling is the goal whatever i got to do
to reach my calling whatever i have to
do to actually be who you’ve created me
to be god
because you are my
desire somebody say oh
oh
oh
i said you were mighty come on this is
why we’re worshiping just take a moment
and ask the holy spirit what he’s saying
to you
god we want to do
and be
cuffed only to you god
we’re uncuffing from comfort god
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you are mine
come on just take a moment lift your
hands and just talk to god
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because i want what you want for my life
god
don’t want comfortability to kill my
calling another day god
i want i want your desires to be my
desires god
so you are my desire today god
not
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everybody says
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god’s
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i want to be
everything
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many of us have desired comfort
but we’re changing that today
we’re gonna desire our calling
not just walking out
of
one lifestyle we’re gonna walk into the
promise that god has for our life
does anybody believe that i’m not just
walking out of something i’m gonna walk
fully into what god has for me
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so i say oh
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not comfort anymore just somebody say
say yo
but i want the calling that you have for
my life oh my god
we’re going to lift this thing out
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all right cool
so this week we’re leaving with the
practical application we’re ending
service a little differently
i need you to physically write down
six areas that you have gotten
comfortable
and you know it’s killing your calling
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and all week
we’re gonna pray every day
that god
would uncuff us
from that area of comfort
now the truth of the matter is
statistics say
only three out of ten of y’all are gonna
do this
and that’s fine with me
but it might cost you
your calling
if we don’t take time and make margin
to deal
with the things that have
come to actually hinder us
that’s why i said this series really
should be called therapy and theology
like we’re doing both of those this week
you gotta you gotta go back and do this
work
i can i can present it to you
but now you and the holy spirit
got to go to work
he’s the comforter
wow
hold on
never thought about it before
that out of everything
that the holy spirit could be called
he’s called
the
the comforter
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so it’s not that i can’t be cuffed to
comfort
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i have to be cut to the comforter oh my
god
when i am tough to the comforter
whatever he gives me is real peace
whatever he gives me is real joy you
know the fruits of the spirit love joy
peace pace everything i’m trying to be
comforted by is a counterfeit version of
what the comforter actually gives
if you’re tired of getting the cheap
replica
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don’t settle for comfort
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cuff yourself to the comforter
and he’s gonna help
lead you and guide you into all
everybody say truth
this week six things
six things that you have
been comforted by that you know are
killing your calling
food
people write their names down
do wayne is a person of comfort
i don’t all know the way but
like like
write it down
close
shopping
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arguing fighting
i don’t know what it is for you
oh being perfect
never making a mistake
i’m just giving you just a couple of
things some of y’all not gonna have six
you’re gonna have 60.
but how good resheena for us to start
digging up
the things that the enemy thought were
going to stay on the inside of us
forever and we were going to repeat the
pattern but i declare there’s a
generational curse-breaking anointing in
this series for deliverance it’s not
gonna hit my kids it’s not gonna keep
going down i’m gonna deal with
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so i’m uncuffing
from comfort and next week you cannot
miss it because i’m actually going to
give you the practical tools that god
has made for us to confront it and
actually have victory and i’m telling
you this message without next week’s
message it’s incomplete because you’re
just gonna be in the in the limbo again
i’m gonna give you the tools but god
cannot heal what you won’t reveal
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so i need at least how many
okay
for some of you
you’re saying pastor mike
i’ve been so distracted
today by the stains on your shirt
i just really cannot move past
the stains
and you’re just ministering and just
acting like you don’t see
the stains
and those stains are actually the thing
that
i notice most about you see the crazy
thing
is that these stains
is actually a representation
of what my soul and my spirit look like
when i came to this earth and all the
experience that i had all of those
experiences in the chair those were real
life experience for me i was raggedy
stained up
but god
sent his son jesus
to even when it looks like i have a
stain on me
he don’t see me
he sees his son because by faith
everybody shout at me by faith
i’ve received his son jesus
the spotless land
the one who has literally erased the
sins of the world
but you don’t get seen like that you
everybody sees this until you accept
them
and today i don’t know i just feel like
some people
they look like spiritually what i look
like publicly
like you’re walking around trying to
cover up
you don’t wanna how you doing i’m good
everything’s fine just want to make sure
you don’t see that i’m really struggling
i’m really hurt
i really have pain
and god’s saying would you not just
expose it just
take off like don’t even like
just just actually like highlight it
point at it
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i’m a liar
i like having sex with people unmarried
it makes the void of my heart of not
having a father feel better
like let’s
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let’s just put it
this thing came because i was molested
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i
i hurt people because i’m really hurting
jesus says
i want that
i want to clean that
i want to heal that
and if you’re listening i feel the
prayer i need the church to begin to
pray i feel the presence of god right
now
somebody is literally sitting here
trying to hide what god wants to heal
and today
you have an opportunity to give your
life to the only one who can clean you
up
and i even feel this there are some
people in ministry
i see i feel this so strong right now
there are pastors leaders youth leaders
praise and worship like it would almost
be
uncomfortable
to admit that you’re struggling with
these things
but god is saying to you today could you
just come clean
so that i can clean
if you want to accept jesus christ as
your personal lord and savior or
recommit your life
to jesus today on the count of three i’m
gonna ask you to raise your hand and i
want you to do it i want you to be a
little uncomfortable i want somebody to
look at you because this is what the
christian life is going to be
comfortably uncomfortable we are
unashamed of the gospel of jesus christ
because it is the power of salvation
it doesn’t matter
what nobody else thinks as long as i
know what he thinks about me
so today
if you want to take your stains
and you want to give them to the master
on the count of three just say pastor
include me in that prayer and i believe
there’s hundreds if not thousands of
people who are about to make this
decision
to walk into a new relationship with god
one you’re making the greatest decision
of your life two i’m proud of you but
more than that god is going to write
your name in the lamb’s book of life for
all of eternity three shoot your hand up
all over the world i see you
i see you i see you can we give god
praise right now glory to god
glory to
god you can put your hands down so i
know in a lot of churches they want you
to come to the front and confess
everything that you did we ain’t got
time for all that cause you ratchet
we don’t have time for all that
but the bible does say
that you got to find somebody
to to to confess to pray and then
there’s healing that comes
but that thing only can happen when
you’ve accepted jesus everybody say
jesus that’s the reason why we’re here
that’s the that’s the god that we serve
and today
he wants to come in and help you
uncuff from comfort
uncuff from control
uncuff from all of those things that
have made you critical
he wants to be cuffed to you cuffed to
christ
now transformation church nobody prays
alone here we all pray together for the
benefit of those coming to christ and
they are making the greatest decision
ever so with faith can we all say this
together together god
thank you
for sending jesus
for all my stains
today
i’m deciding
to live a whole life
you can have all of me
i believe you lived you died
and you rose again
with all power
just for me
and i give you my life
take over
change me
clean me
renew me transform me
i’m yours
in jesus name
amen hey can we give god oh y’all better
come on for all of those who are coming
to a loving relationship with jesus
christ hallelujah
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man i’m so proud of you
so proud of you and i want to let you
know we want to walk with you
if you just gave your life to christ i
feel the presence of god in this place
you just gave your life to christ i want
you to text the number on the screen
and we’re going to send you some
resources and we’re going to help you we
have a team that’s going to help you and
walk with you and connect with you and
i’m just asking you everybody that’s
watching
go back and watch last week’s message
and then watch this message twice this
week
what i found out about counseling
is that the depth of counseling is not
in new realities
it’s in going over the things slower
that you’ve already gone through
and i found that it speak to me
different it hit a little different how
the young people say
it hit different
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when you just take your time through
this week let god reveal
write down your sixth thing some of
y’all gonna write your six things down
it’s gonna be like you know what i need
to do something
i got nine
team
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and all i’m saying is
i just wanna walk through this series
osb i wanna walk through it with margin
let’s give god space
to change us from the inside out is that
all right i said is that all right
thank you
god thank you god thank you god thank
you god thank you god
thank you for being evident
in every one of our services
there are a lot of people that gathered
today and you weren’t there
but god i thank you that every time we
meet here with humble hearts
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you meet us here
thank you for doing it again
bless all the mothers and their families
god thank you just for
just a lot of great memories father god
and i thank you that this week
we would confront our comfort oh god
that means i got to go to the gym on
tuesday
my god my calling is worth so much more
so god i’m committed somebody say i’m
committed
come on say one more time i’m committed
god we give you glory honor and praise
in jesus name
until next week i want you to go out
and live
a transformed life happy mother’s day
everybody i love you
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you