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so today we are starting part 3 of a
series that we are in called
recalculating everybody say
recalculating and and we’ve been in this
series and it’s almost been like a
revision series kind of because every
January we do vision for our church and
this January we’re gonna do vision for
our church but God has been doing so
much so quickly that I felt as the
leader of this church that we have to be
able to see this vision because God
still wants to do some things in the
last 70 some-odd days of this year it’s
not over yet 2018 is not over yet
and I believe that God wants to do some
things in this year but we have to get
everybody say a vision and and I really
believe that as God gives vision for
this house it’s something that’s
supposed to spark vision for your house
like God doesn’t want to do something
for the organization of the church and
not do it through the organism the
church like I want you to know God
doesn’t want visible s he wants you
blessed and if a bunch of blessed people
come here guess what the church is
blessed they all hear what I’m saying
and everybody thinks it’s the other way
around but we have to get a vision for
what God wants to do in our life and and
the thing I need everybody to understand
his vision it’s not sight vision is not
what I see right now vision is what I
see when my eyes are closed my question
to you is what do you see what is God
showing you when your eyes are closed
even though your marriage is jacked up
now do you have a vision of it hole even
though even though you do not have the
money you need to go to school right now
do you have a vision of you graduating
see see God has never done anything off
her sight he does everything off of
vision and many of us are only looking
at what we see and God said would you
close your eyes and get in my presence
and let me give you a vision and this is
why vision is so important look at
proverbs 29:18
it’s been kind of our anchor scripture
through this whole recalculating series
if people can’t see what God is doing
they stumble all over themselves that’s
what some of y’all came in for right
there fast 15 years of your life has
been stumbling because you ain’t got a
vision
and you stumble all over yourself when
you don’t see what God is doing it says
but when they attend or they participate
in or they pay attention to what God
reveals they are most everybody say
blessed that’s what God wants for every
person’s life it’s for you to be most
blessed but being most blessed is
attached to a clear vision and so if
you’re in debt right now it’s okay close
your eyes and get a clearer vision of
you paying off your student loan like
some of these some people can’t even
clap for it they just like you don’t
know how much I owe pastor you have no
idea I’m gonna be paying that and if you
tell my kids kids but you will if you
don’t get a vision and so I want to
bring clearly to you the vision of
transformation Church and kind of what I
really believe that God is doing in this
place and and we’ve been talking about
how God is recalculating us some of you
know that 10 months ago our church was a
family church it was a very small church
it was like this with all the people who
came a year ago this is our third week
of doing five services and let me let me
tell you why that’s important five is
the number of Grace and I believe that
God changed the pace that’s what we
talked about the first week and he’s
given us grace to do this and this is
just the beginning of what God wants to
do he wants to do something strong
through this church but the thing that
I’m realizing is that when God is doing
something quickly and he brings us into
a bamboo season where we’ve been under
for about three and a half years and all
of a sudden God has just started to grow
us and grow our influence and grow all
this stuff we have to stop and now get a
new vision because what happens when God
exceeds what you thought most people
stop well God you did more than I ever
thought you would do so are we done
and God says some of you are trying to
retire and you need to refire you need
to get let me give you a brand new
vision well God I’m sixty already got my
401k
my kids out the house and I kind of like
who they married
I’m I’m at the place where I just want
to relax and God says that’s all you
thought I had for your life that’s all
the vision you got you need to get back
in the secret place with me and let me
give you a brand new mission and so now
that God has it exceeded our
expectations of the church I told y’all
last year we made a goal that Lord
please let us see a hundred people join
transformation Church in the whole year
of 2018 and God said I honor your
requests and and literally laughed at us
and over 1200 people have joined our
church in 10 months now I don’t want to
clap for that because most people would
be done their god exceeded our
expectation he did more than we
exceedingly abundantly above all we can
ask or think he and most people when he
does it we rest it’s all good but God
challenged me as the leader of this
church and now I’m challenging you as
the people of this church let’s get a
new vision let’s not rest on what God
has done let’s see how much he can do
not to us but through us
how many streets can be impacted and how
many businesses can be revolutionized
and how many families can be saved and
how many children can be rescued from
out of sex slavery how many people can
be transformed because of us
and so God begin to ask me might get a
new vision and y’all the stuff God has
been showing me is scary but this is the
thing that I need to tell you is not
vision if you can know how to do it by
yourself if it’s not bigger than you
it’s probably sight not vision and so
today I want us to dive a little deeper
go a little further into this entire
thing about what happens when God
changes the plan what happens when he
starts recalculating things and the
plane change the plan changes there was
something that funny funny that happened
to me this past week me and Natalie were
in Montana and and unfair sophomore
tenha if you
for y’all there’s not many black people
there but but it is absolutely gorgeous
and we were there and and we had a host
named Colton and this was so funny and
God begin to speak to me we were driving
in Montana and my Siri for some reason
oh if I press the button or it
recognized something that was said but
it started giving instructions like it
was like and at the light turn right and
it was loud and so the driver Colton is
in the front seat me and Natalie in the
back seat and he turns around like this
almost kind of offended because cuz
we’ve never been to where he lives we
don’t know how to get to where he is
taking us we don’t live in the area that
he’s navigating us through but somehow
my phone what was in my possession was
trying to give him directions and I
don’t know if we could be hot for a
second hump open and transparent how
many people are backseat drivers every
wife should raise their hand every wife
every one of y’all and and what ended up
happening is he turned around and we
both started laughing because just for a
moment he thought somebody who didn’t
know where he was going was trying to
give him instructions and the Holy
Spirit right in that moment started
speaking to me he said Michael that’s
funny but that’s what most of my kids do
to me they tell me I’m in the driver’s
seat but they’re giving me instructions
from the backseat I said what he said
most of my kids already have a plan that
they’re trying to passive-aggressively
have me cosign at the light get married
up the street get a promotion and God
says they do not trust that I’ve been
here before
that I know where I’m taking them that I
actually made the
pass and they’re trying to give me a
plan in there frustrated and y’all know
how we do when we’re backseat driving
and we try notes and y’all know the fake
the imaginary brakes y’all know we did
and it’s crazy because all of that that
we do never helps the one driving what
it actually does is it makes an easy
situation a lot more frustrating because
we don’t trust everybody say trust the
one who’s supposed to be in control and
so we’re in a side seat or a back seat
trying to control what we still don’t
have control over the only thing that we
can actually do is make it worse
actually cause an accident actually
caused what was supposed to be easy to
become hard because we do not trust
who’s supposed to be in control and I
just came to ask you today the title of
my message is do you have the faith to
follow yeah because this next season of
transformation churches life and I dare
say your life what God wants to do he’s
gonna be in the driver’s seat but you’re
gonna have to have the faith to follow
and I know I know some of y’all are
control freaks and you won’t even get in
the car unless you know the plan there’s
certain people you won’t drive with can
I get an amen
okay look at y’all but the problem is
that for where God’s taking you you’ve
never been there before you don’t know
the roots you don’t know what God’s
trying to do in you and he’s asking you
would you please have the faith to
follow and he’s been asking me this
because the things that I believe God is
about to do in transformation Church are
way bigger than anything I’ve had the
faith for lately can I be transparent
with you we’re in a very comfortable
spot as a church and God has started to
giving me dreams and visions when my
eyes are closed
that are challenging my faith that are
letting me say hey God it would be a lot
easier if you follow my plan it would be
a lot less turmoil and God says no no
you thought that was it you thought five
services and impact across the world was
it I’m doing this in your third year
this is just the beginning if you have
the faith to follow somebody say faith
to follow and that’s my question to you
and today before the end of this service
what my prayer is that somebody’s faith
to be just stagnant and comfortable
would move from a faith that is dormant
to a faith that is active there is a
business that and that is in you that
God’s gonna ask you to leave something
that’s comfortable and he’s saying do
you have the faith to follow me I know
if you ain’t gonna say nothing on this
sermon because you think you’re a man is
you cosign and what God’s already told
you to do
but he’s still coming to tell you the
same message there are gonna be some
things that he asked you to do in this
next season and he has the plans and
you’re only gonna be able to have the
faith but will you use it to follow can
we act for the next 35 minutes like we
trusted God I know we’re in church and
we act like we trust him in here
but like like let’s actually act like we
really trust him and let’s act like God
knew what he was doing with our lives
let’s act like he knew where he was
taking us that he knew when and where we
need to get to that he knows the best
route for us to take and he needs he
knows who needs to go and who needs to
stay here there was a group of people
that this happened to name the children
of Israel and I’m gonna take like I need
everybody I’m a Bible teacher so I I
study a lot of Scripture and then try to
bring it to you in a very concise manner
so we’re about to go through like four
chapters of the Bible in one setting and
like another book of the Bible it’s a
lot of Bible but I think you’re going to
get out of this something that will give
you the faith to follow everybody say
faith to follow
so the children of Israel are coming out
of slavery like literally 400 years of
slavery and God sends this man named
Moses to deliver them and it could be
said that they were in a bamboo season
cuz they went literally from slavery to
being out of slavery and about to go
into something that God promised them
called the promised land and and I
believe that God is trying to do
something with many of you trying to
take you out of something but not just
leave you there he wants to take you in
to something else but a lot of us get
stuck in between like we’re out of the
relationship we were in but we’re not
into the relationship that’s going to be
for our purpose we’re out of the job
that made us feel like nothing but we’re
not into the career or the purpose
that’s going to bring value and a lot of
us get stuck in the middle but that’s
why we have to get everybody say vision
okay so I want to set this for you and I
want you to see a couple of things that
the children of Israel learned turn to
Exodus chapter 13 verse 17 God’s
recalculating them in this season and
trying to take them to something new
look what it says it says when Pharaoh
finally let the people go God did not
who did not who did not God did not lead
them along the main road that runs
through Philistine territory even though
that was the shortest route I need to
just put this in here that God sometimes
takes us through the wilderness because
if he took you the easy way you wouldn’t
be ready for the fight that was in that
land I’ll prove it to you because some
of y’all like yeah I don’t know okay he
said it was the shortest route to the
Promised Land but God said who said it
okay I just want to make sure it’s not
pastor might if the people are faced
with the battle they might change their
minds and return to Egypt or to their
slavery so God led them in a roundabout
way
through the wilderness who led them in a
roundabout way through the wilderness to
the Red Sea can I tell you that your
wilderness season might have been god oh
I know I know you hate that but God knew
that you weren’t ready to go and fight
the Devils that were in the shortest
route because if you would have fought
the opposition you would have turned
back to alcohol your Egypt your slavery
he knew that if you would have went this
short route before your character was
ready you were to turn back to Pride and
so he took us the roundabout way and the
wilderness was for my good ain’t nobody
right no praise and worship songs like
that and the wilderness was for my good
and the wilderness was for my good thank
you
nobody right but I dare somebody to know
that God took you this way to save you
he took you this way to help you
he took you this way to build something
in you somebody to say the wilderness
was for my good the sickness wasn’t to
take you out it was to build something
menu the wilderness God said it was for
their good so if you have the faith to
follow with trust the detour was
designed yeah yeah I know it doesn’t
make sense right now why you could see
the easiest way for my business to be
successful is right there and then God
let that business partner like split my
finances take half of the company start
up the street and give me another six
years to building back the detour was
designed there is something that you
were supposed to get in this wilderness
that cannot go into the Promised Land
and so many of us are frustrated and mad
and what happens when we get detoured
many of us stop well I guess God didn’t
want me to do that no she’ll need to
know that
God designed this deep or he designed
all your friends to leave you they were
shocked by it over there so they he
designed for you not to get into that
College because if you would have got
into that College you would have met
that person so God let them deny the
degree here and you went to this college
that seems like there’s no but that’s
where you were gonna meet the wife that
you needed to marry and the first five
years of your marriage would be hell
because you would be in wilderness but
God knew 15 years from now that is the
partner that you needed to enter into
the Promised Land
somebody say the detour was designed and
I know you don’t believe it but I’m a
living testimony of a detour that was
designed see many of you would never
have heard of Michael Todd in the
ministry of transformation church if
tommy and brenda todd wouldn’t have
taken a season that looked like a
wilderness and stayed faithful in it God
asked him to start a church these are my
parents and at that church they had 15
adults she said it was 30 no was it was
15 it was fitting but listen to this
there were 15 adults in this church that
they went and pastored every Sunday
night for two and a half years and God
knew that if they wouldn’t have taken
what seemed to be in that season a
detour and stayed faithful in a
wilderness of season and my mom said my
god I believe you’re supposed to do
something with the youth God knew the
only way that I would start in ministry
it’s that I had to be asked by my
parents so God took a detour in their
life where they ministered to thousands
of people worked at huge ministries and
then God said will you take this way and
they had the faith to follow even when
there was still 15 adults and 150 young
people coming how devastating would it
look like the thing God asked you to
start something else is flourishing even
more in it
but you still had to have the faith to
follow what you don’t know is the two
and a half years of faithfulness that
they sowed and to have the faith to
follow created an incubator for the gift
that you are sitting under right now to
begin to grow
you would not know who I was if they did
not embrace the detour that was designed
and so what they could have said this is
the devil I know he didn’t call us
passing all twenty people because you
know when we get discouraged we start
saying the devil’s just attacking our
ministry maybe this is God telling me we
need to do something else this is the
devil trying to attack our family maybe
this has got maybe it was designed and
maybe it was God because he sees what’s
needed up ahead and all I’m asking you
to do is in this season where God’s
giving you brand-new vision don’t blame
the detour on the devil I think we’re
giving him too much credit I think my
Bible says that all things are working
together for the good of those who are
called and that love him according to
his purpose
the detour is designed and you have to
have faith to follow somebody say faith
to follow okay so now God’s
intentionally not taking him the
shortest route to the promised land okay
and but but he’s doing the scenic route
and look what happens in Exodus chapter
13 verse 21 because now he’s
recalculating them and giving them a new
GPS system look at it it says the Lord
went ahead of them he guided them during
the day with a pillar of cloud so I want
you to imagine like a huge cloud that
looks like almost like a tornado but
it’s not spinning like it’s a pillar and
it’s in front of you and you know that
that’s God showing you where to go okay
and then he provided light at night with
the pillar of fire this allowed them to
travel by day or by night and the Lord
did not remove the pillar of cloud or
the pillar of fire from its place in
front of the people
want you to recognize this like their
GPS system back in that day it’s like
God okay you delivered us out out of
slavery where are we supposed to go he
said I’m gonna give you a new GPS system
there’s a cloud whenever you see the
cloud follow it is that it like that
don’t I don’t seem real concrete but
what I said is the faith to follow not
the facts to follow see a lot of people
want the facts and then I’ll follow you
God if you show me everything that you
want to do and God said no no no the
righteous walk by faith and not by
you’re not gonna get all the facts
you’re gonna have to steal obey and so
they were like okay so every morning
they will wake up and they’d be like
where we going today and everybody like
where’s the cloud okay and they would
just start moving and then it will
become nighttime and ever like y’all I
can’t see the cloud no more and they’d
be like whoops and it would turn into
fire ah there’s the light let’s keep
moving and those are symbolic and I
don’t need everybody to understand this
that everything in the Old Testament is
a type and shadow of something that
happens in the New Testament so the
light and the fire represent Jesus and
the Holy Spirit that they are supposed
to be our guides they’re supposed to
lead us into all truth and so no matter
where we go if we walk into a dark
situation we just have to say holy
spirit where am I supposed to go and
he’ll point and he’ll lead and he’ll
guide but many of us don’t pay attention
to what God is saying and we’d rather
make a plan and then ask God when we get
there is this it is like you all right
come in can we be honest how many people
have made a plan and then ask God is
this it
you sitting next to them anyway so so
what I’m saying is this is the GPS
system but I want you to see something
so amazing we’re gonna go to Exodus
chapter 14 verse 19 and then it says
then the angel of God who had been
leading the people of Israel moved to
the rear of the camp the pillar of cloud
also moved from the front and stir
behind them the cloud settled between
the Egyptians and the Israelite camps as
darkness failed the cloud turned to fire
lighting up the night but the Egyptians
watch this and the Israelites did not
approach each other all night okay I’m
gonna give you the point and then I’m
gonna explain it if you have the faith
to follow you have to trust that God has
you surrounded okay let me explain the
children of Israel leave from under
Pharaoh’s leadership and they’re walking
towards a Promised Land but they’re not
there yet and God says I’m gonna direct
you by giving you a cloud in the daytime
and fire at night and it’s going to go
before you and all you have to do is
follow it follow my voice that’s why the
Bible says that my children know my
voice and a stranger they won’t listen
to that’s why it’s so important that you
spend time every day in prayer spend
time every day in the word spend time
every day worshiping in the shower in a
new car because God’s trying to give you
directions he’s trying to lead you in
those moments and can this is what’s
happening every day they’re getting up
and they’re getting led and there’s like
okay we’re going this way but the crazy
thing is after they get let go and
they’re in this wilderness season that
God allowed this design detour the enemy
started coming after them Pharaoh let
them go and was like yo what did I just
do go kill them
that’s all our hell well gonna build the
temples now and he sends the entire
Egyptian army after the children of
Israel now what happens is these people
are trying to follow God but they see
their enemy behind them they see God is
in front of them but their enemy is
behind them and what we naturally do
when we’re going after God but we know
our past is trying to come back and get
us we know that there are people that
are trying to come against what God’s
called us to do what we start doing is
we follow God but we follow him like
this
and what happens is we don’t go fully
after God because we’re worried about
our past we don’t we don’t go straight
after what God’s called us to because we
feel like maybe this is going to end in
destruction but look what the what the
cloud did it says the cloud that was in
front of them saw that the enemy was
behind them and it changed positions it
said it went from the front and it went
around to the back and the enemy that
was trying to come and get them was
around them but could not see them I
need to help you understand something
it’s that God is not going to allow your
past to sneak up on you and take you out
yes you used to be that person yes you
used to do that yes you are a ho oh
let’s be honest yes you are you are
loose booty do you hear what I’m saying
you but through the grace of God God has
changed you you are now following him
but listen the enemy then tries to make
you think well what if what if those
thoughts and those feelings come back up
whoa I never can go fully after what
God’s called me to do cause I have this
past I never can stand and God says baby
you don’t even have to look back no more
cuz I got you surrounded
I believe you and I’m going to protect
you like and I need everybody to hear me
say this no matter what your past is
when you are aligned with what God is
doing and you are following what he is
saying you don’t have to look back no
more yeah you used to live in an
alternate lifestyle but by the grace of
God he’s changed he’s renewed you he’s
turned you around you have to walk not
worried that your past is coming back
you have to know that the Holy Spirit is
standing guard
and this is what I want you to
understand I need you to hear this very
quickly because many of you won’t press
forward because you’re scared of your
past coming back to take you out here
what I’m saying to you your past will be
close but it will not be able to harm
you
it says the Israelites God’s chosen
people and the Egyptians were in the
same area but the Holy Spirit sending
the cloud of fire allowed them not to
even cross paths because God had them
surrounded I just want to encourage
somebody today I feel the presence of
God in this place stop holding back
because of what you did back then
stop playing it safe because your
marriage was broken stop not doing what
God has called you to do because you
didn’t have support from your family and
friends God’s got you surrounded
and the reason that I’m saying this is
because transformation church we’re
about to step into some stuff that’s
that’s way bigger than us like like I’ve
been talking to God about what we’re
supposed to do as far as this facility
and all this other stuff and God’s
challenging my faith right now he’s like
Michael do you have the faith to follow
I was like god I got the face to follow
he said will you believe me 420 million
dollars oh wow
can I be honest
cuz cuz my plan was to do something that
was the next step up from this and God
said you don’t see what I have up ahead
and so I need you to have the faith to
follow me into something that don’t even
make sense and when I got to this place
of having the faith to follow and I’m
getting all up to it and then I started
to think about my past then I started to
think well Lord I you know I mean you
know my bank account I’ve never managed
this much in father I don’t I don’t even
know how to ask people like would they
party he said I didn’t ask you how it
was gonna happen I asked you to have the
faith to follow me and literally all the
reason I’m preaching this cuz I don’t
want it to be a surprise to anybody when
God starts telling us to move and we
move when God starts telling us to
believe and we believe when God starts
telling us to give and we what give I’m
trying to tell y’all God’s not asking
for your credentials now he’s asking
will you have the faith to follow me and
y’all I’m asking you the same question
cuz God’s doing it to me right now he
said Michael my plans for you are bigger
than anything you’ve ever seen in your
life do you know how many people I want
to touch through you and this church and
your music and your book and your family
and your your your your your he said I
don’t want to do it without you I want
to do it through you but the only thing
that can stop it is if you don’t have
the faith to follow me so Church I’m
asking you can we trust God no no no no
not just on a little level like lord
please do it I’m talking about with the
enemy on our back and we don’t even turn
around cuz we are the children of Israel
are making moves and following after God
because they had the faith to follow God
okay now I want you to understand God
isn’t right now everybody say now he is
positioned in your future but he’s
protecting you from your past
like he goes before you but he stands
guard behind you and so now we have to
move everybody say move in faith yo if
we don’t move in faith
if we keep dealing with the opposite of
faith it’s fear like like if you’re not
moving in faith you’re moving in fear
well what happens god I don’t know that
and he said do you did you forget who I
am that’s my name I am like everything
that you need I am matter of fact I’m so
good that I said tell him I am since you
cuz Moses had the same problem when he
was going to tell Pharaoh to let the
people go he said good good good God you
know he had a stuttering problem you
know he had deficiencies you know that
God uses unqualified people just do
great things
he had a deficiency and he said it got
good I got Jesus who should I tell
Pharaoh sent me mmm could tell him
creator of the universe could tell him
the big guy upstairs tell him I am since
you matter of fact I am that I am like
ain’t nobody before me so just tell them
I am what I’m trying to help you
understand is the reason that we’re not
gonna move in fear anymore is because I
am God is leading us to a different
place somebody say I serve I am I know
it’s not creating correct English and I
know that all that but I need you to get
this down in your spirit God’s trying to
take you to another place look at
numbers chapter 9 first 15 okay it says
on the day that the tabernacle was set
up now I got to break this down cuz
everybody doesn’t know what the
tabernacle is but anytime you see
tabernacle just think the place where
the presence of God was and let me even
break that down further when you spend
time with God in prayer in worship and
reading your Bible there is an actual
connection that you can have with the
God of the universe
that changes your entire life I’m not
talking about a worship service with
lights and smoke and and praise and
worship team I’m talking about the place
where the presence of God is is wherever
you invite him into your life period so
you can be thuggin and be about to get
in trouble and you own your way to jail
and you in the back of the police car
say god I acknowledge that I’m not
supposed to be in this situation but
you’re the only one that can help me out
of it I need you to give me wisdom in
this moment to be able to do something
different with my life and do you know
in the back of that car there has now
become the place that the presence of
God is at and he is with you in that
moment I want to demystify this thing
that this is where the presence of God
is this is a building wherever you
invite him in it’s the tabernacle I want
you to understand and so let me give you
let me give you context for this before
Jesus came there was no sacrifice to
allow God to take his residence in us do
you know that you are the temple the
tabernacle of God now and he chooses
when we accept him to take his home in
us but back in the Old Testament
they had a very strict strenuous process
and a tent that they would set up and
they called it the tabernacle and that
was the one place that God would meet
his people okay so I just want to give
you this context because I want you to
be able to apply it to your everyday
life when they say Tabernacle it’s the
place where the presence of God was okay
so it said that one day the tabernacle
or the place where the presence of God
was was set up the cloud covered it but
from evening until morning the cloud
over the tabernacle looked like a pillar
of fire so imagine this table being the
the tabernacle or the place where God’s
presence was it said at night there
would be a pillar like just imagine
something that’s off like the Avengers
or something just right here hosts
and and it said it was a pillar of cloud
and a pillar of fire that was over the
place where God his presence was okay I
just want you to get this a picture
verse 16 it says this was a regular
pattern this means that this happened
often it said at night the the cloud
that covered the tabernacle had the
appearance of fire whenever the cloud
lifted from over the sacred tent the
people of Israel would break camp and
follow it let me give you the picture
whoosh there’s a big cloud over this and
then God would change his plan remember
this series is called recalculating
when plans change now God would say I
got to lead them to another place and so
he would remove the cloud and he would
say Ruth now the cloud is right here
this is God trying to move his people so
what would happen is everybody was like
oh God left us we need to find out where
he is they would pack up everything and
would move to where the cloud was so God
was leading them and he was putting out
a plan and he said I need the plan and
my presence to be connected so he would
leave one place and the cloud would come
over here and everybody be watching Here
I am – and somebody would notice the
cloud has moved the cloud has moved
everybody and you would get all your
family and everything you were packing
up in your blood because they realize
that their plan a disassociated from the
pleasant presence was a problem
your plan disconnected from his presence
it’s a problem Moses said it he said if
you don’t go with us we’re not going and
some of you need to make a decision that
I’m not going into that relationship
without the presence of God I’m not
moving to that city without the presence
of God and most of us make a plan and
ask God to bless it with his presence
and he said no no I’m the GPS I’ll make
a plan I’m moved now I need you to get
all your stuff your attitude and all
somebody needs to hear me say this real
quick that you have been doing your plan
without his presence and it’s been 10
years of a problem you’ve been doing
your own thing with your money you don’t
tithe times what are you talking about
God said I have a plan for your money
and that’s why you always have not
enough and you keep it all but my cloud
is over here and I want you to live a
blessed life but you got to return to me
the temperance you didn’t even deserve
that promotion and I gave it to you and
I made up everything you gotta know that
90% with my blessing is better than 100%
that is cursed and some of y’all today
after this message you gonna say family
we’ve been doing it wrong we got to go
where his presence is oh I need somebody
to hear me say it we’re not gonna do
this without the presence of God we’re
not gonna go with you don’t go with me
somebody give God a shout of praise in
this building
so write it so write it down if you have
the faith to follow trust his plan and
his presence are never disconnected he
wants to make sure that you know when he
changes the pace when the plan changes
you can get confirmation for it in his
presence and you can move and not
understand do you know how many people
were probably mad that it was time to
move like I said all right you were at
that job for one year
time to move got it I just got a race
hold on my benefit package I was about
to get braces done you hear what I’m
saying about to get a Vince align Lord
and y’all know that’s how we’d be doing
like could you hold off three months so
I could get my grille fixed insurance
just kicked in but God says this was a
detour in the wilderness and now I’ve
moved and you’re exposed when you stay
where I’m not at the reason why many of
us have been robbed in our purity robbed
in our plans in our dreams and our ideas
and our because we stayed in places when
God moved and we didn’t want to go
through the inconvenience of packing all
our stuff up so we will rather be
comfortable than covered
I need you to hear that’s not gonna
happen here when the cloud moves what’s
the name of this church transformation
which means we changing if you want to
go to stay the same Church they up the
street but transformation church is
committed to win the cloud moves no
matter if we’ve been here a day or 10
years if God says we go to five services
we go to five services if God says go
back to two we go back to two if God
says close this down and meet in the
high school we closed it down and with
me no matter how uncomfortable it is
because we will not do this without his
presence I need somebody to get that
resolving you I will not do this without
your presence sit down I have five
minutes in 24 seconds okay so look at
numbers chapter 9 verse 20 it says
sometimes that the cloud would stay over
the tabernacle for only a few days so
the people would stay for only a few
days as the lord commanded then at the
lord’s command they would break camp and
move on thank you lord sometimes the
cloud stayed only overnight and lifted
the next morning that is inconvenient I
mean just think about God’s like here we
are here’s your next place as a fool
finally who all right y’all unpacked
everything get the kids you can have a
little design area I like this we could
put the Sheep right here and and and oh
yeah all the flocks can go right here
and all the watering hole is right there
that’s perfect and you get to sleep in
the next morning you look up
y’all the cloud don’t move but isn’t
that what it looks like so many times
when God puts us in a relationship or
excuse me we get into one and it looked
good for two days and then God said I’ve
lifted but God we’re Facebook official
Oh y’all know that that means something
today we just told everybody would you
rather stay in that for two years
without his presence and so it says
sometimes it only stayed overnight but
day or night when the cloud lifted the
people broke camp and moved on everybody
say move on whoo this is powerful
weather the cloud stayed above the
Tabernacle for two days a month or a
year the people of Israel stayed in camp
and did not move on but as soon as it
lifted they broke camp and everybody say
moved on if you’re gonna have faith to
follow Mary the mission not the method
follow the cloud many of us are married
to how we do whatever we do and God said
I’m gonna change it and maybe two days
it may be one month it may be at this
state or at this state right he said but
I want you to stay attached to the
mission I’m taking you to the promised
land
I’m taking you to the best version of
yourself you could ever see I’m taking
you there but Mary the mission but not
the method this is where most people get
frustrated God told you you’d be a
world-renowned author but you didn’t get
accepted to the school that was gonna
give you the English degree to help you
write the book well I guess God didn’t
want this mission in my life to come to
pass baby
you think he was confined by that one
he took you through the wilderness on
purpose to let your deficiencies be the
thing that he would stand strong in and
in your weakness he is made sure all I’m
saying is I can talk from personal
experience that I knew from a very young
age I would be impacting the world like
I knew that my parents get I’ve gotten
prophecies my wife knew when we signed
up but I thought it was gonna be
happening through music I was dead set
like it was a done deal and and God said
yeah married the mission
you’re gonna impact the world I know God
I see you I feel you I’m gonna do it and
this beat is gonna kill him I mean I
used to say stuff like that
and God said but what if I change the
method if you would have told me 10
years ago that I would go to Whitefish
Montana and the only other black guy in
Whitefish Montana comes up to me at the
airport and says you’re that Todd
Michael guy bro your ministry is
changing my life there’s a group of us
that meet around what you guys do a
transformation Church if you would have
told me that it would have been because
of what God uses me to do in my mouth I
would have told you you are a liar to
your faith face but what God said is
don’t ever marry the method yeah I said
it you didn’t pack the world yeah I said
your marriage would be healed yeah I
said that you would write the book yeah
I said that you were gonna be healed
hold and delivered yeah I say your
children would all serve me but don’t
marry the method marry the mission
follow the cloud
what are you saying pastor my
transformation church we have to have
the faith to everybody say it with me
father let me pray for you right now
come on hands lift it all over this
place father I thank you that in this
room right now that you would give every
person under the sound of my voice the
courage to not be worried about their
past cuz you got us surrounded and
father not be frustrated about the
detour cuz it was designed but that we
father would marry the mission that you
called us to but not the method and we
would follow the cloud take us from this
place where we may be in some area of
our life and be moving in fear and I
declare that transformation church and
everybody listening and watching would
move by faith and father we would see
the promised land because it is designed
for our good and to bless others we
trust you we believe you and we thank
you in Jesus name if you believe it will
you give God a shout of praise in this
place oh you can do better than that